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    "magazine": {
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        "title": "Kitan Club",
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    "issue": {
        "id": 180,
        "title": "September 1963 Issue",
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        "issue_date": "1963-09-01T00:00:00.000000Z",
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    "article": {
        "id": 2712,
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        "sort_order": 8,
        "title": "Life Sentence",
        "author": "Hirafuku Hito",
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        "pdf_page_end": 51,
        "original_language": "Japanese",
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"終身刑\n\n平伏人\n\n序章\n\n光子女王様との、不思議な生活が始まってから、まださ程の年月が過ぎたわけでもないのに、奴隷の分際で、伏人は本当に申し訳けない事を致しました。あれだけ忠誠を誓った筈ですのに、取り返しのつかない、あやまちを私は、おかしてしまったのでございます。\n\nあの事を光子様に発見され、はげしいお調べを受けた後、もったいなくも私をお捨て遊ばすかわりに、奴隷めに科して下さった此の罰は、終生私の背に、重く乗しかかる終身刑にも等しいものでございます。しかし私は心から、光子様の足下にひれ伏し、恐らくは、一生、解き放たれる事のない、一匹の家畜にもおとる生きた御道具として、いつまでも、いつまでもおそばに、お仕えする事でございましょう。\n\nそれは、二週間程前に私が社用で関西に出張した時の事でございます。いつもの様に、革鞄の錠を貴い光子様の御手で、ガチャリとはめられ、玄関に四つん這いとなり、お別れの鞭を戴しい奴隷の尻に、ピシリピシリとお当て下さる女王様に、\n\n「貴い御主人様を三日間の間、お世話も出来ずにお傍を離れる奴隷をお許し下さいませ。一刻も早くお傍にもどり、賤しい家畜のお務めを致します」\n\nと、御あいさつをして旅立った私でしたのに……。\n\n一\n\n関西での仕事も順調に進み、いよいよ明日の『第一富士』で帰京する事になった私は、退屈なままに、大阪南の或るバーへ入ったのです。いつもの様に、カウンターに席を取った私は、\n\n「オールド・パー、オン・ザ・ロック」\n\nと注文すると、何となく店の中を見廻しました。時間も十一時近く、店の中は相当な数の客で、にごった空気は店内の薄暗さと共に、私の目が悪くなったのではないかと思う程、くすんで見えます。目をカウンターの間に移した私は、一人の女性を発見して、思わずハッと致しました。忘れもしない、浅田かおるだったのです。\n\n二\n\nそれは一昨年の夏の事でした。やはり大阪へ出張した時の事です。つい、おっくうなままに放って置いた虫歯が、急に痛み出し、宗右衛門町のY歯科に私は応急の処置を求めて入ったのです。その玄関で私は此んな場所には珍しい、赤いハイヒールを発見したのです。待合室で待って居る間に、私のマゾはむくむくと起き上り、やもたてもたまらなくなった私は、手帖のメモを破り、\n\n「女王様、私は貴女様の賤しい奴隷でございます。どうか、此の美しいハイヒールで私をふみにじって下さいませ」\n\nと書くと、小さく折りたたんで、そのハイヒールの中へさし込んだのでございます。そして、その赤いハイヒールのつま先に舌を当てて、ペロペロと舐めると、私は元の席へ何喰わぬ顔でもどるのでした。待合室は私一人しか居ないし、一体誰の靴だろう、私の空想は果しなく続きます。\n\n「平さん、どうぞ」\n\n若い女の声に私の空想は中断されました。その声と入れかわりに、五十年配の主婦らしい人が降りて来ました。いよいよ、あのハイヒールの持主がわからなくなりました。二階の診察室へ上った私は、思わず足を止めました。二十才位でしょうか、五尺三寸はある長身を白衣につつんだ、エキゾチックな美人を、そこに見出したのです。此の方なら、当然あのハイヒールをおはきになっている筈だ。ああ、何としても此の方の足下にひれ伏したい、私の胸はおどるのです。治療を終った私は、後髪を引かれる思いで外に出ました。心なしか、私の痛がる様子を冷然と見下す、あの方の顔に、サディスティックな笑を私は見た様な気がするのです。\n\n「又明日来て下さい」\n\nと事務的な彼女の言葉に僅かの希望をもって私はホテルへ帰りました。\n\n翌日、Y歯科へ行った私は、一寸待たされた後、最後の治療を受けたのです。診察台にすわったまま、彼女を待つ私は、昨日の事がばれたのではないかと、おどおどせずには居られませんでした。戻って来た彼女の治療は、昨日よりはるかに荒っぽい様でした。\n\n「さあ、これでいいわ。東京へ帰ったら、すぐ治療するのよ」\n\n彼女の声に追い立てられる様に私は玄関に戻りました。靴をはこうとする私は、足の裏に何かひっかかる物に気がつきました。取り出した私は、それが小さな紙きれだったのに一瞬、ドキリと致しました。それには、\n\n「昨日の手紙が、あなたの書いたものでしたら、今晩九時三十分、難波駅前のビジョンに来て下さい。お話があります。赤いハイヒールの女　A・K」\n\nと書かれてありました。\n\n三\n\n時間通りビジョンで落合った二人は、どちらが誘うともなく、ホテルMの一室で向い合って居りました。私が名乗った後、彼女は自分が浅田かおると言い、あの歯科医院の助手として、目下先生が病臥中なので一人で仕事を見て居る事を教えて呉れたのです。\n\n「平さん、あなたは気の弱い卑怯な人ね。あんな手紙を私の靴に入れるなら、なぜ私に会った時、両手をついて頼まないの。私だって医者の卵だし、変態性の何だかという事位知ってるわよ。私、勇気のない人大嫌い。あんたみたいな人、人間の屑だわよ」\n\nと言うと、演技だったのでしょうか、思いきり私の頬に平手打をくわせるのでした。我を忘れて、かおる様の足下にひれ伏した私は、お美しいおみ足にすがりつき、可愛らしい、ふっくらした足指にしゃぶりつくのでした。\n\n「ケダモノ、けがらわしいよ！　お前なんか、こうした方がいいんだよ」\n\nかおる様は、見違える様な荒々しい口調でおっしゃると、私の頭をグイグイ、カーペットへふみにじるのでございました。\n\n「もっと強く、女王様」\n\n引きつった様なうめき声を私はあげるのでした。何も責具がないままに、かおる様は、私を裸にすると、寝巻の紐で手と足を前で一緒に縛り上げ、私のバンドを取ると、思いきり、体中所嫌わず打ちすえるのでした。\n\nそれから一時間後、私達二人は、又会う約束もせず別れたのです。勿論、私は、ひどく再会を願ったのですが……。\n\nその後、かおる様には、お目にかかる機会もなく、私は光子様という御主人様に飼われる身となったのでございます。\n\n四\n\n二年ぶりに、かおる様を発見した私は、一人でカウンターに居られるお姿に、\n\n「あの女の人、何時も一人？」\n\nとホステスにたずねました。\n\n「ええ、前にはよく、女の方とお二人で見えたんですけどね、このごろは何時も一人で」\n\n此の答に安心して私は、かおる様に近づきました。\n\n「浅田さん、しばらくです」\n\n「……」\n\n「平です。Y医院でお目にかかった」\n\nやっと気がついた御様子です。\n\n「あら、びっくりしたわ。こんな所で」\n\nそれから看板まで飲んだ二人は、思い出のホテルMで、女王様と奴隷として相対する事となったのです。裸になった私の革帯姿に、かおる様は何かを察した御様子でした。\n\n「平、お前、此の変なもの何よ！　誰にしてもらってるのよ。ヨシッ、今日は、私がお前の飼い主だから、こんなものははずしてしまうよ！」\n\nと、おっしゃると、ハンドバッグの中からハサミを取り出すと、革帯を切りさいてしまうのでございます。私は、光子様に申し訳けない気持で一杯でしたが、此の瞬間のマゾのたかぶりは、神聖な私の光子様に対する気持をも、ふり捨てるだけの強さを持って居たのでございます。\n\n「お前の東京の飼主に帰ったら、よく自分の身体を見てもらうがいいよ。キット、死ぬ程、お前を責めて呉れるよ。有難く思うんだよ！」\n\nかおる様のお言葉は、私のマゾをますますかりたてるのです。\n\nやがて私は、バンドの鞭の嵐の中に、自分の身体がのたうち廻るのを、どうする事も出来ませんでした。背、尻、私の体は、赤いみみず腫れでおおわれます。\n\n「女王様、有難うございます。有難うございます。ヒーッ、ヒーッ」\n\n私の呻き声と共に、赤い絨毯の上に血がしたたります。\n\n「当り前だよ、ケダモノ！　犬！　畜生！」\n\n口汚くののしると、かおる様は、私の髪の毛をつかんで、バスルームへ引きずり込むのです。タイルの上に、だらしなく大の字にのびた私の身体の上で、かおる様のボリュームのあるおみ脚が、二本の円柱の様に開きます。やがて夢幻の世界から、目をさました私は、別れぎわに、自分の住所を命ぜられるままにかおる様に、お知らせしてしまったのです。此れが私の終身刑の原因になろうとは露知らず……。\n\n五\n\n三日ぶりで帰京した私は、予想通り光子様のきびしいお取調を受けたのでございます。\n\n「伏人、白状おし。お前は何処で奴隷の革帯を取ったの。どこで此の鞭傷を受けたの。お前は私の家畜なんだよ！　勝手に他人のなぐさみものになっていいと思うのかい。ヨシッ！　どうしても白状しないなら、今日限り、暇をやるから、出てお行き」\n\n後手に縛った私を、ベッドの前に正座させ、はげしく背を鞭打ちながら、責めつづけるのです。\n\n「申し訳ございません、皆白状致しますから、どうか、私を捨てないで下さいませ」\n\n私は必死になってお願いするのでした。すべてを正直に白状する私の話を聞いて居られた光子様は、一通り話がすむと、\n\n「ヨシッ！　今から五日間、会社を休みな。そして心を入れかえるんだよ」\n\nと申されるのでした。それが、どんな苦しい事であっても私は、光子様のお傍に置いていただく為に承知する以外にありませんでした。\n\nそれから五日間の私の生活は異様なものでした。前の様に直接身体に受ける苦痛は、ほとんど有りませんでしたが……。\n\n第一日目、私は、ベランダに犬の様に鎖でつながれ、終日四つん這いになる事を命ぜられたのです。残飯もあたえられず四つん這いの私に、光子様は洗面器に貴い御神水をたたえ、\n\n「今から五日間、これだけがお前の食べ物だよ。他のものはやらないから。あまり身体を動かすと、お腹がへるから、じっとしておいで。それから、便所に行きたくなったら、ここにするんだよ」\n\nとおっしゃると、砂の入ったミカン箱をベランダに出して下さるのでございます。此の様にして二日目をむかえました。光子様は全然私の事など忘れた様に、時々御神水をつぎ足して下さる以外、まるでお顔を見せて下さらないのでございます。二日目も夜になったころ、私はあまりの空腹とさびしさに、とうとう禁を破り、犬の分際で、\n\n「御主人様、お願いでございます。何か残飯でも投げて下さいませ」\n\nと人間の言葉で哀願してしまったのです。\n\n珍しく光子様は、怒った御様子をもなく、ベランダの戸を開けると、\n\n「犬のくせに人間の言葉を使って、駄目じゃない。随分お腹がへったらしいね。じゃ、これでも食べるんだね」\n\nとおっしゃって、蓋をした丼と、割箸を持って来て下さるのでした。一体何を食べさせて下さるのだろう。\n\n「さあ、ワン公！　御主人様の体から出たものだよ。有難く頂戴するんだよ」\n\n光子様は、丼の蓋をあけると、あわれな人間犬の前に押しやるのでございます。\n\n勿論、度の強いマゾの私です。想像の世界では、幾度となく光子様の固形排泄物を口にしたものでございますが、今、目の前に見て、どうしても口にする事が出来ないのです。