Hot Road Volume 2

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Title: Hot Road
Volume: 2 (of 4)
Mangaka: Tsumugi Taku
Translated by: Oceansportrait
Proofread by: Mars
Translation Completed: October 7, 2007

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

Pg 2:
Kazuki: ("If you go out with him,
you'll change.
All his girlfriends
end up crying in the end.")
HOT ROAD
Tsumugi Taku

Pg 3:
//whistle//
//clatter clatter//
//click//
Eri: H-Hello?!
Eri: Hiroko-san?!
Eri: Hiroko-sa----
Eri: K-Kazu---
Eri: Kazuki's----
Eri: Kazuki's----

Pg 4:
Eri: Kazuki's gonna get hurt!!
//splash splash splash//

Pg 5:
//ring ring ring//
//ring ring//
//click//
Guy: Yes---?
Guy: Haruyama---
phone call for you.
//clank//
Haruyama: Who is it?
Haruyama: Oh,
Hiroko?
What's up?

Pg 6:
Haruyama: Okay.
See ya.
//slam//
Haruyama: That fucking idiot---
//vrooommmm//
//dash//
//step//
//vrooommmm
vrooommmm//
//splash//
//pour//

Pg 7:
//splash splash splash//
Guy: W-Where'd that brat go?
//pour//
Guy: Damnit....
she hit me fucking hard with that rock---
Guy #2: Me too.
//pour//
Guy: Be quiet.
She's probably still around here.
//splash splash//
[SL: Guy: Geez, it's starting to pour.]
//clatter clatter clatter//
[SL: Guy: Once we find her, I'm first batter, got it?]
//splash//

Pg 8:
//shiver shiver//
//pour//
Kazuki: Uuu...
//splash//
//splash//
//splash//
//SPLASH//

Pg 9:
//slam//
Kazuki: NOOOOOOOO--!
//wheeze wheeze//
Haruyama: You just messing with me
or what?


Pg 10:
//vrooommmmm vrooom//
//pour//
//splash splash//
//thump//
Kazuki: I-I don't need...
//vrooom vrooommmm//
Haruyama: Just shut up and grab on.
//vrooommm
vrooommmmm vrooommmm//
Kazuki: (Haruyama came.)

Pg 11:
[sign reads "Mihoko"]
//whistle whistle//
//well aren't you two lovey-dovey!//
/vroommmm//
Richard: It's a good thing nothing happened.
//vrooommm//
[SL: Guy: It's freezing----mommyyyyy hahahaha!]
Richard: Or maybe that was more of a relief to you?
Haruyama: Haha, what's it to you?
Eri: Kazuki!!
Eri: Kazuki---!
Eri: Kazuki---!
Guy: Great job finding 'em though----
//vrooommmm//
[SL: Girl: ahahaha!
Girl #2: Lucky---!]
//vrooommmm
honk honk
screechhhh
vrooommm//
Guy: Hey, Haruyama---she said it's that yellow Levin over there. [I've never heard of "Levin" before, but apparently it's a car made by Toyota]
Guy: Don't overdo it though, al'right?

Pg 12:
//whiii---ooo whii---ooo//
//Yo, you there! freeze!
stop~ stop!//
//vrooommmm//
//open the doorrr//
//idiot---!//
Girl: Hey, are they your friends?
Guy: Do you want to fucking die?
//screeechh//
//vroom//
Guy: W-We didn't do anything!
Guy #2: We're the ones who got hurt!
Guy: Who do you think you're talking to, huh?
//slam//
Girl: Kyaaaa---!
Guy: W-We didn't do anything...I swear...
Guy #2: Haha, you fucking with us or what?
Guy: We're the ones who were scared shitless!
Guy #2: You know what happens when you mess with us, huh?
Guy: We didn't mean anything bad---
Guy: Really. We were just hanging out, that's all---
Guy: Then,
they got mad for no reason, and threw rocks at us----

Pg 13:
Guy #2: No reason my ass. You did something to make 'em do what they did---
Guy #2: You fucking shitheads---
//slam slam//
Girl: S-Stop it!
Guy #2: You think you're so fucking smart? Well I've got news for you---
//slam slam slam//
[SL: Girl: Kyaaaa--!]
Girl: T-The police...
//AHAHAHA//
Guy: If you wanna call 'em, go right ahead!
Richard: Hey.
Heyyyyyyyy
[SL:Guy: By the time they get here though, your car'll be totaled!]
//ahahahaha!//
Richard: Heyyyy--?
Richard: They're
Richard: gone.

Pg 14:
//vrooomm//
//step//
Haruyama: Don't think
Haruyama: that I'll always be there to save your ass like this.
Haruyama: Go inside already.

Pg 15:
//step//
Haruyama: I'll
Haruyama: come to pick you up
Haruyama: tomorrow at three.
//thump//
//vrooommmm//
//vrooomm//
//vrooooooommmm//

Pg 16:
///vrooommm//
//clank clank//
[SL: Newscaster: Good morning!]
Kazuki: (The next
morning)
//splash//
//splash splash//
//splash//
Kazuki: (my mom noticed my scratches
and asked
if I'd fallen.)
//blow//
//rustle//

Pg 17:
//ring ring//
[SL: Girl: 'Morning!
Girl: You know yesterday---
Girl #2: 'Morning---!]
Girl: She's Miyaichi, right?
Eri: Kazuki---!
Girl: She thinks she's so much better than us?
Eri: Come up here already!
//ahahaha//
Girl: She's gonna get it one day.
Kazuki: (At school,
there are a lot of things that get on my nerves.)
//kyaaaa--!//
//yo!//
//step step step step//
//heyyy don't run away!//

Pg 18:
//thud//
Guy: Ah!
[SL: Guy #2: Hey? What's with you? Let's play together!
//step step step//
//ahahahaha//]
//thud thud thud thud//
Kazuki: Get a grip.
Guy: What do you know anyway?!
//dash dash dash//

Pg 19:
//thud thud thud//
//heyyy! Why are you running away??//
//yooooo--!//
//step step step//
Kazuki: ...I don't.
Kazuki: (I don't know
what you guys are thinking at all.)
[SL: Girl: Yeah! And then---
Girl #2: AHAHAHAA!
Girl #3: No way---]
//ahahahaha!//
Kazuki: Move out of the way!
//silence//

Pg 20:
//whisper whisper//
[SL: Girl: She's scary!
Girl #2: Shhh--!]
[SL: Girl: Byeeee~
Girl #2: Bye bye!]
//whistle//
//ahahahaha!/
Haruyama: You've changed a lot
since yesterday.

Pg 21:
//vrooommmm//
//vrooom//
Teacher: Oh!
Teacher: One of our students just got on a bike and left!
//noise noise//
Teacher: She's a female student of ours
Teacher: in the eighth grade.
Teacher #2: Miyaichi, AGAIN?
//tense//
//noise noise//
Teacher #3: Again?
//what's with her?//
Teacher: And to think! At an important time like this!
//noise noise//
Teacher: Exams are coming up and she---
//noise noise//
Teacher: What could she be possibly thinking?
//noise noise//
//gulp//
Teacher #4: This isn't the time to be taking pills! This is a serious issue we have in our hands---
//vrooommmmm//
Kazuki: (Haruyama's house
was located on top of the mountains
in the Yokohama area.)

Pg 22:
//thump thump//
//step step//
Woman: Isn't he from Haruyama's?
Woman: Remember? The one always causing the trouble?
Woman #2: Oh!
Woman: I heard he left home a while back.
Woman #2: He probably left because
Woman #2: the father who lives there isn't his biological father---
//clank//
[sign reads "Haruyama Family" ---except part of "Family" is cut off]
//click click//
Haruyama: Come in.
It's my house too, you know.
//thump thump//
//thud thud//
Kazuki: (It smells like a stranger's house.)
//thump thump//
//thump thump//
Haruyama: Tsuyoshi---
//kick//

Pg 23:
Haruyama: Come say hi to my girl.
//thud thud//
//slide//
//sliddeee//
Tsuyoshi: Hi!
Kazuki: ("He has a younger brother,
but he's his mom and stepdad's kid...")
//thump thump//
Haruyama: She's a year younger than you.
Tsuyoshi: Hey
Tsuyoshi: You went back to dating girls like her?
Haruyama: Haha...
Haruyama: Yeah, I went back to dating girls like her.
//rustle//
//rustle//

pg 24:
Haruyama: Come on.
Tsuyoshi: What happened
Tsuyoshi: to Mihoko-san?
Tsuyoshi: Just me speaking here,
Tsuyoshi: but I like straight-laced girls like her better.
Tsuyoshi: Did you break up with her?
//clank//
Kazuki: He got dumped.
Kazuki: I'm his girlfriend now. Got a problem with that?
Kazuki: So just drop it already, retard!

Pg 25:
//ha---//
Haruyama: HAHAHAHA!
//snap//
//ahahahahhaa///
//slam//
Haruyama: Even though you act the way you do,
Haruyama: when it gets right down to it, you like me, don't ya? Hahaha.
[sign reads "Mihoko"]
Kazuki: What...are you saying?
Kazuki: I...
//thump//
Kazuki: just....
Kazuki: hate it when
Kazuki: people try to get into people's heads
like that.
//thump thump//
//hehe//
Haruyama: He can hear you, you know.

Pg 26:
//click click//
//clank//
Kazuki: ("So he's kind of like the outsider
in his family.")
Kazuki: (He threw away everything
to leave this house.)
Kazuki: (He left everything...
his stepdad bought for him...)

Pg 27:
Kazuki: (Now that I think about it,
his room
is filled with stuff that look like presents he got from girls.)

Pg 28:
Kazuki: KYAAA--!
//slap//
Haruyama: O-Ow....
//thump thump thump//
Haruyama: Geez...
Haruyama: What's with you?
Haruyama: Didn't you come here to do it?
//blush//
[SL: //kabooommm//]
Kazuki: IDIOT!!
Haruyama: Hey, hey! I was just kidding---
//thud//
Haruyama: Stop listening in,
Tsuyoshi.
Tsuyoshi: Hahahahha.
//wheeze wheeze//
//ring ring//

Pg 29:
//ring ring//
Woman: Tsuyoshi----
Woman: Tsuyoshi---?
//slide//
Tsuyoshi: What---?
Woman: Is your brother home?
Tsuyoshi: Yeah, he is---
Woman: Tell him he has a phone call from his friend----!
Haruyama: My parents act like that around me.
Tsuyoshi: Hear that?

Pg 30:
//step step//
//click//
Haruyama: Yeah, it's me.
Haruyama: What, right now?
//clank clank clank//
Haruyama: Yeah, sure.
I've got my girl with me.
Haruyama: Okay, see ya.
//clank clank//
//clank clank clank//
//scritch scratch//
//bends down//

Pg 31:
//roll roll//
[paper reads "Money for using the phone"]
//thump thump thump//

Pg 32:
//thump thump//
Kazuki: (This isn't her...
Mihoko's probably....
not this type of girl...)
[sign reads "Lover's Cape"]

Pg 33:
[sign reads "Lover's Cape"]
//click//
//tense//
Haruyama: Let's go.
//thud thud//
//thump thump//
Kazuki: Eh? W-Where?
Haruyama: Out.
//rustle//
Haruyama: What were you looking at?
//kick//
Kazuki: Ah....
Haruyama: Come on, let's go.
//step step//
Kazuki: ("Lover's...Cape.")
//step step//
Woman: Hiroshi?

