Thank you for the translation! A very welcome thing to come home to indeed ^_^

I must say, once again, that your choice of words is truly felicitous, especially "light brown shades that venerated the warmth of the natural wood", and your character descriptions make me want to read the original.

Count Franchi - yet another character sorely missed in the anime.

I've just now realized that Sakaki-sensei is a great fan of ellipses...