This Is Not Heaven, But… by majoccoid TL by boke ### TL notes indicated by hash tags like this: ### ### Page numbers indicated by —XX for example, page one is: —01 ### Panel numbers indicated by -X for example, panel one is: -1 ### sfx- means the following is a sound effect. ### hw- means the following is handwritten text. ### Unless otherwise noted, panel and text balloon flow is from upper right to lower left. ### This TL indexes on file number in case the page numbers don’t match. ### Sometimes my comments are snark or color, so feel free to ignore those. —01 -1 This Is Not Heaven, But… -03 -1 This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to people or places is purely coincidental. —04 -1 My apologies for putting this ahead of the story. Thank you so very much for picking up this manga. I hope you will likewise pick up future works. I’ll work hard to make that happen. You don’t have to read it but a longer afterword is here: This Is Not Heaven, But… ### I think “this is the only place” is a subtitle —05 -1 Haru-saaan… -2 You’re not going to see her out? -3 Sake: Hakkai Kubota Koeno Kanbai -4 Nah… It’s okay. I’ll close up the bar. Christmas Event Dance Christ —06 -1 Karaoke 5 songs ###cut off -3 Clang -4 Do not Enter Haru ###nametag -5 Haru-san… I wonder when she’s going to quit… sfx- Twitch I mean, to have her ex dump her and then move out, and then still have to work with her? She’s a tough cookie, huh? Yeah, and I heard it was a really bad break up too. Wha? I heard it was just the opposite! Well, girls be bitches, yeah? (lol) -2 Gawd, drunks are loud. I can hear you, you know. Sigh -4 Ugh, even changing clothes is a drag… Whatever. I’ll just go home like this. sfx- Ka-cha -5 And… —08 -1 So I was dating my coworker. And she dumped me in a shitty way, and moved out. What does that even have to do with us being girls? Fuck. -2 Should I quit? hw- That’d be a pain, tho… sfx- Haaah -3 When I had a day job, I was able to save up 700,000 yen. Even if it takes a while to find a new job… -4 I could get by for three months without working. -5 Garbage Collection Area Tuesday Friday From 8:30 AM Recycling is collected from a separate location. —09 -1 Hey… Are you ok? Hey! Just how much did you have to drink? If you sleep here, you’ll freeze to death. Seriously. Haru ###name tag -2 It’s the beginning of December, way too late for halloween… I mean it’s almost Christmas! Which bar does cosplay…? -3 sfx- Quiver …hng… -4 …Who? C’mon, you need to tell me first. What bar do you work at? Can you walk? Want me to call you a taxi? -5 I’m… all right… Yes. sfx- Mmph Shyeah. You wouldn’t be sleeping in the garbage if you were. -6 Ok… In any case, I’ll take you back. What bar do you work at? —11 -1 Bar…? Wha? Don’t tell me you’re just cosplaying for fun! -2 Cosplay? …That’s what the guy said earlier… Yes. The guy? I didn’t have any place to go, and was wandering around and he talked to me… He said I should go home with him. -3 When I did… He looked like he wanted to… touch me… sfx- Clench I told him to stop it, and he kicked me outside… -5 I was about to tell her she was stupid, but I bit my tongue. -6 I have a shit ton of questions. Like, where did you come from? Why are you dressed like that? Why are you so fucking naive? —12 -1 But… What happened is definitely not her fault. -2 Ok, got it. If you don’t have anywhere to go, how about coming with me for the moment? -3 …huh? You’ve gotta get into the bath, at least. -4 In exchange, you’ll explain everything to me. Then, even if you don’t want me to, if it turns out I need to contact your guardian, I will. -5 That ok? —13 -1 Um… Thank you very much. -2 Haru ###tag Haru…? -3 Ah, that’s my professional name. I guess you won’t get that, huh? Akiyama Haruka. Just Haruka is fine. What about you? -4 Huh? Um… …Angel? Yes. ###Due to the difficulties in the TL matching up with the panel spacing, I’ve decided to give her this little quirk of saying “yes” sometimes. It roughly fits with the original - this would be literally translated as “…Angel? Am” (as in I am Angel). And since it’s a pattern that repeats a couple times, I thought it a