This expression and "自業自得” were the highlight of the chapter to me.
Thank you for all the help as usual!
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Time for the final week!
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Yay, I’m late again! (I can blame Xenoblade Chronicles for that one.) I’m just getting back into the swing of studying Wanikani and Bunpro again as well, so this has been a lot. I liked seeing Ruri and her Mum playing video games, though. That was fun.
Chapter 5: Brought Down At Last
Pages 132-135
ルリ：つかれた。
Ruri: I’m exhausted.
神代：今日はこの辺にしとこか。
Kashiro: Shall we wrap things up for today?
宮下：一日で全教科は無理だったね。
Miyashita: It was impossible to study the whole curriculum in one day.
ルリ：でもありがとう。…すごい助かったし。
Ruri: But, thank you. …You really helped me.
ルリ：勉強楽しいなんてはじめてかも。
Ruri: I think I had fun studying for the first time.
三倉：あたし何もしてないけどね。
Mikura: I didn’t do anything at all.
宮下：ミクち数学馬鹿だしね。
Miyashita: Miku, you’re terrible at maths.
神代：またやろ！勉強会。
Kashiro: Let’s do it again! The study meeting.
ルリ：みんなわたしのこと怖くないの？
Ruri: Girls, aren’t I scary?
ルリ：こうして一緒に勉強とかしてるけどわたし火吐くドラゴンじゃん？
Ruri: We’re studying together like this, but I’m a fire-breathing dragon, right?
ルリ：一緒にいて怖くないのかなって…またいつあーなるとも知れないし。
Ruri: I wonder if it’s not scary to be with me…I don’t know when it will happen again.
ルリ：でも学校でもみんないつも通りだからみんなどう思ってるのか気になって…
Ruri: But, everyone 's the same as usual at school, so it worries me what everone’s thinking…
神代：どっちかっちゅーと面白い。
Kashiro: If you ask me, it’s interesting.
宮下：実はあたしちょっと怖いけどね。
Miyashita: The truth is, I think it’s a little scary, but…
三倉：ん－…あたしはわからん。
Mikura: Umm…I don’t know.
神代：あたしも怖いのはあるな。
Kashiro: I’m scared as well.
神代：でもルリママの話聞いたら色々考えてさ。
Kashiro: But, when I heard about you, I thought a lot about it.
神代：先週ルリちゃん火吐いたあと。
Kashiro: After you breathed fire last week…
神代：ルリちゃんのお母さん教室に来たんだけど。
Kashiro: …your mum came to class.
神代：なんだかいっぱい頭下げられて。
Kashiro: She bowed her head as far as she could.
お母さん：えっと…ルリはお察しの通り普通の人間ではないです。隠していてごめんなさい。
Mum: Um…Ruri is not a normal human, as you may have guessed. I hid that fact and I’m sorry.
神代：火は必ず何とかするって…
Kashiro: She said she’ll certainly do something about the fire…
神代：吉岡とも色々なこと話しててさ。
Kashiro: I’ve even spoke with Yoshioka about various things.
神代：きっとこのことは。
Kashiro: Surely this is…
神代：見えない所でルリちゃん達が頑張ってることだからあたし達が怖がることじゃないかなって。
Kashiro: You’re doing your best somewhere we can’t see, so I hope that we don’t seem scared.
Pages 136-139
神代：それに怖いのはルリちゃんも一緒でしょ。
Kashiro: Besides, you’re also scared of being together, right?
神代：今でも知らなかったんでしょ？ドラゴンとか。
Kashiro: You still didn’t know? Dragons or something.
神代：：怖いからって避けないよ。
Kashiro: I won’t avoid you even though you’re scary!
神代：：火も何とかなったから学校来たんしょ？
Kashiro: You were also able to manage the fire somehow, so you came to school, hm?
神代：ルリちゃんそういうこと気にしなくていいのー
Kashiro: Ruri, it’s alright to not worry about that sort of thing…
ルリ：あ゙っきもいやめろひっつくな。
Ruri: Ack, don’t cling to me, I dont like it.
