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Ride 809: The selected team's wish!!

Pag 1

1: Someone is catching up

2: Who is it?

The selected team's jersey!?

4: It's someone.... I've never seen before

Pag 2

2: Sugimoto

Pag 3

1: Terufumi!!

2: Kuaaaaaa

3: Kakaka seriously?

Seriously, seriously!? Sugimoto!!

4: Oi oi....do you know, Sugimoto... that this is.... the Inter High's

Pag 4

1: that this is the Inter High's lead!!

3: Do you know him, Sohoku?

Pag 5

1: Judging from his looks, he looks like an ordinary guy. Just a guy from the selected team

The selected team is usually just here to participate, so their abilities should be nothing special

2: Yeah, he's nothing special too

4: But he's a man who

5: honestly, seriously, and without resting

6: accumulated that “nothing special” for three years

Pag 6

1: Kuaaaaa

Pag 7

1: Higashimura-san!! One person from the selected team joined the lead now!!

Eleven people... even more!!

3: He accumulated....? For three years...!?

4: Oh

6: Number 201 is Sohoku's reserve

We shouldn't need to be cautious of his power, but he's come this far so we don't let your guard down

Yes

Pag 8

1: He's so disheveled... he's out of breath... and even his hands are shaking

How did he even got this far....

2: like that!!

3: Thank you

4: Thank you everyone

6: I caught up.....!!

I caught up to the lead!!

Pag 9

1: Thanks to everyone!!

3: One minute distance!!

4: We're just one minute behind the leading group!!

Very soon!!

Hyeee..!!

5: But, do we still have time? There isn't much distance left, but can we catch up?

6: That's right

Pag 10

1: I was thinking the same thing now

3: If we raise our pace a little more now, and somehow manage to see the pack all scattered, that will mean that the race for the finish line has started and that we're already too late

5: It's a race against time now

So we'll chose one person who's confident in sprinting and send him

6: And we'll sacrifice the other five to stay ahead and pull him!!

7: Babagome!!

Yes!!

8: You said you won the local sprinting race a couple of times

Can we leave the finish line to you?

9: With all due respect!! But I refuse!!

Pag 11

1: …... huh?

2: You? Refuse?

Yeah!! We all discussed it together!!

Yeah

Hyee!!

That's right!!

3: We'll ask Sugimoto-san to be the final ace!!

Pag 12

1: Huh

A...ce!?

2: Me

Yes!!

3: That's what will get us the most pumped up!!

4: That's right!!

5: Yes!!

6: As long as it's Sugimoto-san

7: I refuse!!

8: Now, we'll raise our pace!!

9: You guys....!!

Pag 13

1: Got it!! Got it

I'll shoulder the responsibility!! I'll shoulder it!! I will!!

2: I'll be the ace!!

Please!!

4: Sugimoto-san

5: Sugimoto-san

6: Sugimoto-san

7: Get in the back and rest, Shingi. I'll pull next

Hyeee

After that, I'll be the one to pull!!

8: Let's switch!!

We'll deliver

Pag 14

1: Sugimoto-san to the lead!!

I can see the pack!!

The lead....!! But

2: Some people are leaving

3: The back is falling apart

If we don't chase them, they'll take the finish line

4: The race for the finish line is starting!!

5: Babagome!! Kobayashi!! I'll leave Sugimoto-san to you!!

Iwatani!?

6: Sugimoto-san, get in the windbreak!!

Pag 15

1: I'll accelerate at full throttle!!

2: Iwatani!? What are you....!?

Did you forget, Kobayashi? About the Kyofushi guy who's been clinging behind us

4: Keep going like this until the lead

5: …..!! Iwatani!!

6: We can't allow Kyofushi's number of assists to increase and become two people!! I'll stop this guy!!

What...? This guy....

7: is in my way

Pag 16

1: Let's accelerate in one go!!

2: What, the selected team!?

Where are they coming from!?

They caught up!?

3: Be in tiiiimee!!

5: Hyeee, I can't do it anymore

Shingi!!

6: Please go, Sugimoto-san

Uchikawa!!

7: Oooooooh

Be in timeee!!

Pag 17

1: I see the end of the pack!!

2: Ahead of here

3: there is

4: the lead!!

5: Please!!

6: Please!!

Sugimoto-san!!

Pag 18

1: Please catch up!!

Kuaaaaaa

2: Will I catch up?

Am I too late?

3: I want to reach it somehow, our goal

4: Our goal!!

Pag 19

1: Kuaaaaa

2: Those are Gunma's jerseys!! Did they leave the pack later?

