REAL 54

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REAL #54

tl by molokidan

171)
1: You punks takin' me lightly?
2: Huh?

172)
1: Tell me why you were late.
2(2b): Er, um...
3: Pu...
4: Hoh, so the two big guys ignore me.
5: Great, just great.
6: Go change into these.
7: Eh?
8: I doubt the beginner's course will be enough to satisfy you three.

173)
1: Pool
2: in the winter?
3: It's heated, so it doesn't matter.
4: Hey, Master! Floor training Master.
5: M-Master?
6: What does that old guy expect us to do in a pool?
7: I'm scared to even go in the bath...

174)
1: I won't let go no matter what.
2: Now it's time for swimming training.
3: Which means
4: muscle power and joint ability.
5: Balance ability and quick recovery is also necessary to keep oneself afloat.
6(2b): In wheelchairs, you won't be able to stand, and being in the same position all the time will put pressure on your insides.
7: Through swimming, however, your insides can return to their normal positions.
8: Ideally, I'd like everyone to swim more--
9: But it seems like they all lose interest too quickly.

175)
1: Go get 'em.
2: Huh?
3: That's impossible.
4: Impossible!

176)
1: Go get 'em, I said!!
2: Every last one!!
3: Uwahhh!! (A pervert!)
4: Isn't that a woman's swimsuit?!
5: Hm?
6(2b): Hara Fujiko. I am a woman.
7(2b): You bastards...you really are taking me lightly!!
8: Ehh, really?!
9: Now go!

177)
1: God, Buddha...
2: If something like that exists, then--

178)
1: they surely thought "this child will be able to overcome" and allowed you to be born.

179)
1: Ohhh!
2: Fugah!
2: He's forcing!

180)
1: Alright!
2: Ohhhh, you're on fire today, Arakawa!

181)
1: My ability as a player won't change much in these next two months.
2(2b): But on the other hand, when it comes down to the decisive moment...the details I've stacked up by doing things like this just might be enough to turn the tables.
3: I want to leave none the work I set out to do undone.
4: Every last detail...
5: Including my own heart.

182)
1: Leave nothing undone--
paper: Takahashi (circled)
Rehabilitation Center
2: Which way?!

183)
1: Which way is up?!
2: Gonna...
3: die...

184)
1: God--
2: Even if I may have never been handed something I couldn't overcome,
3: this is too much...
4: I can bear the loneliness of not having a father,
5: but--
6: It doesn't look like I'll be able to stand
7: all the thoughts swirling around in my head.

185)
1: Even if
2: it didn't phase my father at all when he left us--
3: Even if my father really was
4: forcing himself to help me with my 1-on-1s, and not really enjoying it, does that really mean...
5: I would have been better off without him?
6: I can't listen to my own voice like this anymore!

186)
1: Gehohhh!
2: Gabah!
3: Gehehh!

187)
1: Zeh
2-3: Hah
4: Zeh
5: Hah
6: Zeh
7: Haa
8: Zeeh
9: Want me to do CPR?
10: Next is you, big guy.
11: No way!

188)
1: I can't even swim for real. (Seriously, I can't)
2(2b): You don't need to swim. Just go pick them up, that's all.
3: D...
4: Go get 'em.
small: 1000 squats!
5: Demon Seargent...!!

189)
1: Hieee~

190)
1: Sorry I'm late...
2: What's wrong, Takahashi-kun?
3: Your father came from so far away just to see you...
4: Takahashi-kun...
5: Hisanobu.
6(2b): If you really don't feel well, I'll take your temperature. So just show me your face, Takahashi-kun...
7: Kobayashi-san.
8: It's fine, I'll go home.
9: I bought cream puffs for you. You still like them, don't you?

191)
1(2b): The patient next door...is sleeping too?
2: Give him some to him too.
3: I'll come back again.
4: Please take care of my son.
5: I can't do it...

