Ao no Exorcist 6

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[TN: After returning from Japan, completing a hellish assignment (including losing about two hundred words in a crash and having to retype them from scratch), taking a breather and getting somewhat addicted to Tales of VS, I'm finally back and getting down to work on my backlog! Installment 9: two chapters of Ao no Exorcist!]

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Ao no Exorcist
Chapter 6: Now A Certain Man Was Sick

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[just volume stuff]

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[Side text: A new day of training camp begins with trouble brewing...?!]
Izumo: Good morning.
Rin: ......Mohningh.......
Izumo: Listen, okay?
Rin: ?
Izumo: You are not to tell anyone... // ...about how you saw me crying yesterday!

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Rin: ......What, me? Who would I tell?
Izumo: ...Just shut up and promise, all right?!!
Rin: (Ehhh?! What's with this girl? She's scary~!) // H - Heck no! You shut up!!
Izumo: ...... // Here! // Thank you... for lending it to me... // If you hadn't shown up, who knows what might have happened to me and Paku... // I... I am thankful for that, all right...?!!
Rin: Oh, wow! You washed it for me and everything...! / You're not such a bad person after all, huh?
Izumo: ?!
Rin: (My mistake!)

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Izumo: I - I only washed it because it was so dirty!
Rin: Eh...? // (Crap... maybe I should be more careful...)
Izumo: Oh! Okumura-sensei......
Yukio: Good morning. // ...You should be just fine now. // In two or three more days, your fever will go down... / ...and you should be up and about again.
Paku: ...Thank you very much. / Okumura-sensei.
Yukio: Not at all...

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Yukio: Well, then. Make sure to get plenty of rest!
Paku: Of course.
Rin: Get well soon!
Paku: Thank you, Okumura-kun!
Rin: So what happened to that demon yesterday?
Yukio: We're in the process of investigating how it got in and where it went. // That was an above mid-class Ghoul. // The Academy is protected with powerful wards, but very occasionally, the likes of that thing can penetrate it.
Rin: ......
Yukio: We should all make sure to keep our guard up...!

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Paku: Haha... how cute. / Don't you think Okumura-kun is cool?
Izumo: Wha - ?! / D - Don't be ridiculous! Where did that come from all of a sudden?!
Paku: Okumura-sensei is nice as well, but... / ...you know, the two of them really don't seem like twin brothers, do they? / Ahaha...
Izumo: ............
Paku: ...Izumo-chan...... I... / ...I really am going to stop coming to these classes.
Izumo: ! // I... I'm sorry...
Paku: ? / What's wrong?
Izumo: ...If... / If I was a better person...!
Paku: Ohh, don't be so silly... / I'm only doing this because I don't think this world is right for me... that's all. / It doesn't change the fact that the two of us are friends. // So... don't look like that, okay?

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Paku: I like you just the way you are.
Flashback!Ghoul: ...I AM... / ...UNDER ORDERS FROM... // ...A CERTAIN MAN...
Rin: ("A certain man"...? Who could it have meant? // I thought of Satan, but... // ...I can't think of any reason why he'd suddenly have decided to kill me, so...)
Flashback!Father: All kinds of people will doubtless come after you for various different reasons.

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Rin: (...Either way, it seems pretty clear that it's me that thing was after.) // Dammit... // Why can't they just face me themselves...?!
Shiemi: Rin!
Rin: !!!!
Shiemi: [aside]aaaahhhhhh~~[/aside]
Rin: [aside]aaaghhhhhhh...[/aside] // D... Don't suddenly stick your head right over me like that!! / [aside]dumbass![/aside]
Shiemi: Don't you suddenly lift your head up like that! Stupid Rin!

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Rin: ...What're you doing?
Shiemi: I was just bringing everyone's sheets up here to dry!
Rin: Huh... need a hand?
Shiemi: No, no.
Nii: Nii!
Shiemi: I'll be fine doing it on my own. / Right, Nii-chan?
Rin: I... / ...see. // Well, I'd better get ready for class, then. // ...Actually, while I'm here... // You're not actually trying to become an exorcist, right...?
Shiemi: ! // ...I - I'm not sure...... // But...

