Ao no Exorcist 4

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[Side text: Futile attempts to resist the lure of sleep...]
Teacher: ...mura-kun. // Okumura-kun.
Rin: Sukiyaki?!
Teacher: .........Wake up.
Rin: ...S - Sorry...
Suguro: The hell's with that guy...? Why's he even here?

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Suguro: Beat it!
Rin: (...That guy... come to think of it, he's been giving me dirty looks since the very first class... // That hair must take a lot of work...! / [aside]it's pretty cool... // everything about this guy screams "hostile"...[/aside] // In the old days, I'd probably have glared right back at him and ended up fighting him later... / But I'm not getting myself involved with those types any more. // Not now I've made up my mind to become an exorcist...!) // Heheheh......
Teacher: Okumura-ku~n! / [aside]pull yourself together![/aside]
Suguro: ............Tch.

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Ao no Exorcist
Chapter 4: Child of the Cursed Temple
[Insert text: Glaring like daggers! Feelings colliding!]

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[Box: Demon Studies]
Teacher: What is the name of the least powerful demon... / ...under the domain of Astaroth, the King of Decay? / Okumura!
Rin: Huh?! // Uhhhh... Ehmmmmm... I've never seen one, so, uh...
Teacher: Kohatal!
[TN: Uh. Does anybody have any idea what the katakana "koohataru" could represent? Because I'm just pulling a random romanisation out of thin air here. There are no Google results for it. The kanji given are 魍魎 ("Mouryou", dictionary gives "all kinds of spirits and goblins"), which is the same kanji given for the little dust demons in Chapter 1, except that back there they were given the katakana "koorutaaru", which I interpreted as "Coal Tar", but that's probably off as well. I can only presume the author's changed his mind on the reading of the word or something, but I have no idea where it comes from >_<]
Teacher: They're floating all around you!
[Box: Grimoire Studies]
Teacher: The term "Grimoire" refers to certain texts created from the 15th through 16th centuries... // ............and... // ...which deal with magic involving the summoning and subsequent enslavement of demons...... / ......We're going to be looking at the "Key of Solomon" and the "Book of Raziel"......
[Box: Demon Pharmacology]
Yukio: Now then, I'll just hand back the results of your recent tests. / Shima-kun.
Shima: Uh-huh~
Shiemi: I'm sure I've done okay on this one! / It's my speciality, after all!
Yukio: Kamiki-san.
Kamiki: Yes!

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Yukio: Moriyama-san.
Shiemi: Y - / Yes!
Yukio: It's all very well coming up with your own names for the different plants... // [aside]if it weren't for that, you might have got full marks...[/aside] // ...but when it comes to tests, I would ask that you use their proper names.
Shiemi: !!! // ......
Rin: Buahahah! / On your specialty subject?!
Yukio: Okumura-kun. // Sickening...... // [aside]do you really think this is good enough...?[/aside]
Rin: ......Sorry...
Yukio: Suguro-kun.
Suguro: Yes!

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Suguro: Two percent? I couldn't get a score that bad if I tried... / Try studyin' instead of tryin' ta act all cool for the girls. / You make me sick...!
Rin: Huh?! // (Th... The hell is that damn stripe-head's problem...?! He's the one "trying to act all cool"...)
Yukio: Excellent work, Suguro-kun.
Suguro: [aside]heheheh...[/aside]
Rin: (Wh... Whaaaaaat?!)

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Rin: N - N - No way... / A guy with an attitude like yours, getting ninety-eight percent? There's just... / That kind of thing just doesn't happen!
Suguro: The hell was that?! / Listen, okay?! You wanna know why I come to these classes?! / To do some serious studyin' an' earn the right to call myself an exorcist!! // It ain't just me; everyone here is here because they're serious about becomin' exorcists, yeah?! / An' half-assed punks like you... / ...should just get the hell out of our sight!
Rin: (Whoa... This guy's really serious...) // Wh... What gives you the right to say that, Stripe-Head?! / I'm working towards being an exorcist just like the rest of you!

