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Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:54:22 +0000

Tomorrow I'll be travelling to England to start back up at university so translations may be delayed (or just cancelled if chapters are done by other people before me). Then again they usually are delayed, so there may not even be a noticeable change in releases. But just a heads up anyway.

Edit: Delays for sure. I won't have proper internet for a long time B| Sorry guys, hopefully someone will pick up with 125.

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 123

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 04:41:04 +0000

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 122

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:36:50 +0000

Uh, sorry for the word missing fail on page 2 before -_-

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Kuro: Allow us
Kuro: To be your tutors.
Kuro: There are multiple awys to perform Matoi.
Text: Nurarihyon no Mago

Kuro: The Matoi you attempted earlier with Yuki Onna is the "Izutsu" method!
[TN: Izutsu = Fear Cannon]
Kuro: Its power is great but it has too many openings.
Text: Kuro and Kubinashi join the fight!!

Kuro: It is effective against enemies who attack head-on.

Kuro: However…
SFX: clink…

-02-
Text below title: Act 122
Text below title: The Void
Starred: Overwhelming attacks!!
Kuro text, left: It is ill-suited to dealing with the enemy before us now!!
Text bottom: Shiibashi Hiroshi

Kuro: Anki Kuroenbu
[Black Dance of Shadow Weapons]
SFX: jangle

-03-
SFX: CLANGGG

Kuro: As you can see

Kuro: Against those who put great faith in rapid attacks
Kuro: It is unsuitable!!

-04-
Kuro: ............

Tsurara: Kurotabou... He's...
Tsurara: Amazing...

-05-
Ibaraki: So you're the grandson of Nurarihyon, are you?

SFX: hwooshh

-06-
Text: ?!

Ibaraki: Oh...? Well look who's here...
Ibaraki: Still alive then? You should've died back there, shit for brains.

-07-
Kubinashi: Kuro, I'll leave Master Rikuo to you!!

Kuro: Listen carefully, Master Rikuo.

Kuro: The advantage of using Matoi.
Kuro: Is being able to adjust the method to match your enemy.

Kuro: Now, please perform Matoi and "wear" me
Kuro: Using the method I am about to explain...!

-08-
Kidoumaru: We're in the middle of battle...
Kidoumaru: ...This is too easy.

Rikuo: !!
Kuro: Maintain your composure!

Kuro: Just do exactly as I tell you.
Kuro: Now, Master Rikuo, start by—

-09-
Kidoumaru: Ouka
[Cherry Blossom]

-10-
Text right: What...!
Text left: His speed earlier was nothing compared to this...!!

-11-
Kidoumaru: "Umenoki" is like countless branches of a tree, rising up to the heavens...

Kidoumaru: Whereas "Ouka"...

Kidoumaru: "Ouka" is like millions upon millions of petals scattering about Mount Yoshino.
SFX: pop
SFX: crack
Kidoumaru: It is a slashing attack with 10 times the speed of Umenoki.

-12-
Kuro text: 10 times?!

Rikuo: I'm sorry! Are you okay?!
Rikuo: Kuro...

Kuro: ...
Kuro: What's this all of a sudden...

Kuro: I merely let my guard down for a moment because I was so happy I was going to be "worn" by our former young trickster, Master Rikuo.
Kuro: This is nothing to worry about!!

Rikuo: Kuro...

Kuro: Alright, Master Rikuo...
Kuro: Once again...

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Rikuo: ...Got it.

Kidoumaru: I will end it with this next attack.

SFX: crackle
Kidoumaru: After I release this, there will be nothing left in its wake.
Kidoumaru: Nothing but... emptiness.

Kidoumaru: It cannot be compared to anything else.

-14-
Kidoumaru: It is thus... Kokuu
[The Void, Emptiness]

Kidoumaru: This next attack
Kidoumaru: Will be 10 times faster than Ouka!!

-15-
Text right: Master Rikuo
Text left: You must wrap my Fear about you as if putting on a kimono

Text right: And then
Text left: Align your heart with mine

Text: Using the heart of Meikyou Shisui...

-16-
[...]

-17-
[...]

-18-
Kidoumaru: What...!!
Kidoumaru: He... stopped my sword attack?!

-19-
Rikuo: ...Kuro.

Rikuo: I really did "wear" your Fear!!
Rikuo: The thought of cutting this guy down has me riled up like you wouldn't believe!
Starred text bottom right: Clad in Kurotabou's Fear, the counterattack against Kidoumaru begins!!
Text bottom right: ...Act 122 / End

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 121

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:09:11 +0000

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 120

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:19:47 +0000

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Kitsune: haaa
Kitsune: haaa
Kitsune: haaa

SFX: ba-dump

Kitsune: Ahhhh!
SFX: ba-dump
Text: Nurarihyon no Mago

Y: ?!
Y: H-Hey!!
Y: Check out Nuega-ike!!
Text: A sudden change?!

-02-
Text by title: Act 120: The Cycle of Rebirth
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Starred: Is the revival of Seimei finally here..?!

Y: Ooh...
Y: Whoooaa!
Y: Nuega-ike is shining!!

MJ: The time has finally come, usha-sha-sha!
MJ: Finally... He will finally be born!!

-03-
Seimei: Mother!!
Seimei: Mother!!
Kitsune: Aaahh...
Kitsune: Aaauuughh...
Seimei: This time, please release me!!

Kitsune: Uuaaghhh!
Kitsune: SEIMEI!

-04-
Kitsune: Why do you look so sad?
Kitsune: Seimei!!

Kitsune: Ahhh...
Kitsune: Aaah...

Kitsune: I'm going to give birth to you...
Kitsune: Once more... alright?

Seimei: The place I must return to is your womb, Mother.

-05-
Seimei: Look at this.

Text top right: When humans die, they return without fail to the "Cycle of Rebith."
Text top left: They are reincarnated as all manner of living creatures such as horses or insects, or plants or trees.
Text bottom right: When I die, I will not re-enter this cycle of rebirth. I will return once more to your womb, to you who can live a thousand years, and I will be reincarnated in this world as Seimei once again...
Text bottom left: This is the perfect revival method, the perfect "Resurrection Technique"!!

-06-
Kitsune: In other words, you're asking your mother
Kitsune: To give birth to you over and over again?

Kitsune: Seimei... You were always a peculiar child, even from a young age...
Kitsune: Where did you come up with such a strange notion?

Seimei: This capital – the combination of yin and yang, of darkness and light... I want to make it mine for all eternity.
Seimei: That is why I desire eternal life.

-07-
Kitsune: Seimei... Haven't I always told you
Kitsune: How the world would be better if it was enveloped in darkness...? Don't you agree?

Kitsune: Do you reject this idea because you also have the blood of a human?

Seimei: ...Even as you are, you still loved my human father, did you not, Mother?

Kitsune: That is indeed true... [small side text]hehe...
Kitsune: And thanks to him, I gained you...

Kitsune: Come closer, Seimei...

Kitsune: My beloved Seimei
Kitsune: I understand... I'll give birth to you again and again, as many times as you want.

-08-
Seimei: Thank you, Mother...
Seimei: For the sake of an ideal world for humans and ayakashi
Seimei: I will, without fail, perfect this Resurrection Technique.

Kitsune: Ohh, Seimei...
Kitsune: As long as you're here, I will never tire of the next thousand years.

Kitsune: Seimei?

Kitsune: What's the matter... Did you forget something...?
Kitsune: Here, let me open the door...

-09-
SFX: thunk

Kitsune: Ah—!

Man: TAKE THAT!

SFX: whoosh

Text: What's happening?

-10-
Kitsune: Please stop!

Text: What's going on?!

Text: I'm going to die...
Text: And if I die...

Kitsune: Then I can't
Kitsune: Give birth to Seimei!!

Yorimichi: Ahhh, thank you for coming, Seimei!!
Box: A certain mansion...

Seimei: You summoned me, Lord Yorimichi?

-11-
Yorimichi: Yes, Seimei. I've often asked you about a way of obtaining eternal youth, have I not?
Yorimichi: So why did you never tell me about this splendid method?

Seimei: ?
Seimei: I am not sure I understand.
Seimei: I recall speaking of techniques for longevity many a time, but...

Yorimichi: No, no! Not that!
Yorimichi: I'm talking about the Shinoda fox!

Yorimichi: Look at this~
Yorimichi: I've finally managed to catch it~~

-12-
Yorimichi: This is that very fox!!
SFX: tap tap
Yorimichi: See?... One will obtain eternal youth by eating the liver of this thing, which can live for over a thousand years, correct? You have knowledge of this, I'm sure!

Yorimichi: Yes, I shall entrust this matter to you, Seimei!
Yorimichi: Make me a wonderful elixir of life with this liver!

Men: W... What's with that look?
Men: You disrespect Chef Advisor Yorimichi!!
Men: Restrain yourself, Master Seimei!!

-13-
Yorimichi: ?
Yorimichi: What's—

Yorimichi: —tha...

SFX: WHOOMPH

Men: AAAHH!
Men: M... Master Seimei?!
Men: What are you doing?!

Seimei: M... Mother...
Seimei: Please wake up...
Seimei: Please... open your eyes...

-14-
Kitsune: Uuuh... I'm sorry...
Kitsune: Seimei
Seimei: MOTHER!!

Kitsune: I can't... give birth to you now...
Kitsune: I... love you...

Seimei: YOU INSOLENT SCUM

Men: Eeee...

-15-
Seimei: WHY DID YOU SHOOT MY DEFENSELESS MOTHER?!

Men: ?!

Men: He... He's gone crazy...
Men: Master Seimei... Calm down!

Seimei: Perish, foul humans.
Seimei: The likes of you... should never stand above others!!

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Seimei: Humans are fools...
Seimei: They do not understand their place, and intrude on the domain of darkness without a second thought.

Seimei: If we allow them to do as they please, there will be no end to their insolence.
Seimei: And then this beautiful world too will soon be destroyed.

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Seimei: What this world needs is not the coexistence of human and ayakashi, of light and dark.
Seimei: Darkness controlling light is a world of order!!

Seimei: For that purpose, I will become the lord of darkness...!!
Seimei: By any means necessary...

Seimei: I will be reborn
Seimei: And together with my mother, I will cover this world in darkness!!
Box: Eventually, this man
Box: Became known as the "Nue"...

-18-
Tsurara: Aahhh!
Nattou: Wh... What's this...

Hideyoshi: ...This is bad!
Hideyoshi: Has the birth started?

Rikuo: ......
Rikuo: Out of my way, old man!

Kidoumaru: Never.

Kidoumaru: I shall ask you again... What will you do, as the leader of a Hyakki?
Kidoumaru: Have you any great cause beyond a personal grudge?!

-19-
Kidoumaru: If you are indeed an ayakashi, we ought to be celebrating together the rebirth of the true lord of darkness, Nue...
Kidoumaru: You should then become the servants of we capital youkai, and devote yourselves to the creation of an ideal world.

Kidoumaru: If you cannot obey...
Starred text middle: A clash...!!
Kidoumaru: Then you shall die here!
Text bottom right: ...Act 120 / End

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 119

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:19:53 +0000

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Starred text top left [advert]: Apparently the ending theme is strangely addictive…?! Anime now airing to rave reviews on Yomiuri TV, Tokyo MX, Chuukyou TV, BS11, and more!!
Text by title: Act 119
Text by title: The Corridors of Nijou Castle
Starred, right: As thanks for the popularity of the anime and for the climax of the Kyoto arc, centre colour!!
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Yellow text, left: A farewell to summer shot! Katate✩SIZE summer festival!!
Box bottom left: The latest from Jump Comics: Volume 12 and the novel edition both on sale 3rd September!!
[rest is an advert for a Japan-only phone service.]

-02-
SFX: running
Starred: Rikuo dashes through Nijou Castle!!

Rikuo: !!

-03-
SFX: klang

SFX: zzssshhh

Kidoumaru: We meet again
K: Boy

Rikuo: You're...
Rikuo: The one I met in Toono...

[Bottom panel]
SFX: shnk...

-04-
K: Hmph... You did well to get this far.
K: However. I cannot let you proceed past this point like your grandfather...!!
SFX: zzzuoooh

SFX: krckrckrckrck

K: I do not believe

K: You have any justification at all
SFX: krckrckrckrck
K: For hindering us and our wish.

-05-
Text: This wish of ours, of a thousand years!!

Text: 1000 years ago – The Imperial Capital, Heian-Kyo
SFX: hwoosh
Text: In a courtyard of the imperial palace—

Dudes: Eee...
SFX: whoosh
Dudes: Ahhh!
SFX: flap flap

[bottom left]
SFX: pppaaamm!

-06-
Text: Ohhh...!
Dudes: D-Did you see Master Douman's technique?!
Dudes: In an instant, the white sand transformed into swallows!!
Text: Woooow!
Dudes: Oh, but give Master Seimei his due too! With a single shake of his fan, he turned them back into sand!!

-07-
Box: Ashiya Douman
Dudes: Just as expected from these two practitioners... They've been tied 50-50 until now.
Dudes: Who will win this contest of skill in the end?!
Box: Abe no Seimei

Emperor?: Both of you! The final stage will be a contest of divination!
Emperor: I believe it was Douman's turn to pose the question.

Douman: Heh... Then let us go with this chest.
Douman: Well, Master Seimei? Why don't you try "divining the contents"!!

-08-
Seimei: Wh...
Seimei: That's...!

Youkai: !!

Douman: Is something the matter?
Douman: You're looking rather pale, Seimei.

Douman: Oh! So you've noticed, then?
SFX: smirk
Douman: This is an item you brought back from a certain place.

Douman: You understand what I'm saying, don't you, Seimei...?
SFX: eyes flashing
Douman: I, as well as a number of students, have witnessed it! I won't let you avoid this question!!

Courtier: What's all this...?
SFX: murmuring
Emperor: Seimei, your answer! The contents of the chest!

Seimei: .........
Seimei: There is a young boy inside...

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Douman: Seimei!! You continue to play innocent
SFX: Fwhahahaha
Douman: Even now?!

Emperor: Douman, what is in the chest?!

Douman: Yes, Sire... It has been brought back from a graveyard by this man...
Douman: It is a corpse.

Dudes: A... A corpse?! [small text]Eeee!
Dudes: H-H-How repulsive~~!

Douman: Behold the wicked nature of this man!
Douman: Seimei!! What exactly have you been doing with corpses, night after night?!

Courtier: No... Master Seimei, do such a thing...? Unthinkable!
SFX: muttering
Emperor: Seimei! This cannot be ignored!

Emperor: Open it!!
SFX: clicking

-10-
Dudes: UWAAHHHH
Text: EEEEE!
Text: It's a corpse!!

-11-
Dudes: ?!

All: ......
Douman: What—

Kid: Nn?

Kid: Where...
SFX: glancing around
Kid: Am I...?

Courtiers: B... But this boy is alive!!
Courtiers: Explain yourself, Douman!!

-12-
Emperor: Well then... The contents of the chest were not as Douman announced.
Emperor: And yet, there is no denying that Seimei accurately described them.

Emperor: The winner of this contest
Text: Oooh!
Emperor: Is Seimei!!
Text: Kyahh!

Douman: Seimei... It can't be...
Douman: You... You've been trying your hand at the resurrection technique, haven't you...

Seimei: ...I haven't the faintest idea what you mean.

Seimei: Well. We'll leave it at that, shall we?

Kidoumaru: That was a close one...

Seimei: Hmph... That old fool is always causing trouble.

SFX: fwaaah...

-13-14-
Seimei: Look, Kidoumaru.
Seimei: It's a beautiful capital, don't you think?

Seimei: Ayakashi filling the skies...

Seimei: Humans living alongside nature...

Seimei: Sensing the fading light... fearing the darkness once night has fallen.
Seimei: This beautiful capital, the perfect combination of "yin" and "yang"... This is what I was able to accomplish.

-15-
SFX: ssssaaaa...
Seimei: ...I want to preserve the cosmic order of this capital for all eternity.
Seimei: It's for this reason that I have to live forever.

Seimei: And yet... Why must humans head unerringly towards death?
Seimei: Why must they need return once again to the darkness?

SFX: plunk

SFX: fssshhhh

-16-
Seimei: I have not yet perfected the resurrection technique.
Seimei: Even when I bring them back, they all end up like this again.

Seimei: Why is it that I can't live for a thousand years?
Seimei: ...There must be a way to fight against the underlying principles of the world.

Seimei: Listen, Kidoumaru... I will be reborn, without a shadow of a doubt.
Seimei: Using the perfected resurrection technique, I will be reincarnated!!

-17-
SFX: plink plink plink
Kitsune: Oh my...
Kitsune: If it isn't Seimei ♥
Kitsune: Did you come to visit me?

Kitsune: My darling Seimei~
Kitsune: Oh, do come closer...

-18-
Seimei: Mother!
Text: It was at that moment

Kitsune: Seimei
Text: That the realisation suddenly came to Master Seimei...
SFX: ffsssshhh

Seimei: Hey, that's it...!
Seimei: If I need to "return"...
Text: The way to perfect
Text: The Resurrection Technique, the method of revival!!
Seimei: Then I should return to my mother, Hagoromo Gitsune... you!

SFX: fsshhhhh
Seimei: Mother...
Text: It was this single question
Text: Which brought our "dearest wish" into existence!
Seimei: Would you please give birth to me once again?
Starred, bottom right: The mystery behind Seimei's revival will be brought to light...!!
Bottom right: ...Act 119 / End

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 118

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:55:52 +0000

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Starred text top [advert]: Anime now airing on Yomiuri TV, BS11, and more!!
Starred, right: We've seen these two somewhere before…!!
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Text below title: Act 118
Text below title: Satori and Oni Hitokuchi

Rikuo: He read my movements…?

Satori: I can see. Ohhh yes, I can see!
Satori: I can see the future!

Satori: Oh?
SFX: stops

Satori: Be careful, Oni Hitokuchi.
Satori: I've confirmed that his will is one of taking decisive measures!

-02-
Satori: He'll come at you
Satori: Like a hurricane!!

SFX: turns

Rikuo: !!

SFX: spinning
Oni: Whenever you're ready~~~

-03-
Rikuo: He really is reading my mind...
Rikuo: He moved right before I attacked!!

Satori: Fufufu......
Satori: I see... Ohh, I seeee!

Rikuo: .........

Text: Well then...
SFX: waver...

-04-
Satori: "Kyouka Suigetsu"
Satori: He's going for a win.

Satori: Don't let him fool you, Oni Hitokuchi!
Satori: It's an illusion... He's just using his Fear to make you think he's still there!!
Oni Hitokuchi: Ooh

SFX: twitch
SFX: spin

Satori: I can sense him...!! "Circle around the back, and slash like lightning!"
Satori: He's on the beams of bridge!!

-05-
Rikuo: !!
Rikuo: He even saw through that?!

SFX: smash

SFX: crunch
SFX: whomphhh

Rikuo: Shit—

-06-
Oni: Eat you up
Oni: In a single bite
Box title: Oni Hitokuchi
[TN: One-Mouthful Demon]
Box text: A youkai who lives in storehouses. Women who have been placed in the storehouses to hide will disappear by dawn. Oni Hitokuchi sticks his tongue out and eats his food.
SFX: gaping

Oni: Don't be a coward~~
Oni: It's very naughty~~

Satori: He's not a coward, Oni Hitokuchi.
Satori: That's the special characteristic of Nurarihyon... An ayakashi technique, just like "Satori", understanding.

Satori: His great-grandfather, on the other hand...
Satori: He was a greedy, cowardly man...
Box title: Satori
[TN: understanding, comprehension]
Box text: A youkai who reads people's hearts and minds.
If given the chance, he will snatch up humans and eat them.

Rikuo: What...?

-07-
Satori: Youhime... Now that was a fine-looking woman...
Satori: I can see a faint resemblance in you too.

Satori: Why are you so surprised?
Satori: I'm talking about your grandmother.

Satori: Now that I think about it, we offered up many beautiful princesses to Hagoromo Gitsune-sama, 400 years ago.
Satori: And now, at last...

Satori: The time has come
Satori: For our efforts to bear fruit...

Rikuo: ...You mean...
Rikuo: You've been killing innocent people, ever since then...?

-08-
Satori: So what if we have?

Rikuo: ...What I'm saying, is I'm fed up with you...
Rikuo: But how can I fight them?!

SFX: thump thump thump

Yura: Nura-kun!!

Rikuo: Yura!

Oni: !
Satori: Wait.

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Satori: I sense an impulsive will.
Satori: She will, without thinking
Satori: Let loose the humanoid summon. Make sure to avoid it.

Yura: Bukyoku!!
SFX: rumble
SFX: sssaaaaa
Yura: Cut them down!

Bukyoku: Yura-sama...?
Bukyoku: There is... no enemy here!

Yura: Eh...?
Satori: That was nothing.
Satori: These idiot-types are the easiest to deal with, that's all!

SFX: guaaah

-10
SFX: chomp

Yura: Gaahh!
Hidemoto: Yura-chan!!

Rikuo: Be careful, Yura!! That youkai reads minds!

Yura: ?!
Hidemoto: Oh, so that's Satori!
Hidemoto: He'll spot an opening even if you attack recklessly...
Hidemoto: You have to go carefully!

Yura: Huh?

-11-
Yura: Carefully...? I can't attack him recklessly?!
Yura: Then...
Yura: What am I supposed to do...?