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Shiemi: I'd at least like to be useful to everyone too...
Rin: Too?
Shiemi: Uh-huh! / Not just 'running errands'... using my own unique skills for everyone's benefit! // So I'm starting with the washing! / [aside]I'm good at it.[/aside]
Rin: Huh...
Teacher: I'd like someone to come to the front and fill in the missing section of this magical array. // ...Kamiki. // Kamiki!
Izumo: !!

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Izumo: Ah... / I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention... // (No way... I can't believe I was spacing out in the middle of class...)
Teacher: Something wrong? // That's not like you.
Izumo: (Unbelievable!)
[Box: Holy Scripture Recitation Class]
Teacher: The majority of demons... / ...have specific passages, known as "Fatal Verses", that will cause their death if properly recited. // The basic skill of a qualified Aria is to identify these Fatal Verses and recite them effectively! // Now then, let's hear you recite the passage I assigned for homework last time... Psalm 30! / Kamiki-san, if you would be so kind.
Izumo: Right! // (I have to get a hold of myself...!) // ...I will extol thee, O Lord, for... thou hast lifted me up, and... hast not... // (Eh...?)
Teacher: Yes...?
Izumo: I... can't remember...

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Teacher: Dear me, Kamiki-san. / This is a rare occurrence. // Well then, Suguro-kun, if you would!
Suguro: Right. // "I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes... // ...to rejoice over me. // O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. // O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave; thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. // Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. // For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life. // ...and unto the Lord I made supplication.
Izumo: ...!!
Suguro: What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? // Shall the dust... // ...to thee, and not be silent. / O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever."

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Rin: AMAZING!!
Teacher: A wonderful recitation indeed, Suguro-san! / Absolutely perfect.
Rin: You really are smart after all, huh?!
Suguro: Whaddaya mean, "after all"?!
Shiemi: Suguro-kun really is amazing, isn't he! I was kind of surprised...
Rin: [aside]"I saw there upon..." ...huh?! I can't read this stuff...[/aside]
Suguro: Hahahah... Don't go fallin' for me now, yeah? // ...Unless ya really want to...
Shima: Nah, don't fall for him, fall for me~! / [aside]I'll treat ya real nice!♡[/aside]
Konekomaru: It's not that Bon's smart, he just has a talent for memorisation.
Suguro: What was that, Konekomaru? That still makes me smart, right? / [aside]or are ya lookin' for a beatin'?[/aside]
Konekomaru: Ah... / Of course.
Shiemi: Is there some kind of trick to memorising all that?
Suguro: Hmmm? A trick? Now, lessee~~~
Izumo: ...... // Memorising things like that is just plain showing off!

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Suguro: Hmm?! // ...Did you just say something?!
Shima: Bon...
Izumo: I said memorisation...... // ...has absolutely nothing to do with academic ability!
Suguro: Ohhh? / Big talk comin' from a girl who couldn't even memorise four lines.
Konekomaru: C - Come on, now... / Kamiki-san is the most talented student in the class, you know? / She's just having a bad day, that's all...
Izumo: It... // It's not that I can't memorise them! / I just choose not to!! // Who wants to be an Aria...?! / They're completely defenceless while reciting, and have to rely on the rest of their party to protect them! / They're nothing more than baggage!

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Suguro: The hell was that...?! / I'll have you know I'm studyin' to be an Aria!
Shima: Bon!
Izumo: Oh, what's this?! You want to solve this with violence? How scary! Just what I'd expect from a gorilla like yourself! // Well, if you want to hit me, then go ahead!
Suguro: Nghhh...!! Ya know what, I can't stand you, you know that?! / Don't go laughin' at other people's dreams!!
Izumo: Oh, of course... / You wanted to "defeat Satan", isn't that right? ...Hah. // You expect me to do anything other than laugh at a joke like that?!
Suguro: Well, what about you then, huh...?! // What's your goal in tryin' to become an exorcist?! Go on... say it!!

