Kara no Teikoku : The Empty Empire
written and illustrated by Naoe Kita
translation by ryuuen yanagi

Chapter One: Name of the God

--page 7

From the moment I met her, I've been falling in love.

Black hair, black eyes, a body like a doll...

Using the whip, she is strong...  (It's been said that she 
controls wild animals)

She's living with Eiri.

She gave me a name.

-----these are feelings that Ririka doesn't know about.


--page 8

Dust: "Emperor Idea's body is, according to intelligence 
from Kid, in the possession of a man called Migime, who is
in the city of Disorder. Migime's characteristics are long
black hair, and he only has his right eye. Well, if we went
to Disorder, I think we would know, but that city is... 
Are you listening, 'Idea'?"

Rose: "I'm liiiistening."


--page 9

Kid: "Tiresome, aren't they, meetings~~~~?"

Ayako: (Kid...)

Rose: (Hot!)

Dust: "Kid! Whose fault do you think it is that this has
happened?! That Idea was stolen! And then sold!!"

Kid: "Thieves steal. What's wrong with that?"

Eiri: "Well, it's alright, isn't it... Kid's given us some
information."

Kid: "Ha! If he wasn't here, I wouldn't have told you anything,
you know."

Rose: (....)

Eiri: "Is that so."

Kid: "Yeah, it is!"

Rose: "Anyway, the guy called 'Migime'... he only has his 
right eye..."


--page 10

Rose: "That's just the opposite of Eiri, isn't it."

Dust: "In this day and age, we have the ability to make one 
that's just as good as, or even stronger than the original..
wow, it's great, isn't it..."

Rose: "Eiri's right eye, too?" (Lemme see...)

Eiri: "It's an artificial eye. It functions well enough."

Rose: "But, what happened to the original eye? It's not there.
It's such a pretty purple color..."

Eiri: "Ah... I gave it to someone as a prize."

Rose: "EH?"


--page 11

Eiri: "At a time when someone tried to assassinate Idea, I asked
the person who had helped to save him what he wanted. He said that
he wanted my eye, so I gave---"

maid: "KYYAAAAAAAA~~~!!!!"

servant: "What's going on."

servant 2: "It's a monster!!"

servant: "EH?!"


--page 12

monster: "Idea... where is Idea..."

servants: "?! EH?! The monster is talking?! Hey, monster! Idea is dead!"

monster: "No... Idea is here. Another Idea... is here."

Rose: "You mean me?"

servant: " 'Idea'-sama! It's dangerous!"

monster: "Your hand, Idea..."

Rose: "Hand?"

Dust: "AH! STUPID! Stop, 'Idea'!!"


--page 13

monster: "A kiss of blessing, from a demon to Idea."

Dust: "Uwa~~ 'Idea'?!"

Rose: "I'm okay." *cough*

Eiri: "It's a letter."

'To the other Idea. 
I have Idea. You may now come to Disorder.
-Migime'

Migime!

Rose: "It's a trap, isn't it..."


--page 14

Rose: "But he's calling me, isn't he? So if I go alone, 
won't he return Idea to me? Even if it's just a lure..."

Dust: "It's no use. With such a reckless letter deliverer!
If only we had another body of Idea's!"

Rose: "Geez, what a weird mark. But if it was able to put this
on me, then it should be okay, right?"

Dust: "No way!" (What's that?! Another scar on 'Idea''s body?!)

Eiri: "Let me see that scar, Rose-kun." *staaaaare*

Rose: "Eiri? Strange, isn't it.... it's ink, isn't it... 
It won't come off..."

Eiri: "Migime is dangerous. It would be different if I were 
going with you, but..." (This mark is a characteristic worn by the
inhabitants of Disorder...) "Eventually... the castle's elite force
will get here, but... "

Rose: "?"

Ririka: "It's unusual, isn't it... Eiri, Idea's number one in command...
shouldn't he be the one most interested in getting Idea's body back...?"


--page 15

Ririka: "What about you, Rose? Aren't you worried? What are you going
to do? Eiri's so concerned about Idea...!! So desperate... all about
Idea~~~~~. And you've never even seen his face!"

Rose: "Ririka.... you're changing, aren't you... you say you never knew 
the person who controlled the world... but you're living alone with Eiri, 
Idea's best friend?"

Ririka: "Because... until I met Eiri, I lived in a place of amnesty."

Rose: "A place of amnesty?"

Ririka: "I've told you this before, haven't I? Disorder. The city of 
chaos. When Idea was alive, that city was the one city that his power
could not reach. If Idea was light, then that city was a place
controlled by darkness. Since I was born there, I didn't know him.
I moved to the royal city of Jioria after Idea's death. A year after."

