The Chrysalis and the King 6

Title: Sanagi to Ousama (The Chrysalis and the King) by Natsumi Rin
Volume: 1 (of 2)
Chapter: 6
Translated by: Oceansportrait
Translation Completed: Feb 12, 2007

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

Pg 1:
Yanagi: Don't ever come here again.
Sekina: (Being pushed away by the person you love,
feels like having your heart ripped out...)

Pg 2:
Yanagi: Suzuki.
Yanagi: Sonoda.
//mumble mumble//
Yanagi: Takeuchi.
Yanagi: Tsumura.
Yanagi: Tsumura..?
Girl: Didn't we see her today?
//whisper//
Girl #2: Maybe she went home...
//whisper//
Yanagi: ("I love you.."
"...I can tell you I love you and mean it...")

Pg 3:
Yanagi: ("I trust the Yanagi I know...")
Ageo: ----And we're back to the same old, same old.
Ageo: I don't mind you being here and all,
Ageo: but shouldn't you think about going to school?

Pg 4:
Ageo: What happened between you and Yanagi?
Ageo: ---and I guess you're not going to tell me. [SL: I knew you wouldn't.]
Sekina: Sorry, Ageo....
Sekina: (It's like I'm back to the person I was before I met Yanagi...
I can't tell Ageo anything...)
Sekina: (But just thinking about Yanagi makes me want to cry...)
Sekina: ("You're just a pain in the ass.")
Sekina: (I don't have the courage to try to talk to him again...)
//creak//

Pg 5:
Kimika: Do you happen to know if someone named Ageo-san is here--?
Kimika: I heard from some people,
Kimika: that I'd be able to see Akiya if I came here.
Ageo: Akiya? ...You know him?
Kimika: Yes. And I'm trying to get in touch with him.
Kimika: I'm Ikeda Kimika.
Kimika: If you tell him my name he should know who I am.

Pg 6:
Kimika: Well, I guess you could say, I'm his girlfriend.
Sekina: (Eh...)
Kimika: What are you staring at me for?
//realization//
Ageo: She's a student of Yanagi's.
Kimika: Oh really?
Kimika: So you're--
Sekina: (Is this the person...)

Pg 7:
Kimika: Why don't you tell me what Akiya's been up to lately?
Sekina: (Yanagi likes..?)
//noise noise noise//
Sekina: (Why am I...)
(sitting here with her..)
Kimika: Gin with lime, please.

Pg 8:
Sekina: (---She has long hair,
and she has this air of maturity about her...
I never knew a person who matched Yanagi's ideal type existed in real life.)
Sekina: ("Did you really think I'd get worked up over some brat who's just skin and bones?")
(No wonder...)
Sekina: (he doesn't think anything of me...)
Kimika: Is something wrong? You haven't said anything.
[Mangaka's Message

In my last comic, I wrote that I was tired and stressed and I ended up receiving a lot of letters
from readers who were worried about me. I felt bad but at the same time a little happy over receving the letters.
I'm sorry. Thanks for all the love. I'm perfectly all right. I'll keep on doing my best.
Just you wait and see! Please keep an eye out for my other works in the future!


I hope I can release volume 2.
Let's meet again then!

Natsumi Rin]

Pg 9:
Sekina: What do you like about Yanagi?
Sekina: Was Yanagi the one to fall in love with you, or the other way around?
Kimika: AHAHAHAHA.
Kimika: I'm sorry! But your questions were so cute, I couldn't help it--
Kimika: You like him, don't you?
//blush//
Kimika: Let's see...
Kimika: We just kind of naturally fell into it, I guess? [there's emphasis on "it"]

Pg 10:
Kimika: We both wanted to have the passion of a relationship without all the hassles of being tied down to one person.
Sekina: (Eh...)
Kimika: He's not the only one I'm seeing,
and it's probably the same for him.
Kimika: Having a relationship with only one person at a time is boring anyway.
Sekina: That's weird...
Sekina: Isn't the "passion of a relationship" determined by how much you open up your heart to the other person?

Pg 11:
Kimika: We've already come to an understanding of what to expect.
Kimika: We meet when we want to,
and we have sex when we want to.
Kimika: I guess since you're still in middle school, you wouldn't understand a relationship like that, would you?
//stab//
//squeeze//
//clatter//

Pg 12:
//slide//
Sekina: (I don't know why..)

Pg 13:
Sekina: (but I'm even more afraid now to talk to him face to face...)
Ageo: Sekina, just get over it.
There's nothing you can do about it if he's already involved with someone else.
Sekina: ...yeah...
Sekina: But why
don't they look happy when they're together?
Sekina: (It's as if...they're in separate worlds.)
Sekina: ("without all the hassles of being tied down...")
Sekina: (Is this the kind of relationship adults have..?)

Pg 13:
Sekina: (I don't understand it...)
Sekina: (Why do you look so sad...
when you're with her..?)

