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Koucha Ouji by Yamada Nanpei
Volume 3, Tsp. 12: It's come! The Athletic Festival!
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=Page 4=

"Ready----"
*baaang*
Waah! Good luck!
[Today is the day of the athletic festival]
Speaker: "Well, this morning we're start off with the sewing club's event, "let's go in 
   pairs'!"
Speaker: "It seems that every team has reached the wagon in the center of the course 
   that was being pursued. But when they started, they indicated loud and clear who was 
   underneath the disguises"
Speaker: "High-school year 1: 'The ruffian boys and the stylish girls', high school year 2: 
   'Doctor and Nurse'"
Guy: I wonder whose hobby the nurse is
Guy 2: Is it an image club?! (**note** In Japan, an "image club" or "imekura" for short, is a 
   place where adult men can pay to go through with sexual fantasies with girls who are 
   dressed up as school-girls. Lovely, huh. I'm a little confused about the happenings in    
   this entire page as a whole, but we can safely say it isn't a major part of the story-line, 
   anyway ^^v)


=Page 5=

Speaker: "And then third-year are 'Teacher and Kindergartner'. And it seems that first-
   years are finishing! This is good!"
Speaker: "They're closing in on the finish-line!"
Speaker: "Or so we thought!! It seems the ruffian-boy is having problems running with 
   geta!!"
*koke*
WAHAHA
Guy: Steady, ruffian-leader!


=Page 6=

Speaker: "Goal!! High-school first-year's come first! Second are the third-years! Last is 
   the third-years. They'll receive 10 points, 5 points, 1 point"
Taiko: "Nagae, where's Kaichou?"
Speaker: Next is the second running event for the boys high school team...
Taiko: "They're already calling people for the 200m run"
Nagae: "She went back to the office before but..."
Taiko: 'but'?
Nagae: "Kaichou's condition isn't very good, is it"
Fukukaichou: "Eh?!"
Fukukaichou: "Why do you say that...?"
Nagae: "The color of her face wasn't really good"
Nagae: "She herself said it was a lack of sleep"
Nagae: "But the truth is that she's been talking to herself since this morning"
Fukukaichou: "Kaichou talking to herself?!"


=Page 7=

*shwa* *pochan*
*kui*
Kikuka: <This should calm me down considerably> *sigh*
*koton*
"Wow, it looks like so much fun"
Kikuka: "...."
*guu*


=Page 8=

Orange Peko: "What on earth is the festival going on today?!"
Peko: "Aren't you in it, master?"
Kikuka: "The hallucinations won't disappear..." *gan*
Peko: "Well!!"
*gan gan* <-- headache
KYAN KYAN KYAN
Peko: "Are you stiill saying such things?! Please look reality in the face! Haven't you been 
   like this for two days?!"
Kikuka: .... .... 
Kikuka: "Alright, then disappear!!!"
*ba*
*shocked*


=Page 9=

Nagae: "... Ka"
Nagae: "Kaichou...?"
Kikuka: Hah..."
Kikuka: "Ah...Nagae"
Kikuka: "Shimoyamaguchi-kun"
Nagae: "A...Are you alright...? You seem tired..."
Kikuka: "I'm fine. They're calling about the 200m race"
Nagae: "Perhaps you should abstain..."
Kikuka: "No, I'm alright"
Nagae: "Don't do what's impossible, please"
*gara gara*
*patan* *shin*
Peko: "Really" How stubborn
Peko: "What a stubborn master"


=Page 10=

Peko: "But being beautiful and popular is wonderful. I could just burn up"
Taiko: "We're ba~~ack. It's so hot~~!"
*karakoro karakoro*
Someko: Someko's really hot, too
Haruka: That's got to be really hot


=Page 11=

Haruka: "If it's hot then undress"
Taiko: "Ah, well it was a promise" <--has gym clothes on underneath
*dara dara*
Haruka: "Promise?"
Girl: "Ah we found you! Taiko-cha--an!!" Wa--i!
Girl: I'll take it
Girl 2: Peace!
Girl 3: Me next Yoshioka-san
Haruka: "What is this, an all girl's school?!" Ah geeze, I'm sweating just from watching
Assam: "Speaking of hot"
Assam: "Your panel has me doing just that" a stuffed animal...?
Haruka: It was the best I could do!


