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Koucha Ouji by Yamada Nanpei
Volume 1, Tsp. 4: Spring's Storm
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==Page 144=

Voice: "Ah, what's with this?"
Voice: Where? "Hey, have the clubs been decided?"
Voice: "Not yet"
Voice: "That Tea Association"
Voice: "Is it a tea ceremony club?"
Girl: It seems it's a little different from tea ceremony
Girl: What's with it, then?
*za za za*
*tear rip*


=Page 145=

Student-council member: "Have these all been posted without permission?!"
Boy: "Yes"
Student-council member: "We'll close them down and recover! We'll make them withdraw!"
Student-council member 2: Sorry to be trouble-some
Guy 1: "What was with that?"
Guy 2: "Hmm, well..."
*za za za* <--the sound of rushing
Girl 1: Just now, there were three of them, and they still left one poster
Girl 2: Yeah
Taiko: "AAAH!?!"
Taiko: "The..."
Taiko: "They've already been torn down?! When we just stuck them on yesterday after    
   school?!"
Someko: "This is the 4th time, Taiko-chan"


=Page 146=

Taiko: "And more than that, they were torn down so close to when they were posted"
   They weren't even up for half a day!
Taiko: "Who saw the posters being torn down?"
Guy 1: "Um, some people with armbands that said 'executives' on them" right?
Guy 2: Yep
Taiko: "Aah, hey, so it really was the student-council!"
Taiko: "Let's go, Someko"
Someko: "What are you going to do, Taiko-chan?"
Taiko: We'll still draw more of them
Someko: Whaat
[It is now May. The club-recruiting season]
Tea Association <--new sign
Someko: "Ten of them today?!"
Taiko: "If they're taken down, then we'll put more up immediately"
Someko: "Someko's hands already hurt! Can't we use a color-copier for these!?"


=Page 147=

Taiko: "But we're banned from using the copier" so they decided
Someko: <And since these posters haven't been approved, they'll be taken down, as
   well> And I'm being so diligent about such weird things
Earl Grey: "Why were they taken down so soon after being put up?"
<--helping
Earl Grey: "Aren't the posters important for club recruiting?"
<--doesn't really care
Someko: "To use the bulletin board in the hall for recruiting new students, we really do
   need permission. But the weak clubs and associations that don't have many   
   achievements don't always get permission" When a club doesn't get permission, they   
   can't post


=Page 148=

Earl Grey: "Who is it that grants permission?"
Someko: Ah that's...
Taiko: "That piece-of-crap organization!"
Someko: Iyaah, Taiko-chan, calm down!
Student Council Room <-- the said crappy organization
Student Counsel Member: "Kaichou, this morning we recovered from poster violations"
Kikuka: "I appreciate your efforts. Work hard if they increase more, tomorrow"
Student Council Member: "Yes"
Student Council Member: "Until the starting bell rings, we'll patrol other areas"
Kikuka: "Please. Oohama-san, Mineyama-san"
Hinoki: "Yes"


=Page 149=

Kikuka: "Put these through the shredder. That and bring the tea"
Oohama: Yes
Hinoki: "Y-Yes!"
Hinoki: "Um, Oohama-senpai, what other places are they going to be patrolling..."
Oohama: "They'll go to check other floors, some other bulletins boards, and places that
   stand out on the grounds"
Hinoki: "It must be a big trouble to have people patrolling"
Oohama: "It's an established thing, every year. This continues all through the month of
   May"
Oohama: Oh, that's right. I should show you how to use the shredder, Mineyama-san. Then
   I'll make the tea
Hinoki: "O-okay"
Hinoki: <That's right...>


=Page 150=

Hinoki: <I wonder what Taiko's club is doing>
-Morning- INCREASE	
-Noon- DECREASE
-Afterschool- INCREASE
Assam: "This is so worthless"
Taiko: "Don't talk, you'll ruin my concentration"
Someko: Shh!
Assam: "...."


