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pg 1
Cover

pg 2
Girl: I like you.
Sakurako: It hasn’t even been a month since junior high started,
Sakurako: and this is the third person so far...

Sakurako: ...Sorry

[step step]

[pop]
Touya: Sorry, I overheard
Sakurako: [jump]

pg 3
Touya: You’re a first-year like me, right?
Touya: Lucky...you’re popular...
Sakurako: [grab]

Sakurako: [lift]
Touya: (whine whine)
Sakurako: I don’t enjoy being popular

Sakurako: [brush brush]
Touya: It’s better than being a shrimp like me right?
Touya: (Greedy guy)
Touya: I’m jealous of a tall, cool guy like you

Sakurako: You’re that jealous?

Touya: Yeah
[fssssh]

pg 4
Sakurako: Even if I’m a girl?
[Splash!]

Touya: G-
Sakurako: (used to this)

Touya: GI...
[drip drip]

Touya: (Achoo!)

Sakurako: I’m Hirose Sakurako, on the girls’ basketball team

Touya: I-I’m Kawaguchi Touya...

Sakurako: You know, it sucks, the uniform doesn’t suit me
Touya: I’m sorry I said I was jealous...

pg 5
Touya: I see...that’s why
Touya: You said "I don’t enjoy being popular"...

Sakurako: If I was a boy maybe I could honestly appreciate it

Touya: OK, Hirose Sakurako, a makeover project!
Sakurako: Huh?!

Touya: From this day forth you will become womanly!
Touya: First, let’s grow your hair!
Sakurako: Could he be
Sakurako: trying to cheer me up?

Sakurako: (Impossible, impossible)
Sakurako: Long hair doesn’t suit me

pg 6
Touya: Don’t worry!
Touya: You’re sure to become beautiful!
Sakurako: [Thump]

Sakurako: ...ok
Sakurako: Even if it was just a lie to make me feel better
Sakurako: those words made me very happy...

Sakurako: From that day I’ve been growing my hair

pg 7
Sakurako: It’s been almost 2 years since that day
Sakurako: Soon we’ll become third-years
[dam dam]

[dan]

[swish]

Girls: (Kyaaa! Sakurako-sama!!)
Sakurako: I have a feeling the gallery’s gotten bigger...

pg 8
Coach: (5 minute break!)

Kouhai: Sakurako-sempai, your hair is coming undone
Sakurako: Should I retie it?

[fuwa]

Kouhais: (Wowwww)(beautiful)

[bump]

Girls: (Sakurako-sama!)
Touya: Nice heading!

pg 9
Sakurako: Touyaa!!
Touya: Kidding, kidding. Sorry

Sakurako: Be careful, geez
Sakurako: --Hm?
Sakurako: Have you gotten taller than me!?
Touya: You’re right! When did that happen

Touya: (Yeeess!)
Touya: I finally surpassed Sakurako!
Sakurako: [thump]

Sakurako: The past two years have seen my hair grow long,
Sakurako: Shrimpy Touya grow tall,
Sakurako: And

pg 10
Sakurako: Increased my heart-thumpings

Guy: Touya!
Sakurako: (ha)

Guy: Are you okay?
Touya: I’m fine, fine
Touya: (Ouch ouch)
Sakurako: Move it

pg 11
Sakurako: [Hyoi]
[ki]
[What girls long for, the Princess Hold]

Girls: (Kyaaa!)

Touya: (Let me dowwn!)
Sakurako: [dash]

[Nurse’s room]

Nurse: You’ve only lightly twisted it
Nurse: Soon the pain will recede as well
Nurse: But I was really surprised
Nurse: That a girl came in carrying a boy

Sakurako and Touya: .....

pg 12
Touya: Thanks to you, I’ve been humiliated
Sakurako: (A-ow ow ow)
Sakurako: But I was startled

Sakurako: You had fallen down so I...
Sakurako: So to pick him up and carry him here,

Sakurako: That’s not what a girl would normally do, is it...
Sakurako: (reflection)

[pen]

[mess mess]
Touya: I’m sorry I made you worry

[pa]

pg 13
Touya: I’m okay now

Sakurako: I’ll also become
Sakurako: The type of girl that will make Touya’s heart thump!

