So help me

I'm trying to finish book 16 and I can't get past this scene due to laughing too hard because I know what's happening but I keep on trying to picture what those flying cultist guards must be thinking as they watch Kiyomasa sit there holding hands with Kagetora and gazing intently into his no wait Kagetora's clasping his hand OVER HIS HEART, except the guards cannot actually tell this because it is all taking place under a quilt, and did I mention Kiyomasa's got tissue paper in his mouth because Motoharu ordered the guards not to let him talk, but evidently forgot to order them not to let him (pretend to) be gay all over Kagetora, because that shiz is normal.

These books will kill me. I can feel my life draining away.

EDIT1 -- OMG grossest escape attempt ever. D: (Motoharu: "Hmm, this sudden stinky mud geyser eruption is strangely reminiscent of the sudden volcano eruption that other time. I wonder who might be causing it.")

EDIT2 -- I finally realise what this Aso caldera place reminds me of: IT'S THE GODDAMN NORTHERN CRATER IN FF7. Wandering round and round in the snow while waiting for your hero to go bonkers and everything to go to shite directly after.

Mirage book 15, er, translation >_>

Traditionally on Victoria Day I go to the Botanical Garden, rain or shine, with friends or family. Monday it was rainy and hideously cold - 10 degrees Celsius, more March than May - but I went with Tania and Lorraine anyway, bundled up in coats and hats and umbrellas. The apple blossoms were delayed this year, so we took the latest hanami pictures ever. I'll post them tonight if I have the energy. ^^v

Afterward we went to Tania's place, aired our wet socks, drank hot mint tea with lemon, ate fried potatoes and watched Mirage of Blaze TV, which Lorraine hadn't seen. The experience was oddly sobering (for me, I mean), and only partially alleviated by the worst HK subbing in the history of bootlegged anime. From my current perspective I can only bow down to Naoe and Nagahide's inhuman patience at the beginning of the series, not to mention I kept reading angst into lines that weren't even supposed to be read into. Thus when I got home I ended up translating a large chunk of Mirage book 15 chapter 5, namely the big Naoe/Takaya scene (there's on average one per book) that between Chiaki's chalk-throwing and Kagetora's kidnapping by bird people I managed to elide entirely, because I suck like that. It's awesomely romance-novel-tastic and cheered me up immensely.

Then I tried to read 16 the next morning in the metro and Kousaka harshed my buzz, like, totally, thanks to which I was in a temper and didn't want to read anymore for the rest of the day. Restarted again this morning and was ( SO CONFUSED DAMMIT. )

( Notes pre-translation. )

( Translation. I'll edit this post once I finish, which may be tonight if I don't slag off and read Okane ga nai again or something. )