Volume 3 Chapter 4 (1/2)
title: Koushounin series 03
Koushounin wa Furikaeru [交渉人は振り返る]
Chapter: 4
Page: 107 – 136
Author: Eda Yuuri [榎田 尤利]
Illustrator: Nara Chiharu [奈良 千春]
Publisher: Taiyō Tosob>
Year of Release: 2009
Disclaimer:
Eda Yuuri is the original author of this work, and this is a fan translation Feel free to re-post this elsewhere if you like but please credit this site I did buy the original copy of this book, along with the rest of the series, so it'll be great if you can support her by buying her books
By the way, this work contains BL, or homo-eroticism
Oh, bad language, too Two off F-words Do I really need to type this warning all the time?
Note:
As I have no for in translation theory nor alish, for the uarantee the quality of this translation work, but I promise I did my best
I have been a big fan of the Koushounin series by Eda Yuuri ever since I got my hands on the BLCDs for the first and second instal patiently for the BLCDs for the third instalment onward… to no avail It has been 8 years since the sensei published Koushounin wa Furikaeru, and I aht be no BLCD after all
Nevertheless, the fujoshi+ doesn't give up The following is lish translation of the rest of the series
Chapter 4
The changing room curtains opened with a soft swish
”How is it? Cute? Isn't it cute?”
In the fitting roo peppered with questions like that, I could only stah, actually, she it really did look cute on her She was pretty and had a good figure, so anything would look good on her, but…
”Erm But, don't you think it opens too much around the collar?”
What Ayaka earing was a black knit top that was tight enough to follow all the curves on her body Knitted flower motifs decorated the V-neck collar and the hems
”Eh—, you think so?” said Ayaka She stood there thinking as she pulled on her collar with sharp twang Uwa, if she pulls on her collar like that you could aled uncle was busily thinking to hi of that sort happened What Ilike a flash of lace was so for… no, afraid of, but I wasn’t able to see anything at all And as to why I wasn't able to see anything, perhaps it was because she wasn't wearing a brassiere in the first place… As I entertained that thought and tried to see if she was indeed wearing one, I realized that every ti elasticity… No, this won't do I shouldn't be looking at things like that
”This is an imported product, that's why… Over there, they wear it with it wi-de open like that It looks cuter that way, anyway Look, look, don't you think so?”
Ayaka threw out her chest in my direction, and dropped her hips Those who know, know that pose to be the nostalgic 90's conature Dacchuuno pose I tried very hard to look at Ayaka without looking at theht Perhaps you should get this one”
I want to look But I shouldn't look You shi+thead, I cursedable to coed uncle
Over teeks had passed since that hittsumi hotpot session, and the calendar noed Noveed into a chilly autuh neck top for the first ti with a pair of fitted pants and a brand new jacket We’re going on a date so come all dressed up okay, hat Ayaka had requested of me, so I sucked up i with her
To call this a date will be inaccurate I was not a dating partner, but a sponsor
I thought that I should do so that hotpot episode, and when I asked Ayaka for her opinion, she had said, ”Buy me clothes, then”
”This is cute, isn't it? I'n as well Shall we decide on this, then?”
”Un You can pick anything you want” I said, as I irl also told her: ”It looks good on you, you know”
Ayaka then said, ”Okay, I'll take this off” and once again disappeared into the changing room
The curtains opened about three inal tunic and skinny deniet this after all”
”Eh, didn't you like it?”
”M punch, somehow”
I wonder where her high spirits went to Ayaka handed the salesgirl the knit top after putting on her boots, and the salesgirl looked rather disappointed
It was then that I saw it It was just a brief look… but I caught sight of the price tag I instinctively doubted hty four thousand yen One knit top for eighty thousand yen? What apartment is that the rent for? That aside, did this boutique carry clothes that costed that ht it would have been easier on my wallet, but…
Fe is indeed a mystery
Ayaka and I left the shop, and as alked with Ayaka hanging offof clothes sure made me tired Co anyway Why don't you just treat me to dessert? I would like to eat at least five slices of cake”
”… Ayaka-chan, um, you really don't need to hold back”
”Hold back?”
