Sket Dance 10

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[insert text: The "Frisk Samurai" makes another appearance!]
Tsubaki: Stop right there! // Takemitsu Shinzou.
Shinzou: Who goes there?!!!
Tsubaki: ............... // What on earth do you call that getup? / I'm sure you're aware of the uniform regulations.
Shinzou: Ah... / Heheh... Apologies for that. / It's just that this is more fitting for a samurai...
Tsubaki: You are suspended from club activities for two weeks. / And I expect you to submit a detailed written apology by tomorrow.
Shinzou: What are you saying?! / Who exactly are you?!

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Shinzou: You are no teacher... You have no right to force me to submit to your idle whims! // If you truly hold me in such contempt... // Let us settle this in combat.
Tsubaki: Whether or not the teachers are aware of your misconduct... // They are far too soft in enforcing regulations. I am not nearly as forgiving.

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Sket Dance
Chapter 10: Student Council Executive
[insert text: Regulation enforcers... the Student Council!!]
Tsubaki: I am a Student Council executive. // And I do have that right.
[box: Vice-President: Tsubaki Sasuke]
Mimori: And so... you overdid it and made a hole in the wall. // And it looks like your fist didn't exactly come out of it unhurt either, did it?

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Tsubaki: I shall pay the repair expenses out of my personal funds.
Mimori: Don't worry about it. / The hidden funds should cover it nicely! // Of course! Since we'll be fixing it any way, we might as well get gold plating -
Tsubaki: Don't bother!! If we're talking about fixing things, how about fixing your financial sense?!
Mimori: And what about you? / I think you should try fixing that habit of getting worked up so easily. // It's not very civilised to go around attacking people, you know.
[box: Treasurer: Unyuu Mimori]
Tsubaki: It is all for the sake of bringing the student population into line. / I am not in the wrong.
Mimori: You shouldn't take things so personally all the time. // Ah... / That's right... / We've had two new club-activity applications. // Let's see... / The "Sentai Hero Research Club" and the "Henshin Rider Moe-Moe Club".
Tsubaki: What kind of clubs are those?! // And aren't those basically the same thing?! They sound totally pointless!! // What are the President's orders?
Mimori: The same as ever... / He says you can handle everything, Tsubaki-kun.

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Tsubaki: There are no free clubrooms left. / We can't allow the creation of any more pointless clubs. // The regulations make it far too easy to establish new clubs... this is a problem. // Hmmmmm...
Mimori: Where are you going?
Tsubaki: Inspection. // Useless club activities must be abolished. // For the sake of improving this school!

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Himeko: Slooowly! Bossun, slooowly, yeah? // Ya gotta take it slooowly, slooowly... // Sloooowly...
Bossun: Shaddup!! // Can you be quiet, you're stressing me out!! // Finished!! The tower of cards is a success!!
Himeko: Waaaaaaaahhh!!! That's incredible, Bossun!! // It's a record, gotta be a record! // It's a record, a record!
Bossun: Ah!! We'll call it the "Bossun Tower"!
Himeko: That sucks!! // Who-who-who-whoooooa!! Ya gotta stay back, don't touch it!! // We need a picture!! // Momoka, take a picture! / A picture, a picture!!
Momoka: Okay, Nee-san!! // Right, so "cheeese"... Wait up, Boss-man!! / You're blocking Nee-san from the picture!!
Bossun: Well, I'm the one who made it, aren't I?!
Momoka: Shut up!!

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Bossun: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! THE BOSSUN TOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!
Himeko: It's ruined.........!!!
Bossun: Wh-wh-wh-who the hell did that...?!!!
Tsubaki: I see. So this is what you get up to, is it? // Sket-dan.

