Translation: Silver Diamond - Chapter VI
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akujunkanYou all thought I'd given up, didn't you? Well, I haven't, I'm just a bit behind.
Silver Diamond: Part VI
(Silver Diamond copyright 2004 by Sugiura Shiho)
(Translation copyright 2004 by gmorrison (hermestrismegistus at operamail.net))
I took the time to translate this, type it out and format it, so please don't take it without my permission.
As usual:
Words in " " are spoken aloud.
Words not in " " are internal dialogue.
Words in ( ) are character asides.
Words in {{ }} are Sugiura's asides.
Words in (( )) are my comments on the text/translation.
Words in [ ] are telepathic communication between two characters.
Words in // // are descriptions of action.
Words in \\ \\ are flashbacks.
Words preceeding an * will be footnoted at the page break.
Double returns = page breaks.
New ones:
Words in double double-quotations " " " " indicate when The Prince is speaking through Kinrei.
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cinderfalling asked for actual names. She gets them. I hope this makes things easier for all of you lot too.
Any time there's a whole bunch of dialogue from Random Person/Student/Male etc, you can imagine a host of people talking, even if it looks as though it's only one person in my translation.
Rakan: "..........................."
"Sensei..."
Nurse: "Oh, Rakan-kun... What's the matter? Do you feel sick?
Rakan: "Um..."
"Outside..."
Nurse: "Outside?"
Nurse: "What about..."
Nurse: "Outside?"
Chapter Head: "An Invisible Assassin, Sent From Another World"
Rakan: Of course!
"......................"
"Uh, no, it's nothing."
"Sorry, but can I use this door?"
Nurse: "What? Sure."
Nurse: "Wait a minute! Not in your indoor shoes!"*
Rakan: "(Sorry, I'm in a hurry.)"
...of course.
Other people really can't see any of it - not that weird grass; not Chigusa; not Narushige; or that strange man.
What is this?
....Chigusa.
*((Japanese ,don't wear shoes indoors. However, you can't spend all day at school or work barefoot, so people have a separate set of indoor shoes for those places. The nurse is peeved because Rakan's wearing his indoor school shoes outside.))
Rakan: Chigusa's been hurt again. That guy shot him with another of those strange tree guns. Not that I heard the gunshot or anything. I suppose that strange grass can mute sound or something.
I suppose I should be happy that other people can't see any of it, but what should I do?
I should probably start by getting to Chigusa without anyone seeing me, especially that guy over there.
Why did he shoot Chigusa? What reason could he have? I don't understand this.
Touno: \\You Imposter Prince.\\
Rakan: I don't understand this, and I don't know what I should do, but at the very least I have to go and help.
Chigusa: \\Anyway, they heal really quickly.\\
Rakan: He said they heal.
Chigusa: \\And I don't feel pain either.\\
Rakan: And he said that he doesn't feel pain.
Chigusa.
I'm in pain.
When you're wounded, I hurt.
Narushige: He's been shot!?
Chigusa!? What on earth just happened!?
"What on earth is going on? Where's the guy who shot you?"
Chigusa: "Shigeka Narushige."
//Chigusa whips out a tree gun and shoots into thin air. He pulls on some of his blood, which begins to form bandages.//
Narushige: !?
Chigusa: "There's a single man standing in the place where I just shot, right in front of me. He's about three meters in front of that building. His body is wrapped in Mirror Vineweed."
Narushige: "Mirror Vineweed!? You mean like 'Disappearing Grass?'"
"What on earth is Mirror Vineweed doing in this place at this time?"
Chigusa: "I have no idea either. At the moment..."
Narushige: "(And how can you see it?)"
Chigusa: "(Because my eyes are good.)"
"...could I ask you to cut off the grass?"
Narushige: !
Narushige: "I understand. Cutting off the grass it is. Kou!"
//Kou transforms into his sword form//
Touno: ".............."
Wha- What is this? His wounds are... They're bandaging themselves...
And he's looking. He's looking at me.
He can see me!? He truly is a monster..!!
The Family of Criminals. The Lineage of Monsters, just like they say. That family really does cause trouble. The old stories were all true.
One more time.
