Script for "Light of Rain" by Takotsuboya
https://e-hentai.org/g/1545472/68438b1ef3/Proofread by derpface222
Bounty for motivation:
https://e-hentai.org/bounty.php?bid=21047002.
A note from the translator:
I highly recommend to you to read the foreword *after* you read the story. Especially if you think the story is strange, as I did, reevaluate this work after you read the author's notes and finally my explanations, that will hopefully shed some light on the plot for non-Japanese readers.
Also, this work contains major spoilers to the story line of Hyouka. So if you intend to watch/read it, I recommend doing so before reading this work. (Spoilers up to Episode 5 of the anime.)
003.
Hikari no Ame
Rain of Light
Takutsuboya
Foreword
※As I can't add an afterword I put it in the front. Read it last please.
Hello, I'm Takutsuboya.
This time I made a Hyouka book.
The anime adaptation Kyoto Animation gave Hyouka is pretty high quality, don't you think? When it comes to cute girls, I thought K-on would be Kyoto Animation's masterpiece, so I got really surprised that they topped it again with Hyouka. I'm really thankful that we can watch such high quality animes every week for free. As a doujin artist this really motivated me to work on my Eru Chitanda stories.
Well then, when you think of student’s revolt in the ‘60s and the campaign against the Japan-U.S. security treaty the United Red Army will quickly come to mind. As for me, one of my first memories in life is seeing the reporting about the Asama-Sansō incident on TV at kindergarten age. When I went home I wanted to watch “With Mother” like always, but I remember that every channel was showing footage about the onslaught of Asama-Sansō. After that incident the lynch justice purge which is topic of this manga was discovered, but still I think on the next day the newspaper contained a comic strip where Yakuzas bowed before the United Red Army and said “we surrender”. This doujin is pressed into few pages so I can understand your dissatisfaction with the panel layout, but I wanted to cover all of it in this episode. I'm happy that I could draw it to my heart's content.
I can't begin to guess at your reactions yet, but I drew this with immense passion.
At the end of May I got diagnosed with a cataract in my right eye so I was worried if I could finish the draft without running in to trouble, but it actually didn’t hamper the speed of my drawing at all. From now on I will pay more attention to my health.
Well then, let's meet again next time.
Title: Rain of Light
Publisher: Takutsuboya
Date of Publication: 2012-08-12
Press: Kōshinshuppan
Please send your feedback towards the following addresses
##鉄球で??
#粛清、土下座、
004.
*Turkish Republic, Istanbul
*Travel warning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
*“Be appropriately vigilant.” (explanation follows)
*Those traveling or staying in this country or region are advised to be especially vigilant. It is recommended to stay away from any trouble.
##渡航、滞在、避ける
*The last entry of the popular blog
*“Solitary Journey Abroad by Kōshi Oreki”
*by a female Japanese university student
*on her second day in Istanbul, before it stopped being updated:
*“This trip is so amazing. Surely in ten years, these are the days I will recall fondly.”
##惜しまない ← used as not regret instead of without sparing
*Not long after, an email with a link to a video sharing site was sent to the Japanese consulate in Turkey.
*The young woman had picked a fight with a local mugger and was kidnapped by a drug syndicate which demanded a ransom.
*In these regions, abduction is handled like business as usual.
*Of course, there’s nothing the family can do in such an incident.
*All we can do is to let it be taken care by the government officials and the local police.
005.
*High school life is rose colored, the color rose is like college life, this expression is harmonious.
##形容、呼応、成立
*It's not really true
*But look what my elder sister's boisterous energy-wasting lifestyle got her.
#lit: active style overflowing with energy
*As for me, my style is the exact opposite.
*“If I don't have to do it, I won’t. If I have to do it, then make it quick.”
#alt: …then I'll be brief. / …then only the bare minimum.
*But thinking about it, it's a pretty lonely way of living.
##随分 = ずいぶん
>We're unproductive.
T/N: the characters read "no" and "hair"
>You mean like the hair growing on your crotch?
>That's pubic hair.
T/N: the characters read "embarrassing" and "hair"
>Now that we’re talking about it, Oreki-san, why does pubic hair grow in the first place?
>Dunno
*On that note, here we have more people with boisterous energy-wasting lifestyles.
<Oreki, you're the worst sexual harasser.
>That remark didn't suit Hōtarō.
006.
*Eru is the single daughter of the noble farming family Chitanda of our region.
*Like a Japanese doll, neat, clean and lovely, with eyes brimming with curiosity.
##豪農、千反田 = Chitanda、清楚 、麗しい、容姿、好奇心旺盛、瞳
*At first glance you see that she's a fine daughter:
*Her study records excellent, her personality gentle,
##学業優秀、性格温厚
*no fear of people, completely dauntless.
##拒絶
*I wonder if she ever had the experience of being hated or rejected by people?
*Oreki-san
>Something good happened to me today and so I'm in a good mood,
>but I can't remember what the good thing was.
<Help me remember it please!
##親類
>Surely her family and relatives tried to make her happy since she was born
>and she knew that being happy made the people around her happy too.
007.
>…… Since when…
>Pardon me?
>Yesterday when you went to sleep, were you already in a good mood?
>Ah, no, yesterday I guess I went to bed as usual.
>Did you have a good dream?
<No, I can't remember having one.
>So it must have happened after you woke up.
#alt: So tell me what happened after you woke up.
>When did you wake up?
>Half past six. That’s what my alarm is always set to.
>What did you do first?
>I grabbed a towel and went into the bathroom…
\Ah⁉
*I remember!
*When I wanted to brush my teeth there was almost no tooth paste left!
*But when I opened the drawer there was a new tube.
*I had forgotten about it, but I had already bought extra.
>That's it! That's what made me happy.
>It’s only because of you I could remember. Thank you, Oreki-san!
<Chitanda,
>have people ever gotten angry with you?
<Huh?
