Hibiki - Shousestsuka ni naru houhou

After thinking about it for a while, I might as well dump TL the series as I go along. Mind you, I'll be dumping pages as I translate, so just be patient.

If you see anything wrong, don't hesitate to call me out.

A dancer stands on a small stage in a small town.
She lives in a small apartment with her parents and her sister who's three years older.
She is engaged to a 22 year old man who's working in a shipyard.
8: Book making

"Kayo-chan's novel is more or less a light novel"
"It's the kind of story where a normal high school girl gets married to a vampire prince"
"Her style has Rika-san's influence all over it"

"Takaya's is, well, more like a diary compared to a novel"
"Anyways, he probably just wanted to get it over with"
"Ryouta-kun's is your standard young adult fiction*..."
*A novel targeted for the teen years.

"He made a tidy piece with proper story progression"
"He really is a closed minded kid"

"...kuku"

"Hibiki-chan's story is interesting, right?"

"Tch"

"Okay, everyone has read them from start to finish"

"We got the manuscripts together"
"Now time to make the book"

"The magazine we'll make for the cultural festival will be a proper book after bringing it to the printing press"
"But for other times, we'll just make them ourselves using a copy machine for copying and a stapler for putting it together"
"There's a printing room in the school, so I'll take you there"

"We may have a printing room, but are we allowed to use it on our own?"
"No, we need the permission of our advisor"
"It'll be fine. I'll run it by him"

"Ah"

"Oh yeah, we do have an advisor"
"It's been a month since we entered, but I've never met him"
"Me neither"
"Ahaha, you don't ever need to meet him for your entire life"

"He's such a scumbag, he'll surprise you"

"So that thing's still alive"
"Takaya, if you're gonna say that, do something about it"
"...what kind of guy is he?"

"He's been the ethics teacher for three years, Kuroshima Satoshi"
"He's the type of guy you'd find in every school, the one who's mad in the head"

"Well, don't worry about it"
"Takaya and I are really bad with him, so we don't see him much"
"Huh..."
"Another scary person..."

"By the way, Hibiki-chan"
"I just wanna ask"

"Do you"
"Have any authors in your family?"

"Nope"

"I see"

"Okay, we're here"

"Oh, there are people here"
"Ah!"

"Ryouta"
"Akui-san"
"Hey"
"Oh? You know them?"

"They're my classmates"
"I believe they're in the drama club"
"Hmm"

"Oh it's Rika-san"
"And there's a scary demon guy there"
"Scary"

"Oh, did you come to use the copier?"
"Yeah"
"That's weird, the drama club reserved the slot until 4pm"

"Kuroshima you moron, you didn't get the reservations ready"

"I'm sorry, the literature club also booked this slot, but it looks like we have a schedule conflict"
"It sure does"
"What now..."

"So like"
"If you're only using one copy machine, can we use this one?"
"Ah, sure"

"Hibiki-chan"

"The five of us can't do anything about having only one machine"
"And it's cramped because of the other girls"
"So I'll just ask you to copy them"

"50 copies each, double sided"
"Ask your friends how to use the machine"
"We're gonna do some other work in the club room"
"So have fun"

"Uhhh..."

"Well..."
"If it's alright, should we teach you how to use the copy machine?"

"So press A5"
"And choose monochrome printing..."
"Is she trying to get Akui-san closer to us?"
"Her ability to sense the situation is impressive"

"Akui-san, you're always reading books"
"Which ones do you like...?"

"A bunch"

"I see"
"A bunch"
"Whoa"
"We're talking"

"I don't really read much"
"But I really like Sobue Akihito..."
"Tch"
"Some people don't"

"Hey"

"Four girls"
"Well whatever"

"Uhh..."
"Well, don't worry about me"

"I just came to smoke"

"Wha"

"This school doesn't have a smoking room"
"And they told me I can't smoke outside for some reason"

".......he's actually smoking"
"Who is this guy"
"A teacher?"

"What club are you from?"
"The... drama club"

"And..."
"Akui-san's the only one from the literature club"

"Literature..."
"Akui..."

