[Image][Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECCA NO HONOU [FLAME OF RECCA] By Anzai Nobuyuki Volume 11 Chapter 6: The Cursed Flame of Love Translated by Kamiya Shuusai [ Chapter Index | Previous Chapter | Next Chapter ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- text : you can't beat kurei in your current condition-- his flame is much more frightening and stronger than you ever imagined!! I don't know why... it's above your ability... and such incomprehensible hatred!! (recca talking to the old man) recca : WHAT--!!? (he wakes up, looks around wide eyed, that happens to be a dream...) recca : a dream... [......what the hell is that old man up to!!] Volume 11 Chapter 6 : The Cursed Flame of Love (recca walks out of the building) recca : damn it... it's only six!! domon and the others are still dead asleep... voice (behind him) : recca! recca : huh? uruha oto's aki and... isn't that miki!! (wave) morning! how are you!? aki : a message from sister neon, "I'll be waiting at arena A" (recca has confused look) now we delivered the message-- (later at the arena) recca : what do you want? (neon's been waiting for him) neon! neon (turn around) : ......i have something to tell you. about kurei sama. recca (very clueless) : bye! (turn around and leaves) neon (super pissed off) : asshole! recca : idiot!! I don't want to listen to that stuff. neon : noooo!! it's your duty to listen!! old man (out of nowhere) : why don't you! it won't hurt!! recca (falls) : AHH! the old man from yesterday!! why are you here now!? old man (serious) : plus-- maybe you can understand the source of that man's hatred. go ahead, lady. recca (deformed) : old fool!!! (neon begins to tell kurei's story... flashback to kurei's mansion on a sunny day...) text : four years ago--- when I was still kurei-sama's maid...... kurenai : look! kurei!! neon san gave me all these flowers! (smile, holding a bunch of roses) see. aren't they pretty? text : with pale, clear skin, light brown hair, white shirt, the girl who attracts everyone-- she loved crimson colored flowers-- her name is kurenai-sama-- kurei : ...... (note that kurei doesn't have a scare on his face back then) text : kurenai sama doesn't have a family and she's an orphan. half a month ago, mori koran adopted her and sent her to kurei-sama's mansion. (kurei shatters the flowers) kurei (kurenai looks stunned) : I hate flowers. they shatter so easily... how weak. text : since then, kurei-sama always gave people a cold and distant impression. not loved, doesn't love...... he never had any expressions on his face, people say that he wears a mask behind his back. (neon in her maid dress is on the side and she looks a little uncomfortable...) neon : [um~~.] (kurenai smiles and then suddenly slaps kurei, neon looks so shocked and sweating...) kurenai : flowers still struggle to live for that instant of bloom! people like you have no right to end their life! kurei (touching his face) : ...... emotional woman... (smile) this is the first time I was hit by a woman. even my mother who's at a far away place has never hit me. kurenai (laughing innocently) : it's my first time hitting a guy! so it's both our "first time", kurei! (back to the present, neon looks so sad) neon : they faced each other and smiled...... I thought kurei sama must've been really happy then. it's the first time I've seen his smile...... recca (thoughtful) : [kurenai...... where did i... hear that name before...] (to the flashback again) text (kurei walking with kurenai) : ever since-- kurei sama's heart is slowly changing. he spent more time with kurenai together, and began to smile, his frozen heart was slowly melted. at that time... no one would say-- that his smile was a mask-- until that fateful day......!! (mori koran and his men in black beating up kurei, kurenai's held back by other guards.) kurenai : kurei! kurei!! stop it!! mori koran : so... kurei... back then, didn't I warn you? (slap him) you're a machine!!! (beat him) you don't need love!! I told you to give up your emotions--!! raiha (being held back) : please stop it, mori sama!! please don't... mori koran (turn around) : shut up, raiha...... it's my adopted daughter and I can do whatever I want... I could let them be together too!! kurenai (struggles free from the guards) : uh! (she runs up and covers kurei) kurenai (sad) : if you must keep on beating kurei... then please take me instead... kurei : kurenai...... (push her away) kurenai : a... h kurei (cruel expression) : what are you talking about... my emotions have long disappeared!! whatever becomes of that woman has nothing to do with me!! mori koran (evil laughter) : so you have nothing to do with the first girl who saw your smile... then, kill kurenai with those hands!! (kurei looks so stunned) hyahahahah come on!! go ahead!!! (his hands are shading and he's sweating in a wide eye shock) mori koran : you must even if you can't...... this is a training... to plant the seeds of loyalty inside a cruel beast... why did you think I sent kurenai here? it was to draw out the emotions you so cleverly hidden! the tool that shall shatter them all! kurenai!! (take out a little remote) ...this is a remote control. have you forgotten the bomb planted inside your mother, tsukino? this is an experiment and proof. but-- (kurei's eyes open wide) of course, the subject wouldn't be tsukino. (mori presses... and blood spills, kurenai falls down, and the roses shatters.) kurei (scream) : k... KURENAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII KURENAII---!!! open your eyes!! kurenai (dying) : ......... ku... rei... (touching kurei's face and tears) I don't... want... to become the instant beauty... of the flower...... it's alright if I'm a little ugly...... (closing her eyes with a smile) as long as...... I can be with you...... [with... that gentle... you...] (finally her hands fall) mori koran : happy now kurei!! didn't you say this woman was none of your business!? [hahahahah] your father has already done for you what you could not do!! thank me for it!! (kurei stands in silence and watches kurenai) elder (of the hokage village) : [the existence of an evil presence within the hokage! that cursed flame!!] neon (watching the scene in shock) : [kurei-sama stopped crying!! the surrounding air pressure suddenly and drastically changed!!] (kurei's suddenly very different, the guards watch in shock) guards : wh...!? flame!!? kurei : as you wish, kurenai...... (a small flame appears on his hand) even if we deviate from the path of human life... we will walk to eternity together--- (the flame turns into a massive phoenix shaped bird and engulfs kurenai's corpse, until she completely turns into the flame itself, a flame-winged angel...) text : resign....... from humanity......... kurei (welcomes his new power) : now you are, through my cursed flame, a flame spirit...... fulfill our contract-- burn the face which robbed you of your life!! mori koran (amazed) : hyaha... that's the power of his flame... [turned corpses into flames......... monster!! but he can't kill me!! there's tsukino!! he still cares about his mother!!] (the flame of kurenai touches kurei's face with a sad expression) text : expressionless masks.............. they are...... my face.................................. (neon, recca and the old man all stand solemnly) kurei : we will never be separated again... (kurei sitting alone, and kurenai's flame above him) we will face eternity together... kurenai-- end of volume 11 chapter 6 translator's note : wasn't that just so sweet and sad? now for those who saw the anime, obviously you already know this... but it was a little different and more detailed on kurei and kurenai's relationship, for those who didn't know this... see why I like kurei now? I feel bad for him and his tragic flame... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Email | Lynx | Updates | Sign My Guestbook | View My Guestbook ] Search the Net [1]