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Hidden Relics and The Man Who Hid (Them) - Translation
This is a translation of Hallelujah's side story found in the SMTIVA artbook. There used to be a translation floating around for this a couple years ago, although it appears to have been taken down. So I've asked a good friend of mine to translate the story and I looked over it for lore accuracy.
A direct link to the translation hosted on their blog can be found here. But if you'd like to read it on tumblr, click the read more. Please enjoy your read!
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Hidden Relics and the Man who Hid Them
Original Writer: Mito Yoko
Translator: VerdantGrove
ENG Proofer: Elegy
note: translation notes can be found at the bottom.
āĀ
A single notebook rests in the manās hand. That aged notebook is just one of the relics the man found in his former residenceā¦itās the memoir of a certain woman. The man places his fingers atop the warped cover just as he always does, and sets foot into the world of the memoirā¦
āĀ
Feb 12
Hallelujah found a pen and a notebook. He said it was a present for Mama. I used this when I was study-ingĀ¹ with Angel. How long ago was that again? Hallelujahās four now, soā¦ No, no. I donāt wanna think about it.
Angel complimented my handwriting. He said āitās not very well done, but repetition is key.ā
Writing a diary so he compliments me again.
Feb 13
Three visitors. Ashura Kai came to collect the money, and give us food rashionsĀ². A little more than usual, thanks to the work I did. Mama will work hard for Hallelujah.
Feb 14
Zero visitors. Big fire in Shibuya. Scary.Ā
Humans are scarier than demons. Angelā¦
Feb 15
Four visitors. Tired.
Feb 16
Visito
May 2
Forgot about the diary. Writing every day is hard.
Jun 13
Ashura Kai came to collect the money. Guy in charge is annoying.
Luckily visitors were nice today.
Jun 15
We got canned food from the guestsĀ³. Hallelujah was super happy. Butā¦ I didnāt know what to say when he asked me āwhatās a backblueļæ½ļæ½?ā. If Angel were here, he would have told him. Have to study.
Jun 20thāµ
Hallelujah keeps yelling about wanting to go outside. Even though itās dangerous up there. Even though Iām doing my best to live down here for him.
Jul 4th
Hallelujah and I talked about Papa. āSamyazaā... I get shy just saying his name. Iāll keep what really happened a secret for now.
He asked me, āwhy isnāt he with us?ā
Why, I wonder?
Jul 15th
Ashura Kai came to collect the money.
Seems grades are good. Oh dear.
Augustā¶ 15th
The Ashura Kaiā· came to collect the money. I ranted to a friendly guest, and their response was āpoor thing.ā They said I was such a poor thing, having to work and take care of a child at the same time.
Am I really a poor thing?
August 16th
Was all guests I hated today. But have to stay strong. For Hallelujah.
Sep 9āø
Wrong. Something, wrong. Head spinning. Get mad when I look at Hallelujah. How can he laugh when Iām suffering this much?Ā
But all this suffering is for his sake.
He looks just like me and I hate it. Hate everything.
September 15th
Collected the money.
Iām mad. Canāt even look at Hallelujah.
September 2
September 21st
I hit Hallelujah yesterday.
He kept asking questions about my work, and I said āyou know itās all your faultā and hit him.
I even blurted out āitās your fault Angel went away too.ā
Iām awful.
September 30th
Hallelujah threw up.
While I was cleaning it up, he cried āsorry, sorry.ā I said āyouāre a lot more serious than you were when you were a baby,ā and it made me laugh.Ā
I felt like that was the first time Iād laughed in a long time.
Then Hallelujah laughed too.
He laughed for me, even though Iād done something so horrible.
For some reason, it made me want to cry.
October 1st
Iām thinking as I watch Hallelujah sleep.
Hallelujahās name was given to him by Angel.
It means āgratitude.ā
I was really happy, so I tried my best to remember how to write it, even though itās hard to spellā¹.
How the hell did I forget that? Iām such an idiot.
