Period 350: To The Endless Journey
Also known as Period 350: Red Teared Up On Page 16
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Kaede: Forgive me, Paru-dono, for my betrayal.
Paru: Wha-
Twins: Aah, that’s not fair, Kaede-nee!
We’re defecting too!
Makie: I-if everyone has a chance... then…
Ako: I did get to thinking that making him tell us against his will wasn’t good…
Yuuna: Wha!
Haruna: Aaah?!
Hang on, you lot?!
Splash: Everyone is Negi’s ally after all <3
[strike:Dem Hips]Makie: Sorry, Paru, Yuuna!
Ako: But we’re going to stick with Negi-kun after all!
Girls: And so, counteroffensive!
Haruna: Gyaaaah!
How did this happen?!
Yuuna: The haremettes are pissed off!
Akira: Oh, wow.
Konoka: Mm… but, Negi-kun,
Who really is the girl you’re interested in?
Asuna: Konoka, what the hell! If you start asking him, then what the heck was all that for?!
Konoka, outside bubble: I won’t tell anyone, though…
Ehehehe…
Konoka: I can’t? But I thought as his third older-sister figure, I should check…
Asuna: No!
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Yue: Please accept my apologies.
I allied myself with the others today, and caused you no end of trouble…
Negi: No…
Negi: I’m the one at fault here.
This situation came about because I was treating everyone so coldly… um…
Yue: Negi-sensei.
Will you… without revealing your feelings to anyone…
Not even to the one you’re thinking of…
Can you really devote yourself to your century of work saving the world?
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Splash: Everyone’s beloved Negi will soon face his time of departure…
Yue: Will you…
Be satisfied…
Yue: *swallow*
Yue: …No.
Yue: I’ll… from here on, I’ll study hard… very, very hard…
I intend to help you with your project!
So that someday… I can help support you…!
Someday… for sure!
Yue: So I…!
Negi: Yue-san…
Moment-killer: Yue-saaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
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Ayaka: What do you think you are saying?!
Ayaka: You think you are going to assist with my project?
You are a Baka Ranger! I would never admit someone with your grades!
Yue: This is my end-of-term test from Ariadne Academy!
I’ll have my grades over here improved in no time, and after graduation I’m planning to study abroad on the other side!
Makie: Ehehe, Negi-kun <3
Ayaka: Oho, in that case… this space elevator will be a joint effort by many countries.
The terraforming, too, will be a massive project.
We are collecting the elite of the elite from across the planet, and you think you have what it takes to join them?
Yue: I certainly do!
Ayaka: Don’t you dare depend on your connections with Negi-sensei or myself for this!
Yue: I don’t need them! I’ll earn it for myself!
Negi: You all…
Makie: I… won’t give up, either.
Even if I’m not the one you like.
Ku Fei: Right!
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Ayaka: All of you, leave me alone!
Yue: Ah…
Nodoka: I’m not going to give up.
Yue.
Yue: Nodoka…
Ayaka: I see… in that case,
From now on, we all…
Ayaka: Are what you would call rivals, I suppose.
Yue: Iinchou…
Nodoka: …Right!
Ako: Right!
Ku Fei: You got that right!
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Ayaka: Let us make this a clean and fair contest, ladies.
Ako: R-right.
Ku Fei: And with no hard feelings!
Chachamaru: Yes!
[Brofist!]
Makie: *ahem*
Which is to say…
Makie: Prepare yourself, Negi-kun! <3
Negi: Eeh?!
Makie: I’ve seriously fallen for you, you know!
Ku Fei: This is a contest, Negi-bouzu!
Ayaka: Negi-sensei~ Please accept my love~
Ako: H-hang on, everyone, that was so sudden!
Negi: Uwaaaaah!
[Can’t read that last one.]
Mana: Heh…
Life is hard for a savior, isn’t it? …Still, what’s with this tone?
Mana: Doesn’t this mean he’s going to be pursued by the chaff, as well?
Hakase: Incidentally, this is a fake~
Mana: Given how overbearing that girl was, it seems like his wife would be even worse, really.
Eva: Heh…
Misora: You sure you’re good over here, Chisame-chan?
Chisame: I told you it’s not like that already.
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Asuna: I wonder if this is really okay…
Konoka: Oh, it’s fine, isn’t it?
Setsuna: Wah…
Asuna: …But still…
Asuna: I think he’ll be alright.
Yue: We’re losing to the pushier people…
Asuna: Even if I’m not here…
Things’ll turn out alright.
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Chisame: Eh…
Setsuna: Asuna-san…
Asuna: Hm?
Konoka: Wa?
Konoka: What was that just now? Did you see? Why did Negi-kun smile so happily?
In a situation like that, while looking at Asuna, he smiled!
Maybe it really is you after all, Asuna!
Asuna: Eh?! What?!
Asuna: What are you talking about?! He wasn’t even looking at me!
I-I’ve got good eyes, so yeah, it might have looked like he was looking at me, but he wasn’t! It was someone over there, more to the left!
Someone over there could be it, right?!
Like Eva-chan, or Tatsumiya-san, or Chisame-chan maybe!
Konoka: Oh? I wonder…?
Eva: Huh?
Mana: Uh, no, that’s not happening.
Misora: Which means…
Chisame: A-
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Chisame: A-are you an idiot, Kasuga?! Like hell! I’m the last person that little shrimp would like!
