GOING TO EXTREMES, EVEN FOR A PART TIME JOB! translation by kamikaze, english editing by valkyrie x. notes on the translation: for ease of use, actions are in red, thoughts and narration are in blue, sounds and captions are purple, and asides, whispering, and notes from the author (seen in the manga as tiny text) are green. Page breaks are denoted by line breaks and the ---- symbol. also, "Friend A" and "Friend B" probably have names, but I'll have to look for them (if anyone can remember these offhand, let me know!) ^_^ GIRLS: Otohata-san, Asou-san, please sign this for me! (heart mark) GIRL A: When I checked the magazine, it said you'd be hanging out here. GIRL B: I never thought I'd be lucky enough to actually meet you here though! (heart mark) REI: Well, I'm usually around here. YUUYA: Wow, you came all the way from Osaka? thanks a lot! ---- YUUYA: Ahhh... I wonder if Ran is around. That's the only reason I ever look forward to hanging out here lately... REI: Don't get too involved. We'll get thrown into her chaos again. VOICE: Kyaaa~!! It's a thief!! GIRL: Someone please catch him!! YUUYA: She said there's a thief. REI: That's too bad. REI & YUUYA: [a flash of wind streaks by] Hm!? ---- YUUYA: Wow! Ran-chan's here!! (caption pointing to Ran's eyes): Eyes of a predator chasing the kill. RAN: [running] Hey, wait up you! RAN: [still chasing] Persistent dork! RAN: [jump kicking] It's no good running! You can't outrun Master Ran's swift feet! THIEF: [throwing bag into the air] Owww!! ---- YUUYA: [bag smacking him in the face] Ugh! YUUYA: Rei...you're a prophet or something. REI: Kotobuki, what are you doing here? RAN: Yo! Just a little job here. THIEF: [as Ran takes hat off] Hey, whaddya doing? Lemme go!!! RAN: [pulling hat off thief] What!? Who do you think you are, making demands after stealing like that!! RAN: [as thief turns around] Hm? ---- RAN: Hey, haven't I seen you around- [get's punched by thief] Bgh! RAN: [as thief runs] Owww! Dammit, you jerk! REI: [folding arms and sighing] That's a pretty extreme job if you ask me. YUUYA: She got hit in the same place. Yaaaay... RAN: I won't let you get away with this!!! ---- LADY: Thank you so very much. RAN: [saluting as lady bows] No problem. Take care and be careful! MIYU: Ran's doing something good! That's weeeiiiird! AYA: Something's suspicious! RAN: Heh heh heh RAN: [holding up paper] Take a look at this! MIYU: Your dad's Purikura*? RAN: Every time I protect the peace, I get a point, and for every 10 points, I get ¥500 allowance!! * Purikura is short for "Purinto Kurabu," or in English, "Print Club," an extremely popular fad in Japan where people stand in front of this machine that takes photos with various frames to choose from. ---- YAMATO: Does dad want you to become a cop so bad he'll be cheap and set you up with a job like this? RAN: I'm not gonna become a cop, but I figure I might as well get what I can out of it. As if I would do a pain-in-the-butt thing like this for free. (caption on top of frame): Enlightenment MIYU, AYA & YAMATO: That's true... RAN: When I get ¥500 I'm gonna get me some press-on nails. (heart mark) VOICE: Hey Ran. ---- AYA: Why don't you do your own homework? You never study as it is... RAN: Don't be so stingy. It's times like these that I can rely on my smart friends. (heart mark) FRIEND A: You're always like that Ran. FRIEND B: Kyaaa! There's Otohata-kun again. He's so cute! FRIEND B: Raaaaan, you got that bag from Rei-kun right? Why don't you invite him to a group date with us? FRIEND A: Goood ideeeeeea. RAN: Why don't you ask him yourself? If you walk around Shibuya long enough you'll bump into him. FRIEND B: We're disowning you! FRIEND A: Definitely disowning you! RAN: Shut up! I'm busy copying from this notebook... RAN: Hm!? ---- RAN: [thinking] HER!!! [Ran stares] RAN: [still staring ^^;] Hmmmmmmmm? RAN: Yesterday's thief!!! GIRL: It's not me!!! ---- RAN: So. I thought I'd seen you before, you're one of us at school. GIRL: What are you talking about? Don't you have the wrong person? GUY: Hey, hey, could you not put any of