Hey guys, happy Pocky day!!! ^w^ Have some Siren Yuri and Pirate Victor enjoying this tasty treat~
“Lovebird, come try this.”
Curious, Yuuri crossed the room to where Victor stood, by his captain’s deck. In Victor’s hands, he held a metal container, decorated in painted images. From within, Victor drew out some sort of stick, coated in a dark color.
“It’s a biscuit. Chew slowly.”
Victor placed it between Yuuri’s lips, who accepted it, biting off a piece. A mix of sweet and bitter flooded his mouth, hint of cream coating his tongue. The biscuit crunched under his teeth, melting in combination with whatever had covered it.
Yuuri nearly bit the tips of Victor’s fingers as he devoured the rest, cheeks filled with the treat.
Victor laughed, taking out another. When Yuuri snatched for it, he held it out of reach. “I said slowly. Chocolate isn’t cheap, you know. Like this.”
Another biscuit stick back between Yuuri’s lips, Victor hooked his fingers beneath his chin. Tilting Yuuri’s face up toward his, he leaned in and took the other end between his teeth. Nibbling in slow, until his lips met Yuuri’s.
The chocolate tasted better coming off Victor’s tongue, and Yuuri melted along with it. The feathers around his ears ruffled in content.
Humans had such strange customs.
Yuuri did not mind at all, wrapping his arms around Victor’s shoulder to pull him close and try to search his mouth for more remnants of the sweet biscuit.
Don’t even talk to me. I’m so.. hhnnGGAAGHAAHADAHAAAあぁぁぁぁぁぁぁぁ
Ok, so here, Yuuri says
「引退まで、僕のこと、おねがいします」
(intai made, boku no koto, onegaishimasu)
Which is translated as “Please be my coach until I retire!” in the subtitles. However Yuuri isn’t actually saying “be my coach”, he’s saying “look after me” or “I’m under your care”. He’s entrusting his whole self, physically, emotionally, and spiritually to Victor with this line, because he trusts him just that much.
Yuuri gives himself over to Victor, and that’s why he responds with a kiss to Yuuri’s knuckles and
「プロポーズみたいだね。」
(puropo-zu mitai da ne)
“It’s like a proposal, isn’t it”
To which Yuuri sighs in acceptance because he too knows it’s like a proposal, and he is totally fine with that. No rejection, no little groan, just a small sigh, contrasting his reaction to episode four when Victor asked whether he should be his lover.
You know what seals the deal right here in this scene though? It’s Victor’s next line
「ゆうりがずっと引退しなきゃいいのにな。」
(yuuri ga zutto intaishinakya iinoni na)
“It’d be nice if you never retire”
Victor says in return that he always wants to be by Yuuri’s side, and that he wants to look after Yuuri for a long, long time.
But that’s not it no no. The way Victor expresses his want to be by Yuuri’s side is strangely familiar don’t you think?
It has been brought up before, but Japanese people tend to express their emotions and wants in a roundabout way, they don’t really straight out say it. So if we jump all the way back to episode two, when Victor asks Yuuri what his wish was if he were to win Onsen on Ice, Yuuri says
「ヴィクトルとカツ丼食べたい。これからもいっぱい勝って、いっぱいカツ丼食べたい！」
(vikutoru to katsudon tabetai. korekara mo ippai katte, ippai katsudon tabetai)
“I want to eat katsudon with you (Victor). From here, I want to win a lot, and eat a lot of katsudon!”
It was where this whole love story aspect of the anime began, and it was through Yuuri’s roundabout way of saying “I want you to stay, Victor”.
In fact, we can observe Victor gradually picking up some of these Japanese traits, in episode three, during the Onsen on Ice event, there was the all-important
「カツ丼大好きだよ」
(katsudon daisuki dayo)
“I love katsudon.”
This is still quite straightforward, Victor says that he loves and supports Yuuri through the line. So when we compare this to the latest episode, with his “It’d be nice if you never retire”, which is around the same level of indirect as Yuuri’s “I want to eat katsudon with you”, we are able to really appreciate how much Yuuri has grown on Victor, and how much they both love and want each other.
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