Billy Bat 12

BILLY BAT #12

tl by molokidan

7)
K: Shizu-chan!!
K: haa x3
K: Shizu-chaaaaaan!!

Chapter 12 - A Myriad of Suspects

8)
sfx(2b): chih chih chih
T: Excuse me.
T: Are you Shirasu-san?
S: I can't stand bad Japanese. Speak English, will you?

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T: Mr. Jirou Shirasu, I presume?
sfx: zah
S: If you're looking for a Shirasu who wants to talk to you, you won't find one here.
S: I'm just a farmer.
T: What natural-sounding English.
T: Did they teach you that at Oxford?
S: Even kids can speak English.
S: Oxford is a nice school, but they won't teach you anything vital.
S: Like how to till the soil, for instance.
T: Is that a hard thing to do? Plowing fields...

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S: Yeah.
S: Especially when you've got a country like this that needs to be re-plowed from square one.
sfx: zah
T: This man...have you ever seen him before?

11)
K: haa x3
G: Shizu-chan!!
G: Shizu-chan...!!
K: M...
K: Move it!!
K: What are you doing?! What about a doctor?! Did you call the police?!

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K: Hurry up and do it!! If you keep standing around like this, she'll...
G: But Shizu-chan said not to...
K: Eh...?
G: She said that she wanted to talk to you, not policemen or doctors...
K: Call a doctor right now.
G: But...
K: Call a fucking doctor, I said!!

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G: Hiieee!!
K: Shizu-chan...
S: Kin-chan...
K: Who...who did this to you?
K: Is it the same customer that hit you before?
S: No...
K: What kind of man was he? What did his face look like?
G: She said the karate chop man did it...
G: Like this!!
K: Karate chop...?
S: That manga...
K: Eh?

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S(2b): It's my fault...you told me not to read it...
S: It's because I read that manga...
K: Zafuu-sensei's manga...?
S: Hey, Kin-chan...
K: Mmm...?
S: I know you can draw...
S: a better manga than that...
S: I know you can write a better continuation, Kin-chan...
S: A funnier, more interesting one...

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S: One that will make the whole world cheer up...
S: ...then, your manga will be used to make an amusement park...
K: Shizu-chan...!!
S: Everyone will have fun there...
S: Kinji's Flower Mansion...KinHeaven...
G: Uu...uuuu...
S: It'll be a world...
S: that never...starts another war...
K: Shizu-chan...

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S: I'm sorry, Kin-chan...
K: Eh...?
S: I didn't have time...
S: Your tools...
S: I didn't have time...
S: I still haven't bou...
K: Shizu-chan!!
K: Shizu-chan!!

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K: Shizu-chaaaaaaaaan!!
T: Did you happen to see this man at the salon in Nihonbashi?

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S: Yeah, I have a feeling I did.
S: What's the deal with him?
T: He's a suspect in the Shimoyama case.
S: One out of a million suspects, huh?
T: True...
T: It could be possible that this was a crime committed by leftists of the National Railroad Company in order to prevent betrayal.
S: That's the simplest theory.
sfx: zah
S: But you've also got the consider that it could have been the work of the Canon Unit(*1), the CIC(*2), or a plan of the CTS(*3).
Side * Marks:
*1 - GHQ's secret service.
*2 - GHQ's Counter-Intelligence Corps.
*3 - GHQ's Civil Transportation Section.
S: If you make it seem like it was all the work of the leftists, suppression will become easier...as will treachery.

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T: Are you inferring that this is all a conspiracy by GHQ(*4)...?
*4 - General Headquarters (Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers)
S: I can think of more possibilities...
S: Shimoyama could have been killed by a remnant from the now-defunct Imperial war machine, thinking the man was going to sell the Japan National Railroad Company over to the CTS.
S: I also heard a funny rumor.
S: It claims that Shimoyama found out the true purpose behind GHQ's promotion of the National Railroad Company's widespread dismissal policy, and started to oppose it...
S: So he was silenced by the Japanese government, who have been using the gold bars they levied from their citizens and other Asian countries in order to fund the prevention of possible treason.
S: He was cleaned up by you fellas.

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S: I wouldn't be surprised if all the parties I just mentioned end up being guilty.
sfx: za...
S: Either way, it sounds like a sham.
T: A sham...?
S: A sham created by the people who killed Shimoyama and are trying to plunge the history of Japan into darkness...
T: A sham, huh...?
T: Well, a corpse with all the blood sucked out of it isn't exactly a normal finding.

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T: And we still haven't found Shimoyama's trademark Loyd glasses, necktie, Zippo lighter, or cigarette case...
T: There's also the mysterious oil that was spread all over his clothes...
S: See, someone's pulling the wool over your eyes.
T: About the real cause of Shimoyama's death...there's a whole slew of theories...
T: There's even one that says he was dealt a fatal blow by a karate chop.
S: Talk about a bad joke.

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K: If only you hadn't met me...
K: If only you hadn't met me, you...
G: Hey, girls!!
G: Did the police get here?
G: If it's the doctor, he's already too late.

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G: I thought they looked like police so I brought them over!!
G: But something's weird!!
G: Weird...?
sfx: don
G: Kyaaah!

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G: Run.
K: Eh?
G: Hurry up and run!!
K: B...but...
G: Shizu-chan didn't call for the police or a doctor in order to save you!!
G: If you get caught here, Shizu-chan's death will have been in vain!!

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sfx: dah
sfx: basha x2

26)
sfx: basha x10
K: haa x2

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S: The democracy of this country
S: is instant democracy...
S: It's democracy born from a mere ten people.
S: That's why the bulk of it is still...
S: enshrouded in darkness.
sfx: picha

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B: Yooo! You really have been doing nothing but running lately.
B: Sure you're alright with that, pal?

Next: July 2.