your strange suspicions on my girl? As if my Yukie would steal. RAN: [pointing to nose] I don't give a damn about the stealing, just let me get even with her for this nose! YUKIE: I told you I don't know what you're talking about!! RAN: .......... ---- RAN: Alright. I'll leave it at that this time. GUY: [waving] Thanks. GUY: [walking] Hey. GUY: [walking away from Ran] Who told you to do it in a way so that you'd get caught? YUKIE: S-sorry... GUY: Why don't you find a better way to get some cash? Do you want me to dump you? YUKIE: No... ---- GUY: Well, we'll go "tele-hunting*" to make up for it. Go call up a sucker tonight. GIRL: Ok...I'll try. RAN: [eating] Aaaaand, I just need one more point to get 10 stickers. *"tele-hunting" is an illegal practice that takes advantage of "telephone clubs" which are unfortunately popular in Japan. Telephone clubs are organizations whose sole purpose is to set up dates and matches for men and women for a nominal fee, and has become a common form of indirect prostitution, where men call up women and arrange a time and place to meet. Tele-hunting takes this even further, so that when the men show up at the arranged meeting place, an armed gang of thugs mug the person and steal his wallet and cash. Tele-hunting is often accomplished by a woman putting an ad into the telephone service and acting as a decoy to get the men to show up for the purpose of getting mugged by other guys. ---- YUUYA: So, your father's a cop, Ran. That's kinda cool. RAN: Not really. He's just an old fart. REI: I don't care, but hey, Kotobuki. REI: Since when did you sit down and start eating my food? And what's with the crowd? FRIEND A: Yaay! FRIEND B: Group date, group date! AYA: This camomille is good. (heart mark) MIYU: The melon soda's pretty good too! RAN: Huh? YUUYA: [pointing to a magazine article about Rei] Go ahead and eat up because it's all on Rei. The Super Highschooler Rei is an ultra feminist, right? RAN: Yo! Genereous! REI: That's warping of information. It's totally inconvenient. ---- VOICE: You're Ran Kotobuki huh? GUY A: I'm from the juvenile department of the police. I'm taking you to the station for charges of threatening. AYA: Nooo, your finally getting a police record? RAN: What now? MIYU: Weren't you protecting the peace? ---- RAN: [feet up on desk] Tele-hunting?! As IF I would do something like that. Aren't you pathetically underestimating me, THE Ran Kotobuki!? ---- OFFICER A: The victim is saying that after having been invited by you on a telephone club messaging service, he was ambushed and mugged by men, having ¥50,000 stolen. RAN: Someone is setting me up and using my name to do it! DAD: [busting into the room] RAN! RAN: Ah! RAN: [jumping into dad's arms] Pop! You came to saaaave meeee!!! DAD: [throwing Ran] You iiiiidiot! ---- DAD: [weeping on floor] How horrible!! To think my daughter was tele-hunting!! OFFICERS: [saluting] 1st Chief Inspector!! RAN: Are you SERIOUS!!? Nobody trusts me one bit!! YUUYA: Father! I will prove Ran's innocence!! DAD: Who are you!! YUUYA: I'm Ran's boyfriend, Yuuya Asou, father!! DAD: WHAT!? RAN: Hey second-place! Since when are you my boyfriend? DAD: You're in no position to call me father! YUUYA: Please consent to our courtship, father!! RAN: Hey hey hey hey! Aren't there more important things to do than talk about this!? (Small caption on the top of bottom frame): Pin-pon-pan-pon (sound of annoucement bells) ("M" in flag caption): Since this manga is too noisy, please take a short break. MIHONA: Uuugghh... Geez, the main characters are too noisy. AYA-SD: Here, this is the Earl Grey you like sensei. (heart mark) MIHONA: Oh, yeah, thanks. MIYU-SD: [holding up a flag] What are these Mihona-cchi? ---- RAN: [blowing the tea party away] Dammit! I'm gonna go find the culprit myself! MIHONA: [flying] Aaack! YUUYA: [still inside room] Father! DAD: [also still in room] Go away! VOICE: [as Ran walks out] Hey. RAN: Otohata... ---- RAN: [smacking Rei on the back] You didn't need to worry and check up on me! REI: Aaaaaaas if. I was brought here on false charges