=Page 151=

Assam: "Ah, that's right! At a time like this, why not use a wish?"
Assam: "Just leave it to me or Earl to use our magic to bring you 10 or 20 new students
   for the club---"
Taiko: "Hey, no matter how many times you say it"
Taiko: "In regards to our club, no matter how often you say it, I don't want your magic!
   What you can do right now is not get in the way and be an adult about it!"
Assam: "Heh, what an uncute girl! That must be why you don't have a guy"
Taiko: "What's that?! And what about you, you have no right to say that sort of thing
   when you're chibi-sized!"
Assam: "Jerk, don't call me a 'chibi'!!"
Earl Grey: "Would you two please stop it?"
Haruka: "What, they're still at it?" Those little guys
Someko: "Mika-chan, they won't calm down, make them stop!"
Taiko: "What'd you come for, Haruka"
Haruka: "The executive group is taking down the posters right now, which is why I came"
Taiko: "Eh, then we have to put up the new posters right away!"
Haruka: It's why I came


=Page 152=

Someko: Because our classroom is under the under the hall, we need to make a move
   quickly
Taiko: I guess so
Taiko: "Good! It looks like it's okay!"
Someko: "This time I wonder how long it will stay up"
Taiko: "Hahahaha"
Earl Grey: "Huh?"
Taiko: "Earl Grey, are we going?"
Earl Grey: "Taiko-san, isn't it a little strange?"
Taiko: "Huh?"


=Page 153=

Earl Grey: "This is after the people from student council took things down"
Earl Grey: "It seems there are more posters remaining now than there were yesterday..."
Taiko: "I guess so"
Kurata: "Yaa, Uchiyama"
Haruka: "Ku...Kurata"
<--Uchiyama
Kurata: "What are you doing in a place like this? Ah, or are you still feeling like joining
   clubs"
Someko: "Who's that?" sort of bookish
Haruka: Ah, well, I'm at ours a lot
Kurata: Lately I've hardly seen your face at all


=Page 154=

Taiko: "Ah- I recognize that face! You're the leader of the personal computer association!"
   We're in the same grade
Kurata: "Eh? You're putting up posters?"
Haruka: "That's right. Because ours were taken down so close to the time we put them
   up, we're busy...so..."
Kurata: "Snicker. That's a lot of trouble, not having gotten permission"
Haruka: "Eh..."
Kurata: "Seeeeya"
Haruka: "Hey..."
Kurata: "Hm?"
Kurata: "You have rather large breasts, don't you"
Kurata: Fufufufufu!
<--seems to be in love


=Page 155=

Someko: "He noticed that my chest is large----!" WAAAAH
Taiko: Yeah, he was just jealous
Haruka: Sorry...Someya
Assam: "Is this the personal computer association?"
Haruka: "Yeah...ah?"
Haruka: "That guy"
Haruka: "Got permission?"
PC Club Guy: "Buchou, wow was that boy just now?"
Kurata: "Uchiyama? Well, he's a crafty guy. I know him because his knowledge is really of
   value" Fufu
PC Guy: "Haah..."


=Page 156=

PC Guy: "But he seemed like a player, having all of those girls with him"
Kurata: "Hahaha, it's worthless. In reality, women are bothersome and vulgar"
Kurata: But when Shiori-chan is with me...such a voluptuous girl...Fufun, in reality girls
   with chests are after all lumps of fat"
PC Guy: "Buchou?! You're sweating a lot!"
Someko: "Can we tell the posters that got permission from the ones that didn't just by
   looking?"
Haruka: "I get it, the ones with permission have a stamp of the student council"
Haruka: "If this doesn't have one and isn't approved, that's the reason they're taken
   down"
Someko: "Hmmm, that"


=Page 157=

Someko: "Well then Sugino-kun's was approved"
Haruka: "Eh..."
Taiko: "Aaah?! It really was!!"
Haruka: "Geh! No way!"
Haruka: "!! Wait just a second...the others..."
Haruka: "Modeling Association, Go/Shogi Association, Ukulele Adoration Club, Story-telling
   Society...the 10-year-loss Tenis Club?! Why have clubs like these been approved?!"
Taiko: "Maybe these are people who are on the student council's good side...?"
Haruka: "The student council is hitting us by giving the small groups a chance at life?!
   What kind of thing is this going to merit?"


