Mahou Sensei Negima! 268

Guidelines For Using My Translations

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[Insert text: Abandoning love, Arika chooses a path to destruction!!]
People: Ugh... what's going on?! It won't take off! // Brooms won't work! They're telling everyone to evacuate to the port!! / Magical barriers aren't working either... what the hell is going on?!
Knight: This way, everyone! We will protect you!
People: Who are you?!
Knight: We are from the Megalomesembrian Heavy Infantry. Does anyone know of any children, elderly or sick people who have yet to evacuate?! / We are under strict orders to save every last citizen!!
People: What the heck is going on?! Isn't the war supposed to be over?!
Knight: Yes... the war is indeed over. // However, though it pains me to say this... the capital...

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Knight: ...will soon be no more.
[Mahou Sensei Negima!]
[Period 168: Collapse of Love and the World]
[Insert text: It is here that all the tragedies to come... / ...begin.]
People: The collapse of the Floating Capital is expanding!! / Powerful magic-depletion phenomena confirmed even around this very craft! / We don't know how long the short-term resistant warded armouring will hold out!
Arika: I will hear no complaints!! / It need last only a few more hours! // Deploy the fleet so as to ensure maximum efficiency in evacuating the citizens!! / However!! // No life must be abandoned!! / We are to leave not a single life unsaved! This is an absolute order!!
People: Evacuation procedures in the slums are proceeding badly... at this rate...!!
Arika: The reason?!
People: The structure of the area is extremely complex... / ...and with the large numbers of illegal immigrants, it is difficult to determine the total population...
Arika: ...... // Understood. I leave the fleet to you.
Gödel: Your Majesty!! Where are you - ?!
Arika: I will proceed to the slums myself and coordinate an emergency landing for the entire island!
Gödel: B - But...!
Arika: My magic will be able to operate even in the midst of this Magic Depletion Phenomenon.
Gödel: Your Majesty, you cannot -
Nagi: You goddamn IDIOT of a Princess!! // Damn you, Arika!! // What the hell is going on?!
Arika: Nagi...

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Arika: Do you need to ask? / As the price for saving the world, I have destroyed my own country. // Worry not. / I myself, too, will plummet into Hell in the not-too-distant future.
Nagi: ...! // Why the hell didn't you tell me, you brainless little...!!
Arika: What use would it have done? / You have no skill save for combat; there is nothing you could accomplish alone.
Nagi: Dammit... I'm heading over there right now! Wait for me, all right?!
Arika: I have no need for you here!! / If you wish to do something to help me, then set yourself to destroying the floating boulders before they fall upon the fleeing evacuees!! // Prioritise the areas where the collapse has yet to begin! / However, with this Magic Depletion Phenomenon in effect, even you will not be able to fly freely. // There are resistant wards in place upon the old ship we used while we were on the run! Use that to -
Nagi: I'm on it already!!

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Arika: Very well! / Then do whatever you can to aid in the evacuation procedures, and then leave the area! // And do not return! This is my final order!
Nagi: What?! // What are you talking -
Arika: I am ending this conversation. For every moment we spend talking, more of my citizens are dying. // Cease communications.
Nagi: Hey! Wait!
Gödel: Y - Your Majesty - wait a moment, please!! // Albireo Imma! Are you reading me?! This is Kurt!!
Imma: Yes? What is it, Kurt-kun?
Kurt: I feel that it is most prudent to proceed as Arika-sama has instructed. / If you do return... the chances are high that you will be held prisoner in Megalomesembria!! // I suggest you conceal yourselves for the time being. The situation is sure to improve with time. // At any rate, once this is over, you have to flee!! Is that clear?!
Nagi: [aside]Hey! Move it, Al![/aside]
Imma: Understood. You can leave Nagi to me.
Nagi: [aside]get off me, you assholes!![/aside]
Kurt: I apologise, Nagi... // I believe that this is what Arika-sama wishes...
Nagi: ...!
Arika: I am grateful for all that you have done for me. // Farewell.
Imma: I wish you the greatest of luck, Your Majesty.
Nagi: H - Hey! Wait -

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Nagi: Ari - // Ngh... // Dammit! // That stubborn idiot! // Arika... // You idiot Princess...!! / ... // DAMN / YOOOOOOOU!!
[Text: And thus the Floating Capital of Ostia, once revered as the Capital of a Thousand Spires, was wiped from the map.]

