Ring 17

Okay, here we go. Volume 3. I'm gonna try to get it done before... a huge amount of time goes by. We'll see if I can do that. Both of the other volumes went waaaaay longer than I wanted.

[Ring 17 Translation by Kewl0210]
Author Flap:
A word... [Between the author's name]
Thanks to everyone who stuck around to Ring Volume 3. For now the story is ending with this volume. I would like to thank Super Jump for allowing me to draw it the way I want and all of the readers who've cheered me on! Let's meet again, okay! Until then, take care~!

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Contents:
Ring 17 Remember the Rules!
Ring 18 Anri High School Appears!
Ring 19 National Level
Ring 20 Aka's Weakness
Ring 21 A Major Upset...!
Ring 22 Reunion with Rivals...!
Ring 23 Summer Enters!
Ring 24 Victory Shot!
This is a compilation of the series that ran in Super Jump 2004 No.24 to 2005 No. 6 and also Oh Super Jump 2005 APRIL.
This is a work of fiction. There are no connections to any actual persons, groups or events whatsoever.

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Ken: Yamagakuuuuuu
Fight!!
Eih!
Fight!
Eih!
Fifght!
Narration: With the practice match with the powerhouse team Anri High School coming up
Guys: Eih!
Fight!
Eih!
Narration: The tension of the Yamagawa Academy's Ring Team was truly reaching the max-----
Title: Ring 17 Remember the Rules!

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Title: Ring 17 Remember the Rules!

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Ken: Heeey, let's here some voices out theeeere!!
It went to the opposite side!
OU!
Don't stop moving!!
They went that way, Akaaaaa!!
Aka: ..........
Huh?
SFX: HAA HAA
Somebody: Heeey, Akaaa!!!
Izumi: What's the problem? You tired already?! Huh?
No matter how good your technique is, if you can't move you'll be useless in a match!!
Aka: Aye~~~~ I'm not tire~~d!
Gee~~~z. I'm not a big-sweat kinda player.
Sum: Huhhuhhu. Not one for running, Aka-chin? ["Huhhuhhu" bold.]
Aka: Ah?

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Sum: In the battle to make the regular lineup,
it looks like one guy's pretty much out of the running.
Somebody: Hey, Summeeeeer, keep your eyes on the game!
SFX: SHISSHISSHISHHISHHISHHISHHI
Toki: Here!
SFX: BIH
SFX: DAH
Sum: OUH!
SFX: BASHI
Aka: Wh...
Who...
Who the hell did you say's dropping out, asshooooole?!!
Pretty big talk for somebody that's not even gonna make second string, bastaaaard!!
Sum: KYAAAA! Sideburns-man is angryyyy!
SFX: ZUDADADADADA

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Ken: Summer, look around you! Pass it!!
Sum: KYAAAA! This is sexual harassment!
Aka: Wait, dammiiiiit!!
Guys: Follow up with the people nearby you!!!
Kuri: You're holding onto it too long, Summeeeeer!!
Aka: Th......
This guy......
is fast!!
Ken: There's that haphazard speed again.
Yumi: Summer said he has a feeling he did a 100-meter race in under 11 seconds...
Ken: That liar!!
In Bubble: What's he mean he 'has a feeling'?
Aka: Friggin'...

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Sum: Hahhaaaa! How 'bout that?! Did you see, Aka-chin!!
Since ancient times, poor folk are always quick on their feet!!
And there are lots of poor people that end up big wi......
BUHAH!!
Aka: Aaaah, sorryyyy!
My cleat slipped ooooooff!!
SFX: SUKOON
Aka: What a weird happening that was!
Well, I'll just take that!!
All riiiight, a quick attaaaack!!
SFX: DADAH
Sum: Wait dammiiiiiit!!!
Aka: FUoAAAAAH!!
SFX: ZUGAAAN
Sum: Was it that humiliating to not be able to catch up to me? Huuuuh? Goddammitt!!
Aka: Shut uuuuup! Sometimes as a senpai you need to show your juniors crafty plays like that, ya knooow!!
It's like the whip of love, that sorta shit, ya know?!!
Ken: Ugh... These two...
SFX: GAMI GAMI (nagging) PURUPURU (Shaking)

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Izumi: Well, they sure are motivated, but......
Handwritten: Sheesh...
Izumi: But sometimes those two really choose the wrong direction......
Fuji: Mm...
Tokita-kun looks good among the beginners...
Izumi: !
Do you think we could use him in the match...?
Fuji: Yes...... He's getting the hang of *pass-and-go naturally, and he has basic stamina as well...
He's able to see the area around him pretty well, and he has good senses for passing......
Asterisk: *To run at the same time as passing. A fundamental move during the flow of a game.
Asuka: Ah!
Apparently Tokita-kun plays basketball, Supervisor.
Fuji: Oh, is that so...?
A game of ring lasts 60 minutes over the course of two halves and it's a sport where you're running almost constantly...
So even alternate players have to have some degree of endurance or they won't be usable in-game...
Izumi: We may be able to use Tokita-kun for the full game on the B-Team...
......What do you think about Summer, Sensei?
Fuji: Hm?

