Aqua Age Volume 1

Aqua Age Volume 1 - Chapter 1.3
TL by Maccha
PR by Naweg

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Chapter title: CHAPTER 1.3: A Girl’s Theme

[We’re now into the 3rd school term—//and a rumor that my homeroom teacher got engaged is going around]
SFX: GAYA GAYA (*=people talking)

Girls: I heard that they’re seriously deep in love!
SFX: WAKI WAKI (Excited)
Yuuko: Teacher—//I heard you’re getting married, is it true--?


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Teacher: haha… yep
Teacher: As soon as spring holiday starts//after you guys graduate…

Bubble 1: Wow---!! Teacher, what is she like---?
SFX: WAI WAI (*noisy)
Bubble 2: Is she a college student? An office lady!?
Bubble 3 above Yuuko’s head: Is she pretty?//How old is she!?
Teacher: Hey hey don’t ask me all at once.

Teacher: Let’s see//well she….she was my class mate during high school and…

Teacher: I’ve been into her for the whole 8 years…
Teacher: and she hardly ever showed any interest in me… //but then finally she considered it and agreed to marry me the other day.//Gosh, how happy I am!


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Yuuko: Teacher—Why are you getting married?
Teacher: Huh?
Yuuko: What will happen when you get married?

Hiroshi: Gee, stupid--// after you get married, you become husband and wife, duh!
Yuuko: Hiroshi-kun…

Friend 1: Oh—so it’s like professor and Yuuko right--?
Hiroshi: N…no!// we’re not married so you don’t call us husband and wife you know!
Friend 2: So--- get married then— hyuu hyuu (*=teasing whistle)

Yuuko: Shut up!
Yuuko: You can’t get married unless the guy is 18 and the girl is 16 you know!!

Friend: Oh---so Yuuko really does hope to get married to professor huh?// She’s probably thinking “I’ll just have to wait another 6 years” or something
Yuuko: […great]


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SFX: ki—n ko—n ka—n ko—n (*=school bell)
Yuuko: [--but…]
Yuuko: [being able to get married to someone you’ve liked for 8 whole years…I’m envious]
Yuuko: [I never would have thought that my teacher had some romantic characteristics in him--]

On the blackboard:
[PRESENT
• Flower bouquet
• Stuffed toy
• Teacup set]
SFX: tap tap
Kid: …so we have agreed

Kids: that for your present, teacher//we are going to send you a flower bouquet.
SFX (girl on the left): AGREED—
SFX (kid on the right): YAY—

Yuuko: Everyone please chip in 100 yen each
SFX: WAI WAI (*=talking kids)

Yuu: [---so…]


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Yuuko: Who’s going to be the one buying the flower bouquet?

SFX: [Shee—n] (*=all silent)

Boys: That, Why don’t you to be the ones to go buy them, professor and Yuuko?
SFX: yeah yeah—
Hiroshi: Wha…

Hiroshi: Why us!?
Boys 1: hyuu hyuu— (*=whistles) ohh he’s getting red—
Boy 2: Well aren’t you two husband and wife?

Yuuko: STUPID// we’re not like that!!

Yuuko: Who would like this short and conceited weirdo!?
SFX: Gusa gusa (*=hiroshi feeling crushed with those words)


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Girl: But you and Hiroshi are both class committee members…// so I also think that it’s better that way
Yuuko: Ton-chan…

Yuuko: [well//having been told that I guess she’s right]

Yuuko: Well then
Yuuko: The people who have the duty to buy the flower bouquet to send to the teacher will be
Hiroshi: hey hey
Yuuko: Nagasaki Hiroshi and myself as we are the class’s committee members. We will be responsible for this.
Classmate: Yeah! The husband and wife! Hyuu—(*=whistles)

Yuuko: We’re not husband and wife!!
SFX: POKA (*=hits)


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Small sfx on the building: beep beep—

SFX on their feet: Trot trot

SFX: BURORORO…(*car engines)
Hiroshi: …so I’m just a short and conceited weirdo huh!
Yuuko: Oh//did that bother you?//Sorry—

Yuuko: But you know my dream guy is//tall, kind and a cool person!
SFX: GUSA GUSA (*hiroshi feeling crushed)
Small SFX near hiroshi’s chin: and then

Yuuko: ….?//Hiroshi kun?
Hiroshi: ….

