Please let me work here.
Are you serious?
I want a reason!
to be able to live here... with you.
But... as a servant?
I don't see any problems with that.
Tama!
I've been the head servant of this house for sixty years
since the previous generation.
Call me Sempai!
Get up at 5am, sweep the floor and entrance by 6am.
Prepare breakfast by 7am.
What about school?
Come straight home and don't stop by anywhere.
Yes.
And when you get home
mop the floor, prepare dinner, clean the young master's bedroom
and turn in by 11pm.
Do I hear anything?!
Y-Yes, ma'am!!
Hey, Tama
I haven't given consent to Makino becoming our servant yet.
She is saying so herself.
I said I won't allow it!
Young master
when have you started talking back to me?
Huh?
Mistress has told me that
you've been hanging around a filthy, shallow, untamed kitten.
It seems the atmosphere in this household has been corrupted.
Don't you come out of nowhere and
start blabbering like you know everything.
Are you sure you won't make her a servant no matter what?
Of course not!!
In that case...
How would you feel about her becoming your personal maid?
Huh??
My personal...
Welcome home, Master~
Please excuse me~
Stop it~
Open wide~
It's not bad.
Please! I can't!
Anything but as a personal maid to Dou--
to young master!
What would you say, Young Master?
I'll leave everything up to you, Tama.
Then it's decided.
Wait, please.
Are you serious... Young Master?
If Tama... says so.... I guess it can't be helped.
Wait a second...
You're imagining something dirty, aren't you??
Hold it! What kind of attitude is that towards Young Master?
I'm sorry.
Remember
in this house, I'm the law.
Like, no way!
It's true! Like, it's been a week already!
That's just like something that peasant girl would do
forcing herself into Doumyouji-sama's home.
Does that mean, like, Makino Tsukushi
and Doumyouji-sama are going out again?
Good morning, Tsukki~
W-What?
What happened? You guys are weirding me out.
What harsh words!
We've been schoolmates for 3 years, haven't we?
Ma--kino!
So I heard you're staying at Tsukasa's place now.
Sorry for not telling you at all.
It's okay.
Right now... I really need a place to live
So Doumyouji's sister told me to live there.
But I'm not completely relying on their good will
I'm working there as a servant.
As a servant?
Yes.
But you met with Tsukasa, didn't you?
Eh?
On Valentine's Day.
Oh, that. I told him
it was too late.
Eh?
I can't just say "Oh, I see" and go back to what we had before.
So you're still confused.
And one of the reasons that's keeping you confused is me.
...right?
Maybe that means I still have a chance.
Excuse me.
Yo.
I've come to clean your room.
Okay.
Are you starting to get the hang of this?
Yes, I have started to get used to this.
Makino. You don't have to talk like that when we're alone.
But...
That's my order!
Keep things the way they were.
Okay.
Hey, Makino
Hm?
Remember what you said before?
I want a reason!
to be able to live here... with you.
That means
you want to start over with me, right?
Makino, I'm going to stake my life on you.
Ah, long time no see!
Oh, long time no see! Please come in.
Is Tsukasa in?
Yes. Please enjoy yourself.
I'm coming in!
Yo.
Makino! You really are working!
Yeah.
Tsukasa, Tama-san was just by the door.
Eh?
Oh, don't start acting reckless, you two.
No need to worry!
Moreover, why are you here?
Oh, I can't get in touch with Soujirou at all recently.
I was just wondering, have you seen him?
No...?
I see.
I wonder what's he up to.
S-Sorry. Excuse me.
Hello?
You can't get in touch with Yuuki?
Yes.
I wonder what happened. It's been a week already.
A week?
Yes, since the day after Valentine's.
I mean, I can do something about the shop by myself
But she's always been responsible and
things like this never happened before.
I wonder if something happened.
I hope it's nothing serious.
Eh? What do you mean?
Yuuki-chan went after Nishikado-san with all her heart
like charging into a fight but maybe...
She got rejected and out of the shock, she...!
Don't say things that'll bring bad omen!
Why are you spacing out!
I'm sorry! Are you all right?
Of course not!
What's wrong with you today? You've been weird since you got home.
I'm sorry.
...It's nothing. Please excuse me.
This person cannot answer the phone right now...
Hey, Makino! I'm coming in!
Hold on a sec!
Why are you acting so embarrassed?
Of course I would! Don't come in so suddenly!
Did something happen?
Eh?
You clearly aren't your usual self.
If it's something you can talk to me about, I'll listen.
Um... it's nothing important...
It's just that... I can't get in touch with Yuuki.
What do you mean?
Well, it's really nothing, but...
Let's go look for her.
Now??
Let's go!
W-Wait, wait, wait!!
