Dagashi Kashi

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TL by s07

"That's one dirty desk!!"
"......"

"Kokonotsu-san... I'm also not the type to keep my room clean but it's bad if you don't at least keep your work desk clean."
"Heheh..."
"Don't heheh me."

"Lots of eraser dust... and leftover bits of tones, I see. Well, it's unavoidable, but..."
"It always ends up like this, yeah... I wonder why..."

"Alright... Today I'm gonna clean up your desk for you! Please take care of the shop!"
"If there's one thing I'm good at, it's tidying up a manga work desk!"
"Huh, is it really okay? Yay~"

163rd Sweet: Kneaded Eraser

"Ah."

"Kokonotsu-kun."

"What's up?"
"There's something I want ask you, the dagashi shop manager (Temp.)."

"Oh, those are 'kneaded erasers'..."
"That's right, 'kneaded erasers'..."

"Wow, that's nostalgic~! I used to bring it to elementary school and squeeze it around."
"Hotaru-san, did you do that too? Play with it, I mean."
"Well, yes... I too, was a malleable kid who squeezed kneaded erasers."
"It smelled sort of nice too..."
"However"

"Just what are kneaded erasers?"

"S-soft erasers..."
"Yes... That's what I thought too."

"When using the normal sort of eraser the paper might get even dirtier, or if you're using coarse paper it might even damage the paper."
"In that sort of situation, if you use a kneaded eraser instead by lightly tapping the paper with it the paper will actually become clean... It's apparently used a lot in sketching art."

"Well, don't you have your answer then?"
"But wait, Kokonotsu-kun. When you were an elementary schooler did you ever use it the right way?"

"......"

"......"
"Don't worry. Me too."

"And just like this, kneaded erasers continue to be sold at dagashi stores..."
"Why do these continue to be so popular for reasons that aren't it's official purpose...?!"

"This thing, which doesn't look like it can be used outside of squishing and molding..."
"What can it be used for...?!"

"True......"

"Ah, Pops."
"What's that?"
"They're flyers. Most of the town event notices are... Oh?"

"Hotaru-chan! Could you please split some of that for me?!"
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"Hm?"

"Okay..."

"I-I-I... I see~!!!
"Huh, what's up?"

"The wisdom of everyday life... When you want to stick up posters or flyers on a wall without making a hole in it..."
"If you use a kneaded eraser like right now then you don't need to worry..."

"Kneaded erasers are amazing...!"
"Not to mention unlike tape it leaves behind a clean wall..."
"So it's kneaded erasers today?"

"You can do anything then, if it's like this."

"For example, a character figure eraser like this."

"Sometimes even if you want to have it stand..."

"Because it is uneven, it just doesn't work."

"But if you use a bit of kneaded eraser to make a base like this..."

"Ta-dah!"
"Whoa! It's stuck in place!"

"Fu..."

"It seems that all this was just my lack of understanding..."
"I shall admit it... Kneaded erasers contain infinite possibilities..."
(And she leaves satisfied...)
"Come again."

"Hajime-san, it's about time for din..."

"Wahaha"
"Auugh, what's that that's gross!!"

"Huh, uh, this thing... it's a kneaded eraser?"
"That's right! Good on you for recognizing it."

"When you want to gather up eraser dust and tone bits to throw away, it just scatters easily and there's small bits that you just can't get rid off."
"In these sort of times, by using a kneaded eraser you can pick them all up. It's really convenient!"
You just need to knead the dust into the eraser

"T...that's convenient~...
Side: Kneaded erasers might just be all-purpose!!

Hot damn, do I love Hotaru's outfits.

and here's 85

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>green is unlucky
>the color isn't changing for her even though that's the gimmick of the dagashi
Like I said last week: never gamble, Hotaru.

>What if Hotaru really disappeared?
Oh man, I'm looking forward to the reactions when you guys finally get to the chapters after Hotaru leaves for awhile.

I too, am looking forward to it. And we're getting close to it with every new chapter. Supposedly foreshadowing starts from this one, 85.

Thanks as always. Doing god's work!

Only 22 more chapters to go basically.

>22
At best speed it would take 7-8 weeks to cover up to that part. But of course it's not gonna be that easy.

>But of course it's not gonna be that easy.
I'm glad you guys are taking the time to do so though. Thanks again.

Something I've been meaning to ask is where you got those decent quality volume 5 scans. I still only have those shitty "2.0x scale" scans. I have no idea why it's only that volume that has that quality since volumes 6, 7, and 8 have quality that's around par with what you've been using.

I think I downloaded it from different batch on dead nyaa. It should be possible to find on either pantsu/si too but I don't use them so I'm not sure. For manga raws I recommend checking for example manga-zip, it's one of the better raw sites out here, and it has both the shitty noise scale raws and the ones we're using.

>pantsu/si
Nah, they don't have them as far as I know. I've checked both "dagashi kashi" and "だがしかし" and could only find the same horrid scans for five. I'll check out that site later on. I wonder if anyone's scanned the fan book? I know that the LN is available on the usual sites, but I've never seen the fanbook anywhere.

>fanbook
First time I've heard about it. It's pic related right? Seeing how it's almost two years old it's probably not going to get scanned. What a shame, now I'm also interested.