O/A 9

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

O/A
Chapter 9

p.01
Chapter 9 Welcome to the Hamburger Hill!
SFX: Clink... x2

Harumi: Thanks for your hard work~
Worker: Yeah
Good work~

SFX: Pant x3


p.02
Chapter 9 Welcome to the Hamburger Hill!


p.03
SFX: Click....
Bang

SFX: Zzz~ x2

SFX: Zzz x2


p.04
Harumi: ........
Harumi: ........

SFX: murmur x3

Yutaka: .........?
Harumi: Oh......
Harumi: I woke you up.

Yutaka: Fwaa...... [yawn :/]
......That’s fine.
Did you go to work?
Yutaka: Yes.


p.05
Yutaka: What are you muttering for?
Harumi: Huh?
Harumi: Eh heh heh......

Harumi: I was writing a joke diagram.
Yutaka: Joke diagram?

Harumi: I’m going to doing a standup routine.
Harumi: What I’m writing now are jokes for the performance.
It’s just a small event with the comedians from our agency, but...

Harumi: I’ve never properly made them laugh in these chances...
So I thought, this time......
Yutaka: Hmmm...
Now that I think about it......


p.06
This girl is wannabe entertainer,
Yutaka: So you were in an agency, huh.
Harumi: Pretty much...
And she is someone walking down that path......

Yutaka: M’kay, I’ll go to sleep again.
Harumi: I’m sorry, I’ll keep quiet.
Yutaka: I’m fine, really.

Yutaka: ———...Hm? Then what did I think of her until now
As I was staying here......?


p.07
SFX: Mutter x2


p.08

Tsuka: It’s my first time at a live standup performance.
Although I’ve been with comedians at variety TV shows...

Tsuka: Can’t wait for Harumi-chan’s time to shine, right?
Yutaka: It—
It’s not like I came to cheer her on or anything!! [tsundere~ \o/]

Yutaka: Inspecting, it’s inspecting!!
Yutaka: It would be a problem if she used me for her jokes!
Tsuka: Fufu......


p.09
MC: Nautilus Rookie Live, today’s first act is
MC: The duo currently with the most momentum
“Rorschach”~~~~!!

Yutaka: You know them?
Tsuka: No......
I’ve heard that this agency has a lot of female comedians with variety acts......*
*[Non-storytelling acts]

Yutaka: Oh~ I wonder why.
I’m getting really nervous.

Yutaka: But I don’t even care whether that girl trips or slips on the stage......
SFX [white]: chara cha cha chaa~~ chaa~~
SFX [black]: clap, clap, clap


p.10
Girls: Short skit
Girls: Field Hospital

Girl: !

1: AAAAUGH!! MY ARRRM~!!!
2: Doc, doc!! Over here, hurry!!

1: My arm’s gone~~!!
2: I’ve given you morphine!!
The treatment’s done, too! It’s okay.

1: Doc...... Am, am I going to die?
2: It’s okay! It’ll be okay!


p.11
2: If you’re lucky there could be a chance you won’t die!!
1: Whaaaaa!!?

1: Isn’t that where you say “you’ll definitely be all right”!?
2: Even if you tell me that...

2: It would suck if I say something arbitrary and later the survivors put me on trial.
2: And you see,
There’s no insurance on this treatment at all.
1: You dope!!

1: Why the hell would there be insurance for a field hospital!!?
Tsuka: Variety act, eh?
Yutaka: Variety act.


p.12
SFX: ahahahaha

Guy: Hey, Harumi.
Harumi: Oh
Guy: Relax your shoulders.

Guy: They’re warming up the audience this much.
Just relax and go for it.
Harumi: Okay......

SFX: thump x4


p.13
Yutaka: Really.
Why do I have to be getting so nervous?
Yutaka: Makes me sick...
MC: Next up, our second act!! Jersey girl who grew up in the old town,

MC: Lone comedian, Tanaka Harumi~~!
Yutaka: Here she is......

Yutaka: Whoa
She’s all stiff......!!


p.14
Harumi: He~llo~
I’m Tadakaarumi~~
Don’t mess up your own name!!!

Yutaka: S – sorry, I’m fleeing for a bit.
Tsuka: Yutaka

Tsuka: You can’t. Keep watching her.
Yutaka: Noooo~!!
Harumi: Um~~ uh~~

Harumi: I went on vacation last month————
To South America.
Harumi: No, no, it’s South America, but it’s surprisingly close.


p.15
Harumi: I live in Tabata in Tokyo,

[Tabata][[Nishi-Nippori][Nippori]
[Narita][Buenos Aires]
Harumi: Four stations!!

Harumi: ————Wait, I rode on a plane in betwee~~~~n!!
Harumi mutter: The skyliner too!!

SFX: silence...

Yutaka mutter: ebb tide~~*
*[Yutaka is digging for clams at the beach]

Harumi: Doko sa itta~*
Doko sa itta~*
*[Where’d you go]
Harumi: Docosahexaenoic a~ci~d
Whoa......!!

Harumi: Uh, um~~ the other day~~
Yutaka: This is torture...


p.16
Box: Five minutes later
Harumi: ...............

