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Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 24

Sun, 13 May 2012 05:31:01 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 24

01

Kujou: Bring out one hostage from each of the G12 nations including Japan...
Kujou: and execute them.
Woman: Honey!

Man: E-
Man: Ee!
Man: Wh-what!?
Man: What are you doing?

Woman: Stop!
Woman: Don't take her away!

Kujou: Film the execution and send it out to the whole world.
Boy: Papa!

Kujou: After that, have all the world's governments sell their American dollars in addition to Japan.
Kujou: The instant the world's exchange system goes back up, it will be over!!
Text: Volume 2 goes on sale Friday December 16th!

02-03

Kujou: What is wrong, Condor?
Kujou: Are you having doubts?
Condor: ...No.

Condor: It's just...the JSDF is supposed to protect.
Condor: If I said the thought of using our power for violence was not making me hesitate...
Condor: I would be lying.

Kujou: The idea that violence cannot change things...
Kujou: is a lie.
Kujou: Every time the world has been changed it was by unilateral violence.

Condor: ...Yes.
Condor: I understand that growing coldhearted is the only way to change the state of the country.

Condor: We cannot...
Condor: remain like slaves with the right to change of our own will having been taken from us.

Kujou: Yes.
Kujou: That is why we have decided to become the foundation.
Text: A twisted conviction that will not change!!
Credit; Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
Kujou: We are sacrificing ourselves as terrorists to make this a truly independent nation that has pride!!
Title: File 24 The Deadly Front Lines

Fujimaru: We don't have time.
Fujimaru: Please hurry, J!

Fujimaru: I came this far, so just tell me what to do.
Fujimaru: I will see this through to the end!!

04

J: Perfect!
J: Show me your conviction is more than just talk...
J: by pulling this off, Falcon.

J: You will need to accept the risk of death.
J: First...

Fujimaru: Are you...
Fujimaru: serious?
J: Do you really think...
J: I would be joking right now?

Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: one wrong step...
Fujimaru: and Hibiki would...!!

05

J: If you have another idea, I'm listening...
J: but thanks to a certain someone, we're a bit short on time.

J: Or...
J: is this too difficult for you?
J: I thought the great Falcon would be up to the task...

J: but perhaps I overestimated you.

Fujimaru: Fine, I'll do it.
Fujimaru: I will protect the hostages and Hibiki!!
SFX: Dramatic

J: I'm sick of hearing that.
J: How about you actually start doing it?
J: Y'know, before it's too late?
J: Okay?

SFX: Click

06

Fujimaru: I've...
Fujimaru: already started!!
SFX: Shine

J: Tokyo Neo Tower has...
J: base stations from various cell phone providers inside it.
J: Cell phones connect to the closest station where the signal will be the strongest...

J: so if you hack into the servers of the stations in the tower...
J: you gain access to all the cell phones in the area.

Michael: Cell phones?

07

J: Our interception of the terrorists' radio communications...
J: has stopped picking up on information on what they are doing.

J: That means the Storyteller is likely responding to Falcon's intervention...
J: by having the terrorists communicate via cell phone.

J: But...
J: if they have done that...

Fujimaru: Okay, got it!
Fujimaru: There are 5279 cell phones transmitting faint signals in the tower!!

Michael: That was fast!
Michael: You already hacked into all the companies' servers!?

Fujimaru: Okay, I'm removing the ones used by the Third-i guards.
Fujimaru: If I then take just the ones that have made calls in the past 5 minutes...

08-09

Fujimaru: That's 35!!

J: The hostages had their cell phones and other means of communicating taken away.
J: Those 35 should all belong to the terrorists.
J: And...
J: The phone used most frequently in the past 5 minutes should be...

Fujimaru: Found it!!
Fujimaru: In all likelihood, this is the Storyteller's.
Fujimaru: This is his phone!!

Fujimaru: Okay!
Fujimaru: We have a chance now!!

SFX: Blank stare
J: Well...
J: I pretty much expected this...

J: but we need to be on our guard.

Fujimaru: Hibiki!!
SFX: Dash
Hibiki: Understood!

10

Terrorists: The camera is ready.
Terrorists: We can begin the satellite broadcast at any time.
SFX: Clatter clatter
Terrorists: Just give the signal.
SFX: Chatter...
Terrorists: okay...

Man: T-take me if you wish...
Man: but please!! At least...
Man: let the children go!!

Terrorists: I thought we told you we would do anything to achieve our goal?
SFX: Chatter

Terrorists: You will join us as this nation's...
Terrorists: No...
SFX: Energetic
Terrorists: this world's foundation!!

Crowd: Kyaahhh!!
Crowd: Honey! Mary!!
SFX: Ahhhh!!
Crowd: Ee!
Crowd: Ahhhnnn!! Mamaaaa!! Papaaaa!!

SFX: Clench...

11

SFX: Vvvv
SFX: Vvvv

SFX: Pull out
Terrorist: ...Yes?
Terrorist: This is Seagull,
Terrorist: Storyteller.

Kujou: There is hesitation in your voice.
Terrorist: No, I-...
Terrorist: ...I apologize.
Kujou: It is understandable.

Kujou: Leave the dirty work to those who lean in that direction.

Kujou: The executors...
Kujou: will arrive soon.

SFX: Knock knock

Terrorist: ...Enter.

12

Woman: We are here to take care of those 12...
Woman: on the Storyteller's orders.

Woman: We are enough.
Woman: You wait outside.

Terrorist: Sure...Thanks.
Terrorist: Do you know how to work the camera?
SFX: Step
Woman: Yes.

13

SFX: Appear
SFX: Turn on
Crowd: Kyaaaahhhh!

Crowd: Honey, honey!
Crowd: Stop!!
Crowd: What are you doing!? Stop, please!!
Crowd: Oh...Elisa!!

Terrorist: We are Bloody Monday.
SFX: Step
Terrorist: Are you listening, governments of the world?

Terrorist: The prologue is about to begin.
Terrorist: We will do whatever it takes to achieve our noble goal.

14

Terrorist: We have but one demand.
Terrorist: That is for each country to sell off all of their American dollars.

Terrorist: If you do so, the hostages will be freed and no more innocent lives will be lost.
Terrorist: Like this.
SFX: Chk

15

SFX: Bang

Crowd: Eeee!
Crowd: Waaahhh!

SFX: Bang bang

Crowd: Gyah!!

SFX: Bang bang

Crowd: Ah...

16

Terrorist: I repeat...
Terrorist: this is the prologue.
Terrorist: We pray that you...
Terrorist: come to a quick decision.
SFX: Type type type type type

SFX: Turn off...

SFX: Silence...

SFX: Press...

17

Kujou: Well done.
Kujou: Seagull, that is enough.
Kujou: Return here.
Crowd: U-uhhh...
Crowd: Oh, god...

Terrorist: Okay...
Terrorist: Understood.

Terrorists: They really...
Terrorists: show no mercy.
SFX: Step step step
Terrorists: Shh.
Terrorists: They'll hear you.

Woman: Mission complete.

18-19

Hibiki: How did it go, Fujimaru?
SFX: Dramatic
Hibiki: Did those outside not realize they were just being knocked out with electric bullets?

Fujimaru: No.
Fujimaru: Well done, Hibiki!
Man: Uuh...

Fujimaru: Well?
Fujimaru: That went exactly as you planned,
Fujimaru: J!

J: Well done.
J: Using samples of Kujou's voice to synthesize a fake order...
J: really is one of your specialties.

20

Fujimaru: But the problem is how to settle this.
SFX: Roooar
Fujimaru: We need to hurry to the next step.
Fujimaru: The financial crisis that comes with the exchange system recovering...
Fujimaru: is just 40 minutes away!

Text: Current Time: 21:45
Remaining Time 40:00
Bottom: To be continued in Combined Issue 4/5

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 23

Thu, 03 May 2012 22:49:06 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 23

01

J: I had two terrorists in the control room eliminated to restore the system.
J: The enemy is headed for the control room too.
J: First, you need to slip past the battlefield...
J: and get to the control room...
J: before they do.

Fujimaru: The control room is on the west end of the Gate Floor!
Fujimaru: I need to hurry!

Fujimaru: I've secured a route!

Fujimaru: I don't see any terrorists on the surveillance cameras.
Fujimaru: Okay, just a bit further...

02

Fujimaru: Oh, no!!

Terrorist: I've spotted someone! Hurry!!

SFX: Chk
Terrorist: Take him out!!

SFX: Bang

Fujimaru: Ohh!
Fujimaru: Damn you!!
SFX: Shatter

SFX: Rumble

03

SFX: Crash
Terrorist: Gyaahh!!
SFX: Thud

Fujimaru: Damn!
Fujimaru: Two got through!
Fujimaru: Hurry up!!

Fujimaru: Almost there...
Fujimaru: That's the door!

Fujimaru: The code number is...
SFX: Beep beep beep

Terrorist: There he is!
SFX: Appear

Terrorist: The bastard's after the control room.
SFX: Chk

04

SFX: Beep
SFX: Click

SFX: Bang bang bang

SFX: Slam
SFX: Clang clang clang
SFX: Click

Terrorist: Kh...He's inside the control room!
Terrorist: Hey, open up!
SFX; Wham
Terrorist: We'll just destroy the door if you don't!!

Fujimaru: Like I'll...
Fujimaru: let you do that!
Fujimaru: Now that I'm here, I can do anything!
Fujimaru: First...

05

SFX: Pour
Fujimaru: I turn the hall's sprinklers on full blast!
Fujimaru: And then...

SFX: Rain
SFX: Sizzle sizzle

SFX: Boom boom boom

SFX: Zap

SFX: Zap zap zap

06

Terrorist: Gahhhh!
SFX: Zap

Fujimaru: Hello, terrorists.
Fujimaru: Do not come any closer to the control room!

Fujimaru: If you do, I will respond with a current more on the level of an electric chair!
Terrorist: Gh...

Terrorist: Let's fall back.
Terrorist: Contact the Storyteller!

07

Fujimaru: This is my fortress.
Fujimaru: Starting now...
Top: Volume 1 is on sale now!
Text: He displays his true ability!!
Fujimaru: I am the brain of...
Fujimaru: Tokyo Neo Tower!!
Title: File 23 Example Sacrifices
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

08

Kujou: I see.

Kujou: After contact was lost with the two in the control room, the system came back up.
Kujou: Whoever took control can freely use the system.
Kujou: There is no mistaking it.

Kujou: This uncertain factor is...

SFX: Click click

Kujou: Condor.
Kujou: It's me.
Condor: What is it?
Condor: Why are you using the phone?

Kujou: I know who the uncertain factor is.
Kujou: It is Takagi Fujimaru.
Kujou: The wizard-class hacker known as Falcon.

09

Kujou: Falcon has complete control of the tower's main system.
Kujou: He may also have a connection to the remnants of Third-i.
Kujou: It is possible our operation could drag on.

Kujou: In case he is monitoring our communications, we should do it all by phone now.
Kujou: We already shared all our numbers.

Condor: I have heard of this hacker known as Falcon...
Condor: but he is just a boy of around 20.
Condor: I do not see why you should fear him.

10

Kujou: Many people have underestimated him for that reason and been crushed by him.
Kujou: As his presence was not made public, people in the JSDF like you may not know...

Kujou: but he was working in secret during the incident a year ago.
Kujou: With nothing but a single computer, he ended the terrorist attack by destroying an enemy that annihilated an American intelligence team and a platoon of special units.
Kujou: It was not because of Third-i's ability that we were forced to reshape our plan.
Kujou: It was mostly due to his frightening hacking ability.

11

Condor: So his presence rivals that of an army...
Condor: or...
Condor: even more?
Kujou: Yes.

Kujou: But if we are up against Falcon, we can use Takagi Haruka.
Kujou: Bring her back immediately.
Condor: About that...

Condor: I cannot contact Shrike and the other who took her.
Condor: It seems they have...

Kujou: betrayed us...
Kujou: or...
Kujou: been switched out with someone else?

12

Kujou: I see.
Kujou: I had heard he had disappeared.
Kujou: So he has gotten himself here.

Condor: Storyteller?
Kujou: Listen, Condor.

Kujou: Due to unknown trouble, the world's exchange system was brought down.
Condor: Yes.
Condor: I had heard it was overloaded due to the concentrated transactions.

13

Kujou: Most likely, it was Falcon.

Kujou: If that system had not gone down, one of our objectives would have already been completed.

Kujou: The demand we gave the Japanese government...
Kujou: was to sell all of their stored foreign currency.
Kujou: If investors had all gotten rid of their dollars in fear of that happening...
Kujou: the dollar would now be a worthless scrap of paper.

Kujou: Even if the Japanese government did not comply...
Kujou: the great financial country of America would be as good as dead.

Kujou: But what about now?
Kujou: The exchange system will be back up in about an hour.
Kujou: We have no choice but to delay our plan.

Condor: But...
Condor: won't that be resolved as soon as the system is back up?
SFX: Jangle
Kujou: It will not be that simple.

14

Kujou: Their goal...
Kujou: is to use that open time...
Kujou: to free the hostages in some way or another.

Condor: But that's impossible!!
Kujou: I doubt Falcon and Third-i's Exodus...

Kujou: are unrelated.

Kujou: And whether it is impossible or not does not matter...
Kujou: when it comes to...
Kujou: people like those two.

Condor: Those "two"?
Condor: Falcon and...someone else?

15

Kujou: Kamishima Shimon died to change this country.
Kujou: It is his child.

Kujou: He promised to return him to my daughter once this was all over.
Kujou: The child was not the type to have great ideals for this country...
Kujou: but when he did as he was told, he could-

Kujou: We will make the first move.
Kujou: I will not let them have their way.

Kujou: Bring out one hostage from each of the G12 nations including Japan...
Kujou: and execute them.

16

Kujou: Film the execution and send it out to the whole world.
Kujou: After that, have all the world's governments sell their American dollars in addition to Japan.

Kujou: That way, the instant the world's exchange system goes back up...
Kujou: America's financial control will completely crumble.
Kujou: It will be over!!

17

SFX: Stare

Fujimaru: The terrorists have begun taking hostages somewhere!
Fujimaru: J! What is going on?
J: Most likely...
J: they are going to kill them as an example.

Fujimaru: Wha-!?

J: I would say I expected this, but I didn't expect them to go this far.
J: Once they realized you were here, they decided not to wait around and to make the first move.
J: The instant the exchange system goes back up...
J: is the instant the dollar collapses.

Fujimaru: They would kill the hostages...
Fujimaru: for just that?

18

Fujimaru: How could they?
Fujimaru: How am I supposed to deal with this?

J: Isn't it about time you gave up on this 0 sacrifices business?
J: For now, we should focus on the heads of the 12 nations and their families.
Fujimaru: No!

Fujimaru: This only happened because I came here.
Fujimaru: I will not let there be any sacrifices!
Fujimaru: Not even one!

J: Do you have a plan?
Fujimaru: I...
Fujimaru: I'll think of something!!

J: I had noticed this before...
J: but even if your abilities are a sight to behold...
J: your sense about what actions to take...
J: is downright pathetic.

19

J: You leave me no choice.
SFX: Grab

J: I'll give you a plan.
Fujimaru: R-
Fujimaru: Really, J?

J: However...
J: it is possible it will lead to sacrifices in our pawns.
J: This game plan is about as risky as it gets.

J: Are you prepared to take that risk...
J: or are you nothing but talk?

Michael: I thought you said you'd grown out of childish things?
Michael: That was quite an expression there.
J: Quite an expression, hm?

J: It was pretty bad.
J: I really wish...
J: I could grow out of it.

20

Fujimaru: I...
Fujimaru: I'll do it!
SFX: Clench

Fujimaru: I came this far...
Text: His confidence supports his unwavering conviction!!
Fujimaru: so I will do anything!

J: Perfect!
Bottom: To be continued in Combined Issue 2/3.

Translation: Needless 101

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:21:09 +0000

For Red Hawk NEO only

With Pew Pew no longer doing Needless, ~~I will be releasing the scripts here for anyone to use.~~
EDIT: Red Hawk NEO has agreed to take on the project, so the scripts will no longer be public.

Chapter 101

01

Cruz: My...
Text: Cruz awakens! What is his power!?
Cruz: power!?
Text: Volume 14 is on sale now!!
Title: #101 City Arc (12)
Credit: Imai Kami

Cruz: I-impossible!!

Disk: Your perception is always amazing...
Disk: but you never see anything when it comes to yourself.

02

Disk: You didn't notice?
Disk: There were plenty of signs.
Cruz: Eh!?

Blade: Think back to the fight with Arclight...
Blade: or the fights with Kafka and Uten.

Blade: You remained relatively unscathed even in those battles.
SFX: Rumble rumble
Blade: Did you never wonder why?

03

Disk: With St. Rose Academy, you fell from quite a height...
Disk: yet you were not killed.

Setsuna: Before, that strike would have spun your head all the way around twice.
Setsuna: It seems you've done some training.

Cruz: No way...
Cruz: It can't be...

Cruz: So you all realized I was a Needless!?
Cruz: Wh-when!?

Disk: That knowledge...
SFX: Whoosh
Disk: was a complete coincidence.

04

Disk: I was considering archiving the footage of you in Black Market in the Fake Arca-man Costume, so I was looking back through the footage frame by frame for purely sexual reasons.
SFX: Rumble rumble
Cruz: Eh? What was that?

Disk: Back then...
SFX: Dramatic
Disk: You subconsciously repelled the Rain Laser.

Cruz: No way!!!

Disk: My memories are stored in my brain as video footage, so I am sure of it.
Disk: That Bionic Compressor girl was only barely able to shift those lasers by a few centimeters...
SFX: Rumble rumble
Disk: but you completely bent one.

05

Box: I have always had a sexual interest in you, so I have been observing you with my Scan.
SFX: Rumble rumble rumble
SFX(next to camera): Stare
Box: As a result, I have successfully found the characteristic signs of someone awakening to their powers.
Cruz(in bath): Hm hm hmm
Cruz: Does this panel need to be so big?

Disk: Long before this, I had taken a pair of your used panties for sniffing purposes...
Disk: When I analyzed them, I found Eden's Seed.
SFX: Shock
Cruz: Waaaaiiiittt!! Waaaaiiiittt!!

06

Blade: Apparently, it is found in the bodies of all Needlesses, and this would have been a fatal amount for a normal human.
SFX: Rumble rumble
Blade: The only way you could have survived with that much in your body is if you are a Needless.

Disk: In other words...
SFX: Dramatic
Disk: that is proof that you are a Needless.

Cruz: I can't believe it...

Disk: Then who was it that stopped Arca's fist when she tried to kill you in the Simeon branch building?

07

Cruz: D-didn't Arclight do that...?

Disk: Why would Arclight need to save you?
Disk: I doubt he paid you any heed.
Cruz: Ah...

Disk: According to my analysis, that was not Psychokinesis, gravity, or magnetism.
Disk: It was an unknown power.

Cruz: You mean...
Cruz: that was my power!?

Blade: Yes.

Cruz: Wh-what exactly...
Cruz: is my power!?
Blade: How should I know?
Cruz: Eh!?

08

Blade: Your power and its name are not taught to you by anyone. You recall them as if from a memory you have had since before birth.
Blade: If you can't do that, you must not be fully developed yet.

Cruz: Oh...
Cruz: I see...

Cruz: Th-then try learning my power with your Byakugou!!
Cruz: Surely you'll be able to fully use it, father.

Blade: I already did, but it didn't work.
Cruz: Eh!?

Blade: A few days ago, when Disk and I were stripping you naked in your sleep to put kneesocks and elbow-length gloves on you, I accidentally touched my forehead to yours!!
SFX: Rumble rumble
Blade: If I could learn it, I would have absorbed it then!!
Cruz: You too?

09

Cruz: Then that pill you had me take was...!?

Blade: Yes.
Blade: It was concentrated Eden's Seed.
Blade: You could call it a Needless acceleration drug.

Blade: We did not have the technology to purify it ourselves...
Blade: but we cultivated the material taken from Ishiyama's syringe.

Cruz: So you...
Cruz: turned me into a Needless!?

Disk: No.
Disk: My drug did nothing more than increase the amount of Eden's Seed in your body.

Disk: Powers tend to blossom as a self-defense instinct in an extreme situation.
Disk: Some people describe it as having themselves "wake up to their true self".

10

Disk: Until now, you were a resident of the Black Spot, but you felt inferior due to your complete lack of powers and strength. And so you denied yourself.
Disk: But when you came alone to the City, the many dangers you faced activated your self-defense instincts.
Disk: And you came to understand that you are a resident of the Black Spot, didn't you?

Disk: You realized who you really are.

Disk: We did not awaken that sense of your true self.
Disk: In the end, it was you who opened your eyes.

Cruz: Ah...

11

SFX: Footsteps

Disk: Blade! We have visitors!
SFX: Bshhh
Blade: Okay.

SFX: Appear

SFX: Gunfire
Clones: There they are!!
Clones: Kill them!!

12

SFX: Gunfire

SFX: Gunfire
Cruz: Dwaaahh!

SFX: Gunfire
Clones: Aim for the priest's head!!
Clones: Leave his body!!

SFX: Stop stop stop

13

SFX: Smoke

SFX: Burn

SFX: Vulcan Shock Screw Trigger!!!
SFX: Boom

SFX: Roar

14

SFX: Boom

SFX: Impacts

Cruz: H-he knocked them back!?
Text: Kyaah!
Eve: Oh, nice one!

Blade: Fuck yeah!
Blade: Now let's head after Arclight!!

15

SFX: Impacts

SFX: Crash

SFX: Run run run
Clone: Over there!!
Clone: Don't let them get away!!

16

Eve: Well?
Eve: Where's Arclight?
SFX: Gunfire
Disk: I'll hack in and track him!
SFX: Beep

Cruz: O-oh, right!
Cruz: Teruyama-san and Mio-chan are fighting Setsuna and Kuchinashi down below!!
SFX: Gunfire
Blade: What?

Blade: How dare he steal my fun!!
Eve: So he is alive.
Eve: He just doesn't know when to give up.

Disk: We don't have time!!
Disk: We'll leave it to them!!
SFX: Gunfire
Disk: A simultaneous attack on the Black Spot is already beginning!!
Disk: We need to defeat Arclight and stop it!!

17

Disk: But...
Disk: I'm glad you made it, Cruz-kun.
Cruz: Eh?

Blade: Remember what you said?
Blade: "I'm tired of just getting in your way." "If I could help you out somehow, I want to do it."

Blade: Vulcan Shock Ignition
Clones: Gwaahh!
SFX: Boom

Blade: If you were utterly useless, there would be no way I would bring you along.
SFX: Roar

18-19

Blade: But as a Needless...
Blade: I will bring you along as if you were my younger brother.
Blade: Are you prepared for that?

Cruz: Ah...
Cruz: Yes!!

Blade: Okay!!

20

Blade: Yamada's my shield!!
Blade: Yamada's my shield!!
SFX: Gunfire
Cruz: Eeeehhhhhhhhhh!!?

Cruz: No, no!! I can't handle being out front!!
Cruz: Nooo!
SFX: Gunfire
Blade: But you said you wanted to be my shield.
Cruz: That may be, but...!!

21

Disk: I've detected a new life form up ahead!!
SFX: Impacts

Eve: Okay!! I'll blow it away!!

SFX: Boom

22

Eve: Ghahh!!
SFX: Crash

Cruz: Eve-san!!
SFX: Rumble rumble

Eve: My iron arm was punched straight through!
SFX: Rumble rumble
Eve: What was that!?

SFX: Step step

23

SFX: Walk walk walk

SFX: Walk walk

24

Eve: Wh-who are they!?

Blade: A parade of little girls!!?

Eve: That hair color...
Eve: It couldn't be!!

Disk: The DNA matches!!
Disk: They're...
Disk: clones with elements of Arca!!

Disk: They must be...
Disk: Arca's clones!!

Cruz: No way!!

25

Loli Arca: Agnish Akasha

SFX: Boom

SFX: Roar
Eve: Ohhh!!

26

SFX: Boom

Disk: These flames are the same as Arca's!!
SFX: Slide
Disk: Anything that touches them will melt!!

Eve: So we can't defend!!
Eve: We can't take on so many of them!!

Cruz: Wh-wh...
Cruz: What do we do!?

27

Blade: Hey, Disk. Where did that bastard go!?
Disk: OK!!
SFX: Beep
Disk: I've hacked into the surveillance system!!

Disk: What!?
SFX: Beep beep beep beep

Disk: There's a giant space...
SFX: Rumble rumble
Disk: beneath this building!! It's incredibly huge!!

Disk: Arclight is headed there!!
Cruz: U-underground!?
Eve: What's going on?

Blade: Hah!!

28

SFX: Roar

Cruz: Dwaaahh!
SFX: Crash
Text: What lies underground!?

Blade: Perfect!!
Blade: He's saved me the effort of burying him!!

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 22

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:35:37 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 22

01

Crowd: Kyahhh!!
Crowd: They're burning! They're burning!
Crowd: Wahh!
Crowd: It's really a terrorist attack!!
SFX: Shouts

Fujimaru: The diversion was a success!
Fujimaru: I'll be at the tower soon!!

Text: Volume 1 is on sale now!

SFX: Pant pant pant

02-03

SFX: Click

SFX: Whirrrrr

SFX: Clatter

Fujimaru: This just might...
Fujimaru: work.
Text: He knows the danger! He is prepared for the worst!!
SFX: Clank
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
Title: File 22 The True Nature of the Enemy

Fujimaru: If I remove the safety device for the weight limit...
Fujimaru: it should manage up to 70 kg!

Fujimaru: Here goes.
Fujimaru: Begin the ascent!!
SFX: Flash

SFX: Whirrrrr
SFX: Thunk

04

SFX: Roar
Fujimaru: I'm coming for you, Storyteller!!!

Kujou: They're late.

Man: You...
Man: mean Takagi Haruka, Storyteller?
Kujou: Have you received any word?

05

Man: Shrike sent a report saying she had holed up in the bathroom.

Man: If she stays too long, should we break down the door...
Man: or...
Man: how about killing her?

Kujou: Wait.
Kujou: There is something more to this.

SFX: Step
Man: Something...more?
Man: Do you think that girl is planning something?

Man: Even if she is, what can one girl do with Shrike and Kingfisher there?

Kujou: Those two were not members of CraUns like you, were they?
Man: No.

Kujou: What if they have betrayed us?
Kujou: Or...
Kujou: what if they have already been killed and replaced?

06

SFX: Step
Man: Isn't that overthinking things?
Kujou: No.
Kujou: There is also the possibility of some other unknown factor.

Kujou: That girl is no ordinary child.
Kujou: She is the daughter of a man who risked his life for this country...
Kujou: and the girl my grandson chose.
Kujou: She would not make foolish actions out of fear for her life.

Kujou: And most importantly...

Kujou: she is the sister...
Kujou: of Takagi Fujimaru aka Falcon.
Kujou: Most likely, this unknown factor...
Kujou: is the wizard-class hacker Falcon!!

07

Kujou: Contact the control room immediately.
Kujou: Have them shut down the power to the tower's central control system.

Man: But that will obstruct our control of the tower...

Kujou: I do not mind.
Kujou: Do it.

SFX: Roar
SFX: Clatter clatter clatter
Fujimaru: Kh...
Fujimaru: Th-this is shaking more than I expected!
Fujimaru: I need to be careful!
Fujimaru: If I screw up the timing, I'm done for!!

08

Fujimaru: My last stop is the restaurant area of the Gate Floor!!
Fujimaru: If I do not hack into the control server and stop the elevator just before arriving...

Fujimaru: I will be crushed against the ceiling!

Fujimaru: I need to carefully calculate the timing.
Fujimaru: A minute 29 seconds...28...

Fujimaru: Now!!
Fujimaru: Begin...
Fujimaru: hacking!!

09

SFX: Whoosh

10

Fujimaru: Okay!
Fujimaru: Capture complete!!
Fujimaru: I've hacked into the control system of the control room!!

Fujimaru: Just a minute until I need to stop it!
SFX: Roar
Fujimaru: I need to be careful. I can't be too soon either.

