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Friends in Tokyo 6 Translation: Dreaming Translations
Chapter 12
Touji Harimiya	Senpai, my deepest apologies for all the noise.
Yanagi Hanabusa	My heart isn’t so small that I get angry at the sound of birds singing.
Touji Harimiya	Birds…
Yanagi Hanabusa	…Hm? You… doesn’t it feel like we’ve met somewhere before?
Yuma Mochizuki	Yes, before the entrance ceremony.
Yanagi Hanabusa	Ah, that’s right. That time.
	I reached into the backpack I’d been carrying, and casually pulled That out.
Senri & Touji & Takaomi	(A knife…!?)
Yuma Mochizuki	I’m returning this.
Yanagi Hanabusa	It’s fine, you can keep it.
Yuma Mochizuki	(Eh… I don’t need it…)
	Having just refused to take it back, Senpai casually left the room. Left behind with the knife still in my hand, I turned to look at the other three, who were staring at me with indescribable expressions—
Yuma Mochizuki	Anybody need this?
Takaomi Shishimaru	No fuckin’ way!
Senri Nito	Rather, why do you have a knife?
Yuma Mochizuki	This morning, Senpai— (…Ah. He probably doesn’t want me to tell people that he got stabbed by a woman.)
Yuma Mochizuki	Senpai… gave it to me when we met.
Senri Nito	Eh, what’s what that? Scary.
Touji Harimiya	In what kind of situation…?
Takaomi Shishimaru	… This is stupid. I’m going back.
Senri Nito	Yumapi, do you want to come to my room? Isn’t living with Knife-senpai like, really dangerous?
Touji Harimiya	My room is closer. If you sense any danger, you can come, even in the middle of the night. I’ll make an exception.
Yuma Mochizuki	Mhm… thank you. But I think it’s okay. (Thanks to my bad lying, everyone thinks Senpai’s a weirdo now…)
Senri Nito	Okay… see you tomorrow. Be careful, okay?
Touji Harimiya	—Ah, that’s right. Mochizuki-kun.
Yuma Mochizuki	What is it?
Touji Harimiya	For the party tomorrow, participants must bring one item along. Don’t forget.
	With the three of them gone, quiet finally returned.
Yuma Mochizuki	One item…
	As I murmured to myself, I let my gaze fall onto the stack of cardboard boxes in front of me.
Yuma Mochizuki	I bet a food item’d work just fine. I got the perfect thing to express my thanks to Granny. ……
Location Change: Later that night
Yuma Mochizuki	Mm, it’s pretty yummy.
Yanagi Hanabusa	Yummy?
Yuma Mochizuki	Ah, Hanabusa-senpai.
	He must have just taken a bath. He was carrying a towel in his hand.
Yanagi Hanabusa	Could you stop with the “Hanabusa”?
Yuma Mochizuki	Eh…
Yanagi Hanabusa	Just “Yanagi” is fine.
Yuma Mochizuki	Ah… I’m sorry. Yanagi…senpai.
	Without really giving a reply, Senpai suddenly closed the distance between us and peered at what was in my hand.
Yanagi Hanabusa	What’s this?
	His interest somehow made me really happy. I lifted up what I’d prepared and showed him.
Yuma Mochizuki	It’s called “fukuregashi”. It’s a sweet made using brown sugar from Kagoshima, and at tomorrow’s—
Yanagi Hanabusa	I see. Night.
Yuma Mochizuki	(Ah…)
	My words were met with his back. Taking a bottle with a picture of a majestic-looking cow on it out of the refrigerator, Senpai left the kitchen just like that.
Yuma Mochizuki	… “At tomorrow’s… party, I thought I’d bring them…”
Yuma Mochizuki	“Senpai, what did you bring to the party last year?”…
Itoko (flashback)	Why, you’d better. Now go and make lots’a good friends in Tokyo, y’hear?
Yuma Mochizuki	………
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