Chapter 1 "To The cosmos!"
The rainy season had cleared away the anger of the present dawn , when one early summer's afternoon the intense sun's light produced jet black shadows. enormous volumes of rain clouds spread to fill every where above the blue sky . *translator's note: ova 3 also starts during the rainy season.the more you know. also forgive me for the clunky translation of this first scene I had no idea what I was doing at first.
Wheels of silver twinkled with the day light's sparkle as a bicycle sped down a rural road.
That afternoon was so hot that after school club activities had been canceled. A fourteen year old boy was pedaling his bicycle with a frantic expression on his face.
"if only kai had told me sooner" The boy's name was Seina Yamada
It was damp and hot and the area's heat index was rising, Seina's face was frantically sweating as he increased speed, he was in a hurry.
He had left school and headed straight home without taking any detours when He came to a fork in the road. He glanced at the other route for a second before taking the path home. When he got home he hit his foot on a pillar's corner,He changed his clothes and made a mistake with the buttons twice,he tripped down the hallway and fell down the stairs,and his bicycle's pedals slipped off like a slap stick Kansai region comedy joke,this was ordinary for him. Anyways, he was in a great hurry to leave
I wonder what the the reason was that he was in such a hurry that he would come straight from school just to come and go like that sometimes. well, the the reason for was a little bit bad, however, he honestly had a good excuse!
Speaking of his the reason for for returning, his destination was a spindle wood house just beyond a mountain pass. It belonged to his classmate who was his best friend since childhood.
Of course, he was going to see his classmate to borrow porn magazines from the adult video store, at least that's what he said but that was only a pretext, that wasn't really why he was in such a hurry.
The real reason was the object of Seina's yearning, Kai's older sister "Kiriko Masaki" who was returning home to find a new job.
As Seina began to pedal, the paved road roared. He put on his helmet to hide his unflattering buzz cut, his crew cut was beginning to grow back.
"Precious Kiriko-san is returning... well, she'll be extremely understanding and attentive about this."
he was grumbling because he was skinheaded from a bad decision. Only two weeks ago his hair began to look like that of a monk in training after it had been fixed.
the details of the story were:
one day Seina took a big fall down his house's stairs and severely hurt his foot. and well, that was ordinary."owcheeeee" he said, he got up and began rubbing a spot on his head that had been hit, Then he fainted, that was rare.
he was quickly packed into a hospital carrier, luckily he was completely healthy, he had no scratches on him what so ever, they ran a complete physical and the results did not show a thing wrong with him. he was instantly discharged from the hospital as one would expect.
However,somehow an error was made when transmitting his patient records and no one discovered it. a rookie nurse confused Seina with a patient that required a craniotomy.while he was unconscious they shaved his head about half way. he woke up objection too late to stop them. roars of laughter came from the doctors and in patients and out patients as he was released.
"It was an accident." a rookie nurse's training partner said. his hair was cut in a wacky style reminiscent of a reverse mohawk. and they had shaved it with a razor which gave the added bonus of razor scratches.
"Hey, it looks good on you Seina.You have a nice shaped head."
their praise wasn't bringing him any comfort and neither was the juice they passed to him.
He was staring at the juice he had recieved, it was in a cup marked urine alysis. "──by the way,has this been used before."
"What's that, Seina! Can you say that one again Ikkyū-san *translator's note:an anime based on a Zen Buddhist monk
The next day at school Seina was teased by bullies over his hair. he still had to go to school even though he was hurt, his being hurt was inevitable. If he took a day off the school would call because of the connotations.
Unlucky occurrences were always guaranteed, he had a tendency toward injury and above all else, this troubled crew cut haired boy, was always in trouble's way he had been continuously in a state of pain for quite a while.They teased him every time it happened.
He ran his hands through his freshly fixed hair and he road back home. He pondered the bad luck he had,this time it was a bit harsh on him.As He though about it, gravel got in his front wheel which caused his front wheel to lock up causing his bike to flip out of control.
"!?"
He noticed a things while spinning out of control. The ground, the Bicycle's handle, the sky, and cabbage growing out of the soil.
Shortly after, Seina's bicycle plunged into the field along the road. "karakarkara..." went the the wheels as it turned. A bunch of cicadas chirped in the distance.
Now to change scenes to a small store: the store had an old almost faded sign on it that read Yamada shop. This grocery and general goods store was also Seina's house.
The residential part's Interior design was unpleasant to look at but the shop part was not as bad. The residential area was upstairs and it looked like most of it needed repairs. Frankly, the shop part was pretty run down as well.
All the damage was from Seina's misfortune had been fixed and fixed and eventually they all the repairs couldn't be kept up with and so it appeared to be in a state of neglect.
"Are you back now big brother?"
A customer had gotten a set of clothes pins and a can of corn beef, and their purchase had rung up to a total of 390 yen . A young girl with braids bid the customer a farewell and looked at her mother who next to her.
"Seina distracted me, so I forgot to include the sales tax in their total." the girl said"I'm leaving to go see Kiriko-san now!"said Seina. The little girl unintentionally chortled. the littler girl, who was 3 years younger,was Seina's sister,Yoshiko Yamada . Her mother had named her Yoshiko, which means lucky child, because she wished for her to have better luck than her older brother.
"Kiriko-chan survived you, and now she's come back? Are you really going to go visit her? If you do give her my condolences."said Yoshiko chortling again.
The store was in a big empty neighborhood without any other convenient store or super market. ordinarily this would be a splendid and flourishing business but Seina made customers avoid the place.
