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Mangahelpers Translations https://mangahelpers.com/translators/rss 2009-10-25T14:28:34+00:00 /favicon.ico MangaHelpers Admins admin@mangahelpers.com https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/17101 [English] [Translation] Desire 40 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-25T14:28:34+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Trauma is a major problem in leading to trouble, including in sexual contact. But sometimes, the only way to solve the problem is by conducting an experiment...sadly, Kazuki is caught in one he may not be able to stop!

FILE: 40: EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECT

53.
"Woman": Haa haa
"Woman": .........Haa
"Woman": NOOO

54.
Voice 1: Ahahaha, a turtle...!?
Voice 2: Enough...it's not funny.
"Black Hair": Understood...
Miki: This would be a bit rough but...how about we use an experimental subject?
Caption: MHK Broadcasting: YAMAGUCHI Miki, 22; Showa Women's graduate
(TN: Don't trust her, she was the one who left Kazuki on the beach bound and gagged...we have proof, go back to chp. 31)
Kazuki: Go...to a movie with me!?
Miki: This Saturday...anyhow we have time. I've put it in my schedule!!
Kazuki: You're as pushy as ever.

55.
Kazuki: Saturday, PM 7:00: I'm always being treated like I'm that woman's maid, but unexpectedly I had an interest in it...---I pondered what it was, but I was thinking too much.
Sign: SHINJUKU STATION
Yuri: Nice to meet you, I'm Shiina.
Caption: SHIINA Yuri, 23, Housewife
Miki: She's a friend from my college days; she's a newlywed, married one year. This feels like a break for her since her husband is on a business trip! I invited her to come with.
Kazuki: Ah...she's married.........
Kazuki: What...she's married? Even though she had gone to the same sister university, she was exactly the image of a woman.

56.
Sign: SHINJUKU THEATER
Miki: Doesn't this look interesting!!
Kazuki: You serious!? This looks really perverted. (How about some Speilberg or something...)
Miki: I'm not like those sweethearts, in spite of your like of them.
(TN: Miki makes a mention of an attribute of a Japanese term called "kamatoto", which is a woman who acts sweet, innocent and naive, usually in pretend)
Kazuki: This wasn't a movie that would be seen together with a young wife, newlywed for a year. What exactly was Yamaguchi thinking?
Miki: .........
Yuri: .........

57.
Kazuki: ......!?
Kazuki: !!
Kazuki: Wh......What!?
Yuri: ......
Kazuki: .........

58.
Caption: PM 9:00
Miki: I don't know if she's going to get a call from her husband on his business trip, but I was going to have a drink at her house...want to come with?
Kazuki: Would she mind me being there?
Miki: It's fine! He's safe.
Yuri: Go ahead, please come with.
Kazuki: What exactly was she planning...
Miki: Yuri, how about we have a snack?
Yuri: It'll be done soon. Wait a bit longer.

59.
Miki: Your husband works at the research lab at Tsukuba Science City; isn't it genetic engineering? He's intelligence.
(TN: "Tsukuba Science City" is in reference to a planned city in Ibaraki developed in the 1960s as a coordinated attempt to "accelerate the rate and imrpove the quality of scientific discovery")
Kazuki: Well~~
Yuri: Since it's delicate work, it's terrible paying attention to all those things.
Miki: Did you know that Kiyomi Toda, who was part-timing as a model, had been proposed to by someone connected to Arab royalty?
Kazuki: I was still worried.
Yuri: Eh---!? I didn't know, no I didn't.
Kazuki: She had an alluring sleepiness and didn't have an attitude......She can't be seen as a female as a woman who would tease a man.
Miki: Huh...with Fujii!? I'm not like that with him~~~He's my ser-va-nt!!

60.
Miki: Let's do that art and do it quickly. That's why we invited him.
Kazuki: Art...
Miki: Huh...
Miki: Sorry, sorry!!
Kazuki: Hey, hey, aren't you drunk.
Yuri: .........
Yuri: I'll get a cloth......
Miki: Ahaha, I can't control myself now.
Kazuki: That's not an "ahaha"~~~

61.
Miki: Alright, take it off, it'll be fine. You're not ugly.
Kazuki: St...stop that~~~
Miki: Yuri, put that in the dryer.
Miki: Ara, over than that you're hansome......!!
Miki: How's this compaerd to your husband?
Kazuki: Wha...!!
Yuri: ......!!

62.
Yuri: Miki...St...stop that already!! I really can't do it!!
Kazuki: ......!?
Yuri: Fujii-san, I'm sorry.
Kazuki: An...experimental subject......!?
Miki: Well...that's what you were. It was so she could personally tame her man.

63.
Miki: Miki is in a couple......Miki has an origin for how she came to be sexless.
Kazuki: An...origin......?
Miki: ......She can't have oral sex.
Miki: Yuri is shy by nature. Her husband's from a good family too. I understood that her feelings from being raised in her home and hasn't demanded anything more than a normal life but.........other than that, this matter seems to be fuffilling her desire. Right, Yuri!
Yuri: ......He secretly goes to sex shops...I won't be unfaithful and will tolerate it if he goes to those shops but...
Kazuki: .........
Yuri: But I'm fine already.

64.
Yuri: I think that being a couple isn't completely just about sex.
Miki: Well...it seems like that too but.
Miki: What! Well then, don't go consulting with me with such a serious face.
Kazuki: That night, me and Yamaguchi ended up staying over.
Kazuki: It wasn't much but the mystery of us going to the movie theater was solved; it was a bit dissapointing......(out loud) Z...
Kazuki: Ah...sorry, I need a cup of water. Huh, you can't sleep?
Yuri: That woman went home by taxi 30 minutes ago early this morning.
Kazuki: Huh...she went home!? Then I'll go too...
Yuri: It's another hour before the first train, so it'll be a while. Would you like some coffee?
Kazuki: Eh...well, don't mind it.

65.
Yuri: I'm really sorry...for what happened at the theater.
Kazuki: I'm not worried anymore.
Yuri: Let me say this frankly: I haven't been touched flat-out, even by my husband.
Kazuki: .........
Kazuki: The common way of saying that I think is "if there is love", but...
Yuri: .........
Yuri: Actually, I...came across a molester when I was in middle school.
Yuri: That man cornered me and it was before my eyes not even touching my body...Since then, I've had a phobia of sex...

66.
Yuri: Even if it was just oral sex............
Yuri: Ah...I'm sorry, I'm telling that tale again...
Kazuki: Actually, the genitals of men and women are never beautiful things.
Kazuki: They're made to be grotesque as a challenge of God. If it weren't for that, we would just be having sex, without the spirit for other things.
Yuri: Well, that's an interesting example. Saying those words have come to help my mood a bit.
Yuri: Here you go....I'll stop talking about it already.
Kazuki: .........

67.
Yuri: ......!!
Kazuki: I...I've thought of an experiment...Shall we take the risk for just this hour?
Yuri: Huh...!?
Kazuki: I remember that you were brave at the movie theater...I may have seen you in a different world until now if you had taken it just a step forward...
Yuri: What exactly are you.........

68.
Kazuki: It's because you don't have pushy feelings. If you don't like this, please say clearly that you don't.
Yuri: ......!!

69.
Kazuki: Ahem...
Yuri: Uh...

70.
Yuri: Uh...
Kazuki: Are you embarrased......?
Yuri: Please, I'll endure a bit more.
Yuri: Does this feel bad?

71.
Yuri: Ah...!!
Kazuki: It's oral sex............men have similar feelings with it too.
Yuri: .........
SFX: Click...
Kazuki: Th...this time to me......risk it without thinking that it's disgusting.
Yuri: .........
Kazuki: What was I doing until now disgusting...n...no, this is a lesson!!

72.
(Well...yeah, there goes her trauma)

73.
Kazuki: Ye...yes!! Ah...your mouth is......really great.
Yuri: .........
Kazuki: A...wife is......the best!!

74.
Kazuki: Two days later...a month of sex was demanded from her.
Yuri: This is a bit early, but this is
Yuri: A Christmas present from me...
Yuri's Husband: Huh...?
SFX: GULP
Yuri's Husband: Yu...Yuri!
Miki: "It was an example of a problematic solution"; wh-at are you croaking about? It seems that matters of couples aren't things that strangers should intrude on!!
Kazuki: Hehe. (internal) "I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING": I resolved to drench myself in her superiority complex.

TN: EVIL SMIRKING TURTLE!!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah...that turtle, particularly once it covered up Kazuki (and even in Yuri's dream before we knew what exactly it was) was...disturbing. I get that she was traumatized by some pervert who wanted oral sex, but to symbolize it through an evil smirking turtle means she really has a lot in her that she isn't really telling us about herself. With that aside, I think that Miki's interventions always seem to cause problems before they solve them...whether or not there is a problem. (remember: she was the one who invited Kazuki in "Shy Girl" probably as a means to get him herself...before he fell for someone else...and there was her sending Kazuki on that "errand" in "Kyouko"...) I guess though that after that chapter (and seeing that Kazuki got away from being bound and gagged in front of waves and rocks...I still think Miki did it), she decided to bring him in with Yuri due to being a similar but slightly different woman...and yet again ends up being so nosy that Kazuki can't solve it until she's gone! At the rate she's going, Miki's nightmarish involvement has lead her to be as infamous as Mulder...well maybe not that bad yet: Mulder's encounters have lead to nightmares, Miki's has lead to dreams with her being the nightmare! One of these days we need to send that evil smirking turtle after her...

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/17095 [English] [Translation] Desire 39 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-25T03:47:40+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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When it comes to love, there are some matters that one doesn't know the answer until before it's too late. Of course, there are some matters that not even Takashi can really control on these matters...particularly if it's a family matter!

FILE: 39: COMPETITION

29.
Man: Responsibility and Accountability: your "duty to operate" and your "duty to explain"...
Man: With the "duty to explain" as a defense to those who support your own existance, this matter of "accountability" is lacking amist your general duties.
Man: Those who see useful making this excuse towards the people has a possible limit!! Somehow Mr. M, the former undersecretary of General Affairs, has said this, but...
"Woman": .........
Man: If I could speak from the standpoint of the active bureaucrats.
"Woman": It's another two weeks until the ceremony......Do I really want to marry him...

30.
Takashi: I may be cursed with being overworked with three overseas business trips to New York, L.A. and Singapore over these three weeks. I went to take a medical exam for my unending stomach pains and vomiting I've had since two days ago.
Building: FUTUBA HOSPITAL
Caption: Fujii-san, please go to internal medicine #2.
Sign: INTERNAL MEDICINE 2
Mutsuki: What's wrong?
Caption: FUTABA Mutsuki, 27, Internal Doctor
Takashi: I forgot my pain in front of the beautiful doctor as I unintentionally gazed at her.
Mutsuki: Well...you look terrible...
Takashi: Ah...

31.
Takashi: Appendicitis......?
Mutsuki: Yes, that's the result of the exam. With a bit of minor surgery, you can leave the hospital in around a week. For the moment, we can give you a means to give you medicine but...
Sign: INTERNAL MEDICINE: FUTABA MUTSUKI
Takashi: This Futuba is at this Futuba Hospital...
Takashi: When she had completed her first stage of work, we decided to have the surgery tomorrow.
Mutsuki: Fujii Takashi, 28...
Mutsuki: Ehe, he's my type.........

32.
Takashi: The next day......I started my week of a life in hospitalization from today.
Voice: The surgery will be held from 2.
Caption: FUTABA Satsuki, 28, Surgeon
Takashi: I met the doctor in charge of the surgery and was gazing once again.
Satsuki: After the surgery, we'll be cutting off the anesthetic; you'll be left with a bit of pain for 2-3 days...
Sign: SURGEON - FUTABA SATSUKI
Takashi: She was the sister of the Internalist!? Now that you mention it, it's in their eyes...I've been hospitalized in a hospital with beautiful dcotor sisters......was it a blessing within misfortune...

33.
Sign: IN SURGERY
Satsuki: Prepare the IV.
Assistant: Right.
Satsuki: Is this your first surgery?
Takashi: Yes.
Takashi: There isn't any reason that this really isn't like the reality in novels and TV dramas.
Satsuki: Is it...?
Takashi: A beautiful surgeon only exists in the worlds of fiction...
Satsuki: .........
Satsuki: So, we shall begin.

34.
Takashi: The surgery was over in a short time and by three days into my hospitalization, the pain of the cut was healed.
Sign: 301: FUJII TAKASHI-DONO
Satsuki: .........
SFX: KNOCK KNOCK
Satsuki: How does your body feel?
Takashi: Well...the pain has somehow
Satsuki: Your progress is doing well.
Takashi: The Dr. Futaba of Internal that gave me my first exam, are you her sister?
Satsuki: Yes...with one difference.

35.
Takashi: So, will both of you have this hospital in the future......
Satsuki: It seems our director father thinks so.
Takashi: Are you...getting married?
Satsuki: Ah...this, is an engagement ring.
Satsuki: ............
Satsuki: This scenery of late autumn. Somehow it gives me the feeling of the marriage blues...
SFX: KNOCK KNOCK...
Mutsuki: Ara...big sister Satsuki-san!!

36.
Mutsuki: You're making rounds without even bring a nurse.....how unusual.
Satsuki: Ah...what's wrong with you!? This is the surgery ward!!
Mutsuki: It seems the type we like is the same...!!
Takashi: I'm honored that you've come to make the rounds as a set.
Mutsuki: We're matching, bosom buddy sisters. (aren't we, big sis!)
Mutsuki: We've fallen many times going around for the same men......!! Until now, we're 2-2 in the competition!!
Satsuki: Mu...Mutsuki, what are you saying...!!

37.
Mutsuki: But you're getting married in a week. You had resisted this political marriage to some partner decided by father but...typically a beaurecrat from the Ministry of Health really isn't your type.
Satsuki: Enough! That's too much. I want you to seam a bit of your big mouth!!
Takashi: You've fallen going for the same man...the men who get pulled by you two are really going to pay for being too blessed. But, I want to be one of those lucky fellows.
Mutsuki: Well, if Fujii-san is a lucky fellow, then which would you choose....me or big-sis Satsuki?
Satsuki: Mu...Mutsuki!!
Takashi: Eh...

38.
Takashi: Even if I said my choice...
Satsuki: Excuse me, please don't mind her. So, we'll be going...We're going to a conference from here. You're not in a position to loaf in here either.
Satsuki: Ah...if you have any requests, please ask for anything.
Takashi: Of course.
Takashi: If you can...on the night before I leave here......can either of you doctors attend......a leaving party here?
Mutsuki: .........
Mutsuki: Wh...what was that? I was joking.

39.
Takashi: It was a verbal slip......of all things to a woman before her marriage.
SFX: CLICK
Takashi: ......Since then, those two really didn't come around on their rounds...
Takashi: Isn't Dr. Futaba going on her rounds?
Nurse: That seems to be asked by all the male patients. She's busy.
Takashi: Caught up in the moment, I had wanted to apologize for blurting out too much, but.........
Caption: 6th Day of Hospitalization: Night Before Release
Takashi: Can I sleep...
Takashi: .........

40.
Sign: DIRECTOR'S ROOM
(TN: Not going to TL the letter at this time, it's essentially an invitation for Satsuki's wedding)
SFX: RRRR
Satsuki: ......!?
Satsuki: Ye...yes...
Voice: My conversation with father...ended long ago. Is he still there?

41.
Satsuki: Ah...Are you on duty tonight?
Mutsuki: No. I'm checking a bit on something...
Mutsuki: You're not eager in getting married...you have a week until the ceremony. Honestly I wouldn't do it myself, I'd regret it the rest of my life.
Mutsuki: Do you still remember what Fujii-san said?
Satsuki: Yes......!?
Mutsuki: The night before he leaves...in short, tonight, he wants to have a leaving party with either of us...I've realized it: you're his type too.
Satsuki: .........
Mutsuki: I'm planning on going to his room from here. I'm winning this final battle!

42.
SFX: CLICK
Satsuki: I can't sleep anymore...
SFX: Gulp~~
Mutsuki: Alright!!
Mutsuki: From where we stand, we can't offer alcohol to our patients.
Takashi: No, cola will be fine. In truth, I didn't think we were going to have my leaving party.

43.
Mutsuki: I can't really talk since I was late tonight but, since you're leaving, let's take it easy...
Voice: Mutsuki! What is the competition!?
Mutsuki: !!
Mutsuki: Big sister...!!
Takashi: ......
Mutsuki: .........
Mutsuki: Well hasn't this become interesting...you've been drinking.
Satsuki: That stench is you!!

44.
Mutsuki: Fujii-san, who do you wish for at this leaving party: me or my sister...which is it!?
Takashi: No...not really; even if I don't decide, we are together...
Mutsuki: I don't want that!! I want a battle!!
Satsuki: .........
Mutsuki: Wh...what are you...!?
Satsuki: Get undressed!! Whichever he's pleased with.....he'll embrace!!
Mutsuki: Right...here......!? Isn't that interesting!!

45.
Takashi: Th...those two were drunk......
Mutsuki: I hadn't thought it would go this far, but if this is how big-sis want it!!
Takashi: I've got it!! So, get on the bed for the moment.

46.
Takashi: Since my pain is increasing too...whichever of you ends up accepting me fastest...will be the one.

47.
Takashi: It was like a secret from childhood days...the world where we'd play "doctor".
Takashi: I could clearly judge the difference of the sisters in their sensations and, of course, the quality of their fluids.
Mutsuki: HAA...
Satsuki: AH...
Takashi: Their timing was together in getting wet! I was surprised that they would be as sisters.

48.
Satsuki: AAH...TH...THERE...!!
Mutsuki: HA...HAAA
Girls: AAAH...
Satsuki: ENOUGH ALREADY! T...TAKE ME...!!
Mutsuki: Ah...how sly!!

49.
Takashi: I embraced the big sister...
Takashi: And then the little sister...
Takashi: Sister woman doctors...I was satisfied in their differences. I'm truly a lucky fellow...!!

50.
Takashi: OWW!!
Takashi: I went it and spent another week sleeping after another surgery......
Nurse: What exactly happened...you're being watched uninterrupted starting today!!
Takashi: It hurts...hurts...hurts...(to himself) A lucky fellow like this ended up realizing he had divine punishment coming down on him.
Mitsuki: How do you feel about breaking off the engagement?
Satsuki: Well, the best!! This contest was a tie!

TN: There really needs to be a medical clause about preventing people from having sex after surgery. With Takashi's reputation, it really would keep his hormones under control for a while...but it's not his fault that he was merely a tool between Mitsuki and Satsuki's little sisterly rivalry...or that he helped the elder Satsuki wake up and realize that a political marriage without love is rather ridiculous! I sort of feared this chapter considering a lot of it involved medical practices, not to mention the first page was hell with all that talk by Satsuki's fiancee. But the chapter turned out to be fun to do after that, mostly driven by the Futaba sister's interactions both with one another and with Takashi. Besides, Takashi still got to do two girls again...even if it aggravated his wound. (and made him stuck with the ugly one at the hospital)...

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16911 [English] [Translation] Desire 38 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-18T03:04:33+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Everyone has a dirty little secret in their lives, which particularly can come in handy if needed! When Takashi gets his hands on a deal regarding an encounter, it may work to his advantage when he discovers her true nature...

FILE: 38: CASTER

9.
Profile:
GRADUATED WITH A NON-DEGREE
MEDIA GRADUATE COURSE AT HARVARD
SJ-TV NEWSCASTER
HORIE JUNKO

10.
Shunji: I don't believe this! She took off her clothes when she went to Harvard U. A talented, popular caster was nude in her younger days. It's a 6-page surging Graveure where her private parts were completely on view!!
Shunji: It's even called "Mysterious Mole"! I found this in a dirty little hotel in New York. Since it wasn't from a major publisher, it hardly wasn't around domestically.
Takashi: You can't be using this for your work.........
Shunji: Fufu...

11.
Shunji: I was thinking of that too but...that really isn't in my nature. That's wy I'll be a poor writer for all eternity.
Junko: The Nature Party Today opposed the Selfish Party on peace reform. It was to a connected law on reclaiming credit with it's base from the opposition leader......
(TN: No, I didn't make it up: the two parties in this scenario are the "Nature Party" and the "Selfish Party")
Shunji: Well, that's what I'm giving to forgive the five-hundred thousand I borrowed. Tomorrow, I'm holding an interview with her. If I can get that signed, that will be a super-premium item.
Shunji: That will forgive it......
Takashi: New Wave Airline's first plane, whose price collapsed with it's first flight, was flying between Tokyo & Hakata tomorrow morning. With Impac TV in charge of advertising, we decided that we would take the first plane there and have the interview with SJ TV at Hakata Airport.

12.
Caption: AM 9:30: Arrival in Hakata
Junko: New Wave Airlines has called this "The Flying Billboard", but
Junko: Isn't is clearly bigger to chance by risking this over the merit of being the advertising sponsor presently who doesn't completely stand by the forecasts of management?
Takashi: An appearance of consolidating and safety is a greater cost for other companies; it's greater to have the honor to have touched a project that hits on the old dispositions of the aviation industry over the risk.
Takashi: Clearly this was an interview where she didn't mince matters. This too may be one matter of her popularity.

13.
Takashi: And while in the interview, within my head
Takashi: It overlapped with the Graveure woman who smiled with her daring pose.
Man: Horie-kun, hold on!
Man: Don't you recognize that foreigner?
Junko: That's president Harrier, called the revolutionary of the English aviation industry!! He's observing this in secret!!
Junko: This could be an unplanned big harvest. I have to interview him!!

14.
Man: Well~~~~you've saved us. Thanks to you, we can get a good picture of president Harrier. She was being cut apart in her mind but......a public Marubishi man isn't a match for her.
Takashi: Pardon.
Takashi: I"m actually a fan. Can you sign this?
Junko: ........
Junko: I don't do those.........!!
Junko: What, you spacing out!! We're heading for the airport lobby!!
Takashi: .........
Takashi: She's going too far...

15.
Takashi: Finishing my report with the Hakata branch, I headed back on the first flight that afternoon.
Caption: SUPERSEAT CLASS
(TN: "Superseat class" is a special class just above regular class on a Japanese airline, similar to a "First Class" seat on an international flight)
Junko: .........!!
Takashi: She's on the same flight......in some way, that settled my mood...
Takashi: As it was, her anger was unsettled......

16.
Junko: So Marubishi is in a fine condition to use Superseats on a domestic flight.
Takashi: Ah.
Junko: Are you alright if I intrude for a moment?
Takashi: Thanks for earlier.
Junko: You knew that I graduated from Harvard. You're certainly in a good mood for having your pride hurt, Elite-san!

17.
Takashi: Those intentions are...if you're in a bad mood, I'll apologize...I'm sorry.
Junko: I'm sick of seeing men who put on airs of being elite businessmen!!
Takashi: .........
Junko: I'm suspicious now of your firm's future. The swaggering of Marubishi is just for now!!
Takashi: Understood......we should close up our hearts.
Junko: Are you planning to keep going with your gentlemanly mask? If you're speaking to me without realizing your stupidity, then you're a castrated dog or cat!!

18.
Takashi: You say that I'm an elite; a gentleman, but you've overestimated.
Takashi: I've also brought with this magazine.
Junko: ......?
Takashi: It's particularly irresistable to look at these sorts of pages.
Junko: ......!!
Junko: Wh...where did you get that...!!
Takashi: From your fluster, this is something that you wouldn't want seen by strangers. If you make an uproar, we'll be watched by the other passengers.

19.
Junko: If this became public, I'll be thrown out at caster with the Knights Group...!!
Takashi: Mysterious Mole......
Junko: Huh...!?
Junko: Ho...hold it, what are you...!!
Takashi: You shouldn't disturb them...!
Junko: .........
Takashi: I should see if it's real.

20.
Takashi: Move with my hand...
Junko: ......!!
Junko: He's...using a woman's weakness........what a coward!

21.
Junko: Ah...
Junko: Pl...please, don't do any more......
Takashi: She returned to her seat afterwards. We departed without speaking a word of conversation.

22.
Caption: PM 7:00
Caption: NEWS DEPARTMENT: NIGHT SCOOP
Person: Horie-kun, we have a manuscript of questions regarding the debt at the former JNR but
(TN: This is actually sort of tied to an incident that was nearly cleared up by this point. Basically, the Japanese National Railways (JNR) had a massive debt, upon which another company, the JNR Settlement Corporation, was set up to handle once JNR was split into JR. In October 1998, the company was finally dissolved and the debt was moved into the "Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation and ultimately became part of the national debt of the Japanese government)
Voice: HO-RI-E
Junko: Y...yes?
Man: Whats with your lagged expression? You've been strange since returning.
Junko: I'm sorry.
Junko: .........
Junko: Forget about what I said on the airplane......I had trouble calling you, but can you come over to the station?

23.
Sign: PERFORMER DRESSING ROOM 5
SFX: Knock Knock
SFX: Click
Junko: It may be a trite saying, but that nude was an error of my youthful impulses.........
Junko: I don't want to lose my current post over the worth of insignificant nudes...I want to personally dispose of them!!
Junko: Pl...please...

24.
Takashi: Here! I think it would be better to hold on to the memory without throwing them away. You won't worry since you don't have to copy it.
Takashi: What......!? She was frank on it?
Takashi: Then, I'll be going.
SFX: Click
Junko: Hold on.........
Junko: You're going back immediately directly giving this back to me on a childish errand? Aren't you different from the dangerous man I met on the plane.
Takashi: .........

25.
Person 1: Hey, where did Horie-kun go to!?
Person 2: She looked bad somehow and wanted to break in her dressing room.
Person 1: She's not some office lady around here. We're 40 minutes before the broadcast. Look for her for a bit!!
Person 2: Ye...yes.
Takashi: Are you "give and take"?
Junko: No.........Give me heaven or give me death!

26.
Junko: Doing this at......at...the station...is so thrilling!!
Man: Horie-sa---n, how do you feel---?

27.
Junko: I'm fine......I'll...be going soon!!
Junko: AH...AAH......
Takashi: AAH...
Man: ---somehow she seemed quite pained but...that's expected of a pro.
Takashi: Here's how I really feel...it's a treasure I can't give up, I want to hold on to it with care.

28.
Takashi: ?
Junko: Here! I believe you, Fujii-san.
Autograph: HORIE JUNKO, TO FUJII-SAN
Junko: Our topic is New Wave Airlines, which is becoming novel in the internal airline industry for hoisting advertising for a satellite broadcaster on it's body; it's first commission was between Tokyo and Hakata this morning at 8.

TN: A lot of times, whenever Takashi has one of his 'revenge' chapters, it always turns out weird or stupid (sort of like "Secretary" or...uh..."Tandem"). But for once, I think he did the right thing to try and pacify someone who really wasn't the best of people to put up with in his own weird way. When Takashi used Junko's old pics from Harvard to break through her hard exterior, I think he was in the right to do so. She treated him like a jerk, so it was his turn to do the same. Maybe the whole part with him touching her in the middle of the plane was weird, but it's Desire so it's sort of something you have to take for granted by now. I think in a way it was also noble that Takashi and Junko came to terms on the magazine considering it could have gone either way. If Junko kept it, it's out of anyone else's hands. But with Takashi keeping it, he knows how to protect things regarding all those girls he ends up with...it's who he is. A couple weird notes for the chapter: first of all, why would Takashi's company need to use "Star Wars" to advertise their agency? Did they have some sort of deal with Lucas to do that...forget it. Secondly...it really isn't that noticable until later, but this really is the last chapter with Shunji and...well, they get rid of him so easily by just having him give Takashi the Junko spread as payment for his debt. Shunji really didn't do that much and has been replaced essentially by Kazuki, but considering it's because of him we got "Witch's Spring"...well, maybe that's both good and bad. (bad: did we need all those men in that chapter, good: I did like the female lead in it regardless...)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16896 [English] [Translation] Desire 37 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-17T03:01:12+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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And now it's time to wash-up a moment...

File: 37: SENTOH
(TN: "Sentoh" or "Sentou" is Japanese for the public bathhouse)

3.
Caption: Scene: Sunday, AM11:00, Rain Shower
Sign: TAXI: Ride
Takashi: If you're fine with this until the taxi comes, go ahead.
Woman: Ah...I'm sorry.
Takashi: Chrysanthemums...visiting a grave?
Woman: Yes, my husband's...
Takashi: A widow...!!

4.
Takashi: It seemed that her husband died last year after they were newlywed three years.
Woman: Thank you very much. Here...this may be insignificant, but if you see it proper, please use this.
Card:
BATH TICKET
PM 1:00~2:00
PLEASE TAKE A FRESHLY-DRAWN BATH
HAPPINESS BATHS

Caption: SCENE: PM 1:15: HAPPINESS BATHS
Takashi: It became humid from the rain that fell through the morning, making me sweat. (external) A freshly-drawn bath would be nice.
Old Woman: Welcome.
Old Woman: Now! Come in, come in.
Takashi: Huh!? Th...this is.......!!

5.
Takashi: Well somehow, I had suddenly taken the seat of the watchman. (external): Ah...um, hold on!!
Old Woman: It's fine, it's fine.
Takashi: ......But, there was a reason I had yearned to be a watchman at a public bath when I was a child...
Takashi: ......!! (internal) There was already a female customer......!!
Takashi: IT...WAS HER!! SO PRETTY...

6.
Woman: Want to...wash my back?
Woman: My husband has been dead a year......in here, even if I'm naked in front of a man, I think he would forgive me...

7.
Woman: Pl...please console me...
Takashi: The thing that she had closed within herself for the year overflowed. This liquid was proof of her desire----

8.
Woman: AH...AAH!
Woman: Thank you very much. I was seeking for a great man to wipe away my sadness.
Sign: OPEN
Voice: Okami-sa---n, it's time---
Okami: Ri--ght.
Takashi: O...Okami-san...!?
(TN: "Okami" is Japanese for "owner", thereby it's either her name or merely that she was the owner of the sentou)

TN: Continuing the tradition of the last three volumes (though not the next one), we have another shortie to start this one. And this time...well, I guess she wanted to remember her husband for a bit and used kindness as an excuse to screw Takashi. Yeah...makes some sense I guess considering we've seen much weirder.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16763 [English] [Translation] Desire 36 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-12T03:54:53+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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If you could, would you look into other people's private lives, regardless of the risks? When Takashi is given an opportunity, he will learn both of the opportunities...and the dark sides this fetish can provide!

File: 36: PEEP

171.
Caption: HOKURIKU - F PREFECTURE, O CITY
(TN: First of all, Hokuriku is in reference to a region that is west of Tokyo along the Sea of Japan, including the prefectures of Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui. Considering that the prefecture is "F Prefecture", then it is easy to say that this is supposed to be Fukui. Finally, the "O city" could actually refer to one of two cities in Fukui Prefecture, either the seaside city of 'Obama' or the mountanous city of 'Ouno'. With no real reference showing which, I can't specifically say where of the two this is supposed to be)
Takashi: It was my last day of a media operations inspection trip circling through the "Hokuriku Three". I was tired and had left early from a drinking party with those involved, on my way to returning to my inn.
(TN: The "Hokuriku Three" are Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui, the main three prefectures of the area and commonly thought of as Hokuriku without the inclusion of Niigata)
Takashi: My eyes had stopped at the brightness of an old Zakkyo Building facing the park.
(TN: A "zakkyo building" is a building with a variety of shops and businesses inside of it; I probably could have said "building complex", but I think the Japanese speaks for itself)
Takashi: Regard Judas. It's a peeping hole...
(TN: This was really hard to figure out but basically Takashi says "Regard Judas" in English, then says it again in Japanese with "a peeping hole" below that part. I tried to make it work by having him just say "Regard Judas" once, then just say "it's a peeping hole" so he wouldn't repeat the first line twice)

172.
Takashi: Holding an interest in the building's name, I went to peep inside for a bit. Since it was an old building, there was no elevator and I used the stairs to the 4th floor.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: ...!!

173.
"Mustache': Welcome. Come in.
"Mustache": The peeping hole in the door...you're goot to have noticed it.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: It was a small in size counter bar that I knew from a gaze that had an interest in antiques.
"Mustache": Sir, this is the first I've seen you.
Takashi: Well...yes. I work for a firm in Tokyo and I'm on a business trip...
"Mustache": It's a pity I don't have an elevator. There are so few who specially confer that they've particulary walked their way to the 4th floor for me.
Takashi: I was tempted in the interest of your shop's name...
"Mustache": .........

174.
"Mustache": Sir...do you know of the French author 'Christian Musee"...?
Takashi: I've read about him recently. Do you have a deep interest in him by chance? Is the name of this bar is actually a work of Musee?
"Mustache": Yes, you're the first customer to have come to understand.
"Mustache": Musee's "Regard Judas", where he had tested his sharp observations towards the sexual urge called "peeping", is a classic of French Literature...it was thought that this work rivaled "120 Days of Sodom", which must be said as an index of the sexual perversions of the Marquis de Sade.
"Mustache": If you have an interest in the works of Musee, then I'll show you a neat thing later.
Takashi: A neat thing...what exactly is it?

