Now and Forever...Itsumademo... - Chapter 17D

[unare_haineko]

Title: Now and Forever…いつまでも…

Author: Mayonaka no Taiyou/Unare Haineko

Pairing: [Juntoshi] Matsumoto Jun x Ohno Satoshi

Rating:  R-ish

Summary: This story follows Ayumu, a more or less normal child born in 2012, three years after the ending of ‘Kodoku kara Umareta Ai’ (which you can read here).  His parents, Jun and Ohno, are everything but

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[arashi_sugoi]

Thanks so much for the update <3 I hope you have fun at the Flower Festival, it sounds really nice.
I love Miyazono's description of Jun xD I kinda thought that Oh-chan would do something like that...thats just sad and really unthoughtful on Oh-chan's part. I guess Jun will eventually forgive him, but it will be after a lot of hellish days or even months ne? Wow, glad to know that there's gonna be planning soon. It sounds really exciting :D I really wanna read about the other members' reactions when Jun contacts them xD Oh that will probably make me teary T.T
You really do your research for your fanfics eh? That's really amazing. There's so much information here that i am convinced that you probably had to search up a couple of stuff *_______* WOW! Did i say that you are an amazing writer? :3

[unare_haineko]

Heh, venomous not poisonous. mmestrange and I were discussing for quite some time that something about Nino seems more dead than deadly. Whereas Jun is more deadly than dead. This in turn spawned the idea of making Nino like the black mamba--a deadly snake that generally tries to avoid human contact (much like our little gamer), but when it attacks its venom is 100% capable of killing if the correct anti-venom is not received in time. For Jun, it's more about if the mood strikes him, he will ambush and kill like the Komodo dragon

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: Iago, Dragons & Rubik’s Cube, Part 1

[mmestrange]

*[Regular readers of my commentary will know that Iago=Johnny, and Hubby=Miyazono]I have already established in an earlier section when I discussed Ohno how Miyazono had anticipated others (specifically Iago) using Ayu as leverage against Jun. The fact that Miyazono can cite the ‘what if Ayu were _____’ example to Jun. Miyazono with his acuity of mind and knowledge of the workings of Iago’s mind (because Yuuichi does specialise in bringing down people like Iago) can anticipate that would be just like Iago’s modus operandi to use Ayu as leverage against Jun so as to bring Jun down. Going by Jun’s response, we can see that Jun is impulsive and still has that spark to seize life by the throat and throttle it until it capitulates. Of course, Miyazono knows that it isn’t the time for throttling. Some subtlety is needed in order to GO AROUND the problem INSTEAD of RUNNING FULL FORCE to the problem

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: Iago, Dragons & Rubik’s Cube, Part 2

[mmestrange]

According to my books, there are up to 57 septic pathogens in komodo saliva at any one time. The make up of these septic pathogens in the saliva differs from komodo to komodo. Recent discovery has proven that there are two venom glands in the lower jaw of the komodo producing several different toxic proteins. This venom works in tandem with the septic saliva to kill prey. When friend Komodo bites, the wound swells rapidly and there is localized disruption of blood clotting, and shooting pain up all the joints. Then the wound becomes septic. Once that happens, your blood will completely stop clotting, and your blood pressure will drop drastically. Once this happens, muscle paralysis sets in within mere minutes. This in turn leads to hypothermia, which coupled with the constantly bleeding (and non-clotting wound) would lead you to slip in shock. The moment you slip into shock, you will lose consciousness. When that happens, you will go to "sleep" and never wake up. Thus you die

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: Iago, Dragons & Rubik’s Cube, Part 3

[mmestrange]

Jun knows about the drugs in JE matter (orchestrated by Iago). He tells Miyazono that none of Arashi were sucked into the drugs-in-JE business. However, in an earlier chapter in Itsumademo, Aiba specifically recalls that Ohno used to experiment with marijuana. Knowing Ohno who could walk from Nino’s flat to the fancy restaurant in which Jun was dining in Kodoai (CH 01/02?) in utter confusion, would Ohno know where to get the drugs? Of course not.

Haineko revealed the following explicitly in CH 12 of Itsumademo (my emphasis added):
Aiba was stunned to learn that the jimusho was one of Fa-nine’s best clients.
Is that how our leader had gotten his drugs?
Ohno admitted to the other members that he had done marijuana, but he had quit as quickly as he started. After all their scandals had surfaced, they all vowed to live so-called ‘clean’ lives to avoid scandals that would inevitably hurt the group. He doubted that the other members had been users and purchasers of drug paraphernalia. Sho was obsessed with not disappointing his family

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: Iago, Dragons & Rubik’s Cube, Part 4

[mmestrange]

Interestingly, we learn a little more about Iago and his mindset via Jun’s admission as to what he knows goes on in hallowed JE gtounds.. In my commentary to CH16, I discerned megalomaniac paranoia in Iago The fact that he changes his legal people, accountants &ca so frequently tells us the mogul is indeed plagued by megalomaniac paranoia.

