Sket Dance 37

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Sket Dance
Chapter 37: The Little Princess in High Spirits
[insert text: A gathering of females... the glory of spring!! // With these two beauties together... the charm goes through the roof?!]

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[insert text: A visitor in the clubroom! Once a delinquent, now a seiyuu... yes, it's her!!]
Momoka: And so, seeking true freedom... // ...he became the wind itself.
Himeko: Who~~~~~~~~~a! / That's amazing! // You really are Liberty☆Maji!! // Man, you've totally got the whole anime-voice thing going on now! It's almost scary! / You're like a real pro seiyuu!
Momoka: Oh - please, stop that, Nee-san...
Himeko: H - Hey, could you do a bit more? Just one more line?
Momoka: Isn't that enough now...? It's a little embarrassing...
Himeko: Well, you do seem to be doin' well for yourself, anyway! / Shall we have ourselves a little toast to your success?

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Momoka: By the way, do you know where Boss-o and Switch are?
Himeko: Oh, those two are out playin' catchball with Chuu-san. / A little bit of intensive training for Switch. // So I guess today it's just us girls for a change, huh? // Kanpa~i!
Momoka: Hey, are you sure this is the cola we just bought? / Come to think of it, there are two bottles on the desk.
Himeko: Hey, you're right! / This stuff must be Bossun's... // Eh, whatever, who cares! Let's just drink up!
Bossun: Wheeew... haven't worked up a sweat like that in a while. // Oh, great - you've got drinks! Give us a bit!
Himeko: Hm?
Chuu: Ahh!!! // D - Did you two just... // ...drink that stuff...?!

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Himeko: Bleeegh!!
Momoka: Uuugh!!
Bossun: H - huh?! // That couldn't be...?! // Himekoooo!!!! // Momokaaaaa!!!!

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Bossun: What the hell d'you call this?!!! // What is this stuff doing lying around the place again, huh?!! // Chuu-san, was this...?!!
Chuu: Yeah, it was me.
Bossun: You idiot~~~~!!!
Chuu: Well, after what happened last time, I couldn't be bothered to take the stuff home, so I stuffed it in that box up on the locker. / And then today was the first time I actually came in here since then, so I remembered. I was checking up on it, and I must've left it on the desk by accident.
Bossun: Oh, don't say it like that!!! You need to learn a thing of two about how to handle dangerous substances!!! / Why the hell does everything turn all SF-fantasy whenever you show up?!!
Chuu: Well, you know...
Bossun: No, I don't know!!
Himeko: Well, you know...
Bossun: And you can stop that too!! // Wait, huh?! What's with you, acting like that?! // Don't tell me you're actually happy being turned into a little kid!!

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Himeko: Of course I'm not~!
Bossun: Just look at you...!! // You really are pleased about this, aren't you!! / I mean, jeez, you're like three years old here, you know?!!
Himeko: But, hey... when you were like this, it seemed like awful fun.
Bossun: Yeah, I'm sure it was plenty of fun, for you!! // How the heck can you be so stupidly calm about this?! Do you understand the position you're in?! // Your chests are bare to the world, you know! You fine with that?!!
Himeko: Aaahh!! // Swi~~~tch!!!
Bossun: Yeah, he's gone down to Masurao Kindergarten already.
Himeko: Ahh! Nice goin', nice goin'! // Always wanted to try one of these things!

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Switch: The kindergarten principal gave me a rather funny look when I asked.
Bossun: Well, I guess we have done this twice now... / And two of them, this time...
Himeko: Hey, check it out, Chuu-san! Don'tcha think it looks good on me?!!
Chuu: Oh, yes, the two of you look lovely.
Himeko: You're lookin' great, too, Momoka~! // Like a cute little doll, or somethin'!
Momoka: Oh - please, stop that, Nee-san...
Himeko: Too cute!! // That voice is too cute!! / Hey, did you hear that, Bossun?! / Her kiddy little voice is just too cute, ain't it?!!
Momoka: Oh - please, stop that, Nee-san...
Himeko: TOO CUUUTE!!
Bossun: Oh, shut it already, Himeko!!
Switch: You can record it on here. Go on, say something.
Bossun: SWIIIIIITCH!! // Hello, a little attention, everyone?!!! // Come on, you guys, this isn't some normal situation here!! / Can't you all take this a little more seriously?!!
Momoka: O - Onii-chan, there's a phone call for you~!
Bossun: LISTEN TO MEEEEEE!!!