Yutaka: I’m...... at my limit......!!
SFX: pant, pant
Tsuka: Endure it! You have to endure it!!

Yutaka mutter: The seawater!!
SFX: flop flop

I can’t even hear any sarcastic laughter anymore...

What should I do, what should I do...
I have to make them laugh......


p.17
All or nothing......
A quick gag with everything on the line...

Yutaka: That face...
Oh no, stop!!

Harumi: Mmm~~~
Harumi: Lake Titicaca!!!*
*[Marvelously, the pun works in English as well.]

Yutaka mutter: The ocean~~
Yutaka mutter: The ocean’s gone~~!


p.18

Harumi: Ah~~
Harumi: So you came all the way to see me~

Harumi: Ahahaha, how embarrassing~~~

Harumi: ———So, how was I...?

Yutaka: No matter how anyone looks at it...
Yutaka: Complete failure.


p.19
Yutaka: Why do you choke on your standup jokes when you talk so fluently on the radio?
Harumi: Well~ on the radio I feel I’m simply borrowing your voice, Yutaka-san.

Harumi: The atmospheres between the stage and the radio are different, too.........
Harumi: I guess it’s no good if you get worried about the reactions of those watching you.

Harumi: But I think there was no helping it this time.
Harumi: My jokes kept failing, too.

Harumi: I was told by my senpai that you can’t do anything about failed jokes so you shouldn’t panic.

SFX: sluuuurp

Harumi: I’ll make even better jokes for my next chance———


p.20
SFX: BANG!!

Yutaka: I don’t like it.

Yutaka: What I don’t like is that frivolous attitude of yours!!
Yutaka: You crushed one of your chances today.
Are you being so carefree even though you understand that!?

Harumi: I—

Harumi: I know that~
Yutaka: Nooope!! You don’t get it.


p.21
Yutaka: It’s not like you’re looking down on comedy or making fun of the viewers.
Yutaka: But,

Yutaka: Have you made the resolution to make a living with your routines!?

Yutaka: Don’t be covering up your failure with your frivolousness!!

Yutaka: It pisses me off......
Yutaka: When I see a performer without enough greed or ambition...

Yutaka: Don’t you want to be acknowledged by people!?


p.22
Harumi: I know that already!!

Harumi: I want to be acknowledged, too! I want to sell!
But......
Harumi: I get anxious, wondering if it’s okay like this...
There are times I can’t tell if the routines I’m doing are funny or not!!

Harumi: It’s not like everyone is like you,
Harumi: Yutaka-san, with confidence in the talents they were born with!!


p.23
Bystander: Whoa!

Bystander: What’s going on?

SFX: Pfah [there I go with making up random stuff again]


p.24
Yutaka: You said you’re not confident of your talents
Then you should make up for it in your routines with resourcefulness!
What the heck was that Nippori, Narita, Buenos Aires!?
Yutaka: Don’t make jokes on the premise that everyone has the stations in the city memorized!!
Harumi: The places don’t really matter for that!! As long as the tempo and how the words sound are funny!!

Yutaka: And what the heck was that docosahexaenoic a~ci~d!?
Harumi: It’s the so-called bridge between jokes!! It’s standard for comedy!!

Yutaka: Then make it something with less meaning!!
Yutaka: You’re furthering your fails because you’re awkwardly including puns!!


p.25
Yutaka: There’s no way you can do something funny without thinking from the viewpoint of the audience!!
Harumi: Yu... Yutaka-san,

Harumi: You can’t even make the radio show interesting without me!!


p.26

Yutaka: .........Oh.
So that’s what you were thinking...
Harumi: Ah......


p.27

Yutaka: I... understand it clearly.


p.28

Taki: Harumi-chan’s not coming?

Intercom: What is this about?

Yutaka: No ifs and buts about it.
Yutaka: If she doesn’t come, it means she has no intention of speaking.
I’ll talk by myself from today.

Yutaka: “Aurora” was my show to begin with.
Yutaka: Are there any problems?


p.29
Tsuka: They seem to have had a fight about the routine.
Tsuka: She’s staying over at my place right now............

Taki: Yutaka-chan,
I won’t accept that.
Intercom: ..................

Taki: ......Seriously...
SFX: crumple, crumple
Ueda: What’ll we do, Taki-san?

Ueda: I don’t see what we can do other than start the show today with just Yutaka-chan...

Taki: Have you contacted Harumi-chan?
Tsuda: I’ve called her, but she’s not answering.
Taki: Call her as many times as it takes until she answers.


p.30
Taki: “Aurora” won’t appear if it’s not the two of you......

SFX: Vrr~~
SFX: Vrr~~
Harumi: ............


p.31
1: Whaddya think of “Aurora Plan” these days?
2: What do I think... nothing especially.

3: Like it kinda got normal or something.
4: Well, I feel there haven’t been any dirty jokes these past few weeks.

5: I sort of think it’s fine to just listen to recordings these days as well.
6: Yeah, it doesn’t have the feeling of exhilaration when you’re listening to it.


p.32
Radio: That was your host Horiuchi Yutaka. We’ll see you again next w—
SFX: Bip

Chapter 9 End