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1. Liebe girls academy: a mission school and haven for young maidens atop the hill.
2. It's the season of green new beginnings.
3. The upcoming blume selection has become the talk of the academy.
4. "I wonder who the blume will be this year?"
5. "I'm so excited!"
6. "Have you decided?"
7. "Who are you going to vote for?"
8. "It's the girls from the salon! They're all together!"
9. "Everyone, look!"
10. "Over there!"
1. ""They're all so wonderful...""
3. "That is what the blume selection is all about."
4. "Please try to evoke that kind of image."
6. "We're the ones whom the academy entrusts with tending to the school's visitors, after all."
7. "Being a part of the salon team is a position that is admired by the rest of the student body."
8. I love going to work.
9. "You could say that the members of the salon serve as the "Face" of the academy."
1. "...'lady blume' is like the student council president?"
2. "Wait, so does that mean..."
3. I love it because I get to spend much more time close to hime-chan than I do at school...
4. "...it's only natural that the position of lady blume would be selected from from the salon team. Thus..."
5. "...and so that's why..."
6. "That's something completely different!"
7. ...and because I get to help her out more, too.
8. I've been paying attention!
9. "Don't you worry, hime-chan."
10. ...so understanding these kinds of scenarios is hard for her.
11. Hime-chan never reads comics or novels...
12. "During the blume event period, we have a special cake menu, called "Blume nachtisch.""
13. "Now..."
14. "...let's talk about the business side of things."
1. "...she gets to issue a single "Decree," in order to make liebe a model academy."
2. "As lady blume sets the standard for a model student of liebe..."
3. "Whoever receives a clear majority of the votes will become die blume der liebe!"
4. "And then!"
5. "This is something that you all will actually have to do!"
6. I wonder if there is some- thing...
7. ...that hime-chan would want to decree...
8. "Oh...? Is hime-chan plotting something?"
9. "...I do recall reading some trivia like that..."
10. "Come to think of it..."
11. "..."
12. "...so try and think of what your "Decree" will be before then."
13. "The blume presents this special ruling of hers during her acceptance speech..."
1. "I can decree something like that, right?"
2. ""I want everyone in the academy to love me.""
3. "There's not actually anything concrete that I want..."
4. "You're pretty eager, hime-chan!"
5. "Wow!"
6. "That's fine!"
7. "Are we allowed to vote for ourselves?"
8. "Hime-chan, that's already what being lady blume means!!!"
9. "Did you decide on a decree you wanted to make?"
10. "Very good, very good!"
11. "Seems like you've grasped what being lady blume means, in your own way!"
12. "Receiving that kind of treatment is already what being lady blume is all about."
13. "...so isn't it only right that you give your vote to me?"
14. "You're my little sister..."
15. "..."
16. "Guess you don't."
17. "I don't really need a decree, then..."
1. "Really! It's not a bad idea to use your vote for yourself."
2. "Really?"
3. "It's a good thing for hime-chan to aim to be lady blume, isn't it?"
4. "Isn't it best if hime-chan just does what she likes?"
5. "Umm..."
6. "...is that really what it means to be "Sisters"?"
7. "..."
8. "Hm, what should I do, then?"
9. "If you do, then I'll vote for you too, hime-chan."
10. "Will you?"
11. "Of course it is!"
12. "But, if she's going to play the part of the little sister correctly... Shouldn't she do that?"
13. "Yes, ma'am!"
14. "Go get 'em!"
15. "The blume period starts today!"
16. "Perfect! Keep talking up the blume selection just like that in the salon!"
17. "Kanoko-chan."
1. "...lock it right back up anyway, so I'm fine with getting it back..."
2. "I was just about to say, if I got it back now I would just have to..."
3. "I'd already shut it in the safe box before you all got here."
4. "Sorry about that!"
5. "You never got your phone back, kanoko?"
6. "...after closing."
7. "..."
8. "It's not really that big of a deal..."
9. "I guess it would just be a distraction during work, yeah?"
10. "Let's have a great day out there!"
11. "I'll give you the phone later, then."
12. "...huh...?"
13. "..."
14. "I guess hime-chan is the only one you can talk to, huh?"
15. "Can you really not talk to me at all, kanoko-chan?"
16. "No really, that's okay!"
17. "..."
18. It just confirmed my suspicions.
1. "Ah..."
2. "Did you thank her for picking up your phone?"
3. "I got my point across..."
4. "I was fine...!"
5. "You really did get lost for words again, huh?"
6. "Kanoko..."
7. "..."
8. "Plus, she's not a stranger!"
9. "You need to learn how to speak to people who aren't me!"
10. "You did this yesterday, too! You couldn't even talk on the phone."
11. "..."
12. "..."
13. "I just get so nervous..."
14. "...talking to strangers..."
15. "The fundamentals of a façade!!!"
16. "Greetings! Gratitude!"
17. "Sorry..."
1. ...and yet she wants to make me talk to other people...
2. Getting to talk to hime-chan is so important to me...
3. Hime-chan is cute, and she's an amazing actress.
4. ...I could never be as cute as hime-chan is.
5. But...
6. She can do it because she's cute.
7. "Let's start off with being able to talk naturally with your co-workers here."
8. "At least try talking to people who you're familiar with."
9. ...but is it really necessary...
10. ...for me to talk to the people here?
11. I know I need to do this, if I want to help hime-chan...
12. "..."
1. "I believe that you are the one who should be chosen as die blume der liebe!"
2. "If you care so much about it, then you should just go for the title."
3. "You're awfully serious about this."
4. "Tachibana-sama!!!"
5. "The wisdom and poise with which you carry yourself are something that everyone admires."
6. "I believe you have a duty to become lady blume, and live up to that admiration!"
7. "I'm telling you, I have no interest in being lady blume..."
8. "Honestly..."
1. "What's with you, yano?"
2. "..."
3. "Why that's all the more reason to!"
4. "Won't you please earn the lady blume label and recognize your true status?"
5. "I should like to keep leading my peaceful days unhindered."
