Silver Diamond: Chapter IX (Translated)
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akujunkanWoah, you guys owe me! This makes two translations in under a week. This one's a doozy too - we've got action! high drama! angst! and just in case you thought the plot was a little too straightforward as of yet, Sugiura's mixed it up a bit. (Have I mentioned how much I love this woman? We're going to be married, you know.)
How I wish you guys could buy IchiRaci. There's some amazing scenes in this issue, starting with the cover, on which Chigusa is almost kissing Rakan to the point that that looks like that's what they're doing if you don't stare at it directly; gorgeous color pages of just-off-the-cliffs!Chigusa and the Gang of Four; my baby Narushige kicking ass and takes names; the Prince smiling a host of creepy smiles; and Chigusa and Rakan shooting each other sultry looks like there was no one else in the room. Yummy stuff.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering where that translation was, well, it's here.
Silver Diamond: Part IX
(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.
I wonder what you'd call it.
This meaning for living.
This reason for existing.
You'll feel the other world in your bones.
Switch all on*
Narushige: "My..."
"My Prince...?!"
*((This is written, verbatim in English.))
//We see the Gang of Four gaping at the Prince and Kinrei as they materalise out of a black cloud.//
//Senrou grabs his gun and starts firing.//
//Kinrei wraps the cloud about the Prince and himself, shielding them from the bullets.//
Rakan: 'Prince.'
He really does have the same face as me...
Rakan: What is this?
This...
Who is...
...this person?
Is he my...what?
What?
//The Prince withdraws a black, scaly hand from his robes.//
Rakan: "Wha?"
His hand...
His hand is...
...black.
//The Prince points to the firearm tree.//
Narushige: "!"
The Firearm tree, it's--
Rakan: The tree is...withering!?
Touji: ".........................!!"
Narushige: Can they be true?
The things Senrou told us?
Group: 'That is an Ayame Prince,'.........................................!!
//The Prince and Kinrei appear to emit dark flame.//
Chigusa: This is Damage.
Rakan: "..........................."
Touji: "An Ayame Prince......."
Can it be?
But what about everything you said to me, Kinrei-sama?
//Chigusa looks at Touji, who appears to be emitting the same dark flame.//
Chigusa: This is Harmful.
Narushige: An Ayame Prince.
Kinrei-sama.
Why have you come here, now...?
"Kou!!"
//Chigusa looks at the seedling Sanome in the tree.//
Chigusa: This is Beneficial.
Beneficial.
//Kou transforms into his katana form.//
Narushige: The people who just appeared here are...?
//Rakan is staring at the Prince and Kinrei with some Grade-A Anger in his eyes.//
Rakan: "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
Chigusa: "RAKAN."
Narushige: "Rakan-kun!! Please get out of here!!"
//The Prince extends his hand, and the flame, towards Rakan.//
//Chigusa blocks it with his rifle just before it solidifies and pierces Rakan.//
Chigusa: ".....................Rakan."
Rakan: "Chigusa."
//The Prince's arm pierces the gun and disintegrates it.//
Rakan: "!"
//Chigusa remains expressionless as the Prince impales his arm in dozens of places.//
Narushige: "!!"
".......Chigusa!!"
Touji: "Chigusa!!"
Rakan: "Let go of me, Chigusa!!"
Chigusa: I don't care what happens to my arm.
Rakan: "Chigusa!!"
Chigusa: I won't let him kill Rakan.
Rakan: "Hey, you! Stop it! Why are you doing this? Stop it! What have you come here for?"
"And you're killing that tree!!"
"Stop killing it!!"
"If you've got a body that kills trees, stay away from them!!"
"And in any case, let go of Chigusa's arm!!!"
//The Prince gives a glowing smile.//
The Prince: [But I like to kill things.]*
*((It should be noted that the verb the Prince is using for 'kill' only applies to vegetation. There's a different one for people and animals.))
//Narushige makes to draw Kou from his scabbard.//
Narushige: "!?"
//Kinrei has teleported the top half of his body and now has his hand about Narushige's throat.*//
Kinrei: "What do you feel like slicing, Shigeka Narushige?"
*((Stay away from my baby, bastard. When it comes to Narushige, I'm worse than Kou.))
Narushige: "...................Kinrei-sama.*"
Touji: "!"
