Area no Kishi 27

One line, one bubble. If it's unclear even with this much guiding text, look for me, lol.



Chapter 27

Page 1

Text on Sign: Enoshima Community Field

Chapter Title: #27 Kickoff!

Bubble: Alright! Get ready, everybody!

Bubble: Turn on the lights!

All the Sfx: Pak Pak Pak

Page 2

Bubble: Whoa!

Bubble: It’s a real field!

Bubble: It feels great!

Sfx: Whump

Sfx: Slide

Bubble: How’s it, Kakeru, Kaoru?

Bubble: Football really should be played on fields like this, yeah?

Bubble: Yeah.

Bubble: Do you guys come here often?

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Bubble: We borrow this once in a while, too often and we’d run out of cash.

Bubble: Although it’s a little dark, using a white ball should be good enough.

Iwaki: That’s not all.

Kakeru: Coach Iwaki.

Iwaki: Saturday’s game

Iwaki: Will be played on this field.

Kakeru: Really?

Bubble: Nice one, coach! It’ll make this field seem like its our home field, right?

Iwaki: Of course we’ve got to make the game seem to our advantage,

Iwaki: We haven’t got people to substitute in like they do.

Iwaki: Alright, let’s warmup!

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Sfx: Whoosh

Kakeru: Amazing… Coach is so strong…

Bubble: Kakeru.

Kakeru: Eh?

Bubble: Mishima’s not coming today?

Sfx: Thump

Kakeru: No idea, maybe coach didn’t call her since it’s so late.

Iwaki: Listen to me while you warmup, guys.

Iwaki: We’ll be using half the pitch to do a 6-on-6 game as training today.

Bubble: Coach’ll be the goalkeeper like always?

Iwaki: Nah, I’ll let Mikami play, he played as keeper for the National.

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Bubble: Eh?

Bubble: Then wouldn’t that be 5-on-5?

Bubble: Araki left long ago.

Kakeru thinking: Araki-senpai…

Kakeru thinking: What’s wrong with you?

Kakeru thinking: I went to your house, but they said you hadn’t been home. And you haven’t been to school for two weeks…

Kakeru thinking: He really wouldn’t do what his mother said he would

Kakeru: And run off to the southern islands to play, right?

Iwaki: Relax! We’ve got a special guest tonight.

Bubble: Special guest?

Iwaki: You can come out now!

Sfx: Tap

Sfx: Roooooll

Bubble: Whoa! That’s some skill.

Kakeru: !

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Iwaki: Tonight’s special guest is the mysterious soccer player “Alien Mask”!

Sfx: [It’s literally… Cho-n, but I have no idea what that is or means, please ask someone who knows to fill this in. Sorry]

Sfx: Bonk

Bubble: Wah!

Seven: …

Kakeru: …Seven?

Bubble: Kakeru, you okay?

Bubble: Who’s this guy? You’re not here to trick us, right?

Sfx: Gui Gui Gui Gui Gui [I know it’s weird, but think those cute anime sounds when people do funny actions. Yeah]

Bubble: Ah, you jerk…

Iwaki: Then, let’s kickoff!

Iwaki: Red team’s with the bibs.

Page 7

Seven: We haven’t played together since elementary school, right?

Kakeru: …

Sfx: Tap

Sfx: T-Tap

Bubble: Bastard!

Sfx: Dash

Bubble: !

Sfx: Zuup

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Sfx: Whoosh

Bubble: Nice work, Alien!

Kakeru thinking: Seven really is quite good.

Kakeru thinking: She seems to be getting stronger.

Kakeru: I’m going to do better too!

Sfx: [Again, help needed here.]

Kakeru: !

Kakeru thinking: That sign is…

Kakeru: Hono-san, to the left, please!

Hono: Oh!

Bubble: Useless, useless, useless!

Bubble: My marking is pretty tight!

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Kakeru thinking: Horikawa-san isn’t too easy to shake off.

Kakeru thinking: But…

Hono: Kakeru! Watch the offside!

Sfx: Dash

Horikawa: How, Kakeru…

Horikawa: If you receive the ball here, you will be offside!

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Hono: Alien! Here!

Sfx: Shuffle

Hono: Hurry! Hurry!

Sfx: Dash

Horikawa: !

Page 11

Sfx: Whump

Horikawa: It’s already offside!

Horikawa: So obvious!

Seven: …

Iwaki: I see…

Page 12

Sfx: Fweet

Sfx: Roll Roll

Iwaki: Red Team Scores!

Page 13

Horikawa: Damnit! So that was what it was about!

Horikawa: Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!

Sfx: Kick

Sfx: Kick

Bubble: Oi, oi… What was that just now?