6. "Hm"
7. "Hm"
8. "I'd like two!"
9. "Me too, please!"
10. "...blume nachtish, please!"
11. "I'd like another..."
12. What's going on?
13. "...and then you turn around and back gyaru-senpai?"
14. "You tell me that I'm supposed to vote for you..."
15. No need for me to hold back.
16. "Here..."
17. "...is your blume nachtisch."
18. In that case, I'll just do whatever I like.
19. I see.
20. "Hmm. Hmph!"
1. If you could?
2. "I would love it if I could become lady blume..."
3. "I think it's wonderful!"
4. "Oh yes, the blume!"
5. "What do you think about the whole blume process, shirasagi-san?"
6. "I want to be lady blume!"
7. "There's a chance! Even for me!"
8. "I hope you all throw lots of votes my way!"
1. "Shirasagi-san."
2. "..."
3. You're always number one, after all...
4. "So... She is..."
5. "Your onee-sama seems hell-bent on making me into lady blume."
6. "Then, could I get you to talk to ayanokouji-san for me?"
7. "Looks like you're giving it your all in the lady blume race."
8. "...?"
9. "But if that's what she's saying..."
10. "...then you should listen to her, too, tachibana-senpai..."
11. "Tell her, "I'm working really hard, so please just let tachibana-sama relax...""
12. "...or something."
13. "Yep! I'm trying my best!"
1. Such a cold little first-year...
2. "Let's both do our best, tachibana-senpai!"
3. "Why don't you forget about your onee-sama once in a while..."
4. "...and spend a little of that kindness on me?"
1. "...just a minute...?!"
2. "Tachibana-sama...???"
3. "But I look up to my onee-sama..."
4. "?"
5. "If you keep acting so stiff, you're going to end up just like your onee-sama."
1. "Let's keep at it like this and make the blume selection a smashing success!"
2. "Great work, everyone!"
3. "Yeah!"
4. "The blume event's off to a booming start!"
9. "Careful not to drop it again, okay?"
10. "Here you go, kanoko-chan."
11. "..."
12. "..."
13. "So, what've I done to make you glare at me like that?"
1. I never thought that she would be the type to get between me and hime-chan...
2. Was she always someone who would...
3. ...get so weird and friendly with hime-chan like that?
4. ...but... I don't know... I don't like this...
5. "What...?! Hime-chan?!"
6. "This girl's getting too friendly with you...!"
7. "That's not it!"
8. "Come on! Say something already!"
9. "Right?"
10. "Kanoko?"
11. "It's a good thing it wasn't some stranger that picked up that phone."
12. "Kanoko's pretty shy about a lot of things!"
13. "It's important for kanoko-chan that she gets to talk with you, right?"
14. "Aw, it's no big deal."
15. "You don't have to force her to talk to me."
16. "Kanoko, c'mon!"
17. "She's a dangerous one. I just know it..."
1. She seems to understand how I feel...
2. Even when she was messing with hime-chan earlier, she was looking at me...
3. She wasn't watching hime-chan, she was watching me?
4. Wait... Was I wrong?
5. How...?
6. ...I guess I might've had a lot of them...
7. Is it... Because she saw those?
8. "That's normal though, right? To have pictures of your friends..."
9. "Ah... Um...?!"
10. "...!!!"
11. Did those photos give me away...?!
12. "Starting today we have to handle this job after closing time, too."
13. "Coming!"
14. "Come to the salon, I want to show you how to tally up the votes."
15. "Hime-chan, kanoko-chan!"
1. "Th...!"
2. "Thank you... Very much."
3. "Oh, for the phone!"
4. "..."
5. "...for picking up my phone for me..."
1. "..."
2. "Nice job!"
3. But, she made it so that closing time is just for me and hime-chan...
4. ...so I don't think she's going to interfere. But still...
5. Has that girl figured me out...?
6. What do I do...?
7. "..."
1. "Mmnn..."
2. "Okay!"
3. "Mmmmn?"
4. "I feel better now!"
1. "...hime-chan!"
2. "I won't let anyone come between us..."
3. And here I thought I'd have to trick her into it.
4. "..."
1. "I'll be doing my best..."
2. "...hime-chan..."
3. "..."
4. "Oh?"
5. "Salu-tations..."
6. "You're here early!"
7. "..."
2. It's "Gyaru," Right?
1. "..."
2. "You thought she was a stranger?"
1. "That's what she's always looked like."
2. "What do you mean you didn't recognize her?"
3. "..."
4. "I didn't recognize her..."
5. "What...?"
6. "It's hard to think of someone who looks like that as tachibana-san..."
7. "Well, I mean..."
8. "...but I haven't seen her looking like that at all since that time either..."
9. My first meeting with her as a gyaru left a strong impression on me...
10. Come to think of it...
11. "This is the first time I've seen her out of her uniform..."
12. "She's always reading a book when we're in the salon..."
13. "I really... Thought that she was much more of a quiet type."
14. "..."
15. "...but you have been talking to her this whole time, so you should still be able to get along, right?"
16. "Well, as you've seen, she's a gyaru-type senpai..."
1. "These are just fashion glasses."
2. "That's kind of a stereo- type..."
3. "I mean she does, but..."
4. "And she wears glasses..."
5. "I just have a book open when we're out in the salon."
6. "Huh?"
7. "I mean, I'm not actually reading."
8. "I sort of figured they were reading glasses for when you're out in the salon."
9. "Oh... I see..."
10. "..."
11. "It makes me look..."
12. "...like more of an intellectual senpai, doesn't it?"
1. I think she might've looked through my phone...! She might even know how I feel...!
2. This girl might be dangerous, though...!
3. "Hime-chan?!"
4. "Kanoko's a good girl. Please try and be kind to her!"
5. "Of course!"
6. I can't explain any of this to hime-chan, though...
7. ...
8. "Are you really that afraid of me?"
9. She's pretty blatantly avoiding me, though.
10. ...
1. "I guess I can give you the word from the kitchen while I'm here, then."
