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. 6: "Yaya's true character"


*Yaya's on the phone, calling her school*
Yaya: Sorry, I'm still not feeling well…
Yaya: I'll take a day off.
Since the beginning of the school year
I haven't come to school
for one time.

*Flashback of Yaya in the school pond and Seri's and Moe's laughing faces*
I can't stand them any longer

---

Seri/ Moe: How long is that Yaya girl planning to be absent?
Seri: She definitely not gonna get away that easily.
*Yaya is lying on her bed, listening to Juliet's music*
Tomorrow is Sunday….

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*at Harajuku train station*
Voice: Harajuku, Harajuku
Only arriving here gives me a better feeling.
I wonder how the others are doing

*Yaya goes to the restrooms to change*
//pascha pascha pascha//
*Seri takes photos of Yaya*
Seri: He he

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Yaya (as cosplay girl): Long time no see!
Cosplayers: Mimi?!
Cosplayer: We've been waiting for you all the time. Everybody was talking about you!
Yaya: Huh? What do you mean? Talking about what?

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Cosplayer: Don't you remember when you jumped from the bridge on the Yamanote Line?
Yaya: Who did something like this?
Cosplayer: You did!!
*Yaya looking weird*
Yaya: Re… Really?!
Cosplayer: You jumped onto the balustrade.
Above Cosplaygirl: Sooo cool
Cosplayer: And then down on the train.
Yaya: You're mistaken, you're mistaken. I couldn't do something like that.
Cosplayer1: You're embarrassed, right?!
Yaya: No, it's just…
Cosplayer2: That's okay. Now you are our hero.
//kya kya//
Hero…?
Yet again

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Again…
I hear about things I cannot remember.
…but what happened on that day?

*Yaya remembers*
Cosplayer: C'mon Mimi, wipe away the blood.
Yaya: Thanks
*Yaya looks into the mirror*
Cosplayer: Mimi?
Yaya… I can't remember.
Yaya: That Sunday I hurt my forehead and then…
Cosplayer: No Mimi, what are you saying
Yaya: I cannot remember. This happens a lot lately.

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*Yaya looks scared*
Yaya: I… somthing's wrong with me.
Cosplayer: Mi… Mimi, say…
Cosplayer: Are you a 92 year old lady in reality?
*Yaya in obaa-san style*
Yaya: Like this?!
Cosplayers laugh*
Cosplayers: Nooo.
Yaya: No!
Yaya: That's not true
(What the hell they are talking about here?! O_o)
Other cosplay girls: Are you Mimi-san?!
//kyaaa//
Cosplaygirl: Since I saw you, I'm your fan, can we take a picture together?
(The girl is using "hore" which means having a crush on somebody. Since it isn't a good thing letting the girl say she has a crush (in English), I'll use "fan")
*Yaya is stunned*
Yaya: Well..
Cosplaygirls: We want to see that stunt again!!!

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Cosplaygirls: You don't need to so that stunt with the Yamanote line, only jumping on the balustrade would be okay.
!only"
Yaya: …I can't do this…
Cosplaygirls: Eh? Don't say this. Pleeeease!
//kyaa kyaa//
*yaya's cosplay friend looks angry*
Cosplayer: If you are Mimi's fan, don't ask her something she doesn't want to do.
*The cosplay friend is holding a pocket mirror. Yaya looks into that mirror*
//kira//
Cosplaygirls: That's a pity
Nana: Wait!

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Nana: Like this?!
*Nana is posing on the balustrade*
Nana: That's a special service.
People: Mimi-san, you are so cool.
Gaijin: Crazy!
//klick klick klick//
*Seri is also taking pictures, she's smiling*
//Nya// ybr>//shuuu//
*Seri throws a tone at Nana*
Nana: ?!

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*Nana loses the bilance*
Nana: Aaaaaaaah
*Cosplayers are in shock*
//kyaaaa//
Nana: Argh…
*Nana jumps from the balustrade and lands in front of the others*
//shuta//

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Cosplayers: Mimiiii
Cosplayers: Don't shock us like that
Nana: Dahahaha. That's my service, that's my service.
Cosplayers (or Nana): Who thre the stone?
//sa//
Cosplayer: It was her
//Nana sees Seri leaving*
Nana: Hey you, wait!
*Nana hits her head on a camera*
Man: Ah
//gosh//
kuraaaa//
*Nana faints*
Cosplayers: Mimi
//kyaaa//

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Cosplayer: Mimi! Are you okay?
Yaya: I…I..?
Cosplayer: Everybody, look at Mimi-san
Cosplayers: Lucky!
Cosplaygirl: Thanks for doing that stunt although didn't want to.
Eh?
Cosplaygirl: I'm so happyyyyy
Cosplayer: I'll make copies of the pictures I took of Mimi-san
What…?
Cosplayer: After what you've just done I think you have a great carisma
After what I've done?
Cosplayer: I'm proud to be your friend.

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Cosplayer: Mimi-saaan Dart: he's somewhere here. Cosplayers: Mimi-saaan
Everybody…
What's up with you?

//dwaaaaa/
*We see a big crowd of people gathering around Yaya*
What exactly have I done?
//Waaaah//
That's how this Sunday ended without a resolution.

