# 8 - I... Can't Fly Anymore.
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***SIGN*** Notice of Withdrawal Flying Circus Team Tobisawa Misaki For personal reasons.
**[00:01] A**
Wha—
**[00:02] Mas**
N-No way...
**[00:04] Mas**
What?
**[00:06] Mas**
Y-Y-You're kidding, right?
**[00:10] Mad**
Kagami-sensei said she
found this on her desk.
**[00:14] A**
Why, Misaki-chan...
***SIGN*** Episode Eight:
"I... Can't Fly Anymore."
**[01:58] A**
Misaki-chan!
**[02:00] Mas**
Misaki-senpai!
**[02:01] Mas**
How are you at school already?!
**[02:03] Mas**
Oh, you must've wound up sleep-
deprived after waking up too early!
**[02:07] Mas**
So that's why you turned in that notice!
**[02:08] Mas**
Wait, what does sleep deprivation
have to do quitting the team?!
**[02:12] Mad**
You're not supposed to point
that out yourself, Mashiro-cchi.
**[02:16] Mi**
Ugh, keep it down. It's too
early in the meowning.
**[02:18] Mas**
You're not serious, right?
**[02:21] Mas**
D-D—
**[02:22] Mi**
Derp pucker.
**[02:25] Mas**
What?
**[02:25] Mi**
Your turn. R.
**[02:27] Mas**
Huh? R-R...
**[02:29] Mas**
Rururu...
**[02:31] A**
Uh, this is no time to
be playing word chain.
**[02:34] Mi**
I never expected *Asuka*
to play the straight man.
**[02:37] Mad**
Talk to us, Misaki.
**[02:39] Mad**
What are you thinking?
**[02:40] Mas**
Come on! Can't you read?!
**[02:47] Mi**
Well, I got bored with it. And I couldn't
deal with the morning purractice.
**[02:53] Mad**
We're being serious here, Misaki.
**[02:56] Mi**
Don't worry your pretty
little heads about me.
**[02:58] Mas**
How could we not worry?!
**[03:01] Mi**
Class is gonna start. Get going.
**[03:05] Mas**
I'll be back!
**[03:22] A**
Misaki-chan's not coming back.
**[03:26] Mad**
She ran away, eh?
**[03:29] Mas**
Misaki-senpai!
**[03:31] Mas**
Where are you? I brought you udon!
**[03:36] Mas**
In times like this...
**[03:39] Ho**
Tobisawa Misaki-san of Class 2-C,
**[03:42] Ho**
please report to the student
counseling room at once.
**[03:47] H**
What the...?
**[03:50] Mad**
Did Misaki do something bad?
**[03:53] A**
Maybe she quit the team so she wouldn't
get us caught up in the mess?
**[03:59] Mas**
What are you two doing here?
**[04:01] A**
Didn't you hear Misaki-chan get summoned?
**[04:04] A**
We got worried and rushed here.
**[04:07] Mas**
Sorry, that was a trap I set.
**[04:10] Mad**
Seriously?
**[04:11] Mas**
I can't believe you two
fell for it and she didn't.
**[04:15] A**
So she hasn't shown up?
**[04:19] A**
Misaki-chan!
**[04:23] Mas**
Why would you tip off the target?
**[04:25] Mad**
Misaki!
**[04:27] A**
S-Silly me!
**[04:30] Mas**
Misaki-senpai!
**[04:33] Mad**
Mashiro-cchi!
**[04:35] A**
A-Are you all right?
**[04:37] Mas**
Mission failed.
**[04:40] A**
Misaki-chan...
**[04:42] Mas**
We still have after school!
**[04:44] Mas**
We'll put Phase Two of the Capture
Misaki-senpai Operation in motion!
**[04:49] Mas**
Here's the first part of the plan.
**[04:51] Mas**
As soon as the bell rings,
**[04:53] Mas**
Asuka-senpai and Madoka-senpai secure
the front and rear exits of the classroom.
**[04:59] T**
Let's stop here for today.
**[05:23] T**
Uh, could you let me through?
**[05:26] A**
O-Oh, sorry about that.
**[05:31] Mad**
She ran away!
**[05:36] A**
Misaki-chan!
**[05:37] Mad**
Misaki!
**[05:44] Sh**
Tobisawa!
**[05:45] Mi**
Captain?!
**[05:46] Mi**
I mean, former captain?!
**[05:48] Mi**
Were you that hurt by my retirement?!
**[05:54] Mad**
Bro, I'm dead sure that
wasn't the reason why!
