» Chapter 29: The Place You call Home
Translation by Chikotori

-title page-
Even though we're far apart,
my heart yearns for you.

-page 01-
Granny: ...Ojou-sama...

-page 02-
Takiko: Oikawa-san, I...
Takiko: Am I going to die the way Mother did...
Oikawa: It's going to be alright!
Oikawa: You're only just starting to cough blood. Unlike your mother, you're young so your immune system is stronger...
Oikawa: There are ways to prevent your sickness from getting worse!
Takiko: Oikawa...san.
Oikawa: You won't die! As if I'll let you die.

-page 03-
Takiko's father: What...
Takiko's father: Oikawa-san!! Are you serious!?
Oikawa: Yes...
Oikawa: It appears that she was infected by her mother...and the symptoms are starting to show.
Aunt: That's terrible...!
Oikawa: Okuda-sensei!
Oikawa: I have spoken to Takiko about this too. We should get her into a sanatorium as soon as possible!
Oikawa: We should bring her to Seiyou Hospital to start treatment too!

-page 04-
Oikawa: If she rests in a place with a good climate and take the medicines, it will help her. I will treat her to the best of my abilities!
Takiko's father: Even so...you still...?
Oikawa: I love her! Even now, my feelings are unchanged!

-page 05-
Takiko: I'm scared.
Takiko: I'm scared.
Takiko: I'm scared.
Takiko: While I was in the book, there were many times when I was in a dangerous situation.
Takiko: However...somehow, I always thought 'This is a story'.
Takiko: The seven seishis will definitely help me.
Takiko: I...Perhaps I was not taking it seriously.

-page 06-
Takiko: But this is reality.
Takiko: Why...?
Takiko's father: Takiko, I'm coming in.
Takiko's father: I heard about it.
Takiko's father: ...Like what Oikawa-kun said, we should bring you to a sanatorium.
Takiko's father: We will vacate this place...

-page 07-
Takiko: If I enter a sanatorium...I'll definitely die.
Takiko: I saw how Mother died!
Takiko's father: Takiko! It's still too early to give up-
Takiko: Father, you too! You couldn't do anything for Mother, that's why you...!!
Takiko: You wanted your wish granted
Takiko: by the Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho, didn't you!?
Takiko: ...But Mother passed away...
Takiko: I wonder if I could summon Genbu...and make a wish to cure this sickness and prolong my life.
Takiko's father: That's-

-page 08-
Takiko: It's alright. It's impossible to do that now. You destroyed the book, didn't you?
Takiko's father: Anyway, please concentrate on getting better now! Oikawa-san has said so much for you!
Takiko: ...I...understand.
Takiko: I'll do as you say...
Teacher: You're stopping school!?
Teacher: Why all of a sudden!? If anything has happened, we can discuss about it.

-page 09-
Takiko: Sensei, actually, I...
Takiko: I'm going to Tokyo, as a bride!
Takiko: I'm already used to
Takiko: putting on a cheerful face.
Granny: Ojou-sama...are you alright?
Granny: You need not have trouble yourself to come, I could do it for you...

-page 10-
Takiko: This is the last time I'm coming to school. I would like to have one last look at it.
Granny: Don't say things like that.
Takiko: I'll go back immediately. It'll be bad if I infect other people.
Aunt: Takiko-san, I'm sorry.
Aunt: Your mother's seven days of mourning has ended.
Aunt: I have to return to Tokyo soon.
Aunt: I'll come again. Please take care of yourself.
Takiko: Even my aunt did not enter my room.
Takiko: Is a lung disease so scary, I wonder...
Girls: Okuda-san!

-page 11-
Takiko: Huh? What!?
Girl: We heard about it...You're getting married!? On top of that, the guy's a doctor from Teidai, how wonderful!
Girl: As expected, girls from Tokyo even get married on a different level.
Girl: I'm so jealous~
Girl: Hey, isn't it wonderful, Tooyama-san!
Tooyama: Yes, how wonderful.
Girl: I...
Girl: I'm sorry...
Girl: Congratulations!
Girl: How wonderful!
Takiko: Thank...you...

-page 12-
Takiko: Wonderful?
Oikawa: I'll always be by your side.
Takiko: It should not be this way.
Takiko: Such a good person should not waste his life on someone like me...
Takiko: *coughs*
Granny: Ojou-sama!

-page 13-
Granny: Let's go to the hospital.
Takiko: I'm fine...Let's rest here for awhile...It's in the middle of class right now so no one will come out.
Granny: I understand. Then, I will look for a bicycle and bring it here.
Takiko: Yes, please...
Takiko: My chest
Takiko: hurts.
Takiko: Someone...
Takiko: save me...

