*************************************************************************** pg. 1 Angelique Retour Secret Side Episode 5: Clavis's Last Love (Part 2) by Miko Mitsuki Clavis's feelings for Angelique grow ever stronger - but...!? pg. 2 SFX: ::ROAAARRR...:: ::FLASH:: Clavis [thinking]: .........To think that it was this serious... ...The universe... pg. 3 Clavis [thinking]: ...is lurching toward destruction. Julious: The time of the selection of the next Queen is nigh. Dia or Angelique - which do we think is better suited to become Queen? I would like to hear our thoughts on the matter. Clavis [thinking]: This age...will call for a Queen unlike those who have come before. Julious: Clavis. What is your opinion? pg. 4 Clavis [thinking]: One who holds new possibilities-- 255: Mr. Clavis! pg. 5 Dia: Oh! Luva, sir - let us be off. Luva: Ah? Be off? Whatever for? We were still talk-- SFX of Dia: ::whisper whisper:: Luva: WHAAAA-~~~~~~!! Ahhhh~~~~ So _that's_ how it is~~~~~? 255: ......!! Luva: Oh, I - I, oh-- I mean...I mean... (Let's go! Let's go! It's just such a _shock!_) pg. 6 Dia: Take your time! 255: ......! Dia, you _jerk!_... (Ohhh-wah!) Clavis: Your face is red. Do you have a fever? 255: ! pg. 7 SFX of heart: ::shiver:: Clavis [thinking]: She's hot. 255: ...ack. So is _yours,_ Mr. Clavis. Clavis: ...I don't have a _fever._ 255: But you _are_ red! Clavis: Is that so? pg. 8 Clavis [softly smiling]: I guess it's contagious!... Clavis [thinking]: Ahhh... pg. 9 Clavis [thinking]: When this girl smiles, I just want to touch her. ...Why is that? Ever since that time... ...I haven't been able to understand my own actions. Julious [in flashback]: Clavis. I asked your opinion. Clavis [in flashback]: ............ It's still hard for me to say. Julious [in flashback]: Oh? pg. 10 Julious [in flashback]: I had expected you to say that it makes no difference... but you seem to be giving the matter due consideration, after your own fashion. Clavis [in present, thinking]: Why... ...couldn't I bring myself to say "Angelique"? If it doesn't matter to me which becomes Queen...then it shouldn't have been a problem for me to answer. 255 [waving hand in front of Clavis's face]: Mr. Clavis? SFX of Clavis: ::--ha!:: 255: ----Dia... I think I saw her crying just a little while ago... Clavis: (Ah--) ...Did you? 255: The Queen will be leaving very soon. pg. 11 SFX of 255's fingers: ::clench:: 255: Dia said...she didn't have the confidence in herself to become Queen. She seemed scared. --_Dia,_ who's always so competent! The responsibility that comes with being the next Queen...it's just immeasurable. Clavis [thinking]: You know it too, don't you? That the Queen candidates...are inheriting a universe on its way to destruction... 255: I... ...I have to be strong. pg. 12 Julious: THIS IS _ABSOLUTELY_ _UNHEARD OF!!_ _Dia!!_ _Angelique!!_ _To think that two QUEEN CANDIDATES would sneak away from the Holy Land...!!_ pg. 13 Clavis [thinking]: You snuck out? Of the Sanctuary? Luva: Now, now! What's all this about? Julious, you're shouting so-- SFX of Julious smacking Luva in the front of the face with his palm, what the hell?: ::WHAP:: Julious: SHUT _UP_, LUVA! ["Shut up" is OOC for Julious, but he says "damatte ro," which is very rough speech, particularly for him, so the translation stays.] 255: Dia's not to blame here! Dia: Angelique-- 255: It was my own idea! I just went ahead and took Dia with me! Julious: Angelique. On no account may a Queen candidate venture into the outside world without an attendant and endanger herself. To do so is an _extraordinarily_ foolish act that I cannot even _begin_ to comprehend. pg. 14 Julious: As long as you are a Queen candidate, your physical well-being is not yours to endanger! [Though you may be at the mercy of bad writing right now, Julious, you're in enough hot water without impugning female bodily autonomy.] Julious: You must remember your pla-- SFX of Clavis stepping in front of Angelique to protect her: ::rustle:: Julious: ...Clavis? pg. 15 Clavis: Angelique. You... You need be only yourself - no one else. Go. Clavis [thinking]: What... ...am I doing? pg. 16 Clavis [thinking]: I'm acting without thinking - of my own accord. I've never done that before. [I'm not going to go on in parenthetical notes here, but painting the "yin" Guardians (Lumiale and now Clavis) as weak & cowardly and the "yang" Guardians (Oscar and Julious) as being overtly abusive, physically and otherwise, seems to be a continuing problem for this author.] Dia: ! Mr. Clavis! Clavis: Dia. Dia: You came because you're worried about Angelique, aren't you? Clavis: ...I... Dia: But... pg. 17 Dia: She's not in our residence! I tried looking for her myself earlier, but... Dia [in flashback]: About before... Angelique took me outside to cheer me up. "_You've_ got nothing to worry about," she told me... "I'll just sweep all those fears away!"...... Clavis [thinking]: That's right. pg. 18 Clavis [thinking]: Back then... you were also concerned about my welfare. Dia [in flashback]: She was just helping me... I wish I had her power. She's always so strong...and has such a beautiful smile. But, well... ...someone should help _her_ for once. SFX: ::RUSTLE:: pg. 19 Clavis [thinking]: And so, I wonder... pgs. 20-21 Clavis [thinking]: ...how much you've been neglecting yourself... pg. 22 255: ...-- Why are you... N-- No! That's not it! I wasn't cry-- 255 [after a pause]: Don't-- Don't say anything to Dia! I had finally gotten her to cheer up a little! I don't want her worrying about me. I'm okay! Really! I just had a little something in my eye. pg. 23 255: Really... Clavis [thinking]: She's so frail... Her body...it's so small... To put the weight of the Queen's throne on its shoulders...seems beyond cruel. pg. 24 Clavis [thinking]: ...I want to protect... ...this girl. Clavis: I love you... ...Angelique.... Clavis [thinking]: I remember now. That precious sustenance for which I've been searching for so long... This... is how it feels to love someone... Narration: Join us next time on December 5th for the conclusion! *************************************************************************** Translation by R. Capowski, 12/27/15; Angelique is the property of Koei/ Koei Tecmo/Tecmo Koei, by whom this document is not authorized.