Kyoukai no Rinne 2

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Kyoukai no Rinne
Chapter 2: Legend of the Instrument Shelter
[Insert text: Rokudou-kun, classroom next-door neighbour. Just who are you, really...?]

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[Insert text: Everyone's curious about this new mystery classmate?!]
Teacher: Girls - three laps of the grounds. // Boys - flexibility exercises.
Students: Oka~y!
Friend: Hey - Sakura-chan!
Sakura: Hm?
Friend: Have you talked to Rokudou-kun yet?
Sakura: No, not really...
Friend: But you're sitting right next to him! / He's a bit weird, isn't he?

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Teacher: Hm? // Hey - Rokudou. // Why have you got a different tracksuit to everyone else?
Rinne: It's the one I wore in middle-school.
Girl: From middle-school, huh?
Friend: He wears that thing to lessons, too...
Teacher: Your middle-school tracksuit? // Have you not bought the designated school tracksuit yet, then?

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[Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: Sakura's classmate. A "shinigami" who guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara? Swathed in mystery. // Mamiya Sakura: She was spirited away as a child, and has been able to see ghosts ever since.]
Rinne: If I spent my money on a thing like that... / I'd plummet into hell.
Teacher: Hm? / Are your family poor...?
Rinne: I'd plummet into hell.
Teacher: R - Right. Okay. / Sorry about that, Rokudou.
Rinne: No problem. Don't mention it again.
Sakura: (My classmate. // The boy who sits next to me in class, Rokudou Rinne-kun...)

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Flashback!Rinne: I take those who have regrets tying them to the material world... // ...and lead them to the Wheel of Samsara so that they can pass on. // I guess you'd call me... // ...something like a Shinigami...
Sakura: (...or so he says. // I wish he would tell me more about that place... // ...but it's not easy finding an opportunity to talk to him...)

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Friend: Oh - Rika-chan, is that a new mobile? / How cute!
Rika: I just got it last week. / But the thing is...
Sakura: Wrong numbers?
Rika: Every single day. / The phone rings after school at the exact same time. / It's starting to get kind of annoying...
Sakura: What are they like?
Rika: It's some guy I don't know, and he just says...
Flashback!Caller: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! / Don't be late!

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Sakura: (Huh? // What's this...? // I'm getting a strange feeling from this phone...)
[Box: A few days later]
Rika: There's something weird going on! // This is really creeping me out now!
Friend: Hm? Is this about your phone again?
Rika: I tried blocking the number, but the calls keep coming... // So I tried to call the guy back, to complain about the whole thing, but...
Flashback!Phone: The number you have called is not currently in use.
Rika: And then... // Yesterday, at the time when I usually get the calls...

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Rika: I turned off my phone in advance. / But even then...
Flashback!Caller: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! / Don't be late!
Friend: ...You still got the call?
Rika: It's scary!
Sakura: (...And she answered it...?)
Friend: Could it be a ghost or something...?
Rika Don't say that~!
Rokudou: If it's ghost troubles you're having... // I know something you might want to try. / It could help.
Friend: Huh...?
Sakura: Rokudou-kun...

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Flashback!Rokudou: Behind the school lies a lone, unused instrument shelter. // If you write your problem down in a letter...
Sakura: (It's just like the Youkai Pos***x from Ki**rou...)
Flashback!Rokudou: ...place it into the shelter... // ...and make sure to include a monetary offering and a gift to the spirits, your problem will be solved. // This is a legend passed down in our school.
Friend: A legend, huh...
Sakura: Had you heard of it?
Friend: My sister went to this school before me... / But this is the first I've heard of this 'legend'.
Sakura: Rika-chan, are you actually going to do it?
Rika: Well, what else am I supposed to do?! / There's nothing else left to try!
Sakura: (Sure there is... / You could try changing your phone number, or...)

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Friend: There it is.
Rika: Please, let this work...
Sakura: (Hm?! // Rokudou-kun...)

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Rika: The box opened up all by itself...!
Friend: And the letter and sandwich are gone?!
Rika/Friend: Aaaaaaghh~~~~! Too scary~~~~~~!!
Sakura: Huh? // Oh... // (Couldn't either of them see him...?) // Ah... // Looks like... Rika-chan dropped her phone...

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[Label: Yakisoba-pan]
[TN: ...Why do I suddenly have a craving for yakisoba-pan?]
Rinne: Itadakimasu...
Sakura: Ah - there you are! // Rokudou-kun!
Rinne: ......
Sakura: Don't ignore me.
Rinne: Why can you see me, anyway? // There's something odd about you, Mamiya Sakura.
Sakura: Look, okay...

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Sakura: Surely I'm the one who should be calling you odd! / Why do you go around turning visible and invisible all the time?! // Stop eating that thing already! // Hm?! // Come to think of it... // You're always wearing this flashy old robe whenever the weird stuff happens...
Rinne: Hands off! This is a top-quality item! // It's called the Yomi no Haori.
[TN: "Hell Robe"]
Rinne: It's a treasured item, with the power... / ...to make the body of whoever wears it ethereal; the same as a ghost.
[TN: To continue the "reverse-Bleach" theme, I guess we have our "reverse-gigai"...]
Sakura: (The same as a ghost...? // So that's why the others couldn't see him...)

