Gate 7 2

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Gate 7
center: A beautiful person dozing off on the threshold between yin and yang
bottom left: Chapter 2 Hana and Urashichiken

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p1/2
Oh no!
//I have to wake everyone up already!
box: I came to Kyoto on a trip and met mysterious people
//box: For some reason, even though I thought it was impossible, I ended up living in Kyoto
Hurry! Hurry!

p3
box: I was invited here, and since yesterday I have been living in this house that stands
Everyone!
//The breakfast is ready!!
box: Tightly packed among others in Kamishichiken, right next to Kitano Tenman-guu.

right: Chikahito was brought to Kyoto through Hana's myohou. The strange life of cohabitation begins...!!

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p1
Morning
//Chikahito-kun

p2
Good morning

p3
saku: Oh-
//saku: It's beautiful and looks tasty
chika: Sorry, this is all I have

p4
saku: No problem
//saku: It's awesome to be able to eat cafe food at home
You sure have worked hard at your job

p5
saku: So
//saku: The other two have to be coming down already
chika: Do you always get up early, Sakura-san?
//chika: As soon as I called, you were already downstairs, and dressed too

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p1
I can't sleep

p2
chika: Eh
//chika: Did you have to do something at night?
saku: No

p3
I can't fall asleep
Without human warmth

p4
...Huh?

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p1
But don't worry, I won't bring a companion here-

p2
Huh?

p3
Huh...
nb: Thinking

p4
Hah!

p5
Koh!!!

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p1
tachi: Tea
chika: Eh?

p2/3
tachi: Need tea
chika (big bubble): This is scary---!!
saku: Tachibana is useless in the morning
saku: He'll recover a bit after he eats

p4
I'll go make tea
//Can you call Hana downstairs one more time?

p5
Do-
//Don't tell me Hana-san too
//Is like Tachibana-san...

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p1
saku: No, no, nothing of the sort
//saku: Well
//saku: If she could, she'd sleep all day
chika nb: Uwaaa
chika: So what should I do?
saku: There's a magic spell
//saku: That works on Hana

p2
Recite today's menu
In a loud voice

p3
Y-
//Yes
Errm, ham and eggs
//Consomme soup and potato salad
//And then pasta with mentaiko
*tl note: mentaiko = marinated pollock roe

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See?

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p1/2
Thanks for the meal
chika: Why a frog?

p2
It was delicious
//Thank you

p3
You're welcome
//I'm glad

p4
saku: And now
//saku: I have to get ready
chika: Are you going out?

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p1
I have to be in attendance

p2
Attendance?

p3
I'll be tying obi for Kamishichiken's various maiko-chan and geiko-neesan
*tl note: obi = kimono sash; maiko = apprentice geisha; geiko = Kyoto term for geisha

p4
saku: It's actually really tough
//saku: If you don't use a man's strength to tie it, it will come undone
chika: I’ve seen that on TV!

p5
The obi tied by Sakura are beautiful
And yet not constricting

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p1
chika: Hana-san, have you also had your obi tied?
hana: Yeah

p2
chika: I knew it, Hana-san is a girl after all...
saku: Hmm?

p3
chika: A boy then!?
saku: Hmm---?
chika: Which is it!?

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p1
You're too noisy

p2
tachi: I'm going
chika: Uh umm
//chika: You're going too, Tachibana-san? To put on kimonos?

p3
I'm going to a lecture

p4
chika: Going to a protest? Where!?
chika: The way you look in the morning!?
saku: You're probably mixing up the kanji-
*tl note: Both 'lecture' and 'protest' are read “kougi” in Japanese, but spelled with different kanji

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p1
saku: Tachibana is a college student
chika: Eh!?
//chika: Is that really so!?

p2
tachi: You got a problem with that?
chika fx: shake shake
hana fx: shake shake

p3
saku: Both Tachibana and I have to go out
//saku: What about your school, Chikahito-kun?
chika: I'll start going there once the new semester begins in April
//chika: It's already the middle of March, so it's the spring break now

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p1
saku: Then
//saku: You don't have anything in particular today?
chika: I don't

p2
Then can you go out with Hana?

p3
Eh?

p4
I need her to deliver something
But if Hana is alone

p5
saku: If you leave her unattended, she'll break into any noodle shop she lays her eyes on
saku: Right?
hana: Noodles!?
chika: I-
//chika: It looks that way

p6
Chikahito, you'll come with me?

