Katekyo Hitman Reborn! 248

Guidelines For Using My Translations

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Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Target 248: The End of Genkishi
[Insert text: What lies beyond his bewitching gaze...?]

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[Insert text: Genkishi crushed!! Yamamoto finally stands victorious!!]

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Yamamoto: (I did it.. // Old man...)
Ryouhei: Ahh!!
Bluebell: Ohhh dear...
Dino: He did it...
Reborn: No doubt about it... since the battle in the Melone Base... // ...Yamamoto's really powered up.
Yamamoto: Whoo~~! // Good going, Kojirou!
Tsuna: Yamamoto... you really won!
Gokudera: Heh...
Genkishi: Why...?

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Genkishi: First the Vongola boy, now you... // Why do you not strike the killing blow......?
Yamamoto: Well, we're not killers, that's all.
Tsuna: (Yamamoto!)
Squalo: (That dumb piece of trash!!)
Genkishi: ...... // Well, don't regret it... // One day, I promise you, I will accomplish my objective for the sake of Byakuran-sama.
Byakuran: Nice to hear!♪
Yamamoto: Sure. // Bring it on!
Kikyou: A close call indeed, Genkishi... // We were on the verge of losing the greatest swordsman we have.
Genkishi: ! // Kikyou...
Kikyou: I have heard all about you. // A key player in the formation of the Millefiore family, and Byakuran-sama's shadowy right hand man.

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Kikyou: Performing every covert mission given to you flawlessly... // ...and always taking a front-line position in major battles like the one we are fighting here. / The man Byakuran-sama relies on above any other...
Genkishi: But of course... // Byakuran-sama sees right through anything and everything... // And that is why he granted me a miracle. // He trusts me as the person more worthy of such a miracle than any other. // !! // These flames... // Cloud-element "kikyou" bellflowers?!
Yamamoto: ?

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Kikyou: Hahah... // Don't think too badly of me for it, Genkishi. // I concealed my Campanula di Nuvola seeds inside your armour, ready to grow with Cloud-element flames, so that you could be eliminated when you were no further use. // Under Byakuran-sama's orders, of course.
Genkishi: !! // Byakuran-sama's...?! // Don't lie to me, Kikyou.
Kikyou: Oh, it is no lie. This was all Byakuran-sama's idea. // He gave me the order as soon as you took up your role as "Saru".
Genkishi: Impossible!! Byakuran-sama would never think of eliminating me!! // I want to speak with Byakuran-sama!! Connect me to him!!

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Cervello: That will not be possible.
Yamamoto: !
Cervello: All communication between participants in the Choice battle and those observing is strictly forbidden.
Kikyou: It's up to you whether you believe me or not... // But the fact is, you were never anything more than a throwaway tool of Byakuran-sama's.
Genkishi: Do not joke about with me!! // Byakuran-sama would never abandon me like this!! Never!! // That man, who hauled me out from the valley of despair... // That man, who saved me from my fear of death!!
Flashback!Medics: The infection is at Level 5... // I think we're going to have abandon this one too... // Yeah... Poor guy, he was just a traveller...

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Flashback!Medics: Wh... Who on Earth are you?! // Not even wearing a protective suit...! // This is a contaminated area, you know!! // Aghhh! // Unghh!
Flashback!Byakuran: A pleasure to meet you, Genkishi-kun.
Flashback!Genkishi: ......
Flashback!Byakuran: Oh~? / So this is the incurable disease going around for which there is still no vaccine... // I had heard that the symptoms were acute... / ...but all this in only two days? It certainly does work quickly. // Incidentally, that lovely nurse at the reception desk tells me... // ...that you haven't said a word since you arrived here... just spent the whole time crying.
Flashback!Genkishi: ......

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Flashback!Byakuran: Oh, it's nothing to be ashamed of. // No matter how great the swordsman... / ...death is a scary thing. // God must be a rather cruel person, don't you think? // Never granting long life to those who do good work. // These admirable doctors and that lovely nurse outside died ever so easily... // ...and he turns a blind eye even when a splendid swordsman such as yourself loses his life to a simple disease on a training journey. // If I were God, I wouldn't act that way.
Flashback!Genkishi: !

