Anata to Scandal 14

Chapter 14

P109

......

Tomoka: I’ll never...
aknowledge your marriage.


P110

Fuyuhiko: Um...?

Fuyuhiko: I understand that you will be.... lonely without your friend... But...
Serika: Hey, Tomoka...
Tomoka: Serika-san is going to stay here forever!
Because she’s... She’s...

Tomoka: She’s mine!!


P111

sfx: WHOOOSH

Fuyuhiko: Um... Do you know that Serika-san is a girl?
Or are you...?
Tomoka: I’m well aware of that!!

Fuyuhiko: So you mean...
You’re......


P112

Fuyuhiko: You’re a PERVERT!?
Eeep! Don’t give me cooties!
Tomoka: I know! You don’t need to scream it so loudly.

Fuyuhiko: Serika-san! Hurry up and get away from her!
What if her perverseness rubbed off on you!!?

Tomoka: Don’t treat me like I’ve got some kind of disease!

Serika: Tomoka... Whenever you get involved, the conversation always takes a weird turn......


P113

Serika: Umm... Sano Shirou, were you?

Fuyuhiko: It’s Takashimizu Fuyuhiko.
Was that supposed to be a joke? That was uncalled for.

Serika: Oh.
Takashimizu-san.
←She genuinely got it wrong.

Serika: I know you were happy with the arrangement.
But please let me call off the wedding.
CEO: They’ve been ignoring us for a while.
Arata: Let them take care of this.
Fuyuhiko: Serika-san!
Serika: Because I......

Serika: can only fall in love...
with other girls.


P114

Tomoka: Huh!?
sfx: BA-DUMP

sfx: THUD
Arata: Since when!?

Serika: Come on, Tomoka. Let’s hurry up and go home to have some fun.
sfx: SNUGGLE SNUGGLE
Arata: Oh well... Anybody could see that it’s just an act...

Fuyuhiko: It’s no use, trying to make me give up by putting on an act.
Trying to
stay calm.
Arata: See? He can tell.

E... Eep! I know it’s an act, but...
Tomoka: Arata-kun is watching...
sfx: FLUSTERED
But... I’m kinda happy

Serika: Why don’t you see for yourself...
whether it’s just an act or not?
sfx: GRAB


P115

sfx: FWUMP!!

P116

PETRIFIED.

Serika: Please report to my dad...
what you just witnessed.

sfx: PEEP PEEP PEEP PEEP
big sfx: GASP
Serika: Arata! We’re leaving.
sfx: CRUMBLE


P117

sfx: THUD

Arata: ...Did you really do it?

Serika: I didn’t.
You’re scary...


P118

Arata: You really really really didn’t do it for real!?
Serika: Why would I ever want to kiss a girl!? It’s gross!!!

Arata: Then how would you explain Tomoka’s current condition!?
She fainted.→

Serika: I don’t know!
Anyways, we didn’t do it, so there!!
Not on the lips, at least...

Arata: That little whim of yours just pulverized all my efforts until now.
Waaah!
What if Tomoka is even more in love with you now!?
Serika: Sorry about that.


P119

Arata: Leaving that aside...
Anyways!
What do you mean, you have a fiancé!!?

Arata: You said you didn’t have parents...
Why did you lie!?

Serika: Because I don’t think of them as parents.

Arata: Huh!?
Serika: Would you think of them as such...!?
If they forced you into an arranged marriage at age 16, would you think of them as your parents!?
Would you!?



P120

Arata: Did you...
run away from home because they were trying to make you get married!?

Serika: That was the beginning of it all...
But it’s not the only reason I left.

Arata: Th-...
Then...

Arata: What did you mean by “that”?
Serika: “You still intend to marry a girl who did something like THAT...?”

Serika: Until a couple of months ago...


P121

Serika: my hair was much longer than it is now.
All the way down my back.

Arata: That’s quite a drastic change... Why?
Serika: One day my parents suddenly told me to show up for dinner in my best kimono, because we would have a very special guest.

Serika: It was for...
the marital negotiations with that man.

Serika: The moment I realized they tricked me, everything I’d cropped up inside just burst.
And then...
Fuyuhiko: Aaaaah! Serika-san, what are you doing!?
Somebody, stop her!

Arata: And then...!?


P122

Serika: I shaved off all my hair with an electric hair clipper...
in front of my arranged marriage partner.
mangaka (?): Ugh... I shouldn’t have drawn this.

Serika: It was hilarious! They were foaming from their mouths.
My dad even screamed like a mad man... “I’m disowning you! Get out!!”
Arata: But... you’re a girl! How could you go that far! Even if you were annoyed because they tricked you into marriage, isn’t that a bit much......?


P123

Serika: I just wanted to...
dishonor my father’s name, for the rest of his life.

Arata: Why...?
Do you hate him that much?

Arata: Isn’t he still your father?


P124

Arata: Shouldn’t you be glad...
that you at least HAVE any parents?

Arata: You only get to be a good daughter...
while your parents are still alive.

Serika: Are you lecturing me?

Arata: No, I just...
Serika: Don’t stick your nose into other people’s business while you don’t even know the details!


P125

Arata: There’s no need to yell at me! I’m just worried about you.
Serika: I never asked you to worry for me! It’s uncalled for!
Why don’t you look after Tomoka instead!?

sfx: KA-CHING

Arata: You bitch...!! If you come back crying to me, I won’t help you!!
sfx: HMPH.


