3-gatsu no Lion 93

Dang, I got a lot done today. I should be able to finish up V9 soon, seeing as there's just one chapter left followed by a 2-page omake.

[3-Gatsu no Lion 93 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter.93
Bug

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SFX: SUH...
Someone: Sente, 9-8 Kyou
!!
Souya Meijin
brought up his Kyou?!
Is he going for a static hisha anaguma?!
Nikai: What? Souya Meijin doing static hisha anaguma?
I've never seen that before!
Guy: Hmm..
Well seeing as Dobashi-kun plunged in with 'central hisha' which he's never done before,
----he's responding by saying 'well, then what're you gonna do if I respond with static hi-ana that I barely ever do?'
----Something like that, I suppose?
Okay then, how will Dobashi 9-dan respond?

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Somebody: Did he expect this reponse?
SFX: SUH
Nikai: Ooh!!
3-4 hisha!!
3-4 hisha...
Matsu: From 'central hisha' to 'ishida style'...?
He's going to try to put a solid formation together?
Shima: So even Souya's static hisha anaguma was 'within his hypotheses'...?
-------Sheesh,
just how far has he expanded and how deep has he dived...?
This isn't normal...!!
This is gonna be
a long match.

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Matsu: Kuh...
It's gonna be long...?
----That means
Nikai: Right!
We can't take out eyes off until it's done!!
Somebody: How could this happen?
If it gets really prolonged, then that means
tomorrow night's dinner will end up being sandwiches here in the waiting room, won't it......?
Nikai: Hold on, that's what you're concerned about?!
Handwritten (Bubble): HUUH?!
Matsu: Did we come all the way to Fukuoka for that?!!
Handwritten (Right): HAaaaa
(Left): I was all ready to have mizutaki for dinner!
T/N: Mizutaki is a kind of hot pot dish in which fish or other kinds of meat and vegetables are cooked in unseasoned fish broth and dipped in tangy

Ponzu sauce.
Narr: The first day of the Meijin Championship's 2nd game ended with Souya Meijin making a sealed move.
Day 2.
Early evening.
From the start of the match
13 hours had passed.
Nikai: H... He's not moving at all, is he?
Dobashi 9-dan.
He's stock still.
Matsu: What's with the Dobashi robot?
His batteries dead?
Or is he just malfunctioning?

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Shima: A long think...
----But
why is he expending so much of his time here?
There shouldn't be anything here but the natural [white] 6-1 Gin.
Or is he trying to get a thorough read
of how the game will develop after this?

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Nikai: ...
Hm?
What?
What's Souya-san doing?
Ah,
he got up from his seat.
He's not going the the bathroom?
But he's carrying so~~mething.
SFX: SHUH...

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Nikai: -----Ah, Souya-san
came back, huh?
SFX: BUH BUH... (Mumbling)
SFX: PASHIH

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Narr: Until the endgame, the situation kept swinging back and forth.
After they had both used up their available time and were down to 1-minute shogi,
with 145 moves, the curtain came to a close on the 2nd game of the Meijin Championship
with Souya Meijin's victory.
----And
the post-mortem that took place after
quietly
continued deep into the night, and the 2nd day ended.
Nikai: Wheeew. That game was long,
but so was the post-mortem.
Matsunaga-san was crying (hehe).
He yelled 'Mizutakiiii! Fried pork leeeg!' through tears.
Nikai: ----Oh yeah, anija.
Shima: Hm?
Nikai: I couldn't get a good look at it through the monitor,
but around 3 Souya-san left his seat, right?
What was that all about?

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Shima: ......
There was a bug.
A little bug...
Souya was concerned about it, believe it or not.
It was pretty surprising,
---but it kinda made me happy to see.
Handwritten: It was so human!!

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Narration: No, actually
Souya didn't care about the bug.
Matsu: -----Then
when he wakes up in the morning, he'll eat the 3 onigiri he ordered to his room the previous night
and then do some mating-shogi puzzles to warm his mind up...
-----It's like clockwork!!
I know!! There must be a robot inside that human exterior of his, right?!! [These lines are the same as from chapter 91]
Shima: Dobashi-san's
concentration was tremendous.
Once he'd sunk that deep, everything else was blocked out.

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Shima: But at the edge of his vision
there was something that everyone else
----and even the player himself didn't realize
that was causing problems with his thought process.
Souya noticed that little bug
and removed it
for Dobashi-san.
----No,
for their match. For both of them.
And the fact
that I was disgracefully jealous of that,
I will take to my grave
a secret.
Nikai: Anija,
what time is the plane tomorrow?
Shima: 1PM.
We have some time, so maybe we can go get some souvenirs at the airport.
Bottom: Chapter.93 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: Regarding Superstition
Article: When you think of a gambler, you picture someone on edge in western clothing, a wrinkled brow, and...... of course, superstition.
This sort of stereotypical shogi player, for the most, part does not exist. They spend most of their days in t-shirts and jeans, don't have that sort

of scary appearance, and yes, I believe there are very few that are superstitious. I say 'I believe' because, naturally, I don't talk about it much

with other people. Much less people in the industry.
But well, no matter how you think about it, I can say that very few shogi players pay much attention to superstition, seeing as shogi is such a logical

game. So most people that get into shogi have a scientific mindset. I would say that is the biggest reason.
Again, these are all my personal thoughts on the matter, but there's also the fact that we don't get injured. Whereas sports athletes are surprisingly

very superstitious. It's thought that because in sports, both losing and getting injured are really awful situations. No matter how cautious you are,

injury has a certain element of luck to it. This is what makes one entreaty to a deity.
I've thought of myself as a person completely free of superstition. However, once on the morning of a match, right when I was trying to tie my necktie,

an awful feeling ran through my body. I'd lost the last match I wore that necktie in. Mmm, what should I do?
After a little thinking, I decided. Like hell I was going to let some stupid superstition beat me! I'm gonna win with this necktie!
And I lost. And in my next match, I wore a different necktie. Uugh, I lost to the superstition. How mortifying.
Thinking back on it now, I was an the bottom of a slump at the time. I think I'd had around a 7-game losing streak at the time. Because of what was

going on at the time, I was feeling weak-hearted, and so I came up with the idea that it was the necktie's fault I'd lost.
When things are going well, you don't pay any attentions to omens. But during times of adversity, you get concerned about dull things.
Caption: 'On match days, I look at the river as I walk to the JR station.' Perhaps this is a superstition of Kiriyama's.
Rei: When I see places that lots of water has ended up
I space out and my head goes blank.
There would only be one line to Sendagaya if I went by subway,
but on the days of matches I walk to the JR station
while looking at the river--- and I cross over all sorts of bridges......

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