Miyuki By Mitsuru Adachi Translated by Jose "Chepin" Garcia Edited by Jane Tung Wide-Ban Volume 2 Chapter 16 New Year's Day's Unexpected Visitor Page 344 Narrator: Happy New Year!! All last year, I recieved from all the readers magnificient support, I am really thankful!! Thanks to you, resting during summer vacation and New Year's Day was somehow.... Thanks to you, I am still single.... Thanks to you.... Editor: Don't start complaining from New Year's Day!! Page 345 Miyuki: Wow! Look, Onii-chan!! It's a silver-covered world!! Masato: Snowfall, snowfall. Miyuki: We can't go outside like this. Masato: Can't come out, can't come out. Ryuuichi also can't come out. Nakata-sensei also can't come out. Yasujirou also can't come out. Page 346 Masato: It looks like we can relax this New Year's Day. Miyuki: It seems the postman isn't coming either. There's no New Year's cards. Masato: Just the two siblings by themselves. Miyuki: Oh, it's cold. Masato: Aren't you wearing a kimono? Miyuki... Miyuki: Huh? Didn't you say that because kimonos are too tiresome, you don't like them? Masato: Too tiresome? I said that? Adachi: You said it, you said it. Page 347 Miyuki: It's cold, cold. Masato: Is the heater set weak? Wait a moment. -I pray this year will be a good year also!! Page 348 Miyuki: Television on New Year's day...it's the same stupid thing everywere, right. Masato: You may be right. Is the heater too hot? Miyuki: It's just perfect. Masato: Ah...is that so... Page 350 Woman: Ah...I'm sorry. Did any laundry fly around here? John: What? Woman: Ah, no..that is...[in broken english]....cleaning..um...panty...fly? John: panty? Page 351 [Note: the PERA PERA means talking fluently, in this case, in another language] Woman: Ah, OK OK. Thank you, thank you. Bye, bye. John: Heh, heh Page 352 Masato: Another cup. Miyuki: ouch It's so peaceful, isn't it. Masato: It's because the snow absords sound. Miyuki: It reminds me somehow of New Year's Day in Canada. Masato: Canada, huh. Page 353 Masato: Do you have some memories? Miyuki: Does it bother you? Masato: Not really... -Now that she mentions it, I haven't heard anything about when she was in the foreign country.... Miyuki: Isn't the heater a little hot? Masato: YEAH!! Miyuki: YEAH? Masato: Ah, nothing, nothing. Wait a little while. heh heh. Page 354 Miyuki: Ye---s. Masato: Wait, Miyuki. I'll come out. If it's those weirdos, I'll send them back. Page 355 John: Heave ho! Page 356 John: He--y, Wakamatsu!! Masato: Gue!! Wh, who are you? Huh? John: HAHAHA!! Masato: hahaha.... Page 357 Miyuki: George!? Page 358 Masato: -huh? huh? Ryuuichi's Mom: Hey, Ryuuichi. Where are you going with that body? Ryuuichi: I somewhow had a premonition.... Page 359 Ryuuichi's Mom: You have a cold and a fever, quietly go to bed. Kashima's Mom: What are you doing? Father... Yasujirou: Huh? Ah, I was just thinking of going to buy some cigarettes... Kashima's Mom: If you want cigaretes, I got up, bought some, and put them on top of te TV. Page 360 Yasujirou: Well, that's great, mother, you're very considerate, aren't you... Nakata's Mom: If somehow you don't get married this year.... Nakata: OK.... Page 361 John: My name is... George John Paul. Masato: George, John, Paul...is your face apple? [Apple in Japanese is Ringo]. ---And what did he come for? This old man.... Miyuki: He's not an old man, he's still 20 year's old. Page 362 Miyuki: Hmmmm. Page 363 Masato: Marraige? Miyuki: Yeah. Masato: Did you promise that to him? Miyuki: I didn't know that, OK. Page 364 Miyuki: That person, OK, gave me a ring on my birthday. Masato: Ring? Miyuki: A toy. So, in return I baked him a cookie and gave it to him on his birthday. The custom of that town is....the ring is a marriage proposal...and the cookie means that you accept the proposal. Masato: If you decline, do you bake a pancake? Miyuki: I don't know. Newscaster: It's the 11 o'clock news!! Miyuki: And says he is supposed to pick up the girl when he turns 20. Page 365 Masato: Those incomprehensible customs.......is that supposed to work in the economic super-power Japan?!! Miyuki: He says that he can't return to his country until he marries me. Masato: He can't return? Miyuki: He says he'll wait until I say OK. Masato: Where? Miyuki: Here. Masato: Look here.... Page 366 Masato: This is not a joke!! I won't forgive this! Not to a foreigner! No way! Miyuki: Nationalities are nothing to fuss over, you know. This is troublesome. John: nga.......