<What do you mean by that?
>Did I make you feel upset?
##why is it not passive 立たれたんですか？?
>Ahahaha, Chii-chan, there's no way that Oreki gets angry.
>For him it would be way too wasteful to use so much energy. That’s not like him at all.
#lit: He has not enough energy for such things, as he has a energy saving lethargy defect.
>Yeah, Hōtarō getting angry, that's like plants getting angry: I can’t see it happening.
#lit: mayaran flowers
^These jerks, saying whatever they please…
008.
008.
*But actually, Ibara has a point with her objection.
*I'm awful at getting angry.
*Because expressing anger is pretty much the opposite of saving my energy.
*The Okinawa problem of the DPJ administration, territorial disputes, biased journalism in mass media, arguments on Twitter…
*No, I'm rather envious of people who have excess energy with which they can become angry.
>I see.
>I've never seen Oreki-san or Fukube-san angry.
>Now it hit her ///
#Shit, I started a rumor
>Satoshi gets angry sometimes.
>I've seen Fu-chan angry.
>Oh, I didn't know.
>For instance recently…
>Mayaka-chan, Satoshi will be back any time now, you can wait for him in his room.
\Excuse me. #pardon the intrusion
>Ohh, how messy.
>What is this? X-File?
>School rumors… Student name register…
>It's full of notes. He even prepared vocabulary flashcards…
009.
<HEY! Mayaka, MAYAKA!
<Looking at private stuff without permission.
<Wahaha
\Fu-chan, did you go all the way to write and memorize this because you like to be called database?
<Calling it X-File… Hahaha!
>Maybe you should turn your touching efforts to studying for once?
*Wargh
<You jerk, mind your own business you dumb bitch!
<Ouch, what are you doing.
<Don't dare to come in here without my permission ever again!
<Ouch…
>Uncool ///
>Satoshi, what are you doing. Keep it down in there!
>Don't complain, you really did that to me.
>Oreki-san, I'm scared…
>That's what I meant when I said he can snap.
010.
>Ten years ago, I was always close with my uncle Jun Sekitani, but at one day I asked him about the classic literature club.
\That time Uncle's answer or reaction made me cry.
>It was different than usual, I cried but he didn't comfort me.
\Why didn't he comfort me? Oreki-san, I want to think about this together with you.
*Again?
*Isn't it quite common to ignore a brat's crying from time to time.
*She must have been a real princess if she gets traumatized from being ignored just once.
>But why do you come to me with all your troubles?
>Aren’t there plenty of family, relatives, and girlfriends you could ask as well?
>Oreki-san
>I have no intention to go around telling everyone about my personal history.
~Ah, sorry.
^Why does it look like I'm the bad guy now?
011.
>What a good smell.
\I like it.
>So you like Vienna hot chocolate?
>No
:>Sniff sniff
>It's Oreki's smell.
*In the end,
*I couldn't take on her burden. (Why did I have to in the first place!)
*I didn't promise to solve the case for her,
*but I said I would report it if I found a clue,
*something that might help her remember.
*Of course, when it comes to a conversation between Jun Sekitani and Chitanda ten years ago,
*I didn't expect to find any clues.
*But contrary to my expectations, things got on rolling faster than I had anticipated.
*As finally there was a call from my sister.
*I heard my sister had been rescued due to the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish police and was under protection of the Japanese consulate.
*I don't care if she'll look back on this happily in ten years, she has to show gratitude to her helpers now. ///
##尽力、保護、惜しまない、頼り、遠垣内 = Tōgaito、煙草、脅し
*Relying on new info I had received from my sister, I threatened my upperclassman Tōgaito with my investigation about his tobacco plant,
*to get ahold of the back issue of the literature club's essays named “Hyouka”.
*I knew that the girls' opinion of me would change fast with this ruthless execution.
##手際
*Jun Sekitani had become a legend.
*A friendly hero
*“Hyouka”
*The Kanya festival
@Hyouka
*Conflict and victim
*What the hell happened 45 years ago at this school…
012.
>Oreki-san
\To understand the reason I cried at that day, I need you to understand more about me.
>That is why I brought something with me today that I like you to read!
<Here
>What is this?
>This is my diary, I've always been writing in it since I was little.
>Ooh, Chii-chan's diary…
\I'm interested in this.
>Chitanda-san, may we read it too?
<Aaaaah, noo, no way!
<It's too embarrassing if people would read it, I would die!
>I only brought it with me because Oreki-san needs to read it.
>Here, take this. Let's read together!
013.
*MM/DD
*xx-kun from class is always staring at me.
*Not only xx-kun, but also xx-kun, xx-kun and xx-kun.
*It's because I'm super cute.
*It seems like the boys are always talking about me.
*I have to properly practice rejection for the time when they confess to me.
*MM/DD
*Today on lunch break I mounted the iron rod and got called aside and warned by xx-sensei.
*That was totally embarrassing.
<Waah, I don't want to read this!
<You have to!
<It may contain hints that help to solve my request.
*MM/DD Illustrated entry
*I drew a picture of daddy's pee-pee as I remember from the bath.
*MM/DD
*I had my first menstruation. I was surprised, but mother cooked red rice and father was happy.
*But I was embarrassed when my uncles heard about it.
*MM/DD
*I'm happy that I grew some more, but I'm worried that I will have trouble finding a boyfriend if I continue growing.
*My breasts are getting bigger too.
>Oreki-san, aren't you turning the pages too quickly.
\Are you really reading everything carefully?
>Yes I am.
\Is this another Vita Sexualis?
T/N: Quote from Wikipedia: Vita Sexualis is an erotic novel published in 1909 by Mori Ōgai. The protagonist of the novel, Shizuka Kanei, is understood to be an autobiographical representation of Mori Ōgai.
<Aah, this part here, read it very carefully.
014.
>Chitanda
>Yes
(Like two cogwheels)
>You went bathing together with you father until middle school?