久しぶりの光子様の鞭におののきながら、何度も丼に顔を近づけますが、口にする勇気が出ないのでございます。この様な私の煮えきらない態度に、業をにやした光子様は、割箸で小指の先程の大きさの固形物を取り上げると、\n\n「さあ、お食べ。これにも女王様の栄養のかすが、少しは残っているんだから」\n\nとおっしゃると、無理やりに私の口をこじあけて、箸の先を押し込むのでございます。何とも言えない異様な味、臭に、私は思わず、\n\n「ゲーッ」\n\nと胃の中から込み上げる自然の力で、吐き出してしまったのでございます。\n\n光子様の貴い身体から出た、犬として当然有難くいただくべきものを、身の程しらずの私は拒否してしまったのです。当然光子様は激怒されました。\n\n「バカッ！　何だいそのざまは！　お前はかおるのものなら喜んで飲んだくせに、この光子様のは食べられないのかよ！　お前がこれを食べられる様になるまで、絶対に許さないからね。私を裏切った罰を思い知るがいい」\n\n光子様のはげしい叱責と鞭の下で、ただひたすらお許しを願い、ベランダのコンクリートの上に額をすりつけながら、私はだんだんと自分の態度が間違って居た様に感じてくるのでした。たしかに、かおる様の御神水を口にした自分は、絶対の飼主である光子様の固形物を食べられないわけはない。そうだ、思いきって食べよう。それが犬の自分には、ふさわしい食物なのだ。私は自分に言いきかせました。\n\nそして、夢中で丼に顔を突込み、舌の先で、ほんの少しですが口へはこぶのでした。この瞬間、私は完全に身も心も、光子様の家畜になりきった事を思い、口中の不快さを吹き飛ばす様な快感を感じるのでした。\n\n一日毎に、食べる量もふえ、湯飲み茶碗に三分の一位は口に入る様になった最後の五日目、久しぶりで室内に入る事を許された私は、風呂に入り身を清める事を命ぜられました。湯上りの私に、床に這う様に命じた光子様は、\n\n「今日、夕方から私のお客様があるから、よくお仕えするんだよ。もっとも、お前みたいな、汚らわしい奴隷を、人前に出すわけにはゆかないから、こうしてやろう」\n\nとおっしゃいますと、私の身体にギリギリと細引をからませ、後手に縛り上げてしまいました。そして、洋服ダンスの中へ入る様に命じると、鉄のパイプに私の首輪の鎖を巻きつけ、口に光子様の網目のパンティをくわえさせるのです。\n\n「そのままでじっとしてるんだよ。これからお客様がくるからね」\n\n無情にも、扉をバタンとしめてしまったのでございます。\n\n六\n\nあれからどの位時間がたったでしょうか。恐らくは三十分ぐらいだったのでしょうが、暗闇の中で後手に縛られ、首輪の鎖でパイプにつるされ、網目のパンティを口にくわえさせられて、ただ何時終るとも知れない屈辱の姿体で待つ私にとっては、二時間にも三時間にも感じられる長さでした。その間中、\n\n「光子様、本当に申し訳ございませんでした。奴隷は一生消える事のない罰を天が私におあたえ下さったものと思い、奴隷の一生が続く限り、つぐないの苦しみをお受け致します」\n\nと真心を以てお詫びの言葉をくり返して居たのでございます。\n\nしばらく、お話が続いた後、声がとだえたと思ったとたんに、私の目の前が急に明るくなりました。下を向いて、恥しさに目を伏せる私の頬に、小気味よい平手打の音が鳴りました。\n\n「ケダモノ、顔をお上げ！　お客様にごあいさつをするんだよ」\n\n光子様のお言葉に、私は、おずおずと目を開けました。私は思わず、\n\n「アッ」\n\nと驚きの声をあげると、口にした網目のパンティを落してしまいました。\n\n「バカヤロー！　何をきょとんとしているんだよ。ワン公、久しぶりだね。ホホホホホ。全くいいざまだよ。光ちゃん、うまく馴らしたもんだね」\n\n何うした事でしょう。それはかおる様だったのです。後で聞いたのですが、光子様はかおる様と同じ高校の出身で、三年先輩に当るのだそうです。そして、学生時代はいわゆるエスのお相手だったのだそうです。今でも文通をして居た、同じ女性とは光子様の事だったのです。私が帰京して、五日間の責めを受け始めた三日目に、かおる様から光子様に次の様な手紙がとどいたのだそうでございます。\n\n「光子さん、昨日偶然の機会に貴女がおっしゃって居た、奴隷の平にあいました。私も驚いたのですが、まさか、私が二年前に、頭をふみつけてやった男が、今貴女の奴隷になっているとは、全く偶然にしても、こわいみたいね。貴女も私も、同じ様なサド性たっぷりの女ですもん。近い中に東京へ務める事になりましたから良かったら、平を二人の共通の奴隷にしません。私のサドぶりが、決して貴女に負けない事は、平が自分の身体で貴女にお知らせする筈です。かおる」\n\nさて話を前に戻します。あわれな姿で、二人の前に引きすえられた私は、光子様から次の宣告を受けたのです。\n\n「伏人！　今日から、私と、このかおる様が此の家の御主人様になるんだよ。もっとも、私が絶対の女王様、かおるは私の侍女。けれども、お前には御主人様だよ。そしてお前は奴隷で家畜、わかったね。それから、お前が一生私達の奴隷の境遇からぬけられない様に、今から、お前の背中に入墨をしてやるから」\n\n私は、ベッドに両手足をくくりつけられ、医者として幼稚な知識しかない、かおる様の手で入墨をされたのです。直径三糎程の大きさで「奴隷」と書かれ、[以下、次の記事へ切り替わる直前の一行は印刷の綴じ際に近く、全文判読困難]。",
        "translation_draft": "LIFE SENTENCE\n\nBy Hirafuku Hito\n\nPrologue\n\nIt has not actually been so very long since my strange life with Queen Mitsuko began. Yet, lowly slave that I am, I have committed a truly inexcusable act. Though I had sworn such absolute loyalty, I made an irreparable mistake.\n\nMitsuko discovered what I had done and subjected me to a severe interrogation. Rather than casting me away, she graciously imposed a punishment upon her slave. It is a life sentence, a burden that will weigh heavily upon my back until the end of my days. Yet from the bottom of my heart I prostrate myself at Mitsuko's feet. I will probably never be released. Less than an animal, I shall remain a living implement, serving at her side forever and ever.\n\nIt happened about two weeks ago, when business took me to the Kansai region. As always, Mitsuko fastened the lock of my leather harness with her precious hands. I crawled on all fours in the entrance hall while my queen struck her despicable slave's buttocks sharply with a farewell whip.\n\n\"Please forgive your slave for leaving his precious mistress for three days, unable to serve at your side. I shall return as quickly as possible and resume my duties as your lowly animal.\"\n\nWith this farewell, I departed. And yet…\n\n1\n\nMy work in Kansai proceeded smoothly, and I was due to return to Tokyo on the next day's First Fuji express. Bored and restless, I entered a bar in Osaka's Minami district. I sat at the counter as usual.\n\n\"Old Parr, on the rocks.\"\n\nAfter ordering, I idly surveyed the room. It was nearly eleven, and there were quite a few customers. The smoky air and dim lighting made everything look so dull that I wondered whether my eyesight had deteriorated. As I shifted my gaze along the counter, I spotted a woman and involuntarily caught my breath. I could never have forgotten her. It was Asada Kaoru.\n\n2\n\nThis takes us back to the summer two years earlier, during another business trip to Osaka. A decayed tooth that I had lazily neglected suddenly began to ache, so I entered Y Dental Clinic in Sōemonchō for emergency treatment. In the entrance I noticed a pair of red high heels, unusual for such a place. While I waited alone, my masochistic urges began swelling until I could no longer restrain myself. I tore a page from my notebook and wrote:\n\n\"My queen, I am your lowly slave. Please trample me beneath these beautiful high heels.\"\n\nI folded the message into a tiny square and slipped it inside one of the shoes. Then I touched my tongue to the toe of the red high heel and licked it before returning innocently to my seat. Since I was alone in the waiting room, I wondered endlessly who could own them.\n\n\"Mr. Hira, please come in.\"\n\nA young woman's voice interrupted my fantasy. At the same time, a woman who appeared to be around fifty descended the stairs, making me even less certain who owned the shoes. When I went upstairs into the consulting room, I stopped in astonishment. Before me stood an exotic beauty, perhaps twenty years old and well over five feet tall, wrapped in a white medical coat. Surely a woman such as this must be the owner of those heels. My heart leapt at the thought of prostrating myself beneath her feet.