Rokudenashi Blues 73

Chapter 73: The Terrace At Kiyomizu Is High

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Ioka: Ok, is everyone here!? // Class representatives, take attendance for each

class, confirm that nobody is missing and report.

SFX: *blah* *blah*

Person: Class 3, all here!

Ioka: Ok!

SFX: *blah* *blah*

Person: Class 5, all heeere!

Ioka: Right!

Kazumi: Hey, Chiaki, they really aren't here! // They didn't get on the train!

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Chiaki: ....

Mika: Ugh... // Hhaa... // haa... // I'm so tired...

Chiaki: Mika-chan! // Why are you carrying all that luggage?

Kazumi: Hey, that's Katsuji-kun's bag!

Mika: Hh...hh... // They said they'd catch up later... // so they told me to just

make up some excuse for them or something...

Kazumi: Huh?

Mika: What happened to Maeda-kun and the others, Nanase-kun?

Chiaki: Uh...

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Nakajima: I don't see them here. Are you sure they didn't give us the slip? // If

Ioka-sensei caught them ditching, they would all be suspended.

Kazumi: They...they didn't...

Chiaki: Uh...they just, uh...went to... // the bathroom. // See, their suitcases

are right here. // See?

Nakajima: Hm, fine then.

Masa-san: You're kidding, Maeda...

Mika: That's what happened. // It's all my fault. Katsuji-kun and Yoneji-kun...

// *sniff* So...

Masa-san: I understand. // We'll figure something out.

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Ioka: Hey! Class 6! Nakajima! Are you still taking attendance!?

Nakajima: Y...yes...

Masa-san: Oh, we're all right! Everyone from class 6 is here! // Everyone!

Nakajima: But... // Maeda-kun and the others...

Masa-san: Don't worry about it!

Nakajima: ... // Oh... // I see how it is. // But if something happens I don't

want to be the one who takes responsibility. // From now on, I need to be a bit

more strict...

Kazumi: Bleh! // I hate that Nakajima! // He can go to hell!

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Maeda: What time is it?

Someone: It's already past one!

Maeda: Shit! They left us behind!

Yoneji: At two they'll definitely be at Kiyomizu Temple!

Shimabukuro: Hey, hold it!

Maeda: Shut up, I don't have time to play with you!

Someone: Shimabukuro-san!

Shimabukuro: Mm?

Someone: We apologize for our lateness, there's a taxi waiting for you.

Shimabukuro: You guys...

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Maeda: Let go of me quick or you'll get me suspended!

Shimabukuro: Like I care!

Maeda: You little...

Shimabukuro: AAH! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! // ...

Girls: *snicker* *snicker*

Maeda: Adios! I'll play with you some other time!

Shimabukuro: Wait! // You said at two they'd be at Kiyomizu Temple... // Do you

even know the way?

Maeda: So? We can just get a taxi or something.

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Shimabukuro: How naive! The sun will be down by then! There's a faster way to get

there! // Trust me, I know Kyoto like the back of my hand! // Just take the

subway all the way to Shijo Karasuma.

Person: Whoa, repeating a year has its uses I guess...

Maeda: Ok, thanks for the tip! // See ya!

Shimabukuro: Heheheh...

Person: That...was so kind of you, Shimabukuro-san, even though they caused you

such an embarrassment.

Shimabukuro: I was BSing. // It wouldn't even take 15 minutes to go to Kiyomizu

Temple in a taxi. // But... // Let's go on ahead. // Then we'll see who's

embarrassed!

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Tour guide: Welcome, Teiken High School class 2-6! // For the next six days, I

will be acting as your tour guide. // My name's Miyamoto Megumi. Nice to meet

you!

Kazumi: Whew, looks like they haven't found out yet...

Chiaki: Relax, Kondou-sensei's on our side.

Tour guide: In Kyoto, shopkeepers don't greet customers with "Welcome", they say

"Do come in!" // Did you all know that?

(T/N: In the original, the phrases are "Irasshaimase" and "Oideyasu", set phrases

usually used when greeting a customer in a shop)

Tour guide: Let's all try saying it now! // Why don't you go first?

Masa-san: D...do...c... // come...i..in...

Students: Gyahahaha, what was that!?

Tour guide: It looks like he's just got a little motion sickness!

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Masa-san: Uh...Na...Nakajima...I don't...feel so good... // Ugh... // You're...in

charge now...

Nakajima: Right.

Chiaki/Kazumi: ....

Maeda: Alright, we made it!

Katsuji: Kinkakuji...

Maeda: WHY ARE WE AT KINKAKUJI!? / WE SAID KIYOMIZU!

Katsuji: HE SCREWED US OVER!

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Katsuji: Now what? I knew we should have taken a taxi!

Maeda: It might already be too late to make it in time! // Katsuji, you have the

trip guidebook, where do we go next!?

Katsuji: CRAP! // I dropped it... // and I attached it to my health insurance

card and everything...

