from the Otomate Hamefura Pirates Website, translated with GT & DeepL

Katarina: "Keith, does your body hurt? Are you injured? Do you feel sick?"

Keith: "I thought I could protect big sister properly this time, but the fact that your face is looking at me like that......"

Katarina: "What are you talking about! You protected me well!"

Keith: "I see......... That's good to know......."

Keith smiled softly. The moment I saw his expression, I was so relieved and miserable that tears welled up in my eyes.

Katarina: "Keith, pull yourself together ......!　Please don't die, Keith~!!"

Keith: "Big sister..... don't worry. I'll...... always be here with you......."

I feel like I was in a daze. Keith puts his hand on my cheek, fumbling to wipe away my tears. And then— I felt something soft touch my lips as his face came close to mine.

Katarina: (......Eh?)

My skirt absorbed the water and sank heavily. I thought I heard someone's voice in the distance, but my consciousness was not clear, probably because of the impact of falling into the water.

I'm in pain. I can't breathe. I can't move my body properly.

What should I do? If I don't do something, I'll meet my doom.

—somebody please help me——

Nicol: "—Katarina!"

At that moment, I suddenly felt something touch my lips, and the air I wanted filled my body. The moment someone touched me, I slowly stopped sinking.

I was supposed to be underwater, but somehow I felt the wind blowing. I didn't know whether I was in the water or in the strong wind, but in the midst of this strange sensation, someone was hugging me.

Notes:

These are probably the last previews, I think!

They had announced that the game went from the original release date of December 23, 2021, to February 10, 2022. I haven't check but I’m assuming pre-order period will be extended as well. I’m not too surprised though, they probably wanted to extend the preorder period to last until to Christmas season to increase sales. 

Expectation: Nicol saves Katarina from drowning by giving her air through his mouth (basically a kiss like that Levy and Gajeel scene from Fairy Tail)

owo!! lmao, I don't know about being the "#1 hamefura blog on tumblr" (I-I... I thought I was an art blog... :')) I mean I just like to ramble about hamefura lmao but I'm always happy to answer questions!

Yeah... Keith x Katarina is a hard subject to talk about considering how violent reactions can be depending on who you're talking to. I remember when Season 1 was airing, people really doesn't like Keith as a romantic option for Katarina due to them being siblings, and I'm honestly waiting for those people to react to the S2 OP and S2 in general. I've talked to a few people who don't like KeiKata at all, and they have the absolute right to dislike any ship that they want, but it did make me sad to know how much Keith is hated by the EN Fandom considering how loved he is in the JP Fandom. He's pretty much the most favorite male character and the second most shipped with Katarina.

-> hamefura x(s2) & ln spoilers ahead <-

// hamefura light novel spoilers

Yeah, they did :DD The self-reflection they both did in their respective POVs are stuff I've always wanted to see in hamefura that I'm going crazy just thinking about hgfjhdsfg. Getting progressions in their character is so satisfying, it almost makes me feels so bad that it'll take years for the manga and anime to get to it (head in hands). It's like Yamaguchi had a checklists of things needed to be elaborated on, needed to be addressed or the specific things people didn't like about Keith and Geordo and addressed it all in one book fjhgsjdhf

From what I could gather from Volume 11 from the various spoilers I've seen, there's honestly a lot of good moments in Volume 11 in general. I can't wait to be able to read this book myself in a few months.

After confessing in Volume 3 and 4, it's so nice to finally have their feelings acknowledged after 6-7 volumes. It shows that Katarina really is growing and maturing, and unconsciously really wants to eventually live wholeheartedly in this new world. The Geordo and Keith scenes, while really identical, is still both cute in their own unique ways. The endpoint is identical but I appreciate the minor differences that defines and distinguishes Katarina's relationship with both boys. Their reactions as Katarina leaves each of them with a confession of gratitude towards receiving their love is so cute, I want to see it drawn by Hidaka Nami so badly!!

And no one is really talking about it, but the fact that Katarina's POV mentions that her dream by the end of the day is herself, Geordo and Keith smiling happily together is so cute it's making me lose my marbles hgfjshdgf its so short but it stole my heart and the implications of it is turning my heart into mushy jelly.

I haven't watched the episode yet (in fact I haven't watched any episode since S2 Ep8 qwq) but I can't help but agree! I'm not a KeiKata fan (I mean I do like it, it's just not far up top for me) but even I'm quite excited to see the anime finally reach this point. From the screenshots I've seen on tumblr it seems to see pretty well adapted (the KeiKata parts I mean) but I guess I can only really tell when I watch the episode.

