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froggytranslates · 8 years

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Translation of “Kanojo no Hahen” from Ano Ko ni Yasashii Sekai ga Ii

“She’s crying again.”

“The two from class B?”

“They’re always together, constantly in contact.”

“But it’s kind of...”

“Fu-fu”

“Everyone’s so awful, spreading rumors without care.”

“Mochinaga-san...”

M: “It’s okay. You can’t be bothered by what the others are saying.”

M: “Shiki-san isn’t creepy.”

S: “...Why for someone like me...”

M: “Because I want to be Shiki-san’s friend.”

(Makes me feel sick.)

“Mochinaga~”

“Help~”

M: “What’s wrong?”

“These are the notebooks and handouts for history~ We have to hurry and meet for student council so...”

[My childhood friend Mochinaga Chisato]

M: “Okay, okay. I just have to bring it to the staff room, right?”

“You’re a lifesaver~!”

“I’ll get you 5 yen chocolate next time”

“So cheap!”

[She was really put together from a young age.]

[She treats everyone equally with a smile and kindness]

[She’s the type who offers to do things without prompting. She likes being relied on by others.]

S: “Chisato-chan.”

[She hasn’t changed.]

M: “Aiko.”

S: “I want to help out too.”

M: “What are you saying, when you have no strength.”

S: “But...”

M: “You can’t hold anything heavier than a pen, right?”

S: “Geez~ You always say things like that...”

“Chisato.”

“Give it to me.”

M: “Masumi.”

Ma: “Should I bring it all to Suzuki-sensei?”

M: “Yeah...”

Ma: “Okay, let’s go-”

M: “Ah, wait!”

M: “Then, we’ll be off for a bit.”

S: “Nn.”

“Those two are so close”

Ma: “Don’t just take any job that comes your way.”

Ma: “I always tell you.”

M: “Hnnn~ Isn’t it fine either way.”

M: “I mean I’m touched they rely on me so”

Ma: “I see.”

Ma: “I don’t get it.”

M: “That’s fine with me.”

Ma: “Also... Chisato, you should use your time for yourself. What you’re doing, I don’t think it’s good for the other person either.”

M: “I’m going on ahead. Aiko’s surely waiting for me so. Thanks for helping.”

S: “I’m sorry Chisato-chan. I... won’t say that anymore. I’m sorry.”

M: “... It’s fine.”

M: “I won’t avoid you. Aiko... there’s nothing wrong with you so... we’ll always be frien-”

S: “Chisato-chan.”

M: “Aiko.”

M: “You didn’t have to wait for me here.”

S: “...Sorry.”

M: “Let’s go.”

S: “...Okay”

S: “Chisato-chan, I’ve always”

Ma: “What’s that?”

M: “What?”

Ma: “You ear...”

M: “Oh, I opened it yesterday.”

M: “Aiko said she wanted us to have something matching so... each one ear.”

Ma: “What?”

Ma: “Isn’t it usually like a handkerchief or cellphone strap? For girls.”

M: “Hmmm...”

M: “But she insisted on it.”

Ma: “I guess”

“Chisato, you’re so nice.”

“She’s really attached to you~”

M: “What?”

“By Shiki-san.”

M: “...You think so?”

“I mean, that girl doesn’t talk to anyone except you.”

“Even though you’re in different classes, she comes to see you every break.”

“Like a boyfriend.”

“You’re so loved”

M: “Stop it~”

“You helped her when she was bullied in middle school, right?”

“Because of that~ I see.”

M: “Geez... who did you hear that from?”

“From Kurata-kun!”

M: “Gosh, that guy...”

M: “It really wasn’t that big of a deal.”

“How cool~”

“Hey~ Mochinaga~”

“Oh, she’s here.”

M: “What’s up, Aiko.”

S: “Um... After school, do you have some time? I couldn’t understand today’s math at all...”

M: “You know that I’m not that good at math either right~”

S: “Ah... but... even if it’s not math...”

M: “...We might as well do our homework together then”

S: “Yeah...”

M: “Then see you after school. Is the library okay?”

S: “Ah... I brought some sweets today.”

M: “Nice! Then let’s do it at your desk”

S: “I’m sorry for keeping you so late.”

M: “It’s fine, it’s fine. Since we got all of the handouts done.”

S: “But.. You’re going home with Kurata-kun right...?”

M: “Ummm well it’s not like we’ve made any promise. He might’ve gone home already~ He’s always super spaced out...”

“-But there were rumors from middle school right? That Shiki-san is a lesbian.”

“What, really!?”

“I mean, I heard that’s why she was bullied.”

“She confessed to another girl right?”

“But I guess it makes sense.”

“I mean she kind of has an odd air about her.”

“I’ve never seen her talk to boys.”

“That’s true!”

“But you know, even if it was true...”

“There’s no need for her to hide it like that. I mean, it’s not a bad thing.”

“Hey, I’m sure it takes a lot of courage to tell those around you.”

“You think so?”

“I saw a movie about that stuff a while back~”

“Holding prejudices towards gay people is such an old people thing.”

“Shiki-san’s so pretty anyways.”

“When you line her up next to Chisato, with her height, I always thought it looked like a painting.”

“I mean, they hold hands a lot.”

“Maybe the one she confessed to was Chisato?”

[.... what?]

“I mean, if it was those two, they’d look so cute together!”

[How]

[How can you say things like that...]

M: “Stop it...”

M: “I feel sick.”

Ma: “Chisato.”

[Ah.]

Ma: “Let’s go home.”

[Ah.]

S: “...Then. See you tomorrow.”

M: “...Yeah.”

[There’s no need for her to hide it like that.]

[Why...?]

M: “...Everyone just says whatever they like.”

Ma: “Because they’re just strangers. Friends.”

Ma: “Getting touched constantly, receiving excessive presents, being followed around constantly every day”

Ma: “How it feels getting confessed to by your friend.”

Ma: “Even though they don’t know what it’s like, how awful.”

M: “Masumi...”

Ma: “Because Shiki-san was the only one there... You had no choice but to be with her, right Chisato?”

Ma: “When that girl’s next to you, you get to be praised like a hero.”

M: “What are you saying...?”

Ma: “...But why don’t you stop now? It’s not good.”

Ma: “Throw her hand off properly and push her away. And tell her your true feelings Chisato.”

Ma: “Tell her to stop because it’s making you sick.”

S: “I’ve always loved you Chisato-chan...”

M: “What? Me?”

Ma: “Shiki-san, you dropped your glasses.”

S: “...The one who told the girls in the class, is you Kurata-kun?”

S: “Did you want to get in my way that bad? Because Chisato pays attention to me? Were you jealous?”

S: “Kurata-kun, you’ve always wanted to hurt me.”

Ma: (She’s half right.)

[In a middle school in the country, because it’s a small environment. Everyone has too much time and react strongly to a nail that sticks out.]

[It started as two who could not enter the circle. It might’ve looked pathetic from the outside.]

S: “The one who got hurt was Chisato. I feel bad for her.”

[Chisato has always loved being relied on.]

[She always wanted to be someone’s number one.]

Ma: “She might be crying right about now?”

[She knew that very well about her. And worked hard to little by little to indulge Chisato’s childish need for superiority.]

[Always like that, creating a reason to be near her. Value to her being near her.]

Ma: “...Why don’t you go to her?”

Ma: (How stupid.)

[A thin sheet of glass has always separated the two.]

S: “Chisato-chan.”

[Something like that, should hurry up and break.]

M: “Aiko, it’s not, it’s not like that. I really, truly”

S: “Yeah.”

M: “I love you, Aiko. Really.”

S: “Yeah.”

S: “I kow that you do. Thank you.”

S: (I’m fine with anything.)

[How idiotic.]

[If it can’t come true, then just give up. If it’s painful, then just let go.]

[That’s all there is to it.]

Ma: “Sigh... I don’t know.”

[END.]

#ano ko ni yasashii sekai ga ii #kanojo no hahen #aono nachi #manga #translations

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froggytranslates · 8 years

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Translation of “Futari de Akete” from Ano Ko ni Yasashii Sekai ga Ii

A: [This world was peaceful because of me]

A: “Yo- oh- wah-”

A: “Yo”

S: (He came again)

A: “I forgot my shoes again!! It’s so cold!!”

A: “Yo Shiki! How was school today?”

S: “You know how it went, don’t ask every time.”

A: “Eh~ Don’t say that, I just want to hear it from you.”

S: “Hmm They’re forcing jokes about the teacher’s wig too much.”

A: “What? Critiques on the class jokes?”

A: [Shiki had come to the countryside for 3 years of high school because of family circumstance.]

A: [Shiki had a secret.]

S: “There’s ink on your face again.”

S: “More importantly, do something about how my speech becomes accented...”

A: “It’s because I don’t really know Kantou-ben.”

A: [Apparently, that secret is causing his suffering.]

S: “Swimming class tomorrow’s going to be troublesome...”

A: “Ohh? Should it rain tomorrow then?”