//Touno and Chigusa shoot at one another and Narushige slashes with Kou. The seedpod bullets from Touno's gun fall harmlessly to the ground as Kou slashes through the Mirror Vineweed.//
//Touno appears out of thin air now that the grass is cut.//
Narushige: ...........................!!
Chigusa: "So you can see him now, Shigeka Narushige. He a friend of yours?"
Narushige: "No... (I don't know who he is.)"
Chigusa: "I see."
Chigusa: Then all I've got to do is hazard removal.
"Well then, let's clean up."
//Rakan slams Chigusa across the back of the head with a branch.//
Chigusa: "............................."
Rakan: "Do NOT SHOOT PEOPLE!!"
"(It's dangerous.)"
And also, how are your wounds!! Are you okay!?"
Chigusa: "(Yeah.)"
Narushige: What a contradiction!!
Chigusa: "So shooting people is bad?"
Rakan: "Yes, it's bad!!"
Chigusa: "But he was attacking us."
Rakan: "He can't use that gun anymore! Right?"
Chigusa: "You're a kind person, Rakan."
Rakan: "It has nothing to do with being kind! It's common knowledge!!"
Chigusa: "I like you so much it's going to cause me problems later on."
Rakan: "That man is from the other world, isn't he? So it'll be better to talk to him..."
....And what was that subliminal stuff back there?
"Excuse me! You over there!!"
Rakan: "What on earth is this? Why were you shooting at Chigusa? And speaking of, who are you?"
Touno: ".........................."
He's right about this gun being useless now. ...............I don't really have any choice.
"That's what I want to know, Imposter Prince!"
"You think you can walk around with the same face? Who the hell are you?"
"I suppose you're the person who called Senrou Chigusa over, too. Hiding people in this other world as you sneak around gathering allies. What are you planning?"
Narushige: "......................"
Rakan: "...I have no idea what you're talking about!"
Chigusa: "Rakan."
Rakan: "I just..! I don't know anything about your world!"
"I just met Chigusa and Narushige a few days ago! And you're asking me what I'm planning?"
Touno: 'Narushige?' So that's the 'Shigeka''s... 'Shigeka Narushige' and 'Senrou Chigusa'.....
Rakan: "That's what I want to ask you!"
I just...
Rakan: I just...what should I say?
Touno: "......................."
"Then let me explain for you. Those two are unneeded people."
Narushige: !
Touno: "They are the 'Harbinger of Extinction' and the 'Final Scion of the Monster Family' of my world."
Touno: "Those two are the famous signs of the ill-fortune of my country."
"The one there with the long hair is from a family who can only give birth to females. It's set. That is their Purpose. So a man born to that family is extremely unlucky."
Narushige: ".............."?'
Rakan: "A family that can't give birth to anyone but females?" It's 'set?' That's their 'purpose?'
Narrator: The Shigeka...
Narrator: The Shigeka family is a family that exists for the Sanome. Only Shigeka women can make Sanome appear. That's the way it works. That is their Purpose. That is their Destiny. They are that fated family.
\\Random Person: "...A male has been born to the Shigeka?"
Random Person: "A male!?"
Random Person: "But aren't the Shigeka a family who can only give birth to females?"
Random Person: "But males can't make the Sanome-sama appear, can they?"
Random Person: "He has no Purpose."
Random Person: "A Shigeka has never ever given birth to a male before..."
Random Person: "And this while the Sanome-sama are disappearing far too quickly... It's ill fortune."
Random Person: "It's an omen of ill fortune. An unlucky child."\\
Touno: "Our world has been withering ever since he was born to the Shigeka. In other words, 'a Shigeka male is a harbinger of ill fortune.'
Narushige: "Yes... the Sanome have vanished."
...Although... I'd forgotten that, during these past few days. Because, somehow, being by this child's side is so soothing, I didn't have to think about anything.
\\The family that can only give birth to females.\\
\\The male who should never have been born.\\
\\The omen of ill fortune.\\
\\The harbinger of extinction.\\
Narushige: Still. Why...was I..."
Narushige: For what reason was I born?
Touno: "The Senrou family was originally known as the Sengin* family. Silver."
Rakan: Silver?
