Kaitou Saint Tail Tankoubon Five Chapter 21 Ran in Nakayoshi July 1996 Disclaimer: This translation is meant as a guide for those who wish to read the manga. Please don't steal this translation or do anything illegal with it. Please don't use this for commercial use or sell it, etc. >.< Another note is that I am translating with Japanese One basic knowledge- there are very well mistakes in this. I welcome all help/corrections. Arigatou, minna. NOTE: Emi's chat is sort of hard...if things sound weird, then I was trying to translate it as literally as possible. ^^ Sore ja! -Meimi Translation by Meimi (KSaintTail@aol.com) Ocotber 11, 1999 %thoughts (side notes) [narration] $flashbacks ------------------------------------------------------------ pg 124/125 Kaitou Saint Tail Chapter 21 Takaramono wa Sugu Soba ni (Treasured Thing Right Beside You) pg 126 Asuka: $ ...you look like her. $ I can't help thinking that you look like this girl...! Meimi: % The girl Asuka Jr. loves...girl he loves... pg 127 Kyouko: ...Meimi!! Meimi: Ah... Ryouko: Geez, Meimi...class is over. Kyouko: You've been so out of it all during class, the only one Sister gave homework to was you... Meimi: R-right... Meimi: % But... pg 128 Meimi: % Asuka Jr.'s words...they keep running inside my head... Ryouko: Oh, right! Asuka Jr., you help her! If you help, it'll only take fifteen minutes, right!! Asuka: I... Idiot! What's the point of doing it, if you don't do work yourself?! pg 129 Meimi: WHAT'S WITH THAT?! Asuka: WHAT'S WRONG WITH TELLING THE TRUTH!! Girls: % Here we go again... Meimi: I...it's okay, Ryouko-chan. I'll do it myself. Both: (Wha?) Ryouko: (Huh?) Kyouko: (They didn't start up again?) Asuka: ... Asuka: $ ...you look like her. $ I can't help thinking that you look like this girl...! Asuka: % Wha... % Why am I thinking that...now... Manato: Asuka!! pg 130 Manato: Do you know about the "Prominence Crown"? Asuka: ...oh, yeah. That's the one they're displaying at the F Art Museum now, right? Manato: Don't you think Saint Tail will definitely target it? (Scoop! Scoop!) Ryouko: What are you talking about? Manato: "At the end of the rainbow, a treasured thing is waiting." Kyouko: What's that mean?! Manato: The "Prominence Crown" was property the Austrian royal family left behind, writings say. And this crown... The seven jewels in the crown were supposedly created by spilling out of the end of the rainbow. pg 131 Manato: Garnets, topazes, emeralds, saphirres... Kyouko: Seven color of jewels, how pretty~! Manato: But... There's a famous story, about how the Star Ruby in the middle of the crown disappearred... People say that it was stolen, but it seems nobody can prove it... But! The Star Ruby has been missing for more than TEN YEARS!! And it seems like it'll be bid on at an auction...there's no WAY that this won't catch Saint Tail's eye!! (THIS'LL BE ON THE FRONT PAGE~~!!) Asuka: You really looked a lot of stuff up... pg 132 Meimi: I went to go see the crown too... Kyouko: Ooh, I wonder if I could go, too? Meimi: % Unfortunately... % Saint Tail doesn't want to steal it. % (Too bad.) Seira: ...oh! It's Meimi-chan's father...! Genichirou: Hi! Seira-chan, thank you for being such good friends with Meimi. Seira: No need to thank me. pg 133 Genichirou: I came here to pray today. Seira: Oh...is it about something that is...troubling you? Genichirou: ...well... The three of us as a family, went to the F Art Museum. Ever since we went to see the "Prominence Crown", Eimi-san...she's been acting strangely. Not feeling well at all, really depressed... What should I do to cheer her up? Seira: Let's pray!! I'm sure God will grant you power...! pg 134 Genichirou: Seira-chan...thank you... Meimi: ...I see, so it was since then that Mama's been depressed... Seira: Meimi-chan, you've been acting depressed as well...your father said that you're worrying him. Meimi: I-I'm totally fine! See! I'm going to go ask Mama about it directly! (Leave it to me!) Seira: % Meimi-chan... pg 135 Eimi: ...what? Meimi: Mama, let's talk. You've been so depressive... Does it have something to do with the "Prominence Crown"?! Eimi: ...thank you, Meimi. So you realized. ...yes... It might help to talk about it... pg 136 Eimi: ...you know that I was a kaitou? Meimi: Y....yeah. Eimi: ...in a city far away from here... I was called "Kaitou Lucifer". "The devil descending from the sky," they said. I was a nasty, evil thief, who stole the precious posessions of sinless people one after the other... Causing commotion throughout the world... pg 137 Meimi: And after, you never said anything to me about this? Eimi: N-no way, I used it as excercise for my nerves... ....but Meimi, you'd never do anything bad anyway. I know. But I wanted to test my skills...no matter what, I never wanted to stop being a kaitou, was what I meant to do... pg 138 Meimi: "Meant to?" Then was there like some person who was chasing after you, even if it meant inevitable death?! Eimi: ...huh? Meimi: N-no-no-NOTHING NOTHING NOTHIIIING! Eimi: Then...my RIVAL appeared! Even remembering it now, I feel sick! The only other girl kaitou in the whole city, that I hated so much!! Hating someone so much-- how dare