The Chrysalis and the King 5

Title: Sanagi to Ousama (The Chrysalis and the King) by Natsumi Rin
Volume: 1 (of 2)
Chapter: 5
Translated by: Oceansportrait
Translation Completed: Feb 12, 2007

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


Pg 1:
//screechh//
[mangaka's message:

Yanagi

I'll be blunt.
I knew from the very beginning that I wanted to draw someone who wasn't just a "cool and goodlooking" character. (laughs)
But I also knew that as long as he was a jerk, I had to make him that much more goodlooking to make up for it.
He ended up being such a jerk my manager tried to stop me from going through with it. Hahaha.
So I tried to draw the line at a "reasonably normal jerkiness" level. (Does such a thing exist?)
No matter how hard I try though, my characters always end up having a soft-side to them.
I think a good quality to have in a person is someone who's constantly battling with himself.
Not just in manga either!]

Pg 2:
//clap clap clap//
//clap clap clap//
Ageo: Haha..
Ageo: Looks like we still have a long way to go...
[SL: Ageo: We should get more members. And FAST.]
[SL: Guy: Yeah..]
Sekina: Ageo, that was amazing!
Sekina: Hey, Hey--where's Yanagi?
Ageo: Hah? He doesn't come here everyday, you know (laughs).
And anyway, didn't you see him at school?
Sekina: Yeah, but...

Pg 3:
Sekina: Do you know what kind of girls he's into..?
Ageo: Eh..?
Sekina: W-Well, I was just wondering what type of girls he likes...
Ageo: He likes women who have long hair, a huge rack,
and who are unbelievably sexy. [SL: Or so he says.]
Sekina: (I'm the complete opposite...)
[SL: Sekina: I shouldn't have asked...]
Ageo: Are you starting to fall for Yanagi?
Ageo: Forget about him.
Ageo: Don't even go there. Not with him.

Pg 4:
Sekina: Eh...?
//ding dong//
//click//
Yanagi: ...Nii-san. [SL: Nii-san=big brother]
[his older brother is fairly polite. So I made the dialogue reflect this :P]
Guy: I heard you were staying here so I thought I'd drop by.
If you were nearby, you could have at least come to see us, Akiya.
Yanagi: Why did you come here..?

Pg 5:
Guy: What do you say to a dinner with the family? It's been a while since everyone's got together.
Guy: This is a map on how to get to the restaurant.
Yanagi: No thanks, I'm---
Guy: Father was surprised
you were studying to become a teacher.
Guy: Mother's come back from Los Angeles as well.
Guy: It's been ten years, hasn't it?
She's looking forward to seeing you again.

Pg 6:
Ageo: He hates women.
Ageo: I don't know if it was because of the reason behind his birth, but...
Ageo: I'll just come right out and say it.
Playing around with a women and throwing them away like trash means nothing to him.
Ageo: I think he even gets a kick out of it.

Pg 7:
Ageo: If you fall in love with him,
Ageo: all you'll end up being is hurt.
//crumple//

Pg 8:
Sekina: ...Why are you telling me this..?
Sekina: Isn't Yanagi your friend?!
Sekina: Why would you...

Pg 9:
Ageo: I've seen his good and bad sides, and
Ageo: I hang out with him despite knowing what I do.
Ageo: But,
Ageo: when it comes to love, it's a completely different story.
Ageo: Once...I saw a fight he had with his girlfriend of that time.
Ageo: I heard she was an older woman, and he made her fall for him only to throw her away later on.

Pg 10:
Ageo: She was crying. Her tears were real,
but all he did was laugh.
Ageo: He looked satisfied, like he'd carried out some revenge.
Ageo: His eyes were as cold as ice.
Ageo: I remember thinking "what's wrong with him?"

Pg 11:
Ageo: He'll never be serious about anyone.
Ageo: That's why he can go on hurting others like he does.
Ageo: Once you tell him your feelings, he'll probably...
Sekina: That's a lie!
Sekina: I can't believe you're saying this...
Sekina: Yanagi...
is someone who treasures feelings above all.

