P6/7

Yoshitsune : *waking up on the floor* "Hu…? Whe… where am I?" *realizes he’s chained by a collar* "Wha… what’s that???? It’s locked!" /What the hell is that!? I remember… I entered this apartment today in order to meet a client… I can only remember until when I drank some tea…/

P8

Girl: *entering the flat with shopping bags* "Ha! You finally woke up, Yoshitsune-kun!" *smile*

Yoshitsune: "!! You~~~!!"

Girl: "See! See! I was gone to do some shopping!! Yoshitsune-kun! Do you like bread with cheese?"

P9

Yoshitsune: "What the hell are you thinking?!?"

Girl: "Ok! You prefer omelet!!" I’ll cook it right now!

Yoshitsune: /Wh… wha… How can she answer this way…?/ "Don’t joke! I came to hear your request! I don’t have time to waste playing with a brat!!"

P10

Yoshitsune: "Hurry up and set me free! Shiina Taeko!"

Taeko: *starts to cry*

Yoshitsune: "!! Sorry! I shouldn’t have spoken that loud…"

Taeko: "I… since the first time I saw Yoshitsune-kun, you’ve been on my mind…"

P11

Yoshitsune: "Since the first time?"

Taeko: "You don’t remember??????? I was coming back from lessons and someone stole my wallet. You caught him… then came to give my wallet back to me. I was crying…"

Yoshitsune: *flashback* "Look! Stop crying!"

Taeko: "You gently stroke my head"

Yoshitsune: "Now that you mention it…"

Taeko: "To help people with your cheerful attitude, I like it."

Yoshitsune: *slightly embarrassed* "Really? But how did you know about Yorozuya?"

Taeko: "But you talked about it yourself!" You even told me your name! "My request is: I want you to stay with me. Since you work in a jack-of-all-trades, it’s okay, isn’t it?"

P13

Yoshitsune: "It’s the first time I have such a request. First take off this collar."

Taeko: *very angry* "No way! I won’t!!"

Yoshitsune: "Taeko?"

Taeko: *back to normal* "It’s ok! This room was vacant so I moved in a few days ago. The gas still works so I’ll cook delicious meals. You can reach the toilets too. Since starting from tomorrow there’s a three days holidays, I’ll be able to come. But I won’t stay at night…"

Yoshitsune: "The manager will get angry."

P14

Taeko: "No problem, the manager is here."

Yoshitsune: "Yeah…" *sweatdrop* /She doesn’t seem to be dangerous but… I don’t know if it’s not what I hate most./

Taeko: "I’ll cook the omelet!"

Yoshitsune: "O…ok…" /I don’t have the mobile I had when I came here…/ She hid it? /Kaori went to New York to model for a magazine, he doesn’t know that I’m here. But I think he’s coming back tomorrow./ "Hu?" /I wonder if something bad will happen in the meanwhile…/ *there’s a pin on the floor* /what a luck!/

P15

Kaori: *at Yoshitsune’s flat* "It’s strange! I came to give him the present he had asked me."

Yukinobu: "Kyou! Yoshitsune isn’t home?"

Kaori: "He wasn’t there."

Yukinobu: "And he doesn’t reply phone calls? Can’t he be in the middle of a case?"

Kaori: "But Shima-san is the kind of person to always keep his promises… It’s really strange!"

P16

Taeko: "School starts today…"

Yoshistune: "Then hurry up."

Taeko: "It’s ok, school isn’t 15 minutes from here. By the way, since I have always been out during the holidays, my mom was angry. But we’ll spend next Sunday together. But don’t worry if I can’t come."

Yoshitsune: "Don’t come."

Taeko: "Hu? Why!?"

Yoshitsune: "Isn’t it a shame?" For your mother.

Taeko: "It’s alright."

Yoshitsune: "It’s not."

P17

Taeko: "Do you happen to not get on well with your mother?"

Yoshitsune: "It’s not that!! …….. I’ll tell you. Two years ago, they died in a fire, father and mother. I couldn’t believe they were dead. That’s why each time I see fire, I’m getting scared. It’s difficult to think that they’re no longer here."

P18

Yoshitsune: *surprise by Taeko’s hug* "Wh… what’s wrong?"

