Skip Beat Chapter 156

April 21, 2010

translation by unrelatedwaffle [at] gmail

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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: There’s someone

I just can’t leave alone.

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[003-1] SOUND TOK

[003-3] Kyoko: Nii-san. . .!

[004/005-1] Kyoko: Where are you going. . .!?
SOUND TOK TOK TOK TOK TOK

[004/005-2] SOUND CLICK

[004/005-3] Kyoko: Tsuruga-san. . .!?

[006-1] Kyoko: What. . .!? What’s going on. . .!?
What happened all of a sudden!?

Tsuruga-san!!

[006-2] Kyoko: I thought the atmosphere had changed,

[006-3] Kyoko: but then, suddenly. . .

[007-1] Kyoko: The atmosphere. . .?

[007-3] Kyoko: . . .

He didn’t have the murderous intent he had before. . .

[007-4] Kyoko: But,

[007-5] Kyoko: it made my heart

skip a beat.

[007-6] Kyoko: For a moment,

[007-7] Kyoko: his eyes flashed

like they were

lit from within.

[008-1] Kyoko: Could it be

that some switch

[008-2] Kyoko: inside him

was tripped?

[008-3] Kyoko: Tsuruga-san. . .

[009-1] SOUND GASP

[009-2] Kyoko: !!!

[009-3] Caption: [Ungainly.]

[009-4] Kyoko: !!!!!!!!!!!

SOUND WOBBLE WOBBLE

Caption: [*One of the Heel Siblings*

*Outlaw

*Low-tension]

SOUND CLICKA CLACKA CLICKA CLACKA

[009-5] SOUND CLICK CLICK

STEP STEP

Caption: [Smooth]

Kyoko: !!!!

[010-1] Kyoko: [So unfair, just you being cool. . .]

[010-2] Kyoko: . . .

[010-3] Kyoko: One of the Heel siblings, an outlaw, low-tension. . .

Setsuka.

[011-1] SOUND STEP

[012-3] Kyoko: . . .My feet. . .

. . .hurt. . .

SOUND CHATTER CHATTER

Bystander: [Who are those people all in black?]

Bystander2: [Are they criminals?]

[013-1] Kyoko: You’re hurting me.

Just walk. . .

[014-1] SOUND STARE

[014-3] Kyoko: . . .

[014-5] ~Ren: . . .No.

Caption: [A sudden cut take.]

SOUND GRAB

BACK AWAY

Kyoko: Ehhh!?

[014-6] SOUND GASP

[014-7] Kyoko: Ehh!?

Why did I just flash back to that!?

[Why!!??]

I. . .It couldn’t be. . .

[015-1] Kyoko: If he doesn’t react, that’s what he means. . .!?

Did he just use telepathy on me!?

Ren: . . .

[015-2] SOUND SIGH

STARTLE

Kyoko: He sighed!?

[015-3] Kyoko: Eh, was that really no good!?

SOUND THUMP THUMP

Kyoko: [Why, why!?]

[That was low tension, wasn’t it!? It had an outsider flavor, didn’t it!? And I

grabbed your hand like a girl with a brother complex would!]

I’ve got to think of something to say!!

[015-4] Ren: The stores are about to close,

. . .so. . .

[016-1] Ren: I was in a bit of a hurry. . .

Kyoko: . . .Hm?

[Huh?]

He’s continuing. . .?
Looks like I don’t have to do a retake. . .

[016-2] Kyoko: Maybe I just barely passed?
. . .

Stores. . .?
[016-3] Kyoko: Where

are we going. . .?
Ren: . . .You’ll see when we get there. . .

[016-4] Ren: . . .Let’s go. . .

[017-1] Kyoko: . . .?
[017-4] Ren: Setsu,

[017-5] Ren: this way.

Kyoko: . . .Ah.

[018-1] Kyoko: [Uh-oh.]

I was a little unsettled, so I was dawdling a bit. . .

Sorry!
SOUND CLICK CLICK

Kyoko: What am I doing? If I have a disease-like brother complex, I shouldn’t be

looking around at other things and not at him. . .

[Ahhh. . .see?]

[018-2] Caption: [He doesn’t show his emotions, but on the inside he’s fed up.]

[The inner him (Soul of Cain)]

[018-3] SOUND SIGH

TROMP TROMP

Kyoko: Ahhhhhh!!!

[018-4] Kyoko: [He sighed again!! A CTS!!!]

[“Cut-take sigh”]

SOUND EEEEEK

Kyoko: It’s no use!! This time he’ll definitely cut!!

[018-5] Kyoko: [I’m going to be fired as Tsuruga-san’s partner!!!]

I just got through the last scene by the skin of my teeth, too!!!

Ren: Setsu.

[019-1] Ren: Hurry up.

The stores are closing.

[019-2] Kyoko: . . .

[019-3] Kyoko: . . .Huh. . .?

SOUND STEP STEP

[019-4] Kyoko: He

continued again. . .

[019-6] Kyoko: . . .Jeanne d’Arc?

That’s the clothing label Maria-chan likes. . .

[020-1] Salespeople: Welcome!
SOUND STEP STEP STEP

Kyoko: ? ?

[020-2] Ren: Setsu.

Kyoko: Eh?

