Sket Dance 84

Dear Lord, I don't think I've ever translated so much Sket Dance in such a short space of time. And just so you know, it nearly killed me, but at least I did it (which is more than I thought I was going to manage), so I guess you could say one good thing came out of a certain bunch of evil assholes coming out of nowhere and trying to steal my series in a surprise attack of unprecedented bastardliness. Don't bother thinking this takes them off my death list, because they're still on there until every trace of those goddamn scanlations is wiped clean off the internet, but if they would stop releasing the series RIGHT NOW, then that would at least be a nice start ^^

Now, without further ado, I present translation number thirteen of my fifteen-Sket-Dance-translations-in-about-three-days marathon.

Guidelines For Using My Translations

1
[Insert text: Bossun, run away from home...]
Flashback!Akane: They were involved in separate accidents on the same day... // ...and died.
Bossun: (My real mum and dad... // ...aren't in this world any more. // The one who gave birth to me was... / ...Haru. // My mother isn't my mother at all.)

2
Bossun: (I don't have the slightest blood relation... / ...to Mum or to Rumi. / I'm just an outsider.)
Flashback!Akane: Neither of them had relatives.
Bossun: (I see... // So I was always alone...)
[Sket Dance]
[Chapter 84: Happy Birthday (3)]
[Insert text: A heart bathed in darkness... under a star-filled sky.]

3
Rumi: Onii-chan isn't coming back, is he...?
Akane: It's all my fault... // I shouldn't have told him... // If he's not back here by tomorrow... / I'll call the police...
Rumi: Oh, you don't have to worry about him. // He just wants to be alone for a while, right? He'll buy some pudding and be back before you know it.
Akane: How can you even say that?!! // He may not look it, but he's a fragile boy! Who knows what he might do?!

4
Akane: He'll be fifteen years old, soon, but he's really still such a child... / ...and that childishness can make him do some crazy things at times... // You remember when he was in the fourth year... he cycled all the way to another town, all on his own, just to buy me a birthday present... // He makes me worry... so much...
Rumi: Don't worry... / Just trust him. // He's your son, isn't he?
[Text: On the morning of my fifteenth birthday, I woke up feeling utterly terrible.]

5
Bossun: Brrrr... I'm cold...
Flashback!Rumi: Onii-chan... while you're at it, get me an eclair, some AA batteries, conditioner, and this month's Bessatsu Margarine, okay?
Flashback!Bossun: "While I'm at it"?!
Flashback!Akane: Yuusuke, I levelled your character up for you!
Flashback!Bossun: (What the heck is that armour she's got him wearing?!!)
[Text: The average world I lived in, surrounded by the love of a gentle family... // My comfortable everyday life, as peaceful as a midday nap beneath the sun... // ...it all fell apart in a single night. // I was left alone.]

6
[Text: I wandered the streets without end. // All day long... // Aimlessly... // And before I knew what I was doing... // I found myself at the spot where my father had had his accident.]
Bossun: (What am I doing in a place like this......?)

7
Bossun: Heh... / So this is where he died... // Leaving his only son behind... // ...Just like that... // How could he just die like that...? // Dammitall... / Without ever saying a word... // ?
Trouble: Hmm? I guess I missed, huh... // Hey, you there... stick that can in the trash for me, would ya? // Gotta keep this town clean, now, ain't we? Ahahah!
Bossun: ......now.
Trouble: Hm? What was that?

8
Bossun: Apologise, now!!
Trouble: ...Get him.
[Text: He was at the pachinko parlour? // When his wife could give birth any day? // He was messing about, got in an accident, and just died?]

9
Bossun: The fuck is that...?! // Take some responsibility, dammit!!
Trouble: Huh? What's this kid saying?
[Text: If you were just going to leave...]
Bossun: Guahh!
[Text: ...then don't have a kid in the first place!]
Bossun: (Ugh... // Is nobody going to stop and help? // "Let sleeping dogs lie", huh...? Hahahah... // Who's this guy now? Some kid on his way back from cram school? // Oh, look at his stupid face... // Every damn one of 'em...)

10
Trouble: Who's there?!
Taisuke: I think that's quite enough, don't you? // If you go any further, I call the cops.
Trouble: Nghh... // Huh?! And who the fuck are you?! // Don't... it's not worth it. // I'm bored of this anyway. // Let's go. // Tch...

11
Taisuke: Are you all right?
Bossun: Ah... Um... Thank you very much...
Taisuke: No... // Those hooligans are pretty infamous around these parts. / I don't mean to act all high-and-mighty, but I just can't stand their type.
Bossun: What is it? / Something wrong with my face?
Taisuke: This... might sound a little strange, / but did your father... or brother... // ...happen to have an accident, right here... fifteen years ago?

12
Bossun: Well... yeah, he did... / My dad... right here...
Taisuke: I knew it!
Bossun: But... why?! Who are you, anyway?
Taisuke: Well... when I was five years old, I was almost hit by a car right around here. It was your father who saved me. // The name's Mishima Taisuke.

13
Flashback!Ryousuke: *pant* // *pant* // I've gotta hurry... / ...to the hospital... // *pant* // *pant* // It's that kid... playing ball out here on his own again? // Did he not learn from what happened last time? // Well, I can't be hanging around right now...

14
[no text just heroic act]

15
Flashback!Ryousuke: Hey... // *pant* // Looks like you're okay, huh? // Ehm... Taisuke... you were called, right...? // I... bet you were scared, huh... heheh... // *pant* // *pant* // (Huh? My body won't move... // It feels... heavy...) // Hahah... don't worry about me. // (Crap... it doesn't even hurt... // Shit... I've gone and done it... // Am I... going to die...?)

16
Flashback!Ryousuke: Ugh... / Just when I'd bought it, too... // *pant* // *pant* // I guess it'll be broken now... // Oh... / Thanks, kid. // Heheh... // You think you could... / ...get that to my... wife...? // *pant* // ...I guess not, huh... // *pant* // Heheh... / Oh, well... // (Haru... I'm sorry. // Akane... You too. // Take care of Haru for me, would you? // And my new family... ahhh... // I never even got to say a word to you, huh... // ...To my...)

17
Flashback!Ryousuke: Hey there, Taisuke... // You make sure you grow up into a strong guy... the kind of guy... / ...who can help people out when they're in trouble... got that?! // Okay... // You... run along now...
Flashback!People: Hey... there's someone just lying here! // Call an ambulance!!

18
Taisuke: I was just a kid back then... I had no idea what I was doing. // I was just terrified... I ran away as fast as my little legs would carry me. // But I still remember those words your father said to me that day. // And I'm trying to live the kind of life that he would have wanted. // I heard afterwards that he had died in that accident. // It always ate me up... I kept telling myself it was my fault he died. // The 11th of November... / That's the day the man who saved my life lost his. // So every year, on that same date, I come to this spot. // So when I saw you, with that face just like his... / I knew I'd finally found a connection to him again. // I see... // So his name was Ryousuke-san...

19
Bossun: (My father... // ...died saving someone's life...)
Taisuke: I'm glad I ran into you here today. / I want you to have this.
Bossun: What... is this?
Taisuke: It looks like it was a present for his wife. // There's a letter inside.
[Insert text: The present his father left behind...!!]