Chapter 122 of I"s Volume 13 Translated by Mat Swadling I"s Chapter 122: The way I felt then by Masakazu Katsura Brought to you by Jim Zubkavich and The Masakazu Katsura Shrine p149==== Seto: This atmosphere is bad. Seto: I sense impending doom... Seto: This mood is unending!! p151==== Seto: This silence is killer... My breathing has stopped... Seto: I wasn't ready for this kind of thing. Seto: Tell me that you're only teasing, like before. Tell me you're not mad, and I'll apologise honestly... p152==== Seto: Or, look at me with a smiling face, like we haven't seen each other for a long time. Seto: So that we could go on living happily... Seto: This is a big problem!!! p153==== Seto: Last Christmas, I confessed and we became a couple. Seto: That day, we were here. I was so nervous I could have died. Seto: The excitement from beginning a new love is totally different from the nervousness of thinking that love may be over... Seto: That we're back in the same place seems like a bad omen... Seto: Iori-chan's silence, Seto: It could be because she's looking for the words to end things. Seto: If I don't stop her first, Seto: It'll all be over!!! p154==== Iori: I'm sorry... Seto: Here it comes!! Seto: The words to break up!! Iori: I'm... hopeless... Seto: I... have to stop her. p155==== Iori: I was lying to you before... Iori: Liking that difficult role, having fun acting, it was all a lie... Seto: Huh? Iori: I originally thought I could go to see Isai-san today and ask him about my acting. Iori: But in the end, I wanted to ask him if I should quit the play. Seto: You can't quit. It's your dream, isn't it? Seto: Why didn'y you say so on the phone? If... if you had told me, I would have understood... Seto: Huh? Then she doesn't want to break up... Iori: I can't quit... Iori: That is to say, I really can't quit now. p156==== Iori: Still... I may have already given up. But for now, I'll give it my best. Iori: You gave me such encouragement when we talked on the phone... Seto: Huh? Seto: On the phone? Seto: Ah! Seto: Seto: It wasn't just then... Maybe... Iori: <...and every day, they seem to get mad at me. Maybe I should just quit.> Seto: Seto: On the trip too!! Seto: She's been sending me all these signals... Seto: And I... didn't listen. I just let them bounce right off... p157==== Seto: Which means that she couldn't have asked me for advice after all!! Iori: But back then, I thought I'd just whine about it and give up... Iori: I was just lying about it... Iori: But... I'm just hopeless!! I was just acting like a child to you... Iori: I suddenly acted coldly to you. I had my reasons, but I couldn't face up to them... I understood why you'd end up hating me... Seto: Hating you?... Iori: I don't want to hurt you any more... Seto: Damn! Seto: Wait a sec'!! p158==== Iori: It would be best if we broke up... p161==== Seto: October... p162==== Seto: Back then... p163==== Seto: What? Why!? Why do you want to break up? Seto: Do you hate me that much? Seto: With desperate, last minute resistance, Seto: Before I could think about it, the words came out of my mouth. Seto: Luckily, I got through to her. Seto: I'm sorry! If it's something I did wrong, I apologise!! I won't say it! I won't say anything that makes you upset!! Seto: I could never hate you! So please, don't talk about breaking up!! Seto: Perhaps I've only serioulsly made it to level 2 with Iori-chan, Seto: It's a mistake to talk about breaking up while we're still only starting. Seto: When I wasn't sure what would happen, it scared the hell out of me... p164==== Iori: I'm so glad... Iori: You don't hate me... Seto: From that day on... Seto: On days she has practice in the afternoon, Iori-chan always comes to my place in the morning. Seto: We make breakfast together, and eat together... Seto: It's only a few hours, but it's enough. Seto: I get the feeling we'll be okay now. Seto: It feels like those days we couldn't be together are just a memory. p165==== Seto: That day, by the clock tower, that great feeling. Seto: More than fearing I was going to die, more than wanting to cry, I just felt relieved.