Sakurasaku Syndrome 1

TRANSLATED FROM JAPANESE

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Text on left: New series // A youthful story about love and exams.
Title: Sakurasaku Syndrome
White text: 60 pages from the center.

Box: The vapor trails
Box: We chased them into the distance. // I didn't care about the setting sun.

Box: Because I was really happy I could hold // your hand.

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Big text on right: This reunion will affect the future.

Blue text: Love and exams, can they exist together? A brilliant boy X a violent girl.
Pink text: A third year middle school syndrome love story.

T/N: As opposed to the Second year middle school syndrome (chuunibyou), when people live to enjoy their days, someone suffering from the Third year middle school syndrome (chuusanbyou) thinks he/she needs to be a responsible adult and focuses too much on the future.

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Title: Sakurasaku Syndrome
white text: One, the brilliant boy remembers his crush.

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Text on right: For a student, studying is like his work, but... something... ?

SFX: Wake up

Clock: Tick tack tick

SFX: rustle

Boy: Damn it, I fell asleep... // What a weird dream...
SFX: Dazed

Box: The probable cause is // this.

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Box: I found it in the back of my drawer. // It's because this photo is memorable.

Box: A photo of me and a girl friend, who looked much like a boy. // Miyashita Kagetora.

Box: We became estranged from each other when we entered different elementary schools. // We entered the same middle school, but // she often doesn't show up at school, so our relation never became the same as before.

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Boy: Ah, mother. You're already home.
Mother: Yes, I came home to take a short break. // Because both your father and I have a night shift today.

Boy: Uh. // Is there anything I can eat?

Mother: We still have some chop suey left from yesterday. // Shall I warm it up?
Boy: Sure. // I can't concentrate with an empty stomach...

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Mother: You're going to study even more tonight? // I'm proud of you. // Shall I make some rice balls for you?
Boy: Yes, that would be nice.

Mother: This year you're in the same class as Tora-chan, right? //It's nice to know someone, right?

Boys: I don't really care. // She really made rice balls...

Mother: Really?

Boy: She hardly ever comes to school.
Mother: Huh!? Why!?
Boy: I don't know. // We don't talk that much.
SFX: mumble mumble

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Mother: But Wakatake, how are you doing? // Do you like school? Tell me about your friends.

Boy: There's nothing in particular.

Wakatake: Thanks for the food.
Mother: Oh, there are still some rice balls left.
Wakatake: I'll eat them tomorrow evening // I can't concentrate if I fall asleep, because I've eaten too much.

Mother: Wakatake.

Mother: Don't work too hard.

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Wakatake: What do you mean? // This is normal for me.

Wakatake: Nadakou or Kouyou... // Which one shall I aim for... // For public schools, it's probably Nagata......

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Woman: Janome-kun.

Woman: Can I talk to you for a bit?

Woman: I'm worried about you. You're not talking to any of your classmates... // Do you have trouble to get on with your new class?
Wakatake: That's not it.

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Wakatake: I just want to focus on my study.

Woman: I understand what you're saying, but having social interactions is just as important. // With friends...

Wakatake: Let's transpose my expected life span of 80 years into 24 hours.
Woman: Eh?
Wakatake: x : 24h = 3 years : 80 years 80x = 72 x = 0.9h // In that case middle school wouldn't even take up one hour of my life.

Wakatake: So, do you still think that the amount of people I pass by within one hour... // is equal to interacting with friends?

Wakatake: Excuse me.

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Wakatake: It's okay like this.

Sign: Janome Hospital
Wakatake: I was born into a family of medical practioners. // I'm too practical to talk about having a dream, but // in the future I'll be the one to inherit this place.

Old man: Waka-sensei.

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Wakatake: I'm not a doctor yet, Kimura-san.
Kimura: No, no. But you'll become a doctor, right?

Kimura: In 4 years the great doctor will be 60 years old. // You'll be the heir.

SFX: Turn
Wakatake: That... that's right.
Box: This. // By the time I become an adult, my parents will be sixty years old. // That's why I have haste.
Kimura: Do your best! // Good luck!