Rose: "Hmmmmm..."


--page 16

Rose: (Ririka's birthplace, hmm?)

Ririka: (I'll just shut theeeese...)

Rose: (Speaking of which, I... I don't know anything about Ririka.
How did she live in that place? How did she meet Eiri? What's between
Eiri and Ririka? I know she's fixiated on him, but that Eiri doesn't
seem like the type to just randomly help people...)

Ririka: "So! Look, look!"

Rose: "Waa~"

Ririka: "With my hair like this, I look a little more grown up,
don't I!"

Rose: "Yeah."


--page 17

Rose: (Anyway... it doesn't matter, does it... because I love 
Ririka anyway. These feelings are the one thing that makes me 
different from Idea.)

Ririka: "I have to go show Eiri! (heart)"

Rose: "Ririka...."

Ririka: "Hm?"

Rose: "Eiri's that great? You like Eiri that much?"

Ririka: "I love him."

Rose: "!"

*step step step*


--page 18

Kid: "Hey. You love that woman, don't you, Rose?" (heeee)

Rose: *heartbeat* "Kid! How long have you been-- WAAHH~~~"

Kid: "Geez... you're blind, aren't you? Shall I try and teach you
a thing or two about women~~!? You push them down like this, and--"

Rose: "CUT IT OUT!!"

Kid: "Huh? But hey, isn't that Ririka woman going out with that
Eiri guy? .........hey! They're living together, aren't they?!
That usually means--!!" (I mean, if it was me--- hey! I wasn't 
serious or anything you know--!!)

Rose: "Eiri."

Eiri: "Yo, Rose-kun. Tonight is the Victory Party, isn't it?"

*it was written "Gaisen & Gekirei Party"
 gaisen: triumphant return; gekirei: encouragement


--page 19

Rose: "I have a question to ask you first!"

Eiri: "Hm? What is it?" *smile*

Rose: "...how do you feel about Ririka?" (It's hard to ask him
when he's smiling like that...)

Eiri: "Eh? She's cute."

Rose: "Just cute?"

Eiri: "?  Yeah."

Rose: "Why don't you fall in love with Ririka, then, Eiri? 
If you think she's cute?"

Eiri: "Ah. Because Ririka is off limits."


--page 20

Rose: "? What do you mean when you say 'off limits'?"

Eiri: "Because... Ririka is... the girl Idea had feelings for."

Rose: "Eh?"

Ririka: "They're late, aren't they..."


--page 21

Ayako: "Yeah, huh." *giggle* "What are they thinking, leaving a 
princess all alone?"

Ririka: "What are Eiri and Rose trying to pull? I got all dressed
up and pretty, and now the party is going to end!"

Rose: "...you're kidding, right?"


--page 22

Eiri: "I'm not kidding."

Rose: "It's not true! You said Ririka didn't know Idea!  How can
someone love a person they've never met?!"

Eiri: "I said RIRIKA had never met IDEA. But Idea knew Ririka."

Rose: "What are you talking about?!"

Eiri: "Idea would sneak into Disorder in disguise, undercover.
So Ririka didn't know that it was Idea, but the two have met.
Idea loved Ririka."


--page 23

Rose: "It's a lie."

Eiri: "It's not a lie. Idea actually told me that-"

Rose: "...it's a lie. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's a lie."

Eiri: "Rose-kun? Are you alright?"

Rose: "---I don't feel well."


--page 24

Rose: "I understand a little better now."

Eiri: "....."

Rose: "I thought that we were only identical in form and figure... 
of course, because I'm a clone. But I thought that my heart would be
different. That that's the one thing that was mine and mine alone."
(Why did Idea... this, too, is also because...) Because of this, 
everything is the same as Idea, isn't it! It's Idea's reincarnation."


--page 26

Rose: "These feelings are also the same as Idea's?!" (Ririka... 
I love Ririka...) "These feelings, too, are..."


--page 27

Rose: "These feelings are clones, too?!" (Idea is everywhere...)


--page 28

Rose: (I believed it was the one place where I was different from Idea!
Why? Idea! When did you fall in love with Ririka? It would have been
better if you had never seen her! What part of you loved her? In my
time, Ririka.... she gave me a name, didn't she?)


--page 29

Rose: "Name... Eiri, why did you tell Ririka to give me a name?"

Eiri: "!"

Rose: "You knew that her naming me would have a much more important
meaning than you naming me, didn't you!"

Eiri: "It was rather by accident, but if you think--- Rose-kun."

Rose: "Don't call me that! Eiri, you... planned it, didn't you."


