La Corda d'oro 51

La Corda d’Oro
Chapter 51
Because I’ve found you……

Girl: I like you… Please go out with me!
Kaji: …I’m sorry. But I really appreciate your feelings

Kaji: I…give my everything to Hino-san.

Hino’s friend: …Just like that

Hino: Wha…
Hino’s friend: Wow, Kaho-chan, you sure can score
Hino: Just what is that what is that what is that!!?

Hino’s friend: That’s why…
Hino’s friend: They say whenever someone confesses to Kaji, they will surely encounter that line.
Hino’s friend: That’s the rumour that’s been going around the school

Hino: Why!? Why did it turn out like that!?

Kaji: Hino-san~
Kaji: Good morning

!!

Kaji: Your hair today looks very cute
Hino: !

Hino’s friend: Looks like he always compliment Hino each morning
Boy: Looks like that’s how it will be

Hino: Th, thank you
Kaji: Oh, you accepted the compliments without turning it away

Kaji-kun is…
As expected of someone who came from a high level elite school, he surely did very well in academics

Teacher: Wonderful, Mr. Kaji, it’s perfect

He also excels in sports, not only that, but he is popular with everyone.
How should I put this, to say that he outdid himself….
Outdid himself…
Perhaps he’s just like Yunoki-senpai with a dark side that no one knows…….
No no no no, that wouldn’t be…
To say that there are multiples of people like Yunoki-senpai, it’s just impossible

Ousaki: ….san
Ousaki: Hino-san!
Ousaki: What happened…? You were blanked out.
Ousaki: Speaking of which, your tunes are more radical than usual…
Hino: Sorry, Ousaki-senpai!! I’ll do it again.
Ousaki: Alright, then let’s start from the beginning… Hmm?

Argh…
I wanted to focus!

Hino: Hihara-senpai?

Hihara: Eh, ah, sorry, I didn’t know it was occupied.

Someone: He ran this way
Hihara: !!
Hihara: S, s, s, s, sorry, let me hide here for a while
Hino: What is going on?

Someone: Did he really come this way?
Hihara: ……
Someone: Where did Hihara-senpai went?
Someone: Eh?
Someone: Maybe he went ahead?
Someone: Or perhaps even further inside?

Hihara: HAAAAAAAAAAAAA------
Hihara: I’m saved…
Hino: Are you okay? Hihara-senapi…

Hihara: I’m sorry that I interrupted your practice!
Ousaki: It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s nothing big really
Hino: …This isn’t the way that I know from Yunoki-senpai’s method of dealing with fans…or is it?
Hihara: Well…uh

Yunoki: Methods? Just stand there and smile and you’ll be okay
Hihara: S..smile? (Like this?)
Yunoki: Yeah

Hihara: And that’s what he said
Ousaki: Ahh…
Hino: I see
Hihara: Yunoki can do this without a problem, but when it comes to me, I just can’t do it~

This is great…
It looks like Hihara-senpai and Yunoki-senpai are back to normal

Kanazawa: A Concour?
Kira: Yes… I would like to let more top students to perform in a bigger concour.
Kira: Getting the first prize or even just winning an award from it will raise the publication of our school.
Kanazawa: I see, so that’s what it comes to…..
Kira: Running a school is not a charity. If we want to gather more top students, then we must first show others how good we are ourselves…
Kira: And here’s where you come into place, Kanazawa-sensei
Kira: I would like you to draw up a list of people.
Kanazawa: Sigh…

Concour is it……

Kanazawa: What do you think about the band camp? Tsuchiura
Tsuchiura: Huh?

Tsuchiura: Well…that, don’t you think the level of those people are kinda higher than usual?
Kanazawa: More or less I guess. But you guys are not too far from them

Tsuchiura: I’ve been hearing lots about a concour and stuff like that lately
Tsuchiura: Is it really that wonderful, that concour thing…

As long as you have the skills, then you’ll be a suitable candidate…

Kaji: Hino-san~

Kaji: If it’s okay with you, would you like to eat lunch together?

Huh?

Hino: Ah, sorry…I am supposed to be with Mio and others…
Mio: It’s okay, no problem, Kaji-kun
Hino: Huhhhhh!? Wa—
Mio: Oh, come on, Kaho-chan~ Go on~ Just tell me about it later, okay?
Girl: …What’s going on, Mio?
Mio: If Kaho-chan and Kaji-kun are getting very well together, then don’t you think it’s possible for Kaji-kun to introduce us to some of his friends?
Girl: I see

Kaji: Hino-san’s lunch box is cute
Hino: Ah, thanks. But it’s my mother who made it…..

