Saturday, September 22, 2007

Gakuen Alice 86

MIKAN: [Persona.........?!]

PERSONA: As the person in charge of the dangerous abilities class...
...I was commanded to come here to investigate this incident and give punishment to the student who caused it.

MIKAN: [Wha...!]

PERSONA: This girl is the student in question............?

NARUMI: *step*
She did cause the accident, but.........

MIKAN: [Why...?!]
Please hold on a minute!

CROWD: *zawa zawa*

NATSUME: Hey.

WIND: *ZA...*

NATSUME: You...

LUNA: Oh no, what is it Natsume-kun?
What a frightening face.

LUNA: Did I do something?
*heh heh*

NATSUME: Don't give me that feigned innocence...!

WIND: *ZA...*

LUNA: It couldn't be helped.
*heh heh heh*
I gave that girl advice.
"Don't meddle in things".
But she was sticking out like a nail.
That girl didn't obey and...
...that was the result of thta girl meddling. It's not your or any of the other's fault.

NATSUME: What're you...

LUNA: Don't say you forgot that person's intentions.

ELEMENTARY SP FLASHBACK: "Natsume, if you say so right here and now...
...then the time for Sakura Mikan's punishment will be postponed."
"We'll continue to "watch her behavior"."

LUNA: What it means to "watch her behavior"...
...is that the academy will put surveillance on that girl.
That person has been disappointed twice and wasn't going to wait any longer.
I am that surveillance.
With that incident... (*Note:the Hana-hime thing)
...is she's a dangerous student to begin with, the I have every authorization...
...to hand her over to Persona.

WIND: *ZA...*

LUNA: Because I have gone to all the trouble to be kind, that girl is living here. I continue to give that instruction even now!

NATSUME: Wha...

LUNA: In addition to being the daughter of parents like those...
...in order for her to have a harmless appeal...
...she would have to keep quiet about my treatment...
...and look to nobody. If she's a hated person, then she's not safe.
Even in this incident...
. ..I'm going to give my kindness throughout too.
Little by little I'll give her a lesson.
*heh heh*
*heh*
You and the others are standing on thin ice now.

WIND: *ZA...*

LUNA: From where I stand, you still don't understand. You're stupid.
This will being a chance when the ice under your feet will break.

LUNA: It'll surely be as cold and dark as the bottom of the sea.
You were a bit slow being troubled by me being here, but you've noticed the ultimate meaning, right?
Then at best, the ice at your feet won't break...
...if the ting you can do for that girl...
...is turn people away from her once more, don't you think?
*Heh...*
*heh...*

NATSUME: [Mikan...]

NATSUME: [Mikan.]

NARUMI: That's too forceful.]
She may have caused it, but she's not the perpetrator.
What authority do you have to...

MIKAN: [Why......?
...am I mistrusted......?!]

TSUBASA: *step*

HOTARU: Mikan!

PERSONA: *grab!*

PERSONA: This 3 count sticker...
...shows that you didn't use it even once in the Sports Day event, but...
...why did one turn on in this cheering competition?
Especially since I found no situation where you needed to use your alice.
If that's the only thing...
...then the time of that incident...

MIKAN: [Wha...]

MIKAN: [What is he saying......?!]
*PUSH!*
It's not me...!
Why would I do that.........?!
That's just being selfish.
[Could it be that...]
The time I used my alice was when...

Yuu: *step*

TSUBASA: Mikan.

MIKAN: ...was when I was falling...
I didn't know what had happened and panicked.
[...that this man holds a grudge from the Hana-hime mansion......?]
I would never will my alice to be...
...a burden to this competition!

TEAM RED STUDENTS: *step*
-What's that..?
-Hey, that's loud...

PERSONA: ...Bear in mind that continuing to oppose it...
...isn't a good thing...
...where you stand.

MIKAN: [I forgot...! I'm getting worked up...!]

NARUMI: *step*
Serio-sensei......

PERSONA: ......It's okay.
You'll wait for the investigation results for any punishment.
However, as a person needing medical care...
...Sakura Mikan will continue to be under surveillance.
If she conforms to her problamatic behavior, then we demand that you hand her over to us.

MIKAN: [Wha...!]

TSUBASA: That's obsurd!
Mikan is more the victim here...You're pretending the criminal from before isn't involved...!

TONO: Tsubasa!

TSUBASA: This is just crazy in the head!

PERSONA: Crazy? How can you decide to abandon what's around you...
...and still believe what she says...?

MIKAN: [What is this...?
Why is this kind of thing happening...?!]

TEAM RED STUDENTS: -Say, I've become suspicious of something...
-That injured kid...that kid caused the accident.
-Eh----

PERSONA: Well then, I'll see you later.

TEAM RED STUDENT: That child, without a doubt...

MIKAN THOUGHTS: {-----Hotaru...
...in the dreams I have of Persona...
...he glares at me with that expression from that time, with a terrible look."}

MIKAN THOUGHTS: {Behind him the eerie voice of the (elementary) principal always rings out.
What's not real has become reality."}

HOTARU: *tug*

MIKAN THOUGHTS: {I'm...
...anxiously scared......"}

CROWD: *zawa*

KOKOROYOMI: That's bad---
We have to spread "Mikan-chan's self-speech" of the accidnet with tremendous spirit to the students--!

WORDS IN BACKGROUND: Mind reader.

TONO: Is that so...

