E1 - May it be that I find

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SIGN    Chihayafuru
[00:09] (Flashback) Arata
    Th-Thank you...
[00:12] (Flashback) Arata
    Thank you for playing karuta with me!
[00:16] (Flashback) Arata
    Chihaya, Taichi...
[00:18] (Flashback) Arata
    But I doubt we'll ever
    see each other again.
[00:24] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Why?
[00:27] (Flashback) Chihaya
    As long as we have karuta,
[00:30] (Flashback) Chihaya
    we'll see each other again, right?
[00:36] (Flashback) Chihaya
    As long as we keep playing,
    we'll see each other again!
[00:38] (Flashback) Chihaya
    I just know it!
SIGN    Verse 1
SIGN    May
    it be
    that
     I find
[00:45] [POEM] Reader
    Naniwa Bay, now the flower
     blooms, but for winter
[00:54] [POEM] Reader
    Here comes spring,
    now the flower blooms
[01:02] [POEM] Reader
    Here comes spring,
    now the flower blooms
SIGN    Team Chihayafuru
[01:13] (Flashback) Coach
    Get set!
[01:21] (Flashback) Girl
    Did you see that start?
[01:23] (Flashback) Coach
    Is she really a beginner at this?
[01:26] (Flashback) Michiru
    That was amazing, Ayase-san!
[01:28] (Flashback) Michiru
    You got off to a flying start!
[01:30] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Thanks!
[01:31] (Flashback) Michiru
    You should really join the track team!
[01:35] (Flashback) Chihaya
    But then I'd have less time
    to play karuta...
[01:38] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Oh, but that start felt
    just like playing karuta!
[01:41] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Just like leaping forward
    the moment a card is read!
SIGN    Fuchu City Katamachi Cultural Center
[01:46] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Dr. Harada! I brought a friend!
[01:48] (Flashback) Harada
    Ah! Welcome!
[01:51] (Flashback) Chihaya
    This is my friend from the track team,
    Horikawa Michiru-chan.
[01:54] (Flashback) Michiru
    It's nice to meet you.
[01:55] (Flashback) Harada
    Nice to meet you.
[01:57] (Flashback) Harada
    Wait... Chihaya-chan,
    you joined the track team?
[02:00] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Um... Only on a trial basis, for now.
[02:03] (Flashback) Michiru
    I asked her to join.
    Our school doesn't have a karuta club.
[02:06] (Flashback) Chihaya
    And in exchange for joining, I asked her
    to check out our karuta society.
[02:10] (Flashback) Michiru
    I've never played before, though.
[02:14] (Flashback) Harada
    Not a problem.
[02:16] (Flashback) Chihaya
    In competitive karuta,
    the first verse of a poem is read,
[02:19] (Flashback) Chihaya
    and players try to take the card
    with the second verse on it.
[02:21] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Today we're using practice cards that
    have the unique syllables on them in red,
[02:26] (Flashback) Chihaya
    so even if you haven't
    memorized Hundred Poets—
[02:27] (Flashback) Michiru
    Um... unique syllables?
SIGN    the red that is the Tatsuta River
     Impassionate
[02:30] (Flashback) Chihaya
    The syllables at the start
     of the first verse
SIGN    the red that is the Tatsuta River
     Impassionate
SIGN    Ariwara no Narihira
    Impassionate gods have
    never seen the red
    that is the Tatsuta River
[02:31] (Flashback) Chihaya
    that help you identify which card
    to take once you've heard them.
[02:35] (Flashback) Michiru
    Oh...
[02:36] (Flashback) Chihaya
    The deck has 100 cards,
    and the players take 25 each,
SIGN    Opponent's Side
SIGN    Player's Side
[02:40] (Flashback) Chihaya
    line them up on their sides,
    and put the remaining cards away.
[02:43] (Flashback) Michiru
    Huh? What happens to the other 50 cards?
[02:46] (Flashback) Chihaya
    They're called "dead cards."
    They aren't used in the game.
[02:48] (Flashback) Chihaya
    But any of the 100 cards can be read,
[02:50] (Flashback) Chihaya
    so if a dead card is read,
    and you touch any card...
[02:53] (Flashback) Chihaya
    That's a fault.
