Volume 3 Chapter 7 (1/2)

title: Koushounin series 03

Koushounin wa Furikaeru [交渉人は振り返る]

Chapter: 7

Page: 200 – 239

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 This chapter also contains a copulation scene

I still wince inout the cheesier parts of the sex in this chapter, but I like to think I a a break (in exasperation) halfway through and reading everything Sadie Sins and CS Pacat wrote before revisiting the last few pages of this chapter with renewed vigour… but you be the judge

PS I still hate translating sex though, for various reasons

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 7

For a while, I dozed off

No, perhaps I had lost consciousness I wasn't sure When I opened htfully thirsty A crust of dried blood, probably fro on top of broken glass, and was bleeding from various places

So as I slept, just now… I seemed to reme of this and that

Or was I still dreay I started to beco sound froain I wasn't sure The ringing inclearly My sense of smell, however, was oddly sharp I could smell the coppery scent of blood, and the sourness of the bile and water I threw up

I wondered what time it was

Wasn't I waiting for someone?

Didn't I trust that so here for him?

I tried to re inin ht be the sound of blood flowing through my veins In other words, when the sound of rain stopped, I would probably be dead Me? Dead? Wouldn't that be awfully weird? Why must I die, in a place like this?

This is what they call, retribution

It was that voice again

Thatthe sa suit

You are murderer That is why you too, must die

”I… I am… not a murderer!”

You killed him, did you not?

You killed him You drove him to his death Don't you still have that letter he wrote you? You couldn't bring yourself to throw it away, could you?

—senpai!

I jolted and spun about wildly Wasn't that Hyoudou's voice I heard just now? But Hyoudou was nowhere to be seen Onlyme

You murderer

”Argh… no, stop it…!”

—senpai, please get a hold on yourself! fuck, what did that bastard do to you?

You should die, too

”No… no Let go of me!”

—Akira? Akira, what's wrong It's me, it's okay!

As if it'll be okay The dead won't come back to life, you know

”I didn't… I didn't think that you would die!”

Course I would Huile creatures, you know Did your father and mother die and leave you behind, too?

—he's been drugged Hakuta-san, which drug was Asahina taking?

—a new type of synthetic drug I heard that it has effects similar to ecstasy but more powerful, and the user would usually experience hallucinations during the downer

—the bleeding is terrible We should probably bring him to a hospital

—wait If we take him to a hospital when he is still intoxicated, it'll lead to trouble for hi his toolbox here, too We'll need to cut those shackles off

—who's Renjou?

—the doctor we usually use Senpai? Can you hear ?

I don't want this

Don't hit me, please don't

I'm sorry, this is all my fault I have killed him I killed him with ht still be alive today

Do it Confess to all the wrongs that you have done

—senpai!

”I… killed…”

—senpai, look at me!

”Killed him… I killed him… because I eak… hopelessly weak… and I didn't believe him when he said…”

—Akira! That's different, that wasn't your fault!

”I killed…”

And a scent wafted into my nostrils

Through the terrible stink was a whiff of the sweet coamot, a scent I loved, a scent I kneell… it was a scent that brought me repose whenever I was enveloped in it

Tell him, that you are a murderer, too

Those words ripped through that brief moment of peace In my horror I threwbehind me Was it the wall, or the door that I hit my head on? I don't know… my head reeled from the impact, but it cleared my vision

”Senpai!”

It was Hyoudou's voice

Hyoudou was there, in front of ht voice was shi+meno

I could nowto theer worked Hyoudou lifted rabbed from the bedroolass frag and wrapped in a blanket with s were covered in blood, and glass fragments stuck out of my skin in various places shi+meno leaned in for a closer look, and said in a relieved sounding voice: ”The cuts don't look that deep”

”Hyou… dou…”

”The doctor will be co?”

”Evening…”

Hyoudou turned to look at Hakuta

”It depends on the dosage, but the drug should wear off soon… you did well, holding out on your own,” said Hakuta, half to himself

My vision was still a tad blurry, but I knew the effects of the drug was ebbing; that apparition that looked just like er be seen, and my skin prickled with pain

”What ti lass out of my feet

”Al”

”Asahina… will be back at six”

”Asahina?” Hyoudou said uncertainly, while taking a wet towel from Hakuta, which he used to wipe my face Red stains appeared in the towel as he wiped, and for the first time I realised how dreadful I must have looked

”He said that he would trust me… if I fell to where he had fallen”

”And that hy you decided to do drugs, too? I never knew you that you were that big an imbecile”

No, I didn't s it of y to explain I have to tell them that I intended to stay and wait for Asahina

”He… said that if I was here at six in the , he'll turn himself in”

”He said that?”

I nodded, but was overco fit, and Hyoudou patted my back My voice was hoarse, andnon-stop, the entire of last night?

