Monday, February 29, 2016

Adolescent Adam 4: Chapter 1 - The Usual Scene

“Ange?”

“!”

Ange seemed to have been napping for once, so she opened her drowsy eyes.

“It’s lunchtime. Aren’t you going to eat?”

Mutsuki smiled bitterly at the girl’s sleepy look and handed her today’s lunchbox.

Only then did she realize their lunch break had started.

It was midsummer and they only had two days until summer break. Her window-side seat was not exactly comfortable with the sunlight falling directly on it, but it was cool enough even without the air conditioning because a typhoon was approaching.

With the sound of the rain and the chilly wind reaching her through the opened window, it was hardly surprising she had dozed off.

“You have some sleep in your eye.”

Mutsuki chuckled and pulled out a handkerchief.

Without taking the handkerchief, Ange sullenly wiped her eye with the back of her hand and turned away with a lopsided frown on her face.

This was the usual for her, so he returned to his seat.

“Okay, time to eat, time to eat. We’re in the middle of the period of growth that has to support our futures, so this is another way to enjoy our school life to its fullest.”

His childhood friend Sakae walked over with a ton of bread in his arms.

“Let’s push our desks together~ Outta the way, Sakae. Mutsuki-kun, over here, over here

“Sure.”

“Deh heh heh heh heh. Ange-chaaan. Let’s eat together.”

“Th-that’s fine.”
Lucia moved his desk behind Mutsuki and Saya moved over to Ange’s desk.

“…”

As usual, Machina remained in the neighboring seat. On her own, she pulled a water bottle and a single apple from her bag.

Mutsuki and Ange ate together, Lucia, Sakae, and Saya wanted to eat with them, and Machina sat nearby.

Recently, the six of them spent most of their lunch breaks together like this.

They all pulled out their lunches.

Saya’s was quite girly, Sakae lined up the bread he had bought at the school store, Lucia had a lot of portable foods like dried meats and seeds, and Machina had her single apple.

Mutsuki and Ange’s lunches were the same since they lived together.

“Once again, it at least looks normal enough.”

Ange sighed when she opened the lunchbox she had been given.

It contained sakura denbu on rice, pickled cucumbers, rolled omelets, bacon soaked in chili oil, and spinach salad. The main dish was pork dumplings.

The sakura denbu was shaped like the Lazy Bear character the girl liked and the pork dumplings were star-shaped, so it had a real focus on presentation. It did indeed look like a delicious lunch.

“Okay, let’s get started.”

Mutsuki clapped his hands together.

On that signal, they all started eating. Machina was not even looking in their direction, but he had a feeling she brought the apple to her mouth after he clapped.

With six of them there, they naturally split between boys and girls.

Mutsuki, Sakae, and Lucia formed one group and Ange and Saya formed another. Machina did not speak with anyone.

The three boys discussed class, which girl (or boy) the most recent love letter Lucia had gotten was from, and generally wandered from topic to topic.

As for the two girls…

“Ange-chan, Ange-chan. I have some fried chicken today too.”

“Again?”

“Say ‘ah’.”

“Saya, are you bringing this everyday just to feed it to me?”

“Of course not. It’s just a coincidence. Or do you not want it?”

“I didn’t say that.”

“Say ‘ahhh’.”

Ange hesitated but gave in because she liked meat.

This classmate seemed to have gotten quite clingy lately. Ange had attacked her before after mistaking her for an enemy, so she had been worried about how to treat her afterwards. However, Saya did not seem to mind and did not seem to have realized who Ange really was. In the end, they were still just classmates.

Except that the girl was giving her a lot of heated looks that seemed to surpass the level of classmate.

“A-ahhh.”

“Here you go. Heh heh heh~ You’re so cute with your mouth open, Ange-chan.”

“Am I?”

“Yeah. Oh, I just can’t stand it!”

For some reason, Saya blushed and grinned.

Ange was a little worried the girl had indeed realized she was an angel, but there was nothing she could do if the girl did not bring it up first.

“Here. This one’s ankake-style. Say ‘ahhh’.”

“Ahhh.”

“Deh heh heh heh heh



As a result, she could only do as the girl asked.

While the fried chicken flavor lingered in her mouth, she gulped down the spinach salad she did not like. She disguised the aftertaste with the rice and pickled vegetables before starting on the pork dumplings.

“…” (Munch munch)

She had a bad feeling about them, but they were normal pork dumplings. After breathing a sigh of relief, she washed them down with a sip of tea and ate the spicy bacon she liked with some rice.