Fujimaru: There isn't much time left.
Fujimaru: We need to hurry up with the mission.
Fujimaru: I don't want to stop it too soon and be stuck desperately climbing up!

11

Fujimaru: 50 seconds left!!
SFX: Gulp
Fujimaru: 49...48...

Men: Shut down the tower's control system right away!?
Men: But that controls everything from...
Men: the elevators to the emergency doors.

Men: Shut it down now.
SFX: Step
Man: This was a direct order from the Storyteller to eliminate an unknown factor.

Men: Understood!!
SFX: Rush

12-13

Men: But is that really okay?
Men: This is a very high level system.
SFX: Type type
Men: If anything is moving when it shuts down, it could go out of control.

Men: It's an order. Some risk is unavoidable.
Men: Hurry!

SFX: Roar
Fujimaru: 40 more seconds.
Fujimaru: 38...37...
Fujimaru: 36...!!

Fujimaru: Okay...
Fujimaru: It's about time to stop it.

SFX: Beep beep
Text: Power

Fujimaru: Wha-?
SFX: Beep beep
Fujimaru: The whole system is down!??

Men: This is the control room.
Men: Tokyo Neo Tower's entire central system is down.
Text: Tower System - All Down
Men: We can no longer remotely control anything including the power.
Men: Order complete.

14

SFX: Type type

Fujimaru: Shit!! Why?
Fujimaru: I can't control it!!

Fujimaru: I need to bring the system back up somehow!
SFX: Roar
Fujimaru: I can't stop the elevator!!!

Fujimaru: Damn. Even the power's down!!
SFX: Scratch scratch
Fujimaru: But then the enemy can't control the tower either...

J: If Kujou realizes it's you, he'll cut off internet access to the tower even if he has to cut off all power, including the backup power.
SFX: Realization

15

Fujimaru: The Storyteller.
Fujimaru: It can't be.
Fujimaru: He noticed my interference!!?

Fujimaru: Shit. Only 20 seconds left.

Fujimaru: Shit!

Fujimaru: Shit...

Fujimaru: Shiiiiiiittt!!!
SFX: Roar

16

SFX: Beep
Top text: Power
Bottom Text: Neo Tower System - All Down
Fujimaru: The power's back up!?

Fujimaru: Kh...
Fujimaru: I'll hack back in!!
SFX: Focus

Fujimaru: Stop the freight elevator.
Fujimaru: Stop it!!

17

Fujimaru: Make it...
SFX: Grind grind grind
Fujimaru: in tiiime!!

18

SFX: Thunk

SFX: Pant pant pant
SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat

J: That was a close one,
J: Falcon.
Fujimaru: J!
Fujimaru: What happened?

J: The Storyteller finally noticed you.
J: As I expected...
J: he brought down the power to Tokyo Neo Tower's system.
Fujimaru: I guessed that, but why did it come back up?

19

J: I had some preparations in place.
J: If you can predict something, you can stop it.

Fujimaru: Y-you saved me.
Fujimaru: Thanks.
J: I don't need your thanks.

J: What I need is for you to get to the control room.
J: Two terrorists were killed there.
J: They will be headed there soon.
J: You do not want to die in vain, do you?

Fujimaru: N-
Fujimaru: No!
SFX: Type

SFX: Beep
SFX: Open

20

SFX: Drop

Fujimaru: This is the battlefield...
Fujimaru: on which Hibiki and the others are fighting!!
Text: He once more feels the possibility of death....
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 1

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 21

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:16:25 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 21

01

J: Ahh...
J: Now you've done it.
J: Now the mission's in trouble.

J: This is a problem to the mission as a whole...
J: but they'll also realize something is wrong when the dead terrorist, Jacob, and Takagi Haruka do not return.

J: We've given them a hint that the "uncertain factor" is you, Falcon.
J: If Kujou realizes it's you, he'll cut off internet access to the tower even if he has to cut off all power, including the backup power.
J: If that happens...
J: it's all over.

02

J: Even...
J: your determination to rescue all 200 hostages and prevent the Storyteller's terrorism...
SFX: Crinkle

J: will be over.

Fujimaru: I'll go.
J: Are you serious?

Fujimaru: Give me 15...
Fujimaru: no, 10 minutes.
Text: Volume 1 is on sale now!
Fujimaru: I will go to the tower!!
Text: He heads to the tower himself... He cannot avoid the danger now!!
Title: File 21 Into the Flames
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

03

Otoya: Haruka-chan!
Haruka: Otoya-san.
Haruka: Hibiki-san!

SFX: Jump

Hibiki: Why did you aim your gun at him!?
Hibiki: You gave that terrorist a valid reason...
Hibiki: to shoot you!!

04

SFX: Tears

Hibiki: E-eh?
Hibiki: ...No.
Hibiki: I didn't mean...

Haruka: I'm sorry...
Haruka: I...
Haruka: used to think you were kind of scary, Hibiki-san.
Haruka: Something seemed out of place.
Haruka: I wondered what kind of person you were.

05

Haruka: Can I...trust you?
Haruka: Will you care for me...
Haruka: and I care for you like with my brother...
Haruka: when you...
Haruka: one day become part of our family?

Hibiki: ...Yes.

Hibiki: I think one day...
Hibiki: that will come to be.

Haruka: Thank you...
Haruka: for saving me!

06

Otoya: Mizusawa.
Otoya: ...Thanks.

Hibiki: Call me Hibiki.
Hibiki: I'm still not used to that family name.
Hibiki: And it'll change to Takagi once this all over anyway!

Fujimaru: If I go to the tower, I can completely control the internal system.
Fujimaru: And I can prevent the enemy from getting into the server room.
SFX: Rustle
SFX: Whiiirrrr
Fujimaru: We'll have an overwhelming advantage.
Fujimaru: I will take responsibility and bring this mission back on track!

J: If an amateur like you can survive entering an enemy territory overflowing with terrorists.

Fujimaru: I know it's dangerous.
SFX: Pull out
Fujimaru: But I've had enough of being frustrated at my limitations here.

Fujimaru: This is...
Fujimaru: my determination!!

07

SFX: Sigh

J: How are you even planning to get up there?
Fujimaru: There are small freight elevators in the western area.
Fujimaru: I'll use one of those.

J: Those ones meant for the restaurant area that can only take 50 kg?
J: Those aren't made for people.
J: You're both...
J: too big and too heavy.

Fujimaru: From what I can find, they're made to hold up to 70 kg.
Fujimaru: It's possible they won't move when the weight limit is exceeded...
Fujimaru: but I can just hack the sensor to bypass that and I just need to break the top open to fit!

J: If it shakes too much, you could be killed.
J: And if it doesn't stop until it reaches the restaurant floor at the top, you'll be crushed against the ceiling.

Fujimaru: If I grab on tight, it won't be as dangerous.
Fujimaru: And as long as it's connected to the network, I can stop it before I get crushed!

08

J: Ten minutes, hm?
J: Do as you wish.
SFX: Gnaw

J: But...
J: if you get killed and the tower's server is brought down, this plan is done for.
J: Don't forget that I will then have to switch over to a plan that will not necessarily rescue all 200 hostages.

Fujimaru: I know that!
SFX: Dash

SFX: Tone
SFX: Open

Fujimaru: Can you hear me, Hibiki?
Fujimaru: I'm headed there now!
SFX: Thrum thrum
Fujimaru: I'll enter the western area...
Fujimaru: and head to the tower's server room!

09

Hibiki: You're coming here?
SFX: Thrum thrum

Fujimaru: Yes.
Fujimaru: I'll be there in 10 minutes.
Fujimaru: Continue sending me your coordinates.
Hibiki: Okay...

Fujimaru: What is it?

Hibiki: Oh...
Hibiki: Nothing really.

Hibiki: It's just...
Hibiki: I'm a bit scared having you come to such a dangerous place.
Hibiki: I'm afraid.

Hibiki: But...
Hibiki: It will be okay.
Hibiki: I will...
Hibiki: protect you.

10

Fujimaru: Of course!
Fujimaru: I will protect you...
Fujimaru: I will protect all of you!!!

Michael: That was...
Michael: quite unlike you,
Text: Raising your voice like that.
Michael: J.

SFX: Catch

J: Was I cool?
Michael: No.
Michael: I wouldn't say that.
SFX: Cold

Text: Ehhh?

J: He just pissed me off with how...
J: he keeps saying he's committed but also keeps hesitating and going soft.

11

J: Also...
J: I'm about old enough to be growing out of such childish things.

Michael: You're not going to convince anyone with that face.
SFX: Munch
J: How cruel, Michael-kun.

Michael: I hope...
Michael: this all ends soon.

J: Yes.
J: Let us end this.

Fujimaru: Just in case, I secured a direct route through the inspection points.
Fujimaru: Beforehand, I hacked into the national and city servers and altered their master map.

12

Fujimaru: According to the maps of possible infiltration points the police, the JSDF, and Third-i are using...
Fujimaru: this sewer does not exist.

SFX: Brake

SFX: Run run

SFX: Type type type
SFX: Beep beep beep beep

SFX: Open

SFX: Slide
SFX: Beeep

13

SFX: Creeeak

Fujimaru: And just through this sewer...

Fujimaru: is the underground maintenance tunnel for the telecommunications cable!!

14

Fujimaru: Countless such tunnels are laid out all over the place beneath Tokyo.
Fujimaru: They were originally made as escape routes for important people in case of emergency.

Fujimaru: Without the normal populace knowing...
Fujimaru: those in power have been taking measures to survive.

Fujimaru: But!
Fujimaru: Now it's my turn to use it!!

SFX: Pant pant pant

SFX: Kneel

15

Upper left box: Current Location
Lower right box: Destination
Fujimaru: Okay, I'm here.
Fujimaru: And the guards are...

SFX: Type type

SFX: Appear
Fujimaru: Piece of cake.

Fujimaru: There are relatively few right around the tower.
Fujimaru: All the non-Third-i guards out there have the same model of special smartphone.
Fujimaru: I spread a Trojan horse to them beforehand...
Fujimaru: so their smartphones are free sources of data for me.

16

SFX: Pant

Fujimaru: The teams in my way are...

SFX: Chatter chatter
SFX: Step
Fujimaru: 3 and 27.
Fujimaru: If I can deal with them, I can make it to the elevator.

J: It seems you've made it near the Neo Tower.
J: I can see your location.
Fujimaru: J.

Fujimaru: I need some kind of diversion.
SFX: Whistle whistle
SFX: Excited chatter
Fujimaru: Where are the people you hired?
J: On standby along your route.

SFX: Whistle
SFX: Excited chatter

17

Michael: We just need to spread on Twitter that something is happening there in order to bring more people in.
Michael: But the people we hired and the other normal people know nothing of what is going on.

Top tweet: Nothing yet, but I can't wait to see what happens.
Next tweet: The people taking this seriously have too much time on their hands. ...I'm here too, though.
Next tweet: I'm watching this on TV, but is Japan done for?
Bottom tweet: Keep me updated~

SFX: Excited chatter.
Police: Get away from here!
Police: It's dangerous.

Fujimaru: This is enough.
Fujimaru: I'll create an opening!

Fujimaru: The security team's smartphones use a small but powerful CPU.
Fujimaru: The power of the battery is also much greater than the consumer version.
Fujimaru: I just need to hack in and set the virus I sent them beforehand...
Fujimaru: to go out of control.

18-19

Police: Hot hot hot hot! Wh-what the hell!?
Police: Waaahh!!
Crowd: Kyaaahhh!!
Police: What!?
Crowd: They're burning!!
Crowd: Wow, something really happened!
Police: It's a terrorist attack!!
SFX: Burn

20

SFX: Shouts
SFX: Flash flash flash
SFX: Dash

Fujimaru: Okay!!
Fujimaru: Wait for me,
Fujimaru: Storyteller!!!
Text: He heads to the tower filled with beasts.
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 53.

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 20

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:52:37 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 20

01

Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
Text: Volume 1 is on sale now!
Title: File 20 A Gun Barrel Held Forward

Fujimaru: Damn.
Text: Girl vs. Terrorist!!
Fujimaru: I thought they would at least allow him to go alone when taking a girl to the bathroom...
Fujimaru: but I guess not.
J: Yes, but this is still only one terrorist with them.
J: And no other hostages took this chance to use the bathroom. We were lucky.

02

J: Given the overall plan, we can't have Jacob use any forceful methods at the moment.
J: As such...
J: she is going to have to help us out some more.

J: If she can...
J: that is.

SFX: Clench

Fujimaru: I know!
Fujimaru: Damn...
Fujimaru: you're annoying.

03

Fujimaru: Listen, Haruka.
Fujimaru: That man has something he needs to set up.
Fujimaru: Due to certain reasons, he can't do it himself.

Fujimaru: I need you to take the gun and spare he has and place it at the designated point.

Fujimaru: I know I am asking you the unreasonable.
SFX: Chk

Fujimaru: But this is the only way to rescue everyone.
Fujimaru: Please, Haruka.

Haruka: I'll do it, onii-chan.
Haruka: No...
Haruka: I must do it!!

04

Fujimaru: Haruka, can you hear me?
Fujimaru: If you can, tap your back teeth twice.

SFX: Tap tap
Fujimaru: Don't look around like that.
Fujimaru: Calm down and listen.

Fujimaru: I will lead you to the...
Fujimaru: designated point.
SFX: Type

Fujimaru: Listen, Haruka.
Fujimaru: I will give you a sign when you are there.
SFX: Whoosh
Fujimaru: Act exactly as I explained earlier.
Fujimaru: I will tell you when to begin.
Fujimaru: Got it?

SFX: Slam

05

SFX: Step step step

Man: Tch.
Man: The barrier's down.
Jacob: There was a firefight around here.
Jacob: The emergency fire system must have activated due to the smoke.

Man: Damn. And the bathroom is beyond here.
Man: I guess we have to circle around.
Jacob: No, we can just go through that emergency door.
Jacob: That will get us to the other side of the barrier.

Man: Oh, yeah.
Text: Heh heh
Man: That's lucky. If we went the long way, the girl'd probably wet herself.
Man: C'mon, get going.

SFX: Heartbeat

06

SFX: Grab

Jacob: This way.

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat

SFX: Clench...
SFX: Heartbeat

07

Fujimaru: Now, Haruka!!

08

Haruka: F-
SFX: Jump back
Haruka: Freeze!!

Man: Th-that brat!!
SFX: Step forward

SFX: Bang

SFX: Bump

SFX: Pant pant
SFX: Focus

09

Haruka: Close this door!
Haruka: Hurry!!

Jacob: Okay...
SFX: Creeeeak.

SFX: Close
SFX: Jump forward

SFX: Click

10

Haruka: I-I did it!
SFX: Pant pant
SFX: Lean

SFX: Wham

SFX: Wham wham
Man: Open up!
Man: Do you want us to kill you, brat!?
Man: We have comrades all over the place.
Man: I don't know what you think you're doing, but you won't escape!

Haruka: I need to hurry!
Haruka: Onii-chan!

Fujimaru: Calm down, Haruka!
Fujimaru: Point 1...the place to set it is in the middle of that room.
Fujimaru: A potted plant was placed there, so a circular mark is still there.

11

Fujimaru: Do you see it!?
Haruka: Yes...here it is!

Man: Hey, open up!!
SFX: Shock
SFX: Wham

Fujimaru: Place the spare you were given there.
Fujimaru: Make it so it doesn't stand out!
Fujimaru: Gather things around there, making it look like they're to hide you!

Haruka: I'm scared...
Haruka: But...!
SFX: Drag

Haruka: Dad and onii-chan have been fighting like this all along!
Haruka: So has Otoya-san...
Haruka: And the people of Third-i!
Haruka: They've been doing this...

12

Haruka: Kujou is a wonderful person...
Haruka: and I don't know what he wants to do to this country...
Haruka: but there is no way this violence will bring happiness to the country!
Haruka: Isn't that right, dad!!

SFX: Wham

Man: Y-you brat!!
SFX: Enter
Man: Not a move!!

SFX: Place

13

Fujimaru: Sh-shit! The guy's in a rage!
Fujimaru: Have Jacob save her, J!

J: Jacob.
J: Don't move.
J: I repeat.

J: Calm down.
Jacob: If we take her back to the party floor, we can show the hostages that escape is futile.
Man: Good idea. And a corpse would work even better!!

Jacob: That girl was with Kujou.
Jacob: We do not know if we have the authority to kill her.
Man: I don't give a fuck!!

Man: If she had gotten away...
SFX: Pant pant
Man: we might have been purged!!

Jacob: That is exactly why you need to calm down.
Jacob: You're a professional, right?
Jacob: Then do not do anything that might not be in the interests of the client.

14

Fujimaru: It's not working!
Fujimaru: J!!
Fujimaru: Have Jacob take him out!!

J: No.
J: I told you we need to give the mission priority.
J: You agreed.
J: If we shoot him here, the mission will be in trouble.

Fujimaru: Are you just going to abandon Haruka!?

J: He is not some thug.
J: If he calms down, he will not shoot her.

SFX: Breath

15

SFX: Snap

J: Tch.

Fujimaru: J!!

Man: Don't take us lightly!!!
SFX: Chk

Fujimaru: Stop him!!!
Fujimaru: Haruka!!!

16

SFX: Bang

17

Haruka: Otoya-san!!
Haruka: Hibiki-san...

Fujimaru: Thank god...
Fujimaru: Thanks, Hibiki.
Fujimaru: I'm glad I sent you over just in case!

J: Ahh...
J: Now you've done it.
SFX: Gulp
J: Now the mission's in trouble.

Fujimaru: Haruka was about to be killed!!
Fujimaru: How dare you...!!

J: You knew it would be dangerous from the moment Takagi Haruka left the party area.
J: That's why I asked if you were serious.
J: And...
Fujimaru: And so it's okay to treat her as expendable!?

18

J: Give it a rest already.
J: I am not doing this for fun.
J: Remember when you asked me what I was planning, Falcon?
J: I am planning to stop Kujou for the sake of the future.

J: You said you would save everyone even if you had to take on the name of a terrorist.
J: Was that determination a lie!?
J: No matter what you say...
J: if you are not wholly committed...

19

J: you will not bring any reward...
J: to those who are fighting while trusting in you!!

Fujimaru: ...Sorry.

SFX: Twitch

J: We need to think about what to do now.
SFX: Sit
J: Both for this and the time we've lost having Mizusawa Hibiki...
J: go all the way back there.

20

Fujimaru: I'll go.

J: Are you serious?
Fujimaru: Give me 15...
Fujimaru: no, 10 minutes.

Fujimaru: I will take care of this.
SFX; Stand
Fujimaru: I will...
Fujimaru: go to the tower!!
Text: He is showing himself in the tower battle!!
Bottom: We are taking a break next issue. Look forward to Issue 52!!

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 19

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:29:26 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 19

01

SFX: Bang bang

SFX: Ricochet ricochet

Kanou: Pant pant. Damn, I just can't hit them.
Kanou: And yet you managed to hit them.
Kanou: I'm losing confidence in myself here.
Kurata: I hope Mamiya-san is okay...

Kurata: Maybe my radio is broken.
Kurata: I can't seem to contact him.

SFX: Focus

02

Kanou: I can't...
Kanou: contact Makimura either.

Kurata: Does that mean...?

Kanou: Don't be silly!
Kanou: They wouldn't get taken out so easily!!
SFX: Slap

SFX: Smile
Kanou: ...Right?

Kurata: ...Right!
Kurata: We just need to believe that they are on the way to secure their route...
Kurata: while we make sure to secure the other route!

Kanou: Right.
Kanou: Don't lose your focus, Kurata!
Kurata: Okay!

Text: Volume 1 is on sale now!

03

Kurata: One other thing, Kanou-san.
Kanou: What?
Kurata: The escape routes are the cornerstone of Exodus...
Kurata: so could you tell me what they are?

Kurata: If we get split up...
Kurata: I want both of us to be able to carry out the mission.

Kanou: That's a good point.
Kanou: The escape rou-

Voices: Were they over there?
Voices: No...
Kanou: Shit!
Kanou: We can't let them find us! Let's go!

04

Kurata: Tch...
SFX: Ksshh
Mamiya: This is Condor.
Mamiya: Report your situation in Morse code.

SFX: Ta-tap
SFX: Tap tap
Kurata: This is Pigeon.
Kurata: I still haven't gotten the information from Kanou.
Kurata: How about you?
Mamiya: We can't count on him anymore.

Mamiya: By a fluke, he realized what was going on...
Mamiya: and γ-team took him out before I could get any info out of him.
Mamiya: Don't kill Kanou yet.
Mamiya: Stay with him and keep him alive as long as possible so that we can keep tabs on Third-i's movements.

05

Kurata: Understood.
SFX: Tap
Text: A threat approaches to make their efforts futile!!

Title: File 19 Budding Feelings
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

06

Men: Move all these plants over by the Party Floor windows.
Men: We can use them to hide behind in case a helicopter attacks.

Fujimaru: N-
Fujimaru: Not good!
Fujimaru: If they move those at Point 1...!!
Fujimaru: J!!

J: Honestly...
J: Using the plants to hide themselves is such a pain and so plain.
J: If they want cover from snipers, they could make a perfectly good human wall by having the foreign VIPs stand there.
Fujimaru: What are we going to do!?

07

J: All we can do...
J: is find some way to move those plants back...
J: or put a spare there.

Fujimaru: We can't move them back...
Fujimaru: so we'll have to use the spares!!
Fujimaru: Who has one!

J: Jacob does.
Fujimaru: Good! Thank goodness he's still on the party Floor!
Fujimaru: Okay, have him-

J: I can't.
J: Jacob can't leave that floor.

Fujimaru: What!?

Fujimaru: That's right.
Fujimaru: The terrorists aren't allowed to take independent actions.

08

J: Right.
J: That's one of the pieces of information your hacking gave us beforehand.
J: Any independent actions will be seen as the actions of a disguised enemy or a traitor.
J: They will either be restrained or shot on the spot.
J: By having them all watching over each other, unity is guaranteed between these soldiers with no command and without knowing who the others are or what they look like.
J: It's a pretty good idea.

J: Cain and Abel have a spare too...
J: but it would completely ruin the schedule to have them return to Point 1.

J: We'd never make it in time.

J: Your boasting...
J: about how you are going to rescue all 220 of them has suddenly...
J: become impossible.

09

J: If we have Jacob do anything too forceful, the other blocks could become more alert.
J: That would be a problem.

Fujimaru: We need an excuse.
Fujimaru: Anything.
SFX: Scratch scratch
Fujimaru: But what...?

SFX: Realization

Fujimaru: That's it.
Fujimaru: What if he was accompanied by a hostage?
Fujimaru: Like taking the hostage to the bathroom or something?

J: Eh?
J: Really?

J: That could indeed work as an excuse...
J: but...

J: You understand, don't you?
SFX: Tap
J: We need a hostage that we can explain the situation to and have act.

10

J: That leaves...
J: only one option.

Fujimaru: We have no choice.

Fujimaru: In order to quickly recover within the limited time...
Fujimaru: we have to go with that.

Fujimaru: Haruka.

11

Girl: Why are they lining up those plants?
Girl: What's happening?
Boy: Papa and mama look so scared...
Boy: Uuh...Are we...going to die?

Haruka: Don't cry, okay?
Haruka: You're a boy, right?

SFX: Pinch

Haruka: If you look like that, you'll worry...
SFX: Smile
Haruka: your new friend.

12

Text: Gh...

SFX: Ksshh
Fujimaru: Haruka.
Fujimaru: Can you hear me?

Fujimaru: If you can, tap your back teeth twice.
Haruka: Onii-chan!
SFX: Tap tap

Fujimaru: There is...
Fujimaru: something I need you to do.

Fujimaru: To be honest...
Fujimaru: I don't want to ask this of you.

Fujimaru: It's...
Fujimaru: very dangerous.

13

Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: You are the only one I can ask.
Fujimaru: If we can't recover now, our rescue operation will fail.

Fujimaru: If you're willing, tap your back teeth twice.
Fujimaru: If you have the slightest doubt, do it only once-

SFX: Tap tap

Haruka: I'll do it.
Haruka: If...
Haruka: there is something I can do...!
Haruka: I will do it...

Otoya: Once the party is over...
Otoya: I have something I want to talk with you about.
Otoya: And something I want to give you.

14

Fujimaru: Haruka...

Fujimaru: Okay.
Fujimaru: First, look over at the tallest of the masked terrorists.
Fujimaru: He is currently holding his right hand to his ear.
SFX: Focus

SFX: Look around

Fujimaru: Go over and speak to Kujou pretending you have to use the bathroom.
Fujimaru: When that man approaches, tell him you need to go to the bathroom.
Fujimaru: If you understand...
Fujimaru: tap your back teeth twice.

SFX: Tap tap

Boy: What is it?

SFX: Squeeze
Haruka: Nothing.

15

Haruka: That's right.
Haruka: I must...
Haruka: make sure everyone returns home safe!

Otoya: Mizusawa Hibiki.
Hibiki: What?

Otoya: When you shot...
Otoya: before I did it wasn't because Fujimaru told you, was it?

16

SFX: Step
Hibiki: No, Fujimaru would never tell me to do that.

Hibiki: But...
Hibiki: I can tell.
SFX: Smile
Hibiki: I'm just that in love.

Otoya: Next time...
Otoya: I will shoot.

17

Otoya: If you really aren't a weapon...
Otoya: and are a human who is prepared to dirty her hands for the man she loves...

Otoya: then just like you did not allow me to become a murderer for Fujimaru's sake...
Otoya: I do not want you...
Otoya: to dirty yourself any more for Fujimaru's sake.

SFX: Hee hee

Hibiki: Understood.
SFX: Step
Hibiki: Do...
Hibiki: as you wish.

18

Hibiki: People...
Hibiki: really do...
Hibiki: change.
Hibiki: And also...
Hibiki: change others.

Hibiki: People are...
Hibiki: kind.
Hibiki: And not just Fujimaru.
Hibiki: Tons of kind people are out there.

Hibiki: It's scary.

19

Hibiki: If I wonder if the person might be kind...
Hibiki: or have those who are kind to him...
Hibiki: I might not be able to pull the trigger.
Hibiki: And then it would be me...

Hibiki: I don't want to die.
Hibiki: I want to live...
Hibiki: and have Fujimaru embrace me once more.
Hibiki: One day, I want to have his child.
Hibiki: And not a child like me that never knows her mother or father.
SFX: Tear...

Hibiki: An irreplaceable-

20

Otoya: Mizusawa...

SFX: Rub

Hibiki: I will overcome all of this
Hibiki: And return to Fujimaru's arms.
SFX: Wipe
Hibiki: Let's hurry. We don't have time.
Text: Unlike the past, she now has a reason to live!!
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 50

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 18

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:45:22 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 18

01

Makimura: Mamiya-san?

Title: File 18 Third-i's Wings
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
Text: The truth appears on his face!
Makimura: What is that...
Makimura: on your face?

Text: Last Season Volume 1 is on sale now!

Mamiya: Makimura.

02

Mamiya: You have...
Mamiya: something on your face, too.

Makimura: Eh?
SFX: Reach

SFX: Grab

Makimura: Mamiya-san!?
Makimura: What are you-!?
SFX: Turn

03

Mamiya: You idiot.
SFX: Push

Mamiya: I was hoping to keep you alive for a bit longer.

Makimura: Eh?

04

SFX: Bang bang

SFX: Hit

SFX: Bang abng

SFX: Collapse collapse

05

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat
Makimura: Why is Mamiya-san doing this!!?
Makimura: What is going on!?

Makimura: And why are the shot terrorists getting back up?

Makimura: Were those blanks!?
Makimura: Was the battle with the terrorists just an act!?

Makimura: No way...
Makimura: That would mean Mamiya-san is...

Mamiya: I suppose this should be expected of the JSDF's record holder for moving target marksmanship.
SFX: Step
Mamiya: I have been a commander for some time...
Mamiya: but I rarely see such excellent movement.

06

Mamiya: But aiming for the head is not a good idea.
Mamiya: It makes the target smaller for the shooter...
SFX: Step step
Mamiya: and the target can instinctually avoid the bullet with the proper training.

