TITLE: Shadow (part 2)
AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Asami Tohjou
PUBLISHED: Bamboo Comics Print Reijin Selection; 3/17/2001
ISBN: 4-8124-5460-3
SHORT INTRODUCTION: Roles of two childhood friends take a
drastic change as they enter their highschool years and try to
bridge the gap of fear between them.
--cirrus.
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co-ordination: cibo
editor: cirrus
scanner: jen
translation: cirrus
project completion date: April 14, 2003
transcription, notations (09/18/03) by San
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Legend:
[text] = text in bubbles, boxes
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/text = small handwritten texts
text = dialogue
sfx: *text* = onomatopoeic (otherwise, it is a description of the noise)
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- pg. 167 -
Title Page: Shadow
- pg. 168 -
Arata: {On the wall are fingerprints from when I traced Yoshiki's shadow again and again...}
{I tried to step on that shadow, and convinced myself that I had to catch it...}
[That's why...]
[I...]
Kasahara: (flashback) You're really just scared, aren't you.
Arata: -----
SFX: *Bonk!*
Arata's Sis: Brother?
- pg. 169 -
Arata's Sis: They're broadcasting Kasahara Shuuji's boxing match today!
Arata: Oh...
Okay.
Arata ?: Incredible!
I can see it when they put it in slow-mo, but he's seriously able to avoid getting
hit just in time!
Arata: {He's really amazing...}
{He's the kind that would fight the world until the last moment.}
{But, I...}
- pg. 170 -
Arata: {It was only by chance that I came to admire this T.V. hero. After that, I wanted nothing more than to be strong. That's when I started boxing.}
{And only by chance did I mangae to become a little bit more talented than anyone else.}
{That's all it was...}
{Incredible.}
Kasahara: (flashback) You're really just scared, aren't you?
Arata: {He was able to see right through me.}
{It was only my body that grew.}
- pg. 171 -
Arata: {But I'm still that little runt, Arata...}
Yoshiki: (flashback) Put it in me...
I want...
I want you...Arata.
SFX: *Thadump*
*Thadump*
Arata: {...I know.}
- pg. 172 -
Arata: {Just thinking about him makes me hard.}
{I couldn't even take him...}
...Nn!
[I can't take him the way I am now.]
...Hff!
[But, I can't tell him that... Forget it...]
- pg. 173 -
Arata: [But then... I'll never be able to catch Yoshiki's shadow...]
{That's what I'm afraid of most...}
*Haa...*
Yo...shiki...
- pg. 174 -
Guy: Yoshiki!
Yoshiki: Hm?
Guy: You're the school photographer, right?
Could you do me a favor?
Yoshiki: Well, I used to be, but...
Huh? You want me to take pictures of Kasahara Shuuji!?
Why do I have to do that!?
Guy: It's for the school newspaper! I wanted to do it, but they turned me down!
Come on, Yoshiki! Look, you're friends with Ueda Arata, from the boxing team,
right? If you two go in together, then maybe you can get it done...
Yoshiki: W-we're not that good of friends, you know.
Guy: Oh yeah? Who was it that fixed his Plasma-man, then?
Hmm? Who was it indeed??
Yoshiki: .......
/Shit
Arrow: /Plasma-man fan
Yoshiki: All right. I get it.
Guy: Thanks a bunch! Tell Ueda I said hi!
/Woo-Hoo!
- pg. 175 -
Arata: ............
Yoshiki: {I've got a bad feeling about this...}
Arata: Oh...
Ah! Sorry, my stomach's just a bit upset...
J-just wait a sec...
SFX: *Tap, Tap, Tap*
Yoshiki: {He hasn't changed a bit...}
[Whenever Arata got nervous, his asthma would kick in, or his stomach would get upset.]
[His body always gives him away.]
.........
- pg. 176 -
Yoshiki: {I must be what's making him nervous...}
{It's really over between us, after all...}
Trainer: Listen! Shuuji! Stop fooling around in there and shape up!
/You're forgetting the basics!
Kasahara: I can't get into it if it's not a real match!
Give it a break, Gramps! You could always quit.
/Sheesh!
Trainer: ~~~~~~~~~
Yoshiki: Excuse me...
Kasahara: Oh!
- pg. 177 -
Kasahara: Photos? Sure. I don't mind.
But in return...
I want you...
Ueda...
to challenge me.
Arata: Huh?
Yoshiki: Wha...?
Kasahara: What? Are you scared?
/Ha Ha Ha
Arata: .........!
- pg. 178 -
Yoshiki: Arata, don't!
He's a professional, remember!?
/You'll look like and idiot if you get hurt!
Arata: .........
Kasahara: (flashback) You're really just scared, aren't you.
Arata: .........
I'll do it!
Yoshiki: !
{Why...? Why is Arata doing this!? He doesn't look so good...
Arata: I don't need any headgear.
Kasahara: Oh?
Look who thinks he's mister tough guy.
You might die, you know.
Yoshiki: ....!
- pg. 179 -
Arata: Fine by me.
Yoshiki: No!
Wait--!
Trainer: They'll be okay.
Yoshiki: [Huh?]
/What's that mean?
Trainer: He's just playing.
He won't be serious if it's with a novice.
The truth is, I wanna see what he's capable of in the ring.
Yoshiki: But...
- pg. 180 -
Yoshiki: {!!}
{He calls this "play"!?}
{Oh no! If he keeps hitting me like that...}
- pg. 181 -
Yoshiki: Bastard!
