Tegami Bachi 12

UPDATED 12/01/10. Slowly reworking the older TB translations. Volume 4 will be first, hopefully to be re-released by JAC with the omake added too.

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I've got my dingo!
I've got my friends!

Text bottom right: Asada Hiroyuki

Text bottom right: Chapter 12: The Corpse Doctor

Right, let's set out!
On the journey to deliver "Heart"!!

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Vertical text on right: A mysterious man wandering around Yuusari... a harbinger of doom!?

Woman: Ugh, that smell... what on earth could it be?!
Man: That's the Bee Hive's Corpse Doctor

Man: They say there are huge piles of insect and animal corpses ready for dissection in those leather bags of his.
Woman: Oh my!

Man: It's better than there being people inside there today, Madam
Woman: Please don't say anymore...
Woman: You're frightening me!

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Man: Shh!
Man: He's coming this way!
Woman: What?

Man: Do.. do you want something?!

Man: Waaah!

SFX: muttering
Corpse Doctor: The Umigase variety of Ferry Mouse bird, from Northwest Yodaka... Subclinical infection... It'll need to be checked for internal viruses...
Man text: It was under the bench...

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Lag: Good morning!

Lag: Good morning!
Lag: Good morning!!

Textbox: The town of Yuusari Central
Number 13, Nocturne Street
Post Office, The Bee Hive
Textbox: This is the headquarters of the "Bees", known as the Letter Bees, government-employed postal workers.

Connor: Hey! Lag!!
Niche: !
Connor: Niche, Steak, long time no see!

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Lag: Good... Morning
Zaji: ......
Lag: Good... Morn... ing...
Zaji: Eh?

Lag: Mood... Gorn... ing...
Zaji: Huh?? Lag?!

Lag: Eh..?! ...Zaji!! ....and Connor!!
Zaji: Don't look so surprised...
Connor: What's wrong, Lag?

Lag: Sorry... I guess I've just been spacing out lately or something...
Connor: Are you okay? You don't look so good...
Connor: !!

Connor: Lag!! What's with those circles under your eyes!!
Lag: Huh...?

Zaji: You look a little... worn out...?
Zaji: Have you been having regular checkups?
Zaji text: Hmm...

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Lag: Checkups...?

Connor: When you use too many Heart Bullets made from your Heart, it has an effect on your body, you know!
Connor: You should get regular checkups at the Bee Hive's Medical Treatment section

Zaji: The Head Doctor there is no good...
Zaji: He's just a pervert!

Steak: Nu?

Steak: NU
Steak: NIIII
Lag: ?!
Lag: Steeeeak?!

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Zaji: Geh!!!
Connor: Speak of the devil...
Lag: Huh...?

Connor: Dr...
Corpse Doctor (Dr. Thunderland): This is a surprise...! This animal...
Connor: Thunderland!
Connor: ...Jr.!!!

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Lag: That... that guy's a doctor?!
Lag text: Steak...!
Connor: He's the Bee Hive's living creature biology specialist...

Zaji: His dad's the head doctor in world science too
Zaji: A father-son pair of perverts!!

Dr. Thunderland: Oi! You!
Dr. Thunderland: How exactly did you capture this animal?!

Lag: Uhh.. we didn't actually catch it...
Lag: He followed us from a sideshow tent...
Lag: Or something?
Dr. Thunderland: A sideshow tent or something?!

Dr. Thunderland: This animal is called a Kapel Meister...
Steak: Nu?
Dr. Thunderland: In ancient times, this species co-existed most harmoniously with the Spirit Insects

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Dr. Thunderland: I'd thought they gone extinct...
Dr. Thunderland: To think I'd encounter one still alive in a place like this!!
Lag: STEAK IS?!!

Dr. Thunderland: Correct...!! This individual, from the species loved by spirits, could be...
Dr. Thunderland: The Kapel Meister PRINCE!!!!

Lag: Prince...
Lag: Prince...
Lag: Steak is...
Lag: Prince...

Text: nuninini nuninuni nunnini nuninuni
Text: Prince...
Text: nunni~ni nununi~ni
Text: Nu
Text: nunini––

Dr. Thunderland: Well, I mean... maybe that was a bit exaggerated, sorry...