2. "Morning..."
3. "Salutations, nene-san!"
4. "What's everyone doing here so early today?"
5. "Oh?"
6. "The blume nachtisch cakes have been more popular than we expected, so the servings we defrosted for today might not be enough to meet demand."
7. "If that happens, we might have to switch to serving a no-bake matcha cheesecake partway through, so please let the customers know."
8. "So we've been serving frozen cakes..."
9. "Roger that!"
1. "No worries!"
2. "Mai-san..."
3. "Keep pushing it with all you've got, everyone! Don't hold back!"
4. "That means that the blume event is a huge success!"
5. "This is perfect!"
6. "...we're probably going to run out of voting cards, also."
7. "I already had some extras printed."
8. "So I bet you'll be voting for hime-chan for blume, right kanoko-chan?"
9. "..."
10. "I've had plenty of time to keep things running behind the scenes, after all."
11. "..."
12. "You're aiming to be the blume, right, hime-chan?"
13. "I mean, isn't it obvious I'm voting for hime-chan...?"
14. "...?"
15. "Better think of how you're gonna answer."
16. "I'm sure someone's gonna ask you about it in the salon."
1. Just what is she trying to do?
2. I can't even figure her out normally, but now...
3. This girl really is going to get between me and hime-chan.
4. It's happening again...
5. "Well then, I'll leave it to you."
6. "Sumika-san, make sure you tell mitsuki-san too, okay?"
7. "Were you just looking at me?"
8. So she really is a gyaru...
9. She's a lot scarier now...
1. "Please wait, it will be out shortly."
2. "I have received your order."
3. "Please enjoy!"
4. "Here is your blume nachtisch!"
1. "She really fits the part!"
2. "Ah..."
3. "..."
4. "...sitting peacefully, reading all alone, while everyone else is waiting tables..."
5. "Tachibana-san is a wonderful sight..."
6. "Such a peaceful salon scene..."
7. She's over-bearing, and over-familiar.
8. She's just a lazy gyaru.
9. ...that I think about it, she isn't really working when she's doing that...
10. Now...
11. She isn't even actually reading...
12. Now that I know that, I'm coming to understand her better.
13. But to all of the customers she looks like a book-worm...
1. "Why don't you try thinking of it this way?"
2. "In books, you'll find stories..."
3. "...of places, of people, of things that you didn't know."
4. "There are as many worlds as there are books."
5. "When you read, you can spend all the time you like in that great, big world."
6. "It isn't lone- some, or stifling."
1. "Much wider than the narrow halls of this academy."
2. "There's a wide world within these pages."
3. "She's got the perfect vibe for lady blume!"
4. "..."
5. "You can feel the liebe spirit overflowing!"
6. "Oh, this is perfect! This is wonderful!"
7. ...when she doesn't even read books?!
8. How can she say that so naturally...
1. She's just saying that...
2. "I can introduce you to some more accessible titles, if you'd ever like."
3. "I guess I have a bit more respect for them now."
4. Way more...
5. She can lie even more easily than I can...
6. ...because hime-chan doesn't read.
7. "Do you like to read?"
8. "How about you, amamiya-san?"
9. "I was thinking of recommending this one to you, actually."
10. "..."
11. "It's a love story, about a middle-class english household."
1. I guess I really...
2. ...can't understand that girl...
3. "Is talk-ing to tachibana-san really that diffi-cult?"
4. "I'm sorry."
5. "Hime-chan...!"
6. "Kanoko, are you okay?"
7. "..."
8. "It's fine! I'm trying."
9. "..."
10. "...but I think I should be able to talk to her properly."
11. If I don't try harder...
12. ...I won't be able to protect hime-chan.
13. She might be a gyaru... And she might be scary...
1. "You know..."
2. "Well that is true..."
3. "She's not a scary gyaru."
4. "But she is a gyaru, right?"
5. "..."
6. "Huh...?"
7. "You're wrong, though."
8. "Don't talk about people behind their backs."
9. "...but will you quit talking about how sumika's a gyaru?"
10. "...I keep hearing you say it..."
11. "Huh...? Did we..."
12. "...say something wrong...?"
13. "..."
14. "I'm sorry..."
15. "...is because she always arrives early, and goes home late, don't you think?"
16. "Plus, the reason that you all never see sumika as she normally is..."
1. "Oh, what's up?"
2. "Did we run out of blume cakes already?"
3. "..."
4. "Here you go."
5. "We're still good."
6. "Awesome."
7. "And the drinks for table 7?"
8. "Only upperclassmen are supposed to handle alcoholic drinks, anyway."
9. "No, I'm fine."
10. "Would you like me to carry those?"
11. "Tachibana-san..."
12. "If I ever forget some, make sure you come and tell me, yeah?"
1. "Did I..."
2. "Oh?"
3. "...get you interested in that book?"
4. "If you haven't read that one, I recommend it."
5. "You really do like to read, huh, kanoko-chan?"
6. "It's about a romance that starts off with a bad first impression. It's pretty formulaic and approachable."
7. "How do you know all that...?"
8. "..."
9. "...well..."
10. "...that's what I was thinking I'd tell you about anyway."
11. "And also..."
12. "...apparently they made a movie version of it where they managed to work zombies in somehow..."
1. "If I was actually reading, I wouldn't be able to do my job."
2. "I meant in the salon."
3. "Oh!"
4. "You said..."
5. "...that you don't read books."
6. "The only books I have open in the salon are ones I've already finished reading."
7. "Chibana."
8. "Tachibana-san..."
9. "..."
1. "..."
2. "Tachi-bana-san..."
3. "..."
4. "You can call me chibana or sumika when we're off the clock, okay?"
5. "My real name is sumika chibana."
6. "...you keep trying to talk to me..."
7. "Ever since you..."
8. "...picked up my phone the other day..."
9. "..."
10. "What are you trying to do?"
1. ...but I figure it'll be rude to gyaru-senpai if I don't at least make an attempt to read it myself.