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Bossun: Chuu-san!! Do you have anything to turn them back?!
Chuu: We~ll... // I don't actually have any growth-medicine handy, I'll have to make some more...
Bossun: Why do you have plenty of this but none of that?!! // Anyway, could you please get some ready as quickly as possible - // Aaagh, this is too annoying!! // Could you just quiet down already?!!
Chuu: Yeah, I understand that you want to have fun... but, well, I may not have mentioned before, but you shouldn't really spend too long like this.
Bossun: Why's that?
Chuu: Well, if you spend too long in those younger forms, your bodies'll settle that way, and you might not go back to normal even with the antidote.
Bossun: The hell?! You're saying there's a time limit?!! Then you'd better hurry up and fix them, quick!!
Chuu: Mmm... I'll head back to the lab and get on it right away. // ...... // Y'know... it's a bit of a pain, though... / I'm worn out already from all that catchball... / Can't it wait 'till tomorrow?
Bossun: DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY THEY'LL BE STUCK LIKE THAT?!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH EVERYBODY AROUND HERE?!!
[TN: They're characters in a gag manga, that's what's wrong with them. And you're not really one to talk.]

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Himeko: Hakki yo~~i... // Nokotta!
[TN: These are calls that the referee makes in a sumo match. Basically, "Hakke yoi" is something like "go for it", and "nokotta" just means to "continue", ie. the match isn't over yet.]
Bossun: ............
Himeko: Nokotta! Nokotta! // Nnngh... // Mmmnghhh... // Hunh? // Nnnhhh! // Guaahh! // I lo~~st... // I lost to Bossun~~~!

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Himeko: I guess it really ain't easy to fight in this body...
Momoka: Yes, I'm sure...
Himeko: Hup! // Yahh! // Ughhh... // Couldn't reach it, huh...? // Hup! // Gimme some juice. // *gulp* // *gulp* // Aaahhhh!

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Himeko: Whew, that was tough stuff!
Bossun: Now, just one minute, young lady~~!!
Himeko: What? / Whaddaya want?
Bossun: Whaddaya mean, "whaddaya want"?!! // I told you to stay over there and - oh, Momoka, you came too? // I told you to stay over there and wait nicely!!
Himeko: But since you said we can't go out and all~! / We just have to play in here, don't we!
Bossun: Can't you just not play around?! You're seventeen years old!!
Himeko: Ehhh... but that's bo~~ri~~ng! Even though we're all tiny and stuff...
Bossun: Like I'm saying, you shouldn't be getting all hyped up about it!! Take a look at Momoka, she's being good and sitting down nicely!!
Switch: I rather think it's more a case of simply not being able to keep up.
Bossun: Anyway, I'm telling you, you've got to calm down!! / Now, Chuu-san will be back here with the medicine to fix you up soon enough, okay?!! // You got that?!!
Phone: Onii-chan, there's a phone call for you~!
Switch: Bossun, it's your phone.
Bossun: What have you been doing to my phone...?!!! // Is that you, Chuu-san?
Chuu: Bossun... we have a little problem.

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Chuu: I seem to have run out of the ingredients I need. Could you just pop out and get some for me?
Bossun: H - Hey, wait up! Don't just say that as if you're asking someone to go down to the fishmonger or something! We're talking about drugs here... / Where the heck would I even buy stuff like that?!
Chuu: I need a bag of konbu.
Bossun: ...That IS stuff you can get at the fishmonger!! // Wait, why the hell do you need konbu for this stuff anyway?!!! That's stupid, you don't need that at all!!
Chuu: Don't give me that! Amateurs like yourself shouldn't underestimate the powers of science! Konbu is absolutely necessary! Otherwise the depth of flavour won't -
Bossun: ARE YOU MAKING SOUP OR SOMETHING?!! // Oh, whatever, fine! Just wait a minute, okay? // Swit - // Huh? Where'd they go?
Tsubaki: "Shrunk all tiny"?
Bossun: !!
Tsubaki: St - Stop spouting such utterly ridiculous things!!
Himeko: I'm tellin' ya, it's the truth!
Bossun: Guaaaaaah!!!