Pg 14:
//slide//
Sekina: (Eh...?)
//thump//

Pg 15:
//swish//
//tear//
//slam//
Ageo: Sekina!
Sekina: (I feel like such an idiot...)
Sekina: (It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't change the fact that they're going out...)

Pg 16:
Sekina: (I was just too much of a kid to understand...)
//push//
Yanagi: Don't.
Kimika: ..Eh?
Kimika: ...what's with you...
Kimika: It's not like it's our first time...
Kimika: You...
Kimika: aren't worried about her, are you?

Pg 17:
Yanagi: (" you aren't worried about her, are you?...")
Ageo: I was a bit shocked too.
Ageo: I never thought this would happen...
Yanagi: Eh..?
Ageo: She's starting to get into your system, isn't she?
Ageo: Sekina's the first...
to come close to the heart you never opened to anyone...
Yanagi: Hey!

Pg 18:
Yanagi: Give me be a break.
Yanagi: Why the hell would a kid like her---
Ageo: But that "kid" had something you were looking for all your life.
Ageo: Sekina's different from all the women you've dated in the past.
Ageo: She's pure-hearted, and honest.
She's someone who treasures the connection in a relationship.
Ageo: She'll never turn her back on you.
Ageo: Deep inside you're probably thinking...
Yanagi: ...stop it...

Pg 19:
Ageo: maybe, just maybe, Sekina might be the one who would accept you for who you are...
Yanagi: Stop!
Ageo: Put an end to the empty relationships..
Ageo: Don't lie to yourself any longer.
Ageo: Because if you don't, Sekina won't be the one who's pitiable,
it'll be you.

Pg 20:
Mother: Ah, Sekina, this is Nakajima-san.
Nakajima: Nice to meet you, Sekina-chan!
Nakajima: Wow, this is really nerve-wracking. Hahaha---
//blank stare//
//chew chew chew//

Pg 21:
Nakajima: What do you think of the food here? If it's not to your tastes we could always go---
Sekina: It's fine.
Nakajima: R-Really..?
Nakajima: Next time, let's go to this great cake shop I know.
[SL: Nakajima: Their cheesecake is out of this world.]
Sekina: ---Shouldn't you take my mom there instead of me? Like on a date?
//blush//
Mother: S-Sekina...
Nakajima: Eh...
Mother: This buffet is really famous. I'll get you some stuff I think will be good.
Sekina: (If mom gets married, I'll probably be even more alone than I already am...)
//clatter//
Sekina: (I have to forget about Yanagi too...
I can't rely on anyone anymore.)
Sekina: (If only I could go on feeling nothing..)
//crash//

Pg 22:
Mother: Oh--no...
Man: I'm sorry...
Sekina: Mom..?!
//clatter//
Nakajima: Are you all right? Did you cut your hand?
Nakajima: You over there! Please bring a towel right away!
[SL: Man: Y-Yes!]
Sekina: (This person...
must really like my mom...)
[SL: Mom: I'm fine.]

Pg 23:
Sekina: (I can feel his feelings for her just by watching them together.)
Sekina: (It's a fuzzy sort of feeling...
and I can't help but be a little jealous...)
[SL: Mom: Everyone's looking.]
Sekina: They're in a world of their own---

Pg 24:
Sekina: (I wonder why they act so coldly towards each other.
Why aren't they...)
Sekina: (At this rate, I won't be able to forget him...)
Sekina: (I have to test things out for myself...)
//clank clank clank//
Sekina: Yanagi!

Pg 25:
Yanagi: ...didn't I tell you not to come here anymore?
Sekina: Tonight, I had dinner with mom and Nakajima-san.
Sekina: He seemed like a really nice guy, I was relieved.
Sekina: I think things will go great with them...
Sekina: I thought I should just let you know.

Pg 26:
Yanagi: ...really.
Sekina: (His eyes don't lie...)
Sekina: (Then why...
did he seem so sad when...)
Sekina: Can I ask you one thing?
Sekina: Do you love Kimika-san?

Pg 27:
Sekina: Since I did spill my guts to you,
Sekina: I think I have the right to ask.
Yanagi: ...Yeah. I love her.
Sekina: Honestly?
Yanagi: ...Yeah.
Sekina: ...Okay, got ya.
//giggle//
Sekina: I can't say I'm not a bit sad you wouldn't look my way.
Sekina: But more than anything else, I wanted you to love someone from the bottom of your heart...
Sekina: (I never want to...)

Pg 28:
Sekina: (see him looking the way he did back there ever again...)
Sekina: You'll never be lonely if you're always thinking about the person you love.
Sekina: You'll find happiness. There's no doubt about it.
Kimika: Akiya...
Sekina: I guess I better get going.

Pg 29:
Sekina: (I still don't know everything about you...)
Sekina: See you tomorrow, Yanagi.
Sekina: (but I feel....
like I've found the truth I was looking for.)