Pandora Hearts 44

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The annual!?
season of Santa Claus
is here!!

…the synopsis manga
Pandora
Hearchu!!!!

We’ll do our best as Santa again this year!! // Small & Big Gilbert

{Big Sister {heart}}

In search of Alice’s lost memories, Oz and the party went to Sablier. It seems they had a lot of trouble, such as running into Oz’s dad and the appearance of Glen. Even Brëak passed out as an effect of using power. It appears he lost most of his vision. Both Reim and Oz were dispirited. But we can’t stop dead here! Oz thought, and determined the next destination. The existence of the sorcerer who sealed Glen Baskerville’s soul. “We will find that seal for sure!”

Sparkling eyes // Oz

{growl}
Growling stomach // Alice

Fevered imagination // Sharon

Menacing growl // Brëak

Twirling Dormouse // Vincent


An unbreakable heart // Grandpa Rufus
{I know! The Christmas present you wish for is a flower bouquet from me!}

{No,}
{I wish for a childhood friend that can take a hint {heart}}
Is she omnipotent? // Grandma Sheryl


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Panel 1
{squawk} {squawk}

Panel 2
<Quiet days.
It should have been the same today…>

Panel 3
{slide…}

Panel 4

Panel 5
{snap…} {click…}

Panel 6
Woman; Good morning, Mister Rytas.


Page 3

Panel 1
<The black rose that protects the next seal
Its thorns shine gray -----…>
Woman; It’s a beautiful day today, again.
Pandora Hearts
Retrace: XLIV Dusty Sky
– Beyond the Dark Clouds –
Jun Mochizuki

Panel 2
Sharon; {slip}
// Ah!


Page 4

Panel 1
Oz; Ah, // Are you all right, Sharon!?
Sharon; Yes…I’m sorry.
Gilbert; {……}

Panel 2
Sharon; {Thank you.}
Gilbert; …maybe it’s better for you to stay in the village.

Panel 3
Sharon; No! This is something I decided to do myself!
{pull…}

Panel 4
Sharon; Please excuse me, Mister Gruner.
{brush} {brush}
// Please continue leading the way.

Panel 5
Gruner; Okay.

Panel 6
Oz; …………


Page 5

Panel 1
Rufus; <Listen to me, child of Vessalius>

Panel 2
Rufus; <You will first go to the village of Thor>

Panel 3 – 5
Rufus; <Then you will meet Gruner, who serves me.>
// <Go to the sorcerer and find out where the seal is.>

Panel 6
Gruner; Mister Oz.
// We’re here.

Panel 7
Oz; {scrunch…}


Page 6

Panel 1

Panel 2
Oz; Wow.
// It looks like a haunted mansion right from a book.

Panel 3
Sharon; You said that two people went in before us and didn’t return…
Gruner; Yes.

Panel 4
Gruner; They are both contractors from Pandora.
// Since we haven’t heard from them // We might have to expect the worst.

Panel 5
Oz; …Gil
// Can you use the Raven freely yet?


Page 7

Panel 1
Gilbert; Well…it all depends on how much burden you take.

Panel 2
Gilbert; I found out that now that your seal has progressed, it’s all right if it’s only for a short time… // But I’m still uncertain about removing the restraint on the B-Rabbit entirely…

Panel 3
Oz; All right. // I’ll keep the restraint.
Gilbert; Oz…?

Panel 4
Oz; Besides… // I feel safer this way…

Panel 5
Sharon; Mister Oz? // I have the Eques. // Please don’t think that I’ll just wait outside by myself.
{smile…}
Oz; Ah, you caught me.


Page 8

Panel 1
{creak…}

Panel 2

Panel 3
Alice; Ah… // Are you inviting us in…?

Panel 4
Alice; You have some nerve!!
{dash}
// I’m coming to break the nose of the so-called sorcerer!!
Oz; Alice!!

Panel 5
{clack…}


Page 9

Panel 1
{slam}
!?

Panel 2 – Panel 4

Panel 5
Oz; Are we…welcome here…?
// I hope so…

Panel 6
{slam}

Panel 7


Page 10

Panel 1
Alice; …………?

Panel 2 – Panel 3
{screech…}
Alice; …What… // Is this room…

Panel 4
Oz; …Yeah…
// Something’s…strange…

Panel 5
{clack…}

Panel 6
Woman; Oh dear… // What should I do…

Panel 7
Woman; Are you the friends of the little birdies who wandered in the other day?
Oz; !


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Panel 1

Panel 2
Oz; <A woman…?>
Gruner; Yes.

Panel 3
Gruner; Do you know where they are?
Woman; …I already returned them to the forest.

Panel 4
Woman; …Oh // So you are…
// The wolves that came to hunt down those little birdies…?

Panel 5
Woman; That’s a problem…
// What should I… // What should I…


Page 12

Panel 1
{slide…}

Panel 2
Woman; Wolves
// How do I cook them deliciously?

Panel 3 – Panel 5
Gilbert; ! Oz!
// You stay down!


Page 13

Panel 1
Gilbert; …………!
{slide…}

Panel 2

Panel 3
Gilbert; She cornered me… // So fast…!?

