Doing that thing, with that girl by Ch02 Notoyama Keiko ###Japanese title: Ano ko to, anna koto. TL by boke ### TL notes indicated by hash tags like this: ### ### Page numbers indicated by —XX for example, page one is: —01 ### Panel numbers indicated by -X for example, panel one is: -1 ### sfx- means the following is a sound effect. ### hw- means the following is handwritten text. ### Unless otherwise noted, panel and text balloon flow is from upper right to lower left. ### This TL indexes on file number in case the page numbers don’t match. ### Sometimes my comments are snark or color, so feel free to ignore those. —01 -1 Maternal Love —02 -2 What are you gonna do over break? I’m going to a theme park! See you Akari. Yeah. Did you hit up the Kochiro colab cafe? Ah, not yet. Wanna go together? -3 Are you going anywhere over break, Akari? -4 Me? —03 -1 No… Nowhere in particular. -2 I would like to go… to a colab cafe or something though… But in my case, the person I want to go with… -3 Ka-klack ka-tack -4 My break? Nothing but work. —04 -1 Yeah, she’s totally like this… -2 Yumi, you don’t get Saturdays off, right? In general, that’s true. Because it’s when we get the most business. But if I request it, I can take time off. That’s how I went to see the EDEN concert. -3 But recently I have been hating dealing with crowds, so having my days off on weekdays is easier on me. -4 Hmm. So I guess inviting her out on over the break wont work. -5 Clatter… —05 -1 Roll Bap -2 Swish -3 Rooll… -4 Kick -5 Ah, C’mon granny… sfx- Rooll -6 You don’t have to go kicking it away… —07 -2 I bet that more that half of the people watching now feel embarrassed about themselves. -3 That includes me, too. -4 That’s dirty… Huh? Ah… All I have to do is wash my hands, right? But it’s not like it’s your garbage. and holding it for all this time must be a pain. —08 -1 There shouldbe a garbage can somewhere when we get to the station. It’s not a big deal. -3 Yeah. Yumi-san is… The kind of person to do that, even when other people turn a blind eye. —09 -1 Me too. -2 Excuse me! Please let me through! -4 Grab -5 She saved me too. -6 That’s why… I love her this much. -7 Akari-chan… —10 -1 You’re spacing out. Are you feeling sick? -3 Maybe I am… Let me use that as an excuse… -4 Just seeing her on the train every morning isn’t enough. -5 More. I want to be with her more. hw- P-people are staring… But if I told her that… I bet it would be a problem for her. —11 It’s just me. I’m the only one in love this badly. -4 Oh. I really do have a fever. —12 -1 Hm. Will I be able to go to school tomorrow? It’s right before the tests, and trying to make up the work would be a pain. This sucks… -2 Back in grade school, when I caught a cold, I was so happy to stay home. -3 I guess this is how we become boring ass adults. -5 And being like this? There’s no way Yumi would fall for me. -6 Chirp Cheep —13 -3 Ok, I’m heading to work. How’s your fever? It’s come down, mom. -4 And after I took the day off from school and everything… Ah, well if that’s the case, that’s perfect. Can you please take care of this? sfx- Rustle -5 What’s this? hw- Candy? Take it to Yumi-san! Because she’s always looking out for you. -6 She rides the train with you before she goes to work, right? I feel bad because I can’t do it with you because of my job. So it’s to say thanks. —14 -1 I already told Yumi I wasn’t going to school. I guess she’s heading to work. hw- Ok, I’m heading out! -2 Waiting for a response… -3 I have the day off today! -5 So… could this be…? Mom asked me to bring something over to you. Do you have time for that today? I’ll bring it to you. I’m already out and about, so let’s meet up somewhere! Are you feeling ok? A day when we’re both off? It’s been so long! hw- But I actually called in sick… —15 -4 The weather’s sure nice. It feels really good. -5 I can’t believe I would’ve have to be cooped up in school, focusing on class… —16 -1 It’s nice that there’s not many people out. There’s so many kids at school, I might have been stressed out without knowing it. -2 But recently I have been hating crowds, so taking a weekday off is easier on me. -3 I now know what Yumi-san meant by that. Akari-chan! -4 On this beautiful day… At 11am on a weekday when there’s not many people around,… —17 -1 It’s completely different than meeting her when I’m on my way to school. Somehow I can be happy for everything. -2 Maybe I’m a bit too simple minded. Wow! So cute! Candy and goodies from overseas! Papa brought it back from Malaysia. hw- Thank you! -3 Well, since we’re here, do you want to grab tea somewhere? Is there someplace you’d like to go? -4 Ah… -5 Did you hit up the Kochiro colab cafe? —18 -1 The Kochi… Kochiro Cafe -2 Kochi…? -3 It’s not everyday I get the chance to be alone with Yumi-san! -4 Yumi-san, I’d like to go