S: “Ehhh That’s troublesome to-”

A: “Okay, okay, let’s make it rain!”

A: [That’s why, in order to save him]

S: “Bringing an umbrella’s such a pain...”

A: [I decided to change this pitiful world.]

A: “Hmmmm”

A: [So he wouldn’t have to be scared.]

A: “Yo”

A: “Shiki-kuuuun, let me in your umbrella~”

A: “This is my best joke.”

A: “I figured for rain it’s fluttering heartbeats while sharing an umbrella with a girl kind of happening.”

S: “Have a little shame.”

A: “But no one’s bothered by it.”

S: “What the hell’s going on.”

“Shiki~ See you tomorrow.”

A: “Bye.”

S: “... Hey, really regarding girls I...”

A: “See, no~one is bothered.”

A: [Here, there is nothing scary.]

A: “How was school today?”

S: “Normal.”

A: “You always say that.”

A: *Sneeze*

A: “So cold! I’m thinking a midsummer day for tomorrow”

S: “Hey, at least let the seasons pass.”

A: “I want to eat meatbuns.”

S: “Good for you.”

S: (...Looks like he’s having fun.)

S: [Just once I touched the real him.]

S: [His hands were shaking as if to beg for forgiveness.

S: [His hands were so hot I felt pity.]

S: [I’ve remembered it all this time.]

S: (Don’t screw with me.)

S: “Your hands weren’t this cold.”

A: “What?”

A: “What did you say?”

S: “Aida, how long are you going to write stuff like this?”

A: “Shiki”

S: “The one who was always scared was you.”

A: “I just”

A: “Shiki”

S: [Aida was a guy who was always drawing in his notebook from the edge of the classroom.]

S: [Once he paused his hands and brought his face up, and with eyes swaying in excitement he looked over in my direction.]

A: “I was able to draw a super cute girl just now..”

S: (He seems to be having a lot of fun alone.)

S: [Even if it was a coincidence, that moment was enough for me.]

S: “Aida.”

A: “Shiki!”

S: “What are you doing?”

A: “Eh I- It’s fading into twilight.”

S: “I see.”

A: “The rest of the class?”

S: “Who knows.”

A: “You’re okay not going where they are?”

S: “What about you, Aida.”

A: “Not really... But today’s your last day Shiki. Aren’t you going back to Tokyo tomorrow?”

S: “Hmmm”

A: “I feel like it’s kind of a waste though. I was finally able to talk to you as a third year, but you’re leaving already.”

A: “If only I had become friends with you earlier, it’s such a waste.”

S: “...I was watching you from before.”

S: “Drawing by yourself at the edge of the classroom.”

S: “And if anyone came near, you always hid it with such impressive speed.”

A: “Haha...”

S: “Hey, you said last time that you started drawing a new manga.”

A: “Eh”

S: “So in the end are you not going to let me see it?”

A: “Ah no, no! I can’t, I can’t!”

S: “What, why?”

A: “Well, um there’s a copyright kind of thing...”

S: “What?”

A: “S-Someday... When I’ve gotten better... Enough that it’ll be on a bookshelf...”

S: “I got it. I’ll wait.”

A: “...Yeah.”

S: “I’ll go to bookstores and look for yours.”

A: “You’re so serious.”

A: “But”

A: “I really looked up to you, Shiki. You’re good-looking, smart and Tokyo-ben is so fashionable.”

S: (Fashionable?)

A: “There were rumors about you in the school next door. I guess in the countryside you’d stand out. You were wasted on an all-boys school.”

A: “...So when you talked to me I wondered if I was being made fun of, but even then I was super happy.”

S: “What are you drawing?”

A: “...Thanks for being friends with me. Thanks to you, it was fun.”

S: “...Really?”

S: [Because his eyes were so honest]

S: [I had confidence.]

S: “For me, it was hard.”

“Shiki~”

A: “Ah.”

“Shiki~ What are you doing?”

“Let’s go to karaoke”

“Huh? Is that Aida next to you?”

A: “Yup!”

S: (I picked an all-boys school on purpose.)

S: [... you know that.]

“So it was you.”

“Want to go karaoke?”

A: “Nah, I’ll opt out since I don’t like them.”

“I see.”

A: “Yeah, instead um... Could you take a picture for me.”

“A picture? Of just you?”

“A two-shot with the ocean? So sad!”

A: “No!”

S: (Oh geez.)

S: [Aah, seeing Aida get hurt like that on his own calmed me down.]

“Should I be in the picture with you?”

A: “No, I mean...”

S: “I was saying we should take one together.”

“Oh, really?”

“I see.”

“What the heck is that sense of distance. Gross.”

S: [...See. Unlike me, Aida is so normal so.]

S: [Because of that, I didn’t say it, for his sake.]

S: [I held my breath and stayed still.]

S: [Yeah.]

S: “Hey Aida, let’s become unhappy together.”

S: [Secrets are miserable.]

A: “What?”

S: [...Loser. Coward. Stupid Aida.]

S: [No matter how long we stay good and wait in fear]

S: [The world won’t become kind.]

S: “Aida, I’ve always”

S: “About you”

S: “...As if.”

S: “Uuuuuugh.”

S: (Sorry, the truth is I was scared too.)

A: [Even if it was youthful indiscretion, writing a manga with a classmate as the main character...]

A: “That’s bad... It’s completely out of the question.”

A: (Plus what am I doing having him let me hold handsssss)

A: (This is something I can’t tell him.)

A: “E-Excuse me.”

A: [Tokyo has many people.]

A: “Should I go submit it tomorrow.”

A: [In the first place, did Shiki really like me...]

A: [...Letting his hand go was such a waste.]

A: “No no no, aaaahhhhh god! I wish I hadn’t cleaned up everything!”

(Kansai-ben?}

(Kansai-ben...)

[This world is still not kind.]

A: “Oh yeah, I’ll go pick up the magazine I requested to put on hold.”

[The secret is firmly put away.]

END.

#futari de akete #aono nachi #ano ko ni yasashii sekai ga ii #manga #translations

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froggytranslates · 8 years

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Translation of “An’s Garden” from Ano ko ni Yasashii Sekai ga Ii

Sawamura: “An”

S: “Come here, let’s start lunch.”

An: “Yes.”

A: “It’s delicious.”

S: “I’m glad.”

A: “Thank you Sawamura-san!”

*Alarm ringing*

A: (A normal Sawamura-san, and a normal me.)

A: [Even androids have dreams.]

A: [It’s said that dreams show you an ‘ideal’.]

A: (Do I want to become a lady?)

A: (Not to mention I said ‘It’s delicious!’ I don’t even know what delicious is.)

A: “Sawamura-san.”

A: “Sawamura-san, good morning.”

A: [The real Sawamura-san spends the majority of his day reading books.]

A: [He doesn’t work, he doesn’t talk and he doesn’t get mad.]

A: “Oomph.”

A: [I have no idea what he is thinking.]

A: (Or perhaps because I’m a failed defective I just don’t understand.)

A: (Although I am thankful that he bought me (at half price) all the same.)

A: “Sawamura-san, what shall I do for dinner?”

S: “Whatever you want.”

A: “Also, I was thinking if we decorated the shelves in the halls with flowers it would be beautiful.”

S: “Do what you want.”

A: “I’m going shopping.”

A: (He’s a defective human, I’m sure of it!)

“It seems he bought a robot as soon as his siblings and parents died.”

“Everything but his heart has ended up cold.”

“Cords and who-knows-what were hanging out from his whole body.”

“Apparently he can only move with electricity running through him, the poor thing.”

“I heard he can’t speak.”

A: “Sawamura-san is famous.”

Chiyoko: “And so tomorrow, the master (can mean husband too) and I are going to see the circus.”

C: “Since he said that he wanted to go to the circus with Chiyo, I just had to.”

C: “Hey, An. Are you listening?”

A: “Chiyoko, what’s a circus?”

C: “Well, no way~ You’re kidding right!?”

A: “?”

C: “An, you’re so funny.”

A: “I’m jealous of you, Chiyoko-chan.”

C: “Right?”

A: “Your name ‘Chiyoko’ is like a human girl’s name.”

C: (That?)

A: “I’m envious...”

C: “Really? Chiyoko’s so old and unfashionable.”

A: “Is it?”

C: “An is cute enough.”

A: “Sawamura-san please give me a name.”

*android with ‘an’ circled*

C: “Do you dislike Sawamura-san?”

A: “Uhhhh, I don’t really know.”

C: “Then I wonder what does Sawamura-san think of An.”

A: “I don’t know.”

C: “Do you not want to know?”

A: “I want to know.”

C: “Then, you have to ask.”

A: (Pepper, sake, salt, mirin, soy sauce. Yes, perfect.)

A: “How is the food today?”

A: “Since there was not enough soy sauce previously I used a stronger one today.”

A: “Is today’s food good?”

A: “...Sawamura-san do you not tell me anything because you hate me? The food Sawamura-san doesn’t like, and the things Sawamura-san wouldn’t want me to do, or things I am not allowed to do in this house. If I’m not told then no matter how lo-”

S: “You’re loud.”

