Hot Road Volume 1

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Title: Hot Road
Volume: 1 (of 4)
Mangaka: Tsumugi Taku
Translated by: Oceansportrait
Proofread by: Mars
Translation Completed: July 7, 2007

Legend:
// - action
[] - translator's notes
() - character's thoughts


Pg 1:

HOT ROAD

Narrator: The blue road of sunrise.
The red tail lamp.
The passing glance of a thin figure, fading off into the distance.
Just once more,
I wish I could meet with those people from back then.


Pg 2:
Narrator: (Just once more...)
HOT ROAD
Tsumugi Taku

Pg 3:
Miyaichi: (Today is my mom's birthday)
//rattle rattle clank//
Woman: You thieves!!

Pg 4:
Girl: Wahhhh!
Girl: Uuu....
Woman: Stealing other people's things puts you on the same level as burglars!
//bang//
Woman #2: Yes, that's right. It's for shoplifting.
//noise noise//
//ring ring//
[SL: Woman: Yes, this is the police---]
Woman: You had some nerve! Going out and stealing all these goods!
Woman: What makes you think you can steal other people's things?!
Miyaichi: (Shut up...)
Woman: What are you going to do about this?!
Girl: Wahhhh---!
Woman: ...Yes, they're in Grade 8. Their last names are Miyaichi and Nozawa....
yes, of course. They're students from your middle school.
Woman: Yes, I understand. Please come here as soon as you can.
Woman: Teenagers these days...
Woman: Your teacher will be arriving here shortly.
//wahhh//

Pg 5:
Woman: We've contacted your parents as well.
[SL: Girl: No!]
Woman: You don't have the right to say "no"! You're the one who committed the crime!
//uuuuuu...//
Woman: Crying will do you no good!
//thump//
Woman: You...
Woman: You've been acting pretty high-and-mighty since we brought you in---
//ring ring//
//wahhh//
//noise noise//
Miyaichi: (Today
is my mom's birthday.)

Pg 6:
Yukko's Mother: Oh no, Yukko-chan!
Yukko: Kyaaa---! Mom!
[SL: Woman #3: Kaoru!]
Miyaichi: (Old hag.)
Teacher: I'm extremely sorry for taking so long to get here...
Woman: Are you her teacher?
Teacher: Ah, yes!
Yukko's Mother: Um...are you sure there isn't some kind of mistake? My daughter isn't the type to do something like this!
Woman: These days, even the quiet ones go around committing crimes like this.
Yukko's Mother: Oh!
Teacher: I'm very sorry, but I haven't been able to get in touch with Miyaichi Kazuki's mother because she is away at work...
Woman: It’s fine, as long as you make sure to discuss with her directly about the seriousness of this crime.
Yukko's Mom: I knew it---It's because you're hanging around the wrong people! Since Kazuki-chan's mom is a single mother, she probably doesn't have the time to take care of her daughter well!
Yukko: Mom! That's horrible! It's not Kazuki-chan's fault!
Yukko's Mom: B-But...I'm so sad, that I...
Yukko: Get a grip, mom!
Teacher: I'll make sure to discuss this with Miyaichi's mother...
Woman: All right. This time around, we will let your school handle this.
Miyaichi: (I...)

Pg 7:
Teacher: Thank you very much.
Miyaichi: (I only wanted that pig-character pen...)
Woman: Please make sure this never happens again.
Teacher: Yes...
Teacher: Let's go, Miyaichi-san...
Miyaichi: (So...it was 300 Yen...)
//clank//
Teacher: You don't have to take what Nozawa-san's mother said seriously.
Teacher: It's not like your mother leaves you alone because she wants to.
Teacher: She's been going at it alone for twelve years, ever since your father passed away when you were 2.

Pg 8:
Miyaichi: My mom's....not alone.
She's had a lover since a long time ago. A rich one.
//noise noise//
Teacher: Ah...
Ah...
Ah...
Teacher: Oh...really?
Teacher: Ah!
Teacher: Do you know this song, Miyaichi-san?
Teacher: It's Brahm's "Serenade". Have you heard it before?
Miyaichi: (I like her because...)
(I find it funny how she's always trying her hardest.)
Teacher: Oh, I almost forgot.
Lately, you've been skipping Chorus Club, haven't you?
Miyaichi: (It's not that I'm making fun
of everyone at the Chorus Club because of the way they open their mouths...)

Pg 9:
Miyaichi: (It's just...watching them...)
Teacher: Why don't you give the club another try? Let's all sing together again!
Teacher: Then...you won't feel lonely.
Miyaichi: Teacher,
//gulp//
Miyaichi: Are you taking stomach medicine again?
Teacher: Eh..? Yup....
//hahahahaha//
Teacher: Miyaichi...san?
Teacher: Cut your bangs.

Pg 10:
Miyaichi: Mom..?
Mom: Nnn...
Mom: Welcome back.
Mom: Today...
Mom: was cold, wasn't it?

Pg 11:
Miyaichi: (She's in a good mood today)
Mom: Today's dinner...is fried shrimp.
Two minutes...in the microwave, okay?
Miyaichi: (Even though she's 35....this person...is always moody...)
Miyaichi: Poo...
Miyaichi: (always the princess...)
Mom: Haha...
Miyaichi: (and is always selfish...)
Mom: You're such a gross child...
Miyaichi: (When she meets with her lover, she always listens to this song)

Pg 12:
Miyaichi: (Today is my mom's birthday)
Miyaichi: Mom?
Miyaichi: (I'll give this...
To you as a present...)
Miyaichi: Today,
Miyaichi: I got caught for shoplifting.
Miyaichi: Didn't anyone call you?
Mom: ....
...I don't know...

Pg 13:
Mom: I was working somewhere else today.
Miyaichi: Yukko-chan's mom was saying what a terrible mother you are, for not coming to pick up your kid at a time like this.
Miyaichi: (Isn't she going to say anything?)
Miyaichi: Bye.
See you tomorrow.
//clank//
Miyaichi: (Creep.)

Pg 14:
//slam//
Miyaichi: (Ah, I said something weird.)
(I didn't shoplift because I wanted my mom to come pick me up, like in those TV dramas.)
Miyaichi: (Shit---)
Miyaichi: (Eri said, that it doesn't matter whether you have parents or not.
That has nothing to do with a child's downfall)
[SL: Miyaichi: Damnit]
//rumble rumble//
Miyaichi: (Today in the staff room, the teachers became nervous after watching news
involving middle schoolers)
//bounce bounce//
//rumble rumble//
Yukko: Hey, Kazuki-chan? Did your mom get pissed at you?

Pg 15:
Miyaichi: No. She didn't say anything.
Miyaichi: I didn't even talk to her this morning.
[SL: Yukko: Really!? You're so lucky!]
Miyaichi: Me? Lucky? Yeah right.
Miyaichi: It creeps me out.
Miyaichi: What about you?
Yukko: It was a nightmare! All they did was yell! And I even lied that it was my first time stealing stuff!
//hahaha//
//bounce bounce//
//swish//
Miyaichi: Ah...
Eri: Were you
in the principle's room earlier?
//thump//
Miyaichi: (Eri came here from Yokohama three months ago...)
Miyaichi: Yup.

Pg 16:
Eri: That's so lame----
Eri: Well, it's not like I knew why you were in there anyway.
Miyaichi: (She hasn't fit in well here because she has a bit of a rebellious streak to her.)
Miyaichi: (I heard she still hasn't made any friends.)
Eri: Kazuki---
Eri: Let's go out
Eri: sometime---
Eri: There's someone I want you to meet.
Eri: Her name's Hiroko-san, and she's a senpai I had back in Yokohama. [SL: senpai=upper classman]
Eri: She's so cool!

Pg 17:
Eri: And her boyfriend is so unbelievably cool---!
Eri: Next time, I might get a chance to meet him!
Miyaichi: (If only she didn't act so tough, she'd be popular with the guys.)
Miyaichi: Yup,
sure.
//rumble//
[SL: Eri: AHAHAHAHA!
Eri: What was that?!]
Miyaichi: I'm just hungry...
Miyaichi: I haven't eaten anything since yesterday...

Pg 18:
Yukko: She's wearing that red training suit again.
Yukko: Hey, Kazuki-chan.
Yukko: Why do you talk to Eri?
Miyaichi: What?
Yukko: Eri.
She's supposed to be wearing navy blue for PE.
//rumble rumble//
Yukko: Have you heard?
Yukko: There are rumours going around that while she was at her last school, she had an abortion!

Pg 19:
Yukko: I was really surprised when I first heard about that!
Yukko: But then again, she does seem to be the kind to do stuff like that.
Yukko: And everyone's saying how all the teachers have given up on her already.
Yukko: And her hair! It's a perm, isn't it?
Yukko: And her socks are so bright coloured! I never wear socks like that unless I'm at home!
//noise noise noise//
Yukko: You can probably imagine what kind of person Eri's "senpai" is---

Pg 20:
Yukko: she might be doing drugs, you never know.
Yukko: Do you get what I'm trying to get at? You shouldn't meet with her senpai.
Yukko: And you shouldn't hang around
Yukko: with Eri anymore.
Yukko: Come on, are you listening to me? I'm saying this for your..sake...

Pg 21:
Miyaichi: Shut the hell up.
//push//
Yukko: Kyaaa--!
//clank smash thud//
Miyaichi: IDIOT!
[SL: Yukko: Who are you saying that to?!]

