【星コミ】Ryou：Chapter 1, part 2
Continuing from where Part 1 left off, we’ll be meeting 2 of your other chaseable characters (then all we have left to meet is Kyouichi). For the sake of length, I had to cut this section down again, and it was mostly 1 really long scene anyway. There was no really good, identifiable place to cut it this time, so we’ll be stopping after the really long, 5-way conversation.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a fan translation. Copyright belongs to D3 Publisher, Inc. I do not claim ownership of the Hoshizora no Comic Garden game, its text, cgs, or any of its other related materials. Only the translation itself is mine. PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG, REPOST, COPY, OR OTHERWISE REUSE MY TRANSLATIONS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!
CAUTION: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!
Also, ridiculously huge and relatively image-heavy!
Character Color Guide：
✎ Kurihara Airi（栗原 愛理）
✎ Adachi Ryou（安達 亮） / Miyano Mamoru（宮野 真守）
✎ Hattori Hibiki（服部 響） / Seki Toshihiko（関 俊彦）
✎ Todoroki Keigo（轟木 圭吾） / Midorikawa Hikaru（緑川 光）
✎ Kanzaki Kojirou（神崎 小次郎） / Kamiya Hiroshi（神谷 浩史）
✎ Castis Kyouichi（カスティス 恭一） / Kakihara Tetsuya（柿原 徹也）
✎ Suzuoka Ren（鈴岡 蓮） / Romi Park（朴 璐美）✎ Kiryuu-senpai（桐生先輩） / Hatano Wataru（羽多野 渉）
✎ Dad（父）
✎ Mom（母）
~~~My random side comments~~~Images from My-Neoromance
For more detailed bios, please check angel_dunnant's LJ
Todoroki Keigo：THE FINISHING TOUCH…AND IT’S COMPLETE!!
Kurihara Airi：Se…Sensei!! Todoroki-sensei!
???：It seems like it’s done, yes?
щ(゜ロ゜щ) What, no voice?? This is the first time you get to see this man, and you don’t get to hear what he sounds like? What’s up with that! Oh, btw, I know you can’t really tell from just my translation right there, but Todoroki-sensei just passed out after his last line. Like, actually fell down off screen. Hence why Airi’s freaked out. This is apparently normal, though, so don’t worry too much. Demon mode demands much stamina, apparently…
Also, having second thoughts about this whole big thing being in one post…still gonna get through the character introduction, though…I think…maybe…Kurihara Airi：…Kanzaki-san… But, um! Todoroki-sensei is…
Kanzaki Kojirou：The way he drew, it cut the strings of his mental strain. Please let him sleep.
Kurihara Airi：…Wait, wha…? …He’s sleeping?
Kanzaki Kojirou：Hmph… As always, that tension is hard to understand, huh…
Kurihara Airi：(I’ve heard that Kanzaki-san has been in charge of Sensei for a number of years, but…)
(Even so, he stillcan’t get used to Sensei’s tension)
（＾_＾;） Honestly, honey, I don’t think anyone could get used to that… I’m starting Chapter 3 and it still freaks me out every time he goes Rage Mode on me…
Kanzaki Kojirou：As for me, it’s fine as long as I can get the manuscript.
Kanzaki Kojirou：That said, please give me the manuscript.
I’m returning to the editorial department. Well then, I’ll leave Sensei to you.
Kurihara Airi：Ah, yes! Thank you very much for today!
Kiryuu-senpai：Kanzaki-san’s still so cold, huh? His civility is bad, or rather, how should I put it…?
Since he’s in charge of Sensei… You’d think he’s associate better, huh?
Kurihara Airi：…But, Kanzaki-san has a reputation as a very capable editor, even for Carnaria…
Kiryuu-senpai：Ah, speaking of which, wasn’t Kanzaki-san in charge of you, Kurihara-san?
Kurihara Airi：…That’s right.
Kiryuu-senpai：Hmmm~
Kurihara-san, wasn’t your work published in a bonus issue of Carnaria?
Kurihara Airi：Y-yes…
Kiryuu-senpai：But these two points don’t connect so easily.
Even if you can start out with things like luck and timing, after that you still need the ability.
The world of shoujo manga is severe, huh.
However, before felt like one of those times…when you were waiting a little for a series.
Kurihara-san… Do you still not understand that much?
Kurihara Airi：………
┐（´ー｀）┌ Yeah, that didn’t make much sense to me, either… I went for a more-literal translation here, but I think Kiryuu-senpai was getting at something along the lines of “You can’t just expect everything to just fall in your lap. It’s wishful thinking to expect your first try to become a huge success and kick-start a series / an idea for a new series to just materialize overnight / something like that”… I think. I could just be paraphrasing, following a completely incorrect tangent.
Kiryuu-senpai：Hm? Sorry. If you’re not gonna leave anytime soon, I have some things I need to do…
Kurihara Airi：Okay. Ah, I’ll take care of the tidying up, so go ahead and leave before me.
Kiryuu-senpai：Then, sorry about this. See ya later, Kurihara-san.
Kurihara Airi：Yes, thanks for today
……*sigh*…
(Don’t worry, don’t worry about it…)
Well then…
(First of all, I’ll put away the tools. …Yeah, that’s it)
Sensei? Todoroki-sensei?
(He shows no signs of waking yet… I’d better leave, too, then)
Suzuoka Ren：Airi, good work today!
Kurihara Airi：Ren! You waited for me. Sorry.
But, I’m happy! Thank you!
Suzuoka Ren：Nah, don’t worry about it. I wanted to wait for you, so I waited.
Suzuoka Ren：Besides, today you were pretty early… Did everything go okay?
