Chapter 49: The Warm Hand Translated by : Kaori Hasegawa Sponsored and brought to you by : Alberto Mazzetto Story and Art by : Masakazu Katsura <62> Ai: .A date with Youta. My face is naturally happy. I'm so happy. Even what happened this morning. Youta: Nobuko-chan. <63> Youta: Nobuko-chan. Nobuko-chan. Nobuko-chan. Sound: Giwa. Sound: Pafu. Sound: Gu. Ai: I quit. Ai: I'll quit thinking of something that would give me pain. We'll have a fun time now. It's a waste to think of pain. I'll make myself comfortable. I should live on the flow. Whatever happens. <64> Kouji: I told you not to call me again!! Natsumi: Ah. Sound: Gachan. Pu-- pu-- pu--. <65> Ai: Youta. Youta. Youta: Um--. What time is it now. Ah, feeling dull. Sound: Bo--. Ai: It's three o'clock in the afternoon. Youta: Oh, then I've slept only five hours, I'll go to sleep. Ai: Ah--!! <66> Ai: No!! You promised me we'd go somewhere!! Sound: Boku. Youta: Gaha!! Ai: Move! Move! Move! Youta: Okay! Okay! I'll get up!! Sound: Niko. Ai: Let's! Let's, let's! Youta: Okay, so let me eat first. Ai: Good, I'll fix something for you!! <67> Ai: I'll cook my best! Ai: Byo--n. Youta: Ai-chan has been so light-hearted recently. She doesn't even let it show that somebody is aiming for her life or something. I have to learn from her. I can't just have a dark face. Youta: Oh, is the "tent girl" still there!? Sound: Sura. <68> Youta: Ah. So, she's still there. I bet her parents have worried since she ran away from home. Youta: Oh, here she comes, good timing. I'll tell her something. Sound: Gara. Youta: Hey!! Till when you.!! Sound: Biku. <69> Sound: Kuru. Sound: Ba. Youta: Ah. .She was crying. So, that was. <70> Youta: The person who hasn't been rejected wouldn't know this pain. Natsumi: That's not true! Youta: I told you many times!! Don't make yourself out as the same as me!! I bet in your case you were just playing, right!? Natsumi: You. Of course are rejected like that. I hate people like you. Youta: She meant this. I said very cruel things to her. Ai-chan and that girl, too, are having. I'll just make a miserable face. What a pitiful guy I am. Ai: It's done!! Nothing fancy, but it's okay, right!? Youta: Ai-chan! Sound: Gata. Kotsu. Ai: What. <71> Youta: Can we go somewhere some other time? Please, forgive me for today. Ai: Eh!? Why!! Youta: .I can't leave that girl alone. Sound: Basa. Ai: Fine! I understand!! Youta: Sorry. Ai: A promise with me is that easy, huh. I'm your sister, so. Just that much, huh. <72> Sound: Ga. Ai: Ouch. Station: The Train to Tokyo is arriving on the Fifth Line. Please, get inside the white lines. Ai: Stupid. Youta. Sound: Kotsu. Dadan dadan dadan dadan. Sound: Gaga gagagagaga. <73> Sound: Gagagagaga. Sound: Gagagagaga. <74> Sound: Batan. Youta: Ah. She left, didn't she!? I'm so wimpy, so I waited until I could see her actions, so. I couldn't make an action. That's the reason I broke up with Nobuko-chan. Because I didn't want to be hated, so I searched for her feelings. Youta: At last, I created a gap I couldn't close. I haven't grown up since I was a kid, waiting for that warm hand. Youta: I have to graduate from that warm hand. Youta: That 'tent girl' is much more grown up about that than I am. If I can help her, I want to learn from her at the same time. <75> Natsumi: Ah. I don't have much money, and. Starving. What should I do now. Sound: Zu. Sound: Zuzuzu. <76> Natsumi: What are you doing. Youta: .Now, stand up. You'll be griped at if you put a tent up here. Youta: I'll apologize for what I said. So, come to my house. Natsumi: When I was a kid, there was a kid who couldn't slide if I didn't give him my hand like that. That miserable part is very similar to you. Sound: Ba. Youta: Eh? Natsumi: I won't be taken care of by you! <77> Natsumi: You're the one who told me to leave. Don't try to give me sympathy because you saw me crying! Youta: Are you. Na-Natsumi-chan. Natsumi: Wha-What. I didn't tell you my name. How do you know!? Youta: Are you serious. She is the one who had the warm hand at the bottom of the slide. Natsumi-chan!? <78> Ai: Finally, she came! The other Video Girl who is erasing me, "Mai!" Haa haa haa haa. Why do I feel more intimidated by her than before!? Ai: Haa haa. Mai: That's good, run away as much as you like! You can only live for a short time. Ai: Gata gata gata gata gata. <79> Ai: Help me! Youta.!! I want to be with him more and more, even as his sister! I don't want to disappear yet! Youta! Help me!! Sound: Gata gata. Sound: Za. Mai: I can feel your magnetism a little bit, but. I wonder, you don't have to run away anymore. Sound: Doki doki doki doki doki. Sound: Paki. Ai: Dammit!!