Ao no Exorcist 3

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Ao no Exorcist
Chapter 3: The Amahara Garden
[Insert text: Two brothers, working to master... // ...the path of the exorcist!]

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[Side text: The two brothers, living together, in... tears?!]
Rin: ...It's just not right... // It's too sad... I can't bear it...!
Yukio: Nii-san! / What are you lazing about reading manga for?!
Rin: Agh - hey! Give that back!
Yukio: What about your work?! // [aside]you're getting my copy of SQ all dirty.[/aside]
[TN: Amongst the titles I can see on the cover of this blatant Jump SQ ripoff are "New Princess of Tennis", "Binbougami Ka~!", "CLAYO!MORE", "Kurenai", and "MailBachi" ~~]
Yukio: I gave you some materials to study yesterday, didn't I? / Have you looked over them, at least?
Rin: Sure... // [aside]my sweat isn't "dirty"![/aside]

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Rin: ...I've looked over them, but what the heck is this "for kids" stuff, anyway...?!! / Could you quit trying to make a fool of me already?!! / [aside]Mr. Moles-and-Glasses! // I'm not a kid, okay?!![/aside]
Yukio: [aside]actually, we are kids...[/aside]
[Book: Bible Stories for Kids]
[Book pile: BUDDHA // Angel-kun and Demon-kun // Sca~ry / Monsters and Demons: A Picture Encyclopedia // PLANTS // The Simple Book Of Japanese Gods]
Yukio: I'm not making a fool of you... though I won't deny you are one. / I just thought using those kind of books might make studying easier for you.
Rin: At any rate, I'm no good at learning stuff by sitting poring over books... / Surely you know that! // [aside]so give back my SQ![/aside]
Yukio: [aside]I told you, it's mine!![/aside] // I can't exactly argue with that... // But you intend to become an exorcist, do you not? // You should at least use this opportunity to prepare for your next lesson.
Rin: ! / You going out somewhere?

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Yukio: A request came in, so I'm going out to handle it. // I'll take care of some shopping while I'm at it...... / I don't think it'll take all that long......
Rin: A request... you mean you're going out exorcising?!
Yukio: Yup.
Rin: Take me with you!
Yukio: What?!
Rin: Surely I'm gonna learn a hell of a lot more actually seeing this stuff than just sitting around reading!
Yukio: If you recall, you are still a lowly page. / You have no authorisation for training on the field...
Rin: Oh, come off it already! / I've been out "on the field" already, haven't I?! Screw "authorisation"!

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Yukio: .........I suppose you have a point. // ...... // Very well, then...... I will allow you to observe. // ...But you must do exactly as I say. / No taking action on your own.
Rin: Now that's what I like to hear! / I knew I could count on you!
Yukio: This is the Supplier's Key. / One of the keys that only qualified exorcists are allowed to possess.
Rin: Another key, huh... / You sure have a lot of those, don't ya.
Yukio: You have some of your own too, yes? // You should take care of the keys you obtain. // They are a very valuable thing to possess.
Rin: Hmmm......
Yukio: Shall we go, then?

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Rin: Whoooa...! // So high~~~~~!

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Rin: That key's like a portal or something, huh~~?
Yukio: ...This academy is an important base for us exorcists... for the True Cross Order. // As such, thanks to Sir Pheles's power... / ...it is protected against the more powerful demons by a combination of protective charms, barriers, labyrinths and the like.
Mephisto: [aside]that's right, my power!☆[/aside]
[Label: Not appearing in this chapter!!]
Yukio: Keys like this allow us to travel around the academy without running into these traps.
Rin: Huh... I'm not sure I really get it, but I guess that clown really isn't just your average clown, huh.
Yukio: Well, I'll be heading in to buy a few things. / So you just wait here for a minute, all right?
Rin: Can't I go in too?

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Yukio: This shop is only open to exorcists and above. // I won't be long.
Rin: Fine, fine...
Yukio: ......
Rin: ?
Yukio: No wandering about! And no touching things!
Rin: Just go! / [aside]hurry it up!{/aside] // Tch... // Stupid Yukio... He's totally treating me like some little kid...! // "No wandering about!" / "No reading manga!" / Bah... / What is he, my mother?!! // Dammit... you just wait, Yukio, I'll have you saying "Help me, Nii-sa~~n!" one day...! / ...Hm?

