Parfait Step 18 Translated by: Oceansportrait Date: September 6, 2005 Legend: () - thought // - action [] - translator's notes Pg 1: Daiya: The ocean! Pg 2: //splash// Daiya: Ah!!! Fuuko: That was sudden.. Daiya: It's so cold! Fuuko: Daiya and the ocean. Fuuko: (He's like a dog) Fuuko: Together on a sunday. Fuuko: (I should be happy, but it's messed up.) Fuuko: (The image of Akio-senpai's shaking shoulders yesterday, burned beneath my eyelids.) Pg 3: //splash// //sticks tongue out// Daiya: I'll look like an idiot if I'm the only one getting hyped over this. Fuuko: Wha-- Fuuko: I can't believe you did that! So you splashed water all over me?! //splash// //receding waves// Daiya: Ha. Pg 4: Daiya: We're a pair now. Fuuko: (Hey--) Fuuko: (why the "ocean"?) [Fuuko remembers Daiya asking: "Do you want to go to the beach tomorrow?"] Fuuko: ...Why "me"? Daiya: It's freezing! Daiya: And it's supposed to be July soon-- Fuuko: What? It's not cold! It feels good. Daiya: Well the cold does get to me more than most people. Daiya: Maybe that's why I love the feel of human skin even more. //squish// Fuuko: You just like women. Pg 5: Daiya: You're really getting good at dodging me. Fuuko: I guess! //doki doki doki doki// Fuuko: (Even though the way he acts hasn't changed a bit!) Daiya: --How was Akio-san after that? Fuuko: What do you mean-- Daiya: No, I mean, like, did she cry and stuff? //splash// Fuuko: (So he was worried about it..) //splash// Fuuko: ---Yeah. Pg 6: Daiya: ---Sigh. So that's how it went afterall. //splash// Fuuko: ...yeah. Fuuko: (This is no good, I can't think of anything to say.) //moving moving// //crawl crawl// Fuuko: NOOO!!! A funamushi---! [funamushi=sea louse] //splash// //realization// Pg 7: Fuuko: I-I-I'm sorr-- //lies back// Daiya: Just for a minute. Pg 8: Fuuko: (So he knows he hurt her.) Fuuko: (And he's beating himself up over it.) Fuuko: You didn't do anything wrong. //splash// Daiya: One minute's over--! //tense// //pats shoes together// Daiya: Want to grab something to eat? Fuuko: Ah... Pg 9: Daiya: I'm glad you were here. Fuuko: (I can kind of understand the reason for the "ocean",) Fuuko: (and the reason for "me".) Pg 10: Fuuko: (Is it okay for me to read a bit too much into this?) Man: Okay, here you go. //don// Daiya: All right! I wanted to try this place out! //splits chopsticks// Fuuko: (Forget it, I'll stop trying to read too much into it.) Fuuko: (Because usually, would it be ramen?!) Fuuko: (He takes a girl out and it's ramen?!) Fuuko: (He could have at least taken me to a family restaurant or a fast food joint..) Fuuko: This is really good. Daiya: Right?! The soup base is awesome! Man: Oh Man: Your boyfriend knows what he's talking about-- Fuuko: (boyfriend?!) Fuuko: Eh?! No, um-- Daiya: Leave it to me! Page 11: Daiya: Truth is, I love ramen enough to eat three bowl fulls-- Fuuko: (So he doesn't deny it.) //slurp// Fuuko: (Well I guess it would be weirder if he corrected them every single time.) Daiya: This ramen's amazing. Daiya: I want to come back again. [there is an emphasis on "again"] Fuuko: (But..But...But!!) Daiya: Ah that was good. //slaps hands together// Page 12: Fuuko: (It'll make less sense NOT to read too much into this..!) Daiya: Are you ready to go? Fuuko: Ah, yeah. //gets up quickly// //bag falls on floor// Page 13: //covers// Fuuko: ..did you.. Fuuko: see it...? Daiya: ...yeah. Fuuko: (No way---no way---no way!!!) //dokun dokun dokun// [heart beat] Fuuko: Um.. Fuuko: this is... Daiya: Is that the guy you like? Fuuko: ...what? Page 14: Daiya: So that's how it is. You did say before that you liked someone-- Daiya: Oh, but I heard it was a guy I didn't know, but I know him. Fuuko: (Wait a second...?!) Daiya: He's Iso-cchi, a guy in my class. Fuuko: (What?!) Daiya: I get it. Hm... Fuuko: