ISBN 4-08-847726-X Published by Margaret Comics, 3/2004

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NOTE: The small text/words are usually the words/text outside the bubbles or in small text (usually handwritten). I seperated each line according to the bubbles or chunk of words each character uses. I think everything else is pretty self-explanatory.

All translations done by Crystal. Please do not copy unless I give you persmission to. Thank you!

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Part 12 ~Silent Love~

Pg. 138

Yuushin: Whoa, hey... Nobara!?

Nobara: She said I can play volleyball...

Nobara: The finally understand that volleyball is just as important to me as family.

Pg. 139

Nobara: I'm going to try my hardest...

//gushi gushi// [wipe wipe]

Pg. 140

Yuushin: Don't wipe with my shirt!!

Nobara: Oh, I'm sorry. I thought it was a big towel.

Yuushin: Towel!?

Nobara: I'll wash it. Sorry.

Yuushin: ...That's okay about the clothes. It's not that...

Yuushin: I'll listen to you, but...

Yuushin: ...don't touch me so much.

Nobara: After all, you are a girl.

Pg. 141

Nobara's thoughts: WHAT!?

Nobara: Wh...

Nobara: Oh my gosh! What are you saying!!? What are you saying!?

//don// [hit]

Nobara: You...

Nobara: It's not about that!! Stupid!!

Nobara: It was just that you happened to be standing there like a telephone pole, so...

Yuushin's thoughts: A telephone pole... after being a towel, now I'm a telephone pole...

Yuushin:  I'm hurting too.

Nobara: I know you have a girlfriend too.

Nobara: And um...

Nobara: I see... I'm sorry. I don't know anything about these things

Nobara: But.. I think of you as a friend I can trust, so...!

Pg. 142

Yuushin: Like I said...

Yuushin: It's okay. I understand.

//ha// [laugh]

Nobara's thoughts: Someone that "understands" me

Pg. 143

Nobara's thoughts: It's not only Yuushin.

Nobara's thoughts: There's Suzushiro-san and Mochida-san and everyone else.

Nobara's thoughts: That's why I can do my best.

Tsuchiya: I see. So, they'll support her until she graduates.

Yuushin: Looks like it.

Tsuchiya: Since it's 'til the summer of her senior year, she only has 2 and a half more years to play volleyball.

Yuushin: I guess so...

//pon// [tap]

Pg. 144

Yuushin: What!?

{NOTE: Player}

Tsuchiya: hahahaha!

Yuushin: You jerk! What did you put on me!!? Huh!?

Yuushin: You're the one who's a player!

Nobara's thoughts: If it's only 2 and a half more years

Nobara's thoughts: I'll play volleyball all I can so I won't regret it.

Boy: Captain!!

Boy: There's a problem.

Captain: What is it?

Captain:  I told you to practice those combos after you put up that net!

Boy: There's a problem, captain!

Captain: So, what is it!? You're really annoying me.

Boy: The girls are training on the entire court.

Captain: What!?

Pg. 145

//da// [dash]

Nobara's thoughts: My dream...

Captain: Broad* (*an attack where you move from center to right. The attacker uses a lot of energy for this trick)! Since when did she learn that!?

Boy: That's her 50th one.

Captain: F...fifty!!?

//ban// [ball lands on ground\

Captain: And she got it.

//fuuuu// [breathing out]

Pg. 146

Nobara: I'm one step closer to Haru High!

//do// [boys fall down]

Captain: Just because you're able to do the broad doesn't mean you can go to Haru High!

Boy: Hahahaha! There's a retarded one on the girls team!! She's stupid.

Rena: Oosaka Senpai, what is Haru High?

Tomoyo: They need to shut their mouths. We will be going to Haru High!

Tomoyo: It's the spring nation-wide tournament!

Tomoyo: To play on that orange court at the Yoyogi gym...

Tomoyo: It's everyone's dream to go there if you're playing volleyball in high school

Pg. 147

Tomoyo: But the only people that can enter are the 150 high schools in greater Tokyo

Tomoyo: Only the top 3 high schools that are left in the competition can go...!

Tomoyo: With the Tokyo girls' situation, it's an especially fierce competition, so only the elite high schools are left.

Rena: Wow...

Rena: By the way, what would we rank?

Tomoyo: You're asking me?

Tomoyo: We'll be the very bottom!