Kurihara Airi：Yeah!
Suzuoka Ren：That’s great, Airi!
With this, won’t you be one step closer to your debut?
Kurihara Airi：Ahaha…it’d be great if that was true…
Suzuoka Ren：Then, in anticipation of your debut, shall we go eat the cake Ryou baked for you?
Kurihara Airi：Eh?
Suzuoka Ren：Actually, since he baked the cake, I came to invite you for tea. Let’s go!
(/^▽^)/ For who am I to turn down free cake I may or may not deserve~? Woohoo!!
Suzuoka Ren：Pardon the intrusion~
Adachi Ryou：About time.
Hattori Hibiki：Yo! Good work today, Airi-chan.
Kurihara Airi：Hello, Hattori-san.
(≧∇≦)ﾉ Yay! Hello, new friend~ Actually, not gonna lie; I have such a love-hate relationship with Hibiki. Most of the time, I love him to pieces; he makes me lol~ But half the time, I’m about ready to kill him…
Hattori Hibiki：Oh? Airi-chan, aren’t you a little tired?
Hattori Hibiki：Lemme see…
Kurihara Airi：Eek…!
Hattori Hibiki： You…don’t seem to have a fever.
But anyway…
Airi-chan’s cheek is really soft, huh? *squish squish*…
Kurihara Airi：Ha-Hattori-san…!
（−＿−；） ………Someone get this fool offa me…
Adachi Ryou：……Hibiki.
Hattori Hibiki：O-owowowow!!!
Adachi Ryou：Listen up, hurry and and sit down.
Hattori Hibiki：I-I got it! What’s the deal, don’t drag me so hard!!
Jeez… What’s with that? We were just talking…
( ￣д￣;) No… I’m pretty sure there may have been some harassment in there…
Adachi Ryou：…Hmph.
The rest of you, too, go ahead and take a seat. That’s what you’re here for, right?
Kurihara Airi：Wow, it looks so good! Thanks, Ryou!
Suzuoka Ren：Thanks for the food!
Hattori Hibiki：Still, as always, it’s only your skills at making cakes and other confections that’s first-class, huh.
Adachi Ryou：What about “only making confections”?
Suzuoka Ren：But, that’s because he’s the son of the family that owns the major Western confectionery, Sheer Glacé.
Since we were kids, he’s been gifted at making confections, so it’s not really that strange.
Adachi Ryou：It’s not “gifted,” exactly. For my family’s business, I realized I could make them.
That’s it.
Kurihara Airi：But it’s really delicious!
Suzuoka Ren：Well, whether gifted or not, since you turned out this way, I’m sure your parents are delighted, right?
Adachi Ryou：What you’re saying is weighted…
Hattori Hibiki：Well, well, that’s fine, such a thing!
Ryou, get another piece! Airi-chan needs seconds, right?
Kurihara Airi：Hattori-san, do you also like sweets?
Hattori Hibiki：Well, I don’t hate them. Sweets, that is.
Speaking your mind and holding nothing back, Airi-chan’s and Ren-chan’s intentions show on your faces, huh~
Adachi Ryou：…You, go away.
Hattori Hibiki：Gwah! Ryou’s still so cold… Don’t say such things!
Hattori Hibiki：Though we often meet at the university,
I never get the chance to chat with Airi-chan and Ren-chan! This is my only chance to make friends with them! Hehe~
Kurihara Airi：………
Suzuoka Ren：Huh~ You’re even treating me like a girl?
Hattori Hibiki：Of course! Ren-chan, after all, you are a nice girl, right?
Suzuoka Ren：…It sounds worse when you say it.
(´･ω･`) Oh… Did I forget to mention that Ren’s actually a girl? Well, yeah… I probably was only not surprised by this bit of news because I’d found that information somewhere online first. Doesn’t help that Ren refers to herself as “boku,” which is usually a male pronoun. But yeah, lesbian ending option~
Hattori Hibiki：…Hm? Mail…?
Kurihara Airi：One of your friends?
Hattori Hibiki：Yeah… Um, from Yuki, huh?
“My plans for tomorrow…are open!”
………
For me, both guy and girl friends are fine, but…
Girls, I find, expect an immediate email reply.
I wonder why… I’m not so good at this.
Suzuoka Ren：Because they’re human? Personally, getting a reply is always nice.
The girls around you, Hibiki, are that type, I’m sure.
Hattori Hibiki：Wah, that was fast! A reply already?
Hattori Hibiki：Oh? It’s not Yuki. …What, it’s Norika?
My plans for tomorrow? Umm… “Anytime after 9 at night,” how about?
Kurihara Airi：Hattori-san, you’re sure popular, huh?
Hattori Hibiki：I guess so~
Furthermore, I’ve got a whole bunch of superb female friends!
But you know, for a cool guy like me, numerous cute girl friends is something nice, right?
So, Ren-chan and Airi-chan should be my friends, too!
I’ll take you all sorts of places, ‘kay?
(;¬_¬) ……Someone shut him up before he says anything else stupid…
Suzuoka Ren：………
Hey, Hibiki, are you going out with all these girls at the same time?
Hattori Hibiki：Heh…? What are you saying? They’re friends. Friends!
Yuki is an acquaintance of Atsuki, and Norkia is a classmate, ya know?
Anyway… When we hang out, it’s always the best!
Kurihara Airi：…… That…isn’t that…a date?
Hattori Hibiki：Yeah, a date. When I go hand out with girls, I guess you’d call that a date, huh?
Hattori Hibiki：I love dates!
(-.-) ……Too late…
Suzuoka Ren：…Ryou.
Adachi Ryou：Yeah. That’s his nature.