”It is true that I'otiator, but I intend to keep my promises That top just now really suited you Well, it was expensive, but I can e somehow… in sohed in reply
”So you did see the price tag,” she said ”I also saw it in the fitting room, and was a little surprised by how much it costed… That wouldn't do If Mebuki-san wasout on a date with for his money, then I would pester hi too expensive for a friend of mine to buy for me”
”A friend?”
Un, Ayaka affirmed with a nod, and then turned her face up to look at me ”No? Do you not want a friend who is a sex worker?”
”What are you saying? I would never think that way”
”I'h school”
”That doesn't matter” I asserted flatly ”You won't put out your resuht even want to ask you if you were okay with befriending a ed man like me”
”Age shouldn’t matter too” Ayaka said, as she fluttered her heavy mascara-ed lashes ”Sayuri-san is a friend of mine that is wa-ay older than I am Friends are about whether or not you trust them, isn't it? When you have a job like mine, it's hard to make friends with anyone not in the same profession When I meet people I know fromnow, too”
”I see…”
”And my male friends are hopeless It's so obvious that they all have ulterior motives”
My heart ached a little when I heard that No, I don't have any ulterior motives Absolutely none I don’t look to Ayaka and think of this and that I would like to think that it was simply conditioned reflexes at play when my eyes occasionally stray to her chest and her ass Like the kind when you tap a knee and your leg goes up with a sproink
”Right now, the only two men I trust are Hyoudou-san and Mebuki-san”
”Ah, so Hyoudou made the mark, too”
”Well, of course The girls who coet surprised by how properly run our place is”
”And it's because Hyoudou is in charge?”
As always, Hyoudou is on the receiving end of a great deal of trust froent when it coood thing or a bad thing when you are yakuza, but at least it appears that he doesn't bother honest, upright citizens Or,like that… I try not to think about things like that If I think too much I would find myself in a loss what to do
Perhaps it is because it difficult for Hyoudou and I to understand each other Our lifestyles and our mind-sets are very different, so it is to be expected The fact that we do not understand each other and yet still sleep with each other perplexes me even up to now, and it is perfectly natural that shi+meno would worry
”Ah, soazine!”
Ayaka decided to pull me towards the café, and ent in It was an adorable little shop filled with feed man like me was more or less out of place, but I didn't mind I ate thile Ayaka ate three slices of cake, and we both indulged in a second portion of royal milk tea
In the end, Ayaka didn't get her clothes I had fun for about half a day so that'll do, she laughed as she said ”It was entle as Mebuki-san, you know I had a really good time”
She said s like that, and I could feel tears pricking at irl She probably becah to be ranked number one not only because of her physique but because of that personality of hers
After a light hearted dinner at a yakitori restaurant at past nine in the evening, I had Ayaka put on a taxi and I saw her off It had been a long tiht As I didn't have any plans to return to work, I decided to wander aiht be necessary to once in a while, walk on your oo feet through a city that changes at a frenzied pace
Without a destination in ashi+ Street to the pleasure quarters a street away Club touts caught my eye, but they were not as pushy as the ones in Kabuki-chō They approached me, but I smiled at theo into that sort of place alone
Out of the blue, I felt a presence behind my back
There were other people walking in the saely close-by He was so close that if I were to stop suddenly in my tracks he would have bunore him Yet he continued to followme in secret
It was creepy
There was a non-zero probability that I et stabbed from the back, but I didn't feel anysuch a distance between us because he hoped that I would notice hi
”—Mebuki-sensei,” the otten exasperated with the fact that I didn't see tih-pitched for a rows on you after a while
I iet that voice
”—Asahina-kun”
”Oh? You do remember me”
A ghost of a smile touched his lips as Asahina looked at me The sides of his mouth were turned upwards, but the smile didn't quite reach his eyes He was in a jacket that was siht-colored hair was soive you the i a stable, secure job Behind hi man
”I'ive off different vibes now,” I said as I faked a smile, but I was unable to dispel the cloud of anxiety that hung around me
”Really?”
