Arakawa Under the Bridge 33

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Chapter 33. Relationships with the opposite sex.

Both of us achieved the perfect sense of distance.
I'm glad!
Now we can call ourselves masters of the sense of distance!

Tell me, Rick.

After all, our state...
is the same as before the training.

So, dates really are like...
Not at all, Nino!

Oh.
You couldn't think...
that it will end with this...
Dates are all about the...
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Yes!
Carrying a girl like a bride!

Like a bride?
Exactly!
A proper date can't do without it!

Can you explain what it is?
I think it'd be easier to show.
Nino, can you sit here?

In front of me!

Yes...
Like this!
Well then, Nino, I'll stand up!
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This is what I call...
carrying like a bride!

It hurts...

It hurts...

Recruit, I don't like when you carry me like a bride.
My strength also reached its limit.

Going on a date surely is exhausting.
Yeah... Let's take a rest here for a while.

Sigh

Ah
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The river's mouth is near.
I see.

It's quite bustling around here.

That's right.
It's really wonderful...

...to be with Nino in some place other than under our bridge.

That's right.

Finally I have the feeling that we are on a date.
Maybe I can ask about something that I can't talk about usually?
That's right...

I was heitating and couldn't ask earlier...
By the way, Nino...
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The dress that I gave you before...
I thought it'd be quite difficult to put it on on your own...

But it seemed that you were used to it...
It was surprising to see you wearing it.

And I became curious about you past.

Why?
Eh?
No, it's just that the lovers...

Should know more...
Rick...
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I...
have always been a Venusian.

Is it useless?

Or...

Nino, why did you become so gloomy all of a sudden?
No, that's...

Ah
Huh
What happened?
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That's the grass ship.

I set it adrift upstream.
Wow...
It's amazing how it came all the way here.

It didn't reach...
the ocean after all.

The reason why er mood changed.
Nino's past.

I'd be insincere if I said I don't want to know it.
But as her lover...
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There is only one thing I must do now.

What...
Rick, what are you doing, it's dangerous!
Ah!
Don't worry!

Don't worry, Nino.
That ship can still go further...

Glug glug glug.
Rick!

Get out of the river, the current is strong here!
Nino, look there!
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Thanks to the splashes, the ship moved forward!

Just a small impetus was enough.
Now it'll be able to reach the Pacific Ocean!

Rick...
Okay! I suppose we have to go too.

Before, now and tomorrow...
If you don't mind that I'm an Earthling.

Let's be together.
"Communicating with aliens"...
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and "communicating with the opposite sex"...
Ah...

Nino, are you blushing?
It's the sunset.
Have the same pronunciation.
//TL note: in Japanese. Both are "iseikan kouryuu"