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Koucha Ouji by Yamada Nanpei
Volume 2, Tsp. 6: Cleaning Strategies
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=Page 4=

[It is now June. It rains every day]

Girl 1: "Iyaan, it's so heavy!"

Girl 1: "Ei! Ei! I can't get it in!"

Girl 2: "What are you doing?!"

Earl Grey: "Are you alright?"


=Page 5=

Earl Grey: "Are you throwing this out? If you go too slowly you'll get wet and catch cold"

Girl 1: "Eh-eeh, um..."

Assam: "Hey, Earl, what're you doing? Have you thrown out the trash?!"

Earl Grey: "Assam, I'm going now"

Girls: There are 2 beauties?!


=Page 6=

Assam: "How long does it take to throw out the trash at most?!"

Earl Grey: "It doesn't take any time!"

Girl 2: "Wh...who were those two poeple, just now"

Girl 1: "Well..."

Girl 2: They must be older students...

Assam: "We took the trash out!!"

Taiko: "Welcome back! Thanks for the help!"

Assam: "What's happening?"

Taiko: "We're trasnferring tea-leaves from their cannisters" they'll become damp if we 
don't


=Page 7=

Taiko: "Because we always immediately drink them, we don't transfer them over"

Taiko: "Last month since all of the new students were coming in, we bot all new tea"

Assam: "And now it seems that was all useless"

[That's right]

Earl Grey: Wah

Earl Grey: What a cute label

Earl Grey: ...

[And there was all that clamour for nothing]


=Page 8=

Taiko: //This year we had zero new club members!!!//

Taiko: "There were no new students who were interested! But--but--why, when we were 
leading, did they run away?!

*rub rub*

Earl Grey: "I'm doone! Look at this pleeease!" I've done a seal


=Page 9=

Taiko: "Has Earl Grey always had this personality?" always very happy-go-lucky...

Assam: "Yup"

Taiko: "It's only recently that I've seen that..." yeah

Someko: It really is cute!

Earl Grey: This too this too! I also did this one!

Taiko: //But it's a problem that we have no no club members...//

Taiko: "Okay!"

Haruka: "Hey, Taiko! Is there any food..." Buh!

Taiko: "Ah Haruka! You're just in time!"


=Page 10=

Taiko: "We're in the middle of cleaning the room, right now. Throw this out!"

Taiko: "After that, you'll help us wax the floor and move the desks, won't you?!"

Haruka: "... Assam"

Assam: "Nn?"

Haruka: "Be big for a second"

Assam: "?"

Haruka: Fuu "Seeya"

Haruka: //How stupid. I'll just go eat at the school cafeteria//

Assam: "Hey wait! Why do I have to throw out this trash?!"

Haruka: "Just throw it out quickly!" Anyone is fine

Assam: Fine, then you do it!!

EXCITED TREMBLE

<--still doing it

*rub rub*


=Page 11=

[1 hour later]

Taiko: "Fuuu, isn't that better to look at?!"

Taiko: "It's fine for the new students to come now!"

HAPPY

Assam: "Having cleaned the room, the members had better incease. I'm throwing the last 
of this trash out"

On box: Empty tea cans


=Page 12=

Taiko: "Ah, that isn't trash!"

Assam: "Heh? But aren't they empty cannisters?"

Taiko: "They may be empty cannisters but they're not trash"

Earl Grey: "There were other boxes like it under the desk" about 3 of them

Assam: "Are they all like that?! You've been keeping all the cans of tea you've been 
drinking up 'till now?!"

Taiko: "But I won't throw them out!"

Assam: "Throw them out!"

Taiko: "No way!"


=Page 13=

Assam: "Hey, you! If you have those four card-board boxes around, isn't it going to make 
the room small?!"

Assam: "It's the rule of tidying up!! 'Throw out what you don't need'!!"

Someko: Wow Assam is all about it

Earl Grey: Housework is his thing

BEH!