2. I'll still have you tell me about it...
3. "Did you decide to read it too, hime-chan?"
4. "That's a maiden's heart..."
5. She keeps doing all my work for me when it comes to this.
6. "That's exactly what I've been trying to say!"
7. "Yes, that's it!"
8. ...she might not be such a scary person after all.
9. Speaking of tachibana-san...
1. I already know...
2. "Oh?"
3. "Should you really be meddling in other people's romances?"
1. "..."
1. That's not just a gimmick of the setting, though.
2. Here in the salon, we students all get along in harmony.
3. It's the friendly relationship we all share that makes this place.
4. "I would just be scolded if they found out I was slacking off again."
5. "That's all right."
6. "Tachibana-san...? I'm not sure that any of the others heard you."
7. "...to see my cute kohai working so hard every day..."
8. "...it fills me with such joy..."
1. "I did see."
2. "I've gotten really good at taking orders now!"
3. "Did you see?"
4. "You're really giving this your all, hime."
5. "..."
6. "Onee-sama!"
7. "I'll keep serving my very best!"
8. "That's because I want to be lady blume!"
1. "I'm sure that earnestness of yours will come across to our visitors."
2. "My..."
3. "...that's wonderful."
4. "Yep!"
5. "I hope I get lots of votes from everyone!"
6. She's so expressive these days.
7. Yano-chan...
8. Ever since hime-chan got here, I've seen so many expressions cross her face.
9. Anger, joy, sadness...
1. "Yano-chan is as stubborn as ever, though."
2. "To be the representative of this academy, you need somewhat of a graceful beauty."
3. "...?"
4. "But that's not necessarily the most suitable character for lady blume to have."
5. "I know that you've been working hard..."
6. "Yeah!"
7. "Thank you, kanoko!"
8. "Hime-chan..."
9. "I'll still support you in becoming the blume...!"
10. "..."
1. Now that I know her motives, it's pretty easy to figure her out.
2. Then there's kanoko-chan...
3. I thought she was just some timid sidekick, but she's far from it.
4. ...and she won't look at anyone else.
5. She's always looking at hime-chan...
1. She's brought romance into this.
2. "..."
3. "I am..."
4. "Amamiya-san, you're backing shirasagi-san as lady blume, right?"
5. "Being the blume is a hard thing for a first year."
6. "So, having the support of her classmate will make her much stronger."
1. "Wh-what?"
2. "I'm so glad!"
3. "In that case, should I vote for you, then?"
4. "...that's right?"
5. "You're voting for me then, kanoko?"
6. "Hime-chan?!"
7. "You should be working towards it with me."
8. "Really?"
9. "I don't want to be lady blume anyway..."
10. "No, that's fine..."
11. "It's good to see you two first-years getting along."
1. "...you have a big sister to be thinking of."
2. "But, shirasagi-san..."
3. "You should consider voting for her."
4. "I never said I was unhappy?!"
5. "...tachibana-sama?!"
6. "Ta..."
7. "Your onee-sama looks so unhappy all alone over there."
8. "Oh? But didn't you say so yourself?"
9. "That you hoped your little sister would vote for you?"
10. "Seems like something happened?"
11. "...I did say that, but..."
12. "Did something happen?"
1. "The one who I believe to be most suitable for lady blume..."
2. "Hime should vote however she chooses to!"
3. "Even my own onee-sama won't support me..."
4. "...so that's how it is, then..."
5. "...is not myself, but you, tachibana-sama!"
6. "Hime...?"
7. "..."
8. "The blume competition is for the sake of deciding a representative for the school..."
9. "I already told you."
10. "...so your first year is a little too early for that..."
1. "~~~..."
2. "Guh..."
3. "Goodness."
4. "I'll think about it, at least."
5. "You really are..."
6. "...such a selfish little girl."
1. "When I think about the pair of them becoming blume schwestern..."
2. "Such a wonderful pair of sisters."
3. "..."
4. "...I understand why it is that you want to support shirasagi-san so badly."
5. "..."
6. "..."
7. "Us, too!"
1. "Don't tell me you're already done reading it?!"
2. "H...huh? Kanoko..."
4. "Want me to tell you about it?"
5. "I still haven't even finished part 1...."
6. "Whaaaat?"
7. "I've been taking it home to read, too..."
8. "Yeah..."
9. "The point is that we're a friendly pair or something, right?"
10. "Don't ask me!"
11. "Hime-chan..."
12. "...do you know what it means to be schwestern?"
13. "..."
14. Still...
15. I wonder if reading like this is really gonna help me understand the concept or not...
1. "No..."
2. "That's just fine..."
3. "I do have to get back to work after this, though."
4. "Ah."
5. "Ask me whatever you like!"
6. "Well now!"
7. "I'm glad for you to be the one to talk to me first, kanoko-chan!"
8. "..."
9. "So? What did you want to ask, then?"
10. "...I would like to know more concretely..."
11. "I finished reading a maiden's heart, but..."
12. "...what the concept means for us here at the café."
13. "..."Schwestern"...?"
14. "What exactly are..."
1. It's a gentle bond, secured by a sturdy chain...
2. They're pretend sisters.
3. Partners, who support each other.
4. Or something.
5. "Hm..."
6. "..."
7. It's not the same as a romantic connection.
8. "..."
9. "That's kind of abstract..."
10. "Well, I mean, if you think too hard about this stuff, you won't get any work done."
1. "That's true..."
2. "The only one around right now available for you to be schwestern with is me, anyway."
3. "So, you should try and concern yourself a little less over the whole schwestern thing, kanoko."
4. "Though, it's a problem if you fight."
5. "You're not pretending to be lovers, and we're not asking you to become lovers."
6. "Well, if I can't be schwestern with hime-chan, then I don't need a schwester."
7. "..."
8. "Being schwestern really isn't that strong of a bond, then, is it."
9. "..."
10. So, I wonder why it is that hime-chan is schwestern with that girl...
1. "Not over something like that..."
2. "C'mon... Don't cry..."
3. "..."
4. "Hang on..."