=Page 12=

Speaker: "Next is the girl's 200 meter!"
Someko: "Ah, it's the student council kaichou"
Taiko: Hoo! It's hot! "Eh" *pata pata*
Taiko: "Ah!"
Taiko: "It really is"
Taiko: "Huh..."
Taiko: "Uwah?! She's fast!"
Speaker: Goal!! The winner is second-year! As expected, the student council kaichou!!
Taiko: "Wow--!" as promised
Aaaa--aah!
Haruka: "You're pretty easy-going"
Haruka: "You have to run with her"


=Page 13=

Taiko: "Eh...Ee---h?! When?!"
Haruka: "When, she says..." ...geeze... why don't you check, it's your own event...
Assam: "Heey heey"
Assam: "Aside from all that stuff, I'm hungry!"
Taiko: "Ah, really. After the 200 meter is over, we can go each lunch together"
Assam: Waai *heart*
Taiko: And we can definitely change
Someko: Yeah
Assam: "Whoaa"
Someko: "Kyaaa" *heart*


=Page 14=

Someko: "Kyaa kyaa amazing! Taiko-chan you made all this yourself?!"
Taiko: "Yaay" it was big trouble
Assam: "Whoa~~"
Assam: "So let's eat...." *aaaahn*
Taiko: "Wait a second!"
Taiko: "Today we're eating lunch with Oosawa-senpai, so if you want to eat you have to be 
  big!"
Oosawa: "Did you call?"
Oosawa: "Your words are too kind, don't mind me"
Taiko: "Wah-- Oosawa-senpai!"
Taiko: "Go ahead"
Someko: Aah, it's Sugino-kun
Taiko: You can eat from mine, too
Sugino: Uchiyama invited me. I brought a bentou


=Page 15=

Assam: "Yo--"
<--discontent because he can't eat to his heart's content at this size
Seemingly has just now come
Earl Grey: Good afternoon
Haruka: Uh?
Interrupting
Sugino: Good afternoon
Someko: Good afternoon
Oosawa: "Ah, Earl Grey-kun" *sasa*
Assam: This uncle?
Earl Grey: "Is over here alright"?
Oosawa: "Please go ahead!!"
Earl Grey: *smile* "You were in the morning men's kibasen, weren't you Oosawa-senpai! I 
   was watching"
Oosawa: Hah, well, I'm sort of embarrassed at that
Earl Grey: You were really cool
Taiko/Haruka: //It's almost like a formal marriage meeting//
Oosawa: "Speaking of which, what are you and Assam entered in, Earl Grey?"
*gikku*


=Page 16=

Earl Grey: "Well, we...um--that..."
Someko: "Ah!"
Someko: "Yeah! Over here!"
Someko: "After this Taiko-chan is entered in the 300m run, the 400 relay and the mixed 
   relay!" She's the anchor in the 400 and the last girl to run in the mixed relay
*dakki*
Woow
Sugino: "Well, it'll be a first-hand showdown!"
Taiko: "Eh?"
Sugino: "The student-council kaichou. That person is running in the mixed for the second-
   year girls..." You'll beat her, right?
Taiko: <"Run together with">
Taiko: <the mixed relay?>
Sugino: "Good luck being our representative"
Taiko: "Hahaha" Uuuh


=Page 17=

Someko: "Taiko-chan isn't running for you, Sugino-kun" *mu*
Someko: "Today Taiko's running for Someko"
Sugino: Someko-san
Haruka: "No way, Taiko"
Taiko: "Eh, well...I guess so..." It was a promise
Haruka: "So at least you're taking that road..." Yeah, it's comparatively early...
Taiko: "It's DIFFERENT!!"
*goro goro*
Taiko: Well "But Sugino-kun, for today, it's better not to think of us as 'the student-
   council kaichou' and 'the small-club leader'"
Sugino: "Eh?"