Pg 12:
Sekina: He understands what it means to hurt, deep inside. Why would a person like that---
Ageo: If he understands, then the more he does, the more he would feel the need to put up a wall around himself.
Ageo: I really didn't want to say this,
Ageo: but I couldn't just sit back and watch you get in over your head.
Sekina: (He...)
Ageo: You and Yanagi are both important to me.
So I couldn't---
Sekina: (He always...
looked at me with kind eyes.)

Pg 13:
Sekina: (Do I only know one side of Yanagi...?)
[sign reads "Discussion Room"]
Yanagi: First off, you have to understand what your limits are.
Yanagi: Do you want to go to a public or private school?
Yanagi: Once you decide, it'll be easier to narrow down the choices.
Yanagi: With your current grades...

Pg 14:
Sekina: (I can't look him in the eyes.)
Sekina: (If what Ageo said was really true, then...)
Sekina: (...still....)
Sekina: When was your first love?
Sekina: How did you fall for her?
Sekina: How much did you love her?
//thump thump thump//

Pg 15:
Sekina: T-There's this girl in my class who brags about the number of boyfriends she's had.
Sekina: All the other girls were saying how she couldn't have been serious about all of them--
Yanagi: Well that's a no brainer.
Yanagi: If you loved each person you were in a relationship with, you wouldn't last long.
//chuckles//
//thump//
Sekina: (Ah...)

Pg 16:
Sekina: (I...
don't know anymore...)
Sekina: (Who is...
the real Yanagi..?)
Brother: Akiya, over here!

Pg 17:
//clank//
Yanagi: You seem like you have something to say, father.
[Mangaka's message:

Ageo
He was the first character I decided on for this series.
He was the first character who's name I decided on.
He was the only character who ended up being "normal" in this series.
And he was my favorite character to draw (laughs).

While I was drawing the manga, I seriously contemplated who I would choose if I were her---
either Yanagi or Ageo. (I hardly ever think about stuff like this when it comes to my characters!)
Even though Yanagi has the personality that he does, he'll probably be the more "stable" choice since
he'll most likely go on to work as a teacher. On the otherhand, even though Ageo has the nicer personality,
he's a musician so I'd probably have to live a life of borderline poverty (laughs).
I'm such a realist. Who would you choose? (Well it doesn't really matter, but...)

Yanagi is a fox,
Ageo is a raccoon,
and Sekina is a kitten.
Those were the images I had when creating their characters.
I wonder why they were all based on animals...?]

Pg 18:
Yanagi: Oh, sorry. Did you dislike dark sunglasses?
//chuckles//
Yanagi: You've chosen a pretty high-class place.
Yanagi: I guess the way you like to show off your money hasn't changed.
Father: And it seems you haven't changed either, Akiya.
Father: I thought your attitude might have shown improvement since you are wishing to become a teacher, but I was wrong.
Father: You always did disappointment me...
Yanagi: Who's disappointing who?

Pg 19:
Yanagi: I can't help it. I'm not your real son.
Yanagi: Right, mother?
Yanagi: ...I'm going home. If I'm here, you probably wouldn't be able to eat a decent meal anyway.
//clank//
Brother: Akiya...
wait!
//step step step//
Mother: Wait, Akiya-san!
Mother: We haven't seen each other in 10 years....

Pg 20:
Yanagi: Judging from the cold atmosphere...
Yanagi: I'm guessing my old man still hasn't forgiven you for what you did.
Yanagi: Well, it's the same for me.
Yanagi: You slept with another man and gave birth to me,
Yanagi: as a way to convince father to divorce you.
Yanagi: I'm just
Yanagi: a tool you used, aren't I?
Mother: Don't say such terrible things...
Mother: Even if you don't believe me, I was worried about you all the time, as a mother would...