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Himeko: What the...?!
Bossun: APOLOGISE!!! And who the hell are you, anyway?!!!
Switch: Tsubaki Sasuke, Vice-President of the Student Council.
Bossun: Huh?! He's from the Student Council?!
Tsubaki: Ahh... / I'm sure we haven't actually met, but I suppose that's why they call you a master informant... Usui Kazuyoshi. // Have you overcome your social withdrawal problem?
Himeko: Wait just one minute!!! // I don't know about you bein' a Vice-President or whatever, but...
Tsubaki: Onizuka Hime. // I had heard that the Onihime had turned to the straight and narrow... but I suppose your hotheadedness is incurable.

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Himeko: Why, you little brat...!!
Bossun: Calm it, Himeko.
Tsubaki: And you, the one who gathers together this rabble and has the nerve to call it a "club activity"... // You're the biggest problem-child of the lot, aren't you... Fujisaki Yuusuke.
Bossun: If you're quite finished, why don't you just tell us what the hell you're doing here... Mister Vice-President. // We're pretty busy around here; we need to get the Bossun Tower rebuilt.
Tsubaki: I shall make this quick.

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Tsubaki: The Campus Support Group, also known as the Sket-dan... / ...is hereby dissolved.
Bossun: ...Ehhh?!!! What the hell're you taling about?!!
Himeko: The hell's wrong with you?!!! You screwed in the head?!!!
Tsubaki: And you, hanging around outside... you would be Kibitsu Momoka, of Nikkou, correct? // I had heard reports that you were associating with delinquents from other schools... // A terrible influence on our school indeed...

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Tsubaki: Delinquents gathering in this Sket-dan clubroom... / And the club itself has the audacity to spend its days lounging around doing nothing, and calls that "club activities"... // I see no good reason to entrust a valuable clubroom to a group of that nature. / That is all.
Bossun: ............!! // Whoa, whoa, whoa... // Don't go blathering about pointless things! What does Momoka have to do with this?!!! / And besides, we've been doing plenty of club activities!!!
Himeko: Hell yeah!! We've solved all sorts of cases!!
Tsubaki: Oh? In that case... what sorts of things have you accomplished?
Bossun: Well, you know... / The Hageitou Incident!! // And there was the ghost sightings... // And... uhhh... // ...the Hageitou Incident...
Himeko: Can't ya come up with anythin' but the Hageitou Incident?!! / Ah, crap... I said the wrong thing...!!

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Bossun: A - anyway!! We won't let you just dictate what we can and can't do!!! // It's true we don't have much to do a lot of the time... but there are people who need our help!!!
Tsubaki: Where exactly are there people who need your help? How about you try showing me somebody?
Bossun: Right now?! Clients don't just show up when we want them to, you know...!!!
Tsubaki: If you can show me one of these people who supposedly "need your help", there is not no lack of possibility that I will not refrain from rethinking the dissolution of your group.
[TN: Yes, he uses that many negatives @_@ And as far as I can tell, it comes out as saying that he won't rethink it even if they do show him proof ~_~]
Bossun: There's no way that's gonna happen!!!
Himeko: Keep it up, Bossun!! You've gotta win this!!
Tsubaki: Then I suppose the dissolution is unavoidable.
Himeko: If it's a verbal battle, you can do it!!
Bossun: Huh?! What the hell... get out of my face, you eyelash-freak!!
Tsubaki: Why don't you stand back, you slippery-face-freak?
Bossun: The hell?! Why, you... you dummy!! Duuummy!!!
Switch: It's no good... his vocabulary is deteriorating fast.

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Bossun: Duuuummy!! // Dummy, dummy, duuummy!!
Himeko: Yeah, yeah, that's enough...!
Yabasawa: Umm... // Huh? Is this a bad time? // Things look kinda... awful?
Bossun: What?! Who's there?! A client?!!
Himeko: It's Yabasawa-san.
Bossun: Well, show her in!!!
Yabasawa: Huh?! / I'm... starting to think maybe I'd better not...
Bossun: Come in, come in, right this way!!! / You have a request for us? But of course! The Sket-dan is always reliable, after all!! // ...Wait, what is this, some kind of mirror-sketch?!! // Why the hell are you following me around?!!
Tsubaki: This is an inspection!!