Kaji: I apologize for asking you out of the blue
Hino: !! No problem, I should be the one apologizing
Hino: I don’t even know if you’d like to eat with me…actually no, it’s not that……
Kaji: Yes

Hino: ……
Hino: But…what’s going on with me
Hino: Why is it that…why is it that Kaji-kun know all these stuff about me?
Hino: Yet, there is not a thing that I know about Kaji-kun……

Kaji: You have practiced violin at the park in the past, haven’t you?
Kaji: I happened to walk by and I heard your violin
Kaji: And then I fell in love with your melodies on the first sight, you who looks at the violin with a loving gaze
Kaji: And from that day, I’ve been to the park many times, but I have never been able to see you since…
Kaji: Then one day, I finally see you on the street.
Kaji: It was an event held by a music instrument store…….
Kaji: It was there that I’ve heard you, Ousaki-san and Tsukimori-kun played together

Ah, that was before the 3rd selection…

Kaji: I want to hear more of your violin
Kaji: I want to know more about you…That’s what I’ve been thinking all along
Hino: And that’s the reason…to go through all that and transfer to this school…?

Kaji: Your melodies are what I am seeking
Kaji: And I want to be where you belong
Kaji: That’s enough reason for me to be here
Kaji: Besides, my parents are alumni here. I’ve heard from them how good this school is.

Hino: Your parents… graduated from this school?
Kaji: Yeah
Hino: But…To say that I can perform in such a manner is just too much of a…
Kaji: Not at all! Hino-san’s violin is really what I’ve been seeking all along.

Ah…something that I look up to…
……
That wasn’t my performance at all……

Teacher: Let’s do 4 rallies today. When I read your names, you two will face against each other.

Guy: Hey Kaji, I’ve heard you used to be in the Tennis club?
Kaji: Huh, oh yeah
Guy: No wonder, you’re great at it
Guy: I don’t want to go against Kaji at all------
Guy: Oh don’t say that!
Guy: Isn’t that mean?
Kaji: Well, since we’re in the same class, we won’t go against each other…

Teacher: Kaji and Tsuchiura-----

Kaji: So you’re Tsuchiura!
Tsuchiura: So I guess this is how it will be. Be easy on me, okay?

Guy: Kaji and Tsuchiura, is it? We’re saved!
Guy: Yeah, I don’t wanna go against those two…
Guy: Well said well said
Girl: Oh hey, the boys’ tryout is today?
Girl: How wonderful---- They’re playing tennis.
Girl: Yeah

Guy: Wow, Tsuchiura returned it
Guy: Everyone doesn’t wanna go against those two… That’s because their levels are too high
Guy: Speaking of which, that Tsuchiura guy used to be in the soccer team I heard?
Girls: KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Guy: !!

Girl: Wow, they’re so cool!
Girl: Kaji-kun, go go go!!
Guy: What the heck is this!?
Girl: Tsuchiura-kun, as well, go go go!

Girl: It looks like Kaji-kun is good at tennis
Girl: But Tsuchiura can catch up with him, don’t you think he’s good as well?

Hino: !

Tsuchiura: Ah!!!
Kaji: Phew
Tsuchiura: Dammit, I lose I lose.
Tsuchiura: You didn’t spare me any mercy
Kaji: What are you saying, it’s you who didn’t spare me any mercy, Tsuchiura-kun
Kaji: You said you have no experience in tennis, didn’t you?
Kaji: Yet, you can do this much
Kaji: If you let your hand go, your feet will move a long with it
Tsuchiura: I’m just hitting it with a racket, that’s all

Tsuchiura: Speaking of which Kaji…You
Kaji: Hmm?

Tsuchiura: They say that you’re here after Hino…Is that true?
Kaji: It is
Kaji: What about it?
Tsuchiura: You answered it immediately….
Kaji: Well, it’s true. There’s no good in hiding it is there?
Kaji: Dating her…I’ve never thought about such farfetched stuff…
Kaji: I just…want to be closer to her…that’s all
Tsuchiura: Something as farfetched as that?
Kaji: Tsuchiura-kun, what do you want to do?
Kaji: Why don’t you make a move……?

Hino: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Hino: That’s no good no good no gooood!

Hino: No matter how many times I’ve played it, I still get stuck at the same place…
Hino: …Ah, If it’s Tsukimori-kun, he would’ve gone over it in a flash already…
Hino: And if he sees me in a situation like this, he would’ve said
Hino: “You can’t even play something like this?”
Hino: And then he will start muttering this and that……

Tsukimori: If you have time to think about such trivial things, why don’t you start moving your hands?
Hino: !!
Hino: Tsu..Tsu tsu tsu tsu tsukimori-kun!!

Hino: You’ve heard everything….
Tsukimori: “You can’t even play something like this?”
Hino: Sorry……
Tsukimori: …The whole thing just falls apart. Your bow is a bit slow in the latter portion.

Huh?

Hino: Em, then…Let me do it again
Hino: Can you please teach me once more?
Hino: Is it somewhere around here?
Tsukimori: Hey, no one said anything about teaching you

Tsukimori: You, your bow is causing all those off tuning
Hino: Then once more!
Tsukimori: Take it a bit slow over there… Yep, that’s it
Tsukimori: Your elbow’s posture is bad!
Tsukimori: Why do you put so much strength into your shoulders
Hino: Once more!

Tsukimori: Take it slowly from there
Tsukimori: Your high pitch notes are weak
Tsukimori: Listen to it yourself
Tsukimori: …That’s it

Hino: I…did it
Hino: Yes, yes!
Hino: I did it, Tsukimori-kun!

Hino: Ah, sorry!
Hino: I must try it again!

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