175.
Takashi: What is that......?
"Mustache": It's a night scope, which is used in patrols by the Israeli army.
Takashi: I was lead to a small room, that was created with a window within the shop.
"Mustache": In front is the park...You understand that already.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: At any rate, as fellow Musee readers, I seemed to be mistaken as a man of similar tastes with a hobby for peeping.
"Mustache": Shall we change our point? Perhaps you'll be interested over here...

176.
"Mustache": Switch it to "Daylight Mode". Look in the second floor apartment. Please slowly zoom in.
"Mustache": That woman is a new high school teacher, coming out of a Tokyo university in the spring. Beyond that, she seemed to be on the lookout as is done in Tokyo at first, but now even she leaves her curtain as such like the tranquil locals...
"Mustache": She's a beauty.
Takashi: Um...yes, but why are you telling me her history?
"Mustache": She's one of my very few guests. Since today is Saturday, I think she'll come for sure.

177.
Takashi: 30 minutes later, she entered the shop as the master predicted...
"Woman": Good evening.
"Mustache": Welcome.
"Woman": Ah...the usual.
"Mustache": Right.
Takashi: A beautiful high school teacher......she truly is a woman I have an urge to want to peep on.

178.
"Mustache": You've returned quickly. I'm quite glad.
"Woman": Ye...yes.
Takashi: The two of us...were enlivened by the master. Tilting her Campari soda, the reading woman nicely became like a drawing.
(TN: "Campari soda" is an actual alcoholic soda from Italy using "Campari" brand alcohol, which itself is an aperitif made by infusing bitter herbs, aromatic plants and fruit in alcohol by ways of a still secret family formula)
Takashi: I've come from Tokyo on a business trip, but this is a good place for tasty seafood.
Takashi: I'm going home tomorrow. I thought it was borning to drink alone at the inn.
"Woman": I'm originally from Tokyo too...I go back and forth to this bar since it's got a smell that's similar to Shimokitazawa. The other bars don't have this taste anywhere......and there are many people who call out over-familiarly even if I want to read a book.
Takashi: .........

179.
Takashi: I wasn't intending to intrude on her reading. That paused our conversation.
Takashi: Close to 30 minutes passed...though I thought of slowly getting to the inn, the returning master...
"Mustache": Pardon me, I've bought a bit. Shall I make you a special supper?
"Woman": Master, I'm full. I'll be going here.
"Mustache": Haha, were you rejected? There are many frivolous females these days...a stoic woman like her are the greatest as peeping targets.

180.
"Mustache": Don't you think you'd want to peep on her soon? For the truth of the female teacher?
"Mustache": Musee said it like so: In this world, the ultimate virtue is having a libido; the ultimate vice is cowardice and hesitation!
"Mustache": The apartment owner for the woman is me. I'll guide you.
Takashi: Wh...what exactly is this master...
Takashi: No matter how he's the ownder, it would be a crime to sneak into her apartment and peep on her.
"Mustache": It's alright. If you don't lose your reasons and attack that woman...
Takashi: .........(internal) But the master's invitation held a bizarre persuasive power; I quietly obeyed him.

181.
Takashi: ......
"Mustache": Since this was made with a concrete-style structure and a steel frame, it's pre-eminent for sound insulation. We won't have to worry, even if we make a lot of noise.
Takashi: With our abnormal reason for suddenly sneaking into an attic of an apartment, I had to go back. If by any chance we were discovered, there would of course be police...I'd be fired from my job too. I was burdened by the risk...
"Mustache": This hole is used for a down light, but with just this socket crooked, I couldn't put a light bulb in there.
"Mustache": There she is...she's seemed to have finished her bath.
Takashi: .........

182.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: She's removing unwanted hair.
Takashi: This scene may be the only experience I'll be peeping.
Takashi: She's defenseless. Those limbs are more erotic than those park relationships.

183.
Takashi: The....master isn't here. Did he go back!? (to himself) .....??
Takashi: I hadn't perceived this......he seemed resigned to abandon me.
SFX: BEEP
Takashi: AV...!!

184.
Takashi: Her sweating skin...her respiration seems to smell of it. It was a liveliness you can't flavor in an AV.

185.
Takashi: !?
Takashi: Wa!!
"Woman": ............
"Woman": .........

186.
"Woman": I know your tru identity!!
"Woman": You're the leader of that delinquent group...it's you. This isn't the place for an explanation; this is expellable!! Now quietly get down!!
"Woman": ......!?
"Woman": It's...you...!!
Takashi: She had misunderstood me as some student......at any rate, this was a worst-case scenario...whatever the result came to be, I was highly aware of the risks.

187.
Takashi: It's becuase you're an attractive woman......That's just it. I don't plan to defend myself with anything else.
Takashi: It was my responisbility. The master hadn't given me his name.
SFX: BEEP...
"Woman": .........
SFX: CLICK......
"Woman": I'm not reporting this to the police.
Takashi: Huh...!?
Takashi: ......!?

188.
(Yeah, abuse him through violence, that'll get a message across)

189.
Book on Right: The Battlefield Called Education
Book on Left: The Cornered-Down Clergyman
Takashi: Of...course: a teacher holds a high position; she can handle this. She may have collected her frustrations that she can't bare on her students.
Takashi: I left the situation for her to do what she had to.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: Of...course: this is also a drawback to "peeping", but if she heals me from her womanly frustration......!!

190.
Takashi: She pushed me like a wild cat, lusting after my lower half.
(TN: Takashi refers to her not as a "cat" but as a "Felidae", which refers to all members of the cat family including big cats like lions and tigers)
Takashi: The other side of that stoic expression I saw at the bar were hidden the fangs called desire.

192.
Takashi: She had a lover in Tokyo...? It's a long-distance relationship between Fukui and Tokyo...she was unfamiliar to this locality...
Takashi: Her loneliness not being with her lover...she had frustration with sex..........!!
Takashi: She had resorted to me. I embraced this timid woman.
Takashi: Thus, she pushed her body to me like she was satisfied.

192.
"Woman": AH...

193.
"Woman": AAH HA AH
"Woman": AAAH
Takashi: She became exhausted and closed her eyes, unmoving as if she had died. We didn't exchange words............I had a feeling that I helped out a bit.
"Woman": ZZ.....
Takashi: ...

194.
Takashi: ........
Takashi: No...this isn't the exit.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Was the source of that woman teacher's actions really frustration? That's all I guessed, I couldn't grasp her true intention.
Takashi: Only at the end did the woman I saw from the "peeping hole" felt a smile from her mouth; a peaceful face of sleep.
(End of Vol. 4)

TN: You know there are probably a million lessons one can take away from this chapter. A few that immediately come to mind:

-Peeping is illegal and you shouldn't do it.
-Always secure your property of any holes to prevent peeping.
-Teachers are masters of discipline
-You can take a city girl and put her in the country but you can't take the city out of them.
-Long-distance relationships make women go for anyone

But I think the main lesson that should be taken is actually a weirder one: never trust a man who reads French literature. If it weren't for that nutty bartender getting Takashi head over heels into that peeping scenario and drawing him in with a title to a book about peeping (looked it up but that name, nor does "Christian Musee" exist that I know of), none of this would have happened! He just dragged him in, ran off and Takashi paid for it by getting beat up and pseudo-raped (except he accepted her so it was consensual) Aside from having her fix up her house and maybe learn of better ways of dealing with frustration, I think she (heh, really wished she had a name considering it would be easier to vent) needs to find this bartender and do a bit of what she did to Takashi. He paid his price but it was him that forced all that happened. Therefore, my ultimate lesson as the volume draws to a close: don't trust men who read French literature...just be happy it wasn't deSade like they mentioned too.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16731 [English] [Translation] Desire 35 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-11T03:25:25+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Recollections of past events may be deceptive, but they can be true for those who believe they happen. When Takashi returns to a spot for the first time in forever, he may spark memories of someone who may or may not have been there...

File: 35: FANCY GIRL

148.
Takashi: Since I had come near Tokyo U for business, I seemed to aimlessly drop on in.
Takashi: This campus that I hadn't visited since graduation was filled with the scent of nostalgia.
Takashi: .........

149.
Takashi: She can't be...
Takashi: My memories of campus are many, even now they're being vividly revived, but just my memories of "that woman" are now vague.
Takashi: 10 years ago...I was in the midst of strain and anxiety that attacked me with the entrance exam in front of my eyes. That incident could have been my delusion or...

150.
Takashi: It was finally the day before the exam...I was heading to Hongou from the hotel so I could reaffirm my journey to the test hall.
"Girl": I'm sorry.
Takashi: Ah...no. (internally) In front of my eyes was a cute girl who looked like she slipped out from a gravure photo......!! I was instantly paralyzed!!
(TN: The "photo" part wasn't there before, but considering gravure idols are usually photographic ones, I made it as such)
Takashi: .........

151.
Takashi: Though I said I had the test tomorrow, I was shaking by this strange girl......but......she was enviable.
Takashi: I felt jealous of the man who would make her his lover. That man would touch her silky hair, steal her lips
Takashi: And could caress that body hidden beneath her coat...

152.
Voice: Kya
"Girl": It's a molester!!
Book:
TOKYO U ENTRANCE EXAM
FINAL CHECK
QUESTION COLLECTION FOR ALL SUBJECTS
-SJ PUBLISHING-
"Girl": .........

153.
Takashi: The scene has dissapeared in white......had I become unconscious!?
Sign: OCHANOMIZU STATION POLICE STATION
(TN: Ochanomizu Station is a station on the Chuuou Line)
Officer: This station...doesn't normally have those who state they're taking tomorrow's Tokyo U exam.
Takashi: .........(internal) We...well, if I wasn't going to take the exam...
Officer: If they let in to Tokyo U some molester guy, then it wouldn't be to the advantage of Japan. I don't have a reason to overlook this!
Takashi: .........
Officer: You his lover!?
"Girl": Yes! I got in a fight with him, I was a tad unkind.
"Girl": I'm already satisfied on this.

154.
Officer: It's fine for you to fight if you're lovers, but be careful with those false-alarms.
"Girl": Right, thanks. I was causing the trouble.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: !!
"Girl": Let's go.
Takashi: Th...thanks. But why did you say "lover"......
"Girl": Are you taking the test......for Tokyo U?
Takashi: Yes...!?

155.
Takashi: Y...you're taking the test too...!!
"Girl": Yep. My reason was our fate to cooperate.
"Girl": .........
Takashi: Hey......from tomorrow until the exams end, how about we be fellow lovers for just these three days?
"Girl": Wouldn't it be fun to be like that?
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Well...if I avoid physical contact. (internal) I didn't just look like that...an unusual feeling had easily...we would pass together as true fellow lovers.....(would we)

156.
Takashi: Ah, I'm......Fujii, nice to meet you.
Miri: KAYAMA Miri, nice to meet you.
Sign: EXAM HALL: No Entry Ahead Without Permission
Takashi: This...feels a bit wrong!!
Miri: It's fine, it's just for a bit.
Sign: LITERATURE #111
SFX: CLICK...
Takashi: !!

157.
Miri: You were being stared at on the train, but it'll be alright here...
Takashi: Huh......!?
Miri: If we're fellow lovers, then we should do it at this time.
Takashi: .........

158.
Miri: Haa Haa...
Miri: Haa
Miri: Haa haa...

159.
Man: He...hey!! What are you doing!!
Takashi: !!
Man: You can't enter in here!
Takashi: Eh...really?
Miri: Run!
Man: You can't be.........aren't you an exam-taker!!
Takashi: Gulp
Takashi: N...no! I'm Fu...Fujiyamayama Ichiro of Literature I! (internal) She...ran so well.
Takashi: Pardon me!
Man: He...hey, wait!

160.
Takashi: Where did she run to?
Takashi: .....perhaps...she went home?
Takashi: Was she really taking the Tokyo U exam?
Takashi: That reminds me: the surrounding scenery earlier dissapeared, becoming completely blank......my memories of the moment have dissapeared.
Takashi: The incidents on the train and under the desk...I have a feeling that my dreams and reality have become mixed up. It may have been from the excitement of my mind. Tomorrow I take the entrance exam. I should forget everything that happened today.

161.
Caption: NEXT DAY
Takashi: At the time, the two exams for Tokyo U occurred split into two days. The first day we had language and math, with a lunch break in between.
(TN: "Language" is in Japanese "Kokugo", which is the study of the Japanese language itself in Japan)
Caption: 1988 SCHOOL YEAR ENTRANCE EXAM HALL
Takashi: I was doing well from the start, with yesterday's incident not in my head anymore.
Takashi: I'm fine even saying that I was perfect in language.

162.
Miri: How are you doing?
Takashi: Ah...well, Kayama-san. Have you been tolerable? (internal) She really was an exam-taker.
Miri: No problem!
Miri: What happened yesterday? I was looking for you.
Takashi: Eh...I well....was really waiting for you at the water fountain in the plaza.
Miri: Well! Isn't that great. So then, we've met again. Shouldn't we go to some quiet place?

163.
Miri: It's quiet...I didn't think it would in hte middle of the exams.
Takashi: Well, though it's winter, it's not cold...in reality, it feels like we're in another space.
Miri: This may not be reality...if you think that, then we can do anything.
Takashi: .........

164.
(Oh no...here she goes)

165.
(Yep...nothing to say here)

166.
Takashi: HA...
Takashi: Haa

167.
Takashi: Ah.......
Takashi: That girl waving her hand with the smiling face has been raised within my conscious dimly. That was the last I had seen her on the campus of Tokyo U.

168.
Takashi: ...Thinking about it now, I can't be convinced that she existed.
Takashi: Wasn't that girl a "delusion" that I had manufactured so I could avoid the pressure of taking the Tokyo U exam?
Takashi: .........

169.
Takashi: Um...
"Woman": What...?
Takashi: I'm of the exam-takers of '88...Fujii. Is there a chance you're KAYAMA Miri-san...?
"Woman": .........
Okamoto: Ah...I'm Okamoto.
Takashi: Oh well, but I mistook you.
Takashi: Ah, pardon me. That's all.

170.
Takashi: She really was a delusion.
Takashi: Even though she was, KAYAMA Miri is a person whose memories are only in me. It's best that she continues to live forever within myself......

TN: I sort of had a bit of a "hard time" with the title of this chapter: when I saw the word "fancy" in the title, I sort of expected Miri to be a girl of higher society or some high-class snob, but the "fancy" is more about her potentially being a figment of Takashi's imagination. (or maybe not...pay attention to Okamoto at the end) But to tell the truth though, aside from some of the explicit moments (the blowjob on the roof), this is probably the best thing to happen to Takashi in a long while in this series. After the last couple of chapters have taken him into weirder and weirder scenarios (while his cousin gets great tales in "Shy Girl" and particularly "Kyouko"), this one actually is one that feels deceptively strange but turned into a sad, touching tale about him coming to grips with the faults of memory and figuring out whether or not Miri truly existed aside from his own recollection of what happened. I actually was going to compare this chapter to one movie, but in a way another movie sort of personifies it stronger: a line from "Citizen Kane" about a man who saw a woman once, and yet whose beauty haunted him for the rest of his entire life. Even though she exists and he just doesn't realize it, Miri will always be that girl for Takashi...

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16567 [English] [Translation] Desire 34 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-05T00:54:24+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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There are some connections that will remain with you for your entire life, including connections of friendship and love. When Kazuki makes a chance encounter on a shopping trip, memories of a bittersweet relationship may come back with it...

File: 34: KYOUKO
(TN: The title spells it with the proper English reading with the "long o", but for the purposes of the script, I will be using "ou" in it's place)

124.
Voice: You seem to be free.
Caption: FUJII KAZUKI (Takashi's younger cousin)
(TN: I tried to translate the book Kazuki is reading, but all I could make out was "Outdoor Bath and (not sure) Trips"; the bottom set was a bit harder to read and I left it as is)
Miki: We ran out of the boss' Russian Tea. Can you go buy some at the Meihin-Ya in Aoyama?
(TN: Though it sounds surprising, the Russians have a tradition of tea since they first received it from China in the 17th century and it's considered the second drink of the nation...after vodka. They usually drink it strong with heavy sweetning. Meanwhile, Aoyama is notable for it's industry, it is more known as a shopping and entertainment district within Tokyo)
Caption: YAMAGUCHI Miki: Came in the same time as Kazuki
Miki: Make sure you don't mistake the brands of black tea and jam. Well, please do this!!
Kazuki: This market had a line of foreign cars within the parking lot, seemingly from upper-middle class patrons.
(TN: A bit of cultural information: the Japanese usually buy national brands of cars, while foreign cars, primarily German but occasionally American ones, are seen as a luxury invested in by the upper class, therefore leading to Kazuki's discovery)
Kazuki: Cucumbers are a thousand yen for a three-pack~~!?
(TN: The kanji above the notice is the exact same: Special Organically Grown)
Kazuki: It's exorberant because it's a very high-class market. At most, I want see the face of the people who would pay a ridiculous amount of money to eat these cucumbers.

125.
SFX: BUMP
"Woman": .........
Kazuki: Oh no...did she hear me?
Kazuki: I get it: they're eaten by beautiful, refined girls like her.
Kazuki: So wha--t's she like...between her legs?
(TN: Kazuki actually says something much cruder here: "omata no okuchi", which literally is "a mouth crotch". I think the expression I used is rather similar without losing the context)

126.
"Woman": I don't have those cheap cucumbers...
Kazuki: !!
"Woman": Ehehe
Kazuki: ............
"Woman": You haven't changed.
Kazuki: Huh...?
Kyouko: You haven't realized it yet!? I'll hit you for forgetting your old childhood friend Kyouko-sama!!
Kazuki: Na...NAGASAWA Kyouko!!

127.
Kazuki: My memories of her were resurrected like a revolving lantern. Those bittersweet scenes of growing up are vivid even now...
(TN: A "revolving lantern", also known in Japanese as a "soumatou", is a lantern with a revolving cylinder under the main shade allowing for images to be seen, either underneath on the shade or on a wall. In some places, the "soumatou" phenomenon is more acknowledged as an expression of a "life passing before your eyes" in modern Japan. Also, Kazuki makes mention of "juudai", which in particular is the teen years of a person between 10-19. Since some of his memories of Kyouko seem to be from a bit prior to the teens, I changed it slightly to merely "growing up")
Kyouko: Kazu-chan, I love you because you're so kind. Let's get married.
Kazuki: I...I love you too, Kyouko-chan. I'll marry you.
Kazuki: Kyouko-chan, you're a nice beauty if you look closely. You're a person who doesn't understand what she has.
Kyouko: Well~~it's because I don't care. I didn't notice it until I entered middle school!!
Kazuki: I"ve heard that you were together with the really bad crowd at the game center, but are you hanging out with them?
Kyouko: I was just there by chance. Don't talk like my parents.

128.
Kazuki: Is...this makeup or something!! We take the exams next year. You won't be getting into high school by hanging out with delinquents.
Kyouko: You're annoying!! Don't concern yourself about me anymore!!
Kazuki: Yes!! Kyouko passed!!
Sign: PASSERS NUMBERS
Kazuki: (modern day) But did she study for that exam?
Kazuki: Kyouko as a high-schooler grew in beauty and became well known even at other schools...
Kazuki: Um...hi...
Kazuki: ......

129.
Kazuki: When she reached her 17th birthday, she transformed into a voluptuous woman.
Kazuki: I have no connection to Nagasawa.
Glasses: That's fine! Last night she had another man!!
Kazuki: She wasn't in my reach anymore. She had become a distant being......

130.
Kazuki: Though Kyouko had become that
Kazuki: Somewhere, I would continue to have feelings for her forever.
Kazuki: ---It was the summer of senior year...after school, I had come back to get what I had forgotten.
Kazuki: There was a sports bag by Kyouko's desk.
Kazuki: I can only say that I was bewitched by it. (out loud) .........
Kazuki: Bl...bloomers...(internally) It was dimly emitting a bittersweet aroma; was this from sweat?
Kazuki: Cough

131.
Kyouko: Kazuki, do you still have an interest in me?
Kazuki: Kyo...Kyouko!!
Kyouko: It's fine. We're going to graduate soon, so I'll give you a memory.
Kazuki: .........
Kyouko: You're taking the exam for Hokkaido University...not Tokyo?
Kazuki: Huh? Um...yeah...
Kyouko: .........
Kyouko: Come here a moment.
Kazuki: ......?

132.
Kazuki: If this is about earlier, I apologize. I was bewitched.
Kyouko: Don't make up that you were bewitched by it!! It's because you love me...Speak honestly!!
Kazuki: .........
Kazuki: It's....because I love you. My feelings haven't changed since kindergarten.

133.
Kazuki: !!
Kyouko: Touch me......
Kazuki: Huh...
Kazuki: ......

134.
Kyouko: It's fine. Here...touch here...
Kyouko: Haa
Kyouko: Haa
Kazuki: Ah...

135.
Kazuki: Haa haa
Kazuki & Kyouko: Haa...
Kazuki: ......!!
Kazuki: You do want me......
Kyouko: Stop that talk......when I graduate, I won't see you anymore since I'll be going to Tokyo.
Kazuki: Eventually, we graduated high school without completeing a man-woman experience.

136.
Kazuki: Kyouko's prediction of "not seeing me" was off.
Kyouko: I'm sorry. The parking lot is here.
Kazuki: No, I"m surprised. You were a beauty long ago, but I couldn't judget that you would become even more polished.
Kazuki: Ah...no good! I forgot to buy the Russian tea and jam.
Kyouko: If you want jam, then you have an excuse: since I'm filled with them, I'll share.
Kazuki: EH~~~you drive a Ferrari!!
Man: Ah...I'll open the trunk now
Kazuki: ...?

137.
Kyouko: Ah...my husband, Keisuke!! He's huge because he played American Football. He works as a dentist.
Kazuki: SHE'S...MARRIED!? (out loud) .........
Kazuki: A dentist...!! And to make things worse, a nice guy...
Keisuke: Heh--he's your childhood friend?
Kyouko: Yes, he was in the store by chance. He's working for MHK.
Kazuki: .........
Kyouko: Fujii-kun, how about the three of us have tea?
Kazuki: Ah...no. I'll stay here since it's on my way to work.
Kazuki: Kyouko has steadily captured happiness...that's good...

138.
Caption: Next Day...
SFX: RRR...
Voice: Fujii-kun, line 3.
Kazuki: Hello, this is Fujii.
Kyouko: It's Kyouko. It's about that jam I told you about yesterday but...if you're not troubled, can you come to get it at my house? If you can, it will be alright around today at 3 but
Kazuki: .........
Kazuki: I never thought that call would come. The jam and such was fine, but I was curious in peeping into her life.
Apartment Sign: HIROO FOREST HILLS
(TN: Hiroo is in reference to an upmarket district of Shibuya Ward, prominent for the higher-class people living there. Surprisingly, there is actually a "Forest Hills" apartment complex in Hiroo)
SFX: CLICK
Kyouko: Enter
Kazuki: Ah...pardon me.

139.
Kazuki: Even if I somehow worked my entire life, I wouldn't be able to live in an upper-class apartment in Hiroo. It really is great that he's a dentist.
Kyouko: It was still great when my husband was in the practice with his parents, but it seems he's had various problems since opening a new practice.
(TN: Duerr's, also known as "F. Duerr & Sons", is a notable British jam and marmalade company locally owned in Manchester)
Kyouko: Here...it's a bit heavy, but will it do?
Kazuki: It is...thanks.
Kyouko: .........

140.
Kyouko: Ah...
Kazuki: Are you alright!?
Kyouko: I'm fine, it's sliding off.
Kyouko: Can you wipe it...
Kazuki: Huh......

141.
Kazuki: ......
Kyouko: Kazuki...how am I? Compare me to before.
Kazuki: Well, you haven't changed. You're really pretty then and now.
Kyouko: Thank you. But it's because it's you.
Kazuki: Huh...?
Kyouko: For a woman...somewhere there is a person who continues to feel for themself and will always say that they're pretty. In my case, that is you.

142.
Kyouko: That halfway-incomplete feeling that I had for you in high school...I really regret them.
Kyouko: Therefore, I'm settling that thing from then...
Kyouko: Because I didn't call you here specifically just to give you jam.
Kazuki: ......Kyouko...

143.
Kyouko: Don't stop halfway today. It's fine to give me your feelings!!
Kazuki: KYOUKO......!!

144.
Kazuki: AAH, SOON I WON'T BELIEVE THAT NAGASAWA KYOUKO WAS INSIDE ME...THE MOMENT HAS COME WHERE WE BECAME ONE...

145.
Kyouko: Ka...Kazuki, we're together......!!
Kazuki: Ah

146.
Kazuki: And so, the first and last secret between me and Kyouko had ended......
Kazuki: It was sweet and painful, a personal experience as if it was like Russian Tea, filled with the sweet and bitter.....I won't forget that moment for the rest of my life.

TN: It's really hard to speak regarding this chapter...because I guess we all have something like this in our lives. The girl who just enters your life at such a young age that sometimes you may just never have her due to one reason or another and then she leaves...only to return and finish something even with the potential you'll never have her regardless of what happens. I really do feel for Kazuki with what happened this time and his relationship with Kyouko: if something had just gone differently, whether it was her going to the right side or him going to Tokyo U instead of Hokkaido, then maybe things could have turned out differently. Maybe he could have had his beloved Kyouko instead of being lonely while she goes straight, refines her beauty and marries a dentist. I know she did try to finish what she started back in high school with the sex sequence, but this chapter seemed to actually use the sex scene in a way that worked as a culmination instead of merely just "let's just do it because that's the series" and more just seemed like both were trying to get something out of it: she wanted to clear away her past relations, Kazuki just wanted to have Kyouko for himself, even just for one moment of physical contact. At least it didn't go in a direction regarding those cucumbers...but trust me, something about "that" will be coming up much sooner than you think. Let's avoid that stuff for the moment and just contemplate on the Kyouko in our lives...

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16548 [English] [Translation] Desire 33 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-04T00:46:21+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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There are certain desires that last through a life and beyond...regardless of circumstance. When Takashi gets lost in the mountains, he may discover one that may be stranger than he can ever imagine!

File: 33: NUN

(TN: Before I begin, let me just try to clear a quick matter up: no, the chapter is not about a typical Christian nun who has to take a vow of chastity before joining her order. If it was that, then the series would push into bizarre territories...but then we've seen what this series has done so far. In actuality, the "nun" in this title and in this chapter is in reference to a "Bhikkhuni" (known in Japanese as "ama"), a nun of the Buddhist order. So with that matter cleared...let's begin)

99.
(When you see a nun bathing like that, it will ultimately lead to...well...)

100.
Nun: AH
"Peeper": .........

101.
Takashi: --N Prefecture, Shiogiri Hot Springs--Hearing what was said about eliminating summer fatigue, I visited Yunosato, a hidden away secluded river town.
(TN: First of all, "N Prefecture" is actually "Nagano Prefecture" and there is a Yunosato in Nagano. However, there is no actual "Shinogiri": the actual town in Nagano is "Shinojiri" and, based on the name and the kanji used, makes me think that this is probably a fictional version for the sake of this tale)
Takashi: For a time until dinner, I had planned to take a bit of a stroll through the mountains, but I was suddenly concealed into a haze......
Takashi: This is bad. I've seemed to have lost my way in this fog.
Takashi: Regardless of it being summer, this is a plight of camping in the mountains...

102.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: A...bear!!
Takashi: Without being able to fight the bear at all, the only thing I could do was run.
Takashi: I'm fine with running from my hardship, but that may me completely lost.

103.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: A temple...!!
Takashi: In these mountains...
Takashi: .........
Takashi: !!

104.
Takashi: A priestess......!!
Takashi: Um...are you with this temple...
Nun: Yes...
Nun: You appear that you've come really out of breath. How did you get here?
Takashi: In...truth, I've came from Tokyo for a hot spring resort, but while strolling through the mountains, I encountered and ran from a bear and lost my way.

105.
Nun: A bear...!! That's disturbing.
Takashi: I do want to be told how to get back to the foot of the mountain but...
Nun: How about you spend tonight at our hermitage and descend the mountain in the morning?
Takashi: Huh...!?
Nun: The sun will be setting real soon. I"m afraid you'll meet that bear again on your way back...
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Th...that's fine too. Well, you're benevolent in your words. (to himself) It was from...that bear that I'll remember my interest in the young, beautiful priestess that was in that lonely mountain temple.

106.
Takashi: The mountain temple was filled with silence, with only the sound of bugs echoing through. Heading into a room, I was introduced to the only male.
Nun: Since it's the two of us with my master here, you can take it easy without worrying about needs.
Takashi: Well, thank you very much.
Shoujaku: I am Shoujaku. This is Tsunetoki, who the odd jobs at this temple is entrusted to...
Takashi: I'm Fujii. I work for a firm in Tokyo.

107.
Takashi: Um...I don't mean to pardon, but since I want to call the inn, can I borrow the phone?
Tsunetoki: Phone...
Takashi: .........
Shoujaku: ......?
Takashi: .........(to himself) As I looked, it seemed like they didn't have electricity or a phone...
Takashi: Um...it's fine. I'll tell the inn the situation tomorrow.
Shoujaku: So then, take it easy Fujii-sama. Tsunetoki will prepare dinner...
Takashi: Of the many mountain temples, this one lived it's life separated from the transient world...
Takashi: Besides, it seemed that just the duo of the young priestess and the temple worker were living here for some reason.

108.
Tsunetoki: A ways from here we've installed a boiling spring that we've drawned up, please use it at any time.
Takashi: A boiling spring...it's a hot spring.
(TN: A little bit of explanation for the conversation here: Tsunetoki refers to the drawn hot water spring as "wakiyu", which is just a spring of boiling water, but Takashi infers from it from "boiling spring" (wakiyu) to "hot spring" (onsen). It was a bit tough but I tried to make it work.
Tsunetoki: Here's your yukata.
(TN: A "yukata" is a traditional summer bath robe)
Takashi: Finishing my meal, I went to use the 'boiling spring'. It's not bad to soak in the influence of the mysterious quiet that you can't get in Tokyo.
Takashi: ......!?

109.
Takashi: A...Tengu mask......!?
(TN: The reference made here is to the yokai known as the "tengu", which in many places are represented as "humans with really long noses", though other places are defined as birds-like creatures)
Shoujaku: I truly understand......your painful feelings. It's the same as me...
Tsunetoki: Shoujaku-sama, if my crime is how it came to be before...
Shoujaku: .........
Tsunetoki: I will satisfy you.

110.
Shoujaku: AH

111.
Shoujaku: Fo...forgive me...!! For having these feelings for you...AAH...
Takashi: In...this place...are they aware that I'm watching this!? This truly isn't an experience of a typical master and servant.
Takashi: ...!!
Takashi: A...pelt......!! It can't be that then...
Takashi: This is a cover...what exactly is going on!?

112.
Takashi: I didn't catch the situation well, but
Takashi: The form of the writing priestess stripped of her priest's outfit was stilll scorched in my eyes.
Voice: Fujii-san.
Tsunetoki: Would you please come to the main temple?

113.
Tsunetoki: Shoujaku-sama wants you inside...it's her unsilenced womanly ways that had ended when she entered the priesthood......can't you cool it down?
Takashi: .........
Tsunetoki: Please go ahead.
Takashi: Um...uh...
Takashi: ......

114.
Takashi: ...!!
Shoujaku: Fujii-sama, show compassion...a deep desire has developed in me......
(TN: This was a really hard part to translate but basically Shoujaku is specificially saying "Gou no fukai ama to oboshimeshite". "Gou no fukai" is typically translated as "a deep want" or "a deep desire", but the "gou" can also be used in Japanese to talk about "an action done karmically" or in a previous lifetime. While we're going to take the main translation, the "gou" could have a multiple meaning about a "desire" that awakened from a previous existance (either prior to being a nun or, in Buddhist terms, a previous reincarnation) that she wants to eliminate. The "ama to oboshimeshite" part has her literally saying that "I've developed feelings as a nun"...which makes sense in some ways since that's what you have to suppress in the priesthood of many religions, but just felt sort of strange to say so I just said it developed in "her". I hope it didn't turn out too confusing and is scanslated properly)
Takashi: .........

115.
Takashi: So I was pulled to this temple to be a guide to Buddha...that's what you thought.
Takashi: I don't intend to disobey the will of Buddha.
Shoujaku: I'm so happy.

116.
Takashi: ...!!
Takashi: I'm...being watched!!

117.
Takashi: Just one of them had come to understand.
Shoujaku: HA...
Takashi: Tsunetoki had entrusted me with his feelings.
Takashi: THIS IS THE FORM OF A DUO IN LOVE
Shoujaku: HAA!! AAH

118.
Shoujaku: ......!!
Shoujaku: AH

119.
Shoujaku: It's...so hot and hard...
Shoujaku: For me, th...this is......!! AH
Shoujaku: This is...AAH...

120.
Caption: Next morning
Shoujaku: We're indebted to you for many things.
Shoujaku: So then, we'll be here...
Takashi: Thank you.
Takashi: ......!?
Takashi: Arriving at the foot, deep within the mountain... I asked about the legend of the mountain temple and it all was confirmed. (out loud) THEY...DISSAPPEARED...!!

