PREVIOUS TRANSLATIONS I DID including volumes 1 & 2: http://taki-sensei.tumblr.com/hibike-euphonium-manga

Link to Chinese manga so you can follow along: http://tw.manhuagui.com/comic/16480/169099.html#p=2

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Page 2: (cover) Sound! Euphonium: What’s the issue between Kumiko and Reina…..?

Page 3

Hazuki: “Sunfes?”

Asuka: “Yup.”

Asuka: “It’s the 23rd Sunrise Festival this year.”

Riko: “Kyoto’s high schools all give a marching band performance in Sunrise Park.”

Kumiko: “Ohh~~”

Asuka: “Here”

Asuka: “Sheet music.”

Page 4:

Kumiko: “Can’t Buy Me Love… a Beatles song?”

Asuka: “Yeah! This song was released in March 1964 by the Beatles Band–”

Gotou: “Senpai, that’s enough…”

Asuka: “Also… This time, we’re only allowing first-years with playing experience to participate in the performance.”

Midori: “Um”

Midori: “Then what about Hazuki-chan?”

Asuka: “Hehehe…”

Asuka: “She’ll be in colorguard.”

Midori: “Co- colorguard?!”

Page 5:

Riko: Ah–…… Don’t worry, it’s okay"

Riko: “It’s just hopping and dancing behind the band…”

Natsuki: “lol last year Riko was so nervous that she ended up not properly learning the colorguard moves”

Riko: “NATSUKI!!”

Hazuki: “Natsuki-senpai, you were previously a beginner too, right?”

Natsuki: “Yup”

Asuka: “Well, we’ve still got a month of time, so we should be fine.”

Asuka: “After Sunfes ends, we’ll be diving headfirst into preparations for competition.”

Page 6: Flashback with Shuiichi and Kumiko

Classroom sign reads “Music Classroom.”

Taki-sensei: [waving baton] “Okay, let’s stop here.”

Page 7:

Taki-sensei: [disappointed-teacher-voice] “What is this?”

Page 8:

Taki-sensei: “President.”

Haruka: “Hai…”

Taki-sensei: “I recall telling you to gather everyone for an ensemble rehearsal only after everyone was ready to play together. Am I right?”

Haruka: “H– hai…”

Taki-sensei: “And *this* is the result?”

Band: “……”

Page 9:

Student A: [whispering] “Wtf…”

Student B: [whispering] “Can’t he just chill…”

Taki-sensei: “Band. Why do you think we bother to have ensemble rehearsals like this?”

Taki-sensei: “You, over there. Thoughts?”

Shuuichi: “What… me?!”

Kumiko: [thinking] Shuuichi…

Shuuichi: “Well…”

Page 10

Shuuichi: “It’s to have everyone practice playing together like they would for a performance…”

Taki-sensei: “Correct. I agree.”

Shuuichi: *relief*

Taki-sensei: “But”

Taki-sensei: “At this rate, we’ll never rehearse successfully. With your underwhelming level of personal preparation, don’t you feel ashamed to play in front of each other?”

Trombone section leader: “I–”

Page 11

Trombone section leader: “I DON’T THINK WE’RE THAT BAD!”

*Flashback to Kumiko and Shuuichi conversation*

Shuuichi: “I don’t know if Taki-sensei can handle people like the trombone section leader.”

Kumiko: [thinking] That’s…

Taki-sensei: [responding to trombone section leader] “Really? Then trombones, please play your first few measures together with this metronome.”

Taki-sensei: “1, 2, 3, 4”

Page 12

Trombones: *shitty trombone music*

Kumiko: [thinking] They’re not on tempo…

Shuuichi: [thinking] “……”

Taki-sensei: “Please stop.”

Page 13

Taki-sensei: “Okay, band. What did you think?”

Band: “……”

Taki-sensei: “In my opinion, it’s not just the trombones that were like this. Every section was the same.”

Taki-sensei: “This week, I dropped by various classrooms to check on your sectional rehearals.”

Taki-sensei: “You all seemed very relaxed.”

Taki-sensei: “There were some classrooms where I couldn’t hear any instruments being played at all.”

Page 14

Taki-sensei: “All of you decided this for yourselves at the very start. You said you want to go to nationals.”

Taki-sensei: “But what you’re doing right now is incredibly frustrating.”