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Fuji: We can use him.
Well, not in the full game, though.
Izumi: Huuuuuh?! Seriously?!
Well... Uh......
Do you mean as a tactic for victory?
Handwritten: Or just to give him experience?
Fuji: What a silly question...
There's no reason besides to win...
Izumi: B... But Sensei,
that Summer kid still doesn't even have all the rules memorized...
Fuji: Huh?
...........
He doesn't?
Izumi: Yes.
For the most part.
Fuji: That really may...
be bad...
SFX: HMMM
Sum: Huuuuuh?!
Why?!

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Sum: Why am I the only one in a study session?!!
The rules of Ring......?
What? There are tests like that?
Since when have I been roped into some competitive entrance exams?
Izumi: You idiot! Not for a test, for the "match"!
Do you seriously think you can be in the match without knowing the rules?
These are Fuji-sensei's orders... Now cooperate and learn the rules.
Sum: I don' wanna~~~~~ I ha~~~~te studying!
There's no way I could learn all tha~~~~t!!
Izumi: Unless you learn them, not only can you not be in the match, you're not even allowed in practice!!
Fuji-sensei's orders!!
Sum: Gu...
Aka: What's this now? You challenged me without even knowing the rules?
Kinda running down idiot-street at full speed, ain'cha?
Sum: Shut uuup! You've got sideburns like Lupin!!
Asuka: Summer-kun, I'll teach ya! How 'bout we learn together?
Sum: GYAAAAAA!!
Ashuka-senpyaaaaa!!!
SFX: BUSHU
Aka: Heh?!!
What is Ring again?!!
Aw ma~~~~n, I think I totally forgot all the ru~~~les.....
Asuka: .....
Izumi: You liar!
And you call yourself a certified athlete for all of Japan?!!
Sum: Hm~~...
SFX: HAA HAA

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Sum: What the fuck is this?
Who is this guy...?
Book: Oliver Michael Jr.
Ring Rules
Manual
Foreigner: You, too, can make great progress!
Asuka: That was the only rule book we had in our Team Room......
Izumi: Make sure you learn 'em all, okay, Summer!!
These are Fuji-sensei's orders, remember!!
Sum: What the hell, geez...
Just how great is that Supervisor......?
That big-chinned Supervisor of ours...
Asuka: !
Ah, right! Summer-kun!!
How 'bout we go ta tha book store?!
I know a way better rulebook, let's go buy one!
Sum: Huh?

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Sum: Hey, hey, is this.....
Could it be......
Aw-Aw maaaan!! It is, isn't it?!!! It's a date!!! A friggin' date!!! [Both "date" big.]
It's a date!!!! It's seriously totally a date!!!! This is a daaaaaate! [All "date" big]
-------Hey, who brought you along, Toki?!!
That's not supposed ta happen!
Toku: Er...
Well, senpai did...
SFX: BIH
Sum: What do you mean, senpai...? Read between the lines, man. Toki, dammit......
This would normally be Asuka-senpai and me's you-know-what.
Toki: We, well ya see......
Aka: They're going to the bookstore just the two of them?!! I will never allow it!!
I'm going, too!!
Ken: No way. You've gotta practice.
Aka: GUAAAAA!
We can't just let them do thaaaat!
At least make somebody else go with 'em!!
They can't be alooooone!!

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Asuka: Them how 'bout Tokita-kun?!
Toki: Huh?
Asuka: Will you come with us for a bit?
Toki: So like I said......
I didn't have much of a choice......
Sum: Hmph.
Okay, fine!
I guess better you than Aka-chin, Saori or somebody like that......
Toki: Saori said that if he's got time for stupid crap like that he should be practicing......
Asuka: Tha's cause he's a practice nut......
Toki: Ah... Right. Senpai..
Asuka: Hm?
Toki: I've been wanting to ask this for a while now...
why'd your little brother come to this school?

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Asuka: Huh?
You mean Yousuke?
Sum: !
Toki: Uh...... Well...... To be honest, from watching him in practice, he's on a whole different level from the other 1st years......
He seems like somebody who would get some attention on the prefectural-level for this year's rookies...
Asuka: Er~~~~ I dunno about tha~~~t.
Sum: No way in heeell!
I think I'd garner way more attention between the two of us...
Toki: Er, it's not like...... I think Yamagaku's Ring Team is bad or anything......
but it seems like a scout or somebody from a better school would come for him... So I'm asking why he decided to come here......?
Sum: Ain't it obvious?
Because it's closest to his house!
Toki: That's the reason you came here!! ["you" in italics.]

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Asuka: If you asked......
how many siblings're in our family......
Sum: !
Asuka: I'd answer
three...
I have a...
brother two years older than me...
...........
Yeah..... I've got...
I've got an older brother......

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Sum: Asuka......
Toki: Senpai?
Asuka: Though year before last......
he turned into a star......
Weird, right......? It was so sudden.....
A car accident......
Yeah..... Um.....
So, uh......
I don't have a big brother anymore.....
I'm...
really sorry, guys... I know how weird this sounds...
But......
But...

