Soramiyo 6

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Chapter 6

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Box: Shooting Stars
Dust scattered by comets, or fragments of asteroids, that fall to Earth pulled in by its gravitational force
Diagram (right to left): Asteroid belt, fragments, Earth, sand-like dust, Sun, comet
Text under the diagram: To put it plainly, meteors are junk floating about the solar system

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When they fall through the atmosphere, they violently collide with air molecules, generating high temperature gases that emit light

Diagram (top to bottom):
(Upper atmosphere 100 km)
left: dust, right: High temperature gas (plasma)
The streak of extremely hot air becomes the tail of the meteor

Bubble: That's what the meteors are made of
By the way, a brighter one would be called a "fireball" or a "bolide". Or there are "superbolides" that make a sound like thunder or crash to the ground without burning up in the atmosphere, leaving a meteorite.

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Box: So
Souji: The ones flying around free as they please are single meteors
//Souji: Those that assemble together on a certain date produce meteor showers
Right pic: Single meteor
Left pic: Meteor shower
Souji: Meteor showers are the result of Earth passing through the leftover traces of a comet's tail

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That's
What I was taught

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Souji: For this reason, we'll be able to see a meteor shower shortly
Non bubble: Passing through
Minato: I'm so glad it's not only today!

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But...

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Minato: So many of them fall
//Minato: But they all disappear in a blink
Minato: How should I say this?
Souji: Heh?

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You know
//Don't they say that

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If you say your wish 3 times before the shooting star disappears, it will come true?

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Souji: Now that you mention it, they do...
Minato: "Now that you mention it"?
Youichi: AKIHITOSANERAIHITO*
*tl note: literally, "Akihito-san is a great person"

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AKIHITOSANERAIHITO
AKIHI
SFX: mumble mumble

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Minato: Youichi-kun, what are you saying?
SFX: mumble mumble
Souji: Ah, Youichi is measuring the time for a shooting star
//Souji: We usually say this rather than a wish

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AKIHITOSANERAIHITO
Under "SAN": Treated as one sound, total 10 syllables"*
Ranko: Others use "DARUMASANGAKORONDA"** written using 10 characters, but we don't recommend it because it contains two "N"s.
Souji: We try to speak those 10 syllables in one second
Souji: So we start saying it as soon as a shooting star appears
*tl note: In Japanese, "n" is technically a separate syllable. But in fast speech it's shorter than syllables containing vowel sounds, so here they treat "san" as one syllable.
**tl note: literally, "Daruma-san fell down"

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Minato: ...So this means each shooting star disappears in less than a second
Youichi SFX: mumble mumble

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It's impossible to say your wish in that time-
Non bubble: Who came up with this!!?

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Even then
//I'm really happy
This is the first time I see shooting stars

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And so many of them at that...
They're so beautiful

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Thank you for letting me join the astronomy club!

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Ranko: Minato is thanking me--
Youichi: Souji, stop Ranko!

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----Shooting stars
Disappear in a blink of an eye

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But I still want to make a wish-----

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Ahhh, running was really tough
I'm gonna have muscle ache tomorrow for sure

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Minato: Hey, everyone, are you done changing now?
Yeah
All good

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Minato: You can come in now
Yeah

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Girls, what's took you so long?
There's no more time to eat lunch
Minato: But we were going as fast as we could

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Hey hey, Mizutani-san, are you going to the cafeteria?
//Do you want to eat together?
Minato: Sure

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Sign: Student Cafeteria

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Hmmm
//So Mizutani-san, your first name is Minato
Can I call you Minato then?
Minato: Yes, please

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Kanae: I'm Kinoshita Kanae
//Kanae: Just call me Kanae ♥ And this is Yae
Yae: I'm Tominaga Yae {small text} Hi-- ♪

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Kanae: But you know, Minato, something's changed about you lately
Minato: Eh
Yae: Yep yep, you've become brighter

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Kanae: You would always stay in your seat with eyes downcast, and never speak
Yae: Is she mad about something?
//Yae: That's what we were thinking---

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Minato: It- It wasn't anything like that!!
Kanae: Ahaha
//Kanae: Yeah, I get it just from talking to you today
Yae: Me too--- ♪

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Being mad...
So that's how I looked

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So Souji-kun was right after all
//If you don't talk to people directly, they won't understand you
Souji: Others are not exactly telepaths, so if you don't say it, no one will understand

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If I really did change
It was thanks to the Soramiyo Club

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If I didn't get acquainted with them
I would've stayed that way forever...

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We're the same--- ♪

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Kanae: What's that?
Yae: Lemme see--

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Kanae: Uwaaa--
//Kanae: A constellation chart! A small one--
Yae: Minato, you like stars?
Minato: Yeah... I'm not very knowledgeable
//Minato: But I love looking at them

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Yae: Oh really-- ♪
Kanae: Oh, hey, speaking of stars
//Kanae: You know there's an astronomy club in our school?

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Eh-?
I didn't know at all

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Kanae: So the thing is
//Kanae: It's the club that group of weirdos made
//Kanae: It's not even called the astronomy club, it's Sora-something or other
Yae: Ehhh---
//Yae: The one those people made!?
//Yae: That's something you'd better not get involved with!
//Yae: Minato, you couldn't possibly be a member there!?

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Minato: --------
Eh--
//This girl's a part of that weirdo group?
Their friend!?

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Ah

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...It-
It's not true

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I don't know anything about the astronomy club----
Don't lump me together with the weirdo group
//Alright?

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Please---

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Yae: Ah
Kanae: Speak of the devil

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Uh....
Souji-kun, Ranko-san, Youichi-kun

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---I see

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Souji: Oba-chan
//Souji: 3 pieces of bread, milk, and coffee
Ranko: Same for me, plus 2 tarako* onigiri
Youichi: Ranko, you eat too much
*You want to know about tarako? Steel yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtBNOKT8jM

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SFX: *slam*

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SFX: *murmur*
SFX: *murmur*
Kanae: I was so startled to see them up close
Yae: But isn't he pretty cool
//Yae: That Aida, I mean ♪

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Kanae: Yeah, but it feels like he lives in a different world---
Yae: True that
//Yae: He does feel pretty different alright---
???: Yeah yeah

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What
What am I to do...?

Chapter 6 END