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Translation: Kekkaishi 254

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:33:49 +0000

Hello. I know. It's been a long long time since I ever touch any translation. Due to my hectic schedule, I'll have to give up doing it.
Translation is something I enjoyed and learnt a lot, but the one I really want to pursue the most at the end of the day is drawing manga, so I like to devote my time for that instead.

Nevertheless, as a Kekkaishi fan, and as a translator, I want to fufill my duty to ensure it catches up to the latest before I step down.

If something like a big hitus or mediocre translations happen to Kekkaishi again, I might go back and buck up for a bit, of course. Lousy quality is a big no-no! You hear me.

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit(INCLUDING THE PROOFREADER). This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

*{T.N}= Translator’s note

Proofreader: sillyblob

(p1)
[Side text: “KEKKAISHI” At last, “The Blank State” training has come to its very end. However…]

Shimano: What happened, 22nd Successor?//
Have you cleared your mind since yesterday?

Yoshi: Yup…// I’m fine…
Shimano: But…// (Why is he trying so hard….?)

(p2)
Shimano: (…It’s still much too rushed…//Since we're at this stage, it’ll be most troublesome to finish it with a sloppy job…// We should see this through to the end…)//
Take it easy, 22nd Successor./ If you’re tired, you should rest.

[Side text: What’s wrong, Yoshimori?]
*{T.N= He looks more like he can’t wait to go to the restroom. }

Chapter 254: Conditions

(p3)
Sen: No matter how I look at it, it’s still kinda fishy.//
But that Yoshimori…//
He made a promise with Hiura to take care of things…// But he refuses to give me any of the details.//

Sen: You know…Yoshimori will be anxious if we interfere. But soon…// The fact that Hiura is the murderer of Okuni will be announced, clear as a bell.//
Is that alright, Chief? Is it even alright to let Hiura loose?

(p4)
Masa: Isn’t that Yoshimori’s decision?

Sen: ……// (Is he being serious, leaving Yoshimori to protect Karasumori?)//

Sen: ……./ Karasumori only reacts towards Yoshimori‘s situation.// But Yoshimori is explosive, isn’t he?

Sen: I beg your pardon. Although this is just a theory,// but I'd like to report it as regarding the conditions of the legitimate successors.

(p5)
Masa: ….// Go on.

Sen: According to what he said about Karasumori being able to speak, //it appears that Karasumori possesses a conscience and a personality.// And based on the contents…// Not only does it have a sense of morality, but it’s restless, displaying an attraction towards excitement…
(Karasumori: I want to get out.)

Sen: Simply, a legitimate successor is someone it ‘likes‘,// someone it finds interesting.//
And how it judges the appeal of the four successors// depends on their abilities and their potential. //
Even Tokine// is not considered rightful to it. (Tokine: Look! Come over here!)
*{T.N= Now I see why Karasumori wants to get out. Prefers older women? I can understand, being a forest housing just … teenagers… But hey! Tokine is not too bad.}

Sen: But I still don’t get it.// So I tried asking Yoshimori, ‘Has it met any Akayashi that it quite enjoyed?’

(p6)
Yoshi: H~m… Something big or strong?// I guess it likes them both…//
Ah!//
Once-there was a friend of Madarao called Kouya.// He’s definitely its type.
*{T.N= Excuse me?! Choosing a dog over a girl? Girls smell better, you know?}

Sen: That Kouya had a feisty personality.// By the end, his wish to be strong had been granted by Karasumori.//
Additionally…// This was not an Akayashi but,/ Gen too… was favored.

Sen: In other words,/ someone direct, unpredictable and promising // is its type.
Masa: I see…

Sen: How the seal appears at the beginning// is defined by nature.

(p7)
Sen: But when it deems the individuals as interesting, it will grant them power,// a power to live up to its expectations.

Sen: With this pattern,/ Yoshimori could be regarded as one of Karasumori's most preferred people in history.

Masa:….

Sen: And…// The problem that pains me the most is…//

Sen: The “The Blank State” training which Yoshimori is taking./ The technique seems to be compatible to Karasumori.//
Dealing with the changing Karasumori,/ Yoshimori has undeniable become the only candidate that can control it.//
Their surroundings must move accordingly.

(p8)
Sen: Right now, they’re still keeping in balance,/ whether it’s Yoshimori, Karasumori, or their relationship…//
But if Karasumori is ever attacked,// then we must make a move.

Sen: When that arrives, what would happen exactly?// What kind of disaster would it spring?

Sen:…// I know that it’s scary to be attacked, but…/ I… This anxiety…//
So…
Masa: Really, it was a great choice to send you there.

(p9)
Sen: Huh?
Masa: You’ve got me a little surprised.//
Sen.// I guess you’re the only one who can analyse Karasumori’s situation.

Masa: It might fully reveal itself in the coming times.// I want you to witness it all.//
You’re the one most suitable for this kind of job.// Of course, it might be dangerous but…//
I’m so glad to have you in Yagyou.
*{T.N= HAHAHA. Sen is blushing!!!}

Sen: Meaning, what Chief really wants to know is Karasumori’s true nature?

Masa: No./ To say it precisely…

(p10)
Masa: I want to know just how truly valuable Karasumori is.
*{T.N= Is Yagyou hit by recession too that Masa has to sell Karasumori?}

Masa: I hope the real price is something I consent to as well.

Sen: (…// Even though the contents are a little too… I finally got to hear him speak his mind…)
SFX: OHHHHHH~
Sen: Is that really OK? To let someone like me know…?

Masa: I’m counting on you.
Sen: Ah… yes…

(p11)
Sen: Oh yes! If Okuni’s men have met Yoshimori…// Does that mean they’re planning to move too?! What do you think, Chief…?

Masa: Ahh…// I guess…so?

Sen: (What the? They didn’t even tell you?!)
Shu: Sen-chan!

Sen: WHAT?!
Shu: Hakota-san is about to set off…

(p12)
Masa: Are you asleep?

It’s been so tranquil since those brats left…

Masa: I say, Kouya.//
You’re Karasumori’s type.
Kouya: What was that?!

Hakota-san: My little boy. Will you be ok when you’re alone?
Hakota: Yup! Don’t worry, Mama!

(p13)
Hakata: After all, I’m not alone!// And once Mama gets to a safe place, I’ll be more relieved!
Hakota-san: Really…?

Hakota: I will be more useful…!
Sen: Shu, don’cha think you should stay behind?
Shu: I think Sen-chan should be the one staying. / It’s so dangerous!

Hakota-san: Well then, Mama is going!// Don’t be picky with your food! Have a good meal later.
Hakota: Yes./ I got it, Mama!

Everyone: Thank you, Hakota-san!/ We’re counting on you.
Hakota-san: You guys take care too./ I’ll see you soon, okay?

SFX: Slam//
Quiet…

Hakota: MAMAAAAAAA!!
HEY, WAIT!// BEAR WITH IT, HAKOTA!!// SHE CAN HEAR YOU FROM OUTSIDE!

(P14)
!!

Fumiya+Ito: From today, we are transferred to support the policy against attacks to Karasumori.// Majinai Division, reporting!

Fumiya: …Huh?
Hakota: Mama…

(p15)
Finished?// Right. Good work.//
Kuku…// The gradual disintegration has been going well, Suigetsu.

Suigetsu: So, does that mean the arrival of// a new era for Karasumori?

SFX: Kukukukuku
I’m actually really looking forward to it.//
He actually thinks he can see the light of his howling?// Tsu! Suigetsu…

(p16)
Kuku…//Kukukukuku…

[The House of Dreams]

Servant: Hisaomi-sama.//
The details are unclear, but we managed to get information on the destruction of Urakai’s Research Centre.

Hisaomi: …../ Is that so?// Anyway, get someone to quickly// gather more information.
Servant: Yes.

(p17)
Hisaomi: Curse…//That bastard..!!//
He dares to mess with Urakai this far…!!//
How can I allow…//him to do as he likes…?!

(p18)
Akayashi: Message.//
Tomorrow night, the battle in Karasumori begins.// Be prepared.
Hiura: Understood...

[side text: The myriad of tension succumbing--- the time has come! Taking a break for next issue. On issue 19th, History’s biggest fight has finally…started? !]
*{T.N= Of course I'm not taking a break here. I'd been hiatus-ing for far too much that Kekkaishi fans are killing me.}

Translation: Kekkaishi 224

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:44:05 +0000

To avoid confusion, I decided to directly scanlate the diagram. I didn't thought I will do my translation until this extent.

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

(p1)
[side text: Yoshimori saw the similarities between the prophecy and Souji’s appearance, and so he is worried for his family now…]

Yoshi: (“The God of calamity, fully clad in a bloody stench…”)// If he’s the one who will bring calamity upon Karasumori…//
Father, are you alright?!//
He is…//
Hiura is the God of…

(p2)
[side text: BULL’S-EYE!]

Chapter 224: First Class Small Shrine

SFX: BANG

(p3)
SFX: Quiet----
Shuji: Wah!!// What happened, Yoshimori?!

Yoshi: Which idiot put a bucket out of nowhere, argh~~~~~~~~?!
Shuji: Ahh, it’s Hiura-kun.// He’s helping me wiping the corridor.

Yoshi: You~~~~~~~~(He’s truly the god of…~~)

Souji: I am sorry… Please forgive me.

(p4)
Shuji: It’s fine, Hiura-kun. After all, it’s Yoshimori who is careless. (AHAHAHA)
(Yoshi: WHAT?!)

Shuji: Yoshimori, you got to clean the spillage, please.
Yoshi: WHAT~~~~~~~~?! (Why me~?!)//
Dammit!// That bastard~~~~~!!

Shuji: Tonight is the best dinner I ever made!!// THE BAMBOO SHOOT FEST!!

Yoshi: Wow~ It looks good!~
Shuji: Fu fu fu.

(p5)
Shuji: Actually, those bamboo shoots/ are given by Hiura-kun.// Quick, be thankful!
Yoshi: WHA?!

Toshi: Thank you so…
Yoshi: Wait.Wait.Wait!~//
It might be poisoned. (SFX: Sniff, sniff)
Shuji: What did you mean by that?!

Yoshi: Well,/ why doncha try it first? (Try it!)
Shuji: Yoshimori!!

Souji: Roger.

Shuji: It’s fine, Hiura-kun. I’ve tasted it many times…
Souji: ……

SFX: munch, munch
Shuji: Ah.// So how’s the taste?

(p6)
SFX: Swallow

Souji: Speaking of which…// I don’t know how poison is tasted like…
Shuji: See./ I said there’s no poison in it…

Toshi: Rather than that, how’s the food?/ For me, I think it looks really really nice…(I’m digging in!)

Souji: ……// I think… it’s delicious.

Shuji: WOW, REALLY?!/ That’s great!~~~ There’s a lot more so eat as much as you want!!

(p7)
Tokine: Well then, Hakubi. Shall we start our patrol?
Hakubi: Ok.

(p8)
Souji: Patrol…?
Tokine: Huh?
Souji: I was ordered that once I’m here, I must listen to the orders of the Kekkaishi./ So what should I do?

Tokine: Ahh… Uh, let’s see…
Yoshi: That bastard! He stands so close to Tokine while they’re talking…

Tokine: Ok./ Let’s patrol together. I show you the way.
Souji: Roger.
Yoshi: HEY!!
Tokine: And Souji-kun…

Yoshi: Hey you! That guy is…
Tokine: We’re about the same age,/ so you can drop the formalities.
Souji: Formalities…
Tokine: That means you can be more causal with us.

Souji: ……..// Roger.

(p9)
Souji: Ah.//
I… under…stand…?
Tokine: (He’s sure reacting slow…)

Yoshi: Oi, I already told you he’s dangerous!
Tokine: But we don’t even know what kind of person he is.//
Maybe…// He was just ordered to be here,/ but he himself have no ill intention at all…

(p10)
Todoroki: So is that Hiura boy really related to the Shinyuuchi Hunting?
Makio: Hmmm…// But what Sen said didn’t have any backup at all.
Takemitsu: If so, what to do with the Headquarter Eviction Team?

Makio: I can’t make the judgment yet.// But let’s see how it goes first.

So that entire school is Karasumori…?

It looks rather tiny though…
So Karasumori belongs to the level of the Small Shrine.

(p11)
Heh./ Isn’t that great? This makes our job so much easier then.
But…/ Mount Ookubi is ranked among the highest of the first class Great Shrine, isn‘t it? The difference is a little too big. Don’t you think?
Right.

They do have a common point though./ It’s still a confidential matter. So in Urakai, it’s considered as an extremely important land that is under protection.

[“S“= Special]
The Shinyuuchi which are acknowledged with a “S”, are either have the capabilities to strongly influence other lands, or they possess unique characteristics that can‘t be seen.// Karasumori is a first class Small Shrine at its best./ But for a Small Shrine to obtain a “S”, this is the only place.

I bet this little Karasumori// must have amazing powers like the Great Shrines’.

Hmph~…

(p12)
All right. /Let’s start this right away.

Are you ready to go?
Yes. We’re all set.

Say,// how about the thing that can cover up our moves?

Don’t worry.
I’ve taught them properly.

(p13)
Yoshi: HEY!// Wait for me!

(p14)
Yoshi: Wah?!
Tokine: Kya!!
(p15)
Makio: What?!

Yoshi: Tokine!!

Tokine: Souji-kun…

(p16+17)
Tokine: What are those…?

Souji: Those Ayakashi. Should I eliminate them?
Tokine: Ah, Uh./ We got to be quick.

Souji: Roger.

(p18)
Tokine: Huh?/ Souji-ku…

Wait!!

Yoshi: You…

[side text: Yoshimori still couldn’t trust Souji after all…?!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 223

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:15:26 +0000

Translation: Kekkaishi 222

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:21:08 +0000

Sorry, Kekkaishi fans. It has been a long long time. I deeply apologise for my absense. I actually thought of giving up doing translation due to my hectic schedule, but I think I should at least make sure Kekkaishi catch up to the latest before I stop.

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

*{T.N}= Translator’s notes

*{T.N= "Shinyuuchi" means a protected divined land. Our Karasumori is a Shinyuuchi, for example.}

People who want to refer with the pictures, click here.

(p1)
Chapter 222: Support

[side text: The crack from last night is so taxing that it drained him?! It can’t be ….helped?]

(p2)
[side text: The central Shinyuuchi in the North-east has been hunted. According to the prophecy, Karasumori would be next. What to do, Yoshimori…?]

(Enough…//
I had enough…)

Kurosu: Ah!//
Not again…/What’s wrong with things lately? The chalk keeps breaking…

(p3)
Yoshi: OUCH!

Kurosu: You’re finally up, Sumimura.

Yoshi: ……// Sensei, did you say something?
Kurosu: Huh?
Yoshi: Something like “You had enough.” or whatsoever….//
HU~~H~~~?/It’s a dream~~?

Kurosu: Why don’t you pay attention to my class instead of your dream~?!
Yoshi: WAH~~~~~~~~!!(Don’t throw the chalk at me!)

(p4)
Sen: Yes./ Yes. Oh, starting from tonight?!//
No, it’s earlier than I expected so I’m grateful./ After all, I was feeling a little uneasy…//
Right. Anything else?//
?/ Yes…// Well then, tell me the details after reaching here…// I got it.//
Yoshimori./ Yoshimori!//
We got some supports from Yagyou coming tonight so…

(SFX: Snort~~~~~~~~~)

(p5)
Sen: Y.O.U!// How can you still sleep so well in this middle of the emergency?!
Yoshi: WAHH!!/ MY HEAD!!

Sen: Don’t you understand that anything could happen at this time?!// Did you get it or not?!
Yoshi: Erm…But the range is too big that… it‘s hard to understand, ya know…?

Sen: No matter what, the prophecy has already singled out a name!//Everyone knows that the next would be Karasumori!
Yoshi: But! It’s not that whatever is mentioned in the prophecy will all come true…

Sen: In fact, didn’t “the God of Calamity who fully clad in a bloody stench” had appeared?
Yoshi: Well…/ Is that really the God of Calamity…?
Sen: If that’s not a calamity, then what do you called it then?!

(Yoshi: What truly bothers me,/ is not the external circumstances, but with the happenings of Karasumori by itself…//
Until now, I still don’t get the meaning of the crack…)

(p6)
Sen: I say; the more you bother, the more things will crumble.// Nonetheless, danger will always approach. This, shall never be changed. //
So you must stay sharp.//
If not, that prophecy might really come true.

Sen: (100%?!)//
Rea…Really?! With that ratio…/ Is that even possible?!)
(Sazanami: Hey… You’re too loud.
So, in other words…//Unless the future can’t be change,/ or those words… won’t appear in the prophecy in the first place.)

(p7)
Sen: Those words…?//(And that image!)

Sazanami: Yup./ The possibility to avoid Karasumori’s destruction that you saw is still pretty high though.
Sen: (It can be avoided……!)// (I see…/It’s still a future that be changed then…!)

Sazanami: What’s more, didn’t a disciple’s lady has also appeared in Karasumori?// She belongs to an association of telepathic practitioners which follows the same rule. And they will only pick one person to predict the prophecy.

Girl: (The master is…)
Sen: (Come to think of it, she did mention the word “master”…)
Sazanami: However, the existence of this association itself, is kept in the strictest confidence…/ so it can be said that for the prophecy to be spread, is remotely impossible.

Sen: What…? Then how can this happened…?
Sazanami: I don’t really know the details./ But…

(p8)
Sazanami: Urakai which begins to shatter, is certainly a reality.

Sen: What…?!
Sazanami: The interior is shaking so much that/ the cracking sounds can be heard everywhere you go.//
Well for me…// I have no idea how much I’ve been on thin ice…/And I’m afraid that…//
If I don’t skate through all of these,// I won’t be able to survive…..

(p9)
Sazanami: Ha! Though you can say that I’ve made my bed and now I must lie on it…
Sen: Sazanami-san?!//
Saza…
Sazanami: My bad.//
There’s no point telling you all these.//
(Well, it’s decided that they send more support to Karasumori./ So just do your best then.)

HA~~LLO!
Todoroki: I’m Todoroki!~
Makio: Makio here!~
Takemitsu: Hi, this is Takemitsu.

(p10)
Todoroki+Makio+Takemitsu: IT’S BEEN A WHILE!~~~
Sen: I believe you guys’ve met before.// They’re from Yagyou Battle Troop.
Tokine: Hello…
(Hakubi: All guys…)

Takemitsu: We’re worth a hundred men!/ Anything happens, we’ll just wipe…
Makio: Ah, it might not be official,/ but I got a feeling that we have to hurry here…//
Actually…//
The main reason we came to Karasumori is not for the security reason…

Support from Urakai Headquarter?!

(p11)
Tokine: Why…?/ We didn’t ask for any assistance…
Yoshi: WHAT IS THIS?!
Makio: Well…This case is requested by the Headquarter…// Of course our chief wasn’t very pleased, but the dispatch has been decided by then.//
Well, even you guys wouldn’t be pleased too if the Headquarter intervenes, right?
Yoshi: Not really…

Todoroki: No worries. We’re here!
Makio: We’ll kick any fools who dare to mess with the Headquarter!
Takemitsu: And that’s why we’re here to back up you guys!
(The banner: The Headquarter Eviction Team)

Makio: As a whole, you got the full support due to our arrival./ By then, the headquarter won’t have the chance to intervene. And they can see us working as a great team, defeating the enemy.
(The Headquarter: What kind of combination is that?!)

Tokine(image): You don’t stand a chance at all, you useless brats!
Makio: Then we just have to be direct and firm with our words to send them back home.
(Yoshi: I see…)
Tokine: Why do I have to be the one to say those things…?

Makio: Anyway, no matter how strong the enemy, we will never give up./ And if we can’t work well together,/ we’d also prepared ourselves by strongly request to the Headquarter to withdraw our support.

(p12)
Sen: Don’t worry./ They might look like they’re kidding, but Makio-san is the leader of the Battle Troop./ He’s a reliable person who’s good in handling situations and giving accurate commands.//
The three of them are skillful and balance each other pretty well.

Sen: In Yagyou,/ Makio, who assists his comrades and issues commands, will be in the centre.//
Then we’ll go to our place by the side, solidify the formation that not only consists of our main offense, but with the defense too. //
The ones in the forefront are the dexterous fighter, especially the ones with cutting edge speed and power.// The strongest lineup in the Battle Troop…

Makio: Of course the decision lies with you.// But we’ll lend our hands if you ever need us.

Yoshi+Tokine: ……

(p12)
Yoshi: Karasumori will be protected by us.//
But,/ I’m really glad that others are willing to help us reach that goal.//
Thank you so much for the help!!
Makio: You’re welcome!

Tokine: Ah.

Yoshi: Ayakashi!
Madarao: And it’s a big one!
Makio: Oi, need a hand?
Tokine: No thanks. We’ll be fine.

(p13)
Yoshi: WAHHH?!

Makio: Oh my, what the heck is that?!

(p14)
Makio: Ah.// Could you be…

(p15)
By the order of Urakai Headquarter, I am here to guard Karasumori and assist the Kekkaishi.// I’m Hiura Souji.

(p16)
Makio: Wow, what a… bloody appearance.
Souji: Ah,/ is it my fault that I executed it?
Makio: No, no… Say, you’re alone?
Souji: Yes.

Makio: (This is not what I expected. I thought there’re only three of us./ Maybe he’s too good?
Todoroki: How old are you?
Souji: Fifteen.
Takemitsu: How did you make that move?

Tokine: Yoshimori?
Makio: Ah, pardon me. The dedicated Kekkaishi here are,/ the two over there.

Yoshi: (Those eyes…// No, I can’t be wrong. He’s the Shinyuuchi Hunting‘s…//
Why is he here…// Karasumori. Is he planning to…)

(p17)
Souji: I was ordered that I must protect Karasumori with all my life.// Pleased to meet you.

[side text: Eh?! Why…Why is he keeping a low profile…?!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 220

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:37:20 +0000

Hi. It has really been a while. This is my little early X'mas gift to all Kekkaishi fans.
Sorry to keep you guys waiting for SOOO long. I deeply apologize for my hiatus. Now that I'm more settled with my new job, I am more than willing to put my mind back on Kekkaishi again.

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

People who want to refer with the pictures, click here.

(p1)
Chapter 220: Evil Thought

[side text: He might just got a peek accidentally. Moreover, she was in the shower, so it wasn‘t exposed!! But this entire experience is just far too…
EXHILARATING!!]

(p2)
[side text: Yoshimori wants to acquire “A Man’s Leniency” in order to get Tokine’s attention. But the daytime’s incident is so innerving that he can’t hold on any longer…]

Habuki: Here it comes!

Maodaro: Hurry up, Yoshimori!// Or Tokiko’ll steal your prey again!//
!// Yoshimori.// Do not be distracted.//
A strong stench reeks from the tree.// That might be its true body.//
HEY! FOCUS!!!
Yoshi: YESSS!

(p3)
Yoshi: Focus…//
AHH~~!!
Maodaro: Yoshimori?!//
Ah!/ There goes the real thing!

SFX: Pop!

(p4)
[Tsubogokkai
[Although it possess a cloth-like body that can stretch itself endlessly, it would perish once its true form---the pot, is destroyed.]

Tokiko: Phew.

Maodaro: What the heck are you doing?!//
After all my hard work…!
Tokiko: Pardon me…//
But no matter who is the opponent,// you do not skimp in your work.

Yoshi: No way did I skimp in my work…!
Tokiko: Is that so?// What I see, is that your concentration is diverted.//
Or…//

(p5)
Tokiko: Do you have any evil thought?

SFX: EVIL THOUGHT
(Tokine: Oh no!~ The soap’d gotten into my eyes!~)

Yoshi: No!/ No!No!// NOOO!~// No such thing at all!!

SFX: Chip,chip…

Tokiko: I can see that you did not ease off, and has repeated your training seriously these few days.

(p6)
Tokiko: I have clearly felt your repentance./ Thus, the probation is released.//
In the future, I hope to see that kind of spirit in your work too.// You shall return to your post tonight.

Tokine: Yes!/ Thank you very much!//
Well then, I’m going off!~

(p7)
Tokine: Ah.

Yoshi: Ah…//
(Tokine: Oh no!~ The soap’d gotten into my eyes!~)

Tokine: Yoshimori. From now onwards, I…//
Huh?!/ Hey!// Wait up!/ The school is not over there…//
It can’t be…// He ran away…?

(p8)
Yoshi: SIGH~//
(What to do…?)//(Now I can’t even look at Tokine directly when I saw her~…)//
(In other words, I got no guts to see her at all~…)
Sen: Hey! What’s up?// Why are you sighing like a girl?//
You’re so weird recently./ Something pops up?
Yoshi: NO! NOTHING AT ALL!

Sen:……//
Come on. We’re friend, aren’t we? Spill them out when you have problems.// Doncha ya feel happier by then? [A little used manipulating him.]

Yoshi: ……/ Don’t tell anyone~ No one!
Sen: Nah, I won’t tell~ I’m a secret agent after all, so you can have my lips sealed.

(p9)
Sen: ……..//You mean, you peek at her when she’s bathing…//
You’re really really low, ya know?
SFX: Saying all flat out
Yoshi: WHA~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!! (You should say it in the nicer way, if we’re really friends!)

Yoshi: I didn’t do it on purpose!
Sen: Well./ In the first place, you who stepped into a prohibited area, is already a crime itself./ Not only that, you’re a stalker!// What’s more, if this is exposed, no doubt you’ll be out of the game.

Sen: You shouldn’t resort into this, even if you can’t easily win her heart.// Funny. And here you are, boosting about “A Man’s Leniency” and look at what you’ve done. (Pitiful!~)

Yoshi: (Am I…// really that horrible?!~~~)

Sen: So,// what do you think?
Yoshi: Huh?
Sen: You’d seen it, didn’t you?//
That woman is way bustier that she appears, right?
Yoshi: Wha…?!// How the hell did ya know?!

(p10)
Sen: I touched her during the trip to Tengu’s Castle. (Please refer to volume 19)/ By the way, I still think Vice Chief has a slimmer waist!
Yoshi: YOU’RE THE ONE WHO IS LOW~~~~~~~~!!

Madoka: So what happens with Yoshimori-kun?/ Did you try to rely on him?

Tokine: How to say this… It seems like he’s avoiding me…
Madoka: Eh?!// How come?!
Tokine: He’s still mad at me, I guess…//
That boy… We‘ve known each other since the day we were born.//And because he’s younger than me, he’ll always get lectured.// So no matter how much he’d helped me, I just couldn’t thank him genuinely…//
Even though I always know/ how hard he has tried… //
I do like to get a gift for him./ But looking at things now, I’m afraid we can’t even talk…

(p11)
Madoka: NO WORRIES!// As long as you thank him with all your heart, there’ll be a way!//
I know! If you’re getting a gift, it’s always good to give home-made stuffs.
Tokine: Home-made?
Madoka: As a girl, making dessert is still the ideal choice.

Tokine: Well, if it’s baking, he can just do it by himself…
Modoka: Alright! It’s a deal then!/ A home-made gift doesn’t appear extravagant, so a dessert that display cuteness and allure is the best!
Tokine: Ah. But I’d never done it before…
Modoka: As long as the thought is there, it’s fine even you’re not good at it!

Modoka: Plus, if you leave the trail of your hard work, such a feeling like “It’s all for my sake?” will burst all out.
SFX: [No sweat!]// [Evil grin]
Tokine: Ohh…

[Nighttime, The Karasumori School]

Maodaro: What’s wrong? Moping around again?/ What a pain in the ass.
(Yoshi: Sigh…)

[SFX: An abrupt meeting]
Tokine: Ah.

(p12)
Yoshi: TOKINE…?!//(Why is she here?!)

