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Garasu No Kamen / Glass Mask / Topeng Kaca
Volume 41
Kurenai Tenno 8 / The Crimson Fairy 8 / Bidadari Merah 8
by 
MIUCHI Suzue


Blood came out from her mouth...
She almost collapsed...
She remembered her great old time...
then when Ichiren greeted her...
suddenly she was reminded... 
to stand up and act her last act as 
"the eternal great star Tsukikage Chigusa"...
and to meet the cheers from the audience....

She said that The Crimson Fairy love affair was her own love affair... a love without return....
She explained about the better half 
and hers was Ichiren Ozaki until death would take her away. The Crimson Fairy was her soul, which would be heritaged. She destroyed The Crimson Fairy's mask and ordered Maya and Ayumi to build their own masks.

Genzo's never dreamt he would be Isshin.
He thanked Mrs. Tsukikage in heart, since The Crimson Fairy was adored by him all his life.
Whereas Eisuke Hayami had left before Mrs. Tsukikage reappeared. He couldn't stand his feeling any longer....

 
While the others had a picnic, both Maya and Masumi thought about "the better half".
Maya borrowed The Crimson Fairy's robe....

Masumi felt the wind and saw the fog was shining... he saw The Crimson Fairy! 
It was Maya! They saw each other.

Maya: (I am a useless girl indeed... I am also not a beautiful girl with suitable age and rich... 
but I love you more than anyone else... 
Masumi... I love you....)

Maya: That day... first time I saw you 
in the valley... Akoya immediately knew 
that you're my separated better half. 
When the Earth situation was still in chaos, 
the God gave birth a son and sent him to Earth. That time his soul was divided into two, 
dark and light, and stayed in different bodies. Until oneday, dark and light would become one to give peace, human would become God 
to give birth new souls. 
Grandma said, that he would have magic power... the power to attract the other soul.
Time, shape, rank didn't have relationship with,
only the attraction existed, to unite the separated souls. Feeling crazy only to attract fast the other 
soul to unite immediately... this was love... didn't care of name or time... to meet to live together... that's the destiny.

Throw away your name and history...
Make Akoya only yours... my love....
(Masumi... please answer my hope....)

Masumi: (Maya... what's the meaning of this all... what do you want...? Maya, you... could it be possible? No... no, it's impossible....)

Maya: (Hurry up, Masumi! Say that you're the purple rose fan! So... I....)

(Maya...) / (My love...)
(My separated better half....)

(Huh?!)
(Maya...) / (My love...)

Masumi: (What happened just before? Imagination? But I felt I really hug her and heard her said "my love"....)
Maya: (What happened? Though only a moment, I felt he really hug me....)
Both: (I did feel the warm of her/his hug).

Maya: (Masumi... if only the river 
does not exist. If....)
Masumi: Ma....

Shiori: Masumi... where are you?
Masumi: Shiori....
Shiori: Thank God. I was very worry when you're suddenly missing. What are you doing here?
Masumi: What? Um... nothing.... (Maya...?!)
Shiori: What's the matter, Masumi?
Let's go. The others are waiting for you.
Masumi: (What's happened just before? Imagination? Could I see imagination? Then why until now could I feel the warm of her hug? Separated better half. Could it really happen?)
Maya: (Masumi... the purple rose fan... the separated better half... the other half of mine....
Could it really happen? I felt we dreamt or touched each other. Could it be a dream or fantasy? No! No! It wasn't imagination or dream! Our hearts became one! Though only for a moment, I felt very very happy. 
Masumi... could he feel the same? 
Impossible! But... maybe.... 
Masumi... I couldn't cross the river... 
If only I had a little more courage, sure 
I'd gone there... if only I had that courage....)

Masumi couldn't sleep well. He ate very little. He was so clumpsy the next morning, he spilled out his cup of tea, he took the telephone receiver upside down, he drank his father's medicine by mistake....
Eisuke asked him, if he was in love with somebody. Masumi denied that.
Then Eisuke ordered him to be kind to Shiori, since his 'main job' was to marry her,
a big job that would decide Daito's future.
Masumi said that The Crimson Fairy performance yesterday was so great,
that it would never happen again. Though their sight clashed, Eisuke agreed with that.
He commanded: to get The Crimson Fairy as Daito's must be Masumi's life destiny.
Then he talked about the talented Ayumi and the unexpected Maya.
Maya was so genius, she could be a famous actress or just disappeared because of a failure.
To Daito, Ayumi would be easier. But Maya... if she agreed to be Daito's, it wouldn't be a problem.
But if not... Eisuke ordered Masumi to destroy her!!!


Mrs. Tsukikage burned the bridge to the red cherry blossom valley. She said, Maya & Ayumi's time to practise there was finished. Now The Crimson Fairy was in their own hearts.
Ayumi asked, how Mrs. Tsukikage could finally perform The Crimson Fairy. She answered, it was not act, but understanding. Their interpretations and imaginations would guide them and she would wait impatiently to see the great new Crimson Fairy.

Maya saw Ayumi's practice at night and said, that she was acting beautifully. But Ayumi was very angry with Maya's modesty. Ayumi always felt, she was the loser. She said, Maya was only pretending being an untalented actress. She confessed, she was jealous of her, and wanted to kill her that day on the bridge. When Maya cried because she pitied Ayumi, because she had the same feeling like her (as a loser), Ayumi smacked her face. Then they shouted to each other, they didn't want to give up The Crimson Fairy role, and they fought!

Until they were both tired, hurt, so dirty 
and ugly... ^^; ... then they began 
to smile to each other and laugh....
a friendship laugh though they're still rivals....


 
While Masumi was kept in confusion of what was really happened between he and Maya...
(he missed her when he visited Mrs. Tsukikage)
Maya also missed him because she couldn't meet him before he left.

On his way, Masumi met Mr. Kuronuma who told what Mrs. Tsukikage said about the bridge:
In this world, there's no more the valley where The Crimson Fairy lived, all that happened would be kept as imagination in everyone's heart.

Maya who was confused, asked Mrs. Tsukikage about "the better half". Mrs. Tsukikage said, meeting the better half would be a miracle. She would know when she met him and when the time came... he would feel the same... but she must have courage to open her pathway of life... and the important thing was the love between the souls though in reality might be different... that's the love of The Crimson Fairy.

Then appeared a fallen star. Mrs. Tsukikage encouraged Maya to say her wish for the next one. Maya remembered Mr. Masumi's hidden wish (that he said would never happen). Then her star fell and she said her wish in heart.

In his car, Masumi remembered of Maya's hatred and his father's word:
(If Maya doesn't want to be Daito's, destroy her!
If you don't want to do that, I will do that with my very own hand!!!)
Mizuki saw a fallen star. Masumi was sure, his wish would never happen.

Mrs. Tsukikage told Genzo, that Maya was in love. She didn't know who he was, but she thought, he must be very different with her. It would be great for Maya, although he wasn't her real better half,
she would learn many things from that experience. No practice better than that!

Maya who looked for Masumi and was told that he was in Queen Hotel...
came only to find Masumi and Shiori with her 10 carat sapphire ring...
it was Masumi's engagement party....
 


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