My Secret Girlfriend by Makishita Hicchi 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 Chatter Chatter -3 My Secret Girlfriend Up and coming author makes Yuri Hime debut! Makishita Hicchi Young love one shot 30p! We pass each other by because of our love —02 -1 Sigh… Ando-san’s got it going on, as usual. -2 Every time I see her, she’s mobbed. I’d never be able to get used to that. -3 Ah You two have been friends since childhood, right, Yuki? Was she like that even in middle school? -4 Pretty much. She’s always been sweet to everyone. She’s pretty chill, nice and tall, and mature. So, she’s always had a crowd of fangirls. I’ve seen them confess to her pretty often. Whoa. —03 -1 With a crowd like that, it’s pretty hard for guys to approach her, but the girl’s even have a secret fan club for her. But since she’s so popular, it’s kinda hard to be around her. If I just chat with her a bit, they get all jelly and hide my textbooks and crap. Geez! -2 She’ll never get a lover at that rate. Must be tough for her. So true. -3 That’s why I gave up. But… Then… —04 -1 A chance suddenly came my way… I always want to be with you, Yuki. -3 Huh? What’s that now? You getting all lonely or something? Mm… I’m just thinking about the future and stuff. -4 We’ll graduate from middle school, and then high school. It makes me think that we’ll go our separate ways someday. —05 -1 I really hate the thought of that. Well if you hate it that much… -2 How about you just go out with me instead? -3 I-if you become my girlfriend, then we can stay together even after graduation. Just sayin’… -4 …Yeah. -5 If that’s what you want, Yuki… And that’s how we became girlfriends. —06 -1 That’s how it should have been… but… -2 There’s been no progress since. We’re in different classes, and at school it’s always like that, so it’s hard to get close to her. We are only together to and from school. ###bold and italicize ‘that’ -3 Are we really girlfriends? sfx- Grump Not being able to even talk at school? That’s nuts, right? -4 Yeah, this is kinda screwy…! Hey, Haru… Hm? —07 -1 Can’t we find some way to hang out at school? -2 Like between classes. Or just eating lunch together. -3 Yuki… -4 As I said when we started going out if we’re together at school, you’ll stand out. -5 Bad stuff happened back in middle school, right? But…! —08 -1 It’s my fault. I’m sorry, ok? But… -2 I don’t want you to suffer. -3 I don’t want to you be in any danger. So that’s why… -4 So can we keep our relationship a secret until we graduate? You don’t want me to suffer? -5 I’m suffering plenty already! sfx- Siiigh hw- You ok? —09 -1 Why do I have to put up with this crap? -2 I mean, Haru’s mine… -3 sfx- Clench Does… -4 Haru really think of herself as my girlfriend? —10 -1 sfx- Stride Stride Stride -2 Shoot. Clean up duty made me run late. I hope Haru hasn’t gone home yet. sfx- Huff Puff -3 Haru, Sorry! sfx- Sliiide -4 I’m late… —12 -2 Yuki, do you know what high school you want to get into? I don’t. Not yet. Then how about applying for the one I want to go to? Whaaa? You want to go to OOO Girl’s School, right? That’s too tough for me! What about if I tutor you? -3 Let’s go to the same high school. sfx- Squeek —13 -2 Yuki! Are you done with club? -3 sfx- Clank Sorry everyone, I’ve got to head home. We’ll continue this tomorrow. Whaaa? You’re going home already, Ando-san? Sfx- Shumpf Thump My bad! -4 Thank for waiting. Sorry I didn’t notice. You should have let me know you were here. -5 Mm-nn. It’s okay. —14 -2 Haru, you’re the one… -3 Who said that we should go to the same high school. And that’s why you tutored me. I thought it meant I was special. It made me happy. -4 But it’s not like that at all. For her, it’s just business as usual. -5 Yuki. sfx- Huh? —15 -1 Wha? Is club keeping you busy? Why…? -2 It’s just you seem a little down. -3 I thought maybe you might be tired ‘cause of club. If so, you don’t have to push yourself and come all the way to my class. You can just go on home, you know. —16 -1 Why? -2 Just why… -3 Are you this dense? Yuki? -5 How can Haru be ok with things like this? She’s my girlfriend. We’re going out. What else can I do here to cement things? —17 -3 I mean… —18 -1 Even doing this… -3 Ah! sfx- Blush Eh? —19 -1 Huh…? -2 What are you doing?! Y-y-you Kissed me! -3 A-a-and you did it here?! N-no, forget that… What if someone saw us? -4 She’s never… I-I… wanted to do it all proper… —20 -1 No matter how much someone hangs on her… Even if someone confessed to her… She’s just flashed a troubled expression, but it never really bothered her. But when I kissed her… —21 -1 sfx- Glomp sfx- Hyaaa?! -2 Wha Wha Yuki?! -3 Haru… Y’know… I really love you. —22 -1 So I want to flaunt being with you. -2 Yuki… —23 -1 I want to see you between classes. I want to each lunch with you. I want to really be your girlfriend. -2 B-but… if people find out we’re going out… I don’t care if they bully me. -3 It hurts far worse to not be able to say… “Haru is mine”. -4 Nn… —24 -1 What about you, Haru? Wha? -2 Don’t you… want to be able to say “Yuki is mine”? -4 I… Me too. I do. —25 -1 Is it really ok to say, -2 That you’re mine, Yuki? -3 Well, duh! —26 -1 Oh, come on! sfx- Crammed Again? -3 Won’t they ever learn? —27 -1 Sorry, Yuki… I’ve told them to lay off, but… sfx- Shoof Shoof -2 It’s not like it’s your fault, Haru. But they never went this far in middle school. -2 I guess when it’s nothing but girls, they get mean. -4 Come to think of it… -5 Why did you want to go to a girl’s school? sfx- Th-thump —28 -1 Uh… Um… That’s ‘cause…. The have co-ed schools at the same academic level, right? And this is kinda far from home… -2 It’s… It’s because…. sfx- Fidget -3 You’re really popular with the guys. If it were a co-ed school, you would have been snatched away. So that’s why… -4 Ah… —29 -1 I thought I was the only one… -2 Snicker -3 Wh-why are you laughing?! Nope. It’s nothin’. -4 It’s just… It occurred to me we’re more alike than I thought. —30 -1 What do you mean by that? -2 sfx- HmHmm! Forget it! C’mon! Let’s go! Hurry it up! The bell’s going to ring. Hey! Wait! Yuki…!