Sket Dance 14

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Bossun: Ahh! // A bottle of Coke!!
[insert text: Ooh, a drink...!]
Bossun: This yours? Oh, no, you don't really drink fizzy stuff, do you...
Switch: I can drink them if I must, but no, it isn't mine.
Bossun: Then did Himeko leave it here?
Switch: It could always be some strange substance that Chuu-san cooked up.
Bossun: Hahah... That would be dangerous. It'd totally have some kind of freaky effect. // Like making you shrink, or something.
Chuu: Ahh!!! // You... // That...!! // You didn't... drink it?!!

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Sket Dance
Chapter 14: Little Boss Has A Temper
Bossun: BLEEGH!!!! // Wh... // What have you cooked up now...?!!! // Ughhhhh...
Chuu: Bo... // Bossun...
Bossun: GUAAAAaaaahhhh......
Chuu: BOSSUUUUN!!!!
[insert text: Ahhh, it's a little kid. ...Wait, whaaaaat?!!]

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[sign: Sket-dan]
Himeko: Wh... // WHAT THE HELL?!!!! // THIS IS BOSSUN?!! // BUT HE'S FREAKIN' TINY!!! // Chuu-san... is this your doing?!!
Chuu: Yeah, it was me.
Himeko: What the hell?!! // What kind of manga do you think this is anyway?!!!
Chuu: Well, when I'm around, things get a little weird...
Himeko: WHAT THE HELL?!!!

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Himeko: A youth potion?!!
Chuu: Yeah... Itou-sensei was asking me if I could make a really powerful hair tonic, right? // Well, I thought about it for a while, and figured that the only way to do it would be to make the scalp younger... // So I came up with this.
Himeko: That's incredible!!!
Chuu: Heheheh... even I have successes sometimes, you know.
Himeko: You call this a success?!!! His whole body's got younger, not just the hair!!
Bossun: Ah, why don't you shaddup.
Himeko: He spoke!!! // This kid!! He spoke!!!
Bossun: It's not "this kid". / My body got younger, but I'm still the same inside, all right?

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Himeko: S... // So cute...
Bossun: Eh?!
Himeko: I - I can't contain myself!!! // Little Bossun's so cuuuuuuuute!!!
Bossun: Wh.. // What the hell d'you think you're doing?! Mmgh...!!
Chuu: What's with her...?
Switch: Looks like we've found Himeko's weak spot...
Bossun: O - Oi, Chuu-san!! You can reverse this thing, right?!!
Chuu: Uh... yeah, I'll get to work on an Aging Potion right away. / Just wait up a bit, okay? // While I'm doing that... // You guys babysit Bossun, okay?
Himeko: Leave it to me!!
Bossun: Don't call it "babysitting"!!!

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Himeko: Ahhhhhh... // What is it... // This feeling, seeing someone I know so well turned all cute and cuddly... // Mmmmmm... // Hmmm... Hey... // You don't need a wee-wee, do you?
Bossun: I'm fine!! // Stop acting all fidgety!!! You're just making the whole damn thing worse!! What's wrong with you anyway?!!!
Himeko: Well, you're too damn cute!! Honestly!!! // I mean, you're a three-year-old kid who can talk perfectly!! I'm freakin' dying over here!!!
Bossun: Yeah, well, whatever!! If you're gonna die, then hurry up about it!!! // Geez... Since when do you love kids so much? / What's with you and these motherly instincts all of a sudden... // It's kinda creeping me out, you know?
Switch: Indeed.
Bossun: You supposed to be the dad or something?!!!

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Bossun: Stop screwing around, this isn't funny! Take off the stupid moustache!!! / That whole act of yours is really starting to piss me off!! // Agh! // Nngh!!
[Label: died of cuteness overload]
Bossun: Anyway, could you guys do something about these clothes? // You got anything else I could wear?
Himeko: Huh? You want me to take you shopping? / We could go and buy loads of cute stuff...!
Bossun: No, no, no, that's okay, really!! We don't have to go out and buy stuff or anything!! I was just wondering if there was anything around...
Switch: What about these Stupid-Onihime clothes?
Bossun: Hey, I'm not THAT tiny!! I'm not a freakin' doll, you know?!
Himeko: Hey, we could tie this PeloCan towel around you...
Bossun: Forget it!! I don't want to look like I'm wearing some kind of crazy African toga or whatever!!
Switch: You could just get inside this bag and stick your head out.
Bossun: What am I, some kind of pet?!!! // Ugh... you guys just stop messing me around! / Just because I'm tiny doesn't mean you have to treat me like an idiot!!!