=Page 14=

Assam: "Aah, if that's so, then do whatever you want! You'll be delighted to be burried by
multiplying empty cans!"

Assam: "Ba-haai!"

Someko: Yeeah "We've made him mad"

Taiko: "..."

Haruka: "Don't worry about it. He's always that way"

Taiko: "Wah!"

Taiko: "Haruka?! What did you come back here for?!" You scared me

Haruka: "I wanted some tea for after lunch"

Someko: Assam-chan is always like that? Since when?

Haruka: He says stuff like that to me every day

<--lives in a place where the computer magazines are increasing


=Page 15=

Haruka: "But there room is considerably more tidy"

Taiko: "Isn't it isn't it?"

Haruka: "He may not look like it but he's good at tidying up" He just gets irritated

<--"he"

Haruka: HAHAHA If Assam did it, then the conditions are good

Taiko: "But it's still rather dreary, isn't it" though it is tidier

Earl Grey: "Ah! That's right!"

Earl Grey: "What if we went and asked Oosawa-sempai! During this season he has a large 
stock of flower-pots to give"

Taiko: "Ah, that'll be good!"


=Page 16=

Taiko: "I've decided" 

Haruka: "!!"

Haruka: "What are you doing! That was my dessert!"

Taiko: "It'll be a gift!"

Haruka: Give that back!

Taiko: What? And who was the one who made that?!

Earl Grey: "Have a good trip"

Taiko: What're you saying? You're coming, too

Earl Grey: Eh

Oosawa: Potted plants?

Taiko: "Um, that's right! It would be great if maybe we could have two or three"

Pumpkin doughnuts, not takoyaki

Girl: kyaa

Taiko: Ah, by the way, I made these so I thought you should have them!


=Page 17=

Earl Grey: "But taking care of so many flowers in bloom must be a big problem"

Oosawa: "That's right. Because in June a lot of things are happening and the work 
increases, it is what you'd call a problem..." people've been sickon and off

Oosawa: "Right now, since we have more club members, it's really saved us. And then 
since I'm already a third-year, sometime this year I'll have to retire"

Oosawa: "I worry that since the members aren't official, they won't be able to take care 
of the greenhouse" HAHAHA

Taiko: "Don't say that! It'll be fine!"


=Page 18=

Earl Grey: Sempai, because you're such an enthusiastic figure when it comes to rasing 
flowers"

Earl Grey: "It'll be alright!"

Taiko: //I saw that, just like a venus flytrap//

Earl Grey: "We certainly are taking a lot back"

Taiko: "...."

Taiko: "But you know"

Taiko: "Catching a person in the middle of something they love doing, is a really great 
feeling"


=Page 19=

Earl Grey: "You're one to say that, Taiko-san. It's a very nice feeling to be around when
you're making tea"

Earl Grey: "Both myelf and Assam have come to like it, it makes us happy"

Taiko: "Th--"

Taiko: "That's okay, I never said I liked Assam!! Because my favorite tea is Ceylon"

Earl Grey: "Eh, no, that's not what I meant" but well...you know


=Page 20=

Assam: "...geeze. What an annoying elephant-legged girl" (**translator's note** Assam 
frequently calls Taiko "elephant-legs", so I'm going to keep it simple and stick to the 
Japanese of "zouashi". It sounds so much less stupid that way, doesn't it?)

Assam: "She isn't cute next to Earl's sister..."

Assam: "...."

Assam: //....?//


=Page 21=

Assam: "Hey"

Oosawa: "Wah!"

Oosawa: "Assam-kun!"

Assam: "Just now, did Earl come?"

Oosawa: "Yes, he came" with Taiko-kun "They wanted some plants for their room"

Assam: //They're still thinking of bringing in more junk, those guys//

Oosawa: Please tell Taiko-kun that the doughnuts were delicious

Assam: "What's this, a rose?" with that size

Oosawa: "Yes, that's called a 'mini-rose'"


=Page 22=

Oosawa: "You can produce small roses through selective breeding. Just like bonsai"

Oosawa: "?"

