Atashi wa Bambi - Part 3Atashi wa Bambi
~Chapter 3~
by Maki Youko
Translation by Sai-chan
Archived at Atashi wa Bambi and ::fizzy pop::
(do not take or use elsewhere without sai-chan's permission!)
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Translation Guide:
"Spoken words"
Narration
Thoughts
Handwritten text
[Actions]
(My notes)
(I didn't translate the sound effects. But I think you know what kind of sound 
is being made by their actions. =))
If you find any errors in my translation, please let me know by e-mailing me at 
saimare@magicgirl.com.
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(PAGE 1)
[Mai glares at Yaezou.]
I will not be defeated.
My rival in love is Azuma Yaezou.
(PAGE 2)
[Mai sighs while holding a sandwich.]
Tomo: "Mai-chan, you're gushing forth your breath and running away from 
happiness!"
[Mai blows out of her nose. Handwritten text I can't translate.]
[Mai puts away her lunch.]
Tomo: "Huh? You're already done eating?"
Mai: "I don't have an enthusiastic appetite."
Tomo: "What? Why, is your health in bad condition?"
Mai: "........."
[Mai looks down.]
Mai: "...It's love..."
(PAGE 3)
[Tomo looks from side to side quickly. Handwritten text next to her says: "looks 
around relentlessly."]
Tomo: "eh? What, all of a sudden!!"
[Mai covers her eyes.]
Mai: "It's love----!!"
Tomo: "Wh... Who is it?"
[Mai moves her fingers so she can see from one eye.]
Mai: ".........."
Tomo: I can't see from the space.
Mai: "Sen..."
Mai: "Ishigaki..."
Tomo: "What? That guy Sen...?"
Mai: "KYAA--! Don't say it in such a loud voice!!!"
Tomo: "No, I wasn't saying..."
[Mai grabs Tomo's hand.]
Tomo: "So really-- Why'd you start to like him before I noticed it?"
Mai: "Is it okay to talk!?"
Tomo: "Hey, hey!"
Mai: "It's Sen!! This is not ordinary!! It's a bad habit, right? Help me in this 
time of a crisis! Are you thinking about it a little already? Is it okay for me 
to not understand?!!"
(PAGE 4)
Mai: "Something... Each and every one of that guy's actions are added to my 
jar-----..."
[Tomo smiles.]
Mai: "oh."
Tomo: "Mai-chan."
Mai: "Yeah?"
[Tomo smiles again.]
Tomo: "I've heard that you're pleasant. I'm glad."
............
Mai: "Tomo..."
[Mai and Tomo get super-deformed and start laughing.]
Mai: "EHEHE"
Tomo: "HAHA"
Mai: "AHAHA"
Tomo: "OHOHO"
Mai: "I think "OHOHO" is wrong. It's an old woman."
That's right...
From now on the sun will not shine upon the place that I've come walking to.
But, I have changed.
And no sad love. And bright love is okay. And I like Sen.
(PAGE 5)
[Picture of Yaezou.]
Therefore, I will not lose to that guy!
[Mai checks her watch.]
Mai: Ah- OH NO. Class is beginning.
[Mai bumps into Sen.]
Mai: "Ah!"
Sen: "Hey, is it bad?"
(PAGE 6)
[Mai blushes.]
Mai: "I'm okay."
[Yaezou walks over.]
Yaezou: "Invulnerable."
[Mai gets mad at Yaezou, then bumps him out of the way and gets close to Sen.]
Mai: "Sen, what's your next class?"
Sen: "I don't know. Look at the time percent of my schedule."
(PAGE 7)
[Yaezou gets angry and hits Mai in the back of the head.]
[Handwritten text pointing to Yaezou: "Not a forgiving man."]
Mai: "!!"
[Mai and Yaezou glare at each other, then start hitting the other on the head 
repeatedly as Sen walks away.]
Voice: "Ishigaki-kun!"
[Mai and Yaezou stop and look towards the voice.]
(PAGE 8)
[A girl is talking to Sen.]
Girl: "Hey- hey- Let's play next time."
Sen: "huh?"
[Mai looks a little surprised.]
Mai: "What's with them?"
Yaezou: "They like Sen."
Mai: "WHAT?"
[Yaezou smiles at Mai.]
Yaezou: "What, you're in a hurry?"
Mai: "N... No."
(PAGE 9)
Yaezou: "Women. Difficult, huh? That's not the reason why I'm with Sen, it's so 
we can stay together."
[Mai looks mad.]
Mai: "~~~~~~~"
DAAMN~~~~ That playful boy!!
[Bathroom door.]