Kinrei: "Are you planning to raise a blade against the Prince?"
Narushige: "That's a..."
"That's an Ayame, isn't it!"
Kinrei: "Can you see what surrounds me?"
*((Poor Naru! I wish you guys could see his expression here. He looks so lost.))
//Touji rushes Narushige, pulls a cannister from the bag at his waist, uncaps it, and takes a seed in his hand.//
Narushige: "Touno!?"
Touji: ...........Sanome.
"Sanome Prince!! Take this!!"
Rakan: "!?"
//Rakan catches the seed, which sprouts in his hand.//
Narushige: "...Touno."
Kinrei: "Traitor."
Touji: "Wha..?"
Narushige: "The only traitor here is you! You're the one who's been betraying other people so far!!"
Narushige: "Why have you done this... What do you plan to do with that Ayame?"
"At this point, the other world is completely blasted!!"
Kinrei: "The end of one world is the beginning of a new world."
Narushige: "....What will happen to the people over there? The people who are living there?"
Kinrei: "It's not our place to know who God has chosen, and who He has not."
Narushige: "'God' has chosen?"
"....Me. And Touno. And Senrou!"
Narushige: "...Were chosen and discared by you, weren't we? Into this world!
"Even the Sanome Prince!!"
Kinrei: "The Harbinger of Ruin."
"The Numeric Child."
"The Family of Monsters."
"What right do you have to complain?"
//Rakan sprouts the seedpod into a pistol.//
Rakan: "Chigusa! ...Take this!"
//Narushige draws Kou.//
Narushige: [Kinrei.]
Kinrei: "!"
//Kinrei teleports his upper half back to the Prince and Narushige slices through thin air.//
Narushige: "!"
Kinrei: [Why can't you do anything right? All you ever do is fail.]
Chigusa: "....................................."
"It's just that Rakan's so gentle."
//Chigusa shatters the Prince's hold on him - literally.//
Chigusa: "Next time I'm going to aim for your head - without the slightest hesitation."
Kinrei: "There isn't going to be a 'next time.' This is the end."
Rakan: "Chigusa!"
//The Prince withdraws his hand.//
Kinrei: "My Prince?"
The Prince: [Return us, Kinrei.]
Kinrei: "My Prince. At least eliminate the Imposter..."
The Prince: [Return!!]
//Kinrei extends his hand and reels the child Sanome to his side.//
Rakan: "!"
That's the Sanome child.
Narushige: Did they come here to steal the Sanome Seed?
"!"
The Prince: [Come on.[
[......Pursue us.]
[O younger brother, you're so beautiful.]
Rakan: 'Younger brother?'
Kinrei: My Prince!?
Touji: ".......'Younger Brother?'"
Rakan: "Don't shoot, Chigusa!"
Chigusa: "!"
Rakan: "The Sanome child could be..."
Child Sanome: [Rakan.]
[Rakan.]
Rakan: ........Ahh. That's... That's...
That thing growing over there is...
That flower is... That...flower is...
\\Rakan's Mother: "Rakan."\\
Rakan: That flower is the one that was growing on my mother's grave.
Rakan: "Wait--"
"Wait!!"
//The Prince and Kinrei disappear through the portal.//
Rakan: Mother!?
...No, it's not.
Child Sanome: [Rakan.]
Rakan: It's not, but...why does it feel the same?
It called me 'Rakan.'
Is that thing a part of my mother?*
*((Sugiura does it again. ::thud::))
//Rakan remembers The Prince.//
Rakan: Who are you?
\\The Prince: "O, younger brother."\\
Rakan: He's my what?
What am I?
What am I??
//Chigusa folds Rakan into his arms as the portal vacuums shut.//
Rakan: "............................!"
Rakan: "Chigusa."
//Rakan flashes back to Chigusa lying in his garden.//
Rakan: ............Ah
Rakan: I see.
".......Chigusa!"
Chigusa: "Mm?"
Rakan: "Your arm!"
"(Take your coat off!)"
"Your arm's--!"
Narushige: "Rakan-kun! Chigusa!"
Touji: "Hey! Your arm's..!"
Chigusa: "It doesn't hurt at all."
Touji: "'It doesn't hurt at all?'"
Chigusa: "No. I can't feel pain, after all."
