| In Mr Natsume's Room
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| Soseki Natsume |
| ARGH! That smooth Mr Mori! Am I destined to live in his shadow forever?! |
"Episode 6: In Mr Natsume's Room" is the sixth Escapade in The Randst Magazine from The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures. Like the three previous Escapdes, it takes place during the period between The Adventure of the Clouded Kokoro and The Adventure of the Unspeakable Story from the main game, and is the earliest of the four chronologically. With the release of The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, the timing of this Escapade is during the evening directly after the trial in The Memoirs of the Clouded Kokoro, before the next morning when that episode's epilogue takes place.
February 23[]
- 6:09 p.m.
Soseki Natsume was all settled to go back to Japan. As explained after his first acquittal, he simply felt that he belonged in Japan, again denying that the Reaper curse had anything to do with his decision. He added that everyone in London was laughing behind his back, recalling an incident the other day when he thought he saw a young man approaching him, only to find that it was just his own reflection in a shop window. Iris Wilson reassured him that he was a handsome man.
Natsume claimed that the Japanese were humble, modest people and could never enjoy life in a foreign land surrounded by foreign people. However, Susato Mikotoba found an exception in Ogai Mori, who studied in Germany.[1] Ryunosuke Naruhodo knew him as the author of Mai-hime, known as "The Dancing Girl" in English.[2] Mori even became close with a local German woman while he was there. It turned out that Mikotoba had obtained some information about Natsume's past as an English teacher. According to his teachings, the English phrase "I love you" should not be translated directly as "aishiteru" or "suki desu", as Japanese people tend not to express their emotions so directly. Instead, it should be translated as "tsuki ga kirei desu ne." ("The moon is beautiful, isn't it?")To Natsume's annoyance, Sholmes and Wilson replied that this was simply shyness and Mori would have said "I love you" unrestrained.
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Natsume insisted that he ultimately did not belong in London, mentioning that he had tried many different lodgings before this one. One of these was, in fact, on Baker Street. A scholar of "Sao" (沙翁) named William James Craig[3] lived nearby. Sholmes was unfamiliar with "Sao", so Natsume explained that it was a phonetic representation of William Shakespeare, like England's "I-gi-risu" (英吉利) and America's "A-me-ri-ka" (亜米利加), leaving Wilson to comment that whoever had decided on "Sao" had grown bored early on. The group then discussed names for Sholmes and Wilson, with "So-o" (紗兄?) and "So-handsome" (?) being suggested for Sholmes, and "Ai-hime" (愛姫, love princess) being suggested for Wilson. They also decided to give Naruhodo the name "Kuro-bozu" (黒坊?), despite already having a Japanese name.
To return to the original topic, Wilson suggested that Natsume go outside and have fun. Natsume explained that Joan Garrideb had insisted on him trying to ride a bicycle. On his first ride, he had managed to ride the contraption to a nearby park and back, acquiring only minor bruises. After a week, he seemed to have improved, until he encountered a particularly stone-ridden street and was thrown off after hitting one. Sholmes commented that he had not ridden a bicycle in a while, and suggested that they all go for a ride now. Natsume kept making excuses to no avail.
Cultural references[]
- ↑ Mori Ōgai (森鷗外) was a surgeon general officer in the Japanese army. He was also a translator novelist, poet, and the father of famed author Mari Mori.
- ↑ Maihime (舞姫) was Mori's first short story, written in 1890.
- ↑ William James Craig was an editor of Shakespeare's plays who had Natsume Sōseki as one of his pupils.
