#momoya is so cute

[ai-megane-music]

Kono Oto Tomare 30

[kazumahashimoto]

dude.......

[kotos-and-smiles]

Ch.127 Rambling and Gushing

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR CH.127 OF KOT!

As always I will be referring to tessenpai's rough tl which you can find here

Hello hello! Yeah, I'm not even pretending that I'm not just gushing about this chapter

Know this is obvious, but I’m so suspicious that Chika wasn’t *just* half asleep at the beginning of the chapter. Like, I don’t know, he was coming out of some kind of dream. And he mentions later on that he dreamt their performance went great, but I don’t know, just seemed a weird reaction. Them squinting against the light is really cute though. But Chika looks on the verge of tears until he snaps out of it and fully wakes up. Like, maybe he had dreamt they performed and thought it was all over and that’s why he grabbed onto Takezou like that? I don’t know, and I’m probably making too big a deal out of it.

Can't believe this is actually the day they're gonna perform at Nationals. Like, we've come this far. Also should of course be mentioned how great Satowa and Hiro look and how obviously Chika and Takezou also thought this. is truly just so ecstatic to have every little experience with the club, and it’s so cute. But Momoya not wanting to lose the charm is so sweet. Like, a huge success with him. Satowa’s immediate, oh you don’t have to keep it though, like girl, please, even he values the handmade thing you gave him, people aren’t burdened by you and I still need people to remind her of that. Even Keishi gets a charm! And Chika’s little reaction after Satowa gives Keishi the charm is so cute. He’s so nervous about it.

The way Chika asks Satowa to sit with him is just, ughhslekdnc. I can’t. And Hiro once again 100% representing all of us, especially with that “Excuse me, Chika-kun!?” cuz like, that is also def how I feel about this in the best way possible. But also our girl Hiro being such a go-getter this chapter, and I love that for her. But also she doesn’t even KNOW what just went down with Chika and Satowa this chapter. Like, if she hand’t exchanged charms with Takezou, she might’ve just dropped dead from the cuteness and also jealousy. But also Natsu being so done with being on the romance bus

Satowa thinking about how it isn’t even that unusual for her and Chika to sit next to each other! And Chika is trying to play it so cool but he’s so nervous it’s the sweetest thing. And they’re both just such disasters. I fucking love so much how Chika tries to casually hold out the charm to Satowa, with his head turned away.

Like he’s just this sweet boy trying to do something for the girl he loves and it just makes me wanna scream. And I’m just never gonna get over this. Not only does he still def have the charm that she gave him (the first charm he’d ever gotten and then wrote her name on without hesitation and she considers it her charm too cuz he did that) and then he went and made a charm for her and only one for her. Like, HE MADE HER A CHARM. And then what is the first thing she does with her charm? SHE WRITES HIS NAME ON HER CHARM TOO. THEY MATCH AND THEY’RE BOTH SO DAMN HAPPY ABOUT IT! Like, they’re simply the most in love people ever. 

But like, the way he, much like her and much as he always has, tries to immediately recover when he thinks she doesn’t want it, and that’s when her ability to express how genuinely happy she is kicks in, and just the way she catches his hand holding the charm, and so she’s holding onto him as he’s holding the charm, and how easily she reaches out for him, and how easily they reach out for each other with how softly he caught her arm earlier. 

And then he reaches out cuz he wants to hug her so bad. And her brain moves onto slightly different topics while his just implodes because she just wrote his name on her charm that he made her and smiled like that about it, and HE BLUSHES SO HARD HE HIDES HIS FACE IN HIS BACKPACK. Like, I’ve been wanting so badly for Chika to blush more often with Satowa, and I know he’s confident and comfortable somewhat in the idea of loving someone and being loved, but like I wanna see my boy blush, and this was like the biggest blush ever. His blushly little ears and the way he hides his whole face, and how she notices and is just so happy and also basically hasn’t stopped blushing herself since she sat down. And like, these two people have already expressed that they love each other through words, and now they just keep doing it through actions and gestures as they always have, and I just can’t believe how precious they are. But I also love that while they have said that they love each other, Chika’s immediate reaction when he reaches out cuz he wants to hug her is just like “oh shit, that was dangerous” and like just cuz she said she loves him doesn’t give him consent to touch her whenever, but also like this is the girl that has literally said she loves him and now he just wants to give her a hug and it’s just so sweet. AFTER MAKING HER A HANDMADE CHARM LIKE SHE DID FOR HIM. Like, I’m never getting over this. I’ve wanted the charms to be brought back but questioned if they even would, and now we’ve got the fluffiest chapter ever of basically just exchanging charms and I’m just gonna scream about it forever. 

Also Satowa reacting out-loud to Chika’s cover of “gonna sleep” with “suddenly?” is so funny. 

Hiro continuing to be a go-getter and persevering through the awkwardness is honestly great to see for her. She deserves some stuff happening with her own romance. Also though her mentioning that imitating Chika and Satowa, ya know, the people who have already confessed their love for each other, might be a bit much was unexpected but welcome. And Takezou being the problem solver, offering to exchange charms, and how he tucks it next to his heart and his soft smile, and how they’ll both be able to draw strength from each other’s charms. Like, Hiro really is making her love into strength. Just love Takezou's little smile so much even though he smiles bigger in a minute. There's just something so private and joyous about it.

And then Sane and Mittsu being the epitome of single life when asking each other if they should exchange charms is so hilarious. This along with Sane trying the soothing pressure points on Mittsu’s hand just really made them a whole vibe this chapter. Like, we have these two, the painfully single, Kota and Yoshinaga who are just either vibing or oblivious, the set of absolutely ridiculous love birds, and Momoya and Takinami who are just so *done*

Honestly don’t even feel the need to mention Ichiei at the end, cuz like, yeah yeah, they’re being all intimidating and scary, but my babies just exchanged charms so I don’t care. Am I also selectively choosing to ignore the very existence of Chika’s dad right now, much less that he’s at nationals? Absolutely. I need the fluff in my life right now, so my god I will take it and be thankful for it. The amount of times my babies blush in this chapter, I just CANNOT. I love it so much.

[tessenpai]

Kono Oto Tomare Chapter 127 Scans and Rough TL

Disclaimer: Please DO NOT use this translation to make your own TL of the chapter!! The KOT TL group works very hard to give you the most accurate translation, that does as much justice to the original script as possible. This is a ROUGH translation. That means is faulty and there must be mistakes in certain places. This is just for impatient people like myself to get a grasp on what is going on in the chapter! You can REFERENCE my TL if you want to discuss the chapter but never USE it as it was your own.

Scans:

Page 1

Side text: Welcoming the morning of the decisive battle---

Page 2

Sfx: pipipipi pipipipi

Chika: Ngh...

Page 3

Takezou: Good morning, Kudo-kun. The weather is great.

Takezou: Are you ok? Weren't you able to sleep well?

Chika: Ngh---...

Takezou: We still have time so you can sleep until we really have to get ready.

Page 4

Takezou: I will come wake you up later.

Takezou [thoughts]: Maybe I should close the curtains again---?