121.
Takashi: Two hundred years ago............and older sister and younger brother originally born to a country samurai had fallen due to an abnormal experience.
Takashi: Their angry father lopped off his son's penis. The older sister shaved off her hair and joined a convent......
Takashi: The younger brother whose life was ended chased after his sister and became her temple man. They cut themselves off in relations to the world and spent their lives there together......

122.
Takashi: They've overcome space and time, and even now those two
Takashi: Continue to live in that mountain.
Takashi: While resorting to the love and desire that can't be healed by travelers who sometimes visit......

TN: Well folks, we've learned our lesson for today: never commit incest. Ever. Especially with your manhood at stake from the blade of an angry samurai and your sister throwing it all away to the priesthood (well not really) and spending two hundred years resorting to weird masks to satisfy her...that and the wandering traveler. I've seen strange chapters before...but this one is probably one of the strangest yet! I don't mind ghost stories and the ambiance of the old Japanese style was rather set up well...at least before "the tengu mask" scene, but it was just one giant freak-out Takashi got caught up in having sex with Shoujaku just because she can't have baby brother Tsunetoki, let alone while still in her nun habit and probably bald underneath...and the sooner I forget what just happened, the better.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16523 [English] [Translation] Desire 32 by StrangerAtaru 2009-10-03T03:01:11+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Everyone goes through failure, whether it be in a venture or in love. When Takashi goes through one of his biggest failures yet, his turmoil may open him up to new and...interesting experiences.

File: 32: BLOW LADY

77.
Voice: While you do have the position of being in charge, shouldn't you have truly grasped the information over there!?
Takashi: I'm really sorry for this.
Takashi: We were notified just when we were on the verge of obtaining a contract with a popular documentary series on BBA, one of the three big networks in America that it was unilaritally annulled by the other party. With triple the premium of IMPAC TV, our rival, ELEC TV, finished the contract.
Section Head: Executive Director Itou, who has been watching you, will be dissapointed!!
Caption: Information Industry Department: Sattellitte Broadcasting Section Head
Takashi: The anger of the boss was natural. This lost channel wasn't an extremely hard blow, but I remembered the deep shock of losing an information war, which is the merit of worth for a firm.

78.
Takashi: Without worrying about going straigh home, my feet naturally headed to a friendly shop...
Takashi: ......... (to himself) Workers at Marubishi. Even with familiar faces...
Takashi: I couldn't drink with them tonight.
SFX: Click......
Takashi: Anywhere would be fine. Be suitable...
Sign: AMUSEMENT CLUB
Takashi: Amusement Club...
SFX: BING
"Owner: Welcome~~~
Takashi: An...okama...!!
(TN: Considering I really don't know if "okama" here means "gay person" or "transvestite", I decided to go with the Japanese term due to my One Piece following. Whoever proofs and scanslates this can make this how they want)

79.
Takashi: On the contrary, I may need to slip into this sort of club. (out loud): Ah...I'll take a counter.
Voice: Che--ers, for the anniversary of our lost love!!
Takashi: For the moment, today I'm commemorating my failure.
"Voice": Do you have a mili of Mild Seven?
(TN: Mild Seven is one of the most popular brands of cigarettes in Japan and the second biggest brand in the world while the third widest in distribution after Marboro and Camel)
"Female": ............
Takashi: Heh, she's pretty...these transsexual girls really are a type that don't hold distinctions.
(TN: Compared to my prior comment of "okama", here Takashi specifically calls "her" a "newhalf", which is a nickname for transsexuals or transvestites)

80.
"Woman": Huh...!!
"Woman": If I thought you were someone, you'd be Fujii-san from the information department!!
Takashi: !!
Hitomi: Nice to meet you, I'm director NAKAYAMA Hitomi!!
Takashi: A...director...!? (she works for Marubishi!?)
Hitomi: Heh~~Fujii-san came to this sort of place alone...I'm shocked.
Takashi: Ah, no...actually

81.
Hitomi: I don't mind! I don't plan to complain on a person's hobbies.
Hitomi: Let me introduce you!
Hitomi: This is elite worker Fujii Takashi-kun, who stands out among those at Marubishi!! Moreover, he's the No. 1 favorable among the female workers!!
"Female 1": What, she already got a younger man on her love-lost anniversary!?
"Female 2": Well, he is my type!!
Takashi: I was mostly forced to sit there. Well...I retired there, getting along with them and drinking lightly.

82.
Hitomi & Females: A TO~~~AST TO MARUBISHI!!
Hitomi: Hey, SHAZNA!!
(TN: SHAZNA is a notable visual kei band, starting off in hard rock but moving into pop in the late 90s)
Hitomi: Well, go out, have a turn.
"Female 2": Fujii-san, we'll do it together later!
"Female 1": Let's do "Sumire September Lo~~ve".
(TN: "Sumire September Love" is a single released by SHAZNA in September, 1997; it actually is a cover of the song originally done by the band Ippuudou in 1982)
Hitomi: I occasionally come here when it gets too crazy to cheer myself up. Isn't an okama bar simply fun!!

83.
Takashi: Actually, I really failed at a contract...I'm here since I dived right in being really sad.
Singing: Tomorrow is tomorrow Lailalaila Lailai
Hitomi: ......
Singing: Is~~this~~a dream. An~~ill~~usion.
Hitomi: I only know about your failure from my position, but it's severe being on the front line.
Hitomi: I've failed at love at 29!! Let's drink, drink!! By tomorrow you'll forget about your stupid worries!!
Takashi: It may have been right to go into this place.

84.
Hitomi: He's been immoral for five years, really since he's been promoted.
Takashi: You--can't be joki--ng!!
Takashi: What position does he have? I'll knock this guy down in one blow!!
"Female 2": This man who has come here is always being prided on. You've made an impression in "there" in Hitomi-chan!!
(TN: The "that" is in reference to "are", which is slang for the genital area)
Hitomi: Stop, stop!! Stop telling him that story already!!
Takashi: An impression "there"......
"Female": Hitomi-chan, Fujii-san, thanks for waiting~~~

85.
Takashi: I had a memory that I continued to drink until close to 4, but......I really didn't remember when I came home what happened last night.
Caption: Next Day

86.
Sign: General Director EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT
Takashi: Excuse me.
Takashi: ...!!
Hitomi: Tomorrow is (note) tomorrow. Lailalalai Lailai (note)
Takashi: Um, do you have stomach medicine?
Hitomi: AH...!! Eh...wh...what!?

87.
Takashi: Is the director here?
Box: HARCLON N
(TN: I couldn't exactly find a brand tied to this so I sort of just inferred based on the box)
Takashi: This is bad: I've been drunk for two days...Nakayama-san, are you alright?
Hitomi: Um...I can say I drink heavily.
(TN: Hitomi uses an expression of "uwabami", which is slang for "heavy drinker", but is typically read as a type of long snake akin to a boa constrictor or a python)
Takashi: You weren't better in your mood, but it has cleared up!!
Takashi: There was something I would say thanking you for last night, but if it's alright, how about a meal this Saturday.
Hitomi: If I have to make the forecast for the female workers, it will be a problem. So then...!
Hitomi: If it's a meal, I'll make it.
Takashi: .........

88.
Takashi: Saturday...I visited her apartment.
Takashi: Amazing. Did you make all this by hand?
Hitomi: Ufufu, that's the wisdom of an old woman.
(TN: The expression Hitomi uses here is actually "toshinoko", which is "the wisdom of an old man". I made appropriate adjustments)
Takashi: Ah...I'll take that.
Hitomi: Taht's a famous wine. Wasn't that expensive.
Takashi: This is good! With this, you'll be a hit even if you open a shop.
Hitomi: I'm happy that you say that.

89.
Hitomi: ...I thought that If I could peel of your mask of being the most favorable, you'd be a gaudy elite...but
Hitomi: The years have slanted my character. In truth, you have a refreshing pheromone from you.
Takashi: That's from over time......
Hitomi: You're clean and not sultry...you're not even high-prided; I reckon that you seem honest, different from the typical Marubishi male......

90.
Hitomi: To those entering the company, I'm a senpai who also can teach.
Hitomi: For you, don't you just have the plays of an honors student in sex?
Hitomi: Don't you think you want to be taught play that you haven't experienced until now?
"Female": This man who has come here is always being prided on. You've made an impression in "there" in Hitomi-chan!!
Takashi: Of course, I have an interest. Shall we go study?
Hitomi: You're cute in your honesty...

91.
Hitomi: There...first, gently rub it up and down.
Takashi: ......
Hitomi: No, it's still too early for me to be stimulated. It hurts there.

92.
Takashi: This was the first time I had instructed play with a female.
Hitomi: Slowly go inside......
Hitomi: I'm fine with you going much deeper...in there, move your finger pads up and down...
Takashi: I became a student in pleasing a woman, each time my fingering changed, she was pleased in the way she reacted in sensitivity.
Hitomi: Use two...go in like you're drawing a circle...

93.
Takashi: Her fluids were flowing out and the sound was resounding through the bedroom...
(TN: Silly comment to mention but "fluids", which obviously mean "sexual fluids", have the reading of "aieki", which literally translates into "love fluids")
Takashi: These heated, intense caressings until now were...!!
Hitomi: Go much deeper...much stronger and faster...!! Much faster...!!
Takashi: Even my own arousal were aiming straight for the top...!!
Hitomi: Aah, good...!! With this...

94.
Hitomi: Good...don't stop...
Hitomi: AAH AH...

95.
Takashi: ......!!

96.
Takashi: TH...THIS WAS PERHAPS...
Hitomi: Have you experienced until now a whale spouting?
(TN: I really don't know if I really should just call it "a spouting" by how HItomi is stating it, but considering that the Japanese word here, "shiofuki", is the term for the spouting of a whale, I decided to keep it as is with a poetic metaphor)
Takashi: N...no. Th...that was a study!!

97.
Caption: Monday
Takashi: ......!!
Hitomi: That man.
Takashi: Huh!?
Hitomi: He's being promoted, but he's a baldy that I'll be kicking!!
Takashi: He's bald...!?

98.
SFX: CLICK
Man: UWA
Takashi: We struck at our period of lost-love and failure, heading towards our respective position.

TN: OK, let's make a check before we continue: was Hitomi actually a man...or a woman who had replacement surgery...or just...sorry, you have to be a bit paranoid after this sort of chapter. Yeah, it was obvious she was female through and through, but with the crowd she hangs out with, you have to make sure. (then again it was that...or have Takashi spend his chapter with that other person...and who knows what direction this series would take with THAT!) In a weird way, the chapter sort of felt disjointed, but probably it's mostly due to how it was presented. In some ways, the sex scene just felt tacked on just to have a sex scene (since, well, that's what this series has) and to have Takashi coated in Hitomi's love juices. But prior to then, I found Hitomi to be an interesting character who has learned to cope with her age and with failures and successes. I guess if this was another series, it probably could have gone in another direction than fingering...but that's what Desire is. (besides, if Takashi went back to Club Lei like he contemplated at the start...she could try to start on him again...and without Kazuki around, he may actually be more than just a target)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16263 [English] [Translation] Desire 31 by StrangerAtaru 2009-09-20T14:20:28+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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In groups of females, some just seem to exhibit less emotion or feelings compared to others. When Kazuki ends up taking a trip with several, the manipulations of one may end up driving him towards discovering more about another!

File: 31: SHY GIRL

53.
Caption 1: MHK STATE BROADCASTER
Caption 2: FUJII Kazuki (23): Younger cousin of our typical-familiar Takashi
Kazuki: A party.........?
"Smoker": Right! We rented a villa in Izu for the weekend; it's a gather of my kouhai...they're college girls, but can't you help me out if I had an opening, Fujii-kun?
(TN: Izu is most likely in reference to the peninsula extending out as part of Shizuoka prefecture but may also be in reference to the city on the peninsula)
Kazuki: Ah...you're permitting me!! (internally) A...college girl party!!?
Kazuki: YAMAGUCHI Miki (22), Showa Women's graduate. Entering the company the same time as me, she works making arrangements of social events for the newcomers.
(TN: It was rather tough figuring out what "S Women's" was considering I figured it was tied to Kazuki's past in Hokkaido, but in actuality it refers to Tokyo-area university "Showa Women's University", a prominent women's school that actually goes from kindergarten to university level for females in Tokyo itself)

54.
Caption: SATURDAY, 6:30 AM
Kazuki: Yamaguchi-san appeared to be the president of the golf club when she was in girl's school.
Girl 1: I'm Chi--e. This is Mami, nice to meet you~~~
Miki: This is Fujii Kazuki-kun, our dr-i-ver.
Kazuki: The gathering was 6 girl college students from her golf club.
Miki: Go ahead, Maho-chan! You're sitting next to the man.
Maho: Huh...well...it's better that I sit in the back.
Girl 3: Yamaguchi-senpai doesn't mind; ride! Ride!
Kazuki: Crowded in with six females, we headed towards the Izu vilal.
Girls: YAY~~

55.
Miki: Fujii-kun, since your specialty seems to be an outdoor-style barbeque, it's best that we leave that to you.
Takashi: Since I did train in a part-time job in college, please leave me with all the cooking!!
Girl: Wow, how enjoyable~~!!
Girl: As expected, Yamaguchi-senpai, you're great at handling men.
Miki: Since he seems safe in his seriousness, it's useless to anticipate him to be perverted.
Girls: AHAHA
Kazuki: You're CHIKURA Maho-san.....they seem to be raising a ruckus behind us. Shouldn't we talk of something too?
Maho: I...I'm sorry. I'm...not good at talking to men...
Kazuki: Well~~~she's shy...

56.
Caption: --IZU--
Voice 1: Hurry up everyone, we're starting at 10----!!
Voice 2: Hold on, the bathroom water isn't coming out~~
Voice 3: Does anyone know where the sunscreen was put?
Voice 4: Ah, Yuuko was using it earlier.
Miki: Please drive us to the course immediately! Then don't forget to open the 2nd floor window when you come back.
Kazuki: You only have to say it once.
Maho: .........

57.
Miki: I've written up a map to the supermarket where you'll buy for the barbeque.
Kazuki: Then I'll pick you up at 4.
Maho: Uh...um...shouldn;'t we invite Fujii-san to golf too? Somehow he seems like our servant...
Miki & Kazuki: ......
Kazuki: Ah...I don't mind! I can't golf.
Miki: Huh, Maho-chan, aren't you a nice girl? Do you want to have a round together with him?
Maho: No! Th...that's not what I meant...
Miki: You're spending two days with 7 beautiful girls, so you have enough, Fujii-kun!
Kazuki: Right, right.
Miki: Well, let's go, let's go!!

58.
Kazuki: We~~ll......shouldn't they fold what they've taken off?
SFX: CLICK
Kazuki: .........

59.
Kazuki: .........
Kazuki: !!
Kazuki: ......!!
Pass:
STUDENT CARD: CHIKURA Maho
Kazuki: That shy girl...
Kazuki: No way: if they find out, it'll be suicide......

60.
Kazuki: Well, here you go--the meat is cooked up---!!
Girl: Please do scallops and shrimp later--
Girl 2: Huh---!? Senpai, aren't you going out with him now?
Miki: He seems like a nice guy who broadcasts with MHK. This is the first time I've gone without sex for a half-year.
Girl: Then you're frustrated. How about eating Fujii-san tonight?
Miki: Ahaha, stop it. He's not my type.

61.
Kazuki: How did you do with golf today?
Maho: I hit a 130, that's really bad. I feel like a burden to all of them.
Kazuki: Maho-san, you seem like a different type than all the others.
Maho: Eh...right. My senpai are clearly just good, sociable people; they're all good at golf, they've really studied in it.
Voice: KYAA\

62.
Girl: Senpai is drunk---!!
Miki: That felt great---!!
Miki: Everyone, let's go skinny-dipping!!
Miki: Here, take it off, take it off!!
Girls: NO--
Girls: WA~~~

63.
Kazuki: Somehow without hesitation, they became naked in front of a man. Were they asleep on me?
Girl: Maho, Maho, this feels great--!!
Miki: Take your clothes off.
Maho: I...I'm fine...!!
Miki: Enough~~what makes you alone so pure?
Girl: Right, you're just so sly!!

64.
Miki: If you're so shy in stripping yourself, we'll strip you.
Maho: Eh...hold on...!!
Miki: That Maho, she didn't appear to have such a big chest from the outside--
Maho: How about showing those big boobies to Fujii-san.
Kazuki: .........

65.
Maho: Kyaa
Girl: Wow, she's mortified!!
Girl 2: Wow, she's still such a cute girl.
Miki: Well, help out!
Maho: Noo...!!

66.
Kazuki: They didn't stop: this may have been a situation they shouldn't have done.

67.
Kazuki: But by becoming naked without hesitation by the girls
Maho: NO...
Kazuki: I remember being aroused by CHIKURA Maho as she was being stripped.

68.
Maho: It's...ticklish......No
Kazuki: She's...smiling!! Doesn't she hate this!?
Maho: Ah...!!

69.
Girl 1: What, you have feelings for me?
Miki: She'll feel great around here.
Girl 2: A bit further up, a bit more!!
Girl 3: Ah~~doesn't Yuuko feel like a lesbian?
Kazuki: .........
Girl: Maho is feeling this...
Girl 2: Right...
Miki: .........

70.
Miki: Please stop already, this isn't a lesbian party!! We'll do karaoke next, karaoke!!
Maho: .........
Girl: Well, while we're at it, there's just one person who didn't get naked...
Kazuki: ......
Girl 2: What shall we do?
Kazuki: Well...we ran out of beer, I'll buy some.
Kazuki: Yamaguchi-san, help me!

71.
Caption: 0:30 AM
Miki: I've been without sex for over a half-year...isn't that why I'm awake?
Kazuki: Ha---...I can't sleep...

72.
SFX: CLICK.........
Miki: Fu...Fukii-kun, are you still asleep?
Miki: I...somehow should sleep......
Miki: ......? Huh, where did he go?
Kazuki: ...!?

73.
Kazuki: .........
Kazuki: !!

74.
Maho: Ev...everyone's asleep, so it will be fine.
Kazuki: Wh...why would a shy girl like you be...?

75.
Maho: Bu...but, it's because everyone did that...
Kazuki: Right...!! The fire of her desire...it was thanks to those women!!
Miki: Fu...Fujiii~~~!!!

76.
Caption: --Early Morning--
Voice: Fujii-san went home without giving a greeting; how rude--
Miki: Somehow his dad is critically ill!!
Maho: Uhuhu, good! They don't seem to realize what happened last night.
Kazuki: .........
Kazuki: !?
Kazuki: .....................!? (Wh...where am I!?)

TN: Well we learned a major lesson in this chapter: pick the wrong girl (regardless of shyness, cuteness or bustyness)...get bound, gagged and left on waves and rocks by the one who loses! Yeah, some could probably say that Maho was the one who left Kazuki there, but the previous page suggested it was obviously an angry Miki who found out about how his lust was used for another girl and, with nothing left in the tank after the shy girl, decided to get back at him! (it's disturbed to see him like that...I just hope it didn't get even more disturbed on what happened) Maho was more impressed in succeeded in at least getting a bit more over her shyness...maybe the whole lesbian situation was a tad much in doing so, but I guess it was more a shock to her system...that or it's "Sapphism" all over again. (yeah, girls schools always seem to lead to lesbianism in these sorts of series) Once again I sort of wished we got more data on the other girls but it probably would end up making things more complicated.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16246 [English] [Translation] Desire 30 by StrangerAtaru 2009-09-20T02:12:35+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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When involved in certain physical endeavors, the line of "man" and "woman" can blur leading to problems. When Takashi encounters a manly-woman from his past, can he help her cope with...both sides of who she is!?

File: 30: A MASTER OF SWORDPLAY

29.
Voice: I'm not going to be mocked by what anyone thinks!!
Takashi: It suddenly happeend as I entered the brewery.

30.
"Short-Hair": If you don't want to drop out, then please leave immediately!!
"Hit Girl": I...get it. Don't yell at me!!
Takashi: .........
"Short-Hair": Since I hadn't seen you here today, go straight home!!
"Short-Hair": I'll lend you my chit, I'll pay for this.
Takashi: I quickly realized that she was a kouhai who was called the "riotous swordsman of Joushuu".
(TN: "Joushuu" is in reference to an ancient Japanese province which is today considered Gunma Prefecture...where we already know Takashi is from)
Man: Well, an acquaintance!?
Takashi: Yes.
Woman: Aren't you concerned with slapping a student!?
"Short-Hair": That's the way I do things!!

31.
Takashi: Um, pardon me. Are you YUUKI Shinobu-san?
Takashi: I'm Fuji from the high school kendo club. Do you remember me!?
Shinobu: .........Fu...Fujii-san!!
Takashi: In those days, when we were in the same kendo club, I was in 12th grade, and she was in 8th grade. Her ability was above everyones, taking the Kantou Middle-School Championship in 8th grade.

32.
Shinobu: Huh......you saw that? I suddenly sent my hand to her since I'm in charge of her.
Takashi: YUUKI Shinobu, 23, Private Girl's School Teacher
Takashi: Seems you haven't changed even now in the merit of authority.
Shinobu: ........
Shinobu: I always thought I would have been much stronger if I was born a man back then. Therefore, I persuaded myself to be manly.
Shinobu: Middle-school club students, shouldn't we be practicing? We look like the girls in the high-school club.

33.
Shinobu: I want to practice with the captain!!
Students: ......
Takashi: The captain is on break today. If you ward me off
Shinobu: Fujii-san, No. 2 of the high schoolers?
Shinobu: You did lose in the first round of the inter-HS individual tourney, but that guy did win the prefecture tourney if that makes it up.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: My physical condition was a bit off then.
Shinobu: Well...you were fine in it.

34.
Shinobu: Hey hey
Shinobu: Your attack is soft. You're not taking even a round from me.
Shinobu: I told you to attack--
Shinobu: KYA

35.
Shinobu: No...not yet!! That was a round, that's not the match!!
Takashi: When you've become a bit more mature, then we'll have our match.

36.
Takashi: Well...it was suddenly serious then.
Shinobu: I had regrets and inevitably had to endure my tears.
Shinobu: But...that one thrust budded a feeling that I hadn't had until then: My feelings as a woman...I sealed away those feeling without confessing to you as you were drawn in to your exams for Tokyo U...
Takashi: Kendo...!!
Takashi: It's been a while since I've wanted to hold a shinai.
(TN: A "shinai" is the actual Japanese name for the bamboo wooden stick used for kendo)
Shinobu: The school dojo is empty tonight. Shouldn't we have practice!!
Takashi: I want to!!

37.
Takashi: That day......after my meeting was over, I visited her school.
Sign: SHUUEI GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
Takashi: I remember those days of the Kendo club.
Shinobu: Please us the protection of the boy's coach.
Shinobu: Heh--now they have masks where you can see faces. It's better since you can read your opponent's facial expression. We're not permitted to have the championship matches yet, but provisionally they're using our school.
Takashi: Since it's been a while, I'm asking you to hit my softly.

38.
Takashi: Immediately as the practice started, our difference in ability was evident with her as an active advisor of a kendo club. (out loud) OYA
Shinobu: IYAA
Shinobu: YAAA
Takashi: However, as we moved through our mutual practice, my intuition was ressurected in reading her movements.
Shinobu: Uh

39.
Takashi: Thanks, it's been a while since I've worked up a good sweat. We'll do this again if we have the chance.
Shinobu: That match from then......Do you remember entrusting me with it? Your movements are already the same as before...you should fight evenly with me.
Takashi: Huh...?
Shinobu: I want to clear away my regrets of that day...!!
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Understood! It's so you can clear away your feelings.
Shinobu: Three-round match, no time limit. Only a valid strike read by both of us will be a round.

40.
Shinobu: ARIYAAA CHIRIYA
Shinobu: ......

41.
Takashi: Got your forearm......!! That's round.
Shinobu: .........
Takashi: ?
Takashi: Is the match over? Have you cleared up your feelings yet?
Shinobu: Not yet. Please wait here a bit.
Takashi: !?

42.
Shinobu: Thanks for waiting!!
Takashi: ......
Takashi: Wh...what exactly is that appearance......

43.
Shinobu: It's useless to stop your activities!!
Takashi: .........
Shinobu: Start round 2!!

44.
Shinobu: IYAAA
Shinobu: MASK!!
Shinobu: If you're tenacious to not stop your heart on these things, then you can't use the stolen power from there freely. "You shouldn't forget to stop your heart"!!

45.
Takashi: Were you resigned to dress like that when you lost?
Shinobu: .........
Shinobu: I don't care, even if I've come to this.
Shinobu: Begin the 3rd round!!

46.
Shinobu: IYAAA
Shinobu: ORIYA

47.
Shinobu: ...!!
Shinobu: ......
Shinobu: TORSO

48.
Shinobu: Kya

49.
Shinobu: Round with a stab...that's match!! I've lost.

50.
Takashi: Yuuki-kun...you're a fascinating woman swordsman.
Takashi: It's been many years since I've done kendo, but this is the first I've had such an exciting match. I think I won't ever forget this in my life.
Shinobu: .........

51.
Sign: Locker Room

52.
Takashi: Wi...with that, the emotions of the woman sealed from then were settled...
Shinobu: AH
Shinobu: Thanks, Fujii-san...

TN: I was sort of afraid that suddenly Shinobu was going to take her shinai and put it up her privates and get off with that...but luckily this chapter didn't go that far. You can't tell in this series...but with that stupid thought out of the way, this was a really good chapter. For some reason, stories which draw back to past situations leading to present problems for the most part become great storytelling means. (OK for the most part, I'm more talking about chapters like this and "Hatsunode", not nightmares like "Aunt" or...or...or........."Tandem") I guess some would call strange her motive of using her womanly side to stop Takashi, but it was all or nothing: considering that it was her female and male sides colliding between being a woman and being a kendoist, it was a crucial matter that sort of had to be addressed...and in this sort of series, it could have gotten kinkier so luckily it didn't! (then again I sort of wished we got a bit more with the girls that she teaches...I mean, what was with that one in the bar at the start!?)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16076 [English] [Translation] Desire 29 by StrangerAtaru 2009-09-13T14:45:21+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Desire is a peculiar matter that varies by person and experience. When Takashi goes on assignment to get a photographer's work for them, he may end up giving a hand to awakening her own lusts...

File: 29: FETISHISMIST

7.
Voice: KAZUMI.........This is a volume of her work. Her series of works where she chases after youth street culture had her achieve great praise at an exhibition in New York last year.
Voice: Now she's a photographic author representing young visual creators. Our satellite broadcaster had commissioned an announcement poster from her, but she's so busy that she's seemed to have rejected us.
Takashi: So you've come to me to undertake this...?
Voice: With the rumors of you being No. 1 at good will with females in the company, you can do this.

8.
Kazumi: Kate, lower your gaze more, make your expression like that.
(TN: I'm assuming that "Kate" is supposed to be "Kate Moss", notable for ushering in the "waif" era models of the 1990s)
Takashi: MASE Kazumi, 24.
Takashi: Since we were rejected once, I left directly for the studio without taking an appointment so I could talk to her directly.

9.
Kazumi: Thank you--thank you very much.
Takashi: Pardon me for a moment.
Kazumi: .........

10.
Kazumi: Thanks.
Takashi: Nice to meet you, I'm Fujii from Marubishi's Information Department. Our satellite broadcasater had comissioned an announcement poster.
Takashi: You said that it didn't fit your schedule, but our company is strongly asking like this for you with whatever it takes...
Kazumi: .........
Kazumi: Well...then, I'll look again at my schedule later. I'm Mase, nice to meet you.
Takashi: Ah...thanks for doing so.

11.
Kazumi: ......
Takashi: .........
Takashi: What...?
Kazumi: Ah...I've got to take a picture.

12.
Kazumi: A picture of you.
Takashi: Ah! Well, go ahead.
SFX: CLICK
Kazumi: Then, when I confirm my schedule, I'll call tomorrow.
Takashi: Thank you very much.
Kazumi: Ah...well, please go and eat with the others...then I'll have your number.
Takashi: Pardon me.

13.
Takashi: The next day......I got the call: she told me to go to her home and I went there immediately.
Takashi: Mase-san, do you live here alone?
Kazumi: Yeah: both my parents were photographers; they're retired now and have moved to Australia.
Kazumi: Actually, I...want you to be my model here.
Takashi: Huh...!?
Takashi: Yo...you're joking in making me a model. I can't do that.
Kazumi: My works now are centered on the commercial, but continuing to take pictures of men is my life work. I'm not joking or anything.

14.
Kazumi: How about as a barter condition for doing the Marubishi work? It'll be fine since I'm not planning on taking nudes.

15.
Kazumi: Uhuhu, minor things I use for photographs. I relied on a special make-up artist from America to make these.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: I was surprised; they seemed so real...
Kazumi: So, shall we begin? Our other model will be a mannequin.
Takashi: ......

16.
Kazumi: So then, put your left hand slowly on her thigh and your right on her shoulder.
Kazumi: From her shoulder to her breast...yes, slowly.
Kazumi: Grab it like you're surrounding her nipple from below.
Takashi: .........

17.
Takashi: Well, are we done? How about a bit of a break?
Kazumi: I'm thirsty. I'll get a drink.

18.
Takashi: .........?
Takashi: Wh...what!? She's only taking my hands. I'm modeling my hands...?
Kazumi: The hand is the root for all creation.
Kazumi: You have beautiful hands that I've rarely seen. To take pictures of beautiful men hands around the world is my life work.
Kazumi: Even just one hand is fine; if you could buy them with money.
Kazumi: I'll pay anything for them.

19.
Takashi: I don't have a reason to sell my hand but if my hands were useful, then anything would...
Kazumi: Then can your hand brush my hair?
Kazumi: ...!!
Kazumi: Ho...hold on a moment.
Takashi: ......?

20.
Kazumi: Now touch my face.........
Takashi: ......
SFX: ER--......
Kazumi: Soft like this......

21.
(And here's where the hands get...busy)

22.
Kazumi: N...next is...the thigh...
Kazumi: The...photos are complete. Now continue...
Takashi: My "hands" spurred her desire this far...A strange kind of experience.

23.
Kazumi: A long, supple hand...
Kazumi: And these beautiful fingers
Kazumi: On my nipple......
Takashi: Aah, yes. Where is your next designation?
Kazumi: N...no, not there...!

24.
Kazumi: No......
Kazumi: St...
Kazumi: AH...AH...
Kazumi: AAH

25.
Takashi: !?
Takashi: .........

26.
Takashi: Ma...Mase-san.
Takashi: Mase-san, are you alright!!
Kazumi: ..........
Kazumi: Ye...yes.
Kazumi: Did...did I faint now? It was like my first...

27.
Kazumi: ......I was 16. I first encountered it with a molester.
Kazumi: There was the hand of a man who touched my thigh unexpectedly were beautiful in their length and suppleness. I really didn't have any feelings of disgust; I was truly staring at that hand.
Kazumi: We didn't exchange even a word to each other...this occured over a week...I didn't see on the train the man with the beautiful hand and I hadn't seen him ever again...
Takashi: .........
Kazumi: That's all. I did tell you too much; so then, how about digging around my body?

28.
Takashi: Even the personal form of desire in someone varies by person...Of what I know of the deep world of desire, this was a day that I couldn't forget--
SFX: BEEP...

TN: I think I can sum up this chapters in three particular ways:
1. Bad experiences can awaken sexual lust
2. Takashi's "experiences" are making him famous in his job
3. Kate Moss looks just as scary drawn as she is in real life during this era.

Aside from the stupidity, this chapter somehow reminded me a bit on my previous translation works when I did "AiKola" for a while...well OK, AiKola didn't have any fetish-based sex scenes, but considering that there was some matter regarding hand fetishes and the fact that the female in this chapter is named after a girl in "Mahou Sensei Negima" (yeah really stupid to say that...but considering that this girl is "Kazumi" and the main heroine in AiKora is a Sakurako...and the "Sakurako" in Negima is that memorable to me...I'll shut up now) But yeah...at least it wasn't a voice fetish.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16051 [English] [Translation] Desire 28 by StrangerAtaru 2009-09-13T01:44:24+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ready to take a drive...?

Vol. 4: NUN
File: 28: TAXI DRIVER

3.
Takashi: Friday, Roppongi, 0:50 AM: I was released from entertaining a business client an hour ago.
Man: Well, well.
Takashi: How about taking me to Futago Tamagawa?
Driver: Alright.
Takashi: It was a young, beautiful female driver.
Takashi: ......