Finally, she took a bite of the rolled omelets.

“Gwoh!!”

She spat it back out.

The other five and everyone else in the class turned her way.

“Ahhh~ So it was these, not the dumplings~ Saya! Tea, tea, tea!”

“Here you go.”

She chugged down the 500 mL bottle of tea.

The omelets had something sweet and yet bitter inside.

After clenching her teeth, she glared at the boy with tears in her eyes.

“Mutsuki!”

“U-um, to make sure you could stand the summer heat, I added in some garlic chives, grated ginger, garlic, and cacao beans that are full of polyphenols. You like cocoa, don’t you?”

“Why would you put that in an omelet!?”

She shouted in anger.

Of the classmate’s watching them, half were giving lukewarm looks and the other half had already cooled as if to say, “Oh, it’s this again.”

“But it’s highly nutritious.”

“It may be good for you physically, but it’s bad for you mentally! Enough to stop my heart! Oh, honestly! How many times do I have to tell you not to add in your original dishes!?”

“S-sorry. And sorry to you too, Ibekusa-san.”

“Not a problem.”

The boy apologized to Ange whose anger was like a blazing fire and to Machina who was sitting in front of Ange and thus was hit in the back of the head when the angel girl spat out the food.

“Honestly.”

Once she was done yelling, the girl returned to her seat.

And…

“How spoiled do you have to be to complain when someone makes food for you?”

“…What?”

She wrinkled her brow again when Lucia spoke up next to her.

The demon boy looked cute, but he could be truly malicious to people he did not like. And as an angel, Ange was his natural enemy.

“Beggars can’t be choosers. Who does she think she is? Right, Mutsuki-kun?”

“I-I do the cooking because I like it.”

Mutsuki quickly intervened when he saw the frightening look on the already short-tempered girl’s face.

Lucia generally never did anything that would cause him trouble and Ange did not bite at the obvious provocation, so nothing came of it. They both returned to their lunches.

“Speaking of that, Mutsuki.”

Noticing the tense atmosphere, Sakae immediately changed the subject.

“You’ve always loved cooking, haven’t you?”

“Yeah. I’ve been doing it since before elementary school, so it’s more of a habit than anything.” Mutsuki narrowed his eyes as he easily ate the highly nutritious omelets. “And Ange might complain, but she always eats everything but the one thing.”

The girl shoved the omelets to the side and gulped down the rest of the pork dumplings and rice. He laughed happily when he saw it.

“I do like making lunches for Ange.”

“Ha ha. You’re a total house-husband.”

His best friend Sakae laughed too, but Lucia gave a sullen look next to him.

The three boys naturally turned toward Ange.

When their eyes gathered on her, the girl blushed in surprise and faced the window with her usual lopsided frown.

Mutsuki, Lucia, and Sakae had all realized that was just how she hid her embarrassment, so they all burst out laughing.

Ange ignored them and turned her back on them.

“…”

And that was why none of them noticed the hint of loneliness on her face.



“That was delicious!”

A woman loudly clapped her hands together and set down her chopsticks.

Mutsuki made a total of three lunches every day: one for himself, one for Ange, and one for their other roommate Micha.

Even though she lay around the apartment drinking all day, she had a lunch prepared neatly inside a lunchbox instead of stuffed inside some tupperware. She had already eaten it, but the sakura denbu on the rice had spelled out “No Alcohol”.

She laughed as she walked to the fridge.

She winked and said “sorry” to the sticky note that said “Only two beers a day!” in Mutsuki’s handwriting and pulled two cans out. Incidentally, there were already four empty cans in the trash from that morning alone.

She opened one with a nice “ksh” sound.

“…”

But before drinking any, she set them down on the table.

“What?”

She looked out the window toward the balcony.

This was the top floor of the apartment building and it was pouring rain thanks to the typhoon.

However, the sound of the rain had suddenly died down.

Four figures were visible out the window. Three were girls and one was a young man. They all had an otherworldly beauty as they smiled softly at her.

The falling raindrops veered unnaturally away from the balcony as if they disliked the people standing there.

“The preparations for the guiding chant are complete. The location of FeTUS headquarters has been confirmed. We are prepared to bring judgment.”

“I see.”

“Now we must only wait for Metatron.”

Micha’s expression stiffened when the young man – Rapha – said that.

She instantly forgot all about the intoxication brought on by the four beers.

“Please hurry this up, Micha. The higher ups seem irritated that the current situation is making the humans look better than us.”

“I am well aware.”

Her voice was rough. The young man quietly closed his eyes, said “please” once more, and then left. The three girls followed suit.

