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translation, if you find mistakes, or if you have comments, write me !
A new paragraph for each bubble of a same chara.
Sometimes there are words that have two different readings (kanji & furigana
different), I’m writing the kanji meaning, then
[the second reading in italics] right after.
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Bronze Volume 13
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Title; Bronze Last chapter, vol 14
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Hina: You’re Kôji-kun...
Aren’t you...?
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Hina: I was surprised to meet you in such a place.
[Speaking in English]
Lulu: Wow !
Hina!! My baby!!
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Lulu: I missed you, Dr. Baby!
It’s been a long time you didn’t come, and even though you call here ‘such a place’ you’re mean!
Hina: Yeah, my tongue slipped, Queen Lulu, I missed you too.
Lulu: Come on! Kiss me properly!!
Kôji: …………
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Ozaki tarts: Hina !! Baby !!
Hina: I’ll be completely yours later
Forgive me now, ladies.
Barman: Hi Doc, long time no see
Don’t tell me you came to see this guy ?
Hina: Hi John, seems that there was some fun here.
[From now on, speaking in Japanese]
Hina: I was really...
Surprised
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Kôji: …………
Obviously
This is what you try to hide behind that cute face
Hina: Are you running away
After leaving ‘him’ ?
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Hina: Well, those things happen often
‘He’ came back to rehabilitation diligently, as if he didn’t care either.
You disappeared after the bad treatment you inflicted on him...
...But leaving your passport behind wasn’t a careless forgetting.
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Hina: You were planning to erase ‘Nanjô Kôji’
From ‘this world’
Didn’t you ?
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Kôji: Why ?
Why don’t you say it ? That it’s already hopeless…
‘There are no more prospects’ or ‘You will never walk again’
The sooner you’ll tell him the better, to let him get used to live with the wheelchair
Most of the experts say that it’s better to turn around towards a ‘new hope’
Like that world cup athlete.
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Hina: I won’t say that because this is how things work in our institution
We make profit thanks to that
Zerta Kils…
Of course you can see at the first glance that he successfully overcame the handicap.
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Hina: But this is the human instinct of survival, called self-defense but in fact it’s self-
suggestion. When you have a new hope you start living with all your might... Without this simple thought, it eventually ends with death.
It is known that people can manage to redo a life anytime, to take many new starts...
But not everyone can
There are people who have this real power of self-suggestion, and others who are just mistaking themselves.
Whishing something so strongly that it finally comes true is a phenomenon that happens to just a small part of humanity.
If everyone had this ability...
… Good and Evil would be in the hands of the weak humans, Earth would have been devastated long ago.
There must be something you strongly think about and burn for, but you can’t have, isn’t there ?
Nowadays that kind of people have reached their limits,
But thanks to that, Earth is still turning round
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Hina: Even you, you are living on, far from death
You didn’t kill Izumi-kun and you are living on.
Kôji: …It was
A burden to me, that’s all
I wasn’t intending or planning anything.
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Hina: Really ? Whatever you say, strangely you are here in a remote place
You didn’t see the newspaper ? There is a picture of you and an investigation started.
With your hair cut and your sunglasses...
Even I could recognize you
Kôji: …
Hina: As I thought...
This artificial hand is very elaborate
It must require frequent maintenance, doesn’t’ it ?
It will be a problem.
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Hina: But well...
We can find a way...
What about...
Buying yourself a new name?
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Hina: Dying the hair in platinum blonde
Turning the eyes into deep blue...
Making your outstanding looks even more outstanding, and you’ll disappear from careless eyes
You would like it to leave for a faraway country, don’t you ?
Leave even your name ‘Nanjô Kôji’ behind.
Imagine if you traded places with someone having the same features as you, we could make a dead body looking exactly like yours.
You would be dead without dying.
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Hina: This would just be
A little expensive though...
How about it ...?
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Kôji: Well, here is the money
There are also 150 000 dollars cash left
Is it enough ?
Dr. Baby
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Izumi: *Ah, yes*
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Izumi: *It won’t work this way*
*A bit further*
*To the place where it will hit the vein*
*Shibuya and Takasaka-san are here*
*They must not find out now*
*I made you worry...Sorry*
*Takasaka-san*
*Sorry...*
*Shibuya*
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Izumi: *All of that were lies*
............
*I know it*
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Kôji: You’re annoying...
I’m tired tired
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Izumi: *Why*
*can’t it be just*
*’simply love’*
Katsumi: Say,
Izumi
Have you ever thought about the ‘meaning of your life’ ?
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Izumi: That...
For an ‘abandoned child’ like me...
At the beginning it was for my siblings
For soccer
The reason why I was living...?
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Izumi: What I know is that in fact, I was doing everything for myself
My care for my siblings, my playing soccer, was just a way for ‘me’ to be needed.
Katsumi: .....
Yes, I see
What a perfect model answer
Izumi: What is it ?
Are you worried about my ‘dependence and self-hurting behavior due to a trauma’ ?
Katsumi: ......
Humans always have to establish their own personality
An established self allows creating links with other persons or things
Without that, everything is mere ‘dependence’...
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Katsumi: According to the common arguments, love is when ‘you care more about a person than yourself’
But with or without that argument, for the people who haven’t established their own personality, love is also a mere dependence
It’s covering ‘Good for me first’ with ‘Caring for the lover’.
.........
Haa
How stupid
Humans cannot live without finding a reason for everything...
Izumi: ......’simply love’
Is it impossible?
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Izumi: I thought about many things too
But all of that came after...Truth is that this love came from...
‘a simple love’...
Nothing more
Katsumi: ......