4.
SFX: Click
Takashi: In front...?
Takashi: Is riding in the assistant's seat part of the service?
Sign: SHUTOU EXPRESSWAY (Takagi-chou Entrance)
(TN: The Shutou Expressway is the name of the main expressway system in and around the Tokyo area, extending further in some areas as far as Kanagawa. Takagi-chou Entrance is an entrance to the road network in Roppongi)
Takashi: This service, it's so absurd....I unconsciously slipped from my mouth.
Takashi: !!

5.
Driver: It's nice that you'll take this as part of your service.
Takashi: Huh?
Bottom Sign: SJ TRANSPORTATION
Side Sign: OUT OF SERVICE
SFX: CLICK
Takashi: I had no reason to refuse...
Takashi: I accepted her service.

6.
Driver: Actually, the couple who rode earlier were in the back...thanks to you, I've become refreshed.
Takashi: No, I should thank you. I've blown off my fatigue from my client tonight.
Driver: Thank you very much. Please use my firm again.
Takashi: You should be grateful to that couple. I'll use this service again soon...

TN: Another shortie akin to "Afternoon" or "Coffee Shop", but one that felt a bit more constructive in it's build compared to the previous ones. It does seem almost fortuitous that Takashi keeps coming across beautiful women even in "these short situations", but it is still fantasy...besides, at least there was an excuse for the sex of "blowing off tension of the day" instead of just "let's just do it for no apparent reason".

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/16050 [English] [Translation] Desire 27 by StrangerAtaru 2009-09-13T01:41:46+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Sometimes you come across an incredible similarity, even in "those things"! As Takashi's cousin Kazuki comes to grips with his own sexual frustrations, he may be coming across a female that he may have seen somewhere...

File: 27: AV ACTRESS

187.
Video caption:
MAIHARA MII
FUCK ME
-19 YEAR OLD HOT NEW HEROINE MII

188.
Caption: Sunday, 11:40 AM
Kazuki: I'm FUJII Kazuki, 23 (FUJII Takashi's younger cousin), I've come to Tokyo from Hokkaido as a new employer at a national public broadcasting company.
(TN: Though he doesn't say which one, Kazuki's employer is most likely (or a parody of) the main national public broadcaster NHK)
Kazuki: That shocking threesome experience of the night that I had my inaguration celebration with Takashi-san...since that day, I've been spending anguishing days............by treating myself with A.V., without even resolving myself to go to a sex service.

189.
"Woman": Um...excuse me!!
Kazuki: !?
"Woman": Can you help me......!!
Kazuki: What is it that you need!?
"Woman": I'm in room 301.........hu...hurry!!

190.
Sign: 301: OZAWA
Ozawa: Ah...I'm sorry.
Kazuki: .........

191.
Ozawa: The faucet's broken!!
Ozawa: Ah...we--ll, so it stops by shutting it off there.

192.
Kazuki: Let me help you. The faucet was just loose.
Ozawa: Thank you very much. I'm just that estranged in that.
Kazuki: ..........
Kazuki: SHE...LOOKS LIKE HER!! She's a splitting image of MAIHARA Mii (20), who debuted as an AV Idol last year. She had the best in breasts and blowjobs in the video magazine rankings! She has the #1 ranked rental for the month even at my favorite rental place!
Kazuki: Whatever she's hiding, I'd record her, as a big fan whom this everyday woman is in debt to.
(TN: This part really confused me considering that Kazuki is first mentioning about wanting to record Ozawa being similar to Mii...and that she's in his debt for fixing her faucet)

193.
Kazuki: But this can't be her...
Ozawa: Um...it would be fine to say thanks but since I haven't had lunch yet, how about we have it together?
Kazuki: Eh...really?
Ozawa: I have to change a bit of my clothes; please sit where it's alright in here.

194.
Ozawa: Are you in college?
Kazuki: No...I'm a businessman.
Kazuki: Do you perhaps work in a visual medium?
Ozawa: Huh...? I don't but why? Am I that charming?
Kazuki: Well...you are that too but, actually...it's because you look like that AV actress MAIHARA Mii.
Ozawa: I'm like an AV actress!?

195.
Ozawa: Even with that serious businessman face, you watch those perverted videos?
Kazuki: No...it's the gravure magazines! Since she's popular. You already look like her if you take your glasses off.
(TN: A "gravure magazine" is essentially a magazine connected to the "provocative" gravure idols, who usually show off in cheesecake photos without anything explicit like AV idols)
Ozawa: This makes me resemble her.........?
Ozawa: I'm not her regrettingly.
Kazuki: .........
Chika: I'm OZAWA Chika, a 2nd year at a junior college. This world is wide and there are one or two people who look alike.
ID: Student Card: OZAWA Chika

196.
Kazuki: Somehow I'm nervous for what looks like a meal by MAIHARA Mii.
Chika: If I look like her, then how about I play her stand-in?
Kazuki: ......
Chika: Well I don't hate perversion.

197.
Chika: I've been said to be really good at this.
Kazuki: Th...that tongue usage...!!

198.
Chika: Ahaha, I was wrong. Well, this isn't like the real thing.
Kazuki: .........
Chika: But...if you hear my request, would you see me the same as MAIHARA Mii?
Kazuki: A......request.........?

199.
Chika: It's the most classic request since long ago. Just one thing, out of everything I've said that you've heard.........
Kazuki: .........
Chika: I haven't been perverted recently...well?
Kazuki: Even though you've made an impossible request...
Chika: It's fine! Because I'm requesting that I really want to do it with you. And then, I'm finish with perversion afterwards.
Kazuki: Well, it's a promise!
Chika: Come over here.........

200.
Chika: Well...you're excited!!
Kazuki: ......

201.
Kazuki: She's gone so deep......!!
Kazuki: This...feels great! She's got a blowjob technique that ashames AV actresses!!

202.
Kazuki: It's...no use. I can't endure anymore!!
Kazuki: Chi...Chika-san...!!|
Chika: To the bed...
Kazuki: ...!!

203.
Kazuki: My nails are on her butt...
Kazuki: My palm is stuck to her closely.
Kazuki: Her color, her form, her inexcuseable bosom...

204.
Kazuki: Even if she's not TRULY Mii-chan, she leaves the impression of her----!!
Chika: Here's a present from me.

205.
(TN: Video's the same as pg. 1)
Chika/Mii: It's a video signed by me!!
Kazuki: .........
Kazuki: You're...the real MAIHARA Mii-chan......!!
Kazuki: You were impressive. One...one more time.........

206.
Video Crew: Many thanks---!!
Kazuki: !!
Mii: I thank you for your cooperation. You're the first work of my "Mii's Surprise Amateur series".
Kazuki: Ho...hold on! You're not really going to sell this...
Mii: But of course!! This is my job. My "tequest" is for consenting!

207.
Kazuki: Days later...I was sent a sample video from the film company. By putting a mosaic on me, they somehow got our story on there.
Video: MAIHARA MII - Fuck Me
MII'S SURPRISE AMATEUR SERIES VOL. 1
June 20th, ON SALE
Kazuki: I told work that I was shocked, but I really did do the real MAIHARA Mii!! Isn't that amazing!!
(Caption: However...he didn't write that he watches the video he himself appears in)
(End of Vol. 3)

TN: Well there is a valuable lesson as you reach the end of this volume: sometimes you don't realize you're in a porno until it's too late. I know in some ways that you could have questioned Mii until she spilled the beans, but she was such a great job as Chika that she actually convinced Kazuki that it "wasn't quite her"...until it was too late! But in a weird way, considering the whole chapter was a weird porn-like simulation, it actually felt more like a natural "amateur film" compared to a lot of "amateur" films out there which claims they're amateurs but they essentially have porn stars on both sides and somehow the so-called amateurs...really aren't considering they run, say, a porn web site where they do these so-called naive "porn stars"...or something. (so in that way, Mii's act worked like wonders) Oh and BTW: she shouldn't be ashamed to wear glasses...

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15887 [English] [Translation] Desire 26 by StrangerAtaru 2009-09-06T14:28:16+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Takashi is always coming across women of different backgrounds...so when a certain Belushi-lookalike arrives in Japan with a special secretary, he's bound to learn some new things from her!

File: 26: BROWN WOMAN

165.
Takashi: Mulder, the president of the major film company "Grace", our satellite partner, suddenly arrived in Japan. Seeming to be going home from attending the Hong Kong International Film Festival, I accepted an invitation for a meal together so he could give his business.

166.
Takashi: My encounters in playing with the president during the contract incident last year in L.A. gives me good memories even now.
*Refer to Volume 2
Takashi: Evening, 6:00, in a lodging hotel...
Mulder: While in Hong Kong, I've heard there's a shop with delicious sukiyaki in Tokyo. That's why I've dropped through.
Takashi: I'm honored that you've invited me with.
Mulder: My private secretary, Barbara Littner.
(TN: Ended up using this translation over "Rittner" due to the only other character I found with a similar last name: "Yoko Littner" from "Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann")

167.
Takashi: Her height surpassed 180...She was a brown-skinned attractive beauty descended from Germany and Pakistan.
(TN: 180 cm is approximately just under 5ft. 11in)
Caption: SHINJUKU
Barbara: It's the 7th floor of that building.

168.
Sign: SUKIYAKI CLUB (No admittance other than members or those with invitation)
Girls: Welcome--
Takashi: If you think it's strange that Sukiyaki has a membership system.........any other customary cuisine shops which has customary cuisine that serve bureaucrats would cause noise in the media.

169.
Mulder: OH!
Sign: NOBLE VISITOR ROOM
Mulder: Very cute! A nude body wrapped in a kimono truly is Oriental eroticism.
Mulder: Aren't you enjoying this?
Takashi: For the moment, we should devote ourselves to eating.
Takashi: The beautiful secretary wasn't by his side.

170.
Takashi: Would you like "wakamezake"?
(TN: You're going to end up seeing this, but basically it's a sexual act of a woman pouring alcohol down her chest to her pubic area, where it's drunken. The "wakame" is basically the pubic hair representing seaweed)
Mulder: ?
Mulder: Fujii, what's "wakamezake"?
Takashi: Well...in short, "wakame" is "seaweed".
Mulder: .........?
Mulder: Hah hah! I see!!

171.
Mulder: Seaweed sake!
Girl: Please!
Takashi: She's telling you to drink it directly. Let's try!
Takashi: What exactly are the feelings of the woman who came with her to this sort of place......
Mulder: Wonderful!!

172.
Mulder: Ha ha, that really was a fun delicious club. I was correct to drop into Tokyo.
Mulder: Do you know of any other interesting shops?
Takashi: I'm sorry, I don't know too well customary matters.
Takashi: But......I expected you to bring along a beautiful secretary to play with.
Mulder: I'm still shallow on the familiarities of Japan, but Barbara also holds a title in boxing. She's a secretary and boxer. I don't have a taste in walking around with some grim fellow.
Barbara: OK! So then, 11 at the hotel.
Takashi: Well--she's a boxer!!

173.
Takashi: Then she's surely poweful like in those American pornos......
Barbara: Is there something on my face...?
Takashi: N...no, it's nothing.
Takashi: We found a sign for a public show and found it alright to go in, but somehow it was public S&M.
Takashi: Let's go to another place.
Mulder: Well isn't this an interesting shop.

174.
Takashi: I was really a bystander, without really understanding the mentality for S&M.
Barbara: ......
Takashi: .........

175.
Barbara: President, we should gradually get to the hotel......
Mulder: Since my lower half is throbbing out, we'll finish up around here for today.
Takashi: I saw the president to the hotel, and it was there a woman was waiting.

176.
Mulder: See ya, Fujii, we'll meet again!
Mulder: If it's fine, you can get comfortable with Barbara tonight.
Takashi: Huh...
Barbara: Let's go to my room.........
Takashi: ......
Takashi: How fortunate.........!!

177.
Takashi: The preseident wasn't hesistant on this. This was my first foreign woman; my heart was swelling!!
Takashi: ...?
Takashi: Huh...!!

178.
Takashi: So...sorry but, if we're playing like that, then I'm going home.
Takashi: I'm not the type who feels pleasure getting struck by a whip.
Takashi: ......
Barbara: If you want to get out of the room, then KO me!

179.
Barbara: You'll use this!!
Takashi: Huh...!!
Takashi: I followed her directions.
Barbara: A boxer who defeats by hurting their opponent is sadistic. You may think strangely of my masochism, but this is how I assume balance in my heart.

180.
Barbara: What's wrong? Well, hit me!
Takashi: ......
Barbara: You're spineless. Did your cock cringe seeing my punch?
Barbara: Much stronger!
Takashi: Did she feel pleasure with this sadistic act...?

181.
Barbara: More...!!
Takashi: Where exactly...!?
Barbara: Stronger...

182.
Takashi: I don't understand the mentality for S&M, but the expression of her ecstacy promoted my throbbing.
Takashi: Her sweaty brown skin was captivating.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: Th...this time, I'll satisfy you!! (internally)...Suddenly I was filled with desire.

183.
Takashi: But not in S&M play, in fucking!!
Barbara: What......!? Like this? I can't use my special punch.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: Ah...

184.
Barbara: OK! COME ON!
Takashi: .........

185.
Takashi: The skin that I taunted earlier I caressed as such.
Takashi: Perhaps, I may be into the world of S&M with my extending horizon of sensation...
Takashi: Now, I merely had to take this beautiful brown woman to the...

186.
Takashi: FINISH!!
Takashi: Several weeks later, I received a boxing magazine by air mail...there she was as a truly ecstatic champion on her third defense...

TN: Note to self: whenever Mulder is around, things get kinky fast. First that stewardess incident, now...yeah, for some reason, seeing a girl with her boobs already revealed even with kimono really isn't that much of a turn-on. Yeah I know it was Takashi who knew of this place but still...it involved Mulder, thus why it got kinky fast! And speaking of kinky...Barbara just seemed to make me keep thinking of Sa-chan. Heck, the entire S&M bent of the chapter made me think of the S&M loving ninja girl from Gintama. And to tell the truth, I don't like S&M before this chapter...and I don't like it now that it's done. Barbara just seemed like a means to bring in another aspect of sex into this weird series...let alone considering the title, I guess I expected her to be black instead of German/Pakistani. (but then again we have Mulder so he has weird tastes)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15878 [English] [Translation] Desire 25 by StrangerAtaru 2009-09-06T03:01:09+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Though notable for his problems, Takashi isn't the only Fujii cursed with female troubles! When a relative arrives to begin work in Tokyo, he may be able to help him learn the ropes...hopefully it isn't too much for him though!

File: 25: THREE PERSONS

141.
Takashi: Fujii Kazuki, 23 years old, Law Graduate of Hokkaido U. This spring, my younger cousin Kazuki came to Tokyo from Hokkaido to be a new company worker.

142.
Takashi: Congratulations on finding a job.
Sign: Hometown Cooking: SHOUHEI
Takashi: My little brother Yuuji too has passed into Waseda U. We've continued to be happy.
(TN: I assume that "W-Dai" is "Waseda" considering it's one of the biggest universities in Japan)
Kazuki: Congratulations.
Takashi: We brothers have gathered so we can start new lives in Tokyo.
Kazuki: You would think of a target you'd want to stand firm on!!

143.
Kazuki: Takashi-san, you're 28 this year. Have you thought about marriage?
Takashi: I haven't had the chance to meet with that sort of woman.
Takashi: Kazuki-kun, do you have a lover...?
Kazuki: I've been really lazy on women since I was rejected in my second year of college. I've only gone out with one woman both before and after that. That's the lonely life of a student.
(TN: The part in the second bubble that Kazuki says here about the "one woman before and after" is really difficult, need better assistance with it)
Kazuki: It seems that having no relation with women is the pedigree of the Fujii family.
Takashi: Ha ha
Takashi: Then, since we're celebrating your hiring tonight, how about we go to a club where there are girls?
Kazuki: Al...right, please do so.

144.
Caption: GINZA
(TN: Ginza, located in Chuuou prefecture of Tokyo, is considered the upscale shopping district of Tokyo, equivalent to 5th Avenue of New York)
Takashi: With a cute mother and uniformily beautiful girls, as well as an honest fee, the club "Lei" is a little-known great place in Ginza.
Kazuki: A club in Ginza...I'm nervous.
Takashi: It's fine to think that being a new trainee.

145.
"Woman": Welcome--
"Woman": Huh, Ta-chan, it's been a while---!
Takashi: Ah, same!
Kazuki: .........
Takashi: She's merely the knife, but she's one with both a glamorous body and a mother's charm.
(TN: I say "she's merely the knife" due to the term that Takashi uses for her, "kodzuka", which is a knife attached to the sheaf of a sword, therefore she is merely the "knife" as opposed to an actual sword)

146.
Takashi: Today isn't for business, it's a celebration for my cousin's hiring.
(TN: Another weird term: Takashi mentions that this isn't for "settai", which in this case is "business entertainment, probably something connected to his job)
"Woman": Eh...it's private!
"Woman": That's great! Come with me if it's private.
Card: Club LEI: KAWAJIMA Lei
Takashi: The mother is two years older than me. She doesn't seem it.
Kazuki: Huh...then she's 30!! She really doesn't seem it!

147.
Girls: Welcome--
Kazuki: ......
Girl: Pardon m--e.
Takashi: Looking at the confused Kazuki, he was like myself when I joined my company.
Lei: Since we're not together with our best customers today, make yourself at home.
Takashi: Eh...right. If you say that, why don't I slowly talk with you?
Lei: Here's your chance to play with me...!
Takashi: Well...! You'll kill your fans.

148.
Lei: Ta-chan, you truly don't have a lover; I may be older than you, but can't I be a candidate for you?
Takashi: I had heard that Tanaka from Overseas Loans had been approached from you but
Lei: That's a misunderstanding from him.
Lei: I have five that I love now. Among them, you're the best one!
Takashi: I'm honored.
Lei: You don't believe it because it's true.

149.
Girl: Mama, it's manager Nakamura of the necktie enterprise.
Lei: Ah, right.
Lei: Pardon me. Make yourself at home.
Lei: I have urgent business with an invitation for golf...pardon me.
Nakamura: Then, how about next week?
Takashi: Even though I grasped her business, I skillfully drank my sake as I took in the approach from the Ginza mother.
Takashi: Surrounded by beauties, Kazuki also was aroused. There wasn't a greater congratulations for his hiring.

150.
Lei: Misaki-chan, can you please take manager Nakamura?
Misaki: OK.
Lei: Well, let's do more drinking! Since I've left you for last, how about we go to Roppongi? There's a nice club there.
(TN: Roppongi in Minato is another notable nightclub spot in Tokyo)
Kazuki: Well--that was great. I'm completely absorbed in this.
Lei: Then this time you should go with a superior at MHK
Kazuki: OK, I'll give it publicity.
Takashi: This is crowded...
Lei: Ah, driver-san. Go straight and then make a left.

151.
Takashi: A left turn is the opposite direction of Roppongi......
Lei: Make a right at the 2nd light. We're near my apartment. We have a bit of time until we go to Roppongi.
Kazuki: Ta...Takashi-san, do you know of the mother's home...?
Takashi: No, my first time.
Kazuki: Well~~today, I've studied many things about society.
Lei: Both of you should relax. You don't have to pay here.

152.
Lei: Is he asleep?
Takashi: Well, we'll gradually.
Lei: Stay here tonight.
Lei: My approach...can't we be serious?
Takashi: .........

153.
Lei: Don't misunderstand me...I'm not capable of doing this as a Ginza mother, who sells bodies for discount for her business. But myself as a woman...I too have days where I indulge in pure desire.
Takashi: .........

154.
Lei: I'm serious! Touch them, they're wet.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: We...well, me with you...but I'm together with Kazuki today.
Kazuki: Uh...well...
Takashi: Wh...what!! You've woken up!!
Kazuki: I...I'm going home.

155.
Lei: Maybe you shouldn't go home
Lei: How about.........a threesome?
Kazuki: A...three...!?
Lei: Of course, this is a first for me but
Takashi: It's not that the Fujii family hasn't had relations with women; you may have this chance to be set free now...
Kazuki: .........

156.
(Yeah...nothing to say)

157.
(Yeah...threesome)

158.
(And...more)

159.
Kazuki: ......
Lei: AH...
Kazuki: Uo
Kazuki: Ah...

160.
Lei: AH

161.
Kazuki: ......
Lei: AAH
Kazuki: This...isn't the Takashi-san that I know...!! He's like a veteran master!!

162.
Takashi: Uh.
Lei: How about the three of us live together!!
Takashi: Um.

163.
Lei: We--ll then! I was joking, joking.
Takashi & Kazuki: .........
Lei: Thanks for coming.
Takashi: Well I'll drop by when I'm near.
Kazuki: Thanks.
Takashi: Your job-finding celebration was a bit too much in stimulation.
Kazuki: No!! It was a wonderful training for a newcomer.
Takashi: It was. Do your best!!

TN: I think that while some people probably were thinking that I was going to end up thinking "Mrs. Robinson" with this chapter (yeah I know, two years but she's still technically an older woman), what ended up playing in my head was more the back-and-forth music that was in "Animal House", where we go between this "sensuous salsa" with one of the frat members seducing the deans wife...and then cut to "Theme from 'A Summer Place'" when we see another Delta doing a young teen! So sue me...I've seen that movie quite a bit lately. As for the chapter itself...well, this chapter introduces probably our next major male character: Takashi's younger cousin Kazuki. He's probably a bit more emotional compared to Takashi starting out but somehow his tales should give us a different perspective compared to Takashi himself. As for the woman of the chapter...yeah, Lei was a man-eater, wasn't she. The whole scenario she ran from being the "mother of a girl club" to that threesome really did make me want to think of "Mrs. Robinson's seduction", but it just made me think of "Theme from 'A Summer Place'"...I really need to adjust my imagination, don't I!? (that and...two men and one woman!? Too many men for my ideal concept of a threesome)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15846 [English] [Translation] Desire 24 by StrangerAtaru 2009-09-05T01:42:19+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Every once in a while, there is a day that's a cause for celebration. But what starts out as an ordinary day that comes once a year for Takashi...may be more celebratory than usual!

File: 24: BIRTHDAY PRESENT?

122.
Takashi: Yesterday, my father sent me a Rolex, which I usually use.
Takashi: Today I'm 28. It was a birthday present from my father.
Takashi: Well...since it is my birthday, it's not really a special day but...

123.
Takashi: ...!
Takashi: It's lucky that I'm sitting on the morning train.
Takashi: I'm lucky again! I'm surrounded by young women in mini skirts. The flowers are blooming just in this car.
Takashi: If I always had this sort of priveledge, the train commuting to work would be interesting.

124.
Takashi: A college student.........?
Takashi: ...!!
Takashi: Somehow today is lucky.

125.
Woman: I'm sorry!
Woman: Kya

126.
(PANTY SHOT!)

127.
Takashi: Whatever I've gotten with this morning's commute, I feel great.
Voice: Good morning.
Takashi: Good morning!!
Man: Are you in a good mood? Your face is grinning.
Takashi: Ah...well, a bit.
Man: Ah, something came for you at the reception desk.
Receptionist: We've received the materials from the PR of Shueidou.
(TN: An obvious parallel to "Shueisha", the manga company who published "Desire"...though there is a Chinese camera sales company called "Shueidou" so take as you wish)
Takashi: Thanks.
Receptionist: Ah...um

128.
Receptionist: There's something in your hair......
Takashi: Huh?
Receptionist: It's trash.

129.
Takashi: .........
Receptionist: Pardon...me.
Takashi: Thank you.
Takashi: All these stimuli in succession has made me in a weird mood since this morning. Shouldn't I calm down for a bit?

130.
Voice: I'm so--rry.

131.
Takashi: ........
Woman: Thank you!

132.
Man: Fujii.
Man; Hey, Fujii!
Takashi: Huh...!?

133.
Takashi: Are they making an AV film here?
(TN: Rather important term to remember: A.V. is "Adult Video", basically Japanese porn with actresses who become notable by which)
Man: AV?
Man: The AV film is...where?
Takashi: ...
Takashi: Um, no, it was nothing.
Man: Hey, you've been strange since this morning. Is this spring fever?
Takashi: Really, what exactly is wrong with me today?

137.
Takashi: So I could regain my mind, I immersed myself in my work that afternoon.
Receptionist: What floor?
Takashi: Um...first.
Takashi: ......

138.
Takashi: In truth, she was rumored to have graduated from a mission-type university and with good pedigree. Miss Receptionist, who is the face of HQ, may truly be shy towards bawdy delusions.
Receptionist: Ah, um...
Receptionist: I've...been strange today.
Takashi: Huh...?
Receptionist: How do I say it...I've been worried about a man since this morning...
Receptionist: It was seen by a man I didn't recognize on the train. My...shy imagination has......
Takashi: .........

136.
Receptionist: Even if it was......that sort of man.
Takashi: Well...that's natural.
Receptionist: I...I'm going to take a break for thirty minutes. I'll be breaking in the Receptionists Break Room in B1.
Takashi: The reason I've been informed of this invitation is that today I......

137.
Receptionist: I...I...haven't...always been a bawdy woman but...

138.
Receptionist: AAH......
Receptionist: AAH!! I'm...so embarrased...
Receptionist: No, I'm already dying.

139.
Takashi: Hey, we're being filmed. Are you stimulated in seeing yourself?
Receptionist: Huh...Th...this is...!!
Receptionist: If it's me.

140.
Takashi: I'e had too good a day...
Takashi: And yet it's my birthday...it's as if it's a present from god.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: It can't be: was this arranged by Rikako, a long time after she's dissapeared...she could have done (out loud) Fu...
Takashi: --THIS EASILY

TN: Yeah...it's rather unknown whether Rikako was manipulating things once again (for the first time in forever but perhaps the last) but it did seem really coincidental that all this happened in one day, whether it was the subway train or the whole receptionist bit...well OK, I could see Takashi daydream of naked girls playing badminton but only because of what happened in the stewardess chapter. I guess that this chapter, which considering "Desire" is in a bi-monthly magazine would have celebrated a year by this point, was just sort of a little fantasy where Takashi had a nice day for himself instead of a whole lot of psychological mumbo-jumbo and manipulations. And I guess that's all we can say about this chapter: cute fluff, nothing more...though I wish we did get more BG on the receptionist.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15653 [English] [Translation] Desire 23 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-31T01:05:19+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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Takashi has influenced many in his life, but some he really can't quite remember. When a chance problem leads to another of these encounters returning, he may be in over his head...but having a good time regardless!

File: 23: PROFESSIONAL

97.
Takashi: I was coming home from golf with a business negotiation.
Takashi: We arranged that contract somehow.
Man: Well, it's great we got a good omen for the year!
Man: ......
Man: WHA...!!

98.
Takashi: He...he was cutting through us now!!
Man: Ah, he was. It's a Benz; people who drive those things are usually...
Driver: HEY, WHERE WERE YOU LOOKING!!
Takashi: .........
Man: See he really was.........!!
Takashi: Please stay here, vice-director, I'll say something to him.

99.
Takashi: .........
Benz Driver: Well this is bad. You scratched my new car.
Takashi: There isn't a violation at all here. At any rate, I'll be speaking with the police.
Benz Driver: WHY DO WE NEED POLICE! YOU SHOULD WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GO--ING!!
Man: Hey, hurry up. For today, just take a business card!!
Takashi: .........
Benz Driver: I'll have your business card or whatever. We'll slowly discuss this over another day.

100.
Business Card:
MARUBISHI PRODUCT PUBLIC COMPANY
MULTIMEDIA/SATELLITE SECTION
BOSS: FUJII TAKASHI
(TN: Since it's the exact same as the card Takashi gave the girl in "Lodger", I just copied that)
Man: Phew. Fujii-kun, is it alright that you gave him your business card?
Takashi: The fault is obviously his, and further if he's leaving from the scene without reporting the accident, then it's a hit-and-run. We should report this accident to the police.
Benz Driver: .........
Caption: NEXT DAY
Takashi: An interview with me...?
Phone: Yes, he's waiting in the first-floor lobby.

101.
Takashi: Um...I'm Fujii.

102.
Takashi: .........
Glasses Man: I was in such a hurry last night that I just...I'm sorry, forgive me!!
Takashi: ......!?

103.
Takashi: Um...well. Whatever you're doing here, let's take it outside...
Glasses Man: Takashi, I'm in your debt again.
Takashi: Huh...!?
Takashi: Matsuda...!!
Takashi: I knew you were someone: MATSUDA Tsuyoshi, my support leader when we were in middle school!!
Matsuda: Support...well, I miss hearing that. A man like me had completely forgotten, but you perfectly remembered it.

104.
Matsuda: From Tokyo U to a top-grade firm.....as expected. Since I graduated middle...my luck's been great. It's a boring organization, but this year I've gone up to lieutenant.
Matsuda: How's that? Why don't we make flowers bloom like legend tonight?
Takashi: Tonight...
Matsuda: Even if it's chance that we've met like this after ten years, there is some connection. It's best we have a night tonight. I want to get along with who I thought was my enemy.
Takashi: I've realized! Well...MIYAZAKI Takako, who you fell in love with, did you marry her?
Matsuda: WELL, COULD I MARRY TAKA-PI~~!!

105.
Caption: 7:00 PM
Voice: Thanks for your work!!
Takashi: .........
Benz Driver: I'm...I'm sorry about last night. We didn't know you were an acquaintance of our lieutenant...!! Well...go ahead.
Takashi: Th...there's a ban on driving in anything except the executive vehicles. TH...THIS IS BAD~~~
Benz Driver: I'm a manager, well, get in!!

106.
Sign: MATSUDA
Matsuda: I've been waiting. Well, come in, come in!!
Takashi: Ah...excuse my intrusion.

107.
Matsuda: Select the type you like.
Takashi: T...Type......?
Takashi: Since the China dress befits her, I'll go with her for the moment......
Matsuda: Alright, the other two may step away.
Matsuda: Well don't you have a discerning eye for loving my wife?
Takashi: Huh!? Wife!!
Kanoko: Nice to meet you, I'm Kanoko. Make yourself at home tonight.
Takashi: Ah...right.

108.
Takashi: Suddenly we continued to the tea room.
Takashi: This was the first I had been served as such by the China dress.
Kanoko: Please take your clothes off and get naked.
Takashi: Huh...?
Takashi: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". I was hesitant, but as she asked......
(TN: The actual Japanese term is "Kyou ni itte wa kyou ni sitagae", which translates as "when in the village, do as they do"...which is the Japanese version of the "Rome" quote)
Takashi: .........
Kanoko: It's fine if you don't take off your underwear.
Takashi: Huh...

109.
Kanoko: Since my husband sees you as an important guest, I'm offering to rub this antiseptic solution as such. My husband remembers this custom from Manilla.
Takashi: Well--that's what his wife does. (internal) My false impressions had failed, relieving my inner self.
Takashi: But...isn't it terrible that you've married a society man like Matsuda?
Kanoko: My husband is a man whom I can't replace. For him, I'm not bothered to do anything.
Takashi: .........

110.
Matsuda: Takashi...I still am indebted to you. Since leaving middle school, I've really been regretful.
Takashi: What did I lend to you? I've forgotten already.
Matsuda: That summer in 9th grade...I was the offender of that violent incident where you did nothing; which sent me to reform school. You were student council president at the time. Thanks to the testimony that I wasn't affecting you, I peacefully was able to graduate from middle school.
Matsuda: Thanks, Takashi!

111.
Voices: HAHAHA
Matsuda: How about we wash in a personal bath to sober up? It's a bath prided for being wide, how about we take it together?
Matsuda: I bought it cheap from the president's house when the bubble burst.
(TN: This is probably in reference to the end of the bubble economy Japan had held where prices collapsed in the 1990s)
Takashi: From the moment I looked at his back, I could imagined his troubled life that he couldn't let me taste from within that space of many years.

112.
Takashi: .........
Matsuda: In truth, I truly wanted to show my gratitude for then.
Matsuda: You may think that I have a strange hobby, but keep quiet about what will clean your body
Takashi: Huh...
Takashi: Wh...what will clean my body...?

113.
Kanoko: Pardon me.
Matsuda: Oh, please.
Takashi: ......!!
Takashi: From...his wife? Hurry up...I'll do it, even if you're a washing mat for Matsuda...
Kanoko: Fujii-san, shall I clean you?
Matsuda: Hey, don't be reserved.

114.
Takashi: It was very polite...however, though I was being received by a nice man-eating tiger, I wasn't calm.
Kanoko: Can you please stand and face front......
Takashi: Ah...I'll face front...
Matsuda: Be quiet and let her clean you. You're being looked out for by me.
Takashi: .........
Matsuda: My wife was No. 1 in Kantou until three years ago. She was the flower of soap.
(TN: Matsuda is referring to Kanoko as the worker of a "soapland", a type of Japanese brothel where men get washed by the female clientelle)

115.
Kanoko: Under circumstances, I was burdened with a large debt. My husband put me on his shoulders and redeemed me.
Takashi: .........
Matsuda: Well, I'll go ahead.
Takashi: Well...I'll go up too.
Takashi: ...!!