Is that how you treat a novice?!
Kasahara: !?
- pg. 182 -
Kasahara: Hey!
Wait a--!
Yoshiki: If you ever bully Arata again...
Trainer: .......
Yoshiki: I'll never forgive you!!
Arata: Huh...? Is that...Plasma Man...?
- pg. 183 -
Arata: {This takes me back...}
{Even though Yoshiki bullied me a lot...}
{If anyone else ever did...he saved me by beating them to a bloody pulp.}
{I'm such an idiot.}
{I told myself that I'd protect him someday...}
{But I'm still just a little runt...}
Yoshiki: Hey...
Are you okay?
Arata...
- pg. 184 -
Arata: ........!
Where...?
Is this my house?
What are you doing here?
Yoshiki: Dummy. The guys from the gym carried you.
How the hell could I carry someone as big as you?
Arata: Oh... I see...
Yoshiki: Your mom wasn't around, so I found the first-aid kit, myself.
Arata: Oh...thanks.
Ouch...
Yoshiki: Shit. That wasn't "play".
*Phew*
.........
Jees, why did you have to do something so stupid?
Arata: Stupid?
- pg. 185 -
Yoshiki: Of course it was stupid!
You could have been killed.
Arata: I always get you angry with me one way or another.
I don't really care if I died...
Yoshiki: Huh...?
Arata: I just wanted to change myself...
Yoshiki: {Arata...}
Arata: I...
There's something I've been keeping from you, Yoshiki...
- pg. 186 -
Arata: It's my fault the tree branch broke.
You always left for home that way, so...
I tried to break it...but I didn't do a good enough job.
But that's all I wanted...
I thought that...if you fell...
You wouldn't get hurt so badly, and you could stay with me for a while longer...
Yoshiki: What...?
What did you say!?
- pg. 187 -
Arata: Yoshi...ki...
Yoshiki: {Arata's always been like this...}
{His body language gives him away when he gets nervous.}
Ha... So you mean... You hated me...?
And you feel guilty because of what you did to my body...right?
[I see. That's why he couldn't sleep with me.]
{What an idiot I am.}
{I was supposed to keep a check on Arata, but...}
{It backfired on me completely.}
That's it.
This is really the end of us.
Arata: ...Yoshiki!
- pg. 188 -
Arata: Please...
Despite that, I...
Even though the guilt's been eating me alive...
I still want to be your friend.
Yoshiki...!
Yoshiki: "Friends", huh?
{That again?}
{The word that binds me.}
It's too late for that.
You're not my friend anymore.
Arata: I see... So, you won't forgive me?
Yoshiki: Looks like it.
- pg. 189 -
Yoshiki: Arata...
I...
{No! Don't say it!}
{We may never be able to be friends again.}
You know...
I...I think that I...
{Don't say it...}
- pg. 190 -
Arata: Yoshi...ki...?
Yoshiki: {No matter how close we get...}
[There will always be words I cannot say.]
{This is the distance one must cross for "friendship".}
- pg. 191 -
Arata: Yoshiki! Why are you crying...?
I don't want you to hate me, but...
But I can't stand to see you cry!
Yoshiki...Yoshiki, tell me what do I have to do...?
Yoshiki: Arata...
I want to tell you...
I have to...
I have to tell you something...
We can't be friends anymore...
Arata: Yoshiki...?
Yoshiki: Arata...
- pg. 192 -
Yoshiki: I love you...
{I know it now...}
- pg. 193 -
Yoshiki: {We can never go back...}
{To just being friends.}
Arata: Yoshiki...
Say it again...
Once more.
- pg. 194 -
Yoshiki: Huh...?
Arata: It's the first time I noticed it.
When you say "I love you", you smile. The edges of your mouth lift
up like this.
I always want to see your smile, instead of your tears.
Yoshiki.
Tell me again.
Tell me that you love me.
- pg. 195 -
Arata: Show me your smile...
Show it to me alone.
Yoshiki: Arata...
I love you...
I love you so much!
Arata...
I love you!
Arata: {Forever...}
I love you, too, Yoshiki...
{I want this to last forever...}
- pg. 196 -
Arata: {I've finally caught it.}
{It's the real Yoshiki this time. Not just his shadow.}
Can I hold you...?
SFX: *Haa*
Yoshiki: Idiot! You don't have to ask!
Arata: He's angry again.
- pg. 197 -
Arata: Ah...!
Yoshiki: Arata, it looks even bigger than before.
Arata: Yeah...
You're right.
I feel like...it's going to explode.
Nnah...!
I'm a little worried now. Can I really fit into you...?
Yoshiki: Huh...?
- pg. 198 -
Arata: See? How's this?
Yoshiki: Nn! Ah!
Arata: You're so tight...
Yoshiki: Nn! Hff!
Ah! Aah...!
But...I want you...!
Arata: Yoshiki...
Yoshiki: I don't care if it hurts... I can take it.
Put it in me now...
- pg. 199 -
Arata: Yoshiki....
Relax...
Yoshiki: Nn...!
Ah!
- pg. 200 -
Yoshiki: (flashback) Come on! Hurry up, Arata!
Arata: (flashback) Yoshiki! Wait for me!
- pg. 201 -
Arata: (flashback) Come on! I said to wait!
(flashback) Got you now!
[And I'll never let you go again.]
[From now on...]
[Forever and ever.]
- END -