[02:55] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Then your opponent gets to
    send you one of their cards.
[02:57] (Flashback) Michiru
    Oh...
[02:59] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Oh, also, you can touch any cards
    on the side with the poem that was read...
[03:04] (Flashback) Michiru
    Huh? You can?
[03:05] (Flashback) Chihaya
    But touching any cards on
    the other side is a fault,
[03:08] (Flashback) Chihaya
    and you're sent a card.
[03:10] (Flashback) Chihaya
    The first player with zero cards
    left on their side wins.
SIGN    Win
SIGN    Lose
[03:14] (Flashback) Girl
    Memorization time is over.
[03:16] (Flashback) Girl
    Time to begin.
[03:18] [POEM] Reader
    Naniwa Bay, now the flower
    blooms, but for winter
[03:20] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Thank you for the game.
[03:22] (Flashback) Michiru
    Uh... Thank you for the game.
[03:24] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Thank you for the game.
[03:27] [POEM] Reader
    Here comes spring,
    now the flower blooms
[03:38] Chihaya
    Thank you very much.
[03:40] Michiru
    You're incredible, Ayase-san.
[03:42] Michiru
    I couldn't take a single card.
[03:44] Chihaya
    I had a really hard time
    the first time I played, too.
[03:47] (Flashback) Michiru
    Really?
[03:48] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Yep.
[03:52] (Flashback) Chihaya
    What is with you?!
[03:53] (Flashback) Chihaya
    You're too good!
[03:55] (Flashback) Arata
    But you were able to take a card.
[03:56] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Only one card!
[03:59] (Flashback) Arata
    B-But I had fun!
[04:02] (Flashback) Harada
    I wonder how Glasses is doing...
[04:05] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Huh?
[04:06] (Flashback) Harada
    Eyelashes hasn't been by lately, either.
[04:09] (Flashback) Harada
    I guess he's busy with
    schoolwork and club.
[04:13] (Flashback) Michiru
    I don't really understand karuta that well,
[04:16] (Flashback) Michiru
    but I can definitely see
    how much you love it!
[04:22] (Flashback) Chihaya
    One more game, then!
[04:23] (Flashback) Michiru
    Huh?!
[04:24] (Flashback) Michiru
    Er, um...
[04:31] (Flashback) Chihaya
    This is the place, right?
[04:33] (Flashback) Taichi
    Yep, I looked it up on the internet.
[04:36] (Flashback) Arata
    So Mashima's also going to play karuta?
[04:39] (Flashback) Taichi
    I actually have a life, so I can't
    spend all my time playing karuta,
[04:42] (Flashback) Taichi
    but I'll be better than you in no time!
[04:45] (Flashback) Taichi
    I stole them.
[04:50] (Flashback) Taichi
    Don't tell Chihaya.
[04:55] (Flashback) Taichi
    I don't want her to hate me.
[05:07] (Flashback) Hajime
    Are you playing karuta with
    that scary look on your face?
[05:11] (Flashback) Hajime
    When do you find it easiest
    to move around freely?
[05:16] (Flashback) Hajime
    When did you have the
    most fun playing karuta?
[05:26] (Flashback) Chihaya
    I did it! I got a card!
[05:28] (Flashback) Chihaya
    I beat Wataya-kun to a card!
[05:30] (Flashback) Arata
    Where I was always happy, having fun,
[05:33] (Flashback) Arata
    and wishing it'd never end...
[05:40] (Flashback) Chihaya
    There's mine!
[05:41] (Flashback) Michiru
    Mine, too!
[05:43] Chihaya
    I'll find new teammates in high school
[05:46] Chihaya
    and devote myself 100 percent to karuta!
SIGN    Chihayafuru 3
[07:00] Taichi
    Forward.
[07:02] Taichi
    We can only move forward.
[07:09] All
    One...
[07:10] Girl
    Raise them slowly,
    then lower them slowly!
[07:11] All
    Two...
[07:12] Guy
    I can't hear you, first-years!
[07:13] All
    Three...
[07:15] Chihaya
    The Fujisaki Karuta Club is more
    athletic-minded than I thought!
[07:20] Sakura
    Some students from other schools
    have joined us for this camp.
[07:23] Sakura
    You are to practice with them proactively
    and exchange thoughts and advice.
