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'Nah, not really. At most we compare sizes and tell dirty jokes.' 'Compare sizes of what?' 'You know... that.'

I tried all sorts of things — mixing yellow powder with white to make brown, mixing crystals with powder to make dust, combining liquids with solids to make mud, and so on.

"Ohh, so you're a werewolf, Arc-san." "I'm mixed-blood, so I don't go around transforming or anything."

From discrediting rival companies to obtaining classified information — an indispensable presence for major corporations, it's high-risk but high-reward work.

I'd imagined — without anyone saying so — that fresh graduates would stick to behind-the-scenes work like preparing documents and making photocopies. I was gloriously wrong.

Good-looking, brilliant, athletic, rich family, and on top of that he's even the student council vice president — your textbook perfect guy.

As you can tell from her un-Japanese beautiful features, Yuna is actually not fully Japanese. She's a quarter — her grandmother is Western.

Back in the day, doing something bad would normally earn you a slap or a knuckle-rap from a schoolteacher.

Don't you think it wouldn't be surprising if skipping out affected your school record?

For instance, in my father's work, timing matters enormously for buying and selling, and he would sometimes say or write to colleagues — without getting into specifics — that 'there's a right time for things.'

No animal builds beautiful churches, plays tennis, tells jokes, composes songs, or travels to the moon.

She was so worried she kept pacing back and forth in the waiting room.

She was happy one moment, sad the next.

Sponges absorb water, so they're convenient for things like blurring watercolor paint.

Well, it depends on the situation — sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.

When doing an appraisal, you have to borrow the original from the owner to examine the painting's authenticity and condition.

If the pen's travel is too short or its movement too slow, the gesture isn't recognized properly and you can't operate it as intended.

Why is it that some plants become annual herbs while others become perennial woody plants?

A charm, you see, is something like when a girl makes a wish to be together with the person she likes.

They convey approval by nodding, clapping, smiling, and sometimes bursting into laughter.

Have you taken cooking lessons or anything like that?

The rain kept starting and stopping all night long.

A true friend wouldn't betray you.

A true gentleman wouldn't betray a friend.

My father sometimes says childish things.

Flying and building nests are in a bird's nature.

She turned pale and red by turns.

She's honest, so she'd never do something like lie.

She's honest, so she'd never accept a bribe or anything like that.

She has the ability to speak and write French.