Chihayafuru Part I Page #3

From now on, let's aim to win the

Tokyo championships this coming June!

There are two beginners you know.

It's impossible to be a finalist.

It's not impossible, Meat Bun!

Meat Bun?

I'll start training

them hard from now on.

Ah! Be sure to leave

your Golden Week open.

We'll have training camp.

Excuse me.

Yes, Ma'am.

You're not the President, Ms Ayase.

[ President:
Taichi Mashima ]

By the way.

What was Oe's condition for joining?

What are you doing?

I've decided.

I'll call him right now.

Call?

I can't...

But I'll do it.

Call who?

Arata.

I've decided that I'll call

him when I make a karuta club.

Okay.

Yes? Wataya residence.

Hello?

Arata...

It's you, Arata!

Chihaya?.

How are you, Arata?

I'm doing good.

Same as always.

You see.

I made a karuta club now

that I entered high school.

Taichi is in it too.

I see. That's wonderful Chihaya.

We will be the Tokyo winners and

will definitely go to the nationals.

So come see us in Oumi Jinguu.

Everyone at our karuta

club will be waiting.

I'm sure you'll get along with them.

Hey.

Hey!

~Though a swift stream is ~

~Divided by a boulder

In its headlong flow, ~

~Though divided, on it rushes,

And at last unites again. ~

~What withers and falls away

In this place is I myself. ~

~Is there any way Except by a

messenger To send these words to you?~

Arata. I'm off.

I'll leave grandpa to you.

Okay.

That Akira is such a worrywart.

I'll be fine alone.

Just in case something happens.

If the doctor said that one's

head suffers like that of a bomb,

anyone would worry.

Get the nail clippers.

Even if the water stream

come across a boulder and be divided,

it will once again be

united in one stream.

"Se o hayami"?

I'm sorry about this, Arata.

To think I would be the boulder.

There's nothing to be sorry about.

As long as we play karuta,

we'll meet them again for sure.

We made that pact.

In karuta, there are

only a hundred poems.

So there's a "beginning character".

If you listen to the first

verse's first characters,

you will know its

corresponding second verse.

And these are the beginner's cards.

There are one to six characters

to be the beginning character.

There's a play in words to help.

The first verse's, "Ukari keru /

It was not for this" is paired with

"Hageshikare / As pitiless"

So the wordplay would be:

Ukkari Hage / Carelessly Bald.

That startled me. What's wrong?

The poem, "Ukari keru", is an

excellent poem within an excellent poem.

It's a poem where the one

cannot profess his love.

It's really a painful

poem of unrequited love.

To think that it would be made into...

Carelessly bald?

Stop it!

That unrequited love will

surely not bear fruit!

Wow. Kana here is funny.

In competitive karuta, the one who hears

and knows the beginning character wins.

In order to measure the timing,

the reader will surely read

out the second verse once first

before reading the next first verse.

Like this.

~And neither have I beheld Nor

crossed its bridge of heaven.~

~It was not for this I prayed at the

holy shrine:
That she would become~

If a card is taken from

the opponent's territory,

a card will be given

from your territory.

That would be repeated over again.

And you win when all of the

cards in your territory are gone.

Desk?

If I don't leave in 11 seconds,

I won't make it into cram school.

But you should practice more.

Have you forgotten?

I was just free and joined the club.

I didn't join because I'm

serious in playing karuta.

What should we do with Desk?

Maybe we should find other members?

Even if you say that...

It was only Komano who

hasn't joined any clubs.

Desk!

I don't want another member besides you!

You can be the only one, Desk!

Come at the training camp!

Be sure to come!

I wonder if Desk will come.

He's alright.

I'm sure he'll come.

Here, here.

Everyone at Shiranami Society!

We will be participating

the training camp this time.

We are Mizusawa High School

Competitive Karuta Club.

Thank you for having us.

Please treat us well.

Welcome.

He is my and Taichi's

karuta mentor, Sir Harada.

Pleased to meet you.

For 40 years, I'm still

aiming to be the Meijin.

He is also the chief

priest of this Bubai shrine.

And this is...!

With the help of Sir Harada,

our special menu!

However you look at

it, that's impossible.

A match will at least

take an hour and a half.

But to win tournaments, you'll have

to enter a lot of matches per day.

That's why we will build

stamina for better matches.

Then the first one would be...

Kana!.

Let's do it.

Let's do it, Komano.

Okay. Let's start a match.

Everyone get ready.

Understood.

I thought you won't come.

I told you I'm free.

You're right.

Besides.

It's the first time.

What?

That I've been said

I can be the only one.

You can do it!

You can do it!

Hey, watch it.

I'm fine, I'm fine.

Come on, I'll do it.

I told you, I'm fine!

You're cutting like a cat's paw.

Then, Chihaya, can you prepare the eggs?

Okay.

Sorry! You okay?

Sorry! Sorry!

It's your fault, Taichi.

Is that you, Chihaya?

Yeah, yeah.

So besides her is Mashima.

Huh? Then who is the other one?

That's Wataya.

That's Arata Wataya, right?

Yup.

Who is that?

He's the grandson of what is said to be the best

in competitive karuta's history, Wataya Meijin.

Didn't they transferred to

Tokyo because of money concerns?

That's right.

But they were only here for only a year.

Is Arata strong?

Of course he is. He's the

grandson of an eternal Meijin.

He's annually the winner

during elementary school.

And guess who's the annual runner up?

You were so strong even then, Meat Bun.

Guess so. I've been told

I'm a karuta prodigy.

But you're always second.

I'm told to be the

"capital's lightning"!

But you're still second.

But to win against Meat Bun,

Arata must be something.

Um, Kana.

Stop calling me Meat Bun!

Taichi can't even lose to him

when Arata's not wearing glasses.

To think Arata has really bad eyesight.

Did he?

What the? He gave you a handicap?

No, no, no.

When we were doing karuta

in Japanese language class,

the finalists were Taichi and Arata.

During that time, Arata's

glasses went missing.

Maybe Mashima hid it.

Taichi won't do something that low.

Right, Taichi?

Yeah.

Really? I'm pretty sure it's his doing!

No he didn't! Why don't you believe me.

No way, no way. I'm

pretty sure he'll do it.

He looks like it.

No he won't do that.

15 card difference.

Don't worry about it.

You've become a lot stronger.

But you see.

There's nothing wrong with

your reactions, Eyelashes.

You just don't put out

during the essential moments.

The separated cards have

been removed altogether.

What do you mean?

Hmm. It's like this.

You don't have luck.

Does that mean

the karuta's gods are not with him?

Hey. That's not it, Oe.

No, no. I won't go that far.

Right, Sir?

Maybe he has a bad habit.

Right? To think he's

popular with the ladies.

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