Bubble: How can they work together so well? Who on earth is that Alien? [Haha, sorry, couldn’t resist.]

Bubble: …

Sfx: Slap

Seven: So you still remember that sign.

Kakeru: Because we practiced it loads during elementary school.

Seven: This was Suguru’s idea.

Kakeru: Yeah.

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Bubble: Coach Iwaki, that ball…

Iwaki: Yep! A really interesting idea, no?

Iwaki: This’ll probably work once against the technique-based SC.

Bubble: But the problem is…

Bubble: Can we find a player who can accurately grasp such slim opportunities?

Bubble: Does our FC have that?

Bubble: That Alien really can’t play for us?

Iwaki: It’s a shame, but that’s okay!

Iwaki: Enoshima FC has a fantastic, dependable King, don’t we?

Iwaki: He might still be in his castle, but one day, the King will return to us.

Bubble: …

Thinking: Araki…

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Sfx: Thump

Thinking: I am waiting for you…

Thinking: All of us…

Thinking: Believe in you!

Thinking: All of us await… the return of the King of the pitch.

Page 16

Text: The fateful day of the match between the SC and FC has come.

Text: For these two weeks, Araki-senpai didn’t go to school and didn’t come for practice.

Text: We don’t have substitutes, a team of 11 members…

Text: Going up against the 52 strong and school-recognized SC.

[cut to next panel, because cutting the above two lines would be queer.]

Bubble: Your guidance please.

Bubble: Left! Move back some more!

Iwaki: Coach Kondou.

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Iwaki: Looks like we’re going to have to trouble you to play us again this year.

Kondou: You really think that way? Deep down, you really want to see me flustered and lose my cool.

Iwaki: Yes, I do.

Kondou: …

Kondou: Even if anything pops up, we will not lose.

Kondou: We will definitely not lose.

Iwaki: …

Sfx: Wa

Sfx: Wa

Bubble: FC, you guys do your best this year, yeah? I’ll cheer you guys on!

Bubble: SC, don’t struggle against a simple hobby club! Crush them!

Page 18

Commentator: Yes… For the Nationals selection match,

Commentator: The school-recognized SC and the hobby club FC

Commentator: Have a traditional match every year to decide the school representative team.

Commentator: The happenings of this match will be recorded by the members of Enoshima High Broadcasting club,

Commentator: And played to the school on Monday.

Bubble: Fudou! Back some more!

Bubble: Nakamura! No holes on the left side!

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Commentator: I will now introduce the starting players from both sides.

Commentator: Starting with the SC,

Commentator: Goalkeeper,

Commentator: 2nd year, Toudou Shintarou.

Commentator: Left Defender,

Commentator: 1st year Fudou Kenji.

Commentator: The middle is Kaiouji Gou, 2nd year

Commentator: And the right is Wakamura Shigeru. The defense is composed of three 2nd years.

Commentator: Because the midfielders up front actually also participate in the defence,

Commentator: In reality, their defence is five men strategy.

Commentator: Playing as the defensive midfielder is 2nd year Sakamoto Shuuji.

Commentator: Also a 2nd year is the centre of the team, number 10, Oda Ryouma.

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Commentator: Attacking midfield, on the left, is 2nd year Nakamura Kazuma.

Commentator: Also attacking midfield, we have 3rd year Captain Sawamura Yuuji.

Commentator: 1st year Yakumo Kouji on the right.

Commentator: Lastly, the forwards are 1st year Takase Michirou

Commentator: And 2nd year Kudou Kenya.

Commentator: Their opponents are the members of the FC.

Commentator: Goalkeeper 2nd year…Um… Kurin? No… Be… Benibayashi?

Commentator: Ah! Kurebayashi, right? My apologies.

Kurebayashi: …

Commentator: It is Kurebayashi!

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Commentator: Let me quickly introduce them, starting from the defense.

Commentator: 3rd year Mikami,

Mikami: …

Commentator: Horikawa on the middle,

Horikawa: Only the surname…

Commentator: Right side, Nishikiori.

Nishigoori: It’s Nishigoori.

Commentator: Defensive midfield, Sakurai.

Commentator: And Hama.

Commentator: In the 2nd row, we have Hyoudou

Commentator: Endou,

Commentator: And Matoba.

Commentator: Lastly, the strikers,

Commentator: Hono,

Commentator: And 1st year Aizawa.

Kakeru: Why are our introductions so short?

[T/N: If they were longer, I’d throw up on you.]

Hyoudou: Can’t be helped, we’re a hobby club after all.

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Hyoudou: But that’ll all change,

Hyoudou: S’long as we win this match!

Kakeru: Yeah!

Commentator: Alright…

Sfx: Fweet

Commentator: The whistle is blown.

Commentator: Kickoff!