Haruka 遙か4

Sazaki and his friends are bandits/thieves, but he claimed that he is a pirate and lost his ship (Jack Sparrow? XD) And when people say they are bandits he always corrects them. His story doesn’t have a lot of plots and secrets like the other characters. The events just show that he really wanted to travel to the other side of the world and explore different things. I don’t know, maybe there’re some points I didn’t get or some underlying story I didn’t pick up? But I didn’t find anything that is really important to solving many questions about the story.

The first time sazaki took Chihiro flying is using the excuse of examing the mysterious fog from the sky XD. And they made a promise to fly together again after taking over the palace. In sazaki’s story, Chihiro and allies took over the palace before fighting the emperor of ***** and the black dragon. When everything seems fine after taking back the palace, the people (mainly the politition I guess) wants Chihiro to stop seeing Sazaki. Because he is a thieve/pirate and he is from the clan with wings. I think it’s just a racial discrimination thing…=_=. When Chihiro wants to visit Sazaki at the ship, she was forced to turn back and could only stay in the palace and wait for Sazaki to come. So when Sazaki came to the palace to visit Chihiro and to take her flying again like he promised, he was blocked out of the palace and the guards gave him no explanation why he is not allowed to see Chihiro.

Chihiro doesn’t know what’s going on outside the palace so she just waited and waited. Until a day when Nagi (of all the people, why Nagi? =_= the one that didn’t care about other people’s business..=_=) came to Chihiro and told her that Sazaki is having conflict with the guards. What happened was Sazaki tried to visit Chihiro again and was denied. So he kept asking the guards “why!?? I just want to see her! why am not allowed??” So the guards started to be really mean to Sazaki =_= and tell him that he is from another clan AND he is a bad influence and stuff~~ and tell him that if he wants to prove himself, he have to cut off his wings.

Side note, Kariagne (usually gentle and silent) got really pissed off by this XD and it was Sazaki that stopped him and say if that was what he had to do to be with Chihiro and he will do it. Chihiro arrived in time to stop him but Sazaki’s mind is set on doing whatever it took to be with her. So Chihiro decided that the only way to stop Sazaki is to tell him that she doesn’t want to see him anymore and the **** clan should never return to the area. Sazaki couldn’t believe what she said but left with Karigane. Chihiro Cried and apologized secretly by herself. And then there’s more war stuff that I’ll skip here…anyways, Chihiro was capture by the emporor whose mind was actually taken over by the black dragon and she was locked in a room. Having Chihiro as a hostage, the emperor put all Chihiro’s allys (Nagi, Oshihito, Kazahaya…etc) in jail. locked alone in the room, Chihiro looked out the window and thought of Sazaki but knew that he was no longer here and she would probably never see him again. Then she heard someone called her name but she wondered “hmm? who is that? that’s not possible..” and Sazaki answered “huh? you’re so cold, you forgot about me already?” XD So he came in through the window and tell Chihiro (still in shock, lol) that he never left and he could never left Chihiro crying by herself. Chihiro tells sazaki that all the others are in jail so she cannot escape with him; Sazaki then asked Chihiro to wait for him in the room while he rescue the others. But before Sazaki’s return, Chihiro was taken to the emperor for her execution. some more battle stuff…

After defeating the black dragon god, the world is once again fiiled with peace and life. Sazaki and his friends were suppose to set off and return to their home. Chihiro really wants to see Sazaki and Ishinakahime told Chihiro to go ahead. She said that Chihiro has already done so much for Nakatsu kuni and wish her to be happy forever. So while Chihiro is heading out, she saw Sazaki. And the conversation here is funny, she asked (not exact translation as I forgot the exact lines they said, but it’s more or less the same meaning)

“hmm? Sazaki?? what are you doing”
“can’t you see I’m sneeking in =_=”
“what are you doing here??”
“I came for the princess”
“huh?”
“tsk, give me a break, you are the princess, aren’t you?”

and then he told her that he knew that he had fallen in love with her since the first time he took her flying. I like to translate his line for this as [the first time I held you and took you flying, I was thinking.."oh..crap..."] XD It’s like “oh crap…now I’m starting to love her” XD so in the end, Chihiro and Sazaki left and plan to explore different places, eat different food and see different things together. From my opinion, Sazaki act like a child even though he is the oldest among the characters. =_= His story is the one that involves no tragedy; (although Futsuhiko’s story is not super sad either compare to all the other characters~) so if you got upset by other people’s ending (like I was by Oshihito’s) you can play Sazaki’s story to change your mood~~ XD

Futsuhiko is one year younger than Chihiro~ XD He is stuck between his feelings for Chihiro and his loyalty. When Futsuhiko started to realize that he likes Chihiro, he was really troubled and kept telling himself that it is not allowed. The reason is because, he had a brother who loved Chihiro’s sister Ichi no Hime (first princess). And when his brother and Ichi no Hime dissappeared together, people said that his brother ran away with the princess and this brought dishonor to Futsuhiko’s family. His parents died and Futsuhiko vowed to become a good warrior and nothing like his brother. So when ever there’s a conversation about his brother Futsuhiko will be all upset and angry cuz he thought what his brother did was disgraceful. (The truth of his brother will be revealed later in Hiiragi’s story) So when he realized that he had fallen in love with Chihiro he was very upset at himself. People start to tell him that he is just like his brother…and Futsuhiko was struggling with getting rid of his feelings so he could be loyal. And later on when Chihiro was captured by Sainokimi (she is an ally) because Chihiro attacked the black dragon god (and sainokimi thinks that people of Nakatsukuni believed dragon god is their god, and Chihiro shouldn’t attack their god.) But in fact only Chihoro knows that the dragon god is no good and the dragon god is helping Nakatsukuni to fight with enemies using really brutal ways. Sainokimi used the guilt that Futsuhiko had and convince him that telling Chihiro to give up fighting the dragon god is the only way to save Chihiro and Nakatsu kuni. She said to Futsuhiko, “do you really want to become your brother and make the same mistake?” But Chihiro stick to what she believed could truly save the people. Futsuhiko was even more troubled now because half of him believed Chihiro and wanted to protect her and fight for her, but half of him was filled by the guilt and made him think that he was not being truely loyal if he followed his feelings. So anyway, when Chihiro tricked Sainokimi by saying she will stop attacking the dragon but she shot another arrow at the dragon =_=. Sainokomi was really pissed off this time and told people to capture Chihiro again; this time Futsuhiko finally decided that he wanted to believein Chihiro and escaped with her. At the night when Futsuhiko escaped with Chihiro, he started to understand his brothers feelings and actions. And in the end, he realized that by believing in Chihiro and fighting for her; allowed him to keep both his loyalty and love. Futsuhiko’s ending just makes me want to say “good boy” and pat him XD