Pg 22:
Yukko: Geez! You snap so easily!
//slam//
Guy: Hey, did you see that?!
We should start calling her "Sukeban Deka"!
Yukko: Kazuki-chan----are you going to become an outlaw?!
[SL: Yukko: Oh, yeah.
Yukko: Maybe she's mad because she's hungry?]
Miyaichi: (Retards.)
Miyaichi: (So you're saying that what you're doing is so much better than what everyone else is doing?)
Miyaichi: Eri----
Miyaichi: Eri---
Miyaichi: Eri---

Pg 23:
//rattle rattle//
Miyaichi: ERI!
//noise//
//slam//
//splash splash//

Pg 24:
[SL: Miyaichi: Lalala]
Miyaichi: (At my house, there are no pictures of my dad.)
//click//
Miyaichi: (It's because, he's someone my mom was forced to marry.)
Miyaichi: (The lover, who she's known since high school, has a wife.)
[SL: And all at once!
Nyaa--! Nyaaa--!]
Miyaichi: (He's going through divorce proceedings right now, or so I heard.)

Pg 25:
[SL: Miyaichi: AHAHAHA!]
Miyaichi: (This apartment...)
Miyaichi: (is probably rented with that person's money...)
(That is what this 14 year old girl believes...)
[SL: Miyaichi: Ahahaha...//chuckles// //giggles//]
Miyaichi: Ahahahahaha---
//Gyaaa---! Gyaaa--!//

pg 26:
//AHAHAHAHA//
Miyaichi: Damnit...
Miyaichi: Shit, it won't break.

Pg 27:
Miyaichi: (It'd be a waste, to just leave
all of this 14 year old girl's young energy unused.)
//ring ring ring ring//
//thud thud//
//ring ring//

Pg 28:
//click//
Eri: Hello?
It's me, Eri.
Miyaichi: Ah---
Eri: I know this is out of the blue, but can you come and meet me right now?
I found out that I'll be able to meet Hiroko-san today!
And we might even be able to meet Tooru-san too...so please? Come with?
//clank clank clank//
Eri: Hiroko-san's---
Eri: 17 right now, but she's so scary that a person like me wouldn't have been able to talk to her,
but since she was my older sister's friend---
Miyaichi: Really...?
Miyaichi: (My heart's beating really fast...)

Pg 29:
Eri: Ahh! There she is!
Miyaichi: (This is the town at night that I've never seen...)
(and she's a person who I've never met...)
Eri: Ah, Hiroko-san! This is the girl I talked to you about over the phone! She's the closest friend I have at my new school!
Miyaichi: Ah...
Good...evening...
Hiroko: Nice to meet you.
Miyaichi: (My heart's beating really fast...)
Hiroko: Okay, then I guess we'll get going.
Eri: Yay! Are we going to where Tooru-san is?
Hiroko: Yup.

Pg 30:
Miyaichi: ("Hiroko-san" really did seem like an amazing person...)
[sign reads "Taxi Pick-Up"]
Hiroko: If some creeps there try to talk to you,
Hiroko: never say you're 14.
Hiroko: Make sure to say you're 16, okay?
Miyaichi: (Maybe, just maybe...
we might be
on our way being taken to a scary place...)
Hiroko: And one more thing.
Hiroko: Never leave my side.
//thump thump thump//
Miyaichi: (But)
[SL: Eri: Roger---!]
Miyaichi: (today, I feel like I can put my faith in
Eri and this person named Hiroko-san...)
Hiroko: Is he here?

Pg 31:
Eri: Hahaha---did you see that just now?! Everyone's greeting Hiroko-san!
Eri: It's so cool!
Miyaichi: (Guys I've never met before...
Girls I've never met before...)
Hiroko: Any luck?
Girl: No, sorry. No one's seen him today.
Eri: Eh? Tooru-san's not here?
Hiroko: Yeah, looks like it.
Eri: Awww! And I thought I'd FINALLY be able to meet him today---

Pg 32:
Hiroko: Mister, mind going to Shounan?
Eri: What?! We're going back already?
Hiroko: No.
Girl: Hey, Hiroko, I'm going to hang around here for a bit.
Sorry.
[SL: Hiroko: Don't worry about it]
Eri: I'm really sorry, to make you have to take us around like this
Hiroko: It's not like I had anything better to do. Anyway, we're going to where Haruyama works.
Eri: Eh?! Haruyama-senpai?!
Haruyama-senpai's at Shounan right now?
Hiroko: Yeah, since a while back.
Eri: Kazuki----Kazuki---this is awesome! We get to see Haruyama-senpai!

Pg 33:
Eri: He's really really REALLY cool---
//hahaha//
Miyaichi: What are you saying, Eri?
//giggles//
Eri: Eh?
Eri: But he is! Everyone really IS cool!
Eri: C-Cut it out Kazuki, don't laugh----
Eri: R-Right, Hiroko-san?!
Hiroko: Oh, Haruyama?
Yeah, he's a pretty interesting character.
Eri: He's still...16, right?
Hiroko: Yeah, he's a year younger than me.
Eri: He's Tooru-san's favorite, right?!

pg 34:
Hiroko: It's probably because they're so alike.
Eri: Yeah, that's why everyone's says
Eri: if you get Haruyama-senpai mad, you'd be in big trouble.
Miyaichi: (Really...so that must mean Tooru-san really is an incredible person...)
Miyaichi: (Ah...Shounan...)
Miyaichi: It's my first time seeing it like this...
Eri: No way--! But you live right near here!
Miyaichi: Yeah, it's because
I've never gone out so late at night
Miyaichi: in all my 14 years.

Pg 35:
Girl: Ah, mister. Here's fine.
Miyaichi: Oh, the money...
Girl: You dork, forget about it.
[SL: Miyaichi: Eh?]
Miyaichi: (It's strange...)
[SL: Eri: Thank you very much!]
Hiroko: Yeah. Let's go.
//slam//
Miyaichi: (Even though it's right near my house...)
Miyaichi: (This feels strange...)

Pg 36:
Eri: Ah---there he is!
Haruyama: Not like that!
Haruyama: Where the hell are you looking?!
//vroom vroom//
//swerve swerve//
Haruyama: All you have to do is back up here!
Haruyama: Can't you even do something as simple as that?!
Hiroko: Haha, looks like he's still working. Just wait here.
Eri: Hehe! I told you he's scary when he gets mad, right?
Miyaichi: Yeah.
Eri: Looks like they finally figured it out!

Pg 37:
Miyaichi: (He's a guy I've never met)
Haruyama: Which way are you leaving?
Girl: Eh? Oh, the left.
//vrooom//
Haruyama: Thank you very much!
//vrooom//
Girl: Hey...that guy just now...
Girl: what a weirdo---

Pg 38:
Miyaichi: (He's the kind of guy you couldn't find at my school)
Haruyama: Eri-chan----! Come here!
Eri: Hehehe! He just called me Eri-chan!
Eri: Let's go!
Miyaichi: I'm okay.
Eri: Eh?
Miyaichi: He only called you out.
Eri: Come on, what are you---
Miyaichi: Really. I'm fine here.
Miyaichi: I'll stay.
Miyaichi: (I'm no good with guys.)
Eri: Are you sure?! I'm going!
Miyaichi: Go.
Eri: Okay, then I'll be back in a sec!
Miyaichi: (It's because there isn't a man in my family.)
Eri: Good evening!
Haruyama: How's your sister doing?
Eri: She's doing great!
Haruyama: Ah, Hiroko. You can go ahead inside.

Pg 39:
Eri: You called her "Hiroko"! [SL: Kyaaa-! Kya--!]
[SL: Hiroko: Hey mister!]
Haruyama: Who's that?
Haruyama: She's pretty cute. Let me talk to her.
Eri: Eh----! Kazuki's soo lucky!
//hahaha//
Hiroko: There's no use being jealous---
Hiroko: he has a girlfriend already.
//vroom//
Haruyama: What are you looking at?

Pg 40:
//vroom//
Haruyama: How old are you?
//vrooom//
Miyaichi: Fourt...
een....
Haruyama: Oh really?

Pg 41:
Haruyama: What's your name?
//vroom//
Haruyama: What? Are you mute or something?
//snap//
Miyaichi: (What's the use in telling you my name?
Id--iot!)

Pg 42:
Miyaichi: (Go back already)
Haruyama: Things aren't going well
Haruyama: at your house, are they?
Miyaichi: What the hell's your problem?! That's none of your damn business!
Haruyama: Oh really---

Pg 43:
//splash//
Miyaichi: (This...guy...)
//smack//

Pg 44:
Haruyama: Never show your face here again.
[SL: Miyaichi: Kya!]
//clank//
//splash//
//crash//
Guy: Hey, Haruyama!!
Miyaichi: (Damnit...)
Eri: What happened?
Eri: Kazuki---!
//stalk stalk//
[SL: Haruyama: It's friggin' cold]

Pg 45:
//noise noise//
[SL: Guy: What's gotten into you Haruyama?!]
Hiroko: She'd be pretty cute...
Hiroko: if she smiled...
Miyaichi: (Damnit....)
Miyaichi: (Damnit...)
Miyaichi: (Damnit---)
Miyaichi: (Damn...)
//vroom vroom vrooom//
[SL: Woman: You thieves!]

Pg 46:
//vroom vroom//
Miyaichi: (----hy---?)
Miyaichi: (Why?)
Miyaichi: Damnit...
//vroom vroom///
Miyaichi: Damn---
///vroom vrooom//
Miyaichi: ---it.

