This translation doesn't include page numbers because I'm translating from "Ribon." If I get the tankoubon, I'll go back and fix it. Hina : {The eighth school that I, Mishima Hina, transferred to, is a extremely weird school. The students are divided into feuding groups with black and white uniforms. They get mad and resort to violence all the time. And the white leader seems to think I should remember him.} <> Hina : {And the weirdest one of all is this guy.} Tetta : To commemorate making a new ally, I died my hair yellow. --It was purple before. Tetta : We're both greys, and we're in the same class, so let's be friends. Hina : I don't feel like making friends with a pervert like you. I'll make lots of more serious friends. Tetta : Piyoko... Hina : Don't use that weird nickname! Tetta : You still don't understand the seriousness of the situation. <> Tetta : You publicly stated that you were going to be a grey. But you don't have any idea how hard that's going to be, do you? Hina : What? Is there some kind of problem? <> Hina : What the hell is this? <> Tetta : This isn't the time to say that, you've got a gaping wound in your forehead! Hina : No, I don't. Tetta : What!? Hina : This isn't my blood. Who did this? Show yourself! <> Tetta : Looks like your rude reception has started. Hina : They just had to get my new skirt. It's been so long since I've bought one! <> Hina : Man, this is an ugly jersey! --Don't complain, just get changed. Homeroom's starting. Tetta : You're pretty brave, Piyoko. Most girls would've just started crying and gone home. --I had a feeling that you were going to cause trouble when I looked at your record. Hina : Now I know the reason why nobody wears their own clothes at this school! It's because greys become targetted for bullying for no good reason, isn't it? <> --That's right. That's the fate of all greys. No one's lasted more than 3 days. Hina : And the teachers act as if they don't notice, even though it's so obvious? --That would make the teachers targets for bullying too. All the teachers who tried to reform the school ended up quitting. The students here are cruel and cunning. No one can change the system. Hina : That's completely pathetic! You call yourself a teacher? --I've been trying to help you... <> Tetta : Don't be mean to Hira-rin, Piyoko. He's got a wife and kids too. Hina : Wait a second, aren't you a grey? Then why don't you get bullied? Tetta : I've got personal magnetism. Hina : You're kidding! But even if the teachers don't have any power, what about those two? The word of the leaders is absolute, right? So if they could become friends and tell people to stop this stupid bullying, there'd be no problem, right? Tetta : Impossible. Hina : Why? <> Tetta : Those two are mortal enemies, all because they got into a huge fist fight on the first day of school. Hina : Fist fight? Tetta : The cause was some stupid disagreement about whether their shoulders hit each other. They fought in front of the entire student body until they both collapsed. They spend a week in the hospital, and they've been enemies since then. Heaven and earth would have to turn upside down before they'd even think about being friends. <> Hina : A fist fight, huh? He didn't look like such a violent type... Tetta : Didn't I tell you not to get involved with him? --He may look handsome, but he's bad. Hina : I didn't really mean... --You should just wear a uniform. Hina : No! A woman's decision can't be changed that easily. --You talk her into it, Koshiba! She's not quite "special" like you. You've seen what happened to the other students. <> Tetta : It's just a feeling, but I think Piyoko will be fine. Hina : I'm Mishima Hina, a transfer student. Pleased to meet you. --Your seat will be...all right, over there. Hina : I can't get away from you even in class. <> Hina : Sensei, there are these thins in my desk! That's so boring and old-fasioned! Couldn't they think of something more original? Tetta : You don't have to say stuff that'll encourage your enemies. Hina : This time, I've got guts. Although they do say that weak dogs bark the loudest. <> Hina : It seems that Nishizaki and Isshiki have both already noticed me. Um, excuse me... Just a second... {I guess they won't talk to a grey} Is Isshiki-kun here!? <> --Why do you want to see Isshiki-kun? Isshiki : What? Hina : Perfect timing. I thought I should give back the handkerchief I borrowed yesterday. Thanks a lot. <> Hina : And one other thing...yesterday you acted like we knew each other, but I really don't remember you... {It feels like the atmosphere just got really chilly...} Isshiki : You must be mistaken. Hina : Huh? Isshiki : I don't remember lending that to you. <> Hina : What? But... --Isshiki wouldn't lend you a handkerchief. Just go back to class. <> Hina : Oh, so you want to completely cut yourself off from anyone who's not in the same group as you? You don't want to use something that a grey has touched? That's surprising. I didn't think you were that rotten! There's something weird about all of you! --What's with her? --What an idiot. Hina : {They make me so sick!} <> Hina : {I am not going to let myself be beaten!} <> --Transfer student! Nishizaki called for you! Hina : Nishizaki? That violent guy? If he's got something to tell me, he can do it himself. What!? --He said to carry you if you resisted. <> Nishizaki : Hey, transfer student. How did you like your reception? Hina : Were you the one who planned all that? Nishizaki : Why would I go to all that trouble for an insignificant person like you? Koshiba, I didn't call you. Tetta : Can't I at least watch? I won't get in the way. Hina : What does the 'mighty leader' have for that insignificant person? Nishizaki : There's something I want to ask you. Is it true that Isshiki lent you a handkerchief? <> Hina : So what if he did? Though he said himself that he didn't remember lending it to me. Nishizaki : Go call Isshiki. --Right. Hina : Koshiba! What are you looking at? Help me out! Tetta : Aren't you always telling me not to come near you? Besides, I'm interested in what Isshiki's going to do if the story's true. <> Isshiki : Why did you call me here? Hina : Ow! Get this rope off of me! Nishizaki : What's your relationship with the transfer student? <> Isshiki : We don't have one. We just met yesterday. Hina : {And yesterday he was acting like we knew each other...} Nishizaki : That can't be true. You wouldn't lend a handkerchief to a girl you didn't know. You're compulsive about cleanliness. Hina : Compulsive? <> Tetta : That's right, Piyoko. He won't use public bathrooms or go out to eat or hold the hand straps in trains. He thinks that things other people have touched are dirty. It's a kind of illness. He never lends and borrows things. Nishizaki : The reason you said you didn't remember lending it was because there were other people around, right? And yesterday you showed up to protect her from me, didn't you? <> Hina : {What?} Nishizaki : She's a special girl for you. Hina : {He protected me? I don't understand.} Isshiki : This is ridiculous. If this is all you called me here for, I'm going to leave. Hina : {Why would he protect me?} <> Hina : {What's going on?} Nishizaki : Fine, go back to class. When she's bald, don't say I didn't warn you. Hina : {My hair!?} Stop joking! What do you think you're doing? You've gotta be kidding! Hey, Koshiba! Tetta : It's all right. Even if you're bald, your hair will grow back quickly, Piyoko. Hina : It will not! <> Hina : Stop it! I said I don't know him! We don't have any kind of relationship! I really don't know him! Isshiki : Let her go. <> Nishizaki : No. Isshiki : I said, let her go. Tetta : Is this going to be like the first day of school all over again? <> Nishizaki : If you want me to let her go, ask nicely. Like you're pleading someone for something. This is black territory. Violence won't get you anywhere. You've got two choices: save her or abandon her. Hina : {I don't know the rules of this school, and I don't know just how much these two hate each other.} <> Hina : {But I knew when I saw their puzzled faces just how serious what he did was.}