Hunter x Hunter 262

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[side text: Break in! Assault! // Clash! Determination! Conclusion!]
[TN: The side text works better in Japanese... the top two words both begin with the same "pierce/thrust" kanji, and all of the bottom three start with the same "decisive" kanji.]
Morau: One minute's warning.

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Hunter x Hunter
#262: Break In (2)
Morau: I'll let you all know one minute before we move out, so everybody stay close to the exit. // Until then, everybody stay alert and wait for my word.
[insert text: Tension swells as the seconds tick away...]

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Knuckle: Meleoron, about your ability...
Meleoron: I know. / Ten seconds before I need to breathe, I give a shoulder-tap, right? / And then when I stop my breathing again, I give another shoulder-tap at the same time!
Knuckle: You don't have to hold on until you're at your absolute limit. You should pace yourself and concentrate on making sure you breathe sensibly. // While your "God's Accomplice" isn't active, you can just relax and leave everything to me. // ...... // You should calm down and have a smoke...
Meleoron: If you underestimate their sense of smell, it'll all be over in a flash. // It's incredibly easy to track someone based on the scent of cigarette smoke. / They'd be able to get us during the very first breath I have to take.
Knuckle: But the boss is going to send up a smoke screen the moment we break in there, so it'll be fine, you know?
Meleoron: Possibly... / But I don't want to take any unnecessary risks, you know? // I don't want to do something I'll end up regretting.

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Novu: The Guards have moved a little. // The three of them gathered above the main gate having some kind of discussion. // Pitou stayed in that position, Yupi went inside, and Pufu went back to scattering that stuff in the air. // I don't think anything particularly notable can have happened. // I'll inform you if they move around again.
Morau: Yeah. / I don't care if it's at the last second, we need the information.
Killua: I guess the chances of the "Guards not being in the palace" are pretty much zero at this point, then.
Gon: (Well, not "completely"...)
Ikarugo: Well, it's 100% that the Guards and the King will be close by.
Killua: You shouldn't go that far! If you don't consider every last possibility, you'll be caught off guard and won't be able to move if something unexpected happens!
Ikarugo: You only say that because you don't fully understand their loyalty!! I'm telling you, it's 100%!! // If the King's there, his attendants are always going to be right there beside him!
Killua: Honestly...!! / You can think that way, that's fine, but you've got to take other possibilities into account!!
Ikarugo: What other possibilities are there?!!
Killua: [aside]Well, this could happen, or that could happen, you know![/aside]
Ikarugo: [aside]Oh, come on, that's completely unrealistic!![/aside]
Shoot: (Honestly... // How can they start arguing at a time like this?)

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Morau: One possibility is... // A woman. // One of the King's goals is reproduction, right? I was wondering what the King could be doing inside that palace... // Trying to conceive children! That has to be it.
Killua: I see...
Knuckle: In that case, there's always the possibility that the King could have ordered the Guards away from his private bedroom. // That delivery of women... it could well have been for the King's own benefit...
Morau/Knuckle: (Ah! // Palm... // ...and the King......?!!)

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Morau: ......This doesn't affect the plan...!! // No... no matter what Palm's situation may be.
Killua: (I bet Gon doesn't even get it...)
Knuckle: (It's a good thing we thought of that before the break-in... // If we'd burst in on a scene like that with no warning, we would have frozen on the spot...)
Killua: You see? There's no such thing as overthinking the situation. // I'm sure there are plenty more possibilities we've failed to consider! // (Yes...... I still get the feeling we're missing something.) // ......Gon!!
Gon: Hm?!
Killua: You've got this straight, right? We leave Palm to sort out her own problems! // No matter what the situation, you've got to stay concentrated on Pitou! // (Something's still bothering me...... Aside from the question of whether there's a woman, I'm also wondering if there's some kind of third party. // This feeling...... It's so unclear. // But I feel like the answer's right there...!) // I wonder... // Why did the King injure himself...?

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Knuckle: Wait up a minute... That's just a theory you came up with, right?
Killua: Yes... / But we did decide that there didn't seem to be any other possibility.
Knuckle: Aren't you just contradicting yourself, though? // Just a minute ago you were saying that there are always plenty of possibilities we haven't considered. // Based on that logic, there could be any number of reasons why Pitou removed his "En", and we just haven't thought of them.
Killua: I understand that. // But it's still bothering me.
Shoot: We're moving in in three minutes. // Do you really think it's worth thinking about that at this point?
Killua: ... // Yeah.
Morau: Hmm... Then let's think. // When would the King injure himself of his own accord?
Gon: When... // ...he couldn't forgive himself...

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Welfin: Tch... // Thanks to the rain, the smell vanishes at this point... // (The intruder's route... // ...went like so...!) // He stopped here to keep watch on the second floor... // ...But in the end, he didn't go up there, but instead headed outside... // Did something happen to make him give up? Or had he already completed his objective? // No... He could have used some kind of technique...)

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Montutuyupi: Ah... / I should let you know... // If you guys set foot on the second floor, the King won't hold back - he'll kill you. // Make sure you let everyone else in the palace know that.
Welfin: Yessir. // (......Wings!! What if the intruder had the power to fly through the air? // The shoes and the scent could just be a trick!! He could have floated into the air and headed for the second floor......!!
[TN: Not sure on the "shoes" here... were there shoes involved? @_@ I can't think of any other translation for "kutsu"...]
Welfin: (The intruder is in the palace after all!! // And on the second floor, of all places!!) // Yupi-dono... // (No... wait a minute... // Pitou is monitoring the area with "En"... He would definitely have found them if they invaded the second floor!!) // Ah... / I apologise, it was nothing.
Montutuyupi: ?