=Page 158=

Taiko: "Well then, what kinds of things"
Haruka: "Aah, well" Don't ask me
Kikuka: "Are these all that you have recovered?"
Student Council Member: Ye..well..."All of the posters without the president's seal on
   them..."
Kikuka: "Has it been properly affirmed?"
Hinoki: The...the Tea's here
Student Council Member: "I-It has"


=Page 159=

Kikuka: "I understand. I'll also go and look"
Kikuka: "......"
Kikuka: "I certainly have no memory of these being approved"
Student Council Member: "Yes we'd thought so before. It was plain that dull posters were
   stamped"
Student Council Member: "Which is why we thought so"


=Page 160=

Student Council Member: "Under the circumstances, it seems the president's stamp is
   being disguised"
Kikuka: "Long handle"
Student Council Memeber: "Y-yes"
Kikuka: "Please do not reveal this to others. It is urgent that we deal with this. The
   disguised stamp. The club that has this disguised stamp will be punished severely"
Guy: "But Kaichou, if we look this way, we'll never distinguish who has the disguised
   stamp"
Kikuka: "......"
Kikuka: "Collect all of the things from the bulletin boards please"


=Page 161=

Hey there
"What? What's with this?!"
Eeh
"Good morning, what's going on?"
"Ah, look at this!"
Eh? What?
Haruka: "What do you think the reason for the student council having to collect all of the
   posters was?"
Someko: "Eeeh? Someko doesn't know!"
Haruka: "......"
Earl Grey: "Maybe there were posters that violated rules"
Haruka: "That doesn't seem like it would be the reason they would all be collected"


=Page 162=

Taiko: "Ah!"
Taiko: "Maybe they couldn't distinguish the legitimate posters from the fake ones!"
Haruka: "That's right"
Haruka: "Well, after this school is over. When 6th period is over, we'll meet in the
   classroom"
Taiko: Eh? "Haruka?!"
Senior High 1-1
Taiko: <That jerk Haruka>
Taiko: <Being so sharp and full of information, it's like him to monopolize information>
Taiko: <Hm?>
Taiko: <Ah, wait a second. It seems that I'm starting to get something...>
Taiko: nnnn
"----oka..."


=Page 163=

Teacher: "Yoshioka!"
Taiko: "...."
Teacher: "Did you even notice how many times I called your name? Come forward and
   solve #5!"
Taiko, what were you doing? Ahahaha
Taiko: "Geeeze!"
Taiko: "I need to understand this already"
Taiko: Aaaah! It's no good, I just don't understand!!
Teacher: Sorry, Yoshioka, I had no idea it as this serious...
Taiko: "The stamp was a fake?"
Haruka: "It's reasonable if you think about it. The student council is trying to bring out
   the guys who made the fake president's stamp"
Taiko: "Bring out? How?"
Haruka: "Did you see the new approved posters? The stamp has changed"
Haruka: "Here. And here. And here. All these guys are executives"
Assam: "So basically they're planning on catching all of the idiots who mindlessly use the
   stamp from before?"


=Page 164=

Haruka: "That's right. They're on their guard, the clubs have already abandoned most of
   the posters. So that being said, one by one, a lot of them will be caught by themselves"
Someko: I don't understand all of this complicated talk (**translator's note** neither
   does the translator, really)
Taiko: "Isn't that what you'd call a trap?"
Haruka: "That's what you'd call it" But then it seems to be what the student council is
   going to do
Someko: "Huh?"
Someko: "It's Sugino-kun!"
Haruka: "Geh! It is, that idiot!"
Taiko: "He has a poster!!"