[020-3] Ren: You

don’t have a lot of changes of clothes, do you?

Kyoko: !

[020-4] Kyoko: . . .Ah. . .

Come to think of it. . .

[020-5] ~Jerry: Here.

I prepared these outfits for you after today’s fitting.

[020-6] ~Jerry: You can use them as changes of clothes, so you can mix and match.

[Sorry there isn’t more.]

~Kyoko: [Eh]

No, don’t worry about it!
[I’m sorry!]

Thank you!

[020-7] Kyoko: . . .Of what the Magic Muse Jerry-sama gave me. . .

[021-1] Kyoko: . . .I have about. . .three or four changes. . .

. . .Probably. . .

It was pretty sudden.

[The “Setsuka” role.]

[021-2] Ren: . . .Then,

why don’t you choose some things you like from here?

I’ll buy them for you.

Kyoko: Eh. . .!?

[021-3] Kyoko: I. . .I can’t let Tsuruga-san buy clothes for me. . .!

[It’s absurd!! Awe-inspiring!!!]

I’ll just buy them myself!!!

. . .I ca. . .

[021-4] SOUND GASP

[021-5] Kyoko: [No. . .]

Wait a minute. . .!!

[Wait, mouth of mine!]

Your brother,

your “beloved big brother” is offering to buy you clothes!!

[022-1] Kyoko: If I hold back and decline politely, I fail in my role as Setsuka, right!?

[That would definitely, without a doubt, incur a CTS!!]

[022-2] Caption: I should, instead

be overjoyed, right!?

[022-3] Ren: . . .

. . .You ca. . .?

[022-5] Kyoko: [. . .Hee. . .]

SOUND GRIN

[023-1] Kyoko: . . .I can. . .?

Really. . .?
[023-2] Kyoko: If you tell me that,

I might

buy

a whoooole lot, you know.

[Hee hee.]

[023-3] Kyoko: Is that okay. . .?
[023-5] Ren: [. . .Heh. . .]

[024-1] Ren: . . .It’s all right.

. . .Get as much as you want.

[024-2] Ren: I’ll get them for you.

[025-2] SOUND CLACK

Kyoko: . . .

[025-3] Kyoko: . . .That’s the first time. . .

SOUND CLACK CLACK

Kyoko: since he’s

switched into Cain Heel mode

[025-3] Kyoko: that he’s smiled. . .

. . .Does that mean. . .perhaps. . .

That I. . .

[026-1] Kyoko: passed the Setsuka Test. . .?

Does it. . .?

[026-2] Kyoko: . . .

SOUND SMILE

[026-3] SOUND FWEEEEEHHHH

DUH HEE

Kyoko: I diiiiiid it!

[026-4] Girls: [Whisper whisper]

[Stare stare]

SOUND GASP

Kyoko: !

[026-5] Kyoko: Ahem.

SOUND STIFFEN

[026-6] Kyoko: . . .But, anyway. . .

I feel like I got to see a bit of my relationship dynamic with Cain-nii-san just now.

The sister might have a huge brother complex, but Cain-nii-san. . .

[027-1] Kyoko: Excessively dotes on his sister, too!!

[027-2] Kyoko: What!?

“Get as much as you want” is definitely a doting phrase!!

[Only grandparents who spoil their grandchildren say stuff like that!!]

[027-3] Kyoko: Even though his own shoes are all worn out. . .

Caption: [Big brother’s shoes]

he’s still spoils me. . .

[027-4] Kyoko: My brother complex is deteriorating from “excessive” to “disease-like”!?

I’ve been caught in an infinite loop. . .

[What a terrifying world. . .]

[027-5] Kyoko: An older brother who’s cold to the world but sweet and clingy to his sister.

A younger sister who’s clingy and dependent on her brother.

Then the brother loves that about his sister and is even more clingy.

And then the cycle repeats until the younger sister is killed with kindness. . .

[028-3] SOUND GASP

[028-4] Kyoko: . . .!

. . .Ah. . .

[028-5] Kyoko: . . .I. . .see. . .

[So that’s how it is.]

Back then,

I should have put more emotion into it.

Like a spoiled little sister.

[028-6] Kyoko: I should have been angry,

or pouty.

I’d put my own feelings first

so much so. . .

[029-1] Kyoko: that they would

collide with my brother. . .

So that’s why he CTS’d. . .

[029-2] Kyoko: . . .Hoo boy. . .

SOUND URRRRGH

Kyoko: My acting is completely unsophisticated compared to Tsuruga-san’s. . .

[I actually have no idea how to portray a girl with a brother complex. . .]

[029-3] Kyoko: Maybe I haven’t grown at all since Dark Moon started. . .

[029-5] Kyoko: . . .If. . .

I had been able to act better,

I wonder

what kind of acting I would have seen from Tsuruga-san. . .

[030-1] Kyoko: I wonder

if he would have accepted my pouting anger. . .

[030-2] Kyoko: I wonder if he would have

comforted me,

and humored me. . .

[030-4] Kyoko: . . .

. . .Ah. . .

. . .What

should I do. . .?
[. . .I. . .]

[. . .kind of. . .]

[030-5] Kyoko: [really]

want to. . .

see that. . .

To Be Continued in Issue 11, May 1^st!