"Really. The only good luck you've ever had was meeting Kiriko-chan." said Yoshiko
"He used it all up." said the Yamada sibling's mother Kyoko Yamada. she smiled happily While counting the ten-yen coins in the cash register.
"But mom, so far he's only met her. It's a sad thing isn't it? "Yoshiko said. That made Kyoko smile."She's a compassionate child, isn't she?"Kyoko declared, oh. That pitiable boy still struggling to get his mind out of the gutter.
"I'm going to going see Kiriko after this", since the time he was a troublesome young boy Seina's was looked after by a woman 5 years older than him.
Even though Seina's bad luck also drew the people around him into numerous amounts of trouble, she never abandoned him.She had always affectionately taken care of him.
As far as he was concerned she was a goddess.However lately,she had left town to find work because the chances of find a job locally were very small. because of this she only had the opportunity to come home about once every six months.
To Seina those half years felt exactly like 1000 years……But it wasn't, it had definitely been six months exactly. one day, two days, a thousand years. The movement of time is a funny thing.
and why was he going to see her for the first time this year, the reason was so he could talk to her tell her all the unfortunate things in his life and cry. It would be six months before she came home again, and Seina was on his way to go see her.
The last time he went to see her he had an accident half way there and despite having only minor injuries he was administered sleeping pills and taken to the hospital, he eventually saw kiriko but only or a short while he had to watch her walk away almost as soon as she got to the hospital. she had gotten an emergency call from work and had to leave in a hurry.
But this time was different, this time he checked both ways at all crosswalks and watched diligently for cars and fell into a ditch... it was kinda funny... anyways, this time he was going to see her for sure.
He was fine because He fastened his helmet extra tight.it had been a very long time since he has seen her and he was hoping she would be kind about his hair situation. He had no doubt that she would at least notice it and give him a smile.
"Now to go see kiriko-san!" He said he smiled uncontrollably and bravely got back up "hey you,are you alright?" he heard the voice of the old woman who owned the field calling. Seina removed his bike from the field, leaving a hole. he apologised dusted the dirt off his clothes and politely paid the old woman for the damage before he gallantly straddled his bike .
He had slightly scratched his elbow it was no big deal.As far as he was concerned, this amount of injury was nothing.One only knows how many times he had hurt himself on that bike since he got it.
Sometimes he would fall into a rice field. Sometimes he would fall into a regular field. Sometimes he'd fall into a river.
Everytime he did he usualy sprained his knee or ankle or dislocated his shoulder.It wasnt as though Seina wasnt the least bit careless. One can only wonder what percent of those tumbles were due to his own error. As it stands it cannot be said as to whether this crash was due to bad luck or his own doing.
No matter how careful, no matter how cautious, bad luck would hit Seina the second he gave it an opening.That is tho only way to put it. if he goes swimming his swim trunks will rip. If he plays ping pong his opponent's ball will skip the net entirely and hit him in the face. If PE Class had taught him anything, it was that it was pointless to try and avoid any volly ball headed towards his face.
excetera excetera. It didn't matter what it was any variation of thing that could go wrong would go wrong. it had been that way since he was born.
after having suffered through so much misfortune, he found it difficult to consider anything that resulted in something that wasn't a major life threatening accident to be any more then a small scratch. Usually it was just a minor blooper but some days it was like the other day when he ended up in the hospital.
"I wonder why me" he thought back to when he was very young and wondered how many times he had been through these ordeals.
Seina's foot slipped as he put his foot on the pedal and he fell over again. "I wonder why this happens" he said. A few minutes later Seina had arrived at a fork in the road. "hmm what should I do?"Seina got off of his bike. He thought about the two paths.
The route on the right was flat, but there was a big mountain in the middle it and it would have taken a long time for him to go around it.
In contrast, the left route crossed mountains and was quarter of the length but it's an uphill ride.
Road crosses mountains. At a distance of a quarter compared to the bypass route, is sufficient shortcut be considered uphill. "hmm I can't decide. If I want to see Kiriko as soon as possible I should take the road that crosses the mountains. That is obvious."
But there was a reason for Seina to hesitate. O the left route that crosses the mountains. rumors wouldn't stop spreading about about the route. some people said they saw shiney flying things followed by sudden thunderous roars. Other People reported sudden localised rain showers. Some people saw strange looking demons. others reported seeing ghostly women flying in the sky. naturally there were parade of stories about strange phenomena on that route.
Even ordinarily, it was a dangerous route for Seina.With his luck he would most assuredly encounter one of these phenomena. Of course because of the rumours people naturally avoided the route. OF course it could have just all been stories that parents told their kids to keep them from going down that route and getting lost. at any rate, for now this route seemed off limits.
however, Seina considered it. He looked at the sky. The sun was still going to be out for a long while. There was not a cloud in the sky.It was the quickest way to get to Kiriko.
No, he shouldn't go through.... but it was to see kirko. He felt like he had been put on the spot. Seina had to make a choice.
He got on his bike and went down the mountain path. It was dense with lush trees. "I used to come down here all the time with Tenchi-senpai. I'll be fine." he said. Tenchi was one of the two Masaki boys in town. He lived at the foot of the shrine that was in this mountain.He, Kiriko, and kai were all relatives. The shared the family name of Misaki.. Tenchi, Seina,and kai all used to play together as children at the shrine around here. Like Kiriko, Tenchi also fell victim to Seina's bad luck, but didn't avoid him because of it. But Seina and Tenchi had grown apart as they grew up. Not because Tenchi wanted to avoid Seina's bad luck, but instead because Seina was much younger then Tenchi and as he got older he wanted to hang out with kids his own age from school.
