Hot Road Volume 4

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

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

Pg 3:
Kazuki: Don't go Haruyama

HOT ROAD
Tsumugi Taku

Pg 4:
Teacher: It's about time you had a serious talk with your mother
//kyaaaa!//
//thud thud thud//
Teacher: You can't stay at Morishita's house forever,
and you have high school to think about too.
//AHAHAH//
Teacher: Your mother will be coming here after school today.
Teacher: We can talk it over, just the three of us.
Teacher: Now don't you go running away.

Pg 5:
//step step step step//
//hahaha! you suck at drawing!//
//kyaaaa!//
//step step step//
//whoaaaa!//
//Heyy! You there! Don't step on the paper!!//
//ahahahahhahaa did you see what div.3's class's doing?!//
//knock knock//
//clatter//

Pg 6:
Woman: Takatsu-sensei
Woman: I just received a phone call from Miyaichi-san's mother.
Woman: She said she's unable to come today
Woman: because she's not feeling very well.

Pg 7:
//kyaaa!//
Teacher: Miyaichi...
//ahahhahaa//
Teacher: Your mother...
Teacher: is a coward...isn't she?

Pg 8:
Teacher: Please try to understand.
From our perspective, she may come across as selfish
Teacher: but even selfish people have emotions.
Teacher: Are you aware
Teacher: that she's hurt because of something that happened with the person she's dating?
Teacher: I understand how you are scared to face her
Teacher: But even so,
Teacher: don't you agree that you should have come to school today?

Pg 9:
//ahahahahaha!
No wayyyy!
Hiroko-san toooo?!//
//Yeah, Hiroko-san ran with us too. It was back in grade 9----
So were you able to get away?
Yeah, we managed. We were pretty fast runners//
Kazuki: Hey, what happened to your arm?
Girl: What?
Girl: Oh that?
A long time ago, I etched the name of the guy I liked at that time, and it ended up never fading
Kazuki: What'd you use?
Eri: Realllyyy! I never knew that!!!
Girl: A safety pin.
Kazuki: Oh...
Eri: What? Are you thinking about doing it?
Girl: Don't. It's gonna leave a mark forever
Kazuki: I'll do it really lightly....
//ring ring//
Girl: I got into a LOT of trouble because of this with the guy I'm dating now
Eri: Did he get mad?
Girl: Haha, YEAH! I thought he was gonna knock me out or something!
Eri: Yeah, but I can kinda understand why he'd be pissed---
//ring ring//
//Heyyy//

Pg 10:
//ring ring//
//Heyyy! Someone pick up the phoneee!//
Eri: Geez...okay OKAY! I got it! I got it!
Girl: Don't go too deep. What're you writing? "Hiroshi"?
Kazuki: Hehe
//step step step//
//ring ring//
Girl: Hey, I saw Haruyama the other day.
Girl: He's changed lately.
Girl: It's probably just that he matured, you know?
Girl: But his eyes... they looked really scary. I didn't even have the guts to go up and talk to him
Kazuki: ....Yeah
Girl: But yeah, they have their own world, and we have ours, so---
Kazuki: (I...)
Girl: Yeah, girls are fine without knowing what's going on in the gang.
Kazuki: (can never live alone...)
Kazuki: Ow....
Girl: What are you doing?!
Girl: You went too deep!!

Pg 11:
Girl: Idi...ot...why did you---
here.
Kazuki: I just...
Kazuki: felt like being mean to myself a little...
Girl: Geez, are you out of your mind---
//step step step step//
Eri: hey!
Eri: Kazuki,
it's senpai!
Eri: Haruyama-senpai!
//What! No way!
thud thud thud
Way to go!
Hurry!
He's calling from a pay phone//
//If my old hag finds out about this---
CLATTER
Shut up...
Eriii!! Who's it frommm?//

Pg 12:
//It's from a frienddd!//
//Hurry!//
//Here...//
//vrooommm//
//vroommmm//
Kazuki: ....Hello?
Haruyama: It's me.
//vrooommm//
Haruyama: How's it going?
//vrooommmm//
Kazuki: It's...going okay.
//vrooommm//

Pg 13:
[no text]

Pg 14:
//vrooommmmm//
Kazuki: ...Hello?
Haruyama: Wanna meet?
Haruyama: I
Haruyama: wanna see you
//vroommmm//
Haruyama: I wanna see you--

Pg 15:
//vrooommm//
Haruyama: I...
//vrooom//
//vrooom//
Kazuki: Hello?
Haruyama: Just kidding.
Haruyama: See ya.
Haruyama: You should just find some nice guy
Haruyama: and be happy---
//vrooommm//
//heyy!//
//what? What's going on?//
//Hey! That's not what you were gonna say!//

Pg 16:
Haruyama: See ya
//vrooommm//
Haruyama: Here.
I don't need it anymore.
//Heyy, come on---//
Kazuki: Haru....
Kazuki: IDIOT!!
Kazuki: You IDIOT! IDIOT! IDIOT! IDIOT!
Kazuki: IDIOT! RETARD!
Kazuki: MONKEY!
//hahahaha//
Haruyama: You...little...
//AHAHAHAHA//
//CLATTER//
Kazuki: You think you can just say all that you want and I'm gonna just stand there and take it?! Are you out of your fucking mind?!

Pg 17:
Richard: Yah! Tell her sister!
//vrooommm//
//You be quiet!//
//Yahhh! Go Go Kazuki!//
//Go at it! Go at it!//
Haruyma: PIG!
Kazuki: Don't act like you're so cool!
Haruyama: Shut up! Ugly bitch!
//Stop it//
//AHAHHAHA//
//AHAHAHA//
//thump thump//
//Yahhh! Round 2!!! clap clap
Fuck, why're you putting in more money----
Why nottt?
Because I don't fuckin' need it! Hang up already---//
//thump//
//What're you getting so pissed for? GYAAAa//
Kazuki: ...don't need you.
//I'm TELLING YOU to HANG UP!!!//
Kazuki: ...even....
Kazuki: ...without...you....
//Oh! Here's my 10 Yen!//
//AHAHAHAHA//
//Heyyy! show me your hand!
What the fuckkkk---
Then what're you closing your hand into a fist for?!//
Haruyama: Hang up.

Pg 17:
Richard: But...hey, wait---
Haruyama: Hang up already!!
//clatter//
Kazuki: ...ruyama!
Kazuki: I love you!
Kazuki: You're the only one I have!
Kazuki: Come...
pick me up already....

Pg 18:
//BEEEPPPPP//
//BEEPP BEEPP//
Eri: I wonder...if he heard...
Eri: what she said....
//BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEP//

Pg 19:
BEEP----BEEP---
//Yay! Yay! BANG//
[sign reads: "Do your best!"]
Guy: Yo Miyaichi! [SL: Whoa, look at that over there!]
Someone's calling for you by the gates
Guy: Is he the guy you're going out with?
//Yayyy! Yayyy!//
//Kyaaaa Kyaaaa//
//And the results for the race are in---//
Kazuki: ....No
//First place....Blue
Second place...Blue
and the Third Place goes to....White//
Richard: Yesterday
Richard: on the phone,
Richard: what he was really---

Pg 20:
Richard: wanting to ask was
Richard: whether you were serious about being with him
Richard: If you
Richard: go with him, your life might end up...becoming really fucked up
Richard: Are you
Richard: okay with that?
//BANG//
//Yayyy Yayyy//
Eri: Eh...
what's going on?
//dashhhh//
Eri: What?
What's happening?!

Pg 21:
//BANG Gooo! Goo!
Those participating in the obstacle race----
please gather at the
...starting point
I repeat----
Those participating in the obstacle race---//
//yayyy! Goooooo!//
//---starting point//
Teacher: Mi...
Miyaichi...!
//pulls//
Kazuki: (I don't need anything)

Pg 22:
Haruyama: Hop on.
//vrooom vroommm//
//DON'T GO! DON'T GO Miyaichi!!!//
Kazuki: (I won't run away)
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: (I won't run away from him. Ever.)
//Miyaichi!!//
Kazuki: (I don't know what he's gonna do)
Kazuki: (and I might end up crying even more)
Eri: Whoaaa! No wayyy!
Way to go Kazuki!!
Kazuki: (and I'm...
filled with more doubts than ever before...)

Pg 23:
Kazuki: (but I love him...)
//vrooom vroomm vroooommm//
//slap//
Haruyama: What the fuck've you been doing lately...
Kazuki: (So please....
So please...)
Kazuki: (don't take Haruyama away from me...)

Pg 24:
//vrooommm//
///vrooommmm//
//vrooommm//
//vrooomm//
Kazuki: I won't...come here anymore.
Kazuki: This...will be my last time.
//vrooomm//
Haruyama: Okay.
//vrooommm//

Pg 25:
Kazuki: (I was always running....
I know that things aren't always going to go as I want them to...
....even though it's fun, at the same time it's really scary....
this feeling reaches even the tips of my fingertips...)
Kazuki: (This will be my last time)
//vrooom vrooommmm//

Pg 26:
Kazuki: (I...)
//Whoaaa It's friggin' cold!
splash splash
What a loser!
Fucker, you---
Heyyy now now!//
//ring ring//
//Haruyama! Phone call!//
//Here, here//
//kyaaa! kyaa!//
//clank//
Guy: Did the cut on your ear heal yet?
Guy: It's Akane from Bakutou.
//splashhhh Kazuki-chann!! Over here!
Okayy!//
Haruyama: Who?
Guy: ....Ha.
That look you had that time, I dunno why, but it fuckin' pissed me off

Pg 27:
//clank//
Guy: We've got some shit to deal with the Yakuza too, so we don't have the time to deal with shrimps like you
//clank//
//HAHAHAHA//
Guy: Must be some fun party letting useless brats into your gang.
Guy: We told "Sekidan" to leave you alone though
//swish//
Guy: 'cause we're the ones who should be dealing with you
//SQUEAKKK//
Haruyama: And?
Guy: You little...fuckin---
Guy: ...Ya seem to like fuckin' jokes, I hear---
//hahahaha//
Guy: We're not gonna let you pull the same fuckin' stunt like last time

Pg 28:
Guy: We're not
Guy: gonna
Guy: let you escape
Kazuki: (So please...
don't take Haruyama away from me)

END OF CHAPTER 14

Pg 29:
//splash//
//splash//
//splash...//

Pg 30:
Kazuki: (My only memory...is of the tulips)

Pg 31:
Kazuki: (The amusement park..)
Kazuki: (and the large, warm hands)
Kazuki: (of my daddy.)
//vrooomm..
Woman: Eri!
Eri: Whattt?
Woman: Let me talk to Kazuki-chan!
//vroommm//
Kazuki: Hello?

