Saike Once Again 4

Consider this week to be my 'Clearing as much crap out of the way before Super Smash Brothers 3DS comes out Friday' week. I'm pretty sure my life or lack thereof will be completely consumed by that game for a while so I'd might as well get as much as I can done.



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(Top text- Fourth installment of a series serialization with huge reverberations!!)
(Side text- Repeating ‘Today’ several times Saike is unable to save Mikan. For Mikan’s sake, Saike has steeled his resolve for a tragic end….that is…?!)
(Sfx- Chchichichihi *tweettweettweet*)
(Sfx- Chun chun *twirp twirp*)
(Sfx- Gyuh *shfft*)
(Sfx- Gacha *clack*)
Saike: I’m off.
SAIKE ONCE AGAIN.
Mom: Saike!
You forgot something!
(Sfx- Pata pata *tmp tmp*)
Mom: Your headphones!
You like listening to music on your way to school right?
Saike: Nah…
I don’t need those anymore, Mom.

002
Take 4: The last today.
FUKUCHI TSUBASA
(Side text- The thing that balances life…)
(Side text- That is….)
SAIKE ONCE AGAIN

003
(Sfx- Goboh *bloop*)
{Do you have a ‘dream’?}
{To be a novelist?}
{An astronaut?}
{Or a High school teacher?}
{That’s great!}
{To work hard in order to make these dreams come true is awesome!}
{Yeah.}
{I don’t have anything like that.}

004
(Sfx- Chun chun chun *tweet tweet tweet*)
{But…}
{I did manage to find something I want to do.}
{I’m sure you’ll find it one day…}
{The one thing that you wanna do that no one else can do!!}
(Sfx- Chun chun *tweet tweet*)
{And that’s to save Mikan’s life.}

005
{I don’t understand the reason but…}
{Whenever I drown in ‘Mogura pond’ Time flows backward to this morning.}
{And I’ve seen it countless times now…}
{Mikan’s death.}
{I was unable to do anything to unravel her fate.}
{It seems that changing fate isn’t something that can be done so easily.}
{That’s why I’ll trade my life for hers….}
{And unravel Mikan’s ‘fate of death’!!}
{God…}
{This is equivalent value and I’ll pay it.}
{So please save Mikan.}

006
(Sfx- Chun chun *tweet tweet*)
(Sfx- Chun *tweet*)
(Sfx- Sawa sawa sawa *rustlerustle*)
(Sfx- Zaaah *ssssh*)
(Sfx- Chichichi)
{Now that I think about it….this is the first time…}
{That I’ve walked without my headphones on.}
(Handwritten- Let’s go Legend!)
(Sfx- Hah hah hah)
(Sfx- kasa kasa *ssfffffh*)
(Sfx- Koh koh koh *tp tp tmp*)
(Handwritten- Mornin’.)

007
{I had no idea…}
{That it was so surprisingly quiet.}
(Sfx- Garigarigarigarigari *scrtchscritchsrcht*)
{What was so interesting….}
{About these boring lessons again?}
(Sfx- Fuaaah *yawwwn*)

008
(Book- Eden’s knight and the magician.)
(Sfx- PEra *fwap*)
(Sfx- Wai wai wai)
Saike: Heheh.
Someone: Hey…do you have a novel or something you recommend?
Someone else: A novel?
(Handwritten- Lately I’ve been really captivated by different types of print.)
(Handwritten- Seriously? That’s totally not like you.)

009
Saike: Wanna read this?
(Sfx- Mogu mogu *chew chew*)
Saike: I—
It’s kinda interesting.
(Handwritten- Though I really just started it today…)
(Handwritten- Ah…)
(Handwritten- Um…Kusushiro-kun?)
Girl: O—okay.
Thanks?

010
???: Kuszushiro…
You do realize you’re the only one right?
Who hasn’t handed in your list of career desires.
Saike: Sorry.
???: Don’t you have anything you wanna do?
(Sfx- Kuru kuru spn spin)
???: C’mon, there has to be something…
Like what do you want to become?
What is it that you want to do?
Saike: There is a job…
I’d like to do.
???: Ooh! So there is something! I figured Kusushiro….
(Sfx- Poroh *fwop*)

011
(Sfx- Pashiiii *Graaaab*)
???: Eh?
(Sfx- Zatsh *Shffft*)
Saike: A job where….
I can help people.
???: I—I see..
(Handwritten- Good luck.)

