Hoshi no Furu Machi Volume 5 Chapter 40 Translation

Hoshi no Furu Machi Volume 5 Chapter 40 Translation
For use by Viscans
By Pizzach


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p1sfx: Bwaaaaaw

p2: It was October and the junior year of high school.

p3: I rocked back and forth on the train much like I did half a year ago last spring

p3: kathunk kathunk kathunk

p4: to get back to this town....

p5: The cold, fall breeze filled with the smell of the ocean...
p5: was the only thing there to greet me.

p5: But what's this?


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p1box: The stars I was never able to see in Tokyo

p1box: became visible again just like the first time I arrived here.


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Chapter 40 : In the Sky of Falling Stars


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p1bubble: Cassiopeia...

p1bubble: Perseus...

p1bubble: And that there's....

p2bubble: Um...
p2bubble: Uh....

p3box: Huh?
p3box: I can't remember...


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p1bubble: Beep-eep!

p2: Good to see you back, Kotaro!

p3: Obasan!

p4: The funeral must have tired you out...
p4: How old was your uncle when he died?

p4: Pretty sure he was 48...

p5: WOW... He was still in his prime...
p5: What was he?

p5: A high school teacher...


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p1: How was he related to you?

p2: Ojisan was a cousin of my father...

p3: What kind of person was he?
p3: He was kind...
p3: Very very kind....

p4: Being that kind...
p4: it must've been hard on a lot of people to have him gone.

p5: .............

p6: I didn't see it coming...
p6: I didn't expect it at all...


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p1sign: Yamanote Funeral Hall
p2: He could have...
p2: done so much more with his life.

p3: A large bank would have hired him, but he became infatuated with "the stars" and decided he would rather be a teacher...
p3: Well
p3: The work probably wouldn't have fit well with his personality anyway...

p4: Wasn't he a public school "earth science" teacher?
p4: Earth science!?
p4: That kind of material doesn't even appear on an entrance exam!

p5: Next year, you're going to be looking for work.  I want you to think about your future when you choose your employment.
p5: Heh
p5: Like I'm going to choose the work of a "failure of society."


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p1: Kotaro-kun...
p3: Oh, Obasan?

p4box: The Great Dictionary of Space
p4: What's that?

p4: This was his
p4: most beloved book....

p5: He always used to say...
p5: that he wanted to give this to you once you became big enough to comprehend it.


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p3: He said that you reminded him of himself when he was little...
p3: We didn't have any children of our own, so he probably thought of you as a son...

p4: Thats' why....
p4: if you wouldn't mind...
p4: I would like you to take it.


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p6: Oh, is this where you were hiding, Kotaro-kun?
p6: What're you doing?


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p1: Juku study....

p2: Oh?
p2: I thought you came out to the countryside to have some fun since Your Juku school is on vacation for the summer?

p3: Mom said that I'd be hopeless if I didn't study.

p4: My cousin Jun is pretty smart.
p4: He got a 100 on his last test, too.

p5: But I only got an 80 on the Kanji test.
p5: That's why I have to....

p6: Oh Kanji!
p6: I was never very good with Kanji, either...

p7: Huh?
p7: But Ojisan, you're a teacher, right?
p8: I may be a teacher, but that doesn't mean I don't have my own weaknesses.


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p1: Also, Kotaro, you're not hopeless at all.

p1: You know the names of the stars, don't you?

p2: Huh
p2: A new astronomy book!?

p3: Um
p3: This's Taurus.

p4: There's the eagle star, Altair

p5: Here is Gemini
p5: Pollux and Castor...

p6: All right from the top of your head....
p6: That's amazing, Kotaro...


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p1: But mom told me....
p1: knowing the names of the stars isn't going to do me any good.

p1: It won't do anything to get me into a good school...

p2: HRRMMMM. Yeah, it may not be popular with the test-takers....
p2: In fact
p2: It might only come in useful if you traveled to space...

p4: Space!?
p5: Ojisan, are we going to travel to space?!


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p1: Maybe someday.
p1: It might even happen sometime once you've grown up.
p1: Really!?

p2: Space travel!
p2: Yeah!

p4: That reminds me...
p4: I remember wanted to become an astronaut, too, a long time ago.
p4: So I studied and studied all about the stars...

p5: But...
p5: I ended up only becoming an astronomy teacher in the end...