Izumi: For example, if my father hadn’t taught me soccer
I would have met soccer sooner or later, and loved it
No need for a confused reason
‘simple love’ out of ‘simple purity’...
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Izumi: That’s why...
*Kôji...*
*Even if Kôji hadn’t met me when he was a school boy*
No theory...
*I would have eventually... on that rainy day*
No dependence
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Izumi: *Took Kôji in...*
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Katsumi: Kôji too...
Told me the same
Izumi
Izumi: *Any analyses from an eminent scholar, or speech from a great professor*
*is nonsense*
Katsumi: Before he started to think about ‘being happy’
He said he ‘became happy’ when he met you
That ‘I want to become a person Izumi could be happy to live with’
Because his own happiness was your mere existence
Izumi: *I don’t need any*
*Reasons or arguments*
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Katsumi: Most of the time, ‘happiness’ is not a thing you can ‘bring’
You find by yourself the person or thing you love, and then you’re happy by yourself
‘Making someone happy’ is quite brazen
But since he said he ‘became happy’......
If the partner can ‘become happy’ too
That’s really a great thing...
[Izumi remembers what he was thinking just on the moment before the car crash]
Izumi: *I am so happy now*
*That I don’t need anything else...*
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Izumi: *’Don’t need anything else’*
*That’s what I was thinking*
*On that very moment...*
Uh...
A...uh !
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[Speaking in English]
Lulu: .........What is it ?
Am I not attractive,
Prince?
Kôji: No way
You’re so pretty that I’m stressed out
Lulu: Huhu...
Then let me do it
Gently, gently
I’ll give you some love
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Kôji: Love
What is it ?
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Title: Bronze
Saishû shô vol 15
‘No one ever loved
you ?’
To the woman’s question
I answered by laughing.
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Can that be called ‘love’ ?
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Kôji: *It was a horrible betrayal*
*Because I was seeing through it*
*I chose the most awful words*
*I knew exactly what to say to hurt him the most*
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Kôji: *In that moment*
[There will be a few sentences from
Izumi during their last night]
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Kôji: *If I had held him tenderly*
*And said ‘Let’s become one’ it would have been enough*
Izumi: This way
I want to melt into you
Kôji: *A gentle kiss*
*Again and again*
*If I had just whispered it would have been good*
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Izumi: This way
We’ll merge together
Kôji: *Isn’t it what I was wishing ?!*
*I was wishing*
*In that moment, he was broken up into ash*
*To a point where he couldn’t be hurt any more*
*He was clinging to me*
*And even though it would have been easy to let him fall*
Izumi: This way
I don’t want to think about anything
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Izumi: Can’t we…?
Become one
Kôji: *If I had given you a slight slap on the cheek, and said
‘Izumi, you have your soccer, don’t you ?’ with a cheerful smile…*
*You would certainly have showed a smile even more complex
than usual, and given me a bit of trust*
*Yes…*
*Then I would have made merging love to you*
*Pulling you into my trap*
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Kôji: *Collapsing*
*No way*
*Close those beautiful eyes*
*No way*
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Kôji: *It’s impossible for me*
*It’s impossible if it’s not me*
*Each time I think about it it’s the same result*
*’Kill me’*
Izumi: Destroy me
Kôji: *The same words that I was about to say so may times*
*’I will kill you’*
Izumi: Become one
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[There’s a kind of conflict in
Kôji’s thoughts; if I translate one part, then the other, it won’t have the same
impact as in Japanese...so I’ll just put ** and -- around the different
speeches]
Kôji: *I want to bring Izumi back to soccer*
- I ‘really’ have hurt him, haven’t I ? -
*Izumi who kept the secret about his stolen legs because he
cared for me*
*Your happiness is enough to make me happy*
- Moreover I knew how his parents committed an insane
double suicide ! –
*I would do anything to make Izumi happy, only that and
there’d be nothing else for me*
- Moreover he doesn’t even have soccer anymore !! –
…Ha
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Kôji: Ha…ha
*What is happening to me ?!*
*I only want Izumi to be happy…*
- ’I hurt him, haven’t I ?’ -
- ‘He doesn’t have soccer anymore’ –
- ‘The way I betrayed him !!’ –
*…My head is still full of these thoughts !!*
Hahahaha !!
*The way*
Ha…haha…
*I betrayed him*
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Kôji: *Forgive me Izumi*
*The way you were trying to indulge me, just like lovers
do*
*With your tears*
*I couldn’t even believe it*
*My forceful feelings are only*
*Swelling Expanding Erosion*
*Accumulating in you*
*There was no other way than this one*
*Izumi who was entrusting everything to me*
*Izumi was broken*
*Throwing himself away…?*
*Broken*
*I did that to Izumi !!*
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Kôji: *Is it what I wished ?
…Wasn’t there…
Another way…?
*No*
Lulu: What ?
Kôji: *Breaking Izumi*
*There was no other way*
*In order to bring Izumi back to Izumi !*
*In order to help Izumi to get out of there !*
Dumb head…
*Just by staying by his side, I was hurting him*
- You must have been hurt, haven’t you ? –
- To be betrayed by me –
*To a point that there was no way back*
*Who would ever wish that ?*
[“If you can’t do as much as that, then what is this ‘one love in a
lifetime’”]
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Kôji: *Once in a lifetime*
*Yes*
*Because it’s once in a lifetime*
*That is why I…*
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[English speaking]
Kôji: This is…!!
