Silver Diamond Chapter VIII (Translated)
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akujunkanAnd in under a month since my last translation! Those of you interacting in lj land will also be happy to learn that I've got Chapter X finished, so that will be ready to go up as soon as I've transed Chapter IX. And then I'll be back on schedule.
Not very much commentary on the chapter this time around - it's more of a connector chapter than anything else, although we do have some lovely moments with Chigusa and Narushige, and Rakan's bit at the end is patented Suguiura sweetness as well.
Oh, and there's a cliffhanger, too. But you knew that already.
So, once again, How much do you love me?
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.
Words in double double-quotations " " " " indicate when The Prince is speaking through Kinrei.
Double returns = page breaks.
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.
Silver Diamond Chapter VIII
It Shocks The Soul, That Existance
Narushige: "What's that sound?"
"Where's Rakan?"
Kou: "He's over there, Narushige. With Senrou..."
A Quiet Night
Rakan: "........................................................................."
"Um....................."
//The firearm tree bursts open to reveal something that looks like a cross between a clawed fist and fanged mouth.//
{{IT'S LIKE THE BIRTH OF AN ALIEN!!}}
Narushige: "Senrou!?"
Touji: "Woah!"
"What is that over there? Disgusting! (A hand?)"
Narushige: "Ahh!?"
//Narushige runs and grabs ahold of Rakan.//
Narushige: "Senrou!!"
"You've made Rakan cry again! (What were you doing?)"
Touji: "No, that's not what I meant!"
Narushige: "Didn't I tell you not to make children cry? (Poor thing!)"
Rakan: ".................................."
".................................Sorry."
Touji: "Not that, you people, outside!!!"
"Outside! That thing!!! It's really freaking scary!!"
Kou: "Wooaaaah! Me too, Narushige!!"
"You only ever hug Rakan! It isn't fair!!"
Touji: "I'm talking to you too, snake!"
"What is with you people!"
//Kou is safely entwined around Narughige and Rakan.//
Chigusa: "(Me too, then...)"
Touji: "............................................................................................................"
"HEY!"
"Open this damn cloth!"
{{The curtains.}}
"You know, the cloth!? Shit! Do I have to open it?!"
//Everyone looks at the nasty tree thing as Touji whips back the curtains.//
Touji: "The tree..."
Narushige: "The tree?"
Rakan: "........................."
Chigusa: "Why has it grown so quickly? Did you touch it, Rakan?"
Rakan: "No, I didn't touch it. Wait, you mean that tree over there? ...Yeah, I guess so."
Chigusa: "Is it a scary tree, or something?"
Narushige: "No, it's not dangerous or anything..."
"You understand that, don't you?"
Chigusa: "You mean whether it's murderous or not?"
Narushige: "Plants aren't murderous!"
Rakan: Erm...
Touji: "Huh? So it's not murderous?"
"But what about man-eating plants?"
Narushige: "'Man-eating plants?!'"
Narushige: Well, it doesn't look very friendly, to be sure...
"There's no such thing as 'man-eathing plants!'"
Touji: "Huh? But..."
That's not what Kinrei-sama.............
Rakan: ".........................."
Right, but... It's true that I don't get a bad vibe from it... That is to say... I'm not sure what...this strange feeling is..."
Touji: "Wooah! It's still growing!!"
Chigusa: "Rakan!"
Rakan: This feeling...
//A huge seedpod appears in the fork of the tree, which is now massive.//
//The pod bursts open.//
Narushige: "Wha-!?"
"What is that?"
That seed inside the tree is...growing transparent.
That seed is...
//A child appears within the seedpod.//
Rakan, Chigusa, Narushige, Kou, & Touji: "...A child."
Rakan, Chigusa, Narushige, Kou, & Touji: "It's given birth to a child!?"
//Shigeyuki enters the empty room.//
Shigeyuki: The Sanome have all withered away...long ago.
There isn't even a single one left. We can no longer create a 'Sanome-sama.'
Shigeyuki: "......................................."
Shigeyuki: My Prince, Kinrei, please, guide us to The New World quickly...
The Signs of Misfortune are gone now.
