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schoenheitUnlock: Train anywhere with these specific Owen cards as your main party member ("scenario card")
Characters: Akira, Owen
Note: I normally put card episodes on the same page as the card story translations (example). This page is just for cards that had their card story translated by someone else, but not their card episode. I've linked the card stories above each translation.
✧ [SR] Do You Need Help?: Always Marching to the Beat of His Own Drum
✧ [SSR] A Secret and a Mysterious Smile: How to Beat Life-threatening Cold
✧ [SSR] Sweet Blessings: Within the Dream
[SR] Do You Need Help?: Always Marching to the Beat of His Own Drum ✧ Card Story
Location: Manor Dining Hall (Day)
Akira: Ah, Owen. Hello.
Owen: Hey there, Master. You look bored. Need something?
Akira: I wouldn't say I need anything, no, but...
(That... thing Owen's clutching in both hands is probably some kind of confection, but... it just looks he's eating a sea of snow-white sugar...)
Owen: Not sharing.
Akira: I won't take any, don't worry about that... Um, how did you end up with that massive pile of sugar?
Owen: Nero made something new for me. He'd made something that was already mine, but then Bradley went and ate it.
Akira: Ahh, when the two of you got into a fight in the East. Owen, do you get on especially well with Bradley?
Owen: ... Master, are your eyes made of jelly? Won't you let me pluck them out of your skull and eat them?
Akira: I-I'll refrain from prying. I apologize.
Owen: ... But it really would be nice if everyone's eyes were made of jelly. They're so sweet, and they sparkle and shine so brightly. I'd like it if I could eat them with as much cream as I wanted on top.
Akira: ... Owen, do people ever tell you that you really march to the beat of your own drum?
Owen: What? What's that supposed to mean?
Akira: It's how we describe a person like you.
[SSR] A Secret and a Mysterious Smile: How to Combat Life-threatening Cold ✧ Card Story
Location: Owen's Room
Akira: I'm certain I'll need to return to the North again at some point. Owen, please let me know if there are any countermeasures I can utilize to combat the cold there.
Owen: It's easy. All you have to do is lower your body temperature to match the temperature in the North.
Akira: How would I go about doing that?
Owen: Go to the coldest possible place you can find in the North. The middle of a forest, the Lake of Death once it's been frozen over— anywhere will do.
At first, you'll be so cold that your instincts will kick in, screaming at you to get out. But, if you stay put, you'll start to lose feeling in your arms and legs bit by bit, and your vision will gradually grow blurry. That means you're close.
And then you realize, whether it's cold, or pain, or anything else... None of it matters at all. And then then you realize you have nothing left now, not anymore, so maybe it wouldn't be so bad to let your consciousness fade away, and let yourself slip into the dark.
See? Easy.
Akira: ... Isn't that... just dying of hypothermia...?
Owen: Is it necessary to put a label on it? When you die, things like names stop mattering.
Akira: No way, that method is a total no-go! I don't want to die yet!
Owen: You were the one who asked me how to keep from feeling cold, weren't you?
Akira: I'd like to spend my time in the North alive, thank you.
... However, I do think training my body to acclimate to the cold is a good idea. Can you take me along whenever you go to the North again?
Owen: ... Do you want me to make a promise? You better brace yourself, because I'll want adequate compensation for that.
[SSR] Sweet Blessings: Within the Dream ✧ Card Story
Location: Manor Dining Room (Day)
Akira: Owen, are you having pancakes? —Wah, that's so much jam.
Owen: What are you staring for? Do you want to go back in the jar?
Akira: I-I'd rather not. Snow and White trapping us in a jar on your birthday was already quite the shock...
Owen: It was the worst. We were crammed into a stupid, empty jar like a bunch of breadcrumbs.
Akira: Ahaha... Well, if not a jar, then what would you prefer to be trapped in?
Owen: What kind of question is that? It's better to not be locked up anywhere.
Akira: True enough. I was just thinking that if I were locked up somewhere cozy, I might not mind whiling away some time there.
Owen: ......
Here.
Akira: Huh?
Owen: Try being locked up in here for awhile.
Akira: Ah, another jam jar? Isn't that the same as befo...
Owen: It's not the same. It's full of stuff. While you're trapped in here, you can have as much of it as you want— stuff so sweet it'll boil your heart through until it melts into nothing. You can scoop it up with both hands and lick it off to your heart's content.
Akira: (He sounds so happy... But just listening to this is giving me heartburn...)[SSR1]
Translation Notes (SSR)
1. See translation note 3 on this post for more information on the recurrence of the verb tojikomeru ("locked up") and how it relates to Owen, and how this culminated in the 1st Anniversary story. ↑
