Did you catch a cold, Sis?
The closing ceremony is tomorrow, huh?
I can see our house now.
Which one is it?
The huge building straight ahead.
We're gonna live THERE?
Today marks the end of the second semester.
So, you guys don't have much time left as a high schooler; you're gonna get a job or go to college.
Carefully think over how you'll spend your remaining time here, and look forward to your winter break.
All rise!
Hey, Haruto. We're practicing today, too, right?
I gotta record stuff in the day duty logbook. Go on ahead and get out the baseball bat and balls for me.
You're the one who suggested practicing, so hurry up!
Okay...
Takahashi and Natsume, I need to talk to you two after this.
Yes, sir.
What?!
Then, what about karaoke?
I don't care.
I told you we can't go. We also have cram school.
Sorry, Momoka.
Still writing?!
You can just write, "It was an uneventful day" in the logbook!
Be sure to write everything down!
Monkey, you're in the way!
Oh, my bad!
Sorry. Thanks.
Hmph!
Hey! It's Saruwatari, not Monkey!
Hazuki, you're showing up for club activities today.
I'm just going to return a trumpet.
What about the underclassmen's practice? You said, "Watch me," remember?
We agreed it would be until the end of second semester.
Plus, practice for the graduation ceremony is about start.
It'd be great if you could play for the graduation ceremony, too.
No way. That'd be embarrassing.
Yoriko, you're going to keep doing sports even in college, right?
I got a recommendation because of that, you know.
I like sports, and I'll be running, so it's all good.
Well, I'll see ya later.
Okay.
Oh, Hazuki-senpai!
Please help us practice today!
Here's the logbook, Slides.
Did you record everything?
"Record everything"? There wasn't really anything to record.
Oh, yeah?
Hurry!
Don't run in the halls!
Red Light, Green Light, huh?
Hey! How ya doin'?
In front of my high school right now. Waiting for my dad.
I'm gonna say hi soon.
How are schools in Tokyo?
Like this.
Are the girls cute?
What school does that uniform belong to?
Dunno.
Aren't gakuran uniforms meh?
What's important is on the inside, isn't it?
That's true, Mayu-chin!
They said your uniform is meh, Nakajima.
They can see it?! Tokyo's scary!
This is Kanagawa, you know.
Don't stop all of a sudden! It's dangerous!
You know, isn't it good to speak for yourself?
What?
The girl in our class! She's in band! Uh, what was her name again?
You mean, Morikawa.
Right, Morikawa-san. I mean, she's reserved or she doesn't have a strong presence, I guess.
She's stealthy. So, if I'm in her way, then she NEEDS to let me know that.
She must've thought that she'd get pregnant from talking to you, Junpei.
I see! Well, I AM the type that oozes manliness.
Then, I'll add more manliness.
Whoa! You dumbass!
That's a nice mark.
Pfft! Sure is.
You guys!
Did you wait long?
I came on time.
This is an announcement from the Broadcasting Club.
I see. This is an announcement from the Broadcasting Club.
Photography Club second-years: Shimizu-kun, Yamaguchi-kun,
That reminds me, don't some of your classmates from middle school go here? Photography Club second-years: Shimizu-kun, Yamaguchi-kun,
That reminds me, don't some of your classmates from middle school go here? and Komiya-san, Watanabe-sensei would like to see you.
Please wait in front of the staff room.
Um, probably. Please wait in front of the staff room.
Did you contact them?
Photography Club second-years: Shimizu-kun, Yamaguchi-kun,
I guess I will. Photography Club second-years: Shimizu-kun, Yamaguchi-kun,
It'd be nice if they do go here. and Komiya-san, Watanabe-sensei would like to see you.
Yeah, I guess. and Komiya-san, Watanabe-sensei would like to see you.
Please wait in front of the staff room.
Mi-o. You're still here.
Yeah. I still have time until I go to cram school, so I thought I'd read this.
Where are Mayu and Momo?
They said they're going to karaoke.
Ha... How nice. I got guidance counseling. I wish I had hung out with them.
Did the counselor tell you anything?
Uh... I'm gonna pass on talking about it.
Are those Soma and the guys on the field?
He said he was gonna practice until he hits a home run.
What? NOW?
Boys do some inexplicable things.
Let's see...
Well, that's all I have to say for attending school in the third semester.
Once it's February, attendance is optional-
What?! You're disbanding the club?!
I'm sorry. There's a meeting next door.
Pipe down, please.
This is the first I've heard of this!
Look, I'm telling you right now.
Only the three of you are club members, right?
You'll be third-years next year, right?
You got zero new members this year, right?
And you don't even have any accomplishments.
I think it's high time you disband.
I definitely don't think so.
Shimizu and Yamaguchi, you think so, right?
Yes, sir.
I guess, sir.
"Yes"?! "I guess"?!
Well, but I think there's nothing we can do. Right?
Yeah. Our pictures...
We can take them even as a hobby.
Well, it different for me!
Izumi-kun, do you have any questions?
No, I'm fine.
Does going to study hall sound okay?
I think that's good, too.
Feel free to check out the school after this.
Just bring the visitor's pass back to my office before you leave-
Then, I'll win an award!
Well, when I said, "If you have accomplishments," I meant...
I'll win one during third semester!
Hey, Komiya-san!
Good afternoon...
Hold it, Komiya!
Ah! Good afternoon, Vice Principal.
Watanabe-sensei, see me in the staff room later.
Komiya-san! You took a picture without my permission again!
