Sket Dance 17

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[Text: "Who is the real cheater...?!" Softly, Bossun put his goggles on.]
Bossun: Equip!
[Text: Meanwhile, Himeko and Switch realised something - "Ah... so the "cursed DVD" was all just a rumour after all!"]
Switch: Damn that girl...!
Himeko: Don't, you'll make her appear again...
[sign: Media Room]
[insert text: And now, the true culprit is...?!]

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Kuramoto: Hm? // Oh, everyone's here! // Yagi-chan called me over, she said she had something important to talk about...
Yagi: Sorry to call you here so early. // I just wanted to clear this up.
Kuramoto: Clear... // ...this up? // Are you talking about the thing with the DVD from yesterday?

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Yagi: ..............
Bossun: Go on.
Yagi: I didn't do it. // Someone else was the real culprit. // I just happened to find that DVD by accident. // I just wanted you to know the truth, Kura-chan.
Kuramoto: Th... // The real culprit?
Bossun: Heheh... I've called him here already. // Check it out. // Looks like he's already arrived.
Kuramoto: !

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Sket Dance
Chapter 17: Don't Watch It
[insert text: !! The culprit... is the teacher?!]
[TN: The insert text is a little pun in Japanese. "Culprit" is "hannin" and "homeroom teacher" is "tannin".]
Bossun: Isn't that right... // Yoshimura-sensei?
Yoshimura: You... // You just wait one moment!!!

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Yoshimura: "Bring the DVD with you and come to the Media Room." // Was it you who left this note for me in my locker, then?! // What do you think you're playing at?!!!
Bossun: I could ask you the same thing. // You're not going to worm your way out of this. // The real cheater here was you, Yoshimura-sensei. // You sneaked into the staff room when nobody was around, took the test questions out from the desk and recorded them on camera. // Well, it only makes sense that a teacher would be able to pull something like that off pretty easily. // I daresay you were planning to sell the recording to one of the less-able students. // But after you had used the equipment in the Media Room to check over your recording, you carelessly left the disk itself lying on the desk.

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Bossun: But when you noticed you'd left the DVD behind and went back to retrieve it, you saw Yagi-chan watching it. // You hid yourself when Kuramoto-san arrived, and waited to see how things played out... // ...but in the end, Yagi-chan ended up taking the DVD home with her. // In a panic, you quickly came up with a plan. // In order to make sure Yagi-chan didn't talk, you used her own past against her. // You hurriedly made this despicable note here, and placed it in Yagi-chan's locker.
[Note:]
DO NOT WATCH the DVD.
DO NOT TELL anybody about it.
IF YOU DO, YOU'LL BE THE ONE THEY SUSPECT.
No matter what you say,
NOBODY WILL BELIEVE YOU.
[/Note]
Bossun: You knew that if she read this, she wouldn't be able to say a thing to anybody.
Yoshimura: What on Earth do you think you're saying?!!! // You're talking complete nonsense!!!

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Yoshimura: To make wild accusations like this of a member of staff... I should hope you have some kind of proof to back up your claims. // Explain yourselves!
Bossun: Well, then, shall we take another look at it? // That DVD of yours.
Yoshimura: ............ // Wh... what do you hope to achieve by watching this?
Bossun: I noticed something very interesting when we watched this DVD yesterday. // As you can see, all we can see at the beginning here is maths problems. // Nowhere on this sheet does it say that these are the questions for the upcoming midterm test.

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Bossun: But as soon as you saw this you blurted out...
Flashback!Yoshimura: Th... this is...! // It's the questions for tomorrow's midterm test!!
Bossun: Isn't it a little odd that a History teacher like you would know straight away just from seeing this that they were the questions for the upcoming midterm test?
Yoshimura: !!! // W... well! // Obviously it was just intuition!! // Hah... / What an absolutely ridiculous farce!! You really think that this is any kind of real proof?! // Trying to sniff out a culprit... what, you fancy yourselves some kind of detectives, Sket-dan?
Bossun: Not so fast!! // Proof?