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Imma: I hear the losses amounted to less than three percent of the population... // Considering the situation, that figure is nothing less than a miracle...
Rakan: A "low figure" isn't going to be enough for her... // Things are only going to get worse from here on out...
Nagi: ......
[Text: By sealing away the Anti-Magic Field that threatened to destroy the world, along with its source, the Twilight Imperial Princess, Queen Arika succeeded in saving the world. // However, she did so at the price of transforming the area of around fifty kilometres in diameter around the capital... // ...into a dead and desolate land where magic could not be used for the following twenty years.]
TosakaAndFriends: It's true, really it is! We saw it with our own eyes! // [aside]we couldn't see very well from so far away, but...[/aside] // Arika-sama was out there protecting us all! / [aside]blasting away all the rubble with this incredible magic...![/aside]
People: Idiot Tosaka... // Like hell Arika-sama would personally come to the aid of commoners like us!
Tosaka: Ungh...
[Text: Deprived of their homes and livelihood, millions of citizens became refugees, and departed for the surrounding nations.]
People: Best we can hope for now is a life of slavery... maybe we should become gladiators? / Who knows what we'll do from now on...
Tosaka: [aside]but it's the truth...[/aside]
[Text: Megalomesembrian troops dispatched to the disaster area under the pretext of "aid and reconstruction" were before long effectively in complete control of the kingdom.]

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[Text: Two months later; Megalomesembria // Senate Hall]
Arika: Do you not see?! Our citizens have fallen into the utmost depths of poverty!! // Many of them have become refugees, and are struggling even to survive!! / It is their sacrifice that enabled us to obtain the peace that we now enjoy!! Surely they deserve some measure of -
Senate: Hahah... / We understand your position. However... // Surely the sole responsibility for the destruction of that country and the current situation of its citizens lies with none other than you yourself? // In fact, if I might be so bold as to say this... // ...they have long ceased to be your citizens.
Arika: ......
Knight: I am sorry to say, Queen Arika...
Arika: What is the meaning of this...?
Knight: ...that you are under arrest.
Arika: ...For what, exactly?

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Knight: The murder of your father, the King. / Suspected connections with Cosmo Entelecheia. // And with regard to reports of the situation surrounding Ostia itself... / ...there are suspicions of deception and falsification on your part.
Senate: Patricide, they say...? // How frightful... But yes, that would explain everything... it was all this woman's... / Indeed, indeed... I always thought it suspicious that the King who was always so wise and respected could possibly have... // Hahahah... It seems you have been somewhat foolish, Your Majesty. // You should not underestimate the sources of information we have at our command.
Arika: Of all the despicable... / Have you no shame?!

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[Text: Arrested and imprisoned, it did not take long before Queen Arika was scheduled to be executed two years later. // The people of the world, weary from the hardships of war, // were eager to find a sacrifice upon whom they could empty all of their dissatisfaction and hatred. // Queen Arika was the perfect solution.]
[Label: Borderlands of the Confederation / Cerberus Infinite Prison / (Including Ermine Detention Compound)]
[Text: Murdering her father and destroying her own country... // Increasing societal unrest by forcing other countries to take in the numerous refugees... // Passing the international law legalising slavery - a law that quickly became infamous amongst the common folk as the "Death Collar Act"... // She was already being showered with criticism from all sides. // Eventually, she became known as the "Queen of Calamity"... // ...and not a single person remained who would publicly take her side.]
Chisame: ...
Narration: Even though in fact, it was she who had saved the world.
Nodoka: How terrible...

