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Koucha Ouji by Yamada Nanpei
Volume 1, Tsp. 2: First Flush
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=Page 58=

Student: "Oosawa Midori?"
Student: "Aah, it seems that he's over there"
Someko: "I'm glad it seems to be a nice person, Taiko-chan!"
Taiko: "Okay, I'm going!"
Taiko: "Oosawa-sempai!"


=Page 59=

Taiko: Um "Nice to meet you! I'm a junior-high student, you can call me "Yoshioka". There's
   something I'd like to talk to you about, Oosawa-sempai"
Girl: "Ah...uum. Thanks for the book!"
Girl: "Bye"
Taiko: "Eh?! Uh...um...?"
Taiko: "O-Oosawa-sem...pai...?!"


=Page 60=

Guy: "I'm Oosawa"
Oosawa: "I understand that you need to talk to me"
Oosawa: "Here you go"
Taiko: ". . . ."
Someko: "Um...you are in tea-club, Oosawa-sempai?"


=Page 61=

Taiko: <It's good> It's just Japanese tea
Oosawa: "No, gardening is the only club I'm in"
Oosawa: "That flower over there, and that flower"
Oosawa: "And over there, too"
Oosawa: "I grew them all myself"
Taiko&Someko: ". . ." <What a strange person>
Oosawa: "So...what were talking about before"
Oosawa: "I REFUSE"


=Page 62=

Haruka: "Taiko!"
Taiko: "Haruka..."
Haruka: "Ah. So I guess it didn't work out after all?!" You needed a plan with that guy
Assam: "We saw the whole thing, too"
Haruka: "You two" didn't you disappear?
Assam: "That obstinate mustached jerk" how annoying "No matter how many time I hear
   it, I hang my head"
Haruka: "Yeeah, well, that person..."
Earl Grey: "I don't think that guy is a bad person!"


=Page 63=

Earl Grey: "There was definitely a reason he was not cooperating"
Taiko: "Earl Grey"
Assam: "Keh"
Assam: "So he's started on that person, Al, has he...You don't know anything about a
   person you've only met once"
Earl Grey: "I understand"


=Page 64=

Earl Grey: "When I looked at that green-house..." <Just one person has grown all of those
   beautiful flowers>
Earl Grey: "I don't know anyone who could grow flowers without love"
Earl Grey: "I don't think he could be bad"
Taiko: "Yeah, Earl Grey. I think so, too"


=Page 65=

Taiko: "Even if you've just met, there is no bad person who can make delicious tea, was
   what my Papa said"
Taiko: "Okaay, then I'll work hard tomorrow, too!"
Earl Grey: "Ah! Taiko-san, please bring me, also, tomorrow!"
Someko: Eh!? Someko doesn't want to go
Taiko: "If you just mean being there, weren't you there today?"
Earl Grey: "Not like that"
Earl Grey: "I also want to try to talk to this person
[--The classroom]
"Good morning!"


=Page 66=

Oosawa: "Is it you again?"
Taiko: "Hehehe-"
Oosawa: "No matter how many times you come ask me..."
Earl Grey: "Oosawa-sempai"
Earl Grey: "There's something I want to request from you, too"
HA!!
Taiko: He stands out


=Page 67=

Earl Grey: "Oosawa-sempai, I understand that you don't think of anything more than the
   flowers in the greenhouse"
Earl Grey: "With the coming and going of so many people, I think that you worry the
   flowers could be damaged"
Earl Grey: "At a spur of the moment, a guest could damage the flowers. But on that day,
   we will distribute our utmost care"
Earl Grey: "And with the water and people's body temperatures possibly changing the
   greenhouse's temperature and humidity, we will look after the flowers"
Earl Grey: "We will use our utmost caution to do what you instruct us"


=Page 68=

Earl Grey: "So...please lend us your green-house!"
Someko: "EEEH! He said it was okay!!"
Someko: "Kyaa! Amazing!"
Taiko: "Isn't it?!"
Someko: "And then what about Earl Grey?!"
Taiko: "He went to learn what Oosawa-sempai had to say about caring for the flowers"
Haruka: "We should be watching him, too"
Taiko: "It's okay!! I've taken care of plants in papa's store!"
Haruka: That's now what I mean "I mean Earl Grey"


=Page 69=

Haruka: "That senpai, whether flowers or people or anything, likes things that are pretty
   to his eye"
Earl Grey: "Waaah! Pansies!" 
Earl Grey: "So cute"
Oosawa: ". . . ."
Earl Grey: "My younger sister likes to raise flowers, too"
Earl Grey: "But she could never raise flowers who would bloom with such gratitude as
   these"


=Page 70=

Earl Grey: "They're lovely"
"Kaichou"
Fukukaichou: "It seems the tea association has found space from another club"
Kaichou: "Is that so?"
Kaichou: "No matter where they go, they will not find a room. Let them struggle"
Fukukaichou: "That is..."
Fukukaichou: "They found the roof on the greenhouse, it seems..."


