E9 - I recall how my own efforts were in vain

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[00:01] (Flashback) Suo
    You'll be the Master one day.
[00:05] (Flashback) Suo
    But you won't be the next Master.
[00:09] (Flashback) Suo
    Watching you doesn't excite me.
[00:15] Guy
    Two minutes of memorization time remaining.
[00:17] Arata
    Oh, crap... It's already time for the third round.
[00:25] Arata
    What did he mean?
[00:29] Arata
    What did you mean by that,
[00:32] Arata
    Master Suo?
SIGN    Chihayafuru 3
SIGN    Chihayafuru 3
SIGN    Verse 9
SIGN    I recall
    how my
    own efforts
    were
     in vain
[01:53] Shinobu
    He's rougher than usual today.
[01:56] Suo
    Hi.
[01:59] Shinobu
    Are you going home, Suo-san?
[02:01] Suo
    Oh, Shinobu-chan. I can
     give you a ride if you want.
[02:04] Shinobu
    I'm not leaving yet.
[02:06] Shinobu
    I can't come to Omi Jingu and leave
    without paying my respects.
[02:28] Suo
    Maybe that part of your personality
    is what's keeping you strong.
[02:35] Shinobu
    Five wins in a row...
[02:38] Shinobu
    You seem pretty confident
    that you can do it.
[02:40] Shinobu
    What is it that's keeping you going, Suo-san?
[02:48] Suo
    Nothing.
[02:51] Shinobu
    Liar. As if "nothing" makes you that good.
[02:56] Shinobu
    It's not like you're a god.
SIGN    Kyoto
[03:03] Michiru
    We went from the Golden Pavilion to Ninnaji...
SIGN    Chi-chan, look over here!
SIGN    Chi-chan, hurry!
[03:06] Michiru
    Then the class split into groups,
    and ours went to Arashiyama,
[03:09] Michiru
    to see Shigureden,
    the museum for the Hundred Poets.
[03:12] Guy
    The Hundred Poets?
SIGN    So somber
[03:14] Guy
    Why'd you pick this place, Horikawa?
[03:16] Michiru
    I only planned this for my group.
    Why'd you guys come along?
[03:19] Guy
    We figured we couldn't go wrong
     if we followed you.
[03:22] Michiru
    At least come up with your own routes...
[03:28] Michiru
    Chi-chan, isn't this place amazing?
[03:31] Michiru
    It has dolls of all the Hundred Poets.
[03:34] Michiru
    Even your favorite... Ariwara no Narihira, was it?
[03:37] Michiru
    Look, he's right here!
[03:42] Chihaya
    Taichi, how are your matches going?
[03:45] Chihaya
    Are you winning?
[03:47] Chihaya
    And what about Arata?
[03:49] Chihaya
    I wonder what round they're on now.
[03:51] Chihaya
    I don't know anyone else in western Japan,
[03:54] Chihaya
    so I'd need Arata to tell me.
[03:56] Chihaya
    Well? Are you doing your best,
[03:59] Chihaya
    Arata? Taichi?
[04:06] Chihaya
    The battery!
[04:07] Michiru
    Here.
[04:09] Chihaya
    Michiru-chan, why...
[04:11] Michiru
    I thought I came on this class trip with you!
[04:14] Michiru
    Why aren't you here?!
[04:17] Michiru
    I don't even know anything
    about the Hundred Poets!
[04:19] Michiru
    That's why I brought us here!
[04:21] Michiru
    Because you know about
     these poems and karuta and all that!
[04:26] Michiru
    And I'll never understand them
     if you don't teach me!
[04:31] (Flashback) Michiru
    Let's wear junihitoe
    together at Shigureden.
[04:36] Chihaya
    I'm sorry, Michiru-chan!
    I'm sorry! I was stupid!
[04:39] Chihaya
    But I don't know that much about
    poems and karuta and stuff!
[04:42] Michiru
    Huh?!
[04:43] Guy
    What the heck? Why are they
    having a youth moment here?
[04:43] Chihaya
    I'm so stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
[04:46] Guy
    Who gets that worked up in
    a somber place like this?
