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Re: ~Eternal Cost~: French to English Translation
By: ChercheurObscur Date: August 23, 2015, 7:34 am
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[center]Chapter 29
Every second Bria spent moving in the form of pyreflies, he
could feel a little part of himself vanishing. He was wondering
if it was similar to what the dead felt when they turned into
fiends. And if the process occured too much, what remained of
the soul, ultimately? His essence itself? Bria wanted to know,
but he had a lot of things to do.
He was standing in the cove, looking at the open sea.
He closed his eyes and tried to think about the landscape he had
last contemplated, his mind starting to be beffudled. If his
will was strong enough, maybe could he reconstitute himself over
there? He agreed to sacrifice himself, as long as he could
preserve his desire for vengeance.
He concentrated his mind on a picture: a ship which was
splitting the waves, the statue of Anli fixed on its bow.
"Here I come, Ifahnal-the-ugly-man! Ô Sloan, grant me your
help!"
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Re: ~Eternal Cost~: French to English Translation
By: ChercheurObscur Date: August 23, 2015, 8:13 am
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[center]Chapter 30
Yuna did not know from where the pyreflies which were converging
on the bow of the ship were coming. They were forming a
sparkling ball of light. When the sparkle weakened, a silhouette
appeared at the center. When she recognized the man, she jumped
with surprise. She had already talked with him at the temple.
His name was...
"Guard?" Johit exclaimed. "You have finally understood?"
The newcomer looked around him, then examined his own body. He
seemed surprised, then shrugged.
"Why not," he whispered, before turning towards the Summoner.
"It's been a long time, Ifahnal. You look bad. The poor god of
beauty must be sobbing while looking at you. What happened to
your red hair and your overbuilt muscles?"
"This name has always been playing tricks on me. It would have
been better for me to lead a simplier life."
The old man had spoken with a very little voice, like a
teenager.
"You too, it has taken you some time to understand..." the new
comer pointed out to Ifahnal.
"Excuse me," Yuna interrupted. "Have you seen Tidus by chance?"
"I talked with him before the storm. I have in mind these
memories, so familiar with another world, some fragments, and I
wanted to know if he knew how to travel between realities. After
all, he has come from Zanarkand... You know, High Summoner,
thanks to your Bedohls, my memories are back!"
Johit shook his head and stepped backwards.
"So, I've decided to meet and greet the one who had stolen
them."
The old man joined his hands and put down his fingertips on his
forehead. The strange movement looked an apology, Yuna thought.
But at this moment, she smelt a burning smell, characterisctic
of pyreflies, and a mouse as big as a dog appeared. The young
woman wrinkled her nose and came closer to the Guard.
"I hadn't been bothered with a rat since a long time!" He let
out while bursting out laughing.
Yuna remembered what the old man had told her a little earlier:
because of his bad relation with his Fayth, he could only summon
familiar objects.
"But that's only a rodent", the Guard added, before
disappearing.
He reappeared just after, holding a rapier. Yuna recognized one
of the weapons she had seen in the hold.
"When you understand how this body works, it becomes very
useful!"
This man was living at the temple, with Yuna. They only greeted
politely each other, but the young woman was feeling guilty for
not having noticed his true nature.
His weapon raised, Bria rushed towards the animal and slashed
it. The rat vanished in a cloud of light.
The Guard gave the Summoner a despising look, then disappeared
in his turn to reappear behind the old man.
"Bria... Valm! Don't forget who gave you this body!"
"Oh, but I know well... I remember how Kush and yourself have
betrayed me, before uniting with your repulsive Bedohls in order
to lay a trap for me. The base has not been destroyed by the
enemy, but you, Summoners!"
"Is that what you remember?"
"I understand now some things which escaped me at that time.
Then? Since when you and Kush..."
"I regret it, Valm. I have kept manipulating your memories. Each
time you remembered Kush and came to Besaid, I erased everything
related to her."
"Why?"
"To avenge myself, and to prevent you from putting an end to
that. Because of your deformed soul, you have seen a altered
past. The reality is much prettier. The courage and the devotion
of Kush..."