If it will bring about the end of This World, I'm willing to do whatever it takes.
Kinrei: "My Prince."
Kinrei: "Everything has been prepared."
"Would you have me close the 'hallway' now? My Prince?"
The Prince: ".............................."
Kinrei: "My Prince?"
Rakan: "..................It's. It's adorable."
Touji: "It is cute, isn't it?"
Narushige: "It is cute, but..."
Narushige: But there's no such thing as a 'human seed!!' Right?
Rakan: "Umm. So that thing..... Are there 'people trees' in your world!?"
Narushige: "No, there's no such thing. (Obviously!)"
Rakan: "So then this is a plant? But what kind of plant!?"
Chigusa: "..............................."
"That is a Sanome."
Narushige and Rakan: "....What!?"
"A Sanome!?
Touji: "What the..?"
Rakan: "It's grown itself."
Touji: "Huh?"
Narushige: ....If you put it like that...
"You didn't touch it, did you, Rakan-kun."
Rakan: "No."
Narushige: "And it wasn't this big when I looked at it this morning..."
Rakan: "You mean it has the capability to grow itself? (That's not possible.)"
Chigusa: "Yes."
Touji: "......................."
Touji: "Hey! Narushige! You mean to tell me that Sanome are plants!? I didn't fricking know that!!"
Narushige: "I didn't even know that! It isn't as if their bodies are any different from humans'!"
"If it's a question of having capability or not..."
Rakan: "(I've never lied during a doctor's examination, guys...)"
Chigusa: "And what about the story that the women of Narushige-san's family giving birth to Sanome..?"
Touji: "If that's what they mean by 'giving birth,' and then they came to have a monopoly over the Sanome, and said that they were the only ones who could give birth to one, they'd certainly get treated well, wouldn't they?"
Narushige: "................................................."
It's entirely possible... No, but still...
It's just that... even if you put it that way... To say they're plants!... (How can...)"
Chigusa: "Shigeka Narushige."
"Lend me this."
//Chigusa is holding the bandolier of seeds Narushige confiscated from Touji.//
Narushige: "Huh? ...Oh, I see."
"Certainly, go ahead."
Touji: "(Hey! That's my bag!)"
Chigusa: "There are a lot of seeds, aren't there. Which should I use?"
Rakan: "?"
Narushige: "Hmm. How about this one? (Here you are.)"
//Chigusa walks up to the seedchild and holds the seed in front of it. The seed immediatelly sprouts.//
Chigusa: Ahh... (Of course...) It really is a Sanome....
Rakan: ".........................."
Touji: ".........................."
I've never heard about anything like these things before...
Narushige: Shigeyuki-sama, what are the Shigeka..?
Chigusa: "Well, I'll just take this and be off."
Touji, Narushige, & Rakan: "Huh?"
Chigusa: "...If I take this and return..."
Chigusa: "If I do that, then I no longer need Rakan to return with me."
"Because what I need is a Sanome, as long as this Sanome is here, my mission is complete."
Chigusa: "If I do that, I no longer need you to return with me."
"You'll be able to continue living in this world as you did before."
"Shigeka Narushige."
Narushige: "Yes."
Chigusa: "I'll return to the other world tomorrow morning, and take this Sanome with me. Are you going to come with me? I'm going to take you back as well, Touno."
Touji: "Huh? Oh, right..."
Chigusa: "Shigeka Narushige."
Narushige: That's right... I was never meant to be an inhabitant of this world in the first place.
The only person who can see things like the entrance to the other world is Senrou....
"....Yes."
I have no choice but to return...
Rakan: "......................................."
Chigusa: "Rakan."
"You can go back to your original life now."
"Sorry I made you cry."
Rakan: "Huh? Oh! (You mean back there..) No, that is..."
It has nothing to do with you making me cry...
Chigusa: "Let's leave it at that. There's nothing else to say, anyway."
Chigusa: "I'm going as soon as it's morning."
Rakan: "Right. Right......."
"............................Well then...I guess I'll go to bed now... I've got school tomorrow too."
"Goodnight."
Okay...I should go get my futon rea-- No, I'll sleep upstairs.