October 3rd
I hit Hallelujah and managed to say āsorry.ā
He forgave me with an āitās all righty.ā
He patted me with his tiny little hands.
Sorry. Love you.
October 15th
That guest again. Always telling me Iām a āpoor thing,ā so annoying.
October 21st
I still have a lot of mixed feelings about Hallelujah.
But Iām not angry at him. Luckily.
Nov 15Ā¹ā°
What am I gonna do? Hallelujah hit the man who collects the money. I got hit, then Hallelujah, he turned into something not human, got scary strong, then that guy, he wouldnāt move. Ashura Kaiāno, oh my God, this isnāt what you should write in a diary.
But I want to calm down.
Hallelujah canāt stop shaking even though Iām hugging him tight.
Hallelujah was just helping me. He didnāt do anything wrong. Thatās it, Hallelujah didnāt do anything wrong.
Hallelujah did not do anything wrong.
Hallelujah cried himself to sleep. Thank God.
It was hard, but I made up my mind.
Weāre going to leave the Underground. I thought I wouldnāt survive if I wasnāt here. But thatās wrong.
I have everything Angel has taught me. Itāll be okay.
Leaving before the stores open is a matter of life or death.
Iāll keep Hallelujah safe.
ā
āThey sure do change easily, these āhumans.āā
The man's cold and emotionless words reflect his hardened features as he emerges from the glow of the streetlights. And yet, for some reason he couldnāt place, when his eyes catch sight of these words of determination written in smudged letters, his hand stops. The man had never once thought about why that was.
Just as his hand stopped, he checked his smartphone for new notifications, butā¦ The name which he hoped to see was still not there. Ignoring the many voices seeking out his direction, the man turns his attention to the rest of the memoir.
This memoir tells the tale of a mother and child desperately searching for a way to survive. Silently, the man continues to readā¦
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May 19th
Our life on the surface has been going smoothly, thanks to us handing out Reds. Iām less worried about the demons. Hallelujah will be 10 soon. Seems like heās made a friend called Chiro. I wonder what kind of kid they are?
June 12th
We got canned food as payment for the Reds!
Hallelujah was on the edge of his seat before we even opened it. He looks happy eating the fruit. Iām glad.
June 13th
Hallelujah fell asleep hugging the empty can.
It made him that happy?
June 15th
Studying with Hallelujah. I want to tell him everything Angel taught me.
June 28th
Hallelujah made me mad. It was because he took out that empty can when we were collecting relics. Is that thing his prized possessionā¦?
June 29th
Making up with Hallelujah. I promised I wouldnāt put my hands on him without thinking anymore. Sorry, Hallelujah.
July 10th
I know what Hallelujahās friend is now. It was a shock.
July 12th
I ran into that guest from our time underground. I wished theyād shut up about wanting me to come back to the city or wanting to look after me. Not to mention they told me how sorry they are for me again. Iām mad.
July 18th
Hallelujah has gotten good at looking for relics.
I told him āyouād be fine doing this on your own at this pointā to praise him, but that made him extremely grumpy. Why??
July 20th
That guyās here again. Ugh.
Even though Hallelujahās forgotten what happened that day.
July 22nd
Hallelujah doesnāt seem to like studying. He said it was because he was gonna play with his friend, then ran off. Whereād this come from?
If only Angel were here at a time like thisā¦
August 22nd
Had a conversation with a grumpy Hallelujah.
Studying is essential for proper judgment.
Itās essential in order to decide for yourself whatās important to you. Just like how I decided to believe Angel. ā¦I wonder if I got through to him?
September 2nd
I found out why Hallelujah was acting so strange.
That man told him things. Things like āitās my fault you got driven above groundā and āthey want to get rid of me.ā What the hell? Sure enough, humans are the worst. Way, way worse than demons!!
I want to explain. But what should I say?
September 5th
That guy has been loitering around us again.
Hallelujah is still feeling down tooā¦ Worried.
September 30th
I was debating whether or not to do this, but Iām going to tell Hallelujah.