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Rin: Whoa... what a beautiful place!

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[no text just Rin wandering about and touching things]

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Rin: Agh... / Oww...?! // Huh? // ?!!! // Ah - / Um, uh, ah... / Look, I didn't...... / The gate just...

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Girl: D... Demon...!
Rin: Huh...? // (Why...?) // I... I'm not!
Girl: But the Gate of Warding...! / It only reacts to demons...!
Rin: (Warding?! So... it did that because of me...? / Crap... that means I broke it...!)
Girl: P... / Please, don't hurt me......! // Don't come in...!
Rin: (C - Come on... You don't have to be like that...!) // ......

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Rin: I... I'm not a demon! / Okay, so I'm not human either, but... / Don't just go deciding things like that!!
Girl: Aahh... // STAY BACK~~~~~!!!!
Rin: .........!!
Girl: Somebody...!! // Help m - / Aahhhh!
Rin: ?!

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Rin: ...A... Are you okay......?
Girl: ...!
Rin: ......Hey......... // What's wrong with your legs...?

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Yukio: Good day to you, madam.
Shopkeeper: ! / Why, a good day to you too, young Okamura-sensei.
Yukio: I'll take two each of Valeriana, Hypericum, Fern, and Horehound... / ...as well as a litre of C-concentration holy water, 300 grams of powdered iron, and six dozen of my usual holy-silver bullet-jackets.
Shopkeeper: Nice doing business with you. / Buying in bulk again, I see...!
Yukio: I used up rather a lot yesterday, you see.

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Yukio: By the by, how is the young lady... Shiemi-san doing?
Shopkeeper: ......... // ...We're having something of a fight right now...... / She's not talking to me. // Her legs are just getting worse by the day... // I took her to see a doctor, but her bones, muscles, nerves... everything seems to be in perfect order. / You exorcists are all I have to turn to...
Yukio: Can you think of any explanation as to how she might have come into contact with demons?
Shopkeeper: ...It started when her grandmother died...

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Rin: I'm not sure I get it... // How... / ...did I end up doing this again...?!
Shiemi: Well, with the gate in the way, I couldn't lay the manure... // This is diluted cow manure, by the way.
Rin: [aside]dammit, that stinks... / it's making my eyes water![/aside]
Shiemi: But thank you! / With my legs like this, I was having a fair amount of trouble... / It's nice to have a little help!
Rin: The hell's that supposed to mean?! / First you call me a demon, then you make me do your work for you...!
Shiemi: I... I'm sorry...... / I was just taken aback, and......
Rin: ...Ugh. Well, it's no big deal. I did kind of break your gate, after all... // ?

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Shiemi: ...Friends, then? // I just... didn't know that you were a nice person really.
Rin: ...Eh... / Huh? / ......I... // I... I guess that's okay... / ...but...
Shiemi: Really? Thank goodness... // My name's Moriyama Shiemi! // What's yours?
Rin: O... Okamura Rin.

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Rin: (...Wait, am I shaking a hand covered in poop?! // [aside]I just washed that hand...!![/aside])
Shiemi: You know, this place... // ...it's my Granny's garden. // Granny taught me all sorts of things right here in this garden... // I... love this garden... just like I love Granny. // But this winter just gone, Granny died in an accident. // ......I'm sure... she's gone on to the Amahara Garden ahead of me... // I hope so...
Rin: ...?
Shiemi: Oh!

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Shiemi: Erm... / The "Amahara Garden"... / ...is a place where God gathered all the plants of the world all together. // It's hidden somewhere in this world... // ...and if you go there, you can see all the different plants this world has to offer...!
[TN: Is anybody thinking "All Blue"? I'm thinking "All Blue". Except less, uh, blue.]
Rin: Wow...! The Amahara Garden, huh... / I'm not sure I really get it, but... it sounds pretty nice! / You should go there!
Shiemi: Ahaha...! I can't do that... // It's just a story, after all... / ...Besides, with my legs like this... // But if the Amahara Garden really does exist... / If there really is a place where I could see all the plants and flowers and trees of the world... // I'd love to go there...