Pg 47:
//vroom vroom vroom//
Eri: Hi, it's me Eri!
Eri: What happened back there?!
Eri: Haruyama-senpai said it was the first time a girl ever hit him!

Pg 48:
Eri: Hiroko-san laughed saying
Eri: you'd be someone Tooru-san would like!
Eri: Hey, she said she'd definitely introduce us to him next time!
Eri: Oh, and I think I forgot to tell to this,
Eri: but Tooru-san's---

Pg 49:
Eri: the head of a motorcycle gang.
Miyaichi: (No one asked
why
I'd shoplifted.)

END OF CHAPTER 1

Pg 51:
Girl: Kazuki, you sound like you hate your mom.
Kazuki: Not really, I don't hate her.
Girl: Really-y-y?
Well, at least you have it easy at your house!
A couple of weeks ago I did something---and it wasn't even THAT bad...
and my mom got friggin' pissed

and she like, came running at me
with a 1L Coke bottle in her hand,
and she hit me with it!

I don't even remember what I did---
Kazuki: Hahahaha.
What's so bad about that?
Girl: Are you kidding me?! She could've killed me!
Kazuki: Hahaha....

Pg 52:
Kazuki: Well there's nothing you can do about it
if you can't even remember why she hit you---

Pg 53:
[no text]

Pg 54:
//vroom//
//honk honk//
Kazuki: My dad died when I was really young.
//vrooommmm//
Kazuki: He wasn't someone my mom married out of love,
Kazuki: so I'm
Kazuki: (My heart starts beating really fast at times like this.)
Kazuki: the kid...of someone she hates.

Pg 55:
Kazuki: I wasn't a kid born out of love.
Kazuki: (My heart beats really fast,
even when I'm talking to a close friend.)
Kazuki: (It beats really fast because I feel like
I'll be all alone again.)
Eri: Oh, I didn't know---
//vroom vroom//
//vroooommmm//
//vrooom//

Pg 56:
Eri: Senp--
Haruyama: Pig!
//vroom//
Guy: Hahahahahaa!
//tap//
Kazuki: (Shit---)
Eri: Ha--
Hahahaha
//vroom vroom//
//vrooommmm//

Pg 57:
Eri: HAHAHAHAHAHA!
//vroom//
//vroooommmm//
Kazuki: (It must feel amazing----)
//vroommm//

Pg 58:
[no text]

Pg 59
Kazuki: (Tonight, I was taken to that unfamiliar city again
on the subway.

The red neon lights
were blinding)
Kazuki: (But because Eri said
we'd be able to meet "Tooru-san"...)
Hiroko: Let's go.
Kazuki: (Hiroko-san's boyfriend, "Tooru-san"...)
Kazuki: (Hiroko-san had on a perfume called Tactis)

Pg 60:
//vroom vroom//
//honk honk//
//noise noise//
//noise noise//
Guy: Ah, Hiroko-san!
Girl: Kyaaa---! Hiroko-san! Good evening!
//noise noise//
Guy: Tooru-senpai, Hiroko-san's---

Pg 61:
Tooru: Let's go.
//ahahahaha//
//noise noise//
[SL: How're ya?!]
//vrooommm//
Eri: Pssst! Kazuki!
Eri: Did you see that?!
Eri: Everyone seems to know Tooru-san!
Eri: And even those scary looking guys are moving out of the way for him!

Pg 62:
Tooru: Hey, did you see him?
Guy: What---? See who?
Guy #2: You idi--don't talk to him like that!
Guy: Eh?
Guy: N-No, sorry. I haven't seen him...
Tooru: Oh, okay.
Eri: Whoaaa----! Kazuki!! Did you see that?! That's so cool!
Kazuki: Yeah.
Kazuki: I saw---
Kazuki: it...

Pg 63:
Tooru: So
Tooru: this is the hand
Tooru: that hit Haruyama.
Eri: Kyaaa--! Kyaa---!
//thump thump thump//

Pg 64:
Kazuki: (Hiroko-san...got mad.)
Eri: Hey, did you notice how they were acting all weird?
//noise noise//
Kazuki: Huh? Err...
Eri: Remember? Like how they acted all cold around each other?
But they said that's the way they like it.
They said that they're in a perfect relationship the way they are now.
Kazuki: (It's not weird...)
Eri: You said a while back---
Kazuki: (When he did that to me...Hiroko-san got mad. I know it.)
Eri: that "loving" another person is a really big deal. Right?
Eri: They said those are the kind of feelings they have for each other.
Eri: I can't help but feel a bit jealous. Don't you?

Pg 65:
Kazuki: Y..eah...
Kazuki: I do feel...
Kazuki: a bit envious...
Kazuki: (They "love" each other?
In what way?)
//noise noise//
//whistle//
Eri: Oh yeah, I almost forgot. She said that everyone's gonna get together for a secret meeting tomorrow.
Eri: Tomorrow. Tomorrow's Sunday.
[SL: Girl: Kazuki-channnn what's up?]
Eri: Let's find a way to sneak out to it, okay?

Pg 66:
Girl: Hey, Kazuki-chan, are you still mad about last time?
[SL: Eri: Bye!]
Kazuki: No, not really.
I'm not mad.
Girl: Well that's a relief---!
Kazuki: (Today is Saturday)
Mother: Do you want to eat out tonight?
Kazuki: (and my mom seems to be bored out of her mind, because she can't meet her lover, who has a family (for now))
Kazuki: (They "love" each other? In what way?)
//slam//

Pg 67:
Mother: I'm starving!
Kazuki: (This woman thinks 14 year olds are morons.
She thinks they're brats who know nothing.)
Kazuki: (She doesn't even know what makes her own daughter's heart beat faster.)
//slam//
Kazuki: (My mom will never understand how I feel.)

Pg 68:
Kazuki: (Retard---there's no way this place'll have fried shrimp!)
[SL: Kazuki: Shit]
//creak//
Girl: Welcome!
//noise noise noise//
Kazuki: (Ah...)
Kazuki: (Haruyama...)

Pg 69:
Kazuki: (Damnit, I remembered his name.)
[SL: Kazuki: Shit.]
//vrooom vrooom//
Kazuki: I want fried shrimp.
Mother: Okay---
//AHAHAHAHAHA are you serious//
//noise noise//
Mother: Lately, you've been
Mother: coming home
Mother: pretty late.
Kazuki: ....what?

Pg 70:
//noise noise//
Mother: You're still...
Mother: in middle school...
Mother: You don't even have that much money...
Mother: so if you're...out too late at night...
Mother: I...have promises to keep too...
//kyaaa--!//
//creak creak//
//Welcome!//
//Will that be all?//
Waiter: May I take your order?
Mother: Oh...well, let's see....
Guy: You have to listen to this! This guy's got it bad for Mihoko!
//AHAHAHA//
//No freakin' way----
So you'd be able to put your life on the line for her?!//

Pg 71:
Haruyama: I
Haruyama: wouldn't mind dying
Haruyama: for Mihoko.
//noise noise//
Mother: Oh...what was it? What was I going to order?
//AHAHAHAHA//
Kazuki: (It beats really fast because I feel like
I'll be all alone again.)

Pg 72:
Narrator: I wouldn't mind dying
for....
//splash//
//crash//
//splash splash/
//clash clash//
[SL: Narrator: And this is Hawaii's---]
//clank clank//
//splash//

Pg 73:
Kazuki: ("Mom, I'll be late tonight, because I'm going to go to a motorcycle gang's meeting")
Kazuki: Mom?
//clank//
//clank//
//clank//
Kazuki: Mom?
//splash//
Kazuki: Mom?!
//splash//
//squeak//

Pg 74:
//splash//
Kazuki: Old hag!!
//crash//
Mother: ....Oh.
Mother: You surprised me...

Pg 75:
Mother: ...oh...
Mother: I didn't plan on my daughter being like this.
Mother: A daughter was supposed to be like her mother's best friend....
//snap//
Kazuki: (Is she an idiot?)
Kazuki: You've got to be kidding me.
Kazuki: You...OLD HAG!!
//snap//
Mother: If you want to become a juvenile delinquent,
Mother: then go right ahead.
Kazuki: HA!
Kazuki: That's so typical of you, mom! You think only juvies use words like "old hag", don't you?
//Haha!//
//pissed off//
Kazuki: Well here's a reality check! There are lots of people out there in the world who are a lot worse than the people you call "juvenile delinquents"!!

Pg 76:
Kazuki: I'll take your word for it then. From this day on, I'll be a "juvenile delinquent"!!
Kazuki: Ha!
//tap tap tap//
//slam//
//waver//
//sigh//
Mother: Why didn't she take after me.
Damnit..
//thud thud thud//
Kazuki: (The one who's heart is beating faster is me.)
//slam/
//click//
//SLAM//
Kazuki: (You'll never understand how I feel.)

Pg 77:
//vroom vrooom//
Kazuki: (I like sounds that make my ears ring.)
//vrooom//
//vrooomm vroommmm//
Kazuki: Ha!
Kazuki: You're lucky. At least your old hag shows you some affection.
Eri: Eh? Did you say something?
//vrooom vroom//
Kazuki: No, nothing.
Kazuki: (I asked what the name of the motorcycle gang was, but I forgot.)
//vroom vrooom//
Kazuki: (But I think...
it was a pretty famous name
that I heard before here and there.)
Eri: Hey, what did you tell your mom to let you come out here?
Kazuki: "From this day on, I'll be a juvenile delinquent".