\n\nWhen the treatment ended, I left reluctantly. Perhaps it was my imagination, but I thought I saw a sadistic smile on the face that coolly looked down upon my pain.\n\n\"Come again tomorrow.\"\n\nHer businesslike words left me with a faint hope, and I returned to my hotel.\n\nThe next day I went back to Y Dental Clinic. After a brief wait, I received the final treatment. Sitting in the chair and waiting for her, I could not stop trembling at the thought that my act of the previous day might have been discovered. When she returned, her treatment seemed much rougher than before.\n\n\"There. That will do. Have it properly treated as soon as you get back to Tokyo.\"\n\nDriven from the room by her voice, I returned to the entrance. As I tried to put on my shoes, I felt something beneath my foot. It was a tiny piece of paper, and my heart jumped. It read:\n\n\"If yesterday's letter was yours, come to the Vision in front of Namba Station at nine-thirty tonight. I have something to discuss with you. The Woman in the Red High Heels, A.K.\"\n\n3\n\nWe met at the Vision at the appointed time. Without either of us clearly inviting the other, we soon found ourselves facing each other in a room at Hotel M. After I introduced myself, she said her name was Asada Kaoru. She explained that she was an assistant at the dental clinic and was handling the work alone while the dentist was confined to bed by illness.\n\n\"Mr. Hira, you are a cowardly, timid man. If you were going to put such a letter in my shoe, why didn't you get down on both hands and beg me when we met? I am training in medicine, and I know something about sexual abnormalities. I hate men without courage. A man like you is human refuse.\"\n\nPerhaps it was a performance, but she struck me across the face with all her strength. Forgetting myself, I prostrated myself at Kaoru's feet, clung to her beautiful legs, and sucked her pretty, plump toes.\n\n\"Beast! Filthy creature! This is what should be done to someone like you.\"\n\nSpeaking in a startlingly savage voice, Kaoru ground my head into the carpet.\n\n\"Harder, my queen.\"\n\nA strangled groan escaped me. With no special instruments available, Kaoru stripped me, tied my hands and feet together in front with the cord from a sleeping robe, removed my belt, and thrashed every part of my body.\n\nAn hour later, we separated without promising to meet again. I desperately wanted another meeting, but none was arranged.\n\nAfterward I had no opportunity to see Kaoru. In time I became the property of my present mistress, Mitsuko.\n\n4\n\nSeeing Kaoru again after two years, sitting alone at the counter, I asked a hostess:\n\n\"Does that woman always come alone?\"\n\n\"Yes. She used to come quite often with another woman, but lately she is always by herself.\"\n\nReassured, I approached her.\n\n\"Miss Asada, it has been a long time.\"\n\nShe said nothing.\n\n\"It is Hira. We met at Y Clinic.\"\n\nAt last she appeared to recognize me.\n\n\"Goodness, what a surprise. Here of all places.\"\n\nWe drank until closing time and then went to the Hotel M of our memories, where once again we faced one another as queen and slave. When I undressed, Kaoru noticed the leather restraints I wore and seemed to understand something.\n\n\"Hira, what are these strange things? Who put them on you? All right, today I am your owner, so I shall take them off.\"\n\nShe pulled scissors from her handbag and cut through the leather straps. I was overwhelmed by guilt toward Mitsuko, yet at that instant my masochistic excitement was strong enough to cast aside even my sacred feelings toward her.\n\n\"When you return to your owner in Tokyo, let her examine your body carefully. She will probably torment you nearly to death. You ought to be grateful.\"\n\nKaoru's words inflamed my masochism still further.\n\nSoon my body writhed helplessly beneath a storm of blows from the belt. My back and buttocks were covered in red welts.\n\n\"Thank you, my queen! Thank you! Ah! Ah!\"\n\nBlood dripped onto the red carpet along with my groans.\n\n\"Of course, you beast! You dog! You brute!\"\n\nShowering me with abuse, Kaoru grabbed my hair and dragged me into the bathroom. I lay spread helplessly across the tiles while her full legs opened above me like two pillars. When I eventually awakened from the dreamlike state, I obeyed her command and gave her my address before we parted. I had no idea that this would become the cause of my life sentence.\n\n5\n\nWhen I returned to Tokyo after three days, Mitsuko interrogated me severely, exactly as I had expected.\n\n\"Hito, confess. Where did you remove your slave's leather harness? Where did you receive those whip marks? You are my animal. Do you imagine you may become another person's plaything whenever you please? Very well. If you refuse to confess, I shall dismiss you today. Leave this house.\"\n\nShe tied my hands behind me, made me kneel before the bed, and continued questioning me while lashing my back.\n\n\"Please forgive me. I shall confess everything. Please do not cast me away.\"\n\nI begged desperately. Mitsuko listened as I confessed everything honestly. When I had finished, she said:\n\n\"Very well. Take five days away from work, beginning now, and reform yourself.\"\n\nNo matter how painful the punishment might prove, I had no choice but to accept it if I wished to remain at her side.