FAQ post or something

[hiriajuu]

I suppose I'll make this a FAQ post? Ask me anything! Though I don't think there's much that's worth asking me.

EDIT: for any of you still hanging around here, note that 9th Ave has been providing fine translations at a regular pace, so hop over there for your textual No.6 needs.

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Where can I find the end cards?
Here.
Ep 1 / Ep 2 / Ep 3 /

Comments

[emma_dono]

hi thanks for the summary ^^
will the marks on shion's body ever disappear , i have he feeling that he'll be cured but they'll remain ,, if it's a big spoiler don't answer

thanks again

[hiriajuu]

Welcome!
The marks are just scars, I don't see any reason why they'd disappear later on. In fact I don't think it would be a well received development if they did. Not sure what you mean by "cured", they're not affecting him any. So no, the scars stay till the end.

[anonymous]

First off, I iust wanna say, thanks for the summaries and novel info!
Do we ever find out who Shion's dad was?

[hiriajuu]

You're very welcome!
Nope, we don't. It was only mentioned once with Rikiga and again with Rou, but it ends up never being relevant.

[anonymous]

Does Nezumi ever realize why he's so afraid of Shion, or does he at least make sense of his feelings anytime?

[hiriajuu]

That's difficult to answer... I would say it leans more on the "no" side than "yes", but it's something you could have paragraphs of discussions about. Which I plan to do in a review sometime. o/

[anonymous]

Does anything happen to Shion's mom? Possibly she gets captured or involved in anything dangerous?

[hiriajuu]

Spoiler: [No.]

[ladyare]

Thank you for the summaries, it's really nice that you write them.

There is a thing that bothers me really much.
I've read some bad translations from Chinese novel that I can't understand well, it was probably in 8th volume when they were in the correctional facility. I'm wondering, does Shion ever said that he love Safu? or if she always stay a friend to him no matter what happened to her?

[hiriajuu]

Welcome!

Aah, that chapter... I'm planning to translate it in full, it's such a great chapter. Shion never says he loves her. He says she's his most important friend, but the narration is wonderful in that it emphasizes how important she is to him beyond just being any normal friend and-- Ahem. I'll stop rambling now. Yes, I really liked that chapter.

[ladyare]

But can we assume that he loves her anyway, even if he didn't said it? Beyond any normal friend - does this mean that he realizes that he would spent his life with her as a wife?
I'm not sure what to think about it, if she is his most important friend, so who is Nezumi for him? He was saying that he is important too, so who of them means more for Shion and in what way?
sorry for all that questions, but I just want to be sure how it is.

[hiriajuu]

He loves her, but not in a romantic way. IIRC he thought sometime in volume 4 that she's like a sister to him. I don't think he'd ever be able to take her as his wife.
Nezumi is also his most important something-or-other, but there's no clear-cut answer to all this, really. Which of them means more to Shion... well, I'd prefer not to think of it that way. They're both incredibly important to him in their own way. Shion is risking his life to infiltrate the facility just to save Safu, but he's also said that "there's no meaning in a world without Nezumi."

Volume 8 explains this better than I ever can, so just sit tight for the translations~ Though I don't know how long it'll take orz.