Bakeneko Hazuki ch9-2: Behind

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>>What will Neko be cross-examined about...!?

>Kuji-chan! Yui-chan!
>Hold everyone back for a bit!!

>Hold everyone back, she says...

>Well, we were just curious
>why Hayama-san did something like that...

p2
>...So,
>what happened?

>You went
>and threated your classmates during you introduction...
>Hah~...

>A-
>Are you angry...?

>...I'm dumbfounded,
>but not angry.

p3
>The reason you did that...
>was to "help Onee-chan make friends", right?
>Brat...

>So I'm not angry "right at this moment".

>But if you don't sort things out right now...
>A-Alright! I'll try to do something about it!

p4
>Ah.
>Sora.

>We just heard about it but...
>what happened, Hazuki-san?

>She was worried about making friends
>and ended up spinning her wheels.
>Th-That's right~

>No... That's impossible...

p5
>Or maybe... there were some circumstances?

>...Maybe...
>Yui?

>Master must've gotten worried
>that Sora-chan might get bullied by high schoolers...
>?

>You mean she said all that as a warning?
>That's another weird interpretation...
>Th-That's cos...

>Sora-chan was bullied in the past...
>Master... knew that...
>I... bullied her...

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>Yui-chan!

>Oweeeeeh...
>I'll check up on her.

>Hey...Are you okay?

>...Yeah.
>...Just as this girl said, she was probably worried about me.

>"This person"
>loves me very much, after all.
>!?

p7
>B-B-B-Brat...!?
>Shh.

>Don't waste the chance Yui gave us...
>In order to make them believe us,
>you need to say you love me too, Neko.

>!!

p8
>Say you love me!
>Quickly!

>~~~

>I can't...
>take it anymore!!

>?

p9
>She's back to being Onee-chan...
>Not of all times...!
>?

>I cornered Neko too much...
>and isolated Onee-chan even more...

>It's my fault...
>Hayama-san...?
>Eh...?


>I believe... Sora-chan came to my class...

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>What happened, Sora-chan!?
>Does you stomach hurt!?

>We gotta go the nurse's office...
>Aah, I don't know where it is...

>I'm fine...
>More imporantly, I need to follow this up...

>For Hayama-san to lose her composure that much...
>she really does love this girl...

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>Wait, but that self-introduction was...
>Ah...

>Could you two be...
>?

>I'm glad you sorted things out while we were away but...
>How did you settle things?

>Well... we talked about a bunch of things...
>...To think that Onee-chan's classmates
>saw us doing that...

p12
>A little while ago... a kid fell off a bridge...
>and a girl jumped in to save her...
>I didn't realize it since I saw it from a distance but...
>it was you two, wasn't it?

>Seeing the cat ears and tail was dangerous enough but...
>I'm sorry I didn't call the emergency services.
>I panicked...
>It's fine...
>It looks like she things of her as...
>"Goes crazy when her little sister is involved but is fundamentally a good girl."

>...So much trouble on just the first day...
>And the time we go home will go out-of-sync from now on...

>...
>...If...

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>If I was the same age as Onee-chan,
>I could always be by her side and protect her...

>Are you okay, Sora-chan?
>Sora-chan...
>Ehehe...

p14
>But in reality
>I will always be behind Onee-chan...

>To Oneechan, I'm just
>"Sora, the younger girl."...

>...Oh right, Sora-chan,
>you came to this school before I did.
>...

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>That makes you my senpai, Sora-chan.
>Please take care of me from now on,
>Sora-senpai.

p17
>...Geez.
>What are you saying, Onee-chan?

>Sora-chan~
>The circumstances haven't changed...
>That won't make me happy...!

>Senpai!
>She called me senpai!

>>Sora-chan was very happy... See you next time!!