April 26, 2014

Namaikizakari [Chapter 9]

Looking at each other, the three are silent. Yuki thinks that a few days ago, the suspicious character, who got his foot injured though half of that is her fault, is a member of the school basketball team that they are playing against today. She wonders if Shou knows this guy. The guy tells Shou that it has been a long time. After a pause, Shou says, “Sorry, who are you. Ah- even if it seems that I’ve seen you before..” This irks the guy that he shouts, “It’s Hakamada!! During elementary, I’m Hakamada Shizuka in the same basketball team with you!! *points at Shou* Do you remember it, you playboy [/womanizer]” Shou tries to recall and remembers a kid wearing the number 10 jersey running fast while shouting for him to pass the ball. Shou calls out Shizuka’s name and says that he has grown quite tall. Shizuka told him that he doesn’t want to be told that by him. Yuki thinks that this guy is Shou’s former teammate and this is too much of a coincidence. Waving his uniform, Shou says that didn’t he move to Hokkaido when he was in grade 4. Shizuka says that he came back last year and it is Kyushu [not Hokkaido; which is the opposite direction of Hokkaido]. He curses that Shou is still quite casual that it infuriates him. Shou asks if he is still playing basketball. This made Shizuka look serious as he says, of course. “Even if I don’t know what you are up to but from that time on, I’ve been practicing everyday..” Some girls call out to Shou and asks if today is the competition, and they’ll watch..ah, there’s a handsome guy there. Shizuka immediately blushes so he covers his face. Staring at him, Shou says that he is still the same as before. Tense Shizuka whispers, “stupid, shut up, what am I going to do if they come near...” A light haired guy followed by his teammates come in and calls out to Shizuka. Blushing Shizuka calls out, captain. The captain tells him not to go in first to a co-ed school for it’s quite frightening. Blushing Shizuka says that it isn’t like that. Yuki gives her greetings to the guys from Misuzu Academy. The captain says that it is amazing a female manager, isn’t it, Shizuka. Blushing Shizuka shouts that he doesn’t care, just quickly change clothes and do the warm up. As they leave, the captain laughs that even if Shizuka is already in second year, he is still like that. Shizuka angrily asks what he meant by like that. Yuki quietly watches them and thinks that it is truly a fantastic fate [of bringing people together].
While Yuki is washing the uniform on the sink, Shou startles her by asking her why she knows Shizuka. Blushing Yuki asks why he isn’t doing the warm-ups. He tells her that it is over and is she finished washing off the nosebleed from his uniform since he has to change his clothes. Yuki tells him that it is almost finished. Then, she asks him if he joined a basketball club before. When he said yes, she asks at what age he started. He says, 6 years old. Yuki tries to imagine what he is like at 6 years old. Shou asks her what it is, does she start to be curious about his ALL SORTS OF THINGS. Thinking that it is a painful lie, Yuki denies it by saying that she needs to know the team members’ data. Yuki comments that guy unexpectedly grew up to be quite tall and he totally didn’t notice it before. She asks if he’s talking about Shizuka. He says ya, they are of the same age so whether in elementary or in the club, they are together but no matter where, that guy is the shortest so he would always put all his effort in chasing after the ball. There is a scene of Shizuka trying to get the ball but the others passed the ball to Yuki. Shou mutters that he unconsciously remembered a lot of things. He asks again when she met Shizuka. Realizing that he won’t let her off, Yuki wonders how to tell him that she is at the park in the middle of the night playing an awful shooting ball practice. She dreads him telling her how awful she was for not being able to shoot a single ball in. While shaking his uniform, Yuki nervously says that it is nothing but just a brief encounter. Shou insists on knowing where and when but she brushes him off by saying that he’s noisy, and tells him to just concentrate on the competition. Yuki reminds herself that everyone gave up their winter and spring break to keep on practicing hard for this competition so they must win it. In the gym, Shizuka looks out the door to see Yuki giving Shou his uniform and Shou wants her to help him wear it but of course, Yuki refuses. Then, Shizuka starts blushing when one of the fangirls call out that guy looks very handsome. The other girl tells her to shut up for that is the rival but the third girl says that he is actually very handsome. His captain tells Shizuka that if he is too flustered, he’ll twist his foot again. Blushing Shizuka shouts that he isn’t flustered. And, the ball he is dribbling went out of bounds. His captain asks if they’ll win. Looking serious, Shizuka says he’ll win against that guy who treats basketball as a game. He recalls how he told young Shou regarding a certain promise. Looking at Shou, Shizuka mutters how he could possibly lose to him.
Soon, the two teams bow and greet each other. Fangirls are cheering for Shou. Yabe says that even if it is a practice competition, there are a lot of people cheering and 80% came for Shou. Yuki checks her notes on the rival team. They haven’t encountered them these past years but their performance is a mixed victory[/outcome]. She thinks that even if this is a new team set-up, there ought to be no problem since Shou is there and they’ll definitely win. Two-toned guy throws the ball to Shou. Shou catches it and runs towards their basket. The others are shouting that Shou is fast and he’s Naruse from Sakaya Junior High and it is infuriating that the girls are cheering for him. Just when Shou is going to shoot the ball, Shizuka blocks the ball by hitting it away. This surprises everyone. His teammates are shocked that Shou got blocked since he already jumps high and obviously no one should be able to block him. After stealing the ball, Shizuka manages to evade Shouji’s defense and he shoots the ball. It is in. Soon, even if they got the ball, their balls are always single-handedly stolen by Shizuka that the point difference kept on increasing. At the fourth