Pg 78:
Eri: Haha! You're nuts!
[SL: Guy: He's STILL not here?!]
[SL: Guy: Shit---What the hell's he doing?
If he doesn't get here soon, they're gonna come.]
//vroom vroom//
//vroom vroom//
Kazuki: ("Pig!")

Pg 79:
//vroom vroom//
Kazuki: (What's his problem?)
//vroom vroom//
Guy: What's with Haruyama?
Guy: He's always glaring at us. Lately, he's been pissing me off---
Girl: There you are! You guys shouldn't be alone in a place like this!
Girl: It's not just our group that's here. It's not safe.
Eri: Oh,
okay!
Girl: Tooru-san just got here. I heard he's looking for you.
Eri: EHHH!?!
Girl: Anyway, let's go.
[SL: Guy: Whoever wants to be at the front of the pack come up now!]
//vroom//

Pg 80:
Guy: Yo, Haruyama! Aren't ya going to lead?
//whistle whistle//
//vrooommm//
[SL: Guy: Yo Haruyama!?]
Eri: Senpai! Where's Hiroko-san?
Girl: Oh her? She just started saying all of a sudden that she didn't want to come.
Kazuki: (Ah...)
Kazuki: (I have a bad feeling about this...)
Tooru: Hiroko?
Tooru: Who needs her anyway---?
Tooru: Come here.

Pg 81:
Girl: Hey, who are those girls?
Girl: Why are they getting into Tooru-san's car?
Eri: Hahaha! Kazuki, this is awesome!
//vroom vroom//
//vrooommmm//
//vroom//
Tooru: Let's go.
//vrooom//
//honk honk//
//vrooom vrooommm//
Eri: Hey, Kazuki!
//vrooom//
Eri: There aren't that many people here yet, but they said
that they're going to go around town, and lots more people will join along the way!

Pg 82:
[SL: Eri: Are you listening?]
Kazuki: Yeah...
//vroom vroom//
//vrooom//
//squeeallll//
//honk honk//
Tooru: Did Haruyama
Tooru: show up?
Guy: Oh, I think I saw him back there somewhere.
He looked pissed, as always.
Tooru: ha...
Tooru: hahaha...
//vrooom vrooommmm//
//vrooommmm//
Tooru: hahahaha...

Pg 83:
Kazuki: (So...
he's riding his bike along with the rest of them...)
//squeallll//

Pg 84:
//vroommm//
//police siren//
Eri: No...
Eri: no....
Eri: no....
[SL: Eri: What are we gonna do?!]
//squeallll//
//vroom vroom//
Eri: Whoa, where'd everyone go?
Eri: Ah, that motorcycle's---
//vrooommm//
//squeall//

Pg 85:
Eri: Are they going to be okay?
Tooru: Their job's to help out the four-wheelers escape.
//vrooommm//
//fading police siren//
Guy: Hey? Who's that?
Guy: Did something happen?
Guy #2: It's a fight!
Guy: What---?!
At a time like this? Who's it between?
Guy #2: Just up ahead, Haruyama's
gotten into a fight with this guy who's not part of our group---
[SL: Guy: Is he a moron?
Guy: Does he know how many police cars are out here? Get him to stop!
Guy #2: I tried! But he's not someone you can stop once he gets heated!
Guy #2: If I stayed behind to try to stop him,
Guy #2: I might have gotten caught too, so I----]
Tooru: Just leave him alone.

Pg 86:
Guy #2: Ah...okay.
Guy: You're free to go.
Guy: Whoaaa, they're going at it!
Guy: Geez, and there are even guys egging him on!
Guy: What the hell are you guys doing?! Break it up already!
//vrooomm//
[SL: Guy: Whoa!]
Tooru: Tell him to come see me later.
Guy: Okay.

Pg 87:
//vrooommm//
[sign reads "Open 24 hours a day"]

P 88:
//noise noise//
//ahahaha//
Eri: Kazuki, are you sleepy?
Kazuki: What-t-t? No, I'm okay.
Eri: Hey, mind if I go to the bathroom again?
Kazuki: Eh? Again? Hahaha.
Eri: Yeah. I don't know why, but I'm nervous so---
Kazuki: Hahahaha.
//squeal//
[SL: Waitress: Welcome!]
/noise noise//
[SL: Guy: Hey---Hey--! The king of stupidity has arrived!]
Haruyama: Pig!

Pg 89:
//pissed off//
Haruyama: Just kidding.
Haruyama: You're pretty cute...
[SL: Guy: Get over here already!]
[SL: Eri: Wow--! Wow---! Wow---!]
Tooru: Yo, Haruyama. 'Sup?
Tooru: Do you want to get locked away or what?
//pissed//
Tooru: Haha.
Tooru: What's with that look on your face?
Who's fault do you think it is?

Pg 90:
Haruyama: A girl's.
//AHAHAHAHA//
Eri: They've been talking for a long time~ [SL: I wonder what they're talking about?]
Eri: So it MUST be true that Haruyama-senpai is Tooru-san's favourite!
//hahahahaha//
Tooru: Let's go.
Guy: Eh? But what about Haruyama?
Tooru: Haha.
Forget him.
Tooru: He said that his girl dumped him.
Kazuki: (Eh...)
//splash//

Pg 91:
Haruyama: Don't stare at me. Retard!
//mouthes//
//noise noise/
Kazuki: (Bastard...)
Kazuki: (Idiot!)
//noise noise//
Kazuki: (Who'd want to...?)
Kazuki: Ha!
Kazuki: Eh?
//thump thump thump//
Haruyama: Where's...your house?
Haruyama: I'll take you home.

Pg 92:
//thump thump thump//
Kazuki: Kuge....
Numa Bay.
Haruyama: I'll get you home in a flash.
Eri: Hey? Where's Kazuki...
Girl: Isn't she with you?
Eri: Maybe she went home by herself again---
Girl: What? Is she gonna be okay?
Eri: Yeah, since she lives close to here, she'll probably be okay. But I wonder why she just left without saying anything---
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: (My cheeks... and ears hurt....
I can't see what's ahead of me...
My eyes won't even open...)

Pg 93:
Kazuki: (The wind's hitting
my arms,
my elbows,
and my legs)
//flap flap flap//
Kazuki: (This feels...amazing---)
Kazuki: (Ah...)
Kazuki: (He has the same smell as Hiroko-san...)

Pg 94:
//tap//
Haruyama: Hey.
Haruyama: Are you loaded or what?
Kazuki: What?
Kazuki: No, I'm not.
Haruyama: Really-y-y?
Haruyama: All rich people say that, you know.
Kazuki: (What's his problem anyway?)
//pissed off//
Kazuki: (He doesn't even know anything about me.)
Haruyama: I went through the trouble of taking you home. Aren't you going to thank me?
//thump thump thump//

Pg 95:
Haruyama: Just kidding! Are you mad?
Haruyama: You heard, right? I got dumped.
Haruyama: So I'm a bit pissed right now.
Haruyama: Sorry.
Kazuki: (He's making fun of me.)
Kazuki: By
Kazuki: Mihoko?

Pg 96:
Haruyama: Do you want to fucking die?
Kazuki: (I...give up.)
//vroom vroom//
Kazuki: (This guy's
seriously out of his mind.)
Haruyama: Hey.
//vroom//

Pg 97:
//vroommm//
//squeal//
Kazuki: (My cheeks hurt)
Haruyama: Want to
Haruyama: be my girl?

Pg 98:
//fading police sirens//
[SL: Mother: Yes
Yes,
...Yes.]
Kazuki: They "love" each other?
In what way?

END OF CHAPTER 2

Pg 99:
//vrooom//

Pg 100:
//vrooommm//
//splash//
//crash//
//tap tap//
//splash//
//whistle//
Haruyama: Shhhh!
//clank clank clank//
Kazuki: I want a kotatsu. [Kotatsu=a low table with a heater attached underneath with a blanket over it. Great during the winter!]
//chirp chirp//

Pg 101:
//Good Morning Everyone!]
Mother: Why?
Kazuki: (My mother's always in a bad mood in the morning)
//clank//
Kazuki: I want to get into a kotatsu and eat oranges.
Mother: Haha. It's because you're always watching those TV dramas of yours.
//gulp//
Kazuki: Shut up.
I want a kotatsu, what's wrong with that?
[SL: Good morning!]

Pg 102:
[SL: Well---today is a very cold---]
Kazuki: (There's one thing)
Kazuki: (I've wanted to ask
this woman.)
Kazuki: (But I)
[SL: TV: From the middle of the month to the end---]
Kazuki: (can't ask.)
[SL: Kazuki: It's hot]

Pg 103:
//vroom//
//tap tap tap tap//
//rolllll//
//clank clank clank//
//whistle//
//clank//
//clink//
//rollllll//

Pg 104:
//vrooommm//
//tap tap tap//
Haruyama: It's not even close.
//whip//
//clank clank clank//
//crash//
//step//
//kick//
//swish//

Pg 105:
//tap tap tap//
//whistle//
//tap tap tap//
Police: Let me see your motorcycle.
Hiroko: We're trash.

