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[Title page: the gang of four walk together under a light snowfall.]

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[Kazuhiro sits alone in the infirmary.]

Kazuhiro: [Yawning] Fua-a

Narr: Hasukawa Kazuhiro. Ryokuto Academy OB, currently a teacher at the same school.

Narr: Wife: Sumire. Little brother: Kazuya. Kazuhiro is the main pillar of support of the family. 25 years old.

Kazuhiro: [Hearing something] Hn?

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Narr: He spends the majority of the weekdays in the infirmary in the corner of the school building.

Narr: A male infirmary doctor in an all-boys' school.

Narr: At first glance, his existence seems filled with riddles. . .

Narr: . . .which sometimes become the subject of rumors among the students.

Rugby Boy 1: Is it really okay for him to be an infirmary doctor?

Rugby Boy 2: I'd understand it if this were a girls' school. A *girls'* school. Or at least a co-ed school.

Rugby Boy 1: It's not like he's an old geezer, to be spending all day long spacing out in the infirmary. How
depressing.

Rugby Boy 1: What is he *thinking*?

Rugby Boy 2: I heard he's gay. Wonder if it's true.

Narr: Certainly, at first glance, the occupation of infirmary doctor seems relaxed, however. . .

Narr: He's not as idle as they think.

Crowd approaching FX: Doya doya doya [sound of many footsteps]

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[A group of boys in sweat suits carry a struggling Kazuya into the infirmary.]

Boys: [Smiling] Emergency!!

Kazuya: Wah!

[Kazuya has a scrape on his cheek.]

Kazuhiro: Did you do something, Kazuya?

Hasukawa: I didn't do anything!

Hasukawa: D-

Hasukawa: (It happened again! Just now, definitely --)

Hasukawa: (Someone pushed me!!)

Boy: Hey, Hasukawa.

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Boy: Your older brother's really GAY, isn't he?

[Hasukawa facefaults.]

Hasukawa: [Getting up] Who told you that?!

Boy 2: Oh, well. . .

Boy: Didn't you know?

Boy: It's a rumor. A rumor! Recently, every day after school, there's a student in the infirmary talking to him.
It seems to be the same guy every time.

Boy: Anyway, I hear they're pretty friendly.

Boy: Whether it's true or not. . . it seems there are guys who saw them getting pretty close.

Boy: We think it's probably just a joke, but. . .

[Hasukawa runs off.]

Boy 2: A? Hasukawa?!

[Sign: Infirmary]

Door opening FX: GARA

[Hasukawa brains Kazuhiro from behind with a hyperdimensional hammer.]

Hammer FX: KADO

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Kazuhiro: [Yelling] What kind of behavior is that, Kazuya?!

Hasukawa: Put your stethoscope on your chest and think hard!

Hasukawa: (That's why I'm saying he should get a proper job!)

Kazuhiro: [Muttering to himself] Did I do something?

Hasukawa: (I'll never call him 'brother' again!)

[Later, in room 211. . .]

Shun: I heard that story, too!

Shun: Anyway, Sempai, we have to do something! Suka-chan's in danger!

Shinobu: We can't just allow trespassers in our school to go unchallenged.

Mitsuru: Right. I know just where to go. Let's see if we can hear some of their conversation!

Hasukawa: (There's no reason.)

[Hasukawa remembers Kazuhiro in his junior high school uniform holding flowers and chocolates.]

Junior High Kazuhiro: Look what I got.

Hasukawa: (When he was in school he was popular with nice girls.)

Hasukawa: (But -- even if it's a joke. . . to behave like that --)

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[Hasukawa thinks of Sumire's innocently laughing face.]

[Sign: Infirmary]

[Kazuhiro and the mystery boy are sitting together.]

Shun[?]: There he is!

Hasukawa[?]: Can you hear them?

Mitsuru[?]: What are they talking about?

Mystery boy: As always, I'm sorry. Aren't I interrupting your work?

Kazuhiro: Getting to know the students is also part of the job.

Mystery boy: That's right, isn't it? From your standpoint this is a job.

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Mystery boy: But from my standpoint. . .

Mystery boy: Sensei, I --

Mystery boy: I love you!

Mitsuru: He did it!

Hasukawa: Wha-?!

Shun: [Putting his hand over Hasukawa's mouth] Shhh!

Mystery boy: [Continuing] You are the source of my distress. Until now I've only discussed trivial things with
you, but the truth is. . .

Mystery boy: The most important thing I wanted to talk to you about. . .

Mystery Boy: . . . was my feelings. . .

(*)

Kazuhiro: Was that it?

