Mahou Sensei Negima! 247

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[Insert text: Bearing everything, putting everything on the line... Negi activates the greatest spell he has ever used!!]
Negi: Trump card... // ...number three!!! // Sinistra Emissa Stagnet: Chilipl Astrape!! // Dextra Emissa Stagnet: Chilipl Astrape!! // Duplex // Complexio!!!

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Rakan: Hm? // Ahh...
Kotarou: Heh... Perfect timing, hero. // Tag... // ...I'm out.
Negi: Thank you, Kojirou-kun.

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
Period 246: Trump Card Glory!!
[Insert text: The time has come to surpass the pinnacle!!]

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Rakan: You can actually apply two layers of that thing... Incredible. // Is this the last trump card you've got?
Negi: Who can say? // Let's just call this "Raiten Taisou Two", shall we?
[TN: *cough*supersaiyan*cough*]
Dolphin: Our mighty combatants, Nagi and Rakan, stare one another down in the centre of the arena!!! // With both of their partners effectively eliminated, is a one-on-one showdown between these two the only way to end this?!! // Kagetarou has been pinned to the wall by Kojirou's beast form, and is unable to move! // Meanwhile, Kojirou himself was unable to withstand Rakan's fierce attack, and has been thoroughly beaten down, beast form and all! // Now, how will this play out? After witnessing the sheer power Rakan possesses, the outcome of this battle seems as clear as day, but...
Zaytsev: Oh, I wouldn't be so sure just yet...

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Konoka: R... Really? Negi-kun might win?
Shiori!Asuna: I... don't know? // [aside]can he really?[/aside]
Takane: ...Indeed. / It would appear that his combat style is based primarily around Delayed Spells. // Delayed Spells are difficult to master, and even here in the Magical World, there are few who make effective use of them, but his skill with them is very impressive.
Mei: Kojirou's gambit just now was a means of buying Nagi-sama the time he needed to set up his Delayed Spells. / In other words, Nagi-sama should be prepared for anything right now! He certainly has a chance of victory.
Misora: Still, we've seen just how invulnerable the hero Rakan can really be... / If he carries on like he has been doing, his position could just get worse and worse. // What exactly could he have planned...?
Shiori!Asuna: ...wait, MISORA-CHAN~~~~~~~~~~~?! What are you doing in Ostia - heck, in the Magical World at all?!
Konoka: [aside]...Takane-san, Mei-chan and Cocone-chan, too...![/aside]
Misora: E~~hehehe, I know, big coincidence, huh~?! We just came here for our summer holidays and ended up kinda stuck, ya know?! // Now, I'm sure there's a lo~ng story behind how you ended up here... // ...but what's this I hear about you being wanted?
Shiori!Asuna: Ahh... // ...Forget about that for now, we've got a match to watch!
Misora: Mmph!
Mei: Ah - they've started!

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Negi: KAKUDA CHOUCHUU!!!
[TN: Literally, "Beckoning Strike Pinnacle Elbow". That "kaku" is a seriously obscure kanji >_<]
Rakan: (Nghh... // This is...!)

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Negi: HA!
[TN: Actually written with a kanji meaning "destruction" ~~]
Rakan: (I see...)

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Rakan: (This is the augmentation effect of Raiten Taisou Two... // Perpetual lightning form!!!)
Chisame: Perpetual lightning form... / I see... that would eliminate the primary weakness of "intercepting before he activates it"!
Chamo: Damn right! Not only that, while he's in lightning form, both his thoughts and physical capabilities are accelerated! / Just check out those movements of his! He isn't keeping his distance... he's really getting in there!

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Chamo: That's his answer to the second weakness: "He may move at 150 km/s, but his movements can be predicted and countered"... // ..."Infighting"!
Ricardo: I see!! He abandons his no-risk tactic of hitting-and-running in favour of the manly technique of close-quarters combat!!! // He goes up against the kind of opponent who can take out a dragon... by relying on his accelerated reflexes alone to protect him!! If he allows a single attack to connect, he's done for!! // The risk you're taking is immense, boy... // ...but that's what makes you a real man!!
Eva: Hah, an obvious choice. // Trying to avoid risk is absurd; risk-taking is the key to any true victory. / However...
Announcer: Aaahhhhhhh! // He strikes and he strikes and he strikes and he strikes!!

