Smile de Ikou Chapter Five Nakayoshi June 1999 by Andou Natsumi Disclaimer: This translation is meant as a guide for those who wish to read the manga. Please don't steal this translation or do anything illegal with it. Please don't use this for commercial use or sell it, etc. >.< Another note is that I am translating with Japanese One basic knowledge- there are very well mistakes in this. I welcome all help/corrections. Arigatou, minna. Sore ja! -Meimi Translation by Meimi (KSaintTail@aol.com) June 24, 2000 %thoughts (side notes) [narration] $flashbacks ------------------------------------------------------------ pg 1 Emi: I'm always aiming to become a beautiful girl... I wonder if I'll become an adult quickly if I fall in love... Maiden's Nonsensical Love Story Go With a Smile Chapter Five by Andou Natsumi pg 2 ad pg 3 Coach: Fujiwara! One hundred returns, here we go! Emi: Yes, I'm ready! pg 4 Girl: Oh, Mizuno-kun. Morning! Hikaru: Was she in the tennis club up till now? Girl: No, she just started suddenly. She said she had to master tennis in a week. Hikaru: Huh? (What's that mean?) Sign: Tea Club pg 5 Sensei: Fujiwara-san! You have to sit formally while doing tea ceremony! Hikaru: % Tea ceremony club? % ? Emi: But when I do, my legs fall asleep... Sensei: You'll never master the tea ceremony that way!! Emi: (Right, right...) Emi: ICK! (Bitter~~) Hikaru: Hey. What are you doing? Emi: Hikaru! pg 6 Hikaru: Tea ceremony doesn't even suit you... Emi: It's part of my Miss Kon strategy. Hikaru: Huh? Emi: This! Paper: Introduction PR Tennis Knowledge of tea ceremony Movie appreciation Cooking Hikaru: Y....You... (No way...) Emi: It's best for me to have lots of appeal, right? pg 7 Emi: % If I win at Miss Kon, he'll have to approve of Oniichan's % wedding! Sensei: Fujiwara-san! Box: Mastering Cooking Sensei: Fujiwara-san, what are you so happy about? Emi: I'm making Indian Curry! Sensei: It doesn't smell like curry... Emi: It doesn't? (How strange. I put in so many things, too...) Sensei: .... Box: Mastering Movie Appreciation Nao: Shut up and watch it quietly!! Emi: But I'm scared~! Nao: Then you shouldn't have rented all horror movies! Emi: ... pg 8 Box: Reading Emi: (I'm going to win~) Emi: Sensei~~~! Let's do that one hundred return thing again today too~~~ Coach: Fujiwara! How can you hit the ball like that?!! Arrow: The tea dipper pg 9 Emi: % Gah! Emi: I'm sorry~~, I made a mistake~~~! (I'll go get my racket now!) Hikaru: Don't you look funny... Emi: Hikaru... Hikaru: Are you having tea on the tennis court? Emi: I-I just made a little mistake! Hikaru: Little? (Huh...) pg 10 Emi: % He always has to find a problem with everything I do! Girl: (There you are!) Emi! Everyone's going to go eat cake now, want to come? Emi: Oh, I'd love to! ....is what I'd like to say, BUT... Right now I have tennis club, and then I have to practice serving in volleyball... And then in Cooking Club we're making beef strogonaf... And then when I get home I still have to work on video appreciation. Girl: (I see...good luck...) pg 11 Hikaru: You want to win that badly? Emi: Of course! Because I'm going to show you that you can never give up on your dreams! pg 12 Coach: Hey, Fujiwara! How long are you going to stand there?!! Emi: (Oops...) Sorry! Hikaru: Oh, Emi? Emi: What? Hikaru: Well...I was going to tell you...to be careful, but... Hikaru: She looks pretty tired. Girl: Emi's the kind of girl that when she says she'll do something, she does it. pg 13 Girl: When we first got into elementary school, at the opening ceremony, she swore she'd get perfect attendance. Emi: $ (E...Even if it's only for a second...I'm going to school!) Girl: For all six years, she came to school no matter how bad a fever she had. Well...there are times when she tries TOO hard, but... Hikaru: ... pg 14 Hikaru: Sensei, this is everything for class duty. Sensei: Oh, sorry for making you stay so late. Hikaru: Excuse me. Hikaru: % The tea club? % Is she still at it? Emi: This is how the procedure goes... pg 15 Emi: I'm finished. Emi: OW! Owwww~~~~ Hikaru: What're you doing? Emi: Hikaru... What is this, a one-man show? pg 16 Emi: No... Everyone's gone home, and this is the only time I can practice. So I don't care if I have to stay this late... Hikaru: !! Hikaru: E...Emi!! Your hand...!! Emi: Hand...? pg 17 Emi: A....AUGH- Hikaru: What're you doing? Come on!! Emi: I-It's all right! It's not that bad, I'll just put some aloe