Sket Dance 74

Dear Lord, I don't think I've ever translated so much Sket Dance in such a short space of time. And just so you know, it nearly killed me, but at least I did it (which is more than I thought I was going to manage), so I guess you could say one good thing came out of a certain bunch of evil assholes coming out of nowhere and trying to steal my series in a surprise attack of unprecedented bastardliness. Don't bother thinking this takes them off my death list, because they're still on there until every trace of those goddamn scanlations is wiped clean off the internet, but if they would stop releasing the series RIGHT NOW, then that would at least be a nice start ^^

Now, without further ado, I present translation number three of my fifteen-Sket-Dance-translations-in-about-three-days marathon.

Guidelines For Using My Translations

1
[Insert text: A peaceful mood...]
Bossun: Yabasawa-san gave us these flowers and this vase!
Himeko: They're pretty, huh?
Bossun: They sure are! // I think I'll change the water.
Himeko: That'll be the third time.
Bossun: It sure will. / But I think I'll do it anyway. // Flowers are nice, aren't they... / They kind of clear out your heart, calm you down... // If you stare at them long enough, you start to feel like everything's just great, you know? / They have that gentleness about them...

2
Himeko: What happened to "gentleness"?!
[Insert text: I take it all back!!]
[Sket Dance]
[Chapter 74: Stakeout Blues]
Tsubaki: Hmph. / Loitering about in the corridors with a vase of flowers. I suppose you are doing nothing worthwhile as usual, Sket-dan?
Bossun: Do you have to pick a fight with us every damn time we see you?! // Besides, look who's talking! You're loitering in the corridors an' all! You aren't gonna make any friends just wandering around aimlessly like that, you know? / Right?!
Tsubaki: I am on patrol! Upholding order in the school! Unlike your meaningless little club, I am actually working!
Bossun: What was that, eh? Are you trying to start something? / My fists aren't gonna sit still and take this forever, you know?
Tsubaki: Oh, it's a fight you want, is it? / You would dare to lay your filthy hands on me?
Himeko: Enough already... enough! Give it up, would ya, you two?
Bossun: I wouldn't lay my hands on you, but they might just... / ...slip! // Ahh...... // Look... it wasn't me, you know? It wasn't my fault, right? This guy was just...
Himeko: Enough already!! If I catch a cold, then you're so freakin' dead!!

3
Bossun: Money extortion?! // You've gotta be kidding me! / You really need to do something about that "easy target" thing you've got going on, Uchida... // So... how much did they take?
Uchida: Well, I didn't actually have that much money on me, so the actual cash they took wasn't a big deal... / It's just that I've heard that this sort of thing is happening a lot around the school area recently. // I was thinking I ought to do something about it before somebody does get in real trouble...
Bossun: I see. // Well, you made the right choice in coming to us! / After all, we've got an unbeatable bodyguard right here in our club! // Let's go on guard duty today, right off the bat, shall we? // Himeko.

4
Himeko: Suuure... // *cough* // *cough*
Bossun: Himeko?! // Huh?! You caught a cold?! You actually went and caught a cold?!
Himeko: It... looks like it, huh... // But don't worry... I'm okay... I'll catch that nasty extortionist...
Bossun: What part of this is "okay"?!!
Himeko: Ugh... I'm beat... My body's achin' all over... / My joints are killin' me... // An' my mind's just gone to crap... I feel depressed... desolate, even... I don't know how ta describe it... / Maybe I'm really gonna just die like this... / But don't worry... I'll catch that nasty extortionist...
Bossun: Like hell you will!! // You forget about that for today! Go home and get some sleep! Take some medicine, and make sure you drink plenty of water! / And make sure you wrap up nice and warm. / Got that?
Himeko: Gotcha...
Bossun: I guess there's nothing for it, Switch... / We'll just have to -
Switch: Yeahhh......
Bossun: Switch~~~~~~~~~!!
Switch: I think I may have caught... Himeko's virus...
Bossun: That's it! Both of you, go home and sleep!!

5
Tsubaki: Extortion... / ...I see.
Agata: Yep. Looks like a a delinquent from Tachikawa High is behind it. / He's been coming over here and picking on anyone who looks weak. // Hahah... / Someone's clearly not taking us seriously.
Tsubaki: Understood. You want me to capture this lowlife, is that correct?
Agata: No, no, that's not it! // We just need to make sure the students are on the alert. / There's no need to go as far as actually catching the guy behind it!
Tsubaki: Unacceptable!
Agata: ...Say what now?
Tsubaki: Why, more of our students may fall victim to the fiend this very day! // I will handle this alone!! // For the sake of bettering our campus!!
Agata: Well, whatever...

6
Bossun: This seems to be the place where he drags his targets off to, to do his dirty business.
Tsubaki: If I keep a close watch on this area, I should be able to catch the evildoer red-handed.
Bossun/Tsubaki: Hm?