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[Text: Two years later]
Jailer: What's this? You haven't touched your food again, Your Majesty? / We can't have you dying on us now, you know... // Perhaps such common food does not suit your tastes? // Hah... well, it's all you're fit for now. // You're the one who brought about that whole damn war, isn't that right? // There's not a soul in the world who would take your side. / Honestly... you make me sick.
Arika: ...
Jailer: Ah! Mr. Senator! Surely there is no need for you to come out to this remote -
Senator: Yes, yes, very good. You may leave.
Jailer: B - But...
Senator: Worry not. I have made the proper arrangements. // My, my, my... just look at the state of you. It is almost painful to observe. // To think that this is how the line of the world's oldest Royal Family meets its end... truly, it saddens my heart.

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Senator: The execution will take place in ten days' time. / ...As such, there is something that I must inquire of you before that date. // The heart of the graveyard, sealed away with the Twilight Imperial Princess. // You must be aware of the means to reach it.
Arika: ...
Senator: You will tell me!! / This is for the sake of saving the world from destruction... // ...and for the sake of your beloved Princess Asuna, you realise?!
Arika: ...
Senator: Hmph... Useless woman. // But no, of course... that is not correct. // Through your death in ten days' time, you will be of more than sufficient use to the world. Yes... // A cornerstone of world peace.

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[Text: Syrtis Subcontinent; Conflict Zone]
Girl: Unhh...
Nagi: Don't worry. You're okay now. // I'll heal you right away.
Girl: Th... // Thank you... // Magister Magi... Nagi...
Takamichi: Nagi! Eishun-san!
Eishun: What is it, Takamichi-kun?
Takamichi: A communication from Kurt! It's about Arika-sama!
Eishun: Arika-sama is to be executed in ten days' time?! // Is this true, Kurt-kun?!!
Gödel: Y - Yes...

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Gödel: I daresay even now... // ...Arika-sama is resenting her own decision, and suffering in the depths of despair...
Flashback!Arika: If by taking upon myself the hatred of the masses and going to my death... // ...the suffering in this world can be reduced even a little, then I could ask for nothing more. / Please... abandon me to my fate, Kurt...
Eishun: Arika...sama...
Nagi: I see... / Yeah, that sounds like the idiot Princess I know all right...
Kurt: "I see"...?! ...Nagi...!! / Do you mean to say you are not going to save her?!
Takamichi: Kurt!
Nagi: ...She told me this once. / That if I have the time to go around saving a single woman... // ...then I should use it to save as many of the innocent people out there who are suffering for no good reason as I can. / ...To save the world.
Gödel: The woman who told you that is at this very moment being crushed under the weight of regret for sins she never committed! / She has lost sight of all hope!!

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Kurt: If you do not go to her, then who will protect her honour?!! / If you cannot even save the one woman you love... // ...how can you call yourself a hero?!! / You have to save her, to bring them to justice, to let the world know the truth...! // Nagi!! // Ngh... // I have misjudged you, Nagi!! // With the power and reputation you now wield, you could really make a difference in this world!!
Nagi: Cura.
Kurt: Why do you waste it all performing these inconsequential tasks, day in, day out?!! / Is any of this going to change the world in the slightest?!!
Nagi: But you know, Kurt... / ...I saved another life today.
[Text: Ten days later]

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[Text: War Criminal / Arika Anarchia Entheophysia / Execution Date]
Arika: (...I feel no fear. // All I feel... is a certain... // ...emptiness. // Was I able to help anyone, in the end? // No...)
People: Cerberus Canyon, lair of horrific monsters. / To a mage, no place is more fitting for the name of "Valley of Death" than these depths, in which no magic whatsoever can be performed. // It is an ancient and brutal method of execution, but perhaps it is only through such brutality... // ...that the people of all nations across the Magical World will finally be able to be at peace. // Walk!
Arika: (From the moment I was born into that cold and gloomy palace... / ...my entire life...) // Do not touch me, serf. / I can walk without your guidance. // (...was but an endless struggle of thievery.)

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Arika: (...If this is where that path comes to its end... then so be it. // If this death can bring some measure of peace and order to the people, then that is some comfort, at least. // I have only... // ...one regret... // Nagi... // I wanted to see your face... // ...just one more time... // For some reason, those days I spent in battle with you... // ...they alone were filled with warmth.)
[Insert text: May these feelings reach you, my knight, Nagi Springfield...]