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p1
If you're alright with that

p2
I'm so happy

p3
tachi: Good for you, Hana
tachi fx: *stare*
...
hana: Yeah

p4
saku: Now then
//saku: Go get ready, both of you
chika: But there's cleaning up...
saku: I'll do it, so you take care of Hana
hana fx: shake shake

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p1
chika: Yes
//chika: Okay
tachi: Hana
//tachi: It might get cold suddenly
tachi: Put a coat on
hana: Yeah

p2

p3
tachi: ...Heh
//tachi: In the middle of March, university is on a spring break too
//tachi: Looks like Chikahito-kun didn't notice that
tachi: He knows too little of the world

p4
Letting her go alone with such a fool

p5
That was the wish

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p1
That person's wish

p2
tachi: We can't help it
saku: That's our current master, after all
*tl note: The exact word used for "master" here is normally used to describe owners of pets or other animals

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p1
The master of this "Urashichiken"

p2
So this is
Nishiki Market

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p1
Everything seems delicious here
That's right
//Should I maybe buy some pickles?

p2
For supper

p3
Huh!?
nb: Suddenly

p3/4
Hana-san!
nb: Waaa

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p1
This isn't where we're supposed to go!

p2
Come on
//This way

p3/4

p5
chika: I'm sorry
//chika: It was an accident!
hana: No
//hana: It's fine

p6
How nice, you're getting along so well

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p1
Wha- wha- wha- wha- wha-!

p2
Who's this!?

p3
Actually
His smile is somehow

p4
Too shady!

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p1
Uhhhhh umm, who are you!?

p2
Hidetsugu

p3
chika: Huh?
hide: Right
//hide: I'm called "Hidetsugu"
//hide: Chikahito-chan

p4
hide: So
//hide: Is there anything you want to buy?
hana: Noodles!
hide: That's what you always want, Hana-
chika: Eh?
//chika: Eh?

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p1

p2
...Kogashi miso and
//Soy sauce tonkotsu and
Shio ramen
//Thank you for waiting

p3
First kogashi miso, right?
//If that's not enough, you can order more
hana fx: nod nod

p4
hana: Itadakimasu
chika: I- Itadakimasu
hide: Please, go ahead

p5
I knew it, there's something shady about him

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p1/2
Is it good?
//Hana

p3
This is a Japanese pub, so nabe would be good here too
But Hana always goes for noodles first

p4
hide: What about you, Chikahito-chan?
chika: It's delicious

p5
Actually
//How do you know my name?

p6
That's because you're a new resident of Urashichiken

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p1
Umm
And you, Hidetsugu-san...
//Errrm

p2
I'm its owner
//The current one

p3
I'm sorry! I didn't greet you
Thank you for having me

p4/5
No, don't worry about it
//Hana probably summoned you by force
//Even used her myouhou

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p1
Yes
//I did

p2
That's why I wanted to meet you
To see why she liked you so much

p3
Chikahito is like Hana

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p1/2
chika: Eh?
hide nb: Hmm?

p3
hide: But Tachibana
//hide: Said he doesn't have any special powers?
hana: Yeah

p3
But he's the same

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p1
Umm
//What are you talking about...?

p2
Hold on
I'm going to verify this

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p1
A... Again!

p2
Ramen...

p3
hana fx: dejected
hide nb: Hmm?
hide: ...It didn't make it here

p4
Chikahito-chan, you ended up entering
...
Certainly

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p1
That's why he's the same

p2
I wonder in what
//Way

p3/4
The
//Non-existence

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p1
Same as Hana
//"Non-existence"

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p1
...That's...

p2

p3
Please wait a minute
What is it that I don't have...?

p4
chika: Actually
//chika: You can do it to, Hidetsugu-san, don't you?
hide: Hmm?
chika: This
//chika: Looks like you can create this weird space too?

p5
Well yeah, but I can't
//Create a big one, like Sakura does
If you have a blood contract with "oni", you can do it well enough though

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p1
Oni!?
*tl note: Oni = is an ogre-like creature from Japanese folklore, which Chikahito understood it to be. However, the kanji spelling that Hidetsugu used was "hidden menace"

p2
Ah, no

p3
hide: You really don't know anything?
//hide: Chikahito-chan
chika: Is...
//chika: Is this common knowledge in Kyoto!?

p4
Probably not common knowledge

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Common knowledge!? Absurdity!? A strange new arrival!!!

GATE 7 --- To be continued in the May issue