HYOTEI VS RIKKAI GAME OF FUTURE PREQUEL STORY TRANSLATION: 2/2

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CHAPTER 6
SCENE 9
Rikkai tennis courts, day.

YUKIMURA: Everyone… it looks like your movements are becoming less terrible.⁵

SANADA: After the U-17 training camp and the World Cup, everyone seems to have grown up a little.

Enter YANAGI.

YANAGI: Seiichi… A letter has arrived in the clubroom.

YUKIMURA: A letter…?

SANADA: Hm? From overseas?

YUKIMURA: It was posted from England.

YANAGI hands the letter to YUKIMURA.

YANAGI: Take a look at the sender.

YUKIMURA: ….. Atobe?

SANADA: It’s Atobe?

YANAGI: “Is it a letter of challenge⁶?” … is what you were going to say, Genichiro.

SANADA: Is it a letter of challenge?

YUKIMURA: I don’t think he would take the trouble to send a letter of challenge from England… I’ll read it.

YUKIMURA opens the letter.

ATOBE: “To Rikkai Dai Fuzoku and associates. I hope you haven’t lost your touch after the World Cup. Hmm?”

SANADA: What nonsense!

ATOBE: “We fought against the world at the World Cup and discovered its strength.”

YANAGI: I agree.

ATOBE: “Currently, I am trying to become even stronger as I travel around the world, including my second home, England.”

SANADA: Even stronger… is it?

ATOBE chuckles.

ATOBE: “I can see right through your feelings of impatience.⁷”

SANADA: I am not impatient. We Rikkai are also—

YANAGI: Genichiro, if you respond to every line of this letter, we won’t be able to proceed.

SANADA: Oh… Sorry. Yukimura, please continue.

ATOBE: “However, the days I spent with you were irreplaceable.”

YANAGI: …? These words are unlike Atobe.

ATOBE: “Someday, once again… as a comrade or as a rival, I look forward to meeting you on the court.”

SANADA: … Atobe?

ATOBE: “Well, I'll write to you again later. The writer will be… me!⁸ Be intoxicated by my script!⁹”

NIOU-AS-ATOBE: “… Puri.”

SANADA, YANAGI: …

YANAGI: Seiichi... at the very end, what did you say?

YUKIMURA smiles ruefully.

YUKIMURA: “… Puri.”

SANADA, YUKIMURA: …..

YANAGI: It's Niou, isn't it. This letter.

SANADA: Such nonsense!

YUKIMURA: I didn't expect him to set up an Illusion with a letter from overseas.

YANAGI: However… at the end of the match against Germany…

NIOU-AS-YANAGI: “‘... he should have thrown away Illusion,’ is what you were going to say. Puri.”

YUKIMURA: … That's written in the letter.

SANADA: Enough already…

YUKIMURA: If it isn't tennis, it seems like he's still using it. Illusion, that is.

NIOU: Pupiina…

• (5) this is a play on Yukimura’s usual “everyone, your movements were terrible” catchphrase
• (6) as in to a duel / match / etc
• (7) this is a play on Atobe’s “I can see right through you!” catchphrase when he uses Atobe Kingdom
• (8) this is a play on Hyotei’s pre-match “The winner will be Hyotei! / The winner will be... me!” chant
• (9) this is a play on Atobe’s “Be intoxicated by my prowess” catchphrase, I truly did not know how to make it sound more similar

CHAPTER 7

SCENE 10
Rikkai tennis courts, day.

KIRIHARA: Fuckkk! I lost againnn!

JACKAL: Looks like Yukimura got you, Akaya?

MARUI: Yesterday Sanada and Yanagi dealt with him.

KIRIHARA: Since I've been through the World Cup now I thought I'd be able to handle it! But...

MARUI: Well, those guys also got stronger and stronger.

JACKAL: Yeah. After the World Cup, they've been hitting the ball and moving even more crisply.

KIRIHARA: They're monsters, those guys.

KIRIHARA: But for sure… I'm gonna win!

MARUI: That's the spirit.

Enter YAGYUU.

YAGYUU: Yukimura-kun, Sanada-kun, Yanagi-kun… They are continuing to evolve wonderfully.

KIRIHARA: Yagyuu-senpai…

YAGYUU: Kirihara-kun, you also deserve praise for your continuous efforts to evolve.

KIRIHARA: Wh, what's with all of this out of the blue… When Yagyuu-senpai says that sort of thing, I feel like there's something behind it.

YAGYUU: You are warped.¹⁰ Reflect on this, Kirihara-kun.

KIRIHARA: I'm not warped!

YAGYUU: Additionally, Niou-kun broke away from Illusion and set out on a journey. I, too, cannot afford to be complacent.