Boys' team: Hahaha!

Boys' team: Let's leave the stupid one alone and practice.

Nobara: Humph! What's your problem!?

Nobara's thoughts: That's why I hate elite people.

Pg. 148

//dokin// [thump]

Nobara's thoughts: He's an elite too.

Nobara: Wh...what!?

Nobara: Is it that funny if I want to go to Haru High!?

Yuushin: I don't think it's funny at all.

Pg. 149

Yuushin: We're going to Haru High too.

Captain: Hey there, special one! Hurry up and take your position!

Yuushin: Yes!

Nobara's thoughts: Even if it's a 1 in myriads of a dream

Pg. 150

Nobara's thoughts: We were allowed to dream

Nobara's thoughts: A privilege.

Nobara's thoughts: We're allowed to wish.

Haibuki: Will she not get it unless I say something?

Pg. 151

Tsuchiya: Huh? Did you say something, Haibuki!?

Haibuki: No, nothing.

Haibuki's thoughts: Nobara Sumiyoshi

Haibuki's thoughts: You won't get anywhere with that boy.

[PAST]

Teacher: Keisuki-kun, what are you looking at?

Pg. 152

Haibuki: Teacher!

Haibuki: I'm watching the marathon.

Haibuki: Everyone from class is running!

Teacher: Really, then I'll watch with you.

Haibuki: Nobara-chan is #1 again.

Haibuki:  She's way faster than the boys.

Haibuki: She's #1 with the horizontal bar and volleyball and soccer and everything else!!

Haibuki: #1 fits Nobara-chan well.

Teacher: Don't worry.

Teacher: You'll be able to run like that soon.

Pg. 153

Haibuki: ...it's okay if I can't run fast.

Haibuki: Beacause Nobara-chan will

Haibuki: Be the #1 I always wanted to be.

[PRESENT]

Nobara: ...what?

Pg. 154

Haibuki: I'm asking if you like Kumagai.

Nobara: ...Why would you ask me something like that?

Nobara: Of course not.

Nobara: Of course not.

Nobara:  I said it twice. Did you hear me?

Haibuki: Are you sure?

Pg. 155

Nobara:  Of course, I think of him as a friend I can trust.

Nobara: But that's different from liking someone!!

Nobara: Anyway, I don't understand anything about "liking" someone or anything about love.

Haibuki:  I don't want to see you get rejected.

//dokin// [thump]

Pg. 156

Haibuki: I don't want to see you get hurt or

Haibuki: Get jealous of someone

Haibuki: I don't want to see that unattractiveness in you.

Haibuki: I know it's really selfish for me to say this, but

Pg. 157

Haibuki: Stay at #1 like before.

Haibuki's words: "You were the best, Nobara-chan"

Haibuki's words: "You're #1"

Nobara: ...oh...

Haibuki: ...That's it.

Pg. 158

//patan// [door shuts]

Nobara's thoughts: So, what...?

Nobara's thoughts: If I were to like Yuushin

Nobara's thoughts: I would get rejected

Nobara's thoughts: and get jealous of his girlfriend. That's what he wants to say.

Nobara's thoughts: That's why I said that I don't like him!!

Nobara's thoughts: This is so stupid!

Pg. 159

Nobara: Hey, hey, Tsuchiya!!

Nobara: You better take your own laundry! How many times are you going to make me say that!?

Tsuchiya: It's Sumiyoshi.

Ichiba: Hahaha. It's alright. Let's show her together!

Nobara: Hey!

//gacha// [door opens]

Tsuchiya: Shhhh. Be quiet.

Nobara: An album from junior high?

Nobara: Really!? I wanna see! Let me see.

Pg. 160

Tsuchiya: You better not tell Yuushin. He'll seriously kill me.

Nobara: Yeah, okay, but is it that bad of a picture?

Nobara: BWAHAHA!

Nobara: Ahahahaha! Oh my gosh! What is this!?

Nobara: What are you guys doing to him?

Nobara:  It's the cat prince!!

Ichiba: That's when they all went to training camp.

Tsuchiya:  You better not tell him! Ever!

Tsuchiya: Oh, that's after we lost the game.

Ichiba: Hahaha... Don't be taking pictures after you lose.

Pg. 161

//doki// [thump]

Yuushin's words:  "We'll be going to Haru High too"

Tsuchiya: That's the last match.

