The MaruMa LN is the best thing that could happen to a YuuRam fan like me!!
Because yuuram is life I hereby present you with a list of yuuram moments in the novels. This time novel 3.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.1
-Another Yuuram reunion-
The one who barged in was the angel-like bishounen, Wolfram von Bielefeld. He stopped dead in the hallway upon seeing my naked torso, and seemed to be at a loss for words, his cute face flustered.
“Yuuri… my God! Your face and arms … So dark! Have you caught a terrible disease? Or a curse?”
“Are you looking for a fight?” I sulked.
In fact, my face and my arms were well-tanned, but my torso and legs were still white as snow. For baseball players, having this shirt-like tan would be considered an achievement, but when my upper body was exposed like this, it was indeed not the best look.
With the thumb and forefinger, Wolfram pinched my cheek.
“Ow-ow-aie-ooh-aie!! What do you think you’re doing?”
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.1
- Yuuri introducing Wolfram -
Wolfram was a rival-less super bishounen, like a Vienna choir boy who had jumped straight out of a shoujo manga. He had inherited his mother’s shiny golden hair and her emerald green eyes. While his build was no better or worse than mine, the difference between our looks was as wide as the gap between heaven and earth. I imagined all artists in the world would fight over the chance to paint his portrait. If he had appeared in someone’s dream, the dreamer might even be moved to tears thinking they had seen an angel.
However, he was angel-like only as long as he kept his mouth shut. Else he was just a terribly spoiled and bratty prince. As he claimed, and if one could believe his words, he was already eighty-two years old. If he was living in Japan, he would be a stubborn old man. And because of a small tiny minor cultural difference, we are engaged to each other.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.1
- Casually touching Yuuri -
“The Mateki?!”
Wolfram who was strangely brushing the limit of my suntan, stepped into our conversation excitedly. As expected from a Vienna Boys Choir singer, the tone of his voice would even be a little annoying for Mozart.
“I’ve only heard the stories about it from my father, but he said that the sound of the flute is fantastic! It can make the sky roar and the earth shake. Its sound can conjure a loud storm, that would make you cower!”
“C-cows go?”
“Cows go mosa mosa.”
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.2
- Yuuri being casually gay, and also upset he can’t be an alpha-
I tried to shift my body away from the boy sitting in front of me as much as possible so that some air could pass through between us. However, it was nothing but hot air all around us, and there was no stir even remotely resembling a breeze.
“If you slip further back, you’ll fall.” Wolfram said.
“I’m dying of heat!” I complained.
Wolfram was obviously enjoying the situation.
Yes, thanks. Very funny. If only it had been a girl who was sitting in front of me, then I would have had my fun. Like a charming gentleman, I would have steadied her, with the reins held in my hands. Sadly for me, the front seat was occupied by a bishounen lovelier than a girl.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.2
-Yuuri casually risking Conrad’s life to save Wolf -
“What about Wolfram?! He fell in front of me into the sand! But he won’t die, right?!” I cried and wailed.
“If he was unlucky…” Gwendal said above me. (…)
“Your Majesty, Wolfram would agree with me immediately. He is also a grownup warrior and knows that things like this can happen. Your safety comes first!”(…)
By now, there was no visible trace of the soldiers who had been swallowed by the sand vortex. Would they pass off falling into such a land hole as a matter of bad luck? Just imagining the honey blond hair and brilliant emerald green eyes frozen with terror, hurt my chest; I couldn’t breathe.(…)
“Conrad, I don’t want you to be someone who abandon his own brother.” I finally said. (…)
“You’ve said that you would only follow my orders.” I said.
“Yes, but that was…”
“You said you’ll follow my catcher’s signs. Then I order you to save Wolfram. Please! I’m fine; you have no reason to worry about me. After all I still have a strong guard here.”
Conrad looked surprised and shifted his eyes back and forth between me and Gwendal.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.8
-Wolfram’s reaction to hearing that Yuuri and Gwendal had eloped-
“Then you are the younger brother, whose fiancé has run off with your own elder brother?”
“What are you saying?”
In an instant, Wolfram’s face had turned visibly red even in the pale moonlight. At the same time, steam seemed to be rising from his head.