=Page 18=

Haruka: "That's right, Horiuchi's also the anchor for first-year in the relay"
Taiko: "Eh? That executive accountant?!"
Taiko: "That's right! I'd b e surprised to hear that there's anybody faster than Horiuchi-
   kun. Why isn't he in track?"
Haruka: "That's because he's an official with the executives"
Someko: "Ehh?! You can't be in any other clubs if you're an executive?! When did they 
   decide that?!"
Haruka: "It was decided when the current student-council kaichou came into place"
Someko: "What an awful one-man!"
Taiko: <Now I understand why Hinoki couldn't be a new member for our us>


=Page 19=

Oosawa: "There are other reasons for thinking that way"
Oosawa: "Because the student council executive group must also divide the sub-
   committee's budget-group"
Taiko: "Yeah--in applying that standpoint, it's to protect their own clubs from budget    
   inflation"
Oosawa: That's right
Oosawa: "And other than that, because the student-council has numerous powers"
Taiko: <Hmmph>
Taiko: <But to decide at one's own cost>
Taiko: <That person must have good sense and proportion...>
Taiko: <Hmm, and everyone will readily give their vote of confidence for her re-election>
Taiko: <She must have a good amount of popularity...> *paku*
*su--*


=Page 20=

Taiko: "HEY!" *bichi*
Assam: "ADA"
Taiko: "This is dessert, so we can't have it yet!"
Taiko: "After everyone's finished eating..."
*kara-*
Earl Grey: I'm finished
Taiko: "Weell, I guess there's no helping it" *kapa*
Haruka: I still have some left over here
Taiko: Finish eating what you have over there
Taiko: Here
Assam: Gimme
Someko: "Waah, sherbet!" It's pink
Taiko: "It's peach sherbet" I froze it in the room's freezer with ice from home


=Page 21=

*paku*

Assam: *heart*
*gyo?!*
Assam: "EARL"
Assam: "Yes?" it's good
Assam: "Don't eat it!" *geshi*
Everyone: Wha...?!


=Page 22=

*dota--*
Taiko: "Wh--...What are you doing?!"
Assam: "You put alcohol in this didn't you. He's bad with alcohol!"
Earl Grey: Uuuu--
Taiko: "Bad with...there's hardly any alcohol in this" Isn't it just a little?!
Assam: "Even a little's bad!"
Haruka: But wasn't Assam the one who kicked him over just now?
Oosawa: Earl Grey-kun kyaa
*muku--*
Assam: *ba-bump*
Earl Grey: "Ow..."
Oosawa: "Earl Grey-kun..."


=Page 23=

Earl Grey: "You've kicked me..."
Earl Grey: "How horrible..."
*gaga--n*
Earl Grey: "Oosawa-senpai!!"
*gagaga--n*
Taiko: Stop it! Iyaa!
Assam: "Open your eyes, you moron!!" *gashi*
Oosawa: Assam-kun--


=Page 24=

Taiko: "Hold on Assam! This is too much..."
Earl Grey: "You ass-hole, don't kick me!!" I'll strike you
Oosawa: Wh--Who is this?!
Earl Grey: "You jerk, and I thought you were so adult"
Assam: "...."
Earl Grey: "I'll KILL....ah?! KYAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
*tickle tickle tickle*
Earl Grey: "KYA--HAHAHAHA IYAAA---"


=Page 25=

Everyone: "...."
Assam: "C'mere"
Earl Grey: Kyahahaha ufu ufu ehehehe hahaha
Taiko: Didn't that have the feeling of a Japanese-style drunken riot?
Haruka: Yeah
Oosawa: Earl Grey-kun!
"Tadaa--, okay, go ahead, please eat!!" *dero---n*
Nagae: "Th..."
Shimoyamaguchi: It has a severe aroma
Kikuka: "This is..." what is it?