fitting quirk given how uncertain and naive she is. Are you shittin’ me? —14 -2 So a runaway in her late teens, huh? If… there’s some kinda problem at home… About the only thing I can do is take her to the cops. -3 sfx- Nn… sfx- Ka-chak -4 Um… The bath. Thank you. -5 Hey, look… Can’t you at least take them off now? -5 Those! The wings and the halo! How are even staying on? —15 -1 Um… These? sfx- Slump I can’t take them off. Yes. Whaa? -2 I was born with them, so… OhMyGodI’veBroughtHomeACrazyGirl ###break this up as you need No, no, waitta minute… -3 Ah… But… sfx- Shwip -4 sfx- Click I can hide them if you want. sfx- Vooop Vooop —16 -3 You could be a nightlight… However, when I hide them, it gets kinda itchy. So can I have them out? This is all just too much… sfx- Spacy …Go ahead. -4 So. You really are… an Angel that’s fallen from the Sky? Yes. I am. -5 As far as I can tell, she doesn’t have either a smartphone or a wallet. No one would ditch home without a yen to their name. But the kicker is… —17 -1 So if you fell… Then what about going home? How do you climb back up? I can’t really remember… -2 However, I… think everyone had scary expressions on their face. -3 Scary expressions? -4 I don’t get this at all, but… If that’s the deal, I won’t kick you out. You can stay here until you remember. -6 But… I… I don’t have anything to give you… Yes. That’s fine. No worries. —18 -1 And you don’t have to be so polite, ok? What’s your name? You don’t remember? Yes. -2 Ok, I guess there’s nothing to do but call you Angel. sfx- Ka-cha Do Angels eat? -3 I don’t have to. But… I’m interested in it. So a little gourmet in the making, huh? -4 And so… I suddenly found myself living with an Angel. —19 -2 31 Count down event Haru - Last out Karaoke event ###cut off -4 Angel -7 It’s a lot better… —20 -2 Than I would have thought. -4 So… You know… This is kinda… —21 -1 I mean… sfx- Ka-splooosh -2 sfx- Shaaaaa To go to the beach in the middle of Winter? Really? sfx- Shaaaa -3 I wanted… to see the ocean. It’s so big! -4 …So I guess they got no oceans in heaven. sfx- Flick I can’t imagine it at all. -6 Haruka… You smoke? -7 Huh? Ah… I guess this is the first time I’m smoking in front of you, huh? —22 -1 It’s something my ex-girlfriend left behind. sfx- Phwaaa -2 It’s a rental, so I don’t wanna smoke in the house. But I just couldn’t bring myself to toss ‘em. -3 So I just have one every once in a while, like this. Now I’m down to the last one. -4 Sploosh -5 Your ex… girlfriend? -5 Yeah. We were going out. But stuff happened and we broke up. —23 -1 Humans go through shit like that. -2 See? -3 Hey… Angel? Sorry. You don’t like me smoking? -4 sfx- Snuff No. -5 No. I remember now. Everything. —24 -1 I… didn’t fall. I was expelled. -2 Ex… Expelled? Why? -3 When… I was in heaven, There was a girl I was close to. -4 And, I loved her. —25 -1 But… But none of the adults ever talked about a girl loving another girl. So I asked them. Was I weird if I liked another girl? And then… Everyone… -2 Got this scary expression… -4 That place… That’s not heaven! —26 -1 Then… -2 Just where… is heaven? ###bold and italicize “is” —27 -1 Yeah. That’s what I want to know. -2 If heaven doesn’t exist… -3 Then just where, should this girl go to? —28 -1 I don’t know. But… —29 -1 When I hold her hand, It’s kinda feels like I’m being embraced myself. —30 -1 Huh? -2 Haru, y’know… I didn’t need you saying “you can stay here”. -3 What I wanted… was for you to tell me, “let’s stay together.” Why? Why am I having this dream now? —31 -1 Bye bye… Haru. sfx- Slam -3 …Wait. -4 Back then. What did… -5 What did I say to Angel? —32 -3 Angel…? -6 Aaah… I’m… —33 -1 I’m just repeating the same old thing. -2 Whiiish -5 sfx- Sliiide —34 -1 Whoa —36 -2 …wow. You look cool when you smoke. -3 I’m just imitating you, Haru. But it tastes awful. -4 Yeah -5 Haha sfx- Grind I think so too. -7 Haruka? What’s wrong? —37 -1 When I woke up and you weren’t next to me… I thought you’d gone home. -2 Haruka, You were the one that said it wasn’t heaven. -3 There’s not a single place I could call home. Haruka… -4 Can I… still stay here? —38 -1 Yes. Please stay here.