Chapter 31 translation
I'm really sorry this took such a long time! Work has been rather exhausting lately. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter!


-title page-
Chapter 31: The many, falling thoughts*
Even if I exhaust tens of thousands of words,
they cannot express these feelings.
Right now, it's only
'I want to see you'.

*Yes, I'm aware that this title just does not work in the English language. Suggestions and tips are welcomed.

-page 01-
The snow continues to fall as if to bury the ground that lies between the two of them.
Inami: Tegu's song has stopped.
Takiko: The scent of the Toka
Takiko: has also stopped moving.

-page 02-
Takiko: Uruki!
Tomite: It seems like we've somehow shook off our pursuers!
Hatsui: I-I wonder if everyone in the Odo tribe is okay...
Hikitsu: Besides that, due to the enormity of the enemy's army...
Hikitsu: We were separated from Uruki half-way...
Tomite: If it's him, he'll definitely be alright!

-page 03-
Tomite: The snow should be lessening soon.
Once it does, we should hurry to Touran too!
Shigi: All of you obstructed us quite a bit, didn't you?
Shigi: It seems that the Miko is not here.
Shigi: So why are the seven seishi in such a hurry?
Shigi: It appears that even the mouths of the people of Hokkan are frozen.
Soldier: Shigi! Haagasu is missing!
Shigi: What?

-page 04-
Hien: I think I saw him with a girl from these people...
Has he really betrayed us!?
Shigi: Either way, the place we're aiming for is the same...
Form the lines. Those who can move will set off. Half of them will meet with Hakei-sama's troops. The other half
Shigi: will move towards Touran!

-page 05-
[no dialogue]

-page 06-
Soruen: Please open your eyes.
Soruen: Rimudo-sama.

-page 07-
Uruki: Soruen!!
Uruki: This is...
Uruki: Soruen's horse...!

-page 08-
Uruki: It's still alive! ...Even in this cold.
Uruki: ...It's looking for its master.
Soruen: Live.
Uruki: Can you go...all the way to Touran?
Uruki: Come, Namame!

-page 09-
Uruki: Takiko is
Uruki: waiting!

-page 10-
Takiko: Ah, I'm sorry.
Inami: Are you alright!? That's why I told you to stay at the inn.
Inami: You didn't sleep at all last night.
Takiko: I'm fine.
Takiko: Uruki must have not ate or slept too.
Inami: The...scent of the 'Toka' is moving this way?
Takiko: Although it's faint...it has not stopped.
Takiko: He didn't even rest for awhile.
Takiko: Although I'm relieved that he's alright.

-page 11-
Inami: In this cold, all the crops are destroyed...even the livestock are dead.
Inami: Together with those displaced by war, those people who can't make a living gather in the city.
Takiko's father: Hokkan will enter a glacial period...
Inami: The imperial family is just turning a blind eye to this...
Takiko: It's huge...Temdan-ou is in that huge palace.
Takiko: Inami, you were once inside that place, right?
Takiko: What kind of person is Temdan-ou...?

-page 12-
Inami: Well, this way, Takiko.
Takiko: Huh? This is where we were last night...
Takiko: I'm quite sure I landed here...
Takiko: Inami?
Inami: ...It was here.
Inami: 11 years ago, he died.
Inami: My

-page 13-
Inami: child.
Inami: 11 years ago...there was a rebellion started by the pro-Temdan faction.
Inami: But right before my eyes...everyone of them was captured and executed.
Inami: One of the soldiers from then was the man I love.
Inami: Since young, I was entered into the service of the palace. He's the person who has always cared for me.
Inami: Naturally, I had kept the fact that I am a seishi a secret.
Inami: Temdan-ou detests the seven seishi...but if the man I love supports him...

-page 14-
Inami: During a brief lull in the chaos, he helped me escape beyond the palace grounds.
Although my powers could have helped us, I couldn't use it because I had heard rumours about Tegu.
Inami: For the sake of my unborn child. However...
Inami: Please, hold on...
Inami: Only you-
Inami: Please...!

-page 15-
Inami: That man was probably immediately executed too.
Inami: I couldn't save the person I love even though I have this power.
In the end, I couldn't even protect my unborn child.
Takiko: Ina...
Takiko : *coughs*

-page 16-
Inami: Hey, are you alright!?
Are you still sick?
Inami: This is bad...
Yunsa: Taruma!?
Yunsa: You...
aren't you Taruma?
Inami: Yunsa...!?
Inami: Do you feel better now, Takiko?
Takiko: Yes.
After drinking the medicine.

-page 17-
Takiko: I must not let them find out about my sickness...
Yunsa: I'm sorry to hear about Mistress Shunu...
Yunsa: We were in the same line of business, so make yourself at home here.
Yunsa: This girl is not bad...looks like she can attract some customers!
Inami: She's not for sale.
Inami: She is an important girl whom I am currently protecting...
Takiko: ...Inami...

-page 18-
Yunsa: That's right, Taruma, please be our bodyguard like you used to be last time.
We have a lot of ill-mannered customers recently.
Takiko: Bodyguard!?
Inami: Yes, I did that until I became the temporary mistress.
Inami: At that time, there were 30 girls. We had all sorts of customers.