Suzuoka Ren：…… This is bad.
✎ 『女の子達が、かわいそう。』 -- [I feel sorry for those girls.]
Kurihara Airi：…Hattori-san, doesn’t it feel like you’re going out with those girls?
Hattori Hibiki：Nope, not at all. Why?
Kurihara Airi：…That’s… Don’t you feel a little sorry for those girls?
Hattori Hibiki：Eeh?! W-why should I?
Suzuoka Ren：*Sigh*… Doesn’t understand women’s hearts, does he?
What Airi’s trying to say is, those girls probably think those dates with you, Hibiki, mean you’re going out, right?
And yet, Hibiki, you don’t think this way at all, and you go on dates with other girls without caring about it at all!
Suzuoka Ren：At least, shouldn’t you tell them that you don’t see it that way?
Hattori Hibiki：Ya know, you’re over-thinking this.
At most, it’s just a date, okay? We just go and hang out!
Those guys don’t think about it any further.
（＞д＜） ……I give up…
Kurihara Airi：I-Is that so…?
Suzuoka Ren：…Idiot…
Suzuoka Ren：Ah yes, that reminds me, what about Todoroki-sensei?
Kurihara Airi：He burnt himself out and then fell fast asleep.
Adachi Ryou：Seems like it.
Suzuoka Ren：Even so, it’s just Hibiki and Todoroki-sensei in this same boarding house, huh.
If you can recruit more people, it’ll fill up soon, even despite it being such a big, beautiful house!
Adachi Ryou：…It’s a problem. I shouldn’t have to take in impossible people.
Suzuoka Ren：Ryou, even as a college kid, you really have no motivation, huh?
Adachi Ryou：It’s not like I have no motivation.
Adachi Ryou：I only have to make effective use of the vacant house.
I just don’t have a reason to go all-out.
Hattori Hibiki：As expected, a distinguished family’s honored son has an attachment to money, huh.
Adachi Ryou：…I didn’t mean it like that.
Hattori Hibiki：The treasure-trove of income your family rakes in isn’t enough. So, you still charge for the boarding house~
Adachi Ryou：No way. This is a different matter.
Kurihara Airi：Ryou is really precise about these things, you know?
After all, he was raised very strictly, right?
Hattori Hibiki：Right, he’s a hardcore little rich boy~
（；¬＿¬) Open mouth, insert foot…
Adachi Ryou：Hibiki. Starting next month, your rent had gone up.
Hattori Hibiki：Th-that was a joke! Can’t take a joke, can he?
Suzuoka Ren：So your parents forced their control on you in the end?
Seems like the boarding house wouldn’t be that big a deal, then?
Adachi Ryou：It’s not that it’s not important. My grandfather had the house built for my late grandmother.
Kurihara Airi：It’s because his grandma, as a young girl, had a preference for cute buildings like this.
Adachi Ryou：Right. And because of that, long ago, Airi called it a strange name, “The House of Sweets”…
Hattori Hibiki：H-House of Sweets?! What’s with that!
✎ 『思い出の家だから』 -- [It’s a house of memories]
Kurihara Airi：Yeah, I did call it that because the building was cute, but also…
Back then, when I came to this house, Ryou’s grandma would always bake sweets for me!
Every time, I’d open the door and a sweet aroma would waft out.
That’s why, as a child I called it the House of Sweets…
Adachi Ryou：………
Now that you mention it, it was like that, huh?
Suzuoka Ren：Huh, then that means that it’s not just Ryou that made this house smell so sweet.
Kurihara Airi：Hehehe… That’s right!
Hattori Hibiki：Huh… Then, I should also call it “The House of Sweets” now~
Suzuoka Ren：Hehe, me too!
Adachi Ryou：You guys…
Kurihara Airi：But in the end, Ryou really does love this house!
Adachi Ryou：It doesn’t matter to me, but this house is the house of my old man’s and everyone’s memories.
Suzuoka Ren：So, even if you have no business enthusiasm, you still can’t ease up on the building maintenance and boarding…right?
Adachi Ryou：I can’t help that. It’s because Hibiki and Keigo-san have incompetent livelihoods.
Hattori Hibiki：Oy! Don’t group me with Todoroki-sensei! That’s hurts!
Adachi Ryou：I know that I was far better off in high school than you two are now.
Since you first started living here, have you ever once been in the kitchen?
Hattori Hibiki：…… Can’t argue with you there…
Hattori Hibiki：…Ah!!
AAAH!! Damn! That reminds me, tomorrow is the deadline to send my cover in to be bound!
Hattori Hibiki：This is bad… What should I do…?
…Well, the lineart’s finished, so if I can get it painted before the day’s over, somehow I’ll meet up with them.
Hattori Hibiki：Anyhow, I’ll get the data sent in.
Kurihara Airi：That reminds me, Hattori-san, you also draw a lot of manga, right?
Hattori Hibiki：It’s different from a professional like you, Airi-chan, since it’s more what you’d call the extent of an amateur’s hobby.
Suzuoka Ren：Extent of a hobby? No way! I heard a rumor you make a killing off those pictures!
Hattori Hibiki：Well…I’m not that well known, so I wouldn’t say that.
I do fairly well, or so.
Adachi Ryou：Why would anything that this guy draws be popular in the amateur world?
It’s incomprehensible.
Kurihara Airi：But Hattori-san is really good!
Even in the professional world, he’s pretty popular…
Hattori Hibiki：Haha, thank you~
Airi-chan, you should try coming to one of my events.
Even amateurs are the real things, right?
I think it’ll be really enlightening.
✎ 『私はプロだから。』 -- [But I’m a pro.]