Um-- Daiya: Iso-cchi. Right... Fuuko: (Was he looking at the guy in the center of the picture?!) [arrow pointing the photo reads "Probably Iso-cchi"] Fuuko: No-- Daiya: I see... Daiya: Hm-- Page 15: Fuuko: (..hey?) Fuuko: (Wait a se--) Fuuko: (Did he make) Fuuko: (a sad face just now?) Daiya: Okay. Daiya: I'm going to play cupid. Fuuko: Eh?!? //drops bag// Man: Not again. Page 16: Fuuko: (Hold on~~!!) Daiya: And Daiya: this is Iso-cchi. Daiya: Oh, you probably already know that. Daiya: Hahaha Fuuko: (I didn't know that!!) Fuuko: (Yesterday, it was the first time I realized it.) Fuuko: (Even though Daiya took up only a small section of the photo) Fuuko: (my mind was concentrating only on that part.) Isocchi: U- Isocchi: Um... Page 17: Isocchi: This is the first time something like this has happened to me--- Isocchi: I've never gone out with a girl-- Isocchi: and I've never been liked by one either. Isocchi: That's why I was really really happy, Isocchi: and I was so excited that I couldn't listen at all in class--- Daiya: He's a little talkative, but he's a cutie. Daiya: Calm down a bit there. Fuuko: He said all that without taking a breath... Daiya: All righty Daiya: It's about time the guy who's in the way disappears [referring to himself ^^] Fuuko: Hey-- //places hand on her shoulder// Page 18: Daiya: Do your best. Isocchi: And---and--- Isocchi: The truth is, I do know you from before-- Isocchi: Remember how you sometimes came to our class to hang out? Isocchi: I was thinking what a unique hairstyle you had-- Page 19: Isocchi: Oh, but I don't mean that in a bad way or anything. Fuuko: (The reason for "me".) Fuuko: (I didn't go so far as to think that it was because Daiya liked me.) Fuuko: (But I thought that I was someone who meant something to him, even if it was just a little.) Fuuko: (I thought that to him, I was maybe special...) Fuuko: (Then..) [remembers Daiya saying to her "Do your best"] Isocchi: Eh?! Page 20: Fuuko: (Why am I getting him to cheer me on?) Isocchi: Kameyama-san?! Ichi: Did you switch? Page 21: Fuuko: What? Fuuko: Kura...if you're talking about switching class seats, that's not going to happen 'till next year [he was asking her "kuragae shitanoka". She didn't hear the ending part so she thought he was talking about the Class arrangements ^^] Ichi: I'm asking if you Ichi: switched guys! Ichi: You idiot.. Ichi: You guys were talking in the courtyard. Fuuko: Daiya introduced me to him. Ichi: Huh?! Fuuko: He saw the picture I had in my notebook. He saw the guy in the center of the photo, and he kind of jumped to conclusions.. Ichi: W- Ichi: What the hell is that? You could have just told him that he got it all wrong! Fuuko: But!! Page 22: Fuuko: What am I supposed to say? Fuuko: "No you've got it all wrong, it's your picture"? Fuuko: I couldn't say that! Fuuko: There's no way I could have said it knowing I'm going to get shot down! Ichi: Couldn't you have thought of some excuse like it's a picture you're giving to a friend? Ichi: That head of yours.. Fuuko: Wah!! Fuuko: You're so right, there was that way too-- Ichi: --so Ichi: you didn't clear it up with that guy? Fuuko: er... Fuuko: because I was thinking so much about how tough it is for me... Page 23: Ichi: That's disgusting. Ichi: You're scared and thinking so much into it, Ichi: but what are you going to do when your target's so out of focus?! Daiya: Ah Daiya: There you are Fuu-chan Daiya: You're late. I was waiting for you back in the club room-- Page 24: Daiya: Seems Isocchi's really taken a liking to you. //digs into pocket// Daiya: Surprise! Daiya: A discount ticket to go see a movie! I took it from my friend and I already gave one to Isocchi-- Fuuko: Ah... Daiya: You guys can go see it together on a weekend sometime-- //bang// Ichi: You Ichi: are too dense!!