81 Diver 37

Stupid island with its many names...

[81 Diver 37 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter 37 The Man from Ponape

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SFX: GAH GAH GAH GAH GAH
Guys: HUUUUU
Niko: All right then.
Sugata: Yes, sir.

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Niko: Let's go again today.
Sugata: Yes, sir.
SFX: JYARA
Niko: A "10-second Shogi Deathmatch".
Sugata: Yes, sir!
Onegaishimasu!!!!
Sugata: Once this started

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SFX: GASHA
Sugata: I would play shogi until I collapsed.
Niko: Huu.
SFX: GORON
Suga: And then

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Sugata: shogi even started entering my dreams!!!!
There was no interval.
Even when getting lunch...
Niko: Let me talk to you about the pro shogi player I respect the most.

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Niko: It's from a long time ago...
It was during a war.
There was one pro shogi player
that was pulled into a war.
He was sent to a place 4000 kilometers from Japan.
*Ponape Island.
Asterisk: Currently Pohnpei Island, part of the Federated States of Micronesia

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Niko: The state of the battle had no hope.
The island was surrounded by the American Army.
Due to air raids every day
and hunger
his comrades were dying off.
We're really well off!
To be able to eat such delicious fish.

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Niko: And he was no exception. In that miserable spiral of hunger
he was near death.
In such a state...
what do you think he was thinking?
What he
was thinking about

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Niko: was shogi.
Can you believe it? His enemy was right before his eyes.
Just one game of shogi.
And it was a game he lost.
A game of shogi where he'd been beaten by your long-time rival.
He saw that lost game reflected in the moon.
He devoted himself to examining it.
Why did he lose?
Where did he go wrong?
In all that despair...
Suga: D... Did someone like that
really exist?
Niko: That man's
name was...

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Niko: Masuda Kouzou.
At the time, a 7-dan.
And the enemy's name was
Kimura Yoshio Meijin.
Masuda: I can't die until I beat Kimura.
Niko: And more as a result of tenacity than a miracle,
Masuda went home.

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Niko: And
he
crushed Kimura.
Sugata: And after that he became history's first "Three-Crown King" with the titles of "Meijin", "Oushou" and "9-dan", right...?
Niko: Yes you really
can't say enough about him.
He's a really great man, Masuda Kouzou!

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Niko: You leave won games alone.
From now on,
you go through and study every game of shogi you lose in your head!
Sugata: Yes, sir!

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Suga: It was truly "24-hour shogi".
Niko: Hey! You've got a bite!
SFX: BI BIN
Niko: Is that him?!
Is that the boss?
SFX: BIIN ZABAN
Suga: The next day
and the next

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Suga: I played "24-hour shogi" every day non-stop.
SFX: GASHAN GASHAN GASHAN
Suga: And
from the point I thought was my limit
I really felt it.
I am
unmistakably

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Suga: getting stronger!!!!