\n\nMy life during those five days was extraordinary. There was almost none of the direct physical pain I had previously experienced, but what replaced it was something else entirely.\n\nOn the first day I was chained on the balcony like a dog and ordered to remain on all fours throughout the day. I received no scraps. Mitsuko filled a washbasin with what she called her precious sacred water and told me:\n\n\"For the next five days, this will be your only food. I shall give you nothing else. Do not move too much, or you will become hungry. Stay still. And when you need to relieve yourself, use this.\"\n\nShe placed an orange crate filled with sand on the balcony.\n\nThus I reached the second day. Mitsuko behaved as though she had forgotten me completely. Apart from occasionally replenishing the basin, she did not even show me her face. By the second night, hunger and loneliness drove me to violate her rule. Forgetting that I was only a dog, I spoke in human language.\n\n\"Mistress, please. Throw me some leftover food.\"\n\nUnusually, Mitsuko showed no anger. She opened the balcony door.\n\n\"A dog must not use human words. You must be very hungry. Then perhaps you will eat this.\"\n\nShe brought a covered bowl and disposable chopsticks. I wondered what she intended to feed me.\n\n\"Here, dog. It came from your mistress's body. Receive it gratefully.\"\n\nShe removed the lid and pushed the bowl toward the pitiful human dog before her.\n\nI am, of course, an extreme masochist. In fantasy I had imagined consuming my mistress's bodily waste many times. Yet confronted with it physically, I could not bring myself to put it in my mouth. Trembling at the prospect of Mitsuko's whip, I repeatedly brought my face near the bowl but could not find the courage.\n\nExasperated by my indecision, Mitsuko picked up a small piece with the chopsticks.\n\n\"Eat it. A little of your queen's nourishment must remain in it.\"\n\nShe forced my mouth open and pushed the chopsticks inside. The extraordinary taste and smell caused a reflexive wave to rise from my stomach, and I vomited it out.\n\nI, an animal who should have received gratefully whatever came from Mitsuko's precious body, had presumptuously refused it. Naturally she was furious.\n\n\"Idiot! Look at you. You drank Kaoru's sacred water gladly, yet you cannot eat what comes from Mitsuko? I shall never forgive you until you can eat it. Learn the cost of betraying me.\"\n\nUnder Mitsuko's furious rebukes and whip, I begged forgiveness, pressing my forehead against the concrete of the balcony. Gradually I began to believe that my attitude had indeed been wrong. If I had accepted Kaoru's bodily fluid, how could I refuse the solid waste of Mitsuko, my absolute owner? I told myself that I must eat it, that such food was appropriate for a dog like me.\n\nI plunged my face into the bowl and carried a tiny amount to my mouth with the tip of my tongue. At that instant, I felt I had become Mitsuko's animal completely, in both body and mind. The realization produced an ecstasy that swept away the unpleasant sensation in my mouth.\n\nEach day I consumed more. By the fifth and final day, I could take nearly one-third of a teacup. At last I was allowed indoors. Mitsuko ordered me to bathe and cleanse myself. When I emerged, she commanded me to crawl across the floor.\n\n\"I shall have a guest this evening. Serve her well. Of course, I cannot display a filthy slave such as you before another person, so I shall arrange matters like this.\"\n\nShe wound thin cord tightly around my body and bound my hands behind me. She ordered me into a wardrobe, wrapped the chain from my collar around an iron pipe, and made me hold a pair of Mitsuko's mesh panties in my mouth.\n\n\"Stay exactly as you are. My guest will arrive soon.\"\n\nMercilessly, she slammed the door shut.\n\n6\n\nI do not know how much time passed. It was probably only thirty minutes, but in the darkness, tied behind my back, tethered to a pipe by my collar, with mesh panties in my mouth and no knowledge of when the humiliation would end, it felt like two or three hours. Throughout that time I repeated my apology with complete sincerity:\n\n\"Mitsuko, I am truly sorry. I accept this as a punishment that Heaven has placed upon me for life. For as long as my existence as a slave continues, I shall endure the suffering required to atone.\"\n\nAfter the women's conversation continued for a while, their voices stopped. At that instant the space before my eyes suddenly became bright. I lowered my head and averted my eyes in shame. A crisp slap struck my cheek.\n\n\"Beast, raise your face. Greet our guest.\"\n\nAt Mitsuko's command I timidly opened my eyes. An involuntary cry of surprise escaped me, and Mitsuko's mesh panties fell from my mouth.\n\n\"Idiot! Why are you staring so stupidly? It has been a long time, dog. Ho, ho, ho! What a marvelous sight. Mitsuko, you have trained him very well.\"\n\nIt was Kaoru.\n\nI later learned that Mitsuko and Kaoru had attended the same high school, with Mitsuko three years ahead of her. During their school days, they had apparently been partners in what was then called an 'S' relationship. The woman with whom Kaoru had continued corresponding was Mitsuko. On the third day of my five-day punishment, Kaoru had sent her the following letter:\n\n\"Mitsuko, yesterday by complete chance I met the slave Hira whom you once mentioned. I was astonished. I could hardly believe that the man whose head I trampled two years ago is now your slave. It is a frightening coincidence. You and I are both women overflowing with sadistic tendencies. I shall soon be transferred to Tokyo. Would you like to make Hira our shared slave? His own body will prove to you that my sadism is in no way inferior to yours. Kaoru.