Death Note 103

Hello,

This is one of my first manga translations and I'm not an english native speaker, so bear with some mistakes.

As with Japanese I think I have a good textbook knowledge of the language. (I can also speak but that's less important for translations)

Also note, that the trans is quite free, since translations from japanese are imperfect by definition. Translating just the words and the structure does not make an english text.

The translation is free for redistribution, but If you have an IRC channel, I'd like to get a voice (or better) there, if you use it for a scanlation.

I'll update as fast as I can translate it (I'll add the text page per page).
/edit: translation done!

I'll care for a proper formating after you got your fix...
/edit: formating now...
/edit2: njoy! And give me feedback, please.

I’m terrible at names, so correct them please.

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What’s happening in the dark Warehouse? Don't do as much as to blink!

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Mikami: 36, 37, 38, 39

Yagami: Near, victory is mine!

Near: !....

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Mikami: 40

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Matsuda: We… we didn’t die … one minute went by … we didn’t die

Near: I told you, you wouldn’t die many times

Mikami: Wh … why???
Why are they not dieing…
G…god… I… I did as you ordered me…

Yagami thinks: Mikami………..

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Yagami thinks: But … but … what is the meaning of this…

Near: Rester, Gevani get Mikami

Mikami: G… god…
*click* (handcuffs)

Near: Gevani, the notebook
See with your own eyes!

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Near: The first four are without a doubt our, the SPK’s, names.
And the only name that is not here is Yagami Light
Furthermore, Mikami referd to you as “God”…
This is a clear case

Yagami: It’s …

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Yagami: It’s a Trap
This is a Trap!

It’s a trap near made up to make me confess something!
Isn’t it strange you didn’t die because of the notebook?
That proves it’s a trap!

Matsuda: Hu?

Near: Couldn’t it be that we didn’t die is because there is a trick with the notebook?

Yagami: N… No! Y … You have…
Yagami thinks: The one you replaced was the fake one. Mikami brought the real thing…
Yagami: ……..N… No!
It can’t be…….

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Yagami: It’s a trap… I don’t know that person

Aizawa: Light

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Aizawa: It’s too late
Near has won
You said “victory is mine”
It’s the same as a confession

Matsuda: Light

Why?

*click* (handcuffs)

Yagami: S...stop it!

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Yagami: S… stop

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Near: Yagami Light…
L…
Kira…
You have lost.

You have declared your own victory earlier and really…
You have actually won.
I have lost.

You made Mikami use a fake notebook all the time
To us it seemed real
When I wrote a name in the fake notebook, the person didn’t die.
So I predicted your trick and moved accordingly

We read your thoughts and made another copy of the fake notebook.

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Near: It was my plan to replace the pages so that we won’t die even if our names where written down and then have evidence.

And I purposely let you read that plan…
to have Mikama bring along the real notebook for the first time and kill us all… that was your plan.

I said from the beginning I doctored the notebook. And by that I meant the real one.

In other words, the fake and the real notebook, I manipulated them both, a part of the fake one and the whole real one.

Yagami thinks: Impossible!

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Near: This is the real notebook.

Gevani has spend one night copying it for me. It was crucial that he did it on time. Although he had experience because of changing the pages of the fake book, it must have been hard. But Gevani told me he did it on time.

He used the same pen as Mikami, he even perfectly faked his handwriting. He faked the outside and the inside flawlessly.

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Yagami thinks: ……He faked the real one and replaced it…
It’s a lie…
He couldn’t have done that.
Mikami always hid……

…
But, then why didn’t the people whose names where written down die…
What’s going on…?

Near: It’s because I touched this real notebook,

that I could see a reaper ever since you came here.

Mr. Reaper, it’s nice to meet you. I’m Near.
(Mr. Reaper sounds as strange as shinigami-san in Japanese, so I think it’s a good trans)

Ryuuku: He he
Nice to meet you

I’m Ryuuku

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Near: Ryuuku…
Until today, I always believed reapers have skull faces and carry scythes

Ryuuku: He he … there are ones like that, you know…

Yagami thinks: ……He can talk to Ryuuku…
The fact that he can see him means he really…

Near: When you look closely at this notebook, you can see, that a number of pages have been removed…
When you write names on these cut out pages, will they die?

Ryuuku: Yeah, they’ll die alright.

Yagami thinking: ……Ryuuku…

Near: One can even use a cut notebook…
That generates a lot of ways to use it
No, with this everyone can kill and you fooled us all the time…

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Near: Yagami Light, you are Kira.

Yagami thinking: ……not… not yet…

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Some… something about this trick…
I always made Mikami use the fake notebook. They couldn’t have replaced the real one ……!...

C…could it be that Mikami has betrayed me…?

No… it’s improbable that Mikami double-crosses me… he’d rather die… that’s how Mikami is.
If he was cornered…

Near: You’re wrong!

It’s thanks to Mello.

You’re smart, so you’ll get it even if I say no more.

Next time: “Answer”!

Margin:
Why didn’t Near die? ... “It’s thanks to Mello” – what does that mean? ... Next time:　The Truth!