ルリ：「みんないい人だな。」
Ruri: [Everyone here is a good person.]
ルリ：「仲良くしてみなきゃ気づけないな。」
Ruri: [If we don’t try to get along, we won’t realize that.]
ルリ：「お母さん。わたしの知らないところでいっつも…」
Ruri: [Mum. I don’t always know these things…]
ルリ：「みんながスッと受け入れてくれたのもそれでかな。」
Ruri: [I wonder if I accepted everyone so quickly because of that.]
ルリ：隠すなって言ってんのに。
Ruri: Even though I said not to hide anything.
お母さん：おかえりだいぶ遅かったね。
Mum: Welcome back. You were quite late.
お母さん：いいよ勉強会楽しかった？
Mum: It’s okay. Was your study meeting fun?
ルリ：あ！そういえば。先生わたしがドラゴンってこと知ってたっぽいんだけど。
Ruri: Ah! Come to think of it, Sensei kind of knew about me being a dragon.
お母さん：もしもってことがあるから学校側には一応ね…
Mum: Just in case something happens, I told the school staff for the time being…
ルリ：…そのもしもに今回なったワケだ。
Ruri: …That ‘just in case’ happened this time.
Pages 140-143
お母さん：ひひひ今日たこ焼き。先シャワー浴びといで。
Mum: Hehehe, it’s Takoyaki today. Take a shower first.
ルリ：うおー流石大阪の血。
Ruri: Woah…it’s just like from Osaka.
お母さん：今度あんたにも教えよか。
Mum: I’ll teach you next time.
お母さん：たまにはいいよねー
Mum: It’s good every so often…
ルリ：うんいいうまい。あっつ！？
Ruri: Yeah, it’s pretty delicious. HOT!?
お母さん：あはは！熱いに決まってんでしょ。
Mum: Ahaha! I think it’s always hot.
お母さん：てか何で火吐けるのに猫舌なの。
Mum: I mean, why don’t you like hot foods even though you can breath fire?
お母さん：学校どうだった？
Mum: How was school?
ルリ：なんかわたし生物兵器って言われてた。
Ruri: They said I was a biological weapon.
ルリ：一週間わたしの正体考察大会だったんだって。
Ruri: They said there was a week-long discussion about my true identity.
お母さん：…高校生っておもしろ～
Mum: …high school students are interesting…
ルリ：なんかみんなあんま気にしないんだね。
Ruri: Nobody really cared that much.
ルリ：…いや気にはしてるのかな。
Ruri: …No, I wonder if they did care.
ルリ：でも割とみんな面白がっててさ。
Ruri: But, everyone did seem to rather enjoy it.
ルリ：なんか…アリなのかな火を吐く人外ハーフも。
Ruri: It’s like…I wonder if there even is a fire-breathing half-dragon.
お母さん：意外とさ今感じてることって。
Mum: What you’re feeling now is surprising.
お母さん：普通の人間も常に感じ続けてることだったりするんじゃない？
Mum: Don’t normal humans even continue to feel these feelings all the time?
お母さん：人間の悩みってあんま変わんないよ。
Mum: Human problems won’t change very much.
お母さん：たとえ半分龍でも。
Mum: Even if you’re half-dragon.
Pages 144-147
お母さん：うあーっし久々にゲームしよ。
Mum: (Yawn) I haven’t played a game in a long time.
お母さん：今日仕事クソ疲れたわ。
Mum: I’m bloody worn-out from work today.
お母さん：机ズラして座イス出して。
Mum: Shift the desk and bring out the chairs.
ルリ：コキ使いやがって。
Ruri: You’re just using me.
ルリ：…何やるの？
Ruri: …What are we playing?
お母さん：まだ全クリしてないの。
Mum: It’s still not all clear yet.
お母さん：ルリとこれやるの楽しいし。
Mum: It’s fun to play this with you.