\"\n\nTo return to the events themselves, I was dragged in my miserable condition before the two women, and Mitsuko pronounced judgment:\n\n\"Hito. From today, I and Kaoru shall be the mistresses of this house. Naturally I am the absolute queen and Kaoru is my attendant, but she is also your mistress. You are a slave and an animal. Do you understand? And to ensure that you can never escape your condition as our lifelong slave, we shall now tattoo your back.\"\n\nMy hands and feet were tied to the bed. Kaoru, who possessed only rudimentary medical knowledge, performed the tattooing. In characters roughly three centimeters across, she inscribed the word 'slave' upon my back. The final sentence is partially obscured at the binding and the article gives way immediately afterward to the next contribution.",
        "translation_final": "LIFE SENTENCE\n\nBy Hirafuku Hito\n\nPrologue\n\nIt has not actually been so very long since my strange life with Queen Mitsuko began. Yet, lowly slave that I am, I have committed a truly inexcusable act. Though I had sworn such absolute loyalty, I made an irreparable mistake.\n\nMitsuko discovered what I had done and subjected me to a severe interrogation. Rather than casting me away, she graciously imposed a punishment upon her slave. It is a life sentence, a burden that will weigh heavily upon my back until the end of my days. Yet from the bottom of my heart I prostrate myself at Mitsuko's feet. I will probably never be released. Less than an animal, I shall remain a living implement, serving at her side forever and ever.\n\nIt happened about two weeks ago, when business took me to the Kansai region. As always, Mitsuko fastened the lock of my leather harness with her precious hands. I crawled on all fours in the entrance hall while my queen struck her despicable slave's buttocks sharply with a farewell whip.\n\n\"Please forgive your slave for leaving his precious mistress for three days, unable to serve at your side. I shall return as quickly as possible and resume my duties as your lowly animal.\"\n\nWith this farewell, I departed. And yet…\n\n1\n\nMy work in Kansai proceeded smoothly, and I was due to return to Tokyo on the next day's First Fuji express. Bored and restless, I entered a bar in Osaka's Minami district. I sat at the counter as usual.\n\n\"Old Parr, on the rocks.\"\n\nAfter ordering, I idly surveyed the room. It was nearly eleven, and there were quite a few customers. The smoky air and dim lighting made everything look so dull that I wondered whether my eyesight had deteriorated. As I shifted my gaze along the counter, I spotted a woman and involuntarily caught my breath. I could never have forgotten her. It was Asada Kaoru.\n\n2\n\nThis takes us back to the summer two years earlier, during another business trip to Osaka. A decayed tooth that I had lazily neglected suddenly began to ache, so I entered Y Dental Clinic in Sōemonchō for emergency treatment. In the entrance I noticed a pair of red high heels, unusual for such a place. While I waited alone, my masochistic urges began swelling until I could no longer restrain myself. I tore a page from my notebook and wrote:\n\n\"My queen, I am your lowly slave. Please trample me beneath these beautiful high heels.\"\n\nI folded the message into a tiny square and slipped it inside one of the shoes. Then I touched my tongue to the toe of the red high heel and licked it before returning innocently to my seat. Since I was alone in the waiting room, I wondered endlessly who could own them.\n\n\"Mr. Hira, please come in.\"\n\nA young woman's voice interrupted my fantasy. At the same time, a woman who appeared to be around fifty descended the stairs, making me even less certain who owned the shoes. When I went upstairs into the consulting room, I stopped in astonishment. Before me stood an exotic beauty, perhaps twenty years old and well over five feet tall, wrapped in a white medical coat. Surely a woman such as this must be the owner of those heels. My heart leapt at the thought of prostrating myself beneath her feet.\n\nWhen the treatment ended, I left reluctantly. Perhaps it was my imagination, but I thought I saw a sadistic smile on the face that coolly looked down upon my pain.\n\n\"Come again tomorrow.\"\n\nHer businesslike words left me with a faint hope, and I returned to my hotel.\n\nThe next day I went back to Y Dental Clinic. After a brief wait, I received the final treatment. Sitting in the chair and waiting for her, I could not stop trembling at the thought that my act of the previous day might have been discovered. When she returned, her treatment seemed much rougher than before.\n\n\"There. That will do. Have it properly treated as soon as you get back to Tokyo.\"\n\nDriven from the room by her voice, I returned to the entrance. As I tried to put on my shoes, I felt something beneath my foot. It was a tiny piece of paper, and my heart jumped. It read:\n\n\"If yesterday's letter was yours, come to the Vision in front of Namba Station at nine-thirty tonight. I have something to discuss with you. The Woman in the Red High Heels, A.K.