ISBN 4-08-847643-3 Published by Margaret Comics 2003

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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 4 ~Let's Play Volleyball~

**Pg. 1**

Nobara's thoughts: A few days later, I got a package from my mother. There was some of my clothes, some CDs that Souka picked out for me from my room and a letter.

**Pg. 2**

{The letter is from Nobara's mom saying that she'll wait until Nobara returns home}

Nobara's thoughts: It seems like Mother will wait until I give up on volleyball. I think she understands me a little more now.

//pira pira// [underwear hanging/swaying in wind]

Ichiba: There's an elementary school kid in the Beniiro dorms!!

//gaaaaan// [Boy shocked]

**Pg. 3**

Ichiba: Sumiyoshi-san...she's in high school...No...

Ichiba: Please don't leave your underwear hanging out here like this.

Yuushin: What are you doing, Ichiba?

Nobara's thoughts: It's been 10 days since I've been living at the dorms and trying to get a girls' volleyball team going.

Nobara: Shampoo!

//gara// [Nobara opens door]

Nobara: It was out, so I'll leave it here, okay?

//gakon// [Yuushin drops something]

**Pg. 4**

//pishyan// [water drops]

//ban ban// [Yuushin hits table]

Yuushin: What kind of lifestyle were you living!!?

Haibuki's thoughts: Here we go again.

Yuushin: Don't come in the bathroom!! Do you understand!? Are you aware that you're a girl!!?

Nobara: I don't know why you're so mad. I'm fine with it.

**Pg. 5**

Nobara: A guy being naked is like...

Nobara: Everything that's same as my dad.

Yuushin: D...dad!?...

Ichiba: There's an elementary school kid!!

Ichiba: I bet she never went out with a guy before!! She was wearing underwear with a bear on it!

Nobara: No I haven't! Never, never!

Ichiba: And you've never loved a guy before!!

//zubishi// [Ichiba pointing at Nobara]

Nobara's thoughts: Shut up.

Nobara's thoughts: Are they trying to tell me that it's better to have gone out with boys!!?

Haibuki: I...

**Pg. 6**

Haibuki: When I was in elementary school, I was in love with Sumiyoshi-san.

Nobara's thoughts: HUH!?

Yuushin: What!? What are saying all of a sudden!!?

Ichiba: Are you alright, Haibuki!!?

Haibuki: I'm fine...I just thought she totally forgot about me.

**Pg. 7**

Nobara's thoughts: He was in love with me...?

Nobara's thoughts: Elementary school?...Haibuki?

Nobara's thoughts: Haibuki...Haibuki!?

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

Haibuki's words: "You were the best"

Nobara: Oh!

Nobara: Ohhhhhh!! You're Keisuke Haibuki!!

Nobara's thoughts: This was the shocker on the 10th day.

**Pg. 8**

Nobara's thoughts: But to me, it was just "You got so big that I couldn't tell" kind of thing.

Nobara: What's up!? Haven't seen you in awhile!

//do// [all the guys fall down]

Boy: I didn't know Haibuki liked girls like that.

**Pg. 9**

Ichiba: I'm not real sure, but Haibuki's been with a lot of girls since junior high.

Boy: What!? He's a playboy!?

//shyagu shyagu// [Yuushin brushing his teeth]

Ichiba:  No, not a playboy, but...

Ichiba:  He only went out with cute girls from the volleyball team. He doesn't have a bad face, so the girls would always fall for him.

Boy: Whoa! That's what you call a playboy!

Yuushin: Hey, the playboy is here.

Haibuki: What?

**Pg. 10**

//shin// [silence]

Yuushin: Was that your first love?

Yuushin: You have some bad taste.

Haibuki: You think...?

Haibuki: I thought you kinda had some interest in her.

Yuushin: Huh?

Haibuki: You helped her out in a cool way the other day.

**Pg. 11**

Yuushin: That was because...

Yuushin: She was crying so much.

Haibuki: I see.

