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Whoa, that's pricey!
Thirty thousand?
And that one's 200 thousand.
It'd just be cheaper to buy the parts and build it ourselves,
but we don't have time for that now.
I can only get ten thousand of my allowance in advance too...
I see. Then we only have one choice.
That is?
Give up on entering the Robo-One.
Geez!
Let me eat in peace!
Why do you have to suggest giving up right away?!
At least struggle a little!
How would struggling change anything?
We don't even have a hobby robot,
so how do you plan on winning a tournament two weeks from now?
Oh right!
What?
We do have a hobby robot!
Where's that?
In the club room!
Our glorious club president from the shiny days,
Tanegashimachine-3!
Behind the words passing by
The key of my closed heart is hidden
If setting your flag
Could save your smile
The late summer breeze
Turns into a midday squall
As we sync our wavelengths
I'm such a bad romantic
Can't even find
Any words with an edge
Still I aim for the blue sky
We can become one
As our dreams and confused tears
Draw us ever closer to the truth
That becomes our beloved
Magical keyword
Because we're romantics with hopes and dreams
Move! Move!
This thing is 8 years old.
Do you seriously expect it to move?
Gunvarrel could move because of Genki!
Move! Move for me, Gunvarrel!
It must be the battery...
We don't have a charger either.
Are we buying one?
I bet it'd be expensive...
Is it okay to take it apart like that?
It's okay. I'm just taking the screws out.
Could you look for a servo test board in the storeroom next door?
Fine. If you can beat me at Kill Bal—
I won't.
You can't even do that much?
See for yourself how much it is.
Meanie.
Okay, I'll look for a test board myself.
Could you be the operator?
Operator?
You'd control Tanegashimachine-3.
You play Kill Ballad all the time anyway,
so I think you'll be good at it.
Then I'll just play Kill Ballad.
How about I put a cannon on Tanegashimachine-3.
A cannon? What would it shoot?
It'd just be a big decoration,
but appearances have a huge effect on people's will to fight.
I'd love it if it had a finishing move and a transformation scene too...
Aki...
What?
What are you going for?
Looks or results?
Results.
Oh really?
Quit it already. I got it!
Anyway,
even if everything else worked,
we can't do anything without a battery.
We can't substitute it for something else either.
What are you gonna do?
Of course...
I'll barter!
Hey, Doc!
Turn the volume down!
Turn it down!
Or have you gone deaf with age alre—
Ah.
Hello, Doc.
I've given you parts already.
I don't have anything to spare.
And you, guy! Don't you know how to say hello?
Long time no see...
Doc, actually it's not about the GunPro-1 this time.
It's this...
Oh? Robo-One, huh?
Do you seriously expect me to have something this old?
Well, I hoped...
You'll have to use a different maker.
Something compatible with the Ogawada S plug.
What do you say?
Um... How much?
8000 and a beer.
Too expensive!
I'm already discounting the shipping for you, damn club kiddo.
Don't say "damn"....
Oh well. Do you have something else then?
I might give it a thought if you buy something else too.
Really?!
Then a 360° camera?
Are you nuts? That won't even do as decoration.
I'll be blunt: I don't like this.
What are you talking about?
Well, for the Robo-One a gyro would be the best.
Together with that battery you can get it for twelve thousand.
Could you make that ten?
Non-negotiable.
I don't have that much money!
You're doing business with high school kids!
Make it a student discount! A student discount plan!
Not a chance!
I'm working for my living here! Take it or leave it!
Oh geez!
What do we do now?
He won't give you the stuff unless you pay up.
Can you ask for your allowance ahead of time?
How about a Kill Ballad game?
You're a real pain in the neck.
You're preparing for the Robo-One? People are talking about it in school.
Saying it's a reckless challenge.
So what?
If we win, we can get the club budget we need!
But you won't win.
The Robo-One isn't such an easy tournament.
Even suggesting total amateurs could win it after two weeks is offensive.