=Page 26=

Hinoki: "My own specially-made rice-balls!!"
Shimoyamaguchi: <Rice balls...so they were rice-balls...>
Kikuka: <Why are there rope fragments around the rice-balls....?>
Hinoki: "I worked hard on them from when I woke up at four!!"
Hinoki: "Let me explain! The kind that are shaped like bags have tarako (cod roe), the 
   triangle-shaped ones have umeboshi (dried plum), the flat ones have shake (salmon)
   and the round ones have okaka (bonito flakes)!"
Um...they look the same to all of us...
Hinoki: "Kaichou and Horiuchi-senpai in particular, please eat a lot! You two are the heros 
   of this afternoon's mixed relay!"
Shimoyamaguchi: Nagae...
Nagae: Hii--!


=Page 27=

Peko: <What is it with that girl>
Peko: <What does she think she's trying to feed my master?!>
Peko: <This is straying from the proper course!>
Peko: "I wonder about this smell"
Peko: "It would be better not to eat that kind of thing for your body, master!!"
Peko: "Then what will you..."
Kikuka: "SHUT UP"
*bikura*
Hinoki: ?!
Nagae: "Ka-Kaichou...?"
Kikuka: "It's nothing. I'll eat!"
*datan*
Peko: "Eh?!"
Nagae: "Eh-- Kai...chou..." AH
*paku*


=Page 28=

*munch munch*
*munch*
...*swallow*
Horiuchi: "The-then I'll eat, too!"
<--is prepared for death
*ga*
Hinoki: "Ah, that's the one with okaka (bonito flakes)!"
Nagae: How do you know?!
Nagae: "Stop it Horiuchi!! Aren't you the anchor in the afternoon relay?! What'll you do?!"
Hinoki: ?
Horiuchi: "But I can't watch only the student council kaichou suffer!"
Student: "It's beautiful...that's too beautiful, Horichi...!!"
*aaaan*
Student: "Alright! We'll follow after you!!"
*chomp*
*crunch*
Hinoki: "Ah?!"


=Page 29=

Hinoki: "Horiuchi-senpai?! Are you alright?! What's wrong?!"
Horiuchi: This and that...
Nagae: <Crunch?! A cruching sound?!>
Girl: <Why would bonito flakes go "crunch"?>
Shimoyamaguchi: <Is it a norm for one person to use two containers...?>
Assam: "Walk more precisely!"
Earl Grey: "Please let gooo of meee~~~"
Assam: "Shaddup!"
Earl Grey: "Assam you bullly~~~!!"
Assam: "What are you, in kindergarten?!"
*drag drag*
*thump*


=Page 30=

Earl Grey: *sob sob* *sniff*
*pachin*
Peko: ! 
*twitch*
Peko: ...
Peko: <Oh my...>
Peko: <It seems that there's somebody nearby...>


=Page 31=

Peko: <...but somehow it seemed like it was a magic feeling?
*muka muka*
Peko: <But I get the image it was an extremely bad person...>
Student: Th...thanks for the food
Hinoki: I'm humbled! *heart*
*exhausted*
Assam: "...you awake from the sake?"
Earl Grey: "I...I'm awake....." ehe
Assam: "Don't you drink it a second time!" I wouldn't be laughing "How many more times 
   will I be there to help you?!"
Earl Grey: "I understand"


=Page 32=

Taiko: "Ah, they're coming"
Someko: "Are you awake from being drunk?"
Earl Grey: "I'm awake" pardon me, I was an annoyance
Taiko: "It's fine it's fine, it was interesting! But we have to hurry and clean up. The 
   afternoon clubs are starting!"
*pa-n pa-n...*
Speaker: Before long our noon break will be over
Speaker: We'll be starting our track activities


--Tsp. 12 It's come! The Athletic Festival!: Owari--