5. "Kanoko-chan?"
1. "You make it so I can't even say anything..."
2. "That's not fair..."
3. "..."
4. "..."
5. "..."
6. "Hime-chan..."
1. "..."
2. "..."
3. "What was that about...?"
4. "Should you really be meddling..."
5. "...in other people's romances?"
6. I already know...
7. ...what happens when you bring romantic feelings into this place.
1. I won't let it be broken again.
1. I have to stop her.
2. ...if she tries to break the bonds that we all share, then...
3. If kanoko-chan brings her romantic feelings into here...
2. The Midterm Results Are Here!
1. ...in last place?!
2. Why am I...
3. "In fact, you've been a model little sister, lately."
4. "You've been working really hard, hime-chan."
5. "What... Is this...?"
6. "Er... Um..."
7. But why?!
8. "The result of which being a landslide of votes for your onee-sama."
9. ""I would love to see them as blume schwestern!""
10. "I bet a lot of customers have been thinking..."
11. "I guess being lady blume myself was a long shot to begin with, huh...?"
12. ""Oh, what perfect schwestern! They're so wonderful!""
1. "You give your work your all, but your skills are still unrefined."
2. "You're cute, but you don't know how to be calm."
3. "Mmm, your character isn't really suited to being lady blume."
4. "You're the ideal type to be lady blume's little sister."
5. "That's not it, mitsuki-san."
6. "It's only thanks to you that I'm beating out sumika-san."
7. "See? That's exactly what I've been saying."
8. "...that type might be more suited to being lady blume."
9. "Having an aloof air or calm demeanor like sumika-san..."
10. "I don't think that this happened on hime-chan's power alone. I believe that you yourself factored into this result, mitsuki-san."
11. "I figured that sumika-san, who's a third-year and an inaugural member of the staff, would be a shoo-in..."
12. "...and yet, you managed to beat her."
13. "It isn't entirely thanks to hime-chan's influence that you're in first place."
17. "..."
1. "..."
2. "I see..."
3. "...you've been pretty spectacular!"
4. "Ever since you became schwestern with hime-chan..."
5. "Thank you very much..."
6. "We can't change the results."
7. "What...?"
8. "So things might still shake out for you."
9. "Well, if mitsuki-san wins then you still get to be blume schwester anyway."
10. "I'll give up on being lady blume."
11. "The results are what they are."
12. "It's not like I was trying to win against..."
13. "So that's fine."
14. "...?"
1. "..."
2. "I think that's something worth praising, don't you?"
3. Yano used to be really bad at putting on appearances...
4. ...but here she is doing it for work...
5. "I think that kind of feeling might actually be what being a schwestern pair is all about."
6. It actually makes me kind of happy.
7. When I think of it that way, it doesn't really bother me.
1. "..."
2. "Kano-ko?"
1. "Tachibana-san..."
2. "Please be lady blume!"
1. "...it's too bad that shirasagi-san fell so far behind..."
2. "Indeed..."
3. "...no."
4. "Thes results haven't dampened your spirits too much, have they?"
5. "Hime."
6. "I'm not depressed about it or anything."
7. "I mean, of course I still do want to be lady blume."
8. "Are you sure? You..."
9. "...wanted so badly to be the blume yourself..."
10. "..."
11. "I've actually been thinking how nice it would be for you to be the blume instead of me, onee-sama."
1. "But when I think about my onee-sama being lady blume..."
2. "...it makes me as happy as if it were me myself."
3. "So I was thinking it would be best..."
4. "...to support you as much as I can in the time we have left."
5. "So..."
6. "...I'll keep serving my very best for the remainder!"
7. "..."
1. I'm sure that she did, so what's going on?!
2. But didn't yano tell me I should be supporting her?
3. "Whaaaat?!"
4. "Stop being ridiculous and give your support to tachibana-san!!!"
5. "Why me?!"
6. "Tachibana-san, please be Lady Blume!"
1. "You said that I could rely on you for anything, tachibana-san."
2. "..."
3. "Still..."
4. "...did you think I'd listen to you?"
5. "...you're telling me to be the blume for such unclear reasons..."
6. "..."
7. "Please... At least hear me out."
8. "I have something that I would like to ask of you, kanoko-chan."
9. "Very well."
10. "If you'll listen to that in exchange..."
11. "..."
12. "You really are something, kanoko-chan..."
13. "Seriously..."
1. "...then I'll turn the tide out there in the salon today."
2. It's all over now...
3. "..."
4. ...kanoko-chan.
5. "Okay..."
6. You can't just let every little thing about the person you like dictate your mood...
7. ...getting jealous over something as silly as the schwestern concept.
1. Before everything we've built here is destroyed.
2. This has to end here.
3. "..."
4. "Nope."
5. "I don't plan to, anyway."
6. "Hime-chan..."
7. "You aren't aiming to be lady blume anymore, then...?"
8. "I will not...!"
9. "You'll have to vote for someone too, so..."
10. "...why don't you vote for my onee-sama instead?"
11. "Ah, well then..."
12. "...I don't need to vote for you, then, right?"
13. "In that case..."
14. "..."
15. "..."
1. "...believe that tachibana-san is the most suited to be lady blume...!"
2. "I..."
1. ...but it seems she finally managed to work up the courage.
2. She couldn't bring herself to come out and say it...
3. Amamiya-san has been in strong support of my being lady blume for a while now.
4. ...I guess I better not fail to live up to expectations.
5. Seeing that I have so much support from my cute little kohai...
6. "Finally?!"
7. "...for a while?!"
8. "Is there... A new story about to unfold?!"
9. "It did seem like there was something going on between those two lately!!!"
10. That ought to be enough...
11. "We'll be rooting for both of you, amamiya-san!"
12. "Me too! I'll support you!"
13. "..."
14. "I'll vote for you, tachibana-san!"
1. "Looks like it worked out..."
2. "...kanoko-chan."
3. "..."
4. "It seems like you've put some thought into this."
5. "...you should go ahead and vote for tachibana-senpai, then!"