Boy 4: That's a pretty interesting prank so we came along. [Translation?]

Hasukawa's voice: Wah! Cut it out! That hurts!

Kazuhiro: [Holding up bookend] Why'd this kind of thing. . .?

Etc: Who knows?

Narr: The students number 700, and since they're boys, little injuries are an everyday occurrence.

[Pic of Kazuhiro bandaging someone's leg.]

Narr: The job of the infirmary doctor [kusaru hodo atta]. . .

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Narr: Aside from nursing injuries and illnesses, he also has another essential role in the infirmary.

Troubled Boy: Sensei. . . I . . . I'm . . . worried . . .

Narr: Namely that of counselor.

Boy 2: Sensei, I [something I can't make out] --

Kazuhiro: Really. I see.

Boy 3: My OO was ### by XXX. . .

Kazuhiro: Right. Right. That happens a lot when one is young.

Narr: Under the condition of absolute secrecy and with no thought of personal gain.

Narr: As the infirmary doctor, there will be times when his trust is tested. For example. . .

Mitsuru: Sensei. . .

Mitsuru: My stomach hurts.

Mitsuru FX: Yoro yoro [Unsteady/tottering]

(*)

Kazuhiro: What is it?

Mystery boy: Would it be all right if we had a little talk?

[Mitsuru lies in bed, listening to the voices on the other side of the curtain.]

Voices: ~~~~~~~~~

Mystery boy: [Preparing to leave] Pardon me for only talking about weird things.

Kazuhiro: Nonsense. Come visit again any time.

Mystery boy: Sensei?

Mystery boy: Sensei, you have a wife, don't you? What kind of person is she. . . ?

(*)

Kazuhiro: [Smiling] If you want to hear me praise my wife, I'll tell you.

[The mystery boy gives Kazuhiro an intense look, then smiles rather knowingly. He leaves.]

[Mitsuru has been peeking out from under the curtain.]

Mitsuru: . . . ?

Narr: Watching over the hearts and bodies of the students: Hasukawa Kazuhiro, Ryokuto Academy's
infirmary doctor.

Narr: He has a cute wife.

Narr: And a younger brother who was born under the star of suffering.

[Hasukawa fends off Shun, who is trying to poke his wounded cheek.]

Shun's voice: Ah! How'd this happen?

Poking FX: Funi funi

Hasukawa: Don't touch! It hurts!

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[Hasukawa and Shun are sitting in the cafeteria. Okazaki and his pug-nosed friend look over.]

Pug-nosed kid: What happened to you, Hasukawa?

Okazaki: Wow, that looks painful.

Hasukawa: Nothing happened. At the end of sixth period gym, when I was leaving, suddenly --

Pug-nosed kid: It flew out of nowhere?!

Okazaki: Someone threw it at you?

Okazaki: [Glancing at Mitsuru and Shinobu, who are sitting at the next table.] That's pretty extreme. . .

Mitsuru: [Grumpy] Why are you looking over here?

Shinobu: [To Mitsuru] What, don't remember what you usually do (to Hasukawa)?

Mitsuru: [Peeved] When did I ever resort to that kind of physical bullying?

Mitsuru: Anyway, the best part of tormenting Hasukawa is seeing his reaction.

All: Oo!

[Hasukawa stands up and leaves.]

Hasukawa standing FX: GATA

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Hasukawa: (Fine. If that's the extent of their concern for me, I just won't think about it.)

Hasukawa: [Sneezing] HAKUSHU!

Hasukawa: It's cold. . .

Hasukawa sniffing FX: Su-

Hasukawa: (That's right. . . It'll be winter break soon. . .)

[Hasukawa imagines Sumire smiling at him.]

Sumire: Yakku-n! Hurry up and come home, 'kay? It's lonely with just me and Hiro-kun! [heart]

Hasukawa: (That's no reason. . .)

Hasukawa: (Stupid, isn't it? Even though it's fine she didn't notice my feelings. . .) [Translation?]

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[The next day.]

Hasukawa's voice: UWAWAWAWA!

Hasukawa falling FX: DON!

Hasukawa: Sempai!

Mitsuru: S'true. I was sleeping in the infirmary after school.

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Mitsuru: He was asking "Sensei, what kind of person is your wife?" and stuff like that. Maybe that was
*him*!

Mitsuru: He was pretty good-looking, so maybe your brother was interested in him.

Hasukawa: But, for one thing, Kazuhiro's married!

Mitsuru: Plenty of gay men are married! There are marriages in name only, you know.

[Hasukawa storms out and slams the door behind him.]