Kurihara Airi：The amateur world, huh? It seems interesting, but…
Still, I think I’ll fight for a spot in the professional world.
Adachi Ryou：You’d better.
Airi is watching Keigo-san’s work every day, so she’s studying at the forefront.
You’d better not be influenced by something strange and just see things through halfway.
Hattori Hibiki：Your thinking is so rigid. It’s not like I said we’d be working on it together.
Hattori Hibiki：We were gonna hang out. Hang out! Right, Airi-chan?
Suzuoka Ren：No way!
You’re still trying to go on a date with Airi, and I won’t allow it!
Hattori Hibiki：Eeeh? It’s okay, isn’t it? This is different!
Crap, you don’t trust me…
(;¬‿¬) With your track record? Not really, no…Kurihara Airi：(Ryou and Hattori-san are completely different types…)
(I wonder why Hattori-san chose to live here at the boarding house…)
(Next time I’ll try asking about his reasons)
Kurihara Airi：Ah, Sensei.
Todoroki Keigo：I had a dream.
(¬‿¬) *Insert MLK reference and move on* This should be interesting~ My body was as heavy as lead, and I noticed I was melting into a gooey mess.
Helplessly, I dissolved as I stood there for many years.
No matter how long I waited and waited, no one would pass by to save me… That’s what I thought at the time.
Todoroki Keigo：Then somehow, a blue-haired prince from the Country of Sweets appeared!
( ≧ω≦) Now, who could THAT be~?Kurihara Airi：……… …O-okay…
Todoroki Keigo：Then, the prince faced me and said this:
“What’s this, the world’s finest butter was in a place like this?”
That’s when I realized: that’s right! I had become butter!
Suzuoka Ren：………………
(´･ω･`) lolwut?
Todoroki Keigo：Then, the prince continued:
“No, forget the world’s finest! If I used this, I could make the most delicious sweets in the universe!”
“But, something is missing!”
“In order to make the world’s best sweets, there is something I absolutely must do.”
“And that is…”
Kurihara Airi：…That is?
Todoroki Keigo：”Starting next month, the rent has gone up.”
d(≧∇≦)b Nice!
Hattori Hibiki：……wait. Oy!! You heard that!!?
Todoroki Keigo：There was a delicious aroma, so…
I woke up.
…Don’t tell me, I’ve become the odd man out!? That’s it, isn’t it?
✎ 『起こしたくなかった。』 -- [I didn’t want to wake you.]
Kurihara Airi：U-um…Sensei, you were sleeping so soundly…
I thought it would be bad to wake you…
Todoroki Keigo：N-no way…
I’m…really not needed, am I…?
Kurihara Airi：E-eeeeh?!
Todoroki Keigo：Uuh… My cake…
(^_^;) Psh! All that for some cake?
Adachi Ryou：…You just got hungry?
Kurihara Airi：L-let’s see, the cake is…Ah!
Sensei’s piece is right here!
CRISIS AVERTED!!!
Todoroki Keigo：Is that so…? Great. That’s a relief.
Kurihara Airi：At any rate, Todoroki-sensei, your work face and your usual face are completely different, huh.
Todoroki Keigo：…Is that so?
Kurihara Airi：That’s right! It’s like your speech, facial expressions, and even your hair style completely change!
Todoroki Keigo：Haha, it’s not like this is a manga, you know…
Of course not, Sensei; it’s an otome game!
But seriously, I really don’t think he knows about the whole rage mode thing. By chapter 3, I think I’ve asked him about it at least 3 times now…
Also, it’s really difficult to hold a conversation with more than 2 other people with faces in this game… they have to keep shuffling screens.Kurihara Airi：It’s true! …What--, Eeeh!
Suzuoka Ren：Just a sec, Todoroki-sensei! How much sugar are you putting in your coffee…??
Hattori Hibiki：…20 spoonfuls, huh.
Todoroki Keigo：…That is the will of my manga artist brain. My mind requires this much sugar for nourishment…
Kurihara Airi：…………
Suzuoka Ren：……I also have a sweet tooth, but…
I still have to be careful. I’m a little jealous.
Kurihara Airi：…Why?
Suzuoka Ren：Because…if I eat too much, I’ll get fat.
Kurihara Airi：…Ah.
Suzuoka Ren：Well, I am an actress. My body is my capital. Too much is bad for my figure.
Hattori Hibiki：It’s fine, it’s fine! Someone with a healthy, active body like yours shouldn’t be concerned no matter how much you eat.
It’s people like us who sit around all day and don’t move that have to watch out.
Right, Todoroki-sensei?
Todoroki Keigo：That’s true. As is, at the end of every day and night,
over time, our lives’ rhythms truly become irregular.
For professionals, health management is one thing that can work well.
Even though I’m not strong, I always support a strong body on a mental level.
Suzuoka Ren：Wow, I’m surprised to hear such physical speech coming from Sensei.
Hattori Hibiki：Oh really? But I thought before, Sensei’s opinion was that jogging and such was the way to build your body?
Todoroki Keigo：Yes, but not anymore.
Kurihara Airi：(I see…)
Todoroki Keigo：My ideals have changed… That’s life.
Adachi Ryou：…… (Isn’t it ridiculous to say something like that?)
Kurihara Airi：(H-he’s always saying things like that…)
(≧∇≦)b～☆ Telepathy, I has acquired it!
Todoroki Keigo：………
Hattori Hibiki：…Todoroki-sensei?
Todoroki Keigo：That reminds me, Airi-san.
It’s been almost a year since you’ve been under my supervision, huh.
Kurihara Airi：Ah…That’s right.