-page 14-
Takiko: The wind...

-page 15-
Takiko: Uruki!?
Uruki: It's alright.
Uruki: You will live.
Uruki: Even though you're not by my side,
Uruki: I too, will live.

-page 16-
Our hearts
will always
be close to each other.
Close to each other.
Takiko: Uruki...!

-page 17-
Oikawa: Takiko-san!
Oikawa: Are you alright!?
Takiko: Oikawa...san...?
Oikawa: You gave me a fright. I went to your house and they told me you came to school.
Takiko: A dream.
Oikawa: I've received a message from the sanatorium. We should go there as soon as possible.
Takiko: ...Oikawa-san...

-page 18-
Takiko: I-
Takiko: As I thought, I really can't...marry you.
Takiko: I'm...sorry...
Oikawa: Are you worried about your illness? In that case, don't worry. I am a doctor after all.
Oikawa: My feelings for you won't change because of this.
Takiko: It's not only because of that!

-page 19-
Takiko: There is someone else whom I like...!
Takiko: He is...very far away. We can't be together...so I wanted to forget about him.
Oikawa: In that case...
Takiko: But I can't!
Takiko: Even now, all I can think of is him.
Takiko: When I think that I might die soon...I...really...

-page 20-
Takiko: Up to the very end, there's only one person I want to be near to.
Takiko: Even though I'm not needed.
Takiko: Why are we so far apart!? I like him so much...!!
Takiko: I'm sorry, Oikawa-san.
Takiko: I'm happy...that you want me...
Takiko: But...I'm sorry...

-page 21-
Oikawa: The medicine...
Oikawa: I brought you the medicine.
Oikawa: It's the amount you should take for now.
Takiko: Oikawa-san, I...
Oikawa: Anyway, please go to the sanatorium.
Oikawa: That's my wish
Oikawa: as a doctor.
Oikawa: You must become better
Oikawa: and be happy...with that person...

-page 22-
Takiko: Ah...!
Takiko: I'm really sorry.
Granny: Ojou-sama! I brought the bicycle here.
Granny: But just now, Oikawa-san...
Takiko: It's okay...
Takiko: Thank you
Takiko: for letting me do as I wish.

-page 23-
Takiko's father: Anywhere is fine. No matter what, I must seal this book away.
Takiko's father: I cannot allow Takiko to enter it again. I won't let her summon the deity...!

-page 24-
Takiko: Uruki.
Takiko: I want to see you...!
Takiko: My feelings are supposed to be more important, but
Takiko: even Mother was always smiling when Father was away.
Takiko's mother: Your father is alright. I know
Takiko's mother: because I love him.
Takiko: I'm so stupid...what should I do. The Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho is already...
Granny: By the way, I wonder what the master is doing at a time like this...

-page 25-
Takiko: Huh?
Granny: I asked him to accompany us to school today
Granny: but...he just remained deep in thought while holding a book.
Takiko: A book!?
Takiko: Could it be?
Takiko: Father!
Takiko: Father!?
Servant: Ah, Ojou-sama, welcome back.

-page 26-
Servant: If you're looking for the master, he went to towards the valley just now with some luggage.
Takiko: Valley...what is he doing there?
Servant: I don't know...There are only things like Ooiwaya* there...
Takiko: Ooiwaya...'Cave of Genbu'.
Granny: Ojou-sama, please come here for a moment. Even though you will enter a sanatorium, I'll still be taking care of you...
Takiko: ...I might still make it in time.
Takiko: I'm sorry, Granny.

*Ooiwaya - literally 'Big Rock House'. I'm not sure if it's the name of a cave or the place or something else.

-page 27-
Takiko: Thank you for everything...
Granny: O...Ojou-sama!?
Granny: Please wait! You're not well, where are you going!?
Takiko: I'm sorry.
Takiko: I'm going to where the person I love is.
Takiko: The place where my precious friends are...

-page 28-
Takiko's father: 'Cave of Genbu'...This could be the right place...

-page 29-
Takiko's father: Takiko...!?
Takiko's father: You! Why did you come here...!?
Takiko: Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho...thank goodness. It's still here...
Takiko's father: Go back!

-page 30-
Takiko's father: I must seal that away! So that no one else will ever lay their eyes on it...
Takiko: No!
Takiko: I will go back inside...back to Hokkan! I understand after separating from them. I want to live with them!
Takiko's father: Don't say such stupid things!
Takiko's father: I will not allow you to go. If you go...you will definitely die!
Takiko's father: I was reading the story all this while! As the writer, I came to a conclusion.

