Sekai De Ichiban Dai Kirai : Akiyoshi Family Series #5 By: Hidaka Banri Disclaimer: This story belongs to Hidaka Banri and Hakusensha respectively, the only thing which is mine, is this particular translation. "The Most Hated In The World" Volume I: Chapter 1 Chapter Character List: Kazuha Akiyoshi Asako ? Rei Akiyoshi Tohru Mizushima Akiyoshi Mom Maki Sugimoto Senko Matsuoka Manami Yamamoto PG 7 [Its Tuesday] Kazuha: Ack ------ Homeroom sure dragged! Girl 1: Ba-bye, Akiyoshi Kazuha: Goodbye senpai. Groupies: Goodbyiee, Akiyoshi - senpai Kazuha: Sure. Bye. [This sort of racket goes on all the time. I can never wait till class is over.] Asako: Kazuha, I'm sure it's a waste of time to ask, but, you busy today? Kazuha: Sorry. [Its just that time of the week again.] PG 8 Kazuha: [The special day when I see him.] I have to go meet my little brother at his pre-school!! Girl: Oh ------- Akiyoshi - chan is so considerate of her little brother. Asako: Idiot. I don't think that's why she's so happy. There's another reason for that. SIGN: Cherry Blossom Pre-School Arrow: Rei - Youngest - 5 Years Old Kazuha: Re ---- i, sorry if I'm late. Rei: Kazuha - chan. PG 9 Kazuha: Were you good today? Rei: Yeah. Kazuha: [My mother's really busy with work, so for the past two years I've been coming here in her place.] Flashback Mom: Since you're such a reliable young lady, you'll be helping you're mama out. (heart) Arrow: Kazuha in her 3rd year of middle school. Flashback Kazuha: What if I say no?! Kazuha: [That's how this whole annoyance started, though I never wanted to do it.] ...... Rei: Kazuha - chan? Kazuha: Oh, sorry. Ready to go home? Mizushima: Afternoon, Kazuha - chan. Kazuha: Mizushima - sensei. You're working hard as always. PG 10 Kazuha: Th, thanks for helping us out with "short-stuff" here. Mizushima: All your brothers and sisters get along well with eachother, don't they? When it was Ichihisa - kun and Tonami - chan who came here to be with me, all Ichihisa - kun would do was to talk a lot about all of you. Kazuha: [When I get home Ichihisa, you're dead.] Mizushima: Rei - kun, you glad now that your big sister's here? Rei: uh-huh Kazuha: [Mizushima - sensei is Cherry Blossom's teacher. Ever since that day 2 years ago, this warm and gentle person has troubled me. He's the reason I keep coming back. I love him very much.] PG 11 Kazuha: [-----ugh. Ah ----- Dammit, if I said anything about it I'd be so humiliated.] Mizushima: Kazuha - chan. Kazuha: huh? Mizushima: Your face. It's red, are you alright? You sick? Kazuha: [Gah ------- Go for it Mizushima - sensei!!] Author: [What is she saying?] Kazuha: [With a face that cute he can't possibly be 24!!] Rei: Kazuha - chan... FX: THUNK Kazuha: ["Thunk"? Huh? ......] Ts........ [Stupid.....] Mizushima: Kazuha - chan, you all right!? Can you stand!? PG 12 Mizushima: Let me take a look at your foot. Kazuha: Fine. I'm fine. Mizushima: But. Kazuha: Really, I'm alright. Mizushima: Well I'll just go and get the first - aid kit, just in case. Hold on. Kazuha: Huh!? Ah....um Th...thank you very mu....ch. [I....I've just let him get away again. I could have used this as a way to get my chance.] Rei: ? Kazuha: It's my stubborn - like personality, I hate it, it's completely unreliable. Rei: Where did teacher go? Kazuha: ....... [Heh, heh, but it feels good to know that he worries about me.] PG 13 Kazuha: [7 years is a big age difference but, some day, if I could only tell him how I feel....] Maki: Darling, darling Kazuha - chan (heart) You're looking gorgeous, as always, today. And your hair (heart) Kazuha: Hands off the hair pest!! Maki: Oh my (heart) FX: Touch Kazuha: !! Maki: Oh no, how indecent of me. Kazuha: Sugimoto!! It's only because you're Sensei's best friend that I take so much. I wish you wouldn't come around every time, every single time I'm here. PG 14 Maki: That's heartless - I go to all the trouble of coming here on the day the beauty parlor usually closes, all because I want to see you, Kazuha - chan, and you shoot me down for it. Really, you're so