Obake Life Oneshot

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OBAKE LIFE

tl by molokidan

01)
Right Box: Saying that one can see ghosts will no doubt bring sudden attention to themselves-- (Once in a while, there will even be a jealous person or two)
Girl 1: Bye byeee!
Girl 2: See ya!
Left box: This declaration will cause attention to come from the ghosts' side as well, though. (And that's where the great danger lies.)
Black text: And the truth is, ghosts aren't things to trifle with.
G: I guess I'll go home too.
G: Hm?
G: Someone else's manga is in my desk...
black: Especially...the type of "evil spirits" that can curse and kill a person.
Manga box 1: How could you do such a thing?!
Manga box 2: That's because you...

02)
Letter:
Those who read
to this point in my manga
will die without fail
one the same day
Hamami
G: What...is this?
Text: DIE
sfx: Jiwaaaahhh
Voice from book: HAMAMI
sfx: potah

03)
G: It's...
G: It's gotta be some kind of joke...
sfx: Haahhh
G: It's gotta be...

04)
G: Aaa...
G: AAAAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE
?: Hm?

06)
G: Hah
G: Hah
G: I'm gonna die!
G: That ghost that grabbed my arm...it's certainly an evil spirit!
G: Even I have only seen those in movies...
G: Wahhhh
G: No way...this...

07)
G: THis is bad...I might just die normally!
box: He

08)
box: had deep red eyes,
box: pale white skin,
Box: and was the ghost of a young boy.
sfx: Doshiiiin
G: Ah!
G: I'm...fine.
G: ? But wait?
G: I'm not standing up...

09)
B: I've decided it!
B: I'm going to marry you, lady!
G: Huh?
sfx: suuuuuuu
B: Woowww--this scent! How wonderful.
G: Hey...
B: Makes me feel like I'm alive again!
B: This is without a doubt that thing called love at first sight! Yes, there's no mistake, I've loved you ever since I set eyes upon you! When I was wandering around outside there, and then suddenly heard a scream
G: Hey...wait! Let me go! What are you doing...?!
B: What? This is a hug!
B: Huguhhhhh!

10)
B: Huguuu~
G: Just what
G: is this guy...!?
B: Ah, please tell me your name!
B: I...well, I've forgotten my own name.
B: And please tell me your address too!
B: Oh yeah! And your blood type!?
G: I've never seen an apparition that talks as much as this one.
B: I'm pretty sure I was a K. Oh wait, maybe that was my name?
B: My name is K-Type...Keita....!
B: That's right, I'm Keita.
G: He even helped me. He may not be an evil one...
G: But I don't have time to mess around with him...
G: Thanks for helping me.
G: Bye!

11)
G: I have to hurry. That manga's curse...
G: Oww!?
B: Ah, did your heart just get hurt!?
B: Since you tried to ignore me!
G: Of course not. WHAT!?
B: That's proof that you were interested in me from the start! Yay! (Of course I feel the same way)
sfx: go go go go go
G: From the point where it grabbed me...
G: There's a strange line stretching down. Is this my lifeline...?
G: What are these spots...
G: Is my lifeline being erased...!? It can't be...
sfx: goshi goshi
sfx: dokun

12)
G: When my lifeline becomes completely erased, will I die...!?
B: Ahh--this is one of those curse things, isn't it?
G: You know!?
B: Eh?
G: About curses!
G: That's right! Ghosts should be the best thing to ask about other ghosts.
G: Heyy, teach me how to break this curse!!

13)
B: "I will marry you"...?
G: Huh? Why is he saying "I will marry you" to me like that?
G: But I don't have any choice...
G: "I...
G: will marry you."
B: Unswerving determination...
B: Okay, whatever. Anyway.
B: Finally,my fated person has appeared before me.
sfx: go go go go go go go go go
B: She's beautiful,
B: well-endowed,
B: and is a little...no, a huge "dojikko"... (*dojikko is a phrase that refers to girls who are excessively awkward and clumsy, but through all of it still want to help others despite their constant failures.
B: my fated person!!!
B: Just leave everything to me!!!

14)
B: Until death do us part...
B: I will protect you!
G: ........eh.
G: Ahh...
G: So...about breaking this curse...
B: I'll just search for it on the internet.
B: What kind of curse is it?
G: It'll probably be faster if I do it myself!
B: Ahh-! That cell phone can view websites?
B: You don't need that!

15)
G: There it is...!
G: "The Cursed Manga"
G: "Hamami's Curse"
Text:
The curse of a female college student, Hamami, who was aiming to become a manga artist. Through malicious "bullying," her manga was uploaded to the internet and constantly picked apart. On top of her ideas being stolen and published elsewhere, she was also murdered--
G: This is terrible...
Text 2:
Even up until the moment of her death, foul "bullying" such as hiding half of the completed manuscript from her continued.
G: With a death like that...it's plain to see how she became an evil spirit out of resentment...
G: The principal instigator of her "bullying" committed suicide soon after Hamami's death--
G: However, Hamami's manga, now as the "Cursed Manga," spread across the map.
G: But no one must ever read it.
G: If someone does, anyone capable of saving that person's life...