Touno: "It's a become a famous fairy tale, you know. They say that waaaay far back their lived a monster named Sengin who wouldn't die, even if you killed him. He was Mr Black Hair's ancestor. They say he wouldn't die no matter what you did to him. Just like that monster over there."
"He finally died...when he went mad."
*((The 'rou' in Senrou's name is written with a character that looks like the character for 'silver,' but with one extra stroke. Readers who have eaten their carrots will remember me agonising about this here. Apparently, Chigusa's family name was written with the character for 'silver' back in the day.))
Touno: "But they say that that's been the fate of that family through generations. It was horrible, and so they were quarantined on some cliffs far away from the rest of us, and chained up so they couldn't get out and return. That was the time their name was changed..."
Rakan: "..........................."
Touno: ".....from Sengin to Senrou. 'Rou' is the character from 'routou'*. Chains. And that's why the Senrou are called 'The Family of Criminals.' And finally, they're down to their last member!"
Chigusa: "......................." Ah. ....I see. That's why it's said that we'll eventually all go mad.
*(('Routou' is a word that means 'prison' or 'dungeon.' Interestingly enough, the character 'rou' is so old fashioned it doesn't show up in either of my massive Japanese language character dictionaries. Sugiura's really done her homework on this one. I <3333 her so much!))
Chigusa: Now is not the time for me to start liking this child.
Rakan: "............................................................................................"
"Yeah. And?"*
*((OMG I love Rakan so much at this point. Just thought I'd mention.))
Rakan: "Thanks for trying to tell me, but your explanation was so long I couldn't understand it."
Touno: "Huh?"
Rakan: "So you could just have said that Chigusa just has an unusual body and that Narushige-san is just the result of a spontaneous mutation, right?"
Touno: ?
'Just?'
"No, that isn't it!"
Rakan: "Yes, that is it. You need to rephrase what you're saying, instead of going on about 'ill omens'. You're making me sick!"
Chigusa: ".................................."
He's angry.
Rakan: "And what do you mean 'Criminal Family'?"
"So his family can only give birth to women. So what?
Narushige: Woah... He's getting angry over us.
For our sakes.
Rakan: "Nobody gets to decide when or how they're born. It isn't their fault! Honestly! Nobody has the right to decide who's 'needed' and who 'isn't needed'!"
Touno: "!"
\\
((Touno Remembers))
Random Person: "So his name's 'Touji,' huh? Written with the character for '2'? Is he the second kid?"
Other Random Person: "Yup."
Random Person: "Why? It doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with him."
Other Random Person: "His eyes don't work. He's useless to the Touno family."
Different Random Person: "A Numeric Child, huh?"
Different Random Person: "Yup."
"He's a leftover - a second child."
"If you aren't needed, you're a discarded - a spare child."
\\
Touno: "............................................................."
".........Even if my eyes don't work?"
Rakan: "Huh?"
Touno: "Even if my eyes don't work?"
Rakan: "What?"
"You mean, you can't see anything now?"
"That's okay!"
Touno: "No! I can see!"
Rakan: "Okay...you surprised me there."
Touno: No, I'm the one that's surprised.
"................................"
Who is this guy?
Rakan: "Anyway...at the very least...why don't you come over here. We aren't going to hurt you."
Chigusa: "Rakan."
Rakan: "I told you - you are not to shoot at him, Chigusa!"
"It seems like you both have been led to misunderstand one another. It'd be a good idea for you two to discuss it."
Touno: "............................................"
//Touno peppers the threesome with seedpod bullets that grow into vines, trapping them.//
Chigusa: "!!"
Narushige: Tree sap?
"It's binding us..."
And hardening in place!
Touno: "You..."
Touno: "...really don't understand anything. I'm on to you. You're being too kind."
"I don't carry just one firearm...or one weapon."
//Touno pulls out a sword.//
This can be cleaned up with my sword and some poison. As long as I can keep them from moving...
Narushige: It's no good. We've been stuck in place. Even Kou can't transform. If we don't break free of this binding somehow...
Touno: The Imposter Prince can't fight anymore.
//Chigusa turns his gun on himself and prepares to blast himself free.//
Rakan: "CHIGUSA!! WAIT!!"