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Yabasawa: ......So, yeah... isn't it just awful?
Himeko: Uhhh... // Well... I still don't get it at all.
Yabasawa: Well... My brother's a member of this theatre group... but they had this accident, right? // And now the hero won't be able to perform in this show next week at this kindergarten... // Isn't it awful?
Himeko: Who knows?!! Your timing sucks ass!!
Yabasawa: Well, it was the kindergarten I used to go to... and I explained everything to them and got the whole thing cancelled... / But all the kindergarteners there look forward to the show so much every year. // Even if we can't make it as good as the proper theatre group could, I really wanted to try and do something to entertain the children... / So I tried asking the school's Theatre Club if they could provide a substitute... // But they were so busy with rehearsals that they couldn't help out... it was totally awful... / So I thought I'd ask the Sket-dan...
Bossun: I get the situation.

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Yabasawa: ...Are you sure?
Bossun: Yeah. As long as it's something we can do, we'll put our best into any request! / After all, we're the Sket-dan!
Tsubaki: Don't make me laugh. / What can amateurs do to help out here?
Bossun: You can just shut up!!! What've you got to do with this?!! Your fringe is too short!!!
Tsubaki: There is nothing quite so difficult as capturing the hearts of children. // We of the Student Council, however, could even ensure that the Theatre Club lend you their aid, if necessary.
Bossun: !
Tsubaki: The Student Council will accept your request.

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Bossun: ...Whaaa?!! Whaaaaaa?!!! / There you go again, saying crazy things!! What the hell have you got to do with this?!!!
Tsubaki: I would not presume not to assert that it does not have no lack of connection to us...
[TN: Again, if I try to work my brain around what he's saying, I seem to come to the conclusion that he's saying the opposite of what you'd think he's trying to say. Maybe I'm just not getting the Japanese grammar properly? Or maybe he just fails at using the right number of negatives...]
Bossun: What the...?!!
Tsubaki: To ensure a superior student life on this school campus is the duty of the Student Council. // We of the Student Council shall ensure that this kindergarten show goes ahead.
Bossun: What's that got to do with our school campus?!!! // Huh... Looks like you're planning on getting in our way to the bitter end. // Well, go ahead. But we'll be doing this in our own way.
Tsubaki: In that case, we shall organise two separate shows. / It shall be a battle to determine which of us can gain the most approval from the children!
Yabasawa: Umm... // Battle?! // What the...?!
Bossun: Ohhh?! / Now you're talking! That sounds pretty interesting! / So if the kids like our show better, you'll acknowledge that our club is worthwhile, right?

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Tsubaki: Very well. // If you emerge the victors, there is not no possibility that I will not -
Bossun: Ain't no "not no" about it!! You'll damn well reconsider!! // You got that?!! You're going down, Student Council!!!
Yabasawa: Wait... I mean... // Have I got mixed up in... something awful...?
Himeko: You just came at kinda a bad time.
Momoka: Ahhh... I'm so sorry, Nee-san... // It's all my fault...

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Himeko: Nah, it's not really your fault at all. / Anyway, an Onihime can't go around crying like that!
Momoka: Ohhh... But...
Himeko: Anyway... what on Earth are we going to do about this show? // Would be nice if it hadn't come to some crazy showdown...
Bossun: We had no choice, with him barging in here and spouting all that crap! // Besides... // That guy just kinda pisses me off. / Going on about people's history and stuff like that... // It's just not right. // There's no way we can lose to a guy like that! / So let's get started!!
Himeko: Yeah!!

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Soujirou: Ohh? / And so you're going to have this showdown? // Well, I don't know what to say... that's very like you...
Tsubaki: Do I have approval for this endeavour?
Soujirou: Don't talk about approval... I've already told you I'm leaving all this stuff to you. // So, yeah... / Just do as you like. // I'll look forward to seeing how this turns out.
[box: President: Agata Soujirou]
[insert text: The calmly accepting President!! Next issue, things will only get more furious...?!]