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Himeko: SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Switch: There were some spare smocks and trousers over at Masurao Kindergarten, so we borrowed them.
Himeko: SO KEWT!! It totally suits him!! Such a cute lil' three-year-old!
Bossun: I'm sixteen, dammit!!
Switch: And the hat looks just like his (though this one's knitted).
Himeko: Totally!! // Now he's just like a real tiny Bossun!!
Bossun: What's with that...
Switch: And if we give him Ultra Heaven's Henshin Goggles...
Himeko: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Bossun: Can't you just shut up, dammit?!!!
Himeko: A picture, a picture! / Daddy's gotta take a picture!
Bossun: ..."Daddy"?

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Bossun: I don't know that I like the way things are going here...
Himeko: Aw, what's with little Bossun? He's sulking again...
Switch: My, my, we must be spoiling him, haha...
Bossun: Chuu-san, hurry up...!!
Himeko: All right!! I think we should take you for a little walk!!
Bossun: A walk?! // Stop messin' around!! I'm not stepping a foot out of this room!!
Himeko: And just what d'you mean by that?!! You try sayin' that again!! // You can't just sit indoors all day, you know, you need to get out and have some proper exercise!
Bossun: Shaddup, you momma-wannabe!! You just want to show me off to everyone!!
Himeko: Ahh, what a noisy little kid you are! / But anyway, that's just silly. Everybody knows that children need lots and lots of fresh air! / Now, come along!
Bossun: ...I think I'm gonna be sick...
Switch: Well, then, I think I shall come along too! Haha!
Bossun: And you can stop playing the "daddy", too!! And stop sounding so "bourgeois"!!

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Bossun: What the hell!!! // Why are you holding my hand?!!
Himeko: Oh, come on! We don't want you to get lost, now, do we?
Bossun: Yeah, right! / I can't take this any more!!
Himeko: Now, stop being so selfish!! Little boys who don't listen to what they're told need to be punished!!
Bossun: Oh, crap.........!! // If you hit me while I'm like this, it wouldn't be pretty, you know! // Ah, who's that? // Hm...?

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Bossun: Ahh... // Tsubaki!!
Tsubaki: Onizuka. // Who's the youngster? // Do you honestly believe you can just bring children into the school without permission?!!!
Himeko: No, no, you've got it all wrong!! // This is Bossun!!
Tsubaki: That's Bossun? // You're trying to tell me that this child is actually Fujisaki? // Don't spout such nonsense!!! / That's absolutely ridiculous!!
Himeko: It's the truth!! He drank a potion and shrunk all tiny!!

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Tsubaki: "Shrunk all tiny"...?
Himeko: Well, I can kinda understand you being confused...
Tsubaki: (This brazenly impudent stare... // It can only be Fujisaki!!) // ............ // This...... // This is against school regulations!!!!
Himeko: What the hell?!!
Tsubaki: Do you honestly believe you can just go around shrinking yourself without permission?!!!
Bossun: This is useless!! We've totally lost him!!
Switch: We should run.

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Bossun: Hey... / I really don't think we should keep wandering around the school like this...
Himeko: Now, if we meet anybody, make sure you say hello nicely, all right?
Bossun: I DON'T WANT TO MEET ANYONE!!!
Himeko: Hey! / It's Shinzou!
Bossun: ............
Shinzou: Hi... Himeko-dono... That young sir... could it be...?
Himeko: Hmm? What's that? Who could you be talking about...? / Oh, it couldn't be this little kid, could it?
Bossun: Stop acting so damn happy with yourself.
Shinzou: Bo...