Hina: Wonderful !! This is obviously Hollywood’s unique and best
technology
Even to the touch it seems completely real
Man: It’s extremely difficult to build a moving artificial arm
without metal
Of course, it moves the same way as that computer you had
You can’t see the difference at the first glance, can you ?
(In your country that’s quite a hard job ! hahahaha ! But
for me it’s no big deal)
[Back to Japanese from now on]
Hina: With that artificial arm you had, you would have been caught
at the country border, during the metal detection.
Maybe there will be difficulties with the maintenance of
this one
But well, you’ll always find a smuggler for that.
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Kôji: ………
Hina: By the way... Izumi-kun didn’t come by lately
So I called Shibuya-kun
It seems that
Izumi-kun
Committed suicide
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Kôji: ……What ?
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Hina: With a kitchen knife on his neck, around here
If he cut his artery there was no chance for him
It’s an instantaneous death
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Hina: Isn’t it the perfect ending you were wishing?
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Hina: If he reached the point of committing suicide, your depart
must have been a real shock
Being betrayed by his only support, you, left him despaired
in an empty world...
Aren’t you happy ?
...Why...?
Don’t tell me you hadn’t...expected that to happen ?
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Hina: Kôji-kun
He is not in this country anymore
The dead body was taken to Japan
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Hina: It will be difficult to follow it
Since you are being searched at Narita airport
It’s too late, Kôji-kun
Both of you did build up something until now
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Hina: What the hell was it ?
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Title: Bronze Saishû shô vol. 16
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‘I am a man who decided to protect you’
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What we did build up to now was
Not ‘such a petty thing’
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Kôji: Ha…!
This is a lie
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Kôji: He is not a man to commit suicide
He is not a man who resigns himself
He will not give up…
Living for soccer
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Kôji: It’s impossible that he would die by his own hands
[Memories from their last love scene]
Izumi: I want to
Kôji: *His hand, held out towards me…*
Izumi: Feel you
No one else but you can make me feel
Kôji: This is a lie
Izumi: That I am still alive
Kôji: *…Was shivering*
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Kôji: *And so, this hand*
*I…*
Lie……
Hina: It seems that he did it after taking a large dosage of pills he left on his bedside table.
That kind of pills usually brings hidden behavior or speech to the surface, as a
secondary effect.
It can happen that deep psychology or impulses come out.
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Hina: His mother did the same
Her neck...with a kitchen knife
Kôji: …one
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Kôji: ...Phone...
Hina: ......Here
Prefix for Japan is 0088
Kôji: *It must be a lie that he is dead*
Phone: This phone is turned off
Kôji: *Izumi…*
*I have to check it, right now…*
*Doesn’t reach it*
*In Japan…?!*
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Katsumi: Hello ? Hina-sensei ?
Kôji: Shibuya !!
Why…are you in Japan ?! Izumi ?!
What happened to Izumi, his phone can’t be reached !!
Shibuya !! Izumi…
How is Izumi ?!
Katsumi: I don’t want…
To talk to you at the moment
[phone hangs up]
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Kôji: *What…?*
…Takasaka
Hina: …Who ?
Kôji: My manager’s phone number…
Hina: Ah...I don’t know this one
The only numbers I have are on my cell phone...
Kôji: *If I call the inquiries I’ll get Shibuya Pro’s number*
*Yes, and I could call the Horiuchis…*
*…No, I don’t even know their address or their names*
Phone: Hello, Shibuya Production
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Man on phone: M. Takasaka ? He’s on a business trip right now
Kôji: I’m Nanjô Kôji !!
Takasaka’s phone number… Tell me where is he !!
Pass me the president !! You recognized my voice, didn’t you ?!
Man on phone: Whaaat ?
I’m sorry but I can’t give you this information.
(Yeah it sounds like him but…other people have such a voice) [Phone hangs up]
Kôji: *What ?*
The team…he belonged to…
No… Newspaper editors…or TV channels…
Izumi is…famous
If he died, that would be big news…
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Kôji: Big news………
Hina: Probably
This is why they want to cover Izumi-kun’s matter for a little while
There were great expectations on him, the new striker chosen to be in the national
delegation, and his tragic accident.
That assailant who made him sustain such spinal chord damage that the half his body
is paralyzed...
‘a young man in a Porsche’ according to witnesses in the news.
Wagering on a ray of hope, he comes to the USA with his ‘close friend’ the very
famous musician.
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Hina: Japan’s ‘wide show’ spends more time on this matter than on a war in another country
It seems that your disappearance was like a spur that roused it.
If it was known there that Izumi-kun committed suicide...
That would be a big rumor, wouldn’t it ? On the net or in weekly publications, they
would indecently flutter in speculations.
Shibuya-kun said he wouldn’t bear it...
If Izumi-kun was disgraced again by vulgar slanders and rumors.
Kôji: Is it possible…………
To hide a death?
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Hina: Such a thing is quite simple
Until the public loses interest in this story...And then it won’t be more than little
news.
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[heartbeats]
Kôji: …Home…
Phone: Hello. M. Shibuya Katsumi will be off for the coming days
Hello, Sports Daily. What? Izumi Takuto? He’s doing rehabilitation in America, isn’t
he?
Oh yeah, about Nanjô Kôji’s disappearance? There are lots of rumours about that.
(They found him after all, didn’t they?)
Hello, Shibuya General Hospital. The director? He is gone to an academic meeting.
Yokohama Football Club. Izumi Takuto-san? I don’t know much about him since he
left our club.
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Kôji: *4…5…6 days’ dosage…?*
*No…More?...*
*Clothes are still here*
*His passport*
*Is not…*
*And the rest…*
*Is still as I left it…*
*As I left it...*
Hina: Are you satisfied ?