Tokine: Hi, Yoshimori.// My probation is released…//
So starting from today, I’m…//
SFX: Dash

Tokine: (He ran away again…!)// Wait…!//
Yoshimori!

Shu: Why is Yoshimori-kun running away? They got into a fight?
(Tokine: Please wait!)
Sen: Um~~~~~~// Is it because of the guilt and the shame?//
(Geez.// It isn’t even exposed, so why the need to run?)

(p13)
Tokine: I TOLD YA TO WAIT, DIDN’T I?!~~~~~~
Yoshi: AHH!

Tokine: Ah!//
Oh no!/ Yoshimori!// Are you okay?!//
Yoshimori!//
Yoshi…

(p14)
Yoshi & Tokine: I’M SO SORRY!!//
Huh?

(p15)
Tokine: Why are you apologizing?
Yoshi: AH./ Well…./ Ya know…//
Las…// Last time, I got too cocky and said something like relying on me a little more, but….//
I realized that I’m not the kind that deserves to be relied at all. I’m the most horrible person on earth…
Tokine: Wait…Wait up! What happened?!//
No. That’s not the case.
Yoshi: I’m really sorry for being the worst…
Tokine: No, really! It‘s not like this.
Yoshi: Uh-huh. Someone like me should…

Tokine: You’re not!// Your arrival to the Guillotine Island truly give me so much reassurance! Really!

Yoshi: Huh…?
Tokine: It’s because you’re strong.//And it’s also due to my expectation towards you, so I’m really glad when you came…

(p16)
Tokine: For coming all the way to save me,// I thank you from the bottom of my heart.//
Sorry for the belated gift.

Yoshi: Ah, it’s cream puffs.

Tokine: Actually…// I thought of baking them by myself, but…//
(Wha… What is this black slimy thingy…?)// I just can’t make them well at all…

(p17)
Tokine: My mum couldn’t stand it any longer, so in the end, she bought those for me…// Sorry.
Yoshi: It’s okay. I don’t mind.

Tokine: I‘d…/ never imagine that baking is such a difficult task…

(Yuugami: Do rely on him!
Madoka: You've got to rely on him!(Even if you just fake a bit!))

Tokine: ……..//
Next time…//Can you teach me how to bake?

(p18)
Yoshi: Oh,// Ok. //(Huh? This is…)

Tokine: (This is the most I can do for now…)

Yoshi: (This is a tad different from what I thought, but is she relying on me a bit now?!
(Yuugami: When she yields and starts to rely on you, the victory is all yours!)
Yoshi: I think I can see a little path to victory…)

Shu: Ah, Sen-chan!// Looks like they make up!
Sen: Hmph.//
(At the end of the day, those fools are like the two of a kind…)

[side text: Like their rashness, for example--- it’s certain that the two have a lot in common.]

Translation: Kekkaishi 219

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:24:54 +0000

This chapter is a great way for the pay-off. Fanboys, hold your horses. *nosebleed*:p

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(p1)
Chapter 219: Leniency

[side text: Troubled youth... And so the troubling times nurture the boy into a man.]

(p2)
[side text: What bothers Yoshimori after the return from Guillotine Island?]

Tokine: Ah.//
Yoshimori!
Yoshi:………..

Tokine: Yoshi…//
(Huh?/ Is he busy?)//
(Although I got the gist on most things from Granny,/ I would still have liked to ask him some questions about the situation in Karasumori during my probation…)

(p3)
Sen: What’s up?// What’s with the glum face?

Yoshi: Hey, Kagemiya…
Sen: Hm?

(p4)
Yoshi: "A Man's Leniency"… What is it really?
Sen: What the…?!//
Did you bump your head or something…?
Yoshi: So…Tell me. Leniency? What the heck is leniency?!//
The more I think about it, the more I don’t get it!
Sen: ……// By the way, why are you asking?

Yoshi: Uh-huh. It’s just that…//
If I got just that thing…// then maybe…Tokine would rely on me…

(p5)
Yoshi: Or could it only be a whisper from the devil, just to put me into a state of confusion?!//
Damn that four-eyed devil!! Curse you!
(Yuugami: AHAHAHA// Worship me!)[on his clothes: Evil]
Sen: (The four-eyed devil?)

(Yoshi: He must have got those devilish powers from his curly hair!)
Sen: ……..//
Say… Actually, I don’t find anything wrong with his words at all. But…
Yoshi: What?!

Sen: It’s impossible. // It’s a quality that little brats like us would never possess.

Yoshi: Nooo!/ Don’t concede defeat that easily!!
Sen: Impossible means it can’t be done. The end.

Yoshi: No. I really really need it. NOW!//
I know it’s impossible for me grow any taller right at this moment, but things like leniency, there must be a way! I’m sure of it!/ If I’m depended on, victory will be all mine!
Sen: What is there to win anyway…?!

(p6)
Sen: Well~~~/From the word itself, doesn’t it mean to display benevolence too?// In other words,/ it should bear the requirements of being gentle, confident and generous, right?

Yoshi: (That many?!)
Sen: To sum it up roughly,/ it should be someone who is able to give others the sense of security… But…//
Don’t you always love to making people feel anxious?

Yoshi: (I make people anxious…// How come…That…That means…)//
(It’s absolutely impossible?!~~~~)

(p7)
Sen: (No choice then~)// So the point is that you want to be relied on?// I've been invited for dinner with the Yukimura tonight./ So meanwhile, I can do some checking with her to see how dependable you are.

Yoshi: REALLY?!
Sen: Uh./ But this also means you owe me one.//
(But frankly, you can’t really say…//that woman didn’t choose to not depend on Yoshimori completely…)

-Well then. Next page…

Tokine: (Ah!)// (Perhaps this morning…)//
(Yoshimori…was mad at my attitude…?)//(Oh yes…/ He had gone all the way to help me, and yet, I didn’t…)

(p8)
Yoshi: (Yup~~~ You don’t rely on people at all.)// (You should rely on me a little more…)

Tokine: Madoka?//
Am I really the type/ that doesn’t rely on people?
Madoka: Eh?//
Uh…//You always give the feeling that you can work very hard just fine by yourself.
Tokine: I knew it…//
(And here I am, always telling him not to be rash.// Yet at the end of the day, am I the same…?)

(p9)
Madoka: Who said that to you?
Tokine: Er…

Madoka: Yoshimori-kun!// It’s Yoshimori-kun, right?~
Tokine: Well, I guess so…
Madoka: And what else did he say?

Tokine: He said to rely on him a little more,// and some other headstrong things…
Madoka: KYA~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!! (Aiya~♥)//
Please do it! You have to! You've got to rely on him! Please!
Tokine: Ehhh…(Too close…)//
But…
Madoka: Whatever will do…/ It’s fine even if you fake it!
Tokine: Fake it?

Madoka: Like my brother, for example. All I have to say is, “Please♥”. Then he'll reply, “It can‘t be helped then~”, and even with a face of glee!/ All you have to do is to act like you’re depending on him, and this is enough to make guys ecstatic!!
Tokine: Oh…?

(p10)
[The Yukimura]

Tokine: You! Wait up!//
You leave ginseng to the side again?!// Don’t be fussy when you’re eating!
Sen: I didn’t leave any to the side~/ See, Shu will eat them up.//
I feel uncomfortable if I eat ginseng.// Here./ It’s up to you, Shu.

Tokine: Ah!/ Even the mushrooms are left over!!
Sen: What’s wrong with that?! It’s not like mushrooms are that nutritious.

Tokine: You do'n't do what you want when you’re in someone’s house!!
Sen: That’s why I didn’t leave any leftovers at all!!/ It’s Shu!!
Mother: Please stop, you two…//(This is terrible…That is a very bad vibe coming from Mother-in-law!)

(p11)
Yoshi: Kagemiya!// So… How was it?// What did Tokine say?

Sen: Ah.// I forgot to ask.
Yoshi: WHAT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~?!//
YOU! What the heck are you doing?!~
Sen: No-no. I was caught with something troublesome so I got no time to bring it up.//
Speaking of this… Yoshimori, are you picky with food?
Yoshi: Huh?/ Not really…

Sen: In that case, it’s alright even if you don’t have leniency./ Right, Shu?
Yoshi: What the hell was that?!~ (What?! I feel like I'm being tossed around like a ball!)
Shu:?

(p12)
Sen: Karasumori is filled with all kind of dangers,/ so pay attention and get to work, Yoshimori.
Hakubi: (Honey~)
Yoshi: Now when Tokine is still in her probation and so isn't here, how can you tell me to cheer up? How?!//
Moreover, if I did a bad job, the old lady will chew me out more than Tokine does. Grr, that old lady~~~!!!
Madarao: It’s your own fault after all…

Sen: Well~ It’s not like we don’t understand why you’re so irritated…//
He’s called Yuugami, right? That guy…// He just escaped with Tokine for a few hours, and they were already getting along so well!
Shu: Huh?/ Is that true?
Sen: Whoa! That’s pretty dangerous.//
Those two people…// If they’re in a Hollywood movie, they’re surely canon! CANON!

(p13)
Sen: Good for you this ain’t a Hollywood movie then.
Shu: Yoshimori-kun…?

Yoshi: Tokine…

Tokine: (Once my probation is done…,// I have to thank Yoshimori properly…)

(p14)
Yoshi: It’s been three days since I saw Tokine./ I haven’t even see her on the scene at all… (What’s more, today is a school holiday.)// Don’t tell me that during these times,/ she has a Hollywood progression with that devil…? Noo!
(Yuugami: Flying to you with my devilish wings.)// (Tokine: Wow~♥)

Yoshi: Is she in the training hall…?// I don’t think she’s out yet…//
………..

Tokine: Phew.//
That’s it for the day.

(p15)
Yoshi: Huh?~ She’s not in the hall.//
Yo.//
I think her room is around here…//
Oh yes, I remember that I’ve sneaked into her house before when I wanted to see her…//
Hey!// Hey!//
Ah!// Tokine!

(p16)
Yoshi: And come think of it, it’s THAT OLD LADY~!!
Tokiko: HOOLIGAN!!~//
Yoshi: (And so I was caught by that old lady and it turned out so bad…//
Oh.// The window over there is open for a bit…

(p17)
Tokiko: HOOLIGAN!!~~~~~~~~~
Yoshi: (YIKES!!)//
Damn! How come it ended up into this again?!// No way! If I’m discovered right now, it’s not going to be that easy anymore!

(Tokiko: Hooligan!~~~)//
YOU BETTER COME OUT, NOW!!
Yoshi: (Who would really come out?!)//
(That’s too bad…I thought I could at least catch a glimpse of her…/ Better luck next time…// Huh?

(p18)
Tokine: Looks like something happened to Granny…She sure is noisy…/ I wonder what’s going on…?

Yoshi: AH…

[side text: Wha..What will you do, Yoshimori?!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 218

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:51:41 +0000

This chapter makes me smile like crazy.<_>
And woohoo, this is the end of the arc!!! Byebye, Yuugami! :scry

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(p1)
Chapter 218: Wilfulness

[side text: In this way, they can return to Karsumori. Return to life as it used to be.]

(p2)
[side text: Yashiro's suicide, and knowing that the mastermind is another person brings the curtain down for now .Yoshimori kept his word and protected Tokine!!]

(Sen: Ouch!)
Yoshi: Tokine!
Tokine: Hm?
Yoshi: Are you sure you're okay?
You seem so squidgy...
Tokine: What do you mean by squidgy?!

Yoshi: Look! Even your feet are bare! Here, wear my shoes.
Tokine: No way! I don't want to wear the shoes that you wear barefooted!

Miki: Tokine-chan.//
You’ve made such a mess yourself./ It must have been tough being alone,// so please, take this pair...

(p3)
Miki: Don’t worry. I will carry Kagemiya when we return. // that kid has a habit of wearing socks. /
Here!
Tokine: Thanks…

Yoshi: Tokine! Tokine!//
I remembered to bring some plasters along...
Tokine: It‘s ok, Yoshimori…//
And Hatori-san too.../I'm alright already./Because that man has been helping me...

(Tokine: That’s fast!)
Miki: Hello. Thank you so much for your help.../I'm Tokine's acting-guardian for the custody transfer. My name is Hatori Miki.//I belong to the Urakai Operations Team, Yagyou
SFX: Smiles
Yuugami: You’re most welcome./ I’m Yuugami Kiyoderu, a member of the Urakai Prosecution Office, Special Investigation Team.

Miki: I would greatly appreciate it if you could throw a little light on the situation...

(p4)
Yoshi: Huh~? Where did I put it?
Tokine: (packed for a trip?) I told you I'm fine...

Yoshi: A-HA!~ Look!/ That’s the antiseptic!
Sen: (So I've been dumped to the side...)

Tokine: Ah!/ Oh yes! What about Karasumori?!
// Isn’t it night already?!
Yoshi: Karasumori?//
Hm~~~…/ I guess Gramps will sort it out, somehow?
Tokine: You...You left Karasumori behind, just like that?//
Protecting Karasumori is our…
Yoshi: It’s O.K. / Gramps always says that he will never retire./ Granny will be around as well
Tokine: Excuse me…?/ What kind of irresponsible attitude is that?!

Yoshi: Hey, come on~ For now, that sort of thing should…
Tokine: THAT SORT OF THING?!

(p5)
Tokine: ………// (What good am I doing here...?)//
Why don't you.../ever reflect on/ the importance of your duty...?

Sen: Oi, stop…
Yoshi: Shut up!!//
Didn't I tell you that the thing I want to protect//Isn't Karsumori?!!

Sen: (…oh?)
Yoshi: What/ I want to protect is~~~~~~~~~~~~//
…………..

(p6)
Yoshi: Why are you still getting mad at me, even now...//when I came all this way to save you...//
You know?/You were so strange yesterday.//
It was because of me that you were cornered into killing the god./And yet, you smiled...//
Normally, you would be flying off the handle…// I, I thought that I'd been so stupid to the point that you'd giving up on me. I was so worried!//
When I heard that you had been taken away by the Prosecution Office,//my heart was about to explode. Ever since, I've been wondering what I'd do, if you never returned...

(p7)
Yoshi: A life without Tokine. It's something that I've never experienced.//
‘When that happens, what will I become?’ I kept thinking about it...//
And so...//I became even more confused...//
It must be,/ that if you're not by my side, scolding me for my mistakes,
I would----------------//
So please don't disappear all of a sudden ever again!
Please!

Sen: (A tearful confession?)

(p8)
Tokine: Heh.
Yoshi: Oh?

SFX: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yoshi: Wha..//What’s so funny?!

Tokine: Because, because it just shows how headstrong you really are!
Yoshi: Head…
Tokine: You shove aside your duties just like that/ and then you want me to be angry at you, and the very next moment you tell me not to be...

SFX:AHAHA/ AHAHA
Yoshi: Stop…/Stop laughing already~…

Tokine: Sorry.// I can’t help it!

Yoshi:………
SFX: AHAHA HAHAHAHA

(p9)
Yoshi: Well,//You should be headstrong too!!
In that case...//we'd be equal!
Yup~~~ You don’t rely on people at all.//
And so, you see~…//
Like me, for example, when I wanted to come here.../
Though I said tons of headstrong things to a lot of people, and was always depending on them//
But somewhere along the way, I understood something./I'm glad I asked for help.//
In other words,

(p10)
Yoshi: You should rely on me a little more…// that’s… because… if you don’t do that, we won't be equal…

Tokine: Hm…// Uh…

Yoshi: When we’re equal,// I believe that you and I can be ….//
Clos…er..our distance…uh…zap like crazy…zoom-zoom.(mutters, mutters)
Tokine: Eh?/ What?
Sen: Yoshimori.// Come here.//
Are you an idiot?!// How can you mumble at such an important time?!
Yoshi: But, but…I…//
Huh? Kagemiya, your injury is okay already?
Sen: TOO LATE FOR THAT!!
Yoshi: GYA~~~~~~

(p11)
Yuugami: A freshman, indeed.// Your Prince Charming.

Tokine: HA?! Prince Charming?!
Yuugami: Mmm~ And your heart is cleansed.
Tokine: Eh,/ Wait a sec. What are you rambling about?!

Yuugami: Didn’t he rescue you in a pinch?
Tokine: Well, that’s true. But…// why does my prince have to be that shortie? Don't say such weird things.

Yuugami: Really…?// But, I feel that / he’d make you open up for a bit.//
From someone like me,// it’s an approach that ‘high-class’ people would never achieve.//
He easily opened a new window for you// in the room in which you'd unconsciously shut yourself.

(p12)
Yuugami: For your case, it’s the sense of responsibility.// When that idea becomes too strong,/ it can often bind people down//
But/ you do feel a little lighter when you talk to him, don't you?//
Saving the princess who is captured…//
That's the job of a prince, isn't it?

(p13)
Yuugami: Saikaku.//
I assume you know by now, everything leads back to Yashiro…

Saikaku: After my judgment, everyone will be found innocent and acquitted.// Yuugami-san, please visit the medical office for your injuries./ The arrangements will be made for the others to leave the island at once. //
For the rest, I will handle it myself.// That will do.
(Saiko: Huh? What am I doing here?)

Yuugami: … …That sure is rude./ So what you meant is, you won’t be delving into the matter any further. Right?
Saikaku: Actually, That is the biggest compromise I can give, as the Islands's caretaker.

Yuugami: Hmph…// (There is still a person imprisoned here…?)

(p14)
Sen: I say,/ it’ll be better if you tell her as soon as possible…
Yoshi: Huh?

Sen: Doing just this for that girl is plain not simple, ya know?!// Although you let that chance slip by,/ tell her “I like you” now!
Yoshi: LIKE…//
(Wha..wha..What did you say?!)
(Sen: Enough! Now do it!)
Tokine: Yuugami-san…are you feeling alright?// It's fine, you don't have to send us off. You should head off for your treatment quickly...

Yuugami: Ahh. I’m fine.// Also, that ‘I can’t walk much anymore.” line is a lie.
Tokine: Lie?!//
Wh..Why did you lie to me…?!
Yuugami: Heh./ In the end, you’re still a child.// A mature man will tell some lies depending on the situation!/ Be careful!

Tokine: Don’t point at me!
SFX: Slaps
Yuugami: Ouch!/ Don’t beat me!!
Yoshi: (Ah,/ why do they look so lovey-dovey, huh?! AH?!
(Sen: See, see!)

Yoshi: HEY!!

(p15)
(Sen: GO!!!)
Yoshi: Y…//You…

Yuugami: Listen, boy.
Yoshi: Oh?

Yuugami: Although that girl is a hard worker,/that aspect of her won’t easily be revealed to people, am I right?
Yoshi: U…Uh…?
Yuugami: So when she is trying too hard in her tasks,/ there are times when even she misses somethings, right? //

That moment is the best chance!
Yoshi: !
Yuugami: You have to find it. And then you lend her your hand without a single word!// When you do so,/ remember to act like you appreciate her efforts deeply. Never forget that!

(p16)
Yuugami: I’m only telling saying this to you./ Women have no resistance against "A Man's Leniency"//
Mark my words, and ‘A Man’s Leniency’ will be right in your very sight!// Come on! Try saying it yourself. LENI.EN.CY!
Yoshi: Lenien…
Yuugami: Too soft!//
When a girl like her who doesn't easily show her weaknesses starts to yield and is willing to rely on you…/ the victory is all yours.//
GOOD LUCK!

(Yoshi: Is he…a foe…or a friend..?)// (He might be a devil…)
Sen: The boat’s here. (You’re hopeless.)

Tokine: Well, Yuugami-san,// I don’t know how should I thank you…

(P17)
Yuugami: It’s really alright, you know? Thanks to you, I didn’t become a floating corpse.
Tokine: No-no…

Yoshi: (What the heck are they talking about…?!)

Yuugami: Do rely on him./ That headstrong prince.

Tokine: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING!

(P18)
Yuugami: Goodbye, my princess.//
And so,/ the Seaweed Prince is heading for the medical office. (Heehee.)

Yoshi: Oi!//
That’s why I’m asking. What the hell did that devil whisper to you?!
Tokine: What? What devil?~

Yoshi: I can feel that he said something really really scary…
Tokine: Don’t.ask.me.~

Yoshi: Tell me!
Tokine: Nope~

[side text: The end of the Guillotine Island Arc!! Next Issue, Yoshimori discovers leniency…at last?!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 217

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:53:39 +0000

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[Last Edited: 10th Nov 2008]
[Proofread by sillyblob]

(p1)
[side text: Shattered by Kekkai!!! This is the punishment for making Tokine shed a [single?] tear.]

Yashiro: (How come…// My greatest attack is…)//
You little brat…// You…You shouldn’t be able to see it, right?!// Why…

(p2)
Chapter 217: Revolution

[side text: Brave in the face of a telepathic practitioner!!]

Yashiro: No!

Yoshi: I can’t see it~ But,// the closer I move, the more I can feel it…// It’s like that huge bird from before…//
What is it?

Yashiro: Damn…

(p3)
Yashiro: Um…//Ugh.// Damn you…!//
Saikaku, stop him!!// If it’s your power, it might work.// Hurry up!!!

Saikaku: ……// Sorry.

Yashiro: You…// How dare you say that…

(p4)
Yashiro: Wha…// The knife broke…?!
SFX: Startled
-YASHIRO-SAN!!

Tokine: Yuugami-san…?
SFX: Slowly
Yuugami: What is your aim?

(p5)
Yuugami: Is it…// related to the *Shinyuuchi Hunting?//
You wanted her to be brainwashed,// so that she can commit the hunting?

*{T.N= "Shinyuuchi" means a protected divined land. Our Karasumori is a Shinyuuchi, for example.}

Yoshi: The Shinyuuichi Hunting…//
Are you…// an ally with the criminal of the Shinyuuchi Hunting…?

(p6)
Yashiro: Stop.

Yoshi: Do anything further,// and you will be smashed to smithereens just like that bird.//
Answer me.

Yashiro: Ugh…//Ughhh…

(p7)
Yashiro: AH…

Yoshi: Huh?

(p8)
Miki: They’re still coming…// It's time for them to stop already.

Sen: Vice-Chief, //Looks like it’s going fine down there!// The enemies are quite concerned by Yoshimori…//
VICE-CHIEF, BELOW US!!

(p9)
Sen: AH~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!! (Kekkai~~~~~~~!)

Miki: Kagemiya, hold on tight!

SFX: Ohhh~
Sen: (Vice-Chief waist is so slim~~!!)//
Say, Vice-Chief!// It’s not flying up!/ We’re falling!/ We‘re falling~!!

Miki: (It’s still won’t work…)// (I guess these black wings can only be used to attack…)

(p10)
Sen: WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH//
(No, we can somehow fall sideway if we try!// If we can just land onto the water…)//
What?!/ It’s directly on the land!!//
(Damn, I've got no choice then!!)// Vice-Chief,/ leave your wings open, and then roll up your body as small as you can!!)

(p11)
Miki: Kagemiya, are you okay?!

Sen: Ah…So-so…// I’m an *Ayakashi Majiri, so I can take this, more or less …

*{T.N= "Ayakashi Majiri" is a half monster/demon,half human.}　

Miki: (Huh~~~~) Excuse me! How can you be alright? Your voice is disappearing!!// Wait a sec. I'll just…
Sen: Wah!/ Vice-Chief! Don’t fold your wings yet!/ We’re falling again!!

(p12)
- She’s dead.

Yoshi: But, I didn’t do …anything…
Saikaku: No, / it seems more like she killed herself…

Yuugami: Hmph.// It could be a program for removing any evidence.//
When she’s left with no path to escape,// she'll attempt suicide before she reveals too much…

(p13)
Yuugami: I keep getting this vibe that there’s someone around, giving her instructions.// Maybe they think that someone who is programmed is a better choice…

Tokine: So the mastermind is another person?
Yuugami: Ahh.// I believe that person also gave the instruction for you to be brainwashed.//
Perhaps…//it’s highly possible that Yashiro is the one who was brainwashed in the first place…

Yoshi: ………//
Uh…You see~~/ Speaking of this, I met a guy this morning in Hidagou. /It seemed as though he were the criminal of the Shinyuuichi Hunting…
Yuugami: What?!

(p14)
Yuugami: I see…
Tokine: Is that true, Yoshimori?!
Yoshi: He…/might be the ally of this fellow here…//
Although he was masked and he didn’t speak a word at all.// But somehow, I got this really strange feeling from him…//
Eyes…// like a dead man…

Yuugami: Phew~~~//
Something else that bothers me is the enhanced ability.
Tokine: Enhanced ability?

Yuugami: Based on my research beforehand,// Yashiro-san shouldn’t have that extent of power.

(p15)
Saikaku: Yashiro-san said that…//
If you have allies,// you will be granted with power,/ and so, you can be spared…

Yuugami: ?!/ Spared?//
The Shinyuuchi Hunting is not her only aim?!

Saikaku: Destroy everything in the past.// And then Urakai will undergo a revolution./ That’s what she said.
Yuugami: The past…?//
So that means,/ the real intention is the revolution of Urakai. /The Shinyuuchi Hunting is only an accessory?
Saikaku: Well, I don’t really know the details myself…

Yuugami: …….//
Hmph.// I feel nauseated on the inside!

(p16)
Yuugami: Who cares if they’re going destroy the past or what./ Those idiots who make that kind of choice…// will never ever have a future!

Yoshi: (Really, Who is it…// making all this fuss…?)

(p17)

(p18)
SFX: Rolls

[side text: Is that the guy who attacked Yoshimori during the day?!

Tokine: (Oh yes… The loophole in the forest which can give us access to the outside world…)

Miki: Tokine-chan!/ Yoshimori-kun!
Tokine: Hatori-san?!
Yoshi: Wah?!// What’s wrong with Kagemiya?!

Guy: So he’s from the…//Sumimura family…?

Translation: Kekkaishi 216

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:53:44 +0000

Funny... I didn't know Yashiro is a "she" until this chapter. This reminds me of Kagemiya... :p

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(p1)
Chapter 216: Yashiro

[side text: From Tokine’s brainwashing to Yuugami’s ambush. The mastermind behind the scenes, Yashiro’s appearance reeks of an oppressive air!!]

(p2)
[side text: Enjouji Saiko who pursued Tokine has been repulsed by Yoshimori. The loophole is within their very eyes, until Yashiro appears…]

Yuugami: No. Do not battle.// Take her with you, and leave this place at once.//
That black-clad woman is dangerous.// You must not get close to her.

Yashiro: Yuugami…// Indeed I can’t just stabbed you with a dagger so to make haste./ I should have squash your head firmly as well.

-Wait!

(p3)
Saiko: Yashiro…/ Those are my preys.// Interfere and there goes your head too.

Yoshi: (We’re surrounded?!)

Saikaku: Ne-san…
Yashiro: Step aside, Saiko./ If I let you handle them, they will run away once more.

Saiko: Didn’t ya hear me…?

(p4)
Saiko: I say don’t interfere!!

Saikaku: Ne-san, stay away!

Yuugami: ……..!!!
Yoshi: What‘s up?/ That woman just fell all of the sudden…

Yuugami: (It can’t be…!// Yashiro’s power is still effective within such a distance?!)

(p5)
Saikaku: Ah…//
Ahh… ….

Yuugami: Listen close, boy.// Ditch the plan to escape.// We’ll have to fight.
Yoshi: ?!

Yuugami: Yashiro-san is a telepathic practitioner.// If others do not possess similar power as her,// neither they can see it nor read her moves.//
Strike while the iron is hot.// Aim for her head…

(p6)
Yoshi: Huh…?

Tokine: Yuugami-san!!

