Innocent Rouge 21

Aaand now we're on to volume Rouge 4!
As usual the first chapter is loaded with all this extra stuff at the beginning. Glad that's out of the way.

[Innocent Rouge 21 Translation by Kewl0210]
Author Flap:
Don't fear loneliness.

Raising the flag of conviction, march into the darkness all by yourself.

After you've tasted pain and sadness all alone, the flag of a sworn friend is sure to come into view.

That is the flag of hope of opened wounds.

Sakamoto Shinichi


About the Author Flap:
Born in Oosaka on July 19th 1972.
In 1990 his work "Kiss!!" was selected for Weekly Shounen Jump's 70th H?S Award.
In 1991, he debuted with the same work.
He had the series "Niragi Kioumaru" and "Masuraou" seriazlied in Weekly Young Jump.
Starting in 2007, his work "Kokou no Hito" won the Excellence Prize in the 14th Japan Cultural Media Awards.
In 2013, this work was selected as a recommended work by the 17th Japan Cultural Media Awards committee.
In 2014, this work was nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (sponsored by Asahi Shimbun) Reader's Award.
In 2015, this work won 7th place for the 'Manga Taishou Award 2015'.
In 2016, at the Louvre's special exhibition, the "Innocent Rouge" extra story, "Princess Antoinette visits the Mona Lisa" was exhibited.

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Center: ses mains livrés justice et sauvé de nombreuses vies.
His hands delivered justice and saved many lives.

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Title: n°21 The Execution Platforms of Beginnings
Author: Sakamoto Shinichi
Bottom Right: Source Material: Adachi Masakatsu "Executioner Sanson"

Page 4:
Title: The Enraged Ones
Enrages.
Summary: The histoire of the innocents has entered Crimson Revolution Arc, 'Rouge'------!!!
Having become the new king as Louis XVI, Auguste is burning with the passion for his new found political power. The queen, Antoinette has finally become pregnant. And while she is intoxicated from having risen to the highest position, she seeks new stimuli. Meanwhile, the poor commoners embracing strong feelings toward the aristocrats have begun to squirm... And now with the 'death of the father Baptiste', will this be a turning point for the Sanson Family as well...?!
Bottom: This Volume 4 contains chapters number 21 to 27.
◎This work is based on historical persons and organizations but some parts are dramatized.

Page 5: [This is exactly the same page as last volume]
The answer to the question 'What family were you born into?'
determines a person's life.
For all of human history, 'birth=heritage' has ruled society.
Before the revolution, France is an 'absolute monarchy'.
Kings were considered representatives of God, ruling by divine
right and wielded absolute power over the administrative, legislative,
and judiciary aspects of government.
People were split into the levels: the 1st estate, the clergy; the 2nd
estate, aristocrats; and the 3rd estate, common people. The 2% of the
aristocrats and clergy ruled the 98% that was made up of commoners.
Through tax collection and methods that represented legal amnesty,
aristocrats enjoyed wealth and privilege while the common people lost everything they had, including their lives, to support the aristocrats.
While the aristocrats were in constant struggles for power
under the king, the common people starved------------

At the current point in time, France is in a confrontation with England.
France once allied with Prussia in a war against Austria and England, but Prussia later betrayed them and made an alliance with England which led to France allying with its sworn enemy for 200 years, Austria.
As part of their diplomatic strategy, the 11th daughter of the Austrian queen, Marie Antoinette, married into the French Royal Family at the age of 14.

For the sake of control of the country, the government at the time held the exclusive right to revenge against lawbreakers, 'punishment'
And so the 'executions' which took the lives of the people became the symbol of the government's ultimate power.
The ones that carried out that power were the executioners.
While the family of executioners in Paris for generations, the
Sansons, were 'guards of justice' they were a presence scorned as
'grim reapers' for killing of the brethren of the people...
Even while they contributed to society as doctors, they were
reviled by society from the moment they were born.

In this time of revolution when ideals are sought and a sea
of blood is spilled, who will survive?! Who is the true leader?!
Who will be the one to find the way the new world should be-------------?!
Among the revolution's sea of flames, what is reflected in the eyes of
the Sanson Siblings that stand on the execution platforms that
the people's lives flow into--------------?!!