>Yes, I always went to bath with my family. But when my father realized how I had grown he said we shouldn't bath together anymore.
>I see, it was getting to be an issue for your father too.
>It was funny seeing my dad get red and trying not to look.
>……Didn't we just kiss right now?
>…Ahh… yeah… that's right. Somehow.
>Somehow I guess
>Yeah
>Okay, that's enough. Ibara-san and Fukube-san seem to have gone home already.
>How late is it?…
\You have such a pure and innocent image, but you actually always have pretty lewd thoughts. Well, at this age it's just normal to be interested in that kind of stuff I guess.
>Is that so? Oreki-san, am I a lewd girl?
>I don't know, maybe this level of interest is totally normal.
>Actually, I might have gotten a little wet just now.
>……Don't tell me that.
015.
>Well then, let’s get started.
>I’ll start with my presentation first, okay?
*The kind hero Jun Sekitani.
*45 years ago, he was responsible for an incident that should become a hand down legend.
#Should become, or should’ve become?
*But the things he did were both a fight and a sacrifice,
*certainly something that cannot be called the story of a hero.
##譚
*According to the manga club's anthology “Unity and Salute”,
*In the aftermath of the movement there were twenty full or partial expulsions from school, including Jun Sekitani’s.
*So something pretty violent must have happened to provoke such an extreme reaction.
*We should have a look at the historical context.
*It's the point in history where the public campaign against the Japan-U.S security treaty had student movements on the rise.
*I studied the “Kamitaka Monthly Report”
*and there were several movements divided into subgroups inside this school.
*The groups with the most radical methods were
*“Joined Revolution Fight“ and “The Red Partisans”.
*Jun Sekitani was a member of The Red Partisans
*Their motto was to fight an extermination battle till the very end.
#Fight an extermination battle sounds like something the EDF would say, not sure what it means in this context. Could be like “Fight a battle to exterminate them to the last” or “Fight a battle to exterminate opposing viewpoints until all of us are dead”, or “till the very end” could be separate and saying that their motto remained the same for their whole existence
##殲滅戦
>Sorry, can I use your bathroom?
>Ah, I’ll show you.
016.
^So close…
>It's here.
>Thanks.
>Sorry, I'll go in first.
>Huh⁉ Hey.
>I'll be done quickly, please wait here.
:>sigh
*Oreki-san is at my home.
*And now he's in front of the toilet…
*This is exactly like I always imagined…
*Aaah, shall I really go on with the plan?
017.
*What will happen if I do a thing I absolutely shouldn't do…
*I'm curious!
*If I get discovered Oreki-san will be my insurance…
##なのは？
*What was that?
*If a girl gets seen doing this it's over…
>Haa
>Haa
*Even more so when it's a girl of marriageable age who's known for her good conduct…
018.
>Oreki-san, are you there?
>Yeah, I'm here.
>Did you draw any conclusions
\from our reports?…
019.
^Aahh
>I'm thinking about it right now.
^Oreki-san is on the other side of the unlocked door and I'm doing something like this…
>Haa
>Hah
020.
*I'm so loud…
*How disgraceful.
*Aahh, I can't bear the embarrassment…
:pattering (water hitting water sound)
*I might…
*flatulate…
:>farting sound
>Sorry for keeping you waiting. Please, Oreki-san.
>Ah, yeah.
*It's strange to think that Chitanda doesn't care about things like this.
*Well, it's her house. Maybe I'm putting too much thought into it?
*My sister also carelessly runs around our house in just her panties…
#うろつき回る = rove, prowl, go cruising
*She left the toilet seat open!
*It's still warm.
*Just a moment ago Chitanda's naked ass was touching here…
021.
*Aaaa, I did it…
##幻滅、軽蔑
*Will he be disappointed in me? Will he be resenting me?
>Well then, now it's my turn right?
>I will summarize based on the formal record named “A Walk Through 50 Years of Kamiyama Highschool”.
*45 years ago
##指導者、思想、生真面目、敵前逃亡、歴、器 = ability?、武闘、派
*with the original members having been expelled or graduated, the Kamiyama student movement was coming to a close.
*That goes for the Red Partisans and its management of deciders too, so in his third year Jun Sekitani became the senior leader of the group.
*Sekitani had always been seriously invested in the ideology of the movement, but when he saw his comrades deserting before the enemy he realized he wasn’t fit to lead the group alone.
#alt: he wasn't skilled enough to be a leader.
#lit: was no vessel to stand above the people
*So Sekitani approached another armed combat organization from our school that was also afraid of its decline, the “Joined Revolution Fight” movement.
##合同、武装、演習、親交、追及、覚悟
*They underwent a joint armed training mission in the Southern Alps and a new friendship was formed between these two groups.
*Later they fused into a single group called “United Partisans” and swore to fight the teachers to the end.
*Alas, the pressure from teachers and police became more intense, so Sekitani accepted his expulsion and fled to the base of Mt. Haruna in the Gunma prefecture with 29 members.
>Jun Sekitani, a hero who didn't give in to the teachers until the end.
>And the literature club's collection “Hyouka” is eponymous of his deeds.
#either "naming that", or "giving praise"
\And the reason it didn't become a hero's tale is that many of his comrades got expelled with the victory still distant on the horizon.
>Thank you all for your work today.
\Let's create an essay based on Oreki's theory.
>See you, Chii-chan.
*But Oreki-san,
*if that’s the real story, why did I cry back then?
022.
>Oreki-san.
>Thank you for the other day.
<As a team and friendship building exercise, the classic literature club members are going to a hot spring!
#to strengthen our friendship
##兼ねて → thinking about the present and the future
@All together to the hot springs
@I want to go
@I want to go
<Hot springs!!
^And thus
@Aoyama-zou
*we went to stay at the guest house
*that Ibara's relatives operate.
