Translated by Kudou Omi
Note: I already wanted to apologize. This translation is far from being perfect, I'm sure there are mistakes and misunderstandings, but you must know that I started to study Japanese quite recently and I can't Translate Japanese without a dictionary. Also sorry, my English isn't perfect either since it's not my first language. Still I hope this translation will help you understand this great manga. Enjoy!
Legend: When someone is talking, there are either " " or not, depends if it's main text or small handwritten sentences. Thoughts are between / /. Texts in blocks (often thoughts or narration) are in [ ]. Description are in * *. I renew these signs with each new bubble, even if it’s the same character talking/thinking (I hope it will make it easier for you to follow). Also, after their first appearance, I reference to some characters with the first letter of their name, like Y for Yoshitsune etc… It's about all! ^^;
This was done by a fan who just wants to spread her love for Yorozuya. I earn no money doing this, since I own no rights on the manga. If you notice mistakes or just want to give your opinion, feel free to mail me here: omikudou@yahoo.fr. Thank you!
P4
*inside a burning house*
Yoshitsune : “Father ! Mother !” “Are you ok ?” *he finds his parents, but they’re separated by fallen blocks*
Shima-san (Yoshitsune’s father) : “Yoshitsune ! Go out of there first !”
Y : “But…”
S-san : “We’ll join you later.” “Trust me.” *smile*
*the fire suddenly spreads*
Y : *crying* “FATHER !”
P5
Y : *waking up in his room* “Hu ? What ? Since when have I been sleeping ?”
*the computer beeps*
Y : “Ho ? An access came.”
(message) Responsible person for the Jack of all trades : Shima Yoshitsune-sama, 1 work request; Since I don’t have much time I thought I should specify the date and time. I want to directly give you the details of the request…
Y : “The name is… -Suruga Kaori-… a woman ?” “Tomorrow 10am, on the bench under the clock tower in the hill public park…”
*waiting on the said bench*
P6
Y : “But it’s already past 10, that jerk…” [« Take the same magazine as me » as a sign is ok but this woman…] Impossible ! I’ve been deceived ? ? ? ? “Suruga you bastard ! ! Don't think because you'r from Toukaidou like me that I'll forgive you! ! !” *angry*
People : What the hell with this high schooler ?
Y: “No matter how beautiful she is… no… I won’t forgive… no way…”
?: *someone coming from behind* “Hey!”
Y: *turns* “What hey!!! I’m not a kid, I don’t need to be guid…”
Man: “Sorry. I’m late.” *shows the same magazine as Yoshitsune*
P7
Y: *stunned* “The same face as on the magazine…”
Man: “It’s me too.” “My real name is Suruga Kaori.” “Kyou is my modeling name.”
Y: “Ha… since it was Kaori I thought you were a woman.”
Kaori: “Now that you mention it, you look like an high school boy.”
Y: “That’s because I had a startled voice” By the way I should tell you my name… “I’m Yorozuya’s Shima Yoshitsune.”
K: “Ok! To put it bluntly, I wanted to hire you because of your great reputation.”
Y: “Can you tell me about your request right now. CM Drama’s growing top model Kyou is…”
K: “Stoooooooop”
P8
K: “Don’t call me Kyou.”
Y: He’s of the difficult kind… “I got it, Kaori-chan.”
K: “ First, this strange letter from a fan reached the agency.” “The sender is a certain ‘snowman’.” “It’s the 30th letter this month. The subject looks like a love letter, it begins with ‘I love you’.” *sits on the bench* “Then it goes on describing my actions.”
Y: “’snowman’… is it about a snowman?” “Do you have any love interest or connection?
K: “No one.” “Second, I had a silent phone call at home.”
Y: “Silent? Weren't the letters received at your agency? He can’t have gotten your phone number thanks to the address.”
P9
Y: “I guess you feel bad because you’re being spied.”
K: “Exactly. So I want you to investigate about this snowman’s real nature.” *lights a cigarette up*
Y: *shocked by the flame* “I also have a favor to ask you…” “don’t smoke in front of me.”