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Rin: .........
Yukio: Nii-san! // Oh, dear... What on Earth have you got yourself into now? / I can't leave you alone for a second...!
Rin: Oh, hey, Yukio!♪
Shiemi: Yuki-chan!
Rin: "Yuki-chan"?! ......You know each other?
Yukio: Yep. / She lives at this shop that I visit all the time, after all. // Hello there, Shiemi-san!
Shiemi: H... Hello...!
Yukio: This is my elder twin brother.
Shiemi: Huh?!

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Shiemi: You look like the older one...!
Yukio: [aside]haha...[/aside] // Yes, well, that's an easy mistake to make. / He is my older brother in name only.
Rin: [aside]oi![/aside] / Who're you calling "in name only"?!
Shiemi: Ani is a page, training to become an exorcist. / He's tagging along to watch me work.
Rin: (And he ignores me...!)
Shiemi: To watch?
Shopkeeper: Shiemi... // Let the nice man take a look at your legs.
Shiemi: Mother...?! // ?! ...I... I haven't... had anything to do with any...!
Yukio: Could I just take a look? // If I don't find anything, then there's no problem, is there? // ...So just for a moment?

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Shiemi: ...A... / All right......
Yukio: Thank you very much.
Rin: Wh... What about me...?
Yukio: [aside]what about you?[/aside] / You just stay there and watch. // Excuse me. // ...... // ..."Roots".

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Yukio: This is a Mashou. // The work of a demon, no doubt about it.
Shiemi: !! // I... It can't be...
Shopkeeper: Then Shiemi is...!
Yukio: No, she is not being possessed. // This is not the work of a demon powerful enough to possess a human. // It will have possessed one of the plants in this garden... // A Dökkálfr, a Green Man, or perhaps an Ent... all are relatively weak demons... // ...but this one seems to be reaching through the ground to Shiemi's legs, and parasitically leeching from her heart. // The demon itself is somewhere in this garden.

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Yukio: ...Shiemi-san... / Akuma can generally only find a way to invade humans' hearts by talking to them. // You must have spoken to this demon at some point. // If you have any idea when it might have been, please, tell me.
Shiemi: I... I haven't spoken to any demons......
Shopkeeper: Shiemi! // You are to leave this garden at once!!
Shiemi: Mother......
Shopkeeper: I don't care how precious it may have been to your grandmother... // This accursed garden...! // It cannot be worth your sacrificing your own health to stay here!
Shiemi: ..."Accursed... garden"...?

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Shiemi: This garden was Granny's greatest treasure...!! // I hate you, Mother!!
Yukio: Shiemi-san...! // The effects may not be obvious... / ...but she is actually having a large amount of her energy drained out through her legs. // If the demon is not exorcised soon... / ...her life may be in danger......
Shopkeeper: I still don't know what's wrong with her, sleeping in this place...
Yukio: ?

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Shopkeeper: This is the storehouse where her grandmother used to live. // Ever since her grandmother died, she has been shutting herself away in here, and spending all her time tending to the garden. / And it's since then that her legs started deteriorating, as well... // It reminds me of her grandmother - she had bad legs as well... // Why is this happening......? // ...... / Whenever I try to broach the subject, she gets like that, and we end up fighting. // I'm a failure as a mother......

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Shopkeeper: Ever since she was young, her body hasn't been up to going to school... / Since I was too busy with the shop to look after her, my mother always looked after her in my place. // I suppose this is what I get for spending all my time on the shop and not enough on her...
Yukio: ......... // !! // Nii-san?! / He's gone...!!
Shopkeeper: ?
Flashback!Grandmother: Shiemi... / When the moon is waxing, you plant the root crops... / And the leaved crops, you plant when the moon is waning. // That's how to do it.
Flashback!Shiemi: Uh-huh!

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Flashback!Grandmother: ...Shiemi, do you like plants and flowers?
Flashback!Shiemi: Yes!! // I love them, and I love you too, Granny! // I want to stay with you forever!
Flashback!Grandmother: ...... / Say, Shiemi... / Have you ever heard of the "Amahara Garden"?
Flashback!Shiemi: N'uh-uh... / I don't like going outside.
Flashback!Grandmother: They say it's a garden where God brought together all the different plants from around the world. // If you go there, you can see all the plants the world has to offer.
Flashback!Shiemi: Really? // I want to go there! // Granny... // Let's go there together!
Flashback!Grandmother: Mmmm... Well, I would like to do that very much...