Kôji: ……to Japan…
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Kôji: I can’t…believe this
In Japan…
Hina: ...Even though ’Nanjô Kôji’-kun will be stopped at Narita airport for suspicion of
drug possession ?
Just by coming here you could be found, someone could take a photo.
Kôji: I came here aware of that…
You’re supposed to ‘be able to do anything’ don’t you…
Hina: Wait...
One day
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People: What ?! What a great beauty group !! Are they models ?!
Oh yes, there is the Tôkyô Collection !!
Magnificent !!
Cool ! Slender ! Beautiful !
They must be 185cm average ?!
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[Kôji recalls a conversation with Hina sooner]
Hina: Dye your hair
Above the blue contact lenses you will have to bear these special clear contacts
The usual ones slip out easily
It is easy to spot contact lenses by looking closer
When you go through customs examination, if they notice it you will just have to take
off the clear contacts
And we’ll hide your skin colour with some make-up.
Kôji: …I thought you were suspicious in the beginning
Why do you do that much for me ?
Hina: I like...
People like you
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Hina: So...
I want to support you
[End of flashback]
Lulu (in English): Ok
There is a car waiting for you on the parking lot.
And you’ll find the numbers you whished recorded in your cell phone’s memory.
Don’t hurry.
Hina: Yes
It is going well.
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Hina: Right now, he is probably...
Driving high speed on the road
No, don’t mention it
After all I was the one who called you...
I am happy to still have a contact with you.
Phone: Hello, this is Shibuya.
Kôji: Ah…!
Can…Can I speak to Nakamura please
Is Katsumi-kun here ?
Phone: Katsumi-sama has just gone out
Kôji: Do you know where he went ?...We had an appointment but I missed it.
Phone: Well, then you can find him near the university, in Aoyama’s…
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Katsumi: …..
Wh…
Why…are you here [in Japan]…!!
Kôji: What about Izumi ?!
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Kôji: Where is Izumi !! Izumi isn’t…!!
Dead…
It’s a lie that he committed suicide ?!
It’s impossible !!
That Izumi cannot commit suicide !!
He’s not a person to do this !!
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Kôji: What are you doing here……
(wai…)
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Kôji: Wait !!
Katsumi: …………
…’It’s not Kôji’s fault’
That’s what he said
And about what I am doing here ?
It’s obvious
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Katsumi: I was visiting the grave
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Katsumi: …Tsk
…Damn…That bastard…How did he come back ?
[Flashback]
Izumi: Kôji…did nothing wrong…
(Jesus’ barking)
Takasaka: M…What is it….?
Katsumi: Mmm ?
Both of them: !!
Katsumi: Izumi…?!
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Katsumi: Taka-chan, an ambulance !!
Takasaka: Ye…Yes !
Katsumi: Izumi…
Izumi !!
What were you……!!
Damn…
Because of such a guy…Izumi !!
Izumi: …He
Is...
Not to blame…
I was…at that time…I was abandoning myself…so…
I…was relying on him…on his indulgence… for everything… I had resigned myself to never walking again …
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Izumi: ‘I’...am tired of thinking about all those things…
I was…abdicating myself…abandoning…
And that…he…with all his might...stopped it…he had to do it
I was becoming just…a ‘pitiful person’…He was…indulging me…
Katsumi: Why…
Why would it be wrong for lovers to be indulgent !!
Why did it have to come to this…
Izumi: Lov…ers…
It’s a bit different…than that…I think…
We are…different, more…something…more…
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Izumi: I am…alright
I feel like…I can perfectly…run on my own feet…
I don’t think…about killing myself…anymore…
So…you can come back…Kôji……
I am…alright…now
The one who…needed most my indulgence was…
Kôji…himself……
………
Katsumi: ……!
IZUMI…!!
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Title: Bronze Saishû shô vol. 17
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The one who needed most my indulgence
was Kôji himself
on that moment when he took my hand
spoiling me spoiling me
until I could rely on no one but him
until I could see no one but him
until I couldn’t live one more second without Kôji
I didn’t open my eyes anymore
as long as I was clinging to these broad shoulders
But Kôji became aware of that
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This is what killed me [destroyed me]
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[All the sentences from Izumi in italics are memories of Kôji]
If you have to betray me, then kill me first
“I don’t want to betray you, I won’t kill you”
I don’t believe in Belief
“I want to believe”
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[Lulu is always speaking in English]
Lulu: What is it ?
Did you find what you were looking for ?
Japanese cemeteries are gloomy aren’t they…
But the Sakura trees are beautiful so it’s okay
Kôji: *…That was…it*
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Kôji: In fact…
He came to this cemetery because……
*Yes…*
*His sister… Madoka died during…spring, didn’t she ?*
*Izumi has no relatives*
*Why a grave in such a residential district*
That’s it…He came
To offer new flowers…and incense…
For the 49’s day…
*But most important*
*Is that Izumi…*
[Japanese tradition, you’re supposed to be mourning a person 7 weeks after his death. The fourty-ninth day, the day when the soul reincarnates, is an anniversary]
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Kôji: *Cannot be dead*
Izumi: I never even thought about it
Loosing soccer
Katsumi: ………
…Damn!
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Izumi: If something like that happened, I wouldn’t be able to live anymore
Katsumi: Kôji !!
Izumi: The day when I won’t be able to play soccer…
I didn’t even plan what I would do
Katsumi: Kôji ?!
Izumi: Why ?
Lulu: Did you decide where we are going next, Prince ?
It will be night soon.
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Izumi: Even though I know nothing lasts forever…
Why is soccer so different ?