K: “Haa… Sorry.” *gets rid of his cigarette*
Y: “By the way, you’re younger than me”
K: *puzzled* “Hu? How old is Shima-san?”
Y: “I’m 18.”
K: Heeeeeeeeeeeee!!? “You’re older than me by two years?!” *sweatdrop*
Y: Shut up! “Let’s first investigate at your house.”
P10
*the scene switches to Kaori’s place*
Y: “There are no bugs, no hidden camera either”
K: *drinking what is most probably beer* “Shima-san is very skilled!”
Y: “It’s because my father was a detective.”
K: “Was?”
Y: “Yes…” *opens a drink* “You said the letters arrived at your agency. If this man has checked in the garbage, it’s a good way to get your agency.” *drinks* “If Kaori-chan is ok, I’d like to be your guard for some time, during the investigation.”
K: “No problem, it’s ok!”
Y: “Tell me… I thought about something some time ago… It’s unusual, you looked like you were talking to me as a friend.” “I thought models were more high-handed. It’s totally different from what I had expected.” It’s good though. *noticing Kaori’s silence* “Ha… You feel bad?”
K: “I didn’t say that.”
Y: “Hu?”
P11
K: “I like when Shima-san calls me Kaori” *smile*
Y: Hu? *blush* [He’s really a model. He’s an expert at charming people…]“By the way, do you have a girlfriend?”
K: “No no.” why?
Y: “I thought that if you had a girlfriend the stalker may give up.”
K: “It’s impossible, Yukinobu-san wouldn’t forgive me.”
Y: “Yukinobu?”
K: “ He’s my severe manager since my debut. Well, there’s no one I love right now.” “But on the contrary the guy would aim at my girlfriend… HA!” *realizes something* “Wh…what’s this!?”
P12
K: “Shima-san…has really a cute face…”
Y: Hu? *sweatdrop*
K: “With some make-up it should be ok. Also with clothes…”
Y: “Wait wait waiiiiiiiiit!”
K: “But Shima-san, you said yourself the stalker would stop if I had a girlfriend. *takes Yoshitsune’s chin in his hand*
Y: “It should turn out well if I entice him out…”
K: “EXACTLY SHIMA-CHAN. And tomorrow you’ll come with me to the studio.”
*the day after, at the photographing studio*
Man: Kyou!
K: Ha! “Good morning, Yukinobu-san!”
P13
Yukinobu: “You’re late. You’ll have 5 minutes cut on your midday break.”
K: “I’m sorry”
Yukinobu: “? who is the woman behind you?”
K: “Ha… this girl is…”
Y: *dressed as a young woman* “I’m Yoshitsune Shima, Kaori-chan’s girlfriend!” Nice to meet you!
Yukinobu: “A girlfriend!? Kyou… you…”
K: “No, actually Shima-san is… OUCH! *is being hit by Yoshitsune*
Y: “ You told me to be quiet and cute!” hohohoho
K: *to Yoshitsune* “What’s with Shima-san?” *not at ease*
Y: *to Kaori* “We don't know where is the enemy!” “The ones who deceive you first are friends.” “Because lying can sometimes be the simplest thing to do.”
P14
Yukinobu: “Well, since you’re truthful…”
Y: [Is it that simple? The studio inspection didn’t reveal anything strange…] [He wasn’t as severe as Kaori-chan said.] [A real fan could steal in rather easily I guess] [Moreover something unusual would attract attention]
P15
Y: /Somehow… he looks like a different person. Is this… Kyou?/
Man: “Hi! Are you Kyou’s girlfriend?”
Y: “Hu?” yes
Man: “I’m in the same model agency as Kyou. I’m Miyazawa Atsushi” Nice to meet you. “Were you surprised?” “About Kyou’s transfiguration.”
P16
Atsushi: “He’s got such a great fame in business.” “Since his debut as a model at 10 years old and up to now, this ‘properly used’ assistance…” “I really admire him too.”
Y: /hum… Certainly, the fact of being observed is in his job…/
Man: “Atsushi! Could you come please?”