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Flashback!Grandmother: But I'm getting old... my legs aren't what they used to be... / And besides, this garden is a treasure to me. // I can't just leave it behind. // Shiemi, you should go and search for it yourself, when you get bigger.
Flashback!Shiemi: ......
Flashback!Grandmother: Shiemi... // The clouds are coming in... / Could you drape the cover over the grapes...?
Flashback!Shiemi: Granny! // I'm going to go look for the Amahara Garden! // I've saved up my money and everything! Look! / With this much, maybe I can search the whole world!
Flashback!Grandmother: You're going...... / ...outside...?
Flashback!Shiemi: ?

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Flashback!Grandmother: ...That's a wonderful idea! // But I'm afraid with the money you have here, you won't be able to make it around the world......
Flashback!Shiemi: What?! Really?!
Flashback!Grandmother: So for today, why don't you just go and search a little closer to home?
Flashback!Shiemi: Okay! // I'll cover up the grapes when I get back, okay?!
Flashback!Grandmother: Oh, don't worry about that! // Just be careful, and make sure you're back before dark!
Flashback!Shiemi: I'm back...... / I'm sorry I took so long, Granny... // But you know, I found these beautiful leaves, and... // ...Granny...?

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Flashback!Shiemi: Granny... // The pansies aren't sprouting like they should... // How do I fix the vine rack...? // At this rate... // Your precious garden is going to be ruined...... // What... // ...am I supposed to do...?
Flashback!Demon: You have to protect this garden.
Flashback!Shiemi: Huh?
Flashback!Demon: I can help you keep this garden safe.
Flashback!Shiemi: Who said that just now...? Was it you...?
Flashback!Demon: ...That's right. I am what you might call a garden fairy...... // Could you lend me your power...?

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Flashback!Shiemi: I'll give you all the power you need...! // ...This garden is my Granny's precious treasure... // I just want to protect it...!
Flashback!Demon: Then it's a promise. // Let's do our best and protect it, together...
Shiemi: !!! // *pant* // *pant*
Rin: You okay...?
Shiemi: ?! / ......Rin...
Rin: Hey. // Your mother is worried about you, you know.

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Shiemi: Wh... Why... // ...do you have to be like that......? // It's Mother who's being horrible! // I decided... that I was going to protect this garden... // ...to protect Granny's garden...! // ...Wh... // What are you doing?! // Stop that!

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Shiemi: St... // Stop it!
Rin: What is it?! What's holding you down like this?!!
Shiemi: !! // ......I... I just... // If... If I just hadn't stayed out so late... // If I'd just stayed home, and helped Granny with the grapes... // She wouldn't have died...
Rin: (This kid...!)
Shiemi: It's my fault that Granny died!

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Rin: (...She's the same as me...)
Shiemi: That's why I've got to protect her garden!!
Flashback!Yukio: You, Nii-san... / ...were the one who killed Father.
Rin: (She's filled with regret... // She wants to take back what she did, but she can't...)
Flashback!Yukio: Give yourself up to Order Headquarters... / ...or just die.
Rin: (She doesn't know what it is she should do...... // She's just blaming herself for it all...) // In that case... // At least make sure... // ...you don't make your mother worry like this! // If you can't do that, then give it up!! / ...And besides...

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Rin: What is it you really want to do...? // You want to find the Amahara Garden, right?!! // ...Or do you think... / ...that Granny of yours... // ...would tell you not to go...?
Flashback!Granny: Shiemi... when you get bigger... // Go and search for it!
Shiemi: N... / No... // She wouldn't...

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Shiemi: She wouldn't...! / Aahhh... // Waaaahhhhhhhh...! // I'm... so stupid...
Rin: (I don't...)
Shiemi: My legs won't move any more......!
Rin: (...want to see anybody die any more, either...!!) // Then I'll tear these damn roots to shreds for you!!!