Pg 106:
Hiroko: They think
Hiroko: everyone who's in a gang...aren't human.
Hiroko: The police, and teachers...
Hiroko: that geezer working at the cigar shop...and the brats from who knows where...
//noise noise//
Hiroko: They think we're better off dead.
//hhahahahaha//
//noise noise//
//welcome!//
Hiroko: Even though we're humans with eyes and ears,
just like their own sons,
Hiroko: they think that death for us, is natural....something we've got coming for us...
//AHAAHHAHAHA//
//no way!!//
Hiroko: Even when they hear that one of us died...
Kazuki: (I...only listened faintly to what she said)
Hiroko: they say...well, we were always "causing others trouble"...
Kazuki: (because her hair was so pretty.)

Pg 107:
Guy: HAHAHAHA--! Yeah, and then he---
Kazuki: (I want to
be like her one day)
Police: That's some ride you got there.
//whistles//
Police: Hey,
show me your license.
Police: You're
a member of "NIGHTS", aren't you?
Police: You better not underestimate us.
//pulls//
Police: It doesn't take much brains to figure out who you are.
//slap//
//vrooommm//
Guy: What does he eat anyway?
//noise noise//
Guy #2: Oh, you mean, Haruyama?

Pg 108:
Guy: He uses up all the money he makes on his bike, right?
Guy #2: How'd he come up with the cash to live on his own anyway?
Guy #3: Hahaha, yeah, last time he---
//AHAHAHAHHA//
Guy: was working with Richard as one of those people, you know, who try to round up new customers from the streets to the bar?
Kazuki: (Hiroko-san
smells of Tactis)
//splash splash//
Kazuki: (I think this was what you use to get the color out of your hair (Eri said so))

Pg 109:
Kazuki: (I didn't know how to do it, so I ended up using it all.)
Kazuki: It stinks...
Kazuki: (I might die if it gets in my eyes)
Kazuki: (I might die)
Kazuki: What's this white stuff....
//thump thump thump//
Kazuki: It itches...
Kazuki: (My hands are gonna rot...)

Pg 110:
Kazuki: It itches...
Kazuki: It itches...
Kazuki: It itches...
//splash splash//
//scrub scrub//
//thump thump//
//splash splash//
Kazuki: (Oh, now I get it. I'm going to die.
This 14 year old girl is going to die,
because she tried to dye her hair with the wrong stuff)
//thump thump//
Kazuki: (My hair won't even turn brown.)
Kazuki: ("How'd he come up with the cash to live on his own anyway?"
"But he has a reason for wanting
to work for his own money...")
//blink//
//rustle//

Pg 111:
//thump thump//
Kazuki: (My hair wasn't brown
but my hands had gone back to normal.)
[SL: Kazuki: Well that's a relief]
Hiroko: Wanna
Hiroko: go to the bar?
//noise noise//
Kazuki: (What is Hiroko-san saying?)
Eri: Hey, is something going on between you and Haruyama-senpai?
//noise noise//
Kazuki: No...not really.
[SL: Girl: AHAHAHAH!
Guy: Yo!]
Kazuki: (There's nothing going on.)

Pg 112:
Kazuki: (But...it doesn't matter....)
[SL: Guy: It's friggin' cold---
Guy #2: Hey, why don't you guys stop by at the bar?
Girl: Ahaha!]
Richard: Ah---! Hiroko-san!
Richard: What brings you here?
Eri: Wow! You guys are wearing tuxes!
//honk//
Hiroko: To see you, Richard.
Richard: Hahaha, no way-y-y! Did ya here that, Haruyama?!
Kazuki: ("Want to be my girl?")
Haruyama: Hiroko,
why don't you work here?
//vrooommm//
//honk honk//

Pg 113:
Kazuki: (It has...nothing to do with me.)
[SL: Richard: If you worked here---you could make some serious cash!]
[SL: Richard: Because everyone from our group ends up coming here,
Ahahahhaa]
//vrooomm//
Girl: Ah!
//vrooommm//
//screech//
Girl: Hiroko!
Girl: What's up?
//screeech//
//slam//
[SL: Girl: Thanks!]
Girl: What're you guys up to?
Girl #2: What are you guys doing here?
//slam//
//noise noise//
[SL: Girl: Hahaha! What's with that outfit?!]
[SL: Richard: It's for work!]
[SL: Girl: Hahaha, you serious?]
[SL: Girl: So you're the guys they've been talking about? The ones trying to get people into that bar?]
//noise noise//
//thud//
[SL: Girl: Ahahahaha]
Haruyama: What the hell're you ignoring me for?

Pg 114:
[SL: Guy: Haha, why didn't you say so earlier?! If I'd known you guys were here, I would've come sooner!]
//ahahahah//
//kick//
Richard: Eh...
[SL: Eri: Wha!]
//step//
Haruyama: You fucking---
[SL: Kazuki: He's going to hit me!]
//grabs//
[SL: Kazuki: Kya!]
//AHAHAHAHAHA//

Pg 115:
[SL: Haruyama: You little bugger!]
[top left reads "HOT ROAD"]
///ahahahahaha
ahahhahaa
ahahaha//
[SL: Eri: Senpai! Cut it out! Ahahaha]
Kazuki: (He was fooling around and cracking jokes by himself.)

Pg 116:
Hiroko: That's the real Haruyama.
//vrooommm//
[SL: Girl: Ahahaha!
Senpai!
Guy: What an idiot---
Girl: Oh, and he was like---
Man: Oh! Customers! Welcome! Welcome!]
//noise noise//
//vrooommm//
//noise noise//
//vrooom//
//ring ring//
/ringg//
[SL: Girl: 'Morning!
Girl #2: 'Morning!"]
//school bell chime//
//hallelujah! hallelujah---//
Kazuki: (My hair still won't turn brown.)

Pg 117:
//rattle//
Girl: Heyyy Miyaichi-san!
Girl: Aren't you going to come to the club today?
[Sign reads "Music Room I"]
Kazuki: Ah...
no.
Girl: Really?! Bummer!
Girl #2: Well, see ya later!
Girl #2: Byeee!
//rattle//
[SL: Woman: And now, to continue on---]
//hallelujah----hallelujah---]
Kazuki: ("Ahahahaha!
//vrooom//
"Ah! Hiroko!"
"Hahahahaha!")
//AHAHAHAHA//
//hallelujah---!//
//tap//

Pg 118:
//ahahahhaha//
Kazuki: (That's what I want.)
Kazuki: (To be friends with everyone who just happens to hang around where I am--
that's what I want.)
Kazuki: (Here,
there are people from different high schools,
and girls from the middle school next to ours.)
Eri: Hey, do you remember that guy that was with Haruyama two nights ago?
Eri: Everyone calls him Richard even though he's Japanese.
Kazuki: Haha, yeah.
Eri: I asked why everyone calls him that, and you know what he said?
//vrooomm//
Eri: He said it's because he called Pierre Cardin---Richard Cardin!
//ahahahhahaa!//

Pg 119:
Eri: Hey look at that scooter over there---
[flag reads "Let's Go"]
//rattle//
[SL: Girl: Welcome!
Richard: Yo! Yo--!
Guy: You're late----
Richard: Yeah, I had to go and clean the can.]
Eri: Ahahaha! It's Richard-san!
//ahahahaha!//
[SL: Eri: He's here---!]
Girl: Hi Richard-senpai!
Kazuki: (They're girls from the middle school next to ours.)
Kazuki: (That's what I want...
for everyone to be friends with me.)
Richard: Hey, I've seen you guys somewhere before!
[SL: Guy: Really? Who're they?]
Richard: Oh NOW I remember!
Richard: You're Haruyama's girlfriend!
Girl: What-t-t--! No way!
Guy: Girlfriend?!
Guy: What? How?

Pg 120:
Richard: That's what Haruyama told me.
Eri: Wow! So THAT's what was going on between you two?! That's amazing, Kazuki!
//kyaaa--! Kyaaa---!//
[SL: Girl: Really-y-y?]
Girl: What happened to that other girl? You know, that straight-laced one.
Richard: He got dumped. He said so himself.
Girl: What-t--! Why?
Guy: Maybe he got dumped because he doesn't live with his parents anymore?
Guy: She looked like the type to be uptight about stuff like that---
//noise noise//
Guy #2: But he was serious about her, wasn't he?
Girl: Haruyama's a good guy!
Girl #2: Yeah, and he takes care of his girl too!
Guy: Yeah, but with guys---he completely trashes 'em.
//ahahahahha//
Guy: And he snaps really easily if things don't go his way.
//noise noise//
Girl: Yeah, but that's what's so cute about him!
[SL: Girl: So you're his new girlfriend? Nice to meet ya!]
Richard: How old're you?
Kazuki: Ah...I'm 14...
Richard: Oh...
Richard: really..?
Richard: So you're 14...[emphasis on "14"]
//noise noise//
[SL: Guy: Whoa, he's found a new girl already?]
//noise noise//

Pg 121:
//noise noise//
Richard: Really...
Richard: I...
Richard: feel kind of sorry for you.
Richard: I
Richard: feel kind of sorry for you.
Richard: He's probably...
Richard: going to end up making you cry.
//vrooommm//
//splash//

Pg 122:
Kazuki: (Why?)
//vrooomm//
Eri: I heard this place---
Kazuki: (is he going to make me cry?)
Eri: is super amazing during the night and New Years! They have these bamboo sticks---
Eri: and there's like 100-200 of 'em!
Kazuki: (I wonder if
he made "Mihoko" cry too.)
//whistle//
Eri: And like, I heard it was out of this world on Coming of Age Day [referring to "Seijin no Hi"--the coming of Age day]
//screechhh//
Eri: I wish I could've seen it---
I wish they would've taken us here to see it.
Eri: Even though
it sounds a bit scary---
//vroom vroomm//
//vrooommmm//
//whistle whistle//
[Guy: Hey cuties!]
//ahahahha//
//vrooomm//
Eri: Hahaha. I wonder how those guy's would react when they find out you're the girlfriend of THE Haruyama. [emphasis on "the"]

