Keep it up!
Senichi and Sano, you guys aren't synchronized at all.
Watch your right and left.
Yeah.
- Do it right. - You do it right, Senichi!
Well...
You are both not doing it right.
Ok, I've got practice so I am going to go now.
- Bye-bye, Kozue! - Please come again.
Thanks for the food.
See ya!
Let's try it again. Come on, come on.
What are you doing over there?!
- Get out now!
What were you doing splashing around in the sacred waterfall?!
Concentrate your minds, change your spirit!
We weren't playing around. Ouch!
We were just practicing synchro.
Synchro?
Why don't you join us?
It's really fun.
A monk doing synchro??
No talking during meditation!
Man, that really hurt.
Where are we going to practice?
Yeah.
But there are a lot of people in the city swimming pool at this time of the year.
It's finally summer break though and I want to have a training camp.
That would be great!
Hey, don't you have a cottage with a pool?
Well of course.
Oh, but my parents and relatives use it in the summer so that won't work.
What the hell...
Welcome back.
Thank you.
Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.
Why don't you all stop chatting out here and come inside?
Uh, that's ok.
I'll get you some juice or something.
- Ok!
Will this be ok?
Here you go.
- Thank you!
This is good!
It's delicious.
Oh yeah...
So you are the guys from the Analog club.
Grandpa!
It's synchro.
He did that on purpose.
Did you?
Hey, your mom is beautiful.
- I was thinking that too. - Me too.
Uh, she's not my mom.
Your stepmom then?
No way!
Finish your drink and let's go.
Here you are.
- Ah! Watermelon!
Take your time.
Eikichi, where are the tissues?
They are behind you.
This is delicious.
What's this?
What's this brochure for?
Yazawa's training camp.
Hey, hey.
They have a swimming pool there.
They sure do!
Yazawa?
From the brass band?
Shiorin.
Grandpa!
- Shiorin??
Let's go to my room.
It's in the other house.
Wait a sec...
Hurry!
What?
Wh-what is it?
- Why??
Yazawa?
What were you thinking bringing them to our house?
I told you not to tell anyone.
Sorry.
It's not like we are doing anything wrong though.
Of course we aren't.
But what are they going to say if they find out I'm living with a boy student?
To make matters worse, you are in the synchro club.
All the girls at school will turn against me.
I see now.
You two are going out, aren't you?
Stop kidding around!
We're just kids of the landlord and the tenant.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Say something.
She's right.
Hey, I just thought of something great!
What is it?
If you two got married and Ei-chan took the Yazawa name,
then he would be Yazawa Eikichi!
Moron.
Are you an idiot?
He's an idiot.
Anyways, you are going to get it if you tell anyone about this.
Yes ma'am! I'll never tell anybody!
That's so cool... Yazawa Eikichi.
I'm talking to you, Senichi! You!
Alright, alright.
By the way,
when is the brass band camp starting?
What are they doing?
There's no way they can ride with us, right?
Yeah, you're right.
It would be ok, wouldn't it sensei?
They can help carry the heavy stuff.
That reminds me...
The lady at the training camp said they were having a hard time this year due to lack of part-time workers.
- All right!
How about some bread?
Here ya go.
Delicious bread from Yosuke's bakery.
How about some juice, Kozue?
Our shop orders this straight from Sicily.
Kozue, how about some ice cream?
- It's cold and delicious. - Thanks.
Open it, open it!
Agh! It's cold!
Hey, what are being so noisy for?
No reason.
You better remember this, you little bastard...
It's fun when the boys are around.
Really?
It's just annoying.
Isn't that it?
There's the pool!
Shut up!
- Sorry.
Translation brought to you by Kinzaru and Yuko.
Try not to cry at the end of this episode like you did on the last one.
~Woot!~ :P
Yeah! Now we can practice all we want!
You've got to be kidding.
It's full every day until 9.
Let's practice at night before we go to bed.
Until then we can work on our land dance moves.
Hey!
What are you slacking off for?
It's you guys, right?
The ones who will be working here for free.
- Working for free??
It's admirable that you are doing volunteer work during your summer break.
But there will be no meals if you slack off.
Here. Wear these and work hard.
- Haruka-sensei... - We've been tricked.
Stop complaining.
Ah, a bus is here!
Hey!
Go welcome them.
- Yes ma'am.