"I see, you're Akui"

"I heard about you"
"I heard that"

"On the day of the entrance ceremony"
"You picked a fight with the club's members"

"It would've been great if you got the club abolished"

"Oh yeah, I haven't told you yet"
"I'm Kuroshima, the literature club advisor"
"Uh"
"He really is a teacher"

"Honestly..."
"Being a club advisor just pisses me off"

"I have to work overtime, and my pay doesn't get any better"
"So it's basically free overtime"

"Hey Akui, could you get one more member to quit?"
"Then you'd lose members and I can abolish the club"

"He's saying some unbelievable things"
"Is he really a teacher?"

"He's scary"

"Or why don't you quit?"
"Aren't they bullying you by making you copy everything by yourself?"

"Don't ignore me dammit"

"She isn't shivering"
"No matter how I look at her, she's just a simple gloomy lit geek"
"That ganguro girl just made up the fact that she chased the second years out"

"If I hit her a bit harder, could she actually leave...?"
"If you quit"
"You'd help me a lot here..."

"Uh"

"Kuku"

"Kidding, kidding!"
"You don't get scared at all"

"Did you really think I was gonna burn you?"

"There's no way I'd..."

"Aaaaghh..."

"...hey"

"Kidding"

"Huh?"
"She pushed it really hard..."

"I may be joking,"
"But I'll still do it"

"So cool..."

"What kind of person is Kurojima-sensei, specifically?"

"Damn"
"Why am I..."
"He's weak against the strong, but he's strongest against the weak"

"If you get involved with him, you should make the first strike"
"Then he'll become a little puppy"
"Huh..."

"Uhh..."
"Aahh, Kayo-chan, he's dangerous for you"
"You're the kinda girl he'd most likely target"

"What the heck"
"Is Hibiki-san's story...?"

"Is there a genre like that?"
"There isn't any proper progression, any climax, or any punchline..."
"But"
"How do I put this..."

"It's super interesting..."

"Pure literature"

"Is that..."
"I call it that, but it really isn't since there isn't any proper progression"
"There isn't any clear definition"

"Well, Hibiki-chan's story really felt like pure literature"

"I'm just going to say this"

"Pure literature isn't interesting"
"Hibiki-chan's stories are"

"That girl"
"Is so special, she's an anomaly"

"That's why, don't even try to think about copying her"
"Your story wasn't bad either, Kayo-chan"
"No I wouldn't..."

"I'm done copying"
"Oh, thanks"

"Did you come across any problems?"
"No not really"

"Okay, now take one page from each"

"Staple them together"

"And done"
Hokuseto High School
Literature Club Magazine
May Edition

"And repeat this 50 times"
"Then, it's done in a flash"
"Whoa"

"Making 50 copies..."
"Are we going to distribute them?"
"We'll leave them in the leaflet counter in front of the staff room"
"And the distribution corner of the local library"

"Wait, we're going to leave it in the library?"
"Well, nobody really reads them"

"They're mostly there for old men and women to pass the time"

"I see"
"People I don't know will read them"

Contents

Semelean Babies - ric@ (2nd year)
Everyday - Takaya (2nd year)
VAMPIRE LOVER - Sekiguchi Kayo (1st year)
Penny rain - Tsubaki Ryoutarou (1st year)
Thousand year blossoms - Akui Hibiki (1st year)

keep it up dude, you already slept like half a day

9: Talent

"The initial sales for 'A chance meeting in the afternoon' has come out"

"We printed 3000 copies"
"And we sold 28% of them..."
"......honestly"

"These are pretty bad numbers"
"......uhh"
"Honestly,"

"......next time"
"It might become harder"
"To get your books out under our label, Nakahara-san..."

"......is"
"That so"

"We printed 5000 copies of your previous work, the debut work, and we sold 35%"
"Those are also pretty bad numbers"
"On top of that, they managed to fall..."

"......of course, it definitely doesn't mean that you won't get it next time,"
"But it depends on your plot"
"This may be called pure literature, but there are genres which have different levels of success..."

"Well,"
"You may not really like those kinds of genres though"
"But we have to expect certain numbers..."

