hollow_rose wrote:

Utena. I'm hoping she's noticed Miki isn't there, I'm kind of shocked Juri didn't notice.

Everyone was at the meeting, so they all know Miki is missing, and that D-ko saw him go into the allegedly mysteriously-repaired chalk-white fencing hall. But nobody seems to be totally freaking out yet. To be fair, it's only been, what, like six hours max? The meeting was in the morning, some time after gym class, and it's now after school.

Melancholic_Soul wrote:

I really want to see her now... and company... I wonder who that could be

I expect it's the same people Utena is always hanging out with... her first wife and mistress.

Satyreyes wrote:

Can I say, Dallbun, that I really like the translation "Utena and company" for Utena-tachi?  It gets the meaning across just right.

Thanks! "Utena and friends" sounded kind of like a sitcom, "Utena's group" makes it sound like too firm an organization, and "Utena and her inseparable lady-friends" was perhaps a bit too much artistic license.

To be fair, the duellists are all self-absorbed. No one cared when someone was trying to kill Nanami!

Hmm, I would say Kendo.

Kendo Club

Kendo Club! I want to find out if Saionji ate that cake.

Utena, please.

Kendo.

Go with Utena please!

Kendo.

utena

Utena~. *Late and fails*

Time to spend some time with our main girl! The title of the series ain't Revolutionary Girl Saionji!

...although that would be awesome.

Wakaba:
It's true! Kotobi said she saw it.



Wakaba:
A guy with reaaaaaly long hair was standing in the ruins!
And then she heard, like, "are you a prince, or a princess?"

Anthy:
Oh, dear. What should you do if you're a king?



Wakaba:
Uh, Anthy, I don't think that's really the problem.

Why do we get a point here? I guess just for showing up.

If only getting people to like you in real life was this easy.

D-ko:
Those ruins... were they by any chance the white fencing hall?

Wakaba:
Yeah, I think so.
They say it used to be a really pretty building.

Utena:
Hmmm. Come to think of it, isn't the newspaper club's new feature
"the seven mysteries of the school"?

(Translator's Note: I've run into this before in other anime and such, but I went to the Wikipedia article for 七不思議 to read more. Basically there's a tradition in Japan of various shrines, regions, or even schools to have seven inexplicable things. Ghost stories are popular, though some of the older ones are just weird phenomena that we now know the scientific basis for. The Seven Wonders of the World are referred to by the same term, even though there's not really any implication of mystery in the original Greek. In conclusion, Ohtori is awesome.)

Wakaba:
Oh, yeah, yeah! Stuff like "the Phantom Thief, Rose Cloak,"
and "the mysterious ukulele."

D-ko:
Ukulele?

Utena:
An ukulele? Somehow that doesn't seem very frightening.

Wakaba:
What are you saying!?
Night after night, you can hear the sounds of the resentful ukulele...
Isn't that scary!?

Utena:
..."resentful ukulele?"

Wakaba:
Hey, by the way... don't you have someone that you like?

D-ko:
Gah!
H, uh, why?

Wakaba:
Because here at Ohtori Gakuen,
people say that there's a traditional love good luck charm.
If you want, I thought I could teach it to you!

Utena:
Yeah, but is it actually effective?

Wakaba:
Of course it is!
It's a traditional good luck charm that's been handed down from way in the past!

D-ko:
I believe you, I believe you!
So, what do you do?

Wakaba:
First, take the name tag of the person you like.

D-ko:
Name tag?

Wakaba:
Yeah!
You know, like on the walls of the sports clubs,
they have the names of all the club members written on those tags? Those things.

D-ko:
Oh...

Wakaba:
I mean, those are the main ones,
but tags from the locker room or the door to their room are fine, too.
Then you tie a red string to it, and bring it to your own locker room.
If you do that, your thoughts will reach them!

D-ko:
Huh...

Looks like that choice should really have been called "Talk to Wakaba and company." Not that that's a problem, because Wakaba is clearly amazing.

Also, I'm not sure if you take the whole tag, or just the string. Just the string would make more sense, but would also be way more of a pain.

(bells ring)


Utena:
Oh, no! It's that time already?

D-ko:
What is it?

Utena:
I forgot that I was going to go help out the baseball players!

D-ko:
Uh oh! I guess it's already over, huh?

Utena:
Yeah... it probably is. But I should go and see, anyway.
Maybe they found a pinch hitter.

Wakaba:
That's wishful thinking, isn't it?
Without you there, they probably already lost.

Utena: (taking off)
Anyway, gotta go, bye!

Wakaba:  (going after her)
Oh, wait up!
I'm going to come and support you!

Anthy:
In that case, I'll be leaving as well.

(Anthy leaves.)

D-ko:
...suddenly, everyone is gone.

Ohtori Academy has its own version of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu. There's only so much athletic talent to go around... and all of it belongs to Utena.

D-ko:
Um, teacher. You went to the bother of calling me out here...
What is it?

Teacher: (male)
Ah, sorry for the trouble.
Actually... there was a phone call from the police earlier.

D-ko:
The police!?
...He's got to be kidding!
I don't think I've done anything to make someone call the police...

Teacher:
They said they'd found something of yours that you'd dropped.
Did you go into town yesterday?

D-ko:
Ah... oh, I just lost something, huh?
Um, yeah. I went to buy gym clothes for today's class.

Teacher:
Is that right? You must have lost it then.
Well, it's good that they found it the next day... it must have been inconvenient.

D-ko:
Um, yes. Thank you very much. I'll go pick it up.

Teacher:
Sure. They have it at the police box in front of the port.
Don't be too late.

D-ko:
Yes!



D-ko:
A lost item, huh?
I wonder what it is? I haven't noticed anything missing...



D-ko:
Excuse me, I'm Kageno D-ko...
I recieved a message that you were keeping something of mine.

Policeman:
Oh, you're here. Wait a moment.
Just to make sure, will you take a look inside,
and make sure that nothing's missing?

D-ko:
An apple...?

Policeman:
Did you go visit someone or something?

D-ko:
...this isn't mine.

Policeman:
Huh? Really?

D-ko:
Yes. I wasn't carrying an apple.

Policeman:
Huh, how strange... what should we do?
Hey... looks like there's something else in here.



Policeman:
Isn't this a picture of you?

D-ko:
This picture... it's of my mother, when she was young.
Why did somebody tear it so harshly...?
And then, this apple... who on earth... and why...?
Ah, oh no!

(She drops the apple.)



Policeman:
W, what the...!

D-ko:
Poison...?
Who was it who brought in these items!?

Policeman:
Uh... they were really tall, and at first I thought it was a man...
I think they said they were a student at Ohtori Academy.

D-ko:
It was Chigusa-san! Why did she do this?

Policeman:
Hey. Are you involved in some kind of trouble?

D-ko:
Uh, no, I'm fine. It was probably just some kind of practical joke.

Policeman:
I guess so...

D-ko:
So then, I'll just be...

Policeman:
You look really pale... are you sure you're alright?

D-ko:
Uh, yes. Excuse me.
Chigusa-san, this is so cruel! Not just me, but my mother's picture...



CHOICE:
Cafe
Classical Music Cafe
Game Center (Arcade)
Cake Store
Japanese-style Teahouse

"I don't care if Chigusa tries to poison me... but nobody disses my mom!"

Anyway, that was kind of a weird lead-in. I guess it's time to go drown our sorrows in tea, cake, and/or video games.

Last edited by Dallbun (12-20-2009 01:11:59 AM)

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