SIGN    Girls are amazing
[04:48] Michiru
    O-Okay, I get it!
[04:50] Michiru
    Then we should get Heian costumes.
[04:53] Michiru
    We can dress up like royalty!
    Let's go put them on!
[04:55] Chihaya
    Michiru-chan...
[04:57] Chihaya
    You're right, Michiru-chan.
[04:59] Chihaya
    I came here to Kyoto for my class trip.
[05:04] (Flashback) Chihaya
    I want to be a high school teacher!
[05:07] (Flashback) Chihaya
    What kind of teacher would I be
    if I've never been on a class trip?!
[05:12] Chihaya
    This is once-in-a-lifetime.
[05:15] Chihaya
    I'll never have a second chance.
[05:18] Chihaya
    The second floor was so big!
[05:21] Chihaya
    I have heard that the women's
    championships are held here.
[05:23] Michiru
    You should take part!
[05:25] Chihaya
    Well, with how much it costs to get here...
[05:28] Chihaya
    Huh?
[05:29] Chihaya
    It's Kana-chan!
[05:30] Chihaya
    Kana-chan, your group also came to...
[05:32] Chihaya
    Wait, what's wrong?
[05:34] Kanade
    N-Nothing! I'm not crying!
SIGN    Waaah
[05:37] Kanade
    All of the exhibits are just too amazing!
[05:40] Kanade
    Especially this reproduction of the
    Tentoku Imperial Palace Poetry Contest!
[05:43] Chihaya
    Tentoku Imperial Palace Poetry Contest?
[05:46] Kanade
    I won't let you tell me
    you don't know about it!
[05:48] Chihaya
    Yeah, I know about it. It was
    a contest with poems, right?
[05:52] Kanade
    Ahem.
[05:54] Kanade
    Poetry contests were held about
     500 times during the Heian period,
[05:58] Kanade
    but the most famous one was
    the Tentoku Imperial Palace Poetry Contest
[06:02] Kanade
    held in the year 960 by Emperor Murakami.
[06:05] Kanade
    The judge was Fujiwara no Saneyori,
[06:08] Kanade
    but it's said that he followed
    the wishes of the emperor.
[06:11] Kanade
    The twelve top poets of the time
    came together and composed poems
[06:14] Kanade
    about themes such as mist, cherry blossoms,
    Japanese yellow roses, and love.
[06:18] Kanade
    Mibu no Tadamine's "As my love" and Taira
    no Kanemori's "Since I could not hide"
[06:21] Kanade
    were composed then, and they were
    the top poems of their time.
SIGN    There are several others, of course...
[06:25] Kanade
    The judge, the reader, and even the court
    ladies struggled to choose a winner.
SIGN    Wow
     This is it!
     This is the expansive knowledge
    I wanted to hear!
[06:29] Kanade
    When I was young,
[06:31] Kanade
    I thought that composing love poems
    just for a contest was wrong...
SIGN    When you
    were young?
     Like when?
[06:38] Kanade
    I was such a child.
[06:42] Kanade
    "Since I could not hide..."
[06:44] Kanade
    It's said that Emperor Murakami declared
    the winner by whispering those words.
[06:49] Kanade
    They were competing with the goal
    of moving people's hearts.
[06:55] Chihaya
    Competing...
[06:59] Chihaya
    At the Yoshino Tournament,
[07:01] Chihaya
    Taichi's feelings were laid bare
    right in front of me.
[07:06] Chihaya
    He was hoping to become the Master?
[07:08] Taichi
    I want to beat Chihaya.
[07:10] Chihaya
    No...
[07:11] Taichi
    I want to beat Chihaya.
[07:13] Chihaya
    No...
[07:14] Chihaya
    The reason Taichi isn't on this class trip...
[07:16] Taichi
    I want to win!
SIGN    as my concern this morning is as tangled as my black hair
[07:26] Girl
    Mashima-kun...
[07:28] Shusaku
    Koishikawa Shusaku of
    the KU Karuta Society.
[07:31] Shusaku
    With a nimble play style that
    balances offense and defense,
[07:34] Shusaku
    I was the runner-up in the All Japan
    Championship this past April.
