Skip Beat Chapter 155

April 2, 2010

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unrelatedwaffle’s manga translation key:

Dialogue is listed by page number-panel number [000-00]. The page corresponds to actual page numbers and not file numbers when page numbers are available.

Line breaks indicate a new speech bubble.

Text in italics indicates thoughts/internal monologue.

Text in italics after a speaker’s name also in italics and preceded by tilde ~ are flashback/memory sequences (example: ~Tanaka: That was back in the day. . .)

Text in [square brackets] indicates asides/handwritten text.

Sound effects are in ALL CAPS.

[001-1] Caption: Someone who’s very important to me

is all alone.

The Magnificent Show-Biz Challenge

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Check out the special volume “Fan Book ~Love Me~” too!

[002-1] Ren: . . .What?

How rude.

[002-2] Ren: If you’re talking about my meals, there’s no need to worry.

When I get hungry I can eat, you know.

[002-3] Kyoko: [Y-]

Your most unconvincing line ever!!

[003-1] Kyoko: Tsuruga-san is often paralyzed by hunger. . .!!

Ren: There are lots of places that deliver around the hotel, too.

And as Cain Heel I can eat with no regard to my surroundings.

[There’s no need to worry.]

Kyoko: [Gasp!]

As Cain Heel. . .!?

That’s right. . .!

[003-2] Kyoko: Cain Heel!! He’s a man who cares even less about his health than Tsuruga-san.

Caption: [Booze is my meal.]

[Cigarettes are my snack.]

[That’s what he’s like.]

Kyoko: Will he really eat properly!?

[003-3] Kyoko: I can’t trust that he will!!

[Even more so than Tsuruga-san!!]

[003-4] Kyoko: --Leave it to me, Boss.

[004-1] Lory: Hm?

Kyoko: I’m the one

[004-2] Kyoko: who will take care of my brother! I take full responsibility!!
[004-4] Ren: . . .Mogami-san. . .

[Hey. . .]

Lory: Yes, yes.

[I see, I see.]

You really feel the sibling love.

[004-5] Lory: Okay, then,

here you go.

Take it.

[It’s yours.]

Kyoko: Yes?

[004-6] SOUND HAND

[004-7] Lory: These are the keys to all the hotel rooms Cain Heel will be staying in while he’s

in Japan.

[005-1] Lory: During that time,

you will also be

[005-2] Lory: staying with your brother.

[006-2] Kyoko: What. . .?

[006-3] Sign: Kyuubei (The name of a restaurant)

[006-4] Voices: [Welcome!]

[You have a party of four?]

SOUND CHATTER CHATTER

CHATTER CHATTER

[007-1] SOUND SLIDE

Yoshimoto: Sorry to keep you waiting,

Chiori-chan.

I know we were in the middle of a conversation.

[007-2] Chiori: Don’t worry about it.

It’s fine.

[007-3] Yoshimoto: Um,

so. . .? We were talking about that variety show, right?

[Mr. Takarada forced it on you today.]

Chiori: . . .Yes. . .I’m sorry. . .I couldn’t go up against Mr. Takarada all on my own.

I needed you to back me up.

[007-4] Yoshimoto: Oh, don’t apologize. That’s a manager’s job, after all.

Protecting the actress Amamiya Chiori is what I do.

[007-5] Chiori: . . .

[007-6] Yoshimoto: That’s right!

You’re an actress,

so there’s no need for you to go on a variety show like that and get laughed at.

[Your image would be tarnished.]

Chiori: . . .Well. . .

. . .about that. . .

[008-1] Chiori: . . .I think

I might

go on the show

after all. . .

Yoshimoto: Eh!?

[008-2] Yoshimoto: Wh. . .why!?
You were so against the idea, Chiori-chan!

Chiori: I’m sorry. . .

It’s because. . .

[Um. . .]

[008-3] Chiori: I thought I should apologize, first off.

[I completely flip-flopped.]

Yoshimoto: . . .No. . .

There’s no real need to apologize. . .

[008-4] Yoshimoto: . . .But. . .

Why. . .?
Mr. Takarada finally relented in the end.

I told him there might be scheduling and policy conflicts with the home office. . .

[Gasp!]

[008-5] Yoshimoto: Did he say something to you after that!?
Right after I left his office?

[I was shut out by myself for about three minutes.]

SOUND SHUT

~Yoshimoto: !!?

Chiori: . . .Ah. . .

