Marmalade Boy Volume 3, Chapter 3 pages 81-119 Written and illustrated by Yoshizumi Wataru Translation & editing by : Craig Nishida Additional translation by : Paul Hirose Yutaka Sasagawa Matthew Akira Klippenstein Additional editing by: Jeanne Hedge Daniel Lee Last revision : 03-15-96 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: mboy-trans@soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------- p 81 1 2 Miki footsteps FX: 3 Arimi: Miki-san. 4 5 Miki: Arimi-san... --------------------------------------------------- p 82 1 --------------------------------------------------- p 83 1 Miki: Who are you here to see today...? Ginta? Or Yuu? Arimi: You. 2 Arimi: I heard from Suou-kun. He said he spilled everything. Arimi: Jeez. He's got no guts, has he. 3 Miki: ...... HEY!! Arimi: Well, but I was thinking, now that the lie has been revealed, that maybe I should apologize anyway... 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 84 1 Miki: Though you don't look like you think you did anything wrong. 2 Arimi: Sorta. Actually, maybe you should even be thanking me? Arimi: Because, thanks to me, Miki-san, your own feelings were made clear. 3 Miki: Huh?! What are you talking about? Far from that, I've been thrown into still deeper confusion... Arimi: That's why! I'm saying that you've clearly recognized that you like both Yuu and Suou-kun, right! 4 Miki: ~~~~~~ 5 Arimi: It's possible that Yuu... ...likes you. --------------------------------------------------- p 85 1 2 Arimi: I don't know why, but Yuu doesn't open his heart to strangers. On the surface, he's friendly and sociable, but whenever he's with people, he keeps his distance. Arimi: That's why he doesn't have a sweetheart, or a close friend. It's always been that way... 3 Arimi: But somehow, the circumstances are different with you. I can't say it well, but... There's an air of tenderness beyond the usual... Whenever he's with you. Nothing like this existed up to now! --------------------------------------------------- p 86 1 Miki: That's... Because... Well, we're family... Arimi: You say "family," but it's just that you're living together, right?! Not only is there no blood relationship, but, in the eyes of the census registry, you aren't related at all!! 2 Miki: Sure. That's true, but... Arimi: But... 3 Arimi: Even if Yuu likes you... I'll never accept it. Arimi: You aren't good enough for Yuu! 4 5 Miki: Sure, maybe you think I'm not cute like you, Arimi-san, and that I don't have any particular good points, and that I don't look good with Yuu... Miki: But, to be that blunt... Arimi: That's not what I'm saying! --------------------------------------------------- p 87 1 Arimi: Yuu is the only one I like. For a long time, Yuu's been the only one I've been watching. Arimi: But you waver between Yuu and Suou-kun! 2 Arimi: That's what I can't forgive. And that's why I won't concede to you!! 3 4 Arimi: I can't give Yuu up to someone who only thinks that much about him... --------------------------------------------------- p 88 1 Arimi: So I'll never give him up! 2 Miki: Ah... 3 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 89 1 2 chainlink fence FX: 3 narration: ......... That struck a nerve... 4 narration: But... 5 narration: Those two are completely different types... narration: And they have completely different appeals... --------------------------------------------------- p 90 1 narration: Both are dear to me. I like both of them a lot. That's how I honestly feel. 2 narration: Even though she points that out... narration: I... Don't know what to do... 3 4 Yuu: Oh! Arimi...? 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 91 1 2 3 4 Yuu: Aren't you with the wrong partner? Suou is the one you... Arimi: That was just an act to make Miki-san jealous. But you knew that!! 5 Yuu: ......... Yuu: Well, I had a vague... 6 Arimi: I love you... --------------------------------------------------- p 92 1 Arimi: I can't forget. Arimi: Do something. Help me...!! 2 3 --------------------------------------------------- p 93 1 sign: Year 1, Class B Meiko: And then? 2 short-haired girl: Yeah. While he was calming the crying girl, they left. But I couldn't hear what they were saying... pigtailed girl: That was so-o-o cool! Just like a TV drama. 3 short-haired girl: Remaining completely calm in a scene like that is just like Yuu, huh. pigtailed girl: How true. narration: Hmm. So that's what happened afterwards... 4 narration: Even though he's become the target of a rumor... narration: He remains cool... 5 narration: "Yuu doesn't open his heart to strangers." 6 caption: Meiko Akizuki Horoscope: Scorpio Bloodtype: A --------------------------------------------------- p 94 1 narration: Come to think of it, Yuu doesn't seem to have a particularly close friend. narration: It's been quite a while since he's transferred here, but..." 2 narration: Since that match, he does chat pretty often with Ginta... narration: But of course, I wouldn't go so far as to call them close friends... 