A din interrupted him, and the three of us turned towards the
origin of the noise. The hatch which led to the hold was open,
and the false Bedohl was slowly emerging from it. It was holding
in his arms a ball... a bomb.
"Now, kill the Guard!" Johit ordered.
The Bedohl came closer to Valm with a hesitant step before
stopping and putting down the bomb on the deck. It initiated the
kick which had to send the ball on his target, but it suddenly
stood still. Yuna, Bria and Johit were staring at him. A big
wave made the ship toss around: the Bedohl lost its balance and
fell flat on its back. His hand touched the ball which caused it
to roll towards Johit. The old man burst out laughing joyfully.
"I had two brothers, but I am the only one to have the gift of
Summoner."
"Run away!" Yuna yelled.
He ignored her and turned towards Bria:
"Do you know how much Kush was in love with you? She wanted you
to live. Even if she did not want to become a Aeon Core and
spend eternity between life and death, she came to me. She
thought that without her, maybe you would have left the island."
"She wanted me to leave?"
"It was her intention to tell you about that, but the enemy
attacked us, and you..."
The ball stopped gently at the foot of the old man.
"You died in the middle of the battle, and Kush... lost her
mind. She put all her soul in the pyreflies which were escaping
from your body, to gather them. It is by her efforts that you
have become a incarnate spirit and that you stand here right
now."
Yuna understood that, unwittingly, she had done the same thing
with Tidus. Then the bomb exploded.
The pyreflies which were forming the old man spread out around
Yuna and Bria, as if he did not want to leave them.
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"What have you done, for a thousand years?" Bria whispered.
Inside the lie which constitued his life, only the love and the
promise shared with Kush were real. But he had attached too much
importance to it.
If only she could still address him as vous, with her
expressions so charming... he seemed to be picturing her
adolescent smile.
Yuna began to dance on the deck of the ship, determined to spend
the necessary time to send the soul of the Unsent in the other
world.
She had difficulty in understanding the Summoner, who, after
having seen that the wish of his Fayth had not come true, had
let this tragedy continue for thousand years on end.
"Where is Kush?" Bria suddenly asked. "Where is the Aeon Core?"
Frenzied, his silhouette more and more gleaming, he was looking
all around him. Staring at the hatch, he rushed towards it.
"There're only Bedohls over there!" Yuna told him.
"But where did he hide her?"
"You really don't know? There's no much time left. Ifahnal
wanted to stop everything: he has certainly endeavored to
destroy his Fayth."
She was very careful not to tell him that Tidus was charged with
this task.
"If I'm still here, then it means that she's all right," Bria
noted.
He was biting his lower lip, and the blood which was escaping
from it was shining before disappearing.
"I apologize for having you involved in this story," he told her
before disappearing.
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Re: ~Eternal Cost~: French to English Translation
By: ChercheurObscur Date: August 23, 2015, 8:21 am
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[center]Chapter 31
Bria's disappearance had plunged Besaid into chaos. And since
Tidus had returned without Yuna, things had only gotten worse.
"Be quiet!" The young man ordered the villagers gathered in the
tent of the crusaders. "I'll take reponsibility, I'll bring Yuna
back. But I need your help. We need to find Bria."
A voice raised in order to ask the role of Tidus in this matter.
Another one demanded to expel him from the island. Only Wakka's
and Lulu's intervention allowed him to convince the masses to
look for Bria.
"We won't find him," Rikku affirmed with a pout. "He escaped
from a closed room. If he can get through walls made of stone...
he's not human."
"Then, what is he?" Tidus asked with a beaten down tone.
"Those... things which come from the Farplane. Those piles of
pyreflies which can wander our world without being noticed. They
exist, right?"
"Let's postpone these speculations, okay?" Paine took apart.
"Did someone examine his cell thoroughly? There may be a second
exit."
"I examined it myself, with Brother and Buddy," Wakka protested.
"Maybe you should do it once again," Paine answered.
