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- Hoshi no Furu Machi Volume 5 Chapter 40 Translation
- For use by Viscans
- By Pizzach
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- p1sfx: Bwaaaaaw
- p2: It was October and the junior year of high school.
- p3: I rocked back and forth on the train much like I did half a year ago last spring
- p3: kathunk kathunk kathunk
- p4: to get back to this town....
- p5: The cold, fall breeze filled with the smell of the ocean...
- p5: was the only thing there to greet me.
- p5: But what's this?
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- p1box: The stars I was never able to see in Tokyo
- p1box: became visible again just like the first time I arrived here.
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- Chapter 40 : In the Sky of Falling Stars
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- p1bubble: Cassiopeia...
- p1bubble: Perseus...
- p1bubble: And that there's....
- p2bubble: Um...
- p2bubble: Uh....
- p3box: Huh?
- p3box: I can't remember...
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- p1bubble: Beep-eep!
- p2: Good to see you back, Kotaro!
- p3: Obasan!
- p4: The funeral must have tired you out...
- p4: How old was your uncle when he died?
- p4: Pretty sure he was 48...
- p5: WOW... He was still in his prime...
- p5: What was he?
- p5: A high school teacher...
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- p1: How was he related to you?
- p2: Ojisan was a cousin of my father...
- p3: What kind of person was he?
- p3: He was kind...
- p3: Very very kind....
- p4: Being that kind...
- p4: it must've been hard on a lot of people to have him gone.
- p5: .............
- p6: I didn't see it coming...
- p6: I didn't expect it at all...
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- p1sign: Yamanote Funeral Hall
- p2: He could have...
- p2: done so much more with his life.
- p3: A large bank would have hired him, but he became infatuated with "the stars" and decided he would rather be a teacher...
- p3: Well
- p3: The work probably wouldn't have fit well with his personality anyway...
- p4: Wasn't he a public school "earth science" teacher?
- p4: Earth science!?
- p4: That kind of material doesn't even appear on an entrance exam!
- p5: Next year, you're going to be looking for work. I want you to think about your future when you choose your employment.
- p5: Heh
- p5: Like I'm going to choose the work of a "failure of society."
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- p1: Kotaro-kun...
- p3: Oh, Obasan?
- p4box: The Great Dictionary of Space
- p4: What's that?
- p4: This was his
- p4: most beloved book....
- p5: He always used to say...
- p5: that he wanted to give this to you once you became big enough to comprehend it.
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- p3: He said that you reminded him of himself when he was little...
- p3: We didn't have any children of our own, so he probably thought of you as a son...
- p4: Thats' why....
- p4: if you wouldn't mind...
- p4: I would like you to take it.
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- p6: Oh, is this where you were hiding, Kotaro-kun?
- p6: What're you doing?
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- p1: Juku study....
- p2: Oh?
- p2: I thought you came out to the countryside to have some fun since Your Juku school is on vacation for the summer?
- p3: Mom said that I'd be hopeless if I didn't study.
- p4: My cousin Jun is pretty smart.
- p4: He got a 100 on his last test, too.
- p5: But I only got an 80 on the Kanji test.
- p5: That's why I have to....
- p6: Oh Kanji!
- p6: I was never very good with Kanji, either...
- p7: Huh?
- p7: But Ojisan, you're a teacher, right?
- p8: I may be a teacher, but that doesn't mean I don't have my own weaknesses.
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- p1: Also, Kotaro, you're not hopeless at all.
- p1: You know the names of the stars, don't you?
- p2: Huh
- p2: A new astronomy book!?
- p3: Um
- p3: This's Taurus.
- p4: There's the eagle star, Altair
- p5: Here is Gemini
- p5: Pollux and Castor...
- p6: All right from the top of your head....
- p6: That's amazing, Kotaro...
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- p1: But mom told me....
- p1: knowing the names of the stars isn't going to do me any good.
- p1: It won't do anything to get me into a good school...
- p2: HRRMMMM. Yeah, it may not be popular with the test-takers....
- p2: In fact
- p2: It might only come in useful if you traveled to space...
- p4: Space!?
- p5: Ojisan, are we going to travel to space?!
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- p1: Maybe someday.
- p1: It might even happen sometime once you've grown up.
- p1: Really!?
- p2: Space travel!
- p2: Yeah!
- p4: That reminds me...
- p4: I remember wanted to become an astronaut, too, a long time ago.
- p4: So I studied and studied all about the stars...
- p5: But...
- p5: I ended up only becoming an astronomy teacher in the end...
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- p1: Okay...
