Kurenai 18

Chapter 18

01

Kirihiko: Such a boring job...

Kirihiko: Against such boring opponents...
Text: Criminals slipping into the darkness...and a predator!!

Kirihiko: And such boring kills...

02-03

Text on the right: The girl thirsts...
Title: Chapter 18 Guillotine - First Part

Man: Hm?

04

Man: W...
Man: We're under attack!!!

Man: "Guillotine"!!!

05

Kirihiko: You people...

Kirihiko: are so boring.

06

Text in top panel: The next day

SFX in bottom right panel: *drop*
Murasaki: Aaah!!

Shinkurou: ...Do you want me to do it for you?

07

Murasaki: No!
Murasaki: I'm going to save it!

Murasaki: Just like you saved me, Shinkurou!

SFX: Rinnnng

Sign: Newspaper Club

Ginko: ...I see.

08

Ginko: I thought you were leaving earlier than usual lately...
Ginko: So you're with Murasaki-chan...

Shinkurou: Yeah... She's taken quite a liking to the crane game.
Shinkurou: She plays it here every day...

Ginko: You sure are carefree...

Ginko: You haven't been doing it at all lately, have you?
Shinkurou: Doing what?

Ginko: Your job as a dispute mediator!

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Ginko: Keep this up and you're going to be wandering the streets in a couple of years.
Shinkurou: S-sorry.
Shinkurou: We can talk about this later...

Shinkurou: Murasaki's waiting for me, so...

Counter 48 People Defeated

SFX: Beep

Shinkurou: Wow...

10

Ginko: Well, if worse comes to worse and you're out of a job, you can stay with me at the ramen shop...

Ginko: Are you even listening!!?

Shinkurou: ...Sorry.

11

SFX: Beep

Guy: Don't fuck with me, bitch!!!

Guy: Who cares if you've beaten 50 people in a row!!!
Guy: How 'bout you fight me for real!?
Guy: Huh!!?

Shinkurou: ...Ginko.
Shinkurou: I'll call you back.

12

Murasaki: Why is that guy getting so worked up over a stupid game?

Shinkurou: Murasaki!
Shinkurou: Stay back! It's dangerous...!!
Text left of Shinkurou: And I don't want to hear that from you.

Guy: Say something!!

Guy: Ngah!!

13

Shinkurou: Hurry. Come with me!!

Murasaki: Shinkurou.

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Murasaki: Why did we have to run?

Murasaki: This makes it look like that bad guy was stronger.

Shinkurou: No...
Shinkurou: It doesn't.

Kirihiko: Um...

Shinkurou: Ah...
Shinkurou: Sorry, but you should stay here a bit longer...

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Kirihiko: I'm...
Kirihiko: a virgin.

Shinkurou: Ahh...

Shinkurou: Huh?
Kirihiko: I appreciate the thought...

Kirihiko: But...
Kirihiko: Taking me out into the back alley so suddenly is...
Kirihiko: Well...um...
Kirihiko: How should I put it...

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Murasaki: What's a "virgin"?
Shinkurou: Eh!!?

Kirihiko: And...

Kirihiko: A threesome?

Shinkurou: Wait...N-no, that's not it!!
Murasaki: What's a "threesome"...?
Shinkurou: I said that's not it!!!

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Kirihiko: So that's it...

Kirihiko: I was sure you were trying to pick me up...
Shinkurou: No...I don't try and pick up chicks.
Shinkurou: And especially not in that kind of situation...

Murasaki: ..."pick up chicks"...
Small text in the left of Murasaki's bubble: I don't understand.
Shinkurou: You don't need to understand.

Kirihiko: You're...
Kirihiko: a good person.

Kirihiko: You are a nice guy.
[TN: She says this in English.]
Shinkurou: ...Thanks.
Shinkurou: Umm...

Kirihiko: I'm Kirishima...
Kirihiko: Kirihiko.

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Kirihiko: Please call me...
[TN: English again.]
Text right of Kirihiko: You write it like this.
Kirihiko: Kirihiko.

Shinkurou: Kirihiko...
Shinkurou: Wait...
Shinkurou: That's a...guy's name...

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Shinkurou: Eee!!?
Kirihiko: They're there.
Kirihiko: Even if they're small.

Kirihiko: If you want, I can show you down below...
Shinkurou: No, that's enough!!!

Murasaki: Mine may be small, but I have them, too!!
Shinkurou: Murasaki!!!

Shinkurou: You...
Shinkurou: You probably shouldn't be doing that...
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan.

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Kirihiko: Kirihiko...
Kirihiko: -chan...

Kirihiko: How cute...

Kirihiko: That's the first time...
Kirihiko: someone's called me that.

SFX: Beep beep beep beep

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SFX: Beep
Kirihiko: ...A job.

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: A job...?

Kirihiko: I'm a hit man.
[TN: English again.]

Shinkurou: A hit man...
Shinkurou: A professional killer...?

Murasaki: Mh.

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Murasaki: That's it for today.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Murasaki: I have a party I have to go to as a representative of the Kuhouin Family.

Murasaki: I want to play more, but this is the duty of a Kuhouin.
Shinkurou: Oh...
Shinkurou: Is that so...?

Murasaki: See ya tomorrow, Shinkurou!

Shinkurou: Yeah...

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Shinkurou: Murasaki really has been trying hard since she left the "Inner Sanctuary"

Shinkurou: For the sake of her wish...
Shinkurou: For the sake of living in the outer world.
Shinkurou: And she's at an age where she really just wants to play around...

24

Shinkurou: If you compare me with her...

Ginko: Keep this up and you're going to be wandering the streets in a couple of years.

SFX: *cough*

25

Benika: Quite a troubled expression you have there.

Shinkurou: B...!!
Shinkurou: Benika-san!!

26

Shinkurou: When did you get to Japan...?
Benika: Yesterday.

Benika: Are things not going well with Murasaki?
Shinkurou: No...it's not that...

Benika: I've been so busy with all these jobs.
Benika: I haven't even properly seen my son's face.

Benika: The organization of organ smugglers in Southeast Asia.
Benika: The French cannibal sisters.
Benika: The perverted lolicon priest of that demonic church...

Benika: Geez...
Benika: There are more disputes in this world...
Benika: than there are grains of sand on the beaches.

Shinkurou: ...You do sound busy.

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Benika: How about it?
Benika: Can I leave one of them to you?

Shinkurou: ...Benika-san.

Shinkurou: Does that mean...
Shinkurou: that you knew I didn't have any jobs of my own...?

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Kirihiko: Ah...
Kirihiko: Yes.

Kirihiko: Sigh...
Kirihiko: Understood...So that organization is the target.

Waitress: Sorry for the wait.

Kirihiko: Okay...I'll go.

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Kirihiko: By the way...

Kirihiko: The opponents this time...

Kirihiko: They're worth getting excited over, right?

30

Benika: Yayoi.
Benika: Give him the file.

Benika: So?

Text left of Shinkurou: A foreign criminal organization, huh...?

Shinkurou: Understood.

Shinkurou & Kirihiko: This job...

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Shinkurou: Please let me do it!!

Kirihiko: I'll do it!!
Text in lower left: A sudden change in Kirihiko! Will they inevitably clash!?