Mahou Sensei Negima! 246

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[Insert text: On the verge of death, Negi thinks back upon the words that Tosaka and Ako said to him...]
Announcer: Nine! // Ten!
Flashback!Ako: Make sure you win... // ...your match against Rakan, okay?
Negi: Ungh... // (That's right...)
Flashback!Tosaka: That's the one thing you don't have the right to say... // ...when you're standing right out there in the spotlight!

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Negi: (I...)
Announcer: Aahhhh...?! // Nagi is... // ..standing...
[Insert text: Arise, Negi... from the depths of despair!!]
[Mahou Sensei Negima!]
[Period 246: Victory For Your Sake!]
Negi: Nghh... // Guahhh!
Shiori!Asuna: ?!
Konoka: Negi-ku...

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Rakan: ...Give it up, kid. You've reached your limit. / Your insides are turning to pulp about now. // If you don't give it up now and get yourself nice an' healed up, it might end up being too late. / Hey, look on the bright side... you took a blow from these fists and you're still alive; that alone means you've reached a whole new level... Hm. // Yeah... that's good enough! // Good job. / Shall we call it quits about now?
Announcer: Nagi is coughing up huge amounts of blood! Is he unable to stand back up after all?! // I will continue the count!
Rakan: ...The reason I set it up so we'd fight like this... / ...was so I could witness you at a hundred percent, first hand. // You've done better than I hoped; I've done what I came here to do. You were brilliant, kid.
Negi: (Wha...?!)

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Rakan: "Raisoku Shundou"... that's what you called it, yeah? It was incredible. / [aside]got me real heated up for the first time in ages.[/aside] // Don't you worry. / There's probably not ten men in the whole damn world who can see through it the way I did. // Well, I guess since the whole world just saw me do just that on live TV... // [aside]gahahahah[/aside] // ...there might be more like eighty or so of 'em now...
Kagetarou: [aside]that's a little harsh...[/aside]
Negi: (So this really...)
Rakan: Hahahahahah! Don't look so down, kid! You actually made me get serious! There ain't five men in the world who could pull off a thing like that! // [aside]hahahaha / hahah[/aside] // Maaaan, you really surprised me, and that's for sure. I never thought that you'd come this far! You're that idiot's son through and through. / You should be proud, kid!
Negi: (This really was just another test all along... // He never even meant it to be a serious match...?)
Rakan: Well, it's not like you beat me, of course, so I'm not gonna go accepting that you've reached "full manhood" or anything just yet. // But the truth about your mother can always wait until you're a little older, yeah?♪

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Rakan: All right, show's over, nothing to see here! / You did a good job, okay? Real good.
Announcer: Thirteen! // Fourteen!
Rakan: Nothin' to be embarrassed about. / Now hurry up and give up the match so you can get treated, yeah? Don't go dyin' on me.
Dolphin: Wh... What exactly is this...? // It would appear that Rakan is advising his opponent to forfeit the match...
Negi: ...n't... ...around... // ...with me...
Rakan: Hm?
Negi: Don't... // ...screw around... // ...with me! // ...Nghh... // Nghhhhaaahhhhh... // Ngghhhhhhhhhhh... / Unghhhhhhhh...! // Ughh... / Unghhhhh... // Anghh... / Ahh... // Aghhhh...

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Kagetarou: What?!
Rakan: Hmm?
Announcer: Aaahhhhhhhh?!! // He stood up!! Nagi just stood up!! / This time he really is back on his feet!!!

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Flashback!Ako: By the way, what're those marks on your cheek?
Flashback!Negi: Oh, this...? I had a little fight with Tosaka-san, that's all... // Rakan-san is so incredible, I was starting to lose my confidence... but I think Tosaka-san beat a little sense into me. // I mean, it's obvious, really... Rakan-san is Rakan-san, and I'm who I am. / No matter how incredible those people might be, there was never any real reason why I had to be the same way... // But now... I think I may have found the answer I need. // Leave it to me, Ako-san. / For your sake, I will defeat him. I promise. // Oww!
Flashback!Ako: Oh, you silly... you were still worrying about stuff like that? / You didn't even realise a thing like that until Tosaka-san went and beat you up? I thought you were smart an' all...
Flashback!Negi: Eh...?
Flashback!Ako: I mean, are you sure you didn't know that all along? / It was you who told me, back at the school festival, after all...

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Flashback!Ako: "Even so... surely only you can be the main character of your own story." // So it'll be fine! / Because I know, the "you" that I've always admired, without ever really even changing... can do anything!
Kotarou: Man... you sure are beat up. Not lookin' too good there. You sure you don't wanna pull out Konoka's Artifact?
Negi: This is a fight between men... fist against fist. I'll handle it myself, one way or another. // Besides, what about you? Your stomach... hands... legs... // That wound in your chest could kill you if you're not careful, you know.
Kotarou: Heh... don't underestimate the regenerative abilities of the Dog Tribe. // Soon as I transform, this'll be nothing.