116.
Kanoko: My husband has returned to being a professional for just this one night...of course, since we're in love, whatever makes him happy makes me happy. I...Kanoko, will serve you with all my might.
Takashi: Ma...Matsuda's wife is......
Matsuda: This is my way of paying my favor. Don't be reserved, have fun.

117.
Kanoko: Is this enough soap now?
Takashi: N...no, one more time...

118.
Kanoko: It's best to take this.

119.
Takashi: Ha...
Kanoko: AH...
Kanoko: AAH...
Kanoko: It felt great as you put it in me as it firmed and swelled.
Kanoko: Feeling it was good, but since I don't get this feeling from my husband, please keep what I feel a secret.

120.
Takashi: Well that was tgreat! She's the ultimate woman in looks, personality, everything.
Matsuda: Therefore that was paying my favor back to you...
Takashi: You're giving me too much gratitude. Thanks.
Matsuda: If you want to play, call without reserve. My other women can assist you too.........!!
Takashi: I didn't understand his world at all. However, I can't mistake just that Matsuda has obtained the ultimate treasure.

TN: It's bizarre: the last chapter was sort of one I was looking forwards to due to the girl...but just turned really strange due to that "revelation". On the other hand, this chapter sort of felt at first like it was going to go in a bizarre direction...but somehow turned out much better than I expected. In a bizarre way that didn't really reveal it all, it was obvious that Matsuda was in very sketchy stuff (probably a simple yakuza considering his position and importance) and that Kanoko was just one of his "rewards" for doing so, but somehow this turned out a much better chapter than I imagined it would be. I guess it was mostly due to the gratitude as well, and most importantly, due to Kanoko. It was obvious that even though Matsuda was into "that", he did win getting her for a wife...though I sort of wish I knew the story for those other two!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15630 [English] [Translation] Desire 22 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-30T01:19:00+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Females, even those who seem undesirable in some ways, may have some aspects that may drive men wild! When Takashi goes on a business trip and meets one whose quite imperfect, there may be one secret that may be beyond normal!

File: 22: HER SECRET

75.
Takashi: Sapporo. Having a previous arrangement to expand their network, I had come to Sapporo; it had been a while since I had a local business trip.
Caption: MARUBISHI PRODUCTS SAPPORO BRANCH
Voice: Fujii-sa--n.
Takashi: Yes, I'm here now!!
Takashi: Pardon me: this is material we're using for the meeting, but can you take this since we don't judge by district?
Emiko: Ye...yes!!
Caption: SAWADA Emiko, 24, been in company 2 years

76.
Takashi: So then, I'll be in meeting.
Takashi: Sawadaz-san, can you get the materials?
Emiko: Yes, I can do that.
Caption: IN THE MEETING
Takashi: .........?
Takashi: This isn't the materials...what is this!? (out loud) .........

77.
Takashi: Aren't these omiai pictures!?
(TN: "omiai" = interviews for arranged marriages)
Boss: Well, Fujii-kun, can you go last?
Takashi: Ah...yes.
Takashi: Um--first, I will present the information from headquarter's analysis results.
Takashi: Those were unique materials!

78.
Takashi: How many omiais have you done already?
Emiko: Huh......!?
Emiko: It can't be......
Emiko: Ah...ah...ah......
Emiko: I'm...I'm sorry!! I...I didn't even confirm it...!!
Takashi: Well...looking it over, you've struggled through this. Don't worry about it, I didn't show your omiai pictures to public.
Emiko: .........

79.
Sign: SAPPORO'S FAMED RAMEN YOKOCHO
(TN: As stated on the sign, "Ramen Yokocho" is a famous ramen shop in Sapporo, located in their red-light district of Susukino, Chuuou Prefecture)
Emiko: I'm really sorry about that, I wasn't thinking.
Takashi: It's fine, don't worry about it.
Emiko: Fujii-san, do you like sake?
Takashi: Ah, yes.
Emiko: The apology that I was going to say was something but
Emiko: To drink delicious sake; I have a shop. If it's alright for tonight...
Takashi: Well since I don't really have any plans, well, will you have me?
Emiko: Yes.

80.
Sign: SAPPORO SNOW FESTIVAL
(TN: The "Sapporo Snow Festival" is one of the most notable events in the city, held in the middle of February and notable for it's snow and ice sculputre contests)
Owner: Well, Emi-chan, you're doing this again?
Sign: CUISINE ASAMI
Owner: This is great: weren't you bad at failing in front of a HQ representative.
Emiko: Well--perhaps even if I'm ever married.........
Takashi: Those omiai pictures you have...have you chosen a partner?
Emiko: It's because I easily fail with those omiai arrangements, I don't have confidence anymore.
Owner: She says that, but if she is from what I've seen, then she has an extre--mely envious se-cret.

81.
Takashi: Well--what's your secret? I want to hear it!
Owner: Shall I tell him?
Emiko: M...mama, don't, don't!!
Mrs. Sawada: As I've said...all females have an extremely envious secret!
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Is your daughter extremely wealthy?
Emiko: I can't be.
Mrs. Sawada: Emi-chan, how about a drinking contest? If Fujii-san wins, you tell your secret.
Mrs. Sawada: Emi-chan is great with sake and hasn't lost against the company people.
Takashi: I've been putting on airs until now. I must hear it. Alright, let's do it!!

82.
Takashi: The way that she drank was just as her mother confirmed.
Takashi: If she drank anymore, she'd have a hard time with work tomorrow.
Takashi: You should slowly give up if you want to tell me your secret.
Emiko: Then, I'll give in.
Emiko: Here's my secret.
Emiko: I can read into the hearts of men.
Takashi: .........

83.
Emiko: Fujii-san..........you aren't acting perverted towards me at all.
Takashi: Right...
Emiko: That's fine, well, I'm not really a beauty or anything.
Mrs. Sawada: Well......!!
Mrs. Sawada: That Fujii-san is amazing.
Takashi: She said that she can read into the hearts of men, but is that her secret?
Mrs. Sawada: That you'll have to ask her directly......

84.
Mrs. Sawada: Please take care of Emi-chan.
Takashi: I give up. I'm completely groggy.
Letter: Since I didn't have an address to take you...I don't mind if you go home when you wake up.

85.
SFX: PPP
SFX: PP
Takashi: !!
SFX: PP
Takashi: What is it at this time......!!
Takashi: ............Did she go home?
Takashi: ......!!

86.
Letter:
Today you were nice and extremely cool. If you feel that you're charmed by women even a bit, please embrace me. You may realize my secret...
PS: Since I have to go to work, I'll be going home at 6:00.
Takashi: She said she wasn't a beauty, but isn't she cute?

87.
Takashi: !!

88.
Emiko: If you tell me to go home, I'll go......
Takashi: You need much more confidence.
Emiko: Haa
Emiko: Haa

89.
Takashi: !?
Takashi: AT THAT MOMENT......!!
Takashi: WH...WHAT IS THIS!? (out loud) .........

90.
Takashi: HAA (internal) I'M...BEING SUCKED IN...!!
Takashi: This...this sensation, I've never tasted this until now...!!
Emiko: .........
Emiko: Th...this is my secret.

91.
Takashi: IT'S...AS IF ON THE INSIDE, THERE'S ANOTHER ANIMAL SQUIRMING INSIDE......

92.
Takashi: Y...your secret.
Takashi: It's rare......!!
Emiko: As I heard from my gynacologist, my structure is slightly different.........
Emiko: But.........honestly, I don't like that my body is filled with lewdness.
Takashi: No way......! Men wouldn't feel bad with a woman who can give them such plesant feelings. Isn't this a treasure you were given from god?

93.
Takashi: Let me in once more!
Emiko: Yes!
Takashi: Ah...
Takashi: No, I can't hold it...!! (external): .........
Takashi: It's...not drooping!! This is the first time!!

94.
Takashi: My "manliness" hasn't found a bit of an opening, it's perfectly stuck to her "womanliness"...
Takashi: And whatever this pleasantness within her...has enchanted me......
Emiko: Fu...Fujii-san...
Emiko: I can...AAH....feel it too...AAH
Takashi: Uaaa

95.
Emiko: If you're a gentleman, then please protect my secret.

96.
Emiko: I'm late, I'm late--!
Emiko: Good morn--ing. (I'm on time~)
Emiko: Kya
Woman: Well~~~it was Emi---
Emiko: I'm sorry.
Man: Hey, hey, it's Sawada again?
Takashi: Even though she's careless, a woman may be charming.

TN: Weird...I sort of expected her secret to be something as opposed to some...weird problem "down there" that ends up enhancing a man's "endurance". It is strange though: I don't get why Emiko claimed she was unattractive considering meganekko are great females and I liked her even before her "secret" was revealed (definitely one of those sweet but scatterbrained girls) But I guess it's both on the inside...well not "that" inside, but alongside whatever is on the outside. (that or Emiko needs to find the right man...) BTW: somehow I really loved the BG in Sapporo for this chapter...just gives it the right uniqueness.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15392 [English] [Translation] Desire 21 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-23T01:06:53+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Going to new places and making new experiences should make you worldly, but it also makes one forget the good of home! When a girl living abroad comes home for a round of golf, her "worldly knowledge" may give Takashi quite a ride!

File: 21: CUP IN

53.
Takashi: I came to undertake an invitation for golf from the married department heads of major appliance maker SONIC, who are our customers.

54.
Ayumi: Nice to meet you, I'm Ayumi. Please to meet you today.
Takashi: Ah, thanks. I'm Fujii. (narrating) I didn't hear until that morning that they were coming with their daughter.
Mr. Ozaki: I thought we would be together as a family for her last break day before she returned to overseas study in L.A. tomorrow. She's our only child.
Takashi: OZAKI Ayumi, 21 yeards old, enrolled at University of California.
(TN: Considering that University of California is a system of public universities and they specfically mention LA, it's easy to say that she's probably enrolled at UCLA)

55.
Mr. Ozaki: While we are employed as the heads of a global enterprise, our English isn't that good. Somehow we feel it's embarrasing. Since our daughter didn't want to feel that way, she's been abroad since high school.
Ayumi: Since I've heard you are a Tokyo U. graduated elite salaryman, I did imagine you, but my impressions were extremely...
Takashi: Huh...you were wrong?
Ayumi: Well, it really seems like it. (I'm sorry)
Ayumi: ......
Takashi: She was a beautiful woman who I felt had good breeding.

56.
Caption: SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE - MT. SIDE C.C.
(TN: While I don't know if Mt. Side exists, Shizuoka is located in Chubu, in an area between the Pacific Ocean and the foot of the Japan Alps including Mt. Fuji)
Takashi: Nice shot!!
Mr. Ozaki: Wel--Ayumi is skilled at this.
Ayumi: Since there are many cheap public courses in LA, I've been really going through them.

57.
Ayumi: Since I'm together with such a dreamy guy like Fujii-san, today will be fun.
Takashi: I'm thankful for the honor. Similarly for me, I'll do my best with a pretty girl like the miss.
Mr. Ozaki: Nice putt.
Takashi: Oh no! That was a chance for birdie.

58.
Takashi: I'm so dazzled by Ayumi-san that my usual skill is out of order.
Ayumi: Did my pussy make you out of bearings? (Are you dazzled by my pussy?)
(TN: There's going to be plenty of "Engrish"...to say the least, so I'll be making a meaning of the actual Japanese alongside "this")
Takashi: ......!?
Takashi: ......
Ayumi: Tell me how big dick is. I wanna try it once in the backsaddle. (How big is your cock? I want you to thrust it from behind once)
Takashi: ......!!

59.
Ayumi: Papa, if I win, can you buy me a car? A BMW.
Mr. Ozaki: Aah! I haven't lost to you yet.
Takashi: What's going on? Suddenly she's speaking vulgar English...what exactly is she thinking...

60.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: That vulgar slang you're saying since your parents don't understand; it's best you don't keep firing it out.
Ayumi: !!
Ayumi: Well...it's not a big deal to know some slang.
Takashi: I don't get your true intention, even if I get the meaning of the English.
Ayumi: ......
Ayumi: Show me your score card.
Mrs. Ozaki: Are those two having a coversation in English!?
Mr. Ozaki: Seems like it. How enviable.

61.
Note:
I want your cock!
I want you to make me high!
I wait for you in my car at the parking after lunch.
Actual Meaning:
I want your cock! (well that part is the same)
I want to feel you.
When lunch is over, meet me in the car in the parking lot.
Takashi: ......
Ayumi: Thanks for the meal. Papa, can you give me the key, I forgot my makeup in the car.
Mr. Ozaki: Alright.
Takashi: Is she serious!?

62.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Well are you playing with me, thinking that I won't speak about it?
Ayumi: I'm playing around; I hate when it's dull. My last day in Japan in in this place now...will be the ultimate thrilling experience.
Takashi: ............

63.
Ayumi: Ahahaha
Takashi: .........
Ayumi: Japanese men really don't have any guts. If you were American, you'd respond immediately to that sort of approach.
Ayumi: CANDY ASS! (Coward)
Takashi: She's really looking down on Japanese men.

64.
Takashi: She didn't provoke me again until the final hole.
Ayumi: AH~~~! WOW, I GOT A BMW~~
Takashi: She continued to play as a good daughter in front of her parents.
Ayumi: THANK YOU, PAPA
Mr. Ozaki: Yeah, yeah.
Mrs. Ozaki: Ayumi, are you asleep?
Mr. Ozaki: Didn't she seem be having fun by raising up her English? We were right to show off Fujii-kun.
Mrs. Ozaki: Isn't this music fine? Mahler is the greatest.
(TN: The Ozakis are making mention to Gustav Mahler, a Bohemian composer and conductor known as crucial in late-Romantic/early-Modernist music)
Mr. Ozaki: Ah, yes. I'm a fan of the classics too.

65.
SFX: Slip
Ayumi: !!
Ayumi: Are you sane to do it here!!

66.
Takashi: If your approach is serious, then I want to answer it here and now.
Ayumi: ......
Takashi: If you raise your voice, I'll ruin you. Does this make me a coward?
Ayumi: ......
Takashi: It's alright. They won't notice. They've been completely erased in Mahler's symphony.

67.
Ayumi: !!
Ayumi: ......

68.
(No dialogue)

69.
Mrs. Ozaki: Ayumi, you look terrible?
SFX: huh
Ayumi: Ah...I'm just a bit tired.
Mr. Ozaki: Then how about we take a break? I'm a bit tired too.
(TN: The sign points to Ebino, which actually is a city in southern Kyuushu in Miyazaki Prefecture...which is a tad strange considering their previous location)
Mr. Ozaki: We're going in, got no choice in it.

70.
Mr. Ozaki: Ayumi, how about some coffee?
Ayumi: I'll stay in here since I'm tired.
Mr. Ozaki: Fujii-kun?
Takashi: Since something could happen if Ayumi-san is left alone, I'll stay too.
Mr. Ozaki: Then, pardon us if you may.
Takashi: What do you do!?
Ayumi: You're worse than the Americans!!

71.
Passer: ......

72.
(Nothing to say)

73.
Ayumi: AHAA
Takashi: .........

74.
Ayumi: So there are tough guys like you in Japan.
Ayumi: You've altered my understanding.
Mr. Ozaki: Sorry for waiting, we were really confused at the restaurant.
Takashi: Thank you for everything today.
Ayumi: When I graduate college and return to Japan, can I see you again?
Takashi: OK! Have fun living overseas!
Ayumi: Pa!

TN: Yeah...Candy Ass...that's all you need to know of this chapter. It's crazy enough to translate Engrish (including the infamous "Bob Marley" quote from chp. 2), but to have "dirty talk" in Engrish just like Ayumi said...that was even weirder than a typical chapter and sort of made me dread doing it! Ultimately, the girl was cute and the chapter was probably a bit typical akin to a few others involving Takashi proving himself, but...all you really need to know for this chapter was pretty much Ayumi's Engrish.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15362 [English] [Translation] Desire 20 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-22T02:34:53+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

A life rushed too soon can lead to a faster feeling of heartbreak...and ultimately may change a person in ways unimaginable! These are the lessons Takashi must face as he heads to the mountains to meet an old crush of Shunji's...

File: 20: SICK OF MEN

31.
Takashi: Due to Shimazono's college-era friends having a pension, we used it for a two-day, one night weekend to go skiing.
(TN: A "pension" in this case isn't involving money: it's in reference to a guest or boarding house with a shared bathroom, usually found in European locations such as Spain, Italy or particularly Switzerland)

32.
Letter:
Shiga Kougen - RENEWAL OPEN
-Are you alright, big brother Shunji?
You should leave the noise of the city sometimes.
Why not spend your weekend around the powder at the penson?

Since I'm getting it renewed this time, please come and play if you want some info.
-Reina

(TN: Shiga Kougen, located within hte Joushin'etsu Kougen National Park near Nagano, is a notable ski resort area in the wintertime)

Shunji: SUGINA Reina.........she's a junior in the skiing circles.
Shunji: She was certified Miss Campus Queen at Rikkyo U. It was easy to fall in love with her. However, she was suddenly married in college to a guy in our circle and my once-in-a-lifetime love ended too soon.
(TN: Rikkyou U, also known as Saint Paul University, is a Christian-based university based in Ikebukuro founded by an Anglican missionary)

33.
Takashi: The owner of the pension is a love rival? So you have a reason already to spill out.
Shunji: Actually, they decided to divorce three years ago. The pension seems to be managed by her alone.
Takashi: Understood, so this has an alterior motive?
Shunji: Well...if I told you no, I'd be lying.
Shunji: We're here!!

34.
Reina: Jun-chan, Suzuki-san, a day and a night.
Reina: Kouji-kun, please see Yamamoto-san from 201 to the slope and meet him later.
(TN: The "see and meet him later" is actually the Japanese term "sougei", which is "to see off a person and meet them when they return")
Kouji: Right.
Takashi: Well isn't she pretty?
Shunji: She is!
Reina: Shimazono-sama from Tokyo has arri--ved.

35.
Reina: Shunji-san, it's been a while. I've been waiting.
Shunji: You seem well. He there is my friend Fujii.
Reina: Welcome.
Takashi: Ah, thanks. I'm indebted to you.
Shunji: It seems you're doing plenty, but I'm relieved you look so alive. If I can do anything, I won't be reserved to give a hand.
Reina: Thank you. I'm really in debt with this renewal--so I must keep going at it. I do want you to give us publicity with your journalistic experience.
Shunji: Obliged! I'll sell it with the "Beautiful Owner", the former Miss Campus of Rikkyo.
Reina: Not like that, it's embarrasing.

36.
Caption: --NEXT DAY--
Takashi: At the youthful 24, she was managing a pension and also had opened a ski school and with the time she was busy sewn up, she also was endeavoring to coach herself.
Takashi: She's so great. Not just beautiful, she's shrewd.
Shunji: She's changed...when she was in college, she was a girl who was quiet, like a doll.

37.
Takashi: She was freed from her day of work after 11 at night. With the three of us tipping our glasses, I gradually began to see her true face.
Reina: If I didn't make myself a woman for him and came out here, I......I had been soft to men all my life.....I thought reliance was the only think a woman needed to live. I'm living fine even without the help of a man...with that, I've decided my intention to not marry ever again.
Shunji: I didn't come out here to propose, but how you're saying that, you're not even tempted by a date.
Reina: I invited you out here as an owner; I forgive your weird anticipations.
Takashi: .........

38.
Takashi: Then, I'll go ahead to my room.
Shunji: Ah...OK.
Shunji: Are you intending on going on living by keeping men away from now on? I think that sort of life is too lonely, but
Reina: .........
Reina: Let me clear this up: In the three years since my divorce, not once have I...thought about wanting...sex at all!!
Shunji: .........

39.
Sign:
24-HOUR TENNETSU ONSEN
With a genuine Finland Sauna
(TN: "Tennetsu" = "Heavenly Heat"; meanwhile, a Finland Sauna, or "finnish sauna" is essentially a warming room where one spends time to relax through the heat, usually a tradition in Finland)
Takashi: Aren't you going to the onsen before sleeping? Seems they have a sauna too.
Shunji: I'm fine. I'm already sleeping.
Shunji: I did anticipate this a bit but...I am dissapointed.

40.
Takashi: You do have a bit of feelings once again for Shimazono.
Reina: !!
Reina: ......
Reina: I...the one who left me was my first man. I quit the univeristy and the two of us started this pension with our parent's help...while he said he was terribly in love with me, he quickly vanished with an 18 year old female customer and we divorced...
Reina: He used the bait of marriage and caught me. His intentions were just for my youth...therefore, I had enough already of men and marriage...not to mention sex...
Takashi: Your first man was that man...Therefore are you really going to live from now on abandoning your womanhood?

41.
Reina: Abandoning my womanhood!?
Takashi: Yes! You were married before you knew "the woman inside yourself".
Takashi: You said that since your marriage failed, you intended to live abandoning all natural desires of a woman.
Reina: Natural desires...
Takashi: Yes...! Sex is never a byproduct of marriage.
Reina: .........
Reina: What is this woman inside me...
Shunji: Are you intending on going on living by keeping men away from now on? I think that sort of life is too lonely, but

42.
Reina: .........
Boy: Uh...um--I'm thirsty.
Reina: EH, UH...there's a juice vending machine downstairs.
Reina: ...

43.
SFX: CLICK
Reina: !!
Reina: I'm...sorry, I thought no one was in here anymore...
Takashi: I don't mind, go ahead.

44.
Takashi: In Finland, the home of saunas, it's typical for men and women to be in together.
Reina: ......
Reina: Of...course. Somehow since I entered this sauna while it was misty, that wasn't cleared up...
Reina: I heard from Shunji-san that you were a serious man from Tokyo U. Fujii-san......can you positively have sex without love?
Takashi: Its not that it's not positive in how it feels...I think. You came by coming back to me, without my invitation...the reason you entered this sauna is due to some feeling for me.

45.
Takashi: You've noticed it: the desire aching in your body!!
Reina: Pl...please stop!!
Reina: !!
Takashi: Now feel the fascination in you that you want to embrace!!
Reina: WHA...

46.
Takashi: Your feelings are honest now. Throw them forwards into your body.
Takashi: How are you now? Your eyes are hit with a desire for men. Please tell me what reaction is occuring to your body.
Takashi: If you show proof of desire too, then you can only follow it.
Reina: .........

47.
Reina: HA
Reina: N...no...

48.
Reina: ......
Reina: HAA AAH
Reina: This...hot pain. I can't breathe!!
Reina: HAA HAA

49.
Reina: AH
Reina: AH

50.
Takashi: The desire that she had dammed up broke down at once.

51.
Takashi: HER WHOLE BODY BECAME WILD AND FREE WITHOUT HESITATION. THE WOMAN HAD BECOME AN ANIMAL......

52.
Reina: Shunji-san, last night I was.........forgive me if I did harm to you.
Shunji: Don't worry about it. I'll be steadily publicizing you.
Reina: I had fun getting information this time...I'll be waiting for it.
Shunji: ........
Takashi: Aaah, certainly!!
Takashi: Her facial expression felt like the breath of spring.

TN: You know with a title like the one of this chapter, I sort of expected the worse...so ultimately, I was surprised that most of this chapter was pretty good. (well aside from Takashi exposing himself in the sauna to Reina...the less spears the better, even if blurred out) Reina demonstrates somehow or another a particular phenomenon that probably isn't taken to "this" extreme and somehow may be overdramatizing the obsession that women "should" have towards sex...but in a way, it's understandable once you know her side of the story. Then again, there is that "other" lesson of the chapter: sex without marriage is fine...it's weird to hear that in Japan, particularly here when people have sex who knows when with who knows who...but I think the purpose is more driven towards those who are of mature age and can make responsible decisions. (besides, not like kids would read these sorts of seinen aside from "lookit the boobies!") Though I do feel sorry for Shunji for one reason: if it weren't for a kid wanting juice, maybe Reina would have done it with him instead of his friend!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15198 [English] [Translation] Desire 19 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-16T23:10:52+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

When one returns to their home, the past always finds a way to come back to haunt them. So when Takashi returns home for New Years, he encounters someone who wants to get what she wanted in the past...

File: 19: HATSUMOUDE
(TN: Even though the term is in Japanese, I won't change the title since it's already written out in English-like text. But at any rate, "Hatsumoude" is the first temple visit of the New Year, a special occasion usually done on New Years' Day, whether at midnight or later that same day)

8.
Caption: December 30th: Gunma Prefecture, F-City
(TN: It is assumed that the city is "Fujioka", since that's the main "F-City" in Gunma)
Sign: Shopping Arcade
(TN: Usually the arcades in a town are labled as "Honmachi Shotengai")
Takashi: It's been several years since I've gone home for New Years, since I was unable to with the circumstances of my job.
Sign: KANKANDO
(TN: There is actually a sweets shop called "Kankando" in Japan, so I just went with that)
Window Sign: We have Hanapan
(TN: "Hanapan" is a specialty of Gunma Prefecture: a soft cookie with a sugar coating)
Takashi: Pardon, may I please have three "pines of kiri youkan"?
(TN: First of all, "youkan" is a special jelly dessert made of azuki bean past, agar and sugar usually sold as a gift. As for the "kiri youkan on pine", I actually had a really hard time trying to decipher it, but both "kiri" and "pine" are important plants in Japanese society: "Kiri", or the "paulownia" tree, is the tree that symbolizes the emperor of Japan, while "pine" is a typical symbol of New Years. It's obvious Takashi was trying to buy a special youkan for New Years', but to tell the truth I actually didn't quite decipher everything regarding it in this name. Considering the quality, particularly with youkan, I assume that a "kiri youkan" is the best youkan there is)
"Girl": OK.
Takashi: Further, I'll take two pines of "kiri manjuu". Please wrap them as gifts for my new years greetings.
(TN: On New Years, many people go around to the homes of family and friends visiting and giving gifts as such like sweets)

9.
Takashi: .........
"Girl": Ta......Takashi-san.
Takashi: Huh...!?
Izumi: I'm...Izumi. HIROKAWA Izumi. Don't you remember me?
Takashi: Izumi......?
Takashi: .........
Takashi: AH, that Izumi-chan!? I was your home tutor...!!

10.
Izumi: Great, you didn't forget! I have my coming-of-age ceremony this year and now I'm going to a local university.
(TN: The "coming of age ceremony" or "seijin shiki", is a holiday held the second Monday of January where all 20-year olds are universally recognized as adults)
Takashi: The coming-of-age ceremony is for 20-year olds. Has it been 8 years...!!
Takashi: Over summer vacaction while at Tokyo U, I returned to my home and worked as a home tutor for Hirokawa Izumi, who was going for a middle-school exam. My duty was over when she passed into middle school......I hadn't met her since...
(TN: Before you go crazy, basically the "exam hell" that originally was for entrance into high schools and colleges do exist for lower grades, even down to preschoolers entering grade school! Therefore an exam hell for entering middle school is not something that should sound too strange)
Takashi: Even so, she's so pretty that I didn't recognize her...these 8 years has transformed a girl into a beautiful woman...!

11.
Izumi: How long are you staying here?
Takashi: Until the 4th.
Takashi: Seeing you was nostalgic. You do seem busy with your part-time work...we'll catch up if we have the chance someday...well, have a happy New Year.
Izumi: Uh...um...
Izumi: My job is until...tomorrow, New Years Eve. Takashi-san, are you doing your first temple visit with someone...?
Takashi: No, not really...
Izumi: Can't we go together?

12.
Takashi: Fine! Then, we'll go together.
Manager: Izumi-chan, please help the customers.
Izumi: Ah, sorry.
Izumi: Then, 1:00 AM on New Year's Day at the entrace of Kiritaka Shrine.
Takashi: That reminds me, she's a girl whose clearly chosen things with her mind. At any rate, it seems she hasn't changed at all now.
Caption: NEW YEARS DAY, 1:00 AM

13.
Takashi: Hold on: it wasn't 1 AM...was it PM?
Voice: Takashi-san.
Izumi: Happy New Years.
Takashi: Happy...New Years!!

14.
Top of Slip: OMIKUJI
(TN: An "onmikuji" is a random fortune written on papers at Shinto Shrines or Buddhist temples, where one takes one after paying a small fee to find out there fortune for the moment or, for the New Years, the year)
Center Comments: GREAT BLESSING | TREND
(TN: There is some other text but since it really is hard to make out and probably doesn't pertain to the chapter, I won't go into it)
Your Desire: You'll be lucky by quickly doing what you're thinking.
Izumi: .........
Takashi: Izumi-chan, what were you praying for?
Izumi: It's a secret...you?
Takashi: For you to not be used by a bad bug. Do you have a boyfriend?
Izume: Well...

15.
Izumi: Since I'm already 20, I am a bit impatient but...there isn't a great man that I want for a lover around here. My ideals may be too high.
Takashi: I'm relieved by my inner feelings...I feel like a father who has an adolescent girl.
Takashi: I'll take you home. It's gotten late and your family could be worried.
Izumi: That's fine for tonight.
Izumi: My parents will be relieved when they hear I went to my first temple-visit with you.
Takashi: So I'm your guardian?
Takashi: Then, can I visit your house for a bit?
Izumi: Ah...OK!

16.
Takashi: Was her family asleep? The inside of her mansion was covered in silence.
Takashi: Well, was the Fujii Onsen here long ago?
(TN: The "onsen" is a typical Japanese hot spring)
Izumi: Seven years ago, my grandpa had mady a project of this onsen, but he abandoned it halfway. Now, it became a bathhouse for visitors.
Izumi: But it is nostalgic. How about going to the room you taught my studies in...now?
Takashi: Like long ago.

17.
Takashi: Ah, ah, there! When they announced you passed.
Izumi: Yes. Takashi-san, do you remember that day, when I was waiting for what I thought I wished for?
Takashi: Yes, I remember.
Izumi: Then, what about the congratulations kiss?
Takashi: A...kiss!?
Izumi: I was in 6th grade at the time, but the heart of a woman was hurt.

18.
Izumi: N...
Takashi: Huh...what's that!?
Izumi: You said we'd celebrate my passing. Ho...how about a kiss for me!!
Takashi: Haha, right, I forgot. Well, close your eyes for a minute.
Izumi: .........
Takashi: OK, open them.
Takashi: Since you're too young for a kiss, here's a doll!! Isn't it cute?
Izumi: .........
Izumi: I really did love you. You were who I yearned for.

19.
Izumi: From then on, you really were somewhere in my heart...
Takashi: .........
Takashi: I'm glad. I thought that's what it was about.
Izumi: Uh...um...
Izumi: To celebrate my coming-of-age ceremony...............can I make a request to you now?
Izumi: Can you close your eyes for just a minuite?
Takashi: .........

20.
Takashi: Is this the first time...I'm shaking...?
Takashi: Congratulations for coming of age.
Takashi: Well, let's go back to the house.

21.
Izumi: .........
SFX: BABUMP
SFX: BABUMP
SFX: BABUMP
Izumi: Ta...Takashi-san, I have to get dressed. Can you wait inside?
Takashi: Huh...

22.
Takashi: Somehow, it would have been good if I replied.
Takashi: The woman dissapeared into the bathroom.

23.
Izumi: I was in 6th grade at the time, but the heart of a woman was hurt.
Takashi: .........

24.
Izumi: ..........
Takashi: How about......we go in together.

25.
Izumi: The snow...is pretty...it's like some dream.
Izumi: I...wished for this with you at the temple-visit. When I pulled my Omikuji, it was "You'll get what you want".
Takashi: .........

26.
Takashi: She had skin that flexibly jostled when touched.
Takashi: Her hard nipples still had traces of the girl...
Takashi: Her shaking body completely endured but her pain was being felt by me.

27.
Takashi: Perhaps, she was still...
Takashi: A girl someone would want! Without hesitation...!!

28.
Izumi: .........
Izumi: Wh...what's wrong...!?
Takashi: Suddenly going this far I think wouldn't be forgiven, even by god. This year is still just starting......
Takashi: The effectiveness of the Omikuji is another 364 days...you still have time!
Izumi: .........

29.
Takashi: Outside, the snow was heavily falling like the lie of passion until earlier...But, within my head, the afterimage of her naked body that was vividly released vanished; what was released vanished once again...

TN: Poor Izumi...a woman's body with so many aspects, physical and mental, of a girl...it's no wonder Takashi just couldn't go through with it. When you have such a cute girl that you raised like a father...or a tutor in his case, you just can't bring yourself seven years later to just suddenly go after her maidenly wish to have her. Izumi was just such a great character and probably one of the more interesting girls if only for her past connection (which was way better than...miss "I want to be the best so be my dog" a while back). But...I wonder how many kiss marks her doll had for her seven years Izumi was without Takashi...one doesn't need to know I guess.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15167 [English] [Translation] Desire 18 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-15T12:40:16+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

And now it's time for a coffee break...

