Billy Bat 137

Okay, DONE! It's 4AM but I finished and I'm caught up, woohoo. I was told the next scanlation should get done pretty soon.

[Billy Bat 137 Translation by Kewl0210]
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SFX: GATATA...
Kurusu: Are you listening?
Do exactly as I say.
SFX: GATA GATA
Kurusu: Protect the mangaka just as I've told you.
If you don't.........
I'll have to go to the mood.
Side: The man that protected Kevin Yamagata and longed forever for his new work. Is he also a person that can see the bat?!

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Smith: What's......
on the moon......?
Kurusu: I doubt you'd believe it, but......
it's something a bat told me.
Even if I told you about these things you wouldn't understand any of it......
Smith: I understand.
I can understand that, too.

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Smith: I also.........
Title: Chapter 137 The Day He Met the Bat (4/8)

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Devivie: How are you feeling?
Smith: Ah...... Much better today.
And while I do feel much better,
that doesn't change the fact that the end is coming soon.
Devivie: ..........
Smith: Kevin Yamagata......
Looks like in the end I never got to see him again......

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Devivie: Right now he's around Peru and going further and further South................
He might be going close to the South pole.
Smith: I wanted to read it............
The new Billy Bat work he's going to draw.......
Devivie: Specifically the 'Volume of the Pharaoh's Curse', right?
Smith: Yeah......
I wanted to see where the sad love of the dancer girl Lionette went......
Devive: Because that heart-pounding adventure
is unfinished, right?

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Smith: I've been living always looking forward to seeing that continuation......
That's the sort of thing life is............
But the end has come far too quick.
Devivie: Please don't say that......
Smith: Perhaps it's the bat that's coming from the other side..........
Devivie: !!
Smith: Back then, I was sure he was coming for me......
Devivie: Do you mean you met the bat.........?
Smith: Yes, I did.........
Devivie: ..........

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Smith: It was at a New Orleans hotel...... On a landing on an emergency staircase......
HAA
HAA
HAA
SFX: PAN
SFX: BASA BASAH BASA BASA BASA BASA BASAH

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Billy: Yo!
SFX: BASASAH
Billy: I've got a favor to ask ya.
If you listen, I guarantee that peace will visit you.
Protect Kevin.
Smith: Kevin Yamagata? He already went to Dallas to protect the president......
Billy: AAaaaah, not him.

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Billy: ......And actually, Kevin Yamagata didn't go to protect the president.
Smith: Huh?
Billy: Kevin went to protect Kevin.
And so I need you..........
to help that Kevin.
Okay? Make sure ya remember.
It's Kevin Goodman!!

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Smith: But what could an old dodderer like me do............?
Kevin: !!
SFX: KAH
Smith: I've finally found you, Kevin Goodman.
Kevin: !!
Smith: My name is Smith.
I was able to save his life once, but......

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Smith: Then I just taught him skills so he could live on his own......
And then I waited for you to appear......
Devivie: For me to appear......?
Smith: The bat said......
that someone like you would appear............
Devi: The bat asid......
Smith: Yes......
There will come a day when the bat whispers to you, too......
Devi: To me......?!

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Smith: That will be...... an important time.
Make sure you listen to what the bat says.
Devi: I understand.
Smith: If you do that...... eventually......
they will reach this land......
This land I finally managed to reach after so much struggling......

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Devi: There will someday come a time when the bat whispers to you.....
Mr. Smith......... You were right.
The bat appeared for me, too.
And I must convey something important......

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Devivie: I must go to New York......
to meet Kevin Goodman as soon as possible......

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Jackie: When I was a girl, I met a person a lot like you.
That person was a cartoonist, too......
and he was also the kind of person that would burden himself with all the world's unhappiness.
After all, he was able to talk with the bat
and then after a certain point, he wasn't able to talk with Billy Bat anymore.

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Maggie: ?
Jackie: Isn't that right?
You can't talk with Billy Bat anymore.
Isn't that true?
Kevin: Y...... Yeah.
Jackie: And do you know what Billy would do at times like that?
He'd use me.

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Maggie: Huh?
Jackie: And later, people like Yamashita-kun.
Maggie: HUH?!
Jackie: He'd use people like us that have nothing to do with all this.
It's a pretty messed up story,
so I kinda doubt you'd believe it, but......
Kevin: No......
I understand....... what you're talking about.
Jackie: So like I said, I have nothing to do with this. So no matter what I say to you next,

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Jackie: I'm just delivering the bat's message,
and I don't even know what it means......
But
I hope you'll be all right.
The cartoonist I met a long time ago that's a lot like you
had some pretty awful stuff happening to him.
I don't want something awful like that happening again.
I'm really......
fed up with that sorta thing.

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Kevin: I...... I got it.
Thanks for being concerned for me.....
Jackie: Huuuuu
You've got a successor, right?
Kevin: Ah......
Yes......
Jackie: That person can't see it.
Kevin: What did you just say.........?

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Jackie: That person can't see the bat.
He's just pretending to see him.
Kevin: What're you talking about?! That's crazy...............
Jackie: I'm not saying this!
That's what the bat says!!

Page 21:
Jackie: He said that person is a big liar!
That's all he told me to tell you!!
I don't wanna be involved with this anymore. So long......!!
Maggie: Ah..... Mom.
Yama: What about your hamburger......?

Page 22:
Kevin: Timmy is......
a big liar......
SFX: BUH BUH BUH BUH
SFX: BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH

Page 23:
Timmy: What's some line I can use to say this simply?
'This still isn't the sorta situation for a man to struggle and fly yet.'
That's no good. That's a line Kevin Yamagata came up with, isn't it?
He'd say that's plagiarism.
Isn't there some other good line?
Yeah. Something a little more stylish would be good.
'Whether I'm in the dark or blindfolded, I can still kiss you.'
Yeah, that's really got style, Billy.

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Timmy: It's really fun to talk with you.
It really is, Billy.
Side: The one Timmy is talking to...... Is that his imagination......? Is it a lie.......? Or is it real?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" 137 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!