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Koucha Ouji by Yamada Nanpei
Volume 2, Tsp. 7: Papa's Tea
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=Page 34=

Girl: "Yoshioka--! Some junior-high kids are here!"

Taiko: "Junior high?"

Girl: "Yeah. 3 middleschoolers"

Taiko: "Eh...!"


=Page 35=

Taiko: "You're interested in joining?! Really?!"

Girl: "With that personality, we're interested in joining but..."

Girl: "We would like for you to take us in for some observation. Could you inform us when 
there's an activity day?"

Taiko: "Come any day!"

Girl: "Haah?!"

Taiko: "Ah, no, you see, we never decide on an activity day"


=Page 36=

Taiko: "Morning, noon, or afterschool"

Taiko: "Since they're suitible for us to gather and drink tea"

Taiko: "I think whenever there's free time, somebody will be in our room"

Taiko: "And you can wait for us to prepare some really delicious tea"

Girl 2: "What a nice senpai!"

Girl 3: "Yeah yeah!"


=Page 37=

Girl: "Really?! I don't like her"

Girl 2: "Satsuki-chan?"

Satsuki: "Because they're called 'tea association' I would have that"

Satsuki: "It seemed appropriate that they would have activity days"

Satsuki: "I rather wanted to see these super-good-looking senpai, but I don't feel I should 
join"

Girl 2: "You don't have to be that way" You could cooperate. It'll be our chance to be 
around cute senpai!

Girl 3: "Satsuki-chan, you know tea very well, don't you"?

Girl 3: And we think tea leaves us feeling refreshed

Satsuki: "If it's boring, I'll leave immediately"

Girl 2: Don't be like that

//And you can wait for us to prepare some really delicous tea?//


=Page 38=

Satsuki: //Can a person with adequate manners like that really make good tea?//

Satsuki: //Somehow it's bad, that a seemingly distressing person might hinder me//

Someko: "Students interested in becoming joining members?!"

Someko: "Woow, Taiko-chan!"

Taiko: "Ehehe!"

Assam: "They really did show up in the nick of time" I'd thought that they had stopped 
with the recruitment posters


=Page 39=

Someko: It seems there are people around in other clubs that are still just joining

Assam: "Hmmph"

Earl Grey: "It's great to be recieving new members!"

Taiko: "Yeah! That's true, too. Mostly, I'm just h appy that there will be guests coming into 
our room"

Taiko: Alright! Today we'll exert ourselves more than ever! We'll make the Darjeeling and 
Earl Grey tea we bought before! 100 grams for 1600 yen (about $15)

Someko: Waah!


=Page 40=

[Afterschool]

Satsuki: "Good afternoon--..."

Taiko: "Ah, welcome!"

Taiko: "We've just put the tea on, so sit! Sit!"

Sastuki: //What a tasteless room//

Taiko: "Ah, that's right, we never heard your names!"

Girl 1: "I'm Satou"

Girl 2: "I'm Takagi" We're class two of the first-years


=Page 41=

Taiko: "And you?"

Satsuki: "Ah"

Satsuki: "I'm Hazakura Satsuki"

Taiko: "Eh..."

Someko: "Taiko-chan, it's been 4 minutes"

Someko: I'm vice-president Someya

Girls: Nice to meet you

Taiko: //Hazakura...?// Where've I heard that name before...

Taiko: //Oh well//

Taiko: "Here you are"

Satsuki: "Thanks"

Satsuki: "I've never seen tea that seems to have been made so loud before (strong, I 
believe she means)"


=Page 42=

Taiko: "Really?"

Taiko: "What kind do you like?"

Someko: //Somehow her words just now seemed harsh// And most of all, Taiko-chan's 
the best at making tea

Satsuki: "Fauchon apple-tea, I guess"

Satsuki: "...? This is Earl-Grey tea?"

Satsuki: "You drink Earl-Grey hot?!"


=Page 43=

Earl Grey: //Eh?!//

Taiko: "Eh...?! I thought you would drink it but..."

Satsuki: "I don't normally drink this"

Satsuki: "In a cafe when you ask for Earl Grey, they mostly give you ice-tea, right? Didn't 
you know that?"

Someko: "But Taiko-chan's father owned a cafe!"