- Welcome.
Hello.
What are you all doing here?
- Are you having your training camp here too, president? - Too?
Don't tell me you guys are...?
What do you mean?
The synchro club is closed.
Um, we just came here to work.
Work?
Well, it's without pay though.
- That's right. For free.
So you are not here to practice synchro?
No way! Right?
We're here to help you with anything you need.
So, you won't be going into the pool then.
Because you are here to work, right?
Wouldn't it be strange for workers to be in the pool?
Yeah.
Really?
You heard that, right?
- We sure did.
Alright then, take care of these bags behind me.
By the way, why are you two here?
Cause "someone" betrayed us.
So we've become managers.
Let's grab these bags and go, Gan-chan.
Are you ok, Senichi?
I can't work anymore.
Are you alright? Really? Senichi?
Just kidding!
Hey.
Hey!
What are you doing?
Do your job right.
Hey Gan-chan...
What's so great about that hysterical girl?
Leave me alone.
Alright, let's work.
Take your position.
Ready!
Sorry, sorry...
Ow!
What are you looking at?
Sorry bout that.
Sorry.
Why do I, the next company president, have to do this humiliating job?
Agh, the pain!
It hurts! It hurts!
Making us work all day... now my legs are killing me!
You're lucky it's just your legs.
I almost got killed.
It's like we're Bakayo's underlings or something.
Could you please stop calling her Bakayo?
Well, Eikichi did say,
"We're here to help you with anything you need."
Um, well we've finished our soak.
Let's hurry up and go practice now.
It's already 11.
We're going to practice now?
There's no point in coming here if we don't.
But you told the student-council president we aren't going to go in the pool.
I did?
Be quiet.
We don't want to wake everyone up.
Alright, into the water.
- Ok, for today's practice... - Let's continue working on the waterfall.
It's going to suck if we can't pull off the lift though.
- You're right. - Yeah.
Who's gonna watch us since we can't perform in the school festival?
We need to find some place that will let us.
We could do a guerilla performance.
- A guerilla performance?
Yep.
We perform in the school festival without any notice.
It would be like the "guerilla" live shows of indie bands.
- Isn't that cool? - Yeah it is!
Do you think I am going to allow that?
I took you here because you said you would work hard!
But this is not what you said you'd do.
It's useless. You can't believe what these guys say.
Everything they say is just a bunch of lies.
- Senichi... - Sorry to be late.
Saotome-sensei...
Sorry to bother you when you've just arrived.
But could you explain what is going on here?
He didn't have anything to do with this.
It is the coach's responsibility to watch their members.
Even if the club is closed.
I understand.
When did you decide to do a guerilla performance?
I don't remember giving you permission.
No, that was just an idea I was talking about.
She overhead it.
Ok, then in front of everyone
promise you will not do a guerilla performance.
- Yes sir.
You're like elementary school kids.
You are for going to the teachers to tell on us.
Ohba,
go on to bed.
Yes ma'am.
Excuse me.
You guys go to bed too.
- Yes sir.
Tomorrow,
please take them back home.
This is an important time for our clubs to train.
It's a disturbance as long as the boys are around causing problems.
Besides, we cannot allow them to practice.
She's right.
What's the point of closing their club if they are going to practice secretly?
But this is their summer break.
I know that the club is closed.
But what is so bad about kids who like synchro
enjoying it during their summer break?
Well who is going to take responsibility when something bad happens?
I will.
Why are you still willing to support them?
I wonder that myself.
I don't really no why.
I won't be helping you if something happens.
Kozue is so cute.
We have to clean!
Kozue!
She's so beautiful, Kozue.
What're ya doing?
Let's go clean.
Kozue!
Sorry about this, sensei.
It's fine, it's fine.
I have some free time and I'm good at it.
Thanks.
What are you looking at?
I was going to ask you that.
You are working so hard.
- Kozue!
- Take care of this, - You should take care of it.
It looks like I am interrupting so I'll go.
- Don't get in the way. - Who's getting in the way of who?
- You aren't a good match for her anyways. - What are you all doing?
You are the one who isn't a good match for her.
- I'm telling YOU that! - What's going on?
Hey!
Excuse me!
What are you screwing around for?
We start practice soon.
Go to the grounds now.
We'll go after we finish with this.
God, you are slow at everything.
Well, you're a turtle so it can't be helped, huh?
