Translated by Kudou Omi, October the 27^th 2005

Note: This is the last chapter from the main story I will translate into English. Volume 6 is to come out in late December, but I won’t work on its translation, since the first volume is to be published in English next February if I’m not wrong. It’s out of the question that I continue to translate a licensed manga. Still there are at least 2 extra chapters yet untouched in book 4 and 5, so English speakers will still have some Loveless before I completely stop working on it. At least in English, I may decide to translate the whole manga into French…

P154

Mei: "Black pendulum! Bounce them back! Return to where you come from!"

Ritsuka: "Ha!"

P155

Soubi: "Ha, she managed to turn it back with a protection."

Mimuro: "You did it?"

Soubi: "But of course it’s weak."

P156

Mimuro: "Woa…"

Mei: "Gyaa~ Ha! Let… stop that! Pervert!"

Soubi: "It could only end that way, you should listen to what he says, miss.’

Mei: "Shut up!! I don’t need your help!!"

Mimuro: "just as I thought… you had guessed about her, right?"

Mei: my hat… "Don’t touch me, bacteria!! Huh? We lost! We looost!"

Ritsuka: "What do you have to say about Seimei?"

P157

Mimuro: "I don’t know him! Seimei? Who is he?"

Ritsuka: "Don’t feign ignorance! Aoyagi Seimei! You must know something about him!!"

Mimuro: "Aoyagi? Yeah, we had lunch with him last week."

Ritsuka: "What…? Last week… lunch…?"

P158

Ritsuka: "Is it true...?"

Mei: "So what? Don’t insult us! We’re not lying!"

Mimuro: "Last week... maybe Thursday, we brought 3 friends along to lunch."

Ritsuka: "but... was he really Seimei?"

Mimuro: "He was called so at least. A man with long dark hair, his ears and tail looked like a dog's, and he was 17."

p159

Ritsuka: "Let's go back home, Soubi!!"

Soubi: "You worked hard. bye bye!"

Mimuro: "Fffff"

Mei: "Mimuro, are you alright?"

Mimuro: "I'm fine, but why don't you listen to what I say?"

Mei: "Ououch!!! But... you wanted to fight in a strange way..."

p160

Mimuro: "Mei, our name is fearless!"

Mei: "Hn..."

Mimuro: "It means we don't fear that one of us may be wounded. Hadn’t we decided not to think too much about it?"

Mei: "Hn"

Mimuro: "Then why?"

Mei: "I'm sorry Mimuro!! I'm sooo sorry!! It’s just that I thought is was a better way…"

Mimuro: ".......... Alright then... it's not like I'd tell you to listen to me. My! Shall we go back? Damn... That guy, Agatsuma, that face of his kind of made me angry."

Mei: "Yeah... and Aoyagi Ritsuka.... He was so small! I was surprised!"

Mimuro: "He's not as cute as you for sure!"

p161

Mimuro: "You were so cute!"

Mei: "Mi Mi Mimuro"

Mimuro: "Hn? Right! Your hat! By the way, Mei, why are you always hiding your hair?"

Mei: "HUH? But you hate it, right? A woman's long hair?"

Mimuro: "Why would I? I don't! Isn't it nice?"

Mei: "Eeeeh But don't you like men? You prefer men, don't you?!"

Mimuro: "Why do you think so?!"

Mei: "You lie! You prefer men!"

Mimuro: "I like women!! I'm straight!"

p162

Mei: "It's a lie! A lie! You like men! You're gay!"

Mimuro: "Me Mei?"

Mei: "If not, why..."

Mimuro: "... If it's about Nisei, he's someone special. But it's not that kind of love at all."

Mei: "That's not truuuuue!!! Uh uh" /I don't want to hear about someone being special... if it's not this way with Nisei, then why didn't you come to like me?/

Mimuro: "... Why don't you let your hair free? It's nice this way!"

Mei: "No!! Don't say it's nice when you prefer Nisei or Aoyagi Ritsuka!!!"

Mimuro: "......."

Mei: /Stupid Mimuro! You're so stupid!!/

p163

Soubi: "Ritsuka! Do you believe in it or not? In hat he said, in what I said. Who do you believe?"

Ritsuka: "Soubi..."

p164

Ritsuka: "Are you afraid? I trust you. That man doesn’t know anything. That’s… that’s why I think he told the truth. I realized you can’t be aware of everything. Are you afraid ?"

Soubi : "I’m not, because you’re with me."

Ritsuka: "Then I don’t want you to ask again if I believe in you! Coward!"

