Gakuen Sousei Nekoten! 3

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TITLE: Chapter 3 The Secret Room

098:
BUBBLE1: Hmmmm...
BUBBLE2: ...

BUBBLE3: I can't wear it like this...

BUBBLE4: ...Oh well.
BUBBLE5: It'll be hot soon anyway.

BOX1: Matabi Academy - Girl's Dorm

BOX2: It's the day after the fight after that monster.
BOX3: This strange power I received from that phantom princess...
BOX4: I still can't believe it.

099:
BOX1: This mysterious ball of yarn appears, just as I imagined it.

BOX2: And I can give Kansuke power with this.

BUBBLE1: ...

BUBBLE2: Let's test it out.

100:
BUBBLE1: Hmm?

BUBBLE2: What the hell are you doing!?
BUBBLE3: Yumiiii!!

BUBBLE4: Sooorrryyy!

101:
BUBBLE1: As interesting as that is, knitting by hand is still fun.

BUBBLE2: Morning, Yumi.
BUBBLE3: Morning, Nana-chan.

BUBBLE4: What're you up to?
BUBBLE5: Knitting a sweater.
BUBBLE6: EVen though it's almost summer!?

BUBBLE7: ...
BUBBLE8: Hey, Nana-chan.
BUBBLE9: Um, about yesterday...

BUBBLE10: Yesterday?

BUBBLE11: Oh yeah, the Vice-Principal.
BUBBLE12: Y'know, even though he's gay he's such a pompous ass!
BUBBLE13: N-No, that's not what I meant...

102:
BUBBLE1: Was there something else?
BUBBLE2: ...
BUBBLE3: I guess it was just my imagination.

BUBBLE4: ...
BOX1: Nana-chan doesn't remember anything.

BOX2: And it's not just her;
BOX3: it's everyone.
BOX4: It was such a big scene... so how come nobody noticed?

BUBBLE5: I guess I have no choice but to ask someone from the student council...

BUBBLE6: By the way, where's your blazer?
BUBBLE7: Ah, a little accident...

BUBBLE8: Okay everyone, take your seats.
BUBBLE9: I'm taking roll.

103:
BUBBLE1: Such a noisy place.

BUBBLE2: Good, everyone's here.
BOX1: Yamato, Pedigree, 6 years (Male)

104:
BOX1: Musashimaru
BUBBLE1: Don't act like you're in charge, Yamato.
BUBBLE2: Indeed.
BUBBLE3: Just because he's the president's cat.
BOX2: Hisui, Siamese, 6 years (Female)

BUBBLE4: Enough.
BUBBLE5: Let's just hurry this up.
BOX3: Gekkou, mixed breed, 7 years (Male)
BOX4: Raimu, Scottish Fold, 5 years (Male)
BUBBLE6: Do I have to be here, too?
BUBBLE7: I'm kinda sleepy.

BUBBLE8: It's about that fox that appeared yesterday.
BUBBLE9: We still don't know its whereabouts.

BUBBLE10: Fox?
BUBBLE11: You mean Kaen's lackey...
BUBBLE12: You let it escape?

BUBBLE13: The new kid interfered yesterday.
BUBBLE14: If it weren't for him, that thing would be dead.
BUBBLE15: Really?

105:
BUBBLE1: "The new kid"?
BUBBLE2: You guys didn't hear it from your masters?
BUBBLE3: They showed up yesterday. After accepting the Princess and Shirayuki-sama's christening, the two became the seventh pair.
BUBBLE4: That's what my Darling told me.

BUBBLE5: A seventh pair?
BUBBLE6: Huuuuh?
BUBBLE7: But isn't that different from the legend?

BUBBLE8: The Princess and Shirayuki-sama chose them.
BUBBLE9: This definitely means something.

BUBBLE10: ...So?
BUBBLE11: Where's the feline from this pair?

BUBBLE12: ...

BUBBLE13: Sakura went to go pick him up.

106:
BUBBLE1: ...
BUBBLE2: ...So.
BUBBLE3: What is this about?

BUBBLE4: My brother has called for you.
BOX1: Sakura, Pedigree, 5 years (Female)

BUBBLE5: Called for me?
BUBBLE6: Sorry, but Yumi made me wear something stupid this morning, so I'm not exactly in a good mood.

BUBBLE7: ... Because you, too, are a cat chosen by Shirayuki-sama...

107:
BUBBLE1: Shirayuki? You mean that ghost cat?
BUBBLE2: Wait, you just said "you, too," didn't you?
BUBBLE3: Right.

BUBBLE4: Suu (sfx: slowly appearing)
BUBBLE5: Like you, I also have the emblem.

BUBBLE6: You, too?
BUBBLE7: There are five others like us.

BUBBLE8: This way.

BUBBLE9: Ah,
BUBBLE10: there you are.
BUBBLE11: ?

108:
BUBBLE1: Hey
BUBBLE2: Hayakawa-san.

BUBBLE3: Ah!
BUBBLE4: Ah, Ah, Ah-
BUBBLE5: Akifuji-sempai!!?