Rakan: "Chigusa..."
Chigusa: "It's all right, Rakan."
"Injuries this minor will heal quickly."
//Chigusa pulls out the shards, which are soon replaced by his sap bandages.//
Rakan: "................................."
Kou, Narushige, and Touji: ".................................."
Chigusa: "I'm fine. Everything's going smoothly."
Rakan: .......He says that...as if this were...normal.
"...Chigusa."
".................Has this... Has this happened to you a lot?"
Chigusa: "...Yeah."
".............I'm always dealing with this-- With that sort of opponent in the other world."
Narushige: "......................"
Rakan: Alone?
"...Why?"
"Why does it... Why does it come to this?"
Chigusa: "....................."
Chigusa: "...Because my Purpose is to exterminate all of the Ayame."
Rakan: "'Purpose?'"
"You say it's your 'Purpose,' but...why is that decided? Who decided that?"
"Why do you have to do this sort of thing, alone..?"
Chigusa: "That's all I can remember."
Rakan: "...Huh?"
Chigusa: "........When I regained consciousness, I was alone on the side of a rocky cliff, and there were mountains of bones and chains hanging around me. All was dessicated. There was no one else there. What I remembered was my name and the world I was in, and that I absolutely had to destroy all of the Ayame."
Chigusa: "That's all I can remember."
Rakan: "............That's all? Up till now?"
You mean you've gone on with nothing but those memories to drive you on...?
Chigusa: "Yes."
"So that's all I've got left. That is all the reason I have for living. The entire worth of my existence, my entire reason for being, is that."
"...And due to that...
Chigusa: "To that end, I left my ability to feel pain, to feel emotions, far away."
Rakan: ...Chigusa.
Chigusa.
Why have I met Chigusa?
This man who lacks so many things?
This man who's so pitiable.
I think that I probably...understood that...from the beginning.
//Rakan flashes back to an image of him and his mother lying in his garden. It is, of course, very similar to the circumstances under which he found Chigusa.//
Rakan: Because the everyday things in this world...
Rakan: The everyday scenes of this world...the clouds...the moon...the grass and and trees...even the flowers...
Rakan: Aren't really connected to me at all.
My Grampa's gone...my Mother's gone...my family's gone.
Rakan: I thought, Ah, here's someone from the same world as I am.
I thought, Here's someone who's the same as I am.
I thought, He's all I have.
Chigusa: "Rakan."
Narushige: "Rakan-kun."
Rakan: I thought, I'm not alone anymore.*
Chigusa: "Rakan....."
"What's wrong? Is something making you sad?"
Rakan: "...Nothing's making me sad."
Narushige: "But what's made you cry?"
Chigusa: "...What are you crying for?"
Rakan: "I just hurt a little."
*((Yeah, fine. Go ahead and layer it on, Sugiura. I'll just be over here, sobbing.))
Rakan: "Chigusa. ...Did you say that you liked me?"*
Chigusa: "...I said it. I like you."
Rakan: "You 'like me?'"
"Then you do have emotions."
*((Sugiura, please, stop. I can't take this.))
Chigusa: "Huh? Yeah."
"Looks like my emotions will return quickly. If I'm with other people."
Yeah.
I like it when you laugh, and get angry, and...
Rakan: "Does it hurt when I cry?"
Chigusa: "Yeah."*
It hurts to see you cry.
Rakan: "Okay. I'm going to make you feel pain again, sometime, so--
*((Which just goes to prove, girls and boys, that H/C in the hands of a master is a beautiful, beautiful thing.))
Rakan: "--take me with you, Chigusa! To the other world!"
Rakan: "No matter which way you cut it, I'm involved. And you need a Sanome, don't you? Make use of me!"
"That Prince is an Ayame, isn't he? And he's going to destroy everything Over There, isn't he? And a lot of people will be in trouble if he isn't stopped, right?"
Chigusa: "Yes......."
"That's about it."
Rakan: "That is it! You, and Narushige-san, even Touno, were sent here by those two, and yet--!"
"You're letting them treat you as if you're worthless!"
"(The 'Harbinger of Ruin' and the 'Family of Monsters' and 'Numeric Children' - all of that...they need to shut up about that stuff!)"
"It's pissing me off!"
Narushige: "Rakan-kun........"