where you normally go on your day off. On my…? Sure, but it’s pretty boring. -5 I don’t depend on you for excitement, Yumi-san! So I don’t mind! I see. —19 -1 Ok, let’s go. -2 Yay! -4 Uh… Isn’t that your school, Akari-chan? sfx- Th-thump -5 What am I going to do if a teacher sees me? hw- They’ll think I’m cutting! Well, I kinda am… Ahaha, It’s fine. Looks like they’re in class right now. —20 -4 Huh? What’s up? -6 What’s the matter? —21 -1 Everyone’s in class right now. And if they were to see me holding your hand and going off somewhere, it’d be bad, right? -2 When I think about that… It just…. -3 Feels like I’m really doing something I shouldn’t. —22 -4 Ding Dong —23 -1 Ding Dong Whish -2 O-okay… Class is over and everyone’s going to be coming out. Let’s hurry up and go! -3 She avoided it. -4 I’m the only one getting worked up over things again. -5 We’ve ended up in a really quiet residential neighborhood. -6 We’re not even passing anyone on the road. —24 -1 It’s like a fully lit ghost town. -3 On my days off I often wander around here just spacing out. Like a senior citizen… -4 It’s kinda like a world without people, don’t you think? It’s like you can escape from all the nastiness of the world. -6 So you have things like that too, Yumi-san… Well, duh… —25 -1 I mean, at work, there’s all sorts of customers. Mostly people are nice, but… -2 Like how people sometime get all pissy when waiting for you to wrap the thing they asked you to. ###bold and italicize “they” Or when they get angry at you just for confirming their order. Or when people shoplift… -3 And my coworkers too… They get grumpy and take it out on me. -5 and some people just get angry… over nothing at all. —26 -2 Sometimes, I just… get so tired of it all. -3 I had no idea. I mean, she always looks so happy when working. I know that bad things happen to everyone, but… I didn’t think about all this… —27 -1 Yumi-san always notices right away when I’m having a hard time. -2 So right now… You have a coworker you don’t like. -3 Yes. Well… -4 As an adult, you just have to learn to laugh it off. -5 I don’t know what I should do to pay her back. —28 -1 I’m not working or anything… I’m sorry that… I didn’t notice before. -2 Even though I say I love her this much… There’s nothing I can really do for her. -3 That’s not true. -4 I’m just happy you’re thinking about me! It’s because it is you. ###bold and italicize “is” -5 It’s not like I do this for anybody… —29 -6 To tell the truth… I’m ready to quit that job already. —30 -1 I can actually quit anytime. Just toss the notion of being a “good person” along with everything else, and just run away. Just up and moving away someplace could be nice. -2 But since I can still hang in there, I’m not going to do that. -3 When you think about it like that, being an adult’s hard, but you’re free as well. —31 -2 Yumi-san was smiling… but it made me uneasy. -3 Because… that’s… Today was fun! Thanks for hanging out with me. Please tell your mother thanks for me. —32 -1 Ok, see you later. -2 Just toss the notion of being a “good person” along with everything else, and just run away. Just up and moving away someplace could be nice. At that moment, -3 There wasn’t even have a smidgen of me inside of Yumi-san’s thoughts. —33 -1 I… -2 Love her so much that it hurts to be parted from her. -3 But Yumi-san… Don’t feel the same… —34 -2 But… wait! -3 I’ll hang in there too! -6 Huh? What? What’s…? I’ll be the one to pick up the garbage. —35 -1 Protecting me from molesters on the train like always? It sucks but I’ll give up that too. -2 If you’re feeling down, we’ll talk about fun things. I suck at it, honestly. -3 But I’ll try. -4 So… Please don’t say that you’ll toss it all away. That you’ll go away someplace. -5 So please… —36 -1 Just let me be necessary to you… —37 -1 Even though… Yumi-san is kind to so many people… for me there’s just her. -2 I can’t really understand what makes you suffer from at work… And I might not be helpful… But can you please tell me what it takes for you to need me? Can you come to love me…? —38 -1 I really do need you. And I love you. You’re lying! -2 I’m not kid, ok? I don’t need you to make me feel better. -3 The kind of love I’m talking about is… —39 -2 We won’t… be able to make excuses anymore… —40 -1 Like I feel drawn to care for you because you’re a child. Or that it’s just my maternal feelings. -3 I don’t need any of that. You’re just putting on the brakes yourself, Yumi-san. —41 -1 Can you really come to love me? -2 I… I’ve never been popular. -3 I’m a plain Jane. I was just an extra in the background at school. -4 But even so… when hit with this feeling of love… —42 -1 I don’t think… there’s any turning back. —43 -1 I don’t have any intention of letting you turn back. —44 -2 Together until… We reach a place we can never return from.