Nurarihyon no Mago 69

Sneaking in there before ch70... really excited for colour pages :D [...oops. numbered this one 70 by accident. sorry to get your hopes up >: my bad]

International Translators / Scanlators: You're welcome to use this, but I'd appreciate it if you include a credit for Niphredil.

Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
Blue Text: Edits
As always, any comments, corrections, or advice greatly appreciated!


-01-
Top right box: Dear Rikuo-sama
Top right box: How are things going for you over there?
Starred text right: The Japanese summer... and the youkai summer!
Text bottom right: Act 69
Text bottom right: The Toono Story, Part 1: The Hidden Village
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Top left box: It must have been a great shock to have been taken away to a strange land while you were sleeping.
Bottom left box: You poor thing... I feel that the Supreme Commander may have overdone it slightly there.

Right box: Still, a great many youkai were born in the lands of the Northeast.
Left box: My ancestor Yuki Onna, Kappa, Kamaitachi, Ama no Jyaku, Yamanba... all types of youkai.
Left box: It is their birthplace.

-02-
Top box: That's why I know you'll learn something there, Rikuo-sama.
Top box: Experience that air for yourself firsthand.

Box bottom: And take care of yourself...
Box bottom: I've heard that Toono a land of extreme cold, and its youkai of extreme evil, and extreme strength... a land of 3 extremes. It is fearsome indeed.

Box: Remember, I'm always here for you, Rikuo-sama!
Box: Respectfully yours...
Rikuo: nn... Nnngh...
Rikuo: Oh... Tsurara...
Rikuo: I left my dirty clothes over there...

Rikuo: Hn...

-03-
Rikuo: ?!

Y: Ch... He woke up

Y: They said we could eat him if he'd stayed asleep another half an hour too!

Rikuo: ?!

-04-
Y: Is he really the heir to Kantou's Nura Clan?
Y: What a strange one... as soon as night falls, his hair grows long all of a sudden
Y: Apparently he's got human blood in him, so he's half youkai
Y: How halfassed...
Y2: Nah, even worse... I heard he's only a quarter Ayakashi!

Y: As if that could be true!
Y2: He's right there in front of you, isn't he?...
SFX: heheheh...

Y: Well then, he should be a weakling...
Y: If he's come somewhere like this
Y: Then he'll probably die
SFX: hahaha

Rikuo: ......
SFX: snicker
Rikuo: What is this place...

Toono1: You finally up?~
Toono1: You're one troublesome apprentice!

Rikuo: Apprentice...?

Toono1: Come on
Rikuo: !!
Toono1: Go and greet Akagappa-sama!!

-05-
Akagappa: So you're the grandson of Nurarihyon?

Akagappa: Hm... you do look like him...
Akagappa: It's like the old him's been brought back

Akagappa: He only roots out the best ones and takes them away...
Akagappa: It's thanks to him we're so shorthanded
Akagappa: Obnoxious... his grandson's got an obnoxious look about him too.

Rikuo: ...Who are you guys?
Rikuo: Friends of the old man?
Rikuo: Where the hell am I?

-06-
Y: Hey!
Y: None of your lip
Y: In front of Akagappa-sama!

Akagappa: This is the village of Toono, in the northeast.
Akagappa: A hidden village, long called the "village of Ayakashi".

Rikuo: Toono...
Rikuo: Hidden village?

Toono3: You'll just have to do your best.
Toono3: Alright, that's enough
Toono3: Take him away and show him an apprentice's work.

Rikuo: Ah-!
Rikuo: Oi!

-07-
Rikuo: Apprentice?! The northeast?! To hell with all that!
Rikuo: I need to get to Kyoto, and quickly!

Y: Kyoto?...

SFX: Hahahaha
SFX: Gahahahaha!

Y: You, in Kyoto?
Y: What a joke!

Toono3: For you, who can only "activate fear"
Toono3: It'd just be the same as rushing to your death.

Rikuo: Uh huh, is that so?
Y: Hey!! You trying to run away?

-08-
Y: You can't leave here
Y: That easily

Rikuo: !!