Chigusa: "Ra--"
//Rakan takes Kou and uses him to cut everyone free of their bindings. Then he takes a seedpod.//
Rakan: "This seed."
//Which sprouts in his hand.//
Touno: "Wha--?"
Narushige: "............................"
\\
((Flashback to the night before))
Narushige: "I wish this child had been the real Prince."
\\
Chigusa: Could...what Shigeka Narushige said...really be...?
He probably just said it offhandedly...
Touno: He's making it grow...
\\
((Flashback to Chigusa saying))
Chigusa: "That's an Ayame Prince."
\\
Rakan: "Please take care of this,"
//Rakan hands Chigusa the new gun he's grown from the seedpod.//
Rakan: "Chigusa!"
Chigusa: Ah.
Chigusa: I'm falling more and more in love with you.
Chigusa: You are the Sanome Prince!!
Touno: "....................................."
//Touno is bound with his own vines, Kou encircling the whole deal.//
{{In Captivity.}}
{{(Guard.)}} ((This with an arrow pointing to Kou.))
{{(Confiscated.)}} ((This with an arrow pointing to Touno's gear.))
Narushige: "(He sure brought a lot of stuff with him.)"
Rakan: For now, if we use these plants, people won't be able to see him.
I wonder what the heck we should do with Mr Cosplay..?
Ah, and Chigusa too.
Well, their cosplay days are over. (Their clothes are in tatters.)
Ah! Class is going to be over soon. I have to get back to the classroom.
Narushige: "Rakan-kun."
Rakan: "Hmm?"
Narushige: "Try touching this."
//Rakan touches one of Touno's seedpods, which immediately sprouts.//
Rakan: "Woah! It got bigger!"
"So is this some of that Mirror Vineweed?"
Narushige: "Yes."
Rakan: "So if you wrap this stuff around yourself, you disappear?"
Touno: "......................."
Narushige: "I'd heard stories about the existence of such a grass, a long time ago, but..."
Narushige: "...I really couldn't see him at all, but it seems you and Senrou were able to see him..."
Rakan: "Because I'm a Sanome?"
"(I bet Chigusa's going to say he could see him because he 'has good eyes.')"
Narushige: "That's probably the case."
"(That's what he said, all right.)"
Touno: So he is a Sanome.
But...what's he doing in this world?
Narushige: "If you force this grass to grow, we can use it to cover him up. I think at the moment it's enough to make sure other people don't see him. "
"(Senrou will still be able to see him, so he can do the guarding.)"
Rakan: "Ah! Of course. So that's how you use it."
Touno: What the hell is this? There's no way I can kill him if he's a Sanome.
But he's the Prince's imposter...
But he's a Sanome...
Kinrei-Sama, why didn't you tell me that?
Maybe he didn't know...
Touno: And after I finally was given a Purpose...
Well, I've been captured now...
What should I do?
//Senrou's shooting Mirror Bindweed across the school building.//
Rakan: "Whoah! (It's swallowing everything up.) That gives me the creeps..."
Narushige: "?"
{{(He can't see it.)}}
Narushige: ".............................."
I feel like there's a thread binding us together, somehow.
............. Perhaps....
Rakan: "(Chigusa, go around the wall and come in that way.)"
Narushige: I was born for a Purpose, after all.
I want to belive that I was born...
...to come here and meet this boy.
That will be all.
Silver Diamond: Part VI
(Silver Diamond copyright 2004 by Sugiura Shiho)
(Translation copyright 2004 by gmorrison (hermestrismegistus at operamail.net))
I took the time to translate this, type it out and format it, so please don't take it without my permission.
As usual:
Words in " " are spoken aloud.
Words not in " " are internal dialogue.
Words in ( ) are character asides.
Words in {{ }} are Sugiura's asides.
Words in (( )) are my comments on the text/translation.
Words in [ ] are telepathic communication between two characters.
Words in // // are descriptions of action.
Words in \\ \\ are flashbacks.
Words preceeding an * will be footnoted at the page break.
Double returns = page breaks.
New ones:
Words in double double-quotations " " " " indicate when The Prince is speaking through Kinrei.
cinderfalling asked for actual names. She gets them. I hope this makes things easier for all of you lot too.Any time there's a whole bunch of dialogue from Random Person/Student/Male etc, you can imagine a host of people talking, even if it looks as though it's only one person in my translation.