Man, you piss me off.
Cut it out.
- Aren't you pissed at what she said? - I am.
- Then what? - But work is work.
We need to do this right.
Let's hurry and finish this.
Thanks.
I 'm so tired.
Here you go.
Alright, they're finished.
I guess it's time for bed.
Hey...
Don't you have a meet tomorrow?
Tomorrow we are changing locations.
- To a hotel close to the stadium. - I see.
Good luck.
Laugh or cry, this will be our last high school meet.
I
was expected to enter the inter-high competition when I was a 1st year.
But at the prefectural meet it just did not happen at all.
Then I lost at the finals in my 2nd year.
So I really want to win this time.
I want to win no matter what and enter the inter-high competition.
You can do it.
I'll be cheering you on.
Thank you.
Let's both leave our competitions with no regrets.
I'll give it my best too.
Well, I'm going to go ahead then.
- Good night.
Bakayo is really into this.
Were you eavesdropping?
I didn't mean to.
It's great that you guys have something to shoot for.
Our teamwork would go better if we had some kind of goal.
You guys have bad teamwork?
Yeah.
Hey...
Does Kozue have someone she likes?
Why?
Uh, nevermind.
Goodnight.
Bring it close alongside this one.
Cut the wheel to the right. Alright!
Excuse me.
We'll put your luggage in the bus for you. Please place them at the front of your bus.
- Roger that!
- I'll take your bag, president. - Thanks.
Tomorrow is it, right?
How is your condition?
It's alright.
But I can't be caught off-guard
because if I lose tomorrow all the work I've done for inter-high in the last 3 years will have been in vain.
You'll be just fine.
Just run like you always do and you will definitely win and be able to go on to inter-high.
President!
Natsuko-sensei is calling for you.
We're having our last meeting.
Got it.
Well, I'll put this in the bus then.
Please.
This way for the Seikou University sumo club.
The swimming club is this way. This way please.
Keijou University tennis club is here. This way. Thank you. Ok.
Everyone from Himeno High girl's track and field club please put your bags here.
Um no, put them here...
I'll take that.
Here, hold this.
This way.
- I'll take your bags... - Please take her.
Don't cry.
Don't cry please.
Peek-a-boo!
Please don't cry.
We've finished loading your bags.
Good work. You've been a great help.
Thank you!
Senichi!
Take care of this please.
Huh, there's some left?
It's Kayo's bag so please take good care of it.
- Bakayo's? - Yep.
It's not my job...
Hey Sano,
this is the track and field club's.
Please help me if you are finished.
Kozue!
Wow, looks tough.
Everyone is leaving, huh?
Yep, four groups at the same time.
It would be nice if they delayed it a little bit.
It's your job though so stop complaining and do it.
Hey, where are you going?
We are going to practice outside in the shade for a change.
- I'll take this for you then. - No, I'll take it! You need to be doing your job.
Well, I'll leave it to the both of you.
We'll get the other stuff, ok?
- Ok.
Thank you!
See you! Bye-bye!
Thank you very much!
Goodbye!
- Take care! - Hop in.
Is everyone on?
Ok, let's go.
Ready, set!
You two on the left and right have to get it together. Without the right balance this is going to collapse...
No, no, no!
Do it right!
I am doing it right.
No you're not. That's why I am telling you to.
Not even my parents have hit me before!
- Sano.. - What're you guys doing?
- Sano... - Gan-chan is the middle. Raise it up right!
- Me? - That's right.
Why is it my fault?
- Hey... - Everybody!
Get out and come here.
- Natsuko-sensei... - President...
Gan-chan,
what happened to my bag?
Huh?
My bag with my uniform and spikes.
I gave it to you, didn't I?
When we got to the hotel and unloaded the bags, only Kayo's was missing.
I gave it to you Senichi.
I said this is Kayo's bag so take good care of it.
- Bakayo's? - Yep.
- I'll take this for you then. - I'll take it!
I gave it to you, Sano.
I didn't take it.
Then who did it?
It doesn't matter who did it.
We have to look for it first.
We already looked.
That's why we are talking to you.
What're you going to do about it?
How am I supposed to run without my spikes?
You're under a lot of pressure for tomorrow
so let's go back to the hotel.
I will take care of your spikes somehow.
Ok?
If..
I don't get to go to inter-high
I will never forgive you all.