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Suguro: I ain't once seen you payin' proper attention in a single lesson!
SomeGuy: B - / Bon... / Calm down...
Shima: We're in the middle of a lesson, Bon...
[TN: "Bon" is an unusual form of address, rather than a name. It's the same kanji (meaning "boy") as in words like "bocchan", "bouya" and "bouzu", but I've never seen it being used this way before ><]
Suguro: You just sleep through every damn class!!
Rin: I - I'm just more of a practical person! // I'm no good at learning stuff if I can't move about!
Yukio: Yes, yes. / Excellent points. // Please, carry on, let's hear it.
Rin: Gahhhhhh! / Whose side are you on?!! // [aside]get off me!![/aside]
Yukio: An excellent question... / Oh, dear. // Well, that's all we have time for today!
Rin: ...What's up with that guy? Is he smart?
Yukio: He's a prodigy. / He's attending this academy on a scholarship just like me.

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Yukio: Suguro Ryuuji-kun. // I've heard he's the heir to a long-standing temple in Kyoto... / But he's academically brilliant, athletic to boot, and always takes his studies seriously. / He's more of a hard worker than you, at any rate.
Rin: .....................Tch...
Yukio: Frankly, I think there's a lot you could learn from him. // More importantly, Shiemi-san. Are you getting used to the student life yet?
Shiemi: Eh? // Oh... N... No, not really...
Yukio: I've known you for a long time, Shiemi-san... // And frankly, seeing you now, it's like I'm looking at a completely different person. ...Just keep up the good work; I think you'll be fine.
Shiemi: Okay! // Thank you, Yuki-chan......
Yukio: Anyway, I have another lesson to teach now. / So I should be going... // Don't be late to your Practical Athletics class now, you two!

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Rin: (...Huh. / [aside]crap...![/aside])
Rin/Shiemi: ......
Shiemi: Rin...
Rin: Hm?
Shiemi: I don't really belong here at all, do I...?
Rin: ? ......Oh... // That's right - you're not aiming to be an exorcist or anything... // But that's no big deal, is it? Everyone's different, so...
Shiemi: .........Rin... // Do you have any friends?
Rin: Huh?

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Shiemi: L - Look, um...!
Rin: !!
Shiemi: R... Rin... / Would you.....
Rin: Huh...?!
Suguro: Well... / ...well... / ...well...! // Look who's havin' a fine time of it...!!
Rin: H - / H - H - H - H - H - H - H - H - H - H - H -
Shiemi: ?!
Rin: Having a fine whaaat?!!

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Suguro: Hahahah... so who's the girlie? She your woman? // Ya come to one of the few schools of exorcism in the world and you bring your girl along? / Well, aren't you takin' things easy...
Rin: Look... / It's not like that, okay?! // You're getting it wrong!
Suguro: Well, what, then? // She your little friend? // Eh?
Rin: ...Sh... // She's not...... my...... friend!
Shiemi: !! // ...............
Suguro: Ehhhh~~? Hahah... Ohhh... // I see, I see.
Rin: Ughhhh... Well, what about you......?!

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Rin: Never going anywhere without those cronies of yours!! / What, can't you handle yourself on your own?! // You're just pathetic!!
Shima: *pfft*... / ?!
Suguro: ?! / This ain't funny!!
Shima: I dunno... it just kinda rang true, y'know...?
Suguro: Whose side are you on?!
Shima: (They're like peas in a pod...)
SomeGuy: (I guess like beasts really do repel...)
[TN: Is there no succinct English expression for people not getting on because they're too similar? I feel like there totally should be but it's not coming to mind >_< ...So I invented my own...]
[Box: Practical Athletics]

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Rin: Haaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Suguro: Nnghhh... // ...haaaaahhhh!!!
Rin: Too slow~! / Ahahah! // You can be as smart as you like, but it's not gonna help you in the real world!
Suguro: ...Ngh! // (This guy's seriously fast...!)