-page 31-
Takiko's father: Hokkan
Takiko's father: is entering the glacial period!
Takiko: Huh?
Takiko's father: If you go there, your body...!
Takiko: Glacial...
Tomite: Every year, the temperature drops abnormally...
Firuka: It's not normal for it to be so cold.
Takiko: Hokkan will
Takiko: freeze over.

-page 32-
When the country is about to me destroyed, the Miko will appear.
Takiko: That prophecy was not about the war with Kutou. Was it referring to the destruction of the land of Hokkan!?
Takiko: If that happens, the people will all...
Takiko: ...I...I must go.
Takiko: As the Miko, I...can summon Genbu.
Takiko's father: You're still saying such things...

-page 33-
Takiko: Father!

-page 34-
Takiko's father: Wait!
Takiko: You're terrible...Father!
Takiko's father: Give up on it!
Takiko: No! That's too...Uruki!
Takiko's father: ...Think about the feelings of the seven seishis who made you come back!

-page 35-
Takiko: Huh...?
Seishi: Uruki!
Seishi: What did you want to talk about?
Tomite: Is it okay for you not to go and see Takiko? (small text) She's working so hard in the cold.
Hikitsu: ...? What's wrong?
Uruki: Just now, at the Hoshikaeri* lake, I met Taiitsukun...

*hoshikaeri - return to the stars. Soruen's funeral was held here.

-page 36-
Uruki: Taiitsukun told me this...'The rule of the Miko...can you accept that fate?'
Uruki: 'When the Miko summons the divine beast'
Uruki: 'she becomes a living sacrifice and will be devoured.'
Tomite: That...
Tomite: That's a lie, right!?
Uruki: In return for receiving the divine power and having three wishes granted, her body will be given...
Tomite: Wai...wait a minute!
Tomite: Did Taiitsukun really say that!?
Seishi: A living sacrifice...!?
Seishi: Don't say such ridiculous things! I've never heard of that!
Hatsui: Then...then...

-page 37-
Hatsui: If...if we summon Genbu, Mi...Miko-sama will die...?
Tomite: ...You can't be serious...
Tomite: As if I'll sacrifice her to save the country!
Hatsui: I...I definitely don't want that too!
Uruki: We won't summon Genbu.
Uruki: We will make her go back to her own world.
Uruki: That's why I'm telling this to you all.
Uruki: ...How can we make Takiko want to go back? Do you understand?

-page 38-
You definitely won't be able to find Tegu.
Instead, we should discuss about how we can use our powers.
You don't have to do anything.
Uruki: That's all. Everyone, please prepare yourselves...
Tomite: Uruki!
Tomite: ...Is this okay?
Tomite: You...
Uruki: I'm used to playing the villain...I just have to revert back to the time when I first met her.

-page 39-
Tomite: You might not be able to see her again!
Uruki: Then...what do you think I should do?
Uruki: When I lost Soruen, I already knew how painful it is
Uruki: when someone precious to me dies...I know how painful...
Uruki: Compared to that feeling, I don't mind being apart from her. Even if I have to be mean to her!
Uruki: As long as she lives!!

-page 40-
Uruki: ...Even if you're not by my side, I'll live.
Uruki: Our hearts will always be together...
Uruki: Even if you forget me...the only person I love with all my life is Takiko.

-page 41-
Uruki: Forget
Uruki: about me.
Takiko's father: Whatever his thoughts were when he spoke those words of farewell...
Takiko's father: I...understand. He didn't want to lose you too...

-page 42-
Takiko's father: I too,
Takiko's father: feel the same way now...!
Takiko's father: I beg you, Takiko. Live! ...For my sake.
Takiko's father: For as long as you can...!

-page 43-
Takiko: ...Fa...ther...Father.
Takiko: I...am very happy that you said that to me.
Takiko: But for me now, more important than anything else
Takiko: are the lives of those precious to me.

-page 44-
Takiko: Father...I'm sorry.
Takiko: But I

-page 45-
Takiko: am not going there
Takiko: to die.
Takiko: I am going there
Takiko: to live with everyone.
Takiko's father: Takiko!

-end of chapter 29-

Edit: I realise that it might not be clear in a translation, so here's a short note. The short part where the seishis appear in the second half of this chapter is a sort of flashback scene while Takiko's father explain to Takiko why the seishis were being mean to her. So, now Takiko knows the reason why and being the true shoujo heroine that she is, that only makes her want to go back even more.



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