=Page 71=

Someko: "Taiko-chan, what are you writing?" Eat your bentou
Taiko: "Participation forms for the festival"
Taiko: "I'm going to go hand them in, now"
Someko: "Eeh, is it okay by yourself?!"
Taiko: "It's fine, fine. Bye!"
Someko: "That's no good! At least take Assam-chan with you" 
Assam: "!?"
Taiko: "A useless twerp like him, you mean?"
Earl Grey: "Someko-san, I'll go"


=Page 72=

Assam: "Hey, Al?!"
Assam: <That idiot is getting too involved> All that work
Someko: ". . . ."
Someko: "So I guess you just can't become big, then, Assam-chan"
Assam: "I can I just haven't!!" No matter where I go there are irritating girls!
Kaichou: "I'm sorry that you had to run around so much but..."


=Page 73=

Kaichou: "We can't approve it"
Taiko: "Why not?!"
Taiko: <I thought it would come to this!>
Kaichou: "The first reason. It would be dangerous for so many students and guests to be
   up on the roof without a railing. Second of all"
Kaichou: "It has been determined that the gardening club will be abolished for this
   semester"


=Page 74=

Taiko: "Eh?!"
Kaichou: "There are also plans of green-house on the roof being torn down for next year.
   That is all"
Kaichou: "You may leave"
Earl Grey: "Ah...Taiko-san!"
Earl Grey: "Thank goodness! I was becoming like a lost child! ...Taiko-san?"
Earl Grey: "Tai...:


=Page 75=

Taiko: "I'm going to the greenhouse!"
Earl Grey: "Eh? Tai...Taiko-san?"
Taiko: <Why?!>
Taiko: <Why is everyone interfering?!>
Taiko: <With mine and papa's memories>


=Page 76=

Taiko: <I have to protect them!!>
Haruka: "Hey, Taiko"
Guy: Sugino-- where do you want these?
Guy: Over there
Taiko: "Haruka..."
Taiko: Wh..."What's all this?"
Haruka: "'What', you say? We're building a railing!" Until now, it would have been unsafe for
   guests "This is Sugino, from the weekend carpentry-association"
Haruka: "I talked to him about collaborating"
Sugino: "Ah! Are you the leader?" Nice to meet you "The truth is that we were putting
   pressure on the student council for not letting us participate in the festival, too"


=Page 77=

Sugino: "Because we hold the expenses for the materials here, if we hold the position of
   an association, they'll have to cooperate, won't they?" Ah, these are the plans
Taiko: "...But...the request for participation..."
Taiko: "were denied"
Haruka: "After all I guess"
Haruka: "It seems that there are a lot of clubs this year. So we'll do the opposite"
Haruka: "And look for other clubs to join up with"


=Page 78=

Haruka: "Numerous other parties weren't approved"
Haruka: "But we're the ones who are going to fight their disapproval"
Oosama-senpai: Good luck, Taiko-kun
Taiko: <Yeah>
Taiko's father: "Good luck, Taako"
Taiko: <Alright, papa...>


=Page 79=

Taiko: "PAPA~~~!" papa...?!
Guy: They're that to eachother?!
Assam: Chi, youth! What embarrassing jerks!
Person: Let's finish the preparations
Person: Yeah yeah
Guy: We borrowed this table set from a closed down restaurant
Person: Please use our materials!!
Taiko: From which club?
Person: The pottery society
Poster: (Next to crying flower) <-- please don't touch us
Someko: "We drew them together"
Oosama-sempai: *stare*
Girl: We made all the pages to look like flowers!
<--picture-book drawing association
Taiko: cuuuuute
Girl: Hey hey!
Girl: Sample some!
<--candy-making association
"WE'RE DONE!"


=Page 80=
Taiko: Help me with this
Haruka: "What are you writing?" from before
Taiko: "FU-FU-FU! Since we can't send out pamphlets or post on bulletins, we'll scatter
   flyers on the day of!
Taiko: "Print out about 500 of these!!"
Haruka: "DDEEEEH! And the money?!" 500?!
Taiko: FuFuFuFuFu...
Haruka: "...?"
[The morning of the appointed day]
HUUUUH?!


=Page 81=

"Wha--What's with the mess?!" Just around the copy machine....!?
Fukukaichou: "Kaichou! The copier toner is empty!"
Boy: "They're less of the blank paper!"
Fukukaichou: "Kaichou -- stuff on the floor like this" They're countless
Fukukaichou: "THOSE GUYS" they must have broken in in the middle of the night
Fukukaichou: "Do they think they're going to carry on?! When the festival is tomorrow?!"