BUBBLE6: Whoa, whoa, hold on!
BUBBLE7: What's going on here, Yumi?
BUBBLE8: You know him?
BUBBLE9: Um, hehe...
BUBBLE10: How long have you known him?
BUBBLE11: Uhhh...
BUBBLE12: Fufufu.

BUBBLE13: Are you free?

BUBBLE14: ... Um... Sempai? Where are we going?
BUBBLE15: The old schoolhouse.

BUBBLE16: One hundred years ago, the founder of this school designed and built the schoolhouse.
BUBBLE17: Did you know that?

109:
BUBBLE1: A young man who had no status of any kind suddenly built an entire schoolhouse.
BUBBLE2: Fufufu.
BUBBLE3: Kinda funny, huh?

BUBBLE4: Umm...
BUBBLE5: Is this related to what happened yesterday?
BUBBLE6: Of course.

BUBBLE7: Don't you think it's strange?
BUBBLE8: "Why doesn't anyone know what happened?"

BUBBLE9: Ye...
BUBBLE10: Yeah!
BUBBLE11: Even Nana-chan doesn't know, and she was right next to me...

BUBBLE12: Two types of barriers have been placed on the school.
BUBBLE13: Ones that have been placed on individual buildings
BUBBLE14: And once large barrier that covers the entire area.

BUBBLE15: You saw the former type yesterday, right?
BUBBLE16: It prevents the entry of anything spiritual.

BUBBLE17: As for the larger barrier...
BUBBLE18: It seems to effect a person's memory.

110:
BUBBLE1: When one wakes up, they forget anything of a spiritual nature.
BUBBLE2: Hey, you two.
BUBBLE3: Oh!
BUBBLE4: Hello, Tsubame-san.

TEXT1: He spoke to us. <3
TEXT2: He's so dreamy!
TEXT3: It's was like being owned by him. <3
BUBBLE5: He's popular with cats, too?

BUBBLE6: The only ones left with their memories have received the blessings of the Princess of Futakago and Shirayuki...
BUBBLE7: Huh?
BUBBLE8: Then, Akifuji-sempai, you too...?

BUBBLE9: The entire student council
BUBBLE10: is made up of those chosen by the Princess and Shirayuki.

111:
BUBBLE1: There's something you two need to see.
BUBBLE2: ?
BUBBLE3: "You two?"

BUBBLE4: !
BUBBLE5: Yumi!
BUBBLE6: Kansuke!

BUBBLE7: I've brought him.
BUBBLE8: Good work.

BUBBLE9: You're such a good girl, Sakura.
BUBBLE10: Fufufu.
BUBBLE11: She's just a cat, but...
BUBBLE12: his words towards her
BUBBLE13: somehow makes me a little jealous...

BUBBLE14: Hmph.

BUBBLE15: Let's go.

BUBBLE16: ...
BUBBLE17: You heard him.

112:
BUBBLE1: This is our library.

BUBBLE2: As the secretary, this is my domain.

BUBBLE3: But as you see, cat's use this place more than humans.
BUBBLE4: Don't mind them, though.
BUBBLE5: They're here for the high places.

BUBBLE6: ...

BUBBLE7: Don't sharpen your nails on the books!

BUBBLE8: Come on in.

113:
BUBBLE1: ...
BUBBLE2: What on earth is this place?

BUBBLE3: ...If you have to name it...
BUBBLE4: The Secret Room.
BUBBLE5: "The Secret Room?"
BUBBLE6: Sandou was a scholar of Western studies and this is where he stored all of his knowledge.
BUBBLE7: There are many spiritual things around this room, so... in short,

BUBBLE7: Normal people cannot enter.
BUBBLE8: chirin (ring)

BUBBLE9: That explanation smells fishy.

114:
BUBBLE1: Why a room like this?

BUBBLE2: Because there's something sealed here that wants to wake up.

BUBBLE3: Sealed...?
BUBBLE4: ...
BUBBLE5: That monster yesterday also mentioned a seal...
BUBBLE6: Fufufu, that's right...

BUBBLE7: A century ago, Sandou Akihito, the founder of this academy, built a seal
BUBBLE8: to contain the Grand Demon, Kaen, the nekomata

115:
BUBBLE1: Kaen...!!!

BUBBLE2: !?
BUBBLE3: Just who the hell is this "Kaen"!?

BUBBLE4: I'll explain from here.
BUBBLE5: Go ahead, Sakura.

BUBBLE6: !

BUBBLE7: This is Kaen.

116:
BUBBLE1: He's said to be an ancient cat god who is covered in a black oil and can manipulate flames at will.
BUBBLE2: He's sometimes called the progenitor of us modern felines.

BUBBLE3: He existed in Ancient Egypt
BUBBLE4: and has been sighted in Ancient China as well...
BUBBLE5: Apparently he's destoyed an early civilization.

BUBBLE6: ...Yes.
BUBBLE7: Kaen towers over all other spirit beasts,
BUBBLE8: and has repeatedly come to blows with civilization.