Atsushi: “I’m coming!” *to Yoshitsune* “See you!”
Someone: “It was perfect, Kyou!”
Y: /I’m realizing there’s a fragrance, a perfume in the studio/
P17
Y: /Kaori-chan is ok/ Thankfully *sweatdrop* / what?/ /Someone’s looking at me…?/ / I can also feel hatred…/ /Yukinobu…..!?/ /that guy…/
P18
Y: *opens a door* “Kaori-chan!” “Could you tell me everything you know about this Yukinobu?”
K: “Shima-san opened the door violently…” “What did Yukinobu-san do?”
Y: “No…” /hu?/
K: “Yagami Yukinobu is 30, single. After he graduated from college, he entered the company as an employee.” “He’s been my manager since I began 6 years ago and has always offered his assistance.” “I thought your preference was to appreciate movies…”
Y: “Wai… wait!” “Who… are you?”
P19
K: “I am Kyou.” “I appear when I am working. Shall we say that I am another personality. Since recently I have this job and I have merely enough time to have fun.” “To be a model let me very few time. Kyou appeared since this time.” “But now, to go on doing this job, I have to divide personalities. Also this business is very confusing and there is a section too.” “That’s why… a distinction between Kaori and Kyou’s time was made.” “You call Kyou the model, and I wanted you to call the visible being Kaori.” “Because I thought who Shima-san would like to meet was Kaori.”
P20
Y: “Why… saying such a thing to me…" *sweatdrop*
K: “It’s simple” “I wanted to know what kind of person was the man who managed Yorozuya. I wanted to have a proper request and the opportunity came.”
Y: “ But I… do this job to get money. Your expectations are not like his.”
K: “No” “Could Shima-san call him Kaori as usual.”
Y: /What is he saying? He’s got the same smile as Kaori./
K: “If you only watch Kaori as usual, it will be enough.”
Y: “You’re wrong” /There is no reason that he catches my attention because he’s a model. At that time, these kind eyes and this smile had charmed me/ “Kaori-chan too, Kyou too…” /For father’s manners and his warm smile/
P21
Y: “You lump everything together.” “It’s because of you.” “Don’t flee, it’s useless to try to escape.” “I have been doing my best too.” “Two years ago, my home caught fire.” “At that time a series of fires occurred. My father was investigating the case.” “He concluded that the crime was committed late at night. Most people escaped too late and families died.” “My family wasn’t an exception.” “Father and mother too, they told me a kind lie so that I could escape.” /Trust your father/
p22
Y: “They died.”
K: “I... I'm sorry…” “That’s why that time Shima-san didn’t want me to smoke.”
Y: “I got it.” “From now on we both won’t do anything unreasonable. We’ll do our best.”
P23
K: “You’re ok now?”
Y: “…” “When did Kaori-chan come back?”
K: “I came back a little while ago, after I stopped working.” “I’ll have an appointment with Yukinobu-san for my schedule in a few minutes. What do we do?”
Y: “Oh yeah! Yukinobu!” “It’s possible that he’s the stalker.”
K: “Hu!?”
Y: “That ‘snowman’, hasn’t he written about ‘yagami’, the number ‘8’ and ‘god’. ‘Daruma’ can come to one’s mind when in association with the number ‘8’, and…”
Yukinobu: *entering the room* “Kyou, we go!”
K: *hiding Yoshitsune who puts back his wig on his head* “WAa!”
Yukinobu: “? What’s happening?”
Kaori: Well… well… “No! It’s nothing at all!”
P24
Yukinobu: *hand reaches for Kaori’s face* “Hasn’t your face a bad color?”
K: “I’m… I’m fine! My stomach hurts a little that’s all.” “I worked a lot, it’s ok.”
Yukinobu: “I see” “Excuse me, Yoshitsune-san, but could you come back later? I’m sorry but I don’t know when we’ll have finished.”
