Hatsukoi Limited 16

1
Hatsukoi Limited
Chapter 16: Hesitant Diving!
[insert text: I'm all ready to fall in love! / Let me jump into your arms right now!!]

2
Meguru: Ahhhh... // All I ever actually get to do as class rep is these odd jobs...! // ......
[sFX: plop]
Meguru: (Ahh... that's actually pretty comfy...♡)
Takei: GUAAAAMNGHUARGHAMNGLAAAGHHH!!!
Meguru: Aaahhhhh!!

3
[side text: Last issue: Dobashi-san's heart was also secretly pounding.]
Guy1: S - Stop struggling, Takei!!
[sFX: crash]
Takei: Shaddap, lemme go, dammit!
Guy2: I'm telling you, asking the teacher isn't gonna help...
Meguru: Takei-senpai?!
Guy3: Mmmm... It's not that I can't see where you're coming from, but..... well...
[sFX: scratch scratch]
Guy3: If you don't have at least five members, then there's nothing the school can do... those are the regulations. // Well, what it comes down to is, we'll only be able to help you if you find yourself a new member within the week.
[sFX: thump]
Guy3: Well... good luck with that.

4
[side:]
Character Introductions
Watase Meguru... High-school first-year. National-level swimmer back in middle-school, but, self-conscious of her large chest, she gave it up. She likes Take-senpai.
Takei Gengorou... High-school second-year. Obsessed with swimming to the point of idiocy. Last time we saw him, he raced Meguru to try and get her to join the swimming club, but suffered a sound defeat.
[/Side]
Takei: Sensei~! I've found my fifth member~!
Meguru: Wait, wait, wait, wait, WAIT!!!
[sFX: snap]
Meguru: I - I'm never swimming again, you know that! / That was the deal, back when you made me do that ridiculous race...
Takei: I'm fully aware of that!! ...But...
[sFX: slam]
Takei: I'm begging you!! If I don't get a new member, the club's gonna be disbanded...!!!

5
Meguru: Wha...?
Guys: Over the Christmas holidays, one of our members moved out of town... // You heard, back there, right? We can't have a club with less than five members...
[TN: Obviously the correct course of action is to use dango-related advertising. Oh, no, wait, this isn't Clannad. Damn.]
Takei: I mean, we can always carry on as an unofficial thing, but... // Then we wouldn't be able to enter into tournaments... / And it's only because we're with the school that we managed to rent that pool out for free... // This is my one-time ultimate life's request here!! // Please, join the Swimming Club, Watase!!
Meguru: I...

6
Meguru: I'm really sorry, but... I just can't......!!
[sFX: dash]
Takei: W - Watase...
Guys: Takei!! // You don't have to put all that pressure on her, you know... // That's right! We've still got plenty of time... so don't get so heated up, okay? // We've still got those swim shorts we made back when we first started this club, right? // This is the year we're gonna wear them, and enter a ton of tournaments!

7
Guys: It'll be fine, you'll see!! / It's just one more member, that's all we need...!
[sFX: sparkle sparkle sparkle]
Meguru: (That's right... it doesn't have to be me...)
Guys: [aside]By the way, what do we do with this stuff? // Who knows...[/aside]
Yamamoto: Huh... So the Swimming Club's in danger of being closed down, eh...?

8
Yuu: But Meguru-chan, even though you like Takei-senpai, you're not gonna join to help him out?
Meguru: I made a decision never again to wear one of those -
Girls: ?! // What the -? It's coming from outside...
[sFX: BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BA-BOOM]

9
Takei: STUDENTS OF SUISENJI HIGH SCHOOL, HEED MY WORDS!! // WE OF THE SWIMMING CLUB, AS A MATTER OF EXTREME URGENCY, ARE CURRENTLY RECRUITING MEMBERS!! // SWIMMING IS GREAT! YOU CAN BECOME SO FIT, YOU'LL NEVER CATCH A COLD AGAI -
[sFX: ACHOO!]
[sFX: whoo~~~sh (wind)]
Yamamoto: Brrr...
Takei: A - ALL RIGHT, YOU MIGHT STILL CATCH A COLD, BUT STILL, ANYONE WHO WANTS A BODY JUST BURSTING WITH MUSCLES, COME AND SEE US!!
[sFX: shiver]
Girls: Hey, you want to go to that donut shop by the station? // Oh, you mean the one that opened last month? Sounds good!
[sFX: boom boom boom boom]
Takei: HEY!! // TRY LISTENING, WHY DON'T YOU?!!
Guys: Hey, did you beat the last temple in that game yet? // Oh, well, you know... that place is like a labyrinth...

