# E4 - Convince Him
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***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** Kenjo High School
**[00:01] Umpire**
Play ball!
***SIGN*** Amada
***SIGN*** Kenjo
**[00:16] Ooyama**
Kenjo High's really
broken away from the pack.
**[00:20] Ooyama**
All while they're still trying out
their new club members...
**[00:24] Imagawa**
They don't look much like
new club members to me.
**[00:27] Imagawa**
It's their expressions and attitude.
**[00:30] Ooyama**
More talent hand-picked by Coach Komiyama
from his assistant manager days?
**[00:35] Imagawa**
Reliable team development shaped by a keen
eye, a gregarious personality, and leadership.
**[00:41] Imagawa**
High school baseball really is
all about the manager, huh?
**[00:44] Ooyama**
Idiot!
**[00:46] Ooyama**
If this sport was that basic and simple,
no one would get excited about it!
**[00:53] Imagawa**
Even so...
**[00:57] Imagawa**
They really don't look like new members.
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 70
***SIGN*** Meisei High School
**[01:05] Imagawa**
See?
**[01:07] Imagawa**
Now *those* are new club members.
**[01:10] Ooyama**
You think that's worth smiling about?
***SIGN*** 1986 68th Koshien
National High School
Tournament
Champions
Meisei High School
***SIGN*** Meisei
***SIGN*** High School
***SIGN*** ~ Our Second Summer, Beyond the Sky ~
***SIGN*** Punch
***SIGN*** We're a-coming!
Koshien
Meisei High Baseball Team
**[02:46] Ooyama**
Natsuno's pretty much the only
new player with any promise.
**[02:50] Natsuno**
Here!
**[02:52] Ooyama**
Of the returning members,
Nishiki's fielding is impressive,
**[02:56] Ooyama**
but he hasn't done much in the batter's box.
**[03:01] Ooyama**
And as for our would-be sluggers,
**[03:04] Ooyama**
they just swing at everything,
hoping to make contact.
**[03:08] Ooyama**
Pitching and fielding aside,
**[03:11] Ooyama**
the gap in offense between us
and Kenjo is clear as day.
**[03:16] Imagawa**
What about the manager gap?
**[03:18] Ooyama**
And what about the *weight* gap
between Kenjo's first baseman and *you*?!
**[03:23] Ooyama**
I bet you gained weight
while you were laid up, too.
**[03:26] Imagawa**
Oh, come on. Of course I didn't.
**[03:28] Ooyama**
Hey, first-year! Bring some scales over here!
**[03:31] Imagawa**
I'm running some laps!
**[03:42] Touma**
As long as you're not asking for consistency,
they're pretty intimidating, huh?
**[03:47] Souichirou**
Yeah, I guess.
**[03:51] Touma**
What's up, Nishiki?
**[03:53] Nishiki**
Huh?
**[03:57] Nishiki**
I thought I caught a glimpse of
Coach Kuroyanagi over there.
**[04:02] Touma**
Coach Kuroyanagi?
**[04:04] Touma**
The guy you punched out who managed our
junior high team? That Coach Kuroyanagi?
**[04:10] Nishiki**
Yeah.
**[04:11] Nishiki**
The guy I punched out who managed our
junior high team. That Coach Kuroyanagi.
**[04:16] Touma**
It's gotta be mistaken identity.
**[04:19] Touma**
That Coach Kuroyanagi you punched out
who managed our junior high team
**[04:23] Touma**
is living in Hokkaido now,
helping out on his wife's family farm.
**[04:31] Nishiki**
Mistaken identity, huh?
**[04:33] Touma**
Yeah, the guy you punched—
**[04:35] Souichirou**
The guy you're *about* to punch out who's
the ace of your *senior* high team is leaving.
**[04:40] Touma**
Ow! Ow! Let me go!
**[04:42] Touma**
I was just doing a bit!
**[05:01] Imagawa**
Mistaken identity, huh?
**[05:10] Yoshiko**
Otomi!
**[05:11] Yoshiko**
Isn't Akai coming to practice today?
**[05:16] Tennis Club A**
Oh, didn't you hear?
