3-gatsu no Lion 73

Ok, just got the omake to do and this volume's aaallll done.

[3-Gatsu no Lion 73 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter.73
White Storm

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[Spacer paaage]

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Rei: U...
UWAaaaaah!
Rei: ...Th-The hotel is
w-way bigger than I expected.
Handwritten: HOEEEH...
People: Welcome!!
Ores: Hello! Thank you so much for your hospitality!
Sign: Welcome [Top]
Newcomer Championship Commemorative Match [Right side]
Souya Touji Meijin
Kiriyama Rei [Left side]
SFX: ZURAAH
Guys: We've been awaiting you! Come right in, we will take your bags.
Pres: Thanks! This is one of our stars, Kiriyama 5-dan.
Glad to be here!!
SFX: DONN

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Someone: All right.
So, first,
how about we take a look through the rooms?
[Same sign as in the last chapter]
Rei: GYAAA!
Handwritten (In Bubble): WHat is that?!
SFX: BIKKUUH (Surprise)
Pres: Okay,
here's your room, Kiriyama-kun...
Pretty, ain't it? That's Lake Gosho!!
SFX: HIROBIROOO
Pres: Go ahead! ☆
You're free until 7 when the night-before festival starts. ☆
Take a load off!!
SFX: BAAN DONN
Pres: The baths all come directly from a hot spring source!!
Well, we're gonna go for a dip in the springs first!!
How 'bout it, Kiriyama? Wanna come with?!!
SFX: BABAAN

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Pres: Also, here!!
Here's the program for the night-before ceremony!!
Just take a qui~~~ck glance over it.
That's it. Be in the lobby at 6, kay?! ☆
Handwritten: It looks like his rooms is so grandiose, big, and quiet, he can't calm down......
SFX: POHHHHHHNN...... KITO KITO...
Paper: Healing Buddha Water
Feel the Warmth in this Open-Air Garden [Top card]
Waterfall Shower
Healing [Cut off]
Rei: Onsen...
Onsen...
Onsen... huh...?
Handwritten (Rei): Now that I think about it, I've ever been in one... I think...
Handwritten (Top Arrow): Present-day Child......
(Never entered a bath with strangers...)
Handwritten (Bottom Arrow): Seems he didn't have the courage to enter the big bath...
SFX: CHAPOOOOON... SHIIIN... (Silence)

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Rei: Let's see,
the program...
First is the greeting from the President.
Then the flower presentation.
Greeting the guests.
A speech from the sponsors.
A toast from the president of the sponsoring newspaper.
Huh...?
Greeting the players.
Photo op with the players.
Question corner with the players.
A *signing by both players ...
Asterisk: *Writing one's signature on the back of shogi boards
Rei: .......................
SFX: BUKU... BUKU... BUKU... (Bubbles) ZAAAH
Rei: That night's night-before party was a big event,
so lots of people flooded the hotel.
Among all the flashbulbs
Sign: Newcomer Championship Commemorative Match
Reception
Rei: speeches were made one after another...

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Rei: I see now that this
takes a lot of stamina and willpower.
Too much bowing and your head starts to spin.
Sign: Welcome [Black box]
Souya Touji Meijin
Kiriyama Rei 5-dan
Rei: ---I could barely talk.
Is this an everyday thing for him...?
He's stood alone in this world for allll this time?
He'll be surrounded by a crowd of people.
I want to be by his side so he can brace himself
and doesn't get exhausted on the night before the match. [I think this is from a previous chapter when they were talking about Shimada playing Souya? May want to get it from there.]

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Rei: Nikaidou... You're always
keeping such good track of so much...
---Way more than me.
Black Bars: Don't try to act cool, Kiriyama.
If you really want to win, then persevere.
---Take better care of your shogi game.

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Black Bar: Take better care of yourself.
Rei: ---If he hadn't said that to me
I'm sure
I wouldn't be standing here right now...
I thought that this man's profile.....

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Rei: ----looked like he was searching for something beyond a storm.
---But it really hit me
just how unprepared I was to ask questions about that
when I saw that profile...
And
also how I had not
even entered the storm yet...
Guy: This is your first match against Soya Meijin, isn't it?
Would you mind telling us...
----just what your mind set is going into this match?

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Rei: Ah.
......
...
Um...
Things like 'It's an honor to practice with such a skilled opponent'.
and 'I'm going to fight back'
came to mind, but...
----I realized something completely different from those things
and I was at a loss for words.
I was sure that just to get a sense of 'how far apart we were' it would take several games.
-----That's how far apart we were...
Ah...
I'm going to focus so
it doesn't end in in an instant.
Someone: And now, Souya Meijin.
A word about Kiriyama 5-dan?
Souya: I read the notations form his Newcomer Championship match.
And it was clear to me he is studying an awful lot.
But still, I think it's good that he has less rigid aspects to his play.
Guy: What sort of match do you think this will be?
Souya: Well, it's our first game
so I'm looking forward to seeing how the match flows as well.

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Rei: S...
Sure sounds like him.
Handwritten: Mhm Mhm! That Souya Meijin always has some poignant words to say!!
Guy: Souya Meijin, you've been appearing in title matches all year almost non-stop.
How are your feeling physically?
SFX: PAAA... SHUN...
Souya: I'll be coming back to Iwate a lot for title matches,
but at some point I would like to visit without having a match to worry about.
Rei: ...S-Souya Meijin...
Is he an airhead?
Guy: U-
Um...
Handwritten: I don't think your answer quite meshed with the question...?
Guy: ----Anyhow,
one more thing...
Souya: Yes.
Thank you very much.
SFX: NIKO NIKOH (Smiling)
Souya: Well then...
Woman: KYAH!
SFX: PEKOH GASHAH DONN KURUHH (TURN)
Someone: I-
I'm so sorry!
Oh dear, your clothes!!
Souya Meijin,
are you all right?!

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Someone: Souya Meijin.
Um...
Your clothes...
SFX: ZAWA... ZAWA
Souya: Yes.
I know quite a lot of people from the city of Morioka will be coming tomorrow
so Kiriyama 5-dan and I will be doing our best
to have a substantial match that everyone can enjoy.
Narration: ---Everyone there
held their breath.
Black Bars: No matter how different they may be,
Someone: .........
Black Bars: if they are strong, then that is the correct path.

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Pres: AHH!!
What are you doing, Souya?!
Handwritten: A red wine stain?!
HUUUH?!
I take my eyes off you for one second and this happens?!
You absentminded general!
Come here a second!
You've gotta get that off right away!
What are we gonna do for the match tomorrow?!
That's your only suit, isn't it?! Did you bring anything else?!
Handwritten: Geeez!
SFX: GUIH
Someone: Red wine...?
I'll have someone attempt to remove the stain right away but...
I'm not sure if it will come out.
Pres: Huh? It even got on your shirt and neck tie!
Handwritten: HMMM...
WAAAA
........
Rei: ----After he left
everyone released all the air they were holding in at once.
And
Someone said with a sigh...

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Someone: That's a shogi demon at this point.
He's only just barely...
able to maintain
a human form.
Rei: ---And so
the day of the match arrived...
Someone: !!
Souya Meijin.
...Look!!
SFX: SUHH

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SFX: SHUHH

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Rei: ---That morning
news came in that an out-of-season typhoon
had come in from Amami Ooshima sea and made landfall on Kagoshima.
----And
that typhoon was slowly
licking its way northward
up the Japanese Isles.
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