Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne Author: Tanemura Arina Translator: Emi-chan Chapter 22 Steady, Just because (Yuruginai, Doushitemo) Emi chan's note : Joy, joy, joy, joy, jo~~~~~~~~~y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^ Maron has a new uniform in this chapter! It's their summer one and it's cute! note : text in [] are actions flashbacks notes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Birds are chirping] Maron : [thinks] It's morning already... [Chiaki is lying next to her in bed] Maron : [thinks] Chiaki!? [She stays quiet] Maron : [thinks] That's right... After I listened to Access' story, I blacked out... [Maron notices Chiaki's arm around her] Maron : [thinks] He held me all that time. Chiaki... Maron : Thanks... [Door shuts] Access : Oi! Chiaki! Wake up! Wake up! Good Morning! [flies around Chiaki's head] [Chiaki grabs him and hugs him] Chiaki : Maron... Access : I'm not Maron~~~~~~! [flutters around] [Chiaki opens his eyes] [He slams the door open] Chiaki : Maron! [Maron is smiling] Maron : Morning, Chiaki! Sorry, I used your kitchen without asking. [Chiaki stares at the breakfast] Access : Ahh----! Finally, I can have a meal! (Access has hotcakes) Maron : Chiaki, do you have Japanese style food in the morning... [Chiaki pulls Maron close and hugs her] Maron : Chiaki? Chiaki : I thought you'd gone again... Maron : I.. I'm fine! I'm different than I was back then! Chiaki : Ma.... Maron : Come on, eat and get ready! We'll be late for school! [Maron smiles at him] [Chiaki seems relieved] (at school) Maron : Miyako! Hey---! We waited for a long time! You could have said something if you were going to go early by yourself! Miyako : It's my choice! [thinks] Nuisances should get out of the way! Maron : Miyako is so cold! Chiaki : Did we do something to make her angry? Minazuki kun : No! Toudaiji san got a bad mark for her midway test so she had to stay for the extra lesson! [Miyako turns into a SD duck and pecks at him] Minazuki kun : Waaaah! But, but! Maron : But aren't extra lessons usually after school? Miyako : I asked them to make it this morning. I have to keep afternoons free. I don't know when the capricious kaitou might appear! Maron : .... Jeanne might never appear any more. Miyako : Hm? [Door opens] Pakkyamalao sensei : Okay, okay, to your seats! Maron monologue : The rosary turned into stone and I couldn't transform any more. Everything I had done so far, had it all been a waste? Is there nothing I can do now? [Maron has her rosary under her desk] [Chiaki puts his hand on hers] [They smile at each other] (flashback) Fin : I've hated you for a long time! [Maron snatches her hand away from Chiaki] Maron monologue : No. I can't think. I can't think about it. [Maron is playing basketball and is rather aggravated] Maron : Ugh... [She jumps to shoot] (flashback) Fin : I hated you for a long time! Maron : [thinks] No!! [There is a loud crash] Voices : Maron! Kusakabe san! Maron : [gasping] Sorry.... Girl : No, it's okay. Are you okay Maron? You're sweating a lot... Voice : Maron! [A hand grabs her shoulder] Maron : No! [Maron slaps the hand away] [She turns to see Chiaki] Maron : Oh.. Sorry... I... [Chiaki frowns, then picks Maron up] Maron : Wha... N.. No! Let me go Chiaki! Chiaki! Chiaki : She's been feeling unwell since this morning. I'm taking her. Girl : Ye.. Ye~~s! [Miyako watches] (at the medical room) Chiaki : The nurse doesn't seem to be here. I'll bring your uniform and clothes so wait a minute okay? Okay, Maron? [Maron sits with her head bent] Chiaki : .... Maron? Maron : Don't be kind to me... [Chiaki stares] Maron : I... I told you I couldn't answer to your feelings. But I'm still okay with all these hopeful things you do to me... I'm becoming dependent on your kindness... I might just be using you, Chiaki! Just because I want someone, anyone, to be kind to me. I might be using your feelings! I'm a horrible girl! So just leave me alone! Chiaki : Maron... Maron, calm down! I... Maron : No! Don't touch me! [Chiaki gets angry, then kisses Maron] Chiaki : I don't care if it is... Before... I deceived and hurt you really bad so I thought to myself that it wouldn't be a surprise if you hated me forever... So I'm happy that you've