(PAGE 10)
[Mai is sitting on a toilet (lid down) with her legs crossed and her chin in her 
hands, thinking.]
Mai: Somehow or other I've shortened the distance to Sen.
[Box next to Mai: "The plaza of Mai's heart = The private toilet"]
Gal 1: "Hey- hey-!!"
Mai: "hm?"
[Two gals are talking to each other, and Mai is listening in on their 
conversation.]
Gal 1: "Isn't Ishigaki so cool!?"
Gal 2: "Oh no! THAT one?"
[SD Mai peeks over the stall door with a horrified look.]
Gal 1: "Do you think I should be his girlfriend?"
Gal 2: "No! When you get him, SMASH HIM."
Gal 1: "YEAH, AGREED. Kill him, right?"
A ghost? They're Yamanba!! Has she done it yet!?
(A Yamanba is a gal who tans herself until she's black and dies her hair blonde. 
Actually, a Yamanba is also an old woman in the mountain who devours young men, 
but I think Mai's referring to the first example. Though I guess the second one 
could work, too. hehe.)
But I thought I only had one rival (Yaezou). No way, scary!
(Handwritten text I can't translate.)
(PAGE 11)
[Mai is walking around outside holding some papers and a bag.]
Mai: Sen is at recess and he disappeared. I can't talk to him at all. And the 
scary Yamanba...
[There's a sudden gust of wind and all the papers Mai's holding get blown away.]
Mai: "!"
Mai: "Ah----!! The print!"
Mai: "(pochi mark) Geez----!!"
(PAGE 12)
[Mai starts picking up all the papers.]
Mai: Man-- how annoying.
[Mai sees Sen, who is sitting on the ground reading a book.]
Mai: "Huh? What are you doing!"
Mai: Being at such a place.
Sen: "And what exactly are you doing?"
Mai: "The wind blew away the print."
Sen: "Hmph. Stupid."
Mai: "(pochi mark)"
Mai: "........."
Mai: "So you won't say something to a girl..."
(PAGE 13)
Sen: "Yeah- Another unpleasant girl. How depressing."
Mai: "Weren't you just telling me that you were the national high school student 
gentleman who was yearning to rehearse his lines?"
Sen: "Why THAT."
Sen: "I'm tired. It's girls."
[Handwritten text next to Sen: "Wants to be alone."]
[Mai gets mad.]
Mai: "So it's okay if you're a guy!!?"
[Text pointing at Mai: "Looks like the most tired girl."]
Sen: "That's probably what I said. But suddenly you put out a big voice. Why 
you."
(PAGE 14)
[Mai kneels down, too.]
Mai: "Would it be bothersome if I stayed here?"
[Sen looks at Mai for a second, then looks back at his book.]
Sen: "If you shut up, then okay."
(PAGE 15)
[Mai blushes.]
[A basketball rolls away.]
Guy: "Ah, please bring it here, Yaezou-kun!"
Yaezou: "Okay, okay."
[Yaezou picks up the basketball and is wiping his sweat with his shirt when he 
notices something.]
(PAGE 16)
[Yaezou sees Mai and Sen sitting next to each other on the ground.]
[Handwritten text pointing at Mai: "Being quiet."]
[Bells ring.]
(PAGE 17)
Voice: "Yosuimura (star)."
Girls: "bye bye"
[Mai turns around to see the P.E. teacher, who's fingers are in a peace sign.]
P.E. Teacher: "Yo!"
Mai: "eh! What? Did I do something!? He said "Yo!""
P.E. Teacher: "Hey, hey. Sensei was called. But, why are you thinking such a 
thing! Yosuimura is a good kid. Please hold yourself with confidence."
Mai: "WHAT!? eh? Who is he!?"
(PAGE 18)
P.E. Teacher: "How have you been lately? Are you suffering? Well?"
Mai: "(I am, but) I'm not."
Mai: Do you want a discussion!?
P.E. Teacher: "Suffering must be brought to the front before any other action! 
What? You're still young! It's okay! (star)"
Mai: "Um... Is it okay if I go home? Yeah, go home."
P.E. Teacher: "Be careful! Go home! Believe! Right! Left! Right!"
[Mai walks away really fast.]
Mai: What the hell~~? Scary--!
Gal: "Hey- hey- I'm begging you! It's a favor."
[Mai sees the two gals/yamanba from earlier talking to Yaezou.]
Gal: "Give this to Ishigaki Sen!! You guys are friends."
(PAGE 19)
Mai: My, my. They're catching the ghost.
[Yaezou's holding the letter and smiling.]
Yaezou: "It's okay. I'll give it to him later."
Gal: "Seriously!? Thanks for helping!!"