Chika: Ah!

Page 5

Chika: Sorry, I was still half asleep.

Chika: Mornin'

Takezou: ----Yeah.

Takezou: Good morning.

Side text: It surely will go well---

Chapter Title: Dear

Page 6

Sane: Finally... it begins now. Today is the day.

Mittsu: Yeah... I feel like I'm gonna throw up my breakfast...

Kota: Stop it! You will stiff up!!

Sane: Let's do the ritual we did before the preliminaries!

Kota: Eh? What was it, again?

Sane: If I remember it right, in your hand over here, there are points that ease the tension if you press---

Mittsu: That hurts, you idiot!! Do it in your own hand!!

Chika: Are you guys really getting nervous this early again? Pathetic.

Chika: Takinami also said it yesterday.

Chika: That we are already the best and incredibly awesome, and we should only have fun now.

Suzuka: I didn't say that.

Page 7

Sane: The hell, what's your deal Chika!

Chika: In my dream, our performance was a huge success

Mittsu: It was only a success in your dreams!!

Mittsu: Isn't that, like, a red flag!?

Chika: Shut up! I already have the image of what our success will look like in my mind!

Hiro: Oh, man. Everyone's already here!

Takezou: Ah, Kurusu-san, Hozuki-sa----...

Page 8

Kota: Wooaah, you both did your hair a bit today!!

Sane: Oh, you're right!

Hiro: It may give us a little boost of energy!

Kota: So cute---!!

Hiro: Thank you.

Takezou: ...Lost the timing to say it...

Suzuka: Ok, everyone's here now.

Suzuka: Is a bit early but let's start moving---

Hiro: So- sorry, wait just a moment...! Just- just this!!

Page 9

Hiro & Satowa: For Momoya-kun and Yoshinaga-kun!!

Mittsu: Aaaah--- these!! Woah

Hiro: In the Preliminaries, Hozuki-chan made us charms! So we thought to give you yours!

Satowa: A received help from Hiro-senpai this time.

Kota: We also brought ours--!

Atsumu: !

Atsumu: I-i-i-i-is it really ok for me to accept such a marvelous thing...

Hiro: Of course! It would make us very happy if you did!

Atsumu: Thank you so much!!!

Page 10

Natsu: ...

Hiro: We thought... that you might be uncomfortable receiving handmade stuff, Momoya-kun, but

Satowa: If you don't want it, it's absolutely fine for you to throw it away...

Natsu: No, I wouldn't throw it away...

Atsumu: Should we put it as backpack keychains?

Natsu: No, I'm afraid to lose it if we do that.

Hiro: !

Satowa: Also, Keishi-san if you'd like... This time we've relied on you so much...

Keishi: Whaat, for real!? You're also giving me one!?

Page 11

Keishi: Woaah-- thank you--!

Chika: ...

Chika[sfx]: Rustle

Kota: I'm sitting with Aki-chan today--

Sane: Wha- We gotta decide that with rock-paper-scissors!!

Kota: First come, first served--

Sane: What the hell, you--

Satowa: Giggle

Satowa: !

Page 12

Chika: Hozuki, sit here today.

Satowa: Blush. Eh-

Page 13

Satowa: Eh, wh- why...

Chika: Just sit here.

Hiro [thoughts]: Kyaaaaaaa-----!!!

Hiro [thoughts]: What what what. Excuse me, Chika-kun----!? What are you doing!!?

Hiro [thoughts]: Woaaah--- Ahhh geez--- that's nice--- That's sooo nice---

Hiro [thoughts]: Both being in love in the National Competition is so nice---

Hiro [thoughts]: Bu- but from here on it's all about the performance!

Hiro [thoughts]: There's no time for me to be jealous!!

Hiro [thoughts]: Gotta keep it together---

Suzuka: Kurusu.

Hiro: Yes...

Suzuka: You have people behind you, move to the back quickly

Hiro: Ah, so- sorry.

Page 14

Hiro [thoughts]: To the back----...

Suzuka [memory]: You might as well make that into your strength

Hiro: Ku- Kurata, can I sit with you?

Takezou: !

Takezou: Of course.

Page 15

Takezou: Would you like to sit by the window?

Natsu: ...

Satowa [thoughts]: I wonder… with what intention did he…

Satowa: I mean, we often together at the venues, too. It's not like there has to be a big reason for it now, but...

Chika: ...About that charm

Page 16

Satowa: Eh?

Chika: When you made them last time, you didn't make one for yourself, Hozuki.

Chika: Did you make one this time?

Satowa: ...Hiro-senpai offered to make me one but...

Satowa: I- I refused...

Chika: Eh? Why?

Satowa: Why, you say...

Satowa [thoughts]: Because Kudo wrote my name in his. That made me so happy, that for me it made it my charm and

Page 18

Satowa [thoughts]: Is not like I can say that to him-!!! I did tell Hiro-senpai, though...

Satowa: It's fine, really.

Chika: ...

Chika: Mhmmmmm. I see.

Chika: ...

Chika: ...

Satowa [thoughts]: Wha- what is it?

Satowa [thoughts]: I really don't get it---

Chika: Then I guess you wouldn't want this?

Page 19

Satowa: -----... Tha- that's...

Satowa: Did you make that... for me...?

Chika: ---As- As I thought, you wouldn't really care for it, right!? You wouldn't use it! My bad--

Page 20

Satowa: I would!!!

Page 21

Satowa: I most definitely would... so.

Chika: ...

Chika: Here

Satowa: ...Thank you...

Satowa: Ah, that's right.

Page 22

Satowa: Look! Now it matches yours, Kudo.

Satowa: Wait!

Satowa: Could it be that you also made charms for Momoya-kun and Yoshinaga-kun...!?

Chika: Well, no. I thought you would make theirs this time around as well...

Satowa: I see. That's a relief.

Chika [sfx]: ba-dump ba-dump

Chika [thoughts]: Dangerous... That was sooo dangerous---....

Page 23

Chika [thoughts]: I wanna hug her so bad-----....

Chika: Gonna sleep.

Satowa: Suddenly!?

Page 24

Takezou: Today the weather is so nice.

Hiro: Wha- Ah, yes. The ideal weather to compete!!

Takezou: Ideal to compete! Ahaha

Hiro: ... ...

Hiro: ...Kurata. Um, you see...

Hiro: Only if you'd like, would you...

Hiro: ----Nghh

Hiro: Would you write your name on my charm!?

Page 25

Hiro: I mean, you see- Last time Chika wrote Hozuki-chan's name on his charm and I thought that gave it more power or something... so...

Hiro [thoughts]: Wow this is so embarrassing...

Hiro: Ah bu- but maybe imitating those two would be a bit, you know-

Hiro [thoughts]: Uuuugh--- what am I even saying.

Hiro: Sorry, I said something weird...

Page 26

Takezou: Then, should we exchange charms?

Page 27

Hiro: Ex- Exchange charms with you, Kurata?

Kurata: Only if you'd like, Kurusu-san.

Hiro: I would!!!

Page 28

Takezou: ...Alright. Okay, here's... mine.

