Freesia 67

Freesia, Volume 11, Chapter 67 (pp. 3~28)


<3>
=Why do you want something like this?
=It's just a cheap thing you could buy anywhere.

=You're just like that father of yours.

Chapter 67: Gilded Settlement


<4>
=You want it that much?
=I'll give it to you.

=Here.


<7>
=Where are you going!?
=Hey...!

=Kei-kun...!


<8>
=I got it from my mom when we went to the beach.
=Isn't it pretty?

=Hey... Let me see it.

=Shit! Where'd it go!?
=That bracelet I always wear!


<9>
=It's a keepsake from my mother!
=I can't live without it!

=Why would you...
=Steal it from me...


<10>
=Please, Kei-kun!
=Come back!

=Kei-kun!


<11>
=Mom...


<12>
=I'm sorry, Mom.
=I lost it.

=I tried, but I couldn't find it...
=I'm not lying.//I really tried my best.
=But I couldn't... I'm sorry...


<13>
=So please,
=Don't leave me alone... Mom.

=What are you so sorry for?


<14>
=No one's blaming you, Kei-kun.
=There was no other way. For you, or your mother...


<15>
=CLACK

=Thank god...
=I had it this whole time.


<16>
=Damn—It's getting choppy again.
=Ah-choo!

=Man, what is up with you young people these days.
=You gotta be crazy going into the ocean on a cold day like this.

=Thank you so much for lending us clothes and blankets.
=Heh-heh, we had a little incident...


<17>
=Wait here. I'll go get you some coffee.
=Thank you sir.

=He's a nice person.//He's smelly, but still...
=...Yeah.

=Hey, Kei-kun.
=Huh?

=Do you remember,
=What happened just now?

=...Not really.

=I just thought it was something that happens when you take drugs.
=Guess I was wrong.
=It's got nothing to do with the drugs. It's called a flashback.


<18>
=What's that?

=When something triggers the trauma from my past,
=I go completely off my head.

=I haven't had one that bad in a while...
=Wow—

=It stopped snowing.
=I gotta head back soon or else Bobby's gonna get pissed.

=Hup—!

=Doesn't it feel nice?//It's been a while since I had a nice, long date with Kei-kun.
=Wha—t?


<19>
=We almost had a double suicide,//And you still feel good?

=But still, I feel like...
=I got to know you a lot better today, Kei-kun.

=So... What are you gonna do now?//You got fired from your talent agency, right...?

=I didn't get fired, I quit.
=Huh?

=I decided—
=I'm gonna sing songs.


<20>
=Songs?
=I'm gonna be a real singer, not a popstar.

=It's a small agency, but the person there said he'd take me in.

=I'm only gonna be doing gigs at small clubs and ballrooms for now.
=But I don't care. I always wanted to be a real singer.

=...Wow—
=They made you into a popstar because you don't really know how to sing...
[bubble]Oh well

=So I'm totally pumped.
=I'm gonna be working even harder than you, Kei-kun.

=Hah-hah...!


<21>
=What are you doing here, Tanaka-kun?
=I've been looking all over for you.

=Huh?


<22>
=You know, I sent you that letter last week.

=I was worried about you.
=You don't have time to be hanging around with a woman like this.

GATHUCK


<23>
=Kei-kun?

[x3]WHAP
=Ahh!


<24>
=Kei-kun!

=You should
=Do something about that haircut—!

=EEK...!


<25>
WHAP
WHIP
BLICK


<26>
=Check it out!
[bubble]THUD
=I got him from all the way over here!

=B-
=Bobby—!

=Any injuries?
=H-He shot me.

=Where?
=My knee!
=That's not a bullet wound.

=But I'm bleeding!
=Call an ambulance!
=Calm down! You just scraped it when you fell over!

=Are you okay, YO-KO-chan?


<27>
[x3]SHH


<28>
=YO-KO-chan!

=Please,//Mom.
=Don't leave me alone.