Miki: What’s wrong, Kagemiya?!
Sen: Eh…//
I ain’t certain with Yoshimori’s side,// but it does looks like things are getting stranger…

(p7)
Sen: (That is…// a bird?)//
(In a flash, Miss Sickle-and-Chain is…)//
(Don’t talk about telepathy, this is an attack that even I’ve never seen before…// And why is Miss Sickle-and-Chain being the first assaulted?! Aren’t they allies?)//
(Oh no. No matter what, it means trouble.)//
(Especially for Yoshimori and co.,//whom I afraid that they might not be able to see the bird at all……)

Tokine: Yuugami-san!// What’s going on, Yuugami-san?!
Yoshi: Oi,/ are ya okay?!

(p8)
Yuugami: Ugh…// Ughahh…

Yoshi: Oi, what the heck is a telepathic practitioner?!
Tokine: Telepathic?!
Yuugami: UGHAHHH!!

Tokine: Yuu…
Yashiro: You better stop moving already.//
It’s all your fault, little twat. // If you didn’t escape in the first place, / things wouldn’t be in such a bad shape…

Tokine: …What did you do to Yuugami-san?
Yashiro: Beats me.//
But if you’ve chose to be a good girl and listen to me…//
Perhaps then, it would not have to…//
End up worse than this…!

(p9)
Yuugami: UGHAHHHHHH!!
Tokine: Yuugami-san!! //(What is it, really? What is the thing doing to him?!)//
Please, stop! I beg you!// This man is…

Yashiro: I’ve said it already, didn’t I? Just do it as I told you.// You inexplicable child.//
Well then, let me explain in a simpler way. // In this place, everyone, except you is a hostage.//
Therefore, it’s because of you,// that everyone here has to be killed without an explanation. //
If you like to save them…

(p10)
Yashiro: Then shut up,// and accept my brainwashing.//
You’ve already caused such a disruption.// So if you don’t leave a gift behind,// that would be too disgraceful for you, no?

Yuugami: (A gift…?)

Tokine: Yoshimori!/ Don’t move! No!!//
(What should I do…? That Sickle woman was beaten immediately.// I can’t read her moves at all.//)// (If I listen to her, she’ll certainly make use of me and drags more innocent people into it.// But if this goes on, Yoshimori and even Yuugami-san will…)

(p11)
Yashiro: The brat beside.// Looks like you’re a Kekkaishi too.

Yoshi: …….// So what?

Yashiro: You look fine as well.//
Do you want to take her place for the brainwashing instead?

Tokine: Ah…//(It has always been my fault…)//
I’ll do it…// (The lowest risk…// is to allow myself to be captured…)//
(So everyone will be released…)
Yoshi: Tokine…?

Tokine: (And before I was brainwashed,)// (I’ll kill myself…)

(p12)
Yuugami: Don’t tell me you’re thinking of sacrificing yourself?//
If so, I rather you fight back.// Sink or swim, go for it. While she’s still focusing her attack on me, / strike together with the boy.//
It’s you, so I’ll be alright.// To my knowledge, you’re really a brave girl. You know?

Tokine: I…No! Don’t say things like “I’ll be alright”…

(p13)
:yelling

(p14)
:yelling

(p15)
Tokine: ……..?!

Yoshi: What have…// you done?

Yashiro: Wha…

Tokine: (Could it be a move…//that any telepathic attacks wouldn’t work// when the user is being completely eluded from the rest of the world…?!)

(p16)
Yoshi: It’s because of you who uttered some unfathomable words//that you’ve made Tokine cry.

Yoshi: Uh…// Ugh…

(p17)
Yoshi: You said that you would get rid of that glasses dude in an instant…//
But I will never consent to this…

(p18)
Yoshi: I told you it won’t work already, didn’t I?!

[side text: Shatter!!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 215

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:42:21 +0000

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(p1)
Chapter 215: Resistance

Saiko: Well, well. Let’s wrap up the Island Chase./ The execution has begun. // Although the only thing you did is escaping, the act itself is a serious crime.----------//And the worst of all is that you’ve toyed with me.//
So I shall play with you till my heart’s content!!

(p2)
Saiko: First of all, / catch this sickle at once!

(p3)
Tokine: (Her arm stretched?!)

Saiko: Too bad.

(p4)
Saiko: This sickle of mine gives my arms a great benefit during the interval… // So don’t ya think you can just get away that easily!!//
Hmph, a bundle of nerves…

Tokine: Ketsu!// Ketsu!

(p5)
Saigo: Fufu…// Cute, aren‘t you?// But you can never destroy the path of my Sickle-and-Chain even with that techniques of yours… //
It’s no use, pussycat!!
Tokine: Gya!!// Ahh!!

(p6)
Tokine: Yuugami-san!!//
Stop! This has nothing to do with him at all!!

Saiko: Oh~ Such heroic words you’ve said.// Anyway, isn’t he just a man for you to take advantage of?

-Stop that filthy imagination.

(p7)
Yuugami: Apropos,/ is there anything do you like? //
I can do anything for you.// With conditions, of course.

Saiko: Hmph, a trade?/ Nah, I reject. You mean other than taking your lives away?
Yuugami: Uh-uh.//
Other than taking her life away.

Saiko: Really…// You pissed me off so much.

(p8)
Saiko: My Sickle-and-Chain, /will let your rotten mouth unable to spout for eternity!! //
Ugh!!

Yuugami: Now. Run!!

(p9)
Yuugami: ?!// ?// Cough!

Tokine: Quick!/ You head for the loophole first!
Yuugami: Wha…//
What the heck are you doin’?! I told you to run, didn’t I?
Tokine: Alright, alright!

Yuugami: Think about it carefully. There is no way of winning if you were to face her directly!// Basically, that woman is invulnerable!//
I even used my tie to counter with all my strength, and it still didn’t work…
Tokine: Enough!

(p10)
Tokine: You…// don’t have to make it this far for me.//
I’ll be alright.// But I don’t have the strength to protect you anymore…// So please, I beg you. Get out of here quickly…

Yuugami: …Hmph.//
I mentioned to you that back in my home, the Shinyuuichi Hunting has taken place, yes? //There is still more for that story.//
My sister has passed away. //A few days after our Shinyuuichi is been robbed, she lost her purpose and then commit suicide.//
The last word I heard from her on the telephone is,// “I’ll be alright.”

(p11)
Yuugami: …….This is for my sake.//What’s more, I couldn’t stand to see people dying, just because of all these silly plots. //
So it’ll be the best for you to just ignore me.// First and foremost, I’ve lost too much blood when I’m in the coma./ So I can’t walk much anymore.

Tokine: No…// Don’t say things like that…
Yuugami: Enough.//
You don’t have to make it this far for me.

(p12)
Tokine: Ketsu!!
(A threefold Kekkai.)// This is the best I can do for now…)

Saiko: Stop being so lovey-dovey with one another// all the time!!

Tokine: (Focus…Gather all my power on the Kekkai.)// (If I don’t even defend against such illogical incident, then I…!!)//
(After all, Yuugami-san has done nothing wrong!)//(So I must protect him no matter what happens.)//
(Please, give me strength…)

(p13)
:yelling:p:yelling:p:yelling:p

(p14)
Yoshi: I did say that if you did anything to Tokine,// I will never forgive you. Didn’t I?

Tokine: Yoshi…mori?

(p15)
Yoshi: Tokine?// Are you hurt?

Tokine: No.…// But why…?

Yoshi: That’s great.//
Really, you~ You were taken away so abruptly that /you gave me such a big fright…//
…Hm?

Sen: Why did you allow Yoshimori to go,/ Vice-Chief?//
It’s dangerous to let that guy out of the leash by himself!!

(p16)
Miki: No matter what, Yoshimori-kun/ is at the verge of his patience. // So it’s better for him to do whatever he wants to.
Sen: But…

Miki: The child wants with all his heart is to meet her…//So I want them to reunite as soon as possible.

Sen: Well, that is…something I can understand a little…// but…//
What will happen to us then?/ We’re stuck in the midair.
………

SFX: Blinks
Tokine: Yoshimori! I don’t know what’s going on, but we’ll talk later!/ With the extent of the attack, that person will get up in any minute so…/ let’s move!
Yoshi: Huh?/ It’s just, uh, who’s that guy…?
Tokine: Hurry up!
Yoshi: I got ya!

Yuugami: Oi…
Tokine: (Let’s get Yuugami-san to a safe place for the least…)

Yoshi: Wait!// I really don’t know about the details, but let me carry that guy instead!!(Let me do it!)

(p17)
Yoshi: Uh-huh…? How did it all turns out into this…?

Yuugami: You… Perhaps you’re the Sumimori from the next door?
Yoshi: Yup~ So what?
Yuugami: You’re coming here after her?
Yoshi: Yup~ So what?

Yuugami: I see…

Tokine: Yuugami-san!// The loophole should be around here!

!!

(p18)
Yashiro: That’s it for your drama.

Yuugami: Yashiro-san…

Yashiro: I, too// is a very busy person…//
So allow me to// ring down the curtain on it a little earlier.

Translation: Kekkaishi 214

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:02:58 +0000

I've been busy lately, but I will still try my best to be faster so we can catch up.
Anyway, if you pay attention, you'll realize this chapter's title has the same title as Chapter 212. It ain't typo error on my behalf.:p

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(p1)
[side text: Sen confirms Tokine and his position from the sky. The two of them, who are shaking off their pursuers.]

Yuugami: All I can think now, is to head for the loophole straight away…//
However, it does seems that we have to enter the forest in order to cross the First Island…
Tokine: Huh?//
But didn’t you said that the forest’d been cast with spells…?
Yuugami: I’m an employee in this place, so I’ll be excluded./ The problem is you, who is the outsider……//
Basically, the spells in the forest are the types that confuse all your five senses. //
Hence from this moment onwards, do not believe in your feelings.// Believe only in my hands and we can get this through together.

(p2)
Tokine: Ah……….

[side text: They are the fugitives. Alas, they must never waver.]

Chapter 214: Loophole

(p3)
Yoshi: Where, Kagemiya?!// Where’s Tokine…?!

Sen: She disappeared…//
Yoshi: Disappeared?!
Sen: She was led into the forest by a man in white…

Yoshi: Who??? A man in white?!
Sen: I don’t know~!!// How the heck would I know that?! Don’t ask me!//
Calm down! At least we know she’s fine now…

Yoshi: Tokine!//
Tokine!// Tokine!~
Sen: Gah. No matter how much you scream, she just can’t hear ya!~

Yoshi: TOKINE~~~~!!!

(p4)
Tokine: (That feeling before…)//
(Could it be that boy…?//So that means Yoshimori is here too…?)//
(But,// it might just be me…)//
(It’s only…//a happy thought that I want to believe in…)

(p5)
Tokine: Yuugami-san!/ Yuugami-san!!//
The trees!/ The trees!// I can sense that the trees are chasing after us!!
Yuugami: You imagined it!

Tokine: So!/ They do look like this because of the spells?!
Yuugami: Ahh./ The enemies are way wackier than you thought./ Besides, the number would increase if we fight them. So do take care.
Tokine: This surely can’t be my imagination!//
Wait up… I’ve been feeling that my feet below are muddy since a while ago…
Yuugami: It’s definitely not muddy at all!!//
Argh, jeez!// You leave me no other choice!!

(p6)
Tokine: Ah!

Yuugami: Close your eyes and cover your ears.// It’ll be better if you’re able to hold your breathe.

Tokine: But…
Yuugami: It’s alright. You’re acting like a log, waiting to be hold./ So I shall pretend that I’m running with a log as well!

Tokine: A log…?!//
(Eh…Wait./ If the spells would only work on my senses,/ then all I have to do is to separate myself with the outside world…)//
(Perhaps with my Kekkai,// it might work even better against the forest’s spells…)

(p7)
[The Second Island]

Saigo: Those bastards…// I’ll never forgive them…//
From the beginning, I should have/ annihilate all the women who are younger than me, and the men who stick up to them from the face of the earth.

(p8)
[The Third Island]
Saikaku: It’s Ne-san. She haven’t caught them yet…?/ They’re sure messy to deal with…//
All the Shikigami have been destroyed.// For the time being, I want you to clean up the reception.//
I have to do something about those three invaders as well.//
But before that…// I need to track down that lady who escaped…

(p9)
[Map: The First Island]
SFX: Burns

Saikaku: (What…?// She’s traversing the First Island…?)//
(Neither did she look hesitated…// nor she’s running in circle…)
(Where is she going indeed…?// What is her intention?)// (According to the direction she’s moving,/ she’s dashing towards the edge of the island…)//
(The edge of the island?!)// Is she…?

Yashiro: Is that girl// heading for the “loophole”?

(p10)
Saikaku: Yashiro-san?!
Yashiro: Let me take a good look.
Saikaku: Wait a sec! Please, stop!//
You’ll tear it…
Yashiro: (Why…Why does that girl know the path to escape….?!)//
………// (Yuugami…?)// (That dude…I thought he looks like he know nothing, so I assigned him with me during the deployment…)

Saikaku: …….// What’s a loophole?// And Yashiro-san,/ wasn’t your left arm injured…?

Yashiro: No need to play dumb.// You, the Enjouji Clan takes charge of this island before the Prosecution Office is even established./ Don’t tell me you know nothing at all.//
This can’t be helped then. I shall deal with it myself./ Bring me to that place right now.
Saikaku: Uh-huh. That’s why I don’t get what you meant….

(p11)
Saikaku: ?!// UGH…

Yashiro: You heard me.// And here I thought you guys can finish it quickly, so I passed the task to you….

(p12)
Yashiro: Either that girl is to be brainwashed, or to be killed at once. Those’re the only two choices and nothing else.// And here you are, allowing her to gain some secret information, and she even escaped; that’s the hardest to be dealt with.
Saikaku: Ugh…//Argh…//My head…

Yashiro: Saikaku.// Aren’t you the island’s recorder?//
In order to record the truths happening in this unincorporated island,// your eyes and your brain are modified to analyze the news in a split moment…//
And, I do know someone/ who has the eyes of yours.//
Those records inside your head…// if they’re erased in this very place now, I don’t mind at all.

(p13)
Yashiro: If I can bring you to the brainwashing room// and use the equipments there, that’ll be a little more delicate, somehow. Too bad…//
I’m sorry,// but I won’t be able to go easy on you in here.

Saikaku: (How come…?!// From my perspective, Yashiro is the type of practitioner who is weak in telepathy and has to rely on tools and his foresight to fill up the gaps….!)//
(How could he possesses such a great power…?)
Yashiro: This power…/I wonder you’ll be able to witness it with that eyes of yours…

(p14)
SFX: Crows…

(p15)
Yashiro: I’m nice, so let me spare a word or two.//
Sooner or later,//everything in the past shall be destroyed.//
Starting from today, the balance of the power inside Urakai will be gradually shattered….// To be able to survive or not, will wholly depends on the ones you chose to follow. //
You, who still embrace the past,// will have very limited way to survive then.//
Do it now, if you like to change.

(p16)
Miki: I thought they will emerge from the reception if they go into the forest…// But they haven’t appeared yet…

Sen: Ah!// Over there!//
Someone is there over the edge.

Yoshi: Tokine…!

Miki: It’s okay, Yoshimori-kun. Just go!/ I will back you up with my black wing.
Sen: Huh?/ Vice-Chief, isn’t this too…?!

(p17)
Yoshi: Thank you so much!!

Sen: Wai…Wait up!// Oi, Yoshimori!

Tokine: Hey…Yuugami-san, I’m fine already so…//
Put me down…
Yuugami: Listen!// It’ll brews trouble still if I let you down right now!

Tokine: I’m truly sorry…//
Because of me, you’d worked yourself to a frazzle…//
KYA!!

(p18)
Tokine: Yuugami-san?!

Saiko: So you think you can escape again this time, ah?

[side text: The island’s execution-in-charge, Enjouji Saiko. She’s way too stubborn.]

Translation: Full Contact 4

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:57:02 +0000

It's a request I got. :p You can read the manga's first few chapters here.

*{T.N}= Translator’s notes
Dear Scanlator(s), please keep the translator's notes when scanlating. Thank you.

(p1)
Chapter 4: Let’s go newbie

(p2)
Ryuuichi: [i’ve become a Year 1 student.]

Girl 1: (Morning~)
Girl 2: (Morning~)

Ryuuichi: N~~~~O~~~~

Kenji: Come on, come on!!/ Let’s have a snappy walk, Year 1 boy!!// Our happy school life is right at our very sight!!
Ryuuichi: N~~O~~
Naka: Ah-Ah.

(p3)
Ryuuichi: Sure, sure! I can walk, but please let me walk on my own! (Doesn’t Kana goes to school on her own?)
Kenji: Ahh? Why?! (Don’t be so anti-social, ok?~)
Ryuuichi: If I go to school with ya guys, everyone will KNOW that I live in the dorm as well!!/ I want to live a peaceful high school life!//
Just like this~//
[i am a cheerful high school student.☆　I will be highly anticipating my school life for the next 3 years, zooming through the classroom’s door! My club activity is, of course, the one I also joined in my middle school, S.O.C.C.E.R! Who knows? Maybe the cute manager may be moved by me too. Hoho~]
Kenji: ARE YOU AN IDIOT?!//
Whatever!~ After all, it’ll be exposed sooner or later, so good luck to ya!!// The v.i.t.a.l part is the beginning, ya know?/ THE BEGINNING!!!

(p4)
Ryuuichi: Even though you’ve said it, but still~~~~~~~~ (Whine~~~~~~~)
Naka: U-h.//
Actually, there is still a way to avoid trouble…
Ryuuichi: Really?! Is that true, Nakamura-san?!
Naka: Uh!//
You just have to be so strong, that everyone is afraid of you.
Ryuuichi: Haa?!

Boys: GOOD MORNING, FUKUSHIMA-SAN!!
Kenji: Oh…
(SFX: Kyaaa~)

(p5)
Naka: In this way, no one dares to mess around with you anymore.
Ryuuichi: (OHHHHHHHHHH~)
Shio: So this is how it works. / Let us work hard together, Otowo-kun.
Ryuuichi: Shioyama-kun?

Shio: Well, relax~// Even if you’ve put up your guard, when the time comes, you still have to do it!
Ryuuichi: I can say you’re really positive, or you’ve accepted your fate…(Where are you looking?)

Shio: Oh yes, why doncha ya just refer me as ‘Shio’?
Ryuuichi: Ah~ Then for me, I’ll be…// O-chan!
Shio: I don’t think that’s good?

So we have two for this year…

(p6)
Akamaki: No matter how hard I look, they seem so weak./ This year will be a piece of cake!

Boy: So we’re making a move, Akamaki?
Akamaki: Well, then why did ya even asked, huh?!//
But we did failed last year…(feeling a little defeated)
Boy 2: Ah~ Our opponent is Fukushima after all.

Akamaki: But we’ll be taking revenge this year!// I’ll be teaching your underlings a lesson, Katsushika!!

(p7)
Boy: Aoki-san,/ so who’s Katsushika?
Aoki(boy 2): Ah~ Kitsuki is in your Year 2, so you wouldn’t know./ Katsushika is…//

Akamaki: He’s Year 3 when we’re still in our Year 1. // A ghost. NO. A DEVIL!!
Kitsuki (boy): DEVIL?!

Akamaki: Has a handsome face!/ A clever mind! / Great in sports!/ And he’s super duper strong! / Such a man… No. Would you ever forgive such a human?! HUH?!
Kitsuki: Huh?// Do you have something against him?

Aoki: What you can’t forgive ultimately, is that your Eri-chan has fallen in love with him, no? (So you went to pick a fight with him, and lost~~~)
SFX: Hit on the nail
Kitsuki: He did has something against him…
Akamaki: Ughhh… My old scar…~~~~~~~
SFX: Sobs

(p8)
Akamaki: Anyway! I don’t like anybody in Asoko!!/ So whoever they are, newbie, or not!~~~~~~ I’m so going to beat them all!!//
But.//
It’s still better to be safe than sorry…/Now look. Who do you think it’s the weaker one?
Aoki: I guess it’s the one over there?
SFX: Peeks stealthily
Kitsuki: God~~ This is too embarrassing~~~~

SFX: Ting~Tong~ Ding~Dong~

(p9)
Ryuuichi: I’m diggin’// in!//
The weather has been great…/ yet I’ve to eat my lunch at the back of the gymnasium…// But I don’t want to eat in the classroom, but somebody called me out. (Cosy~)

HEY~~~~
SFX: Shocked
Ryuuichi: I’ve been found?!

Kana: What the heck are ya doin’ here?/ Otowa Ryuuichi!!
Ryuuichi: Kana!!

(p10)
Ryuuichi: Don’t scare me!/ I’m coming here to hide…
Kana: IDIOT!!

Ryuuichi: Wha…
Kana: Get it? // The most suitable place to hide also means//
IT’S THE EASIEST PLACE TO LOOK FOR TROUBLE!!
(SFX: WHAT?!)

[Easy to hide
‖
Nobody will come
‖
Nobody will help
‖
BIG CRISIS]

Ryuuichi: Wahhh. This is bad. This is bad.
SFX: Shivers
Kana: (Really, you~~~)

You’re the fellow from Bushinken?

(p11)
Ryuuichi: Eh…?

Aoki: I’m here.
Ryuuichi: …Ugh.//
Ouch…
Kana: Ryuuichi!!

Akamaki: What the? You’re really a newbie?!// And you even got a girl with ya. What a drag~

Ryuuichi: Someone has come for me right away.// In any case, I gotta get Kana out of here first!

(p12)
Kana: WHY THE HECK DO YA BEAT UP PEOPLE OUT OF THE BLUE, HUH?!
Ryuuichi: (Hey! Don’t provoke them! NO!)//
Stop, Ka…NA!
Kana: WHAT?! Ya chickened out already?!// YOU”RE SO USELESS!!//
Those guys look so weak that even I could win.

Akamaki: F~~~~~~~~U. You’re oh so dashing, aren’t ya? / But you’re all mouth.

(p13)
Akamaki: Ugh!

Kana: Che!//
I can’t move well in my uniform.
Akamaki: That was close~/ But now you’re pissing me off…//
Although I have no interest in beating women…// I have no intention being looked down at all!

(p14)
(Brush)

!!!

SFX: Humm
Ryuuichi: Ouch~~~~~
Kana: Wha… What have you done? YOU BIG IDIOT!!//
You’re weak, and yet you still jump out to…
Ryuuichi: …Kana

(p15)
Ryuuichi: Back off.
Kana: But…

Ryuuichi: Just listen to me.// Let me do it.

Kana: …Ryu..

Akamaki: What? / Are you really that strong?

(p16)
Ryuuichi: I just learnt Karate for a week!!
Akamaki: You’re really an amateur…(What’s there to boost about?)

Ryuuichi: But I’ll still do it./ That’s because the one who stirred up the trouble is not Kana// It’s me!

So finally he’s burning up?

(p17)
Shio: Kenji-senpai,/ we’re really not going to help out?
Kenji: Hm~~~~~~~//
I think it’ll be fine, no?/ It’s still not too late to help him after he’d been beaten up to pulps, ya know?

Shio: (After he’d been beaten up to pulps?) …Well,/ the dorm leader did already taught him the way to win.// So I guess he’ll be okay.

Kenji: How can he be okay at all?

(p18)
Eh?

Kenji: You know, Shio.// What that person said might be easy to him.// But to us, it’s something really difficult./ So for an amateur like Ryuuichi, it’s like it’s something totally impossible. //
What he has learnt is unreliable.// But, you can’t really say there’s no chance of winning at all.//
Because he has a great look right now.//
No matter it’s karate or fighting, the most important thing of all, is your will to battle.

Ryuuichi: [right now…]

(p19)
[The only attack I can use / is the move Katsushika-san has taught me.]
Katsushika: (It’s like you push your opponent’s body away when you’re tripping.// Remember to aim for the stomach.)

[i can only go forth all the way.]
AkamakI: What’s up?/ You’re not moving?//
Then I shall make the first move!!

Ryuuichi: YIKES!!
AkamakI: WAHH!

Ryuuichi: Huh? HUH?!

(p20)
Ryuuichi: Ugh!

Kitsuki: What? Why are you falling?// A newbie’s gag?//
Don’t make me laugh!

Kana: RYUU…
Ryuuichi: Don’t come over!// Ha~~/ Ha~

(p21)
Ryuuichi: Ha~~//Ha~~~/Ha~~~
(Oh no…It didn’t work.// What am I supposed to do now?// Katsushika-san didn’t taught me much…)//
(I don’t know. I don’t know!/ My tummy hurts…// But I can’t lose!
SFX: Ugh

Uh-oh, looks like he’s in pain.

Ryuuichi: (I don’t want to lose!)
Aoki: Come, I’ll make your life easier for you!!

Ryuuichi: (Huh?)//
(Huh?)

(p22)
Ryuuichi: (I can see it!)

Aoki: Che!

Ryuuichi: (Maybe…// they were not as fast as expected?)//
(If so…How should I counter back?// I aren’t confident with my thrust, but I can’t just kick people like how I kick in soccer.)//
(What should I do?)

Aoki: Don’t bullshit us, brat!!

(p23)
Ryuuichi: (I can only take a gamble!!)

AkamakI: Aoki!!

(p24)
Ryuuichi: Gotcha!//
I guess it must be awfully painful to be hit with the elbow./ I’M RIGHT!!

Akamaki: You little brat!//
Don’t mess with…//
!!!

(p25)
Akamaki: ARGHH!

(p26)
SFX: Thudding
Kitsuki: …….

SFX: Shocks
SFX: Peeks

Kitsuki: I… I’ll let you off for today!
SFX: Points// Dash
Aoki: You bastard, Kitsuki!/ Don’t run away by yourself!//
You/You’ll pay for this!!
Ryuuichi: …….(Your ending line is really bad…)

Aoki: Hang on, Akamaki!!/ I’m depressed too!!Oi!!
SFX: dragging
Kitsuki, you’re one big idiot!!// …………..

(p27)
Kana: So,/ What are you doing?
Ryuuichi: ……/ My legs are all shaken.

Kana: You’re really useless, you know?

Ryuuichi: Uh./ I think so too. (Ahaha~)

Kana: But…You’ve worked hard.
Ryuuichi: UH. (Ahahaha)
Kana: What are you laughing at?
Ryuuichi: I don’t know. (Ahahaha)

(p28)
Kenji: WOW~~~ He won…! He really won!!
Naka: Wait./ Wait up, you two…
Shio: Oto-kun is really good!

Naka: You’ll be spotted if you pressed yourself too near to the window./ Kana will be mad!~~~
Kenji: I got. I got it! Now don’t pressed yourself on my head, will ya?!

Naka: What’s more, what do you mean by he has ‘ really won’? (You sounded like you’re disappointed…)
Kenji: You still need me to explain?!/ I’m actually thinking of helping Ryuuichi when he defeated, to avenge for him!
Shio: (Kenji-senpai…)
Kenji: (What?! Isn’t it cooler in this way?)

Kenji:Nah~ I’m just joking./ To be honest, I didn’t expect him to be that good.// His talent is not too bad, ya?

(p29)
Kenji: During the battle, he’d thought to use the elbow attack…/ He must have figured it out by himself.//
Generally, a newbie wouldn’t know that a blow from the elbow could have done so much damages.//
And he did realized that he is weak.//
Interesting./ Not bad at all.

Naka: (Smiles)
Shio: ?

Kenji: However, it’s going to be tougher as he moves along.
(p30)
CONGRATS// TO YOUR FIRST VICTORY!!

Yumi: And so, we’re going to have *yakiniku tonight.

*{T.N= Yakiniku is Japanese style grilled meat in bite-size.}

Ryuuichi: Wow~ This looks so good~
SFX: trembling with joy
Katsushika: It IS good!~

Ryuuichi: Well then…/ I shall dig~~~~~~

(p31)
Ryuuichi: in…!//
…Katsushika-san…?/ Are you bullying me…?
Katsushika: Grilling the meat is Kasui’s job./ Here, I’m counting on you!