Pg 32:
Woman: What are you planning to do?
You have no where to go, do you?
Kazuki: I do.
Woman: To that boy's house?
//vrooommm//
Woman: I won't allow that to happen!!
//My old hag's got some guts---//
Kazuki: I'll make sure I go to school.
Woman: No, that still won't do!
What are you going to do about money?
You'll just end up getting into a fight with that boy again!
You can't honestly think things will work out well for long!
Kazuki: I'm sorry...
Eri's mom.
//vrooomm//
Woman: ...Why
can't you say that to your mother?
Woman: She came over last night, and she was very upset---
Kazuki: (My mom has nothing to do with this...)
Kazuki: How do you know she was upset?
Kazuki: (I seriously don't want...to see her face)
Woman: How do I know?! She was crying!
Kazuki: She's always crying.

Pg 33:
Kazuki: She cries, and then she asks "why? why?". That's all she ever does.
Kazuki: If that's all she ever does, then nothing will ever come out of it.
Kazuki: (Her daughter's going out with some guy in a gang,
and the guy's doing stuff that'll land him in juvenile hall if he gets caught)
Kazuki: (She thinks I'm not normal)
Kazuki: I might just be running away...
but she's doing the same thing
Kazuki: (She doesn't even know that I think about all sorts of stuff...)
Kazuki: If she has something she wants to say to me, she should say it to my face
Kazuki: (She doesn't know anything)
Kazuki: She's stupid being scared about stuff she knows nothing about---
Kazuki: She's just looking for me because it's her responsibility to watch over me, isn't she?
So in the end, all she's thinking about is herself
Woman: That's not true!
No matter what, children are always important to their mothers!
//vroommm//
Kazuki: (I)

Pg 34:
//screechh screechh//
Kazuki: (I)
Kazuki: If she wants me to go back home
Kazuki: If she REALLY wants me to,
Kazuki: then she should just say so.
Kazuki: Even if it means that she has to hit me and drag me back.
Kazuki: (In the back of my mind I was always thinking this)
//screechhh screechh//
Kazuki: (...me, and you....)
Kazuki: (---not....)

Pg 35:
Kazuki: (I'm not making you cry because I want to)
Kazuki: (To hate someone...
is really tiring....)

Pg 36:
//clank clank//
Guy: But ya know what happened last time? Give me a break, will ya?
//clank//
Guy: If you didn't say to do it, then I woulda just not gone through with it
Guy #2: But all the senpai were like helping out too ya know, like they didn't have a choice
//Jun---!
Hey, get outta the way there for a sec--//
//gone right to their heads haha//
//noise noise//
//yeahh!
like it was a fuckin' party---
I knoww!//
Shigeru: Everyone beat up one of the top guns who was like, dealing some weird shit [SL: Heheh]
//clank//
Kazuki: ....Oh
//noise noise//
Richard: But ya really changed in the past bit. You think more carefully about stuff now
//tap//
Haruyama: Huh?
Richard: Guess you've finally become an adult now, huh?
Haruyama: What the fuck? Haha
Kazuki: (There are so many things I still don't know)
//heyyy you're fuckin' drunk---//
Guy: Oh yeah, it's your birthday soon
Guy #2: When?
Guy #3: Next week
//clank//
Guy #3: Oohh over the long weekend?
Richard: That's not my point! //hiccup//
Guy #4: Reallyy?
Haruyama: Oh yeah, I guess that's why
//noise noise//
Haruyama: the chick I used to date was asking if she could see me
//Hey, hey Kazuki-sannnn!//

Pg 37:
Guy: Who? Mihoko?
Haruyama: Nahh
//Look at this!!//
//My old man drew this for mee!//
//And he was saying stuff like how I should "go find a job" already~//
Guy: Are ya gonna see her?
Kazuki: ...Yeah
Haruyama: Probably won't. It's a waste of time, ya know?
Guy: Hey, you mean THAT girl?
//whisper whisper//
//AHHAHAHAHAHA//
//Kazuki-sannnnn I---//
Haruyama: Yeah! That's her!
//I have my eyebrows bleached, and I---//
Haruyama: Haha, and I like fucked up,
and like took it out too early, ya know?
//AHAHAHAHA//
Guy: Your girl can hear you
Haruyama: Haha, she probably doesn't even understand what I'm saying anyway
//SLAM//
//Ahh!//
//Whoa-----!//
Kazuki: What!
Haruyama: You're a chick,
Haruyama: so you should start acting more like one.
Haruyama: -----Especially since you're a WOMAN now
//tap//
//HAHAHAHHAHA//

Pg 38:
//oh REALLLY~~//
//ohhh//
//HAHAHAHA//
Kazuki: Don't tell them lies!!
Haruyama: Whoaaaa~
//drops//
//you little---!//
//gyaa! gyaaa!//
//Hey, you're gonna spill it~//
//hey you guys!//
//awww what a waste!//
//clatter//
Guy: They're really going at it
//byeeee!//
//no wayyyy!//
//You guys're living together?!//
//I'm in shockkkk! I'm REALLY in shockkkk!//
//whoa! fuckin' disgusting!
Richardddd//
//I wanna live with Haru-san toooooooo WAHHHHHH//
Kazuki: Bye
//Heyyyy Kazuki-sannnnn!//
//gyaaa! gyaaa! vroom vrooom//
//step step//
Haruyama: Owww
Kazuki: W..hy....did you say what you did?
Haruyama: Huh?

Pg 39:
Kazuki: ...If you...say that kind of stuff in front of everyone...
[SL: Even if it's a joke] girls are gonna be hurt by it....
about Mihoko-san too....
saying how you slept with her and all that to everyone....
....I feel kinda sorry for her....
Haruyama: ...'right. [SL: Got ya]
Haruyama: You took that seriously?
Kazuki: Eh?
Haruyama: I couldn't lay one finger on Mihoko-san.
//thump//
//thump thump//
Kazuki: (...now I'm
even more hurt)
Kazuki: (I guess I just have to
get used to this)

Pg 40:
Kazuki: (I have to get used to
this feeling...of anxiety...)
Kazuki: (The warm....large...)
//vrooom vrooom vrooom vrooomm//

Pg 41:
//vrooom vrooomm//
Guy: Haruyama!
Guy: I heard ya became the head, so was lookin' forward to runnin' into ya
Guy: When NIGHTS was headed by Tamami-san
Guy: he got my back all sortsa times.
Haruyama: I have nothing to do with Tamami.
Haruyama: And
Haruyama: the NIGHTS've washed their feet clean
Haruyama: from those sorts of stuff.

Pg 42:
Guy: I...see...
pretty admirable of ya...
Guy: Oh yeah, and about "Bakutou"!
Guy: I wouldn't mind helpin' ya out
Guy: Call me any time.
Haruyama: I hate having to rely on other people
Guy: Haruyama!
Guy: Ya can go off and act so fuckin' high and mighty---
Guy: but it ain't as simple as ya think----

Pg 43:
//Anyway, let's get along, ya hear? See ya!
vrooommm//
Guy: What happened?
//thud//
//vrooommm//
//vrooommm//
//police siren//
Kazuki: (There are so many things)

Pg 44:
Kazuki: (I still don't know)
Haruyama: I---
Haruyama: got a lot of
Kazuki: what?
Haruyama: birthday presents.
//noise noise//
Haruyama: I don't know why, but I got a lot this time around.
Stuff like cups and cologne. [SL: All sots of stuff]
Haruyama: They come to the gas station
Haruyama: and they're pretty cute, ya know?
Kazuki: Good for you.
Haruyama: They're saying stuff like, how they don't care if I have a girlfriend.
Haruyama: They told me they liked me. Hahaha, whaddya think I should do?
//stalks off//
Kazuki: (What a jerk...Why do I---)
Haruyama: That's why---
Haruyama: I'm thinking maybe I should switch over to one of 'em, ya know?
//pissed off//

Pg 45:
Kazuki: Ahhh! This is cuteee!
Kazuki: It's soooo cute!
Kazuki: I want it---!
Kazuki: Buy it for me
Haruyama: You little fucker, whose birthday do you think it is?
//squeeze//
//lalalalalalalallala//
Kazuki: Where're we going?
Haruyama: Back home.
Haruyama: Tsuyoshi!!

Pg 46:
Haruyama: What're you getting all red for?
Kazuki: (I'm jealous....
of how he can go back home....on days like birthdays...)
//vrooom vrooommm//
Haruyama: What?
//vrooomm//
Haruyama: I wanted to watch some TV.

Pg 47:
Haruyama: Hey---!
What the fuck---
What're you
doing----
//vroomm vroomm//
//How is it?
Well let's see, the rain is pouring down harder by the minute---//
Haruyama: What does that have to do with anything?!
Haruyama: Bump him!!
//click//
//vrooommm//
//This winner of this race will probably be decided by how fast they can change the tires//
//...why bother changing the tires?! Just go already! Go!//
Mother: ...yoshi?
Mother: Tsuyoshi, are you home?
//But if you think about it, changing the tires is--//
Haruyama: What're you doing?
//tense//

Pg 48:
Mother: Hiroshi...
Haruyama: What's with the face?
Mother: Hiro....
Haruyama: That fuckin'----
//SLAM//
Mother: W-Wait!
Mother: Wait, Hiroshi!
Mother: Violence isn----

Pg 49:
//swish//
Haruyama: I know.
Kazuki: Haruyama!
Haruyama: Tsuyoshi!
Haruyama: You little fuckin'---
//whoaa//
Tsuyoshi: What's your problem!
Haruyama: What did you do?
Haruyama: You're still a fuckin' brat and you---
//slap//
Haruyama: Don't go around beatin' people and stealing their money, ya little fucker
Kazuki: Yah! Idiot!

Pg 50:
Haruyama: You should think more of your 'rents, ya know?
Kazuki: Yeahh!
Tsuyoshi: W-What...
Tsuyoshi: What gives you the right to say that!
Tsuyoshi: I...
want to be able to do anything I want...
Tsuyoshi: like you...
Tsuyoshi: I wanna ride a bike...
Tsuyoshi: and I wanna...
Tsuyoshi: be in a gang too....

PG 51:
Haruyama: Come with me
Haruyama: for a sec.
Haruyama: If you wanna ride so much, here.
It's all yours.
Kazuki: Eh...
Tsuyoshi: R-Really?!
Haruyama: Yeah.
This didn't cost much anyway.
//step step step//
//step step step clatter//
Kazuki: What're you gonna do..?
Haruyama: Stay back!
//SLAM//
//SWISH//

PG 52:
//CLANK//
//SMASH SMASH//
//CLATTER//
Haruyama: O..w....
//drops//
Haruyama: You can ride it when you learn how to fix it.
Haruyama: Got it?

