Hatsukoi Limited 8

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[insert text: This week's theme is "Guys can be desperate too!!"]
Misao: (I was fully prepared to face any outcome.)
[sFX: beep]
Paramedics: Three students were rendered unconscious in a fight between high-schoolers! // One of the three was stabbed in the right abdomen; he is bleeding heavily and has sustained numerous serious bruises!
[sFX: clatter clatter]
[sFX: beep]
Misao: (All I ever do is get into fights, so I always figured a day like this would come.)
Paramedics: The patient's name is Zaitsu Misao... // Whoa, he's huge!! [aside]wow...[/aside] // Can you hear me, Zaitsu-kun?! Zaitsu-kun!!
Misao: (But in the end, I lived...)
[sFX: beep]

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[sFX: snap]
Misao: A... Ayumi-chan!!!
[sFX: crash!]
Paramedics: Ahhh!!
Misao: (And then I had a good long think.)

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Hatsukoi Limited
Chapter 8: Pure-Hearted Afro
[insert text: Let's take a close look at a man's first love!!]
Misao: (As a human being, I thought, I never know what day might be my last... in which case... // Maybe I should take that determination, even in the face of death, and confess my feelings to that girl.)

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Misao: (But look how that turned out...)
[side text: Last issue: Bessho (the brother), defeated by a lollipop.]
Flashback!Ayumi: It's bothering me! You following me every day like this!! // You really made me scared!!!
[sFX: SMASH]
Misao: (I just kept on making her cry, and I still haven't even got an answer... / And so here I am, just watching over her from afar again...)
Girls: [aside]Ahahahaha... // Hahahaha...[/aside]

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Guy1: Check it, there goes Misao with his old one-sided love again...
Guy2: Well, if you just think about it, isn't that obvious? / There ain't no girl in the world who could go out with a guy who looks like that without bein' scared to death.
[sFX: pop]
Guy1: Nah, nah, surely you mean she's the only girl who could go out with him... [aside]'cause she's crazy strong...[/aside]
Misao: SHADDUP!! Or shall I turn you all into living waxworks...?!!
Guy3: [aside]Ahhh![/aside] That's just ridiculous...!
Misao: (...But even without an actual response, I think I know what the answer is. // But still...)

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Misao: (Even so, Ayumi-chan, I still... // ...Hm?)
[sFX: worry worry worry]
Misao: (She wants to cross the road, huh...? // It's a long way to the traffic lights, and with all this traffic... // But even if I tried to help...)
Imagination!Oldwoman: Ahhhhh!! It's a demon! It's a demooooon~~!
Misao: (Forgive me, old lady...)
Ayumi: Ahh, old lady, would you like me to help you across the road? // Here! I'll help you with that bag of yours!
Oldwoman: Oh no, oh no, it would be too heavy for a nice young girl like you...
Ayumi: I'll be fine! I'm plenty strong, okay? // Hup!

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[sFX: tumbl~e]
Misao: Aghhh!!
Ayumi: Owwie... Sorry about that...
Oldwoman: And how long do you plan on sitting there showing off your panties to the world? [aside]You are a girl, are you not?[/aside]
Ayumi: Ahhhh!
[sFX: slam]
Oldwoman: I can carry the bag fine, don't you worry yourself!
[sFX: blush]
[sFX: swooon]

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Ayumi: [aside]Bye-bye, bye-bye! // By -[/aside]
[sFX: SLAM]
[TN: silly ayumi. <3]
[sFX: ka-thump]
[sFX: ah...]
Misao: (Looks like she's made it home safely again today...)

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[sFX: glance]
Misao: Hmm? // (That's...)
[sFX: shuffle]
Yamamoto: Hmmmm... // So this is Arihara's place...

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Yamamoto: Hm?
[sFX: loo~~m]
Yamamoto: ?! // Mi - Misao?! What the heck are you doing hanging around here?!
Misao: That's gotta be my line!! What're you doing scouting out the house where the girl I like lives?!
Yamamoto: Huuh? I was just checking out the house where Ari - where a friend of mine lives.
Mother: There seems to be an awful commotion outside...
Ayumi: I'll go check it out, okay, Mum?
Misao/Yamamoto: !!

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[sFX: ka-chunk]
Ayumi: Huh?
[sFX: e~mpty]
Yamamoto: You'd sure as hell better not tell anyone about this, you know?! Nobody had better know that there's a guy I like! / And what, are you telling me the girl you like is Arihara's little sister?!
Misao: You're the one who had better keep the fact that I'm keeping an eye on her a secret, all right?! / And what the heck are you doing falling for the brother of the girl I like?!!

