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Alas, I doubt it I will finish Kizu, but after that I think I will pass the baton. I was planning on creating a guide with all I know about Japanese so that people can learn how to translate and read the novels on their own. That's the best I can do.
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Just in time for Christmas. Merry Christmas to you all!
Spoiler for Kizumonogatari chapter 14:
The following day, April 6th.
Daytime. In other words for vampires it is night, I and Kissshot were sleeping as usual in the room with shut windows at the second floor of the cram school ruin. I was awakened. By Oshino Meme who last night in the end didn't come back, and not even made an appearance -- where did his commendable manner of yesterday go, he was laughing frivolously with his flippant impression as always. "Good morning, Araragi-kun" "......I am tremendously sleepy" "Just come here already" While my eyes continued to be still half asleep, I was dragged out by Oshino into the corridor -- during this commotion, Kissshot continued to sleep soundly without turning over once in her sleep. She is a tranquil girl. Maybe she has no such thing as worries. "What is it -- Oshino?" "Hm? No, we are in the corridor...... Well, Heartunderblade might not wake up, but as a precaution let's go to a floor above. Let's go to the fourth floor" "The fourth floor......" No matter how much asleep I was, I could tell at least that. "But the windows there are open. Think what would happen if the sunlight hit me" "It's all right. Today it's raining" "Rain?" Really? Come to think of it, in these days it didn't fall. If I assume it didn't fall in the period when I lost consciousness before becoming a vampire, then this is the first rain since the beginning of the Spring Break. Well, it also might have rained while I'm sleeping 12 hours during daytime...... but since I am not watching the weather forecast I don't know. "So you can relax. Well, with your healing power, even if by some chance the sun shone, it's not like you would die immediately, right?" "Try saying it after experiencing the body evaporating" "Let's go" Oshino climbed the staircase buoyantly. While watching my step, I follow his back. It seems any classroom on the fourth floor was fine, Oshino chose the nearest door. Once opened that door whose knob appears to malfunction, even for the sight that room was messy beyond salvation. He is not a lucky guy. "Heave-ho" However, like he really doesn't mind it, he aptly pulls out a chair on the spot, and sits down on that chair facing the opposite direction. I did the same thing. I just sort of tried to imitate him. "......That" I pointed at the travelling bag Oshino was holding in his hand. At last I had become wide-awake. That bag, until now, has carried Kissshot's right and left leg. Which means... "Yeah" Oshino nods. "You guessed right. Inside there are the arms of Heartunderblade" "......I see" I -- took a big breath and felt relieved. I took the fact that Oshino didn't come back by morning to mean that Guillotinecutter could have had the intention of not returning to us the arms of Kissshot, and that made me worry. Kissshot, like she didn't care about it, "It is morning. Shall we sleep?" and fell asleep. She is a tranquil girl -- maybe she has no such thing as worries. Or maybe it is I who am too much of a wimp. However, we are talking about Guillotinecutter who defined "honest to a fault" Dramaturgie and Episode, who respectively returned the right leg and the left leg, the possibility that he decided to go back on his word sounded very plausible. No matter how much I fretted, I had no choice but to entrust that domain to Oshino, but-- "Uhm? Ah, I know what you want to say" said Oshino. "You want to say that Guillotinecutter kept his word well, right?" "Well, speaking frankly, I was thinking it" "That's my chance to show my skill. This is a negotiation service, you know -- although I could reveal that Guillotinecutter in fact looked like he didn't really have the intention of returning them" "As I thought" "He was holding a considerable grudge -- I believe. Because in the case of Guillotinecutter, unlike the other two, he was acting out of beliefs" "Beliefs" I remember. The many times he expressed it in words. "However that would have been the mentality of a friend of justice, I suppose" "Each person’s definition of justice is different, you know. You shouldn't deny other persons simply -- it's just that for you he was a villain. Besides, while saying one thing or another, the end result was this" He throws the travelling bag in front of me. A rough treatment. "He gave them back" "Because that was giving them back properly" "Therefore I must have persuaded him" "In what way did you persuade him? He is a sort of fanatic -- being secular, from my point of view he is exactly like a fanatic, you know. Isn't returning the limbs of the vampire for him like relinquishing his faith?" "Therefore he must be a guy who understands if you talk with him -- because even that guy is a pro" "A pro" "Exactly, a professional" My cross-examination maybe had become too heavy, Oshino said that and put an end to the discussion. "Concretely, I informed him that if you finish collecting Heartunderblade's limbs, you want to turn back into a human -- and also that even Heartunderblade is accepting that" "......In other words, Guillotinecutter withdrew for my sake?" "Something like that, perhaps" Oshino made a subtle choice of words. It feels like he is insinuating something, however, if you think about it, this man is always insinuating like crazy in everything he says. Even if I swallow that, it might not have much meaning behind. The pose of seeing through people, literally a pose. There are times when it might be just that. Well, whatever his purpose, it was a good thing that Kissshot's parts came back. Properly speaking, with that much, there is nothing else I should say. I don't even want to remember people like Guillotinecutter. I opened the zipper of the traveling bag. The right arm from the elbow to the tip, and the left arm clipped from the round tip of the shoulder -- were confirmed to be both inside the traveling bag. "Well, at least he chose to keep the honor of the other party -- nevertheless, even then, he got a stern warning for kidnapping class rep-chan. If this were soccer he would have gotten a yellow card" "A red card, I'd say" "A red card would be having killed her, I guess. Therefore if class rep-chan that time would have died, Episode would have gotten a red card -- although, since you also wanted to kill Episode, I guess you cancel each other" "I didn't have the intention to--" I didn't have the intention to kill him, I tried to say, but I stopped at the last instant. That's just a lie. That time I got mad, and it couldn't be helped -- no, I even thought I didn't care what happened. If Oshino didn't stop me. Perhaps I -- would have killed Episode. The intention to kill -- was there. "--Well, that" "What is it, you raise and lower your voice, you are really energetic, Araragi-kun. Did something good happen?" Oshino, who said this like he was making himself inconspicuous, pointed at the arms peeking through the inside of the traveling bag with his unlit cigarette. "Anyway -- with this you have gathered all the four limbs. Congratulations, Araragi-kun. Mission complete. I am happy like it’s someone else's problem" "Someone else's problem?" "Because it is" "............" Well. It is someone else's problem. "A word of praise. Practically -- without even any battle experience a mere high schooler took as opponents three veteran specialists of vampire exorcism and got three wins in a row -- I take off my hat at you" "You are not wearing any hat" "It's a metaphor" Oshino puts the cigarette in his mouth. In any case it is still unlit. "......It may be a trivial thing, but Oshino -- why don't you light the cigarette?" "Hm? Well, if I lit a cigarette now wouldn't the anime adaptation become difficult?" "............" Why are you so obsessed with the anime adaptation. It's a deep mystery. "Come on, Araragi-kun -- although I've said congratulations, you are making such a gloomy face. If you achieve an objective you should be happy no matter what, right? Somehow it's like you are radiating an aura resembling a funeral vigil" "I have a doubt, Oshino" I said. In addition to that -- there was still another thing that made me uneasy. Until the last moment I was tormented over whether asking it or not, but when I am seeing this buoyant behaviour of Oshino, somehow it seemed silly thinking it over. I must ask what I want to ask. Because after all what is not answered is not answered. "It's something about Guillotinecutter" "Yeah?" "Well, I do understand it intellectually -- in the battle of last night, it was because he was negligent, in that way, that as a result I managed to win without getting badly hurt, I understand it intellectually. However -- Oshino, it's as you say. With the single attack of a mere high schooler -- I could beat that dangerous guy, isn't it somewhat strange? He is the guy who stole both arms from the legendary vampire, isn't him?" "Hrm" "Well, it's not just Guillotinecutter, even with Dramaturgie and Episode it went like that. Those guy too stole respectively the right leg and the left leg from Kissshot -- considering that, I, who you defined as not having any battle experience, or you could say that at most I had sometimes scuffled with my sisters, from the point of view of the outcome I defeated them easily -- what in the world is the reason of this?" I could have been lucky, maybe. It could have been unexpected. However -- isn't there a more constructive answer? "Are those guys weak? Or it is I -- who is too strong?" Although I asked it -- I'm not guessing an answer. It's really just a mystery for me. However -- I don't know why, I got the impression Oshino knew that answer. The reason is that he is more neutral than anyone else. Because he is the person that tries to preserve the balance. "Both of them" As expected, Oshino said it. "Looking from their point of view, you are obviously too strong -- looking from your point of view, those guys are obviously too weak. Because you -- aren't a nobody, you are the subordinate of Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade" "Well, it's just due to that" "It's just due to that" He affirmed. Oshino affirmed it. "If I must pick a reason why an amateur like you could defeat those guys, it would be that -- well, there was still plenty of possibility you could lose though. That is to say, their chances have been thoroughly higher. Araragi-kun sure is something--" "Plenty or not plenty...... you have brought the circumstances down to an even match for me" The balance. Giving me the advantage of terrain, prohibiting deathmatches -- when Hanekawa was later taken in hostage, deciding a plan in proportion to that advantage. You have always made the circumstances an even match. However. "However, if that's the case then I will say it's strange. When I think that as a premise -- the story became strange" "In what way would it be strange?" "Even with just a subordinate like me it went this way. With Kissshot in her full power mode -- even those three together should be really no match, right?" I am convinced of that. Kissshot's power as a vampire in her original form, even if estimated as a minimum, shouldn't be below the level of the current me -- and on top of that, she has 500 years of experience. 500 years of experience Battle experience. Even if facing Dramaturgie's wavy blades, Episode's gigantic cross, and Guillotinecutter's dreadful resourcefulness -- was it really possible to steal the four limbs from Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade? I have only one conclusion. It doesn't seem possible at all. There's no way it is possible. "Nice intuition, Araragi-kun -- if you trained you might become a pretty good specialist, you know" Oshino said with a broad grin -- I thought he didn't intend to answer seriously, but that was not the case. He continued, and -- he answered my question. "It's as you say, Araragi-kun. Since each one of them could hardly defeat Heartunderblade, they tried to challenge her as a trio, however even three persons together could hardly defeat Heartunderblade. It is just" "It is just?" "That if at that time Heartunderblade wasn't at full power -- wouldn't the story be different?" She wasn't at full power. I had a memory that matched those words. I can remember it without having to tamper my brain -- Kissshot said it. Her physical conditions were bad -- or something. I thought it was an excuse. If I assume that wasn't an excuse. "Therefore -- the battle between Heartunderblade and those three guys became an even match" "............" "Well, whether you asked that or not I intended to hand it over to you – but since you asked handing it over helps the flow of the discussion, Araragi-kun. Occasionally even you show some sharpness" Saying that. Oshino, casually took out 'something' from a pocket of the aloha shirt, and he tossed it at me. That should have been a pocket that contained cigarettes -- therefore I thought he threw at me a pack of cigarettes, but that was not the case. However, even so, that pocket in the aloha shirt worn by Oshino should not have been a pocket that could contain something that big. That. Made up with deep red flesh -- was a heart. "Eek......!" I involuntarily cowered, and the thing I caught with both hands fell on the ground -- somehow it petrified me to this extent. I petrified, it means I have become unable to move. However in contrast with the me who was unable to move-- that heart kept beating with a lub-dub lub-dub. “That’s the heart of Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade.” Oshino said. "Without that heart, she battled the specialists of vampire exorcism one-on-three -- it's very clear why her limbs were cut off" "............!" It's natural. Even I can understand that the power of vampires is specifically the blood -- without the heart that is the pivot that sends out that blood, it's a wonder she ended up just with losing her limbs. "......And she didn't even notice" "Indeed. She was thinking they just stole her hands and feet -- even while being nearly killed, she must have thought the reason was that her conditions were really bad. She has too much trust in herself -- she never thought that before she knew the rug could be pulled from under her feet" "I see...... so it was that" Hmm, I thought. "I considered him crafty, but to think that Guillotinecutter had even stealthily stolen the heart of Kissshot -- afterwards the three attacked her together, huh. Although, stealing the heart from Kissshot without her noticing in itself must have been a really