Ah Itoshi no Banchou-sama 12

*Only for use by Evil Flowers

tl by JinHea

03_000a-----
Back cover picture: Love! Banchou!
Below picture: Hana to Yume comics
- Brief introduction
Souka transferred to Tokugawa Industrial High and became their Banchou due to certain series of events!
The super elite Mitsuhide, who was jilted by Souka after their marriage meeting, suddenly shows up and sweeps Souka off to Akechi University High!
Learn how Katou and Shun Shun met, plus Mirai and Reichi’s middle school life in the two special chapters!
There’s also a special extra story, “Home-run Ring”.

P1-----
Text beside Souka: Since both the front and back cover are commandeered by rowdy males, I’m making Souka nine times as cute on this page.

P2-----
- My darling Miss Banchou! Volume three
- Chapter 12
- Special chapter 1
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Special chapter 2
- Home-run Ring
- Afterword

P3-----
My Darling Miss Banchou
Chapter 12

P4-----
Text in box: Tokugawa Technical High, morning
- Yuu-chan… Congrats on …
- Getting married!!

Katou: You guys…
- Yesterday’s marriage proposal was brilliant!
Text next to Reichi: How about becoming
Text next to Mirai: a fire-fighter’s bride?
Text between Reichi and Mirai: Ah!
Box on Reichi: Katou
Box on Mirai: Souka
Text in box: replay
Text in brackets: exaggerated

Text next to stick figures: Quit. Joking. Around!!
SFX: Kapow!
Katou: She hasn’t said anything! [linked bubble] It's not set in stone!
Small text cutting out of bubble: Mind your own business!

- Is it our fault?
- Don’t worry Banchou is yours

Text in box at end of page: Not much here, just a brief profile
- This kid is a quarter foreign
- Mother is a half

P5-----
Katou: Honestly… What’s wrong with me… [linked bubble] I keep saying ridiculous things…
Text on Katou’s head: Proposing… we’re only in our first year of high school! It’s not certain if I can become a fire-fighter… Idiot…
Text next to Katou: How embarrassing!

Katou: Geez… [linked bubble] How should I act when I see her…

Text in box: Appears
Souka: Mom called the director after that,
Souka: seems there weren’t any problems.
Small text above director’s head: If they don’t marry then they don’t marry! It’s fine! Hahaha!
Text below director’s head: Super blunt

Souka: Sorry for worrying everybody, mom didn’t get fired!
Text above Katou: That’s great, but …
Text on Katou’s shoulder: what about the proposal!!

- Oh yeah… I forgot Banchou was the slow type…
SFX: Bonk!
Text beside SFX: head butt
Katou thought bubble: This time too huh…
Text next to Katou’s shoulder: failed kiss
Text next to Katou’s head: Hn, I guess that’s okay…
- A… About

P6-----
Souka: Um… About the proposal…

Katou: Eh!?
Star flash: She remembered!?
Text in box: Peeking
SFX: staaaaaare

Katou: So…
SFX: Thump! Thump! Thump!
Mitsuhide: Such a dusty room… [linked bubble] open the window!
SFX: Clatter..

SFX: Hoo…

Souka: Mitsuhide!?
SFX: whoa whoa!
- What are you doing here!
Mitsuhide: What? You’re blocking the breeze…
Text next to Mitsuhide: Data demon descends!

P7-----
Text cutting bubble: Thud!
Souka: You want me to apologise for breaking the engagement right? [text cutting bubble] In that case please accept this…
Text surrounded by flowers: And thanks for not firing my mom.
Mitsuhide: What are you talking about? Nothing’s been broken.
Mitsuhide: I’m here to pick you up.

SFX: Clatter clatter
Souka: Wha!?
- Grab!
- Ah!?
- Eeeh!?
SFX: throw!
Text on sign: Changing

SFX: sparkle sparkle
- Starting today, [linked bubble] you are
- a student of Akechi University High!

P8-----
Souka: What!? All of a sudden
SFX: Pop! Pop!
Text below panel: So surprised the flowers took flight
Mitsuhide: As my valuable research subject, you will remain by my side for safekeeping.

- Safekeeping!?
Katou: What right do you have to…

- Let’s go to Akechi High!
SFX: stmp stmp stmp
Text in box: Butler forces
SFX: Aaaaaaaaa
- They’re not listening!

Text above bubble: You little
Katou: Wai…

Maid: Don’t move!