That Angel really is an angel.
That heās not human.
Andā¦ about what happened that day.
Tomorrow I will tell him. Angel, give me courage.
October 1st
The conversation went awful. āYouāve been giving me special treatment ācause Iām not human,ā and āI can tell my dad was more important to you.ā ā¦I had thought itād go like that.
October 3rd
Hallelujahās in his room with Chiro, and he wonāt come out.
If I was Angel, what would I do? ā¦Maybe Itās because Iām always like this that it seemed like his dad was more important to me.
I have. To think.
October 4th
Iām rereading through this diary and thinking. Iāve written everything here, whether itās the things that made me happy or the things that caused me pain. Itās really true that I hated that child. Itās really true that I loved him, too.
All of it. Itās all true.
October 5th
Received a summons from that man. Iām scared, so Iām bringing that weapon I snatched back then. I wonder; can I use it?
I want to talk with Hallelujah when I get home.
Iāve finally settled on what I want to say.
I like Hallelujah.
I love Hallelujah, because heās Hallelujah!
I didnāt ask for us to make someone I could cherish other than myself just so I could abandon him.
When I had a chance encounter with Angel and was blessed with Hallelujah, I was really, truly happy.
I just wanted to do a good job of getting this happiness across to him, too.
ā¦Can I even get that across to him? Iām an idiot, so I doubt I can.
But Iāll tell him as many times as it takes. Angel told me that repetition is key, after all.
Well, I should head out soon. ā¦I know you probably wouldnāt give me a reply to this, so Iāll write it here.
See you later, Hallelujah.
ā
The memoir ends there, and the aged notebook does not speak further. But the man knew. He knew of both the womanās abrupt and miserable end and of the whereabouts of the child who lost his motherās protectionā¦
āMr. Abe, itās an emergency!!ā
The man who was calledāAbe, furrowing his brow, would go to respond to the insolent trespasser.
āUnderstood. The āfinal battle,ā yeah?ā
Yes, at last, the curtain has risen on the battle between Godās Chariot and the Demon King. As Acting Chairman, it is his duty to finish this play, and yetā¦
ā...Not a word from him.ā
There were still no notifications from the person he longed to seeāfrom Hallelujah.
That made one thing apparentāestrangement.
āGuess ya found yer angelā¦ Eh, Ayako?ā
Abeāthe fallen angel who was once called an āangelāāimagined a future in which he would stand opposite his own sonā¦and laughed.
<Fin>
TL Notes:
Studying is written in katakana here. It shows unfamiliarity with the written word.
Half of the word is written in katakana here, and the other half in kanji. I chose to portray this as a misspelling, as someone new to writing would be just as likely to misspell the word ārationsā in English as they would be not to know the first kanji of the word haikyuu (rations) in Japanese.
Mama writes the word okyaku (visitors/guests) in kanji for the first time here. I marked this with a switch from āvisitorsā (neutral connotation) to āguestsā (more respectful connotation of welcomeness).
Hallelujah seems to have flipped the kanji in the word āblueback (fish)āļ¼éé lit. blue fishļ¼to éé (lit. fish blue); I had him flip the word ābluebackā to ābackblueā in the same manner. He likely read it left to right instead of right to left.
Before this date, the days were written in hiragana. This marks the switch to the use of kanji for each day. I decided to portray this by typing the numbers in proper date format (e.g. 20th instead of 20).
Before this date, the months were written in hiragana. This marks the switch to the use of kanji for each month. I decided to portray this by typing the months spelled out instead of abbreviated.
Rather than writing the āAshuraā in āAshura Kaiā entirely in hiragana as she had been doing previously, Mama writes the first kanji in āAshuraā here for the first time. I decided to portray this by using the article ātheā to make it a more complete sentence, thus similarly showing a progression of education.
Mama returns to writing the date entirely in hiragana here in her distress.
Referring to it being difficult to write the kanji for gratitude (ęč¬). I paralleled this to spelling the word.
Same as TL note 8.
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