[07:38] Shusaku
    My nickname is Kosaku.
[07:39] Girl
    Kosaku-senpai's amazing!
    He's already up by nine!
[07:42] Guy
    Kosaku's been on a roll since
    the beginning of the year.
[07:45] Guy
    Landing that job at the Ohishi Tengudo
    Karuta Corporation made a big difference.
[07:50] Shusaku
    I'm going to be...
[07:53] Shusaku
    a walking advertisement for Oishi Tengudo!
SIGN    Company president
     Huh? No one expects you to do that...
[07:58] Taichi
    I'm down by ten...
[08:00] Girl
    Wasn't that boy the runner-up
    at the Yoshino Tournament?
[08:04] Girl
    He's not doing well today.
[08:05] Guy
    Against Koishikawa-kun...
[08:07] Girl
    He must've tried harder then because he
    was playing someone in his own society.
[08:10] Girl
    He's trying to attack, but...
[08:14] Taichi
    This guy is good.
[08:17] Taichi
    But I have to attack! Attack!
[08:21] Taichi
    Go get cards from his side!
[08:24] Taichi
    Yes!
[08:26] Guy
    A double fault!
[08:28] Guy
    He did it again!
[08:29] Girl
    It's kicked in!
[08:30] All
    Goofsaku!
SIGN    Goofsaku
[08:34] Taichi
    A double fault.
SIGN    before this short summer night fully breaks
SIGN    Double Fault
    The player can send two cards,
    one for the card they took
    and one for the fault
SIGN    I recall how my own efforts were in vain
[08:43] Shusaku
    It's fine.
[08:45] Shusaku
    It's fine!
[08:46] Shusaku
    I'm still me, including my goof-ups!
[08:52] Girl
    The double fault didn't faze him at all.
    He's playing more freely now.
SIGN    Stupid Goofsaku!
[08:56] Girl
    At the All Japan, he committed twenty faults
    in six rounds and was still the runner-up.
SIGN    Stupid Goofsaku!
[09:00] Girl
    Even when he goofs up, he's strong!
SIGN    Stupid Goofsaku!
[09:03] Sumire
    He pulled ahead again.
[09:04] Sumire
    Eight cards now.
[09:09] Sumire
    Mashima-senpai...
[09:11] Sumire
    He's working hard to be
    what he wants to be!
[09:21] Taichi
    Me...
[09:22] [POEM] Reader
    as my sleeves are wet with dew
[09:34] Girl
    His opponent's defending now.
[09:36] Guy
    He was attacking before.
[09:38] Taichi
    There's a definite difference
    in the number of cards.
[09:44] Taichi
    So my side will be read!
[09:47] Taichi
    I don't want to ditch my offensive karuta.
[09:49] Taichi
    That's Dr. Harada's karuta.
[09:52] Taichi
    But...
[09:54] (Flashback) Harada
    It goes without saying, but in my mind...
[09:57] (Flashback) Harada
    Offensive karuta is the way to go!
[10:00] (Flashback) Taichi
    R-Right...
[10:03] (Flashback) Harada
    But your skilled defense against Murao-kun,
    made possible because you were tired...
[10:12] (Flashback) Harada
    It suited you.
[10:19] Harada
    Defensive karuta.
[10:20] Sumire
    S-Seven in a row!
[10:23] Sumire
    He's just one card behind now!
[10:29] [POEM] Reader
    So the flower petals are scattered
    like the snow by the passing storm,
[10:32] All
    A-A semi-double fault now, of all times?!
SIGN    Not again, Goofsaku!
[10:35] Shusaku
    My own mistake cost me my lead!
SIGN    Semi-Double Fault
    A type of double fault in which the
    faulting player is sent a card that,
    coupled with the one that was taken,
    results in a two-card reduction on
    the opponent's side
SIGN    How embarrassing
SIGN    the red that is the Tatsuta River
[10:42] Tsukuba
    He's leading for the first time, at 5 to 7!
[10:44] Tsukuba
    He can do this!
[10:45] Both
    He can do this!
