Sasuke Retsuden (English Translation)

Chapter 4

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Even today, prisoners head to the workplace with exhausted faces. Every day, they were struck by the sunrise, and went out to work after eating the served rice. When the sun set, they finished dinner and bathed and returned to their home. It may seem like a life without freedom from the side, but everybody had their own play, sewing between the fixed schedules. Something that frees you from the rule of power.

For Penjira, gambling is the case, and for Ganno, the drawing on the nails is. And the game for Jiji is a game of shifting shifts.

“Oh, yes. I'll hit it today.”

Jiji shouted up his hands as he heard the sound of the floorboards in the hallway.

“It’s been ten days in a row”

“I cannot be foolish about Jiji. It’s the first time in three days that I’ll be able to see Menou in the evening.”

Ganno said while concentrating on painting his fingernails. In the evening, Jiji contemplating on whether or not Menou will go around to see the dormitory, next time it will be a man or a woman, it will be a castor that will not be poisonous or medicine, but Jiji's expectation as he was wondering, Ganno and Penjira were paying attention to how long this record would last. Unlike patrols that show a fixed face at a fixed time every day, the tour of the frog is capricious.

“The animals were all right. The hobby of the lover was riding, so I'd like you to tell me a lot”.

Even though he is fond of banging, he is an avid person and he also doesn't like seeing spears.

“Jiji, you play games on Agate a lot. Aren’t you scared?”

“Idiot, it’s okay. Agate will not attack you unless it violates the rules.”

A massive shadow falls onto the lanterns of the cell. It seems like a real guard, but Menou's huge figure lumbered closer.

“Look, look.”

Jiji said, and he picked up a branch of the tree that Ganno uses for his brushes. It is held out from the gap of the iron bar, and the leaf tip is shaken toward the agate. Agate's gaze turns to the branch. As the branches moved, the yellow eyes swayed.

“Come on.”

Jiji whispers amicably. Agate slowly leaned toward the iron bar. He cries his throat and rubs his nose against the tip of the leaf. It's behave like a spoiled cat.

“It really came over...” Penjira muttered. “Eh- Why?”

“This guy often curled up under the tonsil tree. It's not like he's going to eat the fruit. I'm sure he like the smell... I'm probably going to get to you, I’m going to touch you, and I'm going to look at you”

Penjira jumped, turning his gaze.

“Eh!? What?”

“You are insane. There’s no way he’s going to restrain himself and I’d like to keep my arms!”

“Sasuke, come to try it.”

“I’m in trouble if I lose my right arm.” Sasuke replied “I'm not going over there.”

With a sigh, Jiji looked to Ganno.

“I’m sure it’s ok…”

Ganno put aside his brush and got up from his seat. Gently put out the sunburnt and thin arm through the gaps in the iron grid. The pointed fingertip extended to the flat forehead. Stoke a hard skin like a scale a few times. Menou's eyes became large and rounded.