Iago & Megalomaniac Paranoia

Paranoia comes from the Greek words ‘para’ for ‘outside’ and ‘nous’ for ‘mind’. In other words, people with paranoia are outside their minds. An important feature of paranoid is THINKING TOO MUCH. A paranoid person thinks he/she is always in a dangerous or persecutory position and because of that tends to think rather self-importantly that events/situations which have no reference to them in reality are directed at or about them.

Megalomania comes from the Greek words ‘megalo’ for ‘very large’ and ‘mania’ for ‘obsession that makes one tick’. Megalomania is an obsession with wealth, power, genius and omnipotence. Iago has obsessions with all four of those and he

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Prophecy – Background Info, Part 1

[mmestrange]

What do we know about how Jun came in possession of the prophecy - let us recap

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Prophecy – Background Info, Part 2

[mmestrange]

THROUGH MISDIRECTION FIND DIRECTION - Rubik’s Cube, Tao Te Ching & Opinion vs. True Knowledge

This principle of ‘finding direction through misdirection’ is espoused by Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching. Most people believe Lao Tzu says a lot of nonsense because he has advice such as “by doing nothing, everything is done” and “when the wind blows hard, bend like a reed with the wind” and “through misdirection find your direction”. But, those who think realise that Lao Tzu makes a lot of sense. Since we are only concerned with “through misdirection find direction”, I will not explain the other two sayings.

The “through misdirection find direction” idea is based on what is known in the West as the optical illusion. A classic example is Rubin’s vase. Look at the picture below and what do you see?

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Prophecy – Background Info, Part 3

[mmestrange]

That’s what happens when you only see either the vase or the faces in Figure 1. Lao Tzu explains why this is so and he even explains why such parochial thinking dooms humanity (because it makes people narrow minded bigots). The Tao (i.e. the teachings of Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching) is the result of deep meditation upon the nature of human perception and understanding in its most absolute, subjective reality

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Prophecy – Background Info, Part 4

[mmestrange]

What does this mean? Well, the most obvious is that most people can only notice PART of the things that are right in front of them and ZONE OUT the rest. Those who see the faces ONLY in Fig 1 are concerned with the obvious over what is lurking around the bigger picture. Those who see only the vase can ONLY see the bigger picture but ignore details. So what must we do to remedy this? After looking at the surface and the obvious, stop and think whether this surface thing which seems so obvious is real. Then look at the background. How do you look at the background? Analyse the obvious first. After you analyse the obvious things on the surface you can rule them out. When you rule things out, you cross them out or shade them in, like in Figure 2 (the illustration of the shaded faces on the right). The moment you are done analysing the obvious things for the surface meaning and have ruled them out (by shading them in), you will see the background and the vase. [In fact, this is exactly my methodology in dissecting anything I read]Doing so

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Prophecy – Detailed Analysis, Part 2

[mmestrange]

If there are any readers (other than Haineko) following my commentary and post-mortems, you may ask - why did the anonymous he/she/it send the prophecy to Jun and not Nino or Ohno or Sakurai?

Ah, that has to do with Jun’s flat. Still don’t get it? Jun lives in Unit 11-04, he lives in flat number 04 on the 11th floor.

NUMBERS 11 and 4, THE POETIC PROPHECY & JUN

Also, it should be noted that the number 4 has significance for Jun too. Recall that Jun lives on the 11th floor, flat number 04. We are told this several times and are reminded of this here in CH 17 again

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Prophecy – Detailed Analysis, Part 3

[mmestrange]

What does this mean for Jun and how does all this link up with the poetic prophecy? I will tell you

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Prophecy – Detailed Analysis, Part 4

[mmestrange]