**[05:57] Sh**
Wh-What? She wasn't
following me out the door?
**[06:08] Mad**
She went up to the roof?
**[06:17] Mi**
Cleared fur takeoff!
**[06:20] Mad**
Oh, come on!
***SIGN*** Madoka - Sorry! (>_<;) Look up!
**[06:30] Mas**
Up?
**[06:36] Mas**
Misaki-senpai!
**[06:38] Mas**
It's against the rules to take off from
anywhere other than the terminals.
**[06:49] Mi**
Why am I running away?
**[06:52] A**
Misaki-chan!
**[06:54] Mi**
Asuka?!
**[06:55] Mi**
Jeez!
**[06:57] A**
Misaki-chan!
**[07:00] A**
Please wait!
**[07:05] A**
Why are you quitting?
**[07:07] A**
Did something happen?
**[07:11] A**
I want to keep flying with you!
**[07:20] Mi**
I... can't fly anymore.
**[07:27] Mi**
Like, I stopped finding it fun, you know?
**[07:31] Mi**
You should stick to it, though.
**[07:33] Mi**
You're good enough to go toe-to-toe with
Shindo-san despite only having just started.
**[07:38] Mi**
And you're gonna take part in
the fall tournament, right?
**[07:41] Mi**
Better get back to practice, then.
**[07:47] Mad**
She can't fly anymore?
**[07:49] A**
Yes.
**[07:51] A**
She said she stopped finding it fun.
**[07:55] Mas**
In that case, let's turn this
team into something she'd enjoy.
**[07:59] Mad**
Like?
**[07:59] Mas**
The FC Udon team!
**[08:01] Mad**
What kind of team would that even be?
**[08:03] Mas**
A team that eats udon indoors on rainy days.
**[08:07] Mas**
How about the FC Nukazuke Pickles team, then?
**[08:09] Mas**
Or the Sleeping-In FC team?
**[08:11] Mas**
The Game FC team, maybe!
**[08:12] Mad**
That's just something *you'd* enjoy.
**[08:16] H**
Leave her alone.
**[08:19] H**
Quit putting so much pressure on her.
**[08:25] A**
Got it.
**[08:27] Mad**
Well, Misaki can be pretty
hard to reason with.
**[08:30] Mad**
Besides, she might come back
all by herself eventually.
**[08:33] Mas**
Right.
**[08:34] Mad**
Y'know, I was worried you'd quit with her.
**[08:40] Mas**
I want to get better and better.
**[08:47] A**
Same here.
**[08:48] A**
The former captain's counting on
us to win the fall tournament, too.
**[08:52] Mad**
Yeah. Time to grind in practice.
**[08:55] Mad**
As a famous baseball player once said,
**[09:00] ---**
it's the baby steps that lead to big results!
**[09:04] A**
Wow, you're a cutting-edge captain! Got it!
**[09:06] Mas**
You're making her sound like a razor.
**[09:07] Mad**
Are you talking about my razor-sharp wit?
**[09:09] A**
Let's do our best!
**[09:16] Mad**
"Stopped finding it fun," huh?
**[09:19] Mad**
Do people really fall out of
love with something that fast?
**[09:25] Aoi**
And here I was glad the team was
finally getting back on its feet.
**[09:32] Aoi**
But there's no need to force
yourself to keep going.
**[09:35] Aoi**
Whether you pack it up or
not is entirely up to you.
**[09:41] Aoi**
That said...
**[09:43] Aoi**
You can understand how Tobisawa
feels, right, Masaya?
**[10:16] MGM**
And just what are you makin' for me?
**[10:18] Mi**
Wait and see.
**[10:23] Mi**
Huh? We're out.
**[10:29] Mi**
I wonder if I can still go out and get some.
**[10:47] H**
Here shopping?
**[10:49] Mi**
Y-Yeah...
**[10:51] H**
My folks went out tonight,
so I came to buy dinner.
**[11:01] Mi**
Hey...
**[11:03] Mi**
Why won't you say anything to me?
**[11:08] Mi**
I guess it doesn't matter that I'm gone, huh?
**[11:12] Mi**
There are more talented people left on the team.
**[11:14] H**
Stop it. Don't say that.
**[11:18] Mi**
Sorry, I...
**[11:21] Mi**
Oh, I know.
**[11:24] H**
L-Let's eat.
**[11:32] H**
This is great!
**[11:33] Mi**
It's curry made with flyer stock!
**[11:35] H**
Oh...