KIRIHARA: Yagyuu-senpai, don't you have your Laser Beam?

YAGYUU: Of course, I take pride in my Laser Beam. However…

KIRIHARA: What's the problem? Just make the Laser go faster!

YAGYUU chuckles.

YAGYUU: Kirihara-kun, you are very good. That directness, and the sense of warpedness contained within it.

KIRIHARA: I told you, I'm not warped!

YAGYUU: Directness and warpedness… Mm. I'll use that as a reference.

YAGYUU: Thank you, Kirihara-kun.

KIRIHARA: I. Am. Not. Warped!!

MARUI: Ooh, Yagyuu’s also doing special training to evolve?

MARUI: Whether it’s strength training or hellish special training, help will be given…

MARUI: … by Jackal!

JACKAL: Me!?

• (10) lit. ‘refracted,’ I’m pointing this out because it’s meant to tie into the literal refraction of light since that’s what a laser is, and foreshadowing Yagyuu’s new superpower in the movie. If it wasn’t Yagyuu saying it, I would have translated this to ‘sick and twisted’ lol

CHAPTER 8

SCENE 11

A mountain stream, day.

ATOBE, KABAJI and HIYOSHI are preparing to fish.

ATOBE: Kabaji, today’s fishing rod is the third one, the Boron.

KABAJI: Usu.

ATOBE: Lend Wakashi the seventh one, the Carbon.

KABAJI: Usu.

KABAJI hands HIYOSHI a fishing rod.

HIYOSHI: Um… Atobe-san…

ATOBE: Hm? What's wrong? You don't like fishing?

HIYOSHI: It's just that I was told this was a special training menu.

ATOBE: That's right.

HIYOSHI: So why am I the only one here fishing in a mountain stream?

ATOBE: Lend him that lure.

KABAJI: Usu.

KABAJI hands HIYOSHI a lure.

HIYOSHI: Um, I don’t have the time for this. If the captain is doing this sort of thing on training days, it sets a bad example for the club members.

ATOBE: You seem preoccupied with your role as captain recently.

HIYOSHI: Naturally.

ATOBE: If you don’t stop overthinking, the club members will also get tired. Hmm?

HIYOSHI: … Eh?

ATOBE: It’s not a bad idea to spend some quality time with the new captain for once.

HIYOSHI: Atobe-san…

ATOBE: Empty your mind and let the river and the passage of time flow through you.

HIYOSHI: (No way… I’ve been overthinking recently…? Atobe-san saw through that…)

KABAJI: Hiyoshi… a tug.

HIYOSHI grunts and reels in a fish.

ATOBE: Not bad.

HIYOSHI sighs.

KABAJI: Another tug.

HIYOSHI grunts and reels in a fish.

ATOBE: Heh… you’re doing well.

HIYOSHI sighs.

KABAJI: Another tug.

HIYOSHI grunts and reels in a fish. ATOBE chuckles.

ATOBE: Seems the fish aren’t taking my bait.

HIYOSHI sighs.

HIYOSHI: (Th, this is… before Atobe-san has even caught a single one, I’ve already caught three…)

KABAJI: Another tug.

HIYOSHI grunts and reels in a fish.

HIYOSHI: (This… am I really overthrowing…!)

HIYOSHI: (No, wait a moment. This isn’t what I should be trying to overthrow him in.)

HIYOSHI: Atobe-san… you haven’t caught anything, have you.

ATOBE chuckles.

ATOBE: I’m always up against the kingpins.

ATOBE: … Come to think of it, my last three years of tennis have always been up against the kingpins.

HIYOSHI: ……

ATOBE: ...That one kingpin, I would’ve liked to go head to head with him too.

HIYOSHI: Perhaps… you mean Rikkai’s Yukimura-san?

ATOBE: ……

KABAJI: Usu. A tug!¹¹

HIYOSHI: Whoa! What’s with this fierce tug!

ATOBE: Heh…

ATOBE: It’s here! The kingpin!

HIYOSHI: What!? That’s…! 1 metre… no, even longer?

ATOBE: Be… caught by my prowess!!¹²

ATOBE reels in a giant fish. It splashes water everywhere.

HIYOSHI: What!? Why are there tuna in a mountain streammmmmmmmmmmmm!?

ATOBE: They call it the master of this river, the King! We have a match!

KABAJI: The winner is Atobe-san.

HIYOSHI: Th, This person is… with just one catch… he took it all.

ATOBE: Kabaji! Catch and release!!

ATOBE snaps his fingers.

KABAJI: Usu!

KABAJI releases the tuna back into the water.

ATOBE: Ha ha ha ha!