117:
BUBBLE1: The kingdom of Futakago, which once stood on this land, felt the wrath of Kaen;
BUBBLE2: it is said that the entire country was destroyed in one night.

BUBBLE3: Whoa...

BUBBLE4: Kaen's flames are intense enough to melt earth.
BUBBLE5: It's said that he can also summon earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

BUBBLE6: Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...!?
BUBBLE7: Is that true?

BUBBLE8: As Futakago was being destroyed, the already deceased Princess and Shirayuki-sama became spirits and sealed themselves and Kaen inside.
BUBBLE9: If they hadn't continued to maintain the barrier,
BUBBLE10: our own civilization probably wouldn't exist.

118:
BUBBLE1: ... After that, Sandou appeared exactly 100 years ago.
BUBBLE2: Kaen's power was completely sealed by him
BUBBLE3: and the land settled into a momentary peace.
BUBBLE4: Momentary?

BUBBLE5: Before he was sealed, Kaen said this:
BUBBLE6: "Prepare yourselves."

BUBBLE7: "For in one century I will rise again and annihilate all!"

BUBBLE8: ...
BUBBLE9: ...

BUBBLE10: ... In the end, the "preparations" are this school and us.
BUBBLE11: Did you get all that?

119:
BUBBLE1: Uh, maybe I'm wrong
BUBBLE2: but I don't think yarn can stop eruptions and earthquakes.
BUBBLE3: Really?

BUBBLE4: If stuff like that really starts happening, then the police...
BUBBLE5: ... Shouldn't you be informing the Self-Defense Force?

BUBBLE6: You have a point.
BUBBLE7: But even the Self-Defense Force can't stop eruptions and earthquakes.

BUBBLE8: Besides, Sandou would've considered all of that, right?
BUBBLE9: He lived until 1962.

BUBBLE10: But in the end this is the method he chose:

BUBBLE11: To deliver this room's key
BUBBLE12: to us, 100 years later.

120:
BUBBLE1: Who delivered it to you?
BUBBLE2: These guys did.

BUBBLE3: As one of Shirayuki-sama's descendants, we work to protect this land.

BUBBLE4: Pfft.
BUBBLE5: What a waste of time.

BUBBLE6: Let's go, Yumi.
BUBBLE7: This has got nothing to do with us.

BUBBLE8: But...
BUBBLE9: The Princess said that whoever holds this power can't run away...

BUBBLE10: But that doesn't mean you have to stick you neck out.
BUBBLE11: Especially a dimwit like you.
BUBBLE12: C'mon.

121:
BUBBLE1: Fufufu.
BUBBLE2: Don't tell me you lost your nerve because the enemy looks powerful.

BUBBLE3: Don't be stupid.

BUBBLE4: Then that leaves only one reason, eh?
BUBBLE5: Hmm...

BUBBLE6: ?

BUBBLE7: Before you decide, you may want to hear the Princess' message that Sandou left behind for us.

BUBBLE8: !?

BUBBLE9: "Once it has all ended, Heaven and Earth will remain
BUBBLE10: and one's dearest desire will be met."
BUBBLE11: !

122:
BUBBLE1: It's has to mean that once you defeat Kaen one wish of yours will be realized.
BUBBLE2: ...!

BUBBLE3: Do you have a wish that you want to come true?

BUBBLE4: ...

BUBBLE5: ...Kansuke?

123:
BUBBLE1: Everyone's waiting for us up ahead.
BUBBLE2: ...
BUBBLE3: That's where Kaen's seal is.

BUBBLE4: So, what'll it be?

BUBBLE5: ...What do you want to do, Kansuke?
BUBBLE6: ...

BUBBLE7: Che.

BUBBLE8: All right, I'm going.

BUBBLE9: Fufu...
BUBBLE10: Thank goodness.

BUBBLE11: Sheesh, he's so hard to please...

BUBBLE12: Um...
BUBBLE13: Sempai, may I ask you something?
BUBBLE14: What is it?

124:
BUBBLE1: Can Sakura-chan...
BUBBLE2: Can she turn into humanoid like Kansuke can?
BUBBLE3: No, she can't.
BUBBLE4: ...Why?

BUBBLE5: Okay, we're here.

BUBBLE6: Hmm?

BUBBLE7: ?

125:
BUBBLE1: ...

BUBBLE2: What's wrong, president?
BUBBLE3: Akifuji.

BUBBLE4: ?
BUBBLE5: Look.

BUBBLE6: ...

126-127:
BUBBLE1: Kaen's sealed stone...!!
BUBBLE2: It split... !!?

128:
BUBBLE1: Since when?
BUBBLE2: There was nothing wrong when I checked here yesterday.
BUBBLE3: ...

BUBBLE4: What's going on?
BUBBLE5: No clue...

BUBBLE6: It has begun, Shirayuki.
BUBBLE7: Indeed.

BUBBLE8: Finally... the curtain has risen.

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