Pg 34:
//wheeze//
Woman: I can't...
Woman: take 30,000 Yen from you....[Note: 30,000 Yen is roughly $300US]
Woman: You don't have to push yourself like this.
Woman: Your father works,
and it's not like we have money problems...
Haruyama: Just forget it.
Woman: But...
Haruyama: Come on, let's go.
//click//
Woman: Wait!
Hiroshi!
Woman: I can't take this!
It's---
//grabs//

Pg 35:
Haryama: I told you I don't need it! Geez!
//slap//
//thud//
Woman: Ah....
Woman: Ah....
//wheeze//

Pg 36:
Woman: Ah....
//crawls//
Woman: Uu....
Woman: I'm...
Woman: more worried about you
Woman: than what's going on in this house.

Pg 37:
//grabs//
Haruyama: Then,
Haruyama: I'll take it. Since...
Haruyama: it's not like I'm rolling in dough anyway...
//turns//
Woman: Hiroshi!
Woman: C-Come home again, anytime! Just like you did today!
Woman: Whenever you have the time's fine----
Haruyama: LET'S GO!

Pg 38:
Woman: Hiroshi!
//clank//
//dash//
Woman: Hiro...
//step//
//dash//
Kazuki: Haruyama!
Haruyama: What?
//step//

Pg 39:
Kazuki: ("I'm more
worried about you")
Richard: Hello? Is this Kazuki-chan?
It's me, Richard.
//ring ring//
Richard: Do you know where Haruyama is?
Kazuki: Eh?
Richard: He was totally out of control last night, after you went home.
Did something happen yesterday?
Kazuki: Ah...
Ah----

Pg 40:
Richard: He ended up
skipping work last night.
Richard: And he got into this huge fight with this drunk geezer...
you should have seen it. I tried to stop him, but---
Richard: I went to his apartment, but it doesn't look like he's there.
Richard: I've looked everywhere for him.
Richard: He got pretty beat up because of the fight,
so I was a little worried....
//vrooommmmm//
//vrooommmm//
Tooru: What's up,
Tooru: little girl?

Pg 41:
Tooru: I heard you had a tough night
Tooru: two nights ago
with those guys..?
Tooru: Hahaha...
Tooru: Haruyama always
gets away with the juiciest parts...
Kazuki: Ah...
Kazuki: Um....
//swish//
Tooru: You...
Tooru: look cuter
the closer I look at you.
//blush//
//hahaha//
Tooru: Haruyama?
Tooru: There's no need to worry about him.
Tooru: There's only one place he can go back to anyway.

Pg 42:
//clank clank//
//creak creak//
//knock knock//
//knock//
Kazuki: It looks like...
no one's here...
//rattle//
//slam//
//thud thud//

Pg 43:
Tooru: Are you...
Tooru: high on crack?
Haruyama: Heh....
//thud thud//

Pg 44:
//slap//
//thud//
//cough//
//wheeze//
Tooru: You fucking----
Tooru: Did you forget?! One of us died from that stuff!
//slam//
//slide//
//heh...//
//wheeze//

Pg 45:
//kick//
Tooru; You little fucker----
Tooru: Do you want your brain to fucking rot----
Tooru: Do you want to end up becoming a fucking vegetable?!
//bang//
//slam//
Tooru: HAH--?!

Pg 46:
Tooru: You want to
Tooru: die that fucking much?!
//thud//
//wheeze//
Tooru: ...What are you doing?
Tooru: Get off.
//slide//

Pg 47:
Tooru: Let go.
//grabs//
Tooru: I SAID
Let GO!
//grabs//
//slap//

Pg 48:
//thud//
Kazuki: (...wouldn't understand.)
Kazuki: (Tooru-san...)
Kazuki: (wouldn't understand...)
//grabs//
//drag drag//

Pg 49:
Tooru: Don't worry...
Tooru: I came here today
because I want to discuss something with him.
//drag drag//
//rattle//
//vrooommmmm//
//noise noise//
//vrooomm//
Tooru: Heh.
Tooru: She's
right for you,

Pg 50:
Tooru: alot more than that Mihoko chick you were so into.
//exhale//
Tooru: I wanted things
to stay like this with you and me forever,
Tooru: but it looks like
that's not gonna be possible.
//noise noise//
Tooru: I think it's time....
for me to make Hiroko happy....

Pg 51:
//vrooommmm vroommmm/
Tooru: Haruyama,
Tooru: is it okay
Tooru: for me to
Tooru: quit "NIGHTS"?
//thump thump//
//vrooommmmmm//

END OF CHAPTER 5

Pg 52:
[SL: Guy: Oh, so you knew already?]
//vroooommm vrooomm//
[SL: Guy: Hahahaha
Guy: What the---]
Kazuki: (My chest hurts.)
//cough//
Kazuki: (Somewhere deep in my chest,
I always feel these sharp pains that make stabbing noises.)

Pg 53:
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: (The night roads,
the lights,
the sounds,
his voice,
the smell of Tactis,
and his eyes.
It always makes these stabbing noises.)

Pg 54:
Kazuki: (I don't know what Tooru-san and Haruyama talked about that day.)
Guy: I heard Haruyama got what was coming for him from Tooru.
'Heard Tooru-san caught him getting high.
[SL: Guy #2: Seriously?!]
Guy: That's why he's been mute lately, huh?
Kazuki: (The nights were cold, but I didn't mind.)
Girl: Kazuki---!
Kazuki: (There's always loud music being played in the background.)
Girl: Hey, come here! You too, Eri---
Guy: Blonde hair's lookin' sharp. [Wanna get matching dyes?]
Girl: Yeah, but that damages your hair like crazy, doesn't it?
Kazuki: (I heard there were lots of people here
who're the type of people to get involved with the police)
//hahahaha//
Kazuki: (but it was really fun.)
Kazuki: (Even though I wasn't exactly nice to them half the time,
they seemed like people...
I could count on.)
Guy: Yeah, remember how we used to set those cans on fire?
The guy's here do things completely different, ya know?
[SL: When my eyes met his I got so scared I almost shit in my pants]

Pg 55:
Guy: Well there ain't much to sweat about as long as Tooru's the top dog
Kazuki: (And
I learned alot of things)
Guy: Ya know, Hiroko-san was really somethin' when she joined "NIGHTS".
Girl: Really?
Girl #2: Yeah, I know what you mean!
Guy: She's been to jail more than once! [And she's been to juvie]
Guy: But yeah, with time she kinda settled down to how she is now---
Guy #2: It's probably all thanks to Tooru-san
Eri: Hey, Kazuki
Guy: Have ya heard 'bout how she once rode on a bike and just completely totalled it?!
Guy: Fuck, seriously?! [HAHAHAA]
Eri: You remember how we were hit on last time?
Kazuki: Yeah
Eri: Remember how I phoned Hiroko-san?
I couldn't talk halfway through because I was crying so much.
Eri: Then Hiroko-san yelled at me saying "I can't figure out what you're trying to say if you're crying!"
Eri: I was seriously scared,
Eri: but...
I'm really glad.
Eri: I'm glad Hiroko-san was the one I chose to call.
Kazuki: ....Yeah.
Kazuki: (I haven't seen Hiroko-san)

Pg 56:
Kazuki: (I have to thank her)
Kazuki: //cough//
Girl: Hey, what'd you Yokohama people come here for?
Girl #2: Why not? We hardly ever get to ride with the main guys!
Girl #3: It's huge too---
Girl: Hey
Girl: You're...
Haruyama's girlfriend, aren't you?
Girl: I dated him
a while back.
Girl: Haruyama, I mean.
Kazuki: Ah...
Kazuki: (She was the one in the photos)
//vrooommm//
Girl: You've got your work cut out for you.
Girl: He's always doing crazy stuff.
//vrooommm//
//ahahahahaha//
//vrooommmm//
//HARUYAMA! GET OFF!//
//HAHAHAHHA//
Girl: Oh.
Girl: But you probably don't know half the story yet...
do you?

Pg 57:
Girl: It was a blast in the beginning. I never knew what he was going to do next, it was kinda a thrill, you know?
It was awesome just to hang out with him.
//vrooommm//
//screechh//
//you fucking 'tards!! HAHAHA//
Girl: But as time passed, I got more and more scared...
Girl: I cared him back then...but one day..
Girl: I just couldn't stand it anymore, and I bolted.
Girl: I heard I'm not the only one who did that though.
Girl: Most of 'em didn't break up with him because they didn't like him anymore,
so I heard there are still some girls who can't forget about him..
//vrooommmm//
[SL: Haruyama: Shut the hell up!]
Girl: And you know how he has that nice side to him right? Towards girls anyway.
Girl: That gives even more of a reason for the girls to have a tough time getting over him
//vrooommm//
Girl: Haha, I guess I'm being too chatterbox? I just thought I should give a heads up though to his new girl.
Haruyama: Step on it, Richard
Richard: Whattt~
Haruyama: Turn the corner already.
Richard: No way~
//vrooommm vroommm//
Haruyama: Speed up already
Richard: What~

Pg 58:
Haruyama: Hurry up!
Richard: Geezzzz~
//vrooommmm//
//screechhhhh//
//Whoaaa~ Close call!//
[SL:
Haruyama: You retard!
Guy: Haha yeah!
Richard: Shut up!]
Girl: Make him
stop doing stuff like that.
Girl: Oh well, see ya.
[SL:
Richard; That's the last time I'm riding with him!]
Girl: He moves fast, so keep your guard up.
//blush//
[SL: Eri: Hmm?]
Girl: Just kidding, just kidding.
//bump//
Richard: Hey, what're you doing here?
[SL: Richard: It's a reunion!]
Haruyama: How you doing?
Girl: Pretty good. What about you? Did you lose some weight?
Haruyama: You here with your man?
Girl: Hehe.
[SL: Girl: Ah---]
Girl: So what happened between you and Hiroko-san?

Pg 59:
//honk honk//
Haruyama: That was a long time ago. Why're you bringing that up for?
Eri: WHATTTT?!
Eri: D-Did you hear what she just said right now?! Kazuki!
[SL: Girl: Well, I'm gonna get going, see ya~]
Haruyama: Kazuki---
//signals//
//whistle whistle//
[SL: Guy: What're you hogging all 'em chicks for?! Hand me over one of 'em!]
Kazuki: (Hiroko-san...)
Kazuki: (something that happened a long time ago...)

Pg 60:
Kazuki: (Tactis...)
//clank//
//honk honk//
//vrooommmmm/
//screechh//
Haruyama: Well aren't you quiet tonight.
Kazuki: I'm not the only one. You've been quiet lately too.
Haruyama: Whatttt, me? Ya think?