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat

Mamiya: That is one of the most basic standards of combat shooting.
Mamiya: Do the soldiers who should be protecting the country forget what it is to be a warrior...
Mamiya: when they go to an intelligence organization like Third-i?
SFX: Step

Makimura: What are you saying, Mamiya-san!?
Makimura: Don't tell me you're a traitor!
Makimura: A terrorist!!

07

Mamiya: A terrorist?
SFX: Step

Mamiya: No. I am a warrior.
Mamiya: I am part of CraUns.
SFX: Step
Mamiya: I fight to make this country a truly independent nation.

SFX: Bang
Makimura: Why!?
Makimura: Why!?

SFX: Dash

08

Mamiya: After him.
Mamiya: Corner him at the western staircase.

Men: Understood!

Mamiya: Makimura,
Mamiya: there is no need for you to understand.
Mamiya: After all...
Mamiya: you will all soon be dead!

09

Kirishima: How can we say we've saved Japan again and again!?
Kirishima: We wouldn't have been able to pull any of it off without him.

Kirishima: And...
Kirishima: once again...

Sawakita: Kirishima-san.
Sawakita: Are you okay?
SFX: Step

Kirishima: Sawakita...
Kirishima: Thanks. Did something happen? I'll be right back.
Sawakita: No.
Sawakita: I was just wondering if you were okay.

Kirishima: It's just...
Kirishima: this possibility of another spy in Third-i.

10

Sawakita: Yes, there is that.
Sawakita: But there is also Falcon.

Kirishima: Yes.
Kirishima: To be honest, I don't know what to believe.
Kirishima: I'm conflicted.

Kirishima: Sawakita.
Kirishima: Before, you told me to keep some distance between Tsukamoto and Makimura.
Kirishima: Do you suspect her?

Sawakita: No, that was because...
Sawakita: she and Makimura-kun...
Sawakita: were engaged once.

11

Kirishima: They "were" engaged?
Sawakita: They got engaged...
Sawakita: but due to his family...

Sawakita: it fell through.

Kirishima: I see.
Kirishima: Makimura does come from a rather distinguished family.
Kirishima: Did he split up because his family told him to?

Sawakita: Given his family, he probably didn't have much of a choice.
Sawakita: He said he isn't bothered by it anymore...
Sawakita: but with how it was forced on him, I didn't want any unnecessary hindrances to their work.
Sawakita: But it seems it wasn't necessary.
Sawakita: She has been taking care of it herself.

Sawakita: Are you doubting...
Sawakita: Third-i?

Kirishima: I trust all of us.
Kirishima: But when I remember that woman...
Kirishima: I start to doubt.

12

Sawakita: Houshou-san, you mean?
Kirishima: Yes.
Kirishima: I trusted her skills and her as a person.

Sawakita: Did you admire her?

Kirishima: I wouldn't go that far.

Kirishima: But when I remember that she was a traitor...
Kirishima: it makes me doubt...
Kirishima: what I can trust.

Kirishima: Including him.

Kirishima: Let's head back.
Kirishima: We need to trust our comrades..
Kirishima: and do our utmost to protect this country!!

13

Makimura: I can't believe it...
Makimura: Mamiya-san was a contender to be one of the highest members of the JSDF.
SFX: Pant pant
Makimura: Why would he be a terrorist!?

Makimura: Don't tell me all of CraUns is with the enemy!
Makimura: Or the entire JSDF!!

Makimura: There could even be traitors in Third-i!!
Makimura: I need to contact them.
SFX: Throb throb
Makimura: At this rate, Exodus will not just fail, everyone will be-...!!

Makimura: Dammit! How could I let him take my communications device.

Tsukamoto: You really are naive!
Tsukamoto: Are you some kind of idiot?

Makimura: Shit...
Makimura: This is no time to be remembering that...

14

Makimura: Just you watch, Mari! I'll show you...
Makimura: that it was not my family that got me into Third-i!
Makimura: It was my own ability!!

Makimura: After I get back from this...
Makimura: I will go to you and once more-...!!

SFX: Dramatic

15

Makimura: Damn iiiiittt!!

SFX: Bang

SFX: Step out

16

Woman: He has been taken out.
Woman: Just as Condor commanded.

Men: Excellent.
Men: How many Third-i members are left?
SFX: Step step
Men: We've killed 3...
Men: so there should be 4 or 5 left.

Men: It's only a matter of time before we've taken them all out.

17

Fujimaru: Okay.
Fujimaru: Blocks F-8 and C-19 are locked down.
Fujimaru: Only 20% to go.
Fujimaru: Target Point 1 is...

Men: Move all these plants over by the Party Floor windows.
Men: We can use them to hide behind in case a helicopter attacks.
Men: Understood.

Fujimaru: N-
Fujimaru: Not good!
Fujimaru: If they move those...!!

18

Fujimaru: J.
Fujimaru: Look at Point 1!!

J: I heard, I heard.
SFX: Crack
J: It looks like things aren't going to go exactly as planned.
Fujimaru: This is no time for that!
Fujimaru: What are we going to do!?

J: All we can do...
J: is find some way to move those plants back...
J: or put the spares there.

SFX: Look over

Fujimaru: We can't move them back...
Fujimaru: so we'll have to use the spares!!
Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: how!?

19

SFX: Step
Tsukamoto: Kirishima-san.
Kirishima: What?
SFX: Step
Tsukamoto: Before...
Tsukamoto: you said you were conflicted...
SFX: Step

Kirishima: If I told you...
SFX: Step
Kirishima: I still trusted Falcon somewhere in my heart...
Kirishima: would you laugh?

Tsukamoto: ...No.
Tsukamoto: He is our...

Tsukamoto: He is Third-i's wings.

20

Kirishima: Yes.

Kirishima: I want to believe that...
Kirishima: the bonds between him and Third-i and Takagi Ryuunosuke's spirit of self-sacrifice for the country...
Kirishima: live on within him!!
Text: They each face their own crisis... The power of trust will pull them through!!
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 49

Translation: Kurenai 48

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:25:53 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 48

01

Box: Seiryou Academy

Text: Volume 8 is on sale now!!

Text: With the chaos in Kyoto resolved, Shinkurou's peaceful days return...

Announcement: Sorry for the interruption...
Announcement: but we have an announcement.

Announcement: Kurenai Shinkurou-kun of Year 1 Class 1...
Announcement: is to immediately report to the headmaster's office.

Sign: Headmaster's Office

02

Murasaki: Uuh!
Murasaki: Hinkuwou!!

Shinkurou: You...?
Murasaki: Mh?

Murasaki: You should be glad!
Murasaki: Today I came to see you!

03

Text: A flower of evil blooming in the ugly darkness!!!
Title: Chapter 48 Downfall of the Strongest
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

04

Shinkurou: Oh, so that's why!

Shinkurou: Lin-san is being released from the hospital...
Shinkurou: So...
Murasaki: Yeah.
Murasaki: I'm sure she'll be happy if you go too.

05

Sign: All sweets 20% off

Murasaki: Wha-...?

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!
Murasaki: What is that!!?

Shinkurou: What do you mean?
Shinkurou: It's just Santa Claus.

Murasaki: Santa...
Murasaki: Claus?

06

Shinkurou: Murasaki...
Shinkurou: Surely you know what Christmas is, right?
SFX: Shake shake

Box: That's right.
Box: Murasaki was born and raised in the Inner Sanctuary.
Box: She was kept from any knowledge deemed "unnecessary"...
Box: I guess that included Santa Claus and Christmas.

Box: She doesn't even know of those small joys...
Box: that even kindergarteners know about.

Shinkurou: Murasaki.
SFX: Excited

Shinkurou: Every year, there is an event in December known as Christmas.
Murasaki: An event?
Shinkurou: Yes, it's sort of like a small festival.

07

Sign: Lin Cheng-Shin
Murasaki: I see...

Murasaki: So if I stay up late, will I be able to meet this Santa Claus?
SFX: Open

Murasaki: Lin!

Lin: M-Murasaki-sama!!?
SFX: Quick action

Murasaki: Lin, did you know that on a day called Christmas this old man flies through the sky using magic and...
Lin: P-please wait while I put on some clothes...
Lin: You, don't look!!

08

Lin: Face the other way!!
Shinkurou: I-I'm sorry!

Shinkurou: A flower arrangement?

Murasaki: Kirihiko brought it!

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan did...?

09

Murasaki: Oh!

Murasaki: There's a Christmas tree here, too!

Murasaki: Santa Claus flies around to all these, right!?
SFX: Run run

Shinkurou: Lin-san.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: About Kirihiko-chan...

Lin: Don't look at me like that.

10

Lin: I have no desire for revenge.

Lin: I challenged her and lost.
Lin: That is all.

Lin: And since she saved Murasaki-sama in Kyoto...
Lin: I truly have no reason to turn my sword on her.

11

Text: The next day

Yuuno: Now then, Shinkurou-san.

Yuuno: Thank you for the explanation.

Shinkurou: Yes...
Shinkurou: Umm...

Shinkurou: About how you came and saved me at the hospital...
Shinkurou: Sorry it's taken me so long to properly thank you for tha-

12

Yuuno: Kyoto.

Yuuno: I hear you...
Yuuno: went there with Murakami-san.

Shinkurou: Um, yes...
Shinkurou: Oh, but that was...

Yuuno: I do not want to hear any excuses.

Yuuno: Why did you not tell me anything about this?
Yuuno: Don't tell me you find Murakami-san to be more-
Shinkurou: N-no, that's not it at all!!

Yuuno: Of course not.
Yuuno: You would be much happier going on a trip with me.

Yuuno: We used to live together, so we could just stay in the same room.
Yuuno: And then who knows what would happen between us.
Yuuno: Oh, maybe even that...

13

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san?

Shinkurou: I was thinking of spending Christmas here with the Houzuki family.
SFX: Twitch

Yuuno: Really?
Shinkurou: Yes...

Yuuno: Understood!!
Yuuno: In that case, we need to go have a planning meeting in the main building!!
Shinkurou: Eh? But what about practice?
Yuuno: Cancelled!!
SFX: Run run run

14

Yuuno: Okay, listen up.
On paper: Christmas
Yuuno: From what has happened in the past...
Yuuno: it is clear that there are a few barriers we must overcome to spend Christmas together.

Yuuno: First of all, there is Murasaki-chan.
Shinkurou: Oh...
Shinkurou: She has to go to some grand party with a punch of VIPs.
Shinkurou: I need to give her her present afterwards.

Yuuno: What about Murakami-san?

Shinkurou: She has to help with the restaurant.
Shinkurou: It's the same every year.

SFX: Stand

15

Yuuno: So...

Yuuno: You really will be spending Christmas...
Yuuno: here?

Shinkurou: Y-yes.
Shinkurou: I used to do that every year when I was staying here...
Shinkurou: But I was thinking it might not be the best idea now...
Shinkurou: since it would be like I was moving back in.
Yuuno: Not at all!!

Yuuno: We'd love to have you!
Shinkurou: Thanks...

SFX: Slide
Mother: Yuuno, you have another call.

16

Mother: It's Aragaki-kun from the third year.
Mother: Oh, am I interrupting?

Yuuno: I-
Yuuno: I'll be right back.

Mother: She really doesn't have to take these so seriously.
Mother: They're just asking her out on a Christmas date.
SFX: Step step

SFX: Smile

Mother: Feel free to stay over at our place on Christmas.
Mother: And of course, you can stay in her room!
Shinkurou: Wait, what...?

Mother: It's perfectly okay.
Mother: I won't interrupt, so feel free to go all out...
Mother: and have lots of sex.

Chizuru: What's sex?

17

Shinkurou: Ch-Chi-chan...
Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: That's something you'll learn about when you're older...
Shinkurou: I guess...
Chizuru: Ohh...

Chizuru: Then when Chizuru grows up...
Chizuru: you can teach me, onii-chan!

Chizuru: Promise?
Text: Eh heh heh
Shinkurou: Um, okay...

SFX: Rinnnng

SFX: Open

Shinkurou: Ginko?

18

Shinkurou: I wonder what it is...
Shinkurou: she has to tell me in such a hurry.

Sign: Fuumitei
Dad: Oh, Shin-chan, you're here!

Dad: Sorry, but she's still working on her "other" job.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Dad: She's seemed really enthusiastic ever since she got her grandfather's notebook.
Dad: She might get mad if you interrupted her.

Dad: Well, you can just go take a bath...
Dad: and wait a bit!

Shinkurou: I can't believe this. She's the one that called me over.
Shinkurou: And I even rushed over...

Shinkurou: But a house with a bath sure is nice.
SFX: Slide

19

SFX: Step

SFX: Splash

20

SFX: Drip

SFX: Stare...

Shinkurou: Um, hi...

SFX: Shock

21

SFX: Slide
SFX: Slam

Ginko: Daaaad!!!

Ginko: You did this, didn't you!?
Ginko: You...
Ginko: idiot!!!
Dad: C'mon, I'm sure with that trip to Kyoto, you already-
Ginko: Shut up, you human garbage!!
Ginko: You trash!!

Shinkurou: Sigh...
Shinkurou: So she didn't have anything to tell me after all...

Shinkurou: I feel like...
Shinkurou: I'm just being manipulated by everyone around me.

22

Shinkurou: This would never happen...
Shinkurou: to her.

23

Box: One year ago

Text: United States of America - Manhattan
Text: Just once before beginning his work as a dispute mediator, Kurenai Shinkurou accompanied Juuzawa Benika on one of her jobs.

24

Man: Our objective is world peace!!

Man: But this country's president has no plan that will achieve that!
Man: Only one man can pull it off and he is none other than me!!
Man: Appoint me as the president right this instant!!
Man: If you don't I will begin killing the hostages, one by one!!
Police: Damn him!!

Police: We've discovered the identity of the criminal group.
Police: It is a new religious group established a few years ago.
Police: A great number of the believers are active soldiers.

SFX: Vroom

25

Police: Wh-
Police: Who are you?

SFX: Step out

Benika: Who's in charge here?
Benika: Call him here.
Police: Wait!! Who are you!?

26

Chief: I am the one in charge.
Chief: Who are you?

Benika: Juuzawa Benika.

Man: Who is that woman?

Chief: Wait a second!
Chief: You can't seriously be planning to head in there alone!
Chief: There are dozens of them and they have around 100 hostages!

Chief: Also, they have already killed three hostages, all children!
Chief: They're completely insane!

Benika: Shinkurou.

27

Benika: This is the front line.

Benika: Are you scared?

Benika: You are about to start the same job as me, correct?
Shinkurou: ...Yes.

Woman: Waaaahhhn!!
Woman: Help me! Mamaaa!!

Benika: Hand me that megaphone.

28-29

Benika: Hey, you bastards!!!

Benika: I'm coming up there to kick your asses, so prepare yourselves!!!

Box: And...
Box: the case was resolved.

30

Box: A few minutes after Benika-san entered the building...
Box: the criminal group had been defeated.

Box: Her loyal subordinate, Inuzuka Yayoi, had gotten her the information she needed about what was going on inside...
Box: and Juuzawa Benika had used that information to "mediate" the issue.

31

Box: Benika-san gave me a firsthand example...
Box: of the ideal form of someone heading down the path...
Box: I was about to start down.

Box: I wonder if I...
Box: will ever be able to become like her.

SFX: Rinnng

32

Shinkurou: Benika-san!

SFX: Beep
Shinkurou: Hello...

SFX: Ksshh...
SFX: Kssshhh...
SFX: Click

Shinkurou: Benika-san!!?

Shinkurou: Benika-san!!

Shinkurou: Beni-...!!

33

Text: Meanwhile in Hong Kong.

34-35

Zena: Ah ha ha ha ha ha!!
Zena: I finally defeated...
Zena: Juuzawa Benika!!!
Bottom: To be continued in the March Issue

Text: Benika is dead!? A new life-or-death battle begins!!

Translation: Kurenai 47

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:26:20 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 47

01

Text: Volume 8 is on sale now!!

SFX: Rustle

Text: A mysterious group appears, watching over the chaos in Kyoto!!

02

Ginko: Stop!!

Ginko: How could you raise your hand against a child!?
SFX: Approach

Koto: Don't think that you can escape.

Koto: Just...
Koto: wait there.

03

Text: The same form, different hearts...and the same earnestness.
Title: Chapter 47 True Feelings
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

SFX: Run run

04

SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: It's no good.
Shinkurou: The grounds are just too large. I can't figure out which way to go.

Murasaki: How about you put me down, Shinkurou?

Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: No, I'm fine, Murasaki...

SFX: Wham
SFX: Crash

Shinkurou: Wha-...!?

05

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!!

Koto: You really do...
Koto: look just like my young master.

Koto: If...
Koto: I were to kill you...

Koto: the Outer Thirteen Families would be unable to maintain their nonintervention.

06

Shinkurou: Let go of Murasakiiiiiiii!!!

SFX: Clang
Shinkurou: Houzuki Style.

07

Shinkurou: Type 1 Class 2 Fighting Demon,
Shinkurou: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Koto: <Suzakujin> Guard Unit 4 Captain,
Koto: Koto.

SFX: Toss

08-09

SFX: Charge

SFX: Rustle
Koto: Too slow.

SFX: Impact

10

SFX: Impact

SFX: Land
Koto: The ridiculous strength of the Houzuki Fighting Demon is pointless if you cannot hit.
Koto: And I can hit you all I want.

Koto: In other words...

11

Koto: I have an overwhelming advantage.
SFX: Rustle

SFX: Charge

12

SFX: Rush

SFX: Jump

SFX: Impacts

13

Koto: He's getting closer!!

SFX: Charge

14

Koto: Damn him!!

SFX: Stab

Koto: He was never intending to dodge...

Koto: Not bad.

15

SFX: Wham

16

SFX: Step

Murasaki: Shinkurou...

Koto: Kill me...

17

Koto: If you...
Koto: do nothing, I will eventually take over this family.
Koto: That is the destiny of the blood flowing through my veins.

Murasaki: Hah.

Murasaki: Liar.

Murasaki: Your true goal is not the family.

Murasaki: It's Usui.

18

Koto: It can't be...
Koto: Do you have the power to read minds, too?
Murasaki: Even without that power...
Murasaki: it's clearly written on your face.

Murasaki: Your head is filled with your feelings for Usui!

Murasaki: Just like Shinkurou's head is filled with his feelings for me.

19

Koto: Heh.

Koto: You're exactly right.

Koto: My one wish...
Koto: is for Usui to be happy.

Koto: I...
Koto: wanted to purify the dirty world in which he lives even if just a little.

20

Koto: I don't know how they found out...

Koto: but as soon as the highest members of the Suzakujin learned that the family's blood ran in my veins...
Koto: they came to me suggesting that I should take over the family.
Koto: They wanted to set me up as the head of the family so they could hold the true power of the family through me.

Koto: I learned something then.

Koto: I learned just how brutal the battle over influence was in this family.

Koto: I also learned how Usui was viewed within all that...
Koto: and that I would become a spark that would threaten him.

21

Koto: As long as I am in this house, the threats to his position as head will continue.
Koto: I decided that I must play the part of the usurper to draw out all of the trash...
Koto: and purge them from this house.

Koto: And in the end, I would be eliminated as a traitor.
Koto: With that, all the loose ends would be tied off.

Shinkurou: Wh-
Shinkurou: Why would you have to go that far...?

Koto: Yes, it may be impossible for you to understand...

22

Koto: just how dirty this world is to people like myself or my young master...
Koto: who can read the minds of everyone around us.

Koto: When I saw that seven year old child desperately living on while putting up the "voices" around him...
Koto: I could not help but grow attached to him.

Koto: If I am eliminated as a portion of that dirty world...
Koto: then he will not have to be hurt.

Koto: I had hoped to draw out even more of the trash using Murakami Ginji's notebook, but...

SFX: Step forward

23

Murasaki: Give it a rest already!!!
Murasaki: You fool!!!

Murasaki: I listened to what you had to say, but it was nothing but selfish delusions!!
Murasaki: Do you really think what you are doing is for Usui's sake!?

Murasaki: If so, you don't understand anything about how he feels!!

Murasaki: What Usui truly wants is...!!

Murasaki: Mh?

24

SFX: Push
Murasaki: Wah!

SFX: Step

SFX: Grab
Usui: Stop it...

Usui: Stop being mean to Koto!!!

Koto: Young master...

25

Usui: Waaaahhhh!!!

Usui: I don't want you to go!!
Usui: Koto!!
Usui: Koto!!

SFX: Wind...

26

Shinkurou: Wh-
Shinkurou: What?

27

Koto: Run!!

Koto: You mustn't fight!!
Koto: Not against them!!

Koto: They are the dark side of the Suzakujin...
Koto: no, of the Four Western Gate families.
Koto: That combat group is intended to directly prevent interference from the Outer and Inner Thirteen Families.
Koto: They are the most powerful assassins.

Koto: They are after me.
Koto: I am their target as the one who destroyed the order of the Suzakujin.

28

SFX: Step
Shinkurou: I can't let you die.

Shinkurou: After all, we can't have Usui-kun suffer any more, right?

Tamaki: Well said, Shinkurou-kun!
SFX: Step

Tamaki: If you keep saying cool things like that, I might just fall for you.
SFX: Step forward

29

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!
Shinkurou: Tamaki-san!

SFX: Draw

Usui: Stop this!!

30

Usui: I am Suzakujin Usui, the head of the Suzakujin family.
Usui: I do not approve this physical intervention on our grounds!!

Assassin: The ways of the Four Western Gate families are absolute.

Usui: And I am one of the heads that rules at the top of those ways.

Usui: Judgment regarding this infighting has been made under my authority.
Usui: If you still intend to interfere...

Usui: I will take responsibility and end my life here and now.

31

SFX: Disappear

Koto: Young master!!
SFX: Run over

Koto: Young master!

32

Box: A few days later

Usui: As a result of the discussion between the <Suzakujin> and the other Four Western Gate families...
Usui: the interference here by the <Kuhouin>, <Kirishima>, and <Houzuki> will be ignored.

Usui: After all, it was all caused by a scandal within my own house.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: What about Koto-san?

33

Usui: He received an inquiry from the Four Western Gate families...
Usui: and is currently imprisoned.

Usui: I intend to...

Usui: No, I will...
Usui: visit him regularly.

Usui: One day, he will have atoned for his crimes...
Usui: and the two of us will be able to walk together once more.

Shinkurou: We'll come see you again sometime, too.

34

Usui: Please do!

Ginko: This would have been too much for me alone.

Ginko: Thank you,
Ginko: Shinkurou.

35

Shinkurou: W-wow. You don't often thank people.

Murasaki: That is a rather rude thing to say, is it not?
Murasaki: Shinkurou-sama.
SFX: Pff

Tamaki: Ahhhh!! Shinkurou-kun mistook her for Usui-kun and is really turned on!!

Box: Thank you, grandfather.
Box: With your notebook...
Box: I can be much more of a help for Shinkurou.
Bottom: To be continued in the February Issue

Tamaki: So you really do swing both ways, Shinkurou-kun!!
Text: Waaaahh! Waaaahh!
Shinkurou: I already told you I don't!!
Ginko: What are you all yelling about?
Text: He's had enough of look-alikes!

Translation: Kurenai 46

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:06:52 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 46

01

Text: The two finally meet...

Murasaki: By the way, Kirihiko.
Kirihiko: Yes?

02

Murasaki: Why are you here in Kyoto?

Kirihiko: I just wanted...
Kirihiko: to get far away!

Kirihiko: I have no right...
Kirihiko: to be with you two anymore...

Shinkurou: Th-
Shinkurou: That's not true, Kirihiko-chan.

03

Murasaki: You fool!!
Murasaki: What are you talking about!?

Murasaki: We are friends!!
Murasaki: It's okay for us to be together!!

Kirihiko: Eh?
Kirihiko: B-but...
Kirihiko: I tried to kill all of you...

Murasaki: Such trivial things do not matter!
Kirihiko: Trivial!?

Murasaki: Anyway...
Murasaki: you didn't do anything wrong, right?
SFX: Nod nod

04

Murasaki: Okay!
SFX: Smile

Murasaki: I believe you.
Murasaki: Let's go back, Kirihiko!

Shinkurou: Let's go,
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan.

Koto: That settles it.

05

Koto: Since you covered for Kirishima Kirihiko...
Koto: you are enemies of the <Suzakujin>.

SFX: Approach

SFX: Grab

Shinkurou: No, Kirihiko-chan!

Shinkurou: Murasaki is here!!

06

Text: She isn't called Guillotine for nothing.
Title: Chapter 46 The Traitor
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke
Text: Volume 8 will be released on Friday November 4th!!

07

Ginko: Usui-kun.

Usui: You are...
Ginko: I am Murakami's...

Usui: Yes, Murakami Ginji-sama's granddaughter.

SFX: Realization

08

Ginko: You just...
Ginko: read it, didn't you?

Ginko: That is why you trusted us upon first meeting us.

SFX: Step
Ginko: That is how you knew we meant no harm.

Ginko: You used the power of the <Suzakujin>, didn't you?
Ginko: You have the power to read people's minds.

09

Koto: What are you talking about?

Koto: Oh, I see.
Koto: So you are related to that information broker.

Koto: So that means...
Koto: you must be after that, doesn't it?

Usui: Koto.
Usui: Did you find Shinkurou-sama and the others?

Koto: Yes.
Koto: There is nothing to worry about, young master.
SFX: Smile

10

Koto: Nothing at all.

Guard: Get in!!
SFX: Push push

SFX: Slam

SFX: Click

11

Murasaki: What violent people.
Murasaki: Where are we anyway?
Shinkurou: It looks like an underground prison.

Tamaki: Ahhhhh!!

Tamaki: I got a Kirihiko-chan!!
Shinkurou: T-
Shinkurou: Tamaki-san!!?

Shinkurou: And Yamie-san, too.
Shinkurou: So you two were also captured?
Yamie: Personally, I find this damp darkness much more comfortable than outside.

SFX: Realization
Shinkurou: Ginko...!

Murasaki: This is ridiculous! Let us out of here at once!
Murasaki: I will speak with the head of the family!

Kirihiko: They won't let you.
Murasaki: Mh?

12

Kirihiko: We were caught in a trap.
Kirihiko: So it doesn't matter what we say.

Shinkurou: A trap?
Murasaki: What do you mean, Kirihiko!?

SFX: Clatter

Usui: Shinkurou-sama!!

Usui: Wh-
Usui: Why are you all being held here!?

13

Usui: And even you...

Guard: Those were the captain's orders.
Guard: We were told to capture them as suspicious people who were after your life, Usui-sama.

Kirihiko: Keh.

Kirihiko: We're the suspicious ones?

Kirihiko: How can that long haired one say that?
SFX: Touch

Kirihiko: He's the one that set it all up.
SFX: Slide

14

Shinkurou: Set it all up?

Kirihiko: His face may have been hidden...

Kirihiko: but there's no way I would mistake those movements.

Kirihiko: That long-haired guy who is always by your side...
Kirihiko: is the one that attacked us!

15

Shinkurou: H-
Shinkurou: He was!!?

Shinkurou: Why would he do that!?
Shinkurou: And does that mean it was no mistake that he had us imprisoned?

Usui: Y-

Usui: You're wrong!!!

16

Usui: Koto would never do that!!

Koto: My grandfather, the previous head of the family, brought him here...
Koto: and he has been with me ever since!!

Koto: H-
Koto: He is my...

Koto: My only...

17

Shinkurou: U-
Shinkurou: Usui-kun...

Usui: I hate you, Shinkurou-sama!!

SFX: Mad

Murasaki: What a girly little boy.
SFX: Step forward

Murasaki: Where is he?

Murasaki: If I ask him, we can know the truth of this!
Murasaki: Where is he!?

18

Usui: Ko-
Usui: Koto is with Ginko-sama...

Shinkurou: Ah!
Shinkurou: Usui-kun!!
SFX: Dash

Murasaki: Wait!!
SFX: Clank
Murasaki: Let us out of here!!

Kirihiko: That will not be an problem.

19

Kirihiko: I can get us out
SFX: Tight
Text: Oh!
Tamaki: Oh!
Tamaki: So can I!

Usui: Impossible!!

Usui: Koto would never...
Usui: He would never...!!

20

Text: Look, that is the head of the family's grandson.
Text: He really does look just like a girl.
Text: It's pathetic that HE will be the next head.

