[Yokosuka vol 19] There's Days Like This Too

Yokosuka Naval District Anthology, Volume 19, Chapter 16
Title: Flowers Blooming in the Fields
Author: Sakimaki Akimu (https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=22296)

Page 114
Panel 1
SFX: Creak

Panel 2
TTK: Sorry for calling you two here.
I'll bring you in in the order I called you, so could you two wait there until I'm through with this call?

Panel 3
Shiranui/Nowaki: Understood.

Panel 4
Narration: ...30 minutes later.
SFX: [Tick, tock, tick...]

Panel 5
Shiranui/Nowaki: I want to break the silence but can't think of a good conversation starter!

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Page 115
Panel 1
Nowaki: (Really can't let this silence go on any longer...)
[Glance]

Panel 4
SFX: Turn

Panel 5
Nowaki: (S-Shoot... I want to talk to her, but what was her name again?
Can't remember, even though she's part of the Kagerou-class too...)

Panel 6
Shiranui: (I think her name was...
...
her name was...)

Panel 7
Nowaki: Forgetting someone's name is way too rude...!!

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Page 116
Panel 1
Nowaki: (Uhmm...
I remember the characters for it being pretty unusual...)

Panel 2
Nowaki: "Ryuujou"...?
RJ: Dun forget my name, that'd be a bummer!
Nowaki: Wait, no
It was a three letter one.

Panel 3
Nowaki: "Abukuma"...?
ABKM: (Did you call?)

Panel 4
Nowaki: (No no no,
it's definitely not a waste of kanji like that name, I'm sure of it.)
ABKM: (It's not wasteful at all~!!)

Panel 5
Nowaki: Iowa...!!

Panel 6
Nowaki: ...no way you could pair a Japanese face with that...!!
(And that's four letters...!!)
Shiranui: [Shocked]

Panel 7
Nowaki: (Ah...)
Sorry.
Lost a hold of myself for a bit there.
Shiranui: Oh, no worries. Go ahead...
Nowaki: (Is she... keeping her distance...!?)
* "Shiranui" is spelled semantically ("jukujikun") and thus cannot be read character-by-character. Its pronunciation has also further changed since the term originated.

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Page 117
Panel 1
Shiranui: It's not my fault that it slipped my mind.
I'll take this opportunity while I have it...
(I have to remember what it was!)

Panel 2
Shiranui: I think she was a member of the Fourth Destroyer Division...
Naka: (The first flagship was Naka-chan~♡♡)

Panel 3
Naka: Naka-chan♡

Panel 4
Naka: Naka-chan♡

Panel 5
Naka: Naka-
Shiranui: Go away...
Go away...!
Nowaki: !?

Panel 6
Nowaki: (Maybe I'll be able to pick up on it if we talk a bit...?)
Excuse me...
Shiranui: [Gasp]

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Page 118
Panel 1
SFX: Creak
TTK: Thanks for waiting-

Panel 2
TTK: Ooh.
Nowaki and Shiranui are interacting...?
NowakI: Uh...

Panel 3
TTK: I think I'll put business aside for a bit
and watch over them~♪
Nowaki: Do... do you mind if we chat
to kill some time?

Panel 4
Shiranui: Shiranui isn't bored or anything in the least.
[Desperately trying to remember]
TTK: Wha- Shiranui, you can't talk like thaaaat!!

Panel 5
TTK: That's gotta be way too mean!!
Nowaki: Right...!

Panel 6
Nowaki: You're right, Shi-ra-nui-san...!!
(Her name~!)
[Shine]
TTK: How could you be happy after that, Nowakiiiiiiii!?

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Page 119
Panel 1
TTK: Nowaki... she's unusually energized.
[Cough]
Who would've thought that she - had it - in her...

Panel 2
Shiranui: Sorry.
I just meant to say... if we could avoid discussing anything boring.
Nowaki: Sure.
[Refreshed]

Panel 3
Shiranui: If I can't remember her name, even though she used mine...

Panel 4
Maikaze: Nowachi~♪
[Pitter-patter]

Panel 5
Shiranui: [Gasp]
(Her name was...)

Panel 6
Shiranui: Nowacchi!

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Page 120
Panel 1
SFX: [Flushed]
Shiranui: No
wa-

Panel 2
Shiranui: Huh...?

Panel 4
Maikaze: (Heeeey!
Nowacchi~?)

Panel 5
Shiranui: She reacted strangely.
Don't tell me... I got it wrong!?
[Trembling]
Did Shiranui...
make a mistake...?

Panel 6
Maikaze: What a surprise though,
calling Nowacchi by her nickname♪

Panel 7
Shiranui: Nickname!?
[Fwooosh]

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Page 121
Panel 1
Maikaze: Maybe you should call her Nuinui too then, Nowacchi~?
(Then it'd be mutual♪)
Nowaki: Eh?

Panel 2
Nowaki: (Nu...)

Panel 3
Nowaki: Nuinui...
SFX: [Blush]
Shiranui: Yes...
[Shaking]
Narration: Scattered by strong winds that part the grassy fields,

Panel 4
Maikaze: Let's do our best to use those nicknames~
Kidding!♪
TTK: Nowacchi, Nuinui!
You two can come in together.
Shiranui: (Commander!?)
Narration: the scattered seeds seemed to
spread in the blink of an eye...
and bloom into new flowers.
* Note that Nowaki consists of the kanji for "field" and "split".