ARM Backup/Ar Portal translation/Toukousphere/Issue 106

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Lady Shurelia and Jakuri's Technical Service Center

	アルシエル・テクニカルサービスセンター。	Ar Ciel Technical Service Center.
	お主！やる気あるのか！もっと大きな声で言わねばわからんであろう。 というわけで、今回は念願叶って妾等が何とこのコーナーを仕切る事になったぞ。	Hey, you! Are you seriously intending to do it!? You ought to say it in a louder voice. And we have taken up the duty of attending this corner during this issue in order to fulfill the earnest wishes of our readers.
	といっても、偶然惑星と惑星の意志に関する質問が重なっただけだけどね。	Even so, it seems like a large coincidence that most of the questions we got this time were related to the Wills of the Planet.
	ちょっと風変わりなテクニカルサービスセンターだけど、最後まで楽しんでいってね。	This Technical Service Center might be a bit eccentric, but I hope you'll still enjoy it to the end.

シャラさんやサキさんがシェスティネに縁が深いように、他のヒロイン格の惑星の意思の女神さま方も縁の深い地方というのはあったのでしょうか？ 特に3のヒロインで一番大好きなフィラメントさんに縁深い地方があれば教えて欲しいです！ (ねこだいすき)

It seems that Shela and Saki made Syestine into a deep green land, so, have the other personalities of the heroines, which are Gods and Wills of the Planet, ever made any lands like it? I'd be especially interested in learning if Filament ever made a deep green land, as she's the heroine I liked the most from 3! (I Love Cats)

…そうね。ゆかりの深い場所…。残念だけど、あたしには無いわ。私は比較的新しい時代に生まれた意志だし、この終焉の時代以前に人前に出た事は殆ど無いから。理由は、あたしの仕事がこの世界の裏方だから。あたしの役割である「メンテナンサー」は、サキ達「モディファイア」が設計した世界を存続させる事が仕事。貴方達の世界でも、制作者や設計者の名前は有名でも、維持管理業務をしている人の名前が出る事は滅多に無いでしょう？ それに、サキのフォローで手一杯で、表に出る事なんてそうそう出来ないもの。

...I see. A deep green land, huh...? Unfortunately, I've never made anything like that. I'm a Will that was born in a relatively recent era compared to the others, so I almost never appeared before the humans before the current Era of Demise. That's because my job is working behind the scenes of this world. I have a "Maintenancer" role, which is the role in charge of maintaining the world that the "Modifiers" like Saki and the others designed. It's just like how in your world there are famous creators and designers, but it's rare for someone who works doing maintenance or administrative work to become famous. Plus, I already had my hands full with covering for whatever Saki did, so I didn't really have many chances to go out.

人間が惑星意志の集合体と直接コンタクトしたのは３のアオト達が初めてでしょうか。 (マカロン)

Were Aoto and his friends the very first humans to establish direct contact with the Consensus of the Planet's Wills? (Macaroon)

そうだね、惑星の意志の集合意識と面会したのはアオト達が最初だね。そもそも、今までの邂逅は全て地表で行われていたわけだけど、地表に全意志が集う事は無いから。コアまで突入してくるとは思わなかったって、総意はかなり驚いていたみたいだよ？

Yeah, they were. Aoto and his friends were the very first humans to ever make contact with the consciousness Consensus of the Planet's Wills. So far all the meetings that had taken place were chance encounters in the surface, but there's never been a time in which all the Wills had descended to the surface. It was thought it was impossible to break into the Planetary Core, so it looks like the Consensus was pretty surprised when they appeared.

スズノミアはアルシエルの「謳うことを司る意志」ですけど、スズノミアだけではなく惑星の意志は皆アルシエルに影響を与えそれぞれの役目を果たす為に常に謳っているのはないですか？ スズノミアが謳うのは他の惑星の意志達が謳う事とどのような違いがあるのですか？ (ライシア)

Suzunomia is the "Will that rules over the Songs" of Ar Ciel, but aren't all the Wills of the Planet supposed to be each constantly singing to accomplish their roles and cause and effect in Ar Ciel, not just her? Also, is there any difference between the Songs Suzunomia sings and those sung by the other Wills of the Planet? (Raicia)

ふむ、少し意味が違うの。 「謳うことを司る意志」というのは、表向きの表現じゃ。何となく詩的でカッコイイ感じがするであろう？実際に妾が行っている事は、H波による想いの循環と、それによる母体の維持…すなわち惑星アルシエルが生きていく為の生命エネルギーの創造という感じじゃな。お主たちの身体に例えるなら、心臓と血管と血流といったところじゃろう。 アルトネリコの舞台である３７００年代には妾は忘れられていた。それはすなわち、血液などが完全に止まってしまっており、瀕死の状態だったということじゃ。

Hmm, the meaning is slightly different from what you stated. Being the "Will that rules over the songs" is just a superficial way of describing my role. Anyway, you know how you feel "this song's so cool!" whenever you are listen to one? Such happenings are my actual role; keeping the feelings through H-Waves in constant flow, so they may serve as the life force that preserves our mother body... or in other words, that keeps Planet Ar Ciel alive. The most apt comparison to the aforementioned flow would be equating it to the heart, blood vessels and blood flow you all have in your bodies. However, I had been long forgotten by the 3700 AD era during which Ar tonelico is set. That I fell in oblivion would be equivalent to all the blood in your body coming to a sudden halt, so the Planet was left in a state close to death.

