Mahou Sensei Negima! 222

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Setsuna: ...And so Ku and Kaede have gone down there ahead of me. I intend to go and meet up with them now. // I leave Ojou-sama in your hands, Asuna-san. Chisame-san, if you would pass all this on to Negi-sensei for me.
Chisame: Sure.
Asuna: Got it~!♪
Setsuna: Hmm? / Isn't that Negi over there?
Asuna: Hmm...? Ohh - ! It is him! Impressive eyes you've got... // But what's he doing all the way up there? / [aside]you think he's having trouble?[/aside]
Chisame: I'm sure he's just eating lunch or something. // He wouldn't want to be down in the arena, with all the Nagi fans and everyone causing a ruckus.
Setsuna: No... wait a minute... // Something's not right...!
[insert text: Fate suddenly appears before Negi. What is he after...?!!]

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
Period 222: Negi vs. Fate
[insert: An explosive situation!!]
[TN: noes T_T where did the loli go?]

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Negi: Ngh...
Fate: !

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Negi: Fate... // ...Averuncus! // Why... // ...are you here?!
Fate: Hmph...

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Negi: Setsuna-san... / Asuna-san!!
Setsuna: Why, you...
Asuna: What do you want here?!
Setsuna/Asuna: ?!
Asuna: H - Hey... / You...!
Setsuna: Wait!
Asuna: Why, you... / If you come any closer...!
Setsuna: Ngh...
Negi: Wait! / Stop, you two!
Fate: ...Negi-kun seems rather calmer than the two of you, swordswoman, Princess.

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Fate: You are wise not to draw your weapons. You are the wanted ones here. // If you cause a scene, you will be the ones captured.
Setsuna: ...So you were the ones behind all of this... // (If I could just take him out in a single attack...!)
Fate: I was merely spicing up your excursion a little. Did you enjoy it? // And, Sakurazaki Setsuna... // You cannot hope to defeat me in a single attack... // ...so I would suggest you drop that line of thinking.

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Fate: You wish to fight? How hot-blooded of you. / I suppose that is due to my provocation... // But perhaps you too would do better to hold that thought. / If we were to fight here, civilians would be drawn into the fray. // Not that I myself would be bothered if a few hundred bystanders were to be destroyed. // But how about you?
Negi: You... / What do you want with me...?
Fate: That's right.

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Fate: I showed myself before you here today not because I wish to fight... // ...but simply to engage you in peaceful conversation, and to offer you a deal.
Setsuna: What?!
Asuna: What are you saying?!!
Negi: ...And you expect me to believe that, coming from you of all people?
Fate: Right now...

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Fate: ...you know nothing of who we are, or what we wish to accomplish. // You are simply caught in the flow of events... / ...no better than mere children in your hostility towards us... / I find this dull. // I suspect you may wish to hear what I have to say, yes?
Chamo: Okay, so we've done as Sakurazaki said and got a kilometre away from them... / So how do things look?
Chisame: Well, I don't see any signs of a battle for the moment, at least... // What now, ermine?!
Chamo: We have to call for help, of course!

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Chisame: But Nagase and Ku are both on the ground below the island... they'll never make it!
Chamo: Surely the first guy we should call is that so-called invincible Racan guy!! With him here, we'd have nothing to worry about!! / [aside]Aniki's told me just how crazy that guy is...[/aside]
Chisame: That idiot... he's probably right over the other side of the island right now, and we don't even know whether he'd be willing to help!
Chamo: Still the best shot we've got! I'll go look for him! / [aside]he'll be near that viewing platform, right?[/aside]
Chisame: Wait! // Make sure you tell him it's Averuncus! That might convince him to help! / [aside]they seemed to have some kind of connection...[/aside]
Chamo: Gotcha!! / [aside]I don't know if I'll make it in time, though...![/aside]
Chisame: I'll see if I can contact Kotarou and the others! They should be nearby!!
Chamo: Good luck, then! / Don't do anything stupid!
Chisame: (I didn't expect them to come and find us... From what we've seen, I had assumed that they considered us not worth the trouble... // What exactly are they after...?! // Yes... that's right. We don't have any idea what their goal is...!)
Kotarou: Say WHAT?! // You serious, Chisame-neechan?! / Mm... yeah... Got it! I'll be right there! / Wait - ! / Just don't do anything stupid, okay?!
Natsumi: ...?