“Conrad, what does that mean?” He yelled. “My brother and Yuuri! This cannot be true! I knew it! That cheater! ”
“Wolfram, calm down. It is certainly not what it looks like.”
“But yes, the two are surely a couple,” the girl said. “I’ve seen them with my own eyes. The poor guys were on the run. They were chained together with handcuffs.”
“Chained together?”
It had to be boiling water inside Wolfram’s head.
(…)
The Lord Betrothed has gone completely out of his mind with fury and was by then torturing an innocent garbage can with his feet. Conrad decided to let Wolfram vent his rage. He turned around and put a hand on the shoulder of the girl who was about to break out in tears.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.10
-Yuuri hearing wedding music as he sleeps on Wolfram’s lap; wakes up to Wolfram’s hair in the moonlight which he thinks ‘is beautiful’ (the moon looks beautiful tonight trope?) ; Yuuri ’s mantra -
In the meantime, the melodies of “The blue Danube” by Johann Strauss kept playing in my head. And it was not the full-scale version performed by an orchestra, but the cheap version the like of a call center’s hold tone.
(…)
“What …” I mumbled.
The first thing that I could see was thick golden strands shimmering in the moonlight. I didn’t even have time to think 'It’s beautiful’, when I heard someone scolding me.
“Why do you always do this?”
“Wolf?”
“What?”
“Wa…Water…”
(…)
“Ouch… Stop it! I’m drowning, I’m really drowning here. Please forgive me!”
“Do you know how worried I was about you?”
Angering a bishounen, even if one was not at fault, would result in painful consequences. At the same time, I felt tremendous guilt since it was indeed my own impulsive action that caused trouble to everyone.
(…)
Even though I perfectly knew that we were both guys, being pursued by such a beautiful boy like him still caused my heart to skip a few beats. At times like this, the most effective solution was to avoid looking at his face and keep chanting “He is 82 years old” like a mantra.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.11
-Pillow Wolf-
As if that weren’t enough, I had to lay down across two seats, my head softly cushioned on the thigh of Lord Bielefeld!
“Does my pillow have to be a man’s lap, of all things?!” I wailed.
“Every time you do some huge magic, you sleep for two to three days,” declared Wolfram, unmoved.
“This time you only slept two hours. And after such a formidable performance, too. Please be so kind as to stay right where you are. You need your rest.”
“All right, all right! But why the heck does it have to be with you as my pillow!?”
“Doesn’t it make you happy?”
“Do I look like I’m happy?!”
“Oh, you two are truly one heart and one soul,” sighed Nicola with shining eyes.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.12
-This chapter is just all yuuram-
“Yuuri, I never would have thought that you are capable of such a bold initiative,” Wolfram said in surprise after I decided to knock on his door.
The delicate pretty boy did not know what to make of the whole thing. He tilted his head to one side and, his lips slightly open, waiting in silence for an explanation.
“I just want you to have a bath with me. If you feel embarrassed, you can keep your swim trunks on,” I said.
“If it’s just the two of us then there’s nothing to be embarrassed about, but… ”
“Then let’s go! I’m in a hurry! A towel and a pair of trunks would be enough!”
In a corner of his room, Wolfram was busy digging for some strange object. Was he looking for a rubber duck to take with us?
I pulled the broadly grinning Wolfram, and head towards the familiar royal bathroom.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.12
-Definitely foreplay-
“Can you push me into the pool?”
“What?”
“Come on now,” I grumbled.
“What kind of foreplay is this?”
Wolfram pushed me into the water, but I immediately resurfaced.
“I don’t understand,” I muttered. “Hey, what are you doing?! Did I tell you to jump in too?!”
Wolfram emerged again, his blond hair totally soaked. The image was like the scene of an angel bathing. Luckily he had kept his clothes on, just like me. With two strokes, he swam over to me.
“Why did you dive in? I only wanted you to push me.”
He wrapped his pale arms around my neck.
“Don’t hug me!”
“Didn’t you want to try a totally new way of doing it?”
“Way of doing it…? Wolfram, you were expecting to do something naughty, weren’t you!?”
Even though I was completely desperate, my partner was shamelessly indulging in his own happy fantasies. I hung my head and swallowed my growing anger. In another attempt, I put my feet firmly on the bathtub floor, and slowly stretched my knees.