Wakatake: I can't afford to fail in either High school or University. // I'm frightened by that strict time limit.
Wakatake: Waa. // Don't come near!

Wakatake: Friends, love, youth... // I don't have time for those!!

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Wakatake: Ka... // Kagetora...!?

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Kagetora: Good morning!! Wait up, Wakatake!! // I have a favor to ask!
Wakatake: Yipes! Oh!? ...Eh!? // What? Commit a murder?

Kagetora: No, you dummy. They are not dead. // They asked for a fight.
Boy: It hurts
Boy: Yipes, she's strong...
Wakatake: Err... I'd like you not to fight in front of my house.

Kagetora: Hey, come on... don't be so formal.
Wakatake: Eh? Ah, sure... but...
Kagetora: What! We're old friends, you know!

Wakatake: Yet we haven't talked for about 10 years... // About that...

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Kagetora: Argh, this is bad!! I didn't expect so many to show up!! // Wakatake, hide me!
Wakatake: Huh... Don't come in!! Hold on!!

SFX: Bang!

Kagetora: Ah...

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Kagetora: It's been so long I smelled this air!!
Wakatake: You're weird. // What did you come for?

Kagetora: I'll be straight!

Kagetora: Waketake! // Help me study! // To take high school entrance exams!

Wakatake: ...... It'd be useless to teach you something. // I'm not doing it...
Kagetora: Eh!! Why, why!?

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Wakatake: You would've been fine if you just had shown up for school, right?. // Doing the teacher's assignments.
Kagetora: Uh... // That's right, but...

Kagetora: But...

Wakatake: I understand your anxiety, but // there'll always be a school you can enter, even with bad grades.
Kagetora: That's not good enough!

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Kagetora: I have fallen in love! // I want to go to the same school as him!

Wakatake: What!!?
Kagetora: Look at this.

Kagetora: An acquaintance of mine owns a boxing gym. // This person had a match there.

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Magazine title: Prince of the boxing ring
Under title: Won his debut match
Big vertical kanji: Mega Yuuki
Wakatake: Mega...?

Kagetora: I talked to him in the waiting room. He's even got a strong heart! // I totally love him!
Wakatake: The name of his high school is even mentioned in this article...// (Prince... what a stupid tagline...)

Wakatake: ...are you an idiot? // Going to high school to fall in love?

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Wakatake: Shindou High is the best public school around! // You'll never get in.
Kagetora: That's why I need you...
Wakatake: He'll never date you.

Wakatake: Go home. // I've got to study for the entrance exams.
Kagetora: Excuse me for intruding!!!

Wakatake: Stop it!! My room is...
Kagetora: Shut up! Stupid!!

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Wakatake: I said: go home!
Kagetora: Try to make me.

Kagetora: You're so cold, I thought we were friends! // Don't tell me to go home over and over again!
Waketake: That was long ago.

Kagetora: Then let's use this as a reason to get back to how we used to be! // We used to get along like brother and sister!

Kagetora: What?

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Wakatake: You // seem to be enjoying yourself.

Wakatake: Do as you like... I'm leaving.
Kagetora: Eh, why!?
Wakatake: I can't study with you around.

Kagetora: Why... What are you mad at me?
SFX: Ahaha

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Wakatake: Talking with friends. // Falling in love.

Wakatake: You're loving in a different world than me. // I have no time for such things.

Kagetora: Hold on, Wakatake! // What do you mean...

Wakatake: Farewell.

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Wakatake: Ah.

Wakatake: Ah...

Wakatake: Damn... I can't concentrate. // Why do I feel so tense?

Wakatake: No, I can't!! I can't give up now!

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Wakatake: I can't bother myself with having fun. // I don't have time to care about other people.

Wakatake: If I do, // I'll run out of time!!

Boy: Hey, Janome-jan.

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Wakatake: Ouch! // Who is he?
Boy: Good to see you.
Boy2: Who is he?
Boy: He was my classmate last year, senpai. // He's taking school extremely seriously.

