p38
I’m a bit confused about this whole sequence but I think it’s Itsuki:
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1st cell: the teacher reprimands Tsumugu for being inattentive and tells her to read page 13 as punishment
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2nd cell: Tsumugu panics because it’s 全部漢字 and she doesn’t know how to read that. Somebody reads it/translates it into Japanese.
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3rd cell: Itsuki is apologetic and says that because she likes the poem so much she got carried away and read it in full. Tsumugu cries tears of appreciation(?) because Itsuki saved her. So presumably Itsuki was the one reading in the previous panel.
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4th cell: The teacher says 仕方ないですね… and tells Tsumugu to keep reading after that (presumably this was a particularly difficult page and the rest is easier/actual Japanese?). The image shows Hatsuno being all foreboding but I think it’s pretty much unrelated to this strip.
Honestly I couldn’t really make sense of this until the beginning of the next strip where Tsumugu thanks Itsuki for being her 助け船 and I pieced it back together by keeping that in mind. That’s the only way it makes sense to me.
I often feel like the 4koma structure really forces the author to jam a lot in every cell when in more free form manga things would be split in multiple images. There’s a whole lot going on in these 4 panels.