Taeko: "It was painful wasn’t it? But it’s okay now. I’ll stay forever by your side."

P19

Yoshitsune: "Taeko?"

Taeko: *suddenly breaking free* "Damn! I’ll be late for school!! I’ll come back as soon as school ends!" And I leave at 4pm today! "See you later!"

Yoshitsune: /What was that, just before?/ "Well then…let’s remove this collar."

P20

Kaori: *taking his mobile as he’s waking up* "Yes?"

Yoshitsune: "What? You’re still sleeping?"

Kaori: "Shima-san!? Where are you? I couldn’t contact you!"

Yoshitsune: "Ha… I’m sorry…" *sweatdrop* "I finally had the opportunity to remove my collar."

Kaori: "Shima-san…"

Yoshitsune: "Hu?"

P21

Kaori: "Have you started a dangerous job?"

Yoshitsune: "You’re wrong!! F… first I have something to ask you. Can you come?"

Kaori: "Hu?"

*at Taeko’s flat*

Kaori: "This girl isn’t dangerous? Then wasn’t escaping the best solution?"

Yoshitsune: "That’s what I thought at first but… I have reasons to want to stop her." /Or she’ll probably die./ "I could see her real form an instant."

Kaori: "What!?"

P22

Yoshitsune: "And could you go to her school? I wonder if she’s not being bullied… I don’t know if she has friends."

Kaori: "Damn, there’s nothing I can do…"

Yoshitsune: "What’s up? You’re angry?"

Kaori: "I’m not."

Yoshitsune: "Yes you are!!"

Kaori: "I’m not."

Yoshitsune: "You are!!"

Kaori: "Not at all."

P23

Yoshitsune: "If you have something to say, just say it…Whoa~~!" *they fall on the floor* "Ha… haha…"

Kaori: "……….."

P24

Kaori: "You feel better doing your job alone somehow."

Yoshitsune: "Wha…"

Kaori: "It’s better if you decide things alone."

Yoshisune: "Hey…Hey! Kaori!! It’s the way I work!! I won’t leave the client alone!"

Kaori: "It’s true, it’s your good side. You take into account the feelings of the people you’re with."

P25

Kaori: "But you don’t know my feelings. See you." *leaves*

Yoshitsune: / What was that? There’s something I didn’t understand…!? Ha? It’s my first quarrel with Kaori./

P26

Yoshitsune: /The first time I met Kaori, I though he had the same way to smile as my father. Apart from that they’re completely different. Now I don’t mix them anymore. But Kaori is Kaori./

P27/28

*At Taeko’s schoolgates*

Kaori: /Shiina Taeko. She’ll probably wear pink clothes today, and her hair is wavy… Like any girl?/

Boy: "Heee? You won’t come and have fun today again? Taeko-chan is boring!"

Taeko: "I’m sorry! See you tomorrow!"

Taeko’s friends: "Byebyyyyyyyye!"

Kaori: /What? She doesn’t look that naive. I’ll follow her./

Taeko’s firend 1: "But she looks fine."

Taeko’s friend 2: "Yeah. When Tomohiro-kun left, she looked depressed for a while. She cheered up."

Kaori: /Tomohiro?/ "Hey! Tell me…"

Taeko’s friends: " ? Ha! It’s Kyou, the model!!!"

Kids: "Great! A famous performer!"

Kid1: Who’s Kyou?

Kid2: A model!

Kaori: *literally attacked by the kids* "I only wanted to ask you something…"

P29

Kaori: "Who’s this Tomohiro-kun you talked about?"

Boy: "Taeko-chan’s best friend!"

Girl: "There’s a picture of him."

Boy: "There’s Taeko-chan and Tomohiro-kun. Here…"

Kaori: *looking at the picture* "!! It’s…"

*at Taeko’s flat*

Taeko: "Kyaaaaaaaaaaa! You’re cuuuuuuuuute!!" *heart*

P30

Yoshitsune: *with a cat’s hears* "……….. Don’t joke!!" *takes the hears off*

Taeko: "Ha~~! I bought them because I thought they would suit you… Ha! Now I’ll cook your favorite stew!"

Yoshitsune: "…? I never said I liked stew."

Taeko: "Hu? You don’t like stew!? I’m sorry!" What can I do?

