rainfall | [TRANSLATED] Lelouch the Tutor (Chapter 21)

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Lelouch the Tutor
Chapter 21

Comic By: Urushidama

Original Story:
based on CODE GEASS: Lelouch of the Rebellion
(c) SUNRISE/PROJECT L-GEASS
Character Design (c) 2006-2017 CLAMP-ST

Latest Volume (#3) on sale November 26!

It makes us happy when we get to say 'Happy Birthday'¹ to those we love.

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<type, type>
<twitch>

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<silence...>

LELOUCH
(Strange...)
(Where is everyone else?)

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<beep>

LELOUCH
(I guess I'll reach out to them...)

SHIRLEY
Sorry!
My club's keeping me busy.

KALLEN
I've still got homework.

MILLY
Urgent business, you know?

LELOUCH
(What on earth...?)

LELOUCH
...

LELOUCH
...It's no use.
I'm not making any progress here.

LELOUCH
There's nothing for it, I suppose.
I'll just have to cut this short today.

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<clack!>

LELOUCH
I'm home...

NUNNALLY
Welcome home, Brother.
You're just in time.
Everyone's waiting for you!

LELOUCH
Everyone?
What's that supposed to—

EVERYONE
Happy birthday, Lelouch!

LELOUCH
Wha—
What're you all...?!

MILLY
Looks like the surprise part was a huge success, wouldn't you say?

SUZAKU
You're always looking after all of us, so...
We figured something like this would be a nice change of pace.

LELOUCH
Is that so...

KALLEN
Well, come on then!
Take your seat as the guest of honor!

LELOUCH
Oh—

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<thump>

SASH
<Guest of Honor²>

KALLEN
Shall we get this party started?
We've all made you something today!
And mine goes first.

Red Salmon Mousseline à la Kallen

KALLEN
Salmon Mousseline with red vegetables as an appetizer!

LELOUCH
Thanks...
I can hardly believe I'm really eating something you made...

KALLEN
Hey, even I can put in this much effort for a birthday!³

SUZAKU
Mine's next.

Japanese-style Potage with Fragrant Perilla Mint à la Suzaku

SUZAKU
A potage made with stock from seasonal vegetables. Made Japanese-style, with Japanese ingredients.

LELOUCH
!
This is great!
...I didn't even know you could cook, Suzaku.
<slurp, slurp>

SUZAKU
Well, the recipe was Euphy's idea...

C.C.
Now,
it's time for my dish!
This one really showcases my talent!
Even I'm surprised by how delicious it is.

Melty Cheese Roasted Pizza Chicken à la C.C.

C.C.
The main dish! Roasted chicken made to taste like my favorite food of all time: pizza.

LELOUCH
Good grief. You really never stop...

NUNNALLY
Brother!
It's time for your birthday cake — made by all of us!

LELOUCH
!

Ribbon Birthday Cake à la Nunnally

NUNNALLY
With raspberry cream and blue raspberry sanding sugar⁴! Everyone really put their whole hearts into making this special birthday cake.

LELOUCH
(Everyone...)

C.C.
Man, is it over already?
I'm still so hungry...

KALLEN
I just want something with meat...!

LELOUCH
Well, since you all went to so much trouble, why not let me take care of dinner.

<TO BE CONTINUED>

^{1 In Japanese, it's traditional to say "Congratulations!" instead of "Happy Birthday!" (short for お誕生日おめでとうございます — 'congratulations on your birthday').↩}
^{2 Lit. 'Today's Main Character'.↩}
^{3 Lit. "Even I can take it this seriously, you know."↩}
^{4 Lit. 'Jewelry sugar', also called pearl sugar or decorative sugar. (An inordinate amount of time was spent trying to figure out what this was.)↩}

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Thanks~
Also for the trouble/pointing out the translation notes. Some of them are really interesting or something like "good to know".

Edited 2019-11-05 13:03 (UTC)

Aww, you're welcome. :) I'm always glad to know people are enjoying, especially the notes. I also remember a time when I was just familiar enough with Japanese to recognize non-literal translations, but not familiar enough to understand where the non-literal translation was coming from. I know a lot of animanga fans are either aspiring Japanese language learners or at least immersed enough to pick up a few words here or there, and I don't wanna leave those people as perplexed as I used to be. :)

I don't include a note every time I opt for a non-literal translation (there'd be SO many notes!), but when I think it's particularly notable, or interesting... :) With Lelouch's sash, for example, you can't even see most of what it says, although Kallen did helpfully use the same word on the previous page. ;) (今日の主役 -- it actually means "leading actor" or "leading part", but it's been used before in Code Geass meta to refer to the principal characters.)

Ah, I see.
Thats right, picking something up here and there. Or to (better) understand some of culteral differences/behavior and meanings.
Especially japanese, where one kanji can mean a lot of different things/meanings, for example.
Thanks again for pointing out and explaining some of them in more detail. :)

so over at newtype there is a 4-page chapter special, when will be translating it?

It's just the characters being silly and OOC. There have been a bunch of these "half" chapters, and I think I've only translated one. They aren't saying anything important. (The one I did translate was a cheeky advertisement for the first volume being available for purchase.)

okay, also the second part of ch 13 for Re; is out know

Yep, I'll be translating it tomorrow after work. :) Very busy week, I didn't stop working until 7pm today.

Sorry, DW peeps miss the tumblr-only updates I do. Re; was supposed to be released last Friday, but it was pushed to this Friday. With the time zone, chapters tend to come out between 9 and 11pm the day before, but that's not the most feasible time to translate when you work full time. :)

does the manga update on december?

Yep!

If you make a DW account, you'll be able to set it to notify you when I update. :) You can choose to only get notifications about posts tagged with "Lelouch the tutor", or "code geass manga" if you're interested in all my manga translations but nothing else.

The next chapter will drop on January 24th!

https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/tracking/entry?journal=rainfall&itemid=121455

A link like this one should work once you've got an account. (Or you can click on the little bell/notifications icon on any post to get similar options!)

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