"Thanks for the game." "where I picked up an abandoned kitten." "She's just too good." "She hit a grand slam back there." "which descended to Earth just for me." "That last one looked as if it were going into outer space." "Who in the world could she be, Mr. Manager?" "I was still just a little girl." "Thanks again!" "There's nothing for me to do or say." "Tell me, what do you do when you're not playing ball?" "Are you a part-timer?" "Don't talk to me about Haruko!" "Haruko?" "You do seem quite sharp, it's true." "What's really pathetic is that we, the Martians..." "That's Naota's girlfriend." "...with our batting like Mt." "Olympus erupting, couldn't score a single run." "We know, but Tasuku went to America, after all." "for the school festival." "And it's been like this ever since that factory came along." "with this thing in you." "You're just not working hard enough." "Don't look at it!" "All the work in the world won't help if you don't have the talent." "That was true even of Tasuku..." "And look what we've got instead." "No brains." "You're Tasuku's little brother;" "we're counting on you!" "Come on, you're Tasuku's little brother;" "knock it out of the park!" "Strike!" "You are so messed up." "Dead Ball!" "We don't know whether he's any good or not; he never even swung the bat." "No eruption there; that volcano was dead." "I wish we had a pinch-hitter { } like her on our team." "It's not normal to grow horns." "This is fantastic, Mr. Manager!" "Now we can win tomorrow's game." "This is my big surprise... my secret weapon." "Now you'll see why I've let him hang around all this time!" "Revenge!" "It's definitely you." "The bandaged look." "My name is Haruhara Haruko." "Who cares if I'm not any good at baseball?" "You are so dishonest." "Cut it out!" "I'll tell you one thing: you have to swing the bat before anything can happen." "Furikiri" "I'm home with no home runs." "Hello, Naota." "We're not going on Star Search." "Dinner will be ready shortly." "Oh..." "Oh yeah..." "Oww!" "anything, do you, Ta?" "Don't be so rough...!" "Oh, sorry about that, Haruko." "And how come it can take x-rays?" "What are you doing?" "We've got a date to go get some, right?" "Ah..." "Yeah, that's it, right there..." "That's where it was built." "Oh, your beard..." "It feels like a vibro-massager..." "Huh?" "What's the connection here, huh?" "Well?" "Something wrong?" "You could at least change out of your sweaty uniform." "You're not even breaking a sweat, are you, Ta?" "I'm out of here." "I couldn't even hold a pair of chopsticks right now." "What are you doing on the neighboring town's team, anyway?" "Making some extra money..." "Thought I'd help with the electric bill..." "Dad, keep it in doors!" "There you go, Haruko..." "go with the character." "What do you think you're doing?" "It was you I met first..." "cat's throat, it purrs, right?" "Forget it." "What about dinner?" "I made your favorite gene-spliced soybeans!" "Hey!" "If you're going to hit somebody use a baguette, not a bat." "Your family runs a bakery, after all." "Extra-spicy, huh..." "which makes all of this possible..." "You didn't have stuff like this until recently, did you?" "Feels like we've got a lot of excess stuff here lately." "I just can't deal with it." "What about you?" "Me neither." "On the other hand, if you eat it anyway, you eventually get used to it." "I hate spicy stuff." "Really?" "She seems to have a thing for you, though." "Any idea why?" "Those eyebrows...?" "the mayor, for example..." "Tight-lipped, I see?" "What do you think you're doing?" "Well, that's good." "You'd best not talk about her to other people because she's really something else." "I'm sure you'll find that out for yourself." "Oh, I'd like my receipt." "You got anything?" "Anyway, quit fooling around with older women." "They're more trouble than you can imagine." "Oh...!" "Haruko?" "Haruko?" "And you saved him?" "The grownups around here really are stupid." "Quarrel?" "With her?" "Get real." "Well, aren't you the grownup." "who burns towns to the ground." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're in a bad mood." "I wonder why." "I think I'll leave my mark again." "Are you going to be like that all day?" "I'll be your coach." "Forget it." "I'll do it as a favor..." "You and Dad are getting along, right?" "It's got parts I've never seen before." "Just leave me alone." "You don't seem to know what's what." "That cuts both ways." "I just have to have your head, I guess..." "without you adding to it." "You'll soon be hitting home runs easily." "There you go!" "That's the way!" "It's like I said: you have to swing the bat first." "No, 80!" "Try hitting it into the sky." "A true batter lets the arch loose in his mind before he swings." "See that star?" "Use it as your mark." "I'm an Earthling, after all." "It looks like it's drifting..." "People are working here!" "...you know." "Secret H.Q., Outside Mabase" "DEPT.OF(INTERSTELLAR)IMMIGRATION" "Estimated time to re-entry: minus 2200." "Incoming visual." "Are you talking about this kid here?" "In the ten hours since the attack, we lost all control." "You were so cool." "After inflicting irreparable damage on Verniers 6 through 11 as well as all three antennae, including the back-up..." "Allow me to thank you." "...it launched itself at the computer ultimately striking at the core." "The Shiosaki special operations satellite is... presently maintaining autonomous resistance..." "Supervisor Amarao?" "Hmph, doesn't seem to be poisoned." "Satellite entering descent." "You're Kitsurubami, right?" "Take care of this for me." "Excuse me?" "It's too cold..." "AHHH!" "I hate spicy stuff." "Weren't you informed?" "Those eyebrows...?" "So where's it coming down?" "especially when I'm not wearing a helmet!" "Where'd she go?" "What do you have to be afraid of?" "Oh, what's the matter with you?" "Oh, Haruko, Haruko...!" "OK, here I go!" "Oh, come on!" "Why won't it stay up?" "Oh, please, Haruko...!" "It's got THIS on it, that's why!" "Ow!" "Ow, ow, ow!" "Ow!" "We've got the marker beacon, sir!" "Mabase." "It figures." "Those eyebrows..." "Play ball!" "We'll put 'em away!" "Let's go!" "Oh, I know." "I bet it was the Great King, of Nostradamus's supposed prophecy." "That is so passe." "Well, you said it was drifting, like it lost its way..." "Oh!" "Haruko!" "What have you been doing?" "!" "The game's already started." "Besides..." "This is no time for all that dirty stuff." "You're the one who's dirty." "Let's go make some good clean swings out there." "You're playing in the game?" "I thought you weren't the type to come out swinging." "I'm not playing any dumb baseball game." "Now let's see..." "It'll be Canti's first game, you know." "Lord Canti is playing?" "You mustn't touch that with your bare hands!" "I'm going to go see!" "For your information, that home run from yesterday was no big deal!" "See if I ever ask you to coach me again!" "What are you doing there?" "He's an angel!" "Oops!" "Aw, have a heart, Haruko." "My stomach hurts!" "I begged her not to leave any marks." "What am I going to do..." "Is it?" "...if Naota sees this?" "Look, we're already involved in that way, her and I." ""That way?" Or I'll put you on a leash." "Mouth-to-mouth." "It was Ta that I met first." "It has to be you after all..." "Look, I was all bent and twisted, and couldn't get myself up." "This taste is meant for adults." "But her straightened it all out, and now I don't walk funny anymore." "Naota!" "Shut up!" "The police have already been here." "She's scary!" "Two at-bats in a row!" "She's doing it deliberately." "Got to be." "A state of emergency has just been declared for the entire Mabase area." "All citizens will evacuate as per instructions." "Nandaba Naota, sixth grader at Mabase Elementary School." "Father, Nandaba Kamon, baker, age 47 who worked at a publishing house in Tokyo a decade ago as the assistant editor of a counter-culture magazine." "This unidentified woman, calling herself Haruhara Haruko moved in with you about a month ago." "Couldn't you have used a baguette instead?" "That's what you're supposed to do." "I didn't hit anyone..." "I bet it hurt." "Did you like the soda?" "I didn't hit anyone." "Drink up." "I didn't hit anyone." "I know you've got a sweet tooth." "I like sweet stuff too." "I hit only the TV." "You admit it." "It was an accident." "And here I thought your field was the one where they only hit vending machines." "My "field?" the Devil's own city, came into existence." "Older women really are bad news." "What do you mean, "my field?"" "I mean that fighting with your father over a girl like that is a no-good proposition." "Haruko has nothing to do with it." "Haruko?" "You can stay here tonight." "You say her name easily enough." "You must get along well." "Hardly." "Stay here tonight." "She's your batting coach, right?" "I hate her." "It happened around here too the other day." "Do you like the way she swings?" "I said Haruko has nothing to do with it!" "Then why did you take a swing?" "I didn't hit him!" "It was the TV!" "So you hit the TV, right?" "It was because