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This synopsis was made by Benoit Socias ( bsocia@ulb.ac.be ),
comments and corrections are welcome.
Find the other synopsis of the same manga by the same person at:
http://www.swb.de/~zahara/yo/mint.html

Enjoy! ^^

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MINTna bokura  - Chapter 8   [by Wataru Yoshimizu  - Ribon Jan'98 ]

Title page : ... there's no title... it won't spoil the episode !
01- There's a plastic bag with cakes inside.  Noeru asks what it is.
02- Maria says they're handmade.  She made it so that Noeru can give the cakes
    to Yoshiaki.  Noeru tastes some.  He asks what's the strange taste.  It
    hurts Maria's feelings.  He apologizes, but he wonders what is inside.
03- Maria used 'Earl Grey' tea's leaves.  It doesn't smell good, but Kanako
    said it tasted good !  Maria asks Sasa to taste too, but he doesn't like
    cake nor cookies nor candies.  She says she can't rely on him.  Anyway,
    Yoshiaki is gentle and he'll like the cookies !  She gives the bag to
    Noeru.
04- Noeru thinks about Maria's Yoshiaki-fever.  Maria says she has to tell
    him something.  She'll do it during lunch-break.
05- In the park, at noon, Maria asks Noeru if he wants them to return to
    their previous school together.  (Since she came here for Hirobe, and she
    likes somebody else right now, she has no reason to stay here.
06- And Noeru already asked her to return... and he wouldn't have to be dressed
    like a girl anymore.)  Noeru thinks about the situation... how he could
    come back to a normal life.
07- He'll think about it and decide later.  Maria asks if she can tell
    Yoshiaki he's her brother.  Absolutely not !!!  She understood.
08- Noeru is on his bed... what should he do ?  Wouldn't it be simplier to
    wait until summer vacation to return ?  He'd still be able to see Sasa
    during holidays... and he'd see his old friends at school.
    Miyuu asks him how she could go from here to Ebisu in one hour.
    He thinks he won't see Miyuu.
09- Since he's half-dreaming, she asks again.  He asks her what she'll go there.
10- He guess she'll see the old man again !?  She asks if he has a plan with
    Sasa.  She leaves and he still thinks about the old man.
11- At Ebisu's Garden Place, Noeru and Sasa are waiting.  Sasa asks why they
    didn't go see Shinjuku's Game Softs as they planned.
12- Does he want to buy something at the department store ?  Watch a movie
    at Garden Cinema ?  Visit the Beer Memorial Hall ?  Then why !?
    Noeru is sorry and says they should have gone to Shinjuku.  The place is so
    big, how could he hope to find Miyuu.
13- But he sees her and the old man sitting at a cafe.  He hides behing a
    column.  Sasa asks what's happening.  Noeru asks him to keep quiet.
14- Sasa notices she's the girl who shares her room with Noeru.  He guess
    the rumour is true.  Then he realises...
15- ...the man is his father !  (Noeru is very surprised.)
16- Sasa runs to his father (Noeru can't stop him) and asks what is he doing.
17- Is he on a date with a student ?  He misjudged him !!  The father wants to
    explain : that's a misunderstanding, she's his daughter.
18- Noeru is lost... he can't follow the situation... are they brother and
    sister ?  No.
19- Sasa's real father is dead.  The man here is the second husband of his
    mother.  They're not of the same blood.  But the man was married before he
    met his mother and they had a child.  And that was Makimura Miyuu !
(Once again, about family names... Sasa did know his new father's family name...
 He could have guessed Miyuu was his father's daughter !)
20- Sasa and Miyuu are watching each other in a strange way.  Since the people
    around are watching them, the father suggest they go elsewhere.  He asks
    who is Noeru.  Sasa's classmate.  Miyuu's roommate.
21- He asks him to return alone, he has to speak to his childrens.  They're
    sorry, but they leave Noeru alone.
22- In his room, Noeru walks impatiently.  Miyuu returns.  He was waiting for
    her.  She'll explain him the situation.  Her parents did marry after they
    graduated from this school.
23- When she was born, they were living with her maternal grandfather and
    grandmother in the same house.  Since her mother often was at work, it was
    like if she wasn't there.  One day, her sister's mother's husband died.
    So, her aunt came living in the same house with her son (Sasa).
    Her father fell in love with her aunt, her father divorced and then married
    her aunt.  Sasa always did as he didn't knew all this.
24- Noeru shows a figure of the situation to help Ribon's readers.
    
   Sasa's       Sasa's         Miyuu's Divorced Miyuu's         Miyuu's
   Father=======Mother=========Father===========Mother==========Stepfather
            |          Married             |            Married
    Dead    |                              |
          Sasa                           Miyuu

    Understood ?
    Miyuu continues to see her father.  She started to talk to him last year.
    That's why there's a rumour about her.  So, what's the relation between
    Sasa and Miyuu ?  Cousins !
25- She was watching Sasa a lot since her father said his son was in the same
    school.  
26- Noeru feels something strange in his breast.  Miyuu says her father hadn't
    told her about his previous marriage, so, it was a shock.  She asks Noeru
    if he feels good.  He does'nt answer.  He's got a strange feeling.
27- The day after, Noeru sees Miyuu and Sasa talking together.
28- When they notice him, he runs away.  They don't understand why.
    Noeru never saw Miyuu smiling this way before.  He feels a pain.
29- For the first time he...  what shall he do ?

End of chapter 8 -- To be continued...

Wataru says she's been eating and playing billiard with Obana-san (Kodomo no
Omocha's author) and Fujii-san (It seems it is a typographical error... it
should be Fujita-san, who is Kero-Kero Chaimu's author)