--page 30

*heartbeat*

*turn*

*STEP STEP STEP STEP STEP*

Dust: "Hey, what's this... 'Idea'!? I told you not to run
 in the hallway... WA!"


--page 31

Dust: "'Idea'?! What's wrong?! Eiri? What did you say to him?!
(Geez, you never think!!)

Eiri: "What to do..."

Dust: "Huh?"

Eiri: "Now that I think about it... it's quite a shock."

Dust: "Ah?"

Rose: "Ah!"


--page 32

RIRIKA

Ririka: "What were you doingggg!! Because you didn't come, I let
my stomach take over! (I ate too much!!) ...what's wrong, Rose?"


--page 33

Ririka: "Rose? ?"

Rose: "Ah... Sorry, Ririka!"

Ririka: "Rose?!"

Rose: (Everyone... everyone... I can't trust them! But the one I
can't trust most.... the one I can't trust most is myself!!"


--page 34

Rose: (I don't know... what should I do now?)

Kid: "Eee--- you say Rose left?!"

Dust: "Eiri either said something, or he didn't say something...
where the hell did he go?"

Kid: "Well, then, there's no reason for me to stay, then...
Lets get outta here, Ayako?"

Ayako: "Yeah..."

Dust: "Wait! Being a wanted criminal means that you can't just
waltz out of this castle!"

Kid: "Dust! Do you want to be responsible for a bloodbath in this castle?"


--page 35

Eiri: "Kid. Are you thinking of going to get Rose?"

Kid: "....nope. He's the one who left me. If we're to be competitors,
I won't face him yet. I have no interest in him until he's stronger.
If he's not strong, he's not IDEA."


--page 36

Eiri: "....that boy is not Idea."

Kid: "Is that so? Aren't you the one who knew Idea the best? And
you're also the one who created Rose? It can't have been Dust.  So,
aren't you the one who should know the best? Where Idea and Rose are
the same?"

Eiri: "I understand." (And also where they are different.)

Ririka: "Eiri."

Eiri: "Ririka."


--page 37

Ririka: "I'm going."

Eiri: "Will you be okay, Ririka?"

Ririka: "You should know, Eiri. Because Disorder was MY town."

Rose... become someone who crosses over Idea. Learn more about Idea.
Perhaps going there....


--page 38

Rose: "So this is Disorder, huh... what a gloomy place..." A place
where Idea's influence could not reach. Idea's...


--page 39

A city where there are people who don't know of Idea. They might remember
about Ririka...

Ririka: "Rose... got past a place like this...?"

Eiri: "Rose-kun has powers beyond our own, that's how..."

Ririka: "Oh... If we take a little detour, we'll be able to go on."

Dust: "Well, so long as it's not unecessary, it's okay..."

Rose: (Living in the same city where Idea didn't go? If I hadn't
fallen in love with Ririka...)


--page 40

Rose: (If I could forget Ririka...)

Eileen: "Migime! I've gotten information on Idea's clone! They say
his name is Rose."

Migime: "Rose? I didn't know that..."

Eileen: "My information is the best in the city!"

Migime: "So it's Rose, is it... hmph. stat rosa pvist ina nomine
nomina nuda tenemus"


--page 41

Eileen: "? What was that?"

Migime: "A saying from long ago."

Eileen: "What did it mean?"

Migime: "Roses have a name given to them by God. It means that our
roses have no name."

Eileen: "? So what?"


--page 42

Migime: "So if you don't give roses a name, God will."


--page 43

Thug 1: "Who the hell are you?"

Rose: "....."

Thug 2: "Wearing a disguise!"

Rose: (Nobody knows of Idea around here, so it's probably okay...)
"I'm searching for someone."

Thug 1: "? Oh, now he's letting us see his face... Hmph."

Thug 2: "Hee-- Whatever. Let's see his blood!!"

Rose: "?! WAH?!"


--page 44

Thug 2: "He's a cute guy, isn't he? Shall we make him cuter?"

Rose: (Th... these guys....) "I'm just looking for a guy called
Migime!!"

Thugs: !!

Rose: I said that before, didn't I?!
(Ah, dammit, they got away before I could find anything out...)

Eileen: "What do you want with Migime!?"


--page 45

Rose: "Migime called me here, so I came."

Eileen: "WHAT?!"

Migime: "That's the clone I spoke of, Eileen."

Eileen: "Eh... ah."

Rose: (They know I'm a clone... that means...) "Migime."


--page 46

Rose: "You're... Migime?" 

(It's him!)




Chapter One - Name of the God - FIN
don't take the translations, please!
I'd hate to have to send Bloody after you. >=D