16)
top text: will no longer exist.
B: Could this be your "marriage blues"...?
G: Of course not.
B: It's alright, everything is sure to go wonderfully! We'll both pledge never to divorce
G: I...
B: Hm?
G: I think I might die.
G: Hamami's grudge will kill me...

17)
B: If that happened, wouldn't it be great?!
B: yoh!
B: Then we could go on our honeymoon for free! (Hurry up and die please!)
G: You...didn't you say you'd protect me even if it killed you?
B: Eh, yes! Even if YOU die, I'll protect you!
(small bubbleless text): Then we'll be together forever!
G: Being a ghost couple together would be so dreamy, wouldn't it--
G: Wouldn't that just be the best?!
sfx: paaaah
G: Don't you know? Just because someone becomes a ghost doesn't mean they'll turn out with a nice form like yours...
G: Most apparitions look like orbs or stick figures. Yet for some reason, they remain in this world...
G: What about you?
G: Is your unfinished business with this world so strong that you've remained here in that form?

18)
B: The truth is, I really can't remember...
B: But I feel like I stayed behind just so I could met you.
B: Have you decided?
G: Do you only say ridiculous stuff like that? (Ever since we met...)
G: This is why I don't like ghosts...they're just too stupid...
B: Eh?
G: At any rate, you're not different than the other apparitions...
G: I don't want to become such an annoying ghost as that...!
G: I...

19)
G: don't...want to die yet.
G: I've been able to see spirits since I was a small child. Every day they'd stick to me and frighten me...
G: As a result, I became dark, and had few friends...nothing good ever happened to me.
G: I guess being killed by an evil spirit is a fitting end for me...
G: I just wish I was never born in the first place...
sfx: pomu

20)
B: It's no good to resent fate.
B: If you must hate something, then hate the source of all your suffering.
B: Then you'll just become another evil spirit...
B: I bet Hamami was filled with regret too...
B: Who knows if she ever had any purpose or not...
G: But let's say we found what her purpose was...and cleared up her regret...
B: Then the curse should be broken...!

21)
G: Hamami's regret.
G: This means
G: I'll have to trust in my own ESP...
G: What's keeping her stuck here...
G: "Bullying such as hiding half of the complete manuscript."
G: I have a feeling the curse is coming from the hidden portion of this "Cursed Manga"...
G: Which would mean...
close-up manga text: TO THIS POINT
G: that Hamami actually wanted the entire manga to be read...!?
G: Now that I think about it, there's probably no one who has ever continued on reading after they were cursed.
G: So it's possible that no one's ever tried it before...
G: If I finish it and become the "person who's read it to the end"...
G: I think I've got it...!

22)
G: Ahh
sfx: dokun
G: But I don't have...
G: time...!?
sfx: go go go go go
G: I need to hurry back to the classroom,
sfx: hah
sfx: hah
G: and finishing reading the manga I left there, or else...!
sfx: garah
G: There it is!

23)
G: To be honest, I was a little scared.
G: Whether the book would still be there -- whether there really was an "ending" -- and more than anything,
G: in the back of my mind, I felt that when I first read this manga, that arm coming and grabbing hold of me
G: had actually been an omen telling me not to read the "end."
G: Alright! There really are more pages...!

24)
G: Hiiee!
sfx: bariiin

25)
sfx: petan
G: Hah
G: Hah
G: I...I knew it...
G: Here it is...
G: Nooo....
G: Ah...
G: Wait, just now...
G: I was about to read the rest...
sfx: kachi kachi kachi (teeth chattering)
G: So

26)
G: don't come any closer!!!

27)
B: I won't
B: let you die.
B: So hurry up and read the rest while you still can...!
B: Quickly, do it while you run!
B: Don't worry about me!
B: I know why this thing is still in this world.
B: Me protecting you from it will make myself look cool...in other words,
B: It's here to make you fall in love with me!
sfx: paaah

28)
B: This thing is actually a kewpie doll of love..
B: Now...hurry...
B: Run...away.
sfx: dah

29)
G: Even though an apparition could never take on an evil spirit...
G: He still tried to protect me...
G: Idiot...you've already died.
G: Don't die again...
sfx: gyu
G: While I hide behind the counter in this library--
G: I did my best to desperately finish reading through my tears and shivers.
G: I read it seriously as a prayer to this "Cursed Manga."
G: But the amateurish style of the story was so amusing--

30)
G: that it ended before I even realized it.
G: Even though she drew such an entertaining manga, she was bullied and killed...
G: But I read it all, Hamami...
G: I hope you feel better now...
G: ....eh?

