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sjou and la_vie_noire! /eta!!! page 01
That heart,
Lightly,
Supply--
Chapter Five: The Tokugawa Blood Contract
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Kojyûrô: Masamune-sama,
Even your face appears undisciplined; you've reached your limit.
FX: Happy drunk
Date: Shut up.
Right now I'm admiring the cutest person in the world.
FX: Glare
FX: Growling
FX: Air of hatred
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Sakura: Sorry for the wait!
FX: Grin
FX: Surprised
Hana: Uumen! [TN: This is a noodle dish invented in Shiroishi, Miyagi prefecture; there's an image here. I'm quite certain that this is in here as a sign of sympathy for the victims of the Tôhoku earthquake & tsunami.]
Kojyûrô: I'm sorry for not changing the souvenir for the better. [TN: B/c Date was from Sendai, up in the Tôhoku]
FX: Writhing
FX: Quivering with excitement
Hana: Uumen!
Uumen!
Sakura: It's the best souvenir for Hana.
FX: Eyes shining
Hana: Yeah!
Date: Hana reaaally is
Cute--
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Hana: Thanks for the food!!
Chikahito: Sure,
Dig in!
Tachibana: You say
"Dig in"--
FX: Menacing
FX: Menacing
Tachibana: What are you doing, carelessly promoting noodles,
You freeloader, you--
Chikahito: Ye,
Uh,
Uh…mm…
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FX: Menacing
Kojyûrô: The ingredients are meat and miso.
Hidetsugu: It's delicious.
FX: Yay, yay!
Sakura: This is your handmade cuisine, right, Chikahito-kun?
Mikoto: You're very skilled.
Date: Hana,
You're the best!
Tachibana: You got Hana burned, and you came back unwounded--
FX: Glaring
Chikahito: I…I'm sorry!
Hana: Chikahito isn't in the wrong.
Chikahito: Hana-san.
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Hana: Besides, Tachibana, you made me wear my coat, so I was fine.
Chikahito: "Coat"?
You mean--
Sakura: That worrywart Tachibana put a spell on it.
Date: And I put on a good showing,
Didn't I, Hana?
Hana: Yes,
Thanks.
FX: Grin
FX: Nervous
FX: Staring
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Hana: Stretch them out,
It's delicious.
Chikahito: R-right!
Kojyûrô: I'm stretching them out.
FX: Disappointment
Date: I wanted Hana to say that to me.
Hana: You too,
Tachibana.
Tachibana: You really don't feel the pain, Hana?
Hana: Nope,
I'm fine.
FX: Fingers flapping
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Hidetsugu: You're a changed person when it comes to Hana, Tachibana, just like always.
Mikoto: Seriously.
Tachibana: It's not just the freeloader!
It's your fault for acting selfishly too, Hidetsugu.
FX: Glaring
FX: Chuckles
Hidetsugu: I just wanted to convey my greetings to the new resident of the Urashichiken.
Chikahito: Speaking of that, the delivery--
Mikoto: It was you.
Chikahito: Huh?
Tachibana: I knew it, you're too dumb.
Sakura: You could say that more gently, you know.
Mikoto: Besides, he won't hear it if you say it praisingly.
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Hidetsugu: Chikahito-kun is special.
Enough that Hana called him back here from Tokyo with myôhô, at any rate.
Date: SERIOUSLY!!!
FX: Sudden
Date: Bring out Kurikara, Kojyûrô!
Chikahito: Augh!!
FX: Sudden
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Hana: If you hurt Chikahito,
I'll be angry.
Kojyûrô: That Hana-san will be angry--
Date: I don't want you to be angry!
FX: All right, all right
FX: Auuggh
Hidetsugu: He really is special.
Mikoto: What did he really come here to do?
FX: Sparkling
Date: To make out with Hana!
Kojyûrô: Masamune-sama.
FX: Menacing
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Date: And so!
FX: Billowing menace
Date: About the Tokugawa!!
FX: Twitch
Chikahito: Tachibana-san…?
Hidetsugu: …This is a problem for the oni information network.
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Date: More than the human world per se, it's troublesome.
Since it doesn't use email or phones.
Chikahito: Really?
Mikoto: Yes.
If only the power is strong enough, no matter how far the distance between, things can be read.
It's possible to defend against as well, but that too depends on the strength of power.
Kojyûrô: And among them there are those skilled at reading hearts--
There are oni who can read human hearts, not just those of oni.
Chikahito: There really are various oni-san, huh.
Hidetsugu: Thanks to that, connected through Mikoto, I was able to find out the way to obtain Lord Nobunaga's corpse and Mara.
Mikoto: Through my power.
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Hidetsugu: As expected, Mikoto.
Date: That!
Hana!
That!
Chikahito: When you say "connected," does that mean Mikoto-sama didn't find them?
That--
FX: Purring
FX: Meow
Chikahito: The method of obtaining the strongest oni.
Hidetsugu: No.
Mikoto: The one who is ignobly with the Tokugawa, and the oni who has ignobly made
…a blood contract with them.
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Date: Hey,
You didn't just say "is." [TN: Mikoto uses a humble rather than a plain verb.]
Chikahito: …There's something with the Tokugawa and Tachibana-san.
Earlier, too…
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Date: Ieyasu was certainly a crafty devil,
But he…
Chikahito: The one among the Tokugawa who was the most eminent and had the deepest blood connection--
Would that be Iemitsu?
Date: No, it wouldn't.
Mikoto: Ieyasu
Became the Tôshô Daigongen, didn't he?
Hidetsugu: Signals were given,
And with just that, he was enshrined at that amazing Tôshô-gû--
Various things. [TN: Thinking about it, 'signals' probably refers to Iemitsu famously being dream-haunted by Ieyasu.]
