Himawari 1

Himawari --- Chapter 1
Reserved for Rurouni Scanlation Productions.

*Handwritten text
< Thought or narration

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Himawari

< For example, during club activity at high school,

< If I say “I’m aiming for the outer space,”

< I wonder if people will laugh at me.

< But I think both the club president are probably both serious about it.

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Ginga: All right.
All the preparations are complete.
< Amamiya Ginga... The president of our Space Club,
< and the son of a hero.
T/N: Ginga means Milky Way or galaxy.

Youichi: Then, president,
Let’s start
The countdown.
< And I’m Hinata Youichi.
T/N: Hinata means sunny place, and You in Youichi means the sun.

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< We’ve been aiming for that far away height.

< That’s a challenge with the universe.

?: Zero.

< A dream of mankind.

?: Himawari no. 21
Launch!

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#1: The girl who came from the sky
Why is this starry sky blue?
Himawari
Original work: Goo Art: Hiyama Daisuke
Character draft: Tatsukichi

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?: Hmm?

Aaarrgh?!

Youichi: Himawari no. 21...

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Ginga: crashed!
Youichi: Yes...

Ginga: Looks like there’s still a problem with the navigating program after all.
Youichi: Hmm... Maybe we sacrificed the accuracy too much.
Are we going to have our budget cut down again?

Ginga: Hahaha! Well, you can’t avoid failures when carrying out experiments.
We’ll just have to succeed the next time!
Youichi: Ah!
But, president!

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Youichi: Looks like ... you can’t even say that now...!

Yamauchi: Hey, you two!
What the hell are you doing?!

Ginga: Ack, Yamauchi! When did he get here?!
Youichi: T-this is bad, president! Let’s run away!

Ginga: All right, Hinata-kun! Let’s do THAT!
Youichi: Eh?!

Yamauchi: You!
Today, I’m definitely gonna—

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Youichi: Wai—
Are you serious, president?!
Are we really going to—

Ginga: What are you so scared of, Hinata-kun?
This is much easier than going into space, isn’t it?!

Yamauchi: Eh?!
Y-you...
*Wait right there!
What on earth are you—

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Yamauchi: Wh—
W-w-w-w-what the hell?!

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Yamauchi: Tch...
These guys are ridiculous...

Ginga: Hahaha! Yamauchi-kun!
I’ll congratulate you for that enthusiasm!
Unfortunately, it seems that you’ve overlooked one very important thing!

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Ginga: There’s nothing called impossibility
For us Space Club!

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< The sky at 23:38 on March 20th, 2050
< The full moon shines at the zenith.

< The moon
< is the only heavenly body that humans have set foot on other than earth.

< Ever since space development started, people all over the world have been aiming for the moon, as if it was a competition.
< As if
< that was a place for humankind to return to.

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< However, in reality, there have only been two successful piloted moon-landing projects.
< Those are the U.S.’s Apollo project and Japan’s Kaguya project.

< The names of Neil Armstrong and Amamiya Daigo
< are probably known even among those who have no interests in space.

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< Especially Amamiya Daigo. His solo moon-landing success stirred up the whole world.
< It happened about 20 years ago—on August 23th, 2029.

< The first words he said after landing at the moon
< was engraved in many people’s hearts, though it might not be in any textbooks.
< That famous line starts like this

Youichi: This is one small step for mankind—

?: Hey,
I’m already tired of hearing that story.

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Youichi: What the—
The glorious space exploration era started with this single line.
?: Right, right.
I know very well about how much of a space maniac you are, Youichi-kun.

?: But more importantly,
What were you thinking, jumping off the rooftop like that?

?: It won’t be funny if you got hurt.
Youichi: A-ahaha...
< Asuka...

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< is my classmate in high school. Rather, she’s my childhood friend.
< Though it might be kind of strange to call her that, as we’ve only known each other for two years.

Asuka: Anyway, about tomorrow—

Youichi: Ahh,
Did you say your cousin is coming over to visit?
Asuka: Yeah. So I can’t go to hang out at your place.

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Youichi: Don’t worry about it.
You’ve been taking care of me a lot lately anyway.
Asuka: Yeah.
Sorry.

Asuka: Hey,
Are you
Looking at the sky right now?

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Youichi: Yeah.

Asuka: I’m looking at it, too.
Hey, hey,
Teach me about the constellations?

Youichi: Let’s see... Now’s a good time...
You can see the Spring Triangle in the southern sky.

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Asuka: Spring Triangle?
Youichi: You know Virgo, right?
Asuka: Yeah. It’s my horoscope sign after all.
Youichi: If you connect Spica in Virgo, Arcturus in Bootes, and Denebola in Leo, they’ll become a big triangle.
Asuka: Which stars are those?

Youichi: Arcturus is the brightest among all the stars you can see right now, and it has an orange color.
Asuka: Let’s see... Ah, that?
Youichi: From there, if you go down and to the right, there’s a bright blue and white star, right? That’s—

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Asuka: I see.
So this is the Spring Triangle.

Asuka: Hey, hey,
What about the others?
Youchi: Since we’re talking over the phone,
I can only show you that much.

Asuka: Eh? Then,
Teach me more when we’re together next time.

Youichi: OK...

Asuka: Ah, sorry, I have to wake up early tomorrow, so...
Youichi: Ahh, yeah. that’s right.
Then... Later...
Asuka: OK.

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Asuka: Good night.