Miracles are there for us to make them happen!
"Ever since Hidaka Subaru, who won third place in the Robo-One during junior high, agreed to help—"
I refuse.
Blunt as always...
What about you, Yashio?
You're wasting your time tagging along with her.
I guess so...
But the club room's a perfect place to play Kill Ballad.
Is that your reason?!
I see.
You sure live up to your weirdo image.
See you.
But why are you here?
I just happened by.
Anyway, go ahead and have your fun.
It's the last activity of the Robot Club, after all.
Geez! You stupid kid!
He's right, you know.
There's no way we can win.
But then what about the GunPro-1?
You could keep working on it by yourself.
That's true...
But you know,
I want to do it as the Robot Club.
It's the Robot Club my sister made
and the GunPro-1 my sister tried to make.
It's pointless if we don't build it in the club!
Not to mention we do this because we're romantics with hopes and dreams!
Now who's the pain in the neck...
Take good care of Akiho please.
Irei Store
Welcome!
It's you again?
Give me that.
Right away.
Do it at once.
I will!
Here it comes! This half-sweet half-sour taste from behind the lukewarm dough...
Passionfruit tastes so great, so why would you turn it into a Chinese dumpling?!
This is the devil's work! It's straight from hell!
I'm done.
You pass. The Lake Treaty is now in effect.
But could you try to pretend it's good?
Not a chance. It's challenging enough to just eat.
Whatever. A promise is a promise.
What do you want to know?
I want to know about the Doc.
Doc? That old weirdo?
I want to know his weak spot.
Something that could make him give us a discount.
You want to blackmail him into giving you something?
How cunning.
Sure, I'll look into it.
Thanks.
See you.
Whenever you ask for something, Aki's involved.
What are you to her?
Dunno... Maybe her replacement.
Misa's, that is.
You're nice...
Both to Aki and to Misa.
Anemone
Daitoku?
From the next class.
You know, that quiet girl from the karate club.
But wasn't Doc's name Fujita?
The name might be different, but she's Doc's granddaughter.
His granddaughter, huh?
Then we could ask her!
There's no need to rush...
Okay!
It was class 1, right?
Thank you for the intel.
Irei Store
Call duration
End call
Come again if you need something.
I still have plenty of passionfruits left.
Also...
I know. I won't tell Aki.
3rd Year Class 1
Sorry for the trouble.
Daitoku!
My grampa?
Sorry for asking this of you...
But if we can't get the parts from Doc, the club will be disbanded...
Please!
Sorry, but I don't think I can...
I... Um...
I haven't met with Grampa Fujita for years,
so...
But...
Sorry, I just hoped you could get us a discount.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, I'm working on our robot's finishing move now!
Do you have any karate ideas?
Huh?
Something to knock the opponent out.
Like, your specialty or something.
My specialty?
Yeah.
I don't really have one...
Huh? Really?
Then how about a kata? You can do those, right?
Well, I use the suparinpei...
Eh, that sounds cool!
How do you do it? Hm?
But it's not how you imagine it to be...
If you want to take your opponent down, then a forward kick...
A forward kick?
How do you do that?
Um...
Like this, then this.
Let's see, you raise your leg, then this and thi—
Are you okay?
Ouch...
This works well!
The robot could do it, like this!
Uh Senomiya, you're lifting your skirt...
Here, the battery and the charger.
It's so bright and shiny!
It still took you a week to pick it up even though I had the shipping rushed.
I didn't have a choice!
Can you imagine how much I had to persuade my mom?
Money!
What are you doing?!
At least... At least a thousand!
Geez...
Take them.
Doc, you miser!
This is how pros roll.
I got the gyro and other necessary parts too.
If you really want to win, you'll need at least these.
Oh!
15 thousand altogether.
Oh please! I'll do whatever it takes, except for money!
But nothing painful or perverted.
You're barely past bedwetter age. Who'd want that from you?!
