The Chrysalis and the King 3

Title: Sanagi to Ousama (The Chrysalis and the King) by Natsumi Rin
Volume: 1 (of 2)
Chapter: 3
Translated by: Oceansportrait
Translation Completed: Feb 12, 2007

Legend:
// - action
[] - translator's notes
() - character's thoughts

Page 1:
Sekina: ("the warmth of a person reaching out to me"...)
Sekina: (That's what I've...
always wanted...)

Pg 2:
Sekina: (Where am I...?)
Yanagi: So you're awake?
//flip//
Sekina: Eh...I'm---
Yanagi: You ran a fever because you stood out in the rain for so long.
Here, you should keep this on.
Sekina: Ah...
//rustle//

Pg 3:
Sekina: Noooo--!
Sekina: Why?!
Why am I wearing this?! Did you t-take my clothes o-off---
Yanagi: Yup.
//swish//
Yanagi: I'm an expert at undressing women.
[SL: Sekina: Noooo---! How could this happen---! Kyaaa---!]
Yanagi: But since undressing you would have been boring, I got you to do it.
That was a couple of hours ago, do you remember anything?
[SL: Sekina: What? "boring"?]
//now that I think about it//
[SL: Sekina: I'm taking my clothes off!
//smack//
//kick//
Sekina: Leave!!
Yanagi: Are you pretending to be drunk?]
Yanagi: Are you disappointed?
//smile//
Sekina: Who would be?!
//blush//

Pg 4:
Sekina: (Damn...I always end up losing to him..) [SL: It's sad!]
[SL: Yanagi: Hey
Yanagi: Hey]
//slide//
Yanagi: You still have a fever.
Yanagi: I'll phone home for you
Yanagi: so you should just forget everything and concentrate on sleeping.
Sekina: (Oh, right....
the moment I saw Yanagi...
I couldn't hold everything in anymore, and I ended up crying on his shoulder...)

Pg 5:
Sekina: (I ended up showing him a side of me I never showed anyone...
but I felt safe being in his arms...)
Yanagi: Do you want to eat something before you go to sleep?
Sekina: No thanks. I'm not hungry.
Sekina: But could you do something else for me instead? Pat my blanket for me!
//smile//
[SL: Yanagi: What..?]
Yanagi: Hah?
//pat pat//
Sekina: Ahahahahaha. [arrow reads "She looks happy"]
Sekina: Hahaha..
I don't know why but I feel so calm right now---
//chuckles//

Pg 6:
Sekina: My mom did that alot for me when I was a kid.
She was even nicer when I had a cold.
Sekina: What about your mom?
Sekina: She must be really pretty.
Yanagi: ...yeah...
Yanagi; she's a beautiful woman.
Yanagi: But...
//pat//
Yanagi: she never did this for me...
Sekina: (Sometimes,
Yanagi has this really sad expression on his face..)
//click//
[SL: Yanagi: I still have some marking to do.]
Yanagi: You should go to sleep.
Sekina: (so it made me a bit curious.)

Pg 7:
Sekina: (His sweatshirt is so big...
I wonder if he always wears this...)
Sekina: (It's been a long time,
since someone's stayed by my side.)

Pg 8:
Sekina: I'm so bored---
//roll roll//
[SL: Sekina: Maybe I should have forced myself to go to school--]
Sekina: There's nothing to do here!
Sekina: I wonder if he rented this room just so he could teach our class? [SL: It's so...empty.]
Sekina: (I wonder if he ever sees his family...)
//ding dong//
//rustle//
Sekina: Ah!

Pg 9:
Sekina: Yanagi! You're home early!
//click//
Sekina: Mom...
Sekina: ...why are you...
Sekina: Why...
Yanagi: I asked her to come.
Yanagi: It would be best for you two to talk it over.
Sekina: (Why...?)
Sekina: No...