Did you find them?
No.
- No.
I see.
What time does the meet start?
At 9.
Kayo is in the 100 meter hurdle
so I think she has preliminaries in the morning.
Really?
Alright, we have to find them and bring them back by then.
- But where are we going to look? - Hey..
Didn't 4 clubs leave at the same time?
If that's so then couldn't it have been mixed into one of the other group's bags?
Ah, you're right.
That's possible.
I'll get the hotel registery and try to call them.
Um...
Even if we start looking now, I don't think we can make it.
But we can't just sit still.
I'll see if my dad can order spikes of the same model.
That's great! Let's do that!
It's no use!
She is use to those worn-in spikes.
Without them she can't run like she usually does.
We can't help it if they're missing though.
That's why we're saying we should look for them.
Why do we have to do that?
Why?
Think about it.
Bakayo always treats us like we are trash.
It feels good for her to be in trouble.
Senichi!
Do you seriously think that?
This is the last high school meet for her to put it all on the line for inter-high.
She's worked hard for that up until today.
Think if you were going through the same thing.
Her losing her spikes
would be like us losing one of our members right before a synchro competition.
That's how bad it is.
I tried calling but no one answered.
It's already midnight.
Alright then!
Let's go directly to them.
Yosuke and I've got the sumo club.
Senichi and Sano, the tennis club.
Gan-chan, go to the houses of the kids who came for swimming school.
I got it.
- Got it.
I got it.
I'm going too.
Huh?
Don't say that.
Anyways, let's hurry!
Alright!
Mizushima is...
pretty cool.
- A car is coming! Clear to your left! - Ok!
Gan-chan and Saotome-sensei, I'm counting on you.
Alright, leave it to us.
How long do you think it will take to get to the city?
We should arrive about when it starts getting light.
What?? What time is that?
Gan-chan! Here it is. This is the house.
Sorry to disturb you in the middle of the night.
I am Saotome, a teacher at Himeno High School.
When you were leaving from training camp, did you happen to find a bag belonging to someone you didn't know?
I'm sorry but no.
I see. I am so sorry to have disturbed you at this time of night.
- Let's head to the next one. - Ok.
Let's split up here.
But isn't it embarassing to be in the middle of town looking like this?
Now is not the time to be worried about that.
Don't give up you two.
We'll definitely find them so don't you give up.
This is it!
I understand. Thank you very much.
He says he doesn't know what time they are coming.
- It's still just 7. - You're right.
It will take us an hour just to get to the stadium.
We have until 10 then.
Ah! Eikichi, look!
- They're here!
Uh, excuse us.
Excuse us...
It is now time for the meet to begin.
We went to all the houses of those who went for swimming school
but it looks like the bag wasn't mixed in with theirs.
Um,
Eikichi and the others are still looking though.
I wasn't counting on them from the get-go.
I've already got new spikes for her.
- Athletes in the women's 100 meter hurdles.. - It's time for your race.
- take your starting positions. - Go get ready.
I repeat, athletes in the women's 100 meter hurdles, take your starting positions.
Saotome-sensei
you said you would take responsibility for any trouble, didn't you?
I am very sorry.
Do you think this can be solved by apologizing?
I am really very sorry.
The meet's already started.
Sorry.
Eh?
- I said that I gave it to you. - Nah.
It was me since I was in charge of the track and field club.
It's not your fault.
Ei-chan said it didn't matter who did it anyways.
If I stick with him, I wonder if I can change too before graduation.
Is something up?
I was there helping at the training camp.
Ah, you came to get the bag?
It's here?
Is this it?
I was planning on having it sent back to you by delivery.
This is it!
No doubt about it.
- Thank you so much!
Well, we are in a hurry so...
Looks like that girl made a mistake, huh?
A girl in red clothes gave that to me.
- Red clothes?
You're forgetting this.
- Eh? - This.
Thanks.
Kozue!
I just got a call from someone at Keijou University.
Yesterday when they were loading bags, did you give a bag to someone from the tennis club?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
They were forgetting a bag so I handed it to them.
What?
- Eikichi, hurry! - Hurry, hurry!
Hurry!
- Hurry, hurry!
Find it?
What about Senichi and Sano?
Not yet.
How did the preliminary go?
She passed but...
Now notifying
the athletes of the women's 100 meter hurdles to please take their starting positions.