7
Bossun/Tsubaki: Guahhh!!!
Bossun: What the heck...?!! What are you doing following me around in a place like this?!! You have a crush on me or something?!! // I'm busy with important stuff here!! Don't get in my way!!
Tsubaki: You took the words right out of my mouth, fool. I am staking out this area in hope of catching a dirty extortionist in the act!! // This is no place for the likes of you to be playing about!! I must ask you to leave immediately!!
Bossun: I'm here on a mission from a client!! You get out of here! / Shoo! Shoo! // ............... / Are you still here?
Tsubaki: Do you take me for some kind of animal?!! / At any rate, I have no intention of moving from this spot!! I have an important duty to fulfil here! It is you who should remove yourself from my sight! / Boo! Boo!
Bossun: ............... / Wait... what?! Was that suppose to make me leave?! / How does that even work?! // Tch... ah, forget it. You can stay if you like, but you'd better not get in my way.
Tsubaki: Just as long as you do not get in mine, fool.

8
Bossun: ...............
Tsubaki: ...............
Bossun/Tsubaki: (Th... This is awkward...!!)
Bossun: (I mean, it's not like we're on great terms... so I can't exactly just start talking to him... // Aghh, but this silence is so freaking awkward.........!!)
Tsubaki: (I am not on particularly friendly terms with this boy... so I can hardly simply start a conversation... // Yet this silence is frankly unbearable...!!)
Bossun: Tch...

9
Bossun: What?! If it's my coffee you want, you're not having any! / Ugh! I can't stand that look you're giving me!
Tsubaki: Wh... What patent foolishness! Why would I be coveting your coffee?!
Bossun: Huh, and there I was thinking you were some well-to-do little rich boy. You're a nasty one all right.
Tsubaki: I tell you, you are mistaken!
Bossun: Maaaaaan.......................... this is some nice coffee. // You just can't beat coffee when it comes to stakeout sustenance... I sure am glad I bought it... / Man, is it great to be alive~~~!!
Tsubaki: Ngh...
Bossun: Why is it, I wonder, that canned coffee tastes even better than usual at times like these...? / Man, I just can't get enough...
Tsubaki: Nghhh... // Hmph.

10
Bossun: Here.
Tsubaki: Wh... What is this, all of a sudden?! I thought I told you I have no desire to...
Bossun: Ah, shaddup. / Just take the damn coffee.
Tsubaki: H... Hmph! // Why, this can is completely empty!! // There's not even a drop of coffee in here!!
[TN: Awww, Tsubaki just got owned XD]
Tsubaki: Are you mocking me, wretch?!
Bossun: Oww! // The hell was that for, huh?!
Tsubaki: Hngh.... // Are you trying to pick a fight?! // You dare lay your hands on me?!
Bossun: Oww!
Tsubaki: That makes it even!
Bossun: You threw that thing at me first! / This makes it even!
Tsubaki: Hngh?! / No, this makes it even!
Bossun: Oww! / This makes it even!

11
Bossun: ...............
Tsubaki: What?! It's... It's not as though I hit you particularly hard!! / Stop acting the fool!
Bossun: That really hurt~!! // You get two for that!!
Tsubaki: Hey!! S... Stop that!!
Bossun: One! // Two!
Tsubaki: Hmph... I suppose an apology is in order. After all, I have training in both karate and boxing. / No wonder if my strength outstrips yours by a fair margin. // My apologies!
Bossun: Hah... / Like that's anything to be all proud of. // I've studied a bit of martial arts myself, you know.
Tsubaki: ...............
Flashback!Agata: You shouldn't take Fujisaki too lightly, you know. He may appear simple, but he actually has surprising depths to him. // You never know what he might spring on you next.
Tsubaki: [aside]...if the President said that...[/aside]

12
Tsubaki: ...What?
Bossun: Hm?
Tsubaki: What martial art did you study?
Bossun: Hm? / What's that got to do with you?
Tsubaki: I do not find it unfeasible that it may not have no relevance to myself! So tell me - what was it? / Aikido? Tae Kwon Do?
Bossun: ............... / A... / Aeon Feuer.
Tsubaki: Aeon... what?! // Aeo... Aeon Feuer? / That's what you said, yes? What on Earth is that?! / I have never heard of a martial art by that name!!
Bossun: W... Well, that just shows how much you know, huh!
Tsubaki: Where is it from? In what country does this martial art originate?!
Bossun: Well... uh... you know...
Tsubaki: Spit it out!!
Bossun: S... Somewhere around the Balkans...
Tsubaki: The Balkans?! // You mean the Balkan Peninsula?! That's not even a country!
Bossun: Don't look at me! / I'm just telling you what Master Huang told me!
Tsubaki: "Master Huang"?! // (The Balkan Peninsula... I see... An respectable area home to many different races, with a deep and complex history... // I can certainly imagine a martial art that has escaped my notice heralding from there...) // Fujisaki.
Bossun: Yeah?