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Sakura: I see. // So because I can see ghosts, only I was able to see you. / I guess that makes sense. // More importantly, what do you think you're playing at?
Rinne: "More importantly"?!
Sakura: That legend about the instrument shelter! // You made the whole thing up, didn't you?!
Rinne: And if I did? // It's how I get by.
Sakura: So... // You really are a shinigami?
Rinne: Something like that.
Sakura: What's that even supposed to mean?! // !!

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Rinne: ...That phone... / It belongs to the client, Rika, yes?
Sakura: Y - Yeah.
Flashback!Rika: Every single day, the phone rings after school at the exact same time. // It's some guy I don't know...
Rinne: It has a spiritual aura about it.
Sakura: Huh...? / Then... // The person who's been making all those calls... // ...really was a ghost?
Rinne: Yeah... // (I feel it. // The presence of a spirit with lingering ties to this world, unable to pass on...)
Rika: Hello...?

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Rika: My name's Rika. // I guess this must be somebody who picked up my phone? // Ehe!♡ // Sorry to trouble you, but could you bring it to Class 1-4's room...
Rinne: U~RA~ME~SHI~YA~~~~
[TN: "Urameshiya" is the stereotypical creepy thing that ghosts say ~~ I believe last time it came up in a manga, I linked to this cute comedy skit about it. Well, this time I found a subbed version, so I'll link it again XD]
Rika: Aaaahhhh~~!!
Rinne: That should put her off trying to get it back for the moment.
Sakura: Th - That's terrible...
Caller: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! // Don't be late!

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Rinne: Behind the gym... / ...at four... // Nobody's coming.
Sakura: Mm... / You know, come to think of it... // What's to say the ghost is even from this school at all...? / I mean, Rika-chan said she didn't know him or anything...
Rinne: Yeah... he was probably trying to call out somebody completely different. // I think all we can say for sure is... // Whoever the ghost was originally trying to call, / he never got to meet them behind the gym at four.
Sakura: He probably... died before he got the chance, huh.

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Sakura: Where do you think he's calling from?
Rinne: Easiest way to find out is to ask him.
Sakura: Huh?! // A string-telephone?
Rinne: Give me the telephone number of the client, Rika.
Sakura: Oh... / Sure.

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Rinne: Thanks. / You can go now.
Sakura: Huh? // What are you going to do?
Rinne: I must track down this spirit, sever his ties to this world, // and lead him to the Wheel of Samsara.
Sakura: (The Wheel of Samsara... that place...) // Um... / Isn't there anything I can...
Rinne: Obviously you can see ghosts... // ...but you have no experience fighting them or exorcising them, have you?
Sakura: Well, I suppose that's true, but...

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Rinne: From here on out... // ...this is my job.
Sakura: (The job... of a Shinigami...)
Rinne: ...... / Mamiya Sakura...
Sakura: Hm...?
Rinne: You wouldn't happen... to have a ten-yen coin, would you? // The charge for the string-telephone call...
Sakura: (There's a charge...?)

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Friend: It's got to be because your monetary offering to the spirits wasn't big enough! // [aside]you've been cursed![/aside]
Rika: Wha~~t?! I left plenty! / All the one-yen coins in my purse...
Rinne: (The thing tying this phone-call ghost to this world is the phone number of our client, Rika.)
Sakura: Erm... where are we?
Rinne: The Spiritual Path. / A place beyond time and space, connected to the spirits. // It's time to make the call.

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Rinne: Hey... it's me!
Caller: You?! // Get your ass down behind the gym at four!
Rinne: What do you want?!
Caller: Hu~~h?! Don't you play dumb with me!!

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Rinne: Keep putting in the ten-yen coins! / If we lose the connection, we're not going to make it!
Sakura: Sure...
Caller: You'd better be there! / Don't be late!
Sakura: (That boy... // That's the phone-call ghost?!)

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Sakura: (Ahh... // And that's why... he never made it to their meeting behind the gym...) // He was wearing our school's uniform... / He must have been a student here.
Rinne: Yeah. / Tomorrow at four, we'll bring him here.

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Sakura: Can't you get him to pass on right away?
Rinne: First he has to meet with the person he was trying to reach... / ...so that his ties to this world can be severed... // We'll handle it tomorrow. // See you.
Sakura: Yeah... see you tomorrow... // (I can see ghosts... // ...but I have no experience fighting them or exorcising them. // And yet... // This guy's having me help him.) // I guess I should bring plenty of change again tomorrow...
[TN: About the "having me help him" line... I'm not sure whether to interpret it as "letting me help him" or "making me help him", so I went for a neutral medium. If it was a pure causative, I would definitely have gone for "letting", but I'm not sure whether the causative-passive can work like that >< (And since this is cynical Sakura we're talking about, I could see her saying either ~~)]
[Side text: Sakura has been swept along completely by Rinne's pace... // Next issue, colour pages and the front cover!!]
[Bottom text: To be continued in Issue 24 (on sale Wednesday 13th May)]