IN REGARD TO THE TYPHOON, IN REGARD TO THE CULTURAL FESTIVAL. 

 [Scene: Outside. Konata walks up to Tsukasa. ]
 
 Konata: (yawns) Good morning. 
 
 Tsukasa: Good morning, Kona-chan. It's hot again today, isn't it?
 
 Konata: Yes, and thanks to that I feel drowsy. Even though it was cool until
 yesterday because of  the typhoon. 
 
 Kagami: We have clear weather after typhoons. All the clouds get blown away. 
 Nothing's left to block the sunlight. 
 
 Konata: Which is this year why we had that new word (台風一過) to describe that. 
 There are lots of them. (TL note: Konata says kyoudai ika here  .)
 
 Kagami: Funny! 
 
 Konata: Hmm?
 
 Tsukasa: Oneechan, can we stop at a supermarket on the way back home?
 
 Kagami: Sure, I guess. What do you want to get? 
 
 Tsukasa: We're out of eggs. Mom told me to get some.  
 
 Kagami: Okay. Sure. Hmm. 
 
 Konata: Say, Kagami. 
 
 Kagami: (startled) Oh, what is it?
 
 Konata: I wanna ask you something. What was funny about what I said earlier?
 
 Kagami: Before? Just to be sure, you were joking, right? About how it was 
 a powerful family (強大一家)? You didn't really think it was one big family,
 did you?
 
 Konata:  Hmm . . . 
 
 [SCENE: Ryoo Academy. The school chime rings.]
 
 Tsukasa: When you hear the chime, you really feel that you're in school. 
 
 Konata: Yes, it makes us feel tense. 
 
 Tsukasa: I'll have to work hard today. 
 
 Konata: (sfx: being lazy) 
 
 Tsukasa: Hey! You have to work hard today too, Kona-chan. 
 
 Konata: It's all right if I don't. It's a bother. 
 
 (A loud rumbling thing rushes from the hallway into the classroom.
 It's Kuroi-sensei.)
 
 Kuroi: (gasps for breath) Everyone, to your seats!
 (coughs, gathers her composure) Did all of you have a good 
 summer vacation?
 
 (The class mumbles/murmurs.) 
 
 Kuroi: But the vacation is over, so get back on studying and working hard.
 All right?
 
 Konata: Excuse me, sensei?
 
 Kuroi: Oh, Izumi. What's up?
 
 Konata: Your hair is really messed up so even if you say that, your statement
 has no power to convince us. 
 
 Kuroi: Can it! You asked me to play a late-night net game with you! 
 
 Konata: Yes, but I'm here and awake. 
 
 Kuroi: It has to happen on one of the rare times she's here on time! 
 
 Tsukasa: (laughs nervously) 
 
 [Scene: inside the school. The chime rings, indicating the day is over.]
 
 Kuroi: All of you, be careful going home. 
 
 Konata: Sensei, this is about tomorrow's homeroom. 
 
 Kuroi: What's up?
 
 Konata: I want to talk about this year's bunkasai.
 
 Kuroi: That's right, we do need to think about that. 
 Do you want to suggest something?
 
 Konata: Since we have this chance, I want to do something with the class
 that'll leave us with a great memory. 
 
 Kuroi: So . . . like a coffee shop? 
 
 Konata: A coffee shop?
 
 Kuroi: What's wrong? Don't you work at a place like that?
 
 Konata: That's why I don't want to do it here. It'll be a bother to do that both at work
 and at school. 
 
 Kuroi: You have no interest in anything but your hobbies. Talk about throwing 
 cold water on my idea. 
 
 Konata: Other standard ideas include selling takoyaki or yakisoba, right?
 
 Kuroi: I personally would want beer and drinking snacks. That's probably a 
 non-starter. 

 Konata: Now all we're doing is talking about food. Where's the culture part of 
 our bunkasai (culture festival)?
 
 Miyuki: We can say that it's food culture.  
 
 Konata: I get it. 
 
 Kuroi: Good point. 
 
 Miyuki: I was joking. 
 
 Kuroi: Well, other than that . . . we could do a haunted mansion or a planetarium. 
 
 Konata: But since this is our bunkasai, we could try to do something really special. 
 
 Kuroi: Like what? 
 
 Konata: Setting aside all the half-baked "culture" and looking at something magnificent from
 this age, such as nature and man, befitting our class and history teacher Kuroi-sensei. 
 
 Kuroi: That sounds really boring!  But perhaps you're right. We'd still end up with something
 we couldn't show off to others.  
 
 [SCENE: The Izumi house.]
 
 Yui: Heya! Good evening!  
 
 Konata: Yui-neesan. Welcome. 
 
 Yui: Thanks! I came here to visit. Yutaka's here with me, too! 
 
 Yutaka: Good evening. 
 
 Konata: Yu-chan, it's been a while. 
 
 Yutaka: It has been a while, Konata-oneechan. 
 
 Konata: You don't have to be so formal. Just call me whatever, like Yui does. 
 
 Yutaka: Thank you. 
 
 Yui: Hey Yutaka, get me a beer. 
 
 Yutaka: Oneechan? 
 
 Konata: You can open up the fridge without asking. It's fine. 
 
 Yutaka: But . . . 
 
 Konata: I'm telling you it's fine. What's up? 
 
 Yutaka: I was just thinking about how I'm in the same family as you, Konata-neechan. 
 
 Konata: Oh, that's right. Yuu-chan's pretty smart. 
 
 Yui: (drinking beer) That's all fine, but you're basically praising yourself. 
 
 Konata: Anyway, I'll be your sempai, and that was my advice. 
 Yu-chan's studying for exams. I bet that's hard. 
 
 Yutaka: Not really. I just deal with problems on the day they come up. 
 
 Konata: I had something like that today. 
 
 Yutaka: What was it?
 
 Konata: I was talking with a friend about the typhoon. I thought that all the typhoons
 coming were like a family, so I called them ika. Was that wrong?
 
 Yui: (laughs) Konata's dumb! The season includes multiple typhoons. That's
 just common sense! 
 
 Yutaka: (quietly) Oneechan, that's wrong. It really is like a family, just like the word.
 
 Yui: (shocked)  It was the special vocabulary for that year . . . 
 There goes the allure I have as an older sister.
 
 
 END PART 3