Sket Dance 13

1
Sket Dance
Chapter 13: Finding Pelorin
Himeko: Come on, just eat it!!! We haven't won a single Pelorin doll yet!!! // Seriously, what kind of probabilities are we dealin' with?!!!
Bossun: The hell's she talking about?
Himeko: Come on! // Here!
Switch: They've put winning tickets on the inside of certain Pelollipop Candy wrappers, and if you win, you can get a doll of their mascot character, "Pelorin". But apparently the chances of winning are abnormally low.
Himeko: So we've all gotta eat 'em together until we find a winning ticket, and then I'll take the prize!! All right?!!
Bossun: No, thanks. / I can't deal with the screwed-up flavours of those things.
Switch: no than-
Himeko: Hah! For that, you can have this konowata-flavour one!!
Bossun: Uu - ulghhmph! / Bleeeeeeegghhhhhhhh....
Himeko: And this one's shirako-ponzu flavour! / It's rare, that one!
[Label: Anticipated this response and stopped himself just in time]
[TN: You probably get the idea by now, but konowata and shirako-ponzu are very... er, interesting... Japanese dishes.]

2
Jougasaki: Ahhhhh! // That's better!! It sure is nice back here... // An oasis to heal my dried-out heart... // ...Honestly... that idiot Saburou, taking the day off... / Can a guy help it if he's got nothing to do after school?
[TN: Not sure on this line... I couldn't really figure out what the "kimama na" was doing there or anything...]
Jougasaki: Huh... great horoscope for Virgo today... just like Virgo Shaka...
[TN: Saint Seiya reference...]
Jougasaki: Maybe that means some luck's gonna come my way for once... hahah... // I haven't been having any fun lately, after all...
[box: Introduced in Chapter 1, Jougasaki Mitsuru]
Jougasaki: Hmmm... what's it say? "You may come across unforeseen treasure"... // Ooh... I wonder what that could mean... // Come to think of it, my anpan today tasted better than usual! // Hahah, what a laugh... / Ahhh... Why am I standing here talking to myself...?

3
Jougasaki: Whoahh!!!
Chiaki: Owww...
Jougasaki: Hey, hey! / Who the hell d'you think you're goin' crashing into?!! // You okay, you little punk?!! // This is my oasis here, don't just come running round here like some...
Chiaki: I'm so sorry... // I was in a rush, so I thought I'd use the back gate, but...
Jougasaki: !! // Ah, no... I mean... don't worry about it. / Ah, I've got some plasters on me if you're hurt or anything...
Chiaki: I'm so sorry to have bothered you!!!
Jougasaki: Yeah... well, take care, then... // Hahahah... / I had a conversation with a cute girl... // Maybe this really is my lucky day...

4
Chiaki: And so it looks like... // I must have dropped it somehow! // My winning PeloCan ticket! // So please, could you help me find it?!!
[box: Softball Club Captain, Takahashi Chiaki]
Himeko: Ehh?! ...You're tellin' me you actually won?!! The PeloCan contest?!!
Chiaki: Uh-huh. / It was a saba-miso flavour. // But it looks like I lost it in my excitement as I rushed home after finding it.
Himeko: Aw, maaaaan... that's just freakin' great. / What're we supposed to do if she's lost the thing?
Bossun: ............
Himeko: It's useless! Totally useless! There's no point even looking...
Bossun: ............
Himeko: Waaaaaaaahhh! But, maaan... I so wanted one of those too......
Bossun: Come on!! // You're just going to make the tension worse going on like that...!!

5
Bossun: I mean, you say you dropped it... basically, that just makes it litter, right?
Himeko: The tension vanished - !
Bossun: I mean, even if we are the Sket-dan... I don't know that we can really find a scrap of wastepaper, you know?
Chiaki: It's not a "scrap of wastepaper"!!
Himeko: Damn right it ain't!! It's the winnin' PeloCan ticket!!
Bossun: Yeah... but it's basically litter. / A lollipop wrapper... that's litter however you look at it.
Himeko: Ya just don't get it, do ya?!!! / The ticket printed on that wrapper is worth more than the guy printed on a 10,000 yen note!!!
Somebody: Ngh... // G - Guhaaaahhhh...
Switch: Do you have any idea where you may have dropped it?
Chiaki: Probably the area behind the school. // I bumped into this guy on my way through there.
Jougasaki: Hmm?