[07:25] Chihaya
    Why are you here, Retro-kun?
[07:26] Retro
    You'd better not interfere
    with Hokuo's secret training!
[07:28] Sakura
    Regardless of your ranks,
[07:29] Sakura
    you'll play two matches this morning,
    followed by jogging and stretches.
[07:32] Sakura
    After lunch, you'll play three matches,
    followed by jogging and stretches.
[07:34] Girl
    Five matches, huh?
[07:35] Girl
    That's pretty standard.
[07:36] Sakura
    After dinner, you will play two
    more matches in the evening.
[07:39] Sakura
    Tomorrow will consist of mountain
    climbing in the morning,
[07:41] Sakura
    and four matches between
    morning and afternoon.
[07:44] Sakura
    Karuta is a sport of contradictions.
[07:46] Sakura
    If you take cards too fast,
    you'll commit more faults,
[07:48] Sakura
    but if you're slow, you lose cards.
[07:49] Sakura
    Learn how to live with that contradiction.
[07:51] Sakura
    Find the point of intersection between
    contradictions that works best for you!
[07:55] Chihaya
    Wow...
[07:56] Sakura
    Suffer now so that you can endure
    the toughest matches with ease!
[08:00] Sakura
    Those who have never felt pushed to
    the limit will never grow stronger!
[08:04] Chihaya
    Wow!
[08:06] Retro
    Is practicing with your left hand
    even going to help?
[08:09] Chihaya
    I-It's better than no practice at all.
[08:12] Chihaya
    I don't know how these Fujisaki kids
    are keeping up with this.
[08:15] Retro
    Well, it's because they respect her.
[08:18] Chihaya
    Respect?
[08:19] Retro
    Wha?! You came here without knowing?!
[08:22] Retro
    Coach Sakurazawa never became Queen,
    but she's been the runner-up five times.
[08:27] Retro
    She was called the strongest
    challenger of all.
SIGN    Ba-dump!
[08:31] Retro
    Ba-dump?
[08:33] Chihaya
    That was tough...
[08:35] Girl
    I never want to see a card again.
[08:36] Girl
    This is still better than last year.
[08:38] Girl
    Hey, Makoto-senpai was here earlier.
[08:40] Girl
    No way! You think he's still here?
[08:42] Makoto
    It's not as if I'm here just to see you.
[08:45] Rion
    Okay...
[08:47] Makoto
    I only came to see
    how our vice captain was doing.
[08:50] Rion
    Okay...
SIGN    Peanut Gallery
[08:54] Makoto
    W-Want to go to... the beach or something?
[08:57] Rion
    Huh?
[08:57] Makoto
    No, wait! That's not what I meant!
[08:59] Makoto
    I meant with other people! Yeah!
[09:01] Makoto
    To improve relations, even friendships,
    between club members!
[09:04] Rion
    I'll go!
[09:06] Girl
    Yay!
[09:06] Girl
    I'm going to the beach with Makoto-senpai!
[09:08] Girl
    Way to go, Yamashiro-san!
[09:08] Rion
    Relations. Friendships.
[09:11] Girl
    Ayase-san, I bet you have a lot
    of plans for summer break, huh?
[09:15] Chiyaha
    I have club and a karuta camp at Lake Yamanaka
    with the Shiranami Society. That's all.
[09:20] Girl
    That's all?
SIGN    Karuta freak
[09:21] All
    She's as much of a karuta freak
    as we've heard.
[09:23] Girl
    Ayase-san, do you have a boyfriend?
[09:25] Girl
    You must have one!
    I bet guys are all over you!
[09:27] Girl
    Does he play karuta?
[09:29] Chihaya
    Th-This is... love talk! It's love talk!
SIGN    Love talk!!
[09:33] Chihaya
    I... I don't have a boyfriend.
[09:36] Girl
    Oh, come on! What about
    the Mizusawa club president?
[09:39] Chihaya
    But if I don't get better at karuta,
    I won't even get to sit across him,
[09:44] Chihaya
    so I have to work hard.
[09:48] Chihaya
    Love talk! Love talk! Love talk!
SIGN    Love talk!!
[09:48] All
    Karuta freaks are freaks
    in all kinds of ways...
