妖しのセレス
                             (Ayashi no Ceres)
                       Volume 6 Translation (Part 3)

Formatting conventions:
text = character's thoughts
[text] = narration
//text// = sound effects, when necessary
{text} = translation notes

                                  Page 66
 Aya: "Really? You'll give me the hagoromo?!"

 Shuro: "Yeah, I will.... you reaaaally want it, don't you?"

 Aya: "A... arigatou!!" Yippie!! Now, I've just gotta find Yuuhi and the
 others...

 //ZUZEZUZE// {rustling of brush and pebbles} //DOCHI--// {crash}

                                  Page 67
 Chidori: [who has just fallen out of a hiding place, in her Tennyo form,
 lying on the ground.] "Owwwww~~~~~!!"

 Aya: "CHIDORI?!"

 Aya: "What the hell are you doing? Oh, my god! You weren't there all
 along, were you?!"

 Chidori: "But, Aya-chan, Shuro took you away, and I got worried..."

 Aya: "Then why didn't you launch a surprise attack to rescue me, instead
 of just spying, huh?!"

 Chidori: "I thought 'Oh, I'll save Aya by transforming!!', so I
 transformed. See, look!"

 [Chidori swiftly turns her head to Shuro with a glare on her face. She
 grabs Shuro's shirt and rips it open.]

 Shuro: "Wah!"

                                  Page 68
 Chidori [heartbroken]: "...so it IS true..."

 Chidori: "They're small, but they're breasts~~~~"

 Chidori: "But that's okay! Even though you're a woman internally, you
 still look like a reallly fine guy!! I'll still be your fan, Shuro!!"
 {I like her thinking here >: )= --tl}

 Shuro: "Um, er, thanks."

 Chidori: "...But I never would have guessed you were really a woman! Even
 your voice is male."

 Shuro [with a silly grin]: "I can do a girl's voice, too."

 Aya & Chidori: "WAH!! Her voice really changed!!"

 Shuro: "I have the power... to change my voice at will.

 Chidori: "Shuro, you may be a C-genoma..."

 Shuro: "What? Shigeroba?"

 Aya: "C-genoma! It's referring to the people who have the Tennyo genes...
 the descendants of Tennyo are more likely to... anyway, we need to be
 careful!"

                                  Page 69
 Shuro: "Let's go!"

 Aya [thinking]: I hope things'll go smoothly...but, is Kagami really
 taking a break right now?...

 Aya [thinking]: Tooya...How are you doing now?

 [Aya, Yuuhi, Chidori, and Q-chan are on their way to Shuro's house. In the
 van.]

 Chidori: "It's great, Aya! We found the hagoromo so soon!"

 Aya: "Ah...Yeah!"

 [Yuuhi watches Aya with a content look. Shuro notices it.]

 Shuro: "Hey! Are you Tooya?"

                                  Page 70
 Yuuhi [turns away]: "No...Tooya's someone else..."

 Shuro: "I see..."

 Shuro: "So even though she likes someone else, you still like her?"

 [Yuuhi continues to gaze at Aya's happy face.]

 Yuuhi: "Yeah!"

 [Shuro flashes a knowing smile.]

 Shuro: "Hoho."

                                  Page 71
 Shuro [extends her hand to Yuuhi]: "What a dedicated guy! Let's be
 friends.. Mr. LosthislovetoTooya, Kataomoi-kun!!" {"kataomoi" is when you
 love someone, but that someone doesn't love you back.}

 Yuuhi [angrily slaps Shuro's hand away]: "I'm 'Aogori Yuuhi'!!"

 [At the Tsukasa household.]

 Shuro's Mother: "Shuro!!"

 Shuro: "What is it, mom?"

 Shuro's Mother: "What do you mean 'what it is'!? Why did you say all that
 stuff on TV!?"

 Shuro: "Oh, that...mom, you could at least say 'welcome back'!"

 [Shuro points to Aya and Chidori.]

 Shuro: "By the way, they're the guests from Tokyo."

 [Aya and Chidori bow to say hello.]

 Shuro: "They want the 'hagoromo', so give it to them quick!"

                                  Page 72
 [Shuro's mother is shocked speechless for a second.]