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Students: What's all this? // Who knows...
Shima: Hahah... Bon's no slouch himself; that kid must be pretty good!
Suguro: In the real world... / I'd do whatever it takes to win!!!
Rin: Guahh!
Suguro: Aghhhh!!
Teacher: Hey......!!

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Teacher: What on Earth are the two of you playing at?! // Are you trying to kill yourselves?!
Rin: What the hell... was that for...?!
Suguro: I didn't wanna lose ta you... even if it killed me...

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Student: The idiots...
Shima: So damn stupid...!
Teacher: I told you already, this is not a race! / This is training to help you get used to dealing with demons' movements! // Oi, oi, oi, are you two listening to me?!!!! // What on Earth is your problem?!!
Shima: Sorry 'bout this!

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Teacher: Suguro-kun! / Come with me for a moment!
Suguro: ? ...Okay...
Rin: Why's it just him...?
Shima: Who knows.........
Rin: What's wrong with him, anyway...?
Shima: [aside]haha...[/aside] // Forgive him for that, yeah? // He may not look it, but Bon takes everything so seriously, he can get real worked up over little stuff like this. // He joined this place with this crazy ambition, y'see...
Rin: Ambition?
Teacher: Now listen here, Suguro-kun!

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Teacher: You're an excellent student. / All the core subject teachers are expecting a lot from you.
Suguro: Right...
Teacher: So I think it would be prudent not to start causing trouble, yes?
Suguro: ......Um... // Why are you only giving me this lecture? / That guy... Okumura-kun was...
Teacher: Ah... well. // It seems he's something of a special case... / ...entered into the Academy by Sir Pheles himself. / You'd do well not to associate with him too much.
Suguro: ("Special"...?)
Shima: Bon, you see... / ...is aiming to become to become an exorcist so that he can "defeat Satan himself".
Rin: !!!!

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Rin: (That's the exact same reason as me...)
Shima: Ahahaha! / Crazy, right?
Rin: (Why's he laughing...? Is it really that laughable...? // Come to think of it, Mephisto laughed as well...)
SomeGuy: Shima-san, you can't laugh...! // Our temple was ruined in the Blue Night, you know... / All Bon's doing is trying to rebuild it!
Rin: "Blue Night"???? // ...What's that?
Shima: ......Huh......
SomeGuy: You don't know?
Shima: Wow... That's a rarity......
SomeGuy: The Blue Night...

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SomeGuy: ...refers to the a day sixteen years ago. when Satan murdered a huge number of the world's greatest holy men. // Our temple was among the victims.
Rin: (Murdered... a huge number of...?!)
SomeGuy: The two of us are apprentices of Bon's father... / ...the temple's Ossama... // [aside]The "Ossama" is the chief priest, by the way.[/aside] // And from what the Ossama told us...... // On that night, sixteen years ago...
Flashback!People: Guaaaahhhh! / Aaaghhhh!

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SomeGuy: All the powerful exorcists of the temple... / ...including the Ossama of the day...
Flashback!Exorcist: Gghhh...
SomeGuy: ...suddenly started shedding blood from all over their bodies, and breathing blue flames, as they died, one after another...
Shima: Blue flames bein' the mark of Satan, of course.
Rin: .........
SomeGuy: Our own Ossama, who was just a monk-in-training back then, // sat crouched in a corner of the holy hall, praying, for the whole length of the night. // Afterwards, our Ossama took over the temple himself, but...
Flashback!People: Oh my... that's the Ossan of the "Cursed Temple". / How frightening...

