Tegami Bachi 17

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-01-

Text: The delivery's over now
Text: Lag...

Text: Together we helped each other and completed a dangerous journey…

Text: So.. we're… friends…?
Text: Yeah. Roda too!
Text: Kuuu
Text: Roda… You too?!

Text: Goodbye Gauche…
Text: I… was thinking…
Text: That one day…
Text: Just like you…

-02-

Text: I want to become a Letter Bee

Chapter 17: "A Reunion; Tears, Tears, Tears"
Text: Just like you…

-03-

Text: The person he's been following after is here!!

Lag: ……
Lag: Gau…
Lag: ..che…

-04-

[Gauche]Noir: By request of a certain individual, I will now be "plundering"
Noir: This Letter addressed to "The Man Who Couldn't Become Spirit".

Noir: Your cooperation is appreciated.
Lag: Huh?…

Lag: !!

Lag: ……
Lag: Gau…

Lag: Gauche!!!

-05-

Lag: You're alive…
Lag: You really were alive, Gauche…

Lag: It's me!!
Lag: It's Lag Seeing!!
Lag: Lag Seeing, who you delivered as a Letter 5 years ago!!!

Lag: You remember, right…

Lag: ……
Lag: Gauche…
Lag: I…

-06-

Lag: I… I became a Letter Bee like you, just like I wanted..!!
Lag: I finally did it, Gauche!!

Noir: This is our first meeting
Noir: Little Letter Bee…

Noir: It seems you've mistaken me for someone else.
Noir: And what's more, you think I'm a Letter Bee…

Lag: There's no way I'd do that!!
Lag: Because…
Noir: Marauder

Noir: If your job as a Bee is to deliver things

-07-

Noir: Then my job
Noir: Is to snatch them away…

-08-

Niche: Niche…

Niche: ISN'T A FAILURE
Niche: OF A DINGO!!

Niche: Niche became
Niche: Lag's Dingo!!
Niche: Niche is the only one who's Lag's Dingo!!

-09-

Roda: I don't understand you
Niche: !!

-10-

[no speech]

-11-

Niche: !!

-12-13

[no speech]

-14-

Lag: Marauder…?
Lag: Gauche…
Lag: You really did lose your Heart after all…

-15-

Lag: Oh, that's right!…
Lag: I met Sylvette!!
Lag: You remember Sylvette, right?!
Lag: Your precious little sister, Sylvette!!

Lag: ……
Lag: Gau…

Noir: I have no intention of harming you
Noir: Goodbye, Little Letter Bee

Lag: Wait!! Gauche!!

-16-

Lag: Sylvette's been waiting for you on her own all this time!!
Lag: Let's go home!!
Lag: Let's go home to Sylvette!!!

Lag: Aria…
Lag: And Dr. Thunderland… and everyone…

Lag: They're all waiting for you to come home!!

-17-
SFX: click

Lag: Gauche…?

-18-

Noir: I'm a Marauder
Noir: My name is…

Noir: Noir

Text: The black...

Text: Spirit Amber!!

-19-
[no text, just pretty and me being sadface]

-20-

Niche: I'm mad!!
Niche: I'm gonna beat you up!!

Niche: !!
Niche: Mu!

Roda: This was really quick, but…
Roda: So even at full power
Roda: That's all there is to the blood of Maka...

Niche: That's not all there is!! Wait!

Roda: Are you just going to abandon your master?

-21-

Roda: For a Dingo, protecting one's master is everything…

Roda: You truly are a failure as a Dingo!

Steak: NU!!
Steak: Nunini!!

Niche: Lag!!

-22-

Lag: W…
Lag: …ait…

Lag: Gau…

Lag: …che…
Lag: Ro…da…

Lag: ……

Gauche: Goodbye…
Gauche: Lag Seeing

Lag: Don't take her away…

Lag: Mother…!!
Lag: Mother!!

-23-
Text: No…

Lag: Don't go…
Text: I…
Text: Don't want…

Text: Any more Goodbyes…

-24-

Gauche: ……
Gauche: ……
Gauche: Where am I…

Gauche: Who…
Gauche: Am I…

Hatman: I'll give you a name
Hatman: Your name is…
Hatman: Noir…

-25-

Lag: !!!
Lag: Gauche!!

Niche: Lag…!
Lag: Niche?!
Lag: Guh…

Lag: Just now…
Lag: That was a Heart Bullet?!
Lag: ……
Lag: Gauche…

Lag: Gauche…
Lag: Uuuuu…
Lag: Gauche…

Lag: Uuuu…

-26-

Box: Yuusari Central, Number 13, Nocturne Hood
Box: Bee Hive Post Office

Lloyd: The man who called himself "Noir"…
Lloyd: Looks like there's no mistake…

-27-

Lloyd: He was Gauche Suede…
Bubble: ……
Lag: Gauche…
Lag: Has forgotten about me…

Lag: And even about Sylvette…
Lag: It's as if…
Lag: He doesn't remember anything…

Lag: I finally got to see him again
Lag: But I couldn't bring him back!!
Lag: I'm sorry, Miss Aria…
Lag: I'm sorry, Doctor…!!