of my Dad!" "Huh?" "Are you jealous of your Dad?" "Yeah, that's it." "But you've just been caught up in all this." "I'm sure you've at least heard the names of the Stellar Police Fraternity..." "Where did you go?" "...and Atomsk the Pirate King." "bad person, by any chance?" "And of course, you can't tell anyone, even your family what I've talked about with you." "She's a babe, I'll grant you that." "Must've dropped them somewhere." "It's not your fault." "You're a casualty too." "There are others?" "Eyebrows..." "What about eyebrows?" "Nothing..." "A state of emergency has just been declared for the entire Mabase area." "All citizens will evacuate as per instructions." "Where'd she go?" "A state of emergency..." "It was six years ago." "Hear the thunder echo!" "I thought so." "He comes with a quake and a roar!" "Welcome..." "Lord of Terror!" "Nostradamus may be passe but calling him day in and day out paid off after all." "I guess you prefer your real father after all, huh?" "I wasn't of any help to Haruko." "I BET!" "She asked me to lend her my head, and I gladly agreed." "You can have it." "I guess I died for a while, though." "This isn't right." "N-O." "Your head, that is." "Using the difference in thought processes between our left and right brains they open hyperspace channels for transportation of materials." "They can cross thousands of light-years in an instant." "They can't use just anyone's head of course." "I tell you, that Haruko is something special...!" "but its remains are still here." "All you hit was a puppet." "Look..." "No different from a vending machine." "And no one who'd swing a bat in a real game would do that." "Right now, though, there's a satellite with a bomb on board, heading for this very town." "would do such a thing, right?" "Even evacuating this instant wouldn't save anyone." "This one's bigger than the one before!" "So go back and tell her..." "Tell her that a local fan wanted her to bat one more ball out of the park." "Yo!" "What's with this mechanical version of my Dad?" "with his lies about being a Marquis." "Who are you, really?" "I am the illusion of youth in the heart of your childhood days." "What's that from... some anime?" "Do you know about the satellite heading this way?" "Double-headers are rough." "Let go of me!" "Tell "Local Fan" that it's going to cost him." "Shouldn't we protest to Fraternity?" "No." "Why did you go and eat Ta?" "!" "That satellite was our insurance against the worst-case scenario." "We can't go public with it." "Raharu is one scary lady, I must say?" "using secrets to get what you want." "Raharu?" "You're definitely doing it!" "You're groping all over her!" "Haruha Raharu." "She engineered this situation in order to disrupt negotiations between Medical Mechanica and the government, in other words, us." "And she'd even destroy the town to achieve her ends." "I feel sorry for that boy." "If that thing hits, I guess we won't have school tomorrow..." "two standing there for?" "!" "Looks like it's heading straight for us!" "This is where it'll do the least damage." "real and what wasn't." "Now then..." "Hey, hold on!" "What is this?" "and do whatever I could for her." "A shower cap." "Well, well, so this is what boys are like." "Hey, don't grab me like that!" "Here we go!" "Not so rough...!" "Come on, out you get." "The more worked up you get, the harder it is to take out!" "What's that supposed to be?" "I'm not going to be in that lousy play." "Your bat." "Oh wow..." "That kid's got some nerve..." "Altitude: 20,000 meters." "Now entering final re-entry configuration." "Initiating purge." "Entering atmosphere." "by the voting results." "Now just do it the way I taught you." "kissing business, anyway?" "What do you... hey!" "I can't tell you about that!" "Look!" "Here it comes!" "Not the boy!" "The little brat doesn't stand a chance!" "You must abide by it." "Incoming!" "10,000 meters!" "I can't do it!" "No way!" "Haruko?" "Haruko?" "Hey!" "It's rotating!" "It's a sinker!" "My brother!" "So he folds up in the clutch after all." "Citizens of Mabase, this could well be so long..." "He's getting pushed back!" "He connected...!" "No!" "It's going to explode!" "He connected..." "Before I knew it, I'd swung the bat." "My palms were still tingling." "I wondered if this was how Haruko felt when she did it..." "Confirmed by Nobeyama CC." "Confirmed by TTR tracking rader, too." "The bomb has achieved escape velocity..." "you'd get the lead role!" "...and is entering satellite orbit." "That bitch...!" "What's happening to me?"