Division Girl 1 (Bunretsu Girl 1)

p111
>What are you doing? Don't you have any friends?
>Why are you by yourself?

>...
>If you have something you wanna say, you need to open your mouth and speak.

>U-Um
>I don't really know why I don't have any friends but...
>The kid next to me told me again that I was a dawdling blockhead.
>I guess I have no friends because I'm a blockhead?

p112
>...
>Why are you playing building blocks by yourself all the time?

>If you neglect your friends
>noone will come close to you.

>It's bescaue I love building blocks.

>I always get yelled at for stuff I can't do.

>I love building blocks because I can definitely do them.

>If they topple over, I can just build them up again.
>Even I can do something like that, so I like it.


p113
>By the way
>who might you be?

>...
>I'm you.

>When I look at you, I don't see anything around you except building blocks.
>That's cos I don't have any friends-
>It's because you don't bother to make any.
>You can't just build blocks and ignore everything else.

>Oh! Amazing!

>You need to change yourself.
>Aah!

>How do I change myself? Even I want to have friends that I can play with!!
>I'll do anything!!

>No matter what you do, you can't change.
>You can't do anything, after all...
>So I'll swap places with you.


p114
>A dream from when I was...

>little.

>I'm off.

p115
>I'm a disease.
>kya kya kya kya

>How did yesterday's test go?
>Terribly!
>[When I become aware that's it's something that's inside of me]

>My symptoms
>You are aware we have entrance exams coming up, right?
>Yeah yeah, totally!
>[come out from inside of me]

>How did the test go?
>That doesn't sound convincing at all.
>Eh~

p116
>Kodoku Syndrome [tn: kodokushi = dying alone]
>A disease that causes other mes to suddenly come out of me.

p117
>Stand
>Bow

>Good morning~
>Good morning.

>Morning.
>How'd the test go, B-ko-chan?

>Hmm
>So-so, I guess?

>Well, your "So-sos" aren't really so-sos, are they?
>Your so-sos are always better than my grades.

p118
>!!
>What is it all of a sudden, A-ko-chan!?

>If you come that close to me...
>B-ko-chan...

>There's blood.
>Yeah. A blood splatter.

>Another one showed up?
>Yeah... this morning.
>Really? Are you the B-ko-chan I know?
>Yes, A-ko-chan, I'm the original you know very well.

>Thank goodness.
>I was afraid you got replaced with another B-ko-chan.

>Ah, I guess you wouldn't like it either
>Obviously
>Hey, A-ko-chan...

p119
>Hurry up and get back to your own seat.
>It's already first period.

>I'll see you at lunch.

>That seat isn't for any absentees. It wasn't for anyone to begin with.

>[There's often the problem of where to put someone if our class got anymore members.]
>[This way we have a seat ready should the need for it come.]
>It's the school's idea, though.

>[It feels like I'm floating]

p120
>Well, no helping it, I guess.

>If something like that showed up in front of you
>Anybody would do the same

>[Don't look at me with those eyes]
>[It's not my fault I have this kind of expression]

>For me, this seat
>is the place where A-ko-chan would come to sit and talk with someone like me.

p121
>By the way
>Well, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but...

>Hm?
>Why do you have a knife?

>I mean, you have permission to use a gun against the clones that appear because of your symptoms,

right?
>So wouldn't a gun be an easier way

>for killing so many of them?

p122
>Having to kill yourself
>is a pretty heavy burden.

>The sin of killing someone combined with the guilt of killing yourself
>Anyone would be hesitant and regret it

>Killing someone with a single pull of the trigger
>lightens the burden

>The more simple killing people becomes
>The less you become aware of your own sins

>Even so, the burden still lingers

>I get that much, but...
>Why the knife?

>Because it's not something so simple...

p123
>[So you don't like it?]

>When it comes to killing myself
>the sensation of cutting someone with a knife lingers on my hands

>The multiplying mes aren't me
>There's no mes besides myself.

>So please, disappear.

>I don't want that emotion to become simplified.
>I feel like I shouldn't let it become lightened.

>Oh, so skillful!
>[That sensation perfectly shows my superiority over them.]

p124
>Looks like your way of thinking really is different from mine, B-ko-chan.
>Guess it depends on your point of view?

>I guess that's why you've got such good grades.
>That's your punchline?
>That's right.

>[Those affected by this disease develop greater than average abilities.]
>I wonder if I can catch it too.
>[To keep your perception unstable, you must make sure your desires are strong]
>You're not contagious are you?
>In order to establish yourself in this world, and hold onto your own self
>[You must adhere to leaving behind a record of good grades]

>One more thing.
>The original has killed 10,000 of them easily.
>Of course, if you compare the original to a dub, the original would be superior.
>But sometimes, a mutation appears.

>A dub that exceed the original.

p125
>Mutations are strong, possessing a powerful will to live.
>[They could easily pretend to be the original and take their place without anyone noticing]

>[The people who named this thing "Kodoku Syndrome" must've had an ironic sense of humor]

>After it multiplies into two, it becomes one again, becoming "solitary" (kodoku)

>Poisonous insects infest a vessel and emulate it
>developing a "parasitic infestation" (kodoku)

>A-ko-chan...
>[I wonder if I can exist alongside her]

p126
>Hey
>Hm?

>Mind if we go hang out at your place today, A-ko-chan?

>We've been dating for a while but I've never been there before, y'know?
>Sorry.

>!?
>My sister lives with me and she really hates it when I bring people over.

p127
>There's no way I'd hate you, B-ko-chan, right?

>I'm sorry.
>We'll go over to your place next time, okay?

>Eh...
>Ah, yeah alright...
>I can't do that. I don't want to let you see my place either, A-ko-chan.

>Later.
>At least not now.

>I really can't
>show A-ko-chan something like this.

p128
>I'm home.