Narushige: "Oh! Goodnight..."
Chigusa: "Goodnight."
Rakan: Things have really
{{UNDERGONE A SUDDEN CHANGE}}
Rakan: I can really get some sleep. That's good. That's good..........
"..........................................."
It is good, isn't it? Yes.
Because as long as they have their Sanome...
...What is this?
They did say a lot because I'm a Sanome...
Honestly. Stop sulking, Rakan.
It is good, isn't it? Like this.
Rakan: I can return to my usual life, and...
...Chigusa did say it was fine like this, and...
...he did make this decision with my wishes in mind, and...
Yes. Yeah.
After all, I've...
...always liked leading a normal life.
But still, it was...
..kinda fun, even so...
//Rakan now does the mental manga equivalent of the 'best of' flashback episode from earlier chapters.//
Rakan: ".................................................................................................."
Rakan: No, this is fine. It's fine, just like this.
After all, I really disliked being with you.
'Cause when you were here, I got really nervous at all the things I didn't understand.
To put it plainly, it was terrifying.*
.....................Getting too deeply involved was a bad idea.
Now I don't understand about my father...
...or where I came from...
And even so, up till now, I was able to live normally.
And I like normality.
*((The onomatopoeia Rakan uses for 'nervous' and 'terrifying' are used both for talking about fearful experiences, as well as the pleasant nervous feeling one gets when talking to a crush or boyfriend. So there's a bit of intentional ambiguity here.))
Chigusa: "Yeah. It looks like I can take it out."
"I'll be able to remove it and take it back with me."
Narushige: ".................................."
"Senrou. Why are you in such a hurry...?"
"And fter you seduced him-- I mean, invited him, so persistently him.."
Touji: Weren't you more accurate the first time around?
Chigusa: "I've finally come to understand."
Narushige: "Huh?"
Chigusa: "Rakan is certainly a Sanome. ...And I think he's probably the true Prince as well."
"But if you really think about it, he's someone from a different world."
"I've finally come to that realisation."
"What I need is a Sanome. Not Rakan."
Touji: What the?
He'd didn't really just...
Rakan: "So as long as I can take a Sanome back with me, everything's fine."
Narushige: ".............................."
"Is that the extent of your attitude toward other people?"
Chigusa: "'Attitude?'"
Narushige: "How have you come to categorise people up until this point? What criteria do you use?"
Chigusa: "Categorise people?"
"Aside from myself..."
People are either enemies or allies.
"...people are either 'harmful,' 'harmless,' or 'useful.'"
Chigusa: "After all, that's the Purpose I've had from the very beginning.
Narushige: "'Purpose?'"
Chigusa: "To destroy all of the Ayame."
"And what I need to accomplish that is not Rakan, but a Sanome."
"As long as I have a Sanome, I should be fine. So I should be fine like this. So it is fine. Like this."
Touji: This guy is...
Narushige: "You poor thing."
Chigusa: "Who is."
Narushige: "........................ I am, obviously!"
".......................Because I really like Rakan-kun, and I don't think I'll ever be able to see him again. And it's sad and I'm depressed because of it!"
Chigusa: "........................................."
Touji: ".........................................."
Narushige: "Still, there's no way we could take a child back with us, and I don't want to cause him any more trouble, either."
"So I'm going back, after all!"
Chigusa: "So why are you angry at me!"
Narushige: "Because you're a scapegoat!"
Chigusa: "Oh, sorry!"
Touji: "............................."
What do you make of that...
And more importantly, the Sanome. I don't have any particular responsibility to quietly hand it over to him, do I? If I could somehow steal it and take it to the Prince...
\\Chigusa: "That Prince is an Ayame."\\
Touji: ".........................................."
What is this! I don't get what's going on!
....I wonder if I'd understand if I could see you again. My Prince... Kinrei-sama...
But if I go back with these guys, how will I get to the Prince..?
Touji: Shit! What should I do? I don't understand this at all.
The only thing I understand is that Rakan is probably a good person.
And those guys...
...probably aren't really bad people either...
That's what I think, but...