Rakan: "..........................."
"Sensei..."
Nurse: "Oh, Rakan-kun... What's the matter? Do you feel sick?
Rakan: "Um..."
"Outside..."
Nurse: "Outside?"
Nurse: "What about..."
Nurse: "Outside?"
Chapter Head: "An Invisible Assassin, Sent From Another World"
Rakan: Of course!
"......................"
"Uh, no, it's nothing."
"Sorry, but can I use this door?"
Nurse: "What? Sure."
Nurse: "Wait a minute! Not in your indoor shoes!"*
Rakan: "(Sorry, I'm in a hurry.)"
...of course.
Other people really can't see any of it - not that weird grass; not Chigusa; not Narushige; or that strange man.
What is this?
....Chigusa.
*((Japanese ,don't wear shoes indoors. However, you can't spend all day at school or work barefoot, so people have a separate set of indoor shoes for those places. The nurse is peeved because Rakan's wearing his indoor school shoes outside.))
Rakan: Chigusa's been hurt again. That guy shot him with another of those strange tree guns. Not that I heard the gunshot or anything. I suppose that strange grass can mute sound or something.
I suppose I should be happy that other people can't see any of it, but what should I do?
I should probably start by getting to Chigusa without anyone seeing me, especially that guy over there.
Why did he shoot Chigusa? What reason could he have? I don't understand this.
Touno: \\You Imposter Prince.\\
Rakan: I don't understand this, and I don't know what I should do, but at the very least I have to go and help.
Chigusa: \\Anyway, they heal really quickly.\\
Rakan: He said they heal.
Chigusa: \\And I don't feel pain either.\\
Rakan: And he said that he doesn't feel pain.
Chigusa.
I'm in pain.
When you're wounded, I hurt.
Narushige: He's been shot!?
Chigusa!? What on earth just happened!?
"What on earth is going on? Where's the guy who shot you?"
Chigusa: "Shigeka Narushige."
//Chigusa whips out a tree gun and shoots into thin air. He pulls on some of his blood, which begins to form bandages.//
Narushige: !?
Chigusa: "There's a single man standing in the place where I just shot, right in front of me. He's about three meters in front of that building. His body is wrapped in Mirror Vineweed."
Narushige: "Mirror Vineweed!? You mean like 'Disappearing Grass?'"
"What on earth is Mirror Vineweed doing in this place at this time?"
Chigusa: "I have no idea either. At the moment..."
Narushige: "(And how can you see it?)"
Chigusa: "(Because my eyes are good.)"
"...could I ask you to cut off the grass?"
Narushige: !
Narushige: "I understand. Cutting off the grass it is. Kou!"
//Kou transforms into his sword form//
Touno: ".............."
Wha- What is this? His wounds are... They're bandaging themselves...
And he's looking. He's looking at me.
He can see me!? He truly is a monster..!!
The Family of Criminals. The Lineage of Monsters, just like they say. That family really does cause trouble. The old stories were all true.
One more time.
//Touno and Chigusa shoot at one another and Narushige slashes with Kou. The seedpod bullets from Touno's gun fall harmlessly to the ground as Kou slashes through the Mirror Vineweed.//
//Touno appears out of thin air now that the grass is cut.//
Narushige: ...........................!!
Chigusa: "So you can see him now, Shigeka Narushige. He a friend of yours?"
Narushige: "No... (I don't know who he is.)"
Chigusa: "I see."
Chigusa: Then all I've got to do is hazard removal.
"Well then, let's clean up."
//Rakan slams Chigusa across the back of the head with a branch.//
Chigusa: "............................."
Rakan: "Do NOT SHOOT PEOPLE!!"
"(It's dangerous.)"
And also, how are your wounds!! Are you okay!?"
Chigusa: "(Yeah.)"
Narushige: What a contradiction!!
Chigusa: "So shooting people is bad?"
Rakan: "Yes, it's bad!!"
Chigusa: "But he was attacking us."
Rakan: "He can't use that gun anymore! Right?"
Chigusa: "You're a kind person, Rakan."
Rakan: "It has nothing to do with being kind! It's common knowledge!!"
