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Translation: Darker Than Black - Shikkoku no Hana - 9

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:15:22 +0000

Been busy. But, I hope that since the anime's second season started, maybe ~~faster~~ more people will discover the manga and will want to work on it.

This one I did kinda quickly, so use discretion if you wanna use it for a scanlation, as it's pretty sure to have at least one stupid error in there somewhere. But otherwise, feel free to use it. Also, if you spot an error please let me know. I'LL FIX IT GOOD.

Each separate bubble gets its own line. Conjoined ones are separated by line breaks. The pages are numbered accoding to the raw by Finestela that was (hopefully still is) available here on mangahelpers.
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P03

Text: Azusa has gained astounding leg strength!!

Azusa: Ahaha
Look!

Azusa: I can jump up this high!!

Azusa: I'm on my way, coach.

P04

Text: Power and spirit unleashed!
Is that mankind's evolution...!?

Chapter 9 - Parcel and Champ

P05

P06

Parcel: Uwah...

Bubble: *grit*

Parcel: Stop
Put me down

Hei: You're another Contractor.

Hei: A brat in such a ridiculous get-up...
You really thought I wouldn't notice that?

Parcel: ...ridiculous get-up?
You're one to talk,
It's my Obeisance, I can't help it...

Hei: Your Obeisance is to wear those ears on your head?

Parcel: Yeah...
You think I do it for fun?

Hei: ...

Parcel: Isn't it the same with your mask?

Hei: Spit it out!
Who are you working for!?
Are you with Harvest?

Parcel: N... No,
I'm one of PANDORA's Contractors too, but no way am I with that guy...

P07

Hei: PANDORA...

Hei: ...so this is the "Syndicate's" doing.

Hei: Because I took out the Saturn Ring...
You've come to erase the traitor, is that it?

Parcel: Whoa, wait!
Lemme down, that's not what I meant... Besides,

Parcel: ... That Doll you're always with,
don't you care what happens to her?

Hei: !?

Hei: Yin!?

Hei: What did you do to her!?

Parcel: You're pretty dim, aren't you? Leaving that Doll alone...
You're always staying at the same place, you really thought nobody would notice?

P08

Hei: Tch...

Hei: Yin!

Hei: Yin! Are you alright?

Yin: ...Hei.

Hei: Yin!

Yin: ... Someone is here.

Top-Rope: Is this BK-201's Doll, Dash?

Dash: Seems like it, Top-Rope.

P09

Yin: ...

Hei: Run, Yin!

Hei: Escape through the route I showed you!

Parcel: Of course she won't,
she's a Doll.

Parcel: Dolls can't do anything on their own.

Yin: ...

Top-Rope: Looks like there's an escape route.

Dash: She won't make it.

Dash: Right.

P10

Dash: If we just block the programmed route, it's over.

Yin: ...

Dash: She's a Doll, after all.

Hei: Yin!

Top-Rope: Piece of cake.

Top-Rope: The rest, with my rope...

Top-Rope: We tie her up, and that's that.

Dash: Don't squeeze 'em to death like last time.

Top-Rope: Sure.

Yin: ...

Hei: ...why is Yin a target?
She shouldn't have anything to do with this.

Parcel: Because having a hostage makes it easier to deal with you, of course!
You really are stupid!

Hei: Tell your people to stop, right now!
If you don't...

P11

Parcel: Stop?
My people?

Parcel: You don't really want me to do that.

Yin: Hei.

Hei: !

Hei: What?

Yin: I'll be fine.

Bubble: !!!

Bubble: !!?

P12

Champ: Target Protection Program, Target Protection 1.

Champ: Target Elimination 2.
Confirmed.

Dash: The heck is that giant...

Dash: A Contractor?

Top-Rope: Whatever man,
The strength of my rope is over two tons!

Top-Rope: I'll send him flying into the wall!

Champ: Executing.

Top-Rope: Whoa

Top-Rope: What!?

P13

Dash: Top-Rope!

Dash: Tch

P14

Dash: Nobody told me there'd be a monster like that.

Bubble: ...

Yin: There.

Dash: Guarg!

P15

Bubble: ...

Champ: Elimination Complete.

Hei: ...!

Parcel: Well done,
Champ!

Parcel: Escort her to the hideout from there.

Hei: ...

Parcel: Wah

P16

Hei: What is this?

Hei: Just who are you!?

Parcel: Damn--At least hold back a little...

Parcel: I told you, I'm a Contractor with PANDORA.
Champ is a Doll that was physically modified and programmed for battle by PANDORA's researchers.

Hei: A Doll?

Parcel: Yeah

Champ: Relocating.

Yin: ...

Parcel: Dolls can withstand the kind of training and surgical enhancements that normal people can't, and they can take it without any problems or complaints.
Perfect soldiers.

Parcel: But, because the costs were too high, and because not too many Dolls built like Champ were found, the whole idea was shelved.
...Don't worry. Our hideout is safer than your place.

Hei: Why did you help Yin?

Hei: What's your goal?

P17

Parcel: We don't have much time, so I'll make this brief.
There's a group within the Syndicate that's trying to gain the power of the black flower.

Parcel: They're letting Harvest run free in order get data on the evolution of the flower.

Hei: ...

Parcel: Their goal is to create perfect soldiers, but at a much lower cost.
They probably want you out of the way because you're trying to kill Harvest.

Hei: ...they want to make substitutes for Contractors!?

Parcel: Beats me.

Parcel: Anyway, our goal is to put a stop to their plan.
We helped you and your Doll because...... Well,
They say the enemy of an enemy is a friend, right?

Hei: ...
Aren't you part of the same Syndicate?

Parcel: Well, different factions, something like that?

P18

Parcel: Because you broke the Saturn Ring, the Syndicate isn't quite the monolith it used to be anymore.

Parcel: Well, it's nothing I really care about either way.

Hei: ...

Parcel: What will you do?
I'll be going after that woman that just jumped away.

Parcel: I could take you along with this power of mine

Parcel: If you want me to lend a hand, just say the word.
Even you couldn't keep up with that just now, could you?

Hei: ...You've got Yin. That's a big mouth on someone with the upper hand...
Brat.

Bubble: *pat*

Parcel: Nihihi

Parcel: I like an adult who's quick on the uptake.

P19

Tire: *skreek*

MysteryDude: ...

