Sket Dance 12

[TN: This chapter is made of win.]

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Sket Dance
Chapter 12
Tears Even In The Onihime's Eyes
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Last Time's Events
Saotome Roman here! Oh, it's terrible, just terrible! / We were all rehearsing to put on a performance of Snow White, but now it's all gone wrong! / Somehow all our costumes and props got completely ruined! / I mean... who could possibly do this? / We were all just so stunned we didn't know what to say! / But then, when I was wandering around town, you won't believe what I saw! / Takuya-senpai was walking around with this really beautiful girl...!! / I mean, I just can't believe that could have been Takuya-senpai...! / All those things he said to me back then... was that all a lie? / The sadness... it was almost too much to bear... but my childhood friend Manabu was there to comfort me. / ...Huh? This feeling... could it be...?!
Himeko: What am I even meant to say?!!!
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[insert text: Let's just forget about Roman-chan's troubles... but this is terrible!!]
Himeko: This has gotta be the work of those lousy Student Council bastards!! / Come on, Momoka, we've gotta teach 'em a lesson!!
Bossun: Whoa, whoa, whoa!! Why do you just skip to beating people up?!! // Besides, if you do that, you'll just be playing straight into their hands! They'd dissolve the Sket-dan for sure! // We're going to have to settle this through the play, one way or another!
Himeko: But how the hell're we meant to do that?!! Our costumes and everything're in ruins! // The only thing they didn't get to was the little grandpa doll things!!
Bossun: They're the "Seven Dwarves"!!

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Himeko: How're we meant to perform Snow White like this?!!
Momoka: Nee-san... // ............ // I... // I'll just leave.
Himeko: Whaa?!
Momoka: Th... they were worried about me coming and visiting you at this school in the first place, right?! // I won't come here any more. // So you can go to the Student Council... / You can just ask them to pretend none of this ever happened...
Himeko: Momoka...
Bossun: ......... // It's your choice whether you come here or not. / Do whatever you want. // But... // If you're just saying that even though you know you really want to keep coming here, // ...then stop spouting such ridiculous stuff.

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Momoka: ......... // It's... fun. // Coming here, to this room. // I've always been terrible at making friends and stuff... // That's why I ended up becoming such a bad person... // But the Sket-dan didn't care about any of that... you just told me "Come visit any time." // I feel like I could really become friends with Boss-o and Switch, too... // I really like coming to this clubroom. // But... but that's why I can't let myself be a burden on you! / So I'll give in to the Student Council! // I can't let this club be disbanded!
Himeko: ............
Bossun: You and our club getting dissolved are two totally different things. / There's just no point in you apologising or anything.
Momoka: Boss-o...
Bossun: The name's "Bossun"!

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Bossun: You all just wait a minute. // There's got to be a way for us to do this show... // I just have to think.
[Text: If the costumes and scenery are no good, the Student Council will wipe the floor with us // The only thing they didn't get to was the little grandpa doll things!! // An Onihime can't go around crying like that]

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Himeko: Bossun...
Bossun: ......... // The play... // Let's give it up.
[Text: Masurao Kindergarten, day of the show]

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Bossun: Hm.
Himeko: Aren't ya even gonna say anythin'?!!
Soujirou: Hey! / Sket-dan.
Himeko: Who's this punk? / I'm gonna hit him... // Who is he?
Switch: The Student Council President. / But in name only - he's essentially just a figurehead who delegates all the real work to the Vice-President. Class 3-A, Agata Soujirou.
Soujirou: Hahahah... / I could suspend you from school, you know.

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Soujirou: By the way, I'm very sorry about this whole thing. / The one who went and ruined all your hard work was a guy from the Theatre Club. // It's all very much our responsibility. // My apologies. // Well, let's set aside thoughts of competition for the moment. / Please, sit back and enjoy our performance.
Mimori: We think it's turned out rather well!

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Tsubaki: Now, friends, let us be off!!! // To Neverland!
Crowd: [aside]Wooow! // He's flying![/aside]
Bossun: Why the hell's he playing Peter Pan?!!!
Himeko: He's flying!! Peter's flying!!
Soujirou: Hahah... well, it's a little complicated. // The guy who was going to be playing the lead role was injured, so he couldn't make it. / Well, it was actually Tsubaki who hit him in the first place, though. // He took responsibility for his actions, and decided to take the stage in his place. // Apparently, he stayed up all night learning the lines and rehearsing by himself. // He can be a little overbearing at times... // But his sense of responsibility is very admirable. / Rather unlike myself.
Bossun: ............ // Huh. // He pisses me off.

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Bossun: Makes a pretty showy Peter Pan.
Tsubaki: Hook! / I am here to rain iron upon your skull!
Woman: Everyo~~~ne! // Did you all like the pla~~y...?!
Kids: Peter Pan was so strong! // Wow... it was so pretty... // He flew through the air, like, WHOOOSH!!
Woman: Thank you so~ much for e~verything today, Yabasawa-sa~n!
Yabasawa: Oh, no! It was just awfully great how the kids loved it!
Woman: "Awfully", was it...?
Soujirou: Ha ha ha... Well, it was so flashy, the kids were bound to love it.
Mimori: Do you think you could have beaten us if we had really had a contest?
Bossun: "If"?