Vol. 3: HER SECRET
File: 18: COFFEE SHOP

6.
Takashi: Monday, 8:00 AM. I set out into a scene in front of the station that I'm familiar with.
Takashi: My typical fatigue may be coming on. My gait as I arrived was heavy.
Takashi: "Eden".........? How long as that coffee shop been there?
Sign: Open
Takashi: "A Blue Monday is refreshed by drinking Blue Mountain"...I muttered this bad pun as I pushed open the door.
(TN: "Blue Mountain" is in reference to a classification of coffee from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica)

7.
Takashi: It was a small shop which could seat 3-4 people. (out loud).........They're not open yet?
Girl: Welcome--
Takashi: ...!!

8.
Takashi: Ah......May...I have BluMan?
(TN: "BluMan" is an abbreviation for "Blue Mountain")
Girl: Alright, some Blue Mountain.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: With this situation, something happened to the questions I held. Before my eyes was a beautiful naked girl serving me coffee......what a magnificent scene!!
Girl: Thanks for waiting.
SFX: Slip...
Takashi: Timidly I looked at my receipt.

9.
Takashi: 350 yen...!? That's...cheap!!
Slip:
BLUE MOUNTAIN (1):
WITH MORNING SERVICE
350 YEN
Takashi: Thank you very much.
Girl: Ah...sir, your morning service.
Takashi: Huh...?
Girl: Thanks for coming. Please do well with work this week.
Takashi: As I left the shop, I was filled with an invigorated feeling. "Eden" may want to open themselves in secret for when ment want to take a break.
Sign: OPEN

TN: Yeah, this one is sort of like that "Afternoon" chapter at the start of vol. 2: a really short (and somewhat sweet) "quick one" for those who need it. I've heard of a "nude coffee shop" somewhere in the US, but somehow I doubt they use cute girl servers...or serve Blue Mountain coffee.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15159 [English] [Translation] Desire 17 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-15T02:27:46+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Witch's Spring: a powerful aphrodisiac that drives women wild! But while Shunji had his own usage of it in Hawaii, Takashi may be using it for his own purposes too...

File: 17: IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM

173.
Takashi: Shimazono had returned from collecting data in Hawaii, but his simple proof seemed to had ended up as materials without a bit of money. (out loud) So, what happened to the three-hundred thousand I loaned you?
Shunji: I did have something that replaced it, but it's a nice souvenier.
Takashi: A souvenier?
Shunji: It's this: "Witch's Spring"!!

174.
Takashi: An aphrodesiac!?
Shunji: Yep! By using this, any woman will throw off their panties, becoming a slave to carnal desires.
Takashi: .........
Shunji: For example, there's a method of using this hypnosis spray too. You get close to your favorite woman, spray them this to sleep, then put "Witch's Spring" over there.
Shunji: Later, just wait for the woman to mate. In other words, it's an amazing aphrodesiac where you can do a mock crime!!
Shunji: It's worth the three-hundred thousand! I guarantee it.
Takashi: You idiot. Give me back exactly the money I loaned you.

175.
Takashi: Though I thought aphrodesiacs were stupid, it instantly called to mind this woman who transferred in from a personell shift a few days ago.
Takashi: KAMIMURA Maki (24): She just had been rumored to be the flower of the business headquarters, making hearts skip a bit in her assignment here to her charmed subordinates.
Takashi: Ah, Kamimura-kun, I have to ask something. The estimate we have to prepare, can we do it today?
Maki: Um, well, if we did overtime, then somehow...
Takashi: Well, it may be unexcusable, but please.
Maki: Alright.

176.
Maki: I had been shot in overhearing this two or three days ago, but you were going out with the executive director's niece it appeared.
Maki: Entering here from Tokyo U has made you destined for promotion, I'll be waiting.
Takashi: .........
Caption: 9:00 PM
Takashi: Can you please check this estimate?
Maki: Ah, you've done it!?
Maki: This written estimate will be reported at tomorrow's meeting.
Takashi: Right.

177.
Takashi: WH...WHAT!?
Maki: If you thought everything in life goes smoothly, YOU'RE GREATLY MISTAKEN!!
Takashi: .........
Maki: I don't care that you'll report the written estimate was torn up by your subordinate at tomorrow's meeting. The duty of a subordinate may be the duty of a boss, but

178.
Takashi: Come with me for a moment!!
Takashi: What exactly are you planning!! You shouldn't be bitter about this!!
Maki: I can't forgive men who find means of promotion by a connection with their director!! A man that I was with in my previous post was the same as you: an elite who graduated Tokyo U, marrying the director's daughter; that sort of trash I throw away.
Maki: Let go of me! If you don't let go, I will scream!!
Takashi: The man you were with and me are different people!! To show me resentment is a means to see me wrongly!!

179.
Maki: It hurts!! Please let go!!
Man: What's going on!?
Man: Fujii...! What are you doing?
Takashi: How is she the flower of the business office! Isn't she just an outrageous woman?

180.
Takashi: I could only recreate the written estimate.
Takashi: Somehow I reached my goal at dawn.
Takashi: How could she do that earlier......
Shunji: It's an amazing aphrodesiac where you can do a mock crime.
Shunji: It's worth the three-hundred thousand! I guarantee it.

181.
Caption: 10:00 AM
Takashi: Kamimura-kun.
Maki: Ye...yes?
Maki: What do you want?
Takashi: I recreated the written estimate last night...Aren't you rather stressed for not doing your duty last night?
Maki: He recreated it in one night!?
Takashi: I want you to be my support in attending the meeting together. You too also know the matters on this estimate.

182.
Takashi: It was an all-nighter. I may nod off during the meeting. I want you to wake me if you notice that.
Takashi: It's a great chance to break my shame.
Maki: Yes.
Takashi: Ah...it's inexcusable, but can you please get me some coffee?
Maki: !!

183.
Maki: Cough
Maki: Cough. ?...
Maki: ?

184.
Takashi: .........
Woman: Are you really alright?
Maki: Ye...yes?
Takashi: Is there something wrong, Kamimura-kun? We should be going to the meeting soon but
Maki: Ye...yes, I'm fine.

185.
Sign: IN A MEETING
Takashi: Her glance was unsteady, certainly not normal.
Takashi: Did it work?

186.
Shunji: Any woman will throw off their panties, becoming a slave to carnal desires.
Maki: .........
Maki: !!

187.
Takashi: I continued to observe her during the meeting. As a result, I was confident in the aphrodesiac being effective.
Takashi: You look terrible. Take a bit of a break from here.
Maki: Ye...yes, sorry about that.
Maki: .........
Maki: What exactly...is wrong with me? Why do I feel like this......

188.
Takashi: Fufu, she doesn't realize it.
Maki: AH
Maki: !!

189.
Maki: ..................
Takashi: What's wrong? You should continue.
Maki: Bo...boss, what exactly is this!? If you know, tell me!!
Takashi: There's nothing to explain. You're a bawdy woman.
Maki: AH...

190.
Maki: Pl....please hold me! I want to clam this burning in my body!!
Takashi: I can't take that request with that behavior. I haven't forgiven you yet for last night.
Maki: I...I'm sorry. What can I say......so then, please......
Takashi: Then from now on, don't behave like you oppose your superior ever again, do you promise!!
Maki: Ye...yes.

191.
(The pics speak for themselves)

192.
Maki: AH AAH

193.
Takashi: When she was exhausted, she then fainted.
Maki: .........

194.
Maki: Boss......here's your coffee.
Takashi: Ah, thank you.
Maki: I'm sorry about that estimate incident. I won't do it ever again...
Takashi: .........
Takashi: I understand...you'll be a good partner from now on.
Maki: Ye...yes.
Takashi: And that completed my "training" of Kamimura Maki.
(End of Volume 2)

TN: I know I feel paranoid in saying this but...didn't this chapter seem to remind you a bit of date rape...or at least a bit of "Rosemary's Baby"? I get that Takashi wanted to make sure Maki got what she deserved by playing with herself in the meeting due to Witch's Spring...but the fact that Shunji introduced him to that hypnotic drug to use alongside it just made it feel more dirty. Regardless, these sorts of revenge tales are probably typical for this sort of series...though it was probably a bit more interesting than Takashi's "attack" on the secretary back in vol. 1...though more dirty in how he did it. I just wonder if anyone else in the meeting noticed Maki making any squeals of excitement...

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/15017 [English] [Translation] Desire 16 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-09T23:55:46+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Although Takashi's roommate, Shunji Shimazono is always on the run with his job and the strange places and situations it take him. But his latest undercover assignment...may be his strangest and most elating yet!

File: 16: WITCH'S SPRING

150.
Caption: HAWAII
Voice 1: What's the promised amount?
Voice 2: I found out it was six-hundred thousand Japanese yen.
Glasses: Here's the boarding permit and the ID card of the sponsor. I heard that you were going to be Chinese, but earnestly I didn't know that you were Japanese!
Shunji: Aah, that's understood. I just seemed to study once with the one at this secret party.
Caption: Freelance Writer: SHIMAZONO Shunji (Fujii's high school friend)

151.
Shunji: A monght ago, I got my hands on information that the big-wigs of Japanese public life charter a cruiser for daughters brought by their parents to hold a suspicious party...The trouble of collecting the million that was raised was painful, but with skill I had more than enough earnings.
Leader: I didn't say anything until now, but what you observe here must never be revealed to the outside!! Because these are girls of high social standing, be careful to not make that mistake!!
Shunji: That's why I've come to decide to steal the information with this hidden camera.
SFX: CLICK
Shunji: The daughters are boarding!!

152.
Shunji: Though each of the personell participating weren't distinct, the investigation was my duty before I returned to Japan. It's not that they were daughters of good families: if they were simply rich girls, then I would be up to cheat them.
SFX: Click
Shunji: ......
Shunji: !!
Shunji: She...looks like..........no, it is!!

153.
Shunji: The actress TACHIBANA Saori!! At 17, she was chosen as the lead of a morning serial and at once became the most popular actress in the country......she won "best newcomer" at a film festival the following year!! Even though she's star talent, she calmly published a "hair nude". In this golden age of the physical, there are so few pure actresses. AND I'M SURE SHE'S NOW 19...!!
(TN: A "hair nude" is a nude photo that shows pubic hair)
Shunji: Would you like some wine?
Saori: .........
SFX: Click
Saori: Are you Chinese?
Shunji: Ye...yes. (internally): The most popular actress in Japan at a secret party...well, what an unbelievable scoop!!
(TN: When Shunji goes "ye...yes", it actually uses kanji akin to Chinese while translated into Japanese. If translated, I suggest keeping the kanji and removing the Japanese translation)

154.
Long Hair: When you boarded, a serum was handed to all of you......Actually, these days, it's an aphrodesiac it's called "Witch's Spring"*, obtained by a special route by mixing "atropa belladonna", "hiyosu", "aconitum", "datura stonimonium", "holland parsley" and such, it's prided for having a massive effectiveness.
*It's also called "Miracle Witch's Drug". The ingredients is from an analysis by Professor H. Roina of Göttingen University.
(TN: First of all, I really don't know if there is any information about "H Roina", but Göttingen is one of the most famous universities in Germany and one of the most highest ranked universities both there and throughout Europe. As for all the "ingredients", a laundry list:
-Atropa belladonna: more notable as "Belladonna" or "deadly nightshade", it is a poisonous plant notable for causing hallucinations as well as being used to derive drugs such as atropine
-Hiyosu: a type of plant also tied to the belladonna family, including one known as the "Japanese belladonna"
-Aconitum: a member of the buttercup family also known as "aconite", "wolfsbane", "leopard's bane", "women's bane" or "devil's helmet", it's generally toxic but can be used for medical purposes in Asian medicine)
-Datura stonimonium: an herb grown wild as a weed, it can be used as a hallucinogen but can also be poisonous
-Holland parsley: also known as "Hamburg parsley" or "root parsley", it is a parsnip commonly used either as a vegetable or merely can be used for seasoning)
Saori: .........
Shunji: An aphrodesiac......!!
Long Hair: Thanks for waiting. And now, our hosts will debut. Everyone applaude!!
Girl: Yes, I've waited for this--!!
Girl: Yay!

155.
Girl 1: The host in the cloak I see this time is Harry Cocks!! One of the ultra-big three of the porn-film world!!
Girl 2: EH~~won't he break us?

156.
Shunji: The party entered it's climax with the girls scrambling to play and peck at the bodies of their hosts!! They were like starving hyenas. The pride and shyness of those daughters were abandoned as they went mad with lust......!! That was the meaning for the party!! Looking at that scene, this unknown show was intense. My nether region was on the verge of exploding.
SFX: Click click

157.
Long Hair: This is her first participation, she should spend a bit of time getting intimate with the mood of the party...invite her to a private room where you won't worry of being seen and her feelings will rush forth.
Man: Yes.
Shunji: .........
Shunji: That guy is...!!

158.
Saori: .........
Shunji: !!
Shunji: I haven't yet gotten a picture of Tachibana Saori getting involved. If I get just one...
Saori: .........

159.
Shunji: This feels bad. It's so sticky yet I can't touch why!!
Saori: Boy whose outside, save me!!
Shunji: ......
Man: Wh...what are you!!
Saori: Th...throw him out of this room!!
Shunji: Even if you're big, you're impotent. I can't believe a woman would say that. Get out of here quickly!!
Man: WH...WHAT~~~are you picking a fight with me, a host!!
SFX: Click click
Shunji: Fufu, got two shots!!

160.
Saori: KYAA, someone get a bodyguard......!! Help me!
Shunji: If I turn a hand to him, the uproar will increase and my true identity will be exposed.
Suit: What's going on!?
Saori:The host was reckless with me!! Though the boy came to save me, he got violent!.
Suit: Hey you, what did you do to our guest...!!

161.
Man: AOOW!
Suit: Please forgive me for being rude!!
Suit: Get up! Get out of this room.
Saori: Let him rest for a bit here due to his wounds.
Suit: Ye...yes.
Saori: You're not Chinese...you're Japanese.
Shunji: !!
Saori: The Japanese requesting to save me was a play to find out your true identity. Who are you!!
Shunji: ......

162.
Shunji: .........
Saori: If I'm not mistaken by my memory, I was hit by someone when confronting the editor-in-chief of a woman's weekly magazine several years ago......the editor was arrested for the assault!!
Shunji: I can't play innocent when I remembered that there.
Shunji: I...spendidly, am a fan of yours. In showbusiness today, you still remained real, even if purity is equivalent to obsolete.
Saori: .........
Saori: Whatever you thought about me is selfish!! Besides, you were peeping. Hand over the film!!
Shunji: ......
Saori: When you reveal who you are, then I'll throw you to the ocean as shark bait!!

163.
Shunji: AH...!!
Saori: Does it hurt...?
Saori: ......
Saori: I don't know how long the pain will last, but shall we test it?
SFX: Zip--
Shunji: !!
Saori: The "Witch's Spring"......!!

164.
Shunji: I'm...floating!! My entire body is flying high into space!!
Shunji: Wh...what is this sensation!? The pain from my wounds has changed to pleasantness. This is the the effect of "Witch's Spring"!!

165.
Shunji: A...mazing. Let me see your waist gun!
Saori: ......!!
Shunji: You...should too...
Saori: Huh...!?
Saori: .........

166.
Shunji: What exactly am I doing......!! But
Shunji: It's welling up: a desire that can't be pushed back.
Shunji: How do you feel?
Saori: Haa
Shunji: It's best you don't deny it. I have this same feeling too!!
Saori: Haa......
Saori: Hau......

167.
Saori: Do it!!

168.
Saori: Th...this is my first time!!
Shunji: "Witch's Spring" amplified the pleasant feelings embraced by Tachibana Saori. She wasn't thinking anymore about the consequences!!

169.
Shunji: I ENTERED WITHIN...
Shunji: TACHIBANA SAORI!!!
Saori: Ah Aah

170.
Saori: Pictures for weeklies...entertainment reporters...evey day, someone would watch and chase after me...I had a life where I couldn't even breathe...do you understand!?
Saori: I did this to select a method where I could release stress...no one was going to bother me. To rage about this and have them reveal this to the public is foolish!!
(TN: Sort of think I screwed this up, someone should make sure this is right or wrong)

171.
Saori: Aah, they're spinning...the stars are spinning...! Take me to the stars over there...!!
Saori: Stronger--!! Even more to the center!! Even more...!!

172.
Saori: Will you remember me?
Shunji: Well then...I do thoroughly know the code of morals...
Shunji: The million I spent for the coverage did mess with my head a bit, but I've gotten better on that matter already.
Shunji: Tachibana Saori......an actress I may never talk to or never touch the skin of ever again once we get off this cruiser...I'll never forget her for being the partner with whom I felt utlimate bliss together with.

TN: So...after we went over all those ingredients (which took me forever to translate and get connected to this chapter and nearly made me go crazy...well that and the shot with the male porn stars disturbing me), it probably should have been no guess that Witch's Spring...would literally turn sex into "2001: A Space Odyssey" in psychedelia. I know some say sex is an "out of this world experience"...but who knew they made something that made it as such! Aside from the surrealism of the "climax" (if you call it that considering it's multiple meanings"), this chapter was ultimately made by the interaction and storyline regarding both Shunji and the girl of the chapter, Saori. Considering how little we've seen of Shunji getting involved in Takashi's antics (let alone letting that one girl run off with Rikako and have her lesbian adventures a while back), actually seeing him at work probably was a breathe of fresh air from the salaryman nature of Takashi. Sure Takashi's an interesting character and the main lead, but a change in scenery and scenario was definitely needed at this point in the game. Shunji himself seems more a man who is wrestling between his morals and making a buck, particularly exposing this lewd ceremony that essentially deflowered the girls of the rich and famous...maybe they deserve to have this revealed but in the end it was his gentlemanly nature (and probably some side-effect of Witch's Spring...or just Saori) that allowed for him to hold it back and keep his moralism. Saori herself was an interesting case study: a girl who almost appeared virginal both in the media and in her own perception (as well as the obvious "virgin" bit), but at the same time knew how to play an actress in getting what she needed to out of people, including exposing Shunji. Though it does beg to question: while all the other girls were in the orgy, why did Saori stay out of it until being accosted into that weird scenario? I guess it's just a combination of both that was going on: she wanted to lose it here, but didn't want to be forced to by the porn stars and didn't really want to embarrass herself in the midst of all that was going on. But of course it also begs the question: did all the other girls use Witch's Spring too...or was it just "an AVON Demonstration followed by sex?" Considering the anticipation of the girls, probably a bit of both...but they probably were so excited about this that they didn't even need Witch's Spring.

Oh, and considering the weirdness of this chapter, it's no surprise that at one point I was translating while the radio was playing "Behind Closed Doors" by Charlie Rich. I wouldn't be surprised if that is "Desire"'s theme song...well it deserves to be.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/14981 [English] [Translation] Desire 15 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-08T03:40:35+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

It's always the thing that never came true that becomes one's greatest worry in life. When Takashi meets with a woman who seemed to have beauty and success, he may discover that what she's lacking is closer than she thinks.

File: 15: DENTIST

126.
Takashi: Since an old cavity was aching, I rightly went to a dentist that had just opened nearby.
(TN: Yeah..."dendal"...Engrish at it's finest)
Takashi: ............(to himself) I was surprised that there were many patients that had come in; further, they were only men.........!!
Patient: Th...thank you very much!!
Voice: Fujii-sama.
Takashi: Due to that, I was called after nearly 2 hours of waiting.

127.
Takashi: Pardon me.
Mihoko: Welcome.
Sign: Dentist: MORIO Mihoko, 26
Takashi: Now I get it......!! I comprehend why so many (male) patients came in. If this beautiful doctor were treating them, then each day......

128.
Mihoko: Well since the cavity isn't deep, we'll be finished in two or three visits.
Mihoko: Since I'll be scraping a bit, please raise your hand when it hurts.
Takashi: Ah...right.
Takashi: This woman is glued to my body and has gently opened my mouth.
Takashi: So soft. The feel of her chest is going to my arm.

129.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: ......
Mihoko: Did that hurt?
Takashi: N...no, I'm fine.

130.
Mihoko: It was becoming bad, so I don't intend on offering a fake tooth with it's high price.
Takashi: Just do it. Though you intend on treating without pulling it, please steadly do the cavity surgery.
Mihoko: Now for the appointemnt: the next will have to be real soon, but is that alright?
Takashi: Yes!
Sign: TAMAGAWA TAKATORIYA SC SOUTH-BUILDING
Voice: It will be filled a month ahead.
Bartender: As expected, even straight-laced Fujii-san has a beating heart.
Takashi: Ye...yes.

131.
Bartender: It's not impossible. She's a girl with not just looks but with a really great personality too.
Takashi: What? You know her too?
Bartender: She's lived near my house since she was in high school.
Bartender: From a rumor, somehow, she learned of your feelings.
Mihoko: Good evening.
Takashi: .........

132.
Mihoko: Ah...I treated your tooth...
Takashi: I'm Fujii, thanks for yesterday.
Mihiko: Huh...you're kidding.
Bartender: Hahha.
Bartender: When seeing a beauty, there isn't a man who doesn't imagine them nude. What delusions filled those patients who took a treatment through you?
Mihoko: Then, Fujii-san as well?
Takashi: Huh?
Takashi: If I said I didn't, I'd be lying. I had given up by just stopping with my admiration of the unobtainable, but I'm free to imagine.

133.
Mihoko: You're really overestimating in saying I'm unobtainable.
Bartender: I think you're her ideal type if you saw it from her view. You are a Todai graduate and an elite salaryman at an elite company.
Bartender: Fujii-san, you seem free now, so what about being a candidate for Mihoko-chan? The two of you suite each other!!
Mihoko: .........
Takashi: Shouldn't we be lovers?
Mihoko: We....well, I can't have a relationship while I'm busy with my new practice...further if it fell apart, then I'd be lonely quickly.
Mihoko: If you were the active type, then I could seduce you right now.

134.
Takashi: Ma...Master, what sort of situation is merely seduction?
Bartender: Isn't it some relationship where the two of you date for tonight? I'll move aside by sitting in the corner.
Takashi: You're telling me your plan...
Bartender: It's fine, it's fine.
Takashi: Even if we're not lovers, how about talking of a person you like.
Mihoko: Ah...right.
Mihoko: When I was in high school, I commuted to school together with an assistant professor of surgery who worked at a university hospital...one day, when a spasm of tension pneumothorax occured, I was taken to the hospital to be treated.
(TN: A "tension pneumothorax" is a life-threatening condition usually invoving the disruption of function in the lungs, disrupting air supply and putting pressure preventing regular breathing)

135.
Takashi: Was that the impetus of love?
Mihoko: What I say is love was unrequited love. When I heard he got married, I confesssed with resolve, but I didn't have the courage...
Mihoko: He...was divorced several times. Later, we met again. I persisted in proposing to him, but
Mihoko: I know nothing of him recently. We weren't linked forever.........
Bartender: Mihoko-chan, you seem to be getting drunk quickly today. Since drunkards sickness would impede with your work, you should go home soon...
Mihoko: I'm sorry for that strange story...I'll go home for today.

136.
Takashi: She really did have a man she loved. That woman is pure...
Bartender: She wanted to make him happy...
Bartender: Long ago......there was an assistant professor who chased after a university hospital who was trouble to his chosen teacher. Even though he did all his work as a doctor, he got sick of it and became a binge drinker, ending up unable to escape even from his wife. He was a good-for-nothing man who ended up the master of a small bar...
Takashi: .........

137.
Bartender: She was like that even when she was in college, but now that girl is just too radiant. Therefore, I plan to get her away from me by getting her married...She'd be happy if it were you...
Takashi: .........
Takashi: If that happened, then it's better that you dissapear from her by going away again.
Takashi: I can't do it because you love her too. I thought of my own situation now with age difference and willfully think that I'm not appropriate......
Takashi: Consider this...
Takashi: Thinking that it's better to be friends only torments her!!
Bartender: .........

138.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: ......
Mihoko: Um...
Mihoko: I have sobered up a bit.
Takashi: Wasn't the convession that you did in college to the Master.

139.
Takashi: .........Mihoko-san, you are a wise woman.
Takashi: I wouldn't just repeat the same error twice. That's what I think.
Takashi: Even if a person regrets what they've done, they're pulled back to the regret that they didn't accomplish. Perhaps through their entire lives...
Takashi: If you fly into the heart of the person you love now and, for exampe, you didn't succeed, then you won't have regrets left if it's the results of following your own will.
Mihoko: ......
Mihoko: Thanks, Fujii-san.
Takashi: A tad dissapointing: I had a hunch that she gave up on him there.

140.
Caption: SUNDAY
Takashi: Huh...!?
Takashi: Today is a no-practice day...ah, no, I don't have anything else planned.
(TN: An "No-practice day" is a day where doctors don't hold any appointments)
Takashi: Regardless of it being an off-practice day, somehow Mihoko-san was going to treat my tooth as thanks for the other day.
Sign: NO PRACTICE TODAY
Mihoko: Because it's a medical holiday, I won't give you a special fee, so don't worry.
Takashi: Ah...right. That would be inexcusable.

141.
Mihoko: Will you please close your eyes for a bit?
Takashi: ...?
Takashi: Ye...yes.
Bartender: When seeing a beauty, there isn't a man who doesn't imagine them nude.

142.
Takashi: Th...this feeling...!!
Takashi: ............
Takashi: !!

143.
Mihoko: Please don't move.

144.
Takashi: Many (male) patients draw with mad deluison the naked body of a beautiful dentist...The real thing is trembling before my eyes. A superiority complex is filling me at once.
Mihoko: .........

145.
Mihoko: I...haven't experienced this yet but, whatever's best...
Takashi: Mihoko-san...!!

146.
Takashi: What a magnificent honor!!
Takashi: .........(internally) The greatest emotion and pleasure is a sudden sublimation of my entire body.

147.
Takashi: Mihoko-san, why did...
Mihoko: I've come to learn that the regrets of what isn't accomplished have a greater lasting affect than the regrets of what's done. If I've confessed to my master. And when I did, he proposed......it's thanks to you that I've come to this.

148.
Mihoko: That's it for today's treatment. Please rinse.
Takashi: Ah, thank you. That was an incredible treatment. (internal): I gave a cheer from my heart for the smiling face of Mihoko-san. I do have a slight jealousy of the Master, whose been put in the hands of a goddess--

TN: It's sort of weird: I sort of expected the chapter to mostly just be "Takashi does it with a dentist" based on the title, but again it turned out to be deeper than that. It was weird that a lot of it was tied to the relationship between Mihoko and the barmaster, but in a way that was the point of the chapter: she wanted him, regretted not getting him while he sort of wanted her yet regretted that he wanted to get rid of her due to his own potential urges pushing him further. Though...considering how most dentists I come across are never young and beautiful, I doubt I have the same "naked" image that they suggest in this chapter for such in that profession.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/14756 [English] [Translation] Desire 14 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-03T02:04:07+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Any encounter can lead to a new situation that may change a life...so when Takashi meets a poor girl down on her luck that he never met before...it may end up being changing for both of them!

File: 14: LODGER

102.
Takashi: Friday: Overtime was over and I was heading back home on the last train......
Sign: Kyo Express - Futago Tamagawa Plaza Station
Takashi: In the dead of night, a sole woman was sitting with her head hanging. Was she drunk...?
Takashi: Is there anything wrong?
Woman: .........
Takashi: You're alone in the dead of night. Since it's dangerous, it's better to go home quickly.
Takashi: Is she crying?

103.
Woman: I...I was called away by a group of two men when I went drinking at this store alone...and I got whirled up with them. I got drunk, then the bag that had my money got......I've been in Tokyo for two to three days to buy something and I'm leaving today.
Takashi: Did you call the police?
Woman: My parents said it was bad to go alone and objected, but I left to have my way. If I contact the police, they'll call home.
Takashi: For the moment, here's 30,000 somehow for you. There's a cheap and pretty business hotel in front of the station. Since you'll have my business card, you can pay it back to the company in the future.

104.
Business Card:
MARUBISHI PRODUCT PUBLIC COMPANY
Multimedia/Sattellite Sections
Boss: FUJII TAKASHI
Woman: Marubishi, that large company...
Woman: But...how could you give this to a stranger like me...
Takashi: Tokyo isn't just limited to bad people. So, be careful!
Woman: ............
Woman: Ah, um...!!

105.
Woman: If...if I'm not a burden, can....can't I stay with you tonight?
Woman: I...I'm...sorry about this. You may have a wife but...
Takashi: .........
Takashi: I live alone but......if we avoid each other physically
Takashi: The freeloader Shimazono had been on a data-collecting trip in Southeast Asia since a month ago. I didn't feel guity............but saying that would be lying.

106.
Takashi: The futon is in the closet.
Takashi: I've prepared a toothbrush and towel in the bathroom.
Woman: I'm sorry for everything.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Now in the next room there was a woman who was a complete stranger until earlier...In an unforseen opening, a sleeping desire has quietly awakened.

107.
Caption: Saturday
Takashi: Did you sleep last night?
Woman: Eh...eeh.
Takashi: Right, I hadn't asked your name yet.
Akie: Akie...MIYAUCHI Akie.
Takashi: I think I gave you my business card, but I'm Fujii. Ah, don't hold back, eat.
Akie: I......I'm going to the police today and someone from my family will pick me up. Due to that, I'll be returning your money.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: I'm off on the weekend this week, shall I come with you? Buy whatever you wanted and I'll be happy in getting the rest back later.
Akie: Well...that's...

108.
Sign: POSTCARD PRESENT
Akie: .........
Takashi: Well...you don't like French cuisine?
Akie: No, that's not it. I'll cook tonight.
Takashi: Do you drink wine?
Akie: Huh, a bit?

109.
Takashi: We--ll....these gyoza are closer to nikuman.
(TN: The difference between "gyouza" and "nikuman" is mostly in size and shape: gyouza are smaller filled with meat (any kind, usually pork or chikcen) and vegetables and sealed with pressing the dough together, "nikuman" are more 'bun-shaped' and usually filled with pork)
Akie: Um.
Akie: There aren't too many ingredients, but their form is beautiful.
Takashi: Well? In that case, I'm sorry for that earlier.
Akie: You seem better at cooking than me.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: That woman may be one who doesn't know how to be suspicious of men. She's believed in me even coming here...
Akie: Fujii-san..
Takashi: !?

110.
Akie: If it's alright, may I wash your...
Takashi: ..........!
Takashi I...I'd be grateful but aren't you drunk...!?
Akie: A bit...P...pardon me.
Akie: Please don't misunderstand me. This is the first time I've washed a man's back.
Takashi: Th...this is the first I've experienced this.

111.
Takashi: The slippery rubbing of a sponge suggests a dear love.
Takashi: This is the first that my entire body has been engulfed by this arousal as a man.
Takashi: The feelings in my chest is being sent to my back.........
Takashi: I invited her in............!! There's nothing to hesitate about anymore!!

112.
Akie: A woman can be tender because you're gentlemanly. I may be able to do this...............
Takashi: .........
Takashi: I'm rapidly drooping between my legs......
Takashi: Thanks, I'll do the rest myself........
Akie: Huh...enough?
Akie: .........

113.
SFX: CLICK...
Akie: Are...are you still up?
Takashi: ............
Akie: I have a request. To...tonight, can we together...

114.
Takashi: Akie-chan.
Akie: Y...yes.
Takashi: I'm a man too. If I said I didn't want to embrace you, I'd be lying.
Takashi: But though I expect it, that's not the reason I invited you to my apartment. For me to embrace you with the pretext of kindness goes against my style. (to himself) Ultimately, this sudden invitation had me act like I was in a love scene, even if I looked foolish.
(TN: I know I probably screwed this up, but basically the expression Takashi makes is "Nimaime wo Enjite" or "to act like an actor in a love scene". I tried to make it work but I doubt it did)
Akie: .........
Akie: I...I'm sorry. That's how I thought you would be.
Takashi: ......
Akie: Good night.

115.
Takashi: The next day...when I woke up, she left behind a letter and left the apartment.
Letter:
I'm imdebted to you in many ways. I won't forget you for the rest of my life.
I'll surely return you the money you loaned me in a few days. Please get your work done healthfully.
-Akie
Takashi: In the end...she was just honest to me.
Takashi: Two days later...registered mail from the woman reached my company. And then three days later......
Takashi: Ah, Akie-chan!?
Akie: Can you meet me this Sunday?
Takashi: Yes! I can clear it up but...
Akie: Please come to Shizuoka. I want to show you my true form. I'll send you a fax now with the date and time.
Takashi: Her true form......!?