---

*One the next morning*
//chyuu chyuu//
Yaya: Have a nice day!
Yaya's dad: Hurry up or you'll be late for school.
Yaya: Yeees!
//patan//
*Yaya looks sad*
If he'd know I'm not going to school…
…dad would freak out
… no matter what the reason is…
//gatscha//
*Yaya's dad bursts in*
Yaya's dad: Yaya
//biku//
Yaya: Y…yes ?
No way, he found out...

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Yaya's dad: Here is one of your friends.
Moe: I want to go to school with you Moe…
Moe: Your dad didn't know you were skipping school, right?!
Yaya: …
Yaya: Did Seri tell you?
Yaya: Did she tell you to pick me up?
Moe: She didn't told me, she asked me too
//ii//
*Moe looks kinda pissed*
That's the same
Yaya: I'll go back.
They are only going to bully me again
Moe: Wa..wait! I would like to talk to you without Seri being around.

---

*Yaya looks surprised*
Moe: I really don't dislike Yaya in reality
Moe: I feel a little sorry for you.
Moe: Don't tell anybody but I also have troubles with Seri.
Moe: I never thought of her being that nasty.
Moe: I want to support Yaya, but well get into troubles of we're doing it wrong.
Moe: That's why you need to go to school, even if it's hard for you.
*She's putting her arm around Yaya*
Moe: If I'll get a chance I'll stand up for yoz.
Moe: I'm really your friend, don't forget that.
*Yaya looks touched*

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Seri: No more…
Seri: …skipping school all the time.
Group of girls: Exactely
The number of her friends…
… has increased

*Yaya looks sick, Moe smiles*
Seri: Thank you, Moe
Moe: Ah, that's okay
Girls: Seri said Huguchi acts like a shy girl, but in reality she's totally different.

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Girl 1: She says you sometimes tick out and do strange things
Girl 2: Don't you get into troubles with this?

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Yaya: T..that's false
Yaya: I already told Seri, I don't do things like that.
Girls: Liar!
Girls: Aren't you this girl?!
*They show her pictures of Yaya going to the restrooms and coming back dressed as Mimi*
Girl1: That's a shoch, right
Girl2: Hey
Girl2: I don't know what to say after seeing something like that
*yaya stares*
*They also show her pictures of Nana's stunt*
Girls: You can go to the circus with this
Girls: You're almost getting my respect
//kyahahahaahaha//
*Yaya remembers the cosplayer's comments*
!I'm moved"
"I'm going to make copies of the pictures"
That's…
"Your carisma is great"
…crazy!

//zukin zukin zukin zukin//

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Girls: We could show those pictures around *heart* Also to Moriyama
Yaya: No!
Seri: Then go on your knees in front of me
Girl: Admit that you were only playing a role all the time
Yaya: Eh?
*Seri freaks out*
Seri: You broke into my room, you caught me with a net and you painted my face
Seri: You made the boat sink and you brought frogs into my room
//biiihaaa biiiihaa//
Seri: Admit everything!
Everything?
I have no idea…

*Yaya is looking at Moe, but she's ignorant*
Moe…
//puiii//
Yaya: …
Seri: Hurry up

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*Yaya kneels down with an heartbreaking expression on her face*
If I am apologizing they'll probably leave me alone
… but is that okay? I…
How can I apologize for something I haven't done?
Is that really okay?

Seri: C'mon!
//zabaa//
*Seri threw water over Yaya's head*
//aaaahaha//
Seri: Don't you want to apologize already!?
Seri: "It was me who did all this, I'm really sorry" say it!
*Water is dripping down , Yaya can see her reflection on the floor*
Seri: Co - mo-
Seri: n… *Seri is about to hit Yaya with a book*
//gabaa//
*Nana hits Seri* (on the chin of course ^_^)
//gosh//
Seri: Gaa
Nana: Why should I!?

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*Seri holds on her chin, then she points to Nana*
Seri: Did everybody see that?
Seri: That's Yaya's true character
*Somebody picks up the picture*
Moriyama: Somebody dropped those. Who's are they?
//ha//
*The girls stare and run away*
//pyaaa//
Moriyama: What's with you?
*Moriyama stares*

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*Nana grins*
Nana : Heeeey !
Moriyama: You are soaking wet.
Nana: Heheee… Sexy?
Moriyama: Are you nuts? What are you saying?
//hena hena//
*Nana faints//
Moriyama: Higuchi?
Dart: That's because Seri's chin was hard
*Later in the nurse's room*
Moriyama: Are you awake?

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*Yaya is lying in bed* Yaya: Mo..Moriyama. What are you doing here?
Moriyama: I happened to came by.
Moriyama: Ah, and the doctor chaged your cloths.
Yaya: Se..Seri and the girls?
Moriyama: They ran off
No way
I cannot remember again

Moriyama: You didn't come to school
Moriyama: Was it because of them?
Moriyama: Ah no, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. However…
Moriyama: I found these on the floor.
*Moriyama gives her the pictures*

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They saw me
Moriyama: Meanwhile it was decided who's going to be your seat neighbour.
They saw me
Moriyama: You are a lucky one.
*Yaya starts crying, Moriyama is in shock*
Moriyama: Don't cry. Hey!
Yaya: Should I smile? It's darn funny, that's me.
*Yaya is crying even more*
Yaya: That's …
//pot pot//
Moriyama: It's neither sad nor funny.