Y: “Ok~! Yukinobu-san, take good care of Kaori-chan!” /that jerk is looking down on me!/ *leaning against a wall after they’re gone* [‘Yagami Yukinobu’ = ‘Snowman’] [‘8’ = ‘Daruma’, ‘Yuki’ = ‘snow’, Yukinobu’s attachment for Kaori (‘Kyou’) is quite strong] [Also his glare towards me wasn’t normal. As a manager, he can easily get his phone number and know all of his actions]
P25
Y: [Getting more information too…] *exits the room*
?: “Ha! Shima-chan!”
Y: “Ha, the people from that time…” /The same fragrance again!/
Atsushi: “I’m Atsushi! And this person is a new model, Izumi-chan.”
Izumi: “Waa! Cuute! Kyou-san’s girlfriend!”
Y: “Th… Thank you…” *doesn’t seem to be happy*
A: “Compared to Yagami-san for sure.” “This person should be careful because of danger.”
Y: “Hu?”
A: “Once Yagami-san had let drop his notebook and I had a look inside.” “There was a picture of Kyou.”
Y: “Kaori’s…!?”
A: “Yes. That’s why, honestly, that Yagami-san forgives Yoshitsune-chan would be surprising. Up to now, words such as ‘image going down’ are forbidden!”
P26
Y: “Do you have Yagami-san’s business card?”
A: “Hum… Where did I put it…”
Izumi: “Since he just gave it to me, I have it!”
Y: “Thank you!” / !! /
A: “Shima-chan, what about having lunch with us?”
Y: “I’m sorry but I’ll pass this time! I borrow this card”
A: “ Ok! See you!”
I: *Yoshitsune is away already* “She acts like a guy, just like a message bearer.”
A: “You think so? She’s quite my type.”
*scene changes: Kaori and Yukinobu in a room*
Yukinobu: “Good job” *offers Kaori a hot drink*
K: “Thank you!”
Yukinobu: “Kyou. I’d like you to trust me.”
P27
K: “Trust you?”
*thinks about Yoshitsune’s words*
Y: “It’s possible that Yukinobu is the stalker.”
Yukinobu: “I’m talking about you going down.” “Don’t do that, definitely.”
K: /Impossible… such a thing…/
*scene changes again: Yoshitsune in his bedroom*
Y: [I’m really stupid… Now I have the criminal’s letter…] [… and I just managed to get a business card…]
P28
Y: [ I have to think hard. The criminal is someone within the office.] /Then, it is not Yukinobu!/ [The criminal made a mistake. This ‘snowman’ thought I would charge Yukinobu of being the criminal.] [On the contrary it’s a hint ] /The kanji for ‘yuki’ in the name ‘Yukinobu’ isn’t that of ‘snow’/ /It is written with the kanji for ‘shiawase’ (happiness)/ [The criminal heard the name Yukinobu, thought it was written with the kanji for ‘snow’ and thus changed it]
P29
Y: “I guess he had it in hand, had a single look at it and couldn’t remember! Haa! I’d like to have another clue!” “I’ll have to see what was used to write this letter, and to compute the area it was sent from thanks to the postmark…” *lets the letter fall on his face* *he suddenly realizes something* “HA!” /that bastard!/
*later*
K: “Shima-san!” *waves hello*
P30
*Yoshitsune pulls his hair so that he can talk in his ear*
K: “OUCH!” *Yoshitsune murmurs (we don’t know what he’s saying)*
Y: *when he’s finished* “See you later! I have to go now!” I have some work to do!
K: “Hu? Wait!”
Yukinobu: “Kyou. Let’s begin the data collecting for the magazine. This person was… Yoshitsune-san?”
Y: “Ha… yes…” “What… Do you think ‘the riddle was solved’?” you wanted to say it.
Yukinobu: “…”
P31
Man: “You worked well.”
Atsushi: “Ha, thank you!” *enters his room*
Y: *waiting for him* “Hi!”
Atsushi: “…Shima-chan?”
Y: “Yes, Mr. Snowman” *shoves him the letter* *Atsushi is shocked*“It was in your bag, right?” “Why?”
P32
A: “That’s because… I asked Kyou if I could help him looking for the criminal”
Y: “Besides there’s no postmark.”
