Billy Bat 85

Oooook, that covers that. My job for this section is done, and I'll be back doing this in September...

[Billy Bat 85 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Side: He was a hobo hitching a ride across America free of charge. But what is his true identity...?!
SFX: GASSHUH GASSHUH
SFX: GASSHUH GASSHUH
SFX: GASSHUH

Page 2:
Guy: How the hell long have you been riding, you shitty bastard?!!
Guy 2: HIIH!
Guy: Stop! You're not getting away!!
A bastard like you who sneaks on to ride for free has no value in living!!
Ya damn hobo!!
You'll pay your fare with your life!!

Page 3:
Guy: Ah...
Damn hobo...!!
Guy 2: UWAH!!
Guy: How dare you disrespect me, Earnest the demon conductor, like this!!
Guy 2: HIIIH!!
Guy: Trash belongs in the trash heap...
Die!!
Guy 2: Wa......

Page 4:
SFX: BAKI BAKIH
SFX: BOOOOOH...
Hobos: Is he dead?
Yep. Dead as a doornail.
Well, let's bury him over yonder.
Geez, that bastard, Earnest...
Ya don't kill a guy just for riding free.
Ooh, another dead one?

Page 5:
Hobos: Yep, stone dead.
Guy: I ain't dead!!
Hobos: Huh?
Guy: Like hell I would come all the way from Japan to die in a place like this!!
Agh...
Hobos: Oh? A Japanese hobo, eh?
Ya know, I think I heard that the word hobo was Japanese.
Hey, Japan Hobo.
What's Hobo mean in Japanese?
Guy: Hobo?
You mean houbou (方々), a vagabond that goes wherever they want...?
No, I'm no hobo!!

Page 6:
SFX: GUIH
Zofuu: I'm a cartoonist by the name of Zofuu.
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Page 7:
Zofuu: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
Shit... He sure picked a hell of a place to throw me off at...
That damn demon conductor...
HAA
HAA
Which way to Los Angeles...?
UWAH!
SFX: ZURUH (SLIP)

Page 8:
Zofuu: GUWAAAAAAAH!!
GYA!!
SFX: BAKI BAKIH
Zofuu: I... I've gotta find... some food...
At this rate... I'm really gonna die...
He said I'd meet my master...
Is he really in Los Angeles...?

Page 9:
Zofuu: Because the bat did say that...
I have to receive my master's manuscript...
Billy: Succeed him.
Zofuu: Ku...
Kukuku, I'm really crazy.
It's like I finally just realized. Kukuku.
I've completely lost it.
!!

Page 10:
Zofuu: Mandarins?!
N... No. Those are those things they call oranges here in America!!
God in heaven still has not abandoned me!!
Guy: Orange thie~~~~f!!
Zofuu: Ow!!
Guy: Wait, you bastaaaard!!
Zofuu: Ow!
I still haven't stolen anything!!
Please forgive meee!!
WAA!!

Page 11:
Zofuu: HIIIH!!
SFX: ZAH
Guy: You just spoke Japanese, didn'cha?!!
Zofuu: Y... Yes. I'm Japanese.
..........?! You speak Japanese, too...?
Guy: What a disgrace!! A Japanese stealing oranges!!
Zofuu: Huh? You've got the same accent as my dad.
Are you from Niigata?
Guy: What? Your old man's even from Niigita?!!
That's even more disgraceful!!
Zofuu: Ah...

Page 12:
Zofuu: Um...
You...
Guy: Ey, listen close...
Zofuu: ..........
Guy: You can't steal people's stuff.
Zofuu: ..........
SFX: CHAKI
Zofuu: ..........
SFX: SHAH
Zofuu: Hih...
SFX: CHOKIH (Snip)

Page 13:
SFX: PAH
Guy: Eat!
Zofuu: Eh...?
B... But I can't steal something that belongs to someone else...
Guy: I'll tell the landlord to take it outta my pay.
Your as pale as death. Hurry up and eat.
Zofuu: Ah...
I'm in your debt...
YUUM!!
SFX: GAFU GAFUH
Zofuu: Um... Those scissors sure look handy.
Guy: Oh? Nice, ain't they? I made 'em myself.
SFX: GAFU GAFU

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Zofuu: That's an amazing invention.
With those scissors, you could probably become a gardener.
SFX: BECHA BECHA
Guy: What're you on about? I'm a tenant farmer here. I ain't no gardener or...
Baby: UEH UE~~~~!!
Guy: Oh, did you wake up? There, there.
Baby: UE UE~~~!!
Guy: There, there.
Baby: AU~~~!!
UEeE~~~!!
Zofuu: Is it okay if I comfort him?
Guy: Hm...? Okay...
Baby: AU AU~~~

Page 15:
Guy: Oh. He stopped crying.
Zofuu: This child... what's its name...?
Guy: Kinji...
Zofuu: So he'll become rich?
Guy: That's right!! That's how it's written!! Pretty good, picking up on that!

Page 16:
SFX: BASASA
Kinji: KYAKYAKYA
Zofuu: You can see it, too?
SFX: BASASA
Baby: KYAKYAKYA
Guy: ?
Zofuu: I can see it, too.
You'll meet me again, someday.

Page 17:
Zofuu: Your life will be a chain of hardships.
Well, life's tough no matter what path you take. There's no way around it, really.
Kinji: AUUUUU
Zofuu: And you'll save the world.
Guy: ?
Zofuu: But...
If the thing I'm doing now fails...

Page 18:
Zofuu: You'll die.
Guy: What sorta weird things are you saying while you're holding another person's kid?!!
Zofuu: It's a manga story.
Guy: Heh?
Zofuu: A manga story I have in my head.

Page 19:
Narration: 1964----
Devivie: If I read Zofuu's manuscript,
it'll have what I want to know written in it...?

Page 20:
Randy: Yeah...
Devivie: That's what this Billy Bat is saying to you?
Randy: Yeah.
Devivie: And that manuscript is the one that boy called Yamashita or whatever has hanging from his neck in a wrapping cloth?
Randy: No.
Devivie: Huh?

Page 21:
Randy: Over there.
It's in a drawer inside that hermitage
Devivie: What'd you say...?
Kevin: What's wrong?

Page 22:
Devivie: I burned them all!!
Randy: !!
Kevin: Why would you do that?!!
Devivie: Because it's my job!!
It's my job to go around the world burning imitation Billy Bats!!

Page 23:
Devivie: The only Billy Bat there can be around the world
is Culkin-sensei's "Billy Bat"!!
Kevin: "You can't steal people's stuff."
Those are the last words my father passed to me before he died.
My assistant, Chuck Culkin, stole my character "Billy Bat".

Page 24:
Kevin: The only one qualified to draw "Billy Bat" is the one who succeeded him from Zofuu-sensei...
me.
Devivie: Die.
Side: "If I fail, you'll die"--- Is the future told to Kevin as a baby by the young Zofuu now coming true?!
Insert Text: The next chapter will appear in issue 44, going on sale 9/27!! It will have the cover and opening color pages!!
and volume 10, containing the chapters 80 to this one is set to go on sale 9/22!!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 85 / End Look forward to the next chapter!!