Tegami Bachi 24

Actually got it out before the new chapter... I am shocked >.> You can find Ch23 here too.

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

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Lag: This is... Maka...
Text: The legend, manifested!!
Lag: Two...
Lag: ...hundred... years ago...?

Lag: Um... the village's legend...
Lag: The twin children of Maka...
Lag: Then, you're...

-02-03-
Lag: Niche's...
Text: A reunion of sisters in the farthest north!!
Text bottom: Asada Hiroyuki
Text bottom: Chapter 24: "Blue Notes Blues 2"
Lag: Older sister?!
[Bottom left are adverts]

-04-
Man: M... Mr. Mayor!!
Man: Did those kids really come all the way here?!

Mayor: That golden hair...! No doubt about it, that Dingo kid is the child of Maka!!
Mayor: She was bound to try meeting with Maka!

Mayor: The fact that this road, which has always made been impassable by a deep mist surrounding it,
Mayor: Has now been made clear to see to a terrifying degree, is proof of that!
Mayor: It's because Maka has invited her child in...

-05-
Lag: Um...
Lag: I...
Lag: H...
Lag: How do you do!!

Lag: My name! Is Lag Seeing!!
Lag: I'm Niche's... I'm friends with your sister!! She's my Dingo— er, I mean, we're co-workers!!

Lag: Uh... so you really are...
Lag: ......
Lag: Um...

Lag: Ah...

Lag: Sorry...
Lag: First...
Lag: Um...

-06-
Lag: PLEASE
Lag: PLEASE WOULD YOU PUT SOME PANTS ON!!!

Sis: Please put some pants aside?
Lag: PLEASE PUT SOME *ON*!!

Lag: And.. if... if possible... your... chest too... um...
Lag: I'd like to ask you to cover your chest up too, please!!

Lag: Niche too... does something like this too...
SFX: stare~
Sis: ......

-07-
Lag: Th... Thank you very much!
Lag: You really helped me out!!

Sis: "Niche"...
Sis: Pah...
Sis: That's your name now, little sister?...

Sis: But really, what's going on?
Sis: With that appearance, I mean.

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Sis: Even being a flat little shrimp has its limits!
Sis: Did you completely forget how to grow up, little sister...?

Niche: Not your sister!! Niche doesn't know you at all!!
Niche: I'll be growing straight up from now!!
Sis: [small text:] (Straight up...?) [main speech] You really don't remember anything, do you?

Sis: Have you forgotten?
Sis: What the "human"
Sis: Did to us...
Lag: !

Sis: ......
Sis: ...Hmm...

-09-
Sis: It appears that Maka doesn't detect the scene of a human here.
Sis: And I agree.

Sis: You, over there...

Sis: Are you a human?
Sis: Or...

Sis: Are you "Something"
Sis: That has taken the shape of a human...?

Lag: ......
Lag: Huh?
Sis: Which is it...

Sis: Shall we split you open and check what's inside of you?
Sis: Well?

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Niche: LAG!!
Lag: GUHH!!!
Steak: NUNYA

Lag: AHHH!!!

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Lag: Niche!!

Sis: ...My...
Sis: It looks like you can use your sword, despite being a little shrimp.

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Niche: Niche will crush anyone
Niche: Who tries to hurt Lag!!
Niche: As his Dingo!!!

Sis: "Dingo"...?

Ppl: Uu...
Ppl: Uwahhhh!!!
Lag: !!

Ppl: Maka!!!
Ppl: Is that Maka??!
Ppl: Whoaaa!!!!!

Lag: M...
Lag: Mr. Mayor..?!

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Mayor: My goodness... Maka!!!
Mayor: What a sublime, heavenly appearance...!!

Mayor: To be able to look upon you from such a short distance away...!!
Mayor: We are inhabitants of the glacier village!!

Mayor: My deepest apologies for not introducing myself sooner. I am the mayor—
Sis: Leave.
Mayor: Ahh?

Sis: I do not recall inviting you here.
Sis: Leave, human!

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Mayor: Wh... Who are you?!
Mayor: I wish to speak with Maka!
Man: Mr. Mayor...!!

Man: Isn't that Maka's child...?!
Mayor: What?! But there should be twins...
Sis: Maka lost any words she had to exchange with humans long ago.

Man: Th... Then we would like you to pass our message on for us!
Mayor: Hey... don't just act on your own!!
Man: In order to become righteous humans who could be acknowledged by you
Man: We have put forth great efforts for many generations!
Man: We have become humans who can co-exist with Maka!

Man: Please don't misunderstand humans!
Man: We're no longer like the humans of the past!!

Man: We're different from the humans with corrupted Hearts, like Celica!
Mayor: Oi... you really shouldn't be bringing that up right now...

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Sis: ......
Sis: It seems you know nothing at all...
Sis: That is... aside from the one over there.

Mayor: ......
Man: ?

Sis: Maka is only here to protect this land.
Sis: She never had any interest in humans and the like to begin with.

Sis: Still... it really is laughable.
Sis: How you people decide what is "corrupted" and what is "righteous".
Sis: Hmm... perhaps I should share a little of that story with you...

Man: Hey!... What're you doing, at a time like this?!

-16-
Man2: Look!! It's the legendary water...
Man2: That gives you a thousand years of life!!

Man: Are you stupid... if you say it, then everyone around—!!
Man3: Hey... I want some too...
Man4: Guys!!

Men: What're you doing?! Stop it!
Man3: Just a little...
Sis: Maka had neither interest in humans...