"Now that I think of Tenchi, I remember there have been several rumors about him since he left high school. Doesn't he take this route to get back home?"he thought while pedaling hard. "I wonder if I saw him again after all these years if he'd have any stories about seeing anything strange on this route.If people have seen strange things on this route, He's gotta have a few stories." he thought
He noticed the landscape changed from forest to Fields. These were all tenchi's family's fields first there was a carrot field after that was a carrot field then another carrot field, and another carrot field,and another carrot field,and another carrot field,and another carrot field. "Why so many carrot fields?" IF you were to look around all you would see was carrot fields. "I wonder if he sells them?" Seina tilted his head. "There's no one in Tenchi's family who is a farmer."
Just as he thought about asking Tenchi about the matter an unpleasant vibration ran through the rear wheel of the bicycle. The unevenness of the ground suddenly vibrated through Seina's body. It seemed he had a flat tire. “this must be because of the route … no... with my luck this would have happened either way.” Seina grumbled to himself as he opened up the small tool box on the back of his bike.
For him Punctured tires, broken brake wires, dislocated bike wear daily a occurrence, his repair kit was his way of compensating for that. In the case of a punctured tire all he had to do was find the hole and fuse a rubber patch on it.
Once you get used to it it's not such a difficult thing to do. however, he needed water to soak the inner tube so he could find the hole. The nearest place with water was the pond in front of Tenchi's house. Seina stopped his bike at the end of the road and went towards the Masaki house.
“Wow it's gotten a lot bigger.” he muttered as he noticed the house looked different from the last time he saw it. When he played with Tenchi in elementary school it was still just a small one-story house. Even the new gate posts were unusual. There was a log painted in a pattern unfamiliar to Seina. The entrance had changed completely since he was there last.
It wasn't uncommon for people to make extensions to and renovate old country houses. He remembered the tree tenchi kai and him used to climb.
"Good afternoon Tenchi-senpai, It's me, Seina Yamada!" He called out to the household. no one answered.The front door was open, but there was nothing but a strange aura to be seen. It seemed like no one was home.
"Well isn't that nice, I can just get some water from this pond." Seina thought as he headed towards the pond with the vinyl basket from his bike.
The pond was cold to the touch and it's clear mirror like surface reflected the daylight. As he leaned over to fetch some water, waves began to crest out of the center of the pond. "Huh"
Seina felt an uncomfortable feeling as he looked around at the pond. "What's that" He said The loud cicadas that had been chirping up till then had abruptly stopped.
[You are in danger, watch out!]Who's voice was he hearing "Huh!"He looked around him but there was no one.[Take shelter quickly]*translator's note: there was a line where kajishima broke the 4th was and was like hey by the way remember that voice seina heard. he could no longer remember it later on. and it was out of place... and clunky so I added this note instead. he is implying Tokimi said it. hence why it's in weird brackets, no one is around, and he forgets it after the fact.
However the trembling air shook Seina's body, as a thunderous roar called out from above the sky drowning out the voice."Huh!"
Seina glanced at the sky above the reflection for a moment until a crash struck his whole body to the ground. He groaned.
In an instant an enormous wave swallowed Seina and dragged him into the middle of the "Ki...Kiriko-saaaaaaan!"The impact caused him to lose conciousness.
Seina's unconscious mind floated to the surface, he saw Kiriko's smiling face laughing."..."
Seina was unsure how long time had passed before he was discovered and brought back from the intense darkness. he was unable to describe the nice smell or the soft touch of the mouth that had revived him. He wondered who was beside him.
"He's regaining consciousness!" the voice said. "I wonder who's voice that is" Seina thought He hadn't yet begun to function normal. "Where am I?"
He had childhood memories of this place. Seina, Tenchi, and Kai had played in the pond once time and when Seina nearly drowned. Kiriko took care of him. She was very caring. She held him affectionately and gently comforted him.
A vague tongue like object gradually revived his consciousness back to reality."Oh that's right. I was trying to get some water when I got dragged into the pond." He remembered, "Did Kiriko rescue me again"
He began to look for that faint figure. It was a woman. "Kiriko-Sa..."He was wrong.
The girl had short cut blond hair,blue green eyes,and a plain but beautiful face Her aura was like a light breeze. Kiriko was entirely different from this gorgeous foreign woman. She looked as though she could be on tv or in magazines.
"..." "Is this a dream" asked Seina. He was beginning to, but was not yet able to, recognize the reality of this situation. "are you alright "The woman asked
"Where am I Is this Tenchi-senpai's place"
Finally understanding his situation, he looked at the woman who was grasping him. She opened her mouth and sighed a sigh of relief.
"Great, you look like you're alright!It looked like you wouldn't wake up, I was worried."
"Th..Thank you. For saving me... sort of..."
Seina turned bright red from ear to ear out of embarrassment and bowed to the woman in thankless woman let out a big sigh of Eiffel and began to ramble really fast.
"How unpleasant!I'm sorry. please excuse me! I've never been somewhere before that didn't have a landing beacon I didn't know what to do!ha ha ha! your I lucky I even landed here at all."She hit the Seina in the shoulder in the atmosphere, in a friendly way. "...... I am" he said
Her appearance combined with her ability to talk so fast confused him. She looked like she wouldn't be able to understand him but She didn't even have an accent.
"I was impatient, so impatient. It really got me sweating, seeing you there floating in that pond. it was so awkward. I panicked and I jumped in and got my clothes all wet. But it turns out your just one big bundle of scratches. Tenchi must be training you hard, you're covered in fresh wounds. " The woman traced the wounds on Seina's body with her fingers
"!"