hard job, so I should give him more credit, I guess?" "Oh no, Araragi-kun" Oshino refuted my words. Moreover comparatively easily. "The one who stole the heart was not Guillotinecutter" "Eh? What do you mean? That Dramaturgie or Episode stole the heart and Guillotinecutter was taking care of it?" "Oh no no no, it was neither Dramaturgie nor Episode" "Then who?" Don't tell me that there could be a fourth specialist of vampire exorcism coming here, such thought made a chill run down my spine -- however, Oshino's reply was the following word. "Me" "............" Words won't come out at the moment. There were a few remarks that came into my mind, however I felt all of them were inappropriate in this situation, and I gulped them down. Thereupon Oshino, without being begged for, starts to explain -- they were theatrical elocutions typical of the villain of a historical play. "In addition to begin with I just happened to pass by -- I was tottering the streets at night, and there was a vampire possessing a power so formidable it's not even fun. I easily imagined that was the Kaii Killer -- so in order to bring a balance, I extracted in advance that heart" Because I simultaneously expected even that several vampire exorcists would have come in this town -- he says. "Without her noticing it -- I stealthily extracted her heart" "Are you...... able to do such a thing?" After having said it, I notice this is a stupid question -- that's right, I saw it with these eyes. Oshino stopped the attack of Dramaturgie, Episode and Guillotincutter all together with a playful pose similar to a single-footed scarecrow. That's the skill he possesses. Even the negotiations with those three -- materialized. "I am" Oshino replied. "Although I don't mean that it's simple -- the farthest from it, it was a freakishly hard job. In particular it was difficult to extract her heart without her noticing it. Armed with a cross, garlic and holy water I somewhat stealthily hid my figure. However, it could have still gone either way. Even if it was not less than 50-50 it was not more than 50-50 either -- and then unexpectedly, the dice favored the three" "......And then Kissshot having her limbs plucked out, barely escaped with her life -- and so she met me" "And then with your blood she escaped death" Oshino said. "And you became a vampire" "......I see. Then -- it would be no wonder I could defeat those three--" I guess. Far from being a wonder, it satisfies me. The difference in potential -- was decisive. "The fact you told Kissshot of this cram school ruin as a refuge, were you thinking of it as atonement or something? You even went as far as affixing a barrier while we are inside--" "Atonement? I didn't commit any crime where I need to make amends for, you know. Therefore even this is balance. Your involvement has tipped the scales" "Scales?" "It was unexpected that the Kaii Killer turned a human into a subordinate. That was way too unexpected. As far as I'm concerned, the story should have ended when I managed to extract the heart, but with this it has been reset" "A reset......" Come to think of it -- even those three said a similar thing. Kissshot creating a subordinate was way too unexpected, like she was-- Something like a believer. Kissshot is a believer of not making subordinates-- "That said, even if I reset things, this time Heartunderblade has been too weakened -- with one-on-three, if we add you, the subordinate, two-on-three, indeed things weren't evened out" "......Then, even the fact you happened to pass by in front of Kissshot who dragged me along, even the fact you happened to pass by the point I was attacked by those three, it was all on purpose? I couldn't help but think your appearance on the scene didn't have any sense -- so that was the reason" Even the fact he told Kissshot of this cram school ruin. Even the fact he saved me from those three. He did everything in order to bring a balance -- so that was the reason. "Actually, it happened by chance" Oshino says with a tone like he is making fun of me. "You have just been lucky" "............" I even think there's no way we have been, however, unexpectedly, it might have been that. Because you can only observe a phenomenon after it has ended. "It means -- just by getting back the limbs, Kissshot can't return to her full power complete body--" Even if I get back the right leg, the left leg and the arms. Still, if the heart is missing -- it is fatal. "Of course" Oshino nodded to my words. "Therefore you, after this, should have had to take back the heart from me -- because even if the Kaii Killer got back her arms, it would still be you the one with more vampire power. As the fourth round, the battle between me and you – I should have brought a balance with that" "......F-Fighting -- with you?" "Should have been" "Should, you say" "Although I was spreading foreshadowing of being the last boss by being called by you utterly sloppy, it ended up being all in vain" {Last boss = rasubosu. Sloppy = zubora} "Actually, that's not very effective" It doesn't stick out much. And although the words do look similar. To begin with, I don't remember having commented you were sloppy. You must be self-conscious about it and don't need others to tell you...... "That's not my intention anymore" Oshino, this time lazily holding the cigarette in his mouth, just with the movement of the lips, with that cigarette pointed at the heart I was holding in my hands. "Look, I've already given it back to you, right?" "Hu.....Huh?" "If you want to call it atonement, then this is atonement. I am really sorry for what happened to class rep-chan. It's really unusual that an ordinary person was swallowed up in things to this point. Because normally -- people run away from Kaii. That girl is a bit abnormal. I can't explain it adequately just with goodness--" "............" Hanekawa Tsubasa. Not self-sacrifice -- self-satisfaction. Even when she was nearly killed by Guillotinecutter-- She was worrying about me. After it ended, without even trying to say a word to blame me, she instead said such absurd thing as 'I'm sorry, I got caught easily. I should have been more careful--'. "If you let me speak frankly" Oshino muttered like he was talking to himself. "A kindness of that level makes me uneasy" "......That's not the way to talk" "It's something even you should have felt. Am I wrong?" He says like he is seeing through me. As always -- however, certainly it was as he says. I said a similar thing to Hanekawa. Even after being told that -- Hanekawa didn't change though. "......That girl is like forcing goodness on herself, isn't she? Of course, nevertheless I can't make it her fault. As it turned out, although I managed to rescue her with my tactic, it was you who executed it -- I don't thinking I could make it up just with last night's thing" Oshino, only when he said those words -- in the same way of yesterday, had a meek expression. "Good grief, what a disgrace it was. You can say that was already a burden to all the Oshino who live in Japan" "Don't drag into your failure all the Oshino-sans who live in Japan" "Hahhaa. Therefore well, think of that heart as a substitute for a consolation prize, Araragi-kun. It's from me with all my good faith" "A consolation prize......" "As things stand I am a guy of mutual trust relationships. With this the balance -- it's a somewhat complicated issue, but roughly it's level" Oshino. Saying so, got up from his chair. "The right leg. The left leg. The right arm. The left arm. And the heart. With this Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade has gotten back the parts she lost. In other words, with this you will turn back into a human. Let me say congratulations another time -- shouldn't you rejoice?" "......Honestly, it's a complex feeling" I said. "It's like everything was schemed" "That's thinking too much of it. If we assume someone schemed this state of affairs, I too am on the side which was under a scheme" "It doesn't seem so, though" "That it seems or it doesn't seem, that's a fact. Araragi-kun, you are a little overestimating me. Even I have things I can do and things I can't do. I am ingenious, but I am not a genius, you know" "............" What a bothersome guy he was. "I may separate, but I don't scheme. Ah, that's right, Araragi-kun, I ask you this just out of interest, lately, haven't you being hungry?" "Hm? Well -- I think I said it before, but since I became a vampire, maybe it's the immortality, I don't have much appetite" "Ah, I see" "Is something wrong with that?" "Is it? Well, just everything" "Everything" "Well, I just thought it must have been time for you to get hungry. At any rate, two weeks passed already -- hahhaa. Must have been hard. ......See you, Araragi-kun. When you safely return a human, take care not to act rashly again. The person who happened to meet a Kaii once, after that becomes easy to attract, so be careful" While talking -- without even returning the chair to its original place, Oshino went out of the room, leaving me still seated. "Hey, what is it -- don't talk like you were leaving this place" "I am leaving. The job is finished -- looking more like a failure, but still, what's finished is finished, what has ended has ended. Ah, that's right, Araragi-kun. About your share of two million yen and class rep-chan's share of three million yen, a total of five million yen, let's say we're even" {chara = forgiving a debt} "Fl...flippant? {flippant = charai} "Hey wait, that would be me. Even I said, even. Offsetting each other. My failure, and Heartunderblade's heart -- well, that much might be enough, but it's a free service" "............" "Even if you don't stare at me like that, there's no catch -- I may not look like it, but I am prodigal. As long as it can bring a balance, I don't intend to be fussy. Well then, give my regards to class rep-chan" "Do you want to go without meeting her?" "Yeah. After all it ended without a meeting -- well, I'd say there's no need to push it and meet her" "Well, you may be right. Although since the affair with those three ended, even if you meet, it's not like you would drag her again into something, right?" "Don't make me think about it, now it would be awkward, besides" Besides, Oshino said once more. After that. "After all that girl really makes me uneasy" he said. Clearly -- and bitterly. "Well, even though I say so, for the time being I plan to linger in this town, so if you catch sight of me at least call out to me" As if switching over, Oshino laughed cheerfully. "At any rate, if you feel indebted toward me for pardoning the fee -- oh yeah, just search and inform me of the Kaii myths that circulate in this town. My specialty is primarily that one, after all. I hope you will forgive me for a strife like this one -- that's not to my liking, really--" What. Even while saying this he was walking without changing pace, Oshino opened the door with the broken knob and went out in the corridor, and like that he closed the door. There was no word of goodbye. On that subject -- I have never seen the scene of him saying a word of goodbye to someone. No matter how trivial the parting scene. He was always just laughing frivolously. "Give me a break......" Indebtedness? Give me a break. There's no way I feel such thing -- leaving aside if it was plotted or not, part of the source of this problem after all stemmed from you. Of course -- it was thanks to you that I was saved though. No. If I say that, what would he reply? You just saved yourself on your own -- he would say. "......With this, right arm, left arm, and heart GET" From Guillotinecutter the arms. From Oshino Meme the heart. The missing pieces were all together. At last, the time for the complete revival of the Iron-Blooded, Hot-Blooded, Cold-Blooded vampire, the Kaii Killer, Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade -- had come. |
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It's time for the first chapter of the new year!
Spoiler for Kizumonogatari chapter 15:
"Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyy--yahhoo!"
That-- Was the first thing Kissshot with her complete form said. That night, when she woke up I handed over to her the three parts Oshino gave me -- regarding the heart, she was perplexed, but I told her the truth of the matter as it stood. Kissshot, liquidating the question with an easygoing "I see", bit into that deep red heart as if it were an apple. The rule is that you must not be present when a lady is eating. That means I went out into the corridors. And then after a little while -- I heard that gleeful scream. It was -- a voice of joy from the bottom of the heart. I opened the door and went back inside the classroom. Complete form Kissshot was standing there. It was the woman I met that day under the streetlight. The golden hair. It grew further, and it was a little done up in the nape. The chic dress -- it was even much taller than me. Honestly, I thought she was beautiful. It's different from being lovely, or cool -- I think that maybe, in my life until now, I've never felt not even once such beauty before. No. Even that day I -- thought so. Undoubtedly -- it was the complete form. It was the looks of the complete her. "Yahooo! I am back, I am back!" "............" Well, if in her complete looks she didn't do things like skip jumping inside the crammed classroom, I could have gotten much better memories, possibly even feeling deeply moved. She was in high spirits for sure. No solemnity or anything whatsoever. "Kissshot......, incidentally, it looks like Oshino during the day has gone somewhere" "Yea? Is there something wrong?" "Well, it's about the heart. I wondered if you weren't angry about it" "It is all right, I bestow him my pardon -- or to better say, I could not care less!" Kyahahahaha, she makes a laugh with a lovely voice not appropriate to her looks, and she continues to skip around. Hmmm. Still, I didn't notice it that much under that street light, but...... the bust of Kissshot is superbly big. Each time she hops it shakes, shakes, shakes, shakes. I have the impression even the front of the dress is opening up. I see, so from that (10 years) she undergoes that kind of progress (17 years), and she finally becomes this (27 years), huh...... It's a mystery. "............" If I begged her now that she is jubilating in such high spirits, maybe she would let me touch her breast, it's not like such wicked impulse wasn't floating in my head, but I didn't have the courage to put it into practice. That is to say, there's a limit on how much you can be a spoilsport. "Hm" Suddenly. Kissshot abruptly became motionless. What, did she read my mind? I became uneasy at once, and "Wh-What's wrong, Kissshot?" I asked. I even have the impression my voice turned inside out. ".................." Kissshot stood still