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Bossun: If you want proof, it's right there on that DVD... // I'm sure.
Kuramoto: "Sure"?
Bossun: You see, Sensei... // You did the exact same thing yesterday, now, didn't you? Stopping the DVD before it finished. // And you know, that kinda got me thinking. // Yagi-chan had no idea who the real culprit was. / So basically, why would the real culprit even particularly care if Yagi-chan did have this DVD?

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Bossun: Unless, that is, his face was recorded right there on the DVD.
Kuramoto: Of course...!
Bossun: That's right... in the latter half of this DVD, there must be something recorded that identifies the culprit... // You were scared that somebody might see that proof.
Yoshimura: Don't be ridiculous!!! // What exactly do you intend to do if it turns out that this DVD contains nothing of the sort?!!!
Bossun: It has to be on there!!!

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Bossun: For sure!!
Yoshimura: Ugh... // St... // Stop it!! // Don't...!! // Don't watch it!!!

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Bossun: Ahh... // Just as I thought. // If anybody saw this, you were done for. // It must have been eating away at you - whether or not Yagi-chan had watched this far. // But no matter how much you tried to work it out, she gave no sign either way... and of course, she wasn't going to talk to anybody at school... // Just like you'd planned, she was unable to do a thing.

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Himeko: If you'd just let the whole thing drop right there, that would've been the end of it. // But you just had to do an' use Kuramoto-san to try an' find out how much she knew.
Yoshimura: Hah... // Hahahah... // You know, you're pretty damn smart, aren't you, Sket-dan... // You're right... / It's all just as you deduced... // I'm the culprit.
Yoshimura: So? // What about it? // What do you intend to do now?

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Yoshimura: You want to report me to the school? Go ahead. // But do you really think that they're going to believe you? // A girl who's been suspected of cheating once already, and a cute little club playing detective? // I'm a teacher, you know!!! // Who do you think the school is more likely to believe?!!! // Yagi!!! // How many times do I have to tell you?! // No matter what you say, // NOBODY WILL BELIEVE YOU.

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Bossun: Well, you may be right there... maybe nobody would believe it if we tried to tell them. // Switch.
Yoshimura: ?!
Bossun: However!
Yoshimura: !!! // Huh?! What? What's going on?
PA: Huh?! What? What's going on?

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Bossun: WHAT IF WE HAD THE WHOLE SCHOOL AS WITNESSES?
[TN: freakin' PWNT.]
Bossun: Our little talk is being broadcast around the entire school. // DJ Yoshimura.
Yoshimura: Why, you...!!
Kanegi: What on Earth do you think you're all playing at?!!! // Stop this broadcast immediately!! // You five can wait for me in the classroom!! // ............ // And you... // Yoshimura-sensei, I'd like to speak with you in the staff room immediately.

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Yoshimura: "Why don't I try selling the problems to a student?" / The thought just suddenly came over me... // You know, I was always a good teacher... // But one day everything just suddenly seemed ridiculous. // My sense of right and wrong just turned upside down. // Yagi... / I'd like you to be careful, okay? / If you're too serious all the time, you can end up doing some stupid things...
Himeko: Bossun... // What're you spacin' out like that for? // Lessons are over for the day, ya know? // The test's been postponed an' all...
Bossun: Hahah... / Yeah, that was a real lifesaver... I totally hadn't studied for it at all...
Switch: Same here~! I hadn't done a thing~!
Himeko: Yeah, like anyone's gonna believe that comin' from YOU. // Ahh...

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Yagi: I just... honestly don't know what to say. // I was being stupid... // If I don't trust anybody, how can I expect them to trust me...? // Thank you so mu -
Bossun: Ehhhh? What, you're gonna tell us like that?
Himeko: Aren't you forgettin' something?
Yagi: ...Thank you very much.
Bossun: All right!! Did you get that face on film?!
Switch: You can count on it!
Himeko: The hell're you two playin' at?!!
[insert text: Because they wanted to see that smile...]
[bottom text: Next issue, centre colour pages!! And the surprising contents... a period piece?!]