Yeah, I'm not expecting everyone to be okay with the development in the current episode. I'm sure a lot of fans (anime-onlys) didn't expect Keith's feelings to be revealed so soon. Or at least Keith wasn't their next bet. But personally, with the release of Volume 11 and the Keith-related revelations in it, this week's episode is a great way for me to remind myself of Keith's side of the story and appreciate the good fortune he's currently receiving in the novels (which @maboroshi-no has translated and you can read it here. spoiler warning obviously).

I know not everyone accepts Keith's position as a contender for Katarina's heart, much less him being a close runner up right now, but I just want to emphasize that obviously hamefura plans on taking Keith's feelings for Katarina seriously. She wasn't bothered by Keith's confession, she didn't act disgusted because they are step-siblings, she was flustered and confused by it just like with Geordo's confession.

To anyone else besides the keikata anon who is reading this, I wont elaborate on Katarina's feelings on his confession (you can read the post I linked for some implications on that, though it's a lot of spoiler stuff) but to those who are disgusted by Keith's advances because of their sibling relationship I just want to say that you are perfectly valid for feeling that way. Just know that the series (and by extension, Katarina) is gonna be taking Keith's feelings seriously like he's a normal suitor. The series (and Katarina) recognizes his feelings as genuine and is giving him a chance to fight for her heart. I know lots of people would find it weird, but there's gonna be more where that came from, so :))

I waited specifically after I translate the last(?) previews before replying to this but yeah. Indeed he does! Good for you and all your fellow KeiKata fans out there :)) Just because it's Geordo doesn't mean we should celebrate the victory of the other characters XDD No need to count all the chickens before the hatch (though I am on team Geordo ;))

Geordo and Keith are confirmed to get a kiss in the hamefura pirates game, in almost identical situations to their novel/manga counterparts, so I wonder how it'll be for Alan, Nicol, Rozy and Silva. I'm assuming they would get kisses too, and completely original ones at that! That's pretty exciting, actually.

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it's off now, don't worry haha. I could keep it, but i'll take it off. still won't drop context but lets just say he's having a great day ;))

(Eyyy nice to see someone who doesn’t hate Gerald for once lol jk XDD)

Well, there’s a lot we don’t see from their childhood, so there’s a few small details that we can speculate on. Like you said, constantly flaunting his sibling status to Gerald is a great excuse to be as concerned of her as he is and makes it seem normal that he is always by side without suspicion. 

(proceeds to pull out a scene from a different villainess otome isekai manga with almost the exact same dynamic hjgsjgsjdf)

There’s also the fact that Katarina has always wanted a little sibling, and I can probably guess that maybe Keith had tried to distance himself from the image of a little brother in the past in order to be seen more as a man than as family, but either the endearment to the term on his side (because it is was the start of joining a happy and warm family) or on Katarina’s side (since she’d probably be worried if Keith stopped calling her “big sister”, suspecting that he might be upset with her or unsatisfied to have her as a sibling) might be drawing him back from separating himself from it. 

Though you are right to suspect that his lack of action is giving him bad karma now, as in Volume 6, he gets confused on how to act around Katarina because he fears that being direct and acting on his feelings might scare his beloved sister away. Even though being direct usually works when it comes to Katarina, he is still deciding whether or not to cross the line because he doesn’t know what areas his sister is comfortable yet when it comes to romance. 

Gerald can easily be honest with his feelings, but Keith is very aware that he can’t act the same because Katarina views him as family. Good luck to him on trying to slowly find a comfortable area where he can have best of both worlds before transitioning to a full-fledged suitor in Katarina’s eyes fjsdhgfjs

As for Miri and Luigi’s stance on the matter, well we haven’t actually seen their parents in a while, and when we do it’s very short glimpses. Keith really doesn’t seem to act like a contender to Katarina’s feelings unless it’s around the student council members, so anything caring that he does towards Katarina in front of their parents is probably just seen as being a loving family member rather than anything romantic. 

For a while there’s been some misinformation spread that Miri approves of Keith’s feelings (in fact it’s even in the TVtropes page for hamefura until now), and as someone who reads the English LNs and knows someone who reads the JP/CH novels, I can guarantee that it isn’t true. It’s fun to speculate on it, but if you want want concrete proof then I can’t give you any hgsjfgsj. The idea of their parents approving Keith’s feelings is very endearing, and it means they would love Keith to completely join the family through this way and hand Katarina over to someone who can fully devote themself to her, but also personally I already think that Miri and Luigi already completely sees Keith as a Claes so they might think of having a positive reaction like that immediately. 

Then again, many have already told me that step sibling relationships are approved of, if not encouraged, during the era that hamefura seems to be set in, so who knows. They could probably approve of such relationship, but whether or not they know is something that I still suspect as being unlikely, unless proven otherwise. I’d like to hear other people’s take on it, if mine is too insensitive to Keith or his family or something jhgfsdfgdsj