6. "Well..."
7. "Yes..."
8. "I'm glad I came to you, tachibana-san."
1. "But it might've worked itself out already..."
2. "If all you feel for hime-chan..."
3. "...if it could be settled as easy as this..."
4. "...is a simple affection..."
5. "Ah..."
6. "What I meant just now was..."
1. "Let's hear it."
2. "...could I make one more request of you?"
3. "Then..."
4. "I guess it's over then."
5. "...yeah."
1. "Please use that power to abolish the schwestern system."
2. "When you become lady blume, you get to make a "Decree," right?"
3. "If you do that, then I'm sure that will bring back the old hime-chan."
4. "...huh?"
5. "She's been acting really weird lately."
1. "You have to stop all of this."
2. "You have to stop."
3. "Give up on hime-chan."
1. "You have to give up on hime-chan."
1. "You really are an interloper..."
2. "...I..."
3. "...see how it is..."
4. "..."
5. "Kanoko-chan, I..."
6. "...am going to make you give up...!"
1. "Hime-chan, that's perfect!"
2. There they are...
3. ...all of my "classmates."
4. "Making it a video means that everyone can get involved!"
5. "Hamako, you're good at that kind of thing, right?"
6. "Definitely!"
7. "It'll leave a big impression!"
8. "Doing editing on the computer and stuff."
9. "We need everyone in on this!"
10. "Should we go get the guys' opinions, too?"
11. "We've got a lot to decide!"
1. ...care-free and having fun.
2. They're always flocking around each other...
3. They're all such "good girls."
4. "Let's do this!"
5. "We're gonna make a perfect sendoff together!"
6. I...
7. ...hate all of them.
1. I have my very own place.
2. A place that's just for me, where no one will bother me.
3. There's so many of them, after all.
4. That's a place for all of "them" to use.
1. "Oh...!"
2. "Oh!"
3. "Lemme see!"
4. "Hime-chan, look!"
5. "I tried taking one like this."
6. "Whaaat, what is this? It's too silly..."
7. "Geez! C'mon you guys..."
1. She's the cutest and the most "good"...
2. Hime Shiraki-san.
3. ...out of all of them.
4. She loves everyone...
5. ...and everyone loves her.
6. She's always laughing right alongside all of them.
7. Is she such a goody two shoes that she'll tell the teacher?
8. "She saw me up on the roof..."
9. But, that's my special place...
10. Will I not be able to go up to the roof anymore?
1. "..."
2. "C'mon hime-chan, you can't take it right now!"
3. "Whaaat?"
4. "..."
5. "If you've decided already, can you let me know?"
6. "What are you going to do for the video?"
7. "You got a sec?"
8. "Mamiya-san."
1. "..."
2. Our teacher's wedding is none of my business.
3. "..."
4. "...I'll..."
5. "...do some- thing..."
6. The whole class, she says.
7. But, I don't think this is something I can refuse.
8. ...should just do this themselves.
9. All those good girls...
10. Then she probably won't come up to the roof anymore.
11. "Yeah..."
12. That's probably what Shiraki-san wanted to tell me when I was on the stairs.
13. "Oh..."
14. Since I wasn't in the class- room.
1. ...Shiraki-san came to the roof every single day.
2. And yet, after that...
3. "You can have a nice, quiet lunch there."
4. "That's a good spot, huh."
5. I can't...
6. "Why don't you go outside? Seems like it would be relaxing."
7. ...get out onto the roof itself...
8. Was it because she pitied me being all alone...
9. Was it because she's a good girl?
10. ...or something like that?
11. "Oh!"
12. I don't need her pity.
13. "I'm going to eat my lunch now."
14. "See you later."
15. "Mamiya-saaan!"
1. "We want to do a scene of the whole class together for the last shot of the commemorative video..."
2. "...?"
3. "...could we get you to make the signboard for the video shoot?"
4. "I hate to ask, but..."
5. "We'll need the sign for that."
6. "...that says something like..."
7. "..."Congratulations on your wedding!""
9. "We want a board inside of a frame, something really flashy..."
10. "You want... Me to do it...?"
11. "We've already sketched the design, so."
12. "...?!"
13. "If there's anything about it you don't understand, just ask us, okay?"
14. "So, if you don't mind!"
15. "Well, you're the only one who isn't doing anything yet."
1. "I think we still haven't decided on the location for the final scene?"
2. "I got us some danishes!"
6. "So, where are we with the filming right now?"
7. "Thank you!"
8. I should take a lunch break, too.
9. "..."
10. "Okay, let's do it now."
11. "Everyone get over here a minute!"
12. "We should hurry on that, shouldn't we?"
13. "If you don't want to do this you should just say so."
1. "If you don't tell them, how will they know?"
2. "Tell people when you don't like things."
3. "Hm?"
4. "..."
5. "I'm fine, though?"
6. "..."
7. "If you don't say something, it might as well not be real."
8. "...anything I hate..."
9. "There isn't really..."
1. "You're a good girl, mamiya-san."
2. What?
1. "Let's go ahead and get that set up in the frame."
2. "Wow, you really did it!"
3. "Thanks, mamiya-san!"
4. "What?"
5. "I think we can go ahead and wrap it up there."
6. "Sorry to have asked on such short notice!"
7. "It's fine, don't sweat the details."
8. "Look."
9. "But..."
10. "...it still isn't..."
11. "..."
12. "It seems like they're putting a rush on the filming?"
14. "We're going to be using the sign tomorrow, apparently."
1. "Make sure you're there, too, mamiya-san!"
2. "The group scene is going to be up on the rooftop."
3. "Anyway, did you hear where we'll be filming it?"
4. "..."
1. "Hff"
2. "Hff"
3. "Hff"
1. "Uh...?"
2. "Wh..."
3. "No, I..."
4. "Look at this!"
5. "Mamiya-san!"
1. "This is absolutely unforgivable."
2. "We found this tossed up in the rooftop stairwell."
3. "This is horrible!"
