Soul Eater 56

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Soul Eater
Chapter 56: Operation: Seize Baba Yaga Castle (Part 11)
[Insert text: A three-way // melee of souls]

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[Insert text: Internal discord...?! The vampire VS the mage!!]

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Kid: ......
Patty: Is this...
Liz: ...a battle between allies...?!
Kid: On the one side, Mosquito... // And on the other...

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Kid: His soul feels incredibly calm... / ...and yet it radiates a sense of bottomless terror... // Just who is that man...?! // !! // He spotted me?!

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Mosquito: I never liked you, from the moment I first set eyes on you.
Kid: (Or did I just imagine it...?)
Mosquito: As Arachne's steward, it was wrong of me to ever leave her side... I should never have trusted a mage such as yourself... // You are an eyesore, Eibon. // I will eliminate you.
Kid: !! // (Eibon?!)

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Mosquito: Or perhaps... // ...it would be more accurate to refer to you as an imposter using the name of "Eibon"?
Not!Eibon: ...Heheheh... / You can call me what you wish. // The Book of Eibon that I hold in my hands... This and Brew are the wisdom of Eibon; essentially Eibon himself. // If you wish to call me an imposter, then feel free... / I have no particular attachment to any one name. I call myself Eibon purely for the "brand recognition", as it were. // After all, there are so many people in this world to whom brand is everything...

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Not!Eibon: "Eibon"... / Don't you think it has a certain charm to it, a power to collect up anything and everything...? // Why, I do believe you witnessed its power yourself only moments ago...
Kid: (Brew...)

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Not!Eibon: I will obtain everything. / And that includes the Kishin. Everything in this world will become a part of my collection. // I will draw everything into this Book of Eibon, and when it is complete... // I will be everything.
Mosquito: MY POWER OF EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS PAST!!! // THE AGE WHEN I WAS AT MY MOST INCREDIBLE!!!

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Mosquito: !! // Wh... / Whaaat...?!

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Not!Eibon: There's no use trying to run from me, Mosquito-sama. You may be terrifyingly powerful and resilient... // ...but you have no place in my collection. // A pity... // Would you like... / ...to hear my true name before you meet your end?
Mosquito: Hah... I have no interest... // ...in hearing the name of an avaricious and despicable man.
Not!Eibon: Indeed... I am an avaricious collector...

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Not!Eibon: ...by the name of "Noah".
Mosquito: ARACHNE-SAMAAAA!! / I OFFER MY DEEPEST APOLOGIES!!!

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Kid: ......
Noah: Yes, I think this will do nicely!♡
Kid: ... // (His soul wavelength disappeared completely... Mosquito, defeated in an instant... // That man is far too dangerous... // And yet... were I to challenge him, I would have no hope of victory... I should withdraw for the...)

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Eibon: Now here's something worth collecting!! // Lovely to meet you, Shinigami-kun...

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Kid: (No!!!)
Patty/Liz: !! // Kid?!

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Patty/Liz: Kid!!
Kid: AAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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Noah: ACQUIRED!! // Now, this is a little rarity I've got my hands on. Brew and a Shinigami, all at once...

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Eibon: I wasn't planning on going after you. / Do you really want to let that fortune go to waste?
Liz: Give... // ...Kid back!!
Eibon: Sorry, but beauty alone isn't enough to make you worth collecting... // I'll be going now.

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Patty: Onee-chan!! // Let me handle this!!
Liz: No... it's no use... // Neither of us have a hope of standing up to him...
Patty: What about Kid-kun?!! // Are you just going to let him go?!!
Liz: SHUT THE HELL UP!!
Patty: YOU LITTLE COWARD!!
Liz: It's not like I don't want to save Kid...! // But... it's not like I can let you get yourself killed, either.

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Liz: So please, don't put me on the spot like this...
Patty: ...... // .........Dammitall... // What are we meant to do now...?

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[Text: Outside Baba Yaga Castle]
Arachnophobes: !! // Who are they?!
Shibusenites: We're from Shibusen!! // Arachnophobia!! You just stay right where you are!! // Hyahh!!
Arachnophobes: We're under attack from Shibusen!!
Kniges: Sid!! // Take a look up.
Sid: Yeah...

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[no text just blackstar and mifune (one wonders whether they even have reason to fight one another with both arachne and mosquito dead)]

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Kniges: Sid - we should lend them our aid.
Sid: No...
Mifune: Deluge Array.

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[no text just mifunepwnage]

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[no text just blackstargettingpwnedage]

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[no text just blackstarnotgettingsopwned]

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[still no text but i'm not complaining because blackstar-mifune fights are made of win]

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[are we going for some kind of no-text record here?]

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Mifune: A mere shadow...

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Tsubaki: (With that Deluge Array... we can't get near him......)
Mifune: Black☆Star... // Why do you hesitate? / I abandoned my indecision long ago.
Sid: ......

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Kniges: Oi, Sid... // Are you planning on just watching Black☆Star die?!!
Sid: Don't say that. // Let's just watch. // ...... // (Black☆Star...)

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Sid: (You are no demon child, right...?)
BlackStar: Tsubaki... // Kage☆Boshi, Zero no Kata.
[TN: That's "Shadow Star, Form Zero"]
Tsubaki: Right.

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[no text just shadow]

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[no text just moar shadow]

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[don't you love shadows?]

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BlackStar: Kage☆Boshi, Zero no Kata: "Masamune" // I have no indecision.
Sid: ......
[Insert text: Colour page(s) in the thrilling next issue!!]
[Bottom text: To be continued in the February issue (on sale Saturday 10th January)]