Miyako and the Cats' Song Translation Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Strategy Conference Against the Mice
Ui: I thought since they're mice, surely they'd be small in size.....

Miyako: I was surprised to see them in such big sizes.

Azusa: We need to come up with some measures before those mice get hungry again and invade the food warehouse.

Miyako: But what exactly should we do? Even though we did beat them just then......

Ui: It's rather tough if we have to exterminate every last one of them, no matter how many of them there are.

Azusa: Yet I still want to be of some help as the cats are in trouble.......

Azusa, Miyako, Ui: Hmmmm...............

Yuno: Ah. Miya-chan, and also Azusa-chan, Ui-chan.

Yui: What are you doing here together?

Miyako: Ah, Yunocchi.

Ui: Big sis......

(Transition)

Yui: The weak points of mice?

Ui: Yeah. I wonder if there's any.

Yuno: Hmmm. Mice huh...... Speaking of the natural enemies of mice, I remember they're the cats, right?

Ui: We've thought of that as well, but if there're some ideas other than cats......

Azusa: .....The cats over there, they won't stand a chance, or rather, they're apparently frightened of them.

Yuno: Eh? What do you mean?

Azusa: I-It's nothing. I'm just talking to myself. Sorry.

Yui: Hmm. The weak points of mice other from cats huh..... Like plastic bottles filled with water!

TL: Yui is referring to the so-called "cat-repellent bottles" (ネコよけペットボトル), which are just plastic bottles filled with water. Apparently the Japanese thought the light reflected by the bottle may scare away the cats, but its effectiveness is not proven.

Azusa: .......That's a weak point of cats, not mice.

Yui: Really?

Azusa: And actually, plastic bottles have utterly no effect on repelling cats.

Yui: You serious!? But there are a bunch of houses around my place which have plastic bottles placed side by side!

Miyako: There certainly are. But during times like summer, or rather, when cats want to cool themselves down, they usually cling onto those bottles.

Yui: I can't imagine how cute such a spectacle would be, after hearing about it!

Miyako: It is pretty cute. What was a cat repellent has become a cat attactant.

Azusa: Um, Miyako-san you too, please stop straying off topic.

Miyako: Sorry sorry.

Yuno: Ahaha..... Umm, back onto the mice. Perhaps you can like set up mouse traps or something?

Ui: Would mouse traps really work on those mice......

Yuno: What else...... I wonder if there's a kind of smell that'd be a weak point of any animal?

Azusa: Smell, huh. What could possibly be their weakness.....?

Yuno: ......Sorry. I can only think as much as this as well......

Yuno: Hmmm....... Other than that, is there anything else that would be a weak point of mice.....?

Yuno, Azusa, Ui, Yui: Hmmmm..........

Miyako: ......I guess it has to be cats after all.

Azusa: Um, Miyako-san? I thought we're thinking of something other than cats......

Miyako: Nah, in the end the weak point of mice has to cats. That's what I realised.

Ui: You may be right but.....

Yui: If that's so, then I have a great idea!

Azusa: R-Really!? What would that be?

Yui: Then I'll go grab that from the club room!

Azusa: Eh, the club room......?

Translation by - Mann -