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DIVE!! (Light Novel) - Book 4 Chapter 10 - Final Stage ▶ Youichi
Book 4 Chapter 10 - Final Stage ▶ Youichi
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Cleared—.
Finally, the last dive. Who the koalas of destiny were really smiling at, whether one liked it or not the outcome of the tenth round will decide that.
As Youichi entered the stage of the final battle, even while his head was delirious with a burning high fever, it was frighteningly clear.
He finally arrived here. He had crawled up somehow. However, he still had the fun of aiming for 600 points with this very last round.
At the end of the ninth round, only Youichi, Shibuki, Tomoki, and Camel maintained the hope of 600 points. Based on the degrees of difficulty for their last dives, even if Asama and Ogawa got perfect scores they won’t be able to realize their dreams, and in fact, having already dived their tenth event, their total scores were already well below 600.
The rankings of the divers who had finished all of their performances so far were as followed.
First place, Asama Takashi (547.47 points).
Second place, Ogawa Shinobu (513.18 points).
Third place, Tsuji Toshihiko (504.15 points).
Fourth place, Matsuno Kiyotaka (491.74 points).
Fifth place, Maruyama Reiji (453.09 points).
Sixth place, Moriya Kazuteru (452.82 points).
Seventh place, Kaburagi Shinji (382.83 points).
Here, the results of the remaining five divers were inserted, confirming the final rankings.
Reiji, who had defeated two university students on this big stage, had already went to a corner of the poolside and sank down like a jellyfish. His real feelings probably hadn’t come out yet. However, before long joy should fill his heart, followed by frustration. That joy and frustration would spur an athlete onto the next stage.
The SS Special ’99. When he completed this final dive that he even named himself, would he be able to reflect upon it with only joy? Or would his fever go up even more because of too much frustration?
He needed 85.17 points to get to 600. Youichi was well aware of the fact that it would be a Herculean task to get those points with a dive with a degree of difficulty of 2.9.
But, he did not care about such things anymore.
What was most important now was that he was here.
To understand himself who was here.
—It’s somewhat perfect.
From before he did his performance, Youichi was filled with an unprecedented happiness, like he was already hugging his koala to his chest.
After the whistle sounded the beginning of the whistle, he did not jump out to the rhythm of one, two, three, and slowly counted ten seconds because he couldn’t bear to let go of that feeling of happiness.
The towering concrete dragon. There the top of the mother dragon accepted the sweat, heat and shivers of all who had stood there, and Youichi entrusted his two feet there, looking out over the venue more deliberately than usual. In the main pool where the festival ended, the staff were already beginning the cleanup. The stands had also become empty, like the tide had pulled everyone in, the tumult from earlier seeming like a bad joke. In the stands of the diving pool that had always been quiet, Kyouko, who he had met in Tsugaru during the summer, had come to cheer. Tomoki’s brother Hiroya and his rumored ex-girlfriend also came together. Behind them was Chairman Maebara, his eyes as provocative-looking as ever. Sachiya, who was thrusting his little flag straight up; Ooshima, who was fidgeting restlessly; Kayoko, who was clasping her hands together tightly as usual; they were all there. Then, there was his sour-faced father, looking he swallowed a bitter bug, Fujitani Keisuke—.
When he remembered, he unconsciously broke into a smile. He could have never imagined that his father would do that in the ninth round. It was probably an unexpected situation for him as well, because when Youichi looked at him after coming out of the water from finishing his performance, he was looking down with his face as red as Flaming Jirou.
Somehow it made him laugh. It was only funny to him. But while he laughed and found it funny, the back of his throat clogged up, he felt hot, something welled up within him, and he was able to endure all that with all his strength.
To Youichi, who was facing the last battle with the remaining heat in his chest, he no longer had anything to be afraid of.
The fever.
The chills.
The headaches.
His consciousness that was prone to be distant.
His trauma from the incident.
All of that was covered by the falling snow, becoming the pure white, smooth past.
The SS Special ’99.
Surely, now he could dive perfectly—.
He fixed his line of sight, pulled up his chin, and quickly checked all his muscles. Trapezius muscles. Pecs. His six pack. Brachialis muscles. Elbow muscles. Finger muscles. Glutes. The rectus femoris muscles. The vastus medialis. Hand muscles. (1) Standby, OK.
Alright, let’s go, his brain relayed that command to every nook and cranny of his body, and Youichi stirred his feet, flipping high up into the air. To the direction of exactly forty-five degrees. His center of gravity went from his heels to his toes. He withstood the contradiction of diving “forwards” while rotating “backwards”, and when all his muscles modelled the exact top form from the movements during practice, what recurred in Youichi’s mind wasn’t all the blood and sweat until now, but his mother’s spent voice for some reason.
During the lunch break after the preliminaries, Youichi, who had been thinking about withdrawing from the finals because of too much exhaustion, got a call from his phone—.
Hello, Youichi? How are you doing? Yes, your father called me earlier, and he was acting a little funny. He asked, ‘how did, how did Melos…in the end, how did Melos make it in time,’ in a scary voice… Yes, that Melos. I said that I didn’t remember it well, but that I’m positive that he ran all the way until the end anyways. Then your father said, ‘I see, so he ran until the end, that’s good then…yes, that’s good then’, many times over…
Without separating his knees in the slightest, Youichi had the spectators’ eyes glued to his perfect 2½ in pike position, fixing his entry at a ninety degrees angle, and thereupon exhausting all of his strength.
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Translation Notes
1. The trapezius muscles are the muscles that stretch from the back of the neck to the back of the shoulders. The brachialis muscles are the muscles that flex the elbow joints. The rectus femoris muscles are in the middle of the front of the thigh. The vactus medialis are in the back of the thighs.