>Chitanda
>Yes
>Let's go.
>I'm curious!
#Curtains from right to left: Men, Mixed, Women
>Huh, nobody here?
\Is it all right to use it while it's being remodeled?
>Looks like the recession is hitting leisure facilities especially hard.
^These are Satoshi's clothes?
^Why did he go into the mixed bath?
023.
>I wonder what kind of bath it will be.
>I'm looking forward to it.
^I knew this before, but her breasts are seriously huge.
^Will I really see them bare?
^These panties really lack anything extra…
#These look more like pants
^But the fact that she doesn't wear strange erotic underwear shows that she grew up in a good environment I guess.
>Ehehe
024.
^Oohh
^She's got a pretty thick bush there, it’s different from how I imagined.
^And it's covering a rather big area.
^Uh? How unexpected. She didn't shave her armpits?
^On the other hand, for a such a fine lady with family traditions, it makes sense to leave it natural.
^Oh!
^How could I bear letting her hide it with a towel?
<Ah
<Hey, Oreki-san.
>Come on, let's go.
025.
>Wow, what a phenomenal hot spring, Oreki-san!
>It’s pretty normal…
>Ah, Hōtarō, you came.
<Eh? Chitanda-san? Seriously?
>Eh, yes. We're all naked. Isn't this what you call naked socializing?…
#Strange phrasing makes me unsure what’s being communicated. Is “naked socializing” a special phrase?
<Ah
>Yeah
>……
:>Woosh
>Chitanda
026.
>Does this pique your curiosity?
<Yes,
\I'm totally curious.
>Because some day, something like this could be inside me!
>Chitanda, are you a virgin?
<Oreki-san! May I touch it?
<Yes, I'm a virgin!
>I see, me too.
>…So, should we do it now?
>
>If we're both interested we could just do it here and now, it would save me from wasting energy finding someone else.
#two virginities, also it's very energy saving that he doesn't have to look for a partner
<That means that you and I will be having sex, right?
>Yeah.
>I wonder how it will feel once we have sex.
<Well, it means we will become more intimate, right?
>Oreki-san, do you want to have sex with me?
>If I have to answer, then the answer is yes, I guess I do.
#lit: if you ask me whether I do or I don't, I guess I do.
#alt: if you press me
:<lick
:<lick
>And kissing is fine too? ///
>Yesh, lesh kish.
#very slurred
*Chitanda's tongue is sweet…
*It feels fantastic in my mouth when we’re swapping spit.
027.
*Oh, my fingers just sink in.
*Her breasts are unbelievably soft.
*I can't breath…
*Our breathing is in sync.
*Her smell is suffocatingly feminine.
>Haa (x3)
:>squeeze
>Her ass is soft too, so soft I can't get a good grip.
>Is she made of marshmallow?
028.
*I'm inside. All the way to the base.
*Hahaha, I finally pierced Chitanda.
*She's so warm inside.
*My body is moving on its own.
*This doesn't feel like me.
*Usually I don't do anything unnecessary.
*Could it be…
*Chitanda’s fault?
#lit: She? Is it her fault?
>Haa
>Hah
>Hah
*This is
*the absolute opposite of energy saving.
029.
>Chitanda, you feel so good.
>Haa
>Hah
>Hah
>Ha ha, you don't seem to be able to answer me.
>You seem exhausted, but I appreciate how you don’t tell me to stop or slow down.
<Let's go for the climax!!
<From now I'll think of you as only a piece of meat and do whatever I want!
030.
*Cumming… I’m still cumming, how long will I keep cumming?
*I'm getting completely emptied.
:>spurt
:>spurt
>Chitanda, suck the rest out and make it clean.
>You're not acting like yourself, Hōtarō.
>Wearing yourself out with her on your own initiative.
>Yeah…
>I'm surprised too how much I've changed.
*Up to now, Chitanda was a bit of an enigma for me,
*sort of mysterious, but also making me lose my nerve at times.
>But now, when I see her sucking my thing, her strange aura is falling away, and all I can see
\is a cute simple girl.
:>drool #sound of thick liquid overflowing #bottom bubbles
:\drool
:>erect #sound of flipping something erect
:>erect
>It seems I can let my guard down around her now.
#lit: It seems that I can make light of her from now
#I think it's meant as because she is no mystery anymore but a simple girl.
>For a different matter…
031.
>I'm surprised how sturdy your thing is, Hōtarō.
>When I saw it, even I got a little excited.
>Hehehe
<Hey, stop. Don't mess with me, Satoshi.
>No no no.
>Look! Look!
>If I press them together like this, they look like boyfriend and girlfriend.
*He looks serious.
*How frightening…
*But if I bluntly refuse him now he could start to hate me…
##露骨、拒絶、厄介
<Aah
>Haa
>Haa
>Haa
<If I do it like this it's like if I'm connecting to you.
>Hōtarō, together!
<Uuhh
>Ah… that was good, Hōtarō.
<Hey! Chitanda, since when were you watching.
>How come your sizes are totally different? I'm curious.
032.
>Huh? Chii-chan? Where are you?
>Ibara, were are all over here!
\Mayaka
\Mayaka-saan
<He⁉
\You're in the mixed bath, Chii-chan⁉
>It's alright, Mayaka-san. There are no other guests here.
>It's reserved only for the literature club.
<Eehh, that's not the point.
\You're inside there together with Oreki-san and Fuku-chan, aren't you?
<I can't believe it!
\Are you really fine? Oreki-san didn't attack you? Should I call for help?
>Hey, Ibara! Would you explain to me what is strange for girls being inside a mixed bath?
>But actually, I don't mind if you stay where you are.
>This is a proper mixed bath. Covering yourself with a bath towel or wearing a swimsuit is prohibited here.
>Oreki-san, we're all part of the literature club, we can’t exclude our members.
>……
>I mean, she said herself that she wouldn't come.
033.
