3-gatsu no Lion 57

[3-Gatsu no Lion 57 by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter.57
Letter

Page 58:
Rei: Thank you very much.
Guy: T-Thank you very much.
Good job today, Kiriyama 5-Dan.
Rei: Thanks for all your hard work, too.
SFX: GIH

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Rei: That makes 4 wins!!
All riiight!
If I can just get one more win, I'll make it to the semi-finals of the Kishou Championship preliminaries!!
SFX: GUHH...
Rei: Ookay.
This month is going good!!
----Right now I've got two consecutive wins in the rank-deciding matches.
Right now, the tournaments I'm still in the running for
are the Kishou Championship
the Shishi-Ou Championship
and the Newcomer Championship...
SFX: MOGU MOGU (Chewing)

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Rei: I really want wins in the Shishi-Ou Championship...
If I can come out on top in group 5 and get into the tournament to determine the challenger......
----then I can break into my goal amount!!
But the Newcomer Tournament...
Setting the prize money aside, I really want to get one more win
so I can get the momentum to make it all the way to finals!!
Okay!
Practice time!!
C'mon, you've got this!!
SFX: PASHI PASHIH
Rei: I'm gonna be the Newcomer King!

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Kids: Morniing.
Morniing.
Desk: Quit making goo-goo eyes,
moroon!
Hina: ............
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA (Talking)
SFX: GOSHI... GOSHI GOSHI... (Wiping)

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SFX: KIIIN KOOOHN KAAAN
SFX: WAI WAI (Chatter)
Handwritten: Thanks for the meeeal!
KYAHAHAHA [This is the left one]
SFX: WAI WAI (Talking)
Hina: HAA
Handwritten: I knew I shouldn't have eaten all that...
I guess... this is what people call a bellyache.......
SFX: GYAHHH
SFX: GOSUH
Takahashi: What're you still in here for?
Hina: T-Takahashi-kun!
Someone: Bitch.

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Handwritten: Mhm... [Left one]
SFX: Playing dumb ☆
Hina: Um, thanks Takahashi-kun,
but...
Today I'm feeling kinda...
Taka: ......
Handwritten: Uh, I think this is the same class I had in first year......
SFX: BORI BORI (Scratching)
Takahashi: Hey, Takagi!!
----That's your name, right?
SFX: GIKUH (Gulp)
Taka: You wanna come with us?
Okaay!
You guys readyyy?!
I'm gonna throw iiiit!
Handwritten: You're starting with Meg?
No way! I'm scaaared!
C'mooon, he said it'd be fiiine! ☆
SFX: KYAH KYAH KYAH

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Taka: Get seeet...
SFX: GUOHH
SFX: DOOOON GYURURUB GYAAAA GYAAAA
Taka: Huuh?
What, you guys goin' already?
Handwritten: That jerk!
Screw you!
I don't care! That guy's crazy!!
Hold on, Meg!
Taka: Heeey!
What's wrooong?

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Hina: Takahashi-kun.
Takahashi: I can't believe them. They threw the glove on the ground and ran off.
That one that changed schools,
that was Sakura Chiho, right...?
Hina: Huh?
Taka: During out overnight field trip in 2nd year
it was really windy out and my lunch box flipped over and everything got sand all over it.
And then
she gave he half of hers.
She smiled and said
'here you go'.
----Anybody that'd give someone else their food
is a good person... I remember thinking.
So
I'll come play catch with you whenever you want.

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Taka: I kinda thought
it'd be good thing to show to people.
That you've got allies.
Rei: .....
I see....
----But...
I'm sorry.
Handwritten (Cat): There's a bad person here, nya...
Handwritten (Rei): Man, Takahashi-kun's so cool...
I see... So they were jealous, huh...?
Handwritten (Bottom): Yeah, no good, nya...
No good at all, nyaa...
Rei: I hadn't thought it through that far. I'm really sorry.
Hina: WAAA
No, Kiryama-kun, that's not what I meant!
We're gonna keep playing catch! And I'm enjoying it, too!

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Hina: Also, Takahashi-kun remembered Chiho-chan.
Talking to him about her
really made me happy...
----Nobody in the class
talks about Chiho-chan anymore.
It's almost
like she was
never there
in the first place...
And that makes me
wonder why you would act
like a person just didn't exist.
Huh?
Uh, what?
Sorry.
Rei: It's okay, here...
Hina: Thank you for
always listening to me like this, Rei-chan.
You always ask
'Hina-chan, what's wrong'.
and all...
...But I
don't even know what's wrong...