3: The last thread!!

4: This is the last thread!! If I can ride here!!

Sorry, but I'll cling behind you

Sorry about it!!

5: So, what do you say? Sonomoto-chan

Well, it's alright

6: Alright, if you can keep up

Thank you!!

Pag 20

2: I.... cau.... ght.... up.... finally....

3: This is the Inter High's lead before the finish line.... everyone..... I'll do my best....!!

4: Even thought I don't have much experience for what's next!!

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Ride 808: The jerseys competing for the lead!!

Pag 1

2: Onoda-san, now the lead have all left and entered the downhill towards the sea!!

3: Yeah!!

6: Do your best!!

Naruko-kun!! Imaizumi-kun!!

Pag 2 / 3

1: The men who are staring at the Inter High's first day's victory!!

(Congratulations!! 17 whole years of publication!!)

Pag 4

1: We're all here!!

Five teams, ten people!! These are

4: the jerseys

Pag 5

5: that are aiming

7: for the Inter High's first day's finish line!!

Pag 6

1: Let's go, Ninoshima!!

2: But be careful!!

Don't worry, Higashimura-san!! Downhills require courage and will-power!!

3: Don't leave any space!!

Those people are skilled!! The opposite lane

6: of the road, that we don't normally use and was closed for this race.....

7: Don't worry!!

Pag 7

1: They're using every inch of the inner side of the opposite lane!!

Ah!! There's only a small gap between them and the guardrail!!

Pag 8

2: I was bravely thinking of running as close to the guardrail as possible, yet in that tiny space on the inner side they....!?

I even moved before them exploiting the moment when Kyofushi and Gunam were talking... and yet!!

5: Downhills are all about “choosing a line” and “weight”, yon

Pag 9

1: Gunmaa!!

Yon

While taking the curve.... he gave me advice!!

2: Calm down, Ninoshima!! Just cling to them!! Follow me now!!

Dammit, and what was that about “choosing a pine” and “fruit juice”, Higashimura!!

…. no, he said “weight”*

(*NdT.: the words for 'weight' and 'fruit juice' sound the same in Japanese)

3: Ah, really

4: If in road racing downhills are all about choosing a line and weight, then it's easy!!

Pag 10

1: Sonomoto-chan

2: In MTB, on downhills there are so many bumps and trees' roots

3: Tires lose their grip, and you're busy trying to get traction and grip

4: In road racing, though, the tires are always on the ground!!

5: It's too easy, road racing

It even makes me

Pag 11

1: want to “play” a little!!

Pag 12

1: Uh-oh

4: What the hell was that just now!? Did their rear wheels slip!?

Did they let them slip!?

5: Huh...

7: Don't make such sudden grip turns

Sorry, since it's you I thought you'd get it

I did get it, but still (haha)

8: Kakaka, a friendly performance right before the Inter High's finish line!? You sure are confident, Gunma.san!!

9: Puku, what was that, so cool....

Puku

Pag 13

1: Are those the skills you cultivated through MTB? You originally raced in MTB, so you're showing off what you can do

Showing off how freely you can control your bike

So cool, will you

2: teach me too?

3: Teach me....

4: Teach

5: Number 41 is clinging to him!! He's getting too close

There's a left curve soon, get back....!!

Pag 14

1: me

me

me

2: Me me me me

3: We're in a curve, it's dangerous, so could you please back down a little?

4: Me me me me

5: Why won't you teach me that cool thing? Are you keeping it a secret from me?

6: Well, it's just that

Pag 15

1: I can't feel any impetus at all in your words, yon

2: You got me

Pag 16

1: They're taking the curve while his head is on his shoulder!! What incredible balance they have, Gunma's number 181 and Kyofushi's number 41!!

3: Even though the speed going downhill is frightening!!

4: But now, I

5: understand you a little, yon

Puku? Me? You understand me?

Pag 17

1: It seems like your impetus to win is fierce, yon

2: You too, you're not just a fancy small-fry

Not a small fry!!

Pag 18

2: Not bad

Yeah!!

3: Except for Hiroshima, who unexpectedly attacked earlier than usual, this lead is just what I had imagined

4: Kyofushi and Gunma too, even while arguing are still showing restraint

5: And Hakogaku too is carefully waiting

Pag 19

1: The real movement still hasn't happened

Get ready. If they move, we step on right away!!

Got it!!

2: 8km left until the finish line!!

3: There's no one else who'll join the final race for the finish line!!

Pag 20

2: Kakaka, what's wrong, Hotshot

Did you drop the energy bar in your pocket!?