- You will not obstruct young master’s wishes!
SFX: Ahahahaha
- The butler’s fast!!
- So fast I can see five of him!
Boxed text: An incredible ability…

P9-----
Maid: Akechi family servants are all well versed in academics and martial arts.
Text next to Katou: What the heck…

Katou: Your master is too adept at ignoring people
- Don’t lecture
Text on Souka: Banchou…

Text above Katou: What did she want to tell me?
Katou: I said everything I wanted to
Katou: And [linked bubble] I won’t take those words back!
Text below bubble: No matter what her answer is,
Text next to collar: I want to hear it!

Text in box: Akechi University High

Souka: Th-th-th… this is school!?
Small text: Not a business building!?
Mitsuhide: Are you acrophobic? Don’t worry… you’ll get used to it. [linked bubble] This shall be your new school.

P10-----
- They will be your new subordinates.
- A pleasure to serve you, [linked bubble] Miss Banchou.

- New subordinates?
- The name’s Ginga
- Seiya
- Yuuga
- Yokujirou

Souka: Wha… What’s this all about!?
Text next to Yokujirou: Especially this old guy
Mitsuhide: My butlers enrolled in Akechi, [linked bubble] please continue your life as Banchou with them by your side

Mitsuhide: By observing you very closely, [linked bubble] I shall obtain Banchou’s data.
Word next to Mitsuhide: pleased with himself
Souka: That’s…

P11-----
Souka: Why are you so obstinate!? [linked bubble] I didn’t fill out school transfer documents, how can I be a student here!?
Words next to Mitsuhide: Calm down
Mitsuhide: My mother is the chairman of this school, so you don’t need to worry about those kinds of things. [text cutting bubble] I can do what I want.

- Come on, this is [linked bubble] a new beginning!!
Text next to Souka and crew: Ju… Just a…
Flash: What a weirdo, using privilege to solve everything…
Flash: I can’t take it anymore!

Flash: And why am I in the 3rd years’ class!?
SFX: murmur murmur
Mitsuhide: It’s difficult to observe you if we’re not in the same class of course
Text on desk: Skipping grades using the chairman’s son’s clout

Author’s sidebar: Chapter twelve “Banchou and the proposal”
Ever since the assistant came it’s become inconvenient to work at home… So I had to rent a place nearby as my office.
But my little brother constantly brings his bass guitar in here to play. (This is supposed to be an office…)
Mom put up posters of Yazawa Eikichi and Carol (his band) in the office. (Said it’s more lively this way)
The first things I took into the office were manuscript paper and Paul Weller’s CD.
I forgot about things like pens, and had to hurry back home to get them.
What’s with that!? (Playing the tsukkomi)

P12-----
Souka: Quit joking around! I’m going ba…
SFX: clatter

SFX: Slip

Souka: Wah!
SFX: thump
- Miss Banchou!!

- Did you drop that pencil?
- I’ll file a claim with the lawyer.
Text above unknown student’s head: Whaaa!?
Souka: Please don’t!
Text above Souka’s head: It’s my fault, I wasn’t careful!
Mitsuhide: “Banchou does not sue people at random” (got it). [linked bubble] You did well, butlers!
Text on Mitsuhide: Get me more data!

Text cutting box: Afterwards
Text in box: I said the classes were hard
Text in box: so they told the education committee to change the textbook immediately
Text on Souka: Aaah!

Text in box: When I said I couldn’t eat carrots
Text in box: they told them to stop production of carrots at once
Souka: Waaah!

Text in box: And…
Text above human figure: Nooo… stop!
Text in box: And…

P13-----
Mitsuhide: Be it a difficult textbook or despised carrots, Banchou endures them all… [linked bubble] “Banchou is very tolerant"(got it).
Souka: Help…
Text on shoulder: pencil

- Mitsuhide…

Text in box: Lunchtime
SFX: exhausted
Souka: Being at Tokugawa is tiring too but [linked bubble] Mitsuhide’s on a completely different level

- Nngh… they both wear me out, yet…
Text in box: One day
Mirai: Eh, Banchou what’s wrong!?
Text next to Mirai: heeey

Souka: Nothing… Just a bit tired…
- Your face is completely red!
Text outside bubble: You sure you’re okay?

P14-----
Katou: A cold?
Souka: Ngh…

Katou: You have a fever.
Mirai: [text cutting bubble] Eh? [text in bubble] Wear this coat!
- Eggnog!
- Cooling pack!
- Gloves!

- All wrapped up.
Small text: Eggnog

- That’s too much. Take it off. Take it off.
- Ah-
- After that, they took me to the hospital.

