[Image][Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECCA NO HONOU [FLAME OF RECCA] By Anzai Nobuyuki Volume 2 Chapter 5: The Swordsman of Water IV (Mikagami's Past) Translated by Kamiya Shuusai [ Chapter Index | Previous Chapter | Next Chapter ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 2 Chapter 5 : The Swordsman of Water IV (Mikagami’s Past) (amusement park, yanagi walking with mikagami.) yanagi : [what-am I doing here? walking with mikagami tokiya senpai...... who I’ve only met today...... recca......] (earlier scene, when she saw recca approaching. yanagi holding the amusement park tickets tight.) yanagi : [please say it...... "wanna go to the amusement park together?"] recca...... (recca walks right past them. yanagi crying.) yanagi : [why?] (mikagami behind her, touching her shoulder.) tokiya : don’t mind if I go with you? yanagi : [my mind was blank. probably all my thoughts have stopped......] (tokiya and yanagi walks in another direction as recca arrives behind them.) recca (catching breath) : I made it! my princess and that stupid mirror *part of tokiya’s name* guy is probably in there! princess, I’m here to get you! just wait to hear my most sincere apology! ask somebody first! hi-- the guy with the balloons! have you seen this person? (hands a picture) balloon guy : what? (a very ugly and distorted picture of yanagi. the label says : yanagi hime, and the yanagi in the picture is saying : recca, want pastry?) balloon guy (sweating) : ......... Monster!? (recca is very humiliated, and sweatdrops forming… meanwhile, yanagi and mikagami are on a roller coaster ride.) yanagi : ahhhhhhhhhh! mikagami (after they get off, still cool) : are you all right? yanagi (dizzy) : eh...... (next they go to the house of monsters. the monster heads pop up one after another.) yanagi : ahhhhhhhhhh! (faints) uh! tokiya : yanagi! (carries yanagi, thinking) such a timid little girl...... (yanagi sits alone on a bench in the park stupidly. tokiya hands her an ice cream cone.) tokiya : sorry! I didn’t know you couldn’t stand the ghost house. yanagi (smiling) : ah-recca! thank you! (mikagami looks strange, yanagi looks up and realize it’s not recca.) yanagi : uh! I’m sorry...... mikagami senpai...... tokiya : it’s all right. I was only a little disappointed, I thought you would finally smile at me...... (senses recca’s presence) !! [hanabishi......] yanagi, let me take you to a not scary place! yanagi : where is it? tokiya : a very beautiful place...... [I can’t allow you to interfere-- because you are the worst choice for her in the world!] (while recca is looking around clueless, in the house of mirrors, yanagi looks at her own image stupidly *I seem to be using stupidly a lot on her*) yanagi : huh? this is? tokiya : this is the house of mirrors, the maze of glass. I really like this place, always come here alone. I hope you would like it. and get your spirit back up again...... yanagi : ...... mikagami senpai...... why are you so nice to me? why? isn’t this the first time we’ve met? tokiya : because you look like someone I know...... the girl who was killed when I was in elementary school, my older sister, mifuyu! no one will find us here, so let me tell you the whole story...... sign (in front of the house of mirrors) : the house of mirrors is closed for today, please don’t come in. recca (huff, puff) : fuu-- where did princess go? let me see...... gift shop, flying rides, the horse...... other than the already closed house of mirrors, I’ve looked everywhere...... let me go around all over again! (kage hoshi stands in front of him. recca totally does not notice. he walks past her.) kage hoshi : go to the house of mirrors! recca (turns around) : the voice? kage hoshi? (no one is there. mean while in the house of mirrors, tokiya is telling his story.) tokiya : there were four members in my family, but my parents died in a car accident, and left only my sister and i. even though we seek refuge in either a relative’s house or stay in kindergarten, but we’re not lonely. (a picture of tokiya’s sister fooling around with her brother) because I have the sister who loves me. she found a job immediately after she graduated to be able to raise me...... she’s always working hard, saying that one day I have to go to college. On cold nights she would hug me and go to sleep...... at the old apartment, even though life was hard, but, we were very happy...... at least before the day of the tragedy arrived! (flashback of men in shadows, evil smile.) tokiya : [ne-san...... I’m scared...... I’m really scared......] (the men approach with knives. the leader has multiple earrings. tokiya’s sister hugs her brother and they both shrink into the corner. the man raises the knife.) tokiya’s sister : [TOKIYA! watch out!] (the knife is stabbed into her body. young tokiya’s hand is reaching out for her, broken flower pedals falling. blood spilling, the man with earrings’ evil smile. his sister calling his name.) tokiya’s sister : to... ki...... tokiya : ne...... ne-san! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (back to present in the house of mirrors.) tokiya : it’s been seven years, I still cannot forget that day! (cold, cruel expression) my sister’s painful expression, that man’s pleased smile...... it’s all carved in my mind, revenge! that is the only reason why I am alive! yanagi (heart beating, breathing) : this man...... tokiya (smile) : sorry! telling you such an old story. I didn’t mean to scare you. from the first day I saw you, my hatred disappeared...... so I won’t allow hanabishi to get you involved in his dangerous problems! I’m glad that he won’t bother you again, I’m relieved! (holding something) yanagi : ! what? so you are the one making recca act so strangely! (tokiya holding his Ensui cut most of yanagi’s hair. his eyes look somewhat psychotic.) tokiya : now you look more like ne-san! my most dear...... yanagi (touching her hair) : I don’t know what you are thinking...... but other than I’m sorry, I have nothing to say! I am sakoshita yanagi! (teary, gonna cry again?) no matter how much I look like her, even if the hair is the same, I cannot replace your sister! recca : [PRINCESS] yanagi : I head it...... I heard recca’s voice! tokiya : what? [imagination? no! if it’s real...... this is a maze, he won’t find this place so fast......] let’s go! yanagi! yanagi : I’m not leaving! recca! I’m over here! (the mirror behind tokiya begins to crack. recca bursts in through the mirrors.) recca : hanabishi recca at your service! yanagi : recca? how come you came out of there...... tokiya (holding his ensui) : [completely ignoring all the mirrors, just bursts in? what kind of a idiot is this guy?] recca : princess! sorry about what happened these few days! yanagi (all happy) : yay! you’re talking to me! recca : ......... (touches her hair) yanagi (scared?) : ...! ah! recca : did you do that? mikagami! turned a girl’s treasured hair into this? unforgivable! (his flame raging) tokiya : !? [different from the flame last time......] end of volume 2 chapter 5 translator's note : I just have to get this out, it’s been stuck inside me for too long, ever since I started to translate this chapter, here it goes… I HATE YANAGI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE IS DITZY, SHE IS STUPID, SHE IS USELESS, SHE IS ANNOYING, SHE IS UNBEARABLY ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!!! basically, what that all means is I WANT TO KILL HER!!!!!!!! thank you for listening to my tiny complaint. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Email | Lynx | Updates | Sign My Guestbook | View My Guestbook ] Search the Net [1]