3: No.... it's nothing, I just misheard

4: Sometimes, when I concentrate too much, I hear strange sounds

Ah, that's it!!

Pag 21

1: Kuaaaa

3: I hear...? A voice... and besides

Pag 22

1: I know it!!

2: No, that's impossible!!

He has probably fallen behind a lot with his team on the mountain!!

3: Moreover... there's no way with this “lead”...!!

4: No indeed, there's no way

I'm concentrating too hard, I'm even dreaming about the buddies training camp

6: Ah, there's one person catching up, yon

Yeah, the guy who was working so hard to cling to us

7: when we left the pack

Pag 23

1: I don't even know his name... the guy from the selected team

Pag 24

1: Kuaaaaaagh

2: That's the target!! That's the target we set!!

Pag 25

1: I'll catch up!! I will!! To the lead!!

2: Sugi.... moto!!

5: Now it's... eleven people!?

6: Insect....

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Ride 805: Sohoku's morale

Pag 1

1: The banking angle is like this

2: It's like putting the weight on the very edge of the round part of the tire

3: Keep braking at a minimum

4: Right before the curve, switch one gear lower while braking

7: While taking the curve without decelerating as much as possible...

Pag 2

1: push as hard as you can when moving up!!

Pag 3

1: Shorten it....!!

2: The eight minutes distance...!!

To a four minutes distance!!

3: I can go further!!

4: Let's go!!

With everyone's strength!!

5: Woah, is that the selected team!? They passed me

Six people... no, it's seven people!?

Kyofushi joined them at the very back!!

6: Until the “lead” ahead of us....!!

Pag 4

1: The cyclists are here, there's the pack!

Do your best!

They're so colorful!

So fast!

These is the Inter High's.....

Pag 5

1: lead!!

Pag 6

2: Amazing!

They're so fast..!

They caused the wind!

Fighting!

Gooo!

Pag 7

1: The ones in the lead pulling the pack is....

2: the local from Kyushu, Fukuoka Josei!!

Kumadai is there too!!

4: So your best....!!

They looked here and smiled at us

Take the finish line ahead!!

Mokkosu!!

Pag 8

2: The finish line, huh!!

3: Yeah!!

4: The race is already turning to its final stage

5: Also this is the assembly stage now

A small climb... or after that? When Hakogaku will raise their pace and slip through the locals who are now pulling...

(Fukuoka do your best!

Kumamotoo!

They looked this way and smiled!)

Pag 9

1: the real battle for the finish line will start!!

2: It's gonna be a fight we absolutely cannot step back from!!

3: Step back? Not even a millimeter!!

4: You'll be pulling until then

Danchiku!! Kaburagi!! Team SS duo!!

Yessir!!

Yeah!!

5: I'll pull, horuaa....

6: But

7: Will Onoda-san be alright? He's exhausted for all the work he did on the mountain

Uh!! Danchiku is so considerate!! Also,this is a problem!!

Pag 10

1: Aaalright, me too

That's right!! Onoda-san

2: is basically at death's door!!

This guy...

The way he said it...

3: So-sorry... yeah...

I'm.... alright... I rested while on the long downhill earlier

4: What, are you really okay?

Oi, Issa, you're being too direct!

5: By the way, uhm.... we were in a rush when I joined you again... so I couldn't say it

7: I couldn't.... say it properly...

Pag 11

1: I'm sorry....

I lost....

4: He lost!?

We saw it on the sign board!!

5: Even though it was just around 20cm... even though I pedaled with my strength...

6: I didn't take... the mountain prize

Even though... everyone

7: sent me off

Pag 12

1: What are you talking about!! Onoda

What are you apologizing for!! Onoda-kun!!

Pag 13

1: Ima.... izumi-kun...

3: Naruko-kun....

5: I'll buy you some juice later

Ju-juice?

Kakaka!! That's not a big deal!!

Ah, but...

We

6: were fully happy that we got to send you off, Onoda-kun

Pag 14

1: You could run with Manami with all your strength, and that's good enough

3: Well, when you came back to the team all worn out and we saw the distance on the sign board, I knew that it had come true!!

5: You were even annoyed by Doubashi-san!

Ah, so that was for the mountain prize, I see

6: It raised the team's morale

That's enough

Pag 15

1: Teeh...!!

2: Yeah

Right now, the thing that will raise the morale more than anything

3: it's probably them

5: You're right, now there's

6: the water station

Pag 16

2: Onoda-san is in a pinch!!

Onoda-san is in a pinch!!

He's feeling weak, teh!!

3: I have to do something, teh..!!

Kinaka-kuuun!!

