Slow Start ch106

p1
>Ah, dango!!
>Would you like one?

>I bought some dango!!
>Would you like some dango, Sengoku-san!?
>Sure, thank you.
>Tokura Father
>Sengoku Father
>Tokura Mother

>Why are you acting like an underling around Sengoku Papa-san?
>Well, y'know, Sengoku-san is just so cool~
>I get that, but...

>Why don't we start with the first years' photo exhibit?
>Let's do that, bro!!
>And now he's calling him "bro".
>Ufufu.
>Sengoku Mother

>>Everybody's parents have come for the culture festival!

p2
>Erm...
>Ichinose Mother

>The first years' photo exhibit is at the pilotis on the first floor...
>Pilotis?
>What's a pilotis again?
>I think it's like a huge veranda or something?

>The ones with a roof are verandas and the ones without are called

balconies, right?
>Eh?
>In that case, a roof balcony is a balcony with a roof?
>No, that means it's on the roof...

>Wait.
>We're talking about the photo exhibit, not balconies...
>Why don't we start with the first years' photo exhibit?

>Oh.

>Those people must be the parents of some first years.
>If we just follow them...

>Um, hello~ Excuse me~!!
>We heard you talking just now.
>Our daughter is a first year too...
>Eh?

>Woah...
>She's really sociable...

p3
>Nama Mama!!!
>Nama Tama!!!
>Raw egg (nama tama)

>Hyeeeeh!?

>Tama-chan's mom is a Tamannu who looks just like Tama-chan and Hiroe-

san is a Hiroe-san that looks like a stranger I've seen before.
>Huh?
>But if I've seen her before, does that mean the stranger Hiroe-san

isn't a strange anymore?

>Tama-chan's mom looks so much like Tama-chan that she doesn't look like

a stranger.
>Which means I don't know who Hiroe-san is but I know who Tama-chan's

mom is?
>Huh?
>Huh?

>Are you okay, Hana-chan!?
>Hi-
>Hiroe-san!!
>>absentminded

>...Um.
>Hiroe-san,
>I'm so glad
>that you came
>to the culture festival!

>Yeah.
>...It's a wonderful school!

>>joy

p4
>I'm Momochi Tamate's mother.
>I'm her father.

>We're normally working overseas,
>but today is our daughter's culture festival, so we came back as fast

as we could!!
>Wah~ Wah~!!
>Yeah!

>Ooh.
>Might you be Hana-chan?
>Which would make this Kamuri-chan and Eiko-chan.

>Ah, yes!!
>Nice to meet you! I'm Tama...nnu-chan's friend, Ichinose!!
>Nnu?
>Awawawa
>What's "nnu"?
>Eh?
>Just now, Tama-chan was going "Papannu" and "Mamannu"...
>Huh?
>Did I say that?
>You did.

>I was so excited back there that I wasn't aware of what I was saying.
>>ribbit
>Eeeh?

>B-But your mom also said "Tamannu"...
>Huh~?
>Did I say that?
>I just kinda got caught up in it.
>Eeeh!?

>Right~?
>Wheyyay
>I see it's not just they're appearance that's identical.
>Amazinnu.

p5
>Oh yeah!
>I got you three souvenirs~
>Here, go ahead!!
>Wawah!

>A cute bag!!
>Uwawah~ Czech beads!
>How wonderful~
>And this is for Kamuri-chan.

>Ooh. That's cool.
>Yep.
>It's raised my attack and defense.

>Thank you very much.
>Thank you very much!!
>It was nothing.
>Mother.
>What about me?

>Your present arrived by delivery today!
>And what's more, it's snow crab from Hokkaido!
>The number one gift to send someone!!
>>Crab Heaven
>>Ultimate Flavor!!

>Why'd you get me snow crab from Hokkaido as a souvenir from overseas?
>We've only ever done domestic delivery.

>Incidentally, my moms got upset that they couldn't go to the culture

festival because it takes a long time to prepare.
>Geez~
>Of course they'd be upset about that.

p6
>No food stalls by the first years?
>Just photo exhibits.
>Ah, that.
>I wanna see it.

>We'll guide you there.
>Erm, where was it again?
>Near the stairwell on the first floor...
>Pilotis.
>That's right. Out the pilotis and down the hall.

>By the way, when passing through the pilotis, you need to keep chanting

"pilotis, pilotis", or else you'll get cursed.
>CURSED!
>Eeep!

>Pilotis, Pilotis
>Uuuh....
>Pilotis, pilotis, pilotis, pilotis, pilotis,
>pilotis, pilotis, pilotis...
>Piloitspilotispilotispilotis
>Huh?

>Mom, Dad.
>Ah, Eiko.
>Hey~
>We came here with Sengoku-san~

>Hey,
>Dad.
>Pilotis Pilotis Pilotis Pilots
>...Oh, it's you, Kamuri.
>What happened here?

>Yep.
>This is what all the high school girls are wearing these days.
>...
>Is that so...?
>Erm.
>I guess?
>More or less.
>Yes.

p7
>Hana~(note)
>Mom!
>We just happened to come across the Sengokus and Tokuras~
>Hazuki-san<3

>Hey, hey.
>Is that girl the Eiko-chan who's apparently just like me?
>Ufufufu
>Eh?
>I didn't go that far...
>She's the girl you mistook for me and called Mama, right, Hana?
>Let me see~
>*Vol.6 ch64

>Oho.
>Eiko-chan sure is cute.
>Mufun~
>I see~ So that's what I'm like, huh?

>I don't think that's it.
>I don't think that's it either.
>Instant denial, huh?

>Hello!!
>I'm Tamate's mother!!
>You're her mother!?

>They were so similar, I thought they were sisters.
>Twins sisters, no less!!

>Ufufu. Is that what I'm like?
>It is.
>I think so too.

p8
>Man~

>The elite four's previous generation has assembled.
>I-
>It's quite the spectacle...
>Aha.
>It's making me blush.
>Yep.

>Um,
>would you like to get some tea afterwards?
>We could even go drinking!
>Ah~ That sounds great~
>It feels like a crime when someone with that appearances talks about

drinking...
>Ufufu

>Come to think of it, didn't you say you had work today, Dad?
>Yeah.
>I was supposed to be meeting with someone, but I haven't been able to

get in touch with thm.
>I figured I may as well wonder around here until I get a hold of him.
>I get to hang out with Sengoku-san, after all.

>He lives overseas so today's the first time I'm meeting him in person,

but he seems to have a habit of running away.
>I've tried calling him over and over and over and over again since this

morning and have had no luck.
>Excuse me.
>I'll try calling him again.

>Momochi Father

>...Hello?
>...Yes.

>...
>Alright, let's get going, shall we?
>We'll save you a seat!!
>Papannu exits the stage...!!

>>Do your best in getting to your meetings quickly, Papannu!?