Rozen Maiden II 18

*facepalm* I can't believe I went this far out of my league when someone else had already translated the chapter (It was really freaking hard. I should learn my lesson or something)... Oh well, I feel like a fool for not checking, but two translations never hurt anyone I suppose D:
Anyways, this chapter is dedicated to all the Souseiseki fans :D

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Right Text:[ Previously on Rozen Maiden… etc.]
Left Text: I can hear your voice.
Title Text: Rozen Maiden

Page 01: advertisements

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Text: Which way is the battle…!?
Tale 18: The Next Door

Text: Shinku

Text: Shinku

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Suigintou: Have you finally woken up, Thorn Princess?
Shinku: Suigintou? Where… / Where are we…?

Kirakishou: This is the 42951st world……
Shinku: !? / Kirakishou…
Kirakishou: This is my world, my honourable sisters.

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Suigintou: The seventh doll… Where are you hiding? Show yourself! / Let’s settle this.

Kirakishou: …No. No, Onee-sama. // I won’t show you this unsightly form.

Kirakishou: I worked so hard to enter a body in the unwound world, but… // …somehow I was forced out of it.

Kirakishou: How humiliating… / Humiliating… // Humiliating…
Suigintou: What’s she talking about?
Shinku: ……

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Shinku: From the start, Kirakishou was always a doll without a physical form. // Because Souseiseki, who owns the body she took and occupied,is joined by her ring’s contract… / …there was no room for the Parasite, Kirakishou.

Shinku: It seems the purely astral Kirakishou has been considerably damaged. // She can’t even keep her form in her own field…

Suigintou: ……
Thoughts: It’s here… Souseiseki’s Rosa Mystica / is still here…

Thought: Then that body is…?
Shinku: What happened to Souseiseki!? / What happened to Souseiseki’s body after you left it…!?

Bubble: I’m here.

Pages 07-08: No words, just an incredible amount of awesome.

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Shinku: …So…

Suigintou: Souseiseki…!!

Souseiseki [squeeeee!]: Hey… Long time no see. // Been doing well, dolls?

Shinku: What… That’s… / How did you…
Suigintou: Wait, Shinku!

Suigintou: Are you sure that’s the real Souseiseki? / It’s probably a fake. Remember whose territory this is…

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Souseiseki: …I heard a voice calling. // There was the touch of warm fingers… and a voice clinging to “A doll just for me”.

Souseiseki: It was… A voice I remembered, calling someone’s name.

Souseiseki: That was a named I’d been searching for for a long time. // My name…

Boxes: From there… // I reached out to a lost child to get him to return home.

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Shinku: Jun…?
Text: The wound Jun and the unwound Jun are both maestros…

Suigintou: Huh… Something that stupid can’t be possible. // Her Rosa Mystica is inside me, right?

Suigintou: A body in the Ether needs a Rosa Mystica to stand up. / Then who is that Souseiseki? Won’t someone say she isn’t a fake created by number seven?

Souseiseki: Suiseiseki and I are twin dolls. / We shared our opposing eyes and were born with the same clothing and bodies.// Among us sisters, we are especially close.

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Souseiseki: Did you know? Of the fragments that were given to us from the Rosa Mystica that had been divided into seven pieces… / …Only our two stones were identical. // Father told me.

Suigintou: No… Then she… / …put her own Rosa Mystica into her twin sister’s body…?

Souseiseki: There was a possibility it could have failed. Both of us could have broken. // …But you understand that.

Thought: Always together…!
Souseiseki: It looks like I’ve recovered.

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Shinku: Souseiseki…
Suigintou: Stupid… How pointless. // This doesn’t make you two beautiful…

Suigintou thoughts: Suiseiseki probably didn’t expect me to be there. // If she knew I was there she might have tried a different method…

Souseiseki: I have lost the Alice Game once… Suiseiseki still thinks otherwise, but… // …You who stole a Rosa Mystica are not the winner.

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Souseiseki: It’s true. / This body isn’t beautiful.

Souseiseki: We should return to our proper bodies. / Suiseiseki’s Rosa Mystica to Suiseiseki. // …And I to…

Souseiseki: …A wordless doll again… // ………

Bubble 1: Anyway, for now we should think of getting out of here.
Bubble 2: …You’re right. / When we get back we should all have a tea party together.
Bubble 3: …Don’t be ridiculous.

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Door: Click

Jun: Uwawawawawa
Canaria: Kyaah

Jun: Haa… This one is wrong too. / The n-field is huge…
Canaria: I wonder…

Jun: Which is the door to the Unwound World!? / Not “I wonder”! Aren’t you here to guide me!?