**[05:18] Tennis Club A**
Akai hasn't joined the soccer club.
**[05:22] Otomi**
How come?
**[05:23] Tennis Club A**
We're not really sure, either.
**[05:26] Tennis Club B**
Right?
**[05:28] Haruka**
Hey, Otomi!
**[05:30] Otomi**
Oh, Haruka!
**[05:32] Otomi**
Hello.
**[05:34] Haruka**
Say, Otomi... Club-wise, you're in band, right?
**[05:39] Haruka**
Oh, um... Do you know any girls
who haven't picked a club yet,
**[05:43] Haruka**
and might want to join the
rhythmic gymnastics team?
**[05:46] Otomi**
Not sure.
**[05:47] Otomi**
I'll ask around, though.
**[05:49] Haruka**
You mean it?
**[05:50] Haruka**
Take this, then. I made up flyers.
***SIGN*** Rhythmic Gymnastics
***SIGN*** Beginners Welcome!
***SIGN*** So fun!
***SIGN*** Club Location: Gym Building
**[05:56] Haruka**
Actually, never mind.
**[06:00] Otomi**
Huh?
**[06:02] Haruka**
See you, Otomi!
**[06:05] Yoshiko**
She's weird, isn't she?
**[06:07] Otomi**
Yeah.
**[06:08] Yoshiko**
Pretty, though.
**[06:10] Otomi**
Yeah.
**[06:18] Mayumi**
Oh, for heaven's sake! All this rain lately...
***SIGN*** Punch
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 70
***SIGN*** Meisei High School
**[06:35] Imagawa**
Where's Nikaidou?
**[06:38] Student A**
He's absent today.
**[06:40] Imagawa**
Oh, yeah?
**[06:41] Imagawa**
You'll do, then.
**[06:44] Student A**
For what?
**[06:45] Imagawa**
Can I borrow some lunch money?
**[06:47] Student A**
Excuse me?
**[07:01] Tomohito**
Well?
**[07:03] Touma**
Seems fine to me.
**[07:05] Tomohito**
Just fine?
**[07:08] Touma**
Batting's your specialty, though, right?
**[07:11] Tomohito**
I'm family.
**[07:13] Touma**
So?
**[07:18] Touma**
You're too soft on him? Or too hard?
**[07:42] Tomohito**
I heard you guys aren't
related by blood, either.
**[07:50] Touma**
So?
**[08:04] Imagawa**
Where's Nikaidou?
**[08:06] Student A**
He's absent again today.
**[08:08] Imagawa**
Oh, yeah?
**[08:10] Imagawa**
I wanted to give back the lunch
money I borrowed last week.
**[08:14] Imagawa**
Well, whatever.
**[08:16] Student A**
Hey! You borrowed lunch
money from *me* yesterday!
**[08:22] Imagawa**
Well, whatever.
**[08:24] Student A**
Hey!
**[08:28] Arisa**
Hey! You!
**[08:30] Arisa**
You really put one over on me!
**[08:33] Otomi**
Huh?
**[08:34] Arisa**
I became the soccer club's caretaker
because you said Akai had joined!
**[08:39] Otomi**
Huh.
**[08:40] Arisa**
And boy, do you owe me!
**[08:42] Arisa**
The pledge I signed means I have
to stick with it for at least a month!
**[08:47] Otomi**
Did I say Akai had joined the soccer club?
**[08:51] Arisa**
Nonomiya!
**[08:53] Nonomiya**
Coming.
***SIGN*** Playback
**[08:58] Arisa**
* Hey, Tachibana.*
* Akai joined the soccer club, right?*
**[09:02] Otomi**
*Oh, I don't know. But I bet...*
**[09:05] Nonomiya**
* ...he totally did!*
* Akai did join the soccer club!*
**[09:08] Arisa**
Ironclad proof, don't you agree?
**[09:11] Otomi**
But the voice changed halfway.
**[09:14] Arisa**
Are you claiming I forged it?
**[09:16] Arisa**
That's defamation, and I'll take you to court.
**[09:19] Nonomiya**
He totally did!