Pg 53:
Kazuki: (....What he did was...just....wow...)
Haruyama: C'mon. Let's go.
//D-Damnit!!//
Haruyama: Geez, what a waste.
Oh well, guess there's nothing I can do about it now.
//I'll definitely----I'll definitely---//
Haruyama: I'm glad I still have the 4FOUR
//One day, I'll definitely---//
//One day, I'll definitely surpass you!!//
Kazuki: (I)

Pg 54:
Kazuki: (want to stay by his side
forever)
//vrooomm//
Haruyama: I wish I had
a little sister----
Haruyama: someone like you---
Haruyama: then I would've beaten the shit out of her and---
Haruyama: Just kidding.
Haruyama: I woulda been crazy about her
Haruyama: If Tsuyoshi was a little sister
I woulda been crazy about him.
//vrooomm//
Haruyama: If he was a girl
Haruyama: then I might've not left home

Pg 55:
Haruyama: And I might've been nicer to my old man
//vrooomm//
//Thank you for riding on----
The next stop is---//
Haruyama: My old man---
Haruyama: He doesn't drink, smoke cigarettes,
Haruyama: or drive a car.
Haruyama: He's really straight-laced, ya know?
Haruyama: When I was a kid, I used to think he was pathetic,
Haruyama: that he wasn't a real man
//The next stop is---
beep---//
Haruyama: But he's
Haruyama: always lived
Haruyama: for us.
Haruyama: He did stuff like built that small house--

Pg 56:
Kazuki: (He's thinking about lots of things...)
//noise noise//
Kazuki: What about your real dad?
//clank clank//
Haruyama: Don't know. He probably drank himself to death or somethin'
//noise noise//
Haruyama: I took after him.
//noise noise//
//friggin' cold--//
Kazuki: My daddy...
Haruyama: "Daddy"? Haha [SL: Brat]
Kazuki: Shut up---
Kazuki: At my house, there isn't even one photo of him.
My old hag's hidden them all.
Kazuki: (He looks like
he isn't listening---
but he is---)

Pg 57:
//noise noise//
Kazuki: That's why
Kazuki: my only memory of him
//The train will be arriving shortly at---//
Kazuki: is of the time me, him, and my old hag went to the amusement park together.
Kazuki: There were these big tulips blooming everywhere
Kazuki: (He looks like he isn't listening---
but he is---)
Kazuki: I...
Kazuki: feel sorry for him....
Kazuki: He dies
Kazuki: and the only memory his only daughter has left of him
is of that one time.
//swish//

Pg 58:
//swish//
Kazuki: I wonder what it's like
Kazuki: to die before everyone else?
Kazuki: I wonder what it feels like
Kazuki: to leave everyone behind?
//swish//
Haruyama: How would I know?
I've never died before.
Haruyama: But....
to leave everyone behind...

Pg 59:
Haruyama: would probably be really sad too, don't ya think?
//beep beep//
//noise noise noise noise//
Haruyama: What are ya
Haruyama: gonna do from now on?

Pg 60:
//noise noise//
Kazuki: (I can't tell him
that I'll stay by his side forever)
Kazuki: (Because he has a future ahead of him,
and that future doesn't include just me)
Kazuki: ...Yeah
//bump//
//noise noise//

Pg 61:
//noise noise//
Kazuki: (In this world,
we're insignificantly small)
//ring ring//
//noise noise//
[sign reads "Yakisoba"]
//noise noise//
//noise noise//

Pg 62:
//hey hey hey hey//
//noise noise//
Kazuki: Wait
here for a sec
//honk honk//
//thump//
//thump thump thump//
//...thump//

Pg 63:
//dash//
Kazuki: ("I wonder what it's like---to die before everyone else?")
Kazuki: ("I wonder what it feels like")
//thump//
Guy: Excuse me, miss---
Guy: Where are you---
Kazuki: ("to leave everyone behind?")
//thump//
Guy: Miss!
Guy: Hey.
//thump...//
Kazuki: ("But...
----would probably be really sad too, don't ya think?")
//thud thud thud//
Guy: Miss!

Pg 64:
Kazuki: Old hagg!
//noise noise//
//noise noise noise//
//Excuse me, but--//
Kazuki: What about....
Kazuki: ...What about daddy!! Then what happens to him, huh?!

Pg 65:
//close//
//noise noise//
//noise noise//
Kazuki: ("I'm not making
you cry
because I want to")

Pg 66:
//police siren//
//vrooomm//
//splash//
//splash//
Kazuki: (There's just one thing)
Kazuki: (I've wanted to ask
my mom)

Pg 67:
Kazuki: (Because I was always alone)
//click//
Kazuki: Hey
Kazuki: (...it was so painful...)
Kazuki: (that I could never conjure up the courage to ask)
Kazuki: You're awake, aren't you?
Kazuki: So what? I'm not your daughter anymore so you don't have to talk to me?
//squeeze//
Kazuki: Why won't you say anything?
Kazuki: If you have something to say
Kazuki: then say it to my face!
//grabs//

Pg 68:
//THUD//
//grabs//
//THUD//
Mom: ---don't know anything!
Mom: You don't know anything...
//sob//
Mom: You don't know
how much Suzuki-kun's suffered...
Mom: I was always thinking of you!
Mom: Each and everyday....
even when it was almost too much to bear....
Mom: ....he suffered with me....
he thought about you more than anyone!
Mom: So...
Mom: why won't you....understand....and be...

Pg 69:
Mom: ...like back when you were a child....
Kazuki: It's different from when I knew nothing about you.
Kazuki: Was my dad that bad of a person?
Kazuki: Was he so terrible
that he couldn't make you forget about that guy?
Kazuki: I don't know about you
Kazuki: but I was always alone.
Kazuki: Since I was a kid, I was always alone
Kazuki: Do you know what it feels like to be all alone in the world
Kazuki: with a mom who doesn't think much of you?!

Pg 70:
//THU..DD///
Kazuki: No matter...what kinda bad stuff I do....
Kazuki: in the end....I only have one place to go back to....
Kazuki: everyone's the same....
Kazuki: everyone...ends up...going home...like that...
Kazuki: but it makes me wonder....am I allowed to come home....
Kazuki: ....is there a place for me here...?
//sob//
Kazuki: If you're happier
being with
Kazuki: that guy
than you are with me

Pg 71:
Kazuki: then it makes me wonder....
Kazuki: is there really...
a place...
Kazuki: for me here....
Kazuki: Are you...listening to me....

Pg 72:
Haruyama: Hey,
Haruyama: do you hate her?
Haruyama: ....If you do
Haruyama: I'm gonna
Haruyama: take her with me.

Pg 73:
[no text]

Pg 74
[no text]


END OF CHAPTER 15

Pg 75:
Kazuki: ("Hey
do you hate her?
...If you do
I'm gonna")
Kazuki: ("take her with me---")

Pg 76:
Mom: Ah....
Mom: I....won't give her to you...
Mom: I..won't...give her to anyone....
Mom: There's....
Mom: There's no way a parent could hate her child!!

Pg 77:
Mom: There's no way....
I would hate her....

Pg 78:
Haruyama: Ya guys are weird, ya know that?
Haruyama: [SL: Ha!] You guys make me laugh
//vrooomm//
//vrooomm//
Haruyama: Aren't you
Haruyama: better off staying with her?
Haruyama: Hey, Kazu-chan?
//grabs//
//squeeze//
//sob//
//wahhhh//

Pg 79:
//wahhh wahhh//
Haruyama: No matter what they're like
Haruyama: a parent is a parent.
Haruyama: There's no changing that,
right?
Haruyama: I'm gonna go now

Pg 80:
Kazuki: I...I'm coming....
Kazuki: with...you...
Kazuki: I'm....
Haruyama: No.
Haruyama: I'll
Haruyama: call you later.
//thump
//thump//
//good nightttt//
//thump//
Kazuki: (I---)

Pg 81:
Kazuki: (felt like I'd been with him for a long time...
even more so than with my mom...)
//thump thump thump//
Kazuki: (I...)
Mom: You'll be..
taking a bath, won't you?
//splash//
Kazuki: (She's gotten older)

Pg 82:
//splash//
Kazuki: (I'm so full
I can't
eat any of this...)
Kazuki: (I can't see your face, or this house, because I'm so full.
I can't help it, I'm still a kid)
//clank clank//
Kazuki: (I can't just...
do a 180 overnight...)
Mom: Good morning
Mom: Are you going out?
Kazuki: Yeah
Mom: Oh...
Kazuki: (It's not like you)

Pg 83:
Kazuki: (to be walking on egg shells around your own daughter)

Pg 84:
[no text]

Pg 85:
Girl: So you and Eri are both going to school?
Kazuki: Yeah
//good for you! good for you!//
Girl #2: You guys're lucky. My school doesn't even care if I show up to school or not
And my parents are like, "please don't come home" [SL: They said "please", can you believe that?]
//hahahaha//
Girl #3: Haha what kinda parents are they?
//but senpai! They're giving me money so---//
//geezzz//
Girl: Oh yeah, are they gonna start something with "Bakutou" again?
Kazuki: Eh?
Eri: No way!
//vroom vroom//
//thump//
Girl: It's true! I'm pretty sure about it
My boyfriend said if they're gonna do it then he's gonna go along with them
I heard they've rounded up alot of guys, and it's gonna be pretty intense
//isn't this like the first BIG fight since we've joined?//
Girl: It isn't as fun and exciting as you make it out to be

Pg 86:
Girl: They never put it in the newspapers---
Girl: but there are guys who end up dying
//no wayyy really?!//
Girl: that's what my senpai said
Girl #2: They probably aren't thinking about stuff like that at all though
Girl #2: Once they get started, they can probably only see what's in front of 'em
Eri: Kazuki...
//thump thump//
//Whoaaa scarryyy Let's stop themmm!//
//Yeahh let's!//
Haruyama: Hey
//Kya!//
//Haruyama, you were here all this time?!//
Haruyama: Don't go 'round spreading rumours
//kyahahaha//
//thump thump//
Haruyama: Let me borrow her for a sec
Girl: "Rumours"? Oh you mean, then it's not true?
Girl #2: You guys aren't gonna have a fight?
Haruyama: Haha, why the fuck would we do that?
Haruyama: If you spread shit like that, this moron's gonna think it's true
Girl: Wow, that's a relief!
Haruyama: So don't go around saying shit like that, ya hear?
Haruyama: I'm gonna beat the crap outta ya if I hear that ya did!
//AHAHAHA//

Pg 87:
//thump ...thump//
Kazuki: (The night scenery
is reflected in his eyes...
it's so pretty)
//splash//
Haruyama: Why are you all quiet?
Haruyama: Are ya mad?
Kazuki-channnnn
Kazuki: (I)
Kazuki: (don't want to cry my eyes out anymore)
Kazuki: Are you...going to get into a fight?
//splash//
Haruyama: I told ya guys that it's not true
Kazuki: Haruyama
Kazuki: You can get mad all you want,
but just listen to me on this one, okay?

