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Koucha Ouji by Yamada Nanpei
Volume 3, Tsp. 13: Runner
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=Page 34=

Speaker: "The winner of the girl's 400 meter relay is once again a first-year!"
*pa-n pa-n*
Crowd: Kyaa! Waaah! Alright!
Speaker: "The athlete who is rendering her distinguished services, having recently risen      from silence through all her first year, Yoshioka Taiko!!"
Student: "Yoshioka's amazing isn't she"
Student 2: "She said she'd never do it, right up until the moment she was persuaded to" It     was three days before the event when they talked about her coming back
Speaker: "What an amazingly talented athlete that Yoshioka is!!"
Taiko: What an exaggeration...


=Page 35=

Speaker: The afternoon clubs have suddenly returned to a rising status!! The last 
   program is the mixed relay, with Yoshioka being anticipated in this activity as well!!"
Students: ...
Peko: ...   <--nobody-can-see-but-kaichou mode
Doctor: "...Are you alright? Hagurazaka-san"
Peko: ...
Kikuka: .....
Shimoyamaguchi: "Kaichou..." (**note** I'll refer to him as "Shimo" from here on out)
Kikuka: "...I'm alright, since I've taken medicine"


=Page 36=

Doctor: "Even though you say that, this is a season where you should worry about
   stomach-flu. Take this afternoon off..."
Shimo: "She's right, Kaichou!"
Hinoki: "...."
Kikuka: "I'm fine"
Peko: Kyan kyan kyan! "Are you still saying that when you don't know what could happen?! 
   Because I warned you to that extent, master..."
Shimo: "Kai..."
Kikuka: SHUT UP I SAID I'M FINE, DIDN'T YOU GET IT?!
*biku---*
Doctor: "Ah-- Hazakura-san, where are you..."
Kikuka: "To the bathroom"
Doctor: geeze
Hinoki: "Fukukaichou..."


=Page 37=

Hinoki: "Wh...whatever should I do..."
Hinoki: "It--it was my fault..."
Shimo: "Kaichou!"
Shimo: "Don't do something you can't, take this afternoon off..."
Kikuka: "How's Horiuchi's condition?"
Shimo: "H...he..."
Horiuchi-kun in the infirmary
Horiuchi: Uuuun uuuuun
[definitely resting]
Shimo: "He's considerably bad...He ate the most"


=Page 38=

Kikuka: "Then I can't rest"
Kikuka: "If I go as far as collapsing, then won't Mineyama-san feel increasingly responsible?
Shimo: "Kaichou...you've certainly taken to Mineyama-kun..."
Kikuka: "How close do you think you're coming?!"
Peko: "This seems to be such trouble..."
*ja--* *gobogobo* *bata*
*sigh*
Kikuka: "You don't have anything to do with this..."


=Page 39=

Peko: "You can let me cure you"
Peko: "You can make that your first wish"
Peko: "---- right? *heart*"
Kikuka: "...If I'm not healed, then I'm not going to acknowledge it..."
Taiko: "How's Earl Grey's condition?"


=Page 40=

Assam: "No good"
Assam: "He's not drunk but..."
Someko: "Taiko-chan, they're calling for the mixed relay" Hurry hurry
Taiko: "Eh, really?"
Haruka: Really
Assam: geeze *pata pata*
Taiko: "Seeya, Assam. I'll be back later"
Assam: na? "Alright" *pata*


=Page 41=

Assam: "...what's with her...going around like that from the beginning"
Someko: "Before the real performance, Taiko-chan is delicate"
Haruka: "To be strong for the real performance, since if it doesn't seem like the real    
  thing, she won't have the energy to do it..."
Assam: In short she's depending on other people's kindness
Someko: "Aside from that we should go to the place" where we can watch
Haruka: Alright alright "Assam, you wake up Earl Grey"
Assam: "Alright"
Assam: "...so..."
Assam: "Are you awake? This.."
*guu-----*
Someko: "... Hey Mika-chan"
Haruka: "Nn?"
Someko: "Taiko-chan really seems to be having fun"
Haruka: "She does"


=Page 42=
Someko: Ehehe "I'm glad"
Someko: "I was a little worried since I said it was probably impossible to run"
Haruka: "It's not that sort of thing. Unexpectedly, it was probably time for Taiko to start
   looking for a reason to run"
Someko: "I--I guess so"
Haruka: "That's right. She loves running"
Someko: "..."


=Page 43=

Someko: "Mika-chan, you and I are the 'Taiko-chan love love union'!!"
Haruka: "Do that on your own accord" I've been telling you, don't call me Mika-chan
Speaker: "Everyone, over here is the area for enlistment"
Speaker: "Ah, we're noticing the number one athlete, Yoshioka Taiko"
Taiko: "Yo"
Speaker: "Her facial expression isn't giving away a thing"
*dodo*
Taiko: Eh?!
Speaker: "So maybe I'll try to do an interview!!"