quarter, it is 75 for Misuzu and 43 for Ryuhoku. Yuki thinks that soon, they couldn’t catch up. When Shizuka has the ball and faces Shou, Shizuka tells him that he still hasn’t forgotten about what happened[/that thing at] that time. Shizuka charges so Shou goes to block him but he got tricked since Shizuka stepped back and shoots the ball instead. And, he scores. Pfft- the competition ends with 78 vs 43. Everyone is in shock that they’ve lost. While Shou is catching his breath, Shizuka tells him that this ought to be his [Shizuka] last time,.. in encountering him in a competition. Shou didn’t react and Yuki looks flustered for Shou. At the meeting room, the team are voicing out their frustration over losing miserably with final scores of 78 to 43. Yuki calmly tells them good job [<- greeting; otsukare] and she knows that everyone is very frustrated but introspection is about to start, so sit up. Two toned hair curses and says how heartless she is when they want a manager who would say, ‘do not mind for today’s rival is very strong♥’ Just when the coach is saying that today’s rival is very strong, Yuki tells them that according to convention, they would start the talk from the second year as to where they need to introspect. She calls out to Shou. While holding on to Shou, Abe shouts that Shou’s sleeping..sleeping so soundly that he won’t wake up.
Popped veins are appearing on Yuki for he is sleeping at this time but the coach says that Shou is definitely tired so let him rest a bit. She wonders if Shou doesn’t feel frustrated. While resting his head on his arms, Shou opens his eyes and clenches his fist upon recalling what Shizuka mentioned earlier that this would be the last time he’ll encounter him in a competition. Yuki thinks that she’s very frustrated. As Shou is leaving the school, Yuki calls out to him and says that he is always sleeping during the introspection meeting. She tells him that the coach and the third years didn’t ask but she’s going to ask him, doesn’t he have any reflections. He turns away and says, ‘very tired’. Trembling in anger, Yuki grabs his sleeve and shouts for him to wait. He asks what it is. Yuki angrily shouts that she’s asking if he’s frustrated or not since he practiced hard everyday and everyone did their best but to lose miserably. Yuki felt frustrated and she always believed that with only him around, it would definitely be alright. Yuki shouts if he didn’t have that kind of thinking and is basketball really just a game for him. Shou asks what if he doesn’t. This surprises Yuki as Shou looks at her. He tells her that whether lose or win, it is only a competition and that’s all there is to it. Yuki lets go and Shou leaves. With her head down, Yuki thinks that she knows that she’s wrong [to think] that it is alright if only Shou is around. It is her fault for believing and anticipating that wishful thinking = Shou will definitely keep on fighting no matter what kind of rival he encounters. It is her fault and she wants to change a bit that guy’s way of thinking. At the corner, Shizuka is wondering if it is over since it is quiet. He wants to go home but to his shock, Yuki is still standing by the door. He notices that she’s trembling. He couldn’t believe it and wants to leave but... Then, Yuki is surprised when a jacket is put over her head. Yuki asks who.. Holding the jacket on her, Shizuka tells her not to raise her head. Yuki realizes that it is Shizuka. He tells her that he’ll immediately let go. After five seconds, he’ll disappear so right now, please don’t raise her head. He greets her otsukare and quickly rushes off. Yuki is puzzled why he won’t let her raise her head when she isn’t crying. It turns out that trembling is out of anger and not because she’s crying. She wonders what she’s going to do with the jacket.
Comment: And, that is Shizuka, the potential love rival who currently has a past with Shou. His name sounds like a girl that I wonder if his girl blushing sickness/phobia has something to do with having a lot of sisters and his parents thought he would be born as a girl hence the girl name. ^^; But then, based on that flashback, during elementary, they didn’t make fun of his name but rather his height. ^^;; Anyway, he may be better than Shou in basketball but he is still a long way from being good at girls like Shou especially because of his phobia thing. =P Also, what was that promise, and how come he would call Shou a womanizer. Did Shou ‘took away’ the girl he likes? It seems that Shou is always like that..being so casual that it irritates everyone. So, from the looks of things, we’ll know more about Shou in the coming chapters. As for the basketball side of the story, it seems that it is going to explore on how serious one should be regarding a game. Is it just a game, no big deal if one loses or wins? Or one should give all and be very emotional over the outcome especially with all the hard work and sacrifice one poured into it? Maybe Shou’s mentality did hinder him from giving his full potential since from the scenes before, he isn’t that serious in practice and presumably, usually just used his height advantage in winning. So while he’s being complacent, Shizuka worked hard to be able to defeat him. It does seem to be some grudge and it is quite something to say that this would be the last time they’ll meet in a game..how come? Are they that bad or it is just a taunt? I don’t think that he’s going to transfer to their school or anything that it won’t be ‘against’ but ‘with’. Anyway, as usual, Yuki is calm and everything in front of the others but with Shou, she shows her ‘furious frustrated’ expression. Somehow, just like her who doesn’t want to show her weakness, it seems that Shou isn’t inclined to open up to anyone especially about being frustrated in this defeat. He obviously is but he isn’t going to admit it. So, what will she do with the jacket..most probably return it. Would Shou’s jealousy be his drive later on against Shizuka? We’ll just wait and see. PS. If you guys are no longer interested in this series, just don’t comment anymore so that I’ll know what to do ^^ Having only 2 then much later on 3 comments in chapter 7, it wasn’t a good sign for me to keep on working on this so I’ve asked that question last time. For now, I’ll continue summarizing this. ^^ Scans by 红莲汉