Seina suddenly felt an electric current through him. The woman plunged her voluptuous breasts into him. He found himself sexually attracted to her smell, a 15 year old boy can't be expected to keep his composure in a situation like that.
"Is this person an acquaintance of Tenchi-senpai?"
he used both his hands to hide the bulge in his groin so she wouldn't notice.But the woman to his left didn't notice anything and kept on talking.
"Ah,but that crash probably didn't cut you up as bad as Ryoko-san, or was it ayeka-sama that did this Either way I'd hate to have to spar with either of those two ..."The woman suddenly fell silent, and began pondering something.
Cicadas began singing and before you know it only their chirps and the occasional sound of wind chimes echoed in the silence."uhm..."Seina became unable to endure the silence. He noticed he had been lying on the woman's jacket."ex..excuse me I didn't notice！"
The lady held out her jacket and brushed off the dirt,this confused Seina. "Huh... oh you don't have to worry about that"
Seina and the woman faced each other the wind blew through her short straw colored hair, the sweet smell tickled Seina's nose.
"wha... whawhawhawha... what's the matter?"Puzzled by his sudden reaction, the girl put her face up to Seina's beating chest. Seina stared at the woman, his heartbeat grew faster and his breathing became rougher.
"Maybe to...she mumbled. If Seina was a normal boy he would probably have had positive expectations about this situation. But Seina, being a bundle of bad luck had never even been anywhere near a situation like this especially not with someone who looked like a foreign model. He wasn't about to jump to any conclusions. Sorry if you expected anything else. "uh... uhm... sorry I forgot to introduce myself my name is..."Didn't you apply to enter the GP?The woman said leaving Seina confused. "uh?(gee pee?, What is she talking about, what does she mean by entering?) "So what do you think? If you join the GP you can learn all kinds of skills and the benefits are great!The woman stared up and down Seina's body. "I mean it has to be better than being collateral damage whenever those two get in a fight.Oh, that! Well I don't mean to upset you but I don't know what you're talking about. "I don't know what you mean, there a detailed description inside this pamphlet. The woman withdrew a pamphlet from the document bundle she had under her arm she stood up and handed it to Seina.
"Wait, I have something else like like this...Her wrist alarm began beeping. "Not again! It looks like I'm out of time! This is bad I gotta go soon can you give this to Tenchi for me?The woman gave seina a Separate set of documents from her collection.
"Give Tenchi-kun my best regards."the woman turned around and gently saluted
“Oh and once you're in the GP don't forget to properly introduce yourself to me. My Names Amane Kaunaq. Don't worry it will let me know when you join. I'm trying to rack up referral points.” The woman gave a wink.
"uh... hey... wait a second!"
Seina was trying to get more information out of her on the subject WHEN Without warning there was a roaring sound again. Amane unexpectedly vanished
Seina Left the package addressed to Tenchi on the veranda and went to The fetch vinyl basket that was floating in the pond.
“The package has a note attached to it, Tenchi won't mind if I come back later to tell him. I've wasted too much time already meeting Amane to wait for him.” He thought.
"I have to go to kirko-san's house as soon as possible!"
He got on his bike ready to go to kiriko's at full speed like a cowboy whipping his horse to go full speed.
"Kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...."
He fell over.
"ouch ouch ouch."
he dragged his bike down the mountain once more. Soon The Masaki house came into view.
In hindsight it would have been quicker to take the other route. But if he had, some other bad luck would have befallen him probably and given the shorter distance between his goal it might not have been that much of a loss.
As seina walked towards the masaki house he saw a woman's black hair come into view in the distance. She was sweeping the temple and even from a long distance her beauty was noticeable. He called her name-" Kiriko-san."
Kiriko's eyes slowly raised and she staired gently at Seina. "Welcome, Seina-chan. It's been along time, I'm glad you're alive and well"
Kiriko smiled at Seina without much surprise about Seina's battered frame.All his hardships and bad luck up till then blew away Her smile lit up the smile in Seina's heart.
"Repair-repair-repair re-re repaiiiiiiiiir ~ ♪"Seina hummed out of tune in the garden of the Kiriko and Kai's home, as Kai repaired his bicycle.
Kai's repairs on Seina's bike were stunning and put professionals to shame. Kai and seina had been friends since kindergarten which was more ten years ago.He was seina's only real friend. Well,he had other friends. But they kept their distance to avoid his bad luck. Kai was the only one who didn't mind.
After all Kai was a pretty carefree guy.
Because of kiriko's affectionate kindness, Seina had begun to think of kiriko as an older sister and he thought of the Misaki's house as his home. It was as if he was a member of the Masaki family.
"It's badly damaged, as always,But if you can break it i can fix it."said Kai as he skilfully operated on the bike with a wrench and screwdriver "Alright! It's Done!"
"What's done?" asked seina "Your bike has finally had every original part replaced." "No way!? I guess that means i made this bicycle's original creator now." said kai as he happily repaired the lightly abused bike.
Seina heard Kiriko's voice got a dumb look on his face.
"Seina-chan come over here. Let me take care of your wounds."
"Y-Yes please" Seina went to the veranda by the garden and sat a short distance beside Kiriko He was embarrassed to sit right next to her."You're so hard to leave." she said while smiling、kiriko's long and sleek black hair fluttered in the wind as she shortened the distance between her and Seina.