MysteryDude: That's enough. Go.

Driver: Yes, sir.

MysteryDude: So, we've failed to secure BK-201's Doll.

Driver?: Yes...

MysteryDude: Forget him for now. We must capture the awakened one somehow.

Driver?: Yes, sir!

Thug1: I heard this huge boom from over there.

Thug2: Yeah?

P20

Thug3: Some kinda accident?

Thug3: That ain't good.

Thug4: Got nothing to do with us, right?
Prob'ly some fucking klutz who brought it on themselves, anyway.

Thug: Gotta be.

Thug3: But, man are they late,
The camera and the mats are all ready,

Thug3: Shouldn't they already be bringing 'em in with the minivan about now?

P21

Thug3: Don't tell me that Kyouko girl got cold feet and screwed us over?

Thug4: ...fuck.

Thug4: Completely useless,

Thug4: That fucking bitch.

Azusa: Who did you call a bitch?

P22

Thugs: !!?

Thug2: ...ah, she's,

Thug2: This is the girl Kyouko was supposed to bring.

Azusa: I won't forgive you for insulting my friend.

P23

Thug: What's up with her?
Why's she here on her own?

Thug: And what the hell is that outfit?

Thug: What, you actually wanna get raped?

Thug: Huh!?

Thug: Answer me, you fucking bitch.

Azusa: Don't touch me, pervert.

Thug: !

P24

Thugs: ?

P25

Thugs: Huh?

Thug: Uah... AAAAAHHHHH

Thug: Why is his arm gone!?
What's happe...

Azusa: Shut up.

Azusa: Ahahahaha!

Thug: Ee...

Azusa: I never realized just how brittle humans are...

P26

Thug: Mo...

Thug: Monster...!!!

Azusa: I...

Azusa: would like to see the coach...

Azusa: But I only need one of you alive for that, don't I.

Text: The jet black angel makes her move.
Rational,
and without mercy.

Translation: Darker Than Black - Shikkoku no Hana - 8

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:07:39 +0000

This translation may be freely used for scanlations. Just give credit!

Conjoined bubbles are separated by line breaks, everything else gets its own entry.

Please tell me if there's anything unclear or if you spot a mistake!

There won't be any DTB in the next issue, so the next chapter isn't coming out until October 2nd.
The first page was an ad, so this starts from page 2. Pages are numbered according to the RAW found here: http://mangahelpers.com/downloads/details/51630

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P2

Bloom the fullest you can, for as long as there is life left in you.

Darker than Black - The Jet Black Flower
Chapter 8: Awakening

P3

Text: Why did it turn out like this ......

Azusa: ...

Azusa: Where ... am I...?

Harvest: This is in the deepest depths of your heart ...

Harvest: Where the black flower has extended its roots.

Azusa: Why are you inside my heart? ...

Harvest: All flowers are linked.

Harvest: And all individuals are stored and shared by the flowers.

Harvest: This form as well,

Harvest: is how the flowers remember me...

Azusa: Oh.

P4

Harvest: This is paradise

Harvest: Protected by the black flower,

Harvest: This is a utopia for you alone.

P5

Kyouko: Azusa

Azusa: Kyou-chan

Kyouko: We can always meet here

Azusa: Kyou-chan

Kyouko: Without anything painful between us

P6

Azusa: Really?

Kyouko: Yes

Kyouko: Best friends, forever

Kyouko: Forever.

P7

Text: AWAKEN

P8

Parcel: Whew.
I'm glad I found him,

Parcel: but this is looking like trouble.

P9

Parcel: That's BK201...

Parcel: He doesn't look as strong as I've heard.

Parcel: Can you see this?

Meena: ...!
Sir, this is...

Sergei: ...hmm.

Sergei: So it is as I feared.

P10

Meena: What do you mean, Dr. Sergei?

Sergei: BK201 and Harvest...

Sergei: Their abilities are essentially quite similar

Sergei: BK201's power over electricity....
It's true nature lies in the ability to control electrons

Sergei: His ultimate ability of mutating matter is also due to manipulation of electrons

Sergei: Matter--Molecules undergo a transformation through the mobilization of electrons

Sergei: Though in theory, that would require power far incomparable to the creation of an electric current.

Sergei: And Harvest...

Sergei: His ability is to disassemble matter...

P11

Meena: Disassembling matter...

Meena: Ah!

Sergei: Exactly.

Sergei: Combinations of matter, that is, what ties molecules to one another--that too is done by electrons.

Sergei: That man cuts the connections of electrons
And thus disassembles matter.

Sergei: In other words, they are both capable of interfering with electrons!

Sergei: I fear if they attack each other head on, the electrons may react like this in unknown ways.
We have to stop them quickly!

Parcel: What d'ya want me to do?

Sergei: Separate BK201 and Harvest!
We can't let them fight for any longer!

Parcel: ... Got it.

P12

Sergei: Alright, Meena-kun
Link up all the surveillance cameras in the vicinity and gather information.

Meena: Yes!

Parcel: Wait

Parcel: Something's strange.

Sergei: !?

Sergei: What happened, Parcel?

Parcel: ... There's something there!

Hei: ...he's,

Hei: Where's Harvest?

Hei: Is this his doing too?

Hei: Or is it...

P13

Hei: !!?

Hei: !!

Azusa's skirt: *slip*

P14

P15

Azusa: Mister Mask.

Hei: !?

Hei: ...... That flower...

Hei: ...it's much bigger than the one I saw before.

Azusa: Kyou-chan is dead.
Hey, I wonder whose fault it is?

Azusa: Whose fault is it?

Hei: Hey!
Get a gri--

Azusa: I was wearing the uniform under my school uniform all along.

Azusa: I only changed below the knee.

Azusa: Are you disappointed it's not my underwear?

Hei: ...

Azusa: ... I'm Azusa Tsukimori

P16

Azusa: I thought all my emotions would be gone if I became a Contractor...
But, what is this...

Azusa: ... There's still something left...

Azusa: ...

Hei: !

Hei: !!

Hei: It hit!?
...no ......that was--

Hei: A sonic boom!

Azusa: I remembered

Hei: !

Azusa: This is...

P17

Azusa: Killing intent

Hei: Khh...

Parcel: Whoa
That's a one-shot kill

Parcel: See that?

Sergei: ...

Meena: Impossible...
They've awakened to such a level...!

