Chapter 8 : Meikyou no Shounentachi

Note : As usual, don’t expect my translations to be perfect. I don’t think there are too many errors, but I’m not very proud of some lines… Well anyway ! I can’t wait for Spring to come ! Wanna have some sun  and a little more heat ! Wanna see flowers bloom ! Wanna know if my bonsai survived winter ! Wanna buy more manga ! (what does it have to do with Spring ?) …Dewa, enjoy~ !

P128

Someone: "What happened?"

Policeman: "Well it seems nothing was stolen this time. We’ll decide the measures to take."

Misato’s father: "Thank you."

Policeman: "But since there are lots of customers and local people coming and going, it’s difficult to point out suspicious people."

Yoshitsune: "Tell me, Kaori-chan… Why do you think Misato’s place has been aimed at twice?"

Kaori: "Probably that if another hotel was struck once it would be the end."

Yoshitsune: "There is something we all don’t know… there must be a reason why the criminal attacked here once again." /What can it be?/

P129

Kaori: "It’s time to take care of Misato-san’s request about protecting the hotel."

Yoshitsune: "I’ll personally take care of it since she’s an old friend…" *stunned by screams*

Guys: hahahaha! "What the hell are you saying!?"

Guy1: "Let’s go back home and have diner!"

Guy2: "Yeah!"

Yoshitsune: "Moreover there are lots of onlookers. It’s not the time to joke…" *photographing noise: Ryuuzaki is taking pictures of the hotel*

P130

Yoshitsune: "Ryuuzaki-sempai!"

Ryuuzaki: "Shima. I’m sorry for what happened."

Yoshitsune: "You should say that to Misato."

Ryuuzaki: "…You’re right." *sees Misato next to the police car* "But nothing was stolen, right?"

Yoshitsune: "Uh?"

P131

Yoshitsune: "If you didn’t come to see Misato, then why did you come?"

Ryuuzaki: "I have something to do."

Yoshitsune: /He looks like he has been knowing the whole affair since the beginning…?/ *in the hot spring* "It’s strange… The way he said that nothing was stolen…"

Kaori: "Probably… You suspect him?" Ryuuzaki-san

P132

Yohitsune: "Ryuuzaki-sempai was rather vague when he explained why he came."

Kaori: "He didn’t come to see Misato-san, as I thought."

Yoshitsune: "Uh? You understood that from his behavior?!"

Kaori: "Actually I met Ryuuzaki-san at the festival. I asked him why he came. Ryuuzaki-san doesn’t hate Misato-san."

Yoshistune: "How do you know!?"

Kaori: "Well…" /There’s always a reason for Shima-san…/ "I must have heard it from him… Don’t you think?"

Yoshitsune: "What’s with you, Kaori-chan! Tell me!!!"

Kaori: *sinking under the water* "Whoaaaaaaaaaa!"

P133

Yoshitsune: "Kaori-chan…" Are you okay?

Kaori: "Don’t touch my ribs!!!"

Yoshitsune: "Why? Do they hurt? You just said something interesting…"

Kaori: "Shima-san…"

Yoshitsune: "That’s right! I hit the ribs of the man who attacked me at the festival. So that he could let me free. What? Kaori-chan?"

Kaori: "It must have hurt…"

P134

Kaori: "What if we had a talk with Ryuuzaki-san tomorrow?"

Yoshitsune: "… It’s necessary…"

*the next day*

misato: "UH? Yoshistune went to see Ryuuzaki-sempai?"

Kaori: "He left a few minutes ago."

Misato: "I see…"

Kaori: "Do you have a problem?"

Misato: "N… no… But I wanted to go fishing in a nearby river."

Kaori: "Can I go too?"

Misato: "Of course! The women customers in the hotel who wanted to meet Kyou the model counted on you."

P135

*at another hotel gate*

Yoshitsune: "Ryuuzaki-sempai!!"

Ryuuzaki: "Shima!"

Yoshitsune: "Do you have a moment?"

Ryuuzaki: "Yeah…"

Yoshitsune: "Tell me… did you come too see Misato?"

Ryuuzaki: "Wh… what’s with you, suddenly?"

Yoshitsune: "Kaori-chan said you had told him the reason for what you know. But he didn’t tell me what it was."

P136

Ryuuzaki: "But I didn’t want you to know…"

Yoshitsune: "Me? Why?"

Ryuuzaki: "um~…"

Yoshitsune: "That’s why I have the feeling you two are hiding something!!"

Ryuuzaki: "Misato loves you."

Yoshitsune: "WHA… It’s impossible!! Definitely impossible!!"

P137

Yoshitsune: "Don’t say that, she doesn’t see me as a man!!"

Ryuuzaki: "But each time she spoke it was only to talk of you."

Yoshitsune: "Uh?"

Ryuuzaki: "It isn’t the reason why I came to dislike her. But… it made me angry."

Yoshitsune: /Then… they just misunderstood each other?/

P138

Yoshitsune: /Well, it seems it’s also because of me…/ Alright, Sempai!! Leave it to me!!" *hits his shoulder*

Ryuuzaki: "Hu… Hey! Shima! I didn’t come to see Misato! I have a special reason!"

Yoshitsune: "Special? That’s right, you were taking pictures of Misato’s hotel…"

Ryuuzaki: "…I didn’t expect you’d come."

Yoshitsune: "What?"

Ryuuzaki: "Shima…"

P139

Ryuuzaki: "Don’t be an hindrance to my plans." *leaves*

Yoshitsune: "What does it mean…?"