I'm gonna report you someday, got it?
President...! Ah, the usual strawberry milk.
I'm not the student council president anymore.
Listen, about that, President...
Like I said-
Slides said he's gonna disband the Photography Club.
He told us to give our clubroom up to bigger club.
The previous year's student council brought that up, too.
But it was to combine your club with the Broadcasting Club instead of disbanding it, wasn't it?
He said he'd reconsider, if I win an award in a competition.
Hey, I told you not to-!
Oh, yeah! There was a transfer student.
Huh? What's this all of a sudden?
It was a sleepy-looking boy wearing a gakuran uniform.
Huh. He might've been tired from moving.
Thanks for letting me take your photo! See ya, President.
Hey, delete it, okay?
I wanna hang out right now, too, you know!
Is it true that we're gonna merge with the Photography Club?
I heard we likely will starting next year.
I sorta don't want us to.
It'd be best for us to do things independently, wouldn't it? Komiya-san and I don't get along, anyway.
A fly to left field!
Man, I can't raise my arm anymore.
Haruto.
Hm?
We need to go to cram school soon.
Should we put everything away?
It's fine. Thanks. I'm gonna practice some more on my own.
The bus is coming!
It's early!
Huh?
Eita?
Haruto...
Did you say you're transferrin' schools just now?
Yeah, my dad relocated to Fukuoka.
When are you leaving?
After the second semester.
That's in less than half a month! What are you gonna do?
There's nothing I CAN do. You'll contact me even if I move, right?
Then, let's contact each other every day!
Man, but seriously? You're really transferrin', Eita?
If we reunite as rivals at nationals, I'm gonna get fired up.
Nationals is impossible. Our team loses in the second round every year.
I meant, once we go to high school.
High school nationals is even more unlikely.
You don't know that!
I do. I can totally tell.
Let's contact each other every day.
Okay. Let's make a promise.
We got in touch the first month.
Once we stopped contacting each other, I didn't know what to talk to him about anymore.
When we moved up a grade, we no longer sent each other texts.
I later realized that it was normal for this to happen when you stop seeing each other every day.
So much for our reunion at nationals.
Like I said, you don't know that. But why are you here?
My dad relocated again.
We're living in a different place, but I'm going to this school for just the third semester.
Seriously?
Yeah, well...
It's been a while.
I guess so.
Has it been three years since you moved?
Four years.
Four years, huh?
Yeah, four years.
Be my pitcher.
Huh?
You used to pitch a lot, right?
I used to.
Don't hold back!
I'm not...
Hey, hey! The pitcher is chickening out!
Haruto!
Huh?
Let me practice first. And give me a glove.
Bring it!
Your pitch! It's slow!
It's been a long time since I pitched. I told you.
Did you quit baseball?
Yeah, joining a club in the third semester of second-year at a new school takes guts, after all.
What about high school?
I didn't play for years, so it'd be hard for me to join.
Is that so?
Yeah, it is!
Crap. My blisters popped.
Hey, time out.
Hey.
Huh?
What is this for?
What is what for?
Don't people normally retire from a club in the summer?
This isn't for a club. I guess it's sort like a prayer?
That doesn't explain anything.
I knew it. It's the mysterious transfer student.
What are those two?
Shimizu, are you still in the clubroom? I've got a favor to ask.
Hey, now.
Sorry!
Is that Soma-senpai? They totally bombed at the summer tournament, too, right?
Yeah. And we played under the blazing sun like our lives depended on it...
Huh? How did it go again?
Izumi...?
I didn't hear anything about this!
It's so hot! Let's take a short break.
This song reminds me of the summer tournament. Nankaidai Sagami's Hashimoto.
His slider was super sharp. His fastball was stupid fast, too.
You played against the national champions? That's amazing.
I didn't even come close to hitting his pitches, though. I couldn't do anything.
It makes me laugh even when I think about it now... that a high schooler just like me is capable of that.
But I thought I could do more than that.
Aw, dammit! Let's do it!
That's why you're going for a home run.
Huh? Well, I'm retiring in the summer. And I'll be job hunting soon.
When I think graduating is all that's left, it's just, you know.
You're sweaty and you popped your blisters.
So, will you get revenge for summer nationals if you hit a home run here?
It isn't revenge. I don't know about that stuff.
Since I don't know...
I'm just testing it out.
What are you smiling for?!
Well... So, you're THAT type of guy, is what I thought.
The hell does that mean?
That grosses me out.
Let's finish this. How about a one at-bat game?
A game, huh? Let's do it.
That was a fast one!
Oh, yeah. You were a beast, Eita.
A come-from-behind home run!
That WAS a home run, right?
No...
It's a home run, no matter how you look at it!
No, I mean, it's an out-of-the-park home run, no matter how you look at it.
All right!
Yahoo! Hell yeah!
Did you see that?!
Whoa! Ah! Hey! Wait!
That hurt...
Right back at you...
It hurts, but you can smile.
No, I can't.
You can totally smile.
Like I said, I can't smile.
I can't smile, because I've got entrance exams.
Man, it kinda makes me mad.
It really makes me mad.
I'm definitely gonna be in pain tomorrow. I have to unpack my stuff, though.
Retrain for this opportunity.
No way. I'm done with doing demanding stuff.
Hey.
Hm?
I'll be back. I'm gonna go ask someone out.
What?
I heard her playing, so she's probably still here.
I don't follow.
Oh!
I guess it's sort of like a prayer?
That prayer you mentioned earlier... that's what it was for?