Hunter x Hunter 290

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Hunter x Hunter
#290: Name
[TN: The invaders have allowed Yupi to escape...]
Meleoron: Knuckle!! // Help him, quickly!!
Knuckle: C'mon, Boss... // ?!
Morau: I told..... you not to... bother about... me! // Beat it...!!

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Morau: You...... can still...... fight... // Do... what you can...!! // Yupi said... "whenever"... didn't he...?! // Then... go after him...!!
Knuckle: I... cannot. // I...... can no longer... see him... // ...as a simple target to be eliminated... // He actually sympathised with us, with how hard we were trying!! // He wasn't a truly bad person!! // In which case......... I...... I no longer have... // ...a reason to defeat him...!!

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Knov: The King...!
Knuckle: Knov-sa -
Knov: It doesn't matter what the soldiers think or feel. // With a wave of his baton, they will do his bidding, no matter what that may be......!!

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Knov: You can leave Morau to me... Shoot is all right, as well. // Do you two want to come as well?
Morau: Wai...t... // Let me punch that idiot in the face...
Knov: I've received word from a messenger of the President's. // He has taken the King to the appointed location.
Everyone: !!
Knov: It doesn't matter what the Guards do now... // They will be too late. // It looks like we're no longer needer... any of us.........
Knuckle: ......
Knov: Any word of Palm......?
Knuckle: ...No. / Not yet.
Knov: ...I see.

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Knov: What will it be? I may not be able to come back for you... // You can see the state I'm in. // Will you go back? Or stay?
Knuckle: I'm staying. // I still have work to do here...!
Knov: I see. // ...You're strong.
Knuckle: ...... // Let's go.
Meleoron: Are you going to look for Palm?
Knuckle: No. // That can wait. // I still have work to do. // Yupi isn't... // ...the only Guard out there.

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Pufu: ! // (That's...)
Yupi: ?! // I can't sense any other battles going on nearby... / Am I the only one left......?
Pufu: Yupi!!
Yupi: Pufu?! / You've changed quite a bit since I last saw you...
Pufu: Yes, because you're clearly one to talk. // I had to escape without being noticed by the enemy. // And if I move my dispersed particles all at once, then it's rather obvious, so I have to do it gradually. // I daresay you're impatient, but please give me a little time. / I do have some information to share with you.
Yupi: ......Well, I daresay you do have your own issues to worry about.
Pufu: ...... / You seem to have grown up. // ............ // ...And that's how it is.

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Pufu: I have no proof one way or the other. // Will Pitou's transformation truly be of service to the King...?
[Text: Personally, Yupi could understand what Pitou was doing perfectly.]
Pufu: Yupi... What would you say... // ...we should do right now?
[Text: He was being tested. // Realising this, Yupi understood... // ...that Pufu had observed the changes that were presumably taking place in Pitou as well as in Yupi...]
Yupi: Pretty stupid question.
[Text: ...and that he feared them.]

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Yupi: We should go to his aid right away. // To the King!!! // Surely that's all there is to it.
[Text: He spoke only his true feelings.]
Pufu: ......Indeed.
[Text: Only... // ...it was because he wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible. // Because Yupi, too, was afraid.]

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[no text just kannon]

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Netero: (I was sure that was a direct hit... // He's tough...!!)
King: An excellent technique. // I could not see the attack coming.

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King: Are you finished now?
Netero: ! // (He is still... // ...asking me to sit...?)
King: (I won't... // ...say it again.)

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Netero: San-no-Te // (...I cannot... // ...withdraw at this point. // ......... // Do you really...)

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Netero: Netero: (...want to die that much?)
[Text: The wrath unleashed here... // ...to the King, was nothing more than a tiny flame, the level a parent might feel when confronted by a petulant child...]

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[Text: ...but to Netero, it was enough to make him more than double his usual distance from the enemy... // ...a fierce and terrible sensation. // It was as wounding to his spirit... // ...as if his determination not to withdraw had been brushed away with a laugh.]
King: Observe.

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King: The only thing that you can hope to exchange with me... // ...is words.
Netero: (This newborn... // ...brat...! // If that were enough... // ...I would not be doing this!!!)
[TN: I'm not even close to sure on those last two lines. I really can't seem to figure out how to interpret them...]

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Netero: (......... // Wait... // Words...) // Your Majesty. // Do you not wish to know... // ...your own name?
King: .........Why would you... // ...know my name?!

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Netero: My subordinate was there when your mother died. // It seems that your name was the last thing she ever said. // Though that subordinate may well have perished already in the battle against your Guards... // Feel like fighting now...? // If you manage to make me admit defeat... // I may feel like telling you, you know?

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King: Fight without killing you, until you deem the battle over......? // Like beginning a Shogi match without one's rook or bishop.
[TN: In Shogi, the rook and bishop are by far the most powerful pieces, so this would be a major handicap.]
King: ......Very well. / I will checkmate you forthwith.
[Side text: Here he comes!!!]
[Bottom text: Starting from next issue, this series will be on hiatus. We hope you understand. We will let you know as soon as the continuation is scheduled.]