Sket Dance 69

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Sket Dance 69

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Tagline- The premonition of a case…!?
-So it’s happened again has it…
-This is the third time, who on earth could be doing such a thing?
-Who is at fault for breaking the window?
-Hey, do you know the Glass Man?
-Glass Man?
-…you mean the guy from the glass breaking incident?
-It seems like he appeared again! Kanegi-sensei said so
-Again!?
-Isn’t this the third time!?
-This isn’t a prank anymore, I won’t let him finish it
-Major Incident!!
-It’s a scoop
-Hey, tell me more details

02
B-What?
B-Close Reporting?
Y-Yes
Y-I’m wondering if we can rely on you to cooperate
B-Clo… what? You’re coming close ?
B-Yaza san is, to me?
B-For an interview or something?
Y- What’s your favourite food?
SFX - squeeze
B- Mandarin Jelly
H- You’re an idiot
Y- That’s not what close reporting means
B- O….oh. Hmph, as expected of Yaza-san, not being the least bit surprised by that Boke
Y- In short, it’s a documentary. You often see them on TV do you not?
Y- I want to record you doing your activities with a camera
Y- Sket Dan is an unusual club, and if I submit the footage in a broadcasting contest I think it would defiantly become an interesting work

03
S-Ah
S- I’m Yasuda Saori from the same Broadcasting Club
S- I heard about you from Yaza-san and proposed this idea
S- We’ll be careful not to get the in way of your activities so
S- How about it?
B- No… I don’t really mind or anything but
B- I don’t think anything you film of us would be particularly interesting
B- ‘I dropped something, so let’s look for it together’
B- or something disappeared so could we please… something it together?
B- or I somethinged something so could we please… look for the lost item to- (yeah it’s meant to be something)
Y-Is it all just lost items?
B-Even if you say activities it’s not like something happens everyday
B- If we haven’t got anything to do we’re just idle people
S- Honestly we’ve thought of withdrawing
H- We normally do origami and stuff
H- Would you film that?
B- Ah, if there’s nothing to film should I make 100 expressions?
B- It’s pretty interesting
B- How bout it?
Y- Oh… Hmph
S- It’s okay, there’s something for you to do

04
B/H/S- The Glass Man Investigation?!
H- What’s that
Y- You haven’t heard? It’s the culprit of the glass breaking case that’s been causing a fuss in school at the moment
B- Oh yeah, there was an article on it in the school newspaper
H- It’s become quite the conversation topic, though I don’t really know anything about it
H- What is it?
S- The glass man is a mysterious figure who breaks one window somewhere in the school everyday
S- There’s no evidence of anything being stolen so he’s thought to be what you’d call a criminal who does it for the attention (literally ‘Yukaihan’ is a criminal who enjoys watching how people react to the stuff he does, I don’t know a short way of saying that)
Y- The first incident was Thursday last week, when the windows of Multipurpose Classroom A were smashed
Y- It was thought to be a mere prank, but the following day it was the Academic Affairs Office
Y- It happened this week too, on Monday it was the Chemistry Classroom, on Tuesday the Manga Research Clubroom
Y- Yesterday the AV Room windows were smashed
Y- It’s too vicious so it seems the school has started to make it an issue but no one has been spotted in the areas where the glass was broken…
Y- And this morning the Etiquette Room’s window’s were smashed, making it the sixth incident

05
B- Now you mention it Chuu-san was saying something about that
H- Roman too, something like ‘I’m being targeted by the bad guys’
S- Someone called him that, so now the Glass Man has become the talk of the school
S- I’m sure he’s just enjoying the attention he gets
S- I won’t forgive him
Y- Thereupon this case should be solved by the Sket Dan
Y- There’s no activities better than this request right?
Paper (r to l, t to b) – The School Times
The Glass Man Strikes Again
One Window A Day, The Fifth Time
Tagline- The first seriously bad case in a long time…!!
Chapter 69 – The Glass Man
-Shinohara Kenta

06
B- Now then
B- Let’s put the incidents in order
B- Since the first window was smashed, excluding Saturday and Sunday there has been one a day
B- Up to today that’s six windows
B- According to the information of Yoshimura-san, the school official who has been patrolling, the glass is most likely broken in the early morning between six thirty and seven thirty
B- And it seems the only ones who’ve been coming to school at that hour lately are a few members of the baseball club doing independent practice
H- The it’s decided! We just have to threaten those baseball club guys till they spill right!?
H- Let’s go make them spill it now! Yay we did it!!!
B- Wait wait wait wait
B- It’s not certain to be the baseball club just because the probability is high
B- Because first we have to hear their alibis…
H- Then we just have to round up the guys with no alibi and scare them enough that they stop playing dumb right!?
H- Alright I’m itching to go!!
B- It’s been a while so…. Your enthusiasm is wholehearted
S- I’ve come to inform Bossun

07
S- This criminal chap has made a right mess
H- Why are you wearing a trench coat?!
S- Ah well it’s been so long since we’ve had a case like this I got fired up
H- You’re not fired up at all are you? You just wanted to make a joke right?
H- Whatever
H- So what did you find out Switch?
S- Oh, that was good, it’s like I’m a detective or something
H- That’s always been your nickname!
S- It seems like this rolled into the first smashed multipurpose classroom
S- Most likely they threw this and broke the glass
B- This is…
B- A hardball?
B- It’s the baseball club’s
H- Alright! To the baseball club!