Sergei: ...hmm.

Meena: Sir!

Azusa: ... That's right
This is killing intent...

Azusa: But this isn't right

Hei: ?

Azusa: He's not the one I want to kill

Azusa: I need to go

Hei: !

P18

Hei: ...!

Hei: She's going to kill someone!

Hei: Stop!

Hei: You won't be able to go back if you kill!

Hei: You haven't become a...

Hei: Tch

Parcel: Oh dear

Parcel: There she goes...

Voice/Sergei?: Parcel, change of plans

Parcel: !

Voice: Follow that girl who fled.

Parcel: What about BK201 and Harvest?

Sergei: Take a good look
Harvest isn't there anymore.

P19

Parcel: Ah

Sergei: Put maximum priority on capturing the awakened one

Sergei: I don't want to lose our headway to them.

Parcel: Roger.

Sergei: We need to act now, before this causes any more commotion
We will block the Division and catch Harvest.

Meena: ...
Can we do this all on our own...?

Sergei: Don't worry

Sergei: That's why our number of allies has increased

Remote: *bip*

Sergei: It's your turn

Ootsuka: Wah!

Sergei: Ladies.

P20

Kirihara: Before that

Kirihara: I'd like to hear a much more thorough explanation.

Kirihara: Doctors Sergei Viktorf and Meena Kandaswami!

Sergei: I had planned to explain some of it, but if you want to hear everything

Sergei: I must have you promise to trust and co-operate with us

Sergei: First, with your actions.

Kirihara: ...

Kirihara: Ootsuka!
Contact Section 4 immediately!
Have them deploy police to block the perimeter around Mizugaoka.

Ootsuka: Ri... right away!

P21

Kirihara: I'm definitely having you tell me everything.

Sergei: Fine.

Parcel: ...hup!

Parcel: Then I'll be...

Parcel: GAH!

Hei: Why were you watching?

Parcel: ...

Hei: Spill it all

Hei: Or I'll kill you.

Translation: Darker Than Black - Shikkoku no Hana - 7

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:04:02 +0000

Conjoined bubbles separated by line breaks, each new bubble has its own entry. The "Text:" entries on this one are formatted so that the text in the same panel is on the same entry, but separated by a line break when the text appears on separates sides of the panel.

This translation may be freely used for scanlations. Don't steal! It took me a while!

If anyone thinks I should clarify my formatting somehow, I'm open to suggestions.
Also, the first page was an ad.

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P2

Text: Can the breaking world be stopped---?

Darker than Black - The Jet Black Flower

Chapter 7: Up on the Tower

P3

Azusa: Heya, Kyou-chan

Kyouko: ...

Azusa: Wait long?

Kyouko: Azu...

Azusa: Hmm?

Kyouko: Azusa... What's that on your leg?

Azusa: Oh, this?

P4

Azusa: It's just a bruise

Azusa: Don't worry about it.

Kyouko: Just a bruise...?

Azusa: The water tower...
When was it that we last came up here together?

Kyouko: ...
The summer festival last year, wasn't it?

P5

Kyouko: We watched the fireworks display...

Kyouko: And then the stars afterward...

Azusa: Oh, yeah.
......back then, I really didn't care whether the stars were real or fake...

Azusa: Did you know, Kyou-chan?

Azusa: When a Contractor dies, a star falls...

Azusa: Isn't that wonderful?
No matter how alone you are when you greet death,

Azusa: Someone will notice.

Azusa: The reason why I didn't quit volleyball,
and why I tried so hard to be able to jump higher than anyone else

Azusa: It may have all been because I wanted someone to notice

P6

Azusa: That I am here.

Azusa: Ahahahaha! I'm such a dummy, aren't I?
I got all serious about something like that

Azusa: So it became about trying to win the heart of the one I love

Azusa: Hehe...

Kyouko: ...

Kyouko: Azusa... I...

Kyouko: !!?

P7

Kyouko: Kyah!

Azusa: Hey, Kyou-chan
You had something to tell me, right?

Kyouko: Stop!

Azusa: The truth!

Azusa: About the kind of relationship me and coach had,

Azusa: And about the kind of person coach was-- You knew everything, didn't you?

P8

Azusa: Why didn't you say anything?
Tell me

Kyouko: Can't... brea...

Azusa: TELL ME!

Azusa: Before I stop being human ... Before I do that, I need to hear it no matter what.

Azusa: So, I...

Kyouko: ...

Kyouko: Get off!

P9

Bubbles: Haa/Haa

Kyouko: It was just once!

Kyouko: I've always done as he... As Daisuke...
Since we're family, he told me to keep it a secret

Azusa: Fami...ly...?

Kyouko: He'd tell me that I'd be letting my parents down if I caused any trouble before the wedding
I've been doing everything he told me for so, so long...

Kyouko: Even today--
I was going to lure you out for his plan!

P10

Azusa: Plan?

Azusa: What do you mean?

Bubbles: haa/haa

Kyouko: Some guys grab you from a back street and rape you in the gym tool shed.

Kyouko: That's when he suddenly appears and rescues you. That's the plan.
It's all to confuse you.

Azusa: What the......

Azusa: That would never work

Kyouko: It would!

Kyouko: He's a smooth talker

Kyouko: He has lots of experience with women

Kyouko: When you're apologized to, you start to want to forgive them!

Kyouko: And deceived by a smile,

Kyouko: You fall in love all over again...

P11

Kyouko: You can't fight love

Kyouko: No matter how much you try to resist it.

Azusa: Kyou... chan......?

Azusa: That mark on your chest...!?

Kyouko: But I've had enough.

P12

Kyouko: OWAAH!

Azusa: !!

Hei: !

Hei: Aren't those two his target...?

Yin: Hei.

Yin: I found him.
60 meters, behind you and to the right.

Hei: !

Hei: So he is here.

P13

Hei: Harvest!

Azusa: Stop... I'll fall...!

Hei: !

Azusa: Ugh...

Azusa: ...you met him too?
That man...

Azusa: The Contractor with a scarred face...

Kyouko: That's right

P14

Azusa: When?

Kyouko: Three days ago

Azusa: Three days?

Kyouko: I thought it was a dream

Kyouko: I didn't believe in Contractors
I thought the thing on my chest was a coincidence

Kyouko: ...but when I saw yours, I realized it was true.

