Title: ノスタルジックロマンスアドベンチャー (Nostalgic Romance Adventure)
Circle: Pizuya’s Cell
Vocal:  ランコ(Ranko), 普透明度 (Futomeido)
Arrangement: ぴずや (Pizuya)
Release Date: Aug 12, 2016 (C90)
Original: ラストオカルティズム　～ 現し世の秘術師  (Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World)
Requested By: Eiki Shiki

Sumireko thinks she’s hot stuff and tried to break into Hell.  When she does, something terrible happens.

Romaji

hajimete “mita” no wa juuroku ni natta goro datta
mienai nanika de hedaterareta sono sekai wa
megane no nai fumeiryouna shikai demo
futsuu ja nai koto dake wa rikai dekita

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  • 初めて”視た”のは十六になった頃だった
  • 見えない何かで隔てられたその世界は
  • 眼鏡のない不明瞭な視界でも
  • 普通じゃないことだけは理解できた
  • I first saw it around the time I turned 16
  • That world which was separated by something unseen
  • even though I couldn’t see well without my glasses
  • I could tell it had to be something extraordinary

Romaji

musuu no gudon ni umoreru no ga kutsuu datta
bonsai to wa chigau koto wo misetakatta
yuujin nado daraku wo yobu mamono da to
shinji konda “watashi wa tokubetsu nanda”

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  • 無数の愚鈍に埋もれるのが苦痛だった
  • 凡才とは違うことを証明みせたかった
  • 友人など堕落を呼ぶ魔物だと
  • 信じ込んだ　「私は特別なんだ」
  • It was painful being buried around endless stupidity
  • I wanted to prove I was not some ordinary person
  • I was convinced that friends and such were demons[1]From Sumireko’s backstory.  She believes that friends might as well be demons trying to drag her down to their level.
  • trying to corrupt me, because “I’m special”

Romaji

hoshii mono demo shiritai koto demo
nan fujiyuu suru koto nai kono te ga
namitaitei no hito yori ototte iru da nante
sonna hazu nai to

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  • 欲しい物でも知りたい事でも
  • 何不自由することないこの手が
  • 並大抵の人より劣っているだなんて
  • そんなはずない、と
  • Though I want it, though I want to know it
  • and there’s nothing about it which I cannot do
  • I’m worse at it compared to ordinary people[2]I’m not sure what this thing is, actually.
  • There’s no way that can be!

Romaji

haudi
nosutarujikkuna sekai wo misete yo
higan he to wataru romance
ato sukoshi de shinri ni todoki sou nanda
utsurona manazashi no saki ni

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  • ハウディ！
  • ノスタルジックな世界を見せてよ
  • 彼岸へと渡るロマンス
  • あと少しで真理に届きそうなんだ
  • 虚ろな眼差しの先に
  • Howdy!
  • Show me a nostalgic world!
  • A romance that crosses over the Higan[3]The shores of underworld, on the other side of the Sanzu River.  A Buddhist purgatory, this is where the Yama judges who goes to Heaven or Hell.
  • After a bit, in front of my empty gaze
  • I seem to reach the truth

Romaji

itsu datte sou datta yomi ga kuchi wo hiraku no wa
watashi ga te wo nobasu sono isshun dake
furesou ni naru tabi ni itsumo me ga samete
monotarinai yo motto mukou wo yoku mitai

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  • いつだってそうだった　黄泉が口を開くのは
  • 私が手を伸ばすその一瞬だけ
  • 触れそうになる度にいつも目が醒めて
  • 物足りないよ　もっと向こうをよく観察みたい
  • Every time when the underworld opens its mouth
  • When I reach out my hand I seem to touch it
  • but right in that moment, I always wake up
  • I’m not satisfied! I want to observe more of the other side

Romaji

“kimi wa kikana koto wo suru kara”
kimiwaru gararete yakukai mono atsukai
teizokuna minshuu tomo watashi ga yuuryou shu da to
naze wakaranai no

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  • 「君は奇怪なことをするから」
  • 気味悪がられて厄介者扱い
  • 低俗な民衆共は私が優良種だと
  • なぜわからないの？
  • “It’s because you do weird things”
  • I am treated like a revolting nuisance
  • If I am a superior breed to the filthy masses
  • then why don’t they understand?