Seina was focused on her movement and facial expressions when he started to think about amane.He remembered her smile and glossy lips. Seina's face looked melancholy."What's the matter Seina"Kiriko had noticed the change in his expression."uhm..uh... it's nothing..." he said. Seina tried to block out his thoughts of amane. he was with kiriko now and it was disrespectful to her. also his feelings for amane weren't even remotely as strong as his feelings for kiriko.
soon kiriko had stained a roll of gauze with disinfectant and was applying it to seina's elbow. "aaaaaaaah" seina winced as kiriko disinfected his dirty wounds.
"You can endure it. You're not a little kid any more are you?"
Kiriko was just as gentle as always. Seina was happy that kiriko was exactly the same even though he hadn't since he saw her in so long.
"Oh, you're hurt here too." kiriko finished applying gauze to seina's ankles and elbows and moved on to his cheek.
Seina hadn't noticed but he had probably gotten cut somewhere. He wondered if he had gotten it when he fell on the mountain road.As he thought about it kiriko suddenly stopped.
"Huh?"Seina had never seen her so confused.She then smiled in relief."that was excellent Seina-chan." "wha...what?" Kirio went to apply a bandage to seina's cheek but put it on his mouth."What's this""What's what?"" There's no need to be shy.was it good? You're a good boy Seina-chan just unlucky. and to think I was worried about you."Kiriko put away the first aid box and stood up. Seina wasn't sure what she was talking about."is that really what i think that is? You should really take a look at a mirror."Kiriko said with a chuckle. Seina looked at a dresser in the corner of the room. As usual half his face was cut but where she had Kiriko had placed the bandage there was the faint outline of lipstick on his lips.
"....Wha.... What is this?" He yelled while swooning. He suddenly remembered that amane's soft lips had resuscitated him at Tenchi's place. Seina got goosebumps on his body and his face became flushed. Of all thing things kiriko could have seen、the number one worst thing would have been something to make her think he had a lover.
Confused, He wiped off his lips and got up to run after kiriko "Uhm Kiriko-san, this isn't what you think it is. I don't know who's lipstick that was." he said "Don't be embarrassed. Seina-chan. you're getting to be that age aren't you? But the deal with the lipstick mark?"she said "Kiriko-san please just give meme a moment to explain, there's no relationship it isn't like that." "is that so?" she giggled "Is it a girl from class? Im guessing its a highschool girl from the lipstick." "kiriko-chan!" "Well i guess congratulations are in order, the first watermelon of the season ripened. Give me a little while and i'll cut some for us."She said winking, kiriko went to the kitchen.
"kiriko-sa...." Seina hung his head in disappointment as kai came into the room."It's pointless you know. Don't worry if she asks anyone about it they will back up your story." That's right certainly kiriko would believe what other people said. "So who's the other woman?" "If there was another woman you would have heard about it. It was just someone who came by Tenchi's to deliver a package." "So the package came with a kiss?""Well, I guess you could say that..." He told kai about what happened at tenchi's.
Kai looked at Seina with pity. "....heh." "What's that look for?" "That sounds like a fairy tale. I guess that makes you sleeping beauty?""I'm not lying! why would i make up something like that?""I can't believe it. How could such a good thing happen to you?" "give me a break. I got evidence you know. she gave me a brochure."suddenly he realized that the brochure he put in his bag was no longer there. Kai wasn't particularly interested in the pamphlet but if he found it he could have proven his story to kiriko.
Seina went tut tut. It seemed he had put it down outside when his tire punctured Seina shrugged it off *translator's note: I might have mistranslated something before hey it's a free translation... and i had trouble with this section to be honest.
"Anyways It seems I fell into the pond and drowned."
"Oh is that so? then she gave you cpr! Well, i see, if that's the case you're pretty lucky. well,well, well, that's a relief."Kai now seemed to believe him.
He breathed a sigh of relief and giggled a bit."What a relief! Well then you can explain that to my sister!I'm sure she would believe you.""She's very understanding..." kiriko came back in with freshly cut watermelon. This was the moment for seina to tell kiriko, kiriko's watermelon slices were hard to swallow.
"What's that kiriko?"Seina had noticed that kiriko had a bandage on her finger."I'm fine. it's not like it's a big scar or anything. This year's watermelon is even better than last years.""Lets Eat!" Suddenly Kai reached out for a slice of watermelon."Look Seina!"Kai held his watermelon lengthwise in his left hand as he ate it. He held out a slice for seina in his right.
"Thanks! Well then... Let's eat!"
Seina stared at kirikos face while they ate watermellon. he was trying to tell is she was still mad over the lipstick.It seemed there was no way to clear up this misconception at the current time. It would seem his first meeting with Kiriko in a long while would have to end with the subtle sweetness of the first watermelon of the season.
"It was wonderful having you over! Come back anytime."said kiriko politely as she saw Seina off, Seina looked out at the gloomy path home. the mountains ahead looked dark.The sun had sunk down to the other side of the mountains It felt so sad as if it was reacting to how Seina felt. "Give your mother my best regards." She said with a smile and a song. she saw seina as being like her younger brother and so she was more then happy to have him visit.However Seina was worried. he was going to have to explain from the beginning to kiriko about the pamphlet and amane. Well he didn't have to but it would have been too painful waiting another 6 months to tell her.
It had become dusk and so it felt more dangerous and creepy to seina as he went home. He walked his bike home instead of riding it. His fear of running into strange phenomena on his route was stronger than his love of kiriko. "...oh that's where it went."The bag in which he had put the pamphlet lay in a bag the middle of the road. fortunately, no one had passed by and taken it. If he had held onto it better before he wouldn't have been in this mess. Giving a bitter miserable smile, he picked up the muddy bag and put it in bicycle's basket before straddling his bicycle again.