Kôji: *Nothing lasts…forever…?*
Izumi: You’re fancying too far from reality
Being happy forever, it’s just a dream
Can’t be true
Kôji: *Izumi thought about death before*
[Not very literal translation…]
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Kôji: *Thinking about me*
(Phone: The phone number you dialled cannot be reached…)
Katsumi: *a second call ? Who is it, just on the wrong time…..*
Phone: Hello…This is Nanjô
Katsumi: Hirose-san ?!
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Hirose: …Shibuya-kun, is it
I wonder what brings you to the emergency line…
Phone: Hirose-san!! You still don’t know ?!
Hirose: What…?
Phone: About Kôji !!
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Katsumi: Kôji is back in Japan !!
I didn’t recognize him when I saw him, his hair are cut short and dyed platinum blonde, he has his beard growing…!!
And he didn’t wear gloves, his left arm was there !!
Setting up a trap to bring back ‘Nanjô Kôji’ to Japan, this is illegal !!
It was your doing, wasn’t it ?!
Hirose-san…No, Akihito-san ?!
Hirose: …Me ?
Why would I do that…?
Katsumi: This is what I want to know !!
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Katsumi: Reinforce your security escort
He is…
Surely going to your place…
Hirose: Taking revenge…perhaps ?
And go on aggravating the actual situation……?
Katsumi: …I will…go on searching too, this place is wide
If he’s not here I’ll have a look at the places he might go to…Have to find him quickly
Akihito: Did you mark Shibuya Katsumi ?
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Akihito: Fine
Kidnap him
Katsumi: *Where is Izumi!! He isn’t dead…*
*It’s a lie that he committed suicide !!*
*How did he know ?*
*That’s ba…d*
Man: Lift him quickly
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Kôji: ...Let me
Lulu: What ?
Kôji: Replace you
Hirose: …Why did you have him kidnapped…
Akihito: Ha !
Shibuya Katsumi is so…
Noisy
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Akihito: Just when Hina-sensei was achieving
It’s great that you still had connections since your Harvard times !
And by chance he was in a good position, having power, and believing you above all
You must have been very affectionate to that doctor….. (haha)
So, how will he show up ?
That will be worth seeing, Hirose
It will finally come to an end
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*Come to an end*
[Flashback]
Kôji: Ho…me ?
Izumi: I do have a home don’t I ?
Yours and mine…am I wrong…?
Am I wrong ?!
[End]
Kôji: *Since I left America*
*I haven’t felt like coming back at all*
*Izumi is not here*
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Kôji: *Izumi is*
*Izumi is nowhere*
*Izumi school has…*
*become a grocery*
*Izumi’s apart…*
*A mansion ?...*
*Izumi*
*Well…It’s clearly marked off now*
*the dump site where Izumi found me…*
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Kôji: *My Izumi*
*Where are you*
*If I’m still at the border of death, here*
*Will Izumi come to pick me up ?*
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Kôji: *Izumi who*
*pulled me out of an empty world*
*Where are you*
*Snowy day… Rainy day…*
*I’ve always, always looked for you*
*Where are you*
*I can’t believe he’s dead, I won’t believe*
*Everyone is plotting*
*Keeping silent to me*
*Because if Izumi was really dead, I would definitely die too*
*There is no existence for me in a world without Izumi*
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Izumi: I didn’t even plan what I would do
Kôji: *He never planned*
Izumi: If I wasn’t able to play soccer anymore
Kôji: *That he would loose his legs because of me*
Izumi: If I lost soccer, I wouldn’t be able to live anymore
Kôji: *That Izumi who has such feelings towards soccer*
Izumi: No…It’s because soccer is special…
Kôji: *He must have wanted to scream so much more ! He must have wanted to despise so much more !! He wouldn’t have been wrong to hate me !!*
*The one who stole soccer from Izumi*
*was…me*
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Kôji: *My mere existence was driving those two mad*
*Then*
Hu…ha…ha
Hahahaha
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Kôji: Ffu…hahaha
Ha…!
Akihito: …What is it Hirose ?
You can’t sleep…?
Hirose: …feet…
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Hirose: Can’t you…loosen my feet……
It hurts…
Akihito: …okay…
Yeah…It’s all red
Did I tighten it too much ?
A storm…?
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Akihito: This is why the wind blows so strong
The sakura tree that had this exceptionally late blossom will lose all its flowers…
Do you want to see Hirose ?
Look
Look at this theatrical scenery
It’s thrilling !! Should we add a BGM ?!
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Hirose: …Indeed
Even the main actor made an arrival
As planned………
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Akihito: …..Ha…
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Akihito: Ahahahaha
It’s a real good one, how old is this gag ?!
Appearing in the middle of the storm and sakura leaves !! That’s just too funny !! Just too planned !!
Kôji: I heard your expectant voice across the sea, it made me shiver
Thank you for creating a situation to make me laugh
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Kôji: So
Come fulfil your desire ?! Brothers
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Kôji: Or maybe…
Is this also a gag ? Like your little relative-adultery binding game ?
Akihito: This is the end of your unnerving face and unflagging mouth…
A good thing that you showed up unconcernedly
This time don’t believe that I will be satisfied only by one arm
Kôji: Come ?
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Kôji: Go on quickly
Kill me
Will you be satisfied then ?
Akihito: What is that left arm !!
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Kôji: …A toy
Do you think I’ll die with such an attack ?
Akihito: I don’t mean to kill you by one shot…
I’ll take my time to chop you up
I’ll make a fun of killing you…!!
