O/A 8

[This chapter has already been scanlated by Maigo. This is just the original translation.]

O/A
Chapter 8

p.1
Chapter 8 A Certain Old Capital’s Symmetry


p.2
(O/A)


p.3

Harumi: The two letters that were delivered to the “Kaba-Tora-Uma” corner—
They have the same content though the senders are different; what does this spell for us?
Harumi: That was the sad, inadvertent tale of two young girls.

-Harumi 10 years old

-At the zoo
Harumi: That’s not it! Wrong video!
SFX: Hahaha


p.4
Taki: Y and S-ko were best friends since elementary school.
Taki: They had even talked about staying friends forever.

To think these two would fall in love with the same boy.

Taki: The object of their love was their classmate H-kun.
Taki: He was an athlete and a handsome boy, popular amongst the girls.


p.5
Taki: Each had realized that her best friend had feelings for K-kun,

Taki: But, not being able to confide their feelings, they pretended not to know anything to each other.

Taki: They did not want to hurt their best friend, but their feelings for K-kun only grew stronger.

Taki: Caught between love and friendship, both their hearts wavered like ne’er before.

However, they were maidens loving a short-lived love.


p.6
Taki: Valentine’s Day, both of them confessed to K-kun without the notice of the other.

Most unhappily, their loves were not to blossom...

Taki: Yet, rather than the pain of a broken heart, the fact that she tried to gain an edge over her best friend
Taki: And confessed to K-kun gave way to a large guilt being harbored by each girl’s heart.


p.7
Taki: The two became unable to face each other,
And in that fashion S-ko transferred away.
Taki: So that’s about what you get when you crosscheck the two letters.
Yutaka: About what you get...

Yutaka: In other words... the two who sent the letter were best friends and they both liked the same boy, K-kun,
Yutaka: But they both assumed their best friend didn’t know they both liked the same person.

Yutaka: Then they tried to get a head start on each other and confessed,
Yutaka: Which didn’t go well. They became separated while harboring guilt...

Yutaka: So it means the letter writers took the same actions
And have the same traumas as each other, right?
Taki: That’s what it comes down to.


p.8
Taki: So about that...... Tsuda-kun.
Tsuda: Yes.

Tsuda: We’d like to bring these two together on the show.
Yutaka: !

Tsuda: Under the theme of “Friendship renewed, starting with the letters sent to the corner!”
Tsuda: On the show, we will broadcast the audio of when they meet up.

Yutaka: Are we going to tell them we got both of their letters?
Taki: No, we’re going to have them suddenly see each other on the spot.


p.9
Taki: That way’s more interesting and has more of a surprise-factor.
Yutaka: Interesting, you say...

Tsuda: We have already contacted both parties,
Yutaka: .........
Tsuda: Outwardly as part of a special corner for “kaba-tora-uma” where Yutaka-chan will hear from the listeners directly.

Ueda: This’ll be the first outdoors job for the show.
Taki: You’re right.

Taki: The staff will be Ueda-kun and one more.
Taki: Who’s free on the off-day next week?

Tsuda: I have a noon show.
Kusaka: Me too.
Taki: Hmm...


p.10
Yutaka: ME ME MEEE~
Yutaka: I’ll go!!
Taki: Yeah

Taki: Let’s have Harumi-chan go as the AD.
Harumi: Yay!
Yutaka: Wha~~

Yutaka: Don’t ever speak in front of people when you’re with me.
Harumi: Roger that.
Taki: Fufu...

Taki: It’s dubbed
Taki: Go for those two, go~!! Special!!
Yutaka mutter: The heck is that


p.11
Harumi: Hey, look at that! Fuji-san, it’s Fuji-san!
Yutaka: Be quiet!! I’ll switch with you.

Yutaka: Geez.

Tsuka: It’s been a while since last time we travelled for a job.
Yutaka: It’s just a day trip, though...


p.12
Yutaka: .........But still,
Yutaka: I wonder if it’ll be okay forcing them together like this.

Harumi: I think it’ll be okay.
Harumi: They listened to the same thing on the radio and even sent similar letters.