Pg 123:
Kazuki: ...I'm not his girlfriend.
Eri: Haha, you don't have to be shy--- //hehe//
//splash//
Kazuki: Really, I'm not.
I hate guys who're all like "she's my girl" anyway.
//whistle//
Kazuki: And I don't understand him.
//splash//
Eri: But my sister
Eri: said he's a really, really, nice guy!
Kazuki: He's not nice.
Kazuki: He's selfish, hot-tempered,
and when he's not in a good mood, he can say some really cruel stuff and he wouldn't
Kazuki: even care...
[SL: Kazuki: Hmm...he reminds me of someone]
//tada//
[SL: Eri: Ahahahaa!]
Eri: Looks to me like you know a lot about him!
//ahahahaha//
//slap slap slap//

Pg 124:
Eri: I wouldn't mind Haruyama-senpai making me cry----
Kazuki: ("I wouldn't mind dying
for Mihoko")
Kazuki: Really?
//vroom//
Kazuki: Tooru-san's so much better than him.
Eri: What-t-t--?! I'll pass. He's got Hiroko-san!
Eri: Come on~don't be shy! 'Fess up, you're his girlfriend, righhhht?
Kazuki: Id-iot! I told you---I'm not!
Eri: Aha....
Eri: Ah...
Eri: That's...
so cool....

Pg 125:
Eri: to be able to...
Eri: say "id-iot"...and...stuff like that...
//splash//
Eri: ahahaha
//splash//
Eri: Kazuki---
Eri: can I ask you something---?
//splash//
Eri: Do I...
Eri: look like I've had an abortion?
Eri: I don't know why...
Eri: but the girls at school've been saying stuff like that about me...
Eri: behind my back...

Pg 126:
Eri: You've heard them say it too...right?
//rustle rustle//
Eri: Ahaha...did you believe 'em?
Kazuki: Id-iot! Why would I?
Eri: I...
Eri: didn't have an abortion....
Eri: Ka..zuki...
Eri: You have to believe me.
I didn't...
Eri: okay..?
Eri: I'd never...
Kazuki: What are you saying?! Of course you didn't!!
Who said that about you?!
Kazuki: What class is that person in?! What's that person's name?!
//vrooomm//
Eri: ....No, it's okay.
Eri: As long as you believe me...
Eri: that's all I need...

Pg 127:
Kazuki: Shut up---!
I'll go and beat some sense into 'em!!
Kazuki: They deserve a beating!!
Kazuki: I'll kick their asses---
Eri: No...
Eri: sorry....
Eri: You've got it all wrong...
Eri: I could've...
Eri: told them to go to hell...or beat them up...
anytime....and...
Eri: I've always....
been pretty okay
Eri: being by myself up until now...because...
Eri: that's how it always was...but...
Eri: because I got to know a girl like you....

Pg 128:
Eri: Because a girl like you...is with me...
Eri: I...
Eri: let my guard down...
//splash splash//
Kazuki: (My friend...)
Eri: I'm sorry.....
//splash splash//
Eri: I...
Eri: won't cry anymoe...
Eri: I... won't cry anymore, so....
Kazuki: (My friend.)

Pg 129:
Kazuki: (My...)
[SL: Guy: Heyyy! Girlies! //whistle//
Guy: Yooooo--!]
//rustle rustle//
//noise noise//
[SL: Guy: What the...
Girl: Hey...isn't she...
Girl: Whoa...]

Pg 130:
//noise noise//
Kazuki: (I don't mind
if all the people here become my enemies.)
Girl: Ka...
zuki-chan!
[SL: Guy: Whoaaa---!
Guy #2: Hahaha. Sukeban Deka...]
Kazuki: (I...)
Kazuki: (I don't need to be understood by anyone...)

Pg 131:
Eri: What...
Eri: happened...to your hair?
Eri: Ah....
Eri: it's....
Eri: soooo awesomeee!
[SL: Girl: Kazuki-chan!]
Eri: When did you do it?
I never noticed it before!
Eri: I wanna show you off to everyone!
Eri: Wanna go there again on Saturday?
Eri: Come on, okay? Let's go together!

Pg 132:
Eri: We'll definitely be able to run into someone we know---!
//vrooomm//
Kazuki: (Saturday night,
was like a festival.)
Kazuki: (And before I knew it,
Eri had buddied up with guys who were there,
and there were people coming up to see me because they heard I was Haruyama's girl.)
Richard: Heyyy--did you have that hair color before?
Kazuki: (It's fun.)

Pg 133:
//vrooomm//
Guy: 'Looks pretty good on ya.
Girl: Yeah, it suits you. Not bad, not bad at all.
Girl: Why don't ya go for blonde?
Kazuki: (To know everyone here,)
Girl: Shit---what's with that 330----
//vrooommm//
Guy: If they find that they're gonna hit him on the upside of the head!
Guy: I heard they were doing road checks again---
Guy: Geez..
//vroom vroom//
Guy: Whoa, did ya see that?
Kazuki: (is fun)
//vrooomm//
Guy: It's almost 11, so he'll probably show up soon.
Richard: I let him borrow my "Let's Go"---
Guy: It'll suck if he gets caught--
Guy: [SL: hahaha] This is Haruyama we're talkin' about here. No prob.
Eri: Haha, they called him "Haruyama"! [SL: Kya--!]
Guy: Ah, he's here.
Guy: Isn't that him?
//vrooomm//
GUy #2: Heyy! It's Haruyama!
Guy: Haha, he came from the back routes!

Pg 134:
Guy: Yo, Haruyama!
//vrooommmm//
Guy: Hey, isn't he riding kinda weird?
Richard: Idiot! Haruyama!
Hold down the brakes! THE BRAKES!!
//swing swing//
[SL: Haruyama: Ah!]
Guy: Heyyyy! The brakes!
//thud//
//ahahahhaha!//
//idiottt!//
//hahaha//
Girl: Geez~
[SL: Richard: Shit---! You retard!!! You fucking bastard--!]
Haruyama: They were doing the road checks in the back routes
Guy: Whattt--! Again!
[SL: Girl: Ehhh?]
//noise noise//
[SL: Richard: "Let's Go"'s acting up...]
Haruyama: Ah, I think it's got a flat.
//HAHAHA//
Richard: You fix it at your gas station!
Haruyama: Sure, anytime.
Guy: Hey, wanna go?
Guy: There's too many people here.

Pg 135:
Haruyama: You think you're cool or what?
//hahaha//
Richard: What! What's wrong with her hair? I think she looks pretty cute!
//ahahahah//
Guy: Hahaha, isn't she your girlfriend, Haruyama?
//vrooom//
Eri: Hahah...you two're like---
Kazuki: Yeah...
//ahahahha//
//ahahahhaa//
Kazuki: (But...)
Kazuki: (it doesn't matter.)

Pg 136:
Kazuki: (It..)
//vroom vroom//
[SL: Guy: Haruyama! Over here!]
//vrooommmm//
[SL: Guy: Hey, Richard---!]
Kazuki: (doesn't matter...)
Haruyama: Hey,
did I
Haruyama: ever ask
Haruyama: for your name?
//vroommm//

Pg 137:
//vrooommmm vrooomm//
//honk honk//
//vroommmm//

Pg 138:
//clank clank//
Mother: What happened to your hair?
Mother: did you do something to it?
//rustle//
Kazuki: Yeah.

Pg 139:
Mother: It looks weird.
Mother: You've...
Mother: changed recently.
Kazuki: Yeah.
Kazuki: (I just
got tired of always going along with your moods.)
Kazuki: Mom
Kazuki: it would've been great...
Kazuki: if I was that person's child...
instead of my dad's, wouldn't it?

Pg 140:
Mother: ...What a weird face.
Mother: You have...the strangest expression on your face right now.
Kazuki: (My mom cares about her lover.)
Kazuki: (She loves him a lot.)

Pg 141:
Mother: Why are you wearing that?
//munch//
Mother: That night gown...
Mother: is mine, isn't it?
//gulp//
Mother: Why are you always wearing it?
Mother: Why are you always always wearing it?
Mother: You have so many of your own,
Mother: why did you have to take something that I like...

Pg 142:
Mother: That dress was such a pretty pink in the beginning,
and now it's salmon pink...
Kazuki: (My mom...
....her lover...
alot......)
//squeeze//
Mother: Why?
Mother: Why are you always...
//gulp//
//clank//
Mother: Eh...?

Pg 143:
Kazuki: Uuu...
Mother: W-why?!
Mother: Why are you crying?
Mother: Why are you crying?
Mother: Why?!
//clank//
Kazuki: (I don't know why.
I don't know why.)
Mother: I-I'll give that to you!
I don't need it---really!
Mother: It's because you were acting the way you were that I---
Kazuki: (There's only one thing I want to ask her...)