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Bossun: Who ever said we weren't going to put on a show? // We're gonna do it.
Soujirou: Wha?! / You're going to... but...
Bossun: Come on, guys! Quickly, get everything set up!
Woman: Everyo~~~~ne! // It looks like we're going to be seeing another show toda~~y!! // Apparently once this show is finished, they'd like you all to tell them which show you liked best! / So let's all watch nicely~~~~!!
Kids: Yes, Mi~~ss!
Tsubaki: No way! / What exactly are they planning?!
Woman: All right, here we go~~~!

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[sign: Puppet Show / When Momo-Onihime Cried]
[TN: Anybody who DIDN'T see that coming can, like, shoot themselves in the head or something :p]
Tsubaki: A puppet show?!!
Soujirou: Ha ha ha! / Now, this is interesting!
Kids: They're gonna do a show with puppets? // That's kinda boring...
Bossun: A lo~~ng time ago, on a mountain far from any human village, lived the daughter of the Momo Oni.
[TN: For the record, "momo" means "peach". And "oni" means "demon", but I think everybody should know that by now.]

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Kids: Ahh, she's cute! // It's a little girl demon!
Bossun: Momo-Onihime wanted to be friends with the humans, but the humans were all very scared, and they wouldn't go near her.
Momoka: Ahhh, why won't anybody be friends with me?
Mimori: Ahh! / The little demon does have a rather cute voice, doesn't she!
Hiroshi: Ahh, I know this one! // You know, there's this blue demon in it as well, right...

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Himeko: How noisy you are, little Hiroshi-kun!! I'll eat you all up!!
Hiroshi: Ahhh!!!
Bossun: The Stupid Onihime who wasn't actually supposed to appear yet got mad at little Hiroshi-kun who wasn't paying proper attention.
Himeko: Who ya calling a stupid Onihime?!!
[sFX: WHACK]
Bossun: I - I'm so~~rry...
[sFX: hahahahaha]
Soujirou: Ha ha ha... they seem to be getting the audience involved now.
Mimori: They are doing well!
Tsubaki: I cannot respect this kind of random ad-libbing. They should take this more seriously.
Soujirou: ............ // But still... // That little ad-lib seems to have caught all the children's attention. // They seem to be concentrating very much on their audience. // Unlike our extravagant performance.

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Bossun: Momo-Onihime started behaving badly, and attacking humans.
People: Hahaha! // Well, not exactly...
Bossun: The humans were afraid, and went to a neighbouring mountain to speak with the Stupid Onihime.
Himeko: All right!! / Well, I think I kinda get what's goin' on here! // Hey, you're pretty stupid, aren't ya. // If ya do stuff like that, you're never gonna be able to make any friends, ya know?
Momoka: Sh - shut up! What do you know about me?!!
Bossun: Momo-Onihime became angry, and began to attack the Stupid Onihime!
Computer: *WHAM*

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Bossun: Over...
Computer: *WHAM*
Bossun: ...and over...
Soujirou: Man, the way those puppets move... / It's really something, don't you think? // It's almost as though they were really alive...
Momoka: Now! // If you wanna get me, come and try!
Himeko: I'm not gonna resort to violence like you're doing. // Your problem is that you just don't know how to make friends.

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Himeko: But I'll be your friend! // And then, // Maybe something will change, and you'll be able to make lots more friends!
Momoka: D - don't say such stupid things!
Himeko: I'll fight you any time. // And so... // You can come visit any time.
Bossun: After the Stupid Onihime went home, // Momo-Onihime... // ...was all alone, and started to cry.
Momoka: Uuuhh... // Uwaaahhh...

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Momoka: Waaaaahh! // Uuu - uuh... // Uuuuuhh... // *sniff* // Waaahhh!! // Uwaaaaaaaahhhh! // Waaaaahhhhhhh!!

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Woman: Everyo~~~ne... // Did you all like this sho~~~w?
Kids: Um, um, Momo-Onihime was really cute! // I want to be friends with her! // Those puppets... it was like they were alive! // And then Momo-Onihime-san was crying...!
Soujirou: Ha ha ha... It was a very plain and simple little story... but with such heartfelt acting, we're just no match. // In the end, the aim of our play was to defeat the enemy. // But they never lost sight of their objective of performing for the children... // They made a play out of what was important to them. // Which is more likely to touch the children's hearts...? // I think you know, don't you, Tsubaki-kun?

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Bossun: "You don't have to ask them which was the better show..." // "...Sensei." // I can't believe he actually said that!! / What got into him?! Why's he gotta act so serious and stuff?!
Switch: Reminds me of somebody else, Bossun, lol
Himeko: Well, it all went well in the end! They gave up on the whole thing about dissolvin' the Sket-dan. // And they said they'd decided to overlook Momoka too! / That President's a pretty nice guy really. / And handsome, too.
Bossun: Ehh?! Hey, I'm much better-looking than that guy!
Himeko: Oh, yeah?! Says who, exactly?!
Bossun: Hey, Momoka! Who's better-looking, me or him?
Momoka: "Boss-o"... / That's what you'd like me to say, right?
Bossun: No!! / It's "Bossun!!"
[TN: Feelings between nakama won the day!!]