Hyakuen! 2

- the 2nd chapter

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*The long awaited payday!
This month's money-saving days starts!

Man: Here you go, Madoka-san
Envelope: Salary
Year 21* April's salary
*Japanese Heisei year starts 1989, so 2007 is year 21
Suzuki Madoka-sama
Man: This month's salary

Madoka: Thank you
Text: No no
Man: You deserved it, you work fast. You could earn much more if you weren't a high school student

Madoka: No...This is enough hourly wage for a student like me
Text: I have to study too...
Man: As expected from Suzuki-sama's daughter

Madoka: This has nothing to do with my father

Text: ...So....sorry...?
Text: It's ok

Page 2

The second chapter of 2 girl students money-saving comedy!

Enjoy Money-Saving!
Hyakuen!

The second yen: Celebration (star) Payday!?
Tooyama Ema

Page 3

Calender: May first

Momo: I, I'm....
Momo: I'm rich
Madoka: No
Madoka: You got my share in there too

Page 4

Momo: Ah, Mom?
Momo: I've recieved the money (text: Thanks)

Momo: That was really close, if the money came in late just by one day, I don't know what to do anymore (text: seriously)
Momo: Eh? It's ok, I'm doing fine
Madoka: ......
Text: Wear your skirt...

Momo: Yes, yes, it's all because of Madoka!

Momo: She's wonderful
Momo: She even made a rubber band out of rubber gloves!

Momo: Mom too should learn from...
Text: hey hey

Book: Cell's cost 20 yen/30 secs

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Momo's mom: Ah, wait, your father wants...
Momo: Well then!! please say hi to pop too!!
Momo's mom: Eh? wai...

VERY TOP OF THE MANGA: Father, teary eyes....Momo

Momo: 5 minutes...5 minutes, that means...
Momo: ...200 yen, I could buy 7 packs of Moyashi* with that...
*Bean sprouts

Madoka: Oh?...
Madoka: She finally learn her lesson from last month...?
Momo: Hmm...? But wait?

Momo: I'm rich now
Text: It should be fine
Madoka: Yep, there she goes again...

Momo: You should call your grand pa too sometime, Madoka!
Text: call him, call him
Madoka: No...I'd like to but...

Madoka: The phone rate to German is 231 yen each minute...
Momo: THIS MONEY EATING BUG!!

Madoka: But I'm thinking of sending an email instead
Momo: Ah, that's right, it's free

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Text: types

Momo: Alright
Momo: Let's send Madoka's photo as well

Madoka: St...stop it
Momo: It's ok, it's ok (laughs: hihihihi)
Madoka: Photo...I hate it

Momo: Your grand pa would be happy~~
Momo: Here!! hold this!!

Text: Pirorirorin (shutter's noise?)
Text: I will come to meet you now (face)

Madoka: ......
Madoke: Hey....
Text: types

Madoka: Doesn't this look very stupid?
Momo: Sending it...now

Momo: OK!! I've wore my skirt
Momo: Let's go to school!!
Text: Grand father...

Page 7

Text: Ah!

Madoka: Hey Momo...Don't tell me you just put in 10000 yen in your wallet?
Momo: Eh?
Momo: Yes I did

Madoka: Let me exchange it with 10 sheets of 1000 yen
Momo: EH!?

Madoka: And while you're at it, just put in 2 sheets of 1000 yen in your wallet
Momo: EEEEEH!?

Momo: O...Only 2000 yen!?...Why!? It's payday today!
Madoka: If you put in more, you will waste them
Text: You always like that

Momo: No I won't!!
Momo: I just want to feel how it's like to have 10000 yen in my wallet

Page 8

Madoka: No
Madoka: You obviously will use it

Text: bell rings

Chise: Morning money-saving duo!
Chise: Today is payday, right?

Momo: Nfu hu hu (laughs)

Momo: Chise-san
Momo: Come closer
Chise: Yes, mam!

Chise: Ah! Yukichi*...
*The picture on 10000 yen money
Chise: No! Hideyo*!?
*The picture on 1000 yen money

Text: Uuuhhhhhhh
Chise: Why Hideyo?
Momo: You don't understand, Chise

Momo: It's QUANTITY over quality!!
Text: 10 Hideyos
Chise: I think 1 Koike Teppei* is better
*Koike Teppei is a Japanese actor and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teppei_Koike

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Chise: ....That means, this afternoon we'll go to "THAT PLACE" right?