difficult. (heart) Kazuha: Jerk --- if you have the day off, the least you could do is stay home. Noone asked you anyway!! Mizushima: Oh. Looks like your foot's all better, isn't it? Kazuha: Sensei.... Mizushima: Ah, ha, ha. Quite so. Its Kazuha - chan's fine hair that brings you here, isn't it Maki? Maki: You got me Mizushima - chan (heart) Such shining hair, it's splendid. Just once, if "I" *** could only be allowed the honor of cutting that hair. (Translator's Note: Maki uses the word 'atashi' which is how girl's/women say 'I'. He also uses feminine sentence endings, so he just all around talks like a girl :p On that note, Kazuha's speech is pretty formal for a girl her age, I'm assuming she does this to avoid sounding too girly, because she doesn't really think of herself that way.) Kazuha: Don't you look at me like that. Maki: My, it makes me dizzy just wondering how you'd look with a different hairstyle. Kazuha: Sensei, you should have been more careful when you chose your friends. Mizushima: You're right. Sometimes I do regret that. Maki: Come on you two. Rei: Maki - cha-----n. Maki: Ara, Rei - chan (heart) PG 15 Maki: Hey Rei - chan. I was wondering if you wanted your big brother to go home with you. Rei: Sure do. Kazuha: Geh. Maki: You're so cute (heart) Author: [He loves kids] Kazuha: [Damn pervert.....] Don't touch him. FX: Big Smile Author: [His personality] Kazuha: !! Maki: Later Mizushima - chan. Be seeing ya. Kazuha: You just do what you want, without any sense of boundaries. This guy's a kidnapperrrr...... Mizushima: Such good friends. Maki: (giggle) Kazuha - chan, looks like you're becoming little miss grouchy - face aren't you? PG 16 Kazuha: Shut up. Maki: oooh. Kazuha: This is all your fault. Another week, and here I am again. [Sugimoto's annoying.] [He's a hairdresser. I have no idea why, but for some reason he is just obsessed with other people's hair. What a weirdo.] Maki: You know you love seeing me. Kazuha: You seem not to notice that I don't like you!! Maki: (giggle,giggle) Now just where is that good for I wonder. Kazuha: Any one of thousands of other choices would be fine, as long as they weren't you!! Maki: Hmm, really. Kazuha: [Those eyes of his. They can look right through someone. I'm bad with mysteries like this.] ........ PG 17 Kazuha: [Mizushima - sensei isn't like this part of him either. This man.]*** (Translator's Note: She's actually saying 'otona no otoko no hito' which literally means 'adult male person'. I wasn't sure if 'man' was enough to convey all that :8) Senko: I sa-----w yo-----u. Kazuha: Senko. You don't just come popping into someone's view all of a sudden like that. Senko: You. It couldn't be you I saw together with my Sugimoto - sama again, was it!? Box: Matsuoka Senko • 17 Years Old Eldest Matsuoka sibling, with younger brother Kanari. She is the hot-blooded type. PG 18 Kazuha: Oh? Were you peeping through a knothole somewhere? That guy does as he wants, just following people around like that. Senko: Mm, geez ----- This is you bragging, isn't it? I just hate, hate, hate that kind of crap-----!! Words Above: Senko's Super Miracle Slam Kazuha: You too, will die. Senko: Ah, Sugi - sama's so elegant (heart) That perfect, practiced Japanese countenance, to be able to obtain such a "balance" is just magnificent. [U, hoo, hoo. Such a mischievous angel] Box: Yesterday's Portrait Senko: Ever since I found you at last year's cultural festival I 'fell in love, love' and its been 'I love you' ever since. Kazuha: Its been since then that my luck ran out. That tricky devil's never had to question where to go because Mizushima - sensei is just too nice. Senko: Oooh, God ------- You're saying my Sugi - sama is supposed to be inferior to that meek, common place creature!? PG 19 Kazuha: What was that -----!!? Senko: You heard me, you little ----- SIGN: ?????? Teacher: Besides the assigned topic, you'll now have additional work. Girl: Don't they get along? Asako: Fighting is just what they do. Huh, it's so dumb. Come on. You guys are always, always fighting because you're