Pg 144:
Kazuki: ("Mom....")
Kazuki: ("what do you...
of me...?")
//vrooom//
//vrooom//
//vroommm//
Guy: This is awesome~

Pg 145:
//vrooomm//
//vrooom//
//vrooommmmmmm//
//screechhh//
//vrooomm//
Kazuki: (At this time,
there were around 500 members in "MAD SPECIAL THE NIGHTS"
including those in the main headquarters)

Pg 146:
Kazuki: (I heard that a long time ago,
there were easily 4 times that number.)
Eri: They said that the gang now isn't what it used to be---
there aren't any people willing to put their lives on the line for the gang anymore.
Eri: My sister said that there's hardly anyone who rides protecting the gang's name.
Eri: She said she quit because there's alot of members in the NIGHTS who're just in it to waste time--
//vroommm//
Eri: But the ones at the front are great,
cause they're all so cool---

Pg 147:
Kazuki: (She was talking about those people
who rode in front of everyone else.)
Eri: They don't care about stop lights at all.
Eri: You know how you have intersections, right?
You usually wouldn't go through when it's red, right?
//screechh//
Eri: But then one bike from the front'll go through the intersection,
Eri: and stop all the other cars trying to cross.
//vrooommm//
//screechh//
//honk honk//
Eri: Since it's green in the other lane, he'd die in a flash if a truck came, but still he---

Pg 148:
Eri: he just goes through without stopping---just thinking about it gives me goosebumps!
//vrooomm vrooom//
//vrooommm//
//you fucking idiot!///
Kazuki: (In the Yokohama NIGHTS group at this time...)
Kazuki: (the stuff that gives Eri goosebumps...)
Kazuki: (was mostly
Haruyama's job.)

Pg 149:
//thud//
Girl: Heyyy! When you bump into someone, isn't there something you should say?
Kazuki: (Everyone
looks at me different.)
Girl: At least say something! Moron!
Girl #2: Hey, just forget about her.
Girl #2: Girls like her---

CHAPTER 3 END

Pg 151:
Girl: ---are gonna get what's coming to 'em one day anyway.
//splash//

Pg 152:
//scrub scrub//
//scrub scrub//
Kazuki: ("You know Haruyama, right?
He has a stepdad."
//splash//
//sprink sprinkle//
Kazuki: ("His mom remarried,
so he's not related by blood to the dad he has now.)
//scrub//
//splash//
//clank//

Pg 153:
Kazuki: ("He has a younger brother,
but he's his mom and stepdad's kid.")
//clank//
//slip//
Kazuki: (So he's kind of like the outsider
in his family.)
Guy: Haruyama!
Don't tell me you haven't gotten the car to Tanaka-san's yet?!
Guy: Go! Now! You know how he can get when he's pissed!
//clink//
Haruyama: Ah...but that's---
Guy: Just go! And hurry!
Kazuki: ("He always planned on leaving home
after he finished middle school")
//clank//
Kazuki: ("He said as a guy, he couldn't stand
being taken care of by his mother's husband.)
//vrooommm//
Eri: Hey Kazuki, what were you and Richard talking about back there?

Pg 154:
Kazuki: Nothing really.
Eri: Realllyy?
Ah, did you see that though? Haruyama-senpai's working pretty hard.
Eri: I always thought people in gangs were always fighting and getting into trouble. I guess I was wrong.
Kazuki: (He does stuff like brushing back his hair.)
Kazuki: (He even sweats too.)
Guy: Ah, Haruyama!
Guy: My bad!
Tanaka-san's car didn't need to be done until tomorrow, did it?
Guy: I just remembered. Sorry 'bout that!
Haruyama: Don't
worry about it.
Kazuki: ("He always had this")
Eri: Poor Haruyama-senpai~ He should've spoken up about it!
Kazuki: ("wild streak to him, even back in middle school.")

Pg 155:
Kazuki: ("but lately, it's like
he's gotten even worse.)
//thud//
//thud//
//click click//
//clank//
Kazuki: ("Sometimes----
I get sick of it because
I can't handle him.")
Kazuki: ("There's even times I seriously think")
//vrooommm//
//vroom//
//honk honk//
Kazuki: ("what the fuck is he thinking?!")
//vrooommm//
Haruyama: Here.
Eri: Ah! Thank you!

Pg 156:
Eri: It's so warm!
Eri: But senpai, where's Kazuki's?
Haruyama: Oh. I only had 200 Yen on me.
Kazuki: (That bastard. What's his problem?)
Eri: Well, then let's share, Kazuki!
Haruyama: You don't want any, do you?
Kazuki: As if I'd want any.
Haruyama: Then I won't give you any!

Pg 157:
//giggles//
Guy: Hey Haruyama! Stop slacking off--!
//swish//
//tap//
Eri: See?
Eri: He can be a bit reckless sometimes,
Eri: but he's really nice!

Pg 158:
Kazuki: ("He does stuff like brushing back his hair.
He even sweats too.)
Kazuki: It's...hot.
Kazuki: (And he laughs...
with a nice smile on his face.)
//ring ring//

Pg 159:
//ring ring//
//ring ring//
//click//
Kazuki: Hello?
//noise noise//
//bang bang//
[SL: Guy: Yooo---! Ahahaha]
Haruyama: Kazuki?
//noise noise//
It's me.
//thump//
Kazuki: ....what do you want?
//noise noise//
Haruyama: Well aren't you the resident ice princess.
//noise noise//
Haruyama: Come out to Yokohama right now.
Kazuki: What...now?

Pg 160:
//noise noise//
Haruyama: I just got my paycheck, so I'll treat you to something.
//noise//
//vrooommm//
//noise noise//
//clank clank//
Kazuki: (Haruyama
likes Mihoko.)
//vrooommmmm//
//noise noise//
//honk honk//
//vrooomm//
Richard: Ah, she's here!
//noise noise//
//noise noise//
Haruyama: You're late, retard!

Pg 161:
//noise//
Richard: Hey, cut it out. Why are you always like that with her---
Kazuki: Shut the hell up!
//noise noise//
Haruyama: Shit head!
Haruyama: Haha, I win!
Richard: Hahaha...
Richard: you guys are kinda alike.
//thump thump//
Kazuki: (Yokohama smells...)
Richard: Sorry, did I make you mad?
//nods//
Haruyama: I don't remember being as fucked up as her.
Haruyama: Right?
Kazuki: (of Tactis...)

Pg 162:
Kazuki: (I'm still
not very used to Yokohama.)
(I think that's why
my heart's beating faster.)
//noise noise//
//noise noise//
//screech//
//thud thud//
Kazuki: (So this is what it feels like to date a guy...)
Haruyama: Yeah, and then this 6-year old brat---
//hahaha! that's messed up!//
Haruyama: came up to me---
//rattle rattle//
//noise noise//
//whistle//
//see ya!//
Haruyama: I had a bad feeling about it.
Richard: And then?
Haruyama: You know what he said next? "Play with me!"
//noise noise//
//AHAHAHAHA//
//tud thud thud//
//ahahahaha!//
//noise noise//

Pg 163:
Haruyama: In the middle of the fucking night.
You've got to be kidding me.
//hahahahha//
//noise noise//
//slurp slurp//
Richard: What was a kid doing there so late anyway?
Haruyama: How would I know? He just said his mom got pissed at him so he ran away from home.
Richard: Haha, then what'd you do?
Haruyama: Whaddya mean what'd I do? I ended up playing with him.
//AHAHAHHA//
/noise noise//
//slurp slurp//
//slam slam//
Richard: What'd you play---?
Haruyama: stuff like hide and seek---
Kazuki: Hahahah!
Haruyama: and kick the can---
Haruyama: Shit...
//ahahhaha!//
Haruyama: that fucking brat...
//noise noise//
//ahahahhaha!//

Pg 164:
Richard: Haruyama, what do you want to drink?
Haruyama: Ice tea.
//kyaaa--! kyaa---!//
[SL: Pinball machine: Kyaaa---! Help me!
//clank clank//
//thunk//
Pinball Machine: Lucky!]
Richard: What about you, Kazuki?
Kazuki: Eh?
Richard: Did I say your name wrong? Wasn't it Kazuki? So, what do you want?
Kazuki: Ah...Coke.
//noise noise//
Haruyama: [SL: So~sad.] You forgot your own name?
[SL: //clank clank//
Pinball: Kyaaa--! Help me!]
//blush//
//squeeze//
Haruyama: Ah!
[SL: Pinball: KYaaaaaa---!
//swish//
//thunk thunk//]
Haruyama: You little----
Kazuki: Kyaa---!
[SL: Pinball: Your score ranks terrible!]
//terrible terrible!//
//terrible! terrible!//
Richard: Haha, you guys make a pretty good team.
//noise noise//

Pg 165:
///vrooomm//
Haruyama: Hey, are you free the day after tomorrow?
Kazuki: Eh?
Haruyama: I don't have work then.
Haruyama: Wanna
come to my house?
Richard: Whatt---? You're going to take her to that mess of a place you call a room?
Haruyama: Noo to my parent's place.
Richard: What! No way?
Richard: You're going home?
Kazuki: (His parent's place...)
Haruyama: Haha, like I would.
It's just, you know the place I'm crashing at? The guy I work with pays most of the rent,
Haruyama: so I can't bring a girl over, you know what I mean?
Richard: Oh so that's why...
[SL: Richard: Now I get it.]