=Page 44=

Taiko: "Wah?! What is it?"
Speaker: "You're an amazingly talented runner, aren't you, Yoshioka-senpai!!"
Taiko: "Eh, not really, it's just my nature"
Speaker: "You've won all the track events since this morning, Yoshioka-senpai..."
Taiko: "There were a lot I wasn't in!!"
Speaker: "Ah, but with that, you have not yet seen a return to the 200 meter... In this   
   mixed relay, you will be facing off with 2nd-year Ace and Student Council Kaichou, Hazakura!!"
Taiko: "Haa-h"
Speaker: "Yeah, you're smiling, it's fun"
Speaker: "And now I'll go in for an interview in the kaichou's area...hm?"
3rd year: Heeey!
Speaker: "Eh? What? The kaichou's not here...?"
Speaker: "That's not..eh..."


=Page 45=

Speaker: "This is big trouble! I've been informed that the 2nd year kaichou ace, Hazakura, 
   and first-year anchor Horiuchi-senpai have been brought to the infirmary with stomach-
   flu!!"
2nd years: WHAaT?!"
Taiko: "Eh..."
1st-year: "Hey you, if I remember correctly, if it's just a cold you don't have to   
   acknowledge it, right?!"
Mid-3rd-year: "That's right, or so we were told by the executive-committee member in 
   charge!"
Speaker: "This has really turned into a big problem!! The mixed relay usually brings in a 
   very large amount of points. This is going to cause a big commotion for the runners of 
   each year!"
THIRD-YEAR
Boy: YES! We could win
Boy 2: We'll win for our last sports festival in school!
SECOND-YEAR
Boy: Fill in the vicinity! Call to fill the vicinity
MIDDLE-SCHOOL-THIRD-YEAR
Boy: We...we could do it!
Girl: We really could! Do your best!
MIDDLE-SCHOOL-SECOND-YEAR
Girl: Did you hear? Someone from our class was the cause *whisper whisper*
MIDDLE-SCHOOL-FIRST-YEAR
Boy: We probably have no chance of winning since we're first years
Boy2: At least if someone in middle-school 3rd year collapses, we won't look so bad
Speaker: "We'll broadcast any detailed news as it comes out"


=Page 46=

First-year: "WHAT?! FOURTEEN SECONDS?!"
First-year: "Why would the anchor be such a turtle?!"
"This is the fastest time?!"
"Fourteen seconds?!"
"We can't help it, anybody faster has already done other events"
Haruka: "You're really indulging in this plan through the policy"
Taiko: "Haruka"
Guy: "Uchiyama"
Haruka: "I went to look in the infirmary"
First-year: "How's Horiuchi?!"
Haruka: "He went to the hospital"
First-years: HIIIEEE!
Haruka: "But our greatest rival, the 2nd-year Kaichou, isn't here..."
First-year: "If Yoshioka runs two times, we'll win, won't we?!"
Haruka: "Don't say that!"


=Page 47=

First-year: "Anyhow..."
First-year2: "Hm?!"
*doyodoyo*
Speaker: "Everyone, we have a report!"
Whooa!
Speaker: "The student council Kaichou has appeared!!"
Second-year: "Kaichou, is your body's condition going to be okay?"
Kaichou: "Yes, I'm fine"
AAAH! WE'RE FINISHED
Middle third-year: "Have they filled the vacancy in first-year yet?! The race is going to 
   start, please form lines!"
First-year: "Uchiyama, you be the anchor!"
Haruka: "I've already entered all of the events I can!!"
AAAA-N
<--has already participated in five


=Page 48=

Haruka: "In any case, to get in line!!"
Second-year: "What'll we do about the anchor?!"
Haruka: "Just choose the one with the low score!!"
Second-year: But we don't want you
Low-score guy: Noo! My score was only 14 seconds!
Taiko: "Haruka"
Taiko: "...What should I do?!"
Taiko: <After all, I've come to feel this way>
Taiko: "I want to win...!!"


=Page 49=

Haruka: "You"
Haruka: "Don't think about anything. Just run!!"
Haruka: <She's been grumbling about it from the beginning!!>
Haruka: Geeze, girl who always needs to be taken care of...
<--love weakness
Haruka: Dammit!
Waah! Waah!
Peko: "Master, is your stomach alright?!"
Kikuka: "It's considerably better"
Kikuka: "You saved me. Thank you, Peko"


=Page 50=

Peko: <Well, that's the first time she said my name...*heart*>
*kyu*
Peko: <I wonder why?!>
Speaker: This is the last program, the boys and girls mixed relay is going to start!!
Peko: <It's somehow such a pleasant feeling!!!>
WAAH!
Haruka: "Hey, Assam, Earl Grey"
Haruka: "You two"
Someko: Mika-chan?
Haruka: "Get big, and come here!"
Assam: ?
Earl Grey: ?
Assam: "What's with this, so sudden..."
Haruka: "Which one of you is faster?!"
Assam: "Haah?!"


