2. A love affair filled with mystery.
4. Though I was once an idol, I don't want anyone to know...
6. Ever since I was a little girl, I've been infatuated with the 'other side', the world of splendor. Yes, I wanted to become one of those glittering stars. And so, dream has come true. But, now... All I want is to be beloved by someone.
Memuatkan…Memuatkan…
1. That was before.
2. Right...
3. I'm alone. That's what I used to think.
4. "Fennel?"
6. She's a beauty with a great figure!
7. Although she's only 22 years old,
8. Her name is iwai setsuko,
10. "That's right, "Fennel"!"
11. "It's a music group!"
3. I searched the internet a bit and was really shocked to find lots of information about her.
4. —iwai-san is an accomplished composer.
5. Some would describe her as being the "Independant type."
1. "She would occasionally appear on local late-night programs, or a radio broadcast."
2. "Yeah. She released 3 singles and an album 3 years ago."
3. "..."
4. "Yeah, but now she's running a laundry mat."
5. Myashita yukino, 18 years old. As a child she longed to be an idol. At 15, she entered the entertainment industry as a member of a four-person idol group. But unfortunately before they could make a name of themselves, the group broke up. After returning home, she was welcomed with people's curious looks and hurtful slander. Wishing to gain back her pride, as well as having a taste of romance, and hoping to erase the memories of her past, she chose to return to tokyo. And at this present time, a certain woman has appeared before her.
6. "Really?!"
7. "Seems like there's competition for Miya-chan."
1. "Oh, you're so energetic."
2. "Good morning."
3. "Morning."
5. "What are you doing, miya-chan~?"
6. I don't think I can call her a friend, yet.
7. Somehow... Somehow this feels a little forced, but...
1. "It can only be fate. Faaaaate!"
2. To actually be able to find someone to sympathize with, in a city like tokyo...
3. "Want to try being friends?"
4. ...
5. But...
6. If it was her...
7. Kamo-chan understands me so well...
1. "The idol, yukino!"
2. "You're..."
3. "Ah... You've been here before,"
4. Perhaps... She would understand me better...
5. "Right... Okay, it's inspection time."
6. "I'm actually just an assistant manager now..."
7. "..."
1. Sure is carefree to be a man...
2. Wearing shades even though it's night...
3. Having only an undershirt on...
4. Ah, underarm hair.
5. Ah,
6. It's like he's not even listening...
7. Already I've found something left behind...
8. "Do you like to write kakiko*, yukino-chan?"
11. "No, I just wanted to take a look at it."
12. "Eh... This?"
13. "So that's it."
1. "..."
2. "So hoping to have a more interactive relation with my customers, I made this notebook."
3. "I found the usual feedback box too distant."
6. "For example, "Just a place to dump laundry at""
7. "Huh?"
8. "What do you think a laundry mat should be like?"
9. "Yukino-chan..."
10. "Or maybe, "To allow people to do their laundry freely" and so on."
1. "In other words, having a cold unfamiliar atmosphere,"
2. "This is the service industry after all."
3. "You know!"
4. "I can't simply have customers feeling like they're at the deep end of the pool."
5. "Should be a place with a personal touch! Right?"
6. "I feel that a laundry mat...."
7. "It's the symbol of civilization, right?"
8. "Because clothes are very important, right?"
1. "In a way, isn't this place just like a gas station?"
2. "Ha-ah..."
3. "And people come here to be cleansed, right?"
4. Author's note: those pair of warm and fuzzy shoes hidden in the snow, it's time for them to be of used now.
5. "..."
6. ...that was "Iwai laundry's" philosophy from then on...
7. "Yeah, though doing a report while wearing an undershirt is really kind of..."
8. How can there be such a weird person...
9. "Look at this, yukino-san..."
10. "Ah,"
1. "It's the first outfit for this afternoon's photo shoot event."
2. "This dress is really cute, isn't it?"
3. Have my thighs become fat lately?
4. "Ah, just as I thought,"
5. "Looks reeeeally good, very cute."
6. "Yeah."
1. Octave having never experience love nor sex.
1. I've been wearing the same set of clothing to work for 3 consecutive days...
2. I've yet to buy a single piece of clothing...
3. Sigh, since I've arrived in tokyo...
4. Clothes are very important!
5. "Good evening. Miyashita-san."
6. How embarrassing...
7. People must have started to notice.
1. "...ah."
2. "The back view of you washing your hair looked like a piece of art..."
3. "...just now,"
4. "Did your bathroom break down?"
1. "Couldn't help it."