You're mean! I'll sue you!
We'll pay with the money we win from the Robo-One.
Will that do for those parts?
Kai... Just now that was really cool.
That'll do, won't it?
You're underestimating the adults.
But that's the rocker spirit.
After that, Aki became obsessed.
She rebuilt the Tanegashimachine-3,
sometimes looking stuff up by herself and sometimes asking Doc for help,
even sacrificing sleep for it.
She was so obsessed it made me worry.
Morning...
You're late.
This is what you get for calling me out on a Sunday.
It's still early for me.
You finished it?
Look! Tanegashimachine-3 has been reborn!
I name it the Tanegashimachine-3S!
You had enough screws?
That's the first thing you've gotta say?
It's fine. Doc helped with the stuff we lacked.
So you were missing parts?
The point is that it's done now.
Now I shall commence the activation test!
Whoa...
Once you turn it on, the servos reset to the default position.
And now I'll show off my skills.
Whoops, my bad.
What's wrong?
Whoa, so many switches!
I didn't know it was this complicated.
Can you really do it?
It was complicated back then too, so no one could use it.
But my sister mastered it perfectly, and defeated the opponents one after another.
And you want to master it in a week?
Yeah...
I can see it! I can see the enemy too!
No, you can't.
If I have time to give up, I have time to practice!
It fell down.
Perfect.
Look now!
What do you think?
Finishing move! Tanegashi Accel Impact!
You stole that idea.
What about brakes?
There aren't any.
Run, Kai!
Eh?!
This won't do...
Can we go home yet?
Um...
Really you should be the operator.
It'd be the same regardless. It's complicated.
But your fingers move just like my sister's...
Yeah, fitting for Kill Ballad.
Aki...
Sorry.
How are you feeling?
Fine...
You're not fine, are you?
I can feel it coming...
What now? Go somewhere?
No, it'll be fine here.
The Elephant Mouse syndrome.
Basically, it's fast forward.
When she has a spasm,
Aki processes five minutes as one second.
It all started nine years ago with that accident...
Kai...
Is it over?
Yeah.
I'll call your mom.
It only happens when you're tired,
so learn from this and don't overexert yourself.
Okay?
Mhm...
You still answer like that?
Then...
Will you be the operator?
Without a Kill Ballad battle.
That's not fair.
Okay.
Really?
But only if you make the controls like Kill Ballad.
With so little time left? Is that possible?
It is. We have a trump card.
Sorry for the sudden msg... It's a bit tough to say, but you see... I suspect you of cheating, UMISHO. Your reactions are abnormally fast. Grandma always— lol, I mean, we've received a message saying so. If you've anything to say about that, tell us.
FRAUKOUJIRO?
Sorry for the sudden msg... It's a bit tough to say, but you see... I suspect you of cheating, UMISHO. Your reactions are abnormally fast. Grandma always— lol, I mean, we've received a message saying so. If you've anything to say about that, tell us.
I told you, he created Kill Ballad.
Sorry for the sudden msg... It's a bit tough to say, but you see... I suspect you of cheating, UMISHO. Your reactions are abnormally fast. Grandma always— lol, I mean, we've received a message saying so. If you've anything to say about that, tell us.
He has all the code of Kill Ballad.
Don't you think it's worth asking?
I see!
Now I'm on fire! I'm on fire!
Come on, you're exhausted, so stay still.
No! We don't have time!
Get in touch with him right away! Right away!
Okay, okay...
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The blinding light of childhood memories
Turns the scenery of my dream
Into monochrome as it lies forgotten
And vanishes from my eyes
But you've always been
Looking straight at the future
And you paid the price in tears
So we turn our hesitation
Into strength by the power
Of our connected hearts
Feel it! These overflowing emotions
For that someone in the sunset
I'll use the little courage I have
And overcome the rage of the wind
Because I want to protect you
Tune in next week too!
Yo !!