Chigusa: "I like you so much it's going to cause me problems later on."
Rakan: "That man is from the other world, isn't he? So it'll be better to talk to him..."
....And what was that subliminal stuff back there?
"Excuse me! You over there!!"
Rakan: "What on earth is this? Why were you shooting at Chigusa? And speaking of, who are you?"
Touno: ".........................."
He's right about this gun being useless now. ...............I don't really have any choice.
"That's what I want to know, Imposter Prince!"
"You think you can walk around with the same face? Who the hell are you?"
"I suppose you're the person who called Senrou Chigusa over, too. Hiding people in this other world as you sneak around gathering allies. What are you planning?"
Narushige: "......................"
Rakan: "...I have no idea what you're talking about!"
Chigusa: "Rakan."
Rakan: "I just..! I don't know anything about your world!"
"I just met Chigusa and Narushige a few days ago! And you're asking me what I'm planning?"
Touno: 'Narushige?' So that's the 'Shigeka''s... 'Shigeka Narushige' and 'Senrou Chigusa'.....
Rakan: "That's what I want to ask you!"
I just...
Rakan: I just...what should I say?
Touno: "......................."
"Then let me explain for you. Those two are unneeded people."
Narushige: !
Touno: "They are the 'Harbinger of Extinction' and the 'Final Scion of the Monster Family' of my world."
Touno: "Those two are the famous signs of the ill-fortune of my country."
"The one there with the long hair is from a family who can only give birth to females. It's set. That is their Purpose. So a man born to that family is extremely unlucky."
Narushige: ".............."?'
Rakan: "A family that can't give birth to anyone but females?" It's 'set?' That's their 'purpose?'
Narrator: The Shigeka...
Narrator: The Shigeka family is a family that exists for the Sanome. Only Shigeka women can make Sanome appear. That's the way it works. That is their Purpose. That is their Destiny. They are that fated family.
\\Random Person: "...A male has been born to the Shigeka?"
Random Person: "A male!?"
Random Person: "But aren't the Shigeka a family who can only give birth to females?"
Random Person: "But males can't make the Sanome-sama appear, can they?"
Random Person: "He has no Purpose."
Random Person: "A Shigeka has never ever given birth to a male before..."
Random Person: "And this while the Sanome-sama are disappearing far too quickly... It's ill fortune."
Random Person: "It's an omen of ill fortune. An unlucky child."\\
Touno: "Our world has been withering ever since he was born to the Shigeka. In other words, 'a Shigeka male is a harbinger of ill fortune.'
Narushige: "Yes... the Sanome have vanished."
...Although... I'd forgotten that, during these past few days. Because, somehow, being by this child's side is so soothing, I didn't have to think about anything.
\\The family that can only give birth to females.\\
\\The male who should never have been born.\\
\\The omen of ill fortune.\\
\\The harbinger of extinction.\\
Narushige: Still. Why...was I..."
Narushige: For what reason was I born?
Touno: "The Senrou family was originally known as the Sengin* family. Silver."
Rakan: Silver?
Touno: "It's a become a famous fairy tale, you know. They say that waaaay far back their lived a monster named Sengin who wouldn't die, even if you killed him. He was Mr Black Hair's ancestor. They say he wouldn't die no matter what you did to him. Just like that monster over there."
"He finally died...when he went mad."
*((The 'rou' in Senrou's name is written with a character that looks like the character for 'silver,' but with one extra stroke. Readers who have eaten their carrots will remember me agonising about this here. Apparently, Chigusa's family name was written with the character for 'silver' back in the day.))
Touno: "But they say that that's been the fate of that family through generations. It was horrible, and so they were quarantined on some cliffs far away from the rest of us, and chained up so they couldn't get out and return. That was the time their name was changed..."
Rakan: "..........................."
Touno: ".....from Sengin to Senrou. 'Rou' is the character from 'routou'*. Chains. And that's why the Senrou are called 'The Family of Criminals.' And finally, they're down to their last member!"
Chigusa: "......................." Ah. ....I see. That's why it's said that we'll eventually all go mad.
*(('Routou' is a word that means 'prison' or 'dungeon.' Interestingly enough, the character 'rou' is so old fashioned it doesn't show up in either of my massive Japanese language character dictionaries. Sugiura's really done her homework on this one. I <3333 her so much!))