for a while, and that intensified my uneasiness, however after another while, "Hm? What is it?" She said. "Just now, were thou talking to mine afterimage?" "A-Afterimage?" "As a matter of fact, just now I traveled around the Earth seven and a half times" "Are you light!?" Even if I do say so myself. That was a retort that I won't believe I actually made for the rest of my life. "Just kidding, that was a fib! With seven laps and a half in this moment I would be in Brazil!" Kissshot cackled. Wow, she sure is in high spirits. "Ha ha. It feels so good. Being complete with oneself -- servant" Afterwards Kissshot continued to frolic for another two hours, but at that point naturally she seemed to have calmed down at last, and said that. "Once again, let me thank thee. Of course, I thought thou would skillfully gather my limbs, but to gather even the heart of which not even I was aware of, that was really an unexpected labor. I bestow thee my praise" "I don't know" Even if she thanked me and praised me, I couldn't help but feel uneasy. I still couldn't shake the feeling of being victim of a scheme. Like I was manipulated -- that's what I think. "I just have the impression I did nothing but run around in circles -- rather than gathering them I felt like they gathered themselves" If you asked me whom I have to thank, I'd say it's thanks to Oshino. But since Oshino would hate to hear that, then I'd say it's thanks to Hanekawa. Hanekawa Tsubasa. Incidentally, tonight she is not coming. We have decided the next meeting will be at the new school term. We decided it together. Well, obviously now that I defeated all the three specialists of vampire exorcism, I don't think she will be in danger anymore, but -- I still judged it best for her not to come close to this cram school ruin. At the point in time when I decided that it was also uncertain whether Guillotinecutter would have actually returned Kissshot's arms or not. Even if I say the new school term -- that's already the day after tomorrow though. It's already close. And when we will meet again I -- will be a human. That's my expectation. ......In the end Oshino openly avoided Hanekawa and left, but I think I got the impression Hanekawa wanted to meet him. Come to think of it -- I failed to asked her. Well -- at this point it's too late. More importantly. "Kissshot. I'm sorry to say this when you are so worked up, but -- if possible, I would like to be turned back into a human quickly" "Ah, of course. Relax, for I will turn thee back into a human -- but servant. Before that, shall we talk a little?" "Talk?" "Some catching up -- ha, nothing of the sort. It is just that I want to tell thee something about turning thee back into a human" The tone of Kissshot was calm. Even her eyes were once again cold. It seems she's in her serious mode. "Well, fine" "Yea. Then shall we change place?" "Not here?" "Wherever is fine, but let us create atmosphere" Let us go up, said Kissshot. As I am told to do, I go out this room, and I climb the stairs -- it seems by now the rain ceased, but it's already night, wherever we go there isn't the risk of evaporating. Kissshot passed me on the way to the stairs, and then in the end we climbed up to the fourth floor. She chose the room Oshino and I went in during daytime. I thought we certainly would have talked here, but Kissshot seemed dissatisfied, and "Shall we go higher than this?" she asked. "The building doesn't have a rooftop, does it? I didn't notice anything that resembled an emergency staircase either" I said, and "Hmm" said Kissshot, as she glared at the ceiling. Crack. And a portion of the ceiling blew off. The concrete rained down, but she, without minding that, "Follow me, servant" said, and (like it was natural) from a point on her dress which on the large back was open like the bust part, she grew a pair of bat-like wings (!), she flapped, and she went out from the hole in the ceiling opened by her glare. "............" No, there are too many things I could retort at. Your ecology is full of holes. I mean, Kissshot's glare has a physical destruction power...... even the viciousness of Episode's eyes totally pales. It surpasses Dramaturgie's shape-shifting power. She has grown wings. I tried to do the same thing too, but aside from plants that filled like crazy my daydreaming until now, I had never imagined to grow wings, so of course I couldn't do it. I use an ordinary jump, and pass through that hole. Well, even this is plenty amazing, isn't it? Ruins, the rooftop of the cram school -- actually, rooftop might not be accurate, after all we are just above the roof. On that roof. Kissshot was waiting for me sitting squatted. Under the starlight at night -- the much more melancholic image of the sitting girl possessed even a bizarre charm. Though it was uncalled for, I became strangely tense. I don't know why. I cowered, and shrinked. Complete form -- her complete looks. A complete existence. And -- a superior existence. I -- felt she was making me realize that after all I was nothing but her subordinate. "Hm?" Suddenly, Kissshot looks this way. "What are thou doing? Come closer" "......Yes" As I was told -- I sat down next to Kissshot. I do it and abruptly I received a headbutt. She butted me. "Wha-what are you doing!?" "What are thou afraid of -- thou are my precious servant. I will not eat thee" "Y-You're right......" Her words has seen through my heart. Certainly though, if I see Kissshot laughing in that way, I start feeling stupid for shrinking. Thinking that, I relax at once. "Well now, what were we talking about?" "Didn't you say there was something you wanted to talk about?" About turning me back into a human. You said that before. "That manner of speaking was not accurate. It is not that there was something I wanted to talk about, I just wanted to talk and anything will do" "? Don't say something strange" Let's chat a little. I don't know when, but I remember being told that by Hanekawa. Well, although she is a vampire, she is still a woman, I guess? Maybe she likes to chat. So it's like a party to commemorate her complete recover. "Is it something I will need for when you will turn me back into a human?" "It is needed. By me" "Hmmm. But you have lived 500 years. You shouldn't lack stories to talk about" "It did not happened much" Kissshot replies to my words. "Because I just fought to the death the whole time with people like those three -- before I notice I had become a legend. Well, a man like that brat is rare--" "Brat...... Oshino?" "Picking my heart without me noticing it is quite a feat. Though I will not be stupefied -- I do not even know when we crossed path" "I wonder who is that guy" "Who knows. However, if I consider that brat could have devoted himself only to vampire exorcism, even I tremble. I was lucky he is an opportunist who continues to stay neutral" "Opportunist......" I even thought it was a cruel manner to talk about him, but unexpectedly it seemed an appropriate title for Oshino. If I told it to him, he is quite capable of calling himself that with glee. "So what happened this time in itself was stimulating -- however, basically they were 500 boring years. ......Oh yea. Speaking of things I should talk of, in the end, I guess there is only that man" "That man?" "I already told thee thou are the second subordinate I created, did I not? Therefore this is the story of the first subordinate" "The first--" Let me see. It was a story -- of 400 years before, right? "Ah yes. Now that you mention it, I think you told me. I was the second after 400 years -- I remember I heard something that resembled a Koshien invitation" "Koshien?" "Err, don't mind it. It was just a metaphor. More importantly, what kind of guy was the first subordinate? I'd like to hear it" "Yea. I will tell thee" "Was he a guy like me?" "? Why do thou think so?" "Er, that is--" I didn't tell her. Well, Oshino is not here anymore, so it's fine. "--The truth is I heard this from Oshino. There are two meanings in a vampire sucking blood, even if your blood is sucked, you don't necessarily become a vampire" "Hm" Kissshot frowned. "......Do not misunderstand. It is not like I tried to save thy life -- I just turned thee into a subordinate to use thee for gathering my limbs. By now I can reveal it to thee, but if I said it to thee from the beginning, thou might not have obeyed, so I lied" "Oshino said you would have told me so" "............" Kissshot stayed silent. And then she didn't say anything. Whether it was because I hit the bull's eye, or because I missed the mark...... I couldn't tell though. "W-Well, so I was wondering if he could have resembled me -- at any rate, the persons you chose to turn into a subordinate have been two" "He had in common with thee just the race" I went back at what I was saying while thinking that after all I should have stayed silent, but Kissshot flatly denied my conjecture. "That guy was a warrior -- worthy of entrusting my back to, a remarkable warrior" "Uhmmm...... well, I can't guard your back" At best, I think I can guard your house. Actually, I might not be able to guard even that. "Well, it was 400 years before. Unlike now, all men must have been sorts of warriors" "Thy historical viewpoint seems to be full of bias and distorted" "Err" I'm not good at world history. "No, look, somehow I have this character, you know, so I'm not good with a hysteric way of thinking" "I never knew there was the second meaning of hysteric in 'historical'" It was exposed I'm also not good at English. "However, it has been a while since I came into this country. Certainly it seems to have become peaceful -- this country alone seems detached from the world" "I'm sorry, I am peace-addicted" I think this is not really something to be sorry about, though. However, I was not a warrior for sure. Now matter how much airs of Gakuen Inou Batoru I put on, I am an ordinary person through and through -- no matter how much skill I am given as a vampire, I'm like a middle-schooler possessing a butterfly knife. Kissshot surely must have been dissatisfied. All the more if the first was that awesome. "Well, the fact that you turned me into a subordinate, whether it was because you were thinking about my life, or whether it was in order to gather your limbs, in the end it was an action taken as emergency evacuation...... so there is no reason I and the first should have something in common. However, you said we belong to the same race" "Yea" "Then he was mongoloid? A Japanese -- no way, but. From the continent?" "Nay, he was Japanese" Kissshot said an unexpected thing. "A man I met in this country while I wasted my youth and gallivanted the world over. I learned Japanese at that time as well -- well, it seems the words have changed considerably" "The Japan of 400 years ago......" The Edo period? Was it? I was also not good at Japan history. Or rather, I am not good at everything except math. "Then he was not a warrior, he was a samurai......" "Hm? Ah, I think thou are right" Kissshot nods. "At any rate, he was a strong man" "Hmmm -- however, if that's the case, it would have been better if you summoned him this time too. Since he is a subordinate, he too is like a servant, right? If that's the case, then you didn't have to walk a tightrope by using me--" "Impossible. Because he is already dead" Kissshot said as to interrupt my speech. In fact, I'd say she practically interrupted it. "That too is a fairly old story. ......Do thou remember? I must have told thee that when I fight sometimes I use a katana" "Hm?" Did she told me? Well -- ah yes, when was it, it's something that came out when we talked about Dramaturgie's long swords. She should have mentioned producing a sword with the matter creation power. I had completely forgot. But I am glad I remembered it without having to tamper my brain. "That katana I mentioned, was his memento" She said. Kissshot thrusts her own right hand shaped in a handchop in her belly. It goes through her dress, her fingertips bores through her internal organs easily. And it was just ended without me tampering my brain...... Not minding me becoming dumbfounded, Kissshot pulls out the right hand from the belly -- and that hand was grasping something that looked like the hilt of a sword. Moreover, the hilt of that sword -- a Japanese sword? My guess was right on the mark. The sword Kissshot drawn from her belly, with an overall length of 2 meters, was an oodachi. "Youtou 'Kokorowatari' a first class blade by an unsigned swordsmith, but it seems he was quite renowned. Well, I do not understand it well -- but as long as it cuts it is enough" {Kokorowatari = heart crosser} {a "youtou" is a sword that has a supernatural air about it. Sometimes the term is rendered with "demon sword" or "enchanted blade", but "youtou" in itself doesn't imply neither evilness or magic} "Eeh......" Meanwhile Kissshot's belly wound is already healing -- then I looked at that katana. It's long...... although long, not as much as Dramaturgie's long blades. Nonotheless...... even though Dramaturgie's flamberges had a shape imbued with an artistic quality, Japanese swords in themselves have a unique charm. If I had to say it, for Kissshot, with blond hair and a dress, a katana was a mis-match -- no, to begin with, no matter how sharp is the sword, is there really a weapon that could withstand vampire superhuman strength? "Do not move" She said. Suddenly, Kissshot waved that sword, 'Kokorowatari'. It looked like a movement that shook off even the dust attached to the sword -- however, it wasn't that. "Hey--" "Do not move. Now I have cut thee" "E-Eeh?" "Do thou feel pain?" "Er, no--" "Hmmm. That means my skill did not dull -- Thou can move at this point. Thou are already healing" "Wh-What is it...... a second lie following the 'earth seven laps and a half' one? You say healing, but in my case the clothes don't heal...... where did you cut?" "The torso, horizontally. I also cut something I could not stand" "Could not stand!" "Do not worry about the clothes. The sharpness of 'Kokorowatari' is authentic -- to the extent that if the cut ends are left alone for a while, they stick together. Of course, the merit goes to my skill though" "............" It seems true. Is it for real...... "However, how come that sword could withstand your ability -- your physical strength? Wasn't that originally a common sword?" "It is because even if thou say that, this is not the original. Using the original as raw material, the first subordinate created it with his own flesh and blood. Furthermore I am the one inheriting it. Well, because of the problem of the sword being too sharp, no matter how much I cut, it remains as before. Therefore, this could be said a katana suited to cut only Kaiis" "Kaii -- cutter, huh" "Exactly. 