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Dr. Thunderland: However, there's no doubt that he's a rare animal
Dr. Thunderland: That internal anatomy... I want to examine the relations between each part of it...

Dr. Thunderland: Right!! Let's open this body up and answer those questions!!
Dr. Thunderland: Dissection!
Dr. Thunderland: Dissection!!
Dr. Thunderland: Dissection!!!!

Steak: Nu
Steak: Niiiiii
Lag: Ack...! Please wait, Doctor!!

Lag: Wh.. what was that...? ....Dissection... He was joking right?!
Lag: A doctor wouldn't say something like...
Zaji: ...
Lag: What?!

Connor: The Medical Division is only a secondary job for him...
Connor: Dr. Thunderland officially belongs to the AG Science of Living Creatures Advisory Board, Third Division

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Connor: In the department contracted to produce medicine and chemicals from research on various animals
Connor: Among other things, they research Gaichuu, the causes of diseases in detail, specifically in relation to water and earth and so on... also plants and animals
Connor: Sometimes, the job involves gathering human corpses for investigation purposes

Zaji: That guy's private research lab is behind these two really strong doors! It's secret room you can't enter!
Zaji text: It's suspicious, right?
Zaji: And that's why
Zaji: They call it...

Zaji: The Corpse Doctor's Hell's Kitchen!!
(TN: Kanji read: The Corpse Doctor's Dissection Den)
Lag text: H... Hell...?

Lag: B... but Steak's still alive...
Zaji: Were you even listening?

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Zaji: That old guy
Zaji: Loves dissection more than anyone in the world, for sure!
Lag: Waaah!!

Lag: Niche! We have to save Steak!
Lag: If we don't hurry he'll be dissected!!
Niche: Dissected?

Lag: It means
Lag: That Steak might really be made into a steak!!

Zaji: Whoa!!

Niche: That guy thinks he can
Niche: Steal Niche's food?

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Text: !!

Lag: Niche! Wait for me!

Zaji: Huh... Lag's Dingo is still as weird as ever...
Connor: D'you think Lag'll be okay? He's not even steady on his feet...

Zaji: OK! We're going too, Vashuka!!
Vashuka: Gogyarr!
Connor: Ahh! Wait up! Zaji!!
Connor: Get off me, Gazu!

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[keys sfx] Jingle
[keys sfx] Jangle

Dr. Thunderland: Hmm...
Dr. Thunderland: I wonder who that boy with the clear voice was?
Dr. Thunderland: Is he new?
[keys sfx] jingle
[keys sfx] jingle

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Dr. Thunderland: That hair looked Albisian...
Dr. Thunderland: Come to think of it...

Dr. Thunderland: He really looks like him...

Steak: Nu
Steak: Niiiiiiii!!!!

Dr. Thunderland: ??!!


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Dr. Thunderland: Wha--

Dr. Thunderland: Uwaaah!!

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Dr. Thunderland: Haaa
Dr. Thunderland: .....
Dr. Thunderland: Haaa
Dr. Thunderland: W-W-Wha...

Dr. Thunderland: What--
SFX: slicing
Dr. Thunderland: Huh..

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Dr. Thunderland: AAAHHHH

Dr. Thunderland: ...
Dr. Thunderland: You...
Dr. Thunderland: You've got to be kidding me...
Dr. Thunderland: These doors...
Dr. Thunderland: The doors of my private research lab are supposed have a Stellar hardness rating of 300...!

Dr. Thunderland: Hair of the Golden Sword...?!
Dr. Thunderland: Could it be... it really existed?
Steak: Nunii...

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Dr. Thunderland: The creature of legend, Maka!
Dr. Thunderland: That creature's blood runs through this human!!..

Niche: No one
Niche: Eats Niche's food.

Dr. Thunderland: How is this POSSIBLE?! Those doors are made of "Multi-Crystal Diamold Rod" and are almost as hard as a Gaichuu husk... and she sliced through them like cheese!!
Dr. Thunderland text: Whoa
Steak text: nu...
Dr. Thunderland: So the Golden Sword is even harder than THAT!! In the land of glaciers far off to the north, Blue Notes Blues, the documents on Maka said that its golden mane surpassed all other swords, but still..!!
Dr. Thunderland: Ooh

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Dr. Thunderland: Superb...

