3-gatsu no Lion 45

Ok, well the last 3 pages of this took forever.

[3-Gatsu no Lion 45 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter.45
New Semester

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Rei: I half expected it, but
SFX: KIIIN KOOHN KAAAN KOOHN
Rei: with the classes and teachers shuffling as we went into 2nd year, my class split away from Hayashida-sensei.

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Rei: Ookay, lunch...
SFX: GATAN...
Guys: HURRYYY!
The big-W hamburger steak sandwich is gonna sell out!!
You're not gonna beat me! I'm getting a fried-potato salad sandwich!
SFX: DASH!!
Guys: The ball is your friend!
I'm ready to shock the world!!
SFX: DADAAH
SFX: POHHHHN...
Handwritten: KYAH KYAH
Like I said
no waaay! [flower]
Guys: Hey, did that guy really go up a grade?
Huh? He's pulling double-duty?
Why?
I think he's doing something with shogi? I don't really know.
What? Shogi?
Isn't that something old men play?
Shogi? Like, a game? At his house? Is he an otaku?
Is he really pulling double-duty, then? Or just skipping school?
Heh. So that's it...
Rei: I...
I'll just... go outside...
SFX: YORO... (Unsteady) SUSUUUUHH...

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Rei: The kids in the class started forming cliques the moment the class shuffle was done.
---And with that already all done,
what is someone awful like me, with no courage or skill to jump in,
supposed to do...?
Hey!
Mind if I join you?
---Something like this?
---No, no. Something more nonchalant...
Hey,
could I eat with you?
---Something more smooth, like that...
-----If I could do it that normally, I wouldn't have eaten lunch by myself everyday for 11 years!!
No...
I can't...
I'll screw it up... I know I'll just fumble all over my words!
SFX: YOBO YOBO... (unsteady)
Rei: Well... This is what I supposed would happen.
If I just pass the time along, quietly again, I should be fine.
2 more years.
Only two more measly years.
----Rather than worrying about that, I should be concentrating on the rank matches starting in June and the newcomer championship that's coming up really soon.

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Rei: The Rank matches. There are a total of 34 people in the class I'm in, C1 Class.
Over the course of a year, we do 10 matches determined by lottery.
And the top two alone rise to B2.
----And on that match schedule, Nikaidou's name was missing...
Nikai: What's going on here, Kiriyama?!!
In Bubble: Are you in Sendagaya right now? I'll head right over!!
Just sit tight!
Rei: I don't know!!
Nikai: In that case, we'll have to go up against each other in the newcomer championship......
Though unfortunately, you and I are divided separately into A block and B block.
So that means we both just have to make it to the finals!!
Top Right: Nikaidou
Top Right Handwritten: A Block
Top Left Handwritten: B Block
Center: Here
Bottom Left: Kiriyama
Nikai: I'm just telling the truth!
Don't be daunted, Kiriyama!!
Rei: Hold on! Did you just say until the finals?! [finals in italics.]
Handwritten Right: Hey, what?!
Handwritten Left: I've never heard of such a rash decision!

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Nikai: The legend of these two
has only
just begun.
SFX: HEHEHH BISHIH
Rei: L-L-Legend? ...Wait, 'these two'? Who's he talking about?
Ah...
Uh
Okay.
Good luck.
SFRX: PURIH PURIHH (Squishy)
Rei: ----Yeah. Let's do our best.
In both the newcomer championship and the ranked matches.
Because as I am now,
that's all I can do...
Handwritten: Hear about that, Sensei?
Really? Huh?
I know, right!!

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SFX: PEKORI
Rei: I'll do my best. I'll start back from the start, and then go one by one...
one by one...

