Dove of Happiness translation
Kaze to Ki no Uta: Dove of Happiness
Author: Keiko Takemiya
Translation: clockworkwings
Wacky French Name Help: Leafy & Adele
Notes: I'm mostly confident of this translation, but there are a few points where I wasn't sure what I was doing. So if someday someone else translates it and discovers wrong things, you have been warned. Also, I came up with Jules' sister's name romanization (Frenchization?) on my own because no one could figure out what it was supposed to be. I don't speak French. Come to your own conclusions there.
Last of all, at a lot of points it's not entirely clear who's talking. I just picked who I thought it was - I could be wrong.
"Dove of Happiness"
p2
1886 - Paris
Antonon Hall
p3
Some Lady: Yes... it's true. It's blue, Serge's song.
Pat: [....good. Serge is just like he was before.
Besides that...
Gilbert is in this song.]
p4
That man just inherited the Viscount title last year, but more than that, his great efforts as a pianist stand out...
He experienced living in the lower city for a long time - he must be hiding a few secrets.
That youthful performance was really splendid! He's truly talented at creating new songs...
Rosemarine: Ah...
p5
Rosemarine: You too... hm? You came to hear Serge.
Jules: Long time no see. ...it's been three years.
Rosemarine: ...since Gilbert died?
Jules: ...no. Since we graduated and completely stopped seeing each other.
Lady: Jules! Jules! You're over there?
Oh, it's terrible! For high-class ladies, I think the powder room is a place to circulate vulgar gossip.
....they're saying those kinds of things too!
p6
Lady: Oh... a friend?
Jules: Arion Rosemarine. A... close friend from my school days, but we went to different colleges.
This is Adelaide Constantine, the daughter of a man who was our butler long ago.
Rosemarine: [Close friend...]
Adelaide: Pleased to meet - oh, how beautiful!
With gentleman this beautiful around, all the girls will lose face!
Rosemarine: [Hearing those words from your mouth now...]
p7
Rosemarine: It's surprising for you to bring along a lady. Could she be your fiancee?
Jules: Not a bad guess. Eventually she will be.
Her father was the first success in the printing business. On the other hand, I, his former employer, am a fallen aristocrat.
What I don't have is money, what she doesn't have is pedigree.
...it's a good connection.
Rosemarine: While the two of us were getting our baccalaureates, why did we stay behind at school...
Adelaide: [Jules, I'm going to take a little stroll in the park!]
Jules: ...what's this, suddenly.
p8
Rosemarine: I thought Serge was probably going to return...
Jules: [Gilbert's loss...]
[He would probably have returned in pain?]
[I...]
[I, because you stayed behind...]
[Probably.]
[You left the student commissioner position, yet...]
[You calmly persisted.]
[(It was almost like the same baseless confidence that Serge had.)]
[The troublemakers gossiped that the top two had just switched.]
p9
Jules: [Under the authority of the student commissioner, they were planning revenge.]
[And how vigilant was I...]
Rosemarine: But in the end, Serge got back on his feet alone.
His friends... he didn't need them at all.
Rather, his friends changed courses completely.
Karl Meiser thought to transfer schools, aiming at a college with a theology program.
Since then, Pascal Biquet has gotten a triple promotion to a seat of honor.
Jules: ...they were just taking the opportunity.
Before that, no one was at the age to decide their course yet.
p10
Rosemarine: Professor Ruche and Louis Leo would sigh in relief at this outcome.
Even if it wasn't in their hands... their pupil returned to the ideal route, on the whole.
Jules: [Even though Gilbert was part of Serge's song?]
Rosemarine: ...that unusual man has also changed.
Auguste Beau, of course.
Is it strange to hear his name from my lips?
Jules: Non. Not really. ...you have also changed.
p11
Rosemarine: It's just because I've stopped being a prince.
Jules: [...I wanted you to stay that way.]
Rosemarine: It's like after that, Auguste completely lost interest in the school.
But it seemed his assistance of you was guaranteed.
Jules: He assisted me. Until I graduated from college, he gave me more than enough assistance.
...so next, after that, a fiancee.
[...like a prince.]
[The one who changed you... was Serge.]
Adelaide: Jules! Who do you think I met, getting dizzy in the park? Cerdina!
p12
Jules: Cerdina!?
Adelaide: Yes! Besides Count Derveaux's funeral, I haven't seen her in half a year. That poor girl, she's so young and her husband is dead.
Look!
p13
Adelaide: This is Jules' close friend, Mr. Arion Rosemarine... isn't that right?
This is Cerdina de Derveaux, the Count's wife. The other day, she was separated from the Count forever.
Jules: ...you probably don't remember. Not long after I came to live in your house,
my younger sister was fostered by the Derveaux family.
Rosemarine: [Younger sister?]
Oh... yes.
p14
Rosemarine: Ah... I'm sorry! But that's a story from when I was 6 or 7.
Cerdina: Don't worry about it, Mr... Rosemarine?
Our house was rented out, and my brother and I couldn't be raised together.
I'm jealous of you, who was able to grow up with my brother.
Jules: [My sister went to the Derveauxs...]
[And I was sold to the Rosemarines.]