Chigusa: Now is not the time for me to start liking this child.
Rakan: "............................................................................................"
"Yeah. And?"*
*((OMG I love Rakan so much at this point. Just thought I'd mention.))
Rakan: "Thanks for trying to tell me, but your explanation was so long I couldn't understand it."
Touno: "Huh?"
Rakan: "So you could just have said that Chigusa just has an unusual body and that Narushige-san is just the result of a spontaneous mutation, right?"
Touno: ?
'Just?'
"No, that isn't it!"
Rakan: "Yes, that is it. You need to rephrase what you're saying, instead of going on about 'ill omens'. You're making me sick!"
Chigusa: ".................................."
He's angry.
Rakan: "And what do you mean 'Criminal Family'?"
"So his family can only give birth to women. So what?
Narushige: Woah... He's getting angry over us.
For our sakes.
Rakan: "Nobody gets to decide when or how they're born. It isn't their fault! Honestly! Nobody has the right to decide who's 'needed' and who 'isn't needed'!"
Touno: "!"
\\
((Touno Remembers))
Random Person: "So his name's 'Touji,' huh? Written with the character for '2'? Is he the second kid?"
Other Random Person: "Yup."
Random Person: "Why? It doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with him."
Other Random Person: "His eyes don't work. He's useless to the Touno family."
Different Random Person: "A Numeric Child, huh?"
Different Random Person: "Yup."
"He's a leftover - a second child."
"If you aren't needed, you're a discarded - a spare child."
\\
Touno: "............................................................."
".........Even if my eyes don't work?"
Rakan: "Huh?"
Touno: "Even if my eyes don't work?"
Rakan: "What?"
"You mean, you can't see anything now?"
"That's okay!"
Touno: "No! I can see!"
Rakan: "Okay...you surprised me there."
Touno: No, I'm the one that's surprised.
"................................"
Who is this guy?
Rakan: "Anyway...at the very least...why don't you come over here. We aren't going to hurt you."
Chigusa: "Rakan."
Rakan: "I told you - you are not to shoot at him, Chigusa!"
"It seems like you both have been led to misunderstand one another. It'd be a good idea for you two to discuss it."
Touno: "............................................"
//Touno peppers the threesome with seedpod bullets that grow into vines, trapping them.//
Chigusa: "!!"
Narushige: Tree sap?
"It's binding us..."
And hardening in place!
Touno: "You..."
Touno: "...really don't understand anything. I'm on to you. You're being too kind."
"I don't carry just one firearm...or one weapon."
//Touno pulls out a sword.//
This can be cleaned up with my sword and some poison. As long as I can keep them from moving...
Narushige: It's no good. We've been stuck in place. Even Kou can't transform. If we don't break free of this binding somehow...
Touno: The Imposter Prince can't fight anymore.
//Chigusa turns his gun on himself and prepares to blast himself free.//
Rakan: "CHIGUSA!! WAIT!!"
Chigusa: "Ra--"
//Rakan takes Kou and uses him to cut everyone free of their bindings. Then he takes a seedpod.//
Rakan: "This seed."
//Which sprouts in his hand.//
Touno: "Wha--?"
Narushige: "............................"
\\
((Flashback to the night before))
Narushige: "I wish this child had been the real Prince."
\\
Chigusa: Could...what Shigeka Narushige said...really be...?
He probably just said it offhandedly...
Touno: He's making it grow...
\\
((Flashback to Chigusa saying))
Chigusa: "That's an Ayame Prince."
\\
Rakan: "Please take care of this,"
//Rakan hands Chigusa the new gun he's grown from the seedpod.//
Rakan: "Chigusa!"
Chigusa: Ah.
Chigusa: I'm falling more and more in love with you.
Chigusa: You are the Sanome Prince!!
Touno: "....................................."
//Touno is bound with his own vines, Kou encircling the whole deal.//
{{In Captivity.}}
{{(Guard.)}} ((This with an arrow pointing to Kou.))
{{(Confiscated.)}} ((This with an arrow pointing to Touno's gear.))
Narushige: "(He sure brought a lot of stuff with him.)"