[10:46] Sumire
    He can do this!
[10:47] [POEM] Reader
    yet it is I who withers and wilts
[10:57] [POEM] Reader
    Impassionate gods have never seen
[11:00] Girl
    Yes!
[11:01] Both
    Huh?!
[11:03] Sumire
    Mashima-senpai lost "Impassionate"?
[11:06] Taichi
    It was on his side again!
[11:08] Taichi
    My switch between offense
    and defense was too slow!
[11:10] Taichi
    Calm down.
[11:12] Taichi
    Calm down.
[11:14] Taichi
    Don't let him widen the gap.
[11:15] Taichi
    Keep up with him.
[11:17] Taichi
    Calm down.
[11:19] Taichi
    Keep up with him!
[11:21] Taichi
    Keep up with him!
[11:23] Taichi
    Keep up with him!
[11:25] Taichi
    A one-card gap is enough!
[11:27] [Messenger] ---
    Made it past the first round.
     I'll be the one to represent
    East Japan, so you'd
     better represent the West, Arata.
[11:33] Sumire
    They each have one left!
SIGN    Long
SIGN    I feel that
[11:37] Taichi
    Luck of the draw...
[11:39] Taichi
    I know Arata will win the West Japan Qualifiers.
[11:44] Taichi
    I have to win in the East!
[11:48] [POEM] Reader
    Long last we meet...
[11:56] Both
    Thank you very much.
[11:58] Both
    Thank you very much.
[12:02] Girl
    He couldn't have helped that.
    It was luck of the draw.
[12:05] Girl
    He came within one card of Koishikawa-kun.
[12:07] Girl
    That's incredible!
[12:11] Girl
    He was so close...
[12:22] Sumire
    S-Senpai...
[12:23] Tsukuba
    Hanano!
[12:25] Sumire
    What, Tsukuba?!
[12:26] Tsukuba
    Don't go to him!
[12:27] Tsukuba
    I wouldn't want that.
[12:29] Tsukuba
    I wouldn't...
[12:31] Tsukuba
    want you coming after me right now!
[12:40] Taichi
    Gust... A mountain stream... So the flower has...
    After I heard... The hazed early dawn...
[12:43] Taichi
    The night... The sound of people...
    The sky may... In order for... Said bed...
[12:47] Taichi
    I was counting.
[12:53] Taichi
    While I... The sight of Mount... May the time...
    Rain... Swift... The sight of the...
[12:56] Taichi
    I was counting!
[13:00] Taichi
    I counted all of them!
SIGN    for I could not recognize you, like the moon hidden behind the clouds
[13:08] Taichi
    The hundredth one...
[13:10] Taichi
    It was never read!
[13:12] Taichi
    And there were no dead cards!
[13:14] Taichi
    How was I supposed to get "Long"
    from his side, damn it?!
[13:23] Taichi
    Impassionate... on his side...
SIGN    the red that is the Tatsuta River
[13:27] Taichi
    I needed to take that one.
[13:29] Taichi
    Just that one!
[13:30] Taichi
    No matter where it was...
    even with my eyes closed!
[13:37] Taichi
    I'm an idiot.
[13:42] Guy
    The male and female semifinal
    competitors have been decided!
[13:45] Guy
    Dr. Harada took down Tamaru-kun!
[13:50] Girl
    Dr. Harada!
[13:52] Tsutsumi
    We're behind schedule.
[13:54] Tsutsumi
    Please take your seats in ten minutes.
[13:56] Girl
    That soon?!
[13:59] Harada
    Bathroom...
[14:15] Tsutsumi
    Harada-san, where are you?
[14:17] Tsutsumi
    You need to get to your spot.
[14:20] Tsutsumi
    Harada-san?
[14:22] Kitano
    Hey!
[14:23] Kitano
    Just wait until he comes out.
[14:25] Tsutsumi
    But there's no time...
[14:26] Kitano
    You can't rush the human body!
    It's ready when it's ready!
[14:29] Kitano
    Don't be so stingy over a minute or two!
[14:31] Tsutsumi
    But...
[14:32] Guy
    He's right, Tsutsumi-kun.