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Yukio: [aside]erm...[/aside] ...Sorry to interrupt you at such an emotional moment...
Shiemi: !!
Yukio: ...but I can get rid of a little demon like that in no time.
Rin: Ahhh! Yukio!! When did you...?!!
Yukio: Shiemi-san... your legs will be able to move again. // All that I needed was for you to settle your own heart.
Shiemi: Yuki-chan...
Demon: You're going to break our promise...?
Shiemi: ! // Ahh??!
Demon: Unforgivable...
Shiemi: Waaahhh?! // Aa... // Aaahhhhhh!
Rin: Shiemi!

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Demon: We will be together forever... // Together forever in this garden... // Ahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
Yukio: ...The demon is using her as a shield... // Nii-san...
Rin: Yeah?!
Yukio: ...Could you help me out with this?
Rin: Wha...? Huh? Really?! / [aside]that face...!![/aside]

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Rin: Heheheh... Ma~~n, little bro... can't you do anything by yourself? // Dear, dear... // But don't worry... I might feel like lending you a hand...!
Yukio: ...At any rate, you don't have to pay any attention to what I'm doing.
Demon: ! ...You're a demon?!
Yukio: Just keep that demon occupied!
Rin: Gotcha!
Demon: Hey! Don't you dare ignore me!!

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Demon: Ahahahah! / If you think you can slice me, go ahead and try! // Just as long as you don't mind... // ...making some lovely bloody gashes on this girl as well!! / Ahahahah!
Rin: Ngh... // Shit... // What do we do, Sensei?!!
Yukio: There's nothing for it...

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Yukio: I'll just have to shoot the both of them.
Rin: ?! // Huh?
Demon: ...... // Ahah... // Ahahah! / You're bluffing! // But you're not going to trick us!
Yukio: Oh, you think so? // I suppose you could be right... // Then again, you could not...
Demon: ......

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Demon: Filthy exorcists...!!! // You couldn't possibly shoot -
Rin: !! / Yukio...!
Demon: Aahhh...

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Demon: Aaaaaghhhhhhhh!!
Yukio: It's let her go! // Nii-san!
Rin: Damn you...! I'm not forgiving you for this!!

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Rin: YUKIO~~!!

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Shiemi: ...Ahh... / ...Yuki-chan......?
Rin: ...... // H... Huh...?!
Yukio: Thank goodness... // The roots are gone from your legs. / ...You should be able to stand now.
Shopkeeper: Shiemi...!
Shiemi: Moth......
Rin: Just go to her!
Shiemi: Ahh!
Yukio: Nii-san! / [aside]gently![/aside]

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Rin: Go and apologise, why don't you? // If you don't do it now... // ...you're going to really regret it.
Shiemi: ............... // ...U... / ...Um... M...... // Moth -

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Shopkeeper: You stupid, stupid girl...! // I was so worried...!
Shiemi: Mother... // I'm so sorry...!
Rin: What... was in that gun...?
Yukio: Nutrients.
Rin: Tch... / ...You've gotta be kidding me... I was shitting myself there...! // ...Well... / Whatever. // (I was helping him... // ...so why does it feel like it was the other way around...?) // ...It's nice, huh... / This kinda thing.

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[Text: The next day]
Yukio: This is your new classmate, Moriyama Shiemi-san.
Shiemi: P... Pleased to meet you all! // Rin!
Rin: Wh... What are you...?!
Shiemi: [aside]I can sit here, right?![/aside] // Okumura-sensei asked the Chairman to let me join the class specially... / So I guess we're going to be classmates!

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Shiemi: I don't know anything about the world, and I'm weak, too, so I thought first of all I should train myself up here!
Rin: [aside]don't push yourself...![/aside] // ......Are you okay? You kinda seem to be shaking like crazy... / I'm amazed you even made it here like that!
Shiemi: It's all thanks to you! // Thank you so much...!
Rin: I... I didn't really...
Shiemi: Besides...... // [aside]so wonderful...[/aside] // I wanted to see Yuki-chan as a teacher, as well...!
Rin: ......
[TN: Score one loli classmate!]
[Side text: One step forward on the path of exorcism!]
[Bottom text: Catch a bonus chapter in the Special Issue (on sale 18th June)!!]