Boy: His house is like a hospital. // He's extremely rich. // Right?

Wakatake: No, not at all!
Arrow: middle-class family

Boy: Come on, give me some money. Janome Wakatake-kun.

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Wakatake: I refuse.

Wakatake: Excuse me. // I can't concentrate on my studies here.

Boy: What's this?

Wakatake: AAH!! // My wallet!!

Boy2: You don't say!
Boy: He's so easy to tease!
Boy2: (What an idiot.)

Boy: He's still as plain as before!

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Wakatake: ...give it back.
Boy: (Ooh?) What's the magic word? // Not giving it back either way ♪
Boy2: Hey! Show me, show me!! (Ooh...)

Wakatake: I've got enough of them.

Wakatake: Well, that fine with me. // You're a waste of my time.

Wakatake: Hello, police? // My wallet was stolen.
Boy: Hold on!!

Boy: Really, come on. // Don't be so serious.

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Boy2: Eh? You're giving it back?
Boy: (How about it? What should I do?) Yeah, I don't want to be arrested. // Well, I'll give this to you, senpai.
Boy3: No thanks... I don't want it...

Boy: Alright, take it back!!

Boy: There's no need to take it so serious. // Nerd.

Boy: Idiot. // fool. // coward.

Wakatake: As I thought, it's for the best that I push other people away. // Getting involved with them only brings trouble.

Wakatake: I'm making the right choice. // Well, let's go home to study some more.

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Kagetora: Stupid, you really thought that'd settle the matter!?

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Boy: Yipes!
Kagetora: Apologize to him! Move!

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Kagetora: Hey! You guys too!
Boy: Yikes! It stings! I'll go blind...!
Boy2: You'll be fine, it's only juice...
Kagetora: And you'd better be honest!!

Wakatake: Get down! Don't stand on a table! // Why are you here anyway!!?

SFX: confident
Kagetora: I followed you!

Boy: What!? You bastard! // Want to die!?

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Kagetora: What, you wanna fight? // My skills are first-class.

Wakatake: Don't be stupid!
Boy: Shut up! Let's fight!

Boy: I won't hold back just because you're a girl!!
Kagetora: Are you scared!?
Waitress: Ooh! Please. // Don't fight!
Boy: I'm not scared!!

Boy: I'll give you a good beating!!
Boys: Get her!!

Waitress: Eek...
Wakatake: Stop it, you can't...

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Boys: What!

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Kagetora: You're so light! Do you even eat?

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Wakatake: You idiot!! What are you doing!? // Things were settled already!!
Kagatora: (What!?) Why are you mad at me!?

Wakatake: Isn't it obvious!? You're a big pain!!
Kagatora: Clam down, calm down!

Kagetora: You don't like it when people cause you trouble, right?// So, let me handle this. It'll be fine!!

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Wakatake: Eh...?

Wakatake: Well, that applies to every test taker... // Even to Kagetora...

Wakatake: O my god, she's quick!!
Boy: Yikes! // I've got nothing to do with this...
Kagetora: Shut up!! You're one of the guys who bullied Wakatake!! // Die!! // This and this and this and this and this and this and this.
Waitress: Someone, call the police!!

Wakatake: They'll report you to the police!! // Stop it!

Wakatake: Kageto...

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Kagetora: Ah!

Kagetora: Wakatake!

Kagetora: Hey! Hey!

Box (Wakatake): Oh...? // Kagetora's voice sounds so far away...

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Box (Wakatake): Ah. // The sound of a river. How nostalgic... // When was the last time I heard it...

Kagetora: Ah, there! // He came again!

Kagetora: Let's run, Wakatake! // Hand!!

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Wakatake: Ye... // Yes!

Wakarake: Ah, wait!! // Not so fast! // I'm not even running!!

Kagetora: Damn...

Kagetora: He's a fast runner.
Wakatake: Ha-ha-ha. // Vapor trails don't have feet.

Kagetora: I don't care if he's a vapor trail.

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Kagetora: One day we'll catch him. // Together!

Wakatake: ...yes. // Yes. // Err, Kagetora.

