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Volume 4 - Chapter 3

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Pg 02

Watanuki: Thank you very much for the cake!
Sfx: Bow

Onee’s sister: No, We’re the ones who should be thanking you for the stories you told. It was fun.
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Pg 03

Onee’s Sister: Oh, by the way, You know that movie we were talking about inside the café? If it’s all right with you guys, would you like to go watch it?
Onee’s sister: I got a discount coupon from the place I work at. Let’s go together, all four of us.

Onee’s sister: Okay?

Onee: It’s still…

Onee: The same as always.
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Pg 04

Watanuki: So,
Watanuki: Next time, we’re going to the theater.
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Pg 05

Yuuko: You look very down today!
Watanuki: That wasn’t a date at all.

Watanuki: The younger sister seems to be only interested in Doumeki.
Mokona: Beans, bean… today we’re having beans.

Yuuko: Then you’re the third wheel?
Maru & Moro: Third wheel, third wheel

Yuuko: So are you pouting?
Watanuki: I’m the extra wheel anyways
Maru & Moro: Pouting <3
Watanuki: I’m not pouting at all.

Watanuki: It’s just that there was something that made me feel uneasy.

Yuuko: You mean, why you’re not as popular?
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Pg 06

Watanuki: Wrong! Thought it does piss me off that he’s so popular.
Yuuko: It’s not good to be jealous.
Maru & Moro: Jealous <3
Sfx (mokona): sweep sweep

Yuuko: It’s a “wave.”

Watanuki: Wave?
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Pg 07

Yuuko: “Wave” It floats on top of the water. Sound waves and electrical waves from vibration and movement.
Yuuko: Things that go up and down.

Yuuko: The latter,
Yuuko: IS brought to you by Hanadan published dictionary desk edition.
Watanuki: That again?!
Sfx: Bishi

Yuuko: And there’s one more thing…
Yuuko: That one cannot resist, which is also called a “wave.”
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Pg 08

Himawari: Did you go to that store?
Watanuki: Yup.
Watanuki: The cake was very yummy.

Himawari: I really like that store too.
Sfx: Smile

Watanuki: <Himawari-chan is way too cute!>
Himawari: ?
Sfx: Curls together

Himawari: Are you okay? Should we wait with the print handout?
Watanuki: I’m ok!!
Sfx: swoosh
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Pg 09

Watanuki: Then let’s go to that cake store next time!
Sfx: Happy

Doumeki: Rather than the cake store, why not go to a soba store?
Sfx: Appeared

Himawari: Are you a teacher’s helper too, Doumeki-kun?
Doumeki: Yeah
Sfx: Guha

Watanuki: <Why do I keep running into Doumeki all the time these days?!>
Sfx: zu~n

Watanuki: <Is this what the phrophecy lady meant with “the two boys who are destined to only fight”?>
Sfx: Hm?
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Pg 10

Watanuki: NOOO!
Himawari: Watanuki-san is very energetic today too.
Doumeki: That’s because he’s stupid.

Watanuki: Who did you say was stupid?!
Doumeki: You could hear me even though I said it so silently? You have very sensitive ears.

Doumeki: Let’s just stay a while in the classroom after class and we’ll go after that.
Watanuki: I know.

Himawari: You guys are going out?
Watanuki: Nah…
Watanuki: That…
Doumeki: A movie.
Himawari: Only the two of you?

Doumeki: Nope, the four of us.
Doumeki: They’re from the university. The one in front of the bus station.
Himawari: Oh! University girls.
Watanuki: Er, That…, You’re mist…
Watanuki: Himawari-chan!
Sfx: UWAAAA
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Pg 11

Himawari: Sounds fun, seeing a movie…
Sfx (white) Smile
Watanuki: Uhh….

Watanuki: <So Himawari-chan didn’t mind at all…>

Watanuki: No! it’s because Himawari-chan is such a good girl!
Watanuki: She must be paying attention to others’ needs… yeah, that’s it!

Girl (from movie): Onee-chan… let us be together…
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Pg 12

Watanuki: <As I thought! Every time this kind of scene appears, it becomes like this.>
Watanuki: <And this theater does have a lot of them. If this happens all the time, I shouldn’t enter.>

Watanuki: <But since he’s here maybe not.>
Watanuki: <He doesn’t seem that uncomfortable>
Sfx: Stare

Doumeki: Are you scared?
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Pg 13

Watanuki: Why should I be?!
Movie: Let’s become goldfish.
Watanuki: <But he still really does piss me off>
Sfx: grrrr

Movie: Kyaaaaaa!
Onee’s sister: Kya!

Sister: I’m so sorry.
Doumeki: It’s okay.