Hiro: Ye- yeah! Thank you!!

Page 29

Takezou: Fu

Page 30

Hiro: ---I will protect it with my life!!!

Takezou: Ahaha That's very reassuring. I will do my best as well.

Sane: ...

Page 31

Sane: Should we... exchange ours as well...? Sigh...

Mittsu: Will you protect me...?

Sane: ...If you want...

Page 32

Man: Here

Tougo: Thank you very much.

Page 33

Man: That would be the last one.

Kifune-sensei: Yes. Thank you very much.

Man: I get to send off Ichiei's students every year. But this year is even more amazing.

Kifune-sensei: Amazing?

Man: Yeah. How do I put it..?

Man: Their atmosphere? Or more like an aura.

Man: It's so overwhelming. It's a bit scary.

Page 34

Man: Are they also in peak condition?

Kifune-sensei: Yeah. Of course.

Page 35

Kifune-sensei: Like never before.

Side text: The group of genius koto players is their biggest hurdle to victory---

---Kono Oto Tomare! will continue next month!!!---

[murasaki-cha]

Shiiiiiit Uzuki stop being so cute I still haven't forgiven you completely!

He made one for Momoya too he loves his brother stfu😭😭😭😭😭

[mina-ahavi]

[inahochi]

here. rejoice! Momoyan ... ❤

[shadathebookworm]

hey hEy: What about ANY and Kono Oto

Stupid tumblr didn’t tell me you sent this but here I am now.

favorite male character: ANY: Hak duh

KOT: Chika

favorite female character: ANY: YONA MY BELOVED

KOT: Satowa

least favorite character: ANY: you know I’m actually not sure

KOT: that dude who’s name I can’t remember Momoya’s brother

prettiest character: Kija or Shin-Ah (don’t come for me because I didn’t say Hak)

KOT: Hiro

funniest character: ANY: literally the entire main cast

KOT: Chika, Kota, Saneyasu, and Sakai as a group because they share one brain cell

favorite season: uhhh not applicable

favorite episode: honestly idk there are so many good chapters

favorite romantic ship: ANY: HakYona ofc

KOT: Satowa and Chika they’re cute and so so stupid

favorite family ship: ANY: the happy hungry bunch does that count

KOT: can I say Chika and his grandpa even though his grandpa’s dead now

favorite friend ship: ANY: Yona and Yun

KOT: Satowa and Hiro

worst ship: ANY: Yona and Soo-won

KOT: I haven’t seen people shipping anything terrible but I guess anything with one of the teachers? OH or with Momoya’s brother you know the terrible one

[devashreesenpai]

Fandom Ch-110 -DevashreeSenpai -Kono Oto Tomare-CHITOWA- he finally asks her !? gf

After the confession -Satowa is as flushed and as happy as she was time when chikha gave her the Persian Buttercup(the flower which she was so happy to receive to get it framed and it is hanging in her houses Entranace)

. The club room is filled with a LOUD silence .

i wish tetsuki was there in the club room TO SEE THAT THE STAWBERRY DILENQUET WHO WAS so afraid to touch her

now is confessing infront of eveeryone .Takanami-sensei AND MOMOYA ALREADY KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER .

houtski says -"You don't have to be nice" .chikha holds her hand and both rush out of the club room

Satowa is too surprised to resist him.

She snaps out now as her classmate calls her out from the corridor .Houtski-"kudo-" . he says before she completes her setence-"i know , just wait ! its important".

THEY END UP ALONE in the same place where satowa told chikha about her family history.

Satowa tries to hide her face with his hands as she was blushing . but Kudo very gently removes her hand from her face with his right . he stares into her eyes. " i was not being nice , i really do love you , Houtski! i also don't want you to be hurt , i also treasure you so much , i also want to protect for eternity , i also always want to see you smile , i also want to make you happy bcz you are the reasons of my happiness,- you are very cute, cool , brave ,strong and beautiful . I really do love you , Houtski ! . Satowa with a blissful smile says

" well, the feeling is mutual " . Chikha couldn't resist NOT to touch her . He brushes her hair . and looks her in her eyes asks her "Satowa will you be my GIRLFRIEND " SHE places her hand on chikha's chin and replies "Gladly". and they both Kiss~

- written with love by DevashreeSenpai

(inspiration : kill this love - Black pink ; thanks AMYUU - SAN FOR this wonderful manga)

[starrenorth]

Here comes a short description of my fic When kids grow up and a preview of chapter one:

The haikyuu boys have grown up into adults and are enjoying the family bliss with their teenage kids. However, it is well known that when teenagers start their journey into adulthood, life can turn quite chaotic and troublesome for everyone involved...

Chapters: 7/?

Fandom: Haikyuu!!

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Underage

Relationships: Iwaizumi Hajime/Oikawa Tooru, Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou, Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsurou, Sawamura Daichi/Sugawara Koushi, Miya Atsumu/Sakusa Kiyoomi, Miya Osamu/Suna Rintarou, Tendou Satori/Ushijima Wakatoshi, Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio, Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi, Azumane Asahi/Nishinoya Yuu, Shimizu Kiyoko/Tanaka Ryuunosuke, Hanamaki Takahiro/Matsukawa Issei

Characters: Iwaizumi Hajime, Oikawa Tooru, Akaashi Keiji, Bokuto Koutarou, Kozume Kenma, Kuroo Tetsurou, Sawamura Daichi, Sugawara Koushi, Miya Atsumu, Sakusa Kiyoomi, Miya Osamu, Suna Rintarou, Tendou Satori, Ushijima Wakatoshi, Hinata Shouyou, Kageyama Tobio, Tsukishima Kei, Yamaguchi Tadashi, Azumane Asahi, Nishinoya Yuu, Terushima Yuuji, Hanamaki Takahiro, Matsukawa Issei

Additional Tags: Family, Family Fluff, Family Drama, Parenthood, Post-Time Skip, Family Dynamics, Teen Angst, Teenage Drama, Rival Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Underage Drinking, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Established Relationship, Mild Sexual Content, Mild Language, Alternate Universe - High School, Alternate Universe - Parents, Marriage, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Married Couple, Married Life, Teenagers, Teen Romance

Series: Part 1 of the chaotic life of the Haikyuu boys and their teenage kids.

Chapter 1 - summary: 

- Iwaizumi Eiko is secretly dating Ushijima Ryouta, the son of her father´s most despised rival, behind her fathers' backs.

Eiko couldn’t help but admire how cute her boyfriend looked where he sat moping. She crawled over to him and took his face in her hands. “Ushiiii” she cooed again, nudging his nose playfully with hers. “Pleeease?” And when she placed a kiss at the corner of his mouth, his resistance melted away quicker than snow on a hot day. And before she knew it, he was laying on top of her, their lips pressed together.

“You´re so damn beautiful, you know that?” Ryouta murmured, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

“Oh I know,” Eiko answered shamelessly.

An amused chuckle found its way out of Ryouta´s throat. “No need for me to say it then it seems.”

Smiling, she tilted her head and blinked innocently at him with her lashes. “What? Did you expect me to argue against you? Thank you for stating the obvious?”