- Yeah. It’s the same but it’s not.
- I really like everyone at Tokugawa after all.
Thought bubble: I want to go back…

Text in box: Right now, Tokugawa students
Maid: Be good boys and give up!!
Text above building: Akechi University High
Text above Mirai’s head: The maid’s strong!
Reichi: Give Banchou back first!

P15-----
Flash: Okay. No good sitting around thinking about it, I’m going back to where everybody is!
Thought bubble: But if I’m seen by Mitsuhide I’ll be in deep trouble [text cutting bubble] I’ll go quietly
SFX: sneak sneak

- And
- There’s something I have to tell Katou

Kaichi: What are you doing?
- Sneaking away is futile, since Mitsuhide sits right behind her (all-seeing)
SFX: Kyaaaa!

- It’s time for lunch!
SFX: Gyaaaaaa!
Text at panel bottom: Overwhelming power!!

Souka: Huh? We’re not going to the dining hall?
Mitsuhide: I always have meals by myself [linked bubble] I don’t like eating in noisy places.

P16-----
Yokujirou: But from now on he'll be eating together with Miss Souka.

- Miss Souka, [linked bubble] please stay by young master's side
- As a companion [linked bubble] and a friend

- Eh?
Text beside Souka: Companion? Friend?

- Please enjoy yourselves
Text above door: We won't disturb you
SFX: swoosh
SFX: slam

Souka: They said a bunch of troubling things so lightly...
Text above Souka's head: Sorry, I was just leaving... what should I do now
Mitsuhide: Come and eat!

- The view from this room is great isn't it. [text cutting bubble] You can see the courtyard.
- Y... Yeah...
Though bubble: How do I get out of this...

P17-----
Souka: Oh! [linked bubble] That's the guy who dropped the pencil!

Text on Souka's head: I have to apologise for earlier
Souka: Um...
- Jeez!

- "Banchou" this "Banchou" that, how stupid! [text cutting bubble] I can't even drop a pencil!

Text on Souka's hair: Wha?
- I don't get Mitsuhide, [small text] what a a tyrant!
- He just can't get along with people.

- Hey you'd better be quiet. What if someone hears you!
- Don't forget he's the son of the chairman

- He can get you expelled.
- It's best not to associate with him [linked bubble] Just avoid him.

P18-----
SFX: silence
- Piss me off! Yeah!

Thought bubble: W...ell... What they said wasn't wrong but...
Text above Mitsuhide: Tyrant
Text below Mitsuhide: Hard to understand
Text cutting into bubble: So that's why no one in the class would interact him
Thought bubble: B...But to put it that way...
Text cutting out of bubble: Awawawa

Mitsuhide: I'm used to that sort of talk.

- Ah
Mitsuhide: It's no big deal. The most important thing right now...

- Is to collect Banchou's data...
SFX: click

SFX: Kaboom!
SFX: crack [glasses]

P19-----
- Wha?
SFX: riing
- What was that!?

- So sorry young master. The Tokugawa students riled up the Head Maid,
Smaller text beside bubble: so she went and rented a tank
Text above tank: I won't let you get in young master's way!
SFX: Kaboom
Text in box: Head Maid
Text beside head maid: Ehe

- It might be a bit noisy, but please bear with it for a little while
Text beside Mitsuhide: Hm
Souka: You're using that to attack students of Tokugawa High!?
Text next to souka: Everyoooone

Mitsuhide: They've made it this far while we were distracted. [linked bubble] It can't be helped, we're going to change our location
Souka: Wai...

Souka: Please wait a second!
Mitsuhide: what?
Souka: Can't you stop doing this?

Souka: Isn't the data you collected up until now enough?
Souka: Why to this extent...
- Being stoic

p20-----
- Will only make you lonelier!
Souka: You're just putting more distance between yourself and everyone else!

Mitsuhide: Your data truly is valuable
Souka: No I mean... [linked bubble] I said don't be so obsessed with data!
Text beside bubble: I'll break those glasses for good you know
Mitsuhide: If I completely analyse everything about you...

- I might be able
- To install your world in mine

p21-----
Souka: What?
- Install?

Text cutting bubble: Now
Mitsuhide: Let us hurry and go
- Not me but

- my world?
- "Stay by young master's side as a companion"

- "and a friend"
Souka: Mitsuhide, [linked bubble] you...

SFX: crash

- Hey, no more of your underhanded methods

p22-----
- This one is
- our Banchou!

Mitsuhide: You [text cutting bubble] again!
Souka: Everyone! [small text] You're alive!