Pg 61:
Haruyama: Ah---
Kouichi was saying how you're pretty cute
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: What?
Haruyama: But I told him that once he takes a close look at ya, you're pretty FRIGGIN' UGLY!
Kazuki: Ha!
Haruyama: You're not gonna get mad?
Kazuki: I'm already used it.
///vrooommmm//
//nooo wayyy!//
//hahaha//
///vrooommmmm//
Haruyama: I'm
gonna go and see Mihoko
Haruyama: on Sunday.
Haruyama: I wasn't gonna tell you, but I changed my mind.
Kazuki: Why...are you telling me this?
//thump//
//thump//
Haruyama: I wanted to tell you, so I told you.
What's so fucking wrong about that?

Pg 62:
Kazuki: ...Then
why are you going to go see her?
Haruyama: I got a phone call from her,
Haruyama: and she said she wanted to see me [emphasis on 'see me']
//thump thump//
Kazuki: ("Most of 'em didn't break up with him because they didn't like him anymore,
so I heard there are still some girls who can't forget about him..")
[sign reads "Lover's Cape")
Kazuki: You're going to see her...then what?
//vrooommmmm//
Haruyama: I'm gonna kiss her.
//AHAHAHAHA//
Haruyama: You're a moron, you know that! You believe everything I say?
//slap slap//
Kazuki: (Grr)
Haruyama: She's just gonna give me back my CD. The one I lent her.
Kazuki: ("I cared about him back then...but one day..
I just couldn't stand it anymore,
and I bolted.")
Kazuki: Did she really...
dump you...?

Pg 63:
Haruyama: Yeah.
Haruyama: What, does it bother you?
Kazuki: N-No!
//vroommmm//
//noise noies//
Haruyama: Geez,
you're no fun.
You're no cute.
//clank//
Haruyama: I thought you were pretty cute last time,
but forget it. Must've been a fucking mirage or something.
Kazuki: W-When?
Haruyama: I won't tell you!
Yeah, now that I think about it, there's no way you could've done anything that awesome!
Kazuki: What?! What are you talking about?
Haruyama: Don't you remember~
When I pretended to be asleep?
Kazuki: (Ah...)
(WHAT?!)
Kazuki: You were pretending to be asleep...? You were awake the whole time?
Haruyama: What if I was?
Kazuki: B-But....w-why?!
Why would you---
Haruyama: Because I felt like getting beaten up.

Pg 64:
Kazuki: (Mom...you're more---)
Haruyama: Just kidding.
Haruyama: Who the hell'd choose to get the hell beaten out of 'em?
//phew//
Haruyama: When I woke up, I almost fuckin' died it hurt so bad.
Shit, that fucker~
//vrooomm//
Haruyama: Yeah well I guess there isn't much I can do about that. He is a fuckin' geezer afterall.
Haruyama: I don't remember much, but I do remember a girl hugging me.
Haruyama: Just like this!
Haruyama: Heh.
Kazuki: I-It wasn't me!
Haruyama: Oh, really.
Haruyama: Then I wonder who it could be~
Haruyama: Maybe it was Mihoko?

Pg 65:
Haruyama: Haha, I guess that's not much of a joke.
Kazuki: (Why do I...
have to worry over a guy like him?)
//vrooommmm//
//vrooommm//
Haruyama: I'll stop by your house tomorrow at ten,
so come, all right?
Haruyama: I gotta introduce you to the guys at Yokohama.
//vrooommmmmm//
//honk honk///
//screechhhhh///
//noise noise//
//clip//
Kazuki: (My mom's been in a particularly bad mood lately.)
Kazuki: //Cough//
//splash splash//

Pg 66:
//wow! congratulations! CLAP CLAP//
//clip//
Mom: Ow
Kazuki: (I think it's probably because
things aren't going well with that guy's divorce)
Kazuki: This orange's pretty good.
//dum dum dummmm!//
Kazuki: (I went to school because I had nothing better to do.)
//kyaaaa!//
Girl: It's weird isn't it? Eri seems like the more normal one now.
//whistle//
//everyone gather around!//
Girl #2: Yeah
//kyaaaa!//
[sign reads "Nurse's Office]
Eri: So we only have one test left before we're 9th graders!
Eri: I wish we were in grade 9 already~ [SL: Don't ya think?]
Kazuki: //cough//
//squeak squeak//

Pg 67:
//squeak squeak//
Eri: Kazuki, what's wrong? Did you catch a cold?
Kazuki: No, I'm fine.
//whisper//
Girl: The one who isn't a blonde's no good
Girl: because she's got back up.
Girl: The problem's
Girl: her.
Eri: Girls in my class've started talking to me,
Eri: even though they've been ignoring me all this time.
Eri: But...
some of them seem...really nice...
Kazuki: Yeah.
Eri: When they get together in a group they become like that,
Eri: but when they're by themselves, they're not bad at all...that's what I thought anyway...

Pg 68:
Kazuki: Yeah.
Kazuki: (My throat hurts...)
Girl: Call out
Miyaichi for us.
Girl #2: Eh?
//clank//
Girl #2: Kazuki-chan...?
Kazuki: //cough//
Girl: If you've got back up, let us know right now.

Pg 69:
Kazuki: No, there's no one.
Girl: We didn't want to do
something like this before we graduated---
but there's just some things we gotta make clear---
Kazuki: ("but when they're by themselves,")
Girl: You listening--?!
Girl: What's with that look?!
Kazuki: ("they're not bad at all...
that's what I thought anyway...")

Pg 70:
//splash//
//pitter patter//
//splash splash//

Pg 71:
[SL: Girl: Shit, he's probably gonna rat us out!]
//whistle//
//chirp chirp//
Kazuki: (//wheeze//)
//click/
//wheeze//
Kazuki: My throat hurts....

Pg 72:
//thud//
//wheeze//
Kazuki: I'm so cold...
//wheeze//
//wheeze//
Kazuki: I wonder how she's gonna react..
//wheeze//
//wheeze wheeze wheeze//
Kazuki: W..hy....?

Pg 73:
Kazuki: Why....
Kazuki: isn't she...coming home...?
Kazuki: Mom....
//wheeze wheeze//
[SL: Kazuki: Uuuu]
Kazuki: Mom---
Kazuki: (Why
haven't you
come back yet?)
//wheeze wheeze//

Pg 74:
//wheeze wheeze//
Kazuki: M..om....
Kazuki: Ahh....
Kazuki: Mom....
//pat pat//
//wheeze wheeze//

Pg 75:
//wheeze wheeze wheeze//
//chirp chirp//
Haruyama's Mother (HM): Oh well that's a relief.
Are you awake?

Pg 76:
Kazuki: (Haruyama's...mom)
HM: You've been asleep for two days
because of Tonsillitis
HM: I'm so glad though
that you're awake.
HM: You're probably thirsty, aren't you?
Kazuki: (Haruyama...)
HM: You had a really high fever.
Hold on just one second.
Kazuki: (Oh, right...
so for two days...
because of tonsillitis...)
//grin//
Brother: Heard you caught the "Moon-faced Flu"?!
Kazuki: (Grr..)
Kazuki: Who do you think you are, you little brat?!
//hoaaa!//
Brother: What?! That's what my brother told me!!
HM: Tsuyoshi!
//slam//

Pg 77:
HM: What are you doing?! She's still sick! [SL: Are you all right?]
Brother: What's your problem?!
HM: Just go over there!
HM: Oh, it looks like your fever's gone down!
HM: Your fever went up to almost 40 degrees at one point so I was really worried! But it looks like you're fine now
HM: Once you get one more night of good night's sleep, you should be able to go home---
HM: Oh, we should call your parents.
HM: Hiroshi left as soon as he dropped you off here,
HM: there was nothing I could do to stop him---
HM: Your parents must be really worried.
Kazuki: There's...
Kazuki: no one at my house.
HM: What?
Kazuki: There really isn't anyone.
Kazuki: It's okay, you don't have to.
Kazuki: (If my mom)

Pg 78:
Kazuki: (was really alone,
she wouldn't do
something like this)
Kazuki: (If she was really alone,
she wouldn't do this)
Kazuki: (Sunday, huh....)
Kazuki: (I even missed the last test..)
Brother:Yo, yo!
Brother: My bro's gone to see
Brother: Mihoko
Kazuki: I know.
Brother: What?
Awww shucks!

Pg 79:
Brother: You knew already?
//vrooommmmmm//
//vrooommmm//
Brother: This is Mihoko-san.
[reads: Tsuyumura Mihoko]

Pg 80:
Brother: He went out with a lot of girls,
Brother: but he was
always in love with Mihoko-san.
Brother: She was one of those really serious types, you know?
Brother: He thought she wouldn't give someone like him the time of day.
Brother: When he got the guts
to call her after graduation,
[pic reads: Haruyama Hiroshi]
Brother: it turned out
she liked him too.
Kazuki: I...don't want to hear anymore.
Brother: Eh?

Pg 81:
Kazuki: I...
don't want to----
//vrooommmm//
//vrooomm//
Richard: So what?
He really did go see Mihoko-chan?
Guy: Yeah, he had it really bad for her, didn't he?
Guy #2: But when you think about it--
//noise noise//
Guy #2: she didn't end up that much different from the other chicks he went out with

Pg 82:
Richard: That's not true. He told me that he wouldn't make her cry.
Guy: Yeah, but look at it this way. The whole time he was going out with her,
he still kept on doing whatever he wanted, y'know?
[SL: Guy: Right?]
//vroommmm//
Mihoko: I'm sorry....
//vrooommmmm//
Haruyama: Why are--apologizing--[the "--" are the parts cut off by the box]
Guy: He does stuff that gets him almost killed in front of 'em,
no wonder it scares 'em all away
//vrooom vrooommmmm//
Haruyama: Ah---
Haruyama: this girl I'm seeing right now---

Pg 83:
Haruyama: She's got pretty gutsy,
Haruyama: and she never cries.
//vrooommm//
HM: Hiroshi...liked to do lots of dangerous things, even as a child.
//vrooommm//
//clank//

Pg 84:
HM: We never went anywhere as a family.
HM: He'd always go out alone and come back with all these cuts and bruises...
HM: and even though he was still such a small child, he'd fight with older children...
HM: I couldn't help but think that he was just trying torment his own body...
HM: You've really...
damaged it, haven't you...?
//whisp//
HM: You're not being...
HM: nice enough to your hair...

Pg 85:
Kazuki: My...hair?
Kazuki: Mine?
HM: Yes.
HM: Yours.
HM: You have to take better care
HM: of your hair.
HM: How sad~
//splash splash//

Pg 86:
//swish//
//holes up//
//chirp chirp//
Kazuki: (I don't care...
anymore)
//chirp chirp//
//vrooommm//
[SL: Guy: Listen up, he---
Guy #2: What the fuck~
Guy #3: 'Tard~]
Kazuki: (All this stuff about...
Mihoko...)
Haruyama: The "Moon-faced Flu"....
Kazuki: (I...)

Pg 87:
Guy: Hey, you're going home already?
//noise noise//
Guy: It's still 7.
Kazuki: I haven't gone home in three days....
//vrooommmm//
//honk honk//
//click//
Mom: Come...here.