Pg 88:
Kazuki: I won't say anything else
Kazuki: Just this one time...I won't ask for anything more...
Kazuki: Don't go
Haruyama: Are you saying you can't trust me?
Haruyama: Look this way. Otherwise, I'm gonna get fuckin' pissed
Kazuki: ...You're important to me
Kazuki: I've never
Kazuki: felt this way about anyone before
//thump thump//

Pg 89:
Kazuki: It's the first time...
Kazuki: that I've cared for anyone more than myself....
Kazuki: (His eyes
are pretty...)
//splash//
//splash//
Haruyama: Kazuki---
Haruyama: Heyyy
//thump//
//thump//
Haruyama: Kazukiii
//thump//

Pg 90:
Haruyama: I quit
//pulls//
Haruyama: Hey, sorry
Haruyama: could you take her home for me?
Kazuki: But I...
Haruyama: Ya know----
//tense//
Haruyama: Don't become a girl who can't do anything without me

Pg 91:
Haruyama: Become a girl
Haruyama: who can throw me away any day
//vrooommm//
Haruama: Become a girl who'll make me want to chase after her even then
Eri: What happened? Did you guys get into a fight?
Haruyama: Yeah, sorry---
Haruyama: I'll catch up with you guys later---
there's gonna be a meeting tomorrow, so make sure to come, al'right? ---yeah...
//thump thump//

Pg 92:
//vrooom vrooom//
//vrooommmmm//
Kazuki: (I wish I was born a guy)
//---facing the---//
//noise noise noise//
Richard: Yeah, but they already know our plans, right?
Richard: So if we're gonna meet up, might as well make it here
//what'd the higher ups say?
they said they're gonna leave it to us
whatt the fuckkkk ya serious?//
Guy: Heyy Haruyama! Ya listening?
//...what if people don't show up?
we're gonna make 'em come
the guys who know what's going down, ain't gonna show up---
because it's gonna be fuckin' dangerous---
---so then we leave it to 'em---//
Haruyama: I am
Guy: Then tell me what day we're talkin' bout!
//yeah, so make 'em go ahead and stop traffic, ya know?
then we---//


Pg 93:
Haruyama: December 17th
Guy: That's the spirit!
//Retard~ Are ya playing around or what?
What? I'm not! It's because Haruyama---
Wanna go try riding there?
Yeah that might be a good idea---//
[board reads:

December 11th (Thursday) Daily Duties
Hey everyone, it's parent and teacher discussion day!
Do your best! <---about what?]
Kazuki: (There's a different scenery coming to school from home)
Kazuki: (It's so quiet)
Kazuki: (it makes me sleepy...)
[sign reads "Grade 9 Division 1
Parent and Teacher Meeting"]
//yawnnnn//
//When I told my old hag I wanted to become a hair stylist, she hit me upside the head~//

Pg 94:
//ahahahah//
Eri: You're making me worried
Eri: You haven't seen senpai at all, have you?
Are you okay?
//Woww it's collddd!//
Kazuki: I'm...not
Kazuki: but I have to stay level-headed, you know?
Kazuki: because I can't talk to him
Kazuki: (I have to be strong)
Teacher: First off, please give up any hopes of getting into a high-level public or private school
Teacher: Her grades so far as of this year have been very low
Mom: Yes, I'm sorry
Teacher: And since she hasn't taken the A-test, she's at a disadvantage---
Mom: Yes..I understand
Teacher: Even getting into an all-girls private school would depend completely on how much work she's willing to put n
Mom: Yes, I'm sorry.
Kazuki: (Why are you apologizing?)
Kazuki: (Even if I don't get to go to high school,
that wouldn't be your fault.
It's my punishment for
fooling around and doing whatever I wanted.)
Kazuki: (There's nothing
you need to apologize for--)
Teacher: This isn't something you have you apologize for.

Pg 95:
Teacher: Miyaichi
Teacher: I don't have to tell you for you to know how tough the real world is going to be, do I?
Teacher: If you really want to become independent,
Teacher: do that after you've built up a strong sense of self.
Teacher: Those who can go to high school
Teacher: should do so...
//fight-o! fight-o!//
Teacher: Mrs. Miyaichi,
It's very difficult for me to say this, but the truth of the situation is
Teacher: the other teachers, and the staff of this school, have mostly given up on her
Teacher: But we
Teacher: aren't in a position to be able to do that, now are we?
Mom: No---
Teacher: How is everything going?
//fight-o!//
Teacher: It must be challenging trying to bridge the gap that's developed between you and your daughter

Pg 96:
Teacher: I'll do my best regarding school and her studies.
So please,
Teacher: think about how you can best communicate with her
Teacher: ....because she is your child.
Mom: Kazuki
Mom: I...want you to meet
Suzuki-san.
//fight-o! fight-o!//
Mom: I want you to see for yourself what kind of person he is
Mom: If you don't want to meet him now, years on down the road is fine
Mom: If you meet him and you're still against our relationship

Pg 97:
Mom: I
Mom: won't see him anymore
Kazuki: I don't care
Kazuki: Tomorrow...
or the day after....
//vrooomm//
Kazuki: Eh?
Guy: It was...around a week ago, I think?
Kazuki: (No way)
Guy: Didn't he tell you?

Pg 98:
Kazuki: No...
Kazuki: (He...quit...)
Guy: I heard he hasn't gone back to his apartment either
Guy: Oh yeah, if you see him, could ya tell him for me
//thump thump//
Guy: that even though it's not my place to say, he should start settling down already?
Guy: That it'd be better that way
Kazuki: (Why...?)
Guy: and that it's boring here without him.
Kazuki: Hello?
Kazuki: May I please speak to Toshinobu-kun?
Richard: Hello?
//vrooomm//
Kazuki: Richard-san?
Richard: Oh...Kazuki?
Kazuki: ....
yeah...
Richard: He's fine
Richard: he's going around crashing at his friends' houses.

Pg 99:
//thump thump//
Kazuki: I heard this from someone...
that there might be a fight...
and that...
Richard: Sorry
Richard: but I can't tell you that kind of stuff
//thump//
Kazuki: ...Okay
I understand
Richard: Don't worry about it,
it'll be okay.
Richard: So don't sweat it.
I'll tell him
Richard: to phone you
//kyaaa kyaaa//
//thump thump//

Pg 100:
Kazuki: ("Don't become a girl who can't do anything without me")
Suzuki: Ah....
well....
I wonder what...
Suzuki: I should say...
Kazuki: (....Suzuki)
Kazuki: (he seemed nice enough...
and he seemed smart....
he was saying stuff like how he was an architect..or something...)

Pg 101:
Suzuki: During all that you were going through
we...
I mean, "I"....
in lots of different ways
I think
I've hurt you....
Kazuki: (It doesn't matter
What---
ever...)
//pour pour pour//
Kazuki: ("I won't see him anymore")
Suzuki: Sorry...
I'm just so nervous...
that I...
Suzuki: Oh, that's right!
Suzuki: Do you...remember?
Suzuki: One time

Pg 102:
Suzuki: you, your mother and I went to the amusement park---
//clatter//

Pg 103:
Kazuki: (...p me...)
Kazuki: (Help....me)
Kazuki: (Haruyama...)
//clank clank//
//clatter//
//vrooommm//

Pg 104:
Mom: I'm sorry, but Toshinobu hasn't come home in a while
//meowwww meowww//
//meoowwww meoowwwww//
Mom: he was saying how he was going to be staying over at a friend's house--
//meoowww meoowww//
Guy: Hey, about how much longer?
Guy #2: ---an hour
//it's so cooolllddd//
Guy: Yeah well, we can just go there and if there's not enough of us we can just quit and head home
//hahahaha//
//friggin cold----//
//ahhhh I can't stand itt//
//shiver shiver//
Guy: What about Haruyama?
Guy #2: He went to get some stuff he needs
Guy #2: He said he was gonna go straight there.
Guy: Oh yeahhh didn't he have a really bad cold?
Guy #2: Who? Haruyama?
Guy: Yeah, I think he probably has a fever---
//whoaaaa seriously?//
Guy: But he was laughing
and fooling around like usual
Guy #2: Oh...

Pg 105:
//wheeze wheeze//
//ha...//
Kazuki: (Haruyama...)
Haruyama: ....What are you---
//thud//
Kazuki: Haruyama
Haruyama: What are you doing here?
Haruyama: Why...
Haruyama: did you show up
Haruyama: on a day like today...?
//squeeze//
Kazuki: (I wanted to see you---)
Kazuki: (I wanted to see you so much---)

Pg 106:
Haruyama: My head hurts--
Kazuki: You have a really high fever!
Haruyama: Hey---when'd you come?
Kazuki: Three days ago [SL: Hey, where'd you put the medicine they gave us when we got food poisoning?]
Haruyama: No way!
Kazuki: Haha, just kidding. I got here a few hours ago.
//ya little bugger!//
Haruyama: Owwww
//cough cough/
Haruyama: Did you have a fight with "mommy" again?
Kazuki: ...No
Kazuki: (Because I was able to hear his voice...)
//cough cough//
Kazuki: I'm okay now
//miiinn miinnn//
Haruyama: Ugly bitch
Kazuki: What'd you just call me!
//meowwww meowwwww//

Pg 107:
Haruyama: I'm...
going delirious...because of my fever
Kazuki: But you're always like that!
//Whaddya just say?!//
//meowww meoowwww//
//hehe//
Haruyama: Yeah----
Haruyama: about parents, ya know---
Haruyama: there's not much you can do about it...they have to their own lives too, ya know?
Haruyama: Even if they do something to piss ya off...
Haruyama: you can...just...think that, ya know?
//wheeze wheeze//
//thump//
//cough cough//
Kazuki: Y..eah...
Haruyama: Kazuki---
//wheeze wheeze//
Haruyama: Go buy me something, will ya?

Pg 108:
Haruyama: Go buy me a drink
Kazuki: Okay
If they have some cold medicine, I'll buy that too
Haruyama: Oh yeah, get me the one that has Kyon Kyon on the bottle--- ["Kyon Kyon" refers to Koizumi Kyoko, a popular idol back in the 80's]
Haruyama: oh, or the one that has Nodoka on it
Kazuki: If they have it, sure.
//be a good girl and wait for me, okay?
meoowwww//
Haruyama: Stay over tonight---
//cough cough//
Haruyama: Go phone home already
Kazuki: Okay
//meowww meoowww meeoowww//
Haruyama: Oh yeah, and some milk too
//meowowww meoowww meeoowww//
Haruyama: She's fuckin' noisy
//vrooomm//
Kazuki: Hello?
Kazuki: mom?
Kazuki: ("they're living
their own lives too, ya know?")
Kazuki: I don't mind if...