Someko: "Right Taiko-chan?"

Taiko: "Yeah...But my father..."

Taiko: "With ice-tea, it takes a particular kind of leaf, he said, and because he never 
really decided...I never really knew what kind of leaves he used..."


=Page 44=

Satsuki: "Well then..."

Satsuki: "For a specialty-shop, it must not have been a sufficient store"

Haruka: "..."

Haruka: "What's with this dark atmosphere?!"

Someko: Ah "Mika-chan!"

Assam: "What the hell was with that brat?!"


=Page 45=

PISSED OFF

<--also feeling down

Assam: "Having to listen to a mouth that does'nt know when to keep shut up! What is she 
trying to do?!"

Haruka: It was that bad?

Assam: It was bad and it pissed me off

Taiko: "But I..."

Taiko: "When I think about it, I really don't know anything about tea"

Taiko: "It would probably be a good idea for me to study"

Haruka: "Well, up until now, how have you been making tea?"

Taiko: Hmm

Someko: "I thought you made tea very succesfully now!"


=Page 46=

Taiko: "Yeah, but..."

Taiko: "As a senpai I'm going to be giving my knowlege to new members, it's a good idea. 
I'm going to try studying a little...!"

Taiko: "... Or so I said..."

Taiko: "There are this many books about tea?!"

Earl Grey: Are you going to read all of these?"

Taiko: A...All of them would be impossible


=Page 47=

Guy: //Hmm//

Guy: "Are you alone, miss?"

Guy: "Shall we look together?"


=Page 48=

Guy: "When will you drink some of my tea?!"

Taiko: "Rei-chan!"

Earl Grey: Who is he?

Taiko: Rei-chan, what are you doing in an place like this?

Guy: Shopping

Taiko: What about the shop?

Guy: But there were no customers

Earl Grey: "Your uncle?"

Taiko: "Yeah. Rei-chan is Papa's younger brother. He was given the job of keeper of this 
shop after Papa died"

Earl Grey: "Eh, then this place..."


=Page 49=

Taiko: "Yeah. It was my Papa's shop before"

Rei: "Taiko-chan, were you saying something?"

Taiko: "No, only to myself"

Rei: "Really?"

<--has become invisible

Rei: "You certainly did a lot of shopping" Are you okay with money?

Taiko: The truth is today I'm sort of in a pinch...

Rei: Ahaha


=Page 50=

Rei: "Alright, then I'll treat you, today"

Rei: "What would you like?"

Taiko: "..."

Taiko: "Hmm..." well

Taiko: "I'll take Earl Grey ice-tea"

Taiko: "Wooow! Why did you make it so pretty, Rei-chan?!" Uwah uwah! I could never make 
something this beautiful

Rei: "I'm honored to recieve your praise!"


=Page 51=

Taiko: //And aside from that, it's delicious...//

Taiko: "Hey, Rei-chan, you aren't supposed to drink Earl-Grey hot?"

Rei: "Hmm? Not quite. Why?"

Taiko: "I've heard that in a shope, they always serve Earl-Grey as ice-tea"

Rei: "Well, this isn't a tea specialty shop"

Taiko: "Really?! Why?!"

Rei: In business terms, ice-tea is 'safety tea'"

Taiko: SAFETY TEA?


=Page 52=

Rei: "If you make iced-tea with the same principles that you would for iced-coffee, it 
would be white and muddy, right?"

Taiko: Uu That's how I constantly made it

<--was deceived by putting milk in it

<--still new to making iced-tea

Rei: "All kinds of shops make nimble and beautiful iced-tea. Because iced Earl Grey is 
particularly delicious, it isn't a reason to make it bad hot" And of course, because iced 
Earl Grey is so delicious, a lot of people like it

Rei: "Because there are a lot of people who think that Earl Grey is only drank iced instead 
of hot, it's alright for you to give encouragement to that kind of person, isn't it, Taiko-
chan?"

Taiko: "!"


=Page 53=

Taiko: //Have I been seen through?//

Taiko: It was excellent...

Rei: No problem

Rei: Next time I'll show you how to make iced-tea

Taiko: "bye..."