Pg 88:
Mom: I received a phone call two days ago.
Mom: You had an exam on that day, didn't you?
Mom: It was an important test...to get into high school, wasn't it?
Mom: Why
Mom: would you skip something like that?
Mom: What have you been doing
Mom: for the past three days?
Mom: What have you been doing....
//sigh//

Pg 89:
Kazuki: Then let me ask you mom.
Kazuki: What were you doing on that day?
Kazuki: What were you doing...
on that day?
Mom: Eh...?
//clank//

Pg 90:
Kazuki: I'm sick of being fed by that man of yours.
Mom: What...are you saying?
Mom: I haven't...
Mom: received one penny from Suzuki-kun!
Mom: Why are you acting like this?
Mom: Why do you all...
look at me like that?
Mom: You're...horrible...
Mom: We've...liked each other since high school!
Mom: Why? Why is this happening?
Why do we have to be apart even though we love each other?
Mom: Why....
Mom: did we have to marry different people?

Pg 91:
Mom: Why are you all trying to stand in our way?!
Kazuki: ...If I was someone you didn't want,
then why did you give birth to me in the first place?
Kazuki: (How dirty.)
Kazuki: You shouldn't have given birth to me!!
Mom: Ah....w-Wait!
I'm sorry!
Mom: Things haven't been going the way I'd like them to lately, so I--
Kazuki: I'm not your toy!
//pull//
Kazuki: (Our house is dirty.)
Mom: I-I don't understand...
Kazuki: (Even more than Haruyama's house,
I didn't want to even admit to this, but...)
Mom: Why are you---
Kazuki: I....
Kazuki: (I didn't even want to say anything anymore...)
Kazuki: (but it's really dirty.)
Kazuki: I don't want to have to look at your face anymore!

Pg 92:
Mom: Why.....
Mom: did you...end up like this....
Kazuki: You're the one...
Kazuki: who made me this way...!
//splash//

Pg 93:
Kazuki: (I can live without my mom)
Guy: kazuki-chan!
Richard: Kazuki---'sup?

Pg 94:
Girl: Ohhhh I remember doing that too! I went back a week later though.
Richard: You should just go home...
Guy: Where's Haruyama?
Guy #2: Who knows?
Guy #3: Well, just take some time to cool off.
[SL: Guy: Hey, he's here!
HARUYAMA! Heyyyy Stoppp!]
//vroommm//
Guy: You can come to my house if ya want.
Richard: Idiot!
Girl: Buttttt~~
Girl: We should let her stay at least for tonight!
Haruyama: A runaway?
Haruyama: Who?
Girl: Yeah, Richard! [SL: She has no where else to go!]
Haruyama: Did you get into a fight with your mom?
//hahahaha//
Richard: Hey, don't crack a joke and listen to what she has to say for once.
Richard: She might go home if you tell her to.
//whistle whistle//
//thud//
[SL: Guy: Yeah, you should be the one to tell her!]
[SL: Girl: Yeah well, anyway we should let her stay for tonight~]
Haruyama: What's up, Kazuki-chan?
Haruyama: Or did you think I was going to do something about it for ya?

Pg 95:
Haruyama: Stop being such a baby, retard~
//blush//
[SL: Girl: Eh..!]
//noise//
Kazuki: I-I didn't expect you to do anything!
Kazuki: I wasn't expecting
anything from you!
Haruyama: Oh, okay.
So you're going to figure it all out by yourself then, huh?
//vrooommmm//
Kazuki: (No)
[SL: Girl: What's going on?]
[SL: Girl: What's up Haruyama?]
Kazuki: (You've got it all wrong.)
Kazuki: (It's because you're living the life you do,
that I)
[Guy: Let's fuck with the road side inspectors~]
[Guy #2: Count me in!]
Kazuki: (thought I could live the way you do.)
//vrooommmmm//
Richard: Hey,
aren't you going to cry?

Pg 96:
//vrooom vrooomm//
Richard: So that's it...
this time,
Richard: he chose
"a girl who won't cry".
//vrooommm vrooommmm//

Pg 97:
//vroommm//
Kazuki: (My chest hurts---)

Pg 98:
Kazuki: (It had been tradition for the 400FOUR to be passed on
each generation of leaders of "THE NIGHTS".)


END OF CHAPTER 6

Pg 99:
Tooru: That scratch
on the side there,
Tooru: was made by the guys doing the riding in the first generation.
[sign reads "Tamami Construction"]
//click//
//vrooom vroommm//
//screechhhh vrooommmmmmm//
Tooru: I---

Pg 100:
Tooru: wouldn't mind handing this over to you.
Tooru: What do you say?
//clank//
Haruyama: ---You serious?!
//click//
Tooru: But,
not for free.

Pg 101:
Haruyama: Haha, let me think it over~
//splash//
//vrooommm//
Eri: It's a no-go? That's okay, I'll try asking some other people.
Eri: Yeah, thanks anyway. See ya.
//click//
Eri: Geez...another no.
//splash//
Kazuki: ...sorry.
Eri: Haha, don't worry about it. I don't mind doing this for you
//ring ring//
//splash//
//click//
Eri: Ah, senpai? [senpai=upper classman]
//splash//

Pg 102:
[SL: Eri: I have a big favor to ask~]
//splash//
//splash//
Kazuki: ("I don't want to have to look at your face anymore!")
//splash//
Eri: Kazuki!
We're in luck! She said you could come! Let's go!
Eri: ...?
Are you thinking about Haruyama-senpai?
//splash//
Eri: It's weird---
I did tell him what's going on between you and your mom~
Kazuki: Yeah...just forget about it.
Kazuki: This has
Kazuki: nothing to do with him.

Pg 103:
Kazuki: (The words Richard-san said to me, are still ringing in my ears)
//vrooommm vroommmm//
//vrooommmmm//
Eri: She's my senpai from when I was still living in Yokohama.
She's a year older than us.
Girl: "Kazuki"?
Girl: I'm "Sayuri".
Haha, I know what you're probably thinking. The name doesn't fit the face, right?
But my name's Sayuri all the same
Sayuri: My old man's out on some business trip somewhere, and he won't be back for about a month.
Sayuri: Yeah well anyway, just treat my house like your own.
Kazuki: (Sayuri-san's house...
was right by Yokohama bay in this huge multi-complex apartment...)
//thud thud thud//
Girl: Hey! Come on!
Don't make so much noise!!
Girl: HEY!
Sayuri: I have to repeat a year.
//thud thud//
//KYAAA--!//

Pg 104:
Sayuri: So from April, I'm gonna have to take grade 9 all over again.
//thud thud//
//ROARRRR!//
//Quiet down!!//
//clank clank//
Kazuki: (That night)
Sayuri: I don't even want to go to school, you know?
Kazuki: (I had to eat a hamburger filled to the brim with bread crumbs)
Sayuri: But they made a big deal out of it, and like--
Mother: Well what did you expect?
//clank//
//ROARRRR//
//blows//
Mother: You grew up in such a nice environment. How did you end up like this?
Sayuri: Shut up, old hag!
Girl: Nooooo!!!! Onii-chan's bullying me!
Boy: Hey!
//slap slap//
Mother: How many times do I have to tell you?!
//slap//
//WAAHHHHH!//
//thump thump thump thump//
//thud thud//
//HAHAHAHAHA!//
Sayuri: Get out of my fucking way!
I can't see the TV!
//rustle//
//crunch crunch//
Sayuri: You don't talk much, do you?
//AHAHAHAH//
Sayuri: Not that I mind.

Pg 105:
//crunch crunch//
//AHAHAHHAHA//
Sayuri: Oh yeah,
I heard Haruyama-senpai helped you last time when you were in a pinch
Kazuki: Ah...yes.
//Geezer! Geezer!//
Sayuri: Loosen up, you don't have to be polite with me!
I kinda envy you. Well, I guess it's a no-brainer he helped you since you're his girl,
but did you know? He was pretty popular with the girls back in Yokohama.
Sayuri: Everyone kept calling him an moron, but yeah~
Kazuki: (When someone talks about Haruyama
I don't know why, but I feel all warm inside)
Sayuri: I like guys like him too---
he's really...a man's man, I guess that's the way to put it. Ya know?
//ROARRRRR!//
Sayuri: And the big guns upstairs seem to like him too,
even though he does whatever he wants. [SL: Sayuri: It's pretty funny]
//Nooo! Nooo!//
//Come on, hand it over!//
//thud thud thud//
Sayuri: There's even rumours going around that Richard followed him to Shounan even though he used to live here in Yokohama too
//KYAAa--!//
Sayuri: But,
my boyfriend doesn't like him that much. I don't really know why.
//AHAHAHAH!//
//THUD//
Sayuri: When I heard he's actually working down at Shounan,
Sayuri: I was surprised...
//KYAAA--!//
//THUD THUD//
//KYAAA--!//
Sayuri: Shut up! We can't talk with you being so fuckin' loud!

Pg 106:
//vrooommm vroommm//
Kazuki: (The rest of the world, was on "Spring Vacation"---
the nights at Shounan were overcrowded with cars...)
Kazuki: (Sayuri's boyfriend was ranked the same as Haruyama in the NIGHTS, but he already had his own car,
and he took us out to Shounan lots of times.)
//honk honk//
//vrooommm//
Guy: Jesus, watch it! These guys don't even have their driver's licenses!
Sayuri: Haha, who are you to say?
Guy: I'm different, I know what I'm doing---
//Ah, Kazuki! What's up?//
Kazuki: (I feel warm inside, whenever I come out here.)
//vrooom vroommmmmm//
Sayuri: Ah, Kazuki---your boyfriend showed up!

Pg 107:
//vrooom vrooommmm//
//vrooommmm//
//honk honk!//
//AHAHAHA//
Kazuki: (He has that look in his eyes,
like he's ready to die at any time.)

Pg 108:
//vrooommmm//
//VROOM VROOM//
//swish//
//whistle whistle//
//VROOOMMM//
//TURNS//
//VROOMMMMMM//
//HONK!//

Pg 109:
//HONK HONK//
//vrooommm//
Haruyama: Don't get in my way,
'fuckin geezer!
//vroom vroom//
//vroomm//
//HONK HONK//
//HONKKKKK//
Guy: You little brat! Get out of the way!
Guy: Do you wanna get run over?!
//HONK HONK//
Guy #2: He's been acting pretty fuckin' happy lately, don't ya think?
Girl: You think? Why?
Guy #2: How the hell should I know? But he's had this fuckin' huge grin plastered on his face.

Pg 110:
//screech//
Guy: What's with that pipe?
Haruyama: I ripped it from the front of that truck just now.
//hahaha//
Richard: You serious?
//noise noise//
Guy: Can you believe this guy?
//vrooommm//
Guy: Shit, that's crazy!
Haruyama: So, you're still alive?
[SL: Guy: Huh? Oh, Kazuki--!]
[SL: Guy: Hey, it's Kazuki~~
Did she go back home already?
Yo?]
Girl: What? That's it?
He doesn't even ask where you're living now?
Kazuki: (I won't ever cry
in front of you.)
//noise noise//
//AHAHAHA//
Guy: Y..ou....little brattt!!!!

