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Novel 13 Translation - Prologue

Aug 26, 2008 01:56

Title: Reimei ni Kohaku wa Kirameku (Book 13)

Chapter: Prologue

Reimei ni Kohaku wa Kirameku

~ Prologue ~

Don’t know who it was that said it was snowing it too much this year.

If this continues, the river will overflow in the spring, and perhaps that will incur a flood.

“So, it is necessary to…?”

“That’s right. To insure ( Read more... )

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cairnsy August 30 2008, 04:11:35 UTC

There's so much I'm really looking forward to reading translated, my You-Shuu/Kouyuu muses need a little nudge if they're ever going to complete anything ^^

vesperh August 26 2008, 13:02:03 UTC

Holy cow. No wonder Kouyuu adores Reishin. It's hard to imagine anyone entering your life in a more dramatic way.

Kouyuu thought Reishin was a god...Reishin must have loved that.

kirarakim August 26 2008, 13:39:30 UTC

Thank you very much for translating this. :)

But I am confused does Reishin meet Kouyuu in a different way in the novels then in the anime?

iced_wine August 26 2008, 22:10:49 UTC

yeah, the anime aired before the author actually got to kouyuu's back story.

sayac3p0 August 29 2008, 00:53:08 UTC

Thank you very much for the translation.

Reishin is sure an arrogant god :p

cairnsy August 29 2008, 23:56:40 UTC

Yay, your back! How was your trip? I hope there are pictures ^_^

God, this translation is so terribly sad. You really capture that, and the real sense of loneliness and nothingness in Kouyuu's life ... it's just so sad. I really should be able to come up with a better word than that because it's such a bone-deep sadness that really transcends what the other characters went through as children (in my totally biased opinion). There's just nothing there for him to grasp on to, and he's tied to a bloody tree and is about to die and he doesn't know better than to care. Oh, Kouyuu. No wonder Reishin couldn't resist him. I can't decide whether it's a good or bad thing that he can't remember his time before he became a slave, while knowing he had once been love would surely have been a good thing, how the old couple met their end might have broken him completely ( ... )

iced_wine August 30 2008, 20:12:56 UTC

haha, my trip was good, very satisfying shopping-wise :)

o0o0o inspiration box!!!! (i'm hoping there are reishin/kouyuu fics in there???) i'm taking organic chemistry and another really hard-core neuroscience class, so i'm sure i'll need plenty of perks (reishin/kouyuu fics) <-- (shameless begging, i know -_-lll)

glad you liked the translation :D

(hehe, off to making prompt requests for the fic battle <3)