Anata to Scandal 15

Chapter 15


P141

Serika: Hyaaaaah!!!
sfx: SMASH


P142

sfx: SIP...

Serika: Is this...
bulletproof glass...!?


P143

Fuyuhiko: It’s no use.
The door and windows of this room...

Fuyuhiko: were custom-made...
sfx: LOOM

sfx: TOSS
sfx: CRASH

Serika: Then I’ll just...
have to attack YOU.
sfx: CRACKLE.


P144

Serika: Hurry up...
sfx: WHIRL
sfx: DODGE

sfx: CRUMPLE
Serika: and tell the guys on the outside...

sfx: WHOOSH
Serika: to open the door!!!

Fuyuhiko: ...This is kinda...

Fuyuhiko: as if we’re practicing for a marital quarrel♡
Serika: That’s not funny, you dimwit!!


P145

Fuyuhiko: You must be hungry from running around so much.
sfx: RATTLE RATTLE
Let’s have something to eat......

Fuyuhiko: Aaah! What a waste of good food!
Serika: How can I be eating while someone is hungrily waiting for me at home!

Fuyuhiko: ...Could you be talking about Tomoka-san?

Serika: That’s right!


P146

Fuyuhiko: Are you living together with her!?
Serika: Of course!! We do EVERYTHING together, from eating to bathing and sleeping!!

He can’t imagine it.
Eating and bathing and sleeping... Eating and bathing...

Meow.
Aah, shut up.

Fuyuhiko: That’s all the more reason not to let you go!!


P147

That night, Serika-san didn’t come home.

sfx: DING DONGDING DONG

Tomoka: Serika-saaaan...
sfx: TREMBLE TREMBLE
Due to that, I didn’t get a wink of sleep......


P148

Arata: So she hasn’t been here at all?
sfx: DING DONG DING DONG
Tomoka: That’s right!

Tomoka: I checked in the morning, and I tried calling her so many times while I was at school...
Arata: Shh!
sfx: MEOW MEOW

Arata: Tomoka, do you have a hairpin?
Tomoka: Huh?

Tomoka: You mean... one like this?
Arata: Thanks.


P149

Tomoka: What are you gonna do with that...?
sfx: HNNG

Tomoka: !
sfx: RATTLE RATTLE
Tomoka: You can’t just do that, Arata-kun...!

Arata: Got it!
sfx: CLICK
sfx: THUD

sfx: CLICK

!!!
sfx: JUMP


P150

Arata: Look for cat food, Tomoka!
sfx: SHOCKED
sfx: MEW...
sfx: MEOW MEOW
Arata: Hey!

Tomoka: They’re so hungry.
Arata: Yeah, they haven’t eaten for a whole day.

sfx: NUZZLE NUZZLE
You’ve gotten so fat, little Tomoka.
Arata: Now we know for sure.

Arata: This means that Serika is unable come home right now...
even if she wanted to.


P151

Tomoka: ......I knew it.

Tomoka: He must’ve forced her to go home with him.
Hey, what should we do!!?
Arata: Calm down.

Arata: While you were at school today, I went around calling people for information.


P152

Arata: That Takashimizu guy is the son of some rich company president.
NK Pharmaceutics is the top dog in their field, it’s a big business.
So he’s practically guaranteed a good future.

Tomoka: Really? Is that true!?
sfx: LICK LICK
Arata: Yeah... He may look like an airhead, but he’s actually a pretty shrewd guy.

Arata: Even for a son of the president, it’s pretty rare to be a director at his age.
sfx: HAPPY-GO-LUCKY

Tomoka: Then who is Serika exactly, if she’s his fiancée......?
Arata: I couldn’t get much information about that, but......


P153

Arata: The NK Pharmaceutics head office is in Hiroshima.
So Serika’s house is probably around there too.

Tomoka: So Serika-san could be in Hiroshima right now!?
Arata: No. That guy is on a one-week business trip to a branch office in Tokyo.
So Serika should still be here for at least that long.


P154

sfx: MEW...

Arata: You’re not the only one who’s worried about her.
Wanna try going to Takashimizu’s office?

Tomoka: Yeah!

Arata-kun is amazing.

While I couldn’t do anything but cry...
he managed to gather all this information.



P155

Boys are...
very reliable!!
Tomoka: Ehehe♡
Arata: You’re acting creepy...

sfx: FWUMP
Serika: Oh no! I fell asleep!


P156

sfx: DRAG DRAG

I’m going to the office.
Let’s eat dinner together when I get back.
To my beloved Serika-san
From Fukkun

Serika: Who the heck is Fukkun!?
sfx: RIP

Clerk: You don’t have a specific reason to see him...? I’m sorry, but...
sign: reception


P157

Arata: That bastard...! He’s trying to keep us out of this.
Tomoka: He’s so mean...
sfx: GLANCE

Tomoka: This is awful...
sfx: DRIP DRIP

Tomoka: First he seduced me with his sweet words, and now he tosses me away like thrash?
Arata: Tomo-...?
Tomoka: I get it now. That’s how little women must mean to him.

