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What kind of excuse
are you trying to make?
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What?
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You could've made up for it
in high school.
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{\an8}It's natural to have people
better than you.
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{\an8}But that's not it.
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That's not the point.
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What!
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Of course...
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It's easy to say the right thing
when you're not the one going through it.
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I mean, am I wrong?
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You're so freaking annoying.
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That self-righteous look on your face
is really ticking me off.
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Stay out of this. It's not like
I'm going to see Natsu anymore anyway.
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You're the one who came at her first
for no reason!
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{\an8}That's because she was out playing around
after saying she'd win nationals!
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She's been going to practice diligently!
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She used to practice way more.
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She practically lived
and breathed basketball.
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She only got that good
because she worked harder than anyone!
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She can't get to the top
while having a social life.
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Wait.
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She's just worried about Chinatsu Senpai.
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Ms. Goto?
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Mr. Inomata? Is something wrong?
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It's nothing.
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I knew it,
things can't stay this way between them.
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BLUE BOX SEASON 2
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EPISODE 28
THEY'RE ONE AND THE SAME
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Good morning.
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Taiki, pack that food
into the bento boxes!
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Did you oversleep?
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It's not my fault
Korean dramas are so good!
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What a childish reason.
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What about Chinatsu Senpai?
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I sent her on ahead.
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She has the Winter Cup
coming up after all.
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Bring a bento box to her, would you?
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Leave it in front of her clubroom.
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Okay, fine.
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Chinatsu Senpai's packed lunch.
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GOOD LUCK
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Would she be happy
if I did something like this?
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Not that I would.
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I'll give her the bigger sausage.
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And plenty of vegetables.
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And the best-looking tamagoyaki.
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{\an8}There's no way you're going to get
the lid to fit.
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{\an8}I was afraid of that.
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I'm off!
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Taiki!
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You're late today.
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I stopped by the convenience store.
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- Next!
- Okay!
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- Next!
- Okay!
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The basketball team
has a tournament coming up, right?
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The whole vibe in the gym changes
when a club has an upcoming tournament.
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It's quiet and tense.
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It's like we can feel their tension too.
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Yeah.
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{\an8}I know what you mean.
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Good morning.
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Morning.
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Morning.
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- Morning.
- Bye.
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Don't worry.
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Despite her attitude, she's killing it
with her rhythmic gymnastics.
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Looks like you had less of an effect
on Hina's life than I thought.
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What is she implying?
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Whose lunch is this?
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That's mine.
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We need to hurry, Chinatsu.
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Okay.
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I'm open!
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Push it!
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Let's get one back!
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Get back on D!
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Ten-minute break, everyone!
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Okay!
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Yuna, do you have a second?
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What is it?
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That last play, you could've gone
for the shot yourself.
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They had Saya completely covered.
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No pressure, but I think it's okay
if you play more aggressively.
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I'd be happy to run drills with you
after practice or in the morning.
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{\an8}Sorry!
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I already know!
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I know I'm no good,
and that I'm dragging everyone down.
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{\an8}But you know what?
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Don't think that everyone
can work as hard as you.
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Sorry! I lost it for a second there!
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It's okay.
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I'm not perfect either.
Let's just do our best together.
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You're here first again?
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What?
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Don't you ever want to skip practice
and play games instead?
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But I started basketball
later than everyone else.
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So I have to practice
at least an hour extra a day to catch up.
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An hour a day would mean
an extra day every 24 days,
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so one year's worth would be...
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I don't have time to do anything else!
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It's one thing to think that,
and another to actually do it.
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Being able to do that is your talent.
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5:30 ALARM
STOP - SNOOZE
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Don't think that everyone
can work as hard as you.
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Crap!
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Good morning.
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Good morning!
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Good morning.
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I left your lunch on the table.
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It's nicely packed today.
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Since someone didn't oversleep.
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Excuse me?
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You should be grateful
that I wake up early every morning
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to match your schedules.
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I am grateful.
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Thank you.
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In that case, you can pick up
a cake for me from the shop.
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Don't get carried away.
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- Hey, Taiki.
- Yeah?
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Have you ever felt like
skipping morning practice?
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I have a feeling I would've
if it weren't for Chinatsu Senpai.
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{\an8}Of course I have.
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{\an8}Like some days,
I don't want to get out of bed.
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But when that happens,
I just imagine my future self.
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And chances are,
I'm regretting falling back to sleep
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and hating myself a little for it.
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So when I imagine all that,
it motivates me to wake up.
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You're so hardworking.
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You're one to talk!
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If she's asking me that,
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does that mean she feels like
skipping practice too sometimes?
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I bet she does.
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I mean, she originally started all of this
because of Yumeka.
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But to keep going without taking a break
is so like Chinatsu Senpai.
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Yumeka has the wrong idea.
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Yes, Chinatsu Senpai continues
to work hard on her own.
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But that's only because she has a goal.
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It's not that it isn't hard.
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I wish Yumeka
had stuck by Chinatsu Senpai's side.
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Where's the girls' basketball team?
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They had a practice game this morning.
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Hey.
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Hey, Coach, what's up?
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Is there anybody who wants a ticket
to the girls' first Winter Cup game?
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My wife bought the ticket,
but her mother hurt her back,
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so she had to go home to help.
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It's a great courtside seat.
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Yes, me, me, me! I want it!
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{\an8}That's fine by me,
but don't you have practice?
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Well, it's not for me but for my friend.
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I'll take it, then.
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{\an8}I mean, I can actually go.
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{\an8}I don't care either way.
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Absolutely not!
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Why not?
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Feels like it'd be more beneficial to me
since I'm on the basketball team.
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I called dibs first!
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He never mentioned
first come, first served.
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{\an8}I just don't want him getting close
to Chinatsu Senpai!