P140

Misato: "Everybody! It’s here!! Please be careful where you’re walking!"

Yoshitsune: "Misato? And Kaori-chan too?"

Girl: "Kyou-kun! Are you free tonight? Do you want to have fun with us?"

Kaori: "You don’t fish?"

Girls: "What? We don’t want!!"

Kaori: "But don’t you think that a fishing woman is cool?"

Girls: "Hee?! Let’s fish too!! Were are the tools!?"

Misato: "You’re fleeing enjoyable things right?"

Kaori: "Haha…"

P141

Misato: "If Yoshitsune was here, it would be so much fun!"

Kaori: "Misato… Do you love Yoshitsune?"

Misato: "Why are you asking this?"

Kaori: "But you talk about him a lot. It’s ok with me, but be careful with the man you love."

Misato: "Wait!" *someone is peeping on them from the woods* "I…"

P142

*the hidden man throws firecrackers at Misato’s feet: it scares her and she falls*

Misato: "Kyaa!?"

Kaori: "Misato-san!!" *runs to her*

P143

Yoshitsune: *not far away* "What? What was that noise?" *hears someone in the bushes: Ryuuzaki is running away* /Ryuuzaki-sempai? Why is he hurrying? Was he going to where Misato is?/

Somone: "Hey, are you alright? You shouldn’t move."

Yoshitsune: "… Hey! What does… !!"

P144

Yoshitsune: *seeing that Kaori’s arm is badly wounded* "Kaori!! What happened?!"

Kaori: "Shima-san…"

Misato: "He saved me!"

Yoshitsune: "Misato…"

Misato: "It seems that someone threw firecrackers at my feet to trick me. It surprised me and I slipped on the rocks. If Kaori hadn’t put his arm under my head, it would have hit the rocks."

P145

Yoshitsune: /Could Sempai have done that?! To attack Misato… At the festival, the Yukata I borrowed to Misato looked like hers. Was the man who attacked me actually aiming at her?!/

*flashback* Ryuuzaki: "I was angry at Misato"

*later*

Misato: "I’ve finished."

P146

Kaori: "Thank you, Misato-san." *heart*

Misato: "The wound was bleeding a lot, but it was only superficial."

Yoshitsune: "Misato."

Misato: "Yes?"

Yoshitsune: "Do you know why you have been aimed at?"

Misato: "I don’t know! And I’d like to know!!"

Yoshitsune: "Try to remember, there must be something."

Misato: "Something… ha! About when the hotel was devastated, I saw the shadow of a fleeing man."

Yoshitsune: "That… How did he look like?!"

P147

Misato: "It was too dark…"

Yoshitsune: "I see… We don’t know if the criminal saw Misato’s face."

Kaori: "Yeah."

Misato’s father: "Misato, could you come and help us?"

Misato: "Yes!" *leaves*

Yoshitsune: "Kaori-chan."

Kaori: "Hn?"

Yoshitsune: "At the river…I saw him… Ryuuzaki-sempai."

Kaori: "Then you think that the one who threw those firecrackers, who attacked you at the festival and who damaged the hotel is Ryuuzaki-sempai?"

P148

Yoshitsune: "I don’t know… but I have to check..."

Kaori: "Do I do it? I don’t have any personal link with Ryuuzaki-san. I could do my duty as a third party."

Yoshitsune: "No way!!"

P149

Yoshitsune: "I’m not forcing you into doing any bad duty! I’ll go and see Sempai!"

Kaori: "Do I come with you?"

Yoshitsune: "No. I want you to stay with Misato. I’m not entirely sure that Ryuuzaki-sempai is the culprit."

P150

Yoshitsune: "But…should the culprit be Ryuuzaki-sempai or another man, I won’t forgive the one who attacked Misato!"

P151

Yoshitsune: "That’s why I count on you."

Kaori: "Yes, sir!"

Yoshitsune: "One more thing: Be careful with your wounded arm!"

Kaori: /He’s really worried…/

P152

*later, coming from Ryuuzaki’s hotel*

Yohsitsune: "Sempai hasn’t come back to his room yet." /Hu? Those guys were part of yesterdays onlookers…/ *the guys see Yoshitsune and run away* /Do they know something?/ "Hey! Why are you running away?"

Guy with dark hair: "Whoa!"

P153

Dark-haired guy: "But… you were staring at us and we got scared…"

Yoshitsune: "Do I look that weird? By the way, you came to see the damaged hotel yesterday. Have you noticed anything unusual?"

Dark-haired guy: "Uh?"

Blond-haired guy: "Ha… yesterday, there was this guy with a camera who was wandering about…"

Yoshitsune: "Had you seen him before?"

Blond-haired guy: "Yeah, at the main plaza."

Yoshitsune: "The main plaza?"

Blond-haired guy: "He was at the festival. He was walking around the cottage."

Yoshitsune: "Damn!"

Dark-haired guy: "Damn…?"

Yoshitsune: "Nothing." /That place again…/

P154

Yoshitsune: "Thank you for the information!" /Sempai, what were you doing at the cottage? I first have to check…/ *at the cottage* "The door is open…"

P155

Yoshitsune: "Sempai!?"

Ryuuzaki: "Shima…"

Yoshitsune: "What are you doing here?…! /He’s tied up./ "Wait, I’ll take it off…"

P156

Ryuuzaki: *seeing someone about to strike Yoshitsune* "Shima! Behind you!!" *Yoshitsune is knocked out* "Shima!! Hey!!"

Yoshitsune: /No… use… My senses are…/

Ryuuzaki: "Shima…"

Chapter 8 part 2 – owari