1. Chapter 27: Before the Storm
2. "N-"
3. "Huh?!"
4. "You've got this look on your face like you're freaking out because your partner's meeting a woman from their past or something."
5. "No, I don't!"
6. "What's wrong, sae?"
7. "I told you my instincts are usually spot-on."
8. "But I'm not freaking out at all. In fact, I wasn't even thinking about it."
9. "Whisper"
10. "But seriously, what the hell?"
11. "Though I can't say the last part isn't true."
جاري التحميل...جاري التحميل...
1. "Uh-huh..."
5. "Oh-ho!"
6. "I just have a different tolerance level than everyone else!"
7. "Hmm... Boy? Girl?"
8. "Bad news, it's a girl."
10. "Oh right!"
11. "This new part-timer is starting today."
12. "Huh...?"
13. "It looks like there's no way this'll awaken any relationship drama for you, sae."
14. "Hmm? Me...?"
15. "I don't need any drama!"
16. "Besides, what about your relationships, kameido?"
جاري التحميل...جاري التحميل...
1. "Uh... Sae...?"
2. "Look by your feet."
3. "Hm?"
4. "I'm as free as ever..."
5. "Auu- uugh- hh!"
6. "I suppose it's probably pretty low-level from your perspective."
7. "Ahh, well, I just went to a regular private school."
8. "Oh, it's in the city."
9. "This is it."
10. "So, inuzuka..."
11. "...where did you end up going for college?"
12. "Hm..."
1. "Glad I was of use to someone at least once."
2. "I see..."
3. "I managed to get in without having to take the exams."
4. "Thanks to your help, my grades were pretty good in the end."
5. "Oh, come on. More than once..."
6. "If I were you, I'd have tried for a better school."
7. "I wish you'd..."
8. "...come to the same school as me."
9. It's...
1. Why would she say this now of all times?
2. Why is she getting me all confused again after all this time?!
3. It's not fair...!!
4. And I like her better with black hair...
5. It's too late!
6. What about how she hurt my feelings?!
7. Even knowing the reason doesn't help me feel okay about it!
8. She was avoiding me at the time!!
9. What does she mean she wishes I went to the same school?!
10. "Ah, sorry. I said that without thinking about your feelings."
11. "Forgive me."
1. "Oh, that's not true."
2. "It's not your fault at all!"
3. "I'm sure it's because I avoided you for so long."
4. "Even if you wanted to come to my school, you couldn't have."
5. "I just gave up trying to get in touch with you."
6. "I did give up..."
7. "...and there's one more reason I did."
8. It's a pretty important reason.
9. "Yu..."
1. "Stop bullying the new girl."
2. "C'mon, kameido."
3. "I'm yuria."
4. "Nope!"
5. "So your name is yumi?"
6. "She told me I could draw on it."
7. "And that's not bullying?"
8. "Y-u-r-I-a."
9. "I'm yuria!"
10. "Nooope!"
11. "What was it? Yumeko?"
12. "Right, uh..."
1. "That's a lot of characters..."
2. "The characters are... ...yu-ri-a."
3. "My last name is washio."
4. "Anyway... ...what's with the head?"
9. "Nice..."
10. "It sure is, so many characters."
11. "But it's pretty impressive, so I like it."
12. Look at that face. She loves the joke she just made.
13. "Though I have cut some off the sides..."
14. "Nooope."
15. "You go and cut it off yourself?"
1. "I'm going to a trade school..."
2. "...to be a beautician."
3. "It's a mannequin for practicing perms and haircuts and the like."
4. "I love ..."
5. "...to mess with people's hair..."
6. "I love to mess with people's hair..."
7. "Heh heh. Yeah."
8. "So, you want to be a beautician..."
9. "Oh. Ohh..."
10. "So, shiho..."
11. "...how are things with your boyfriend lately?"
12. "Uh... Boyfriend ?"
2. "I saw it last year on insta..."
3. "Did I say I had one?"
4. "Well, um..."
5. "Oh, that was... Um..."
6. "Oh man, I'm so embarrassed. I was just fooling around."
7. "It didn't work out. We dated for like three months and broke up."
8. "He wasn't a bad friend, so I tried dating him."
9. Fooling around
1. "I thought I'd just fall in love with him bit by bit as we dated, but..."
2. "...something about that in high school."
3. "You said..."
4. "Uh."
5. "Why do you ask?"
6. "Well, you see..."
7. And I really don't have the right to say that because I'm dating saeko!!
8. Of course, I don't have the right to say that because I fell in crazy love with her...
9. "That you don't have to play at falling in love just because everyone else is."
1. "Hmm..."
2. ...I guess I haven't really changed how I think about that kind of thing.
3. Though...
4. "I did say that. I was so young!"
5. "Oh, that..."
6. "It's been long enough..."
7. "...so I can probably say this. When we first met..."
8. "...and you first started to hang around the club room, I kind of didn't like you."
9. "Bwuh?"
10. "I'm fine..."
11. "...please continue."
12. "Didn't like you"
13. "But after a while, I got used to you and I was like, eh, she's fine."
14. "Huh? You okay?"
1. "Then, after a while..."
2. "...that feeling of fine got bigger and bigger."
3. "And then I was swept along with you..."
4. "...into hanging out in the room, going to karaoke and changing my plans."
5. "So, inuzuka... Do you really understand how important what you did for me was?"
