Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Page #5

What have you been doing?

You promised we'd go to the theater.

You need money again?

No, that's not it.

Don't you notice anything new?

Just this awful shirt.

You call my taste gaudy.

Looks like blood.

No, it's not that.

I've put two inches

on my chest.

Bodybuilding.

You? Why?

Somebody even said my ass

looked like that

of a foreign sailor.

Here, feel my chest.

I can hardly pinch it.

Lady! Get us some lunch!

We only serve snacks.

Then go get some.

Until you pay back your loan,

this dump belongs to my boss.

Now move your ass.

The check!

Come in.

I hope you accept my apology.

I'm sorry about yesterday.

I fired that punk immediately.

I've put up with your mother

long enough.

She's very difficult.

I'll soon take possession

of her place.

In such cases,

people are often

driven to suicide.

What do you mean?

You're like me.

My beautiful shadow.

You're vain and bored.

Full of yourself.

You like to play

childish games.

You're an actor, aren't you?

I feel that...

a certain woman

wants a certain something.

Don't pretend you love me.

I've had too much of that.

Mm, as for me,

I don't love women much.

They make me feel

emptied out.

All the better.

What do you want?

This is your mother's loan.

It comes to 11/2 million yen.

Sign this.

If you do,

I'll cancel the loan.

Write:

" I hereby certify

that my life and body

belong to Kiyomi Akita. "

I want to buy you.

It's just a little cut.

Why?

Your skin is so beautiful...

I just had to cut it.

It felt pleasant.

A thought

just occurred to me.

" This is the woman

I've been looking for.

I've finally found her. "

I don't need a mirror anymore.

I feel clearly that I exist.

In that case...

will you stay by me to the end?

Will you die with me?

I'd watch you writhe

in a pool of blood...

until you stopped moving.

Then I'd drink poison.

Fine with me, but...

no matter what happens,

don't kiss me...

until I'm good and dead.

A writer is a voyeur

par excellence.

I came to detest this position.

I sought to be not only the seer

but also the seen.

THE TOUGH GUY:

Men wear masks

to make themselves beautiful.

THE ASSASSINS:

But unlike a woman's,

a man's determination

to become beautiful

is always a desire for death.

Have you been to the gym?

I don't need to go.

You are in good shape.

Look, those ladies are jealous.

They don't think

we're mother and son.

Let 'em think what they want.

Two, please.

Two hundred yen, please.

Thank you.

It's such a relief not to worry

about money anymore.

I'm finally able to sleep again.

Thanks to Akita-san.

And to you.

You're not having trouble

with her, are you?

Not at all.

In fact, I decided

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