Episode 7: Once-in-a-lifetime First Love
Kagayaita no ha What shined was
Kagami demo taiyou demo nakute Neither the mirror nor the sun
Kimi dato kiduita toki kara But you. Since then
Ano namidagumu kumo no zutto Behind those tearful clouds
Ue ni ha hohoemu tsuki Is always a smiling moon.
Love story mata hitotsu Another love story
Kidutuita yume ha kinou no kanata he Take the wounded dreams to yesterday
Sora ni hibike ai no uta The sky will echo with the song of love
Omoide zutto zutto wasurenai sora The sky will always, always remember the memories
Futari ga hanarete itemo No matter if we are separated
Konna sukina hito ni For the girl I love so much
Deau kisetsu nido to nai Even if we won't meet the second time
Hikatte motto saokou no lady Shine more, you're the best lady
Kitto sotto omoi todoku My feelings will definitely, gently reach to you
Shinjiru koto ga subete Love so sweet Believing is everything Love so sweet
Waratte motto saigo no lady Laugh more, you're the last lady
Kitto sotto omoi todoku My feelings will definitely, gently reach to you
Shinjiru koto ga subete Believing is everything
Akenai yoru ha naiyo The sun will always rise
Shinjiru koto ga subete Love so sweet Believing is everything Love so sweet
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Timing by Tianj
Translated by Lily @ jLand.wordpress.com Visit the site for translation notes.
Sempai is going to get mad at me if she finds out!!
Who cares? Friendship is more important!
But... Ugh, don't pull so hard.
Here. Hurry, hurry. Hurry, let's go!
I see. Sorry for calling so late.
Seems Soujirou hasn't been back home these days.
- Eh? - Could they be... together?
How are we going to find them without any leads?
All right, let's call the police or something.
W-Wait, stop.
I just meant... because your best friend is in such a predicament
we've got to make use of national powers.
I can't believe you.
Oh.
Here.
It's okay.
Eat it!
Like they say, a war will ends on an empty stomach.
The war will end? Then might as well stay hungry.
Why?! Just eat it!
Besides, we didn't have a chance to eat together in New York.
Eh?
I was trying my best to do what I needed then
but now, being here with you
I finally realized what was the most important thing to me.
This is disgusting!
How could that be possible?
Your tongue's just broken.
Ugh, it really is disgusting!
They're both missing?
Since Valentine's?
Does that ring any bell?
Not this year's, but... something happened at last year's.
Something happened?
Tsukasa, do you remember? The girl who was Soujirou's childhood friend.
Oh yeah, his first love, right?
Nishikado-san's first love?
Yeah. They reunited last year for the first time in a long while, but...
Did he do something to her? That wild beast.
No, but she disappeared completely after Valentine's Day.
Damn that Soujirou. Did he get rejected?
Don't tell me... is that why he got into martial arts style?
But didn't he already get rejected by her in Sophomore year?
Then he got rejected by the same person twice?
No wonder he started liking grapes!
Huh?
If you don't get it, you don't have to respond to my words.
Listen
bu-do-u. The one where you fight.
Never mind.
So? What kind of girl was she?
You've never met her, huh. Have you met her, Tsukasa?
No, never.
Probably, because Sara-san didn't come back after that either.
Maybe she was Nishikado-san's first love...
In that case, it makes somewhat of a sense, doesn't it?
That both of them are missing?
Hey, do you know the story behind his motorcycle?
The story behind his motorcycle?
That he'll never let any girl ride on the back seat.
Maybe he still likes her.
At any rate, there's no mistake they're in a triangle right now.
They're a triangle? You mean they're in a love triangle?
In a love triangle? I've never heard of it.
Excuse me. Is Hinata Sara-san here?
She quit already.
She quit?!
Yes
she said she's moving away for several reasons.
Where? Where did she move to?
Jiro.
I haven't heard you call me that in a long time.
Why are you here?
Let's just say... coincidence.
You got your motorcycle license.
By the way
your dad liked working with ceramics, didn't he?
I used to come here when I was a kid.
With my family and yours together.
Oh, this.
I saw it when I went to the community center the other day.
I bought this from here a long time ago, didn't I?
Once I remembered that, this place suddenly seemed very nostalgic.
I forgot to bring it with me.
I'm still using mine.
The same one as that.
I guess I made you deliver this to me.
When are you done?
Eh?
Oh, I'm almost done for today.
- I see. - Yep.
Can I stay here until then?
Yeah.
I'll be right back.
I've finally found her.
You've found her??
I just got a call from one of our men.
Seems Yuuki-chan is wandering around in front of the Tokyo Tower.
You look like you're enjoying yourself.
I am.
Because I can be with you, for whatever the reason it might be.
So. Why are you making such a weird face?
I'm not!
You've got a weird face to start with. It's only looking weirder and weirder.
No one asked you!
Ah!
There!
Yuuki!
Eh..? Huh?? What the--
Yuuki!!
I hope it's not serious.