=Page 165=

Taiko: "Ah!"
Taiko: "Ah"
Student Council Member: Hey, you
Sugino: !!
Taiko: "AAAH!"
Member 1: Come with us for a bit
Sugino: Eeh! Eeh!
Member 2: We just want to talk to you
Taiko: "Haruka...let's get out of..."
Haruka: "Wh...what does he think he's doing!"
Hinoki: "Ah! Senpai!"
Taiko: "Hinoki-chan?"
Hinoki: "I found Senpai's rejected club posters in the office, and I just had to tell you!"
Taiko: Hah...?


=Page 166=

Hinoki: "Please don't ever use the fake stamp!"
Hinoki: "This time the kaichou is so mad! She's really really angry! She'll basically severely
   punish any group that's had the stamp! She's ordered that dismemberment of clubs    
   already!"
Hinoki: "So then..."
"Mineyama-kuuun?"
Hinoki: "Ah..y..yes!"
Hinoki: "I was on my way to do some business, really, please be careful!"
Taiko: "Ah...Hinoki-chan?!"
Haruka: "That broccoli-girl is one of the student-council's people" Hmm, and that...


=Page 168=

Taiko: "Co...Could she have said anything more amazing than that?"
Taiko: "So the fake stamp is now having clubs demolished?!"
Taiko: "It's looking bad for Sugino-kun!!"
Taiko: "Ah, Sugino-kun's come out"
Haruka: "Shhh"
Haruka: "Ah"
Haruka: "What's with him"
Taiko: "Eh?"
Haruka: "That suspicious-looking guy"
Taiko: "Oh no! They're taking him away!"


=Page 169=

Someko: "Eeh! Come on, let's go! Let's get out of here"
Taiko: "We're not going. Don't we want to see watch?!"
Someko: I don't want to watch--
<--Sugino-kun and suspicious person
Haruka: "Why are we in a place with such a bad view?"
<--Taiko and co
Taiko: "Because we can't get closer" Why are you talking, I can't hear
Haruka: "Most of what they're saying we can't hear, anyway. If we move just a little
   closer, they'll be in full view, won't they"
Taiko: "Rrrrr"
Earl Grey: "Excuse me" *points*
Taiko: "Eh?"
Voice: ...I said...
Voice: "So then this is your situation?"


=Page 170=

Taiko: "Ah-- we can hear them!"
Haruka: "Yeah"
Someko: "Earl Grey-chan, how wonderful!!"
Guy: "Besides that, I didn't reveal it"
Sugino: "T-That's fine but..."
Guy: "That's right, I still have some good news"
Sugino: "Eh..."
Guy: "There's a new kaichou stamp, and this one costs ´10,000 (**equivalent to $100)
Haruka: "What's with this?!"
Sugino: "The...that's fine! I don't have that kind of money, so I don't want to have mine
   stamped!"
Haruka: "They're so hateful they're charging money?!"
Guy: "Is that so. Well, don't reveal this information"


=Page 171=

Guy: "Don't even think about exposing the student council!"
Guy: "We're together on this with you"
Taiko: "..."
Someko: "Ah, he's going, he's going!"
Haruka: "Alright. I'll go after him! Someya and Taiko, you go and catch that Sugino"
Taiko: "Those offensive OGRES"
Taiko: "Going so far as using money to keep pure Sugino-kun from thinking of his own
   club..."
Taiko: "IS UNFORGIVABLE"


=Page 172=

Haruka: "About Sugino being 'pure', would you rather not see that the essentials are
   bad..."
Taiko: "You don't see the essentials of the guy! You don't understand mine or Sugino-kun's
   feelings!"
Taiko: "At any rate, I'm going after that boy!"
Taiko: "Assam, come with me!"
Assam: "Why did you call me like that..." saying it so bluntly...it's bad...
Haruka: "Calm down, I'm coming, too" Haaah
Someko: Well, I'll stay with Earl Grey and look for Sugino
Earl Grey: We will


--Tsp. 4 Spring's Storm: Owari--