Laughing, Ryouta gazed down at Eiko in complete awe. “So this is what you get for trying to show your girlfriend some appreciation. Remind me to never try and compliment you again.”

She smirked. “Don´t get me wrong – I appreciate your sweet words. I´m just reminding you that I do not need them to know that I´m fucking gorgeous.”

“Wow princess. You have rendered me speechless.”

“In the words of my sometimes very wise father: ´Never let anyone but yourself determine your worth, especially if that person is an Ushijima´.”

“Very wise indeed,” Ryouta chimed in cheekily. “And has he said anything about dating one then?”

Eiko grinned sheepishly at him, eyes sparkling mischievously. “No. But I´m pretty confident in what he would say.

“You know princess, judging by that expression of yours, I´d almost dare say that you´re only using me so you can piss off your father the day he gets on your nerves,” he said smirking.

“My father gets on my nerves often. And when he does, I simply tell him that I´m considering transferring to Shiratorisawa and he will ignore me for a whole day. So there´s really no need for me to tell him about you…yet anyways.”

“And when will you?” he asked jokingly, but the sincerity in his question shone through nonetheless. This was not the first time he had brought it up.

“Tell me Ryo, do you have a death wish or something?” Eiko laughed half-nervously. “Or do you just want to make it official so you can brag to your father that you managed to secure an Oikawa?”

Knowing that this conversation wouldn’t lead anywhere, Ryouta just gave Eiko a lazy smile and continued to kiss her. But when the sound of a door suddenly being slammed open rumbled through the house, they both froze.

“Shit!” Eiko swore through clenched teeth as the distant bickering of two familiar male voices reached their ears. ��She quickly pushed Ryota off her. “My dads. You need to get out!”

“Get out?! But my shoes are downstairs.”

“That is the least of your concern right now!” she spat out. “I´ll bring them to school tomorrow.”

“Are you fucking kidding me!?”

“No, get out before my father storms in here.”

“Doesn’t he knock? Can´t you just tell him not to walk in? That you’ll be down in a second?”

“You clearly don’t know my father very well.”

“And who´s fault is that?” he said, narrowing his eyebrows accusingly at her.

“We´re not having this conversation now. Hurry up and get out before he finds us in here and kills us both!”

“But how?!”

“Through the window.”

He glared at her discontentedly, eyebrows raised high in his forehead. “The window? Really Eiko?”

Panic rose in Eiko´s chest as the humming sound from her father closed in as he ascended the stairs.

“Yes, the window! Are you deaf Ushiwaka? Get out!”

Ryouta gave her a displeased look but realized that this wasn’t the right time to argue.

“You owe me for this Princess,” Ryouta said as she roughly heaved him out on the roof.

“Yeah yeah,” she agreed before quickly shutting the window after him. The moment after her door shot open with a loud bang.

“Yoohooo! Guess who´s back home! and we brought dinner!”

Her father, Iwaizumi Tooru, former Oikawa, stood in the opening with two plastic bags in either hand and a big smile on his face.

“I thought you were going to eat out tonight?” Eiko said trying not to sound as if her heart was about to jump out of her chest.

“We were,” her father´s mirthful voice rang. He put his hand behind his head and grinned sheepishly. “But I may have mixed up the dates, so your dad is not very happy with me right now. And sure, I can understand why he would be upset, but you should have heard the rude things he said to me! And he continued to lecture me all the way home – even after we had picked up food at Momoya´s instead, which If you ask me is better anyways.”

Eiko had no problem at all imagining the words her father Hajime must have used. After all these years, she had probably heard them all. “Sounds well-deserved if you ask me. Dad had been looking forward to that date you know.”

“Ei-chan! And here I thought that you, my sweet and perfect daughter would take my side. But you´re just as cold-hearted and judgmental as your father.” He answered with a pout.

Eiko stared at her father and shook her head in disbelief at how a man of forty-five could act so childish. Probably because he still denied the fact that he was growing old, arguing that he was `no more than twenty-five in mind. ´ More like fifteen if you asked her. But to be perfectly honest, more often than less she enjoyed her father´s youthful spirit. Because although he could be a bit overbearing at times, there was nothing she couldn’t talk to him about. Or well, almost at least – Ryouta was the exception to the rule, but for obvious reasons. There was no other man that his father despised as much as Ushijima Wakatoshi, so she knew that he would not take the news about her and Ryouta dating well. Which was stupid, because besides his physique and talent for volleyball Ryouta was nothing like his stoic and blunt father Wakatoshi.

Thinking about her boyfriend, Eiko´s thoughts wandered back to the fact that she actually had forced him out of her window. And she suddenly felt incredibly annoyed with her father. Had he known some boundaries, Ryouta could have hidden in her room until they had gone to bed, but no. He had just stormed into her room like a pompous king with no regard of what she might have been doing.

“Hey Ei-chan, what´s up with that cross look on your face right now? You will get wrinkles like Iwa-chan if you keep furrowing your eyebrows like that. And that´s not cute at all. Although, your dad is still the second most handsome man in the world, after me of course.”

Normally, Eiko didn’t mind her father´s presumptuous comments, mostly because her own utterances tended to have a similar nature, but right now – already stressed and irritated – she couldn’t help her annoyance from spilling out: “Have you ever thought about knocking papi?”

“Knocking?” he asked, eyebrows raised in both surprise and confusion before his face formed an amused expression. “Tell me Ei-chan, why would you suddenly want me to knock? Got something you wish to hide from me?” he added with a wink.

She crossed her arms defiantly. “No, but some privacy would be nice once in a while.”

Tooru´s eyes narrowed slightly at that and when he eyed her suspiciously Eiko remembered just how intimidating her otherwise childish father could be. “Privacy you say…so there is something you´re trying to hi-”

Luckily for Eiko, her father did not have the time to finish his sentence before a darker and rougher voice cut him off: “Oi, are you bullying my daughter again shittykawa?” Her father Iwaizumi Hajime appeared in the doorway; a small grin visible on his face.

[tineechi]

Kono Oto Tomare Chapter 91

Oh my gosh! Chapter 91 came out on Baidu and I can’t breathe!

Satowa brings Chika in her house (cute scene on the train) and meets up with her mother. She had framed the flower Chika has given her on the genkan and tells him that “It was the most beautiful one.” (after asks her why she framed it when she received a lot of flowers that day!!!)

Satowa’s Dad (Reiji) looks a lot like a cross between Chika, Momoya and Takeru. Hahahaha.

Satowa is so embarrassed to be left alone with Chika in the room that she kept asking her mother to look for things. Chika and Chiharu are left to talk about a LOT of things. Chiharu asks Chika how he feels about Satowa and Chika thinks about it. He says that he respects her out loud (WHUT?!!!! JUST RESPECT? XP) and Satowa overhears it.

Before leaving, Satowa asks Chika if he remembers what he told her before; about him catching up to her before the Nationals. Chika says “Of course! Just wait.” Satowa answers with “I will not wait. Do your best!” I guess Satowa has really decided to focus on their Nationals performance for now. All romantic feelings are put on the back burner. Huhuhu. Oh well. 