Todoroki Keigo：How did the original work you submitted turn out?
Kurihara Airi：That is…I mean, it’s rather…
(That’s right…)
Adachi Ryou：………
TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 3…
PLEASE NOTE: This is a fan translation. Copyright belongs to D3 Publisher, Inc. I do not claim ownership of the Hoshizora no Comic Garden game, its text, cgs, or any of its other related materials. Only the translation itself is mine. PLEASE DO NOT REBLOG, REPOST, COPY, OR OTHERWISE REUSE MY TRANSLATIONS WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!
CAUTION: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!
Also, ridiculously huge and relatively image-heavy!
Character Color Guide：
✎ Kurihara Airi（栗原 愛理）
✎ Adachi Ryou（安達 亮） / Miyano Mamoru（宮野 真守）
✎ Hattori Hibiki（服部 響） / Seki Toshihiko（関 俊彦）
✎ Todoroki Keigo（轟木 圭吾） / Midorikawa Hikaru（緑川 光）
✎ Kanzaki Kojirou（神崎 小次郎） / Kamiya Hiroshi（神谷 浩史）
✎ Castis Kyouichi（カスティス 恭一） / Kakihara Tetsuya（柿原 徹也）
✎ Suzuoka Ren（鈴岡 蓮） / Romi Park（朴 璐美）✎ Kiryuu-senpai（桐生先輩） / Hatano Wataru（羽多野 渉）
✎ Dad（父）
✎ Mom（母）
~~~My random side comments~~~Images from My-Neoromance
For more detailed bios, please check angel_dunnant's LJ
Todoroki Keigo：THE FINISHING TOUCH…AND IT’S COMPLETE!!
Kurihara Airi：Se…Sensei!! Todoroki-sensei!
???：It seems like it’s done, yes?
щ(゜ロ゜щ) What, no voice?? This is the first time you get to see this man, and you don’t get to hear what he sounds like? What’s up with that! Oh, btw, I know you can’t really tell from just my translation right there, but Todoroki-sensei just passed out after his last line. Like, actually fell down off screen. Hence why Airi’s freaked out. This is apparently normal, though, so don’t worry too much. Demon mode demands much stamina, apparently…
Also, having second thoughts about this whole big thing being in one post…still gonna get through the character introduction, though…I think…maybe…Kurihara Airi：…Kanzaki-san… But, um! Todoroki-sensei is…
Kanzaki Kojirou：The way he drew, it cut the strings of his mental strain. Please let him sleep.
Kurihara Airi：…Wait, wha…? …He’s sleeping?
Kanzaki Kojirou：Hmph… As always, that tension is hard to understand, huh…
Kurihara Airi：(I’ve heard that Kanzaki-san has been in charge of Sensei for a number of years, but…)
(Even so, he stillcan’t get used to Sensei’s tension)
（＾_＾;） Honestly, honey, I don’t think anyone could get used to that… I’m starting Chapter 3 and it still freaks me out every time he goes Rage Mode on me…
Kanzaki Kojirou：As for me, it’s fine as long as I can get the manuscript.
Kanzaki Kojirou：That said, please give me the manuscript.
I’m returning to the editorial department. Well then, I’ll leave Sensei to you.
Kurihara Airi：Ah, yes! Thank you very much for today!
Kiryuu-senpai：Kanzaki-san’s still so cold, huh? His civility is bad, or rather, how should I put it…?
Since he’s in charge of Sensei… You’d think he’s associate better, huh?
Kurihara Airi：…But, Kanzaki-san has a reputation as a very capable editor, even for Carnaria…
Kiryuu-senpai：Ah, speaking of which, wasn’t Kanzaki-san in charge of you, Kurihara-san?
Kurihara Airi：…That’s right.
Kiryuu-senpai：Hmmm~
Kurihara-san, wasn’t your work published in a bonus issue of Carnaria?
Kurihara Airi：Y-yes…
Kiryuu-senpai：But these two points don’t connect so easily.
Even if you can start out with things like luck and timing, after that you still need the ability.
The world of shoujo manga is severe, huh.
However, before felt like one of those times…when you were waiting a little for a series.
Kurihara-san… Do you still not understand that much?
Kurihara Airi：………
┐（´ー｀）┌ Yeah, that didn’t make much sense to me, either… I went for a more-literal translation here, but I think Kiryuu-senpai was getting at something along the lines of “You can’t just expect everything to just fall in your lap. It’s wishful thinking to expect your first try to become a huge success and kick-start a series / an idea for a new series to just materialize overnight / something like that”… I think. I could just be paraphrasing, following a completely incorrect tangent.
Kiryuu-senpai：Hm? Sorry. If you’re not gonna leave anytime soon, I have some things I need to do…
Kurihara Airi：Okay. Ah, I’ll take care of the tidying up, so go ahead and leave before me.
Kiryuu-senpai：Then, sorry about this. See ya later, Kurihara-san.
Kurihara Airi：Yes, thanks for today
……*sigh*…
(Don’t worry, don’t worry about it…)
Well then…
(First of all, I’ll put away the tools. …Yeah, that’s it)
Sensei? Todoroki-sensei?
(He shows no signs of waking yet… I’d better leave, too, then)
Suzuoka Ren：Airi, good work today!
Kurihara Airi：Ren! You waited for me. Sorry.
But, I’m happy! Thank you!
Suzuoka Ren：Nah, don’t worry about it. I wanted to wait for you, so I waited.
Suzuoka Ren：Besides, today you were pretty early… Did everything go okay?
Kurihara Airi：Yeah!
Suzuoka Ren：That’s great, Airi!
With this, won’t you be one step closer to your debut?