4: Onoda-san's ina pinch, teh!!

Give me all your food supplements and bottles, teh!!

Pag 17

1: Rokudaiii!!

Huh!?

So many!?

Why so much stuff!!

2: I thought you would say that, so I got ready, Rokudaii!!

Pag 18

3: I'll leave the senpai to you, Rokudai!!

4: Goooo!! Rokudaiii!!

What... that's an absurd way of delivering it

So much, on!!

What's with this guys... he delivered such a huge weight of supplies in one go!!

Pag 19

1: Ou- teh!!

2: They're perfectly in sync

Amazing

3: ….. Toji-san

4: This year's finish line...

Yeah, it's further away after the mountain stage than it usually is

From here on, after a few hills it goes on with an up-and-down

Pag 20

1: Then they'll enter a long downhill of around 5km

2: After the coastal national away they'll turn right

3: and they'll enter the town where the first day's finish line is

Pag 21

2: There are probably 10km left...

3: and after that

4: the race for the finish line will start

Pag 22

1: And those who are most likely to win will move!!

There's still more

Th-thank you

That must be heavy

6: There are 12km left until the finish line

[mawrice]

aaaaaaa my beibeh sugimoto 🥺

Ride 804: Komari's question

Pag 1

3: Kobayashi!!

5: Ugh.....

Waaaaaaaa

Pag 3

2: A pressure that was.... like gigantic hand....!!

3: I was …. defeated... even before I started running....

Why is my body shaking like this!? Huh!?

5: This is....

Kishigami.... Komari....

6: This is.....

Kyoto Fushimi!

Pag 4

1: Now, please try to answer me, Sugimoto-san

If the one who had gotten a flat tire then hadn't been me....

3: but Sohoku's Onoda

4: “Sugimoto-kun, I got a flat tire, please help me”....

Pag 5

1: If he had asked you to cooperate...

3: I got a flat tire, I have to get back to the team

Sugimoto-kun!!

Pag 6

1: “You can't approach Sohoku during the race”

“That's your condition”

3: I know how hard Onoda is working

I know how hard he worked for the Inter High

(Wait-)

4: If it had been Onoda who had fallen behind...

5: But I...

Pag 7

2: The rules!!

4: I'd follow...

You'd follow the rules? Is that so?

Pag 8

1: Yeah... that's it

3: Wh... you asked such a heavy question, but now so casually....!?

4: Following the rules? Man? That's right

Midosuji-san did say you were a serious bug

5: The rules....

But

6: I had a “pause” when I answered

I ended up thinking I would help Onoda....!!

Pag 9

2: Komari-kun

Yes

3: Sohoku's seventh man is in this race...

4: He's not a worthy opponent, just a small fry

I see

He's just a serious insect...but he is a fine thread inside Sohoku

5: And by collecting all the tiny threads, they've been victorious until now....

6: If he's one of them...

Pag 10

1: He must be cut off, that's what I'm thinking...

2: If you have the chance to get close to that insect

I want you to throw a “question” at him

Yeah

3: Yeah, doing that will be enough

4: “Would you help Onoda?”

5: Is the answer important?

6: A “question” only becomes a “question” when it's presented before your eyes

A sharp question penetrates deeper and deeper

And then, soon, it becomes a “chain”. You're always thinking about it, asking the question to yourself

Pag 11

1: What would he do if Onoda were in a pinch?

When Sohoku is in a pinch... can't I help them?

2: He'll involuntarily come up with the answer

Puku

3: “I can't help him”

“Don't help him”

4: That's enough to cut that little thread

5: If the seventh thread is cut, it becomes a powerless dead leaf

Just a small fry in the river, like an insect...!!

6: Understood

I just want to make sure of one thing....

Pag 12

1: If, when he answers, there's even a small “pause”

Then it's proof that it worked

2: I cut it

My flat tire ended up being useful

Now...

It will be a little difficult, but now I have to go alone

3: Should I joing a small scattered group along the way

4: while I aim to get to the lead?

Pag 13

2: After all the top quality meat it “ahead”!!

3: Anyway, he was really an insect, it was so easy leaving them behind

Well

Pag 14

1: It's the selected team after all

Pag 16

3: I'll pass from the right side

4: I'll pass from the right side

Hyeee

5: I'll pass from the right side!

Pag 17

2: They... passed me!?

That ragtag team!?

3: What's this... all of a sudden!?

So he came around!? How!?

4: On a downhill, the fastest group is the one who can control the air resistance

The one who put together this scattered team is....

Pag 18

1: The insect!!