"...I will write"
"Next time"
"I'll do my best..."

"Is..."
"That so"

"Okay, send your plot to me when you're done"
"I'll be waiting"
"......okay"

Nakahara Aika
A writer
And a novelist

Thank you so much TL user

Graduated from a major university in the Tokyo-Nagoya area with a literature degree

Ever since her student days, she submitted works to literary magazine newcomer awards.
Hers was chosen at age 28.
The winning work, 'Lotus flower village' was published.

30 years old.
Her second work 'A chance encounter in the afternoon' was published.

"......will I"
"Still write...?"

"Will I? No"
"Of course I will"
"If I quit now, then what did I work so hard for..."

She has no job,
Never had a boyfriend,
She just lived to become an author

"I became a pro"
"I have talent"
"I came so far..."

"It wasn't in the library"
"Buy it at a styore"
"Like I said, we made a reservation"

"Just wait for a month"
"I wanna read it now"
"...what a young mother"

"I wonder if she's my age"
"Her kid's pretty big..."

"I mean, why do suddenly want a book now?"
"Ugh..."

"......oh yeah"
"I'm"
"Already 30 years old"

"It wouldn't be strange to have a child that age..."
"I was just reading in the bookstore up to now, but I can't do it anymore..."
"Oh..."

"Have you been holding yourself back the whole time?"

If

I never wrote any novels,

"Fine then, just one"
"Really!?"

Maybe I might have that future...

"Crap..."
"Nowadays I just wanna shift all the blame onto the novels..."

Did you miss the second buble in the third-to-last panel, or did you just condense the two for whatever reason?

"My books aren't selling very well,"
"And I can't buy enough books, so I'm going to the library"
"Even though I became an author, my lifestyle hasn't changed from when I was a student"

"What should I do from now on..."

From now on...

"A high school literary magazine"
"How nostalgic"
"I made some before too"
"In the literature club"
"With my pres..."

It's missing
>pan 6 bub 2: She's just showing us the girl's world...

Everyone
Praised the story I wrote

I was better at writing than everyone else.
In high school,
In college...

"......in the end"
"It was the same as a student..."

Haaah
"The past form again..."

"I'll cheer myself up by reading some amateur work"
"Thinking about it, I also wrote some terrible stuff in high school"

"What I need now is confidence"

I've been eyeing this manga for awhile now. Is it going to have any lewds?

"Here we are"

"This is the library where our magazine is being distributed"

"It's far from school, so you've never come here before, right?"

"Nope"

Nope

But the volume covers are sexy!

"......am I the only one you called over?"

"Yeah"
"The others don't seem to be very interested in libraries"

"I also wanted to talk to you a bit, just between us"

"Look, there's the distribution corner"
"They're already there"

"Oh, that's rare"
"A young gal is reading the magazine" [TN: チャンネー is gyaru for 姉ちゃん, so I tried to localize it]

"How is it, miss?"
"Is it interesting?"
"Uh..."

"Hm..."

"Ahh, we're the ones who made that magazine"
"We're from the Hokuseto High Literature club"

"Are you"
"Akui Hibiki-san......?"

"Sorry"
"It isn't me"

"Hibiki-chan is this beautiful girl"
"Not as beautiful as I am, though"

"This 'Thousand year blossom'"
"Was written by you...?"

"Yeah"

A kid...
This kid
Wrote...

"Did..."
"You plagiarize or something...?"

"No way"
"What a rude girl, right from the get go"

What...
Did I...
Just...

"I'm so sorry!"
"I just..."

"Your story, 'Thousand Year Blossom'"
"Was so interesting..."
"I never expected the author to be so young..."
I wanna die

"Ah"

"No no, Hibiki-chan"
"Don't lay a hand on her"

I was so envious of her talent,
I called it 'plagiarism'
I wanna die
I wanna die...

" 'Nakahara Aika' "

"......san?"

"Yeah"
"Aaaaah!"

"Yeah yeah"
"I thought I saw you somewhere before"
"From the author's photo of 'Lotus Flower Village'"

"How do you know"
"About that book?"

"I read it"

"......shake"
"my hand"
"......please"

"Huh?"