Momo: Yes...The payday means we'll go to "THAT PLACE' for lunch!!

Madoka: ......
Text: That place....

Page 10

Text: welcome

Momo: Buying like a rich girl at convinience store!
Chise: Time to get wild!

Madoka: Why does it always have to be the convinience store...?
Text: Maybe it's too late to ask....
Chise: Eh!?
Chise: That's....you know?
Momo: Yes

Momo: At this place we can buy more stuffs to buy than the shop we usually go
Chise: We can experience what it is to be rich girls~~
Text: Today is my allowance day too

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Momo: The meals in the convinience store are around 1000 yen
Momo: Ahaha
Madoka: Yes, that's why you have to watch what you buy

Momo: Let's see, I want sandwich and salad....ah, I want to eat Karaage* too
*Karaage is fried chicken
Text: I'm hungry
Madoka (thinks): Doesn't she just put in all the stuffs she sees....?

Chise: I'm buying Dattsu*!
*Dattsu is a short for Haagen-Dazs ice cream
Momo: Eh? you're sneaky!

Text: I want one too
Madoka: ...If all Japanese like you guys, the scenery would get better
Chise: ?
Chise: Thanks?

Chise: Madoka, you're not going to buy anything?
Chise: You should up your tension just for the payday like today!!
Text: Convinience store's prices are fixed...
新商品
New product

Madoka: Well, This chocolate...
Chise: Oh! New product!!

Madoka: I was planning to eat it
Text: Puts down....
Chise: EEEEH!?

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Chise: That's a new product!! Aren't you curious!?
Madoka: ....no

Madoka: I can imagine what it tastes like, so I don't need to buy it
<Gokuri> gulps
Chise: That's a very convinient brain...

日本人全員が
If all Japanese
私みたいだったら
like me
日本おわるな・・・
Japan would be over...
?
えらい　こっちゃ？
Are you that awesome?
Momo: Madoka! Chise!!
Momo: Come here. and look at this

Momo: Historical play figurine series!
時代劇 フィギュア
Historical play figurine
Text: It's out! (heart)

Chise: Oooh!

Chise: Momo, you really like that huh?
Momo: Yes!! I want Zenigata or Onihei's figurine
*Zenigata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenigata_Heiji
*Onihei: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onihei_Hankach%C5%8D

Chise: You don't know what's in there, right?
Momo: Yep!! But I'm sure one of them is inside these boxes

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<Ji....> stares
Momo: Ah!
Momo: Doubtful look

Madoka: ...You don't have any more space to place that...
Momo: I'll put the fighting figurines on auction!

Madoka: ...But you want to collect them all, right?....
Momo: No, just these 2!! Think these as rewards to myself!!

Madoka: ......
Madoka: I don't think you have done anything to deserve it

Momo: It's a reward for me to have survived by eating Moyashi!!

ねずみ小僧
Nezumi kozou (Mouse guy, a burglar)

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Madoka: Well, let's go home
Chise: Yeah

Chise: Momo
Chise: Try the ice cream, it's delicious

Momo: It's delicious, it's delicious
Chise: delicious, delicous

Madoka: ...That's good
Momo: yes (heart)

Madoka: ...Oh, hey Momo

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Madoka: Could you buy some stuffs for dinner after school?
Momo: Yes, I guess I could
Madoka: I have to go pay our rent and other stuffs

Chise: .....

Chise: You two....
Chise: You guys never had a fight?
Momo: Eh?

Madoka: A fight....

Madoka: Never happened
Text: Ah, Is that so?

Momo: No, We had!!

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Momo: We had a fight!

Madoka: Eh?

Madoka: I...I don't remember...
<Gaaan> shocked
Chise: When?

Momo: ....That was...when we both played T●bal 2 on Playsta*....
*Censored game name TOBAL on playstation, they censored it
Chise: Eh? Playsta?
Chise: The first one? not the second?

Bubble: Haaa!
Bubble: Yaaa!

Bubble: Haaa!

Momo: I won!!
しょせんゲーム
It's only a game

Page 17

Momo: I beat you again Madoka
10連勝
10 consecutive victories

<so..>Puts down controller

<Su> stands up

Momo: Ma...MADOKA!?
Momo: It's only a game!?

どっ・・・・
Wha....
どーしよ
What should I do
どこ　行ったんだろ
Where did she go?