What is this?
Looks like she was looking for buildings.
Yuuki?
Are you awake?
So? How do you feel?
I'm fine now.
What were you doing? Wandering around the city at night by yourself.
It's okay... if you don't want to talk about it.
On Valentine's Day
I went to give Nishikado-san my chocolate.
Nishikado-san, he only let me into the house
so I started getting excited by myself...
Uh... um
Actually, there was something I wanted to ask you.
Eh?
So that's why you only let me in...
Was Sara...
there the whole time?
Yes, but the day after you came to the classroom
Sara-san quit.
She quit?
You gotta be kidding me.
Seeing his shocked face
was a shocking experience for me...
Um...
was Sara-san the girl who wanted to see you at 6am back then?
Hold on.
6 in the morning?
Last Valentine's Day, a girl asked Nishikado-san to see her at 6am.
Nishikado-san.
(last year) I'll be waiting.
Who was... she?
That? Oh... hmm...
Can you think of anyone who'll ask someone to come see them
at 6 in the morning to give a confession?
Not to mention going to the roof of a building
where you can see the Tokyo Tower.
What? What's that all about? I'm so lost.
I know.
I'll be the fool if I go, won't I?
You will. You definitely will.
You shouldn't go.
So Soujirou didn't go?
I... interfered between Nishikado-san and Sara-san.
That's not it.
She didn't feel that way about me to start with.
But...!
She probably wanted me to be her messenger.
She loves...
Bro.
My older brother.
- His brother? - The eldest one, named Shouichirou.
Three years ago
he left home after he had enough of his family customs.
Customs, huh.
That's when...
(three years ago) seeing his childhood friend that he loved cry
Soujirou said his first love was over.
But the truth was, he kept liking her all these years.
No. Even when you try to forget someone
once you see their face, your feelings start wavering.
And once that happens, you can't control your feelings.
That's what a man's pure heart is.
I suppose so.
Then... on the morning after Valentine's day,
Good morning.
I went to see Nishikado-san again.
Um... this is Sara-san's. She left without taking it.
I'll leave it with you for now.
So you started the fire in him.
At 6am on last year's Valentine's day
I wonder what Sara-san was going to tell him.
Don't tell me, Yuuki
that you're looking for the building that Nishikado-san was suppose to go to?
I thought I might find out something if I do.
So Yuuki-chan is still going around looking for that?
Why don't you two help her?
Yeah, but...
Maybe this is the most important time of my life.
That why, please, can you just watch me do this by myself?
I promise I won't take too long.
I've never seen Yuuki look so determined before.
She's probably trying to put a firm end to this within herself.
Soujirou!
Yo. What's up? Why are you all looking so depressed?
Where were you? We were all worried about you.
I was just touring.
Touring?
Here, I've brought some souveniors.
The best of the best that the mountains have to offer.
But man, what a time to tour.
I thought I was going to die from the cold.
- Nishikado-san! - Soujirou!
Are you free tonight?
One-on-one isn't bad for a change, right?
Can we leave everything to Doumyouji do you think, Mimasaka-san?
It's all right.
Regardless of what he says, he's still the leader of F4.
Hello? Yuuki?
I found it. This morning.
Really? Good job!
I wonder if Nishikado-san will come tomorrow at 6am.
I'll ask Doumyouji to ask him.
So? What did you find there?
Something very important.
Something incredibly important to Nishikado-san and Sara-san.
Soujirou.
You went to see the girl of your first love, didn't you?
What? Why?
I can see through everything.
I guess we haven't been best friends for nothing.
I think now
I have the patience to listen to your story.
We both aren't kids anymore.
I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing either.
Before I realized what I was doing
I was already out of the house and on my motorcycle.
I wanted to apologize for standing you up last year.
So you're sorry for what you did?
Everytime I tried to apologize, you always disappear somewhere.
Yuuki-chan told me
you quit the tea ceremony classes
and I thought it might be because you saw me.
Jiro, is that why you came here to see me?
I mean
isn't it a bit weird considering we're childhood friends?
That we don't even say hi to each other
after we haven't seen each other for so long.
That's true.
But
the reason I came here isn't because of you at all.
- Actually...! - How is...!
...everyone?
Like your mom and dad?
Fine.
What about Shou-chan? Nothing since he left home?
Not even a call.
I don't even know where he is or what he's doing.
I see.
You really, really liked Bro, didn't you?
And when he disappeared, you cried a river by yourself.
Anyone would. It was so sudden and I was surprised.
Do you still...
like him?
What are you trying to say?
To me
Shou-chan is just like an older brother.
That's all.
Then...
what about me?
What was I to you?
Sara
we're heading back.
Yeah, I'll be there soon.
Yuuki-chan
Eh?
is a really good girl, isn't she?
She looks like she really likes you.
