The box : Re1

磯貝さんの大作、箱を1人で必死に翻訳して
貴方に見て貰っていたのが去年の10月でしたにゃ〇

The box｜磯貝剛｜note

それから半年後に新たに私が声を吹き込み音響効果を
ふんだんに使用した朗読を再度創り始めたのが
今年の３月でしたにゃ🐾
（当時住んでいた家を引越ししていて大騒ぎでしたけどねww）

箱 朗読 koneko ver.｜磯貝剛｜note

実はその２か月後である５月からアルゼンチン出身の
帰国子女である方に先生としてついてもらって自分の翻訳を
一から見直してもらっていましたニャ🍵

お互いに多忙なため、１か月に１時間半のみで
私はお礼にゴンチャロフのチョコを納品している訳ですが

5か月の時を経て、この度、ついに、やっと！！
第一話の翻訳（改）が完成しましたニャ🌈
（この調子だと全話完成は５年後ですねww）

改訂版を更に何度か私自身で細かくチェックして
出来上がった翻訳がこちらににゃります☕

良ければ、私のオリジナルと比べたり
意味や文法などは無視してぼーと眺めて見たりして
楽しんでみて下さいニャ🌻

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Koharu and I are best friend, since we are little kids.
We grew up in the same orphanage.  

You can call her my best friend, but for me
she was more than just a friend.

She was like my sister.

And, of course, we do not share the same blood.

Thus, when you ask about our relationship,
I would have to say she is my best friend.

We were so close,
people thought we were twin sisters.

We were sent to the orphanage
at about the same time.

Although Koharu was born a little bit earlier than me,
we went to the same school. 

We were in same grade,
we always play and do our homework together.

Our height was also about same,
so we even shared what we wear
and we also share the same room.

We even call ourselves by our first names,
which is remarkable for friendship here in Japan.

Koharu has a deep dark trauma about men.

When Koharu was in 3rd grade, she was almost murdered
by her father.

He put his hands around her neck and
strangled it with fierce until she took her breath away.

He tried to kill his whole family, and after he was done,
he was planning to kill himself too.

But unfortunately, his plan didn’t play out the way he wanted.

The one of his debt collectors showed up to the scene and
stopped him from executing his insane plan.

Koharu was saved by Father’s debt collector.　

At that time, debt collection was not managed
as severe as it is now.

The lender came directly to collect his money.

And one day, when the lender went to meet Koharu’s father
to execute his daily routine,
he sensed his creepy calm appearance. 

He thought that Koharu’s father was planning
midnight run away.

So that night, the lender decided to do a little stake out 
to make sure if it wouldn’t happen.

But, however; Koharu’s father’s plan was not to run away.
His plan was to kill his whole family and after that kill himself too.

Then, at midnight, Koharu’s father decided to execute
his dark evil plan.

But he didn’t realize that he was being watched by his lender.

When Koharu was deep in her sleep,
her father quietly got on top of her
and strangled her neck with his hands.

Koharu opened her eyes and couldn’t see anything
because the room was dark.

She thought she was being attacked by a robber or
being haunted by some kind of male ghost.

She tried to scream to her parents for help.

But the pressure and the strength of a grown man’s hands
didn’t allow her to make a single noise.

She couldn’t even turn to look her parents
who were sleeping right next to her.

Koharu thought,
"I'm going to be dead...".

Koharu suddenly grabbed the legs of the steel rack
at the bedside and pulled it.

The panic, the fear activated her instinct and
did whatever she can to survive this intense chaotic moment.

The legs of cheap steel rack easily slipped out.

The unbalanced rack was leaning
against Koharu’s father.

Still, Koharu’s father did not reduce the pressure
on Koharu’s neck and kept strangling.

However, there was someone who
noticed this chaotic moment by the sounds of
the phone and pen holders
falling off from the cheap unbalanced rack.

It was a lender who was planning to collect his money.

He thought Koharu’s family was going to do a
midnight run away.