012
Mikan: Heeey Saike!!
Let’s head back together!
Saike: Okay!

013
{The way to save Mikan from ‘death’….}
{Is probably to create another ‘death’.}
{For example multiplying -1 by -1….}
{Creates a +1….it’s that sort of reasoning.}
{-1(Death) x -1(Death)= +1(Life.)}
{The form it comes in doesn’t matter.}
{Right before the truck comes to hit her, I just have to ‘substitute’ myself.}
(Blocks- Saike// Mikan.)
{This is probably the way to save Mikan.}

014
{I have no basis for this reasoning…}
{But at this point it’s the only thing I can do.}
Mikan: My future career?
Saike: Yup!
Mikan: I’m going to use my artistic strengths to get into Kurijyo!
Because I love drawing and art!!
But that place has a pretty high deviation value when it comes to grades..
And y’know I’m kinda dumb?
(Handwritten- I’m even saying it about myself…)
Saike: You’ll do fine.

015
Saike: I know you’ll get accepted Mikan…
Because it’s for ‘the sake of something you love’.
Mikan: Wh—what’s with that?!
(Sfx- Mogumogumogumogu* chewchewcchew*)
Mikan: Oh! That’s right!
Our chief loves the occult.
They said that they saw something weird in Mogura pond down in the third district!
A person walking on top of the pond’s surface!

016
Mikan: Eh!?
Saike: I’ve heard that rumor.
(Sfx- Zuzuhh *siiip*)
Saike: How about we go to Mogura pond and have a look?
Mikan: Eh?
Oh right! Y—yeah!
(Handwritten- Let’s go!)
Saike: Mikan….
Before we do that, can we take a little detour?

017
(Sfx- Papapapapapaaa)
(Sfx- Parapapapapapaaa)
Mikan: Where are we going Saike…?
The pond is in the opposite direction you know?
Saike: Yeah…
Right here.
Mikan: eh?
Dude: Gyahahaha!!
(Handwritten- I seriously thought I’d have to kill the guy.)
(Sfx- Gyahahahaahah!!)
Mikan: What are those people doing?
Right in front of that store…
(Handwritten- Nasty!)
(Sfx- Gyuhhh *Grip*)
Store clerk: Thank you very much!

018
Dude: Hey Bro!
What sorta book did you buy?
Big Dude: Uwa! This dude’s an otaku ain’t he?
Kid: Um…
Just some manga….
Big dude: See? Total Otaku, bro.
Dude: Let me read ‘em!
(Sfx- Kashi kasha *tp tp*)
Dude: What’s with you man? You bought three of the same book?!
(Sfx- Bihhh *fwfft*)
(Sfx- Zath *Swssh*)
(Handwritten- Huh?)
(Handwritten- Geh!)

019
Saike: R—
Real lame man.
Mikan: Sa..
Saike?!
Dude: Huuuh?
Saike: Here you go.
(Sfx- Gan *grab*)

020
(Sfx- gurun *sppiin*)
Dude: Sorry for being too lame for you.
(Sfx- Gyuuuhhhh *Griiiind*)
(Sfx- Gopaaah *THOOK*)
Saike: Nhg…
Ooow….
Mikan: S---
Saike!!
(Sfx- Datsuh *dasssh*)

021
Saike: Don’t come any closer Mikan…
(Sfx- Pota pota *drip drip*)
(Handwritten- Oooh?)
Mikan: Let him go!
(Sfx- Zah *Shfft*)
(Sfx- jaashh *Ssffft*)
Mikan: If you get any closer I’ll slice you down!
Saike: W—wait, why do you even have that…?
Mikan: What on earth are you doing!?
This isn’t like you at all!!
(Handwritten- You’re just a big scaredy cat!)
Saike: Sorry…
But…

022
Saike: I can’t anymore…
I’ve always…
Run away…
I found it too troublesome…
And scary to get involved with others…
But now I understand that I was wrong…

023
Saike: I didn’t want to say it…
That I was weak…
And….
Always waiting for ‘someone else to take care of it’….

024
Saike: Someone other…

025
Saike: Than ‘myself’….!!

026
Saike: But I’m not going to do that anymore…
I’m no longer going to lie to myself about my feelings…!
‘I’ will…
Clench my fists….!!
If this is what I decided on myself….
If ‘I’ think this is what I should do…!!

027
Saike: Even if you beat the ‘Me I was up until now’ senseless…
I have to keep swinging these fists!!

028
{Today is a particularly…}
{Special ‘today’ for me.}
{‘Tomorrow’ won’t come…}
{This is my last today.}
{And I will finally put this me that I’ve hated up until now…}
{To rest…on this final today…}
(Side text- Saike who has put his life on the line makes a gamble? Next issue the series serialization’s last chapter will have an expanded 38 pages. It’s a must see!!)
TO BE CONTINUED IN COMBINED ISSUES 36/37.