jealous of eachother. I guess there's nothing you can do about it, you guys just can't see the other person's side of things. The both of you are partners that way. PG 20 Asako: Anyway, it's unforgivable how blind that teacher is being about all this. You too, its like you're sick. Kazuha: It doesn't bother me at all. He's like God to me. Asako: Like God!? Kazuha: [That's right, God.] That was the first time that anyone had ever treated me like an actual girl. Younger Kazuha: Ah----damn----- I'm in charge of picking up Rei on the same day I have my committee meetings. Here's a shortcut. Author: [This is the 1st floor.] Younger Asako: Kazuha!? Y. Kazuha: Huh!? Y. Asako: Its not like you're really a boy, don't you think that's dangerous!? Just what do you think you're doing?!! Y. Kazuha: Alright, alright, alright. Ow. PG 21 Y. Asako: Achoo. Y.Kazuha: What, you sick? Y. Asako: Don't think so. But I wouldn't want to be coming down with something. Y. Kazuha: Oh? Y. Asako: I'm going on my first date next Sunday. Kazuha: [To be a "girl". So darling, so charming, She was so small I wanted to protect her, and all girl's like her. It's a 180° difference from myself....] Y. Asako: ! Kazu... Y. Kazuha: A cold favors the damp. Y. Asako: Thanks. Kazuha: [It was nothing to me. My height and my personality made it hard for me to hold a grudge about it.] Y. Kazuha: Its cold. Excuse me, I'm Akiyoshi. I'm here for my little brother. PG 22 Y. Rei: Kazuha - cha----- Y. Kazuha: Let's go home, Rei. Y. Mizushima: So you're Rei - kun's big sister? Nice to meet you. I'm Mizushima. Y. Kazuha: [So he must be a teacher.] Author: [Right now, she's 175cm tall.] Y. Mizushima: Rei - kun sure is excited about seeing his sister, isn't he? Y. Kazuha: ....oh, no. Rei's just always like th.... ACHOO. Y. Mizushima: Are you sick!? Y. Kazuha: Not at all. Its nothing to worry about. Y. Mizushima: All right, hold on a sec. Y. Kazuha: Huh!? Y. Mizushima: Come on, come on. Y. Kazuha: [He's quite a 'going my way' type of guy....] Y. Mizushima: Hmm. PG 23 Y. Mizushima: There you go. Your hands are cold, aren't they? Now we can't have that happening. Girls shouldn't be running around and catching a chill, right? Y. Kazuha: Uh, huh. Kazuha: [Then he stopped. Just that and no more. It touched me just the same. It made me so incredibly happy.] Asako: Hmm. PG 24 Kazuha: Asako, what is it? Asako: Why'd you call him God? Why is it just that teacher? Besides, you and Sugimoto - san suit eachother. Kazuha: Did you sell your soul to some demon or something ---- why else would you mention that guy's name!? Asako: Now, now Kazuha, you just hang in there. Kazuha-----? Kazuha: Th...this just isn't the kind of thing I can get used to. If I never understand, it'll be alright, because then I'll just.... I just don't know. Asako: Well, after all it has been over two years..... And even though your feelings just keep on roiling around you're still a strong person, that's pretty cool. Kazuha: Oh, be quiet. Asako: Not to mention.... The reality of it is that there's a 7 year age difference between you two. That's something that has to be thought about. Though I'm sure eventually, little by little the other kids at school, not to mention other people in general might eventually come around to the way you see things. Even though you have these feelings, you could run after him and never catch him PG 25 Asako: Though I can't really say that I actually understand what a man feels. But. If its an older guy you ask about this, then perhaps he could listen and give you some advice or something, don't you think? Kazuha: [An older guy.....] Maki: So. If I have this right, you just call me out of the blue to ask me for romantic advice? Kazuha: I......I'm sorry. Maki: Don't be. I'm glad that you feel you can rely on me.------ But, PG 26 Maki: Its cruel isn't it? That my own little sweetheart is asking for advice about another man. Kazuha: ........ Wha...what are you saying? Just cause its fun for you, you just always tease people. Maki: (chuckle) What if I meant what I said? That's a great expression. Look, I'll be frank with you. PG 27 Maki: What you're feeling, isn't love. It's nothing but simple longing. Kazuha: You're wrong! [The way he's looking at me, scares me.] Maki: I'm not wrong. Kazuha: [I hadn't even realized that he could see through me like that. Its like his eyes do the talking.] Maki: You just want someone to rely on, isn't that it? "You're so childish." FX: SLAP PG 28 Kazuha: By the way, you're always calling me "chan", how long until you quit that? Maki: Where are you going? Kazuha: To Sensei's ........ Maki: Where? Kazuha: The conversation we were having is now over. PG 29 Waitress: Sugimoto - san, you shouldn't be mistreating girls like that. Maki: But I wasn't mistreating her. She's just growing up. That kid will be a good woman someday. Kazuha: [That jerk. That jerk. That jerk. That jerk. I HATE HIM!! I need to go see Sensei. Maybe I can finally tell him the feelings I've had for the past two years.] PG 30 Kazuha: [He's told me that its part of his job for pre-school teachers to stay until late. Besides which, is this going to end okay!?] Its alright. This kind of thing is in a woman's nature!! A, ha, ha, ha, ha. Author: [Her natural willpower is coming out.] Manami: Umm---- Excuse me, but what are you doing up there? Kazuha: [There's noone here. Huh? Am I hearing things?] Manami: Umm--- down here. Kazuha: Oh..... I'm sorry. [She...she's so short. Could she be....older? (That's my guess for now.)] Manami: Not at all. Oh. PG 31 Manami: "Kazuha - chan". You're "Kazuha - chan", aren't you!? Kazuha: Wha? Oh...yeah. Who are you? Manami: No way. Its really you!! What gorgeous hair! I finally get to see it! Kazuha: Huh? Manami: I've heard all about you from Mizushima - kun. How tall and graceful you are, and how you look after your little brother. Kazuha: Mizushima - sensei..... Mizushima: Manami, late aren't you? Kazuha: ["Ma....nami"] Mizushima: Kazuha - chan? Manami: Sure is. She and I were just chatting---(heart) Mizushima: Ah, Kazuha - chan, this is.... Manami: Let me. Yamamoto Manami, 22 years old. And next year, I'll be Mizushima - kun's wife. PG 32 Kazuha: [Why.... Why am I.....?] [No words are coming out. What can I do?] Mizushima: Kazuha - chan!? Maki. PG 33 Maki: Kazuha - chan was just trying to get out her congratulations to you two just a little too fast I guess. Mizushima: Maki, you know we don't want to make a big deal out of it. Kazuha: [Sugimoto sounds like he always does. We're not close. But he calls me "Kazuha - chan" anyway.] Manami: Whaaaat? I love it when other people wish us congratulations. Mizushima: Manami~~~~~ Kazuha: [I'm sure Sensei's always seen me as nothing more than another one of his kindergarten students. Certainly not the way he sees "Manami" - san. Why....?] Kazuha: Sensei.... Manami - san. PG 33 Kazuha: Congratulations, to you both. PG 34 Kazuha: May you always be happy together. [I didn't cry. Though for some reason it was as if I were suddenly overcome by blindness. While up until now, I had always clearly seen where I was going to.] Maki: It was a big shock, wasn't it? Kazuha: You knew. Maki: ....I did. PG 35 Kazuha: WELL THEN, GO AHEAD AND LAUGH! I'm a shallow, vicious little kid. I was wrong. I was just playing at love and coming to the wrong conclusions. That's right. I don't understand anything anyway. So laugh. Go ahead and laugh! Maki: I'm not going to laugh. It's that foolish honesty of yours Kazuha, that I've always whole-heartedly loved about you. *** (Translator's Note: The way he says this is important, because instead of how he usually talks, Maki talks like a guy here, by using 'ore' (rather than 'atashi') and dropping all the girly sentence endings too.) PG 36 Maki: I'm not going to laugh. Kazuha: [How embarrassing. Here I was yelling and carrying on and it was Sugimoto who stopped it. It would have been worse, without him here.] Kazuha: Its just like I thought, I don't like you. [Why do I feel so at ease now? Feeling this good, its caught me off guard.] End of Sekai de Ichiban Dai Kirai, Chapter 1.