Romaji

haudi
konna toko watashi no iru beki basho ja nai
ogori takaburu shungou
ato sukoshi de shinri wo abakesou nanda
shinjita kitai wa doko e

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  • ハウディ！
  • こんなとこ私の居るべき場所じゃない
  • 驕り高ぶる俊豪
  • あと少しで真理を暴けそうなんだ
  • 信じた期待はどこへ
  • Howdy!
  • I’m not supposed to be in this place
  • I arrogantly flaunt my talent
  • After a bit, I seem to reveal the truth
  • Where are the expectations that I believed?[4]At the end of the song, we find out that Sumireko is reading the Enma’s Book, the ledger of death which contains people’s lifespans.  Sumireko is shocked that her findings don’t match her expectations.

Romaji

sonna kitai hazurena sekai wa misenaide
keijou wo tadoru romansu
ato modori shitakutemo risetto dekinai
utsurona manazashi wa nigotta gurasu dama

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  • そんな期待外れな世界は見せないで
  • 刑場を辿るロマンス
  • 後戻りしたくてもリセットできない
  • 虚ろな眼差しは濁ったグラス玉
  • Don’t show me that disappointing world
  • A romance that leads to the execution grounds
  • Even though I want to turn back, I can’t reset
  • My empty gaze is a clouded glass ball[5]The clouded glass ball are likened to empty eyes, symbolizing one’s life or hopes fading away.

Romaji

konna toko watashi no iru beki basho ja nai
ashi wo sukuwareta douke wa
torawareta ka no you ni abaita kiseki ga
jibun no kiseki da to mo shirazuni

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  • こんなとこ私の居るべき場所じゃない
  • 足を掬われた道化は
  • 囚われたかのように暴いた奇跡が
  • 自分の鬼籍だとも知らずに
  • I’m not supposed to be in this place
  • Unaware, the clown was tricked
  • As if being trapped, the miracle[6]鬼籍 (ledger of death) is pronounced “kiseki”, the same as 奇跡 (miracle). I exposed
  • was myself in the ledger of death[7]鬼籍 is a registry of the dead kept by the Enma (a.k.a. Yama) of Hell in Buddhist mythology.  When the Enma writes your name in this book, you die and demons bring your soul to Hell for judgement.  The Enma’s book also contains a list of every living person’s lifespan.  A Japanese euphemism for death is “entering the Enma’s book”.  Sumireko came looking for hidden truths to prove her superiority, only to realize she fell into a trap and is now stuck in Hell.

Notes

Notes
↑1 From Sumireko’s backstory.  She believes that friends might as well be demons trying to drag her down to their level.
↑2 I’m not sure what this thing is, actually.
↑3 The shores of underworld, on the other side of the Sanzu River.  A Buddhist purgatory, this is where the Yama judges who goes to Heaven or Hell.
↑4 At the end of the song, we find out that Sumireko is reading the Enma’s Book, the ledger of death which contains people’s lifespans.  Sumireko is shocked that her findings don’t match her expectations.
↑5 The clouded glass ball are likened to empty eyes, symbolizing one’s life or hopes fading away.
↑6 鬼籍 (ledger of death) is pronounced “kiseki”, the same as 奇跡 (miracle).
↑7 鬼籍 is a registry of the dead kept by the Enma (a.k.a. Yama) of Hell in Buddhist mythology.  When the Enma writes your name in this book, you die and demons bring your soul to Hell for judgement.  The Enma’s book also contains a list of every living person’s lifespan.  A Japanese euphemism for death is “entering the Enma’s book”.  Sumireko came looking for hidden truths to prove her superiority, only to realize she fell into a trap and is now stuck in Hell.