”Akira, I don't think Asahina will coet you out of here as soon as—”

”He'll come… he'll definitely come, because he promised…”

You hypocrite A voice whispered intoup a little s?” Hyoudou asked as he wrapped his arorously in response It was only a passing illusion I had been hallucinating all these while, due to the illusory effects of the drug

However, I was also aware that those hallucinations came frohtly locked in a Pandora's Box And if sohts will manifest themselves

”I ait, for hiht into Hyoudou's eyes The contents of ale of scornful laughter pierced my heart like a knife

Despite this, I had to stay and wait for Asahina Heand stayed here till

”Akira, don't be foolish You're running a fever”

”Alright We'll wait another hour”

”Oi” shi+? After the doctor is done with eet him out of here as soon as—”

”If we do that, it'll never end”

”What?”

Frolasses a pair of keen eyes flashed

”Inside senpai, thisas it is you and not him who made that decision to leave this roo able to see this till the very end”

”But, Asahina…!”

Won't come There is no way he would come back

That was probably what shi+ht the same It should have been painfully obvious that Asahina had intended to confinehis escape

I knew all of these, but still I persisted: ”Please let me wait for him”

Only I believed there was a chance he ht come back I wanted to believe that he would, even if I was nothinghimself to believe in someone that he did not After all, I knew no other way—to become a little to closer to another person

–

I was adh fever, in a bad shape

The doctor was fully aware that I had taken an illegal drug, but contravened the Medical Act by not putting it in his report, and with Hyoudou's influence I was able to get a private room at the hospital This was probably all in a day's work for someone like Hyoudou

Three days passed before my fever abated

There were cuts all over s, but fortunately no major artery or nerve had been severed On the other hand, there were no cuts on the botto still hurt, and I was prescribed painkillers There was a cut across my forehead which wasn't very deep, so someone had put a Band-Aid on it

”I was really worried, you know” Sayuri-san came to see me in the hospital, and it was a while before she would stop lecturing ised, over and over, as I bit into the apple she peeled for me I wonder how many years it had been since someone cut an apple in a shape of a rabbit for me

We kept the part about h The only people who knew that I spent a night under the influence of a drug was Hyoudou, shi+meno, Kiyo, and the doctor

Kiyo came to visit, too He was silent, as he usually was, but seees and with a Band-Aid across my forehead Both Kiyo and Sayuri-san had rescued erous situations, and both have seen me when I looked my worst… that is why I think of them as my family

”Mebuki-san, you were abducted? How pathetic” That brickbat was from Tomonori

Four days after I was ad closely behind Kiyo, to seeface of his coupled with that co personality was his usual, but the creaht for me were delicious beyond belief

”Come to think of it…” As Ion a foldable chair next to uy called Saitou?”

”Oh, he has stopped associating with the sca with Mitsuo-kun, as also there at that time”

I see, mused Tomonori as he stuck a hand into the box of crea the water in the vase of flowers that Ayaka had brought

”That's great, so he finally woke up Seereat success, wasn't it?” This was To me up, so I forced a smile as I reached for my second puff Kiyo chose this moment to return to the room, and he hurriedly asked: ”Is there any left?” as he anxiously peered in the box

Asahina did not come back

We waited at the weekly apartment till it turned six, but he did not coht to the hospital

The day after Kiyo and Toht Visiting hours were over and the lights were already out, but shi+ed to obtain tacit approval froe, and it was fortuitous thata book

”Akira, are you feeling better now?”

”Un My te properly, too I'd be discharged soon, I think”

”Let me see”

shi+ht frown, he asked: ”Don't you have a slight fever, still?” but his frown h

”Seriously, shi+meno I really should be out of here very soon”

”You should listen to what Sayuri-san says even after your discharge, okay?”

”Oi oi, I'm not a child,” I retorted, but I knew I had caused too ain I turned to shi+meno and lowered my head

”I' you worry,” I said

”Oh do stop that You're treating er”

”I see end of too many favours from you, from all the way back then till now”

”No, I hate to admit this but this time Hyoudou didyou in ht be the defeat of a lifetime,” he joked, as he loosened his tie

”Give rimaced as I leaned back onto my pillow, and shi+meno sat on the foldable chair next to me

”—Akira, you know…” he began, and then he hesitated to continue, but I could aluess as to follow

”Un”

”Did you see it on the news?”

