Strange Mansion 7

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Nov 27, 2009]

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Room7: Terror! The Curse of the Trumpet

75-2 When I came home from campus

There was someone collapsed in front of the apartment

75-3 sneak sneak

75-4 sfx: Erk

sfx: crawl

75-5 ...gimme... something to eat...

Hyaaaa

76-1 Snorf Gulp

76-2 Huh? You're starting without waiting for me!? Geez!

But I was about to die from hunger!

76-3 I... I'll feed you once, ok? But...

But?

76-4 Don't fall in love with me!

76-5 Ah, no problem!

I'm not interested in girls with flat chests!

Seconds? [under panel]

77-1 Whap bop

Kya

77-2 Sorry about the delay...

My name is Tokuraji Ayame

Nice to meet you

77-3 A woman. Named Ayame. [This is a pun. Ayame can me both "beautiful" but also "suspicious"]

They often say "the name reflects a person's character", but, dude...

Heh heh ... mine says a "voluptuous beauty", mmm?

77-4 Geez! I can't believe you actually collapsed out in the open like that!

Don't you work!?

Work?

78-1 I write erotic novels

Whaaat?
You're a novelist?
That's cool! Even if it is Ero stuff [handwritten]

78-2 But since I only write same sex stories, I'm only published in specialty magazines...

sfx: sip

Both the Neko and the Tachi both have hot bodies... [Tachi is the dominant female, Neko the subordinate. Similar to the Seme/Uke dynamic]

You could just write normal stuff, you know... [italicize "could"]

78-3 So every day I go out to check out women's bodies to gather material

Molesting women on the train

That's how I have raised my knowledge of women to such a high level

79-1 To put it plainly, it's not for research...

You write erotic novels because you're into women's bodies! [italicize "because"]

Maybe there's some material in here, hm?

Ah, not that!

79-2 I just fed you! You owe me! So don't just go rummaging through people's photos, you bitch!

Kya! Oh, my!

Don't you make it sound like that!

79-3 Whumph

79-4 Ah

80-1 Ah...
This is that guy from the queer couple, huh?

Wah Wah Wah

80-2 So you know him from before?
Why?

Uuugh

How do you know him?

80-3 How do I...

We just were in the same club in high school

81-1 Three years ago

Is there a first year named Sadojima here!?

sfx: slam

81-2 Wh-what!?

sfx: Eeee

Sado-chi, what did you do!?

I-I don't know this person!

sfx: stomp stomp

You...

81-3 I heard you played trumpet in Junior High, right?

sfx: clamp

Haaahh?

82-1 I wanna use yer skills

Kyaaa

Sado-chaan!

82-2 tadah...

82-3 Kyaa! It's dirty!

No one's taken care of it [handwritten]

...we haven't had anyone to take care of the Shizu High School Oen Dan instruments for years [Oen dan is a male cheerleading squad]

82-4 That's because the school band doesn't put any effort into their performing skill...

I noticed that too once I started school here

82-5 A Oen Dan without instruments is like miso soup without tofu!

82-6 So you're here to be our salvation!

Join us!

Iyaaaaaa

I was forced to join the Oen Dan [box]

83-1 And so...

I was forced to practice with them everyday

Sit-ups [hand written]

Lonely, single trumpet [handwritten]

83-2 And when I went to cheer on the sports teams

The opponent brought their whole band!?

83-3 I can't face them with only one feeble trumpet!

I can't stand this! [in mouth]

Guts, Sadojima!

With guts and willpower, we'll find a way!

Shizu High School Oen Dan [banner]

84-1 Like that could happen

Toot toot

Ta-ta-taa-taaaah

84-2 Th-there's no way...

Lip bleeding because she was blowing so hard [handwritten]

This Oen Dan can't make it...

84-3 And we lost in the first round

84-4 If this is how it's going to be, here's my curse!

That each and every team loses in the first round!

sfx: Whooosh!

85-2 I see.
A curse, was it?

Hmmm [handwritten]

Yeah...
At each game, I fed the sound of my trumpet with "lose, lose!"

85-3 And just at that time...

85-4 Shirahai-sempai joined the club

Excuse me, I'd like to join

86-1 It was love at first sight

86-2 Wow, so hunky!
If he's in the Oen Dan

Then I guess it's ok if I continue

86-3 But that's when the curse took effect

After that, Shizu High's sports teams kept losing

And the Oen Dan had fewer chances to perform...

86-4 And now, the Oen Dan doesn't even exist, I hear

If it hadn't been for the curse, I might have had a destiny that was closer to Shirahai-sempai...

sfx: sigh...

I'm not one to talk, but, you're pretty damn weird, huh [bold "weird"]

Room7: The End