—————————————————————— Novel 3. ch.12
- He did actually use Wolf this time, bad Yuuri -
“I can’t go back, to my home, to earth, to Japan!” I cried angrily.
“I thought it would be just like last time, I could return through the bathroom again. But no matter what I did, nothing happened at all! I thought if I was forced into a corner, I would enter the star journey to escape from danger… But even when you pushed me into the water, still nothing happened.”
“What?”
“Wolf… why is that grimace?”
Numerous creases gathered above his nose and between his eyebrows. The ex-prince lifted his chin and pulled his shoulders back.
“You used me for this small thing?”
“It’s not a small thing! This is incredibly important for me, don’t you understand that much?”
“You are now the king of this country, you can’t run around anymore! You’ve got to stay here. Yuuri, your home is this castle! And that’s forever!”
Every time this bishounen scolded me, I would feel the numerous wounds his words caused. As hard as it was to accept, Wolfram was probably right. My diving attempts were pointless. But what other choice did I have? I had never thought that I could never see Japan again.
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Novel 3. ch.12
-Yup, he’s angry-
“You’re unbelievably dim-witted,” Wolfram groaned and brushed his wet bang back from his forehead.
His seemingly arrogant green eyes stared at me fiercely. He really does have an angel’s face, but his words draw blood with each syllable.
“You belong to this world. You cannot escape, your soul is at home here.”
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Yuuram in Novel : 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17
There is literally no point of the hairband cause his eyes are completely covered!
But he looks dashing and handsome as usual
His hairband is a tiara
Single track
Scans
Hello everyone, it’s been a while since I released a translation, but here we are.
This is the translation of the latest drama CD, Happy Halloween~! I hope you enjoy this surprise.
Let’s remember you all this Drama CD is still available for purchase, if you want to support the series you can buy it here. (The audio file will not be shared for now because the official release is still available)
Ignore the lack of shading and colouring. I just outlined it. Someday, when I start digital art then I'll correct this. It didn't turn out that well, but it is decent- so it's fine.
He’s about to say something formal again so I pat his back hard without hesitation, and it gives me a feeling of reality, like “Ah—right here”. I’m here, and so is Wolfram.
“Because we’re already back.”
We’re all here, be it Conrad, Murata… or Josak.
“I can’t say for all of it, but I brought us back with my own strength.”
“Uh-huh.”
The sea breeze caresses Wolfram’s hair, and he nods his head firmly in reply, very naturally extending his hand to me, standing on the side of the port,
“Come home, everyone is waiting for you.”
Nobody knows how things will turn out in the future, but this country will definitely change.
I follow the creaking staircase as I climb upwards, preparing to return home.
This is my attempt at illustrating Wolf extending his hand to Yuuri in this scene. I have wanted to do it for a long time, so I did. I'll get back to it and improve it someday, but for now this is it.
Agreed!!
This is just a small post about “Maybe author was hinting about Yuuri’s sexuality(and type?)” and here it goes.
I will start with the pillow, remember there was a story in which magical pillows were mentioned. You can select a pillow and if you have maryoku you will have a certain “themed” dream depending on the type of pillow. In that story Yuuri used the silver pillow and he did see something from his past life meaning the pillow worked!
Then we have the Mise Ma Show where we saw that Yuuri wanted to have a lewd dream with a girl but ends up having Wolf and Conrad in his dreams! I mean he wanted girls but sees guys with him! What if this was just a way of author slipping “Hey hey you see Yuuri might be into guys not girls!” We know that the other pillows did work and the others got their result. So the pillow working should be a hint?
There was also this in Dual at Ma Noon “ There was no way that confessing my teenage preference in lewd dream !”. But I am not sure if he was talking about the “lewd dream” or the ”guys”.
Finally, there is also Because We’re Young the part they were talking about not seeing Rated-R dreams and Yuuri is/was always like “I like mature girls” and ends up seeing himself with a fierce person. Type much? I know the conversation sort of changes to where Yuuri is saying,”this and that is also my type?“ but you get my point. Also, he never gets to the main part with the girls in his dreams XD! I mean never ever according to this story.