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SomeGuy: Everyone was creeped out by the way all those monks had suddenly died on the same day... / ...and we lost a lot of worshippers and pilgrims... // Before long, the place was known as the "Cursed Temple". // The place was ruined before Bon was even old enough to walk and talk... // Ah - looks like they're back.
Rin: ......
Teacher: Time to get back to work~~!
[BubbleSFX: bzzzzzt / bzzzzzt]
Teacher: Hm?
[BubbleSFX: bip]
Teacher: What is it, honey? // Say what? // Right now? Oh, what would you do without me, kitten? // Everyone~~~! / We're going to be taking a short break!
Suguro: ......Huh?!
Shima: ...did he just say "kitten"?

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Teacher: Now, listen up! / The Leaper is ordinarily a relatively docile demon... // ...but it has the nasty habit of reading people's minds and attacking! // Until I get back, every one of you... // ...is to stay up here, well out of the range of the Leaper's chain! Got that?! // If that's clear, then I'm off! / I'll be right there, kitten~~~!!
Shima: ...Is that even allowed?
Suguro: ...!! / The fuck is that...?! // And he calls himself a teacher!!

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Suguro: I thought True Cross Academy... / ...was supposed to be a sacred place of learning, full of people who took their studies seriously......! // And don't get me started on the students!
Rin: ...What was that?! You sure are running your mouth off today! / What makes you think that I don't take this stuff seriously, huh...?!
Suguro: The way you act in class!!
Shima: Here they go again...
Suguro: (You're just some rich brat gettin' special treatment or somethin', aren't ya...!)
SomeGuy: Bon... / You're acting pretty immature...
Shima: Cut him a break, yeah, Bon?
Suguro: You two stay out of this!! // I know...!

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Suguro: Why don't you prove to me that you're serious about becomin' an exorcist, then?!!
Rin: Huh?!
Leaper: ......
Suguro: That guy. // Move right up close to the Leaper... / ...an' if you can touch it an' make it back without gettin' attacked, you win...! // The Leaper's an interestin' sorta demon... // It looks into the eyes of the people around it, an' reads their emotions. // If it picks up any fear, sadness, anger, apprehension... basically, any kind of agitation... // ...then it moves in for the attack.

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Suguro: In other words, if you stay nice an' calm, it won't do a thing. // If you're plannin' on becomin' a real exorcist... // ...then you shouldn't be gettin' all scared over a little thing like a Leaper, right?
Rin: ......
Suguro: I'll do it too, of course. // An' I'll win! // If you make it back without bein' attacked as well, then I'll accept that you've got some proper resolve in you! // How about it?! / You gonna do it, or not?!
Rin: ...Heh. Sounds pretty interesting!

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Rin: Still... // I'm not gonna do it.
Suguro: What?!
Rin: What if I screwed up and really got myself killed? // (It's not like I can draw my sword in front of all these people, after all...) // I'm not stupid!
Suguro: ........................Wha...
Rin: I've got ambitions just like you, after all. // I can't go risking my life on a stupid little thing like this.
Suguro: ? ? ...? // !!

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Suguro: ...You told him, didn't ya...!
Shima/SomeGuy: Nooo...
Suguro: (Makin' me look like an idiot...!) // Ambition, my ass...... // You're just scared, that's all, ain't it?!! // (Every last one of 'em...!! // Why......?!)
Flashback!People: It's the boy from the Cursed Temple!
Suguro: (Why did this happen?!)
Flashback!People: Don't go near him - you'll be cursed!

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Flashback!People: Awfully sorry... / ...but I'm afraid you'll have to ask somewhere else. / I really must apologise.
Flashback!Ossan: I see. / Not to worry, not to worry. / Sorry to bother you.
Flashback!People: Who was that? // The Ossan of the Cursed Temple, goin' round collecting money. / Ooh... how scary... / With that face like a yakuza... / And his son's just as bad...
Flashback!Suguro: ...!!
Flashback!Ossan: Hahaha. // People say some silly things, don't they?
Flashback!Suguro: (Why are you laughing...?)
Flashback!Ossan: Ryuuji. / You don't have to take over the temple.
Flashback!Suguro: (Why...?!)
Flashback!Ossan: Live your life the way you want to.