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Hayashida: HEEEEEY! KIRIYAMAHHHHH
HOLD ON, DAMMIIIIIT!
Rei: HUUUHH?
SFX: DODODODO DODODO
SFX: WASSHA WASSHA DAAAAHH
Handwritten: HAAHHH HAAHHH HAAAHHH HAAAHHH HAAAHH ZEHAAA ZEHAAAA
GEHO GEHO OEEH...
Hayashi: KI~~RI~~YA~~~MA~~~ you basta~~rd!
Handwritten (Kiri): KYAAAAH!
Wh... Wh... Sensei, what are you doing?
You can't just leave your students like that, can you?
Hayashi: The hell are you talking abouuut?!
What to you expect me to do when a student makes a face like that at me?!
How could I not come running, goddammit?!
Rei: F...
Face?
W... What face?!
SFX: ZEHAAA ZEHAAAHH

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Haya: This face! This one right here!
Rei: GYAAAA
SFX: WASHA WASHA WASHA
Rei: ...So,
Um...
Haya: Hm? Yeah?
Rei: Is this okay?
For a homeroom teacher to be eating lunch with a student that was in his class last school term but not this one...?
Haya: Yeah, it's fine!!
Due to 'certain circumstances' you only just made it on days absent.
And you're a student that tends to be closed-off and you had a gloomy look on your face, so I was worried...
----To put it into words, it was like somebody was telling me 'Sensei!! Hurry, go help him!!', ya know?
Rei: Why are you so casually discrediting me and by doing so, discrediting yourself?
Handwritten: Sensei.....
SFX: MOGU MOGU (Chewing)
Hayashi: Cause I really want to be one of the teachers asked to the Christmas Party this year!
Sensei's pretty desperate, too, ya know?!
But, uh... Kiriyama, why are you coming back here again?
It's a new school year and a new semester. This is your Hunter Chance!
T/N: This is a reference to a quiz show from the 80's and early 90's called "1 million yen Quiz Hunter".
Haya: What'll happen if you don't give it your all right now?

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Rei: ...Um,
I am giving it my all.
Haya: So then Sensei
can't say 'give it your all' to you anymore...
-----So, Sensei came up with this idea.
Let's make a Shogi Club.
Rei: Sh-
Shogi Club?
Huh?
Hold on...
Haya: Then I'll be the advisor.
So then it wouldn't be weird for me to be concerning myself with you, right?
Since I'd be your advisor and all.
Rei: Er... But
I don't think it'll be that...
Haya: If you get 5 people together and you have an advisor, you can form a 'club'.
Rei: Um... But
Haya: We just need to find another 4 people.
Rei: Find?
But how??
Haya: Anyhow, let's get searching.

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Rei: But, we're ["but" in italics.]
not going to find people that easi...
Top: Seems to have remembered something
Handwritten: Ah...
SFX: HAHHHH JIIIIHH...
Haya: 'But'?
----But what exactly?
Rei: Ah,
no,
it's nothing.
Handwritten: Spikes
Haya: Hey, Kiriyama,
why did you decide to try to do high school again?
SFX: KYAHAHA WAA WAA WAA HAHA HAHAHA
Haya: So you could
eat lunch alone on the staircase like this?
That's not the reason, right?
Rei: It's really always...
Haya: ...Kiriyama?

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Rei: ......
Yes...
It's always been weighing on my heart.
'This way I'm not running away, right?'
'What if I'm only pretending not to run way...?'
And then I realized the truth.
That the way things are going
it's just gonna
get more and more painful.
Back then, I thought. If I could blend in with everyone on my own like that...
How...
How...

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Rei: Sensei...
Would you please
be the advisor for a shogi club?
How happy I'd be...
Haya: You bet.
---So, Kiriyama....
You will, you know? Tutor me, too, right?
Rei: Huh?
Ah, yes. Of course.
Haya: Yes!
In BUbble: I got it!!!
A yes for free lessons from a pro!
I... I want to overcome the barrier of Amateur 4-dan. There are some guys I hate online on Shogi 24 that I really wanna beat.
Rei: Sensei...
I'm touched, but... Let's be gentle about this...
Haya: Th...
There's nobodyyyy
Handwritten: What's everyone mean, 'Shogi? Sorry, I'm really not all that interested...'?
What?
Is shogi that minor?
Handwritten: But I love shogi so much...
Rei: I'm sorry.
Haya: No, you've got nothing to apologize for!
Rei: Er,
sorry, I just felt I should...
SFX: AAA... DONYORI (Heavy)
Haya: That's it!
SFX: HAH
Haya: Noguchi!!
SFX: BAAAN

