Sket Dance 43

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[insert text: The past... and a dark shadow is closing in on Switch...!!]
Switch: A knife?! // Right, okay. / Yes... we'll be careful. // Uh-huh. // All right. Thank you.
Masafumi: I managed to reach my brother. / So they're warned now, at least.
Yukino: Thank goodness... // Wait, what? / Sawa-chan's with your brother?
Masafumi: Mm... / They were heading to that backstreet by the station. // Going shopping together. / All friendly-like.
Yukino: Oh - I'm sorry. I thought the two of you were... / So... there's nothing romantic going on between you and Sawa-chan, then.
Masafumi: Hahah... / No, no...

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Sket Dance
Chapter 43: Switch Off (Part B)
[side text: The older brother's wavering heart...]
Masafumi: No, we're not like that. // In fact... // It's those two who are together.
Yukino: ......... // I see...

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Sawa: This is really pretty scary... / Why did a thing like this have to happen...? // I wonder if it was something I did that made someone hate me like this...
Switch: No... there are just some crazy people in this world. // Besides, everyone likes you, don't they, Sawa-chan?
Sawa: Hahah, I guess you're right... // *sigh* // (Though it looks like the guy I really like... // ...doesn't even have any idea... // ...what he's misunderstanding...)
Masafumi: ...I'm really kinda worried about those two. I'm gonna go meet up with them. // Thanks for coming all this way to let us know. / See you.
Yukino: ......... // Over there.
Masafumi: Huh?

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Yukino: That guy... // It's Mikami Shinji!!
Masafumi: Ahh!! // HOLD IT!!!

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Masafumi: STOP RIGHT THERE, MIKAMI!!! // (This guy...!! // He's even spying on her house now...?!) // You're not getting away, you stalker!! // I thought I told you... // ...to STOP!!
Flashback!Yukino: He supposedly still carries a knife with him wherever he goes...

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Mikami: *pant* // *pant* // *pant*
Masafumi: *pant* // *pant* // *pant* // You're Mikami Shinji, right? What exactly were you doing back there? // Spill it.
Mikami: Wh - Why do you know my name...?
Masafumi: Just answer the question!! // You've got a knife on you, right? // I'd like you to hand it over, nice and slowly.
Mikami: A knife?
Masafumi: Oh, don't play dumb with me!

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Mikami: What are you doing?!!
Masafumi: Where is it?!! // (Nothing...?!)
Mikami: I think... you've made some kind of mistake. // I'm not a stalker - really, I'm not.
Masafumi: You liar!! You've been following Sawa around for days now!
Mikami: I...!! // I'll... admit that I have been following her around a little. // But I never meant to do anything nasty to her!

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Mikami: I've just... been trying to work up the courage to confess to her. / To ask her... to go out with me.
Masafumi: ?! // What...?!
Mikami: I've been watching her for about a week, waiting for the right moment, but she was always with a friend on her way home from school... // ...so I just couldn't find an opportunity...
Masafumi: You're lying to me!! I heard back in middle school, you stabbed one of your classmates -
Mikami: Th - This is no joke!! // Hey... was it Hirai Yukino who told you I did that?
Masafumi: You know her?
Mikami: You could say that... I was going out with her at one point.

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[bubbleSFX: thump // thump]
Masafumi: (What...?! // What the...)
[bubbleSFX: thump // thump]
Mikami: Back at our middle-school graduation ceremony, Yukino confessed to me, and we ended up going out just like that. / We broke up not long afterwards, though.
Masafumi: (What's going on here?!)
Mikami: It didn't take me long to realise, you see... / that, although she's usually a quiet, well-behaved sort of girl... // ...well... I suppose you could call it having mood swings...
[bubbleSFX: thump // thump]
Mikami: When she gets mad... there's just no stopping her.
[bubbleSFX: thump]
Masafumi: (What's this guy saying...?)
Sawa: Oh, hey! // Fancy seeing you here!

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Sawa: Yukino-chan!
Yukino: Yes... // Just fancy that. // Sawa-chan.
Mikami: It was really terrible when we broke up... She screamed, she raged... she just didn't want to let go. // But I just had to get away from her, you see. And there was this popular girl among the new students - Sawa-chan - and I just fell for her the moment I saw her... / When I told Yukino-chan that I was going to confess to Sawa-chan, she finally seemed to give up.
Flashback!Yukino: I see. Fine. It's over, then.
Mikami: But then... whenever I tried to get anywhere near Sawa-chan from then on, Yukino-chan always seemed to be there. // She was trying to stop me from confessing. // I suppose it was her who made me out to be a stalker... // That's the kind of person she is.

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Masafumi: Wait... just wait a minute. / What about that knife incident that she was talking about before, then...?
Mikami: That incident... it was her. She did it back when we were in middle school. // It was after I heard about that incident that I knew I had to break up with her!
[bubbleSFX: thump]
Mikami: She's just... too dangerous. // She has a wild imagination; she's always finding reasons to bear grudges.
[bubbleSFX: thump]
Mikami: That's why... I wanted to warn Sawa-chan about her, as well...
[bubbleSFX: thump]
Mikami: Because even if she acts all friendly...
[bubbleSFX: thump]
Mikami: ...There's a good chance she's bearing a grudge against Sawa-chan because of me.
[sFX: THUMP]

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Masafumi: SHIT! // (She must have come by Sawa's house... // ...so she could attack her...!! // Run for it!! // Sawa!! // Switch!!)
Sawa: Oh? It's raining...

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Sawa: ? // Is something wrong? Yukino-chan...
Yukino: A happy date with your boyfriend... // What a lovely little scene.
Sawa: Hm? // What?
Yukino: I said you seem to be having such a lovely time... // ...even though it's your fault that I got dumped.

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Switch: W - We should leave, Sawa-chan.
Yukino: STOP RIGHT THERE!!!! // kill... // kill... // kill... // kill you... // I'LL KILL YOU!!!!!

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Switch: RUN FOR IT, SAWA-CHAN!!!
Yukino: I'LL KILL YOU!!!!
Sawa: AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
Switch: SAWA-CHAN!!!!

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Switch: ! // Huh?

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Masafumi: (Just hold on! / Sawa!! / Switch!!)
Sawa: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
[insert text: The one who was stabbed... was Switch?! A lone tragic scream pierces the pouring rain...!!]