"Hey"
"What's wrong?"
"What's wrong, miss author?"

"You're depressed...?"

"I'm sorry..."
"I was acting disgraceful..."

"No, it's fine"
"Do you have a trauma about handshakes?"
"N-no"
"That's not it"

"I cried from joy..."
"I'm"
"really sorry"

"Uhh..."
"You're ric@-san, right?"
"Yeah"

"Your 'Semelean Babies' was super iteresting"
"I really couldn't imagine you as a high schooler"

"After Hibiki-chan, huh"
"Thanks"

"Hibiki-san"

"Okay"
"Goodbye"

"Good luck with your job!"

"What a weird girl"
"That's an author for you"

"It's"
"The first time I met an author"
"Oh, well congrats"

"Let's have a small chat"

Editing department

"Hello, this is Nakahara"
"Yes, sorry about awhile ago"
"Yeah"
"This is about the next work"

"I give up"

"I saw true talent"
"I thought to myself, I lived my dream"

"And now, I don't really need it anymore..."
Author Nakahara Aika
Retired

"Thank you for everything"

"I wasted ten years of my life"
"Now I gotta try and get a job"
After retiring,
She worked at a neighboring bakery.

>"Do you have a trauma about handshakes?"
Fucking Rika.

"Maybe I should think about getting married"
Half a year later, she began dating an office worker who frequented her shop.
2 years later, she got married at age 32.

"Then I'll have some children..."
"But I can't imagine myself as a mother"
She gave birth to a girl at age 34.
2 years later, she had a boy at age 36.

After creating a modest and gentle family,
She recollected about 'Her happy life after giving up on being an author'
At age 82,
She passed away, surrounded by her two kids and five grandchildren, feeling happy about her life.

"Hibiki-chan"

"Wanna become a novelist?"

Gonna be back in about 1-2 hours to finish this

Man, I wish I had access to my computer so I can typeset it. Seems good so far.

Holy fucking shit

Thanks for translating this user

This manga is one of the few recently serialized that were interesting. Hope we can catch up to the raws

I'm not TL user, but yeah you're right.

Thanks anons

>After creating a modest and gentle family,
>She recollected about 'Her happy life after giving up on being an author'
Is this another Abenomics manga?

...

What kind of piece of shit high school is this? If you pay for it, use it.

10: The future that lays ahead

"This is about the next work"

"I give up"

"I saw true talent"
"I thought to myself, I lived my dream"

>Spend a chapter struggling with giving up your dream career
>Instead of finding inspiration in the younger generation and being satisfied that someone enjoyed her work, she stops altogether

Hits home

"......Nakahara-san, if you wish to do so"
"Then I"
"Can't say anything irresponsible..."

"......but personally,"
"I wanted to read"
"Nakahara-san's novels"

"I figured out that I can't make stories that can sell"
"I think the fact that I became a pro author is good enough"

Even if you can't sell now,
Next time......

"......I'm very sorry"
"I didn't do enough......"
"Oh, no"
"Taihei-san, I was just being a burden on you..."

"......thank you for everything"

Copies cost money, it's there for school-related use, and they don't need dumbasses wasting it making 500 copies of hardcore porn for shits and giggles.

But you just make students pay for it. In my old school, it was 5 cents (€) per black and white A4 page. Let kids print whatever they want as long as they pay for it.

"Nakahara-san"
"Really is quitting"

"Wasn't she creating a plot up for her next work?"
"Until awhile ago"
"It seems she had a change of heart"

"And you didn't stop her?"
"Like I could, moron"
"Would you have stopped her, Hanai?"

"I can't stop her, we can't even guarantee that we can put her next work out there!"
"That's not what I'm talking about, you said that you wanted to read her next work as one of her readers"
"I also tried to stop her as her reader"

bump

"You can't survive in the novelist business just by title alone"
"Your books have to sell or else you can't make a living"

"I have to give an author I enjoy her final notice..."

"Haaaaaah"

"Being an editor is a shitty job"

looks interesting. picked up

"Hibiki-chan"

"Wanna become a novelist?"

"......why?"