P126

Arata: You’re gonna make me pay for the taxi!?

While those two were having their serious (?) talk...
sfx: MUMBLE...
I was having happy dreams all by myself.

Tamotsu: I now declare you husband and wife.

You may kiss the bride...

Fuyuhiko: I object to this marriage!
sfx: SLAM
sfx: SHOCK


P127

Fuyuhiko: You’re not a prince, but a princess.
Come to your senses!!

Tomoka: What kind of nonsense is that......?
sfx: TOSS
Fuyuhiko: Evil spirits, begone!
Serika: Whoa!
paper: Prayer for safe birth.

Tomoka: My prince...

Serika: Huh?
sfx: POOF
sfx: TA-DAH

Serika: I remember now.
An evil witch put a spell on me.

Evil witch↑

Fuyuhiko: Come, let’s go back to our country♡
Tomoka: What about our love!?
I love you!!


P129

sfx: TURN

Serika: You pervert.

sfx: FWUMP
Ah...
Are you kidding me!!!?

Fuyuhiko: Bleh



P130

Serika: I have to leave for a bit, so be good, okay?
sfx: MEOW MEW

Serika:!
sfx: CLICK

Fuyuhiko: Hello.

Serika: Don’t you know when to give up!?
I told you to go home!
Fuyuhiko: I can’t do that.
Won’t you calmly talk this over with me?

Serika: I have to go to work and band practice.
I don’t have the time to be talking to you...
Fuyuhiko: There’s no need to go to work.


P131

Fuyuhiko: You’re probably fired now.

Serika: !

Fuyuhiko: You’ll have to clear out your apartment by the end of the month as well.

Serika: You...


P131

Serika: Bastard!
sfx: GRAB
Serika: What have you done!?

Fuyuhiko: I’ll use...
whatever possible means.

Serika: ...Okay, fine! Let me hear what you’ve got to say!

Fuyuhiko: Let’s go somewhere else.
I’ve reserved a room at a hotel.


P132

sfx: DING DONG
DING DONG
Tomoka: Huh?
Did she leave already?

sfx: STOMP STOMP STOMP
Tomoka: I’ll go to her workplace.

Tomoka: Fired!?
Wh-... Why!?

waitress: Two men in dressed in all black came to talk to the manager.
I guess she caused some trouble or something.

He must be behind this!


P133

Tomoka: Oh no!
I’ve got a bad feeling about this!

Tamotsu: That fiancé of hers...
must be gay.

Tamotsu: Because Serika looks like a guy, no matter how you look at her.
I still think it’s creepy whenever she says something girly with that deep voice of hers.
Takemi: If things had gotten that lively, you should’ve called me.

Takemi: But you’re right. When I first met her, her hair was shorter.
So she shaved it, huh...


P134

Tamotsu: But marriage...?
Even if you told me that she’s some kind of rich lady, it just wouldn’t seem real to me, you know?
Takemi: You think so? I already suspected it right from the start.

Huh!?

Takemi: I can tell by the way she moves, and her habits.
She must’ve been trained to behave well since she was little.
Even though she’s got a foul mouth and sits with her legs wide open...

Arata: Wow...
Tamotsu: So you’re not completely useless after all...
Takemi: ......
What do you mean?


P135

Arata: Anyhow, this just won’t go over well...
I wonder what she plans on doing...

......
......

sfx: SLAM!
Tomoka: Is Serika-san here!?

Tamotsu: Don’t slam the doors, you idiot!
Takemi: She’s not here yet.

Tomoka: ...I already feared so.

Tomoka: That man made Serika-san get fired from her job! He’s seriously planning to drag her back home!


P136

Tomoka: I’ve been looking for her, but I can’t find her anywhere.
Where in the world did Serika-san goooo....
sfx: SLUMP

Arata: Calm down!
She’s probably just running late. Don’t worry, I’m sure she’ll show up soon.

Tomoka: No!

Tomoka: My senses are tingling...
They’re telling me that something bad is happening.
sfx: BEEP BEEP BEEP
Takemi: What IS she...?

Serika-san!


P137

Serika: A suite in a five-star hotel?
Ah... As the son of a rich company president, you must live in a completely different world.
Fuyuhiko: I can’t escort the young lady of the Yuuki family into some shoddy room, after all.
sfx: SHUT

sfx: CLICK
Fuyuhiko: Do you want something to drink?

Serika: I already told you yesterday, but I don’t have the slightest intention to go home.
Fuyuhiko: It would be easy to drag you back by force.


P138

Fuyuhiko: But as long as you don’t go home of your own will, we would only end up repeating the same thing over and over again, right?
Serika: So you DO understand.

Fuyuhiko: So I plan to persuade you until you’ll want to go home yourself.
No matter how many days it would take.


P139

Serika: !

Serika: You can’t...!
sfx: DASH

sfx: RATTLE

Fuyuhiko: It’s no use.
I told them to lock the door from the outside.
The phone line is unplugged as well.


P140

Serika: You... You tricked me!!
Fuyuhiko: Tricked you? When did I do that?

Fuyuhiko: We have plenty of time.
sfx: SMILE
Let’s calm down and talk

Tomoka: Please be safe!
Serika-san!