Satori: Don't let that confuse you.
Satori: That's all part of the "will" too.
Oni: That won't do at all~
Hidemoto: Yura-chan!!

Satori: Hahahaha! Now you're so confused, you can't move?
Satori: You really are stupid.

-12-
Yura: Sorry, Tanrou!

Satori: Tch...
Satori: Hmm, so you're Keikain Yura...
Satori: I see, an onmyouji at such a young age...

Satori: ......
Satori: Ohh?
Satori: I see, I see!
SFX: twitch twitch

Satori: You're filled with rage because your Grandpa was killed by our allies.
Satori: Oh well... He was so old, it's no wonder he got killed.

SFX: ba-dump

Satori: "One who has ability"?
Satori: You look a little underfed, but I wonder if we should offer you to Hagoromo Gitsune-sama anyway...

Hidemoto: Calm down, Yura-chan.
Hidemoto: You losing your cool is exactly what he wants.

SFX: ssssshk
Hidemoto: Owow!

Hidemoto: Yura-chan...?

-13-
Y: ......
Oni: Hm...?

SFX: ssshuo...
Yura: How dare you speak so freely...

-14-
Yura: Now I'll
Yura: Never forgive you

-15-
Yura: Go
Yura: To Hell

Satori: Hm!...
Satori: What is she planning!!

Satori: ...Hmph. "Sudden attack with all Shikigami!!"

Satori: "Exterminate them completely."
Satori: "Do not leave a single trace..."

Satori: Huh?

SFX: BOOM

-16-
Satori: Eeee!
Oni: !!

Oni: Th... This won't do at all!
Satori: This isn't the time for reading her!

Awashima: W... What's all that?
SFX: WHSSSHHH
Y: Fire pillars?! What the...

Nattou: It's the wolf!
Y: What's going on?!
Tsurara: Is that where Rikuo-sama is?!

-17-
SFX: WHOOMPH
SFX: WHOOMPH
Satori: Hiiie
Satori: Hiiie!
Satori: W... What is she...

Rikuo: Wow... She's scary.

Satori: !!

Rikuo: If I hadn't been paying attention
Rikuo: I bet it would've been the end of me too...

Satori: P...
Satori: Please, wait!!

Rikuo: You can read my mind, can't you?
Rikuo: So you should be ready for this...right?

-18-
SFX: SLASH

Oni/Satori: Guh—
Oni/Satori: Hyah...

SFX: SMASH

-19-
Rikuo: You figured it out!
Rikuo: If you did all that, it wouldn't matter if he could read your mind.
Yura: .........
Yura: Eh?
SFX: clap clap
Hidemoto: Wooow, you two were amaaazing~

Yura: O-Of course! It was all part of the plan!
Y: Rikuo-sama!
Y: What were all those explosions?

Amezou: Th... This is incredible...
Y: Was there a youkai who could make things explode or something...?
Y2: Rikuo-sama, I am glad you are unharmed.

Rikuo: Alright! Let's go!
Rikuo: We're heading for Nuega-ike, Hagoromo Gitsune's waiting!!
Text bottom right: ...Act 118 / End
Text bottom right: Next time with centre colour, invading Nijou Castle!!
Starred text left: At last, onwards to Hagoromo Gitsune!!

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 117

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:54:09 +0000

EDIT: Missing line added to page 9, thanks to zetsubou.shin for pointing it out.

Scanlators / International Translators: You're welcome to use this, but please do not edit the translation or formatting, and please include a credit for Niphredil.

Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
Blue text: Edits
Corrections, comments, and advice always appreciated!

-01-
Starred text top [advert]: Anime now airing on Yomiuri TV, Tokyo MX, Chuukyou TV, BS11, and more!!
Starred, bottom right [advert]: Customise your phone with NuraMago at Kisekae Shounen Jump! Go to http://mangakisekae.jp/ !
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
SFX: shove
Text below title: Act 117
Text below title: To Nijou Castle...!
Arrow below panel [advert]: You can access the site with this QR code too!

MJ: So even the man they call the Master of All Spirits
Text: Fehfehfeh!
MJ: Is nothing special...
SFX: stagger

MJ: Getting old sure is scary!
SFX: grin
Text: Fehfeh

Karasu: Commander!!
Starred: Nurarihyon, in trouble after sneaking in!!

-02-
SFX: grab

MJ: Gngh...
MJ: Nnnnh!
SFX: rattle

Nurarihyon: This sword... the "Maou's Hammer"...
Nurarihyon: Why do you have it...?

SFX: waver
MJ: He...
MJ: Disappeared...

-03-
SFX: rattle

MJ: Guh...
MJ: Gngh...
SFX: rattle

Nurarihyon: And who the hell
Nurarihyon: Are you?

MJ: Yosuzume—!!

SFX: whssshh

SFX: clatter
SFX bubble: tap

-04-
SFX: rush

Karasu: Commander...?!

Nurarihyon: Hey... I can see now, just faintly.
Nurarihyon: We'll be back... Remember that eyeball.

-05-
Nurarihyon: He's tasted the blood of our three generations...?
Nurarihyon: That sword, it's the one that stabbed Rihan!!
Karasu: Are you alright~?
SFX: whoosh

Nurarihyon: Is it possible...
Nurarihyon: That eyeball...?!

SFX: SPLASH

Kidoumaru: Minagoroshi Jizou!
SFX: running
SFX: shock

SFX: rustle
SFX: sssu...

-06-
MJ: T-They got away......
Kidoumaru: What?
Text: *ahem*

Kidoumaru: He won't get far, with wounds that serious.
Kidoumaru: Assemble a search team, get the moat surrounded!!
Y: Right away.

Kidoumaru: Minagoroshi Jizou

-07-
Kidoumaru: Hagoromo Gitsune-sama has gone into labour.
Kidoumaru: She should give birth a few hours.

Kidoumaru: We'll finish him off.
Kidoumaru: You return to the lake and prepare for the delivery.

MJ: .........
MJ: Fehfehfeh... So the time has come.
Y: Kidoumaru-sama!!

Kidoumaru: ?!
Y: Horikawa Street, it...
Y: It's overflowing with youkai!!

Kidoumaru: Wh...
Kidoumaru: What is this...

-08-09-
Text: Rikuo, just stand back and watch.

Text: Alright, guys... We're off.
Text: Time for a fight.

Wakana: Rikuo... Stand back, it's dangerous...

-10-
Rikuo: That means... someone was able to kill my father
Rikuo: Even though he was so strong...

Rikuo: Back then...
Rikuo: What happened?!
Rikuo: That's what I want to know.

Y: And what do you midgets want, eh?

SFX: BOOM

-11-
Gaitarou: I am Gaitarou, gatekeeper of Nijou Castle's Main Gate.
Gaijirou: Gaijirou, likewise.

Gaitarou: Where the hell d'you think you are?!
Gaitarou: EHH?!
Gaijirou: This is NIJOU CASTLE!
Gaijirou: You got a death wish, huh?

Gaijirou: The hell are you looking at, huh?!
Gaijirou: YOU GOT SOMETHING TO SAY, THEN SAY IT! [side text] YEEEEEAH!

-12-
Gaitarou: HYAHYAHYA, WHAT'S THIS?!
SFX: HYAHYAHYA!
Gaijirou: He's just flapping about all over the place like skin, and now he's gone and disappeared~!

Rikuo: Over here.
Gaitarou: Huh?

SFX: WHAM

-13-
SFX bubble: tap
SFX: SPLASH

Gaitarou: ABURGURGHHH
SFX: thrash
Gaitarou: EEEEEE!

Gaijirou: G... Gaitarooooouuuu!!

Text right: GYAAAAAH
SFX: BOOM

-14-15-
Bubble: ?!
Y: W... Who's that?
Y2: What's going on?!

Rikuo: Listen up, all you spirits of the capital.

Rikuo: Supposedly, we somehow landed ourselves
Rikuo: A 400-year-old history with your commander...

Rikuo: And now we're here
Rikuo: To put a nice, clean end to it!

Rikuo: We'll lay low anyone in our way and send you straight down the river to hell!
Rikuo: So anyone who's not quite ready for that... scram!!

-16-
Hidemoto: Whooo ♥ This is so cool!
Hidemoto: Yura-chan, I got you one of those "Fear" jackets too!
Yura: I don't need that!!

SFX: wshh

Yura: !!
SFX: pop

Hidemoto: Careful there, Yura-chan
Hidemoto: Hey, grandson of Nurarihyon!!

Hidemoto: Somewhere in this castle, is the Nuega-ike!
[TN: Nue's Lake]
Hidemoto: That'll be where Hagoromo Gitsune gives birth!

-17-
Hidemoto: You should be able to get there
Hidemoto: ...If you really are Nurarihyon's grandson, that is ♥

Rikuo: Got it

Yura: !!
Yura: Nura-kun, watch out!!

Onihitokuchi: Naughty boy~

-18-
SFX: GAMPH

Satori: He's going to try to draw Nenekirimaru!

SFX: slide

Satori: He'll follow through with a sideways slash!! Watch out!!

SFX: kaaa
SFX: whoosh

-19-
Box: Kyoto Youkai: Oni Hitokuchi
Satori: I can read your movements.
Satori: I know what you'll do.
Starred: Some sly ones have arrived…!

Satori: Just as I thought, you tried to come straight in through the front door.
Satori: I knew it, I knew it!
Box: Kyoto Youkai: Satori
Satori: I can tell what you're going to do… I can read you like a book!
Text bottom right: …Act 117 / end

Chapter Notes

Page 11, Nijou Castle Main Gate / 弐條城東大手門 / Nijou-jou Higashi Ootemon
Just like the real Nijou Castle, NuraMago's Nijou Castle has a main gate named Higashi Otemon. You can see some pictures of it here: http://takaoka.zening.info/Kyoto/Nijo_Castle/East_Major_gate.htm (Japanese)

Page 15, River to hell / 三途の川 / Sanzu no Kawa
The Sanzu River ("River of Three Crossings") is the Buddhist equivalent of the River Styx, the entrance to the underworld/afterlife.

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 116

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:51:54 +0000

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Blank line: New panel
***Starred purple lines are ones I am unsure of
Blue text: Edits
Corrections, comments, and advice always appreciated!

-01-
Starred Text: Confusion...!!
Rikuo: Did you say... Abe no Seimei?

Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Text by title: Act 116
Text by title: Foetal Movements

Awashima: Huh? Who?
Amezou?: Abe no Seimei? You mean that onmyouji?
Amezou?: Isn't he a human who died ages ago?
Amezou?: Tsuchigumo... What's he talking about?

Yura: Wh... What do you mean?!
Yura: Tell me more!!

-02-
Rikuo: Yura!

Yura: Nura-kun, what were you just saying?!
Hidemoto: Hmm...
Hidemoto: I had considered this as a possibility, but it really was true after all...

Yura: What?!
Hidemoto: Haven't you ever heard the legend that Abe no Seimei's mother was a kitsune, a fox...?
Yura: Really?
Hidemoto: Yes
Hidemoto: In the Heian era, the legendary onmyouji Abe no Seimei

Hidemoto: Was a man who manipulated the human world out in the open
Hidemoto: And controlled and pulled the strings of a Hyakki Yakou.

-03-
Waka poem: If you ever get lonely, come to the forest of Shinoda, in Izumi ~ Kuzunoha, with bitter regret.
Text: Around a thousand years ago, there lived in the forest of Shinoda a female spirit fox named Kuzonoha. She fell in love with a warrior named Abe no Yasuna, and in the form of a woman she became his wife.
Text: Of their union was born Abe no Seimei.

-04-
Text: In the Heian world, Abe no Seimei presided over the systems of divination, the calendar, astronomy, and timekeeping in his position as the Chief Court Astronomer. He was fiercely trusted by the nobles of the time for his magical ability, superior to all others, and was considered a genius.
Text: However, he was also considered a sorcerer of black magic. He was said to be extremely knowledgeable about forbidden arts, performing such acts as using hexes to kill people, and manipulating techniques that could control ayakashi and other evil demons.

Kitsune: Oohh... There, there
Kitsune: My child...

-05-
Kitsune: I'm just going to kill this old man first, alright?
Kitsune: After that... We can feed.

Text: ......This strange, malevolent "Fear"...
Text: What on earth is it...?

Text: All I know is
Text: We can't let that thing be born.

Text: I suppose it'd be better to do it here, now...

-06-
Nurarihyon: Crap—

Ibaraki Douji: Are you kidding me?

-07-
Ibaraki Douji: Another little shit got in here?

Nurarihyon: Tch...

Nurarihyon: I was so distracted by that Fear, I didn't even notice...

-08-
Nurarihyon: Gah—!

Kyokotsu: You won't get away.

Nurarihyon: *pant*
Nurarihyon: *pant*

-09-
Kidoumaru: Why do you always come?

-10-
Kidoumaru: Why...
Kidoumaru: Why must you always impede us?

Dokuro: Hagoromo ♥
Dokuro: Gitsune-samaaaa~~~!!
Dokuro: Where's the little maggot~?

-11-
Nurarihyon: Ngh!...

Nurarihyon: !!

Dokuro: I'm gonna eat yooou~~~! ♥

-12-
Dokuro: Huhhhhhhh?
Ibaraki Douji: Move, moron!
Ibaraki Douji: Gashadokuro! Get out of the way!

Nurarihyon: Nice going, Karasu Tengu
Karasu Tengu: Commander!! Didn't I tell you not to do anything reckless?!

-13-
Karasu: Just be glad no one else was able to enter the castle easily...
Nurarihyon: I'm sorry, really
Nurarihyon: I was gonna leave straightaway, but all of a sudden I got worried about my grandson...

Nurarihyon: I wonder if I'm overprotecting him...
Karasu: Of course you are!!

Nurarihyon: As soon as we get out of here
Nurarihyon: I'm gathering all our clan heads.

Nurarihyon: Ugh...
Nurarihyon: Hey... Stop scattering your feathers everywhere, Karasu

-14-
Nurarihyon: Guh...

Nurarihyon: Karasu Tengu...

-15-
Nurarihyon: Nngh...!

Karasu: ?! C...
Karasu: COMMANDER!

MJ: Fehfehfeh... Now with the blood of three generations of the Nura Clan
MJ: This will soon be the domain of our master!

-16-
Tsuchigumo: Right then
Tsuchigumo: I'll be sleeping until Nue is born.

Y: He didn't die, even after being cut up that badly?
Y2: Is he some kind of monster?
Y3: We're all monsters here, ya know?

Yura: Tsuchigumo

Yura: Wasn't Abe no Seimei an onmyouji, an ally of humans?!
Yura: What is it you youkai of the capital want to do?

Tsuchigumo: An ally of humans? [small text]And who the hell are you?
Tsuchigumo: Nue is no one's ally.
Tsuchigumo: Nue uses people.

-17-
Tsuchigumo: Alright... This was fun, you guys.

Tsuchigumo: See you around!
Tsuchigumo: Let's do this again sometime.

Awashima: That guy... Somehow it just doesn't feel like we won.

-18-
Tsuchigumo: Fighting really isn't about winning or losing
Tsuchigumo: It's just fun to share the meal together. [side text] Gahahaha!

Yura: Abe no Seimei is the one who will be born?!
Yura: What does that mean?
Yura: What should I do, Grandpa?!

-19-
Starred: The fateful hour closes in!!
Text: ...Act 116 / End

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 115

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:01:46 +0000

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 114

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:17:04 +0000

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 113

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:28:52 +0000

Edit: probably going to fix that line on p17 soon after Ju-da-su's helpful comment! Not that anyone's still scanlating this or anything, but still ;;

ADVANCE WARNING: Really not sure what's going on at the end of p17 in that last panel. I'm assuming Itaku is talking, but I can't decipher it. Don't know what the action refers to nor am I sure of the subject – Itaku now wants to perform the move, Itaku now wants to fight Rikuo, Rikuo now wants to fight/kill [Itaku]? Also assuming ちったぁ is just ちっと. Here I went for Itaku getting irritated by Rikuo's actions and wanting now to beat him up a bit. Any help at all is appreciated.

I just realised there was a mistake in Chapter 111's translation – on page 2-3 Matoi was incorrectly given the note "Sacred Act" instead of "Demon-Clad". There was also a missing line in Ch108 on page 11. The posts have been updated. Apologies for the oversight.

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-Colour title page, left side ("01a")-
White, top left: ~In the dark of night, the Hyakki will come alive~
Green: TV ANIME
Yellow [edited down for content -_-]: PREMIERES 5TH JULY

-Colour title page, right side ("01b")-
White, right: Act 113: Toono and Rikuo
Gold bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Green: Now defeat your immense enemy!!

[all other text = more and more adverts]

-03-
Top: ~ Nurarihyon no Mago "Anime Adaptation Hidden Record" ~

Rikuo: Huh, so that's me in the oneshot…
Rikuo: Are you in high school or something? Hmm.
Tsurara: Come on, Master! You can do the advert for "Ayakashi Hiroku" later!
Tsurara: The anime is finally about to begin! The "Nurarihyon no Mago" anime!!

Kubinashi: So it's finally starting! What channel?
Tsurara: On BS11!!
Ao: Never heard of that one. Do we get that?
Karasu: Of course!

Karasu: The Nura Clan is already set up for Digital TV!
Karasu: Don't you know that as long as you can watch digital TV, then you can watch BS11 for free anywhere in the country?!
Ao: Seriously? That's awesome!

Tsurara: Master! This is so exciting!
Tsurara: By the way, BS11 is different from NHK-BS2, so be careful!!
Rikuo: R-Riiight… What's with you, all of a sudden…
[small text:]And everyone…

Box: Meanwhile, on Mount Nejireme (around Shiga)…

Mezu: I did it, Gyuuki-sama! The digital TV is working!!
Gozu: Whoa, it looks amazing!
Mezu: Huh? Aren't you gonna watch, Gyuuki-sama? You show up in Episode 1, you know!!
Gyuuki: Mm… no.

Box: Gyuuki secretly watched the early broadcast on Yomiuri TV…

-04-
Starred: Toono join the fight!!

Rikuo: Itaku…

-05-
Rikuo: Where have you been?
Rikuo: I just figured you went running home to Toono.

Itaku: !!

Awashima: Rikuo, you mooorooon~!!
Awashima: You better ask nice, like when you left Toono!!
Awashima: Go on, say, "Lend me your strength!"

-06-
Tsuchigumo: Six…
T: Is that… all of you now?

Toono: !
T: Get your act together!

-07-
Amezou: Guys
Amezou: Get back!!

Text right: Numagappa Ninpou
Text left: Doronuma Jigoku
[TN: Swamp Kappa Secret Art: Hell Mire]

Amezou: Kekeke! Once you stick your arm in this, you'll have a hell of a time trying to pull it out again!
Amezou: I wonder whether it's stronger than a spider's web~

-08-
Amezou: Whoa… hohoho…
Amezou: Tsuchigumo~~~
Amezou: That's the Grand Champion of the Amezou Youkai Ranking for you…

Amezou: Hey!!
Amezou: It's gonna take a while to beat this guy~!

-09-
Itaku: Rikuo
Itaku: We have a score to settle with Tsuchigumo.

Itaku: If that's not something you want
Itaku: Then Toono will defeat Tsuchigumo!!

Rikuo: ……
Rikuo: We can't beat Tsuchigumo if we're fighting separately.

Itaku: What?

-10-
Tsurara text: I can still sense it… what we did earlier…

Text: Releasing all of my Fear really tired me out
Text: But…

Text: I am the Hyakki Yakou of Rikuo-sama!!
Text: I can be useful to him!!

Tsurara: Rikuo-sama!!
Tsurara: Again… Can we…
Tsurara: Um… You know…

Zen: She's right, Rikuo… No matter how strong the guys from Toono may be…
Zen: If we want to defeat him, we need to act quickly.

Awashima: Oof!!
Awashima: This is insane! Just how strong is he?!

-11-
Tsurara: Let's begin, Rikuo-sama!!
Tsurara: Please do "Matoi" !!

Awashima: What?
Awashima: Matoi?
Awashima: You've got something to use against him?

Zen: It's the technique that destroyed Tsuchigumo's arm.

Awashima: WHAT?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! [small text]Rikuo did that?!
Awashima: Rikuo!! If you've got a move like that then move your ass and use it!! Idiot!
Awashima: So what do you do?

Zen: …
Zen: You release your own Fear, and entrust it to Rikuo.
Zen: If you don't trust each other, then it's impossible, but if you do, then you can increase your power many times over.

Tsurara: The power of my trust
Tsurara: In Rikuo-sama…

-12-
Awashima: Alright!! I'll do it!!
Awashima: I like Rikuo, so it'll work!!

Tsurara: ……?!
Tsurara: Huh?!

Awashima: This is the move you learned during your training, right?
Awashima: Let me check it out!

Tsurara: U-Um… Excuse me…
Amezou: Oi… You serious, Awashima?

Awashima: Sure thing!
Awashima: Okay, Rikuo! Come "wear" me!!

Tsurara: Whaaa…?!
Text: What is she saying?!

Tsurara: That's impossible!! The technique "Matoi" can only be performed by Rikuo-sama and myself—
Zen: Can you manage it, Rikuo?