Kurihara Airi：Ahaha…it’d be great if that was true…
Suzuoka Ren：Then, in anticipation of your debut, shall we go eat the cake Ryou baked for you?
Kurihara Airi：Eh?
Suzuoka Ren：Actually, since he baked the cake, I came to invite you for tea. Let’s go!
(/^▽^)/ For who am I to turn down free cake I may or may not deserve~? Woohoo!!
Suzuoka Ren：Pardon the intrusion~
Adachi Ryou：About time.
Hattori Hibiki：Yo! Good work today, Airi-chan.
Kurihara Airi：Hello, Hattori-san.
(≧∇≦)ﾉ Yay! Hello, new friend~ Actually, not gonna lie; I have such a love-hate relationship with Hibiki. Most of the time, I love him to pieces; he makes me lol~ But half the time, I’m about ready to kill him…
Hattori Hibiki：Oh? Airi-chan, aren’t you a little tired?
Hattori Hibiki：Lemme see…
Kurihara Airi：Eek…!
Hattori Hibiki： You…don’t seem to have a fever.
But anyway…
Airi-chan’s cheek is really soft, huh? *squish squish*…
Kurihara Airi：Ha-Hattori-san…!
（−＿−；） ………Someone get this fool offa me…
Adachi Ryou：……Hibiki.
Hattori Hibiki：O-owowowow!!!
Adachi Ryou：Listen up, hurry and and sit down.
Hattori Hibiki：I-I got it! What’s the deal, don’t drag me so hard!!
Jeez… What’s with that? We were just talking…
( ￣д￣;) No… I’m pretty sure there may have been some harassment in there…
Adachi Ryou：…Hmph.
The rest of you, too, go ahead and take a seat. That’s what you’re here for, right?
Kurihara Airi：Wow, it looks so good! Thanks, Ryou!
Suzuoka Ren：Thanks for the food!
Hattori Hibiki：Still, as always, it’s only your skills at making cakes and other confections that’s first-class, huh.
Adachi Ryou：What about “only making confections”?
Suzuoka Ren：But, that’s because he’s the son of the family that owns the major Western confectionery, Sheer Glacé.
Since we were kids, he’s been gifted at making confections, so it’s not really that strange.
Adachi Ryou：It’s not “gifted,” exactly. For my family’s business, I realized I could make them.
That’s it.
Kurihara Airi：But it’s really delicious!
Suzuoka Ren：Well, whether gifted or not, since you turned out this way, I’m sure your parents are delighted, right?
Adachi Ryou：What you’re saying is weighted…
Hattori Hibiki：Well, well, that’s fine, such a thing!
Ryou, get another piece! Airi-chan needs seconds, right?
Kurihara Airi：Hattori-san, do you also like sweets?
Hattori Hibiki：Well, I don’t hate them. Sweets, that is.
Speaking your mind and holding nothing back, Airi-chan’s and Ren-chan’s intentions show on your faces, huh~
Adachi Ryou：…You, go away.
Hattori Hibiki：Gwah! Ryou’s still so cold… Don’t say such things!
Hattori Hibiki：Though we often meet at the university,
I never get the chance to chat with Airi-chan and Ren-chan! This is my only chance to make friends with them! Hehe~
Kurihara Airi：………
Suzuoka Ren：Huh~ You’re even treating me like a girl?
Hattori Hibiki：Of course! Ren-chan, after all, you are a nice girl, right?
Suzuoka Ren：…It sounds worse when you say it.
(´･ω･`) Oh… Did I forget to mention that Ren’s actually a girl? Well, yeah… I probably was only not surprised by this bit of news because I’d found that information somewhere online first. Doesn’t help that Ren refers to herself as “boku,” which is usually a male pronoun. But yeah, lesbian ending option~
Hattori Hibiki：…Hm? Mail…?
Kurihara Airi：One of your friends?
Hattori Hibiki：Yeah… Um, from Yuki, huh?
“My plans for tomorrow…are open!”
………
For me, both guy and girl friends are fine, but…
Girls, I find, expect an immediate email reply.
I wonder why… I’m not so good at this.
Suzuoka Ren：Because they’re human? Personally, getting a reply is always nice.
The girls around you, Hibiki, are that type, I’m sure.
Hattori Hibiki：Wah, that was fast! A reply already?
Hattori Hibiki：Oh? It’s not Yuki. …What, it’s Norika?
My plans for tomorrow? Umm… “Anytime after 9 at night,” how about?
Kurihara Airi：Hattori-san, you’re sure popular, huh?
Hattori Hibiki：I guess so~
Furthermore, I’ve got a whole bunch of superb female friends!
But you know, for a cool guy like me, numerous cute girl friends is something nice, right?
So, Ren-chan and Airi-chan should be my friends, too!
I’ll take you all sorts of places, ‘kay?
(;¬_¬) ……Someone shut him up before he says anything else stupid…
Suzuoka Ren：………
Hey, Hibiki, are you going out with all these girls at the same time?
Hattori Hibiki：Heh…? What are you saying? They’re friends. Friends!
Yuki is an acquaintance of Atsuki, and Norkia is a classmate, ya know?
Anyway… When we hang out, it’s always the best!
Kurihara Airi：…… That…isn’t that…a date?
Hattori Hibiki：Yeah, a date. When I go hand out with girls, I guess you’d call that a date, huh?
Hattori Hibiki：I love dates!
(-.-) ……Too late…
Suzuoka Ren：…Ryou.
Adachi Ryou：Yeah. That’s his nature.
Suzuoka Ren：…… This is bad.
✎ 『女の子達が、かわいそう。』 -- [I feel sorry for those girls.]