HIYOSHI: Fishing in a mountain stream…. I couldn’t… overthrow…!

ATOBE: HA HA HA HA! HA HA HA HA!

• (11) Kabaji uses polite form here instead of plain form which he was using earlier with Hiyoshi, indicating that he’s addressing Atobe now
• (12) this is another play on Atobe’s “be intoxicated by my prowess” but the sentence structure kind of ruins the effect 😭 it’s more like “by my prowess… be caught!” to preserve the joke but then it isn’t recognisable as a riff on his catchphrase

CHAPTER 9
SCENE 12
Hyotei tennis courts, day.

HIYOSHI is supervising the CLUB MEMBERS for swing practice.

HYOTEI TENNIS CLUB MEMBERS: 1! 2! 1! 2!

HIYOSHI: First-years, louder! 1! 2! 1! 2!

HIYOSHI: Let's go! Second-years to Court 3, first-years to Court 2.

Enter GAKUTO and SHISHIDO.

GAKUTO: Hiyoshi, get over here. I haven’t played you in ages.

HIYOSHI: Thank you very much. But I have to go supervise the first-years.

OOTORI: Hiyoshi, it’s okay.

OOTORI: Since Mukahi-san has offered, Kabaji and I will supervise the first-years.

KABAJI: Usu.

HIYOSHI: No, this is my duty as captain. You two should also go and train.

SHISHIDO: If it’s first-years and second-years, us third-years can also supervise.

HIYOSHI: I won’t take advantage of my senpai. So—

SHISHIDO: Wakashi.

HIYOSHI: Yes?

SHISHIDO sighs.

SHISHIDO: Your enthusiasm is fine, but… are you okay?

HIYOSHI: What is that supposed to mean?

GAKUTO: I kinda feel like you’ve changed…

HIYOSHI: I haven’t changed at all.

GAKUTO: If you say you haven’t changed, then… maybe something’s missing.

HIYOSHI: Missing?

SHISHIDO: No, it’s nothing. Do your best!

Exit GAKUTO and SHISHIDO.

HIYOSHI: …… Ootori, Kabaji… what do you think?

OOTORI and KABAJI exchange glances.

OOTORI: ……

KABAJI: ……

HIYOSHI: You two also think the same? That it feels like I’m missing something as a captain?

OOTORI: It’s not like that. I really respect all the effort you’ve put in since you became captain.

KABAJI: Usu.

OOTORI: You delay your own training… you’re always thinking about the future of the tennis club.

HIYOSHI: Of course.

OOTORI: But… I can understand a bit of what Shishido-san and Mukahi-san are saying.

HIYOSHI: What am I missing as a captain?

OOTORI shakes his head.

OOTORI: It’s not like that. It’s not about you as a captain…

HIYOSHI: I am not Atobe-san. Surpassing Atobe-san as a captain… I can’t...

OOTORI: Can’t you?

HIYOSHI: … Eh?

OOTORI: Before being a captain, you're Hiyoshi Wakashi… isn’t there something you’ve forgotten about that?

HIYOSHI: ……

HIYOSHI: Surpassing… Atobe-san…!

OOTORI frowns.

OOTORI: … Hiyoshi!

HIYOSHI: Surpassing… that’s right! I’m… before being a captain, I have to surpass Atobe-san… wasn’t that right?

KABAJI: Usu.

HIYOSHI: I’d almost lost sight of myself... in the changing environment of being captain.

HIYOSHI: This is what Shishido-san and Mukahi-san meant, isn’t it?

KABAJI: Usu!

HIYOSHI: That’s right… I am Hiyoshi Wakashi! My goal is to overthrow Atobe Keigo!

CHAPTER 10
SCENE 13
Hyotei tennis courts, afternoon.

HIYOSHI is training alone on the court.

HIYOSHI: I’ll defeat him! The King of Hyotei, Atobe Keigo!

HIYOSHI: Overthrowing him… I’ll definitely achieve it!

Enter OOTORI and KABAJI.

OOTORI: Hiyoshi.

HIYOSHI: Ootori, Kabaji, you haven’t gone home yet? Practice time is already over.

OOTORI: This is very Hiyoshi. Day after day after day, once training is over, you always stay behind by yourself and practice?

HIYOSHI: Yes… To overthrow Atobe-san… I don’t have much time left.

OOTORI: If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better to use your time more effectively during training?

HIYOSHI: I refuse to cut corners in my responsibilities as captain. Atobe-san was the same.

KABAJI: Usu.

HIYOSHI: As captain, I’ll look after the whole club, and then defeat Atobe-san! Otherwise, it won’t be a true overthrow.

OOTORI: Then I’ll do it with you.

KABAJI: Usu.

