Rakusho no Goku #1
2009.11.15(Sun)For a while, I concurrently translate both of ‘Hyohaku(漂舶)’ and ‘Rakusho no Goku(落照の獄)’.
Juuni Kokuki — 十二国記
(The Twelve Kingdoms)
Rakusho no Goku — 落照の獄
(A jail of the declining Light)
By Ono Fuyumi — 小野不由美
Translated by o6asan
1
“– Daddy, are you going to be a killer?”
Abruptly asked from behind, Eiko(瑛庚) stopped with startle. When he turned around feeling a knife having pointed at himself, he found out his little daughter pausing there and looking at him by her childlike eyes.
The girl, who seemed to have returned from the garden, looked standing on crossing the corridor and dedicated a crystal basin by her small hands. The transparent basin was filled with clean water, and a pure-white water lily was floating. The end of summer, the strong sunshine was cut out by eaves and made a dark shadow in the corridor. A white flower that floated around her breast seemed to be lighted up faintly.
“What’s up?”
Eiko(瑛庚), awkwardly making the smile, bent himself forward to his daughter.
“I never become a killer.”
When he patted her head, Riri(李理) looked at Eiko(瑛庚) by her pure eyes. She stared up at Eiko(瑛庚) with a wistful eye for a while, and gave a strong nod. The water lily in the basin shook.
“Do you take it to your mother?”
As Eiko(瑛庚) showed the basin by his eye line, Riri(李理) rapidly floated a smile. It was a young carefree one.
“This for brother Hogetsu(蒲月). They say he returns from Bo-shu(茅州) today.”
Oh, Eiko(瑛庚) smiled.
“Take care and go.”
Eiko(瑛庚) said and his daughter nodded and started walking with an eager look. She walked away with minding the water not to be spilt, and was like a person worked at a big undertaking.
While he just gazing after his daughter, she went down the stairs in the corridor to the courtyard. She took a few steps forward in the courtyard where white cut stones were spread, and went out of the shadow that deep eaves made. At the moment she walked into the strong sunshine, she disappeared in the light.
Her outline being blurred in white, her small back was partly transparent. It went away so that it could vanish.
Trying to call her to stop, Eiko(瑛庚) managed to control himself.
After a little pause, his eyes adjusted to the light. The small courtyard, all sides were enclosed by the buildings, was filled with the sunlight. His daughter, who put on colorful clothes and showed still a serious look, was carrying the basin slowly. Eiko(瑛庚) breathed a sigh of relief but felt a pain in his chest. For a moment he lost his daughter because of the bright sunlight dazzling and its sense of loss made a heavy hard stiffness in his mind.
Riri(李理) turned eight years old. And, that child living in Shiso(芝草) was eight, too. Child’s name is Shunryo(駿良), and perhaps, the most famous child in Shiso(芝草) at this time.
— Because he was killed by a monster named Shudatsu(狩獺).
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