Taki-sensei: “You know, I don’t come out of my house to commute to school on my weekends just to mess around with you guys.”

Taki-sensei: “I’m here to teach your ensemble rehearsals.”

Taki-sensei: “So please don’t waste my precious days off.”

Page 15:

Taki-sensei: “President.”

Haruka: “Uh– Hai!”

Tak-sensei: “We’re ending ensemble rehearsal now. Please spend the rest of your time in sectionals.”

Band: “Hai!”

Taki-sensei: “So, for next time’s ensemble rehearsal, please actually show up with the best musicianship you can offer.”

Taki-sensei: “Got it?”

Students: *silent muttering*

[Taki-sensei leaves]

Students: “…… Wtf.”

Page 16:

Student: “Why’s he gotta be so mean…!”

Student: “I’m so pissed!”

Student: “What’s he getting at?”

Student: “Isn’t that teacher kind of taking it too far?”

Student: “I can’t deal with this…”

Asuka: *CLAP*

Page 17

Asuka: “Alright alright, let the complaining cease. (And go back to your sectional rooms.)”

Haruka: “Kumiko, let’s go.”

Kumiko: “Oh okay.”

Student: “Really hope that teacher doesn’t come back.”

Student: “ikr”

Kumiko: “Reina…?”

Midori: “Kumiko-chan! Sorry!”

Page 18:

Kumiko: “……?”

Kumiko: *Ugh… today was exhausting…*

Kumiko: *I’ll take a break…*

Page 19:

Kumiko: “Ughhhhhhhhh—-”

Shuuichi: “Yo”

Kumiko: “Shuuichi”

Shuuichi: “I feel the same as you.”

Shuuichi: “Let’s change the mood.”

Kumiko: “……”

Shuuichi: “Taki-sensei is pretty scary, huh?”

Kumiko: “Yeah, pretty scary.”

Shuuichi: “Our section leader was pissed.”

Kumiko: “But”

Page 20:

Kumiko: “Kitauji really isn’t great…”

Shuuichi: “Yeah.”

Kumiko: “Does Taki-sensei really think we can get to nationals?”

Shuuichi: “Honestly, I don’t think so. With our level?”

Shuuichi: “Who knows if Taki-sensei really knows what he’s doing…”

Reina: “OF COURSE HE DOES!!”

Page 21:

Reina: “ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!”

Kumiko: “Reina?!”

Kumiko: “What’re you doing here…?”

Reina: “My house is nearby. But anyway–”

Reina: “Exactly what were you guys muttering on about?”

Shuuichi: “No– we weren’t…”

Page 22:

Reina: “Let me put this straight. Taki-sensei is a really awesome person! I don’t have any mercy for people who’re against him!”

Kumiko: “H-Hai!”

Reina: “And what about you?”

Shuuichi: “H-hai…”

Reina: “I’ll let this time fly. But next time if I hear you trash-talking Taki-sensei, you won’t get off so easily.”

Shuuichi: “We… we weren’t talking in the first place…”

Reina: “DID YOU SAY SOMETHING?!”

Shuuichi: “NOTHING!!”

Page 23:

Reina: “As long as we’re clear.”

Reina: “Seeya.”

Shuuichi and Kumiko: “……”

Page 24:

Kumiko: “She scared me…”

Shuuichi: “Kousaka is apparently so mad…”

Kumiko: “…… let’s go home…”

Shuuichi: “Hai…”

Kumiko: *Reina…*

Page 25 (flashback):

Azusa: “Found us!”

Azusa: “Kumiko, we got gold!”

Kumiko: “Yeah!!”

Kumiko: *But it’s a useless gold, since we can’t go to Kansai regionals…*

Kumiko: “But…”

Kumiko: “Rei…”

Page 26:

Kumiko: “Reina…”

Reina: “…… I hate this.”

Reina: “Why is everyone so satisfied just because we got gold?”

Reina: “Weren’t we aiming for Nationals?”

Page 27:

Reina: “I hate this.”

Reina: “I really, really hate this.”

Kumiko: “……”

Page 28 (end flashback):

Shuuichi: “Kumiko?”

Kumiko: “Oh, sorry!”

Kumiko: *I…*

[“I hate this.” Those words gradually faded from my mind…]