31)
G: The mark hasn't disappeared...
sfx: go go go go go go
G: The cursed hasn't been broken...?
G: And now my lifeline...
G: has reached the end...
sfx: buwaaahhhh
?: The flower of death...has bloomed... (snicker snicker)
?: Since you read it... (snicker snicker)
G: What?
G: What do you mean!?
G: I thought it was strange.
G: Why would Hamami try to stop someone from washing away her own regret?
?: There is no way to break "Hamami's Curse." (snicker snicker)
G: Eh...no way!

32)
G: This ghost...isn't Hamami...!?
sfx: go go go go (etc)
B: Splendid.
B: You helped me remember...
B: the fact that I too am an evil spirit...!

33)
?: You've finally...
?: figured it out.
?: I am NOT Hamami.
?: I've tried so much to bring a bad reputation to Hamami's name...
G: Hah
G: Hah
?: All I've ever wanted is a bad image of Hamami to spread out through the world...
?: It pisses me off that things aren't working. (snicker snicker)
G: Hah
?: But now all I need to do is kill you...
?: Humans like you...
?: are the ones I resent the most...

34)
?: You thought Hamami's manga was amusing, didn't you?

35)
G: Are you...the person that bullied Hamami...!?
G: The one that committed suicide after killing her...
?: Yes.
?: I was driven to suicide!
?: Hamami...because of Hamami, I died....the world drove me out...
?: That talentless girl...it's only right she should die...and yet..
?: Those fools that sympathise with Hamami, those fools that criticize me -- I won't forgive them...
?: I'll kill you like I did Hamami...
?: I'll show you just how she ended up... (snicker snicker)
G: Horrible...!!!

36)
G: All your resentment is unjustified!
?: (snicker snicker) All your screaming is meaningless to an evil spirit like me.
?: You can't move, can you?
?: Your death is decided the moment an evil spirit grabs on to your back...it starts with paralysis...
?: There's a overwhelming gap between the power of a human and an evil spirit...
?: And just now...
?: I

37)
?: seized your heart.
?: I could pull it out in an instant if I wanted, you know?
?: How does it feel?
G: Ahh...
G: Hah
G: Hah
?: Are you terrified? Are you hopeless? That drives us evil spirits wild~
?: There was no point to the curse until now...it was all in order to promote despair and terror... (snicker snicker)
G: I...
G: can't go on!

38)
?: Giiihhh!?
G: Wh...what!?
G: WHo?
B: Kuku...does it feel good?
B: Knowing that you're about to die...

39)
?: Aga.......agagagagagaga
?: GAAAHHH
?: Huh....!?
B: Now...
B: Ready to die?

40)
?: Shah!
?: Fuhih!
?: Who the hell are you? Talking about "death" to someone who's already dead like me...
B: You really think ghosts can't die too...?
B: Unfortunately for you, ghosts can "die."
B: It's as simple as yanking out their hearts and smashing them.

41)
B: You'd never think that ghosts would have hearts too, would you..?
B: And yet ghosts certainly possess things that can be called hearts, just as they have eyes and mouths.
B: Not only that, but they are delicate and easily broken.
B: Just a tiny scratch will cause endless pain that a mere human couldn't even begin to fathom...
B: In other words, dying a second time means an eternity of suffering...
B: Just like that thing called "Hell."
?: Now that I've heard what you had to say...
?: It definitely sounds like made-up prattling to me...!
?: Who the hell do you think you are, anyway!?

42)
?: How would you even know about stuff like that!?
B: That's because I
B: was killed in my previous life by an evil spirit,
B: and have become an "evil spirit that curses other evil spirits."

43)
?: Wha...
B: It's identical to the same irrational power you wield versus humans--
?: This...guy...
B: My resentment will undoubtedly kill you.
?: No way...!!
?: How could I stand to be killed by such a guy...
?: If you really want to try and seize my heart, then...
B: What are you saying?
B: I'm already done with all that.
?: Eh?
B: Or should I say, you're already holding it in your own right hand.
?: What?
B: Well, not really holding it really, it's more like you're squeezing and smushing it up...kukuku...
?: It can't be...

44)
?: Hiiieeee!
B: That fear and despair...
B: drives me wild.
sfx: HIGYAAAHHHHHH

45)
Box: The Next Day
?: Ehhhhhhh!?
G: You really don't remember anything!?
B: Yup!
G: Haa....
G: I can understand blocking out memories of the ghost, but to forget about your own hatred...
G: It seems like a lot has turned back to normal.
B: More importantly, I think it's time to give you this...
sfx: doki doki
G: But...
G: I guess it's safest if we stay together from now on...
G: The most dangerous thing that's come out of this is how I've changed.
G: ...hey, wait, is this a ring?!
G: This ghost...
B: It's our engagement ring!
G: Where did you get this?! It's a real diamond...
B: I bought it...
G: Bou...ehhh!?
G: Well then...please become my guardian spirit....
B: Guardian spirit?
G: It was here when I started thinking I might someday fall in love with him.