//Dawn breaks as Rakan prepares a huge breakfast in the kitchen.//
Narushige: "What? Rakan-kun!"
"Are you awake already? Making food so early..."
Rakan: "Ah, good morning, Narushige-san."
Narushige: "(Good morning.)"
Rakan: "I thought I'd make some bentou."
Narushige: "Obentou?"*
*((Bentou are boxed meals.))
Rakan: "Right. You're going back home, after all. Since you said you'd leave this morning."
"So I wanted to do something."
"And I thought, 'Well, why don't I make breakfast and lunch bentou.' Since this is goodbye."
Narushige: "......................................."
"Ah, I see. Thank you...."
"Can I help at all?"
Rakan: "No, that's all right. All I have to do is let this simmer-- Oh, Narushige-san!"
"You should leave wearing the clothes you wore when you came here."
Narushige: "Ah! Erm...."
Rakan: "They're in the chest of drawers near the laundry room. Make sure to tell Chigusa and Touno as well. To go change their clothes, that is."
Narushige: "................................."
"Right." Ah.
Narushige: So this is what Rakan-kun's daily life is like.
Rakan: Damn! I forgot to get my bag ready yesterday. Hmmm... what subjects do I have today? Ah! I forgot to prepare for class too.
Ah, well. As long as I can get to school early... (That's what I'll do...)
//Rakan notices something on his desk.//
Rakan: Huh? Oh, this is my Grampa's...
...electronic dictionary...
{{From Monsieur Grampa's Collection of New-fangled New Things.}}
Rakan: How did it end up over here? Ah!
That's right. I meant to lend it to Kou, since I thought he might find it interesting. (Plus it's small and light.)
I wonder if it lists 'doing it my way' under 'damn the torpedoes?'*
//Rakan drops the dictionary into his bag, midway into looking up the word.//
Rakan: Well, it's not like we need to know now, anyway.
"...................................."
I've finished making the bentou.
And my bag's all set.
And I'll take care of class preparation once I get to school.
I might as well clean the house when I get back home.
*((The transliteration of 'my pace' and the Japanese-language definition in the original.))
Rakan: I like to study.
I like to cook.
I like to clean and do the laundry, too.
I love living a normal life.
Narushige: "Okay then, Rakan-kun..."
Rakan: "Yeah."
"Can you remove that child?"
Chigusa: "Mmhmm. It's okay. It'll be just like picking fruit."
Rakan: "Fruit."
(That's amazing. Still...)
"Oh."
Rakan: "Take these back with you, instead of a farewell gift."
Kou: "What are they? What are they?"
Rakan: "Bentou."
Kou: "Woah, like lunch service."
Rakan: "It's a little different, Kou. (Where did you learn about that?)"*
Kou: "(The King's Brunch.)"**
Rakan: "There are portions for everyone, so you can eat too, Touno."
Touji: "......................................"
(Even I get some?)
"But....."
Chigusa: "Rakan."
"Thanks for everything."
*((In Japanese, 'lunch service' is a specially priced meal, served during fixed hours, that offers drinks and extra foods like miso soup, rice, or other side dishes along with the main course.))
**((Another one of Kou's transliterated-from-English Japanese sayings.))
Chigusa: "Sorry for causing you so much trouble."
Rakan: "No. 'S fine. Don't worry 'bout it."
"Take care, everyone."
Narushige: "Yes, and you too, Rakan."
Rakan: "Yup."
Kou: "See ya, Rakan."
Rakan: I'm going to do this quickly.
Rakan: So please do it quickly too, guys.
Chigusa: "Rakan."
"I can't take you back with me."
"Because I like you."
Chigusa: "Is that correct?"
Rakan: No.
No, it fits, but...
...you should say just 'thank you,' instead.
Chigusa: "..................................Well then."
"Rakan."
Rakan: Don't cry.
Don't cry.
It's not like it's anything to cry over.
This is...
Rakan: This is fine the way it is.
After all, I like leading a normal life.
And the reason I like leading a normal life..
...is because I don't like to bring out this storm from within myself.
Instinct... Don't wake me up.