Kyouko: I'll become a Contractor too, and change everything!

Kyouko: By cutting all my ties to the one
who was more precious to me than anything else!!

Kyouko: And then Daisuke
...... I'll kill each and every one who made me suffer.

Azusa: Kuh...

Hei: The flower is eroding their senses...

Hei: I have no obligation to save them, but...

Hei: Tch!

P15

Hei: Stop, you two!

Azusa: !

Hei: Come to your senses!

Hei: That isn't going to make you into Contractors!

Hei: The flower is...

Azusa: It's that same...
Masked Contractor as before ...

Harvest: Turning your back on the enemy, BK201?

Hei: !

P16

Hei: !?
What was that...?

Harvest: Hehe...

Little bubbles: hyuuuh/Hyuuuuh

Harvest: We both have the ability of a lethal touch...
Even a second of negligence can be fatal.

Harvest: We'll have to be careful.

P17

Azusa: No!

Hei: !

Hei: Out of the way

Harvest: No.

Hei: !

P18

Hei: Sand...

Harvest: Fool.

Hei: !

P19

Hei: Having humans murder one another,

Hei: What are you planning?

Harvest: It's evolution, BK201.

Azusa: ...

Text: ...I never knew.
Kyou-chan was hurting this much.

P20

Text: Coach...... That man didn't only hurt me...
He was even making my best friend suffer so much!

Text: I'll never forgive. I'll never forgive.
Coach... ...and me, for thinking only of myself...

Text: Never!!!

Hei: Evolution?

P21

Harvest: Yes.
The flower desires my... desires mankind's evolution.

Harvest: Illogicalities can't completely be destroyed with just a burst of rampant emotion
That's why things failed last time.

Harvest: A much stronger impact is required
The control gained from the complete destruction of emotion,

Harvest: It is the completion of evolution.

Hei: You mean that evolution is becoming like a Contractor

Harvest: Wrong

P22

P23

Harvest: It is to transcend Contractors.

Azusa: Let's stop...

Azusa: This is...

P24

Azusa: I...

Azusa: I only...

Kyouko: UAAAAHHH!

P25

Azusa/Kyouko: Kyah!

Kyouko: No!

Azusa: Eh!?

Kyouko: I'm sorry.

P26

Somebody: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Hei: GUAH!

Harvest: kuhaha

Hei: Ugh...

Hei: ...!?

Hei: Our powers... resonated?

Hei: !

Text: Next issue, the awakening!!

Translation: Darker Than Black - Shikkoku no Hana - 6

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:53:11 +0000

I'm on a roll!

Conjoined bubbles separated by line breaks! Each new bubble has its own entry!
May be freely used for scanlating! I hope I don't have to tell you not to steal though!

There are way too many ellipses in this manga!

This starts from page 2; Page 1 was an ad for the second series.

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P2

The two hearts at strife.
A time when they are joined, will never again...

Darker than Black - The Jet Black Flower
Chapter 6: Dear Friends

P3

Kyouko: This isn't funny!

Kyouko: Why did you call me out here this early in the morning?
Are you really telling me to betray my best friend?

Kyouko: As if I could ever do that!

Daisuke: I didn't say that

Daisuke: I'm just asking you to please persuade her
You, as her best friend

Daisuke: Okay?

Kyouko: No! Never!

P4

Kyouko: It's all your fault to begin with!
Going from girl to girl, one after the other...

Daisuke: That's why I want to apologize

Daisuke: And it's not all my fault
They seduced me, all clingy and needy.

Kyouko: I'm not kidding!

Daisuke: No, it's true

Daisuke: I regret it. I'm worried about Tsukimori too...

Daisuke: She was hurt because of my weak will...

Daisuke: And I allowed this all to happen, even though I was her coach...

Daisuke: You know she never holds anything back...
Be it about volleyball, or about love...

Kyouko: ...

Daisuke: I don't want her dreams to be ruined
I'm begging you, Kyouko

Daisuke: Do it for my sake too!

Daisuke: You won't even have to mean it!

P5

Daisuke: You don't want to make your parents sad either, do you?

Kyouko: !

Kyouko: ...

Kyouko: You...
You're really never gonna hurt Azusa again, right?

Daisuke: Of course not.
I'll save her the moment those hoodlums try to attack

Daisuke: I'll apologize for everything that happened before!
That's all.

Kyouko: ...... Promise!

Kyouko: This time for sure!

Daisuke: I keep my promises

Daisuke: I promise.

P6

Kyouko: You'd better remember that!

Daisuke: Yeah

Daisuke: *sigh*

Thug#1: Oh dear...

Thug#1: Didcha really wanna say that, sempai?

Thug#2: We're not gonna hold anything back, tho'?
No point in doin' it if we do, y'know?

Daisuke: Hmph

P7

Daisuke: I didn't lie

Daisuke: I'm just gonna be a little too late for the rescue.

Thug#1: Cold, man.

Daisuke?: There's no point to it if I can't blow off some steam, after all

Daisuke: Women, you know. Make yourself look just a little cool and line up some nice words
They'll fall right for it and forgive you for anything

Daisuke: Piece of cake.

Thug: You got it.

Someone: AHAHAHAHA!

P8

Kyouko: ...

Someone: Good morning!

Someone: Morning!

Girl#1: Great weather today.

Girl#2: Finally, huh?

Girl#1: Yeah

Girl: It's been raining for two whole weeks

P9

Text: Hehee! Waaait
Woof Woof

Azusa: ...

P10

Hei's book: The A in the Box

Hei: It's definitely her
Is Harvest nearby?

Yin: He is not near water within a 2 kilometer radius.

Hei: Okay

Hei: Tell me right away if you find something.

P11

Kyouko: ...

Girl#3: Huh?
Morning, Kyouko. Aren't you early today!

Girl#1: Whoa, you don't see this every day.

Kyouka: Ah... yeah...

Kyouka: I had something to do...

Kyouka: Have you seen Azusa?

Girl#1: She's not here yet?
She's the one who's usually early.

Girl#3: This is really something else.
Did anything happen?

Kyouko: No, nothing at all...

Kyouko: I was just wondering if she'd let me copy her notes...

Girl#3: Notes?

Girl#1: Shoot! I forgot we had homework!

P12

Girl#4: Oh!
Good morning, Azusa.

Girl#4: ?

