YOWAPEDA ride 288 (WSC 2014 #08)

[bandit]

same as before pls dont take/use for scanlation, pls forgive minor errors it's an unedited pass and i am not fluent

i will probs come back to edit for readability once the arc is complete

(sry abt my formatting and etc all being very inconsistent, i will (maybe) come back and reformat later also)





previous chapters in the year two training arc:
ride 280
ride 281
ride 282
ride 283
ride 284
ride 285
ride 286
ride 287






RIDE 288
teshima, defiant




teshima: once every so often it just might chance that hard work can overcome raw talent — even if only for a second.
teshima: i believe in that.

teshima: do you want to give my theory a try? kimitaka

[teshima vs. koga, hurtling towards their final showdown!!]

koga: you want to try your “hard work” against my “raw talent”……!?
koga: really……!?

teshima: the finish line and the no-passing board are just up ahead, yeah?
teshima: let’s make a race of it.





koga: i take it you mean
koga: to decide this fight between us here and now!!

>> grin

>> thump thump

>> thump thump






>> ha… ha…
>> drip
>> thump thump

>> ha… ha…
>> thump thump

>> drop

>> splash

koga: it seems
koga: you’ve run out of quips at last, teshima.
>> thump thump

>> ha……
>> thump thump








>> various theatrical fx

>> scree! (tire on asphalt)







koga: let’s settle everything with this one race, junta!!

teshima: that’s exactly what i said, kimitaka!!








>> scree

>> hollow wind sound










onoda?: ah, aoyagi-san
imaizumi: are you taking a break right now?
onoda: oh, oh yeah, good work today

imaizumi: !

>> beep
>> beep beep
>> scree scree scree

imaizumi?: ………
onoda: that’s not it, is it?

>> nod

aoyagi: you come watch, too.







>> clatter

imaizumi: a “deciding battle”……!?
onoda: b-by deciding, you mean…
naruko?: ……
aoyagi: i think……

aoyagi: junta plans on deciding the remaining final member here.
onoda: ……
aoyagi: whichever one of them it ends up being.

>> realization

onoda vo: teshima-san…!!
>> thump thump








naruko vo: he wants to decide it here…
>> suck
naruko vo: that last inter-high spot that even we didn’t know wasn’t finalized yet!!

imaizumi vo: ……

imaizumi vo: teshima-san has doggedly kept up with koga-san this far…
imaizumi vo: every play koga-san made, teshima-san has answered, following and responding to his moves with an almost obnoxious persistence

imaizumi: though it seemed at first that he’d be at a disadvantage on this circuit course,
imaizumi: he’s hung in there until now, and they’re still just about neck and neck!!

imaizumi: they’re on their last lap before the sun sets and the yellow board comes out, and he intends on settling everything on this final stretch.
imaizumi: teshima-san, are you really putting yourself out there and trying yourself here in an attempt to decide this fight tonight?!









kaburagi: hey, naruko-san, imaizumi-san, are you guys on break?
kaburagi: haha, i’ll take this opportunity to catch up a lap!
kaburagi: have yourselves a niiiiice long break!!

imaizumi: hang on, short-fuse.
naruko: stop right there, kabu.

kaburagi: no thanks, i’m not stopping!! ha ha ha!!
>> beep!
naruko: oy, you!!
imaizumi: whoa, he’s got some nerve

onoda: wait, kaburagi-kun!

kaburagi: yes, what it is, onoda-san?
naruko: so obedient!?
imaizumi: that little twerp……

kaburagi: what!?
kaburagi: the final showdown between teshima-san and koga-san!?








onoda: ……
imaizumi: i changed my mind, get back on your bike and go ride
kaburagi: whaat!
naruko: we’ll tell you the results later

onoda vo: aoyagi-san looks so calm, but…
onoda vo: out of all of us he’s probably the most anxious……
>> thump thump

onoda vo: it’s kind of dark so it’s hard to see from here

onoda vo: but when the two of them appear coming around that curve……
onoda vo: it’s all going to be decided then…

onoda vo: whether it’s koga-san…
onoda vo: or teshima-san…!!
>> thump thump







aoyagi vo: junta!!