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Flashback!Suguro: (It's all Satan's fault...!) // I can't take all this any more!! // I'm gonna study hard, become an exorcist.. / ...and defeat Satan!!! // And then, I'm gonna rebuild our temple!
Flashback!Ossan: Ahahaha...! / Defeat Satan...?!
Flashback!Suguro: ?!
Flashback!Ossan: You do say some funny things.
Flashback!Suguro: ...I... // I'm serious...! // I'm bein' serious, dammit!
Suguro: (Every damn one of 'em...) // Why...?!

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Suguro: Why don't you fight...? // Aren't you bitter at all?!!! // Well, I'm gonna do it...!
Rin: !
Suguro: So you just stand there an' watch, coward!
Rin: Hey... you shouldn't...!
SomeGuy/Shima: Bon!Students: Is he serious...? // Oh, he'll just end up backing off. / What an idiot...

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SomeGuy: Ahhhh... / Bon...!
Suguro: ...I'm...
Leaper: ......
Suguro: I'm gonna!

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Suguro: Defeat Satan!
Students: Pff... / Bahahahahahahah! / Did... Did he say "defeat Satan"?! // Ahaha! / What is he, a kid?!
Suguro: (Don't you... // ...dare laugh...)

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Suguro: (...at my ambitions! // Shi - )
Students: Ah -
Leaper: Graaaaghhhhh!
Shiemi: !!

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Suguro: Hey!!
Students: Aaahhhhh!
Shiemi: Rin!

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Rin: (Get off me... // I SAID GET OFF ME, DAMMIT!!!!)

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Rin: ...What are you playing at...? Are you a complete idiot?!! // Now you listen real good, yeah?!

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Rin: The one who's going to defeat Satan is me!!!! // So you can just get lost!
Suguro: (Huh?!) // ............... // .........Wh... / ............Wha... // (What's with this guy......?!) // Wh - Wha... What... // ...Y - You're the idiot here!! / Were you tryin' ta get yourself killed?! // [aside]An' don't steal people's ambitions!![/aside]
Rin: [aside]hu~~h?![/aside] // I'm not stealing anything! This ambition's mine!!
Yukio: ...............

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Yukio: The Power of Satan...... // ...may be far further out of our control than you think... / ...Sir Mephisto Pheles.........
Amaymon: Apologies for my lateness.

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Mephisto: It's been a while... Amaymon. // "King of the Earth".
Amaymon: Indeed... it has been a while, Brother.
Mephisto: So? / Do you have an answer from Father?
Amaymon: ...... // He says that he will accept your proposal.

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Mephisto: ...Oh? ...Now, that is good to hear. // Well, then, if you could tell Father from me, "I am raising our youngest brother carefully under my wing. / Everything is going splendidly."
Amaymon: Understood. // ......... // ...Will you not be returning home at any time soon...?
Mephisto: Go. // You don't want to make Father wait.
Amaymon: ...Of course.

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Mephisto: ...Hahahah... Why would I go back? // For a prodigal son such as myself... / ...this place is the greatest toybox I could wish for. // This game is only just beginning.

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Yukio: ......What's all this, Nii-san...?
Rin: I'm studying, all right?!
Yukio: Eh?! // I... Is this some kind... of omen......?
Rin: ...The hell's that supposed to mean...?!!! / [aside]you four-eyed little...!![/aside] // Ugh... damn fringe... / It's always getting in the way...!! // [aside]should I cut it...?[/aside]
Suguro/Rin: .........
Rin: ...What? // You here to make fun of me, too?

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Suguro: ...I missed my chance to say it yesterday, but... // Thanks. // Here... I use this to keep my hair out of my eyes when I'm studyin' at night. // You can have it.
Rin: ...... // S... So creepy... // [aside]is this some kind of omen...?[/aside]
Suguro: ...Th... // ...The fuck was that...?! / Why, you little...! / When I'm tryin' to be nice an' all!!
[Side text: Rin and his classmates, growing day by day...?!]