Sakurako: And when he tells me ‘You’ve become beautiful’
Sakurako: I’ve decided that I’ll confess me feelings to him

pg 14
Touya: Sakurakoo!
Touya: I might be called on in Math, please teach me?
Sakurako: I’m busy totalling up the surveys...
Sakurako: (ah)
[ban]
Touya: Just one problem, ok?

Sakurako: (You’re hopeless)
Sakurako: This goes like...
[sara]

pg 15
Sakurako: ----And so x=2!
[pa]
[gata]

Sakurako: ?

Touya: Th...Thanks
Touya: It’s great to have a smart friend
[gata gata]

Sakurako: A friend...huh...
Classmates: Sakurako

Classmates: There’s also something we’d like you to help us with
Classmates: Are you busy?

Sakurako: Ah...no, I have time What is it? English?
Touya: (What a softy)

pg 16
[Dosu]
[gue]
Student: Touya, you’re so lucky, being friends with Hirose-san

Student: She’s smart, good at sports,
Student: And she’s beuatiful!
Student: She’s pretty much my type

Touya: But she’s really amazingly strong
Touya: She can pick me up just like that, and
Touya: That kind of power is like a gorilla’s
[Ban]

Sakurako: I can hear you
Touya: And she’s scary if you get her mad

pg 17
Sakurako: Aah, he doesn’t think of me as a woman at all

Sakurako: And I shouldn’t have hit him either...
Sakurako: (Yeah, but being told something like that...)
Classmate: Sakurako

Classmate: Someone’s calling you

[bow]

pg 18
Boy: I like you
Sakurako: HA!?
Boy: Please go out with me!

Sakurako: Ju-ju-just a second! But I’m taller than you are!?
Boy: I’ll wait for an answer
Boy: Please think about it

[bow]

Sakurako: Wa
[spin]
Sakurako: Wa
Sakurako: Wa------!
Sakurako: [blush]

[Gasa]
Sakurako & Touya: !

pg 19
Sakurako: Touya!?
Sakurako: Did he worry about me and come? No way
Touya: (How uncool)

Touya: Well, don’t you look happy
Sakurako: Eh? Be-because, that’s the first time I’ve ever been confessed to by a boy

Sakurako: I wonder if this means I’ve become pretty womanly?
Sakurako: Maybe he’ll say, ‘You’ve become beautiful’

Touya: (Hooo)
Touya: A girl that lifts guys up like they’re feathers, womanly?
Sakurako: (Uu!)

pg 20
Sakurako: Am I still that masculine, even now?

[gare gare]
Touya: ------

Touya: O-OK!
Touya: Hirose Sakurako, makeover project!
Sakurako: Ha?
Sakurako: (what nostalgic words, and the angle is even the same)

Touya: You will fall in love

pg 21
Touya: You know they say that falling in love makes a girl beautiful

Sakurako: But I’m already in love?
Touya: And, your partner...well,
Touya: M...me...

{She doesn’t hear him}

Sakurako: But I’m in love with
Sakurako: Touya

pg 22
Touya: Sakurako?
[su]

Touya: Wait!
Sakurako: You might be surprised, but I already love someone

Sakurako: Why?

pg 23
Sakurako: I’m already in love
Sakurako: So why is it that I can’t become womanly?

[ton]

Sakurako: Maybe I’m not a real girl...

pg 24
Girl: No way! Sakurako-sama!?

Girl: Coooolll!!

Boy: Se....Sempai?

Boy: It couldn’t be...

pg 25
Boy: Were you a guy?

Sakurako: And if I say ‘That’s right’?

