REAL 51

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REAL #51

tl by molokidan

64)
1: ...shochu...
2: glub
sfx: hoooooo
3: Don't think...

65)
1: I don't like playing this robotic half-court basketball.
2: If players are the coach's chess pieces,
3: then who would want to do the same old plays over and over again?
4: Hmm, I see...
5: What is it you don't like about Anzai, then?
sfx: ping

66)
1: He's no fun to watch.
2: Eh?
3: No fun?

67)
1(2b): If you mean because he doesn't win it it for you, I can understand, but...no fun?
2: He's no fun!
3: Just like the owner said, people are coming to watch him, right?
4: He freely attacks from all kinds of angles and focuses on taking points...
5: even if it doesn't lead to victory as a result...
6: Kawamura.
7: What did you learn from playing basketball under me all through high school?
8: Look.

68)
1: ...palm reading?
2: Dumbass!!
3: Look! There are five of 'em, aren't there?
4: Long ones and short ones.
5: Thin ones and fat ones.
6: Like five people who have gathered bearing different weapons.
7: Chemical responses--
8: That's what I want to show my fans.

69)
1: That's what the sport known as basketball is all about.
2: Deciding everything on one's own, regardless of victory or defeat--
3: Basketball isn't such an insensitive thing. Am I wrong?
4: Hey, wait!!
5: Go back, go back!!

70)
1(2b): Forget about it, you've got three on you! Go back, Takahashi!!
2: Ahh!
3: Foul!
4: White #4!
5: What are you...

71)
1: Daaaaaah!
2: Ugahhh?!
3: Wait, dammit!
4(2b): You aren't playing on your own, you know! It takes 5 to play basketball!
5: Seki was free on the other side back there!!
6: Seki?

72)
1: Don't you know? Seki has been sinking a lot of three-pointers lately.
2: He doesn't go home until he sinks 100 every day.
3: Nomiya-san...
4: You didn't see Masaki getting in the gap there either, did you?
5(2b): Results of his practice at waits have been starting to show, and he's stopped dropping the ball under the basket. He's gotten better at rebounds.
6(2b): You don't know anything about your teammates, do you? Basketball is easier when all five players are in sync, right? It's also...
7: more fun, isn't it?!
8: Fine, whatever.

73)
1: The point is, we still won either way.
2: Since I scored 25 points.
3: You're a PG, so you'd better learn to cool down.
4: Otherwise you stuff things up for everyone else.
5: I'm the wrong one here...?

74)
1(2b): No!! I'm right!!
2: Hm?
3(2b): No, excuse me...it's just that I've got an exam coming up... (I got too excited.)
4: Yep, that's the right answer alright!
5: Sounds tough, if it's even on your mind when you're eating. What kind of exam are you studying for?
6: Eh?
7: Ahh...the bar exam...
8: Ehhh?
9: That's really hard!
10: Now I went and remembered that bastard...
11: Asshole...I wonder what's become of him?
12: Stand...?
13: That's impossible.

75)
1: Not like...it matters.
2: We were never friends or anything.
3: Anzai is a good player.
4: But...
5(2b): He puts too much distance between himself and his teammates. He doesn't go to eat with them, either.
6: When we travel on buses and planes, he sits alone.
7(2b): Not like he has to be friends with everyone, but...I dunno, this may just be the age in me talking.
8: But PGs
9: has to know, no less than he knows himself,

76)
1: the good points of his other teammates.
2: That's what I'd like him to understand.
3: That way he can pull them out.
4: With that, he himself will gain another layer of shine--
5: That's what a good PG is to me...!!
6: ...hm?
7: Sorry, was I making to much noise? Bothering your studying?

77)
1: I'm sure a PG just like that will appear before you one day...!!
2: Huh?

78)
1: He's good...

79)
1: I'm gonna be a pro, dammit...
2(2b): There are college students and salarymen who were ex-pros...
3: I know the tryouts are gonna be full of guys from elite high schools.
4: But even a bunch of them will get dropped, too.

80)
1: Just how many people are there in Japan--
2: who are making a living off basketball alone?
sfx: clang
3: Then there's me, a Nishi High dropout who couldn't even make a dent in IH.
4(2b): Is there a less experienced guy than me out there? Kukuku..nope, no way! There can't possibly be!

81)
1: Two more months till tryouts, huh--
2: I've got a ton of work to do.
3(2b): I've gotta do everything like my life depends on it--
4: But to be honest...

82)
1: I'm fine with that.
2: I'll do anything.
3: If it means I could do this for a living.

83)
1: Pain's got nothing on me.

84)
1(2b): pukyuuuu kyurururu
2: A goal...
3: pyukyuuu
4: kyururururu
5(2b): I won't ever be able to walk. Unlike you, I won't ever be able to stand, either.
6: How can I find a goal with that?
7: I have nothing that'd push me to search for such a thing.
8(2b): Hooo...damn, what time is it?

85)
1: I'm totally awake now.
2: The night is too long...
3: Is there even any reason to keep living now?
4: Shiratori-san...
5: You came in here after me,
6: so now I have someone below me.

86)
1: It's true that I felt a little relieved.
2: Be it rehab or anything, knowing that I'm further ahead of someone...
3: Knowing that someone else has to go through what I already did...
4: gives me a little strength.
5: Walk?
6: In only 3 months?
7: If that really happens--

87)
1: Then I'll still be crawling around on the ground when it does.
2: You're already planning to surpass me? Gimme a break...
3: I don't want to see such strength.
4: Go somewhere else and do it.
5: Huh, the snoring stopped.
6: ...(silence)
7: The sound of his breathing, too...?

88)
1: He isn't breathing!!
2: N-Nurse call!!
3: Yes, what's wrong?
4: Eh? He's dead?!

89)
1: Buhah!
2: Gahah!
3: Haa, haa!
4-5: Haa, haa, haa!
6: He has sleep apnea syndrome.
7: How long did he go without breathing, Takahashi-kun?
8: Three minutes...
9: You're going to need treatment for this condition too, then, Shiratori-san.

90)
1: Well, shit.
2: Now I'm wide awake, thanks to them.
3: That's my line, dammit!!
4(2b): When I was your age, I was hospitalized time and time again while working...
5: Waking up in the middle of the night in a hospital is the worst. (Just like this.)
6(2b): The night is long, you know. It makes you wonder if morning is ever gonna come.

91)
1: Especially when you're weighed down by the future you can't see.

92)
1: Forget about my future,
2: I can't even see today.
3: I've just barely managed to crawl through the darkness
4: and survive through to tonight.
5: Shiratori-san...

93)
1: You just got in here,
2: and can't do anything but yourself, right?
3: Hm?
4(2b): How can you be so optimistic so quickly, and start talking about things like goals
5: and walking in three months?
6: What? Is that a problem?

94)
1(2b): Is it because you were told you'd be able to stand? Because you were told you'd be able to walk?
2: You know,
3: to be honest, you'll never walk like you used to!
4(2b): Lots of people like you come here, you know. They all go in wheelchairs. forever!
5: How can you still be optimistic after hearing that?

95)
1: What's the big deal?
2: Just remember this one thing for me, alright? So you hear someone make some ridiculous claim, so what?
3: What's it to you?

96)
1: I'm a pro wrestler, you know.

97)
1(2b): Fufu...I guess good-looking guys these days don't watch wrestling, huh.
2: Well just remember this.
3: Pro wrestlers are different from normal people.
4-5: suuuu

98)
1: Three months later
2: May--