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Why Tasuki Hates Women...Translated sections so far.

Part One: Eimin

Part Two: Rin’an

Part Three: Fuyou

Part Four: Manka

Part Five: Aidou

Part Six...To come. ((I still have the very last section of this to translate, it’s currently top of my ‘to translate’ list, but I’ve had a bunch of stuff lately. Here are the existing parts for anyone who’s lost track of them...final part to come hopefully soon...))

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Why Tasuki Hates Women: Fushigi Yuugi Special Story: Part 2 - Rin’an

“The reason why I started hating women”   (Ore ga Onna-girai ni Natta Riyuu)   PART TWO

~From Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World compendium, Vol 6, 2005

(Author Nishizaki Megumi, who also wrote the Gaiden novels.  Original work and illustration, Watase Yuu)

Translation is mine, any errors are also mine. 

Above image of Tasuki and his sisters - Eimin (centre), Rin’an (top right), Manka (bottom left), Aidou (bottom right) and Fuyou (top left).

Scene:

The Seishi are en route to Hokkan (yeah, before all the nasty kicks off) and they’re taking a break. Tasuki is recovering from his seasickness, and Miaka is keeping him company in the way only Miaka can - by eating lots and asking him probing questions. Miaka tries to figure out Tasuki’s perfect woman and Tasuki explains his childhood traumas - all five of them ;)

This is a longish story so I am splitting it into parts where there are natural divides.

“Well, then, [Miaka said], “Tasuki, you’re the kind of person who gets easily carried away, so maybe a serious girl with her head screwed on right would be a better fit…how about it?”

Tasuki arched his eyebrows slightly at this suggestion.

“If we’re talking about a straight talking kind of girl, then that would be my next sister, Rin’an.”

And, with a tut tut, he shook his head in despair.

---

Shun’u had a treasure. During his childhood, he had picked up a very pretty gemstone from the streets outside. When you turned it every which way, it reflected different colours, and sparkled brightly in the light.

His older sisters secretly wanted the treasure, but Shun’u was determined not to let it go.

One day, the second daughter, Rin’an, was struck down with a bad fever and was confined to bed. Shun’u, as usual, at the beck and call of his other sisters, but, with one less pair of hands after him, it felt like everything was somehow out of sync. This was especially the case because Rin’an was the sister who did things properly and in the correct order.

“Oneechan.”

Shun’u slipped into the room in which Rin’an was sleeping.

“What? Shun’u, huh?”

“Are you still feeling ill?”

Rin’an tried to lift her body from the futon, coughing.

“You’re a kid kid, Shun’u. But I’m afraid I’m still pretty bad…maybe I’m done for.”

“What are you saying..?”

Shun’u was a little panicked.

“Well, there’s one thing that might work. One possible good method.”

“What? What’s that? What is this method!?”

Shun’u leaned his body forward, and Rin’an whispered the method into his ear.

“That’s for real, right? That’s really a way to cure this illness?”

Shun’u darted out of the room at lightning speed, and Rin’an poked out her tongue at his retreating back. Her fever had long since gone down.

Rin’an, who never gave up unless everything went exactly the way she had planned it, easily obtained possession of her eleven year old brother’s sole special treasure.

Of course, not just that.

“Shun’u! You can’t eat that! You’re the precious heir to the family! I’ll check to make sure it’s safe to eat for you first!”

By this method, Rin’an made sure she got the first and best places and snacks, and with her tiny attention to detail, she managed to steal away Shun’u’s things as well. This happened more times than he was able to count.

---

“Hahaha! Tasuki, that just proves you’re a real idiot!”

“What are you talking about? I was just naïve, that’s all!”

Tasuki let out a heavy sigh.

“Though more than having her head screwed on right, that was pretty much just straight up fraud, really.” He let out a groan of frustration.

“That kind of serious focused girl is also out.”

“I see…”

To be continued