Lesson in Silence is Round 273 of Jōji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo manga series.
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- Title Page Character(s): Mamoru Takamura, Ippo Makunouchi, Masaru Aoki
Summary[]
It has been one week since Kimura began training with Miyata, who has been beating him at sparring sessions every single time, and using in-fighting nonetheless. While at his home thinking about his weakness, Kimura notices his fish and decides to feed her. As he holds a fly over the fish, the latter jumps up and bites it out of the boxer's hand. The next day at the gym, Mari brings over tapes of Mashiba's most recent fights, at Ippo's request, in order to help Kimura analyse them. Aoki offers to deliver the tapes as he is on his way out. Encountering Miyata, who was in the middle of roadwork, Aoki gives him the tapes and asks if Kimura has a chance of winning. Miyata refuses to respond, and Aoki explains that due to his age, it might be Kimura's last chance. He then gets on his knees and begs Miyata to help Kimura give the best he has. He begs him to help him go through the match with no regrets and they part ways. As he analyses the videos, Kimura realises just how many levels apart he and Mashiba are. Struggling to find an answer to Mashiba's technique, Kimura then realises that what out-boxers hate the most is someone constantly pushing forward. He then realises that was the reason for which Miyata would keep fighting at close range despite being an out-boxer himself. After that, he decides to start pressing forward for the remaining of his training.
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