 Shuro's Mother: "WHAT DID YOU SAY!?"

 Shuro's mother [hits Shuro's head repeatly with her fist]: That's our
 family treature! You idiot! Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! It'a all because you
 mentioned about 'Tennyo's descendants', 'hagoromo', and all that on TV..."

 Shuro [covers her head in pain]: "Aw aw aw.."

 [Aya, Chidori, and Q-chan sweatdrop.]

 Shuro's Mother: "...please leave. I don't know what your motives are, but
 the 'hagoromo' is very important."

 Shuro's Mother: "I can't just give it to strangers! Go back to where you
 came from!"

 Shuro: "Mom!!"

 Aya: "I know, but.."

 .
                                  Page 73
 Shuro: "Aya's like us! She's the descendant of the Tennyo in Tokyo!"

 Shuro: "Come on, at least let her take a look at it-"

 Shuro's Mother: "I don't believe it! It's very important..."

 Chidori [grabs Yuuhi and whispers softly]: "...what should we do..."

 Yuuhi [whispers back softly]: "What else can we do...we've already come
 this far..."

 Aya: "...alright!"

 Aya: "I'll prove that I'm a descendant of a Tennyo, how's that?"

 [Yuuhi and Q-chan try to hold Aya back.]

 Yuuhi: "Aya! Are you going to...you can't!"

 Aya: "But..."

 Q-chan: "He's right! Aya!"

 [Q-chan wears a wig which resembles Aya's hair style.]

 Q-chan: "I'll pretend to be a Tennyo!"

 [Yuuhi, Aya, and Chidori promptly smack Q-chan over the head.]

                                  Page 74
 Aya: "We've come so close to getting the hagoromo, how can I give up now!?
 Ceres! Come out! Ceres! I'll lend you my body for now!"

 [Aya shuts her eyes and concentrate. The Tennyo symbol appears. Shuro and
 her mother are surprised at this.]

                                  Page 75
 Shuro: "...Aya...chan!?"

 [Ceres turns and floats up into the air.]

 Shuro: "Er...wow- How impressive!! How did you do that!?"

 [Shuro's mom smacks Shuro on the face.]

 Shuro's Mother: "...you..."

                                  Page 76
 Ceres: "...the hagoromo...I'm looking for the hagoromo... Please...may I
 see it?"

 [Shuro's mom takes them to a room.]

 Shuro's Mother: "I'll go get it now. Please wait here..."

 [Everyone is seated by the table.]

 Shuro [stares hard at Ceres]: "Are you really Aya? Wow!"

 Yuuhi [waves Shuro away as if she's a pest]: "Shoo, shoo."

 Chidori: "That's great, Ceres! It's like you changed to someone else!"

 Q-chan [thinking to herself as she looks into a hand held mirror]: "I
 think I would have been good enough..."

                                  Page 77
 [Shuro's mom comes in with a box.]

 Shuro's Mother: "That's it."

 //DOKI//

 Yuuhi [leans in to Ceres]: "Ceres...look!"

 [Ceres unwraps the string around the box. Everyone else looks on
 nervously.]

                                  Page 78
 [The box opens to reveal a rolled up piece of cloth that bears the Tennyo
 symbol on top.]

 Chidori: "The 'Tennyo symbol'! It is the hagoromo!"

 [Yuuhi holds Shuro's hands; Chidori and Q-chan wave their hands high in
 celebration.]

 Yuuhi: "Congratulations!"

 Shuro: "?"

 Chidori/Q-chan: "Hurray!!"

 [Ceres silently examines the piece of cloth.]

                                  Page 79
 Ceres: "No..."

 [Everyone freezes in the middle of their celebration.]

 Yuuhi: "...huh?"

 Ceres: "This is not the 'hagoromo'. It's different from that..."

 Chidori: "...eh?"

                                  Page 80
 Ceres: "This is just a regular peice of cloth."

 ?Yuuhi?Chidori?: "Huh? But the shape is the same as the one on the
 picture..."

 Shuro's Mother: "It can't be the wrong one... Our ancestor only left us
 this one."

 ?Chidori?: "Besides, it has the symbol..."

 Ceres: "The symbol? It has some divine power, so through the generations
 people sewed it on important things..."