//shyako shyako// [Haibuki brushing his teeth]

Yuushin: Don't tell me that you're still in love with her!? She's not a girl!

//jyaaaa// [water running]

//kan// [Haibuki puts his toothbrush in the cup]

**Pg. 12**

Haibuki: I don't know. Maybe?

Yuushin: What's up with him!!!?

Ichiba: Calm down, Yuushin.

Boy: That's just how he is.

//gachya// [Nobara opens door]

**Pg. 13**

Nobara: Oh...

Nobara: Good night!

Nobara's thoughts: To put it bluntly...

Nobara's thoughts: I have no interest in guys.

Haibuki: Thanks for your hard work.

Nobara's thoughts: But I do recognize his existence when he appreciated me at that volleyball game, when everyone else was against me.

**Pg. 12**

Yuushin's words: "You, as a parent, don't have to be embarassed by her!"

Nobara's thoughts: And there's no question that I was saved by his words, but...

Student: Suzushiro-san.

**Pg. 13**

Student:  She's here again.

Nobara's thoughts: I wanted a group of friends.

**Pg. 14**

Suzushiro: It's no use no matter how many times you come, Sumiyoshi-san.

Nobara: Why do you say that, Captain!?

Suzushiro: I used to be a captain.

Nobara: Let's play volleyball together.

Suzushiro: Even if we get a team going, I only have until the summer since I'm a senior.

Suzushiro: It's stupid.

Nobara: I need you!

Suzushiro: Everyone quit!

Suzushiro: Because they didn't want to practice that hard!

**Pg. 15**

Suzushiro: I tried to stop them, but nothing worked!

Suzushiro: In the end, there were only 2 girls. How can you have a match!?

Suzushiro: I don't want to go through that again.

Suzushiro: Plus, your mom is the one who got rid of the team, right!?

Suzushiro: Sorry...

Nobara: Senpai, do you like volleyball?

Nobara: If you do...Your time until summer...

**Pg. 16**

Nobara: Could you give it to me?

Nobara's thoughts: "Do you like volleyball?"

Teammate 1's words: "We lost again!"

Teammate 2's words: "Did you hear that the men's volleyball team is calling us an embarassement?"

Teammate 3's words: "We haven't won one game."

Teammate 4's words: "Hey, Suzushiro..."

**Pg. 17**

Teammate 4's words: "Is there a meaning for us to play volleyball?"

Suzushiro: Don't get my hopes up high.

Nobara: Senpai! I'll come over and over again!

Nobara: Suzushiro Senpai!!

//pishyan// [door closes]

**Pg. 18**

{Yui Suzushiro, Senior}

Men's volleyball team captain: Girls' volleyball team?

Captain: What are you talking about? The girls' volleyball team went down because they were too weak.

Boy: No, it's that the girls' volleyball team is trying to come back.

Captain: What!?

Boy: Don't you remember that girl on the first day of school!? The crazy one that tried to join the men's volleyball team!?

Boy: She's handing things out like this and....

**Pg. 19**

Boy: Talking to the girls that used to be on the team!

Girl: No...not me. I've got exams next year.

Nobara: Until the summer is fine! Together...

Girl: Sorry!

Girl 2: Volleyball?

Nobara: Please!

Girl 2: Sorry, I quit that sport.

**Pg. 20**

Girl 3: Stop bothering me!!

Nobara:  Please!!

Nobara:  If I don't get a team together, I can't bring back the sport.

Girl 3: I don't have anything to do with this anymore! I quit already!!

**Pg. 21**

Mochida: Sure.

Mochida: I'll do it.

Nobara: Really, Mochino-san!!?

Mochida: My name is Mochida, okay? Mochida.

Mochida: After not playing volleyball, I was starting to get fat, so I wanted to get my body moving again...

**Pg. 22**

Mochida: I see. Ha ha.

Mochida: Noone else wants to do it except for me?

Mochida: Well yeah, everyone was horsing around half of the time.