She left the tent, and Rikku and Lulu followed in her steps.
Tidus apologized to Wakka and left in his turn.
"No, there's no backdoor," Buddy affirmed with a indolent tone.
"The monk assured it to me."
In order to apologize for having forced his way in, Brother and
himself had agreed to clean up the temple. Sitting on the ground
in Bria's cell, they were taking a break.
"It's just to be sure," Paine answered while ferreting through
the room.
Lying on the side, Brother was observing her while swearing in
Al Bhed.
When she finished her inspection, she sighed:
"Nothing. No backdoor. I was in doubt, but now I'm convinced."
Wakka crossed his arms on his chest and raised his chin, in a
defiant movement.
"I want to find Bria too," Shinra whispered.
He had stayed silent in a corner of the room until now.
"You won't be getting your revenge until I'm done with him,"
Tidus answered.
The boy shook his head.
"He knows so many astounding things, he can change my vision of
the world, I'm sure of that."
"Do you want me to break his tooth?" Buddy asked, breezy.
"This kick on my chest is a blessing," Shinra answered while
massaging his thorax.
And then a woman, belonging to the elders, entered the cell.
"Bria is not at the end of the temple?" She asked.
"I sent someone to check a second time. I don't think he's over
there."
"In that case, I have an idea."
While everyone was looking at her, the old woman announced, with
a detached air, something very surprising.
"He was not a criminal in the end," Lulu whispered after the
revelation.
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Re: ~Eternal Cost~: French to English Translation
By: ChercheurObscur Date: August 23, 2015, 8:25 am
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[center]Chapter 32
The ship was moving away from Besaid, and Yuna did not know what
to do. She had entered the room containing the rudder, had
pulled some levers and pushed some buttons, without any result.
Since Johit had disappeared, the Chocobo was not here anymore.
Yuna decided to try a summoning and headed towards the room
where the Fayths were resting. Unfortunately, because of the
time they had spent between life and death, the Bedohls had
crystallized. Therefore the shock of the explosion had broken
them.
A part of the Fayths should have turned into pyreflies, but Yuna
did not see anything of the sort. She deduced that the Aeon
Cores were really weak. Was it because of their age, or because
the link with Ifahnal was poor? She did not know the answer.
"I can try to swim..."
There was a huge chance that she sink before reaching her goal.
The problem would come after. The last time, she could rely on
Tidus' presence to follow him in this other reality, as Tidus
had accompanied Sin from Zanarkand.
Alone, she could not go anywhere.
She turned towards the island, more and more distant, and put
her finger to her lips. Tidus had taught her how to whistle with
her thumb and her forefinger. Should she call him now? If she
did so, the young man would rush up immediately.
But she was fearing what would happen then...
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Re: ~Eternal Cost~: French to English Translation
By: ChercheurObscur Date: August 23, 2015, 1:19 pm
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[center]Chapter 33
With the help of ropes, Aurochs and villagers had climbed the
mechanical towers standing on the path of the ruins and had
started examining them in every nook and cranny.
These vestiges were older than the village, and yet, everyone
had always ignored them. The team which was searching them this
day appeared to be excited. The teachings of Yevon had always
forbiden the inhabitants to come closer to them. Seeing so many
people gathered there was kind of new.
Even since the temple had lost his power, nobody had dared to
transgress the rules. Sometimes, a foreigner climbed one of the
towers, but the locals ignored this incursion.
"That's a bit much, isn't it?"
"Normal, if it's for Yuna," Wakka answered.
"That's the only reason?"
"You remember the monk who had worked here for several years and
disappeared recently? Lulu suspected Bria of having killed him
but, without proof, how could she make accusations? Futhermore,
the culprit was very popular among the old women of the village.
And she didn't want to interfere in the internal affairs of the
Church. It had been the right thing to to."
"The death of the monk was accidental?"
"It seems so. He fell from a tower and was severely injured.
Bria, who just came from Bevelle, found him and took him to the
temple. The elders tried to save him, in vain."