Pg 111:
//crash//
//teeters//
Haruyama: You----
Haruyama: old geezer!!
//Whoaaaa~
Cut it out, Haruyama
Just let it go!
whistle whistle
FIGHT FIGHT!
whistle whistle//
//thump thump thump thump//
Guy: You don't see guys like that too often.
Guy #2: I've gone at it with him before.
Guy: Seriously?
//vrooomm vroommm//
Guy #2: He ended up knocking my teeth out---
Sayuri: Hahaha! Is that why you hate him?
Guy #3: Yeah, yeah! And he was pissed!
Guy #2: But he's not a bad guy.

Pg 112:
Sayuri: Haha, that doesn't make any sense
Guy #2: I guess he's one of those people you just watch from the distance, ya know?
If you get too close to him, that's when you get into deep shit.
Ya know that guy who always hangs out with him? He's always having to clean up after his shit.
Sayuri: Oh, you mean Richard-san?
Guy #2: Yeah well, I guess there's no point in being too uptight about stuff like that~
Guy #2: right...?
Guy #2: What the fuck you starin' at?
You cross eyed or somethin'?
Guy #4: Ha!
Guy #4: I was just surprised you "NIGHTS" people were still alive.
Guy #2: What the fuck's your problem?
Guy #4: The guys from "Bakutou"
were saying how you guys were a shitty gang.
Guy #2: Who the hell's "Bakutou"?!
Guy #3: Hey, I've heard of them!
They're that gang who's been getting into all sorts of fights at Shinjuku!
Guy #4: If you keep acting like you own this fuckin' place you're gonna get your asses kicked. Pass that message on to Tamami---

Pg 113:
Guy #2: Who the fuck do you think you are!!
//kyaa!//
//slam//
//honk honk!//
//slam slam//
Guy: You little fucker!
Girl: Kazuki, get down!
//HONK//
//VROOMMMMM VROOMMMMMM//
Guy #4: You 'tards!
Don't think you're gonna get away with this!
Guy #2: Shit!
Get back here!
//vroomm vroommm//
Haruyama: Yo, Koike---
lookin' pretty suave there~
//whistle whistle//
//VROOMMM//
//VROOMMM//
//smack!//
Guy #2: Err...

Pg 114:
//vroommm//
Koike: There's no way,
we could tell him.
[SL: Koike: Shit]
Koike: "Bakutou"...huh?
Sayuri: Wow, you really don't know anything do you?
//rustle rustle//
Sayuri: Tooru-san
is the leader, but he's the top of the top, ya know?
Sayuri: The "NIGHTS" main headquarters is in Yokohama,
so he has the guys in charge of Chiba and Kyuushuu coming down there to report to him.
//clank clank//
Kazuki: ...Oh.
Sayuri: You know the Shounan quarters?
The guys there are pretty young compared to the rest, and there isn't really anyone you could call the leader of that place, so you guys don't have that much power
but unlike the main headquarters, you get to ride, so it made sense Haruyama-senpai went there.
//hurry up already!//
Kazuki: You can't...ride at the main headquarters?
//clank clank//
Sayuri: Yah, because they're a pretty huge, so they'd attract attention, ya know?
Sayuri: And Tooru-san's too well-known. There's rumours going around that he won't last that much longer.

Pg 115:
Sayuri: So I heard he can't go around doing crazy stuff.
Kazuki: Really...
Sayuri: But the guys at Shounan and the main headquarters are gonna get together next time,
right?
Koike: Oh, yeah. On the 20th.
Koike: Guys who couldn't come last time are gonna show up so it should be pretty big.
//haha//
Sayuri: There ya go!
//yawns//
Koike: FINALLY, you're done!
//rustle//
Koike: You look pretty cool with makeup on.
Sayuri: Yeah, I totally agree
Kazuki: (The things about me that changed since I left home...)
Kazuki: Tooru-san...
Kazuki: must really be
an amazing person...
//hahaha//
Sayuri: Yep, no doubt about that!
Kazuki: (I learned to have fun in lots of ways...)
Koike: Haruyama's the only one who hasn't gotten the shit kicked out of him
Koike: for calling Tooru-san by just his first name.
Kazuki: (And the way my eyes look...)

Pg 116:
//click//
//squeak//
//vroommm//
[sign reads "There has been an increase in stolen bikes, so please do not park here]
//vroommm//
Sayuri: Ya scared?
Kazuki: (And I learned how to steal a bike...)
Kazuki: Hey, how do you ride this thing?
//squeak//
//vroommm//
Sayuri: When you press this, it goes forward
Sayuri: This is the break,
Sayuri: and this is the turn signal.

Pg 117:
Kazuki: Okay, I got it.
Kazuki: (I'll do anything)
Kazuki: Can I ride it?
Koike: She's pretty sharp
Sayuri: Yeah--
Kazuki: (I can do anything.)
Kazuki: (I don't care what happens to me.)
//vroomm//
//VROOMMM//
//thump thump thump thump//
Kazuki: (Faster...
Faster...
FASTER!!!)
//vroommm//

Pg 118:
Sayuri: It's her first time riding and she's going at THAT speed?
Sayuri: No wonder she's Haruyama's girlfriend!
//click click//
[reads "Speed-o-meter"]
//squeeze//
//SCREECHHH//
//rustle//
//breathes//

Pg 119:
Kazuki: ...Damnit...
Kazuki: (Haruyama's eyes are getting in my way.)
Kazuki: (His eyes always makes me stop.)
Kazuki: (They make me think what I'm doing is dangerous)
Kazuki: (And I become scared)
Sayuri: Eri--! Eri--!
Eri: Ah, senpai!
Kyaaa! Kazuki--!
//vroomm//

Pg 120:
Sayuri: What's with that outfit?
Eri: Give me a break, we ALL have to wear this!
Kazuki: (It was April,
and Eri and the others began 9th grade.)
Girl: Hey, is that...Miyaichi-san?
Girl #2: Is it just me or has she changed..?
Eri: Kazuki! You haven't showed up once since we started school again,
so lots of people are talking about you!
Eri: Even the people in younger grades--!
Sayuri: Haha, way to go Kazuki!
Sayuri: Eri, you're coming on the 20th, right?
Eri: Of course!
Sayuri: We're gonna bring the house down, hahaha~
Sayuri: Yeah well, I guess we'll get going.
See ya there.
[SL: Sayuri: Bye!]
//vroommmm//
Kazuki: Eri...

Pg 121:
Kazuki: Yup?
//vroommmm//
Kazuki: No,
nothing.
//keep up!//
//yeah!//
//See ya Eri---!//
//vroommmmm//
Eri: I'll phone you later!
[SL: Sayuri: Byeee!]
//vroom vroomm//
//vroommmm//
Girl: Hey, hey, Eri--! Whoaaaa!
Girl: Miyaichi-san's...
I don't know...she seems more mature now!
Girl: It's kinda cool...
//ahahaha//
Girl: Your senpai from Yokohama must really be something!
Eri: If you're shocked about this,
then you guys would FLIP if you met Kazuki's boyfriend!
//vroommm//
Girl: Really?

Pg 122:
//vroomm//
//vroom//
//vroomm//
Kazuki: (It's been a month.)
Kazuki: (Haruyama, and my mom, have both left me alone)
Kazuki: (I don't even know what my mom's doing.)
//clatter//
Sayuri: So this is where you were---
Sayuri: Kazuki
Sayuri: Sorry...
But my old man's coming home.

Pg 123:
Sayuri: I wish I didn't have to do this..but...
Kazuki: ...Okay.
Sayuri: Are you going to be lonely?
Kazuki: No.
//kyaaa! Kyaaa!/
//kyaa! Kyaaa!//
Sayuri: ...to be honest....it wouldn't really matter
if you stayed here...
Sayuri: but he...
Sayuri: beats us.
//clatter clatter//
Sayuri: He gets into these drunken rages...
//kyaaa! CRASH//
Sayuri: and...it's not something I want other people to see, ya know?

Pg 124:
//kyaaa! kyaaa!//
//what are you two doing?!//
//hey! You're going to catch a cold!//
//slap//
Sayuri: Haha.
//wahhhhhh!//
Sayuri: Ha.
//wahhhh//
Sayuri: You get what I'm saying?
Kazuki: (It'd be a lie to say I understood 100%...
but at that time...
my chest felt as if it was being crushed)
Sayuri: Don't worry.
The others know that you're Tooru-san's favorite,
so no matter where you go, they're gonna take good care of you.
Sayuri: Oh yeah, what do you wanna wear tomorrow--?
Sayuri: I'll lend you my favorite---
//vroom vroommmm//

Pg 125:
//vroom vroommmm//
Kazuki: (April 20th. Sunday.)
//flutter flutter//
[sign reads "Yokohama" at the top]
//vroommm//
Eri: Hey!
Kazuki: What? I can't hear you!

Pg 126:
//vroom vroom vroom//
//vrooommmmmm//
Eri: I wonder how many people're out here!
Kazuki: Yeah!
Kazuki: (I saw Hiroko-san
just now)
Eri: I heard that Tooru-san isn't gonna show up tonight!
//vrooommmm//
Eri: What a bummer, right?!

Pg 127:
Kazuki: Yeah.
Kazuki: (There's probably nothing prettier on Earth than this.)
//swish//
Kazuki: It's so pretty
Eri: Yeah!
Kazuki: (Somewhere out here, Hiroko-san...and he's...)
Kazuki: (I don't have to think about anything)
Kazuki: Go faster.
Eri: Senpai! She said she wants you to go faster!
Guy: Retard! Then tell that to the people in front of us!
Kazuki: (I don't care if I die)
//vrooom vroommm//
Guy: Don't stick your head out that far, ya wanna get hurt?

Pg 128:
//vroomm vroomm//
//push//
Kazuki: Kya!
//vroommm//
Haruyama: What the hell're you doing?
//vroommm//
//thump thump//
Kazuki: W-what's your problem?! Don't touch me!
//vroom vroomm//
//snap//
Haruyama: Then do what you want!
Haruyama: Die for all I care!
//thump thump//
Kazuki: I-Idiot!
Octopus!

Pg 129:
Kazuki: Spring roll shit-head!
[SL: Eri: Whoa]
Haruyama: (What the?)
//HAHAHA//
[SL: Haruyama: Ha! It probably took you a whole month to think that up!
Kazuki: I didn't have time to think about someone like you!!]
Guy: [SL: Hey] Are they always like this?
Eri: Yeah
Guy: What're those guys doing?
[SL: Haruyama: Oh really?! Well you're the one that got the moon-faced flu!
Kazuki: I told you! It was Tonsillitis!! You bastard!]
Guy: Hey, he isn't even looking ahead. Shit, that's dangerous!
[SL: Haruyama: Go to helll~]
Haruyama: You runaway pig!
[SL: Kazuki: GRRR]
//AHAHAHA//
Guy: He's acting like a little kid!
Haruyama: Haha, I win!
//vrooommmmm//
Guy: Yo, his weak spot is raw eggs, try that one out.
Kazuki: You raw egg!!
//WHOAAA//
//ahahaha//
Guy: Haha, he REALLY hates raw eggs.
[SL: girl: really? I didn't know]
Haruyama: Shit---just you wait, you're gonna get what's comin' to ya!