Tsuchiya: Oh yeah... Not until after the last match

Pg. 162

Tsuchiya: Did he confess his love to his girlfriend now.

Tsuchiya: Since she was the team's manager.

Yuushin's words: "I don't want to cause any trouble for the other team members"

Yuushin's words: "Plus I don't want to think of her that way while I'm practicing"

Tsuchiya:  Is what he said and he was trying to act all cool...

Tsuchiya: Everyone could tell that they liked each other.

Tsuchiya: It was so irritating!

Ichiba:  Haha. Yuushin is inadverntly tough.

Nobara: Wow...that's so like him.

Pg. 163

Ichiba: Hey, do you have a picture of his girlfriend?

Tsuchiya: Yeah I do somewhere here.

//para// [turns page]

Tsuchiya:  Here it is!

Pg. 164

//dan// [album gets shut]

Tsuchiya:  Oh no!

Yuushin: I heard you guys making noise about something

//giri// [grill]

Yuushin: Tsuchiya... You!!!

Pg. 165

Tsuchiya: Wait! Wait Yuushin, calm down...

//gon// [Yuushin accidentally hits Nobara]

Nobara: Ah!

Yuushin: I can't believe you were making me a showcase! I can't believe you!

Tsuchiya:  I'm sorry! I'm sorry!  I won't do it anymore!

Ichiba: Sumiyoshi-san. Sumiyoshi-san, are you okay?

Ichiba: Sumiyoshi-san?

Nobara: That hurt, damn it!

Ichiba: Sumi...

Pg. 166

Yuushin: Waaaaah!?

Yuushin: The dorm's going to crumble!!

Nobara's thoughts:  I don't understand.

Nobara's thoughts: What does it mean to "like" someone?

Pg. 167

Mochida: Woooow! This is tough!!! I can't take it anymore.

Suzushiro: Let's take a little break.

Rena: Nobara-chan won't come back from the restroom!

Mochida:  Oh, don't worry, she's just throwing up!

Mochida: She continues to jump until she throws up.

Pg. 168

Suzushiro's thoughts: Sumiyoshi-san is giving it her all.

Suzushiro's thoughts: The inter high school match...

Suzushiro's thoughts: And then I'm out...

//gacha// [door opens]

Pg. 169

Ichiba: Oh!

Nobara: Oh! Ichiba! You scared me.

Ichiba: Sumiyoshi-san, listen to this!

Nobara: What?

Ichiba: Yuushin's girlfriend is here!

Nobara: What?

Ichiba: She was nearby, so she came to watch him practice.

Ichiba: She's outside right now...

Captain: Hey, you first-years, once we're done with practice outside, have the balls out and ready!

Pg. 170

Ichiba: Oh, yes!

Ichiba: Oh no! See ya later.

Haibuki's words: "I don't want to see you get hurt"

Haibuki's words: "I don't want to see you..."

Pg. 171

Haibuki's words: "get jealous of anyone"

Pg. 172

Haibuki: What are you doing...?

Nobara: Yu...

Nobara: I heard that...

Nobara:  Yuushin's girlfriend was here...

Haibuki:  I thought you didn't like him.

Pg. 173

Nobara: I don't....

Nobara: I'm just curious.

Haibuki: Nobara...!

Nobara's thoughts: At that time when he called out my name...

Pg. 174

Nobara's thoughts: I couldn't really remember hearing Haibuki's voice or feeling his grip on my shoulders.

Nobara's thoughts: For just being curious

Pg. 175

Nobara's thoughts:  I thought my chest hurt an awful lot.

Hayashida: Oh!

//doki// [thump]

Pg. 176

Tomoyo's thoughts: Yabeshou's Hayashida!

Hayashida: We meet again.

Hayashida: When I think about it, we live in the same area.

Hayashida's words: "You're not the Tomoyo Oosaka that I used to look up to"

Tomoyo: I really don't want to be bumping into you.

Hayashida: I see that you started playing volleyball again.

Tomoyo: That's right! Is there something wrong with that?

Hayashida: No...not really. It's just that

Pg. 177

Hayashida:  If you're on a team that loses matches at just practice games

Hayashida: You're not even competition for us.

Nobara's thoughts: The inter high school match is near.

Nobara's thoughts: Our summer is beginning.

<END OF Beniiro Hero - Chapter 12>