-13-
Zen: How many times can you use Matoi? It was pretty rough on me.
Rikuo: It's probably just 'cause you don't have much stamina.
Rikuo: Don't worry about it.

Tsurara: Eh?
Tsurara: Ehhh?!
Text: He… He did Matoi… w-w-with Zen-sama?!

Text: It wasn't just with me…!!
Text: W… Wait a minute, Rikuo-sama---?!

Rikuo: But I've never seen Awashima's Fear before.
Rikuo: If I can't picture how it'll turn out, then I don't think we can do it.
Text by Awashima: Ahh, I get it

Rikuo: Tsurara!!
Rikuo: Let's go!!

Rikuo: Show me
Rikuo: Your Fear!!

-14-
Tsurara: I humbly decline.

Rikuo: Oi… Tsurara…
Tsurara: Ah!

Tsurara: My apologies!
Text right: I just can't right nowww
Text left: Tsurara: (Temporary) Withdrawal from the Hyakki Yakou
Awashima: Does it really use that much stamina…?

Itaku: Hey, you guys!

-15-
Text: Rera Makiri!!

Itaku: Don't zone out!

Itaku: Well?
Itaku: What are you gonna do?

Rikuo: ………Itaku.
Rikuo: You really are amazing.

-16-
Rikuo: I want you
Rikuo: Itaku.

Itaku: …Huh?

Rikuo: Would you let me
Rikuo: "Wear" your Fear?

Itaku: Rikuo… I don't know what this technique of yours is…
Itaku: But I don't take orders from anyone.

Itaku: Besides, it'd be a huge risk, just handing over my Fear to you! As if I could do that!!

-17-
Itaku: …Rikuo
Itaku: What do you think you're doing?

オレもちったぁ
やるようになったろ？ (see beginning of post for comments/queries)
***Itaku: Now you've got me wanting
***Itaku: To rough you up a bit, too.

-18-
Rikuo: Itaku
Rikuo: Be my sword.

Rikuo: That's
Rikuo: What I want.

-19-
Itaku: ......Hmph.
Itaku: You mess this up, and I'll kill you.

-20-
Text bottom right: Act 103 / End
Starred: Clad in Itaku's Fear, now to defeat Tsuchigumo!!

Chapter Note
Page 12, Matoe / まとえ！！ / "Wear" me
The technique name "Matoi" combines the characters for demon/oni (鬼) with the character used in the verb "matou" (纏), which is to wear, or put on, or clothe [with]. Awashima has taken the word "Matoi" and just used it as a verb, which gives "wear me" or "put me on".

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 112

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:49:37 +0000

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 111

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:47:12 +0000

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 110

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:58:27 +0000

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 109

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:47:02 +0000

I tried translating more SFX this time around but feel free to leave them out if you want. Also the first page talks about a results page for the youkai submissions which wasn't in the raw I had.

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-01-
White text: There are still many as of yet unknown youkai in Japan!
Tsurara: To all youkai throughout the country, and all those around them! This is the Nura clan's Yuki Onna!
Tsurara: Thank you very much for so many submissions to the WSJ #15 call for original youkai!

Red: Rikuo, on his way to becoming a true Hyakki leader!
Yellow: Nurarihyon no Mago

Tsurara: Rikuo-sama! Other than the Nura clan and the youkai of the capital, there are many clans throughout Japan, aren't there?
Ao: Whoa! Who the heck are they?!
Y at gate: We're new Nura clan members~
Rikuo: Uwah~ You're right! I had no idea!
Karasu Tengu: We shall have to start our night studies straight away.
Zen: Hey, this time around it feels like the healer group's gotten way bigger~! [small text]Huh, there are even some girls!

Mezu: Gyuuki-sama!! It's not just us three in the Gyuuki Clan~!
Gyuuki: ......
Gozu: Of course not, moron!
Kitsune: We'll introduce everyone's original youkai on page 36.
Kitsune: Now then, I wonder which prefecture had the most youkai after the capital?
Text: Fufu
Kyokotsu: The capital wasn't number one, Hagoromo Gitsune-sama.
Red starred: Thank you for so many entries! Results on page 36!

[Okay, I know we don't have a results page. But there you go.]

-02-03-
Text right: "Strength" is found in trust
Bottom right advert: [starred:] Urgent Announcement! [white text] Both the official Nurarihyon no Mago Data Book and Volume 11 both go on sale 2nd July!! Details next issue!!
Text centre: Never turning from your path, moving forward!!
Text white: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Text yellow: Act 109: Opposing Forces

-04-
SFX: flutter
Starred: With dark clouds looming over the capital, who is there, gazing out over it...?

Awashima: Where are they?

Itaku: Yukari should be with the two of them... I'm sure they can manage.
Awashima: Yeah... I guess you're right.

Itaku: Rikuo

Itaku: This is your fight... That's why we've done as Gyuuki said, and waited for three days.
Itaku: But Toono can wait no longer.
Text: Nurarihyon no Mago

-05-
Itaku: If you aren't here by midnight
Itaku: We will kill Tsuchigumo!

-06-
Tsurara: Look, Ao... Rikuo-sama has gone and finished elementary school
Tsurara: Without ever noticing!

Ao: Hm? Oh, yeah... We've completed our task as his guards.
Tsurara: What are you talking about?

Tsurara: It all starts now.
Tsurara: We'll protect him for his entire life.

Tsurara: Rikuo-sama
Tsurara: I'm sorry... that I couldn't protect you...

SFX: rustle

SFX: snap

SFX: thump
Tsurara: Kyaa!

Tsurara: Nn...

-07-
Tsurara: Ah—!

Tsurara: Wh... What...?

SFX: scuttle

Tsurara: Stop!! Stop it!!
SFX: crackle

SFX: throbbing pain
Tsurara: *cough*

-08-
SFX: crack
SFX: scuttle

Tsurara: AHHHH
Tsurara: What?! What's happening?!
SFX: chattering

SFX: grab

-09-
Youkai: Gah...

Tsuchigumo: I take my eyes off you for minute and this is what happens.
SFX: scuttle

SFX: glug

Tsuchigumo: Don't touch her.
Tsuchigumo: She's the bait.

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Tsurara: Tsu..
Tsurara: I've... been captured?
Tsurara: Tsuchigumo...!

SFX: whomp

SFX: glug

Tsuchigumo: Still not here, huh
Tsuchigumo: I've been waiting this whole time, you know...

-11-
Tsuchigumo: [small text]kukuku... [regular]I want to meet up with that interesting guy.
Tsuchigumo: This time for sure, I'll crush you to pieces.

Tsurara: What?

Tsurara: Rikuo-sama...?
Tsurara: He's... alive?

Tsurara: He's...
Thought: He's alive
Tsurara: Coming here...?
Thought: I can still... protect him.

Tsuchigumo: ...That's what the bait's for.
Tsuchigumo: So sit quietly.

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Tsurara: I'm...
Tsurara: The bait?

Tsurara: He's using me... to draw out Rikuo-sama?
Tsurara: ...Will he come here?
Tsurara: Knowing him... he might just do it...

Tsurara: So he'd be heading for Tsuchigumo
Tsurara: Because of me...?
SFX: shiver

SFX: spin

Tsurara: ......As his guard
Tsurara: I must... protect him.

-13-
Tsurara: I can't lead him here.
Tsurara: And so... I have to escape from this place.

SFX: heart beating

MJ: kukuku

-14-
MJ: Hmm, which child should I pick?
MJ: When Hagoromo Gitsune-sama wakes up, she is rather partial to a girl of slender build.

MJ: Fufufu
MJ: Apparently she finds their taste most refreshing!
SFX: sssuu...
Y: Minagoroshi Jizou-sama...

MJ: What is it?
MJ: Approximately one hour ago, the ayakashi at Seiei-ji were eliminated by an unknown force.

MJ: Hmph, come back later.

MJ: —Huh?

-15-
SFX: fire roaring

MJ: That's impossible!!
SFX: running
MJ: Who the hell could break through that?!

MJ: Give me that!
SFX: snatch
Y: Y-Yes, sir!

MJ: Hnn?
MJ: There's the 5th seal, Seiei-ji... He was right!
MJ: Who could have done it...?

Y: Reporting in... Half an hour ago, the ayakashi at the 4th seal Nishihougan-ji were eliminated by an unknown force from the East.
Y: Additionally, there are forces advancing towards both the West and the North.

-16-
MJ: .........What?

SFX: boom

MJ: Ahh!
SFX: zushaa

Dragon youkai: Re... porting in...

Dragon: Just now, the ayakashi at the 3rd seal Rokukin-ji were eliminated...
Dragon: Unknown forces became an even larger body...

-17-
Itaku: It's time... Let's go.

Awashima: Hey, wait a sec.

Itaku: ......
Awashima: I'm getting the craziest feeling...

Tsurara: Now!

Tsuchigumo: Give it up.
Tsuchigumo: There's nothing you can do.

-18-
Tsurara: .........
Text: I can't escape...

Tsurara: If...
Tsurara: If that's the case...

Tsurara: If I'm just going to be a burden to Rikuo-sama, then...

Y: GYAAAAH
Y: GUH—
SFX: smash
SFX: thump

Tsurara: Eh?

SFX: CRASH

-19-
[f yeah]

-20-
Tsurara: Rikuo...
Tsurara: ...sama...?

Tsuchigumo: Fuuhaaaa~~~
Tsuchigumo: So you're finally here!

SFX: tremble
Tsurara: I'm too late!

Tsuchigumo: Hm?

Tsurara: Why...
Thought: I can
Thought: No longer protect you!! So why?!
Tsurara: Why did you come here?!

-21-
Rikuo: I came here to save you
Rikuo: Tsurara

Rikuo: I'm sorry... I sure kept you waiting.

-22-
Tsuchigumo: Hmph
Tsuchigumo: You flitting and sneaking around like that is a pain in the ass.
Tsuchigumo: I'm gonna grind you down so small there'll be nothing left to find!

Rikuo: Yo, Tsuchigumo... This time
Rikuo: I'll slice right through you!
Starred: They finally clash!!
Text: Act 109 / END

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 108

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:42:09 +0000

(Edited 6th July) Missing line added to end of p11.

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Starred text: Gyuuki makes his way towards Rikuo…
Text: This "Fear"…
Text: What is it?!

Text right: Rikuo—
Text left: Could that really be your Fear?
Title: Nurarihyon no Mago

-02-03-
Text bottom right: Act 108
Bottom right: The Sacred Act of Wearing A Hyakki
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Starred: That which Rikuo wears upon his back is…?!

Gyuuki: ………

Gyuuki: Rikuo
Gyuuki: You—

Rikuo: Gyuuki

-04-
Rikuo: Is this
Rikuo: The "ability?"

Zen: Get a move on, you guys!
Gyuuki: !

Zen: They need an antidote!
Zen: Were those poison wings just now? What just happened?!

-05-
Zen: ……
Hihi Text: I became strength for the Supreme Commander.
Hihi text: You too must spread your wings
Hihi text: For the sake of a Hyakki Yakou
Zen: Is this what you meant, Father…?

Tengu: Im…
Tengu: Impossible…

Tengu: How… How could this happen
Tengu: To Kurama's elite forces…

Tengu: Gyuuki… What did you do?
Tengu: What have you taught him?

Gyuuki: ………
Gyuuki: Nothing you need to know, Tengu.

-06-
Gyuuki: This is
Gyuuki: The Nura clan's forte.

Gyuuki: Rikuo… Zen was the first person with whom you exchanged sakazuki.
Gyuuki: I was certain that you two could achieve this.

Zen: ………

Gyuuki: Do you understand now, Rikuo?
Gyuuki: You gain strength by trusting your nakama, and being trusted by them in turn.

Gyuuki: It is not simply about protecting or being protected.
Gyuuki: That is what leads to gaining the ability of a Hyakki leader.

-07-
Rikuo: I see… It's true that up until now
Rikuo: I've been trying to do everything by myself…

Rikuo: Thank you, Gyuuki
Rikuo: For making me realise that.

Text: Heh

-08-
Gyuuki: This is the final step, Rikuo…
Gyuuki: Try using that ability to sever my Fear!

Rikuo: Gyuuki…

-09-
Akifusa: Morning has come…
Ao: ………Hm? Oh, right…

Akifusa: It seems that one blow from you was enough to send the insect youkai running home.
Akifusa: I'm sorry for the trouble… You have my thanks.
Ao: Huh…? Ah… yeah…

Akifusa: The Keikain house seems to have grown much weaker in the past 400 years.

Akifusa: Though this is hardly unexpected… During the four centuries leading up to Hagoromo Gitsune's rebirth, we've had no real life fighting experience.
Akifusa: When humans… When an organisation… comes face to face with danger… and understands reality for the first time…
Akifusa: They act foolishly…

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Ao: ……What's bad about understanding the reality of things?
Ao: If the clan's got people like you around, things should be fine, right?
Ao: Though I can't say I know too much about all of you…

Ao: You know… What about that little girl, and the two guys in black, the partners… You've got them…
Akifusa: Ryuuji and Mamiru…?

Akifusa: …
Akifusa: My apologies for making a youkai such as yourself worry about us…

Yura: ……?!

Yura: Akifusa-niichan?! What happened here?!
Akifusa: Yura…

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27: Ahh, is that Yura…
27: Come closer…

Yura: G…
Yura: Gramps?!

27: Ah, Yura…
Yura: Gramps… just hang in there!!

27: Yura… Have you learned how to perform the Uho technique yet…?
Yura: What?... I've been doing that before breakfast for years now!!

27: Yura…
Yura: Wh… What is it, Gramps…

27: You are… a jewel, Yura.

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27: Within you
27: Lies the future of the Keikain house.

27: To these old eyes, you shine so brightly...
27: You're our shining jewel.

Yura: G… Gramps…
Yura: What are you talking about—

27: You're strong, Yura.

27: When I look at you… you're always… facing forward…
27: You always… bring me hope…

-13-
27: Become stronger.
27: Much, much stronger…
27: And protect everyone… in my place…

Yura: Gramps…

Yura: uu…
Yura: uuu…

Yura: Uuu…
Yura: Uuuuuu~

-14-
Text: Argh, that really does sting~
Text: Are you okay? I'm sorry…

Akifusa: She's finally asleep…
Hidemoto: She must be tired… And no wonder.
Hidemoto: She's been up all night.

Hidemoto: Oh?
Akifusa: 13th…?
Hidemoto: Of course, that means I'll be disappearing too ♥

Hidemoto: Hmm, what to do, what to do… Ah well, I guess I'll leave things to you for the time being, Akifusa-kun.
Hidemoto: Yura-chan ♥ Soon you have to gather your strength again and summon me, okay~?

K: He disappeared…
K: So he really was a spirit…

Yura: I will defeat you, without fail!

Yura: How dare you do that to my beloved Gramps…
Yura: Capital youkai… Hagoromo Gitsune… I will defeat you!...

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Box: Ryuuen-ji
Ibaraki: Where'd they run off to?

Kidoumaru: Let's go, Ibaraki Douji… We can't mess around here forever.

Ryuuji: Heh… We don't have time to mess around with you either.
Ryuuji: They're a pain in the ass to fight… We should avoid them if we can.

Mamiru: Ryuuji
Mamiru: Just a little longer, and we can win.

Ryuuji: …If it's so easy for you, then go destroy them!
Mamiru: You didn't tell me to.

Ryuuji: ………
Ryuuji: Ugh, you're such a big baby…

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Tsuchigumo: ………
Tsuchigumo: That little brat sure is taking his time…

Tsuchigumo: Heheh…

Tsurara: Rikuo-sama
Text: Yuki Onna!
Text: Zen-kun played with me today!

-17-
Tsurara: Oh my, is that right? You do look happy!
Rikuo: He's rooting for me to become the Supreme Commander!
Tsurara: Ufufu, and so am I!

Tsurara: And until you become a fine commander
Tsurara: I'll be protecting you, okay?

Rikuo: No!

Rikuo: I'm gonna protect you
Rikuo: Tsurara!!

Tsurara: Well then, please become a fine commander
Tsurara: Who protects his important nakama!!

-18-19-
Rikuo: Tsuchigumo is at Soukoku-ji!

Rikuo: I've spent too long here…
Rikuo: Wait for me, Tsurara!

Rikuo: Now, off to wipe out Tsuchigumo!!
Starred top left: He has obtained true strength! At last, Rikuo heads to battle once again!!
Rikuo: Follow me!!
Text bottom right: …Act 108 / END

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 107

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:36:21 +0000

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Blue text right: A huge mass of shadows blocking your way – Now bring them all under your control!!
Kanji reading in diamond: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Text below title: Act 107
Text below title: Towards The Uncertain Leader

-02-
Starred: Rikuo and Zen, deep in the mountains
Zen: Apparently this place is Mount Kurama.

Zen: It's the legendary place where the late Minamoto Yoshitsune… Ushiwakamaru was trained by Kurama Tengu, supposedly.

Zen: This "Tree Root Path" really is a perfect place for it, don't you think?

Zen: …Another night almost over, huh.
Zen: ……That's one hell of a look you've got going, Rikuo.

-03-
Zen: You said you learnt some household chores as well as how to protect yourself out there in Toono, right?
Zen: If you've got more training tomorrow, then you can make dinner too!

Rikuo: ……

-04-
Youkai: !!

-05-
Gyuuki: The Fear of Nurarihyon… He shifts the enemy's awareness, and severs their fear…
Gyuuki: But you won't defeat Tsuchigumo like that.

Gyuuki: So you're in your Night Form now, are you?
Gyuuki: Well then, we'll take things to the next level.

Gyuuki: You should be able to obtain it! A blade which can reach a great foe.
Gyuuki: There's no time, so concentrate on that alone!!

-06-
Rikuo: A blade that can reach Tsuchigumo… Where can I find that within myself?
Rikuo: If I don't have it, I'm powerless...

Zen: ……
Text: Gyuuki's going all out too…
Zen: You've been going on about that this whole time…

Zen: …But for now, just take it easy!
Zen: Once the sun rises, you'll be going back in your Day form, right?

Zen: !!

Zen: What the…

-07-
[……]

-08-
Zen: ……?! Now wait just a minute!
Zen: Isn't it a little early to be resuming the training session, Gyuuki?
Rikuo: ……

Rikuo: Zen, this way!!

Zen: !!

Tengu: Hn…

-09-
Zen: What's going on?! There's no way you could do this without having rested, right?!

Rikuo: Get back.
Rikuo: These guys… They're seriously trying to kill me.

Zen: What?
Rikuo: Zen… I'll create an opening.

Rikuo: You take that opening and escape!!

Zen: H… Huh?
Zen: Rikuo!!

-10-
Tengu: Gyuuki… Where is the boy?

Gyuuki: …I allowed him a brief rest.
Gyuuki: We shall resume shortly.
Tengu: I see.
Tengu: The birth a thousand years in the making… is upon us…

Tengu: The reincarnated youkai, Hagoromo Gitsune…
Tengu: Since the first birth, she has been reborn 7 times in about 600 years.

Tengu: But when she became the Nine-Tailed Fox, there was no longer a place for me.
Tengu: Minagoroshi Jizou was there instead!

Tengu: He altered the memories of a group of capital youkai
Tengu: And stands now where I ought to stand… He possesses a strange ability…

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Gyuuki: …This ayakashi, Minagoroshi Jizou
Gyuuki: Could he be manipulating Hagoromo Gitsune as well?

Tengu: No, I shouldn't think so. There is no ayakashi who can manipulate Hagoromo Gitsune…
Tengu: I don't know what he's thinking, but I believe he wants to create an advantageous position for himself once the child has been born.

Gyuuki: So his purpose remains hidden?

Tengu: …Regardless, I shall certainly make him regret making a fool of me.
Tengu: This is the only time I cannot accept the birthing. I will put a stop to it, without fail!!

Gyuuki: Yes… And I'm certain that Rikuo can obtain the power he needs for that purpose.

Gyuuki: I am grateful for your cooperation.
Gyuuki: If you could please just wait a little longer…

-12-
Tengu: …What's this, Gyuuki?
Tengu: You do realise you're attempting to exceed our initial agreed upon time limit, do you not?
Tengu: If you do so, then we shall take matters into our own hands… We will retrieve Nenekirimaru ourselves.

Gyuuki: What...?

Rikuo: Zen!! GO, NOW!!

-13-
Rikuo: What's the matter with you, Zen?! Get out of here!

Zen: Fuck you, Rikuo…

Rikuo: Zen…?

Zen: You're a real bastard…
Zen: Treating me like I'd just slow you down…
Rikuo: Huh?! That's bull, I'm totally not!!
Zen: You totally are, asshole!

Rikuo: Forget this, just get out of here!!
Zen: What?
Zen: No way!
Rikuo: What the hell, just do it!

Gyuuki: With Rikuo as he is now
Gyuuki: He has no chance against the Tengu of Kurama…!

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Gyuuki: In Toono, Rikuo grasped the essence of Nurarihyon…
Gyuuki: When he was attacked by Tsuchigumo, he shifted his awareness in a strange way then too… It's unbelievable…
Gyuuki: However… He has yet to grasp his own self.

Gyuuki: He has forgotten
Gyuuki: The pliability of humans.

Rikuo: Fine…
Rikuo: Just stand back then, Zen!!

Rikuo: …I'll bring them down!!

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Gyuuki: I, too, was once human…
Gyuuki: So I understand his reluctance to show the weakness of humans to those around him.