I’ll give you back 100 times the suffering moments you inflicted us…!!
You will realize…!!
Hirose: Akihito
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Hirose: This man truly wants to be killed
Wants to die
He came to our place in order to prevent us from hurting ‘him’ again…
To put his life at stake in order to protect ‘him’
You think that if we kill you by our own hands, we won’t provoke anymore damages to him
But isn’t it already too late…?
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Akihito: Ha !! So you’re betting your life !!
Kôji: *Too*
Akihito: Stale bastard, you’ll always make me laugh !!
If you want to die that much, I’ll kill you as much as you want !!
Kôji: *Late…?*
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Title: Bronze Saishû shô vol. 18
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Nanjô Akihito – Charge: <Murder attempt>
Nanjô Hirose – Charge: <Cursed for the eternity>
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<Nanjô Kôji>
<Personality : indifference and unfeeling, carried to the extreme>
<Nature: Cruel and inhuman, carried to the extreme>
<Special skill: Makes women his objects>
- Charge –
<Fell in love with someone>
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Kôji: So…
Chop me
As much as you want
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Akihito: You are useless
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Kôji: You’re cutting nothing but skin and flesh
Brother
Akihito: I told you I wanted to make it slow
Don’t be too impatient, little brother
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Akihito: Disgusting blood !!
Can’t be mixed with the Jôtô blood !!
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Akihito: Detestable face
…Ha !
I’ll slice off your face and fingerprints
And if we throw you in the sea maybe you’ll feed the fish ?!
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Akihito: But even fishes won’t want to eat such disgusting blood !!
From every sight you’ll be just an unidentified body !! You won’t have your place in the Nanjô family grave !!
The best is that you’ll be with that useless man, a couple of family less, you’ll be living together in the other world !!
Hahahahaha !!
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Akihito: …What ?
A beaten dog doesn’t pull out such conceited face
Kôji: You
Really are not skilled with sword
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Kôji: …Hirose
Your face when you were ignored by that father, was very funny
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Young Hirose: Father, Kôji is strong isn’t he? he is a genius.
Kôji: You were smiling when you said that
But looked like you just wanted to kill me
No, not me
But father
You were watching only him
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Kôji: You wanted to remain a good child, or maybe out of pride, or I don’t know what
You couldn’t rely on tears or humiliate yourself
But if it was such important matter, you shouldn’t have been just laughing foolishly ?
That’s why you missed it
Forever
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Kôji: I thought it ridiculous of all of you to be so attached to these anachronistic and useless fights, that’s why I…
Stole it and threw it away
That’s just it
Well, it was a kind of killing time before I started to play with women
Hirose: *Missed it*
*Forever*
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Akihito: You…
Kôji: ………ts
This was bad now
I’m really going to die brother
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Akihito: You’re really going to die !!
……..!!
Kôji: …Ho, this is no good
I haven’t used a sword in years, have I ? And I got only one arm
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Akihito: …..you…
Hirose: …Rely on tears
That is how
You had what you wanted ?
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Hirose: The thing you desire but can’t have
Just like a kid wanting a toy unreasonably
Starting a delirium, crying, shouting and supplicating, is this how you got him ?
Corner him, hurt him
Doesn’t this lead to suicide ?
You killed him didn’t you ?
*Killing time*
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Hirose: Live by your own egoism, come into other people’s life and twist it up at the end
The things you like you have to get them, by raging shouts, cutting your own arm or else, extreme stupidity
In the result you stole an ‘important thing’ from an ‘important person’
Steal it and throw it
Steal and throw…
And then, what remains for you ?
Is there something left…?
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Kôji: He is not
Dead
Hirose: *He wasted*
*that time-killing*
…Really ?
This is the information that came to me……
*Supplication*
*crying and screaming you want it*
*If it was a thing that could be obtained that way*
If this is true
*I wouldn’t have had all those body tearing thoughts*
What a futile achievement……
If he’s dead, you can’t reach him anymore, but you also can’t…
No…
*I wouldn’t have*
*cut off my soul…*
It’s not important anyway…………
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Akihito: Hirose
Don’t say it’s not important…!!
You were killing time…?!
You took Hirose’s everything and threw it away, just to kill time…!!
Hirose: *But*
*If it was those kind of things you can obtain that way*
*It wouldn’t have driven me to madness and despair*
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Akihito: Since the beginning
You lived only to make fun of other people’s lives !! Looking down on the others with that smile
Your new toy was someone else’s loss !!
And you had fun with it !! Full of evil intentions !!
A guy like you is now ‘in love with someone’ ?!
‘coming to put his life on stake to protect’ are you ?!
Do you think I’ll be satisfied if you die by your own !!
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Akihito: Hirose
It is important !!
I heard Arisugawa-sensei saying it !! Father wasn’t attached to Kôji’s skill, the thing he was seeking blindly was…
Father’s younger brother, the ‘lost genius’ ! Nanjô Sôji’s skill
Kôji’s skill looked like his !! That’s why he was misunderstanding it
Hirose: *Yes*
Akihito: If Sôji hadn’t lost his arm he would certainly have become the family successor, the fear of that ‘genius’ was turning father mad !!
His attachment to Kôji was just a substitute !!
Hirose: *I know that*
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Akihito: …Hirose…You’re okay now…you’re alright ?
Hirose you must not be bound by father’s trauma
Hirose: *All of it*
Akihito: Father used to see ‘Sôji’ into Kôji
Surely because ‘Sôji’ had become his ideal
But this one is not ‘Sôji’
He’s no ‘genius’
After all he wasn’t so good at fighting
Neither was he in his studies
Hirose: *Yes*
*I knew all of that*
Akihito: …..That’s it
That’s it Hirose
Now you can keep this composed smile forever….