Ryuuichi: Ahh, I see…

Kasui: Let’s begin.
Ryuuichi: Begin… what?! (Your hand gesture… means that you’ve disinfected yourself already?)// (What the heck are you planning to do?!)//
[And those…Are they…]// [Don’t tell me…]
SFX: pattering, pattering

(p32)
[Meat]

Ryuuichi: (Those people…)
Katsushika: Come on!// Firstly, we’re going to eat the cooked part~~♫
Kenji: Katsu-kun, we need you here too~~

Ryuuichi: [Hee/ Never mind.]
SFX: smiles

I’m digging in then!

[on the other side.]
Akamaki: I WIL REVENGE~~

(p31)
AkamakI: Revenge plan no.1/ Put nail into his shoe! (Fufufufu. Cry all ya wanna! Good little kid must not imitate me!)
SFX: Blinks
Aoki: CHILDISH!!

(p32)
[The one who created the legend in their high school years (and friends)]
Katsushika: This person is me indeed. But why do you have to cover my eyes for? (Hahaha. That’s really rude.)
Yumi: Look! What kind of legend have I made that I can’t even show my face at all? Huh?~~~ (Lalala)
Kana: Sis, you too?! What have you two done indeed?!

Translation: Kekkaishi 213

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:31:49 +0000

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(p1)
[side-text: I'll KILL YOU…// The island’s execution-in-charge, Enjouji Saiko.]

Saiko: I’ll KILL YOU!!// I’m so going to pull off all that pussy’s eyelashes and eyebrows, / and I shall rip off her snowy skin too…//
For Yuugami, I’ll shave off all that soaked seaweed hair of his,/ and I shall stab his eyes which he wore with that glasses. Then~~~~~//
I’ll KILL YOU ALL!!

(p2)
[side text: They who are unjustifiably chased. Once captured, it will mean death…//
No guarantee to one’s life. This island’s twisted rules.]

Tokine: Somehow, I get the chills.
Yuugami: Agreed.

Tokine: Excuse me~~~ But are we heading underground?/ Is that alright?

Yuugam: Hmph. Aren’t you the one who said to seek a loophole?/ Then we shall do it by my own plan.

Chapter 213: Judgment

(p3)
Yuugami: I’ll be borrowing the keys.
Man: Ah. Wait, Yuugami-san!/ Permit first!//
Beside, there’re disturbances above.../ Say, don’t tell me that the girl you’ve brought along is the one who’d called upon the Island Chase…//

(p4)
Tokine: That‘s…
Yuugami: You mean the money?// I took them out from the safe a moment ago.//
My, don't be such a drag./ Although I couldn’t fight on the frontline, I can still be really useful, ya know?//
Someone like you who is young and folksy, can never pick up something like that. // It’s a ‘dirty’ power. (Don’t imitate me, ok?)//
It’s exceptionally effective in here. //
The basement of the Second Island is a facility for imprisoning suspects…// In short, it’s a prison.
Tokine: Prison?!//
Huh?!/ Wait!/What are you planning to do, coming to this prison?!

(p5)
Tokine: Yuugami-san!?

Yuugami: Alright, let’s scram.//
I’ve got some troublesome people out of the leash.// This should buy us some time.

Old man: What the?! You are…?//
Yuumagi: Let me introduce. The Second Island’s old codger, Rakii Yoshida-san.

(p6)
Rakii: Yeah, yeah. So what the hell do ya w… //
Yuugami: He might be unjustifiably imprisoned here, yet he stay rather comfortably. And so, he’d live here for 40 years without knowing…/ So you can say he’s a veteran old coot.
Rakii: That ‘old coot’ is totally unnecessary!

Yuugami: However, no matter how much you like the place…//Still,/ you would like to see how the outside world is like sometimes for staying in a room without a window.//
For this reason, he built a loophole in this place!
Rakii: AH~~~~~~~~~~~~!!//
Holy cow! How the hell do you know…?!
Yuugami: But of course, this pitiful loophole is different from the one we’re looking for!
Rakii: It‘s not pitiful!

Yuugami: And for that…
Rakii: Huh?
Yuugami: The entry fee.
Rakii: (Ah. Well then, here you go.)

Yuugami: What’s more, Yoshida-san’d hid some weapons here when the chips are down./ Hm.. Is it here?
Rakii: OI!

Yuugami: Ah, just the right time. Hand me the luggage.
Tokine: Yes…
Rakii: HEY!

(p7)
Yuugami: GOOD LUCK! Yoshida-san!

Saiko: Those bastards…//
They sure made me waste a whole lots of time….!!

Yuugami: It’s narrower than I thought.

(p8)
Tokine: Are you alright, Yuugami-san?// I can hold the luggage for you.

Yuugami: You should be one asking yourself that, no?//
You’ve been brought here out of the blue, and it all ends up into this.// A normal girl would be scared out of her wits by this development already.//
I’ve never imagine that it would actually become of this,// but it was I who brought you here after all.

Tokine: I’m// fine.

Yuugami: Hmph// Such bravado.

Tokine: I’m not…
Yuugami: You/ must have predicted this when you murdered the God, huh?

(p9)
Yuugami: Am I wrong?//
By allowing yourself to take the charge as so to calm the situation down;// for Karasumori, it will have the lowest risk. That’s what you’d considered, right?//
That…// is truly a composed and clever judgment.// An admirable will-power.
But in reality…//do you really believe that sacrificing yourself will finish everything?//
No, that’s not it…// It’s not like I’m saying that you‘re wrong. // Anyway, what I want to say is…//
That intelligent judgment of yours…// Have you ever thought that there will be someone who will be in despair by your decision…?

(p10)
Tokine: ……….

Tokiko: (Tokine.)//
Since this is your judgment that brought about your actions,// I won’t comment upon this issue any further.//
Nonetheless, killing a God is a crime.// So even if you manage to avoid the charge,/ you have to take the rap for it, for the least.
Tokine: Yes!

Tokiko: From now onwards, you will be under probation to reflect on your mistakes.// I’ll be taking over your night’s duty.
Tokine: (Granny…)//
(She might looks indifferent as always,// but I can see I’ve sadden her…)//
(Mother might smiles and says, “It’s okay.”,// but she cried when I was taken away…)

(p11)
Tokine: (For Daddy…// Daddy who passed away in Karasumori…)//
(He will be unhappy as well…,// even though I’ve been trying so hard…)//
(And Yoshimori…)//
(He’s such a crybaby after all.//He looks like he was about to cry too at that moment.)//
(Heehee, I bet he’s crying too…/ somewhere right now.)//
(I’m sorry…// I didn’t mean to make you all so sad…//This is the only way I can do~~~~…)

(p12)
Tokine: (No.)// (Not at this time…)

(p13)
Yoshi: KETSU!

(p14)
Sen: Wah!//
Phew! That’s close~!/ Looks like we really need to clear those entire army or we can’t move at all.

Yoshi: Kagemiya, it should be safe here.
Sen: Gotcha. Let me give it a try once more.

Tokine: (Huh? That feeling is…)

Saiko: YUUGAMIIII~ PUSSSSSSY~~~~~~~~~!!
Yuugami: Here she comes.

(p15)
Saiko: Where the hell do ya think you’re going, huh?!// Get your ass outta here, right now!!//
Argh! What’s wrong with this shitty hole?!// I can’t put my sickle in again!!

Yuugami: Good. That’s the exit.

Saiko: YUUGAMIII~~~~!!
Yuugami: Ah, you. / On the same time, can you make a path that allow us to cross to the another side?

Saiko: Don’t you escapeee!!

Yuugami: Sure~

(p16)
Yuugami: I said something unnecessary previously.//
What I really really want to say is…//
Life should be something enjoyable!//
HA!/ SERVES YOU RIGHT!// This’s what you get for blasting my room!!

(p17)
Yuugami: But,// that woman / won’t be killed by this mere standard, sadly.//
Have your tears stopped?//
I’m sure there must have quite an amount who will be sad over someone like you, no? //
Don’t give any more despair// to the lives of those people.//
Well then,/ shall we go?

Sen: Huh? What’s going on? Looks like there’s an explosion on that island.

(p18)
Yoshi: Oh my gosh, they’re coming back!
Sen: (Miss Sickle-and-Chain should be around there…)

Yoshi: Ketsu!!
Sen: (Maybe something happened there…?!)//
YOSHIMORI!!//
IT’S TOKINE!

[side text: Heading for the sky is the right choice! They finally found her. Tokine, we’ll be coming for you right away!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 212

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:23:27 +0000

Based on Kekkaishi Chapter 232, Volume 22 will be in store on 17th October. That means we can get HQ raws soon!:tem

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(p1)
[side text: Even if they break the rules and branded as “criminals”, they will do whatever it takes to rescue Tokine who is wrongly accused.]

[Ferry]

Hakota: Ah, Vice Chief and co.// are surrounded by countless hunks this time!!

Shu: Eh? Hakota-kun, what about Miss Sickle-and-Chain?!
Hakota: She disappeared amidst the explosion.

Shu: (So the extradition for Tokine still fails in the end…)
Hakota: Ah, / the battle is starting.

Shu: Will they be fine…? (Especially Sen-chan)
Hakota: Vice-Chief and Yoshimori-kun are working hard to get rid of them.
Shu: Sen-chan?
Hakota: U--m…/Now, now. Where is he?

Shu: Wait!/ WHERE’S SEN-CHAN?!
Hakota: Wah!/ Stop that!/ I’m losing my focus already!!

(p2)
[side text: We’ll move by our own rules then!!]

Chapter 212: Loophole

(p3)
Miki: So, all of them are Shikigami?
Yoshi: I think so.
Miki: Well then./ If that’s the case… From the start, // we should have sent them flying without holding back. //
In this way, we can get things done quicker.

(p4)
Yoshi: Kagemiya./ Found anything about that woman’s location?

Sen: Over there.// She’s moving in an amazing speed.

Tokine: There’s a loophole to the outside?//
Really? Is that true?!
Yuugami: Ahh, it’s like in nine cases out of ten. I’m sure of it.
Tokine: Nine cases out of ten?!

Yuugami: According to my findings, Urakai’s major facilities will always be included with a loophole for the least. // I think that’s how it goes.//
In the past, having a loophole to escape for castles is a necessity.// And it’s certain that Japan was still in its wartime when Urakai started to establish officially as an organization. / So it’s natural that they still have it.

(p5)
Yuugami: Though I believe that the loophole is not something physical.//
It’s more like/ an object that is made by the practitioners; someone like you.
Tokine: Eh?

Yuugami: Using the techniques from that times, they put them on the places that cannot be excavated. And so, such establishment are numerous. // This island is no exception too.

Tokine: (So is it similar to what Granny has made with her “road”…?)
Yuugami: Therefore, it’s not surprising that the loophole can be found anywhere but…//
We might still have a clue. //
The facilities in the Second Island and the Third Island are built much later.// So that means it is located somewhere in the First Island. //
In fact, / most parts of the First Island are restricted areas.// To explain it in a more specific way, this entire place is a forest. Everywhere that is seeded with trees will be all cast with spells.

(p6)
Tokine: Spells?
Yuugami: Meh, and they’re traps too.// But they only work against outsiders./ The employees of the Prosecution Office are excluded…//
But, I believe that…// in reality, there are some areas that even restrict the employees as well.//
That would be the place which they really want to hide it with the spells.// A place that not only excludes most people, they didn’t want it to be discovered at all.// And that would be…//
Here.//
Of course I can’t guarantee you that the loophole is certainly there. //
So how is it?

(p7)
Tokine: (If this didn’t work as well,// then I just have to drag Yuugami-san along and swim out of here.)//
Let’s go!
Yuugami: Roger!

Fufu…// Whew~, now I get it….

(p8)
Saiko: No wonder both of you chose to run away together.// Che./ That’s the reason why I just can’t stick my neck out to younger women…!

Tokine: ………
Yuugami: Why didn’t you close the window, huh?

Saiko: I let you toy with us for far too long, Yuugami.// You even faked your death. You, too, really want to assist her in escaping?

Tokine: (You, too…?)

Saiko: If so, then the two of// your heads…

(p9)
Saiko: Shall be ripped off as w….// What the? What’s this?! // Wait up!/ This damn window is too small!!
Yuugami: Let’s run!
Tokine: Yes!!

Yuugami: That woman…She really blow up my room!!

Tokine: Ketsu!

Saiko: Don’t you dare…// TO THINK THAT YOU CAN ESCAPE FROM MY SICKLE!!

(p10)
Tokine: Eh…/ Is there such a person in the reception…?
Yuugami: Hmph,/ that’s why they said that women are born actresses.//
Nonetheless, to even throw away your morality. What the heck is she thinking?!// Don’t say that she’s a woman, she wasn’t even fit to be a human!

Saiko: …………//
Don’t ever mess with me, you dickheads…

(p11)
Saiko: DON’T EVER//MESS WITH ME!!//
OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW~~~
Yuugami: Oh my god!// Now that bitch is starting to howl like crazy!

Saiko: Kill.

(p12)
…..// Huh?// We’re back to the same place again…

Miki: Kagemiya?
Sen: Ah, but we’re really chasing after Miss Sickle-and-Chain’s malice…// Although I did felt something strange along the way….

Yoshi: Uh.// There is something fishy with that forest indeed./ What is it?

(p13)
Miki: ………// Hold on.//
This island… I heard that outsiders won’t be able to move as freely as they want.// Perhaps it is cast with spells?//
For example…/ Those who tried to escape from this place will return back automatically. It could be a spell like that.

Sen: But it’s such a huge place to cast them all over…// If that's true, /then it’ll be trouble to us all. We’re no expert in breaking spells.

Yoshi: Let’s move from the sky.

Sen: The sky?/ Nah. The spells might still be effective as well.
Yoshi: If it didn’t work, then we just have to think of another plan.

(p14)
Yoshi: Tokine is in danger anytime,// so I cannot just stand here and do nothing.

Saiko: KILL!//
KILL!//
KILL!!//
KILL!!!//
That 2 bastards…

(p15)
Saiko: I MUST KILL YOU ALL!!!

Tokine: I’m so sorry… Your room must be ruined by now…
Yuugami: It’s all in the past.// So why don’t we just focus on our beautiful future after we escaped?//
So while slipping my favorite tea, I’m reading under the tree. What an elegant moment./ I still have tons of books I’d love to read.
Tokine: What are you talking about…?

Yuugami: Hmph!// I have no desire to die in this place. Never!

Tokine: Me too…

(p16)
Tokine: In order to protect Karasumori,/ I will never ever allow myself to die in this place, or to be captured !// I will/ show you that I can get out of here!!

Yoshi: Looks like it’s fine./ So how is it? Kagemiya.

Sen: Wait!// Something is coming from behind!!

(p17)
Yoshi: So they really come to shoot us if we move from above….

WAH!

Sen: Vice-Chief!/ There are uncountable objects swooping in every direction…!!// So it really didn’t work!!// We’re practically live baits amongst this sky.

(p18)
Miko: Even though it ends up this way, somehow… it’s still much better than running in circle. Am I correct?
Yoshi: Yup, it is.//
After all,// all we have to do is to get rid of these guys, right?

Sen: We’re surrounded!!

Miki: Indeed.// Once we saw a path ahead, we just have to move forth!//
LET’S GO!!

[sidetext: And so with force, the path is revealed!!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 21

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:51:11 +0000

While we're moving forth, I would like to work on the extras that might be left out as well.
If you hold the raws to Kekkaishi Vol 20, do share with me.
Thank you very much.:)

I hope I got all the Japanese names right. It will be a disrespect to those if I didn't. Phew, seeing how much I struggled with Japaneses' names reminds me of my days as a rookie translator.:eyeroll

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

*{T.N}= Translator’s notes

Link to the raw of Kekkaishi Volume 21. Special thanks to kobashi for the info.

(cover)

(author’s words)

[picture]: *Just an imagination// I don’t have a watering pot.
TANABE YELLOW
Message from YELLOW TANABE
VOLUME 21
In the early spring, I would receive several flowering pots for me to cultivate plants. So, I was thinking that I should give it a try since I have the time.
But if I don’t put the plant at a position where I could see it, it’ll looks like it would bound to wilt. And so, I place it on my working desk.
I guess by the time this volume is out in store, the plant has blossomed by then….?

(back cover)

*KEKKAISHI
Kourin/ Ame/ Gakkou Chibotsu
Ketsudan/ Omei/ Hidagou
Kuyou/ Nerai/ Houkai/ Chikara no Chuushin/ Denju

*{T.N(1)= If you’ve been wondering what are those words, they are the romanji of the chapters’ titles. I think it’s neater to keep it as it is.}

The effects of the Shinyuuchi Hunting all across the land has starting to affect Karasumori as well!
Meanwhile, a strange *Ksitigarbha has descended upon the sky all of the sudden.
Yoshimori and co. are troubled by the invader who’d appears in the school for unknown reasons, let alone to move ruthlessly as it has a possibility of being a God after all.
However, Ksitigarbha has lost its control!
And if they don’t stop it, the school might be sunk to the bottom!
What should Yoshimori and Tokine have to do indeed, in order to avoid the worst circumstance?
The ever-increasing intensity and interesting Akayashi Anecdote; Volume 21 has arrived!

*{T.N(2)= Buddhist bodhisattva widely revered in China and Japan. In Japan he is known for his kindness to the departed, particularly to dead children.
Usually depicted as a monk with a nimbus around his shaved head, he carries a staff to force open the gates of hell and a flaming pearl to light up the darkness.}

(undercover)

(p1)

KEKKAISHI VOLUME 21
TANABE YELLOW
YELLOW TANABE PRESENTS

(p2)

~Recaps of Previous Volume~
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ougi Ichirou has been using countless of dirty tricks to frame Masamori. With many of his subordinates’ lives been taken away, Masamori stomped straight into Ougi’s place, determined to settle the score with a one-on-one battle.
A death match between Urakai’s fellow executive committees. That, is a terrifying clash with the two powers.
Masamori managed to win by a margin in the tremendously vicious duel. However!
Ougi Ichirou and the other siblings has chosen to abandon Ougi Rukurou, leaving him in a piteous state….!
Hence, Masamori decided to join hands with Okuni in exchange for saving Rokurou.
Meanwhile, the Ougi Clan’s plan for the Shinyuuchi Hunting is still undergoing…?!
And the next targeted Shinyuuchi would be…?!

Kekkaishi 21 Content
----------------------------------
Chapter 195: Descent
Chapter 196: Rain
Chapter 197: Sinking of the School
Chapter 198: Decision
Chapter 199: Stigma
Chapter 200: Hidagou
Chapter 201: Memorial Service
Chapter 202: Target
Chapter 203: Disintegration
Chapter 204: The Heart of the Power
Chapter 205: Initiation

(p203)

[The 5th Kekkaishi
Character Illustration and Graffiti
GENERALS revealed!!]

The theme “ayakashi” for this time has a lot of room for creativity. And so, the submissions’s varieties are so rich and very interesting indeed! The most submissions we’ve received should be Kaguro. We have several animal-like characters as well. Moreover, we only started to gather the works after volume 18, and so there are tons of butterflies.
There are just so plenty of wonderful works that I didn’t really know whose to pick.
So I’ve decided to introduce a character by 1 respective illustration.

[right text: The theme for this time is “ayakashi”]
Character Illustration General//
Draw any ayakashi you like with your illustration.
[big stamp: AYAKASHI]

[banner: You are the GERNERAL!]
Yellow(penguin): Great job, General!
[Tokyo Prefecture/ Umino Yuudai (11)]
=>The life-like motion and the composition are so amazing. The knifes between the kanji, “Kaguro” even form a cross. Chic, indeed!

(p204)

[black box: I shall introduce the rest of the good works too.
Other than a General in this round, the rest will be Magistrates. We have received many submissions from various characters so I shall pick one for each and every character.]

[banner: Magistrates]

[The Butterfly Magistrate]
[Tokyo Prefecture/ Fuzuka Yawara (7)]
=>The balance between the white spaces is the best.

Middle right:
*[Aihi Magistrate]
[Kagoshima Prefecture/ Emoto Sayaka (12)]
=>It’s a printmaking. She looks awesome in side-view.
*{T.N= Gosh, why is “Kuchiki Rukia” from Bleach keep popping out in my mind?!}

Middle left:
[shion Magistrate]
[Miyagi Prefecture/ Horiuchi Kanako (11)]
=>Her expression and her underling behind, who posed a “V” sign are great.

Bottom right:
[Jyaren Magistrate]
[Tokyo Prefecture/ Kawaguchi Akiko (?)]
=>That’s so cool. I didn’t expected that Jyaren will be participating as well.

Bottom left:
[Mudou Magistrate]
[Nagoya Prefecture/ Hoya Keisuke (16)]
=>Ah, this guy is not a human indeed. The look of his eyes is perfectly captured.

(p205)

Upper right:
[Masahiko Magistrate]
[Kanagawa Prefecture/ Shimada Hamamatsu (12)]
=>*I can’t help but to laugh when staring at the bold font of “Masahiko” and his truly serious look. The scarf is facing in the opposite direction though.
*{T.N= I laughed too. I never imagine of Masahiko having such an expression.}

Upper left:
[Kurokabuto Magistrate]
[Hyogo Prefecture/ Onyama (15)]
=>I chose this based on the image’s composition.

Middle left:
[ichirou Magistrate]
[Miyagi Prefecture/ Sato Akihiro (26)]
=>*Somehow, this Ougi Ichirou looks really sunny.
*{T.N= Imagine this Ougi Ichirou flying like a Superman when dueling with Masa…It will look more like a comedy.}

Middle Right:
[shidou Magistrate]
[Aichi Prefecture/ Kinko~n♪]
=>*The dynamic of the SFX “BANG”, the height that the water is spilled(16.7cm); only these can fully express the anger of Shidou.
(Shidou: Really! What the heck is that perverted old man thinking?!)
*{T.N= I really like this one. It displays the essence of manga storytelling so well. Original panel comes from here.}

Right to Left:
[banner: My three favorites]

[Tanyuu Magistrate]
[Chiba Prefecture/ Hakukkahime (15)]
=> Quite a lady, huh?

[uro-sama Magistrate]
[Nara Prefecture/ Namiki (12)]
=> WOW!

[Raizou Magistrate]
[Tochigi Prefecture/ Yuki Daruma (23)]
=> Has a fuzzy feeling.

(p206)

[GRAFFITI GENERAL//
Photocopy your favorite panel from the manga, and then edit it in any way you like.]//
[it’s a pity we don’t have a Graffiti General this time.]

Top Right:
[banner: Sleepy General]
(Byaku: To be honest,// I’m sleepy.
[Commander of the Kokubourou// Byaku])
[Fukuoka Prefecture/ Nakamura Hisashi (11)]
=>Honest, indeed.

Bottom right:
[banner: HELLO General]
(HELLO~~~~
Mamezou: Gya~)
[Kagoshima Prefecture/ Ma~bo~(11)]
=> I really like it.
*{T.N= The cutest “HELLO” I ever seen.}

Top left:
[banner: BEAM General]
(Yoshi: Beam!
Sen: Guwah~~~
Girls: It just won’t work.)
[Tokushima Prefecture/ Arumina (?)]
=>This just gives me a feeling of foolishness from middle school students.

Bottom left:
[banner: “Listen to my song” General]
(Masa: Why don’t you…// listen to my song every single time?
Yoshi: That’s because---…// you never listen to my song ever!!)
[Hiroshima Prefecture/ Hanpon (12)]
=> The brothers who want to sing…?

Hakubi: Thank you for your participation! I’ll send my autograph to all Generals who’ve won.(sooner or later, I will.) The next one will be our finale!

Box:
[6th// Character Illustration and Graffiti Generals Contest]

Top black box: [Character Illustration General]//
The next one will be the last! So the theme will be “Your Favorite Character”. Please tell us how much you like this character with your illustration. We’ll be looking forward to your work!
Bottom black box: [Graffiti General]//
Photocopy your favorite panel from one of the published volume, do it as you like and send it to us.

Draw your work on the postcard(black-and-white only) with your name, address, telephone number, age, and a pen-name if you wish, and send them to:

〒101-8001
東京都千代田区一ツ橋2-3-1
小学館　少年サンデー編集部気付
結界師単行本企画
「キャラ別イラスト大将」係
or
「らくがき大将」係

The deadline is up till the publication date of the next volume. Results will be announced after that date. We await your submissions.

(p207)

~~Birth certificate of Yoshi and Tokine's child.~~

Yeah, right.:D
It's the volume's publication information. Translation is unnecessary.

(p208)

<sarcasm>What? What is this?
The body measurement of Yukimura Tokine?
The girls Masamori used to date have come together to gossip?
Yoshimori transformed into a 30 years old man?!

"The Untold Unforbidden Tale of Kekkaishi", now in store!</sarcasm>

Will we ever see the light of this guidebook?
Maybe...:p

Translation: Kekkaishi 211

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:32:18 +0000

Disclaimer for scanlators:
Please DO NOT use jojohot's or any Chinese scanlations, and that includes the raws with the watermark.
Wait for the volume raws instead(and this would ensure better quality for the readers too.)
Read this for more info.
Thank you for your understanding.

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

*{T.N}= Translator’s notes
Dear Scanlator(s), please keep the translator's notes when scanlating. Thank you.

For those who need to refer with the pictures, click here.

(p1)
[side text: WHY?!]

Yoshi: (After all we work so hard to come here…// and we’re about to bring Tokine back…!)

Chapter 211: Ignited

(p2)
[side text: Tokine is innocent, and yet she is still be wrongly accused… The Guillotine Island is an unincorporated zone!!]

Saiko: Gya~ Gya~ Whine all you wanna to. It’s futile. // That girl has been marked as a murderer, and a fugitive too./ So right after the Island Chase, we will handle it in whatever way we like.

Yoshi: (How can…/this happen…?!)

Miki: Stop your nonsense!/ How can you just do as you please without even a proper investigation?!// We will never agree to this! Never!

Saiko: Don‘t let me…// repeat my words again…

Sen: This malice…//That woman is surely a *Ayakashi Majiri!

*{T.N= "Ayakashi Majiri" is a half monster/demon,half human.}　

(p3)
Saiko: I said all outsiders have to keep their big fat mouth shut!

(p4)
Saiko: Aiya, brat.// What’s up with your pissing look?

(p5)
Yoshi: Try…/even touching Tokine…// and I will never forgive you with my entire life…

Saiko: In this place,// I am the Justice.//
If you interfere, everyone‘s head will be all, chopped,// in the name of assisting the convict.

Yoshi: I don’t care about your rules or whatsoever…//
But all along…//
From the moment I was born till the present, Tokine has always been by my side…

(p6)
Yoshi: A world without her.// I can’t even imagine it at all.//
So if you said you want to destroy that vision, / then I…

Saiko: How important is that girl meant to you,// it’s none of my business.//
But just thinking about her, / piss me off even more.

(p7)
Saiko: Looks like it’s going to be even more delightful than ever.

Bomb:(explosive)

(p8)
Yuugami: Now, how should we escape…?//
Anyway, let’s get out of here first.
Tokine: Ah!/ Oh yes!//
This mark would expose our location.//
WAH~~~~~~~~~~~!!

Yuugami: I’m fine…// If you want my intelligent side, I can just put on my glasses and…
Tokine: Well…/ Yuugami-san, you don’t need to escape with me…It’s okay not to bother about me at all…(Moreover, you’re not the one who is chased.)

Yuugami: No. You and I are now in the same standpoint.//
And by now, Yashiro-san should have realized that I’m still not dead.

(p9)
Saikaku: There’s no traces at all….// Are you sure the corpse is here?/ Or has he fallen into the water tank?

Yashiro: Ahh…//This means… we might been tricked after all…//
Yuugami and that lady…// are really comrades.//
Have they gotten any confidential matter already…?/ Nonetheless, we must find and hunt them down before anything major happens.

