Tegami Bachi 25

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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Blank line: New panel

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Text: At Yodaka Station, she looked like she'd just been thrown away.
Text, bottom right: Volume 6 from Jump Comics, out 4th Feb
Text: From within that dark crevice, her eyes, shining with a sea-blue light
Text: Were looking out, right at me.
Text, bottom centre: Asada Hiroyuki
Text, bottom centre: Chapter 25: Blue Notes Blues 3
Text, bottom left: Their meeting was inevitable...

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Vertical, far right: The Heart shot into Niche's sister is...?

Lag: This thing on her right arm, it's a delivery form...

Lag: Connor... this kid is...
Lag: A Letter?!

Lag: What's your real name...?
Niche: Don't have one.

Text: I had intended to save that small girl...
Lag: Well then…
Lag: Is it okay if I give you a name for now?

Lag: Hmmm
Lag: How about this…
Lag: ......

Lag: Niche...

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Niche: You're the first man who's ever made me wear pants!
Lag: Hahaha...

Niche: Call me Niche
Niche: Lag...
Text: But...

Lag: Crap...
Niche: Lag...
Niche: Being able to see you again...
Niche: I'm really happy...

Text: The one who truly was saved was...

Niche: Does "Goodbye"...
Niche: Make you sad?

Lag: Just, say if... If I lost my Heart
Lag: And I forgot about you...
Lag: What would you do...?

Niche: It'd be fine

Niche: Because Niche
Niche: Won't forget about Lag

Niche: So we'll
Niche: Always be together

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Sis: What...
Sis: What did you put inside of me?!

Sis: This is...
Sis: Your feelings...
Sis: Your feelings towards...
Sis: Towards my sister...

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Sis: What you
Sis: Shot into me...
Sis: Was it...

Sis: Your...
Sis: Heart?!

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Lag: Niche!!
Steak: Nuniiii!!!

Lag: Niche...

Steak: Nuniii!!
Lag: Niche!! Hang on!!

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Maka: ......

Sis: You'll...
Sis: Always... be together... you say...?

Sis: Maka
Sis: And a human...

Sis: Linked together...
Sis: By a...
Sis: Bond?...

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Sis: What impudence!!
Sis: Foolish human!!!

Mayor: Move!! I should be first!!
Man: That hurts, Mayor!!
Mayor: I don't care, hurry up and get to the exit!!

Sis: Creatures...
Man1: Hey! Did you bring it... the water that gives a thousand years of life?!
Man2: Only a little!
Mayor: Wh—What have you done...!!
Man: Mayor! You're not getting any of it!!
Sis: Creatures who can't even understand themselves!...

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Sis: And you, forgetting Maka's Heart!! Even forgetting what happened to you, and helping those foolish humans...
Sis: Pitiful sister!!
Sis: Deplowr—
Sis: Deplorable!!
Sis: UTTERLY SHAMEFUL!!!

Sis: Both... Both of you... Die...
Sis: Die
Sis: DIE!!

Lag: Ah—

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Lag: Steak!!
Lag: Look after Niche!!
Steak: NUNI!!!

Steak: Nu
SFX: splash

Steak: nuglughh-niii
SFX: glub glub glub

Sis: !!

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Lag: Humans...
Lag: ...are foolish, you say?!

Lag: Isn't someone who harms her own sister foolish...?!
Lag: Isn't Maka foolish?!

Lag: Are there any living beings that AREN'T foolish?!!

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Lag: If you hurt Niche any more
Lag: I won't let you get away with it, even if you're her sister...!

Sis: A spirit insect in your eye...?
Sis: One that transformed into amber with a significant amount of energy remaining...
Sis: Is that why you didn't smell like a human...?

Sis: ...
Sis: No...
Sis: That's not it...
Sis: ?
Sis: What are you...

Sis: ......
Sis: Well, never mind that...
Sis: At any rate... This will be goodbye to my sister.

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Lag: !!

Steak: Nuniiii~!!

Sis: Farewell
Sis: Little sister...

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Sis: If we hadn't been separated at that time
Sis: We could have lived here
Sis: As Maka...
Sis: Together...

Lag: STOP!!

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Sis: !!!

Lag: SHE'S NOT HUMAN OR MAKA...
Lag: NICHE IS NICHE...

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Lag: NICHE IS
Lag: MY PRECIOUS FRIEND!!!

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Exhibition Master: This kid is your delivery?!

Worker: There's no mistaking those arms...
Exhibition Master: Wow, you did a great job bringing her here!!

Lag: I brought her here instead of the Bee—
Exhibition Master: As long as you delivered her it's fine! You did a great job!!
Exhibition Master: Wait a moment and I'll give you a tip
Lag: Ah...

Lag: ......
Lag: Niche...!

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Niche: Lag...
Niche: Goodbye

Lag: ......
Lag: Niche...

Text: ...Wait...
Text: ...Don't go...

