Kurenai 41

Chapter 41

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Text: Kirihiko disappears amid the rubble.
SFX: Rumble rumble

Murasaki: K-

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!!
Shinkurou: No, Murasaki!!!

SFX: Crumble

SFX: Step

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SFX: Crash

Shinkurou: Y-

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san!!!

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Yuuno: Getting help from others is not a bad thing.

Yuuno: I thought I had taught you that.

SFX: Crash

Yuuno: C'mon, we need to hurry!!

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Yuuno: This way, quickly!!

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!
SFX: Grab

Murasaki: ...Kirihiko.

Murasaki: Kirihikoooooooo!!!!!
SFX: Rumble...

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Text: Volume 7 will be released on June 3rd!!
Bottom: This manga has the cover and color pages in SQ.19's spring issue (released on 5/19)!!
Bottom corner: A friend's vow has died and disappeared...
Title: Chapter 41 Surely
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

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Shinkurou: ...I see.
Shinkurou: So you told Yuuno-san...
SFX: Step

07

Ginko: You owe me so many things...
Ginko: that it would be a problem if you died.

SFX: Step

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SFX: Step forward

Shinkurou: Kiba-san...

Kiba: It seems you were of assistance in...
Kiba: protecting Lady Murasaki.

Shinkurou: No...
Shinkurou: I...

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Shinkurou: ...I...

Kiba: She had always wanted to die in the line of duty.

Text: Heh

Kiba: But, well...
Kiba: it does not seem that her life is in real danger.

Shinkurou: Eh!?

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SFX: Roll roll

Kiba: She was cut such that all of the vital areas were avoided.

Shinkurou: ...Is that so?

Box: Kirihiko-chan...
Box: So you really did not intend to kill Lin-san.

Murasaki: Even so...
Murasaki: Kirihiko hurt Lin.

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Kiba: Milady...It is about time to...
Murasaki: No!!
Murasaki: I will not leave here...
Murasaki: until Kirihiko...shows up...

Murasaki: ...I need to scold her.

Murasaki: I need to...
Murasaki: tell her she shouldn't fight like that!!

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Shinkurou: ...Murasaki...

Murasaki: But Shinkurou...

Murasaki: Even so, Kirihiko is...
Murasaki: Kirihiko is...

Murasaki: Kirihiko is a good person!!!

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Murasaki: Ahhh....Wahhhhhh.

SFX: Hug

Shinkurou: I know, Mursaki.
Shinkurou: I know.

SFX: Rinnng

SFX: Beep
Lucy: Well done, Kurenai-san.

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Lucy: This is Lucy May.

Box: Three days later

SFX: Step

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Lucy: Hey, over here, Kurenai-san.

Lucy: Sorry about...
Lucy: calling you here when you're so worn out.

Lucy: Oh, do you want to order something?
Lucy: This place has a really good cherry pie.

Lucy: It's on me.
Lucy: I borrowed money from you before after all.

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Lucy: Congratulations.
Lucy: You passed,
Lucy: Kurenai Shinkurou-san.

Shinkurou: Eh?

Lucy: Frank Blanca is dead.
SFX: Clatter

Lucy: Shiguhara Ritsu-san's request was carried out.
Lucy: And you survived.
Lucy: I was a bit worried for a bit there.
Lucy: The company would have suffered a major loss if you had died.

Lucy: Anyway, you passed.
Lucy: We will be making a contract with you as someone even more skilled than Bigfoot.

Lucy: Now.
Lucy: Just sign here.
SFX: Slide

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Shinkurou: How many people do you think died?

Lucy: ...Hah?

Shinkurou: How many people...
Shinkurou: do you think died during all this?

Lucy: What?

Shinkurou: How many people do you think died!!?
SFX: Crack

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Lucy: How many people died?

Shinkurou: You...!!

Lucy: Of course, there were quite a few sacrifices.
Lucy: However, the company puts the completion of our requests at top priority.
Lucy: The amount of sacrifices that happen to go along with that are of no interest to us.