S: “How about being quiet when I’m eating at least.”

A: “It’s because I’m thinking very hard for Sawamura-san’s sake.”

S: “Shut up.”

A: “Sawamura-san, Sawamura-sa-”

S: “I”

S: “Hate you.”

A: [Sawamura-san would never say shut up, it’s delicious, that he hates me.]

A: “Good morning.”

A: “Sawamura-san, today isn’t the day for shopping but I want to see a friend. May I go outside?”

A: “I’ll be off.”

A: “Chiyoko.”

C: “An.”

C: “I’m glad. I was intending to wait here three more days for you.”

A: “Chiyoko, Chiyoko, what should I do, today in my dream-”

C: “An, I’m sorry. Today I came to say goodbye.”

A: “Huh?”

C: “Today is the last day I talk to you.”

A: “The last? Why?”

C: “The master, he left this world, following his wife.”

A: “This world?”

C: “He left, pursuing a woman who died years ago.”

A: “This world.”

C: “So I’m going too.”

C: “I’m going to go see them. I want to see him sitting next to the real ‘Chiyoko’.”

A: “You’ll never meet me again?”

C: “I can’t. Are you lonely?”

A: “I don’t know.”

A: [Chiyoko will be gone.]

A: “I don’t know.”

A: [I can’t meet anymore.]

A: “...But, but not being able to see you will surely be troublesome. I don’t know but, I don’t like not being able to see you.”

C: “Hey An, put it into words like just now.”

C: “What’s good, what’s bad, what you like, what you don’t like. Anything is good. Because there’s no such thing as correct for us. An, you should be yourself.”

A: “Yes, bye.”

“Oh.”

A: “Excuse me.”

“-Ah, the one at Sawamura-san’s...”

“His family all died and he bought it, right.”

“Leaving the owner alone and walking outside at a time like this.”

“They always want to imitate humans.”

“The robots are both creepy.”

“But he’s still living, even like that I wonder if it’s worth living.”

A: “Sawamura-san, I’m back.”

S: “You’re late.”

A: “I’m sorry, Sawamura-san.”

A: “My friend, my friend says she is going to die. I didn’t know what to say. But she said that was fine...”

A: “Sawamura-san”

S: “I hate that about you.”

A: “Whi- Which part is that.”

S: “... Figure it out yourself.”

A: “I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m not smart like the others.”

A: “Because of that, I want to know more. I want to know more about Sawa-”

S: “You’re just a defective”

S: “I picked you up before you were to be disposed of.”

A: “You too, even though you’re human”

S: “You”

A: “You’re not human like at all.”

S: “You’re just a piece of steel”

A: “Even though you’re human”

A: [Oh no, what do I do]

A: “I, Even I think Sawamura-san”

*beeping sounds*

A: (Chiyoko, this place)

A: [It’s like the other world]

S: [Yes, I]

S: “I’m scared, living like this, dying like this. I’m embarrassed of myself, jealous of you who can go outside, interact with people and come into contact with them. Someday my right arm, left leg, eyes, ears and organs will stop moving and when that happens, I will be left all alone.”

S: “There’s nothing you can learn by being with me. I’m sorry that it was me... someone more normal”

A: “I want to know more, about you. I want to know.”

S: “I have nothing.”

A: “Then I’ll look with you. What Sawamura-san likes, dislikes, wants to do, wants to go and wants to see, all of it! And what to make for dinner. What flowers to decorate the hall and plant in the garden, I want to think of it together”

A: “So I want to always be next to you, and see the same things. Sawamura-san for choosing me, for finding me, thank you.”

A: “Sawamura-san, I am crying too right now. We’re the same.”

A: (Warm.)

S: “Hey, if you give too much water they’ll wither.”

A: “Really?”

S: “It’ll probably rain today too.”

A: “How do you know?”

S: “The smell.”

A: “So even rain has a smell!”

A: “This flower, my friend’s hair had a similar color. Since my hair is white because they forgot to put color in. I was always envious.”

S: “It’s the color of the moon.”

A: “Huh?”

S: “Well, I like it.”

S: “An. Let’s eat soon.”

A: “Ah, yes.”

A: [Even androids have dreams.]

A: (Chiyoko,)

A: [I wonder what this feeling is called.]

END.

#ano ko ni yasashii sekai ga ii #wish the world stay kind to you #aono nachi #manga #translations

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froggytranslates · 8 years

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Rough translations of Chapter 3

KN: [He’s there. Once I calmed down and looked, he’s here in this school. I really wasn’t looking at anything around me up until now.]

“Kozakura, Nomura (teacher) is calling you.”

KN: “Got it.”

KN: [Up until now, I would enter into a fantasy here. I didn’t have the ease of heart to say thank you.]

KN: [I didn’t say it now either!!]

KN: [Just because I figured out where I was wrong, doesn’t mean I’ll be able to fix it immediately.]

Na: “Kozakura-san, where are you going?”

KN: “The staff room.”

Na: “I see, see you then.”

KN: “Okay.”

“Nonoka~ Are you going out with Kiriyama-kun?”

KN: [Going out with!?]

KN: “.....Nope!! We aren’t going out. We just happened to work at the same place. He does go out of his way to talk to me. We’re not dating though.”

KN: [He’s a nice person.]

KR: “Nonoka, you gave him a Valentine though. If he didn’t like you, don’t you think he wouldn’t have accepted?”

KN: “Wouldn’t he accept it?”

All: “...That’s true...”

All: “Would he go out of his way to be with you if he didn’t like you? Would he come to the countdown illumination if he didn’t like you?”

KN: “He said ‘I was free and I felt like it.’”

All: “Ahhh....”

All: “....I see... So there’s nothing there....”

KN: “Yup, nothing there!!”

KN: [Nothing there right?]

KN: ‘Ah, we’re on different shifts today.’

Candy label: White Day Cookies

KN: [He’ll probably give some. I really feel like he will. Wait, maybe he actually won’t.]

KN: [Well~ But...]

KN: [I’m thinking too much about White day. Just act normal, normal!! Casual!]

KN: “Welco-...”

Na: “Working hard, I see.”

Na: “ ‘Welco-’? What about the ‘me’?”

KN: “ME.”

KN: “Shopping?”

Na: “Yeah.”

KN: [He’s not buying the cookies... He wouldn’t right. He won-]

KN: [He’s not...]

KN: “It’s 185 yen”

Na: “About March 14th, White Day...”

KN: [It came!!]

KN: “Ah, yeah.”

Na: “...the day before that, the 13th is a Sunday so.”

KN: [Wait? What? The day before?]

Na: “Let’s go out somewhere together. As a thank you for the chocolate.”

KN: “Ehhhhhhh!!!”

Na: “You were expecting something back weren’t you?”

KN: “Yeah! ...oh, I said it.”

Na: “You did.”

KN: “Well, I honestly was but I thought it’d be something like a cookie.”

KN: [I didn’t think, it’d be going out together!!]

Na: “Since I’m free.”

KN: “....Because you’re free and you felt like it?

Na: “Yeah, yeah.”

KN: [There you go.]

Na: “What do you want to do? How about a movie?”

KN: “MOVIE!?”

Na: “I haven’t gone to the theaters in a while so I want to.”

KN: [As a return for Valentine’s Day, on White Day a movie... What the heck that’s so nice...]

Na: “So are you free Kozakura-san?”

KN: “I’M FREE FROM MORNING!!”

Na: “Hahaha.”

R: “I see, so you’re going with Kiriyama-kun for white day.”

KR: “I see, so you’ll see him.”

All: “So about that, don’t you think he likes you~......”

KN: “No, he said he happened to be free.....”

All: “I see. Well it’s true that Kiriyama-kun is hard to read.”

All: “But would you ask someone out if you didn’t like them? Even if he said a lot of things to Nonoka from the start....”

KN: “Apparently he just says whatever he’s thinking.”

All: “I... I see...”

Na: [Is 1 tomorrow okay? At the clock.]

KN: [Because he’s free... and felt like it. But I’m looking forward to it so much it makes me mad!!]

KN: “I’m not going to dress nice!! I’ll come in sweats, that’ll show him!!”

All: “Nonoka!?”

R: “Dressing nice isn’t for the guy, it’s for yourself!!”

KN: [My first time meeting up with a boy.]

KN: [I’m so excited!!]

KN: [I ended up coming way too early!! Geez!!]

Na: “Hahaha, you’re here.”

Na: “Hahaha I’m glad I came early.”

KN: [Does he know i was looking forward to this!?]

Na: “Let’s go buy the tickers early”

KN: “Ye-... Yeah.”

[“So about that, don’t you think he likes you~......”]

“This is a special coupon for couples, please use it~!”

KN: [Oh yeah... The people around us are all real couples]

KN: “Um... We...”

Na: “Thank you.”

KN: “Wait, do I even have the right to use that?”

Na: “Why not, refusing and explaining every time is a pain. Let’s just say we’re going out for a day.”