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Bubble 1 (Cana): As I said! Have you thought about what is behind the door, I wonder!?
Bubble 2 (Jun): Sigh… At this rate, will I ever get home, I wonder…
Bubble 3 (Cana): Will you stop copying me, I wonder!!

Jun: Not here either…
Canaria: Hey, Jun.
Jun: What?

Canaria: You know? Just maybe? / I don’t know, but maybe…
Jun: What is it?

Canaria: The zeroth world is broken, but… / I wonder… if we can’t return as things are.
Jun: ? // Huh?

Canaria: So, you know, um…. The world we saw before might exist? / That might have been the true unwound world, so…… ummm…
Jun: ? // ?

Canaria: In other words!

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Canaria: We Rozen Maidens are like uninvited guests… // ..in the time in which Jun chose not to wind.

Picture with pen: [uncircled:]Wind?[circled:] Don’t wind?

Jun: Yeah… I know that. // And that’s where Shinku showed up, isn’t it?

Bubbles: Because Shinku, who wasn’t supposed to come, did come, the unwound world became strained. // The world hates irregularities. / Shinku, particularly in a replica body, has a limit to how long she can exist there.

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Jun: …Yeah…
Canaria: Do you understand, I wonder? / I’ll make my explanation simple from here on.

Canaria: Her time limit came while she was fighting with Kirakishou. / When Shinku and the others disappeared, the stopped time all rewound, so... / As for Shinku being reborn in a place she never came to…
Jun: Hey, Hey… Wait wait. I don’t get it at all.

Canaria: Oh for goodness’ sake! // In other words…

Jun: To make it so that it “has happened,” you must not return with them. // If you do then everything until now…

Jun: …It won’t have “happened”…?
Canaria: That’s right!

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Jun: It will have “not existed”? // Everything I’ve made… / My “now” would…?

Jun: That…
Canaria: We will all return to the point where time is stopped! / If we do that, then…!

Jun: …Yeah.

Jun: Alright…! Well, firstly let’s look for Shinku and the other dolls.
Canaria: Roger! I wonder!
Canaria: Huh?

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Canaria: Jun, what’s that sparkly thing?
Jun: Sparkly?
Canaria: On your sleeve.

Jun: …What’s this? // White… thread?

Suigintou: Ku…

Shinku: It’s no good… It won’t quite break. // Even though we can see a gap…

Bubbles: Those needle-like crystals seem different from the rest. // The ones that are interlaced like a spider’s webs…

Souseiseki: A spider soon kills any prey its web catches. Like how the prey is weakened by being bound in thread, / I think that is why we have been left here.

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Suigintou: Where are you, Kirakishou!? / Answer me!

Bubble 1: …
Bubble 2: She doesn’t seem to be here anymore…
Bubble 3: She’s probably planning to restore her body while she hides.

Bubble: We’re just waiting to be eaten then…!?
Souseiseki: …… // Wait.

Souseiseki: What… // is that…?

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Jun: Hey everyone…!
Everyone: !?

Shinku: Jun…!?
Suigintou: What…? How did you…?

Jun: I followed Kirakishou’s thread here. / …? For some reason you look awfully small… Well, it doesn’t matter.

Shinku: Jun…
Jun: Hold on! I’ll help you!

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Jun: Alright…
Canaria: Big Jun…

Jun: Wh…at? // Huh…?

Canaria: It seems we can’t go through even though we can see them… / I wonder if they are just shadows being reflected by the crystals!

Canaria: Deception is the last sister’s specialty! Their real location is probably hidden!
Jun: Damn it… Even though I can see them… / We’ve come this far, but I don’t know what to do…

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Thought: They [or you/I] need to return to their original world… // Furthermore, the Wound Me’s hiding place might soon be discovered because of this thread. // If I don’t hurry…

Jun: Deception… deception…? Damn. / The dream full of fake parts was bad… // This is her special skill?

Canaria: Fake parts?
Jun: I found Shinku in a mountain made from an incredible number of parts. I didn’t expect to find her so fast…
Canaria: Fake…

Canaria: If so, then there’s no way they could have all been there. / She probably distracted you with afterimages.
Jun: You… think so?

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Canaria: Afterimages… // Afterimages… that’s it!

Jun: Huh…?

Canaria: Pizzicato!

Jun: Huh!?

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Canaria: You can leave it to Cana from here! // I wonder <3
Text: The Rozen Maidens’ thinker, Canaria, shows what she does best!?
Bottom text: Rozen Maiden Chapter 18 END