Burning Fighting Spirit! Flame's Serious Match/Story 4

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Everyone, good work.**

**Fudo Akane**
**Ah, Tsubasa-chan! You came!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Yes. I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the match... I'll go get the car, so I can send you back to your apartments.**

**Shingari Miroku**
**Thanks, Tsubasa.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**...**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**(Huh... Yuuta-kun's dispirited. Maybe the practice match didn't go well...?)**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**... Uhm, Yuuta-kun.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Nh?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Well... Uhm, I prepared a light meal in the car. Please eat it on the way home.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Tsubasa-chan... Yep, thanks.**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**(I knew it, he's not doing well. I'm worried, but... let's leave this conversation for later.)**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**I'll leave the rest to the driver.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Huh... you're still not going back, Tsubasa-chan?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Yes, I'm going to pick Masunaga-san up. He's still practicing at the Kyudo court.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**I see, Massu...**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Hey, can I tag along? I want to see Massu's practice.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**So this is the Kyudo court... the atmosphere is different from our dojo. It's like, tingling?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Ah. Massu's over thereーー...**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Fuh...**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**...**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Woah...! He pierced the center...!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Masunaga-san is really amazing, isn't he? He was very good from the first day, but his accuracy increased with each passing day.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Is that so... He's really amazing. Like a pro.**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Fuー...**

**Ashu Yuta**
**The next already?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Wh...**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Whoah!?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Yuuta-kun...!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Sorry! I think I stepped on a board or something! Massu was even focusedーー**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**...**

**Ashu Yuta**
**What, he still is...!?**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Fuu...**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**... Oh?**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**You were here, Yuuta. Thanks.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**No! Rather, I'm sorry. I disturbed you just now!**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Disturbed?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Yeah, with that bang sound.**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Is that so? I didn't notice, so it's all right.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**R- Really?**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Yes. Anyway, you had your practice matches today, right? How did it go?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Ah... that was... an utter failure...**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Eh... Is that so? I heard your practice was going smoothly, though.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**The training, yes, I can't say the same for the matches, though.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**I thought I could do better, but I wasn't feeling well and because I was full of openings they took my leg and...**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**That's too bad. However, you can overcome it if you know the issue, right?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Akanechin told me the same, but, honestly, I feel a bit depressed...**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Yuuta...**

**Ashu Yuta**
**... Hey, with what kind of feeling do you draw the bow, Massu?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**How can you focus on your own world without being deceived by the sounds around you?**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**You see... For me, it's close to what I feel before going up on stage?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**You mean, what you feel before a live?**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Exactly. I'm thrilled, nervous, anxious, but just before going up on stage... don't you have a moment when everything disappears?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**I have...! It's like all the hard feelings are gone!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**You're so thrilled, but you suddenly feel like you've become invincible, right?**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Yes, that feeling. Perhaps you can deliberately create an image on that?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Eh, you can do such a thing...!?**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**I can't say it's the same, but it's close. Breathing might be the key to that as well.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Breathing...**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**My instructor taught me that your posture and breathing are above anything else in Kyudo. If you shape up the two, it'll expand naturally your mind, too.**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**I started to be conscious from then, so when I want to concentrate now I inhale and exhale several times... Lastly, I try to inhale for the longest time the moment I draw the bow.**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Just like when I'm taking a deep breathe, I accept all the feelings within me. And because of that my mind will not shake.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**Accept all the emotions like when you're breathing...**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**This is just what I feel, I don't know whether or not you can use it for Judo, though.**

**Ashu Yuta**
**No... It was really helpful. It's strange, but I understand what you said!**

**Ashu Yuta**
**I'll have to figure out if I can do it myself, so... I'll at least​ give it a try!! I'll become invincible with my own power!**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Eh, Yuuta-kun...!?**

**Ashu Yuta**
**I'll go to the car first!!**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**Pf... I wonder if he understood something? I'll also prepare to go home, so can you wait just a bit?**

**Sumisora Tsubasa**
**Of course, but, before that... Thank you very much. Yuuta-kun looked really depressed.**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**No need to, I just talked about me after all. The rest depends on Yuuta.**

**Masunaga Kazuna**
**I'm sure he'll do fine, though.**