"Uhh, like, a pro author praised you awhile ago"
"You got some attractively high praise there" [TN: I think she's talking about Hibiki, but could be herself too]

Thanks for reminding me to check on the latest release. Haha, what the fuck with that chapter 7 ending? It was too good?

"......I dunno"
"I never really thought about it"

"But"
"Hibiki-chan"
"You definitely have a choice here..."

"Well, you can't really know your future"
"You're still 15"

"......yup"

"Telling her to strive to become an author goes beyond my powers as the club president"

I only saw one short story,
But I know that this girl has abnormal sensitivity

"She can truly create a new world"

"That's"
"Real talent"

"......I'm going home today"
"Oh really?"

"Bye then"

"Well, she's a girl who really likes books"
"No matter what path she takes, she'll end up as an author"
"The only thing to worry about now is her preference"

"...and you?"
"Hm?"

"Do you wanna be an novelist?"

"Maaan, I can't be a pro"
"It just feels like a completely different world"

"Goodbye"

"Man oh man"
"It's been a while since I got ticked off"

Hibiki-chan did nothing wrong.
But
She just can't see her own story as a spectator.

"This isn't something you can measure with numbers, like physical power"
"It's hard to realize your own talent on your own"

"Sense has a clear upper and lower bound"
Hibiki-chan still doesn't know
How far her own senses surpass others.

>read the first chapter
uhhhh what?
but it's pretty interesting

The huge difference between you and me.

"Damn genius"

I wonder what direction
She'll head from now on...

"No waaay, did you make this cake?"

"Yeah, I guess..."

"This is just way too amazing, right? You're a guy who can cook!"
"Oh no. I just made it as it appeared in the book"
"Even so, that's amazing! I'm the kind of girl who'd burn a hotpot!"

"Maaan, we really found a jewel in the rough here"
"I never expected such a fashionable cafe in this normal city"

"And it comes with a hot shop attendant"
"Well now, hahaha..."

"Ryoutarou-kun, when are your shifts?"
"I'll come over when you're here"
"I have school on the weekdays so only on Saturday"

"Maybe we go to the same college"
"Wow, you would look so good in girl's clothes"
"Ah, well I'm in high school"

Yes, she noticed Hibiki's power level.

"No waay, you serious!?"
"You're the first night and prim high schooler I ever met!"
"What year? What year?"
"......a first year"
"And you're a first year in high schooler"

"Oh man, an active JK" [TN: JK: 女子高生: High school girl]
"Well, he isn't a girl"

"How about a DK?" [TN: DK: 男子高生　High school boy]
"What the hell, that's just funny"
"...compared to high school girls"
"I feel like college girls are dumber"

"Ryoutarou-kun, even though you're a high schooler, it completely works"

"Ugh"

"......what's wrong?"
"I'm actually like a super rich lady, so I can't hold anything heavier than chopsticks..."
"And it looks like my wrists can't handle the weight of a fork..."

"There's only one bite of cake left and I can't hold my fork..."
"Fine, I'll use my last resort"

Shit, I got the chills from this page for some reason.

It's funny because she was the one who talked about talent as an innate skill you're born with. she said that because she was good.
now her pride was crushed.

I'll cheer myself up buenos reading some amateur work

kek

you're a boss user

Sorry about taking long, fixing ch 8 for release now

>I'll cheer myself up by reading some amateur work

muh dick ,look at that nipple,all that tan plus she is smart!

Tank you TL user.also pure virgin OL is the best!

"Aaaaaah"

"Whoo whoo"
"Aaaah"

"Mm"

#cucked

>#cucked
Please leave.

"So goood"
"Ahaha, Ryoutarou-kun, you give too much service"

"Hey hey hey, so like, do you have a girlfriend right now?"

"No"

"That's like totally destiny!"
"I'm also like, miraculously free now"
"I..."
"feel free and am free"

"So like, Ryoutarou-kun, you seem to like your elders"
"How about if they're 5 years older?"
"Weelll..."
"Personally, there's a girl in my year..."

"No waay, so am I like, no good?"
"I often get mistaken for a high school girl"

Hibiki x books for life