Tomoka: But...!


P158

Tomoka: What’s he gonna do about the baby inside of me...!!!?
sfx: WAAAAH!

sfx: MURMUR MURMUR
Wait, whose baby!?
What’s this all about!?

Arata: High school girls are scary...


P159

←His ‘work’ hairstyle.
Fuyuhiko: You’re more gutsy than you look.

Tomoka: I’ll do anything for Serika-san!
Arata: Tomoka-chan is breaking apart...

Tomoka: I know that you kidnapped Serika-san!
sfx: POINT
sfx: HMPH
Fuyuhiko: “Kidnapped”? You make me sound like a bad guy!


P160

sfx: SHRUG
Fuyuhiko: Serika-san is indeed with me.
But she came with me of her own free will.
He’s not mentioning what happened after that.→

Tomoka: Serika-san would never leave her little kitties alone to be with someone like you!
Where is she!?

Fuyuhiko: I can’t tell you.
!
Fuyuhiko: I’m in the process of persuading her to come home with me. I don’t want her to see anyone right now.

Tomoka: She won’t go with you!
I won’t let her!


P161

Fuyuhiko: Do you have the right to be saying that?
You may be her lover, but...

Tomoka: Huh? Oh, yeah.
Fuyuhiko: it seems she hasn’t told you anything about herself.

Fuyuhiko: That means...

Fuyuhiko: that she doesn’t trust you guys at all, right?

P162

Tomoka: Ah...

sfx: BA-DUMP
Arata: I can’t say I agree with your methods!

Arata: Persuading her by not letting her see anyone!?
Don’t make me laugh!

Arata: You’re just trying to make the gap between her and us even larger in the meanwhile!


P163

Fuyuhiko: You’re a smart kid. But I wasn’t even thinking of that.
Arata: !
You sly fox...

Arata: Won’t you...
promise...

Arata: that you’ll give up on taking Serika home with you...
if you can’t manage to convince her before it’s time for you to leave...

Tomoka: Arata-kun!?


P164

Arata: No matter the circumstances, we won’t give in to your scheme.
Not us!
Nor Serika!

Fuyuhiko: Fine. I promise.

Arata: Please tell Serika...
that I’ll take care of little Tomoka and the others, so she won’t have to worry...


P165

Tomoka: Arata-kun...
Arata: What?

Tomoka: I wonder...
if Serika-san doesn’t actually hate us.
Is that why she didn’t tell us anything...?


P166

Arata: You idiot.
Of course not.

Arata: I’m sure that...
Serika will come back to us......
Serika-san...

Fuyuhiko: Serika-san, I’m back♡
Are you awake?


P167

sfx: WHACK!

sfx: CLICK
sfx: THROB

sfx: TAP TAP TAP

sfx: THUD
Serika: Huh!?

Serika: Wh-who are you people
Let me go! Let me go!
sfx: STRUGGLE STRUGGLE
sfx: DRAG DRAG

sfx: TOSS


P168

Fuyuhiko: I told you it’s meaningless.
Geez, that hurt...
Serika: I’ll never return!!

Serika: Because I...
don’t belong in that house.

Fuyuhiko: Do you belong here, then?

Serika: Hmph. If those guys found out about this, they’d definitely do something...
Fuyuhiko: If you’re talking about Tomoka-san...

Fuyuhiko: She came to my office today.
Serika: What!?


P169

Fuyuhiko: And also that guy named Miyazawa or something. He told me to tell you that “I’ll take care of little Tomoka and the others, so you won’t have to worry”...

Serika: ......
That’s all?

Fuyuhiko: That’s all.
Could there be anything else?

Serika......
Fuyuhiko: If I say it like this...
it might hurt you, but...

Fuyuhiko: They don’t really need you personally.
Don’t they only need your voice?


P170

Fuyuhiko: Tomoka-san has a guy who’s willing to look after her.

Fuyuhiko: So they could just find another vocalist...
sfx: THUD

Fuyuhiko: Seri-...
Serika: I’m going to sleep!!

Fuyuhiko: ......
...Why?


P171

Why did I even think they would come and save me...?

Fuyuhiko: Heh.

I was so sure of it...

Arata: I’m just worried about you.
Serika: I never asked you to worry for me! It’s uncalled for!

Even though I’m the one who created this distance between us......


Anata to Scandal (Scandal with You), volume 3 / The end


P172

Bonus
Quiz

I had two other mangaka draw Serika, but instead of drawing her in their own style, they tried to imitate my style. Which mangaka drew which Serika? If you look closely, you should be able to tell by some details.

There’s no prize if you get it right though.

If I get any other sketches like this, I’ll ask them to publish it in the next volume.