Yamauchi Hitoshi

山内仁史, Yama
11
Yama meets Togawa in the same time as Tora. He is also in the Tigers039 team and introduces Togawa to it. Yama has an illness that makes him lose little by little the use of his muscles. Yama was the manager of the Hanazawa Middle School track team before his illness prevented him from. He knows every national 100m race winner even stating that the last one was won by Togawa as before he stopped because of his leg he quotran the fastestquot. He talks to Togawa about his illness saying he will not live after 20 without being resentful what Togawa doesnrsquot understand being depressive after his own operation. Yama tells him that quotnobody knows why we039re alive. We don039t have time to botherquot. When Yama can hardly go out of his home Togawa often visits him always with a remainder of the Tigers and Yama is always cheerful about it. He once assumed Azumi and Togawa were together saying they were quota nice couplequot and asking about their engagement embarrassing them both. As the disease progresses Yama becomes very negative and bitter making Togawa distressed. To help him Togawa tells him how much of a hero he is to him showing so much normality when he knew he was doomed and helping him too.
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