Gyuuki: But the Second was different.

Gyuuki: He was able to trust and depend on his nakama.
Rihan: I'm half human
Rihan: So I think it's most important for me to rely on you guys.
Gyuuki: He acknowledged his human side… and managed to achieve that which only humans can do.

Rihan: So fight alongside me...
Rihan: You'll lend me your strength, won't you?...

-16-
Rikuo: These guys… They're pretty damn strong…
Rikuo: I don't have a blade to scatter them…
Rikuo: I want a blade… that I can protect Zen with!!

Rikuo: I want the power… to protect my Hyakki…
Rikuo: -haaa-
Rikuo: -haaa-
Rikuo: -haaa-
Zen: Rikuo

Zen: I won't stand back… and I don't wanna run either!!
Zen: What I want… is to be of use… to you.

Gyuuki: But… I suppose it was futile to attempt this in just 3 days…

Gyuuki: To use that ability, one must possess a huge amount of Fear, and be trusted with utter conviction.
Gyuuki: In which a massive Fear… is clad in an even greater amount of Fear… "The Sacred Act of a Hyakki Yakou"

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Zen: I'm the one who exchanged sakazuki with you…
Zen: I'm your Hyakki Yakou, aren't I?

Rikuo: Zen…

Rikuo: …Alright, I understand.
Rikuo: My mouthy little underling.

Zen: As long as you do understand!

Gyuuki: The ability to clothe yourself in your own Hyakki…

-18-
Rikuo: I want you to spread those poison wings of yours
Rikuo: For me

Zen: Leave it to me, young master!

Gyuuki: You need to realise it, Rikuo
Gyuuki: You can become much stronger!!

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Zen/Rikuo: !!

Rikuo: Wh…
Rikuo: What's… happening…

Gyuuki: !!

Starred: What's happening to Rikuo?... And what is this "ability?"

Text bottom: …Act 107 / END

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 106

Wed, 26 May 2010 19:30:41 +0000

Sorry for the delay. Ch107 coming up asap.

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Monk: You're immature, you know? Still a greenhorn.
Monk: You really are a 'green monk.'
Monk: Or no… You're a bit of a country bumpkin, so I guess that'd make you "Aotabou"
[TN: lit. novice/green country monk]

Monk: Those fists of yours can crush rock
Starred: Ao's hidden past…!
Monk: Your palms are broad
Monk: They can easily fit around a person's entire head
Text: Nurarihyon no Mago

Text: You who have killed a thousand warriors
Text: You, oh fearsome depraved monk!!

-02-
Shoukera: Something you have to… protect?

S: It… does not seem like the type of cause we would get behind…
S: So you must be another fool who transgresses against God.

Ao: Hey.
Ao: I told you

-03-
Ao: Not to go running your mouth all over again.
Ao: Now scram.

S: ……
S: You have no semblance of manners. [small text]Reminds me of Ibaraki Douji…
S: Foolish creature… Repent, and be cleansed of your sins…

-04-
Ao: Repent?
Ao: What's that?

Ao: You got me stumped there.

Ao: Sorry, man…

-05-
Ao: You see…
Ao: I'm a Buddhist.

Ao: Mind putting it in words I can understand?

S: …How awful.
S: Such a pitiful man you are…

Ao: Hngh!

-06-
Text: Let there
Text: Be light!!

Ao: !!

S: …Then I shall educate you.

-07-
Ao: Guh…
S: This is the thorn that pierces a sinner.

S: Move, and you choose death, after being driven mad by unimaginable pain.

Ao: Wh…at…
Ao: …are you…

S: I shall grant you this knowledge, you ignorant wretch.
S: I shall teach you of this body, granted to me by God…

S: Set your gaze upon these beautiful wings.
S: They are the mark of a true angel…

S: These all-seeing eyes are the compound eyes of a heavenly being…
S: A sacred body which glows with its own light…

S: In all respects, I am
S: A Chosen Ayakashi…

-08-
S: Hark, ignorant wretch… I am God's appointed official, handing down judgment in His name.
Starred text: This hideous appearance…!
S: I must judge all the sins of those who hinder us in achieving our dearest wish, of protecting Our Mary of Darkness and taking back the world of Our God, the Nue…
[bottom right: ads]
Text left: Act 106
Text left: The Green Demon Who Wept
Text bottom left: Shiibashi Hiroshi

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Akifusa: ……
Akifusa: Shoukera…!!
Akifusa: According to the Keikain Hidden Records…

Text: He is a youkai who reports "the sins of humans" to "Heaven!!"

Text: Legends say that Shoukera comes forth once every 60 days on "Koushin," the 57th day.
Text: He is an insect youkai who ascends to Heaven while people are sleeping and reports all of their crimes.
Text: "Heaven" then takes the lives of those who have sinned…

Text: This is why one "must not sleep on the day of Koushin."
Text: In order to avoid this, on Koushin one must spend the entire night praying to a statue of the raging god Shoumen Kongou.

Akifusa: This man is the legend come to life.
Akifusa: An ayakashi who announces people's sins and takes their lives!!

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S: However… There are still those here who transgress against Heaven.
S: Those lowlifes who have been interfering with our dearest wish for the past thousand years…

Akifusa: …

Y: Shoukera-sama!!
Y: We found these ones inside!!

Ao: ?!

-11-
S: ……
S: No… These are not the ones we want.

S: Allow me to ask you
S: Oh 27th…

S: Where is the girl
S: Who summoned the Hagun?

Akifusa: ?!
Text: Yura?!

27: If you're looking for Yura… She has gone out to join the fight…

S: I find that
S: Hard to believe.

-12-
27: Heh… You can look for her all you like…
27: But while you're doing that, Yura will be moving onwards.

27: If you're going to kill me, then go right ahead.
27: Our future has already been written…

27: That child will, without a doubt, take my place—

S: You are correct… If you are not going to talk, I have no need of you.

-13-
Ao: HEY!!
Ao: Those kids have got nothing to do with this!! Let them go!!

S: Don't tell me that these children
S: Are what you have to protect…?

S: They most certainly are involved in this, for all humans are offerings to God.
S: Let us seek answers from God.

S: Lord.
S: Will you receive… the sins of these children?

-14-
S: Ohhh
S: My God… My Master…

S: I understand. I shall kill these children immediately
S: And deliver

S: Their hearts

S: To Hagoromo Gitsune-sama!!

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Text: Listen, Aotabou

Text: If you continue to kill people, you'll become a monster.

Text: That's why you resemble "Shoumen Kongou," you know…

Text: Shoumen Kongou…
Text: A villainous, fierce, rampaging god who spreads disease.
Text: Though there are times when he's worshipped as a saviour of humans, but still.

Text: Starting today, you must save one person for each of the sins you have committed.
Text: It's up to you whether you can return to being human, or transform into a kishin, a raging god.

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Box: Having committed the ultimate transgression as a warrior monk, I was arrested.
Box: But on the verge of being executed, my eyes were opened by a holy man.

Box: And so… I decided to live for the sake of other people.

Box: Before I knew it

Box: Children who had lost their parents or homes to war, had gathered around me.

Box: However…

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Box: If I had just…

Box: Held on a little longer…
Box: I would have been able to become human again…

Ao: I'm sorry, holy man.
Ao: I broke my promise.

Ao: But
Ao: I guess it couldn't be helped… right?

-18-
Ao: Because it was all
Ao: To protect these guys…
Box: And so, I…

Ao: I said, get your hands
Ao: Off of them!

-19-
S: Let there be li—

Text right: And so, I became
Text left: A raging god!!
Starred text: An attack from a god!!
Text bottom right: …Act 106 / END

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 105

Wed, 12 May 2010 21:04:25 +0000

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Text: Nurarihyon no Mago
[starred is ad for anime broadcast channels]
Keikain: ……
Keikain: Curse you..!!

27: Greetings, Youkai of the Capital
27: Well done for making your way in!!
Text: Intruders approach from the sky..!!

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27: Now that you are here
27: I trust you are prepared for what is to come, hmm?

Keikain: It's the 27th!!

27: Form ranks!!

27: We'll make you regret
27: Entering sacred ground!!

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Text right: Keikain Onmyou Technique
Text left: Jusou no Kusari
[Chains of Cursed Interment]

Keikain: Coming in here like you own the place… We won't let you out of here alive!!

Shoukera: Heh…

-04-
[…]

-05-
Shoukera: Fearing the sight of the cross
Shoukera: Is the mark
Shoukera: Of a sinner.

-06-
Shoukera: Have you finished repenting?

Shoukera: Now

-07-
Shoukera: Judgment will be handed down.

27: Kngh…
27: Reform… ranks…!!

Akifusa: *pant*
Akifusa: *pant*

Akifusa: Th… This spirit energy…!!
Akifusa: Could it really be that ayakashi…?!

-08-
Shoukera: Oh…
Shoukera: You're still alive?

Akifusa: HYOUKISOU!!
[Lance of Demonic Possession]

-09-
[please please please don't black out all of this /beg]
Top left: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Bottom left: Act 105
Bottom left: Shoukera

Torii: Eeeek!
Kana: Kyahh!
Torii: Th… The power went out?!

Torii: What the heck is going on?!
Kiyo: A-Anyone else think this is getting dangerous? The building itself, I mean…

Maki: I don't wanna be attacked by youkai out there!! And I don't wanna be crushed by this building either!!
Ao: HEY, ALL OF YOU.

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Ao: Keep it down!!
Ao: I can't sleep like this! Jeez…

Maki: K…
Maki: Kurata-kun…?
Text: He can't sleep…?

Ao: Haaaa…
Ao: I'm gonna go take a leak

Maki: ……
Maki: Huh?
Kana: W… Wait a sec, Kurata-kun?

Kana: It... It's dangerous outside, you know?
Kana: If anything happens to you, then…

Ao: You that worried about me?

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Ao: Katsu!!

Kiyo: ?
Kana: …?
Ao: Keh…

Ao: Outta my way, Onmyouji.
Onmyouji: Hey—Stop!—

Tsurara: Aotabou!
Tsurara: You protect the Kiyo Cross Squad, okay?

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Ao: Now wait just a minute! Why am I the only one stuck with that?
Tsurara: What's the problem?
Tsurara: Weren't you originally a youkai guardian of children, Ao?

Tsurara: You like kids, so you're perfect for this job.
Tsurara: As for me… I'm going to report to Rikuo-sama.
Ao: Tch.
Ao: You've got it wrong…

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Text right: Come back soon
Text left: Mr. Monk!!

Akifusa: I will not be defeated a second time!!
Akifusa: I cannot let you pass!

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SFX: spurt

Akifusa: ngh…

Akifusa: No…!

Shoukera: Your heart will surely please
Shoukera: Our blessed mother of darkness.

Akifusa: Damn it—

-15-
Akifusa: Huh?

Ao: Hey now… Just what do you think you're doing?
Ao: Tsk tsk, you know you guys shouldn't be here~~

Shoukera: .…..
Shoukera: And you are…?

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Ao: Humans and Ayakashi both have their own territories.
Ao: Now, me? I'm not a huge fan… of senseless killing sprees, let me tell you.

Shoukera: …And yet you too seem to be a youkai
Shoukera: So how can you say such a thing?

Youkai: Hey, scumbag!
Youkai: Don't poke your nose in where it don't belong!

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Ao: But for you assholes
Ao: I'll make an exception.

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Ao: Sorry, Bro
Ao: Gonna have to ask you to leave.

Ao: It's not like I'm obligated to save these onmyouji
Ao: But I do have something I gotta protect!!

Bottom text: …Act 105 / END

Starred: The fight begins between the manly Aotabou and Shoukera!!

Shoukera: Is that so?…
Box: 93 hours remaining until Hagoromo Gitsune gives birth

Chapter Notes

Page 11, katsu / 喝
Appears to be the activation for Ao's spell. All I could find on this suggests it's a phrase used by monks to scold or warn students.

Page 13, O-Bou-san / Mr. Monk / お坊さん
Just wanted to note that this is one of the connections to Ao's name – the "bou" in Aotabou is the same as the one used here for monk/priest. Hopefully we get some real youkai backstory for him soon *O*

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 104

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:32:37 +0000

I have an R. Keikain problem. For serious.

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Yura: I will destroy
Yura: The capital's youkai!!
Text: Nurarihyon no Mago

Text: Wh... What..? Did they say... seal...?

Text: So that girl and her little group...
Text: Were just using us...?
Text: Yura vs. Kidoumaru!!

Yura: YOMI-OKURI YURA MAX!!

-02-
Kidoumaru: So you're
Kidoumaru: A "magic user," are you?

Yura: Ngh...
Yura: Yura MAX!! Yura MAX!!

-03-
Text right: Shinsoku Kengeki
Text left: Umenoki
[Weapons of Heavenly Speed: Plum Tree]

Kidoumaru: HHNN!!

Yura: Aaghh—

-04-
K: Ah, I see... Well then, you...
Yura: Guh...
Yura: L... Let me go...

K: Heh... I shall offer you up as a living sacrifice to Hagoromo Gitsune-sama.
K: You shall certainly provide a refined flavour!!

Ryuuji [/screeeeeeeeeeee]: Run forth, Gengen

-05-
K: Mmph...
K: What... is this... Is it water?

Ryuuji: Hmm... Maybe I should've been a bit quicker with that...
Yura: *cough* *cough*
Ryuuji: Well, my broken arm was really affecting me... But more than that, Yura's performance was so awful that my heart was just pounding away.
Yura: As if! You did it on purpose!

Ryuuji: Finish him
Ryuuji: Mamiru

-06-
SFX: crackle
K: ...
SFX: crackle

Ryuuji: All right, you've had enough time to study up on this... That's "water" and "electricity" you've got there.
Ryuuji: Mamiru... No need to hold back...
Ryuuji: Finish him.

Ryuuji: This is our 3 Sibling
Ryuuji: Shikigami Fusion

-07-
Mamiru: Perish

Ibaraki: Hey!
Ibaraki: You better not be getting beaten over there, Kidoumaru—!

-08-
Kuro: I, Kurotabou, shall be your opponent.
Kuro: You are certainly not in a position to be worrying about others.

Ibaraki: Oh?

Kappaaaaaaaaaaa SFX bubble: pyoko

-09-
Kappa: hup-ho—!

Kubinashi: K...
Kubinashi: Kappa?!
Kappa: I don't like this place one bit.
Kappa: Sand and I just don't agree.

Text right: Kappa Ninpou
Text left: Toori Nuke Shinobi Ike
[Kappa Secret Art: Hidden Pond Bypass]

Y: Oi!!
Y: Stop right there!

-10-
Text: MI ✩ ZU ✩ CHI ✩ DAMA
[Mizuchi Sphere]

Kappa: Bye-Bye~!

SFX: glub-glub-glub

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Kappa: Phew~!
Kappa: I think we lost them.

Kubinashi: ……
Kubinashi: Kino…
Kubinashi: Kino, are you all right?...

Kejourou: ……
Kejourou: Kubinashi…

Kejourou: I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE OKAY!!

Kubinashi: ………………
Kubinashi: Y… Yeah………

Kappa: Umm… [side text] Ahem!
Kappa: You should thank this girl over here.
Kappa: She helped us save you.

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Kubinashi: The onmyouji…
Kubinashi: I… I see… Thank you for that

Yura: It's fine.
Yura: I was just repaying my debt from that time with Kyuuso.
Kubinashi: Oh, okay… thanks…

Yura: This is the only time I'll be saving any youkai!!
Hidemoto: Now, now, Yura-chan…

Hidemoto: It's true that without us
Hidemoto: The seals cannot be created.

Hidemoto: But without all of you
Hidemoto: We cannot defeat the Hagoromo forces.

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Hidemoto: We have to fight together.
Hidemoto: The Nura Clan with the Keikain… Just like we did in the past.

Kidoumaru: Stop this flitting about…

K: A mere 4 days until the birth of the Nue…
K: And yet you vermin continue to struggle!

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Text: Act 104
Text: Sky-Cleaving Intruders

Box: Keikain Main House
Reporter: Take a look at this!!
Reporter: Is this really Nijou Castle?

Reporter: A large castle, appearing out of nowhere!

Reporter: Reports of strange occurrences throughout the city… And people gone missing.
Reporter: What on earth is happening in Kyoto?!
SFX: Gah—
SFX: zzzzzaaaaa
Text: Shiibashi Hiroshi

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News: Miss Yamada? Miss Yamada?!
Reporter: KYAHH—
Crew: Wh… Who the hell are you guys?!

Crew: AHHHH!! MONSTERS!!
Maki: H…
Maki: H… Hey, hang on…

Reporter: GYAAAAAAAAAAAA
TV: Please stand by.
Kis: ……….

Torii: What's happening out here in Kyoto…
Maki: Isn't MHK broadcasting from right near Nijou Castle?
Kiyo: …That's near here, too…

Torii: NO WAAAY~~~
Maki: WHY THE HECK DID WE COME HERE~~

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Kiyo: Now, now! Just hold on there, you two!!
Kiyo: We've been on trips before this that proved the existence of youkai, haven't we?
Kiyo: Youkai investigation is a dangerous undertaking by nature… Is this not a challenge set for us, the Kiyo Cross Squad?!

Maki: CUT THE CRAP, KIYOTSUGU!
Maki: TAKE ONE FOR THE TEAM AND GO BY YOURSELF!!

Kiyo: Nothing would please me more! But these Keikain folk just won't let me pass!
Kiyo: You could at LEAST let me go out and take a picture of Nijou Castle!!
Keikain: You cannot leave!!

Kana: ……

Ao: No need to worry.
Ao: Just sit.

Kana: ……
Kana: Kurata-kun…?
[small text:] That's his name, right?

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SFX: BOOM
Kids: !!

Kiyo: Uuh…
Maki: Wh..
Maki: What the heck was that?!

Keikain: *cough*
Keikain: *cough*

K: C…
K: Crap… They're already here!!

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Shoukera: Hagoromo Gitsune-sama desires living sacrifices.
Shoukera: In particular, the hearts of ability users, such as yourselves…

Shoukera: Your bodies will be dedicated to God.
Shoukera: I envy you, truly.

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K: ……………?!
Shoukera: It is I who is cursed, unable to offer myself.
Shoukera: If I could, I would take your place…

Shoukera: Oh Lord, let the light of your love shine down
Starred text: Shoukera, the unorthodox officer of the Capital Youkai, attacks the Keikain main house!!
Box: 94 Hours Remaining until Hagoromo Gitsune gives birth
Shoukera: On those who soon go to their deaths
Text: …Act 104 / END

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 103

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:43:49 +0000

I was wondering if someone could please please please scan the anime info / merchandise page that appeared after the colour (first page) of this chapter? NuraMago fans will love on you forever *w*

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Starred yellow text: Centre colour packed with the latest info on the TV Anime & merchandise, as thanks for our popularity!
Yellow vertical text, right: The Nura Clan's Second leader, Nura Rihan: The man who controlled the shadows of Edo!!
Green text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Black text left: Act 103: Strength, and Strength

-02-
Text: Long ago
Text: An old couple prayed to the gods every day, for they wanted a child.
Text: One day, while doing so, they found a large child who had been abandoned beside a shrine.

Box: They named him
Text: Youkai Legends
Text: The Story of Ibaraki Douji
Box: Ibaraki Douji

Text: The old man who found him was a barber living in Kuzugami Forest.
Text: He taught his craft to Ibaraki Douji, and the child studied it diligently.
Text: Then one day...

Text: The child injured one of their customers.

Text: The child panicked, and without realising, licked his blood-stained hands.

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Text: And thus he remembered the taste of blood.
Ibaraki: Delicious...
Text: Because Ibaraki Douji was an "oni."
[TN: demon, ogre]

Text: Ibaraki Douji had been called an "oni's child" because he was frighteningly violent, had sharp teeth, and had been able to walk from birth.
Text: He had been thrown out of his hometown.

Text: Now that he remembered the taste of blood, the child killed customers and even his own father, and wandered the lands seeking blood.
Ibaraki: Delicious~
Ibaraki: Delicious~
Text: Before long, the name of Ibaraki Douji became known throughout the whole country.
Text: It was then that the commander of the oni reached out to him.

-04-
SFX: Hahaha
Shuten: So you're
Shuten: Ibaraki Douji?!
Text: The leader of the oni was named Shuten Douji
Text: He was the commander of the oni who rampaged in the capital.

Shuten: Let's see here... That's one fine expression you've got on your face!
Text: Gahaha!
Shuten: How's about you become my son?

Text: The demon child

Text: Who had always been feared and hated by people around him
Shuten: The characters for "demon child"
Text: Met the first person to ever accept him.
Shuten: Look real similar to the ones for "son", you know!!
Text: Gahaha!
Text: I'll go with this person.

Text: I'll fight together with this person.
Text: I'll live for this person.
Text: At that time, Ibaraki Douji knew great happiness.

-05-
Text: However, Shuten Douji was killed by the "Nue"
Text: And then the Nue said to him:

Nue: Your boss (Shuten Douji) is dead...
Nue: From now on, I'll be your leader. Got it?

Text: And just like that, the Nue became the head of the oni.
Ibaraki: Father
Ibaraki: Father...

Kitsune: Ibaraki Douji

Kitsune: What type
Kitsune: Of youkai are you...?
Text: Asked the mother of the Nue.

