Short Note at the beginning:
Othello by Satomi Ikezawa
Released in monthly Betsufure Magazine/ Kodansha

italics- thoughts
*actions*- description of what happens
//sound words//
(translators opinion)


Othello Ch. 5: "Time of emptiness"

I've always wondered…
how they decide on the new classes*

(It's the start of the new school year and everybody's looking at the big blackboard to check in which class they came)
//gaya gaya gaya//
Student 1 : We're separated
Student 2: Damn
Student 3: Nooo
Girls: Kyaaa

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My fate for 1 year depends on the dicvision
…I'm so scared, I can't look on it

*Yaya's not looking too well*
*Moriyama's chatting with a friend*
Moriyama: Take care!
Friend: Kyahaha, Bye!
Ah
*Yaya's looking at him and he's looking at her*
Moriyama: Yo!
Moriyama: Again, nice to meet you!
(He says "Yoroshiku" here, which has several meanings. You use it when you get to know somebody or you want to make friends with a person or you have business with somebody etc)

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Yaya: Eh?
Moriyama: Ah, didn't you see?
Moriyama: Together in class B
Yaya: Eh? Who with?
Moriyama: With you
Yaya: With …me?
Moriyama: I
Yaya: … Moriyama…kun…?
Moriyama: Jepp

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Impossible, impossible, impossible! (And if it would be a lie)
Maybe the O-hiyaku Domai was useful and god showed mercy. But I only did 63 laps *sweatdrop*

*Yaya looks super happy*
Moriyama: Don't say kun if you talk to me.
Moriyama: That sounds so polite.
Yaya: Ha
Yaya: So…sorry
Text in the background: I didn't want to be formal, but I thought I was obtrusive, so I said "kun"
Moriyama: So the people in the class are pretty okay, well, for you probably not.

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N…Not for me?
Moriyama: Ah, no forget about it
Boy: Which class Moriyama?
Miriyama: B
Boy: So we're together again
*Moriyama leaves with his friend, Yaya overhears some girls talking*
Girl 1: It's B class
Girl 2: Kyaa, we're together, we're together
*Yaya imagines a good talk with those girls*
Yaya: I'm also in class B. Yoroshiku
Girl 1: Woah, that's great!
Girl2: Let's be friends, Higuchi
*Yaya looks amazed by this thought*
//Poooooo//
Ha
Stop dreaming, do something

Yaya: W…well

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Yaya: I
Yaya: I'm also in class B
Girl 1: Eh… yeah?
Girl 2: Yoroshiku
Girl: Hey, hey…
*Girls go away*
//kya kya//
/gaya gaya//
//kyaa kyaa//
Dart: Groups everywhere
I'm all alone
//gara gara gara//
I'm just so silly

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*Yaya looks up at the board*
*We see the names of all the class B members. There's Yaya's name… and Seri's and Moe's*
I'm together with Seri and Moe…
Impossible..

*Yaya looks shocked and desperate*

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Seri/Moe: Yaya
Seri: Just a short talk
They look pretty angry
Yaya: We're again in the same class *heart*

I'm an idiot. I shouldn't have used the *heart*

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//don//
Yaya : Kyaaa
*They threw Yaya into the pond*
Seri: That revenge
How is it together with those fish?

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*Yaya cries*
Yaya : A..are you crazy?
Yaya: You're insane
*Yaya stands up*
What did I do to you?
Seri: Again, you act like you don't know
//pi pi//
*points at Yaya*
Seri: That was the revenge for what you did to us in the park.
What did I do in the park…?

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Seri: You damaged the boot and we sink together with it. That's unforgivable.

Boat…?
*Yaya remembers Seri throwing her sandwiches into the water *
//zukin//
Yaya: U..
*Yaya looks like as if her head's hurting badly*
Seri: "We've never been friends", that's what you said. That's after we've always hang around you, although you are silly.
//zukin zukin zukin zukin zukin//
Ah, my head.…

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Seri: Don't underestimate us, you idiot!
My head is about to explode
Seri: Let's go
*Yaya stops Seri*
Yaya: W…wait
//biku//
Seri: Wanna have troubles?
//saa//
*Yaya looks just so confused*

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Yaya: I really don't know what you are talking about
Seri: Let go, you're disguisting
Seri: You're always changing your attitude.
(Seri means Yaya's two different side, the normal yaya and the Nana- Yaya. I just can't put this into an English phrase, bear with me)
Seri: You are really not normal.
Seri: We're going back
*Later in class*
Teacher: Higuchi?
Teacher: Is Huiguchi absent?*
*Moriyama looks a little surprised, Seri and Moe look away as if it wouldn't be their business.*

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*Meanwhile Yaya is taking a shower*
Ehy? Why is all this happening to me?
The two are strange, I just never understand them*
//kyu//
Only…
Why do I always lose my memory?

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Why can't I remember?
//zukin//
//zukin zukin//
Yaya: It hurts, it hurts...
//zukin zukin//
Did I do something bad?
*Yaya looks into the mirror*
I…

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*Yaya's eyes widen*

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Nana: Yay… changing when I look into the mirror…

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Nana: If I want to beat them I have to go to them
*She takes her uniform and a frog is jumping out of it*
//byooooon//
Nana: Uwaaah
// byon byon byon//
Nana: Didn't you like the pond
//hahaha//
Nana: Ha!
//po//

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*It's night, Nana's standing in front of Seri's bilding*
She's here
I hope Seri-chan will be happy about this.
*She holds something that looks like a present in her hand*
*In Seri's room, she's talking to Moe on the telephone*
Seri: Say Moe, do you think Yaya's coming to school tomorrow?
//Baritsu//

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Seri: Gueee
Moe: W.. What's up, ..Seri?
Seri: Something flew through the window. It looks like a present
Moe: What is it?
Moe: Maybe it's from a boy who likes you?!
*seri's blushing a little*
//gasa//
Seri: Eh? No way…
(As if there would be a boy who would like a bitch like you….)