Hirose: *And nevertheless*
*I…*
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Akihito: And have a peaceful
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Akihito: Sleep…
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Hirose: Akihito…?!
Akihito: …kuh…
……uh
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Akihito: …This does it……
You’re finished…!!
Hirose: A…
Akihito…!
Akihito: Kuh…
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Akihito: Kuuuh
Hirose: Akihito !!
Akihito !!
Akihito !!
Akihito: Hiro…
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Akihito: Hirose…
I’m sorry
I was born
It would have been better if there was just one boy in the Nanjô house…
I caused your despair since the beginning…
Even though I was not skilled…I was another ‘possibility’
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Akihito: Hirose you were the only one kind to me
The only one looking after me…Hirose, the only……
But…I am sorry for being born
However…If I wasn’t born I wouldn’t have met you
I love you…Hirose, I was glad to meet you, because you’re my ego…
I was still a burden to you even near the end but…
Now…Hirose
Have him arrested as a murderer…
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Akihito: So that…he’ll never run away anymore……
Throw him in a cell where he’ll never see anyone
Forever alone…In a small room…
Suffering forever, until he dies of senility…………
A ‘life’ more painful than ‘death’…
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Title: Bronze Saishû shô vol. 19
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Say, is this lie even useful?
Say, will we never…
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…Be back?
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Akihito: *’To be alive is hell’*
*‘If you stay alive, something good will happen someday’*
*So they say*
*’If you are alive, anything might happen’*
*So they say*
*How long am I going to think this way?*
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Akihito: *’To be alive is hell’*
Hiro…se
Just a little…bit
If…you could have…loved me……
*’To die alone is hell’*
Hirose: What are you saying
I do love you, you are my perfect brother Akihito…
Akihito: Thank..you
*That cruel lie*
*I was raised wrapped in it like silk*
*by my most beloved person…*
Sorry…even at the end
I spoke…selfishly
Now…
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Akihito: You are…
Free
*I know this is*
*a request impossible for Hirose*
*nevertheless…*
Hirose: Aki…
Hito…?
Akihito: *Having him free*
*He shouldn’t ask for it*
*I just want the happiness*
*of the one I love.*
Hirose: Akihito…Aki…
Hito…
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Hirose: …Why
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Hirose: Why did you…
make such an insignificant provocation……
[Your face when you were ignored by that father, was very funny]
Kôji: It was just the truth
[It was a way of killing time before I started to play with women]
Hirose: Liar
You chose the words you knew would make Akihito angry to provoke him
Akihito is impulsive and you drove him into a frenzy
To make him kill you
Didn’t you believe that ‘he’ is still alive anymore ?
Half his body paralysed, a soccer player losing his dream and you leaving him, does it mean he died?
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Hirose: Are you running away?
From the thing you bet your life on…
You vowed you life on…!!
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Kôji: Aren’t you the one who arranged that since the beginning……..?
Hirose: Do you mean that was the extent of it ?
Kôji: Ha…
I knew you would say that
Because of this ‘extent of it’ I came here
And played this annoying farce……
Yeah
I thought I’d be ‘docile’
Remain silent, help him, and stay by his side, even though I knew what you did
Just be devoted, be loving
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Kôji: Just…
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Kôji: And now, is it your turn to die too?
(ha!) Don’t tell me that impaling himself on my sword…
was the idea of this brainless guy [Akihito]
When you asked him to do it he must have cried of happiness, with such a kind older brother ?
Hirose: Fool…
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Kôji: …..!!
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Hirose: I haven’t called you yet Kurauchi
Kurauchi: Forgive me but it exceeded my patience, are you alright?
Kôji: …hurts… what…he was there, the anachronistic watchdog… Was it an inviolable rule that you make your appearance at the critical moment?
Did you take a course of throwing knives? You scored 100%
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Kurauchi: I trained for this one too
Now I am aiming at your head
Kôji: You conscientiously put on a silencer too……
……Are you ready to do it ?
If you let me live your precious Hirose-sama’s life will be endangered
I may come for him again
Right now I can’t even move my arms
This is your chance, isn’t it ?
Kurauchi: …………
Hirose: I will not allow you
To die so easily
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Hirose: When he was still alive, and you were making your declaration, weren’t you expecting to die?
This thought made you happy to a point that you were beyond yourself
To be running away from the one you call your most precious, and choosing death as a comfort, is only cowardice.
Kôji: …Anybody would have said that
What about you
Would you have been happy if father had died for you ?
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Hirose: Kurauchi
Kurauchi: Yes
Hirose: Sheathe this gun
Bring Shibuya-kun here, he is locked in the cellar
Then, call the police
Have Nanjô Kôji immediately searched in all the country as a murderer
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Kurauchi: …Can I say something
Hirose-sama
There is no law in Japan that could fulfil Akihito-sama’s request
To ‘shut him in an isolate cell for the rest of his life’
Shibuya-sama’s side will certainly take a most excellent lawyer
And discover the concealment of Akihito-sama’s car crash
Hirose: *This man*
*died ‘for me’ ?*
I don’t care
The Jôtô company has a mainstay that cannot decline…the most important thing is…
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Hirose: My beloved brother’s
Last request
*You may never have felt happiness*
*Live*
*I wanted you to live to watch me*
*I wanted you to live to say that you had only me*
*Live…*
…You thought that if he died
I would be free…
Is this what you were thinking…? All this time…?
However the one whose life is the most meaningless
Is me…!
