Tattoon Master

DO NOT SELL OR RENT!!

Do not associate with people from the world outside and never disgrace the wise teachings of the ancestor.

These are the words that have been kept for 230 years in this Highland region.

These are the laws of my tribe.....

I came all the way here, leaving my dearest family.

As an ethnologist, I want to know at any cost....

The secrets of the Pattern Magic, the tradition of your tribe....

That's....No way!

I have to obey the law, scholar from Japan....

Our beliefs are very simple.

As I thought, it's the Pattern Magic.....

A man with black hair.....

Hibio.

100 yen will do.

Here.

Here you go.

Stop smoking.

Jeesh, women find fault with everything.

Hibio.

Please stop.

Damn.

Or I will scream for help.

Eh, that'll be great.

How about inviting some of your friends and let go fool around?

NO!

Oops!

You want to go dancing?

NO!

Who did that?

You guys have some nerve doing this sort of thing in front of me!

Hibio-san!

We were just talking about the reunion meeting with our classmate in junior high here...

I went to a girls' only junior high...

Whatever. But if you are going to waste time on girls, then don't do it while standing in the street.

Ummm...thank you very much.

And you!

You are in this situation because your skirt is too short and it shows off your fat legs.

Wh..What a prick! I can't believe I thought he was cute.

He is a good and caring person, but.....

He has extremely distorted views about women.

Jeesh! Women! Every one of them!

They are all extremely vain, selfish, and nothing but trouble.

What's that!?

Hibio.

What do you want?!

You should show your face when you have business with a person.

Now, under the laws of Tattoon, we have become husband and wife.

Husband and wife?

Husband and wife?

But, it was such a long journey here.

Searching for Hibio was like trying to find one particular grain of sand in a desert.

But, finally...I have found you.

Hey....

Now, I....

I'm sorry everyone....

Damn.

You have to tell me what's going on.

I want to, but......

How far did you go with her?

You, jackass!

She had this.

Th..this is.....

Ma...Masae, why did you have to die!?

This again?

That woman is my ex-mother. We were deserted by her two years ago, or have you forgotten?

But, if your novels had sold well, then she wouldn't have had to continue her studies and die.

Masae, since you left, Hibio talks to me as if he were a delinquent, and then he brings home a foreign girl.

I told you I've never seen her before.

This might tell us something.

Masae!

Shut up!

Hello! Hibio, how are you!?

I was nearly killed while researching the Tattoon tribe.

But the leader of the tribe, Nima-san, fell in love with you when she saw your picture.

Masae.

Because of this, I was allowed to stay and study Tattoon on the condition that I would make you her husband.

What?!

Masae!

Nima-san will see you before I will, so be happy together! HI-BI-O! I'm so envious!

That hag!

Masae!

She not only deserted me, but then sold me as well!

Hibio?

Are you feeling better?

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. According to the laws of the tribe, Nima-san is.....

GET OUT!

All of them are......

Get out? But under the laws of our tribe we are....

I don't care! Go Home!

You, go home! Go home! Go home! Go home!

NOOOOO!

I absolutely will not go home no matter what!

A Tattoo?

I came here to live with Hibio.

How selfish you are acting......

Apologize, Hibio.

Apologize to stop her.

What?

NOOOOO!

Second floor, you are too noisy!

It's no joke! A woman like this.....

Hibio-san, not enough sleep?

There are rings under your eyes.

Yeah, kinda...

It's no joke. A woman like that.

She appeared suddenly and... husband and wife? She is crazy.

Well, tell me something.

What is the easiest way to leave a lover?

Huh?

I am asking you!

Y..yes.

The best way is of course....

Be a brute of a man as much as possible, and treat her very coldly.

Then, snap out that you are leaving. That's it. Perfect!

I see.

Hey!

You have alot of nerve to smoke in a place like this, Hibino-kun.

What? Oh it's you, Fujimatsu.

Well, are you going to tell the teacher about this?

You, the serious and strict class secretary.

Don't bring your cigarette smelling face close to me.

Be careful with that arrow!

Hibio-san!

Hibino-kun.

Be a brute of a man as much as possible, and treat her very coldly.

Hibio!

Don't greet me with a hug!

I'm going out for a while.

Where are you going, old man?

Why are you waving?

But father said that it is Japanese etiquette to leave the young couple alone.

Nima-san, you.....

Hibio, what did you just say?

Hibio, you called me Nima for the first time!

Call me Nima again, please!

Look! I know nothing about you.

And I am not the kind of person you think I am.

How can we talk about love?

Basically, you are wrong.

You only saw a picture like this one.

And then you tell me that we are husband and wife. Don't you think it's a bit abnormal?

Not at all!

Though at first I only knew you from the picture,

Things are different now.

W...what?

Hibio, you are the person I thought you were.

That's not possible!

It is!

It isn't!

IS TOO!

IS NOT!

Now I am with you, Hibio. Isn't that enough?

When I first met you, I fell and Hibio tended me.

At that moment, I learned something about Hibio.

That's how a man and a woman begin to understand each other.

I may not be able to comprehend everything about you, but at least I believe in you.

The important thing is that each of us gathers parts of the others feelings and tries to understand them.

This is the teaching of Nima's tribe.

Try to be realistic!

We may feel that way in the beginning but our feelings will change soon enough.

No matter how much we understand or believe in each other, inevitably love ends.

Just as it did with my parents.

Meow.

Now you understand, right. Go home before you regret coming here.

No, I won't.

What?!

My feelings will not change.

Oh, is that so? Then do what ever you want.

If you won't go home then I will leave.

Bye, try to be happy with my old man.

Hibio.

Hibio, what about dinner?

I don't care!

What has happened, Hibio-san.

Nothing serious. Sorry, but let me stay here just for tonight.

Are you serious?

My feelings will not change.

Not me.....

Why...why does this tingle?

Hibio

Masae!

Masae...

Hibio is somewhat stubborn, but he is gentle at heart and a good kid.

Masae

I guarantee it.

What?

N..nothing.

Hibio-san, if you play hooky, I wanna go with you.

I wonder if she went home.

You arrived late without an excuse and now you are playing hooky?

You again.

Leave us alone.

A teacher is on their way to check this area.

I have decided to play hooky.

Wait a minute!

Hibino-kun.

Hibio!

Huh?

Hibio!

How dare you do something like that!