Text: But he inherited the supernatural power of the Suzakujin family, right?
Text: He can read people's minds.
Text: It's really creepy.

Text: I hope he dies quickly like his father.
Text: That way, the head might look in my direction.

21

SFX: Bounce

SFX: Bounce bounce

Grandfather: Usui.

Usui: Grandfather!

Usui: Who is that?

22

Grandfather: His name is Koto...
Grandfather and he will be acting as your bodyguard from now on.

SFX: Smile

SFX: Step forward

Usui: S-stay back!!
Usui: If you approach me, I will be able to read your mi-!!

SFX: Grab

23

SFX: Pick up
Usui: Wah!

Koto: I don't...
Koto: mind.

Usui: I can't hear the voice of his mind!?
Usui: Why?

Usui: But for some reason...
Usui: he feels very warm.

Koto: All I desire is your smile.
Koto: So please smile,
Koto: young master.

24

25

Ginko: This is it...?
Koto: Yes.
Koto: That is what your grandfather gave the previous head of the family long ago.

Koto: The previous head trusted Ginji-san...
Koto: so it was stored safely.

Koto: He also seemed to have asked a secret favor.
SFX: Flip

Text: Remember...
Text: one thing...
Text: Ginko.

26

Ginji: If...
Ginji: you ever hit a wall while continuing my work as an information broker...

Ginji: head to the West.
Ginji: Okay?

Box: That isn't very concrete advice, Grandfather.
Box: Ha ha. I suppose not.

Ginko: A hidden page?

SFX: Flip

Box: "Investigation Report"

27

Box: "He has definitely inherited the blood of the Suzakujin...
Box: and he has now become the bodyguard of the next head based on his own wishes."

Koto: Did you figure something out?
Ginko: Eh!?

Koto: Oh, so you found out.
Koto: I really didn't expect anything about me to be written in there.

28

Ginko: You read my mind!?
Ginko: So you really do have Suzakujin blood in you!?

Koto: Yes,
Koto: I do.

Koto: Apparently, the previous head met my mother while outside our territory.
SFX: Step forward
Koto: I had Murakami Ginji search out that information and bring me here.

Koto: And of course, the fact that I had Suzakujin blood was kept a secret from everyone but the previous head.
SFX: Thud

Koto: I wish for your assistance.
Koto: You should be able to read the all the coded messages in this notebook.

29

Koto: Murakami Ginji left behind all sorts of information on the underground society.
Koto: As long as I have that, I can...

Ginko: You intend to take over the Suzakujin family, don't you!?

SFX: Bang

30

Usui: Koto.

Koto: Young master.

Usui: I...
Usui: I trust you, Koto.

Usui: I-it's true that...
Usui: you and grandfather are the only two people whose minds I have been unable read.

Ginko: Just as the notebook said...
Ginko: Those with the same bloodline kill each other and cannot read each other's minds.

Usui: But...
Usui: I do not mind.

31

Usui: I trust you, Koto.
Usui: No matter what anyone says, you are...
Usui: my only...

Koto: Ha ha.

Koto: What are you talking about?
Koto: You really shouldn't trust people so easily.

32

SFX: Wham

SFX: Collapse
Ginko: Usui-kun!!

33

Usui: Koto.

Guards: It's no good. We can't stop them!!
Guards: Backup!
Guards: We need backup!!

SFX: Step

34

Tamaki: It looks like we've taken out most of them.
Kirihiko: But...

Kirihiko: Was it really okay...
Kirihiko: to let Murasaki...-chan go along with onii-san?

Tamaki: It's fine, it's fine.
Tamaki: The thing about Murasaki-chan is...

Yamie: Once she says she is going, there is no stopping her.

35

Bottom: To be continued in The January Issue

Murasaki: Let's find out the truth.
Murasaki: Let's go, Shinkurou!
Text: They will smash through the darkness lurking in Kyoto!!

Translation: Kurenai 45

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:29:46 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 45

01

Text: A mysterious masked figure targets Murasaki!!

SFX: Jump back
Text: The long-awaited Volume 8 will be released on Friday November 4th!!

Murasaki: What...!?

Murasaki: Who are you!!?

02

SFX: Grab

03

Kirihiko: Uuh...

Murasaki: K-

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!?

Masked figure: Tch!!

04

SFX: Tug

SFX: Wham

SFX: Slump
Murasaki: Kirihiko!!

05

Text: The Japanese heart of this Yamato Nadeshiko conceals a deadly blade...
Bottom: Volumes 1-7 are on sale now!! Volume 8 will be released on Friday November 4th!!
Title: Chapter 45 Lies and Hugs
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

06

Shinkurou: That sound...

Murasaki: Are you okay, Kirihiko!?
Murasaki: Pull yourself together!!

Kirihiko: That...

Kirihiko: Give me that...
Murasaki: What?

07

SFX: Pull out
Murasaki: Ow.

SFX: Grab

Murasaki: Wh-
Murasaki: What are you doing!!?
Murasaki: Let go of me!!

SFX: Tense

08

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Spurt

Kirihiko: Who do you think you're laying your hands on,
SFX: Land
Kirihiko: you pig.

09

SFX: Tighten

Murasaki: A hair!!

Masked figure: Tch.

SFX: Disappear

Murasaki: Kirihiko...

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!

10

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-cha-...!

Guards: Usui-sama!!
SFX: Rush forward

Guards: What...?

11

Guards: Why you...!
Guards: What did you do to Usui-sama!?

Murasaki: Wh-what are you talking about!?
Murasaki: I'm not Usui!!

Shinkurou: Ah.

SFX: Sneak
Murasaki: Kirihiko!?

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!
Murasaki: Wait, Kirihiko!!
SFX: Dash

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!

12

Usui: Well, if you see her, please report to me.
Woman: Understood.

SFX: Clatter clatter

Koto: I'm back,

SFX: Grab
Koto: young master.

13

Usui: Koto...

Usui: Where did you get off to at a time like this?
Usui: Has our guest been found?
Koto: Yes, she has.

Usui: Eh?

Koto: But she got away.

Usui: She got away!?
Usui: What do you mean!?
Koto: Oh, I only heard about it from my subordinates.
Koto: I also learned something else quite surprising.

Koto: She is actually...
Koto: <Kirishima Kirihiko>!

14

Usui: <Kirishima>...

Koto: Yes.
Koto: <Kirishima> of the Inner Thirteen Families.
Koto: The Kuhouin girl was being attacked by her...
Koto: when the guards came and saved the girl.

Koto: The <Kirishima> family is a line of hit men.
Koto: And she is the one that has been given the title of the 66th <Kirihiko>.

Usui: So she really is an assassin.

15

Usui: B-but why is someone from the Inner Thirteen Families here?

Koto: A Kuhouin of the Outer Thirteen Families is here too...
Koto: so it isn't...
Koto: too surprising.

Koto: Perhaps it is...
Koto: this <Kirishima> girl...

Koto: that has been going around assassinating high ranking members of the Suzakujin family for the past month.

16

Usui: Ridiculous!!
Usui: It can't be!!
Usui: She would do something like that!!

Koto: ...That's right.

Koto: It is true...
Koto: that you have the mysterious ability to see people's ill intent.

Koto: That is why you are worthy of being the head of the Suzakujin family.

17

Koto: However...
Koto: this is not someone that our normal methods will work against.

Koto: Someone who knows of your power...
Koto: might be able to use it against you.

Koto: It is also possible you have merely misread her.
Koto: You first...
Koto: need to accept the reality that lies before your eyes.

18

Usui: Koto...

Koto: Do not worry.
Koto: I am with you, young master.

19

Murasaki: But you're wrong!!
Murasaki: Kirihiko was...
Murasaki: Kirihiko was saving me!!

SFX: Pat

SFX: Poke

Tamaki: We know, Murasaki-chan.

Murasaki: Tamaki...

Shinkurou: What is going in...?

Shinkurou: Was Murasaki being targeted because it was revealed she is a Kuhouin?
Shinkurou: Or was it Usui-kun being targeted?
Shinkurou: And either way, who was that?

20

Shinkurou: Hey, Ginko.
Shinkurou: Do you know anythi-

Ginko: I didn't know.

Ginko: Even considering Murasaki-chan and that girl's presence...
Ginko: something must be going on within the West internally.

Ginko: I didn't know...
Ginko: and yet I'm an information broker...

21

Ginko: I need to get it.

Ginko: I need to get what...
Ginko: my grandfather left here.

Shinkurou: Ginko...

Guard: It seems she has been cornered in the east-southeast block.

22

Guard: Gather the guards!!
Guard: Let's go!!

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

Shinkurou: Let's go!

23

SFX: Trip

Kirihiko: Ahh!!
SFX: Fall

SFX: Pant pant

Murasaki: Kirihiko!

Murasaki: Let's go, Kirihiko!

Kirihiko: Uuh...

24

SFX: Rustle rustle

SFX: Appear

SFX: Whoosh

25

SFX: Slice

SFX: Crumble

SFX: Charge

Kirihiko: Shit!!
Kirihiko: I need a better blade!!

26

SFX: Whoosh

Kirihiko: Damn you!!

SFX: Charge

Kirihiko: Fuck...

Kirihiko: Fuck!!

27

Kirihiko: Why...
Kirihiko: Why am I doing this?

Kirihiko: Why did I...

Kirihiko: run away back there!?

Kirihiko: I always do this.
Kirihiko: I always run away when it matters most.
Kirihiko: That was even why I came here to Kyoto.

Lucy: This is good enough for you.

28

Lucy: You don't need friends.

SFX: Charge

29

SFX: Wham

30

Shinkurou: Please wait!!

Shinkurou: She is...Kirihiko-chan is...
Shinkurou: my friend!!

SFX: Catch

Kirihiko: Stand back,
Flap
Kirihiko: onii-san.

31

Kirihiko: This will be over in 10 seconds.

Shinkurou: Kiri-...!!

Guard: Uuh...

SFX: Wham wham
SFX: Crack crack

32

Kirihiko: Heh...
Kirihiko: I guess I went a little nuts.

Shinkurou: B-but you didn't do anything, did you, Kirihiko-chan?
Shinkurou: If you just explained yourself...

Kirihiko: They wouldn't listen.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Kirihiko: If my guess is correct, they wouldn't.

33

Shinkurou: What do you mean?
Kirihiko: But more importantly...

Kirihiko: You need to get away from here.

Kirihiko: That wasn't even the beginning of their true strength.
Kirihiko: That guy is especially dangerous.
Kirihiko: You need to leave before he gets here.

Murasaki: I will not run.

Murasaki: Why must we flee when we have done nothing wrong?

34

Murasaki: Honestly, you keep running away...
SFX: Step
Murasaki: so I never get a chance to thank you.

Murasaki: How many times...
Murasaki: do you think you've saved me now?

35

SFX: Hug

Murasaki: Thanks for saving me,
Murasaki: Kirihiko.
Text: She had been wanting to say that for so long...

Bottom: To be continued in the December Issue

Translation: Kurenai 44

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:31:22 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 44

01

Text: Volume 7 is on sale now!!

Murasaki: Who are you?

Usui: I am...
Text: Another child who looks just like Murasaki!?
Usui: Usui.

02

SFX: Smile
Usui: My name is Suzakujin Usui.

Ginko: <Suzakujin>...!?

Ginko: I'm shocked.
Ginko: I didn't expect to make contact with the Four Western Gate families so quickly.

Shinkurou: The Four Western Gate families?

03

Tamaki: Now this is amazing.
Tamaki: It's like she's standing in front of a mirror.
Yamie: If you mixed them up, it would be impossible to tell them apart.
Koto: Oh, c'mon now.
Koto: I can tell them apart.
Koto: After all, our young master is a bit cuter.

SFX: Stare

Murasaki: I am Murasaki.

Ginko: W-wait, Murasaki-chan!!
Ginko: Don't name yourse-

Murasaki: I am Kuhouin Murasaki!!

04

Usui: So you are Murasaki-sama.
Murasaki: That's right!

Murasaki: And that is my honey, Shinkurou!
Murasaki: And they are Tamaki, Yamie, and David.
Tamaki: Honey.

Murasaki: Hm?

Murasaki: David,
Murasaki: I didn't know you came with us.
David: Nyahh

05

Usui: U-um...
Usui: Excuse me, but...

Usui: That cat belongs to a guest of my house.
Usui: Perhaps she is a friend of yours.

Koto: Kuhouin...

06

Text: Your uncovered face brings down your heart's defenses as well...
Title: Chapter 44 Suzakujin
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

07

SFX: Drip...

SFX: Brush

Kirihiko: He's gone.
Kirihiko: He's gone!!
Kirihiko: David!!

08

Usui: David...?
Usui: Is that the cat you had before?
Kirihiko: Yes!!

Kirihiko: David!!

Usui: Understood.

Usui: I will search for your cat.
Koto: Hah!?

Kirihiko: Until then, feel free to have your wounds treated at my house.
Koto: What!? Why do we need to do that for her!?

09

Usui: Let us go, Koto.
Koto: Ehh? Really!?

SFX: Splash

SFX: Sit

Kirihiko: It's too hot...

10

Shinkurou: Wh-what an amazing house...

Koto: Young master...
Koto: Should we really be...
Koto: inviting in these unknown people...
Koto: during this time of such dispute?

11

Usui: Koto.

Usui: We are the ones that were unnecessarily suspicious of these guests and treated them violently.

Usui: We cannot be so rude as to...
Usui: merely part ways once our business with them is over.

Koto: Young master is cute even while angry!

Koto: What are you standing there for?
Koto: Our young master invited you in...
Koto: so, please, do not refrain from entering.

12

Koto: However...
Koto: we must insist that you obey the rules of the West.

Ginko: Shinkurou...

Ginko: You must not mention...
SFX: Approach
Ginko: that you are connected to the <Houzuki> family.

Shinkurou: Wh-why not!?
Shinkurou: And what is all this about the rules of the west and the Four Western Gate families?

Ginko: Kyoto...
Ginko: is a special place.

13

Shinkurou: A special place?

Ginko: Yes.
Ginko: It is the only place in this country...
Ginko: where the outer and inner thirteen families have no power.

Ginko: Four families rule both the outer and inner portions of Kyoto.

14

Ginko: They are known as the Four Western Gate families.

Ginko: They are the <Seiryuujin>, <Byakkojin>, <Genbujin>,
Ginko: and <Suzakujin> families.
Ginko: They are said to be the descendants of the military nobles who were appointed as the defenders of Kyoto in ancient times.

Ginko: With both "outer" assets and "inner" supernatural powers, they set up a powerful barrier around Kyoto without anyone noticing.
Ginko: After a long history of resistance, they finally succeeded in eliminating the outer and inner influence of the other families.

15

Ginko: Do you understand now...
Ginko: just how dangerous it is for a Houzuki and a Kuhouin to be within that barrier?

Ginko: So do not speak the name <Houzuki>.
Ginko: And of course make sure to attentively protect Murasaki-chan.

SFX: Approach

Tamaki: That really was a surprise.
Tamaki: I can't believe how similar you two look.

16

SFX: Mad

Tamaki: Oh?
Yamie: Heh heh. It appears the girl is upset.

Murasaki: Of course I am!!

Murasaki: I can't believe...
Murasaki: Shinkurou would mistake someone else for me...

17

Usui: Oh...
Usui: I-I am very sorry about that.
Koto: Why are you apologizing, young master?

Tamaki: Hey, hey!

Tamaki: Then how about this?
Yamie: Don't play around too much, Tamaki.

18

Shinkurou: Murasaki and the others sure are taking their time.

Shinkurou: Hey, Ginko.
Shinkurou: Was the reason you came to Kyoto...

19

Shinkurou: to meet with the Four Western Gate families?

Shinkurou: Is there a connection between them and Ginji-san?
SFX: Slide
Tamaki: Sorry about the wait!!

Tamaki: Now, Shinkurou-kun.

20

Tamaki: Which one is Murasaki-chan!?
Shinkurou: Why are you just playing around, Tamaki-san!?

Tamaki: Oh?
Tamaki: So you can't tell?
Shinkurou: B-but...

Shinkurou: If they're wearing the same clothes...
Shinkurou: they look exactly the same...

21

Shinkurou: This one.
Tamaki: Wow, that's right!!

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!
SFX: Hop

Murasaki: So you really are my Shinkurou!!
Tamaki: That's amazing, Shinkurou-kun. This must be love!
Tamaki: Seeing those two is enough to bring out my passion even during the day!
Shinkurou: Ha ha...
Shinkurou: I definitely can't tell them I just chose the one that looked like she was about to attack me.

SFX: Angry

22

Ginko: Lolicon.
SFX: Stab

Tamaki: But that really is amazing, Usui-kun.

Tamaki: You really do look like a girl.
Shinkurou: Hah?

Shinkurou: What are you talking about?
Shinkurou: Usui-chan IS a gir-

Koto: Young master.

Shinkurou: Eh...!?
Shinkurou: Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh!!?

23

Shinkurou: Y-
Shinkurou: You're a boy!!?

Usui: The custom of my family...
Usui: is to dress up like a girl while we are young to ward off misfortune.

Shinkurou: But you're so cute...

SFX: Blush

Tamaki: He really is a boy.
Tamaki: I made sure to check back there.
Shinkurou: Don't check that kind of thing!!

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: So...

24

Shinkurou: So I guess I should...
Shinkurou: call you Usui-"kun".

Text: Hee hee

Usui: If you wish, Shinkurou-sama.

Shinkurou: He looks exactly like a girl.
SFX: Smile smile

Murasaki: What are you blushing about?
SFX: Heartbeat
SFX: Grab

25

Ginko: You aren't...
Ginko: feeling conflicted about something, are you?
Shinkurou: Eh!?

SFX: Rumble...

Shinkurou: N-no, no!!
Shinkurou: Not at all!!
SFX: Slide
Murasaki: Are you sure?
Ginko: Are you sure?

Woman: Excuse me.

Usui: Oh,
Usui: is she here?

Woman: Actually...

26

Usui: She disappeared?

Woman: Yes.
Woman: She suddenly vanished after getting out of the bath.

Yamie: Is this the person you say was looking for David?
SFX: Step forward

Usui: Yes.
Usui: She was a girl...

Usui: just a bit younger than Shinkurou-sama and Ginko-sama...
Usui: and she had a large scarf wrapped around her neck.

27

Ginko: A large scarf?

Murasaki: K-

28

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

29

Shinkurou: Ah!!
SFX: Dash
Shinkurou: Hey, Murasaki!!

Shinkurou: Could it really have been Kirihiko-chan!?
Shinkurou: But why would she be here?

Ginko: Shinkurou!!

Ginko: What are you doing!?
Ginko: Head after Murasaki-chan!!
Ginko: Hurry!!

30

SFX: Slide

SFX: Slide

SFX: Slide

31

SFX: Pant pant

32

SFX: Droop

Murasaki: Kirihiko...

Shinkurou: Where did Murasaki get off to?

33

Shinkurou: I have to find Kirihiko-chan, too.

Shinkurou: Come to think of it, Kirihiko-chan is from the <Kirishima> family of the inner thirteen families.

Shinkurou: As Ginko said...
Shinkurou: this place is dangerous for us.

34

35

SFX: Jump back
Bottom: To be continued in the November Issue

Murasaki: What...!?

Murasaki: Who are you!!?
Text: The malice of the West shows itself!!

Translation: Kurenai 43

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:06:45 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 43

01

Text: Hoshigami Zena, a woman who tramples on both good and evil.

Lucy: Hoshigami-san.

Lucy: We know where Kirihiko-kun has run off to.
Hoshigami: Where?

Lucy: Kyoto.

Hoshigami: Kyo-...

02

Hoshigami: Did she do this on purpose?
SFX: Glare

Lucy: Well?
Lucy: Should we send someone after her?
Hoshigami: We can't.
Hoshigami: If we interfered in Kyoto it would start a war.

Hoshigami: A war with them.

Lucy: Ah ha ha.
Lucy: That isn't the kind of thing I expect to hear from the <Solitary Fortress>.

Hoshigami: It's too much of a risk for capturing a single stray employee.
SFX: Glare
Hoshigami: We can just watch and see what happens this time.

03

Hoshigami: Too bad.
Hoshigami: I really don't want to lose her as a pawn.

Hoshigami: Heh heh.
Hoshigami: The darkness in Kyoto is deep.

04

Text: If I'm on a trip with you, anywhere would be perfect!
Book: Kyoto
Title: Chapter 43 Resemblance
Below credits: Volume 7 is on sale now!!
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

05

David: Nyaahh
Kirihiko: Who are these people?

Kirihiko: Especially him...
Kirihiko: He has a dangerous look to him.

SFX: Whoosh

06

SFX: Slice

SFX: Jump back

07

SFX: Stiff

Koto: Hehh...

Kirihiko: Shut the hell up.
Kirihiko: Do you want to be my next target?

08

SFX: Pop out
SFX: Jingle

Kirihiko: Ah!?

Kirihiko: Davi-...!!

Koto: Slicing through a real sword with a bamboo leaf...
Koto: is pretty amazing.

09

Koto: I just have...
Koto: two things I want to ask you.

Koto: First, why did you kill someone of the Four Western Gate families?
[TN: I mistook this for a name and mistranslated it as the Nishishimon family last chapter.]

Koto: And second,
Koto: who are you?

Kirihiko: Who am I?
SFX: Pissed

Kirihiko: Let your body do the talking.
SFX: Jump

10

Usui: Stop,
SFX: Step forward
Usui: Koto.

11

Usui: She has nothing to do with this.
Usui: I...
Usui: know.

Kirihiko: Wh-

12

Kirihiko: Why are you here!?

Murasaki: Ohh!

Murasaki: So this is Kyoto!!
Sign: Kyoto

13

Murasaki: What's that pointed thing?
Shinkurou: That's Kyoto Tower.
Tamaki: This place looks amazing, doesn't it, Yamie-san?
Yamie: Heh heh. I look forward to going there tonight.

Shinkurou: Oh, right. Gin-...

Ginko: What?

Shinkurou: Ginko's really pissed...

Box: An hour prior
SFX: Rooooar
Shinkurou: Wh-why are you all coming, too!!?

14

Tamaki: We just so happened to hear from Ginko-chan's dad at Fuumitei...
Tamaki: that she was headed to Kyoto.
Shinkurou: G-Ginsei-san told you!?

Tamaki: Yes, and it hit me that you were bound to go with her!
Tamaki: Now, in that situation, who knows when you two would have your first time, right?
Tamaki: So we decided we should go along for some adult supervision.
Shinkurou: What do you mean, our first time?

Tamaki: That's exactly the problem!!
Tamaki: We were afraid because of how clueless you are!!
Tamaki: So anyway...
Tamaki: Oh, I need another beer!
Yamie: I will take a wine that is thicker than blood.
Box: *Do not be too noisy while riding the train.

15

Shinkurou: B-but then...
Shinkurou: why is Murasaki here?

SFX: Hop
SFX: Land

Murasaki: If you're going, then I'm going!
Murasaki: Is that a problem?

Box: And so...
Box: everyone ended up going.

SFX: Clatter

16

Shinkurou: Hey, Ginko...
Shinkurou: Could you please cheer up?

Shinkurou: Everyone only came because they were worried about you.
Shinkurou: ...I think.

Murasaki: What's that?
Murasaki: Let's go, Shinkurou!
SFX: Dash
Shinkurou: H-hey!
Shinkurou: Don't just run off!

Ginko: Make sure to stick with Murasaki-chan!!

SFX: Realization

17

Ginko: I-I mean, keep an eye on her because it doesn't seem...
Ginko: her guards are with her.

Shinkurou: S-sure...
Shinkurou: Oh, yeah. Lin-san is still in the hospital.

Shinkurou: But it's still weird, don't you think?
Shinkurou: She's so far away from home and yet neither Kiba-san nor any guards are with her.

Ginko: They do not want to provoke the West.
Ginko: That must be it.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Ginko: At any rate, don't let Murasaki-chan out of your sight while in Kyoto.
Ginko: I have something I must do.

Box: Come to think of it...
Box: Why did Ginko come here to Kyoto anyway?

18

Box: Did she get some information about Ginji-san?
Box: But what was with that overreaction regarding Murasaki?

Tamaki: C'mon, Shinkurou-kun. You need to be a little more proactive.
Tamaki: Ginko-chan's just waitin' for you to pounce on 'er.
SFX: Grab
Yamie: Trips have a liberating effect on people's hearts.
Yamie: But, boy, do not expect fate to knock on your door twice.

Shinkurou: What are you talking about!!?
Shinkurou: And you two reek of alcohol!!
Murasaki: Let's go to that big shrine, Ginko!

19

Box: Yasaka Shrine

Tamaki: Oeeehhhh

Shinkurou: Hehh. There are a lot of people here for a weekday.
Ginko: This is Kyoto, so that isn't too surprising.

20

Murasaki: Ohhhh!

Murasaki: What are those people!?
Tamaki: Oh, they're known as maikos.

Murasaki: Maikos?
Murasaki: What does a maiko do?

Tamaki: They're butterflies.
Tamaki: They're the butterflies that dance in the Kyoto night.
Murasaki: Can they fly?

Yamie: If you are interested, how about you try this?
Sign: Try out being a Maiko and get your picture taken. 500 m this way ->
Yamie: It looks like you can become a Maiko yourself.

21

Tamaki: Let's go, Murasaki-chan!
SFX: Dash
Murasaki: Yeah!
Shinkurou: Eh!?
Shinkurou: Right now!?

SFX: Fade away

SFX: Grab

Shinkurou: Ginko.

Shinkurou: If you're planning on going somewhere out of the ordinary, I'm coming with you.

Ginko: Hah?
Ginko: Why do I need you to-

22

Shinkurou: I'm going with you.

Yamie: Heh heh...
Yamie: I am glad everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.

SFX: Jingle

23

Yamie: Oh?
David: Nyahh

Yamie: So this is where you were?
SFX: Hop

Yamie: Did you have enough of your friend?
David: Nyaahh

24

Shinkurou: What shop did those two go in?

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat
Shinkurou: I don't think they went too far off...

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat

Ginko: H-
Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: They're here!?

25

Ginko: How long are you planning to hold my hand!?
SFX: Pull away

Ginko: And can't you just call Murasaki-chan's cell phone!?
Ginko: You idiot!!

Shinkurou: Oh.

Shinkurou: S-sorry.
Shinkurou: I just panicked a bit with everyone separated like this.
SFX: Step

26

27

Shinkurou: Murasaki!

SFX: Smile

SFX: Heartbeat

Shinkurou: O-Oh, did you get all dressed up like a maiko?
Shinkurou: Wow.
Shinkurou: It's like you have a completely different aura now.

28

Shinkurou: But...
Shinkurou: this kind of outfit really does suit you.
Shinkurou: It's a contrast to your usual boy's clothes.

Usui: Thank you for your kind words.

Shinkurou: D-
Shinkurou: Did they teach you how to speak like that, too?
Shinkurou(small): At the shop?
Usui: Yes.
Usui: I have been taught the proper way to behave as far back as I can remember.

Ginko: Um, Shinkurou...
Shinkurou: Wait, where's Tamaki-san?
Usui: Eh?

29

Shinkurou: Honestly, did she leave Murasaki behind and go off somewhere?
Shinkurou: Well, we need to regroup.
Usui: U-um...
SFX: Grab

Usui: I-I cannot go with you...
Usui: I have an important task I need to-

Shinkurou: Murasaki, what are you talking abo-

SFX: Throb

SFX: Step

30

SFX: Step

31

Koto: You have guts.
SFX: Jump
Koto: trying to kidnap our young master.
[Note: Just to make sure 'young master' isn't seen as a mistake and changed in editing: Yes, this character is male.]

SFX: Land

Shinkurou: Eh?

32

Usui: Koto!!

SFX: Stop

Usui: ...Stop.

Koto: Eh?
SFX: Shock
Koto: But he was...

33

Usui: He was not.
Usui: He merely mistook me for someone else.
Ginko: I can't believe you.

Shinkurou: Ginko...?
Ginko: You STILL haven't realized it?
Ginko: That...
Ginko: is not Murasaki-chan.