Page 6: [This is ALMOST exactly the same as last volume]
Top: 'Innocent Rouge' Human Connection Map
Top Right Box:
Black Box: Eldest Brother The 4th "Monsieur de Paris"
Description: Charles-Henrei Sanson
A man who possesses a strong sense of responsibility.
He has become the head of the household and grown as an executioner.
Top Right: Father [Small]
Baptist
Description: Became head of the family at age 7. Strict and devoted, he became the cornerstone of the family.
Due to a stroke, half his body became paralyzed, and is recuperating.
Center: Younger Brothers
2nd Son Louis-Charles-Martin ["all the #th son parts small]
3rd Son Nicolas-Charles-Gabrielle
4th Son Louis-Cyr-Charlemagne
5th Son Pierre-Shanks
Right: Wife [Small]
Marie-Anne
Bottom Middle: Eldest Son
Henri
2nd Son
Gabrielle
Bottom Right: The Sanson Family
Below Charles:
Big Brother [Left Side]
Friend [Bottom]

Top Left Box:
Box: 2nd Daughter
Description: Marie-Josephe Sanson [Big]
The Palace of Versailles executioner, the "Prevote de l'Hotel".
Puts living freely over everything.
Right: Little Sister
Top Left: Uncle [Small]
Nicolas-Charles-Gabrielle
Baptite's younger brother. After the execution of Damiens by Écartèlement, he retired from being an executioner and became a monk.
Father and Son [small, below father]
Jean Louis [Big]
Marie married him in order to honor a promise to Charles.
Below Marie: Guards [Right side]
Servant [Left Side]

Outside Left Box:
Commoners
Andre Legris [Right Top]
Former Sanson Family servant.
Rose Bertin [Bottom left]
Former seamstress that became the milliner and dressmaker of Madame du Barry and Antoinette.
Dressmaker [To right of box]

Outside Middle Left Box:
Nobles
Hans Axel von Fersen
Aristocrat of Swedish house whose name is known even among French society.
Loves [Right of box]

Outside Bottom Left Box:
Commoner to Aristocrat
Jeanne de Valois
(Comtesse de la Motte)
Recognized to have the blood of the formal royal family, Valois, and became an aristocrat. Later connected to 'The Affair of the Diamond Necklace'.


Bottom Right Box:
Clergymen
Cardinal de Rohan
Highest level advisor in the Catholic religion. Has fallen for Antoinette. Later connected with 'The Affair of the Diamond Necklace'.

Big Bottom: Royal Family
Louis-Philippe II [Big]
Later the Duke of Orleans. Has assets, and seeks for Auguste, the one next in line to be king, to lose his standing.
Left: Hostile towards
Black Box: The King of France Louis XVI
Big: Louis-Auguste
In 1775, he became the first new king of France in 60 years. Wise and is facing the government with passion.

Far right: Maîtresse-en-titre, chief mistress, of Louis XV. Former lover of Charles.
Lover [Left of Du Barry]
Below Du Barry: Dressmaker [On Top]
Rose Bertin [Big]
Former seamstress that became the milliner and dressmaker of the royal family.
Center Top: Hostile [Left, above arrow]

Middle Bottom: Louis XV [Big]
King of France.
Possessing many lovers, he is called 'Louis the Beloved'. He doesn't care about government affairs.
Black Box: Crowned Prince
Left Side: Married
Left Black Box:
Queen of France
Big Text: Marie-Antoinette
The 11th daughter of the House of Habsburg.
Has an uninhibited personality, but has finally become pregnant with a child.

Page 8: [The same as the last volume except for the words 'Volume 4']
Top: Map
London [Top]
Dieppe [Top left]
Abbeville [Top right]
Reims [Top Right middle]
Paris [Middle top]
Versailles [Middle left]
Avignon [Bottom right top]
Marseille [Bottom right bottom]
Bottom left corner: The Kingdom of Spain
Big Text: Map of France and the Major Locations of Volume 4
Description: Born 843 years after the death of Charlemagne, the country boasting the greatest productivity and population in Europe. Its capital is Paris, but in 1682 Louis XIV moved the center of the government to Versailles.
Lower Box: 18th Century Paris
Description: A city that developed in Northern France on a shoal in the Siene river. Since the year 508, it has been the capital of France. In 1682, Louis XIV moved capital operations southwest to Versailles. Now Paris is the core of France's economics, culture, and scholarship as the France's second capital.

Map: Sanson Family Residence [Top]
Church of Saint-Laurent [Top Right]
Palais-Royal [Top Center]
Place de Greve [Right Top Box]
Hotel de Ville (Paris Government Office Building) [Far Right box]
Bastille [Far Right]
Seine River [River]
Notre-Dame Cathedral
[Bottom Center]
Louvre Palace [Center below Palais-Royal]
Conciergerie [Bottom left box]
Tuileries Palace [Left above Conciergerie]
Place de la Concorde [Far left]
Champs-Eysees [Far left top]
18th Century France [Big Box]