116.
Letter:
Hotel Prestige - Hamamatsu
2:30 PM
(Please be there on time)
I'll be waiting in the hall in front of the Heijou Waiting Room
-Akie
(TN: Hamamatsu is a city in western Shizuoka notable for it's manufacturing of musical instruments and autos, notable as the headquarters of companies such as Suzuki and Yamaha as well as the birthplace of Honda)
Caption: Hotel Prestige - Hamamatsu

117.
Akie: You came!!
Akie: Pl...pleae enter. There's no one here now.
Takashi: .........
Sign:
Heijou Room - Marriage Reception
MIYAUCHI WAITING ROOM
(TN: Didn't think it was that necessary, but "Miyauchi" can also be read as "the Imperial Family" or "Kunai")

118.
Sign: HALL TO THE HEIJOU WAITING ROOM
Takashi: !?
Takashi: .........
Takashi: .........

119.
Akie: Once the ceremony is over, I'll already be the wife of someone else. Can you please share this time that I've chosen with me?

120.
Takashi: You're getting married. Why were you in my apartment...
Akie: I'm sorry I was silent...
Akie: I've merely spent two days with you, but my chance encounter with you has impacted me. What I couldn't do gave me an unstoppable impulse, even if I couldn't understand it in my head...
Akie: This is the first time I've bore this feeling. With this feeling now, I can't be a good wife.
Takashi: .........

121.
Akie: We don't have time. Answer me now.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: You're...pretty.
Takashi: .........
Akie: Fujii-san...!!

122.
Takashi: If the door opens to someone...............then you have to take the risk!!
Takashi: The desires that you do when you are conscious of the danger boil from the core of your body! The desires of a duo start as a link......!!

123.
Akie: AAH
Takashi: ......

124.
Takashi: Two weeks later...she sent me a picture of her honeymoon. Her smiling face was full of happiness.
(TN: Note the Makibaou cameo on the shirt...)

TN: This chapter has a lot to do with connections...in particular, make a girl trust you, even a strange one whose about to be married...and these sorts of feelings can erupt. It's weird though: Akie was a nice, naive girl (well after the S&M control freak of the last chapter, she was a good change of pace) and somehow her hesitation and her own desires that Takashi wanted to restrain (and did for the most part) was a good aspect showing the way it worked on both sides. For once he wanted to sort of treat her with respect due to her situation and it was her that wanted to get all cozy...but of course, once she ended up back in her environment, then she can show her pubes off...which was weird but of course it's not his fault he made her love him in that weird way. He wanted a sister or a friend and ended up with another partner...that's how this series goes I guess.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/14724 [English] [Translation] Desire 13 by StrangerAtaru 2009-08-02T01:53:27+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Not every woman that Takashi has encountered has left with a good impression of him...unfortunately how they take it out on him when they meet him again...may be worse than he originally imagined!

File:13: TANDEM

78.
Takashi: An inquiry was made by the Post and Communication Ministry regarding the lateness of their scheduled license with the satellite broadcasting company.
Caption: AKASAKA, 11:00 AM, HOTEL ARK HILLS
(TN: "Ark Hills" in the Minato District is a notable office development area. Presumably the "hotel" in reference is what's now known as the "ANA InterContinental Tokyo Hotel")
Caption: Hotel Underground Parking Garage
Takashi: I was called in nominated by the other party.

79.
(No dialogue)

80.
Voice: Thanks for waiting.
Takashi: Ah...welcome.
Woman: It's been a while, Fujii-kun.
Takashi: ......! It's you!!
Ayako: SHINAGAWA Ayako. It's been since we graduated high school...

81.
Takashi: In those days, Shinagawa Ayako was the top seat of our grade and always competing to be the top on the All-Nation Mock Exams.
(TN: The "All-Nation Mock Exams" is in reference to "Mogishiken", an examination that equivilates to the PSAT in the US where students take a fake exam in preparation for their super-hard college exams which are different from university to university)
Takashi: She wasn't just about scholastic results: she had a goddess-like existence in our grade, excelling in sports and in duty as president of the student council since 11th grade. The only memory I have of her was...
Takashi: Close to our high school graduation...we made a unilateral promise but I broke it.
Ayako: Tomorrow is the final mock-exam...are you getting tired?
Takashi: Ah...Shinagawa-san!
Ayako: Fujii-san, are you interested in pictures like these?
Takashi: Huh...?

82.
Takashi: !!
Ayako: I took it last night just for fun, if you like it, I'll give it to you.
Takashi: Wh...why are you giving me this picture...
Ayako: Fujii-kun...I've seen you as my only exam rival over these three years. You hadn't had any interest in girls......I regret that.
Takashi: ...
Ayako: I wanted to make a memory for the end of high school...with Fujii-kun.
Takashi: With...me...?
Ayako: Right! Can't you skip tomorrow's mock exam? Will you go to Shounan with me on my bike!!
(TN: Shounan is a resort region on Sagami Bay in Central Bay, centered around the island of Enoshima)

83.
Ayako: There's already a trend now that there's no general effect from taking the mock-exams. I'll be waiting from tomorrow at 7 at Kirigaoka Park!
(TN: Kirigaoka Park is a park in/near Yokohama)
Ayako: I want you to see it for real, without the picture. If you go to B tomorrow, then I'll permit you.
(TN: Really not sure what she meant saying that)
Takashi: It was an eye-turning temptation.
Takashi: However, I did take the final mock-exam and ended up breaking my promise to her. I also was still a coward towards females......I didn't grasp the real intention of why Shinagawa Ayako invited me.

84.
Takashi: I knew that you passed to get into Tokyo U, but I haven't seen your face since with you going to another school.
Ayako: Yes.
Takashi: But, I'm surprised that you became the representative of the Post and Communication Ministry.
Ayako: I too became surprised that you were in the Sattellite Operations with Marubushi Industries.
Ayako: That's why I nominated you.
Takashi: So then, let's hurry along with the license...!
Ayako: About that matter, well...
Ayako: Actually, we've been given one other license application for the same project and we have to take time to inspect them since we can only go with one of them this time.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: Well, you'll certainly go with us! We've got the power to do things with you.

85.
Ayako: I want you immediately.
Takashi: Huh...?
Ayako: I've got us a room; let's take our time discussing.
Takashi: ......

86.
Ayako: Get naked...and put on this collar!!

87.
Ayako: Any man will wag their tails and obey me at my request...you didn't even think of my dreams when you stood me up that day.
Takashi: ......
Ayako: The only one who refused me was you.
Takashi: This can't be that you...are still about that!?
Ayako: Yes, I'm bitter about it even now!!
Ayako: Do you understand my humiliation that I've held on you chosing a mock-exam over my body!!
Ayako: Currently, I go mad with wretched satisfaction in making the best and members of congress be like dogs and cats in front of me. You are the only blot that I have!!
Takashi: Right...it's because you wanted to get joy from ruling and controlling people, even when you were successive chair of the student counsel and aiming for the beauracracy!! I was correct to choose the mock-exam.
Ayako: You can't refuse me this time. This is work I have to do.

88.
Takashi: Uh!!
Ayako: Crawl around like a dog and worship me!! Understand!?
Ayako: If you understand, respond by barking "wan"!!
(TN: "Wan" is "woof" in Japanese)
Takashi: Wan wan!
Ayako: Ahahaha

89.
Ayako: Ufufu, you're unexpectedly obedient. Now, please lick them further clean!!
Takashi: Surely, my form is being seen as humiliated. She may have been thinking that I was clearing away resentment with my humiliation. On the surface, she has triumphed.
Takashi: But if that's the case, then she's miscalculated. I've been having much fun with this game from the beginning!!

90.
Takashi: You seem to have achieved your purpose...now as you promised, I ask that you we properly go over the license.
Ayako: Sorry, but it's already late. There's a large tip over there. Now I have to report at a meeting with the vice-minster at a hotel in Izue, so we're done.
Takashi: So...then, you're breaking your promise!!
Ayako: This makes us even, I suppose!

91.
Takashi: ......
Caption: IZU

92.
Sign:
Top: Joubutsu Center
(TN: "Joubutsu" is actually a term regarding "going to heaven" or "entering Nirvana", in connection probably to the shrines on Izu Peninsula)
Bottom: HOTEL GOKURAKU
Ayako: !!

93.
Ayako: Wh...what, why are you here!?
Takashi: My company has it's own information network here too! I found the hotel you're going towards and came on ahead by taxi to the midway route!!
Ayako: It's impossible for me to stop!! I want you to get right off!!
Takashi: I wasn't thinking of stopping.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: Now it's my turn to have fun in a game with you!!
Ayako: A game!?

94.
Ayako: !!
Ayako: Wh...what are you......!!
Ayako: Watch out!!

95.
Ayako: St...stop, we'll get in an accident!!
Takashi: If we die here, it will be together!!
Ayako: Wha...!!
Ayako: Wait a...!!

96.
(Nothing really to say...)

97.
Ayako: Sto...
Car: !!
Ayako: Hauu...
Car: Wa

98.
Ayako: AH...AH
Ayako: AAH
Ayako: Ha...
Ayako: Haa......haa...

99.
Takashi: How does it feel to be controlled by another? Has your feelings of hatred for me increased more?
Ayako: I hate you. I want to kill you...
Takashi: Several days later...I received an official license notice from the Post and Communication Ministry.
Letter: Let's go touring this time, of course in tandem! -Ayako

TN: I think there's a valuable lesson here: reject a girl obsessed with being in control...and you'll be forced to play "dog" with her in an S&M-style manner years down the road. Yeah...that's probably not the real lesson and Takashi did finally get even, but it's weird that sometimes something so minor in high school would lead to Ayako end up playing mistress to him at this stage. Some people just want to always be in control...luckily the whole "bike scenario" cleared things up, but it is weird it took something so extreme to clear up...the dog bit. (no, not a fan of S&M so reading that whole sequence wasn't one of my favorites)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/14476 [English] [Translation] Desire 12 by StrangerAtaru 2009-07-26T03:09:22+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Takashi always finds himself at the whim of women, but Rikako isn't the only one who can pull a fast one on him...particularly if it's two women on a particular mission!

File:12: BLINDFOLD

56.
Caption: Setagawa: Futago Tamagawa
(TN: "Futago Tamagawa" is a stop of the Toukyuu Den-en-Toashi" line, referring to the Tamagawa and Seta districts of Setagawa. It's most well known for "Tamagawa Takashimaya", a branch of the "Takashimaya" department store that began the "suburban shopping center" boom in Japan)
"Black Hair": If you're seriously thinking about a divorce, Yukari, then realizing the removal of "that" is best. My husband is on an overseas business trip and I always do it then.
Yukari: B...but, it's a crime.........
"Black Hair": Fufu, it's alright! Your partner will be a man. Further, he's single. How could he sue you?

57.
Caption: 9:00 PM
Apartment Sign: Kusuki
Yukari: Ma...Mayumi? I...I was successful here.........But, I'm a bit scared......
Caption:
KUSUKI YUKARI
26 years old
Housewife

58.
Takashi: !!
Mayumi: ............
Caption:
FUJIOKA MAYUMI
26 years old
Housewife

59.
Apartment Sign: Kusuki
Yukari: Mayumi...I really...want to stop this.
Mayumi: What are you saying: weren't you the one who designated him? An intellectual, serious man like him is your type.

60.
SFX: ERR
Takashi: !!
Takashi: ............(to himself) When I came to, my eyes and mouth were shut, my hands were tied up and further I was naked!! I didn't unnderstand this sudden event. Per...perhaps it's RIKAKO!?

61.
Yukari: Are you awake? Even if you're not worried, just obey us and we won't hurt you.
Mayumi: This is the only way this can be done since we don't want you to see our faces.
Takashi: It's not Rikako...!!
Mayumi: This is a prank of frustrated wives...we want you to play along for a bit.
Yukari: Wives............don't reveal our true identities!!
Mayumi: It's just a voice. He won't know. Men don't feel the desires of wives.
Takashi: Wives...both of them?
Mayumi: At first I said we would search for a partner through a dating-line, but strange men are dangerous. With that point with you we thought we'd be relaxed since you're clearly have an ID as a businessman for a major company.

62.
Mayumi: You do have enough. You're different from my husband! A wife should occasionally have a man outside her husband...
Takashi: A man is kidnapped, his eyesight and freedom taken to cancel the frustration...of wives?
Mayumi: He's really fine...!
Takashi: If I believe the words of these women, then I shouldn't worry about getting hurt...with that so, it wouldn't be bad to play with these two wives.

63.
Mayumi: Enter!
Yukari: ............

64.
Mayumi: You're not boiling up yet. Do you want to stop doing this here?
Mayumi: Fine! Then I'll have fun by myself.

65.
Takashi: .........
Mayumi: Hey! He's not worrying either. Join us!
Yukari: .........

66.
Takashi: .........!!
Takashi: It's...loosening! The adhesiveness of the sticky tape has weakened from the shower earlier.
SFX: BABUMP BABUMP
SFX: BABUMP
Yukari: He...hey. If I do this......Wi...will it be OK?
Mayumi: You're finally resolved! I've already started. At any rate, throw away your shyness and make some ruckus.

67.
Takashi: ............
Takashi: When I can't see, I know that my sense of smell sharpens. A shy woman...the scent of the perfume on her is Poisson.
(TN: Though I'm not too sure if I'm correct, "Poisson" is referring to a line of perfume by French haute couiture designer Jean Paul Gaultier, whose perfume lines are distributed by Japanese cosmetic manufacturer Shiseido)
Takashi: The scent of Poisson stimulates, welling up controlled desires at once.
Yukari: KYA

68.
Yukari: Y...your arm...!!
Takashi: It's best I take off the the mouth too since it's hard to breathe! You haven't asked or said too much.

69.
Yukari: Ha......
Yukari: AH...

70.
Yukari: I'll switch to there!
Takashi: The Poisson woman has finally seems to have lit her flames of desire.
Yukari: Haa
Yukari: Haa haa

71.
Yukari: ......!!
Yukari: Haa Haa
Yukari: Ha
Takashi: Uh.
Yukari: No...not yet, no...!! Don't until I'm satisfied!!

72.
Mayumi: Satisfy the woman!
Yukari: Ah......
Takashi: As I thought, it's pleasant to not see. I'm engulfed by the scent of an obscene woman, rapidly enhancing the power of my imagination. These wives emerging within the darkness are presenting an intense pleasant feeling.

73.
(No dialouge, just...that)

74.
Takashi: When I came to, I was in my study. I was wearing my clothes and feeling like I'd been bewitched by a kitsune.
(TN: According to Japanese myth, "kitsune" or "fox spirits" usually take the appearance of beautiful women to enchant men)
Takashi: However, the feel of the wives' scent steadily remained...
Paper: Divorce Notification
Mayumi: Your wife had sex with another man...She really enjoyed it. What feeling do you sense?
Yukari's Husband: .........

75.
Yukari: I realized you were cheating with a nurse from your workplace since six months ago. Thus, I asked my friend Mayumi for a man......Do you get my feelings? I don't have regrets since I'm resolved to leave.
Yukari's Husband: ......!
Mayumi: He's saying something. Shall we let him speak?
Yukari's Husband: .........
Yukari's Husband: I was scolding your hatred in willfully being passive in sex. But seeing you now, I know you're a woman who possesses normal desires too and I'm glad. If you forgive me, I'll forgive you too. How about it!?

76.
Caption: NEXT MORNING...
SFX: THUNK...
Takashi: Good morning.
Yukari: Good morning.
Takashi: Th...that scent is...
Takashi: Poisson!!
Takashi: I had a good dream last night.
Takashi: But your prank was moderate...!
Yukari: .........

TN: First of all, I seriously doubt this is going to be my most accurate translation: I actually spent a bit of time doing this, forgot to save and wiped out a good chunk, then essentially had to redo it based on a bit of memory, a bit of searching and already knowing what was coming. Crazy but somehow it's finally done the best I could. As for the chapter...well, there is a case for blindfolded sex, but somehow I really like shy, cute, sweet girls like Yukari somehow or another...maybe not the married part but I guess I'm a sucker for her type (particularly her look and attributes too) It's weird though how much of the world you can discover when your sight is taken away...even in sex. Though...the ending was a bit of a weird twist regarding Yukari's husband wanting her desire to reawaken...

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/14431 [English] [Translation] Desire 11 by StrangerAtaru 2009-07-25T03:25:20+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Unknowing of the events in the last chapter (and the hot lesbian sex he missed out on), Takashi has other matters he has to deal with overseas...and other females (and weird cameoes) he has to encounter!

File:11: STEWARDESS

32.
Caption: --JAW FLIGHT 747 TO LOS ANGELES--
(TN: The kanji under "occupied" mean the same thing so no need to translate into an alternate I think)
Takashi: It's fine, no one will come in here......!!
Stewardess: Ho...hold on, stay until we get to.........!!
(TN: The "Sutei Saki de" part threw me off, tried to make do)

33.
Stewardess: AH...

34.
Stewardess: Is there something on my face......?
Takashi: Huh...!?
Stewardess: You've been really staring at me since earlier.
Takashi: Ah...sorry.
Takashi: I was really thinking for a bit.........
Takashi: Stale delusions...For men, the longing and desires for a stewardess haven't changed then or now.

35.
Caption: LOS ANGELES
Takashi: My business trip to L.A. this time is one for finishing a team-up with the major American movie company "Grace". Even with their past masterpiece movie software, they're an essential client who are influenced by the results of the thousands of projects they've created and dealt with.
Grace Man: Actually regarding the provisional contract, you're going to be taken to a stop by the boss. He wants you to wait a while in your hotel on standby.
Takashi: Standby......(to himself) The boss isn't an acquaintance......is he opposing the contract?

36.
Takashi: ......Perhaps it's impossible if another company is cutting in on them...
Takashi: It could be a problem if we're placed on a scale woith them. I have to get the head office for what I need.
SFX: KNOCK KNOCK
Takashi: Who is it!?
(TN: Cleaning up the Engrish)
Grace Man: A dispatch from Grace to pick you up.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: COUGH COUGH

37.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: ......!?
Takashi: Wh...where am I!?

38.
Man 1: There there.
Man 2: Hurry and tear it off---!!
Voice: Hey Fujii! You've come to!!
Takashi: ......!?
"Belushi": Right here!!
(TN: Yes, I know what you're thinking...Jake Blues lives!)

39.
Takashi: Y...you're.........!?
"Belushi": It's our first meeting! You were invited here by me.
"Belushi": Forgive me for being rude. As you can see, this here isn't a place where the top go into. I don't really want to be know in this place at all.
Takashi: The top of Grace......per...haps you're
Mulder: Mulder, nice to meet you! The management at Grace have assessed you as a serious, excellent businessman.
Mulder: These women combatants engage in wrestling in a ring covered in oil. The rules are simple to understand: the loser is the one who exposes their pussy to the customers. It's a childish show, but here it's the basis of entertainment!!
Takashi: I...didn't really think this but...why here!?

40.
Mulder: Well, Fujii! Don't you want to go into the ring with a woman as a story from LA?
Takashi: M...me in the ring with a woman......!?
Mulder: Let me introduce you to Miss Kanako.
Kanako: Good evening! I remember you really staring at me.
Takashi: It's...you......!!
Mulder: If you win against Kanako, I'll sign your provisional contract here!!
Mulder: Though you've been evaluated by management, I'm different. A person who can't have a good time isn't able to fight ot the end in the media wars.

41.
Kanako: I'm playing serious! If I win, I'm being presented a villa in the Bahamas.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: If I can do this for the provisional contract.........!! This is L.A. There's neither honor or dishonor here. Why don't I socialize by the president's game...!
Takashi: OK! I'll do it. Take the contract!!
Mulder: The woman will have a ring costume, but we've collected so many: bunny girl, cheerleader, even a N.Y. career girl, do you have a request?
Takashi: I do.........well, a stewardess uniform!!
Mulder: Do you......know that woman?
Takashi: N...no, it's a personal taste.

42.
Mulder: Everyone, our plans for tonight's special match has changed into a Japanese man-woman match. A battle of stewardess and captain, now which will you bet on!!
Mulder: Our betting odds are 1-to-5, of course the woman is the five!
Mulder: Fujii!! This is the pen we're using for the contract. I will bury this into Kanako's pussy. If you can take it out, you win!!
Takashi: .........
Mulder: Now start the match! It's a no-time one-round battle!!

43.
Kanako: You won't take me out, I'm getting that villa.
Takashi: That's my line!!
Kanako: HAAA!!
Mulder: A SWIFT JUDO ATTACK BY THE LADY--!!

44.
Mulder: SHE PUT HIM IN A HARDENING TECHNIQUE--!!
Mulder: KANAKO IS IMMEDIATELY RIPPING OFF HIS PANTS AND UNDERWEAR!!
Takashi: Y...you know judo!!
Kanako: I was aiming for the Olympics until high school. My boss taught me. It was a profitable part-time job!!
Takashi: This can't be it!! This...is for the sattellite company......no, for the future of Japan. They'll be grateful when I win.
Kanako: Don't joke: that will get your lower-half exposed in front of these rowdies!!

45.
Takashi: You think my reason is strange!
Kanako: I can't do judo or anything with this slipperiness. If I don't end this immediately...!!

46.
Takashi: KU!!
American 1: We're not going to look at the balls of that Japanese gu--y!!
American 2: I bet a hundred dollars. I'm blasting lead in his ass if he loses--
Kanako: GIVE ME THAT BAHAMA VILLA!!

47.
Kanako: KYAA
Takashi: N...now!!

48.
Americans: YEAH! YOUR CHANCE---!! GO AND STRIP IT OFF---!!
Kanako: Huh......
Mulder: N......

49.
Kanako: Using the rope is a violation, get me off!!
Americans: PUSSY--PUSSY--
Americans: Hurry, let us look---!!
Takashi: A violation...? I don't hear booing.

50.
Kanako: Boss--violation, violation!!
Takashi: Condition: it's best I gently take this off...

51.
Takashi: Sorry.
Kanako: NO---!!
Takashi: Give me the contract pen!!
Kanako: Wa...wait! Please let me go!
Takashi: .........

52.
Takashi: My Answer is "NO"! Because...I am a Business Man!
(TN: Yeah, the Engrish makes sense here so it stays)

53.
Kanako: AH
Takashi: I've got the provisional contract--
Mulder: Hmph, wasn't that entertaining? I was pleased!!

54.
Takashi: I safely finished the provisional contract and made my way back home.
Takashi: The woman was harmed in obtaining a villa in the Bahamas, but instead she shrewdly obtained a condeminium in Hawaii.
Kanako: Good day--
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Even among my many oversea business trips, I say this one left the deepest impression.

TN: First of all, let me just say the same thing you probably are: yes, he did look like John Belushi...change that: he looked like John Belushi as Jake Blues from "The Blues Brothers". Compared to the almost hidden and weird appearance of Takashi's dad I made before, Mulder (wait, he's a lookalike for Belushi and he's named after an X-Files character?) is a literal tribute (at least to me) of the great comedian by way of one of his most famous performances. It's the fact that Belushi appears in this chapter that you almost forget that there was a story going on...but then again, it was a really weird chapter even if not as eventful as Rikako and Reiko's make-out session. Heck, the only surprise (aside Belushi) was that the scene with Kanako at the start was merely fantasy...but as Takashi said: everyone wants to do it with a stewardess. (well not me: by the time I started flying, they let anyone be a stewardess...there goes that image down the toilet)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/14242 [English] [Translation] Desire 10 by StrangerAtaru 2009-07-19T19:47:42+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Even when Takashi heads off elsewhere, those he touches always seem to find themselves in peculiar situations...if only he knew a bit more about the "innocent girl" Reiko...

FILE:10: SAPPHISM

8.
Caption: Setagaya Ward, Seijou
Reiko: I'm going, mother.
Reiko: It has been a month since I first went out with Fujii-san after being introduced by my uncle...I honestly can say that I've gone out with a man for the first time at 25.
Caption: ITOU Reiko, 25 years old
Graduate of Music College, Hopes to be a Pianist
Apprentice of a Well-Known Musician

Reiko: I've gone to girls' schools from elementary to high school...And then at 16 I went to a girl's music college. Due to myself living in an environment being surrounded by women, I did want to be near men and thought that I understood the reason why I wasn't connected to them until now.

9.
Reiko: Fujii-san had been chosen to go on a business trip to Los Angeles for two weeks from today and I had gone to see him off.
Reiko: I thought you weren't bringing breakfast so I made this.
Voice: It's handmade!
Reiko: Shimozono-san, are you fine with this while driving?
Shunji: Oh, thanks very much!
Takashi: Thank you!
Reiko: I who had no experience in loving a man, did it for him, even though I was full of concern......

10.
Reiko: Take care of yourself.
Takashi: Thanks. I'll call you the day before I come home.
Takashi: Well, I'll be going.
Reiko: A man's hand is really rough...yours is surprisingly soft.
Shunji: My Jr. is always hard, it's rather BOING BOING but...
(TN: Shunji uses the alliteration "pinpin", which usually is "lively", but I made an alliteration to keep with the theme of the point)

11.
SFX: KYURURURURU...
SFX: KYURURURURU...
Shunji: Huh......? It won't start.
Shunji: This is my only property but
Reiko: ......
Shunji: It's always breaking down. Such a burden.
Reiko: Ah...since it's going to take time, I'll go ahead on a train...I've got piano practice today.
Shunji: It';lll be fixed soon! In trusth I've got tickets to Disneyland. I"ve finally come to Chiba so take a break from the piano today.

12.
Rikako: If you're urgent to get to the city, take my car...
Rikako: If you're fine with it, go ahead.
Reiko: ............
Shunji: A Porsche 911 Cabriolet?
(TN: While the Porsche 911 is considered one of the most famous of sports cars in the world since it's introduction in 1963, the "cabriolet" (or a soft-top convertable) was only around since the early 1980s and is used to this day)

13.
Rikako: Go ahead, don't be shy.
Shunji: That will be a problem, since we're going from here to Disneylan.
Reiko: Ah...sorry. Well, can I please go with her?
Shunji: .........
Shunji: What's with that woman...she's doing too much!!
Reiko: I'm going ahead, Shimozono-san!

14.
Shunji: What! The distributor cord came out! It doesn't come out like that us--ually.........
Shunji: Is someone pulling a prank on me!?
Reiko: A Mozart Piano Concerto. Do you love Mozart?
Rikako: Yes. I did just hear it a bit earlier, but do you play piano?

15.
Reiko: I'm apprentincing under a teacher in preparation for an interenational contest next year.
Rikako: Well then, do you know of the famous rare piano called "Bösendorfer"? My dead father used it long ago but now no one is playing it. If you're fine with it, do you want to borrow it?
(TN: Bösendorfer is an Austrian piano manufacturer known for making pianos with a rich, singing and sustaining tone as well as for making pianos with more than 88 keys (like with 92 or 97) and is also known as being made with spruce rims instead of veneer. The company eventually merged with Yamaha in 2007)
Reiko: Huh...giving an important thing to weird little me...!?
(TN: The "little" part wasn't in the original translation, but it didn't really feel right to make it "weird me" like it was supposed to be with the reading of "Mizushirazu")
Rikako: I think my father would be proud if it were used by someone hoping to be a pianist. If you're skilled, then this is nice for learning how you actually play it.
Reiko: I'll do it, really...!! Ah...I didn't tell you: I'm Itou Reiko.
Rikako: I'm Rikako, nice to meet you!
Reiko: .........

16.
Shunji: Hold on...the hood of a Mini can be open by anyone from the outside.
Shunji: Perhaps that woman did it...
Shunji: N...!?
Shunji: They're going in the other way. Where are they going......?
Shunji: .........

17.
Caption: Bousou
(TN: Bousou is a hilly peninsula extending out from Honshu near Tokyo bordering a section of Tokyo Bay)
Reiko: Um, doesn't...anyone else live here?
Rikako: This is my villa. Do you want me to make a cold drink?
Shunji: Just the two of them in a villa...
Reiko: (out loud) .........
Shunji: That woman stinks. That's a driver's intuition. She smells of the crime.

18.
Rikako: Ehe...what will she do when she sees this? Having her taste Takashi at the scene of the crime will surely be fun...
Reiko: It touches wonderfully!!

19.
Rikako: Schumann...
(TN: The reference is to Robert Schumann, a notable German composer and, surprisingly, music critic.)
Reiko: Yes.
Rikako: This piece can be done with four hands.
(TN: "With four hands" is in reference to a "four-handed performance", where two people play the piano at the same time)
Reiko: .........
Reiko: You play piano!!
Rikako: I don't really play but...
Reiko: Then we'll continue...I'll take the lower part.
Rikako: I can't play upper parts very well.

20.
Rikako: Ah...
Reiko: A bit more Legato.
(TN: "Legato" is translated her in Japanese as "softer")
Reiko: Be Leggiero from here...There! You're so skilled.
(TN: "Leggiero" is "light")
Reiko: ............
Rikako: This is the first I've played the upper part so well!!

21.
Reiko: ............
Rikako: .........
Rikako: What are you doing?
Reiko: I know the real reason I was invited here.
Rikako: Huh...!?

22.
Reiko: I don't know anything about you but...from the moment I met you in the parking lot, I wanted you, even if I had restrained my feelings.
Rikako: There's something I want to show you.

23.
Rikako: Stop...
Reiko: I've only loved women until now.
Rikako: Sto...
Reiko: Please, please......heal my throbbing body.
Rikako: .........

24.
Rikako: Take...it off...
Reiko: .........

25.
Reiko: AH
Reiko: Haa...

26.-27.
Rikako: Aah, good.
Reiko: Aah, Rikako-san.
Rikako: AAH
Reiko: AH

28.
Reiko: I've.........realized that my heart won't have that sort of relation ever again......
Reiko: I now...have a man I'm going out with. If such an extremely serious man knew this about me.........

29.
Rikako: This is the first I've done it but I didn't think it would feel like that. I requested you to satisfy myself...how is it bad to share in pleasant sexual feelings!?
Rikako: Don't have guilt......you'll have success when you consider facing him...
Rikako: You're seriously overthinking. Have no regrets about today.
Reiko: ............
Reiko: Thanks, Rikako-san.

30.
Shunji: Here! I finally found them.
Rikako: Huh, that guy seems to have come to pick you up.
Reiko: Um, well, can we meet again?
Rikako: Yes, if I have the chance.
Reiko: Thank you for picking me up.
Shunji.........What were you doing here?

TN: First of all, the title of this chapter sort of didn't make sense to me until I researched it a bit but "sapphism" is basically another term for "female homosexuality" or "lesbianism". So basically with that title and what happened here, we got our moral: if you spend all your time with girls, you end up lusting after them...or something like that. Though I did really love that for once Rikako is the one thrown off by what Reiko pulled...but at least somehow it makes sense in the end. (though who knows if she'll be back...or which side she'll be swinging when she is)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/14229 [English] [Translation] Desire 9 by StrangerAtaru 2009-07-19T03:12:14+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Sometimes your affairs have to be a tad...brief.

Vol. 2: AFTERNOON
File:9: AFTERNOON

3.
Woman: .........
Takashi: On my days off, I'm called by the nice weather, having time to take a walk when I don't have anything going on.........

4.
Takashi: !?
Takashi: With a gesture that shows embarrasment
Takashi: I know that this is her thing.

5.
Woman: What do you have to say?
Takashi: A MARRIED WOMAN......!!

6.
Takashi: Is this how men are always invited? And does this make us devils? I don't know.
Takashi: However, the desire to want an erotic meeting is hidden in the hearts of all, men and women.

TN: Yeah, this is a really short and sweet chapter but that's sort of how it goes. I guess that in order to have a color intro for every volume (yes, every volume has a color intro), they have to sometimes do really short chapters like this...sure it gets the point across but it is rather short. (I just wonder what will happen when "her husband" finds out...)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/14005 [English] [Translation] Desire 8 by StrangerAtaru 2009-07-12T01:13:16+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Everything has reasons, including failed relationships with the opposite sex. When Takashi takes time off to return home for family business, he may see the reason behind his problems...before Rikako came along!

File:8: AUNT

184.
Caption: Gunma Prefecture, F-City
(TN: Gunma is a prefecture in Kanto. As for "F-City", it is assumed to be the city of Fujioka, the only city with an "F" starting it's name)
Takashi: For the 7th anniversary of my grandfather's death, I return home for a day, even if it's a Sunday.
Sign: FUJII

185.
Man: Well then, Takashi.............you seemed to really not have relations with women since you were in school, so how are things now? Have you even done a marriage interview? You can tell me.
Takashi: Father, I'm already different from when I was in school.
Mr. Fujii: Well...

186.
Takashi: I was my study room from when I was in high school, searching for "example things" that I had hid away without disposing when a painful memory was ressurected.
Takashi: .........
Voice: Taka-chan!!
Girl: It's been a while!!
Takashi: Ma...Machiko-san!!

187.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: It's bizarre to see your face at this memorial.
Machiko: I wasn't planning on attending, but I wanted to breathe in the country air again. I just came in earlier.
Machiko: Really...I wanted to meet you immediately since I heard Taka-chan had come home.
Takashi: .........
Machiko: WHAT'S--GOING ON!
Takashi: SAKURA Machiko......It's hard to see it, but she's my distant aunt whose 3 years older than me. We played a bit when we were younger due to our closeness in age......no, it may be better to say that I came face to place with a girl at play.