I’ll post more details tomorrow. It’s super early morning here now.

[ai-megane-music]

Jump Comics cover

[zuura]

antoooo hello!! 🤍 how are you??? how about momoya natsu or yoshinaga atsumu for the quarantine game? (they're so different i'm really curious who you will choose)

Liaa I'm good hon, how are you doing?❤

Jsjdksks you're right they're totally opposites and Yoshinaga is the definition of cuteness but I'll have to go with Natsu!! He looks like he's someone you could talk to about anything snd he has a unique and very very intesting point of view about everything so I'd love to spend hours talking about whatever topic comes in the moment!! Also free music played by him😏

send me two characters and i will tell you who i would rather be quarantined with and why!

[rubyleaf]

I may be one of two people who ship this, but I’ll be damned if I let that stop me from producing content anyway. Also a study of Momoya’s character since he’s pretty hard to grasp. Anyway, have fun I guess?

Momoya Natsu has always been most comfortable keeping people at a safe distance.

It’s not that he dislikes people, not particularly. He doesn’t mind shallow company every once in awhile, the kind where you only talk about inconsequential things and part ways having enjoyed the time, but not particularly sad to say goodbye. No, a dislike is really not the issue here.

The problem is just that being around people exhausts him to no end.

Interacting with others, Natsu finds, is always a minefield. One wrong word, one wrong reaction, and someone gets hurt or upset or angry or forms a bad opinion. And all that means conflict, and conflict is stressful. Honest opinions. Honest feelings. Any of them can blow up in his face at the slightest misstep, and the closer the relationship, the bigger the explosion.

So he avoids getting close. He avoids the responsibility, the commitment that comes with close bonds. He avoids showing his true thoughts and emotions. They’re often unpleasant, regularly hurtful, and it’s so much less trouble to hide them behind a mask of politeness, amicability and slight mischief. People find him nice, but nothing more. He’s fading in and out of their lives as he pleases, never tied down but never alone.

And it’s okay, really, except that this masquerade drains him out and leaves his battery at zero after a few hours.

But oh, well. It should still be okay, as long as no one tries to push his boundaries. And if they do, he can still be polite and slip away from their grasp.

Right?

---

Natsu first starts questioning his strategy when he realizes it might not work on Yoshinaga Atsumu.

Slipping away from an acquaintance getting too close is one thing. Escaping from someone who’s in both the same class and the same club as him and insists on following him around like a lost puppy dog, however, is another thing entirely.

Natsu doesn’t know what the guy sees in him. He doesn’t know why he always insists on inviting him places, looking out for him, offering help, seeking him out when he’s skipping, reporting to him about club meetings he missed. Yoshinaga should worry about himself first. Natsu can manage fine on his own.

But he also knows Yoshinaga means well, he does all this because he’s a good kid, and so he remains polite and responds to all his offers with a friendly but distant smile.

A normal person would probably give up after some time. But not Yoshinaga. He doesn’t seem to have any concept of personal space.

Natsu works during club meetings, and Yoshinaga takes notes. Natsu tries to skip, and Yoshinaga finds him. Natsu tries to excuse his way out of club hangouts, found family that they are, and Yoshinaga invites him anyway.

One would really think he’d get the hint at some point. But he doesn’t. He just keeps trying.

“Sorry,” Yoshinaga says after interrupting Natsu and Mika for what feels like the millionth time. How exactly he keeps finding them is a mystery, honestly. “I don’t mean to always, you know... to...”

And yet you do, Natsu thinks irritably, but puts on a smile. “I already told you,” he says, “don’t worry about it. It really is my fault for doing this at school.”

“But—”

“It’s fine,” Natsu repeats. Really, what a pain. His smile remains unwavering. “What do you need me for?”

“The—the meaning of the song.” Yoshinaga looks all eager again, his one uncovered eye sparkling the way it always does when it comes to the club. “The others are trying to figure it out, and—and I thought we should get your opinion too.”

Natsu inclines his head. “What for?”

“Well, you’re part of the club too, aren’t you?”

So straightforward. So shiny-eyed and earnest. Natsu has never been good with enthusiastic people. But even he has to admit there’s something nice about this face. Something... almost endearing, really. Maybe that’s another reason why he’s so lenient with Yoshinaga, because you can’t really be mad at these puppy-dog eyes.

“I am,” he says, choosing his words carefully. “But I don’t have any particular opinions. I’m fine with whatever the others agree on.”

Yoshinaga’s face falls visibly. Natsu struggles to keep up his smile. Making this guy disappointed really does feel a bit like stepping on a puppy’s paw.

“I don’t think you need an interpretation to play well in the first place,” he adds. “At least not one you can put into words.” And besides, he continues in his head, these people should get the rhythm right before they get into the interpretations.

Yoshinaga looks puzzled. “You think so?”

“It’s just my opinion. You don’t have to believe it,” Natsu replies, ducking out through the door. “Anyway, see you.”

Before Yoshinaga can try to stop him, he has slipped away.

---

Some time later the messages start.

Natsu has excused himself from joining the club group chat, but several of his clubmates have his Line ID anyway. Most of them don’t message him much. Sometimes Mizuhara-senpai does, but it’s generally short conversations, all of them club-related.

Yoshinaga, meanwhile, seems determined to make up for the rest of them.

They’re not even invasive messages. They’re generally about the club, telling him what happened at practice, or the newest ideas and decisions, or something about classes and homework. But they’re frequent. Every day, sometimes several times. And it’s honestly getting stressful.

Not that he can say anything. He can’t express such feelings. Be amiable and polite, conceal, don’t feel. He replies to each message dutifully. Generally Yoshinaga is too shy to continue the conversation for long, anyway.

He does use cute stickers, Natsu thinks. And emojis. And his messages are so optimistic it’s almost contagious. Maybe it would be if Yoshinaga didn’t keep on hoping to see the same enthusiasm from him someday.

It’s nice. But it’s definitely too close for comfort. Each person in Natsu’s life has their own space where he’s willing to interact with them. Outside of it he’d rather be left alone. Yoshinaga’s is school. That’s it.

But it’s not like he can tell him that, so he remains friendly and bears the stress in silence.

---

Momoya-kun, I’ve been wondering, where do you even work?

The message makes Natsu freeze up. Too close. Definitely too close. The messages related to club and school, those he could still tolerate. But this is something personal. This, if he gives way to it, will eventually lead to more personal questions. And he doesn’t want that. It gets too close.

Another message pops up, but it doesn’t make it any better. I’m just curious since it keeps you so busy all the time, and I realized I don’t know. I don’t know anything about you.

No. He won’t answer. It may be a simple question. But Yoshinaga’s space is school. He can’t step into the rest of his life. No one can. It’s too much.

So, just once, he leaves him unread. He hates himself for it, but he does. At least for now, until he has figured out what to do about the message.

He’s not surprised to find Yoshinaga approaching him at school the next day, eyeing him with that shy, anxious look. “Um...” he says. “I’m just wondering, but my messages... Did they arrive yesterday?”