Panel 4
Gilbert; You!!
{bang} {bang}
Woman; {woosh}

Panel 5 – Panel 6
Woman; “Kill all those who approach this mansion”
// “With one exception” // “With these hands, no matter what”


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Panel 1
Woman; That is
// What Mister Rytas ordered me to do

Panel 2 – Panel 3
Sharon; ! // Eques!
{clack}

Panel 4
{silence…}

Panel 5 – Panel 6
Sharon; ………..
// What?
{slash}


Page 15

Panel 1
Gruner; Miss Sharon!!
Woman; {slash}

Panel 2
Sharon; !
Woman; {swish…}

Panel 3
Sharon; Mister Gruner!
Gruner; ……
Woman; …Oh

Panel 4
Woman; You were a contractor, too.

Panel 5 – Panel 6
Gilbert; {bang}
Sharon; Eques! // Eques, why…!

Panel 7
{screech…}
Woman; Tee hee hee…it’s no use.


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Panel 1
Woman; No matter how much you call

Panel 2
Woman; Your friend won’t come…

Panel 3
Gilbert; Shit…bobbing and weaving, what’s going on!?
Oz; …………!

Panel 4 – Panel 5
Oz; ! // Gil…

Panel 6
Oz; She’s using mirrors!
Gilbert; !?


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Panel 1
Gilbert; Mirrors!?
Oz; My eyes finally got used to this light.

Panel 2
Oz; She’s hiding it in the darkness
// But she’s deceiving her position with her reflection on the mirrors

Panel 3
Woman; Oh my. // I didn’t expect you to find out so quickly.

Panel 4
Woman; Tee hee hee
{jump…}
// Even so

Panel 5
Woman; That problem is nothing.

Panel 6


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Panel 1
Woman; It’s the same as those little birdies the other day.

Panel 2 – Panel 3
Woman; Although they sing fearlessly in the beginning // As soon as they find out that their friends won’t come, they cower and tremble

Panel 4
Woman; Aren’t you the same?
{skid}

Panel 5
Woman; You automatically think
// That the power is yours

Panel 6
Woman; Without the power of the Chain, you’re just a weak little girl.


Page 19

Panel 1
Gilbert; Sharon!

Panel 2
Gilbert; {bang} {bang} {bang}

Panel 3
Alice; ……… // Hey, seaweed-head!
// Release my power! // I’ll kill that woman in one stroke!

Panel 4

Panel 5
Alice; Oz…?

Panel 6
Oz; {huff…} {huff…}


Page 20

Panel 1
Oz; <There’s ringing in my ears
// What is this…!>
{scree} {eech…}

Panel 2 – Panel 3
{thump}

Panel 4

Panel 5
Oz; …I see
// You’re underneath


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Panel 1 – Panel 2
Gilbert; Oz!

Panel 3
{sn} {ap}

Panel 4

Panel 5
Woman; Wha……

Panel 6
Woman; {thud}


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Panel 1
Woman; No…

Panel 2
{thump}

Panel 3
Oz; Ugh… // Really

Panel 4
Oz; The ringing in my ears
// It’s so loud and annoying…

Panel 5
Oz; Hey // How can I make this stop?
Woman; How are you using that power…
Oz; Hey // Tell me

Panel 6
Woman; Who are you…
Oz; – Oh…

Panel 7
Oz; Will it stop if I destroy you?


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Panel 1

Panel 2
Sharon; !
Gilbert; Stop… // Oz!!

Panel 3


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Panel 1 – Panel 2
Oz; {slash}

Panel 3
Gilbert; ………….

Panel 4

Panel 5

Panel 6
Oz; …………
// Alice…?


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Panel 1
Alice; Oz…she is my prey.
{hold…}

Panel 2
Alice; You’re my manservant!
// You can’t get involved with this!

Panel 3

Panel 4
Oz; …………

Panel 5
Oz; …Yeah…
// You’re right…

Panel 6
Oz; Sorry, Alice…

Panel 7
Woman; …………
Rytas; It’s all right, Marie.


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Panel 1
Marie; Mister Rytas…

Panel 2 – Panel 3
Rytas; …Please forgive us // for all the rudeness.

Panel 4 – Panel 6
Rytas; What you are searching for // Is downstairs, so ––…


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Panel 1

Panel 2
Gilbert; This is the…
Oz; …………

Panel 3
Rytas; Are you in pain?

Panel 4
Rytas; It is said that this stone of the seal has the power to suppress the power of Chains.
// Even if you’re a contractor, // It must be hard to harbor the B-Rabbit’s power.

Panel 5
Oz; You know…me?


Page 29

Panel 1
Rytas; …No

Panel 2
Rytas; All we know
// Is that we cannot hand this seal over to anyone but the one who has the power of the B-Rabbit.

Panel 3
Oz; !
Rytas; My mother has always told me.

Panel 4
Rytas; Jack Vessalius’s words ––
Jack; <“Even if the Baskervilles appear on this land again, there is nothing to fear.”>

Panel 5
Jack; <“The one who harbors the power of the B-Rabbit”
// “Will protect you.”>


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Panel 1
Jack; <“So, until that time,”
// “Please stop Glen for me…”>

Panel 2

Panel 3
Rytas; …Soon after that
// He died from the wound in his chest…

Panel 4
Sharon; And so…the Barma household used his body to create this seal…?
Marie; Yes.