Kou: "(Testify, testify!)"
Touji: ".............................."
//Rakan pictures the Prince.//
Rakan: What is that?
//Rakan pictures himself.//
Rakan: What am I?
//Rakan pictures the child Sanome.//
Rakan: ...................I want to find out. What that is, and what I am, and...
//Rakan looks at Chigusa.//
Rakan: ........What you are...
Rakan: What we really are.
Even if it calls forth a hurricane...I'll be all right, now that I'm not alone anymore...
Chigusa: "If you say something like that to me, I really will bring you along."
I want to take you with me.
Rakan: "That's fine."
Chigusa: "It won't be easy."
Rakan: "I'm a man, so that's not a problem."*
Chigusa: I want to take you with me.
I want to take you with me.
"...You'll probably come to regret it."
*((::snort::))
Rakan: "That's okay. If this is my fate, it's already been chosen for me."
Chigusa: Rakan, now that I'm with you, all my emotions have started coming back to me.
I'm growing to like you more and more.
...............How can I describe it, this....
Rakan: "Chigusa. I understand that..."
//Rakan remembers finding Chigusa in his garden.//
...from that point onward...
"...this is what they mean by 'fate.'"
//And here Sugiura treats us to a smoking look between Chigusa and Rakan.//
Chigusa: "Lead me, too."
Chigusa: Rakan.
"Your wish is my command.
My Prince.
That will be all.
How I wish you guys could buy IchiRaci. There's some amazing scenes in this issue, starting with the cover, on which Chigusa is almost kissing Rakan to the point that that looks like that's what they're doing if you don't stare at it directly; gorgeous color pages of just-off-the-cliffs!Chigusa and the Gang of Four; my baby Narushige kicking ass and takes names; the Prince smiling a host of creepy smiles; and Chigusa and Rakan shooting each other sultry looks like there was no one else in the room. Yummy stuff.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering where that translation was, well, it's here.
Silver Diamond: Part IX
(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.
I wonder what you'd call it.
This meaning for living.
This reason for existing.
You'll feel the other world in your bones.
Switch all on*
Narushige: "My..."
"My Prince...?!"
*((This is written, verbatim in English.))
//We see the Gang of Four gaping at the Prince and Kinrei as they materalise out of a black cloud.//
//Senrou grabs his gun and starts firing.//
//Kinrei wraps the cloud about the Prince and himself, shielding them from the bullets.//
Rakan: 'Prince.'
He really does have the same face as me...
Rakan: What is this?
This...
Who is...
...this person?
Is he my...what?
What?
//The Prince withdraws a black, scaly hand from his robes.//
Rakan: "Wha?"
His hand...
His hand is...
...black.
//The Prince points to the firearm tree.//
Narushige: "!"
The Firearm tree, it's--
Rakan: The tree is...withering!?
Touji: ".........................!!"
Narushige: Can they be true?
The things Senrou told us?
Group: 'That is an Ayame Prince,'.........................................!!
//The Prince and Kinrei appear to emit dark flame.//
Chigusa: This is Damage.
Rakan: "..........................."
Touji: "An Ayame Prince......."
Can it be?
But what about everything you said to me, Kinrei-sama?
//Chigusa looks at Touji, who appears to be emitting the same dark flame.//
Chigusa: This is Harmful.
Narushige: An Ayame Prince.
Kinrei-sama.
Why have you come here, now...?
"Kou!!"
//Chigusa looks at the seedling Sanome in the tree.//
Chigusa: This is Beneficial.
Beneficial.
//Kou transforms into his katana form.//
Narushige: The people who just appeared here are...?
//Rakan is staring at the Prince and Kinrei with some Grade-A Anger in his eyes.//
Rakan: "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
Chigusa: "RAKAN."
Narushige: "Rakan-kun!! Please get out of here!!"
//The Prince extends his hand, and the flame, towards Rakan.//
//Chigusa blocks it with his rifle just before it solidifies and pierces Rakan.//
Chigusa: ".....................Rakan."
Rakan: "Chigusa."
//The Prince's arm pierces the gun and disintegrates it.//
Rakan: "!"
//Chigusa remains expressionless as the Prince impales his arm in dozens of places.//
Narushige: "!!"
".......Chigusa!!"