>And up she goes, up she goes.
<Eeeeeak
>Hahaha… Ibara, even though you're cheeky and impudent, you're actually pretty small and light.
*Ah, she properly shaved her armpits.
<Hahahahah, I'm ticklish, s-stop it.
*Well, I guess it fits her.
<O-Oreki…
*Ho
<Hey! Put me down at once!
>I get it, I get it. Don't struggle.
034.
>Hop
>Oreki… Are you going to do it with me?
>You have a good sense of what's going on, as expected from a member of the manga club. People say small girls are lewd, do you think you’re an exception?
>What is that supposed to mean?
<How should I put it…
\It would be a lie to say that that thought didn't cross my mind when I realized I'm on an overnight trip together with boys…
<But then I was wondering whom to give my virginity,
\and as Fuku-chan is gay there's only Oreki left…
>What do you think, Satoshi?
>Databases don't make decisions. Mayaka can decide for herself.
>Ibara, grip firmly
<Wah
<Aaahh
<It hurts, it hurts!
<It's like you're breaking me up.
035.
<You're so mean… This will not become a rose colored memory at all.
>Relax, high school life isn't only rose colored. ///why いない instead of じゃない
*This goes for me too, for Satoshi, for Chitanda,
*and finally for Jun Sekitani.
>Is that so? Hōtarō, you just ate up all the girls in the literature club.
>Even if you don't call it rose colored, it's looks like you have a flower hanging on each arm.
*If you look at it from the outside…
*Yeah, if you look from the outside, Jun Sekitani was simply a hero too.
<Hey, Oreki. Don't think of something else while I'm having my first time.
*As the leader of an organization with 29 people under him, he had a dictatorial aura where nobody would voice anything against him.
*Was Jun Sekitani satisfied?
*The answer to that questions
*won't be found on school grounds
*but in that mountain base they went to.
>Everyone please assemble, I want to continue our previous meeting now.
>Hōtarō, when you make that face, it means you've discovered something, right?
>Oreki-san, I think there is still something we have to know about that case.
>It's alright, I think I can complete most of the picture now.
036.
>We should have given more thought on the name “Hyouka”.
>Its clear meaning is that Jun Sekitani's story isn't a real hero tale.
>The passage about the victims could also be read as a sacrifices.
>Yes, it can indeed. The kanjis were originally the same.
>The uncertainty about being a hero means
>that at least up to a given point in time he was considered a hero, right?
>That means probably until the time he left school.
>So something happened afterwards that made him not being a hero anymore?
>Yes, that’s what I’m thinking.
\Your brain's working well when you have a dick inside you.
>Shut up.
\But we still don't know what happened.
>But the person who wrote “Hyouka” must know what happened.
>How about we ask them?
>Alumni of the literature club and author of the second volume of “Hyouka”
>is a woman with the maiden name Yōko Koriyama who must be around 60 years old by now. And that would be our school's librarian Itoigawa.
*The truth about the history of the literature club
#lit: truth about the literature club that has history
037.
>I can tell what you want to ask.
>You're interested in the student movement from 45 years ago.
>Sekitani-san… that brings back memories.
>But why is it that you're suddenly interested in this story?
>It's because
>Jun Sekitani is my uncle.
>Itoigawa-sensei, please enlighten us. What happened to the 29 people who went into the mountains.
>Why did Uncle cease to be a hero⁉
038.
>T-yama-san,
>what made you come here to the mountains?
>The reason?… I came to bring the revolution forward.
>After I realized that we had to become revolution soldiers, I came here to plan how to fight a revolutionary war in a developed nation…
>That's not what I mean. I want to have a more realistic answer.
>What personal feelings and thoughts did you come here with?
>……
>What shall I say?
<Why do you apply make-up when you're here in the mountains? Why do you wear a ring, why do you let your hair grow⁉
#hypocrite, her hair is just as long
\You combed your hair during training, did I see that right?
#drill, practice
\Life in the mountain base is not so sweet as to allow for that!
<Sekitani-san!
<With such weak resolve, we the Joined Revolution Fight are in no position to work together with The Red Partisans!
<We
\can't have criticism against our comrade T-yama being used against all of us Red Partisans. /// 郡山の?? I guess that's her full name
<Therefore we have to define how everybody needs to change for the revolution movement.
039.
<One, two, one, two
<We're making a revolution!
<One, two, one, two
>K-jima-san?
>Yea…h?
<K-tou! K-jima!
<Do you know what you were doing! What the hell are you doing in a place like this?
<These two dirtied this holy place!
<For what they have done, we have to push to the limits of reviewing.
#it sounds kinda strange that they decide a process and then push it’s limits? It rather looks like they are acting withing the limits of the decided process. Otherwise, what’s the point?
#lit: We came to the point to have to push the limits of the review requirement, regarding the matter of these two.
<We will use the punching method to give them guidance.
<No objections!
<K-tou! Reflect on your shameless actions.
<See reason through our review process.
#lit: Meet the demanded review process!
<Guidance is something given by everybody. Next is your turn, Y-ya.
<Review your actions, this is a revolutionary movement.
<Next, O-saki!
<K-tou! You called me a ‘petit bourgeois’ before!
<B-tou and S-guchi, you do K-jima!
>Y-hon-kun, what are you doing?
>Ehm
\I'm helping her with her baby's diaper.
<In a revolution it's more important than ever that everybody can accomplish their tasks independently.
<Furthermore, a revolution baby is everyone's baby.
\Do you think a revolution can be successful when you're acting like a married couple?
<I request self-reflection by Y-hon-kun.
<No objections!
040.
<O-saki, when you hit K-tou, you blurted out how he called you ‘petit bourgeois’, that's a personal sentiment!
<This is lessening how much we can help K-tou in reviewing his actions.
##矮小化
>O-saki-kun, how do you plan to review that you didn't personally participate in the 12-18 conflict?