//A wormhole opens in the middle of the garden.//
//In which the Prince and Kinrei appear.//
//The Prince smiles.//
Rakan: Instinct... Don't wake me up.
That will be all.
Not very much commentary on the chapter this time around - it's more of a connector chapter than anything else, although we do have some lovely moments with Chigusa and Narushige, and Rakan's bit at the end is patented Suguiura sweetness as well.
Oh, and there's a cliffhanger, too. But you knew that already.
So, once again, How much do you love me?
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.
Words in double double-quotations " " " " indicate when The Prince is speaking through Kinrei.
Double returns = page breaks.
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.
Silver Diamond Chapter VIII
It Shocks The Soul, That Existance
Narushige: "What's that sound?"
"Where's Rakan?"
Kou: "He's over there, Narushige. With Senrou..."
A Quiet Night
Rakan: "........................................................................."
"Um....................."
//The firearm tree bursts open to reveal something that looks like a cross between a clawed fist and fanged mouth.//
{{IT'S LIKE THE BIRTH OF AN ALIEN!!}}
Narushige: "Senrou!?"
Touji: "Woah!"
"What is that over there? Disgusting! (A hand?)"
Narushige: "Ahh!?"
//Narushige runs and grabs ahold of Rakan.//
Narushige: "Senrou!!"
"You've made Rakan cry again! (What were you doing?)"
Touji: "No, that's not what I meant!"
Narushige: "Didn't I tell you not to make children cry? (Poor thing!)"
Rakan: ".................................."
".................................Sorry."
Touji: "Not that, you people, outside!!!"
"Outside! That thing!!! It's really freaking scary!!"
Kou: "Wooaaaah! Me too, Narushige!!"
"You only ever hug Rakan! It isn't fair!!"
Touji: "I'm talking to you too, snake!"
"What is with you people!"
//Kou is safely entwined around Narughige and Rakan.//
Chigusa: "(Me too, then...)"
Touji: "............................................................................................................"
"HEY!"
"Open this damn cloth!"
{{The curtains.}}
"You know, the cloth!? Shit! Do I have to open it?!"
//Everyone looks at the nasty tree thing as Touji whips back the curtains.//
Touji: "The tree..."
Narushige: "The tree?"
Rakan: "........................."
Chigusa: "Why has it grown so quickly? Did you touch it, Rakan?"
Rakan: "No, I didn't touch it. Wait, you mean that tree over there? ...Yeah, I guess so."
Chigusa: "Is it a scary tree, or something?"
Narushige: "No, it's not dangerous or anything..."
"You understand that, don't you?"
Chigusa: "You mean whether it's murderous or not?"
Narushige: "Plants aren't murderous!"
Rakan: Erm...
Touji: "Huh? So it's not murderous?"
"But what about man-eating plants?"
Narushige: "'Man-eating plants?!'"
Narushige: Well, it doesn't look very friendly, to be sure...
"There's no such thing as 'man-eathing plants!'"
Touji: "Huh? But..."
That's not what Kinrei-sama.............
Rakan: ".........................."
Right, but... It's true that I don't get a bad vibe from it... That is to say... I'm not sure what...this strange feeling is..."
Touji: "Wooah! It's still growing!!"
Chigusa: "Rakan!"
Rakan: This feeling...
//A huge seedpod appears in the fork of the tree, which is now massive.//
//The pod bursts open.//
Narushige: "Wha-!?"
"What is that?"
That seed inside the tree is...growing transparent.
That seed is...
//A child appears within the seedpod.//
Rakan, Chigusa, Narushige, Kou, & Touji: "...A child."
Rakan, Chigusa, Narushige, Kou, & Touji: "It's given birth to a child!?"
//Shigeyuki enters the empty room.//
Shigeyuki: The Sanome have all withered away...long ago.
There isn't even a single one left. We can no longer create a 'Sanome-sama.'
Shigeyuki: "......................................."
Shigeyuki: My Prince, Kinrei, please, guide us to The New World quickly...
The Signs of Misfortune are gone now.
If it will bring about the end of This World, I'm willing to do whatever it takes.
Kinrei: "My Prince."
Kinrei: "Everything has been prepared."