The seventh thread that was cut

2: We ran into an obstacle, but our goal hasn't changed!! Hurry up!! Be careful while riding downhill!!

3: Yessir!!

Hyeee!!

Yessir!

Pag 19

1: Don't tell me that these guys.... are aiming to get to the lead from here!?

2: Sugimoto-san

Sugimoto-san

Sugimoto-san

When he asked you that question... you had a pause, but

3: You said you'd “follow the rules”!!

4: Sugimoto-san really is our leader!!

Pag 20

1: This is interesting, I'll follow!!

I want to see if that small-fry meat can really catch up!!

2: If he really does catch up then I want to touch it with my own hands!!

4: Be glad, everyone, these are good news

But the hard part starts now

5: Now, our 8 minutes distance with the lead.... we'll shorten it until a 4 minutes distance!!

Yeah!!

Hyee!!

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Ride 799: The last climb

Pag 1

2: England, London, 3:11am

3: Pedal, Sakamichi...

The mountain line...

4: is close....!!

5: Ahh, dammit

6: I heard that I could watch this year's Inter High on video, so I'm watching it, sho... but the signal is bad so it stopped in the middle, sho!!

Pag 2

2: Ahh

4: But

5: Don't you stop

Pag 3

1: Keep going straight ahead, sho, Sakamichi

Pag 4

3: He moved!!

4: Manami-kun!!

Pag 5

3: At the end of the curve he changed his course to be as on the outside as possible!!

Pag 6

2: So you really have some sort of secret plan, Manami!! A precise plan!!

Pag 7

1: Sooooooo

2: I just saw Toudou-san near the finish line

3: I wonder if seeing this situation he's thinking something like “does he have a precise plan?”

4: Maybe you're thinking “why has he moved on the outside side of the sourse?”

No

That

Pag 8

1: means nothing!!

2: It's just my sixth sense!!

Instinct!!

3: Intuition!!

Pag 9

1: I've attacked so many times up until now

I did everything that was in power

2: I have nothing left (haha)

3: Even my legs are barely holding on!!

4: I'm just saying, “my body is over here”

5: If I have to give you only one reason

6: Earlier, when we were taking the curve and I was clinging on behind Sakamichi, I suddenly thought

7: That the left side was open

Pag 10

1: It would be a waste not to use the whole width of the road!!

Pag 11

2: This is definitely more freeing!!

4: I'll keep moving forward like this!!

5: 30m left!!

Pag 12

1: Mountain King is only barely ahead!!

Manami is chasing!!

2: Manamii

Pedal Hakogakuu!!

Chase him!!

Kanagawaa!!

3: Mountain King!!

Onodaa!!

Keep going like this!!

Pag 13

1: Ooooogh

2: Sooooo!!

4: Is it just instinct!?

Pag 14

1: 20m left!!

2: Sohoku's Onoda is still ahead

Onoda is ahead!!

3: They changed the course drastically!!

Will this year's confrontation between Manami and Onoda end with Onoda's win again!?

4: He can't reach him!!

Pag 15

2: There's no wrong path for a person

3: All that's given to someone

4: is the choice to make that path the right one or not!!

5: The path is different for each person

6: It's not “wrong”, it's just “different”

So, start walking that path

Pag 16

1: And move forward at full throttle to make it the right one!!

Pag 17

1: Ooooogh

3: Goooo!!

8: 10m left!!

Pag 18

1: Manami caught up at 10m left!!

2: Manami-kun!!

3: Sakamichi-kun!!

Pag 19

1: Sangaku!!

2: Sakamichi!!

3: Both of them are jumping toward the mountain line!!

Pag 22

1: Tch, oii come on!!

2: Dammit!!

3: Don't stop at the best point..!! Stupid!! Stupid video!!

4: Ha!! It's a big important race yet I can't watch the decisive moment!!

5: Dammit, whatever, I'll just send you my thought!!

Damn you, I don't wanna see you cry anymore, so!! This time!! This year!!

Pag 23

1: Overturn it, Wonder Boy

Pag 26

1: The first one to cross the mountain line of the Inter High's first day is Hakone Academy's Manami Sangaku!!

He's looking up at the sky with both his arms open wide!! He won the first day's mountain stage two years in a row!!

Waaa, the sky is so blue...

2: I feel so alive

[mawrice]

rewatching yowapeda for a 2nd time and while piecing details together it's fully hitting me in the face that midousuji is such a well written character. More than what people give him credit for...almost makes me want to shed a tear #thankyouwatanabe

[mawrice]

nangisi yowapedaaa, aku mau hype yowapedaa