<We demand your personal review by recreating the 12-18 conflict here.
<Who wants to play the role of the teacher?
<You can do it!
<Go for it, O-saki-kun!
<Kill the teacher!
*Haa (x3)
<………………ugh…
<Someone……
<Tissue paper please…
<Yes, O-saki-kun?
\……thank you.
<You thank me⁉
\You bastard, do you think your review is over with this?
<I’ve had to reconsider because of your weakness, I can’t allow to let you sleep tonight!
<Let's eat.
<Suiton,
\tasty suiton…
T/N: Flour dumplings in soup.
>We hit O-saki and K-tou in the face, but in the end they didn't really review much.
#surprise, people don't get enlightened by getting hit in the face
>To be reborn again, you have to at least faint once.
>I will aim for the abdomen from now on.
041.
<O-saki! Let your soul become the revolution and it will be your victory!
<Stay strong! Be reborn as a revolution soldier.
<You can do it!
>O-saki has died while hanging.
<What⁉
<Fine! It's not us who killed O-saki.
#”It’s fine!” or “Fine, if you’re that concerned about it” type vibe?<He brought his death upon himself with his defeatism towards being reviewed!
<T-yama, S-tou, and N-pou are lacking awareness for the revolution.
<We have give them stricter guidance.
>My handling of weapons is lacking…
#lit: managing of weapons is insufficient
>I deeply regret that I brought the party into a crisis.
<That's not it, S-tou! The problem is that you only joined us because you had the money in mind that we made with operation M.
<What else can we do than to give you a thorough review!
<Why do you have to resort to this…
<What is the point in beating me up…
<You worm!
042.
<It's up to you to think about what the review means!
<I can't… anymore…
#not sure who is speaking, could also be "he can't no more"
>Damn, K-jima has died too.
>Hrm, he died by his own defeatist attitude. You don't have to pay respect to a dead man with such a disgraceful face.
<T-yama-san, explain yourself!
<You're trying to use your femininity as a weapon.
<I, I just don't want to die.
<I don't want to share the same fate as K-jima-san…
<But, I really don't know what I need to do to review myself…
>Let T-yama and N-pou review by having them bury K-tou's dead body.
>Haa
>Haa
>Haaa
>Haaa
>Hah
<I will fully review myself and become a splendid revolution fighter.
<Hit with more force!
<Yes!
<Have a good look at K-jima's face. That's the face of a loser.
<Yes!
<T-yama! Up until now we helped you with your review by hitting you,
<but to show that you can fully review yourself, you have to hit yourself!
>Eh… yes!
043.
<Hit your lips, the source of your pride.
<Yes
<Smash your high nose!!
<Yes
<Aim at your eyes to destroy your flirtatious gaze!!
<Don't rest!
<Don't be weak!
>Come, look at the mirror!
>Look what became of the face you used to seduce all those men!
>N-pou has admitted that he had thought of running away.
<Hit his limbs with firewood and tie him up so that he can't flee.
#I'm really confused who this is person is.
#it should be N-pou, judging from the previous panel
#but N-pou looks male in the bathing scene on page 41
#but this person speaks in female form and calls herself Mieko
#is this (Mieko) T-yama?
<Someone… Can someone please untie me.
<My hands are hurting.
<Please… cut my hands free.
<Mother, I'll become a revolution fighter, I'll hold on…
#Not sure what this means here, is it like he’s crying for his mom and then an unrelated two thoughts, or is it like he’s speaking to his mom in a delusion; if the latter I still don’t know what I’ll hold on means
<Yeah, it's fine if you don't cut them…
<Shut up!
<Yuuyake koyake no akatombo.
#<Evening glow small fire red dragonfly.
#or better keep it Japanese?
<Rock paper scissors, one, two, three.
T/N: A Japanese children song, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqg00wAFgZQ
<To make our dream of communism reality,
\we have to increase our efforts by an amount the same as these six people, who died from their own weakness, or we won’t be victorious.
<I want each of you to check your own activities and bring all issues to light.
>T-oku-kun, despite you being part of the management team, it seems like you have a lot to say while we're not around.
>If you have something to say, say it now!
044.
>I was thinking of pushing you aside and becoming number two myself.
#Koriyama
<………
<And… how are you going to review on that?
<T-oku!
<You were trying to make the party your own! There is no way you can review that.
<Death penalty!
>You’re full of shit!
#Could be “Don’t make a fool of me.”, “Don’t joke with me.”, “Don’t deceive me.” Or any number of other things
<I hated that balloon hag from the beginning.
<Sekitai, Koriyama, people like you being leaders, it's ridiculous!!
##ちゃんちゃらおかしいとは、（他人が）あまりに身の程知らずで、噴出したくなるほどおかしいさま。
<You're a Stalinist who's trying to make the communist revolution your own!
<Die!
<We'll pierce him one after another!
<Aim at his heart.
<Aim for the carotid artery and stab him from the back of his neck!
>Are you still alive?
>Fine, we’ll have you strangled.
>Y-saki! At the time of T-oku's death penalty you stayed in the back and didn't participate!
>I demand that you review on that.
<Well, the thing is, I see the same problem as T-oku-san did.
<You're being too calculating, using other people as you like, and so on…
<Y-saki
<I have to sentence you to death like T-oku for your Stalinist ideology.
<Because of the counter revolution of these two, this is not a safe place anymore, we have no choice but to move.
<In this crisis the party is facing right now, it's more important than ever that everyone reviews their actions!
045.
>K-ko-san, you think because you carry Y-ya-kun's baby inside your belly, you don't need to review. But I think we spoil you too much, don't you agree?
>O-tsuki-san, you might be smart but your only contribution to the communist revolution is information, like reading books.
\You're a weakling who'll give up at the first chance you get.
#lit: a defeatist who says words like "defeat" easily
>I… shouldn't have come to the mountain…
*Mt. Kashō
*The new base after the move. #transfer
>Y-moto-san, how have you been affected by the deaths of these eight people?
