Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou
by Tsuda Masami

Source: melz, LaLa Volume 8, 2002
Translated: Dianne Dimabuyo (DiDi)

Act 69
His Sonnet

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Disclaimer: Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou belongs to Tsuda Masami and Hakusensha. This is a fan
translation and no money is being made off of this.

Note: This translation is loose and must not be taken to mean word-for-word, because that
would just be silly and nonsensical, ne? ^^ Don't hesitate to send comments and criticisms,
if it so moves you.

Added note: Please excuse the amount of untranslated sound fx.. I'm really not that good at
them even in English.

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[[Page 1: title]]

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I want to see you more than anybody else
I want to see you, my god

KARESHI KANOJO NO JIJOU
Act 69 * His Sonnet
Tsuda Masami

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[[Page 2]]

I remembered
the setting sun shining down on those six gloomy tatami mats

[[Page 3]]

My very first memory

<kanakanakanakanakana>

<chiri---------n>
<kanakanakanakanakana>

was of a humid day
when I stretched sluggishly on the tatami after my mother had brutally beaten me
and I looked up dimly at the red-hazed room in the moonlight

<kanakanakanakanakanakanakana>

[[Page 4]]

<shaku>

<mi------n>
<min min min min>
<gabu>
<mi------n>

Souichirou: <gulp>
<mi------n>
<min min min min>
<juru>
<jiwajiwajiwa>

<pu>
Ryouko: What are you looking at? You don't get a share. Stupid.
<jiwajiwajiwajiwa>
<jiwajiwajiwajiwa>
<jijiji---------->

[note: the "min min" sound would be the cicadas chirping... "jiwajiwa" actually means "bit by 
 bit".. so she's nibbling on the watermelon... ]

[[Page 5]]

<jijiji------->

<jiwajiwajiwa jiwajiwaji---->

<pant>
<pant>
<pant>
<pant>
<pant>
<jijiji--------->

So hot...

<baku>

<charin>

Ryouko: It's cold.

<pant>
<pant>
<pant>
<pant>
<pant>

[[Page 6]]

<pant>
<jiwajiwajiwajiwa>
<pant>
<pant>
<pant>

<pant>
<pant>
<wajiwaji----->
<pant>

Souichirou: Mama!

Souichirou: Me too! I want to eat this. I want to eat this.
Souichirou: Ma---ma!

<fu>

<jiwajiwajiwajiwajiwajiwajiwa>
Souichirou: Ma

[[Page 7]]

<BASHI>

Ryouko: Don't you fuss on a humid day like this. It's so depressing!  I'm not getting anything for
        a useless brat like you! 
<BISH>
<pan>

Ryouko: And you're depressing me so much that I wouldn't get you one anyway. You should just be 
        thankful I raised you!

<jiwajiwajiwajiwa>
<pishi>
<bashin>

Vendor: M.. Mrs.. Excuse me...

Vendor: Here, boy, I'll give you one.

Ryouko: HE DOESN'T NEED IT.

<bash>
<gusha!>

[[Page 8]]

<kakkakkakkakka>

Souichirou: Mama, Mama I'm sorry.
Souichirou: I'm sorry. I won't do it again.

Souichirou: Please forgive me.
Souichirou: Mama. Please.

SOuichirou: Mama......
<bang>

Souichirou: Ma
Souichirou: ma... Pl
Souichirou: ease don't beat me.........

<lock>
Souichirou: Mama......
<beat>

<pash>
<beat>
<beat>
<beat>

<beat>
<beat>
Souichirou: Mama...... u....

<beat>
<beat>
<beat>
Souichirou: <hic>
<sha>
<beat>
<beat>

[[Page 9]]

She locked the door
and even shut the sliding doors
Even though it was a summer afternoon, the windows were tightly shut and the curtains were drawn
------This time I was sure

that I was going to be beaten to a pulp.

[[Page 10]]

I was only 2 or 3
I didn't know of any way to protect myself
I didn't know that the situation I had been put in would have been called "unusual"

To a child
the "home" is the world
and the "parents" are gods

And so I endured it

[[Page 11]]

<pant><pant>
<pant><pant>
<pant>
<pant><pant>
<beat>

My mother always walked without looking back
a fast steady pace
<pant><pant>
and I would chase frantically after her, half-crying
<pant>

<pant>
<pant>
Souichirou: Mama!
<pant>
<pant>
Souichirou: Mama!
<pant>
<pant>

Because, no matter how you look at it, I didn't think I could keep living  if I didn't follow her

Souichirou: Mama!
<grab>

I chased my death in confusion

Usually at those times,
she would be grinning broadly

[[Page 12]]

In my eyes, my mother was beautiful
she always wore pretty clothes

and as my heart filled with hope that someday she would smile gently at me
and ask me if I wanted her to hold me
I sat quietly in the corner of the room, waiting for that moment to come.