Akai did join the soccer club!
**[09:22] Arisa**
The point is, just tell him to
join the soccer club already!
**[09:27] Otomi**
Why me?
**[09:29] Nonomiya**
Why do you think? It'd be way more
effective coming from you than from Ari—
**[09:34] Arisa**
Look, just go tell him already! Got it?
**[09:52] Otomi**
It might be a little too late for that.
**[09:54] Arisa**
Huh?
**[09:59] Club**
Meisei! Meisei!
**[10:02] Club**
Fight! Fight!
**[10:12] Touma**
He joined the baseball team today.
**[10:15] Touma**
The younger Akai.
**[10:17] Otomi**
Yeah, looks like.
**[10:19] Touma**
You're not surprised?
**[10:21] Otomi**
I kind of figured he would.
**[10:25] (Flashback) Tomohito**
I heard you guys aren't
related by blood, either.
**[10:36] Otomi**
What is it?
**[10:38] Touma**
Oh, nothing.
**[10:43] (Flashback) Tomohito**
He hated being compared to me,
**[10:47] (Flashback) Tomohito**
so he didn't play baseball in junior high.
**[10:52] (Flashback) Tomohito**
Because despite how much he loved baseball,
he felt he couldn't beat me, I guess.
**[10:58] (Flashback) Touma**
You more talented or something?
**[11:00] (Flashback) Tomohito**
No way.
**[11:03] (Flashback) Tomohito**
But when all he could do was crawl,
I was standing and walking around.
**[11:09] (Flashback) Tomohito**
When you're little,
that one-year difference is huge.
**[11:16] (Flashback) Tomohito**
And he hated me so much, he forgot that.
**[11:24] (Flashback) Touma**
What happened?
**[11:28] (Flashback) Tomohito**
A dog.
**[11:29] (Flashback) Touma**
A dog?
**[11:34] Touma**
Hey!
**[11:36] Touma**
Don't interrupt the flashback,
you rotten mutt!
**[11:39] Otomi**
Hey!
**[11:41] Otomi**
You'll pay if anything happens to Punch, Tou!
***SIGN*** ~ Our Second Summer, Beyond the Sky ~
***SIGN*** ~ Our Second Summer, Beyond the Sky ~
**[12:10] (Flashback) Tomohito**
That dog was a birthday present
to Ryou from our parents.
**[12:17] (Flashback) Tomohito**
Walking it every day was his job,
**[12:20] (Flashback) Tomohito**
and his greatest joy in life.
***SIGN*** Ryou
***SIGN*** Field
Trip
**[13:10] (Flashback) Tomohito**
"How do I explain this to Ryou?"
**[13:13] (Flashback) Tomohito**
"How do I apologize to him?"
**[13:15] (Flashback) Tomohito**
While I was racking my brain,
crying my eyes out,
**[13:19] (Flashback) Tomohito**
I ended up so exhausted,
I accidentally fell asleep.
**[13:25] (Flashback) Tomohito**
What woke me up was the sound of
Ryou crying and swinging a bat around,
**[13:30] (Flashback) Tomohito**
and a pain in my head.
**[13:35] (Flashback) Tomohito**
I'd missed my chance to apologize.
**[13:39] (Flashback) Tomohito**
And after that, I started ignoring him.
**[13:43] (Flashback) Tomohito**
At the same time, he changed.
**[13:48] (Flashback) Tomohito**
The boy who had been a shy weakling,
always hiding behind me...
**[13:58] (Flashback) Tomohito**
Make me the villain and convince him.
**[14:01] (Flashback) Tomohito**
I vouch for his skill.
**[14:06] (Flashback) Touma**
Why?
**[14:08] (Flashback) Tomohito**
Because the way siblings grow is
by butting heads with each other.
**[14:13] (Flashback) Tomohito**
And because Meisei won't be
a worthy rival without him.
**[14:22] (Flashback) Touma**
Akai.
**[14:24] (Flashback) Touma**
Don't regret it later, all right?
**[14:34] Souichirou**
Flashback finally over?
**[14:37] Souichirou**
Go take your bath already.