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Negi: ...Kotarou-kun. / They're looking down on us. They honestly thought that we had reached our limits just now. // And that's perfect. / We're going to win this battle.
Kotarou: Hah. // You know what you're talkin' about! / Negi!
Konoka: Negi-ku~n!
Nodoka: Sensei!
Shiori!Asuna: Negi!
Yuuna: Aaahhhhhhh!
Makie: Negi-ku~n!
Chamo: Aniki~!
Eva: Heh...

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Ako: He stood up...!
Akira: Incredible...
Natsumi: But that blood...! / [aside]it's going everywhere...![/aside]
Kagetarou: Ridiculous... why is he standing?! His trump card has been annihilated, his body is a mess... surely all he can hope for now is a losing struggle!
Rakan: No... those eyes... // (Those aren't the eyes of a guy who's been driven into a corner. He's still got something in mind. // Are you kidding me here, kid...? // That "Raisoku Shundou" was a serious technique that even amazed me... you're not telling me you've got more...?)
Negi: (I need forty-three seconds... can you give me that? You'd be up against two opponents...)
Kotarou: (Heh... I'll see what I can do. // But, Negi... that Kagetarou is a real monster himself. That stuff about his strength being about 700 or whatever... I'm not buying it. // He's over 3000, at the very least. Those two have been in cahoots from the very start, ain't they? / [aside]I mean, I hear they were drinking buddies before you even asked him to train you, so...[/aside]
Negi: (I guessed as much... // No... that actually works to our advantage. It'll make our actions that much more convincing.)

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Negi: I'm sorry to have to use you to buy time like this!
Kotarou: Heh... no sweat. I used to work in some shady businesses, remember? Playing the supporting role... // ...is somethin' I'm used to!!
Kagetarou: Hm... very well! Then I, too, shall fight without holding back! // A thousand spears, woven of a thousand shadows!! // This, you cannot evade, Kojirou-dono!!
Kotarou: Heh! // (We'll see about that...)
Negi: Ras Tel Ma Scir / Magister... // Adeat!!
[TN: Nice to see he's actually using his Artifact again ~~]

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Announcer: Aahhh!
Natsumi: Kota...
Kagetarou: (What?! // The shadow lances aren't reaching him? // And that form he has taken...)
Kotarou: Garyuu Inugamiryuu Juuka Ougi // "Kuon Eisou"!!
[TN: The first part means "Self-developed Inugami-style Beast Transformation Secret Technique". The actual name isn't made up of any actual words, but the kanji are "dog", "sound", "shadow" and "attire"]

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Natsumi: Who the heck is that~?! // [aside]It's all furry! // heck, that's a dog![/aside]
Kagetarou: Not good...! // Umbrae Septemplex Paries Anticorporalis!! // Ngh...
Kotarou: Heh... too bad for you, huh, Kage-chan? / This sword is the ultimate enemy of magic users... especially of spirit-users like us.
Kagetarou: Nghh...

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Rakan: Not half bad, Kojirou... but still. / You've left the kid wide-open in mid-incantation!
Kotarou: (Oh no, you don't!!)
Rakan: Ah...
Kotarou: Discharge!!!

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Rakan: Nghh... / That's quite some strength to muster in an instant... // !
Kotarou: (Of course it is!! I'm going all out!!! // I'm not holding anything back!! // It doesn't matter what happens afterwards!! // Just for these forty-three seconds... // I have to hold out... // ...no matter what!!

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Kotarou: ?!! // (He countered it with one hand!!)
Rakan: Hmph...
Kotarou: Nguohh! // Ughh... // (Wha...?! // A simple punch from him holds this much power... and Negi took how many of these attacks...?!!)
Rakan: Heh... you can take it, huh? You really are something, Kojirou. / But... that's as far as you go.

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Rakan: Taking out magical beasts is my speciality as a mercenary. // Adeat!!
Kotarou: (Not yet!! // Just fifteen more seconds!! // Thirteen...!! // Eleven...!! // Nine...!! // Eight...!!)
Natsumi: Kotarou-kun!!
Rakan: Ohh? / You're still moving?
Kotarou: (Five seconds... I guess that's my lot... you can handle five seconds, right...?)

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Kotarou: (Negi!!)
Negi: Trump card number three!!
Kotarou: (You're the star, after all!!)
Negi: Duplex... // ...Complexio!!!
[TN: The kanji used for "duplex" reads "two-armed"]
[Insert text: The star... Bearing hopes, expectations and feelings on his back, he fights... and fights to win!!! Don't miss Negi's ultimate magic, next issue!!]