flashback teshima: i’m the brains
flashback teshima: and he’s the legs
flashback teshima: and by teaming up like this

flashback teshima: i managed to put aoyagi on the podium time after time

flashback aoyagi: i’m sorry, teshima, i thought about it and after all it’s just not fair—
flashback teshima: no, no, this is fine. i’m satisfied with this! the two of us working together have managed to overcome the elite.

flashback aoyagi: the one working and riding the hardest is you, teshima. you’re the one who most deserves to be praised.
flashback aoyagi: let me be the assist in our next race…
flashback teshima: ah, nooo, you see, i’m not so good with the finish-line sprint, you know?

flashback teshima: …anyway
flashback teshima: it’s pointless, aoyagi.
flashback teshima: you know as well as i do, right?

flashback teshima: when it comes to battling it out just before the finish line…

flashback teshima: i’ve never won, not even once.






aoyagi vo: “not even once”……!!

flashback aoyagi: teshima!

flashback teshima: i put everything i had into it…… but it wasn’t enough……
flashback teshima: i guess it’s impossible for me, after all…
flashback teshima: i was all the way up there……
flashback teshima: and in a good position to fight for it…… but in the end i still came out eleventh place…

flashback teshima: just one short of the top ten…
flashback teshima: isn’t that just like me?

flashback aoyagi: ……
>> waahhhhh (crowd shouting)
flashback teshima: and…… after you worked so hard to pull me all the way up there…… i’m sorry……

flashback teshima: this fight
flashback teshima; between me and koga

flashback teshima: i think it’s going to come to a head tomorrow — if not, then definitely the day after.






flashback teshima: it’s gonna be the same as last year, probably.
flashback teshima: a scramble right up to the finish line as the sun sets.

flashback teshima: last year we rode until our bodies screamed at us…
flashback teshima: we chased them down right to the very end… but we couldn’t make it.
flashback teshima: this year’s going to wind up being much the same thing.

flashback teshima: when we get to that point,
flashback teshima: when my body is falling apart
flashback teshima: as i’m chasing down the genius koga

flashback teshima: i’m going to have to do it…
flashback teshima: i’m going to have to win that finish-line battle that i’ve never won even once before in my life.

flashback aoyagi vo: junta!!

flashback teshima: if that happens, aoyagi
>> splash
flashback teshima: aoyagi, would you, at least,

flashback teshima: come cheer for me at the finish line?







idk?: there’s 1.2km left until the finish line!!
koga: 1200 meters!









koga vo: it’s just a matter of time before you get left behind, junta. you’ve got no juice left in you for anything out of the ordinary.

koga vo: i know very well

koga vo: i’ve been watching you all this time too, after all

koga vo: you have no power left in you to muster up a challenge
koga vo: against a guy like me, whom people call the “power dummy.”

koga vo: to tell you the truth, my legs are beat too

koga vo: but yours are bound to be even worse
koga vo: just following me around is taking everything you’ve got
koga vo: you’ve already blown past your limits!!







koga vo: you have nothing left in you to fuel a chase
koga vo: never mind a sprint — that’s completely off the table.

teshima vo: this is it, i’m at my limit…
teshima vo: seriously… why…

teshima vo: …are my legs even still moving? it’s completely weird.

teshima vo: but…
teshima vo: i’m not giving up here.

teshima: kimitaka

teshima vo: just this one time only, if an ordinary person, on his ordinary legs…

teshima vo: …could outrace a genius… if a miracle like that could happen…









teshima vo: if that could happen just once! it would be enough!!
idk?: i can see the finish line!







aoyagi: junta!!
naruko: they’re close! there’s two lights approaching from the other side!!

flashback teshima: would you come cheer for me?

aoyagi vo: obviously!

aoyagi vo: aside from you, who else do you even think i would cheer for!?

aoyagi: JUNTA!!

everyone?: the first one to come around the curve is……

everyone?: koga-senpai!!
everyone?: running solo!!

everyone?: no, wait!!

everyone?: teshima-san is hard on his heels!!
teshima: UWOOOHHHHHHHH

aoyagi: junta!!
everyone?: this is it…!! the final sprint to decide who gets to go to inter-high!!









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