Na: “Call it a first date.”

KN: “B-...But...”

Na: “I mean it might not happen again in your lifetime.”

KN: “WAAAAHH!!”

KN: [One day... date? One day... boyfriend? What the heck, tha-... That’s so fun!!]

Na: “Which movie should we watch?”

KN: “Ah yeah the movie!! Ummm the middle one?”

Na: “A safe answer.”

KN: “.... I tried to be considerate.”

Na: “It’s fine, let’s what a movie that you like.”

KN: “It’ll be a romance though.”

Na: “Hahaha that’s fine.”

Na: “I want to know what kind of movies Kozakura-san likes.”

KN: “....I don’t want you to know.”

Na: “Hahaha.”

KN: “I don’t care if you regret it!! This one then!!”

Na: “That’s fine.”

KN: “Once the movie starts I’m going to be super focused, okay!! Not to mention, I’ll discuss the film after it’s done!!”

Na: “Hahaha, then I’ll go buy it.”

Na: “It’ll be at 3, so we have time. I want to buy a hat, so will you come with me?”

KN: [Shopping with a guy for the first time in my life!!]

Na: “Which do you think is better?”

KN: “Both are nice... but I like the knit hat better.”

Na: “Then I’ll get this one.”

KN: “Is that okay? Getting it because of my opinion!?”

Na: “I like this one too.”

“Shopping with your girlfriend? How nice”

Na: “Hahaha”

KN: [So fun...]

Na: “Kozakura-san, is there something you want to look at?”

KN: “Uh, maybe hair ties?”

Na: “We still have time so let’s look.”

KN: [Having a guy choose for the first time in my life!!]

KN: “Which one do you like?”

Na: “Too many options.”

Na: “This one looks good on you.”

KN: “Yeah, I’ll go with this one! I’ll buy it!”

KN: [So fun...]

Na: “We should go to the movies soon.”

KN: “Yeah!!”

KN: [Going to the movies with a guy for the first time in my life!!]

Na: “Let’s get some popcorn.”

KN: “Ah they have honey ginger flavor!”

Na: “I think i’ll just get salted.”

KN: “I’ll get the honey ginger flavor~!”

KN: [So fun...]

Na: “Is that good?”

KN: “It is! Do you want some?”

KN: [Eating it directly!?]

Na: “Offering when both my hands are full. Isn’t that the only way to eat it?”

KN: “THAT’S TRUE~!!”

Na: “Kozakura-san you’re spilling your popcorn.”

KN: [What the heck is this atmosphere, it’s so fun.]

NA: “Hahaha Kozakura-san you’re so fast at picking it up.”

KN: [This is so fun, stuff like this is so fun!!]

“I love you! Only you!!”

“I love you so much I don’t know what to do!”

“I love you! I won’t let you go!!”

“Finally we, finally our feelings got through to each other!!”

KN: [But]

Na: “Yeah, it was pretty fun.”

KN: “I’m so glad~”

Na: “Hahaha, was there anything to cry about?”

Na: “Let’s stop somewhere? You’re free right?”

KN: [Watching a movie and going to a cafe together~!!!]

KN: [This was a dream of mine~!!!!!]

Na: “What did you like Kozakura-san?”

KN: “The part where the main character and the love interest got together, the part where the main character’s friend and the love interest’s friend got together, and when the main character’s little brother and the love interest’s little sister got together!”

Na: “Hahaha it’s all parts where people are getting together.”

KN: “I like when people get together!!”

KN: [This is really fun... but... it’s fun but... it’s different right? Becoming boyfriend and girlfriend is not just this right?]

KN: “I wonder what love is.”

KN: “If this were a movie, the guy would appear as the love interest so you’d know that this is the guy who will become your boyfriend. But in the real world, there are so many guys. Who’s my love interest? How will I know? I’ve never especially liked a guy so I don’t even know what that feels like.”

Na: “Start from there.”

Na: “Kozakura-san, even if you did like someone you probably wouldn’t notice.”

KN: [IT’S TRUE.]

Na: “And when you do realize, it’s ten years later. And you keep doing that over and over your whole life.”

KN: “NOOO!!”

Na: “Hahaha.”

KN: “Kiriyama-kun, you had a girlfriend. Like the childhood friend and the engagement.”

Na: “Hahaha, yeah. I’m impressed you remembered.”

KN: “...How many were there?”

Na: “Four... I guess three.”

KN: “Why are you unsure? Why did it go down!!? Four and three are really different!!”

Na: “I figured elementary school didn’t count.”

KN: “You can count it!”

Na: “Then four.”

KN: “Why did you date those people?”

Na: “I didn’t hate talking to them and the natural flow of things?”

KN: “UUUUUUGGGHHHHH.”

Na: “And I guess that’s just where it was developing.”

KN: “Developing~?”

Na: “Isn’t that what it usually is?”

KN: “...Also how did you confess...?”

Na: “ ‘Let’s go out?’ or something?”

KN: “Whaaat, you don’t say ‘I love you’ ?”

Na: “I never have as a confession.”

KN: “....So outside of that you have?”

Na: “Well yeah.”

KN: [So he does say it, ‘I love you’ to his girlfriend.]

KN: [I’m envious.]

Na: “Hm?”

KN: “Well... I just thought how real... I was envious....”

Na: “Hahaha”

KN: [I really am envious...]

Na: “But I’ve never said ‘I love you’ with the kind of energy that we saw in the movie today.”

Na: “I kinda want to try. Even if it’s not something that can happen just because you want it to.”

Na: “So with a purchase of movie tickets we can go up to the observatory for free.”

KN: “What, the observatory!?”

Na: “Hahaha.”

Na: “We’ll probably have to stand in line for a while.”

KN: “I’m totally fine!!”

Na: “Hahaha”

KN: “You know... I really love couple events.”

Na: “Hahaha, isn’t that fine?”

KN: “What should I do, this is really fun!”

Na: “Hahaha.”

KN: [It’s fun... going shopping together, watching a movie, a nice cafe, the observatory.....]

KN: [It’s the best...]

KN: “I understand why Kiriyama-kun is so popular~ I mean being with you is so fun~ You talk so naturally to me~ And now that I think about it you decided everything today. Anyone would be happy with that kind of boyfriend~”

KN: “But I... All I do is say ‘wow’ or ‘kya’.... I haven’t done anything good!! Is there a person who would fall in love with someone like me...?”

KN: [Is there a guy who would become my love interest in this world?]

Na: “You’ll get caught up with a weird guy if you have low self-esteem.”

Na: “I’m not that popular, the only chocolate I got was from Kozakura-san. Also, I only go to things I want to come to.”

Na: “It’s because I’m having fun that I’m asking you to things.”

KN: “...Are you saying it’s fun being with me?”

Na: “If I wasn’t having fun, I wouldn’t come.”

KN: [Oh... more than the shopping, the movie, the cafe, that makes me the happiest.]

KN: “I’m really happy, thank you~ I had a lot of fun today too, it surprised me~!!”

Na: “Well, I was free and I felt like it so just don’t worry about it.”

KN: “It’s always that!?”

Na: “If it wasn’t fun I would have gone home already.”

Na: “Why don’t we go eat something and have a little more fun then. Are you okay for time?”

KN: “I’m completely fine!”

KN: [The countdown, Valentines, today. If Kiriyama-kun wasn’t there I would’ve been feeling really lonely.]

KN: [Inviting me even though he doesn’t love me. Where romance would normally begin, it won’t. That’s me. But if Kiriyama-kun is having fun like me then I guess it’s okay.]

KN: “Wow! So much snow, when it’s march!!”

Na: “Hahaha.”

KN: “All of a sudden!?”

KN: “The wind!!”

Na: “Isn’t it the effect of El Nino?”

KN: “Is it!?”

Na: “No, no, I’m just saying things.”

KN: “I believed you! You have a way of saying things that makes it sound true.”

Na: “Hahaha”

KN: “You don’t have to walk me home!”

Na: “In this snowstorm, sending you home alone would be morally questionable.”

KN: “I’ll look for a boyfriend without succumbing to low self-esteem!! Definitely!”

Na: “Hahaha, I wonder.”

KN: “What about you, Kiriyama-kun? What kind of movies do you like?”

Na: “Hmmm? I guess of the ones on right now, something like Star Wars?”

KN: “Oh really, you have surprisingly normal taste.”

Na: “Hahaha yup.”

KN: “When’s your birthday?”

Na: “June 30th.”

KN: “Blood type?”

Na: “Type O.”

Na: “Why do you ask?”

KN: “Just felt like asking.”

KN: [Ah, his cheeks are red. Cute.]

KN: [It’d be nice if this person was free for the rest of his life.]

END.

#suteki na kareshi #where's my lovely sweetheart?#Kawahara Kazune #shoujo manga #translations

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Rough translations of Chapter 2

Character Guide

KN: Kozakura Nonoka

Na: Kiriyama Naoya

Ka: Kana

Kr: Karen

R: Riho

T: Tatenaka

Sh: Sakai Shinobu

Og: Ogasawara

“The amount of soup the lady puts in the oden is just perfect!! Not too much, not too little, and it doesn’t spill!! I’ve always thought so!!”