4. It might as well not be real.
5. "It had to have been someone who knew about the video..."
6. "What...?"
7. "Mamiya-san worked so hard on making this."
8. She helped me out?
9. Shiraki-san didn't tell them?
10. If you don't say some-thing...
11. But, then what happens if I don't say anything...?
12. But...
1. "...making it...!"
2. "I hated..."
3. "I'm the one who broke it...!"
4. "...huh?"
5. "..."
6. "...what?"
7. "She said she did it herself?"
8. "What did she just say?"
1. What?
2. What is she saying?
3. "I was with mamiya-san the whole time until then."
4. "So, was it then...?"
5. "Huh? Yeah."
6. "After that, I met up with you and the others, right shiho-chan?"
7. ...with the same good girl act as always.
8. But she's doing it...
9. Shiraki-san is lying.
10. "...taking the blame just to put an end to this."
11. "...I think that she was..."
12. "..."
13. "I'll explain up on the roof later."
14. "Just keep quiet."
15. "Well, yes, she was, but..."
16. "Then, mamiya-san was lying?"
1. "We should give up on this witch hunt, too..."
2. "That's just the kind of girl mamiya-san is!"
3. "...all this horrible casting doubt on each other!"
4. "Will it be ready in time for the shoot?"
5. "Should we re-make it?"
6. "Even if we knew who did it, nothing we can do about it..."
7. "Well, I guess you're right..."
8. I get it now.
9. Does that mean that Shiraki-san is...
10. "Thank you!"
11. "Ah... I mean we could make it?"
12. "If we all pitch in, I'm sure we'll make it in time!"
13. "I guess it'd be better to use simpler materials anyway?"
1. "Do you always lie like that?"
2. "..."
3. "How'd you get the keys...?"
4. "I borrowed them for the shoot."
5. "Come on."
6. "I told you, let's talk on the roof."
7. "Huh...?"
8. "Because they trust me, you know."
1. "I..."
2. "...hate people like that!"
3. "They're arrogant, and inconsiderate!"
4. "They're always right, just because they're "Good girls"!"
5. "I'm about to lose my special place!!!"
6. "I hate!!!"
7. "Everyone...!"
1. "You've been holding back by not saying so, haven't you?"
2. "There are things you hate."
3. "See? I knew it."
1. "...been causing you nothing but trouble, haven't they?"
2. "Everyone's..."
3. ...was different.
4. Shiraki-san...
5. "It's really annoying to see you refusing to speak up about things you dislike."
6. "It's really been bothering me."
7. "And yet you kept your mouth shut, like a good girl."
8. "But..."
9. "...it didn't go very well."
10. "Because you said so."
11. "That's exactly why I spoke up."
12. "...about you breaking the sign, and then you go and confess..."
13. "I kept my mouth shut..."
14. "You're so bad at this."
15. "...I didn't mean it like that."
16. "Well..."
1. "I'm never gonna be just some little "Good girl.""
2. "I won't hold back from everyone."
3. "I'll stop being a good girl, who never opens her mouth."
4. "I'll stop."
5. Shiraki-san is different.
6. "So anyway, mamiya-san..."
7. "...you could try a little harder..."
8. She's one of them...
9. "Yeah..."
10. ...but she's nothing like the rest of them.
1. "You're the only one who knows about this, mamiya-san."
2. "..."
3. "Honestly, I never wanted anyone else to find out again."
4. "People found out about it once, and they never saw me the same."
5. "Anyway!"
6. "You can't tell anyone that I'm putting on a façade, okay? No one!"
7. "I understand."
8. "I had to save your butt..."
9. "That's right!"
10. "You let it slip to me because you were helping me..."
11. "I see..."
12. But she was just so bad at putting on appearances...
13. ...I couldn't help getting involved.
14. She got the wrong idea about me and told everyone...
15. "?"
16. "The girl who gave me away before."
17. "..."
18. "You remind me a lot of her."
1. "I...!"
2. "Won't ever hate you, shiraki-san?"
3. "I'm glad I finally made a real friend, after all!"
4. "I sure hope not!"
5. ...in the end it seems she just ended up hating me.
6. And yet...
7. "Wh...?"
8. "Whaaaat?!"
9. "..."
10. "When it's just the two of us,"
11. "Just let me give my façade a rest."
1. From that day forth...
2. ...I was Hime-chan's only friend.
3. Her only special person.
1. "Wow! This came out amazing!"
3. The cuteness of her façade.
4. There it is.
5. "I'm sure sensei's gonna love this! ★"
6. "Everyone really gave it their all here!"
9. "Sorry that we had to ask you to make it all over again, mamiya-san."
10. "...when we found out that the signboard had been destroyed."
11. "I was worried about how it was all going to come out..."
12. ...is all an act.
13. I'm the only one who knows that Shiraki-san's cuteness...
1. "I'm glad to be able to let down my façade when it's just the two of us..."
2. "All I did was say just what you taught me to, though..."
3. "You can do it when you put your mind to it."
4. "A façade."
5. "Th..."
6. "That's not true at all...!"
7. "...I don't think I'll have much left to offer you."
8. "But if you keep it up like this and learn to form a façade all on your own..."
9. "...and if you weren't here, I don't know what I'd do..."
10. "There's still so much more that I want to be able to do for you..."
11. "I've only been able to get this far from being around you..."
12. "And earlier, I was only able to manage because I saw your face..."
1. "???"
2. "Come 'ere."
3. "You want mine?"
4. "Huh...?"
5. "Okay!"
6. "You gotta get closer."
7. "My phone?"
8. "Lemme see your phone, then?"
9. "..."
10. "Look at this anytime and let it lift your spirits."
11. Shiraki-san's cuteness may all be an act...
12. "My cuteness has the power to cheer anyone up."
13. ...the real Shiraki-san is.
14. ...but I'm the only one who knows how much cuter...