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*Moriyama: You like Juliet?
*Yaya nods*
Moriyama: You like cosplaying?
*Yaya nods again*
Moriyama: Then it's okay
Moriyama: There's no need to keep it a secret, not at all.

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*Yaya wipes away the tears* Moriyama: Don't be absent tomorrow. And don't be absent any longer at all, 'cause repeating classes is…
Yaya: You sound like a teacher.
Moriyama: Nope, I sound like someone who repeated classes.
(Hm, does that mean Moriyama is repeating classes. I didn't know this…)
Moriyama: Moriyama: If the seat next to me is empty I get bored.
Moriyama: I'm sleeping all the time.
The seat next to me…
Moriyama: And nobody wakes me up.
*Yaya is smiling*
Yaya: I understand, so I'll wake you up.
Moriyama: No, you need to prevent me from sleeping.
It was only one sentence …
"You don't need to keep it a secret"
… but it had a great effect...

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I want to see this person, even if it means going to school
*It's a new schoolday and Yaya is smiling shyly and blushing*
Moriyama: You saved me.
Moriyama: Yay! Banzai!
Dart: Looks as if he really needed help
(He's talking about this sleeping during classes thing, it's kinda unclear)
Yaya: The first row… you could sleep here?
Well, you can't tell from looking but you are hidden here.
(*hehe* this is a really bad translation. I'm 99.9% sure that the meaning is correct, 'cause Moriyama uses the word "shikaku" with the sign of "death" in it, so I guess he speaks about the blind spot here. But I didn't know what the part "kaku" means in the combination with "death", so I came up with this translation)
Moriyama: Sit down, sit down

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*During the lesson*
Moriyama: I'm bored… and hungry
//tsun tsun//
Yaya: I have cough drops
Moriyama: Really! I want some!
*Yaya gives him the drops while Moriyama is eating it Yaya blushes*
(And I love this scene ^___^)
I'm really…
extremely happy…

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*During the break, Moriyama just left the classroom*
Seri: Hey, don't yu want to change seats with me?
Seri: From my current place, I cannot see to the blackboard.
Yaya: Seri, your eyes are okay…
Seri: Now they got really bad.
*Yaya blushes and looks sad*
*Seri looks to the other girls and makes the V-sign*
Seri: It's okay for Yaya
Girl: That's good for you, Seri
Yaya: I..I didn't say it.
//gataa//
Seri: I'll carry your stuff

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*Seri throws Yaya's things on the desk and makes Yaya sit down*
//basaa basaa//
Seri: Now this is your seat
//gataa//
Yaya: Ah…
*Seri takes a thumb tack*
Seri: Come on, apologize!
Seri: We want to have our old Yaya back.
I don't mind at all…

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I just want everything to end quickly
*Yaya has her eyes closed, she looks in pain*
Yaya: I'm…
Nana's voice: Don't do this, idiot!
*Yaya stares*
Just now, this voice…??
Nana's voice: Aaah…
Nana's voice: This time I won't wait for you to look into the mirror…

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Seri: "I'm…", and then? Say it!
*Nana hits Seri*
Nana: "I'm", I'm thinking that you suck.

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Nana: I admit it, I did everything. But I definitely won't apologize.
Nana: To yaya… what did you do to me all the time?!
*Seri coughs*
//gebo gebo gebo//
Nana: "We're friends, we're friends", that's what you said all the time, but you looked down on me and caused stress for me.

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Nana: Just leave me alone, you idiots.
Nana: I don't want to do anything with you any longer.
Nana: Understood!?
*Seri looks up to Nana strangely*
Seri: Y..yes!

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Girls: Is this…
Girls: really Higuchi?
//shiiiin//
//patch ptach//
Moe: Way to go, Yaya!
*Moe takes Yaya's hands*
Moe: Seri did her best to hurt us all the time
//kyaaa kyaa kyaa//
Nana: Fuck off!
Nana: Just leave me alone.
Seri: You… what..

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*Seri freaks out and wants to hit Nana with a broom*
Seri: Go back to your old seeeeelf.
Nana: You really…
Nana: …don't get it!?
*Yaya takes the broom away from Seri and hits her in the stomache*

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Nana: That's the punishment from heaven!
*Seri is knocked out and the girls cheer for Nana and the boys stare*

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Girl 1: S.. so cool!!
Girl 2: You're strong
//waaaaaa//
Yaya: That's embarrassing
Girl 3: Just like a man.
Classmate: Higuchi-san, why didn't you show us your strenght up until now?
Classmate (small text): If you would have act like that from the beginning, Seri would have left you alone too.
Yaya: That's right. But I was a little afraid before.
Yaya: And maybe it won't work out like this all the time
?: Eh?
Yaya: Ah, no it's nothing
Moriyama: Huh? What happened?
Dart: Boys got a little anxious now.

*OTHELLO 6 END*