I also wanted to address the time line of all stories:
Novel 9 - April 2004
Novel 10 - His Majesty the Maou’s Elegant Day - Sept 2004(the story where pillows are mentioned)
Mise ma show - June 9, 2005
Duel at ma- December 31, 2005
Gaiden 3 - When we were young - Nov 14 2006
The reason I listed the time line is because from Novel 9 I saw a considerable amount of change in how Yuuri was behaving or interacting with Wolf. So maybe author was trying to slide such things or maybe it was just for comedy XD! I know Maru Ma is an adventure story I highly doubt we will get a side where Yuuri will be like “I thought I only liked girls then I realised….” dun dun dun!!!!!! At this point we don’t need it but just think about it if we ever get it “…then he entered my life…” XD!
This is one of my favourite heart wrenching YuuRam scenes that I probably re-read more than 100 times already, cause I love them too much!!
There’s little yuuram in this novel until the very last scene (when after four full novels the royal couple reunites in the most heart-wrenching way possible). Novel 13 is mostly focused on “Murata and his other lives” , “Yuuri being trapped in the tunnels" and “Yuuri being saved by Conrad and mourning Josak’s death”, all important things that needed to get out of the way before we get the full yuuram impact of novel 14.
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Novel 13. ch.6 -Reuniting. Yuuri has been blinded by the tunnel and confused by the tricks it plays on the minds of people in it-
The cold piece of metal was within my hand’s reach. I couldn’t afford to worry about my palm. The same goes for my enemy. He is coming at me to swing with the broken sword which doesn’t have a tip. Even I gripped the bare blade and quickly gave a horizontal swipe. The meal which was originally one sword, hurt two men at the same time. A hot stimulus ran through my right shoulder and there undoubtedly was some reaction in my left hand.
My opponent’s body suddenly kneeled over. The air which was filled with the smell of rusty iron surged towards me.
However finding the scent I certainly remember within it puzzled me. It wasn’t only the blood.
“Wolf…?”
“Yu”
The body that had collapsed in my arms slowly turned.
“Wolfram!?”
“…Yuuri”
My sleeves and palms were completely drenched in some warm liquid. Wolfram’s heaviness profoundly weighed down on my shoulders. While embracing him, I kneeled down on the ground miserably.
“I couldn’t see, really, I didn’t know!”
“Even me. I heard an unfamiliar voice… its not your… fault”
“Wolf!”
Everyone tells me that it’s not my fault.
But in reality, everything is my fault.
—————————————————– A little introspective on this scene: So why did Yuuri recognize Conrad’s voice but not Wolf’s? Well, Conrad wasn’t in the tunnel when he saw Yuuri and shouted his name (chapter 3), so he and his voice weren’t affected. Wolfram on the other hand was in the tunnel and his brain was affected like Yuuri’s, believing an enemy was about to attack and not recognizing the person in front of him.
I find it so cute that Yuuri recognized Wolf by his smell. By the way, did you notice how they stabbed each other? Once again we see them being ‘equals’ here. It could have been just Yuuri or Wolf, but no, the novel ends with the reunited couple stabbing each other. (What an unexpected and terrifyingly romantic ending was that though?)
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Yuuram in Novel : 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17
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Vanitas from 'The Case Study of Vanitas'
He looks so cute in this! A very interesting character!
*credits to the author and the one who edited this picure*
This is beautiful!
The part about Yuuri and Wolfram belonging to Greta before themselves is so true and so sweet♡
The daughter of Izura, the daughter of Svelera, the daughter of the demon king.. dear little Greta.
Much went wrong very early in her life. All she wanted was to belong to someone. But being the daughter of an entire country meant something very different- it did not mean love and comfort, but responsibility and an impossible task of proving oneself worthy of love. Thankfully, that painful journey led her back to her childhood. And it brought her two fathers closer together to create a family - before Yuuri and Wolfram belonged to each other, they belonged to Greta.
Down that road from outside the Bloodpledge castle where Huber left her to inside the heart of everyone that lived in it, Greta found where she belonged.
PS: this is what I think Greta looks like, all grown up. ❤
PPS: I'm not too good with drawing anime characters (or anything else, really) and I'm just too scared to even attempt for fear of messing them up. But I tried anyway. 😅🙈
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