Pg 130:
Kazuki: (Haruyama disappears into the millions of lights)
Eri: Senpai, Kazuki doesn't have anywhere to go~
Guy: Really? Then why don't you crash at my place?
//screechhh//
//vrooommm//
//vrooom//
//vrooom//
Guy: It's an apartment, but there's lots of people like you crashing there.
There's guys and girls, but it's not like that, so it'll be okay
[SL: Kazuki: Bleh]
Kazuki: (I...)

Pg 131:
Kazuki: (don't care anymore what happens to me.)
Guy: Geez, it's 4 already?
All the guys from Yokohama's gone back already.
//see yaa!//
//noise noise//
Guy: It's kinda a waste for you to be Haruyama's girl
//noise noise//
Guy: Hey, why don't you come to my place? Here, I'll give you some dried squid [it's a kind of snack. It's strips of dried squid ^^]
[SL: Guy: I'm starving!]
Eri: Whatt~ There's no way she could stay with you! She won't be safe with you!
//hahaha//
Guy: [SL: Ya think?] But seriously, I won't try to pull anything.
You don't have anywhere else to go anyway, right?
Richard: Yo---
Richard: If she actually goes with him, it could get bad
He's got people hanging out in his apartment all day.
Haruyama: I'm starved..
Haruyama: I haven't had anything to eat since yesterday
//haha//
Richard: H-Hey!
Kazuki: I want to go for a ride.
[SL: Guy: Whatttt AGAIN?
Okay, but you do realize I have work after this?
Eri: Haha, no way!]
//vroomm//

Pg 132:
Richard: Don't you think Kazuki's been pretty out there lately?
//yoo hoo! Aren't ya gonna go home yettt//
//noise noise//
Guy: Yeah
Guy #2: Hey, there's no chopsticks
Girl: Ah, yes.
Richard: The look in her eyes is completely different
Guy: Yeah, I get what you mean. When she glares at you it like, it kinda freaks you out!
Guy: She's probably doing all sorts of stuff at Yokohama
//slurp//
Guy #2: Yeah--! I heard that from Koike too---
//ahaha//
Guy: If you leave her like that, she's gonna get even worse
//vroommm//
//haha, cut it out Kazuki!//
Guy: It's because you're still hanging out with that other girl of yours
instead of paying attention to her.
Haruyama: Whaa--?
Oh, you mean Mihoko?
Guy: Yeah. Who else could it be?
Haruyama: I broke up with her already.
Guy: Really?

Pg 133:
Guy: Then you should've told her that
//haha//
Richard: But the reason why
you're being that cold towards Kazuki is because of what happened between you and Mihoko, rght?
Guy: What, seriously?
Richard: You don't have to be so cold to her.
Richard: But..she seems like the type to never cry.
//yayyyyy! vroommmm//
Guy #2: Yeah, I get what you mean.
She seems kinda tough
Haruyama: Don't talk about her like you know her.
Richard: What? Am I wrong?
Richard: I thought that's how you saw her...
so I told Kazuki.
Guy: What'd you say?
Richard: that you chose a girl this time who won't cry.
//ahahahah//
//ahahaha//
//screeechhh//
Guy: What?
Are you out of your fuckin' mind?

Pg 134:
Guy: She is a girl, ya know.
//ahahahaha! that was scary!//
Guy: She'd definitely be hurt.
Richard: No way, ya think?
Guy: Ya idiot, of course!
//one more time! hahahahah//
Guy: Right? Haru...
Guy: ya..ma...?
//snap//
Haruyama: What the fuck...
did you tell her that for?!
//clatter//
//slam//

Pg 135:
Richard: What's...gotten into him?
Guy: Why would he be that mad?
That was scary!
What does that mean?
Guy #2: Does he like Kazuki?
Richard: How would I know?
Guy: Why-----
//noise noise//
//yayyy//
Haruyama: Kazuki!
Guy: Whoa! Shit!
//SCREECHH//
//kyaa!//
Haruyama: Get out of the car!
Kazuki: What the hell're you doing?
Guy: Hey, Haruyama!!

Pg 136:
Haruyama: You think you're some hot shit getting yourself drunk?
Kazuki: It has...
Kazuki: nothing to do with you!!
Kazuki: //hiccup//
Eri: Haruyama-senpai~Kazuki has no where to go!
//hiccup//
Eri: Please help her out!
//hiccup//
Haruyama: Why don't you..try selling yourself?

Pg 137:
//clank//
Richard: Whoa...
they're at it again...
Kazuki: You---
Kazuki: IDIOT!!!
//slap//
//slap//
Kazuki: You....
//slap//
Kazuki: You wouldn't....
Kazuki: understand...
//slap//
//slap//
Kazuki: You don't understand anything!!
Kazuki: You don't understand anything!!!!
//slap//

Pg 138:
Haruyama: You always cry so easily.
Haruyama: Why don't you go to Hiroko's?
Haruyama: She's staying at Tooru's place right now.
Haruyama: You go home too.
Eri: Ah...yes.
Haruyama: Richard!
Richard: Yo!
[SL: Richard: Where was your house again?
Eri: Oh it's---]
//slump//

Pg 139:
//hiccup//
Kazuki: (It's the first time I've smelled the smell of Tactis in a while)
//hiccup//
[SL: Kazuki: Damnit]
Haruyama: Ah, hey, Hiroko?
//vrooomm//
Haruyama: It's me.
//slide//
//hiccup//
Kazuki: (How would she know it's you just from that?
Idiott!)
Haruyama: I got a favor to ask.
Kazuki: (Now that I think about it...he's really nice to Hiroko-san...in a special way)
//mumble mumble//
//slideeeee//
Haruyama: This idiot's---
//vroommm///
Hiroko: "Idiot"?
Hiroko: Oh, you mean Kazuki?
//vrooommmm//

Pg 140:
Haruyama: Where's Tooru?
Hiroko: Oh,
he's not here again.
Hiroko: But it looks like
Hiroko: he went out wearing a suit this time.
Haruyama: Whattt?
Haruyama: Hiroko?
Kazuki: Yeah! //hiccup//
Kazuki: Something happened
between you two, right?
//vroommm//
Haruyama: Wanna know?
Haruyama: Hiroko
Haruyama: liked me.

Pg 141:
Kazuki: (Did he fall and hit his head or something?)
Haruyama: It's up to you whether you wanna believe that or not.
Haruyama: Yeah, well, Hiroko's admired by everyone---
Haruyama: I guess there's no way she'd fall for someone like me---hahah
Kazuki: (No, that's not true.)
Kazuki: Bleh...I feel sick...
//hahaha//
Haruyama: That's what you get!
Haruyama: Come on! Come on!
Throw up!
//wobble wobble//
Kazuki: Uuu...
Kazuki: Ah! A raw egg!
Haruyama: Whoa!
Kazuki: (No, that's not true.)
[sign reads "Tamami Construction"]
//vroomm//

Pg 142:
//clank clank//
//click//
Haruyama: Yo
//thump thump thump//
Kazuki: (To think I'll be living with this person...)
//vroommmmm //

Pg 143:
[sign reads "Shinjuku Bakutou"]
//flutter flutter//
//vroommm//
Guy: ...Yokohama...
Guy: ..."NIGHTS"...
Guy: It'd be easy to crush a gang like 'em.
//vroommm//
Guy #2: Yeah, but in Yokohama, they're pretty famous.
Guy: If they don't know
who they should be scared of, then that's their loss.
Guy #2: It'd be a waste to let 'em
Guy #2: go around acting like they own the fuckin' world though.
//vroommmm//
Guy: Who's their leader?
[sign reads "Bakutou"]
Guy #2: Tamami...
but looks like he hasn't been doing much lately
Guy: There probably won't be anyone worth worrying about after him
//vrooommmmm//
Guy: If we're gonna crush 'em, now's the time...

Pg 144:
//vrooommm//
//vrooommm//
crash//
//VROOMMMM/
Guy: Hey, did ya hear?!
//rushes over//
Guy #2: Yeah, we did.
Guy #3: Tooru's gonna quit?!
Guy: I heard he went yesterday to ask the past leaders for permission to let Haruyama be the leader of the 7th generation.
Richard: What...
Guy #4: Whoa...
so he's gonna...be the leader?
Richard: Whoa, that's pretty...
Guy: Haha, but sounds like fun!
Guy #2: Retard~ The guys at the main headquarters are seriously pissed
Guy: Wha?
Guy #2: He's already a part of the Shounan quarters
Guy #2: and they wanna know why a guy from a subdiv is gonna be the top gun
Guy: Yeah, and they're saying how it'll be a cold day in hell before they let some 16 year old brat take over "NIGHTS"
Guy #2: The guys down at Yokohama are fuckin' pissed
Richard: Oh...so that's why he's been in a good mood lately

Pg 145:
Guy: Fuck, this isn't something to joke around about!
Guy: He might end up
Guy: breaking up the "NIGHTS"
[sign reads "Tamami Construction"]
//hahahaha//
Haruyama: Hiroko---get me somethin' to eat.
//hahahaha//
//chuckles//
//giggles//
//hahaha//

END OF CHAPTER 7

Pg 146:
//flutter//
//vroom vroommmm//
//splash//
Haruyama: I....
Haruyama: wanna ride...
Haruyama: the 400FOUR already...

Pg 147:
Narrator: (The path
from tonight)

Pg 148:
//splash//
Kazuki: (It's been 10 days since I last came here.)
Kazuki: (I spent my days not going to school,
not even going out at nights...
and it was very...
quiet...)
//flutter//
Hiroko: In the past...
Hiroko: things were worse with the police, and with the rivals between gangs.
Hiroko: Every time something bad happened, the leaders had to take responsibility, and they were sent off to juvie

Pg 149:
Hiroko: I don't know when they're gonna take Tooru away
Hiroko: I heard he's doing all sorts of stuff behind my back.
Hiroko: Sometimes
Hiroko: I can't even eat anything because of him...
Kazuki: (Hiroko-san, with her slender hands...)
Kazuki: (was someone who was a mystery to me even though we spent our days together.
But looking at her photographs---)
Kazuki: (made me think that at one time, she must've been doing the whole high school-thing.)
Hiroko: There were a lot of things I despised back then.
Hiroko: I always had bruises all over my body,
and when you went into juvie, they did a search where they stripped you naked.
Hiroko: And the other girls in the gang did stuff like
putting sponge in my food...you know, to make fun of the new girl

Pg 150:
Hiroko: I made my parents...
Hiroko: cry a lot too.
Hiroko: My mother and father...
both got down on their knees and apologized to the police.
Hiroko: I don't want to make them do that again.
Kazuki: (My mom)
Kazuki: (doesn't know what I'm doing.)
Hiroko: I don't want the kids in "NIGHTS" to do any bad stuff anymore either. Just ride, that's it.
Kazuki: (Right now, I'm talking to
the girlfriend of the leader of "NIGHTS")
Kazuki: Isn't Tooru-san...
coming back?
Hiroko: He only comes back every once in a while.
Hiroko: He probably has other girls to take care of.
Kazuki: W-What! That's---
Hiroko: --You're nice, you know that,
Kazuki?
Kazuki: I'm...
not...
//hazy//

Pg 151:
Kazuki: I'm not at all.
//thump thump//
Kazuki: I'm not honest...
Kazuki: ...andI'm stubborn...
Kazuki: and I even get jealous sometimes...
Hiroko: "Jealous"?
Hiroko: Of what?
//chuckles//
Hiroko: Haruyama...
Hiroko: isn't too bright, but when it comes too stuff like this, he's got a sixth sense, I guess you could say.
He can tell between the good and the good-for-nothings
Hiroko: right off the bat...
//squeeze//
//ring ring ring ring//
kazuki: (My heart won't stop beating fast...)
//click//
Kazuki: (Lately,
there's been a lot of phone calls for Hiroko-san.)
Kazuki: (Every time the phone rings,
she gets this really scary expression on her face.)
Hiroko: "Bakutou"?

