Volume 4 Chapter 1 (1/2)
title: Koushounin series 04
Koushounin wa Hamerareru [交渉人は嵌められる]
Chapter: 1
Page: 025 – 053
Author: Eda Yuuri [榎田 尤利]
Illustrator: Nara Chiharu [奈良 千春]
Publisher: Taiyō Tosob>
Year of Release: 2010
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 1
I want you to picture this in your head
On a satirical TV prograer
It wasn't really a very good ier's quirks and the reception froe He was a second rate cohed at his jokes and clapped for hiht after the cli ended, the audience erupted in cheers
Oh, what aet by just by doing impersonations of people!
… And just as he was feeling good about hi behind hier he was ilance in his direction, the singer bursts into song, in a clear and sonorous voice The comedian pales as he thinks, what this is, I didn't hear about anything like this…
I wonder if you could iine that
Ho unbearablyit must have been
”Senpai What kind of cosplay, is that?”
When I laid my eyes on Hyoudou, that was exactly how I felt
Why?
Why did you appear in a place like this, at this very exact ti?
I very nearly said ”Hyoudou?” but sed the words before they calance at shi+h I doubted it was his real name shi+mizu was struck by Hyoudou's yakuza aura and looked like he was completely scared out of his wits In order to prevent hty tone as I said: ”Shut up I'ht now”
Hyoudou sht now and didn't say anything more shi+mizu rounded his back as he sneaked past Hyoudou and Hakuta, and turned back just once near the door to face esture that indicated he would call her
As I watched shi+ht that he et rid of his hand phone and that'll be the end of it
”And? Have you finished your work?”
Hyoudou shrugged off his coat and sat down heavily opposite me Hakuta took a seat on a table across the aisle My client, Sawada Chihed both lasses, which didn't quite suit et in the way” in my usual voice
”I still need to explain sos to my client”
”You have so to do, don't you? I would like to knohy you are doing this really lousy yakuza parody”
'I' anyone”
”Huh You aren't?”
”Ah, no… that is I simply took you as a reference, or should I say that…”
Hyoudou snorted in laughter at arettes on the table, and without asking, he took out a stick This was the brand of cigarettes that Hyoudou usually s to copy him, it's just that… I unconsciously…
”Both of you look like each other,” Chih vacuously in return
”Mebuki-san, is he your friend?”
”No, he's not my—”
”I'h school girl, with the cigarette still stuck in his mouth Chimako's eyes widened, and she blinked at least twice She didn't look shocked or surprised, she simply looked like she didn't understand what he said
I glared at Hyoudou and said, ”Just be quiet” To Chied the topic back to work, ”Looks like this is the end of our little trick… Are you satisfied with how things are, now?”
Yes, Chi, half s expression on her face, she said, ”I feel like I've finally gotten it off my chest, somehow”
”Are you sure you are fine, with things ending like this? If we spend a little bit rab him by the scruff of his neck and hand him over to the police”
”Oh, no This is fine… I don't think he would ever contact ain”
Chiirl she was just a few o A prudent, mature woman quietly stood herself up from her seat, and bowed to me
”Mebuki-san, thank you for your help When you are done with the invoice, please let me know”
”Ah, yes”
I got up too, and bowed When she tried to take the bill for our drinks I hurried stopped her, as I said, ”No, that's fine I'll make this nuisance over here pay for them,” as I motioned towards Hyoudou Hyoudou had an expression on his face that said, what, why me, but he didn't complain Chimako, with a tiny smile, nodded and turned to leave
She was already of a small build, but looked even smaller as she left the shop
When I could no longer see her, I sighed just once and returned to ood note
”What was that, just now?” Hyoudou asked
”… Like I said, work”
”It looked like you were i yakuza in order to chase away that lady's boyfriend Why, is he a stalker or so?”
”Nope He was a swindler A e swindler”
Hyoudou raised his eyebrows
”Swindler? But you let hiet away, didn't you??”
”That hat the client requested”
Not to catch the swindler
Not to hand him over to the police
Not to single him out for blame
”… She requested that she wanted to end this, with them still in love”
Chio
He wouldn't give her his business card He wouldn't tell her exactly where he lived ”I'm too shy,” he would say, as he continued to turn down her offers to introduce hio on dates to see showrooreat if we could live in a place like this… sords he would whisper into her ear, but till the very end, vague and indefinite state parents or siblings that fall sick, along with other problems that aren't his fault
Those were tricks straight out of a textbook Tricks that was played by a third-class e swindler, tricks even a layh
Even so, she was happy, while they were still in love, she said Even though she knew they were lies, she found his honeyed words soothing to hear When he asked her to lend hi very well that the lad whenever the money was returned
She thought to herself ood person She wanted very much to believe that he was
However, Chiain and again He will e amount of money the next time Possibly, he would create a situation in which she would be compelled to lend him money And then, that'll be the end of their relationshi+p…
”I see If he disappears with that large ae swindler for you But if he doesn't show up again, she could always explain that he ran away because he was afraid of her sster relative… Women, at times, can lie rather skilfully to themselves”
”I kind of get that, you know”
”Aren't people like that si themselves?”
”Don't say that She's just a sad, lonely woman”
”What is truly sad, is that cosplay of yours”
He jabbed a finger at me as he said that, and my mouth made a moue of defiance
”It can't be helped, alright? I am not yakuza so the yakuza look doesn't suit me at all”
”Ito copy me, can't you at least put on a better quality suit for umi will not wear a suit that a host from a rundown host club in the outskirts of toould wear”
”Oh, , I' like a host from a rundown host club”
”The shoes, too… don't those sell for about seven thousand eight hundred yen?”
