Honeymoon Salad 11

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

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Saito Youko
27 years old. Unemployed.

Aiming to be a novelist
Throwing herself into the struggling author's life.
(or, so she says)

56-2 Saito Ichika
23 years old. Self employed (?)

A contract seamstress to a privately owned boutique

56-3 Natuskawa Minori
26 years old. Company employee

Nothing special to relate

56-4 Somehow, without any real reason...

57-1 Good Morning
Natsukawa-san

It's come to pass that the three of us are living together

57-2 Ng...

58-1 ...rning...
Trying to say "good morning"

Is coffee ok?

Ah, sorry, but I've eaten your bread

58-2 The two of them, who comparatively have a lot of free time

Have given my activities top priority

Especially in the morning

sfx: buku buku

58-3 You should at least have some soup

Nn...

58-4 If I don't think about it too heavily

My basic needs are met (I'm being drowned in food). The good life.

58-5 Have a nice day!

59-1 Come on already!

The two of you do this every. Single. Morning! It's embarrassing!

hohoho

He says
Smiling all the while

59-2 Just what kind of expression do they think I have!?

If I don't think about it too heavily...

59-5 Ok, good.

sfx: pen

60-1 You've finally turned in something we can use

60-2 In the beginning, I had my doubts about you

Oh...

60-3 Was I really that bad?

Ah, when you first showed up, hmm?

Mmm...

60-4 You were pretty stiff...

I was always wondering if I had pissed him off somehow

60-5 Hey Natsukawa, no overtime today?

60-6 Wanna stop someplace?

Ah

That'd be great, thanks

61-1 Ah, hello?

61-2 I'm eating out tonight
So you don't need to make anything for me

61-3 sfx: gacha

61-4 Man...

You got a nice little home-life there

61-5 Eh...

Eh?

Ah!!

61-6 No, you've got it wrong! This is...

It's not a woman, er...
It is, but...

It's nothing like what you are thinking...

62-2 Oh, I see...

62-3 So...

I'm not sure I understand 'cause I've not heard everything, but...

That's why I'm telling you!
It's something that just happened!

62-4 It's like being hit out of the blue by misfortune

Whaaat?
Misfortune!?

62-5 That's the kind of misfortune I wanna have!

To be able to have a woman in each arm...

No way! That's not it!

63-1 That's not it...

Is it?

Oh man, you lucky bastard!

Going around all slack-jawed

63-3 Do I...
Go around slack-jawed..?

What the hell 'r you sayin'? Just teasin'

Uptight is what you are! Uptight!

63-4 Well, no matter how it came about

63-5 'gotta say I'm jealous

To be perfectly honest

64-2 Certainly...

I let things happen

And while I was bewildered

I ended up coming to accept the situation, or that's how it seems to me now

64-5 I recognize that this kind of thing doesn't happen even once in a lifetime to most people

65-1 Ah...

65-3 Welcome home!

66-1 Sorry for the mess!
I'll make some tea

66-2 Where's Youko?

Sleeping

She's using my futon

66-3 Jeez! Why does she have to...

66-4 Can't she find someway to stop imposing on people!?

I told her she could use it!
I said she could use it!

66-5 Day of the move

Um... Youko-san?
If you don't have a futon, why don't you use mine?

66-6 If you don't mind sleeping with me, that is...

67-1 Hey, Youko!

67-2 When you're sleeping during the day

You can use my bed, ok?

67-3 sfx: ni-shi

67-4 Oh man, this is so nice!

A home full of love!

67-5 Recently, Youko-san said that

She's trying for some sort of literary award, and has been burying herself in her writing

67-6 Haha

68-1 She's just talking big, I bet

It seems she finally finished it up today

68-3 It still hasn't fully healed...

Her right hand is a little awkward and it looks like it hurts

68-4 Don't you think...

It would have been better to have reported that...?

69-1 Oh no, is it still noticeable?

No... sorry to be bringing it up now, but

69-2 Even if you hurt him back with your words

The reality is that you got physically hurt
Don't you think they're on a different scale?

69-4 Um um, well...

69-5 Getting your feelings hurt is worse than a physical wound...

But that's still not even, right?

69-6 You got hit. You got hurt.

Both in body and mind, right?

70-1 Ah... sorry to drag this up now

It's not my place to say

70-3 But, dammit!

What an asshole!

70-4 Hitting a woman to get back at her for getting dumped

No

71-1 I'm the one who got dumped

71-2 "Let's break up"

"Get out of this apartment"
He's the one who said that...

71-3 So, why...?

Who knows?

71-4 Just what he really wanted...

I didn't...

I don't think he knew
I think he didn't know what to think anymore

72-1 He'd say, "I don't want to see your face again"

72-2 Then he would start calling. Coming over.
This would happen over and over

He seemed far more hurt
Than I did

I...

72-4 I continued to want to go out with him

But...

73-1 So that's why...

I brought it on my own head

Really

73-2 So if I did that kind of thing to you

You would consider it divine punishment?

73-3 Ah...

73-4 No, that's not...
I didn't mean it like that

I'm going to bed

73-5 What are you going to do?

You going to wait until Youko wakes up?

73-6 Or... you could come to my room?

74-1 Um...

Er...

74-2 Ah...

Never mind
Just thought I'd ask

74-3 Is he drunk...?

74-4 Ah, what a pain

I'll take a bath in the morning

Somehow that put me in a really bad mood...

74-5 sfx: ka ka

75-2 sfx: kii

75-3 sfx: patan

76-1 Have a good day!

76-2 What kind of expression am I wearing now, I wonder...