Wakatake: I don't think we'll be able to meet much from here on.

Wakatake: My elementary school... // I can only go there by train...

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Kagatora: Why are you going to such a school!? // I hate it! I don't want it!!

Wakatake: Stop, if you start crying, // I'll also start crying!

Wakatake: I'll give you a letter tomorrow. // Please meet me here.

Box (Wakatake): But the next day // Kagetora didn't show up.

Letter: To Kagetora. We won't be able to meet for a while. Please stay healthy. Don't fight too much. Don't forget about me. From Wakatake.

Box (Wakatake): I didn't want her to hate me, // so I wrote a letter with all my heart, but...

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Box (Wakatake): I felt like I would forget I loved her // If I passed the sponge over it.

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Wakatake: Oof...

Kagetora: Oh. // Don't overdo it!
Wakatake: Huff.
Kagetora: You collapsed right away.

Wakatake: ...what are you doing?
Kagetora: Fishing. // I'm using my hair as a line.
Wakatake: You're fishing...

Wakatake: What happened after that...?
Kagetora: I won.

Kagetora: That shop ownerwas really nice. He kindly asked: "Please don't come here again." and let me go. // This azalea tastes good.
Wakatake: They forbid you to come again!!

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Kagetora: Well, it's been 8 years since we last met here. // All of sudden you didn't show up anymore.

Wakatake: Not true. // You were the one who didn't show up.

Kagetora: Ah. that's right. // I'm sorry.

Kagetora: I got a fever // and couldn't come.

Kagetora: I wanted to come so desperately // that all I could dream of was this river.

Wakatake: So, that was the reason...

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Kagetora: I'm talking about the past again... // I // should stop doing that already...

Box (Wakatake): Psychology calls this synchronicity. // Us meeting again at the same place as then... // And even me falling in love with you. // Everything corresponds.

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Kagetora: Hm!

Kagetora: He came! // Sorry, but move!
Wakatake: A vapor trail?

Kagetora: This time I'll he him!
Wakatake: You're still doing that!? // Yuck, disgusting!!
Kagetora: I'm gonna settle this once and for all!!

Kagetora: See you, Wakatake. // This is where we part.

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Kagetora: It's as you said. // Whatever we were in the past // has nothing to do with things now.

Box (Wakatake: Eh... why? // Parting...?

Kagetora: I'll find another way to pass the test. // Maybe we won't meet again.

Kagetora: That's why this is where we part. // Take care.

Wakatake: I see... // I get it...

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Box (Wakatake): She's right. // I have no time to // care about other people.

Kagetora: I'm sorry for everything! // Bye bye!

Box (Wakatake): Farewell, Kagetora. // Take care... // I don't think we'll ever meet again.

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Wakatake: Ah!!
Kagetora: What? You want a fish?
Wakatake: No... that's not it...

Wakatake: Err...

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Wakatake: I'll help you study. // Until you're able to pass...

Kagetora: Re... Really!? // You're not joking, right!?
Wakatake: I... I'm not joking...

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Kagetora: All right!! Yay!! // Thanks, Wakatake!!

Kagetora: It's such a nice day!! // I feel like I'll catch up to it today!! // See you later!!

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Wakatake: Ignoring my position, // I automatically grabbed her hand.

Wakatake: Guess I fell in love again...

(Kagetora: All right!! // Yay!! // Yay!!)
Wakatake: Even so, acting like that as a third year // It's pretty cute.

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Kagetora: Yo!!
Wakatake: Yipes!!

Wakatake: What are you...!? Why!?
Kagetora: I didn't want to waste any time.

Kagetora: Teach me, Wakatake-sensei!
Wakatake: Idiot, don't shout in the middle of the night...

Kagetora: Anyway, here are my results of the second year.
Wakatake: Ah, thanks. I wanted to see that...

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Wakatake: Hold on!! // Aiming for a top school... isn't that a bit too much!!

Kagetora: Oh! You okay? // Earth to Wakatake?

Text: 314 days until the entrance test of Kouritsu High