Yasashii Akuma P.42-73 P.42 (Chikada-senpai halts her by placing a hand on her shoulder) Chikada: No running in the halls. Tohko: Ah... Senpa... Tohko: I-I'm sorry. Chikada: Has something upset you? Tohko: Er, not really... What are you here for, senpai? Chikada: I'm here to buy bread. Tohko: Ah... Tohko: Um... if it's alright with you, you can have this. (she holds out the bentou she was carrying with her) Chikada: Huh? Really? Tohko: I made too much this morning. I'm not sure how good it is, but... Chikada: I'm very happy, but... Chikada: weren't you really planning to give this to that freshman? Tohko: No... We're just childhood friends...... Tohko: It's not as if Wataru and I...... Chikada: .......... P.43 Chikada: Then would it be alright if I asked you out? Chikada: Recently you and he have been together all the time. Chikada: I was a little disappointed. (Tohko walks down a street after school) ~Chikada: This sunday, let's go to the movies. P.44 (she pauses in front of a contact-lens shop) Tohko: This sunday, huh?... I guess I can make it. voice: What, you're planning on getting contacts? Tohko: Wataru...!! Wataru: Geez, why did you leave by yourself again? Wataru: Let's go shopping for basketball shoes [don't break your promises!] P.45 Tohko: What do you mean "promise"?... I never-- Wataru: Forget about the contacts. With glasses at least half your face is covered. (a pained look passes across Tohko's face) Wataru: ... Tohko, did that senior ask you out? Tohko: ! How do you know about that...?? Wataru: When I went to your classroom, your friends told me. Wataru: Is that why you're suddenly trying for sex appeal? Tohko: Wha...?! P.46 Wataru: Jocks like him who seem really well-mannered are the most dangerous. Wataru: If you don't want to get hurt you should break it off with him right away. Tohko: Chikada-senpai is a nice person! Wataru: I'm telling you not to go! Tohko: I made a promise. It has nothing to do with you! (Tohko glances at the expression on his face regretfully, then turns around to walk away) P.47 Wataru: ........ That sort of guy is your type? Seriously? Tohko: He's much cooler than you and your droopy hair! Wataru: (touching his hair) ........ Tohko: Stop it. Enough already. Tohko: My mouth is going off by its-- Wataru: ... But, Wataru: there's no way he could be serious about you. Tohko: !! {SLAP} P.48 (Wataru touches his face in surprise) Wataru: ... Ow. Tohko: Why do you have to be so mean?! Tohko: Why...?? Tohko: I can't remember the promise from 9 years ago! Tohko: Does that make me such a terrible person?? Tohko: Does that make it alright for you to say anything you want to me?! P.49 Tohko: I hate you. Tohko: Is it that much fun to hurt me?! Tohko: I hate you. Wataru: To... P.50 Tohko: I hate you, Wataru!! (she runs off) Tohko: I can't stand this anymore! Tohko: We're not even childhood friends. Tohko: I don't know anything about this "promise." P.51 Tohko: He comes back to Japan out of the blue. voice: Don't mess around, you idiot! (<-- I'm not sure who's saying this. I would expect it to be Tohko, but the speech style sounds male...) Tohko: He pushes me around, hurts me, makes fun of me. (she clutches the sheets of her bed) Tohko: I hate you, I hate you...! Tohko: Just what am I to Wataru anyway...?! P.52 Tohko: I hate him... Tohko: Wataru, you jerk. ~Wataru: (smiling) Tohko. Tohko: Enough already... (at school) voice: [huh?] Miura? P.53 (Chikada-senpai walks over to Tohko, who's standing in the lunch line) Tohko: Chikada-senpai... Chikada: You're having bread today? Tohko: I didn't have time to make a bentou this morning. Chikada: I see. I guess I'll share with you then. [in return for the other day] Tohko: Y-you don't have to do that! Chikada: Hahaha, don't worry about it. I bought enough for after school. Tohko: [thank you very much] Tohko: Are you still in the baseball club? [even though you're a senior?] (the reason Tohko says this is because seniors in Japan generally stop doing sports and clubs in order to concentrate on studying for college entrance exams) Chikada: Yeah. I'd like to continue playing in college as well. Tohko: Oh... P.54 (she catches sight of Wataru standing with a group of friends nearby) Tohko: Wataru......! classmate: [you mix it with black coffee] classmate: [ohhh, I messed up] (he glances in her direction) Tohko: ! Tohko: He saw me... (then turns away without acknowledging her) Tohko: Wata... (a girl hangs onto Wataru's arm while he laughs with his friends) voice: ...ra... Miura? P.55 Tohko: Y-yes? Chikada: What time do you want to meet tomorrow? (she looks back at Wataru) Tohko: What was that...? Tohko: Now that he has no more use for me, he's just going to give me the cold shoulder? Tohko: What a jerk! Tohko: Who's the heartless one here?? Tohko: I'm the one who's supposed to be mad! Tohko: ... Why that little! P.56 Tohko: Who gives a damn anymore...........! (Chikada-senpai and Tohko are on their date) Chikada: I'm hungry, shall we go get something to eat? (she eyes the hand on her shoulder) Tohko: Uh, ok... Tohko: It's making me feel a little uncomfortable... P.57 Tohko: In the movie theater too, he kept one touching me with his hands and legs for no particular reason... waiter: Enjoy your meal. Tohko: Maybe I'm making too much out of it...... Tohko: .......... (Chikada meticulously removes the peppers and green onions from his dish) Tohko: ... Come to think of it, he left parts of the bentou uneaten that time too... Tohko: [it's not such a big deal, but...] Tohko: I thought guys who do sports will eat anything... Tohko: Wataru would complain, Tohko: but he always ate everything... Tohko: {gasp} (she starts shaking her head vigorously) Chikada: ? P.58 Chikada: [let's take a little walk] Tohko: [ok] Tohko: Senpai is nice, and mature. Tohko: ... B-but, somehow, (he puts his hands on her shoulder, then her waist) Tohko: I just... Chikada: Miura, you still have time, right? (she eyes the hand on her arm uncomfortably) Chikada: Let's go to a karaoke bar. [I know a cheap place] Tohko: Sure... Tohko: I just want to go home already... P.59 Tohko: ... He's probably out shopping for basketball shoes. Tohko: Did he go alone? Tohko: ... Or maybe with another girl...? (she sees a guy with long hair walking with a girl nearby) Tohko: Wataru?! Tohko: ! (the guy's shows his profile, and it's a stranger) Tohko: Ah... Chikada: Miura! Tohko: ... What am I doing? Tohko: This whole time, I've been thinking only about Wataru. P.60 (Tohko flips through a song book, in the rented karaoke room) Tohko: Who cares what that jerk is doing anyway... Tohko: ? Senpa...? (she looks up and sees his face right above hers) Tohko: !!? Tohko: Se-se-senpa...!? (he leans over her) Tohko: Wh-what... Chikada: Come on, we're all alone here. P.61 Tohko: Wha-what is this? What about karaoke....... Tohko: Yeee! (he puts his hand on her thigh) Chikada: If we don't make too much noise we won't be found out. Tohko: Wait a minute! Tohko: Se-senpai, calm down! Tohko: Th-th-th-this couldn't be-- Chikada: Don't start struggling now. Chikada: You get it, don't you? Tohko: Thi-this is for real!! p.62 (she desperately tries to hold his face back with her hand) {haa haa = Chikada's panting} (ewww) Tohko: Noooo! This is too gross! Tohko: Uwaah, Wataru!! (Tohko hits him on the head with the song book, while simultaneously a guy walks in the room and kicks him in the nuts) Tohko: {haa haa haa} Tohko: ...Ah. P.63 (Wataru glares at her, with a baseball cap on backwards) Wataru: Man, how long were you planning on playing around for?? Wataru: Let's go home. Tohko: !! Tohko: Ah! (he grabs her hand) Tohko: Wataru. Tohko: Wataru! Tohko: Ow! Tohko: Wataru!! You're hurting my hand...! (he drags her along the street outside) p.64 Tohko: Wata... Wataru: Are you a moron?! Wataru: You're so out of it that it's easy for anyone to take you in! Wataru: What were you thinking dressing like that?! Wataru: You're practically asking for it! Tohko: ...Wha-- P.65 Tohko: Why are you mad at me?? (she beats him on the chest with her fists) Wataru: Ow! Tohko: Sorry this outfit doesn't suit me! Wataru: Hey! Tohko: Isn't it my business what I wear?? Wataru: Hold it! Tohko: I thought I looked pretty good! [you jerk!!] Tohko: What do you--- Wataru: Woah. (he grabs her wrist) Tohko: Wataru, you...! (his baseball cap falls to the ground) Tohko: Leggo...! (she pauses and stares up at him blankly) P.66 (he stares back at her, with short hair...... noooo) Wataru: Calm down a little, and listen to what I have to say... Tohko: ...... Hey, Tohko: Your hair...... Where did it go...? Tohko: [you look just like a baby chicken...] Wataru: [it's called a cat cut!] (not sure 'bout that line] Wataru: You're the one who told me to cut it anyway! Tohko: What.......? Wataru: What, you forgot? Wataru: You said it looked "droopy." P.67 Tohko: ...No way. Just from that...!? Tohko: But, I just said that in the heat of the moment........... Wataru: (a little red) ... Don't tell me you still don't like it?? Tohko: Uh, no, but... Wataru: Geez. Wataru: I guess there's no other way. (he grabs her by the waist) Tohko: Kya... Wataru: Don't get contacts. Wataru: Glasses are enough, right? (he pulls her glasses off) Tohko: !? Gi...give those back...! P.68 (Wataru pulls Tohko towards him and kisses her) p.69 (she clutches onto his shirt arm, closing her eyes tightly) P.70 Tohko: Ah... Tohko: Nn. {chu} (he smiles at her, with his face just in front of hers) Wataru: ...Cuz when you take them off, Wataru: my face will be the only thing you'll be able to see. P.71 (Wataru smiles happily) Tohko: I knew it. Tohko: He's a demon. Tohko: When he uses that face against me, how can I resist him..... (Tohko sits on the ground outside at school, with a bentou on her lap) Tohko: So, the promise from 9 years ago... P.72 Wataru: (eating across from her) That's right. It was the night before I moved away. ~little Wataru: Tohko-chan will be mine only forever. Tohko: I do remember something like that... Tohko: ...but Tohko: Th... (she stands up angrily) Tohko: That doesn't count as a promise!! Wataru: C'mon, Tohko. You have to take responsibility for this haircut! Wataru: [what shall I make you do?] Tohko: What?! Wataru: My old hair really did suit me though. {sigh} Wataru: The girls were all in tears a moment ago. P.73 Tohko: And so, my ill-natured, vain, selfish demon, Tohko: [you narcisist!] Wataru: [ahahaha] Tohko: today, is once again smiling like an angel. (The End...... of this chapter, at least =>)