Harumi: There must be something that’s connecting them.
Harumi: There’s also the lyrics to one of your songs,

Harumi: “The courage is an instant”
Harumi: “The friendship a lifetime”
Harumi: “The love of you two is no problem”*———... huh?
*[she says “mou man tai” which I believe means no problem in Chinese... this came up in Hitogatana too, remember? O.o]
Yutaka: You don’t even really remember it!


p.13
Announce: Kyoto———
Announce: Kyoto———

Harumi: Kyoto!!*
*[Kyoto is the former capital of Japan]
Harumi: I haven’t been here since the field trip in middle school~~!!
Yutaka: Awfully excited, aren’tcha...

Ueda: If our recording goes well, let’s eat something befitting Kyoto on our way back.
Harumi: Really? Yaaay!!
Yutaka: It’s better if you don’t count on it...


p.14

Yotsuba: Uh,
Excuse me......

Yotsuba: I’m sorry, are you Horiuchi Yutaka...
Yutaka: That’s right,
Yutaka: Are you Nakai Yotsuba-san?
Yotsuba: Y- yes!!

Yotsuba: EEEEEEK!! It’s the real Yutaka-san~!!
Yutaka: Shh
Yutaka: You’re too loud!!


p.15
Keihan
Sanjou Station*
*[real place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanj%C5%8D_Station_(Kyoto)]

Ueda: It’s already time.
Harumi: Oh, is it that girl?

Ueda: Could you be Takaya Saeko-san?
Saeko: Huh—
Saeko: Oh, yes, I am. Are you the people from Radio Ace?

Ueda: I’m the director, Ueda. Nice to meet you.
This is Harumi-chan from AD.
Harumi: .....
Ueda: Thank you for coming here today.
Saeko: Not at all.


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Yutaka: U~~m

Yutaka: We continue on to bump into each other at the Sanjou Oohashi Bridge...
Yutaka: Let’s just talk while walking for now.
Yotsuba: Y- yes.

Keihan
Sanjou Station

Ueda: Yutaka-chan’s at a café over there.
Saeko: Ah, okay.

Saeko: Are you going around to different listeners like this for the special?
Ueda: Oh, uh, that’s right.


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Yotsuba: But to think I’d really be able to meet with Yutaka-san...
Yutaka: Ahaha, I’m glad.
SFX: stab
Yutaka: My heart hurts...

Harumi mutter: I feel there was an old game with a scene like this


p.18
SFX: bump (encounter)
Yotsuba/Saeko: Hm?
Harumi mutter: Success!
Yutaka mutter: Don’t do a peace sign

Saeko: Yocchan...
Yotsuba: Saeko...


p.19
All: ............
Yutaka: Y-
You see,

Yutaka: Actually, we got letters from you at the same time!

Yutaka: And it seems you’re both misunderstanding each other!

Yutaka: So...

Yutaka: We thought you could talk it over...


p.20
Yutaka: !?

Girls: I caaaaan’t!!!

Yutaka: Wa-wa-waait!!


p.21
Yutaka: Uuugh!

Yutaka: Harumi,
Catch that girl.
Harumi: Huh, oh, yes!
Yutaka mutter: Hold this for me
Yutaka: Hurry!!

Ueda: .........
Recorder
Tsuka: .........

Ueda?: What should we do......
Tsuka?: What to do, indeed...

Yutaka: I’m telling you to wait!!
Yotsuba: I caaaaan’t!!


p.22
Yotsuba: Why was Saeko there!!!?
Yutaka: I said it was a misunderstanding!! Listen to what I have to say!!
Yotsuba: Nooo~ I can’t see her~

Yutaka: Hey—

Yutaka: No waay!!!
Yutaka: Nng.....

Yutaka: Don’t look down on idols!!!
Yutaka: Nng.....


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SFX: huff
SFX: huff
Saeko: .........

Yocchan......

SFX: Eek!
Harumi: I have gotcha~~!!

Saeko: You chased after me!?
Harumi: You can’t speak!!
Seako: Let go!