>For me it looks like they just came here to help out. Y-saki never hesitated to break a sweat when we needed a hand.
>Y-moto really said that?
>You remember, during the driving he didn't follow the central committee's instructions, said his own decision was correct.
>Dear, please review.
<It's not me, it's the central committee that is logically contradicting itself.
>We're back.
\And we brought food from home.
>Look at you, Y-da-kun, you had a bath I see.
>Yes, we had some time while the car was in repair…
>That wasn't right, I assume?
<You bathed alone?
<No matter what you might have thought, these kind of actions demand a review.
<Y-da!!
<You think you are in a privileged position because you're part of the central committee?
#PR: You think it’s fine because you’re in the central committee? With that kind of privileged attitude there’s just one thing to do!#lit: you think you're in the cc, what kind of privileged way of speaking!
046.
>Y-da, you are expelled from the central committee.
>Start again at an entry level position.
>Sekitani-san and I will have to descend temporarily from the mountain to secure our funds. We entrust the base to you until our return.
<Yes!
>Y-da-san, when the locals become aware of us the police will be here in no time.
\I will take you with us when it comes to a fight.
>If I have a weapon… I… will fight too…
*Mt. Myōgi, Kagozawa
##妙義山 籠沢
<If… the revolution succeeds through my death… I will gladly die…
<But I can't see a revolution in this shit…
<Sekitani!!
\You're the one that should review yourself!!
>Sekitani and I got arrested on our way back to the mountain.
>We both were minors at that time, so our names were not published,
\we were reported as leaders S. and K.
#lit: young boy leader S and young girl leader K
047.
>Those were
>terrible times.
>Yeah…
>It's not a nice thing to look back to.
#lit: it's not such a great thing
*But to our friends that died I want to say this.
*We all had the dream of a revolution.
*For all humans to have equal rights in every aspect.
*For everybody to be able to freely unfold their own talents.
#lit: perfectly open their talents
*I was captured by the dream to create a world where the unfulfilled ideals of our world came true.
*I was serious to make a world that nobody had thought possible.
#lit?: a world that nobody understands
*It was a time where many children had a dream about such a world.
*And I was just one of those children.
##虜
*Shortly before we became captured in the mountains,
*I saw them.
*How they stepped
*into the rain of light.
*I wonder if I will be able to step into there too sometime…
>Farewell
048.
>Well
>But what about the image on the cover…
>Ah right.
\The rabbit is us revolutionaries.
\The tiger that gets eaten by the rabbit symbolizes capitalism, the police, political authority.
#lit: governmental authority of the politicians
>The spectators on the side are common folk and people who didn't stand up and join our fight.
#I would replace the "and" with a ",", but it's literally "and"
>Teacher, do you know why the anthology of the literature club is called “Hyouka”?
>No, that is something Sekitani-san has insisted on deciding by himself.
#he asked for a big favor?
\I'm sorry, I don't know the meaning.
^You don't know? Do you really not know it?
^It's such a trivial message.
>Oreki…
>You don't know? It should be clear from the story you just told⁉
<Don't you see the simple word play in “Hyouka”.
<Translate Hyouka into English!
>Ice cream…
<Ah!
\I scream!
>I see, a word play.
>A homophone?
\A simpler riddle than I expected.
>Looks like Uncle was someone with a sense of humor!
<What are you thinking, Chitanda?
>“Hyouka” means “I scream”!
049.
>Huh? What do you mean?
<Do what Jun Sekitani is telling you! Scream "Hyouka"!
<Ehm, yes!
<Hyouka!!
<……
<………Ehm, Oreki-san…?
<You still don't get it?
<Who was the one who screamed originally? That was the "head" of the group, leader "S", Jun Sekitani!
<Now replace the head of the word you just shouted with S.
#note for editor: please change all "tu" to "tsu". That is the modern phonetic spelling.
T/N: Explanation to this riddle in the translation afterword
<Review!
<Jun Sekitani continues to demand review on his and his comrades actions,
\and he shows this to us, the descendants of the literature club.
#it's called "demand review", I'm not grammatically sure whom he demands that from, himself or the lit-club descendants. But the next page fits this version better
<So he even put it inside the name of the anthology!
050.
>So that's how it is.
>So this is how Sekitani-san tried to pay his debt…
>What are you saying?
>It's too late to pay any debt…
#lit: from now on, can pay ones debt, how
<It's because you had no courage!!
<Teacher, that goes for you too.
<And for Sekitani.
<You had no courage!
>We had no… courage…
051.
>I remember now.
>I had asked Uncle what review meant.
>Hey, what does review mean?
>Uncle, tell me, what is it?
>What is a review?
<Review isn’t something you can learn from people!!
<It is something everybody has to learn and decide for them self!!
052.
<I'm going to help you with your review now!
<Try to properly understand and criticize yourself.
#lit: awareness of oneself and self-criticism
>Haa
>Hah
\Haa
>Haa (x2)
>Eru… we were just tiny parts… pawns in the machine…
\Our enemy the police, the teachers, and also the revolutionist me and my comrades,
>everybody only played the roles given to them by the system…
>The stage substituted our own thoughts with our assigned role
\and we only competed in being louder or more radical.
>We succumbed the sweet temptation that only we had finally reached righteousness… and suppressed our lingering feelings of doubt.
\We had run away from the trouble of thinking for ourselves…
#one by one
##すり替える、競い合う、辿り着く
>Knowing the system, the only method to save your mind from its control
\is to not make light of the small doubts inside yourself and continue to care.
>Hh
>Hah
>It means to have the courage not to withdraw when you can't accept the terms…
#well, could also mean "when they don't accept", when you come to no agreement. I added "the terms"
>If you can't do that, you'll become a figure that doesn't doubt the place you’re assigned.