'Kokorowatari' being complicated to pronounce, the enemies passed it as 'Kaii Killer'. Originally Kaii Killer was not my nickname, it was the appellative of this sword" While talking -- Kissshot puts the sword back in her belly. It looked like she was doing seppuku. Once again, she is immortal. However, that katana -- was the memento of that first subordinate who should have had the same immortality, said Kissshot. The first subordinate -- was already dead. "An immortal vampire dying, in other words -- it means he was exorcised, right?" Dramaturgie, Episode, Guillotinecutter -- people like those three should have existed even 400 years before. However, "Wrong" Kissshot said. "He was a man who would never be killed by anyone" "Then what?" Despite being immortal. In which way did he die. "Suicide" Kissshot said indifferently. With cold eyes -- staring at the town spreading below. "It is the actual cause of death for vampires 90% of the times, a common reason" "............" "Incidentally the remaining 10% is due to incurring in vampire exorcism -- the other causes of death are something like a calculation error" "Suicide, why?" "Boredom kills the man, I guess they say" Boredom -- kills the man. Though a person dies even for feelings of guilt. But boredom certainly kills. "Well, it depends on situation and epoch, but, whether one is a genuine vampire or a former human, in most cases, it seems that vampires, after living 200 years, end up wishing death" "But -- in what way could they suicide? Aren't they immortal?" "Like thou did in the first day, throwing oneself under the sun is the quickest way -- well, it is something like jumping off a cliff" "Don't put it so nicely......" However -- maybe it was something like that. He certainly had a death wish, Kissshot said to me that time. "If we assume there was something that changed in that man, it was the fact he chose his own death, just some years after he became a vampire -- though in that short time, nothing changed much" Because he did it in front of my eyes. He threw himself under the sun. Ostentatiously, while showing off. Kissshot murmurs. "Henceforth -- I never made another subordinate. Until I met thee" "......Weren't you bored?" I asked. That might have been something I shouldn't have asked, though. "You lived not just 200 years, you lived -- even 500 years" "There is no way I was not bored" Kissshot replied, without swearing. "I have been idle all the time" "............" "Idle, idle -- there was nothing to do. If I did something, in reaction to my activity, vampire exorcists started followed me around -- like those three followed me during this time's sightseeing" "Sightseeing" I thought that was probably a lie. Though I changed my mind and came to think it could be really true. If before in this country. She created the first subordinate-- "......However, thou did not bore me, servant. Thou -- everything you did was insane" Perhaps thou was the first person in history who offered his neck to a vampire -- laughed Kissshot amused. For her age appearance, that was an awfully childish way to laugh. "Even calling me Kissshot all of a sudden" "Ah...... about that, I didn't have time to ask you, but somehow everyone was surprised about it. Even Oshino. It's something I shouldn't do?" "There is not a fool who calls a vampire by her true name" "True name? Is it something like first name?" "......It is stupid even to explain. Well, the world...... no, the epoch might be different -- Not just me. Even those three. I must be old fashioned with a fashion lag. If I want to fit in appropriately with the current epoch, after all maybe I should look like that brat" "Wanting to have looks based on the style of Oshino...... no way. As if being flashy like that should be an ideal" "More than an ideal, a fact" Well, whatever, said Kissshot. "This is the extent of what I can talk about. Aside that, I wanted to listen to thy story. Thou have lived 17 years, have thou not? There is no way thou lived idly. Try telling me something interesting" "Whoa" What a solemn style. With that style telling an interesting story is a tall hurdle. "E-Errr...... well, then one typical stupid short story. There is a man, well he was a good young man, but he had a troublesome fondness for alcohol. If it just comes to that, it was an individual idiosynchrasy, and he did as he pleased, but regrettably one day he was driving drunk, and he ran over a small girl crossing with a raised hand with the green light. Being drunk, at that time he didn't notice he ran over somebody, but the following day at the parking lot of his apartment he saw blood stuck to the bumper of his car, and he became aware of the incident. On the newspaper the man learns the name of the girl he ran over was 'Rika-chan'. Naturally, he should have given himself over, but the man was tormented. There shouldn't have been eyewitnesses, therefore if he stayed silent...... Meanwhile it became night. At that moment, the landline phone of the apartment received a call. 'I am Rika-chan. Now I am in front of the apartment'. Saying just that, she hung up. 'Rika-chan!? That's impossible!'. The man was shaken. However, that was certainly the voice of a little child. It was a lisping voice. Don't tell me the girl I ran over, that should have been dead......? Thereupon he received immediately a second call. 'I am Rika-chan. Now I am at the first floor'. The room where the man lived was at the fifth floor! 'Rika-chan' must have aimed there. Presuming so, the man goes beyond being shaken and becomes frightened. Moreover there was a third call. 'I am Rika-chan. Now I boarded the elevator', hey don't be sly!" "............" It wasn't received well. In proportion to how long I spoke. A reciting style that made aware of a comic storyteller, but I might have been more annoying than expected. "Well, not like that, just normal funny stuff is enough" "Guh......" My pride was wounded! Though I am fundamentally a straight man...... I can't stay silent being looked down like this! "Well then, second part!" "Ooh" "Professor Clark said it -- 'Boys be anchovy'!" {Should be "Boys be ambitious"} "............" She isn't even smiling. Even a one shot gag is no good. "Then third part! I remembered it because a while ago the topic of world history came out, I will tell you my failure story! "I am looking forward to it!" "In the 'ABCD' of the 'ABCD blockade' that surrounded Japan before WWII, the question of writing each country name was proposed in a test -- to that question I answered this! 'A is America, B is United Kingdom, C is China, and...... D is Germany'!" "............" Kissshot inclines her head on the side. She won't laugh even for a failure story. "Errr......, if I had to say what's funny, is that I guessed B was United Kingdom, but for some reason I read D in romaji...... moreover Germany was siding with the Axis Powers, right?" {ABCD stands for American British Chinese Dutch. The names of these countries in Japanese are respectively "Amerika", "Igirisu", "Chuugoku", "Oranda". Araragi for D answered "Doitsu". In case someone wanted to know, Igirisu and Oranda come from Portuguese "Inglez" and "Holanda", while Doitsu comes from the Dutch "Duits"} I explained my own gag. In response to that Kissshot said. "......What is the ABCD blockade?" "You don't possess the common knowledge of a human!" It was a sad way to miss the mark. After that, in the end. The hand of the clock passed midnight, and the date changed into April the 7th -- that is, until it became the last day of the Spring Break of Naoetsu private high school, I and Kissshot kept chatting above the roof of the ruin. I had even felt that Kissshot's cold eyes were full of the will to shoot down the short stories I presented, but midway we both ended up with 'so much high spirits that everything is funny', and whatever we said we burst laughing. I think it was mostly meaningless conversation. I think it was a superficial conversation. However -- perhaps. When I will reflect back upon this Spring Break, the best memory left, that surely I won't ever be able to forget, will be in this day this moment this place, when I talked with Kissshot. I believed it's because I laughed. "Now then" Even if she laughed so much she cried, while rubbing her eyes whose coldness nevertheless didn't disappear -- Kissshot stood up. "It is time -- I will make thee a human" "Ah, yeah" That's right. Damn, I carelessly forgot. Is it normal to forget such an important thing...... I was a little shocked at myself. I passed too much time having fun. However -- the party was at its peak. "Come to think of it -- the first subordinate never said he wanted to turn back into a human?" "......Hm, it is complicated" "Complicated, you say" You use difficult Japanese. "In those days for me it was impossible in any case to turn back someone into a human -- this time, if possible, I intend to capitalize on that lesson. Say, are thou ready?" "Err...... maybe it's because I laughed too much, but I am a little hungry. Could I put something in my stomach before? Since the food if I remember well was exhausted, would I be in time if I went buying some before?" "Hm? Well, certainly even I who suddenly returned to my complete form am feeling hunger -- however, can thou not even bear it?" "Well, kind of" "Do thou want to bring the portable food?" "Portable food, you say" What's that. Must be outmoded sensibility. "Well, it's my last night as a vampire, it's a point where I have a little reluctance to part. Is there something you'd like to eat?" "I do not have likes or dislikes" "Uhmmm" Well, anyway, at this hour only the convenience store should be open, so from the beginning I don't have choice. "Well, fine. Do whatever thou want, my servant. I will receive thy spirit of wanting to be my servant even if for just a little bit longer -- I will get ready at the second floor" "OK" And that said-- We put a closure to the conversation above the roof. Although only the convenience store should be open, even with that convenience store I must go very far to buy something -- the round trip from the cram school ruin takes one hour. If one doesn't use vampire running power, that is. However -- I didn't feel like running. Instead I purposely walked slowly. Humph. What a hassle. I will turn thee back into a human -- she said. I can't deny that indeed it made me a little nervous being told that so lightheartedly. I am a chicken and a coward. However -- the 'little reluctance to part' words said to Kissshot were a makeshift lie. Of course, I don't mean that I want to be Kissshot's servant for a little longer. Out of the question. Just. I loathed to part. "......Uhmmm" Perhaps...... it's the same even for Kissshot, I think. Something she wanted to say about turning me back into a human. In the end, there was no such thing. She just -- genuinely wanted to chat with me. To party. "I don't know" Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade. The Iron-Blooded, Hot-Blooded, Cold-Blooded vampire The legendary vampire. Kaii Killer. "Obviously -- she will go somewhere" I got back all her body parts. She shouldn't have a reason to stay in this town -- no, in this country any longer. Sightseeing -- she said. If I think about the first subordinate, surely this must have been something like a tour in a land of memories -- however, as far as her memories go, it only happened her worst memories got a recoating. She had her heart stolen, she had her limbs stolen. The second subordinate created in desperation was an ordinary person. And that subordinate says he want to turn back into a human. Though she said I didn't bore her. "She was invited to become a god, and refused -- very different from Guillotinecutter" Once she leaves this country. She will wander around the world again, probably. No, since she talked like she gallivanted in her youth, in these days maybe she doesn't travel like that anymore. To begin with, I wonder if she could get on planes -- well, maybe she can just grow wings and fly in the air. That's a convenient body. However, there is obviously no sorrow of parting. Simply, what could be said to be Kissshot's bonds was roughly just me being a vampire, so I just feared being parted with that. I felt that undoubtedly I understood the reason Oshino, that frivolous man, doesn't say a word of farewell. "Well, it can't be helped" If you meet, you will also part. That's life. Even though for Kissshot these two weeks were nothing but bad memories, looking back now, for me maybe it was not that bad of a Spring Break. Maybe it was not that bad of a Spring Break. What, I really come to think of it that way. "Alright!" I continued the party above the roof, and I opened the farewell party. Wanting to make it the most showy I could, at the convenience store I used up the money on hand and consumed it on cakes and other sweets, and then at a quick pace I returned to the cram school ruin. On the way back. While thinking I would still actually say words of farewell to Kissshot, I prepared myself -- and I arrived at the room at the second floor. The date was April 7th. The time was past 2:00 AM. "I'm back" With that feeling, I open the door as cheerfully as possible. Kissshot was having a meal. Munch munch, chomp chomp, crunch crunch. Munch munch, chomp chomp, crunch crunch. Munch munch, chomp chomp, crunch crunch. Munch munch, chomp chomp, crunch crunch. She was eating -- a human. "......Eh?" I drop the sack from the convenience store I was holding in my hand. At that sound, Kissshot turns her head to me. While her hands. were holding a human head half eaten. "Ah, servant -- thou were unexpectedly quick. However I did tell thee. It is manners not to be present when a lady is eating. I recognized that head. One of the three specialist of vampire exorcism. The only human among them. It was Guillotinecutter. His body, his flesh was cut to pieces -- he was mangled to a size easy to eat. A fish -- served whole. "He showed up while I was waiting thee -- it seems even the barrier was not able to hide me at full power. However, since I was getting hungry, he came at the perfect time. he was a good tonic" She said. Kissshot gestured like she was seeking someone over my shoulder. And then she inclined her head looking perplexed. "What? That portable food with glasses and braids -- did thou not bring it with thee?" |
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The first post is now up to date and lazy friendly. I also wish II-sub posted a copy of their chapters of Bakemonogatari in this thread so that way we have an alternate place to read them just in case.... Let me know if any links are broken and/or needs to be fixed.
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Spoiler for Hitagi Buffet:
Usually I could easily see Senjougahara at school, but seldom do I have time to meet her on Sundays, but that day, shockingly we met up during the day.