10
[sFX: snap]
[sFX: JUMP]
Guys: Aaaaahhhhh!! Wait up, Takei! // This isn't a diving board!! This is the school roof!!!
Takei: ...I guess we'll just have to go around asking random people individually.
[sFX: pant... pant... / pant...]
Guys: Th - that's right, yeah! // A - And if you could maybe let us wear clothes, too......
[sFX: ACHOO!]
Guys: Ah... but it is kinda nice finally being able to wear these special shorts we made to use in tournaments!♡ // Well, yeah... Takei never let us touch the things before... [aside]since we never got into any tournaments yet...[/aside]
Guys: Hi, we're from the Swimming Club! / We're looking for anyone who might be interested in joining!

11
Guy: Huh? Swimming? // That sucks!
Girls: I'm telling you, we're girls, we don't want bodies "just bursting with muscles"! // [aside]yeah...[/aside] // What are you, stupid?
[sFX: shiver]
Guy: Who the hell would want to go swimming in temperatures like this, anyway?!!
Guy: Swimming Club...? Nah, sports clubs are too much trouble...
Girl: Sorry, I'm already in a different club...
Girl: What's with this guy, anyway?! He's gross!
Guy: Hell, we don't even have a school swimming pool here, why would we even need a Swimming Club?!
[sFX: whooooo~~sh]
Caretaker: You'd better be clearing up all those flyers of yours yourselves, you hear?!
Takei: IS SWIMMING REALLY SO TERRIBLE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~?!!!
[sFX: whoo~sh]
Guys: Hey, what're you throwing those around for...? // Man, this is really starting to feel hopeless...

12
Guys: It's Friday tomorrow, you know? At this rate... // It'll be fine! We just need one! Just one single person, and everything will be okay...
Meguru: (Takei-senpai's in real trouble... // If I were to just join the club, everything would work out fine... // But there's no way I can do that. // I mean... // If I wear a swimsuit, my chest...)

13
Meguru: Hmm...? // Why am I so embarrassed over having these things, anyway...? // Is it because of people always staring? / That's probably what it is... but... // It's not like Takei-senpai ever does that... // All that Takei-senpai ever looked at is my...... my......

14
People: [aside]hahahahah! / hahahahah![/aside]
[sFX: bend]
Meguru: Takei-senpai!
Takei: Watase...
Meguru: It's nearly five o'clock, you know... / Wasn't today the cutoff date...?
Takei: .........
[sFX: roll]
Meguru: You know, Senpai... // I heard that even now, you still hang around at that swimming school. // So why is it that you're so... so obsessed... with the Swimming Club? It's not like you don't already have somewhere you can swim...

15
Takei: ...... / I......... // It's the swimming costumes I really love...

16-17
Meguru: (I... / I guess Takei-senpai's really just a weirdo after all...)
Takei: Those swim shorts... // Everyone really liked them, you know? // We looked through them together... / ...We all helped pick them out... // We were all trying so hard so we could all wear them together in a tournament...... // It would just be such a shame, if we lost the chance to ever do that...
Meguru: (Takei-senpai... // Takei-senpai... he really is... / ...exactly the sort of person I thought he was... // And that's the Takei-senpai that I really - ) // Takei-senpai... // D - Do you think one of those swimming costumes... / Do you think they'd suit me, too...?

18
Guys: Takei! / Is it really true?! We really don't have to close down the club?! // So... what kind of new member did you manage to find.........?
Meguru: You're all late!!
Guys: M - Meguru-chan!!
[sFX: ta-da~!]
Meguru: (I'm not embarrassed... I'm not embarrassed...)

19
Guys: Th - that colour... those stripes... that nametag...! // It's - it's a girls' version of our tournament costumes!! // Wait, then... is Meguru-chan going to be one of us from now -
[sFX: fwoosh]
Meguru: Not at all! // I've joined this club... as your manager!!
Guys: Come on, let's all be friends, Meguru-cha -
[bubbleSFX: thwack]
[sFX: KA-SPLOOSH]
Meguru: And I'm gonna be keeping an eye on you, so you'd better snap to it!!
[sFX: THWACK / THWACK / THWACK]
[sFX: patonk]
Guys: Owwww... // M - Meguru-chan's even scarier than Takei~~~~~~!!
[side text: Now part of the Swimming Club, will Meguru's love finally be able to get somewhere...?!]
[bottom text: Next issue, somebody drops a bomb on the chaotic ways of love...?! To be continued in "The Forms Love Takes"!!]