Wolfing Down Flowers by Watashiya Kaoru (romanized on dynasty as Watashiya Kaworu). From Hirari, Houkagou! ### kaworu is the awful official romanization… 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 //31 /1 Wolfing Down Flowers //32 /2 Step /3 Gardening Club sfx: Step sfx: Snap /4 Is there someone there? sfx: Rattle /4 Uwaaagh!? //33 /1 sfx: Bing Bong Bang Bong Snort /2 Hey! Chino! What the heck? /3 What? /4 Why are the flowers and the leaves all facing forward? Ah… ’s hard to believe you joined our club. sfx: Hya ha ha /5 How about learning from Tachibana? She’s in your class, right? /6 Tachibana Chouko /7 Oo… //34 /1 She’s not ready for that yet, right? But hey, you look like you’re teaching a kiddy cooking class. What about you? Like out of some maid cafe? Ah, um… Chou… /3 Uh, Tachibana-sa… /4 Ah /5 Crash Kyaaaa Her painting…! //35 /1 Wha? /2 You have to model, Tsubomi? Why? Wah ### handwritten Well, because… /3 That was her exhibition piece! Kyaa This is awful! /4 Chino! First off, go wash your face! Or it won’t come off! Waaaaah Chouko-san, I’m sooorry! /5 …no, It’s ok. It’s fine. It’s not fine! //36 /1 At the least You can tear up my drawings!! That won’t even things up! /2 Look, see her face!? Shh! /3 Um, you… Yes!? /4 No… Won’t you model for me? /5 What if she wants a nude model!? Look in the mirror!! You look like a kid! /6 Oh my. It’d be your chance to marry into money, hmm? //37 /1 But her family’s old money? Property owners? They say all the land between anybody’s house and the station belongs to them. What’s with that urban legend? /2 But, she’s a bit weird, right? A gardening club member told me. /3 Back in Junior high, she snuck into the greenhouse And ate up all the flowers by herself. And then, some were poisonous and she collapsed and had to be taken away by ambulance. Whoaaa I guess genius and crazy go hand in hand. /4 You said a flower… I wonder if that was Red Spider Lily? //38 /1 Why do you think that? Well, it was growing by the entrance… And her painting, around April… Really? /2 Even if you don’t marry rich, This should be interesting. Get to know her better, ok? Wha Get her to remember your name, at least! You think this is manzai? ### Manzai is traditional japanese comedy, with a straight person/funny person duo. The remember your name thing is a common gag. /3 Get to know her… Really? Can I? sfx: slurp /4 She seems so unreachable… Please, Have a seat. //39 /1 Just relax, ok? O-okay. sfx: Nervous /2 She smells good… sfx: Th-thump th-thump th-thump Oh… when I look close, she’s really beautiful. /3 Her eyes are brown. And her hair isn’t colored. Her tones are all light. /5 Whoa sfx: Stare… //40 /1 If you get uncomfortable, let me know. Wha! Yes! /2 What the heck am I looking at! Stupid! Am I some virgin boy? It’s all ‘cause Kasumi said that thing about marrying rich! /5 Um… Is the thing about you eating flowers true? /6 I thought I was going to die. Ufufu ### handwritten It’s true? Why? //41 I wanted to know more about that flower… Seeing it, feeling it, smelling it, tasting it. And as I do that That’s how I get to know the things I draw. /2 Google things first! You’re gonna die! Goo… good girl…? /3 Use the urban dictionary! C’mon, most people are sharper that that! Chouko-san, you’re the jewel of the school, you gotta take care of yourself! Geez! /4 Kyun /5 Hey, Why do you want to draw? //42 /2 Ah, um, that’s… Clubs are the focus of school life, right? Ahaha ### handwritten I’m not good at sports, so… /3 Your sketchbook Was full of lines erased over and over. Art never lies. /4 You want to draw something, but you have no idea what. /5 That’s correct, right? //43 /1 Hey, which high school are you aiming at? /2 South or West high are my top choices, I guess. They're around national level. The one attached to S university for me. Yeah, if you want to be a pharmacist, you can’t leave anything to chance. What about you, Tsubomi? Whoa ### handwritten /3 Mmm, no real preferences. Somewhere close and cheap and with lots of cute girls… There’s nothing like that! And what’s with that last one? ### handwritten You happy with anything? /4 The teachers there are… Did you hear, the tuition is… Everyone has their own world. //44 /1 Me? Ahaha /2 I’ve got nothing. No goals. No jobs I’m interested in. No particular hobbies. /3 I’m… /5 National Student Art Contest - Grand Prize Red Spider Lily Junior High Division 3-A Tachibana Chouko /6 Ah //45 /1 Bing Bong /2 She saw right through me… Tsubomi, dinner’s ready! /3 Tsubomi, I’m gonna eat all yours! Gimme a break Onii-san, shut up already! ### Onii-san is older brother /4 Chouko-san’s a genius. She’s gotta think I’m below beginner. That’s why I wanted to watch from a distance… //46 /1 There’s that song “more than number one, there’s the only one”… /2 In any case, both are difficult!? Waah… Is it just me? /2 Bing Bong /3 Good morning /4 So I went to the game… Oh? /5 Hey…! Why is Mogi-chan all friendly with Chouko-san!? Mmm, because of the thing with you, they got to talking. But forget that, seems like a flower is blooming, eh? Am I being put on display!? //47 /1 I thought she’d be harder to talk to. Imma gonna see if she’ll do an illustration for the literature club. Hey!! Not you too, Kasumi!? /2 What’s with this feeling? It’s like a rare animal is being shown all over TV. Nooooo /3 Got hurry, it’s after school! sfx: Huff Huff /5 Chouko-san… //48 /3 What’s this…? The one I knocked over… You painted it over!? /4 What a waste! It was such a beautiful painting! You should’ve just repaired the area I messed up… It was bad from the beginning. What? Where? //49 /1 I painted this piece Only for my own vanity /3 Let’s have a round of applause for the award winner, Tachibana Shouko-san! Yeaaaah sfx: Clap clap clap /4 Amaaazing With this the art club’s budget’s going up! Give it your all for next time too! We knew you were a genius! /5 I’ve got to meet expectations. For the next time. More… //50 /1 A piece to reach the judges. To win the prize! /2 “Chouko-san, you’re the jewel of the school” /3 Ah /4 Just what do I really want to paint? I just don’t know anymore. /5 It was great you knocked over that painting. Thank you. //51 /1 sfx: Shaaaaaa sfx: Ding Dong /2 Tsubomi, if you don’t sleep, you won’t get better! Onii-san, you’re the one that woke me up, idiot! So stupid! ### handwritten sfx: Cough Cough /3 Tsubomi, you ok? ### from Mogi-chan Maybe a cold? ### from Kasumi /4 Chouko-san Waah I don’t have her contact. But does she even have phone? Seems like maybe not /5 I’m going to quit the art club. The way I am, I can’t find anything to paint… //52 /1 sfx: Cough Cough Her leaving and me staying? No effin’ way!! Waah I wanna be more persuasive… /2 I don’t know what to paint. I’m the same as Chouko-san sfx: Haah Haah I may never find it… /3 But Please don’t give up. Together, let’s… sfx: Ding dong /4 Are you feeling ok? Speak of the Devil //53 /1 Wha…? Why are you here…? Am I bothering you? N… Are you real? ### handwritten /2 Noooooo Don’t look…! Don’t look at the home of the common people!! Sorry dad! ### handwritten /3 Your friend… The tall one? She let me know. /4 So she doesn’t remember Mogi-chan’s name. Yessssss! /5 When I was a kid, I often got fevers… Apricot seed Chinese medicine is supposed to be good for coughs. Chouko-san… Awww //54 /1 Even after I did something horrible to her… /2 Chouko-san, um… /3 Ah /4 Your clothes… It’s… It’s fine! These clothes are… /5 slide /6 Ah //55 /1 I’m… not wearing a bra Her hand… /2 Th-thump /3 That’s not it… I knew it. Just looking isn’t enough. ### bold or italicize “isn’t enough” Chouko-san…? //56 /1 ### whoopsie? /2 Chouko-san!? Ah…!? sfx: Sniiif N… /3 To look. Don’t! I’m all sweaty! /4 Elegant, but with sturdy bones. /5 To touch. Round cranium. Hair, straight and stiff. Small, but resilient breasts. Short, well kept nails. //57 /1 And then… /2 Haah… //58 /1 Swiff /2 Chouko-san!? /4 sfx: Whish whish whish /5 Who’s there!? /6 sfx: Whish whish whish Gyaaaaa It appeared again!! //59 /2 N… /3 Noooooooo //60 /1 Wha…? Jut when did you…!? I’m n-naked! The club advisor told me That this is way better than the old painting. Senseiiiiiii!? “I have to paint this way.” I thought I had to limit myself like that. /3 Waaah I can’t go to class now!! /4 If that’s the case Then you should just stay with me. //61 /1 Because I’m also alone… Tsubomi /2 Look, see! Marrying into money! Told ya…! Wha!? /3 Aha /4 What’s that, a moth? It’s… It’s a butterfly! Ahahah Why is it always face on? Maybe you’ve got a style going ### handwritten //62 /1 Life Lesson Even if you know what you want to draw, being able to draw it is another thing. /3 I’m still Really bad at art, but /4 This feeling Is a flower just for me. 13th Annual National High School Art Contest. Special Prize. “Tsubomi” High School Division 1-A Tachibana Chouko