Word of the day:
When we strive for excellence and give our best effort, losing hurts, but it doesn’t have to harm us. The key is where we set our minds and hearts. ‘Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:2’ KJV ~ Our Daily Bread.

39 comments:

  1. Thanks for the summary! Poor shou. The game really affects him. Yuki will definitely find a way to cheer him up since he always butt in her life lately! HA! <3 Tika

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  2. thanks for the summary....i like the fact that the female lead is shown as strong and capable instead of the normal useless fluff types

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  3. Thank you for the summary. This series is really cute

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  4. Thanks for the summary, now i think that Shou will have a rival in the game and love! :)

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  5. thanks for your summary. don't drop this manga, it's fun i love the stundere character they're so hilarious :)

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  6. I've really waited a long time for this summary.
    Thank u so muchhhhh♥♥♥as always

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  7. thanks for doing the summary for this series!! I love it and I think the next chapter will be interesting!!

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  8. thank you for summarizing this series, it's very cute. please don't drop it

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  9. for information; shizuka it means silent. like his personality, I think he's shy but silent hihihi

    Ai

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  10. thank you for the summary! I was really looking forward for it.

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  11. Thank you for everything Kat! Please continue translating this!! \(^.^)/

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  12. Thanks for the summary.I like this manga

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  13. Thanks Kat. Sorry for no comments theses days. I like this serie. And turn out to be pretty interesting with this new guy. Many outcomes now.

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  14. thanks for the chapter, plis keep working in this serie, we appreciate your efforts :)

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  15. Thanks for your hard work!! ah.. just as I thought.. it's really fun reading your summary and comments about it..:) Please drop this series,

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  16. Thank your for summary. Really love this manga. Please continue <3

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    1. I hope Shou never wins against Shizuka. Because even if he is the main character, it would really tick me off if someone who doesn't really try or practice can beat Shizuka; who is putting his all into doing what he loves.

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    2. Hehe..is that so. This somewhat reminds me of the other series: talent vs hardwork. Hardworking person is winning until talent person starts working seriously.

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  17. thanks for the chapter and your hardwork, Kat :) this serie is getting more and more interesting!

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  18. Thanks for the summary! At first, I thought it was a lot similar to Akai Ito, but i don´t think that anymore. The potencial love triangle reminds me of Nanase - Chihiro - Nanjou. But I don't think Nanjou is interested in a romantic way in Chihiro. I'd love it if Shizaku is interested in Yuki, though.

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    1. Thanks for reading, Celia ^-^

      True, they are the same in terms of being a bickering couple ^^ In a way yes..since both guys are in the same sports.

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  19. Thanks for summarizing! It does my heart good.

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  20. Words are not enough to express my gratitude, thank you so much for writing this summary!!!

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  21. Thanks so much for this cx I appreciate it :D

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