Honeymoon Salad 18

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

Page 34 Panel 1 [page numbers from tankobon]

Saying "We're so close that we don't argue"

Is definitely a lie

34-2 Hey, Youko

I read it. Your column.

34-3 Kyaa

35-1 You're getting stuff published here and there, huh?

Kyaa

Kyaa

35-2 Don't you read my stuff!

35-3 "My stuff"!? Not!
I bought it at a book store like anyone else

Don't!

It's not for people I know to read!

35-4 It's your fault for writing things you don't want read!

What!? You're a sneak!

Like you're a peeping tom!

Uh

Both of you

35-5 Minori-chan
You're a dirty old man!

36-1 Oh, really?

36-2 kon kon kon

36-4 Natsukawa-san...

36-5 Um...

You see

Youko-san

She's really uneasy about the quality of her work lately

37-1 They're riding her about the details
Telling her to do it this or that way

It seems she can't write the way she wants to...

37-2 So, that's why...

That's why?

37-3 So you're tell me to behave and not read any of it?

37-4 Ah...

That's so stupid

37-5 First of all

Why are you telling me this?

38-1 ...you're right...

38-3 batan

38-4 We didn't talk to begin with

If we can't screw anymore

it makes me wonder just why we're living together

39-1 Well, to begin with

39-2 Youko had money problems
but not anymore

Ichika needed a roommate

39-4 Could it be...

That I'm not needed in this place anymore?

39-5 For a moment...

39-6 The thought
"I guess I should move out"

Floated up then vanished

40-2 Natsukawa-san, phone!

40-3 Ah...

Thanks

40-3 Hey, Natsukawa, you fixed your fear of talkin' on the phone?

Of course

I'm transferring it to line 3

40-4 This is Natsukawa speaking

Ah, this is Moriyama

40-5 Natsukawa, are you free right now?

41-1 Moriyama-sama...?

Bugoho

Hahaha
Drop the "sama"

41-2 If you're free, come to the CEO's office

41-3 Ah!

The CEO!?

41-4 Look Youko-san...

You're the one who should be a little nicer to Natsukawa-san

42-1 For what?

42-2 "For what"?

It's fine.
I do things the way I want

42-3 What about you Ichika?

Eh...?

You're the one who said
"I don't know what to do"

42-4 The point is what you're going to do, right?

43-1 Or, what you want him to do

43-2 You don't know that either?

I...

43-4 Want to be together

43-5 Just like normal

43-6 Talking together

Listening to each other

Having dinner together

Going out occasionally

44-1 What about sex?

44-2 ...I want that too

44-3 So honest! That's great!

You go girl!

...but...

44-4 I'm not sure I want someone to love me

I think...

45-1 Natsukawa
How much do you understand the female heart?

45-2 I don't.

Zero.
Not a bit

45-3 What up with this?

Mmmmmmm

45-4 That's a problem

Not what I expected

46-1 Uh...

According to office rumors
I thought you'd be the guy in the know

46-2 What rumors...?

You see
Im thinking about getting into chocolates

46-4 What!?

The other day, on a business trip

I ran into these really delicious chocolates

Have one?

46-5 However

Sweet tooth [handwritten]

I'm not going to be able to just open an independent shop
or a counter in a department store

47-1 That's obvious!

Whoa, hahaha

I didn't expect the other makers to oppose me so strongly

You should have expected that from the start!

47-2 But, look

Oh

The other companies set their hand to
being great from the start

48-3 Shit, I said too much

In any case
I plan to give it a go

Since I have decided, I don't plan on failing

48-1 Natsukawa...

How about it?
You want to try?

49-2 Welcome back!

49-3 Have you eaten?
Do you want a little something?

50-1 Where's Youko?

Ah...

Sorry, she's out at a meeting today too

50-2 It's not like you have to apologize
[ignore the handwritten word]

Ah

50-3 ...you're right

51-1 Chocolates

51-2 ...
What kind, I wonder...

Wha?

51-3 Ah, sorry...

I was talking to myself

51-4 ...I'm pretty fond of them

51-5 I wonder about Youko-san

As long as it's food, she likes anything

52-1 Did...

Something happen?

52-2 Work?

Ah...

Yeah...

katan

52-3 ...nah


52-4 Nevermind

Ah...

gata

52-5 Somehow

I don't feel like talking

53-1 "Everything's fine, as long as you don't argue"

Can't be said of us either

Um...

Ok

I'm taking a bath and then going to bed

53-3 I...

54-1 I'm wondering if it would be better if I moved out...

Gon

54-3 Where'd that come from?