Rakan: For now, if we use these plants, people won't be able to see him.
I wonder what the heck we should do with Mr Cosplay..?
Ah, and Chigusa too.
Well, their cosplay days are over. (Their clothes are in tatters.)
Ah! Class is going to be over soon. I have to get back to the classroom.
Narushige: "Rakan-kun."
Rakan: "Hmm?"
Narushige: "Try touching this."
//Rakan touches one of Touno's seedpods, which immediately sprouts.//
Rakan: "Woah! It got bigger!"
"So is this some of that Mirror Vineweed?"
Narushige: "Yes."
Rakan: "So if you wrap this stuff around yourself, you disappear?"
Touno: "......................."
Narushige: "I'd heard stories about the existence of such a grass, a long time ago, but..."
Narushige: "...I really couldn't see him at all, but it seems you and Senrou were able to see him..."
Rakan: "Because I'm a Sanome?"
"(I bet Chigusa's going to say he could see him because he 'has good eyes.')"
Narushige: "That's probably the case."
"(That's what he said, all right.)"
Touno: So he is a Sanome.
But...what's he doing in this world?
Narushige: "If you force this grass to grow, we can use it to cover him up. I think at the moment it's enough to make sure other people don't see him. "
"(Senrou will still be able to see him, so he can do the guarding.)"
Rakan: "Ah! Of course. So that's how you use it."
Touno: What the hell is this? There's no way I can kill him if he's a Sanome.
But he's the Prince's imposter...
But he's a Sanome...
Kinrei-Sama, why didn't you tell me that?
Maybe he didn't know...
Touno: And after I finally was given a Purpose...
Well, I've been captured now...
What should I do?
//Senrou's shooting Mirror Bindweed across the school building.//
Rakan: "Whoah! (It's swallowing everything up.) That gives me the creeps..."
Narushige: "?"
{{(He can't see it.)}}
Narushige: ".............................."
I feel like there's a thread binding us together, somehow.
............. Perhaps....
Rakan: "(Chigusa, go around the wall and come in that way.)"
Narushige: I was born for a Purpose, after all.
I want to belive that I was born...
...to come here and meet this boy.
That will be all.
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Re: !ecstatic!
on 2004-07-01 01:35 am (UTC)Actually, I've got another article on names coming up soon, because we've added a few here and there...
I'm not obsessed, just focused.SD musings
on 2004-07-02 05:52 am (UTC)The Shigeka family is a family that exists for the Sanome. Only Shigeka women can make Sanome appear.
So I'm guessing it was never stated how they make Sanome appear? Not like giving birth to them or anything? Because if it was so, that would make Rakan and Narushige of the same family, wouldn't it? And Rakan being male himself would also be considered an ill omen.
I'm guessing it's highly unlikely, but the possibilities intrigue me. ^^
In retrospect, all we know of the Sanome so far is that they have the power to make plants grow. But in saying that the Shigeka family makes Sanome appear, the latter sound like they were created sporadically, which would make sense if, like Chigusa, everyone else considered them tools.
But if Sanome can have children, like Rakan's mom, then there has to be a lineage of sorts which exists.
...or Rakan could just be a very special case, and not because he's apparently the only surviving Sanome at the moment. Which is more likely the case.
Heh, I just needed to find a space to rave. ^^;;
Funny you should mention that...
on 2004-07-03 07:09 am (UTC)I remember wondering whether Rakan and Narushige were relatives too, btw;) It really pricked my interest because Sugiura does seem to be setting up a threesome in the story (though with the appearance of Touno, things may have changed. Drat.)
You're welcome to rave here any time you feel like it. Especially since your raving seems to be pretty spot on in places. (Bet you can't wait for that next trans now, huh?) ;)
Re: Funny you should mention that...
on 2004-07-07 06:45 pm (UTC)OMG foursome!
...yeah.
Re: Funny you should mention that...
on 2004-07-12 12:25 am (UTC)OMG ButIwannathreesome! R/C/SOTMaT!!!!11111oneone
...yeah.
What you said.
Re: Funny you should mention that...
on 2004-07-12 03:59 am (UTC)(And S because... I seem to only remember them by their initials now. :sigh:)