Assam: "!"

Haruka: "You brought back this many! Where in the world are you planning on putting 
these?!"

Taiko: "We'll set them up on this table!"

Someko: So cute!


=Page 23=

Someko: "But won't they wilt without sunlight? This is the basement, so no sunlight will 
enter"

Taiko: AH

Taiko: "Hmmm, that's right. What should we do?" Do they need to be in the sun every 
day?

Earl Grey: "What about that window?"

Taiko: "Becuase that's on the side of the steps, no light can shine in from the outside"


=Page 24=

Earl Grey: "It's alright!"

*clap*

Taiko: "...!"

Taiko: "What did you do?" I can't see any change

Earl Grey: "I pulled the sunlight over this way so that it will come into the room. On a nice 
day, it'll shine in through that window" You can't tell today because it's rainy out

Taiko: "Eeh?"

Someko: "Woow!"

Taiko: "Is it true?!"

Haruka: "Hey hey, is it alright for something so unnatural like that?"


=Page 25=

Earl Grey: If I have to say so, then I don't think so

Haruka: Really?

Earl Grey: Really

Taiko and Someko: Waaai!

Someko: "Well then we'll line up the plants! We'll have to move the cardboard boxes, 
though"

Taiko: "Could we get them under the desk?

Someko: "We can get them all under the desk!"

Taiko: "Alright. Then I'll put them on top of the locker!"

Haruka: "Hey, watch out, I can..."

Taiko: "I'm fine!"

Haruka: //Ah, it seems she's tall enough//

Someko: "Taiko-chan, are you alright?"

Taiko: "I'm fine, I'm fine"

Someko: "But because we just waxed the floor..."


=Page 26=

Assam: "Hey!!"

Assam: "I've have a good idea!!"

Taiko: "Wa..."

Taiko: "Ah?!"


=Page 27=

Taiko: "Waaaaah?!"

*clatter clatter*

Assam: *huh*

Assam: "So..."

Assam: "Sorry" surprised?


=Page 28=

Taiko: //Tha...//

*pant pant*

Assam: "Ah--"

Assam: "Did you hit your ass?!"

Taiko: "A..."

Assam: "Ass! Your ass!"

Taiko: //That scared me!//

Taiko: "Don't say ass!!"

Assam: "Waaah?"

Assam: "Don't throw cans at me!! Didn't I just protect you?!"


=Page 29=

*whack*

Haruka: "Whatever it is, speak your business, TWERP!"

Someko: //Why is Mika-chan so mad...?//

Taiko: ?

Assam: ?

Assam: Yes...

Earl Grey: ...

Assam: Like this "The small cannisters seem so big because they're in this bulky box"


=Page 30=

Assam: "So we can put them into this glass jar"

Assam: "Like this"

Taiko and Someko: AH

Assam: "If you put them in, then you don't have to throw them away but can still get 
around them"

Taiko: "Do all of these!!"

Someko: Kyaa kyaa! Cute cute!


=Page 31=

Assam: You help, too!

Haruka: The Mamilo (**translator's note** this is in katakana, and I have no idea what it's 
supposed to be)

[The next day]

Assam: "Fufufu..."

Assam: "I've been thinking"

Assam: "Those magazines in Haruka's room amount to nothing"


=Page 32=

Assam: "We can make them small like this, too..."

Haruka: "Then I can't read them"

Assam: Hot! Jerk! Quit trying to scald me!

Haruka: You're really stupid, aren't you?!

Girl: "... A good-looking sempai like that really went in there?"

Girl 2: "Yeah!"

Girl 3: He was carrying some garbage

Girl 2: "I saw two of them!"

Girl: "...The Tea Association?

Girl: "The name stinks of lame magic-tricks"


--Tsp. 6 Cleaning Strategies: Owari--