FIRST STANZA - Dealing with the past
The first stanza goes:
Danger
Days of no sunlight will end
Arriving on wings of prosperity
Those who get close to the hidden truth
Will make it impossible to maintain order.Stanza 1, line 1 says, ‘danger’. Why is it so dangerous? Because as Line 2 says, “days with no sunlight will end.” At this point, readers should be asking themselves why are the end of days with sunlight dangerous? Notice how ‘no sunlight’ is associated with ‘order’. Iago rules from the shadows and his rule is very successful and profitable, but this very success and ‘prosperity’ will damn him. Why is Iago in the shadows? Because he wants to prevent others from getting close to the hidden truth. Readers should also be asking themselves why ‘days of no sunlight’. Well, that’s because Iago’s rule over JE is one that is completely devoid of sunlight. Why is Iago’s rule over JE devoid of sunlight? Because Iago controls everything with an iron grip. He holds on to everyone and everything and shrouds them until they are completely in

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Prophecy – Detailed Analysis, Part 5

[mmestrange]

Lines 4-5 read: Those who get close to the hidden truth / Will make it impossible to maintain order. Due to JE’s very prosperity, attention will be focused on JE. Why? Because when you are rich, everyone wants a piece of you. Even if they don’t, they’ll be watching you and wondering, ‘how did you do it? how did you get so rich?’ In the case of our Arashi men, we know that Nino, Jun and Aiba have been watching JE closely and looking askance at the prosperity of JE. Nino came too close to the truth that Iago is the mastermind and was the very person behind the move to bring down Arashi; Nino came to the truth that Iago screwed him up not Jun. Because Nino discovered that, Iago’s rule was threatened. Why? Because it means Nino could mess around the empire and create scenes and messes by stirring up others to resistance or revolution, thereby bringing disorder into Iago’s empire. Iago cannot have that and so punishes Nino with the rape and sends Daisuke to bring Nino down. Aiba has come too close to the truth in the drugs-in-JE subplot.

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Contract – PAGES 01-17 ONLY, Part 1

[mmestrange]

Miyazono’s ironic detachment in dissecting the contract amuses me. He’s simultaneously appalled and amused by it, and thus because he doesn’t (a) take the contract too seriously, (b) can laugh at the contract, he is able to pinpoint the contract’s loopholes. Recall that I have repeated said the two most difficult things to do in life is laughing at oneself and learning to let go. Well, Miyazono knows how to do those two things, and that’s why he can see his way around the contract, like he can see his way around the rubik’s cube.

Now, let us delve into the terms of the 2009 contract proper in detail. Because this commentary section is very long, this part of the analysis ONLY covers pp. 01-17 of the contract. I will cover the rest of the contract in a separate section.

The 2009 Contract The fact that the contract was conjured up and signed in 2009 is no coincidence because 2+0+0+9=11

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Contract – PAGES 01-17 ONLY, Part 2

[mmestrange]

*[Readers other than Haineko take note: Please don’t be like the students I taught at a certain uni and complain that usage of the word ‘penultimate’ is a sign that your non-white lecturer does not know or use English. In a supreme twist of irony, the dept saw it as a sign that I wasn’t ‘assimilating’ into the norms of the culture of the programme and that I was imposing my ‘barbaric, non-American ways’ on their ‘pure’ lads and lass. This reminded me of the time Japan sent Washington DC some sakura trees in the 1920s-30s. The Japanese embassy of the time wanted to have a few geiko presenting the sakura tree saplings to the Yank ambassador to Japan in Washington. The original plan was that these geiko would dance and sing and present the trees. But Washington took umbrage at this suggestion saying that America will take the trees but bar the geiko from the country because the geiko would seduce the ‘purity of American manhood’ with their ‘barbaric, non-American ways’. Right, protecting the purity of American manhood - if those men and

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Contract – PAGES 01-17 ONLY, Part 3

[mmestrange]

In turn, this throws us back to the number 2 which means ‘balance, understanding and making things clear’. Detailing the things of (a) to (c) and analysing (a) to (c) with questions (i) to (iv) is equivalent to acquiring balance and understanding because it does make things in the contract clear.

It is for these reasons that the details of the differences between OC and NC as well as the relationship of Arashi and JE are outlined between pages 02-04.

Page 05-07 - Legal leader & Head of JE

Pages 05-07 detail how and why Nino is recognised as legal leader of the group. Being legal leader means Nino had the authority to make decisions concerning things like dissolutions. As Haineko outlines, this means, Nino as legal representative is deemed to be acting in the best interest of the group because the legal representative is the ‘person whom the president of the jimusho feels is most fit for the position’.

Notice how it’s phrased. The legal representative is the person whom the president of the jimusho feels is most fit for the

Commentary & Analysis CH 17, Jun Section: The Contract – PAGES 01-17 ONLY, Part 4

[mmestrange]

The losses that ALL Arashi members sustained may be summarised as follows