"huh!" What was that?" Seina unexpectedly saw a white shadowy figure fly overhead through the gaps in the trees. "What is that!?!.....AAAAAAAAAA......!!!!!!!"
The thing he saw had definantly been shaped like a person. He had just seen one of the eerie female figures that constituted the strange phenomena people spread rumors about.
"... I didn't see nothing... I'm not looking at nothing..." He told himself with a scared expression on his face he began to pedal quickly. The white shadowy figure disappeared from above and passed beside Seina.
"I don't see anything,I don't see anything I don't see anything I don't see anything I don't see anything... ! Seina peddled quickly through the gloomy mountains while screaming. He had the impression of someone for whom death was coming for.
he had pedalled so fast that the paint on his bike that kai just repainted started coming off after only a few hours. But after a while he had somehow managed to make it back to his house in one piece.He felt dizzy and wanted to the bathroom to put his head over the toilet. But His stomach had been empty since the meal with kiriko and his family was eating dinner so he joined them instead.
*translator's note: I probably botched the part above either he vomited and it was described oddly and the scene changes unannounced or he went somewhere where yoshiko was nearby
He looked at the pamphlet he had brought in it had a logo drawn on the cover that said "GP" it was made of plastic origin and had glittery writing.
"This thing's pretty elaborately designed" Though he had dropped it on the mountain side it didn't have a single visible bruise.But Seina personally didn't notice those kinds of things.
[...G P!, The Brave hero's of outer space! Gaurdians of piece who fight off the storm of evil!] [Recruiting young people！For the sake of the galaxy!][You'll become a member and become popular with the opposite sex, too!] read the messily writen quotes on the outside
"What on earth is this thing?" Said Seina instinctually"This reeks of some sort of advertisement for an amusement park or a movie ... a low budget movie.""Amane must have been a marketing campaign promoter. That makes sense, although it doesn't quite explain what she was doing at Tenchi's..." he thought
"What's that."His younger sister yoshiko said as she leaned forward. she had gotten bored of watching tv."It seems to be an advertising brochure of for a movie or theme park attraction.""Well then, can I take a look at it?" "No, I Just got it."
His mother Kyoko had just finished her meal and decided to join in on the conversation,"Why does it say G P on it? I've never heard of that before." Seina Began to flip through the pamphlet. "Well, I don't know what it is, but it looks like a cheap movie." "Maybe they're intentionally going for that look. Retro is very in right now."
Talk like that went on for a while as Seina read the pamphlet, untill Seina suddenly stopped reading. There was a space for writing in one's personal information. "Please enter the required information on the application to join" "What's this" "This must be a part of the advertising campaign. we should fill it out." Yoshiko said in amazement.
They thought maybe it was a sweepstakes to find someone to play an extra in the movie. or a sign up for a fanclub.
"Oh how splendid!""how would you like to apply? It's not like you have any afterschool activities that it would get in the way of." "How absurd." seina thought to himself that maybe if he "joined up" he could be part of advertizing this thing and maybe he'd get to see amane again. (No,... wait a moment.) Seina also considered that maybe if he participated they would give him a free movie ticket to see it and then he would have an excuse to invite Kiriko to see it with him.
[Good day,Kiriko-san]
[Oh Seina! You're inviting me to a movie? I'm so happy!]
[Well, i helped promote it.]
[REALLY! That's Seina-chan!]
[Ahahaha, quit it, I'm embarrassed!]
Without even noticing, Seina had grabbed a pen while daydreaming and had begun to write in his information. Once He had finished filled it out, he snapped back to reality. He noticed a rather large space in the shape of a palm blinking under the page.He wondered if they had used some kind of special ink.
"What is this? "Aren't You going to put your palm on it?"
"Something feels off" the handprint shaped spot blinked as he looked at it. He Wasn't sure what to do. An indescribable feeling discouraged him. But behind seina kyoko was looking at the pamphlet and laughing.
"You've got to put youre hand on that spot！""Hey, wait a second Mom!"A dog fight broke out as kyoko grabbed his arm and tries to put his hand on the spot while Seina desperately resisted. Seina may have been a strong young adolescent but Kyoko was strong from stacking shelves with canned goods and beer all day so they were pretty evenly matched. Yoshiko cheered on her mother as Seina's fate lay in the balance.
"Don't be afraid Seina!""I don't want to!""Go mom! Big brother can't keep this up for much longer!""What's the matter!" When kyoko pushed seina forward Seina pushed back, and when seina pushed back kyoko pushed him forward again.
"Dad Help me please!" If the two women of the household were conspiring together then he had no choice but to ask for help from the only other man. But his father ignored him and held up a big newspaper in front of him and read it instead. It didn't matter anyways because soon seina's foot landed on a slippery floor cushion and he lost his balance slipping head first into the pamphlet.
"I win!" "Wow mom, you're so strong!" Seina was looking at the pamphlet disparagingly despite the celebration of the women of the house. His handprint was left vividly on the page. The people around him often threw caution to the wind. It was a part of his bad luck.Seina sighed a big sigh and went upstairs to his room with the brochure.
Seina wondered about the GP movie. He was sure he was going to have to go to see Kiriko again tomorrow and tell her about it. He wasn't sure how he was going to bring it up but he had to clear up this misunderstanding he had with her. He didn't want her to think he had someone else.