on it la- Hikaru: STUPID!! If you don't cool down a burn like that, it'll scar!! pg 18 Emi: ...ter... Hikaru: Does it still hurt? Emi: No, I'm fine. Hikaru: Then it should be fine. Emi: T...Thanks. pg 19 Hikaru: You're too careless!! This happened because you're so out of it! If you're tired enough for this to happen, then hurry and go home to sleep! Emi: B...But... I'm not an ojousama. I'm not elegant or anything. And if I don't have enough appeal, I can't win, right? So... pg 20 Hikaru: You don't really have to, do you? Hikaru: You don't need to fake being an ojousama. You can win by being yourself. Right? Emi: R... pg 21 Emi: That's RIGHT! I'm good enough to win on my own, aren' I! Hikaru: (She's always like this...) Anyway, go home and get to sleep. Emi: Oh, Hikaru! I'm definitely gonna win, so... Come and watch, okay! pg 22 Hikaru: I've had to hear you say that so often, I'm getting tired of it! Like you and your ramen. Anyway...I'm looking forward to it. Emi: % It's strange. % All Hikaru did was try to cheer me up a little... % And somehow I've so happy... Yuu: Emi!! Emi!! pg 23 Yuu: Your examination papers came in- you were accepted!! Emi: Really?! I'm so happy! Nao: But isn't it easy to get in? Emi: That's not true. You have to be really talented to get in... Nao: (Hmm.) Emi: And I enclosed the best picture of me that I could find! Label: By the way, this is what I look like... Nao: (Who is that?) pg 24 Emi: Okaaaaay! I'm gonna wash one hundred dishes tonight...!! Nao: You should just make that your talent for the show. Emi: Moooooorning! Hikaru: W-Why are you so happy so early? Emi: Just thought I'd let you know I got accepted. You'd better come to see the real performance! Hikaru: Huh? pg 25 Guy: The student council president is going to compete in the Miss Kon contest?! (Wow!) We'll definitely go to cheer you on! Emi: Thank you! Hikaru: Don't be so happy just because you go ACCEPTED! Emi: % Where did all his kindness from last night go off to~~~? Guy: (C'mon Hikaru, let's go together!) Emi: % And he was the first person I told, too! pg 26 Emi: How weird...I know I put it in here... Oh! Found it. The dress Mom gave me a long time ago. pg 27 Emi: I'm going to do my best! Emi: % I'm going to be great! % ...but now that it's the crucial moment, I'm actually really % nervous... talking> Woman: All contestants are waiting here offstage, so stay here until they call your name. Emi: Yes. pg 28 Emi: % Wow~~~! % Everyone's so pretty! % And wearing expensive clothes... Girl: Because of today, I asked Papa if I could have the estate in Hawaii. Girl: I asked to go to Taiwan for a massage! Girl: Typical! Emi: % Whaaat~~? % I can't follow their conversation~~~! % (They really are all ojousamas!) Guy: Oh, you! pg 29 Guy: You're a part-time worker here, right? Could you deliver this box for me? Emi: Wha! I-I don't work here! Guy: Huh? Oh, you're a contestant? Sorry, sorry! Girl: My, there's no wonder that she got mistaken dressed like THAT! Girl: (You're right!) Emi: % What?! Girl: After a mixup like that... Shouldn't you just go home? pg 30 Girl: EVERYONE knows the winner is going to be a girl from Kenran Girl's Academy. You don't have a chance if you go to a normal school. Girl: Right, right! If you went in, you'd just be dirtying the name of Miss Rokunomiya! Emi: Is it so important to be rich? Emi: A girl that's aiming to be the best in the world... ...can still win without dressing up! I won't lose to nasty idiots like you. Girl: Wha... pg 31 Emi: % Ah, I said it... Girl: How dare she... ... Announcer: Thank you for waiting. Welcome to Miss Rokunomiya's middle school division. We will now introduce the contestants. Emi: % I can't lose! Announcer: When your name is called, please step out onto the stage. pg 32 Emi: % Hikaru...? % No matter what he said...he really came after all. Announcer: Number one, Ichijou Emiri-san from Kenran Girl's Academy. Number two, Momura Yuri-san from Saint Thomas Girl's School. Number three, Sakurakawa Ai-san from Hoshigaike Middle. Number four... Emi: % I have to have confidence and go! Look grest! Announcer: Number fourteen...Nabeshima Izumi-san. These are all fourteenn contestants. Emi: % What?! pg 33 Emi: E-Excuse me! They didn't call me... Man: What? Emi: I'm Fujiwara! Fujiwara Emi! Man: That name isn't on here. Emi: Please look for it carefully! Man: It's not there... Emi: % N... % No way... % This means I can't be in it...?! Hikaru: ...