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Text: "I like seeing blood."
Text: Answered Ibaraki Douji.
Text: "What a coincidence, so do I."
Text: Said the Nue's mother in return.

Ibaraki: I like... chopping things up...
Text: Saying this, he chopped up the corpse of Shuten Douji.

Text: And it is said
Text: That he quietly covered his own left cheek.

Box: The end

Text: Father...

Text: I erected your grave marker
Text: Upon my own face.
Text: Until I create the world for oni we sought together

-07-
Text: I WILL BE YOUR GRAVE
Text: ALL RIGHT, FATHER?

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Kejourou: Kubinashi?!
Kejourou: What happened to him...?

Youkai: I... Ibaraki Douji-sama's...

Youkai: ...Grave marker...
Youkai: Has broken!

Ibaraki: Let's do this together.
Ibaraki: Yes... Yes, I understand, Father...
Ibaraki: You want to taste blood, don't you~

Ibaraki: That's right.
Ibaraki: You want go crazy, don't you~~~

Kubinashi: What's with him?
Kejourou: Kubinashi, here he comes!!

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Ibaraki: I'm going to chop you to pieces.

-10-
[...]

-11-
Ibaraki: You can't escape.

Text: Ondeko
Text: Midareuchi
[Demon Drums: Deranged Strikes]

Kejourou: Get back, Kubinashi!

-12-
Ibaraki: You're in my way.

Kejourou: No...!

-13-
Text: Ondekobachi
Text: Butsugiribasami
[Demon Drumstick: Slashing Death Shears]

Ibaraki: Let me enjoy the sight of you[small text]heheh...
Ibaraki: Vomiting up more blood

SFX: Guh—
Text: What happened to him?... He's completely different from before...
Text: Is this his true strength?

Kejourou: .........

-14-
Kejourou: Kubinashi—
Text: I have to protect him!!

Kejourou: Huh...?

Kidoumaru: When I heard the hearts weren't being delivered
Kidoumaru: I came to investigate.

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Kidoumaru: What do you think you're doing, playing around with opponents like these?

Ibaraki: Shut up.
Ibaraki: Can't you see I'm about to take care of this, Kidoumaru?

Kejourou: Kubinashi...
Kejourou: I'm... sorry...

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Kubinashi: KINOOOO!!

Ibaraki: It'll be over soon.

-17-
Text: That's...
Text: A Seal...?

-18-
Kidoumaru: ......
[Middle panel]
SFX: crackle

Kidoumaru: ...Wh...
Kidoumaru: What is this...

Hidemoto: It's no use.
Hidemoto: Once the seal has been set in place, none of your kind can remove it.

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Hidemoto: Well, none of you except for Hagoromo Gitsune...
Hidemoto: Good work, Nura Clan's Youkai-kun!

Hidemoto: The 8th, the 7th, and the 6th...
Hidemoto: That makes 3 seals so far.

Hidemoto: See, Yura? I told you, didn't I?
Hidemoto: That taking over Nijou Castle would put them on the defensive!!

Kidoumaru: You again, Hidemoto...!!

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Kidoumaru: Accursed Ashiya Douman rabble..!!
Kidoumaru: We of the oni family will reduce you to dust!!

Hidemoto: Well, then...
Hidemoto: What now, Yura-chan?

Yura: ......

Yura: C-Come on then, if you think you beat me...!!
Yura: Don't take humans too lightly!! Challenge us and we'll take you down!!
Hidemoto: That's the spirit! Nicely done!

Box: 97 hours until Hagoromo Gitsune gives birth...
Starred text: Isn't this impossible? Rash? Reckless?! Yura declares war on the enemy leaders!!
Text bottom: ...Act 103 / END
Text bottom: Nurarihyon no Mago

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 102

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:47:20 +0000

Playing catch up, 103 coming out as soon as I can manage ._.

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Starred text: The demons approach!

Kejourou: Here we go, Kubinashi!!

Text bottom right: Nurarihyon no Mago

-02-
Text right: Kejourou's "Fear"
Text left: Midaregami
[Unravelled Hair]

Text: Asobi-Onna no Mai
[Dance of the Courtesan]

-03-
Y: Gah—!
Y: Buh...

Y: GWOAAARR
Y: BWAAHHH

-04-
Text below title: Act 102
Text below title: Their Past
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi

Kejourou: Oh come on, that was pathetic!
Kejourou: We'll send every last one of you down to the underworld!

-05-
Ibaraki: Oi...
Ibaraki: Did you guys just let them beat you?

Kejourou: Mm... Working together is definitely best for us.
Kejourou: I'm the only one behind you.

Kejourou: So now
Kejourou: You can face forward and attack.

Kejourou: Because alone
Kejourou: We're weak.

Kubinashi: .........
Text: Long, long ago

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Text: He told me
Y: You heard?
Y: Looks like he's on the prowl again... that "Kubinashi"...
Text: Something similar...

Y: This time he was out at Nihonbashi, stringing up a whole hoard of youkai by the neck.

-07-
Y: I heard he's "come out"
Y: To kill us youkai.

Y: Apparently, when he was alive, he and his friend were toyed with and killed by youkai.
Y: They say that he himself became a youkai in order to exact revenge, and travels around killing youkai after youkai...

Y: What should we do, Supreme Commander?
Y: Are we really going to just let this "Kubinashi"
Y: Run amok on our turf?

Nidaime: Hmmm... He's a problem, for sure.
Nidaime: Nope, we can't just let him alone
Nidaime: Obviously...

-08-
Nidaime: We'll have to get rid of him.

Nidaime: You sure are strong
Nidaime: But enough's enough, don't you think?

-09-
Kubinashi: What was... that "Fear" just now...
Kubinashi: I've never seen it before...

Nidaime: We call that one a "sacred act."
Nidaime: It's a type of Fear that only the leader of a Hyakki Yakou can use.

Nidaime: You'll always be stronger if you've got nakama.
Nidaime: Don't you think?
[TN: ally/friend/partner/comrade, see last chapter]

Kubinashi: Ha... They're nothing
Kubinashi: But a hindrance.
Kubinashi: Anyone needing to be protected just gets in the way.

Kubinashi: When you lose your nakama, you only despair.
Kubinashi: I'm... going to slaughter your Hyakki Yakou... alone.

Nidaime: ......
Nidaime: Is that so?...

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Kejourou: Wait!!

Kejourou: Master, I beg of you! I will give you my life to take
Kejourou: If only you spare this one man!

Kubinashi: Kino, you shouldn't have come out!!
Kubinashi: Get away from here, now!!

Nidaime: ......
Nidaime: Huh?...

-11-
Nidaime: What's this?...
Nidaime: You're being protected by someone too!

Kejourou: ......

Nidaime: Listen up, Kubinashi.

-12-
Nidaime: Hold fast to your life, for the sake of those you hold dear...
Nidaime: True strength is what this woman here just showed.

Nidaime: Your "strength"
Nidaime: Is just a bluff.

Nidaime: Kubinashi

Nidaime: Anyone can fight alone if they aren't carrying any burdens.
Nidaime: But here in the Nura Clan... we fight to protect those who are important to us.

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Nidaime: Makes more sense, right?
Text: That's what the Second said to me.

Kubinashi: My strength
Kubinashi: Is a bluff...?
Text: It was the same back then...
Text: Then I exchanged sakazuki with that man

Text: And I found out
Text: The true meaning of those words.

Kejourou: Sorry, but if you even start to think my hair is scary, or too beautiful
Kejourou: Then neither fire nor lightning will ever get past it.

Y: Gnnngh...
Y: Brghh...

Ibaraki: Hey, I thought you guys were oni!
Ibaraki: Quit standing around like you've been hypnotised!
[TN: demons, ogres]

Ibaraki: Hair?
Ibaraki: Just cut right through it.

-14-
Text right: Ondekobachi
Text left: Butsugiribasami
[Demon Drumsticks: Slashing Death Shears]

-15-
Ibaraki: You see?
Ibaraki: Now watch carefully.

-16-
Kubinashi: ...Got you.

-17-
Text: ......?!
Text: What's with this pattern on the ground?
Text: Is this part of the dry landscape garden...?

Text: No... That's not it.
Text: Why am I at the centre of the circling sand?

Kubinashi: Ayatori
Kubinashi: Rasenjin
[Cat's Cradle: Spiral Blade]

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Kubinashi: Kejourou

-19-
Kubinashi: I guess
Kubinashi: I really am
Kubinashi: Just like a weak, pushover youkai.

Kubinashi: You've shown me that, yet again.
Kubinashi: Thank you.

Kejourou: ......
Kejourou: You idiot...

SFX: crack
SFX: crack
SFX: crack
Text: ...Act 102 / END

Translation: Tegami Bachi 37

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:46:06 +0000

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Text: Aria's Heart Bullet rips into the Gaichuu blocking their path!!

-02-03-
Text right: Her overflowing Heart resonates!!
Text bottom right: Chapter 37: "Houdai Franklin"
Text bottom right: Asada Hiroyuki

Niche: She got them
Niche: In one shot!!
Steak: Nuni!!

-04-
Niche: Aria!!

Aria: Bolt...

Aria: !!

-05-
Aria: Niche...!!
Niche: You're pretty good yourself!

Niche: Even Lag couldn't have beat them
Niche: In one shot!

Aria: Niche...

Aria: Thank you
Aria: You're a wonderful Dingo, too.
Aria: Niche...

-06-
Aria: Not as good as my Bolt, though!
Niche: Y—
Niche: You're not as good as my Lag, either!!

Aria: Hehehe

Aria: !

Aria [memory]: Gauche...
Aria: Eh?...
Aria [memory]: Oh no!...
Aria: My memories...

-07-
Gauche: Aria Link!

Aria: You're setting out on another delivery now...?
Aria: But you only just got back...

Aria: Gauche...

Aria: You need to rest a little...
Aria: Lately you've been working yourself ragged, you know.
Aria: Your "Heart" can't hold up like this...

Aria: Oh!
Aria: Um... Gauche...
Aria: How about coming over to my house for dinner today...?
Aria: Just... you know... I made too much food, and...

-08-
Gauche: Thanks
Gauche: In that case... Could you ask Sylvette...?
Aria: Huh?...

Gauche: I'll be fine.
Gauche: You're very kind, Aria.

Gauche: Thank you
Gauche: I'll see you later!

Bolt text: rarruff

-09-
Aria: This is to celebrate your promotion (Part 1)!

Aria: I'll get lonely, but...
Aria: Gauche...
Aria: You've been working so hard, so...

Aria: Congratulations!...

-10-
Aria: What's this...?

Dr: Gauche Suede's notice of dismissal.

Dr: Bolt
Dr: Can barely see now...
Dr: It's about time to let him retire.

Bolt: RRRARRUFF!!!
Bolt: RAARR
Bolt: RRRUFFF!!!

Bolt: RRRARRUFF!!!
Bolt: RRRUFFF!!!

Aria: Bolt...
Aria: I know...
Aria: You'll always be by my side...
Aria: Protecting me...

Aria: You'll always...
Aria: Always...
Aria: Protect me, won't you...
Aria: Bolt...

-12-
Aria: That day...

Aria: I retired from being a Bee...
Aria: I had intended to leave the Bee Hive

Aria: But Director Lloyd stopped me.
Aria: Apparently I've always been better with paperwork.
Aria: The director is always watching over people like that, you know.

-13-
Aria: Maybe it's strange to be telling you a story like this...
Aria: But I guess I had to, you saw the Heart Bullet after all...

Niche: What happened
Niche: To Bolt?

Aria: He's still protecting me...

Aria: Even now.

-14-
Bug: Tch!

Bolt: Rarruff!
Bolt: Rrruff!!

Niche: I see
Niche: So even now
Niche: He's still your Dingo!

Niche: I see
Niche: I see!

-15-
Aria: Alright, Niche!
Aria: Time for the delivery!!
Aria: Let's make up for lost time!!

Aria: Our destination is Goodbye Amsterdam!
Aria: Let's hurry!
Aria: Follow along carefully—

Aria: KYAAHHHH!!!
Steak: Nuni?!

-16-
Sylvette: Lag barely touched his breakfast
Sylvette: I wonder if he's feeling under the weather?

Sylvette: He's just like my brother, overdoing it right away...
Dr: Get a move on!!

Dr: Greco and Epiphon!
Asst: He's already on 5ml of each!

-17-
Sylvette: Doctor...?
Dr: Damn it...
Dr: Why isn't it working?!

Dr: The Heart Measure just keeps jumping all over the place
Dr: His Heart won't stop pouring out...!!

Dr: At this rate, he'll use it all up!!
Sylvette: ......
Sylvette: L...

Sylvette: LAG?!!

-18-
Lag: M
Lag: o
Lag: th
Lag: ...he...
Lag: ..er...

Sylvette: ?!

-19-
Lag: AA
Lag: A
Lag: A
Lag: AA
Lag: AA

-20-
Dr: These are...

Dr: All of... Seeing's memories...?!

-21-
Dr: No...
Dr: What the—?!

Dr: There are too many frames here...
Dr: Showing images that couldn't belong to this kid...

Dr: What's happening here...

-22-
Aria: It's a very deep valley, isn't it?
Aria: It's as dark as Yodaka...
Aria: The mountains block out the light of the man-made sun.

Aria: This is Goodbye Amsterdam...

-23-
Aria: There are only handful of people living here.
Aria: To think he lived in Yuusari already, but voluntarily chose to move to the darkness of this valley.
Aria: He must have had a good reason...

Aria: Even though he was part of the elite...
Aria: A crewmember of the investigation airship...

Woman: Franklin? Oh, yes... The man with the scars on his face...
Woman: He's in the house at the lowest point of the valley.
Aria: The... lowest?
Woman: He lives alone, and I barely ever see him.

Woman: He's just a little...
Woman: Well, no.
Woman: He's quite a strange one, so be careful.

Niche: ......
Aria: There it is—

-24-
Aria: Mr. Franklin!
Aria: Mr. Houdai Franklin!

Aria: ......
Franklin: *stare*

Aria: I have your post.
Aria: Please open the door.
Aria: I've come to bring you a Letter originally delivered to Astal.

-25-
SFX: creeeaaak
Franklin: A "Letter"...
Franklin: You... say...
Aria: ......
Franklin: Are you... a Bee.........?!

Franklin: Wh...
Franklin: Why
Franklin: are...
Franklin: you...
Franklin: here...

Franklin: WHY?
Franklin: GO AWAY...

Niche: Aria!!

Aria: Eh?!

-26-
Steak: Nuni!!

Franklin: BEGONE!!
Franklin: Cursed puppet of the Devil!!!
Franklin: I...

-27-
Franklin: I...
Franklin: I WON'T BE TRICKED AGAIN!!
Franklin: NEVER AGAIN!!

Aria: ......
Aria: I'm not sure what you've misunderstood here but...

Franklin: Your lot stole my eye!
Franklin: You stole my friends!
Franklin: You stole my LIFE!!
Franklin: That...! That... Such a... terrifying thing...

-28-
Aria: Terrifying...?
Aria: Are you talking about the airship...?
Franklin: Don't play dumb!!
Franklin: I saw it!!

Franklin: I'm sure you government lot know everything, but are keeping your traps shut...
Franklin: As if you could even talk about that!! Sending such a terrifying thing to float up there in the sky..!!

Franklin: Still snatching away precious things from people...!!

Niche: Aria
Niche: Should I make him hurt?
Niche: Should I take him out?

Aria: No, it's fine, Niche... Don't get involved, please.

-29-
Aria: Back then on the day of the Flicker
Aria: What was it that you saw in the sky...?

Aria: Mr. Franklin...

Franklin: Don't...
Franklin: Don't come any closer!!

Aria: Niche! It's fine!

Aria: Mr. Franklin!
Aria: Please tell me!!

Franklin: ......
Franklin: Never...
Franklin: Again

-30-
Franklin: I WON'T LET YOU TAKE ANYTHING ELSE FROM ME!!

Niche: ARIA!!

-31-
Franklin: !!

Aria: You...
Aria: Aren't the only one...
Aria: That day...

Aria: The person dear to me saw that flickering light
Aria: And lost a part of his Heart...

-32-
Aria: The memory

Aria: Of the mother he loved...

Aria: Since that day, that person's life changed...
Aria: In trying to fill the gap left by the Heart he lost, he became desperate, and...

Aria: One day
Aria: He lost

Aria: All of his Heart...

-33-
Aria: According to the announcement made by the government about the airship crash
Aria: It was "trouble with the ship's hull, unrelated to the man-made sun..."

Aria: It's not that I believed it completely, but...

Aria: Even we weren't told anything about what happened on the Day of the Flicker.
Aria: That's why... if you know something, I'd like for you to tell me...

Aria: But... please believe this, at least.
Aria: I am not your enemy...
Aria: I came here

-34-
Aria: To deliver this precious Letter to you
Aria: Mr. Houdai Franklin

Franklin: ......
Franklin: To... me...
Franklin: ......

Franklin: Who... sent it...
Aria: It is from someone named Negiche.

-35-
Franklin: That's the relative of my friend who died protecting me
Franklin: Back then...
Franklin: I bet they've written out all the grudges they hold against me...

Franklin: I lost one eye
Franklin: And now I can barely see out even the other one left untouched, due to an illness...

Franklin: I'd really appreciate it if you could read it out for me...

Franklin: In return
Franklin: I'll tell you
Franklin: What I saw that day on the airship...

-36-
Franklin: I'm really sorry
Franklin: We have to see to your injury too...
Franklin: Please, come in.

Niche: ......

Niche: Listen, Steak
Steak: Nu
Niche: Sylvette is a hundred times stronger than Lag...

Niche: But Aria's strength might be even stronger than that...
Steak: nuni...
Niche: About 500 times stronger than Lag...

-37-
Room: ......
Dr: Has it calmed down...
Sylvette: Lag...!!

Sylvette: Lag!
Sylvette: Hang in here!
Lag: ......
Lag: Syl...
Lag: vette...

-38-
Lag: Just now...
Lag: I... was dreaming...
Lag: Such a long...
Lag: Long... dream...

Lag: Of a landscape... so familiar...
Lag: ...so beautiful...
Lag: From long ago...

-39-
Lag: In... our world...

Gauche: Doctor...

-40-
Gauche: Sylvette...

-41-
Text left: Gauche, awakened!
Text bottom: Tegami Bachi – To Be Continued

Translation: Tegami Bachi 36

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:44:41 +0000

International Translators: You're welcome to use this, but please include a credit for Niphredil.

Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
Blue text: Edits
Corrections, comments, and advice always appreciated!

-01-
Text: Tegami Bachi
Text: 4-panel manga
Slanted text: The hugely popular 4-panel strips which appeared in JSQII and the TB Handbook!!
Bottom text: Kawamura Taku

Title: Beautiful
Niche: Lag!
Niche: Do you have to have large breasts to be beautiful?!
SFX: *shocked*
Lag: Huh?!
Lag: Th... That's...

Lag: ...Niche, you are beautiful.
Niche: Really?!

Niche: Even though I don't have breasts...
Niche: Am I more beautiful than these people who all have breasts?!

Lag: Number 3 isn't right!!!
Niche: Mama Sandra, you're beautiful!
Text: Good work!
Sandra: Oh my, what a child you are~ [small text]I know that already!
Text left: Are underpants and breasts all there is to Niche?!

-02-
Title: Cat Ears #1
Dr: I've made something especially for you, who likes cats.
SFX: Hu hu...
Dr: It's for taking a little break. Go on, take a look!
SFX: meow meow
SFX: meow meow
Zaji: What is it?

Dr: The ultimate in refreshing items, Cat Ears!!
Dr: By putting these on, girls and even boys can undergo drastic transformations into cute kittens!!

Dr: Take a look! When we put it on Connor...
Dr: Connyah!!
SFX: Hahahaha
Dr: What do you think? It really gives that refreshing feeling, doesn't it?!
Connor: *smile*
[TN: Nya: Japanese equivalent of "meow"]

Title: Cat Ears #2
Dr: I guess it can't turn just ANYONE cute.
Dr: And here I was, thinking I could try it out on Suede...
Zaji: Just give up now.

Zaji: Besides
Zaji: There's no way it would've worked on Connor!
SFX: meow
SFX: meow
SFX: disappointed
Connor: !!!
Arrow text: Was confident it would work

Dr: In that case, let's try it on Lag!!
SFX: Hahaha
Lag: ?
Dr: Of course, he's got girl's clothes on too!!
Lag: ?

Zaji: He's leagues ahead of Connor!!!
Large sfx: stunned
Small SFX: Aaaaaah...
Connor text: I lost!
Zaji: But Lag looks cute even without the Cat Ears...

-03-
Title: Express Delivery #1
Box: Jiggy-san created Amberground's largest church and bell
Box: In Yodaka, in a town called Kyrie.

Box: He did this so that even if they disliked him, both he and his siblings could look up at the stars together.
Zaji: S...
Zaji: So by the way... About how much did all that cost...?
SFX: Awa-wa-wahhh...

SFX: whisper
SFX: whisper
SFX: whisper
Jiggy: ............
Zaji: !!!!!

Lag: ...What's up with Zaji?
Zaji: I wanna do express deliveries toooo!
SFX: Whooooooa!
Connor: Beats me...
Connor: Though he was asking what the difference in salary is between those who do express deliveries and those who handle regular post...