3. Looks like volume 3 got here before I even realized it!
4. Salutations! Miman here!
6. I finally got to share one of those: Sumika's backstory...! Please let me talk about it!
7. In the afterword of volume 2, I touched on some "things I wanted to do that got postponed."
9. This set the stage for Kanoko's meeting with gyaru Sumika.
10. She knows her when she's "on," but she has no idea who this gyaru is.
13. Sumika is a fantastic character, with her gyaru -> intellectual transformation. She was created to fill an interest gap in Liebe's cast.
14. I had to make sure that Kanoko never saw Sumika in gyaru-mode...
15. But it kept getting postponed...
17. This was accomplished pretty early on while I was plotting. (*Before the start of serialization)
18. Let's have this happen in Shift 4.
1. "Hime-chan's"
4. The various kuchen (cakes) served in the salon are mostly pre-frozen products. These are pre-portioned cakes for commercial use. These cakes are decorated and then served.
5. It takes about three hours to thaw them in the refrigerator, so if you don't predict the number that you'll need to fill orders and thaw them out ahead of time, they won't be ready in time.
6. The reason that the Blume Nachtisch cakes ran out was that Nene-san underestimated how many we would need. Sometimes we also don't get enough in on shipment, so we run out of stock. When that happens, other cakes have to be substituted in.
7. Alcoholic beverages are always served by a third-year (Sumika-san), or a second-year (Mitsuki-san), if she's unavailable. First-years should never touch them, if possible. We're all underage students serving in the salon, of course, so even if the guests ask us about the drinks, we mustn't give them detailed responses. We don't know how they taste, after all. Even though some of us here actually are adults.
2. Salutations. It's the season of green new beginnings, and the Blume selection period has begun. Even if you can't cast your own vote, I would love for everyone to cheer their favorite students on.
3. A magical manga adventure for fans of Disney and Studio Ghibli!
5. The magical adventure that took Japan by storm is finally here, from acclaimed DC and Marvel cover artist Kamome Shirahama!
6. In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch...until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she's never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody "knows" might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem...
2. A BL romance between a good boy who didn't know he was waiting for a hero, and a bad boy who comes to his rescue!
3. Masahiro Setagawa doesn't believe in heroes, but wishes he could: He's found himself in a gang of small-time street bullies, and with no prospects for a real future. But when high school teacher (and scourge of the streets) Kousuke Ohshiba comes to his rescue, he finds he may need to start believing after all... in heroes, and in his budding feelings, too.
1. A picture-perfect shojo series from Yoko Nogiri, creator of the hit That Wolf-Boy is Mine!
2. Mako's always had a passion for photography. When she loses someone dear to her, she clings onto her art as a relic of the close relationship she once had... Luckily, her childhood best friend Kei encourages her to come to his high school and join their prestigious photo club. With nothing to lose, Mako grabs her camera and moves into the dorm where Kei and his classmates live. Soon, a fresh take on life, along with a mysterious new muse, begin to come into focus!
6. Praise for Yoko Nogiri's That Wolf-Boy is Mine!
8. "Emotional squees...will-they-won't-they plot...[and a] pleasantly quick pace." -Otaku USA Magazine
9. "A series that is pure shojo sugar-a cute love story about two nice people looking for their places in the world, and finding them with each other." -Anime News Network
1. The high school harem comedy with five times the cute girls!
2. "An entertaining romantic-comedy with a snarky edge to it." —Taykobon
3. Futaro Uesugi is a second-year in high school, scraping to get by and pay off his family's debt. The only thing he can do is study, so when Futaro receives a part-time job offer to tutor the five daughters of a wealthy businessman, he can't pass it up. Little does he know, these five beautiful sisters are quintuplets, but the only thing they have in common...is that they're all terrible at studying!
2. Hiro mashima is back! Join the creator of fairy tail as he takes to the stars for another thrilling saga!
4. A high-flying space adventure! All the steadfast friendship and wild fighting you've been waiting for...IN SPACE!
5. At Granbell Kingdom, an abandoned amusement park, Shiki has lived his entire life among machines. But one day, Rebecca and her cat companion Happy appear at the park's front gates. Little do these newcomers know that this is the first human contact Granbell has had in a hundred years! As Shiki stumbles his way into making new friends, his former neighbors stir at an opportunity for a robo-rebellion... And when his old homeland becomes too dangerous, Shiki must join Rebecca and Happy on their spaceship and escape into the boundless cosmos.
1. The story starts here!
3. Kinichiro Imamura isn't a bad guy, really, but on the first day of high school his narrow eyes and bleached blonde hair made him look so shifty that his classmates assumed the worst. Three years later, without any friends or fond memories, he isn't exactly feeling bittersweet about graduation. But after an accidental fall down a flight of stairs, Kinichiro wakes up three years in the past... on the first day of high school! School's starting again-but it's gonna be different this time around!
4. Vol. 1-3 now available in PRINT and DIGITAL! Vol. 4 coming August 2018!
5. Find out MORE by visiting: kodanshacomics.com/MitsurouKubo
7. Mitsurou Kubo is a manga artist born in Nagasaki prefecture. Her series 3.3.7 Byoshi!! (2001-2003), Tokkyu!! (2004-2008), and Again!! (2011-2014) were published in Weekly Shonen Magazine, and Moteki (2008-2010) was published in the seinen comics magazine Evening. After the publication of Again!! concluded, she met Sayo Yamamoto, director of the global smash-hit anime Yuri!!! on ICE. Working with Yamamoto, Kubo contributed the original concept, original character designs, and initial script for Yuri!!! on ICE. Again!! is her first manga to be published in English.
2. "I'm pleasantly surprised to find modern shojo using cross-dressing as a dramatic device to deliver social commentary... Recommended."
6. A drunkard for a father, a household of poverty... For 17-year-old Atsuko, misfortune is all she knows and believes in. Until one day, a chance encounter with Itaru-the wealthy heir of a huge corporation-changes everything. The two look identical, uncannily so. When Itaru curiously goes missing, Atsuko is roped into being his stand-in. There, in his shoes, Atsuko must parade like a prince in a palace. She encounters many new experiences, but at what cost...?