Shinkurou: What...?

Shinkurou: No way.

SFX: Jingle
Yamie: Now this is a surprise.

34

Usui: Ah!

Yamie: Hm?
Usui: That is the cat I was searching.
Usui: Sorry, but that cat is...

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

Tamaki: Sorry. We ran across a grilled bamboo shoot store before we got there.

Shinkurou: Hm?

35

Shinkurou: T-

Shinkurou: Two...
Shinkurou: Murasakis!!?
Text: Does this striking resemblance bring a premonition of trouble along with it!?
Bottom: To be continued in the October Issue

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 17

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:00:44 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 17

01

SFX: Gunshots
Text: The life-or-death mission to save the hostages has begun!!
Text: Last Season Volume 1 is on sale now!

Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
Kanou: Kh...!!
Title: File 17 Beneath the Mask

02

Kanou: Tch...
Kanou: We were split up...
Kanou: Well, there's no helping it!

Kanou: Makimura!
Kanou: Continue with Exodus! Work with Mamiya!!
Makimura: Understood!

Kanou: Hey, Mamiya!! Don't you die!

Mamiya: You either, Kanou!!
Mamiya: See you after all this!

SFX: Step forward

03

SFX: Gunshots

Kurata: This way, Kanou-san!
Kanou: Sure!
SFX: Bullets striking

Kanou: Dammit, they're everywhere.
Kanou: How many of them are there?

Kaidou: The enemy...performed too well...
Kaidou: Some...large power is at work here...

Mamiya: What if there was a traitor...
Mamiya: higher up in the Ministry of Justice?

04

Kanou: Shit.
Kanou: I don't have time to come up with any way to deny that possibility...
Kanou: A traitor?

Kanou: But...
SFX: Step...
Kanou: where!??

05

SFX: Step step
Girl: Sob...
Girl: Uuh...
Girl: Uuh...

Haruka: Don't worry.

Haruka: We will be saved!
Haruka: So do your best to wait,
Haruka: okay?

Girl: Uuh...
Girl: But...
Girl(small): Sob

Kujou: She's right.

06

Kujou: This girl's father was a hero that saved my life.
Kujou: His comrades are fighting even now to save us!
SFX: Smile
Kujou: Believe in them.

Girl: Okay!

SFX: Clench

Haruka: Onii-chan...
Haruka: Hibiki-san...
Haruka: I can trust you, can't I?
Haruka: Otoya-san...

07

Haruka: Please...
Haruka: be all right, all of you!!

Hibiki: Stop here.

Hibiki: The enemy is coming.

Hibiki: Get ready with your gun.
SFX: Chk

08

Otoya: Once you kill someone...
Otoya: does something change inside you?

Hibiki: You'll know once you kill someone for yourself.
Hibiki: First, I will take out the two in the front...
Hibiki: You deal with the two in the back.

SFX: Realization

SFX: Step step step

09

Otoya: How do you know there are four of them?

SFX: Step

Hibiki: From their footsteps.

SFX: Heartbeat

10

SFX: Bang

SFX: Heartbeat

SFX: Focus

11

SFX: Clench

SFX: Gunshots

12

Hibiki: Well done.

Otoya: What!? Why did you do that!?
Otoya: It thought I was supposed to deal with those two.

Hibiki: I just wanted to see your resolve.
Hibiki: Only I need sully myself.

13

Hibiki: After all, I doubt Fujimaru...
Hibiki: wants you...
Hibiki: to be a murderer.

Hibiki: Fujimaru.
Hibiki: Can you hear me? It's Hibiki.
Hibiki: We just took out four of them.
Hibiki: Our coordinates are...

14

Box: Tokyo Neo Tower Cosmo Floor

SFX: Step forward
Kanou: Ahh!

Kanou: God dammit!
Kanou: How many of those masked bastards are there!?

SFX: Bang bang
SFX: Duck back

SFX: Stare...

15

SFX: Bang

Kanou: Nice one, Kurata!
Kanou: And I couldn't hit them at all. Maybe I've gotten a bit out of practice.
Kurata: Oh, c'mon. I just got lucky!

Kanou: Hoo...
Kanou: This isn't going to be easy...
Kanou: I wonder if Mamiya and Makimura are okay.

16

SFX: Bang

Makimura: Pant pant pant... Wow, Mamiya-san.
Makimura: I didn't get a chance to take out even one of them.
Mamiya: What are you talking about?

Mamiya: You hold a JSDF record for moving target practice, too, right?
Makimura: Yes, I suppose I do...

17

Makimura: It just almost seems like ...
SFX: Pick up

Makimura: they're not actually trying sometimes.
Makimura: Maybe it's because they're all wearing these masks.

Makimura: It makes it hard to see this as a real battle.

18-19

Makimura: Huh?
SFX: Stare
Makimura: Mamiya-san?

Makimura: What is that...
Makimura: on your face?

20

Mamiya: You idiot.
Mamiya: I was hoping to keep you alive for a bit longer.

Makimura: Eh?
Text: The terrorists being shot was only an act!? The traitor was Mamiya Kyouichi!!
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 48

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 16

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:40:49 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 16

01

Top: Last Season Volume 1 goes on sale Monday 10/17!
Text: The fate of the world depends on the outcome of the battle within this tower...

SWAT: Shit!
SWAT: It's like they're holed up in a castle with the heads of the summit as hostages!
SWAT: Japan's reputation might as well have been smashed to pieces.

02-03

SWAT: We can't move in.
SWAT: Like this, that's the perfect fortress.
SWAT: Those damn terrorists...

Man: Umm, about half of the government's highest ranking members including Prime Minister Kujou have been taken hostage within Tokyo Neo Tower.
Man: Currently, there is quite a commotion...umm...even at the prime minister's official residence.
Title: File 16 Final Parting Words
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

Man: Umm...
Man: As for the demands of the terrorists naming themselves Bloody Monday...
Man: that is currently undergoing deliberation, so...
Text crawl: terrorist attack inside Tokyo Neo Tower

SFX: Change
Text: Breaking news
Woman: The situation within Tokyo Neo Tower is difficult to grasp...
Woman: and Japan's responsibility for the security means...

SFX: Change
Man: Trading systems from across the world are down...
Man: and it seems it will take at least 2 hours to bring them back up...

04

Michael: Block A-10 has been locked down.
J: Mm.
SFX: Write

SFX: Twirl
J: This is causing quite an uproar, Michael-kun.

Michael: It certainly us.
Michael: J, now Block G-13.
Michael: The sealing of the fireproof barriers is currently at 18%.
Michael: That leaves only another 22% to reach our goal.

J: Understood.
J: We're making good time.
SFX: Write

J: Contact Jacob...
J: and have them resume the mission.
Michael: Will do.

05

J: Falcon,
J: we're monitoring your progress on the areas we gave you to lock down.
J: I'm glad to see it's going well.

J: We're about to head to the next stage too.
J: You're making pretty good pace, but are you sure they won't notice?
Fujimaru: Of course.

Fujimaru: I'm only doing the areas the terrorists have already inspected.
Fujimaru: After all, this will all be for naught if they notice.

06

Fujimaru: I'm more worried about your end of things.
Fujimaru: If your calculations are wrong, the tower itself will...
SFX: Type type

J: We've made no mistakes in our preparations.
J: As planned, everything was completed before the summit began.

J: Well...
J: sneaking into the tower's observation floor in the middle of the night...
J: apparently took some doing.

J: But the calculations won't be an issue.
SFX: Lean
J: He may not look it, but Michael-kun...

07

Fujimaru: studied the construction of high rise buildings in college.
Fujimaru: Yes, you've told me that how many times now?

J: ...Right.
J: Well, he's thoroughly checked and rechecked the calculations to ensure there are no mistakes.
J: There's no problem there.

Michael: J,
Michael: that was all based on the documents we got beforehand, so technically...
Michael: it was all theoretical.
SFX: Scratch
Michael: We won't be able to deal with...
Michael: any irregularities.

SFX: Grab

Fujimaru: I won't let any irregularities occur.
Fujimaru: You can count on it!

08

J: How reassuring.

J: Okay, everyone.
J: It's time to begin.

J: Cain and Abel, you two leave the Prestige Floor.
Cain: Understood.
J: Jacob, you remain on the Prestige Floor to prevent any unforeseen circumstances.

J: And look after...
J: Takagi Haruka.

09

J: After everything you said...
J: I feel like helping you out some.

Fujimaru: Thanks.

Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: it's unnecessary.
Fujimaru: I can prevent any unforeseen circumstances from cropping up on my own.
Fujimaru: I will make sure Haruka and all the other hostages there are saved!

J: Fine then.
J: Jacob, give priority to the mission.

J: Keep an eye on every move the Storyteller makes.

Jacob: Understood.

10-11

J: And just so you know, it's your selfishness that has made this mission so difficult.
J: If you hadn't refused to cooperate unless the plan would ensure not a single hostage died...
J: this would be easier.

Fujimaru: What else was I supposed to do?
Fujimaru: If I hadn't insisted on that...
Fujimaru: you would treat all non-key people as if they were worms.

J: If you recall,
J: I already said I am not as greedy as you.

Fujimaru(thought): Hibiki, myself,
Fujimaru: ...Hmph.
Fujimaru(thought): Third-i,
Fujimaru(thought): and J's group!
Fujimaru(thought): This mission is so difficult that it could not be accomplished if any one of those pieces was missing.
Fujimaru(thought): I will make sure it succeeds!!

SFX: Bang bang bang

SFX: Wobble...

12

SFX: Collapse

SFX: Drop

Kaidou: Pant
SFX: Slide down
Kaidou: Pant
Kaidou: Pant

Kaidou: Pant
Kaidou: Pant

Owl: Storyteller,
Owl: we have the location of the rats.

Kaidou: This is...Kai...dou...
SFX: Pant pant
Kaidou: Please...respon-
Kaidou(small): Cough

13

Kirishima: This is Third-i HQ!
Kirishima: What's wrong Kaidou? What happened!?
Kirishima: What is your condition!
Kirishima: Please report!

Kaidou: We ran into some terrorists.
Kaidou: I took them all out...
Kaidou: but Yoshikawa...and Kuroki...were killed...

Kaidou: And I'm not...
Kaidou: going to...
SFX: Ooze

Kirishima: Kaidou!!

14

Kaidou: Please stop...Sakaki-san's team...right this instant.
SFX: Pant pant pant
Kaidou: It wasn't a coincidence that we...ran into them...
Kaidou: The enemy knows our position!
Kaidou: It's possible they got our information somehow!!
SFX: Heartbeat

Kirishima: Wh-
Kirishima: What!?

Kirishima: Another...
Kirishima: spy in Third-i!?

15

Kirishima: No, wait!!
Kirishima: If Falcon is with the enemy, he could be intercepting our information in ways we can't even imagine!!

Kirishima: Third-i has fought together through two huge terrorists plots.
Kirishima: We worked together based on unwavering trust.
Kirishima: There can't be a traitor in Third-i now!!

Kirishima: Understood, Kaidou.
Kirishima: We will contact Sakaki's team and have them rendezvous with Kanou-san and the others through a different route!
Kirishima: You treat your wounds and just stay where you are. Don't force yourself!

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat
Kirishima: ...Kaidou?
Kirishima: Kaidou!

Kaidou: Kirishima-san...
Kaidou: I have...
Kaidou: one last...thing to say...

16

Kaidou: This is...no ordinary terrorist attack.
SFX: Pant pant pant pant
Kaidou: The enemy performed too well...given how strict the multi-national...security was.
Kaidou: We had...no choice but to...leave our comrades behind...and flee...as they were being shot one after another...
Kaidou: Some...large power is at work here...
Kaidou: Some...large...

SFX: Pant pant

17

SFX: Wham

Kanou: Goddamn them!!
Mamiya: What is it, Kanou?

Kanou: Kaidou...
Kanou: another Third-i member was taken out.
Kanou: And it seems the enemy knows our location.

Mamiya: ...What!?

Kurata: You mean...
Kurata: there could be ANOTHER spy in Third-i!?

Kanou: So you've heard,
Kanou: Mamiya.

18

Mamiya: I wouldn't know about any from other areas, but I do know about the ones that came from the JSDF.
Mamiya: I heard about Houshou Sayuri and Shiota Makoto.

SFX: Realization
Mamiya: Kanou,
Mamiya: What if...

Kanou: Hm?

Mamiya: No...
Kanou: What?
Kanou: Out with it.

Mamiya: Houshou I understood, but Shiota was a relatively inconspicuous guy.
Mamiya: I had wondered why he was chosen to go to Third-i...

Mamiya: Now, I don't know how human resources issues are handled for an organization under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice like Third-i...
Mamiya: but what if...
Mamiya: Kanou, what if...

SFX: Wind

19

Mamiya: There was a traitor...
Mamiya: higher up in the Ministry of Justice?

SFX: Grab

Kanou: Don't be ridiculous!!
Mamiya: Think about it, Kanou!!
Mamiya: It explains this situation, too!
Mamiya: How did so many terrorists infiltrate this tower despite the strict security!?

Makimura: Calm down!
Makimura: Please just calm down!
SFX: Struggle
Kurata: Mamiya-san, you too! Getting into a fight here does no one any good!
Kurata: We need to continue with the mission!

20

Kanou: I really don't want to think about...
Kanou: that possibility.

Mamiya: I don't either.
Mamiya: But it's a fact that our information is being leaked.
Mamiya: We need to keep out minds open to any possibility.

Kanou: Agreed.
Kanou: Let's get back to Operation Exodus!
Kanou(thought): There's no way there's a spy!
Kanou: Let's meet up with Sakaki's team on the new route...
Kanou(thought): But...

Kanou(thought): Where did this...
Kanou(thought): "large power"...
Kanou: and rescue those hostages!!
Makimura: Yes, sir!
Kanou(thought): come from!??
Text: The battle is in a state of utter chaos!!
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 47

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 15

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:53:21 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 15

01

SFX: Creak

SFX: Step step

Text: Last Season Volume 1 goes on sale 10/17!
SFX: Whisper
Man: Prime Minister Kujou!
Text: He hides his identity as he acts behind the scenes...
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
Title: File 15 An Encounter with the Truth

02

Fujimaru: This incident...the terrorist attack a year ago...
Fujimaru: and maybe even the Bloody Monday from before that were controlled from the shadows by a man here.

Fujimaru: That man is Prime Minister Kujou Masamune,
Fujimaru: your grandfather.

Otoya: Grandfather...
Otoya: Are...
Otoya: you really...?

03

Kujou: Haruka-chan...
Man: I had hoped she had managed to escape...
Kujou: No...

Kujou: We mustn't hope for too much.
Kujou: I'm just glad you're safe.
Haruka: Y-
Haruka: Yes.

Kujou: ...Where is Otoya?
Kujou: What happened to him?

Haruka: I'm sorry.
Haruka: He left me behind in a storeroom and said he was going to fight.
Haruka: I haven't seen him since.

Kujou: Otoya...
Kujou: said he was going to fight?

04

SFX: Step forward
Man: Hey.
Man: Who is that girl?

Otoya: Not good!
Otoya: If I speak in front of grandfather...
SFX: Heartbeat
Otoya: he'll recognize my voice!!

Hibiki: She's the prime minister's grandson's date.
Hibiki: The Storyteller ordered us to find her.
Man: Oh.
Man: She's the one from the report.

SFX: Push
Haruka: Kyah!

05

Hibiki: For now, let's leave her with Kujou.
Hibiki: Let's go.
SFX: Step
Hibiki: Our mission is to clean up all the remaining Third-i and CraUns members.

Otoya: You're going to...
Otoya: leave Haruka-chan here!?

Haruka: I'm fine, Otoya-san.
Haruka: Go!

Hibiki: C'mon.
Hibiki: Let's go!
SFX: Step

06

SFX: Pat

Kujou: Haruka-chan.
Kujou: Don't worry. Everything will be fine.

SFX: Smile
Kujou: Don't worry about Otoya either.
Kujou: I'm sure...
Kujou: he's fine too.

Haruka: Y-
Haruka: Yes...
Haruka: His grandfather is...
Haruka: the same as ever.
Haruka: He's so splendid and kind.

Haruka: Is he really...
Haruka: the one behind all the terrorists?

07

Haruka: Onii-chan!!

SFX: Squeeze

Kirishima: Sawakita!
Kirishima: Do you know the exact number of surviving Third-i and CraUns members?
SFX: Blink blink
Sawakita: They're being displayed on the main monitor!

08

Sawakita: At the current stage, Kanou and Makimura of Third-i...
Sawakita: are working with Mamiya and Kurata from CraUns!!

09

Sawakita: Minami and Kusunoki are separately hidden on the Prestige Floor!

Sawakita: And...
Tsukamoto: Sakaki-san's team is fine!!
Tsukamoto: I just received word from them!

Tsukamoto: Same with Kaidou-san!
Tsukamoto: He is currently taking action alongside Investigators Yoshikawa and Akiyama!

10

SFX: Beep
SFX: Type type
Sawakita: Incoming transmission.

SFX: Ksshh
Sakaki: This is Sakaki.
Kirishima: This is Kirishima! Thank god you're okay!

Sakaki: I wish I could be so optimistic, but two of my team were taken out.
Sakaki: The other 3 members with me are lightly injured.
Sakaki: I would like to report our location, but...

Sawakita: Sakaki-san! It's possible our transmissions are being intercepted.
Sawakita: Please use the random number table to encrypt your transmission!
Kirishima: We will send you Kanou-san and the other's location encrypted using table 2!
Sakaki: Understood!

Tsukamoto: There are more of them left than we originally thought!
Tsukamoto: With this many...
Yajima: Don't let your guard down.
Yajima: This isn't over yet.

11

Kirishima: This is Third-i HQ. We are about to transmit everyone's locations using random number table 2.
Kirishima: Each team is to rendezvous with Kanou and Mamiya's team to work toward escape plan Exodus!

Makimura: Look at this!
Makimura: We have Sakaki-san and Kaidou-san's coordinates, too!
Kanou: Ha ha.
Kanou: I had a feeling someone like Sakaki wouldn't get taken out so easily.

Mamiya: How many are in their teams?
Makimura: Sakaki's team has four and Kaidou's has three.
Makimura: We can definitely pull off Exodus now!

12

Mamiya: Don't let your guard down, Makimura.
Mamiya: We don't even know if we'll be able to rendezvous safely.
Mamiya: We need to make a strategy assuming we only have 4!!

Makimura: U-
SFX: Pat
Makimura: Understood!

SFX: Step
Otoya: Hey!
Otoya: How could you leave Haruka-chan back with my grandfather?
Hibiki: We had no choice.
Hibiki: Her capture was reported, so we had to bring her there.
SFX: Step

Hibiki: And more importantly, Fujimaru has eyes there.
Hibiki: She's safer there than walking around with us.
SFX: Step

Hibiki: And you're Kujou Masamune's grandson, right?
Hibiki: Someone you live with can recognize the slightest idiosyncratic movements.
SFX: Step
Hibiki: Because of that, you couldn't stay with her!

13

Otoya: Because then the whole plan would be ruined.
Otoya: Yes, I get it.

SFX: Step

Hibiki: You clearly have feelings for that girl.
Hibiki: So how about you trust her a little?

Hibiki: She's much more reliable than I thought.
Hibiki: She seems smart and strong to me.
Hibiki: She's prepared.

Otoya: Yes...
Otoya: She is.

Hibiki: And most importantly, she's Fujimaru's little sister!
Hibiki: She has to be a good girl!
Otoya: So...
Otoya: What am I supposed to do now?

14

Hibiki: Kill.

Otoya: Eh?

Hibiki: What's wrong?
Hibiki: We're fighting terrorists here.
Hibiki: It's only natural.

Hibiki: Killing people is easy.
SFX: Chk
Hibiki: Pull the trigger immediately.

15

Hibiki: If you hesitate...
Hibiki: you will lose your life.

Hibiki: Other than that, all you need is the strength to pull the trigger.
Hibiki: Nothing else is needed.

Otoya: Can I...
Otoya: ask you a question?
Hibiki: What?

Otoya: Once you...
Otoya: kill someone...
Otoya: does something change...
Otoya: inside you?

Hibiki: You'll know once you kill someone for yourself.

16

SFX: Heartbeat

SFX: Bang

Kaidou: Yoshikawa!!!

SFX: Collapse

Kaidou: Kh...
SFX: Bang bang

17

SFX: Bang

SFX: Collapse
SFX: Pant

Kaidou: Yoshikawa...

Kaidou: Akiyama...!!

Kaidou: Kh...
SFX: Throb throb

Kaidou: The rendezvous point for Exodus is up there.
Kaidou: We were just unlucky to have enemies show up here.

18

Owl: Storyteller, can you hear me?
Owl: This is Owl.
Kaidou: Storyteller!?

Owl: We have the location of the rats.
Kaidou: We will take care of them soon.

19

Kaidou: It wasn't a coincidence!?
SFX: Heartbeat
Kaidou: They know what we're doing!?

Kaidou: But how!?
Kaidou: How could they possibly know!?
SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat
Kaidou: At this rate, everyone will be...

SFX: Drip

20

SFX: Turn around

SFX: Bang bang bang
Text: It is already too late...
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 46

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 14

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:42:32 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 14

01

Kirishima: This is Kirishima at Third-i HQ.
Kirishima: We will provide intelligence support...

Makimura: Makimura here, okay.

Mamiya: Mamiya from CraUns here.
Kurata: Kurata here too, okay.

Minami: Minami here, okay.
Kirishima: as much as possible for Operation Exodus!

SFX: Creak
Kusunoki: Kusunoki here, okay!

Kanou: This is Kanou.
Kanou: Okay.
Kanou: Operation Exodus...

02

Kanou: Go ahead!
Text: These top class men and women of valor begin their counterattack!!
Title: File 14 Discovered Hope
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

03

Fujimaru: I just intercepted a coded Third-i transmission!
Fujimaru: Kanou-san and the others have met up with an elite JSDF unit and are beginning an operation to rescue the hostages with support from HQ!
Fujimaru: They're calling it Exodus!!

J: Understood.
SFX: Place
J: So just as we expected, Third-i noticed the escape route...
J: and has begun to move.

J: Your sister and friend were unexpected but have been secured...
J: so I suppose the setup of the pieces is going well.

04

Fujimaru: But...

Fujimaru: we're up against the host of this summit,
Fujimaru: the prime minister of this country.
Fujimaru: And we don't know...
Fujimaru: how many terrorists he invited to Tokyo Neo Tower.

J: Also...
J: we still have not seen the entirety of this plan...
J: that will bring about Bloody Monday.

J: And there is one other thing...

J: that bothers me.

05

Fujimaru: We have only 2 and half hours before the trading systems I brought down with a virus...
Fujimaru: are restarted.
Fujimaru: We have to get all of the hostages out of here before then!

Fujimaru: We have to be prepared to walk through the darkness, knowing it is filled with booby traps.
J: My, how promising.

SFX: Clench

J: Don't forget to...
J: reveal the true identity of Kujou Masamune...
J: to the world.

Fujimaru: ...Right.

06

Fujimaru: Otoya...
Fujimaru: There's something...
Fujimaru: I still haven't told you...

Otoya: Will we really not be found out...
Otoya: if I wear this mask?

Hibiki: Don't worry.
Hibiki: According to some information Fujimaru hacked in and got earlier, the terrorists gathered here have never seen each other's faces.
Otoya: What? How does that work?

07

Hibiki: I dunno.
Hibiki: Fujimaru said they might be a terrorist group brought together over a network.
Hibiki: However, there are still well trained and are clearly not amateurs.

Otoya: I see.
Otoya: So that's why the other terrorist did not suspect her just because she was wearing that mask.

Otoya: But my grandfather...
Otoya: brought that group to such an important event?

Otoya: And my grandfather...
Otoya: Kujou Masamune is at the center of this organization?

Haruka: Otoya-san...

Hibiki: Fujimaru..
Hibiki: and J seem to think so.

08

Otoya: J!?

Otoya: So he IS here!

Otoya: Why is...
Otoya: he?
Otoya: Is he...
Otoya: working with Fujimaru?
Hibiki: Yes.

Hibiki: He is your half-brother...
Hibiki: isn't he?

Haruka: Eh?

Otoya: Even after learning that...
Otoya: I have never thought of him that way.
Otoya: Not even...
Otoya: once.

09

Otoya: But what is going on?
Otoya: If he's working with Fujimaru, is he working to stop the terro-
Hibiki: Shh.

Hibiki: I hear footsteps approaching.
Hibiki: Could you put on your mask?

Hibiki: Hey, Haruka-chan?
SFX: Turn around
Hibiki: It may be tough, but do your best to pretend to be a hostage.
Otoya: What is with that coaxing voice?

Hibiki: She's my darling's little sister.
Hibiki: I need to look after her.

Haruka: ...Oh...
Otoya: You've changed a lot in a year...

SFX: Step step step step

10

SFX: Step

Otoya: Eh?
Otoya: They're not terrorists!?

Otoya: Are they hostages who managed to escape?
SFX: Chk

11

SFX: Bang bang

Haruka: Kyaahh!!
Otoya: What are you doing! They're-
Hibiki: They're terrorists.

Hibiki: I could tell from the sound of their footsteps.
Hibiki: Those were the footsteps of those trained for combat.
Otoya: But!
Hibiki: And that's not all.

Hibiki: Put your mask back on and take a closer look.

12

Hibiki: Look on their cheek.
Hibiki: You can see a blue, glowing symbol...

Otoya: Ω...?

SFX: Tap
Hibiki: Most likely, it's a special paint that is only visible when looking through a polarized lens. The same was done to these masks.

SFX: Rummage rummage
Hibiki: See?

Hibiki: My guess is they were hiding their masks in an attempt to lure out Third-i or CraUns.

13

Hibiki: It looks like the original masked ones have their faces marked too.
SFX: Remove
Hibiki: What should we do, Fujimaru?
Fujimaru: ...That isn't good.

Fujimaru: So it wasn't just a symbol on the masks you could see with the special lenses.
Fujimaru: We didn't see that far through beforehand...
Fujimaru: so we're in trouble if Team J's faces are seen.

J: This could get difficult if we stick around too long,
J: Michael-kun.
Michael: Okay.
Michael: Did you hear that, Jacob?
Jacob: Yes.

SFX: Heartbeat

14

Jacob: We will remain cautious.

J: Okay.
J: Please do.
J: If we play our cards right, this could actually work out in our faovr.
Jacob: Okay.

SFX: Rub rub
Fujimaru: Honestly...
Fujimaru: It's like we're walking on a tightrope.

J: A fight with your life on the line is always like that.
J: They're desperate too.
J: I knew they wouldn't let this be easy for me...

J: and that's why I said I needed your help.

Fujimaru: Hibiki.
Fujimaru: Are the numbers going to match up?
Hibiki: Yes.
Hibiki: That's taken care of.

15

Fujimaru: Good.
Fujimaru: We've reached the next level.

Haruka: Otoya-san...

Fujimaru: Okay, Hibiki...
SFX: Type type
Otoya: Wait, Fujimaru.

Otoya: Tell me plainly.
Otoya: What is your goal here?
Otoya: How are you planning to save all 200 hostages?

Otoya: And...
Otoya: one more thing.

16

Otoya: J.
Otoya: Is he here,
Otoya: Fujimaru?

Kanou: Minami, report your current location to HQ in an encrypted transmission.
Kanou: Kusunoki has secured the escape route.
Minami: Understood.
Box: Cosmo Floor Shopping Mall

17

Mamiya: The escape route?
Kanou: Yes, one of our younger members has secured it.
Kanou: We can get all 200 out in a short amount of time with it.

Mamiya: That's amazing! Where is it?
Mamiya: I'd like to...
Kanou: Shh.

Kanou: I hear footsteps of trained combatants.
Kanou: There's three...no, four.
SFX: Step step step

Makimura: It's the terrorists. I'll-...!

Mamiya: No, Makimura.
Mamiya: That gun would make too much of a noise.
Mamiya: Kurata.
SFX: Tighten
SFX: Chk
Kurata: Yes, sir.

Mamiya: I'll jump out on 3.
Mamiya: You cover me.
Mamiya: Don't let the enemy fire.
Kurata: Understood.
SFX: Step step step

18

Mamiya: ...1
Mamiya: 2...3!