星語（アルシエラ）の母音それぞれに「スカラー」「プレイ」などありますが、「イクスピアリ」だけが某ショッピングモールしか出て来ないので困って？います それの示す意味があれば是非教えて頂きたいです！ (りんと)

Each of the vowels in the Planet's Language (Ar Ciela) each have meanings like "Scalar" and "Pray", but I'm troubled because I can't find any meanings for "Ikspiari" aside of a certain shopping mall. So please, tell me what each of them mean! (Lint)

「A:スカラー」は「力」、「I:プレイ」は「祈り」、「U:イクスピアリ」は「夢、希望」、「E:ネイバー」は「隣人、恋愛」、「O:カルマ」は「業、罪」、「N:マンダラ」は「永遠、無限」という感じね。

"A: Scalar" means "Power", "I: Pray" means "Prayer", "U: Ikspiari" means "Dreams, Hopes, Inspiration", "E: Neighbor" means "Neighbor, Love", "O: Karma" means "Karma, Sin", and "N: Mandala" means "Eternity, Infinity".

レーヴァテイルは人間と同じように何かショックな事件があって声を失ってしまうみたいなことはあるのでしょうか？もしあるのだとしたら、そのレーヴァテイルは声が出せるようになるまでヒュムノスを謳えなくなってしまうのでしょうか？ (りっちょん)

Is it possible for Reyvateils to look as if they had lost their voice if they undergo some kind of extreme shock, like humans do? And if it does happen, would she lose the ability to sing Hymmnos until she regained her voice? (Ricchon)

もちろんあるよ。普通の人間だしね。 声が出せないというのは精神的な原因だから、大抵詩を謳えるような精神状態にはならないと思う。声が出る＝精神的に癒されるようになるまでは、想いをまとめ上げて謳うことは難しいんじゃないかな。 謳うのも声を出すのも、自分に対する自信や勇気が必要だもん。そういうときは、信頼できるパートナーにダイブして貰って癒して貰うのが一番だよ。

Of course. We're normal humans after all. That they can't say anything has a mental cause, so I think they generally wouldn't be in the mental state they'd need for singing their Songs. Since she wouldn't be able to speak until her mind had healed and gotten over whatever happened, it'd be very hard to gather her feelings and use them to sing. And of course, to talk and sing she needs to have a lot of courage and confidence in herself. So when that happens, the best'd be to have a trustworthy partner she can ask to Dive into her and help her heal.

主に世界観的な話題ではありますが質問。 ３のエンディング後のソル・クラスタ諸国の政治体制ってどうなっているのでしょう？ 特にアルキアはソレまでのネオアトラス派首脳陣がのきなみ戦犯状態かつ唯一残ったリッカさんは結婚退職。 正直気になります。 (八丈島のにょ？)

I've got a question that's mainly about the world setting. What kind of political system was established by the nations of Sol Cluster after 3 ended? Especially taking in account Richa's marriage leave, as she was the only remaining member of the group of war criminals spearheaded by the Neo Atlas Faction at Archia. I'm really very curious about it. (Nyo? from Hachijo Island)

誰が結婚退職ですって？勝手に退職させないでちょうだい？ 私はずっとアルキアの責任者をやっているわよ。…と言っても、正直かなりしんどい仕事だし、今までこんな事やった事無かったから、ホントに大変。 取り繕っても仕方ないから洗いざらい白状すると、やっぱり上手くは回ってないのよ。ちょっとした事件もあって、その時も私は何も出来なかったし。でも、指導者の「先輩」のお陰で、私も少し上に立つって事が判ってきたかもしれないわ。 この辺りのお話は近いうちに公開される事になるの。私はちょっとみっともない所見せちゃってるけど、嫌いにならないでくれると嬉しいな。

Who are you saying got a marriage leave? Don't decide on my behalf that I'm going to take one, if you please. I've been in charge of Archia for quite some time... but even after saying that, I have to admit that it's honestly a very exhausting job, and since I've never done this kind of work before, it was quite problematic. Even though I tried to keep appearances, I inevitably ended up confessing to everything in the end, but I guess that means I wasn't good enough at this. There were a few other incidents, but I wasn't able to do anything. But maybe it was thanks to the [Doctor], who served as my coach, that I could take the decision to stand up firm. And this is as much as I'm willing to disclose to the public. I might have exposed a very embarrassing side of me, so I'd be very happy if that didn't end up becoming something others will hate me over.

Editor's Postscript

今日気づいたのですが、今年最後のトウコウスフィアなんですね。皆さん本当に今年一年ありがとうございました！今年初めにアルトネリコ３が発売になり、いよいよ１年が経つわけです。いつも思うのですが、皆さんとこれだけ長い期間、こんなにも濃密なコミュニケーションをとっていられる事を本当にうれしく思います。来年も変わらずによろしくお願いします！   (土屋)

I just noticed it today, but this is the last Toukousphere for this year, right? A lot of thanks of everyone for having shared this year with us! It was at the beginning of this year that Ar tonelico 3 was released, so soon it'll be a year since its release. I might always be saying and thinking this, but I'm really happy that we could keep such a rich communication in place between you all and us for such a long time. Please, continue supporting us like always next year too! (Tsuchiya)

今週のトウコウスフィアは？ How was this issue?

[ 面白かった！ ] Interesting! 　 　206(99%) [ まあまあだな ] So-so 　 　2(1%) Fun's minivote system -TOU=Hyoon-. Made by A.T