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Announcer: Like the phoenix from the flames, this revived Nagi seems utterly unstoppable! / Dodging the hero's rapid attacks with the utmost precision, / and responding with his own invisible, inescapable series of unrelenting strikes!! // ...and yet... // Th... This is... // Incredible!! Even after taking those tens, hundreds of lightning strikes one after another... the hero is still standing tall!!
Negi: [aside]Ngh... // *pant* // *pant* *pant*[/aside]
Announcer: Can it bee that the many names this hero has earned himself... "The Man Who Cannot Die", "The Immortal Fool", "That damn guy who you can stab with swords all you like and it won't do a thing, dammit"... are they all true?!
Eva: (He's still lacking in sheer power. // He may have the edge in terms of speed... / ...but the kid's fists just can't leave a mark on that steel body, reinforced to the absolute limit by the ultimate force of will. ...Too bad.)
Theodora: Ahhh... / After all this, he still lacks the decisive skill to finish it...?

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Negi: *pant* // *pant* // *pant*
Rakan: You done yet, kid? You must be at your limit now. ...You did your best. // You did your best... but if this was your final trump card... you can't win this.
Negi: ...What's that? Rakan-san... // ...Did I ever say that this was my last trump card?
Rakan: ...Hm?
Negi: Heheh... // It looks like you've walked straight into my trap, haven't you?
Rakan: What? // ? // Nghh...?! // (What the... when did he...? // ...Kotarou...?!!)
Kotarou: Heh.

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Rakan: Ngh...
Negi: Trump card number four!! A Negi original spell!! // You may have a body of steel, but even steel isn't indestructible. When I used my Point-Blank Thunder Tempest, you managed to divert its course a little at the critical moment to avoid taking its full force, didn't you? // That's all the proof I need: just as long as I surpass your limit, I can damage you. // Here it comes, Rakan-san.

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Negi: Duabus Emissae!! // Dextra Stagnans: // Chilipl Astrape!! // Sinistra Stagnans: // Iaculatio Fulgoris!!
Eva: Ah...
Negi: Unisonent!!!
[TN: No, it's not a real Latin word as far as I can figure >_< Kanji read "enchantment integration"]
Negi: Raijinsou: Titanoktonon!!!
[TN: "Lightning God Lance: Titan Slayer"]
Rakan: A synthesised original spell...?! Just how the hell good are you?! / And anyway... // ...if all you wanted was a pure contest of strength... / ...you didn't have to trap me! // I'll always be more than happy to oblige!!

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Ricardo: NO WAY?! // Why is he going for an all-out contest of strength at this point?! / [aside]what happened to the close-combat?![/aside]
Seras: Rakan can bring out his full power in the space of three seconds!! You don't have any kind of time-advantage here!
Theodora: Trying to defeat that man in a contest of pure strength is suicide!!
Eva: No... / This is...
[TN: That look on Eva's face is priceless. And that lance is OH SHI -]
Announcer: Th... This is just incredible... the most massive accumulation of spiritual and magical power we've seen in this entire match!! // They're both getting ready for a final, killing blow!!! / W... Will this single attack decide the outcome?!
Rakan: (Sorry 'bout this, kid... // ...but in a contest of strength... // ...I won't hold back!!) // Rakan...

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Rakan: IMPACT!!!
People: Aaahhh! // Waaahhhh!
Rakan: (Hm... // Wait... // He can use the Hama-no-Tsurugi whenever he wants... // If he has that, he doesn't need to make this a contest of strength...)

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Rakan: ?! // (Why aren't you throwing the spear?! // You'll die...!)
Negi: Agite Extractio!!!
[TN: I'm not sure on that "Agite"... the kanji read "enchantment extraction", but I can't figure out what the "agite" is supposed to be.]
Rakan: !! // (Wha...)
Negi: Trump card number five!! Negica Magia Erebea!! // Circuli Absorptionis Ex Tempore!!!

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Announcer: He... // HE STOPPED IT...?!!
Ricardo: Absorbing the enemy attack?! No... that's impossible!
Rakan: (So the contest of strength itself was the trap...!! // But when did he prepare a gigantic magic circle like that?! / [aside]he can't have had the...[/aside] // ...Back then...?!! // But then... he was planning this from the start...?!!
Negi: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! // (Rakan-san... // I may indeed not be able to defeat you with the level of power I currently possess.)

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Negi: Complexio!!! // (However... // What about if I use your power instead?!)
[TN: ...Personally, I'm impressed that he created that entire ridiculously-powerful lance technique purely as a fake-out O_o Assuming that was for real, and not just an illusion of some sort.]
[Insert text: He will never give in... and that is his strength!! Negi finally annihilates Rakan?!!]
[Bottom text: Next week, colour pages, and new details on the OAD series!!]