Labyrinthe Chapter 7 Tyrant/Chapter 7-3

Seiya:	What do you mean with "fragile"?
Kuro:	I'm saying that you lack trust between your teammates. I didn't even need to move a finger this time.
Kuro:	If it was going to become like this.... Then it would have been better to never create friends in the first place.
Seiya:	.... But you have friends too, right?
Kuro:	Are you talking about Saku and Baber? We just happened to have an interest in common.
Kuro:	It's not the type of relationship that you can imagine.
Seiya:	Certainly, my meaning of teammates might be different from yours, but teammates are teammates.
Seiya:	If even one of them is lacking, the group consisting of them would change, right?
Kuro:	..... Changing.... huh.
Kuro:	You do have a point there.
Kuro:	I changed because of that woman.....
Seiya:	Are you talking about the Producer?
Seiya:	Why... Why do you hate her so much?
Kuro:	.... Do you know that she used to be an "I-Chu" in the past?
Seiya:	Yes. The producer told me about it.
Kuro:	Then the story will go fast. It's humiliating for me now, but in the past I used to be called an "I-Chu" too.
Seiya:	Eh?
Kuro:	We were members of the same group....
Seiya:	(Kuro and the Producer were teammates...?)
	*slides*
Raku:	Hm? Torahiko... What's wrong?
Torahiko:	Let me use the room just for a bit....
Raku:	It's not like this is only my room so you're free to do what you want.
Torahiko:	Hm. Thank you.
Torahiko:	................
Raku:	Kukuku. You always have an expression that shows how you're not troubled at all, but today is different.
Raku:	I don't know what happened, but let it go. I won't listen to you though.
Torahiko:	............
Raku:	................
Torahiko:	............
Torahiko:	..... You really won't listen?
Raku:	What is this? You wanted me to listen to you?
Torahiko:	Nnno! I started wanting to talk to you! Nishishi!
Raku:	Kukuku.... What a selfish man.
Torahiko:	....Say, Raku.
Torahiko:	Ink paintings are profound inside, right....?
Raku:	Oh? I will leave the reason why the conversation turned like this to the side, but why do you think that?
Torahiko:	Because you apply lights and shadows to adjust the colors, right? Drawing by using a lot of colors is different too.
Raku:	Well, that's true....
Torahiko:	Until now I was too used to oil paintings, so I wasn't that conscious of a monochrome world.
Torahiko:	If a lot of drawing tools were made ready for me, I'm sure I would end up using a dark color. That's how I feel right now.
Raku:	But using such color once in a while isn't a bad thing.
Torahiko:	But... Wouldn't that not be like me?
Torahiko:	................
Raku:	Oh oh..... This is really unusual. To think the day where I would see a weak Torahiko came.
Raku:	Let's see.... I should answer seriously to this.
Raku:	Torahiko. Colors are, you know, something that you mustn't choose just by yourself.
Raku:	You have to let someone put color to your monochrome world.
Torahiko:	Let someone put color to it?
Raku:	Yes. Until now you've been raised in a vibrant and colorful world.
Raku:	That's because your surroundings created a happy environment.
Raku:	In the past, I saw a monochrome world too, like the one that you're seeing now.
Raku:	But everyone around me is so bright and lively that even I got permeated by their colors.
Raku:	So you don't need to worry.
Torahiko:	..... Yours has a way deeper meaning. Since when did you turn into such a philosophical adult?
Raku:	How rude.... Are you calling me an old man?
Raku:	But leaving that aside, the monochrome isn't a bad color either. It has it's own characteristics.
Raku:	.... I'm a calligrapher after all. My job consists of using monochrome colors. So can you please not deny it so much?
Torahiko:	.... I wasn't really denying it or anything!
Raku:	Is that so?
Torahiko:	Just... It was something I had never seen before, so I was a bit perplexed.
Torahiko:	I feel like if I started drawing now I would probably draw something I had never drawn before.
Torahiko:	I'm feeling down, but the desire to draw is slowly growing stronger!
Raku:	..... You're a really surprising man. You're feeling down and yet you only think about drawing.
Raku:	Our leader is a free man... and a tyrant.
Torahiko:	So being like this is bad?
Raku:	It's not bad. On the contrary, it's really good. I acknowledge you. So solve whatever is troubling you as soon as possible.
Torahiko:	Raku... Thank you for listening! I have one last question, though.
Raku:	I will answer to anything.
Torahiko:	If I drew an ink painting, and then painted on it with oil, how would it become?
Raku:	As usual, I think.
Torahiko:	I see... As usual! Nishishi!
Raku:	Why are you smiling?
Torahiko:	No, it's just that I felt relieved since you said "as always"!
Torahiko:	You're right. I would still keep being myself even if I tried new things.
Raku:	You're a strange man as always....
Raku:	(Now, what will this man do from now on.... I can't help but look forward to it....)