Touji: "Chigusa!!"
Rakan: "Let go of me, Chigusa!!"
Chigusa: I don't care what happens to my arm.
Rakan: "Chigusa!!"
Chigusa: I won't let him kill Rakan.
Rakan: "Hey, you! Stop it! Why are you doing this? Stop it! What have you come here for?"
"And you're killing that tree!!"
"Stop killing it!!"
"If you've got a body that kills trees, stay away from them!!"
"And in any case, let go of Chigusa's arm!!!"
//The Prince gives a glowing smile.//
The Prince: [But I like to kill things.]*
*((It should be noted that the verb the Prince is using for 'kill' only applies to vegetation. There's a different one for people and animals.))
//Narushige makes to draw Kou from his scabbard.//
Narushige: "!?"
//Kinrei has teleported the top half of his body and now has his hand about Narushige's throat.*//
Kinrei: "What do you feel like slicing, Shigeka Narushige?"
*((Stay away from my baby, bastard. When it comes to Narushige, I'm worse than Kou.))
Narushige: "...................Kinrei-sama.*"
Touji: "!"
Kinrei: "Are you planning to raise a blade against the Prince?"
Narushige: "That's a..."
"That's an Ayame, isn't it!"
Kinrei: "Can you see what surrounds me?"
*((Poor Naru! I wish you guys could see his expression here. He looks so lost.))
//Touji rushes Narushige, pulls a cannister from the bag at his waist, uncaps it, and takes a seed in his hand.//
Narushige: "Touno!?"
Touji: ...........Sanome.
"Sanome Prince!! Take this!!"
Rakan: "!?"
//Rakan catches the seed, which sprouts in his hand.//
Narushige: "...Touno."
Kinrei: "Traitor."
Touji: "Wha..?"
Narushige: "The only traitor here is you! You're the one who's been betraying other people so far!!"
Narushige: "Why have you done this... What do you plan to do with that Ayame?"
"At this point, the other world is completely blasted!!"
Kinrei: "The end of one world is the beginning of a new world."
Narushige: "....What will happen to the people over there? The people who are living there?"
Kinrei: "It's not our place to know who God has chosen, and who He has not."
Narushige: "'God' has chosen?"
"....Me. And Touno. And Senrou!"
Narushige: "...Were chosen and discared by you, weren't we? Into this world!
"Even the Sanome Prince!!"
Kinrei: "The Harbinger of Ruin."
"The Numeric Child."
"The Family of Monsters."
"What right do you have to complain?"
//Rakan sprouts the seedpod into a pistol.//
Rakan: "Chigusa! ...Take this!"
//Narushige draws Kou.//
Narushige: [Kinrei.]
Kinrei: "!"
//Kinrei teleports his upper half back to the Prince and Narushige slices through thin air.//
Narushige: "!"
Kinrei: [Why can't you do anything right? All you ever do is fail.]
Chigusa: "....................................."
"It's just that Rakan's so gentle."
//Chigusa shatters the Prince's hold on him - literally.//
Chigusa: "Next time I'm going to aim for your head - without the slightest hesitation."
Kinrei: "There isn't going to be a 'next time.' This is the end."
Rakan: "Chigusa!"
//The Prince withdraws his hand.//
Kinrei: "My Prince?"
The Prince: [Return us, Kinrei.]
Kinrei: "My Prince. At least eliminate the Imposter..."
The Prince: [Return!!]
//Kinrei extends his hand and reels the child Sanome to his side.//
Rakan: "!"
That's the Sanome child.
Narushige: Did they come here to steal the Sanome Seed?
"!"
The Prince: [Come on.[
[......Pursue us.]
[O younger brother, you're so beautiful.]
Rakan: 'Younger brother?'
Kinrei: My Prince!?
Touji: ".......'Younger Brother?'"
Rakan: "Don't shoot, Chigusa!"
Chigusa: "!"
Rakan: "The Sanome child could be..."
Child Sanome: [Rakan.]
[Rakan.]
Rakan: ........Ahh. That's... That's...
That thing growing over there is...
That flower is... That...flower is...
\\Rakan's Mother: "Rakan."\\
Rakan: That flower is the one that was growing on my mother's grave.
Rakan: "Wait--"
"Wait!!"