ルリ：うわー…画質粗いな。
Ruri: Ah…these graphics are rough.
お母さん：最近のすごくなったよね。
Mum: They’ve gotten amazing recently, haven’t they?
お母さん：おいキノコとるな。
Mum: Hey, don’t get the mushroom.
ルリ：うわっちょっと投げない…あ死んだ！！
Ruri: Ah! Wait, don’t throw…ah, I died!!
お母さん：やべ私も死んだ。
Mum: Damn, I died as well.
ルリ：あっはは！一人でいけるワケないじゃん。自業自得だから。
Ruri: Ahaha! You’re not able to go it alone, are you? You get what you deserve.
ルリ：まだ遺伝ってあるんだよね。
Ruri: There’s still genetics, right?
お母さん：そうだね…何が遺伝してるかわからないから。
Mum: That’s right…I don’t know what is hereditary, so…
ルリ：またああならないといいけど…
Ruri: It’s alright as long as it doesn;t get like that again, but…
お母さん：そうだね。何か発現の予兆でもあれば防ぎようあるんだけどな…
Mum: I get it. If this is also an omen for something, there is a way to prevent it, however…
お母さん：次の体質が発現するまでに何とかしよう。
Mum: Let’s do something until it manifests into something else.
お母さん：大丈夫何とかなるよ。
Mum: It’s alright, we’ll manage somehow.
Pages 148-150
ルリ：でもどれだけドラゴンになってる。
Ruri: But, how much of a dragon did I become?
ルリ：学校は行き続けられたらいいな。
Ruri: It would be nice if I can continue to go to school.
お母さん：今朝と真逆だ。
Mum: It’s the exact opposite of this morning.
お母さん：今日雨だから傘持って行きな。
Mum: It’s raining today, so go and take an umbrella.
お母さん：ちゃんと持って帰ってこないと次刀型のだから。
Mum: If you don’t bring it back safely, it’s the sword’s turn next.
ルリ：嫌だ恥ずい。
Ruri: It’s embarrasing.
[連載予告カット案ラフ]
[Rough Cut Draft Prior to Serialization]
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p132-135
Just for the sake of correctness, this is “Aren’t you scared of me?”
I think Kashiro is saying that Ruri’s mom spoke with him.
見えない所で here basically means “out of sight”. But just means that she is doing her best without wanting to bother anyone. “somewhere we can’t see” is a bit of a rough translation.
Also, I don’t think it’s quite “hope”, rather “we don’t need to be [afraid]”, but that’s more a gut feeling, than a grounded thing.
p136-139
This is saying, that “mom, always doing things without me knowing…”. I think it was explained in an earlier post.
Not “I”, “I wonder if everyone accepted me…”. The みんな is the subject here.
Here 一応 is also “just in case”. She told the teachers way earlier (as the teacher said, they already knew when Ruri enrolled). This is saying, that “I told the teachers about it, just in case something were to happen”
p140-143
We discussed this a bit earlier, but this is most likely something along the lines of “Woah, as expected from your Osaka origin”, since takoyaki is very popular and common there.
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To add on the same subject, just came across this! Was very new for me at the time, but pretty useful to know, can find plenty of examples across different mangas where ておく is shortened to とく.
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So my usual process for reading these has become:
- Go through with a first pass to see if I get anything
- Go through a second pass a bit more slowly to see if there’s any words that when I squint at the okurigana I might get, or think through what it could be.
- Go through again looking up the reference sheet and jisho to actually understand it.
This time felt weird. The entire first half, I felt I had a pretty good handle on what was going on, and so I could skip step 2 and even step 3 was pretty brief in confirming I was correct when I looked up the few words I needed to.
The conversation with her mother felt a little harder, there was some new language that I couldn’t quite get. Also when it comes to long strings of kana my brain tends to go “Oh, there must be something, like, grammatical, going on here”, which caused me to miss what たこやき was referring to, even though I know that takoyaki is a thing, lol. But overall, I think this has been the easiest chapter so far.
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