188.
Takashi: Well, say hi to your husband for me.
Machiko: I came here alone. My husband has been on an inspection business trip in Europe since last month.
Machiko: It is legend that he is a high-level bureaucrat in the Trade Ministry and he prides himself on it too. Due to the corruption incidents that are piling up, he's been shamed due to the strong world criticism against bureaucrats.
Machiko: Since it's my husband over there, I've been no good at all due to being so timid! I've been without sex for close to a half-year already.
Takashi: Honestly she hasn't changed at all. I could allow myself to pull her asiide if I had anything for me to take the initiative.
Machiko: Hey......shouldn't we look into that room after all this time?
Takashi: Huh...

189.
Takashi: When my grandfather was alive, there were times when he would gather together the relatives to hold family meetings.
Takashi: Machiko would have fun in exploring around his large mansion and discovering play spots. The futon room was a secret play spot that she had found.
Takashi: We would have fun playing house and hide-and-seek, but nature wouldn't interfere as the years went on.
Takashi: It was the summer when Machiko was 19 and I was 16......by chance I saw her go into her secret play spot alone.

190.
Takashi: That scene was shocking to my 16-year old self.
Takashi: !!

191.
Machiko: Please wait!!
Takashi: !!
Machiko: What is it?
Takashi: It's...nothing...
Machiko: Come here for a moment!
Takashi: HI
Takashi: I'm...sorry, but I was studying......
Machiko: Studying to be a peeping tom?
Takashi: My peeping...............I heard these sounds...

192.
Machiko: Taka-chan the honor student shouldn't be taught these studies but......
Machiko: These--things aren't taught in school.
Takashi: A...auntie!!
Machiko: An auntie is an old hag, stop calling me that! Please call me Machiko-san.
Takashi: Ma...Machiko-san, wh...what are you!!

193.
Machiko: What......Hey, can't I do this?
Machiko: Hm--m.........
Takashi: ......
Machiko: IT STI~~nks! So salty...well, isn't it better if I breathe through my nose?
(TN: This part really confused me)
Takashi: ......
SFX: Squish...
Machiko: NO!!

194.
Takashi: Wh...what are you...!?
Machiko: You touched me. You shouldn't be doing anything!!
Machiko: There...You'll just watch.
Takashi: ........

195.
Machiko: It doesn't seem well, but...it's good!
Machiko: AH...HOLD IT IN!!......

196.
Machiko: AH...!!
Machiko: Aa--h, you've released already. It told you to hold it in......
Machiko: We dirtied the floor, we'll have to clean it.
Machiko: This is in memory.
Takashi: Ma...Machiko-san, the strings......!!
Takashi: My 16-year old self had an experience that felt more embarrased than pleasured and was just humiliating.

197.
Machiko: This place...hasn't changed at all since then.
Takashi: Yes...this means that that incident was the source of how I became cowardly towards women.
Machiko: I'm sorry about that day......Actually I was still a virgin. I wanted to study the way to suck a man beforehand, thus I had a measure to steal you away so I could do it on a partner.
Machiko: Since Taka-chan was innocent and obedient, I thought it wouldn't be a problem...
Takashi: .........
Machiko: Even as time goes on, only in here does it stop......If we want to, well? Shall we continue from then...

198.
Takashi: Please don't tease me. Don't you have your husband?
Machiko: I'm serious! You've already become an amazing adult. Until the memorial starts...
Takashi: You're only thinking of conveniencing yourself as usual. Let's go. Everyone's gathering already.
Machiko: How could you speak so boorishly! People will worry but
Machiko: Ah...I've got it! Are you possibly still a virgin, Taka-chan?

199.
Machiko: .........
Machiko: What's wrong!? This is no good at all. I'm not charming anymore? We're not children but we are still young.
Takashi: It's not that I'm don't feel the charm of my aunt. I see she's uninhibited but actually...she's an intelligent woman who thoroughly knows her limits of protecting her own securtiy. That's why she's made herself the wife of a bureaucrat......
Takashi: But now I've experienced it with Rikako......
Machiko: ............It didn't realize it. It's hopeless. I understand. I'll forget it.

200.
Machiko: !!

201.
Machiko: Ta...Taka-chan, what are you...!?
Takashi: I've changed my mind! Let's go at it until it's over.
Machiko: Wh...what are you saying here!! It will be horrible if someone finds us...!!
Machiko: KYA!!

202.
Takashi: I really want to do what my feelings want to do. For you...
Machiko: St...stop, please......!!
Machiko: N...No...

203.
Mr. Itou: My boy did come. What's wrong with him?
Man: Huh? I don't see Machiko-san either.
Machiko: Taka-chan, STOP...
Machiko: St...

204.
Takashi: HA...
Machiko: AH.

205.
Mr. Itou: What were you doing!
Takashi: I'm sorry, I suddenly had to call work...
Mr. Itou: That Takashi...he's different from before, he holds a face matured by confidence.

206.
Takashi: We'll have a pure place for you, just wait a bit longer...
Machiko: Don't misunderstand, I'm not angry.
Machiko: I've achieved my purpose with you and it's needless to overstay.
Machiko: It's the first time I've felt that...!!
Machiko: Here, in memory of today......
Machiko: A woman shouldn't cry at all.
Takashi: I'm a late bloomer. That's the only think I knew. I was able to see my other self in my hometown.--On that day.
(End of Vol. 1)

TN: First of all, the title of this chapter nearly skirted me away. After all Takashi's done and this being vol. 1...he's already going to do his aunt!? Well luckily it's a far distant aunt who is 3 years older than him so it's not like he's doing blood...but is still a disturbed thought in some ways. Meanwhile, at least we know that Machiko (said aunt) is the reason behind Takashi's actions "pre-Rikako"...but then again having a blow-job done by someone so poorly at that age definitely brings trauma. It's not just that it's a blow-job...but it's badly done and by blood. Regardless...I do have one more thing to say about this chapter: is it just me or does Takashi's dad look like an older Groucho Marx? I mean, it's not as obvious a reference as someone we're going to meet next volume...but it just felt very coincidental!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/13830 [English] [Translation] Desire 7 by StrangerAtaru 2009-07-06T02:22:49+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Takashi did finally get a bit more out of Rikako last time...but as he tries to at least attempt to improve his female contact, obstacles are always rising to the occasion...

File 7: HOME PAGE

160.
Takashi: Yesterday at executive director Itou's home party, I was introduced to his niece, Reiko Itou (25); pushed by the director, I came to agree to go out with her.
Takashi: She has currently graduated from music school and is studying to be a pianist. If I thought of her as a marriage partner......even with the idea of a future as a salaryman, she may be my ideal woman.

161.
Takashi: You're going to Seijou. We'll take the taxi since it's in the same direction.
Reiko: Ah, sorry.
Reiko: Please don't treat me as my uncle's niece.
Man: No! We're riding together!!

162.
Man: Out of the car now!!
Man: I apologize for getting him off so quickly. I was following you for a bit.
Man: ............
Man: Could you possibly be.........Fujii...?
Takashi: Yes......

163.
Takashi: Shimozono......!!
Shimozono: Right!!
Shimozono: How long has it been!? Your honor student ways hasn't changed at all. I knew you in an instant.
Reiko: .........
Takashi: Ah...I'm sorry! He went to the same school as me in middle and high school.
Reiko: He's an acquaintance?
Shunji: Could say that! I'm Shunji Shimozono.
(TN: The "domo" said here to Reiko is a humbling, so I had to make it sound like he was humbled by her comment just now)
Shunji: This reunion may be a twist of fate. How about we have a round?
Takashi: A bit later. I have to take her home.
Reiko: You haven't seen each other in a while. I'll take the taxi from here; please call me again.

164.
Shunji: Well~~......she's the ultimate prize, the director's niece...
(TN: Had a bit of trouble here, particularly with the "marujima"/"marutsuma" combination, only really directing me to a bunch of trains or a Japanese cabaret...)
Sign: Refined Sake / Akagi Masamune
Curtain/Side Sign: SHINORA
Shunji: You've been in a pattern of promotion like what's drawn up. Aren't you adept?
Takashi: A promotion...we met yesterday and today was the first we've met in private.
Shunji: So you know how to kiss already?
Shunji: I had introduced you to girls in high school. Even if you were interested in them, you would stop all of them without even holding their hand...Well, older women may have the after-effects of having their virginity forcibly taken from them when they're 16, but haven't they already recovered good?
(TN: Really struggled with this part)

165.
Takashi: ...Actually, the period where I haven't been heated for the desire of a woman had gone on for a long time; the interest I've gained in women has occured recently.
Shunji: Recently...? How did you change your mind?
Takashi: Well...many things...Actually, Shimozono, what are you doing now?
Sign: Alcohol and Sake
Bartender: WEL--COME!
Shunji: You can call me freelance. It's great to rush yourself to be rich, but you'll ruin yourself going chasing after uncertain colleagues.
Shunji: I don't even have a place to live now...thus why I said it was a twist of fate for our reunion earlier.
Shunji: How about I go to your place until the excitement wears off? Hey, I'm asking you!!

166.
Shunji: It's a 3-room apartment!! This is nice living.
(TN: Shunji actually makes mention of an "LDK", which is an abbreviation for "Living/Dining/Kitchen"; the more rooms it has, the more it can cost)
Takashi: Living here is an extravegance. I don't have a car nor do I have money for fun.
Shunji: You live a serious life as usual.
Takashi: ............

167.
Takashi: ...?
Takashi: I don't remember buying this whiskey...
Phone: RRRR
Phone: RRR
Takashi: Yes, this is Fujii.
Takashi: .........Yes? Who do you want?

168.
Rikako: Welcome home...
Takashi: I...have a friend over now. Can I give you my cell number.........for tomorrow?
Rikako: I want you for just a bit. I don't mind if you move into the study.
Takashi: Um...it's an international call from the vice-director regarding an order...shall I leave you for a bit?

169.
Takashi: I'm in the study.........Now just a bit.
Rikako: I'm in the bedroom now...now close your eyes and imagine me.
Takashi: .........
Rikako: What do you think I'm wearing?
Takashi: Pa...Pajamas?
Rikako: Pajamas? Ehehe, that;'s not sexy, but it's like Takashi.
Caption: Fujii's imagination

170.
Rikako: I'm wearing a yukata now.
(TN: A yukata is a summer robe)
Takashi: He...hee...I see you in that yukata.
Rikako: I can't seem to sleep since I'm a bit blue. You'll be my partner...even if just a voice.
Rikako: I'm naked under the yukata. You'll get naked too as I undo my obi.
Takashi: HUH...!?
Rikako: That's how you feel...taking your clothes off....naked.........
Rikako: My obi is undone now...
Takashi: .........
Takashi: I...get it. Hold on a moment.

171.
Shunji: This is quality.........
Takashi: I've taken it off. Is this fine?
Rikako: Completely...?
Shunji: ......?

172.
Takashi: There. It's all off. How about I keep my underwear on?
Shunji: He's in a business call in his underwear...?
Shunji: I don't get geniuses at all...
Rikako: Now, turn on your MAC and go on the internet.
Takashi: The internet?

173.
Rikako: To my home page.
Takashi: The address is......?
Page: Dialing
Page: Logging on
RIkako: Click whatever you want on me.

174.
Rikako: I'm getting bold with your finger...
Rikako: Yes, more...

175.
Rikako: Do you want to see me......?
Takashi: Ye...yes. I do.
Rikako: If you're friend's in the way, throw him out! Then it will be just the two of us.
Takashi: The two of us...where is he now?
Rikako: With the whiskey. That I sent you.
Takashi: You...came to my room!?

176.
Takashi: Where are you now!?
Rikako: Ehehe...I said that I came to give you that whiskey.
Rikako: I'm near you...look for me.
Takashi: .........
Takashi It can't be!!
SFX: Pi!
Shunji: !?
Shunji: .........

177.
RIkako: I'm in the bedroom now...now close your eyes and imagine me.
Takashi: THE BEDROOM......!!

178.
Shunji: Hold on, can I ask you this? What have you been doing making an order in your underwear since earlier?
Takashi: HO...HOLD ON!
Takashi: How will I explain this to Shimozono if he sees Rikako nude...!!
Takashi: Ah...I was looking for the company paperwork. It's alright now.
Shunji: Company paperwork...
Takashi: I have no choice: I can only wait until Shimozono is asleep to take Rikako home.

179.
Takashi: Hold on.........Didn't Rikako say she was in that room......I may be thinking too hard.
Takashi: Hehe...right! This may be Rikako's way of puzzling men.

180.
Takashi: Snore~~...

181.
Rikako's note:
DID YOU HAVE FUN ON YOUR DATE? I DID FEEL A BIT JEALOUS...RIKAKO

TN: It's been a while but somehow Desire is back for the time being. Let me start with this though: there is nothing wrong with jammies being sexy. I get Rikako was in a yukata and was playing more of her mind games on Takashi, but never forget the sexiness of jammies! Anyway...we have another character introduced at this time in the way of Shunji...I know we'll probably see more of him sooner or later, but next time...well, a chapter without Rikako. (I think)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/13312 [English] [Translation] Desire 6 by StrangerAtaru 2009-06-17T02:09:46+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Last time: Takashi had sex with a secretary...she was naughty but busty...and there's still the Rikako matter...

File:6: MAIN DISH
Proofread by Zyrxil

136.
Caption: Saturday, Setagaya Ward
Takashi: 've attended many home parties, but this is the first time I've received an invitation from the Company Director's social class.
Takashi: I've been judged through my work by Executive Director Itou......this is his assessment. (out loud) .........
Saeki: I hope you haven't betrayed me!

137.
Saeki: Executive Director Itou is the 5th most powerful executive. Your future is being looked after.
Caption: Secretary of the Executive Director: SAEKI Yuka (24)
Takashi: Yes...
Saeki: About the other day...it's better if we both forget about it, understand?!
Takashi: U-understood.

138.
Takashi: A solo piano Mozart concerto.......
Takashi: Rikako............
Itou: That's my niece! She's a music college graduate.
Itou: Fujii-kun...you don't socialize with women. I think a woman with good breeding and a serious personality would suit you.

139.
Reiko: Nice to meet you, I'm ITOU Reiko.
Takashi: Ah, nice to meet you, I'm Fujii of the IT department.
Reiko: Your reputation precedes you...
Itou: A serious man like him can have his career hindered if he is ensnared by inferior women. For peace of mind, the women he consorts with are more important than the faction he joins.
Saeki: Our relationship......find peace. You won't get it with a bad woman like me.

140.
Reiko: Well, Fujii-san likes the classics too.
Takashi: Well I did play violin in high school, but my abilities are...
Takashi: Would you like a drink, maybe a whiskey and water...
Reiko: Ah...sorry, I'll have juice.
Takashi: ............
Takashi: RIKAKO...!!

141.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Wh...why are you here!?
Rikako: We'll meet very soon...the e-mail I sent you.
Takashi: ............
Rikako: Here...
Takashi: !?
Saeki: .........

142.
Saeki: This is your first executive home party. Was that woman just now an acquaintance?
Takashi: Eh...
Takashi: Ah...pardon me for a moment.
Saeki: ............
Letter:
IT'S BEEN A WHILE
TOMORROW WE'LL
HAVE DINNER FOR THE TWO OF US...
7:00 PM, NISHIAZABU
(TN: Nishiazabu is a district of Minato in Tokyo, the former western part of Azabu)
RESTAURANT L'MANT
MAP

Takashi: Just the two of us......

143.
Takashi: I've waited for this day!!
Rikako: It would be better if we carve the meat ourselves.
Waiter: Ah...very well.
Takashi: ............

144.
Waiter: Please take your time.
Takashi: Wh...whatever you talk about is fine......there's a lot I want to hear...
Takashi: Of...course, you stopped the plane and the police...are you OK with that incident?
Rikako: Yes. It's nothing you need to worry about...My purpose for that incident has been achieved...to stop Takashi from going to America so we can meet......
Rikako: It's best you don't know what I do with the others.
If you knew, I'm sure you'd regret it.
Takashi: ............

145.
Rikako: Freud's theories say
Rikako: Sexual pleasure is the strongest pleasure. If two people share the experience again and again, then a strong bond will form between them......
Rikako: A strong bond.........
Takashi: .........
Takashi: I u-understand! I know nothing about your background.
Takashi: Rikako......since I met you, a lust towards women has awakened. I...want to embrace you. Can you grant that!?

146.
Rikako: Without teasing.........we can have sex anytime.
Takashi: ......!?
Rikako: There are no social morals between us. We don't need etiquette or manners.

147.
Rikako: Tonight's main dish is me......
Rikako: Eat me as you like
Takashi: Eh...!?

148.
Takashi: Ea...eat you.........!?
Rikako: Won't you nibble......? And peel off this skin...?
Takashi: .........

149-150.
(No dialogue)

151.
Takashi: ............
Takashi: This is........
Rikako: Don't be bound by morals and such...now, eat some more...
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Right, there's nothing to be ashamed of...
Takashi: This beautiful body......

152-153.
(No dialogue)

154.
Rikako: ............

155.
Rikako: There.........
Rikako: Ah...
Voice: What's going on!? Are you alright!!

156.
Rikako: We're fine! It's nothing.
Rikako: I'm sorry, I'm going to the bathroom for a bit.
SFX: Knock knock
Waiter: Pardon.
Waiter: The customer has paid the bill and went on ahead home.
Takashi: Eh...
Waiter: ......She wanted me to give this to you.
Takashi: ......!?

157.
Letter: See you later! Rikako
Takashi: ............
Takashi: Sexual pleasure is the strongest pleasure. If two people share the experience again and again, then a strong bond will form between them......Without teasing.........we can have sex anytime.
Takashi: Right. Right. We can have sex anytime.
SFX: PPP...
SFX: PPP

158.
Takashi: Ah...Executive Director Itou!! Thank you very much for inviting me yesterday.
Itou: It was so busy yesterday that I couldn't talk with you, but my niece seems suitable for you. She said she definitely wants to go out with you.
Itou: Would you like to take her out to a meal some time?
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Ye...yes, I would love to!
Takashi: Thank you! Goodbye.
SFX: PI...
Takashi: I understand, Rikako. In addition to being a company man, I also need future opportunities......

TN: Well at least he sort of did it with Rikako...but at least her job is done: he's been "awakened" and has a future ahead of him...doing stuff. Somehow I think Reiko may be next with that ending but...at least she's cuter than Saeki.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/13177 [English] [Translation] Desire 5 by StrangerAtaru 2009-06-12T03:15:56+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Last time...well, Rikako used a bomb scare and Takashi had sex with the cute girl who dressed like a high schooler before. At least we got psychology!

File:5: SECRETARY
Proofread by Zyrxil

111.
Takashi: RIKAKO......!!
Takashi: The bomb threat that stopped the plane // from
going to America...
Takashi: Eh...!?
Phone Call: The America study program was suddenly canceled today. You should come to work tomorrow.
Takashi Ye...yes...

112.
(Title Page)

113.
Caption: THREE DAYS LATER...
Takashi: There weren't any news reports on Rikako's actions at all. Even though there was a police investigation, the truth wasn't revealed.
Takashi: In addition, there was the sudden announcement that
the America study program was discontinued. It's as if Rikako is
manipulating things.
Takashi: ...... (to himself) Until now, I never took notice of the women on my train ride but...
Takashi: Everything is because I encountered Rikako...

114.
E-mail: You have 15 new messages.
SFX: Click
Takashi: !!
E-mail: Don't worry about the airplane incident! There's a reason I can't see you now......I think we'll meet very soon. I'll be waiting!
RIKAKO
Takashi: RIKAKO......!!
Takashi: .........

115.
Voice: Fujii-san, extension #3.
Takashi: Yes, this is Fujii.
Phone: This is Saeki from secretarial, you're being called by executive director Itou.
Takashi: Ye...yes...!
SFX: KNOCK KNOCK
Sign: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / ITOU
SFX: ERR
Takashi: Ah...it's Fujii.
Woman: Enter.

116.
Takashi: .........
Itou: --Actually, it was me who cancelled the American training program. About the IMPAC * TV matter...
Itou: I thought I needed your help with the Satellite Broadcasting operations project. It was an impulsive decision of mine.
Itou: Well...don't think badly of me!!
Takashi: No, well.........I'm honored!

117.
Narrator:The next day......the team for the new project was
chosen, and because there had been a lot of work, we were given paid
vacations for the first time in a long while.
Right Banner: Big Sale on Summer Items
Left Banner: '97 Artificial Flower Show, July
Takashi: ......!! (internally) The secretary.........

118.
Takashi: She's on paid vacation too......?
Takashi: !!

119.
Secretary: !!

120.
Takashi: You should return that perfume as soon as possible.
What would happen if the company found out?!
Secretary: What is this!! Please stop these weird accusations!!
Secretary: Why are you here?! Could it be that you're
following me? I'll call the police!

121.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: That woman's stubborn demeanor may have resulted
from my attitude.
Takashi: I unconsciously followed behind her...

122.
Receptionist: Marubishi Industries...using the corporate membership, eh?
Takashi: What exactly am I doing here...

123.
Takashi: At that time, that woman was agitated.
Takashi: Here I hold the advantage...!!

124.
(No dialogue)

125.
Secretary: .........
Secretary: !!
Secretary: What on earth are you thinking?!
Secretary: .........
Secretary: Get out!

126.
Takashi: There were survelliance cameras in the ceilng of
the perfume corner.
Secretary: .........
Takashi: If you were recorded, I can prove your whereabouts...
Takashi: I've...I've completely...if I have any reason left
now, I can stop this!!
Secretary: I'm shaking!! Are you after my body?! I've heard
about you before, from the executive director. You shouldn't be that
sort of man...
Takashi: That sort of person......!? Well I am a man.
(internally) The game is the the only thing left!!

127.
Takashi: I have a charming woman in my eye. If you satisfy the conditions.........
Secretary: I understand......it's an exchange.
Secretary: Ri right here...no! Let me go.
Secretary: .........
Takashi: I'm fine here.

128.
(No dialogue)

129.
Secretary: You...you're a methodical, diligent, elite salaryman.........
Secretary: It was a lie.........

130.
Secretary: AH......

131.
(No dialogue)

132.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: Our exchange finishes here.
Secretary: With this, we're accomplices.
Takashi: Ah, yes.

133.
Caption: Next Day
Secretary: Good morning.

134.
Man 1: I was in an elevator together with that secretary Saeki-san! (Lucky)
Man 2: Aah, she's charming every time I see her~~
Takashi: ........
Takashi: The door of desire was opened because of
Rikako...the new me now was able to experience pleasures like never before.

TN: We need more busty girls in this series...dunno about Saeki's age but we need more busty girls! Though it was weird that the psychological aspect of "forced sex for stealing perfume" would work in the real world...it was an interesting tactic.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/13138 [English] [Translation] Desire 4 by StrangerAtaru 2009-06-11T02:02:29+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/13069 [English] [Translation] Desire 3 by StrangerAtaru 2009-06-09T02:14:07+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

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

File:3: PARTNER
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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.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/13032 [English] [Translation] Desire 2 by StrangerAtaru 2009-06-07T15:51:35+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Well I'm shocked someone actually scanslated chp. 1 so quickly, so here's another to try out:

File:2: MANIA
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38.
Takashi: First Gymnopédie by Eric Satie
(TN: The "First Gymnopédie" is a piece written by Satie in 1888, notable for being short and written in 3/4th time, as well as potentially being a precursor of modern ambient music)
Takashi: A deadly inorganic feeling. A monochrome-like mysterious clearness.........
Train: Suitenguumae
Takashi: Satie's piano composition and the woman have overlapped.

39.
Takashi: Ha
Takashi: Haa haa
Takashi: It's been a week since that dream-like encounter.....
Takashi: Since that day, an unknown desire deep in my heart has started to squirm. I've been feeling impatient.
Letter:
NEXT WEEK, FRIDAY
AZABU
"CLUB JP"
I'LL BE WAITING
PS: GIVE BACK MY PANTIES
RIKAKO

40.
Man: Well...Is it possible to exchange the current version for the up-grade?
Takashi: Of course it is! If you prefer to see it, we can show you within 2 weeks...
(TN: It's all essentially translated into English, not going to do it again)

41.
Man 1: I heard they chose Fujii-san, the Stanford-graduate.
(TN: Well at least that shows that he's the one from Stanford, probably screwed that up easily in the last chapter)
Man 2: With so many candidates, this year's competition was fierce.
Takashi: Since I joined the company, the men have been nice, but it's strange the women aren't gossiping. There's a typical case over there!
Girl 1: I'm sure he has high goals as an elite.
Girl 2: He may be secretly going for the boss's daughter.

42.
Takashi: .........

43.
(No dialogue)

44.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: ...!! (to himself) RIKAKO!?

45.
Rikako: I've been waiting! Want a drink?
Takashi: Th...thanks.
Takashi: An inorganic, mysterious clearness......she's completley changed from that colorless impression. She has color and a realistic smell now.

46.
Takashi: The reason I came here is...Ah...I apologize.........
Takashi: Forgive me for wanting this, it was a sudden impulse....
Rikako: If you want my underwear, it's fine if you keep it.
Man: Rikako, what is this guy!

47.
Man: I hear the cry of Bob Marley's soul. People who pollute Kingston will all be killed.
Takashi: ......!?

48.
(no dialogue)

49.
Takashi: You...saved me. I'm...going home.
Rikako: Are you running from him?

50.
Rikako: There's a key in this car. I'll drive!!
Rikako: Hurry!

51.
(no dialogue)

52.
Takashi: Meeting you by chance, your existance......It's all too unreal. I can't understand this. Tell me!!
Takashi: !!

53-54.
(no dialogue)

55.
Takashi: !!
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Te...tell me. What exactly are you?

56.
Rikako: Takashi Fujii...age 27, Tokyo U grad....I know everything about you.
Rikako: I am your mania.
Rikako: Your blood-type is AB.
Takashi: Uh...
Rikako: Are you hurt? I'll heal you.

57.
Takashi: .........

58.
Takashi: Haa
Takashi: Haa
Takashi: Ha
Takashi: Ha...

59.
Takashi: A sweet ecstacy engulfed my entire body.
Takashi: Within my faded senses, I continued to deny this squirming desire......

60.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Satie's First Gymnopédie
Takashi: It's morning......Satie's piano cleared the indigo morning mist, creating a monocrome space.

61.
Takashi: ......?
Letter:
NEXT FRIDAY
CALL ME
RIKAKO
Takashi: A second letter from the woman...
Rikako: I AM YOUR MANIA.........

TN: You know, I'm a bit surprised. Of all the manga I've done recently, this one gets a speed-scan so quickly...and I'm mostly just experimenting with it. It's a very weird series (and I'm still trying to get the whole "Bob Marley" line), but it does seem very interesting with the direction it's taking with this "dream girl" coming to life. I just hope people bare with me on this...and if anyone wants to take this series over, please tell me and I'll just let it go. (unless you want me to keep going...I sort of wonder what others want though)

https://mangahelpers.com/t/strangerataru/releases/13027 [English] [Translation] Desire 1 by StrangerAtaru 2009-06-07T03:03:38+00:00 StrangerAtaru admin@mangahelpers.com

Well he's finally done it: a translation that, for the most part, will probably destroy his reputation! Ladies and gentlemen, StrangerAtaru does...a seinen. (let alone a seinen that probably...)

Desire by Kenichi Kotani

Vol. 1: MANIA
File:1: IN THE SUBWAY
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3-5.
(nothing to TL....literally, there is nothing to TL, just look at the colorful pics)

6.
Time: PM 11:30
Building: GROVE Futako Tamagawa
(TN: "Futako Tamagawa" is an area usually associated with the "Futako-Tamagawa" station on the Tokyo Den-en-toshi and Oimachi train lines, usually around the Tamagawa and Seta districts of the Setagaya Ward)
Man: I was successful in my competitive entrance exams and had entered a major firm from Tokyo U.
I am conservative with both love and work. A mistake would derail my life, or so I believed...
Man: It's been half a year since I got this Mac. In the middle of programming a dating sim of the ideal woman, I saw that if she was perfect, I should have made her my lover so I could avoid the pain of loneliness.

7.
Man: I've got work in the morning tomorrow. I'm going to bed.........

8.
SFX: CLICK

9.
Man: ......

10.
Man: The woman I created on my MAC is real......!?
Man: No...she looks like her.
Man: What a stupid thought.........
SFX: PI...

11.
Train: SUITENGUMAE
(TN: "Suitengumae" is a station on the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line in Chuuou)
(TN: Ootemachi is a district of Chiyoda in Tokyo, notable mostly as a financial and corportate center in the city)
Takashi: Takashi Fujii, age 27. Bachelor. No girlfriend.

12.
Takashi: Pardon......

13.
SFX: CLICK
Takashi: Ah...um...

14-17.
(TN: Yeah...obvious)

18.
Takashi: Haa......
Takashi: Haa
Takashi: Haa...

19.
Takashi: Haa
Takashi: Haa haa
Takashi: HAA......

20.
Takashi: ......
Takashi: Haa......

21.
TN: Not sure why she wrote it like such, but her name is actually "Rikako" if you go by proper Japanese)

22.
Caption: Ootemachi
Takashi: Ah...assistant director. Good morning.
AD: Morning.
AD: Fujii-kun......
Takashi: Yes...?
AD: I found who I'm looking for.
Takashi: .........

23.
AD: Meet me in front.
Takashi: In front......?
Takashi: !!
AD: Yes...about the matter of the Stanford student from America, they seem to have settled on you...
Takashi: Ye...yes!!
Takashi: .........

24.
Takashi: .........?
SFX: Click
SFX: Click
Takashi: Why isn't it appearing...is it broken?

25.
Takashi: I don't believe the data was erased......
Takashi: The corner of the 4th Floor. There's a light on.........

26.
Takashi: W...wait. What will I do if I meet that woman?
Takashi: Is it because she looks like the woman I made on my Mac?!
Takashi: It's a coincidence. Even if she looks like her, it's not really her.
Takashi: If there's a problem with getting involved in this, it's the chance that she's the student from Stanford...I feel like it's a dream.....
Takashi: .........

27.
Takashi: There's no name...But this is the room.

28.
Takashi: .........
Takashi: Not home...well then, I better go home.

29.
Takashi: ............
Takashi: I've gone mad...!! This is tresspassing!!

30.
(No dialogue)

31.
Takashi: Haa
Takashi: Haa
Takashi: Haa

32.
Takashi: Haa
Takashi: Haa
SFX: Bing bong
SFX: Bing Bo---ng
Takashi: Who...who is it?

33.
Man: This is Asauri News, how many months can I sign you up for?
Takashi: .....Actually I get Asauri but
Man: Ah...ok.
Takashi: Even with the light on, the curtain should be closed to indicate there was no one there.
Takashi: If the company finds out, won't they cancel the student? Why would this.....

34.
Takashi: My life has gotten off-track. I have already forgotten all my dreams.

35.
Sign: IT DEPARTMENT (Multimedia Section)
Voice: Good morning.
Takashi: ?
Takashi: .........

36.
Letter:
NEXT WEEK, FRIDAY
AZABU
"CLUB JP"
I'LL BE WAITING
PS: GIVE BACK MY PANTIES
RIKAKO

TN: OK...I guess this has a lot of explaining. Why is StrangerAtaru, a weirdo known for doing innocent (well for the most part) Jump shonen, doing in the realm of the over-18 realm? Change that: what is he doing in a series that essentially is about...well, subjects not in shonen at all! (yeah, I know it's about sex but I'm just trying to avoid the matter) Well to tell the truth, for starters I am the one who put this series up. The main reason...well, for one thing, the girls are nice looking. Secondly...well, the mangaka behind this series is associated with Jump...once upon a time. Kenichi Kotani really isn't a name you hear in the annals of WSJ, but he did have success there once upon a time, primarily in the period between 1979 and 1982 with a series called "Tennis Boy", probably one of the first semi-successful tennis based series in WSJ. I guess in a way I sort of wanted to see how a Jump mangaka could go from something so innocent to....well, this (well OK, he also did do a short-lived series in 1983 called "Scandoll" that probably started his obsession with beautiful women but as I said before: I know nothing about this guy). But the main reason I did this was actually...well one part personal curiosity and one part a dare. The curiosity part was mostly to see if I could do this sort of series, both one more mature in content instead of my usual shonen (mature in actually working with things I usually don't talk of in these parts) and just to generally say that I am trying to expand my horizons into seinen. The other part: a friend sort of saw I put this manga up and dared me to at least do chp. 1 and see how it goes. Well here it is...hope it meets to your liking.

As for the chapter itself...well, it does seem to have a base idea which doesn't quite hint at what's to come...well OK it does considering we have a girl giving a blowjob on a subway to this guy who thinks she's a video game girl come to life. We'll see where it goes from there...if I (or anyone else) does chp. 2. (dependant on several factors, we'll see)