//The Prince and Kinrei disappear through the portal.//
Rakan: Mother!?
...No, it's not.
Child Sanome: [Rakan.]
Rakan: It's not, but...why does it feel the same?
It called me 'Rakan.'
Is that thing a part of my mother?*
*((Sugiura does it again. ::thud::))
//Rakan remembers The Prince.//
Rakan: Who are you?
\\The Prince: "O, younger brother."\\
Rakan: He's my what?
What am I?
What am I??
//Chigusa folds Rakan into his arms as the portal vacuums shut.//
Rakan: "............................!"
Rakan: "Chigusa."
//Rakan flashes back to Chigusa lying in his garden.//
Rakan: ............Ah
Rakan: I see.
".......Chigusa!"
Chigusa: "Mm?"
Rakan: "Your arm!"
"(Take your coat off!)"
"Your arm's--!"
Narushige: "Rakan-kun! Chigusa!"
Touji: "Hey! Your arm's..!"
Chigusa: "It doesn't hurt at all."
Touji: "'It doesn't hurt at all?'"
Chigusa: "No. I can't feel pain, after all."
Rakan: "Chigusa..."
Chigusa: "It's all right, Rakan."
"Injuries this minor will heal quickly."
//Chigusa pulls out the shards, which are soon replaced by his sap bandages.//
Rakan: "................................."
Kou, Narushige, and Touji: ".................................."
Chigusa: "I'm fine. Everything's going smoothly."
Rakan: .......He says that...as if this were...normal.
"...Chigusa."
".................Has this... Has this happened to you a lot?"
Chigusa: "...Yeah."
".............I'm always dealing with this-- With that sort of opponent in the other world."
Narushige: "......................"
Rakan: Alone?
"...Why?"
"Why does it... Why does it come to this?"
Chigusa: "....................."
Chigusa: "...Because my Purpose is to exterminate all of the Ayame."
Rakan: "'Purpose?'"
"You say it's your 'Purpose,' but...why is that decided? Who decided that?"
"Why do you have to do this sort of thing, alone..?"
Chigusa: "That's all I can remember."
Rakan: "...Huh?"
Chigusa: "........When I regained consciousness, I was alone on the side of a rocky cliff, and there were mountains of bones and chains hanging around me. All was dessicated. There was no one else there. What I remembered was my name and the world I was in, and that I absolutely had to destroy all of the Ayame."
Chigusa: "That's all I can remember."
Rakan: "............That's all? Up till now?"
You mean you've gone on with nothing but those memories to drive you on...?
Chigusa: "Yes."
"So that's all I've got left. That is all the reason I have for living. The entire worth of my existence, my entire reason for being, is that."
"...And due to that...
Chigusa: "To that end, I left my ability to feel pain, to feel emotions, far away."
Rakan: ...Chigusa.
Chigusa.
Why have I met Chigusa?
This man who lacks so many things?
This man who's so pitiable.
I think that I probably...understood that...from the beginning.
//Rakan flashes back to an image of him and his mother lying in his garden. It is, of course, very similar to the circumstances under which he found Chigusa.//
Rakan: Because the everyday things in this world...
Rakan: The everyday scenes of this world...the clouds...the moon...the grass and and trees...even the flowers...
Rakan: Aren't really connected to me at all.
My Grampa's gone...my Mother's gone...my family's gone.
Rakan: I thought, Ah, here's someone from the same world as I am.
I thought, Here's someone who's the same as I am.
I thought, He's all I have.
Chigusa: "Rakan."
Narushige: "Rakan-kun."
Rakan: I thought, I'm not alone anymore.*
Chigusa: "Rakan....."
"What's wrong? Is something making you sad?"
Rakan: "...Nothing's making me sad."
Narushige: "But what's made you cry?"
Chigusa: "...What are you crying for?"
Rakan: "I just hurt a little."
*((Yeah, fine. Go ahead and layer it on, Sugiura. I'll just be over here, sobbing.))
Rakan: "Chigusa. ...Did you say that you liked me?"*
Chigusa: "...I said it. I like you."
Rakan: "You 'like me?'"
"Then you do have emotions."
*((Sugiura, please, stop. I can't take this.))
Chigusa: "Huh? Yeah."
"Looks like my emotions will return quickly. If I'm with other people."