Kyouko: A...

Kyouko: Azu...

P13

Azusa: Goood morniiing~~ [musical note]

Azusa: Everybodyyy~~ [musical note]

Girl#1: Yea...

Girl#3: Morning ......

Kyouko: ......

Girl#1: ... You sure are chipper bright and early, Azusa...
Did you hurt your leg again?

Azusa: Yeah, but it's no biggie

P14

Girl#3: Did you do the homework?

Azusa: Eh?

Azusa: ...ah!

Azusa: ...my bag... I lost it.

Azusa: Ehehe

Girl#1: Lost it...
Whatcha gonna do? Tell the teacher?

Azusa: Guess I should.

Kyouko: ......

Kyouko: He... Hey, Azusa

Azusa: What's up, Kyou-chan?

Kyouko: ...you were so down yesterday ...are you really okay now?

Azusa: Yup

Azusa: I'm good

Azusa: Because it's all come out.

P15

Text next to Azusa: Tehe

Kyouko: Is...

Kyouko: Is that so...

Kyouko: ...

Kyouko: You're amazing... Azusa...

Azuma: Mm?

Kyouko: Today, after school ...
Could we talk a little...?

Azusa: After school?

Azusa: ...sure.

Azusa: There's something I wanted to talk to you about, too

P16

Azusa: There's a lot of stuff I gotta get done, so how about we meet over there at five?

Kyouko: At five...

Text: That thing with Daisuke was at seven...

Kyouko: Where do you mean?

Azusa: Come on!
We used to stargaze there all the time...

Sign: No Trespassing

Azusa: The water tower behind the school.

P17

Azusa: We'll meet up there.

Kyouko: ...okay

Kyouko: Gotcha ...

Saitou: AAAGH

Saitou: They're late

Saitou: When are the Chief and Ootsuka coming back?

Saitou: It's almost noon...

P18

Kouno: It's definitely taken a little too long
It's been 12 hours since they left

Kouno: Whether or not things went well, they could have at least contacted us...

Kouno: ...something must have happened...

Saitou: What "something"?

Saitou: Are you saying something happened to the chief?
The chief is--

Kouno: Hey!

Matsumoto: Calm down, Saitou!

Matsumoto: We're dealing with PANDORA here

Matsumoto: You must have realized things weren't going to be easy.

Saitou: Then we should just charge in there!

Saitou: There's no other way!

Kouno: ...well? What should we do, Matsumoto-san?

Matsumoto: A poor move on our part, and we'll have given them the excuse they need to shut us down

Matsumoto: All we can do is wait.

P19

Matsumoto: We know that the Section Chief was meeting with Dr. Schrader some time ago
We've also confirmed that she has not left PANDORA

Matsumoto: All we can do now, is to believe in her and wait.

Saitou: Khh...
I should have gone with her...

Text: *riiiing*

Kouno: !

Saitou: The phone!
... Is it the chief!?

Kouno: Yes,
This is the Public Safety Division, Section 4...

Kouno: Ehh?

Kouno: Ah... yes.
Yes......

Kouno: Okay...

Saitou: Was it the chief?
Tell me, Kouno!

Kouno: ... It was about that bag.

Saitou: Bag?

P20

Kouno: It was a report from the Mizugaoka Girl's Senior High School, about a student who had lost her bag...

Saitou: Ohh!

Saitou: That.
The one the chief picked up...

Kouno: What should we do? It looked like the chief wanted to take it back herself...

Matsumoto: But on the other hand, we can't just ignore the report...
Saitou. Go return the bag.

Saitou: Huh?
Me?

Matsumoto: It was lost near the crime scene, so if you would take her testimony...

Yanagi: Wait.

Someone: Department Manager Yanagi!

Yanagi: What does this have to do with Section 4's work?

Yanagi: Section 4's job is to protect the nation from the crimes of Contractors

Yanagi: It is not returning lost property.

P21

Kouno: But, Department Manager... There are eyewitness reports of a schoolgirl at the crime scene, and the chief--

Yanagi: Picked that up somewhere else.
A crime just happened to take place in the general direction its owner ran off to
There's no reason whatsoever to suspect the two are related

Yanagi: Take it to the police officers in charge of that district

Yanagi: They'll take the testimony as well

Yanagi: If a connection to the case appears then, you'll reopen that line of inquiry.
Got it?

Kouno: But...

Yanagi: I'm telling you to protect your territory

Yanagi: And to keep away from others!

Yanagi: Understood?

Saitou & co.: ...
Understood...

P22

Yanagi: Good.

Yanagi: Ahh...
By the way, looks like it's almost five o'clock

Yanagi: I'm going to go look around the other sections and then go home.

Yanagi: Protect your territory!

Saitou: Sir!

Saitou: Have a nice day!

Kouno: ...... What the hell, territory?
The guy comes in at ten and is outta here the moment the clock strikes five.

Kouno: Frickin' snake.

Saitou: Dammit!

P23

Letter: Club Resignation Notice

Box: You want to become a Contractor?

Bandaid: *rip*

P24

Box: When that mark sprouts and the flower blooms,

Box: That is when you'll truly awaken as a Contractor.

Box: What you need to do to make that happen...

P25

Kyouko: Azusa...

Box: Is to completely sever your ties,

Box: To the person most important to you.

Azusa: Heya, Kyou-chan.

Text: The farewell to her friend... Is the farewell to her humanity!! The final moment draws near---!

Translation: Darker Than Black - Shikkoku no Hana - 5

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:52:10 +0000

I'm pretty confident about this one, but it's only been checked over by me myself.

May be freely used for scanlating, just don't take credit for someone else's work, dude.
Stuff in [these] are notes, not meant to go on the finished product. Conjoined bubbles are separated by line breaks, each separate bubble has its own new entry.

There may be some issues with name spellings (Schrader and Meena, for example), so if someone knows the official ones...?

--

P1

Chapter 5: PANDORA

Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana

Where there is a will, there is a way!!

P2

All the little bubbles: Hah/Haa [rapid breathing noises]

Wei: Where do you think you're going?
BK201.

Hei: !

Wei: Khuhahaha

Wei: Hah!

Hei: Kh...

P3

Wei's finger: *snap*

Hei: Ahh!

Wei: How is it?

Wei: How does my blood taste!?

Hei: Uhh...

Hei: Aaaah!!