Pg 109:
Kazuki: you marry him...
//vrooom vrooom//
Haruyama: C'mhere.
//SLAM//
//MEOWWw MEOOWWWW//
//rustle rustle//
//Heyy what's the problemmm?! It'll only be for a seccc//
Haruyama: Were ya about to die?
//meowww meoow meoowww//
Haruyama: Poor kitty--
Haruyama: Hey, when she gets back---
Haruyama: will ya tell her for me
//meooww meooww//

Pg 110:
Haruyama: that once this is done and over with,
Haruyama: I won't make her worry anymore
Haruyama: Tell her,
that I love her.
Haruyama: Haha, just kidding!
//MEOOWWWWWW rustle rustle//

Pg 111:
Haruyama: It woulda been nice...
Haruyama: if you could talk...
Haruyama: ("You're important to me")
Haruyama: ("I've never felt this way about
anyone before..")
//wheeze wheeze wheeze wheeze wheeze//
Haruyama: ("It's the first time...
I cared for anyone more than myself")
Richard: It's time
//wheeze//
//clank//
Haruyama: If I can't even take care of one girl....
Haruyama: then I'm not fit to be a guy---
//vrooom voroom vrooom vrooommm//

Pg 112:
Guy: Haruyama didn't show up---
Guy #2: Wanna wait for him?
Guy #3: Fuck that motherfucker! That fuckin'---
Guy #4: Yeah, but why don't we---
//vrooom vrooom vrooommm vrooommm//
//maybe he fuckin' passed out on the highway or somethin'?//
Richard: //whisper// It's better...
Richard: if he doesn't show up...
//vrooommm vrooommm vrooommm//
Guy: Guess we have no choice but to go without 'im!
Guy #2: We can't stop 'em!

Pg 113:
Guy: It's the police!
Guy #2: Shit
It's already past 3.
Guy #2: Were they just fuckin' with us about meeting us here or what?
Guy #2: Or did they just chicken out?
Guy #3: Boss, they're not someone the "Bakutou" should waste their time on---
Guy #4: Yeah, when their leader's that fuckin' brat, haha
//hahaha//
//vrooomm//
Guy: Are they here?
Guy #2: Nah, those are our guys.

Pg 114:
Guy: They're being chased by the police
//vrooomm//
Guy #2: Whatttt
Guy: And everyone's busy tryin' to run away from 'em
//geezzzz//
//ahahaha//
//there were so many police cars, ya wouldn't have fuckin' believed it---
there were some guys who got caught----
if they come around here though, might be bad news, ya know?---//
Leader: What happened to Haruyama?
Guy: Sorry, I don't know---
Guy: But from how things looked,
they're probably gonna arrest 'im
//ahahahhahaha//
//thanks for the newss
hahahaha//
Guy #2: So yeah, boss, we should just go----
//SLAM//
Leader: What a fuckin'...
Leader: let down....
//wheeze wheeze//

Pg 115:
Haruyama: Hey...
what's....
//wheeze wheeze//
Haruyama: Wait...
//wheeze wheeze//
Haruyama: Wait...what's...
//police siren//
//click//
//vrooommm//
//wheeze//
//police siren//
//wheeze//
//vrooommmmmm//
//wheeze//
//wheeze//

Pg 116:
//HONK HONK//

Pg 117:
//HONKKKK//

Pg 118:
//splash...//
//splashhhh//
//splashhh//
Haruyama: ("Once this is done and over with...
I won't...")

Pg 119:
//splash//
//meowww meooowww meoowwww//
//meoooowww meoooowww meooowww//

Pg 120:
[ no text]

Pg 121:
Kazuki: (Haruyama
flew 5 metres
into the air)

Pg 122:
[no text]

END OF CHAPTER 16

Pg 123:
Kazuki: (I was so scared)
Kazuki: (I was so scared)
Kazuki: (I was always
so scared)

Pg 124:
Kazuki: (that he would disappear off somewhere,
and that he wouldn't come back)

Pg 125:
[no text]

Pg 126:
[ notext]

Pg 127:
//splash splash//

Pg 128:
Kazuki: You're...
just...lying...
Richard: I'm not!
Richard: Just hop on already!
//splash splash//
//vrooommm//
Richard: I don't know that mucha bout the details either
Richard: but---
//splash splash splash//

Pg 129:
Richard: they're saying...
Richard: it looks really bad...
//splash//

Pg 130:
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: (He's....just lying...)
//splash splash splash//
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: (Haruyama's laughing)
Kazuki: (He's definitely
just fooling around again.)
Kazuki: (It's always been that way
It's always been that way)
//splash splash//

Pg 131:
Kazuki: (Like always...)
//swish//
//thud thud//
Kazuki: (he'll...)
Kazuki: (laughing---)
//thud thud//
Richard: Tsuyoshi...
Richard: How is he?!
Tsuyoshi: Ah...
they finished surgery around two...
Richard: Did he regain consciousness?
Tsuyoshi: N-No...
Tsuyoshi: He hit his head really hard...because he wasn't wearing a helmet...
Kazuki: (Haruyama?)
Tsuyoshi: He had bandages wrapped all around him...
Richard: AND?!
Tsuyoshi: The doctor told us we should be prepared for the worst....

Pg 132:
Tsuyoshi: he said...if he regains consciousness, that it'll be a miracle....
Tsuyoshi: He's more likely to...become a vegetable....
Tsuyoshi: or die....
Kazuki: (Haruyama)
//TH..UD....//
Kazuki: Where...are you?
Kazuki: Where are you, Haruyama?
Kazuki: Let me see him...
Kazuki: I want to see him!!

Pg 133:
Kazuki: I want to see him!!

Pg 134:
//splash//
//noise noise//
Guy: I talked to him last night,
and he was like usual, ya know?
//----got caught
---then he's gonnna----
the ones who were riding in the back were let go----
---I've let them know----//
Guy: He was laughing and saying shit like,
how he caught a cold because he fell asleep in the kotatsu [kotatsu=table with a heater underneath]
Guy: I can't believe it
Guy: I can't believe it----

Pg 135:
Guy: How is he?
Guy #2: Then Kazuki was at Haruyama's apartment this whole time?
Richard: Yeah
Guy #2: Then
Guy #2: they got a chance to see each other
Guy #2: They got to talk....
Nurse: There are more and more people arriving....
I feel really bad for her, but we can't let her stay there overnight
Nurse: She's been like that since this morning
Nurse #2: I wonder if she'll be all right?

Pg 136:
Richard: The other day---
Richard: you phoned about Haruyama quitting the gas station, remember?
Richard: Before that, we had this NIGHTS meeting,
Richard: and when we were walking home,
I forgot why----
Richard: but we got into a fight...
Richard: and he was like, out of control, ya know?
Richard: All of a sudden, he started talking about you....
Richard: and he was saying stuff like how you didn't know anything about him

Pg 137:
Richard: and how he wasn't as good of a person as you thought him to be
Richard: and how when he's with the gang, he doesn't think about you at all,
he can say lies without feeling guilty....
Richard: and he's done a lot of bad shit, but that you don't know any of that---
//splash//
Haruyama: "Up until now"
Haruyama: "I did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted"
Haruyama: "Even if I made a chick cry, or if they got tired of me,
I thought there wasn't much I could do about it, ya know?"

Pg 138:
Haruyama: "I never thought about what was gonna come up ahead,
and I said stupid shit that made no sense like
how when I die, I was gonna die riding"
Haruyama: "That's why----
in the beginning, I was just gonna fuck her and have some fun, ya know? Like I always did
But I...don't know why...I couldn't lay a hand on her"
Haruyama: "I thought she's a selfish brat, ya know? I couldn't keep her in check,
but she kinda reminded me of me. I thought that was kinda fuckin' neat"
Haruyama: "Inside though, ya know, she's really pure"
Haruyama: "And...yeah....
that's kinda...like...yeah...she's strong...ya know?"

Pg 139:
Kazuki: ("Retard---!
Ugly bitch---!")
Haruyama: "It makes me wanna protect her, ya know? Like I'm some fuckin' idiot.
But....I don't think...that I'd be able to protect her...being the person I am now"
Kazuki: (I don't understand)
Haruyama: "It makes me think, ya know? Like am I that important to her even then?"
//noise noise//
//Yeah, so let me know if anything happens
Okay//
Haruyama: "When I think about what might happen to her"
Kazuki: (I...don't understand)
Haruyama: "if I suddenly disappear,
I don't know why, but it makes me feel really sorry for her, ya know?"
[sign reads: No visitors]
//noise//

Pg 140:
Richard: "It makes me feel sorry for her, ya know?"
Richard: ...that's what he said
Kazuki: (My chest...hurts)
Richard: I...never saw him like that before
Richard: Then, he was like....
laughing...and saying "If I get into this fight, she might dump me for real"
Richard: I told him to step down as the leader....
but he said he couldn't just yet....
Kazuki: (I can't breathe)
Richard: He said "But
Richard: I might end up changing my life
Richard: for this one girl"

Pg 141:
Richard: That's what he said....
Richard: so there's no way....
Richard: he'd just die...and leave you alone....
Kazuki: (Haruyama
won't...move)
Kazuki: (Haruyama
won't move)
Richard: there's just...no way....
Nurse: Today, we're restricting visitors to family members only---
//whattt//
//noise noise//
Eri: Ah
Eri: Kazuki!
Eri: Kazuki!

Pg 142:
Eri: Ah...
Eri: Why?!
Girl: Eri
Eri: Why?!
Eri: Why do you guys have to go through something like this?!
Eri: This is too much....
Eri: There's just....
Girl: That's why...I told you guys being in a gang isn't cool....
Girl: Hiroko said it too
Girl: I'm tired of seeing stuff like this happen
Eri: I-I....
Narrator: (Where are you going?)
Narrator: (Home. We can come again tomorrow early in the morning)
Eri: I always...looked up to him....
Eri: even when...he was doing really dangerous stuff....
Narrator: (Why? I want to stay here)
Eri: even when...he had cuts and bruises all over him...I thought like how cool he was....
even when Kazuki was really worried about him....
I thought it was just all...fun and games......

Pg 143:
Eri: I feel like such an idiot....
Narrator: (Kazuki....
I want to stay here
I want to----)
Eri: I won't say that I look up to him doing that kind of stuff ever again.
So somebody please----
Eri: (Help Haruyama-senpai!
Don't let him die!
Don't let Kazuki cry anymore!)
Kazuki: (I want to stay with Haruyama)
Eri: (Please...help them...)

Pg 144:
Voices: Hey, did ya hear?
Whatt---I can't hear you
I heard the leader of NIGHTS got into some accident
What?! I heard he got arrested! So what? Did he die?
Dunno.
How old's he?
17
Whoa, he's so young and he---
I heard his brain was like, all fucked up, ya know?
Seriously!?
Yeah, that's what I heard---
They were saying how he might become a vegetable for the rest of his life
Oh really?
I wonder how his girlfriend's handling it
That's so sad!
Yeah, and it's almost New Years---
Yeah----
//clatter clatter clatter//

Pg 145:
//clatter clatter//
Girl: Hey, what's Kazuki been up to?
//sob sob//
Girl #2: I heard she's going back and forth. I guess she's at home right now
//sob//
[SL: To think I can't hear Haruyama's voice...i-it's---]
Girl: No way!
Girl: If I was her, I'd find a way to stay!
Girl: If she's his girlfriend, then wouldn't it be normal to stay by his side?
Girl: Oh yeah, and I heard that she doesnt cry
Girl #2: She must be pretty strong then
Girl #3: Ah, Tsuyoshi
Tsuyoshi: How would you guys...
Tsuyoshi: know what's going inside someone else's head...
Tsuyoshi: You guys don't even know how much pain she's in---

Pg 146:
Tsuyoshi: so don't talk about her like that!!
//rustle//
Mother: Hello?
No, Haruyama-kun hasn't---
Mother: She
Mother: hasn't spoken in 10 days
Mother: She doesn't say one word at the hospital or at home.
Mother: And she doesn't try to eat anything either.
Mother: So I received some medicine from the doctor,
Mother: and I force her to take them...