Box: This is the Akuu Company.

Box: It is an organization...
Box: that deals solely in business regardless of good or evil.
Box: It is an organization that will...
Box: save countless people and kill countless people without the slightest emotion.

Shinkurou: I have no intention of joining the Akuu Company.

Lucy: Come now, Kurenai-san. Stay calm.
Lucy: For instance...
Lucy: don't you want to know?

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Lucy: There was that explosion at the international airport...

Lucy: that you and Shiguhara-san...
Lucy: were wrapped up in 8 years ago.

Lucy: Don't you want to know...
Lucy: who did that?

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SFX: Slam

Shinkurou: Do you know something!!?

Shinkurou: Don't tell me someone from the Akuu Company did that...!

Lucy: No.
SFX: Clatter
Lucy: But we have some information on it.

Lucy: If you sign this contract with us...

Lucy: I will tell you everything.
SFX: Wind...

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Murasaki: That's a lie.

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!?

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Shinkurou: What are you doing here...!?
SFX: Step
Murasaki: I'll explain later.

Murasaki: I have good ears.
Murasaki: I heard what you have been saying...
Murasaki: and I had to come out like this because it was so ridiculous.

Lucy: Kurenai-san, who is this kid?

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Murasaki: Just keep talking, you liar!!

Lucy: I'm not lying.

Murasaki: That is also a lie.

SFX: Step step

SFX: Step forward

Murasaki: Where were you born?

Lucy: Eh?

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Lucy: Florida in America.

Murasaki: That's a lie.
Murasaki: How old are you?

Lucy: 24.
Murasaki: A lie.
Murasaki: What's your name?

Lucy: Lucy May.

Murasaki: Another lie.
Murasaki: You tell nothing but lies.
Murasaki: Don't tell me your feminine look is a lie, too.

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SFX: Rustle

SFX: Flip flip...

Lucy: I see...A Kuhouin...
Lucy: How frightening.
Lucy: She can see through my words on intuition alone...

Lucy: Kurenai-san.
Lucy: It is true that not everything I have said is the truth.
Lucy: As this girl says, there were lies mixed in.
Lucy: However, if you join the company...

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Shinkurou: No, thank you.

Shinkurou: I don't know what will happen from now on...
Shinkurou: but I will head forward in my own way.

Murasaki: And I'll be with you!

Shinkurou: Thanks,
Shinkurou: Murasaki.
SFX: Place

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Shinkurou: You've taught me a lot.

Lucy: I see.

SFX: Creak

Lucy: And I was so close to getting the Fighting Demon of <Houzuki>...
SFX: Tap tap

Lucy: I'm guessing Hoshigami-san is going to be in bad mood again...
Lucy: Sigh.

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Shinkurou: You really saved me there.
Shinkurou: Thanks, Murasaki.

Shinkurou: M-

Shinkurou: ...Murasaki.

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Murasaki: Everyone...
Murasaki: is gone...

Murasaki: Ritsu is...
Murasaki: and Kirihiko is...

Murasaki: Shinkurou.

Murasaki: Is Kirihiko...
Murasaki: Is Kirihiko really...
Murasaki: dead?

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Shinkurou: I'm sorry.
Shinkurou: Murasaki.

Shinkurou: If I was stronger...

Kids: That was amazing...
Kids: back there!

Kids: I didn't know there was a girl that good at video games.
Kids: The way she used that knife was not normal.

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Kids: But I'd gladly let a girl that cute cut me up.

SFX: Slide

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Murasaki: K-

SFX: Chatter chatter

SFX: Step forward

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Murasaki: Sh-

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

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Murasaki: It's Kirihiko!!!
Murasaki: Kirihiko really was here!!

Shinkurou: Yes...
Shinkurou: Surely that was...

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Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan.
Text: Surely, she is somewhere out there...
Bottom: To be continued in the July Issue.