I didn't know that
this feeling that my chest would always stretch to the outmost and sometimes be squeezed
had a name: "loneliness."

[[Page 13]]

/kids/ wa----
/kids/ kya---
/kids/ kya---

<tremble>

<turns the knob>

<pant>
<ton>
<pant>
<ton>

<opens the door>

Boy: Ah----
Kids: !

[[Page 14]]

Boy: Wah! It's a monster!
/Girl/ WAA
Boy: Let's run away!

Girl: He's so dirty---!

Boy: MONSTER! MONSTER!
Boy: MONSTER!

Boy: MONSTER!
<shove>
Boy: Go away!

<grunt>
<pant><pant>
<pant>

<pant>
<door opens>
Souichirou: U.. ue..
<pant>

<pant>
<pant>
<pant>

<screech>
Souichirou: Eh..
<pant>

<pant>
<pant>

<pant>

[[Page 15]]

Souichirou: Hmph!

Souichirou: <hic>
<bota>
Souichirou: <hic>

Souichirou: <wail>

[[Page 16]]

Souichirou: <restrained wailing>

Who's that?
<biku>

A girl I don't know
but

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[[Page 18]]

<rain pouring down in sheets>

[[Page 19]]

I remembered

<za----->
Everything's a lie

I was merely living a happy-seeming life but
it just wasn't interesting enough

[[Page 20]]

And that was all

<pa----->
<basha basha basha>

/Ryouko/ You just get away.
/Souichirou/ Mama

/Souichirou/ Mama
<knock knock knock knock>
/Souichirou/ Mama

<za--------->

<tap><zuzu...><guzu><tap>

<za------->

[[Page 21]]

<geko>

Off: Does it feel good?
/Frog/ Ribbit
Off: ufufu

<sa--------->

The smells of varied meals wafted by

/Random/ I got 100 points
/Random/ Wow, nice!
/Random/ ahahahaha
/Random/ Happy birthday--

I absent-mindedly watched the lights in the houses

<za------>

[[Page 22]]

I didn't forget
It hurt to much
and if I hadn't submerged it I wouldn't have been able to live.
[note: "it" being the memories]

I know now
of people who lacked "love"
My mother, then and even now, didn't have any feelings of love towards me
I'm just a piece of crap--------

A life "only worth that much"

[[Page 23]]

<kacha kacha>
<kyu--- kyu--->

Souichirou: ...Good morning, PeroPero-kun. 
            Just be quiet, k?

<lick lick lick>

[[Page 24]]

<shake shake>
<whine>

Souichirou: Do you understand me?
Souichirou: How nice of you...

<unlatches the window>
<opens the window>

<wandering>
Yukino: Good morning, PeroPero!
        ...What's wrong?

Yukino: PeroPero?

<whine>
<whine>

[[Page 25]]

Yukino: What's wrong? Are you feeling sick?

Yukino: Huh? Why are you wet on just this spot?

<gashan>
Yukino: Arima!?

[[Page 26]]

<chn>
<ch ch ch...>

<katan>

Souichirou: I'm home...

Arima-mama: Souichirou!?
<gacha>

[[Page 27]]

Souichirou: Huh? What's wrong? At this time of the morniing?
Arima-mama: ......

Arima-mama: ------
Arima-mama: ......

Arima-mama: No... It's nothing. Let's talk later.
Arima-mama: But before that.. you're so wet... Go take a bath, you're gonna catch a cold.

<za--->

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Souichirou: Thanks for drawing the bath.
Arima-papa: Souichirou, would you sit for a moment.

Souichirou: ......

Arima-papa: To tell you the truth, we're quite surprised
            as to why you haven't said anything to us even up til now
Arima-papa: Why are you hiding things from us?

Arima-papa: How long have you been meeting with that woman?

/memory/ Ryouko: I received a phone call from your mother at about noon
         Ryouko: So I told her.

Ah.

[[Page 29]]

<gata>

Souichirou: Never mind that.
Arima-papa: Souichirou
Souichirou: NEVER MIND!

Arima-papa: We're not criticizing you. Now, sit. Tell us everything and then we'll think through 
            this together.
Souichirou: I SAID NEVER MIND!

<slap>

[[Page 30]]

Arima-papa: Mother...

Arima-mama: ...Why shouldn't we mind it.
Arima-mama: Just how worried do you think we are?

Arima-mama: You've always been like that. You never tell us anything......

Arima-mama: Do you really have that little faith in us!?

[[Page 31]]

<gatan>

Arima-mama: Souichirou

Arima-mama: Sou...

Arima-mama: What have I done
Arima-papa: You didn't do anything wrong

Souichirou: <pant><pant>
Souichirou: <pant>
Souichirou: <pant>

[[Page 32]]

<pant>
<pant>

Everything has been shifted
They won't be turned into lies anymore.
And of that, I'm very 
------scared.

END . ACT 69 * His Sonnet
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Date: July 9, 2002