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Asuka: When I'm asked how many siblings are in my family
I still answer three......
I'm the 2nd of 3 siblings......
I always say...
I dunno why... I can't say it...
I can't say we're only 2 siblings.

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Asuka: I've got a big brother...
In my heart I've got a big brother...
And he's still alive...
Sum: -----...
Asuka...
Senpai......
Asuka: Ah, I'm... Sorry...... I just......
I... really loved by big brother......
SFX: EGU GUSU
Toki: Was your big brother.....
on the Yamagaku Ring Team?
Asuka: ............
Oh, geez...... Tokita-kun.....
you're just too clever......

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Asuka: Big Brother's dream......
was to conquer nationals with the Yamagaku Ring Team...
I...... Just wanted to make that dream come true somehow...
Toki: So that's why you became the manager, Asuka-senpai......?
And that's why he......
Asuka: Yousuke won' say it out loud, but...
He always used to fight with big brother...
He'll probably say he just picked Yamagaku because it was nearby......
But he blew off every one of the many scouts that came...
and just went to Yamagaku for no reason......?
If he wanted to play Ring, there were lots of better schools he could've gone to...
He's not always honest, that Yousuke...
But......
I think Yousuke liked our big brother most've all...
Makes sense, right...? Being an older brother 'n a younger brother...
Toki: ............

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Toki: So that's... the cause of Saori's utterly stoic attitude towards Ring......
and his reason for choosing Yamagaku, huh.....?
But... I kinda feel bad.
I make you remember something so unpleasant...
Asuka: Ah, it's okay...
Sum: I'b na~~~wt oga~~~y~~~!!
Toki: Uwah!!!
SFX: ORO ORO GUSU...
Sum: Ashuka-senpai... I can't believe you went through something like that......
That made me sorta... remember my deceased dad...
Asuka: Huh? Your dad became a star, too...?!
SFX: AAAAAA
Toki: But your dad isn't dead!
Sum: But he did leave home!! We've got the not being at home anymore part in common, right?!
Toki: No, not right! Dying and leaving home are totally different!!
Sum: No, they're really similar!!
Toki: And he left home because those various circumstances, right?!
Sum: But he's still not there, dangit!!
Asuka: ..........

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Sign: Nakano Bookstore
Sum: Huuuuh?!
Sign: Books
Sum: No way?!
Toki: Is this for real?!
That's our supervisor, ain't it/!!
That chin wrote a freakin' book?!!
Asuka: Uh, yeah...
Handwritten: Chin...?
Asuka: Fuji-sensei's a former Ring player.
Apparently he went into club team coaching after he retired......
Sum: Whu~~~~~h? He was always talking like he was so great, but he really was an great guy...
Asuka: He's actually a real amazing person...
Toki: But this book... It's a first edition that was printed 10 years ago, it looks like......
Handwritten: It didn't sell at all...

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Sum: Hm?
Asuka: Okay, so how 'bout we buy this to learn the rules, Summer-kun?
Sum: ..............
Guy: Aaaah, hey, yoooou!!
Guys: Hm?
Guy: Thieeeeef!!
Shoplifteeeer!!
Somebody stop him!!
Call the police!!
He's running outside!!
Sum: Oh.
SFX: KYAAA

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Toki: There's a shoplifter!
Summeeeer!!
Sum: Just leave that ta me!!
Stupid thief...
You sure have shitty luck to have done that when I happened to be here!!
Asuka: Go get 'im, Summer-kun!
Guy: That thief was a student, wasn't he?!
Did you call the police?
Toki: You should be fine.
Guys: !
Apron: Books.
Toki: That perm-haired guy that just ran out...
can catch him.
Guys: Kya!
Wa!
SFX: DON
Sum: Wait, dammiiiiit!!

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Sum: Get a load of this!!
This is what I used to go 100 meters in what I have a feeling was under 11 seconds...
the Hypeeeer B-Dash!!
SFX: GUH
Sum: HN!
SFX: KYAOH

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Sum: ---------!
Guy: GRIN

Page 27:
SFX: HAH HAH
SFX: HAH HAH
SFX: HAH HAH
SFX: GAH
Takeshi: You're...
the thief, aren't you?
Sum: HUh?!
No, you've got the wrong guy!!
SFX: DOKI

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Starburst: Shimabu's
Top: Thought up all on my own....
Rules of Ring!
~Really Broad~
■Throwing
○When the ring crosses a sideline, the opposing team to whomever the last player to touch it throws it in to resume play. In this situation, only after the referee has signaled that the ring has crossed the sidelines, can play resume without waiting for the referee's signal.
○The point the ring is thrown in from is the location where the ring crossed the line, but if the Ring crossed an end line then the throw point is the point where the end line and sideline meet (In soccer terms, the "corner").
○When throwing in, the player doing the throwing cannot step on the line. Also, the opposing team must be 5 or more meters away from the player throwing in.

■Fouls
○It is against the rules to do any dangerous actions such as block an opponent's path with a hand, arm, or leg, grab an opponent's arm, charge into them, purposefully collide with them, or trip them. Any such actions are considered a foul. The team that was fouled is does a throw-off from that location to resume play.