Hei: Guh...!

Maki: Heehee
You can't run away

Hei: !

Maki: You should know that already,
Mister.

P4

Hei: !?

Hei: Gu...ah...

Hei: ...!

November: Right.

November: The future she foretold will come true

November: I guarantee it.

P5

Hei: November 11...!

Havoc: That's right, Hei

Hei: Carmine!

Havoc: This is the future you chose.

Huang: ...damn, still as troublesome as ever.

Mao: Don't say that
This is Hei we're talking about.

Hei: Huang...

Hei: And even Mao... Why?

Amber: Because it's your responsibility

Amber: Hei.

P6

Amber: This is your duty.

Hei: Amber ......

Amber: Unless he is stopped,
Humans and Contractors will have to face a crisis they never have before

Amber: If you don't stop him, that is
Hei.

Hei: Wait...

Hei: I know he's dangerous... But,
What are you really after?

P7

Amber: I'm counting on you
Hei......

Hei: !?
Wait, Amber!!

Someone: Good luck

Hei: !!?

Someone: Goodbye

Someone: Farewell

Hei: Wait

Hei: Don't go

Hei: I still have...

Hei: Don't go!

Harvest: Hyuuuuh

Harvest: Irrational things all disappear.
Hyuuuuh

Harvest: Dreams and irrationalities, all gone.

P8

Harvest: The only thing left is you,
BK201

Hei: AAAAAHHHHH

Hei: AHH...!

Little bubbles: hah/hah/haa

Text: haa/haa

Hei: A dream...

P9

Note: If you find this note, that means you've chosen this future.
He will definitely appear there...
The Contractor of the dark flowers.
Only you can stop him.
If you've chosen this future, you must stop him, Hei.
From Amber

Hei: Amber...

Yin: ...... Hei?

Hei: ...sorry for waking you,
Yin

Hei: It's nothing, I'm fine
Go ahead and rest a little more.

Hei: It's 23:40... [That's 11:40 PM for Americans]

Hei: I was asleep for two hours...

P10

Yin's stomach: *gruuuumble*

Yin: ......

Hei: Haha...

Hei: We haven't even had dinner yet...

Hei: How about I cook us something?

Hei: ...there's also the laundry...

Hei: And I should change, too.

Someone: --it's as you already know.

P11

Schrader: My research had to do with a particle accelerator, called the Saturn Ring, built into this wall surrounding the Gate
Using that, we would shoot anti-Gate particles, accelerated to 99.99 % of the speed of light, into the very core of the Gate

Schrader: It was supposed to annihilate the Gate itself!

Schrader: If the Gate were to disappear, Contractors would as well.

Ootsuka: Thi... This is hard to follow.

Schrader: "The Tokyo Explosion"

Schrader: That was the final plan of those Contractors, to stop us from going through with ours

Schrader: They were going to make the area 1500 kilometers around the Gate inaccessible

Schrader: To keep the Gate safely away from the hands of mankind!

P12

Kirihara: ...the Contractor group, Evening Primrose...

Kirihara: Their leader was a woman who used to go by the codename "February". She was also known as Amber...

Kirihara: ...however, the Tokyo Explosion plan ended as only an attempt.

Kirihara: Your Saturn Ring project as well,
Dr. Schrader.

Schrader: Yes!

Schrader: My Saturn Ring was completely destroyed by BK201...

Schrader: Because he chose a future
for both Contractors and humans.

Schrader: Really, I was very surprised...

Kirihara: ...even if it was just a stopgap measure
He must have had his reasons......

Kirihara: So, Doctor?

Schrader: Hm?

P13

Kirihara: What does this all have to do with the black flowers?

Schrader: Oh, that's right
We strayed a little bit off the topic

Schrader: What I meant to say is,

Schrader: My research and the Saturn Ring would allow us to completely annihilate the Gate from the face of the earth.
However,

Schrader: We weren't on too tight a schedule, so there were, of course, voices of opposition from those who profited from working with the Gate.
So there were several other projects underway simultaneously

Schrader: One of those was "The Black Flower"!

Schrader: They were researching a dandelion-like parasitic plant found inside the gate.

Ootsuka & Kirihara: Parasitic plant!?

P14

Schrader: Though it wasn't my project, so I don't know the details

Schrader: It began two years ago

Schrader: "It" suddenly attached itself to a man who had been investigating the inside of the Gate

Schrader: There was no visible change at first, and nobody realized anything had happened

Schrader: A few days later
something made that investigator change completely!

Schrader: With some unnatural power, he slaughtered everyone who had been in the laboratory room with him

P15

Schrader: By the time the guards rushed in,

Schrader: Only his corpse remained, collapsed in a sea of blood
with countless, blooming black flowers growing from his body.

Schrader: It caused quite a stir in PANDORA back then
I remember it pretty well.

Kirihara: ...an unnatural power...

Kirihara: You mean to say he became a Contractor?

Schrader: It does mean possessing a power extremely similar to that, but...

Schrader: I don't think that's quite it

Schrader: There are no stars born for those affected by the parasite.

Kirihara: !

P16

Schrader: ...that is all I know about the black flowers
It wasn't my research...

Schrader: And

Schrader: It's outside my area of expertise.

Kirihara: ...next,

Kirihara: The one with the ability to dissolve, who you said had died--had he gained his ability due to the parasite?

Schrader: No, no. He's a regular Contractor

Schrader: He...

Guy: Dr. Schrader.

Schrader: Hm?

Guy: It's time.

Schrader: Already?

Guy: Yes, it's midnight.

Kirihara: Wait, please, I still have important questions for...!

Guy: The appointment was until midnight.

Guy: Or are the Japanese police in a habit of breaking their promises?

P17

Kirihara: Kh...

Schrader: Why don't you just come back tomorrow?
I don't have much to do anyway

Schrader: ...I could introduce you to the one researching the black flowers, if you'd like.

Kirihara: Really?
Thank you so much!

Schrader: What was the name again...?

Schrader: Must've been... Meena-kun

Schrader: Oh, look
There she is

Bubble: !?

Schrader: Meena Kandaswami-kun.

Kirihara: Ah...

Guy: Now, please follow me

Guy: This way

Kirihara: ...

Meena: It's been a while, Dr. Schrader.

Schrader: Hello, Meena-kun. Hello to you too, Sergei-kun
We were just talking about your work......