Chikahito: So,
Now,
Ieyasu-san is--
Date: He's not here.
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Chikahito: So, who…
Sakura: Tofu.
Chikahito: Huh!?
Sakura: Could you go buy some tofu, Chikahito-kun?
Chikahito: Y…yes?
Sakura: Don't you want to eat Kyoto yudôfu? [TN: This is a famous Kyoto dish, involving tofu in hot water, served principally in winter. It's very subtly flavored, even more than most Kyoto cuisine, but delicious. pictures here]
Chikahito: I do want to eat it, but--
Now?
Sakura: The stores are going to close soon.
Sorry.
Chikahito: Al--
All right.
Sakura: Three blocks each of silk and cotton,
And two of kumiage. [TN: These are kinds of tofu and yuba.]
Chikahito: Right!
FX: Standing
Hana: Take care!
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Chikahito: I'll be right back.
FX: Footsteps
FX: Doors sliding
FX: Door closing
Sakura: These aren't things
That a kid who's just arrived here should be allowed to hear yet.
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Sakura: About Tokugawa…Iemitsu.
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Tachibana: …Hana.
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Chikahito: Three of silk and cotton tofu,
And two of kumiage.
…Wait,
Huh?
Was that a conversation they didn't want to let me hear?
There was a kind of dangerous feeling.
It might be better not to have heard.
Why am I a little bit sad?
…Even though I've still only lived there for one night so far.
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FX: Huh!?
Chikahito: Are you all right?
FX: Running footsteps
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Chikahito: Tha--
That's a really pretty boy!
It like he's glittering.
Boy: I just…
Felt a bit dizzy…
Chikahito: Shall I call an ambulance?
Boy: No…
If I just rest a bit I'll be fine…
…I've called for someone to get me.
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Chikahito: Then in that case let's a least go to a shadier spot.
FX: Slowly
FX: Inhaling
Chikahito: I'm sorry!
It's embarrassing, isn't it!
Then,
I'll support you.
Can you walk?
Boy: Yes.
…Thank you very much.
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FX: Squeeze
Chikahito: How do you feel now?
Boy: I feel much better.
I'm sorry to trouble you.
Chikahito: Please don't worry about it.
Boy: You were on your way to someplace…
Chikahito: Buying tofu.
The store and my house are both really close,
Really, please don't worry about it.
Boy: Your house is close by?
Chikahito: Yes.
From yesterday, in that Kamishichiken.
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Boy: That's wonderful,
That you live in a place like this.
Chikahito: I think so too!
Though there are some troublesome things.
Boy: ?
Chikahito: No,
Well--
FX: Er, um
Chikahito: The people I live with are good people!
And it's a good place!
FX: Clench
Chikahito: Kyoto!!
Boy: …Can I
Ask your name?
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Chikahito: I'm Takamoto Chikahito.
Boy: You're very kind,
…Chikahito-san.
FX: Smiling
Chikahito: Er,
No,
Tha--
--at's,
No!
FX: Blushing
FX: Phone beeping
Boy: It seems they've come to get me.
I'm sorry to make you hang around.
FX: Beep
Chikahito: Shall I stay until they arrive?
Boy: No,
I really am fine.
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Chikahito: Then, be careful!
Don't overdo it!
Boy: Sure,
Chikahito-san.
…Later.
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Chikahito: Huh?
FX: Bowing
FX: Footstep
Chikahito: So there are boys that pretty around, huh.
Somehow he's a bit like Hana-san.
Are beautiful people gathering in Kyoto?
It's awesome,
Kyoto.
FX: Quickly
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Retainer: How do you feel,
Iemitsu-sama?
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Iemitsu: That joke
Isn't very funny at all,
Jyûbê.
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[TN: The floral pattern on the top left of this page is hollyhock, the Tokugawa crest.]
Jyûbê: Properly, my name is Yagyû Mitsuyoshi.
I'm very sorry to say it so many times--
Iemitsu: That name isn't very amusing either.
Jyûbê: That you went so far as to feign illness to be able to get closer--
Was there something you wanted to obtain?
Iemitsu: Does it appear that I did?
Jyûbê: However,
It's certain that he's a resident of the Urashichiken.
Furthermore,
The one called Hana summoned him.
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Iemitsu: I know that.
That's why I went out of my way to leave Tokyo,
Ahead of the eyes and nose of the Urashichiken.
Well, no matter how close I get, they shouldn't be able to notice me.
[TN: he's literally about 50 feet from Kamishichken when Chikahito finds him.]
Iemitsu: No,
Even if they notice, it'd be correct to say it's pointless.
With the power of my adorable oni.
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Iemitsu: …I'm hungry.
Jyûbê: Which of you?
Iemitsu: Both of us.
But first I have to allow it eat before me.
Tenkai,
Encirclement.
FX: Whoosh
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Iemitsu: Now then.
Who you take as your prey will be amusing,
Mitsuha.
So, I have to say, I have a really hard time not reading Chikahito as bisexual.
Also, the warlords who we see reincarnated are clearly the ones who had unfinished business or disappointing careers: Akechi, Hidetsugu, Iemitsu even though he was of the first generation that didn't fight in the wars of unification, which preyed on him for his entire life.
Also, I have no idea what Kojyûrô's gender is, or about Jyûbé really. I do like the way CLAMP are mixing things up in the reincarnations.
Finally, while this blog post is an April Fool's joke, it gives you an idea of some of the weirdness that lingers around the edges of some so-called scholarly endeavors, to say nothing of pop culture representations, relating to Nobunaga. He has a titanically bad reputation, to say the least.
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p/s: I think Chikahito's suspiciously swings both ways too...
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