Rikuo: A dog?...

-09-
Y: Hahahahahaha, he was done in by the Kappa Dog!
Y: He's weaker than a dog!
Y: The Nura Clan's young head is even lower than a dog!

Rikuo: ......

Text right: it's the same as with the old man back then...
Text left: What did it do to me, just now?...

-10-
Text: What is this place?!

-11-
Rikuo: Haaa
Rikuo: Haaaa

SFX: slip

Rikuo: Whoa!

Rikuo: Owww... Crap, I just washed those too...
Rikuo: What the hell... what's with all the moss

Toono1: Hey, newbie
Toono1: I'm leaving this here, get it washed!

-12-
Toono1: Oi
Toono1: You STILL not done chopping firewood yet?

Toono1: What a waste of space~
Toono1: If you finish this by evening, you won't get your other work done either~! [small text:]You can't even do simple chores?
Rikuo: ...Hey

Toono1: Mm?
Rikuo: Why have I gotta do all this stuff?
Rikuo: Why me
Rikuo: All the way out here

Toono1: Your grandfather sent you out here.
Toono1: He said, "He wants to die."
Toono1: "Get some discipline into my fool grandson"

Rikuo: Wh... What?!
Toono1: He even said, "Use him however you please."

Toono1: We're shorthanded here, so this is really helping us out~
Rikuo: That... stinking old man...

-13-
Toono1: Well, I'll leave it to you then
Rikuo: Just hang on a second!

Rikuo: Why's the washing area (the river)
Rikuo: So insanely far away from the drying spot?!

Toono1: ...Well you see, not only is the village full of smoke
Toono1: But there aren't many places reached by the sunlight
Toono1: And even those places are full of spirit energies

Rikuo: Hm?
Rikuo: Now I think of it, it's the afternoon but I'm still a youkai...
Toono1: Now put your back into it and get to work!!

Rikuo: ...
Rikuo: Damn it...

Text right: Rikuo
Text left: Even underlings would beat you

Rikuo: That old bastard...
Text left: What the hell do you want me to do here?

-14-
Rikuo: ...Laundry, huh... This sure is a pain in the ass...
Rikuo: It's pretty hard...
Rikuo: Tsurara... You were always happy to do it for me...
Text by Tsurara: Rikuo-sama, please bring your laundry out!

Rikuo: ......
Text: Ma~ster Ma~ster

Rikuo: Alright
Rikuo: I'm out of here

Rikuo: As if I could do this stuff...
Rikuo: And no one's looking anyway

Itaku: ......

Rikuo: A bridge!

-15-
Rikuo: Huh?...

Rikuo: Crap...
Rikuo: An illusion?!

Itaku: You sure are stupid
Itaku: We already told you there's no way you could leave this village.

Rikuo: What?

-16-
Itaku: It's a good thing you were being watched
Itaku: By me, Itaku of the Kamaitachi!

-17-
[...]

-18-
Itaku: You really don't know anything about the village of Toono, do you?

Itaku: This is a "hidden village"
Itaku: You could say the entire village is a youkai

Itaku: If you don't have the power to sever fear
Itaku: You won't be able to leave here for the rest of your life!

Rikuo: !
Text: Sever fear?!

Nurarihyon: The Ayakashi of old
Nurarihyon: Take it to the next stage

-19-
Rikuo: ...Hey!
Rikuo: Kamaitachi or whatever your name is
Rikuo: What was that you said just now? The power to sever fear?...

Itaku: That's what I said! But what, you still planning on running?
Itaku: You some kind of moron? That's impossible for you right now!

Vertical text, left: Will Rikuo grasp something in the land of Toono?

Toono1: He said, "He wants to die."
Toono1: "Get some discipline into my fool grandson"
Text bottom: ...Act 69 // END
Text bottom: Next time, with colour and 31 pages, the Toono youkai arc and a huge secret announcement!!
Rikuo: "The power to sever fear"...
Rikuo: I see... so that's why you stuck me all the way out here, old man!

Rikuo: Die? Yeah, right!
Rikuo: Bring it on!!