Shinyaku "Kyojin no Hoshi" Hanagata 18

A Chinese to English translation.

Page 1
1st panel:
“Coach, what were you thinking… You want us to have a practice match with an amateur baseball team?” (Smaller: We are the team that got into the Best 8 two years ago, you know.)
2nd panel:
“Mm..”
“It’s almost the Preliminary Rounds for the Summer Tournament…”
{Chapter 18 You go your Way}
“Excuse me…”
“Thank you for having this match with us today.”
“Huh?”
“I’m Hanagata Mitsuru, the coach.”
3rd panel:
“The… The coach?”
(A kid? Elementary?)
“En… Are you from the Black Shadows?” (Smaller: Where’s the rest of the team?)
“Yeah, about that…”
4th panel:
“Sorry to bother you, but do you know where the carpark for this field is at?”
“What? Carpark?”
5th panel:

Page 2-3
1st panel:
“Hey, Hanagata! So our opponents today are high schoolers?”
“Sorry for the wait!” (Smaller: Let’s start the match!)
“This field is awesome!”
“Hey! Didn’t I say not to sit on the door of the car?”
“You’re going down!”
Hanagata: “Ah… You guys…”
“….Woah!”
2nd panel:
{Limo…}
{A limousine?!}
“Didn’t I say to wait for me over there? And stop sticking your heads and your arms out of the window!”
“Aw, it’s not like it’s hurting anybody!” (Smaller: Anyway, what about the match?)
“Ah, Akagawa got knocked down!”

Page 4
1st panel:
“C-Coach… Are we really going to have a practice match with that crazy amateur team?”
“Yeah…”
2nd panel:
“C-Coach…” (Smaller: That team has got delinquents with golden hair in it…)
“I… I have my own idea about these things. Don’t worry about it.”
3rd panel:
“Both teams… Line up!”
<Hehe…>
(He’s short…) (Smaller: Is he in elementary school?)
(He’s tall…) (Smaller: Is he a college student?)
{Unexpectedly… They are all middle schoolers…}
4th panel:
{What we need right now is confidence and momentum!}
{Even if they are an amateur team, our players need the experience of participating in a real match! We’ll get better results than the Best 8 this year!}
{Today, we’ll defeat them…}
5th panel:
{Easily…}

Page 5
1st panel:
2nd panel:
3rd panel:
“It’s fast!”
4th panel:
“Eh?”
{What? Under arm pitching?}
5th panel:
“S-Strike!”
<It’s … It’s faaaast!>
6th panel:
“The speed… It’s really fast…”
“What exactly is the speed…?”
7th panel:
“That has already surpassed the power of a normal under arm pitch…”

Page 6
1st panel:
“D..Damn! Our opponent are middle schoolers! We couldn’t even get a hit?”
“Isn’t it just because the pitch is a little fast? Quick, hold down their line-up and go on the offense properly!”
2nd panel:
3rd panel:
4th panel:
“It’s a hit to the right field!”
“Way to go, Amano! Run!”
“Ah….!”
5th panel:
“One out, runner on first and third!”

Page 7
1st panel:
“Hey, Yoshii! What’re you doing?!” (Smaller: Don’t let them hit!)
“The opponent are middle schoolers! Get serious!”
2nd panel:
“If they get a hit off you again…”
“I’ll take down your name from the starting lineup! Do you hear me?”
3rd panel:
{Tch, what the hell…}
4th panel:
{The fourth batter is actually the super short brat!} (Smaller: And he’s choking up on a long bat.. He’s exaggerating it…)
5th panel:
{This year would be our last summer together…}
{We definitely can’t lose in this practice match…}
{If I lose my starting position because he got a hit off me…}
6th panel:
{I can’t let that happen!}
7th panel:

Page 8
1st panel:
{Good!}
{He’s not going to hit the first pitch!}
2nd panel:
3rd panel:
4th panel:

Page 9
1st panel:
“Foul!”
“Wha…”
{He managed to hit it?}
2nd panel:
{I… I thought he wasn’t going to hit the first pitch…}
{He ended up hitting the ball with the tip of the bat…}
3rd panel:
(This guy… His swing is really fast!)
“Weird…”
4th panel:
“I’ve already tried to let the ball get as close as possible.. But I still swung too early…”
5th panel:
“I better wait a bit longer…”
6th panel:
“What?”
7th panel:
“That brat said my pitch was slow?”
“Yoshii… Calm down!”
“Tch!”
8th panel:
“What a damned brat..”
“Hm?”

Page 10
1st panel:
“What’s wrong?” (Smaller: You can’t start your engine?)
“It’s nothing…”
“I’m alright… Just go back already.”
“Okay…”
2nd panel:
“There are runners on first and third. Watch out for a bunt.”
3rd panel:
“I know.”
4th panel:
{I can’t let him get a hit off me…}
{The opponent is an amateur team made up of middle schoolers…}
5th panel:
[A breaking ball is a type of pitch that has a different spin compared to a fastball… And hence the air resistance acting on the ball is different too.]
[If the spin acting on the ball is altered slightly, the air resistance acting on the ball will also be affected.]
[The movement of the ball will, therefore, change.]
6th panel:
[If the surface of the ball is damaged, the spin acting on the ball changes.]
[And the magnitude of the ball’s movement gets greater.]