SIGN    Friendships
SIGN    Friendships Beach
SIGN    Friendships Beach Relations
[09:52] Girl
    That's amazing, though.
    It's like you have a crush on karuta.
[09:56] Girl
    If I make it to Class B in the next
    tournament, maybe I'll confess.
[10:00] Girl
    What? To who?
[10:01] Girl
    Out of the second-years,
    it'd have to be Hyuga, right?
[10:03] Girl
    President Cheers?
SIGN    No way No way
[10:04] Girl
    I'm so bummed out
    that all the third-years left!
[10:08] Girl
    But we might get to
    go to the beach with them!
[10:10] Girl
    You think Eromu-senpai will go?
SIGN    Totally!
[10:11] Girl
    I should've confessed when we lost to
    Mizusawa at the High School Championship.
[10:15] Girl
    I was too busy crying to even
    think about that at the time.
[10:18] Girl
    Me, too!
SIGN    Victory for Fujisaki
[10:21] Chihaya
    That's how they all felt at that tournament?
[10:24] Chihaya
    I never knew.
[10:27] Chihaya
    Liking someone,
    sharing the same feelings...
[10:32] Chihaya
    How did Arata feel?
[10:37] Chihaya
    I have no idea.
[10:40] Chihaya
    But I want to know.
[10:43] Chihaya
    I'm pretty sure I don't
    understand anything yet.
[10:48] Hyuga
    Hey, Mashima-kun, why do you play karuta?
[10:51] Taichi
    Huh?
[10:52] Hyuga
    I play to impress the ladies. Cheers!
[10:54] Taichi
    Wh-Who are you again?
[10:57] Hyuga
    I'm Fujisaki's new club president,
    Hyuga Yoshihiko.
[11:00] Hyuga
    Cheers!
[11:01] Taichi
    The new president? Him?
[11:03] Taichi
    Hey, could you tell me something?
[11:05] Hyuga
    What is it? Ask me anything.
[11:07] Hyuga
    But first... cheers!
[11:09] Taichi
    Yeah, uh... cheers.
[11:11] Chihaya
    So there's a public bath nearby? Cool!
[11:14] Girl
    Huh?
[11:15] Girl
    The lights are on.
[11:18] Girl
    President Cheers and
    Mizusawa's club president?
[11:19] Taichi
    Like this?
[11:20] Hyuga
    Is your left hip stretching?
[11:22] Girl
    Wow, that's dedication.
[11:23] Chihaya
    Taichi's learning stretches...
[11:24] Girl
    And so late at night...
[11:25] Retro
    Tsk! He really never misses
    a trick, does he?!
[11:28] Chihaya
    Retro-kun!
[11:29] Retro
    He's even trying to learn Fujisaki's
    traditional physical training!
[11:33] Retro
    He should be more full of
    himself and slack off!
[11:35] Retro
    Slack off... Slack off... Slack off...
[11:37] Chihaya
    I don't usually see you cursing
    people like that, Retro-kun.
[11:40] Retro
    Why wouldn't I want to curse him?!
[11:42] Retro
    He won all seven of his matches today!
[11:44] Chihaya
    Huh? He did?
[11:46] Chihaya
    Wow, Taichi's doing great!
[11:47] Retro
    Don't be too confident.
    You're in danger yourself.
[11:51] Chihaya
    Huh?
[11:51] Chihaya
    What're you talking about, Retro-kun?
[11:53] Chihaya
    I almost always beat Taichi.
[11:56] Retro
    You've never played him in
    an official match, have you?
[11:58] Chihaya
    Huh?
[12:01] Retro
    This occurred to me at
    the summer tournament...
[12:04] Retro
    I think Mashima plays better
    when you're not with him.
[12:09] Chihaya
    What?
[12:10] Hyuga
    Let's call it a night.
[12:12] Taichi
    I want to commit this to muscle memory
    a little more before I go.
[12:17] Chihaya
    I'm pretty sure I don't
    understand anything yet.
[12:22] Chihaya
    Not even about Taichi.
[12:25] Nishida
    What? Kana-chan left?!
SIGN    Well, she lives really close to here...
[12:31] Nishida
    That's not what training camps are about!
[12:34] Nishida
    Tests of courage! Fireworks! Pillow fights!