3 4 Miki heartbeat FX: 5 Ginta index finger FX: 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 95 1 Ginta: I've decided to wait patiently. Ginta: Until you understand that I'm better than him. 2 3 Ginta: I hope... ...to wait patiently... Ginta: But I'm not very patient by nature... 4 Ginta: THEREFORE!! HURRY UP AND NOTICE ME! Ginta: I'm confident I think of you way more than he does... Ginta: And I'm definitely better than a guy like that, whose thoughts you can't understand!! 5 Miki: ~~~~~~ caption: <--- Doesn't know what she should say. --------------------------------------------------- p 96 1 Miki: ......... FX: Ginta: ......... 2 Ginta: By the way... You were in a skirt during the team session yesterday, right? Instead of sweatpants... 3 Miki: Huh? Uh-huh... Miki: Because it was warm. Miki: Why? 4 Ginta: Didn't your legs get fat during the winter? Ginta: It's been a while since I've seen them and that's what I thought... 5 Miki: H--! HOW RUDE!! IT'S NOTHING LIKE THAT! I LOST MY TAN, SO IT ONLY LOOKS THAT WAY!! Ginta: Eh? But it's not only me. Everyone's saying it... 6 Miki: EVERYONE?! I can't believe the boys team! It's because you only talk and don't practice seriously that you become weaker every year. Ginta: WHA-A-AT?! Just watch the league matches this year! We're sure to be raised to Division 3! --------------------------------------------------- p 97 1 Miki: I wonder... At only a level where you, Ginta, can be a regular player. Ginta: Why you-u-u . 2 narration: Joking this way with Ginta... Miki: Then a bet? A cake set from Loft House. Ginta: A-a-all right. You're on! narration: For some reason, it's been a while... 3 narration: Yup. Sure enough... narration: This way's nice. 4 narration: It's useless to worry and brood over this and that. narration: Let the feelings take their natural course... narration: And having a lively and cheerful time is best, right...? --------------------------------------------------- p 98 1 tennis ball FX: 2 girl: Nice shot! 3 girl: Amazing, Miki! You're in top condition. caption: Worried about what Ginta said and wore sweats today ---> Miki: Ohh. Well... 4 Miki: You could say I've sorta shook it off this way... girl: What? Miki: HA! HA! HA! Miki: Oh no, it's nothing really, but... 5 narration: But... narration: This "in top condition" didn't last long... Miki: Next one's comi-i-ing. 6 narration: A new, unforeseen crisis awaited me... --------------------------------------------------- p 99 1 sign: Year 1, Class B 2 Miki: Good morning! Yuu: Yo. 3 Ginta: MIKI! FX: pigtailed girl: Miki! 4 Miki: ? What's the matter? pigtailed girl: It's awful-l-l! Ginta: Did you know? About Meiko. Miki: Huh...? 5 caption: Arimi Suzuki Horoscope: Leo Bloodtype: O --------------------------------------------------- p 100 1 pigtailed girl: They say that Meiko and Natchan... Were going out together!! 2 3 Miki: You're kidding... No way... pigtailed girl: It really seems that way! 4 pigtailed girl: I heard that a parent who lives in the area saw Meiko returning home from Natchan's apartment early in the morning. girl: It seems there were also rumors from before that the two of them were meeting alone in the library... 5 pigtailed girl: And then, yesterday, it turned into a huge problem at the PTA meeting... And Meiko was called into the principal's office just now... narration: You're kidding... narration: I didn't know that. I hadn't heard! --------------------------------------------------- p 101 1 door FX: 2 pigtailed girl/Miki/Ginta: Ah! 3 4 schoolbag clasp FX: chair FX: 5 6-7 Miki: M-- MEIKO!! --------------------------------------------------- p 102 1 2 Meiko: For the time being... I've been suspended from school. 3 4 Meiko: Bye-bye. 5 Miki: MEI---- --------------------------------------------------- p 103 1 2 narration: Meiko... 3 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 104 1 schoolbell FX: 2 door FX: 3 Ginta: Miki! Ginta: You're going to Meiko's place, aren't you? I'll go, too... 4 Miki: Uh-uh. I'll go alone. Miki: Let me go alone, please. 