Dr. Thunderland: I absolutely MUST dissect her!!

Lag: Are you okay, Niche...? Doctor...
Dr. Thunderland: Uh oh
Lag: Please wait, Doctor!!

Lag: Steak is our good friend!

Dr. Thunderland: This is my dream corpse!
Lag: He's still alive!!

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Dr. Thunderland: Don't come any closer, kid!
Dr. Thunderland: Beyond these doors is my private research laboratory... entry is strictly forbidden!
Dr. Thunderland: Even if you're a Bee!

Lag: I... I'm not leaving!!
Lag: I won't let you take Steak to Hell's Kitchen!!
Dr. Thunderland: Hell....?!

Lag: !!!!!

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Lag: ?!
Lag: Za...

Lag: Zaji?!
Zaji: Okay! Move it, Lag!!
Zaji: I'll take care of this guy!!
Lag: Huh... why?!

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Zaji: I've got a bone to pick with this perverted doctor...

Zaji: He dissected all the stray cats I'd been looking after!!
SFX: meow meow meow
Zaji: Hey—Get off me! Stupid things... You're heavy! Get away! ...I give up!
SFX: meow meow meow

Dr. Thunderland: Ahh, those cats...
Zaji: I've been waiting for a chance like this!
Zaji: And it's all thanks you, Lag!!
Lag: Eh?!
Lag: Um, no... Zaji!! Don't!! If you shoot Heart Bullets at people...

Lag: If you shoot them at people... if you shoot...
Lag text: Huh?
Lag: What would happen...?
Lag: I'm sure Gauche said they could help with recovering "Heart"...

Zaji: I don't shoot recovery bullets
Zaji: Just watch me!

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Zaji: The bullets I shoot
Zaji: are Shards of "Malice!"
Lag: Malice?!

Zaji: Sink into a pit of despair!
Zaji: Thunderland Jr.!!

Zaji: AOTOGE!!
[Blue Thorn]

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Dr. Thunderland: Gah...

Zaji: Bastard
Zaji: I won't let you get away...

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Lag: Like I said
Lag: No Shooting People CHOP!!

Lag: Heart Bullet...
Lag: Can I hit...

Lag: Loaded!!
Lag: Just the birdcage...?!

Dr. Thunderland: !!
Dr. Thunderland: In his eye... that's...

Dr. Thunderland: Spirit Amber..?!

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Lag: AKABARI!!!
[Red Needle]

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Dr. Thunderland: !!

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Steak: nuninni
Steak: nuninniiiiii!!

Lag: Niche!!
Lag: Steak! Thank goodn--

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Lag: .......

Lag: This is...

Lag: Hell's Kitchen...

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Text: ......
Text: He's just like
Text: The grim reaper...

Text [top]: What a creepy guy...
Lag : These are...
Lag: the birdcage's memories?!
Text top left: According to the rumour, he was one of the capital's elite riding in that airship, all those years ago...
Text: What a disgusting smell
Text: Apparently he spends his life around corpses

Text: That's the smell of death...

Man: ...Doctor?
Dr. Thunderland: I've discovered a new strain of quite virulent bacteria in the Afro Rat corpse. Assemble the team immediately.
Man: Y... Yes sir

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Dr. Thunderland: Here's a new companion for you
Dr. Thunderland: Treat him well.

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Dr. Thunderland: Gauche... Suede...

Dr. Thunderland: Huh..?! Wasn't it locked?!
Dr. Thunderland: It was locked!!

Gauche: It was open...
Gauche: Here are your Letters, Doctor! [small text] Here you go

Dr. Thunderland: This isn't good... Entry is prohibited to this place to avoid contamination...

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Gauche: These are all hand-made grave markers?...

Gauche: You're surprisingly sentimental
Dr. Thunderland: That's not true

Dr. Thunderland: Isn't it funny...

Dr. Thunderland: These filthy corpses are more useful to the world...
Dr. Thunderland: Than those people dressed in such fancy clothes

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Gauche: That's thanks to you though
Gauche: Corpse Doctor

Dr. Thunderland: Suede...
Dr. Thunderland: Stop it...