13
Tsubaki: Fight me.
Bossun: Whaaaat?!!
Tsubaki: Come on!
Bossun: Not a chance!! // Are you even listening to yourself?!! What are you, an idiot?!! / Have you forgotten what we're doing here?! How is having a street fight going to help us catch this extortionist bastard?!
Tsubaki: W... Well, if you will bring up such intriguing topics...!
Bossun: What's so intriguing?! I'd just forget all about Aeon Feuer if I were you!! // Hmph... / Besides, it would be cruel, you know? If I were to get serious, you wouldn't stand a chance - it wouldn't be fair, you know? // You'd be sliced in two, you know?
Tsubaki: Sliced in two?! What manner of martial art is this Aeon Feuer?!! You are only intriguing me still more!! // What techniques does it have?! Are there any powerful secret skills?!!
Bossun: Is this guy for real...?
Tsubaki: What?
Bossun: No, no... there are... // Techniques... // Techniques... // Let's see...
[Package: Valencia Oranges]
Bossun: Vale... / The Fujisaki Valencia!
Tsubaki: Fujisaki Valencia?! / But that is the name of a location in America! I thought this martial art came from the Balkans?!
Bossun: Shaddup!! L... Let's just drop this discussion, okay?!

14
Tsubaki: But which is stronger?! Your Fujisaki Valencia or my Tsubaki Explosion?! // I must know!
Bossun: Aghhh... Shaddup! / You're really starting to creep me out! // ...And what the hell's this "Tsubaki Explosion"?! // Let's just sit and keep watch quietly, okay?! / We don't know when the extortionists might show up!
Tsubaki: I am aware of that! It is your fault for saying such intriguing things!
Bossun: Well, just forget it! Wipe the Fujisaki Valencia from your mind forever!
Bossun/Tsubaki: Hmph...
Tsubaki: Incidentally... / What do you intend to do when our target does appear?
Bossun: Hm? / Get out there and catch the bastard by force, obviously. / Before you can do a thing.
Tsubaki: What?! // I will be the one to capture him! / Tch... we have the same objective, yet still you act this way... // I see you have not the slightest intention of attempting to cooperate.
Bossun: Well, what's the point? // You know how badly the two of us get on. Even if we did try to come up with a strategy together, you just know we'd end up each doing our own thing when it comes down to it. // I doubt there's anyone out there worse suited to working as a team than us.

15
Tsubaki: I see your point... // It has some merit. // I have no desire to argue with you over this. Just try to avoid getting in my way, if you would.
Bossun: Tch... / You know, you don't have to... // Hm? / Hey - over there...
Tsubaki: What is it?
Bossun: That's one of our students. // That guy's taking his money from him! // That's him! // That guy's our extortionist!!
Tsubaki/Bossun: HAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

16
Tsubaki/Bossun: YAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Extortionist/Victim: !!!
Tsubaki: Freeze!!
Bossun: That's as far as you go!!
Extortionist: What the...?! / Shit!
Tsubaki: He's trying to run!
Bossun: Not a chance!!
Tsubaki: I'll go after him!
Bossun: I'll get around behind!
Extortionist: Ugh, what a pain in the ass...! I'll just have to take you out!
Tsubaki: (I tripped...!!!)

17
Tsubaki: Un... // ...gh... // Nghh... // TSUBAKI EXPLOSION!!
Extortionist: Guahh!!
Bossun: Ahh!!
Extortionist: Aghh!
Bossun: Whoa - ! // Wai -

18
[Text: Fujisaki Valencia!!]
Tsubaki: !!!! // (I saw it...!! // It was only a glimpse, but I saw him strike the finishing blow...!! // That was it...! // The Fujisaki Valencia!! // Truly, you are a formidable enemy, Fujisaki!!!)

19
Bossun: You sure you're okay?
Tsubaki: What do you mean?
Bossun: Well, you took a nasty fall back there...
Tsubaki: That was nothing. / I merely grazed myself lightly. // Besides which, my home is a hospital. My father is an elite doctor, whom I look up to from the bottom of my heart.
Bossun: I never knew anything about that... / Huh, I guess you are a rich brat...
Tsubaki: What?!
Bossun: Nothing... // Bah, why the heck am I walking together with you, anyway?
Tsubaki: Because we are headed in the same direction, I would presume.
Bossun: Then walk slower, would you? / I'll go on ahead.
Tsubaki: That would simply not do. It is I who should forge ahead of you. // (This man... he predicted my movements with pinpoint accuracy and positioned himself perfectly to catch the villain... // Synchronising himself with me flawlessly despite everything... truly, he is one to be feared!! // Still, I will not lose!!)
Woman: Oh, my... are those two brothers? / They're in perfect sync...
[Insert text: They do say that fighting is a sign of friendship... but let's not overdo it, you guys!]