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Welfin: (That's not it...!! Then why?! How did he penetrate as far as the staircase!!) // Yupi-dono!!
Montutuyupi: Yeah?! // What is it?
Welfin: Was there any point when Pitou-dono was not using his "En"?! // A rainy day!! About a week ago today!!
Montutuyupi: You mean you didn't know? // It was terrible, the King ripped off his own arm... // Although while Pitou was healing the arm, Pufu was performing the En in his place.
Welfin: And what is the range of Pufu-dono's En?
Montutuyupi: What's that? How would I know something like that? Isn't it the same as Pitou's?
Welfin: (No, it isn't...! I suspect Pufu's En reaches only as far as this staircase!! // The intruder felt that aura, and gave up on proceeding up the stairs...! That much makes sense. // The issue is the intruder's objective!! And also, whether the intruder is still hidden somewhere in the area! Those two points!! // Should I let Yupi know about this......? // No... I won't do that.)

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Welfin: (Even if this brute reported the situation to the other two, there's no way he would see fit to mention my name. // If I'm going to report this, I should tell it directly to Pitou or Pufu, preferably Pufu. // And if possible, I should make sure to answer at least one of those two irritating questions!! // I need to at least determine the intruder's objective. // If I don't, they'll just say "The intruder did well to make it so far, but when he saw Pufu's En, he was scared and ran away." // The matter will end there, and there will be no reward for me whatsoever. // I could just make up the intruder's objective, of course, but then if the intruder is captured, my lie will be exposed... // And if I just hint at things, and force the Guards to exert themselves without ever finding the intruder, their impression of me will be a bad one......) // Tch. // (This irritating noise that echoes around my skull...!! That guy's mobile phone again?!! // I have... / an idea!!)

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Welfin: And so the intruder seems to have abducted my subordinate! // It looks like he took excellent advantage of that slip in the Guards' watch. // According to Leor, he has the ability of teleportation. // The woman must have been one of them!! The two of them must have teleported away together!
Bizef: Hmmm...
Welfin: (I just have to make sure Leor plays along with this story.) // Well, you don't have to tell anybody about the woman.
Bizef: Damn... But why would they do something like this...?
Welfin: Ah, now, that's exactly the issue. // I've worked out what their objective must have been!
Bizef: What's that?
Welfin: A plot to blow up the palace!! // (All a lie... Heheh...)

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Bizef: Wha...?!
Welfin: Whilst searching for the woman, I happened to come across this. / It's a fragment of a special cord, part of a timing device.
Bizef: We must tell the Guards at onc -
Welfin: Wait!!
Bizef: ?!
Welfin: Don't get ahead of yourself. / You can report to them after you've actually found this bomb, can't you?
Bizef: M - // Me?! // What are you saying?! I can't... // What if I took too long and the bomb exploded?!
Welfin: Just put yourself in the enemy's shoes and think about this logically. // I'm sure they must have been thinking "If we're going to blow up the palace, we have to make sure the King will be there at the time". // And when would that time be? // When all the humans have been gathered together! In other words, immediately after the tournament opens! // When the King is looking down over the five million people he has in his power!! // "The King wouldn't want his puppeteer to be the only one to witness this grand view..." It's only natural that the enemy would think that way.
Bizef: Indeed... // (I have experienced that same thing many times, standing by the generals' sides...)

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Bizef: (It's not at all sexual... // But an indescribable sense of... // Pleasure!!!)
Welfin: We have over half a day until the opening of the tournament. // If I can just follow the intruder's trail using my sense of smell, it should be a simple task to find the bomb before then. / If you report this to the Guards and bring the bomb itself with you at the same time, their impression of you is sure to be favourable! // Even Pufu-dono, who at the moment takes less than no interest in you... // will be only too eager to offer you his thanks if you accomplish something like this for the King.
Bizef: That's true... that's very true...
Welfin: I'll contact you as soon as I find the bomb. It shouldn't take more than about two or three hours. / If you could deal with arranging somebody to disarm the bomb once we find it...
Bizef: You can leave that to me. / I'll have to find a way to repay you for this at some other time.
Welfin: (Hm...... Looks like the coward has managed to regain his composure. // Well, I'll just do what I can to keep him satisfied. // I just have to get the team he brings in to defuse the bomb on my side, and everything should work out. // The place where the bomb is "hidden" isn't important either, as long as it's believable.)

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Welfin: (My nose is the only means they have of tracking the intruder's path!! They have no way to verify what I tell them...! // I'm going to start building it up, slowly but surely... the position of a shadow "king"...!!)
Mamoru: "When he couldn't forgive himself", huh...? // That sounds about right... // But if we consider the King's personality based on that... // He would have to be less of a brutal tyrant, and more like a proud statesman.
Knuckle: True...
Mamoru: If we think of him as the type of person who welcomes pain in order to protect his own pride...

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Mamoru: In my personal experience, guys like that... // ...are impossible to sway from their own wishes!! // And as long as the leader remains steadfast, the Royal Guards will stand with him!! // We have to go in there under the assumption that we can only prevail through force!!
Killua: (Morau really seems to have latched on to my reasoning...)

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Killua: (But it's not right... // The King injuring himself... the existence of a third party... // I get the feeling we're still thinking along the wrong lines... // I feel like there's a chance the real answer is something so unexpected, it could throw off the entire plan...
Mamoru: It's time.
Killua: (Dammit... // There's no time...)
Mamoru: We move in in one minute.

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Mamoru: Everybody get ready. // I'll count down the last ten seconds. // Good luck, everybody.

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Mamoru: Prepare yourselves!!!
[box: About two minutes prior to Morau's battle-cry // Chaos... // A monstrous bird soars through the skies high above the Republic of East Goruto... // ...and from this steed, two men leap down through the air.]