forgiven me about being near you. I don't want anything back so even if I'm just being used, I don't feel like I'm being deceived. I'm happy. Thank you... If you want someone to be kind to you, depend on me the most. Maron : ... It's not true. I'm sorry... I'm not using you, it's not true... I'm.. Sorry... [Chiaki hugs Maron] Maron : I'm so scared... Fin's words won't leave me. Maron monologue : Someone I loved. Someone who told me they loved me. They said they hated me. It was only that one thing ----- Maron : I feel so scared that everyone in the world hates me... I'm so scared!... [Maron has a flashback of the basketball hoop] Maron monologue : What am I going to do. I have to think a lot about Fin and what I should do. I can't stop thinking and I'm so confused. I can't come up with an answer. Chiaki : It's okay Maron... Don't think about anything right now... It's okay to go slowly... [Access floats over] Access : Chiaki! I was looking for you! (I rang your rosary so many times too!) Chiaki : ..... [frowns] Access : There's an evil spirit! It's a job!! [Minazuki kun is hyped up] Minazuki kun : Yeah! Tonight I'm going to capture Sindbad! [Miyako ignores him] Minazuki kun : What's the matter Toudaiji san? You don't seem to have any energy. Are you sulking because there isn't an arrival notice from Jeanne? Miyako : Hm...ph. Well.. Chiaki : Well I'll be off. I'll be back soon. Maron : Mm, bye! [the door shuts] [Maron turns to the mirror and sees her face] Maron : What a pitiful face. Maron monologue : I haven't met Jeanne in a while... And I probably never will. There's nothing I can do now... Fin : Oh, left behind are we? Princess. Maron : Fin! Fin : [laughs] Don't give me a face as if you've seen a monster! Maron : Wha... What did you come her for? Fin : I came to invite you. Won't you be one of us? I'll let you be Jeanne again. And then, I'll give you back these. [Fin shoes the chess pieces] [Maron has a flashback of the basketball hoop] Fin : It's all right. Even if God disappears, humans will be saved. They're different to angels and they are beings that are independent from God. Let's fight together like we did before. [Noin is floating outside the window] Fin : There's nothing you can do as a human, Maron. [Maron has a flashback of the basketball hoop] (flashback) Chiaki : I don't want anything back. So it's not that scary, to live and believe in people. [Maron smiles] Maron : I don't want them. I didn't make desperate efforts because I wanted the reward, "I'll get anything I wish for". I made the effort for you, Fin. So do what you want Fin. But I'm sorry, I don't want to be one of you. Even though I can't be Jeanne, I'll still fight. It's true that there's nothing I can do, but... Anyone can try. [Fin frowns] Maron : I want to try so that God and humans can be happy. I also want Fin and... the Devil to be happy. I don't want just one or the other! I'm greedy, don't forget. Fin : Don't talk like you know! You don't know anything!! [Fin grabs the rosary] Fin : This thing!! [Fin throws the rosary out of the window] Fin : [laughs] Serves you right, if you don't want to be one of us. Here... [Maron jumps off the balcony] Noin : Jeanne!! [Noin catches Maron and they fall] [Silk comes running] Silk : Noin-sama! How dare you do that to my Noin-sama... [Silk turns human] [He hits Fin] Silk : Noin-sama~~~~~~!!! [Silk cries and drags Noin] [Fin flies away] Fin : Hmph! [Miyako taps her feet] [The police try to catch Sindbad] Miyako's dad : Hm? Miyako chan, what's the matter? Miyako : Mmmm.... Sorry Dad, I'm going home. Miyako's dad : What!? [Miyako walks out of a convenience store] Miyako : [thinks] Maron... I hope she's okay. That idiot! She's ALWAYS making me worried. I can't even get jealous! But I guess I vented my anger a bit too much. Miyako : I'll apologise. [Miyako walks past and sees Maron on the ground] Miyako : Maron! Maron : Mmm... [Maron gets up] Maron : Huh? I was supposed to have fallen down 7 stories, but I'm not hurt. This place... [Maron looks outside] Maron : Where am I... It doesn't seem like Japan... Voice : Who's there? Is someone there? [Maron turns and sees] Maron : You are... Woman : My name is Joan D'arc. Who are you? Miyako : Maron! Hold on Maron! END OF CHAPTER 22