3-gatsu no Lion 51

Ooookay. Let's get this volume fully translated at long last.

[3-Gatsu no Lion 51 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter.51
Ladybug Bush (1)

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Sign: Fujimoto Bread
Sweets and Bread
Fujimoto: Thank you
for your patronage!
Rei: It's true...
Handwritten: Ooh...
Bought enough for lunch, too.
SFX: MOGU MOGU (Chewing)
Rei: It's delicious.
Asuka: The egg sandwich they have at Fujimoto Breat on 2 choume is unbelievably good!
They open in the early morning,
so maybe go on a day you have a match and eat it on your way.
Handwritten: Aah... Onei-san...
SFX: SUKI... SUKI... (I love you, I love you) CHIU (Kiss)

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Hina: Fujimori Bread?!
Rei-chan, that place,
they have the best doughnuts there!!
Try them!
You've gotta try them!!
If you go in the evening you can get some freshly-fried ones!
Rei: Maybe I should've bought some doughnuts, too... Hina-chan recommended them.
Handwritten: I would've had enough snacks for the whole match, too.....
In today's open tournament, the available time is short.
It starts at 10 o'clock,
so if I want to get there 15 minutes early,
then I've still got plenty of time. I'll just eat this here.
----I've played this opponent a bunch of times.
He's a player that's skilled at quick games.
He'll probably use the Fujii System......
then in a fast battle...
SFX: MOGU MOGU (Chewing)
SFX: KASA...
Rei: ......
This bush...
----Oh yeah. I remember.
That's the one they planted in the elementary school yard...

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Rei: It's the ladybug bush.
----For some reason, of all the bushes planted here
this one bush in particular
was the only one to have ladybug eggs hatch in it...
I haven't seen it in so long.
It sure makes me feel nostalgic.
Nostalgic?
......
-----No, that's not it.
This...

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Rei: This feeling is...
SFX: SHURURURU... SHURURURU

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Rei: !!
SFX: GAHH DOSSUH
SFX: GARAH
Kids: Uh-oh! He's looking this way!
Scary!
It's the four-eyed robot!
You're the one that threw it, right?
Hehe.
HAHAHA

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Rei: ----I lost my parents and my little sister in an accident
and then I became I child of a house of shogi in Tokyo.
I was all alone in my elementary school in rural Nagano,
but when I came here to Tokyo,
in this huge, enormous school, I became truly alone.
----But because I had never once had a single friend,
I saw that as normal.
Board: Kiriyama
Four-eyes
shogi
robot
Country bumpkin!
SFX: KUSUKUSU (HEHE) HISOHISO (Whispering)
Rei: 'It's normal.'
----That's what
I tried to make myself think.

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Rei: I did everything I could to hide my presence
so the direct attacks from my classmates wouldn't get any worse.
I got used to doing that,
so every day I would act unconcerned.
During recess
I would pretend to be absorbed in books.
I would stand out if I stayed inside during lunch break,
so I hid
in a shrub in the corner of the schoolyard.
2-3 hi promotion.
Same, gyoku.
1-3 kaku promotion.
3-4 gyoku.

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Rei: My Kouda mom was a kind person,
Good morning.
Oh, good morning.
so she would always smile with a concerned sort of look.
I wanted to make mom happy,
so I worked hard at a lot of things, but...
Kyouko: Rice washing?
Can't you just make Rei do it?
He's better at it than me, isn't he?
Cleaning the bath?
......Can't you just have Rei do it..?
You're always saying what a 'good boy' he is, right?
SFX: GAGAGA BIIIN GAGA PIKYUUN PIKYUUN
Rei: The more I would help out,
the more mom
would make that worried look.

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Rei: Let us have a good game.
SFX: PACHIH
Someone: Hey, uh,
could you quit so transparently trying to earn points like that?
She's our mom, you know.
SFX: PACHIH
Kyouko: I hate you.
You're so creepy.
I mean, you're like a robot.

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Rei: At night
I would get anxious wondering 'Can I keep this up forever?' and I wouldn't be able to breathe.
------So I would get absorbed in the game board
so I could get through those nights without having to think.
On and on,
in that nighttime sea where my feet couldn't reach the ground,
I would spend those days just floating.
I didn't have anything
to cling onto
except for that little board.

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Rei: I would solve
every last one of the mating problems from the books I had.
I would read into them until I broke out into fevers.
----And
SFX: PASHIH
Rei: sleeping in Dad's archive
were over 50 years' worth
of official match game records----

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Rei: From there,
starting from the beautifully bound records dating back to the the Edo period,
I would read them day and night.
---I would spend every day off at the shogi assembly hall
or at the shogi hall Dad introduced me to
playing games morning till evening.
I would play
and play
and play
and play.
And I kept on playing
and playing
and playing
Guy: I lost.

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Rei: ----and playing
and playing
and playing
and playing
and playing
and playing
and playing
and playing
-----and so
Phone: Come over and have dinner with us! I'm making hamburgers!
Akari
Rei: here I am.

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Akari: Welcome!
Oh, doughnuts!!
You went to buy them for us?
They're still a bit warm! They're freshly-fried, are they?
Ah!
Is Hina still not home yet?
In Bubble: She sure is taking a while...
Handwritten: Oh, I really want to eat them while they're still hooooot! [Flower after the "Oh" and 2 at at the end]
But if we do we'll have no room for dinner...
Momo: Doughnuts!!
I want 'em!!
SFX: GIRAGIRA
Bag: Fujimori Bread
Akari: Ah!
There's Hina-chan coming in right now.
Welcome back!
SFX: KATAN
Akari: ...?
Handwritten: What're you doing? Is it okay to eat them?
Is it okay?! Can we eat them nooow?!
Handwritten (Rei): They arms are so long!
Handwritten (Bottom): Stretch!!
SFX: SHIIIN... (Silence) SHAKIIIN SHAKIIIN SAH GASASAH SASAH BYUN!!
AKari: I wonder what's wrong.
Hina?
Hina, are you there?

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Akari: .....
Hina?
Shoe on the Right: Middle School
Shoe on the left: 3-2 Kawamoto

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Hina: ......
Rei-
cha...
Onei-
cha...
...
Akari: Hina-chan?!
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