Gonna Make Me Cry, Sensei? by Touyama Ema 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. ### Sometimes my comments are snark or color, so feel free to ignore those. —239 -1 Gonna Make Me Cry? ###right, Sensei ##left Touyama Ema Teacher X Student: after school secrets… ###vertical At last, a comet in the shojo manga world Descending to Earth in this issue —241 -1 Men! ### In Kendo, you have to shout out the target you intend to hit (men (head), te (hands), dou (chest) in order to show the judges it’s an intentional strike. sfx- Crack -2 The Prince is soool cool! sfx- Kyyaaa -3 sfx- Kya Kya We have a Prince in our all-girl’s school. —242 -1 Prince Takemiya sfx- Whew -2 Ah -3 Ba-dump -4 Hino-sensei, I have a question about Modern Japanese… Hm? -5 I see… Then, swing by my room later, Takemiya-san. —243 -1 Whaaa? Alone with the the Prince? The two of you? Sooo unfair, Hino-chan! Hey! Don’t go calling a teacher “-chan”. How many times do I have to… sfx- Bonk The Prince is sooo smart too! -2 You have a tourney with another school today, right? We’ll come cheer you on! -3 Mm… Ah, she’s squinting her eyes. -5 And pressing her lips together. -6 That’s to stop her from… And I’m the only one who knows. —244 -1 That everyone’s Prince, Takemiya Tobari… Modern Japanese Prep Room -2 Hino-sensei… —245 -1 What am I gonna do? sfx- Drip Drip I can’t stop crying from the pressure of the practice tournament… Is a total crybaby! -2 What if I lose today? Everyone’s coming to cheer me on… sfx- Slump -3 Caress… -4 It’s ok, Takemiya-san. You’ve practiced hard for this day. —246 -1 Yeah… -2 I been covering up Takemiya-san’s secret… -3 For a month now. I learned it one day, by chance… -4 Time for me to head home. -5 I heard Prince Takemiya lost today’s bout. —247 -1 See? To get ready for the next one, she’s practicing strikes. sfx- WHhish WHhish She seems in the zone, so better not disturb her. -2 All the teachers have high hopes for her. She really works it. -3 Tweak -4 C-crap… The heels I bought yesterday! Too tall! sfx- Hop Hop Hop -5 sfx- Whump I’m sorry! —248 -3 Tears…? -4 Whap —249 -1 Did you see? Sensei? -2 Sh-she’s scary… -3 Don’t tell me she’s gonna give me the thousand strikes?! ### A typical/mythical kendo training Please don’t tell anyone! -4 Wha? -5 If people find out that their leader cries… Everyone’s going to be so disappointed… —250 -1 Ever since I was a kid, when I got even a little upset, the tears would come out. I hate that I do this… -3 sfx- Pat -4 Ok… I won’t tell anyone. -5 And… In front of me, you don’t have to act tough, ok? —251 -2 Okay… Since then, whenever Uchimiya-san wants to cry, She comes to my room. -3 She always acts so cool, but… Cute! sfx- Giggle -4 Cute? You mean me? -5 Huh? You stopped crying? sfx- Dead serious Yes, I cried myself out. She turns on a dime! -6 But you’re the one who’s cute, Hino-sensei ###dun dun dun —252 -1 You calling me cute because I’m short? sfx- Shudder Shudder Wha? Don’t pretend you don’t know! -2 That’s why all the students tease me! Hino-chan, you’re so tiny! But I’m taking steps to stop that! -3 Heh -4 Look, you wear vertical stripes to look taller. And pair it with long skirts. You even go so far to wear ridiculously high heels. -5 I meant that all the effort you put into it is cute. sfx- Kiss -6 
Th- Thump —253 -1 What are you…? Your heels have worn a raw spot on your skin. sfx- Shff… -2 To thank you for always letting me cry… I’m going to disinfect it for you. -3 Disinfect, you say… -4 Lick —254 -1 sfx- Quiver -2 Takemiya-san! You don’t have to do that! -3 Sensei… You don’t like it? sfx- Sniff Th-that’s cheating! ### ignore tiny ず -4 Liiiiick -5 Sllurp —255 -1 Kiss Kiss -2 Sensei… I… —256 -1 Thanks to you, Sensei… I don’t have to hate myself just because I cry like that… -3 I also… -4 Wha? -5 Uh —257 -1 Ding Dong sfx- Jolt -2 I’ve got to get to my next class! Ok, Takemiya-san, you too! sfx- Whish -3 Shff -4 Ok then. You can tell me the rest after school. sfx- Plap -5 I’ll do my best at the practice tourney. —258 -1 Whoosh -2 At first, I was just happy a student was relying on me, but… -3 Now… —259 -2 Th-thump Th-thump -3 Right now… -5 Hino-sensei… We seem to have won the tournament today. Really!? —260 -1 Takemiya-san! Kya! Prince -2 You did it, captain! sfx- Clamor Clamor -3 Ah… She’s clamping down on her lips… she’s really holding back the tears. -4 I want to hurry up and get her someplace she can cry… -5 Huh? —261 -1 Drip -3 Wha? Prince?! Captain?! sfx- Murmur -4 Don’t tell me that she had the opposite reaction just by seeing me?! sfx- Clamor Clamor What’s wrong, Prince? -5 I’m sorry, everyone… —262 -1 To tell the truth, I… Captain? Tears of happiness? -2 Wha? -3 If you don’t that, we’re going to cry too! sfx- uWaah -5 You don’t care if I… Of course not! The previous tourney, you seemed so unfazed that we were worried about you! —263 -1 It makes us happy to know what you’re feeling, Captain! -2 Everyone… -3 When the Prince is that happy… It puts us on the verge of tears too! -4 I get it. -5 Takemiya-san… Everyone is accepting you now. —264 -1 I’m so happy for you… -2 Whoa! Hino-chan is also crying! Crying on my behalf? -3 N-no… It’s… —265 -1 Dash -2 I should be happy about this. So why am I crying…? -3 Nab —266 -1 Sensei… -2 Was it… something I did? ###maybe like licking her feet? I didn’t mean to make you cry… —267 -1 No… I’m so happy that everyone is accepting you, Takemiya-san. -2 You have moved past needing me… I’m just crying selfish tears… -3 I’m a failure as a teacher… -5 So that means you’re no longer a teacher, right?! ###oooh, gotta love that logic! sfx- spin —269 -3 Heh… -4 Why are you crying too, Takemiya-san? —270 -1 It’s because I got to kiss the one I love. -2 Even if the reason for us meet up goes away, you’re still the most important person to me. —271 -1 Yeah… Me too… -2 My tears, Takemiya-san’s tears, they mix together… Until we can’t tell them apart. -4 sfx- sliiide Hino-sensei, I’ve got a question. —272 -1 What’s up, Takemiya-san? -2 Smack -3 Instead of coming to cry, Can I come to get a kiss instead?- -4 More things to keep secret!