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Kôji: *If he’s dead…*
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Kôjii: Kuh…
Hahahahaha
Ahahahaha !!
*What am I doing?*
[Lulu and Hina are always speaking in English]
Lulu: What is this!! Come in
What an appearance! I left you just for a while and you need emergency treatment !
Hello! Hina ? The prince is severely hurt!! Tell me what to do!
Kôji: *Izumi…*
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Hina: Yes princess, it seems that something serious happened
There’s a ‘D’ in Carnaby, go find him
He’s unlicensed but I trust his skills, I’ll explain you how to reach there
Kôji: *Izumi*
*Finally*
*It was impossible*
Hina: There’s big news coming up soon…
No, something I heard here
Kôji: *…Izumi is alive, I believed it and however, went straight for death anyway*
*In a way that would be the most effective way to have me killed*
*That would have Izumi never harmed anymore*
*If they held resentment towards me, they could just kill me*
*I could just die*
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Kôji: *But it was impossible*
*As a matter of course*
*if I die, I won’t be able to see Izumi again*
*It was impossible, Izumi*
*Being separated from you, not seeing you again*
*is more difficult*
*than being simply alive, or being simply dead*
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Kôji: *More difficult*
* than being simply alive, or being simply dead*
*Izumi Izumi*
*Why am I here?*
*Why did we have to be separated?*
*Izumi is alive*
*I can’t trust the person who told me he’s dead*
*That grave was of the Shibuya family*
*Then, why am I here?*
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People: What?! Nanjô, could this third son be Nanjô Kôji?!
The news is already flooding on the net!! Nanjô Kôji is a murderer?!
Kôji: *Izumi*
TV: …his brother Nanjô Akihito, age 26, with a Japanese sword struck in the heart, and escaped.
The third son, age 19, is suspected and searched.
Kôji: *Izumi*
Lulu: You were a singing prince
The song is flowing with your voice
Beautiful
Kôji: *Izumi Izumi Izumi*
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Lulu: You didn’t say a thing since yesterday. You didn’t sleep either, did you? Your eyes are red.
You’re at peace here, as long as you don’t go out they won’t find you, and you can live your life without troubles…
Kôji: *What was I doing*
*before I met Izumi?*
Lulu: A bird in a cage
A bird that doesn’t sing?
A bird that doesn’t fly?
You are everything
Kôji: *I can’t remember*
*anything*
*Meaningless*
*Valueless*
*A bird in cage, that doesn’t sing, doesn’t fly*
Lulu: Hello…
Mm ?
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Kôji: *Yes, I wasn’t born*
*before I met him*
*Then I was born*
*when we met*
*in order to meet him*
*him only…*
*While being alive I was dead*
*thanks to his existence I started to breathe*
*and I was born a second time*
*I became a person in this world, in order to love*
*Only in order to love him*
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Kôji: *To love him?!*
*And this is the result?!*
Lulu: Aah, don’t grasp it so strongly
Blood is oozing…
…Kôji?
Kôji
Kôji…
You’re crying
Kôji
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Lulu: Kôji…
Kôji: *He won’t come back*
Lulu: Hina called me a little time ago
He heard that your Izumi will come back tomorrow with the afternoon flight
His cell phone was out because when he cut his throat with a knife he was hospitalized. And his mental state was unstable too.
While Mister Takasaka was constantly attending him, Mister Shibuya came back to Japan to commemorate his sister.
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Lulu: Wait!!
What will be the use of rushing out!! It’s tomorrow! Tomorrow!!
When you’ll be there you have to stay in the car and watch him only
Kôji: *Izumi*
You are a wanted suspect, and there will certainly be policemen and guards there.
Okay? If they catch you, you’ll have to meet him in prison
Kôji: *Izumi is alive*
Are you listening? Kôji
Kôji: *He is alive*
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Crowd: He’s here, Izumi Takuto!!
Izumi-san!! Is it true that the one that ran into you in that car crash was Nanjô Akihito?!
Is there any connection with this last incident?!
Get away!!
Get away!!
Katsumi: Damn…Who let it leak out that Izumi was coming back!!
Crowd: What about the rumours that you are involved in a homosexual relationship with Nanjô Kôji?!
Is there also any connection between this and the last incident?!
Get away!! You’re being rude!!
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Izumi: Kôji didn’t do anything
I wouldn’t forgive that
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Crowd: ..For…Forgive…?!
Did the police already proceed?!
(Get away!!)(Ah…!)(Get away!!)
How do you think those two incidents are linked!!
TV: The police is now hearing the concerned persons about the circumstances
Crowd: After what the accident did to your body, maybe you took him as an accomplice to…
This is a scoop!! Turn the camera!!
Kôji: Shut up !!!
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Crowd: Hey…
Nanjô Kôji…?!
What?!
This is Nanjô Kôji!!
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Kôji: Izumi……
Crowd: (Come this way!!) (Get away!!) (Get away please!!)
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Izumi: Kôji
We won’t go back
to ‘that time’ anymore
But
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Izumi: There is a still a lot more waiting!!
Kôji: *Yes*
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Izumi: I’ll never give up!!
Neither on soccer
Kôji: *These beautiful eyes*
*filled with a determined light*
Nor…
Kôji: Yeah
I know
*Incessantly arisen*
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Kôji: *Just like holy Izumi’s purity*
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Kôji: *My Izumi*
Izumi: I will never
give up
neither on soccer
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Izumi: ‘Nor on you’.
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Endless & Start
(Drawn by M. Ozaki, published by Margaret, bought & translated by Sakura-chan, read by you ^^)