Harumichi Ch 12

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Chapter 12 - I Came From the Country.

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1: Everything was just a mess after that...
2: Everyone wasn’t even treating the event like a festival anymore...
3: People were starting fights over stuff that made no sense...
4: But... I guess...
5: all that stuff was just another part of the festival, too...

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1: Hey...
2: You listening, Fujisuke?

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1: Seriously though, what was the big idea?!
2: Why’d he have to go and start a fight like that?!
3: Why cares about who the festival mascot is for the year
4: or what they’re doing...
5: Genta...
6: Hmm? What’s up?
7: Who spread rumors about the festival mascot?

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1: Did you know about it?
2: A-About what...?
3: About Emika...
4: Huh...?
5: Well... yeah...

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1: I see...
2: I-I mean...
3: I just happened to overhear about it...
4: I-It’s not like I told anyone or anything...
5: W-Wait...
6: Actually I think I did tell someone...
7: Or rather 2 people...
8: No, 4...

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1: Anyway, I didn’t tell that many people about it!
2: F-Fujisuke...?

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1: ...Emika...

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1: Oh hey, Fujisuke!
2: What’s up...?
3: Well... I asked around and was told you’d be here...
4: Gosh, I haven’t even put on any make-up yet...
5: Nah, my face is pretty bad, too...
6: Welcome to my country.
7: How about you just sit down for now.
8: Country?

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1: Yep! No one knows about it.
2: This is my country and mine alone.
3: I used to always come here
4: whenever something happened to me...
5: Like when a certain someone // called me names like "Helmet Hair" because of my bowl cut...
6: Haha... Ouch...

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1: (handwritten) Ahem! (printed) ...So, what about you?
2: What brings you to my country?
3: ...Huh?
4: ...Um, well...
5: ...I’m guessing you wanted to find out
6: if it was true or not, huh...
7: ...Huh?! No, I...
8: It’s pointless trying to hide it.
9: It’s written all over your face.
10: ...Y-Yeah, you’re right.

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1: Hey, Fujisuke...
2: The world is filled with things
3: that you don’t have to know about.
4: Huh...?
5: But you don’t really understand what that means...
6: until after you experience learning about one of those things...

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1: But sometimes curiosity
2: isn’t something that you can just stop that easily, huh...
3: All right, I’ll tell you.
4: It’s true.
5: ...I was a prostitute
6: in Tokyo.
7: ...Wha?
8: You’re kidding...
9: Nope.

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1: You know how I went to Tokyo to become a hairstylist, right?
2: Man was I in for a shock when I got there. I was so lame compared to everyone else... I was so out of place in class...
3: I learned later on that everyone else was from the country too
4: and were working the hardest they could...
5: At the time though I had no idea, so I ended up doing everything I could to erase that country girl image off me
6: by chasing after trend after trend...

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1: But chasing after the latest trends costs a lot of money, right?
2: By the time I realized it, I had been spending hundreds of thousands of yen on clothes every month...
3: I needed a way to make money quick,
4: so I started doing compensated dating...
5: I just told myself it was another trend to follow...
6: Eventually I ended up falling in love
7: with the man I was seeing...

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1: We started dating for real...
2: but I eventually found out that he had a wife and kids.
3: ...It’s been half a year since then...
4: And then...
5: I came back to town...
6: Why did I try so hard to find out back then...?
7: If I didn’t find out about it... I could’ve been happier...

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1: Right after I came back to town...
2: he gave me a call, you see...
3: And here I thought that...
4: if I started something with you...
5: I’d be able to forget it all or something...
6: A wave of emptiness crashed into my heart and I ended up not hearing what she was saying anymore halfway through...

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1: That Emika...
2: wasn’t the Emika I knew...
3: She wasn’t this town’s Emika...
4: she was a woman of Tokyo...
5: I’m just a mess, aren’t I...
6: I’m gonna become a hero
7: that’ll save anyone in trouble...

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1: She was someone far out of my reach...
2: Someone that I wouldn’t be able to protect...
3: Not even after a week passed...
4: Emika had gone back to Tokyo...