Page 9:
Top: (The story leading to the present)
Text: In 1774, after a 60 year reign, Louis XV has finally passed. The next year, Auguste took the throne as Louis XVI. The government of "the Beloved", a man who drowned in his own lust, ended. And now with a new era led by a young king beginning, the people were ripe with anticipation.
Meanwhile, dark clouds loomed over the Sanson family because the new king had a heart filled with mercy. Charles feared that executions like they had been up to that point could end up buried in the shadows.
Elsewhere, 'Queen Antoinette' finally gave birth with the new king. And while she was intoxicated with power, her soul source of frustration was the ever-unyielding Marie-Josephe. Queen Antoinette invited Marie-Josephe to her "couples' dance" ball with the goal of making her giant, immobile husband into a laughingstock. But upending that trap, Marie danced with a "marionette" made to imitate her husband. And because the aristocrats there found the "marionette" humorous, Marie successfully tuned the tables on Antoinette's plan...!!!
And a world away from the magnificent palace, there is the slums of Paris. There, a woman who called herself a 'descendant of the House of Valois', "Jeanne of Fontette Village" (later Comtesse de la Motte) ruled as the queen of the slums. She was arrested for her excessive vice and was set to be executed by Charles. However, just before her execution her bloodlines was officially recognized. She was spared her execution and then began to be treated like an aristocrat...!!
During her pregnancy, Antoinette was ablaze with love for the Swedish aristocrat, Fersen. And perhaps to be a symbol of that love, the Palace of Versailles became drowned in pleasure... Meanwhile, the commoners were starving... the "people's anger" that overflowed from that pyramid of extreme disparity now threatens to become a a thorn in the struggle for power-----!!

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[Spacerrpaageee]

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Narr: Hôtel de Ville
Place de Grève
Center: 1779. The same day and time 1 year later, also the day when the father Baptiste died-----...
Narr: Reims
Execution Site

Page 12-13:
SOmeone: The Monsieur de Paris, Charles-Henri Sanson, has taken the platform!!!
Narr: The two siblings
wielded a Sanson sword on their own execution platform-----!!!
Someone: The Prevote de l'Hotel, Marie-Josephe Sanson, has taken the platform!!!

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Charles: Count De La Masieux,
please offer your final prayer to the confessional priest...
Guy: Kukuku...
I have such regret...
Kid: Papaa!!!
Masteeeer!!!
Guys: It's such a pity. They say he's only being executed because Count De Guillon got him blamed for his own crime of leaking military secrets.
I can't blame him. Poor aristocrats have less power than merchants these days.
All they can do is obey the major aristocrats.

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Someone: Look at that beautiful countess.
Apparently it's been decided that she will be Maruis De Guéret's mistress.
I get ya. So his real goal was to snatch up the guy's beautiful wife, eh?
It's a pity... I can't watch...
But she's a pretty tough Madame.
She's not crying one bit...
Char: Take my sword.
Guy: Yes, sir.

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Guy: General Villars, please offer your final prayer to the confessional priest...
Vi: !!?
Marie: You don't need God's forgiveness.
Because before you descend to Hell, you're going to be turned into nothing more than a cut of meat by Marie's sword...

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Vi: What?!!!
You're a woman?!
Uh!
Woman: Hurry and kill 'im!!!
He'd rape and kill any girl in his territory he could get his hands on!
Woman executioner, go torment him all ya can!!!
Marie: You really suck...

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Char: Sinless convict,
there is no one more difficult for me to cut down----...
Marie: Yo make me sick.
It feels like all the blood i my body is coming to a boil----...

Page 20-21:
Kid: Please don't kill my Dad!!!
If Dad dies, we'll be abandoned!!!
Please don't kill my daddyyyyy!!!
Woman: Uu... Uu...
Charles: Father------...
Guys: Since ancient times, the sword has been the holy weapon of men.
It's not in line with the "broom".
It's not something
for a woman to brandish.
Marie: Dad----...

Page 22-23:
Both: Should I be just like the Third Monsieur de Paris, Jean-Baptiste,
and accurately swing down my sword with no emotion or hesistation------?!!!

Page 24-25:
Text: Unsure
No

Page 26-27:
Woman: I love you, deaaaaar!!!!
Char: !!!!
Marie: Just like his excellency wishes,
I will soundly send you to the next world.
Guy: !!?
Th-th-th-
the siiiiide?!!!

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Guy: !!!?
Char: Dammit! I was perturbed by the Madame's scream and mistook my strike.
I dislodged the "atlas" between the first and second vertebrae-----...!!!
Guy: GAH...
gaHAh

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Marie: This fucking lowlife
can have his brains blown all over the place----!!

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Char: Back when I was weak and powerless, whenever I erred in my sword's trajectory, I would swing the sword down again and again
causing the convict great pain...
but now it's different------!!!

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Marie: Marie never has as much fun as when
Marie crush the pride of lowlife men!!!
My whole body surges with power-------!!!

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Marie: Is there no sword strong enough to withstand Marie's rage?
Marie wants a sword of unparalleled cruelty that she can use to kill more lowlife bastards----...
Char: Is it not possible to keep the kindness inside me in check?
I want a sword with greater unparalleled coolness that cannot be swayed by human emotions-----...

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[Well, there ya go.]

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Text: Azure
Funeral

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Text: Chaptire-Troisième
Chapter 3
Azure Funeral Versailles
Versailles Azure

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[And here's some heads.]