Volume 3 Chapter 5 (1/2)

title: Koushounin series 03

Koushounin wa Furikaeru [交渉人は振り返る]

Chapter: 5

Page: 137 – 164

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

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 5

She was a beautiful wo willed eyes under a wide forehead Her lips were outlined clearly with lip liner, and they were a glossy shade of rose Her make-up was not thick, but it was flawless; her foundation was applied carefully, with subdued tones, but it effectively brought out the best of her features You could tell that she was an intelligent and a rather confident woman

However, possibly—that e, was pallor

”Please do not tell anyone where I a else

”I understand,” I answered, without shi+fting aze away from her, and conveyed to her with the expression in my eyes that I would definitely keep this promise

Asahina's elder sister—Yoriko, resided in a place near the sea in Kanagawa It was somewhere you had to drive two hours from the heart of the city to reach

Her surnae

When I contacted her telling her that I wanted to meet her, she had at first declined to meet When I told her that I had ier brother, she wavered for a bit, and then told me she would see me

”How did you find me?”

It was natural that she would ask, so I told her

”I went through many of your friends from school, and finally did You have not been in contact with your friends much, haven't you?”

”Yes So like that happened, after all”

The house she was staying in was small and old, but looked comfortable Maybe it was one of her hobbies; around the house hung a number of dried flower bunches There were also s, and I wondered what the red berries were called

Without a sound fro, just one red berry fell

”… Please”

She brewed some red tea and sat a cup in front of me I bobbed , ”Are you in contact with your mother?” as quietly as I could

”A few times a year…”

”I heard that she was ill”

”She still is, now It is not easy to recover from an illness of the mind,” she said blandly It looked like she was deliberately trying to conceal her erain on the table, but then she suddenly looked up

”You said you caer brother?”

She askedrather quickly

”Yes I came because of Wataru-kun”

”I don't think it's soood, isn't it”

”Unfortunately, no… but with Yoriko-san's cooperation, we may be able to turn this situation into a better one”

I told her all that had happened, but left out some of the details I told her that Asahina had dirtied his hands doing a job that involved criet him to stop before it was too late

”We can still make it in time”

At these words of htly Oh is that so, her expression seemed to ask

”I a but his ex-lawyer Rather than listening to what I say, I believe advice froht resonate far deeper within his heart If he knows that soe his mind-set”

She picked up her cup of red tea and soundlessly took just one sip Herabout her answer

Perhaps she has already reed to see me in order to clearly convey that to me

”I—do not care what happens to my brother”

”Yoriko-san, about that…”

”Whatever happens to that boy, is whatever he brings upon himself I do not want to concern myself with his affairs”

”However, he is still family” I persisted, and she nodded Clearly

”Yes, he is indeed family We are blood relatives That is exactly why the sparks from that fire burned us so badly After that incident in which he caused his lover's death, everything changed I was coasted, as to why the people from the mass media would desire to that extent comments from family members of the accused Exactly ere they try to ize to the whole of japan on television? I'ht up such a son? I a so outrageous, should I have said that on my knees with my forehead to the floor?”

I couldn't answer her

I hesitated, to even say a sympathetic how horrible it must have been

Inside Yoriko, this matter has not been put to rest It was plain that even up till now blood oozed from the wounds that she suffered at that time

”I thought that things will die down after the court hearing, but it was the exact opposite He killed a person, but didn't go to prison… There were a lot of people who couldn't accept this conclusion Our house phone and faxnon-stop, and I cannot tell you how lass on our as broken This wound…”

A slender arm rose, in one smooth motion Near the elboas a twisted scar

”This, was froet seven stitches I think you already know that reement was cancelled It becan from my company”

”That…”

”I'm fine”

I was about to say so to console her, but she cut me off sharply

”I'm fine, with all that I can bear with it But my mother couldn't stand it She was a very sensitive person to begin with, so she was helpless She felt she iven birth to Wataru and have many times plotted suicide And my father was more or less thrown out of his company… Our house was in a state of disarray”

Her lips curled, and for a h She closed her eyes and took a breath, after which she once again started to speak

”I thought that Wataru should have just gone to prison”

”Yoriko-san…”

”I'hts I thought that if that boy had received a jail sentence,that was so severe Then my father wouldn't have died a death that was more or less death by overwork, and my mother wouldn't have co of that sort would have happened I, unfortunately, thought about things like that”

I'ized

”I feel very bad saying this to a laho is trying his best for Wataru's sake, but this is truly how I feel”

”No There is no need for you to apologize to me…”

”It was dreadful, really… when I was still working at that company, there was once I did overtime and came back home late It hen thein wait for us at our house, so I lethoone out, a rabbed my shoulder and cut my hair off”

It was a deep cut—she added, and I noticed that her voice was tre at the end of her sentence

”Just a little bit more and my face would have been cut, too”

”That is assault charge You are an assault victim”