Micha sighed quietly as she watched them leave.

Her eyes stopped on the lunchbox she had just finished eating from.

That lunch had been filled with Fujita Mutsuki’s love.

“I wonder if this will be the least time he makes one of those for me,” she quietly pondered.

She reached for a nearby shelf instead of the beers she had set down. It contained a few drinks with higher alcohol content, like whisky and brandy.

It also contained a photo of Mutsuki, Ange, and Micha that they had taken a while back.

She closed her eyes when she saw the smiling boy in the photo. She carelessly grabbed a bottle of whisky and began drinking it straight from the bottle.

16 comments:

  1. I'm loving this yuri development between saya and Ange. I hope it leads to a hot and steamy scene between them

    ReplyDelete
  2. Also thank you for bringing us the next volume so fast. I thought that you would hold off with the series for a while so finding this up is great

    ReplyDelete
  3. Saya's character definitely was an unexpected, but still great, twist to the story. I thought she was gonna be part of Mutsuki's harem when she was first introduced into the story. At least now when he's busy Ange can have fun with Saya. Thank for working so hard to give us all these new chapters

    ReplyDelete
  4. Really liking Saya more and more with each chapter she's in. It's always cool to see different sexualities in a harem series. I mean you rarely see the protagonist actually do something with another male in a story like this nor do you see a woman have affections for another one and not for the protagonist. At least now when Mutsuki isn't around Ange won't have to be lonely. Let's hope she doesn't eventually fall for him as well in the future

    ReplyDelete
  5. Also from the illustrations I saw for volume 5 her and Ange are going to have a great time together. That might take the prize as the hottest scene of the whole series now being held by that foursome in vol.3

    ReplyDelete
  6. I always find it hilarious how Mutsuki can go from this dominating sex god to the biggest bitch of the series in an instant. He's like Makoto from the school days series, outside of sex their both wimps. It's funny how that's been a key characteristic of both of them throughout their respctive series at till this point

    ReplyDelete
  7. I wonder from that last line of Micha will get another scene again

    ReplyDelete
  8. Hopefully Ange gets her own scene in this volume

    ReplyDelete
  9. Please please do shinmai testament as well, at least just the ecchi scenes. The guys on baka tsuki or so damn slow it's ridiculous. If you can't help with what they have now can you at least help translate the 2 chapters with chisato.I'd personally say her Mio and Zest are hotter than all the girls in the other series you've done so far. People will be blown away with what Basara, who's also a really young high school student, and chisato, the school nurse, so in vol.8 from what I've heard. The guys on baka tsuki will never get to those 2 chapters at this point and I would like to make a request if you could. The chapters are vol.6 chapt.4 and vol.8 chapt.3. If you need the chapters text just ask me or philip, since he also mentioned he had it, or you can find them in jcafe24 if you want to download it yourself. Just look at the illustrations, the 15 chapter of the arashi manga the series has, or her scenes in the anime if you're not convinced of how sexy the girls in that series are. Though not as lewd as the ones you do it can gets pretty graphic in the 2 chapters I mentioned. She's just to hot to wait much longer for her scnes to be translated

    ReplyDelete
  10. Also it has some of the best illutrated drawing of a novel I've ever seen. The asses and tits of the girls are just fantastic

    ReplyDelete
  11. I totally agree with Albert if you could at least do those 2 chapters of the series with chisato that would be amazing

    ReplyDelete
  12. Please don't tell me that you've left this story. I'd love to see shinmai maou but I hope you finish this volume first

    ReplyDelete
  13. Please don't tell me that you've left this story. I'd love to see shinmai maou but I hope you finish this volume first

    ReplyDelete
  14. For those who have not realized yet shinmai maou is being translated by the same guy who's been translating high school dxd for a long time now. Look him up

    ReplyDelete
  15. Fuck, I don't like the sound of this... Poor Micha, she's gotta make the tough decisions... Mutsuki, as a man, the perfect one at that (adam), you better be able to handle the coming storm, and better not slight any of these fairies you've made into your women... or i'll be angry. My only complaint about the story so far is the fact that I'm honestly least enthused with Machina. The fact that Mutsuki has the most feelings for her (albeit only because he's liked her for longer than Micha) kinda gets on my nerves. I honestly like Micha and even black cat more, personality and sex appeal-wise. There are a lot of things introduced in this story that could honestly go really far and to even greater heights, but of course I'm also worried it could go in a couple... not so good directions. I will have my fingers crossed.

    ReplyDelete