If you're prone to nosebleeds (at least of the anime type), skip this page. In fact, skip this chapter. Why? Because the chapter page prominently features Asagi in a bikini, and Fuuka also wears one once they change at the pool.
I guess Koiwai met the newspaper man, because he subscribed. He shows Jumbo and Yotsuba what he got out of it: tickets to Water World. As Yotsuba is punching Jumbo's palms, she says, "OHHH! THAT PLACE!?" Jumbo asks her if she knows it; she doesn't, so he tells her she shouldn't say things just for the sake of it. Also, he explains it. It's sort of like a cross between a pool and a theme park. "Yep... yep," Yotsuba says, though she clearly doesn't understand. Jumbo asks if they want to go, and how many tickets they got. Turns out they have four, so one more can go with them. Koiwai considers Yanda. We heard him mentioned in the first chapter, but we're not meeting him yet; Jumbo has another person in mind. He asks Yotsuba if she's good friends with the girls next door; Yotsuba answers in the affirmative. He asks if he knows the tall one with the long hair. You mean the one who "saved" her from Fuuka? The one who introduced her to air conditioning? The one who turned her assassination plot around on her, and played airplane with her strawberry? That girl? "That's Asagi!" He asks in a very positive-leading manner if she'd want to go to the pool with "big sister Asagi" ("Asagi-onee-chan"), to which she responds that she does. So he tells her to go ask Asagi, and she dashes off to do so. Koiwai tells him to ask her himself instead of using Yotsuba. Jumbo protests that he's too shy. (And seeing Asagi in a bikini would help this?) Later, Yotsuba returns with great news: "She said she'll come!" He is excited about the news.
The next day, guess who's waiting outside the Koiwai home.
Asagi? Noooo...
It's Fuuka and Ena! (Wouldn't they need another ticket? I guess they'd be able to pick one up there.) Fuuka is wearing a shirt with a frog on it, and the word "pyonkichi" below the frog. (A reference to Dokonjou Gaeru?) Both of them have always wanted to go. Koiwai asks where Asagi is, and Fuuka tells him she's been on vacation in Okinawa. So her sisters are subbing in. I have a feeling that it normally wouldn't matter to Koiwai, but he knows Jumbo was really wanting Asagi, and won't react all that well to his expectations being shattered.
Speaking of Jumbo, here he is now! Pretty formal shirt and pants, necktie, and a good-sized bouquet. Fuuka is amused by this, especially considering the intended destination. She "accepts" the flowers, but he tells her to shut up and get lost. (Scary.) He turns to Yotsuba, and asks if she heard him say "Asagi-san". (I heard him say "Asagi-onee-chan", but that's splitting hairs. Loooong hairs. :) ) Fuuka gets the point of what he wanted, but believes he might change his mind about her after seeing her in a swimsuit. He blows off her statement, but tells everyone to get into the car.
They arrive in a parking lot. Fuuka talks about the wave pool, and how she can't wait to— wait a minute. They're at the city pool! Jumbo figures this is more than enough for kids. Yotsuba is still excited, even though it's not Water World. Ena is satisfied with it; she points out that she heard they renovated it.
Having changed into her stripéd one-piece, Yotsuba runs out, prompting a leg to call after her. (I guess she changed with Fuuka and Ena, and that was Fuuka? Or maybe not.) She looks out over the pool. There's a waterslide across the way. The men note that it looks nice. Fuuka agrees. (And here's Fuuka in a bikini! And Ena in a cute perspectiveless floral one-piece.) Koiwai and Jumbo look at Fuuka. She asks if her sexiness has his tongue. He answers in the affirmative, saying that she surprised him. He gives her a big smack on the back, saying "NOT BAD! NOT BAD AT ALL, FUUKA-CHAN!!" He asks Koiwai for his opinion. "Very impressive," he says. Jumbo seems to agree: "Impressive! That's the word. Impressive, indeed." She kinda gets that she's being made fun of, and tells the "dirty old men" to stop saying that. Jumbo points out that a lot of guys like a little more "meat around the hips that way," prompting her to kick him into the pool. He struggles in the water, and climbs out, saying she scares him. (Yotsuba hands him a towel.) Fuuka asks if he's unable to swim. She asks Koiwai if it could be that he sinks like a stone. (On that online site, she instead calls him a kanaduchi, or "(iron) hammer".) Koiwai doesn't think there's anything wrong with that, so she pushes him in, too, and laughs at him when he comes out. Yotsuba, thinking it's a game, pushes Fuuka in. They find that she can't swim, either, and she apologizes.
Yotsuba wants in the pool, so Jumbo picks her up and flings her, horrifying Fuuka, who calls him an idiot... only to find that Yotsuba swims like an adorable li'l fish. Ena is surprised at how well Yotsuba swims. Ena considers herself pretty good, be able to swim almost 25 meters. (A little more than 27 yards, or a tiny bit more than 82 feet. Surprisingly, even the Yen Press version doesn't give the conversion.) Koiwai asks Fuuka and Jumbo if they don't have any pride, being grown adults. Jumbo agrees, but Fuuka denies being an adult. (Japan considers the age of majority to be 20, although there is currently debate to lower it to 18.) Yotsuba wants him to do it again, but the lifeguard tells him not to; it's dangerous.
Yotsuba is awed by the tall chair. She tells the lifeguard to come down, and she does. Then Yotsuba climbs up, sits in the chair, and looks out over the pool. The lifeguard asks her to come down because "that's where I'm supposed to sit." Yotsuba elects to take a leap into the water from there, and swim off.
Ena takes the waterslide. So does Yotsuba, looking ferociously cute. She comes to the end while Ena is still nearby.
Koiwai floats in a swim ring... and is tipped over by Yotsuba. Fuuka sees her coming for her, and tries to get away, but can't. Jumbo, bearing ice cream, hears her laughter.
Over ice cream, Fuuka remarks about Yotsuba's swimming ability, and Yotsuba returns the favor, eheh. Fuuka asks how she can swim that well.
Yotsuba announces her swimming class, and Ena applauds. She restates the situation: Koiwai, Jumbo, and Fuuka can't swim, even though they're adults. She tells them to do what she says. After no response, she smacks the water and says she can't hear them. They respond to that. She tells them to start with the "pike". They don't understand. She says you have to think like a fish.
Her class turns out to be a failure.
Once out of the water, Fuuka wonders why she can't even float. Yotsuba believes that your buoyancy is inversely proportionate to your weight. The two adults seem to imply a causal relationship between the two factors, but Fuuka denies it. They tell her to give up, as she's one of them: the 50-kg-and-up club can't float. (Roughly 110 pounds.) She pushes them into the pool. As Yotsuba notes, they don't float. Kind of a creepy ending, there...
The sketch this time is of Yotsuba in shirt, shorts, and flip-flops again, in front of the lockers. Only her skin is hatched; nothing else is shaded.
Next time: Chapter 13!