 Shuro: "Mom, isn't this the property of the Tennyo?"

 Shuro's Mother: "I don't know! But since the ancestor stayed behind, she
 didn't need the 'hagoromo'!"

 [Yuuhi notices Ceres' change. Aya replaces Ceres.]

 Aya [turning to Yuuhi]: "Where's the hagoromo? Did we see it already?"

 [Yuuhi looks away as he sweatrains.]

 Aya [turning to Chidori]: "Where's Ceres? Gone?"

 [Chidori looks away as she sweatrains.]

                                  Page 81
 [Yuuhi points to the setting sun. Q-chan and Chidori both look at where
 he's pointing. All three are having some major sweatrain.]

 Aya [shouts behind them]: "Hey! What are you doing?"

 Yuuhi: "Don't be so depressed..."

 [Aya is in a TERRIBLE mood.]

 Shuro's Mother: "Well, anyways, we'll be having a party downstairs, and
 you are welcome to join us!"

                                  Page 82
 [Yuuhi pats Aya on the back.]

 Yuuhi: "Aya! Let's go to the party! We'll do better next time!"

 [Yuuhi leaves the room.]

 Aya [thinking]: Yuuhi's right...I can't go on being depressed...but is
 that thing really not the "hagoromo"? What is then?

 Shuro's Mother: "Shuro, put the box back to the storage room! Quit looking
 at it! Mom's busy preparing..."

 [Shuro unties the strings on the box.]

                                  Page 83
 [Shuro takes out the piece of cloth and rips it.]

 Aya: "Ah!?"

 Shuro's mother: "Shuro!?"

 Shuro's mother: "What are you doing!? Stop!!"

 [Shuro continues to rip the cloth.]

 Shuro: "This hagoromo is a fake, right? What good is it then?"

 Shuro's mother: "That's our family treasure..."

                                  Page 84
 Shuro: "It's because of this that we have that pointless tradition! That I
 become this 'thing'!!"

 Shuro: "I'm not a 'man', but I can't be a 'woman'!! You raised me as a boy
 because you were afraid that I'd wear this and fly back to the sky!? Just
 because of this ordinary cloth!?"

 Shuro's mother: "...Shuro..."

                                  Page 85
 Shuro's mother: "When you were born, you had some strong power... whenever
 you cried, the things around you would brake..."

 Shuro's mother: "Legend has it that whoever had this kind of power would
 die young...and how it's the 'reincarnation of Tennyo' and 'people from
 the sky will come to take you away'...so..."

 Aya [thinking]: Power-? Then Shuro is a "C-genoma"!

 Shuro's mother: "I can't blame you for hating me, but..."

 Shuro: "I don't hate you... I just..I just..."

 [Shuro gets up and rushes to the door.]

                                  Page 86
 [Shuro comes face to face with Kei, who has suddenly appeared by the
 doorway.]

 Shuro: "...Kei!"

 Kei [to Shuro's mom]: "...auntie! Dad and the others have gathered
 downstairs."

 Shuro's mother: "Ah!"

 [Kei stares at Aya.]

 Kei: "I don't know why there are strangers here...but...since you're
 already here, you might as well stay and join us."

 Kei: "Shuro! You, too. We're going to be the center of attention today!"

 Shuro: "Kei!"

                                  Page 87
 [Kei walks away. Shuro catches up to him.]

 Shuro: "Why... don't you have anything you want to say to me?"

 [Kei stops.]

 Kei: "...no."

 [Kei walks away. Shuro has a hurt look on her face.]

 //DOKI//

 Aya [thinking]: Shuro!

                                  Page 88
 Aya [thinking]: Could it be...

 [At the party.]

 Some relative guy: "Drink it in one gulp!"

 Yuuhi: "But I'm not of legal age yet...oh well, I'll drink!"

 Another relative guy: "Shuro, my friends asked me to get them fifty
 autographs from you!"

 Shuro: "Sure!"

 Yet another relative: "Kei, eat! You guys have a concert tomorrow!"

 [Shuro steals a look at Kei and shows the same hurt look again.]

 Aya [thinking]: Shuro-

 Chidori: "Aya, are you okay? You're staring into space!"

