Those Who Chase and Those Who Are Chased

"Those Who Chase and Those Who Are Chased" (Japanese: 追う者、追われる者) is the sixth episode of Farewell, My Dear Cramer, written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa.The series is published in Kodansha's *Monthly Shōnen Magazine* since May 2016. The episode premiered on May 9, 2021 on Tokyo MX.

## Overview

The futsal tournament begins. The Warabis encounter Rei Kutani, who was Ito and Tsukuda's former teammate in middle school. In the final match of the futsal tournament, the girls face off against Rei's team Hairis.

Meanwhile, Eriko, Makoto, Ayumu, and Noriko make attempts to convince Coach Asuka to let the girls train with the boys. Goro happened to overhear the girls and hatched his own plan to help them.

## Plot

The futsal tournament begins. After a couple of matches with other teams, the Warabis encounter Rei Kutani, who is playing right next to their field. While Kutani and Tsukuda have a heated conversation, Ito tells Onda that Kutani was in the same team as Tsukuda and herself in middle school. In the final match of the futsal tournament, the girls face off against Kutani's team Hairis. During the match, Kutani has a tendency to push or trip her opponents. When she is called out about it, she replies that it's a valid method because she believes physical players are more important than talented players. Onda insults Kutani and challenges her method of physicality. During a break, Soshizaki points out that the team can't beat Hairis in terms of physicality because their legs are longer than Warabis'. Suo brings up the idea of treating Hairis like a raging bull. The two girls inspire Ito to push Kutani in the match. In the last minutes of the match, despite Soshizaki blocking the way, Kutani manages to score the last goal for Hairis.

Meanwhile, Eriko, Makoto, Ayumu, and Noriko make attempts to convince Coach Asuka to let the girls train with the boys. For instance, they know that Asuka has a crush on the school nurse Machiko Ono and threatens him that they will tell her his feelings for her if he doesn't let them play with the boys. Asuka took that it was time to confess to Ono and ignored the training part. When all of their attempts failed, they seem to finally give up. Goro happened to overhear the girls and hatched his own plan to help them.

In the physical education prep room, Soshizaki apologizes to the rest of the girls because the team didn't win the futsal tournament. Rui, Saori, and Karina apologize for not getting to the futsal tournament in time while Shiratori is punished for taking the limited express. With excitement, Soshizaki reveals that they won the second place prize which has the 30,000 yen certificate. However, it's not enough to get new kits so Suo gathered job offers from her temple parishioners.

   Meanwhile, Goro drops a picture in from of Asuka, Asuka picks it up to see a picture of him and a girl in a gym. Goro threatens to show this to Machiko. In the end, Asuka agrees to let the girls practice with a few members of the boys team while the rest of the boys have intra-team matches.

   Naoko shows the girls their new practice field. They begin to practice for the Saitama prefectural preliminaries.

## Trivia

* Kutani's magazines reference various football players such as Alessandro Del Piero, Shunsuke Nakamura, Gheorghe Hagi, and Roberto Baggio.