3-gatsu no Lion 113

And so, the Seijirou arc is over. Man, did it feel like a while. There's one chapter left, then the Umino omake, then the "Fighter Spinoff" omake, and then I'm finally caught up with the series translation-wise. Stay tuned after that for Kewl0210's wacky adventures in redrawing 4 volumes and typesetting it while severely understaffed because his old staff never does anythiiing.

The next chapter's super wordy so it might take a bit longer.

[3-Gatsu no Lion 113 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter.113
Sunday (2)

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Sei: I came to ask one last favor...
Akari, Hinata,
this is your little sister.
I feel so bad for her,
her mother is in ill health so she has no one that can look after her.
I...
feel so much pity for her.
Please,
would you show her the kind of affection you show Momo?
I'm begging you.

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Sei: Unfortunately, with your mother and dad,
a lot happened and things didn't work out well. ["a lot happened" in italics.]
But Dad has
always been worrying about...
Akari: Dad, wait...
At least don't mistake that part.
'A lot happened'...?
----All that happened was
you found 'someone you liked'.
Mom loved you to the very end...
So don't...
try to pass it off like 'both of you were responsible'.

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Sei: ......
Well...
The truth is...
there were a lot of things that happened with your mom that we never told you about...
But
...well...
let's not go onto that.
Your mom isn't with us anymore...
I'd like it if you could remember her...
as the kind person you knew her as...
Akari: No,
Dad, that's enough!!
Dad: Huh?
Akari All that...
---what's it called... Trying to make us think things...
Just...
stop.
---You've been obfuscating things this whole time.
Handwritten: Honestly......
I'm sorry...
But...... I can't take this anymore......
Ooh... Onei-chan?!
HAWAWA
You're finally going to say it right there?!
AWAWAWAWA
That's where you decided to cut in, Akari-san?! ["that's" white/bold]
I'm impressed!!
Akari: Dad,
you always say whatever it is will get you through whatever situation you're in, right?
Even if
it differs from the truth.

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Akari: Hina,
in this world
there are people that will just decide to extrapolate the truth if it's convenient for them
and while they're talking
they'll convince themselves that that's how it really was.
That's
our father.
Sei: What're you talking about,
Akari......?
Akari: I'm willing to bet that when you were convincing that other woman,
you probably
made Mom out to be a bad person.
Handwritten (Lady): But... I feel guilty about your wife and daughters...
(Sei): Well... The truth is...
my wife..............
Akari: ----But as you keep saying it over and over
Sei: Heyyy!
Akari: I think you actually convinced yourself that's how it really was.
Handwritten (Lady): What......?!! Your wife is really that awful?!
I feel so bad for you, Suteo-san!!
Sei: ---I've had it hard for so long... So
I really... need you!
I know with you I won't have to suffer like that!!
Sei: Akari, what are you saying?!

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Sei: Akari... would you please stop?
You're in front of the children, you know?!
Akari: I finally realized that the way Dad works
is he flips over the cards like that,
forbidding certain words in order to tie everyone down.
If we go along with those rules
then we won't be able to make any moves till the day we die.
Sei: It's not good to say assumptions about people like that,
Akari.
Akari: It's not an assumption.
You said so yourself, didn't you, Dad?
Someone: Let's all talk it out together.
Our family and their family...
Sei: No.
We can't do that.
Women: !!
Why?!
SFX: KIPPARI (FLATLY)

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Sei: ---Because...
what I'm saying here is different from what I'm saying there.
SFX: KIPPARI (FLATLY)
Both: ......
...Huh?
Th-
Then you're
just telling us
to just...
lie down and accept the situation?
Sei: ......
SFX: CHIRAH (Glance)
Rei: What...?!
Handwritten: What was that glacne?!
Rei: Are yo kidding me?!
SFX: HUUUUUUH?!

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Akari: I couldn't believe that a full grown adult...
let alone my own father could say something like that...
My mind went blank.
When I started wondering about what he would say next,
I was too scared
and couldn't listen to anyone anymore...
Black Bars: -----What was right in front of me
was scary, ugly, and hopeless.
Akari: But when I looked
at my Dad's face back then, I thought
----Yeah, Dad's not coming back...
Right now,
Dad is putting on a whopper of a performance
of being a hero in front of the other woman.
We've done all we can now... I thought.

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Black Bars: Our dad that we loved so,
so, so, much.
Akari: I thought that we
had become 'something'
that Dad and that woman want to disappear from their sight as quietly as possible...
----'Something' that would do anything for them...
---And after that, we just
those feverish days we spent simply
as the people that were left behind.

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Akari: The box we were asked to put in her casket
was filled with pictures we took as a family.
---Including ones with Dad.
Grandma
and I
took them out of the casket
and threw them away.
Grandma: 'These things belong to a stranger.'
'If you brought them to heaven with you, it would cause you nothing but pain there.'
'Don't be lonely.'
'I'll be going there soon, too.'
Akari: And just like she said,
Grandmother passed away the next Spring, like she was following her.
Sei: I truly...
feel sorry for what I did...
But
would you think of your little sisters, as well?

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Sei: Maybe you and Hina have,
---but Momo
has never once lived with a father, has she?
Don't you think that's sad?
If you cut yourselves off from me now,
then Momo will never have what it's like
to have a 'real father'.
Are you okay with that?
Akari: ...
Hina: It's okay!!
It's okay, Onei-chan!
If there's ever a day when Momo cries about it, I'll explain to her
that it was something that you and I decided together!!

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Akai: ..........
Hina...
Hina: I
won't let her live with Dad.
Not ever!
Dad chose himself
that he wanted to be the father to his other family,
so he should
take responsibility and live there!!
We're fine just the 3 of us!!
Rei: Wait!!
Didn't you forget somebody?!!
Handwritten: It's the 4 of us, right?!
4 of us!!
What do you mean, 3?!
(In Bubble): Hold on...
Hina: Kiriyama-kun?! That's where you decided you had to say something?!
Handwritten (In Bubble): HUUUUH?!

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Girl: ...
Papa...
...How 'bout we go home?
Mama's waiting...
Sei: ......
Yeah.
I guess
nothing's gonna come of being here.
Black Bars: Still,
---When they saw those joined hands
the girls next to me couldn't say a thing.
Girl: ...
What about my big sisters?
Sei: Big sisters?
Ah, actually,
it looks like these people here aren't them.
Those people have nothing to do with us, it's okay. ["nothing to do with us" in italics.]
Okay,
let's go.

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Black Bars: I heard cries that were like screams.
Like the setting sun was slowly falling apart.
Akari: Okay,
what do you say we get going...?
The meat
is gonna go bad otherwise...
Rei: 'Because of the kind of day it's been,
let's spend it enjoying ourselves
just like always.' Akari-san said.

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Rei: Hina-chan and I minced all the onions and cabbage, rubbed the ginger,
mixed it together with the meat and kneaded it in a bowl.
Then we all sat around the dining table like always
and fervently wrapped the gyouza.
---And then
we grilled a ton of it
and ate it until our stomachs were full.

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Rei: ----The sky was blue like a high,
high up
Antarctic sea.
Deeply embracing this
small town where the people I hold so,
so dearly live
and becoming transparent.
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