Kirihara: ......

P19

Ootsuka: So we wound up being kicked out after all, chief.

Kirihara: We still gained a clue about the black flower and its significance!

Kirihara: One way or another, with that flower
It's possible to gain power close to a Contractor's!

Ootsuka: Are we coming back tomorrow?

Kirihara: Of course.

Kirihara: I still have things to ask Dr. Schrader
I must also meet with this Meena Kandaswami

Kirihara: If I can get an appointment, that is...

P20

Ootsuka: There are some delicious tea cakes I'd like bring along...

Ootsuka: But with that level of security, it's probably impossible...

Kirihara: The level of security was almost unbelievably, even though we only went in to talk to someone...

Kirihara: However, since it was PANDORA...

Kirihara: ?

Kirihara: ...

Ootsuka: ?
What is it?

Kirihara: ... this isn't the way we came in.

Ootsuka: Eh!?

Ootsuka: Bu... But isn't there only one way?

Kirihara: It's barely noticeable, but the road curves slightly to the right

Kirihara: It should be curving to the left on the way back!

Kirihara: ...the car was moved!

Ootsuka: Wh-Wh-Wh-What should we do, chief!?

P21

Kirihara: Check the weapons!

Ootsuka: Ye...
Yes!

Ootsuka's cell: *bip* *bip* *bip*

Ootsuka: !

Ootsuka: They're gone!

Ootsuka: Even the anti-Contractor wire gun--
Everything's gone!

Kirihara: Tch...

Kirihara: They're not letting us off easy...

Someone: !!!?

P22

P23

Ootsuka: Kyaaa!

Kirihara: Kh...

P24

Kirihara: Kuhah...

Cell: *bip* *bip*

Kid: It's done.

Voice: Good work, Parcel

Voice: The next target is BK201.

Kid: Got it.

Translation: Darker Than Black - Shikkoku no Hana - 4

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:09:56 +0000

Conjoined bubbles are separated by a line break.
The stuff in [these] are notes, they're not meant to go on any scanlation. Lines with an asterisk after them mean I'm kinda guessing argh. I didn't translate any of the side-buffs or sound-effects... since they're useless HAHA! But let me know if you want them for some godforsaken reason.

Feel free to use for scanlating, just gimme credit if you put in credits.
I also puts this one up on livejournal, just in case anyone is confused.

--

P1

As long as the two of us are together...
We can keep on living.

P2

Box: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department - Temporary Headquarters, Hatsudai

Sign: Foreign Affairs, Section 4

Kirihara: I was just looking for that schoolgirl...

Kirihara: To think that I'd run into the second case...

Kirihara: Sakurazaka in Udagawachou, Shibuya...
A hole in the building, a pile of sand underneath... And a dissolved, unidentified body...

Kouno: It matches that KRC-Company case in Ikebukuro pretty much exactly, huh.

P3

Kouno: The only difference is that we didn't find a withered dandelion this time...

Saitou: It's a good thing it stopped raining

Saitou: The body might have been washed away otherwise.

Kirihara: Right...

Saitou: Weren't you right nearby, Section Chief?

Saitou: And... did you find that girl?

Kirihara: No...

Kirihara: There were many young people around that area who might look like students, after all.
The girl sighted at the bookstore turned out to be someone else.

Kouno: There are eyewitness reports of what might have been a schoolgirl, sighted at the end of that hole in the building, but...

Kouno: The testimonies are fuzzy on the details
Unless she herself comes forth as a witness, we might have a hard time identifying her.

Saitou: Could it have been that girl Section Chief was looking for?

Kirihara: I don't know

P4

Kirihara: ...but we know at least that the girl I saw wasn't a Contractor.

Kirihara: The KRC-case came first
She couldn't have become a Contractor later and then made that hole in the building. *

Kirihara: ... I was planning on taking that bag to the school tomorrow, anyway.

Saitou: ...why not take it straight to her house?

Kirihara: If I could, I would have done so already.
There was nothing inside to identify her by.

Kirihara: The school has been asked to contact us if they find out anything.

Ootsuka: Section chief Kirihara

Ootsuka: Come take a look.

Kirihara: Did you find something, Ootsuka?

Ootsuka: Yes, chief

P5

Ootsuka: The results for the withered dandelion came back from the Special Analysis Unit.
So Matsumoto-san and I tried comparing them with the materials found within the Gate so far

Ootsuka: First...

Ootsuka: These are the results of the analysis.

Computer: Analysis Incomplete

Kirihara: Analysis Incomplete ...!

Matsumoto: ... in other words, it's definitely Gate-related material
Nothing found in normal space would give out this kind of reading.

Kouno: What about the comparison?

Matsumoto: Unfortunately, that wasn't any good either.

P6

Matsumoto: ...many of the materials found within the Gate are classified in the first place

Matsumoto: We found nothing matching in neither the police database, nor on the internet.

Kirihara: ...

Kirihara: What about Contractor abilities?

Ootsuka: ... Here.

Computer:
[Under Bill Art]
Disassembly of matter, Transformation (Breath) ------ Deceased
Danger Level: S ------ (South America)

[Under No Name]
Erasing moisture, Pulverization of Matter (Contact) ------ Deceased
Danger Level: S ------ (South America)

[Under Pink Panther]
Disassembly of matter (Strike) ------ Deceased
Danger Level: A ------ (Fren[ch])

[Under Matthew Edner]
Disassembly of matter (Contact) ------ Deceased
Danger Level: C ------ (South America)

[Under Cocktail]
Liquefaction of organic matter (Saliva)* ------ Deceased
Danger Level: C ------ (Japan)

Ootsuka: The ability to break things apart...
Or, the ability to liquify matter

Ootsuka: The Contractors who have this kind of ability are these five...
However...

P7

[Computer: Close-up of computer text found on previous page]

Kirihara: They're all dead!

Ootsuka: Three of them died in the South American war,
The other two lost their lives on missions

Ootsuka: I double-checked the data with the Astronomy Bureau, so there's no mistake.

Kouno: So their stars have already fallen...

Someone: Can't be any doubt about it then.

Kirihara: Hmm...

Text: The sky that now covers the world is a fake one.
Each one of the stars twinkling up there is paired with the life of a Contractor.
When a Contractor dies, the star tied to them falls from the sky.