6
Jougasaki: ............ // Hah! Don't know what for, but this looks like a winning ticket! // Some kind of candy, huh... // This is crazy, I really am lucky today!! // Well, I'm not in a particularly good mood... but I'm lucky all the same!! // Well, I guess I should keep it, if it's an omen and everything. // Maybe I should, like, make a wish to the paper or something... / Heheh... // ............ // Errrrrr... / I wish that all the Sket-dan members catch a cold! // And that I get to see that cute girl again!
Bossun: Look, I'm telling you, it's impossible! I mean, it was outside!! It'll have been blown away by the wind!!
Himeko: What, you're just gonna give up?!! Just forget about it?!! / "The Sket-dan never turns down any mission", ain't that right?!!
Bossun: Since when do we have a rule like that?!! You just made it up!!! // And besides, why d'you even want it so much, this Pelorin doll thing?!! / It's just this stupid grinning thing with its tongue sticking out! Hell, I could pull a funnier face than that!
Himeko: The hell's your face got to do with it?!! A guy like you could never understand Pelorin's irresistible charm!! The Captain knows what I'm talkin' about!!
Chiaki: Um... You know, Himeko-chan... // It's not actually me who wants the Pelorin... it's my little brother.
Himeko: Little brother?

7
Chiaki: We lost our mother when he was still really little, so he's always been pretty lonely.
Flashback!Brother: Ah! / Look, Onee-chan! // It says you can win this doll if you get a winning ticket from one of these lollipops! // Don't you think it looks just like that picture of our mum?
Flashback!Chiaki: ............ // It does, doesn't it.
Flashback!Brother: Hey, Onee-chan, let's buy a whole lot of them! / Then we can win Pelorin! // And then... // We'll be able to se our Mum again!

8
Chiaki: When he first tried them, he just kept on throwing up over and over again... but he kept at it because he wanted to win so much, and now he actually loves the taste! // I've been doing my best to eat one every once in a while, too... and then today, I finally found a winning ticket... // With that, I could give my brother his Pelorin at last! // Pelorin, who looks so much like our mother...
Himeko: Stop, please... Don't say any more...
Bossun: WE'LL DO IT!!!! // We'll find that Pelorin for you no matter what it takes!!! // LEAVE IT TO US!!!
[sign: Boys' Restroom]
Jougasaki: That anpan had gone off... // Guess I wasn't so lucky after all... // Huh?
Bossun: ALL RIGHT, EVERYONE!!! / WE'RE GOING TO GET US THAT PELORIN!!!
Himeko: Yeah!!!
Switch: All right!!!

9
Bossun: We'll find it if we have to search every blade of grass in the school!!
Himeko: Yeah!!!
Switch: Hell yes!!!
Jougasaki: AAGH!! // You guys...!! // THE SKET-DAN!!!
Sket-dan: ...............
Jougasaki: Whaaaaaat?!! / You don't remember at all...?! // Come on... // With the paint...!!
Bossun: Paint... Ahh!! From the Hageitou Incident!!
Jougasaki: That?! / THAT'S the part you remember?!
Bossun: Why, you fiend... So you were still alive...! Errrrr....... Jo... Joe Kisaragi!!
Jougasaki: What the hell's with that kinda-cool-sounding name?!! I'm Jougasaki, dammit!!!
Switch: It's true. He's Jougasaki. From the Paint-Mask Incident.
Jougasaki: I'm telling you, you've got it all - / Oh... no, wait... yeah, you got it right that time.

10
Bossun: I remember now!! Jougasaki!! / Eh, you're in the way, why don't you go away?! // And you know... / Don't go showing your face around here again, yeah?
Jougasaki: What am I, some kind of dog you're kicking out?!! I can go wherever the hell I want to!!
Himeko: Shaddup, dumbass!! It's not like anybody really remembers you, so just disappear properly!! And die, too!!!
Jougasaki: The hell?! Why d'you have to go that far?!
Himeko: Oh, whatever, let's just head over there. We've got something important to look for, remember? // Hey, you can help too.
Jougasaki: Something important? // S - stop screwing around!! Why the hell would I do that for you?! I hate your -
Chiaki: Himeko-chan, have you guys had any luck yet? // Ah! // You're that guy I bumped into!

11
Jougasaki: Tch... Why the hell am I doing this...?
Chiaki: I'm so sorry... you don't have to do all this for me...
Jougasaki: Ah! // Eheh... // Don't worry about it! I'm good at this sort of stuff, heheh... // I'm so damn lucky today... // With my luck, it should be a piece of cake to find.................. // Er, by the way, what are we actually looking for?
Himeko: YOU DON'T KNOW?!!
Switch: It's a winning ticket. It's printed on the back of a lollipop wrapper.
Jougasaki: A winning ticket...?
Bossun: You were here the whole time, right...? Did you see anything like that?
Jougasaki: ............