[12:36] Nishida
    I wanted to have a sleepover with Kana-chan!
[12:37] Kitano
    Shut up, Yusei! Rub my shoulders!
[12:40] Nishida
    I should've gone to Fujisaki's camp.
[12:43] Kanade
    Prez, you can leave the others to me!
[12:46] Kanade
    Good luck with Chihaya-chan!
[12:50] Kanade
    It's summer, after all!
[12:52] Sakura
    You there! Run!
[12:53] Sakura
    You should be running on
    a gentle slope like this!
[12:56] Chihaya
    I thought she said "mountain climbing"!
[12:58] Chihaya
    This is straight-up mountain running!
[13:02] Retro
    What the heck is all this?
[13:04] Chihaya
    No wonder the Fujisaki players
    are built so strong.
[13:08] Chihaya
    H-Huh?
[13:09] Retro
    This doesn't seem to be
    bothering Mashima at all...
[13:12] Retro
    Curse him!
[13:13] Retro
    Curse him for being a former soccer player!
[13:18] Sakura
    We only have until the evening today,
    so you'll be playing four matches.
[13:21] Sakura
    I've prepared a match lineup. It'll be
    posted with your first three match-ups.
[13:25] Sakura
    Your results in those three will
    decide your opponent for the fourth.
[13:28] Sakura
    Sit at the number assigned to you.
[13:30] Chihaya
    Oh, my first match is with Yama-chan.
SIGN    Second Match (13:00) 1 Ayase vs. Yamashiro
SIGN    Third Match (14:30) Ayase vs. Yamashiro
SIGN    Dunnn
[13:39] Chihaya
    Ayase versus Yamashiro for three matches?!
[13:41] Rion
    No... I can't make it through
    three matches with Ayase-san!
[13:45] Rion
    My knees are already aching...
[13:48] Chihaya
    Yama-chan! Let's have some good games!
[13:52] Sakura
    This is hopeless.
    She's already in flight mode.
SIGN    Tremble Tremble
[13:55] Sakura
    But I'm still making you
    play her three times.
[13:58] Sakura
    Rion lacks stamina and
    an attachment to karuta.
[14:03] Sakura
    Even if Ayase-san can only play left-handed,
    playing her will be worth it.
[14:07] Chihaya
    Coach Sakurazawa is amazing, isn't she?
[14:09] Rion
    Huh?
[14:10] Chihaya
    I mean, having us play each other
    three times in a row?
[14:13] Chihaya
    That means we're practicing
    for the Queen match!
SIGN    Gush
[14:18] Sakura
    She's too optimistic!
[14:20] Sakura
    She has a permanent hot spring in her heart!
[14:24] Rion
    I'm not trying to become
    the Queen or anything.
[14:28] Chihaya
    What? But you're so good.
[14:30] Guy
    Begin memorization time.
SIGN    First Match
[14:33] [POEM] Girl
    Here comes spring,
    now the flower blooms
[14:41] [POEM] Girl
    When I must hide...
[14:45] Chihaya
    Yama-chan is fast on all
    of my best poems, too.
[14:48] Chihaya
    Her arm moves in a straight line, and fast.
[14:51] Chihaya
    My left hand...
[14:53] Chihaya
    still feels heavy.
[14:55] Chihaya
    Too slow!
[14:56] Chihaya
    Yama-chan's arm speed
    will beat mine for sure!
[15:00] Chihaya
    But...
[15:02] [POEM] Girl
    Rain takes longer...
[15:04] Chihaya
    I have to...
[15:06] Chihaya
    make this match worthwhile!
[15:08] [POEM] Girl
    leaving a hovering mist
    above the trees and grass
[15:13] Chihaya
    What does it mean to have good game sense?
[15:16] Chihaya
    Knowing the sounds leading up
    to the first syllable?
[15:21] Chihaya
    What are we listening for?
[15:26] Both
    Thank you very much.
[15:27] Sakura
    You have until 1 PM to finish lunch.
    The second match will begin right afterward.
[15:30] Chihaya
    I lost big... That was hardly even a game.
[15:33] Chihaya
    But the card differential isn't the point!
    What game sense means...
[15:41] Rion
    Ayase-san, you need to eat lunch!
[15:43] Rion
    Ayase-san!