And I don't think there are many girls out there
who likes you as innocently as she does.
I think you should make her happy.
Sara, do you want to go for a short ride?
I'll let you ride on the back.
I...
I'm going to get married.
That was my fiance.
My dad's friend's son.
He's amazing.
Everyone in the ceramics world is expecting him to become great.
And he asked me to date and marry him.
I thought I won't find another one
who could love me so much.
I really believe that way right now.
I'm happy for you.
Make yourself happy.
You too, Jiro.
See ya.
I'm like a clown, making fool of myself.
I just went to reconfirm the fact that I was out of her ballpark.
Soujirou.
But I'm not depressed or anything.
I mean, nothing started so nothing has ended
or everything was over before they began...
Soujirou.
Do you remember the building
you didn't go to at 6am?
Where was it? I've already forgotten the place.
Makino's pal apparently was
searching for that place every single night.
Eh?
And she said she found it.
She said to come at 6am tomorrow morning.
Now it's her.
Cheers!
Nishikado-san, you really are hot.
Nishikado-san, you look really hot today.
You can drink anything you want and eat anything you want today.
- Nishikado-san? - Nishikado-san?
- Hm? - What's wrong?
You're acting weird today.
Nishikado-san?? Where are you going?
I'm so glad you came!
Let's go there before it ends.
Hurry!!
It's almost time.
What? What is there to see?
I realize I have no right to be doing this
but I really wanted you to see it.
Eh?
Over there.
The light from the sunrise reflects off the building in front to it
and the letters disappear at 6am for three seconds.
( Sukiyaki )
( Jiro )
( Suki Jiro )
She calls you Jiro, didn't she?
Stupid girl...
Calling me out to show this to me at the crack of dawn...
Like stop kidding me!
Stop kidding....
I always thought
Sara liked Bro.
She was so important to me that
I couldn't take that final step.
I'm pathetic, aren't I?
That's not true.
Thanks, Yuuki-chan.
I think something changed within me thanks to this.
It's all because of you.
Let me pay you back next time.
- Okay? - Okay.
Did you go where Yuuki was this morning?
Yep.
And she showed me something good.
I see.
Makino.
Don't give up.
Eh?
You don't have to worry about how others' look at you
or what's going on around you.
You have to be honest to yourself
and live honestly according to your feelings.
That's how things are.
You can never
go back in time.
It's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Maybe that means I still have a chance.
Tsukushi, you said there's nothing between you and Tsukasa, didn't you?
I can believe your words, can't I?
Yuuki?
I can't stop liking what I like.
I realized it's not something I can help.
Yuuki.
I can't. I can't force my feelings shut when I really like him.
Next is your turn.
I don't think I've seen you smile wide lately.
You have to keep laughing and being hyper. Otherwise you aren't yourself.
I guess so.
Good luck.
Yeah.
Who is it?
Me.
What?
Come in.
I...
Hm?
have something I need to tell you.
I'm going to go see Hanazawa Rui tomorrow.
What... do you mean?
I'm going to tell him I can't go out with him.
In the end, the person I want to make the happiest is
not you. I'm going to tell him that.
Makino...
That's all I wanted to say.
See ya.
Hello?
I haven't heard from you in a while.
Sorry, I've been busy.
I'm happy.
That you called me.
What's wrong?
Tomorrow.
Do you think you have time?
Right now
if you want to see me
I'll go anywhere and any time you want me to.
I have something I need to tell you.
Something good?
...or something bad?
When should I meet you where?
Then, 4pm, in front of the Central Library.
Got it. Okay.
Then... good night.
What's up? Sighing like that?
- Eh...? - Yo.
Shigeru-san...?
I heard you're living here while working as a maid.
Yeah.
Man, oh man
I never imagined you'd be here.
Sorry I didn't tell you.
It's okay.
If my good friend Tsukushi stays by his side
I won't have to worry about weird girls coming near him.
It seems next week, they're going to formally announce
the merge with Doumyouji corporation
and I think Tsukasa's mom is coming back too.
I think the date of our wedding and stuff
will be decided during that announcement too.
I see.
Then you'll celebrate with me, won't you?
I'm thinking of staying over in Tsukasa's room tonight.
See ya.
What's with that face?
Shigeru.
You already know my feelings, don't you?
Hm? "My feelings"?
You mean how you want to be with me all night long?
Seriously.
You're going to let me stay here tonight.
We're engaged already.
I don't think anyone will have any problem with that.
Makino is the girl I'm destined to be with!
I shall forbid any coming and going into this house.
I still have my secret plan
up my sleeve.
I'm not going to give up on Makino.
I've decided already.
Yuuki-chan and Doumyouji helped you see the faint light but...
Oh, who needs it!
Ken, please understand.
Then let us give a toast first.
You have something you wish to talk to me about?
Be patient.
Get on.
I'm going to protect you.