SIGN    Huh?
[14:34] Guy
    Give him a minute.
[14:36] Guy
    No one's going to complain.
SIGN    Huh?
[14:38] Guy
    Yeah.
[14:50] [Messenger] ---
    From: Hanano Sumire
    The line-up for the semifinals is set.
    Dr. Harada vs. Koishikawa-san
    Tsuboguchi-san vs. Sudo-san
    Yamamoto-san vs. Sakurazawa-san
    Inokuma-san vs. Yamashiro-san
[15:01] Guy
    Dr. Harada's knees can't take any more.
[15:04] Lady
    His students are picking
    up his cards for him.
[15:07] Shusaku
    I'll be fine. As long as
    I stay calm, I'll be fine.
[15:10] Shusaku
    Even if I goof up, I'll be fine.
SIGN    Whew
[15:15] Harada
    I'm sure Koishikawa-kun has
    never experienced knee pain.
[15:20] Harada
    At this point, I can't remember the times
    when my knees didn't hurt.
[15:26] Harada
    That's right.
[15:29] Harada
    I'm good friends with this body by now.
[15:32] [POEM] Reader
    The sky is the road home...
[15:33] Harada
    Whoops!
[15:35] Kitano
    He swung at nothing!
[15:37] Guy
    But he ended up in a position that looks
    like he's guarding against Koishikawa-kun.
[15:49] Guy
    Wow...
[15:50] Guy
    Dr. Harada isn't falling behind Kosaku-kun.
[15:56] (Flashback) Harada
    Eyelashes, you've been going for the
    opponent's side in luck-of-the-draw matches.
[16:01] (Flashback) Harada
    Why is that?
[16:02] (Flashback) Taichi
    I once prayed that I wouldn't mind if my side
    wasn't read in a luck of the draw ever again.
[16:08] Harada
    Oops, sorry about that!
    But I didn't touch anything!
SIGN    It's like he's tempting me into moving
SIGN    Dead card
[16:12] Harada
    You might not believe it, but...
[16:15] Harada
    When you spend a lot of time
    concentrating in practice,
[16:19] Harada
    you can kind of tell which cards
    aren't going to be read.
SIGN    What?
[16:24] Taichi
    What?
[16:25] Harada
    The few people who can tell
    call them the "Eternal Maids."
SIGN    Heh heh heh heh heh
[16:28] Harada
    Yes! Gotcha!
[16:30] Shusaku
    He got inside?!
[16:31] Harada
    And since you're able to tell...
SIGN    my body burns like the seaweed drying on the shores of Matsuho
[16:35] Harada
    you can spend the second half preparing.
[16:39] Girl
    Kosaku has one card left!
[16:41] Guy
    Dr. Harada has four.
[16:42] Guy
    Don't be Goofsaku again now!
[16:47] Harada
    You send the cards that won't
    be read to your opponent...
[16:53] Harada
    in preparation for luck of the draw.
[16:56] Kitano
    He didn't know?
[16:59] Kitano
    The look Harada gets on his face when his
    opponent has one card left is pure madness.
[17:05] Kitano
    But in truth...
[17:08] Kitano
    he's calmer than anyone else.
[17:13] All
    Luck of the draw...
[17:14] All
    It's down to the luck of the draw!
SIGN    that you pine for me as the Inaba mountain pines, I shall return to you
SIGN    my body burns like the seaweed drying on the shores of Matsuho
[17:19] [POEM] ---
    widening into a river
    as it descends Mount Tsukuba.
[17:21] Tsukuba
    Be his!
[17:22] Sumire
    Be Dr. Harada's card!
[17:24] Both
    Be his!
[17:25] All
    Be his!
[17:27] All
    Be his!
[17:31] [POEM] Reader
    Note that though...
[17:33] Harada
    Eyelashes, the cards that aren't read
SIGN    my body burns like the seaweed drying on the shores of Matsuho
[17:38] Harada
    are never, ever read.
[17:49] Harada
    A luck-of-the-draw match isn't about luck.