Page 11
1st panel:
{If someone deliberately make use of this to pitch…}
{The pitch is called emery ball…}
2nd panel:
3rd panel:
4th panel:
{S..Strange?}
{Why is the ball moving like that?}
5th panel:
6th panel:
{Although pitching emery balls would mean breaking the rules!}

Page 12-13

Page 14
1st panel:
“This…”
“It hit the fence?”
2nd panel:
“It’s a hit that went into the stands…!”
“What a powerful hit!”
3rd panel:
“Hanagata! Good job!”
“Awesome! We got the first points!”
4th panel:
{Wha… What was with that hit?}
5th panel:
{Who in the world…}
{Is he?}

Page 15
1st panel:
“Uh… The Black Shadows wins this practice match! Bow!”
“Thank you for the game!”
“Thank you for the game!”
2nd panel:
“Why…Why did this happen.. The momentum we need…”
<Aaah…>
“C-Coach…”
3rd panel:
“Hey…”
<Oh yeah!>
<Oh yeah!>
“Hm?”
4th panel:
“How… How old are you?”
(At a closer look, he’s really short… Probably around 140cm?)
“I’m 13… Why?”
<Akagawa, you don’t know how to bat?>
<Shut up! You didn’t get any hits either!>
5th panel:
{First year in Junior High, huh… I actually lost to this kid… How useless…}
“Uh…”
“You know, in the first half of the first inning… During your at-bat… Actually…”
6th panel:
“When I fouled, did the ball get damaged?”
“Eh?”
“How did you know…”
7th panel:
“So you actually knew… And still pitched with it?”
“Uwah!”

Page 16
1st panel:
“I won’t forgive you if you do it again!”
2nd panel:
“Understand?”
3rd panel:
“I… I get it… I won’t do it again…”
<Hahaha…>
{How… How did he know? Why was he able to hit that pitch?}
4th panel:
“Hey, Hanagata! What are you doing over there?”
“Let’s go!”
5th panel:
“The location for our next match is super far away!”
“Hurry! Or we won’t be able to make it!”
6th panel:
“You guys are having another match?”
“Ah, yeah… “
“Because we’re a newly established team, we arranged for a lot of matches.”

Page 17
1st panel:
“We’ve been having two matches everytime recently…”
<We still have to continue practising when we get back…>
“Amano is a freaking sadist, I tell you.” (Smaller: It’s super scary when he’s batting…)
2nd panel:
“A sadist?! I’m doing it for your own good, you know!”
“What ‘for our own good’? You sadist!”
“That’s right! You four-eyed geeky sadist!”
3rd panel:
{I thought they were just a crazy team that went around in a limousine…}
{But they…}
{More than I expected possible, they…}
“Four-eyed geeky sadist?”
“Hahahaha!”
4th panel:
{That’s right…}
{Baseball isn’t so simple a sport that you can win without doing anything…}
{Even though I was supposed to know this the best…}
“Uh…”
5th panel:
“Hey… What’s your name?”
“What?”
6th panel:
“Hanagata…”
“My name’s Hanagata Mitsuru…”

Page 18
1st panel:
“Hanagata, huh…”
“Do your best…!”
{And hence ----..}
2nd panel:
{The Black Shadows that consisted of Hanagata and the gang…}
{Continued participating in unofficial matches…}
3rd panel:
{Of course, there were times where they were defeated,}
{But…}
{The number of victories they had also continued to increase..}
{Which resulted in a situation…}
4th panel:
{Where they became a team that everyone talked about…}
5th panel:
“Have you heard?”

Page 19
1st panel:
“Murasakiyama Senior League lost to them…” (Smaller: And the opponent even set a record of making them have no runs at all…)
“Really? But isn’t Tanaka in that team?”
“It’s true! Just that it was an unofficial match.”
2nd panel:
“Who did they lose to?”
“I think it’s a team called the Black Shadows.” (Smaller: The team’s pitcher is super tall, and the clean-up is super short.)
“Who are they?”
3rd panel:
“I heard that they were an amateur team that always travels in a limousine!”
“What’s with that? It’s probably just an urban legend, isn’t it?”
“Hahaha, it’s true, it’s true!”
“Ah, I just remembered! The name of that team’s ace pitcher is Kuro something, that’s why the team is called…”
4th panel:
“The Black Shadows!”
(TN: The Black Shadows = Kuro Kage)
5th panel:
“Haha, what a lame name!”
“Yeah, I totally agree with you!”

Page 20
1st panel:
“Kurosawa…”
“Kagehito!”
{That was how…}
2nd panel:
{The Black Shadow’s…}
{First and last summer started…}