Desire 3

The plot thickens...on the weird story between Takashi and Rikako...

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64.
Rikako: I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU......
Rikako: I'M YOUR MANIA.

65.
Letter:
NEXT FRIDAY
CALL ME
RIKAKO
Worker: Fujii-kun......!
Takashi: Huh...!?
Takashi: Two days ago, we decided the on the Stanford U (America) student program.

66.
Worker: Continuing with the report...// What's wrong? Have you been feeling tired lately?
Takashi: I'm...I'm alright. I'm sorry.
Worker 2: We're going to San Fransisco next week. You should go to a hospital and get yourself checked.
Takashi: Ye...yes. Ah...please look over my data.
Takashi: So far, what we called outsourcing has only affected information systems, but it is currently increasing in other sections. Tables #1 shows the proportions of outsourcing in planning, marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and accounting around the world for the top 100 companies in sales.

67.
Takashi: It's becoming a routine that I spend my lunch break in a nearby library.
Takashi: It's because that's the only place where I can forget my worldly concerns.....
Voice: Fujii-san.........
Girl: Is that you?
Takashi: ......?


68.
Girl: It is you!
Takashi: ......Wh...what do you want from me?
Girl: Rikako told me about you. You're the elite salaryman who graduated from Tokyo U.
Takashi: .........
Girl: "A Discourse on Psychotherapy"......Like I thought, you're reading a hard book~~~
Book: A Discourse on Psychotherapy, Jung
(TN: The book that Takashi is reading is one by Carl Jung, a German psychologist known as the founder of analytical psychology, preaching the aspects of harmony and stating that humans rely too much on science and logic and are better in using the spiritual or unconscious as part of the self, as well as the importance of the individual self)
Girl: Well, it's cause I'm stupid // that I'm after a guy li--ke you.

69.
Girl: Ah...This is from Rikako. She wants you to come here tonight.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: You......seem like a high school girl, // but you know that woman?
Girl: I heard a rumor from a college girl, but whether it's true or not.........
Takashi: ......
Makoto: I'm Makoto. I'm going to study now! See you later!(heart) (Note: Made Makoto's lines with less big words / more 'stupid' sounding.)

70.
Map:
-HERE, ROOM 302
-CONVENIENCE STORE
-STATION)
Takashi: In any case, I'm going to San Francisco next week......Tonight is the last time I'll see her.
Takashi: Is this a different apartment of hers......?
Takashi: !?
Takashi: ............

71.
Man: Rikako is inside. Come in.
Takashi: .........

72.
Man: She finished a Dom Pérignon by herself.
(TN: Dom Perignon is a brand of French champagne named after the Benedictine monk who pioneered it)
Man: She'll wake up eventually when the alcohol wears off.
Man: Don't stand, sit down.
Man: Rikako wants a lover for tonight. (Note: I know it literally says sex partner, but that's such an awkward phrase.)
Man: Me or you? She'll choose one of us as her partner.
Takashi: .........

73.
Takashi: I...I don't feel like it.
Man: Well then, you should go home right now.
Takashi: TONIGHT IS THE LAST TIME I'LL SEE HER......!!

74.
Man: Then
Man: Whoever draws highest card wins. Ace is 1. One-round match.
Man: There.
Man: Do you smoke? It'll calm you down.
Man: Tobacco, it's tobacco.
Takashi: Yo...you go first.........

75.
Takashi: !!
Man: .........
Takashi: .........

76.
Rikako: Stupid...
Takashi:......!!
Rikako: You have bad luck.
SFX: Click
Takashi: ......?

77.
Rikako: Tonight we'll go from Satie to Mozart. Symphony No. 40......First Movement.
(TN: Mozart's "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor" or the "Great G minor symphony" is notable for it's dark sonata movement, being one of the first works to begin with an accompanyment and eventually became a theme taken up by later Romantics)
Takashi: .........

78.
(No dialogue)

79.
Rikako: Ah...

80.
Caption: Furnished Photo: Mainichi Newspaper Company

81.
Rikako: Haa haa
SFX: Zip...
Rikako: Haa
Makoto: Doing that is pathetic. Want to do it with me?
Rikako: Haa

82.
Takashi: ..................

83.
Takashi: STOP---!! YOU'RE ALL CRAZY !!
Takashi: E...enough already...

84.
Rikako: Wait!
Takashi: Next week I'm going to America. I won't return to Japan for two years...I don't think I'll ever see you again.

85.
Rikako: I believe we will meet again. Until then...
Rikako: A farewell kiss.
Takashi: It's better if you look for another partner.

86.
Takashi: Why......!? Why is she crying.........

TN: It's weird how psychological a series like this is when it's essentially about sex. Takashi is trying to figure himself out, but at the same time he sort of is also stuck with the tortures of knowing that he may never have the one he really wants in Rikako. Of course, Makoto is a new wrinkle in this situation (didn't expect the "handcuffs for the loser bit though"...which will only get weirder next time.