-page 19-
Inami: You were in danger last night, you know.
You almost lost your virginity along with your status as a Miko.
Inami: If Uruki knew about it, those two would be dead.
Takiko: Excuse me! From where can I see the palace walls?
Yunsa: You can see them from the attic.

-page 20-
Takiko: Uruki is still far away.
Takiko: I beg you, please remain safe.
Takiko: Please remain safe...
Takiko: Inami probably could not do anything other than pray like this back then.
For the safety of her beloved...
Takiko: But...
Takiko: Who is this!?

-page 21-
Takiko: ...It's a portrait...
Takiko: Somehow, it feels like I've seen him before...
Yunsa: Ah.
Yunsa: You shouldn't!
You can't mention that to anyone!
Takiko: Huh? Why...
Yunsa: Why? Don't you know about Temdan-ou?
Takiko: Temdan Roun!?

-page 22-
Takiko: This is him!?
Yunsa: This is an old portrait...from when he was 15, when he came of age.
Yunsa: Well, you won't know this since you're young,
but I remember it clearly.

-page 23-
Yunsa: There was no one in this country who did not know Crown Prince Temdan.
Yunsa: He was gifted with both beauty and intelligence, was he not? He was kind and sociable...He was always wandering around the country like the wind.
He was always there for the people in this country.
Takiko: Huh!? He seems so different from how I had imagined him to be!
Yunsa: Everyone believed that the country will be peaceful if he becomes the emperor...
Yunsa: But that was not to be.

-page 24-
Takiko: Huh...?
Yunsa: He was inflicted with a disease that has no hope for a cure. His younger brother, Tegiru, became the emperor.
Hokkan then became like this.
Takiko: An incurable disease?
Yunsa: There are still a lot of people who are secretly hoping for Temdan-ou to ascend the throne.
But voicing it would mean going against the government.
Yunsa: The prince his wife gave birth to was a stillborn.
Yunsa: It's really sad, isn't it...
Takiko: That...prince is...
Yunsa: Let's go down. Taruma will be worried.

-page 25-
Takiko: Ah...
Takiko: His looks...
Takiko: The two of them are obviously father and son.
Takiko: He is still a king the people adore.
Takiko: To the extent that there are people willing to stage a rebellion for him...
Takiko: But he changed.
Takiko: An incurable disease, just like me...His crown was taken away from him...The prophecy.

-page 26-
Takiko: To the extent that he hates his own son.
Takiko: That is his 'despair'.
Takiko: Uruki.
Yunsa: Huh?
Takiko: The scent of the Toka is nearby...!!
Yunsa: Hey, wait a minute!

-page 27-
Yunsa: Taruma!
Yunsa: That girl, by herself...!
Takiko: Uruki!
Takiko: Wait for me, I'm coming to meet you now!!
Guard: Hmm?

-page 28-
Guard: ...Hey.
Guard: That's..
Guard: Is he dead...?

-page 29-
Guy: Young miss~
Takiko: Please move aside!

-page 30-
Boy: I'm cold.
GIrl: I'm hungry...
Takiko: I'm sorry I don't have any food with me! Please try and bear it with this coat!

-page 31-
Takiko: My body won't move the way I want it to.
Takiko: My chest...hurts...
Takiko: Please don't stop me.
Takiko: I only want...
Takiko: I only want to see him safe.
Inami: Takiko!
Inami: That coat...

-page 32-
[no dialogue]

-page 33-
[no dialogue]

-page 34-
[no dialgoue]

-page 35-36-
[no dialogue]

-age 37-
Takiko: Uru...ki...
Uruki!!
Uruki: Takiko...!
Uruki: Why...did you come back...!?
Takiko: It's okay...
...it's okay!

-page 38-
Takiko: I want to be with you...!
Takiko: Let me stay by your side.
Takiko: I won't be parted from you again.
Takiko: ...Don't let me go.
Takiko: I love you.
Takiko: I love you...!

-page 39-
Uruki: Me too.
Uruki: Takiko...

-page 40-
Inami: I'm sorry, Yunsa.
One more person's coming in.
Yunsa: It's alright! Anyway, the slums here is the hangout place for people with dubious origins.

-page 41-
Yunsa: However, that young man...he reminds me of someone...
Inami: You're being too sensitive!!
Inami: Since they finally could meet each other,
let's leave them alone tonight...
Inami: ...But....I wonder if that's good or bad for them...
Yunsa: Are you being philosophical, Taruma?
Takiko: So you got separated from Tomite and the rest?
Takiko: If you don't treat this properly, it might get infected...

-page 42-
Uruki: You too,
just now your hands were like ice.
Uruki: You idiot...
Takiko: ...Hey, do you remember?
When we first met, we spent a night together at an inn, just like how we are now.
Takiko: You warmed up my feet for me.
Takiko: Then you suddenly changed from female to male. I was surprised...

-page 43-
Uruki: ...Takiko.
Uruki: Will you really...
live with me?
Uruki: If so,
Uruki: tonight,
Uruki: become my wife.

-end of chapter 31-

Despite Takiko being a typical Watase heroine now, I'm glad she's the one who came out and say that she wants to be with Uruki and that she loves him first. While Uruki is all....'I love you too now can we get to the real thing?' Pervert.