Panel 5 – Panel 7
Oz; …Jack…


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Panel 1
Alice; …Oz?
{clack…}
Oz; No…

Panel 2
Oz; <…………>
// <Jack…?>

Panel 3
Oz; <Jack…>
// <You’re not here…?>

Panel 4
Oz; …………
// {chuckle…}
// So you won't, after all…

Panel 5
Oz; <…Hey Jack,
// When will you appear in front of me again…?>

Panel 6
Jack; <“Oz…I’ll tell you someday ––––“>
Oz; <Are you trying to tell me
// That it’s not the time yet…?>


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Panel 1
Oz; <I want to know.>

Panel 2
Oz; <About the world you saw through your eyes
// About Glen Baskerville
// About Lacie
// About Alice
// I have so much I want to ask you.>


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Panel 1
Oz; <Hey
// What kind of person was Glen to you?
// How did you become friends with him?
// What were you thinking
// When you pointed a sword at the person you called your friend…?>

Panel 2
Oz; <…Tell me>

Panel 3
Oz; <I can’t start to fathom it unless I’m facing you>

Panel 4

Panel 5
Oz; <What exactly I am
// I’d never be able to figure it out>


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Panel 1
Rytas; …………
// Ah…

Panel 2
Rytas; It is exactly as I heard…

Panel 3
Rytas; Even though you look young
// The power in your eyes // Is the Jack Vessalius my mother told me of.

Panel 4

Panel 5
Oz; …………
// Mister Rytas

Panel 6 – Panel 7
Oz; Jack is definitely inside me // And people do say that we look similar
// But…
// Please don’t make a mistake.


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Oz; My name is
// Oz.


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Panel 1 – Panel 2

Panel 3
Rytas; You’re correct…
// I apologize…

Panel 4
Gilbert; …Now
// What should we do…

Panel 5
Gilbert; We did find the seal…
// But we can’t bring…that thing back…


Page 38

Panel 1
Gruner; Mister Gilbert
// Could you go back to the village first and contact Duke Barma?

Panel 2
Gruner; They don’t look well… // And I’ll stay here just in case.
Alice; {throb} {throb}
// {……}
Gilbert; …Okay…

Panel 3
Marie; Is it all right?
// I attacked your companions ––…

Panel 4
Gruner; ………… // I just need to carry out my duty.

Panel 5
{creak…}
Rytas; Mister Oz.

Panel 6
Rytas; Please // Take this.


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Panel 1
Rytas; We are not allowed to tell you much.

Panel 2
Rytas; But in here
// You might find information to tell you what path you should take…

Panel 3 – Panel 5
Oz; What will you do
// From now on?

Panel 6 – Panel 8
Rytas; Well… // Since I’m already this old, I’ll probably spend the rest of my time quietly.
// But Marie…


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Panel 1 – Panel 2
Rytas; She was abandoned in the forest by the villagers when she was young // Since then, she has done everything she could for me.

Panel 3
Rytas; Now that I have completed my duty, I wish
// That this girl who only knows the gray sky

Panel 4
Rytas; Could see the beautiful blue sky ––…

Panel 5

Panel 6
{close…}

Panel 7
Marie; You must be tired, Mister Rytas. // I’ll prepare some tea…


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{thud…}


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Panel 1

Panel 2 – Panel 3
Marie; ………… // Ah…

Panel 4
Gruner; !?
Marie; …N // …O

Panel 5
{whoosh}
Marie; …

Panel 6
Marie; {No…Ah…} // {Aaaaaaaaaah}


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Panel 1 – Panel 2
Marie; Mister Rytas!!
// Mister Rytas // {Ah} // {Ah}
{zz} {zz}

Panel 3 – Panel 4
{zz} {zz…}
Marie; {Aaaaaaaah}
{zz} {zz} {zz} {zz}

Panel 5
{whoosh…}

Panel 6 – Panel 7
Gruner; You…
// Are…!


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Gruner; The headhunter…
{slash}


Page 45

Panel 1
Voice; The Queen of Hearts // She made some tarts♪

Panel 2
Voice; All on a hot hot // Summer day♪

Panel 3
Gilbert; Oz…? Are you all right…?
Oz; Yeah…

Panel 4
Oz; I’m just…a little tired…

Panel 5
Voice; The Knave of Hearts // He stole those tarts♪


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Panel 1
Voice; And the angry queen screams♪
// Off with his head♪

Panel 2
Voice; Off with his head♪

Panel 3
Voice; Off with his head!

Panel 4
Jack; <“The one who harbors the power of the B-Rabbit”
// “Will protect you.”>

Panel 5
Voice; {Hee hee…}
// {Ha ha ha}


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Voice; {Ha ha ha ha hee hee} {Ha ha ha ha ha hee gggggh}
// {Hee hee ha ggggggh}
<The tranquil mansion rings with
The requiem of murder ––…>