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Izumo: Goal...? // ............I'll have you know I have never told my personal goals to others! // Not that I would expect a show-off like yourself to understand...!
Suguro: Why, you.........!
Izumo: Ah -

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Yukio: Now, then. / Have you all had time to reflect upon your bad behaviour?
Rin: Wh... Why are we being punished...?
[Box: Baryon: A type of demon that possesses rocks and similar items. The longer you hold it, the heavier it becomes.]
Yukio: This is what we call "collective responsibility". // The aims of this training camp are twofold. Firstly, to increase your abilities, and secondly, to deepen your relations with your fellow students.
Izumo: I refuse to get along with these brutes...!
Suguro: Why, you...!
Yukio: I am afraid that you will have to.

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Yukio: No exorcist can fight alone! // Making use of one another's specialities and compensating for one another's weak points... / Fighting in a party of two or more is basic procedure for any exorcist. // If you were to fall out like this in an actual battle, you would face collective responsibility on an entirely different level from this simple punishment. // I would like you to think carefully about that. // ...Now, then. I have a minor mission to attend to, so I will be leaving for about three hours.
Rin: ?!

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Yukio: However, considering the incident with the Ghoul yesterday... / ...I will be locking all entrances and exits to this building, / and putting up powerful wards around it, just in case.
Suguro: Locking the exits......? / How are we meant to get out of here, then?
Yukio: There will be no need for you to leave. // I would like you to stay as you are for the next three hours. // See if you can't get along with one another and cool off your heads a little.
Shima: Three hours...! / What is he, a monster?!
Shiemi: Aahh...
Suguro: I can't take this any more...... // Are you an' that teacher seriously related?
Rin: H... He's a good guy really... I think...

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Suguro: Well, this is a fine mess someone's gone an' got us all into.
Shima: Bon...
Izumo: Huh?! / Says the brute who was manhandling me by the chest back there! / [aside]unbelievable![/aside]
Konekomaru: Weren't we told to cool off our heads a little......?
Suguro: You're the one who was practically beggin' for a fight!
Rin: ...Can you two stop having fights with me in the middle already?! // [aside]is this bullying?[/aside]
Suguro: ...You really are one nasty piece of work.
Izumo: Hah. / I'm perfectly aware of that, thank you. And?!
Suguro: You'll make every damn person around you run for the hills actin' like that.
Izumo: ............!!

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People: ?! // Agh... / Wha - Where - ? // Aaahhhhh! // What the - ?!

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Suguro: Th... That idiot teacher... did he go an' cut the power an' all?!
Konekomaru: Surely he wouldn't...
Izumo: A blackout...?!
People: No... I can still see lights out there through the window. // What's that mean, then?
Rin: The blackout is restricted to this building...?
Shima: Let's go check out the corridor.
Konekomaru: Be careful out there, Shima-san...
Shima: Hahahah... // Tell the truth, I kinda like little incidents like this. / It's like a real-life "test of courage"......... // ......

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Shima: ...That's odd. Am I seeing things...?
Suguro: That's real!! It's the real deal!!!!
Shima: Guahhhh?!
Ghoul: GGGRRROOOHHHH...
Izumo: It's the Ghoul from yesterday...!!
Rin: ...!
Shima: Aahhh! / Didn't he say he'd set up wards or somethin'?!
Suguro: Crap... my legs are so numb I can't -

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People: ?!! // Ah - ! // Aahh! // !!!!
Shiemi: (I... I have to protect everyone!) // Nii-chan...! // I need an Una-Una-kun!
Nii: Nii! // Niiii~!!