"I know I can explain it to her somehow."He lied in his bed with his eyes closed and thought up scenarios of how to tell her.However, he didn’t have many options. "In the long run I have no choice but to be honest." He considered being honest with her, it wasn't as if he meant to be kissed. "She would believe me if I told her it was cpr." Kiriko had known everything about him since he the time he was little. He'd never had a misunderstanding with her before and if he lied now it would just get worse.
"i might have disappointed her" He thought of kiriko's face and rejoiced. “unless! ...no... she wouldnt understand...” He thought of kiriko’s face “Stop it !Stop it! its just a simple missundertanding.........”
He feared he would be stuck in a sister brother relationship with her forever. He thought that this could end up be a real problem. Which would be a problem, if it were a problem. But he hadn’t changed her feelings towards him. He determined to find an excuse to go to her house tomorrow. that was the only thing on his mind. "Kiriko-san"
Before long he forgot about the amane thing and the pamphlet thing and the Gp thing, Seina thought about kiriko and fell into the middle of a deep sleep.
---Seina was having a dream
He was riding his bicycle towards Kiriko. and oddly he wasn’t falling down. He didn’t have a single unfortunate thing happen to him this time and so he made it to kiriko’s house in record time.
"Kiriko-san!"
. Just like earlier in the day he saw kiriko sweeping outside
"It was good, wasn’t it Seina-chan?”
"Huh?"
"I trust that you can make it back to the other side."
Before he knew it he was on his way home and kiriko was fading away.
"Kiriko-san!"An arm grabbed him and was taking him away "A...Amane-san!"
"Let’s be happy together" amane said.
"Please leave me alone! Kiriko-san!" he tried to break away from amane’s grip but it was no use. He was quickly being dragged away from kiriko.
"Wait a moment!....aaaah!"
He was dragged far away from kiriko and befor he knew it he saw a masculine figure snuggle up to her. "Kiriko-san, Who is that person!" This was an extraordinarily bad nightmare he was having.He had been in love with kiriko since he was young.
Seina saw many male students try and date kiriko “He must be possessed by a demon!" they’d say... of course about Seina. some even tried to conduct exorcism on him. eventually, they all left because of his bad luck.
But now she was so far away from him. She called tokyo home now and his greatest fear was she would find a lover there.
"Kiriko-san.....I..." “I hope you find happiness"She said as she embraced another man and disappeared.
"Kiriko-Saaaaaan!” He imagined Amane smiling "Well seina, Let's get going as well." Suddenly Her usual smiling face became devilish. "Well then, Let’s go Seina"Amane came closer."Amane-san."Seina got goosebumps all over "Let’s go.... To the GP.”
The dream ended but Seina kept sleeping.He heard the sound of something crunching and then he felt the warmth of someone near him. It was strange but he cold feel someone in the his bed.Was he still dreaming? He had grown accustomed to the smell and feel of his bed and no longer recognised it.“Well... that was a dream... What a relief...” he thought He wiped some sweat off his brow as he slowly woke back up. It seemed that someone was stroking his hair. That was what was causing him to hear a crunchy sound."Huh, What... Already?” The hand stopped stroking his hair for a short while only to start back up again He wondered if maybe his mother or yoshiko had come in to wake him up.
"Please give me five more minutes."He said as barely opened up his eyes he was in a haze. "Huh?" He sat up quickly. The person petting him wasn’t a family member and it wasn’t Amane or Kiriko.She was blond with dark skin and beautiful blue eyes.He was at a loss of words to describe this person and their pleasant smile.She had on an apron and was dressed like a maid or a cook she had a mop in her other hand.The foreign woman quite a beauty and was being very intimate with him.
"Good morning!""Good morning.""Oh ho ho."she giggled".........."at that moment he was dumbfounded
The situation reminded him of the time with Amane。Her presence made him very uncomfortable.
She didn't have any qualities that made him feel uncomfortable but never the less she was a strange woman sitting in his bed.Although it oddly felt natural for her to be there.
Do I have Amnesia or something? He thought to himself
What was this feeling he was having？He had suffered quite a few accidents in his life so this feeling wasn’t compleatly foreign.He tried to figure out where he was, as far as he could tell he wasn't in his bed. His pillow wasn't familiar either.he was no longer sore at the spots where he had been injured before.He also didn't recognise the woman in front of him Why was she patting his head? Seina looked around. he wasn't in his bedroom anymore.he was in what looked like a hospital.
"What? Why am I in a strange bed? Am I in the hospital?He turned his head slightly and looked around. the woman was stroking his hair again. He thought he should figure out where he was quickly.
"uhm... uh..,who are you?"
stroke stroke stroke stroke
"uhm.... that..."
stroke stroke stroke stroke
It still seemed like he was dreaming.Dreaming!?
Seina moved the woman's hand off of his head onto the futon, he shut his eyes tightly.
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
He counted in his mind.hoping he would wake up."..."
But nothing changed. He was still there.
He still wasn't in his room and the strange woman was smiling at him.
She pinched the right hand side of his cheek. " ...owch."
He looked at that woman,smiling and pinching the left hand side of Seina's side of his face...it hurts.
"Isn't this fun!"
"No... but it is painful."
This wasnt a dream. It was reality.
For some reason he was in a strange place with a strange woman. Seina was confused.
"Onnainin-san,Seina-chan woke up!" The woman called out"Oh! Why didn't you say so!" a man quietly opened the room's door. He wore a ,uniform worthy of his appearance.
