1. "The river."
2. "The river?"
3. She's lying...
5. "That's when I found it, by asakusa station. I was looking down as I walked..."
6. "I found it by the sumidagawa river. When we were at azumabashi park, remember? I left you to go use the phone?"
2. "...and that's it."
3. "Oh!!!"
4. "Uh-huh."
5. "So why"
6. "Did you put some random ring you found on your ring finger?"
1. "Uh..."
2. "I juuuuust wondered... What it felt like to be married."
3. "You know..."
4. "I see."
5. "It was just a whim!"
6. "Just, after seeing my brother, you know..."
7. "I just put it on without really thinking!"
1. "Nothing important."
2. "See? It's..."
3. "So don't get all suspicious."
4. "Hmm..."
5. "........."
1. "All right."
2. "What're you putting it on for?"
1. It's weird to think I wore one myself not long ago...
2. "Huh? Just because..."
3. "After all..."
1. "It's obvious, isn't it?"
2. "A hunch."
3. "Well..."
4. "How did you know...?"
5. "I mean..."
6. "Huh? Ahahaha..."
7. "A hunch?"
8. "Ha ha ha."
1. "She gave it to me,"
2. "Good guess."
3. "Through my brother."
4. "She wants to be with me."
1. Even though I was pretty sure that was it, hearing her say it
2. "Oh."
3. "I was right."
4. Is something else.
5. "So that's why you're turning yourself in this time!"
1. "Psyyyyyych!"
1. "...hahaha, well, I guess I can see why you'd think that"
2. "Psych?"
3. "After seeing this ring!"
4. "Hahaha..."
5. .........??
6. "You thought I was serious, right? Are you stupid?"
1. "Hey... You...!"
2. "What ...?"
1. "If it's just something you found, I'm throwing it away."
2. "... What"
3. "Are you trying to prove?"
4. "Whether it's true or not, there's no need to throw it away."
5. "Are you lying? Are you telling the truth? If it doesn't matter, I'll throw it away."
1. "If it's a present from her, I'll give it back."
2. "After all, tomorrow you're going away..."
3. "I don't hate you for your selfishness,"
4. "Are you getting enough calcium?"
5. "You make fun of me, but then as soon as I tease you a little, you go crazy."
6. "If it'll make you feel better, then throw the ring!"
7. "But it's really annoying!"
8. "But you're pretty selfish yourself!"
9. "I may be a thoughtless person,"
10. "You know,"
11. "Go on, if you need to see the look on my face!"
1. Either way, tomorrow I'll be
2. Wearing handcuffs instead of a ring...
3. Even if it's important, I won't be able to keep it anymore.
4. ...and
5. This isn't the first time I've failed to take good care of something important!
6. "Aha haha ..."
1. "Go ahead and test me,"
2. "Throw it away."
3. "Go on."
4. "If that's what you need to do."
5. "What do you want to know?"
6. "What is it you're hoping to learn?"
7. "Haha... Don't give me that look."
8. "I'm sorry for being mean."
9. "You want to make sure before I leave??"
10. "And I'm all alone after all"?"
11. ""She has a girlfriend who'll wait for her"
1. "You're convinced it's a present from her, right? ...you're wrong."
2. "I was just teasing."
3. "Give it here. I'll throw it away."
4. "Huh!?"
5. "You're wrong, so I'm going to throw it away."
6. "For you."
1. "It's like you're determined to believe you have no one."
2. "And then when I try to help you, you push me away..."
3. "Beg- ging..."
4. "Cry- ing,"
5. "Wail- ing,"
6. "All this test- ing, shout- ing,"
7. "You're so high mainte- nance,"
8. "Honest- ly..."
9. "But you"
10. "Belong to some- one else, don't you?"
11. "You have me."
12. "...I don't have any- one..."
13. "If you weren't so stub- born,"
14. "I would"
15. "Have done anything for you..."
16. "I tried to be there for you,"
17. "But you were so convinced you were alone, it's your own fault for feeling hurt."
1. "But you never really gave me your full attention..."
2. "That's not true... You'll kill for me and throw money at me..."
3. "......"
4. "I'm sick of always having to judge your moods!!"
5. "Sorry!!"
6. "I'm fed up with this!"
7. "........."
8. "Of my old life, I guess."
9. "Just to have a memento"
10. "Why are you asking that?"
11. "What was I to you, anyway?"
12. "Huh...?"
13. "So let me ask just one last thing."
1. "...but now... Well..."
2. "You're my lesbian friend who leads such a boring life that she is totally undone by a random smile from me... I guess."
3. "... Hmm,"
4. "Well,"
5. "Never met her..."
6. "..."