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{\an8}Ever heard of the saying,
"The early bird gets the worm"?
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It's been a while
since I heard that in Japanese.
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There he goes,
bragging about living abroad again!
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Anyway, do whatever you want with it.
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Okay, how about we compete for it?
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Like, maybe
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whoever can last longer
doing a shuttle run wins.
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Shuttle run?
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I figured running would be fairer
than doing each other's sports.
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And we just need to run back and forth.
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00:14:04,885 --> 00:14:09,723
Wait, basketball players
should naturally have more endurance.
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Plus, he's older.
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And he mentioned running 10 kilometers
every day when he was in America.
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Hard to imagine
that this doesn't favor Matsuoka.
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What do you say?
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I'll do it!
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A five-second countdown will be given,
after which the test will begin.
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Five seconds to start.
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Three, two, one.
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Start!
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Now we're going back to school
to practice?
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I already feel like I gave it my all
at the practice game.
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Well, we can work on
our issues right away.
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They could at least send a bus for us.
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00:15:03,361 --> 00:15:05,363
Well, it's within walking distance.
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I'm going to swing by my home
to pick up a change of clothes first.
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Okay, got it.
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KIKUCHI DENTAL CLINIC
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This is the dentist
that Taiki is going to.
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You definitely shouldn't go!
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Thanks for taking care of this.
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I'll be back in about 30 minutes.
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See you in a few...
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Wait, Ms. Goto.
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Could you pick up toilet paper as well?
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Sure.
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Goto?
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I thought your last name was Kido.
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00:16:05,256 --> 00:16:09,427
My parents got divorced
when I graduated from junior high.
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I didn't know that.
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{\an8}It's no big deal,
so I didn't think it was worth mentioning.
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00:16:19,103 --> 00:16:23,149
{\an8}You really never tell me anything.
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Does he want the ticket that bad?
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00:16:37,788 --> 00:16:39,874
Is it really worth running that much for?
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It's obviously something more than that.
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00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:44,837
What do you mean?
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I bet your legs are starting
to feel heavy.
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00:16:47,923 --> 00:16:49,842
I can do this all day!
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Good, because this is barely
even a warm-up for me.
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He seems confident.
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00:17:00,603 --> 00:17:03,438
While we're at it,
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how about the loser gives up
on Natsu, too?
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00:17:10,780 --> 00:17:13,074
There's no way I'd agree to that.
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00:17:14,575 --> 00:17:17,369
My feelings are too strong to give up
over something this stupid!
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00:17:18,037 --> 00:17:19,371
I see.
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00:17:20,081 --> 00:17:21,082
But...
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even if you don't agree to it,
you'd look pretty lame losing to me here.
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You never tell me anything.
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00:17:46,565 --> 00:17:48,317
Are you working here?
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Yeah.
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00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:55,032
Then Taiki must have known already.
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00:17:59,036 --> 00:18:03,207
Are your parents the reason why
you transferred to another high school?
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That has nothing to do with it.
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00:18:06,418 --> 00:18:07,711
I see.
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00:18:08,504 --> 00:18:12,258
I wish you would've told me these things.
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00:18:13,425 --> 00:18:15,343
But just because I'm your friend,
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it doesn't mean
you have to tell me everything.
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And I don't want to act like
I know how you feel.
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It's your life after all.
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{\an8}You didn't have a choice, right?
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Sorry for interrupting your shopping.
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How could I tell you?!
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I could never be vulnerable!
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Not in front of you!
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Because I was your role model!
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{\an8}It goes without saying,
we had some fun times as friends, too.
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You looked up to me for being someone
who was good at basketball.
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At first, that made me happy.
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But then gradually,
my passion for basketball faded.
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You're lying.
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00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:24,580
I'm not lying.
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00:19:28,918 --> 00:19:32,004
Listen, Yumeka, your father and I...
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00:19:33,172 --> 00:19:36,508
I'm not as cool as you think I am.
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00:19:37,218 --> 00:19:39,929
I constantly felt like skipping practice.
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00:19:40,554 --> 00:19:45,935
Once I realized talent didn't matter,
I wanted to run away from basketball.
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00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:51,565
So if anything,
I was the one who looked up to you.
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00:19:53,734 --> 00:19:55,945
You never even thought
about skipping practice.
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00:19:56,570 --> 00:19:59,030
You were always so focused
on what you needed to work on,
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and I couldn't keep up.
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00:20:00,741 --> 00:20:03,702
I was embarrassed
by how different I was from you,
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and I started resenting you.
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00:20:08,123 --> 00:20:10,209
How could I tell you any of that?
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00:20:13,879 --> 00:20:16,340
But I do admire
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her ability to work hard.
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00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:22,721
Being able to do that is your talent.
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00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:28,477
I saw you.
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00:20:29,186 --> 00:20:31,981
The day after our final game
in junior high school.
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00:20:37,194 --> 00:20:39,571
I saw you practicing by yourself.
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I was in a slump around then
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and even felt a sense of release
when it was all over.
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You must've been really disappointed.
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To think you must've worked so hard
to be that disappointed...
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That's why I was so shocked.
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Seeing you hanging out with a boy.
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That's not the Natsu
I felt so inferior to.
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Being crazy about basketball,
unable to think about anything unrelated,
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quietly putting in the work.
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That's who you are!
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{\an8}You're wrong!
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It's not unrelated.
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They're one and the same to me.
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After you quit,
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I lost the goal I had been chasing,
and the person I relied on the most.
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I was so lonely.
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Winning nationals was a distant goal.
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And right when I started to doubt
if this kind of steady practice
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was really actually helping...
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Right when I was starting to break,
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I was given the strength.
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Having someone like that in my life
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is what gave me the drive to keep going!
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{\an8}Subtitle translation by: Zensho Yamamoto