=Page 51=

Speaker: "From middle school first-year to high school third-year, six runners are lining 
   up. The girls are first. It's the start!"
*bang*
WAAH!
Haruka: Crap "! It's started!"
Assam: "If you mean the relay, I refuse"
Haruka: "I thought you might say that"
*kaaa*
Earl Grey: Assam
Assam: "Of course I would!"
Assam: "You order me around too much in general!!"
Speaker: "The current lead in the group is first and third year, closely followed by the 
   middle-school third year"
WAAH!


=Page 52=

Assam: "Isn't it not really obeying rules to make me do housework and the like without 
   making any wishes?!"
Earl Grey: "Ah!"
Earl Grey: "Then how about this? You make it your second wish..."
Haruka: "And do you think it would make Taiko very happy if I used a wish on something 
   like this?!"
Earl Grey: Uh "No..." I think she would be mad...
Assam: "So then I'm not running!!"
Haruka: ... 
*pui*
Haruka: "Well then maybe I should teach you a lesson"
*crack crack*
Earl Grey: "Eh!"
Assam: If you're doing that, then I'll appeal to your using violence!!


=Page 53=

Speaker: "Three girls have just handed off to three boys! It looks like right now the 
   winners are second-year!"
Speaker: "The runners following are first-year and third-year"
WAH WAAH
Second-year: "Yoshioka-san, get in the baton-zone!"
Taiko: "Alright"
Second-year: "Because I'm requesting!"
Taiko: "Okay...!"
Second-year: The anchor will take it from Yoshioka and we'll like him...
Slow Guy: Nooo!
Guy: You'd better do it
Haruka: "It pains me to have to get serious, but don't you want to win?!"


=Page 54=

Speaker: "Running in third a ways behind the first-place second-year is third-year"
Speaker: "Wait, first and second girls are going to start, Hazakura, the kaichou, and 
   athlete Yoshioka Taiko"
WAAH WAAAH
Taiko: <How fast is she, this girl?>
Taiko: <I'll be fine>
WAH WAH
Taiko: <The first-years can't run...>
Taiko: <But  I don't want to lose...>
*hyoko--*


=Page 55=

Taiko: <Eh...?>
Taiko: "Huh...?"
Kikuka: "Eh?"
Taiko: "What?!"
First-year: "...Yoshioka!!"
First-year: "What're you doing?!"
Taiko: <Ah...>
Taiko: <This is bad...>


=Page 56=

Taiko: <I'm behind!!>
Kikuka: "Peko--!"
Kikuka: "Didn't you make it so that nobody can see you?!"
Peko: "There's an exception!"
Peko: "Supposedly, a person who has seen another Koucha Ouji..."
Taiko: <What was that, just now>
Taiko: ? ?
Taiko: <What I saw...?>


=Page 57=

Taiko: <But right now>
Taiko: <I can't think about something like this!!>
WAAH
Taiko: <What was it that Haruka said?!>
Taiko: <'Don't think, just run!!'>
Speaker: "Ah, Yoshioka has picked up the pace! She's gradually catching up!"
Speaker: "The third corner before your very eyes..."


=Page 58=

Speaker: "She's taken over!!"
Slow guy: Heee! I don't wanna!
Speaker: "However there's still the person taking over for Horiuchi. Can the first-year 
   run?! Yoshioka is only a little ahead of Hazakura on the course..."
*gui*
Speaker: "Huh...? AH?!"
Assam: "Move it!"


=Page 59=

Speaker: "What's this?! They've changed the first-year anchor?!"
Taiko: <Eh?!>
Speaker: "This isn't an athlete we've seen before, what class is this student from?!"
Taiko: <Why are you here?!>
Taiko: "Don't use any magic!!"


=Page 60=

Taiko: <'I get it'>
Taiko: <His smile felt that way>
First-year: Was that guy in our year?
First-year2: Was he in a special class?
First-year3: It doesn't matter if he wins!
Haruka: "Taiko!"
WAAH
Taiko: "HAHAHAHAHA?!" 
WAH WAH
Taiko: "HAHAHAHAHAHA IT FEELS SO GOOD!!"
*g-glomp*
Taiko: "Aaaah"
Taiko: "Let's get out of here already!!"
Haruka: I'm already moving
*kera kera*
*drag drag*
Someko: "That's sly, Mika-chan!! I thought we were a union!"


=Page 60=

[That day]
[Thanks to the puzzling but calmly flying anchor]
[Our class got a win with total composite points]
"Alright, HERE'S THE PRIZE *heart*"
"Alright!!"


=Page 61=

Earl Grey: I just want one
Assam: HAHAHAHAHA
Someko: "What? Those are all Assam-chan's?!"
Taiko: "All for his services"
[But somehow, it seems like I forgot something from that day] I have a really big hunch...
Haruka: Ei
Assam: AAAH
Someko: Ah
[What could it be?]
*click click click*
<--"it"
Peko: That time it seemed like that person who was anchor recognized me
Peko: No, but how could that be so.


--Tsp 12 Runner: Owari--