From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach)
Subject: KOR Vol 01, Story 03, "The Story of the Lip Secret"
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:17:34 GMT


Kimagure Orange Road
"The Story of the Lip Secret"
Volume 1, Story 3
Written and illustrated by Izumi Matsumoto
 
Translated without permission.

This translation is distributed as is, without any claims to accuracy.
 
Last revised September 28, 1992.

V 1.0:  Unknown (pencil annotations found in KOR Volume 1)

V 2.0:  Enrique Conty (typesetting)

V 3.0:  Marvin Nakajima (re-translating and smoothing)
	Note: '{}' are used to signify thoughts or speech outside of
		speech balloons

Dedicated to: 
	Izumi Matsumoto, for creating all the characters that made ORANGE
	ROAD so memorable.  Thank you!  :-)

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p 60	actress		Teacher!
			{He's a laggard and slow and like Gamera but ... }
			[Note: Gamera is a giant flying turtle in the same
				genre as Godzilla]
			I love you!
	actor		Machumoto!
	Kurumi		<blink>
p 61	television	End
	voice		"Elevator Girl Story" at this time will be...
	Kurumi		Hey, hey, why is it said that kisses taste like lemons?
	Manami		Ah...
	Dad		Oh...
	Manami		Oh, I just remembered I still had something left over
			  to clean up in the kitchen.
	Dad		What?  Choushuu vs. Fujinami 'no contest' again?
	Kyosuke		Eh, Ahh, As for me...
	Kyosuke		Hahaha...
	Kurumi		No matter how I look at it, even if I ask you, older
			  brother, you don't seem to have experience so you
			  probably wouldn't know.
			Ah, Manami-chah!
	Kyosuke		{..........}
p 62	Hatta		Endurance will endure the falls, memories will bear the
			  divergences, everyone.
	Komatsu		Everyone, we must endure, we can do nothing else but
			  endure.
	Kyosuke		Did something happened?
	Hatta		Damn, my Chiemi!
	Komatsu		Don't cry, Hatta.  It's disgraceful.
	Komatsu		Didn't you see the "Elevator Girl Story" kiss scene
			  Yesterday!?
	Kyosuke		I saw it.  Was there something the matter with it?
	Hatta		Was there something the matter with it?!  You bastard!
			  You traitor!!
	Komatsu		To our Hori Chiemi Fan Club, that kiss scene was just
			  about as serious as an A-bomb being dropped on us!
	Kyosuke		How overreactive...
	Kyosuke		...but isn't that acting?
	Komatsu		The reality is that it was done!
p 63	Komatsu		As for that bastard Kazama...
	Kyosuke		{I'm not going to talk to them today.}
	voice		<laughter>
	voice		That can't be true.
	voice		You don't believe me? It's true I tell you.
	narration	Speaking of talking...
	narration	I've never seen Ayukawa talking with other classmates.
p 64	narration	I wonder if the reason no one approaches her is because
			  she is rebellious and everyone is scared of her, or
			  because she is a classroom nuisance...
	narration	At times like these Ayukawa seems so lonely.
p 65	Kyosuke		You seem depressed.  I you like you can let me listen
			  to your situation Ayukawa.
	Madoka		Yes... to tell the truth, I...
	Madoka		... from the first time when we met at the stairs...
	Madoka		I fell in love with you.
	Kyosuke		So that's what it was.
	Kyosuke		Ma..Madoka!
	Madoka		Kyosuke!
p 66	voice		<kiss>
	both		Yeaargh!!
	Komatsu		Kasuga!  Are you gay or something?
	Kyosuke		Of course not!
	Kyosuke		Komatsu, what did you have for lunch?
	Komatsu		It was fried liver and gyouza.
			[Note: gyouza is a type of japanese meat dumpling eaten
			  with vinegar and soy sauce]
	both		Bleaugh!!
	both		{Th..That was my first kiss....!!}
	Kyosuke		{Who says it tastes like lemons?}
p 67	both		I've got to wash my mouth!
	Kyosuke		{If I remember correctly, there should be a water
			  fountain around the corner.}
	narration	What the hell, I'm going!
	Kyosuke		Nobody's looking.
	voice		CRASH!!
p 68	narration	Wha...what?
	narration	What was that soft thing that just touched by lips for
			  a moment!?
	voice		Ouch!
	Hikaru		Hey bozo!  Watch where you're going!
	Hikaru		How long do you plan to be on top of me?
	Kyosuke		So... sorry!
	narration	It's the same feeling I had when I kissed Komatsu.
			No, it seemed to feel better.
p 69	narration	This is the guy who made that long shot in the gym.
	Hikaru		What, is he your friend, Madoka?
	narration	I'm certain this is the girl that was with Ayukawa the
			  day I changed schools!
	Kyosuke		Di..Did I just kiss this girl?