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Hina: I'm so frustrated.
'What's wrong?'...
----I want to tell them all how stupid they are and hit them.
I want to really, really bad.
I want to make them feel the same thing Chiho-chan felt.
And
let them
know
what..
it is
they did.
Boxes: She sent Chiho-chan a letter
but she waited and waited and never got a reply...
What came instead
Hina: But
it's too late.
Chiho-chan is
gone now.
And
it's a waste of time.
Box: ----she received a letter from her mother.
Hina: to even try to get them to apologize.
Letter:
Chiho-chan is still not attending school even here. She is undergoing rehab with a councilor at a place called "Heart Care Center". Chiho-chan would like to
to write to you [This part's cut off on the left]
cannot [Cut off]

Page 69:
Hina: I don't think Chiho-chan
wants to see their faces anymore.
Rei: There's something
Board: Kawamoto Hinata likes boys.
Slutty
Bitch
Idiot
Rei: I realized.

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Rei: I used to think
SFX: GATAN TOTON
Rei: that if something was too painful, you could just leave.
SFX: KUSUKUSKU (Teehee) KOSOKOSO (Whispering) HISOHISO (Whispering)
SFX: SUTONN GATANN
Rei: That it was okay not respectably face people
that were doing less than respectable things.

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SFX: ZAWA... ZAWA... (Talking)
Rei: But
SFX: GARA KIRIIIN
Teacher: !!
Huh...?
Handwritten: BOW!!
Teacher: Wh...
K-Kawawmoto-san!
What is the meaning of this?!
[The same stuff is written on the board as before]
Hina: I don't know.

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Rei: ----Yeah. She hasn't
Hina: I'm not the one that wrote it.
Teacher: Kawamoto-san, don't you think you could be making a mistake?
You can't call them bad people because of that.
.....
Hina: It was already there
when I got here this morning.
SFX: ZAWA... ZAWA ZAWA...
Rei: only been acting like she's in pain
Teacher: A-Anyhow, let's begin the lesson!!
Kawamoto-san, please see me...
in the staff room after class.

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Rei: She's angry.
Teacher: Okay.
Calm down,
please stop the chatter.
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA... (Chatter)
Rei: And
Both: Let's have a good game.
SFX: SUH...
Rei: it's a seething anger from the bottom of her heart.
SFX: KANNN
Bottom: Chapter.57 E N D


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Top Right Small: An article by Senzaki Manabu
Top Right Big: Senzaki Manabu's Lion Shogi Column
Big Right: Are there Really Student Pro Shogi Players?! Do they need an Academic Record?!
Article: An education is non-essential in the world of Shogi players. Whether they're middle graduates, high school graduates, or whatever, it doesn't matter one bit. By the way, I only graduated middle school but I haven't felt any unfairness towards me as a result of that whatsoever.
Twenty-something years before I entered the world of shogi, less than half of the people that enter the Shoureikai would go to high school. The idea that one should focus on shogi rather than study for school seemed to be the mainstream idea. The change in the flow of things was when Habu-san's generation started going to high school. Moriuchi Toshiyuki, Satou Yasumitsu, Gouda Masataka, all went to high school (which was actually pretty out of the ordinary). For Habu-san and his generation the world of shogi was already very active by the time they were high school age so they weren't able to earn credit as a result of being busy with tournaments, so it seems they went to night classes instead and graduated that way.
Following the examples of the strongest players, this became a fundamental aspect of the world. After that mangy Shoureikai members have gone to high school. If you think about it, young people with lots of free time aren't limited to only devote themselves to shogi. Youth comes with lots of worldly appetites. So life can be pretty irregular. One can get hooked on pachinko, mahjong, or any other kind of game. So the philosophy is that going to high school and living a normal life is better.
Going to high school is understandable, but surprisingly there are many shogi players that attend college as well. And many of them are so-called top-class college students.
For example, Hirose Akihito-kun who took the title of Oui, graduated from the Waseda University school of mathematics. And his rival, Nakamura Taichi 5-dan graduated from the same university from the school of political economics. And Waseda's political-economics school is a famous school which many politicians and bureaucrats have graduated from. Whenever I drink with Nakamura-kun, I tease him saying 'Just quit playing shogi and do something about our national politics!'
The most elite reach even higher positions. Katagami Daisuke 6-dan incredibly is a graduate of the Tokyo University law school. That just makes me want to ask him why he became a shogi player. By the way, in his own words he says "I'm not that smart, I'm just good at studying." Anyhow he seems to be very good at deciding on a goal and then studying until the definitive day arrives.
There are female Tokyo U graduates as well. I know players from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo University of Science, and other universities lying about. With this change in the past 10 or so years, it's quite surprising to someone old-school as myself. I can't help but feel quite jealous as someone who was good at school and shogi but only graduated middle school.