[15:44] Hyuga
    Mashima-kun, let me take you
    to a great convenience store.
[15:47] Hyuga
    Cheers!
[15:50] Chihaya
    Thanks for waking me up, Yama-chan.
[15:53] Chihaya
    And for sharing your rice balls with me.
[15:55] Rion
    It's fine. I have plenty of lunch.
SIGN    Shrimp mayo Spam Plum paste & okaka Beef tongue Cheese & ground meat Salmon roe Eel Fried chicken Tuna & onion
SIGN    Beef rib & salty sauce Meatball Bacon Boiled egg Grilled cod roe Salmon Wasabi soy sauce
[16:00] Chihaya
    You're going to eat all those?!
[16:02] Chihaya
    Both levels?!
[16:03] Chihaya
    When you're so skinny?
    And you hate exercising?!
[16:11] (Flashback) Grandma
    Rion.
SIGN    Landowner
[16:12] (Flashback) Grandma
    You can have some of my rice,
[16:14] (Flashback) Grandma
    so please continue to play
    karuta in my karuta society.
SIGN    Rice
[16:18] (Flashback) Rion
    Okay, Grandma!
SIGN    Thanks, Mom... Sniffle...
SIGN    Heavy
[16:21] Chihaya
    Y-You kept playing karuta for the rice?
[16:24] Rion
    In my family, rice problems are a big deal.
SIGN    Rice Specialist
[16:27] Rion
    I don't care about being the Queen.
[16:31] Rion
    But when I came to Fujisaki, I ended up
    becoming the club's vice president.
[16:36] (Flashback) Sakura
    It's on you to make sure that we don't
    lose a single match next summer.
[16:41] Rion
    I won't lose in next year's
    High School Championship.
[16:53] Chihaya
    Yama-chan...
[16:55] Chihaya
    What do you think it means
    to have "good game sense"?
[17:01] Chihaya
    I want to play formidable opponents and win,
[17:06] Chihaya
    but I feel like I'm still just taking cards
     without any rhyme or reason.
[17:14] Rion
    I don't know anything about that.
[17:17] Rion
    It's 1 PM.
SIGN    Second Match
[17:22] [POEM] Guy
    So spring ends...
[17:24] [POEM] Guy
    While it may be...
[17:29] Chihaya
    The reader isn't very good.
[17:31] Chihaya
    I can tell it's throwing off
    Yama-chan's focus.
[17:34] Chihaya
    Coach Sakurazawa has been deliberately
[17:36] Chihaya
    picking different types of readers
    since yesterday...
[17:38] [POEM] Guy
    Like a boatsman...
[17:42] Rion
    She keeps getting faster.
[17:45] Rion
    She's starting to master
    using her left hand.
[17:48] Rion
    But what good will that do?
[17:50] Chihaya
    "Even if I'm hurt, I don't
    want to stop playing karuta!"
[17:53] Chihaya
    "And if I'm going to play, I want to win!"
[17:56] Rion
    How can she be so greedy?
[17:59] Both
    Thank you very much.
[18:01] Chihaya
    But I still lost by nine! Crap!
SIGN    Third Match
[18:13] [POEM] Girl
    May it be that...
[18:16] Chihaya
    Yikes... I almost bit on a dead card.
[18:19] Chihaya
    I went where the card was
    in the second match.
[18:21] [POEM] Girl
    The fall paddy shacks...
[18:23] Chihaya
    A fault!
[18:25] Chihaya
    So this is what it's like to play
    the same person three times.
[18:29] Chihaya
    Her card placements are similar,
    which confuses my memory.
[18:33] Chihaya
    I remember the previous match's
    layout and mess up.
[18:35] Chihaya
    I start feeling tired
    by the third match, too.
[18:39] Chihaya
    And my knees are killing me
    from going after cards.
[18:42] Chihaya
    But I have to focus. Focus!
[18:50] Sakura
    I never give advice during a match,
[18:54] Sakura
    but just one thing...
[18:58] Sakura
    Maintain your posture.
[19:00] Sakura
    All Masters and Queens throughout history
    have had good posture.
[19:04] Sakura
    They've all had truly beautiful form.
[19:09] Sakura
    Rather than taking cards by speed,
    do it with grace in your natural form.
