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As a warning, I'm only in Level 2 of Japanese Language. I'm doing this partly to improve my Japanese, partly for fun, and partly because I want to help those who know even less than Japanese than I do. Meaning, there are mistakes, and there are some passages I didn't even try to translate. [If a line is marked with '***', it means I had difficulty with it.]
If you know I have something wrong, or understood something I didn't, instead of being snotty, tell me (pixbell@hotmail.com) so that I can learn. I appreciate all constructive critiscm.
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pg. 104
[A picture of Kazahaya draped over Rikuou. Both are wearing lots of jewelry. Rikuou is pointing his thumb downwards, and Kazahaya is giving the viewer the finger.]
pg. 105
Kazahaya: ...Are these insects?
pg. 106
[He looks around him]
Kazahaya: (...It can't be. There's nothing there.)
[He kneels to get a closer look at the shadows.]
Kazahaya: Then where are these shadows coming from?
pg. 107
[He gets back up, and starts walking. The shadows move along with him.]
Kazahaya: Are they following me?
Kazahaya: What *is* this?
pg. 108
[Back at the drugstore, Kakei is working, and Sagai has just woken up.]
Sagai [yawning]: You alone?
[Sagai ...smells? the back of Kakei's neck.]
Sagai: Where are the boys?
Kakei: Working-- on the side job.
Sagai: Making them do annoying jobs again?
pg. 109
Kakei: I thought he'd do it, so I asked him to.
*** Sagai: He might encounter some difficulties, though.
Kakei: He'll be fine. There's a full moon, so he'll be able to see the shadows clearly.
pg. 110
[Kazahaya is still running.]
Kazahaya: (They really *are* following me.)
pg. 111
Kazahaya: (Shadows. There's no physical form, but shadows are following around me.)
Kazahaya: (Are they spirits, or something? If they are, I won't be able to tell.)
Kazahaya: (That can't be it. If it were spirits, I wouldn't be able to see them at all.)
pg. 112
Kazahaya: (Which means that the shadows are really there.)
Kazahaya: (But what shadows are they?)
Kazahaya: (Whatever it is, I don't have time for it.)
pg. 113
[He keeps on walking, and looks back warily.]
Kazahaya: They're still following me.
*** Kazahaya: (There were times like this back home, too. Because we lived in an urban area, in the garden things like insects would follow us around.)
[Enlightenment dawns.]
Kazahaya: Insects...
pg. 114
Kazahaya: Maybe these are things are fireflies that can't be seen with eyes?!
[He reaches out in midair, and tries to grab them. He misses.]
Kazahaya: Huh?
pg. 115
[Kazahaya tries again and again, but keeps missing.]
Kazahaya: The should be here, above the shadows!
Kazahaya: But I can't catch anything! What's up with this?!
Kazahaya: I can't touch invisible places! You damned bugs!
pg. 116
[After exhausting himself by reaching into the air aimlessly, Kazahaya takes a pause. He's not angry anymore, but is very irritated.]
Kazahaya: It's no use. No matter how hard I try, I can't catch them.
Kazahaya: (I don't understand Kakei-san's stupid orders!)
Kazahaya: (And I don't get why he gave me this water, either.)
pg. 117
Kazahaya [swinging the water bottle]: After all that movement, I'm thirsty.
[More enlightenment dawns.]
Kazahaya: (Is this just a drink for when I get thirsty?! Just plain water?)
Kazahaya [opening the bottle]: He should have given me a net, or a cage!
[He drinks the water.]
pg. 118
[Kazahaya opens his eyes, and sees fireflies everywhere.]
pg. 119
Kazahaya: (This is the water's memory.)
pg. 120
*** Kazahaya: (The fireflies invisible to eyes were in water. They like in the pond.)
Kazahaya [smiling]: (They're fireflies visible only in water.)
Kazahaya: (Outside the water, they're visible only with the shadows made by bright moonlight.)
Kazahaya [peacefully touching the fireflies]: (They're so beautiful.)
Kazahaya: (I get it now. They were following me because I held the water they lived in.)
pg. 121
Kazahaya: (They wanted to return to the water.)
*** Kazahaya: (Which means that pettobotoru no mizu sae areba katte ni hotaru wa haittekureru.)
Kazahaya: (The bottle's water.... water... now that I think of water, I...)
pg. 123
[With shocking realization]
*** Kazahaya: I drank it!
[Having snapped out of his revery, Kazahaya realizes he's falling back-first into a pond. But he can't stop from falling in.]
Kazahaya: AAH!
pg. 124
[He drowns]
Kazahaya [hand reaching up]: I can't...! My breath...
[Kazahaya falls unconscious.]
pg. 125
[Rikuou dives in and saves Kazahaya.]
pg. 126
[Rikuou lays Kazahaya's unconscious body onto the bank. He looks fairly angry.]
Rikuou: Was this idiot drowning himself?
Rikuou: Like Tsukiko?
Rikuou: [looking up at the moon]: There's even a full moon out.
Rikuou: ...I'm remembering bad things.
pg. 127
[Back in the apartment, Kazahaya is in bed.]
Kazahaya [waking up]: Huh?
Kazahaya: Why am I back here?
Kakei: Because Rikuou saved you.
Kazahaya: What?!
*** Saiga: It's normal to pull a drowning guy onto shore.
Kazahaya [blushing]: But how did he know?
pg. 128
[walking out of the shower-- fully clothed]
Rikuou: Kakei-san told me to go.
Kazahaya: Why?!
Rikuou [laughing]: 'Cause it'd suck if you drowned, since you're the drugstore's customer magnet.
Kazahaya: (Wait a minute-- how did he know I was going to drown?)
*** Kakei: Well, then, shall take the fireflies from your stomach?
pg. 129
Kakei [to Sagai]: Turn off the lights.
Kakei: It's a good thing you didn't drink the whole thing, Kudou-kun.
Kakei: Open your moth.
[Kazahaya complies, and opens his mouth towards the open water-bottle.]
Kakei: I wonder if they went in?
[He holds the water bottle up to the moonlight; the water has fireflies in it.]
Kazahaya [smiling]: They're really beautiful.
Kakei: You succeeded in catching the fireflies.
Kazahaya [excitedly]: So my payment?
Kakei: You've earned it.
pg. 130
Kazahaya: All *right*!
Kakei: You'll have to split with Rikuou.
Kazahaya: Whaaaaaaaat?!
Sagai [patting the disappointed Kazahaya's head]: If Rikuou hadn't been there, you would have committed lover's suicide with the fireflies.
[Kazahaya looks over to Rikuou.]
pg. 131
[Rikuou smirks.]
[Rikuou smirks. Kazahaya, needless to say, is severly pissed off by him.]
*** Kazahaya: (Fuck! I'll show you, someday!)
Kakei: Kudou-kun, it's cold and you fell into a lake today. You should go sleep.
Kazahaya: Okay.....
[The last panel shows the shabby drug store and the full moon. How romantic.]