- Ryouta: Umm... Next is the fourth mystery, so.
- Okosan: Coo! (The infirmary.)
- Ryouta: Mm! That's right! The infirmary.
- Sakuya: Wasn't the first worthless mystery in the infirmary?
- Ryouta: That's right. I think the first and fourth mysteries were both the infirmary.
- Sakuya: Does this academy allow its seven mysteries to overdraft its bizarre spots? It will be a proper ghost story this time, won't it?
- Ryouta: Mm! There's a secret menu in the infirmary.* How scary...
- Sakuya: A secret menu? Wait, aren't you mistaking it for the cafeteria?
- Okosan: Coooo! (This is no mistake. The cafeteria has no secrets, nor anything it tells.)
- Sakuya: There isn't a normal menu itself in the infirmary, is there?!
- Ryouta: I don't know anything other than that there's a secret menu myself... Let's just go and see.
- Sakuya: Excuse us, Iwamine-sensei.
- Shuu: You all again? What do you need? Have you changed your minds and resolved to come contribute to my experiments?
- Ryouta: Ehhhh, that's not it!
- Okosan: Coo! (Okosan is not yet prepared to face death.)
- Sakuya: Actually, we have something we wished to inquire of--
- Yuuya: Salut Sakuya! Have you come to pay a hospital visit to me?
- Sakuya: Wh-Why are you here!?
- Yuuya: Just a little while ago I thoughtlessly dove right into the dump! I managed to sprain my leg in the process.
- Ryouta: So you're the reason it's stunk like a garbage disposal since we got here!
- Okosan: Coo coo! (That's our Trashazaki-senpai.)
- Yuuya: You said it, you guys. Is Sakuya rubbing off on you?
- Shuu: Even so, it's laughable that the infirmary's assistant would end up requiring the infirmary's help.
- Sakuya: I agree entirely, Iwamine-sensei.
- Yuuya: Have you forgotten whose fault it is that I got hurt, Sakuya?
- Shuu: How about this, Sakazaki-kun? Whatever the case, your leg is injured. You've gone to the trouble already, so why don't we cut it off at the base, and you can hand it over to me? I'll put it to good use.
- Yuuya: Ahahaha, oh, no, Sensei! Injured, you say? My supple, beautiful legs are in perfect health! Look, look, I can walk just fine.
- Shuu: Well, that may settle that, but I don't mind even a perfectly fine leg.
- Sakuya: Please, Iwamine-sensei, if this man keeps persistently coming to the student council room, it is also troublesome for me.
- Shuu: So it seems, Sakazaki-kun.
- Yuuya: Sakuya, you don't have to be so cold, do you? If I stay here too long, I think I really might get one or two legs taken! I'll keep them safe! Adieu!
- Ryouta: Sakuya really doesn't have any sympathy for him, huh.
- Okosan: Coo coo! (Legs are serious business! You're in quite the pickle if you're unable to run.)
- Sakuya: It's his fault for coming close no matter how much he's rejected. If I show even a slightly soft expression, there's no doubt he’d take advantage of it right away. Troublesome mongrel.
- Shuu: Well then? Did you come here to chat some more? I am busy as well. I don't have the free time to idly waste my time and energy on keeping children company.
- Sakuya: My apologies, Iwamine-sensei. We had something we wished to inquire of you.
- Shuu: Of me?
- Ryouta: There's a rumor that's been going around that says there's a secret menu in the infirmary. Do you know anything about it, Sensei?
- Shuu: A secret menu? Where do you think this is.
- Okosan: Coo coo! (The infirmary. When you’re full of owies, you step on the gas to get there!)
- Shuu: There is not even a proper menu here in the first place. I am not doing service work here. Therefore, the students do not have the privilege to choose to know things. Whether I should cut, open up, take out, it is all at my own discretion. Therefore, I don't know of the existence of any sort of menu.
- Sakuya: As I would expect of Iwamine-sensei! Well said!
- Ryouta: No, if you think about it objectively that's a pretty scary thing to say! Um, Iwamine-sensei. We can't go home until we solve all of the school's mysteries. I think there must be a hint to this mystery somewhere, so could you let us search the infirmary for a bit? Even if it's just for a little bit!
- Shuu: I see. Very well, if it's like that. In exchange for your right wing.
- Okosan: Coo coo! (I won't have any of it! Okosan shall not relinquish it!)
- Ryouta: Please give us a little more of a discount, Sensei!
- Shuu: Hah. You truly are noisy little students. Very well. I shall allow it for only a flight feather.
- Okosan: Coo coo coo! (A flightless future! Yes, that still would bring about a flightless future!)
- Sakuya: Then why don't we do this, Sensei! Please take Sakazaki Yuuya's flight feather.
- Shuu: I see. If you as his younger brother have approved it, he shall consent as well. Then in exchange for Sakazaki-kun's flight feather, I will allow you to sojourn in the infirmary for a short while. Don't make too much of a racket.
- Sakuya: We shall take your words to heart, Iwamine-sensei.
- Okosan: Cooooo! (All thanks to Yuuya. He has my gratitude!)
- Ryouta: Is it okay for us to decide something like this on our own while he's not here?
- Sakuya: There's plenty of documents, but nothing like a menu anywhere.
- Okosan: Coo coo! (Okosan also finds the smell of the infirmary unpleasant. A quick getaway would be desirable!)