Misora: Hm, I wonder… I wouldn’t have pegged you for it, but you sure seemed to get along with him over there…
Chisame: I friggin’ did not!
Konoka: Hey, Chamo-kun, can you tell who Negi-kun is interested in with your powers?
Chamo: Hey, hey! You think I’d sell out Aniki?
Chamo: If I knew that, it’d just be boring! [aside]Kakizaki-neechan said the same thing.[/aside]
Konoka: Aw…
Ayaka: Very well, then! Right here and now, let us decide the rules!
First of all, confining Negi-sensei or restricting his movements by any means is strictly prohibited!
Yue: We would never do something like that!
Ako: You’re the one most like to do that, Iinchou!
Negi: Um, in my opinion…
Makie: Be quiet, Negi-kun!
Misora: You know, somehow… it seems like that glance Negi-kun gave you was a little different from usual, Chisame-chan…
Chisame: Would you give it a rest already! I’ll obliterate your reputation online!
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Five Months Later
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One Week Remains to the Mahora Girls’ Junior High Third-Years’ Graduation Ceremony.
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Negi: Receiving her diploma,
From third year, class A:
Negi: Kagurazaka Asuna.
Asuna: Yeah!
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Negi: This serves as a testament that you have graduated from this house of education.
Standing as proxy for the Headmaster, Negi Springfield.
Negi: I’m sorry… a graduation ceremony like this…
Asuna: You dummy.
I said I was fine with it!
Asuna: I hate weepy events like this,
So I’m actually glad.
Takamichi: With only one week left until your appointment, Asuna-san…
You couldn’t have graduated with everyone else, anyway…
Takamichi: …Forgive me, Asuna-kun.
Takamichi: To have laid such a heavy duty on your shoulders…
Asuna: Sen…sei...
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Asuna: It’s fine, Takahata-sensei!
I’m sure I’ll be able to have fun and enjoy myself even a hundred years in the future.
Maybe I’ll be able to bag your great-grandson, you know?
Asuna: So make sure you get married, got it?
For the sake of me, a hundred years in the future!
Don’t you dare let Shizuna-sensei get away now.
Takamichi: Wha- Asuna-kun?!
Takamichi: B-but-
Asuna: Nope, don’t even try it! No excuses, sir.
Though I understand if the mop-up with Kosmo Entelekheia is difficult.
Yeah, yeah, I know you think you’re not worthy and all that,
But from Negi and my point of view, that’s just not true!
Takamichi: Hey-
Asuna: If you don’t get properly married and raise a few kids, I won’t forgive you.
Takamichi: …You win.
I can’t argue with that.
Takamichi: Congratulations on your graduation,
Asuna-kun.
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Asuna: Sensei…
Ayaka: Asuna-saaaaan!
Asuna: Ah… Iinchou?
Ayaka: Oh, thank goodness… you have not yet departed…
Ayaka: I could hardly sleep last night…
Asuna: W-wait, why does Iinchou…?
Eh?
[Negi’s face is now my new avatar. All y’all back off.]
Ayaka: Honestly, you of all people…!
You expect me to forgive the matter of you keeping secrets from me?!
Quite on the contrary, I would ask you to come along with me this instant!
Asuna: Inviting me somewhere without Negi? What’s up with that?
Ayaka: I shall forgive your tone. Wait here for a moment, please.
Asuna: What’s this for?
Ayaka: We have come this far, and you cannot recall?
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Asuna: Hey, seriously, what’re we doing?
Ayaka: You truly do not remember?
Asuna: Ah…
Asuna: Our… time capsule…
Ayaka: I am glad to see you remembered eventually.
Asuna: Oh, wow, this brings back memories…
Asuna: Ahahaha… what the heck is this? We’re both naked.
Why did you even put this in here?
Ayaka: I would like you to take these with you.
Asuna: Eh…
Ayaka: Y-you said a hundred years…
After such a span of time, there will be no one left who remembers you as you are now, will there?
I’m telling you to bring this along with you in my stead!
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Asuna: Oh…
Asuna: Aha… ahaha! Come on, Iinchou!
‘In my stead’? That’s a little bit…
Making such a big deal of this… are you feeling alright?
Ayaka: Why wouldn’t this be a big deal?!
This is a hundred years we’re talking about!
I can’t think of anything that could possibly be a bigger deal!
I don’t care how many people you’re saving… no, I mean… why does it have to be you…?
Ayaka: We’ll never see each other again, you know?!
After tomorrow, never again!
So how can you be so calm...?
You’ve always been so… so frivolous… and…
Asuna: Mmph!
Ayaka: You fool…
Oh…
You intolerable fool…
Asuna: B-but Iinchou, there’s no other way…
Ayaka: I know that!
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Ayaka: If… if it has to be this way… you…
We should have had this past half-year to play together with everyone and make so many more memories…
If you… if you’re gone, then I… I…
Asuna: P-please, stop.
Even with you saying things like that…
Ayaka: You stubborn… I suppose there’s nothing I can say to make you change your mind… is there?
Asuna: N…no.
Ayaka: Then, I… I was never, well… never that important to you?
Asuna: No, that’s not it at all…
Asuna: …Right… Negi and Nagi-san, Takahata-sensei… Konoka and Setsuna-san…
I’ve met so many people in my life, but…
Well… meeting you was the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to me.
Asuna: Thank you so much…
Asuna: I love you.
Iinchou.
Splash: Thank you for those days filled with smiles…
Negima will continue next issue.