Under the Dapple Shade Manga Translations Volume One Chapter 7: My Dad's Girlfriend Translated by Francois Vezina Brought to you by Jim Zubkavich and the Under The Dapple Shade webpage Page 167 -------------------- sign: flower garden dapple shade open Sara: In two months and an half, people from the neighbourhood had time to get used to dad's shape. We even have some regular clients like miss Mizuki Kawashima. Mizuki: Mr. Nishikujo, can I buy those five flowers today? Dad: well... Dad: but... Dad: err... err... YES... Sara: But dad, he'll never manage to be at ease around women. Oh well! P.168 -------------------- Mizuki: See you soon Sara: That woman seems to like flowers. In fact, since she started coming to our shop, I feel like our flowers are getting more dazzling. It seems like they are happy to see her.. don't you think dad? Sara: Dad? Dad: ... sound: Blam! sound: pschhhh!! Sara: ... Sara: It's then that I understood what my daddy was feeling for her... Dad: Today again, I sawthe sweet visage of miss Mizuki... Dad: what happiness... sound: Shhhh! shhhh! P.169-------------------- Tatsuya: Mizuki Kawashima!? Tatsuya: Yes, I know her. She's the cute waitress of the 'flower's language' bar! Tatsuya: All single men of the apartment block have their eyes on her! Tatsuya: that goes too for that obssessed Ooki, which she make go nuts... OOki: Hey you! Tatsuya: I would never have tought that your father would also fall under the charm of miss Mizuki! Sara: And why not, he is as good as anyone else! Tatsuya: Yes but with his look and shape, even I took a long time to get used to him... Tatsuya: And I'm not sure if I succeeded. Are you sure he is human? Sara: Miss Mizuki is a regular client, she knows dad very well ! Sara: Still, the first time she saw him, she too was very scared! Sara: I wasn't there but dad told me! Mizuki: err... P.170-------------------- Mizuki: Excuse me, you work here? Dad: Yes... Dad: WELCOME! sound: Sbommm Mizuki: !! Dad: Oh no... a custommer... Dad: And Sara that isn't here... Mizuki: Ah.. Ah Ah Dad: What... what... do you.... want? Mizuki: Err Mizuki: err.. do you... have... cutted flowers? Dad: Cut...F...Flowers... sound: grrr Dad: Cut... CUT!? Mizuki: AAAHH P.171-------------------- Dad: Ah... Mizuki: I'm sorry! Mizuki: Aah... Dad: WATCH OUT! sound: Paf! Dad: Ah...so... sorry... sorry... Hojo: What liberties and what strange manners!? sound: beuh... Mizuki: ... Mizuki: I'm sorry... Dad: It's...nothing Mizuki: Are the flowers intact? Dad: Ah... Dad: I... err... Dad: I don't sell... cut flowers... P.172-------------------- Dad: The flowers are... living beings like us... Dad: I don't want to cut them... Dad: I would like to please you but I would have the feeling that I'm comitting murder... Dad: I am... sorry... Mizuki: ... Mizuki: You are very... sweet... Dad: Huh? P.173-------------------- Dad: I understand why your flowers are so beautifull, they shine of your love for them... sound: geuh... Sara: You don't need more to make dad fall in love, a word, a smile... Tatsuya: Humm... Tatsuya: But it's not because she come a lot of time per weeks that she have the same feelings for your dad... Tatsuya: But then again, she regulary spend a small fortune at your shop so now her room should be full of flowers... Sara: That's exactly what I am thinking! Tatsuya: Humm...Humm Sara: It's possible that miss Mizuki is buying those flowers just to see dad, maybe she love him! Tatsuya: You don't say! Sara: Look! Sara: There she is, she is surely going to our shop! P.174-------------------- Dad: Thank you... say, how are you going? Sara: Hey look, they like each other more than what we were thinking! Tatsuya: So, then it's true? Tatsuya: Beauty and the beast reunited! Tatsuya: The miracle of the century! Sara: Shut up.. Tatsuya: But, Sara, doesn't that bother you that your dad look at another woman than your mother? Sara: What? Sara: Anyone has the right to fall in love... Sara: Including my dad! Tatsuya: err... Tatsuya: What a sentimental girl... Sara: I'm wondering if there is really something between those two... P.175-------------------- Sara: What!? Tatsuya: gulps Sara: She invited you to her house!? Dad: err, well no... in truth it's not like that.. err.. Dad: She said that the flowers she bought are feeling a little sick lately. She asked me to come to her house to help her find out what's going on... Dad: To..Tomorrow, I'm going to the bar where she work... I promised