08
B- Are you the manager Takashima-san?
T- Yes
T- The people who do individual morning practice?
T- There’s only three at the moment
B- Could you please tell me who they are?
T- Um… the shortstop Ozaki Mamoru-kun and…
T- The fourth batter Shimasaki Takao-kun

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T- And my beloved, who isn’t a regular but who said he’d take me to Koushien (famous baseball stadium where one of the major annual high school baseball tournaments is held)
T- Reserve pitcher Hiraizumi Eiichi-kun
B- I didn’t ask for that much you know
T- But why do you want to know?
B- No no it’s just my babbling
B- Thanks
B- Ozaki, Shimasaki, Hiraizumi…
B- Amongst these three is the Glass Man
M- I’m Ozaki Mamoru! Nice to meet you!
M- Between 6:30 and 7:30? Yes! I always do running!

10
B- Alone?
M- Yes!
B- What course?
M- Yes! First I pass behind Multipurpose Classroom A and turn the corner at the Academic Affairs room! Then I go through the path by the side of the special classrooms then make a U-turn beside the Manga Research Clubroom of the Cultural Clubrooms! Then I head for the AV Room and pass behind the Etiquette Room…
B- You’re unbelievably suspicious!!
E- Alibi?
E- I was practicing pitching alone
E- I can’t prove it
H- You’re the criminal aren’t you, give yourself up
E- Criminal?
E- Every morning I silently through pitches
E- Because I made a promise to Sachiko
E- That I would take her…

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E-To Koushien
H- His lack of ball control is on par with Switch’s…
H- In view of the location he could have broken the glass, this guy
H- You’re really the criminal are you? Give yourself up
E- Give myself up?
T- I’m the fourth batter Shimasaki Takao
T- At that time I was practicing my swing alone
T- Understand?
T- To me, a bat is a weapon used to take down an enemy
T- When I swing
T- My feelings flare up and…

12
T- And I want to completely destroy whatever is in my path!
T- Kukukukuku…!!
T- Ohahaha!!
B- All of these guys are suspicious!!
S- But having no alibis is the same as having no eyewitnesses
H- What, so in the end if we have no proof we can’t do anything
B- Well we don’t understand the criminal’s motive
B- There’s no pattern to the classrooms he targets…

13
B- Is there a meaning to the classrooms he picks…?
B-….no…
B- That’s not it
H- Like a code or something?
B- Hm?
B- Yeah… something like that
S- A criminal who does it to be noticed simply wants to cause a fuss and soak in the attention he gets
S- These kind of guys’ desire to put themselves on display is strong
S- It might be that this guy has asserted his existence somewhere
B- Hmm his existence…
B- His name?
B- A code…

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Note – Thursday Multipurpose Classroom
Friday Academic Affairs Room
Monday Chemistry Classroom
Tuesday Manga Research Clubroom
Wednesday AV Room
Thursday Etiquette Room
B- I get it!!
B- It’s got nothing to do with what the classrooms are used for!
B- It’s a code!!
H- A code?
B- Yeah
B- So if you make this like this…
B- No that’s wrong
B- Okay if you break this up…
B- Got it

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B- I’m good at this kind of thing
B- Taki
B- Takika
B- Ma…
B- Wrong
B- Shi…
B- Shika
B- Tama…
B- Tamaka…
B- Sa…
B- Ta
B- Ka…

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B- Bwahh!!!!
B- *Cough*
B- I…
B- *Cough choke*
B- I got it!!
S- That’s an interesting face but I get worried every time
H- What!? What did you get!?
B- Yeah
B- Tomorrow morning
B- The Glass Man will appear in the Reception Office

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B- That’s the Reception Office window
H- Will he really come?
B- He’ll come
B- If my reasoning is correct
B- He’s leaving his name in a code
B- I can’t think of anywhere else but that room

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B- He’ll definatly be here
B- Alright?
B- If he comes we’ll dash out and catch him
B- He’s here!!
B- It’s the Glass Man!!
B- Now!!!

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B- Stop!!
B- Glass Man!!
B- Uh uh
B- It’s pointless even if you run
B- I know who you are
B- Accept your fate
B- Sket Dance
Tagline – They’ve driven the criminal into a corner!!