\"\n\n3\n\nWe met at the Vision at the appointed time. Without either of us clearly inviting the other, we soon found ourselves facing each other in a room at Hotel M. After I introduced myself, she said her name was Asada Kaoru. She explained that she was an assistant at the dental clinic and was handling the work alone while the dentist was confined to bed by illness.\n\n\"Mr. Hira, you are a cowardly, timid man. If you were going to put such a letter in my shoe, why didn't you get down on both hands and beg me when we met? I am training in medicine, and I know something about sexual abnormalities. I hate men without courage. A man like you is human refuse.\"\n\nPerhaps it was a performance, but she struck me across the face with all her strength. Forgetting myself, I prostrated myself at Kaoru's feet, clung to her beautiful legs, and sucked her pretty, plump toes.\n\n\"Beast! Filthy creature! This is what should be done to someone like you.\"\n\nSpeaking in a startlingly savage voice, Kaoru ground my head into the carpet.\n\n\"Harder, my queen.\"\n\nA strangled groan escaped me. With no special instruments available, Kaoru stripped me, tied my hands and feet together in front with the cord from a sleeping robe, removed my belt, and thrashed every part of my body.\n\nAn hour later, we separated without promising to meet again. I desperately wanted another meeting, but none was arranged.\n\nAfterward I had no opportunity to see Kaoru. In time I became the property of my present mistress, Mitsuko.\n\n4\n\nSeeing Kaoru again after two years, sitting alone at the counter, I asked a hostess:\n\n\"Does that woman always come alone?\"\n\n\"Yes. She used to come quite often with another woman, but lately she is always by herself.\"\n\nReassured, I approached her.\n\n\"Miss Asada, it has been a long time.\"\n\nShe said nothing.\n\n\"It is Hira. We met at Y Clinic.\"\n\nAt last she appeared to recognize me.\n\n\"Goodness, what a surprise. Here of all places.\"\n\nWe drank until closing time and then went to the Hotel M of our memories, where once again we faced one another as queen and slave. When I undressed, Kaoru noticed the leather restraints I wore and seemed to understand something.\n\n\"Hira, what are these strange things? Who put them on you? All right, today I am your owner, so I shall take them off.\"\n\nShe pulled scissors from her handbag and cut through the leather straps. I was overwhelmed by guilt toward Mitsuko, yet at that instant my masochistic excitement was strong enough to cast aside even my sacred feelings toward her.\n\n\"When you return to your owner in Tokyo, let her examine your body carefully. She will probably torment you nearly to death. You ought to be grateful.\"\n\nKaoru's words inflamed my masochism still further.\n\nSoon my body writhed helplessly beneath a storm of blows from the belt. My back and buttocks were covered in red welts.\n\n\"Thank you, my queen! Thank you! Ah! Ah!\"\n\nBlood dripped onto the red carpet along with my groans.\n\n\"Of course, you beast! You dog! You brute!\"\n\nShowering me with abuse, Kaoru grabbed my hair and dragged me into the bathroom. I lay spread helplessly across the tiles while her full legs opened above me like two pillars. When I eventually awakened from the dreamlike state, I obeyed her command and gave her my address before we parted. I had no idea that this would become the cause of my life sentence.\n\n5\n\nWhen I returned to Tokyo after three days, Mitsuko interrogated me severely, exactly as I had expected.\n\n\"Hito, confess. Where did you remove your slave's leather harness? Where did you receive those whip marks? You are my animal. Do you imagine you may become another person's plaything whenever you please? Very well. If you refuse to confess, I shall dismiss you today. Leave this house.\"\n\nShe tied my hands behind me, made me kneel before the bed, and continued questioning me while lashing my back.\n\n\"Please forgive me. I shall confess everything. Please do not cast me away.\"\n\nI begged desperately. Mitsuko listened as I confessed everything honestly. When I had finished, she said:\n\n\"Very well. Take five days away from work, beginning now, and reform yourself.\"\n\nNo matter how painful the punishment might prove, I had no choice but to accept it if I wished to remain at her side.\n\nMy life during those five days was extraordinary. There was almost none of the direct physical pain I had previously experienced, but what replaced it was something else entirely.\n\nOn the first day I was chained on the balcony like a dog and ordered to remain on all fours throughout the day. I received no scraps. Mitsuko filled a washbasin with what she called her precious sacred water and told me:\n\n\"For the next five days, this will be your only food. I shall give you nothing else. Do not move too much, or you will become hungry. Stay still. And when you need to relieve yourself, use this.\"\n\nShe placed an orange crate filled with sand on the balcony.\n\nThus I reached the second day. Mitsuko behaved as though she had forgotten me completely. Apart from occasionally replenishing the basin, she did not even show me her face. By the second night, hunger and loneliness drove me to violate her rule. Forgetting that I was only a dog, I spoke in human language.\n\n\"Mistress, please. Throw me some leftover food.\"\n\nUnusually, Mitsuko showed no anger. She opened the balcony door.\n\n\"A dog must not use human words. You must be very hungry. Then perhaps you will eat this.