A Cute Person by Maeda Tomo TL by boke ### TL notes indicated by hash tags like this: ### ### Page numbers indicated by —- for example, page one is —-1 ### Panel numbers indicated by - for example, panel one is -1 ### Unless otherwise noted, panel and text balloon flow is from upper right to lower left —-73 -1 A Cute Person Short Story Prize Present!! —-74 -1 Playing the princess? Ehhh? ### small I want to play the prince! -2 Megumi-chan, you be the princess. No way! -3 
The princess is Yui-chan! You’d look really good! I mean, your hair’s long and so pretty! Of all the girls, Yui-chan You are the most… -4 She my precious childhood friend. …yeah Mm… yeah. —-75 -1 Ok, Sunday! At the the station! Small. Pale. Round. Yui is like a doll. Ok, then… sfx: beep -2 On the other hand… Another date? sfx: Whhhosshhhhhh -3 sfx: Whooooaashh No… What are you talking about, Megumi? It’s friend… actually, my cousin! We’re going to hang out. I’m not cute. Not me. …so that’s a date, right? I’m telling you it’s not! —-76 -1 Huh? Yui Your hair’s so long. -2 Oh, sure is! When you have it down, you look different. Hey, that color is natural, right? So cool… Eh? …yeah. -3 But the teachers still get on me, ok? And actually I like it better short. So why are you growing it out? -4 But… They like it better… That’s what they said… -4 Ah… I see, it’s like that! I get it ### small -5 But that’s cool. It looks good. Right, Megumi? Well… It’s shame to cut it, right? —-77 -1 What the hell? That guy has no sense. Long? Short? -2 Yui is like a doll, so she’s cute with anything. —-78 -1 Toss -2 Whumpf -3 I’m so not cute. sxf: sigh Dark skin. Scrawny. Only got my height going for me. -4 So completely different… Crochet Small Projects -5 Flip -6 Flip -7 Cute. Ah, that would look good on Yui. -8 Wouldn’t look good on me, though. —-79 -1 I get it. I know the reason I’m not cute. -2 Shirase-san, is she always like that? -3 Yui? Like what? I mean… She’s always smiling… -4 Mm…? That’s true. And? Hmm… I see. I though she might be one of those girls who puts on an act in front of guys. -5 No, that’s not true. She’s always like that. I get it. Sorry, sorry, just my preconception. We’re not close, after all ### handwritten —-80 -1 She’s so cute, right? Like a doll or something. And so what…? -2 So hanging out with her make you feel bad in comparison… I guess that doesn’t apply to you, since you’re buds. -4 Stop… I don’t want to hear this. -5 I mean… ### these next TL follow the bubbles Her hair and stuff? Like, maybe she really likes short hair. So then I think, cut it! Right? I can’t speak… ### text outside bubbles I feel sick It’s just like -6 Looking into a mirror. sfx: Slide —-81 -3 Yu… -4 Yui… Yui! -5 Ah! Um! We were just… sfx: Slide -6 Wai… sfx: Slam —-82 -2 It’s not me… that said it… But It’d be no surprise if she thought I was agreeing with that… -3 I get it… The reason I’m not cute… It’s because I hate myself. Because I have a twisted soul… -4 But that’s because… —-83 -4 It’s not like I hate Yui. -5 Ring Ring Ring sfx: beep …yes? Yui…? What. sfx: Mumble Uh… -6 She’s pissed. Um! I’m really sorry about today! -7 Why are you apologizing, Megumi? But… That’s… —-84 -1 Um…! I-I have something to give you. I… Wanna ride the ferry? -3 Huh? -4 “Tomorrow. 10am. At the terminal.” After saying that, she hung up. -5 And then, she wouldn’t pick up anymore. She’s pissed… of course she is. I have to really apologize to her… -6 At the least, I have to honestly… Megumi -7 Yu… —-85 -1 Hmm? So you came dressed like that? -2 That’s nice on you. Looks cute. -4 Yu…!? Ah, shoot… Let’s get moving! We only have 5 more minutes! Wanna buy seagull bread? To feed the birds
### handwritten —-86 -1 …um Is that because of m…? -2 You bet it is! I really like short hair better! But you said that you liked it long. -3 Eh I said that? I knew that you’d forgotten! Shithead! -4 ### follow the bubbles first I know it was a long time ago, but! I started growing it out because you said that it was cute! That I looked like a princess! So I put up with this for all this time! So stupid! ### outside the bubbles Long time ago… Princess…? 
“The princess is Yui-chan!” “Of all the girls, Yui-chan” -5 “You are the most…” I’m so over it. —-87 -1 Over it… That was For me? I mean, Megumi has always been more feminine. I know! I’m tied of humoring you! I’m being me! I do like being cute, tho ### handwritten Eh…? -2 Humoring…? Me? Why…? -3 “Why?!” That’s because… …because… -5 Just because! …huh? —-88 -1 Why is it Even that she’s mad Her face, no, not just that So cute -2 Not the same cute as up until now… But, hey You said you had something for me. What? -3 Ah It’s this… But… What… -4 I thought I’d remake it, but… sfx: rustle -5 A scrunchie so cute… —-89 -1 You made it? Whoa ### handwritten Yeah… But Well ### small -2 Thanks… sfx: Whssh -3 Oh -4 Hair’s too short to… -5 So maybe… I can make it into something else Like a corsage, maybe? -6 That sad look on your face —-90 -1 Is just So overwhelmingly cute -2 That I’m driven to embrace you.