"But why not tell him to the others ? Why did they hide his
death?"
"The grandmothers had insisted. According to them, if the world
learnt that a monk from Besaid had fallen from a machine, the
disgrace would rain down upon the temple and all people who come
to pray there."
"They judge severely a quite harmless behavior," Tidus declared.
He raised his head towards the top of the tower, from where the
search party was going down, sliding down along ropes. They
appeared to be having fun.
"I still don't understand what they're doing here. Why look for
Bria in this place everyone hates?"
"Before the death of the monk, Bria had promised him to inspect
the ruins and to send a report to Bevelle. He had planned to
finish it today."
Tidus was not managing to determine the link between that and
their search, but he decided to stay silent.
"The grandmother has come to say us he might have left to keep
his word. As for how he has proceeded... that's another story."
"And you really think that after the return of Yuna, the storm,
our disappearance... he would have run away in order to finish a
report?"
"Every day, the elders asked him to do a wealth of things for
them. It's not surprising if he fell behind. The grandmother was
afraid. There is a chance that he took the risk of climb the
ruins too fast and he fell."
"Unbelievable..."
"That must be how old women think."
"No, I meant Bria. I didn't know that the elders trusted him
that much. He has hit a child, right?"
"Yes. In my opinion, Shinra hasn't made up this story. Yet, even
for me who knows a little Bria, it's difficult to think he did
such a thing."
"We must find him quickly."
"Okay, but what will you do after? You haven't told us
anything."
"He knows where I must go."
"Go where? To do what? How will this new outing help you to
bring Yuna back?"
"If the grandmothers trust Bria, you can trust me, right?"
Tidus was happy to have come back to Besaid and had not thought
before involving Wakka and the others in his search. At present,
he was regretting it. He could not explain to them what he had
to do.
Push gently the shoulder of a woman seated beside a window...
He knows that there was more, behind this request, than what the
words could let presage. He could not be delighted with this
mission, even if Kush was smiling when she had explained it to
him. He could see her dimples.
She had taken his two hands at that time, whilst they barely
knew each other.
Had she tried to charm him in order to convince him to accede to
her request? Without that, he might have not agreed. He had to
do it alone.
"Listen, Wakka, thank the villagers for me. And say goodbye to
them for me, too. I have to find Yuna alone."
As he was coming closer to the cove, he was constantly forcing
the pace.
I wonder what Yuna is doing...
He was so impatient to see her again!
" A spell which will allow you to reach the place of your
choice. "
But of course-- that's it!
Was he going to succeed?
He ran with all his strengh and focused on Yuna. When he reached
the beach, the sand slowed him down, but he continued, until he
stumbled.
The impact was more violent than he thought. Instead of dry
sand, he had rolled onto planks, hard and soaked, until bumping
into a soft object.
"Eh, you could be careful!" A exasperated voice let out.
He opened his eyes and discovered Yuna, seated on the ground,
keeping her balance with the help of her two arms in order for
her to not fall backwards.
She was glaring daggers at him.
"That really hurts!"
She stood straight slowly, adjusted her clothes and put her
hands on her hips.
"Sorry!" He stuttered.
"Can you stop apologizing all the time?"
"Yes, sorr..." He closed his mouth and jumped on his foot.
"That's awesome, Yuna! Thanks to Kush's magic, I can go
anywhere! Just a moment ago, I was on the beach, in Besaid. I
just had to focus on a place to reach it. That's great, isn't
it? By the way, where are we?"
"You've thought of this place to reach it, but you don't know
where we are?"
"You could tell me, since you know it."
Delighted to have found Yuna, he came closer to her to kiss her.
She was smiling, but showed quickly a displeased look.
"Let's take advantage of our momentum," he declared. "That's the
principle of bliztball."
"And what's the next step then?"
"To talk with Kush."
"Where is she?" Yuna asked, surprised.
"No idea."