Maeda: WHAT THE....

Shimabukuro: Hahaha, soon they'll figure out that they should have taken a taxi.

// These hills are pretty intense.

Person: Yeah...wait, why would they take a taxi? It couldn't get up there!

Shimabukuro: I wasn't talking about that, idiot! This is the only way you can

properly take in Kyoto's charm! // But we have to hurry! // Hm?

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Shimabukuro: Look at that old woman!

Person: S...so what?

Shimabukuro: .... // Having trouble with these hills, ma'am?

Old lady: Aw... // Naw, I really don't wanna be causin' you boys any end of

trouble... // I used ta walk all these hills from beginnin' ta end...

Shimabukuro: We're just young, that's all... // Hey, what are you looking at?

Person: I found this Teiken school trip guidebook back at the station. // Maeda

must have dropped it. // They're going almost exactly the same way we are. //

Heheh...

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Shimabukuro: Ah, here we are.

Old lady: I really gotta thank ya boys.

Person: Haaa...haaa...

Old lady: Excuse me, but what'd be yer names?

Person: We're...mmph...

Shimabukuro: Haha, I don't think we need to give our names for something that

simple. // Good luck, ma'am!

Old lady: Teiken High School, ah?

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Shimabukuro: From what that book told us, Teiken should be here around now. // So

let's start up the plan. // We're going to embarass Maeda for the rest of his

life when he meets them here.

Person: So...how?

Shimabukuro: First we do Rocks Paper Scissors. // Rocks! Paper! Scissors! //

Shoot! // Ok, you're Maeda.

Person: I'm Maeda?

Shimabukuro: What you'll do is get naked and run around the temple ground, and

I'll be chasing you, yelling "Stop, Teiken's Maeda!" into a megaphone. Then right

before the security guards get us, we escape. // After they see that, nobody at

Teiken will be able to stand Maeda anymore.

Person: I get it...

Person: Wait...that's...

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Person: Isn't that just going to embarass me for the rest of my life instead?

Shimabukuro: You can't just not do it. // Oh, and you should act like you're

going to jump off Kiyomizu's terrace too.

Person: Hell no! Do I have to jump!?

Shimabukuro: Quit bitching and do it! // All right. // Run as crazy as you can.

Person: *sniff* // Ok, here goes!

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Girls: OH GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

Shimabukuro: Wha... // They...they're...already here...!? // Those shits got the

time wrong!?

Girls: Who is that guy!? // Flasher!

Teacher: Hey, you, stop right there!

Girls: He's NAKED!

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Ioka: What's all the racket up there?

Nakajima: Ioka-sensei, I have something to tell you. // Please don't repeat it to

anyone.

Ioka: What is it?

Nakajima: I haven't seen Maeda at all since we came here.

Ioka: What!?

Chiaki: He's wrong! // They're here!

Ioka: Nanase!

Chiaki: They just...went to buy souvenirs!

Nakajima: Haha... // Now I understand what went on at roll call. // You shouldn't

try to cover for them, you know.

Chiaki: .....

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Maeda: How could we not find the right temple? This city's crawling with them!

Katsuji: This is gonna happen tomorrow, too...

Nakajima: Heheh, I suspected they weren't here at roll call, Nanase-kun.

Chiaki: ....

Kazumi: They're here, stupid! You just can't count or something!

Ioka: That does it, those three are suspended!

Kazumi: Aah!

Chiaki: Ah!

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Chiaki: Maeda-kun! // Katsuji-kun! Yoneji-kun!

Maeda: We couldn't remember jack shit so we just went to the hotel. Lucky for me,

that was the one thing I remembered.

Nakajima: So you thought you'd just fuck off, huh, Maeda-kun?

Kazumi: Don't say that! Tell him you were at Kiyomizu Temple! // Tell him!

Maeda: huh...?

Chiaki: ....

Maeda: Y...yeah, we were...

Kazumi: See?

Nakajima: You're lying! Do you have proof?

Maeda: I said we were there, you little...!

Nakajima: D...don't hit me!

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Hotel guy: Excuse me, sir, is there a Teiken High School student named Yamashita

Katsuji present?

Ioka: Huh?

Katsuji: Uh, that's me.

Hotel guy: This was delivered to us by an old woman.

Katsuji: My guidebook! And my health insurance card!

Hotel guy: You must have dropped it while having trouble climbing the hills near

Kiyomizu.

(T/N: In the original, he mentions Ninenzaka, a famous hill district in Kyoto

where Kiyomizu Temple is located.)

Maeda: Huh...

Hotel guy: This hotel seems to have been mentioned in your guidebook. // Fortunately, it was attached to your health insurance card, which mentioned your name.

Kazumi: That's what happened, Katsuji-kun?

Katsuji: Ha...haha...I guess so...

Maeda: Well, you know...

Katsuji: We went to Kiyomizu Temple...

Yoneji: Yep! Haha...

Ioka: .....

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