Dr. Thunderland: I'm not used to being complimented...

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Lag: ......
Lag: Gauche...
Lag: Gau...

Zaji: Lag...?! Hey, are you okay?!
Niche: Lag!

Lag: ......
Lag: Gauche...

Lag: Gauche...

Lag: Where are you...

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Lag: I...
Lag: I did it...
Lag: Ever since then...
Lag: I hoped I could work like you...

Lag: I wanted to be like you, Gauche, and...
Lag: I...

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Lag: I became
Lag: a Letter Bee...

Lag text: Gauche...
Lag text: I'll find you, no matter what
Lag text: No matter what...

Dr. Thunderland: It's exhaustion from shooting Heart Bullets...
Dr. Thunderland: Looks like he used up too much Heart

Dr. Thunderland: I guess Suede's gun is a bit too strong for this kid... until he gets used to it, he'll need to hold back each time...
Lag: Gauche...

Lag: ......

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Lag: Dr. Thunderland...

Lag: What about Niche and Steak...
Zaji: They're fine! They're over there

Lag: Zaji...?!
Lag: What's with those cats...!
SFX: meow meow meow
SFX: meow meow meow
Zaji: Ahaha... about that...

Dr. Thunderland: Infectious diseases flourish in the strays of this world!
Dr. Thunderland: I was keeping these guys in quarantine until I could isolate the viruses
Dr. Thunderland text: Hmph
SFX: wasshoi wasshoi
[T/N: Mikoshi(shrine)-bearers shout "Wasshoi" when they are carrying the shrine]
SFX: meow meow meow
SFX: wasshoi wasshoi
SFX: meow meow meow

Dr. Thunderland: But really, today was full of surprises [other half of bubble:] Kapel Meister, and the girl with the blood of Maka...
Dr. Thunderland: And then there's you...

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Dr. Thunderland: A boy with Spirit Amber incorporated into his own body...
Dr. Thunderland: Lag Seeing...
Dr. Thunderland: I've never seen a specimen like you before

Dr. Thunderland: Hmmm yes...
Dr. Thunderland: I want to dissect you all!!! The three body set!
Dr. Thunderland text: *pant* *pant*

Dr. Thunderland: A little while ago

Dr. Thunderland: While you were sleeping, I heard about you and Gauche from Connor Culh
Dr. Thunderland: Seeing... this is nothing to boast about, but...
Dr. Thunderland: There isn't anyone I can call a close friend, and I have no one dear to me

Dr. Thunderland: However, 5 years ago
Dr. Thunderland: There was one person who I could say understood me...

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Dr. Thunderland: Your precious friend...

Dr. Thunderland: Gauche Suede

Lag: ......
Lag: ......
Lag: Doctor...

Dr. Thunderland: Seeing... I have a favour to ask...
Lag: Huh?...

Gauche: Doctor...
Gauche: Do you know the town Honey Waters?
Dr. Thunderland: Nope, never heard of it

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Gauche: It's a town where a lot of pagans live.
Gauche: Despite being a small town, there are many rumours of bad people frequenting it...
Dr. Thunderland: Ahhh... the anti-government organisation? I've heard about it, at least...

Gauche: When I was out on a delivery to that town... I encountered a strange man
Gauche: That man called himself

Gauche: "The man who couldn't become Spirit"...

Lag: ......

Dr. Thunderland: I laughed it off as the ravings of an insane man
Dr. Thunderland: But once Suede disappeared, the story started bothering me...
Dr. Thunderland: I searched for government inquiries on the subject, but couldn't find anything

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Dr. Thunderland: Lag Seeing!
Dr. Thunderland: You have bullets that can see something's memories!
Dr. Thunderland: For the last 5 years, I haven't made a single bit of progress. This could be the first step towards finding out why Suede disappeared.

Dr. Thunderland: I want you to deliver the Letter I am going to write

Sidetext: He's finally found a clue leading to Gauche!

Dr. Thunderland: to the man at Honey Waters...
Dr. Thunderland: "The man who couldn't become spirit"...!