“You need to learn from her~!”

“Really?”

“No, no. I love you.”

KN: “It’s hot so please be careful. I wish happiness for you both.”

KN: [I want to be loved.]

Na: “I heard that earlier. You’re so capable.”

KN: [He’s acting so normal. Was my first kiss a dream.]

KN: [I don’t really remember it that well, so maybe it didn’t happen... maybe it was just a dream.]

Na: “Welcome”

“The ones at the convenience store are pretty too”

“We’ve been to too many places, I can’t decide anymore~ I don’t know what boys would like~”

KN: [They’re going to give chocolates]

KN: “I wish for romantic success of the customers”

Na: “Stop putting in weird adlibs.”

KN: “Convenience stores love pushing holidays.”

Na: “That might be true.”

KN: [And I only realize now]

KN: “I.......... have never given a Valentine’s Day Chocolate.................”

Na: “...........Not even obligatory ones?”

KN: “Yeah, not even obligatory ones................”

KN: “It’s hard narrowing down who I might be interested in...!! And then choosing one person....!! Everyone’s so good looking so...!!”

KN: “Nothing!?”

Na: “You’ve never liked even a one guy before?”

KN: “................Yes”

Na: “Hahaha, yeah I can see it.”

KN: “What do you mean you can see it!?”

KN: [I’ve been told I don’t seem like I could get a boyfriend, but what is he seeing.]

Na: “Give me one, your first chocolate.”

Na: “I’m fine if it’s just a bar of chocolate.”

KN: “.... Aren’t you supposed to give chocolates to the person you like?”

Na: “Obligatory chocolates exist in this world. I’ll be looking forward to it.”

Na: “Welcome--”

KN: [Valentine’s Day is so nice]

KN: (I want to buy one too. I want to participate but...]

KN: [Love is so nice~~~]

“You can’t look down on convenience store chocolates either!”

R: “I think I’ll make my main one though~”

Kr: “Make it!? That’s such a tough hurdle”

Ka: “Karen, this is your first Valentines since you’ve started dating, right?”

Kr: “We’re always fighting, but yeah~”

T: “Oh, Karen.”

Kr: “Eugh, were you listening just now?”

T: “Listening to what? Ah, thanks for the tickets.”

KN: “I’m okay!! I’ve decided to work hard again!! In the end, I do want my own happiness too!! So I’ve decided to get a living boyfriend!!”

“Really!? I’m so glad Nonoka!!”

“We love the Nonoka who’s eyes are always sparkling at the thought of romance!!”

T: “Oh yeah, I heard you went to the countdown with Naoya.”

KN: “Did Kiriyama-kun say anything else......?”

T: “No, just that.”

KN: [Maybe it really was just a dream.]

R: “Ah, Kinoshita-kun~”

Kr: “Aw, she’s so cute~”

KN: [Being a little more free in front of your boyfriend, letting your boyfriend spoil you, being super natural together]

KN: [They’re all so nice]

KN: “How do I get.... a living boyfriend...”

Na: “Well you should probably start with talking to them.”

KN: “What? We’re in the same school?”

Na: “Hahaha, yeah. Kozakura-san, you’re in class A right? I’m in the science track so I’m in class F on the end.”

KN: [I had no idea.]

Na: “I thought this when I first met you too but, despite saying you want a boyfriend so bad you really don’t pay attention to your surroundings.”

Na: “I wonder what you’ve been paying attention to up until now.”

KN: “.... My dreams....?”

Na: “Hahaha.”

KN: “So you knew we were in the same school...”

Na: “Well, you’re Ryouta’s girlfriend’s friend so, I’d seen you before.”

KN: [I realize now that since beginning my efforts to find a boyfriend, I have been going about it wrong in every way possible.]

KN: “I’ve decided from now on when I see a living boy ...... I’ll at least try talking to him!!”

Na: “You’re saying it like it’s a big deal but, that’s really what you’re normally supposed to do.”

KN: “It’s not normal for me!!”

Na: “Hahaha, work hard Kozakura-san”

KN: [Somehow, I can tell he’s had a girlfriend. He starts conversations with me, is clearly used to girls. Somehow, you can tell he’s comfortable.]

KN: [And I too, have to get used to it!! I’m going to get a living boyfriend!!]

KN: (? There’s a guy here.)

Sh: “Ah, how embarrassing!! You saw me!!”

KN: “What?”

Sh: “Right now I was looking super hard into the mirror and doing squats (KN: squats?) Oh you didn’t see it?? I wish I hadn’t said it then.”

Sh: “I’m working here starting today. My name is Sakai Shinobu!! Nice to meet you!”

KN: “I’m Kozakura.”

KN: [.....Just now]

KN: [A nice looking guy just appeared!!]

Na: “Hahaha, did you fall in love?”

KN: “I did not!! I thought he was nice though!!”

Na: “Try talking to him. Didn’t you say next time you’d at least try talking to him? Putting aside whether you like him why don’t you just talk to him?”

KN: [Oh yeah....]

KN: “....I will talk to him!! I want a boyfriend by next year’s countdown, after all!!”

Na: “Hahaha, work hard.”

KN: [I will talk to him!! If I don’t talk to him I won’t know if I like him or not!! This will be my first step towards a boyfriend!! Probably!!]

KN: “Good morning!!”

Sh: “Good morning”

KN: “This is where the bags for delivery are!” “The cleaning tools are here!!” “We usually check the bathroom once every hour!!” “Please push the bentos up to the front edge!!”

Na: “Hahaha”

KN: “I know!! Something’s wrong, I know!!”

KN: [...I can’t do it well...]

Sh: “Kozakura-san! Thanks for teaching me about the job!!”

KN: [He’s so nice...!!]

Na: “Hahaha so refreshing.”

Na: “Why don’t you ask him if he’s got a girlfriend?”

KN: “But I haven’t decided if I like him yet.”

Na: “You thought he was nice right? You’ll probably like him eventually.”

KN: “Eventually!?”

Na: “Valentines is pretty close, so why don’t you try giving him a chocolate and seeing his reaction?”

KN: “Is it okay to give chocolates just to see his reaction, or because I might like him eventually!?”

Na: “Why not?”

KN: “Is the world really like that?”

Na: “Hahaha what is it like in your head.”

KN: “I see...”

Na: “There aren’t any rules. Don’t take it so seriously, it’s just chocolates.”

KN: [Valentines Day is when you give the person you love chocolates.]

KN: [What is love? What is romance?]

KN: “Good morning~”

Na: “Oh, so you’re one year below. Do you have a girlfriend?”

Sh: “No, no!! It’s so close to Valentines, it’s lonely!!”

KN: [He doesn’t have one.]

Sh: “Kiriyama-san, do you have one?”

Na: “No.”

Na: “You’re single too, right Kozakura-san?”

KN: “Eh, yeah.”

Na: “Not even once, right?”

KN: “Yeah...”

Sh: “What, no way!! Even though Kozakura-san is so cute!!”

KN: [Cute, for the first time since I was born I was told by a boy (and a good-looking one) that I’m cute!!]

Sh: “Ah, I’m done at 4 so I’ll be leaving.”

Na: “Hahaha did you fall in love?”

KN: “I did not!!”

Na: “Just because he called you cute. You’re so easy, are you going to be okay?”

KN: “Wait it’s not like I’d get so flustered just because I was told I’m cute.”

Na: “Nonoka, you’re cute.”

Na: “Easy.”

KN: [Even though I knew!! Even though I knew that he wasn’t serious!!]

Sh: “Heeeey!! Kozakura-san!!”

KN: [I think this makes me kind of happy.]

Na: [Don’t take it so seriously, it’s just chocolates.]

KN: [Maybe I will try....... giving him some chocolates.]

KN: (But ones that are expensive... are kinda heavy. Even though I like this one~)

KN: [It’s fun...!! Picking out chocolates is fun...!!]

KN: [For the first time since I was born I’m picking out chocolates for a boy~!!]

Na: [Give me one, your first chocolate.]

KN: [Giving only one is a bit... yeah I’ll buy one for Kiriyama-kun too.]

KN: [Aaaaahhh~ I wonder what he’ll say, I wonder what he’ll say.]

KN: “Good morning!!”

Og: “Good morning!! I’m the new part-time Ogasawara!!”

KN: “Good morning.”

KN: [Hm? A beauty has appeared.]

Og: “Senpai! Please teach me!”

Sh: “I just joined myself~”

Na: “Isn’t this convenience store hiring too many people?”

KN: [I have a feeling]

Sh & Og: “We started going out yesterday!”

KN: [So fast!!]

Og: “I thought he was nice so I went for it and attacked!!”

KN: [Attacking was an option!!]

KN: [Thank you for the lesson.]

Na: “That was quick. Are you okay with that? Didn’t you think he was nice?”

KN: “Well there’s nothing I can do... I was just standing around....”