- p1: I'll just take you with me....
- p1: when I go to space!
- p2: Really?
- p2: I look forward to it, Kotaro!
- p5: plop
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- p1: Ojisan...
- p1: I remembered, Ojisan...
- p1: How I was
- p1: back then...
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- p1: I don't know when I forgot that promise I made to you.
- p1: I was hopeless in Tokyo. So I came here and I haven't change at all...
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- p1: What're you having for lunch?
- p1: I dunno. Udon maybe?
- p3: Again?
- p3: You're a noodle freak.
- p4: Well, they're good...
- p5: Thud
- p6: Ouch
- p7: I'm... I'm so sorry...
- p7: I was rushing and didn't see you.
- p8: Sorry
- p8: Please pardon me.
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- p1: Well
- p1: Please excuse me.
- p1: I'm in a rush.
- p2: Who... who was that?
- p3: The earth science teacher, Ozawa.
- p4: Though
- p4: it isn't a surprise you haven't seen him.
- p4: When he isn't teaching class, he spends most of his time in the science prep room.
- p4: Oh?
- p6: WOOPS. He left a book...
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- p1: Wait... this is...
- p3sign: Science Prep Room
- p4sfx: rattle
- p4: Excuse me...
- p4: Is Ozawa-sensei here?
- p5: Yes?
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- p1: You...
- p1: left something behind today...
- p1: OOOOH. Thank you so much!
- p2: You saved me some time!
- p2: I was looking all over for this!
- p3: It may be now out of print...
- p3: But it really is a good book!
- p4: I have...
- p4: a copy of it, too.
- p7: Is that right?
- p7: You have an interest in the sky, too!?
- p7: Oh
- p7: Come here and have a seat!
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- p1: Ozawa-sensei started giving various facts about the planets and stars...
- p1: He stood, waving his hands in the air from time to time, as he explained about comets...
- p2: His eyes watered as he told how Pluto lost its classification as a planet...
- p3: I just watched silently as Ozawa-sensei continued heatedly talking...
- p3: I leaned forward slightly...
- p4: while having...
- p4: a feeling of nostalgia swell in my heart.
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- p1: Ah
- p1: How did it get this late!?
- p2: I'M SORRY. I just got so caught up in what I was talking about...
- p2 Forgive me
- p2: No
- p2: it's fine. I was really interesting.
- p3: Really?
- p3: Well, come back again whenever.
- p4: Alright, I will.
- p7sfx: screech
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- p2: "Earth Science..."
- p2: I should have chosen that as one of my classes...
- p6: I can probably only do it
- p6: at that school in Tokyo...
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- p1: When I was in the higher grades of elementary school, all I focused on was studying for the middle school entrance exam...
- p1: Of course, "the stars" were mostly unrelated to taking that test....
- p2: Fast forward to high school... and now I'm studying for the college entrance exam this time....
- p3: However
- p3: I became unable to keep up...
- p5: and so I came to this town....
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- p2: Oh
- p2: Woh
- p2: Woh
- p2sfx: screech
- p3: I- I'm so sorry!
- p3: Are you okay?
- p5: Uh....
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- p4: It was in this town I met her...
- p4: A girl named Ichinose...
- p5: And from...
- p5: that event...
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- p1: It's been one month since that day.
- p2: We still haven't traded any words since then.
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- p2sfx: rattle
- p2: I'm home....
- p3: Welcome back, Kotaro!
- p6: M- Masaki-san!?
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- p1: UNBELIEVABLE! You'll scare the daylights outta people coming home like that!
- p1: At least give a holler before you come back!
- p2: Well
- p2: Drink up, Masaki!
- p2: Have you been doing well, Jiichan?
- p2: I've been keepin' my health!
- p3: Staying as a guest for free, Misaki-san is the only son of the Miyamoto household....
- p3: He's currently attending a university in Tokyo...
- p4: and was the next door childhood friend of Ichinose.
- p5: Furthermore he was...
- p5: He was...
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- p1: Oh
- p1: By the way, Tsutsum-kun...
- p1: He was Ichinose's
- p1: first sweetheart....
- p2: HEEEEY. Are you listening?
- p2: W-what?
- p3: Did you run by Nagisa on your way back, tonight?
- p4: Huh... Well....
- p5: I'd gotten present I wanted to give her...
- p5: She had a surprised look on her face when she saw me and just ran off...
- p5: She's weird sometimes...
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- p3: I wonder what Nagisa is going to do...
- p3: with Misaki having come back?
- p3: I can't help but wonder...
- END ////////////////////
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