He could only rely on magic. He placed himself behind Yuna and
embraced her with his arms. Yuna put her hands on his. He closed
his eyes and thought of Kush. He immediately felt pins and
needles run up and down his body. He ignored them and continued
to concentrate. Soon after, he could smell pyreflies. He opened
his eyes. Yuna and himself were envelopped in a powerful white
light. Blinded, he closed his eyes.
He sensed that something was leaving him from the back of his
head, something that he knew but yet could not identify.
He felt fright:
"We may have a problem..."
"Stay against me," Yuna answered with a resolute tone.
A heat flow transfered from the hands of the young girl to
Tidus' arms, who took confidence from them.
"This is love," he whispered.
"Really?" She teased him
Thereafter, he felt a shock under his foot. Anxious, he opened
his eyes once again: the light had disappeared, Yuna and himself
were standing in a dilapidated room. A smell of rust was
fluttering in the air. Before them, a pillar eroded by the
corrosion, and a square window.
"I know where we are," Yuna said. "Look down, this is the cove
of Besaid."
They came closer to the opening and noted that she was right.
The ground was far away from them, but a familiar voice reached
them.
"But where has he gone?" Rikku was grumbling.
The teenager and the Gullwings were walking away on the path
which led to the village. Tidus immediately stepped backwards
and bent down.
"Why are we hiding?" Yuna asked, squatting beside him.
he turned round and let out an exclamation of surprise:
"Kush!"
Wearing a pale green dress, the woman was sitting on a
magnificent seat, which appeared to be moved in the empty and
ruined room.
"You wanted to come... here?" Yuna asked.
She came closer to Kush and brushed her shoulder. She
immediately stepped backwards: particles of light were dancing
around her fingertips and the shoulder of the woman. Tidus
examined Kush more closely. She was sitting straight on her
seat, her hands joined together on her tightened legs, her eyes
closed, her face lowered. She seemed half-asleep. But soon
enough, Tidus could understand that there was no spark of life
in this body anymore. Yet, Tidus was not sure about her death.
"Yuna... Who was the Kush we have talked to?"
"A Summoning."
"I see. You've been aware of that for a long time?"
"Since our first meeting, on the hill of the false Besaid."
"So, this island has been created, too? By who?"
Yuna was silently staring at Kush.
"There was a summoner who was in love with this woman," she
ended up saying. "But he doesn't exist in this world anymore."
She seemed sad.
"Kush asked me to push her shoulder. If I do that..."
"She will fall from her seat and will break on the ground, like
glass."
"Is that what she wants?"
He started to have doubts.
"And what if it was this Summoner who wanted to use me?"
"I don't know," Yuna answered. "But without the consent of the
fayth, he's powerless."
"Then what do I have to do?"
"I don't know," her partner answered with a tired voice.
Outside, a crowd was forming. They could hear quite well Rikku,
who was looking for Tidus. "There's light up there!" someone
exclaimed. A blinding brightness had just flooded the room.
Tidus embraced Yuna to protect her. They stepped back against
the most distant wall. Where could they run away if need be? The
young man asked himself. But the light ended up vanishing and
they could now discern the silhouette of a man.
"Bria!" Tidus exclaimed.
The man answered with an vacant look, before turning away and
scanning the place. Finally, he looked at Kush.
He came closer to her, went down and bended knee and put his
right hand on hers. With his left hand, he brushed Kush's leg,
while murmuring her name.
Particles of light were slowly fluterring where they were
touching. More went caressing Tidus' face, who discovered with
surprise that they were coming from where his body was touching
Yuna.
Bria stood up straight, leaned on Kush and put his forehead
against hers.
"It's time to forgive and to put an end to this story."
They could feel tenderness and exhaustion in Bria's voice.
"Yuna and Tidus, am I correct?" He suddenly asked while turning
towards the young people.
"You're not sure?" Tidus protested.
Bria came closer to them with an unstable walk. He put one hand
on the young woman and the other on her partner.
"Am I mistaken?"
"No, but..."
"Pardon me. By dint of jumping from a place to another one, I've
lost a lot of myself on the way. I wonder how I could have been
ignorant of her location..." he told them with a sour laugh.