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Suguro: ?!!
Ghouls: MNGRH... / MNGRH... // GGRRRROOOOOHHHHH

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Ghouls: GGGMMMRHOOOOGHHH // RGHOOOHHH... // GSSHHHHHH...
Rin/Suguro: N... No way...
Shiemi: Thank you, Nii-chan!
Nii: Nii~!
Shiemi: ......Huh? // ...I feel... kind of dizzy...
Rin: Shiemi?!
People: *cough* // Ahh... / I feel hot...
Rin: Huh?! ...What's wrong, guys?
People: *cough* / *cough*
Izumo: It's because of that liquid the Ghoul sprayed at us just now... / Are you... not affected?!
Rin: .........
Suguro: It looks like... thanks to Moriyama-san's quick thinking, we're safe for now... / ...but when Moriyama-san runs out of stamina, this tree barricade is gonna disappear...
Ghoul: GRRRRRROOHHHHHH
Shiemi: *pant* / *pant*
Suguro: *cough*
Ghoul: MNGHOOOHHH
Suguro: When that happens, we really are done for...

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Rin: ...I can't get a hold of Yukio's mobile either...!
Shima: Those things are really going at it over there...!
Suguro: Ghouls're more active in the dark than in light...
Someone: Wh... / What now?!
Rin: ............!! // Two of 'em, huh...?!
Ghouls: BHAGHH... / RGHH...
Rin: I'll head outside and draw them off.
Suguro: ?!
Rin: If I can get both of them following me, then the rest of you run for it. // ...If they don't follow me, / I'll see what I can do about finding help or at least getting some light in here.
Suguro: What?! / What're you talkin' about?!
Konekomaru: ......A... Are you crazy?!

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Rin: Don't you worry about me. / I'm pretty strong.
Suguro: You id - / Hey - ! // Okumura!! // Get back here!!
Rin: ...It's me you assholes are after, right?!!

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Rin: Bring it on!! // Tch... // Only one of them followed me out here... // (I'd better look for a way out of here, or some light... // ! / That's it!
Suguro: ...What a guy...
Shima: He only managed to get rid of one of them, though...!! / [aside]was it really worth it?[/aside]
Shiemi: *pant* / *pant*
Suguro: ...Dammitall. / ...But it's not like just sittin' here doin' nothing's a choice right now...!

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Suguro: I'm gonna try a recital!!
Shima: ?!! // Bon... but you don't know this thing's Fatal Verse, surely?!
Suguro: ...I don't, no, but I do know that Ghoul-type demons' Fatal Verses tend to come out of the Gospel of St. John. // I've memorised the whole thing already... / ...so if I just recite it all, it'll respond to somethin'!
Shima: All of it? / There are more than twenty chapters, aren't there?!
Konekomaru: ...There are twenty-one...
Shima: Koneko-san!
Konekomaru: I've memorised Chapters One through Ten myself. / ...Allow me to help.
Suguro: Konekomaru! Thanks...!!
Izumo: Wait... / Hold on just one moment!
Suguro: !

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Izumo: If you start reciting that, they'll go for you the moment they break through!
Suguro: Is this really the time?! / That girl's workin' her ass off there! // You expect us guys to just stand here an' do nothing?!
Shima: That's our Bon for ya...! // He's a real man. // Well, I haven't memorised a single verse of that thing... / So I'll be your backup if it comes to that.
Suguro: [aside]whoa! where were ya keepin' that thing?![/aside] // Shima...!
Izumo: Th... / This is insane!!
Suguro: ...... / You've been actin' the toughie this whole time... // ...but when push comes to shove, you just wanna run?

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Suguro: If you're not gonna fight, just stay back.
Izumo: ..................
Suguro: Konekomaru. You start from Chapter 1, an' I'll start from Chapter 11. / Don't let me put you off!
Konekomaru: Right!
Suguro: Let's do this.
Konekomaru: "In the beginning was the Word"!
Suguro: "Now a certain man was sick"...!!
Rin: The switchboard...!

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Rin: This is what you use to switch the electricity on and off, right...? / ! / I knew it! The whole lot of them are turned off! // If I can just flip this switch...
Ghoul: GLRHHHHHH // RGHOOOOHHH!!
Rin: ...Ngh... damn demon... // Don't get in my way...!!!

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Teacher: That's right. Those are the flames I wanted to see. // Those blue, blue flames. // I deduced that you would not use your flames in front of others, so I lured you out here. // Okumura Rin. // Son of Satan.
Rin: ...You're... one of our teachers...? // So yesterday's attack, and today's... / They were both your doing?
Teacher: ...Indeed they were. / But enough talk... let me see more of those flames of yours! Ahahah...
Rin: ...!