Onnainin was a strangely timmid but serious looking man with narrow eyes. he gave seina a small salute. seina stood up "Good morning,Seina Yamada-kun"
"uhm about that. where am I? ...And who the heck are you!?" He asked
"huh? uhm..."Onnainin pondered what he said momentarily. He then fumbled through his documents and pulled out the pamphlet "Is this familiar?"It is."Seina's mind vividly recalled what had happened with Amane and Kiriko.
"Then this is your name, birthday, address, and other information on here Isn't it?""Well, yes...""And that's your stamped fingerprint isn't it?""Yes..." It had been forcibly stamped by his mother last night."Then congrats. You've enlisted with the GP" "GP?" seina said confused the strange woman chuckled. chuckled.
Seina grew nervous because the strange woman had gotten up next to him and was stroking his crew cut again."Uhm, what on earth is the GP?" The man must've meant the GP on the pamphlet. "Stop asking silly questions."
At any rate it seemed seina had been wrangled into some odd circumstances"Uhm.." Was this some kind of odd marketing gimmick,had he won some kind of contest, or was it just an simple kidnaping? Seina composed himself and was finally able to talk again.
"uhm, Please let my family know about whatever prize I've won. This is the first time since i was born that we ever won anything. They're probably worried about you suddenly taking me."
"Actually... your parents consented to let us take you..." "My parents!" "Yes。Your mother said "it doesn't matter to me as long as I get a new bed!". I'm not sure what she meant by that. "............."
"The recorded a video message for you do you want to see it?" Onnainin pressed a button on his wrist.A video was projected on a screen on the wall.
In front of the family shop was his father hakuto and his mother kyouko, and yoshiko was beside them.
"... Ah ...,Come back soon."his father cleared his throat and started talking in an unusual tone of voice。he was not accustomed to recording videos.
"Se..Seina..You're my son. It seems the eldest son of the Yamada home had grown up. I hope you are doing alright." "why wouldn't I be alright?" seina quipped back in his mind.
"Seina, this is your mother.""And This is Yoshiko!" Seina's mouth was left ajar from watching the screen.
"To be honest, we couldn't say to much before but your injuries and doctor bills and such、aren't very trivial, and yoshiko will be graduating from junior high next year."Seinas dad wrapped up his speech abruptly and the camera panned to yoshiko
"You see when you're not here we make a lot of sales. you know that. I'm pretty sure you're bad luck. I'm sure you'll be safe wherever you go and well you could say this is a troubling matter. Rumor has it your teachers are hesitant to help you get into high school. It doesn't help that it's not compulsory education so they don't have to. The GP said they would get you into school and that they would pay for your medical bills. So you're giving mom and dad piece of mind." yoshiko said as she nonchalantly wiped her tears with a handkerchief.She wasn't because she was sad. She was crying tears of joy."....what? ...anyways I hope your doing alright...."
this angered seina. Although he was shocked that his teachers were planning to ostracize him from highschool He was even more surprised the the GP had accepted him. althought this felt a bit like he was being thrown to the wolves by his parents.In short it seemed he was beeing forced to consider gracefully troubling the GP So naturaly he was angry.
"Work hard and don't come back home until you've reached greatness. Oh, and forget about your allowance."Said kyoko as she ear to ear mercilessly revealing her true intentions.
As the video was reaching its end Seina couldnt help but feel unencouraged. Oddly, Onnainin was standing next to seina crying, the video had deeply moved him to tears.
"Is this a joke!? You can't hold me here against my will. There are laws against human trafficing!"
"he said angrily to the woman still caressing seina's head.
"Oh... but didn't you sign the contract?"
"Y-yes I did."
"That pamphlet was a contract, when you filled it out and signed it you legally signed your life away." she said
"Farewell, Seina!" said his father on the screen
"Seina,good bye!" said his mother
"Bye big brother! Your family will miss you!" said yoshiko
His family smiled together on the screen and then a title card that said the end appeared and the credits began to roll
"What family!?"
Seina stood up with anger in his eyes as the screen disappears.
"....I'm Leaving...."
"...Okay?"
He angrily glanced at Onnainin who's eyes were red from crying.
"I don't care about the consent agreement!Which way is the train！"
"That would be a bit difficult it's not like there any stations nearby." Said Onnanin looking agitated"
"Then I'll take the bus."
"That won't work either"
"So we aren't in the country anymore?"
"No we aren't."
"Oh, I see... Oh UHm... sorry, can I borrow the transportation cost then? I can always pay you back when you when Iget home."
What seina was saying didn' make sense to onnainin and perplexed him he looked at the strange woman.
"What do you mean seina-chan? Do you not know what the GP is?"she said."Uhm no... The gp isn't an amusement park attraction is it?"To hear those words,"a- a- a- amusement park?!"Onnainin took a giant bow.
"I thought it was odd to see seina-kun's developing civilization's solar system……"onnainin pressed the button on his wrist again. "Huh?"
Kuiiiiiiiiiiiin! This made the mechanism above Seina
make a loud sound.Instantly the walls and ceilings became transparent, a huge dome-shaped roof appeared. The dome slowly opened.scenery bursted from that opening. Seina looked up at it."woah!" The dark space reflected a myriad of stars "...a....a.....a....a"The dome opened and spread out to reveal the dark void of outer space. The milky way covered the entire sky.There was no horizon.
The view was clearly different from the earth. Seina had no choice but to be dumbfounded. Onnainin smiled. Seina was in outer space.He was definitely in outer space.
"G is for Galaxy, P is for Police. The GP is the law enforcement agency of the Galaxy Federation Alliance.
"Galaxy police...G.P"
Until then, Seina had thought that impossible.