Door slamming FX: BATAN!

[Mitsuru and Shun are laughing uncontrollably. Shun is pounding the table.]

Mitsuru and Shun: Br- Brother complex!

[Shinobu is quietly doing a crossword puzzle.]

Shinobu: (. . . baka . . .)

Narr: Following that. . .

[Hasukawa is stomping around angrily. A basketball hits him on the head.]

Basketball FX: BON!

Hasukawa: Ow!

Boy's voice: Hasuka. . .wa. . .

[Later, Hasukawa trips over a mop.]

Classmate: [Standing over him] Hang in there!

[A large amount of water falls on Hasukawa's head.]

Water FX: DOSHA [Bloosh!]

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Hasukawa: [Shouting] I can't take it any more!

Mitsuru's voice: This isn't a coincidence or accident. Clearly someone's gunning for Hasukawa.

[Mitsuru, Shun and Hasukawa stand outside the school building.]

Mitsuru: [To Hasukawa] Be careful going back to the dorm.

Shun: Are you okay? Want me to go with you?

Hasukawa: (Even under normal circumstances I suffer embarrassment because of my family!)

Mitsuru: I can't think what Hasukawa's done to earn a grudge.

Shun: Me neither.

Mitsuru: It can't be that someone's persecuting him because he's the little brother of a *gay guy*, can it?

Shun: That's terrible! It's just personal preference.

[Hasukawa turns to give them a piece of his mind.]

Turning FX: kuru

Hasukawa: SEMPA-

[A small shovel hits Hasukawa on the head.]

Shovel FX: GON

(*)

Mitsuru: Ha- Hasukawaa!!

Shun: Are you okay?

Hasukawa: Oww. . .

[Hasukawa picks up the shovel and looks at it angrily.]

Hasukawa: Why the Hell is this -?!

[Arrow pointing to shovel: fire iron.]

Mitsuru: [Sweatdrop] You're unexpectedly tough.

[Shinobu comes out of the building.]

Shinobu: Are you all right, Hasukawa?

Mitsuru: Shinobu!

Hasukawa: [Suspicious] It can't be. . . that Shinobu-sempai. . .

Shinobu: I don't have any reason to do such a cruel thing, do I?

Hasukawa: [Multiple sweatdrops] ~~~

Shinobu: The guy who threw the fire iron at you just now. . .

Shinobu: He's not a student here.

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Mitsuru: No way!

Shun: Really?!

Shinobu: Do you think I don't know the faces of all of the students at this school?

Shinobu: The guy, who isn't one of our students, seeing you, picked up the shovel. I was wondering what
he was doing.

Shinobu: He meant to throw it at Hasukawa.

Hasukawa: [Sweatdrop] If you saw him, why didn't you stop him?

Mitsuru: Maybe all the things that have been happening were *his* doing. . .

Shun: But, to go to all the trouble of putting on our school uniform just to come bully Suka-chan?

Shinobu: Won't he still be in this vicinity?

(*)

Shinobu: There he is. That's him.

Mitsuru: !

[It's the mystery boy.]

Mitsuru: (GEH!)

Mitsuru: I knew it. He's the guy I saw before in the infirmary!

Hasukawa: Eh?!

Mitsuru: Maybe, this is finally coming to *that*. . .

Mitsuru FX: boso

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Shun: Then, sure enough, he's the infirmary homo?!

Shun FX: Waku waku [trembling with excitement]

Hasukawa: No way!

Mitsuru: It makes sense if you think of him envying the position of the old guy's little brother.

Shinobu: I see.

Hasukawa: (No way. No way. It can't be. It can't be that he's. . . That Kazuhiro's. . .)

Hasukawa: (Why be jealous of a little brother?)

Voice: Yeah! That's right!

Hasukawa: [Stopped in mid rant] . . . . ?

Voice: Pervert! Thief!

(*)

[The mystery boy is yelling at Kazuhiro.]

Mystery boy: Drop dead! Loser!

Hasukawa: [Turning to stare] . . . ?

Mystery boy: [Coughs]

Cough FX: Gohon

Mystery boy: I knew there were rumors about you, so I put out bait to see. . .

Mystery boy: From here I'll put it to you straight.

Mystery boy: You societal misfits!

Mystery boy: Not stopping bastards like you was the biggest failure of my life!

Mystery boy: Return Kitani Sumire to me!

Mitsuru: Somehow, these circumstances. . .

Shinobu: He (Hasukawa-sensei?) caught on to them.

[Arrow pointing to a stunned Hasukawa: He doesn't get it.]

End Hasukawake no Ichizoku Part 1