Yuugami: I have to get out of here quick. Gotta make plan for the future, ya know…//
Say, I’ve been wondering ever since…/ what’s up with your immodest attire?!(How disgraceful!)
Tokine: Ah.
Yuugami: Are ya planning to add on to my charge?!

(p10)
Tokine: It’s ok. // I wore a short pant, that’s why.

Yuugami: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~//
Somehow, you’re really way more unpredictable than I thought…(But still too disgraceful…)

Tokine: (Judging by how instable Yuugami-san is, it seems impossible to cross by swimming…// Is there any other way…?)//
Sorry to keep you waiting! (And this too!)

Yuugami: We do have…// a route nearby to run to. But we have to take the gamble…

(p11)
Yuugami: Do you mind if we take a little detour?

[The Second Island]

Yuugumi: H--m…// Here.

Tokine: What’s that?
Yuugami: The upper tier of the Second Island,/ is built as a dormitory for the employees of the Prosecution Office.//
It is cleverly put with a spell to hide it…//
This is// the window to the room.

(p12)
Tokine: Can this be your room?
Yuugami: That’s right. Don’t you get cozy in here. We got no time.

Tokine: A safe…? (He looks busy…)

Yuugami: I only left with these…?
Tokine: That’s…

Yuugami: A storage// for my blood.

(p13)
Yuugami: Whew,/ it’s still a little not enough for my tie…

Tokine: Eh…/ How long do you need in order to make Kamina-chan?
Yuugami: If I’m making one that is able to transport and fly…/ I need blood that is stored for at least 3 years, or it won’t work.

(p14)
Tokine: Such an important thing.//How can you pass it to me so easily like that?//
You know that you don’t need to do it until that extent…

Yuugami: Al---right! I feel much lighter after a bit of moving!// Let’s look what’s on the table!//
It’s the map for this island.//
If we don’t go out by the way mentioned in the legend…/ Although that’s what most of the residents here believe…

(p15)
Yuugami: In the island,/ there might still have the routes that lead to the outside,// which are remained behind before the Prosecution Office is set up.

Saiko: Ah~ Ah~ I burst down the reception again./ This would make Saikaku mad. //
Well. Well. Now where’s that kitten-chan gone to….?//
On the South-Western part of the island…?// Now that's…

(p16)
Yoshi: Wait a sec./ Let me get rid of the rubbles above…

Sen: Things have turned out sour, huh…
Yoshi: ……

Miki: (If Tokine-chan’d escaped, that means she isn't brainwashed yet.) // (We can still do something.)//
Can you hear me, Yoshimori-kun?// It is said that once we interfered, we’ll be beheaded as criminals.

(p17)
Sen: And for your information, that woman is not only an Ayakashi Majiri, she can use spells too. //
According to the malice, she’s ridiculously strong in fighting.

Miki: But //I still don’t like that person.

Sen: Ah, Vice Chief. // I can catch that woman’s position.//
Normally, it is difficult to search as humans possess physical bodies.// But with that kind of malice she’d unleashed…// I can nail it in one shot.

Miki: So what’s your plan, Yoshimori-kun?

(p18)
Yoshi: Let’s // rescue Tokine.

Miki: If that’s the case,// Let us first…//
Get rid of those fellows who are all gashing forth.

[side text: Of course! Alright then, let’s fight!!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 210

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:18:14 +0000

Things are brewing up!
GO!:yelling:yelling:yelling

Disclaimer for scanlators:
Please DO NOT use jojohot's or any Chinese scanlations, and that includes the raws with the watermark.
Wait for the volume raws instead(and this would ensure better quality for the readers too.)
Read this for more info.
Thank you for your understanding.

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy

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(p1)
Chapter 210: The Island Chase

Sen: (The mobile is out of service…// This island is truly an enclosed chamber…)//
(In addition, it’s circulating with such a wretched atmosphere…)

[side text: Tokine is in this island now! Please be safe in one piece!!]

(p2)
[side text: They’ve arrived in the Guillotine Island at last!!]

Yoshi: The rocky stretches are everywhere…/
Man: Everyone, / please hold on to the boat tightly.//
As it will be a little shaky, somehow.

Yoshi: OH?!

(p3)
Man: We have reached the Guillotine Island.

SFX: Opens
Old man: Oi, you!/ Haven’t you heard?

Man: But, the document…
Old man: Huh----?/ A custody transfer?

Miki: We’ve contacted you before…
Man: A---h, so this isn’t being processed yet, huh?/ Then we need to do a bit of walking around.//
Gah, no choice then. I shall take you guys to the reception for proceeding, ya?

Man: Well then, I will be on my way.
Yoshi: Uh.

(p4)
Yoshi: Say…// We’ll be back in a while, so can’t you wait a little longer?
Man: Sorry, pal. It’s the rule.//
Just contact me via the reception when it‘s necessary.//
As you can see, there’s disturbance in the island.// So if I stay too long, this fellow here will get agitated.

Oi, Hurry up.

Yoshi: So if we have the document, Tokine will be able to go home, right?
Old man: Who knows?// Don’t ask me./ You’re such a pain in the ass.

Yoshi: …….
Sen: Bear with it a little more.

(p5)
Old man: O---I. We have guests.// Open the damn do--or!//
Get your stuff done at that well-lighted place.// Just go over there and ask whatever you want.

Girl: ……..//
Please wait for a moment…
SFX: Che
Yoshi: She tut-tutted?

[urakai Prosecution Office
Reception]

(p6)
Girl: Saikaku, when the hell did that Yukimura Tokine arrived?// Who’s in charge of her?
Saikaku: It’s Yashiro-san and Yuugami-san./ Didn’t she just came this afternoon?

Girl: Ah-----, that girl?
Saikaku: Ne-san. Please concentrate a bit more when you’re working.

Girl: I got it. I got it. Now quickly get on the air and call Yashiro and Yuugami over here. / We still have people waiting outside. (Ah---So boring)
I'm sorry to interrupt you,//

Yashiro: but can I bother you for a sec?

Yoshi: ?!

Girl: Ah, Yashiro-san. You came just at the moment.// How did you get that wound by the way?

(p7)
Sen: (Yashiro?!// This’s the fellow who took Tokine away?!)
Yashiro: Things…/ have turned out to be a little troublesome…//
The girl I took back to investigate…// whose name is Yukimura Tokine…//
She murdered my partner, Yuugami and has escaped.

Yoshi: (EH…?!)

Yashiro: She should still be around,// so can you quickly catch her for me…?

(p8)
SFX: Pops up

Tokine: THAT’S IT!// I finally found it!//
It was no use in the end.//
……..// (Yuugami-san…Did something happened to him…?//
(We’ll make it like you’ve escaped and caused the disrupt on your own,// so don’t you ever come back!!)
SFX: Points

(p9)
Tokine: The only way to get out of here is to swim…// If I make use of my Kekkai to rest while swimming…

(p10)
Tokine: YUUGAMI-SAN!!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY TELLING US TO RETURN?!//
Miki: The very moment we show this document,// you have no right to confine her anymore!
(Girl: Type faster!)

Saikaku: This is already invalid.// Whatever problem that has happened on this island, /we will use our way, like how this island always handle to resolve it.

Miki: Wha…
Girl: Well, Saikaku. You shall clear the body.// I’m sorry, Yashiro-san. You’re injured, but we still need you to take him to the crime scene.

Miki: Wait…// Isn’t this all too suspicious?!

(p11)
Miki: To bring her to this place is already inappropriate in the first place!// And didn’t you guys took statements from my comrades in the name of Shinyuuchi Hunting a few days ago?
Sen: No, Yoshimori. Stay calm.

Miki: You didn’t even wait for our decision and you’ve already carried on with the execution!//
Even though this’d happened, we accepted it with sympathy. And so, we chose to end this willingly with consideration! / Even this is not eno….

Girl: Nag, nag, nag. You nag too much. It’s so annoying. / Why doncha just keep your mouth shut?!//
After all, / we’re about to start our delightful island chase.

(p12)
Tokine: Yuugami-san!/ Yuugami-san!!//
This is bad…How can this happen…?

[Ding-Dong. Ting----To---ng]//
I’m hereby for an announcement to everyone in this island.]// [Presently, we have one suspect, who has murdered an inspector and is currently on the run.]/
[The suspect is Yukimura Tokine, 16 years old. Female.]// [At this moment, on the behalf to capture this convict--------]//
[The Island Chase has began.]

Tokine: Huh?!// How can they do that?!

(p13)
Yuugami: Things are going to be even more difficult from now.
Tokine: KYA-------------------------------!!

Yuugami: Ugh…I lost too much blood…
Tokine: …………//
You’re still…. alive…?
Yuugami: Ahh…I managed to escape while I was killed, almost.

Tokine: Killed?!/ Are you alright?! That wound…
Yuugami: I’m still be able to remain conscious so I’m fine.//
Phew…

(p14)
Yuugami: My family has quite a strange ability.// We can use our own blood as the medium for the spell. //
In this way, we can shape it in whatever we like.// But it circulates throughout our entire body, so we can physically suffer quite a huge damage.//
However!/ I really have to admit that we’ve gotten into the worst circumstance in just such a short time! // I, who is the Gorgeous Prince of the Prosecution Office,/ looks no different to a soaked seaweed at all!!
SFX: Soaked

SFX: Giggles
Yuugami: This is no time for laughing matter, ya know?// Your way to escape and fail is utterly the worst situation of them all.
(Tokine: Soaked Seaweed…)

Yuugami: Do you know why this place is named the Guillotine Island?

(p15)
Yuugami: What all has happened on this island, has to begin with this place’s judgment and the dealings with things.//
But it looks like that woman has completely being in the mood already.
Tokine: That woman?

Yuugami: You met her when you handled the procedure, remember?// The woman who wore that flashy glasses is Enjouji Saiko. // The hunk beside her is her younger brother, Enjouji Saikaku.//
The Enjouji siblings are in charge from the island’s management to the execution. //
The brother is fine, but that woman has the absolute worst character of all. She’s a total sinister.// Especially when she can plainly hurt others by the authority of the law, just for the fun of it.
Moreover, for your case, it is the worst---------

(p16)
Miki: The Island Chase? What’s that?!/ How can you be so ruthless?!// Wait up!!//
With such a management, /I can report you formally and make you undergo the trial!

Yoshi: Oi…
SFX: Shaky
Sen: Wait, Yoshimori!

Saiko: You sound like you’re so great, aren’t you?/ How old are you?
Miki: Huh?//
I’m 20 years old. // What’s that for?

(p17)

?!

(p18)
Saiko: Ah---Girls who can only rant with their rotten mouths are oh-so-icky ~~~ //
If I reap off that head of yours---,//will you know how to shut up by then~~?

Yuugami: That woman, thinks that any woman younger than her… // should all end up dead.

[This island knows nothing about common sense.]

Translation: Kekkaishi 209

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:07:03 +0000

A short chapter, but still pretty good.:tem

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(p1)
[side text: It seems like Tokine will be brainwashed.
The only person at sight that can be relied on is this man… Is that even alright…?]

Chapter 209: Escape

[(Weekly Sunday 50th year Anniversary)This work is about-
Karasumori. A land bustling with spiritual energy. For more than four hundred years, it has been protected from Akayashi(demon/monster) by the specialists who deal with them. They are called “Kekkaishi“. In the present day, Sumimura Yoshimori and Yukimura Tokine are the two Kekkaishi that protect the land. However, the feuding between both families persists even today. Nevertheless, Yoshimori ignores the reasons and has fallen in love with Tokine who is two years older than him. And so, he foresees sealing the land and ridding the Akayashi from coming forth to the ever-changing land as necessities. In addition, Yoshimori wants to work together with Tokine as partners in order to dispel the estrangement between their families forever. But there is still a long long way to go. Right now, there are more and more troubles brewing in unique Karasumori, waiting for them to conquer!]

(p2)
[side text: Yoshimori and co. are embarking towards The Guillotine Island in order to trail Tokine down. Hurry!!]

Miki: Excuse me.

Man: It has closed for the day.

Miki: We would like to go to The Guillotine Island.//
This is the certification for Island Entry.

(p3)
SFX: Phew

Man: Well then, this way.

Yoshi: (There are people from Urakai everywhere…)
(Sen: All are broken boats.)

Man: Oi, get up.

(p4)
Man: Including me, this boat can only take up to 5 people.

Miki: H----m….// Let’s see…

Hakota: Wah!/ Wait a sec!// I don’t want to be left alone!!

Sen: Huh--? But Hakota-kun, didn’t we said that you’ll need to stay behind as our liaison man?
(Yoshi: Ah!)
Hakota: I don’t want to be alone! /I don’t want to be alone!

Miki: Wait up, everyone…
Yoshi: Um,/ Oh yes!//
Tokine’s seat.// If we don’t leave an empty place for her…!

Miki:……..// Right.

(p5)
Sen: Well, Shu. You stay.
Shu: Alright…// (I knew it…)
(Hakota: Heh.)

(Yoshi: I’ll sit at the front.)
(Sen: Are ya sure this boat is okay?)
Miki: Excuse me…// But please make it as quick as possible.

Now then…//
SFX: Pulls
Yuugami: While that devil…/ No, I mean…// While Yashiro-san is not around,/ let us make the move now.
SFX: Tugs

(p6)
Tokine: Um…/ Will you be alright if you did that?
Yuugami: Hmph./ You still do not know what is going on, even now.// I don’t do it out of good will.

SFX: Turns around

Yuugami: It’s a favor.// During this period, I’m going to make you help me in investigating the Shinyuuchi Hunting till you die from vertigo!
SFX: Points
Tokine: Please do not point at me.

Yuugami: In any case, the Prosecution Office is an unincorporated zone.// Criminal or whatsoever, once you get out of here, you‘ll find a way eventually. //
Seek help from the people you know who have the power,/ and they will solve it with you…
SFX: Clunk//
Clunking, Clunking

(p7)
Yuugami: It locked…
Tokine: Let me break it?

Yuugami: What an uncivilized thought.// Take a good look behind you.//
This inquisition room,// contains 3 unusual living creatures. //
Those things// are trained to attack whoever force open this door to escape.

Tokine: Then…
Yuugami: But we have no time.// It’s critical to be a little wild sometimes.//
Are you// confident with your running?

(p8)
Monster: GYAOOOOOOOOOOO

(p9)
Yuugami: You leave me no other choice. Here’s a big gift from me.//
SFX: Pulls
Let me get rid one of you!

(p10)
(Yuugami: Do you still remember the route from this room to the path outside?)//
Of course, that weird thingy will chase after you.// Just try to avoid it whenever you can. //
The only thing that can get you out of the island is this registered transportation. // Use Kamina.

Tokine: Umm…/ is this really okay for you?
Yuugami: Hmph./ I can’t think of any reason for you to worry about me.//
You can say it’s for// protecting Karasumori.// Isn’t that unadorned purpose your duty?//
Therefore, you shouldn’t even be captured at such a place,// just to be brainwashed.

(p11)
Yuugami: Do not// let me see you coming back to this place again.

Yashiro: Yuugami.//
What on earth is going on…?
Yuugami: Ah,/ Yashiro-san. There is trouble./ The lady has escaped.

(p12)
Yuugami: But I got the two monsters to chase after her now.// I was nearly attacked as well, / so I have to get rid of one myself.

Yashiro: Yuugami…/ where is your luggage?
Yuugami: Ahh…// It's embarrassing to say this,// but it was stolen.

Yashiro: Isn’t that…/ your stock-in-trade which you would never leave it behind no matter where you go?
Yuugami: Right.// That lady is sure quite a catch.//
But no worries.// Without my volition, Kamina won’t be able to move at all.

(p13)
Yuugami: She can’t go far.// Please wait for a moment. I shall go and bring her back right now.

Man: Wha,/ What is that?!

Tokine: Argh, enough!// You are so pesky.//
KETSU!!

(p14)
(Yuugami: This has to be related to a series of the Shinyuuichi Hunting which sets the motion.)
Tokine: (Those words Yuugami-san has said… What does it really mean…?)//
(I have to be brainwashed… because I am a Kekkaishi?)// (So they can set me up as the real criminal of the Shinyuuchi Hunting?)//
(Or could it be…// to make me to commit the Shinyuuchi Hunting itself?)//
(………// I don’t think I have the power to do such a thing, // and perhaps, there might really be a way somehow or another…)//
(But!)// For the least, I must escape!!)

(p15)
Tokine: (To be captured here,// is not only my own business anymore…)//
(I might become a burden, before I even protected Karasumori!)//
Please, Kamina-chan!

(p16)
Tokine: (In this way,I can get out of the island…)
SFX: slips

(p17)
Tokine: Eh…?!

Sigh…//
Yashiro: Now, now. That lady. How should I deal with her then?

(p18)
This fog is really thick.
Miki: Can you be a little faster?
Man: Well,/ this fellow is already swimming at its top shape. //
And,// there’s a disturbance in the island again.

Sen: Oh.// I can see it.

[side text: Tokine’s welfare is?!
If they don’t hurry, the worst outcome will be… …
And so, the anxiety looms over to the next issue!!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 208

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:43:40 +0000

Sorry to keep you waiting. It's been a while. I hope everyone is doin' well. :tem
Well, for me, I've been busy with my life as I just lost my job but no worries. I will still stick around.
Meanwhile... Erh... Not a right place to ask but if anyone has manga raws to Mushishi(vol 1-7[or more]), I'll be happy if you PM/email me with them. I want to pick this series up for translation since god, this work is LOVE.
Alright, ALRIGHT. Now strictly Kekkaishi talk ONLY!

Enjoy~

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[Last Edited: 23th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]

(p1)
[side text: “Indeed what sort of trouble would arise if you were to disappear in this place right now?”//
Tokine is speechless by the question that goes beyond the words of an inquisition.
What on earth is the Prosecutor Office thinking?!]

[(Weekly Sunday 50th year Anniversary)This work is about-
Karasumori. A land bustling with spiritual energy. For more than four hundred years, it has been protected from Akayashi(demon/monster) by the specialists who deal with them. They are called “Kekkaishi“. In the present day, Sumimura Yoshimori and Yukimura Tokine are the two Kekkaishi that protect the land. However, the feuding between both families persists even today. Nevertheless, Yoshimori ignores the reasons and has fallen in love with Tokine who is two years older than him. And so, he foresees sealing the land and ridding the Akayashi from coming forth to the ever-changing land as necessities. In addition, Yoshimori wants to work together with Tokine as partners in order to dispel the estrangement between their families forever. But there is still a long long way to go. Right now, there are more and more troubles brewing in unique Karasumori, waiting for them to conquer!]

Tokine: What…/ What do you mean?

Chapter 208: Inquisition

(p2)
[side text: On account of the suspicion on the God Murder, Tokine was taken away to Urakai Prosecutor Office, alias "The Guillotine Island." Out of the blue, the inquisition has become…]

Yuugami: I say,/ what level of importance does it matter to you of Karasumori?//
According to the report I read, //is that including you, there are currently four legal successors guarding the place.// So even if you, who is the weakest among the group, were to disappear,// it wouldn’t have much effect on Karasumori…//
In words, // this is your motive, isn’t it?//
People who feel that they wasn’t needed…// are usually the types who create trouble.

(p3)
Tokine: Wha…//You’re wrong!// I wouldn’t go and kill a God for such a silly reason!!//
At that moment, I did what I think that is the….
Yuugami: So does that mean you know that you’re weak?// Well, then. Next.//
You/ How much were you paid for hunting the Shinyuuchi?

Tokine: Wha…// What’s this…?
Yuugami: I don’t know how useful you can be,//but the ability to manipulate kekkai and space is a requirement. Am I right?//
Like I told you previously,// a Shinyuuchi Hunting took place back at my home.

(p4)
Yuugami: The inheritance is my sister…// But,// based on the Yuugami’s tradition, the eldest should be the heir.//
And so, my sister was strictly nurtured for succession since young.// Only to live for the sake of protecting the land that has been passed on through generations. //
And then one day,/ the land that she was supposed to protect disappeared all of the sudden.//
From that moment, our family has lost the purpose to survive.// And sis, she said,// “From this point onwards, what should I truly live for?”// Then she just stays at home all day, refusing to take even a step out of the house. //
A pitiful person.//
But you are different, aren’t you?//
You, who are the weakest in Karasumori,// wouldn’t have a deep attachment towards the place.//
And so…if…// there is a temptation…

(p5)
Tokine: You’re wrong.//
Protecting Karasumori// is my duty.
Nothing can change the fact.// Therefore, even if it’s inevitable to make such a decision; even if it’s a God, I would still kill it---------//
Your sister and I…// I believe we are no different at all.

Yuugami: …………// Hmph.

(p6)
Shu: Phe--w.

Yoshi: Akitsu!
Shu: Yoshimori-kun!//
Come, have your back face me.
Yoshi: Oh?

(p7)
Shu: 1 one// 2 two
Yoshi: Oh?// Oh?

Shu: 3!! THREE
Yoshi: Ohh?!

Sen: Ah.// Comin’, comin’!
(Yoshi: OHHHHHHH~)

Sen: Yoshimori!

(p8)
Yoshi: Erh…/ that guy is…
Sen: Ahh?/ Hakota-kun?//
The place, Urakai Prosecutor Office that we’re going now,// is situated right in the middle of a lake. It has isolated itself from the rest of the world. So…// we’ll never know what’s really going on inside.//
Hakota-kun’s clairvoyance,/ might be useful.

Yoshi: …..
Sen: What’s up with ya? Better safe than sorry, ya know?//
Didn’t I tell you that I would never be treading on thin ice. // We’ll be back safe and sound.
Yoshi: Uh.

(p9)
Mukade: Well then, I’ll be leaving for my next job…
Yoshi: Ah…/ Thank you so much for everything.//
Mukade-san looks exhausted…
Sen: That’s because he is the only person who can transport in a large amount…(He’s the leader of the Courier Class.)

Yoshi: So, where the heck is that Prosecutor Office?!
Sen: Just wait. We’re supposed to assemble at this place.

Yoshi: Assemble?
Sen: Ah, she’s here.// Thank you for the trouble.

Vice Chief!

Yoshi: (Hatori-san!)
Sen: Vice Chief, the document…

(p10)
Miki: Yoshimori-kun.//
From now on, we’ll get into the island of the Prosecutor Office// in the name of Tokine-chan’s guardians.
And with this,/ it’ll be mandatory for them to release her.

Sen: Right on!// We’ll be able to get things done quickly, doncha?

Yoshi: Yes,/ YES!/ THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Shu: That’s great, Yoshimori-kun.
Hakota: No need to thank us~~~
Sen: That’s our Vice Chief! But how did you get that document in the first place?
Miki: Secret.

(p11)
Yashiro: Yuugami.//
I’ll get the room ready.// That lady is pretty stubborn.
Yuugami: Eh?//
You mean…// “the brainwashing room”?

Yashiro: Meanwhile,// don’t allow her to loosen up for even a bit.

Yuugami: Understood.//
Well …then…
SFX: Whew

(p12)
Yuugami: There isn’t much time,/ so let’s get to the conclusion…//
You// better get out of this place, fast.//
If this goes on,/ every part of your mind will be exposed.// And then, you might be brainwashed, killed or obscured./ In any case, they will use whatever ways that benefit them.//
The very moment we set foot on the Third Island, I felt something was strange./ And the serious look from Yashiro-san since then, it can’t be wrong.
Tokine: Erh…/ Wait a mi…
Yuugami: That’s my thought but------

(p13)
Yuugami: This has to be related to a series of the Shinyuuichi Huntings, which sets the motion.
Tokine: Eh?

Yuugami: But it’s not because I sympathized with you that I said this./ Like I’ve mentioned, I have my own opinions on the Shinyuuchi Hunting.// But it’s just that this whole incident is so indefinite that it frustrates me deeply./ So in order to stop them, I’d be happy to assist you in escaping-----//
That’s what I want to say in general. //Do you believe in my words?

(p14)
Tokine: Yes.

Yuugami: You said it without hesitation, huh?

Tokine: You might make harsh remark, and you’re long-winded,// but before that, you’ll always be explaining things,/ and in the gentle way.
Yuugami: …..
Tokine: But this is the main point.//
I don’t feel like I’ve been cuffed like a criminal…// And you even made a flower for me, isn’t it?//
And this is entirely…
SFX: Twist

(p15)
Tokine: …not tight at all.//
That previous ill-natured question…// I did have a feeling that you said it on purpose,/ though I still answer seriously.

Yuugami: Smart, aren‘t you?// The type I dislike.

(p16)
Yoshi: Wouldn’t it better to let Mukade-san to send us to the island straight away?
Sen: No./ If we don’t follow the routes decided by the Prosecutor Office, we won’t be able to get in.//
It seems that any outsider that is trying to enter by air will be shot.
Yoshi: shot…?

Sen: No worries. As long as we obey the rules and the procedures, there shouldn’t be a problem.//
We even have the document by our side.
(Hakota: Wai…Wait…!)

Sen: (………..// There should be a place nearby for us to get into the island.)//
(Well, Vice Chief should know her way around.)

(p17)
Miki: (Tokine-chan has been in the island for five hours…// it might be dangerous…)//
(It was heard that the island has possessed countless of perilous facilities…//Among all, the worst is “the brainwashing room”…!)//
(It has the capability to control a person’s memories and personality forcefully, and change according to their needs---------)//
(From here, it’s very clear this incident’s conspiracy is big enough that, / the possibility to be brought to that place is high…)//
(Let us make it on time!!)

(p18)
Yashiro: (That lady has made my technique working way harder than I’ve imagined…//In order to deal with her more effectively, I would have to prepare a stronger restricting device…)

[side text: Oi, What the hell is this place?!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 207

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:57:32 +0000

~~The previous arc, we have Yoshi who gave a bribery to her future grandmother-in-law. This time, he's taking a step forward by..... WOW.~~

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*{T.N}= Translator’s notes

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[Last Edited: 17th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]
(p1)
[side text: Tokine was taken away,
due to the suspicion of the God Murder.
The one who took her away is Urakai Prosecution Office, Special Investigation Team!
But then, isn’t the action a little too fast?…]

*{T.N= Read from right to left}
[urakai Prosecution Office(alias, The Guillotine Island)]
[The First Island]
[The Third Island]
[The Second Island]

Chapter 207: The Guillotine Island

(p2)
[side text: Upon this isolated island, what will really….?!]

Yuugami: A gorgeous…// landing…//
Right, Yashiro-san? ~(fufu)
Yashiro: Right, right! Just keep moving already.
SFX: heave-ho

SFX: Stands up

(p3)
Yuugami: Hands, out.//
It’s stated that the suspects have to be give up part of their freedom.
SFX: Pull

Yuugami: Well, let’s start ty--ing you up.//
Ah, this isn’t a normal handkerchief, of course.
SFX: blazing

SFX: BAM// Twisting
Yuugami: U--h. Wrong.~//
Come! Keep your hands closer.
Tokine: AH!/ Please don’t pull me over like that!

SFX: Pull
Yuugami: Alrighty, So that’s it!

(p4)
SFX: blossoms

SFX: smiles
Yuugami: Gorgeous, isn’t it?~//
It brings out your sober attire so much better than before.(fufu)//
Kamina, let’s put her down.
SFX: lets off// Opens

(p5)
Yuugami: You did a fine job.// Please return, Kamina.//
Well then, let’s move on to the procedure for Island Entry.

Girl: Thank you for the trouble.// Yashiro-san, Yuugami-san.

Yashiro: Please handle the procedure for this child.

(p6)
[urakai Prosecution Office// Administration for Island Entry]

Girl: Although it’s called to be a procedure,/ it is simply a record to show the time of whoever is coming in and out.
SFX: stare

Girl: So, // please allow me to stamp a mark.
Yuugami: Here,// show out your right hand.
Girl: Wow, it’s so pretty. What’s this?