2. I was watching through the mirror, stunned.
3. "I didn't notice."
4. "Ah..."
5. "Huh?"
6. "Are you referring..."
7. "But,"
8. "My bathroom didn't break down."
9. "To me?"
1. "Huh?"
2. "Mapo tofu."
3. "Huh?"
4. "You asked me earlier."
5. "Oh..."
6. "Do you like mapo tofu?"
8. Why did she quit being an idol?
9. Miyashita, she...
10. "Probably since she's no longer popular with the guys!"
11. "Who knows?"
1. —television?
2. "In that case, wouldn't it be hard to find a husband?"
3. "I love it!"
4. "Ha ha ha"
5. "You sure are bold to say that~"
6. "I watch it every day!"
9. "Lately my mom even taped down "Today's recipe"..."
10. "Cute ones, elegant clothing..."
11. "Haha, did you cry then?"
12. "...over my recorded episode of music station."
13. "I want to try on all sorts of outfits!"
14. ...yukino-chan.
1. I tried... But my family is big.
2. "Yukino-chan should try asking her mom for one too."
3. "Did reika-chan buy a new dress again?"
4. "You're always wearing the same outfit."
5. I've long been used to having no beautiful clothing to change into.
6. It's better than...
7. So this is it.
8. Or being ambushed and blocked at the school gates.
9. Having fingers pointed at you, or being looked at with distain while walking down the streets...
10. Simply having no clothes to change into is a hundred times better than that.
1. Then, if I could find a boyfriend soon and later get married,
2. In tokyo... It's fine to live unknown to the public.
3. It would be even better...
4. Honestly, I don't ask for much besides that.
1. "How embarrassing,"
2. "I've just been rambling non-stop."
3. "Th-thank you!"
4. "Ah,"
5. "Mapo tofu,"
6. "Want some more?"
7. "The girl living across from you."
8. "The one who flaunts her clothes,"
9. "Huh?"
10. "Ah, I don't mind,"
11. "This is really good."
12. "She's really pathetic."
13. "She probably just wants to see you drool with envy."
14. "Her name is reika, right?"
1. "But..."
2. "Haha."
3. "I guess I still am envious."
4. "I'm not at the point where I'm drooling..."
5. Like some kind of princess...
6. There's always frills and lace sewn on,
7. "This dress is cute, isn't it!"
8. Twirling and turning before me, making me look.
9. Always jingling...
10. The more it dazzles before you.
11. The more you can't have it,
12. "Look, yukino-chan!"
13. That's why I...
1. "If I was the one wearing it, I would look prettier!"
2. "What you were thinking?"
3. "Was that..."
1. "But then again,"
2. "Something like that..."
3. "...something-"
4. "Though you want to dress up in cute clothes,"
5. "It's not for the sake of wanting attention."
6. "What a dilemma."
1. ""Really?" what are you trying to say?"
2. "Oh... Really?"
3. "Isn't it possible to just to want to dress up for yourself?"
4. "Well, yeah!"
5. "Do you dress up for the sake of men?"
6. "Let me ask you then, iwai-san."
7. "Men, they're always..."
8. "There's no way men would pay attention to your clothes..."
1. "Men, they're always..."
2. "Eh...?"
3. "Thinking of wanting to have sex?"
1. "Ah... You are clearly a virgin!"
2. "But it's true that all men are..."
3. "!"
4. "Having no experience whatsoever."
5. "You sure seem to know a lot,"
6. "Completely withered,"
7. "Poor thing."
8. "...the truth is..."
9. "I'm saying that... Experience doesn't matter in this case. The truth is..."
10. ""To live unknown to the public" or whatever..."
1. "The truth is that you would really love to be paid attention to, right?"
2. "Just by that, you're already wet..."
3. "...earlier at matsu's bathhouse,"
4. "You'd already noticed that I was watching you,"
5. "Through the mirror."
1. "You were very aware that I was watching."
2. "..."
3. "Something like that?"
4. "Something like that..."
1. The taste of mapo tofu...
2. "...ah."
1. "Ah..."
2. "Hm...?"
3. "I..."
4. "Still..."
5. "You're afraid that mari will walk in?"
6. "Don't worry; he'll be at his part-time job until morning."
1. "Weird name, isn't it?"
2. "Yeah, my brother."
3. "Mari?"
4. "No one will come."
5. "It's alright,"
6. "Relax."
7. "So... Be good."
8. Next, while yukino is both mentally and emotionally unstable, a friend from her idol days - mika - shows up.