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Flashback!Byakuran: I would give those who worked their best for me... // ...the reward they deserve. // So. // I'll heal that disease for you... // ...and you can think over the rest yourself!♪
Genkishi: (And then... the miracle came to pass. // That man had saved my life. He granted me a vaccine that should not yet even exist... // For a time, I cursed the God who had subjected me to that disease... but no; I had a new Lord!! // I made a vow: from that day forth, I would devote all the power I had to offer to my new God. // And thus I obeyed every order my God saw fit to give me...)

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Genkishi: (My God should know... // Byakuran-sama should know that better than anyone!! // He would never abandon me to...) // Ghhh... // Gghaaaaaaahhhhh!!!
Yamamoto: Oi... Genkishi!! // What is it?! What's wrong?!
Irie: Yamamoto-kun! What exactly is happening to Genkishi?!
Yamamoto: These plants are springing up all over his body... // I don't sense any hostility, so this isn't some illusion of his!
Irie: What?!
Tsuna: ?!
Gokudera: ?!

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Dino: Poisonous Scorpion... // I need something to drink...
Bianchi: ...! // Sure thing! There's a refrigerator just through here. / Let's go, shall we?!
Genkishi: Guaaahhh! // Byakuran-sama would never take my life!! // Kikyou!! This is your doing!!
Byakuran: Hahahah... he always was a real believer... // You really did do some good work for me, you know, Gen-chan. Simple mind and all. // But I'm bored of you now... // So you go.
[TN: It's a bit more creepy in the original Japanese. The Japanese for "simple-minded" or "intolerant" is "utsuwa ga chiisai", literally "being a small vessel". (Hence Byakuran's comment last chapter about being able to hold it in the palm of his hand.) Here he's like "But now I'm tired of that vessel... so I'll break it."]
Genkishi: Too bad for you, Kikyou!! / Byakuran-sama will come to save me again! I know it!! // I, Genkishi, am his single more faithful servant!!

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Kikyou: (There's no saving you. // You're just too pure.)
Genkishi: I will always stand at Byakuran-sama's side!! // Unghh! // Nghh... // *cough*... // (...I am... // ...no longer afraid... // I have nothing to fear from death... // I feel only peace...... // For I know that God is with me......)
Yamamoto: Gen -

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Yamamoto: GENKISHI~~~~!!
Tsuna: ......!!
Spanner: ......Genkishi's flame reading...... // ...has vanished...
Irie: ......
Tsuna: ! / It can't... be...
Irie: This is... // ...the true nature of the Millefiore family we are fighting...... // Of Byakuran-san...
Tsuna: ...... // Let's beat him.

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Tsuna: I don't really know about saving the world... or about the Trinisette or anything like that... // But what I can see is that Byakuran is putting everyone through terrible pain!!
Irie: ...Tsunayoshi-kun... // Right!! // Let's move in and take these guys out!!

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Irie: All we have to do is eliminate their target first, and this battle is ours!! // And as things stand right now, it's five-on-two!! // We can send two fighters to take out their target, and still have three members remaining here to defend the target!! Winning this before they do should be simple!! // What's more, their attacker, Kikyou, is still preoccupied with the decoys... // ...and has yet to uncover our location!
Basil: At this rate...!
Dino: Our chances look good, all right.
[TN: Stop being so overwhelmingly positive. It makes me expect Irie to be randomly interrupted mid-sentence by Kikyou appearing right behind him and shooting him in the head.]
Irie: Gokudera-kun, keep up your defensive position! // Tsunayoshi-kun and Yamamoto-kun, you're to move in together and take the enemy target out from the air!!

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Tsuna/Yamamoto/Gokudera: Yeah!!
Daisy: ......Aahh... // Th... // This is bad...
[Insert text: The Vongola are on the attack!! Moving in on the enemy target!!]