[Um. . .well. . .]

[008-6] Chiori: He wanted to reconfirm

why I volunteered to join the Love Me section.

[009-1] Yoshimoto: . . .

. . .Ah. . .

[009-3] Chiori: . . .I want to regain the love I had for acting. . .

[009-4] Chiori: . . .when I was a child actress. . .

[009-5] Chiori: . . .Yoshimoto-san.

Yoshimoto: Y. . .Yes. . .!

[009-6] SOUND HEH

Yoshimoto: Ah. . .!

Caption: [15 years in the entertainment world]

Yoshimoto: I’m sorry. . .

[I just. . .]

Caption: [5 years as a manager]

[010-1] Chiori: . . .I have. . .

a concept of an ideal actress in my head. . .

[010-2] Yoshimoto: . . .?

Chiori: I thought. . .

[010-3] Chiori: it might be good to do Mr. Takarada’s “drastic measure”

to get closer to it.

[010-4] Chiori: It could be

very risky, but. . .

. . .It’s all. . .

[010-5] Chiori: about becoming

a beloved actress,

no matter

[010-6] Chiori: what little fragment of my soul it is that people love.

[011-3] Chiori: . . .Will you. . .

[011-4] Chiori: lend me your strength. . .?

[011-6] Yoshimoto: . . .Of course. . .

That’s

what being a manager is all about. . .

[012-1] ~Lory: “. . .Won’t you”

[012-2] ~Lory: “drum up”

“some courage. . .?”

[012-3] ~Lory: “Until you want to act so badly”

“that you are overcome with the urge to do it,”

[012-4] ~Lory: “you must abstain”

“from acting.”

[012-5] ~Lory: “you must abstain”

[013-1] ~Lory: “from being an actress.”

[014-1] Ren: . . .Setsuka-san.

[014-2] Kyoko: . . .Yes. . .

Onii-sama. . .?

[014-3] Ren: . . .Your big brother is full of shame right now.

[014-4] Ren: That this sort of thing has happened.

Caption: [Only One Bed]

Ren: The boss. . .is amusing himself by trying my good sense. . .

~Lory: I believe in your good sense,

but keep your eyes on the prize.

Ren: . . .That’s what he’s saying right now.

Kyoko: . . .I. . .I’m so sorry. . .

[015-1] Kyoko: I went right along with everything the boss said. . .

Ren: . . .Well. . .it’s not entirely your fault.

. . .No matter what he says, the boss is walking on eggshells with me.

[015-2] Ren: Even though I wanted to prove to him that I could deceive people with my

character despite being found out once. . .

~Lory: . . .I’m just making doubly sure.

[015-3] ~Lory: You never know what kind of disaster a teasing god will wrap you up in.

[There’s someone who says that line quite a bit.]

[015-4] SOUND SMILE

[015-5] ~Lory: . . .That girl

[015-6] ~Lory: is your talisman.

[016-1] ~Lory: The most powerful one there is.

Ren: . . .Honestly.

I reaaaaaaaally don’t trust him. . .

[I think half of him is messing with me. . .]

It's true that the disaster prevention drill was dangerous enough on its own.

[016-2] Ren: I shouldn’t have shown surprise or shock or delight. . .

[016-3] Ren: If it hadn’t been her, then. . .

Kyoko: [Ah!]

I just thought of something, Onii-sama!

[016-4] Kyoko: Why don’t we rent an additional room?

[Good idea!]

This hotel probably has plenty of rooms available, don’t you think!?

[016-5] Kyoko: Of course, I’ll pay for it myself, even if I have to go into debt with the boss to do

it.

Ren: I think you’re pushing your own limits, Setsuka-san.

[016-6] Kyoko: . . .I agree. . .I’m up to my eyes in debt already. . .

Caption: [She's already repaying loans for school and acting training.]

Kyoko: [But you don’t have to say it so bluntly. . .]

Ren: . . .No. . .that’s not what I meant.

[017-1] Ren: Tell me your character profile

as Setsuka Heel, please.

Kyoko: . . .Okay. . .

[017-2] Kyoko: My brother comes first.

My brother comes second.

My brother comes third and fourth.

My brother comes fifth as well.

[017-3] Kyoko: In other words, I care only for my brother.

I have a brother complex so immense it’s like a sickness.

Ren: . . .That’s right.

[017-4] Ren: That profile is completely accurate

like torture

and without fault.