SFX: Paste
Girl: Hmph!
SFX: press and turn
Tokine: Ouch!

[Prosecute]

(p7)
Girl: This will be removed when you leave the island.//
As long as you have this with you… // If you make any unsettling move, we will know no matter where you are.// So please be careful.

Yuugami: Huh? Yashiro-san.// The inquisition room should be over there.

Yashiro: Yuugami,// Get Kamina out one more time.//
To The Third Island.

Yuugami: Oh~

(p8)
[The Yukimura]

That’s why I said it’s definitely suspicious!//
Sen: Even if it’s something that has to do with the God Murder, it doesn’t need to involve the Investigation Team at all!// And didn’t the prophecy mention that something will happen to the interior of Urakai?/ If the Yukimura is dragged into this, we have to resolve it fast and…

[sen.]
Sen: Yes, what is it? Sazanami-san.

Sazanami: You// have put in too much feeling towards the ones under scrutiny.//
Moreover, you’re too bothered by the prophecy./ I’d told you to put things in broader perspective for deeper consideration, right?//
Never mind. We’ve already started to investigate on the prophecy a little, so let’s put this aside…// For the Investigation Team who interrupt abruptly, it doesn’t seem good indeed.

(p9)
Sazanami: Even though they’d insisted that they are appearing as a neutral organization…// However in reality, they’re backed up by various people, and in such a confined condition. / Thus, it’s a secluded place whereby no one would really know what has truly happened-------- //
[People who are taken away and be imprisoned forever due to the circumstances over there; such an incident is pretty common actually.]
Sen: Wha…/ WHAT?! THAT’S DAMN TOO RIDICULOUS!!

Sazanami: Now listen.// It’s because it’s THAT kind of place, which sort-of means…Somehow or another, it’s easy to add on to the pressure.//
Like our Chief, for example…Didn’t he even borrow Okuni’s power right now?// There are still tactics available.

Sen: …..// Eh… About the Chief who joined hands with Okuni…// Well…Can Okuni be trusted?

Sazanami: [As partners, Okuni is not pretty bad actually.// She makes accurate judgment too.]
Sen: Ahh…

(p10)
Sazanami: And,/ if there’s anything fishy that needs to be explained,// She can be trusted for that. //
[in other words, we need to get the person out of the Prosecution Office as soon as possible.]// [it’s already strange that she could be back by today, but it’s better to make a move now.// Well then, first things first------]

SFX: knocks, knocks//
Opens swiftly

Sen: I got the cue.//
We’re moving out in a hour.// Get ready.

(p11)
*{T.N= Manly Yoshi*fan girl*}

(p12)
Yoshi: I beg you.// Please allow me to go.//
Tokine was taken away because…// I was weak-minded…//
Gramps might say…// it’s not the case that it happened…//
But to say that I’m always protecting Karasumori,//it’s more like I’m fighting for the sake of protecting the ones around me…//
Yup./ The one who makes me think in this way,/ is her…

(p13)
Yoshi: A/ long long time ago… She, who in order to protect me, has gotten a serious injury. At that moment…// I regretted so much to the point of death, as I couldn’t do anything at all.//
And maybe according to the condition, I might give up the job of Karasumori after all.//
But!/ To me, saving her is my real duty…!//
If I couldn’t even protect her…// I would somehow always have this feeling of being torn apart…//
I know I sound stubborn!// But please let me go!// I’m begging you!

(p14)
Shige: ……//
Can you…//
bear the responsibilities to that action of yours?//
That no matter what happens in the end,// you will be able to accept it?

(p15)
Yoshi: At least,// It's much better than doing nothing at all.
Shige: Then go.//
However. (SFX: shocked)//
There are people who did it for you, am I right?// Please give thanks to them./ You must never forget the heart of gratitude.

Yoshi: Yes!

(p16)
[The Third Island]

SFX: Roars/ splash
Yashiro: I shall repeat the inquisition from the beginning once again.

(p17)
Yashiro: The owner of Hidagou appeared in Karasumori/ around the time of 2am today, to be exact…
Tokine: Yes…

Yashiro: At that time, you still didn’t know that was the owner of Hidagou?
Tokine: Yes…// (What’s going on… Why does this person’s words keep giving me the creeps?)

Yuugami: (Yashiro-san is sure spending whole lots of time…// He must be doing this to deprive her energy slowly, huh?)

Yashiro: And then the owner of Hidagou started his attack…
SFX: taps,taps

Yuugami: I don’t think we need to question her about the process one more time.// Will it be alright for me to get into the topic straight away?//
SFX: Turns over
Well then…

(p18)
Yuugami: I suppose,/ you also understand what is going to happen.//
For the people who are brought to the Third Island by the Prosecution Office,/ we’ve specially arrange lots of fun activities for those devils who misbehave, ya know?

Tokine: ……../ What? Are you threatening me?
Yuugami: Well, let's start from this question, shall we?//
Indeed what sort of trouble would arise// if you would to disappear in this place right now?

Tokine: ….Eh?

[side text: What kind of words are those?! This guy is really fishy! What is he intending to do with Tokine? Yoshimori, Hurry! We’re all counting on you!!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 206

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:29:50 +0000

~~Screw my stomachahe.~~ Full speed ahead!!!:tem
And woohoo, we have a color spread. Kekkaishi needs more color spreads! :yelling

Disclaimer for scanlators:
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Wait for the volume raws instead(and this would ensure better quality for the readers too.)
Read this for more info.
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If you see any errors, please let me know.
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*{T.N}= Translator’s notes

For people who want to refer together with the pictures, click here.

[Last Edited: 9th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]
(p1)
[side text: While the magazine is in the mood of celebration, the main character seems to have been captured!!]

White Man: Ahhh~, so you must be Yukimura Tokine-san, huh?

Black Man(Yashiro): I am Yashiro from Urakai’s Prosecution Office, Special Investigation Team.

White Man(Yuugami): And I am Yuugami. //
I would like to hear, in more details, about you killing the God last night.// Could you please come with us right now?

(p2-p3)
[side text: When someone precious is in danger, and you couldn’t do anything about it.
That, is the most painful of them all.]

Chapter 206: Special Investigation Team

(p4)
Yoshi: Hurray…//
Did you see that?! My space-shuttering-killing-move in Tornado style!// A splendid closure! / Clos….
SFX: spins, spins

SFX: topples onto the floor

Yoshi: My eyes…./ My eyes are spinning~~~…
SFX: dizzy
Tokiko: ……..

(p5)
SFX: Whew
Tokiko: Although the process turns out pretty dangerous, / it’s good enough for a beginner. // 60 points.
Yoshi: (60 points…?)
Tokiko: Leave the details to me. Take a short rest.

Yoshi: Hmph~~ Old lady is sure damn strict.
Underling: But you did it so well!
SFX: claps, claps

Yoshi: Huh? Where’s Mamezou?
Underling: Ahh. It looks like he has returned to his place.//
But why do I feel…. that somehow in the end, I’ve been greatly lectured…?
SFX: Sigh…
(Mamezou: All would be destroyed without a single trail.)
Yoshi: ?

SFX: flaps

Yoshi: (Huh? / Tokine’s Shikigami…?)

(p6)
Tokine has been taken away by Urakai’s Prosecution Office, Special Investigation Team?!

Shikigami: “It’s just a simple inquisition./ I would only be back by the evening so please don’t worry about me.”/ That’s all.

Yoshi: Special Investigation Team is…?
Underling: Urakai’s Prosecution Office, Special Investigation Team is a place that handles unique cases that would have a special impact on the society…//
But this is strange.// It’s far too early.//
The fastest speed for Urakai to submit the report would have been this morning.// But they didn’t even wait till the case in Higadou is properly handled,/ and they’ve already made a move…

(p7)
Yoshi: But, you don’t say that she was caught, right?
Underling: Eh…Well, in this case…//
Right now,// I’ve been here since last night, but I have no contact with anybody from the Investigation Team at all.//
If they made this move, // I believe they will charge not for “The God Murder”, but in the name of “The Shinyuuchi Hunting”.//
If they are truly accusing for the case of “The God Murder”,/ would they rather put Hidagou aside, which is the starting of everything, and move on to the Yukimura’s straight away?

Tokiko: Nonetheless, it’s too despotic of them to take someone away without the permission of the head./ Somehow, I have to defend.

(p8)
Yoshi: (Tokine…// It’s because of me that she…)

Tokiko: You. Listen.
SFX: surprised

Tokiko: Don’t do/ anything silly.

(p9)
Underling: (Sigh….Taking 3 people on the same time is exhausting…)

Sen: Yoshimori!

Yoshi: Kagemiya!

(p10)
By the time we’ve arrived, she was already taken away…//
Sen: She wasn’t treated as a criminal, /but from the words of Auntie, things don’t look good either.//
Although she was brought away for inquisition…/ something is still fishy.//
I heard that the Investigation Team are made up of elites,// which also means that the way they handle might be harsh…//
(If the prophecy is true, then this is the calamity brought by that God…//Maybe this is the key that connects to more calamities…)//
(And then Karasumori will be destroyed ultimately--------)// (Had it happened already?// But yesterday’s condition looks different from the image I’ve seen. )

(p11)
Sen: …….//
Why/ are you not asking , “Where is The Prosecution Office?!”,/ or something like that?

Yoshi: …..// If I asked, then I definitely wouldn't be sitting here and doing nothing… //
What if I did anything silly…? Wouldn’t I make it worse for Tokine…?//
Anyway, Even if I go, I can't do much./ Problems would arise immediately too…// And in the end, everyone would call me an idiot and…

(p12)
Yoshi: KYA----------------------------!!//
What are you…//
Sen: Of course I know that kind of stuff!/ If you want to go, just GO! MO----------RON!! (Stop dilly-dallying!)

Yoshi: Why are you so pissed?!// Will you help me if I said that?!

Sen: Huh?

(Tokiko: Borrow more of the intelligence and the strength from the ones who are by your side.)

SFX: Grabs

(p13)
Yoshi: I want to go.// I want to go and rescue Tokine now.

Sen: ~~~~~~~~~~~~// (So direct…)//
Alright./ I will think of some way or another.

(p14)
Yoshi: RE…REALLY?!
Sen: But it’s impossible to go right away./ We need to prepare first.//
I’m tellin’ ya./ I am the cautious type.// So if the preparation and the investigation ain’t enough, / I won’t make a move. //
So don’t put too much hope on me.
Yoshi: Uh!// Uh!// Thank you, Kagemiya!

Sen: Mo--ron!//It’s too early for you to say that.//
(I believe it will be dangerous,//but if I don’t do anything, I won’t be able to break the chain to the calamity…)// (So…it’s worth giving it a try…for the very least!)

(p15)
Yashiro: Pardon us but it’s the rule.// It might be narrow but please bear with it a little more.

Tokine: Sure.

Yuugami: Yashiro-san.// Aren’t you a little too friendly towards that lady?

(p16)
Yuugami: This is a God murder.// Fufu. Yes, it’s the God Murder.//
Must be a lady with too much guts to spare.
Yashiro: Stop it, Yuugami.

Yuugami: Moreover, Yashiro-san…/ When did the Kekkaishi hunt for the Shinyuuchi…

Yashiro: Enough. Stop spouting things that are unrelated to the case.
Yuugami: Aww~// I believe I have the right to say whatever I want.//
After all, my old home…// is related to the Shinyuuchi Hunting.//
Oh~~~/ We are about to see it soon.

(p17-p18)
*{T.N=Very nicely drawn scenery}

(p19)
Yuugami: The island in the middle of that lake,// is our headquarter of Urakai’s Prosecution Office…//
Its alias is,//
“*The Guillotine Island”

[side text: This island that is isolated to the rest of the world…What is it indeed?!]

*{T.N=I usually stick to the Japanese name for the better sounding. But there is an obvious meaning to the naming, so I will use the English name for this.}

Translation: Honey and Clover 2

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:55:29 +0000

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Numbering of pages is followed by the raw provided.
Dear Scanlator(s), please keep the translator's notes when scanlating. Thank you.

Here's the raw.

[Last Edited: 8th Sept 2008]

(p1)
Honey and Clover chapter 2

(p2)
Mayama: This….This is…
Takemoto: Could this be…

[This is Colobockle’s foot!!](Hi-Lite(huge) model)

Shuji: Morita brought it here yesterday.
(Cup: Tea)
Mayama+Takemoto: No wonder.

Mayama: Morita-senpai…/ It’s just as I thought. I’ve been wondering why the heck did he want the footprint for…
-------------------
(The clay board)
Morita: HAHAHAHAHA
Hagu: KYA-----
-------------------
Takemoto: Sensei…/ How’s Hagu-chan?

(p3)
Shuji: Um---She is totally afraid of Morita now. (She was also fleeing like mad yesterday…)//
So now she hid inside, creating works to release her stress.
-----------------
Morita: Sit on this!!!
Hagu: Nooooo!// I hate you----! Go away----!(Stop it----!Stop it already----!)
-----------------
SFX: Phew
Mayama: Poor thing…/That Morita will surely chase Hagu-chan around-the-clock---
Shuji: He might debut his new work in every 2,3 days…/ but…they would always come out great…So why don’t he use that skill in his homework instead, Morita…

SFX: sparkling with excitement
Takemoto: Sensei, I never see Hagu-chan’s works before. Is it alright for me to take a look?
Shuji: Oh, sure!// She’s working attentively so keep it soft, okay?

(p4)
Takemoto: I wonder…// what kind of work will she be making? (Mayama: Let’s take a look!)

IMPRESSIVE-----------------------------
-----------------------------------------
---------------------------------------?!

SFX: Tap, tap ,tap

SFX: Rapt in beauty
Shuji: Such a deep concentration, isn’t it?/ In this state, she won’t even take a slip of water.//
An art museum is constructing at the harbor of *Yokohama./ In the future, this will be exhibited in the lobby.//
When Hagu-chan was in year 1 of her high school, she caught the attention of my friend, who is the owner of the gallery. / “I must let Hagumi-san to be the one to do it.”, he specially requested.

(Takemoto’s head: petrified)

*{T.N= Yokohama is an urban port city in Japan.}

(p5)
Shuji: Every time I look at Hagu’s work, I would stand rapt, awe in amazement. / It’s like, her creations would move on its own within a moment. //
Whether it’s a bird, a flower, or a human… / If I just lend my ears and listen, I could hear the music of the flowing bloodstream.//
Even the gallery’s owner often says….//
“How I truly yean to see this world through Hagu’s eyes.” //
By then, what would the scenery be like------

(p6)
Shuji: To be able to convey such a sentiment; I guess it is what we called, a talent.//
(No wonder it’s Hagu. Even her footprint is so cute~~~~)

Takemoto: Hagu-chan is,// amazing…

Mayama: Eh?/ Ah, even I was surprised too.
Takemoto: Why do I somehow…// feel that I’m taken aback by this…?

(p7)
Takemoto: Though I hold this thought of “wanting to do anything” when getting into the art college…/However, once I begin to consider about the future… Where would I be, what kind of job I would be doing…/ Those kind of things, I never thought about them before.//
That’s why…//
when I saw Hagu-chan, I felt…// a little… anxious…//
Morita-senpai might look self-indulgence, but…/ I believe that somewhere in this world, he actually has an amazing job waiting for him.//
And when Mayama-senpai has graduated,/ you’ll be hired by the *retail design company that you’re working in for your part-time job too. Am I right?

*{T.N= Retail design is a specialized practice of interior design, graphic design, ergonomics and advertising. Primarily, it‘s to draw people into the retail space to shop.}

(p8)
Mayama: Ah, you meant Rika’s place…/ Umm……I don’t really know myself…
SFX: Dazed-----….

Mayama: Auntie! One more oyster fritter!//
Here you go.//
Well, Takemoto, you’re only in your year 2.// Don’t panic. You can have the time to try everything.// Ultimately, you will bound to find something you’re interested in.

(p9)
Mayama: A lot of things in this world…/have to give them a try before you understand./ Isn’t it?

Takemoto: …../ Gotcha, Senpai.
SFX: Slips, slips---

Mayama: This week, I’m thinking of… /having an outdoor *Teppanyaki party. What do you think?
-------------
Man 1: Stare….
Man 2: Just a while more… It’ll be done…
SFX: Grills---
[The apartment’s big iron griddle that is passed through generations.]
-----------------
Mayama: Let’s invite the professor and Hagu-chan to the apartment too.

Takemoto: Alright. Let’s do it!

*{T.N= Teppanyaki is a type of Japanese cuisine whereby food is grilled on the iron griddle.}

(p10)
HA------LLO
Takemoto: Ah? Hagu-chan, what are you doing?
SFX: glue, glue

Takemoto: Hagu’s notebook?
(book: Hagu’s notebook)
Mayama: Ahh, you’re pasting the things that you wanted, huh?
Takemoto: Oh----, I see! There are sandals, bags and clothes…
SFX: Nods------

Takemoto: Whoa, so expensive! Are women’s items that expensive, no?/ How can you own these?/ These things are too expensive, right?!

Mayama: …Idiot…// It’s that expensive, so that’s why she has to glue them up.
Takemoto: Opps…Sorry.
SFX: gloomy~~~~

(p11)
Man: Good afternoon---/ I’m from Kyodou’s Bookstore…(Thank you for your purchase.)
AH!// COLOBOCKLE?!

SFX: Stunned// in disarray

Man: Ah…Eh…Please excuse me…// It’s just that I saw this picture that looks a lot like her on the internet…

Mayama+Takemoto: Internet?

Man: Um…// This’s the website.
SFX: type, type, type

SFX: Clicks~

(p12)
FINALLY IT WAS FOUND!//
THIS IS// COLOBOCKLE!!

IT’S MORITA-SAN---------!!(DEFINITELY)

It’s the mushroom seat from that time!// And isn’t that the footprint from the day before yesterday?!

Takemoto: Ahhh! Hagu-chan, hang in there!
SFX: faints~~~
But Morita-san is sure too brilliant. / The entire page is filled with advertisements.

Mayama: How much would he get for every click?
Man: It’s like stepping straight into a mouse trap.// You thought this would lead to the next page, but 50% of them are actually commercials.
SFX: type, type, type

(p13)
Man: Ah! The fee is little though. One click is only worth for *50 yen….// But this is a very popular site for the geeky…./ Likewise, not only the updating speed is fast, the secret compartments are ever increasing too….(So…. There’s this feeling like “I’m throwing with everything I got.”…It motivates people~~~~)
SFX: sparkling// Type,type,type
Mayama: 100...1 000 000 hits per day…??//
…Only Morita-san could have done it… No matter what he is doing, he can always get the money in some ways or another…
(Morita: My guarding genius is Bill Gate!
Man: Senpai, that man is still alive!!!)

*{T.N= 50 yen is only like US$0.50. It‘s really that little.}

SFX: Opens violently
AHHH! MORITA-SAN!

SFX: walking briskly…// Shocked

SFX: stands up
Man: (How much would that cost?) EHHH?!// I WANT IT!
Mayama: WHAT?!
Morita: This’s for you.// This is a paper weight I made from Colobockle’s foot.
SFX: What a tiny foot~~~

(p14)
SFX: (Morita: hit, hit, hit)// (Hagu: Throws, throws, throws) (Too frightened to speak.)
Mayama: Ah… He is hatred…(book: Hagu’s notebook)

Man: Uh….Please sell that to me!
SFX: Runs away~~~~

Morita: ………// Hmph!
SFX: Tugs
Man: NOOOOO!(Colobockle’s paper foot!)

Oh yes!//
Takemoto: Morita-senpai, are you coming for the Teppanyaki party?/ The professor, Hagu-chan and everyone in the apartment will be participating.
Morita: …I../ need to go out again by tonight…

(p15)
Takemoto: How long would you take this time?/ We’ll wait for you.
SFX: Hm….
Morita: ……………………/ I should be able to complete within a week.

SFX: Sigh…
Man: I wanna it so much, that paper weight…~~~/ Never mind. It’s enough for me witness that girl in the legend with my very own eyes …
Mayama: Pardon me, but for the safety…/ Please do not tell others that she’s studying in this university…
Man: Of course!/ I will certainly keep my lips sealed. After all, geeks are scary… What’s more, she’s related to Professor Hanamoto.

He’s too slow…//
Mayama: Did Morita-san really said that he’ll be back by a week?(It’s already the 9th day…)
Takemoto: Maybe he was delayed?

Mayama: I think we should just do it.

Takemoto: No…We should wait a while more!/ He looks like he really wants to join in the fun. What’s more….

(p16)
Takemoto: Morita-san is actually afraid of loneliness.// He must be really looking forward to this event. So if we start it first, he will be greatly disappointed. / So let’s wait for him.
Mayama: O…….Oh. Okay. (Morita-san is scared of loneliness?/ I didn’t expect Takemoto to be that mature?!)
SFX: A big blow (His thinking is still very childish.)

Morita: Ugh…
SFX: Dirty, dirty// drags, drags

(p17)
Woman: Wel….// Welcome….
SFX: walks hurried // drags, drags

SFX: grabs// digs out// shocked

SFX: digs, digs, digs
Woman: Oh! Mister?!// Wha…What are you…

Morita: This…/ The size for this foot.// Give it to me.
Woman: Ple… Please wait for a moment.

(p18)
Woman: Ah…Um…/ I got the shoes for you.
Morita: How much?
Woman: Eh… This pair costs *32 000 yen./ Are you paying by card or…

Mayama: Ah, I’m in the rush so…/ not need to wrap it.
SFX: A hand full of cash.

*{T.N= 32 000 yen is like US$295. It‘s too bloody expensive for a shoe. So that means he brought a luxury good. And no one really pay by cash(the money is too thick for you to carry around) when shopping for luxury goods, so that’s why the staff are so surprised.}

Women: Tha…// Thank you so much!
SFX: walks hurried

Takemoto: Senpai,// When are you coming back?~

SFX: Opens violently
AHHH! SENPAI!

(p19)
SFX: Feeling dizzy
Morita: Ugh…/Takemoto…The Teppanyaki party…~// Is it over already?
Takemoto: Not yet. We’re waiting for you!/ You must be exhausted!
Morita: H…here…Gift…

Takemoto: WAH!! SENPAI! MEAT?!// You specially brought it for us?
SFX: nods

Takemoto: 1 kg beef for *650 yen…// Senpai… You’re calculative as usual. It’s just what Senpai will always be./ Ah. But Senpai! Everyone will be so happy when they saw these. I’m very happy too!
SFX: nods
Mayama: Don’t tell me they’ve formed such a trusting bond with one another?! (Feeling lonely as he was left out.)

*{T.N= 650 yen is around US$6.}

(Hagu: Enemy!)
SFX: shivers, shivers// Peeks…

Takemoto: Senpai?
SFX: moves

(p20)
Morita: Take it.

Hagu: HEELS.// It’s a pair of sparkling pink heels!

Mayama+Takemoto: MORITA-SAN?!
SFX: falling asleep

(p21)
SFX: DASH
Hagu: SENSEI!// SHUJI-SENSEI----------//HAGU HAS GOTTEN A PAIR OF HEELS~~~~
Takemoto: MORITA-SAN?!
SFX: FALLS

Takemoto: ……..Uh…//He’s sleeping?
SFX: Snorts~~~~~~~

Takemoto: I guess that’s it for now…… I shall shove Senpai back to his bed first.//
He looks very pale…// So I think he needs to sleep around 48 hours till he gets up again….
Mayama: Takemoto, you are really such a nice person…(He bullied you so much, and yet you still treat him so nicely!)// You reminded me of my dog back at my home…//
Chacha(Loyal dog)
Akita Dog/ 4 years old
SFX: Woof…Woof// Sparkling…

(p22)
SFX: Spins, spins, spins// tap, tap, tap, tap ,tap
Hagu: Pink heels!★ // Cute heels!★
Shuji: I see. It’s from Morita…// However…I wonder where the heck did he gotten such a pair of retro heels?(Back in my student days, those girls love this type so much!)

SFX: Astonished--------
Mayama: Miu…*Miu Miu?// Indeed how much did Morita-san has spent?!

*{T.N= No wonder it costs so much. Miu Miu is opened by Miuccia Prada. Although it‘s cheaper than Prada and aimed more as the daily-oriented, it‘s still *cough* too expensive. Well, to me, it is. T_T That’s why I still sitting here translating works. Well, it’s not like I would stop translating even if I’m rich though.)

Takemoto: So…/ Heavy…// It’s only meat, so I should have put them in the school’s freezer in the first place…
SFX: drags, drags

SFC: Snore--------
Takemoto: Senpai, Hagu-chan…// looks really, really happy./ She would definitely forgive you about the internet’s incident too.

(p23)
Takemoto: The heels you brought for her,/ really suits her so well.//
Moreover…//
She was really very elated…

(A Sharp Pain…)

Takemoto: ……..// It hurts?//
……..// Huh….? Why do I have a stomachache?// Did I ate something spoil?

(p24)
Takemotot: …Or is it because….//
I overstarved myself?

[…….
Wake up, Takemoto-kun!!
What you’re feeling painful now is not the stomach, but it’s the chest!]

[------------Pitiful is, Takemoto-kun haven’t realized his ever-increasing love towards Hagu, which is slowly spouting within his heart…]

[And certainly he wouldn’t even possibly realized that the man he is carrying now will soon become his love rival……]

[This kind of thing, he has never ever thought about it before…Not even a tiny little bit of it…★]

SFX: Sinking
Takemoto: Too…heavy…// The more I slow down, the heavier the weight it feels to be!// I have to hurry! (Do I look like Godzilla?)

Chapter.2 -The End-

Translation: Kekkaishi 205

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:48:30 +0000

So this is end of the arc, and a starting of a new one. WOOHOO! :tem
Meanwhile, I will be taking a break so I may not be working on Kekkaishi for 3-4 days.(I need to work on other series too.:tem)

Disclaimer for scanlators:
Please DO NOT use jojohot's or any Chinese scanlations, and that includes the raws with the watermark.
Wait for the volume raws instead(and this would ensure better quality for the readers too.)
Read this for more info.
Thank you for your understanding.

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

*{T.N}= Translator’s notes
Dear Scanlator(s), please keep the translator's notes when scanlating. Thank you.

For people who want to refer together with the pictures, click here.

[Last Edited: 5th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]

(p1)
Chapter 205: Initiation

Shikigami: Over there!

[side text: Although he has succeeded in activating Zekkai to protect himself, it's going to be hard to wipe off the feeling of failure….]

(p2)
[side text: Right after returning from the hole of the other world, they were unexpectedly ambushed…]

Mamezou: Like I‘ve said, it ended up…// that the thing we found from the other world,/ has been taken away by that suspicious dude.//
That’s how it goes.
Yoshi: ARGH-------!// I’m sorry! It’s my fault…//
If we had that Tenketsu look-alike…// maybe our suspicion would have been cleared…

Underling: That’s not it!// Having an encounter with the criminal of the Shinyuuchi Hunting is a reward nonetheless!//
However, the evidence to prove those words is no longer here…
SFX: downhearted

(p3)
SFX: whew
Tokiko: Any injuries?//
Yoshi: Ahh,/ I guess we’re okay…

Tokiko: Then there is no problem.//
You returned the umbrella to its owner,// and found the other hole.// Therefore, you did complete your mission peacefully, didn‘t you?//
That‘s already enough for the job.//
So, Mamezou-sama. What do you think, based on your observation from aside?
Mamezou: Well--/ it does seems a little overbearing for him but,/ as a whole, he works pretty hard.