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p1: Okay...
p1: I'll just take you with me....
p1: when I go to space!

p2: Really?
p2: I look forward to it, Kotaro!

p5: plop

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p1: Ojisan...

p1: I remembered, Ojisan...

p1: How I was
p1: back then...


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p1: I don't know when I forgot that promise I made to you.
p1: I was hopeless in Tokyo.  So I came here and I haven't change at all...


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p1: What're you having for lunch?
p1: I dunno.  Udon maybe?

p3: Again?
p3: You're a noodle freak.

p4: Well, they're good...

p5: Thud

p6: Ouch

p7: I'm... I'm so sorry...
p7: I was rushing and didn't see you.

p8: Sorry
p8: Please pardon me.


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p1: Well
p1: Please excuse me.
p1: I'm in a rush.

p2: Who... who was that?
p3: The earth science teacher, Ozawa.

p4: Though
p4: it isn't a surprise you haven't seen him.
p4: When he isn't teaching class, he spends most of his time in the science prep room.

p4: Oh?

p6: WOOPS. He left a book...


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p1: Wait... this is...

p3sign: Science Prep Room

p4sfx: rattle
p4: Excuse me...
p4: Is Ozawa-sensei here?

p5: Yes?


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p1: You...
p1: left something behind today...
p1: OOOOH.  Thank you so much!

p2: You saved me some time!
p2: I was looking all over for this!

p3: It may be now out of print...

p3: But it really is a good book!

p4: I have...
p4: a copy of it, too.

p7: Is that right?
p7: You have an interest in the sky, too!?

p7: Oh
p7: Come here and have a seat!


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p1: Ozawa-sensei started giving various facts about the planets and stars...
p1: He stood, waving his hands in the air from time to time, as he explained about comets...
p2: His eyes watered as he told how Pluto lost its classification as a planet...

p3: I just watched silently as Ozawa-sensei continued heatedly talking...
p3: I leaned forward slightly...

p4: while having...
p4: a feeling of nostalgia swell in my heart.


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p1: Ah
p1: How did it get this late!?

p2: I'M SORRY.  I just got so caught up in what I was talking about...
p2 Forgive me

p2: No
p2: it's fine.  I was really interesting.

p3: Really?
p3: Well, come back again whenever.

p4: Alright, I will.

p7sfx: screech


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p2: "Earth Science..."
p2: I should have chosen that as one of my classes...

p6: I can probably only do it
p6: at that school in Tokyo...


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p1: When I was in the higher grades of elementary school, all I focused on was studying for the middle school entrance exam...
p1: Of course, "the stars" were mostly unrelated to taking that test....

p2: Fast forward to high school... and now I'm studying for the college entrance exam this time....

p3: However
p3: I became unable to keep up...

p5: and so I came to this town....


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p2: Oh
p2: Woh
p2: Woh

p2sfx: screech

p3: I- I'm so sorry!
p3: Are you okay?

p5: Uh....


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p4: It was in this town I met her...
p4: A girl named Ichinose...

p5: And from...
p5: that event...


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p1: It's been one month since that day.

p2: We still haven't traded any words since then.


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p2sfx: rattle
p2: I'm home....

p3: Welcome back, Kotaro!

p6: M- Masaki-san!?


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p1: UNBELIEVABLE!  You'll scare the daylights outta people coming home like that!
p1: At least give a holler before you come back!

p2: Well
p2: Drink up, Masaki!

p2: Have you been doing well, Jiichan?

p2: I've been keepin' my health!

p3: Staying as a guest for free, Misaki-san is the only son of the Miyamoto household....
p3: He's currently attending a university in Tokyo...

p4: and was the next door childhood friend of Ichinose.

p5: Furthermore he was...
p5: He was...


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p1: Oh
p1: By the way, Tsutsum-kun...

p1: He was Ichinose's
p1: first sweetheart....

p2: HEEEEY. Are you listening?

p2: W-what?

p3: Did you run by Nagisa on your way back, tonight?

p4: Huh... Well....

p5: I'd gotten present I wanted to give her...

p5: She had a surprised look on her face when she saw me and just ran off...
p5: She's weird sometimes...


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p3: I wonder what Nagisa is going to do...
p3: with Misaki having come back?

p3: I can't help but wonder...


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