Text: Don't go...
Text: Where are you going...

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Lag: Niche...

Lag: ......

Sis: Little sister...

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Sis: ...We were...
Sis: Always together...

Sis: I remember...

Sis: A dark hut, where the starlight didn't reach...
Sis: Whenever I opened my eyes, *that* was always there by my side...

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Sis: Always...
Sis: It was always the two of us...

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Mayor: How repulsive...
Mayor: Damnable beasts!!

Mayor: We should have buried you a long time ago.
Mayor: Only we feared Maka's anger...

Mayor: Seeing as Maka hasn't appeared since then... who knows whether it's because she died during the famine back then...
Mayor: Or if she just doesn't care about these two...

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Sis: ......

Sis: Wake up...

Sis: Wake up...
Sis: You're flowing away with the water...

Sis: Ah...
Sis: You're getting farther away...
Sis: You're disappearing...

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Sis: Always...

Sis: It was always the two of us...

Sis: Me

Sis: And my little sister...

Sis: Huh...?

Sis: Where am I...?

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Sis: Sister...
Sis: Sister...

Sister: Sister......

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Sis: I'm...
Sis: Alone...

Sis: ......
Sis: Uu...
Text: I'm alone...
Text: Ah...

Sis: AHHHHHH
Sis: AHHHH
Sis: AHHHHH

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Sis: I'm sad
Sis: It's lonely

Sis: I'm sad
Sis: Sad
Sis: So sad
Sis: Little sister

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[no text]

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Sis: I don't know how much time passed...

Sis: When my outburst of emotion quieted down
Sis: I had grown...
Sis: And I didn't know what I was... or what I should do...

Sis: In order to follow the memories of Maka inscribed in me... and that way of life...
Sis: I came here.

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Lag: You grew after the outburst of emotion...?!
Lag: Th...
Lag: Then what about Niche...
Lag: You didn't try to look for Niche...?!

Sis: I thought, that like me
Sis: Once my sister grew, she would make her way here for sure.
Sis: If I had gone to save her then my sister, who had been unable to save herself, would be unfit to inherit the role of Maka.

Lag: ......
Lag: Then...
Lag: That means...

Lag: The foolish one
Lag: Has always been you!!

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Lag: Even though she was your sister, the one person in the world you wanted to see...
Lag: Even though you always wanted to be together with her...!

Lag: To think you were waiting around here...
Lag: All on your own, for two hundred years...
Lag: ......

Lag: No human is that foolish!!
Lag: No one can ever become that stupid!!

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Lag: ......
Sis: ...You really say some interesting things...

Sis: Do you mean that I myself am the foolish one...
Sis: Or...

Sis: Do you mean...
Sis: That I too
Sis: Was born the child of a foolish human?...

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Steak: NUNII NU!!
Lag: Steak?!

Steak: Nunii-Nuuu!!

Steak: Nuniii

Sis: Don't worry...
Sis: Maka is simply taking my sister to Lake Tirna.
3 SFX in bg: Nuuu! Nuniii! Nuninuu!
Lag: Lake Tirna...?

Sis: There's a lake in the inner part of the cave which heals physical wounds.
Sis: As for the rumoured "Thousand Years Life Water" spoken of by humans...

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Sis: It doesn't exist anywhere!
Lag text: Huh...

Mayor: Only denying me the water is unfair!! Where are you hiding it?!
Man: Let go!!
Man2: Give it up, Mr. Mayor!!
Man3: Mayor!!
Mayor: Shut your mouths!! Hand over the water!!

Mayor: I want to live for a thousand years t—
Mayor: —oo!!
SFX: splash
Man: Whoa! The mayor's fallen into the lake!!

Mayor: He-ggurrgh!!
Mayor: *cough*
Mayor: Cold, cold!
Mayor: Haaaa
Mayor: Hel—nnmph
Mayor: HELP!!

Lag: By the way...
Lag: What exactly is...
Lag: The "role" of Maka...?

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Lag: I mean, what is it that you do here...?
Sis: You saw some of the ice pillars along the cave's path, didn't you?

Lag: The ice pillars...! That's right...
Lag: Those... Those creatures... what ARE they?!

Sis: When all their Heart had slipped away, they began to undergo a transformation.
Sis: To prevent the world's order being disrupted
Sis: Maka froze them before they could transform completely, and shut them away in this land.

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Sis: They are the same as that which sits in your eye!!

Sis: They are
Sis: Former Spirit Insects, fallen into ruin!!
Bottom text: Tegami Bachi – To be continued
Vertical Text: The secret of his left eye...?!


Chapter Notes
Throughout the chapter, as Niche's sister grows angrier, her speech warps and twists, getting much more bestial and... growly. It's hard to tell because I didn't exactly show it in the translation, apologies for that.

Lake Tirna
This might be a reference to Tír na nÓg, a land of eternal youth in Celtic mythology.