Kurihara Airi：…Hattori-san, doesn’t it feel like you’re going out with those girls?
Hattori Hibiki：Nope, not at all. Why?
Kurihara Airi：…That’s… Don’t you feel a little sorry for those girls?
Hattori Hibiki：Eeh?! W-why should I?
Suzuoka Ren：*Sigh*… Doesn’t understand women’s hearts, does he?
What Airi’s trying to say is, those girls probably think those dates with you, Hibiki, mean you’re going out, right?
And yet, Hibiki, you don’t think this way at all, and you go on dates with other girls without caring about it at all!
Suzuoka Ren：At least, shouldn’t you tell them that you don’t see it that way?
Hattori Hibiki：Ya know, you’re over-thinking this.
At most, it’s just a date, okay? We just go and hang out!
Those guys don’t think about it any further.
（＞д＜） ……I give up…
Kurihara Airi：I-Is that so…?
Suzuoka Ren：…Idiot…
Suzuoka Ren：Ah yes, that reminds me, what about Todoroki-sensei?
Kurihara Airi：He burnt himself out and then fell fast asleep.
Adachi Ryou：Seems like it.
Suzuoka Ren：Even so, it’s just Hibiki and Todoroki-sensei in this same boarding house, huh.
If you can recruit more people, it’ll fill up soon, even despite it being such a big, beautiful house!
Adachi Ryou：…It’s a problem. I shouldn’t have to take in impossible people.
Suzuoka Ren：Ryou, even as a college kid, you really have no motivation, huh?
Adachi Ryou：It’s not like I have no motivation.
Adachi Ryou：I only have to make effective use of the vacant house.
I just don’t have a reason to go all-out.
Hattori Hibiki：As expected, a distinguished family’s honored son has an attachment to money, huh.
Adachi Ryou：…I didn’t mean it like that.
Hattori Hibiki：The treasure-trove of income your family rakes in isn’t enough. So, you still charge for the boarding house~
Adachi Ryou：No way. This is a different matter.
Kurihara Airi：Ryou is really precise about these things, you know?
After all, he was raised very strictly, right?
Hattori Hibiki：Right, he’s a hardcore little rich boy~
（；¬＿¬) Open mouth, insert foot…
Adachi Ryou：Hibiki. Starting next month, your rent had gone up.
Hattori Hibiki：Th-that was a joke! Can’t take a joke, can he?
Suzuoka Ren：So your parents forced their control on you in the end?
Seems like the boarding house wouldn’t be that big a deal, then?
Adachi Ryou：It’s not that it’s not important. My grandfather had the house built for my late grandmother.
Kurihara Airi：It’s because his grandma, as a young girl, had a preference for cute buildings like this.
Adachi Ryou：Right. And because of that, long ago, Airi called it a strange name, “The House of Sweets”…
Hattori Hibiki：H-House of Sweets?! What’s with that!
✎ 『思い出の家だから』 -- [It’s a house of memories]
Kurihara Airi：Yeah, I did call it that because the building was cute, but also…
Back then, when I came to this house, Ryou’s grandma would always bake sweets for me!
Every time, I’d open the door and a sweet aroma would waft out.
That’s why, as a child I called it the House of Sweets…
Adachi Ryou：………
Now that you mention it, it was like that, huh?
Suzuoka Ren：Huh, then that means that it’s not just Ryou that made this house smell so sweet.
Kurihara Airi：Hehehe… That’s right!
Hattori Hibiki：Huh… Then, I should also call it “The House of Sweets” now~
Suzuoka Ren：Hehe, me too!
Adachi Ryou：You guys…
Kurihara Airi：But in the end, Ryou really does love this house!
Adachi Ryou：It doesn’t matter to me, but this house is the house of my old man’s and everyone’s memories.
Suzuoka Ren：So, even if you have no business enthusiasm, you still can’t ease up on the building maintenance and boarding…right?
Adachi Ryou：I can’t help that. It’s because Hibiki and Keigo-san have incompetent livelihoods.
Hattori Hibiki：Oy! Don’t group me with Todoroki-sensei! That’s hurts!
Adachi Ryou：I know that I was far better off in high school than you two are now.
Since you first started living here, have you ever once been in the kitchen?
Hattori Hibiki：…… Can’t argue with you there…
Hattori Hibiki：…Ah!!
AAAH!! Damn! That reminds me, tomorrow is the deadline to send my cover in to be bound!
Hattori Hibiki：This is bad… What should I do…?
…Well, the lineart’s finished, so if I can get it painted before the day’s over, somehow I’ll meet up with them.
Hattori Hibiki：Anyhow, I’ll get the data sent in.
Kurihara Airi：That reminds me, Hattori-san, you also draw a lot of manga, right?
Hattori Hibiki：It’s different from a professional like you, Airi-chan, since it’s more what you’d call the extent of an amateur’s hobby.
Suzuoka Ren：Extent of a hobby? No way! I heard a rumor you make a killing off those pictures!
Hattori Hibiki：Well…I’m not that well known, so I wouldn’t say that.
I do fairly well, or so.
Adachi Ryou：Why would anything that this guy draws be popular in the amateur world?
It’s incomprehensible.
Kurihara Airi：But Hattori-san is really good!
Even in the professional world, he’s pretty popular…
Hattori Hibiki：Haha, thank you~
Airi-chan, you should try coming to one of my events.
Even amateurs are the real things, right?
I think it’ll be really enlightening.
✎ 『私はプロだから。』 -- [But I’m a pro.]
Kurihara Airi：The amateur world, huh? It seems interesting, but…
Still, I think I’ll fight for a spot in the professional world.
Adachi Ryou：You’d better.