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Rin: I'll never forgive you...!
Teacher: !!

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Teacher: ......Yes, I see...
Rin: ?! / Hey... / Wait! // ...No... / This is no time to be messing around......!
Suguro: ..."Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." // "...When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth... / ...for he shall not speak of himself... // ...but whatsoever he shall hear, that he shall speak..."
Shima: Aahhh!! He's finally got this far...!
Konekomaru: Bon's onto the final chapter...

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Suguro: "...This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God."
Konekomaru: I - I wonder what happened to Okumura-kun...
Shima: P... Probably better not to think about it... // ! // Moriyama-san!
Everyone: !!
Ghoul: GGHHRRRRRHHHH...
Shima: Ngh...

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Shima: Damn you...!
Ghoul: GHBHH
Izumo: ...A - Are you all right...?! / Y... You're not... d...
Shiemi: Unhh... / ...... / Kami... // ...ki-sa...
Izumo: H... Hang in there, all right...?!
Shiemi: ......... / You're... // ...not like your... usual self... today... / ...right?
Izumo: (Huh?)
Shiemi: Are you... / ...all right...?

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Izumo: (Am I all right...? // Unbelievable...!! This weak, half-conscious girl is actually worrying about me...?!!)
Shima: Ah - !!
Izumo: (There is something wrong with me!! // ...She's... completely right... // This isn't like me at all...!!) // O Inari-no-kami, I humbly beseech thee...!

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Izumo: Thus shall mine will be granted by virtue of mine prayer!
Fox: Fool... // Thou darest to summon us once more...? // Know thine place!!
Izumo: You will obey me!!
Fox: ...!
Izumo: Here goes nothing...!
Fox: (This girl seems to have recovered... how troublesome...!)
Konekomaru: Bon!

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Izumo: (An insufferable girl who hates to lose...!!) // Quaver, gently quaver... // (That's who I am!!!!) // Rite of the Quavering Soul!!!!
Ghoul: GGHHHHHEEHHHHHH
Konekomaru: Kamiki-san!!
Shima: She did it......
Suguro: ..."This is the disciple which testifieth... // ...of these... things"!

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Suguro: ...!!!! // "...And we... / ...know that... / ...his testimony...
Ghoul: GGHHSSHHHHHHH
Suguro: ...is true."
Konekomaru: Bon!
People: ! // The lights...!!
Suguro: ..."I... suppose that...
Ghoul: GGHH... // MMGHOOOOHHHH

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Suguro: ...even the world itself could not contain the books... // ...that should be written"!!!
Konekomaru: Bon!!

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Suguro: *pant* / *pant* / *pant*...
Konekomaru: Ahhh... / Thank goodness... / Bon! / I...
Suguro: I... / I... I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm...
Rin: Hey! // ...A - Are you okay?
Everyone: ......
Suguro: Y - Y - Y - You... // Where's the other...
Rin: Hm...? / Oh, I beat it! // You guys beat the other one too? Nice goi - / Hm?

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Suguro: Th... The hell's wrong with you?!
Rin: Mmmph?!
Suguro: You fucking idiot!!!!
Konekomaru: B... / Bo~~n!!!!
Suguro: Were you tryin' to get yourself killed?!!! / [aside]I almost died back there![/aside]
Izumo: ...Are you okay? // [aside]honestly... those morons...[/aside]
Shiemi: Y... / Yeah...
Izumo: ...... // ...I can't stand you, you know...!
Shiemi: !
Izumo: But this time... you did a good job. // That's all...!
Shiemi: R... Right!

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Izumo: (Paku... // I'll do my best...!)
Yukio: ...What on...
Izumo: !
Rin: Yukio...
People: Sensei...
Yukio: ! ...Neigauz-sensei!
Rin: !! // (Him...?!)
Paku: (Izumo-chan... // I like you just the way you are...)
[Insert text: Teamwork prevails! But what is the objective of this sinister teacher?!]