Title: Bakery
Box: In Yuusari
Box: You can find many goods which are rare commodities in Yodaka.

Box: For example, this...
Box: ...Super Gross Soup.
Lag: Who the heck wants to buy this stuff anyway?...
Text: Aside from Gauche and Sylvette...
Text: Lag

Box: ...Also, Heart Bullets.
Box: These can be bought at the government-approved weapon shop, "Sinners"

Box: By the way, it is now mostly a bakery.
Text: Delicious!!
Husband: Think of it as strategic management restructuring!
Niche: ?
SFX: Hahahahaha
Steak: Nu...
Sandra: He just means we were in trouble and having a tough time moving stock
Sandra: Niche
SFX: Hahaha

-04-
Title: Red Spirit Amber
Box: For certain reasons, Lag decided to infiltrate the abbey disguised as a girl.
Lag: I...
Lag: I'm Lara...

Lag: ...
SFX: *ba-dump*
SFX: *ba-dump*
Large SFX: *stare*
Box: Sunny
Large SFX: *stare*
Sunny: I feel like I've seen this person somewhere before...

Lag: Oh!
SFX: slip
Lag: Oh no, my hood—
Sunny: !
Sunny: Her left eye's really red!!
SFX: Ahhhh!

Sunny: Um... Th...
Sunny: These are eye drops...
Text above arrow: It's painful just to look at
Lag: Heh?
Lag: What for?!
Sunny: F-For if your eyes are tired, or bloodshot...
Lag: Wh... Why's she talking about stuff like that...

Title: Express Delivery #2
Box: Before he was fired, Largo-san was secretly worried about something.
Lloyd: We're a little short-staffed for express deliveries, since we've only got Jiggy...

Lloyd: Do we have anyone else who could handle express deliveries...
SFX: WHOOSH

Box: Slow Motion
SFX: OOOO
SFX: OOOO

Lloyd: THAT'S IT!!!
Text: Tegami Bachi 4-panel manga... THE END

-05-
Top right: JC Volume 9 on sale Thursday, February 4th!
Top right: TV Anime now airing!! 10:55, every Saturday night~

Bottom right: Chapter 36: Bolt the Brave
Bottom right: Asada Hiroyuki

Top left: You can trust them to watch your back – That's what it takes to be a Dingo!!

-06-
Aria: Gaichuu...
Aria: Tequila Sunrise... 5 of them?!
Text right: The delivery route was a Gaichuu nest?!

Aria: Niche...!
Niche: You don't need to tell us.
Niche: We know...

-07-
Aria: We'll run away with as much speed as we can muster!
Text: Quietly, and as quickly as possible...
Niche: WHY?!
Niche: WHAT ABOUT YOUR HEART BULLETS?!

Aria: Well, my Heart Bullets are quite different from others...
Aria: Listen!! A Bee's job is to deliver Letters, Niche!
Aria: There's no need for us to overdo it trying to fight!

Aria: This unsure footing is dangerous for you too, you know—
SFX: slip

SFX: splash
Aria: KYAHHHHH~~~!!

-08-
Aria: See? What did I tell you!!
Text: It's dangerous!
Steak: ....
Niche: ...That's......

Niche: That's enough!!
Aria: !!

Aria: NICHE!!
Aria: You won't be able to defeat it just like that...

Niche: This is how I always do it with Lag
Niche: I use this...

-09-
Niche: And do this!!!

-10-
Niche: !!

Niche: It's mud!

Steak: Nuni!
Steak: Nuniiii!!

-11-
Niche: Steak says
Niche: Its weak point is the gap on its back!
Steak: Nu.

Niche: Beat it with your Heart Bullets!
Niche: Hurry!!
Steak: Nunini!
Niche: Do it now!!
Aria: Nnngh...
Niche: Aria!!
Steak: Nunini!
Steak: NUNINU!

Aria: Honestly...
Aria: Like I said, it's not that easy!

Aria: Heart String Instrument!! "Solo Violin Sonata"!!
Aria: " No. 1 in G Minor"...

-12-
Aria: The notes I play
Aria: Are fragments of my Heart...

SFX: crack
Aria: !!

-13-
Aria: The tempo's too fast...
Aria: ......
Aria: My footing's unsteady...
SFX: crack

Aria: I've got to calm down...
Aria: Concentrate
Aria: ......
Aria: I wonder when the offensive-style Heart Bullets started...
Aria: ...Concentrate
SFX: burst

Aria: That failed...
Aria: There's mud in my boots...
Aria: Interval
Aria: Concentrate
SFX: crack
Aria: Th...
Aria: This is...

SFX: burst
Aria: Ngh...

Niche: !!

-14-
Aria: Sss...
Aria: Contained within

Aria: Is my Heart...

Niche: Resound, "Aribari"!!!
Aria: Th—
Aria: That's not what it's called!!
Niche: Who cares, just hurry up and shoot!!

Aria: But if I don't concentrate, I can't create Heart Bullets!
Aria: Don't distract me, Niche!
Aria: I'm not young like Lag anymore, so I can't just fire off pure Heart so easily...
Text: Concentrate...

Aria: I must concentrate...

Niche: The Gaichuu have grouped together!

-15-
Niche: ARIA!!
Niche: DO IT WITH A SCRAMBLE DASH!!
Aria: Scr..?!
Aria: Oh Niche...

Aria: All the Heart keeps bursting!
Aria: Now I can see more closely, Steak's cute...
Aria: I wonder if Lag's alright?
Aria: It's not turning into
Aria: Heart Bullets!!
Aria: It's no use...

Aria: This melody...
Aria: It won't make it to inside of the Gaichuu's body...!!
Aria: Gnngh...
Aria: !!

-16-
Aria: RUN, NICHE!!

Niche: I won't run!

Niche: As a Dingo!!

Niche: !!

Aria: NICHE!!

-17-
Aria: Don't go overboard, just pull yourself out slowly...!!

Aria: ?!
Aria: Ugh, honestly...
Aria: What was all that "as a Dingo" stuff...

Text: Rrruff!!

-18-
Aria: !!

Niche: ARIA!!

Aria: ...Is it really okay...
Aria: If I give him a name?!
Niche: !
Aria: Thanks, Dad!

Aria: Your legs are so big!
Aria: Hey look!
Aria: He's got a huge scar on his forehead!

-19-
Aria: Your scar looks like a thunderbolt
Aria: I've decided...!
Aria: Your name is
Aria: Bolt...!

Bolt: Rruff...

-20-
Speech: Aria Link has found another delivery route, you say?
Speech: Now our efficiency of movement between towns will go up yet again.
Speech: And it's all thanks to her.

-21-
Aria: KYAAAAHHH~~~!!

Bolt: Rruff!
Aria: Bolt...!

-22-
Speech: Don't you mean...
Speech: All thanks to Bolt...?

Speech: They defeated the Gaichuu Douglas?!... That's impressive...
Speech: Looks like Bolt was wounded yet again.
Speech: Poor thing...
Speech: Aria is truly blessed to have that Dingo.

-23-
Speech: Becoming the Head Bee's Dingo
Speech: Might not be a stretch for him...
Speech: That is
Speech: If Aria Link wasn't his owner...

Aria: I know
Aria: All of that already...

Aria: You think that way too
Aria: Don't you, Bolt?
Bolt: Rarruff!!
Bolt: Rrff...
Aria: Haaa...

Aria: Gauche has got Roda...
Aria: What about Ryuui?
Bolt: Rarrufff...
Aria: I wonder if she'd take you?
Aria: But I don't think it'd work with her Dingo Ocean and the sled...

-24-
Aria: ...Bolt...
Aria: I'm sorry...

Aria: I'm so sorry
Aria: For being such a useless owner...
Bolt: Rrruff...
Aria: But you know...

Aria: You're... the only one
Aria: I can rely on...
Aria: So...

Aria: You'll let me rely on you...
Aria: Right, Bolt?...

-25-
Bolt: RRRARRRUFFFF!!!
Aria: !!

Bolt: RARRUFF!! RARRUFFF!! RARUFFF!!
Bolt: RRRUFF!! RRARUFFF!!
Bolt: RARRUFF!! RARRUFF!
Bolt: RRRUFFF!!!
Aria: Wh.. What?! Hang on...
Aria: Bolt?!
Aria: What is it?!

-26-
Aria: Nngh...
Aria: Its tentacles absorb Heart...!!

Aria: Huh?...

Aria: Kyahhh!...

Aria: !!
Aria: N... Niche!!

-27-
Niche: No matter how strong I am
Niche: I can't beat the Gaichuu...

Niche: The only one who can defeat them
Niche: Is Aria!

Niche: Even though I'm Lag's Dingo Niche
Niche: All I have to rely on are your Heart Bullets...!
Aria: !

Niche: That's what Bolt was saying too!
Aria: ......?
Aria: Bolt...?!

Aria: ?!
Aria: Niche?!

Niche: And apart from that, he said...
Niche: "Count on me!! Count on me!! Count on me!!"
Niche: "I'll protect"
Niche: "All of you!! I'll protect you!!"

-29-
Niche: Your Dingo was... pretty good
Niche: ...for a pretty good Dingo!

Aria: ......
Aria: [small text]So high up... [regular text]This is amazing...
Aria: Niche...!

Aria: Thank you...
Aria: I'm sorry
Aria: I really should have trusted you more...

-30-
Dr: It's likely
Dr: That Bolt can barely see out of his eyes now.

Dr: He's also extremely weak.
Dr: Even "Bolt the Brave" can't win against old age...
Dr: It's about time to let him retire.

Dr: You haven't raised a new Dingo yet, right?...
Aria: ...I......
Dr: If you want to continue being a Bee, you'll need to think about this carefully...

Aria: Yes... Um...
Aria: I'm sorry, but... I've still got deliveries to do...
Aria: They're close by, so I'll be back right away, but until then...

Bolt: RRRARRUFF!!!
Bolt: RAARR
Bolt: RRRUFFF!!!

-31-
Bolt: RRRARRUFF!!!
Bolt: RRRUFFF!!!

Text: Protected by their proud Dingos
Text: Bees travel the land to make their deliveries

-32-33-
Aria: The notes I play
Aria: Are fragments of my Heart...

Aria: "Solo Violin Sonata"
Aria: " No. 1 in G Minor"...

-34-35-
Aria: RESOUND!!
Aria: BENIHIIRO NO SENRITSU!!
[Crimson Melody]
Text bottom left: A clean sweep! The Heart Bullets of their bond!!
Text bottom: Tegami Bachi... To be continued

Translation: Tegami Bachi 35

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:38:38 +0000

Numbering follows raw from JAC

International Translators: You're welcome to use this, but please include a credit for Niphredil.

Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
Blue text: Edits
Corrections, comments, and advice always appreciated!

-00- [cover]

-01-
Box: Bifrost, the bridge which connects Yodaka with Yuusari.

Box: As Amberground is divided by a class system, requirements must be met in order even to cross the bridge.
Old guy: Wh... Why...
Old guy: Why can't I go through?!
Side text right: Sometimes crossing the border can cost you your life...!!

Old guy: If it's a crossing permit you need, I got mine right here!!
Signal: I am the Signal, the gatekeeper...

Signal: The blue smoke from my black crystal pipe verifies those who cross the bridge

Signal: But the results of a single puff show that I cannot allow you to pass.

-02-
Signal: You have a forged crossing permit.
Signal: As a result...
Signal: I shall take appropriate measures.

Signal: Thank you for your understanding.
Old guy: Uwah—

Old Guy: UWAAHH!!!

-03-
Laurence: Hello there, Signal!
Laurence: I trust I find you in good health!

Signal: That's enough, Aronji.

Signal: Laurence... go forth.
Laurence: Thank you, Signal.

Signal: Laurence......
Signal: 12 hours ago, Largo Lloyd passed through, having been ousted from the Bee Hive.
Signal: 5 hours ago, a Bee passed through, heading out towards eastern Yodaka in order to search for the Gaichuu.

-04-
Laurence: Reverse has already located the Gaichuu "Cabernet".
Laurence: There is nothing to worry about.

Laurence: Once its wing has grown back, it will once again set out for the capital, and at that time
Laurence: The world will return to "darkness".

Laurence: The resentment borne towards the government for so many years by you brothers, you two who were forced to take on that appearance...
Laurence: That resentment too, will soon see an end.
Laurence: Signal...

Laurence: The Cabernet
Laurence: Will devour it all.

-05-
Laurence: It will devour all of
Laurence: The capital's man-made sun
Laurence: Created from people's Hearts!!
Text left: A dark ambition threatens the light...!!

Text left centre: TV Anime now airing! Every Saturday night at 10:55~
Text left bottom: Chapter 35: Aria and the Airship
Text left bottom: Asada Hiroyuki

-06-
Lag: Resound!!
Lag: AKABARI!!!
[Red Thorn]

Man: I had it all wrong...

-07-
Man: I was the one who should have apologised...
Man: I need to write back right away.

Woman: I'm surprised you found my new address!
Lag: There was furniture still left at the house, so...
Woman: You figured it out from THAT?!

Woman: Ugh, men!!
Woman: I'm going back to Dogra...!
Lag: Her new address is the town of Dogra!

Lag: Akabari!!

Woman: It's from my father, who I was separated from when I was 10...!

Woman: Thank you
Woman: I'll take them now.

-08-
Lag: Here's your post!!
Lag: I've come to deliver your Letters!!

Valentine: Those little squirts...
Valentine: Looks like they're really getting on with their work.

-09-
Valentine: The power of Lag Seeing's Heart Bullets
Valentine: Which can visualise the Heart contained within an object...
Valentine: That might be exactly the type of ability needed for Cold Letters...

Garrard: Don't you think, Garrard?

Garrard: ......

Aria: I'm feeling a little better about all this now!
Aria: This is a good pace we've got going, Lag!

-10-
Aria: That's 50 deliveries complete!

Aria: Let's do our best to keep this up, Lag!
Lag: Yes, Aria-san!!

Lag: Hmm, what's next...
Lag: The recipient's new address is unknown, so these were left undelivered.
Lag: Looks like we should be able to figure this one out with Akabari too, Niche.

Lag: The town of Astal...
Lag: Oh, this is...

-11-
Lag: The place where the government airship...
Lag: Crash...
Lag: ...ed...

Niche: Lag?
Aria: What's the matter......?
Steak: Nuni!!

Lag: The place you took me, Aria-san...
Lag: The Hill of Prayer...
Aria: Lag, you...

Lag: Wah...

Aria: You've got a fever.
Lag: ...?

-12-
Lag: Ahahaha!...
Niche: Don't move, Lag!

Niche: I'll cure you right now!
SFX: slurping
Lag: Niche... This isn't a wound so it won't heal
Lag: Even if you lick—
Lag: Hahahaha~!

Aria: Doctor Thunderland...
Dr: It's just a cold.

Dr: You probably caught it because your Heart and your body are in a state of exhaustion.
Dr: Seeing!
Lag: Sir?!

-13-
Dr: You're still overdoing it on the Heart Bullets, I see.
Dr: I thought I told you to pace yourself!
Lag: *gulp*
Lag: He found out...

Dr: I know that you're aware
Dr: Of how difficult it is to retrieve one's Heart after memory loss...

Lag: Yes...
Lag: I'm sorry, Doctor...

Garrard: What's this? Slacking off?
Garrard: Cold Letter Division.
Aria: !!
Aria: Garrard...
Aria: ...sir.

-14-
Garrard: Doctor... How is Suede?
Garrard: Any change?
Dr: It's too early to tell.
Dr: There's nothing to report yet.

Garrard: Seriously?
Garrard: Looks like everyone around here's just taking it easy...

Garrard: Aria Link!
Aria: Yes, sir?
Garrard: I trust
Garrard: That you have taken care of a few of the Cold Letters?

Aria: Deliveries are progressing smoothly!
Aria: Would you care to come and verify this for yourself?

Garrard: Me, go down to that dusty old place? You've got to be kidding me.
Garrard: Submit a report in 7 days.

Garrard: I expect a minimum of 100 closed cases.
Aria: ?!
Aria: 100...?!

-15-
Garrard: If you can't do it, then... Let's see...
Garrard: Should I put you at reception next, hmm?
Aria: Wh—

Garrard: Heh...

Aria: ......
Text: This man...

Lag: We can do it.

Lag: Because I won't let becoming "Head Bee"
Lag: Be nothing more
Lag: Than a dream...!

Garrard: Well then
Garrard: How long are you planning on resting those wings of yours?
Garrard: Get back to work, Bees!!

-16-
Dr: What do you think you're doing, Seeing!
Dr: If you don't rest up a little...
Lag: I'm alright.

Lag: 100 cases in just 7 days?!...
Lag: We'll have to seriously increase our delivery rate!
Lag: I don't need to rest or anything like that...!!

Aria: No.

Aria: Get back into bed.
Lag: But...
Lag: There's no one else...

Aria: I will go.
Aria: As a Bee!

-17-
Dr: What?
Lag: Huh?
Steak: Nuni!!
Niche: "As a" !

Aria: Aria Link will play
Aria: The tune of death!!! [small text]For Garrard!!
Dr: What about the deliveries...

-18-
Aria: ......

Aria: Guh...

Aria text: They're so tight!!
Aria text: Huh?
Aria: Ngh
Aria: Nnnnngh...
Aria text: I've put on weight..!!

Aria: ......
Aria: Haaaa...
Aria: Got them on...
Text: Had to force them...

-19-
Aria: It's been a while...

Bolt: Rarruff...
Bolt: Ruff...

Bolt: Rarff...

Aria: What's up, Bolt?...
Aria: You worried about me?
Bolt: Rarrff
Bolt: Rrufff

Bolt: Rarrufff
Aria: I still can't hide anything from you, huh...
Text: Rarruff?
Bolt: Ruff

Aria: It's okay...
Aria: I'm just going out for a little while
Aria: Bolt...

-20-
Aria: I don't wanna get old~~~

Aria: My bum, and my thighs...
Aria: Why is my chest hurting too?...

Dr: ......
Lag: !!!!

Aria: What..?!
Aria: Have...
Aria: Have I really put on that much weight?!

Dr: You look sexy.
Lag: Yes, ma'am, you do.
Aria: Uh huh... Thanks so much...
Aria: Right, I'll be off then.

-21-
Dr: I'm worried about her...
Dr: Going out like that, the deputy director has one major weakness.
Lag: Huh..?! She looks absolutely fine to me...

Dr: You probably don't know about her time on duty, Seeing.
Dr: The thing about her is...
Aria: Eh?...

Aria: Kyaahhhhh~~!!

Dr: She has almost no coordination whatsoever.
Lag: Almost none?!
Dr: So little that I'd like to do an autopsy.
Lag: That much?!

-22-
Dr: She hasn't been on duty for a while
Dr: And there's also her Dingo...

Lag: Her Dingo...
Lag: Oh!...

Lag: Say, Niche...
Lag: Do you think...
Lag: You could go along with Aria-san and protect her?...

Lag: Aria-san doesn't have a Dingo with her, you see.
Niche: I don't wanna!!!

Niche: I'm Lag's Dingo!
Niche: I only Dingo as Lag's Dingo!!
Lag: Niche...

Lag: Aria-san is going out on delivery in my place!
Lag: You should go after Aria-san who's doing my deliveries, as Dingo my Niche...
Lag: And protect her... as Aria's Niche, Dingo...
Lag: As Diche the Ningo!!!

-23-
Aria: ......
Aria: So... what about you two?
Aria: How is Lag...?

Niche: Pitiful creature...
Aria: Pitiful creature?!
Niche: So pitiful you don't even know my name, that's how pitiful...

Dr: He's burning up!
Aria: I see...

Aria: You can go on back to Lag, Niche.
Aria: I don't need a Dingo.

-24-
Niche: I'M NOT
Niche: ARIA'S DINGO!!!

Niche: NICHE IS GOING ON LAG'S DELIVERIES AS LAG'S DINGO TO BE ARIA'S LAG'S NINGO DICHE...
Aria: Okay okay okay!! It's fine, it's fine, just come on then!!

Aria: I suppose Lag'll be able to rest easier if you're not there too...

Aria: I can't relax with you hopping all over the place, you know.
Aria: Let's walk together.

-25-
Niche: Hmph!!
Aria: Ah!
Aria: Niche...

Aria: Honestly...

-26-
Dr: How are you feeling, Seeing?
Lag: I'm feeling okay
Lag: Doctor.

Lag: It's just a little strange
Lag: Sleeping next to Gauche.

Dr: That's fine then.
Dr: Has the Heart Measure broken down?...
Dr: This thing's supposed to measure the amount of Heart remaining in a person...
Dr: But your Heart always throws the metre right off...

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

Lag: Is it true
Lag: That you were there on the Day of the Flicker
Lag: In the government's investigation airship...?

-27-
Dr: Why are you asking about that...?

Lag: Oh... Nothing really...
Lag: I just heard a rumour, that's all...
Lag: Today, the place Aria-san has gone for the delivery

Lag: Is Astal
Lag: The town where the airship crashed.

Dr: ......
Dr: Astal...

-28-
Box: 12 years ago
Box: The event known as "The Day of the Flicker" occurred.

Box: The day the man-made sun flickered
Box: And the world was wrapped in darkness...
Box: The government airship, which had set out on an investigation, crashed.