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[sFX: rant, rant, rant, rant etc.]
Bossun: At - at any rate!! I have to go out and buy something, okay?! / So you make sure you keep an eye on these two, Switch!!
Switch: Haha... I'm afraid I'm about to head home for the day.
Bossun: And stop it with the daddy-act!! // Come on, now, can't you just stay here for a few minutes?!! / Stop trying to run away!!
Switch: I have to go to Akihab - I mean, somewhere important today. Haha...
Bossun: Akihabara, huh?!!
Switch: Can't you just leave Himeko and Momoka with Chuu-san whilst you're out?
Bossun: Not a chance! He'll never finish the antidote with those two messing about!!
Switch: Well, then, ask Otakura-kun or something.
Bossun: You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?!! Anybody could tell that's a bad idea!! // Uuugh... dammit...

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Himeko: When we walk~♪ Hand in hand~♪ // Alo~ng the country lane~♪
[TN: It's a Japanese childrens' song, known as "Kutsu ga Naru" (or simply "Otete tsunaide", after the first line).]
Himeko: Check it out! The path's so wi~~de! What's up with that?!! // Ahhh! Swings!! I wanna go, I wanna go!!
Bossun: You wait one moment!! // Listen, okay?! You never know what might happen, all right?!! So don't go running off, and just do as you're told!! You stay with me!! // You got that?!
Himeko: Oka~y...

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Bossun: Momoka?! You got that?!
Momoka: I don't take orders from anyone but Nee-san.
Himeko: You're so cute!
Bossun: Dammit!! Just say "yes"!!
Momoka: Hmph!
Bossun: Why, you...!!!
Himeko: Bossun's too scary, he'll never make a good daddy~!
Bossun: What...?!
Himeko: He's a useless daddy!
Bossun: What did you...?!! // I - I'm doing all this for the two of you, you know...! // Fine, then!! Go ahead!! // I don't even care about you two!! Forget it all!! / You just go do whatever!!
Himeko: Huh, whadda we do now...?
Bossun: ......!! / I - I'll give you some cash, so you can go down to the shop by yourselves!!
Himeko: Hahah! / We can at least go shopping by ourselves, right?
Momoka: Sure, Nee-san!

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Shopkeeper: Okay! / Here's your konbu!! // Out shopping all on your lonesome, huh?!! Impressive!! / And how old might you be?
Himeko/Momoka: We're both seventeen!
Shopkeeper: Is that right!!
Himeko: We got the konbu~!
Momoka: Time to take it back to Boss-o!
Himeko: Hey, look, he's spying on us! / [aside]he~y![/aside] // ?! // Ah - ! / A cat!!
Bossun: Wait u~~~~p!!!

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Himeko: Huh? // Aaaahhhh!! It started moving~~~!!
Bossun: Gahh!!! // W - Wait up!! // Himeko!! // Momoka!!
Flashback!Chuu: If you spend too long in those younger forms, your bodies'll settle that way, and you might not go back to normal even with the antidote.
Himeko: Not good, not good, not good, not good!!
Bossun: Sorry!! I just need to borrow this!!
Guy: Huh?!
Bossun: I'll bring it straight back!!

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Bossun: HIMEKOOOOO!!!
Himeko: Bossuuun!
Bossun: !!! // Give me back my kids!!

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Bossun: Now, what did I tell you?!!
Himeko: It was so scary~~~~!!
Bossun: You shouldn't worry me like that!!
Momoka: I'm so sorry~~~!
Bossun: At any rate, I'm just glad you're both safe. // Now then, let's head back.
Himeko: We'll make sure we do as we're told~~!! // I don't think I like being a kid. // I'd much rather be back to 17.
Chuu: ...They're drinking it up without a moment's hesitation...
Bossun: Well, they had a bit of a fright...

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Himeko/Momoka: Aaahhhh!!
Bossun: Who the - ?!!

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Himeko: Hmm? // What's with this body...?
Chuu: Ahhhh... / I guess I got the quantities mixed up a little... they seem to have gone about ten years too far... // I guess that makes them about twenty-seven...
Himeko/Momoka: ............
Himeko: I like it!! / Twenty-seven's a good age to be!!
Bossun: Whaaaat?!
Momoka: Yes, I think I'll stick with this!
Bossun: W - Wait a minute! We'll get you back to normal in no time, so you just - !
Himeko: All right! Let's head out!!
Bossun: GET BACK HEEEERE!!
[insert text: Being grown-up isn't all fun and games, you know...]
[bottom text: Next issue, there's a mission that gets Bossun really fired up for once! Clearing a tarnished name?!]