まさか家出！？
Don't tell me she ran away from home again!?
思い余って　自殺！？
Or worse, suicide!?

Momo: Then after 5 minutes....
Momo: She bought ice cream and went home
Text: And it was Super Cup size too

Chise: Wow, I never knew Madoka has that kind of habit
Madoka: SHUT UP
Text in bubble: Was that even a fight?

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Momo: WOW (heart)
Momo: I haven't eat a gorgeous menu like this for a long time (heart)

Momo: I knew it when I saw you wrote minced meat on the memo!!
いただきまーす
Let's eat
Madoka: ...Well, it's only for today

Momo: Ah!
Momo: That's right, Madoka!
Madoka: ?

Momo: Look!!
Momo: "These are the money-saving techniques"!!
Text on the book: These are the money-saving techniques

Page 19

<Poro...> startled

Madoka: ....EH?
Momo: I found this when I was about to pay at the register...

Text: So I bought it too

Momo: If you follow the book
Momo: We could save 100 thousand yen in 3 months!!

Text: It's amazing
Madoka: ....hey

Momo: Eh?

Madoka: ...How much is that book?
Momo: .....
Momo: 1980 yen!

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Momo: But! This is different!! We can learn how to save more money with this book, so it's worth the whole 1980 yen...
Madoka: MOMO

Madoka: You can just google it to find out the techniques!
Text: And it's free too

Momo: Ah....ermm....
Momo: I think it's not good to have an argument while eating hamburger*...
*Japanese hamburger, meat only with sauce no buns

Madoka: .....Yes, you're right

Momo: It's delicious, isn't it Madoka?....
Madoka: yes it is....Momo
Momo: I feel happy....

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Madoka: Thank you for the food
Momo: Thanks
深々: Silent

Madoka: ? Hey, what's wrong?
Madoka: You haven't finish it
ちょこん・・・
Small piece...
Momo: Ah!! I have a reason for that!

Momo: According to this book! With this hamburger left over
Momo: I can make a tantanmen*!!
*Tantanmen: Szechuan dish of noodles covered with a sauce of sesame paste and chile oil

Madoka (thinks): ...Why would she do that if she can finish it...
Momo: I just need to buy chinese noodle, garlic and peanut butter

Madoka: ...I'll go wash the dishes
へーっ 砂糖って冷やすとサラサラになるんだ！
Wow, If you cool down sugar it becomes silky!*
*TL comments: Wha? really!?

Madoka: ....Please go and prepare the bathtub
Momo: Ok

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Madoka: Well
Madoka: I bet she'll got bored with that book in 3 days

Madoka: .........
Madoka: ....Ah I just remembered I exchanged 10 thousand yen earlier

362 CM

Madoka: Today's and tomorrow's share...

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Momo: Madoka!
Madoka: Uwa! What?
Momo: The hot water is ready, so bring your pajama
Madoka: Ah...
Madoka: Ok

Momo: Please bring mine too

Madoka: ?

Madoka: .....HEY
Madoka: You only put in 20 cm of hot water in it!?

Momo: According to this book!
Momo: The water will reach your shoulder if 2 people got in with plastic bottles!!

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Madoka: ....Are you serious?
Momo: What are you saying!? We can save 100 thousand yen!! 100 thousand
yen!

Momo: That means we can save 1 million yen in 30 months!! (Text: Hurray!)
Madoka: 3 more days...I have to endure this 3 more days..

Momo: It's hard to move!
Text: Aha ha
Madoka: ....Yeah

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Momo: But I didn't know you can increase the hot water volume with 2 people
Text: Increase...?

Madoka: Momo......
Madoka: This is my fault....you're doing all of this because of me right?
Momo: Eh?
Madoka: I'm always noisy about money...

Momo: Ahh...sure, madoka is...
Madoka: ....

Momo: Madoka is like a mother

Momo: I can always depend on you

Momo: I'm really grateful~~

Page 26

Momo: You're blushing (Text: hehe)
Madoka: That's because I've been in the tub for too long!!

Momo: We're good friends
Momo: Right Madoka?

Madoka: Yes yes
Madoka: I'm going out...

Madoka: .....

<Gugugugu> Ughhhhh....

Madoka: ....Hey... How do I get out of here?
Momo: Eh? You can't get out?
Madoka: I know we are good friends but I don't want more than that!