Rokudenashi Blues 70

Chapter 70: We Finally Begin To Hear About How Taison Got Here

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Maeda: Holy...! // That's AWESOME, Katsuji!! // You rock at engraving...

Katsuji: Uh...

Maeda: I was planning to just trade it in, but you did all this for me...

Katsuji: Didn't you ask me to!?

Maeda: You're going to have the best bike shop in the world, I know it...

Katsuji: We don't engrave them, we sell them!

Maeda: Thank you, Chavez, it's been a good run! // From today onwards, they will
speak of the legendary NEO CHAVEZ! // Protect it for me...

Katsuji: Try to be careful this time, Maeda-san.

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Yoneji: So you're going to take over the shop after you get out of school?

Katsuji: Yeah, pretty much.

Yoneji: Come on, you're gonna be set for life!

Katsuji: What the fuck are you talking about? You're lucky you don't have to do
this! // I don't want to take over the shop, I've got so much other shit I want
to do. // But my parents let me do what the hell I want so far, so now I have to
do something for them too.

Maeda: ....

Yoneji: I didn't know you were deep enough to think about stuff like that!

Katsuji: Well, dad told me our shop's been passed down through the family since 1601... (T/N: He originally said Keichou 6, which is an old Japanese calendar, but I thought it would be better to just convert since he mentioned it casually.)

Yoneji: Did they even have motorcycles in 1601?

Katsuji: You're just... // ....

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Katsuji: DAD, YOU LIED TO ME!

Yoneji: The hell's with you?

Katsuji: GWA! // Ow, what the hell was that for!?

Maeda: Shut up! // You wrote it wrong, dumbass! // What's that look like to you?

(T/N: When he wrote Maeda's name, he accidentally wrote the character the character 犬 which means dog, instead of 大 (the Tai in Taison) which means big)

Katsuji: Ah!

Maeda: Don't "Ah!" me, fix it, dammit!

Katsuji: Gyaa...forgive me!

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Voice: Wow...that's it. // It really is.

Kazumi: His brother's name is there too. // I haven't really met a lot of other people named Taison... // Did Maeda read the newspaper yet?

Chiaki: .....

Katsuji: If you wanna bitch about it, pay me first! // Oh, you wanna fight? Bring

it, you little shit!

Kazumi: Oh, there they are. // Hey! Maeda-kun! Maeda-kun! Did you see this morning's newspaper?

Maeda: Why would I?

Kazumi: Look! Look! Over there! There! Do you see it? Do you? (T/N: Her dialog is
like this in the original too, yes.)

Maeda: Huh?

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[Text in newspaper: Fujio, Taison. Come home now. Father sick and dying.]

Maeda: Wha...

Katsuji: He's talking about you, Maeda-san!

Maeda: Uh... // (Th...This is...)

Yoneji: He wrote "Father sick and dying!"

Katsuji: Who the hell's this Youkou guy?

Maeda: D...don't know! He got the wrong person!

Yoneji: But it says your brother's name too...

Maeda: Sh...shut up! H-he g-g-got-he got it wr-wr-wrong, I-I t-I told ya!

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Yoneji: Wait a minute, where ARE your parents anyway?

Katsuji: Yeah! I keep thinking about asking, but I always forget cause your
brother scares the crap out of me...

Maeda: Uh...uh...

Yoneji: You moved from Kansai, so your parents are still there, right?

Katsuji: Why are you and your brother the only ones here?

Maeda: That's because...

Chiaki: .... // ...

Maeda: Come here!

Katsuji: OWWWW...what the...why can't you just tell us here?!

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Katsuji/Yoneji: WHAAAAAAAAAAT!? // Your family's...

Maeda: Shut up! People will hear you, idiots!

Yoneji: Ugh...

Katsuji: .... // I didn't know...your family's involved in that...

Maeda: Don't tell anyone!

Yoneji: I guess somebody's got to inherit it?

Maeda: It's complicated. // Aniki's always been like that... He used to drink, fuck, and gamble even back then. He said he wanted to go to Tokyo and work in a
host club, so he got out as fast as he could. // After that, I was stuck inheriting. // I didn't want to either, so I followed aniki here in the summer of my third year in middle school.

(T/N: It's literally big brother, slightly less formal than nii-san, and somewhat affectionate. I thought about "bro" but I couldn't really find a proper English
equivalent, so I left it in.)

