Platinum Box V, Gackt's message

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Before I knew it, it had been 5 years. 5 years.
For 5 years I have been doing this since I went solo.
It will be 6 years soon. That’s real fast.
And during those years,
I met a lot of people.
I made a lot of good friends.
And with so many
Such a crowd of people who I get along with so well
People with stout hearts and should be called fighters. ( senshi: soldier; fighter; warrior;)
That you, Dears, are here. (lit: exists)
This make me very happy.

(Pause)

The other day,
A dear staff to me as well as to the members (GacktJOB) and the staff
Passed away.
Everybody
Masaka (in disbelief)
He was gone so suddenly,
We didn’t think it would happen.
Because it was really so sudden, we were in shock.
All of us could not believe it.
We kept thinking he is just trying to surprise us again as usual. (As in it is all a joke)
Of course when I first told You about it, You also did not believe it at all.
Everybody had the same reaction
All of us thought, “This is not real.”
And even when I saw him with my own eyes…
I kept thinking, “He is going to wake up again.”
Everyone cried in front of him who had passed away.
But I told everyone not to cry.
Because he would not be happy even if we cry,
So smile instead
Let’s send him off with a smile instead.
Because someday the time will definitely come when we will meet again.

100 years from now, all of us will disappear from this world.
But during such a long period of time,
We were able to share this same period of time together like this
I think that’s a miracle.
To be able to meet like this
and just like today, feel touched like this
To be able to cry and laugh.
Someday, we will disappear (die)
But if each of us faces ourselves and lives earnestly,
The next generation
If we were able to pass that on to the next generation,
Our souls would always continue to live on in the children’s heart.
And so, surely we would always remain in this world.
That’s why
Let’s work hard
And move forward without grieving over his death
Let’s start walking.
We cannot turn back.
That’s what I always think.
When all of you look back 10 years, 20 years from now,
You would really have journeyed till so far and lived.
And be able to feel proud of the journey you would have made.
Please face yourselves earnestly and move forward.

As for me.
All of you,
Even if I felt crushed
Even if it was painful
Even if it becomes unbearable,
I would definitely not give up.
No matter how painful it is,
I would always smile in front of all of you
Because I promised that I would.
So even if all of you feel sad and things become hard as well,
I’m walking.
I’m moving forward steadily.
And I’m sure that these (feelings) would reach all of you too.
And so, everyone smile again as well, and start moving forward again.
If all of you could think this way,
that might give rise to another reason for my existence.
I would like to dedicate this song to all of you gathered here today
As well as
To Junior, my dear friend, who has left us first.

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