	Hikaru		Why am I blushing?
	both		Um...
	Oozuka		<taptap>
p 70	both		Aah!
	Ootsuka		What are you two doing?
	Kyosuke		Um... That is...
	Hikaru		{Oops! Ootsuka the PE teacher!!}
	Kyosuke		{Th..That's right this is the school hallway.}
	Hikaru		{We were seen by an unpleasant person.}
	Hikaru		See ya, Darling!
	Kyosuke		Hey!
	Kyosuke		Ah...<nervous laughter>
	Ootsuka		Da..Darling!?
p 71	narration	After school
	sign		Faculty office
	Matsuoka	So it was just a mistake.  Kyosuke, I'm very sorry.
	Matsuoka	Whatever the case, I had heard from Ootsuka that you
			  were harrassing a girl in the hallway, so...
	Kyosuke		Harassing...?  Absurd.
	Kyosuke		I was astonished when I heard that.  I.. I have no
			  reason to do a thing like that.
	sign		Teaching:  Let's do our work happily and correctly. 
	voice		You wouldn't be able to do a thing like that.  Right
			  Kasuga?
	voice		What do you mean by that?
p 72	Madoka		{Kasuga...} {.....}
	teacher		What are you looking at, Ayukawa?
	Ootsuka		But, Kasuga, you should stay away from that girl.
	Kyosuke		Huh?
	Kyosuke		Why?
	Ootsuka		That girl is Hiyama Hikaru, and...
	Madoka		{Hikaru!?}
	Ootsuka		there are some nasty rumors about her.
	Ootsuka		From what I've heard, she uses bad language, and she
			  doesn't take care of herself.  She seems to be a
			  delinquent, and the students generally are afraid of
			  getting close to her.
p 73	Ootsuka		Discos and arcades, etc, etc...
	Kyosuke		Though you're telling me she seems like a delinquent,
			  she's not.
	Ootsuka		What?
	Ootsuka		But...well...ah...with those kind of rumors a person
			  can't be thought to be straight.
	Kyosuke		Did she definately do something bad?
	Matsuoka	Ka.. Kasuga...
	Ootsuka		No, not really...
	Kyosuke		Then calling her a delinquent is not right!!
	teachers	Yow!
p 74	Matsuoka	Kasuga...
	Kyosuke		But, isn't it so?
	Kyosuke		Now listen to me.  Matsuoka, will you also please
			  listen well to what I have to say!  That girl didn't
			  particularly do anything bad!
	Matsuoka	We got it!  Calm down, Kasuga!
	Kyosuke		Is it alright for teachers in a position to guide
			  people, to judge a person based only on rumors?!
	Kyosuke		In that case that's terrible!  I feel sorry for her!
p 75	teacher		That's all for today, Ayukawa.
	Kyosuke		{Ayukawa... what?}
	narration	Why was Ayukawa in the faculty office!?
	Ayukawa		Excuse me.
	narration	For just what reason was she here?
	Kyosuke		Teacher, where was I?
	Matsuoka	We got the point...
	Kyosuke		Excuse me.
p 76	Kyosuke		Whew!
	narration	I think I just did something audacious.  I sometimes
			  get so angry.
	Ootsuka		<laughs> We were going to lecture him but it looks like
			  we were the ones who got lectured, Matsuoka.
	Madoka		Professor Kasuga, thank you for your lecture.
	Madoka		Your bag is pretty light.
p 77	Madoka		I'll walk you to the gate.
	Kyosuke		You were waiting for me?
	Madoka		If you left your bag in the classroom someone might
			steal it.
	Madoka		Didn't a great, remarkable teacher say there seems to
			  be delinquents in this school?
	Kyosuke		<laughs>
p 78	narration	Ayukawa is nice.  But even though it was a daydream,
			  having the girl I kissed next to me makes feel
			  awkward.
	Madoka		You've got courage, Kasuga.  I was amazed.
	Kyosuke		Aww.... I'm embarrassed.
	Madoka		By the way...
	Madoka		Kasuga, have you ever kissed someone before?
	Kyosuke		{Kiss...}
	narration	I think I've kissed 3 times today.  My first kiss
			  was with Komatsu. The second one with that girl
			  Hikaru, even though I don't even know if I really
			  kissed her.  And lastly, Ayukawa.
p 79	Kyosuke		I really don't know.
	Kyosuke		But I remember clearly the one in my dream.
	narration	What am I saying?!
	Madoka		Hmm.. let me guess.  It's a singer or something.
	Madoka		Hori Chiemi!
	narration	If I said if was you...
	Kyosuke		You're right.
	narration	...would you slap me again?
	narration	It feels like I could reach out and touch your red lips
			that are in front of my eyes in this setting sun.
	

Character Introduction:  Hiyama Hikaru

Kouryougakuen Junior High School, 1st year.
Madoka and I are childhood friends.  I'm a single child so Madoka is like a big
  sister to me and I depend on her.  I might be like a delinquent outside but
  inside I'm not.
What do I like?
Of course!
Kyosuke!!
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