"Ifahnal's magic was powerful," Yuna answered.
"Ah, that one..." Bria said, without particular animosity.
He looked at Kush, then through the window – from his position,
he could probably only see the sky – before turning towards
Yuna, Tidus and finally Kush.
"I've loved two persons from the bottom of my heart: Meroh and
Mohra. Jealous, Ifahnal has used his magic against me... Well, I
think so."
"Isn't it Kush, that you've loved the most?" Yuna asked.
"I owe her a lot. She allowed me to stay in his world and to
meet my wife and my daughter. After losing so much, I've finally
understand it. Now that Ifahnal's power has disappeared, my mind
is only composed of memories of my true self."
"And Kush?" Tidus insisted.
He was feeling a dark anger building inside himself.
Bria turned towards Kush, and his face lighted up with a large
smile. He seemed serene.
"That's a puppy love, a story from a distant past."
On that note, he emitted a strong light.
"Wait!" Tidus exclaimed.
"I've been able to see her one last time. I'm glad."
"Don't leave us like that!"
"I have to go see a lot of people in order to apologize to
them... ah, ask that young Al Bhed's forgiveness for me, will
you? And tell him this, too: 'Guard, protector of the Farplane,
grant us calm and explosion'. Bedohls have guaranteed themselves
a social status thanks to their mastery of explosives. That's
all I know. As for the rest, he'll have to search by himself."
"You've given your word!" Tidus took apart. "The report, the
report!"
He wanted to hold Bria back by any way possible.
"Who cares about this paper?" The man answered while laughing.
The bright silhouette dilated, lost his human form and vanished.
Some pyreflies were still fluttering around Kush, as if they
were reluctant to leave her. Soon enough, they were aspirated
and disappeared in their turn.
"He has left," Yuna ended.
Tidus let out a cry of astonishment: Kush was starting to gleam.
"She's leaving, too."
"Will it be alright?" Tidus asked.
He had imagined a much more touching reunion between Kush and
Bria.
"There are things we cannot change," Yuna answered with a
serious tone.
Tidus was worried. His partner gently put her hand on his with a
comforting gesture.
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Re: ~Eternal Cost~: French to English Translation
By: ChercheurObscur Date: August 23, 2015, 1:24 pm
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[center]Chapter 34
Yuna had gone with Tidus to Zanarkand. The real Zanarkand, the
ruined city. They had tried hard to follow the path they had
taken during their first journey, two years earlier. The airship
was still grounded, and Tidus could not use magic anymore to
cover long distance – a magic only in words, Yuna insisted. They
had contented themselves with walking.
Like in their memories, the pyreflies were dancing among the
vestiges.
"I wonder what I actually am."
Yuna knew the answer, but she did not intend at all to give it
to him. If he knew, everything would end. She was bearing in
mind the vacant look of Bria. She was thinking of Johit, too,
who had ceaselessly postponed the fateful moment.
"Maybe the Fayths have gathered the fragments of my mind to put
me together?" Tidus ventured.
Then, after a pause, he added:
"Or maybe I'm still just a dream..."
But they were not draming, and sooner or later they will face up
to reality. Like Kush, Yuna will have to make a choice: to obey
the rules or to rebel.
"If that's the case, there's a chance that I disappear some
day."
But this was the fate of the living, eternity was just a decoy.
This thought appeased Yuna. Farewells were inevitable... but she
would think about it in due course.
"As long as you're in my heart, and that I'm in yours,
everything will be alright," Tidus resumed.
He did not know what had happened, but his radiant expression
was wonderful.
"Is that what the Fayth told you?"
"No, but I like it!" He answered, while bursting out laughing.
While Yuna was contemplating the ruins, Tidus remembered their
first meeting, and, like her, wanted to stay optimistic,
regardless of the situation.
She turned round, and he offered her his most beautiful smile.
The young girl gave him a really pale one, but it was enough for
Tidus.
He had decided to have faith in her. By his side, he would be
able to face up to this world.
He had faith in Yuna's smile.
To be continued...
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