192)
1: I'm heading back into the darkness.
2: Didn't I always pray to "God"...?
3: Every night before I went to sleep, after my father left...but...
4: The one day I stopped feeling as if I had been betrayed.
5: I had forgotten it for so long...
6: but ever since I lost my ability to walk, I remember it so often now...
7: Want to go have a smoke, Shiratori-san?

193)
1: Even he's been beat...
2: Why would she want to remind us so much--
3: "Disabled," she said.
4: That old bag...
5: I'm never going into a pool with her again!
6(2b): Once I became able to do floor transfers, I felt like I had escaped the darkness.
7: I guess I haven't really made that much progress after all.

194)
1: The distance of a desperately moving snail
2: is easily dwarfed by one step
3: of a running dog.

195)
1(2b): ...this message...who should I sent it to? Pfft.
2: No one, that's who.
phone: To Self
phone 2: To Myself Three Years Ago
3: God.
4: Please be somewhere.
5: And then tell me...

196)
1: To where should I be facing--
2(2b): Oh, what?! You're outside sneaking a smoke?! (You really haven't changed!)

197)
1: For the first time in years, I got a six pack again.

198)
1: Wha...?
2: Nomiya...?!
3: Yo, Takahashi.
4: If you wanna laugh, you can, you know.
sfx: Tch...
5: I'm gonna become a pro.

199)
1(2b): ...So you found a job? Congrats.
2(2b): No, no! This, you dumbass!!
3: Huh?
4: ...Ba...?
5: As the other half of Nishi High's Big Two, I just thought I should say it to you.
6(2b): I'm gonna become a pro! On the Tokyo Lightnings!!
7: Has he gone nuts?

200)
1: Basketball is in the center of my heart.
2(2b): It's the one thing I've worked with all my might toward. Only an idiot would quit without challenging himself.
3: I'm gonna challenge myself!!
4: That's all!
5: Later.
small: Ah
6: If you wanna laugh, you can, you know!
7: H...
8: Have you gone nuts?!
9(2b): Nishi High's team sucked ass! Become a pro...
10: Hell yeah I'll laugh!
11: Hah!

201)
1: I'm gonna laugh--
2(2b): Hahah! You dumbass!
3: Hahaha!
4: I can't laugh.
5: Nishi High was weak because of me.
6: You tried to do everything but yourself, and I--
7: I tried to do it with 4.
8: The 4 other people besides you.
9: Sorry for being a bad PG.
10(2b): I'll change. I'll become a pro PG.

202)
1: I'm gonna create a professional chemical reaction.

203)
1: What was that about?
2(2b): Register my name, I said! For the one in May!
3: Why has my name disappeared anyway?!
4: What?
5: Shut up!
6: I told you, didn't I? I'm getting on the stage in May.
7: Now put my name back on the list. Got it?
8(2b): Oh, you're back. I'm gonna go take a puff too.
9: I really feel tired today.

204)
1: Sorry.
2: These are good.
3: Basketball is in the center of my heart.
4: It's the one thing I've worked with all my might toward.
5: ...hmph.
6: The same goes or me. I was serious about it.
7: Way before you ever were.
sfx: kasa...

205)
1: You probably don't remember anymore, but...
2: there was one time when you got me to buy one for you.
3: On New's Year Day one year.
4: I remember.
5: I still have it.
6: "Victory."
7: That's what it says...
8: but it's still OK even if you don't win.
9: Just...
10: Don't lose.

206)
1: Don't lose, Hisanobu--
2-3: suuuuu
4: kyupuuuu
5: kyururururu

207)
sfx: Kyupuuuuu
1: To where should I be facing?
panel 6: Future Dreams
panel 7: My uture dream is to become a basketball player in the NBA..
2: ...haha...too bad, huh? Forget about basketball...
3: You won't even be able to walk in 8 years.
4: Time to sleep.
5: Only an idiot would quit without challenging himself.

208)
1: fuh.
2(2b): You're the idiot, Nomiya. Know your place.
3: Time to sleep.
4: Idiot!
5: I gotta sleep...
6: 2 on 2.