[017-5] Ren: Do you think that a little sister with that obsessive brother complex

would ever sleep in a separate room?

Kyoko: ~~~
. . .No. . .onii-sama. . .

[018-1] Kyoko: In fact. . .she would want to even sleep in the same bed with him. . .

Ren: That’s true.

[018-2] Caption: [Oh. . .that’s why there’s only one bed. . .]

[018-3] Kyoko: Uh. . .um. . .

I could. . .

sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor. . .

Ren: . . .I couldn’t let a girl do that.

[018-4] Kyoko: [Gasp!]

You can’t!

[018-5] Kyoko: I’d never let my brother sleep on the. . .

Ren: Let’s just sleep together.

[018-6] Kyoko: . . .Eh. . .?

[019-2] Ren: . . .I’ll let you use my arm. . .

as a pillow. . .

[020-4] Kyoko: . . .

. . .Ah. . .

[021-1] SOUND DING DONG

[021-3] Manager: We are

so sorry!!

[021-4] Kyoko: Oh, no. . .it’s all right.

[Really.]

You just gave us the wrong room key.

[I’m indescribably relieved, actually. . .]

Manager: Here are some coupons for shops in the area of the hotel.

Please accept them.

Kyoko: Eh. . .!?
Ren: . . .

[022-1] Kyoko: It’s really okay.

There are two beds and everything.

Ren: Ahhh. . .

. . .I felt. . .

[022-2] Ren: . . .as though. . .

[022-3] Ren: she was

[022-4] Ren: just about to say

[022-5] Ren: “I can’t do it.”

Because of the way I was talking. . .

[022-6] ~Kyoko: N. . .No thanks. . .! I couldn’t. . .

[I’m still an unmarried young woman!]

I could never sleep in the same bed as a man!!

[022-7] Ren: She would take it seriously. . .

and then

I would have said something to make her go home, even if I had to hurt her

feelings, like

“You’re not serious enough about your acting.”

“The way you are right now,”

[023-1] Ren: “Do you think you can work opposite me?”

[023-2] Ren: . . .something like that. . .

[023-3] Ren: . . .

Well. . .

[023-4] Ren: If I

SOUND KSHH

[Sigh]

Ren: was more put together,

[024-1] Ren: that would be another story. . .

. . .Actually, I should be more put together. . .

I’m older and have more acting experience than her, after all.

[024-2] Ren: When I think

that we’re supposed

to live together

just the two of us. . .

[024-3] Ren: My confidence in certain areas dwindles. . .

That I would resort to hurting her to drive her away. . .

[024-4] Ren: It’s pitiful. . .

Instead. . .

of hurting her with such empty words,

I should up my own game.

[025-1] Ren: I must control myself, no matter what happens,

and not get agitated.

[025-2] Ren: With my “professional willpower” and “actor’s soul.”

Kyoko: Ah. . .!
[025-3] Kyoko: Wah. . .!

[Ah!]

SOUND FLAPPA FLAPPA FLAPPA FLAPPA

[025-4] Kyoko: Jeez!

See?

This is why I told him not to give me so much!

[Mr. Chief Manager!!]

[026-1] Kyoko: I knew I couldn’t hold everything~~~

Ren: In some sense of the word,

this is a disaster

tease

[027-1] Ren: from the gods.

Caption: [She's not used to these clothes, so her attentiveness level is "Full Throttle

Defenseless."]

SOUND QUICKLY QUICKLY

SNAP SNAP

Ren: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[027-4] SOUND RUSTLE RUSTLE

RUSTLE RUSTLE

Kyoko: Man. . .

[028-1] Kyoko: He really did give us a lot of stuff. . .

[Tons of coupons and hotel amenity goods of every imaginable kind.]

And even some tea leaves not from the hotel.

[Did someone have to go out and buy these? Poor guy. . .]

[028-2] Kyoko: . . .Those poor guys. . .

They were both so pale. . .

And twitchy.

They positively cowered.

They must have been terrified. . .

[028-3] Kyoko: Of my “brother”. . .

SOUND GLANCE

[028-4] Kyoko: Hm?

[029-3] Kyoko: . . .

. . .Nii. . .?

[029-4] SOUND GRAB

[030-1] Kyoko: !

[030-2] SOUND PULL

Kyoko: !!!

[030-3] SOUND FLAPPA FLAPPA FLAPPA

Kyoko: . . .!
Nii-sa. . .!

To Be Continued in Issue 10, April 20^th!