[17:55] Harada
    When you spend a lot of time
    concentrating in practice,
[18:00] Harada
    you can kind of tell which cards
    aren't going to be read.
[18:04] Harada
    And I've spent a lot of time...
[18:07] Harada
    To be exact, 45 years.
[18:10] Guy
    Dr. Harada did it!
[18:12] Girl
    He really hung in there against
    such a strong young player!
[18:15] Kitano
    That's no big deal.
[18:17] Kitano
    Don't underestimate a guy
    just because he's older.
[18:19] Guy
    That's right. Youth isn't
    everything in karuta.
[18:27] Harada
    Is Tsuboguchi-kun...
[18:34] Guy
    The final round in the East Japan
    Master qualifiers will be
[18:37] Guy
    Harada-san versus Sudo-kun.
[18:40] Guy
    The final round in the
    Queen qualifiers will be
[18:42] Guy
    Inokuma-san versus Yamamoto-san.
[18:44] Guy
    We will begin in ten minutes.
[18:54] Shinobu
    I saw these people at
    the summer tournament.
[18:58] Shinobu
    Who's going to make it all the way to me?
[19:01] Shinobu
    And I'm pretty sure
    she's from the Myojo Society.
[19:07] Guy
    Wataya-kun's down to one card
[19:10] Guy
    against Takemura-kun, the guy
    who beat him last year.
[19:13] Guy
    He's solid this year!
[19:16] Shinobu
    That's not like Arata.
[19:18] Shinobu
    He's leading seven cards to one,
[19:20] Shinobu
    and he's pushing himself to
    go for his opponent's cards?
SIGN    Gurgle Gurgle
[19:28] Shinobu
    I'm sorry.
[19:31] Shinobu
    Crap. I'm starving.
[19:33] Shinobu
    Arata'll still win the final round,
    even if he's not at his best.
[19:36] Shinobu
    I'll just go.
[19:37] Ise
    Shinobu-chan!
[19:40] Shinobu
    Coach Ise.
[19:41] Ise
    You were watching the semifinals?
[19:43] Ise
    What did you think of our Yuikawa?
[19:46] Ise
    She's a college first-year,
     and her game's been improving lately.
SIGN    Growl
SIGN    Gurrrrrrgle
[19:52] Ise
    What's wrong? You're hungry?
[19:54] Shinobu
    Nah, I'm fine.
[19:57] Ise
    I know I've asked before, but why don't
    you come to a Myojo Society practice?
[20:02] Shinobu
    Oh, no. All I ever do is get in the way.
[20:05] Ise
    Mrs. Wakamiya was worried about you.
[20:09] Ise
    She was saying her granddaughter
    didn't have any friends.
[20:13] Ise
    How about our Yuikawa?
[20:16] Ise
    I think she'd be a great
    practice partner for you.
[20:19] Shinobu
    Even if I crush her?
[20:23] Ise
    W-Wait, Shinobu-chan!
[20:27] Ise
    Take this.
[20:33] Ise
    Shinobu-chan!
[20:35] Ise
    Feel free to contact me anytime!
[20:43] Shinobu
    It's none of your business.
[20:46] Shinobu
    None of your business!
SIGN    Snowmaru Dorayaki
[20:56] Kuri
    Arata-kun!
[20:58] Kuri
    Just one more!
[20:59] Arata
    Yeah.
[21:00] Kuri
    I wonder who your opponent
    in the finals will be!
[21:03] Arata
    What's this?
[21:05] Kuri
    Oh, that's info on the
    East Japan qualifiers.
SIGN    East Japan Semifinals Master Harada vs. Koishikawa Tsuboguchi vs. Sudo Queen Sakurazawa vs. Yamamoto Inokuma vs. Yamashiro
[21:09] Kuri
    I heard everything up through the
    semifinals on the phone earlier.
[21:12] Arata
    Taichi didn't make it.
[21:19] Arata
    Why did I just sigh?
[21:23] Kuri
    Murao-kun!
[21:25] Guy
    The finalists are decided!
[21:27] Guy
    It's Murao Shinichi versus Wataya Arata!
[21:31] Guy
    It's a final between Nagumo Society members!