**[11:36] Mi**
I made the fukujinzuke and
rakkyo pickles myself, too.
**[11:40] MGM**
Eat as much as you like, okay?
**[11:42] H**
I will, thank you.
**[11:53] H**
Thanks for dinner.
**[11:54] Mi**
See you tomorrow, then—
**[11:56] H**
Misaki.
**[12:00] Mi**
What?
**[12:02] H**
You asked me earlier why I
wouldn't say anything to you.
**[12:10] H**
It's just that I get how you feel.
**[12:16] H**
Because I ran away from FC, too.
**[12:31] H**
I started playing Flying
Circus in grade school.
**[12:35] H**
I was basically invincible for ages,
and I even won the All-Japans.
**[12:40] H**
At first, I was just happy that I could
soar the skies and had so much fun flying.
***SIGN*** The Prodigy Hinata Masaya
**[12:46] H**
But when I got selected to represent
Japan in the World Cup, I got cold feet.
**[12:54] H**
I think people instinctively get scared
once they dedicate themselves to a craft.
**[12:59] H**
We fear failure. We fear losing.
**[13:02] H**
We fear running into
someone better than us.
**[13:07] H**
The moment I started having those feelings,
**[13:09] ---**
I stopped finding flying fun.
**[13:13] H**
That's around the time a boy who called
himself a beginner challenged me to a match.
**[13:23] H**
And would you believe it? I lost.
**[13:28] H**
I felt like I'd gone as far as I could—
that it was the end of the line—
**[13:33] H**
and decided to quit FC right then and there.
**[13:36] H**
Actually, I think I just needed
a reason, any reason, to quit.
**[13:41] H**
I wanted to run away from
FC as quickly as possible.
**[13:46] H**
But there's one thing I've
realized since quitting.
**[13:51] H**
It's hard to stay on the run.
**[14:03] Mad**
Misaki wasn't her usual self today either.
**[14:07] Mas**
It was as if her mind was somewhere else,
**[14:09] ---**
even while eating udon for lunch.
**[14:11] Mas**
I've never seen her be that
apathetic toward udon before.
**[14:17] Mas**
Not you, too, Asuka-senpai.
**[14:20] A**
What did she mean, flying
wasn't fun anymore?
**[14:24] A**
I just can't wrap my head around it.
**[14:32] Mas**
What's going on?
**[14:34] Mad**
Wh-What's a helicopter doing at our school?!
**[14:41] H**
Avalon...?
**[14:44] G**
What's with that helicopter?
**[14:44] G**
What's going on? Some sort of incident?
**[14:46] G**
Must be filming for a movie.
**[15:01] Mad**
What's happening, Sensei?!
**[15:06] Ir**
Sorry for dropping by without notice.
**[15:09] Ir**
I was just going to suggest a
practice match against Saki.
**[15:14] H**
A match?
**[15:20] A**
A match against Inui-san!
**[15:23] I**
Will you accept?
**[15:26] Aoi**
Not happening, sorry. It's too sudden.
**[15:28] A**
I'd love to!
**[15:30] Aoi**
Kurashina?
**[15:31] A**
That final was incredible!
**[15:34] I**
You're...
**[15:35] A**
Kurashina Asuka!
**[15:37] I**
Oh, Shindo's opponent in the third round?
**[15:40] I**
Perfect.
**[15:42] I**
Ask for the match, Saki.
**[15:45] Sa**
Please.
**[15:57] Aoi**
Kurashina.
**[15:58] A**
Y-Yes?
**[15:59] Aoi**
If you start having a hard time,
let Masaya know immediately.
**[16:04] Aoi**
This is a *practice* match.
**[16:06] Aoi**
Do not push yourself.
**[16:08] A**
O-Okay.
**[16:10] H**
Asuka.
**[16:12] H**
From the second line onwards, go after
her and turn it into a dogfight.
**[16:17] H**
Just stay on the attack.
**[16:19] A**
Got it!
**[16:24] A**
I'm really excited I get to play you.
**[16:29] A**
Sorry, that wasn't appropriate
for pre-match talk.
**[16:33] Ho**
Here we go!
**[16:34] Ho**
The All-Japan Summer
Tournament champion, Inui,
**[16:36] Ho**
and the third-round-loser
but up-and-comer Kurashina!
**[16:41] Ho**
Their practice match is about to begin!
**[16:44] Mas**
Who asked for commentary?
**[16:50] I**
Saki, let us show them our beautiful FC.
**[16:55] Sa**
Okay, Irina.
**[16:57] Sh**
On your marks...