Pg 10:
Sekina: I don't have anything to say to her!
Who gave you the right to just decide to call her on your own?!
Mom: Sekina...
Yanagi: How long were you planning on staying here?
Yanagi: What else is there to do but have you talk with her and resolve this whole issue?
Sekina: (N..o...)
Yanagi: It's your problem.
//stab//

Pg 11:
Sekina: ...you...didn't have
to throw me away like that...
Mom: Let's go home, Sekina.
You shouldn't disturb your teacher anymore than you already have.

Pg 12:
Sekina: Yesterday
Sekina: was my birthday and you...
Mom: There's someone I'd like you to meet...
//tense//
Mom: His name is Nakajima-san. When I talked about you to him, he said he would love to meet you.
He even went out of his way to purchase gifts for you...
Sekina: I don't want them!

Pg 13:
Sekina: I don't want anything from him.
Sekina: What I want...
Sekina: What I want is...
Sekina: You don't understand anything about me!
//slam//
Mom: Sekina!
Sekina: (I was supposed to have given up a long time ago...)

Pg 14:
Sekina: (no matter how much I cried...
there would never be anyone who would notice...)
//wheeze wheeze wheeze//

Pg 15:
Sekina: (There would never be...)
//wheeze wheeze wheeze//

Sekina: (There would never...)
Sekina: W..hy...
Sekina: Wh..y....
Sekina: I thought...
you were the only one who would stay with me...

Pg 16:
Sekina: You were the only one....

Pg 17:
//slam//
Ageo: How did it go?
Yanagi: She wasn't at school either.
//mumble//
Yanagi: All that was left was an empty shell.
Ageo: Eh..?
Yanagi: No, nothing.
Mom: ...I shouldn't
have considered remarrying.
Mom: I can't blame her for being angry.
I brought it up so suddenly, it's no wonder she's upset.

Pg 18:
Ageo: ...since it's exam time and all,
she's probably just a bit shaky right now..
Ageo: but with time...right, Yanagi?
Yanagi: No...
I don't think it's just that.
Yanagi: It's not just that...
//rustle rustle//

Pg 18:
Yanagi: So you're looking for the butterfly?
//tense//
Yanagi: You're looking in a flower field? Good thinking.
Sekina: What do you want?
Yanagi: I was looking for something too.
I went looking everywhere.
Yanagi: In my case though, I was looking for a chrysalis that hadn't reached maturity yet.
//blush//

Pg 19:
Sekina: Just cut the crap!
It's none of your business! It's "my problem", remember?!
Sekina: Or what? Are you feeling some kind of responsibility as a teacher or something?
Yanagi: You really think I'd come all the way out here if all I felt was that? What a laugh.
Sekina: Then why?!
Just leave me alone already!

Pg 20:
Yanagi: I can't...
Yanagi: you remind me of myself...
Yanagi: Without even wanting to, I start thinking how
you might be feeling this and that...

Pg 21:
Sekina: What are you trying to say...
Sekina: What the hell are you trying to make yourself look good for?!
Sekina: There's no way you could ever understand what I'm feeling...
Sekina: There's no way...
Sekina: anyone could ever understand...
Yanagi: Ah...
Sekina: Eh?

Pg 22:
Sekina: ...are you serious...
Sekina: Did you get him?!
Is he in there?!

Pg 23:
Sekina: Wh...
Sekina: Why...you don't have anything...
Yanagi: ...You...
Yanagi: were always sad because you could never get what you wanted.

Pg 24:
Yanagi: And since it wasn't something people could see, no one could understand.
Sekina: (Ah...)
Yanagi: I was always alone too.
Yanagi: In my family, I was the only one who wasn't related by blood to my father.
Yanagi: I never had anyone I could lean on...
or a place to belong...
Yanagi: But more than that,
I was sad no one could understand a person like me.

Pg 25:
Yanagi: It's tough for you to have no one who understands, right?
Sekina: (He...
feels exactly the same way as me...)
Sekina: Uu...
//drop drop drop//
Sekina: (I...)
Sekina: (I've found the one thing..)

Pg 26:
Sekina: (I've always wanted.)

Pg 27:
Sekina: (I can feel his message through the warmth of his hands...
I'm not...
alone anymore...)