Having said that, it’s just that she got from her father a free coupon for a cake buffet that is limited for use on Sunday, she suddenly wanted to use it. It’s a dessert café that is too expensive for civilians, in order for the shop to maintain its style, usually it does not take up a pirate-like behaviour such as buffets, but it seems to be the shop’s anniversary. Speaking of eating cakes freely, this means that when I am standing in front of the counter full of donuts, I can’t promise whether or not Shinobu will appear from my shadow, of course that guy have never came out in front of Senjougahara, also she has never been moved by any other donuts other than the ones from Mr. Donuts (that guy basically doesn’t eat human food), so I can tentatively relax. If there is a concern, it is the store’s exterior, boys seem to need a certain degree of courage in order to go in, which made me so angry I stood straight, but I need to tolerate it. Senjougahara’s mockery already doesn’t bother me anymore, and the cakes themselves are rich in types, also the taste is by far the best I have eaten, so I will not care about anything else. Hmm, delicious. Even bigger things are just trivial in front of all these food. The fact that humans are animals dominated by food, I suddenly felt I experienced it deeply. No, it’s the same even for vampires. "Senjougahara. You, got fat?" I said. I taking a break, inadvertently said it. Although recently I haven’t watched any comedy shows, but I could still describe the image, in the next instant, like throwing a party, a fancy cake flew towards my face. I don’t know if it’s for the convenience of the guests to eat, or it was designed that way, this piece of fancy cake, was much smaller than imagined, it could be said it was mini-sized, so very luckily, my face and clothes were not dirtied , the cake was directly enveloped by my mouth. It was a very direct method of eating. "Huh? You said something that you shouldn’t have said? Araragi-kun." Senjougahara’s eyes were opened very big. Her deadpan look was very frightening. "Girls don’t get fat." "Oh ... ... is it?" "Yes. Girls only grow." Senjougahara placed the fork in her hand, and from a section of the cake she started exaggeratingly eating it one after another in sequence. "This is not getting fat, this is just growing." "... ..." What an amazing explanation. "If I keep eating lots and lots like this, then soon I will become two people." "Scary in many ways." The explanation is scary, having two of you is even more scary. "Say, you, was too thin before, so if you were to add a little bit of weight now, the extra flesh would be very obvious." "Don’t say the flesh will be very obvious." Senjougahara was posing while holding the fork. In front of me who is her boyfriend. ... ... Something worth mentioning, if it was Senjougahara from some time ago, then certainly mercilessly, instead of throwing the cake from the beginning, she’ll attack me by directly throw the fork at me, thinking of this point, I felt she has calmed a lot. But certainly I can’t say that she has become very gentle. "Speaking to the end Araragi-kun, talking about things involving weight in front of a girl, that is just too sensitive." "Ah." Actually that is right. But seeing Senjougahara eating so happily, I was shocked even as I was drinking black tea, so I wanted to pull her down a notch. On this steel skin face or rather steel shell face, to reveal a little flaw in that face. Basically I wanted to do some mischief. "Although I didn’t want to say it but recently I did gain a little weight." "Hmm. So it’s actually true." I thought it was an illusion. "Ah. Specifically about five kilograms." "By that much, what!?" Five kilos! Isn’t that the same as her weight when she was possessed by the crab! In this sense, it’s the addition of one person’s worth. "What is wrong? It’s a popular scenario that’s been coming out lately." "No, that’s not the case. If it is the flesh that coming out then it’s really frightening." "You're really annoying. Be careful with me making your internal organs fly out." The visceral fats coming out. I hate this kind of 3D effect. Ah. But I actually can’t tell she got fat... ... but, she gained a lot, ah. "So it really is better if you returned to the track and field team? This way you can also stay in shape." "Well." Senjougahara really hates things about the past, especially things in middle school, but this time she didn’t refute, like she’s thinking deeply about something. "Let me explain something." Senjougahara said, while eating cake. "Being able to eat what you love like this, and also being able to until you’re full, until awhile ago this was unimaginable, that’s why I’m really happy.” "Ah?" "Think about it. Back then because of the crab, I – didn’t have any weight. So just like limiting the weight of my clothings, I also have to limit food intake." Eat too much – you’ll get heavy. Senjougahara said. "Ah ... ..." I nodded. I see. Because being overly thin - because of this kind of reason. In the end, Senjougahara is considered tall among girls (even taller than me), even if she gained five kilograms, actually it probably is still far from reaching the standard weight. "Being able to eat what you love until you’re full, is great. Having a real sense of that love." Senjougahara repeated that continuously. "When I love something, I will get a small feeling of being saved. Although of course I may be a person who has committed a lot of mistakes - but at least when I see something good it is still something good, I still have this kind of emotion, so I am able to forgive myself a little. " "Forgive -" Being saved. No - I can understand this point. Saying I understood, it is better to say I have personally experienced it. Perhaps, the opposite. Only after you love something, you can feel like you’re being saved, or being forgiven, only people like me and Senjougahara would have this kind of feeling – "I like the me who is liking something, so, or you can say in love with a girl in love, so, of course this short phase has a denying meaning—but is there anything wrong?" This is something from someone who has never hated herself - she said. "That maybe true ... ... but that can’t be a reason for overeating cake. Everything must have a limit." "That’s right." Senjougahra nodded, but her hands didn’t stop. In the end, Senjougahara’s family’s economic condition has not recover, so maybe there’s very little opportunities to eat this much. But even if you say I’m crazy, actually I still feel slightly that girls with a bit of meat is cuter, you can even say that I even want her to gain two more kilograms, "So are you going to start jogging with Kanbaru?" "Forget it. That guy's weight loss method can’t be followed by ordinary people." "However, while talking, I found that Araragi-kun can really eat. I’m telling you in advance, Araragi-kun, if your BMI goes over 20, I will ruthlessly break up with you." "This benchmark is too strict." 20. This is even stricter than the metabolic syndrome. "Ah, but this should be no problem." "You seem very confident. Why?" "No, I only recently discovered it, this can be regarded as one of the few physical advantages of vampires. Vampires’ speciality is the body is able to maintain a sound condition, if it goes over a certain value, it will naturally return to the optimum body weight, that is to say I won’t get fat." Kala. Senjougahara’s fork fell to the ground. She used a stunned expression –by the way what kind of expression was this, I have never seen it before. The expressionless attribute collapsed. "No, but, this is just a side effect. Not as tight as like Kanbaru. So I can still get a bit fat. So, I’m still very jealous of that guy - hmm, Senjougahara-san?" "How enviable ... ..." I was harshly glared at. "This kind of rule-breaking tactic, I will never accept it... ... you have this kind of body and also use this condescending view to judge my weight gain ... ..." "No, no, I'm not judging you." "Okay, you’ll see. Araragi-kun who relies on Kaiis, I'll let you see the possibility of human beings. The parts that I grew, I’ll lose it in an instant – I declare it here, the Senjougahra weight loss plan activate. " "Weight, weight loss plan ... ..." So it’s not losing fat? A gross exaggeration. "Ah. I’ll start the fight immediately after I finish this meal!" Senjougahara said, and using her hands to grab the cake, eating it mouthful by mouthful (because the fork just fell on the ground). Then at an alarming rate she started eating the cake on my plate. In short, originally I even worried if she was going to finish up all the cake in the place, but seeing the expressionless her enjoying the mood of liking something, I do not want to pull her down anymore. As long as Senjougahra is happy, even if I don’t eat cake, I will also feel happy. Today was the best day. ... ... A follow-up story by the way, after that, Senjougahara really began training with Kanbaru together, just like a joke, in a short amount of time she successfully loss weight. Sure enough, you can not underestimate her perseverance. BTW I couldn't find the raws for this so this is entirely from the chinese translation so take the accuracy of this with a grain of salt. With this being said, if someone can get me the raws it would be great. Last edited by omimon; 2011-05-03 at 10:12. |
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Finally, time for the next chapter. Just a couple of notes: 1) What I previously translated with "precious goods" is now "precious lineage" 2) I think I used some lines from a previous translation of Ickem. Kudos to him.
Spoiler for Kizumonogatari chapter 16 part 1:
At a time like this I didn't know a place where to stay -- going back home is of course impossible, but on the other hand, even assuming there was another abandoned building like that cram school ruin, I didn't have any spirit left to search for it.
I was chased by time. The moment of sunrise was getting closer hour by hour -- I was quickly driven to a corner. In the end. I thrust not one hand but both inside my brain, tampering it for tampering's sake, thinking for thinking's sake -- and I chose as a temporary shelter the PE storehouse of Naoetsu High School. Temporary shelter -- it was really a temporary sheltering. However, this windowless PE storehouse blocked by an iron door in itself seemed fit for hiding me, a vampire, during the day. I chose it in desperation, but it was not such a bad place. The day I fought with Dramaturgie, I didn't give up and I repaired the iron door by brute force, I am glad from the bottom of my heart I put it back, I thought -- no, I didn't think it. There was not a thing to be glad for. It got it all wrong. "W......wwwwwwwwwwWwWwwwwWw" My teeth keep chattering. My body doesn't stop shivering. Why. Why. Why didn't I notice that. Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade -- is a vampire. A vampire. Weak against the sun. Dislikes crosses. Dislikes silver bullets. Dislikes holy water. Dislikes garlic. Dislikes poison. Dies when a stake is driven through the heart. Doesn't project a shadow, doesn't have a reflection in a mirror. Fangs. Immortal body. Semi-perpetual recovery power. Eyes that see well even in the dark. Shape-shifting power. Healing power in the blood. And -- she eats humans. "wwWWWW......waaaaaaaaaah!" I moaned and moaned and moaned-- But I was feeling only a burst of regret. I thrust a hand inside the head, and I continue to tamper with my brain -- where did I get it wrong, in what way did I get it wrong, so that it became like this -- I continue to think about it. However. I definitely got it all wrong. "Wwww......wwwwwwwwwwww" For vampires, humans are food. For higher beings like them, lower beings like humans, in the pyramid of the food chain, are a step below. That is. Something I should have understood in the beginning, isn't it? The truth is -- she tried to kill me, right? She tried to eat me, right? She tried to drink up my blood, right? Like a worthless human being. Originally even I-- Was food for her. Even if she wanted to talk. Even if I was one-sidedly feeling a bond. In the end -- I am food. "............" For Kissshot -- any human. Every human is the same. Of course, she has a high opinion of Oshino’s skills. But his skills are only on this level. Or maybe I am talking about something I don't actually know -- I even thought, but still, a human is a human. Food is food. Even Oshino understood that. As a proof of that -- before Kissshot became complete and got back her vampire skills -- he left the ruin. And. If I try to remember carefully -- Kissshot almost didn't speak with Hanekawa. She wasn't even noticing her -- far from it. That's right. For Kissshot Hanekawa was food. She was not treating her as a friend of mine-- She was treating her as my portable food. The portable food for me, a vampire. Or maybe, if she met Hanekawa after she got back her blood sucking power, Hanekawa might have become a victim of that ability -- I think. Like Guillotinecutter. She might have been chopped to pieces and eaten. "Clerics are said to be unappetizing -- but he was quite tasty. I did not think of having likes or dislikes, but hunger is the best sauce is a well said maxim" "No......" To the woman who was seductively using her tongue to wipe her mouth from blood and meat stuck to it -- trying to summon them, I said. My courage. And my terror. Trying to summon them, I said. "......Y-You -- mustn't eat humans" "Hm?" It really seemed she did not understand. Kissshot greatly tilted her head on the side. "But servant, if I do not eat them I die" That's right. She was right. That was a reason extraordinarily easy to understand. There was a limit even to simplicity. And for that reason, Kissshot doesn't have any problem with it -- she won't even try to rebut it point by point to me, a former human who wants to turn back into a human after this. She thinks it's general knowledge. It is general knowledge. For a long time -- she has been eating them. She has been eating humans. She continued to eat them. Vampire. A first subordinate -- and a second one. Living 500 years, she shouldn't have sucked the blood of just us two -- and with the exception of us, the rest of the people have all been chopped to pieces, and eaten without leaving flesh or bones, like that. That's her nutrition replenishment for the case when she doesn't create a subordinate. In rumors. When a vampire sucks blood, people without exception become vampires -- it seems it's not completely false. After sucking blood, if one doesn't deal with it properly, indeed everyone turns into a vampire. If she sucks even a drop of blood. One will always -- become a vampire. And the proper countermeasure -- is to eat the body of that human without leaving even a piece of meat. Thanks to that, the vampire gets a much greater nutrition -- and the corpse of the human whose blood was extracted avoids turning into a vampire. It seems it goes like that. Just by having my blood sucked -- I became a vampire. And Guillotinecutter. As a meal -- was eaten flesh and all. However it was not limited to Guillotinecutter, in this 500 years Kissshot continued to do this. It is natural. Since it was not even worthy to think about it -- without noticing it, without even wanting to notice it, I just kept averting my eyes. That's right. I never understood anything. Even when I met her in the beginning, even when she was on the verge of death, why did I not try to help the dying Kissshot -- I didn't understand it at all from the beginning. Why she couldn't receive help. It seems I didn't understand it. The edible human -- why doesn't he help the vampire. The predator and the prey. Despite we only have a relationship of that kind. "W-wwww......wah" Guillotinecutter. He was a despicable man. He was a man who was sneaky and foul, a disgrace to humans. And yet-- He was not a person who should be killed. Though he gave Hanekawa a terrible experience -- even that was my fault. Because I was a vampire. Guillotinecutter. Whatever the reason, whatever the way, was just trying to exorcise a monster. "N...... noo. I can't take this anymore......nooo. I don't want to think -- I don't want to think about it!" I extract my hand from the brain -- and I hold my head. "Noo!" However, my brain didn't stop thinking. It was not just Guillotinecutter. Dramaturgie. Episode. Even them, who already returned to their home towns, intended to exorcise a vampire -- and the one who prevented them from doing so was no others than me. After all. I took back from them -- the limbs they stole with great trouble from Kissshot. And then, of all things, I let that legendary vampire recover her complete form. Needless to mention Guillotinecutter. If from now on Kissshot eats a human -- if she takes a meal, it will be all my responsibility. If Hanekawa is eaten. If my sisters are eaten. If my parents are eaten. That will be all -- my fault. Because I saved her. It's not just the limbs and the heart. To begin with, in that very first day, at that time. Under that streetlight, if I didn't