HOTARU: ......
Isn't he making a mistake doing a news report,,,,,,? At a serious time like this...?

TONO: Ye----ah. That's why they should've investigated the mind reading antannae...

SUBARU: They couldn't allow the consequences to come loose...

TONO: Even so...

MIKAN: [Why...]

MIKAN: [Why is this kind of thing...]

TONO: Now that the rumor is believed...
Well...This time everyone in the cheering competition was going to win, but because of the reason of the accident, we were disqualified from the event.
And also they're disappointed because all the Sports Day rehersals the did went bad because of her.

RED TEAM STUDENTS: -Persona came to see that kid a while ago.
-Oh---then some of the rumors are true...

TONO: The people who believe those rumors probably don't even know Mikan, but...
...you may want to stand back of the main Sports event (the Kibasen) because to be frank, the
competative spirit is going to be intense.
*hah...*

YOU-CHAN: Be---! Be---!

MIKAN: Everyone...
I'm sorry.

MIKAN: It's my fault that this happened...

TSUBASA: Mikan.
Stupid, nothing is your fault.

TONO: (aside) Sorr...

HOTARU: With that then Senpai.

TONO: Hotaru-chan.

HOTARU: What do you plan for Mikan to do in this Kibasen?

TONO: Oh that...
Mikan's alice will be used as a trump card in the Kibasen...

HOTARU: Can you not let her do it?

TONO: Eh...?

MIKAN: Hotaru...

HOTARU: I have a bad feeling.
Something like this will probably happen again to Mikan.

SUBARU: What are you saying...?

HOTARU: Mikan.
During all the commotion of the Sports Day rehersal...
...did anything really happen with Koizumi-san in the warehouse?

MIKAN: Hotaru...

HOTARU: I'm certain...that that girl has something to do with this incident.
I've noticed since the time of the commotion during practice...
...that you have always kept quiet about what happened with her.
Tell me already...
Mikan.

HOTARU: It's like this time...
...your slow to do something again.

MIKAN: [Hotaru...
Hotaru can clearly see...
...the matter with Koizumi-san...
...and I...]
Thank you Hotaru.
You worrying about me makes me very happy...

LUNA FLASHBACK: "----If you want...
...to have little casulties caused to you and your surroundings, then..."

MIKAN: But...
Sorry......
I really don't know anything.

HOTARU: Mikan.

MIKAN: I...

LUNA FLASHBACK: "..."be quiet"...
...and "don't meddle in things"."
MIKAN: ...I'll do my best in the Kibasen.
Running away from what happens after this would trouble everyone.

HOTARU: Mikan.

MIKAN: Thank you Hotaru.
[---I won't make everyone worry...
,,,after this.]
Thanks to you Hotaru, I'm feeling...
...completely fine.

HOTARU: Mikan.

MIKAN: I was worried.
I'm going to explain clearly to everyone.
[All I can do here is look down and worry.]

MIKAN: [Everyone is getting depressed about the incident.
Every bit of strength that remained of the Sports Day...
...is piling up as regret from somebody------!!]

SUMIRE: You guys...
...can't be serious!

MIKAN: Oh!
*Urch*

SUMIRE: That girl is definitely an idiot, but...
...she's not so big an idiot that she would mess with a life and death matter just to stand out and be a bother to people!

BACKGROUND STUDENT: Yeah----

MIKAN: [Pe...Perm...?]

WORD ON MIKAN'S FACE: Idiot?

SUMIRE: But------
But that's not it! You guys, where did that poisonous Koizumi fungus go to?!
Say something Natsume-kun!! Give those guys in the Koizumi clique a piece of your mind!
*Step*

MIKAN: [Natsume...Ruka-pyon.]

NATSUME: .........

SUMIRE: Look! Doing 'em in should work!

NATSUME: I won't concern myself...
...with Sakura Mikan.
Neither will I with her story.
...If there are any of you...
...who value to protect her...
...then disappear from before me.

WIND: *ZA...*

LUNA FLASHBACK: "----At best, the ice at your feet won't break if...
...the thing you can do for that girl is..."

RUKA: ...Natsume?
What're you saying...?

NATSUME: You heard me.
Get out of here.

NATSUME: You're an eyesore.

MIKAN: [Eh...?]

STUDENTS: -It can't be...
-Yeah...

MIKAN: [What...
...just...]

RUKA: Sakura!

MIKAN: *DASH!*

ANNA: Mikan-chan!

SUMIRE: Natsume-kun?!

RUKA: [Natsume------...?!]

NATSUME: *rustle*

KUSAMI: H...
uh?

KUSAMI: Oh, Hyuga-kun!
Ah, I was...
...supposed to be in the borrowing race before.........

NATSUME: You remember, Kusami? My face...
Well...we were in the elementary department together until last year...

KUSAMI: Oh...about the borrowing race a while ago?
It's alright. Because I won't tell anyone.
I've...always admired you, Hyuga-kun...
I overheard that everyone was looking for the criminal's face, but...
...I'll never let them bother you, Hyuga-kun!
Th...This hair style mimics your's too...
AH----!

NATSUME: *ba!*

MIKAN: [...I'm gonna cry.
This kind of thing is the worse.
I don't understand why......
DAMMIT NATSUME--------!!
Why, why, why him---------?!!]

MIKAN: [Eh......?]
...Na-
[Natsume...?!]

KUSAMI: I...I...
...will never...
...say anything about this!