"Would you have me close the 'hallway' now? My Prince?"
The Prince: ".............................."
Kinrei: "My Prince?"
Rakan: "..................It's. It's adorable."
Touji: "It is cute, isn't it?"
Narushige: "It is cute, but..."
Narushige: But there's no such thing as a 'human seed!!' Right?
Rakan: "Umm. So that thing..... Are there 'people trees' in your world!?"
Narushige: "No, there's no such thing. (Obviously!)"
Rakan: "So then this is a plant? But what kind of plant!?"
Chigusa: "..............................."
"That is a Sanome."
Narushige and Rakan: "....What!?"
"A Sanome!?
Touji: "What the..?"
Rakan: "It's grown itself."
Touji: "Huh?"
Narushige: ....If you put it like that...
"You didn't touch it, did you, Rakan-kun."
Rakan: "No."
Narushige: "And it wasn't this big when I looked at it this morning..."
Rakan: "You mean it has the capability to grow itself? (That's not possible.)"
Chigusa: "Yes."
Touji: "......................."
Touji: "Hey! Narushige! You mean to tell me that Sanome are plants!? I didn't fricking know that!!"
Narushige: "I didn't even know that! It isn't as if their bodies are any different from humans'!"
"If it's a question of having capability or not..."
Rakan: "(I've never lied during a doctor's examination, guys...)"
Chigusa: "And what about the story that the women of Narushige-san's family giving birth to Sanome..?"
Touji: "If that's what they mean by 'giving birth,' and then they came to have a monopoly over the Sanome, and said that they were the only ones who could give birth to one, they'd certainly get treated well, wouldn't they?"
Narushige: "................................................."
It's entirely possible... No, but still...
It's just that... even if you put it that way... To say they're plants!... (How can...)"
Chigusa: "Shigeka Narushige."
"Lend me this."
//Chigusa is holding the bandolier of seeds Narushige confiscated from Touji.//
Narushige: "Huh? ...Oh, I see."
"Certainly, go ahead."
Touji: "(Hey! That's my bag!)"
Chigusa: "There are a lot of seeds, aren't there. Which should I use?"
Rakan: "?"
Narushige: "Hmm. How about this one? (Here you are.)"
//Chigusa walks up to the seedchild and holds the seed in front of it. The seed immediatelly sprouts.//
Chigusa: Ahh... (Of course...) It really is a Sanome....
Rakan: ".........................."
Touji: ".........................."
I've never heard about anything like these things before...
Narushige: Shigeyuki-sama, what are the Shigeka..?
Chigusa: "Well, I'll just take this and be off."
Touji, Narushige, & Rakan: "Huh?"
Chigusa: "...If I take this and return..."
Chigusa: "If I do that, then I no longer need Rakan to return with me."
"Because what I need is a Sanome, as long as this Sanome is here, my mission is complete."
Chigusa: "If I do that, I no longer need you to return with me."
"You'll be able to continue living in this world as you did before."
"Shigeka Narushige."
Narushige: "Yes."
Chigusa: "I'll return to the other world tomorrow morning, and take this Sanome with me. Are you going to come with me? I'm going to take you back as well, Touno."
Touji: "Huh? Oh, right..."
Chigusa: "Shigeka Narushige."
Narushige: That's right... I was never meant to be an inhabitant of this world in the first place.
The only person who can see things like the entrance to the other world is Senrou....
"....Yes."
I have no choice but to return...
Rakan: "......................................."
Chigusa: "Rakan."
"You can go back to your original life now."
"Sorry I made you cry."
Rakan: "Huh? Oh! (You mean back there..) No, that is..."
It has nothing to do with you making me cry...
Chigusa: "Let's leave it at that. There's nothing else to say, anyway."
Chigusa: "I'm going as soon as it's morning."
Rakan: "Right. Right......."
"............................Well then...I guess I'll go to bed now... I've got school tomorrow too."
"Goodnight."
Okay...I should go get my futon rea-- No, I'll sleep upstairs.
Narushige: "Oh! Goodnight..."
Chigusa: "Goodnight."
