Sakuranbo Syndrome - Cupid no Itazura II 49

SAKURANBO SYNDROME #49

tl by molokidan

4)
Chapter 49: I want to work.

5)
1: This is a long kiss...
2: Gotou-san's shutting her eyes so tightly.
3: Neither of us are moving.
4: When our lips part,
5: and we open our eyes,
6: and look at each other, the next movement we make in that instant will decide everything.
7: Is this kiss just a drunken accident?
8: Or...
9: is this something she did out of her own will--
sfx: Fuhah...

6)
1: Which is it?
2: ...pervert.
3: Whaaaat?!
4: Wh-why me?!
5: She's the one who kissed ME...
6: I was even keeping my hand in mid-air to make sure I didn't touch her body!!
7: And my left hand is gripping the mic...

7)
1: Ahhhhhhh!!
2: No,
3: Wait...
4: Th-this is...
5: Ahh....nnn...

8)
1: Haaa...

9)
1: Haa
2: Hah
3: She always seemed so on the edge,
4: but now that I look at her, I can see the cute qualities of her face, still there midst her erotic nature...

10)
1: This is bad!!
2: This is really bad!!
3: I have to figure out some way to slip out of this!
4: Why did things even turn out this way...?
5: I have information on Nanbu Department store...
6: Use that handsome face of yours, I don't care, just make sure the Miyabe group hears what we have to say.
7: N...no, this is going...
8: ...too far...

11)
1: ...huh?!
2: Eh?
3: You're just here...
4: for work!!
5: Ahh!

12)
1: Good work today!
2: Wait, Gotou-san!
3: Was that...
4: Agawa...?
5: Gotou-san...

13)
1: Asou Sayako,
2: from Label!!
3: Huh?
4: If only I had been able to follow one straight path from my youth, just like her...
5: ...eh?
6: I shouldn't have turned out this way...
7: I was pretty serious when I was young, you know.
8: I even worked pretty hard at my job...

14)
1: But at some point, I started to think that if I could fall in love like Kago-chan,
2: and get married, then I could quit my job at any time, so my feelings weakened...
3: I committed to neither one side or the other,
4: and now look how old I am, without completely making it on either side.
5: And finally, when I had just convinced myself
6: that "It's not too late!" and devoted myself to my work...
7(2b): an unmarried man acts just a little nice to me, and jump right in...I try to escape through romance...

15)
1: I'm terrible...
2: I hate myself!!
3: I hate myself...
4: I can't believe it...
5: This is a complete backfire!
6: Use that handsome face of yours and tame BA.
7: Dammit...it's only because the chief said things like that that they were even in my head...!!
8: No...
9: I'm a man whose insincere smiles look like nothing but insincere smiles.
10: It's not something I should do...

16)
1: They're the ones selling the cosmetics.
2: I don't have enough power to sell even one to a single customer.
3: People like me just act like sales are all that matters for a company employee's reputation,
4: but in the end, we have to count on them to do everything...
5: She's a valuable partner of mine...but now she's crying, she's lost her confidence--
6: I...what can I do for her...?
7: What I need to do is--
8-9: Gotou-san...

17)
1: You told me you wanted to work hard with me.
2: Whatever you are, you can't be terrible.
3: You told me you were my ally.
4: Do you know how much courage that gave me?
5: That's why the drinks we had together tasted so good.
6: That's why karaoke was so much fun.
7: Gotou-san!!

18)
1: From now on,
2: I want to keep working together with you.
3: I...
4: had fun today...
5: ...too.

19)
1: It was too fun,
2: I got carried away.
3: In one month,
4: the Emmanuel cosmetics are being taken out of Nanbu.
5: If we can move in Label there,
6: it'll definitely have a good effect on sales.

20)
1: clack
2: Welcome home.
3: D-did I wake you?
4: No, I couldn't sleep.
5: Asou-san's asleep, though.
6: I-it's nothing.
7: I-I
8: didn't see anything.
9: I'm going to wash my face.

21)
1: He smelled like perfume...
2: Agawa-san...
3: Emmanuel cosmetics...
4: It's near the entrance. If we could move Label there...
5: we'd definitely see more customers...
6: Agawa-san's making a really serious face...
7: How do you like it?

22)
1(2b): You know Gotou-san, right?
2: Gotou?
3: Umm...
4: You know, she's an employee of Nanbu Department store.
5: Doesn't hang out with men much...
6: Ahh, with the glasses...
7: What about her?
8: Well, it seems
9: like she gobbled up Agawa-kun from our business department!

23)
1: What, are you serious?
2: Yeah, I'm serious! I saw them at the karaoke box we usually use to entertain customers.
3: You should have seen how they looked together!
4: Don't stand in the middle of the hallway.
5: Ah.
6: S...sorry.