Sis: Nor expectations of them.
Sis: However, there was a single time

Sis: When she felt the Heart of a human.

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Sis: 200 years ago
Sis: The ground heat in this land began to drop...

Sis: On a large scale... but quietly.
Sis: It was because of the mining for Spirit Amber in this area.

Lag: The amber mining?!
Lag: Don't tell me the AG government...

Sis: Probably because they were separated from the lake and the mountains
Sis: The villagers didn't notice.
Sis: Many humans arrived... and carried off large amounts of Spirit Amber, a solid form of energy which produces ground heat.

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Sis: The fields which had lost their Spirit Amber withered away
Sis: This brought famine to the village, and many humans died.

Sis: However, Maka observed as this went on, while she continued to fulfill her own role.
Lag: Her role...?

Sis: Then, one day...
Sis: A pregnant woman, who was heavily wounded and looked like she could perish at any moment
Sis: Came to the cave.

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Maka: Leave...
Maka: Human...
Maka: Leave this place...

Celica: I can't do that.

Celica: I came here to die.
Celica: Please eat me or do whatever you want with me.
Celica: If I leave here, the villagers will kill my child along with me.

Sis: I can't imagine what passing whim took hold of her...
Sis: But Maka listened to the story of the human.

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Celica: It was decided that sacrifice must be made to Maka, the god protecting the land, in order to restore the ground heat...
Celica: Because I have no relatives in the village, I was chosen.

Celica: I requested that they wait until my child was born, but this was refused

Celica: So I decided to run away. Because of this, many people attacked me... and threw me down here...

Celica: My husband died of starvation...
Celica: And I don't have long left either...
Celica: Maka-sama...
Celica: I beg of you... while I still live... please accept this life of mine.

-21-
Celica: In return, please save my child...
Celica: All I ask...
Celica: Is that you allow...
Celica: My child...
Celica: To... live...

Sis: With her dying breath, the woman begged...
Sis: For the first time, Maka was touched by the Heart of a human.

Sis: At that moment
Sis: There dropped

Sis: A single tear...

-22-
Maka: Human...
Maka: I have accepted your Heart
Maka: Your wish will soon be granted...

Man: It's Celica...
Man: Celica's come back...
Man: Celica?!
Woman: Ahhh!!!

-23-
Text: Celica gave birth...
Woman: Call the mayor!!
Woman: It's...
Woman: It's a curse!!

Text: To twins who had been affected by Maka's influence...
Women: They didn't even give a single birthing cry...
Woman: How dreadful...

Mayor: Is Celica dead...?
Woman: Yes... she passed right after giving birth to *those*...

Mayor: I see...
Mayor: That alone is a relief...

Text: 20 years passed without Maka appearing even once.
Man: Why are they still babies?!

Text: The twins accepted only water
Text: But despite this, continued to live.
Woman: What on earth did Celica get up to in that cave?
Woman: She must have angered Maka terribly...

Man: The story of "Maka's Cursed Children" has become a rumour even in the eastern villages!!
Woman: We can't let Blue Notes Blues be tainted any more than it already is... Mayor!!
Man: Mayor!! Make a decision!!

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-25-
Old Mayor: The lake has frozen over this whole abhorrent affair!!
Old Mayor: We shall pass this down through posterity as a triumphant moment in history!!

Man: What...
Man: They weren't cursed children...?
Mayor: ......
Man: No way...
Man: The one who got rid of the twins was...

Man: So everything was brought on by the mayor's ancestors?!
Man: You knew about this too, didn't you?! You knew all this time, and yet...
Lag: ......
Mayor: Th... This is all happened before I was born!!
Mayor: I can't be blamed if the facts have become distorted over time...

Men: !!

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Sis: Feeble-minded humans...

Sis: I have changed my mind.
Sis: This time, it's a passing whim of my own...
Sis: Humans...

Sis: Die...

-27-
Mayor: Uu... Uwahhhh!!!!

-28-
Lag: Watch out!!!!
Mayor: Gahh-!

Lag: Ugh...
Lag: !!!

-29-
Niche: Lag!!

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Sis: ...
Sis: Why are you protecting humans...?
Sis: Little sister!

Sis: That story just now was both mine... and yours, you know.
Sis: Even after hearing that, do you still intend to continue this ridiculous game of yours?

Niche: It's not a game!
Niche: It's work!

Niche: Lag's job is to deliver the Heart in Letters!
Niche: Niche protects Lag!
Niche: No matter what happens
Niche: That will never change!!

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Lag: Niche!!
Man: L... Let's get out of here!
Lag: I...
Lag: Guh...

Lag: Isn't there anything I can do?!
Lag: For Niche...

Sis: To think that you exist in this lowly world, unable to grow
Sis: And have chosen to tag along and obey orders as the underling of a human...

Sis: Pitiful sister...
Sis: Perhaps it would be better, for your own good, to wipe you out as well...

-33-
Steak: Nuni..?!

Sis: Too slow!

-34-
Niche: !!!

Sis: You're weak
Sis: Too weak

Sis: Frail.

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[...]

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Lag: NICHE!!!

Steak: NUNIIII!!!

Sis: This is the end.

Sis: Goodbye.
Sis: We cannot merely call it a parting this time.

Sis: Goodbye... my...

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Sis: Little sist—
Sis: !!

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[nothing]

-41-
Sis: !!!
Sis: ......
Sis: What just flowed inside me...
Sis: This...
Sis: What is this??!
Text: Hit by the Heart Bullet! Will her Heart cry out...?!

Text: Tegami Bachi... to be continued.