**[17:00] Sh**
Set!
**[17:06] Ho**
It's 1-0.
**[17:08] Ho**
Inui has opened the scoring.
**[17:10] I**
Saki: Birdcage.
**[17:12] Sa**
*Okay, Irina.*
**[17:20] Ho**
What's this? Inui has come to
a standstill high up above!
**[17:25] H**
I knew it.
**[17:26] H**
She's planning on turning this into a
repeat of the match against Shindo-san!
**[17:31] Aoi**
Kurashina'll have to attack from below,
which will put her at a disadvantage.
**[17:36] Aoi**
That said, if she goes after the next buoy,
**[17:39] ---**
Inui will beat her to it.
**[17:41] Mad**
But at this rate...
**[17:44] Ho**
Kurashina took a shortcut to the second line,
**[17:46] Ho**
so she can't go after the next buoy
unless she crosses Inui or touches her!
**[17:50] A**
Coach.
**[17:51] H**
*Use a high yo-yo to get directly below Inui!*
**[17:54] A**
Directly below?
**[17:56] H**
*I'll tell you as soon as she makes a move.*
**[17:58] H**
Use an air kick turn to accelerate
in the opposite direction.
**[18:00] H**
That should get you flying close to Inui.
**[18:03] A**
Understood!
**[18:04] A**
Here I go!
**[18:07] H**
There she goes!
**[18:17] H**
*Touch her somewhere, anywhere!*
**[18:20] A**
Got it!
**[18:31] A**
Here I go!
**[18:37] A**
Once more!
**[18:46] A**
*Coach, she keeps fending off all my attacks!*
**[18:50] Ho**
What the...
**[18:51] Mas**
No matter where she attacks from,
**[18:53] ---**
Inui keeps repelling her the same way.
**[18:55] Mad**
What's going on?
**[18:57] Aoi**
Inui's sending Kurashina flying
downwards at the same angle each time.
**[19:02] Mad**
That's just a coincidence, right?
**[19:03] Aoi**
Wrong.
**[19:05] Aoi**
It's all been planned precisely.
**[19:12] Mi**
Asuka...
**[19:17] H**
*Create some breathing room!*
**[19:19] H**
*You'll just wear yourself out like this!*
**[19:21] A**
O-Okay!
**[19:27] Sa**
You're not getting away.
**[19:36] A**
Inui-san...
**[19:37] Ho**
Kurashina's back is wide open,
so why won't Inui move in for the kill?
**[19:53] I**
How do you like our perfect and beautiful FC?
**[19:58] I**
We took what you left
unfinished and perfected it.
**[20:02] H**
Use some feints, Asuka!
**[20:04] H**
Vary your flight both
vertically and horizontally!
**[20:06] A**
*I-I can't!*
**[20:08] A**
No matter where I run,
she'll be right above me.
**[20:12] A**
*I don't see an exit anywhere!*
**[20:16] Aoi**
Thoroughly controlling the opponent
**[20:18] Aoi**
to make them exhaust themselves
by flying around pointlessly...
**[20:22] Aoi**
"Birdcage" is a fitting name for that tactic.
**[20:26] Sh**
One minute left!
**[20:28] I**
* Saki, stay alert and perfect*
* until the final whistle.*
**[20:31] Sa**
Okay, Irina.
**[20:33] H**
* If there's no exit, we'll*
* have to make one ourselves.*
**[20:37] H**
* Asuka, use an air kick turn*
* and fly right into Inui!*
**[20:40] H**
* From this close, it should*
* be enough to throw her off!*
**[21:19] Mi**
Asuka!
**[21:31] Mi**
Asuka?
**[21:35] A**
I was no good at all.
**[21:39] A**
I even got you soaking wet, Misaki-chan.
**[21:42] A**
I'm sorry.
**[21:45] Mad**
Take a quick shower and change.
**[21:47] Mas**
And then let's go eat some udon!
**[21:50] A**
Oh, good idea.
**[21:52] Mad**
B-Back to school we go, then.
**[21:54] Mas**
Yeah!
**[21:56] A**
R—
**[21:58] A**
Right...
**[22:00] A**
Yeah...
**[22:08] A**
I...
**[22:11] [SONG] Sign**
To Be Continued
***SIGN*** Preview
**[23:46] ---**
I believe this means to just go for it.
**[23:48] ---**
That's not it. Let's just eat.
**[23:51] ---**
The answer is in the sky!
***SIGN*** Episode Nine: "The Answer is in the Sky!"