Pg 166:
//whisper//
Guy: Well, well, if it isn't the punks from "NIGHTS"...
//vrooomm//
//noise noise//
Haruyama: Hah? What the fuck did you say?
Guy: W-What?
Guy #2: We didn't say anything.
Haruyama: You fucking---
Richard: Hey, Haruyama! Come on, it's not worth it!
We've got a girl with us, remember?!
Haruyama: Oh...right.
//shit//

Pg 167:
Haruyama: I'm starving. Let's go eat.
[SL: Guy: Hey! You wimps!]
[SL: Richard: Haha, what the?
Haruyama: Yeah, it's like what you call one of those "new wave" things..]
Kazuki: ("How'd he come up with the cash to live on his own anyway")
Kazuki: ("He's got a lot of stuff going on back home")
//noise noise//
//honk honk//
//noise//
[SL: Richard: I feel like eating squid salad~]
Haruyama: Tooru!
//honk honk//
//noise noise//

Pg 168:
//noise noise//
//vrooommmm//
//flash//
//screeechhhhhh//
//vroom vrooommm//
//thud//
//vrooommmmmm//

Pg 169:
[no text]

Pg 170:
//slam//
//kneels//
//gulp//
//shake shake//
//swish//
//noise noise//
//slap//
Tooru: Heyyyy~
wake up. I don't want to become a murderer yet.
Tooru: You idiot.
Haruyama: Owwwww~ I landed on my ass!
//noise noise//

Pg 171:
[SL: Guy: Phew....
he's alive....
I didn't see that coming.)
Richard: That....scared...
the crap outta me....
//noise noise//
Richard: He
Richard: isn't scared of doing stupid shit like that.
//swish//
//thump thump//
Tooru: Why are you always like that?
If you wanna die, go ahead and die. But don't scratch my car.
//wipe//

Pg 172:
Haruyama: Did your old man buy you that car?
//slam//
Tooru: That's what
I like about you.
Tooru: What's with her anyway?
Richard: I was wondering who was beside Tooru-san. It's Hiroko-san.
//vrooommm//
//honk honk//
Tooru: Damn, and I was just thinking about making her my other girl.
//vrooommm//

Pg 173:
Kazuki: (One day
I want to be able to see things
from their
point of view.)
Haruyama: Then I'll trade her for Hiroko.
Kazuki: (One day.)
Tooru: See ya.
Kazuki: (One day....)
//vrooom//
Richard: You know those two?
Tooru-san's the son of the president of this small construction company,
Richard: and Hiroko-san's the daughter of a university professor.
Richard: They've got it made.

Pg 174:
Richard: It's okay for them to be fooling around without going to school.
Richard: It's kinda hard to believe
Richard: that those two would be the head of "NIGHTS" [emphasis on "those two"]
//noise noise//
//later!//
//noise//
Kazuki: ("So he's kind of like the outsider
in his family.")

Pg 175:
[SL: Haruyama: Yo!]
Haruyama: Little bugger~ what do you wanna do the day after tomorrow?
//vrooommmm//
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: I have nothing better to do,
so I'll come.
//vrooomm//
[sign reads "Mihoko"]
[SL: Haruyama: It's friggin' cold~]
Richard: Whew!
[SL: Haruyama: It's cold~ so cold~ lala~]
/vrooom vroom//
Haruyama: Wrap your arms around my stomach.
Kazuki: Why?
Haruyama: Because you could die.
Kazuki: I'm fine like this.

Pg 176:
Haruyama: Shut your trap and do it already.
//pull//
Haruyama: If you don't, my guts are gonna freeze over.
//whisper//
Richard: AHAHAHAHAHA!
//vrooommmmm//
Kazuki: Ha---
Kazuki: HAHAHAHAHHA!
//vrooomm//
//thud//
[SL: Haruyama: Hey!]
//vroommmm//
Kazuki: (Haruyama
likes "Mihoko".)
Kazuki: Hahahahhaha!
Haruyama: When are you gonna stop laughing, dumbass?
//pissed//
Kazuki: You freak! [SL: Hehe, I win!]

Pg 177:
Haruyama: Moon-faced shithead.
//stab//
[SL: In all her fourteen years she's never been called that]
//vrooommmm//
Kazuki: Y-You stupid turnip!
Haruyama: Wow! I'm hurt!
Haruyama: Can't you come up with anything better than that?
Retard~Baldie~Idiot!
Haruyama: And you're a shortie too!
//snap//
Richard: Heyyy I'm gonna go home.
Richard: (It's a waste of time hanging out with them)
[SL: Richard: See ya]
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: Well it's not like you're a lot taller than me!
//vroom vroomm//
//waver waver//
Haruyama: At least I'm still growing!!
//vrooommm//
[SL: Kazuki: Stop! Right now!
Haruyama: You little---
Kazuki: Wahhhh! Watch where you're going!!
Haruyama: Shit---]
Kazuki: (I'm starting to not
want to go home anymore.)

Pg 178:
Kazuki: (I'm starting to not
want to see her face anymore.)
Mother: Hello?
Mother: Su..Suzuki-kun...?
Mother: It's...me.
Mother: Oh...
uh-huh.
Mother: Kazuki's...still not back.
Mother: She's been..coming back really late..
Mother: ....lately...

Pg 179:
Mother: Suzuki-kun...?
Mother: I wonder why...
Mother: daughters won't....
even allow their parents to be a little moody...?
Mother: Why won't they...
Mother: see us as human beings...?
//clank//
Suzuki: Well...let's see...
Suzuki: that's...
Suzuki: probably
because they don't want to see...any weaknesses from those who they plan on becoming like.

Pg 180:
Suzuki: maybe seeing that...
Suzuki: makes them feel...powerless....
//rustle//
Kazuki: (Last night)
Kazuki: (when I came back home, my mom was on the phone with him.)
[SL: Eri: I'm so hungry~]
//vroomm//
Eri: Geez...
Kazuki: (What's with that whole "Suzuki-kun" thing anyway? She's 35 and she's calling her lover with a kun attached to his name?!) [emphasis on "kun" in Suzuki-kun]
Kazuki: Shit...
//clank//
Eri: I'm so bored~ isn't there anything interesting we could do?
//ow ow ow//
Kazuki: Yeah.....
//vroommm//
//screechhh//

Pg 181:
Guy: Hey!
Guy: Wanna hang out with us?
Guy: We're just your normal college students.
Guy: We have other stuff to do at night,
Eri: [Why don't we get in? Then we can get them to treat us to something!]
Guy: so we're just looking to waste time until then---
[SL: Eri: Yeah, I guess. Sure.]
Kazuki: (I don't know why)
Kazuki: (but my heart was beating really fast.
I didn't tell Eri that though.)

Pg 182:
Guy: A lot of girls hang out in twos, right? But it's not everyday that both of 'em are cute!
Eri: Really?
Guy: I'm serious!
Kazuki: (These are guys I've never met...)
Guy: Are you guys
really in grade 8?
Guy: I thought you were in high school!
Really!
Eri: Haha, we're old hags anyway.

Pg 183:
Guy: Whattt~ Then what does that make us?
Geezers rolling in their graves?
//ahahahahaha//
Kazuki: Where are we going?
Guy: Well, where do you wanna go?
Guy #2: Just say the word and we'll take you there.

Pg 184:
Eri: I wanna go to Chougasaki Beach!
Guy: Haha, sure!
Guy: I wonder if we'll be able to
make it before sunset though?
//splash//
Guy: It's freezinnnnggg!
Eri: And it's so dark out!
[store sign reads "Oden"]

Pg 185:
Eri: Kazuki, come out here and look!
Guy: Where do you wanna go next?
Eri: We're hungry! [SL: Right, Kazuki?]
Guy: Okay, then wanna go and grab a bite to eat?
//vroommm//
Eri: Hey...we're going in the wrong direction. We came from that direction.
Guy: There's this great place at Yokosuka.
Eri: Yokosuka...?

Pg 186:
Kazuki: What's that car over there?
Eri: Eh?
Kazuki: The one right behind us.
Guy: Oh, them?
Guy: They're friends of ours.
Eri: Eh?!
Guy: Come on,
it'll be more fun with lots of people!
Eri: H-Hey!
Just forget it! We're not hungry!
//thump thump thump//
Guy: Whatt~ Why the sudden change of mind?
Eri: Stop the car!
//vrooommm//

Pg 187:
Guy: Hey hey, what's the rush?
//thump thump//
Guy: The night's only begun!
//vroom vroommmmm//
[first sign reads "Yokosuka"]
//squeeze//
//chuckles//
//flash//
//grabs//

Pg 188:
//slam//
Guy: Ow!
//click//
Kazuki: Eri, come on!
Eri: K-Kazu---
//thump thump//
Kazuki: Hurry!
Guy: You...
fucking....
Guy: You think you can outrun us?!
//click//
//thud thud thud thud//
Eri: K--
Eri: kazuki---
Guy: Haha, so this is a game of tag?
Guy #2: This is pretty fun!
//thud//

Pg 189:
Kazuki: ("Girls like her
are gonna get what's coming to 'em one day anyway.")
Kazuki: (No!)
//thud//
Kazuki: (NO!)
Eri: Kyaaaa---!
Kazuki: ERI!!

Pg 190:
//slam//
Guy: Fuck, ow---
Kazuki: (Help us!)
Kazuki: (Help us,
Haruyama!)
//thud thud thud//
//dashes//
[SL: Guy: This way!
Guy #2: You guys go that way!]
//thud thud//
//splash//
Eri: Kazuki!
//slide//

Pg 191:
Kazuki: No!
//thud//
Guy: Got ya!
//grabs//
Kazuki: NOOOOOO---!
Kazuki: (Haruyama!)
Haruyama: Hello--!

Pg 192:
Kazuki: (In this world...
is there anyone who....
truly needs me...?)

TO BE CONTINUED


END OF CHAPTER 4
END OF VOLUME 1 HOT ROAD