ISBN 4-08-847678-6 Published by Margaret Comics, 10/2003

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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 8 ~The Woman That Seized Glory~

Pg. 1

Suzushiro?: Oosaka, Tomoyo.

Suzushiro: She started playing volleyball in second grade. She was scouted and got into Meimon Keisei Junior High.

Suzushiro: The gifted setter that led her team into the country-wide victory.

Suzushiro: At 14, she was the member of Japan's Juniors.

Pg. 2

Gotou: Wow...

Gotou: She's like a person above the clouds...

Suzushiro: That person above the clouds attends our school.

Mochida: But that person retired volleyball from her injury.

Mochida: Whatever record she had...

Mochida: We can't do anything unless she's active again.

Pg. 3

Nobara: She hasn't quit volleyball.

Mochida: Sumiyoshi! You're late!

Nobara: I'm sorry.

Rena: It's the first women's volleyball team's meeting for lunch!!

Mochida: We still don't have a room!

Suzushiro: Anyway, Sumiyoshi-san...

Suzushiro: About her not quitting volleyball?

Pg. 4

Nobara: I just had that feeling.

Nobara: A person that quit, wouldn't...

Nobara: practice by herself in an empty gym.

Suzushiro: Well, that's done then.

Suzushiro: Whe have to get her to join somehow.

Mochida: Whaaat!?

Mochida: Wait a second, Suzushiro-san!

Mochida: But she told us that she didn't want to play with low-levels like us, right!?

Pg. 5

Mochida: I don't like that idea.

Mochida: I can't be a team with someone who looks down on us...

Tomoyo's words: "It gives me the chills"

Tomoyo's words: "To join a team that girl is in"

Nobara: You're right. It does piss me off.

Nobara: She shouldn't have said that.

Nobara: I know she has a lot of ego, but...

Mochida: See, see!

Mochida: Sumiyoshi is saying the same thing!

Nobara's thougths: But...

Suzushiro: Then what are we going to do!? We need one last person! Is there any other person that stands out!?

Pg. 6

Yuushin: What's going on? You guys are splitting already?

Yuushin: This is unpleasant, so can you take the fighting outside?

Nobara: It's not like that!

Gotou: Who is that?

Suzushiro: He's a first-year on the men's team.

Mochida: You don't have the big hair anymore!

Yuushin: SHUT UP!! What's with that!?

Pg. 7

Yuushin: Anyway, what are you guys gonna do?

Yuushin: The last day for entering the applications for the inter-highschool district match is this weekend.

Yuushin: If you don't hurry, you won't be able to play matches and...

Yuushin: The seniors will be gone.

Nobara's thoughts: The last person...

Nobara's thoughts: She pisses me off, but...

Pg. 8

Nobara's thoughts: But she probably...

Nobara's thoughts: Feels like us, right?

Nobara's thoughts: She loves volleyball, right?

Pg. 9

*****FLASHBACK*****

Team: It went up! Near the net!

Team: She's good!

//wa// [cheer]

Team: Oosaka Senpai is great!

//ga// [hit]

Team: Oosaka Senpai!!

Pg. 10

Team: Oosaka!!

Team: Tomo! Tomo, are you okay!?

Team: Hayashida! Change!

Hayashida: Y...yes!

Tomo's thoughts: Wait.

//pashya// [camera flash]

Tomo's thoughts: I don't want to change!

Tomo's thoughts: If I'm not on this team, we can't win!

Coach: The injury will completely heal in a month.

Coach: She damaged her right knee. I won't be able to give full details until close examination...

Reporter: Then coach, what about the training camp next week for Japan's Junior team!?

Coach: Unfortunately...

Pg. 11

Coach: She's in no condition to attend.

Reporter: Miss Oosaka!

Reporter: Miss Oosaka! Please comment!

Person: Please stop this. Our Oosaka is still in junior high!

Reporter: Miss Oosaka!

//pashya// [camera flash]

Tomoyo's thoughts: Stop.