**[14:39] Touma**
Sure thing, sibling.
**[14:51] Touma**
I figured it'd be that song.
**[14:54] Touma**
My at-bat theme.
**[15:01] Touma**
♫ It's no use. I thought
I'd try facing forward to cry ♫
**[15:06] Touma**
♫ Youth leaves a bruise
on the heart, doesn't it? ♫
**[15:13] Touma**
♫ When you know each other too well,
the feelings never really get through ♫
**[15:19] Touma**
H-Huh? What? Hit the wrong note there.
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 70
***SIGN*** Meisei High School
**[15:29] Imagawa**
Where's Nikaidou?
**[15:31] Student A**
He's absent again today.
**[15:34] Imagawa**
Oh, yeah?
**[15:36] Imagawa**
Hang on! Isn't that kinda weird?!
**[15:45] Nikaidou**
Sorry you had to come out here.
**[15:47] Imagawa**
Oh. No problem.
**[15:53] Imagawa**
He'd apparently been in and out
of hospital for the last six months.
**[15:58] Imagawa**
They say he was prepared for the worst
when he first checked in for tests,
**[16:04] Imagawa**
laid a firm foundation
and a solid path forward
**[16:07] Imagawa**
for the next five years for his
trusted workers and close family,
**[16:13] Imagawa**
got the perfect successor in place,
**[16:17] Imagawa**
ate everything he wanted to eat,
saw everyone he wanted to see,
**[16:21] Imagawa**
then in the end,
passed away without suffering.
***SIGN*** Regulation Baseball Club
**[16:26] Touma**
So?
**[16:28] Touma**
You started talking about
his dad at some point...
**[16:32] Touma**
But before that, you'd been making a whole
thing about Nikaidou himself dying, right?
**[16:38] Imagawa**
Oh, uh, well... That was just...
**[16:41] Imagawa**
He'd been absent for so long,
I got worried and called,
**[16:46] Imagawa**
but I couldn't get through to
his cell or his home phone...
**[16:50] Imagawa**
And, well...
**[16:52] Imagawa**
You said it, too, right?
**[16:54] Imagawa**
You saw him entering the hospital on the sly!
**[16:58] Touma**
Yeah, never thought he'd
be visiting his dad there.
**[17:01] Imagawa**
You said it, too, right?
**[17:03] Imagawa**
You said he'd seemed tired lately,
like he could drop dead any minute!
**[17:07] Souichirou**
I never said he could drop dead.
**[17:11] Imagawa**
P-Point is...
**[17:12] Imagawa**
Last night, I finally got
through to his home phone,
**[17:16] Imagawa**
and his mom picked up and started bawling.
**[17:19] Imagawa**
She said "He passed away
last night," so I was sure...
**[17:24] Imagawa**
It's not like anyone *told* me
his dad was in the hospital!
**[17:27] Touma**
But since you spread the unconfirmed rumor,
we're getting called liars, too. Right?
**[17:33] Souichirou**
Yeah.
**[17:34] Souichirou**
Still, it's hard to feel relieved
when the news is what it is.
**[17:40] Touma**
Yeah.
**[17:43] Imagawa**
No worries.
**[17:45] Imagawa**
He's capable of handling it now.
**[17:49] Imagawa**
Oh, that's right.
**[17:52] Imagawa**
His dad apparently had faith to the end...
**[17:55] Imagawa**
That Meisei would make it to Koshien.
**[18:01] Touma**
An annoying last request, huh?
**[18:15] Natsuno**
Not as easy to hit as those dead
balls in the batting cage, huh?
**[18:18] Natsuno**
You don't know the pitch type
and the speed beforehand, either!
**[18:23] Natsuno**
Too bad, baby boy Akai!
**[18:25] Ooyama**
Natsuno! This is *batting* practice!
**[18:28] Natsuno**
Right!
**[18:29] Natsuno**
Here comes an outside slider!
**[18:33] Touma**
An inside fastball?
**[18:37] Natsuno**
An outside fastball!
**[18:39] Souichirou**
A forkball.
**[18:43] Haruka**
He's clearly reading the man, not the ball.