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Maeda: He's probably pissed off cause we left him behind.

Katsuji: Huh?

Maeda: Youkou. // He's the baby of the family.

Yoneji/Katsuji: NO WAAAAAAAAAAAY! YOU HAVE A LITTLE BROTHER!?

Maeda: He's starting high school next year. I guess dad forced him to accept his

inheritance and Youkou flipped the hell out. // At me and aniki.

Yoneji: So that's it...

Katsuji: That's why you and your brother live alone...

Maeda: Don't tell anyone.

Katsuji: But that "sick and dying" thing...

Maeda: I think he might be planning to take revenge or on us something when we go

back home.

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Yoneji: Ok, so what if your dad's fine?

Maeda: That's what I'm worried about! His grip is 90 kilograms, his punch is 200, and he can do a thousand pushups on his fingertips! // Like he would really get

sick!

(T/N: 90 kg is around 198 pounds and 200 kg is around 440 pounds.)

Yoneji: ... // So you're really afraid of your dad...

Maeda: Shut up!

Katsuji: Ok, we don't know anything, but it could be serious.

Yoneji: Yeah, Maeda-san, I think if it's serious...

Fujio: What the hell are you talking about?

Maeda: I told you! // Look, he still signed it himself and he knows that we

wouldn't come back if we thought he was planning something.

Fujio: Seriously, what are you talking about?

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Fujio: It might actually be worse than what he wrote!

Maeda: If you go back just to check, aniki...

Fujio: Why are you pushing this off on me? You're worried, you go...

Maeda: Uh, wait... // Isn't that your job, since you're older?

Fujio: Let me refresh your memory, they ran me out of there! // I'm not going

back!

Maeda: You were the one who ran out!

Fujio: Don't forget I'm the one who keeps a roof over your head, you're starting to piss me off!

Maeda: Why aren't you going?

Fujio: Why aren't YOU going!? // That's it, now I'm really fucking mad!

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Fujio: You wanna go, Taison!? // Get ready to lose!

Katsuji/Yoneji: !!

Maeda: OOH! // BRING IT OOON!

Katsuji: Let's go!

Yoneji: Heeeh....

Maeda: Katsuji! Yoneji! Where are you going? // Give us the damn signal!

Voice: READYYYY! SET!

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Maeda/Fujio: (I'd rather die... // than go back!)

Voice: GOOOOO!

Maeda: (What the hell is he...)

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Fujio: Hahaha, dumbass! // In the 24 years I've lived my life, NOBODY has beaten me at arm wrestling!

Maeda: Wha.... // Nghgh...

Fujio: Hn! // Wha... // My contacts!

Maeda: WHAAT!?

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Maeda: (Katsuji! Yoneji! Now's our chance!)

Katsuji/Yoneji: !?

Maeda: (He can't see! Push! Push!)

Fujio: Oh....WHAT THE? // HUH!? // HUH!?

Maeda/Yoneji/Katsuji: URGH!

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Maeda: Wahahaha, take a fucking look! This is how strong I really am!

Yoneji: .....

Fujio: Gh... // Something's off...I thought I was the strongest in the world...

Maeda: Heh, looks like you're going to Osaka, aniki!

Fujio: Ngh... // Wait, Taison!

Maeda: *thump*

Fujio: I forgot I was left-handed.

Katsuji: Heheheh...

Yoneji: (Oh, crap...)

Maeda: No matter how many times you try, I'll still win.

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Katsuji: READYYYY! SET...

Maeda: (Help me out now.)

Katsuji: (Yeah.) // GOOOO!

Maeda: UOOOOOOOOOH! // Oh. // !!!

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Fujio: DON'T FUCK WITH ME!

Maeda: .... // GWAAH!

Fujio: I'm gonna kill all of you!

Katsuji: Gwa...

Yoneji: Geeeh...we're sorry...

Fujio: Fhn...

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Fujio: Ah, shit.... // I can go stop by or something.

Yoneji: Ow, fuck...

Katsuji: He didn't have to hit us that hard...

Yoneji: Oh well, you would have ended up in Kansai anyway...

Katsuji: Yeah...

Maeda: Wha... // Don't say I would have gone anyway, it's not like I would
always...

Yoneji: No, I meant... // You're not going on the school trip!?

Maeda: School trip!?

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