Oh, snap. Natsu knew he wouldn’t get away with it. Unless...

“You messaged me?” he replies. “Sorry, I didn’t see. My phone stopped working, I need to get it fixed.”

It sounds like too much of an easy lie, but Yoshinaga buys it. “Really?” he exclaims. “I’m sorry to hear it! If you need anything—”

“Thank you,” Natsu says, smiling. “But don’t worry. I’ll probably have it working again by this evening.”

Now he just needs to figure out what to do about the messages until then.

---

By the evening Natsu still hasn’t figured out what to do. His phone is still off, the messages unread. Maybe he’ll have to lie and claim the fixing will take longer than expected after all.

Instead he goes to play the drums to clear his mind. Here, at least, he is safe. Here he can let loose. Here he can be himself and let out his stress and emotions and doesn’t have to worry about holding back.

And really, today he needs it.

It’s not that he dislikes Yoshinaga, really. He rather likes him. He just needs his space. A lot of space. And he’s afraid of anyone intruding on it. Anyone trying to initiate a closer friendship feels like a red flag to him, a sign to get out and never come back. It’s too much, the pressure, the responsibility.

Can’t he just get away from everything for some time? Withdraw, disappear, until his batteries are recharged and he has any clue what to do?

Finishing his improv session, Natsu takes a deep breath and a gulp of water. His eyes roam over the venue—and freeze.

Standing among the audience is a familiar figure.

Too much. Too close.

Natsu jumps to his feet. He feels like a stranger walked into his room unbidden, like someone read his diary. This is his safe zone, his private space. Nobody he knows can set a foot here unless he invites them himself.

“You,” he says, forgetting to smile, forgetting his politeness. “What are you doing here?”

Yoshinaga blinks at him, clearly startled by his mood. “I was just passing by,” he says. “And then I heard the drumming and got curious... Should I not have come here?”

Too much. Too much.

“You shouldn’t,” says Natsu, backing away. “You shouldn’t follow me around at all! What are you, a lost puppy?” Yoshinaga flinches, but Natsu’s walls have already cracked; there’s no stopping the next words. “Just stop being clingy and leave me alone!”

Yoshinaga backs away. “I didn’t know it was you,” he stammers. “Honest! Your drumming was just really good and—”

“Get out.”

Yoshinaga pales.

“Get out,” Natsu repeats. “And don’t ever try to follow me around again.”

There’s a beat of silence. Then tears well up in Yoshinaga’s eyes, and he turns around and runs out through the door.

Little by little common sense returns to Natsu’s brain.

What has he done?

Is he an idiot?

He has been trying to hold back for so long, and now this?

Isn’t this situation the very thing he has always been trying to avoid?

“Yoshinaga!” he calls, running after him. “Wait!”

His feet carry him outside. He looks right and left. No trace of Yoshinaga.

“Yoshinaga?” he calls again, but there’s no answer.

“I’m sorry,” he says. By now his voice is quiet. The sound is swallowed up by the rush of the passing cars.

He is alone.

---

Yoshinaga doesn’t look at him the entire next day. Natsu tries to catch his gaze several times but is only met with brown eyes fixing on the textbooks or the board or the lunchbox. He doesn’t look angry, just sad. Hurt. Somehow that’s worse.

Natsu wants to say something, but he doesn’t know what. An apology, probably. A proper one. He’s not much good with those. It’ll require sincerity. Being open about something he’s always hated talking about.

The day passes. They don’t talk between classes or during lunch break. After school Natsu meets with Mika in the staircase again. His heart and mind aren’t in it. He always keeps hoping for a head of dark hair to show up around the corner, asking him to go to club.

In the end he gives up. “Sorry,” he tells Mika. “I’m not in the mood today. I’ll make it up to you, promise.”

His feet carry him to the club room. Outside the door he stops. Hesitates.

There’s music coming from inside. It has improved a lot since he last heard it. Instinctively Natsu tries to tell who’s playing which parts. He finds he can’t remember.

That’s right, I never really fit in here.

The music stops. “Much better,” Akira-sensei tells the group. “Mizuhara-kun, you’ve improved again.”

“Yay!” That’s Mizuhara-senpai’s voice. “It’s because I’m playing with Yoshiyan. He’s really easy to match with!”

Natsu holds his breath.

“R-Really?” Yoshinaga stutters out. “Um... thank you!”

“It’s because Yoshinaga-kun looks out for others so much,” says Kurusu-senpai. “It makes playing with him really easy!”

Natsu doesn’t wait around. He turns on his heels and flees the place. Where to, he doesn’t know. Just out of this school. Away from everything.

He ends up in a playground, empty at this hour. Closing his eyes, he sits on the swing. Time passes around him. The world stands still.

What’s Yoshinaga thinking, trying to reach out to him? He’s already part of their family. He has enough people around him. There’s no need to include Natsu. They’d both be happier if they left each other alone.

But at the same time he misses him. A lot more than he’d expect.

Does he want him around? Does he not?

The rustle of footsteps snaps him out of his thoughts. He turns around.

His eyes meet with a familiar dark one.

Yoshinaga freezes, then turns around on his heel. In a hurry he scrambles back between the trees, towards the road. Natsu winces. Don’t ever try to follow me around again. This is his fault.

“Yoshinaga,” he calls as he runs after him. “Wait.”

He doesn’t answer. He keeps on running.

Natsu takes a deep breath. What he’s about to do frightens even himself.

“Atsumu!”

Yoshinaga stops.

With a few quick strides Natsu is beside him, feeling strangely exposed. He doesn’t like this. He wants to leave.

He stands his ground.

“I’m sorry about yesterday,” he says, completely sincerely. “I didn’t mean what I said.”

Yoshinaga lifts his hands, backing away. “No, it’s fine—”

“You just startled me,” Natsu continues. “And I was having a bad day and then I lost my self-control. Sorry you had to take the brunt of that.”

“It’s really okay.”

Natsu meets Yoshinaga’s gaze and finds him smiling. “You know,” he says, “I never understood what you were thinking. But yesterday, for the first time, I felt like you were being honest with me.”

Natsu is speechless. Something unnamed stirs in his chest.

“But I hurt you,” he manages out at last. “I made you cry.”

Yoshinaga shakes his head. “It’s not the end of the world,” he says. “I’m just glad you told me the truth!”

A burden falls of Natsu’s shoulders, a burden that he never knew was there in the first place.

It’s okay if he’s honest, Yoshinaga tells him. It’s okay to express his thoughts and emotions. Even the ones that can hurt.

Should he...?

“Let’s sit down,” he says, smiling again, a little more genuine than before. “I think I owe you an explanation.”

---

Atsumu, he thinks as he sits down in his room that night, feeling calmer than he has in weeks. He picks up his phone. The messages are still unread.

It’s ironic, really. They’ve had this entire conversation, and Yoshinaga—no, Atsumu has agreed to be more careful with Natsu’s personal space. He asked him to tell him whenever he oversteps a boundary and everything, and suddenly Natsu doesn’t feel so stressed over him reaching out anymore. Suddenly he doesn’t mind having him in his life a bit more. Even outside of school.

