[Note: I've either got this chapter more right than I know, or I was lost
completely. I certainly almost never had any idea who was talking when. I
also spent sometime researching barracuda; only to find they aren't
anything like the 'kamasu' pictured in this issue; they don't seem to be
half insect, for one thing, being rather dull fish of some kind. Thus, even
though kamasu technically means barracuda, I left it, and dropped the last
'u' to differentiate.]

-pg35-

Tale #10

Ayase and the Kamas

-pg36-

Alpha

I haven't seen Takahiro for a while.
How's he been ?

Ojisan

Good question...ever since it got warm...
He's always going to the cove.

Alpha

Oh, my...

-pg37-

Takahiro

Hmmm...
I want to try and meet her properly at least once...

-pg38-

Takahiro

Although she makes a strong impression...
It felt sort of unreal...
Ah...
It wasn't till afterwards, that I began...
To feel like this.

-pg39-

Takahiro

It's a slim chance...
But it just might be her...
M...Misago ?

-pg40-

Ayase

It's a Kamas.
It's my Kamas.

Takahiro

You heard me...
Saying Misago.

Ayase

I saw the Misago once, long ago.

Takahiro

Eh ?

-pg41-

Ayase

Hmm...
You've seen the Misago ? And want to again ?

Takahiro

Mm-hmm.

Ayase

Your name is...

Takahiro

Takahiro

Ayase

I'm Ayase
Watch.

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Ayase

We've had this skill for ages.

Takahiro

It's amazing...

Ayase

The Misago is...
Always around.
This isn't the first time I've come round here, thinking of her...
But she's never appeared...

-pg45-

Ayase

And with two of us, she sure as hell ain't gonna come, is she ?

Takahiro

And with you bein' so old...

Ayase

Makes it worse!

Takahiro

He was much older than me, but he was another man thinking of the same
woman.
We'd met her at different times, yet she had the same effect.

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Takahiro

So, was that her ?
Did she come because we wanted to see her so much ?

Ayase

So long.

Takahiro

Mm.
You'll come again ?

Ayase

Dunno.

-pg49-

Takahiro

Next time, there's a friend I'd like you to meet.

Ayase

Is there ? Sure, sounds nice.

Takahiro

She's a girl 'bout your age, maybe you've seen her 'round.

Ayase

I might've..who knows.

-pg50-

Alpha

Seems like Takahiro's 80% of my business.
Hmm...I see.

Tale #10: Closing