So he jumped out his car to stop them.

He opened the kitchen window that facing the hallway.

The window was not locked.

He opened the window vigorously and used his flashlight
to see what was going on in that room.

He saw Koharu’s father riding on top of Koharu
and strangling her neck.

The lender panicked when he saw what was going on.

If Koharu's father kills Koharu,
it's going to be a big deal for him.

Because when Koharu’s father went to jail,
he would never be able to collect his money for a long time
and maybe forever.

“Hey,” he threatened Koharu's father
with a loud voice.

When Koharu’s father heard the lender’s voice,
he let go his hands from Koharu’s neck, but
Koharu was already unconscious.

Koharu's father jumped out of the window
that was on the opposite side of the front door.

The lender chased him. 

Koharu's father headed for the
national highway near the apartment.

He was trying to jump in front of
one of the cars and commit suicide.

The intense chaotic situation woke up the neighbors
and one of them called the police.

Koharu was carried into an ambulance called by the police.

She was injured enough to be hospitalized,
but Koharu's life was saved.

Ironically, the person who was going after Koharu’s father
was the one who saved her life.

However, Koharu’s mother was already killed
before he was going to put his hands on Koharu's neck.

Koharu's father was arrested by the police.

He was sentenced to prison by the court.

The lender didn’t realize that Koharu’s mother was already dead.

I also lost my mother when I was in third grade.

Maybe that’s why I was able to relate with Koharu.

I don’t know if Koharu’s father’s debt is still valid.

At least, Koharu didn't have to take over his responsibility.

Koharu opened up this traumatic story bit by bit
as we deepened our friendship.

It was so traumatic that sometimes
she has to stop telling the story because
the old toxic emotional memory made her sick.

This story seems to be a combination of Koharu's memory
and the things she heard from other people later.

I always felt her deep pain at specially when
she talks about what she remembers.

Koharu walk up and regained her consciousness
at the hospital’s bed, realized she was in the hospital.

Her voice could only squeak because her throat was
damaged by her father.

And she also had bleeding from her throat.

It was difficult for her to swallow solid foods,
so she couldn't eat like she used to for a while.

Her nutrition was supplemented by I.V and liquidated.

Fortunately, she didn’t have any aftereffects from
her cervical spine injury.

However, the pain from her injured neck was obvious to her,
right after she woke up in her hospital’s bed.

She was gradually becoming aware that something else was
deeply damaged…
It was her mind.

She was so frightened that she didn’t allow her middle-aged male doctor
check up on her, even though he was the one who saved her life.

And, no medical professional in the hospital wasn’t able to touch her neck
even when the hospital replaced the male doctor to female.

When Koharu woke up, she had a collar wrapped around her neck
and she wasn’t able to tolerate that oppressive pressure.

The oppressive pressure sometimes may her crazy, and she
would try to take off the color but the doctors wouldn’t allowed it
because it would delay her recovery.

But she was going so mad that the doctor had to allow her
to take it off only if she would stay calm.

Koharu said that when she took off the color,
she saw her father’s hand prints.

Her neck bled internally when her father was
furiously strangling her.

At first, the doctor’s opinion was that
these psychological symptoms were temporary
because of the painful experiences.

Her throat healed and she got back her voice.
She was also able to eat like she used to.

The pain and the hand prints of her father she had
around her neck also went away.

Koharu was physically healed, but psychologically she was not.

But still, the day to leave the hospital has come.

Koharu didn’t have any family besides her parents
so she was sent to an orphanage.

That’s where Koharu and I met for the first time.

The orphanage was called a group home.

The group home was
institutionalized the year before we entered.　

The concept was to provide the care
in the environment like a regular household.

The orphanage we entered was a two-story house.

There were 6 girls living in the group home
with a couple of female staff members.

Some staff members actually lived with us and some commuted.

There was also a group home for boys in the same neighborhood
and the staff members were all men.

They were also available for the girl’s group home
just in case we had an emergency.