Airi is watching Keigo-san’s work every day, so she’s studying at the forefront.
You’d better not be influenced by something strange and just see things through halfway.
Hattori Hibiki：Your thinking is so rigid. It’s not like I said we’d be working on it together.
Hattori Hibiki：We were gonna hang out. Hang out! Right, Airi-chan?
Suzuoka Ren：No way!
You’re still trying to go on a date with Airi, and I won’t allow it!
Hattori Hibiki：Eeeh? It’s okay, isn’t it? This is different!
Crap, you don’t trust me…
(;¬‿¬) With your track record? Not really, no…Kurihara Airi：(Ryou and Hattori-san are completely different types…)
(I wonder why Hattori-san chose to live here at the boarding house…)
(Next time I’ll try asking about his reasons)
Kurihara Airi：Ah, Sensei.
Todoroki Keigo：I had a dream.
(¬‿¬) *Insert MLK reference and move on* This should be interesting~ My body was as heavy as lead, and I noticed I was melting into a gooey mess.
Helplessly, I dissolved as I stood there for many years.
No matter how long I waited and waited, no one would pass by to save me… That’s what I thought at the time.
Todoroki Keigo：Then somehow, a blue-haired prince from the Country of Sweets appeared!
( ≧ω≦) Now, who could THAT be~?Kurihara Airi：……… …O-okay…
Todoroki Keigo：Then, the prince faced me and said this:
“What’s this, the world’s finest butter was in a place like this?”
That’s when I realized: that’s right! I had become butter!
Suzuoka Ren：………………
(´･ω･`) lolwut?
Todoroki Keigo：Then, the prince continued:
“No, forget the world’s finest! If I used this, I could make the most delicious sweets in the universe!”
“But, something is missing!”
“In order to make the world’s best sweets, there is something I absolutely must do.”
“And that is…”
Kurihara Airi：…That is?
Todoroki Keigo：”Starting next month, the rent has gone up.”
d(≧∇≦)b Nice!
Hattori Hibiki：……wait. Oy!! You heard that!!?
Todoroki Keigo：There was a delicious aroma, so…
I woke up.
…Don’t tell me, I’ve become the odd man out!? That’s it, isn’t it?
✎ 『起こしたくなかった。』 -- [I didn’t want to wake you.]
Kurihara Airi：U-um…Sensei, you were sleeping so soundly…
I thought it would be bad to wake you…
Todoroki Keigo：N-no way…
I’m…really not needed, am I…?
Kurihara Airi：E-eeeeh?!
Todoroki Keigo：Uuh… My cake…
(^_^;) Psh! All that for some cake?
Adachi Ryou：…You just got hungry?
Kurihara Airi：L-let’s see, the cake is…Ah!
Sensei’s piece is right here!
CRISIS AVERTED!!!
Todoroki Keigo：Is that so…? Great. That’s a relief.
Kurihara Airi：At any rate, Todoroki-sensei, your work face and your usual face are completely different, huh.
Todoroki Keigo：…Is that so?
Kurihara Airi：That’s right! It’s like your speech, facial expressions, and even your hair style completely change!
Todoroki Keigo：Haha, it’s not like this is a manga, you know…
Of course not, Sensei; it’s an otome game!
But seriously, I really don’t think he knows about the whole rage mode thing. By chapter 3, I think I’ve asked him about it at least 3 times now…
Also, it’s really difficult to hold a conversation with more than 2 other people with faces in this game… they have to keep shuffling screens.Kurihara Airi：It’s true! …What--, Eeeh!
Suzuoka Ren：Just a sec, Todoroki-sensei! How much sugar are you putting in your coffee…??
Hattori Hibiki：…20 spoonfuls, huh.
Todoroki Keigo：…That is the will of my manga artist brain. My mind requires this much sugar for nourishment…
Kurihara Airi：…………
Suzuoka Ren：……I also have a sweet tooth, but…
I still have to be careful. I’m a little jealous.
Kurihara Airi：…Why?
Suzuoka Ren：Because…if I eat too much, I’ll get fat.
Kurihara Airi：…Ah.
Suzuoka Ren：Well, I am an actress. My body is my capital. Too much is bad for my figure.
Hattori Hibiki：It’s fine, it’s fine! Someone with a healthy, active body like yours shouldn’t be concerned no matter how much you eat.
It’s people like us who sit around all day and don’t move that have to watch out.
Right, Todoroki-sensei?
Todoroki Keigo：That’s true. As is, at the end of every day and night,
over time, our lives’ rhythms truly become irregular.
For professionals, health management is one thing that can work well.
Even though I’m not strong, I always support a strong body on a mental level.
Suzuoka Ren：Wow, I’m surprised to hear such physical speech coming from Sensei.
Hattori Hibiki：Oh really? But I thought before, Sensei’s opinion was that jogging and such was the way to build your body?
Todoroki Keigo：Yes, but not anymore.
Kurihara Airi：(I see…)
Todoroki Keigo：My ideals have changed… That’s life.
Adachi Ryou：…… (Isn’t it ridiculous to say something like that?)
Kurihara Airi：(H-he’s always saying things like that…)
(≧∇≦)b～☆ Telepathy, I has acquired it!
Todoroki Keigo：………
Hattori Hibiki：…Todoroki-sensei?
Todoroki Keigo：That reminds me, Airi-san.
It’s been almost a year since you’ve been under my supervision, huh.
Kurihara Airi：Ah…That’s right.
Todoroki Keigo：How did the original work you submitted turn out?
Kurihara Airi：That is…I mean, it’s rather…
(That’s right…)
Adachi Ryou：………
TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 3…