My Cute Little Kitten ch18 by Morinaga Milk TL by boke ### TL notes indicated by hash tags like this: ### ### Page numbers indicated by —XX for example, page one is: —01 ### Panel numbers indicated by -X for example, panel one is: -1 ### sfx- means the following is a sound effect. ### hw- means the following is handwritten text. ### Unless otherwise noted, panel and text balloon flow is from upper right to lower left. ### This TL indexes on file number in case the page numbers don’t match. ### Sometimes my comments are snark or color, so feel free to ignore those. —30 -1 So I can be with you? Even if I’m like this? I can’t do it after all… My Cute Little Kitten -2 I can’t pretend when I’m in front of Rena-chan. Even like this? I can be with you? -3 ###the first two paragraphs of “check” are the same as prior months. ### Paragraph three: Having overcome a number of issues caused by misunderstanding, it’s still not enough to sooth Yuna. Then Chibi becomes sick, and due to that unfolding emergency, Yuna starts to lay her heart bare to Reina. ### character bios are the same —31 -1 Morinaga Milk My Cute Little Kitten —32 -1 I wanted to be the place she could come home to. Reina-chan, what are you going to do after graduation? -2 What do you mean? I thought maybe you’d be going back home to your folk’s place. Back to Nagano? No way. I’m going to work full time at my current salon. I’m staying here. My parents said I should do what I want. I see! -3 What about you, Yuna? Your family lives here in the city. Moving back in? -4 My parents said that if I went back to school, then I shouldn’t ever come back home. Most of the people living in the school dorms come from other areas. -5 Oh, I see… —33 -1 Well, shoot. I’ll have to find a place to live. On top of the job search. You haven’t been searching at all. Ahaha…. Yuna is the only one in the dorms who’s family is in the area. ###box -2 hw- Sigh I wish I could just live here forever… I’ve always thought something happened with her family, but… Well, it is a school dorm. ###bold and italicize “is” -3 So, if that’s the case… Maybe we could live… But I couldn’t say that. I mean, I kinda have ulterior motives. Ever since I’ve become aware of my feelings for Yuna… -4 It’s tough… not to have a place to go back to. -5 A place to go back to. -6 …Yu… —34 -1 I wish I could just live with you, Reina-chan! sfx- Spin Just us! Like we have been! -2 Well, just sayin’… Not possible, I guess…? sfx- Thud Ah, I’ll go to the student affairs office tomorrow and start the job hunt. -3 It’s dangerous for a girl to be living on her own, right? And to suddenly be all on your own… I think it’s gotta be tough, even for you, Reina-chan. I’ll clean… I’m not too good a cooking, but… -4 If there’s anything else I can do… -5 A nice place where she can stop shaking. —35 -1 A safe place for Yuna to come home to. If I could create that for her… I’d do what ever it takes. That’s what I thought back then. -3 Good morning, Reina-chan. Hey… Before you go to work… -4 Yu… sfx- Kiss Kiss Kiss -5 I’ll do anything. —36 -1 BeepBeepBeep BeepBeepBeep -2 I’m sorry… I have to go get ready. Ah, wait! What time are you coming home today? -3 Ah, um… Anytime’s fine, ok? I just… When you get home… Let’s pick up where we left off? -4 Yuna… -5 Are you busy with work today? Do you have a deadline? Huh? I turned it in yesterday, so… Today I thought I’d do research. So, nothing pressing? —37 -1 Just hang on a sec, ok? I’ve got to make a call. Wha? -2 Eh…? Wha…? -3 sfx- Meooow Ah, sorry Chibi. Breakfast, right? -4 sfx- Lick Lick Lick sfx- Empty -5 She’s been on the phone a while… Chibi’s already done with breakfast. Isn’t it time for her to go? I wonder who she’s talking to? -5 I made her coffee, but it’s getting cold… I wish… We could be together a bit longer… -6 Ka-cha —38 -1 Reina-chan, Chibi ate her breakfast! It doesn’t seem like her mouth hurts anymore. sfx- Whish -2 Yuna, I got the day off today! -3 Huh? It’s my regular day off tomorrow, so I have two days off! -4 So, that’s what the call was about? That’s sudden… You were able to just get the day off? I swapped shifts with another girl. But what about your clients? It’s fine, it’s fine. -5 But… Why all the sudden? Did something happen today? -6 I thought… We’d have lots of sex. —39 -1 Wha? Huh? Wha? What’s happening? Am I hallucinating? -2 Re… Reina-chan…? -3 Let’s do it and do it… For two days. No sleep… -4 N-no sleep? -5 Well… We can sleep, but… -6 When we wake up, let’s do it right away. Just like this morning. —40 -1 What about meals…? -2 When we get hungry, we can eat naked. Let’s just stay naked. We’ll stay together. Sounds good, right? -3 If we sleep… If we wake… Always, always… Not thinking of anything. Not a second apart. Ah! Ah… -4 Hnn… Ah… Re… R-Reina-chan… There! Having sex all day long… ###box -5 Ah, shoot… Where we forget the passing of time… —41 -1 What? Is it work? Are you ok? No, I just thought I would have been good if we had bought some sex toys. S-sex toys?! Like a vibrator? V-vibe…? -2 I mean, you me doing it to you here, right Yuna? Oh, but we have an electric toothbrush… -3 We do it on the sofa, but… sfx- Kiss Kiss Aaah… -4 But… If I open a home salon, we’ll have to change things up. And… if that helps Yuna’s anxiety to go away… -5 Eh…? I’ve been thinking that I’d turn the living room into a customer space… but I want to hear what your opinion is too. You need to be able to use the kitchen even when I’m working… So you haven’t give up… On the idea of a home salon? —42 -1 I have get someone to take over my current position so it won’t be just yet, but… I want to arrange things so it doesn’t intrude on your privacy. -2 But what about branch manager position? I’m thinking of turning it down. Really? Are you sure that’s ok? I’ve already told my boss I want to go independent. Well, I told her just yesterday… -3 I know I should have consulted with you earlier, Yuna. I’m sorry to always be stressing you out. -4 I know things might be a pain for you from here on out… And I think my income may fall… That’s ok! All of it is ok! -5 So I can alway be with you? Whether we are sleeping or awake? —43 -1 Is seems unreal. It’s like a dream. To be able to have… my every dream fulfilled? -2 Maybe this is a dream… I don’t care if it is. -3 If it is… I hope I never wake up ###foreshadowing -4 We spent an unbelievably happy two days together. —44 -1 BeepBeepBeep BeepBeepBeep -4 Aw, sheeet We really didn’t leave the bed for the last two days. sfx- Shine Shine The fridge is empty, so I’ll grab some groceries on the way home. -5 sfx- Ka-cha -6 I’ll talk to the boss today. Better to do it sooner. sfx- Shhaaaa -7 There’s all sorts of moving parts to worry about, but if I tackle them one by one, it should be fine. sfx- Shhaaa —45 -1 It’s not like I’m attached to being a branch manager. I always wanted my own business. -2 The thing I want most is to be close to Yuna as much as I can. -3 Yuna… I have to go to work today… sfx- Ka-cha -4 She still sleeping. Really zonked out. sfx- Zzz -5 Well, she hasn’t been sleeping much recently. I’m glad she’s sleeping in. I’ll let her sleep until right before I leave. -6 Aha! Chibi, gonna wake Yuna up? sfx- Lick Lick Lick —46 -1 Sniff Sniff -2 Meooow -3 Yuna? Meoow -4 Zzz Zzz -5 No matter how much I called her name, Yuna didn’t wake up. She didn’t wake up until after she had slept 20 hours. Just about the time I was going to call the ambulance.