My Girl 12

Chapter 12: When the adults lie

Page 1
1- Koharu-chan is beginning her elementary schooling soon.
2- Today I have to look at Wednesday’s time table.
3- Class Timetable (Board)
4- Eh! // I am all prepared!
5- Life has become a little hectic compared from before.
6- When Koharu-chan carries her school bag…
7- It feels as if she is all grown up.

Page 2
1- Grown up?
2- Eh!
3- That’s right! How do you want your hair to be tie today?
4- I…
5- Want to do it myself!
6- Huh… // ?
7- But until now…
8- There hasn’t been any problem…

Page 3
1- Koharu-chan!
2- Let us go home together…
3- Ah… // Eh!
4- In the end, she still doesn’t know how to tie…
5- That’s right… // Why don’t we get Hanna to go together with us?
6- What…

Page 4
1- I hate her! // Everytime I talk to her, she never even bother to answer.
2- Besides she is already in elementary level and yet she brings a doll along to school… // How disgusting!
3- But…
4- In short, you are not allowed to talk with Hanna.
5- …
6- …

Page 5
1- Let us eat!
2- Koharu-chan, can we see this channel?
3- Okay!
4- That’s right! How’s school?
5- Are you used to it?
6- Yeah!
7- I liked my Mathematics classes.
8- Mathematics?
9- Sfx: Chat

Page 6
1- That’s right… Youko…
2- Wah! Geometry?
3- Masamune-kun, you chose this subject? // I can’t, I hate this the most.
4- That would mean…
5- She is like me?
6- Apparently I felt a bit glad…
7- Yes… Geometry, right?
8- What about the rest?
9- Oh yeah! // Have you made any friends?

Page 7
1- Eh… yeah!
2- Oh is it? That’s good!
3- But…
4- ?
5- What is it?
6- Eh… // It’s nothing…
7- Nothing.
8- Ah… // Masamune-kun, take a look!
9- The Saturnian’s Hula Hoop attack!
10- ?

Page 8
1- Sfx: Sigh
2- Kazama-san, what is it?
3- You don’t look so good…
4- It’s nothing… // Lately I feel that my daughter has been keeping something from me…
5- There are times when you can tell that she is not lively. // I keep thinking whether if something has happened…
6- Hehehe! // You can’t even handle an elementary kid! Just asked her.
7- But if it is you, she might be frightened and not speak up!
8- It is so pitiful having an unreliable father.

Page 9
1- Sempai, don’t tell me that you have been dumped by a bar hostess?
2- Sfx: Ba-Bump
3- Please don’t use me as a target to vent your moodiness on.
4- Sfx: Glare
5- You’re noisy!
6- All right!
7- Kids are navie. // They will definitely recover fast.
8- Please take a look at this set of document!
9- Navie, right?
10- Yeah…
11- Sfx: Ding Dong Dong

Page 10
1- Mama, why did you look like you’re in pain at times…
2- And you don’t seek help from Masamune-kun?
3- The more important the person is, the more you don’t want to worry him!
4- Besides Mama and Koharu-chan is different, Mama is an adult!
5- If there is something you can do yourself, you have to do it!
6- Is it like this…?
7- …
8- What’s her name?

Page 11
1- …
2- Besides…
3- ?
4- You are like one of them… // and laughed at me!
5- Huh?
6- I…
7- Hate you.

Page 12
1- Sfx: Dash
2- Aah! // Koharu-chan didn’t keep her promise!
3- Didn’t we agree that we are not supposed to talk to Hanna?
4- We are not going home with you anymore.
5- Sfx: Ignore
6- Let us go!

Page 13
1- …
2- Masamune-kun.

Page 14
1- That’s great! I managed to make it on time!
2- Today there isn’t any after school daycare! // But I totally forgot that grandma has something on today…
3- Koharu-chan, what is it? // What happened?
4- Sfx: Stare
5- Noth… // Nothing.
6- Nothing at all.
7- …
8- Sfx: Roll Roll
9- Sfx: Tap
10- !

Page 15
1- !
2- Are you all right?
3- Eh… It’s okay… // I just tripped over my legs.
4- It is so troublesome that the body doesn’t listen my command.
5- Sfx: Sigh
6- Thank you…
7- …

Page 16
1- Youko-san before…
2- Must have suffered a lot…
3- As a guy, I could have never thought that…
4- Youko-san would not tell me anything…
5- At all for my sake.
6- I wish that she could have told me.
7- But Mama… said…
8- She can’t let Masamune-kun be worried.

Page 17
1- Eh! // But…
2- If I don’t know anything at all, I would never be satisfied…
3- Heh…
4- …
5- That… means… // if Masamune-kun don’t know my problems, he wouldn’t be satisfied either?
6- Huh…
7- Yeah… Of course!

Page 18
1- After growing up… // would you also want to know those things that I could have done by myself?
2- ?
3- Mama has always relied on her own strength to succeed.
4- I also want to…
5- Be like Mama. // But I couldn’t do it well…
6- !
7- What… What is it, Koharu-chan?
8- What is it?
9- Masamune-kun…

Page 19
1- Why…
2- Am I being hated?
3- Why is it? // Masamune-kun?
4- Why…

Page 20
1- Friendship Reconciliation Plan
2- All right… let us use Plan B…
3- Sfx: Hehehe
4- Sfx: Rustle Rustle
5- The problems these kids faced might not be lesser than those of adults’…

Page 21
1- This baseless battle plan has no difference with a fraud. If there is a way that everyone can get along well with each other…
2- I want to know.
3- What? Kokatsu called you to go away?
4- It has to be his tooth decay… Didn’t he not want to visit the dentist?
5- Is that so?
6- When Mama says this, it has to be this.
7- Definitely it!
8- The little lies that parents made up…
9- To these kids, they are the pillars of support.
10- I finally understand this point now…

Page 22
1- Morning Hanna.
2- My name is Coco. // Let’s be friends!

Page 23
1- If I can get to see this expression…
2- From today onwards, I would always…
3- Keep on telling lies…
4- The 12th day: FIN

Page 24
1- There are times when I meet up with this lovely ideal partner…
2- The lovely ideal partner that sticks on tightly to the wall.
3- I’m feeling happy to the extreme.
4- Sfx: Struggle Struggle