\"\n\nShe brought a covered bowl and disposable chopsticks. I wondered what she intended to feed me.\n\n\"Here, dog. It came from your mistress's body. Receive it gratefully.\"\n\nShe removed the lid and pushed the bowl toward the pitiful human dog before her.\n\nI am, of course, an extreme masochist. In fantasy I had imagined consuming my mistress's bodily waste many times. Yet confronted with it physically, I could not bring myself to put it in my mouth. Trembling at the prospect of Mitsuko's whip, I repeatedly brought my face near the bowl but could not find the courage.\n\nExasperated by my indecision, Mitsuko picked up a small piece with the chopsticks.\n\n\"Eat it. A little of your queen's nourishment must remain in it.\"\n\nShe forced my mouth open and pushed the chopsticks inside. The extraordinary taste and smell caused a reflexive wave to rise from my stomach, and I vomited it out.\n\nI, an animal who should have received gratefully whatever came from Mitsuko's precious body, had presumptuously refused it. Naturally she was furious.\n\n\"Idiot! Look at you. You drank Kaoru's sacred water gladly, yet you cannot eat what comes from Mitsuko? I shall never forgive you until you can eat it. Learn the cost of betraying me.\"\n\nUnder Mitsuko's furious rebukes and whip, I begged forgiveness, pressing my forehead against the concrete of the balcony. Gradually I began to believe that my attitude had indeed been wrong. If I had accepted Kaoru's bodily fluid, how could I refuse the solid waste of Mitsuko, my absolute owner? I told myself that I must eat it, that such food was appropriate for a dog like me.\n\nI plunged my face into the bowl and carried a tiny amount to my mouth with the tip of my tongue. At that instant, I felt I had become Mitsuko's animal completely, in both body and mind. The realization produced an ecstasy that swept away the unpleasant sensation in my mouth.\n\nEach day I consumed more. By the fifth and final day, I could take nearly one-third of a teacup. At last I was allowed indoors. Mitsuko ordered me to bathe and cleanse myself. When I emerged, she commanded me to crawl across the floor.\n\n\"I shall have a guest this evening. Serve her well. Of course, I cannot display a filthy slave such as you before another person, so I shall arrange matters like this.\"\n\nShe wound thin cord tightly around my body and bound my hands behind me. She ordered me into a wardrobe, wrapped the chain from my collar around an iron pipe, and made me hold a pair of Mitsuko's mesh panties in my mouth.\n\n\"Stay exactly as you are. My guest will arrive soon.\"\n\nMercilessly, she slammed the door shut.\n\n6\n\nI do not know how much time passed. It was probably only thirty minutes, but in the darkness, tied behind my back, tethered to a pipe by my collar, with mesh panties in my mouth and no knowledge of when the humiliation would end, it felt like two or three hours. Throughout that time I repeated my apology with complete sincerity:\n\n\"Mitsuko, I am truly sorry. I accept this as a punishment that Heaven has placed upon me for life. For as long as my existence as a slave continues, I shall endure the suffering required to atone.\"\n\nAfter the women's conversation continued for a while, their voices stopped. At that instant the space before my eyes suddenly became bright. I lowered my head and averted my eyes in shame. A crisp slap struck my cheek.\n\n\"Beast, raise your face. Greet our guest.\"\n\nAt Mitsuko's command I timidly opened my eyes. An involuntary cry of surprise escaped me, and Mitsuko's mesh panties fell from my mouth.\n\n\"Idiot! Why are you staring so stupidly? It has been a long time, dog. Ho, ho, ho! What a marvelous sight. Mitsuko, you have trained him very well.\"\n\nIt was Kaoru.\n\nI later learned that Mitsuko and Kaoru had attended the same high school, with Mitsuko three years ahead of her. During their school days, they had apparently been partners in what was then called an 'S' relationship. The woman with whom Kaoru had continued corresponding was Mitsuko. On the third day of my five-day punishment, Kaoru had sent her the following letter:\n\n\"Mitsuko, yesterday by complete chance I met the slave Hira whom you once mentioned. I was astonished. I could hardly believe that the man whose head I trampled two years ago is now your slave. It is a frightening coincidence. You and I are both women overflowing with sadistic tendencies. I shall soon be transferred to Tokyo. Would you like to make Hira our shared slave? His own body will prove to you that my sadism is in no way inferior to yours. Kaoru.\"\n\nTo return to the events themselves, I was dragged in my miserable condition before the two women, and Mitsuko pronounced judgment:\n\n\"Hito. From today, I and Kaoru shall be the mistresses of this house. Naturally I am the absolute queen and Kaoru is my attendant, but she is also your mistress. You are a slave and an animal. Do you understand? And to ensure that you can never escape your condition as our lifelong slave, we shall now tattoo your back.\"\n\nMy hands and feet were tied to the bed. Kaoru, who possessed only rudimentary medical knowledge, performed the tattooing. In characters roughly three centimeters across, she inscribed the word 'slave' upon my back. The final sentence is partially obscured at the binding and the article gives way immediately afterward to the next contribution.",
        "translator_credit": "KRP",