Pg 147:
Mother: but she throws them up
Mother: She throws them all up
//chirp chirp//
Suzuki: Kazuki-chan,
I understand that you're so worried, you don't feel like eating anything
Suzuki: But if you keep this up for any longer, it won't be good for your body
Do you understand?
Suzuki: It doesn't matter what, just get something in your stomach.
//chirpc hirp//
Suzuki: Just like how
Haruyama-kun's life is important to you---

Pg 148:
Suzuki: your life is important to Haruyama-kun.
//chirp chirp//
Suzuki: ...It's no use
it's as if my words aren't reaching her ears at all
Suzuki: We can't let her stay like this,
it might be better for a doctor to take a look at her
Mother: I'm sorry to have you come...so early in the morning
Suzuki: If worst comes to worst, the only one who'll be able to support her is you
Suzuki: To experience the death of someone she loves at the age of 15
Suzuki: is too heavy of a burden...

Pg 149:
Kazuki: (....No)
/splash//
Kazuki: (this is a dream)
Kazuki: (I'm just having a nightmare)
//splash//
Kazuki: (Where are you, Haruyama?)
Kazuki: (You're just fooling off somewhere again, right?)
Kazuki: (I want to wake up
then it'll be all back to normal...)
Kazuki: (He'll be laughing...
and calling me stuff like "retard")
Mother: Kazuki, it's time.
Get ready to leave....

Pg 150:
Mother: Kazuki?
Kazuki: (I'm so lonely)
KazukI: eh?
Mother: To the hospital....
Kazuki: Hospital?
Mother: ...Haruyama-kun's....
Kazuki: Haruyama?
Mother: Kazuki?
Kazuki: Haruyama....
Kazuki: so...this is real...?

Pg 151:
Mother: Kazuki!
//crash//
//ahhhh!//
Kazuki: NO! LET ME GO!
Mother: Watch out!
Mother: Calm down!
Kazuki: NOOOOOOOOO!
Kazuki: ("...How would I know?
I've never died before.
But....
to leave everyone behind...
would probably be really sad too, don't ya think?")
Kazuki: HARUYAMA!
Mother: Kazuki!
Kazuki: ("Don't become a girl who can't do anything without me")
Kazuki: WHY, you idiot?!?!
Mother: Kazuki...
//AHHHHHH//
Kazuki: I'm gonna die with you!
Mother: Kazu....
Kazuki: If Haruyama's gonna die, then I'm---
Mother: Kazuki!

Pg 152:
//SLAM//
//Ahh....//
//sob//
Kazuki: Don't leave me
Mother: Kazuki...
Kazuki: Don't leave me...Haru..yama....
Kazuki: Don't....
go.....
Mother: Kazuki
Mother: ...It's going to be okay
Mother: It's going to be okay, Kazuki...
Mother: It's going to be okay
Mother: It's going to be okay
Mother: Kazuki
Mother: Kazu...

Pg 153:
//Haruyama...//
Narrator: (...Kazuki)
Narrator: (Kazuki---)
//There are many cases that baffle even us specialists---//

Pg 154:
//For the future...//
Tsuyoshi: ...e's sayin something
Mom: ...Eh?
Tsuyoshi: He's saying something
Tsuyoshi: He's saying something!
Mom: Eh?!
H-Hiroshi?!
Mom: Hiroshi?
//step step//
Mom: Hiroshi!
Haruyama: ...wann...
Mom: What?
Mom: What is it?
What is it?!
Haruyama: ...ie...

Pg 155:
Haruyama: ...'nt wanna...
Haruyama: (....I don't wanna die...)

Pg 156:
Haruyama: (I don't wanna die---)
Haruyama: (Kazuki....)
//cough//
Mother: Kazuki?!

Pg 157:
Haruyama: (I don't wanna die----)
//cough cough cough//
Mother: Kazuki, what's---
//cough cough//
Mother: Ah....
Kazuki: Mo...m....
Mom: Ah---
Mom: Kazuki
Kazuki: Mom
Mom: Kazuki----
Kazuki: Help...me...

Pg 158:
Kazuki: Hel...p....me.....
Mom: ("The only one who'll be able to support her
is you")

Pg 159:
//cough cough//
Mom: Ah----
Mom: Ah----
Kazuki: (I don't remember much
of what happened after that)
Kazuki: (But)
Kazuki: (my mom's favorite night gown was ruined
because I threw up all over it...)

Pg 160:
Doctor: With 2-3 days of rest....
for her case, it's mostly psychological
//her wounds are very minor---//
Eri: Kazuki...
//SLAP//
Mom: ....Apologize
//thud...//
Mom: Apologize
Mom: to your own body....

Pg 161:
Mom: Haruyama-kun's....
Mom: regained consciousness....
//AHHAHAHAAHA//
Kazuki: (....ah....)
//Eri: Kazuki!! Isn't that great news?!//

Pg 162:
Kazuki: ("Kazuki")

Pg 163:
Tsuyoshi: ....What's
with you....
[SL: Eri: Isn't that great news Kazuki?!]
Kazuki: ("I'm....
gonna die with you---")
Tsuyoshi: He was saying how he didn't wanna die---
...that he wanted to live because of you---
he was saying that....
//Isn't that great news?!//
Kazuki: (Ah---)
Tusyoshi: but you---
Kazuki: (Ah---)

Pg 164:
Kazuki: I'm sorry
Kazuki: ("Your life is important to Haruyama-kun")
Kazuki: I'm sorry Haruya....
Kazuki: I'm sorr....

Pg 165:
Kazuki: ("Your life is important to him")
Doctor: You have to understand

Pg 166:
Doctor: this is a miraculous event
Doctor: From here on, there are many things he will have to do,
and this is most likely why God chose to save him
Mom: Yes....thank you ver....
Doctor: He was very lucky---
Doctor: that he landed on dirt instead of concrete
Mom: yes
//creakkk//
Doctor: But just because he regained consciousness
Doctor: does not mean we should let our guards down
Doctor: In Haruyama-san,
Doctor: your son's case--

Pg 167:
Doctor: as I described previously,
this area was damaged---
Doctor: and currently
Doctor: his right hand and leg are immobile.
//chirp chirp chirp//

Pg 168:
Kazuki: ...yama?
Doctor: ("There is possibility of him regaining partial functions,
but for him to make a complete recovery would not be---")
Kazuki: (Haruyama won't move)
Kazuki: (He won't move...)
Kazuki: ...roshi?
Kazuki: Hiroshi?
//chirp//

Pg 169:
Kazuki: Hiroshi---
Kazuki: Hiroshi---
Kazuki: Hiroshi---
Mom: The "possibility of"?

Pg 170:
Doctor: He'd have to do rehabilitation
Doctor: But it will be up to the patient himself whether he participates,
we for one can not force him into the programs
His recovery will also be based on how much effort he is willing to put in
Doctor: It will be---
a very trying experience for him---

Pg 171:
Kazuki: HIROSHI....
//rustle//
//chirrpp//

Pg 172:
Kazuki: ("I might end up changing my life
for this one girl")
//ring ring//
//ring ring//
//ring...//
Nurse: Yes, this is the neurosurgery wing---
Nurse: Yes,
"Haruyama"..., oh yes.
Nurse: Yes? Oh, his condition?
Just a moment please

Pg 173:
//swish//
Nurse: Doctor
Nurse: There's a phone call from the police
Kazuki: (There are lots of really sad things that happen
as long as you're alive
don't you think?)

END OF CHAPTER 17

Pg 174:
Kazuki: Haruyama
wasn't able to run away
from anything anymore
because of his injured leg
Kazuki: He can't run away from anything---
Kazuki: and he can't run to anything either---

Pg 175:
Guy: You're Haruyama Hiroshi, correct?
//The race between the gas station employees using bikes//

Pg 176:
Man: Once you have made a full recovery, cooperate with us and make sure to hand yourself in to the police.
Your parents are acting as your guarantors
If you try something, your parents will be the ones to be in trouble....
Haruyama: I got it---
Man: We just finished discussing with the police
And we and your parents asked for their cooperation for as long as you have the will to attend rehabilitation
For now, don't think about what'll happen later on
put all your efforts in trying to regain movement in your left hand and leg...
I know you've probably heard this time and time again,
but it is very crucial for you
to keep hope alive----
Haruyama: Am I
unlucky or what?
Kazuki: ...Yeah, you are.
//thud//
//squeeze//

Pg 177:
Kazuki: But...
Kazuki: you're alive....
Kazuki: you're alive...
Kazuki: (Even now)
Kazuki: (I still can't believe)
Kazuki: (the things that've happened since his accident)
Haruyama: ...Shithead
Kazuki: (I know
that this is going to be one of the hardest challenges for him yet)
Kazuki: Monkey!
Haruyama: What! You're treating an injured person like that?
Kazuki: Monkey!
Monkey! Yay~!
Haruyama: ...Kazuki---
Kazuki: Hmm?
Haruyama: Ya fuckin'...
ugly bitch!
Kazuki: (When he gets released from this hospital,
he'll check-in to a rehab center right away
and--)
[SL: Sorry]
Guy: Then it's a sure thing he's gonna end up in juvie, ain't it?
//noise noise//
Guy #2: Yeah, and his 4FOUR's like a total mess
Guy #3: I heard he's using a wheelchair. That guy. In a wheelchair. Can ya believe it?
//noise noise//
Guy #4: Is he gonna be a fuckin' cripple for the rest of his life?
Guy #5: Dunno, probably?
[SL: Yeah, this loser right here, was like
riding his bike cryin' Niagara Falls
his nose was runnin' like crazy---
and yeah, since it was fuckin' cold his tears were like freezing---
And he was like cryin' "Wahhhh! Haruyama~"
SHUT UP!
//sob//]

Pg 178:
//noise//
Guy: Yeah, but in our world, ya know? People dying ain't like that fuckin' rare
Guy: But since there weren't that kinda stuff goin' on lately in NIGHTS....
[SL:
But Haruyama was like----
"Am I fuckin' unlucky or what? Hahaha"
and he's laughin' it off

And what's with his head anyway?
He's like fuckin' bald now
Haha yeah]
Guy: I heard though, that years back, it happened alot
Guy: They'd like, gather together at the guy's funeral, ya know?
Yeah, and I thought like, so that's how they do it
//gya----gya----/
Guy: Since I'm not too bright, ya know? I didn' care much about anyone else
I joined 'cause I wanted to look cool ridin' my bike
[SL: Bleh, Ri-chan, I feel sick....
What! again?!]
Guy: But
when I watch
Guy: a guy I know
Guy: go through what he did, and still make it out alive, and be able to talk and shit, ya know?
Guy: It makes ya think----
//noise noise//
Guy #2: I heard he said...
Guy #2: that he didn't wanna die?
//ahahahaha//
Guy: I wanted to just stand out of the crowd, ya know? I don't wanna fuckin' die
//clatter//
//Wahhh! So this is where you guys were! And you guys're drinking too!//
Guys: ...huh?
Shigeru: Why didn't you guys come?
All the top guns came out---
and they were pissed out of their minds, you wouldn't believe it---
Guys: No really?