- Ryouta: Mmm, it might look different from the menu we're thinking of. You can't order anything from the infirmary. And there's nothing here to eat that you can have as takeout...
- Sakuya: No, takeout is a possibility. Could it be that the "secret menu" is talking about prescriptions?
- Ryouta: Ah, I see. Secret medicine... It sounds pretty fishy, but... if it's Iwamine-sensei he definitely has some!
- Sakuya: There’s also medicine to reduce animal corpses to raw materials, isn’t there? It's hard to obtain legally.
- Okosan: Coo coo. (Okosan has discovered a bottle sparkling with a bright spirit! Such a luxuriously sweet scent...)
- Ryouta: Ah, wait a minute San, don't just drink that! --Aahhh...
- Sakuya: This medicine... Consuming over half the bottle is highly poisonous.
- Ryouta: Eh?! San! That might be bad for you too! Spit it out! Spit it out right now!
- Okosan: Coo coo coo!! (Unhand me! Unhand me!!)
- Shuu: I don't mind you playing detective, but did I not tell you to be quiet? Just what are you doing? ... Oh, heavens. Did you drink that medicine?
- Ryouta: Ah... It really is dangerous after all, isn't it?
- Sakuya: Oko, just how much did you drink? Geh, the bottle is empty...? Oi, are you all right?
- Okosan: Coo! (Okosan is healthy as a horse.)
- Ryouta: So that means it's the type of poison with a delayed reaction! Eventually, San is going to start dying painfully! All because of Iwamine-sensei’s heresy!
- Sakuya: Don't die, Oko! I won't accept a subordinate acting without his master's permission!
- Shuu: You certainly seem to be getting fired up, but, unfortunately, he is not dying.
- Ryouta: Eh?
- Sakuya: Eh?
- Okosan: Coo! (Okosan, immortal!)
- Shuu: That is a new medicine I was given as a sample. It is meant for cases requiring nutritional supplementation. There might perhaps be some side effects, but for all intents and purposes, it's just nutrients.
- Ryouta: I'm glad...
- Sakuya: Tch... To think that I would be manipulated by something like this... This is due to your gluttony, Oko!
- Okosan: Coo coo!! (Okosan is swelling up! A pigeon stuffed with nutrition!)
- Shuu: However... this is worrisome. That medicine has not yet been officially released. If Oko-kun develops unforeseen side effects after this, that in itself will make him a precious sample, so I have no problems with that, but...
- Ryouta: No that definitely is a problem!
- Shuu: There is a greater problem at hand. I forgave you not that long ago as well, but that medicine is not mass-produced. Having explained this much, shouldn't those as wise as you understand what I am trying to say?
- Ryouta: Eh... Um, basically...
- Sakuya: It's frighteningly expensive, you mean.
- Shuu: Just so. As expected of a son of the Le Bel family. Your quick understanding has spared me some trouble.
- Sakuya: Hmhmhmhmhm...
- Ryouta: No this isn't the time to laugh triumphantly Sakuya! What are we going to do? San and I don't have the money.
- Shuu: I do not mind if you wish to pay with your bodies. Although, having put an end to the prototype, that can’t be enough to finish your repayment!
- Ryouta: Euuugh!
- Okosan: Coo. (Okosan cannot stoop to selling himself.)
- Sakuya: Iwamine-sensei, in that case, why don't we let Sakazaki Yuuya shoulder the debt for this incident as well?
- Shuu: Sakazaki-kun... is it?
- Sakuya: Yes. I don't mind if you pluck his feathers or his down or anything you like. Could you count that as compensation for the medicine?
- Ryouta: Even though he's already taking his flight feathers!? That's just pitiful!
- Sakuya: Be quiet! He's an obstinate half-breed! He’ll have feathers again soon enough.
- Shuu: It seems it has been decided. Then at a later time, I shall have Sakazaki-kun pay with his body.
- Ryouta: Sakuya is really a sadist towards his brother.
- Okosan: Coo coo! (Yuuya's lack of anger makes him a sure masochist.)
- Shuu: Then are you now satisfied? I have wasted quite a bit of time due to all of you. I would appreciate it if you left this room without a moment's delay.
- Ryouta: Yes! Sorry! Sorry for keeping you! ... Ahh, um, a lot happened so I almost forgot, but the fourth mystery...
- Sakuya: The infirmary's secret menu refers to Iwamine-sensei's secret medicine. It was medicine that you would rarely see in a normal infirmary... That's acceptable, right?
- Okosan: Coo coo coo! (From this day forth, Okosan shall be known as Secret Okosan.)
- Sakuya: Good! Let's head towards the fifth mystery.
- Shuu: Honestly, it's true what they say about telling the quality of a student by that of their homeroom teacher. How much do they intend to get in my way?
- Nanaki: Oh no, I'm sorry... I'll watch out too...
- Shuu: When did you get there.
- Nanaki: The infirmary beds really are nice... It was so nice here, I just nodded off without thinking.
- Shuu: You get out now too, please.
- Nanaki: Yeees... I'll do that...
- Shuu: Please don't fall back asleep.
* In Japanese, a secret menu is apparently called an "裏" menu, which literally means something like "reverse" or "underside". In the Japanese dialogue there are some references to the front vs. the back of a menu (the normal menu being on the front and the secret menu being on the back/"reverse" side). After much debate I couldn't think of a graceful way to render this into English literally, but I thought it was worth pointing out, in case you wanted to view all the talk about secret menus (and Okosan's new title for himself) under that light.
|