81 Diver 348

And here we are. Next chapter, we enter the endgame in this shogi game that is this shogi manga.

[81diver 348 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 95:
Title: Chapter 348 LOVE IS ALL

Page 96:
Box: In the endgame of a shogi match,
players throw different techniques at each other,
and the more they go back and forth...
the more they exchange being pushed to the brink of death...

Page 97:
Box: and the more they send that back to the opponent...
much like an old video game where a ball goes faster the more it bounces...
or like karma accumulating more and more over time...
their final attack...
becomes more furious!!!!

Page 98-99:
Box: That board
was brought to a state...

Page 100-101:
Box: where Sugata had made such a comeback
that any more comebacks
were impossible.
The thing everyone
was thinking was...
if she hadn't taken that hisha,
Nakashizu Soyo
would
have won.
'Why did she take the hisha?'
There are
no
'whys' in shogi.

Page 102:
Box: Because a game of shogi
belongs only to the two people playing it.
Long ago...
someone who achieved a record that is unlikely for anyone to ever reach again,
a great giant of the Showa era that achieved the "rank of Meijin" for a total of 18 periods,
Ooyama Yasuharu, said...
'Humans are creatures that make mistakes.'

Page 103:
Box: Ooyama played shogi on the premise that his opponents would make mistakes.
Especially in the endgame, Ooyama
would jab,
feint,
coerce,
and use every other means that was humanly possible
all without ever collapsing himself
to defeat
all enemies that came before him.
The ones that confronted Ooyama saw something terrifying
that only those that faced those battles know.

Page 104-105:
Narr: When two humans have a game board between them,
the scenery visible between to each of them is different.
The old, the young, the men, and the women all clash with one another.
It's there that the everlasting appeal of shogi lies. ["there" in italics]
What Soyo saw...
was something that could not have been visible to anyone else.
'I love you'.
Shogi Piece: I love you ["hisha" faded out, "I love you" fades in]
That was the move
that saved Soyo from being a "shogi demon".

Page 106-107:
Soyo: I have lost.
Soyo: I...
I made it back...
Thank you...

Page 108-109:
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Page 110-111:
Soyo: I love you...
even more than shogi.
Morine: In 500 years of shogi history, has anyone ever kissed over a shogi board?
Suzuki: I doubt it.
Suga: I...

Page 112:
Suga: will defeat Tanio.