P8

Matsumoto: So we might assume that it could be an unknown star that not even the Astronomy Bureau knows ......
Or maybe a newborn one ......

Saitou: A Contractor who's just awakened!

Kouno: That could be it!

Kouno: They say the Astronomy Bureau has been a mess ever since the Tokyo Explosion case

Kouno: Also, in this bad weather
They might have overlooked novas as just incidences of Contractor activity.

Kirihara: ...so we've got nothing, either way.

Kirihara: ...as I thought, there's no choice but go over there...

Saitou: There?
Where do you mean?

Kirihara: PANDORA.

P9

Ootsuka: Pa-Pa...

Ootsuka: PANDORA!?

P10

Saitou: But, chief ......
Sure, they manage Hell's Gate and the wall surrounding it, and do research over there...

Saitou: But it's an independently administrated section run by the United Nations!
It's protected by its own laws!

Kouno: He's right, chief!
Even if we could break in there without anyone noticing, even if we knew exactly what we were looking for--
How the hell would we...

Kirihara: There is nothing useful in the police database, or in the Astronomy Bureau.
We have to go, even if we have to force our way.

Ootsuka: Even if we go, it's another thing whether or not they'll let us in...

Saitou: This'll turn into diplomatic issues if we go about it wrong... Section Chief...

Kirihara: We can't afford to hesitate over something like this!

Kirihara: Saitou!

P11

Kirihara: There have already been casualties!

Kirihara: It's our duty to protect this country... To protect its people!

Saitou: Yes...

Saitou: But...

Kirihara: The problem is how to get in contact with PANDORA, but...

Somebody: Well...

Kouno: Hourai might have managed something, back when he was Director......

Kouno: But the department manager who took over...

Kouno: ...is him, huh...

P12

Box: Department Manager
Issei Yanagi

Yanagi: What?

Yanagi: Don't try to dump any work on me.

Yanagi: I'll never do it.

Yanagi: Ootsuka-kun, tea.

Ootsuka: Ri... Right away.

P13

Kouno: What is a guy from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs doing in the Public Safety Division...?

Matsumoto: It's a post unique to Section 4.

Matsumoto: He's here to keep an eye on us, to make it short.

Kouno: Gotta love this country.

Matsumoto, Kirihara & Saitou: ...

Kirihara: Hmh...

Matsumoto: If only there were someone we knew within PANDORA,
Then we could try to make an appointment to see them face to face.

Kirihara: Hmm...

Kirihara: ...

Kirihara: ... I guess we've got nothing to lose ...

Saitou & Kouno: Huh?

P14

Somebody: You know someone in there, chief?

Kirihara: ...

Kirihara: Ootsuka, with me.

Ootsuka: Ah... right away!

Yanagi: Don't go causing any trouble now, Kirihara.

Kirihara: There's no need to worry, Deputy Manager.

Saitou: Uh... Chief!
If you're going, I'll...

Kirihara: No, you're no good.

Saitou: Gah!

Kouno: Oh, man.

Kouno: How about you just give up on her already,

Kouno: Sempai.

Saitou: What are yo...
Just you know, I...!

Yanagi: ...

P15

Kouno: It's looking pretty hopeless to me, you know?

Saitou: That's not it!

P16

Yin: Hei.

Hei: This is useless now.

Hei: The masks, the knives...
I'm running short on supplies...

Hei: ...if I don't beat him soon and get out of this city...

P17

Hei: ...Yin
Where is he now?

Yin: I don't know.
...but the one who was with him...

Yin: ...

P18

Azusa: ...ll

Azusa: ...ill

Azusa: Ki...ll...

Azusa: KILL

P19

Ootsuka: Whoa

Ootsuka: You don't even realize just how big it is until you get close.

Kirihara: So this is your first time in PANDORA.

Ootsuka: Ye... Yes...

Ootsuka: ...chief, I wonder...

Ootsuka: ...I've heard that things can just suddenly appear here. And that, here, you can see things you're never even supposed to see...

Kirihara: Seems like it.

Ootsuka: S-So it's true, then.

Kirihara: The Gate makes people's hearts waver ......

Kirihara: Just because it has been said
that something like that exists beyond this wall,

Kirihara: Many humans and Contractors have lost their lives in battle...

P20

Kirihara: I don't really understand it

Kirihara: But something definitely exists there--
That can to drive people insane.

Ootsuka: I feel sick.

Kirihara: We're here.

Kirihara: Not even hairpins are allowed...

Ootsuka: They took all of our stuff away...

P21

Kirihara: It's become much stricter than the last time I was here...

Guy: This way.

Kirihara: ......

Kirihara: This is to be expected after what happened... I guess......

Kirihara: Looks like we're being watched from every angle.

Guy: Enter.

Schrader: Ohh, so you came.

Kirihara: It's been a while.

P22

Kirihara: Dr. Robert Schrader.

Schrader: I don't really think it was that long ago, though
Kirihara-kun.

Text: It's the number one authority on the physics of high inner-Gate energies, Dr. Schrader!

Ootsuka: !

Ootsuka: I... I'm Mayu Ootsuka.

Ootsuka: I'm pleased to meet you.

Schrader: No need to be so formal, come on in
There's barely anything in here, though.

P23

Kirihara: ... I apologize for intruding on you so late at night.

Schrader: No trouble,
if it's two beautiful ladies coming over

Schrader: Even under house arrest, I would do at least this much.

Ootsuka: Oh... So that's why she brought me along instead of Saitou.

Kirihara: You're being confined here?

Schrader: Well, yes
My research came to an empty end because of BK201...
...no, I'm not blaming anyone for it.

Schrader: ...so.

Schrader: Just what kind of business did you come here on today, I wonder?

Kirihara: Thank you

Kirihara: It's actually about the case I'm currently pursuing ...

Kirihara: I wonder if you might know anything, Doctor?

Kirihara: About a Contractor with the ability to dissolve matter, and about the black dandelions.

P24

Schrader: A Contractor with the ability to dissolve matter, and black dandelions?

Kirihara: We think the black dandelions might have come from the Gate.

Schrader: ...... I know?

Kirihara: You know something!?

Schrader: Died a few months ago, he did.

Kirihara: Died?

Schrader: In front of everyone and all.

Kirihara: Please tell me, Doctor!

Kirihara: Tell me!

Kirihara: What exactly do you mean by that?