Yoshi: Eh…// But, I…

(p4)
SFX:Sigh
Tokiko: Silly.// I never expected you to accomplish so many tasks at once.//
That is because you’re still immature,//so it’s fine that you couldn’t do all of them perfectly.//
By the way, that hole…// There’s a Nenshi laying around. Perhaps you’re trying to seal it on your own?
Yoshi:………//
……Uh-uh. But,/ it didn’t go smoothly either…
Tokiko: This can’t be helped then.//
I shall teach you.// Please pay a good attention.

(p5)
SFX: angry
Tokiko: Didn’t I told you it’s wrong?//
NET!// IMAGINE IT AS A NET!!// WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS?! EVEN YOUR SKILL ON NENSHI HASN’T IMPROVED BY A BIT AT ALL!!
Yoshi: Bu,/But…

Tokiko: When the thread has entangled with one another, stretch them out on the same time./ Look! Do it one more time!
Yoshi: Yes.// (Didn’t she say it’s ok that not everything has to be perfectly done…?)

Tokiko: Wrong!/ Don’t tell me you don’t even understand my *words, ah?!
Yoshi: Wha, what the?! You don’t have to say it that way~~
Underling: (What a Spartan…)

*{T.N= Old Lady actually says “Don't you even understand my Japanese?!”, but that wouldn’t make sense to us since we’re reading in English. So I used “words“.}
　
(p6)
Underling: Eh--,/ Could you be the spokesperson of the Lord from *Mushikinuma?
Mamezou: Indeed I am.

*{T.N= “Mushikinuma” is Uro-sama’s Shinyuuchi. Check out vol 5 or chapter 36-40}

Underling: I apologize for my rudeness, but I am from Urakai, and I am in charge in this area’s activities.//
Would you kindly explain to me about the shape of the Tenketsu look-alike in details? / We could investigate on it…//
Oh--That is one fine object.
SFX: draw, draw

Mamezou: You said, that you’re responsible for this area, right?
Underling: Uh. That’s not it. There are other people too.

Mamezou: If there’s a next time, the one targeted would be// Karasumori.

(p7)
Mamezou: My speculation is, that Hidagou is just a prelude. / The real target might be Karasumori. //
One thing I know…// is that after coming here, I’m more certain than ever that it was done by humans…//
You…// who belong to Urakai, should know, isn’t it?//
Whatever foolish things that have been committed up till now, it doesn’t really matter who did it anymore.// After all, the anger of the Gods do not aim at a particular person, but to the all of mankind. //
And so by the time the anger has reached to its peak….// In the end, / whether it’s the humans, or the things created by the humans,// all would be destroyed without a single trail.
(p8)
SFX: wind breeze

Mamezou: So… if you don’t want this to happen, // then you better do the clean-up yourself.

Yoshi: Alright!~~ I did it!//
So how is it, Old lady?!

(p9)
Yoshi: What?!/ It broke right after I said something?!

Tokiko: Enough. Hurry up and finish it.
Yoshi: Right…

Tokiko: I have my Shikigami to handle the huge hole across the other side. // The one over there has been nearly completed. / If you loosen up, this side would spill.//
Well, let’s seal this one up.// Give the Nenshi a twisting motion,/ and then pull them over to the brink…

Yoshi: Um.//Ummm…
Tokiko: It didn’t even seal up at all.
Yoshi: UGH---!!

(p10)
Yoshi: Um…
Tokiko: You don’t just shove all your power into it.// You have to consider about the direction you’re putting in too.

Yoshi: (Huh?)// (Mamezou seemed to have said the same thing too.)//
(The heart of the power…)//
Establish the heart of the power…
Tokiko: Right!//
Focus all your power into a point.//
But rather than introducing it in the straight line, you circulate around it.// This should make things easier.

(p11)
Yoshi: Uh. I got it.// Let me try.

Tokiko: You’re trying to use your senses to understand things.// But if you make use of your brain a little more, your comprehension and applications would greatly increase.

Yoshi: Eh…. But I’m not very good with it…
Tokiko: You don’t have to think too hard./ Right now, there is already a probable answer emerging, isn’t it?//
But it’s certain,/ that you’re not the type who can deal with things after thinking by yourself…//
And didn’t I say it a while ago,// that you’re still far too immature, and far too unstable…

(p12)
Tokiko: That’s why,// you need to borrow more of the intelligence and the strength from the ones who are by your side.//
Don’t be arrogant. The people around you,// don’t simply exist to be protected by you.//
They, too// possess the power to assist you.

(p13)
Tokiko: When you combine those powers together,/ you can accomplish so much more.

Yoshi: Uh…
Tokiko: Well, overly depending on things can be troublesome too…/ but it’s much better than you go overboard.//
At least I’m here to watch you./ So please put in all your effort.
Yoshi: Yes!
Tokiko: (Yes!// It’s closing up!)//
Good. Keep up the work.

(p14)
Tokiko: (Although it’s rough, the malleable threads aren’t too bad.)// (Trying to suppress the power at this time seems somehow forced. But it’s still alright.)

Yoshi: Ugh…
Tokiko: Look. Again! Don’t slip!// Gather your attention a bit….
SFX: tap,tap

(p15)
Tokiko: WHA….// WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING?!//
I did told you to twirl them up,/ but you don’t need to spin yourself too!

Yoshi: Shut up--------!/ I think it’s easier for me to understand if I do this.//
I will show you that I can seal this up, right now!// Take a good look!

Tokiko: (ohohoh)

SFX: OHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHH~~~

(p16)
Black Man: it’s the residential neighborhood in broad daylight. / You better be careful.

White Man: (fufu…)This is regrettable.// Am I that unreliable? //
My Kamina’s protective coloration is perfect.// Any mere ignorant citizen would never spot it.//
Beside---, I will show you something so dazzling that it could even blind your eyes; as I shall perform a landing that it’s so magnificence, so bewitching…
Black Man: That would be great if you can really do it.

(p17)
SFX: twitch
Tokine’s mother: (KYA----)TOKINE---!//
Tokine: ?!/ Mother?!
SFX: Dash

(p18)
Black Man: I am Yashiro. I am from Urakai’s Prosecution Office, Special Investigation Team.// We’re here for the God murder case on yesterday night…
White man: May I ask if Yukimura Tokine-san is at home?

[side text: Tokine has been charged for suspicion. Will she be taken away?]

Translation: Kekkaishi 204

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:48:42 +0000

This chapter is even shorter than 203 & 202.(Yeses!More slacking for me):tem

Disclaimer for scanlators:
Please DO NOT use jojohot's or any Chinese scanlations, and that includes the raws with the watermark.
Wait for the volume raws instead(and this would ensure better quality for the readers too.)
Read this for more info.
Thank you for your understanding.

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*{T.N}= Translator’s notes

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[Last Edited: 5th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]

(p1)
[side text: Yoshimori and co.,return from the hole they found from the other world (Hidagou).
Now all they need to do is to seal up the hole. But all of the sudden, someone has ambushed them…!?]

Mamezou: Little boy, do not do anything reckless.//
That fellow uses his own spell to create his weapon.//
It’s just like what happened a while ago. He can recover immediately as he jumps. / Before you exhaust yourself any further, find the chance to escape with everything you got.
Yoshi: That…That means…

(p2)
Yoshi: (With that kind of speed, I don’t think I can escape at all!!)

Chapter 204: The Heart of the Power

Yoshi: UGH!!

(p3)
Mamezou: Little boy! Gather your attention to the back of your head!
Yoshi: Eh…//EWK!!

(p4)
Yoshi: He’s coming from the side, Mamezou!

(p5)
Yoshi: (He is really aiming for the Tenketsu look-alike…)// Who…are you?//
Are you…//the one who destroyed the Shinyuuchi…?

(p6)
Yoshi: Answer me…//
ARE YOU THE CRIMINAL OF THE SHINYUUCHI HUNTING?!//
I said, "answer me".

(p7)
Yoshi: Enough! Answer me already! Are you really the…//
UGH…

(p8)
Yoshi: Uh…//
(Damn. Not only he’s fast, he has the strength too…// I will lose regardless of defense or offense…)//
(Likewise, the chance to escape is also….//Wait, this position…)

Mamezou: Little boy, now!

Yoshi: *NICE TIMING, Mamezou!// KETSU!!

*{T.N= Yoshi speaks English here. Cute.}　

(p9)
Yoshi: (I shall use this opportunity to escape!)//
(I cannot be reckless…//MY priority is to bring this Tenketsu look-alike back to safety…)

(p10)
Yoshi: WAHH!!//
Tsk…//(What’s that?!/ The rock came flying over?!)

(p11)
Yoshi: (How fast…//This guy wants my head, for real!)//
(Does he intend to kill me off and grab it later?)

(p12)
Yoshi: ………// Really, who the heck are you?//
It’s because of you, that we’ve become the suspects. It’s such a bother.//
Say something, at least./ Bastard.//
You have eyes like a dead man….!

(p13)
Yoshi: (This can‘t be true…)//
(If he continues to increase his power,// even my quasi-Zekkai can’t block it…)//
(What to do…//Zekkai…/No, Zekkai is…)

YOU FOOL!
Mamezou: Little boy!/ Don’t just unleash your power aimlessly!// You must focus all your power to one spot!//
Establish the heart of your power!

(p14)
(Heart..?)//
(Establish the heart of my power--------)

(p15)
(Huh…)//(His arm…)//(NO!!)

(p17)
Yoshi: Ah…

Underling: Sumimura-sa---n!// Are you alright---?!// ?

(p18)
[side text: He thought he was killed for sure.]

(Yoshi: Say something, at least./ You have eyes like a dead man….)

Man: Eyes,// like a dead man…//
(This guy…Why did he hold back…?)

[side text: But Yoshimori managed to defend himself with Zekkai. But who is that fellow indeed?]

Translation: Honey and Clover 1

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:37:32 +0000

Shounen,Shounen,Shounen,Seinen,Shounen,....
Josei?:blink

Yes, Seeing is believing! MH has shoujo/josei's translation. Now you know what's the pros of female translators!(Just kiddin') But I have to admit I am more of a Shounen/Seinen girl. I still read some shoujo/josei, but there are some I really don't touch because I can't stand too much fluff. I like blood gashing and seeing heads bouching on the ground more. :tem

I think that's why "Honey and Clover" is so special to me because it looks so fluffy and yet I wasn't turn off at all. The language used in there is simply one of the most beautiful manga I ever read. I usually pick series that are more underrated to work on, but strange to say, this popular manga didn't even have a complete series scanlations at all. Everyone seems to know it through the anime.
And so, "Honey and Clover" is a work I always want to work on since a year ago, but I couldn't do at that time due to my Japanese Proficiency. I still don't think my Japanese is fantastic now, but I like to challenge myself. And here's the product. I am glad how it turns out, and doing this truly make me understand the difference between Shounen/Shoujo and Seinen/Josei. Phew~
I hope the length didn't scare you off(although even myself was deeply surprised by the length...:yelling)
I will work on this on my pace, but don't worry. That doesn't mean I would take a year to release one chapter.:tem

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Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

*{T.N}= Translator’s notes
Numbering of pages is followed by the raw provided.
Dear Scanlator(s), please keep the translator's notes when scanlating. Thank you.

Here's the raw.

[Last edited: 2th Sept 2008]

(01-102[back Cover]):
6 tatami room+Kitchen 3 mat and no bathroom; such an apartment live three young men; Morita, Mayama and Takemoto, who may be poor, and yet leading satisfying lives as art university students. And then, they meet Hanamoto Hagumi…
The big exciting Volume 1 has arrived!!

(01-002[Author’s words + Title page])
[Author’s words]
(Umino Chika)
In order to “train my stamina”, I even rode my bicycle specially to the west coast which is a little far! The journey just took me 36 minutes. A easy victory!^_^ But on my way back, I’ve gotten anemia that I ended up spending 2 and half hours instead….

[Title page]
Honey and Clover 1
Umino Chika

(01-003[table of Content + Cover page])
[table of Content]
Honey and Clover
: : :
: : :
: : :
After words: page 190

[Cover page]
Honey and Clover
Chapter 1

(p2)
[6 *(1) tatami mat room,/Kitchen 3 tatami mat,/ No bathroom.]
[Ten minutes walk to the university.]

Mayama: Oi---what‘s up?
Takemoto: Mayama senpa---i--, are you full right now? I have some *(2) Korokke.//Do you like to have some?
[built 25 years ago/Rent: 38 000 yen]

[sounds can be heard so clearly by everyone. /All residents are students.]
Guy: Eh? Korokke?! Can I have some as well?
Mayama: Korokke? Are there enough for me too?
Takemoto: Of course!/ There’s a lot, so everyone is wel--come.
[Facing east, the rising sun is dazzling.]

*{T.N(1)= In Japan, the size of a room is typically measured by the number of tatami mats .It’s a thick straw mat serving as floor covering in the Japanese house. That means the apartment they are living is really really small.}

*{T.N(2)= I use “korokke” as it is somewhat different dish from “croquette”. Korokke is a Japanese deep fried dish originally related to croquette. Korokke is often served with tonkatsu sauce and shredded cabbage. My favorite is white sauce filling, which is called “Cream Korokke”. Yummy.}

(p2)
[After I’ve gotten into an art university since arrived in Tokyo, I realized that the surrounding of the school is so isolated by many farmlands that it surprised me.
My meals I made are so awful that it surprised me.
The price that *Sentou has charged is so high that it surprised me.
The homework is so much that it surprised me.]

[but now, they have all become a part of my daily routine...]

*{T.N= Sentou is a Japanese public bath whereby you need to pay for usage. Apartments are relatively costly in Japan, so some are not acquired with a private bathroom. Sentou is different from “Onsen“(Hot Spring). Sentou is mainly for bathing purpose.}

Takemoto: Ah, wait a minute. Who has mayonnaise? I’ve just used up mine.
Mayama: Mayonnaise? Hey, Takemoto…/You still need mayonnaise when you eat Korokke?

[university student year 2; 19 years old.]

(SFX: Too much--!)

Mayama: Wow! That’s a little too much, isn’t it?// How come you have such a mountain of Korokke? (Here, your mayo.)

SFX: Snort---
Takemoto: That’s because…/Morita-senpai said, “For everyone to eat”…..
Mayama: Ah! Morita-senpai has returned!

(p3)
Mayama: It’s been a while…//Must be around 12 days already? I thought this time he’s dead somewhere in a place that no one would ever know…
SFX: Snort---
Takemoto: It’s 14 days. It’s about half a month.

Mayama: Ewk…But really, he’s too mysterious./He would disappear every time without a word, and nobody would know when the heck did he run off.//
(Morita: I’m back…)
(The bag: “ *Tiger Shop’s Youkan“)
After a while, he would just come back raggedly too.//
On the same time…//

*{T.N= Chika-sensei is playing with words here. Youkan is a sweet bean jelly made of red bean paste, agar and sugar. It is small and cubical in size. Youkan contains the kanji “lamb”. Originally, it was indeed a Chinese dish made from sheep‘s gelatin. It‘s great to eat around the summer because it‘s chilling. }

His butt’s pocket would always be filled with some mysterious cash notes…
SFX: Fully filled….
Mayama: …Why did I…feel that somehow, those money seem to have increased…?
Takemoto: Mayama-senpai…About Morita-senpai…//What kind of part-time job is he really d…doi...
Mayama: …I don’t know….

(p4)
Man 1: AWE---SOME!/(Can I join?)
I brought my *Otafuku(Fried noodle) sauce along!
Man 2: I want Korokke too! My earning only left with 70 yen. (I‘M SAVED!~)

*{T.N= Otafuku sauce is a popular manufacturer of sauces for dishes, such as Okonomiyaki and Yakisoba. “Otafuku” in Japanese means “moon-faced woman”, so that’s why you can see a plump-faced woman as the logo .}

But isn’t it too much?!// I believe there is about 10kg here?
SFX: Quite a fabulous Korokke party~
[seasonings from right to left; top to bottom: Salt, Tonkatsu(Fried pork cutlet) sauce, Mayonnaise , Otafuku sauce, light Soya sauce.]

Man 1: Ah, those’re from the downtown of MY CITY.// In addition, he bought them at the Mega Sale, 5 minute before the closing at 9pm.
Man 2: But, Morita-san… why the heck must it be Korokke---?//
Since he has that much money, WHY THE HECK IT HAS TO BE KOROKKE OUT OF ALL THINGS?
SFX: Snore----- Snore-----

Man 2: He can buy something better….much better…Something like meat, meat, MEAT~~~~~~~~//
Is he using that to provoke us, the needy ones on purpose?!--------- (WAH~~~~~~~~~)
Mayama: Don’t cry, Hasegawa. If not, you’re tricked by Morita-san.
Takemoto: But he has a heart, at least.// He bought Curry and Original; half for each flavor.
Man 1: …No. Most probably there were too many left-over, so he was forced to take them….

(p5)
Mayama: But,/ why is this guy not sleeping in his own room, huh?

Takemoto: Uh… Just a while ago….//
--------------------
Morita: Those are yours./ For everyone to eat.//
But under one condition…//
Wake me up at 8am to…mor…row….
SFX- (Morita drops onto the ground) // Takemoto: GYAAA-------
--------------------
Takemoto: He said he must get up on time for tomorrow’s morning lecture at 10am.

Ah…../ Don’t tell me….it’s that….

Man 2: When Morita-san was in Year 1, he missed one hour less for his attendance that he was unable to graduate. And so, he was forced to repeat his class for 2 years.
Mayama: That’s it!
Takemoto: OH NO~ Does that mean I hold a grave responsibility right now?! (NOOOOOOO-------)

I also remember that he overslept and repeated his class once again for the previous year.//
Which means… if he didn’t catch it this time, he’ll be an university student for the 7th year?!
(Classes for Year 1 are very early, so it’s hard to wake up.)
SFX- (Morita: Snore~~~~)// (Clocks: Ringgggggg…Ringggggg….)
(Even three alarm clocks cannot wake him up.)

(p6)
Mayama: It’s OK, it’s OK! / I heard it’s totally OK to study in an university for 8 years.
Takemoto: Can somebody lend me another clock? (NOOOOOOOO~~~~~~~)//
Ahhhhhhhhhhh! It’s already 9.30am!//
Wake up!! Morita-senpai, wake up----------//
Everyone please wake up----------------!!
SFX: Ringgggggggggg

Takemoto: AH! You’re awake!!

Morita: Yaaay! Thank you./ Since I’m awaken, please let me close my eyes for 5 more minutes.
SFX: speaks in a concise way// falls// Snorts
Takemoto: You’re sleep-talking, so stop acting like you’re clearly awake!!

(p7)
Mayama: U-h….
Takemoto: Mayama-senpai! I can’t wake Morita-senpai at all!

Mayama: After Morita-san returned from his part-time job, he need to sleep for 48 hours, at least, or he won’t wake up. / You better give up and go to school. Morita-san is going to be detained for sure.
(Morita’s face: Corpse)

Takemoto: Before he even get repeated, my university life is already transformed into a nightmare. All thanks to him!
(WAKE UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP, SENPAI~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~)
SFX: shaking, shaking

Mayama: You’ve been tricked by him for one whole year, huh?
----------------------
Morita: It suits you so well!!//1000 yen ple---ase!!
(*20 minutes before…..)
---------------------
Mayama: Alright then. Let us try, shall we?/
First, we use his most favorite coffee milk to give him high blood pressure!// This would activate his brain cells.

(p8)
Mayama: Next, we shall record the scenes which we’ve tried our best to awake him, all in front of the TV!
SFX: Flash

*{T.N= LOL at the Teletubbies….}

Mayama: In this way, we can relieve Morita-san’s curse by 30%! / Continue to wake him up for another 15 minutes!!
(Really, this is exactly like getting possessed by an angry ghost!!!)
(Takemoto: After all we’ve done…this only worth 30%?)

Mayama: If we still can’t wake him up, you shall go to school!// I’ll lend you my scooter!
Takemoto: Eeh?! The scooter that Morita-san made?!
----------------------------
Morita: HAP--PPY BIRTH--DAY, MAYAMA.// You want this, doncha?
Mayama: Senpai…Wha…What is this?
Morita: Scooter~~~ (Aww, can’t you see?)
Mayama: Don’t tell me…. That you’re using this bloody thing to replace the 10 000yen you’ve borrowed last month?! AH?!
Morita: HAHAHA (Yup.)
----------------------------

(p9)
Takemoto: He won’t get up, / no matter how hard we tried.//
SENPAI! IF YOU’RE DETAINED,// PLEASE DO NOT HATE ME!!

Morita: Detained?! // Detained NO MORE!!//CHE!!
Takemoto: GYAAA--------//
SENPAI?! (Daylight robbery---------?!)
(Morita’s face: Wind)

(p10)
SFX: “aaaaaaaaaaa------!”
Mayama: Huh?//
MORITA-SENPAI?! //Eh?! Whe…Where’s Takemoto?

Girl 2: AH?! Wait a sec!
Girl 1: (Pant, pant)//
WAIT! You made this scooter from our department’s trolley after it was broken. Right? RIGHT?!
SFX: Crowds approaching

Girls: FIX OR PAY?! (KYA-------)//
You better explain about this!
Mayama: (Pretends I see nothing…….)
SFX: moving quietly…

(p11)
Morita: I didn’t do it.
Girl1: Stop pretending! Well, then tell us who did it?!
SFX: Grips

Morita: Mayama did it.
SFX: One serious look
(Mayama: What the?!)

Girls: Not so fast, Mayama!!// You did it, doncha?!
SFX: Hurryingly walk away
Mayama: Ah----------- You grotbag!---------//
Dammit-------It’s been so long since I was tricked. Morita senpai--------!!
Shuji: Ah, it’s been a long time/ since I’ve heard Mayama’s whining.

(p12)
Mayama: I thought he has finally switched his target to Takemoto, which allows me to live peacefully for the previous year. (Sigh---)
Takemoto: WHAT?! I AM YOUR SCAPEGOAT?!
SFX: A big blow
Shuji: Hahaha. Mayama, you’ve been tricked by him long enough, huh--------/ Oh yah, Hagu. What’s a scooter? //
(Ahh…So that’s it? I got it…)
SFX: falls

Mayama: Sensei…Eh…// Who’s that tiny girl behind you……?//
Sensei’s daughter?
Shuji: Mayama-kun, do you like to get detained that much?//
She’s my cousin’s daughter. She’ll be a student here starting this year.
SFX: grabs

(p13)
SFX: pops out
Takemoto: Uh…I’m..//
Mayama: I’m Mayama Takumi. Architecture department, Year 4.//
Nice. To. Meet. You
SFX: Block!!
Shuji: Hanamoto Hagumi, 18 years old// My interests are making clothes and playing with clay.
SFX: Grabs
Mayama: Professor. Please don’t interrupt the youths making friends.

Shuji: By the way, Hagu’s father is the Section Chief of Nagano Prefecture’s Police Investigation, First Class. // He has doted upon his daughter for 18 years…// Do anything reckless and I will shun you to oblivion.

Mayama: Hooo….~

Takemoto: Ah…Uh…/ Well….//
Let’s share this together, shall we? (Completely didn’t listen at all)//
(Intended to treat this as lunch…)

(p14)
Shuji: Ah, I see--- Morita has a mysterious part-time job---- //
SFX: laugh
Ah…. Hagu. You’re still such a delicate person. (You look so much like your father when he’s young…..)//
Isn’t she cute?
(Hagu: very serious)
SFX: pours
(Kettle: Design History)

Hagu: Here.//

(Cup: Tea)
I shall have one then.

Mayama: (What a tiny hand…..)//
Hey, / Takemoto…

(p15)
[Ahh…//I see.// So this is….]

Shuji: Wow…Look, the sakura trees are blooming.// The weather is getting warm too, so it’s really comfortable.

[in the midst of warmth and serenity, comes tumbling with a trail of motion.
That’s right.
This is Spring.]

Mayama: (This is the first time…)// (that I’ve witnessed a moment of someone falling in love…)/ Oh, good grief.(Why am I feeling embarrassed..?)

(p16)
[Even my heart is thumping with a bumbling beat.]

Spring? / Yup, spring has arrived…

SFX: Opens swiftly
AH! MORITA-SENPAI!

Morita: Takemoto-kun,/ thank you for waking me up this morning. From now on, I can finally graduate.
SFX: pats
Mayama: Morita-san!//
Nice job for the incident just now, huh?----
Morita: Hahaha. Have you grew a little taller, Mayama?//
Hm?

(p17)
Morita: ………

Mayama: ……Morita--// -Senpai?
Morita: …………………………..
SFX: munch, munch

SFX: Dash-----
Mayama: AH! MORITA-SENPAI, YOU’RE THINKING OF FLEEING?!

(p18)
[The *(1) taro field behind the school]
[Duration: 4 minutes]

Morita: HOLD/ THIS//
UM!//
*(2) COLOBOCKLE!

SFX: Shocked!

*{T.N(1)= Taro is a widely cultivated tropical Asian plant having broad peltate leaves and a large starchy edible tuber. Also called “cocoyam“.}

*{T.N(2)= Colobockle (Koro-pok-guru) are tiny people originated from Japanese folktales, or more accurately, Ainu. Ainu is a group of ethnic people from Hokkaido. Colobockle are commonly portrayed as little fairies that carry a peltate leave. Meanwhile, there‘s also a famous Japanese illustrator called, “Colobockle“ and the art style is as cute as Hagu, and similar to Chika-sensei‘s. Well, if you still don‘t know what is Colobockle, just play “Okami“.}

(p19)
[Actually…
This is another form of “a moment of someone falling in love”.]

[it’s just that it’s too difficult to understand. (Refers to the picture below)]
SFX: Snap, snap, snap ,snap!
Morita: COLOBOCKLE!// COLOBOCKLE!
Hagu: …………. (SFX: shivers, shivers)

[so no one has even realized it!]

Mayama: …….
Takemoto: Senpai, Stop it! Are you that intended to make her cry?
SFX: HAHAHAHA…
Shuji: Hahaha… Colobockle? (Hagu is so adorable in anything~~~)

[Chapter 1-The End-]

Translation: Kekkaishi 191

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:14:56 +0000

Don't worry, don't worry. I'm just filling up the gap I missed. :tem I will only focus on working backwards after we've caught up on the latest Kekkaishi. So you won't be seeing me doing much backtracking for now.
Anyway, this chapter is short so I can finish it up quickly.

And...
Erh... I feel kinda bad that I refer Rokurou as "Lump of Meat". But at the time of this chapter, we didn't know his name yet so....:goomba

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Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

(p1)

[side text: Masamori thought he had finished Ougi off, but…!!]

Ougi:……..!!// I have no choice then…!!//
Everyone, release the spell.

(p2)
[side text: He said, ….“everyone”?!
Really, what’s going on?!]

Masa: ?!// He… split….?!

Chapter 191: Lump of Meat

(p3)
Masa: Ugh…//
SFX: Strongly built

(p4)
Masa: (What?!)// (The huge tornadoes are gone…)//
(Ah…)// (Over there too…)//
(This guy…)//(knows how to spill his body…?!)//
(Damn…)// What is really going on?!// (Don’t you escape…!!)

SFX: Sharp pain

Masa: ……..!!

(p5)
Masa: Shit…// (If I let him off right now, then nothing….)//
SHIT!!// (Then nothing will ever be resolved…!!)
SFX: drags// drags, drags

(p6)
SFX: blood dripping// moves // falls

(p7)
Masa: ?!/ Ketsu!!//
Wha…//
What…is..// this lump of meat…?!

(p8)
Masa: !

SFX: moves

(p9)
Masa: Who…/ Who are you?

(p10)
Masa: Ougi…// Ichirou….?!

Lump of Meat: Fu.// You can said I am…since that’s not exactly incorrect…//
We Brothers are, // six people who combined into one…

Masa: (Brothers?!)