Pg 152:
Kazuki: (It looks like a lot of people are searching for Tooru-san.)
Hiroko: I'm going to step out for a sec.
Hiroko: Don't open the door to anyone, okay?
Kazuki: (There's something going on that I'm not aware of.)
//ring ring//
//thump thump thump//
Sayuri: Hey, Kazuki?
Sayuri: Whew! I was thinking what I was gonna do if Hiroko-san picked up!
Kazuki: What?
Sayuri: It's me, Sayuri---
Kazuki: Ah--
Sayuri: I still can't believe it---
Sayuri: you're the girlfriend of the next leader of "NIGHTS"---
//rustle rustle//

Pg 153:
[no text]

Pg 154:
//vroomm//
guys: Haru----yama----kunnn!
Guy: If you're looking for Haruyama, he's off fooling around in the back
Guy #2: Wha!
Guys: Haruyama----!
//splash splash//
[SL: Am I~a girl~]
Haruyama: Huh?
Haruyama: 'Sup?

Pg 155:
//vroom//
Haruyama: So..what?
Guy: What we're trying to say is,
if you go and give your greetings to all of 'em senpai, that'll get them off your back
//vroomm//
Guy #2: Yeah, yeah! And say stuff like "I'll do my best"! //heh//
Haruyama: What~ Why the hell do I have to go around doing stuff like that?
Guy: Well---
Haruyama: Who cares who the next leader is?
Haruyama: Everyone's just riding, minding their own business anyway---
Haruyama: The newer guys don't even know what Tooru looks like.
Guy: Yeah, that's true, but still---
you're not gonna be able to convince the higher ups with that kinda attitude--[SL: Get what I'm tryin' to say ?]
Richard: You're not gonna be able to be the leader of "NIGHTS" the way you are now---
Haruyama: Tooru already said he's giving me the 400FOUR, so what else is there to do?
Haruyama: Once I get it, I'll let you guys ride with me
Guy: Really---!
Guy #2: Yeah, and since there's gonna be that group meeting thing for "NIGHTS"...
[SL: Guy #3: Oh yeah~]

Pg 156:
Richard: Yoooo~~
[SL: Right-o! POW!]
Haruyama: What?
Richard: Do you really know what you're getting yourself into?
Richard: If you make the guys at the main headquarters snap for real...
Richard: Maybe you don't care what happens to you,
Richard: but you should think about the people around you.
Richard: The guys at the Shounan quarters might get some backlash too---
Richard: And you never know, Kazuki might...
Richard: She's still 14...
Haruyama: Are you tryin' to say
that I haven't given it some thought?
Richard: What..?

Pg 157:
Haruyama: Who the fuck are you to say?!
//slam//
Guy: Geez...
Guy #2: You got him mad...
Richard: What's with him! I was just worried about him, and he---
//calm down//
Guy #2: Forget him, let's talk about the gang get-together---
Richard: DAMNIT!
Guy: If you guys fight, you're gonna lose anyway
Richard: GRRRR
Guy: Everything'll probably smooth itself out
Guy #2: Yeah, to him
this probably isn't that big of a deal
//thump thump//
Sayuri: Yeah, that's why the guys at the main headquarters, and my boyfriend---
those that are around the same age as him are pretty cool with it
Sayuri: they're more like getting a laugh out of it
Sayuri: but the higher ups, you know...
Sayuri: they're saying that they can't have someone his age be the leader...

Pg 158:
Sayuri: Yeah, because like you know how they've been getting some probs with the gang down at Shinjuku...
Sayuri: I heard the guys at Yokohama are having a really tough time because of it---
Sayuri: I phoned because I was just worried about you---
//thump thump//
//splash splash//
//gulp/
//step step step//
//knock knock//
//tense//
//step step step step//

Pg 159:
//step step//
//click//
Haruyama: ah---
Haruyama: Did someone come by?
Kazuki: (I can't believe it)
Kazuki: Oh...there's been a lot of phone calls for Hiroko-san.
//clank//
Haruyama: No, I meant while you were here alone
Kazuki: No
Haruyama: Oh really...

Pg 160:
Kazuki: Are you really...going to take over "NIGHTS"?
//chirp chirp//
Haruyama: Yeah
Haruyama: Pretty impressive, huh?
Kazuki: (How can he be laughing
at a time like this?)
Haruyama: Are you scared?
Kazuki: What?
Haruyama: If you're scared,
you can stop being my girlfriend.
//splash splash//
//clank//
Kazuki: What...are you...saying?

Pg 161:
Haruyama: I'm being serious here.
//thump thump//
Haruyama: What do you wanna do?
Kazuki: Haruyama...
Kazuki: Aren't you scared?
Haruyama: Me?
Why would I be?
Kazuki: Then I'm not scared either.
//haha//
Haruyama: You're weird, you know that?
Haruyama: If I---
was a girl,
I wouldn't want a guy like me.

Pg 162:
Haruyama: I'm stupid,
I snap easily,
Haruyama: I get into a lot of fights,
Haruyama: I won't say anything about my face though.
[SL: Kazuki: Haha, idiot!]
Haruyama: I like my bike more than I do eatin',
and I'm not rolling in dough,
//splash splash//
Haruyama: and I
Haruyama: make girls cry
Haruyama: over stupid things.
Kazuki: I...
Kazuki: won't cry.
Kazuki: I'll never cry
over someone like you.
Haruyama: Okay.
That's the spirit! Keep that up!
//tap//
//splash splash//

Pg 163:
//chhirp chirp//
//thud//
Haruyama: C'mon, let me do you!
//ahahhahaha//
Kazuki: (The truth is, I'm so scared I don't even know what to do.)
Haruyama: Let's go out.
Haruyama: Oh---
Haruyama: and you..should start going to school again.
Haruyama: And,
Haruyama: you should phone back home once in a while.
Kazuki: (What got into him...
Why is he so nice all of a sudden?)
Kazuki: (Him saying that might actually convince me to go to school, and phone my mom.)
[SL: Kazuki: What're you writing?
Haruyama: A message for Hiroko~
Haruyama: Hey! Don't look! I'm writing a love letter~~
Kazuki: What?!?]

Pg 164:
[letter reads:

To Hiroko:
I've kidnapped Kazuki. If you wanna get her back,
have some dinner ready and wei [crosses out "wei"] wait for us.
Haruyama]
//vroommm//
Kazuki: (Shounan Bay during the Golden Week, was packed,
it was almost like a festival)
//vroommm//
//hahahaha//
//slap slap slap//
//ahahahhaa//
//vroommm//
Kazuki: (I wonder how many people here
know about what's going on in "NIGHTS" right now)
Guy: Thanks for earlier, Haruyama.
Guy: Hey, you guys seem to be getting along pretty well---
Kazuki: (Haruyama didn't seem to know about "Bakutou"
so I didn't say anything)
Kazuki: (...I'm scared)

Pg 165:
Richard: Hmm? What's up?
//vroommm//
[sign reads "Yokohama" underneath "the NIGHTS"]
//vrooommmmm//
//vroom vrooomm//
//VROOOM VROOM//
//grabs//
//VROOMMM//
Richard: H-Hey, Haruyama!
//vroommm//
Richard: What're you gonna do?
//vroomm//
Guy: Richard!

Pg 166:
Richard: Eh...
ah----
Richard: Just go over there.
Haruyama: What~
Guy: Hey Haruyama, wanna ride?
Haruyama: Yeah, sure.
Richard: Er...how can I help you?
Guy #2: The "Bakutou" guys from Shinjuku are gonna come and crush us
Richard: What?!
Guy #2: Haven't you heard of them?
Richard: Well...I've heard the name a couple of times...
Guy #2: We can't find Tooru-san anywhere, and the past higher-ups are saying to ignore 'em.
Guy #2: Watch over that idiot to make sure he doesn't try anything.
[sign on Haruyama's back reads "that idiot"]

Pg 167:
//ahahhaa//
//vrooom vroomm//
Guy: HAHAHAHA
//vrooommmm//
//vroom//
[SL: Guy: What! Seriously?!]
//whisper whisper//
Richard: Hey, Kazuki!
//ahahaha//
Richard: Do you think Haruyama knows about "Bakutou"?
Kazuki: No, I don't think he does.
Guy: Yeah! If he did, there's no way he'd be fooling around like that
Richard: Hey, how'd you find out anyway, Kazuki?
//vrooom vroommm//
Kazuki: I heard from someone...
that they were calling the "NIGHTS" a shitty gang
Guy: WHATTT!
//SHHHHH!!!//
//whisper whisper//
Guy: Fuck, you gotta be kidding me!
Guy #2: Why the fuck aren't we fighting 'em head on?
Guy #3: What are they like?
Guy: They got about 15 guys
Guy #2: 15?!
Guy: Yeah, and they're all on bikes.
Guy: But I heard they're really fucked up,
they're going around getting into fights with anyone.
Guy #4: If they heard about a fight going on somewhere, they head straight for it.
Guy #2: Whoa!
Guy: So what? We can take 'em on!
Richard: Yeah, but do we really have to? It'd be a waste of time
Richard: Let's just ride in peace, ya know?

Pg 168:
Guy: Things are just really messed up right now,
so if we get into shit with them, it'll probably keep on for a long time
//vrooommm//
Guy: I doubt I'd be able to hold him back
Guy #2: I'll probably just skip the whole thing
//ahahaha//
//vrooommm//
Haruyama: What were you guys talking about earlier?
//clank clank//
//step step//
/vrooommmm//
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: What?
Haruyama: Is there something you guys're keepin' from me?
Kazuki: No---!
[SL: Kazuki: Ah! What's that?]
Haruyama: So what? You guys're just forming your own little group without me?
//clank clank//
//step step//
Kazuki: No, we aren't---
Haruyama: If you don't tell me, I'm not gonna give you a ride home
Kazuki: Well, I can just take the train home!
Haruyama: You little---
ah---!
//clank clank//

Pg 169:
//step step//
Kazuki: Ahahahaha
Haruyama: Then---
Haruyama: I'm not gonna let you go home unless you tell me!
Haruyama: Haha! You're gonna get Hiroko pissed~
//snap//
//step step//
//kick//
Haruyama: AHHH!
Haruyama: What the fuck did you do that for---
Kazuki: Kyaa!
Kazuki: NOO!