Rakan: Things have really
{{UNDERGONE A SUDDEN CHANGE}}
Rakan: I can really get some sleep. That's good. That's good..........
"..........................................."
It is good, isn't it? Yes.
Because as long as they have their Sanome...
...What is this?
They did say a lot because I'm a Sanome...
Honestly. Stop sulking, Rakan.
It is good, isn't it? Like this.
Rakan: I can return to my usual life, and...
...Chigusa did say it was fine like this, and...
...he did make this decision with my wishes in mind, and...
Yes. Yeah.
After all, I've...
...always liked leading a normal life.
But still, it was...
..kinda fun, even so...
//Rakan now does the mental manga equivalent of the 'best of' flashback episode from earlier chapters.//
Rakan: ".................................................................................................."
Rakan: No, this is fine. It's fine, just like this.
After all, I really disliked being with you.
'Cause when you were here, I got really nervous at all the things I didn't understand.
To put it plainly, it was terrifying.*
.....................Getting too deeply involved was a bad idea.
Now I don't understand about my father...
...or where I came from...
And even so, up till now, I was able to live normally.
And I like normality.
*((The onomatopoeia Rakan uses for 'nervous' and 'terrifying' are used both for talking about fearful experiences, as well as the pleasant nervous feeling one gets when talking to a crush or boyfriend. So there's a bit of intentional ambiguity here.))
Chigusa: "Yeah. It looks like I can take it out."
"I'll be able to remove it and take it back with me."
Narushige: ".................................."
"Senrou. Why are you in such a hurry...?"
"And fter you seduced him-- I mean, invited him, so persistently him.."
Touji: Weren't you more accurate the first time around?
Chigusa: "I've finally come to understand."
Narushige: "Huh?"
Chigusa: "Rakan is certainly a Sanome. ...And I think he's probably the true Prince as well."
"But if you really think about it, he's someone from a different world."
"I've finally come to that realisation."
"What I need is a Sanome. Not Rakan."
Touji: What the?
He'd didn't really just...
Rakan: "So as long as I can take a Sanome back with me, everything's fine."
Narushige: ".............................."
"Is that the extent of your attitude toward other people?"
Chigusa: "'Attitude?'"
Narushige: "How have you come to categorise people up until this point? What criteria do you use?"
Chigusa: "Categorise people?"
"Aside from myself..."
People are either enemies or allies.
"...people are either 'harmful,' 'harmless,' or 'useful.'"
Chigusa: "After all, that's the Purpose I've had from the very beginning.
Narushige: "'Purpose?'"
Chigusa: "To destroy all of the Ayame."
"And what I need to accomplish that is not Rakan, but a Sanome."
"As long as I have a Sanome, I should be fine. So I should be fine like this. So it is fine. Like this."
Touji: This guy is...
Narushige: "You poor thing."
Chigusa: "Who is."
Narushige: "........................ I am, obviously!"
".......................Because I really like Rakan-kun, and I don't think I'll ever be able to see him again. And it's sad and I'm depressed because of it!"
Chigusa: "........................................."
Touji: ".........................................."
Narushige: "Still, there's no way we could take a child back with us, and I don't want to cause him any more trouble, either."
"So I'm going back, after all!"
Chigusa: "So why are you angry at me!"
Narushige: "Because you're a scapegoat!"
Chigusa: "Oh, sorry!"
Touji: "............................."
What do you make of that...
And more importantly, the Sanome. I don't have any particular responsibility to quietly hand it over to him, do I? If I could somehow steal it and take it to the Prince...
\\Chigusa: "That Prince is an Ayame."\\
Touji: ".........................................."
What is this! I don't get what's going on!
....I wonder if I'd understand if I could see you again. My Prince... Kinrei-sama...
But if I go back with these guys, how will I get to the Prince..?
Touji: Shit! What should I do? I don't understand this at all.
The only thing I understand is that Rakan is probably a good person.
And those guys...
...probably aren't really bad people either...
That's what I think, but...
//Dawn breaks as Rakan prepares a huge breakfast in the kitchen.//
Narushige: "What? Rakan-kun!"
"Are you awake already? Making food so early..."