So he types a response. Atsumu replies almost at once. Natsu keeps the conversation going. He doesn’t know why. He just feels like it.

Maybe it’s because he suddenly feels a lot safer.

Atsumu.

Natsu smiles.

Maybe letting someone a bit closer doesn’t always have to be bad. He just needed to find the right person first.

[tessenpai]

Kono Oto Tomare Chapter 113 Scans and Rough TL

Scans: Kono Oto Tomare 113 Scans

Page 1

Side text: The preparations continue... At Doujima's House---...

Chapter title: Flaw

Keishi: Good, I think that was all the luggage

Akira: Yeah

Keishi: Only thing left then ---

Keishi: Grandma, are you really going in a kimono? Will it not be uncomfortable on the plane?

Doujima-granny: shut up, this is the most convenient for me.

Keishi: Then it's fine, I guess...

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Keishi: But who would've said Grandma was going to come with us to see the Nationals. That was a real surprise.

Doujima-granny: Are you guys doing your jobs as teachers properly? I have to check for myself

Keishi: ...

[Flashback]

Doujima: ---Keishi

Doujima-granny: Somewhat, Tokise's koto club has gotten themselves in quite the trouble, I hear

Keishi: Aaah... That video?

Keishi: Some people really do stupid things, don't they

Keishi: If the video is real, then they probably deserved it.

Doujima-granny: I always knew something like this was going to happen

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Keishi: ---...

Doujima-granny: ...So

Doujima-granny: Is Akira ok?

Keishi: !

Doujima-granny: Why the dumbfounded face?

Doujima-granny: Aah I see, you thought I was going to say something like "Stop teaching at that club immediately", didn't you?

Doujima-granny: She said "They are really earnest and sincere about koto"

Keishi: Eh?

Doujima-granny: Akira said those words before. That the attitude of Kudo and the rest of the students toward the koto was now very earnest and sincere.

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Doujima-granny: Akira, the most earnest and sincere person there is, said that.

Doujima-granny: Also, I listened to their preliminaries performance

Doujima-granny: Is not like I am going to become a good old lady now, but I refuse to take the part of a senile old hag either.

Keishi: Grandma...

Doujima-granny: If anything happens, you should follow me

[Flashback Ends]

Akira: Brother?

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Akira: Why are you spacing out?

Keishi: Akira is super cute today as well.

Akira: Wait

Akira: Geez! If we don't hurry we will miss the plane

Keishi: Ooh you are right! Grandma, get in!

Doujima-granny: You don't need to tell me, I'm getting in.

Keishi: Everyone at the club must have arrived at the place they will be practicing in by now, right?

Akira: Yeah at this time surely, they must be at Umetsugu-san's place.

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Chika: Didn't our performance sound amazing just now!?

Takezou: My thoughts exactly! Our best one yet!!

Chika: It was super beautiful!!!

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Sane: Amazing... We are insane... Our performance is ready for the big day...!!

Kota: This is gonna be huge!!!

Chika: Also, Momoya's fill-in!

Chika: I love how you put in something different every time! It's exciting and tense and fun!

Sane: That!!

Natsu: Is that so...

Kota: I'm not excited-- I am so scared I will not get in in time after the fill-in

Mittsu: Me too

Atsumu: M-Me too...

Hiro: I would also want to know in advance how it's gonna be in the final performance...

Satowa: That would indeed be more reassuring

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Satowa: As soon as we decide on a fill-in for the final performance, we can practice with it a few times and-

Suzuka: Rejected

Satowa: Eh...?

Suzuka: That would be changing what the score says. It's meant to be an improvisation. Rejected.

Hiro: Wait a second, Suzuka-chan! Up to this point, you haven't said a thing about the performance and now is when you have something to add!?

Kota: What she said!

Suzuka: I didn't have anything to say because you guys were excellent

3-Baka + Chika: Eh...?

Suzuka: The reason why I introduced the fill-in for the actual performance is that ---

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Suzuka: I think you guys are the type who grow and develop in the real thing.

Suzuka: But I don't know, was I wrong?

Sane: I see now.

Chika: We are like that, indeed.

Kota: Momoyan, at the performance we are counting on you to deliver the best fill-in...

Natsu: Eh.

Mittsu: Aah... One where we shine the brightest

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Suzuka: Smile

Natsu: Ugh...

Natsu[thoughts]: He has raised the bar so damn high...

??: Let's give it more energyyy

??: Uoooo!!

Suzuka: Haha

Suzuka [toughts]: So easy--

Takezou: Sensei, "I don't say things I don't mean"... You said that, as I remember.

Page 11

Suzuka: You guys, is almost time for dinner. Let's head to the hotel.

Takezou: Ah, he changed the topic.

Tomoe: ...

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Student A: They are pretty late, Tokise

Tomoe: Ha. They must be having a hard time coming. There is not one school that thinks well of them.

Tomoe: Why not just pack up and run away

Student A: Where are you going?

Tomoe: For more water

Student A: Ah bring some for me too then!

Student B: Ah, me too, me too!

Student C: Thank you, Tomoe-chan

Tomoe: You guys...

Sfx: Clink

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Tomoe: Dammit...

Tomoe: They got some guts

Girl: Well, I will be going to my room first then---

Girl 2: Careful- Behind you!

Girl: Eh?

Tomoe: Owaah

Tomoe[thoughts]: Oh no, the water

Page 14

Chika: That was close...

Chika: You good?

Page 15

Tomoe: Eh. Ah. Y-yes.

Tomoe[thoughts]: I-it's a guy!!

Sane: Woah you are carrying four glasses of water?

Tomoe: !!

Tomoe[thoughts]: Embarrassing!

Tomoe: Eh-

Chika: Where should I carry these

Tomoe: Eh!?

Tomoe: Th-Thank- Thank you very much...

Chika: You're welcome

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Student A: Wa- Wa-

Student A: What was that just now!!!

Student B: A shojo manga?! Are we in a shojo manga!? A gentleman!!

Student C: What school is he from!? Weren't those guys, like, super cool!? So tall!!

Student B: Hey hey. That guy who brought the water, doesn't he look like the hero of that manga you like?

Tomoe: Eh.

Tomoe: W-well he does look like him a little...

Tomoe[thoughts]: But other than that, I think I've seen that person before--...

Sane: Ahh I'm so hungry--

Chika: Ohh looks good--

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Chibana Students: Eh.

Satowa: Kudou, how much rice do you want?

Page 18

Chika: A big portion, please!

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Tomoe: ........

Student C: No- No way. That was Tokise...

Student B: But now that I remember, that was the vibe they had on TV

Student A: Moreover, there are so many guys over there.

Student B: Tomo...

Tomoe: The worst

Tomoe: This is the worst. This is the worst. To have gotten even a little bit involved with Tokise.

Tomoe: I cannot believe it.

Tomoe: You guys said that that guy looked like Shun-kun from my Bible, "Your Color ☆ Lullaby"

Student: Well we don't know that much. But Tomoe you also--

Tomoe: He doesn't look like him at all.