save Kissshot -- if I had abandoned her, with that the story would be all over. At that time I didn't abandon Kissshot -- and I understand why it happened, it was the weakness of my heart. It is different from the strength of Hanekawa. Such weakness does not bear the slightest resemblance to Hanekawa's kindness that made Oshino feel uneasy, and made me thought she was scary. That was self-satisfaction, not self-sacrifice. Just because one lives thoughtlessly -- it doesn't mean that one can die thoughtlessly. I was eaten by a vampire and died in that manner. Did I think about what my sisters could have felt? Did I even think they wouldn't have cried? "--Bleargh!" Somehow I resist the nausea. I resist even the tears. I resist, because if the dam fell apart for one moment I didn't really know what would happen -- I was afraid to lose control of myself. For now. I wanted to preserve at least a little of autonomy. With Kissshot it became an argument, a verbal fight in which I didn't understand anymore what I said -- in the end I rushed out the cram school ruin without a place to go to. And I finally arrived at this PE storehouse. The only dark place I had in my memories. Outside the sun must have already risen -- though Spring Break, the people who do club activities may have come to school, but luckily today is the last day of Spring Break. Club activities should have been forbidden. I don't have to worry about pupils of sports clubs opening the door of this PE storehouse. Obviously, just to be sure I am building a barricade from the inside. "It's my fault" My thoughts. They come out from the corner of my mouth, without me noticing. "It's my fault that even after all this people -- will continue to be eaten" By that vampire -- who can't be stopped by nobody. By that Iron-Blooded, Hot-Blooded, Cold-Blooded vampire. By Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade! "It's my fault -- my fault, my fault!" If I think about it. Obviously Oshino could read this development. To begin with, he said it was about the balance, but when he stole the heart from Kissshot in the beginning, he shouldn't have received a request from anybody -- because he met with those three only later. That means his was an autonomous decision. It was an action that deviated from work. A mediation between us and them. That is to say -- at least he must have stolen the heart from Kissshot as a decision from the human side. He didn't go as far as exorcising her. Because his doctrine is to bring a balance. An opportunist -- I remember Kissshot defined Oshino like that. And the balance he brought -- I destroyed it. If it was unexpected that Kissshot would have created a subordinate, it was also unexpected that a human would have saved a dying Kissshot. My foolish idea, my foolish move-- Nobody expected it. I thwarted the efforts of those three. I got back even the heart Oshino stole. I am the one who made the story troublesome, aren't I? It seemed like somebody schemed it, wasn't it? What silly thing was I saying -- the one who schemed it, after all, was myself. This state of affairs, in all its aspects, is completely and thoroughly -- my fault. My rash action. The payback for my heart's weakness of not abandoning a dying vampire -- resulted in this. Guillotinecutter died. He died, eaten. His head was chewed, his brain was eaten along with the skull -- now there is no way he will revive. Even if I use vampire blood -- he won't revive. He is dead. Death. There is nothing I can do to undo it anymore. "Why did all this--" And Guillotinecutter was not the end, but the beginning. For the vampire Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade, this is nothing but a new starting point. From now on she -- will 'routinely' keep having meals. Routine is devastating. I think I heard someone say those words. I can't stop her anymore -- the crucial vertex of the triangle, Guillotinecutter, was eaten, not to mention that even the three together were no match for her. Dramaturgie too. Episode too. No matter if it was for work or personal feelings, they won't fight Kissshot now that she has become complete -- thinking that, I was made to realize how impressive was the depth of the beliefs of Guillotinecutter who challenged her alone. He was never an admirable man. Still, that was the power of humans. Even if rebuffed -- it doesn't pale. The one who pales -- was me. Oshino Meme -- Oshino, who managed to steal the heart from Kissshot without being noticed, might be able to stop Kissshot, but probably he won't. The balance has been already brought. The game ended too. The scales too, are already tipped. The humans lost. They were defeated -- by Kissshot. And also, at this point with what face could I, of all people, say it -- please stop Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade. There's no way I can say it. Even if my mouth split, there's no way I can say it. "--I can't stand it anymore" This Spring Break. I never had the thought that everything happened in this Spring Break was wrong. I had many vicissitudes, but in retrospect it didn't seem such a bad Spring Break -- it shouldn't have been such a bad Spring Break, and yet-- It was actually the worst Spring Break. It was just a hell. It was only a hellish joke. I was just a fool who didn't understand anything. "I loathe it" Still. Inside me -- there was still one thing smoldering. Through regret and self-examination, somehow I am averting my eyes -- I have noticed a terrible truth. Although at this point I couldn't avert my eyes anymore. That's right. That too was obvious. "I loathe it, and yet I too" It's so obvious it is glaring. "Even I -- am a vampire" Now matter how much I fear, loathe and detest vampires -- I am one of them myself. Precisely. Oshino's words weigh heavily upon me. They weigh in my heart. They weigh -- in my stomach. --Ah, that's right. -- Araragi-kun, I ask you this just out of interest-- --Lately, haven't you been hungry ".....................!" I am becoming -- hungry. Now I feel hunger. --Ah, I see --Well, I just thought-- --It must have been time for you to get hungry. --At any rate, two weeks passed already. "Shit, shit, shit, shit......!" At the moment -- I can still bear it. It's just a little hunger. However -- if that allusion of Oshino was implying the current state of affairs -- sooner or later, I will want to suck other's blood. I will develop the impulse of sucking blood. And I will want to eat humans. Because -- I am a monster myself. Because I am a superior being. "Shit!" The first subordinate. I have no way to know what kind of man he was -- but I think the reason he committed suicide after just some years was more or less that. Though we might be different -- in the end we are the same. He couldn't stand anymore being degraded to a monster -- no, being promoted to a monster. Obviously, it seems Kissshot didn't understand that emotion, but -- it shouldn't be comprehensible to her. That was a human emotion. And then, 400 years after then. Even I, the second subordinate -- had to go through the same experience. "Ha......hahahahaha" At last -- a laugh came out. I could only laugh. If you think about it, this is quite a humorous story. As funny stories go this was well played. After all this running around in circles, in the end I was finally made to realize I got it all wrong -- if we imagine this story had an audience, I must have been quite the talented buffoon. There is a limit even to stupidity. I looked so goofy -- it was funny. "What should I do about this -- I have no choice but to die" That. Naturally, was the most natural idea. It was completely pointless. At this point. At this point I don't think I want to turn back into a human. I can't think something so selfish like to be guilty of so much, and then think of having just my own wish granted -- wrong. That sounded handsome. Surely I don't have such admirable thoughts. I am just -- afraid. I am afraid that the moment I turn back into a human, Kissshot will eat me. It is a given. I just fear to fall below in the food chain. However, I also can't stand being a vampire. I hate sucking blood and eating people. Even my immortal body at this point is repugnant. Therefore. "I have no choice but to die" Not to die thoughtlessly -- to die properly. It is the cause of death for vampires 90% of the time. It is different from dying of boredom though. However, the feeling of guilt can kill a man -- therefore. Similarly to the first subordinate, I can only choose death -- that's the only path left for me at this point. Well, actually -- why did I hide in this manner inside the PE storehouse? Why did I try to survive during daytime by doing this? Yeah, for example. For example if now I removed the barricade, opened the iron door and thrust my body into the sports field -- with that I would be able to die. A deathwish -- I think she said. Obviously there was the recovery power of a subordinate of Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade, even if I threw my body under the sun, I wouldn't die that easily -- there would just be a cycle of evaporation and recovery, and yet. I should be able to die before the sunset. If I take off my clothes, stand naked, and bask into the sunlight, certainly -- in all my life, the first and last attempt at streaking. It's not king of Kaii <no-life king>, it's naked king <streaking>. It's an unfunny joke, I think. It is for this reason that I am basically a straight man. "......Oh boy" What a failure. Really, what a failure. I thought it could go much better -- I thought it was going well. However, this is how things are. What a whammy. I have no choice left but to die. "......Ah, yeah" I just decided it. As if I was dispossessed of an evil spirit, I could calm down. I think I have to phone home. It completely escaped from my head, but I told them I was going out in a journey of self-discovery -- actually, there was no such thing, I have only lost myself. In fact -- is it better not to contact them? In what way can I tell them that later on I will die -- I also absolutely can't say the reason. If that's the case then I even think that it's better to leave it like this, the older brother went missing while gone out in a journey of self-discovery. I don't know how it would be received, but leaving my parents aside, for my sisters it might become a running joke -- the runaway boy. It is not a small runaway, it is a real runaway. Well, I think that's fine too. "But I wanted to talk -- with Hanekawa" And there is something I must tell her. Hanekawa was so much affected and dragged into this, there is no way I could let her uninformed of anything like this -- unfortunately, because of the sunlight, at the moment I have no way to contact her from this PE storehouse I jumped into to run away from Kissshot. I even personally erased her mobile phone number and e-mail. In front of her eyes. I erased them in order to wound her. Since then, even after I met her again -- I didn't ask her contact address because it was awkward. Although that may be an awkwardness felt only by me -- at this point I regret even that. How much a chicken and a coward I am. Though I am good at math, it doesn't mean I am strong with numbers, I don't remember a row of 11 digits, and needless to say I don't stand a chance with an alphabetic e-mail. If I contacted her once it should be left in the history, but -- I didn't contact her even once, and she didn't contact me either. If you think about it, in that manner I won't transmit her my number and e-mail. She still doesn't know my contact address. If only I told her that time. ......If only I told her that time, what? Would Hanekawa phone me right now? How foolish. Not even her is capable of an ESP-like feat like that -- no way such expedient developments exist. If God was so expedient, I wouldn't have had to go through this -- I wouldn't have to be guilty of such failure. While I think it is futile struggling, for the time being, even to look at the time, I took out the cellphone. It was 5:00 PM. It seems I have secluded myself here for more than 12 hours -- it doesn't feel real. However, even if this irrelevant time enters my field of vision, even if it enters my head, it just stops at that. That aside, I opened the address register in a futile struggling, but -- it wasn't futile, it gave my heart a shock like being hit by a blunt weapon. There. Was Hanekawa Tsubasa's name. "......Therefore" I let out a voice. Regardless of whether it was my own callowness or the circumstances I was in, I was deeply moved -- I never thought I could be deeply moved by watching the cold screen of a cellphone. Although I thought there was not a thing to be glad for. Although I thought it was just a bad Spring Break. "Do not touch other people's phones without asking......!" She always had the chance. It could have happened at the time of my fight with Episode, when she came to deliver me the phone on the sport field, it could have happened anytime. I am basically very easy-going with the management of my cellphone, I didn't set a password. That's because I hardly put in any personal information -- however. In the address register that was empty. Now there was recorded once again the name of Hanekawa Tsubasa. Her number -- and her e-mail. "............" I was thinking I was fine with that. I thought I wanted to talk to Hanekawa, and I had things to tell her, but a part of me was thinking that even if I couldn't talk to her, maybe I was fine with that. Although there is no way I could let her uninformed of anything. I was also thinking I didn't want to tell her anything. Therefore -- talking about expedient, for me it might have been more convenient that way. But that is impossible. If it turns out like this, what I have to do is decided. Actually -- I decided it on my own. I sent a mail to Hanekawa. Because on a call I might cry. What in the world is Hanekawa doing in Spring Break's last day -- studying at the library? I don't know where the library is, but if that was the case, then there is the possibility she has turned off her phone. Well, whatever. Let's wait patiently for the answer. I was thinking, but she replied immediately. I check it, and the time I received that mail was perfectly identical to the time I sent my mail. Not even a minute of difference. Unbelievable...... That was a reply within a maximum of 60 seconds. I thought it must have been a very concise reply, but I checked the text and, beginning from "Dear" and ending with "Very sincerely yours", that was a full-blown letter. Amazing. Girls certainly seem to type mails quickly, but...... Come to think of it, in that day of the closing ceremony, even when she first registered in my phone her own personal informations, Hanekawa's keystrokes were quite fast...... once again, amazing. That is to say, I didn't know because I mostly send mails only to my family, but were mails something that must be written with such humble expressions...... I thought they were a more frank tool. Anyway, summing up the letter I got from Hanekawa, the content was 'I'll come immediately so wait for me'. In the end I couldn't wrap it up well, and I could send her only an outline of the matter, as expected of Hanekawa, she guessed it all with just that. Really. Though I would have liked better if it was Hanekawa, not me, who met Kissshot. Speak of the devil and he shall appear, was it? Although me and Hanekawa are the same concerning speaking of vampires -- the one who Hanekawa encountered was me, and it was me who encountered Kissshot. A sudden thought. Kissshot became a rumor between girls -- then excluding Hanekawa, could there have been among other girls, counting even the pupils that attend other schools, a person besides me who encountered Kissshot? And if there was, what happened? Did she just pass by her? Or did she have her blood sucked -- and was eaten? If such a thing happens it should become a serious affair, I think, but on the other hand if the body was eaten whole, without leaving any evidence, even if it became the talk of the family, or at most of the class, it might be a story hard to spread in the neighbourhood. Self-discovery or small runaway-- It might just be thought as something like that instead. Though if it comes to a large number of people it might not be the case -- that may be a problem of the vampire rank, but it doesn't seem Kissshot needs such a large quantity of 'food'...... this is a possibility. "Two weeks, Oshino said. Therefore for Kissshot one person per month might not be enough...... then, even counting Guillotinecutter, the victims will be two or three......?" Though it is not a problem of numbers. If that's the case -- she won't be discovered. "......What is it. I still feel like I am failing to notice something--" Failing to notice. Or leaving it undone. Now that I contacted Hanekawa, there shouldn't be anything I left undone, I thought -- and. In that instant Hanekawa arrived. |
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Spoiler for Kizumonogatari chapter 16 part 2:
The sound of someone knocking the iron door of the PE storehouse.