Pg 179:
Shigeru: Huh?
Guy: We knew they were gonna be like that. That's why we didn' show up
Guy #2: Ehhh no fair!
//Right ya guys? Yeahhhh//
[SL: They were sayin' stuff like how the eight guys got arrested last time because we weren't takin' our riding seriously
and they were saying stuff too like how it was our fault Haruyama ended up like that---
and they were like, they're gonna take his place and whip us into shape, and shit]
Shigeru: They didn't even show up that night---
//Oh, could ya give me a glass?
Thanks//
//There there//
Shigeru: They're taking advantage of the fact Haru-san's in the hospital now----
Geez, I practically coughed up blood, ya know!
//sob sob//
Shigeru: Oh yeah
Shigeru: And they were saying how they were gonna decide the next leader of NIGHTS
before the police force Haru-san to sign some form to break up NIGHTS
Guy: What the fuck...Haruyama should be the one to decide, he's the leader---
Guy #2: So...if he ended up dying, they would've held a funeral for him
Guy #2: but if he survives...that's what they do?
[SL:
If ya skipped outta this though, aren't they gonna be really pissed?
They're not gonna know
Yeah, but they mentioned your guys' names---sayin' how you weren't there
Whoaaaa~]
Narrator: Someone said how NIGHTS was too easy on its members

Pg 180:
Kazuki: (I made it so I never asked him
about what kind of stuff was going on in the gang,
so I'm not too sure)
but Haruyama's friends often came to his side with cuts and bruises all over them)
Kazuki: (When I see a group of guys from the main branch by his side, I become scared)
Kazuki: (that he might disappear off somewhere again)
Eri: Kazuki, you're going to that all girls high school, right?
Kazuki: Yeah
Kazuki: Yeah
Girl: Oh, really?
Eri: She was saying how, while senpai's hospitalized and all, she wanted to do something too, ya know?
Eri: She just barely made the marks to get accepted
//yeah, so that's how it is//
Girl: But she can probably get into that school even if she didn't study
[SL:
Girl: But are YOU gonna be okay? You're gonna go to some hair stylist school, right?
Eri: That's exactly why I'm getting you guys to teach me...]
Kazuki: Why?
Kazuki: Why can't I visit you
Kazuki: while you're in the rehab center?
You're going to be there for a while, aren't you?
Haruyama: I don't want you to see me while I'm doin' it
Haruyama: That's all.

Pg 181:
Kazuki: What....wait
Kazuki: But that's---
Kazuki: that's---
//SLAM//
//snap//
//clatter//
Eri: ...What's up?
Kazuki: I'm gonna go
Girl: Where---?
kazuki: To the hospital
//step step step//
Kazuki: He's not making any sense---
//thump thump//
//ring ring//
Eri: Yes, this is Morishita---
Eri: Kazuki---
Eri: It's senpai!
//dash//
Kazuki: Hello?!
Haruyama: Hey---
//noies noise//
Haruyama: I'm the one
Haruyama: who got myself into this mess

Pg 182:
Haruyama: I did this to myself...
Haruyama: So I'm...
gonna be the one to fix this
Kazuki: ...I...know that...but...
Haruyama: so....
//noise noise//
Haruyama: wait for me.
Haruyama: ...Wait for me.
Haruyama: Well...it's up to you though.
Kazuki: ....Ah.
Kazuki: Ah...okay
Kazuki: ("Wait for me")
Kazuki: Okay...

PG 183:
Kazuki: O...kay....
Kazuki: (I'll wait for you)
//noise noise//
Kazuki: ("Senpai! Happy graduation!")
//kyaaa---kyaa---//
[letter reads: To Kazuki-chan
That's great news that you've decided what school to go to!
Yukko]
//ahahahaha//
[blackboard reads: GRADUATION]
Eri: When I think back,
I don't know how to describe it, but Tooru-san and Hiroko-san were like, you know, kinda sad in a way?

Pg 184:
Eri: I really looked up to them back then though.
//hahahahaa//
Kazuki: Yeah
Kazuki: I wonder...what they're doing now
Eri: They probably don't know what happened to Haruyama-senpai, do they?
Kazuki: ...probably not
Eri: No one can really tell...what might happen to 'em in the future, don't you think?
Kazuki: Yeah...you're right...
//ahahaha//
Kazuki: But
Kazuki: if he told me to wait for him
Kazuki: that's about all I can do
Eri: Yeah.
Eri: Good luck, Kazuki
Eri: Good luck.
Kazuki: You too.
Sorry I made you worry so much
Eri: Hahaha, stop it! You're embarrassing me!
Kazuki: But it's trueee
//Senpaiiii! Can I please take a photo of you?!//

Pg 185:
Teacher: I could never figure out what she was looking at...
Teacher: her eyes were like fierceness and weakness combined...
Teacher: she was a tough one, no doubt...
//slurp//
//kyaaa---kyaa---//
Teacher: I can only pray
Teacher: that the things those eyes will see in the future...
will be the things that'll make her stronger...
Kazuki: ("Good luck, Kazuki
Good luck")
Kazuki: (-----April
Haruyama checked-in to a rehabilitation center in the city
he can't come back for at least three months---)

pg 186:
Kazuki: (Once
I went and visited there
without telling Haruyama)
Kazuki: (The rooms...)
Kazuki: (In this building
he's practicing everyday)
Guy: The girls shouldn't go see him---
Guy #2: Whyyy?
They came all the way out here and---
Guy: 'Cause it'll be rude to senpai, ya know?
Guy #3: Yah!
Kazuki: (I write to him everyday
but I haven't received a single reply)

Pg 187:
Kazuki: (I don't even know if he's reading any of the letters I've sent him..)
Kazuki: (I think...that because of his personality...inside, he's probably a mess right now...
and he's probably really frustrated...)
Kazuki: (But there's nothing
I can do....)
Guy: He got into this huge fight with the guy working at the center
Guy: Well, if ya can call it a fight. It was more like him whinin'
Kazuki: So...what happened?
Richard: The guy working there was like "Yeah, yeah", ya know? Didn't really take him seriously
Richard: He put too much pressure on himself
Richard: and he like passed out
Guy: Yeah, things aren't going the way he wants them to, ya know?
So yeah, I can understand why he'd snap
Guy: There were all these young guys
and they'd all been in an accident or another, it scared the shit outta me
Guy: His injury ain't that bad compared to some other guys', but still---

Pg 188:
Richard: If I was him,
I woulda gone crazy just being in there, ya know?
Kazuki: ...Yeah
Richard: He's really
Richard: strong
Kazuki: Yeah
Kazuki: Yeah
Kazuki: (Please help him)
Guy: Oh yeah, I saw the letter you wrote to him beside his bed
Guy: the letter was open
Kazuki: (once more)
//clank clank//
//Good morning! Nagasaki this morning is---//
Kazuki: (My mom's feeling down as usual in the mornings)
Kazuki: Why haven't you gotten married yet?
//CLATTER//
Mom: Ow, ow
Mom: I will
after you do
Kazuki: Haha, that's why you're an old hag

Pg 189:
//grrr//
Kazuki: (My body's been feeling weak lately, so I've been taking medicine)
Mom: You don't have to. Go head to school
Kazuki: (We're here together...)
Kazuki: I'll do it. Just leave it to me.
//splash//
//clank//
Kazuki: (It's as if we both figured out)
Kazuki: (that the other's "living her own life" too)
Mom: I'll wipe then
//clank//
Kazuki: (Since she is my mother...)
Kazuki: (Since she will be my mother...
for the rest of my life)
//clank clank//
Girl: You were one of the lucky ones
//kyaa--kyaa--//
//kya---kya---//
Girl: My friend joined a gang,
and they did some really terrible stuff to her

Pg 190:
Kazuki: (Back then...I couldn't see anything)
Kazuki: (Even when I hurt another person,
or when I hurt myself, I didn't care,
I thought everything was just so cool)
//byeee byeee!//
//ahahaha//
Kazuki: (Even when I did bad stuff, I blamed it on someone else)
Kazuki: (But the things you do
always end up coming back to you)
Kazuki: (Even if you suffer because of it, you can't complain to anyone but yourself)
Kazuki: (I don't ever want to regret anything)
Kazuki: (but if I knew what I know now)
Kazuki: (and I could go back)
Kazuki: (if I could go back once more)

Pg 191:
Kazuki: (I'm the only one
who can protect me)
//ring ring ring ring//
//rinngg//
//meoowww//
Kazuki: Hello?
Kazuki: (July)
Kazuki: Haruyama?

Pg 192:
//noise noise//
Haruyama: It moved...
Haruyama: a little just now
Kazuki: What...?
Kazuki: No way...
//noise noise//
Haruyama: ...Just a little.
Kazuki: No way---!
//noise noise//
Kazuki: No way---
//noise noise//
Kazuki: That's amazing...
Kazuki: That's amazing...
Kazuki: That's...

Pg 193:
Haruyama: I cried a little.
Haruyama: Haha, just a little though.
//noise noise//
Kazuki: (His injury will stay with him forever)
Guy: AHAHAHHAHAHA
[the words say: Pig]
Guy: It's so like senpai to write that!
Richard: He wrote it using only his left hand.
He said it took him an hour to write it!
//AHAHAHAHA//
[SL: Kazuki: (What the...)]
Guy: Yeah, but it's pretty amazing that it's even legible!
Richard: Oh yeah, you've probably already heard,
but yeah, even though his left side's started moving again, he's gonna be dragging his leg for the rest of his life
Guy: Yeah, but it's pretty fuckin' incredible that he can walk by himself now! [SL: Don't ya think?]
Guy: Everyone was like fuckin' shocked, and they couldn't believe it, ya know?
Kazuki: Yeah
Kazuki: Ah
Richard: Oh yeah, and the stuff on the bottom he wrote with his right hand

Pg 194:
[SL: Guy: What, What? Let me see]
[Letter reads: I'm gonna be released soon. Once I'm out, I'm gonna go to juvie. I wanna see you before then.
I'll phone you. by Hiroshi-kun]
Kazuki: (September)
//miiinn miinnnn//
//vrooommm//
Kazuki: I'm really nervous...
I haven't seen him in five months...
Eri: Don't worry about it! He's the one who said he wants to see you!
Kazuki: Yeah, but he wrote that a month ago...
Guy: Yooo!
Eri: No way! You're shaking?! Your hands are so cold!
Eri: Hi!
Guy: How've you been?
Kazuki: Good
Guy: Ya guys get used to high school life?
Eri: Hehehe
Guy: So ya guys are going to school everyday?
Guy: Good for ya
Guy: Let's go then
Guy: He's over at my place right now
//miiinn miinnn//
//thump thump//
Kazuki: (What am I gonna do if he's changed?)