HIYOSHI: Ootori… Kabaji… I appreciate your sentiments, but… I have to do this by myself.

OOTORI: There’s really nothing better than actual training, though, is there?

HIYOSHI: That’s…

OOTORI smiles.

OOTORI: At least let me do this much. From now on, we’ll lead Hyotei Academy together.

KABAJI: Usu!

HIYOSHI: … I’m sorry.

OOTORI: Hey, don’t be like that.

OOTORI: So? How will we attack Atobe?

HIYOSHI: It’s simple. I’ll thoroughly study Atobe-san and surpass him. That’s all there is to it.

Enter SHISHIDO and GAKUTO.

SHISHIDO: Sounds good.

GAKUTO: In order to defeat your enemy, you’ve gotta know him inside-out.

HIYOSHI: Shishido-san… Mukahi-san…

SHISHIDO: Oh well, we’ll help out too.

HIYOSHI: Eh?

GAKUTO: Your vision’s getting good, Hiyoshi.

SHISHIDO: Go ahead and crush Atobe Keigo brilliantly.

HIYOSHI: Alright!

GAKUTO: Dealing with Atobe… we also have some plans.

HIYOSHI: Can you tell me so I have something to refer to?

SHISHIDO: How about spiking Atobe’s drink with a laxative?

HIYOSHI: … Eh?

GAKUTO: Kabaji.

KABAJI: You cannot.

OOTORI laughs nervously.

OOTORI: Shishido-san, that was a bad joke.

GAKUTO: What about asking Atobe to put on a flashy show before a match?

SHISHIDO: A flashy show?

GAKUTO: It’s Atobe’s thing. And when I say flashy, I mean like parachuting down from the sky to arrive.

HIYOSHI: ……

GAKUTO: When he lands, get him before he can get rid of the parachute.

SHISHIDO: Ohh, so he won’t be able to move very well.

HIYOSHI: Um… That’s not what I meant.

Enter OSHITARI.

OSHITARI: What on earth are you all thinking?

HIYOSHI: Oshitari-san… we were really joking just now.

OSHITARI: Of course you were. There’s no way Atobe can be defeated like that.

SHISHIDO: So it’s impossible?

OSHITARI: … The bath, though.

GAKUTO: The bath?

HIYOSHI: … Huh?

OSHITARI: Whenever Atobe takes a bath, always floating in the tub is… what?

GAKUTO: … A ton of rose petals!

OSHITARI: That’s right. Soak all the petals in an addictive substance.

SHISHIDO: What?

HIYOSHI: ……

OSHITARI: Atobe will be so drenched in the potion coming out of the petals that he’ll... lose control of his body.

SHISHIDO: And then… we’ll get him, yeah?

GAKUTO: That’s it!

HIYOSHI: Everyone… you’re kidding, right?

KABAJI, OOTORI: ……

OSHITARI chuckles.

OSHITARI: Hiyoshi. I’m anticipating it… the overthrowing.

HIYOSHI: … I’m a fool to feel a little bit moved…

EPILOGUE

SCENE 15
Hyotei regulars’ clubroom, day.

HIYOSHI, OOTORI and KABAJI are holding a meeting.

OOTORI: Why don't we increase the on-court training time for the first-years?

HIYOSHI: It might be possible if we use the indoor court in conjunction, and increase the mixed training time with the second-years.

KABAJI: Usu.

HIYOSHI: Or incorporate some more practical exercises?

KABAJI: …… Atobe-san….. and the others…...

HIYOSHI: Hm…….?

KABAJI: Matches……

OOTORI: Right…… Competitive matches against the third-years?

KABAJI: Usu.

HIYOSHI: I see. There are only a few days left for Atobe-san and everyone else to come to training.

KABAJI: Usu.

OOTORI: …… I’d like to fight them. Strong people, that is.

Enter ATOBE.

ATOBE: Very good!

HIYOSHI: Atobe-san.¹³

ATOBE: I’ll prepare the best opponent and stage, as befitting a strong enemy.

HIYOSHI: …?

Fade to black.

SCENE 16

Hyotei school hallway, day.

ATOBE is calling YUKIMURA on the phone.

YUKIMURA: Hello?

ATOBE: It’s Atobe.

YUKIMURA: Eh?

ATOBE: What’s with the surprise? Hmm?

YUKIMURA: Oh, no… it’s only that this is so sudden.

ATOBE: Anyway, I figured that by now you’d be itching to finish off the last three years with a battle against a strong opponent.

YUKIMURA: Mm.

ATOBE: I’ll prepare the best opponent.

ATOBE: … Hyotei Academy Tennis Club!

• (13) the voiceline that plays here is 'Atobe-buchou,' though

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