ガラガラ。。。
SFX: gara gara (*=door slides open)
フラワーショップ花吉
Sign on the middle window: Hanayoshi Flower Shop
いらっしゃいませー。。。
Welcome—


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Yuuko: Wow…!

Yuuko: Hey hey Hiroshi kun, which one should we get?
Hiroshi: Uhh…they’re just flowers, I think any would do.//We should just decide based on the budget we’ve got to spend

Yuuko: Gee, you’re so boring//Oh and I’ve also added to that list for my ideal guy that he’s gotta be someone who’s has dreams too!

Hiroshi: …

Hiroshi: …ooh//this one is good!//Whoa—roses! These are great!// Look flower bouquets of roses! Loads of them!! What do you think?


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Yuuko: No way--//Don’t you know how much they cost?//Didn’t you say just say to decide by keeping the budget in mind!?

Hiroshi: Hmm—
SFX: kyoro kyoro (*=looks around)

Hiroshi: Oh…how bout that one?//That one looks good and cheap too…
Yuuko: Huh?

Yuuko: Kasumisou*…how pretty…
[*note to readers: a type of flowers]
Hiroshi: See!//Let’s get that one then! Yes, it’s decided then!

Yuuko: But a bouquet with just Kasumisou is weird you know//We need at least one more kind of flower…
SFX: GARA GARA… (*=door slides)
Speechbubble below: Welcome in—


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Yuuko: [wow…she’s pretty…]

Yuuko: [Hiroshi-kun’s also looking at her…]

Yuuko: …hey Hiroshi-kun

Yuuko: Hiroshi-kun, what type of person do you want to get married to be like?// Like A pretty one?
Hiroshoi: Wh…why do you ask all of a sudden…
Yuuko: It doesn’t matter, just tell me!

Hiroshi: U…uhh---//um…hmmm
SFX: cough

Hiroshi: Her looks are ok but…//her personality’s not that great….// a bit conceited// and selfish and..


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Yuuko: Gosh//you’ve got such a weird tastes!
Hiroshi: I’m describing you, you know!

Yuuko: Then//how about if that person doesn’t have any interest in you?//Would you still wait for her for 8 years like our teacher did?

Hiroshi: uh
SFX: DOKI (*heart thumps)

Hiroshi: I…I’ll wait!
SFX: kaa—(*=turns red)

Yuuko: Really---//Hiroshi so you’re also the romantic kind huh--//I see—wow-- <3
SFX: BAN BAN (*=pats him in the back)
Hiroshi: Bu

Yuuko: wow wow----//I can’t believe it—
Hiroshi: Wh…//what…

Hiroshi: You’re also a romanticist yourself…
SFX: WOW WOW
SFX: That was unexpected—


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[I kind of yearn for it--]
[this type of love //that comes from a tie where the guy held so strongly to his feelings for his one and only]
[Just like ones you see in your dreams//I want be in that kind of dramatic love too--]
[Will there be a day I will meet that kind of guy?—]

Yuuko: [oh…Hiroshi kun’s room]
Yuuko: [he’s still got his lights on]

Yuuko: [Hiroshikun…]
Hiroshi: “I…I’ll wait!”


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Yuuko: I wonder//if Hiroshi-kun’s got someone he likes right now

“I’ll wait!”
[That person that Hiroshi likes]
[how lucky of her for having someone feeling so strongly for her like that…]

[“love” is a girl’s eternal theme—]
SFX: PACHIN (*=switches off the lights)
[---good night---]
Bottom text: Chapter 1.3 “A girl’s Theme”---the end—
*END* <AQUA AGE: The Elementary School Moments>