”Yes, technically, I a infor but to silently take everything they threw at us”

Slowly, Yoriko's head descended into a bow Her hair flowed doards like a curtain of silk under its oeight

”I aer want to have anything to do with Wataru Even al now”

”Yoriko-san, please wait”

If I were to give up noould have no idea what I caain tried to talk Yoriko around

”Won't you believe in your little brother, once more? Wataru was an honest boy at heart and perhaps if soe”

However, Yoriko's ansas still a tragic ”That's impossible”

”I do not believe in my brother, nor do I even want to meet him”

”Yoriko-san”

”I still have nightmares… of when my hair was cut”

She said in a small voice as she placed a hand on her hair

I was at a loss for words She has said she cannot do it She wasexperience when it was completely uncalled for, and it still torments her, even till now It would be unfair to further appeal to her for help

I stood, and bowed I should go, there was no longer any reason formore, but did not stand up With a vacant look in her eyes she looked at ain

I wonder who could blame her

What else could I have said to her? Should I have asked her, are you going to abandon the only younger brother you have? Who forced her to pick such an option? Was she wrong to choose as such? Did she commit any sort of crime?

I went to get my car from the car park I do not own a car It was more practical toand maintenance fees into account it was more economical to rent a car when you needed one

I got into a small, white car with a WA number plate, and put on my seat belt

Let's go back… I whispered to myself in my heart, and recalled that this was a place that was near the sea, so I drove the car towards Shounan road

How I should describe ht now? In o to look at the sea

Perhaps, with the vastness of the ocean right before ht be able to think that ht finally be able to accept how snation If not for these reasons, perhaps I had simply wanted to spend some time alone and fall as deep as I liked into depression, till I had enough of feeling down

The as unpleasantly cold against my skin, but I opened the s because I wanted to feel the scent of the lake

The roads were not congested, and very soon I was able to turn into the road that ran along the coast, and I parked the car at a public car park

I got off the car, and hunched ly cold sea wind It was natural that te in mid-Nove over oing to be driving Despite this, I made my way towards the beach

My leather shoes crunched on the sand as I walked The waning sun casted my shadow across the sand

”… This doesn't look good…”

I muttered to myself, at last Someone in a suit looked out of place at the sea Any ht mistake me for a salary-man whose perfor himself

Dazedly, I looked out at the sea

The hipped upover and took on that wind, head-on I wonder if it was a grain of sand that cut acrossend of a little bit of pain, anyway

After all, I was hit pretty hard this time and was rather depressed I realized I did not know anything, and that I was far too ignorant of as going on As his lawyer, couldn't I have paid a little more attention to him after the case was closed?

”… That would be being idealistic” I muttered, in self-derision

At that tireat deal to do I rapped up inhere and there, and even if it was just one more person, I wished to help asinto my sleep I worked, and was often scolded by shi+meno for that

I must have helped dozens of people

Of course, there were soh I would be disappointed, I attempted to learn from those experiences and was deterain Naturally, I had no tied

The sound of footsteps drew near

His shadohat first entered the edge of rownin the wind

The salty sea breeze carried a whiff of a bergane, a s, since I chose this scenthine for his like ”You'll be the one who'll sniff it up close, anyway” The cheek of it all! Hence, I had no choice but to pick one out for him

He was man who smelled of musk even if he did not wear any sort of perfuht that it would be littlecitrusy

”You ed to meet her, didn't you? That fellow's sister” Hyoudou asked, standing beside me

”… What are you doing?” I asked hi at the sea

”What a down, so I came to cheer him up”

”What gave you the i down?”

”Well Shall I take a picture of how you look like from the back with my hand phone? Youaura you are giving off”

At his words, I hurriedly correcteda peek at hiarette in hisit difficult to light it due to the strong wind

”… How did you knohere I was?”

”I used the power of love”

Incensed by his sha tone: ”I'll chuck you in the sea” Hyoudou clicked his lighter again and again as he threw lance

”You seem to be in a bad mood”

”Did you order soet someone to… Ah choo!”

The sneeze didn't let me finish my complaint

”You catch a cold”

With the unlit cigarette still in the corner of his mouth, he took off his coat and held it out to me, but I refused it and looked away in a huff

”How cold-hearted you are Perhaps you prefer that slightly larger assistant of yours over me, after all?”

That again

Ever since that unfortunate situation with Kiyo, Hyoudou was now suspicious of my relationshi+p with not only shi+meno but Kiyo, too How popular does he think I am with men?

”Look here, no many times must I explain to you that my relationshi+p with Kiyo isn't like that?”

”I wonder You give off unnecessarily powerful pheromones after all, and it worries me to no end”

”I don't give off any phero horumon1”

”That pun of yours was so terrible that the atmospheric telobal warht be able to save polar bears in the North Pole” He said inanely, so I jabbed hiain thrust the coat at me