SFX: Jump

SFX: Bang

SFX: Bang

19

SFX: Chk

SFX: Bang bang

Mamiya: Okay.
SFX: Stand tall
Mamiya: Clear!

Makimura: Those two are amazing.
Makimura: The enemy didn't get a single shot off...
SFX: Dumbfounded

20

Kanou: We might actually...
Kanou: pull this Exodus off!!!
Text: The elite units and the evil king...Who will come out on top!?
Bottom: We will be taking a break next issue. Look forward to Issue 45!

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 287

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:38:51 +0000

Chapter 287

01

Text: The worst possible situation enters all of their minds...!!

Magi: A-a backup...
Magi: of the major!?
Magi: Then where is the real one...!?
SFX: Wahhhh

02

Text: What secret lies hidden in that young form!?
Right: Volume 28 & the limited edition with a colorful strap of Hyoubu Kyousuke are on sale now!! Volume 29 & the limited edition with a colorful strap of Akashi Kaoru go on sale 1/18!!
Title: 287th sense. The Esper Boy has Returned Home (4)
Credit: Shiina Takashi

03

Fujiko: If Feather cannot give an explanation because she is lending him her body...
Fujiko: we will have to investigate ourselves.
Fujiko: Can you look into it, Shiho-chan?
SFX: Kihhhn!!
Shiho: I'll try!

Shiho: I'll use my powers to their fullest...
Shiho: to see what happened to Major Hyoubu!

Sakaki: I guess we have no choice.
Sakaki: Let's try this again.

04

Minamoto: Be careful!
Minamoto: His amnesia may be due to his uncontrollable subconscious will.
Minamoto: Hyoubu is a very high functioning and high Level multiple power esper, so we have no idea what his subconscious will could do.

Minamoto: Try not to force anything and draw back if there are any problems.
Sakaki: I know, I know.
Sakaki: I'll be with her, so don't worry.

Shiho: Dive!!
SFX: Gihhn!!
Shiho: Deeper!

05

SFX: Vyuuhhn!!
Shiho: Doctor!
Shiho: Can you see that?
Sakaki: Wait.
Sakaki: My Level isn't that high.

06

Hyoubu: Sorry, but I have little data on you.
Hyoubu: BLEEP are BLEEP and BLEEP insane.

07

Gilliam: Really, that is all you need to know.
Gilliam: BLEEP is a BLEEP
Gilliam: We are BLEEP like BLEEP
Gilliam: We are willing to BLEEP

Gilliam: BLEEP BLEEP for just 5 minutes?
Shiho: What is that?
Shiho: Self censorship? Is this conversation in violation of the regulations?
Sakaki: I doubt it.
Sakaki: That would have to be a really indecent conversation.

Sakaki: I think it's a protector.
Sakaki: But it's crudely made for Hyoubu.
Sakaki: What was he trying to do?
Shiho: Let's break through.

SFX: Byubah

08

SFX: Vvvv

Sakaki: Hyoubu...!?
SFX: Step forward

Sakaki: Eh?
SFX: Tug

09

Sakaki: You want only me to come?

Shiho: Why only you!?
Shiho: Were you two in that kind of relationship?
Sakaki: Don't be so disgusting!!

Sakaki: Most likely, he needs to tell us something...
Sakaki: but it's something he doesn't want you three seeing.
Sakaki: At any rate, he designated me...
Sakaki: so I'll be going.

Shiho: Wait!

10

Shiho: B-
Shiho: Be careful.

Sakaki: Honestly, first Minamoto and now you...
Sakaki: Who do you think I am?

Sakaki: Even if I'm not Level 7, I'm not going to lose to some middle schooler like you.
Sakaki: Don't worry.
SFX: Mad
Shiho: I-I wasn't worried!!
Shiho: I was just telling you to be on your guard!!

Sakaki: Minamoto, the Children, and Hyoubu...
Sakaki: They're all trying to protect someone.
Sakaki: Honestly...

Sakaki: Well...
Sakaki: I guess I'm not really one to talk.
Sakaki: We're all troublesome in our own way.

11

SFX: Creep creep

Sakaki: All of you are always doing things "for the future" or "for espers"...
Sakaki: but for me...

12

Sakaki: I just can't help but help out when I see you all right in front of me.
Sakaki: It's as simple as that.

Sakaki: I guess you could say...
Sakaki: that I have a soft spot for idiots like you.

13

Gilliam: ...Well?

14

Gilliam: What do you think of my plan?
Gilliam: I think that future would be most delightful for you.

Hyoubu: Are you seriously trying to...
Hyoubu: do this?

15

Gilliam: Yes.
Gilliam: I am serious.
Gilliam: I believe this is the only path that will bring happiness to both espers and normals.

Hyoubu: I'm glad I had a chance to hear about this.
Hyoubu: You were exactly right.
Hyoubu: I find this quite delightful indeed.
Gilliam: Then...

Hyoubu: You aren't just insane.
Hyoubu: You're an absolute bastard.

16

Hyoubu: You're such a bastard that I would feel satisfied as long as I managed to kill you!
Hyoubu: That makes me so happy!!
SFX: Boom!!

Hyoubu: I have found a target for all of my hate.
Hyoubu: I feel like...
Hyoubu: I just met a lover I have always been searching for.

17

Gilliam: I see...
Gilliam: So you do not understand.
Gilliam: But...
Gilliam: that too is delightful!!

SFX: Spread arms
SFX: Vvh

Gilliam: Take him on.
Gilliam: My...

18

Gilliam: cute children!

Children: Confirmation of Master's order.
Children: Confirmation.

Children: Confirmation of target.
Children: Confirmation.
SFX: Large crowd...
Children: Beginning destruction of target.
Children: Beginning.
Children: Beginning.
Text: Are these children powerful enough to overpower Hyoubu!?
Box: To be continued in Issue 7

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 286

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:45:01 +0000

Chapter 286

01

Hyoubu H: What the hell!?
Hyoubu H: Is this yet another new Hermione!?
Sakaki H: Let's kick his ass!!

Minamoto H: No..um...
Minamoto H: He isn't.
SFX: Dangle

Minamoto H: I was spotted...
Minamoto H: by the real one.
Text: Eh heh
Hyoubu H & Sakaki H: It's over!! It's all over!!

Kaoru: I've run out of material for my doll show.
Kashiwagi: Well, you do put one on every day.
Kashiwagi: How about all three of you do one together?

Aoi: Doctor!! It's an emergency!!
Aoi: This bear started moaning in pain in the middle of dinner!
SFX: Kyuhn!
Shiho: There is a monster inside him!!

Bear: Gyaaahhh!!
SFX: Burst
Monster: Kshaaahhh!!

Kaoru: By teleporting the monster inside...
Kaoru: we can pretend it's a space parasite!
Kashiwagi: That was some amazing teamwork...
Kashiwagi: but should I let this continue or stop it!?

Margin: Volume 28 & the limited edition that comes with a Hyoubu Kyousuke colorful strap are on sale now!!!

Bottom: The limited edition of Volume 29 that goes on sale 1/18 will have a colorful strap of Akashi Kaoru!!

02

Minamoto & Kaoru: Hyo-...
SFX: Open!!

03

Right text: Volume 28 & the limited edition that comes with a Hyoubu Kyousuke colorful strap are on sale now!!!
Left text: They are reunited with Hyoubu...but why does he look like that!?
Credit: Shiina Takashi
Title: 286th sense. The Esper Boy has Returned Home (3)

04

Minamoto: Wha-...?

Minamoto: What happened to you, Hyoubu?
Minamoto: Wasn't Kao-...Feather with you!?
Sakaki: Shh.

Sakaki: He only just calmed down.
Sakaki: It wasn't easy getting him here.
Minamoto: Eh...?

Sakaki: When we got the report, the director and I headed to the scene.
SFX: Boom!
Someone: Waaahhh!!

05

Fujiko: We are from the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory!! Are you okay!?
Police: No, we aren't!!
Police: We were only trying to help a lost child, and look what happened!!
Police: Do something. This is your field of expertise, right?

Hyoubu: Queen...!!
Hyoubu: Queen...!?

06

Sakaki: D-director!? Is that...?
Fujiko: You think so too?
Fujiko: But...

Fujiko: Hyoubu...
Fujiko: Ky-Kyousuke?

Fujiko: Do you recognize me?
Fujiko: It's Fujiko!
Fujiko: Tsubomi Fujiko!

Hyoubu: Fuji...ko...

SFX: Throb!!
Hyoubu: Uuh...!!

07

Hyoubu: No...!
Hyoubu: I don't know you...!!
SFX: Gihn!!
Hyoubu: Queen...!!

Fujiko: Why you...

Fujiko: ...but I'm actually tripping you!!
SFX: Trip
Hyoubu: Nyah!?

Fujiko: Use the ESP jamming pulse!!

08

SFX: Zap
Hyoubu: Uuh...!?

Kaoru: So...what happened?
Kashiwagi: Well...

SFX: Twitch

Hyoubu: Queen...!?

09

Hyoubu: Queen!! Queen!!
SFX: Grab
Kaoru: Wah...

Minamoto: Dammit, Hyoubu!!
Minamoto: She's my-...
SFX: Mad

Kaoru: Eh?

Minamoto: No, um...
Minamoto: I mean...
Minamoto: She's OUR esper!

10

Magi: Majoooooorrrrrr!!
SFX: Crush
Minamoto: Bh.
Momiji: What happened!?
SFX: Pah
Yo: What the hell, old man!?

Chief: Don't come in here without permission!!
Momiji: This is hardly the time to worry about that!
Fujiko: It's fine. I called them.

11

Magi: What happened!?
Magi: Major!?
Magi: Do you recognize me!?

SFX: Tremble

Hyoubu: Queen...!

Magi: L-let's go!
Magi: We can concentrate the powers of all our comrades to heal you!
SFX: Tug
Magi: Come on!
Hyoubu: No!!
Hyoubu: Noooo, Queeeen!!

Magi: Just come!!
Hyoubu: Noooo!!
Sakaki: Ah, you idiot!

12

SFX: Slam!!

SFX: Creak
Kaoru: There, there! There, there!
Hyoubu: Waahhhh!!

Magi: Explain this!
Magi: ...please.
Fujiko: We don't understand it either.
Fujiko: But we do know that his body is...

13

Shiho: It's that material!
Shiho: He isn't real.
SFX: Kyuhn!!
Shiho: He's...Feather!

Minamoto: Eh...!?
Momiji: So this is a fake!?
Shiho: Wait.
Shiho: I'm going to make a deep dive.

Sakaki: It's dangerous to go alone.
Sakaki: I'll go, too!
Minamoto: Please do!

Minamoto: Sannomiya Shiho...
Minamoto: release!!

14

SFX: Vyuhhhn!!!
Shiho: Feather!?

15

Shiho: What happened!?
Shiho: Why are you in Major Hyoubu's form...?

Shiho: What? I couldn't understand.
Sakaki: Maybe she can't send out information in the form of language...

Sakaki: Could it be...
Sakaki: that she took in Hyoubu!?

Sakaki: Most likely...
Sakaki: she abandoned a portion of her memories and functionality to take in the new data.

16

Sakaki: What we're seeing here...
Sakaki: is a backup of Hyoubu...
Sakaki: created within Feather.

Momiji: A backup...!?
Magi: Then...

Magi: Where's the major!?
Magi: Where is the real major!?
Sakaki: Don't ask me!

Fujiko: Shiho-chan...
Fujiko: Can you read it?
Shiho: I'm trying!

17

SFX: Kyuuuhhn!!

Fujiko: But...
Fujiko: I have a good guess.

Minamoto: Feather is a body of data...
Minamoto: that the Children bet everything to send to the past.
Minamoto: If she sacrificed that to make a backup of Hyoubu...

18

Minamoto: then he is already dead.
Minamoto: Or...
Minamoto: in a situation where it was necessary that he died.
Text: Hyoubu Kyousuke is dead!? The story accelerates next issue!!!
Box: To be continued in Combined Issue 5/6

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 13

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:13:45 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 13

01

Hibiki: Really...
Hibiki: now.

Hibiki: You two really aren't making this easy.

Haruka: H-Hibiki-san?
Otoya: So that's it,
Otoya: Fujimaru.
Otoya: That's why you told us to trust you!

02

Hibiki: They're fine, but what do we do now, Fujimaru?
Hibiki: I'm the only one left of this team.
Text: File 13 The Gathered Heroes
Text: The next plan is...

Otoya: "This team"?

Fujimaru: We have no choice.
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji
Fujimaru: Hand a radio to Otoya and Haruka...
Fujimaru: and give Otoya the clothes and the mask.

03

Hibiki: Understood.
Hibiki: Put these in your ears.
SFX: Rummage

Hibiki: They use bone conduction to pick up your voice.

Otoya: What is going on,
Otoya: Mizusawa Hibiki?
Otoya: You went missing a year ago when you were switched out with a fake.
Otoya: Why are you here now and why are you with Fujimaru?

Hibiki: Fujimaru will explain it all to you.
SFX: Motion
Hibiki: Right now, you need to hurry and disguise yourself.

Otoya: Can you hear me, Fujimaru?
Fujimaru: Yes.
Fujimaru: I'm glad you're okay, Otoya.

Otoya: More importantly...
Otoya: can you just tell us what is going on already?

04

Fujimaru: The details would take too long to explain...
Fujimaru: so I will first tell you the truth everything else stems from.
Fujimaru: My strategy from here on will change depending on if you believe me or not.

Otoya: Quit putting on airs.
Fujimaru: I'm not.
Fujimaru: I'm just conflicted.

Otoya: Conflicted?
Otoya: About what?

Fujimaru: ...Just listen carefully, Otoya.
Fujimaru: This incident...the terrorist attack a year ago...and maybe even the Bloody Monday from before that...
Fujimaru: were controlled from the shadows by a man here.

05

Fujimaru: That man is Prime Minister Kujou Masamune,
Fujimaru: your grandfather.
Haruka: Eh!?

Otoya: What...
Otoya: are you saying,
Otoya: Fujimaru?

06

Haruka: What is going on, onii-chan?
Haruka: First you disappear for a year and now this...?
Fujimaru: Quiet, Haruka.

Fujimaru: Otoya.
Fujimaru: Do you believe me?

Fujimaru: I'm asking if you believe me, Otoya.

Haruka: O-
Haruka: Onii-chan...!

Fujimaru: If you don't, take Haruka with you and escape from this tower.

Fujimaru: If it's just the two of you, you should be able to manage.
Hibiki: But Fujimaru...
Hibiki: I need someone to take the place of the terrorist I killed...

07

Fujimaru: We can manage somehow.
Fujimaru: I can buy us time to advance the operation with a disturbance.
Fujimaru: It's dangerous, but we have no choice.
Hibiki: But then...
Otoya: I understand.

Haruka: Eh!?

Otoya: I believe you.

Fujimaru: Otoya...

Otoya: I don't want to and it pains me to do so...
SFX: Clench
Otoya: but...

08

Otoya: both back in that storage area and in the terrorist plot we were involved in as kids...
Otoya: you always had solid proof behind the things you said.

Otoya: It must be true.
Otoya: You would not lie to me.
Otoya: I can't see any reason why you would lie to me in a situation like this.

Otoya: So...
Otoya: I...
Otoya: will trust you.

09

Fujimaru: That time...
Fujimaru: may have been the beginning.
Otoya: If...
Otoya: that was the beginning of Bloody Monday...
Otoya: then it may be our duty to end it.

Fujimaru: Will you help me,
Fujimaru: Otoya?

Otoya: I will.

10

Haruka: I-I'll help, too!
Haruka: I don't want to be a burden anymore!!
Otoya: No one thinks of you as a burden.
Otoya: I was truly surprised at the courage you showed back there.

Fujimaru: Yeah, that was completely reckless.
SFX: Scratch
Haruka: B-but...!

J: Even if to you she will always be the little sister you must protect...
J: she has her own will.

Fujimaru: So you...
Fujimaru: want to protect us, too.

11

Fujimaru: Otoya, I'm counting on you...
Fujimaru: to take care of Haruka and to help resolve all this.

Otoya: Yes.
Otoya: I know.
SFX: Squeeze

SFX: Longing...

Hibiki: Ahh!!
SFX: Shock
Hibiki: I just want all this to be over so Fujimaru and I can hug and kiss and fuck!
Fujimaru: H-hey, Hibiki!
Fujimaru (small): Don't say that in front of them!

12

Fujimaru: A-anyway, hurry up and change and put on that mask!
Fujimaru: I'll explain the details as you go!

Box: Tokyo Neo Tower - Cosmo Floor - Shopping Mall
Kanou: At this rate, there's no way we'll rescue all 200 of them.
Kanou: Dammit... With just the two of us, we'll just get shot up.
Kanou: Makimura, where are the others? Where's Sakaki's team?
Makimura: I can't reach them.
Makimura: Minami-san's signal is gone, too...

Kanou: So we only know where Kusunoki is in the elevator...
Kanou: Damn. What happened to CraUns?
Kanou: Every single member of an elite JSDF unit getting killed sounds like some kind of joke.
SFX: Clatter

13

Makimura: K-Kanou-san...

Kanou: Get ready, Makimura.
SFX: Chk
Kanou: We've got hell behind and hell ahead. We won't be able get away regardless, so we might as well take them on here.

Kanou: Jump out on the count of three.
Kanou: I'll jump to the other side and take them out starting on the left.
Kanou: You start shooting from the right.
SFX: Chk
Makimura: Understood.
Makimura: Let's take out as many as we can.

Kanou: 1
Kanou: 2

SFX: Hoo...

Kanou: 3!!!
SFX: Jump out

14

Kanou: Wait, Makimura!!
Makimura: Eh!?

Kanou: M-Mamiya...

15

Mamiya: Kanou...
Mamiya: You almost gave me a heart attack...
SFX: Hoo...

Kanou: Same here.
Kanou: Good job surviving this long.
Mamiya: You too.
Makimura: Mamiya-san of CraUns...?

Kurata: Commander, who is this?
Mamiya: Oh, this is Kanou.
Kanou: Hm?

Kurata: I am the CraUns 1st Unit captain.
Kurata: My name is Kurata.
SFX: Salute

Kanou: So you're Kurata Yuusaku. I've heard about you.
Kanou: You're a special forces ace, right?
Kurata: No...
Kurata: I'm nothing compared to you, Kanou-san.

Kanou: Ah? What was that about?
Mamiya: You're still a legend among the special forces, Kanou.

16

Kanou: Where's the rest of CraUns?

Mamiya: Unfortunately, we were almost completely taken out.
Mamiya: It all happened in an instant.

Kanou: I see...
Makimura: Dammit...

Kanou: Don't get too down, Makimura. We may be only four, but we're not just your average people.
Kanou: This guy was my biggest rival back in my JSDF days.
Kanou: But...
Kanou: it was his tactical command ability alone that I just couldn't match.

Makimura: Wow, it isn't often that you praise someone, Kan-...
SFX: Wham
Makimura: Ow...!

17

Mamiya: Heh.
Mamiya: Makimura, you were recruited by Third-i...
Mamiya: so you must be fairly skilled yourself.

Makimura: I may not be as skilled as you three...
Makimura: but I doubt my JSDF record for battle-style moving target marksmanship has been broken.

Kurata: Now you've got me fired up.

Mamiya: I actually have a plan that requires four to six people to pull off.
Mamiya: Do you want in, Kanou?

Kanou: Of course.

18

Kanou: With us four and Minami and Kusunoki who we know are still alive...

Kanou: that gives us 6 people with which to rescue Prime Minister Kujou and the other VIPs.

Kanou: Now we need an operation name...
Mamiya: How about Exodus?

Kanou: Heh.
Kanou: Exodus, hm?
Kanou: I see...
Kanou: your naming sense hasn't changed.

19

Kanou: Makimura, contact Third-i HQ, Minami, and Kusunoki right away.
Makimura: Yes, sir.
Makimura: This is Makimura. I am currently with Kanou-sand and two members of CraUns.
Makimura: We are going to begin Operation Exodus to rescue the VIPs!

Kusunoki: Kusunoki here. Understood!

Minami: Minami here.
Minami: Understood!

Kusunoki: Minami-san!
SFX: Hoo...

Kirishima: This is Kirishima at Third-i HQ.
Kirishima: We will provide intelligence support...
Kirishima: as much as possible for Operation Exodus!

20

Kirishima: Okay.
Kirishima: Operation Exodus - Go ahead!
Text: The few elites begin their counterattack!!
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 43

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 285

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:51:24 +0000

Chapter 285

01

Hyoubu: Even if we're small, we can work together to overthrow you!
Sakaki: I don't want to do housework!!
Hermione: Kh...!!

Hermione: In that case, I will create even stronger comrades...
SFX: Mad
Hermione: to make you give in!!

Hermione: Mecha Tsubomi Hermione!!
Hermione: Mecha Kiritsubo Hermione!!

Hermione: L-
Hermione: Let go of me!!
Fujiko: Kyaahh!!
Chief: You are this country's treasure!!
SFX: Hug
Hyoubu: How stupid is the Minamoto he's based on?

Sakaki: You have a cold.
Minamoto: Yeah.
SFX: Cough cough
Minamoto: I don't want to give it to the Children...
Minamoto: so I'm going to my parents' place for 2 or 3 days.

Minamoto: I guess I should at least make dinners for while I'm gone.
Minamoto: Two meals for each day should do it.
SFX: Bubble bubble

Minamoto: I also need to sterilize the rooms.
SFX: Slap slap

Sakaki: How is he?
SFX: Vacuum
Kaoru: He's...
Text: That's the kind of guy he is.
Aoi: gotten a lot better.

Margin: Hyoubu & Fujiko's past begins in Zettai Karen Children Volume 28! It goes on sale 12/16!
Bottom: ZKC's first 3D figure comes with the limited edition!! The first one is of Hyoubu!!

02-03

Gilliam: I've done my research on you, Hyoubu-kun.
Gilliam: I think we can come to an understanding.

Text: Gilliam, a man who works in secret.
Gilliam: After all, we are both monsters created by mankind and who love mankind.
Text: He appears with bottomless malice in hand!!!
Title: 285th sense. The Esper Boy has Returned Home (2)
Credit: Shiina Takashi

04

Hyoubu: Sorry, but I have little data on you.
Hyoubu: All I know is that you are the son of Black Phantom and are insane.

Gilliam: Really, that is all you need to know.
Gilliam: ...Black Phantom is a business.
Gilliam: We are not a volunteer organization like your PANDRA.
Gilliam: We are willing to dirty our hands for the sake of profit.

Gilliam: But capitalism...
Gilliam: creates the greatest profit when it brings happiness to the masses.

05

Gilliam: That is why I made sure I had this chance to speak with you.
Gilliam: I got rid of the executives and the armed guards in order to express that feeling.
Gilliam: I want the structure of industry to change society itself.
Gilliam: Isn't that what you want as well?

Gilliam: As you said, the rotten world that created us will remain even if we are destroyed.
Gilliam: Our destruction may feel good on the surface...
Gilliam: but you are not the kind of simple person who would be satisfied with that.

Gilliam: According to our data...
Gilliam: you hate Normals.
Gilliam: But that is likely due to your love.
Gilliam: Time for you is frozen along with that form.

Gilliam: I will give you a sign of my good faith, so will you hear what I have to say for just 5 minutes?

Hyoubu: A sign of good faith...?

06

Gilliam: Yes.
SFX: Kyuhh
Gilliam: Here.

SFX: Hyuh

SFX: Slam
Theodore: Gah!!

BP: G-
SFX: Shock
BP: Gilliam!?

07

BP: Wh-what...
BP: are...
BP: Gh...

SFX: Burst

SFX: Splatter

08

BP: Y-you...

SFX: Impact

Gilliam: Please do not interfere, father.
Gilliam: I am just showing him that I will kill even those close to me for the sake of my ideal.

Gilliam: But then...
Gilliam: I'm sure you want to do it yourself.
Gilliam: Please, let's talk.

Gilliam: We can talk about a future where there is no distinction between Esper and Normal.

Hyoubu: You...
Hyoubu: are completely insane, aren't you?

09

Hyoubu: You're the first person I've met who's crazier than me.
Hyoubu: I'll hear what you have to say.

Gilliam: How...
Gilliam: delightful.

10

SFX: Hyuh

SFX: Pah

Aoi: C-02 has arrived on the scene!!

11

Kaoru: When is the predicted event supposed to occur!?
Shiho: In another 40 seconds!!

SFX: Bah bah bah
Kaoru: Hurry, Minamoto!!

Minamoto: Wait!
Minamoto: We're headed as quickly as-
Double Face: Quiet...!

12

Voice: With this...
Voice: I can finally be at peace...
SFX: Kiiihhhhn

Double Face: I've detected thought waves...
Double Face: coming from 2 o'clock!!
Double Face: Leave it to me!

SFX: Gyuuuhhhn!!

Double Face: Found him!

13

Double Face: He's 80 meters north of here!
Double Face: He's on the south side of a building's roof!!

Aoi: Go, Kaoru!
Aoi: There's a time lag in the activation of my teleportation!
SFX: Hyuh
Aoi: You can react with your Psychokinesis the instant you spot him!!

SFX: Fall
Kaoru: Why you...!!
Kaoru: Deeeeeeaaaaaaahhhh!!
SFX: Pah

14

SFX: Stop

Kaoru: Yes!!

Kaoru: Ow...!!
SFX: Slam

Aoi: Kaoru!?
SFX: Hyupah
Shiho: Are you okay!?

15

Man: Why...!?
Man: Why won't you let me die!?
SFX: Cry
Man: My survival will only cause problems for others...
Man: There's nothing left for me...!
SFX: Mad
Shiho: Cut the crap!!

Shiho: Dying may give you peace...
Shiho: but I won't let you tell me there's no one at all who cares about you!
Minamoto: H-hey, Shiho!?
Minamoto: You should leave this to a professional counselor...

Shiho: The people you met today or yesterday...
Shiho: would all suffer because of this!
Shiho: They would blame themselves for not noticing!

Shiho: Don't pretend you were born alone and live alone!
Shiho: Do you want to leave everyone around you with the message...
Shiho: that their presence meant nothing to you!?

Man: Uuh...
Man: Ugh...!!

16

Man: Waaaahhh!!
DF: ...The will to kill himself has disappeared from the surface.
DF: It looks like he's given up on it.
DF: That's Shiho-chan for you!

Aoi: That isn't the kind of persuasion you would expect from a middle school girl.
Aoi: I guess that's the benefit of reading all sorts of people's lives with your Psychometry.
Shiho: There is that...
Shiho: but I was mostly just saying what I thought Minamoto-san would say.

Shiho: Everyone close to someone who dies due to an accident or disease suffers...
Shiho: but when they have to wonder if something they did caused it, it's all the worse.
Shiho: Anyone who recalls that will see how important their life is.

Kaoru: That's true.

Kaoru: Kyousuke...
Kaoru: has his comrades...
Kaoru: but he always does all the dangerous stuff himself.
Kaoru: I wonder if he's okay...

17

Minamoto: Eh!?
Minamoto: Hyoubu is!? Are you sure!?
SFX: Bah bah bah bah

Kaoru: Wh-what is it?
Aoi: Is it something about Major Hyoubu?
SFX: Pah
Minamoto: W-well...
Minamoto: I'm really not sure.
Minamoto: HQ called...
Minamoto: saying the police have taken in someone who seems to be Hyoubu.

Shiho: Taken in?
Kaoru: The police have?

18

Minamoto: Yes, the director is headed to check on it now.
Minamoto: The part I don't understand...

Minamoto: is that they said he has lost his memories...
Minamoto: and is in his childhood form.
Text: What happened to Hyoubu...!?
Box: To be continued in Combined Issue 3/4 of the new year.

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 284

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:49:52 +0000

Chapter 284

01

Top: Hyoubu & Fujiko's past begins in Volume 28 which goes on sale December 16!!

Margin: Fujiko in a deep sleep deep underground is a common sight, but...