WOOT THUNDERLAND: You don't have to apologise, Seeing
Thunderland: This is a huge step forward, you know

-28-

Lloyd: You're sure he used the name "Marauder", boy?
Lag: Yes, I'm sure… but I don't know what it could mean…

Lloyd: The name says it all
Lloyd: It means "plunderer"!!
Lloyd: They are commissioned and take on jobs of theft

Lloyd: In the last few years, we've had reports of Letters being targeted by Marauders
Lloyd: There's a high probability that their client is Reverse, seeking out information on the Amberground government
Lloyd: The two may be related

Thunderland: Reverse, that anti-government organisation seeking the "rebirth of the nation"?...
Lloyd: Yeah… Doctor, if these really are the Marauders, then I imagine there's a chance we'll come into contact with them again

Lloyd?: Let's leave the report at that
Lloyd: All of you, please do not make any of this information public

-29-

Niche: ……

Roda: You're
Roda: A failure as a Dingo

SFX [middle left, next to her head]: shake

SFX: swish swish swish swish
Steak SFX: Nun-Nun-Nun-Nun-Nun-Nunun
SFX: stomp stomp

SFX: clink
Niche: Mu

Niche: Lag!!
Lag: Niche…
Niche: Lag!!

Niche: Is it a delivery? Are we going on a delivery?
Lag: Nope… today they told me to just help out with paperwork until the end of my shift…

-30-

Niche: ……
Niche: Oh, okay…
Niche: ……
Lag: You can go back home before me to Sylvette…

Niche: What about tomorrow? Will we have a delivery tomorrow?
Lag: I dunno…
Niche: Next time
Niche: Niche, as a Dingo

Niche: Will definitely protect…
Lag: I have to tell Sylvette everything that happened with Gauche…

Niche: ……

Niche: Lag

-31-

Lloyd: Roda transformed into a young girl…
Lloyd: And the black Spirit Amber forfeited by directive…
Lloyd: Guess there's no choice… I guess I'll have to delve a little deeper, huh….

Aria: ……

Lloyd: Are you alright, Aria?…
Lloyd: Hearing about what state he's in…

Aria: No…
Aria: Actually I'm not, Director!!
Aria: Would you please let me go home early?
Lloyd: Eh?
Aria: And would you please check these documents for me?
Aria: These too! Ah... and these!!

-32-

SFX: splash
SFX: trudge

SFX: trudge

-33-

SFX [top right]: forlorn
Lag: I wonder…
Lag: What kind of face Sylvette'll make…
Lag: She'll probably be really sad…

Text: I went and told her something like that…
Lag: It's a little weird sleeping in Gauche's room, but...
Lag: I'll accept your offer and use it gladly, Sylvette...
Lag: Until the day I find Gauche...
Lag: And bring him back here with me...
Text: I really am useless…

Lag: I'm sorry…
Lag: Sylvette…

SFX: click

-34-

Bubble: SURPRI~SE!!!!

-35-

Lag: H…
Lag: Huh?
Lag: Wha…

Sylvette: Welcome back, Lag!!
Lag: Sylvette… what's…
Lag: ….?! Connor… Miss Aria?!
Lag: Wh… What's going on…

Sylvette: I heard everything from Miss Aria

Sylvette: So this is a celebration, Lag
Sylvette: A celebration of you finding my brother…

-36-

Lag: A cele… bration…
Lag: No way…
Lag: But… I… couldn't bring him back…

Sylvette: Whad-duh cwybaby…
Lag: Whad-duh cwybaby?!

Sylvette: Cry baby!! Lag really is a much bigger cry baby than I am!
Lag: Sylvette…

Sylvette: Lag… you told me
Sylvette: That you'd become a Letter Bee and find my brother…

Sylvette: You really did
Sylvette: Keep your promise!!

-37-

Sylvette: I'm… happy…
Sylvette: My brother is alive…

Sylvette: To find that out so quickly…
Sylvette: Thank you… Lag…

Lag: ……
Lag: Sylvette…

Sylvette: I believe in you, Lag…
Sylvette: After all, you told me you'd get my brother's Heart back…

Sylvette: So that one day…
Sylvette: Together with my brother and everyone…

-38-

Sylvette: We could have
Sylvette: A much bigger, better
Sylvette: Celebration…

Sylvette: I believe in you~~
Sylvette: Uwaaaahhhh~~!

Lag: Sylbedde…
Lag: ……
Lag: Id'll… be gweat…
Lag: For sure…

Lag: You muddn't cry, Sylbedde…
Lag: You're zuch a cwybaby~~!!
Text: Uuuu
Text: Uwahhh
Sylvette: I don'wanna be tol' dat by you~~~

-39-

Aria: Somehow, they really resemble each other…
Aria: They go well together
Connor: Ah!..
Connor: Deputy Director, don't say that!! If you do, Niche'll get jealous…

Sylvette: …Huh?
Sylvette: Now that you mention it… where's Niche, Lag?
Lag: Eh..?! She should have gotten back before me!

Zaji: Whoa… it's so nice inside!
SFX: click
Lag: !
Zaji: Sorry for intruding~

Lag: Zaji!!
Text: Good work today~
Zaji: Great, I made it in time for the food!
Zaji: Lag! This was outside the door!

Lag: Outside the door…?
Sylvette: Lag!! These are…

-40-

Lag/ Sylvette: Niche's
Lag/ Sylvette: Pants!!!

Niche: Niche failed Lag as a Dingo
Steak: Nuni…

-41-

Nche: Niche isn't fit
Niche: To wear Lag's pants anymore…

Text: Buffeted by heartbreak and loneliness…

Text: To Be Continued in July's issue (out 4th June)

- - - Chapter 17 END - - -

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