When I nodded, he tilted his head slightly, a quirk of his which hadn't changed However, his face, which still had a child-like quality at twenty-two, had coed to a virile, intense one He was thinner than before, with sunken cheeks His complexion was rather sallow, too Above all, his eyes were different At that time, they reflected self-absorption and foolishness that is characteristic of youth At the saret for his ized, while crying, to his deceased lover and her family from the bottom of his heart
Co with tears—how very dry Asahina would seem, now He only smiled with his mouth, and his eyes, drained of emotion, fixed themselves intently on me
”Five years have passed Anyone would have changed, too”
”I guess you are right You've becoirls, aren't you?” I said inanely
”I wonder” said Asahina with a curl of his upper lip and a cigarette in the corner of his uess I do have a quite few… Hey, care to go for a drink? I'd like to thank you for that tirateful to you, Mebuki-sensei, since Iinto jail”
Asahina was behaving as if he was on good terms with me, but at the sa with tension It felt as if Asahina was appraising me
”It's nothing I simply did what my job as a laarranted” I said
”Let's reood place that has a line-up of cute girls”
”Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass tonight” I ventured, cheerfully
He was clearly following ood intentions, and I did not kno long he had been followinghis name, and for the very person to suddenly show up after five years—shouldn't be a positive sign
”What, how unfriendly of you, sensei”
”I've already quit being a lawyer so I aer a sensei”
”I know You've becootiator, haven't you?”
Without asking how he knew that, I answered ”That's right,” without dropping the smile on my face It appears that Asahina had run a check onlike that
”Just one hour would do Hang out with me”
”No…”
Asahina rown in height and was so around, he leaned into me and said, ”I would like to talk to you about Saitou, too”
At that hoarse whisper of his, my smile disappeared I turned to look at Asahina as he took a drag froers White smoke billowed out in front of us
”Asahina-kun, you…”
”This is not a place to talk about things like that, yes? Look, let's go Toshi+, call up the usual place and get them to open up a room for us”
At Asahina’s command, the man whom he called Toshi+ wordlessly took out a hand phone out from his pocket I braced myself for the worst If I were to firht never ain He mentioned Saitou, which roup
No, he roup
Yet, I aotiator, and I do not intend to go after the sca man whom I had once appealed a case for, and I cannot leave him as he was
I acquiesced, and was brought to a swanky club which would charge you a couple ten thousands of yen just for a seat Asahina, Toshi+ and I were shown to a VIP room, which was a room with a deep-pile carpet and a leather corner-sofa A nuood looks immediately took their seats with us Flanked by two beauties waiting on hi him
”How do you find this place, Mebuki-sen… no, Mebuki-san?”
”Oh, it's great The women are pretty, too” Seated beside me was a lovely woman in a resplendent blue dress with slits at the side
”They have more class than the ones in Kabuki-chō, don't you think? When you go to Ginza you'll only find old hags everywhere Roppongi sits ith me”
”You're doing well, I see”
”I am Look,” he answered easily, and showed me the watch on his left wrist
”This is Jacob Skull Brands like Breguet stinks of old man”
”Oh? Is that, diamond?”
”Of course”
Judging frolittered on its dial, the price of the watch couldn't have been below three million yen This wasn't a watch that a decent man in his twenties can afford, yet Asahina took pleasure in the sounds of exciteirls made around him
”That is a Asahina-san, didn't you recently buy a car?”
”That's right, that's right It was a Porsche, wasn't it?”
”It was a red and it was stunning I would like to ride on it, just once!”
While tossing off expensive chao on a joyride next tiirls became even more excited Toshi+ remained silent, and did not drink very uard instead of his friend
After Asahina had finished bragging about his riches, Toshi+ irls leave There were only three of us in the roolass of chane, but Asahina seemed a little drunk He looked at htly bleary
”…You're a handsome one as always, aren't you, Mebuki-san”
”Why, thank you,” I answered, simply
Asahina put out a cigarette which had burnt down short, and attempted to take another out of his box
”You're smart, you seem eloquent, and champion of justice is clearly written all over your face Why did you quit being a lawyer?”
”I realised that I wasn't cut out for the job”
”Hotiator?”
Anything, I answered ”As long as there is sootiated, I take on almost all requests”
”Then, won't you take on my request as well? …Tsk, it's empty”