I repeat...
Can you go?
It's no use.
No use?
I hurt my leg in the preliminaries and
I can't win without the spikes I am used to.
I will forfeit the finals.
Please let them know I'm forfeiting.
Please wait, sensei!
Forfeiting is not the way.
You'll regret it the rest of your life if you do that.
Who do you think caused it to come to this?
You'll be fine.
You passed the preliminary easily.
The preliminary and the final are not the same!
Victory in the finals is decided by a difference of milliseconds!
There's no way I can win in these spikes.
You can win.
You can win in any spikes, because it's you.
- Don't try to console me! - I am not!
I've watched you for a long time practicing with everything you've got for this, so I know you can do it.
With your running, you can't lose to anyone!
I have a favor.
Could you please change the order of the program?
I would like the women's hurdles final to be last.
We have lost an athlete's spikes
and are looking for them now.
So we want just a little more time.
I know what I'm asking is impossible
but
the athlete had no responsibility in this.
I want her to run in her own spikes.
I don't want her to regret her last high school meet.
Please!
I understand the situation...
but we can't change it.
Isn't there something?
Please!
Each individual athlete is going by the program's schedule.
If we were to change it right in the middle of things, then it would be a problem for everyone.
You understand that, right?
Eikichi, look!
We found it!
They did it!
Saotome-sensei, they did it!
- It's the bag! - They found it!
They found it!
- Sorry to be late. - Sorry about this.
Please give it your best!
- Do your best.
Take your positions.
Ready...
Go!!
I now know the answer to your question.
When I am with these kids
I remember the old me.
They help me remember the important things that I forget.
Man, Bakayo was cool, wasn't she?
Yeah, I was impressed by how good she was.
We're going to do our best too to impress everyone who watches our synchro.
- Yeah!
Congratulations, president.
Please do your best at the inter-high too.
- How can you say something like that? - Yeah.
She would have made a better time if you hadn't lost her spikes.
It wasn't them.
I was the one who made the mistake loading Kayo's bag.
Is that true?
No, you've got it wrong.
- Right, Sano? - Yep.
- Right, Ei-chan? - Eh?
Oh, right, right.
It was a misunderstanding.
But they called from the training camp...
Well, it's fine. It's all over now anyways.
Yep, yep.
And the president got the victory as well.
Don't get caught up in the moment.
I am going to report everything to the principal.
This time I am going to make sure the synchro club is closed forever.
Prepare yourselves.
Oh crap!
We forgot about our job at the training camp.
We completely forgot!
Crap!
Do you think Mizushima and the others covered for me?
Looks like it.
Where have you been?
Sorry.
We had something we had to do.
We'll get to work now.
The pool is open now.
The pool.
No one is using it today so you can.
- Really??
You worked real hard in this heat
and really helped me out.
So this is your reward!
Hey, hey, hey...
Why didn't you tell Kozue what really happened?
She'll really like you if she knows you covered for her.
I was thinking if it were Ei-chan then he wouldn't tell her.
What?
Don't get me wrong.
I was talking about Yazawa Eikichi.
Yoroshiku!
Alright, shall we do this?
Ready, set..
Hang in there! You got it!
We did it!
Hey everybody!
Everybody!
I brought some onigiri I made. Why don't you take a break?
- Yeah!
- Thanks for the food!
- Delicious! - They're great!
Kozue, these are really good!
They are delicious.
I'm glad. I made a lot so eat up, ok?
- Ok!
Hey!
- You are taking too many. - No you are, Senichi.
- They are mine. - No, they are mine.
- Stop it. - They're mine.
Kozue...
Is there someone that you like?
What?
It's better to go ahead and ask her, right?
I...
like Mizushima.
Huh?
~There's a song I want you to listen to~
~There are words I want to say to you someday~
~These things are nothing special~
~Yeah, they aren't anything difficult~
~I was just standing in the rain~
~Just waiting for a rainbow~
~Without any doubts~
~Now I'm going beyond the image~
~Beyond the sky~
~With these wings~
~At that moment when I pass the wind~
~At that moment when I catch the rainbow~
~Will you be smiling?~
~Could we meet again?~
~I had just opened the map~
~And was waiting for the wind~
~Without an answer~
~Now I'm going beyond the image~
~To your sky~
~I'm taking off to my rainbow~