Yoshitsune: "Taeko…"

P31

Yoshitsune: "Taeko, until when do you plan on continuing this game? I also have a life, and I don’t know if a special request came. Moreover, Kaori must be worried…" /I made a mistake, she’ll be angry/

Taeko: "…Who? Who’s this Kaori?" *hard look*

Yoshitsune: "…A friend."

Taeko: "More important than me?"

Yoshitsune: "More important than you, you say… But I don’t know a thing about you! And you won’t tell me. Taeko, is it right when you prevent people from leaving with this thing?" *holds the chain*

P32

Taeko: "Why are you talking to me that way!? Why are you angry!? Since you came here you didn’t smile at all!!"

Yoshitsune: "You can’t be frivolous in such a situation!!"

Taeko: "Tomohiro had fun this way!!"

Yoshitsune: "I see, I am his substitute."

Taeko: " !!"

P33

Taeko: "But… You look like him… like Tomohiro…"

Yoshitsune: "Where is he now?"

Taeko: "He’s dead."

Yoshitsune: "!!"

Taeko: "One month ago, he was ran over by a car. He was so kind. He was my most important friend."

P34

Yoshitsune: "Tae…"

Taeko: "That’s why… I was scared that you could go outside. I don’t want to know this sadness again!!" *runs away*

Yoshitsune: "…Taeko!!"

P35

Yoshitsune: *trying to take off his collar* "Shit!" /I was too impatient. If I had been kinder, it would have been alright…!/ *gets rid of the chain, runs after Taeko, but he passes by the kitchen in fire* / Because Taeko’s feelings…/

P36

Yoshitsune: /I experienced them too./ *faints*

Kaori: *running in the street* /I couldn’t get to know where Taeko went./ *a girl runs into him and falls* "Whoa!? I’m sorry!! ……….!! Taeko…..!!"

Taeko: "!?"

P37

Taeko: "How… do you know my name?"

Kaori: *mobile phone rings* "Yes?"

Yoshitsune: *at the other end of the line* "……."

Kaori: "Hello?"

Yoshitsune: "Ka… o… ri…"

Kaori: "Shima-san!? What’s wrong!? Damn! There’s no reply! Taeko-chan, what did you do to Shima-san?"

Taeko: "I … I did nothing!"

P38

Teako: "Until I lit on the fire…"

Kaori: *running* "That’s it!! Shima-san!!" *enters the flat, invaded with smoke* "Shima-san!!"

P39

Kaori: *taking Yoshitsune in his arms ;)* "That’s why I told you I was against!! If anything happened, I could have been here to help right away!"

Yoshitsune: "I… I couldn’t… put out the fire…"

Taeko: *after throwing water on the fire* "Yoshitsune-kun!! Are you ok…!? … Where’s the collar?"

P40

Kaori: "It’s easy for him to take it off. Moreover, he was able to contact me. But…Because he was worried about you, he didn’t move.

Yoshitsune: "Taeko… This is Kaori. He has the same way to laugh as my father. That’s why I understand your need to look for Tomohiro’s features in others."

P41

Yoshitsune: "But what do you think of forcing others?"

Taeko: "But Yoshitsune-kun… Didn’t you become friend with Kaori because he looks like your father!?"

Yoshitsune: "Not at all! Kaori understands our mutual weaknesses. He’s my fellow!"

Taeko: "Have you given up your father and your mother?"

Yoshitsune: "I gave up."

P42

Yoshitsune: "Their substitutes. It’s useful to no one."

P43

Yoshitsune: *as Taeko cries* /After Taeko cried excessively, she apologized to everything we said./ *later in the street* Yeah! Look at this! This record is still being sold in Japan!! Thank you!"

Kaori: "You’re welcome."

Yoshitsune: "By the way…"

Kaori: "Yes?"

P44

Yoshitsune: "Tomohiro… he really looked like me that much? There was no picture… I would have liked to see him…"

Kaori: "I… I guess so…"

Yoshitsune: "Well, he must have been good looking right?"

Kaori: "……." /When they gave me that picture… I couldn’t believe Tomohiro was a dog./ *sweatdrop*

Yoshitsune: "Why are you grinning?"

Kaori: "Nothing." /He looks like him…/ And he’s of the dog type.