SFX: stumbles

Lump of Meat: Yes…we were…//
until I was abandoned…

(p11)
Lump of Meat: We’ve promised each other that we will never leave anyone behind…// And no other like us,// will have such a unbreakable bond. / We said that before…!!

Ougi: (Release the spell.// Gather the weakest part all in one area and discard it.)
Lump of Meat: They focused all the injuries on me…!!//
Ni-san…//
SFX: WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Masa: Oi!
Lump of Meat: Ni-san’ve abandoned me!!

SFX:AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Lump of Meat: I’ve already tried so hard…//I even modified my body, just for my brothers…//
I HAD…// GAVE MY EVERYTHING TO THEM…!!

(p12)
SFX: struggles
Lump of Meat: Ugh…
Masa: Oi, you’re…

Kill me.
Lump of Meat: Just kill me.//
Your purpose to be here, is to kill us, isn’t it?//
Kill me…/ Nothing matters to me anymore.…
Masa: Oi, don’t move!

(p13)
SFX: Grips
Lump of Meat: Don’t you pity me even at this moment!!// I can’t survive with those injuries anyway!!//
Kill me…..!!

SFX: Tighten
Lump of Meat: ……..// It’s alright…// I always knew it…..//
My brothers are// not humans anymore.//
They can even abandon their own brother and yet feel nothing…

(p14)
Masa: OI!!

(Both of your situation are so similar, but still…)//
Okuni: (Such people like the two of you have chosen to face off each other directly….)// (Seriously, I have no idea what’s truly going on with your minds.)//
(Actually, Ougi Ichirou…)// (is also a sorrowful person…)//

Ougi: (In the end, you’re just going to feel even more empty than before.)

(p15)
SFX: Press

Masa: Hatori, send the medics to me.// It’s an emergency!

SFX: Gets up

(p16)
Yoshi: (Huh…)//(This is…?)//
(Right…)// (This is Okuni’s Mansion.)//
(What time is it…?!)// (I have to return quickly…)//
(Oh yes, what about Aniki…?)// (I wonder what happened after he went to Ougi’s place?!)//
(For now, let’s just get out of here first…!)

(p17)
Yoshi: (What the…?)// (No matter how many doors I’ve opened, it’ll just leads to even more rooms.)//
(Uh-oh, even if I managed to get out…)// (I don’t really know where the heck is this mansion situated.)//
(Maybe I should catch one of his subordinates and ask.)// (Ah, finally! I reached a corridor!)//
Oi, anyone there-------?//
(Uh-uh. I guess I need to meet Okuni one more time,)// (and ask her about Aniki’s whereabouts.)//
(While for Aniki,)// (I need to tell him to stop doing dangerous things behind the shadows.)//
(After all,)// (Aniki and Mother… They’re definitely not the outcasts…)

(p18)
Yoshi: Ani…ki..?!//
(A stench…)// (of blood…!)

[side text: An unexpected meeting?!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 203

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:27:00 +0000

Woo, I love chapters that are action-packed, so I can slack more....(Like most shounen are.) HAHA.:tem Anyway, there isn't much speech compared to the other chapters so I can finish this within 30 min. This chapter is kinda amusing to read, and I simply adore the cover.
It creeps me up... in the heartwarming way...?!
Whoa, way to be satirical.

Disclaimer for scanlators:
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Wait for the volume raws instead(and this would ensure better quality for the readers too.)
Read this for more info.
Thank you for your understanding.

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[Last Edited: 5th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]

(p1)
[side text: Kekkai was unusable, and then he got into a difficult battle. Nevertheless, Ayakashi. Yamiankou was defeated!!! However...]

SFX: rambling
Mamezou: The sign of disintegration…/ can be felt amidst this unpleasant atmosphere.

SFX: creaking

Yoshi: What’s going on…?
Mamezou: Ah…// The previous blow from the Ayakashi has made this world even more unstable….//
Using here as the starting point, the disintegration continues.

(p2)
Yoshi: !!

Mamezou: Run, little boy!!
Yoshi: Wah!!

(p3)
Chapter 203: Disintegration

[side text: Where have the peaceful days gone?…
Near the end of its time, the sorrowful Shinyuuchi]

(p4)
SFX: a menacing atmosphere

Tokiko: !
Underling: What happened?!

Tokiko: Please stay a little further away from the abyss.
Underling: Ah!

Tokiko: The disintegration has worsened. // If this goes on, the hole would be enlarged. By then, things would certainly be troublesome. /I’ve no choice but to seal the path that was used by Mamezou-sama and that kid. // (Mamezou-sama is around, so I don’t have to worry…/ but seeking for another hole seems merely impossible…)

(p5)
SFX: Stagger
Yoshi: Wah…

Mamezou: Hang on, little boy!/ Let’s hurry!
Yoshi: Uh…//
(I feel slightly heavy…/ My energy is drained…)

Mamezou: The condition looks serious.//
The sky is darkening too/ In this case, it’s better for us to return to the original hole straight away.

(p6)
Yoshi: WHOAAA!!//
Wah,/ Wah,/ Wah!//
Yikes!//
That was close---. // This is an important piece of evidence for the vindication. / I need to keep this and bring it back safely.

(p7)
Yoshi: Oh man! The furrows are so------ deep.//
Eh….// That’s…?//
Oi! // Wait, wait!
Mamezou: Ahh, this is…//
…It has turned into a deserted island…//
The standing grounds are already distorted. //It’s wiser not to move as you like.

Yoshi: You told me not to move….?!
Mamezou: Don’t worry. / I can use this to reach out to the original hole.//
All we have to do is to follow it!

(p8)
Yoshi: Ah!/ It’s starting to collapse over there too!
Mamezou: Stay calm./ At least you should act a bit more composed.//
Leave the rest to me. You just focus remaining conscious.
Yoshi: No, I’m alrig….

Mamezou: OH?!// OHHHHHHHHHHH------!!

(p9)
Yoshi: Are you alright, Mamezou?
Mamezou: Ohhhhhhhhhhh~~~!//
IDIOT!/ I’M FINE! I’M FINE! / JUST WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF!//
I wasn’t dragged along!/ It’s just that my head is dangling!

Yoshi: Found it, Mamezou!
Mamezou: Ohhh?!

Yoshi: Follow me!// We are almost too late…

(p10)
Yoshi: We’ve found the hole!!// Now you don’t have to stretch yourself any further-----!

Mamezou: My head, MY HEAD!//
………..// Oh my?// Have we avoided the worst circumstance?//
But we haven’t…// Oh?

(p11)
Mamezou: (Ohohoh!) Hurry ,little boy!/ The crumbling from before is coming up!
Yoshi: Eh?!/ How should we hurry?!

Mamezou: Whatever is fine. Just use everything you got!
SFX: hurriedly
Yoshi: What a useless suggestion…//

Mamezou: You’ll perk up once you get out…
Yoshi: (I saw the exit!)//
(A human’s shadow?!)//
(Huh? Or was it my imagination…?)//
WHOA!!

(p12)
Yoshi: Gya~~~~~

Mamezou: We’re here…//
Never mind…Finally, we’ve reached our initial goals…// Are you hurt, little boy?

Yoshi: KYAAAAAAAA-----!!

Yoshi: Let’s finish this, / now!
SFX: walk heavily and clumsily　

(p13)
Mamezou: Finish…?
Yoshi: Uh…// Well… Although I wasn’t sure I could do it---,/ I would still like to seal it up…//
After all…// I feel that somehow, I’m the cause for the damages…./ at least.

Mamezou: Fool.// It was already destroyed before you arrived.//
(However,)// (it wasn’t hard to understand that fellow’s feelings.)/ (But it’s still dangerous right now…..)//
(That Akayashi)// (seems to be unhitched from this hole…)//
(If that’s the case,)// The human who used the Ayakashi should be still around….)

(p14)
Yoshi: (Nenshi should be useful here…)

(p15)
Mamezou: RUN, LITTLE BOY!// Ugh…
Yoshi: MAMEZOU!!

(p16)
Yoshi: Ketsu!

(p17)
Yoshi: Are you alright, Mamezou?!
Mamezou: Stay sharp!// He is aiming at the thing on your waist.

(p18)
Yoshi: Eh…// (He’s aiming at this Teketsu look-alike thingy…?!)//
(That means,)// (this fellow…)//
(is the criminal of the Shinyuuchi Hunting?!)

[side text: An intimidating look!
A vicious-looking omen!!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 202

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:20:12 +0000

An action-packed chapter, as you can clearly see from the beginning. The conversation only starts at the latter. I didn't translate the SFX(onomatopoeia and mimesis) in this chapter. No need to fret as they are rather self-explanatory. Most SFX in shounen/seinen are just "Kaboom" or "AHHHHHHHH" anyway... :tem

Disclaimer for scanlators:
Please DO NOT use jojohot's or any Chinese scanlations, and that includes the raws with the watermark.
Wait for the volume raws instead(and this would ensure better quality for the readers too.)
Read this for more info.
Thank you for your understanding.

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

*{T.N}= Translator’s notes

For people who need the pictures to refer together, click here.

[Last Edited: 5th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]

(p1)
[side text: Yoshimori who jumped into the ruined *Shinyuuchi to seek for the hole, is ambushed?! And what happened to the Kekkai…?!]

Yoshi: Damn!! //
Metsu! // Metsu!! //METSU!!!//
……….!!// (Why would the Kekkai be destroyed?!)// (Is it because of this world?)

*{T.N= "Shinyuuchi" means a protected divine land. Our Karasumori is a Shinyuuchi, for example.}

(p2)
[Yamiankou
A creature with glittering eyes, and a soft body which concealed with a special fluid.]

Yoshi: EWK…

(p3)
Yoshi: UGH….// (I’ve increased my strength and still the quasi-Zekkai didn’t work?!)

Yoshi: Mamezou!// All right! I got it out!

(p4)
Mamezou: Over there! Run, little boy!!

[side text: Kekkai is unusable?!
This is bad!!]

Chapter 202: Target

(p5)
Yoshi: WAH----!!//
Oh,/ oh, /oh,/ Whoa!

(p6)
Yoshi: Yes! Now‘s the time!/
DAMMIT!! // Why the heck must it target me---?! (I didn’t do anything wrong!--I hope…)
Mamezou: Incorrect.//
Its target is the thing you’re holding right now.
Yoshi: Eh?

Mamezou: That’s why, little boy…// This is no time to explain, but… Never, ever, pass it to that guy.
Yoshi: Huh?

(p7)
Yoshi: EH-----------?!//
But if this goes on, I’ll be killed for no reason, ya know---!!//
(What should I do?! Kekkai doesn’t seem to work---,) //(and Zekkai…)//
(No, I can’t…)//(I don’t have the confidence to hold that long while I dashed to the other side…)// Moreover, I’ve promised the old lady that I won’t do　anything reckless….)//
UGH OHHHHHHHHHH!!// THIS’S FOR YOU---!!

(P8)
Yoshi: (Uh-oh, it’s totally ineffective---!/ I’m going to cry to death for being so powerless…)//
(No matter what, I should keep running!/ (I have to give up looking for the hole, and return to the original path I came from at once.)//
BUT I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHICH IS THE PATH I TOOK---!!// AND WHERE THE BLOODY HELL SHOULD I RUN TO?! (WAHHH----)
Mamezou: (Fool….)

Yoshi: (Shit…)// (I… I can’t do anything once I lost my Kekkai---?!)

Mamezou: Little boy. Next, we’re going to cross the bridge.// Follow me.

Yoshi: Mamezou.

(p9)
Yoshi: How do you defeat that *Ayakashi?

Mamezou: ….Alright.//
That Akayashi doesn’t appear to be huge,// being boneless allows it to possess a tender torso…//
Likewise, its body seems to be covered with a strange fluid,/ and it is capable of withstanding this world’s disintegration. //
Even if your box-shaped Kekkai is destroyed, there is still a very thin layer of protection for you.// But that fellow don't…/ So, if its body is slashed　or stabbed,------//
Would it still be able to withstand the disintegration by then?

*{T.N= "Ayakashi" means demons/monsters.}　　

(p10)
Yoshi: Gotcha.// Well, cooperate with me?//
If you help me…// I won’t be doing something reckless, for the least. //
Whoa//Yikes!

(p11)
Yoshi: OWWWWWWW----------------------!!//
Yo!!

SFX: (Hide!)

(p12)
Yoshi: (Pop out!)

(P13)
Yoshi: You!/ A slimeball with no backbone!!//
Wanna fight?// Come!

(p14)
Yoshi: Coming, huh?//
*Your brain is facing the sky. No wonder you’re an airhead.

{T.N= What is so clever in this sentence is how it’s used. The word used for “brain” is “脳天” Taking the kanji apart,“脳” is brain while “天” is sky.

Another word that was played is “空き”. “空” is also sky/air or vacancy, but when added into “空き”, it means “to empty”.
I can just simply write “Your brain is facing the sky,“ But then, it wouldn’t show that Yoshi is actually calling it “brainless” beneath the context. So　I added in one more sentence.}

(p15)
[Yoshi pwns the creature. SQUEE]

(p16)
Yoshi: (It’s true. It cracked from the wound…)

Mamezou: I can’t really say it’s reckless, but…// Nah./ At least you did made full of your techniques well to defeat this guy. //
(It’s just like what a person who’s cultivated in Karasumori would perform…)// (He may be a fool,/ but he’s skillful in employing his surroundings.

(p17)
Mamezou: Look, little boy.// At the base of its tail…//
…it's attached with a man-made tool. // This Akayashi is used by humans.//
I’m afraid the one you’re staring at right now,/ was sent to retrieve the item you’ve found. //
It might already been badly damaged….But to that person, leaving it at the crime scene is…// a disadvantage.

Yoshi: So, this …*Teketsu look-alike belongs,// to that fellow who robbed the Shinyuuchi….!!//
(That means…If the practitioner has a similar powers as me...// Just as what I’ve suspected…)

*{T.N= "Tenketsu“ is a staff that opens the door to the other world and send the shards of the enemy through to prevent regeneration. Yoshi and Tokine　carry one when they are on duty.}　

(p18)
Mamezou: That thing// seems to have a different design from what you’re using.

Yoshi: Eh?
Mamezou: The shape is different, right? //Never mind. Whether you’re related to this incident or not, / you’ll know just by looking at it.

Yoshi: (That’s right. With this…)// (I'll have evidence to prove that this isn’t related to any immediate practitioners…!)//
Mamezou: Little boy./ No matter what happens, you must keep it safe with you.//
The sign of disintegration is getting stronger./ Let us hurry.

[sidetext: This is an unexpected reward? The story only begins now…]

Translation: Kekkaishi 201

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:28:35 +0000

In the previous chapter, we have our Yoshi who wants to be approved by his future grandmother-in-law.
How would his proposal turns out?

Disclaimer for scanlators:
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Wait for the volume raws instead(and this would ensure better quality for the readers too.)
Read this for more info.
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*{T.N}= Translator’s notes

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[Last Edited: 5th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]

(p1)
[side text: If the hole connected to the other world is not sealed, the after effect would emerge.
However, this is not the only hole, so a search is essential… Conducting the search inside the other world is the fastest way, but still…]

Chapter 201: Memorial Service

(p2)
[side text: After the *Shinyuuchi Hunting, Tokiko who went to deal with the restoration, requested Yoshimori an important mission to the otherworld. What’ll happen next?]

*{T.N= "Shinyuuchi" means a protected divined land. Our Karasumori is a Shinyuuchi, for example.}

Yoshi: There’s something inside…?//
What is it, Mamezou?
Mamezou: I don’t really know from here.//
But,// I can feel the evil.

Yoshi: I understand. I‘ll do it.//
All I need is to enter this other world and seek for the other hole. Am I right?//
So let’s do it, old lady.

(p3)
Tokiko: I shall take back my words from before.
Yoshi: Eh?

Tokiko: The uncertain elements have increased.// So it is not necessary to go that far for the sake of risk…/You don’t need to be the one to settle the score.//
If I release a huge number of Shikigami to search nearby,// we should be able to find it.
Likewise, once we close the two holes in the end, //then there should not be a problem.

Yoshi: No./ But wouldn’t it be faster to search inside…
Tokiko: ENOUGH!!!// IT’S FINE NOT TO DO SUCH AN UNREASONABLE TASK.//
……………// I actually said that with a bit of spite. / My fault.

(p4)
Tokiko: That is Tokine’s problem, so I shouldn’t make you feel bad about this.//
That child did it out of her own decision after all.

Yoshi: No, I’ll go.//

Tokiko: That’s why I said---------

Yoshi: If there’s anything I can do, / let me do it!// That’s why it isn’t unreasonable… at all.//
In addition, not everything that old lady said is not making any sense, isn’t it?//If anything goes wrong, I will return immediately!/ And… //
Beside, I have this-----

(p5)
Yoshi: This, is the umbrella that the god was holding…// I came here because I like to return it properly. //
And to be approved on the same time… / That..., I might think is true as well…//
I’ll be attentive and listen to you. // And not just depending on myself; // if old lady is willing to assist me, I believe things will definitely be much smoother!//
And so…// please… lend me your hand.//
Mamezou too.// And that guy over that as well. (Me?)//
If everyone still believes it wouldn’t work…// I will give up.

(p6)
Oi, young lady.
Mamezou: I think….// I, too, would like to go into the other world to investigate a little…

SFX: Whew
Tokiko: Even Mamezou-sama is too lenient.//
Can you really,// keep my promise?
Yoshi: Yes!

(p7)
Yoshi: ……..

Tokiko: It’s still incomplete. //This type of Kekkai which surrounds your body can only be maintained to this extent?
Yoshi: Yes…

Tokiko: Never mind. We don’t have much time.// It’s half ruined inside anyway, so you can still be able to hold on…//
If the disintegration worsens any further, things would become rather troublesome.//
Mamezou-sama! I’ll be counting on you for the rest. Would that be fine?
Mamezou: Um.

Tokiko: Alright, now listen carefully. Maintain that condition while you’re inside.// If not, you’ll be affected by the avalanche.
Yoshi: I got it.

(p8)
Tokiko: Your objective,// is to search for the hole other than the one right here,// and to return the umbrella. // Even there’s anything in there, fighting is unnecessary.//
Once you sense any danger, //just forget about your mission and return back at all costs.//
Is that clear?
Yoshi: Yes!

SFX: rapidly
Yoshi: OK!// Let’s go, Mamezou!//
Well then,/I’m going!

(p9)
Tokiko: (That child… As long as there is someone who will stay beside and watch him, / there shouldn’t be a problem , I hope… )

Yoshi: Ohh…--// Oh, I think I saw something.

(p10)
SFX: Slipping abruptly
Yoshi: Oh.

SFX: Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll
Yoshi: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
SFX: Mamezou lands safely

SFX: Thud
Yoshi: Um--- (SFX: Clunk)

(p11)
Mamezou: Sigh---…// This place is a little…

SFX: Stagger
Yoshi: Ugh…// Opps! //
This place’s kinda weird, isn’t it…?//So uncomfortable…(I’m feeling dizzy…)
SFX: hop, hop
Mamezou: (Are ya a fool?) Don’t put your guard down so quickly. /Get up. Let’s move.

Yoshi: Where to…?
Mamezou: Aren’t we going to return the umbrella?

(p12)
Mamezou: This is the residence of Hidagou’s owner.

[Yoshi and Mamezou pray]

(p13)
Yoshi: Well, / Let’s look for the hole then.
SFX: thump, thump.
Yoshi: Ah…/ The water wheel seems to be stuck.

Mamezou: What’s up, little boy?
Yoshi: Nothin’ much, but it looks like the water wheel was stopped by something…

Mamezou: Does this seem to be the thing you should be doing right now? / There is no time already.
Yoshi: Nah, but….

SFX: Fire up// Grip
Yoshi: Yesss! I got it out!!

(p14)
SFX: rattling
Yoshi: Look, /it’s turning!
Mamezou: (Ohhh---)//
Huh?/ Little boy, what are ya holding in your hand?
Yoshi: Hm?//
It ain’t a… magnifying glass either./ What the heck is this?

Mamezou: This….This isn’t an item from this world.
Yoshi: Eh?
Mamezou: There’s a human smell.

Yoshi: Human?// Huh? But…//
This does look a little like the *Tenketsu …
*{T.N= "Tenketsu“ is a staff that opens the door to another world and sends the shards of an enemy to it to prevent regeneration. Yoshi and Tokine carry one when they are on duty.}　

(p15)
SFX: Surprised
Mamezou: Little boy, hide!// Something evil is approaching!!

Yoshi: You can still sense evil so easily in such a place, huh?
Mamezou: Fool. / Of course I can. As a matter of fact, I’m always staying with Uro-sama. //
It’s good that you know;/ After all, the ones who can set foot on this half ruined other world are trapped.//
It has be someone with great skills, / and a strong unique body to withstand all these…//
For a human who can enter this place safely…/ Such a person must be a practitioner like you.

Mamezou: Shh!// Something’s coming!

(p16)
Yoshi: Wha, what the heck is that?!// It found us!//
WHOA!!

(p17)
Yoshi: Wah!// WAH!!
(Tokiko: Once you sense any danger, just forget about your mission and return back at all cost.)//

Yoshi: I don’t really know what’s going on but, / let’s flee, Mamezou!!

SFX: Grab
Yoshi: Che!! /No choice then!!

(p18)
Yoshi: KETSU!!// METSU…

SFX: Turns squishy// disappears

Yoshi: Eh?// (The Kekkai is…. destroyed?!)

[side text: What’s going on?!]

Translation: Kekkaishi 200

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:30:27 +0000

I apologise for the late entry. I've been working throughout the entire week without rest and fallen ill, so I can only do it after I'm feeling a bit better.
But now, here we have....

Kekkaishi 200th chapter!:wtf

Congratuation to Kekkaishi! It's no easy feat at all.
Meanwhile, we have a new arc!(And colored spread and cover. Woohoo!)
This time, Yoshimori is visiting ~~his future grandmother-in-law~~ that dummy God's Shinyuuchi to return the umbrella.
That's our nice Yoshi-yoshi!

My translations are free to be used by anyone for scanlating or sharing, but please remember to credit. This is all I ask.
If you see any errors, please let me know.
Comments are always welcome.
Kekkaishi is licensed; please support Tanabe sensei by buying the manga.

Thank you very much and please enjoy!　

[Last Edited: 5th Sept 2008]
[Proofread by fkeidjn]

[cover] [cover credit to conan-magic.com]

[serialized 200 Chapters Anniversary !!!]
[As long as I have my friends, I can stand up to anything with all my passion.]

(p1)
[side text: Setting out from Karasumori; Curtain up for the new chapter!]
Yoshi: So this is Hidagou, huh?//
Hm-----.// Which way is bet----ter?

Mamezou: Fool.// This is just the entrance. It’s much further inside.
Yoshi: That’s why,/ I told you to lead the way, Mamezou. //
So that fellow,/ came from this place…//
There are rice fields everywhere.

(p2-P3)
Chapter 200: Hidagou

[side text: Yoshimori, who first ventured into the Shinyuuchi after the hunting. That place contains something unimaginable….]
[Congratulations, for serialized 200 chapters!!!]

(p4)
[The same morning]
Yoshi: KETSU!!

SFX: Move here
-Boy.
SFX: Move there
-Little boy…

(p5)
SFX: Stop
-boy…
Yoshi: Phew…

Mamezou: YOU LITTLE BRAT!!/ Mamezou, Uro-sama’s closest aide has came by to visit!!
SFX: (Metal ball crushes onto the ground)

Yoshi: Don’t just burst in and shout out of nowhere.
Mamezou: Fool, I’ve been calling you for countless times./ What’re ya anxious about?
Yoshi: Shut up--!/I’m like that sometimes when I’m focused.// So, what’s up?

(p6)
Mamezou: Last night…/ Looks like the owner of Hidagou has appeared in Karasumori.
Yoshi: Ah…

Mamezou: Truly…// A tragic outcome indeed…//
And it was actually by a human that he…. ….//
Yoshi: No, I’ve already told you that it can’t be helped….//
Tokine has no ill intention at all…

Mamezou: Fool, what I’ve said is the underlying truth. // A God should not exist to be threatened by the likes of humans. //
…. In the future, putting an end to this is necessary…

(p7)
Mamezou: After all, when we lose the land that we must protect,// everything will be meaningless, even if the God would live forever.

Yoshi: Mamezou.
Mamezou: Huh?
Yoshi: Do you know his place of origin?//That fellow’s……umbrella is still here,// so I would like to return it properly…//
Can you show me the way?

[Hidagou]
Yoshi: Anyway,/ it doesn’t seem like anything’d happened from a glance around here.

(p8)
Mamezou: Look more carefully, little boy.// There’re wastelands here and there.//
Once the land is deprived from the God’s protection…//it’s impossible to yearn for a good harvest.

Yoshi: Are you really sure this’s the right way?// Huh?

(p9-p10)
Yoshi: (Ah, Isn’t that the old lady---?// What’s she doin’…/ Hm? Okuni’s subordinate is here too…?)

(p11)
Yoshi: What the heck is that…?!

(p12)
SFX: Shocked
Tokiko: The one over there.//
Are you going out, or are you coming out? Please make a choice.// It’s very distracting when you’re nosing around.

SFX: Silence

Yoshi:……
SFX: leaves drifting

Yoshi: Eh-----,/ I----…//
What the heck are you doing down here? That thingy is…

Tokiko: (I should be asking that…)
Underling: No, /It’s the usual procedure. After the Shinyuuchi hunting, the ruined space might leak to the public.// So I requested Yukimura-san to seal it.
(p13)
Tokiko: Uh-uh, that’s right…/ In the end, it’s my people who killed the owner here.// I have to deal with the cleanup, at least. //
So….//What is your purpose here then?

Yoshi: ---------// I….
Mamezou: Geting older, aren’t you? Young lady.

Tokiko: MAMEZOU-SAMA?!
Mamezou: Humph~

Tokiko: It’s been a long time…
Mamezou: About 50 years, I guess.
Tokiko: Are you running an errand here for Uro-sama?

(p14)
-Old lady!
Yoshi: Erh…Well,// I'd …like to help.// Is there…. Something I can do?

Tokiko: There is nothing I would ask you for.//
Are you…// doing this again for approval?

Yoshi: No! I…
-Oi, young lady!

Mamezou: I've never seen this before. // So how is this “closure” materialized?

Tokiko: Let me see…/ The process is similar to sewing.

(p15)
Tokiko: You form a net-like Kekkai around the edges of the hole,// and after the entire thing is covered, you tighten the net. // For the insufficient areas, just add on with the new closure.

Mamezou: Add on? //Depending on the pace which the hole is splitting, the sewing can be sealed
rather quickly.//
In addition, if the other world is destroyed, it would seal itself whenever it wants to.
Tokiko: That is….

Mamezou: Humph,// Is there someone else who interfered with the Domain of Gods…?

(p16)
Underling: WAH!!// Huh?// WAHHHHHHH!
SFX: dangling
Yoshi: Oi, are you ok?
Underling: Ah, this is kinda dangerous….

Tokiko: (The situation looks strange since a while ago…)
SFX: wind blow
(Could this be…)

(p17)
Yoshi: What was that?! The net broke all of the sudden…
-The one over there!
Tokiko: You said you want to help, didn’t you?//
This other world…// I’m afraid there are other exits that are connected to it.
Can you check it out for me?//
I want you// to enter the otherworld.

(p18)
Yoshi: Eh?
Tokiko: This way is much faster than searching from the outside.//
Likewise, we may need to seal both the exit and the entrance when the time has come. // It wasn’t serious, but it’s better to finish this as soon as possible.//
The inside is probably half ruined. // You are a Kekkaishi after all, so you should be able to do something.//
So what do you think? // I won’t force you if it’s too risky.

(p19)
Mamezou: Wait a minute.//
There is something…// in this other world….

[Side text: What to do…?!]