Pg 170:
//wheeze wheeze//
//ahahhahah//
Haruyama: You little bugger~
//roll roll//
/rool roll//
//wheeze//
//HEYYY//
Kazuki: (He really likes bullying people---)
Kazuki: That's Hiroko-san's.
Haruyama: Whattt! Why didn't you say so earlier?!
Haruyama: You're JEA-LOUS!
Kazuki: (Geez, what's his problem~)
//throws//
[SL: Kazuki: Who needs this anyway!]
Haruyama: Ah, that's mine--!
Kazuki: ...Ah

Pg 171:
//thud//
//chuckles//
Kazuki: Tooru-sa....
Haruyama: You go find my other shoe.
Haruyama: Come on, get to it! Or what, you too ugly for the job?
Kazuki: Whattt!!!
Haruyama: Hahaha
Haruyama: Tooru
//leans//
Haruyama: Give me the 400FOUR
already
Haruyama: Come on, hand it over.

Pg 172:
Tooru: ...Yeah
Tooru: just wait
Tooru: a little longer
Tooru: Between
//vroomm//
Tooru: her
Tooru: and Hiroko,
Tooru: who would you choose?
//vrooom vroomm//
Haruyama: I thought..
you were gonna make Hiroko happy?
//haha//
Tooru: For someone who was high, you sure do remember a lot.

Pg 173:
Haruyama: Did...something happen?
Tooru: What? Not really...
Haruyama: Go home to Hiroko sometime.
[SL: Tooru: haha]
Tooru: And who gave you the right to order me around like that?
Haruyama: Haha, no one really
//vrooom vroom//
Kazuki: (I'm so scared I can't stand it)
//vroom vroomm//
//ring ring//

Pg 174:
//ring ring//
Guy: Haruyama---phone call---!
[SL:
Haruyama: I win!
Guy: Geez, I lost AGAIN--!
//clank//
Guy #2: What's the fun in this if he keeps winning!]
Haruyama: Who the fuck're you?
//vroomm//
//vroommm//
Guy: I'm someone in "Bakutou" from Shinjuku.
Guy: I've heard quite a lot about "NIGHTS" from your rivals
//vrooommm//
Guy: I heard you're having a huge get together, but before that happens, we're going to crush you. Remember that.
//hahahaha! //whistles//

Pg 175:
//vroommm//
Guy: Until then. Have a nice day.
//whoaaa!//
//vroom vroomm///
Guy: Shounan feels great today---
//throws//
//vrooom vroomm//
Guy: Hey, what's up Haruyama?
//dash//
/vrooom vroom vroommm//
//VROOMMMMMM//
//whistles//

Pg 176:
//vroom vroomm//
[sign reads "Shinjuku Bakutou"]
//vroom vroom//
//CRASH//
//vrooomm//
Guy: Watch out!
//SMASH//
//CRASH//
Haruyama: You fuckers---!
//dash//
//whistles/
//vrooommmm//

Pg 177:
Guy: Stop Haruyama!
You're gonna get hurt---
//vroomm//
Guy; Hey, calm down!
Haruyama: Shut the fuck up! Get the fuck off me--!
Guy: I-
Guy: I'm gonna have to fire you if you don't stop!
Haruyama: Shit!
Haruyama: Fuck!
//vroommmmm///

Pg 178:
Eri: I love...
Eri: it when the sky, and the scenery, and just everything's blue.
Kazuki: Yeah, it's pretty.
//vrooom vroom/
//vroomm//
//click//
Eri: Kazuki--
[SL: Guy: Yoo Haruyama! You're early!]
Eri: Two days ago...
Eri: your mom...
Eri: came to my house.

Pg 179:
Eri: She was saying how
Eri: if I knew where you were, to let her know.
Eri: She...
Eri: bowed down to me
//thump thump//
Eri: I told her I didn't know where you were, but...
Kazuki: (My mom doesn't know anything.)
Kazuki: (She doesn't know what I'm going through.)
Kazuki: (Not one bit)
//vrooom vroom//
Kazuki: I'll..
Kazuki: give her a call...

Pg 180:
Haruyama: Come here for a sec
Richard: Why---?
Haruyama: Why didn't you say anything?
Richard: Because I knew it'd do you no good
Haruyama: Why would you say that?
Guy: The guys from the main head quarters are saying to ignore 'em, so what else can we do?
Haruyama: I'm gonna do it
//THUMP//
[SL: Guy: I knew it!]
Guy #2: We know how you feel,
but do you know anything about 'em?
//vroom vroom//
//HAHAHA//
Guy: They're not just getting into groups to hang around and ride
//hahahaha//
//vroommmmmmmm vroommm//
Guy: They only have 15 people and they're tryin' to take "NIGHTS" on, so they've got a lot of guts
Haruyama: 15?!
//vroommm//
Guy: Yeah, that's how many are in that gang

Pg 181:
Guy: And there's lots of gangs saying they'll help us out if they try to start somethin'
Haruyama: O--kay---
Guy #2: Yeah! So for numbers, we got it down, no prob.
Haruyama: Yeah, but it's more fun this way---
Haruyama: Let's take 'em on
//thump//
Guy: Don't look at us like that---
The guys at Yokohama are holding back too---
Who's fault do you think it is anyway?
It's because there's that whole thing with you---

Haruyama: It's because you guys're like that they're fucking around with us like this
Haruyama: Fuck, they probably think we're just a bunch of fuckin' pussies---
Haruyama: I'm gonna fuckin' kill 'em.
//thump thump//
Eri: Hey, what's going on?
//vroom vroommm//
Guy: Hey, Haruyama---
Guy: We should just hold off
Guy #2: It's not like some mickey fight, ya know?
[sign reads "Shinjuku Bakutou"]
Richard: Even though they only have 15 guys---
they went around making a name of themselves---
by sticking their heads into any fights they could get their hands on.

Pg 182:
Richard: They have nothing to fear
Haruyama: Who the fuck cares?
Let's just do it, got it?
//thump//
Richard: There's actually some guys in "NIGHTS" who're going to school, and working---
Richard: If we make a wrong move, we might all 'end up in juvie. Is that what you want?
Guy: We're thinking about our lives here. That's a lot more than could be said of you.
Haruyama: If you're scared, just say so.
Guy: What'd you just say---?!
Haruyama: But isn't that what it comes down to?
Haruyama: If you're gonna be shakin' in your pants the whole time, why the fuck'd you join "NIGHTS" in the first place?
Guy: You fuckin---who the fuck d'you think I'm worried about?!
//vroom vroommm//
//screechhh//
Guy #2: Your head fuckin' screwed on wrong or what?!
//vroommmm//
Guy: If you wanna go so bad, then fuck, go by yourself!
[SL: Richard: Hey, come on--]
Guy #2: Yeah!
Guy #2: We're not in "NIGHTS" because of you!
Haruyama: Fine,

Pg 184:
Haruyama: then you don't have to fuckin' follow me!
Guy: Haruyama!
Guy: HEY!
//thump thump thump//
//thump thump//
//VROOOM VROOM///
//thump thump thump//

Pg 185:
[SL: Guy: HARUYAMA!]
//thud thud thud thud//
[SL: Guy: What the fuck're you doing?!
Guy #2: You fucking---]
//thump thump//
//thump thump//
Guy: He's not gonna get it unless we teach him a lesson!
//slam//

Pg 185:
[SL: Guy: You fucking---
//thud// //slam//]
//thump thump thump thump//
[SL: Guy: It's all your fault--!]
[SL: Guy: Fucker---]
Kazuki: Stop...it

Pg 186:
Kazuki: STOPPPP!
Eri: Kazuki, it's not safe to go there!
Kazuki: NOOOOOOO!
[SL: Guy: Damnit]
[SL: Guy: Fucker---]
Kazuki: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
[SL: Kazuki: AHHHHHHH!!!!]
Kazuki: ("I make girls cry
over stupid things")

Pg 187:
Kazuki: STOPPPPPPPPPPP
[SL: Guy: Yo----
Guy #2: Why can't you get it through your thick skull?!]
//SLAM//

Pg 188:
Kazuki: AHhhhh---!
Kazuki: AHHHHHHH!
Richard: Huh?
Richard: Oh...right.
Richard: Eri, help me out!
Eri: Eh...?
Kazuki: Haruya---
Kazuki: Haru...
Richard: There's nothing we can do about it.

Pg 189:
Richard: There's nothing we can do.
Kazuki: HARUYAMAAAAAA
[SL: Kazuki: LET ME GO!!]
Richard: I don't know why
//LET ME GO!//
Richard: but watching him like this
//HARUYAMA!!//
Richard: makes me regret this whole thing
//vrooommm//
//splash//

Pg 190:
//noise noise noise//
//hahahah//
//splash//
Haruyama: Wh...at...
//vrooommm//
//noise noise//
Haruyama: What're you looking at...
it's fuckin' embarassing...
Tooru: I just got here.
Tooru: Who's at fault?
Haruyama: Whaa---?
//vroom vroomm//
Haruyama: Me.

Pg 191:
Tooru: [SL: Haha] What's with you? You're surprisingly honest
[SL: Hahaha...it tastes like metal...]
//rustle//
Tooru: Come,
and get the 400FOUR
Haruyama: What...
Tooru: Walk there.
Haruyama: Wha..?
Tooru: Walk all the way there.
It's more cool that way, don't you think?
Haruyama: Whatttttt~
Tooru: It's about a 20km walk to Yokohama.
Tooru: If you spend half a day getting there, it's a piece of cake
Haruyama: What're you being a meanie for~
Tooru: See ya.
Haruyama: You just came up with that, didn't you--?!
Haruyama: That's too much fuckin' work---!
Haruyama: I'm not gonna do it!-
//slam//
//see ya!//

Pg 192:
//YO! Tooru!! Are you listening?!
You're a fuckin' slave driver, ya know that?!//
//vrooommmm//
//honk honk//
[SL: Haruyama: I can't even move my fuckin' body!]
Guy: Geezzz~I feel sick...
Guy #2: Owwww...
[SL: Guy: No thanks]
Guy: Fuck, this pisses me off so bad..
Guy #2: Why do we have to go through all this...
for a fucktard like him...
Richard: He just needs time...to cool off
[SL: Guy: How'd he grow up to be like that anyway?
Guy #2: Haha]
//ring ring//

Pg 193:
//ring ring//
[SL: Guy: If it wasn't for this---]
Guy: Yeahhh?
Guy: What?!
Guy: Is this Tooru-san?!
//straightens up//
Guy: Yes, she's here.
Guy: Kazuki,
it's for you.
Tooru: Kazuki?
Tooru: Come first thing tomorrow.
Tooru: You're gonna find something very interesting.
//wheeze wheeze//
//clank//

Pg 194:
Tooru: I'm good at making preparations, don't you think?
Tooru: She's gonna take away Haruyama.
Tooru: You sad about that?
Hiroko: Why
are you asking this?
//cock-a-doodle-do!//
//flutter flutter//
//wheeze wheeze//
//cock-a-doodle-do!//
//flutter flutter//
//vrooom vroommm//

Pg 195:
//vroom vroom//
//vroommmm//
//wheeze//
//vroommmmm//
//wheeze//
//chirp chirp//
//vroommmmm//

Pg 196:
//vroommmm//
//ha----ha---//

Pg 197:
//ha----ha---//
Kazuki: (That night---
the police came to arrest the head of the gang for the first time in years.
And Tooru-san...
disappeared.)

END OF CHAPTER 8
END OF VOLUME 2