12
Jougasaki: Huh... You're going all crazy searching for something like that? // It wasn't some kind of miso flavour, was it? / I think I might have seen something like that...
Switch: Incidentally, the prize is a Pelorin doll. They're very rare, they're going for around 100,000 yen apiece in internet auctions.
[TN: About £420 / $860]
Jougasaki: H - hu~~~~h... Is that ri~~~ght...?
Himeko: Hm? What's wrong with your face all of a sudden?
Jougasaki: Huh?! / Wh - what're you talking about?!
Bossun: He's dripping buckets of sweat! You're hiding something, aren't you, Joe Kisaragi!!
Jougasaki: I'm not -
Switch: Hiding things... that's not like you, Kisaragi!!
Jougasaki: WHO THE HELL IS KISARAGI?!! // (One - one hundred thousand yen? Hell, I really am lucky after all!! // There's no way I'm handing this thing over!!) // Maan... / It's kinda hot today, don't'cha think...

13
Bossun: Uh, Joe... that's not a handkerchief, you know.
Jougasaki: Hm? Yeah, this is just a miso-flavour... // No!!! This is just one I bought myself, you know?! And I won!! I really like these things!!!
Bossun: Hah! You liar!!! // Those aren't the sort of stuff an amateur could just manage to eat!!! Do you have any idea how many times I threw up trying?!!!
Himeko: This little punk was trying to run off with the goods...
Jougasaki: Sh... shit!! // This is the proof that luck is shining on me!! // I can't let the Sket-dan do this to me... not again...!
Bossun: Now, you're gonna hand that over nicely, all right?
Jougasaki: Ughhh.....!

14
Jougasaki: DON'T MOVE!!!! // IF YOU MOVE ONE INCH, I'M GONNA BURN THIS THING 'TIL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT!!!
Bossun: Wh - // Whaaaat?!!!! // W - wait up a minute!!! What?! Calm down, okay?!!
Himeko: Ya don't want to do somethin' you'll regret!!
Switch: Give it up with the useless resistance. What would your mother say?
Jougasaki: Shaddup!! I'm dead serious here!!! // (Huh? They're taking this worse than I thought they would...) // All right. / N - now then, you guys just do exactly what I say and everything will be fine. // You first, Onihime. / Kneel on the ground. // I don't care if the readers want me to make you strip off your clothes, what I want is to see you kneeling before me!!

15
Bossun: Th - that's screwed up, you bastard!!
Himeko: Kneel...? / Not a chance in hell!! What should we do...?!
Jougasaki: Well?!! // You gonna do it, or not?!!
Chiaki: (Huh? How did it end up like this...?! // I can't believe you're all going so far just to get that ticket for me...! Thank you...!!)
Himeko: Hey, Bossun, you know what to do, yeah?! Your slingshot!! You can get off a shot from here, right?
Bossun: Of course! // But you know... // I kinda left my ammo behind. / In the clubroom.
Chiaki: Ahhh! He's so cute!!
Himeko: Yeah, like, whatever!! This isn't the time for that!! / Honestly, how do you manage to screw up a serious situation like that...?!! You never fail to be useless, do ya?!
Chiaki: Mm... I just wasn't expecting it, so it kind of caught me off guard...
Himeko: So what, you gonna just give up?!! Like, game over?!!
Bossun: Ahh... there's nothing else for it. Himeko, you're just going to have to kneel to him like he says! Go on, just do it!!
Himeko: No way!! There's no way I'm doin' that!!!
Switch: Well, you could at least lick his boots! Go on, just do it!!
Himeko: You're just makin' it worse!!
Bossun: Tch... // Hm?

16
Bossun: Himeko. This is an order from your club captain. You have to kneel.
Himeko: !! / B - but why do I have to...
Bossun: Just trust me.
Himeko: Ugh...
Jougasaki: Gyaaahahahah!!! // The great Onihime is kneeling before me!! I can't breathe for laughing...!!!
Bossun: That's enough.

17
Bossun: You can just keep on laughing with that idiotic look on your face. // PELOCAN SHOT!!!
Jougasaki: Wha?!! // Ungh...?!! // Ughhh... // BLEEEGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...
Bossun: That was shirako-ponzu flavour.

18
Bossun: It's rare, that.
Jougasaki: Eugh! // Dammit!! // !!!
Himeko: Guess this ain't your lucky day.
Jougasaki: GUAAAAGH!!!

19
Bossun: Y - you hadn't lost it?!!
Chiaki: I'm so sorry for all the trouble!! // It looks like it was all a big mistake - the wining ticket was in my bag the whole time!
Bossun/Himeko: .........
Himeko: Huh? Wh - what? But then what about this one that Jougasaki picked up...?
Bossun: Ah! If you look closely, it's not saba-miso at all, it's kani-miso flavour!!
Switch: He must have picked up a different winning ticket by some lucky coincidence.
Himeko: ............ / Huh? ...Uhh... Could I, you know... keep this one...?
Bossun: ...If you like.
[insert text: A fitting reward...]