Honeymoon Salad 16

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

Page 172 Panel 1 [page numbers from tankobon]

I searched for anything clouding her smile

For any lies in her words

172-2 Why don't you two get back together?

172-3 I think you two would really get along this time

172-4 I think the two of you

Make a really nice couple

172-5 Half of me feel likes I'm praying for that

173-1 sfx: paku paku

Oh my gosh!

I forgot to bring the wash in!

173-2 Sorry

But I'm going on home

173-3 So you two take your time...

Haaah?

173-4 It's fine. You don't have to rush off

Then let's go home together...

No!

sfx: bu

173-5 Please,

Take your time...

174-1 Hey!!

Wai....

174-2 Wait...

Oh, really?

We'll do that then

174-3 Um - Ah....

What a stud, eh, Minori-chan?

174-4 She's certainly in loooove with you, she is.

175-1 R...

175-2 Really!?

Well

Y'know

Just cause you're loved doesn't mean you have to love back

That's not the issue here!

175-3 Don't think too hard about it, hm?

Youko!!

176-2 I wanna ask you something. Seriously.

176-3 Hm?

You don't really

Want to get back
together with me, right?

176-4 Um, well, kinda...

If so, then why the hell...

177-1 Why...

Do you have to screw around like...

I...

My...

177-2 I don't get what you're trying to say at all

But aren't you...

Isn't it 'cause you think "poor Minori"?

And then can't leave me alone?

Isn't that why you're bothering to stay with me?

177-6 Pu

178-1 Bwahahaha

Hey!!

178-2 Youko, you...

No, that's not a lie

I'm not going to lie to you, but

178-3 But you're too simple!

179-1 It's not that easy

To get an answer or a satisfying conclusion, mm?

180-1 There is more

Than one truth

181-1 My head is spinning...

sfx: potsu potsu

181-2 Zaa

181-3 Suddenly

Hyaa

That rain came down suddenly

182-4 The ground under my feet is giving way

The laundry's safe

182-5 What I finally managed to get my hands on (so I thought)

Is slipping from my fingers

And suddenly I'm drowning in anxiety

183-1 Why...

183-2 I don't get it...

So please

Can you stop with the mind games?

183-3 Natsukawa-san...?

Were you serious back there?

If so

What are you doing having sex with me like this?

184-1 What's the matter...? Natsukawa-san...?

Just what is the truth here!?

184-2 Did I get things wrong...

184-3 Was it just my conceit?

184-4 What

Do you really want?

184-5 What do want from me?

185-1 I...

Want you to do what you want...

185-3 I think...
That...

Youko-san might be necessary for you

185-4 You seem happy, Natsukawa-san

185-5 When she's making you mad, or giving you problems
You see happy somehow

186-1 So why now...

But of course

If you don't feel that way, that's fine

If it ends up

That you let me stay with you, that's fine too

186-4 "If it ends up"...?

Well, that's how it is, right?

186-5 After all, we didn't start out dating each other or anything

187-2 After all

I'm only a "friend with benefits"
This wouldn't have happened if we hadn't just bumped into each other

Wha...

187-3 Why do put yourself down like that!?

187-4 Cause It's the truth?

187-5 I don't have anything...

Stop it!!

188-1 No special qualities

188-2 Stop it!!

Nothing to be proud of

Nothing to speak of

Stop it!!

188-3 No redeeming features...

Ichika!!

189-3 After all...
I'm the same

Is that so bad!?

190-1 Me too...

190-2 Are you saying a person with no redeeming qualities has watch life go by?

190-3 No having fun?

No happiness?

190-4 Natsukawa-san...

This frustration

This irritation

190-5 This

Feeling

That I want grab her slim shoulders and shake her hard

191-3 Natsukawa-san?

Inside my head

191-4 I can hear her voice ringing over and over

192-1 Not just yet, Minori-chan

I don't feel

Like giving you an answer so easily, hm?