Tomoyo's thoughts: Stop it! Don't take my picture!!

Pg. 12

//pashya// [flash]

*****END OF FLASHBACK*****

//ha// [Tomoyo wakes up]

Tomoyo's mom: Tomoyo!

Tomoyo's mom: Are you sleeping? Dinner's ready!

Pg. 13

Tomoyo's words: "Too bad"

Tomoyo's words: "I quit volleyball"

Cashier: That'll be 565 yen.

Pg. 14

Woman: You're cute. Are you in high school? I can take you out to have some fun!

Woman 2: I'm sorry! She's drunk!

Nobara: I'm a girl!

Woman: Don't lie!

Nobara's thoughts: What's with that...?

Nobara: I'm not lying!

Nobara's thoughts: I'm Nobara Sumiyoshi, without a doubt, a girl!!

Pg. 15

Nobara: What!? Haibuki!?

Nobara: What are you doing at this hour!?

Nobara's thoughts: What the hell!? He's running after practice!?

//ta ta// [Haibuki keeps on running]

Nobara: Hey...!

Nobara's thoughts: He's gonna ignore me? Again?

Ichiba's words: "She's Haibuki's ex-girlfriend"

Nobara: Hey wait!

Nobara: I have to talk to you!

Pg. 16

Nobara: You want one? I was out shopping.

Haibuki: Thanks.

Pg. 17

Nobara's thoughts: You're not going to drink it!?

Nobara's thoughts: He's so dark! Geez...

//shiiiin// [silence]

Nobara's thoughts: I don't get this guy at all.

Haibuki's words (as a child): "Nobara-chan"

Nobara's thoughts: He was so cute before.

Nobara: Hey...

Nobara: That girlfriend of yours...

Nobara: Oosaka-san!

Haibuki: Not my girlfriend, but...

Haibuki: My ex-girlfriend.

Nobara: Yeah...that's right. Your ex-girlfriend...

Nobara's thoughts: Who cares?

Nobara:  I want her to join our team...

Pg. 18

Haibuki: You really don't care.

Nobara: What?

Haibuki: Look up!

Pg. 19

Haibuki: Up!

Nobara: WHOA!

Nobara: Whoa...! Hey...!?

Pg. 20

//dotan// [Nobara falls down]

Nobara: What...!?

Nobara: What was that for!? What are you trying to do!?

Haibuki: The reason why I broke up with Oosaka-san is because...

Haibuki: I couldn't forget about you, Sumiyoshi-san.

Haibuki's words: "I liked you when I was in elementary school"

Pg. 21

Haibuki: I tried asking Oosaka-Senpai to join the volleyball team for you.

Haibuki: But it was no good.

Haibuki: Even though she is gifted, even though others see that, and even if she's blessed with her surroundings...

Haibuki: She can't recover from her break down, so she throws her gift away.

Mochida's words: "That person retired from volleyball because of an injury!"

Pg. 22

Haibuki: She was a loser.

//dokun// [thump]

Nobara: You...

Nobara: Isn't there a nicer way you can say that?

Nobara: You were dating her, weren't you?

Haibuki: I'm nice to her.

Haibuki: But I'll just be her escape.

Pg. 23

Nobara: Hey!

Nobara's thoughts: Escape...? A "boy"!?

Pg. 24

Nobara: Hello.

Nobara: I came here one more time to ask you to join our volleyball team.

Tomoyo: Stop asking me. I told you that I quit!

Nobara: Then why were you practicing volleyball by yourself!?

Pg. 25

Nobara: The truth is, your knee is already healed.

Nobara: You really want to play volleyball!

Nobara: The truth is...

Nobara: You want a team!

Nobara: Right?

Nobara: Am I right on!?

//niko// [smile]

Tomoyo: Are you stupid!?

Pg. 26

Tomoyo:  I feel like throwing up!

Nobara: Then you're not going to play volleyball anymore!?