7. "Waah ..."
8. "I'm sorry you met me."
9. "I admit there were times I believed you loved me"
10. "Ooh ..."
11. "I could have been"
12. "And"
13. "I didn't want you to leave me."
14. "And I'm"
15. "He's... Dead, isn't he?"
16. "Sorry for being alive."
17. "If we'd both died, it would have solved everything."
1. "Even if"
2. "You know,"
3. "I think I'd still insist I just found it..."
4. "This ring really was a present from her,"
5. "Why?"
1. "But you're lonely no matter who you're with."
2. "Because I'll never be alone,"
3. "A final act"
1. "Of compassion."
1. "Be alone."
2. "Live with the loneliness."
1. "I'll serve my time because of you,"
2. "So you have to be alone because of me."
1. ".......... .........."
2. "... Except not."
1. "Because you were already alone."
1. "Yeah."
1. ...I really did find the ring...
2. If she'd given it to me,
3. I would never throw it away.
1. "Not for you."
1. Serialized in Kodansha's Morning 2 (12/2008 ~6/2009, as well as 2-10/2010) and Shogakukan's Ikki (6/2009~).
8. From Ch. 15/Line drawings and tones by Kumazawa Sayuri (Location: Shibuya, Tokyo)
4. At various point in volume two, several of my assistants retired: Nakayama Fumikichi, who had been with me from the first chapter; Abe Sayaka, who was in charge of tones starting with chapter 3; Kumazawa Sayuri, who came on as a newbie for chapter 4 yet always managed to fulfill our difficult demands; Wakayama Yoshiko, who joined me at the last minute for the chapter 5 deadline and has since provided me with excellent line drawings; and Sekine Nao, who did line drawings and tones and everything starting with the special chapter. No matter how hard our schedule was, they were always there for me with a smile, giving it all they had. I owe them so much. A lot of things happened along the way, but we managed to overcome it all and it was because of the support they gave me, their dedication to the job and love of manga, that I was able to put out this volume. Thank you for everything. (Nakamura Ching)
7. Tokyo Sun Joint let us use them in the background of ch. 11 & 12
13. T/N: Those are just examples of the dialect, which doesn't carry over to English.
1. Sahara
2. Nobata Kazuyo
3. Part-time: Koike Kaori
4. Drawing assistance: Makino Fumie Retouching for Vol. 1 as well as Ch. 15 (serialized in three parts)
5. Tones: Koike Kaori/Line drawings: Nakayama Fumikichi *Both from Ch. 17 onwards
1. Thank you for your purchase. I hope to see you again in Volume 3.
2. Songs I listened to a lot while working (alone): Doyou Nami (Nakajima Miyuki) Unagidani (Yashiro Aki) Ai Sansan (Misora Hibari) Inconsolable (Backstreet Boys) Toki no Nagare ni Mi wo Makase (Teresa Teng) Nisou no Fune (Nakajima Miyuki) Mabataki mo Sezu (Nakajima Miyuki) Koutou no Umi (Nakajima Miyuki)
3. Songs we played a lot (sang a lot?) while working together: Ashimoto (Kokujin Tensai) Hatsukoi (Kokujin Tensai) Abarero (Kokujin Tensai) Love Hotel (Kokujin Tensai) Daichi Sanshou (choir)
1. "Tada!"
2. "Ta-da!!"
3. "Hey, that's not bad...! In fact, it's pretty good!!"
4. Backgrounds and tones: Nobata Kazuyo *Excluding the character introductions
7. "Hmmm?"
9. "Wow! That's amazing! You're really good!!"
12. "You should have become an illustrator!"
15. "Let me draw something, too"
17. "I messed up the layout."
18. "Me?"
1. "Kita!! Would you like to see a movie this weekend?"
2. "Sorry, I'd really love to go... But I'm planning on catching a cold this weekend!"
4. "You fall asleep all naked and sweaty like this night after night, so unfortunately you'll be coming down with a cold by the weekend, eh!?"
5. "Unfortunately."
6. "Hehe"
7. "You are really quite outrageous, kei-chan."
8. "Ooh..."
1. "Kei! Look, I found some puppies!!"
2. "Who's going to take care of them...?"
3. "I wanna keep them!!!"
5. "I'll do it."
7. "No, you won't."
8. Kita Keigo Born 5/10 Hobby: Pachinko Favorite thing: Hanshin Tigers Favorite tourist spot: Bali, Hokkaido, Okinawa, Asakusa as of 11/2007
9. Kita Hatsue Born 2/18 Favorite food: Bitter melon, cake, mochi Least favorite food: Cheese Favorite tourist spot: Tokyo Tower as of 11/2007