Rakan: "Ah, good morning, Narushige-san."
Narushige: "(Good morning.)"
Rakan: "I thought I'd make some bentou."
Narushige: "Obentou?"*
*((Bentou are boxed meals.))
Rakan: "Right. You're going back home, after all. Since you said you'd leave this morning."
"So I wanted to do something."
"And I thought, 'Well, why don't I make breakfast and lunch bentou.' Since this is goodbye."
Narushige: "......................................."
"Ah, I see. Thank you...."
"Can I help at all?"
Rakan: "No, that's all right. All I have to do is let this simmer-- Oh, Narushige-san!"
"You should leave wearing the clothes you wore when you came here."
Narushige: "Ah! Erm...."
Rakan: "They're in the chest of drawers near the laundry room. Make sure to tell Chigusa and Touno as well. To go change their clothes, that is."
Narushige: "................................."
"Right." Ah.
Narushige: So this is what Rakan-kun's daily life is like.
Rakan: Damn! I forgot to get my bag ready yesterday. Hmmm... what subjects do I have today? Ah! I forgot to prepare for class too.
Ah, well. As long as I can get to school early... (That's what I'll do...)
//Rakan notices something on his desk.//
Rakan: Huh? Oh, this is my Grampa's...
...electronic dictionary...
{{From Monsieur Grampa's Collection of New-fangled New Things.}}
Rakan: How did it end up over here? Ah!
That's right. I meant to lend it to Kou, since I thought he might find it interesting. (Plus it's small and light.)
I wonder if it lists 'doing it my way' under 'damn the torpedoes?'*
//Rakan drops the dictionary into his bag, midway into looking up the word.//
Rakan: Well, it's not like we need to know now, anyway.
"...................................."
I've finished making the bentou.
And my bag's all set.
And I'll take care of class preparation once I get to school.
I might as well clean the house when I get back home.
*((The transliteration of 'my pace' and the Japanese-language definition in the original.))
Rakan: I like to study.
I like to cook.
I like to clean and do the laundry, too.
I love living a normal life.
Narushige: "Okay then, Rakan-kun..."
Rakan: "Yeah."
"Can you remove that child?"
Chigusa: "Mmhmm. It's okay. It'll be just like picking fruit."
Rakan: "Fruit."
(That's amazing. Still...)
"Oh."
Rakan: "Take these back with you, instead of a farewell gift."
Kou: "What are they? What are they?"
Rakan: "Bentou."
Kou: "Woah, like lunch service."
Rakan: "It's a little different, Kou. (Where did you learn about that?)"*
Kou: "(The King's Brunch.)"**
Rakan: "There are portions for everyone, so you can eat too, Touno."
Touji: "......................................"
(Even I get some?)
"But....."
Chigusa: "Rakan."
"Thanks for everything."
*((In Japanese, 'lunch service' is a specially priced meal, served during fixed hours, that offers drinks and extra foods like miso soup, rice, or other side dishes along with the main course.))
**((Another one of Kou's transliterated-from-English Japanese sayings.))
Chigusa: "Sorry for causing you so much trouble."
Rakan: "No. 'S fine. Don't worry 'bout it."
"Take care, everyone."
Narushige: "Yes, and you too, Rakan."
Rakan: "Yup."
Kou: "See ya, Rakan."
Rakan: I'm going to do this quickly.
Rakan: So please do it quickly too, guys.
Chigusa: "Rakan."
"I can't take you back with me."
"Because I like you."
Chigusa: "Is that correct?"
Rakan: No.
No, it fits, but...
...you should say just 'thank you,' instead.
Chigusa: "..................................Well then."
"Rakan."
Rakan: Don't cry.
Don't cry.
It's not like it's anything to cry over.
This is...
Rakan: This is fine the way it is.
After all, I like leading a normal life.
And the reason I like leading a normal life..
...is because I don't like to bring out this storm from within myself.
Instinct... Don't wake me up.
//A wormhole opens in the middle of the garden.//
//In which the Prince and Kinrei appear.//
//The Prince smiles.//
Rakan: Instinct... Don't wake me up.
That will be all.