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Natsumi: What's going on, Kotarou-kun? Is something wrong?
Kotarou: ...Nah. // Things just got a bit hairy. // Looks like the enemy boss came and found us on his own. // Sorry, but I've gotta go! Don't go anywhere, Natsumi-neechan!
Natsumi: Ah - Kotarou-kun! // Enemy...?
Fate: Why don't you sit down, Negi-kun?

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Asuna: We're not going to sit.
Fate: As you wish.
Setsuna: (He essentially has hundreds of bystanders as his hostages... This boy could probably reduce this whole place to ash in an instant, for a hundred metres in all directions... // And we could very well be surrounded by his enemy forces for all we know... We can't do a thing until we know what he's after...!)
Fate: Dear me... pouring milk into the tea?
Negi: What?

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Fate: The exquisite scent of a fine tea - the famous Ostian Tea - and you simply pour milk into it... / Say what you will, but milk tea is the sign of a child. // You British fools... // Well, truth be told, I prefer coffee myself, so it matters little. // Coffee stimulates the mind. / I drink seven cups per day.
[TN: omg, it's mini-Godot. </gyakuten>]
Negi: Huh... I'm impressed that you can stand feeding that terrible dirtied water into your system so often.
Fate: Better than milk tea, I would say.
Negi: Well, that shows how little you know. / Tea should only ever be drunk with milk.
Asuna: [aside]wh... wha?[/aside]
Setsuna: [aside]uhhh...[/aside]
Fate: Huh... I'll have you know I do drink tea on occasion. Lemon tea. Iced.
Negi: Iced? Lemon? You jest. That is ridiculous. Lemon destroys the taste of tea. / Is there something wrong with your tongue?
Fate: Now, this is a shock. / To have a tasteless British fool such as yourself worrying about the state of my tongue...
Negi: Do you have something personal against me? / Are you trying to pick a fight? // Because I'll take you up on that. / Well? [aside]just as long as you don't get the bystanders involved...[/aside]

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Setsuna: (Wh... What the?)
Asuna: (I don't think I've ever seen Negi like this...)
Negi: ...You... // ...are a survivor of my father's sworn enemies, those who led the entire world into chaos. // You tried to destroy the world!! / I have more than reason enough to oppose you!
Fate: ...Hmph. // Such shallow reasoning. Not even worth the debate. // And I wonder about this "reason" of yours, also.
Negi: What?
Fate: That you intend to oppose myself and my associates... // ...indicates that you mean to take up your father's mantle... // ...and become a protector of the entire world. That is the choice you are making. / To take up the work of a "Magister Magi".

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Fate: But who are you right now? / A saviour of the world? A "child of destiny", ready to take up his great father's mantle? // No. You are a Mahora Academy teacher, entrusted with the safety of twenty students and friends on a summer outing.
Negi: And what is wrong with that? / If you mean to stand in the way of our safe return to reality, I will fight you!
Fate: There. That is your crucial mistake. // Cast your mind back. That time in Kyoto... and again at the Gateport... / It was nothing more or less than unlucky coincidence that we did battle on either occasion. You simply happened to stand in the path of my plans.
Negi: What are you trying to say...?!
Fate: I have no intention of standing in your way. / Indeed, I hope that you all have a safe trip home.
Asuna/Setsuna: Wha...?!
Fate: Thus, I offer you a deal. / I will guarantee your safe return to reality. I will even provide you with an escort.
Negi: What...?!
Fate: And as collateral...

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Fate: I ask that you hand the Princess to me. // How about it?
Asuna: Wha?
Setsuna: ?
Mouse: ?
Chisame: What? // Princess...?
Negi: I refuse. // I would never agree to that, Fate!!

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Fate: I would not consider it a bad deal... / We could easily have taken her at the Gateport, or indeed at any time since then. // And yet instead, I am offering you a friendly and generous deal. / The girl has no relatives. If she were to disappear, it would cause no upset whatsoever in the real world. // Besides which, those eight years she spent at the Mahora Academy... / A fake personality. // Fake memories. / Those years were nothing more than a shallow, fabricated life that she was made to live out...
Asuna: Huh?

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Negi: You will seal your mouth. // Fate Averuncus.
Fate: How very hot-blooded you are... // Negi Springfield.
[insert text: The power of darkness provoked?! In a rage, Negi makes the first attack!! Is it too late to stop these two?!!]