The hospital passed on Koharu’s men phobia issue
to the group home and was taking care by the staff.

Although it was not always possible but, they tried
their best to only let female staffs to hang around with Koharu.

Because of the problem she had, Koharu didn’t go to school
when she didn’t feel well, but she went in the days
she was healthy.　

But, when she went to school,
she spent most of her time in the nurse room.

It was easy for men to scare Koharu,
even if they didn’t mean to.

Sometimes Koharu will freeze and not be able to move
when a man around the same age as her father
comes close to her.

She would get nervous and sweat in her hands.

It wasn’t easy to understand her pain for a kid like me
but it looked very painful when I was with her.

Although it was difficult for her,
she did not give up going to the school.

She didn’t compromise with her situation.

When she wasn’t able to go to school,
the group home staff tutored her,
so she can keep up with her studies.

And I also taught her what I learned from school that day.

Koharu worked hard and studied by herself a lot.
She was also doing same school homework that I was doing.

I also brought home the test she needed to take and
deliver it to our teacher when she was done,
so she can get graded.

Speaking of elementary school,
there was once a terrible thing.

On that day, Koharu was feeling good and
decided to go to school, and she was walking to school
with her friends who live In the same neighborhood.

But she suddenly started to feel bad and had to stop walking,
so I let the other kids go to school, then I decided to stay with her
until she felt better.

After a while, there was a man walking by
who seemed to be an office worker,
started to worry about us.

He asked if we are okay,
And I replied “Thank you sir, we are okay,
it happens all the time”

But he couldn’t stop worrying.

“Is she really okay?”

He pushed me away with the back of his hand
and tried to look into Koharu’s face.

I really got nervous and said,

"Thank you sir, but we’re really okay."

I also stood between Koharu and the man,
so he couldn’t get any closer to her.

In that moment, I saw the irritation in the man’s face.

My actions may made him feel that I was
disrespecting his kindness.

"This girl gets sick when a man approaches her," I said.

Then the man looked at me
with suspicious eyes.

The stubborn man didn’t listen to whatever I said.
He grabbed me by my arm and tried to move me away.

I was intimidated by the strength of grown man.

The man leaned down to Koharu.

He directly asked if she was okay, and started to rub her back.

Koharu was already in panic when I was trying to tell to the man
that we were okay.

She was totally paralyzed.

She was way beyond her capacity, and
she was about to faint.

When the man saw Koharu’s reaction,
he panicked and called an ambulance for help.

It looks like Koharu wasn’t the only one
who was in shock and paralyzed.

I couldn’t realize that I was just standing there and doing nothing
until the paramedics spoken to me.

Since then, Koharu refused to go to school.

I was struck by my helplessness.

That night, I remember crying in my futon
before going to sleep.

10802 letters

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さてさて、如何でしたでしょうか？

何はともあれ、英語の長文を最後まで読んで下さり
有難うございますにゃ🌻

実は磯貝さんとは箱以外にもエヴァのモノリスで
一緒に遊んで頂いていて(/ω＼)

こちらの動画が、近々（来月頃？）
進化する予定ニャのです( *´艸｀)ムフフ

もちろん、現在の箱朗読において
素晴らしいBGMを提供して下さる千葉さんや
オリジナルの朗読をして下さったりりかるさん

そして、日々、こうして遊んで下さる貴方に
深く感謝ですにゃm(__)m

日進月歩ではありますが、必死に毎日
色々と創作をしていまして(/ω＼)

その様子はこちらにてお送りしていますので
応援して下さる方は良ければ宜しくお願いしますニャ🍫

konekoのアトリエ｜ねこのて舎(NCS)

いやぁ、全１９話の内、まだ第１話ですけど
貴方にこうして無事に改訂版をお届け出来て
安堵しております(笑)

これからも毎月、先生にお願いして
一文ずつ丁寧に見直して行きますニャ📚

本日も最後まで見て下さり
有難うございます♪🐈