#lit/alt: doesn't doubt the reasoning behind the position that was assigned to you
>Eru, you too will die while being alive like me.
#PR: And if that’s the case Eru, you’ll die while you’re still alive, just like me.
#why?? what has Eru to do with his shit?
#??Eru, if you live the same as me, you will find your death.
053.
*After the heavy movement stopped and he separated from me
*the usual calmness returned to Uncle's face
*until he suddenly became very nervous.
*He told me insistently to forget everything that had just happened.
*But I could only cry.
*I was scarred
*because Uncle had told me
*I would die while living.
*Soon after that,
*Uncle left the house.
*And with that
*he cut all ties with my family forever.
>I did remember everything from that time.
\I always believed that Oreki-san would lead me to the right answer.
>Thank you so much.
>From all my heart.
054.
>Well…
>I was just lucky…
>Yes.
\Just lucky!
*Eru Chitanda finished reviewing her uncle.
##成し遂げる
055.
*Dear
*Jun Sekitani-dono
*After leaving the Chitandas
*you headed for Palestine and then your whereabouts became unknown.
*It's not known whether you still live under this sun or are long dead.
*I judge you.
#or criticize
*What you did was nothing worthy of a hero #hero's tale
*and what you did to the young girl cannot be excused.
*Even more, you tried to preserve your influence with the rhetoric trick on the anthology,
#lit: with anthology rhetoric
*trying to glorify your past like Teacher Itoigawa.
*You still have not reviewed on your actions and I can only condemn your attitude.
*By the way,
*I'm currently in an interesting situation.
*The position you found yourself in at that time
*matches my current position a little.
056.
*Here inside the closed space of the literature club
@Study Preparation Room
#lit: Preparation room for various/unspecified studies
*my words and actions possess real influence on people.
*Where I go, they assemble,
*and if something happens, they rely on my judgment.
*But we won't come to the same tragedy as you.
*45 years after have passed,
*and civilization is slowly, but steadily progressing.
*Modern society doesn't fall in blind beliefs anymore.
*Be it a sole truth ideology or religion, an idealistic political system,
*or a leader with no flaws,
*we won't believe in that.
*People with different opinions being restraint and punished,
*people who don't obey being sent to death,
*humanity has little by little, through lots of refinement and by paying compensations constantly,
#compensations?
*overcome the belief in such superstitions of the existence of absolute justness.
*You thought of ignoring the endeavor and tried to become a hero in an instant.
#alt:
#irrationally believing in such an absolute justness
#the superstition of thinking such an absolute justness could exist
#while paying her compensations humanity is little by little polishing
##代償、研磨、克服
>Chitanda, Satoshi, Ibara,
\I demand a review from all of you.
>You will all undress and review each other.
\Review assistance shall be performed by hitting each other.
057.
>What did you just say?
\Oreki, is something wrong with your head?
>That statement doesn't fit Hōtarō at all.
>Are you trying to imitate Jun Sekitani?
>I'm troubled.
\I've never participated in a brawl.
<Eh⁉ Wait.
<Wait a moment, Chii-chan!
<Chitanda-san! Really?
<Chitanda!!
<Are you stupid?
058.
>Here I go!
<Did you not understand the story of your uncle…?
<Oreki, you have to review on what you just said!
>……
>Good punch.
>Yeay
*Rain of Light END
059.
Afterword by the translator
Don't forget to read the foreword of the author.
Read my following comments last (or ignore them).
WTF did I just read? That escalated badly.
I picked up this work because I like it when there is a solid story in hentai, but I was really disappointed how stupid the story turned out to be. I watched the anime in parallel and this looked like a very gruesome reinterpretation of the plot, only adding pointless violence. Seriously, how unrealistic and put up. No serious complaints about the murders? Nobody questioning the pointless beating? How could someone be so brainwashed? What sick mind must the author have to do this to Hyouka?
Well, needless to say I was quite shocked when I learned that these incidents were all based on real occurrences, as the author's foreword explains. And the author didn't even exaggerate (though the compression into few pages surely shifts the view). For all of you who are interested in what precisely has happened in reality, I highly recommend this article: [unseenjapan.com] https://unseenjapan.com/united-red-army-japan/ (it's pretty long, you can start reading from "The United Red Army"). Hard to believe that this is real history of modern Japan (1971!). I hope this helps you to see this work in a better light.
Btw, to those who have watched the anime, what do you think of this adaptation? I learned a lot about history which was very interesting for me, but the integration into the Hyouka storyline doesn't fit too well. In this work Sekitani is a clear monster (that rape scene, was that really necessary??) which absolutely contradicts his nice personality Chitanda describes him to have. Oreki is also portrayed too violent in my opinion, especially Ibara's first time was more sad than funny. Chitanda's toilet scene was nice but also not well integrated (what was the point storywise?). I loved it how they kissed unintentionally after reading her diary, that fit well :D.
Until next time,
Shapes
Explanation of the Hyouka riddle (page 049)
ヒョ-ウ-カ-ッ！！
hyo-u-ka-tsu
↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
so-u-ka-tsu
#editor note: can you please copy the two frames here (the 2nd and 5th)
Attentive readers might have spotted that the title is hyouka, but it became hyo-u-ka-tsu here. In the Japanese version the "tsu" "appeared" when Eru shouted the word (in the frame above). Japanese shares the same sign for the sound "tsu" and for the "lack of a sound" sound. That latter is just a smaller version of the sign of the former: ツ and ッ. In case of Eru's scream it would indicate that she used up her breath, not that she added "tsu" to her scream. The Japanese word for review, "soukatsu", ends with a "tsu" which is identified with the "lack of sound" from screaming "hyouka_". Substituting these signs is quite a stretch imho, definitely not as obvious as Hōtarō likes it to appear.
This post has been edited by Shapes: Oct 27 2020, 16:18
Shape's proofreading thread, Various scripts that need proofreading
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