KN: “Plus it wasn’t that much of a shock, so I don’t think it was love.”

KN: “So that’s love......”

Na: “Well I’ve never been like that.”

Na: “So he likes girls like that. I like Kozakura-san more though.”

KN: [So this is how a person should follow at a time like this...... Thank you for the lesson.]

KN: [Of course he’d be popular. Of course he’d have a girlfriend, I nearly lost my balance just now.]

Na: “What?”

KN: (Now that it’s come to this, even giving obligation chocolates would be difficult.)

KN: (It’s good....)

KN: [I ended up just buying these fancy chocolates for myself.]

KN: (Customers at the cash register... Work... um... Work...)

KN: [Since they’ve just started dating they can only see each other....]

KN: [Well, it’s inevitable!!]

KN: (I’m sure right now they are super happy~)

KN: [I wonder if I’ll be like that if I start dating~]

Na: “Good morning”

KN: “Good morning~”

Na: “You look cold.”

KN: “Eh? Oh, probably because just now I was taking out the ice cream and organizing the refrigerated items.”

Na: “The snow and the trash outside, please clean it up. You two can do it together right?”

Na: “Please go for like 30 minutes.”

KN: “Eh... Wait, wait they look cold!! They look cold!! I’ll go too...”

Na: “It’s fine, even outside their love will warm them up.”

KN: “They’re glaring over at us though!?”

Na: “Hahaha, well whatever they think, it doesn’t matter to me.”

Na: “Kozakura-san, aren’t you cold? Your fingers are cut.”

KN: “Eh, really? Maybe it was when I was working with the cardboard earlier.”

Na: “I really hate stuff like that.”

KN: “You have likes and dislikes!?”

Na: “Of course I do.”

KN: “I always thought you just didn’t care.”

Na: “Hahaha not really.”

KN: [I see. Well I guess I wouldn’t know what’s going on in his heart.]

Na: “Hm?”

KN: “....I was wondering what you were thinking.”

Na: “Nothing that bad.”

KN: [Yeah.]

KN: “That’s true.”

KN: [I don’t know what he’s thinking but, Kiriyama-kun. I also think you’re not thinking anything bad.]

KN: [There’s so many guys in this class.]

KN: (Ah, he really is there.)

KN: “Kiriyama-kun”

Na: “Kozakura-san, did you hear from the boss? Those two quit.”

KN: “What??”

Na: “Well I was mean to them. They’re working at a convenience store nearby.”

KN: “What!?”

Na: “They must love convenience stores.”

KN: “I see...”

Na: “Yeah.”

KN: “Hmm... I see...”

Na: “Yeah.”

KN: “Really...”

Na: “... What’s wrong Kozakura-san?”

KN: “Here!! Obligatory chocolate!!”

KN: (Even though it’s an obligatory chocolate I’m super nervous!!)

Na: “Thanks.”

KN: [His smile just now. I think I like it.]

Na: “Oh yeah, it’s February 14th.”

Na: “I feel kinda bad. Taking your first kiss, and now receiving your first Valentine chocolate.”

KN: “AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!”

KN: “So it wasn’t a dream!! I was thinking it didn’t happen...”

Na: “Hahaha of course it’s not a dream.”

KN: “....Then...”

KN: [Then...]

KN: “It’s no good!! When I find a person I really like in the future, when I kiss him or give him chocolates I’ll just remember!!”

Na: “Who cares, it happened before the fact.”

KN: “I feel like it’s pretty important!!”

Na: “You might never be able to anyways.”

KN: “AAAAHHHH!!”

Na: “Well, if it ends up like that I’ll apologize. Thanks for the chocolate, I’m happy you gave me one.”

KN: [I’m glad.]

Na (chat) : [The chocolate’s good. I like this black one.]

KN: [He goes out of his way to message me about it on LINE!!]

KN: “Y-o-u-r W-e-l-c-o-m-e”

KN: [Picking out chocolates, deciding where to give it, being able to participate in Valentines day (even if it was obligatory) was fun (even if it was obligatory)]

KN: [If it was with a boyfriend, I’m sure it’d be even more fun!! Someday I definitely want to go through Valentines day with a boyfriend~]

Na (chat) : [The response of someone who won’t get a boyfriend.]

KN: “Nooooo!!!”

~END~

#suteki na kareshi #where's my lovely sweetheart?#Kawahara Kazune #shoujo manga #translations

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Rough translation of the first chapter.

Character Guide

KN: Kozakura Nonoka Na: Kiriyama Naoya Ka: Kana Kr: Karen R: Riho T: Tatenaka

“Such a pretty Countdown Illumination every year.”

“Boyfriends and girlfriends everywhere. Make sure to hold Nonoka’s hand.”

KN: “Boyfriend? Girlfriend?”

“Fufu… the boys are the boyfriends and the girls are the girlfriends.”

KN: (Girlfriend… looks so sparkly and happy.)

KN: [I want a boyfriend!!]

[I’m Kosakura Nonoka. From today a high schooler!! A girl!!]

[I wonder if I’ll end up dating one of the boys here!!]

[December]

KN: “...Huh?”

Kr: “Riho your fried eggs are so big”

R: “Because I made them myself”

KN: “HUH?”

Kr: “Are you serious?”

R: “I am serious, Karen do you want some?”

Kr: “Yes!”

Ka: “I want some too!”

KN: “Something’s wrong......”

KN: “...So my high school life is very fun... I love you all... and lunch is so good...”

Kr: “What are you saying all of a sudden?”

R: “We love you too, Nonoka!”

KN: “But the truth is!! I wanted a boyfriend once I started high school!!”

All: “Ah, yeah we know~”

Kr: “You said it when we first met after being admitted.”

R: “You’re always saying it.”

KN: “-Do I really say it that often?”

“Yeah, you do.”

“It’s been your dream to go to the end of the year Countdown Illumination with your boyfriend since you were little, right?”

KN: “Yeah. But it’s already december. I don’t have a boyfriend...”

Ka: [Has a boyfriend]

Ka: “You’ll get a boyfriend eventually.”

KN: “When is eventually. Karen, you have a boyfriend, that’s so nice... Riho, you don’t have a boyfriend don’t you want?”

R: “Ummmm.”

R: “I think I’m fine taking it slow~ Rather than forcing it, leave it to the flow of things.”

KN: “If I don’t force it and leave it to the flow, I don’t feel like something that didn’t happen in 16 years will ever happen.”

Kr: “I don’t need one right now. I’m busy with my club and I want to focus on that right now.”

Kr: [Tennis club]

KN: “You don’t need one? Are you putting on a strong face? Are you saying that from the bottom of your heart?”

Kr: “I’m not! I said ‘right now’ didn’t I!”

KN: “That’s true!! You all have your reasons, like not need one now or not wanting to force it or already having one...!! But!! I want a boyfriend and I can’t get one!!”

“I see...”

“That.. would be a problem.”

KN: “Are you thinking that I’m embarrassing for saying boyfriend, boyfriend all the time?”

“You’re fine, we’re not thinking that at all.”

KN: [I want a boyfriend. From a young age I loved talk of romance, and lived eating up romantic stories. I thought all girls were like that, but it was surprisingly not so... But even thought I wanted one there was nothing. I thought of wanting a boyfriend for 16 years, and spent that time floating through a dream.]

KN: [And here I was thinking that when I became a high schooler I would have a boyfriend to go to the Countdown Illumination with.]

Ka: “Nonoka, I’ll have Ryouta gather his single friends who want girlfriends so how about we all go out together?”

KN: (Is that a Goukon-ish something!? A meeting new people-ish something!?)

KN: “Eh? Really?”

Ka: “Yeah, I want to help you with your dream.”

Kr: “Let’s work hard so you can go to the countdown with a boyfriend!!”

KN: “Thanks!!”

KN: [That’s right!! I’ve just been waiting without doing anything!!]

KN: [Nothing’s going to start if I don’t make a move!!]

boys: “Hello~”

R: “Ryouta-kun, it’s nice to see you again!”

KN: [Boys!!]

“You too Riho-chan!”

KN: [Wow, I’m getting really nervous, this is bad.]

Kr: “Nonoka, let’s go to the shops~”

KN: (This isn’t the time to be feeling nervous!!)

KN: “Yeah!!”

KN: (I have to get a boyfriend!!)

Na: “The one saying she wants a boyfriend before the countdown, which one of you is it?”

KN: (Direct...)

KN: “...Yes that was me.”

Na: “I see.”

Na: “What kind of boyfriend do you want?”

KN: “Eh...?”

KN: (I don’t think my expectations are high. If a boy in my class confessed and said he liked me I think I would date him. Even if they don’t say that and don’t confess...)

KN: “What kind... I haven’t really thought about...”

Na: “You seem like you’ll never get a boyfriend in a lifetime.”

Na: “Work hard.”

“Naoya!! What are you saying!!” “Naoya!!” “Ki-Kiriyama-kun...”

KN: [Never get a boyfriend]

KN: [You seem like you’ll never get a boyfriend in a lifetime.]