 Aya: "Ah! I'm going to the bathroom!"

 Chidori: "Can you make it alone?"

                                  Page 89
 [Aya takes a walk outside. She is staggering due to drunkness.]

 Aya [thinking as she sees a flashback of Shuro singing by the sea]: I
 think I can understand why Shuro was crying by the sea... that sorrowful
 voice makes the listener sad...

 Aya [thinking]: I don't understand the lyrics...but it must be-

 [Aya staggers and falls. A hand steadies her.]

 Kei: "Careful!"

 //DOKI//

 Kei: "Are you okay?"

                                  Page 90
 Aya: "...Kei!"

 Kei: "Don't you feel bored by yourself? Here, drink this!"

 Aya: "I can't drink anymore.."

 . Kei: "Oh? You've only had a little drink and you can't take more? You
 might as well go home and drink milk."

 Aya: "Hm!"

 [Aya forces herself to drink.]

 Aya [thinking to herself]: Drink it!

 Kei: "The moon is so beautiful tonight, let's have a 'date'!"

 Aya: "A date...?"

 Kei: "In the past, people called it 'Mouashibi'... such a fitting
 description... Have you tried it? Man and woman's..."

 Kei: "Play-"

 [Kei raises Aya's chin up and leans in to kiss her.]

                                  Page 91
 [Aya kicks him.]

 Kei: "Aw!"

 [Aya turns to run.]

 Aya: "Is this how you sucessed in sleeping with your fans? Even in front
 of Shuro? You're lousy!"

 [Kei kneels and holds his leg in pain.]

 Kei: "Ow~"

 [Aya suddenly collapses onto the ground.]

 Aya [thinking in confusion]: Huh...

 [Kei gets up and dusts himself off.]

 Kei: "The imojouchuu wine plus the awamori no habu shuwari wine is too
 much for even the wine- loving Okinawa natives to handle."

 Aya: "W...why..."

 [Kei grabs Aya's wrist.]

 Kei: "To 'keep the secret.'"

                                  Page 92
 Kei: "To prevent you from revealing the secret that "Shuro is a woman"!"

 Kei: "GeSANG is just getting started, so I can't lose Shuro!"

 [Kei climbs onto Aya.]

 [Back at the party.]

 //music//

 Yuuhi: "Oh~ What is it? That terrible music?"

 [The music is coming from a cellphone.]

 Chidori: "Aya's cellphone!"

 [Chidori picks it up.]

 Chidori: "Hello-"

 Tooya [on the phone]: "Aya...?"

                                  Page 93
 Chidori: "Tooya!?"

 [Yuuhi grabs the cellphone from Chidori's hand.]

 Yuuhi: "What do you want? Sorry to disappoint you, but Aya's not here."

 [Chidori tries to take the phone back.]

 Chidori: "Come on, give it back-"

 Tooya [phone]: "Yuuhi? Okay, I might as well tell you..."

 [Tooya is hiding in the bushes, spying on the Mikage family.]

 Tooya: "The Mikage family seems to be starting something big in secret."

 Yuuhi [phone]: "Huh!?"

 Chidori [phone]: "Yuuhi, let me listen!"

 Tooya: "It happened so suddenly..."

 [Back at the party.]

 Tooya [phone]: "I have a bad feeling about this... where's Aya?"

 Yuuhi: "She...she went to the bathroom!"

                                  Page 94
 [Back in the bushes.]

 Tooya: "Tell Aya to be careful-"

 [Somewhere outside Shuro's house.]

 Aya: "Why...why don't you think for Shuro's sake!?"

 Aya: "If I were Shuro, I would want to leave the show business, too! Lying
 to the fans..."

 Kei: "I don't want to lose my position!"

 Aya: "Why...you're by her side...but you can't understand her pain?"

 Aya: "Oh no- even if I transform into Ceres, my body is still-"

 Aya: "...the truth is, you are just afraid to be on your own!!"

                                  Page 95
 [Kei punches Aya on her stomach. Aya faints.]

 Kei: "Don't think you understand everything!"

 Kei: "I'll let you taste what is meant by 'Mouashibi'. You won't dare to
 spill a word!"

                           Continued in Part 4...