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*the presents are … frogs*
Seri:!!!
//Kuwaaah//
Moe: Ne, what's inside?
//ba//
//byoooon//

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//Pito//
Seri: Fuogeee
*Nana laughing*
Nana: Puuuuuu

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Moe: What's up Seri? Seri?
Moe thinking: Geko?
Seri: Iyaaaaaa
Nana: Quak quak
//nihi//
Nana: That's the heavenly punishment, quak.

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Nana: I had to go to nowhere to get those frogs.
Nana: Whatever. Hahaha
Sign: Act station
Moriyama: See you!
Band: Bye!
Nana: Gotcha!
//niya//
Moriyama: Uwah!

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Nana: I left a memory on you?
*Moriyama doesn't look too happy*
//busu//
Moriyama: Of course I remember. You are the chyu onna
(That means kissing woman. If you are into Japanese Manga, they often use Chu or chyu for a kiss)
//ahahaha//
Nana: Yes, I'm the kissing woman. It's Nana! Nice to meet you!

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Moriyama: Not nice to meet you. Bye!
Nana: What's up? Wait…
Moriyama: Because of this kiss, our live gig was a disaster
?: I gave my heart away
(I would really like to know who's saying this. Cause it stands on the picture with only Moriyama-kun's face and an "ore" (a form of "I" that boys use) is used here, so it should be Moriyama who says this. On the other hand, this phrase is said in the way Nana always talks and it wouldn't fit to Moriyama. If he would say this, it would mean he's in love with somebody … *gets big eyes* Sorry, I don't know who says this)
Nana: I can't hold back my feeling of love…. *heart*
Moriyama (freaks out): Then try even!!
Nana: Hey, let's go on a date!
Moriyama: No
Nana: Eh? Why not?
Moriyama: Don't want to
Nana: That's not true
Nana: Hey, c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon
Moriyama: No way
Guys: Then have a date with us!

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*Two guys are trying to hit on Nana, one is holding her arm*
Guy: Forget about this idiot, let's have fun… *heart*
Nana: Fuck off, annoying
*Nana pushes the one guy away*
Moriyama thinks: Uwah. Idiot
Guys: What??

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Moriyama: Sorry, she's a little cheeky
Nana: You idiots are only thinking about this one thing.
//bu//
Guy: I'll kill you
*Moriyama gives Nana his guitar*
//bafu//
Moriyama: Hold this!
//gaki//
*Moriyama blocks the guy's punch*

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*The other guy holds Moriyama so that his friend can hit him*
Guy: Gotcha. Now sleep!
//buwaki//
*Nana hit the one guy with Moriyama's guitar*

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//doka//
*Moriyama stares*
*Nana also hits the other boy with the guitar*

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Moriyama's thoughts: Strong….
Moriyama's thoughts: What's with this girl?
//geshi geshi geshi geshi geshi//
*Nana continues to hit the boys with the guitar*
Nana: Heavenly punishment
Nana: Heavenly punishment, Heavenly punishment
Moriyama: Stop it, stop it. My poor guitar.
*Later at a parl*
Nana: Ah, this was good

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*She's sitting on a swing*
//kyahahaha//
Moriyama: Are you… frustrated in any way?
Nana: Huh?
Moriyama: Your strength is amazing. But I think this was too much now.
Moriyama: You must have had super much stress, ne?
Nana Huuuuh?
//ahahaha//
Nana: I don't have stress.

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Nana: I'm here to expel stress.
Moriyama: He? What do you mean?
Moriyama thinks: What's that about?
//ha//
//Igene//
Nana: Well...
Nana: I don't let anything come to me.
Nana: And I do what I want to do
Moriyama: Hooo. That's good. I agree.
Yaya/Moriyama: hehehe. Right right

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Nana: Hitting bad guys
Moriyama: Uhm
Nana: Hitting worse guys
Moriyama: Hoho
Nana: Sending worst guys to hell.
Moriyama: I see! Then?
Nana: Eh.. and then?
Nana: Eh.. eh and then…
Nana: ………
Moriyama: That's what I mean. You'll have stress again.
*Nana blushes*
//yaa//
*Moriyama leaves*
Nana: I… I am
Moriyama: I'll leave
Moriyama: I'll have to go home and check my guitar.
Nana: Wait!

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Moriyama: You…. Should finy a hobby that makes you happier.

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*Nana again on her swing* //giiiikooo giiiikooo//
Nana: Uh… so annoying...
"You should find a hobby that makes you happier"
This makes me happy
Nana: Ugaaaa
//Tsuru//
S…shi

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//goiiiiiii//
*Nana fell from the swing*
Yaya: ….

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Eh?
Huuuh?
W… Wait a little, I…
Yaya: It hurts
Where am I?
What's the time?

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Cool down, you'll probably remember
Eeeeh….
//gekooo gekoooo//
*Seri is sitting on her bed*
Seri: I'm really mad
Seri: This strange changing woman. If I get her…
//gyuuu//
Seri: Another one….
Moe: It always happens to you Seri
Seri: Huh? What? Kyaa, leave me!

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*Yaya still at the park*
Again, I just can't remember
Have I really…
Gone crazy?

Have I
…really gone crazy?

*Picture of Nana grinning*
"Get it already"
"It's me who's doing this!"

Othello Ch 5 END