“Hey Nonoka, how about going to the amusement park!? The amusement park!!”

“Sounds like fun!!”

KN: “Ah... yeah...”

KN: [Why? Is that how I am?]

Na: “Hey, they told me to go over and apologize but did I do something wrong?”

“You two talk it out, we’ll be looking over here”

Na: “Huh? Is your face turning green? Why are you looking like a zombie?”

KN: “.... I can’t.... get a boyfriend... That’s what you...”

Na: “Ah. I did say something like that.”

KN: (Something like that?)

KN: “You did-!”

Na: “Hahaha, sorry, sorry.”

KN: ( ‘Ha ha ha’!? ‘Sorry, sorry’!?)

KN: “It’s not ‘Hahaha’!!”

KN: “I... want a boyfriend but...”

Na: “Do you like ferris wheels?”

KN: “What?”

KN: “In mangas and dramas... the childhood friend... or the classmate sitting next to you that starts up a conversation... you know what i mean... like arranged marriages... or contract marriages...”

Na: “Ohhh, I see.”

KN: “But there’s nothing like that in reality... no childhood friend...”

Na: “I had one though.”

KN: “What?”

Na: “We dated a little bit in middle school. We still go to the same school and talk normally.”

KN: “The classmate that sits next to you...”

Na: “I do talk normally, there were definitely ones I liked and disliked.”

KN: “Or arranged marriage...”

Na: “Ah I had one but once we got older and tried dating a little we decided it wasn’t happening and ended it.”

KN: “Contract marriage...!?”

Na: “I did have one.”

KN: “That one has to be a lie!?”

Na: “Oh, you got me. But everything up to the arranged marriage is true.”

KN: “I’m so jealous~~~”

Na: “Well stuff that happens, happens.”

KN: “Nothing happened to me!!”

Na: “It’s not ‘nothing happened,’ nothing is happening still.”

KN: “It’s true!!”

KN: (I see... where it happens, it happens.)

Na: “Let’s go one more time.”

KN: “... Why did you say that you thought I couldn’t get a boyfriend.”

Na: “It’s just that I couldn’t imagine it at all, you at the countdown with a boyfriend.”

KN: (Wait. I can’t see it either.)

Na: “You have that quality of being a creature of fantasy.”

KN: (fantasy...)

Na: “Alright, let’s go one more time”

KN: (quality of being a creature of fantasy)

KN: “Hey, don’t you think it kinda looks like there’s a confession happening.”

Na: “Looks like it.”

KN: “Really!? I’m going to move next to you, sorry!!”

Na: “It really shook.”

KN: “Wait, was I just a pretext!?”

Na: “You noticed.”

KN: “Am I!? It’s fine though!!”

Na: “Oh, looks like it went well.”

KN: “Oh, really!?”

KN: “Hey!! What do I have to do so that I can see the image of a boyfriend!?”

Na: “I don’t know.”

KN: “After saying all that!? You were just saying things!?”

Na: “Well it depends on the person so.”

KN: (They were calling him “Kiriyama” and “Naoya.” Now that I think about it, since I’ve never really talked to guys this is the first time I’ve talked to one for so long. I feel like it’s just him but, he’s kind of awful!!)

KN: “I don’t have a ‘childhood friend,’ ‘arranged marriage” or ‘that one person sitting next to me who starts up conversations’ but...!!”

KN: “I’m definitely going to the countdown with a boyfriend!!”

Na: “Let’s get off then. Work hard.”

KN: “Yes!!”

KN: (I’m going to work hard!!)

R: “Yeah, I’m going out with Kinoshita-kun.”

“In more detail!!”

R: “He said it so suddenly I got really surprised...”

R: “He remembered how I said I like thrill rides when we met last time and rode one with me.”

R: “But in reality he apparently doesn’t like them.”

“Did he say he likes you!?”

R: “Ye...Yeah.”

KN: (Like I thought... That’s so nice~)

KN: “How did Kana get a boyfriend again!?”

Ka: “I told you, I met him at her part-time job and got close.”

KN: “Part-time job, right!!”

Ka: “I’ve said this before.”

KN: “I’ve asked you before!!”

KN: [Yes, the problem must be that I don’t have enough opportunities to meet people.]

“Right now we’re looking for people who can work during christmas.”

KN: “I can do that!!”

KN: [If I meet a lot of people, maybe I’ll be able to visualize a boyfriend. I just haven’t met him yet!!]

KN: [It’s got to be the part-time job!]

Na: “Welcome~”

KN: “WHY!?”

Na: “Even if you ask me why.”

Na: “Weren’t you going to get a boyfriend before the countdown?”

KN: “... It’s because Kana-chan said she met hers at her part-time job.”

Na: “Is it okay to be spending your time working?”

Na: “A part-time job isn’t a place to meet people, it’s a place to do your job. Your friend went to her job to work and happened to meet someone.”

KN: [He’s right. This isn’t a place for meeting people.]

“This is our new hire Kozakura-san. Kiriyama-kun please teach her the ins-and-outs.”

KN: “I’m Kozakura...”

Na: “Alright, well let’s start with moving those heavy cardboard boxes. Go from right to left.”

KN: “I will work! I’ll work super hard!!”

Na: “A good looking guy isn’t going to come by to kick off a romance, ok?”

KN: “I know that!!”

Na: “Make sure to not only service the good looking customers.”

KN: “I won’t!!”

KN: [A customer... blossoming romance...]

Na: “It won’t happen.”

KN: “I understand that!!”

Na: “Work hard.”

KN: “So irritating!”

Na: “You worked surprisingly hard.”

KN: “I’m surprisingly happy that you complimented me!”

Na: “Hahaha”

Na: “Alright, as a reward I’ll get you 10 yen chocolate.”

KN: “What the heck!! But I’m still happy!”

Na: “Hahaha”

Na: “Kozakura-san, I feel like working suits you. You’re serious and you pay attention well. You still don’t seem like you’d get a boyfriend though.”

Na: “You’ve got a good sense for the job.”

KN: [I see...]

KN: “It’s not ‘I see’! I want a boyfriend! I was almost satisfied with that statement!”

Na: “Hahaha”

KN: [This guy]

KN: “We met at a goukon-ish thing. Do you want a girlfriend?”

Na: “Not really.”

KN: “Then why did you come?”

Na: “Because I was free and I felt like it. I don’t do things if I don’t feel like doing it.”

KN: [He really does seem like he never forces himself to do things.]

KN: “The part-time job too?”

Na: “Well that’s work.”

KN: “I see.”

KN: “You don’t have a girlfriend right now?”

Na: “No.”

Na: “If I had one I wouldn’t have gone.”

KN: [But he has dated before. So he was someone’s boyfriend once. It’s kinda strange.]

KN: [He’s completely different from the vague image of a boyfriend I have.]

Na: “Also, I heard there was a poor girl who wanted a boyfriend like crazy, so I wanted to see what she was like.”

KN: “Are you talking about me!?”

Na: “What if you just took the initiative and hit on some guys?”

KN: “Eh? Hit on some guys?”

Na: “Over there, there’s some guys you could try.”

KN: “Eh? The one on the right? Or left?”

Na: “Alright, go talk to one of them.”

KN: “Ok! I got it!!”

KN: “No... no way, no way, no way.”

Na: “Hahaha”

KN: “Sigh... I wish a boyfriend would just fall out of the sky.”

Na: “Hahaha.”

KN: “Or was lying around on the ground.”

Na: “Are you always thinking things like that?”

KN: “Well sometimes, probably more than the average person.”

KN: “Ah, I live here.”

Na: “Bye.”

KN: “Did you walk me home?”

Na: “You noticed.”

KN: “Than-”

Na: “Getting a boyfriend before the countdown will probably be impossible.”

KN: “It’s not impossible!”

Na: “Hahaha”

KN: [Geez, what the heck.]

KN: “I’m home.”

“Welcome back, how was it?”

KN: “I worked hard.”

TV: [... Here on December 31st at the Countdown event, starting this year they will be selling couple seats. Here is the ticket, so couples please purchase these tickets for a special countdown experience.]

Kr: “You bought it!? The countdown couple seats!?”

“The expensive ones?”

KN: “Yeah... I thought I should pressure myself...”

KN: “Karen go with your boyfriend... if I can’t find one...”

Kr: “I can but...”

Kr: “I’m going to ask all my friends!”

Ka: “If I hear of anything goukon-like I’ll definitely ask them to let you in!”

Kr: “Nonoka, you’re not going to act shy right!”

R: “If you work that hard, you’re sure to make one!”

KN: “Yeah! Thanks!!”

KN: [Guys...]

Na: “You’re moving well. Did you decide to live for work?”

KN: “No!!”

KN: “I won’t give up! I even bought the couple seat tickets!”

Na: “I’m impressed. Going this far for a fantasy boyfriend.”

KN: “He’s not a fantasy! Well he is right now but.”

Na: “Did you friends’ faces turn blue?”

KN: “No they didn’t turn blue!”