Gal: "It was meant to be Yaezou! Yay, Yaezou!"
Gal (or Yaezou): "Next time- we'll have fun--"
Gal (or Yaezou): "Please let this be our plan!"
Do people usually ask that guy with such difficulty...?
(PAGE 20)
[Yaezou smiles at the gals.]
But you probably like Sen.
Whatever! It's the same person.
That person!
[Mai walks over to them and snatches the letter from Yaezou's hand. She's goes 
over to the gals holding the letter and looks really mad.]
(PAGE 21)
Gal 1: "What? WHO are you--"
Mai: "...No."
Mai: "Yaezou is not your handyman."
[Mai pushes the letter in front of the gals.]
Mai: "Here. This. Return it!!"
Gal: "ugh! what!"
Gal 2: "ah- Something's a bother. We're going. What's with that girl."
[Mai and Yaezou just stand there for a second.]
Mai and Yaezou: "......"
[Mai grabs Yaezou's shirt and points in the direction the gals went.]
Mai: "Just a minute, YOU!!"
Mai: "Don't stand there! Say something!!"
Yaezou: "eh? What, Mai, is it ME you actually like?"
Mai: "IDIOT. I don't!? (arrow) It's the other way."
(PAGE 22)
[Mai stomps her feet.]
Mai: "Geez. I hate those kind of girls!!"
Mai: "Geez~~~~~"
Mai: "And for the most part, why didn't you refuse?"
Mai: "Is it not a disgusting reason!?"
[Yaezou looks confused for a second but then smiles.]
Yaezou: "It's nothing, really."
Yaezou: "Since I know Sen doesn't want a partner like that."
(PAGE 23)
[Mai's eyes widen, but then she looks mad again.]
Mai: "Yeeeeeesss---- Is that so?----"
Mai: "I'm going home."
Yaezou: "Shall we go home together?"
Mai: "HMPH. With who."
[Yaezou smiles.]
Yaezou: "I'm keeping Sen."
[Mai looks back at him, mad.]
(PAGE 24)
[SD Mai looks happy.]
Mai: "Where is Sen-- Mai is such a pleasure--!"
Yaezou (sarcastically): "I'm excited myself."
Yaezou: "It seems sensei was called to come somewhere right away."
Mai: "hm."
[Mai and Yaezou sit in the empty classroom.]
Mai: "...So. Is your family and Sen's family close?
Yaezou: "Yeah. Pretty much. What? Do you feel like coming? Don't come."
Mai: "(pochi mark) Don't go yourself."
(PAGE 25)
Mai: "So you've had a relationship with him since elementary school?"
Yaezou: "Yeah."
Mai: "Being together with Sen for so long, is that okay?"
Yaezou: "It's okay."
[Yaezou looks down in a sad kind of way.]
What...
Yaezou: "They're not good words, but"
(PAGE 26)
Mai: "What is..."
[Yaezou looks sad.]
Yaezou: "I'm truly"
Yaezou: "afraid"
Yaezou: "for our relationship."
Yaezou: "If I take a step, the connection will break."
(PAGE 27)
[Mai looks surprised.]
Yaezou: "So my request:"
Yaezou: "I want nobody..."
Yaezou: "to take Sen away from me....."
[Mai still looks surprised and maybe a little sad or something.]
(PAGE 28)
[Mai looks down, too.]
Mai: "Sorry."
Mai: "Is what you said okay? I don't know........"
(PAGE 29)
Mai: "So don't say that kind of thing. Yaezou doesn't say that kind of thing."
Mai: "I'll do my best."
Mai: "But I think that there will be numerous rivals."
Mai: "Therefore I think Yaezou should also do his best."
Mai: "Together... right?"
(PAGE 30)
Yaezou: "Together...?"
Mai: "...yeah."
Yaezou: "We'll do our best together?"
Mai: "Yeah."
[Yaezou reaches towards Mai.]
Yaezou: "Mai..."
[Yaezou grabs Mai by the back of her head and pulls her face close to his.]
Mai: "!"
Yaezou: "Well then."
Yaezou: "I won't let you escape."
(PAGE 31)
[Mai tries to get away from Yaezou but he's holding on tight.]
Mai: "eh... What!?"
Mai: "Wait...! WHAT!?"
Yaezou: "For example: The backyard. Sen can only be with two people. I 
discovered that one day."
Yaezou: "Just no leaving."
[Mai is still trying to get away from Yaezou.]
Together, he said...
Cooperation...
It seems that's what he said, but it's not the meaning.
Yaezou-kun...
[Picture of super-deformed Sen walking home.]
Text next to Sen: At that time, Sen was already going home.
 
[End of chapter 3.]