Knock knock. "Girl delivery" "............" No, I can't laugh. That's not the right way to show concern. In any case, I remove the barricade (with vampire physical strength, it is simple both building them and pulling them down), and after I said to Hanekawa to come in with the body turned sideways, leaving the door as close as possible, I stuck to the wall in order to not get hit by the sunlight that got in at the same time of her entrance. It was already time for sunset, but the evening sun still remained. Later I am going to bask into the sunlight. Later I am going to have a full-body sunbath. However that will be after I talked to Hanekawa. Hanekawa even today is wearing her school uniform. This girl doesn't feel like showing me her plain clothes...... or maybe she doesn't like me to see her plain clothes...... but I don't have an obsession over this point, though. Hanekawa was smiling cheerfully. It was her usual smiling face. That too was concern, I suppose. "What is this?" In addition, while I was working to block once again the iron door with a barricade, she says this to my back with a tone of voice awfully full of high spirits. "It looks like I was cleverly locked up in the PE storeroom. What should I do if Araragi-kun played a lewd prank on me?" "......A prank, you say" This girl.... Isn't she thinking I could be quite the lecher? Well, I certainly might have showed that side a lot, but I am undoubtedly not a person who likes this kind of lewd talk. I am more of a gentleman. "Flashlight, on" She turned it on, and placed it above the vaulting horse. Since it's a flashlight with a square shape, it doesn't roll. After that, Hanekawa sat on the mat. I sat in front of her. "Ah--. You are sitting in front, you are trying to peek at my panties" "You are misunderstanding the kind of man I am" I said to Hanekawa who was gesturing to pull tight the cuff of her skirt, not bearing it anymore. "If for example there was in front of my eyes a naked girl, and that girl said to me don't look, I am a man who would be able to not look!" "That would be normal" "Guh......!" Really?! When did world's common sense change? "Err, Hanekawa, you just don't know how much of a gentlemen I am" "Gentlemen is the plural form" Hanekawa says. "Well, if that's true, then I am looking forward to it" "You are looking forward to what?" "When the new school term arrives, I will be able to see Araragi-kun’s gentle side as much as I want, right?" "............" That's -- to say. Your intuition is too good. Although in the mail I revealed nothing of that -- and although I had the intention to cover it to the end. Because Hanekawa will stop me at all costs. "Therefore you mustn't die" "......Hanekawa" "You mustn't die" She says. Through the darkness, she is clearly looking at me. "Thinking in that way is proof that you’re running away from your heart" "......You are amazing" I reflect upon Hanekawa's words, and after that I said what I thought as it was. "You are amazing. When you are in front of me -- it seems like I am a terribly insignificant person. Perhaps if I didn't meet you, I would have died much earlier, I think. There were plenty of situations where it seemed likely" "That's why I am telling you that you mustn't die -- listen to what I say" "It is all my fault" I said. That already felt like a confession. "My rash action produced this result -- that time, when Kissshot got my blood, it was like I wasn't thinking it would have become this -- it is something that one would understand if one thought a little. Giving blood to a vampire, what kind of a thing it is -- and yet I" That she -- eats people. That there would be victims. I didn't think that at all -- after I thought so, it escaped. Even afterwards, no matter that I became a vampire and I had my hands full with my problems -- there should have been plenty of time to reflect on it. No. To begin with, I said it in the beginning. In the closing ceremony day, to Hanekawa. I was the one who said it. Your blood will be sucked -- you will be killed. Exactly like that. Guillotinecutter got his blood sucked. He was killed. He died. I didn't understand what I should have understood. "Because of me, a person died" "It is not your fault. Besides...... surely, for a vampire...... for Heartunderblade-san that should be a very natural thing. It's the same thing as us eating cows and pigs" "............" If I do not eat I will die. So she said. "But -- she thinks of you as my portable food. She didn't feel you as part of the group" "But your case was an exception" Life savior. We are mutually life saviors. I saved Kissshot-- Kissshot saved me. If that's the case, there might have been a relationship of mutual trust. However, that. "It would be like loving a bright cow...... look, even if they are not cows, there frequently are -- genius dogs, or genius monkeys" "Are you talking about pets?" Hanekawa interrupts me. That's right. Certainly, even Oshino -- said a similar thing. Affection towards a pet-- "But for her it is natural -- including the part about me" "Yeah. Therefore Kissshot is not evil. I am the one who is evil. I am evil -- nobody else is evil" "I don't think you are evil though. Because good and bad change 180° with the place you stand in" "You are right" Oshino said even that. Each person has a different definition of justice -- he said. Therefore Oshino. Obstinately chose to have a neutral standpoint. "I never thought about it -- Dramaturgie, Episode, Guillotinecutter. Those three -- were the justice of humans" "At that time you were a vampire -- so it couldn't be avoided. ......then again, don't put it so simply" "It's even harder not to put it like that. I ended up becoming an enemy of humanity" "Then do you give up turning back into a human?" Hanekawa says. It's not an accusing tone of voice -- but for the present me that was a strict question. "Have you given up your humanity? Didn't you say you wanted to turn back into a human -- you wanted to go back to reality, didn't you?" "There was a victim. Now it would be too selfish for only my wish to be granted" "Since you say selfish, then isn't the present you selfish?" "Eh?" "Because" As to confirm the position of the glasses, after taking a short breath -- Hanekawa said. "You are trying to run away abandoning all the mess you've done" "......No" It's not that, I tried to say, but I fumbled with words. Hanekawa added. "Both the heart and the body are running away" "............" "After this, you will try to run away. Because of your mistakes, you will try to reset everything. And since there is no reset button in human life -- you will try to disconnect the plug. Am I wrong?" "......You are wrong" You are wrong. I think so. "It's not that I want to run away, I want to take responsibility for it. The least I can do for atonement is to personally put an end to this immortal life" "You will just add a sin to your sins" Hanekawa says. "Suicide is a sin" "What what...... Hanekawa, are you a opponent of suicide?" "I don't mean to take precisely that standpoint, but on that regards, I believe you surely are the same" "The same?" "You feel bad when people die" Explaining the implication, Hanekawa continues. "Although you are fine with dying -- you feel bad when people die" "............" "Whatever kind of person it may be" "......Are you talking about Guillotinecutter?" I recollect him. Although, I interacted with him only few times. "There are people that should die -- but there can't be people whose death doesn't matter. That's the way I think. That's the definition of me. And using those terms, I already am a person that should die" "You are currently not a human" {in Japanese, "ningen" means both "person" and "human"} "That's just hairsplitting" "I split hairs. If it's for a friend's sake" "Hanekawa" I said. It goes without saying that, if I mention this matter to Hanekawa, I will receive some sort of objection and I will be talked down, I think-- But I still said it. "Certainly at present I am not a human. I am a vampire. Therefore -- like Kissshot, even I will eat people" "............" "I tried to imagine it a little...... just by thinking about it I felt sick. I don't want to live if it's at the cost of eating people" Therefore I have no choice but to die, I said. If I can't turn back into a human -- then I have no choice but to die. "Unlike you, I am a weakling, so if I don't die now, I will surely procrastinate it -- sooner or later I will be unable to overcome hunger" Portable food. Kissshot's words. "Hanekawa -- sooner or later I will see even you only as food" That's scary. Although the corpse of Guillotinecutter was scary too -- Kissshot calling Hanekawa that was scarier. That cognizance. That common sense, sooner or later it will become my common sense. If the common sense of when I was a human comes out -- and I acquire vampire common sense. Undoubtedly I will come to see Hanekawa only as food. I will want to eat her. "If that's the case, don't eat" Hanekawa. However, without any of the objections I imagined -- without talking me down, she said so with a calm tone of voice. "Araragi-kun, you can eat me" "......What are you saying?" I really didn't understand. Not what she was saying, her feelings. "If I can't die for the other's sake, I can't call that person a friend" "......Err" As expected that definition was too reckless. Who can stick that definition to himself? "Exactly. Didn't I say it? If you knew the real me you will be disenchanted" Hanekawa said with a smiling face. "......What in the world are you?" "Hmm? I am your friend. That's what I believe, at least" "With just that much would you normally get involved this far? How could you do so much for someone like me -- or are you the reincarnation of a cat I saved when I was an elementary schooler, a childhood friend who moved, a comrade in arms in a previous life, such kind of person?" "Not at all" "I hope so" By the way, I have never saved a cat. I haven't any childhood friend who moved. I don't know anything about my previous lives. "I did tell you this even before, but -- how can you do so much for me who you just met. If you did that for everybody, you would never have enough bodies" "I don't do it for everybody, though" Hanekawa says. "I am doing it because it is you, you know?" "Even if you do so much for me, I am a minor, so I can't become your co-signer, you know?" "Actually, I wasn't planning that" "Even if I were an adult, I am unemployed anyway, so I still can't become your co-signer" "It is a different problem, but I hope you get a job" "Saying that doesn't make it easier!" "Well, certainly you are not having it easy, but......" Basically, Hanekawa continued. "If I have to help just you, then one body is plenty enough" "......Are you saying you are ok with dying?" "I don't want to die, but you saved my life twice -- so even if I got eaten by you, perhaps I wouldn't utter a complaint" I think I will say that it hurts, though. Hanekawa said such carefree thing. Though I was not talked down-- I was at loss with words. She is really -- amazing. Honestly, words won't do her justice. "Therefore you mustn't die" Hanekawa said once again. "Don't die" "......And what about responsibility?" I -- unintentionally asked. "I was the one who revived a dying Kissshot -- I carefully gathered her limbs, I got back even the heart without being asked to. What about this responsibility? If we say that to die is running away, then if I don't die will I be able to take responsibility for it?" "Then will you be able to take responsibility for it if you die?" "I don't know" Everything was already over. At this point there is nothing I can do -- I can't try to tip the scales. There is no person who can stop Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade completely revived. It is my responsibility she revived -- and she will unabashedly continue to eat people. The same way she did until now. From now on it will be my responsibility. "Guillotinecutter didn't have any chance -- in the time I went to buy something at the convenience store, like a snack between meals, he was chopped up and eaten. Even Dramaturgie and Episode, who went back to their hometown, will never be a match for her. If I had to raise the probabilities, it would be Oshino -- but he absolutely wouldn't do for me anything more than to bring a balance. He draws a firm line -- for him the matter of Kissshot is already over. Besides, even Kissshot from now on won't let her heart be stolen that easily. Nobody can stop that vampire anymore" "Not even you?" Hanekawa said, cutting in. "Can't you -- stop her? Or rather -- aren't you the only one who can stop her?" Those. Were unexpected words. And -- they were something I was failing to notice. "Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade...... the Iron-Blooded, Hot-blooded, Cold-Blooded vampire, was it? And you are her only subordinate -- Conversely speaking, aren't you the only one who can stop her?" "......Ah" What I was failing to notice. And what I was leaving undone. Were that. Why didn't I notice such a simple thing -- if neither Dramaturgie, Episode, Guillotinecutter or Oshino can do it. Then I, Araragi Koyomi, who gathered from these four the right leg, the left leg, both arms and the heart have no choice but do it. That's what I should do. That -- would be responsibility. Putting aside what I can and cannot do. Indeed, I made a big mess. And yet I'm still -- not doing anything! I -- will exorcise Kissshot" I said it with words. They were deeply accompanied by my actual feelings. That's right. That is something -- only I can do. I will stop -- that Kaii Killer! If that's what I should do -- I have no choice but to do it! Inside my head something clicked -- I felt that gears engaged. "Your facial expression changed" And. "While we're at it, let's tell you a good thing, Araragi-kun" Hanekawa Tsubasa said, as she was further pressing on. "It might be a bad thing, though" "Hm? Good or bad, which is it? Don't speak cryptically" "For the present you it might be inconvenient, but for the you of a while before it is convenient" "It became even more unclear, but......" "Yesterday I went to the library -- I did some research. The night of the day before yesterday you beat Guillotinecutter-san, and you assembled the parts...... well, you actually didn't assemble the heart, but with that you could turn back into a human. However -- I became a little anxious" "Anxious, you say" "I was anxious about whether Heartunderblade-san would really turn you back into a human" Though I wasn't doubting it, said Hanekawa. "Therefore, I considered the case in which she didn't turn you back into a human -- and I researched if there were other methods for turning you back into a human" In other words. She researched -- a method to revert a 'former human' vampire who was bitten by a vampire and turned into a subordinate back into a human, huh. "......Does such method exist?" "It exists. Just one" Hanekawa nods. "When a servant, who must normally obey the master, injures his master, that master and servant relationship will collapse, and the servant's condition of servitude will end" "......? I don't understand the meaning but......" "In other words, if you beat Heartunderblade -- no matter what Heartunderblade-san wants, you can turn back into a human" "Is" I. At first I was just -- surprised for that simple rule. "Is -- is that so?" The collapse of the master-servant relationship. Even now, I can say that it's already collapsing -- by giving the final push. I can turn back into a human. So that's how it is. "I found the same description in several books, so I think it is credible -- for the you who don't want to turn back into a human, and want to die, this might be inconvenient, but it can't be avoided. Because you are the only one who can defeat Heartunderblade-san" "--That's inconvenient" Yeah. After all, if you are well prepared you don't have to worry, huh. It's something that I hesitate to express as something trite like killing two birds with one stone, it's really-- "It's really -- inconvenient. Everything goes as you think" "This is what I call scheming. Even if I do say so myself -- I think it's playing dirty. "You -- know everything" "I don't know everything. I just know what I know" Araragi-kun, says