Youichi: How beautiful...
< Gazing at the moon in the spring
< might be pretty romantic, too...

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Youichi: Hmm?

Youichi: A shooting star...?

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Youchi: But...
< It’s strange.

< Shooting stars are actually dirt that drifts about in space.
< One a fleck of dirt enters earth’s atmosphere, it’ll burn out in a little less than a second.
< That one has been shining for at least 5 seconds.

Youichi: That can’t be
A meteor...?

< It’s falling...

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< It’s the same
< as two years ago.
< It’s the same...

“Youichi...”

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< It’s in the direction of the memorial park.
< I’ve got to go.

< I don’t even understand it myself
< but...

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< I’ve got
< to go there.

Ginga: Hinata-kun!

Youichi: This voice...!
President!
Don’t tell me, you’re also—

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Ginga: Hmm?
Is something wrong?

Youichi: No
Um...
What’s with that outfit?

Ginga: Oops,
Since it’s an emergency, I rushed out of my house in my pajama.
Youichi: THAT’S his pajama...?

That means you also saw
That meteor falling in the direction of the park, right?

Ginga: Meteor?
Haha,
What are you talking about, seriously?
*Oh, boy

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Ginga: That was an UFO.

Youichi: No, it’s useless to make a comment.
He’s this kind of person, isn’t he?

Ginga: A meteor has tremendous destructive power.
If a meteor with a diameter of more than 5 meters like that fell down here, this whole Miyaura town would be in a sea of fire right now,
But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Youichi: But even so, it’s too hasty to decide that it’s a UFO...

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Ginga: Hmm.
In any case,
We’ll find out about that very soon.

< Memorial park
< was built on the accident site of the high-altitude passenger plane model SA-DAN080 that crashed two years ago.
< The names of the 518 victims are engraved behind the cenotaph.

< My parents’ names are among those, too.

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< That’s right.
< That day, the sky was full of stars.

< The countless twinkling in the sky gave blessings to my birthday.
< If there was such a thing called imprinting for humans, I probably fell in love with the stars that very moment.

< I couldn’t remember a single thing before that.
< I only thought I was born inside that infinitely spreading sea of stars.

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< But I was wrong.
< When I woke my body up, I was at Hell.

< Around me was a burnt field.
< A red world...

< I was the only thing moving there.

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Ginga: If I remember correctly, you can’t really handle this place, right?
What do you want to do?
If you look at the scenery ahead of us, your old wounds might open again, you know?

“If you’re going to move forward, you will need to mentally prepare yourself. Are you still going to move forward?”

Youichi: To be honest, I don’t want to get mixed up in this.
But if so,
How come I...

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< That’s right.
< I...

Youichi: No,
I’m going, too!

< must confirm
< what it is that lies beyond here.

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< A meteor...?
< No,
< that’s not it...

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Ginga: Looks like
I was right.

Ginga: I wonder
If there’s still someone inside.

< That’s...
< the hatch?

Ginga: Well, don’t be so cautious.
Even if there was something in here, it cannot be alive—
Ah!

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Ginga: What are you doing?!
Don’t you remember it was still burning red until just a while earlier?!

< That’s right.
< There’s no way the thing in here can still be alive.
< Even if it was alive after going through the atmosphere, it cannot survive the impact from the crash.

< But...!

Ginga: Hinata-kun!

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Ginga: What are you thinking?!
For now, let’s wait for it to cool down and open it with tools—

Youichi: That’ll take too long!
We can’t do that!

< Open up
< Open up...!
< Open up!

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Ginga: Hold on!

Youichi: Why? We’ve got to hurry up and—
Ginga: Shhh!

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Ginga: There’s someone here...

Youichi: Eh...?!
Ginga: Don’t turn around.
He’s standing in the shadow of the trees behind us and quietly observing us.

Youichi: That can’t be... Who could...
Ginga: Who knows?
But this kind of thing often happens, doesn’t it?
A UFO that crashed, and a mysterious organization coming to recover it.

< Men In Black!
*Eh?

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Youichi: Eh...?! That gun is the real thing?!
Ginga: Of course it’s a toy.
Well, it’s loaded with carbonic acid gas and lead balls, though.

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Ginga: Hmm.
Looks like he got away...

Youichi: Was there really someone there?
Ginga: Yeah.
I definitely saw him.
He looked like a man wearing black clothes...

Youichi: Black clothes...
< Really?

Youichi: President...

Youichi: The lock is already open
If we work together,
We might be able to open that hatch.

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Youichi: All right
Ready

Youichi: Aaaarggh!
Ginga: Haha, seriously!
It requires much effort to find out the truth of the universe, huh?

Youichi: That’s
Really

Youchi: true!

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Youichi: A girl?

Youichi: W-what should we do?
Ginga: Who knows?
Maybe she’ll be revived if you give her a kiss or something.

Youichi: Don’t joke at a time like this, president
Aries: You ... ichi...
Youichi: Eh?

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Youichi: Eh...!
Wah—
Wah!

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< It was strange.
< I feel like I’ve known her since a long, long time ago,
< but I also feel like this is the first time I’ve met her.

Youichi: Hey...
Who are you?
< That’s
< the meeting

< between me

Aries: Ari—
Es...

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< and Aries
< A meeting with a girl who has the name of a constellation—
< in the twelve zodiac constellations.

The meeting with the girl who came from space is going to change Youichi’s fate?!

To be continued