Yeah.
I like it when you laugh, and get angry, and...
Rakan: "Does it hurt when I cry?"
Chigusa: "Yeah."*
It hurts to see you cry.
Rakan: "Okay. I'm going to make you feel pain again, sometime, so--
*((Which just goes to prove, girls and boys, that H/C in the hands of a master is a beautiful, beautiful thing.))
Rakan: "--take me with you, Chigusa! To the other world!"
Rakan: "No matter which way you cut it, I'm involved. And you need a Sanome, don't you? Make use of me!"
"That Prince is an Ayame, isn't he? And he's going to destroy everything Over There, isn't he? And a lot of people will be in trouble if he isn't stopped, right?"
Chigusa: "Yes......."
"That's about it."
Rakan: "That is it! You, and Narushige-san, even Touno, were sent here by those two, and yet--!"
"You're letting them treat you as if you're worthless!"
"(The 'Harbinger of Ruin' and the 'Family of Monsters' and 'Numeric Children' - all of that...they need to shut up about that stuff!)"
"It's pissing me off!"
Narushige: "Rakan-kun........"
Kou: "(Testify, testify!)"
Touji: ".............................."
//Rakan pictures the Prince.//
Rakan: What is that?
//Rakan pictures himself.//
Rakan: What am I?
//Rakan pictures the child Sanome.//
Rakan: ...................I want to find out. What that is, and what I am, and...
//Rakan looks at Chigusa.//
Rakan: ........What you are...
Rakan: What we really are.
Even if it calls forth a hurricane...I'll be all right, now that I'm not alone anymore...
Chigusa: "If you say something like that to me, I really will bring you along."
I want to take you with me.
Rakan: "That's fine."
Chigusa: "It won't be easy."
Rakan: "I'm a man, so that's not a problem."*
Chigusa: I want to take you with me.
I want to take you with me.
"...You'll probably come to regret it."
*((::snort::))
Rakan: "That's okay. If this is my fate, it's already been chosen for me."
Chigusa: Rakan, now that I'm with you, all my emotions have started coming back to me.
I'm growing to like you more and more.
...............How can I describe it, this....
Rakan: "Chigusa. I understand that..."
//Rakan remembers finding Chigusa in his garden.//
...from that point onward...
"...this is what they mean by 'fate.'"
//And here Sugiura treats us to a smoking look between Chigusa and Rakan.//
Chigusa: "Lead me, too."
Chigusa: Rakan.
"Your wish is my command.
My Prince.
That will be all.
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on 2004-08-20 01:28 pm (UTC)Woah, you guys owe me!
you can have everything you want from me XDXD
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on 2004-08-29 05:21 am (UTC)Hee! Now I have to think of something appropriate. I don't want it to backfire on me in genie-in-the-bottle style.
Glad you're enjoying the transes so much!
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on 2004-08-20 06:46 pm (UTC)AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am flabbergasted. AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!! We wants the manga YES WE DOOOOOS!!!!!!!
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on 2004-08-29 05:20 am (UTC)You probably already have the first 2 tankoubon already, but if not, go and acquire. Also, I think if you contact Asahiya or Kinokunia books in NYC, that they can hook you up with a subscription to the monthly. I recommend this - the monthly is several square inches larger than the tanks, so the pictures are nicer.
scans?
on 2004-08-20 09:14 pm (UTC)BTW, this is the chapter that I scanned a while ago (raw, obviously) and put up in the Koori group files area, if anyone wants to download. The Koori group link is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kohrinomamono/
If you're not already a member, come join us, we're quiet and don't bite... much. ^-^
Re: scans?
on 2004-08-21 01:13 am (UTC)sparkles*
on 2004-08-21 11:37 am (UTC)thanks so much for translating it.
Re: sparkles*
on 2004-08-29 05:17 am (UTC)You're welcome, btw. And I'm working on the next chapter now, which is awesome, so look forward to that;-)
T-T SO SAD!
on 2004-11-14 10:47 pm (UTC)Re: T-T SO SAD!
on 2004-12-07 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-11-30 04:43 pm (UTC)now im hooked on this manga, and it's all your fault! nyar!
please keep working on it. i know there are a LOT of people eager to see what happens next. ^_~
thank you sooo much for your hard work!!! <3<3<3