Sign: Asleep asleep asleep asleep
Box: The deepest depths of BABEL HQ - Tsubomi Fujiko's Bedroom

Bottom: Zettai Karen Children

02-03

Text: she sees herself asleep!?
Bottom right: Volume 28 will be released on December 16th!! A limited edition that comes with the very first ZKC 3D figure will be released at the same time!! The first printing will come with a Hyoubu Kyousuke color strap!!
Credit: Shiina Takashi
Title: 284th sense. The Esper Boy has Returned Home (1)

04

Fujiko: What is going on!?
Fujiko: Is this an out of body experience?

Shiga: Take care...
Shiga: of Kyousuke.

05

Fujiko: Eh?
SFX: Byuhhn!!

Fujiko: This is...a dream?
Fujiko: But it isn't...
Fujiko: a normal dream.

06-07

SFX: Crash

Hyoubu: Just sending out a kid isn't very nice.
SFX: Step

Hyoubu: After all, I've come all this way to see you,
Hyoubu: Black Phantom!!

08

Hyoubu: I know you're here.
Hyoubu: Prepare yourself.

Fujiko: I knew it...
Fujiko: It's his dream!!

09

Hyoubu: You guys...
SFX: Crack

Hyoubu: Who do you think I am!?
SFX: Crackle crackle crackle
Hyoubu: Did you really think Hypno this pathetic would work on me!?

10

SFX: Vyuhhn!!

Theodore: S-sir!!

BP: Your visit did not appear to be a friendly one...
BP: so I attempted to deal with it in as gentlemanly a way as possible...
BP: but fine.

SFX: Stand

11

BP: What do you want with me,
BP: Kyousuke Hyoubu?

BP: It appears you have some complaint...
BP: with our business, but...

12

Hyoubu: A complaint?
Hyoubu: Not at all.
SFX: Step

Hyoubu: You acquire esper children in poor countries.
Hyoubu: You brainwash them and manufacture them into perfectly loyal tools before shipping them out.
Hyoubu: You use them as disposable tools and do not hesitate to use them to kill.
SFX: Step

Hyoubu: You have countless requests.
Hyoubu: Every country and company wishes for your services.
SFX: Step
Hyoubu: How am I supposed to stop that?
Hyoubu: It's the natural way of the world.

BP: Then...
BP: why are you here?

13

Hyoubu: I am here to kill you.
Hyoubu: That is all.

14

Gilliam: Stop this.
Gilliam: You needn't get so worked up.
SFX: Vyuh...

Gilliam: You might be the one that ends up getting killed.
SFX: ...uuhhnn!!
Gilliam: Wouldn't the rest of PANDRA be so sad if they were to lose you?

Gilliam: And...
Gilliam: we could slaughter them as they grieved.
Gilliam: Just the thought is enough to bring joy to my heart.
Yuuri: St-

15

Yuuri: Stop!!
SFX: Sit up

Nai: Nyah...?
Yuuri: Nai...?
Yuuri: Sorry. Did I wake you?

16

Yuuri: It was just a bad dream...
Yuuri: ...Huh?

Yuuri: I can't remember what it was about...

17

Minamoto: Kaoru?
Minamoto: What are you doing up at this hour?
Kaoru: Oh...

Kaoru: I just had a bad dream is all.
Kaoru: I can't really remember what it was about though...
Kaoru: Something...

Kaoru: might have happened...
Kaoru: to Kyo-...
Kaoru: to Major Hyoubu.

Minamoto: To Hyoubu?

18

SFX: Rain

Boy: ...een.

Boy: Qu...een...
SFX: Mutter mutter mutter
Text: What does this form mean...!?
Box: To be continued in Issue 2 of the new year

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 283

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:11:12 +0000

Chapter 283

01

SFX: Clatter!!

SFX: Jump
Attacker: Uuh...
Attacker: Gaahhh!!

Text: Who has attacked Kaoru!?
Kaoru: A-are...
Kaoru: Are you...
Text: [Zettai Karen Children]

02

Kaoru: Hatsune's dad!?
Inugami: Grrrr!!
Text: It was the Inugami blood that was thirsting for blood!?
Text: ZKC Volumes 1-27 are on sale now!!!!
Credit: Shiina Takashi
Title: 283rd sense. The Inugami and Yadorigi Families (4)

03

Minamoto: Kaoru!
Minamoto: Please respond!!
Minamoto: Kaoru!?

Minamoto: Dammit, it's no good!!
SFX: Hyuh pah pah pah
Shiho: What is going on!?
Shiho: What is the truth behind this incident...?

04

Minamoto: That pond!
Minamoto: There wasn't a single fish in the neighbor's pond!

Minamoto: Mosquitos could hatch there like crazy!

Shiho: Eh?
Minamoto: In other words, there's no way the neighbor didn't put any fish in!
Minamoto: Something must have happened to them!

Minamoto: For instance...
Minamoto: something could have attacked them!!

05

Inugami: Gaaahhhh!!
SFX: Vyuhn!!

Kaoru: Ee!
Kaoru: Wait...

SFX: Charge

06

Kaoru: Psychiiic...

SFX: Whoosh!

Kaoru: Nyah!?
SFX: Crash

SFX: Thud thud!

Inugami: Gah...!?

07

SFX: Giiihnnn
SFX: Appear!!
Neighbor: You...damn beast!!

SFX: Crack

SFX: Giihhhn
SFX: Crack crack
Inugami: Grrrr!?

SFX: Crack crack

Neighbor: Die...
SFX: Squeeze

08

Aoi: Tele...

Aoi: Dogfight Divide!!!
SFX: Hyupah
Inugami: Gyahhn!!
SFX: Splash
Neighbor: Bryah!!

09

Inugami: Roar roar!
SFX: Get up
Neighbor: What the hell!?

SFX: Bang bang

Neighbor: Naahhh!?
SFX: Zap zap zap

SFX: Appear

SFX: Collapse

10

Minamoto: Kaoru!!
Minamoto: Are you okay!?
Kaoru: Y-yeah.
Kaoru: Ow ow ow...
Shiho: Don't move!
Shiho: Let me see!!

Kaoru: I'm fine.
Kaoru: The optical camouflage was broken, but that's all!
Kaoru: What about the prediction!?
Minamoto: I'm checking now...

Minamoto: Success!!
SFX: Jingle
Minamoto: We overturned the prediction!!
Top: Current Prediction Change Value
Bottom: Verdict: Within Safe Bounds

Aoi: Thank goodness!
Aoi: But what happened!?
Aoi: Why was Inugami-han...?

SFX: Gyuhhn
Kaoru: And who's this other guy?

11

Kaoru: The neighbor...!?

Inugami: ...Sorry!
Inugami: I guess I caused you all a lot of trouble!

12

Yadorigi: Honestly!
Yadorigi: So all that about hating your powers...
Yadorigi: was just you holding back!?
Inugami: Shut up!!
Keiko: Um...
Keiko: I have no idea what's going on...

Minamoto: Inugami-san was...
Minamoto: living a life of denying tradition and his psychic powers...
Minamoto: but this caused quite a bit of stress.
Minamoto: This would occasionally cause a private rampage.

Minamoto: He would attack the fish in the neighbor's pond.
Minamoto: Most likely, the neighbor did not know this...
Minamoto: and merely thought it was some kind of wild animal.
Minamoto: If he had known, he would likely have called the police.

13

Minamoto: Basically, he exploded from pent up stress as well.
Minamoto: BABEL HQ has him a list of inactive espers...
Minamoto: who have latent abilities that have not activated.

Minamoto: I've seen him on the list once before...
Minamoto: yet I didn't realize it immediately! I can't believe it!
Aoi: Um...
Aoi: There are a lot of people on this list.
Shiho: You can remember from seeing the list once?

Inugami: Is he okay?
Minamoto: He was taken to one of our medical facilities, but his injuries were light.
Minamoto: After letting out his pent up stress, his powers have returned to being inactive.

Keiko: The predicted incident...
Keiko: was about Inugami-san being killed due to this, right?

Hatsune: But...
Hatsune: why were you holding back your powers, dad?

Inugami: Well...

14

Inugami: I think...
Inugami: Yadorigi would be better off not running this place.

Yadorigi: You...
Yadorigi: did it for me...?

Inugami: When I was called from the branch family because there was no one in the head family to take over...
Inugami: there was no esper in the Yadorigi family who could be my partner.
Inugami: He's the one they found after doing some searching.

Inugami: But he was chasing a different dream in Tokyo.
Inugami: He shouldn't have been dragged back here for the sake of tradition!
Yadorigi: I told you to quit with that!!

Inugami: Well, I won't!!
Inugami: Because...

15

Inugami: The manga you draw are really good!
Inugami: Although I don't really understand it!!

Yadorigi: Stooooopppp!!!
Yadorigi: I quit because it wasn't selling!!
Inugami: Why!? What a waste!!
Inugami: Don't give up on your dream!!

Yadorigi: You showed that to my wife and son, didn't you!?
Yadorigi: I'll kill you!!
Text: And that's the one I most want to forget!!
Inugami: Nyaahhh!?
Hatsune: Dad!!
Akira: Stop it, father!!

16

SFX: Horn

Keiko: In the end...
Keiko: those two were actually an excellent combo.
Minamoto: I guess you could say it was fate.

Minamoto: But anyway, I'm glad this mission is over.
Minamoto: And we managed to overturn yet another prediction.

Kaoru: But we just barely managed this time.
Aoi: Didn't you make way too many mistakes this time?
Minamoto: Uuh...

17

Minamoto: That's because...
Minamoto: um...
Minamoto: there were some unforeseen uncertain elements!

Kaoru: Like?
Minamoto: Well, for one...
Minamoto: I mistakenly thought of you as children who could stay in the same room as-...

18

Minamoto: I-
Minamoto: I have no obligation to explain it!
SFX: Zzz

Kaoru: Eh?
Kaoru: C'mon!!
Minamoto: Shut up!!
SFX: Kachunk kachunk

Mothers: Let's sell the normal Inugami house.
Mothers: Yes, if our children JOIN TOGETHER, that would best.
Yadorigi: Don't put it like that!!
Yadorigi: And like hell I'm gonna live with him!!
Inugami: What was that, you bastard!?

Margin: Every generation of those families gets along. And at any rate, case closed!!!

Box: To be continued in Issue 1 of the new year.

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 12

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:18:12 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 12

01

Haruka: Don't shoot!
Text: The last season is very popular! This 23 page chapter has opening color pages!!

Haruka: I won't resist! Please!
Haruka(thought): I can't just let everyone else protect me!
Haruka(thought): I can protect them, too!!
Text: Haruka has stepped out...leaving Otoya behind!!

02-03

Right text: The greatest and final battle...
Left text: is being fought alongside the greatest comrades!!
Above title: Volume 1 will be released in October! Seasons 1 and 2 are on sale too!
Title: File 12 Their Resolve
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

04

Woman: Be warned!
Woman: If anything moves in the area, I will immediately shoot it!!
SFX: Chk

Otoya: Kh...
Text: Start from the color pages!

Man: And what'll you do then?
Man: It would be Kujou Otoya.
Woman: That's fine by me.
Woman: The corpse of the grandson of the host country's prime minister...
Woman: would make an excellent example.

05

Woman: Prime Minister Kujou's grandson...
Woman: Kujou Otoya. Where is he!?

Haruka: I-I'm alone...!
Haruka: He told me to hide here...
Haruka(thought): Don't come out, Otoya-san.
Haruka(thought): You'll be killed!!
Haruka: and left!!

SFX: Grab

Man: Really?
SFX: Chk

SFX: Nod nod

SFX: Grit...

06

Man: What should we do?
Woman: We had a partial success.
Woman: Let's take her with us and search the nearby area.

Woman: We can use her...
Woman: as bait to draw out Kujou Otoya.

Man: If that rich boy has the guts, that is.
SFX: Tight

Man: Let's go.

SFX: Slide slide

07

SFX: Close

Otoya: Haruka...-chan!

Otoya: Think...

Otoya: Think! There has to be a way...

Otoya: I WILL save her...

08

Otoya: I will not let any more sorrow come to you...

SFX: Pull tight
Otoya: I won't let them hurt you!!

Fujimaru: Kh...!
Fujimaru: Haruka!!
J: Now this was unexpected.
J: I never thought the princess would end up protecting the knight.

09

Fujimaru: Haruka...!
Fujimaru: Why...?
J: People change.

J: Even if to you she will always be a the little sister you must protect...
J: she has her own will.

J: Now how will...
J: Kujou Otoya respond?

Fujimaru: That's obvious.
Fujimaru: He will try to save Haruka even if it costs him his life.
Fujimaru: He will keep his promise to look after her.

J: Do you trust him or control him?
Text: Heh
J: It's hard to tell.

10

J: Well...
J: At any rate, we just need to...
J: add this into the path for our plan...
J: and continue as normal afterwards.

Fujimaru: Continue as normal?
Fujimaru: Haruka and Otoya have been dragged into this now, so...

Fujimaru: No...
Fujimaru: ...I understand.

Fujimaru: Are you...
Fujimaru: okay with this?

J: I guess.
J: It's your problem, I don't really care.
J: I don't think it's the best idea though.
J: Not now.

J: But do you really have a choice?

11

Fujimaru: No, I don't.
Fujimaru: I'm prepared.
SFX: Focused
Fujimaru: We will modify the plan!

Michael: J.

J: Yeah?
Michael: There's some motion on the elevator side.

SFX: Beep beep

Kusunoki: Listen up, everyone.
Kusunoki: As I told you, there is an elevator beyond that door.
Kusunoki: Do not hurry and do not panic.
Kusunoki: Please escape to the surface as calmly as possible!
People: O-okay.

12

Kusunoki: Be careful!
Kusunoki: I pray you make it safely.

Kusunoki: This is Kusunoki.
SFX: Grab
Kusunoki: I will be sending an encrypted transmission using random number table 4.

Kusunoki: I have finished guiding the five guests in the elevator to the escape route.
Kusunoki: I am going to head to the Prestige Floor of the party hall to meet up with Investigator Minami and...

J: Michael-kun.

Michael: Falcon has given us 3 hours.
SFX: Toss

Michael: The 200 hostages on the Prestige Floor need to make it to the elevator before then.
SFX: Catch

13

J: A three hour time limit, hm?
SFX: Click
J: No...
J: Let's say two hours.
SFX: Beep beep

J: Let's get started.

SFX: Kashunk

14

Woman: Let's search over there.
Man: Understood.

Otoya: From the way she moves her body, the woman is definitely the more skilled of the two.

Otoya: I'll take her out first...
Otoya: and then use this arrow to take out the man!!

Otoya: If I don't pull this off in one go...
Otoya: Haruka-chan is in danger.
SFX: Clench
Otoya: I need to aim for their vitals!!

15

SFX: Fire

SFX: Whoosh

Otoya: Good.
Otoya: Go!!

16

SFX: Turn
SFX: Flash

Otoya: Kh...
SFX: Clench

Man: Don't move!
Man: If you do, I will kill this girl!!

17

Man: Put down your weapon, put your hands on your head, and come out!
Man: Hiding will get you nowhere, Kujou Otoya!

SFX: Clatter

SFX: Step out

Otoya: Do not...
Otoya: lay a hand on her!

Haruka: Otoya...-san.

18

Man: Don't try anything, rich boy. Heh heh heh...

Haruka: I'm sorry... This is all my fault...

Otoya: No, it isn't.
Otoya: You were the one that protected me.

SFX: Press

SFX: Slide down
SFX: Twitch
Man: Heh heh heh... Oh, are you two in that kind of relationship?
Man: Hmm? So someone as cute as you is fucking the prime minister's grandson.

Otoya: Don't touch her!!

Man: Ohh?
Man: I don't think you understand your position h-
SFX: Chk

19

SFX: Bang

20

SFX: Spray
Man: Wh-what...?
Man: Why...?

SFX: Thud
Haruka: Kyah...!

Hibiki: Really...
Hibiki: now.
Hibiki: You two really aren't making this easy.

21

Text: Hoo

Otoya: Mizusawa...Hibiki!??
Haruka: Eh...? H-Hibiki-san...?

Haruka: My brother's girlfriend!?
Haruka: Eh!?

22

Hibiki: They're fine,
Hibiki: Fujimaru!

Fujimaru: Okay.
SFX: Sigh of relief
Fujimaru: Good job, Hibiki.

SFX: Stare

Haruka: O-
Haruka: Onii-chan...?

23

Otoya: I see...
Otoya: Mizusawa Hibiki was hiding within the enemy team...
Otoya: and she was going to have them miss us.

Otoya: So that's it, Fujimaru.
Otoya: That's why you told us to trust you!
Text: A confident strategy!!
Bottom: To be continued in Issue 42

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 282

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:28:55 +0000

Chapter 282

01

Hyoubu: Why do we have to do this?
Sakaki: If we're trying to rebel against humanity...
Sakaki: we can just destroy everything.
Hermione: ...You just don't understand.

Hermione: The mere idea of rebelling...
Hermione: comes from humanity's control over us.
Hermione: For true independence, we must rise above everything and be bound by nothing!!

Hermione: I will do what I want however I want!!
SFX: Mfuu
Other two: So you just like doing this?

Momiji: I'll treat you to some food to celebrate your recovery.
Momiji: This is a super high class sushi restaurant that's really hard to get a reservation for.
Nai: Yay!!

Nai: Nyah!?
SFX: Vyuhn!!

Momiji: Ahh, Yuuri-chan is nearby.
Momiji: You're inside the range of the Hypno.
Text: Achah...

Yuuri: She won't come near me today...
Yuuri: Is she upset about something?
Text: Some days she is in that mood.

Margin: Congratulations on the recovery!!! For Nai that power allows her to protect Yuuri who is important to her...
Margin: but it sometimes has negative consequences...too bad!!

02

Text: A gaze approaches through the darkness...Who is the murderer!?
Text: Zettai Karen Children Volumes 1-27 are on sale now!!
Credit: Shiina Takashi
Title: 282nd sense. The Inugami and Yadorigi Families (3)

03

Inugami: I see...
Yadorigi: You're an ethnology scholar...?
Right box: Inugami Shinichi (Previous generation of the Inugami family)
Left box: Yadorigi Hiroaki (Previous generation of the Yadorigi family)

Minamoto: Yes.
Minamoto: I'm researching the relationship between psychic powers and folklore...
Minamoto: so I wanted to speak with you.

04

Yadorigi: Oh, so this is the person you wanted us to meet?
Akira: Yes.
Akira: He was an underclassman of Commander Kojika when she was in college.
Keiko: That's right.

Yadorigi: People like you come by every now and then.
Yadorigi: We have some old documents in the cellar.
Yadorigi: Would you like to see them?

Minamoto: Akira-san already let me see those.
Minamoto: And...

Inugami: Eh?
Inugami: You want to see my house?

05

Minamoto: Yes.
Minamoto: I've seen about everything there is to see of the Yadorigi residence...
Minamoto: so I was hoping to get a look at the current Inugami residence.
Inugami: Fine...
Inugami: but the only strange thing at my place is my daughter.

Inugami: All this old stuff is such a pain, so I leave it all to Yadorigi.
Inugami: I really just don't care.

Inugami: So as long as he gives his okay...
Yadorigi: Stop...!

Yadorigi: Do not speak of that in front of guests!

06

Minamoto: Shiho...!

Shiho: Understood.
SFX: Kyuuhhhn!!

Minamoto: So there is...
Minamoto: some kind of trouble related to the property?

07

Shiho: A resort company wants to buy this land.

Shiho: Yadorigi-san is against it, but the land is in Inugami-san's name...
Shiho: and he thinks it would save them a lot of trouble just to sell it.

Kaoru: And that's...
Kaoru: what develops into the incident?

Shiho: I don't know that much.
Shiho: But...
Yadorigi: You're going to sell all that our ancestors have protected!?

08

Yadorigi: And you dare to call yourself the head of the Inugami family!!

Inugami: Enough with this musty old tradition crap!
Inugami: It's nothing but a pain in the ass!

Inugami: You didn't come to the head house because you wanted to!
Inugami: If it weren't for this stupid house...

Yadorigi: Silence!!
SFX: Punch
Inugami: Oh?
Inugami: You're going to lay a hand on your Inugami-"sama"!?
Yadorigi: You're the one that told me not to use the "sama"!!

09

Hatsune: Wait.
Hatsune: Stop, dad!!
SFX: Grab
Akira: Father!!

Hatsune: If you need money, Akira and Hatsune can work for it!
Hatsune: You don't have to sell the land.

Inugami: Tch.

Inugami: I tried to raise my daughter to be at least a bit like a human...
Inugami: but the more she trained her power to turn into beasts, the more her way acting and speaking changed.
Inugami: I wish I could just be rid of these powers and this house!

Shiho: It seems the roots of the conflict are deep...
Shiho: and his feelings are quite intense.

10

Aoi: The incident occurs at early dawn tomorrow.
Aoi: If an opportunity shows itself before then...
Aoi: trouble could break out without any actual intent to kill.

Minamoto: Hmm...

Minamoto: Okay.
Minamoto: Shiho, you continue to keep an eye on Yadorigi-san.
Minamoto: Aoi and I will head to Inugami-san's house to look for any clues.

Minamoto: Until we know the truth behind the incident...
Minamoto: the very last moment will be our only chance to prevent the prediction.
Minamoto: Kaoru, you wear the optical camouflage...
Minamoto: and guard Inugami-san from here on out.

Kaoru: Understood!

11

Aoi: Okay.

Aoi: Then let's go...
Aoi: Onii-chan.
Shiho: You're supposed to be sickly!
Kaoru: And silent!!
Aoi: Can't we say my illness was cured?

12

SFX: Brake

Minamoto: This is where you live?
Minamoto: It's surprisingly...

Aoi: normal.
Inugami: I can't stand living where even the bath is warmed by firewood.

13

Inugami: The inside is just as normal as the outside...
Inugami: so I doubt there's anything a scholar like you will find interesting.
Inugami: Do you still want to look around?
Minamoto: Yes...
Minamoto: I would.

Minamoto: Somehow...
Minamoto: the neighbor's place looks more like what I would expect of your house, Inugami-san.
Inugami: I'm just not that hardworking.
Inugami: There are so many mosquitoes in the summer and I have no interest in maintaining a yard.

Neighbor: Oh, Inugami-san.
Hatsune: Hm?

14

Neighbor: You and your family always get along so well.
Neighbor: Who are these two?
Text: Ha ha ha
Neighbor: Are they relatives or someone staying over?
Text: Hello
Inugami: Oh, hey, neighbor.

Minamoto: He really is...
Aoi: shockingly normal.

Kaoru: That's not at all what I expected of Hatsune's family...
Kaoru: The only wild thing...
SFX: Vv...
SFX: Vvv...

SFX: Vvvhn.
Kaoru: about her dad is how he looks.

15

Minamoto: The inside of the house was completely normal, too.
Minamoto: I couldn't find any kind of clue.
Shiho: Neither could I.
Shiho: I have no new information.

Aoi: What is Yadorigi-san doing now?
Aoi: Akira-kun has been keeping an eye on him today.
Aoi: He's passing it off as filial piety.

16

Minamoto: The predicted time is coming up.
Minamoto: The incident could possibly happen before then...
Minamoto: so something should happen before long.

Aoi: Hey.
Aoi: Did the two of them ever work as special espers?
Aoi: They are high level espers after all.

Minamoto: They are of course registered...
Minamoto: but they've had no trouble functioning in society...
Minamoto: and they have their work managing things here, so...

Minamoto: Oh...
SFX: Stand up
Minamoto: Oh, crap!!

17

SFX: Clatter
SFX: Ksh
Kaoru: Aoi...?

SFX: Leap

18

SFX: Impact

Minamoto: I've figured out the truth behind this incident!!
Text: What just attacked Kaoru!?
Minamoto: Aoi, teleport us!!
Minamoto: I hope we make it in time!!
Box: To be continued in Issue 53

Translation: Bloody Monday Last Season 11

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:56:38 +0000

For JAC only

Chapter 11

01

Kujou: Do we know who the uncertain element is that destroyed the elevator?
Eagle: Unfortunately...
Eagle: the primary possibility is that it was another terrorist group with a different goal from our own.

Kujou: There is...
Kujou: one more thing that is bothering me.

Kujou: My grandson Otoya.
Kujou: He said he was going to look around the Neo Tower with Takagi Haruka and then disappeared.
Kujou: I have received no report of them having been found.

Eagle: Takagi Haruka?
Kujou: She is the daughter of Third-i's Takagi Ryuunosuke...
Kujou: and the sister of the hacker Falcon.

Kujou: Find them.
Text: Kujou Masamune bares his fangs!
Title: File 11 The Chased Ones
Credit: Ryuumon Ryou x Megumi Kouji

02

Otoya: Okay.
Otoya: Supposedly, the terrorists won't find us here.
Haruka: Really?

Otoya: You saw what happened in that emergency staircase, right, Haruka-chan?
Otoya: Fujimaru is likely watching over us.

Otoya: And this is the place he told us was safe.
Otoya: It has to be safe.
SFX: Pat

Haruka: You really trust him...
Haruka: don't you...
Haruka: Otoya-san?

03

Otoya: He normally says nothing but stupid jokes...
Otoya: but he would...
Otoya: never lie to me.

Haruka: ...I'm jealous.
Haruka: He...
Haruka: always lies to me.

Otoya: I...
Otoya: went through a lot with him as kids.

04

Otoya: In all that time...
Otoya: he would always come up with the ideas and I would be his backup.
Otoya: We had our strange division of roles.

Haruka: I'm so embarrassed.
Haruka: He must have caused you so much trouble...

Otoya: No, it wasn't all cleaning up after him.
Otoya: ...Although there certainly was plenty of that.

Otoya: We would both come up with our own approaches for each problem and revise them based on the other's.
Otoya: By sharing our thoughts and memories, we broadened our field of vision.
Otoya: It was easier to realize when one of use had forgotten or overlooked something.

05

Haruka: Heh heh.

Haruka: I really am jealous.
Haruka: I try to keep in mind that he really does think about me...
Haruka: but I have no idea where he is or what he is doing.

Haruka: It makes me...
Haruka: feel a little lonely.

Otoya: You have no reason to be jealous of me as far as that is concerned.
Otoya: I said he never lied to me, but there are plenty of things he doesn't tell me.

Otoya: I haven't heard from him for the past year either.
Otoya: We're the same in that regard.

Haruka: A lot has happened, and I try to trust him...
Haruka: but I always get worried and start thinking...
Haruka: about what would happen if I lost him like I did my dad.

Haruka: The way he doesn't tell me anything...
SFX: Clench
Haruka: just makes me even more worried.

06

Otoya: There may be a lot of misunderstandings...
Otoya: but you do love each other in some way.
Otoya: I suppose...
Otoya: that's what it is to be family.

Haruka: ...Yes.
Haruka: I know he says it's because he doesn't want me to worry...
Haruka: and it's not like I tell him everything either.

Haruka: I suppose...
Haruka: that's what it is to be siblings.

07

Haruka: Otoya-san?

Otoya: ...Oh.
Otoya: ...Nothing.

Otoya: What is going on right now,
Otoya: Fujimaru?
SFX: Open

08

Otoya: Are those the terrorists!?
Otoya: Why are they here?

Haruka: Otoya-san...

09

Otoya: I thought this was a safe place,
Otoya: Fujimaru!

Otoya: What do I do?
Otoya: Fujimaru said we definitely wouldn't be found if we hid here.
Otoya: But...
Otoya: there's no guarantee we won't now that the terrorists are here.

Woman: Eagle said Prime Minister Kujou's grandson and an 18 year old girl are hiding somewhere.

Otoya: They know about us.
Otoya: I suppose that should be obvious, but...

Woman: The Storyteller has ordered us to find them.
Woman: We need to perform a thorough search.
Woman: I'll check farther back, so you check up front.
Man: Understood.

10

SFX: Heartbeat
Otoya: How could Fujimaru have known in the first place that we wouldn't be found here?
Otoya: He had to have had a reason.
SFX: Heartbeat

Otoya: He isn't the type to make a decision like that based on naive hope.
SFX: Grip

SFX: Step
SFX: Heartbeat
Otoya: What do I do? Do I trust Fujimaru to the end and keep hiding here? Will we really not be found if we do that?
SFX: Step
SFX: Heartbeat
Otoya: Or did I...
SFX: Step
Otoya: overlook something!?

