Rakusho no Goku #7
2010.03.17(Wed)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
Lately, Seika(清花) was usually angry to say so. After getting angry, she always said that she would want to be divorced. Canceling the marriage, she said she wanted to return Senseki(仙籍) and get back to one of ordinary people.
To make Seika(清花) understood, Eiko(瑛庚) had no idea what to talk. In his business, Eiko(瑛庚) is not good at throwing away reason and talking about things only by feelings. Probably because of it, the more he tried to calm her, the more she used to get angry. Therefore, Seika must be gone someday. — like his first wife. The last word of Keishi(恵施) was “I am not a fool that you think of.
Both of first and second wives say the same words because they might be more correct.
He, who is lost in melancholic thought, can see the document written down the passage of miserable crimes.
The victim is Shunryo(駿良) who was eight. His daughter Riri(李理) is eight now, too. The thought makes him hurt. Since parting from Riri(李理) at the corridor, he leaves hurt feelings behind. It never goes away from inside him even by a lot of sighs.
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Around midnight, a person visited his study.
“Haven’t you taken a sleep yet, sir?”
His study was called on by the person who is Hogetsu(蒲月). As Eiko(瑛庚) had got tense in expectation of Seika(清花), he relaxed his shoulders in a little relief when he recognized Hogetsu(蒲月). And he remembered Riri(李理) said that Hogetsu(蒲月) would return this day.
“Have you returned this time? Though Riri(李理) was very looking forward to your coming back.”
‘Yes’, Hogetsu(蒲月) smiled. By his both hands, he held up the tray a tea-things was set on.
“I came back earlier. I was playing with Riri(李理) some length. I did not call to you, Shikei(司刑). Because you looked very busy, sir.”
‘Oh’, Eiko(瑛庚) smiled, too. Actually, Hogetsu(蒲月) is not a son of Eiko(瑛庚) though Riri(李理) calls him “Elder brother”. He is a grandson.
When Eiko(瑛庚) approaching 50, he was selected from among local officials to a national official and become a sen’nin(仙人). He and his first wife had two sons and a daughter, and the elder son and the daughter grew up in those days and lived on their own. When Eiko(瑛庚) becoming the sen’nin(仙人), it’s possible that they also became sen’nin(仙人), but they chose to stay at the lower world because they had already married and they were getting older than he, died before Eiko(瑛庚) knew it. Eiko(瑛庚)’s second son who had not reached adulthood at that time stayed with him, and went to Shogaku(少学) of Saku-shu(朔州), and became a Sen’nin(仙人) as an official later. At this time, the second son worked as a state official for Bo-shu(茅州) in the west of this Ryu(柳国). Hogetsu(蒲月) is a son of him. He came to Shiso(芝草) and relied on Eiko(瑛庚) who is his grandfather, later he entered Shogaku(少学) of Saku-shu(朔州) as well as his father. Hogetsu(蒲月) is more brilliant than his father — and also his grandfather Eiko(瑛庚), went straight to Daigaku(大学), and graduated last year, and he became a country official. He finally accustomed himself to work, had the emotional capacity to take the days off, and went to pay his respects to his father of Bo-shu(茅州).
“Wouldn’t you take a little rest, sir?”
Eiko(瑛庚) nodded Hogetsu(蒲月)’s words. They moved to the table near the window. Hogetsu(蒲月) set the tea things on it.
“Thanks so much for caring.”
Hogetsu(蒲月) shook his head for Eiko(瑛庚)’s words.
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