Na: “What good friends.”

KN: “They are good friends!!”

Na: “I’ve never really taken a risk like that. It’s worthy of respect.”

Na: “It really is amazing in a way.”

KN: “I don’t feel like you’re respecting me at all!

Na: “Hahaha, are you okay with working during christmas?”

KN: “It’s fine, the real deal is on December 31st anyways!”

KN: “I might even get a boyfriend before christmas!”

Na: “I see, I see. Work hard.”

KN: [I mean, it’s been my dream for so long. There aren’t many days left, but if I work hard then I’m sure I’ll be able to go with a boyfriend!]

“We’re Karen’s friends~ Nonoka-chan?”

KN: “I’m Nonoka.”

“Let’s go~ Nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you.”

KN: “Would you like this heated?”

Na: “Did you get a boyfriend yet?”

KN: “......”

Na: “Pressing the buttons on the microwave so fast, looks like you haven’t found one yet.”

KN: “I wish happiness for you both.”

Na: “Quit adding in weird adlibs. It’s scary.”

Na: “There’s only 7 days left until the countdown right?”

KN: “For these seven days I’m going to be amazing okay!? Monday through Kana, Tuesday through Riho, Wednesday through Karen, Thursday... Everyday I’m going to a goukon!!”

Na: “That’s impressive. Your connections, I mean.”

Na: “You work so fast too.”

KN: “I’m doing it by telling myself if I can fill it in 30 seconds I can’t definitely get a boyfriend.”

Na: “You’re praying to the gods at that point.”

KN: [Only seven days...]

“Good work everyone~”

“Thank you for both working so hard even though it’s christmas.”

“Oh yeah, there are some christmas cakes left over so you can both take one!! The juices too!!”

“Thank you.”

Na: “Do you want to eat the cake together? If you’re free.”

Na: “Can I have the chocolate part?”

KN: “Yeah. Do you like sweet things? I thought guys didn’t eat sweet stuff.”

Na: “Not me. Kozakura-san why do you want a boyfriend that bad?”

KN: [His mouth is really big.]

KN: “I mean it’s my dream, a boyfriend.”

Na: “From when you were born?”

KN: “There’s no way that could be true!”

KN: “When I was a kid I went to the countdown with my parents, and there were a lot of couples, and they looked so happy. I thought that’s so nice, I want a boyfriend too!”

KN: “They look so happy, girls with boyfriends look like they have a special kind of happiness.”

Na: “If you look closely I feel like there are girls with a special kind of suffering too.”

KN: “Ahhhh, I can’t hear you~~~”

KN: “So ever since I thought I wanted a boyfriend too, I’ve been aware of boys but in ten years no one even tried to talk to me.”

Na: “Hahaha.”

KN: “I thought if I really worked hard, I would just naturally get one... naturally... but...”

KN: “I thought getting a boyfriend is something normal, but... little by little... I began to realize... it wasn’t a normal thing for me...”

KN: [Huh? I’m about to cry.]

KN: [This is just carbonated, and has no alcohol in it. But because at times like this he listens so seriously without teasing]

Na: “I’m sorry for saying you don’t seem like someone who could get a boyfriend, when it was a serious dream that you worked for yearly.”

Na: “Oh? Are you about to cry? Hahaha. Did I say something good?”

Na: “Don’t get caught by a weird one at a goukon.”

KN: “What do you mean by weird?”

Na: “Well, ones that start touching you instantly are definitely out.”

KN: “There are people like that?”

Na: “Oh yeah, definitely.”

Na: “I’ll give you my contact information, so if something serious happens make sure to contact me. I’ll come to laugh at you.”

Na: “I hope you’ll find a boyfriend.”

KN: [It’s okay for me to call him]

“Nice to meet you!!”

“Kozakura-san, we heard you want a boyfriend?”

“Let’s have fun today, without worrying about stuff like that!!”

KN: [No one tries to touch me, tries to go after me, or try to confess to me.]

“Hello” “Nice to meet you.” “Let’s start with introductions.”

KN: [Should I try talking to them? But how?]

KN: “This tea is very good, is it not? Do you prefer green tea or oolong tea?”

KN: [I really can’t get... a boyfriend.]

KN: (I guess... I still have two days.)

Kr: [Nonoka, I have an announcement. I got a boyfriend~]

KN: “Huh? Huh? What happened, Karen!?”

Kr: “Wah, Nonoka!”

Kr: “This is Tatenaka, we’re both in the same sports club. Right?”

T: “Usu!”

Kr: “What do you mean, usu!?”

T: “She confessed to me and...”

KN: “This is a present from me! Congratulations! Please go to the countdown together!”

Kr: “Nonoka..!?”

T: “Thanks. Is it ok?”

Kr: “It’s not ‘is it ok,’ Tatenaka!!”

Kr: “Nono...”

Kr: “I won’t go!! I’ll go with you!!”

KN: “What are you saying, it’s fine!! Go have fun!!”

KN: “I love seeing happy people!!”

KN: [I can’t get a boyfriend even if I work hard, some girls get a boyfriend even if they didn’t work hard, some girls get a boyfriend even if they don’t want one. A boyfriend was my dream, but in the end a dream was a dream.]

Na: “You have a shift on the 31st.”

KN: “It’s fine.”

KN: “I’m going to live for my work from now on!!”

KN: [Everyone has things that are meant for them and things that aren’t. I understand that now. I’m going to shine in the place where I can shine the most. I always looked up to girls who were at the countdown with their boyfriends, but from now on I will live for my work.]

KN: [This is definitely what I’m meant for!! I might even start a new age of part-time work!!]

KN: [By combining everyone else’s happiness with myself, I can start to feel like I’m happy myself. That’s how I will live from now on.]

“Welcome back.”

KN: “I’m home~ Where’s Mayumi?”

“She went to the countdown~ with her boyfriend.”

“Did the older sister not find a boyfriend?”

KN: “Yeah.”

“Even though you wanted to go so bad.”

KN: “....It’s fine, I’m going to live for work.”

TV: [The countdown area is crowded with people.]

“Nonoka~ Answer the door.”

KN: “Okay.”

Na: “Let’s go see the countdown.”

Na: “It’s prettier than just seeing it on the TV.”

Na: “You weren’t kidding about the number of couples.”

KN: [I love seeing happy people!!]

Na: “Should I become your boyfriend?”

Na: “If I become your boyfriend now, your dream would come true, right?”

KN: [Really? You’d become my boyfriend? And with this my dream will come true and I will be happy...]

KN: “... No, that’s wrong. Since Kiriyama-kun, you don’t love me.”

KN: “There has to be a feeling of love between boyfriend and girlfriends.”

KN: [I had nearly forgotten. I was so focused on getting a boyfriend, that I nearly forgot that when I was watching those happy couples during countdown, what I really admired was not the appearance but their feelings.]

KN: [They loved each other so much, that even I could see it. I wondered what kind of feeling that was, and if I would finally understand it when I had a boyfriend who loved me.]

KN: [A boyfriend is so nice.]

KN: “.....The truth is, I want a boyfriend.”

KN: [Even if it’s not meant for me.]

KN: “At least once in my life I want to be loved by a boy who’s only for me.”

KN: [I want a boyfriend.]

KN: “I want to become someone’s only one.”

KN: [I want to be a girlfriend!!]

Na: “You’re fine with just once?”

KN: “Eh? Eh... No, actually...”

Na: “Putting that aside...”

KN: “You’re going to put it aside!?”

Na: “That’s true... there were parts I didn’t understand, but there were parts I understood too.”

Na: “That might be nice. If you can get a boyfriend by next year, I’ll buy you a couples seat ticket as a present.”

KN: “Really!? It’s a promise!!”

Na: “Since we’re already here, we might as well watch the countdown.”

KN: “Yup.”

KN: “Why did you come?”

Na: “Because I was free.”

KN: “Because you were free...”

KN: (Even someone like me who doesn’t know guys, can tell that not all guys are like this.)

KN: [Coming because he’s free, never doing anything he doesn’t want to do, telling me to call him if something happens. When I asked him “Do you have a girlfriend?” and he said so normally “If I had one I wouldn’t have come.” That was so nice.]

KN: [Of the boys I’ve met, the one who actually talks to me and actively interacts with me, turned out to only be him.]

KN: “Thanks.”

KN: [The boys that exist aren’t made to line up with my dreams, but instead of that sometimes they do wonderful things that I hadn’t imagined. It doesn’t have to be like my dreams, I just want a living boyfriend.]

“Please take care of me this year, as well.”

KN: “Eh... that was a kiss just now, right...? My first kiss, right!? Why!?”

Na: “Just felt like it.”

KN: “I imagined there were all kind of romances but such a thoughtless first kiss, isn’t that out of the question!!”

KN: [I intended to watch and try to understand what kind of people guys really are.]

Na: “Work hard, Kozakura-san.”

KN: “I will work hard!! I will work hard but... Isn’t something wrong!?”

KN: [But I don’t think I’ll ever understand what this person is thinking!]

~END~

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