Growing Grass

p1
>Ritsuno-san doesn't laugh.
>Nobody in class has seen her laugh,
>so they all keep their distance.

>But I...

>Hey, hey, Ritsuno-san!
>?

p2
>!?

>Pft...
>Giggle
>Ah, you laughed.

>Eh...?

>Oh no! Run away!
>Eh?

p3
>Awawa... It came out...

>Eh... Eh?
>The heck is that...?

>The truth is... I have a condition where grass spontaneously grows from my body whenever I laugh...
>Seriously!?

>I've never seen someone grow actual grass from laughing before... [tn: The kanji for grass, "kusa", is often used online as the Japanese equivalent for "lol"]
>That's why I try not to laugh in front of others...

p4
>But I'm... very easily amused.
>Even someone dropping their chopsticks is enough to set me off.
>That's why I've always acted like a cool character who doesn't laugh
>and kept to myself this whole time...

>So don't get involved with me anymore,
>lest you end up becoming grass too...
>Ritsuno-san, Ritsuno-san.

>Teeheehee

>Wah~ More grass~
>Amazing! There's an infinite amount!

p5
>Geez! Quit messing with me!
>Sorry, sorry.

>It's certainly surprising that you can grow grass,
>but you've been holding yourself back even though you really want to laugh, right, Ritsuno-san?
>That's true, but...

>Then just laugh away!
>Your smile is really wonderful!

>Wonderful...?
>My...
>smile...?

p6
>Gyohoho!
>Teehee... Teeheehee!
>No... Stop... The grass... the grass is gonna grow...!!

>It's no good... I can't hold myself back... when I'm with this girl...!!
>I can't stop laughing...!!

>What should I do...? It's so much fun that I keep laughing...
>I don't think I've ever laughed this much in my entire life...!!

p7
>Spacecruiser log: stardate 9050-420-2...
>For some time now, we've been observing the inhabited planet known as "Earth".

>We had only looked away from it for a few Earth days, but an unthinkable phenomenom had occured.

p8
>My word. It seems the vegetation on the Earth's surface has grown rapidly.

>This planet was swarming with ferocious monkey-like creatures just a short while ago,
>but now there's not a trace of them left.

>This planet must have been done in by the powerful growth of this vegetation...

>Don't act all disappointed...
>Feeble civilizations going extinct in such a short time happens all the time.

>Yeah...
>Let's see if the next planet does any better.