=Page 82=

Day of the Festival
Taiko: "It's an hour before we open shop. Everyone, as much as possible, hand out these
   flyers!"
Taiko: "Let's do well for the next three days!"
Everyone: YEEEAH
Kaichou: "Excuse me, but the roof will have to be closed for the next three days"
Taiko: "wh..What have you guys come here for?!"
Kaichou: "To dismantle the greenhouse"


=Page 83=

Kaichou: "I've called a worker who specializes in the dismantle"
Kaichou: "Since it's dangerous, the roof will have to be blockaded"
Taiko: "Wait just a minute, you can't just..."
Oosawa: "KIKUKA!!"
Oosawa: "The flowers..."
Oosawa: "What about the flowers!?"
Taiko: Eh? Oosawa-sempai? ... Who's 'Kikuka'!?
Kaichou: "Then happiness is tending to the maintenance of these flowers, no matter how
   many caretakers there are?"


=Page 84=

Kaichou: "It's as usual"
Kaichou: "The flowers are the most important thing..."
Kaichou: "Please begin!"
Worker: Excu--se us!
Kaichou: "Please take down the fence as well"
Guy: "Wait a sec!!"
Guy: "Heeey---"
Guy: "It was a lot of trouble to make that!!"
Haruka: "Someya?!"


=Page 85=

Someko: "Don't touch the floweeers!" (**a note in the manga it says she's saying "don't
   touch the flowers", but you could hardly tell otherwise)
Earl Grey: "Ah--the pansy flower-pot!!"
Haruka: "n..."


=Page 86=

Haruka: "NO, TAIKO!!"
Earl Grey: <If this many people are around...>
Earl Grey: <...then I can't use magic!!>
Earl Grey: "Taiko-sa..."


=Page 87=

(**translator's note**: HEE!)
Assam: "...you moron!! Won't you get hurt if you lean out like that?!"
People: Wh...what's with that guy?! Was he here until now? But how amazing...


=Page 88=

Taiko: "A...Assam...?"
Assam: You got it
Someko: "Taiko-chaaan!!"
Someko: Taiko-chaaaan, I'm so sorry, it was all because I was being so rowdy!
Assam: "You bastards! If you're such model students"
Assam: "Then stop getting in the way and make something successful happen!"


=Page 89=

Students: ye..."Yeah. That's right!"
Student: "Stop riding at the spur of the moment, student body president!!"
Students: "We're putting a recall on your one-man job! Yeah! Yeah!"
Fukukaichou: "Kaichou...shall we leave"
Guy: Waaah! Leave here! Leave here!
Guy: It's a union of the small clubs, isn't it
Guy: Ah, that's right, isn't it


=Page 90=

Someko: "Taiko-chan, you're heart-beat is still going a mile-a-minute!" Ueeee! I'm sorrry!
Taiko: "Yeah, it is. That's because I was scared"
*ba-bump*
Taiko: <Really?>
Taiko: <Because I was scared?>
Taiko: <That's really all it was>


=Page 91=

Taiko: <That's really it>
Haruka: "Hey! Let's go hand out flyers!"
Taiko: <Ah -- I'll mend the fence that was broken>
Haruka: "Alright"
Haruka: Hey, you with the pretty face, go bring in the customers!
Assam: --ch "Geeze, what a bother" why me?
Haruka: "Hey. CHIBI"
<--on his high horse
Assam: Who the hell's a chibi!
Assam: "Bastard..."
Haruka: "I have my first wish"


=Page 92=

Haruka: "Lately she's been trying really hard"
Haruka: "It's not really a reward but...just one time"
Haruka: "Show her her father"


=Page 93=

Voice: "Taako"


=Page 94=

Taiko's dad: "Taako. Before you open the shop"
Taiko's dad: "Why don't you have tea with your papa"
Taiko: "..."
Taiko: "It's not true"
Taiko: "It..it's Earl Grey in disguise"
Taiko: "That or Assam"
Taiko's dad: "It's Papa, Taako"


=Page 95=

Taiko: pa...
<No matter how meager a wish>
Girl: kyaa
Girl: give one to me
Earl Grey: uuuh?
Girl: me too
<Or with effort, a wish that cannot be granted is there>


=Page 96=

Earl Grey: <Just now, Assam has granted his first wish...?>
Girls: kyaa! kyaa!
Someko: "Huh? Taiko-chan is having tea with Assam" Assam-chan is so sly
Haruka: "Shh"
<Those wishes>
Haruka: "To Taiko, that appears to be her dad"
<Are a Tea Prince's work>


--Tsp. 2 First Flush: Owari--