-29-
Box: What happened in the man-made sun?
Box: Even now, the details are unclear.

Aria: I'll never forget...
Aria: That sight...

-30-
Man: Hodai-san moved away
Man: Quite a while back.
Aria: Do you happen to know where to?

Man: He left in such a hurry, as if he was running away from something...
Man: He had joined the airship crew, and then it went and crashed in his own hometown.
Man: With everything that happened, it's no surprise he wanted to leave.

Aria: The airship crew...?!
Aria: Hodai Franklin...

Man: Oh, I just remembered!
Man: I'm pretty sure that he said he had some distant relative
Man: In the town of Goodbye Amsterdam.

Aria: Thank you very much!

-31-
Aria: Our destination has changed, Niche!
Aria: We're now heading for the town of Goodbye Amsterdam!
Box: Starting Point: Astal
Box: Black Cherry Pool
Box: Destination: Goodbye Amsterdam
Aria: There's a risk of encountering Gaichuu
Aria: But this is a shortcut! Let's take the swamp road, Black Cherry Pool.

Aria: I just hope he's in that town...

Niche: Lag could find out the address with Akabari!
Aria: You're right~~!
Aria: We're missing exactly the person we need.
Niche: Lag could do it in one shot!

Aria: It can't be helped...
Aria: You like Lag, after all...

Aria: Does that make Sylvette your rival?...
Aria: That must be tough.

-32-
Niche: I know that Sylvette is a dangerous woman...
Niche: She's about a hundred times stronger than Lag...
Niche: And her super gross soup is super super gross......

Sylvette: Achoo!

Aria: Well, let's get going, Niche.
Aria: The swamp road is very narrow to walk on, so if you're not careful, you'll fall in!

Niche: Swamp?

Aria: ......
Aria: If...

-33-
Aria: I-If
Aria: If you're not careful
Aria: You'll fall in!!!

-34-
Aria: There's so much water!
Aria: It much easier to walk back then...
Aria: Ah--!
Aria: Nooo!

Aria: Eh?...

Aria: KYAHHH
Aria: Huh?
Aria: Oh nooo..

Aria: NICHE!! BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU'RE WALKING!!
Text: Nuni...
Niche: YOU BE CAREFUL!

Niche: I'll hold that bulky thing for you!
Niche: I'll show you my kindness
Niche: Hand it over!

Aria: I'm absolutely fine!
Aria: Just concentrate on looking after yourself!

-35-
Niche: I PROMISED LAG I'D LOOK AFTER YOU AS LAG'S DINGO NICHE!
Niche: HOW CAN I JUST NOT PROTECT YOU?
Niche: IDIOT!!

Aria: Who are you calling an idiot?!
Aria: I don't want to be protected by any Dingo other than my own!!
Aria: I didn't ask you to look after me!!!

Niche: You have a Dingo?
Aria: Ah...

Bolt: ......
Bolt: Rarr...
Bolt: Rruff...

-36-
Bolt: Rarruff...

Niche: ?!

Measure: tick...
Measure: tick
Measure: ...tick...

Dr: Apparently, I only boarded that investigation airship
Dr: In place of my father, who had suddenly fallen ill.
Lag: "Apparently"...?

Dr: I only heard about it in a hospital bed...

-37-
Dr: I...
Dr: Have no memories of that day.

Dr: It seems they were taken from me
Dr: Along with my eye.

Dr: It wasn't just me.
Dr: I found out that all the members of that investigation who had gazed at the sun
Dr: Had a part of their Heart or their bodies taken from them.

Lag: Th... That's...!
Lag: The same with Gauche...!!

-38-
Lag: Gauche was watching the "flicker" from a hill as well!
Lag: He lost the memory of his own mother...!!

Lag: Does that mean that light...
Lag: The man-made sun... took away his Heart...?!
Lag: Doctor...! Just what is the man-made sun—

Dr: Seeing?!

Dr: Damn
Dr: His fever's too high!
Lag: Doctor...
Dr: That's enough for now. We'll talk later.

-39-
Dr: The Heart Measure's gone off the scale...?!
Dr: What's going on...?

Lag: Mo..
Lag: ..th...
Lag: ...e...
Lag: ......r...

Lag: -haa-
Lag: -haa-
Lag: -haa-

-40-41-
Aria: Gaichuu...
Aria: "Tequila Sunrise"...!!!
Text bottom centre: Tegami Bachi... To be continued

Aria: Careful, Niche!!
Niche: You be careful!
Text: Big trouble closes in on the improvised team!!

Translation: Tegami Bachi 34

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:03:46 +0000

Numbering follows raw from JAC

International Translators: You're welcome to use this, but please include a credit for Niphredil.

Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
Blue text: Edits
Corrections, comments, and advice always appreciated!

-01- [cover]
Text top right: Let's go! We're setting out on our journey!!
White text between kanji, bottom left: Asada Hiroyuki
[all other text = ads]

-02- [anime + game advert]

-03-
Ranower: I don't need any Letters!! Take them and get out of here!!

R: That girl is the wife of another man...

R: Please tell Shaz
R: Not to send any more Letters…

FakeShaz: I'm Shaz...!
Text bottom right: Chapter 34: Love Like Stone
Text: Encounter with an outrageous fake!!
FS: What's that you're saying about my Letters?!

-04-
Lag: No!!
Lag: You're not Shaz-san...!!

Lag: I'm sorry!
Lag: But...
Lag: You don't look like her at all!!

-05-
FS: Hmph... I'm Shaz, you know!...
Lag: No you aren't!!
Lag: Why are you pretending to be Shaz-san?!

FS: Now I've gotten a better look at you, you're quite a cutie, little boy...
FS: Huhuhu...

FS: How about you tell me all about those Letters?...

FS: And then, if you forget e~verything you've seen here in this mansion
FS: I'll make you feel...

-06-
FS: Reeeeal good~~~!!
Lag: Wah-!

Lag: Eh?

Lag: Huh?...
FS: Noooo~!!

-07-
Lag: Goodbye!!

FS: This is no time to be staring at my naked body!!

FS: Don't let them get away!!
FS: Capture them...

-08-
FS: ?!

Niche: You!
FS: Eee!

Niche: Your secret for growing big boobies, spill it!
SFX: stare
FS: Boobies?!

Man: You little brat...

Lag: Niche, watch out!!

-09-
Man: A shield?!

Lag: This is bad, Niche!
Lag: There's too many of them, let's get out of here!!

-10-
FS: Don't let them get away!!
FS: If they talk when they get outside, we're done for
FS: Blow them away!!

Lag: What a scary old lady!!
Lag: I wonder if Shaz-san is okay...

Lag: Ah!...
Lag: They're in front of us too?!

Lag: Ngh...

Woman: This way!
Woman: Bee!!
Woman: Quick, in here!!

-11-
Men: They're gone!

Men: Check the windows!

Lag: ......
Text right1: They've gone...
Text right2: Nuni...
Text left: Haaa......

Lag: Thank you very much...!
Lag: You saved us!
Woman: ......
Woman: It was nothing...

Lag: ......
Lag: Huh?...

Lag: !!
Lag: Could it be...
Lag: Are...

Lag: You...
Lag: Shaz-san...?!

-12-
Lag: No, doesn't look like it~~~!!!
Text: Not agaaaain...
Woman: Shhh!!

Selma: I'm a maid in the Walter House...

Selma: My name is Selma.

Lag: I'm sorry, Selma-san...!
Lag: My name is Lag Seeing, and I'm a Bee.
Lag: Um...

Lag: That (scary) old lady...
Lag: Who is she?
Text: Would you hurry up and find them?!
Selma: That's my mistress, the mother of the young lord.
Lag: Walter-san's mother?!

-13-
Lag: Um...
Lag: Selma-san! Where's the real Shaz-san?!
Lag: Please let me meet her!!
Lag: I've got to talk to her about her Letters!

Lag: I...
Lag: Need to tell her something...

Selma: Are you talking about

Selma: This Letter...?

Lag: A Letter from Shaz-san...?!
Lag: T-That's right...! It's about that...

-14-
Selma: You can't talk to my lady.

Selma: But this is good timing, cute little Letter Bee.
Selma: Please deliver this to Phillip Ranower-san, okay?
Selma: This is...

Selma: The last one...

-15-
Ranower: Lag...!

-16-
R: Did you... give Shaz my message...?

R: ?!
R: A Letter?!
R: What's the meaning of this, Lag!!
R: I said not to send any more!!

R: You've broken a promise between men...!
R: Like hell I'm gonna take it!!
R: Go away!!
R: Take that and get out of here!!

-17-
Lag: The Heart Bullets I shoot can see the "Heart" within objects...!
Lag: Ranower-san...!!
Lag: Please look at this!
Lag: This is Shaz-san's Heart...!!

Lag: The memories within
Lag: Her Letters!!!
R: !!

-18-
Walter: Okay, get a move on!
Walter: We're all gonna let loose again tonight at the opium den's VIP room~~~
Women: Kyaaa~

Women: Doesn't your wife mind? You're newlyweds... What a bad man you are!

Walter: Our marriage is just a bond enforced by our parents!
Walter: Who'd ever want to marry a boring peasant girl like that otherwise?!

R: That's her husband...
R: Walter...

-19-
Walter: Besides, what I'm interested in is this part of you, and this one, and this part right here too~!
Girls: Kyaaaa~~~!!
Walter: Yahahaha!

R: !!

R: ......

R: Shaz......

-20-
Mother: By god, you get on my nerves!!
Mother: Just how stupid are you?!

Mother: If your father wasn't so rich, I'd just sell you off right this minute!!
Shaz: I'm very sorry, Mother...

Mother: Hmph!!
Mother: I don't want the likes of you calling me "Mother"!!

Selma: My lady
Selma: How are you feeling...?

Shaz: I'm fine...
Shaz: Thank you, Selma-san

Selma: I'll leave your clothes over here...
Selma: Oh!...

-21-
Selma: Are those... Letters?

Selma: There are so many...!
Selma: I should take them to the post office tomorrow!
Shaz: You don't need to...
Selma: Huh?

Shaz: This is... enough...

Shaz: They're just Letters I've written and sealed
Shaz: They aren't to be sent...

Text right: They just have my feelings of longing
Text left: Sealed inside of them...

-22-
Text: Phillip...
Text: The stone seats you made
Text: Were rough, uncomfortable, and cold...

Text: But before I knew it
Text: They were comfy and warm...

Text: I believe that one day
Text: This place will turn that way too...

Father: If you marry into the Walter family, then even you with your poor health will be looked after for the rest of your life.
Father: We've made this decision with your best interests in mind...

-23-
Father: Please...
Father: Would you please give us this peace of mind
Father: In our old age...

Text: I miss you......

Text: I miss you...
Text: I miss you...
Text: I miss you......
Text: I miss you...

-24-
R: Every one of the Letters...
R: They just say "I miss you"...

Lag: But that was surely... something she could never say aloud...
Lag: So she wrote it in a Letter...

Lag: I don't understand it...!!
Lag: Being away from someone, even though you love them... But still going on loving them, all that time...

Lag: Writing Letters but not sending them!!
Lag: Receiving them but not reading them!!
Lag: Will I understand too, when I grow up?!

-25-
R: Lag......!
Mother: B.. Bankrupt?!

Mother: What do you mean, bankrupt?!
Walter: Yeah!!

Man: Well, we've just spent too much money!
Man: And ever since his lordship passed away, our businesses have just drowned in debt too...
Text: Hey—that hurts...
Mother/Walter: You idiot!!

Mother: Isn't it our accountant's job to do something about all that?!
Walter: That's right!! What about my personal funds?!

Shaz: Mother!
Shaz: You too, dear, please calm down...

Walter: You shut up!!!

-26-
Selma: My lady...!!
Selma: My lord, call the doctor...!
Selma: Please call the doctor!!

Walter: Q-Quiet!!
Walter: Like I knew she was so weak or whatever!!
Man: No, actually...
Man: This is bad.

-27-
Man: We're only just managing to survive right now thanks to the financial support coming from Lady Shaz's family.
Man: If she died, even that small income would stop!!

Text: Whaaat?!

Shaz: Selma-san...
Selma: Yes?

Shaz: If I die like this...
Shaz: Then please
Shaz: Burn those Letters...

-28-
Selma: No!
Selma: I'm going to filch stamps from his lordship and send out every single one of them!

Selma: So...
Selma: Don't say things like that, please.

Selma: ......

Selma: My lady...

-29-
Selma: There's someone out there that you love, isn't there...
Selma: Why couldn't you be together...?

Shaz: ......

Shaz: I couldn't tell him...
Shaz: And I would surely have been... a burden to him...

Shaz: He...
Shaz: Never said anything either...

Selma: Well, that's exactly when a Letter can help you!...
Selma: To show your true feelings...

Selma: ...
Selma: My... lady...?

Selma: Did you... fall asleep...?

-30-
FS: How does the black hair look?
Walter: It's perfect, Mama!

Walter: We simply cannot allow the funds from Shaz's family to be cut off!
Walter: In the meantime, I've got to find a rich girl somewhere...!

-31-
R: Eat this!!!

Lag: Ranower-san...?!

R: After you've eaten
R: Come with me.

-32-
Walter: My name is Walter. It is a pleasure to meet you!!

Walter: Your beauty far surpasses my imagination, Lady Kelly... I can barely contain the stirring of my heart!...
Kelly: Oh my, how charming!

Walter: This is the rich westerner's daughter?! What a beast...
Walter: Nevermind, if I don't handle this well, then...
Text: Hahaha...

-33-
Walter: Please accept this gift!
Kelly: My, what a beautiful ring!

Kelly: But, is it really alright for me to accept this...?
Kelly: You being married and all...

Walter: I'm about ready to part ways with my wife.
Kelly: Oh my, how awful for you!!
Walter: Not at all, I'm relieved!

Walter: She was a brazen girl
Walter: Who spent too much money and fooled around with other men

-34-35-
Lag: Excuse the interruption!

Lag: Do you mind if I see that ring?

Text: G-Go ahead...

Lag: Show us your secrets!
Lag: Akabari!!!

-36-
Walter: Give me the cheapest glass ring you've got.
Shopkeeper: Are you sure?
Walter: The woman's not worth the price of a real one.
Walter: Besides, she's hideous so it wouldn't even suit her.
Kelly: ......
Walter: Ow!
Walter: Oww!

Lag: In a few days time, Shaz-san's parents will receive a notice
Lag: Telling them to stop sending funds to the Walter family.
Walter: ?!

Lag: They won't be sending you money
Lag: Ever again.

Man: My lady.
FS: Mmph?!

FS: What is it...?
Man: If you'll excuse my directness, it's been 60 days since we were last paid.

FS: We'll be getting a deposit from Shaz's lot in 25 days!
FS: When it comes in, I'll pay you.
Man: We can depend on that, then?
FS: Of course you can!

-37-
Man: Well...
Man: If, by some chance, the next payment is delayed
Man: What do you intend to do about it?

FS: I'll sell anything in this mansion, even down to my back fat
FS: And pay you with that!! Moron!!

Man: Please be sure...
Man: To remember those words...
FS: Sure, sure!
FS: You worrywart, you!!

Lag: Phillip Ranower-san
Lag: Here they are.

-38-
Lag: Shaz-san's
Lag: Letters...!

R: Back then, I couldn't ask her to be with me...
R: Even though I was poor, and didn't believe in myself... As a man, I should have said it.

R: I'll continue living my life, together with Shaz's Letters.
R: There's nothing else
R: I can do for her now...

-39-
Lag: Yes there is...
Lag: Oh, I see...!
Lag: Ranower-san, you've got it all wrong...!

Lag: There's something you can do!

-40-
Lag: Selma-san went to see the neighbourhood committee in Central, and put in an application for a divorce.
Lag: Shaz-san has been waiting in hiding in a far away town, so that someone wouldn't try to bring her back.

Lag: With recent events taken into consideration
Lag: The marriage is sure to be annulled...

-41-
R: Lag, you little—...
R: Next time you come here on a delivery, I'm gonna make you eat til you burst!!

Lag: Aria-san!!
Lag: Cold Letter File #77, the 240 item delivery
Lag: Has been completed!!

Aria: You're late!
Lag: Wow! The room's sparkling?!
Niche: She did cleaning!
Text left: The Cold Letter has melted, and brought the two of them together...!!
Text bottom right: Tegami Bachi... To be continued in January's issue

Translation: Tegami Bachi 33

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:58:59 +0000

Gonna be posting up chapters 33-37 so apologies in advance for any PM spam.

Numbering follows raw from JAC

International Translators: You're welcome to use this, but please include a credit for Niphredil.

Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
Blue text: Edits
Corrections, comments, and advice always appreciated!

-01- [cover]

-02- [colourspread, top page]
Pink/White text, centre: May our Hearts cry out!!
[rainbow is just... talking about anime airtimes. Again.]

-03- [colourspread, bottom page]
White text, by book covers: Volume 8 and the Tegami Bachi Handbook now on sale!
White text, between kanji: Asada Hiroyuki

-04-
Thunderland: The Cold Letter Division...?!
Thunderland: The Director wasn't enough, you want to demote Seeing too?!
Text left: The sudden announcement enrages Thunderland!

Thunderland: Garrard!! Even if you ARE an official from the capital—
Garrard: Listen up, Doctor.
Garrard: Until Gauche Suede is in fit condition to be taken back to the capital, I have authority here.
Garrard: So until then

Garrard: The weak-willed work you've been doing up until now will not be tolerated.
Garrard: You'd do well to remember it.
Text bottom: Chapter 33: The Cold Letter Division

-05-
Garrard: Connor Culh has not yet returned.
Garrard: Thus other than the express delivery specialist Jiggy Pepper
Garrard: The only one with high delivery efficiency is Mock Sullivan.

Zaji top text: Tch…
Zaji bottom text: Efficiency my ass…

Garrard: "Tch?" That's rich coming from the pussy who couldn't even leave his claw marks on the Cabernet.

Zaji: WHAT WAS THAT, ASSHOLE?!
Lag: Zaji!!

Garrard: So on top of showing no respect to your superiors, you're incompetent too.
Garrard: Is that really what they call skilled Gaichuu exterminators now?
Zaji: WHAT?

-06-
Garrard: You will leave immediately for eastern Yodaka and conduct a search for the Gaichuu Cabernet along the 400 kilometres between Shark Cape and the cliffs.

Zaji: A search?...
Zaji: Covering... 400 kilometres?!

Garrard: If the Cabernet is another Gaichuu with the ability to regenerate
Garrard: It should be hiding somewhere and gathering its strength, don't you think?
Garrard: If you can't best it, then beat it down before it can get moving.
Garrard: You're obviously free if you've got time to be loafing around down here.

Garrard: I'll let you off for the previous incident with pay cut.
Garrard: If you fail this time, you're fired!!
Zaji: !!

Garrard: Doctor Thunderland
Garrard: If you want to send me packing back to the capital, then get Suede fixed up as quickly as possible.

-07-
Garrard: Lag Seeing

Garrard: You buckle down and get to work too.
Garrard: While you dream those childish dreams
Garrard: Of becoming Head Bee, or whatever.
Lag: !!

-08-
Niche/Valentine: ......
SFX: stare

Steak/Niche: ...

Aria: Let's just get through this, Lag!
Aria: We must simply be patient for a while.
Lag: Yes, ma'am!

Lag: But... Aria-san
Lag: When Garrard-san goes back to the capital, will he take Gauche with him as well?

Aria: ......
Aria: It looks like it...

-09-
Lag: I never thought Garrard-san would be so strict...
Aria: It's called arrogance!

Lag: I had so much to ask him too... But I don't think he'll give me any answers.
Lag: Like what it's like in the capital...
Lag: And about my mother, to...

Aria: Your mother...?
Lag: Ah!... Nothing...

Aria: The Director was his usual self!
SFX: hmph

Text: Oh well, it can't be helped!
Text: I leave it to you, Aria-kun!
Text: I'll bring you back a bunch of souvenirs~~!
Lag: He went on holiday?
Text by Lag: Eh?...
Aria: He doesn't take anything seriously!!!

-10-
Lag: B... By the way, this is the far side of the Eastern Building, isn't it?
Lag: It looks pretty run down around here...
Lag: What exactly is the Cold Letter Division, Aria-san...?

SFX: creak
Aria: Letters gathered here remain undelivered for various reasons.
Aria: In other words...! [small text:]Ngh, it won't open...
Aria: It's storage!!
Aria: You see?

Lag: Huh...
Lag: Wha—?
Lag: Wooow!!
Lag: This is all undelivered mail?!

-11-
Lag: This is amazing...!
Lag: If this was Yodaka, the Gaichuu would come swarming in for these!

Lag: Is there no one in charge of this division then?
SFX: coughing
Aria: There is, actually.

Lag: Cold... Letter Division
Lag: Head...

Lag: Head?!
Lag: Then you got shoved down here too—
Lag: Ah!

Aria: Alright, Lag...!
Aria: Let's begin!!

-12-
Lag: Yes ma'am!!
Lag: I'll go get a bucket and mop !!
Lag: Niche!! Come on, quickly! We have to get cleaning!!
Niche: Clean!
Aria: You're going out on delivery!!

Aria: We're going to start taking care
Aria: Of the Cold Letters here.
Lag: A... All of them...!
Aria: As quickly as we can! Rapidly!!
Aria: At the speed of light!!