Nobara: What a waste!!

Tomoyo: Shut up! Stop that. Don't follow me!

Nobara: Ohhh!! What a waste!!

Tomoyo: There's something wrong with you!

Nobara: Gifted setter!

Pg. 27

//da// [Tomoyo runs off]

Tomoyo's thoughts: Stop it.

Tomoyo's thoughts: I don't need volleyball anymore

Pg. 28

Tomoyo's thoughts: I don't need a team.

*****FLASHBACK*****

Tomoyo: My last game in junior high...

Tomoyo: I really want to be in it, Doctor!

Tomoyo: This is the last time I can play with eveyone!!

Doctor: ...You can't...If you strain your knee right now, you'll never be able to play volleyball.

Pg. 29

Team: Look at that pass by Hayashida! One hand!

Team: She's just like Tomoyo Senpai.

Team: She observed Tomoyo all the time! She would watch videos!

Team: That was real easy to hit, Hayashida!

Hayashida: O...okay!

Team: Did you hear? Hayashida is going to the team camp in place of Tomoyo Senpai.

Tomoyo's thoughts: It doesn't have to be me.

Pg. 30

Tomoyo's thoughts: There's lots of others that can take my place.

//gui// [grab]

Tomoyo: Geez! Stop it already!!

//don// [bump]

Hayashida: Ouch!

Hayashida: Oh...!

Pg. 31

Hayashida: Oosaka Senpai...!

Hayashida: It's you! I haven't seen you in so long!

Tomoyo's thoughts: Hayashida-san...

Tomoyo's thoughts: Prestigious Yabe commerce! (??)

Hayashida: We were having a practice game here.

Girl: Hayashida, who is that? You're friend?

Pg. 32

Hayashida: It's Oosaka-san! Oosaka, Tomoyo-san!

Hayashida: I told you that in junior high, Oosaka was my senpai...

//dokun// [thump]

Girl: Oh...

Girl: That one.

Girl: What school is that uniform?

//dokun// [thump]

//dan// [stomp]

Pg. 33

Nobara: It's from Benino. You have a problem?

Girl: Oh, that school where only the men's team is strong.

Nobara's thoughts: She's looking down on us big time!

Hayashida: I'm so disappointed that you're not playing volleyball anymore, Senpai.

Pg. 34

Hayashida: You're not the Tomoyo Oosaka that I once idolized.

Hayashida's words: "Senpai!"

Hayashida's words: "Senpai, you are so good! How did you just do that? Could you teach me?"

Hayashida's words: "You're not the Tomoyo Oosaka that I once idolized"

Pg. 35

Nobara: Oosaka-san!

Girl: What was that about?

Girl 2: Is there a girls' volleyball team at Benino anyway?

Girl: I have no idea.

Girl 2: In any case, noone can use Oosaka anymore.

Girl 2: Not if she hasn't been playing for 2 years.

Nobara: Oosaka-san!

Pg. 36

Tomoyo: Please stop this...I've had enough of this already.

Tomoyo: Am I not worth anything unless I play volleyball!?

Tomoyo: You heard that, didn't you? She's younger than I am..! Everyone...!

Hayashida's words: "You're not the Tomoyo Oosaka that I once idolized"

Tomoyo: Noone will accept me unless I play volleyball!

Tomoyo: Even Keisuke...Everyone...!

Pg. 37

Nobara: Is that why you run away from everything?

//ban// [hit]

Tomoyo: You won't understand!

Nobara: That hurt, damn it!

Pg. 38

Nobara: I don't know how you feel!

Nobara: I don't have the gift where others respect me or look up to me!

Nobara: But even if I don't have a gift or...

Nobara: If noone accepts me...

Pg. 39

Nobara: I will determine my own worth!

Nobara: You should determine your own worth too!

Nobara's thoughts: This person isn't a loser.

Pg. 40

Nobara's thoughts: She just couldn't escape from here.

[END OF Beniiro Hero - Chapter 8]