”Oh, just shut up”
My voice had risen because the cost of ht hundred yen It was on a bargain sale, so I had bought theular price Even so, to Hyoudou who could casually wear shoes that cost more than two hundred thousand yen, this pair must be really cheap
”Youcitizens have a lis”
Yes, that is right I aotiator is not a job that is very common, but it is a respectable one My nae
Even if you were to look from the front and back, or froht citizen
And the person in front of me, Hyoudou Juuetsu, is yakuza, even if you were to look at hional
If small time hoodlums in the vicinity of Su head, s
”But I keep asking you to let me buy your shoes and clothes for you”
”No, thank you”
”You really don't need to hold yourself back, senpai I' them for you just so that I can take them off”
”Pervert” I swore at him, but Hyoudou licked his lips wetly
”Please don't shower too much praise on me It makes me shy”
When the japanese speak of using their ar at the entrance of shops when referring to doing souess they refer to this Thisht spot, so at tinore him
As I fell silent, Hyoudou also remained silent Nowadays, when both of us don't speak to each other, it doesn't feel aard Even when I am at Hyoudou's apart our own stuff; Hyoudou would be fiddling with his laptop and I'll be watching television, and before we realised it ould have both drifted off to sleep, just like that
I don't dislike those tiether, perhaps I even find the I, unfortunately, no that one could experience this sort of peace and tranquillity in a same sex relationshi+p Furthermore, on an unrelated note, that which I used to think was definitely impossible… you know… that? Well, to put it bluntly, it's very good
Is it possible that Hyoudou and I are actually compatible?
Even though our occupation, personalities and upbringing are completely different?
”Senpai, ould you do for New Year's?”
”Eh?”
I had been thinking with thoughts swirling around ain, ”Hoill you spend New Year?”
”Hoill I spend… Well I'll watch the Kouhaku on the telly while I eat soba, and whenbreaks I'll eat the customary rice cake soup”
”All in that dirty little room of yours?”
”Yes, that's right In that dirty little rooely gentle laugh, and I started to squirm a little in my seat
”We should go to a hot spring or so… is what I would love to say, but I'll be busy end of this year through the start of the next Well, I'll prepare the New Year's dishes, so would you like to come over to my place for the New Year's?”
”Harh? You are going to boil black soybeans and mash sweet potatoes?”
”I won't be the one boiling theumi will make some, and portion so like that when you are alone would be kind of…”
I didn't know if his next as going to be ”lonely”, or ”empty”, or ”dull”, but certainly, New Year's dishes and rice cake soup aren't things you should be eating alone
”Well… I could go”
As I haughtily acquiesced to his offer, Hyoudou nodded and said, ”Alright, see you then,” and stood up Fro rustled
”Ah, right”
Hyoudou then fished so out from inside of his pockets
”I intended to drop by your office today, so I bought these just now”
He placed on the table a bag frouri Despite the bag being on the sed to cram it into the pocket of his coat Wouldn't he spoil the shape of his high-end cashmere coat?
”Ooh Thank you”
”You like them, don't you”
”Un I love them1”
”… Could you say that again, for htly tilted Without thinking, I repeated myself, ”I love…” and then clamped my mouth shut Is he an idiot? What on earth was this person trying to make me say?
”I love them sweet chestnuts,” I corrected myself Hyoudou smirked, and left the café without another word Hakuta bowed his farewell and followed him
The bag of sweet chestnuts he left on the table was still a tiny bit warm
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—and, well That hat happened near the end of last year
Sawada Chimako's case became the last request of the year As we predicted, shi+ain I called the number that Chimako told him was his several tie 'the number you have dialled is not in service' would play when I dialled that number
Just to be doubly sure, I called the trading firm which shi+mizu purportedly worked for, and was told that the departement, Third Section' did not exist, and that they have no records of an employee called shi+mizu Kyouichi
”That sounded like a swindler that couldn't follow through till the end, don't you think?” said Ayaka and she bit and pulled on a long, chewy strand of mochi
”Yea Is he stupid or so? On by the way, I sure would have liked to see Mebuki's yakuza cosplay,” said Tomonori as he picked up a piece of fish cake from his boith his chopsticks and dumped it into Kiyo's bowl It would appear that he didn't like anything that was made from fish paste Kiyo then chewed happily on the fish cake that was given… no, forced onto him
”Don't call it cosplay, alright I did it for work” I picked up a pair of festive chopsticks and said the custoether, before starting on my bowl of New Year rice cake soup
Today was Mebuki Nego Office's first work day this year I had no cases that carried frothy New Year break, but I would have to return to the brisk pace oftoday
”It o undercover as a host, and then yakuza…”
Today's New Year rice cake soup was made by Sayuri-san Since she was born and bred in the don areas of Tokyo, her rice cake soup was flavoured the way the people in her ho-shaped mochi, bits of chicken meat, radish, carrot, red-white fish cake, and japanese spinach in a clear broth
”Mm, this is delicious This is the first tiht
I did say it was the first day of work for Mebuki Nego Office this year, but Ayaka does not work here She is one of the irls in a sex establishment that Hyoudou runs, but she drops by my office rather often to see Sayuri-san, whom she is close to
Toumi's kuh he went through a rebellious phase at one point of ti by oes out with Kiyo sometimes, without all of us
Kiyo's real nae but he is person that I can rely on I employ him on part-time basis as he has aservices
”Is there anyone else ants rill, on which were rilled to perfection
Our hands shot up enthusiastically, and she proceeded to drop one into each of our bowls Murai Sayuri-san is a hale and hearty woman of seventy-two years, and she bears the responsibility ofour accounts and the office on her thin shoulders She also becoered, and in this office, her words carries the ht
Sayuri-san set her bowl on the table and held up an index finger