Aria: We'll show that Garrard how we get work done here!!
Niche: Get done
Aria: Is that understood?......
Aria: We'll show him, all right

Aria: First, let's see...
Aria: Let's start with this.

Aria: Cold Letter File 77!
Aria: Addresee Phillip Ranower, Delivery Denied, 240 pieces...
Text: Here you go.
Lag: 240?!

-13-
Aria: They are going to Phillip Ranower, who lives in Belladonna.
Aria: For the past two years, Letters have arrived frequently for him, but he has refused to accept them at time of delivery.

Lag: The sender's address is unknown, other than the fact that they are in Yuusari Central.
Lag: Because of this, they also can't be returned.
Lag: The previous delivery attempts were made by... Mock Sullivan!! [small text:]Wahh, I bet I'll be coming back right away~

Lag: Even so...
Lag: Does Ranower-san really live all alone on this stony mountain?

-14-
Lag: Whoa!

Lag: Niche... you've made even more progress with your hair moves!
Lag: Speaking of which... What did you talk about with your sister at the underground lake?!

Niche: We didn't talk.
Lag: Eh?! Didn't she teach you the hair moves?!

Niche: She came at me trying to fight, so I fought back!
Lag: YOU FOUGHT WITH HER?! [small text:]Again?!

-15-
Niche: And then she fought me back! And then I fought her back then! And then I then fought her then back!
Niche: Again!!
Text: You said "again" too much...
Lag: ...I think she was just training you hands-on...

Lag: *pant*
Lag: *pant*
Lag: We're here...!
Lag: It's this stone cottage.

Lag: Hm...?
Lag: Chairs made out of stone...?

-16-
Lag: Hello, Ranower-san!
Lag: Here's your mail!

Ranower: ......
Ranower: I don't need that!!
Ranower: Take it and go back where you came from!

Lag: But... you haven't even looked inside them!!
Ranower: They're the same old Letters.
Ranower: I can tell just by looking at the envelope.

Lag: So you know the person who sent them?

Ranower: Hell if I know!! Take that stuff and go back!!

-17-
Lag: How can you just call them "that stuff" without even reading them!!
Lag: There might be something really important written inside!!

Ranower: No there isn't!!
Ranower: Go away!!
Lag: Please take them!!
Ranower: I'm not taking them!!
Lag (bottom right corner): Please!!

Ranower (top centre): I don't want them!!
Lag: Sign here!!
Ranower: I'm not signing anything!!

Ranower: I don't need
Ranower: Any of that stuff!!
Ranower: Now go home!!!

Lag: You called them "stuff" again!!
Lag: I'm not going back until you accept them!!
Lag: Letters contain the Heart of the person who wrote them, you know!!

-18-
Lag: Grrr...

Lag: ......

Lag: Just when I thought the sound of stone chiselling had stopped...
Lag: Now there's a delicious smell...

Lag: Uuh...
Lag: Uuuh...

-19-
Niche: Hey Lag...

Niche: This chair...
Niche: My butt's all warm... it's so comfy...

Lag: These are the chairs that Ranower-san is making, aren't they?
Lag: Well then, let me try...
Lag: Ahh!!
Lag: Hyahh!! It's cooold!!
Lag: This isn't warm at all, Niche...!!

Ranower: Sango Chilli Stone slowly warms and penetrates deep into the body.
Ranower: If you don't sit a while, you won't understand how good these chairs are.

Lag: Ranower-san!

-20-
Ranower: The sound of your stomach rumbling is way too loud.
Ranower: Eat this!!
Lag: Eh?!
Lag: Th...
Lag: Thank you

Ranower: Eat and then go home!!
Lag: Ranower-san!!

Lag: Please wait a moment!
Lag: These Letters have been coming for 2 years!
Lag: Ever since then, and still now...
Lag: I feel sorry for the person sending them!

Ranower: Then she should just stop sending them.
Ranower: I've got no interest in getting rich.

-21-
Lag: The way you talk about her!...
Lag: So you really do know the sender then, don't you?...
Lag: Why won't you read them? If you don't read them, you won't know anything!

Lag: I had no idea how good those chairs were!!
Ranower: What...?!
Lag: I figured stone chairs are just heavy, boring, uncool, and weird coloured!!

Lag: But
Lag: After I sat for a while...
Lag: Then I understood, right?!

Lag SFX glare
Ranower: ......

Ranower: The Tegami Bachi who came by last time... Not only did he not talk to me
Ranower: He didn't even look at me...

-22-
Ranower: But you're interesting.
Ranower: Eat this!!
Lag text: Seconds?!

Ranower: What's your name?

Lag: L... Lag Seeing!
Lag: That's my Dingo, Niche, and...
Lag: Huh?
Steak: Nunini!!

Niche: Tasty if you... cooking himmph... Niche's...
Niche: Food...

Ranower: These Letters...
Ranower: I can't read them.
Lag: Huh?...

-23-
Ranower: 5 years ago... When I was 16
Ranower: There was a girl I had fallen in love with.
Ranower: A girl with a kind heart, by the name of Shaz.

Ranower: Shaz loved me back, too...
Ranower: But due to a marriage proposal her parents had wished for
Ranower: Shaz was married into a rich household.

Lag: What beautiful black hair...

Ranower: For me, who had just started out on my path to become a stone chair craftsman, there was nothing I could do...
Ranower: A dirt-poor craftsman, and a pure young girl brought up in a wealthy household...
Ranower: From the very beginning, there was no way we would make a good match.

-24-
Lag: But Shaz-san loved you...~

Ranower: Shaz tended to get sick easily, so she had a frail body, and I'm sure her parents were worried about that as well.
Ranower: She obeyed for her parents' sake... and for her life's safe...

Ranower: She'd have a hard life in this stone house...

Ranower: But 2 years ago...
Ranower: A Letter arrived.
Ranower: There was only one thing written inside...

Ranower: "I miss you"...

Lag: It's the same as my Letter Bullet...

-25-
Ranower: I only ever opened that first one.
Ranower: I can't read them.
Ranower: That girl is the wife of another man...

Ranower: ......
Ranower: You said your name was Lag, right?
Lag: Yes

Ranower: Would you go to Walter House on Beautiful Brad Street?
Ranower: The sender is the wife in that house.
Ranower: And please tell her
Ranower: Not to send any more Letters.

Ranower: If you can do that for me, then I'll accept those Letters, and take them to my grave.
Ranower: What do you say?

Lag: You'll... definitely accept them?

Ranower: Yeah
Ranower: It's a promise between men!

-26-
Ranower: There!

Lag: Oh!!!

Lag: This stone chair
Lag: It's waaaarm!!
Ranower: Right?

Ranower: All I want is to prevent Shaz getting stuck in a tough situation...
Ranower: Please, make sure her husband, Scarl Walter doesn't found out!!

-27-
Lag: He said... he'll take the Letters to his grave.
Lag: He wants to protect Shaz-san's honour until the day he dies...
Lag: Ranower-san... You really do still love her a lot, even now.

Lag: I don't know anything about marriage or love
Lag: But it hurts to think about the sadness of being separated from someone dear to me...
Niche: ......

Lag: Letters are supposed to connect the Hearts of people who can't be with one another...
Lag: So this is kind of frustrating...
Lag: To think our work is of no use at all...

-28-
Lag: This is it...! The Walter Estate!!
Lag: What a huge house!!

Lag: Ah!...
Lag: There's a carriage coming out!

Lag: !

Lag: Eh?...
Lag: Ah!...
Lag: Granny....?!

-29-
Lag: Watch out!!!

Niche: Lag!!

Walter: You won't get away with this, fool!!
Walter: You're fired!!
Driver: P-Please forgive me, Walter-sama!! Just now, there was someone...

-30-
...Slutty girl1: Oh nooo~~!
SG1: The wine spilled~

Scarl: While we're at it, why don't we put those breasts of yours in a glass?
Scarl: I'd like to drink those right up at the speed of sound!
SG2: Oh my~~~

Scarl: Get going, driver!!
Driver: Y-Yes, sir!!

Lag: Are you alright...?
Lady: Yes...
Text: Thank you!
Text2: What the heck...
Man: Simply awful...!
Man: So irresponsible!

Lag: Was that person Scarl Walter-san?
Man: Yep!
Man: He's probably off to another scandalous party at the opium den with his mistresses today.

Man: His wife must be miserable, but what can you do?
Man: She's quiet, and pretty much never goes outside...

-31-
Man: His late predecessor was such a fine gentleman, too...
Guard: What're you doing in front of the mansion?!
Man: Ahh, nothing!! We'll be right on our way now!

Man: The guards at the Walter House are a nasty bunch.
Man: Make sure you don't get involved with them!
Lag Text: Thank you

Text right: A girl with a kind Heart
Text left: By the name of Shaz...

Lag: ......

-32-
Lag: It looks like we can get in through there, Niche.
Niche: Why aren't we going in the door, Lag?

Lag: It could be that Shaz is stuck with painful thoughts in this house
Lag: Hoping for help from the Letters...
Lag: If that's true, we've got to find out Shaz-san's true feelings without anyone else noticing
Lag: And tell Ranower-san...!

Lag: I'll become
Text centre: Wahhh!
Lag: His Letter~~~
-33-
Lag: Guh!!

Lag: Owwww...
Lag: ?!

Lag: ......
Lag: What is all this...

-34-
Lag: How horrible...
Lag: What on earth happened here?!

Lag: Don't tell me that...
Lag: Something happened to Shaz-san...

Lag: It's the same envelope! So Shaz-san really did send the Letters...
Shaz: Stop!...
Lag: !!

Man: This is it...
Man: Shaz-sama...
Man: Prepare yourself...

Shaz: Noooooo!!
Lag: !!

Lag: Shaz-san...?!

-35--36-
Lag: SHA...
Man: This is my Royal Straight Flush Golden, Shaz-sama!
Shaz: Noooo~~!! I don't wanna lose agaaaaaain~~~!!
Man: Come on now! It's a penalty for you, Shaz-sama!!!
Lag: ...

Man: Drink up, Shaz-sama!! Here you go!
Shaz: If I get any drunker, you two'll just eat me right up~
Shaz: Starting from my head
Man: I-It would be a pleasure.
Shaz: Hm?!
Shaz: Who are you?

-37-
Text: ...I'm... Lag...
Text: A...
Text: Letter...
Text: Bee...

Text: Who...

Text: Are...
Text: You.........?

Shaz: Shaz Walter!!
Shaz: You got a problem with that?!

Fake-Shaz: What the... The kid actually believed me!
Man: Well, should we at least cover your face?
Fake-Shaz: The black hair doesn't suit me, does it~~~

-38-
FS: Ugh, honestly... Right in the middle of my fun...
FS: It's so hard pretending to be 20 years younger~
Lag: !!

Lag: You're... a fake...?!
Lag: Then, what about the real Shaz-san...

Lag: Who sent the Letters?...
FS: Letters...?

Guard: You morons!! A rat got in!!

Lag: !!

-39-40-
FS: I'm Shaz...
FS: Give or take about 20 years.
FS: What's this about my Letters?!

Lag: What...
Lag: What's going on here...
Text left: This is a Cold Letter! It can't be dealt with the normal way...?!
Text bottom left: Tegami Bachi... To be continued in the December issue

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 101

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:22:59 +0000

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-01-
Ibaraki: Worm.
Ibaraki: Tell me your name.
Starred: The warriors face off!!
Text: Nurarihyon no Mago

Kubinashi: Sorry.
Kubinashi: I'm in the middle of getting my "name" back right now...

Ibaraki: Are you deaf?

-02-
Ibaraki: You know... This seal was entrusted to me.
Ibaraki: I heard from Hagoromo Gitsune that it's a temple with a beautiful garden.

Ibaraki: They call it a karesansui, a dry landscape garden.
Ibaraki: But when I came to take a look, I smelt blood
Ibaraki: And all our underlings had been turned to mince meat and become the "rocks" in the garden.

Ibaraki: What am I trying to say here?
Ibaraki: I'm telling you that you've smeared my face with mud. Me, Ibaraki Douji.
Ibaraki: I won't criticise you for it.

Ibaraki: What I will do right now
Ibaraki: Is kill you.

-03-
Ibaraki: Beg for mercy down in hell
Ibaraki: Scum

Ibaraki: Oh?
Ibaraki: What's with the string?

-04-
[...]

-05-
Ibaraki: Hatsu
Ibaraki: Ondeko
[Spirit Release: Demon Drum]

Ibaraki: What the hell kind of move is that?

-06-
Kubinashi: Gaaaghh--!

Ibaraki: ...I bet you felt that.
Ibaraki: That was my... Thunder Arrow.

-07-
Text: Act 101
Text: Ondeko, the Demon Drum
Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Starred text centre: Responding with suffocating killing intent...!!
Starred text bottom left: - Volume 10, the latest from Jump Comics, now on sale!
- The anime begins airing in July!! More details soon to come in Jump!
- Official site now open! Please take a look~ http://www.nuramago.jp

-08-
Y: Is he still alive?

Kubinashi: ......
Ibaraki: You'd have been better off dying like that.

Ibaraki: Could've ended it painlessly.

Kubinashi: Ha...
Kubinashi: Didn't... feel a thing, Youkai of the Capital.

-09-
Ibaraki: Insolence!!

Ibaraki: This is... string?

-10-
Kubinashi: Got you!!

-11-
Ibaraki: Sorry to disappoint
Ibaraki: But Ondeko can fire no matter what direction I'm facing.

Kejourou: Kubinashi!

-12-
Kubinashi: ......

Kejourou: WHAT do you think you're doing, Kubinashi?!
Kejourou: You idiot!

Kubinashi: Don't stop me!

-13-
Kubinashi: ......Kejourou, what the hell...
Kejourou: I only punched you.
Kejourou: You would've died if I hadn't stopped you, so there!

Kejourou: Stop putting on this crazy act!!
Kejourou: There's no way you can win on your own, you know that!!

Kubinashi: You should give up now... I'm the one best suited for this.

Kubinashi: I'll show you – I'll defeat these youkai of the capital my way.
Kubinashi: And I can do it alone!!

-14-
Kubinashi: .........
Kejourou: I never thought you were THIS much of a moron!! [small text]How childish can you get!

Kejourou: All we have to do... is do it the way we used to back then, together.
Kejourou: Don't try to handle this alone!!

Kejourou: You attack

Kejourou: And I protect.
Kejourou: That's how we used to do it, remember?

Kejourou: Stop trying to shoulder your burdens alone.
Kejourou: We're nakama, aren't we?

-15-
Kejourou: Alright, Kubinashi!! Let's do this!!
Kejourou: Come at us, demons!!
Kejourou: I'll take each of your necks...

Kejourou: And leave them looking like his!!!
Kubinashi: ......

Ibaraki: ......
Ibaraki: She's one spirited woman...

-16-
Kidoumaru: How capricious you are.

-17-
Kidoumaru: If you've brought a sacrifice, you should take her to Hagoromo Gitsune-sama.
Kidoumaru: Let alone the fact that you've only brought one... This is not the time to cause a dispute, you know.

Tsuchigumo: I've got something real good to look forward to now.

Kidoumaru: Something to look forward to...?

Kidoumaru: Something to look forward to... Hmph. We have our great wish, do we not?
Kidoumaru: The birth of the "Nue" which we were unable to achieve 400 years ago.

Kidoumaru: Come, let us go.

Tsuchigumo: Nue... Nue, hmm...
Tsuchigumo: That's right, speaking of things 400 years ago...

Kidoumaru: Hm?

-18-
Tsuchigumo: Where'd the Kurama Tengu go?
Tsuchigumo: And who's that other old geezer?

Tsuchigumo: Well, I guess
Tsuchigumo: Tengu must've died while I was gone, huh...

Kidoumaru: .........
Kidoumaru: Tengu?
Kidoumaru: Who are you talking about?

Tsuchigumo: Huh?

MJ: Well, well... It certainly has been a while...

-19-
MJ: Ooh, yes! This is it, this is it!
MJ: Everything
MJ: Is proceeding according to plan.

Starred text: Why is the Shikoku youkai Yosuzume in Kyoto?! And that sword...? The traces of conspiracy squirm in the darkness of the capital!!
Text: Act 101 / END

Chapter Note

Nakama
It takes the meanings of friend, ally, partner, comrade, and rolls it up into one beautiful ball. Thank One Piece for etching this word into my brain forever and making me loathe to substitute it for anything.

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 100

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:00:31 +0000

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-01-
Text: That's one...
Text: And another...
Starred text: A transformation has taken place in Kubinashi...

Text: Nurarihyon no Mago

Text: How many people's blood must I spill
Text: Until I return?

Text: I must continue
Text: To hone my blade

-02-03-
Keikain: H... Hey, check that out!!
K: !!
K: Wh... What the heck is that?!

Text bottom right: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Text by title: Act 100
Text by title: The Scent of Blood
Starred text: The castle of the Capital's youkai, Nijou Castle appears, piercing the heavens!!

K: Is that a castle?!...
K: Wh... Why would it just appear like that?!

Akifusa: That's... Nijou Castle...
Akifusa: Does that mean the final seal has been released?... We've run out of time.

-04-
[...]

-05-
Kitsune: This isn't enough...

Kitsune: Now... quickly...
Kitsune: Bring me more...

Kitsune: How I desire them
Kitsune: Ahhh... These hearts won't be enough...

-06-
Kitsune: Give me the strength!
Kitsune: My minions...! Give me the strength to give birth to the Nue!!

[Okay, starting from the outside bottom right (8th seal) and working my way around the spiral to the centre at the 1st Seal, clockwise]

Awashima
Itaku
Toono Forces
8th Seal: Fushime Inari Shrine
Onmyouji and Hyakki Yakou Joint Group
Hidemoto
Kurotabou, etc

7th Seal: Hashira Imperial Villa

Kejourou
Kubinashi

6th Seal: Ryuuen-ji

5th Seal: Seiei-ji

4th Seal: Nishihougan-ji

3rd Seal: Rokukin-ji

2nd Seal: Soukoku-ji
Tsuchigumo
Tsurara

1st Seal: Nijou Castle
Shoukera
Kyoukotsu
Gashadokuro
Ibaraki Douji
Kidoumaru

-07-
MJ: Hm?... What is it?

Y: M... My apologies...
Y: Both the 8th... and the 7th seal have been...

MJ: ......
MJ: What...?

Yura: Wh...
Yura: What happened here...

-08-
Box: 7th Seal
Box: Hashira Imperial Villa

Box: Ancient Capital Youkai, Konnyaku Bouzu

-09-
Y: This is awful...
Y2: It's like the Japanese garden has been turned into a picture of hell.
Y3: Did Go—illa come stomping through here or something?...

Hidemoto: I sense tremendous anger here.
Hidemoto: That such powerful ayakashi could be reduced to this...

Kuro: ......
Kuro: This is the work of Kubinashi.

Y: Kubinashi?!
Y: Are you saying Kubinashi did all this?!

Kuro: That fool... Has he lost himself in his anger?...

-10-
Kappa: Kuro

Kappa: Is it dangerous to leave him alone like this?
Kappa: Kubinashi, I mean.

Kuro: ......You're right.
Kuro: We must hurry.

Hidemoto: Looks like they've got a few seriously powerful ones here and there.
Hidemoto: I suppose they must have joined the Nura Clan while I was dead...

Hidemoto: Why would such strong ayakashi follow behind such a young boy?
Hidemoto: Do they have some sort of obligation to him, I wonder?
Text: Hmm...

Text: Nura Clan...
Text: Even after 400 years, you still manage to attract my attention...

-11-
Box: 6th Seal
Box: Ryuuen-ji

Girls: What is this place...?

Girl: I dunno!
Girl: Sir! Why did we take this nighttime field trip to a temple all of a sudden?
Girl: You trying to test how brave we are?
Girl: Huh?

Girl: Sir?
Teacher: Thank you all for coming~

Girl: Huh?... But, sir, you're the one who brought us here...

-12-
Kids: S...
Kids: Sir...?

Kids: What's that thing?!
Kids: Eee!!
Kids: Ha.. Haaa?!
Box: Gathering of Souls
Box: Onmoraki

Kids: AAAAAAAAHHH
Onmoraki: Hearts...
Onmoraki: Hearts~!

-13-
[...]

-14-
Kubinashi: You're the Ayakashi of this temple, aren't you?

-15-
Kubinashi: Pathetic.

Kejourou: Ayatori: "Jyakou Yaiba"...
[TN: Cat's Cradle: "Slithering Blade"]
Kejourou: He's going back... to the way he was before he met the Second...

Kejourou: Kubinashi, you idiot!
Kejourou": If you carry on like this—

-16-
Kejourou: You'll go back to the way you were back then!

Kubinashi: Kejourou

Kubinashi: Let's go.

Kejourou: I can't let him go!
Kejourou: Kubinashi!!

-17-
Ibaraki: I smell blood.

-18-
Ibaraki: I smell... the stench of a blade dripping with fresh blood
Ibaraki: That awful reek of iron!

-19-
Ibaraki: You over there.
Ibaraki: It's you I can smell.

Starred: Enter Ibaraki Douji, one of the capital's youkai heads! A perilous battle begins!
Text: Act 100 / END
Text: Next time, the long-awaited clash of heads! What secret past has Kubinashi been hiding?