she steal the game I loved so much, that SNAKE!! Lady: OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!! Meimi: Ma...Mama... (...really hates to lose...) pg 139 Eimi: Then, one night, the police were close after me. It was that girl's fault...and I sprained my ankle. It really was a deathly pinch...but then. I heard someone who had realized I was there... Meimi: It was Papa, right!! Eimi: Papa had... A small apartment when he was training to be a magician... Gennichirou: $ I'm sorry...I don't have that much money, and no $ medicine... $ (It hurts, right?) Eimi: $ Mind your own business!! $ And especially don't talk so loudly!! pg 140 Eimi: $ Because I can't be caught!! $ (Are you even listening to me?!) Gennichirou: $ Oh, right! One, Two, Three...! Gennichirou: $ This is the only trick I can do, but it'll hide you, $ right? pg 141 Eimi: After that, every time we met, he filled both my hands with flowers...just flowers...that was the only magic Papa could do then. ...I was so happy... He would do anything he could do for me, he would do with all his might, just to make me happy. And I thought...how stupid everything I'd been doing up until then was... Eimi: And that was when...I stopped being a kaitou. There was only one thing that I stole that I didn't return... I really meant to return it... I couldn't return the Star Ruby from the "Prominence Crown". When I tried to, I ran into that girl again...and she stole it. Meimi: % Wha... pg 142 Eimi: ...and that's it. Just seeing that crown, I remembered... Meimi: Cheer up, Mama!! I'll keep this a secret from Papa!! Eimi: Papa knows about all of it. He's just never said anything about it... pg 143 Meimi: Seira! I'm going to return the crown's Star Ruby!! Seira: ...the location is the same that they used for the auction before. It might be better to avoid this...Asuka Jr. is finding out more data, maybe... You'll have to take the Star Ruby back at the warehouse that they're keeping it in...! pg 144 Meimi: One... Two... Three!! Note: Tomorrow night, I'm going to the F Art Museum for the "Star Ruby". --St. Tail Asuka: % Saint Tail...! Asuka: So she really is going to... (Didn't think Sawatari'd be right...) Meimi: % The person Asuka Jr. loves... % What should I do, Mama... pg 145 Asuka: Y-you haven't gone home yet? Meimi: ...neither have you... Asuka: $ ...you look like her. $ I can't help thinking that you look like this girl...! Girl: (Oh...um, those two...) Girl: HIIIIII!! pg 146 Girl: Hi! I'm opening up a fortune-teller's shop near this school! Meimi: Um... Girl: Oh, you should definitely come with your BOYFRIEND... Meimi/Asuka: Bo...bo... ... Girl: Hm? Hm? Oh, how cuuuuuuute- Hey! You, over there!! Welcome! I'm opening a fortune-telling shop~~~!! pg 147 Girl: (Please come~! Oh, you over there!) Asuka: ...I know you wouldn't want to go with me anyway... Meimi: D... Don't say that!! (Ah...) pg 148 Asuka: ...the practice homework. Don't look at it unless you don't understand it at all!! It...it isn't like I did it especially for you!! Meimi: T... Asuka: Study...study it!! pg 149 Meimi: Thank you... Meimi: God, forgive this, for I have no tricks or gimmicks. One! Two! pg 150 Saint Tail: THREE!! Seira: Good luck, Meimi-chan! Ruby: (Kyu!) Saint Tail: Leave it to me! This is for Papa and Mama! pg 151 Seira: ...please grant us God's divine protection... Saint Tail: % Found it! That's the Star Ruby! ...but where's Asuka Jr.? Arrow: Right here Asuka: I'll catch you tonight...! pg 152 Saint Tail: One... Two... THREE!! pg 153 Saint Tail: H...huh? That easy? Where are the policemen? Girl: That's because...the owner of this warehouse would never let policemen here! Saint Tail: % Maybe outside...? pg 154 Asuka: You won't run away today!! Saint Tail: % Asuka Jr...! Saint Tail: One! Two! THREE!! Asuka: WHA!! pg 155 Asuka: UWAAAAAAAAAH!! Ah! Saint Tail: I'm sorry! But you're the one person that I can't be caught by, no matter what!! Girl: We put the Star Ruby up for auction as a decoy to lure you out... Kaitou...Lucifer. pg 156 Girl: I've finally...found you...!! pg 157 Saint Tail: % I can't be caught by you, no matter what! Asuka: % I...why do I want to catch her... % Ever since the beginning, I've only wanted to catch her. % Just you appearring made me so excited... Saint Tail: $ "I don't want anyone else but you to catch me." pg 158 Asuka: % Ever since then... pg 159 Asuka: ...I have to go...I'll be late. Manato: $ "At the end of the rainbow, a treasured thing is waiting." Asuka: % I forgot, it was a royal family from somewhere...but the % "end of the rainbow"...that's not physically possible for % that stuff to happen... Asuka: (I'm late, late...) pg 160 pg 161 Meimi: What's wrong?! Meimi: % It can't be...he stayed out in the rain all night...?! Manato: "At the end of the rainbow, a treasured thing is..." Asuka: (Haha...) You're early. Meimi: I have class duty...but more importantly, why are y- Meimi: % W...wha? % H...he's running a huge fever!! Meimi: Wait a second, I'll phone someon- Asuka: ...I love you. pg 162 Asuka: Haneoka...I love you. I'm not lying...I'm so happy when you're near me... Note: I'm returning this. --St. Tail pg 163 Asuka: I'm reaching out...