Kurenai 30

Chapter 30

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SFX: Boom
Text: Volume ５ will be released on July 2nd!!

SFX: Bang bang
Text: Zena vs. Benika! A mid-air battle!!

Zena: I'm glad, Juuzawa Benika!!
SFX: Ching

Zena: I get to fight with a business rival of the Akuu Company, a dispute mediator.
Zena: And a top-class one at that!!

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SFX: Punch

Zena: And that Kurenai kid is getting killed right now!!

Zena: Because "Red Cap" was given the Hoshigami Horn!!
Benika: ...What?

Zena: Ah ha ha ha!!
Zena: His method of straying from the proper path was quite the odd one!!

Zena: He had the Hoshigami-made murder weapon...
Zena: transplanted into his arm!!

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Text: That smile is where he needs to return to...
Title: Chapter 30 Akama Seki
Text: A new one-shot will appear in SQ. 19 (Coming out 5/19)! See page 4787 for details!!

SFX: Land

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Tamaki: Lin-san, did you win your battle?
Lin: ...Of course.

Tamaki: I really wanted to get along with such cute girls...
Tamaki: But...

Lin: The Akuu Company isn't bad...
Lin: They were pretty strong.

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SFX: Step

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SFX: Twitch

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SFX: Spurt

Yuuno: Sh-...!!

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san!!
SFX: Grab

Yuuno: Let go!!
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san is...!!

Seki: It's useless.
Seki: After that attack, he's already-

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SFX: Stand

Seki: Was my strike too shallow...?

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Shinkurou: An attack like that...can't defeat me...
SFX: Drip

Shinkurou: The burdens held by your blade and my horn...
Shinkurou: are completely different.

Shinkurou: It's true you're a lot like me.

Shinkurou: A lot like...
Shinkurou: how I was before I met Murasaki.

Shinkurou: What did you think would change if you got Yuuno-san?
Shinkurou: Nothing would change.
Shinkurou: So long as you continued treating her like an "object"...

SFX: Jump

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SFX: Clang

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san is a precious member of my family.

Shinkurou: She's irreplaceable.

Shinkurou: And that's...
SFX: Crack

Shinkurou: what resides in my "horn".

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Shinkurou: It's the power of "Houzuki"!!!

SFX: Bam

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SFX: Shatter

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Leftmost SFX: Bang
Bubble SFX: Kaching
Rightmost SFX: Wobble

SFX: Ching

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SFX: Bang

SFX: Push

SFX: Bang bang

Zena: Ow...!!
Zena: You really do choose some painful spots...!!

Zena: She used the gun's recoil to get to the other building...!!?

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SFX: Land

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Crash

Benika: How are things over there?

Yayoi: Housen-sama seems to have spoken with the client's organization.

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Yayoi: He asked them to choose between...
Yayoi: giving up on Houzuki or having their organization destroyed.

Benika: Heh.
Benika: So they underestimated him just because he's retired from the underworld.

Benika: I came out here thinking I would repay them for taking care of Shinkurou back then...
Benika: but it seems I wasn't needed.

Lucy: Are you okay, Zena-san?

Lucy: Wow...Juuzawa Benika sure is formidable.
Lucy: Even someone as obsessed with the Inner Thirteen Families as me can clearly tell her strength is something else...

SFX: Crumble...

Lucy: Also...
Lucy: It's a bit awkward to report this to you at a time like this...

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Lucy: but Red Cap-san seems to have killed the client.

Zena: What do you mean?

Lucy: Who knows.
Lucy: Maybe he's "strayed from the proper path" again.

Zena: The "Houzuki" matter is no longer of any consequence...
Zena: More importantly, you need to call "Guillotine".
Lucy: Eh?

Zena: The idiot who completely ruined our work needs to be severely punished.

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SFX: Drip

SFX: Stop

Seki: Heh.
Seki: So I was treating her like an object...?

Seki: Then what about the girl who has become the source of your power...?
Seki: That Kuhouin girl?

Seki: Kuhouin women are no more than objects in that house...

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SFX: Drip
Shinkurou: Quiet.

Shinkurou: Murasaki's...
Shinkurou: different...

Shinkurou: ...Murasaki's...
SFX: Wobble...

SFX: Collapse

SFX: Catch

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Housen: It's been a while,
Housen: Seki.

Seki: M-master...
SFX: Prop up
Seki: Meiri-san...

SFX: Hug

Meiri: ...I'm sorry, Seki-kun.
Meiri: I didn't notice the darkness that was inside you...

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Housen: We've heard the story from Ginko-chan.
Housen: This was all your doing.

Housen: As was what happened 5 years ago...

SFX: Sit
SFX: Surprise

Housen: You damn fool.
Housen: You really haven't changed at all since back then.

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Housen: You never, ever...
Housen: tell us anything.

Housen: In the end...
Housen: I didn't get anything.

Housen: Power...
Housen: or a family...

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Meiri: Seki-kun...

Meiri: If you like, you can come back to Houzuki...
Seki: I can't do that.

Seki: There's no way I can do that!!

Seki: I...

Seki: I...

SFX: Stand
Meiri: ...Ah.

Meiri: S-Seki-kun!

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Housen: Meiri.

Housen: Let him go.

Meiri: B-but...
Meiri: This is too much...

Housen: It's our responsibility as well as his...
Housen: that he turned out the way he did.

Housen: We have no choice but to silently...
Housen: bear his sins along with him.

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Text: The Next Day

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san.

Shinkurou: Are you thinking about him?

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Shinkurou: I'm sure he'll...

Yuuno: I know.

Yuuno: I'm sure he'll come back, too.

Yuuno: It may not be anytime soon...
Yuuno: but I'm sure...
Yuuno: he'll atone for his sins and come back.

Yuuno: That's what I believe.

Shinkurou: Yeah.

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Shinkurou: He was your first love,
Shinkurou: wasn't he?
Yuuno: Huh?

Yuuno: ...What are you saying?

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: But...you always look so happy when you talk about him.

Yuuno: I don't know what you're talking about.
SFX: Snub

Yuuno: C'mon...How can you never figure it out?

Yuuno: My...

Yuuno: first love was...

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Murasaki: Shinkurou!!
SFX: Bam
Shinkurou: Wah!!

Murasaki: Are you done!? Then let's go play!!
Text: Ow ow ow
Shinkurou: O-okay, okay.

Shinkurou: ...Huh?
Shinkurou: Come to think of it, where's Kirihiko-chan?

Murasaki: Hm?
Murasaki: She said she wouldn't be coming.

Murasaki: She said she had something to do.

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SFX: Slash

SFX: Wobble...

SFX: Collapse...

Box: Kirihiko-kun may not have cared...
Box: but Hoshigami-san was furious at Akama-san for attacking the client.

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Box: In order to maintain trust with the Akuu Company...
Box: he had to take responsibility for what he had done.

Kirihiko: ...Whose grave is that?

SFX: Gasp gasp

Seki: An old...
Seki: friend's...

Seki: One who...
Seki: I killed...

Seki: ......I wanted...
Seki: to apologize...

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Kirihiko: Shut up!!!

SFX: Pant pant
Kirihiko: ...Damn it...!!

Kirihiko: I...!!
Kirihiko: I...!!

Kirihiko: Aaaaaaah!
Text: Friend...That word has shaken Kirihiko!!

Bottom: To be continued in the July Issue