Hidamari Sketch: Sae Hiro Sotsugyou-hen

It's cool.

All right.

Sae-san, please give it your all on today's test, as well.

Here, your lunch.

Thanks, Yuno.

I made one for you, Hiro-san.

Thanks.

I can't wait to eat it!

Hiro-san, you can't eat your lunch before its time comes.

Do you really think I could eat it during the test!?

T-T-Take it easy.

Just do it the way you always do.

Why are you so nervous, Nazuna?

Shall we get going, Hiro?

Yes.

Do your best,

SaeHiro.

Good luck!

See you!

See you!

I'm back.

Welcome back.

Hiro-san...?

Was there some problem with today's exam?

The setting was moving on the sketch exam.

Huh? People and animals were moving in the setting, you say?

Nuh-uh. I mean the still-life sketch.

Do you have a fever, Hiro-san?

The pressure of the exam grew on your head.

That's not it!

The creatures of the motif jumped on a machine looking like some heavenly pulley, and they were turning around slowly.

Huh!?

I drew it in a way that their liver could be seen.

I wonder if it was all right to do that.

I'd say it's something to worry about.

You've got a problem there.

You could add lower lines like this, like in a manga.

Like this motion line?

Yep.

And you could make more impact with letters,

writing "turning round and round"

Look.

I really think that explanation is useless.

Hiro-san, you're taking an entrance exam tomorrow as well, right?

Please do look forward to the lunch.

I'll make your lunch tomorrow!

There's something I'd like to ask about that.

I appreciate that everyone is taking turns making lunches on the exam days,

I'm happy from my heart,

I'm really, really glad,

so I'm terribly, terribly sorry to say this...

but since everyone made pork cutlets, I've gained 3kg since the exams started!

TL note: cutlet and win are homonyms.

Everyone!?

I'm back, everyone!

I got some feedback on today's exam.

That's quite a different level of enthusiasm...

Sae-san?

I bought some sweets on my way back.

Why don't we all eat them together?

Let's do that.

I'm not sure it'd be okay if Hiro-san gained even more weight.

I got to see a pamphlet not long ago, so I knew what to expect,

but the exam period is quite a long time, isn't it?

Well, yeah.

I, too, wondered when I heard that Hiro was taking fifteen exam days.

Well, yeah.

It felt more like an exam month.

It's not like hastily learning more can help by now.

I'm not really in a panic, though.

I'm well-prepared, with my pencils sharpened.

Tonight, I might carelessly sharpen them down to nothing, though.

Scary, scary, scary!

I wonder what exams are...

Huh? What's wrong? Do you not want to do them?

Nuh-uh. I should be able to know everything, but that's all I've been doing till now.

It's something for you now, isn't it?

For you now and in the future.

Miya-chan, why are you saying that while clipping your nails!?

I see.

I was working hard for thirteen years for my current self.

Uh-huh. I'm glad I was working so hard.

Oh, sorry.

One big one flew that way.

Miya-chan!

And now, everyone please put down your pencils.

We're conducting meal time for fifty minutes starting now.

The afternoon practical exam is going to be held starting at 13:05.

Hiro, let's eat!

Did one of your juniors make lunch for you again today?

Yup.

How nice!

How kind!

Aww, how cute!

Cherry-blossom mashed and seasoned fish and rice with cherry-blossom marks on it,

and the main course is sausages?

Did you make Hiro-san wieners for lunch today?

Yup!

Wiener and winner sound alike.

I wonder if Hiro-san can guess it.

If she can, then she'll get more energetic.

And if she doesn't put on too much weight, either.

And then I pierced a hole in tube-shaped fish-paste cakes so the future can be seen.

It's a long exam, so we shouldn't strain ourselves either.

True. It's like a marathon.

Let's eat cutlets instead of Hiro-san and Sae-san.

This amount is perfect!

We need to be careful.

2,560 collected for January.

It's a misdelivery.

Do it well!

8236...

Oops...

I-I'll check it again.

8236...

I-I'll check it too.

8236?

8236.

8236.

8236.

8236.

8236.

8236.

8...

6823?

Stop it!!

It's true!

It's there.

Which means...

G-G-

Gorilla.

Asleep.

Panda.

Animal.

L-Layer!

TL note: this is shiritori.

Congrats, Sae!

Congratulations!

Uh, yeah.

Sae-san?

It kind of doesn't feel like reality.

Let's make it feel like that!

It's true!

You passed! You passed!

Yippee, Sae-san!

If people said you're the prime minister from today, could you believe it?

Well, I couldn't.

That's a complete lie, even.

All right! I'll follow your example!

I'll follow it!

You still have exams left, don't you, Hiro-san?

Yup, two more.

I can't accept it as a genuine success until those are over.

You applied at the Ama College of Arts, didn't you?

When are you getting the notification?

I;m expecting it to come this week, probably tomorrow.

It'll be all right. I'm sure.

My guardian!

Hey now!

Seems like I got admission.

Congrats!

Thanks.

It's the third one on my wish list.

That's amazing!

Congratulations!

But I actually failed the fourth one on my list.

Heh, I can't believe you passed the third one, but failed the fourth.

I guess art is difficult.

I'm sure the person who scored better didn't draw a very good picture.

What an idea...

If you were clapping while handing in the paper you might get a better evaluation.

I guess that'd be quite abstract...

Hiro, h-how is it?

It...

It?

It says I passed the waiting list.

What's a "waiting list", Miya-chan?

Waiting...

I think it means keeping the bench warm.

I don't get it at all.

When those people who passed but want to decline the offer turn it down,

and it's determined how much quota they have, people from the waiting list get accepted.

It was the same for me.

There are a lot of people who get admission from many art school entrance exams,

so there are many who receive a space.

I see.

Which means we can celebrate, right?

Or maybe not yet?

We can't celebrate yet.

After one week passes, everyone will get an express mail.

We need to stay calm for a week.

A-A-Acchoo.

Geez... Miya-chan...

Sowwies.

I'll pray for you.

Hey, hey!

We need to calm down.

It's such a nervous period.

We could let out some deep sighs.

Good idea!