[Of course, because I was the heir to the Ferrier family, I couldn't be adopted.]
[Arion... in my child's mind, I thought I was being hired as a play partner for you.]
p15
Jules: [The Ferriers are more prestigious than the Rosemarines, and only that.]
[With only that weapon, I...]
[was prepared to fight you, who had everything.]
Maid: Oh! Young master, it's still too soon to meet-
Jules: [The Rosemarines' third son, Arion.]
Rosemarine: Oh, is it you? The guy who came here to be my servant.
p16
Jules: Servant? I came because I was entrusted to Monsieur Rosemarine, to become your friend.
Rosemarine: So, a servant.
A guy who was asked to become a friend is obviously a servant.
Don't you think so?
Jules: [...honestly, in that moment I lost my will.]
[So, I acted the way that you wished I would.]
p17
Rosemarine: This is the prisoner exchange! There's two over there and one over here.
Officer! Come negotiate, quickly! We'll have an unfavorable treaty. No dinner!
Jules: [It was easy to make friends with the children of the estate's servants.]
[(They were always obedient to their leader who came down from above them.)]
Servant: We hate that boss. But you like him, Jules.
So you obey him. I don't get it. He's gonna experience something painful someday.
Jules: [...I knew.]
[No matter how much I yearned for that wished-for position...]
p18
Rosemarine: The prisoners have to be horses! Giddyup!
Giddyup! Run!
Jules: [That time...]
[My family was being ruined without reconstruction...]
[While my father was dying of a long illness in bed...]
[My stormy heart was too much for my hands.]
p19
Maid: Young master! If you don't stop, I'll tell the master!
Rosemarine: Be the horse in his place.
What do you think will happen to you if I tell Father, "Send him home because I don't like him?"
If you become a horse, I'll forgive you. Do it!
p20
Papa Rosemarine: Arion! Jules! What are you...
Rosemarine: We're playing horsey, Father. Next time I'll be the horse.
Papa Rosemarine: I see. You shouldn't hit people with a whip, not even if you're playing.
Of course.
Jules: [Adults' eyes watch, but they don't see.]
[So, the whip of words?]
[It gouges much more deeply than a real whip, by far...]
p21
Jules: [In reality, there wasn't a day when I didn't want you to fall.]
?: Rain! Cease fire!
?: Just a little more and the castle would've fallen.
Jules: [Everyone forgot about the prince who had been a prisoner of war.]
[...no. They pretended they'd forgotten.]
[Until someone spoke without control.]
?: This is bad! We completely forgot about the prince. And he's in prison, too...
Jules: I'll go. I already came this far.
?: Sorry! We have to go help with the housework.
p22
Jules: [I wasn't afraid of the thunder or the wind.]
[...if they made you feel fearful.]
[I spent as much time as I could.]
Rosemarine: Jules!
Jules!
Jules: [I felt like I could listen to your calling voice for hours.]
Rosemarine: JULES!
p23
Jules: [I was enraptured and couldn't move.]
[The captured prince's voice...]
?: Young master!
?: Lord Jules, where are you?
Rosemarine?: Here!
?: I'm coming now, stay where you are!
?: Where is Lord Jules?!
Rosemarine: I don't know. I called, but he didn't come. He abandoned me...
He went home... that guy!
p24
Jules: [Mother, forgive me.]
...ah!
[If I die...]
[Clinging to the grass of the riverbank saved me.]
[All that happened was a case of mild pneumonia.]
p25
Jules: [Arion, I hate you.]
[Don't come close.]
Rosemarine: Shh!
That's a kiss so you'll get better quickly.
With a kiss like that, Mother always says: "the dove of happiness comes".
See you!
p26
Jules: [I thought I had lost.]
...Uu... u...
U... (crying noises)
[Happy, happy Arion...!]
Rosemarine: You want money? Why?
Jules: I want to see... Mother...
[If I can't see her... I'll become hopeless.]
I want to borrow some. Just a little.
Rosemarine: ...
I won't loan it to you. But I'll give it to you.
p27
Rosemarine: Anyway, it's better if you don't go now.
Jules: Why?
Rosemarine: Why?
Because Father has gone to our northern estate. It's near your house in Honfleur.
Jules: ...what do you mean...
Rosemarine: It's better if you don't go.
p28
Jules: [That was the beginning of the charity I received from you.]
[Mother.]
[I want to see Mother.]
[That's all.]
[I can see it.]
[My home.]
Jules: Mother! Is Mother here?
Mother!
p29
Jules: [Has she come home...?]
Moth-
p30
Mama Ferrier: We musn't, Monsieur Rosemarine, not here.
Papa Rosemarine: Why not?
Both long ago and now, you have always been... my one and only lady.
Jules: [It hurts.]
[Ah...]
[I don't know how to deal with this!]
[After that, I knew that Mother and Monsieur Rosemarine]
[couldn't marry because of their family's opposition, and became lovers.]
p31
Rosemarine: Welcome back, Jules.
Jules: [At that time]
[..."I've been robbed"]
Rosemarine: Jules?
Jules: [was all I could think.]
Rosemarine: That's why I told you not to go.