Boy: Please forget about yesterday!
[bow bow]

Sakurako: To be so easily believed
Sakurako: Sigh

Sakurako: I look so much like a boy there’s no room for any suspicion

Touya: .....Sa
[zuri]

pg 26
Touya: Sakurako.....
Girls: (Kyai kyai)

[grab]
Sakurako: What is it?
Touya: Just come with me
Girls: (Sakurako-sama!)

Touya: What are you trying to do?
Touya: Why are you dressed like that?

Sakurako: My older brother graduated from here,
Sakurako: And when I tried it on, it fit perfectly,

Touya: Cut it out!

pg 27
Touya: What’s the use of being even more popular with girls?
Touya: Why did you bother growing your hair!

Sakurako: Because you told me to grow it!!

Touya: .....he?

Sakurako: Because you said
Sakurako: I would become beautiful.....

pg 28
Sakurako: Because I wanted you to see me as a woman!

pg 29
Sakurako: The me reflected in the mirror was
Sakurako: A boy in every way

[Sakurako’s brother]
Brother: (Just as I thought, it fits perfectly)
Brother: It suits you better than the girl’s uniform, doesn’t it?

Sakurako: Maybe I’ll go to school tomorrow wearing this.....

Brother: Do-Don’t take it seriously, you’re being weird?
Sakurako: It made me remember when I first entered junior high, and I didn’t like it because my uniform didn’t suit me

pg 30
Sakurako: The time before I met Touya, when I wished that I had been born a boy

Sakurako: But cutting my hair
Sakurako: Won’t make my feelings change back to the way they were
Sakurako: Because I so much want to be a girl

pg 31
Girls: Sakurako-sama

[zuraa]
Sakurako: (I have a bad feeling about this)

Girls: You will let us investigate to find out whether you’re really a boy or a girl
[sa]

Sakurako: I’m a girl, I’m a girl!!

[gara]
Touya: Just wait one second!!
[Dan]

pg 32
[ba]

[sutan]

[Za]
[blush]
Touya: Sakurako-sama is mine! Gyaa, how embarrassing

pg 33
Girls: A boy is wearing a girl’s uniform!!
[Zusa]

Sakurako: Touya!? Why are you wearing-?
Touya: Let’s escape while we have time!

Teacher: (Hey you! Get back in the classroom!)
Sakurako: But class is...
Touya: Escape!

Sakurako: How selfish!
Sakurako: How conceited!

pg 34
Sakurako: There’s only one guy like him

pg 35
Sakurako: Touya, could that uniform be...
Touya: You got it! It’s yours.  I borrowed the one in your schoolbag

Touya: It was really embarrassing walking around in this you know
[hiran]
Sakurako: Why did you do it?

Touya: This is
Touya: A punishment to myself

[twirl]

Sakurako: Touya?
[gaba]
Touya: I’m sorry!

pg 36
Touya: I really did notice that you’ve become womanly!
Touya: I was beside you as you grew more beautiful,
Touya: So I understand it the best!

Touya: But it seemed like you were the only one growing up
Touya: And I was frustrated
Touya: So I couldn’t say it honestly

Touya: I’m sorry

pg 37
[boka]

Touya: Ouch!
Sakurako: Don’t say that now!

[suton]
Sakurako: Not now that I’ve cut my hair!

Sakurako: Now I look like a boy again!
[boro boro boro]

Touya: Don’t worry!
[posu]

pg 38
Touya: No matter how boyish the clothes you wear are
Touya: To me, you will always be

Touya: A girl more beautiful than any other

Sakurako: I decided

pg 39
Sakurako: When he tells me I’ve become beautiful, I would...
Sakurako: I...

[bon]
Sakurako: I...

Sakurako: I can see into your skirt!!
Sakurako: Don’t sit with your legs open!
Sakurako: (I saw them! Un-under-un- kyaa)
[bafu]

Touya: Pervert

Sakurako & Touya: Bwaa-hahahahaha
Sakurako: We’re this uncool, so

pg 40
Sakurako: With simple words
Sakurako and Touya: I love you
Sakurako: Being simply ourselves

Sakurako: We'll have a simple love

THE END