Student B: Yeah Yea...

Ousuke: Ah

Ousuke: Uwaaaah it has been so long!!

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Ousuke: Yooo my brothers---!!!

Kiryuu: Have you been well!?

Sane: Ah, you!!

Sane: Meiryo's--

Ousuke: Prince, Kiryuu Ousuke!!

3-baka: He hasn't changed!!

Sana: You guys were also in this hotel?

Ousuke: Yeah- We arrived yesterday! We had our rehearsal at the venue today--!

Sane: Oooh good job---

Mittsu: What was the venue like?

Ousuke: It was very easy to play! The sound was really good and---

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Ousuke: Eh!!! The number of men increased!!!

Kota: They are our first years and new club members

Ousuke: Seriously!!

Ousuke: Your new members are also guys!? Zero women!? Ahahahahahaha

Sane: You don't need to say it...!

Chika: ...Ah-- By the way.

Chika: It might be... better if you don't get too close to me... us.

Ousuke: Eh? ...Aaah.

Ousuke: Because of that video thingy?

Ousuke: Maan, that must have been rough. I was worried about you--

Chika: Ye-yeah...

Ousuke: But no one in our club cares about that, so it's fine

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Ousuke: We are not stupid or have enough time to care about information that we don't know who or where it came from.

Chika: ---

Ousuke: More importantly

Ousuke: You won't say that the performance is not perfect because of that, right?

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Chika: This is our very best performance yet.

Ousuke: I'm really glad to hear that.

Ousuke: You won't have that as an excuse when you lose, then

Chika and Takezou: !

Chika: We won't. Moreover, we ain't losing!

Ousuke: Ahaha That's what I like to hear <3

Asano: Ousuke! Your food is going to get cold!

Ousuke: Yes Yees

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Ousuke: See you later then

Chika: Kiryuu

Chika: Thanks

Ousuke: This year's Meiryo is "Perfect". Is a battle between them and the "Very Best" of Tokise.

Page 25

Kota: Ah.

Kota: Aki-chan just landed!

Sane: Ohh, I'm glad!!

Mittsu: Keishi-san is with her, right?

Tomoe: Kuh

Tomoe: What was that!!!

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Tomoe: You're making the other competing schools feel uneasy. And yet you are laughing like you're having the greatest time! Have some shame and act a little sorry!

Tomoe: And what was with that scruffy guy, the one from Meiryo. Acting like he is the only one who doesn't care about them!

Tomoe: The fact that there was an incident is true in the first place! Why are you letting him compete like normal, it's stupid! Management should get a grip!!

Student B: Haa Calm down a little. Nothing's gonna change even if you get that mad.

Student B: It's frustrating for me too, but Tomore, you said this yourself, right? Student B: "It won't reach the Nationals audience"

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Student B: Our performance is the day after tomorrow?

Student B: When are we going to stop letting that school distract us?

Student B: Just forget about it and let's concentrate on ourselves---

Tomoe: I know that already!!!

Student B: ---

Tomoe: Ah, sorry...

Student B: Do you have a personal grudge against Tokise?

Tomoe: ...That's not it... but...

Student: Well, whatever, get as angry as you want today. Just switch it off starting tomorrow.

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Takezou: Kudo-kun, what bed do you want

Chika: I don't really care--

Takezou: Then I will use this one

Chika: Ah--!!

Chika: ...It's harder than Tetsuki's bed...

Takezou: Don't compare them. Those are probably luxury...

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Sane: Heeey!! Before bath time let's do a strategy meeting--☆

Chika: Strategy meeting?

Takezou: About what?

Sane: Ya know, about Yoshinaga!

???: Isn't it your first time playing on stage?. Moreover isn't this your first performance overall? So---

Atsumu: I'm... A little nervous...

Sane: So I thought we should think about countermeasures together. Let's talk about our failure stories and so on!

Chika: Won't that have the opposite effect?

Mittsu: Nah, it'll be easier!

Takezou: I see...

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Sane: Momoya is the most accustomed to the stage. Give us your advice!

Natsu: I've played in live concerts... Is a completely different experience compared to a competition.

Natsu: Wouldn't it be better if we called Houzuki-senpai for this?

Sane: You idiot!! You can't call a girl to a hotel room full of disgusting men!!

Takezou: I was actually thinking of giving the two freshmen a chance to get some stage experience, before the performance. I had talked with the teachers about it, too...

Sane: Eh, you did?

Takezou: Yeah...

Takezou: But there was just so much going on in the club for us to put it together.

Chika: Heeeh...

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Chika: Well then, let's start with the story of our first performance!!!

Atsumu: Please!!

Chika: I don't know what to tell you, but if it wasn't for that performance… We wouldn't be here! That's where it all started!

Atsumu: That performance was a great success, surely

Everyone: ...

Sane: Why are you guys so quiet

Chika: I was so nervous about Kota--

Kota: Eh-- You guys didn't tell me anything!!

Sane: And then Houzuki-san--

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Student B [Memory]: Do you have a personal grudge against Tokise?

Twitter Profile: Tomo (@ kimi_Lulla), Second Year/Koto club. Chibana Girls High School.

Chika [Memory]: You good?

Chika [Memory]: Where should I carry these?

Tweet: I'm a member of a koto club. I don't want people like these to play. I don't want to be near them. They're a nuisance.

Tomoe: ...I'm not wrong...

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Kota: Aki-chan

Mittsu: Keishi-san!

Akira: Guys! Good morning.

Keishi: Oooh Mittsun

Keishi: All of you, it has been a while!

Mittsu: I'm really happy that Keishi-san also came!

Keishi: I'm really happy I came, myself!

Mittsu: Keishi-san, are you coming to see our rehearsal?

Keishi: Yeah!

Akira: My brother has a very good ear, so I thought having him listening with me in the audience would be very reassuring. Like the balance between sounds and so.

Akira: Since Takinami-sensei has to stay in the backstage...

Sane: Amazing, that's really reassuring!

Takezou: Thank you very much!

Suzuka: Good, let's get going then.

Suzuka: From the get-go, this will be almost exactly like the day of the performance.

Suzuka: If you're going to make mistakes, if you are going to have regrets, do that all today.

Suzuka: Is time to clear up everything that's bothering you before the performance. Keep your head on straight.

Everyone: Yes!!!

Side Text: Their "very best performance yet" will be confirmed at the venue.

-----Kono Oto Tomare! continues in the next issue----

[kazumahashimoto]

god i can't even fucking like i'm gonna lose my mind over how fucking touchy chika has allowed himself to be over the span of the manga like in the beginning it was all stop clinging to me but as time went on we see more and more how much he likes giving and receiving headpats and hugs and he can't fall asleep without something in his arms and he openly expresses how much he loves his friends and hrhrgfhrhfhrgh then to also add in all the momoya chika moments where momoya really has only ever experienced superficial affection and chika who is just so casual now about loving people so he holds his hand and pats his head and hugs him and lets him use HIS hug pillow and aaaaiujhhguyhghgughyyyu kot is so good it's so cute and sweet they are all bffs 😭😭