Pg 195:
//AHAHAHAHA//
//And he's like---//
//Yeahhh yeahhh//
Guy: Come in
Kazuki: (Ah...Haruyama's..voice...)
//clatter//
Richard: Yo, you're here!
Guy: Heyyy!
Guy #2: Yo!
Guy: We'll give you guys some room to relax
Richard: Take your time
//thump thump thump//
//miiinnnn miiinnn//
//thump thump thump//
//miinnn miin miin//
//rustle//

Pg 196:
//thump thump thump//
//miiinn//
Kazuki: (Why
aren't you saying anything?)
Kazuki: When...
Kazuki: are you gonna go away?
Haruyama: Soon
//rustle//
Haruyama: I'm gonna make sure they'll let me off with juvie
Haruyama: I don't know...
but probably

Pg 197:
//thump thump//
Haruyama: I'll make sure...
Haruyama: they don't switch me to prison..
//thump//
//miiinnn//
Kazuki: Y..eah...
Haruyama: I'll try my best
Kazuki: Yeah
Kazuki: How...long?
Haruyama: Three weeks...
Kazuki: I'll be okay...
Kazuki: That's...
Kazuki: not long at all compared to...
//squeeze//
//miiinn//
//thump thump//
Kazuki: (I can hear his heart beat)
//miiinn miiinnn//
Kazuki: (his heart---)
//thump//
Haruyama: So...wanna solidify our "love" before I go?
Kazuki: ...What?
Haruyama: Haha, you're actually thinking it over!
This room even has a bed, haha! [SL: So wanna?]
//blush//
Kazuki: (What's his...problem...!!)

Pg 198:
Kazuki: Geez, cut it out!
Kazuki: (I was all worried about him and he--)
Haruyama: What! We're in "love", right?
//turns away//
Kazuki: If you come back in three weeks, then maybe!
Haruyama: Realllyyyyy?
Kazuki: Err...
y-yeah.
[the roomaji in the background reads:
I thank all those who've read to the very end from the bottom of my heart
I truly thank you. I'll take a bit of a rest now]
Haruyama: //grins//
//you dirty old man!!//
//Ya little---
//clatter clatter//
//What did ya expect?! I'm a guy ya know!//
//What does that have to do with anything?!//
//Argghhh you're not being cute at all, ya know that?!//
//Ugly bitch!//
//Shut up!//
//clatter clatter clatter//
//And I'm not an old man!!
I'm still young-----
hahahah idiot!//
Richard: They're just fighting
Guy: What's the point in listening in?
Guy: They better not mess up my room---
//slam slam//
Guys: Geez, what a waste of timee
//clank clank//

Pg 199:
//miiinnn//
//slide slide//
Haruyama: ...Take these off
Guy: I can't. Those are the rules.

Pg 200:
//drag//
//thud//
//miiinn miiinnn miiinn miiiin// [cicada's cries]
Haruyama: It's...heavy...

Pg 201:
Kazuki: (I heard
they brought up all the stuff he'd been doing up till now,
and that he stayed there for nine days.)
Kazuki: (What he did in the past
can't be erased)
//SLAM//
Guy: The sound of you draggin' your leg
Guy: is fuckin' annoying!
//spits//
Kazuki: (The world isn't a bowl of cherries)

Pg 202:
//Hey! What are you guys doing!//
//step step step//
//slam slam//
//HEY!//
Guy: Fuck---
Guy #2: What's going on?
Guy #3: This guy didn' do nothin'.
Guy #2: Hmm?
//wheeze wheeze wheeze//
Guy #2: Hmm?
//wheeze wheeze//
Haruyama: (For)
Haruyama: (the sake)
Haruyama: (of love)
//wheeze wheeze//
//ha//
//peace sign//

Pg 203:
Guy #2: (That's more like it!)
Kazuki: (He was able to come back after spending some time in juvenile hall,
but for a while after, he couldn't find any work.
We got into fights because he didn't want to go out spending money that I made from my part time job)
Kazuki: (There were times when we even talked about breaking up again)
//drag drag//
Haruyama: "I really regret
causing other people trouble.
What happened to me, I brought it on myself,
so there's no one I can place the blame on except myself"

Pg 204:
Haruyama: "So from now on,
I'm just gonna have to do my best to make up for the stuff that happened in the past.
I know though,
that live ain't that easy"
[in brackets reads: Short essay written while in juvenile hall]
Kazuki: (It's been nine months since Haruyama came back from juvenile hall)
Shigeru: Haru-sannnnn!
Haruyama: I finally got a job!
Guy: Reallyy
Shigeru: [SL: Haru-sann!] Long time no see!
Haruyama: Huh? Who are ya again?
//ahahahha//
Shigeru: Don't be so mean Haru-sannn!
Kazuki: (Most of the guys who joined NIGHTS around the same time as Haruyama left the gang)
Kazuki: (There were two leaders after him, but neither lasted for very long)
Shigeru: Did you go back to Yokohama?
Haruyama: I moved back home.
'Cause I have to eat, ya know?
Guy: Must be some pretty tasty meals ya get to eat then, huh?
Haruyama: Haha
Guy: Yeah, and the numbers've dropped a lot lately---
Kazuki: (The NIGHTS seems to be coming to an end)
Haruyama: Really?

Pg 205:
Shigeru: Maybe I should take after the guys and just quit too. Leave the rest to the younguns ya know?
//ahahahaha//
Kazuki: (Whenever I hear)
//But that's pretty fuckin' admirable that
you got a job. We're all just like, ya know, hangin' round, not doing much, ya know?/
//clap clap//
//noise noise//
Kazuki: (about how people were arrested and taken away)
Shigeru: How are you getting to work?
Guy: On my bike.
Guy: Oh, a motorbike?
Haruyama: Nahhh, a bicycle.
Ya know, the one with the basket in the front? [SL: I call it "Sunshine"]
Shigeru: Uhh...that's...cool.
Haruyama: Ya brat [SL: It's part of rehab!]
Shigeru: How's Kazuki-san been doing?
Haruyama: Kazuki? Who's her?
Guy: Hey, cut it out already
Shigeru: No wayyyy! Kazuki-san's not going out with anyone right now?!
Haruyama: She's doing great.
Haruayma: She's being a good girl.
Kazuki: (or that they died)
//Hahaha
Wahhh Haru-san, ya meanie!
heh//
Kazuki: (my chest
feels like it's
going to burst)
Guy: Kazuki-channnn!

Pg 206:
//it's your birthday today righttt
wanna go out somewhereee//
Kazuki: I'm going to my boyfriend's place today
//Whatttt---!
But your boyfriend's like---that guy, righttt?
He does whatever he wantsss
and doesn't take good care of ya righhhtt??
Leave him alreadyyyyy
and come to meeee//
Kazuki: Whattt---
but that'd be
Kazuki: a waste
//vrooommm//
//clank//

Pg 207:
Mom: I have a feeling...I was always too busy thinking about myself
//clank clank//
Mom: I thought... as long as she was healthy
and that she ate breakfast, and she went to school, then all was well...
Mom: I lived life up until now not knowing anything about what was going on inside her mind
Mom: Even if a child's father isn't alive
Mom: if he and the child's mother loved each other from the bottom of their hearts,
Mom: then that child
might have naturally learned the importance of being loved, and of loving another person

P 208:
Mom: ...but I couldn't...
Mom: teach her that....
//vroomm///
Kazuki: Wow, it's so hot!
//vrooomm//
Woman: Ah...
//stands//
Tooru: Please, feel free
Woman: Thank you very much
//Woopsy Daisy//
//Phew//
Woman: Thank you
//vrooommm//
Tooru: My wife's
Tooru: due soon as well

Pg 209:
Suzuki: If people really understood
Suzuki: that someone
really cared about them
Suzuki: then they would not be able
Suzuki: to put their lives at risk

Pg 210:
Suzuki: It doesn't matter whether that person be their parents, or siblings, or friends,
Suzuki: or even someone they're going out with
//turn turn//
//vrooommmm//
//wheeze//
//geezz//
Suzuki: I wonder who
Suzuki: will be there to let them know
Suzuki: that there are always people like that in the world?

Pg 211:
//dash//
//miiinn miiinn miinn//
//ah...//
//wheeze wheeze//
//shakyyy//
//wheeze wheeze//
//push push//
//squeak squeak squeak//
//CRASH//
//thud//
//dash//
Haruyama: ...the fuckin'---
//SLAM SLAM//

Pg 212:
Haruyama: Shit...
//splash//
//wheeze//
//miiinn miinnn//
//wheeze//
//miiin miiinnn miiinn// [cicada cries]

Pg 213:
//miiinn miiin miinnn//
//vrooom//
//wheeze wheeze//
//clank//
//wobble//
//miiin miiinn//
//miiinn//
//wheeze//
//squeak//
//wheeze wheeze//
//wheeze wheeze//

Pg 214:
//wheeze wheeze
//miinn//
//wheeze...//
Kazuki: (I'll be 17
after today)

Pg 215:
//miiinn miinnn//

Pg 216:
Kazuki: (I've hurt a lot of people in the past)
Kazuki: (To make up for that, I'd like to become a person who can understand other people's pains)
Kazuki: (I don't know what might happen in the future, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried.)
Kazuki: (It doesn't matter if it's
wayyy wayyy in the future)
Haruyama: Miss little piggy, what's for lunch today?
Kazuki: Harumaki [Harumaki = Japanese-style spring rolls]
Kazuki: (but one day...I want to become..
the mother of...)

Pg 217:
Kazuki: (Haruyama's baby)
Kazuki: (That's my little dream
that I haven't told anyone)

Pg 218:
//noise noise//
//ahahaha//
//Haruyama, you little--//
//vrooommm//
//see yaa!//
//Byeee!//
//Later!//

Pg 219:
Haruyama Hiroshi 16-18
Miyaichi Kazuki 14-17

Kazuki----
Kazuki----

Pg 220:
//Do your best Kazuki!//
Kazuki: (Our road)
//Do your best!//
Kazuki: (extends much further than this)


<THE END>


END OF CHAPTER 18
END OF HOT ROAD