Quietly, I told him that I did There was no need to ask him which news he referred to

”I see… I thought I should tell you what I currently know, about this case”

”Oh I would like to hear what you have to say”

In a business-like tone that was free of any emotion, shi+meno launched into the details In short, the people above Asahina… people fros The her-ups They decided that he can no longer be used, and had sought to disband the sca

”The higher-ups also knew of your involvement with Asahina, but they were probably careful with their dealing with you after knowing that you were former public prosecutor and a former lawyer That hy they ht

And during the night I was confined to the bathroo from another weekly apartment disappeared into thin air All evidence of their existence was destroyed, and the investigation tea them doas nimbly sidestepped

In other words, Asahina intended to deceive

”The police should be grinding their teeth is frustration now… I am too, to be honest,” he added in annoyance

According to what he heard, the roup was now scattered all over the place, but in tiht now, theypeople

However, Asahina will not be a them

Not because he experienced a change of heart and decided to live a life free of crime—but because he was already dead

In the evening that day, I atching the news on the TV in the hospital, and the male newscaster, with a neutral expression on his face and a pleasant voice, delivered news that I found hard to believe:

—at dawn thismale was discovered in a business hotel in the Taitou district This man has been identified as Asahina Wataru, twenty-seven years of age His body showed no signs of external injury, but police investigations are currently ongoing

”Asahina's autopsy showed that he suffered a heart attack following a drug overdose”

”I see”

”The police have already tracked the scaeer able to control the a the road to accidental overdose”

”Un”

”However, in actual fact…”

shi+uess what he left unsaid

Asahina ht have been roup who no longer proved useful after falling prey to drug addiction If he were to be caught by the police, who knohat he anisation he worked for decided to cut all loose ends and got rid of hiht out of a TV drama, but it was hard to say it was impossible

Or, it could really have been a drug overdose All drug addicts mostly meet the saanisation concluded that if they left Asahina alone, he would self-destruct anyway In any case, I will never know

No, there was a person who ht know

The same person who duht know the real reason behind Asahina's death However… it was no use knowing the truth

Asahina is already dead He deceived ain

Only his voice calling me sensei wouldn't leave my ears

–

In the end, I had to stay in the hospital for ten days

I was feverish at the start, but after my temperature went down I found I had tooand pretty, and I was a tiny bit happier if it was her taking h she did not put on low She was really nice, too

”Mebuki-san, you are a negotiator, aren't you? That sounds really cool! If I was kidnapped, please negotiate with the kidnapper for my release, okay?”

Needless to say, I was greatly flattered

On an unrelated note, I have never done kidnap or ransoht that if this nurse was kidnapped I would definitely want to atteh yes of course it would be better if she was never kidnapped it the first place She was a lovely woain Maybe it was because she was still new, in any case I would never like to have the experience of soain Only when she was drawing my blood did I wish that it was the head nurse whom I called instead, the one that was so built so heavily that Aranaht offer her a job

It was almost 2 PM by the time I left the hospital, and I bid farewell to the nurses whom I had become friendly with

The car that came to pick me up was a black Toyota Corolla

I looked at the tall figure beside the car as fiddling idly with his hands and sht, oh, you're finally here It's not like I aiting for hi Sayuri-san and Kiyo to ask about runtled at the fact that he would not payto do

He casted a glance at me ”You look so much better, now,” he said disinterestedly

I hardly saw hi other than a suit, but he was in a knit top and ivory trousers today His hair was not gelled back as it usual was, and the slightly tousled hair an and corduroy pants that Sayuri-san brought over for me, and on top of all that was that coat I still haven't returned to him

”Of course I do Why else would I be discharged, then?”

I sounded a little peeved Maybe I really did bear a grudge against hihter at my standoffishness

”I' fine,” he said ”When I brought you here, you were covered in blood and puke… you looked like you could die on me any moment”

”… ly, while fidgeting with the Band-Aid on ,” as he toyed with his car key, but I wasn't sure what he referred to exactly by 'nothing'

Hakuta wasn't with him today, which means that he had driven here himself

”I'll have you know that this is not a taxi, so you can't tell et on, you'll have to coht to my apartment”

”Sure I have questions for you anyway”

Hyoudou seeave hihtly raised brows, he said: ”Well then, please I'll drive as safely as I can,” as he opened the door to the passenger seat

Both of us got into the Toyota Corolla, and we headed towards his apartment

While I was at the hospital, Noveaze fell on the Christmas decorations on the shop s that passed us by, I quietly realised that it was almost the end of this year

Tis that one can never forget

We reached his apartround car park before entering his unit on the second floor Unlike the cold, sterile environment of the hospital, his rooh of contentrown accustomed to this place, and it felt almost like my second home

I ploppedrooently wrapped me in its elasses of whiskey and handed ratulations on your discharge,” in the ine

His surliness was so it Hyoudou seeht to next to me, but there was an aard distance between us… this here he usually pounced on me and this was a couch we had sex on countless of tiht now

”I'm sorry I couldn't visit you in the hospital,” he said, not to lass in his hands

”That's okay,” I said, while gazing at side profile Didn't he look slightly worn-out? There was a stubble of beard left on his jaw, too This was unusual for Hyoudou, who takes great care of his appearance

”You were busy, weren't you?”

”I wasn't that busy”

”Fibber You should have been swars to do I know you went to meet one of the leaders of the shi+nwa-kai”