- Banchou, we'll jump down
- Whaat!?
- It's just the 2nd floor, we won't die.

p23-----
Katou: See ya
SFX: slip
Souka: Eh. Wah!

- Hey!

- Mom and dad are

- Mom and dad are busy people
- they're almost never home
Small text: Do as you like-

- From kindergarten through to high school
- People kept calling me "the director's son"
Text above head: In middle school

- I like computers
- I feel a sense of accomplishment when the data I gather becomes part of my knowledge

p24-----
- One day, I noticed an odd girl
- The unknown intrigued me

Thought bubble: How is she able to smile, being together with people of such low value?
- She'll be analysed completely, and her data will

- Become my knowledge
- Become a part of me

- That's what was supposed to happen...
Katou: Banchou...

p25-----
Katou: Why did you drag him along with us?
Text next to stick figures: Whoa... why are you clinging to him?
Text beside stick figure panel: Katou somehow managed to land safely with two passengers
Souka: S... Sorry, I couldn't just leave him like that.

Souka: Mitsuhide! Mitsuhide! [text cutting bubble] You alive?
SFX: slap slap
Mitsuhide: Ou... Ouch...

Souka: Um, though it's not possible to install my world in yours

Souka: We can have a shared password
- Huh?

Souka: Let's be friends! [linked bubble] It's done once we shake on it.

p26-----
Mitsuhide: Wha?

- Because you don't need things like data.
- Even though I don't know how to communicate with people (since I was always alone)
Text above maid: Katou!!
SFX: ah
Text in box: Maid troops

Bold text: Escape
SFX: swoosh
Word below SFX: Fast!
Text in box: Maid troops
Souka: ah-

- Even though computers are all I know (since I was always alone)
Souka: Ah! We haven't shaken hands yet!

p27-----
Thought bubble: A handshake...
- Waaah they escaped... I just wanted young master to finally have a friend...
Text in box: Hard working butlers and maids
- Even so, I

- want to be surrounded
- by friends, like you are.

p28-----
Souka: Katou, you run pretty fast don't you.
Katou: Sorry...
Unboxed text: Once again, Katou leaves behind the rest of the gang and escapes swiftly.
Souka: No, don't feel like you have to apologise. [text cutting bubble] It's a compliment.
Text at bottom of panel: Waiting for the others to catch up

Katou/Souka: About the proposal...

- Ah. you go first
- No no, you first

Souka: U...Um well [linked bubble] Um...
Katou: Y... Yeah?
SFX: rustle rustle

Souka: Here...
Text above boxes: Where did this come from
Text beside hand: Sabure [a brand of cookie?]
- 12 people's share

p29-----
Souka: Thank you for [linked bubble] trying to cheer me up with the proposal!

Katou: ...... Cheer?
Text to either side of Katou: Uneasy feeling
Souka: Yes!

Souka: I ruined the marriage meeting
Text on shoulder: By breaking the computer
Souka: You were so concerned about mom and me that you'd go that far...

Souka: Mom is grateful to you too!
- Huh, he only said that out of concern? Aww, I thought he was your boyfriend!
- Wha..

Bold text: What kinda logic is that!!
- So she's slow after all
- Really slow

Souka: Please save your proposal for when you grow up and have someone you really like.

p30-----
Souka: W... Well I'm done saying thanks [linked bubble] l... lets go meet up with everyone.
Text cutting bubble: Hahaha
Katou: Eh... [linked bubbled] ? What's with that weird movement?
Katou: Hey

- Banchou [linked bubble] what's wron...

p31-----
- Huh?
- No [linked bubble] um

Souka: The proposal makes me really embarrassed
Souka: since it's my dream to be a bride

- Oh, but [linked bubble] I know that wasn't a real proposal so [linked bubble] please don't mind me...
SFX: Awa awa
Thought bubble: So she's been embarrassed about that since this morning...

p32-----
Katou: When we grow up I'll ask you again.
Text next to Katou's head: What is this, so cute
Text on Souka's head: pat
SFX: blusssh

- Geez stop teasing me!
- Ow ow ow
Text in box: Peeking again
Thought bubble: No reaction to things like "confession"
Thought bubble: But she sure has a strong reaction to "marriage", a word even kindergarten kids know

- Next day...

- Mitsuhide came to shake hands with me
Word by Mitsuhide: Hello

- Thus the Akechi family's servants (maids and butlers) became Souka's subordinates
- Souka's subordinate count: 2539 people
Souka: Subordinates? Not friends?
Mitsuhide: Huh? Aren't they the same thing?