Watanuki: <The older sister is really interested in Doumeki.>
Watanuki: <But if that’s the case… why doesn’t she talk to him more?>
Watanuki: <Is it because she is concerned about the feeling of her sister?>

Onee: I really want to leave now.
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Pg 14

Sfx: Drip

Watanuki: Blood!
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Pg 15

Watanuki: A…Are you okay?
Onee: Eh?

Sister: Onee-chan!
Sfx: Suu

Sister: You’re bleeding!

Doumeki: Let’s go…
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Pg 16

Watanuki: Did your sister get hurt somehow?
Sister: Since she’s kinda absent-minded, she falls very often, but today…

Watanuki: The theater doesn’t have anything that can cause injury, but suddenly…

Onee: I want to leave now.
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Pg 17

Watanuki: No way….

Yuuko: That “No way” Isn’t it?
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Pg 18

Watanuki: But to cause an accident to yourself…
Yuuko: That may have been her way of getting out of there.

Yuuko: Also,
Yuuko: That wasn’t the only time, right?
Yuuko: That you could feel the “wave” from her.

Watanuki: … contact lenses.

Onee: I don’t think we’re able to find it.

Yuuko: That’s right,
Yuuko: She wasn’t able to find her contact lens.
Yuuko: That’s because she “bound” herself.
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Pg 19

Watanuki: Then the thing yuuko-san said,
Watanuki: “The lock that can only be used on humans,” is…

Watanuki: “Speech”?
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Pg 20

Yuuko: That’s right… It’s scary isn’t it?
Yuuko: “Speech,” that is.

Yuuko: One it has left your mouth, it cannot be uncalled.
Yuuko: It cannot be nullified.
Yuuko: People don’t understand how strongly they’re tied down because of it.
Yuuko: But they continue to use that lock.

Yuuko: “Speech” is something living.
Yuuko: And sometimes it can even tie down a person’s life.
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Pg 21

Doumeki: Isn’t that something called a “speech spirit”?

Doumeki: Since ancient times, people believed that language has some kind of supernatural power.
Doumeki: Japan was called the “Land of the Speech Spirit.”
Watanuki: Mmm, it’s in the dictionary as well. The one Yuuko-san uses.

Doumeki: So what to do now?
Watanuki: Ah?
Doumeki: About the twins.
Doumeki: You’re not going to see them again?

Watanuki: But she said she wanted to return the handkerchief you lent her.
Doumeki: Well, yeah… but either is fine to me. And it’s just a handkerchief.

Watanuki: Both the sisters seem to be interested in you!
Doumeki: Ah?
Doumeki: Is that so?
SFX:  GRR
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Pg 22

Watanuki: That’s clearly how it is!
SFX:  Hey!

Doumeki: However… how about you?
Doumeki: What do you want to do?

Watanuki: I was happy that I got invited, but you’re the stare here.
Watanuki: I already know that “Speech” is the lock.

Watanuki: If I’ve found out, then I must
Watanuki: Tell the sister no matter what.

Watanuki: Even if I said that… I don’t think she’d believe me.
Watanuki: You might just be considered crazy.
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Pg 23

Doumeki: If that’s what you’ve decided to do, then do so.

Doumeki: If you have already decided that “I can’t do it.”
Doumeki: Then you’d be the same as the older sister of those twins.

Watanuki: Doumeki…
Himawari: Sorry for being late!
SFX:  Step step
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Pg 24

Watanuki: Nah, it’s okay, we just arrived too. Today’s lunch is sandwiches!
Doumeki: …
SFX:  Lalalalalalala

Doumeki: He really is stupid.
Watanuki: What did you say?!
SFX (black): turn
SFX (white): poo

Onee: Here
Onee: I’ve already washed it, but the blood stayed, so I bought a new one.
Doumeki: Thank you.
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Pg 25

Doumeki: I’m off to buy some drinks.
Watanuki: Sure.

Watanuki: You really care about Doumeki?
Onee: Eh?

Watanuki: Although he’s so serious, he doesn’t bite…
Watanuki: try talking a bit to him.

Onee: But…
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Pg 26

Onee: I can’t compete with my sister.
Onee: My sister’s so cute and optimistic and she can do anything.
Onee: Even though we have the same faces, I don’t know anything.

Watanuki: If you’ve decided that you can’t do it even before you act then of course it’ll turn into something impossible!
Watanuki: Try saying this… say “I truly have good sides!”
Watanuki: Say it!
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Pg 27

Onee: Good sides…
Onee: It really would’ve been nice to have some.

SFX:  Su

Doumeki: Here’s some café au lait
Onee: Eh…?
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Pg 28

Doumeki: This is the same as you drank at the café last time, right?
Doumeki: This is to thank you for the handkerchief you bought me.

Onee: Thank…
Onee: Thank you.

Watanuki: See?
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