6. "I was like, eh, fine, why not try?"
7. "And when I started thinking that..."
8. "...I realized I could do anything."
1. "Inuzuka... You've been the strongest influence on my life."
2. "You get that, right?"
1. "You got it! Isn't it stylish?!"
2. "Sae, you really look different today!"
3. "I know, it's your hairdo!"
4. "Hey, how long do we have to wait for the check?!"
5. "Our order hasn't come yet, miss..."
6. "Got it!"
7. "One sec!"
8. "Hey, we need two beers here, too!"
9. "Got it!"
10. "The new girl did it for me..."
11. "Thanks for coming in!!"
12. "Okay..."
13. "Someone's barfing over there!"
14. "Somebody needs to come clean it up!"
1. I said it way too louud!!
2. "Oh nooo!"
3. "Sae, please... You're laughing too hard!"
4. "Please don't laugh at me!"
5. "Customers too?"
6. "Ah ha ha ha ha"
7. "Ah ha ha! Oh man..."
8. "It's been so long since I laughed that hard..."
1. "Can you go?"
2. "Hmm..."
3. "An after-party at karaoke, huh?"
4. "How about karaoke?"
5. "Who wants to have an after-party?"
6. "We done with the check?"
7. "Uh-huh..."
8. "It's not really that big a deal, though."
9. "Like, what if my mom comes to pick me up again?"
10. "Still got a little trauma from the first time."
11. "..."
12. "...how are things..."
13. "...with your parents now?"
14. "I'm not sure if this is an okay question, but..."
1. "Ah, wait, they did get in touch in the spring."
2. "I was at work, so I missed the call. That's all, though..."
3. "Nothing has really changed."
4. "They don't talk to me at all, though."
5. "But they have to save face, so they at least pay for my tuition and stuff."
6. "So..."
7. "...you didn't let them know you were coming today."
8. "You got it, I didn't."
9. "I came without making any plans."
10. "I have not!"
11. "Have you figured out where you're staying tonight?"
1. "I thought I'd just follow you wherever you went tonight."
2. Huh...?
3. What does it mean?
4. What does that mean?
5. What... Does...
6. "Let's go somewhere else, get something to drink and talk."
7. "We can play darts or something."
8. "I mean, basically I haven't had my fill of talking to you."
1. "Then, if we get tired, we can just get a hotel room somewhere."
2. "Ah, of course, if it's okay to say that kind of thing to you..."
3. "Is that a problem?"
1. "Well, then, let's get to the afterword."
2. "Thanks so much for picking up volume 3 of the manga!"
3. "Hello! It's me, the author, tamifull."
4. "This time, I'd like to be stereotypical and tell you how I started drawing comics!"
5. "Hey there!"
6. When I was in elementary school, books like this started to come out for kids.
7. "Let's see how."
9. "You should become a comic artist in the future!"
10. The adults around me
11. It's really cliche, but I loved to draw pictures when I was a kid.
12. "'kay, I will."
13. "You have to do all of that alone?! What a pain!!"
14. There's also tons of supplies.
15. Create characters
16. Think of a story
17. "Whoa! Comic artists have to..."
18. Of course, you also have to be good at art.
19. Learn how to use a bunch of techniques.
20. Draw panels
1. ...meant I really got into lots of people make one thing together!
2. Understanding the pain involved in doing everything all alone...
3. "No way!"
4. Making something big from the efforts of a bunch of small people...
5. That was so fun that I ended up doing a lot of different things in my school days.
6. ...it's so awesome.
7. "Hm?"
8. "Lemme see..."
9. "It's ready, check it out!"
10. "Yay! We're done!"
11. Yet...
1. I guess making things with a group just takes compromise...
2. ...and I don't want to rain on their parade.
3. But everyone worked so hard on this...
4. If I did it myself, it would be so much better...
5. Honestly, I'd like to make it better than this!
6. It's kinda different than I thought it would be...
7. But with comics...
8. You don't have to hold back for anyone!
9. Script, staging, actors,
10. stage dressing, etc....
11. ...you can make it all exactly how you want it to be!
12. And that's how I chose the path of doing it all by myself in comics!
13. "Happy!"
14. It's true!
15. Comics are so great!!
16. And that's why I do everything without assistants...
2. "I make it a rule not to look back on the past, that's all..."
3. "Why not?"
4. "Ahhh!! I don't want to remember that!"
5. "This was around the time I treid to top you, wasn't it?"
6. "Wha?!"
7. "...but other times it feels like you're showing off."
8. "You're always like that, saeko. Sometimes I think you're hiding things..."
9. "I refuse to listen to any more of this!"
10. "Hah! That's it, I'm out!"
11. "Aha! So that's what you're going to say, huh?"
1. "I wasn't trying to bad-mouth you."
2. "I'm sorry, saeko. It was just a joke."
3. "Oh my god, you're so young!"
4. "Hey!"
5. "What are you looking at?!"
6. "Weren't you saying that you make it a rule not to look back at the past?!"
7. "Don't look at that!"
8. "This is the face of a young girl in love..."
9. "..."
10. "Whaaa..."
11. "Ohhh..."
12. "Don't take it out on me!"
13. Continued in volume 4!
2. Even though the characters are all members of the band club, there isn't a single scene of them playing in this volume. No wonder it felt easier to draw! We'll probably see them playing their instruments more in the next volume...