Desire 4

Has Takashi been played for a fool by Rikako all along? What is it that she really desired...and is that enough to keep him from leaving?

File:4: ANOTHER GIRL
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88.
Takashi: Everything Rikako did was a game....
Takashi: It was simply a hussy confusing me with a game to amuse herself.
Takashi: I leave for America in three more days......

89.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Since that day, I haven't been contacted by Rikako.
Takashi: Her behavior with men showed me she was far from the ideal woman.
Takashi: I imagined that the ideal woman I created on my Mac had appeared in real life......what a joke!

90.
SFX: Click...
SFX: BEEP
Glowing Button: Absent
Answering Machine: RECORDED 40 MINUTES AGO, BEEP......
Answering Machine: ............Are you mad at me? It's me, Rikako.

91.
Rikako: About that night...you were jealous. I wanted to know whether you wanted me or not.
Rikako: What I'm saying is you're wrong if you thought my goal was just sex.
Takashi: .........
Rikako: What I really wanted was to be sure I wouldn't leave you...

92.
Caption: Psychology
Lower Book: Ce sexe qui n’en est pas un (The Sex Which is Not One): Luce Irigaray
(TN: Luce Irigaray is a Belgian feminist and philosopher notable for her work on woman's psychology. "Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un", her most famous work, critiques Freud's view of women as a notion created by society and history as opposed to the true nature of the woman themself and is also notable for speaking of the differences between men and women in experience, being one of the few who does not separate gender and sex as opposed to other feminist psychologists)
Top book: EROTICISM
(Bottom caption: Chuokoron-sha: "Eroticism" by Francesco Alberoni, translated by Tsuneko Izumi)
(TN: A couple notes: first, Chuokoron-sha, now known as "Chuokoron-Shinsha", is a notable Japanese publishing company known for it's literary merit amon other things. As for "Eroticism", it was a book written in 1986 by Italian sociologist Francesco Alberoni)
Book:
--Women wish and desire to seek men for themselves.
They tease because they want to stimulate vanity and pride in men.
They wish to see who can muster courage when challenged
Teasing is also a test.
If a man withers and falls without gathering his will, it proves they have neither energy nor courage.
A WOMAN SCORNS THAT SORT OF MAN AND SIMULTANEOUSLY ALSO LOSES HER SEXUAL INTEREST IN HIM
(Extract from a book)

Takashi: A woman scorns that sort of man...
Takashi: And simultaneously also loses her sexual interest in him---

93.
Voice: --We wish for the safe return of the production engineer from his doctoral studies at Stanford. We greatly anticipate you becoming the information department's multimedia expert in the future.
Caption: Marubishi Club
Ofifical: I've heard you've been tired recently, are you alright?
Takashi: Ye...yes, I'm fine.
Official: Then, a toast to celebrate your coming journey.

94.
Caption: 7:30 PM
Caption: NEW TOKYO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TERMINAL 2
(TN: This was the original name of what was already known as the "Narita Airport", which officially wasn't the name until 2004)
Announcer: THIS IS THE FINAL BOARDING CALL FOR JAW FLIGHT 802 GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO

95.
Caption: 8:05 PM
Takashi: In three months.........no, one month, I may understand a bit about women.
Plane Captain: Thank you for flying JAW Airlines today. We need to inform you that we've just gotten word of a change in departure time from the control tower.
Plane Captain: We're very sorry, but please disembark the plane for now and wait in the lobby.
Takashi: .........

96.
Attendant: Well--we were planning to depart in two hours, but we were forced to delay the flight......
Man: I heard earlier from a stewardess I know that there was a bomb threat against the plane.
Takashi: A bomb...!?
Takashi: It can't be......!?
Stewardess: Are you Fujii-sama of Marubishi Industries?
Takashi: Ye...yes.
Stewardess: Thank you, there is someone waiting for you in room 2001 in the airport hotel.

97.
Takashi: Is it Rikako......!?
SFX:Knock knock
Answering Machine: What I really wanted was to be sure I wouldn't leave you...
SFX: CLICK
Takashi: .........
Takashi: It's...me. I'm coming in.

98.
SFX: Click
Takashi: Did you stop the airplane...!?
"Woman": .........
Takashi: Why aren't the lights on?

99.
Takashi: ............
Takashi: I'm grateful it was stopped. This will be a clean ending.

100.
Takashi: YOUR PURPOSE ISN'T SEX!?
Takashi: THEN WHAT THEN IS THE PURPOSE YOU'RE IMPLYING!!

101.
Caption:--Teasing is also a test.
If a man withers and falls without gathering his will, it proves they have neither energy nor courage.
A WOMAN SCORNS THAT SORT OF MAN
Takashi: WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME.........
Caption: AND SIMULTANEOUSLY ALSO LOSES HER SEXUAL INTEREST IN HIM----
Takashi: IT ISN'T PASSION OR LOVE!!
(TN: Takashi uses both "koi" and "ai" here, which I had to differenciate. "Koi" is a "passionate love", whereas "ai" is just generic "love")

102.
Takashi: IT'S TO F**K!! THOSE ARE YOUR TRUE FEELINGS TOO!!
(TN: Yeah, I censored it but I prefer you keep the word as is in the scanslation)

103.
Woman: Haa haa, wa...wait!!
Woman: I get it.
Takashi: ......!?
Woman: Haa

104.
Takashi: .........RI...RIKAKO!?
Woman: Ah...I'm exposed?
Takashi: Wh...who is it?

105.
Takashi: It's you...!!
Makoto: Makoto! You remember me. Fujii-san doesn't look like a sadist on the outside.
Takashi: ............

106.
Takashi: The one who stopped the plane really was .........!!

107.
Takashi: ......!?

108.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: RIKAKO!!

109.
Takashi: ...!?
Takashi: The stopper really was.........!!

110.
Makoto: The person who stopped the plane was Rikako.
Makoto: She requested that she wanted me to go to the hotel in her place so we could investigate you.
Takashi: The real woman I desire may be "that" Rikako.

TN: First of all, I finally get the whole "Stanford" situation that was set up from chp. 1 on and really feel sorry for miscommunicating it. (that's why I ended up putting down that stuff before about checking it before scanslating it in the first place). Takashi was chosen to go to Stanford to further get a doctoral knowledge for the company. But then he meets Rikako and...yeah. Secondly, is it just me or is a series that is supposed to be about sex...rather deep?

One more thing: I found out just the other day that someone else did the first three chapters before a few years ago...makes me feel stupid I "picked up" another second-hand series, but this chapter will get us past that.