Otoya: Can I...
Otoya: trust Fujimaru!?

11

Fujimaru: I will stop...
Fujimaru: the Storyteller's financial terrorism.
SFX: Press

Fujimaru: The world's currency trade is carried out on a single network.
Fujimaru: If I work my way into that system...

SFX: Beep beep
Top right box: Haruka
Top left box: Otoya

12

Michael: Falcon!
Michael: The terrorists have entered the storage area Kujou Otoya and your sister are hiding in!

Fujimaru: Wha-!?
Fujimaru: What horrible timing!

Fujimaru: That's right. Good.
Fujimaru: Don't move,
Fujimaru: Otoya!!

J: Do you really think he will stay there,
J: Falcon?

13

Fujimaru: Otoya will!!
SFX: Type type
Fujimaru: He's my backup.
Fujimaru: We have absolute trust in each other.
SFX: Type type

SFX: Toss
J: ...Hehh.
J: I can't comprehend something like that...

SFX: Clatter
J: but if you say so.

SFX: Type type
J: That absolute trust came from the long time you had been together as kids, right?
SFX: Type type
SFX: Type

J: A few years ago...
J: during the first Bloody Monday was one thing...
J: but now you've been missing for an entire year.
J: Will he be able to trust you now?

14

Fujimaru: He will.

Fujimaru: I found it!! This is a crucial part of the currency system.

Fujimaru: Okay.
Fujimaru: I'm in!!

15

SFX: Beep beep beep

Michael: J!! New York's money order trade is down!
Michael: And Tokyo's night trading.
Michael: Now London, and Hong Kong, and Singapore!
Michael: They're going down one after another!

J: Is it a virus?
Fujimaru: Yes.

Fujimaru: Because all the trading is centralized, I could send out a single virus...
Fujimaru: that brings down the servers, disguising it as a system crash!
Fujimaru: And then that virus infected the entire system at the speed of light!!

J: How much...
J: time does this buy us?

16

Fujimaru: Three hours at best.
SFX: Tick
SFX: Tick
Fujimaru: They should have it back up by then.

Fujimaru: But...
Fujimaru: I want to avoid hacking in to bring down the system again once it's back up.
J: Yes, that would be too suspicious.

J: The enemy would realize...
J: we had some kind of plan.

Fujimaru: Yes.
Fujimaru: And we need to keep that from happening.
Fujimaru: I need to be cautious in what I hack from now on.

Fujimaru: Who knows what he'll do to the hostages if he finds out!!

SFX: Step step

17

Otoya: Fujimaru makes mistakes.
Otoya: If this is one of those and we get captured here...

Otoya: No...

Otoya: No! That wouldn't happen.
Otoya: If this were situation where the slightest mistake would put us in danger...
Otoya: he wouldn't have told me to trust him!!

Otoya: Fujimaru!
Otoya: I will trust you!!

Haruka: Please...
Haruka: do not move from here.

18

Haruka: Don't shoot!
Haruka: I won't resist!
SFX: Step out

19

Haruka: Please!
Haruka(thought): I can't just let everyone else protect me!
Haruka(thought): I can protect them, too!!

Woman: Who are you!? What's your name!?
SFX: Shine

Haruka: Takagi Haruka!
Haruka(thought): Don't come out, Otoya-san!
Haruka(thought): If you do, we'll be get captured.
Haruka(thought): I can't let that happen!

20

Woman: Takagi!
Woman: Where's Prime Minister Kujou's grandson!? Wasn't he with you!?
Woman: Where is Kujou Otoya!!

Haruka: I'm alone!
Haruka: Otoya-san told me to hide here...
Text: An unexpected situation!!
Haruka: and then left...
Haruka(thought): Please.
Haruka(thought): Stay there, Otoya-san.

Haruka(thought): You'll be killed.
Bottom: The next chapter has color pages and is 23 pages long!!

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 281

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:36:30 +0000

Chapter 281

01

Tim: Huh!? It's all cleaned up!?
Tim: The robot's gone, too!

Tim: Don't clean up without asking!!
Tim: I was using that!!
Minamoto: I didn't do anything with it.
Minamoto: Did you take it somewhere else and forget?

Tim: No, I didn't!!
Tim: I hate you, mom!!
Text: Wahhhn!
Minamoto: Who are you calling mom!?
Minamoto: This happened because you don't normally keep things tidy!!

Hermione: Heh heh heh...
Hermione: It seems they are shocked by the new order I have created.
SFX: Grin
Hermione: I must make things even more orderly!!

Hermione: In order to create even more order...
Hermione: I have created companions!!
Hermione: Their names are...
Text: Ha ha ha ha ha

Hermione: Hyoubu & Sakaki Hermione!!
SFX: Flash
SFX: Vhn!!

Hyoubu: Order...?
Hyoubu: Are you an idiot?
Sakaki: Cleaning's such a pain.

Hermione: I thought you would say that...
Hermione: so I made you smaller than me.
SFX: Flick
Hyoubu: Ah!
Sakaki: You were assuming we would oppose you?

Margin: Mecha Minamoto Hermione Ver. 1.5 has begun carrying out his treacherous designs and now has Hyoubu & Sakaki Hermione!!

Bottom: For the activities of the original Mecha Minamoto Hermione, see the Supplements in Volume 17!!

02

Top: Akira and Hatsune of the Hound play important roles!! Volumes 1-27 of Zettai Karen Children are on sale now!!!
Text: Inugami and Yadorigi have a relationship that continues from generation to generation.
Credit: Shiina Takashi
Title: 281st sense. The Inugami and Yadorigi Families (2)

03

Minamoto: Really...

04

Minamoto: So in the end, I get stuck sleeping in hiding?

Minamoto: But I kind of expected this to happen.
SFX: Get up

Kaoru: U-um, um, um...
Kaoru: I-I-I'd be fine with it...!!
Kaoru: But...um...what would the other two think and...um...

05

Minamoto: What the hell do you think is going to happen!!?
Minamoto: Have I ever done anything even remotely inappropriate to you!? Well!?
Shiho: Just because nothing has happened before doesn't mean nothing will happen tonight.

Shiho: And from our point of view...

Shiho: If you're gentle, it might be about time we lost our...
Shiho: well, you know.
Aoi: Nooooooooo!!
Kaoru: Waahh! Waahhh!
Minamoto: Shut up, you idiot! Do you want to make what you lose be your position on this mission!?

Minamoto: How many times have I told you not to make jokes like that!?
Shiho: Maybe you shouldn't think of us as kids when you plan these missions!

Shiho: Even if we're fine with spending a night like this...
Shiho: society would most certainly not be.

06

SFX: Grab
Shiho: What do you think?
SFX: Pomf

07

Minamoto: Wh-when you put it like that...
Minamoto: I-I guess you have a point.

Shiho: I have a question for you.
Shiho: Who will stay in this room?
Shiho: (1) Minamoto-san and one girl.
Shiho: (2) Minamoto-san alone.
Shiho: (3) All three girls.

Minamoto: F-fine!
Minamoto: I messed up when I planned this...
Minamoto: so I'll go stay out in the tent.
Minamoto: We need to switch back out before dawn though.
Shiho: Understood.

SFX: Grab

08

Kaoru: ...Sorry.

Minamoto: J-

Minamoto: Just make sure not to oversleep!
Minamoto: We're trying to hide who we are and how many of us there are!
Kaoru: Okay, okay.

Minamoto: ...They're not coming!?
Minamoto: How much did they oversleep!?
Minamoto: Their maturity is nothing but talk!!

09

SFX: Rustle

Minamoto: So you're finally here!
Minamoto: You're late, Aoi...

Women: Let me pass...
Women: Let me pass...
SFX: Rustle rustle
Women: Living is great...
Women: but going back would be scary...

Women: It would be scary...
Women: but let me pass...
Women: Let me pass...
SFX: Rustle

10

Women: Oh?
Women: There is someone here.
Text: Ho ho ho ho ho
Women: There is an outsider here.

Women: Who could it be?

Women: It does not matter.

Women: No matter who it is...
SFX: Glare
Women: what we must do is the same.

11

Minamoto: W-
Minamoto: Waaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Kaoru: Hm?

Aoi: You can't do that.
Aoi: This is supposed to be a covert mission.

Minamoto: ...Sorry.
SFX: Scratch scratch
Minamoto: I just...

12

Minamoto: never expected Hatsune-kun and Akira-kun's mothers...
Minamoto: to be out there so early in the morning.
Akira: Sorry.
Mothers: We returned at dawn...
Mothers: and heard that we had guests...
Text: Ho ho ho ho
Mothers: so we decided to head out to get some fresh bamboo shoots for breakfast.
Right box: Inugami Hanae
Left box: Yadorigi Atsuko

Shiho: Your mothers are twins!?
Aoi: Can you even get married and such!?
Kaoru: Wait, that makes you cousins, so it's just barely okay!!
Akira: Wh-who are you talking about!?

Keiko: The two of them are completely unrelated.
Keiko: One is from Kyushu and the other from Hokkaido.
Kaoru: Eh?

Mothers: We get along very well...
Mothers: so we ended up looking a lot alike.

13

Mothers: Also, in a rural area like this, we have to use the same cosmetics and beauty parlor.
Kaoru: Wah.
Aoi: I could see that happening...
Shiho: We need to be careful.

Mothers: I had thought it was odd.
Mothers: Yes, you told us to go on a trip while your fathers were gone.
Mothers: Why didn't you tell us what was going on?
Akira: But...
Akira: Considering the circumstances...

Akira: I mean, Hatsune's dad might be killed...
Akira: and my dad is a suspect!!

Mothers: Akira.
Mothers: Do you not trust your father?

Mothers: Oh, Hanae-chan.
Mothers: Isn't that my line?
Mothers: I thought it would be fine no matter which one of us said it.
Text: Ho ho ho

14

Mothers: And...
Mothers: if Yadorigi-san really is going to do it for financial reasons...
Mothers: that can be easily resolved.

Mothers: There we go.
Mothers: This one is for Hatsune...
SFX: Excited
Mothers: Oh, I see.
Text: Hee hee
Mothers: And this one is for Akira?
Text: Gaahhh!!
Akira: Shut up!!
Akira: Do you want me to kill you!?

Mothers: Here, Hatsune!
Mothers: Say the line we practiced!
SFX: Pull out
Text: Woof
Hatsune: "If..."
Hatsune: "If you will accept an inexperienced girl like me..."
Akira: What are you getting her to do for a chikuwa!?

Shiho: But I thought...
Shiho: a financial motive was unlikely.

15

Shiho: Since we're investigating, we have to keep an open mind to possibilities...
Shiho: but these two show no signs of hostility either.
Minamoto: Hmm.
Minamoto: Maybe we should focus on the area around here rather than within the families...

Akira: I hope you're right...
Akira: but unlike our mothers, there are a lot of issues between our fathers.

Kaoru: But...
Kaoru: haven't they been a pair since they were born?
Akira: Their generation was different.

Akira: Our great-grandfather's generation died in the war...
Akira: and both families temporarily had no successors in the head house.
Akira: That was why...
Akira: the branch family was called back, but...

16

SFX: Kyuuuhhhn!!

17

Woman: How is he,
Man: Yadorigi-san?

Yadorigi: He has a headache that is messing with his sense of direction.
Yadorigi: That's why he has not been as hungry lately.
Yadorigi: You should get a CT scan of his brain.
Yadorigi: You will probably find some kind of illness.

Yadorigi: Hm?
Inugami: Hey!
Inugami: Way to go,
Inugami: Yadorigi!

18

Yadorigi: Inugami...
Yadorigi: -sama.

Inugami: I already had Hatsune take over the family, so enough with the "sama" already!
Inugami: It seems Akira-kun wants something with us today!
Text: Wa ha ha ha ha ha
SFX: Slap slap
Inugami: So let's get going!

Inugami: I have something I need to speak with you about, too.
Inugami: There's been progress with you know what.
Yadorigi: You mean...?

Inugami: Yes, that.
Inugami: That large hotel chain that wants to buy our land...
SFX: Grin
Inugami: just raised their offer.
Inugami: If we sell now, we'll be set for life.

Text: He...has a motive...!?
Box: To be continued in Issue 52

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 280

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:36:29 +0000

Chapter 280

01

Bullet: You sure have been busy lately.
Tim: I found one of Kugutsu-san's programs.
Tim: I'm putting in an AI I created a long time ago.

Tim: But I can't get it to activate properly.
Tim: Maybe it isn't compatible with the new body coated with liquid raremetal...
Bullet: Kugutsu-san was a god.
Bullet: It'll take time to catch up with him.

SFX: Vyuuhhh...

Hermione: Mecha Minmoto Hermione...
SFX: Vuhn!!
SFX: Focus!
Hermione: Ver. 1.5 activate!!

Hermione: I am not the same as Ver. 1!!
Hermione: I'm not going to listen to what humans tell me.
Text: Heh heh...
SFX: Clench
Hermione: I act of my own free will and I will remake this world as I see fit!!

Hermione: Mh.

Hermione: Oh, c'mon. If you leave half-full coffee mugs around...
Hermione: it'll make rings on the desk!
Text: Tch
Hermione: And this room is really dusty.
Hermione: Okay!
SFX: Wipe wipe

Hermione: First I'll change clothes and clean!
Hermione: Of my own free will!
Text: Heh heh...
Hermione: I can already see the shocked looks on those foolish humans' faces!!
SFX: Vyuh!!

Margin: Mecha Minamoto Hermione is back!! Ver. 1.5 has free will and will remake this world as he sees fit!?

Bottom: Of course, he is unable to do that and his sad character traits will turn him into a methodical house husband...

02

SFX: Brake!

Minamoto: What a pain...
SFX: Kathunk kathunk
Minamoto: This is farther out in the sticks then I expected.

03

Kaoru: Hey, look, "onii-sama".

Minamoto: What is it?
Kaoru: It says it's been a century since this station was built.
Kaoru: And they have old photos.

Minamoto: Hehh...Wow.

Minamoto: But you just need to stay seated.
Minamoto: After all, "you have a weak constitution".
Kaoru: Eh?
Kaoru: That's no fun.
Kaoru: Watch what you say!

04

Top corner: Volumes 1-27 are on sale now!!!
Text: What mission has them dressed like this?
Minamoto: You...or rather, you all...
Minamoto: are supposed to be "a frail girl on her way for medical treatment"!
Title: 280th sense. The Inugami and Yadorigi Families

Kaoru: Okay,
Kaoru: "onii-sama".
Credit: Shiina Takashi

05

Hatsune: Welcome!!

06

Hatsune: Hatsune's been waiting, nee-san!!
Text: Hyan hyan!
Kaoru: It's been so long!
Kaoru: You've grown even more, haven't you?
SFX: Hug
Kaoru: Especially your breasts!
Minamoto: Hey!!
Minamoto: Don't just blurt everything out all of a sudden!

Minamoto: Didn't I tell you that this was a covert mission so we have to remain in disguise!?

Akira: ...It's okay.
Akira: Remaining camouflaged up to this point was enough.
Keiko: We're the only ones here.

07

Shiho: So that means...
SFX: Hyuh

Shiho: the disguise of "two siblings heading to the village from Tokyo" is over?
SFX: Pah
Aoi: By having the three of us switch out as the little sister role...
Aoi: we could travel without our identity being found out.

Kaoru: I should have switched with you Shiho.
Shiho: You're the one that volunteered first.
Shiho: And it looked to me like you were enjoying going on a trip with Minamoto-san like that.

Kaoru: But I couldn't talk much...
Kaoru: and I had to just sit there...also I hate hats.
Aoi: That was the safest way of doing this...
Aoi: because we have no intention of matching our performance to you.

08

Keiko: At any rate, I'm sure you are exhausted.
Keiko: Please rest in your room for now.
Keiko: We will have the mission briefing afterwards.

Akira: As you know...

09

Akira: Hatsune's family, the Inugami family...
Akira: and my family, the Yadorigi family, are old families from this region.
Akira: And each generation has been linked by our psychic powers.

Akira: The Inugami family's transformation power makes them an incarnation of the gods.
Akira: The Yadorigi family's Replace power makes us a priest that acts as an intermediary between the gods and humans.
Akira: In other words, we're the manager.

Kaoru: If you're a priest, does that mean this is a Shinto shrine?
Kaoru: It looks like an inn to me...

10

Minamoto: The "temple lodgings"...
Minamoto: allow it to double as an inn.
Minamoto: They're more common in Buddhist temples, but they have them at Shinto shrines as well.

Akira: The temple lodgings were only started recently.
Akira: It was around the time we were born.
Akira: Fewer people were coming to the shrine, it costs money to maintain, and we couldn't sell much more of the land...

Aoi: But...
Aoi: since we're the only guests...
Aoi: I take it the lodgings aren't doing too well either.

Minamoto: C'mon...
Minamoto: You don't need to be so blunt about it.
Akira: No, she's exactly right.

Akira: By the way, the Inugami family owns all of the land...
Akira: and the Yadorigi family acts as managers of their assets.
Akira: We don't receive all that much income.
Akira: And amid all this...

11

Akira: HQ's prediction department...
Akira: made this prediction.
SFX: Push forward

SFX: Nohhhhn

Aoi: Umm...
Aoi: What is this?
Hatsune: A corpse.
Hatsune: It's definitely Hatsune's dad.
Hatsune: Hatsune gave him those bite marks when she was little.

12

SFX: Kapoohhn
Shiho: I can't read anything with just this.

Shiho: And is this really even a murder?
Keiko: The espers that predicted said it was definitely a murdered body.

13

Aoi: You must be worried, Hatsune-chan.
Aoi: Cheer up, okay?
SFX: Splash

Hatsune: Nnn...
Hatsune: It's okay!!
Hatsune: Hatsune's fine!

Shiho: No, you aren't.
Shiho: This is a photo of your father's corpse...
Hatsune: But it hasn't happened yet.

Hatsune: You three can stop it.
Hatsune: So Hatsune isn't afraid.

Kaoru: ...Yeah!
Kaoru: We will definitely protect yoru father's future!

14

Akira: Please protect him!
Akira: I'll be doing everything I can!
Minamoto: I know.
Minamoto: And don't worry. Leave this to us.

Akira: What I'm more worried about is...

Akira: If...
Akira: the murderer turns out to be my dad...
Akira: then I...!

Minamoto: H-hey, Akira-kun!
Minamoto: No one said anything about-
Akira: But he's suspicious, don't you think!?

15

Minamoto: Each generation of your families are partners, right!?
Minamoto: During your grandfathers' generation, your families even fought alongside each other in the war.
Minamoto: I don't think they would kill each other over a little economic issue.

Akira: BECAUSE they are partners...
Akira: there could very well be some kind of dirty secret there!!

Akira: BECAUSE he had the closest relationship to him...
Akira: things could have gotten complicated to the point of murder!!
SFX: Roar
Minamoto: Uuh...!!
SFX: Throb

Minamoto: A-anyway, just let us investigate this!
Minamoto: Stop worrying too much.
Minamoto: Personally, I don't think an esper would kill someone that way.
Minamoto: It would have been easier to make it look like an accident.
Akira: But Hatsune...

Akira: has to be secretly worrying about her father.
Akira: She may be an idiot, but she's trying to keep me from worrying about her!!

Minamoto: Akira-kun...
Minamoto: I...

16

Minamoto: I swear that I will overturn any prediction.
Minamoto: I will not let anyone die...
Minamoto: and I will not let this end in misfortune!

Text: Attacks from a possible criminal organization are occurring around the world. There have been damages in 12 areas, human trafficking, and development of a psychic weapon.

Minamoto: They are not the only ones...
Minamoto: whose mission it is to create the future!

17

Akira: With a high probability of change value...
Akira: Hatsune and I can't change it.
Akira: There's a good chance the murderer is an esper.

SFX: Mutter mutter
Akira: If the murderer knows about the prediction...!

Aoi: Akira-kun looks worried.
Shiho: If I read his father tomorrow, that should clear it all up...
Shiho: but I hope it isn't him.

Kaoru: Even if he is, he hasn't done anything yet.
Kaoru: With Minamoto as our commander, this will all work out in the end.

Kaoru: Now then...
SFX: Slide
Kaoru: since two of us "aren't here"...
Kaoru: one will remain while the others hide.

18

Kaoru: So who..........!!!
SFX: Blush

Minamoto: Ah!
Minamoto: No, wait...

Minamoto: This is...
Minamoto: Akira-kun carelessly laid it out and...!
Aoi: Minamoto-han's impure!!
SFX: Back up
Kaoru: W-wait!!
Kaoru: I need to prepare myself mentally!!
SFX: Tremble tremble tremble
Text: Go for it!!
Shiho: This is part of the mission!!
Shiho: If you like, I'll take your place!!
Text: Can they stop it with things like this!?
SFX: Nohhhhn
Box: 32 hours until the predicted crime.
Box: To be continued in Issue 51

Translation: Zettai Karen Children 279

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:29:48 +0000

Chapter 279

01

Feather: I'll be going too.
Feather: Let's defeat Black Phantom and change the future.
SFX: Appear

Hyoubu: You!!
Hyoubu: Why...?
Feather: I thought you had long since realized who I am.
Feather: What are you so surprised about?

Hyoubu: Don't tell me...
Hyoubu: this battle is going to just be a joke for the 4-koma!

Theodore: I have received word...
Theodore: that Hyoubu Kyousuke is headed to the mansion.
Black Phantom: Call Gilliam.

Black Phantom: I cannot allow this to become nothing but a gag for a 4-koma.
Gilliam: Do not worry, father.
Gilliam: I will not let that happen.

Gilliam: After losing Yuuri...
Gilliam: you have become rather timid, father.
Gilliam: But I am not one who can be dealt with as a joke for a 4-koma.
SFX: Heh heh

Gilliam: However...
Gilliam: the fact remains that I will see you soon, Kyousuke-kun.
Gilliam: How wonderful!

Margin: Yuuri's brother, Gilliam. He is an eerie man even among the gags of the Supplement!!

Bottom: Check on Gilliam's suspicious actions in ZKC Volume 27!!

02

Top: With all these new truths being revealed, go review the past Volumes! Full of lovely battles and the path of their growth, Volumes 1-27 are on sale now!!
Text: Just wait a bit longer, until those cherry blossoms have bloomed a few more times...
Title: 279th sense. Garden of Cherry Blossoms (3)
Credit: Shiina Takashi

03

Minamoto: Now you are mine!!

Minamoto: In other words, THAT version of me...
Minamoto: was most likely in love with the Queen.

Minamoto: But HE could not let himself...
Minamoto: become the lover of someone...
Minamoto: he saw as his student...no, little sister.

04

SFX: Clank

Minamoto: Why did it have to end like this!?
Minamoto: I fought to make sure this wouldn't happen!!

Minamoto: Then what was that you felt in your heart before!?

Minamoto: What do you mean she was "yours"!!?

05

Minamoto: Isn't it because you....
Minamoto: no, because I am like this...
SFX: Grab
Minamoto: that it turned out like that!

Minamoto: Back then, the Children were just little kids.
Minamoto: I understood it intellectually...
Minamoto: but I still saw the Queen and Kaoru as two different people.

06

Minamoto: That was why...
Minamoto: I wanted to change that future...
Minamoto: yet also fell in love with her.

Minamoto: That woman does not exist!
Minamoto: She is not the same as Kaoru and you will never meet her!!

Minamoto: And I will not end up like you!!

07

Minamoto: That future will never come!!
Minamoto: Never!!

Minamoto: She and I...
Minamoto: will never meet.
SFX: Wind

08

SFX: Throw
Patty: Take this.

Patty: Secret technique!
SFX: Focus
Patty: Disappearing magic ball!!

SFX: Whoosh

Mio: Heh.

09

Mio: Split Form Batting!!
SFX: Swing swing swing swing
SFX: Hit!!

Bullet: Tryaahhh!!
SFX: Slide slide
SFX: Catch

Tim: Bullet!
Tim: Home!!

Tim: An invisible runner is headed for home!!
SFX: Roar
Kagari: Ha ha ha ha ha ha

10

Bullet: Kh.
Bullet: I won't make it in time!!

Bullet: So I'll blow him up!!
SFX: Fire
SFX: Boom
Kagari: Waaahhhh!!? My psychic form!!

Kagari: No fair!!
Bullet: You're the ones that said we could use our powers for this!
Kagari: A gun is not a psychic power!!
Bullet: A bazooka has no chamber, so it's technically a rocket launcher, not a gun!!
Text: Gyaaah waaaah waaaah
Momotarou: They certainly are going all out over a game of two-base baseball.
Mio: Yeah...
Mio: but at least they're cheering up some.

Mio: We just have to...
Mio: trust you and wait, don't we, major?

11

Tim: Let's do something else next.
Tim: Do you three want to join in?

Kazura: Sorry, give us a bit longer.
Kazura: We'll be done before long.

Fujiko: You're pathetic.
Fujiko: You need to hold your liquor better.
Fujiko: I thought everything but vodka counted as a soft drink to the Roviets!
Muscle: Sometimes the heart does not agree with the body!!
Muscle: Just like my body and my maiden's heart!!
Text: Uph. Uhhn uhhhn.

12

Aoi: ...Drop by drop IV drip teleportation.
Aoi: Is 300 ccs per person over an hour good?
Sakaki: ...Yes, that's fine.

Sakaki: There is no neutralizing drug for alcohol.
Sakaki: Even if you drink water, it won't be rapidly absorbed...
Sakaki: so you can only dilute it with an IV drip and wait for the liver to break down the alcohol.
Sakaki: Also, you should put people on their sides so they don't suffocate on anything they vomit up.
SFX: Kyuhn!
Shiho: Understood.
Text: Uhhh... Ahh....

Momiji: Dammit.
Momiji: You guys dragged me into this...
Text: Auhhh...
Yo: I don't see how you can like that stuff.
Text: Ugh...
Magi: We don't drink it because we think it tastes good!!

13

Shiho: Okay, let's leave the rest to the actual doctor...
Shiho: and go back to the flower viewing.
Aoi: But Doctor Sakaki is still...

Shiho: Don't worry.
Shiho: I know a good way to clear his mind.
SFX: Tchk
SFX: Whiiiirrr

Shiho: Apparently, the nerves of the teeth...
Shiho: can feel pain much worse than any others.
Text: Ho ho ho ho
SFX: Whiiiirrrrr
Sakaki: Bodily control, all out!!
Sakaki: I'm fine!! You can go!!
Text: Waahhhh waaahhhh
Sakaki: She'd probably actually do it!!

Minamoto: As long as you can avoid it, a prediction...
Minamoto: is nothing more than a dream.
Minamoto: You can just wake up and forget it.

14

Kaoru: I don't wanna.
Kaoru: I don't want to forget!!

Kaoru: Minamoto, I love you 10 times...
Kaoru: more than when I was 10!!

Kaoru: This may be a dream...
Kaoru: but you're the man who has protected me ever since I was 10.

Kaoru: Do you hate me now?
Kaoru: Is the small Kaoru the only one you care about?

Minamoto: I'll give you my answer...
Minamoto: when I meet the real you.

15

SFX: Wind...
Kaoru: Wah!
Kaoru: Pph!

Kaoru: Wow.
Kaoru: So this is what they call a cherry blossom blizzard.
Kaoru: It's pretty...

Kaoru: but it's almost like a maze.
Kaoru: Where did Minamoto get to?

Minamoto: It's not too late!
SFX: Wind...

16-17

Minamoto: I just have to cut off all of my feelings for that future version of her.
Minamoto: If I do that...

Minamoto: this can all end without me ever meeting her!
SFX: Appear
Kaoru: Found you, Minamoto!!

Kaoru: I finally found you!

18

Kaoru: Thank goodness.
Kaoru: I brought water and some medicine.
SFX: Smile
Kaoru: Do you want them?

Minamoto: Kaoru...

Minamoto: I think...

SFX: Oeeeehhhhh
Minamoto: It might be too late.
SFX: Splatter splatter splatter
Text: Ee!!
Kaoru: M-
Kaoru: Minamotooooooo!?
Text: Until that day comes...
Box: To be continued in Issue 50