?: Hey, did you hear?
There's two guys in B class with standout grades.
With them neck-and-neck, there's no other opponents to consider.
p32
?: That Rosemarine is an orthodox honors student. It's easy for the upperclassmen to like him.
On the other hand, Ferrier is the heir of a ruined house, and somehow he favors the delinquent students.
They're really like black and white. Those two's close friendship is incomprehensible.
?: Jules holds Rosemarine's weakness! That must be it, that 'White Prince' or something like that!
?: Yeah!
Jules: What is it? Your faces are set.
?: Sorry. The White Prince is out.
p33
Jules: It doesn't matter. This is my room too.
...he's really in the supervisor's room more often, anyway.
Thanks to that, it's like having a private room. I'm grateful.
Well, sit.
What are you holding back?
?: It's a secret from that guy, Jules...
We want you to become the student supervisor over him.
If it's you, you can do it, and you have the qualifications.
...what? That guy needs to be corrected a little bit.
p34
?: Before you do that, I want you to hear something.
You and that guy are passing yourselves off as friends.
I'm telling you, we're not doing it for you, it's for us.
..don't stop.
If you really understand us, then you better not stop.
Jules: [...it's better to be silent.]
[If I'm silent, they'll...]
p35
Jules: ...wait!
...I want you to keep your hands off Arion.
On the surface, I won't stand up, and I'll be useful to you.
So... any complaints?
p36
Jules: It's just as you guessed, I hold his weakness.
But I don't want to lend anyone else that power.
I'll do it.
I'll manipulate Rosemarine. Behind his back... in a place no one knows!
[Unbeknownst even to him!]
How's that? The prince who'll fall
Doesn't know my true self...
p37
Jules: [At that time, I decided to conceal everything.]
[My hatred of you, my admiration for you]
Fufu... fufufufu
[My love for you...]
Ahahahaha...
p38
Jules: [I thought of how to handle the troublemakers for you.]
[I drew out conclusions that would please the deliquent students.]
[Once more I received the extremely unpleasant name of 'staff officer']
[Until the end of my seventeenth year, when Serge and Gilbert left the school...]
Cerdina: ...Thank you. It's been a long time since I was able to enjoy such a pleasant conversation.
But I must go soon... a woman in mourning dress being here is a nuisance, isn't it.
Jules: Adelaide, if you'd like, won't you accompany Cerdina home for me?
p39
Jules: I'd like to drink a little with my friend.
Adelaide: Yes! Of course I will, Jules!
Oh, this is lovely. I wanted to get even just a glimpse of the Derveaux house!
Cerdina: Don't say that, please have tea with me.
Adelaide: I'm so happy, Cerdina!
Rosemarine: You drove her away brilliantly. As skilled as expected, staff officer Jules.
But wasn't your sister unfortunate?
Jules: Cerdina is used to getting along with other people.
She's a girl who married the man who was her foster father 14 years ago.
And they were soon separated by death.
p40
Jules: Adelaide is an upstart girl...
Common and merry, she doesn't have a head that holds bad feelings.
That's the only thing I really like.
Rosemarine: ...that's cold. And you're talking about engagement.
Jules: Why? It's the same whether she loves me or not.
Rosemarine: You as a companion to a young lady... it was a little shock for me.
Jules: [Non.]
[There are more things I like about her.]
[Her violet-colored eyes, the same as yours.]
It's coming someday, Arion. ...even for you.
[Her platinum blonde hair, the same as yours.]
p41
Rosemarine: ...we were talking about Auguste, weren't we?
Jules: Hm? Ah...
Rosemarine: How did that man... reunite with Gilbert, I thought.
[Of course he held him.]
[Taking his nostalgic doll out of its casket]
[The love of a lifetime...!]
p42
Rosemarine: Was that... also love... I've been thinking about that a lot recently.
Jules: [Of course it was love!]
[It was a thing that only had a shadowy side]
[That unacceptable expression of love]
[Covering Gilbert's body, enough to bury him]
[Sent off to God's acceptance... of course!]
p43
Jules: [You...]
[Under that mask]
[I didn't expect you to do things like cry, but...]
Rosemarine: Was Gilbert... happy?
Jules: [He was happy!]
[Dead, he was both of theirs.]
[Serge and Auguste]
[...both of them.]
p45
Rosemarine: Jules...?
Jules: ...ah? Oh no, I'm sorry.
Rosemarine: What's wrong? You suddenly went silent.
Jules: ...what did you think of Serge's song?
Rosemarine: I felt more passion than I expected. ...it was a success.
Jules: [...captured.]
[Serge is captured by Gilbert.]
[If he didn't have music, he couldn't move at all.]
p46
Jules: [Gilbert, you won.]
p47
Desk Man: It's Lord Rosemarine again. You often come here.
Welcome, Count! Please go in.
Please leave your coat over there.
Rosemarine: Jules... before we go in the club... there's something.
p48
Rosemarine: I want to speak while we're sober. It's a problem if I make you think it's a joke.
Um...
I want to see... your sister again.
Jules: What...
p49
Jules: ...no problem.
Ask me anytime.
But when my sister's mourning is over... all right?