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Yamamoto: But man, following her in secret like a bodyguard or something... // Well, I suppose that's like you, you're always practical like that, but to go that far just for some girl you fell for from a photograph......
Meguru: Ohhh... hey! If it isn't Yamamoto! // You headed home saying you had something to do, but, what, you're on a date?
Yamamoto: Meguru...
Meguru: You should introduce the guy to me, you know! Ah, mind if I take this seat?
Misao: ...Oh, feel free to take this seat...
[sFX: stare]
Meguru: Ahh! // Waaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh...
[sFX: tremble tremble tremble]
[sFX: craaash]
Yamamoto: S - sorry about this, Misao...
Misao: Don't worry 'bout it, I'll just head home... [aside]I'll just go and get you a replacement for this...[/aside]

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[sFX: sparkle sparkle sparkle]
Misao: Jeez... // My mum really doesn't know how to fold the laundry up properly...
[sFX: chirp chirp chirp etc.]
Misao: Ohh, time for dinner, huh?
[sFX: clatter]
[sFX: flutter]
Misao: Hey, come on, I've got the rice you all love so much~!
[sFX: sta~~~~~~re]

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[sFX: sta~~~~re // sta~~~~re]
[sFX: snap]
[sFX: CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP etc.]
[sFX: rustle rustle rustle]
[sFX: swoooon]
[box: Bliss... ♡]
Misao: [aside]Hm...[/aside] // Why is it that small animals won't come anywhere near me...? / Has to be because of those hamsters I killed back then out of stress...
Memory!Mamoru: [aside]Waaaaahhhh![/aside]
[TN: The two graves in the bubble read "Hamchi's Grave" and "Hamemon's Grave"; only other one I can make out is the far-left one, which says "Hamyo's grave".]
[box: Memories from when he was little]
Misao: If they would just like me, I could cuddle them, all "awww, your'e so cute~~~"-like... ♡
[sFX: stroke stroke etc.]
Misao: And I'd like to do the same thing with Ayumi-chan, too... ♡♡♡♡♡
[sFX: ahhhhh...]
[sFX: stroke stroke etc.]
Imaginary!Ayumi: eheh!
Misao: ...Well, I can think about that, but it doesn't change the fact that it feels like I haven't even heard her voice for over a month now...
[sFX: ahhhhhhhhhhh...]
Misao: I... I want to talk to her!! I want to hear Ayumi-chan's voice~~~~~~~~!!! // I want to embrace that fleeting dream...

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Misao: (I feel like a stalker, doing this every single day...... // I'm a terrible guy, aren't I...) // I'd just start a conversation myself... / ...But I don't want to just scare her again...
[sFX: *sigh*...]
Yuuji: Ayumi~~!! // He~y! What, you on your way home as well?!
[sFX: smilesmilesmilesmile etc. in a circle ~_~]
[sFX: glare]

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Misao: (Wh - who's that guy...? // He couldn't be... Ayumi-chan's boyfriend?!)
[sFX: Guaaahhhhhh!!]
Misao: What if they've already done those sorts of things...!!!
Imaginary!Yuuji: [aside]Here I come...[/aside]
[imaginary Yuuji's clothes: ero ero ero (etc.)]
[TN: Man, the author's going for no-holds-barred perving over Ayumi this week. If I didn't know for a fact that this manga was written by a woman... ~_~]
Misao: (No, you mustn't, Ayumi-chan!! You're still only in the second year of middle school! You mustn't let that guy deceive you...!! // ......Hm? Somehow the two of them look kind of like...)

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Ayumi: Ughhhh! // Could you stop touching me like that, okay?!
Misao: No... right now, Ayumi-chan is in... // DANGER!
[sFX: KA-BOOM]
[sFX: STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP etc.]
Yuuji: Maan, you're just so cold, you know, Ayumi...? // Hm? // Ahh! // You're Zaitsu -

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[sFX: KA-SMASH]
[TN: Oh, Zaitsu, Zaitsu, what have you done...?]
Yuuji: Noooooooooo!!
Misao: Ahh... / ...Uhh... // Are you all right? That guy seemed to be bothering you, and...
[sFX: mumble / mumble]
[sFX: CRASH!]
Ayumi: Aaahhhhh!
[sFX: swoosh!]
Misao: Hu........uhh?!
[sFX: glint]

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Ayumi: This "guy" happens to be my brother... // Did you have some kind of business with him...?
Misao: @%*$&*@&!!!
Ayumi: You wouldn't happen to still be following me around, would you...?!! / Ah... I appreciate that you're kind of worried about me, but...
Misao: ....
Ayumi: You shouldn't go around punching people without careful consideration, you got that?!!
[TN: Well, all things considered, that went better than I expected... plus points to Ayumi.]
[Text: Although he did get a chance to talk to her, Misao-kun still hasn't got his answer.]
Misao: I'm such a goddamn idiot, I KNEW she had a brother...!!
[sFX: smack, smack, smack]
Misao: Ahh, but I finally got the chance to talk to her again...♡
[Text: Don't give up, Misao! Do your best, Misao!]
[insert text: The trials of Misao continue...?]
[bottom text: President in a swimsuit...?! To be continued in "Tokimeki Dolphin"!!]
[TN: "Tokimeki" is an "excitement"/"heartbeat" kind of sound-effect rather in the vein of "doki-doki"... and like "doki-doki", there seems to be something of a tradition of starting titles with it ~_~ Maybe it's just that it sounds so catchy as the start of a title. At any rate, it translates terribly, so I'm leaving it :p]