P165

Ritsuka: "Don’t ascertain it again and again!! You must believe in me too!!"

Soubi: "…… Alright."

Ritsuka: "Your reply came too slowly!"

Soubi: "Yes."

Ritsuka: "Good!" /I count on you, Soubi. Never ask me again. Now I have the feeling you thrust a knife at me./

P166

Ritsuka : /I wonder who are the people we can trust in this world, what is the truth. If you can’t see your own little reality, you can’t know. And if you make a mistake, maybe it is as if you turned your own knife against yourself. What is to trust someone? I don’t know but even if you betray me, I will forgive you./

P167

Ritsuka: / This is what I think trust is./

Misaki: "Seimei, I… don’t understand. I think hard but…"

Nisei: "I see… then do you want me to tell you?"

Misaki: "Tell me!!"

Nisei: "Wouldn’t it be better to kill Ritsuka?"

P168

Nisei: "I think it would be perfect!"

Misaki: "…… Eh?"

Nisei: "Mother, you spill everything! Drink properly."

Misaki: "Yes…"

Nisei: "You’ll feel better if you take this."

Misaki: "Hn… just now… what did you say? About Ritsuka…"

Nisei: "Is it alright, mom? I can’t come back if Ritsuka is here, so we’ll have him disappear. Ritsuka will soon open the main door. It would be good if you strangled him."

P169

Misaki: "Strangle… Ritsuka?"

Nisei: "To steadily cut off air. To smash the trachea."

Misaki: "Then you’ll come back?"

Nisei: "Sure."

Misaki: "To exchange with Ritsuka? I hate it! I wouldn’t stand if Ritsuka disappeared."

Nisei: "But it can’t be helped, Mother. Who do you prefer between Ritsuka and me?"

P170

Misaki: "Both of you!! I can’t kill any of you because you are my two sons!!"

Nisei: "Then it definitely can’t be helped."

Misaki: "Seimei! Don’t leave me! Please!"

Nisei: "But you prefer Ritsuka, don’t you?"

Misaki: "No! I love you both!"

Nisei: "This is sly!"

Misaki: "It isn’t! Please stay!! Don’t go away…"

Nisei: "…"

P171

Nisei: "The drug has finally worked…"

Ritsuka: "Don’t follow me! Huh? Where’s my key?"

Soubi: "Use this one."

Ritsuka: "How come you own one? I’ll investigate afterwards."

Soubi: "I can’t tell you."

P172

Nisei: "Hello? It’s Akame! I’m sorry, it didn’t turn out well!" hahaha! "Yes, I have the feeling to have made a blunder!"

P173

Nisei: "….. Sure. You had asked me to help Mimuro-san. Indeed. But you had lunch with them on Thursday hadn’t you? Do you remember? Because those two aren’t affiliated with anyone. Even so I can’t stand that girl. I suggested her to strangle him, but it was rejected. What a shame isn’t it? I think it could have been interesting! I gave her many pills, so she became very flexible and probably put up with the shock but… she couldn’t even walk! I thought she would be a shameless woman but the situation evolved in the wrong way. She said she loved both Ritsuka and Seimei!"

People on the phone: "I see…"

P174

Phone: "She’s always been behaving so."

Nisei: "Eeeh… Is it all for tonight? I’m sleepy…" *yawn*

Phone: "You worked hard. Good night, Nisei."

Nisei: "Good night, Seimei. See you tomorrow."

P175

Ritsuka: "Mom! Mom! What’s happening? Hold on!"

Soubi: "She’s not sleeping."

Ritsuka: "Ha…"

Soubi: "If she’s taken pills she won’t wake up easily! Anyhow she’s got many sleeping pills hasn’t she?"

Ritsuka: "……"

P176

Soubi: "I should carry her to bed. You can’t do it alone."

Ritsuka: "Mother…." /She’s drunk that many…/

Soubi: "I hate people relying on medicines."

Ritsuka: "She’s not like that!"

Soubi: "Really? I hate weak people."

P177

Soubi: "I see no interest in those who are not like me."

Ritsuka: "You don’t know her! Mom isn’t weak! She takes pills only when needed and only what is needed."

Soubi: "Enough to collapse in the entry hall late at night in winter?"

Ritsuka: "There are mistakes and miscalculations in this world you know!! More than that, why do you possess a key for my house? Enough. Now I understand why."

P178

Ritsuka: "You decided to duplicate the key. You couldn’t do it without someone’s agreement, could you? You got it from Seimei, right? But after Seimei died you couldn’t come back to this house! It is impossible that Seimei gave you this key… unless Seimei is still alive!!"