Rei: Taiko-chan"

Rei: "It's okay to study, too, but you're smart enough that you don't need to"

Taiko: //...?//

Earl Grey: "What a good person"

Taiko: "Rei-chan?"

Earl Grey: "Yes. To me..."

Earl Grey: "The way thaat person makes tea is really to my liking"

Earl Grey: "It's very calming"


=Page 54=

Taiko: "Rei-chan's tea..."

Taiko: "It's the closest tea to Papa's"

Taiko: Sorry, my eyes are glinting. Like a reptile's (**translator's note** I had problems 
figuring out exactly what that meant...)

Taiko: //That's right//

Taiko: //I'm going to work hard!//


=Page 55=

Haruka: "...eh. Has she been like this since morning?"

<--"this"

Haruka: "Hey Taiko! Enough with the book, make some tea!" I came here to drink tea

Taiko: "....."

Taiko: "Okay!"  

Taiko: "I'll make it!!"

Taiko: "Delicious tea!"

Haruka: Hurry it up, I have to go back to practice

Someko: Mika-chan


=Page 56=

Taiko: Eh? Put one spoon-ful into the cup? Just one spoonful? Let the plaster-pot sit for 
one minute...making it that way?

Taiko: "?" Steaming time is...6 minutes by OP...4 for BOP...

Taiko: "?" OP? BOP? What are those...? FTGFOP...? ? ?

Haruka: "...this doesn't really taste like it usually does"

Taiko: Eh "But this is the tea you always drink, Haruka"


=Page 57=

Haruka: This is being kind of selfish

Haruka: "No. This is a different taste from normal" Someya can have this

Haruka: I'm going

Someko: "Waai!"

Taiko: "It can't be helped"

Haruka: "That's because of this book"

Haruka: Make it without reading the book!

Taiko: Noo, this is proper use of the book!

Someko: "Earl Grey-chan"

Someko: "Are you feeling better?" You were kind of down yesterday

Earl Grey: "Ah, yes...somehow..."


=Page 58=

<--strong being of denail

Assam: "Hey you, do you think someone who's had his own existence denied so intensely 
right to his face is going to be so easily better in one day?!" You brainless girl

Someko: "Assam-chan!" Who's brainless?!

Someko: "Aah, you guys are really acting strange" 

Someko: "HERE"

Someko: "Earl Grey tea-honey!"


=Page 59=

Someko: "You'll really come to like this! I'm a person that finds honey important for the 
taste of tea! If you put it in milk-tea, it's delicious!"  You can get this for ´500!

Someko: "Right?"

Someko: "I brought it sso that you'd be happier, with the tea you've been drinking lately"

Taiko: //Someko...//

Satsuki: "Good afternoon"

Taiko and Someko: Kyaa!

Taiko and Someko: "Satsuki-chan!"

*flail flail*

<--guilty of nothing but still an embarassing pair

Satsuki: "? Is there some confusion going on?"

Girl: "Ah?!"

Girl 2: A boy is here!"

Haruka: Me?


=Page 60=

Haruka: ? 

Satsuki: "Hey!! This isn't an attractive senpai, is it?!" He's average! Average!!

Girl 2: //He's rather to my liking...//

Girl: "It's different! Different!"

Taiko: ?

Taiko: "Other than that, won't you have some tea? We just got some good honey, so we 
can put it in the tea..."

Satsuki: "Honey? Won't it change the color to put honey in?!"

Taiko: "You wouldn't have to worry with milk-tea"

Taiko: "My Papa said that even if honey changes the color, the aroma and taste don't 
change much"

Satsuki: //Onee-chan, what is this?//

Sister: //It's Fauchon apple-tea. Isn't it a nice aroma?...//

Satsuki: "Listening to that kind of talk"


=Page 61=

Satsuki: "You and your father, Yoshioka-senpai"

Satsuki: "Don't seem to have any enforced policies with tea"

Taiko: "Uu...m"

Taiko: //Huh...?//

Taiko: "Then how..."

Taiko: //My head isn't working right...//

Taiko: //somehow//


=Page 62=

Earl Grey: "Taiko-san"

Girl: Ah...

Earl Grey: "Shall we go home?"

Taiko: //The feeling I had always believed//

Taiko: //Was really blind//


--Tsp. 7 Papa's Tea: Owari--