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Electra ([personal profile] starlady) wrote2008-09-13 09:34 pm
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Kobato Drop 9 translation

Drop 9: The Report from Gengo

[02]
Kobato: What shall we do for playtime today?

Girl: Playing inside is fun.

Boy: Outside is good.

Kobato-chan, which do you like?

Kobato: Me?

Both seem fun.

Boy: If both--!?

[03]
Kobato: That's right.
Today the weather is fine,
So playing outside would be nice.

Boy: I think so too!

We could play soccer or something!!

Kobato: Soccer is nice.

Boy: Let's play soccer together!

Girl 2: Soccer is your talent, Toshihiko-kun.

Girl: But Kobato-chan is a girl.

Toshihiko: Girls can play soccer!

Kobato-chan, have you ever played soccer?

[04]
Kobato: No,
I've never played.

But I want to try.
Can you teach me, Toshihiko-kun?

Toshihiko-kun?

Your face is bright red.

[05]
Kobato: Toshihiko-kun!?

Fujimoto: What's the commotion?

Kobato: Fujimoto-san.

Kids: Good morning, teacher!

Morning!

Fujimoto: Go inside.
It's nearly time.

Kids: Ye~s.

[06]
Kids: Kobato-chan, let's eat lunch together.

I wonder if Toshihiko-kun will be okay...

Fujimoto: You'd better get inside too. You'll be late in one minute twenty seconds.

Kobato: Ri...right.

Fujimoto: What.

Kobato: Um.

[07]
Kobato: Thank you very much.
For yesterday.

I wasn't able to say thank you properly...

Fujimoto: ...You sleep?

Kobato: Pardon?

Fujimoto: Did you sleep properly?

After that.

[08]
Kobato: Ye...yes.

Fujimoto: ...Your eyes aren't comparatively less red.

Kobato: I--I'm fine, really!

[09]
Kobato: Really, thank you very much.

Fujimoto: Get inside already.
35 seconds left.

Kobato: Ri--right!

Fujimoto: 30 seconds left!

Kobato: Ri~ght!

[10]
Ioyogi: That felt a bit like my insides were spilling out.

.....

Kid: There's something hanging from that bird.

Kid: It's a red bear.

Kid: Isn't it a dog?

Kid: I can't tell what it is.

Kid: I'll make it fall.

[11]
Ioryogi: JERKS~~!!

END OF RECOLLECTION

Bird: A bird flying with a plushie of its own size hanging from its legs is somewhat unnatural!

Ioryogi: The message!

The old bear's message!

If you don't spit it out already I really will make you yakitori, and start eating you from the head!!

Bird: I will report~!!

[12]
Bird: You're as unreasonable as ever!

Er, um--

About Yomogi Kindergarten--

The current owner is Okiura Sayaka.

She is also the principal.

The previous principal was Okiura Sayaka's late father.

It seems that her father was famous as a "good person" around here as well.

Ioryogi: A good person?
What's that mean, it's rather abstract.

Bird: No, it seems they won't say any more than that.

While running the kindergarten, he did everything in his power and made donations for people in trouble.

It seems he also took in a child of no relation to raise.

[13]
Ioryogi:: ..Is that him?

Bird: But it seems there were also people who deceived that "good person."

Somehow some bad guys made him put up the kindergarten's land
As collateral for a loan for a charitable enterprise.

It seems it was a scam, but--
The bad guys pushed all the responsibility for it on to the previous principal, without evidence.

Moreover, they made him take on a debt he couldn't repay, even with selling the land.

[14]
Ioryogi: That's something an amateur would do.

Bird: They're bad guys in a bad business, but
From the outside they seem like an upright company,
So the former principal was deceived too.

Ioryogi: .....

Bird: The kindergarten itself was running along solidly, and it was thrifty, but

Suddenly he got in over his head with the huge debt,
And the previous principal died from an illness two years ago.

The people around him were very concerned,
And it seems he certainly died cherished.

                                                                                                   

"So I had a father once , see? A nice person, like you-- And he liked to be charitable, see, and he got in deep with the sharks. So one day they take a knife, and they carve his face. I just wanted to see him smile again."

I know another fandom in which a stopwatch is a love-object.