her.. yes, yes.. ah! ah! ah! Sara: It's not a bad start at all... sound: Niiah~ Tatsuya: ... Sara: So, you will make yourself beautiful for that date? Dad: Why? I'm not good the way I look? Sara: Are you joking? Dad: Ah... Tatsuya: It's true, you can't go see that woman dressed like that! P.176-------------------- Sara: And there is more than the way you dress, we must give attention to his face! Tatsuya: Yes, you are right... Sara: Let's begin by cutting that awful beard! Dad: No.. wait, you will get to nothing with that knife.. Sara: Don't move! I don't want to cut you! Sara: I wonder if it was a good idea? Tatsuya: He is even more scary than before. Brrr... Tatsuya: We should do something for his head!? Sara: Stupid, think of what the young woman will say if she see him with a wig!? Dad: Say you two, are you making a fool of me? Tatsuya: I know! the glasses! It's what makes him so scary! Dad: What!? Dad: No, stop.. leave them... Tatsuya: Here,... let's remove them... hop! P.177-------------------- sound: CH~BEU Dad: Without them it's worse! Tatsuya: A monster... Dad: Why do you think I wear them? Sara: ok, now let's try the clothing. What would you say about wearing a smoking jacket? Dad: Enough! Stop!! Dad: I will go to the meeting in my usual clothing! And I don't want you to spy on me! P.178 Hojo: His beard came back in one night Sign: Cafe / Cafe The flower's language sound: Ding Cling Mizuki: Ah... welcome to the cafe mr Nishikujo!! Dad: H..H... Hi... Sara: He! He! He! He just arrived Tatsuya: We are here because he told us not to come. He! He! Dad: You have a very impressive number of flowers!! Mizuki: Yes, and they all come from your shop, mr Nishikujo. P.179 Dad: Err! Err... Mizuki: Yes!? Dad: Err...Err... Dad: Gi.. Gi.. Gift.. sound: Ding Cling Mizuki: Oh, welcome to the Cafe!! Dad: Gift for... Man: One coffee please! Dad: ... Mizuki: o.. Ok.. P.180-------------------- Dad: ... Sara: Huh? Sara: Oh no.. Tatsuya: Oh... Dad: Sniff Dad: ... P.181-------------------- Mizuki: He is a client that come here often... Dad: ... Mizuki: I don't know his name and we never talked, but... Mizuki: Since the time I heard him talk with his friends, I'm feeling attracted to him... Dad: ... Mizuki: He was saying that the flowers inside the cafe were beautiful and that he liked to come here to drink coffee just for that... Mizuki: That was why I filled up this room with the wonderful flowers that you sold me mr Nishikujo... I told myself that because of them, he would come here all the time... Mizuki: But for some time now, the flowers seem to lose their beautifull aura.. Mizuki: And I'm worried that he finds out and no longer comes here... Mizuki: But I'm annoying you with my stories... Dad: Of course not... Mizuki: Since you are so nice, I let myself confide in you... Dad: ... P.182-------------------- Dad: Don't worry, your flowers are not sick... Dad: It's because you are forgetting to talk to them lately... Dad: Before, you were taking care of them, you talked to them, you passed time with them... And since your heart was taken, don't you think you have been neglecting them? Mizuki: Oh! Dad: They feel a little forgotten... they are depressed... Dad: If you start anew to talk and pass time with them, I can promise you that they will shine as much as before... Dad: Most of all, never forget to talk to them, to confide to them... Dad: Talk to them about your love... for that man... Dad: And they will be even more dazzling... to please him... P.183-------------------- Dad: Give them more attention and you will be able to count on them to get you two closer together... Dad: If that man sincerely like flowers... he will see that something changed... Mizuki: Thank you very much... Mizuki: Mr Nishikujo... Dad: ... Dad: Humm...You are the only one to know the truth... I count on you to not tell anyone... little flower. Sara: ... Sara: My dad... Sara: Is really wonderful. P.184 Mizuki: Hi, welcome to the cafe... Man: !! Man: The flowers are beautiful... it's wonderful!! Mizuki: Good day mister, you want to order? P.185-------------------- Man: But how... yes, how? Man: For weeks now, never have I noticed that this place was inhabited by the most wonderful of the flowers !? Dad: ... Sara: Well done dad... Dad: Ouin! ouin! Dad: Hurray! Hurray! Sara: And so ends all love stories of my dad!! Sara: Excuse me but anyone have a hankerchief for my little lovely dad?? *End of Chapter 7* *End of Under The Dapple Shade Volume 1*