5 Ginta: Yeah... Okay... --------------------------------------------------- p 105 1 2 3 ===Sidebar=== FREE TALK (4): When I'm drawing the manuscript with my assistants, I'd end up watching the screen if it were TV and I easily get tired of CDs, so it is oftentimes the case that I turn on the radio. But oftentimes, the DJ's boring, or sleep-inducing music floats out, so for a long time I'd been thinking (I'd like to get cable radio, but I wonder how it's installed?), just when Yazawa Ai took the initiative." I asked her and understood how to do it, so all that's left is the strength to carry it out, right... Lately, when it comes to the sort of stuff I'm listening to, I'm not interested in the en vogue "Being" genre, but rather, my favorite would have to be Dreams Come True, and I also often listen to Mr. Children, Bridge, B#, and the like. I wonder whether Miura Rieko-chan's new album's coming out... (I'm hooked on her voice, y'know...) --------------------------------------------------- p 106 1 narration: Whenever I see it... narration: It's such a fine house, isn't it... Meiko's place... I need a little courage just to press the intercom button . 2 3 door FX: 4 Miki: Meiko! Meiko: I saw you coming from the window. 5 Meiko: I'm sorry for making you worry. Meiko: Shall we take a little walk? 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 107 1 2 3 4 Miki: I heard you're going out with Natchan... Miki: Is it true...? 5 Meiko: It's true. 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 108 1 Meiko: ...... I stayed over... 2 Meiko: ...at Natchan's apartment last Saturday. Meiko: But it wasn't like what everyone's thinking... 3 Meiko: That night... 4 Meiko: My father, who's not usually at home, got into a fight with my mother, who got drunk and came home late at night. My parents... Are always in a state of cold war, but occasionally, when they explode, it's awful. 5 Meiko: That day as well, it turned into some awful name-calling... And finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and I ran out of the house. And then I went to sensei's place. --------------------------------------------------- p 109 1 Namura-sensei: Meiko?! Namura-sensei: This late... What happened? 2 Meiko: Sensei...! 3 Meiko: I can't take it anymore. I hate a home like that!! 4 Meiko: Sensei listened to my story in silence... Meiko: And I cried until I fell asleep. And all the while, he held my hand... 5 6 Miki: You explained that to the principal, didn't you?! He didn't believe you?! Meiko: He told me he believed me. At least for now... --------------------------------------------------- p 110 1 Meiko: But it *is* true that we were dating... And he said now that it's become a huge uproar like this, he couldn't very well avoid handing out some sort of punishment... Miki: ......... 2 Miki FX: 3 4 Meiko: Even if I'm suspended from school. Even if I'm expelled. Anything is fine... Meiko: But if it turns into something like sensei getting fired... What should I do...? --------------------------------------------------- p 111 1 Meiko: To think I caused him all this trouble... But back then, there wasn't anything I could do. Meiko: There wasn't any other place to go to...!! 2 Miki: Meiko... narration: To me... You could have come to my place... 3 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 112 1 Miki: ......... With Natchan... How long...? 2 Meiko: I've known him since the spring of 3rd-year junior high. That we knew that we liked each other was... Maybe about a half a year later. 3 Miki: It's been that long?! 4 Miki: I... I see-e-e. I hadn't noticed at all... Miki: What a surprise... 5 6 Miki: B-but... I wish you'd told me. Miki hands FX: Miki: Before I found out like this... --------------------------------------------------- p 113 1 Miki: I know it's something that's difficult to talk about... But I wouldn't have told anyone else... Miki: That you were keeping such an important thing like this a secret, even though you're a close friend... I'm a bit shocked... 2 3 Meiko: Because you're a close friend... Do I have to tell you everything? 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 114 1 Meiko: Does being close friends mean... ...laying bare each other's weaknesses and wounds and everything... Meiko: And consoling and pampering each other? 2 Miki: ......... Meiko...? 3 Meiko: If it's a sticky friendship like that... Meiko: Then I don't want it. --------------------------------------------------- p 115 1 2 3 Miki footsteps FX: 4 5 Meiko: Mi... --------------------------------------------------- p 116 1 2 3 4 5 front door FX: Miki footsteps FX: Miki bedroom door FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 117 1 Yuu: Miki...? 2 3 4 5 Yuu FX: Yuu: Miki? Is something wrong? --------------------------------------------------- p 118 1 Yuu FX: Yuu: Miki? 2 narration: If it's that kind of friendship... narration: Then I don't want it. 3 4 narration: DON'T WANT IT. --------------------------------------------------- p 119 1 Miki: (MEIKO...!!) Miki sobbing FX: 2 --------------------------------------------------- -------------------End of Chapter------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Scorecard: Miki <---> Yuu ^ ^ | | v | Ginta (-?-) Arimi Meiko <---> Natchan ^ | | Tsutomu Rumi <---> Youji ^ ^ | | v v Jin <---> Chiyako ---------------------------------------------------