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Haya: It stinks in here again!! ['stinks' really big.]
Handwritten: Ooh...
Noguchi: Hayashida-sensei.
It's been quite some time.
Hey, what are you guys doing this time?
SFX: MOHAA~~N
Noguchi: Hahaha! As you can see, we are harvesting (?) nattou.
[I forget if we said what Nattou is before but if not here's a note.]
T/N: Nattou is a kind of fermented soybeans with a strong smell and slimy texture.
SFX: NECHIIIIHH... WARAMISSHIRI... (Packed-together straw)
Haya: Er, I mean, how can you be making nattou in school?!
Noguchi: Well, it's like this... First you wrap steamed soybeans in rice plant straw, heat it to around 40 degrees, and let it sit for one full day. Then the Bacillus subtilis stuck to the straw will move to the soy and multiply, causing fermentation...
Haya: O-Okay,
when I said "how can you be".
I guess you weren't listening.
SFX: HAHAHA...
Haya: Noguchi: WAA!
Rei: It really is nattou.
Haya: Hey! You're already eating it?!
Handwritten: Someone recommended it, it looks like...
I guess you can be pretty straightforward once in a while...
Haya: Er, where'd you get the straw from?
Noguchi: Hahaha. A very good question.
Handwritten: HAHAHA
*3rd year high school student
Noguchi: We harvested it last year
when I was cultivating rice in order to write this essay.
Paper: Is Self-Sufficiency Possible at a School?
Label: Noguchi Eisaku
SFX: SUHH
Haya: Hold on, what's with that essay? Er, what's it for?
Who'd you hand that in to?
Handwritten (Top): Actually, isn't it not good to be self-sufficient in a school?
Handwritten (Bottom): I don't even know where to begin on this one.
Ah,
geez,
I forgot the whole reason we came here.
Noguchi, can you play shogi?
Handwritten: That's right!!

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Noguchi: Shogi...... Well, I did learn from my grandfather as a child...
My... That is a very depthful game, isn't it?
Handwritten: HAHAHA...
Haya: All right!!
Handwritten: We finally got one!!
Haya: Er, well right now we've been thinking about making a shogi club. But we've had zero luck getting 5 people together.
Noguchi: Hahaha. I suppose it's the same everywhere.
My 'Houka Club' is even now in danger of being discontinued.
Handwritten: As things are going, we may be dissolved come the club budget meeting in May...
Haya: Huh? What? You had enough members before, didn't you? ...What happened?
Noguchi: All of my senpai graduated.
Haya: Hold on. Those people were your senpai?
SFX: FUUUH
Noguchi: Yes, they were great senpai...
Ever since the day I entered the club, they called me, a 1st year, 'senpai!!'...
Handwritten: WAAA
Senpai?!
No... Club Chief!!!!
WAAA
Noguchi: Is this the science club?
Left: *1st year
Bottom: *upperclassmen
Noguchi: I really wanted to keep the club going and convey the wonder of science to young people, but...
now that there are only 4 of us, we are out of options...
Handwritten: *3rd year
If I can just complete this essay...
Haya: Er, I'm not sure if you'll convey how good science is even if you do...
Hm? Hold on a second.
That's it.
SFX: HM?

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Haya: What if you guys
form one complete club?
Narration: 4 club members
1 club member
Both: ..........
Guy: Oooohhh!!
Yes!!
I see!
Narration: -----And so, the 'After School Science Club' was reformed as 'After School Shogi Science Club',
'Shouka Club' for short (1 rank up from Houka Club).
On the way home, Sensei
Haya: Eh? Toldja, didn' I?
'the anxiety that comes from doing nothing is worse than any danger you might face'. From my experience,
that's the truth about 80% of the time.
Rei: ----He said with a smile.
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