too. REI: Hanging around you always gets me into trouble. RAN: Otohata. RAN: [looking serious] You don't honestly think that I was tele-hunting do you? ---- REI: If I did, I wouldn't have said, "She isn't doing that." Even though I look this way, I do have eyes to see people with. ---- RAN: You understand. I'm not the kind that accepts dirty money. RAN: [walking away with Rei] Alright! Let's go find the perpetrator! REI: Why should I have to? RAN: Aren't you mad that you were suspect too? REI: Not particularly. AYA: According to what I think, the perpetrator doesn't know that a complaint has been filed by the victim yet. ---- RAN: [sitting on steps] So? REI: [standing] (aside) it's cold... AYA: There's a possibility of a second incident. They could have left a message on the telephone club service. MIYU: Wow! You're pretty sharp! AYA: Ahhh me... The world is so scary these days. I just can't keep up. RAN: Well spoken from someone who was escort dating. AYA: [looking at Ran] I was going on dates only. RAN: [looking at Aya] Oh brag about it. YUUYA: Oh! YUUYA: Bingo! RAN: Serious!? Record it! ---- RECORDING: "Hello. I'm Ran Kotobuki, high school sophomore. Is there anyone who will escort date me for ¥50,000? I'll be waiting." MIYU: That's totally different from your voice Ran! YUUYA: Okay. Let's put in a message and set them up. RAN: (thinking) That voice...! YUUYA: We'll set her up with a 25 year old business man. [plugging nose] Uhhh, hello... REI: You're overdoing it. ---- AYA: How is it? Is there anyone like her here? MIYU: Hmmm.... RAN: Second-place, go! YUUYA: O- Ok! NOTE: Asou Yuuya, 16 years old. AYA: (whispering) I wonder if he'll be alright. RAN: Shh! VOICE: Mr. Tanaka? GIRL: It's me, Kotobuki ---- MIYU: Hey, that's Yukie Mochida from section 3 of our class!! RAN: [smacking Miyu] Quiet!!! YUUYA: Hello. YUKIE: Did you bring the money? GUY: [coming up behind Yuuya] Hey you. Are you planning on doing something with my girl? YUKIE: Let's stop doing this Takeru! TAKERU: You shut up! [grabbing Yuuya] Hey, if you don't want to get hurt, gimme your money! VOICE: Just a minute!! ---- RAN: So, finally you expose yourself. You're the culprit. YUKIE: Kotobuki!! TAKERU: Tsk, the real thing huh. RAN: Hey Mochida. You stealing the other day, was that to get money for him too? Are you being threatened? YUKIE: .....It's because I like him. TAKERU: Yeah yeah, she'll do anything if it's for me. RAN: Hah hah hah! Isn't that impressive! ---- RAN: [back slamming Takeru] GET REAL!!! RAN: [pointing down at him] Blaming your crimes on the woman who's in love with you...I call guys like that the scum of men!! MIYU: He's already out cold. RAN: How pathetic! Bro! YAMATO: [appearing out of nowhere] Roger! YAMATO: [taking Takeru] You, come with me to the station. TAKERU: Dammit! I won't forget this! RAN: Go simmer down at the police station! RAN: [looking at Yukie] Geez. ---- RAN: You picked quite a guy to fall in love with. YUKIE: I liked him so much I couldn't help it...I was so scared that we would grow apart even though we were dating...I thought I would be able to hold on to him if I just did what he told me to do. YUKIE: But somewhere deep in my heart, I think I wanted someone to stop me. I'm really sorry. RAN: You know... why don't you think a bit more? Do you honestly think that by stealing other people's money and offering it to him that you'd earn his affection? ---- RAN: Listen. Why don't you decide to be such a great woman that men just come up to you and offer you things on their own, like me! MIYU: Getting all worked up again! hey hey! RAN: Uh! Did I do it again? AYA: You did, you did. REI: [appearing out of nowhere] Good going. YUUYA: Where were you! ---- RAN: [holding up her sticker card] That makes a full 10 points cleared!!! DAD: I'm sorry for doubting you! Well done Ran! RAN: [rolling on the ground] Kyaaaaaa~!! I have ¥500!!! Good working with you~!! RAN: [dropping coin into sewage drain] Agh! (sound of coin dropping: Plunk) NARRATION: Completely broke Kogal Ran Kotobuki will go to extremes even for ¥500! END EP 2