Saeko: Hey! Please say something—
Harumi: I mustn’t speak...
Saeko: Noooo~ this person’s kind of scary~!!


p.24
SFX: huff
Yutaka: Stop right there!!
SFX: huff
Yotsuba: I don’t want to!! Also, that

Yotsuba: Was horrible of you, Yutaka-san
Yotsuba: You called me out saying you have something to talk about, and then...

Yotsuba: This is fraud~!!

Yutaka: Like I said, listen to—

Yutaka: Gotcha!!


p.25
Dude: Alright~
Dude: Stay right there, stay right there...

SFX: snap

SFX: snap

Dude: Hm?
SFX: flap flap


p.26
Yutaka: *pant... pant...
Yutaka: The Kamo River’s shallower than I thought.........

Yutaka: Are you okay? Are you hurt?
Yutaka: We have to go up and dry our clothes.........

Yutaka: After that we can meet that girl and talk—
Yotsuba: I can’t.

Yotsuba: I betrayed her, you know.
The friend that I thought was most precious to me...
Yotsuba: Saeko must have thought that way about me, too...


p.27
Yotsuba: How... how is...
Yotsuba: Someone like me supposed to face her...

Yutaka: .........
Yutaka: Then it’s okay if you never see her for the rest of your life?

Yutaka: Well, whatever you do,
Yutaka mutter: I’m not good with these things
Yutaka: Since she’s your precious friend, regardless of misunderstandings,
Yutaka: Isn’t it much duller to never meet her again like this?


p.28
Yutaka: The courage is an instant
The friendship a lifetime!!
Yutaka: It’s a waste if you two don’t stay together!!
——They say.

Yotsuba: *giggle
Aren’t those the lyrics to your “Watashi no Partner”*, Yutaka-san?
*[My Partner]
Yutaka: She knew!!

Yotsuba: You’re a funny person, just like on the radio, Yutaka-san.
Yutaka: L- let’s hurry and get up! We’ll catch a cold!!


p.29
SFX: Do~~~ng
Ueda: They’re late...

Ueda: Both of them... I wonder where they went off to.
SFX: Do~ng
Saeko: I knew it...

Saeko: She doesn’t want see me after all!
Ueda: These girls are generally pessimistic.

Yotsuba: Saeko......

Was drying clothes


p.30
Ueda: ————And that’s how it is.

Ueda: There was no need for you to worry about each other.

Yotsuba: Saeko...
Saeko: Yocchan...

Girls: I’m sorry!!


p.31

Ueda: We had some confusion, but I guess the plan’s a success.
Yutaka: Yep...

Yotsuba: I... still have something I couldn’t tell you, Saeko.
Saeko: !

Saeko: ......Actually, me too.........
Yotsuba: ......

Saeko: You see...
Saeko: Um......


p.32
Yotsuba: I was the one who stole Katori-kun’s gym clothes when we were second years!!!
SFX: sniff~ x2

Saeko: Me too, I mixed my saliva into the chocolate I gave to Katori-kun!!!
SFX: nnn~

Yotsuba: Saeko!!
Saeko: Yocchan!!


p.33
Harumi: All’s well that ends well.
Yutaka: It’s not well!
Yutaka mutter: It’s repulsive!

Yutaka: Uh oh

Tsuka: Uh oh

Ueda: Uh oh

Harumi: Uh oh

Girls: ......... .........
Yotsuba: That person’s voice......
Yutaka: Uuuum
Yutaka: Uhhhh... you see... yeah, hahaha


p.34
Yutaka: You guys should first apologize to K-kun.
Yotsuba: Wha......
Yutaka: OKAY?
Yotsuba?: Y- yes...

Yutaka: By food befitting Kyoto......
It doesn’t [ i]have[ i] to be Gyoza no Gyokusho*
*[I think this (餃子の玉将) is a spoof on Gyoza no Ohsho (餃子の王将, gyouza no oushou), a well known Kyoto-based ramen and gyoza restaurant in Japan.]
Harumi: I like it, so it’s fine with me~
Ueda: Since Taki-san would if we spent any more of our budget on it.