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Shinzou: Bossun-boushi-dono!
Bossun: What the...?!
[TN: I'm not sure exactly what "boushi" means, but I'm guessing from context it's a term of respect, and probably, knowing Shinzou, at least somewhat archaic. Or it could be there purely for the pun.]
Shinzou: I lay myself at your service!
Bossun: Whaaat?!! // Don't say it like I'm an "issun-boushi"!! What d'you take me for?!!
[TN: "Issun-boushi" means "dwarf"]
Shinzou: Ahh... my deepest apologies. // My father tells me that we of the Takemitsu clan were once in the service of a clan of dwarves...
Bossun: But... aren't dwarves just, like, a fairy tale...?
Himeko: What the heck is with your father anyway?
Shinzou: Hahah... / Ah, well... // Who can say, really? // I... // Ahh! What is this feeling?!! This sudden desire to protect?!!
Himeko: Damn right!!
Bossun: Oi. // I'm gonna leave.
Himeko: It's like, / almost unbearable, don'tcha think?!!!
Bossun: I'm gonna go find Chuu-san...

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Shinzou: I pledge myself to your service.
Bossun: You don't have to do anything like that!!!
Mimori: Oh? // Ahh, how cute!
Bossun: Aw, dammit... / The annoying people are just appearing one after another...
Mimori: And who is the lovely little one?
Himeko: She's from the Student Council... / So we probably shouldn't tell the truth. // Haha... Well, you know... that's a reeeeally long story. / It would take far too long to explain.
Mimori: A long... // ...story...?

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Mimori: Onizuka-san, you don't mean to say you happened to meet a sweet little orphan on the street, with no living relatives, thrown out into the raging seas of the world to fend for himself, and were moved to open your loving heart to him in the hopes of unlocking the chains upon his own soul...?! / That must be it, mustn't it? I see. I completely understand.
Himeko: Wait, what the hell?!!! // Where did you manage to get all that?!!
Mimori: It must have been terrible for the poor little guy...
Himeko: ... You're not listenin', are you.
Mimori: But in that case... // I shall have to raise this child myself!
Himeko: What the hell?!!!! // No way!!! What's with those crazy motherly instincts all of a sudden!!
Mimori: Oh, you need not worry at all! / I don't like to brag or anything, but my family are very wealthy.
Himeko: You don't say stuff like that!! // ...Wait, you want to go?!!! // And what the hell d'you think YOU'RE doin'?!!
Shinzou: I pledge myself to your service.
Himeko: Ah, forget it!!!
[TN: Can I go too? ^^]

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[sign: Sket-dan]
Chuu: There. // It's all ready, Bossun.
Bossun: Y - you are sure this is gonna work, right?
Chuu: Don't look so worried. It's 80-90% sure to be fine.
Bossun: And the other 10-20?! // Do I explode or something?!
Himeko: Hey... are you sure you want to change back? It's okay if you don't wanna risk it. I mean, you really might explode or somethin'.
Bossun: If I don't take it, I'm going to end up being your toy for the rest of my life. / I'm fully prepared to die if this thing doesn't work.
Himeko: You know, you'll be way more popular if you stay like this! / If we had a popularity contest right now, Switch and Roman would just hog all the votes...
Bossun: Ahh, just shut UP!!! / What the hell are you even talking about?!! Don't even joke about this stuff!!!
Himeko: It's not a joke though, is it?
Switch: Indeed it is not.
Bossun: TAKE THE MOUSTACHE OFF!!! // I'm getting my old self back.
Himeko: Aaah! // Aaahhhhh...

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Bossun: Bleegh!!! // Guaaaaahhhhh!!! // Aahhh!!!
Chuu: Wheeew...! Well, well. // I did it!
Himeko: Bah, yeah, whatever.
Chuu: Whoa!! She changed back in a flash!!
Himeko: I don't give a shit about you, okay?!! / Puttin' on that stupid freakin' face all the time!!
Chuu: Wh - whoa, there...!
Himeko: Go away!! / And die, too!!!
Chuu: The hell?! You don't have to go that far!!

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Bossun: You dun' / hab to go... / that far... // Mama... // You's scary...
Chuu: ............ // Huh? // Don't tell me... // This time he's three-years-old on the inside...?
Himeko: WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE?!!! // Ahh, this is the worst!! Poor Bossun!!! I can't stand to watch! Change him back, quick!!
Bossun: Daddy's got glasses...
Switch: Indeed.
Himeko: YOU SHUT UP, DUMBASS!!!
[insert text: ...Such a terrible outcome for Bossun...]
[bottom text: Next issue, we're being serious for once! A certain girl bears a terrible darkness... what could it be?!]