A: “I give up!” “You’ve found me.” “What made you suspicious?”
Y: “First because of ‘snowman’. Don’t you know how to write properly Yagami’s full name?” “Yukinobu is written with ‘shiawase’ (‘happiness’) and ‘nobiru’ (‘grow’).”
A: “I see… I was deceived.”
Y: “But what made me realize it was you is the perfume you use.”
A: “Perfume?”
P33
Y: “There are many people here who use perfume. But yours is different from theirs.” “Some time ago I heard someone from the staff saying that yours isn’t sold in the country and is almost impossible to obtain. It’s obvious that in this office you’re the only one to possess it.” “This fragrance was sent with the letter.” “Some of it was washed away.”
A: “When Kyou tried it, it was as if he was more confident.” “I thought this perfume could change weakness into sensibility.” “You’re really an impressive dog!” *Yoshitsune has a nerve popping up* “Kyou is just a scapegoat!”
P34
A: “That guy has much more work than me!” “He is much more famous than me! Although I’m cool… I won’t lose to that jerk with a double personality!” “That’s why… It would be good if he stopped being a model… That’s what I thought.” “But as time passed he didn’t seem to want to quit. He had to stop quickly!”
Y: “You’re not cool.”
P35
Y: “There’s nothing cool in you. But I can understand you.” “This guy is really cool!”
A: “SHUT UP!” “If I snatch you away from Kyou, will you cry?”
Y: That hurts… “What are you…”
P36
A: “I heard you say something about being obedient… Wouldn’t it be great?” *lights up a lighter*
Y: [It’s hot… It’s painful…]
A: “It would be bad if this cute face was burnt.”
Y: *flashback* “Father! Mother!” [Help! Father! Mother!]
P37
Y’s father: “We’ll join you later. Trust me.”
Y: [A lie. Father’s lie. I knew these words were only lies.] [Why have you saved me? Now that I’m alone, what good can I do?] [Father! Mother! I beg you to catch my hand!]
P38
?: /You’re not alone!/
K: “Shima-san”
Y: /Kaori…?/
K: “You’re fine now. I’m here.”
Y: /This hand is big and warm…/
K: “Everything is ok.”
Y: /That I have helped them… is only a dream./
P39
*much later*
“One case solved.” Isn’t it?
“Che…”
K: “What will you do now, Shima-san?”
Y: “That’s right, you’ll be very busy.” “You broke through, and the kick you gave him was really impressive!”
K: “We~ll…” “But Shima-san’s virtue was in danger”
Y: You’re scary…
K: “By the way! Yukinobu-san made a mistake.” “He apologized for his suspicion.”
Y: “Hu?”
P40
K: “Well to be honest it seems that Yukinobu-san somehow thought you were the stalker.” “He didn’t believe the ‘girlfriend’ stuff and worried.”
Y: /I see…That’s why he held such an hostility against me…/ “What about Atsushi?”
K: “We didn’t want this to become a police case. It seems he’s seriously thinking about what he’s done.”
Y: “Perfect. Because the sense of competition is really violent, here too.” “It’s not unusual.”
K: “From now on, I want to escape from this ‘Kyou’ mask.” “Atsushi had a different method to use this way of fleeing. He thought he was doing something good, but it wasn’t the case. Perhaps was I being cunning too.”
P41
Y: “To escape isn’t being cunning.” “To be cunning is to go on fleeing.” “Until when you’ll stop looking before you.” “Now it’s a match.”
/If we flee, we’ll be able to mutually strike our back./
p42
K: “Hey! By the way! I’d like to have a job in Yorozuya!”
Y: “WHAT? But I don’t have work! What are you saying!!!” You jerk!
K: “It’s ok! And then Shima-san would be my boss!”
Y: “Boss…”
K: “And if I get the job, I’ll cook today’s lunch!” *heart*
Y: /What!?!/ “Ok! There’s no other way I guess… Well then! The company’s name is ‘Yorozuya Toukaidou Honpo’! Let’s start again!”
K: “Shima-san…”
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