Hanekawa. "With this you have no choice but to turn back into a human, don't you? Because there is no way at this point you can leave Heartunderblade-san be" "There is no way I--" "Or will you run away?" Hanekawa said as a clincher. "If you still say you will run away, I -- will stop you with all my power" I wish you would give me a little break. Of course the responsability remains -- my responsibility of having caused this state of affairs remains, that is something that won't ever disappear. But. This mess is -- cleanable. I can clean up this mess. If I can do it, I have no choice but to do it. Better than a simple death. Better than an easy death, this was really atonement. Once again I look at Hanekawa. And once again I thought she was amazing. Until a little while back, I was thinking only about dying -- whatever I was saying, I was thinking only of punishing myself, and yet I just talk with Hanekawa a little, and before I knew I notice I had set aside that question. I thought I could not die until I talked with Hanekawa -- but conversely, because I talked with Hanekawa, I cannot die anymore. Hanekawa surely won't allow me to die even after I exorcise Kisshot and turn back into a human. She will use all kinds of wiles, and she won't let me do that, I think. I made a troublesome friend. And -- I made a good friend. "If that's the case, then the problem is -- whether I can or cannot defeat Kissshot" The vampire closest to Kissshot. That would be me -- however, that said, the difference between our positions of master and servant could be fatal. Pulling off a revolution should be no ordinary feat after all. "I agree. Although I devised plans -- it's not like there aren't holes. The case of you losing would be the worst result, at least for me. You dying as you wished to -- and the Kaii Heartunderblade-san remaining alive. ......I might be eaten by Heartunderblade-san. She viewed me as portable food, so she might remember my face" "Do you have countermeasures about that?" "Hm? No, I didn't think that far ahead" Hanekawa shook her head looking troubled. "She has a precious lineage, wasn't it? Somehow Heartunderblade-san doesn't fit the mold of existing vampires. It is as you and Oshino said, her immortality is so high that the weak points doesn't look like weak points anymore" "If we assume fundamentally I am the same as her -- then the problem becomes a difference of career......" "There is also the mental side" "Mental side?" "Whether or not you can defeat Heartunderblade-san with which you lived together all this Spring Break" "............" She nursed me. She looked after me with constant supervision. To save me from being burned by the sun, she too threw her body under the sunlight. And -- she was my life savior. The life I tried to throw away-- She didn't went as far as sucking it away. That may be closer to the affection humans have toward pets-- But still. For example that time when we were above the roof-- We laughed, that time. "--I can take care of the mental side" Putting it all together, I said it. "I will definitively exorcise her" "Yes" Hanekawa nodded. It looked like there was still something she wanted to say, but she decided to leave it unsaid. In exchange -- she says "Well, then". "Of course I will assist you. I have my responsibility as a plan deviser. If there is something I could do, don't hold back and say it" "Don't hold back -- huh" "Ahaha, well, even if I said that, I didn't have in mind a further ecchi service though" Even if she added a paragraph, was Hanekawa really trying to change the atmosphere, laughing cheerfully in that way -- no way. Therefore this was a misunderstanding...... good grief, wasn't that manner of speaking a lead-in to skillfully direct the conversation, huh. Why was she trying to assist me with this subject? Assist me with things like setting up battle tactics! Really, what silly things are you saying to this gentlemanly Araragi Koyomi, don't hold back, of all things-- "Hanekawa." "Yes?" As Hanekawa tilted her head to the side, I said in my most gentlemanly manner, "Could I touch your breasts?" "............" Hanekawa's facial expression froze while her head was still tilted. Nevertheless, she was still keeping her smiling face. A heavy air got a hold of the PE storehouse. What should I do when there is this heavy atmosphere...... "Your breasts" "I heard you" Uhmmm, Hanekawa looked up, then down. After that she looks back at me again. "Why would you need it?" "I need it at all costs" I say. I make up my most serious facial expression. "You didn't see it. How Kissshot Acerolaorion Heartunderblade in her complete form looked like. "Hm? Well...... I have seen her 12 and 17 year old forms, so it's not like I can't imagine what she looks like as a 27 year old" "It is probably beyond your imagination" I say, raising my index finger. "She possesses breasts that are beyond your imagination" "......Breasts" "I fear of losing while I am distracted by those breasts. Those breasts will probably shake a lot in the middle of battle. That's why I want to gain some training on female breasts as a countermeasure" "Oooh" Hanekawa groaned. "That's a surprisingly stupid reason......" "D-Doesn't it make sense to you?" "......Hmm" Hanekawa quietly closes her eyes and brings her eyebrows together as if she had a headache. "......Fine then" "Huh!? Really!?" Why? Did she concede some parts of it made sense!? "Wait a moment" She says. First Hanekawa unfastens the scarf and take off the school sweater -- then she extract the cuff of the blouse inserted in the skirt. While I was puzzled over what she was doing, she also winds both arms around her back, and inserts her hands under her blouse. Some seconds passed. From inside her blouse, Hanekawa pulled out her unhooked bra. With practiced hand she quickly folds it, and she hides it under the mat she was sitting in. After that, she looks at me. "Well then, touch them" She said. "............!" I didn't wish for this much! What is this situation!? I can't get my heart ready. S-She didn't need to take it off! She didn't need to take off anything! "E-Eeeeh?" Besides, what is this? Somehow, the moment she took off her school sweater and unfastened her underwear, it seemed like her breasts inflated...... is it an optical illusion? No, vampire eyes are immune to illusions. Hanekawa now, at least from what I can observe from over the blouse, wouldn't lose to Kissshot, no, possibly she possesses a bust that cannot even be compared to. Moreover the shape was also splendid. Although she took off her underwear and they should have lost their support, it was like they were defying the laws of physics -- it's as if Hanekawa can disregard gravity while being an earthling. This is beyond imagination. Of course, it was because I thought Hanekawa was qualified for it that I made that request, but even so, it was very rude to say it was for training. Hanekawa Tsubasa. She can have a fair match with Kissshot on her own. It was unthinkable Hanekawa had such breasts! B-But.....? Getting up, Hanekawa walked towards me (at each step her chest showed a movement that exceeded imagination, so I shut my eyes, and I couldn't move, like I was paralyzed), and then she immediately sits in front of me -- lining up her arms on both sides, she pulled tight her dorsal muscles, and with a jerk she threw out her chest. In that posture, her breasts seem even bigger. Undoubtedly this could be said asserting one's chest. Moreover, since it was quite a thin blouse, the whole image of Hanekawa's breasts could be said to be within a hair's breadth of being explicit. "Araragi-kun" "Eh? Ah, what?" "Since you are going to massage them, massage them right" "R-Right?" "I think you should massage them for no less than sixty seconds" "Si-sixty seconds......" No way. The hurdle is too high. What is she meaning with massage them right? Before I knew it changed from touching to massaging. Crap, now I can't say it was a joke...... What am I doing to my precious friend? "Don't go easy on me!" "Y-Yessir!" As told, I prepare both hands by reflex. I prepare them, but aside from that I don't move. At any rate, because of vampire grip, I can't really avoid to go easy, but I don't know how much force I should use. To begin with, should I touch them from above or from below...... and I haven't the slightest idea of what to do after the first move. Certainly they won't fit inside the hands...... Therefore I hesitate going from the front. Maybe like approaching from the side -- no no. Uh, there is a more pressing matter though. "H-Hey, Hanekawa" "Hm? What is it?" "Could you turn your back?" I say with a vanishing voice. "It's hard to do it while seeing your face" With just the light of the flashlight, maybe Hanekawa wasn't able to see me well, but being a vampire I could see perfectly her facial expression. Her face was already flushing. She was biting her lips. It's hard. "............" Remaining silent, Hanekawa suddenly nodded meekly, and faced in the opposite direction. I could see the roots of her braids. I never looked at it carefully, but what beautiful hair...... there really are no signs of damage. I guess it habitually receives a careful grooming. "Ugh......" Ah, but even now it's hard. Since Hanekawa turned her back, I have to move my hands around her body, but in this case her arms neatly aligned on the sides are slightly in the way...... "Ra-Raise your hands over your head" "Is this radio gymnastic?" Despite saying that, Hanekawa raised her arms. With this the way was opened. And then I slip my arms under those armpits -- obviously, going this far, our body are on the brink of contact. Actually, because Hanekawa is facing the other way, if I try to touch her breasts, naturally it will feel like I am hugging her from behind though....... Even perceiving the distance is hard -- should I cross my arms? No, is it easier to grasp if I keep going normally? I open my fingers. Hanekawa had not moved at all from before -- but even from behind I understand she is nervous. However, I am certain I was nervous. My heart is racing. "Y-You won't get mad afterwards?" "Don't worry. I won't get mad" "Really?" "Really" "......Okay then, just in case there is a trial later, please say 'Araragi-kun, please fondle my bra-less boobs'." Snap! I have the impression I heard that sound. It must have been the sound of Hanekawa's veins popping out. Or maybe it was her facial muscles who popped out. "A...... A-Araragi-kun, p-please, fondle m-my bra-less boobs" "No, it won't do saying it in such a low voice. That makes it seem as if you are hating it and I'm forcing you to say it against your will. You must state in a much louder voice what you want me to do to what, by your own will" "Araragi-kun! P-please fondle my bra-less boobs!" "......'It is really an honor to have my boobs massaged by Araragi-kun'" "It is re-really an honor...... to have my boobs massaged by Araragi-kun......" "Err......'I developed these lascivious boobs for the sole reason of having Araragi-kun massage them'." "I developed these l-lascivious boobs for the sole r-reason of having Araragi-kun m-massage them." "Really. It didn't looked like it, but you are pretty perverted, Hanekawa" "......Yes, I am incredibly perverted, I am sorry" "You don't need to apologize. No matter how perverted you are, it's not like someone would be bothered by it" "Th-That's right, ehehe" "Well then, concretely, in what ways are the boobs of the perverted and serious class rep lascivious?" "I can boast that th-their size, and their softness...... are peerless in their lasciviousness!" Aah. I see, now I get it. During puberty even I experienced the common perplexity of why I was born in this world...... but now, at the age of seventeen, I finally found the answer to that question. I was enlightened. I lived for the sake of this day. I existed for the sake of this moment. The person called Araragi Koyomi was born in this world just in order to experience the day of today...... no, that's not it. It is not on a personal level anymore. Surely this world has existed this long just in order to make me experience the day of today. From this point on the rest of history will simply be a throwaway match! "That is to say, normally it's impossible to massage the tits of a friend!" I ran away. I was the one who threw my hands up, I made three steps back and I started crying. It was a posture exceedingly close to prostration. "It doesn't happen! It doesn't ever happen!" "......Chicken" Hanekawa said in a terribly low tone of voice. Without even turning this way. Without even looking at my posture exceedingly close to prostration. "Chicken. Chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken" "I am a chicken. I am a coward. I am sorry. No matter what you say, I don't have words to reply with. Please forgive me. It is my fault. I got caught up in the moment. I took advantage of Hanekawa-san's kindness, but thanks to her involvement, I came to my senses" "Do you think it ends with this? Do you know how much resolve it took me to sit here like this?" "N-No, someone like me cannot even have the slightest idea, but while we are at it, I would like to hear how much resolve it was" "Honestly, I thought it wouldn't have ended just with having my breasts massaged....... Ah, so that's how, my first time will be on a mat in the PE storehouse" "Isn't it too early for that resolve!?" "Well, it happens" "As if!" Girls these days are confident, but...... under no circumstances! "And yet, after you terribly teased me and humiliated me, you didn't even touched me with a finger......!" "That's why I am apologizing, you know" "If you apologize that will be it. Huh. I am in a position that, if you apologize to me, I am obliged to forgive you. Huh" "I think it's really inexcusable, but please forgive me, stylish spectacled class rep!" "......This is the first time someone made such a fool of me" "Eek" Was it about the breasts?" Or was it about the glasses?" Maybe it was the class rep? "Araragi-kun...... am I so unattractive?" "............!" Stop it stop it stop it! Don't bully me by saying such lovely words! "I-It's because if I massage your breasts in this situation, perhaps I will regret it for the rest of my life!" I may regret even not massaging your breasts. But I chose to regret not massaging your breasts rather than regret massaging your breasts! "I-In exchange, could I massage your shoulders?" "Shoulders?" "Yes. Shoulders. I want to massage your shoulders" "......Well, it's a deal" We came to an agreement. I massaged Hanekawa's shoulders. Rub rub rub rub. Whoa, they aren't stiff at all. I heard that with a bad eyesight shoulders get stiff easily...... she is a healthy girl. In this way, even if I, who am no masseur, massage her, it won't feel good at all...... Obviously she has no meat at all in these places. I can clearly feel the shape of the bones -- is this the clavicle? Uh...... That's all. Wait wait, not yet. Rub rub rub rub. 60 seconds like this. "I-It is over. Thank you" On top of massaging her shoulders, I ended up thanking her. What servile character I have. "Was it enough?" "Y-Yes. The continuation is on the internet" "As if you could massage on the internet" "Th-Then, the continuation is in the new school term" "Yeah. That's more like it" Hanekawa nods. Her braids shake at the same time. "You made it this far with a girl" As I took off my hands from her shoulders, Hanekawa got up and walked, going back to where she was before on the mat, but she didn't sit, she turned this way while standing. "So don't tell me you are going to lose" "I will win" {polite form} By now I must go back to my speech pattern, it seems I continued to use polite expressions with Hanekawa all this time. However, it was not only this. I could say it clearly. "I will win" {informal form} I was able to say it. "Even at the cost of your breasts!" "Actually, it was better to leave that part untold" There was a slight difference in spirits. Hanekawa said "that aside" and cleared her throat once. And after that she said. "This one is the final battle" "Yeah -- it's the closing curtain of Gakuen Inou Batoru" The moment I said that. Outside the PE storehouse -- a thundering noise resounded. |
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