        "article_summary": "This confessional fiction presents a male narrator who understands his submission to two women as a permanent \"life sentence.\" During a business trip, he encounters Asada Kaoru, a woman who had dominated him two years earlier. He betrays his current mistress, Mitsuko, by submitting to Kaoru again. After discovering the betrayal, Mitsuko imposes a five-day regimen designed less around conventional whipping than around isolation, animalization, deprivation, compelled ingestion, confinement, and psychological reconditioning. The punishment culminates when Kaoru appears as Mitsuko's guest, revealing that the women have known one another since school and have arranged to share him as a slave. They then mark his body with a tattoo reading \"slave,\" making his status ostensibly permanent.\n\nThe article is historically notable as an early-1960s first-person masochistic confession in which female authority is organized as an enduring household hierarchy rather than a single episodic encounter. It combines the magazine's familiar imagery of queens, whips, crawling, leather restraints, and animal identity with themes of ownership, betrayal, discipline, and bodily inscription. The narrator's elaborate honorific language and self-abasing vocabulary frame domination as sacred service, while the coincidence connecting Mitsuko and Kaoru gives the narrative a melodramatic, almost serialized structure. The continuation onto PDF page 52 is essential: it contains the final declaration of shared ownership and the tattoo that explains the title.",
        "research_notes": null,
        "translation_notes": "The Japanese title 終身刑 literally means \"life imprisonment\" or \"a life sentence.\" In context it describes both the narrator's punishment and his claimed permanent enslavement.\n\nThe author's printed name is 平伏人. The supplied romanization \"Hirafuku Hito\" has been retained. The name may also function as a pseudonym or wordplay: 平伏 can evoke prostration or bowing down, which suits the narrator's persona.\n\nThe narrator repeatedly uses highly deferential and self-abasing language, including 御主人様 (mistress/master), 女王様 (queen), 奴隷 (slave), 家畜 (livestock or domestic animal), and 御道具 (honorable tool or implement). The translation preserves the hierarchy while smoothing some repetitions required by Japanese honorific syntax.\n\n御神水, literally \"sacred water,\" is the narrator's devotional euphemism for urine. The source later contrasts it with 固形排泄物, \"solid excrement.\" These euphemisms and clinical expressions are retained or explained rather than silently softened.\n\nThe women refer to an エス relationship during their school days. In mid-century Japanese sexual and schoolgirl discourse, \"S\" could refer to an intense same-sex romantic attachment, from the English word \"sister,\" while this story also exploits the term's proximity to \"sadism.\" The precise intended balance between those meanings is editorially ambiguous.\n\nThe First Fuji was the named train the narrator planned to take to Tokyo. ビジョン appears to be the name of a meeting place near Namba Station, perhaps a café or bar. ホテルM and Y歯科 are deliberately anonymized establishments.\n\nThe narrator is addressed variously as 平 and 伏人. The translation uses Hira in the quoted note and encounters where 平 is printed, and Hito where Mitsuko addresses him by the persona-name 伏人.\n\nThe article continues beyond the user-specified page 51. PDF viewer page 52 contains the concluding correspondence, declaration of dual ownership, and tattooing scene. Only the portion of page 52 belonging to \"Life Sentence\" has been included; the boxed article \"Women's Underwear and Me\" has been excluded.\n\nUncertain readings:\n- PDF page 46: the exact wording in the sentence describing the farewell restraint and whipping is faint in places; 革鞄 may instead be a specialized leather restraint term rather than an ordinary 'leather bag.'\n- PDF page 47: the meeting place written as ビジョン has been transcribed as 'Vision'; the establishment's exact proper name cannot be independently confirmed from the scan.\n- PDF pages 48–49: several characters naming the leather apparatus are poorly printed. 革帯 or a comparable term is visible, but the precise construction of the restraint is uncertain.\n- PDF page 50: 網目のパンティ is clear in context, but one occurrence appears to use a more specific loanword or brand-like expression that is difficult to read.\n- PDF page 51: the sentence explaining Mitsuko and Kaoru's school relationship uses エス. Its meaning may combine the historical schoolgirl 'S' relationship with sadomasochistic wordplay.\n- PDF page 52: the closing sentence after the tattoo size and the word 奴隷 is partly lost near the binding and transition to the neighboring article.\n\nMissing or illegible text:\n- PDF page 52: a short portion of the final sentence following the description of the tattoo is not reliably legible because it lies close to the gutter and the page immediately transitions into the next article.",
        "research_status": "published",
        "translation_status": "approved",
        "translation_updated_at": "2026-08-06T02:19:31+00:00",
        "translation_reviewed_at": "2026-08-06T02:19:31+00:00",
        "translation_reviewed_by": "Zetsu",
        "translation_approved_at": "2026-08-06T02:19:31+00:00",
        "translation_approved_by": "Zetsu",
        "created_at": "2026-08-02T13:36:24+00:00",
        "updated_at": "2026-09-04T07:11:16+00:00"
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