Pg 21:
Mother: I loved you in my own way.
Yanagi: Ha...
Yanagi: HAHAHAHAHAA.
Yanagi: You left me like some excess baggage and ran off!
Yanagi: Words really are useful when you want them to be.
Yanagi: "As a mother would"?
Cut the crap. You aren't a "mother".
Yanagi: You're just a woman who can't be satisfied until she gets her way.

Pg 22:
Yanagi: I've never felt love from you.
Yanagi: Can you even begin to comprehend what it felt like to live in that house?
Yanagi: My old man ignored me most of the time,
Yanagi: and I never felt like I belonged. I tried to fight it, but I could feel myself becoming more and more alone.
Yanagi: Even the wish that "someday you'd come back for me"
Yanagi: ...disappeared from my mind...
Yanagi: You don't know...
Yanagi: anything I went through.

Pg 23:
Yanagi: I've given up...
on being loved...and on loving....
Yanagi: I can't trust anything or anyone anymore.
Yanagi: I don't want anyone to get close to my heart.
Yanagi: I'm sick and tired
Yanagi: of my heart being torn to shreds because of someone!

Pg 24:
//click//
Sekina: (No matter what I watch, no matter what I do,
I can't seem to forget.)
Sekina: (No matter what Ageo told me,
I can't get Yanagi out of my mind.)
Sekina: (It has the complete opposite effect...
I can feel myself falling more and more in love with him...)

Pg 25:
Sekina: (I feel nervous, but I want to see him.
I feel scared, but I want to know.)
Sekina: (My feelings just keep piling up despite all this...)
Sekina: (I wonder why...?)

Pg 26:
//clank clank//
//clank clank//

Pg 27:
Yanagi: What are you doing here...
Yanagi: I don't have time to deal with you right now. Go home.
Sekina: Ah...
Sekina: Um...I...
Sekina: came here because I wanted to tell you something...

Pg 28:
Sekina: I tried to think about it on my own but it was all a mess and I couldn't concentrate anymore...
//click//
Sekina: but the moment I saw your face, I realized what my heart's already known.
Sekina: I love you...

Pg 29:
Sekina: I might not know everything about you...
Sekina: but even then, I think about you all the time...
Sekina: I always want to be with you...
Yanagi: ...really...

Pg 30:
//chuckles//
Yanagi: ...you don't even know me and you already "love" me..?
//tense//
Sekina: (His eyes...changed?)
//grab//
//slam//

Pg 31:
Yanagi: If you don't know, do you want me to tell you?
Yanagi: What do you want to know?
The number of women I've had? How I sleep with women?
Yanagi: I wouldn't mind showing you.
Sekina: Ah...
//grip grip//
//click//

Pg 32:
Sekina: ....uu...
//exhale//
//draws back//
Sekina: ("I think he even gets a kick out of it".)
Sekina: (Why..?)

Pg 33:
Sekina: (Is this how adults handle situations like this..?)
Yanagi: What's wrong?
//chuckle chuckle//
Sekina: ("His eyes were cold as ice.")
Sekina: (Why is he purposely trying to do things to drive me away---)
Sekina: (...still...)
//slide//

Pg 34:
//scratch//
Yanagi: You idiot!
Yanagi: What are you---
//thud//

Pg 35:
Sekina: This is the third time..
Sekina: you worried over this scratch...
Sekina: Not once, not even twice..
My mind's not confused anymore.
Sekina: I can tell you I love you and mean it.
Sekina: ...No matter what kind of person you are..
Sekina: I trust the Yanagi I know...
Sekina: (because...he's the one person
who understands what I'm feeling...)

Pg 36:
//slam//
Yanagi: I don't know what the hell you're thinking,
but don't get the wrong idea.
Yanagi: You're my student.
Sekina: (Ah..)
Yanagi: I only listened to what you had to say because you knew Ageo.
Yanagi: Did you really think I'd get worked up over some brat who's just skin and bones?
Yanagi: You're just a pain in the ass.
//shock//

Pg 37:
Yanagi: Don't ever come here again.
//creak//
//slam//