[19:13] Sakura
    Be able to do that,
    no matter how tired you are.
[19:18] Sakura
    Sorry. Go ahead.
[19:21] Rion
    Coach Sakurazawa used Masters
    and Queens as a reference...
[19:26] Rion
    She's never given any of us
    advice like that.
[19:30] Rion
    Is it because it's Ayase-san?
[19:34] Chihaya
    Posture...
[19:36] Chihaya
    Of course... My posture!
[19:39] Chihaya
    My back was bent, and that was
    making it hard to breathe.
[19:43] Chihaya
    Stay in my natural form,
    and keep it graceful...
[19:49] Chihaya
    Oh... It's just like Kana-chan always said.
[19:54] [POEM] Girl
    The sky may hold...
[19:58] [POEM] Girl
    A house left to the weeds...
[20:02] Sakura
    I just gave advice about posture,
    and Rion's still so haphazard.
[20:07] Sakura
    Interesting.
[20:09] Sakura
    I'm sure you don't know it yet,
[20:12] Sakura
    but the ability to change is an asset.
[20:15] Both
    Thank you very much.
SIGN    Agonizes over the defeat
    with good posture
[20:19] Chihaya
    But I still lost by seven!
SIGN    Ugh, three losses in a row
[20:21] Rion
    For me...
[20:22] Rion
    It's different when my grandma is reading...
[20:27] Rion
    but when regular people are reading,
[20:29] Rion
    I think I listen for whether
    the sound is high or low.
[20:32] Chihaya
    Huh?
[20:33] Rion
    The pitch of the sound right
    before the unique syllable...
[20:37] Chihaya
    The... pitch...
[20:40] Chihaya
    When the misty bridge...
    When I must hide...
[20:42] Chihaya
    Would the mountain... Would this old...
[20:44] Chihaya
    Feel sorrow wash... Feel love deepen...
[20:45] Chihaya
    Like the sound... Like a boatsman...
[20:47] Chihaya
    Since I could not... Since the dew...
[20:49] Chihaya
    There's a difference
    when they're read out loud?
[20:53] Chihaya
    I think I can grasp it!
[20:57] Sakura
    Check the lineup for the fourth match,
    then take your seats.
[21:00] Sakura
    We're behind schedule, so be quick!
[21:03] Chihaya
    Between "As this" and "As I,"
    which has a higher pitch, Yama-chan?
[21:05] Rion
    I don't know!
[21:07] Rion
    Jeez, I shouldn't have given
    you those rice balls!
[21:09] Rion
    I'm so hungry!
[21:11] Taichi
    Chihaya.
[21:11] Chihaya
    Oh, Taichi. What's up?
[21:13] Taichi
    We're playing.
[21:17] Sakura
    We'll begin as soon as
    that clock hits 4.
[21:23] Retro
    I think Mashima plays better
    when you're not with him.
[21:31] Taichi
    Chihaya, why aren't you sitting down?
[21:34] Taichi
    I know you're tired.
[21:37] Chihaya
    Hey! Why'd you get up?
[21:39] Taichi
    I can't sit while a girl is standing.
[21:42] Chihaya
    What're you talking about?
    There are tons of empty seats!
[21:45] Chihaya
    I don't get you!
[21:46] Chihaya
    Just because you won? I don't get you!
[21:51] Chihaya
    Taichi...
[21:53] Chihaya
    was like a different person.
[21:58] Taichi
    I hope your right hand is better soon.
[22:02] Taichi
    This fall, I'm gonna beat you playing
    right-handed in an official match.
SIGN    Hot!
[22:14] Rion
    Coach Sakurazawa,
[22:15] Rion
    why did you put the Mizusawa players
    together in the last match?
[22:19] Rion
    They're from the same school,
    so they can play each other anytime.
[22:23] Sakura
    Mashima-kun won every match
    he played at this camp.
[22:25] Sakura
    No other players were a match for him.
[22:28] Rion
    But Ayase-san was playing left-handed,
[22:30] Rion
    and she was really tired...
[22:33] Sakura
    He seems like he could make vast strides
    with just a little more confidence.
[22:37] Sakura
    And I think...
[22:39] Sakura
    there's a kind of confidence
    only Ayase-san can give him.