**[18:47] Touma**
Not surprising when the man's
that transparent and predictable.
**[18:50] Souichirou**
But...
**[18:51] Souichirou**
He's skilled enough that hits shouldn't
be that easy, even if you can read him.
**[18:58] (Flashback) Tomohito**
I vouch for his skill.
**[19:02] Touma**
So how does the manager want to use him?
**[19:06] Haruka**
Center field and lead-off, he said.
**[19:09] Haruka**
He's got speed and strength.
**[19:12] Touma**
C'mon now. Even then, it seems a little soon.
**[19:15] Souichirou**
No, it might do the trick.
**[19:18] Souichirou**
Though, I guess it's more a sign
of the shallow talent pool
**[19:21] Souichirou**
versus what you'd get
at a more famous school.
**[19:24] Haruka**
Exactly.
**[19:27] Haruka**
Which means no one's allowed to get hurt.
**[19:30] Haruka**
I'll be running strict checks
on everyone's condition.
**[19:34] Touma & Souichirou**
Yes, ma'am.
**[19:37] Touma & Souichirou**
Huh?
**[19:39] Yoshiko**
Otomi.
**[19:42] Yoshiko**
Where's the rhythmic gymnastics club?
**[19:46] Tennis Club A**
Oh, didn't you hear?
**[19:49] Tennis Club A**
The rhythmic gymnastics club shut down.
**[19:52] Otomi**
Shut down?
**[19:53] Tennis Club B**
They already had barely enough members,
**[19:56] Tennis Club B**
and they apparently couldn't
get any new ones this year.
**[20:02] (Flashback) Haruka**
Actually, never mind.
**[20:07] Otomi**
Huh?
**[20:18] Souichirou**
Center field and lead-off.
**[20:20] Touma**
Not bad.
**[20:35] Otomi**
Akai was very vivacious today.
**[20:38] Otomi**
He looked good in that uniform,
and I think his expression's changed, too.
**[20:44] Otomi**
Did he always look that handsome?
**[20:46] Otomi**
Wow, I'm seeing him in a whole new light.
**[20:49] Souichirou**
You heard her.
**[20:51] Touma**
Seems fine to me.
**[20:52] Eisuke**
Don't retreat, Touma!
**[20:54] Eisuke**
Stay in the fight!
Take Meisei High to Koshien!
**[21:03] Souichirou**
Didn't you hear your dad's last request?
***SIGN*** Punch
***SIGN*** Punch
**[21:05] Touma**
He's just asleep!
***SIGN*** Punch
***SIGN*** Punch
***SIGN*** Punch
***SIGN*** Punch
***SIGN*** Meisei
***SIGN*** High School
**[21:09] Narrator**
* The regulation baseball club*
* at Meisei High School.*
***SIGN*** 1986 68th Koshien
National High School
Tournament
Champions
Meisei High School
**[21:13] Narrator**
* The shallow ones who*
* initially joined last summer*
**[21:16] Narrator**
* during the semifinals hubbub*
* dropped out quickly,*
**[21:20] Narrator**
*bringing the final club member total to 28.*
**[21:25] Manager**
*Manager: Gorou Ooyama, age 44.*
**[21:28] Manager**
*Supervising teacher: Fumio Hosono, age 50.*
**[21:32] Manager**
*Assistant manager: Takashi Toyama, age 37.*
**[21:37] Narrator**
*Two female caretakers...*
**[21:39] Narrator**
*Plus...*
**[21:41] Narrator**
*one returnee.*
***SIGN*** We're a-coming!
Koshien
Meisei High Baseball Team
**[21:44] Narrator**
*We're a-coming, Koshien!*
**[23:22] Narrator**
*No one knows the reason he came to this city.*
**[23:29] Narrator**
*Not even he knows why he came to this city.*
**[23:35] Narrator**
* He observes the Meisei*
* High School baseball team.*
**[23:39] Narrator**
*Next time on* MIX*: "What's Up,
Scary Stranger?" is the name of our story.*
***SIGN*** What's Up, Scary Stranger?
***SIGN*** What's Up, Scary Stranger?