{Ayako Mochida, Junior}

Nobara: Really?

Mochida: Yeah. Not Suzushiro-san, tho.

Mochida: There was a lot of girls that didn't come to the matches, so we didn't have enough people and couldn't play the game!

Mochida: The men's team used to always call us "no good".

**Pg. 22**

Mochida: Ha ha ha. They were right, tho.

Nobara's thoughts: Wh...what's with this girl...?

Nobara: What...? Um...

Nobara: That means that they were making fun of you. Doesn't that make you mad?

Mochida: I got used to it.

Mochida: We were a weak team that couldn't win one game.

Nobara: Then you guys could've tried harder, right!?

Nobara's thoughts: You're being made fun of!

Nobara's thoughts: Why are you laughing!?

**Pg. 23**

Mochida: We did try hard.

Mochida: But we can't win with just me and Suzushiro-san.

Mochida: The truth is, the men's team is strong.

Mochida: The way they use their strength is different from other schools.

Mochida: They're the top 4 in the metropolitan area.

**Pg. 24**

Girl: That's so mean! Did you see that?

Teammate 4's words: "Hey, Suzushiro"

Teammate 4's words: "Is there a meaning for us to play volleyball?"

Suzushiro's thoughts: If winning is what she meant, then we didn't have it. We did play the best we could, tho...

Mochida: Hey, are you listening?

**Pg. 25**

Nobara: Suzushiro Senpai!

Suzushiro's thoughts: Oh no! If she sees this...

//ba// [Suzushiro takes paper down]

Suzushiro's thoughts: She'll definitely be hurt!!

//don// [Student bumps into Suzushiro]

Suzushiro: Oh!

//pi// [Nobara grabs hold of paper]

**Pg. 26**

//niya// [Nobara smiles angrily]

Suzushiro:  What...?

Suzushiro: Hey!

Suzushiro: Hey, wait, Sumiyoshi-san.

Suzushiro: Where do you think you're going!?

**Pg. 27**

Nobara: Of course I'm going to the Captain of the men's volleyball team!

Nobara's thoughts: Those fools! They wrote all over the paper I worked so hard on!

Suzushiro: Wait! You don't have proof!

Nobara: Even if I don't have proof, you were called like this for a long time by the men's team, right!?

**Pg. 28**

Nobara: What are you so afraid of, Senpai?

Nobara: You tried your hardest, right?

Nobara: Then...

Nobara: You!

Nobara: And you!

**Pg. 29**

Nobara: Don't get used to being made fun of!

Mochida: Ha ha ha. She went.

Suzushiro: This is no laughing matter!!

**Pg. 30**

Nobara's thoughts: If you're trying your hardest, there's no reason for you to be ashamed.

Nobara's thoughts: That's right. This is what he told me.

Yuushin: What's up, Nobara!? What's going on?

**Pg. 31**

Yuushin: What!?

Yuushin: You're going to ignore me!!

Yuushin: What's with her!!?

Ichiba: Hey...she's going to the seniors' classroom.

**Pg. 32**

//gara// [Nobara opens door]

//hiso// [Boy whispers to Captain]

//ban// [Nobara slams paper down]

**Pg. 33**

Nobara: What are you trying to do!

Nobara: Let's have a match!

Nobara: I'll show you wether or not the girls' team is no good or not!!

**Pg. 34**

Girl: Ha ha...Hero?

Girl: Haibuki, you think of some pretty cute things.

**Pg. 35**

Girl: Is that the girl you liked?

Haibuki: Well, yeah.

Haibuki: Something like that.

Haibuki: Hey, Senpai.

Senpai: Yes?

Haibuki: Play volleyball one more time.

Haibuki: I like you when you were palying volleyball.

Senpai: You go too far.

Senpai: But that's what I loved about you too.

**Pg. 36**

Yuushin: That dumb-ass!

Nobara's thoughts: I wanted to be stronger.

<END OF Beniiro Hero - Part 4>