Kurenai 14

(NOTE: Please see proofreading of Loserbait and my comment on it below the translation)

(SHIIIIIT MAJOR ERROR!!!! Last line from Benika in page 26!!!)

Kure-nai 14 – Promise

= speech/thought bubbles
++ everything else (usu also labeled to some extent)

Page 1
++ - Having Murasaki taken away, Shinkurou is...!?

Page 2

Tamaki
= Oh
= You came about?

Shinkurou
= Tamaki-san...

Tamaki
= Want some water?

= I called Dr. Yamauchi to have a look at you for good measure
= But at any rate, he said your vital organs are safe

= Guess it’s thanks to your training to get sturdy at Houzuki!

Page 3
Chapter 14 Promise
Original work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shuueisha: Super Dash Book Collection)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Scenario: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Composition: Furuya Daisuke

++ With you... once more –

JC Comics Volume 2 Second Edition Now Complete!!
TV anime DVD information on page 510!!
Extra chapter compilation and appendix in the Special Edition “Square II”!!

= Knock
= Knock

Page 4
Benika
= Are you alive?

Shinkurou
= Be...
= Benika-san...!

Benika
= ... You seem alright

= Oh, I see that Tamaki’s with you

Tamaki
= Hello–

Page 5
Benika
= It seems that I was a step behind
= I didn’t expect that they’d find this place

= I’ve caused you troubles, Shinkurou
= I’ll throw in some extra in your commission
= Recuperate with this for a while

Shinkurou
= ...Wai
= Please wait!!

Page 6
Shinkurou
= Please explain!!
= Just what on earth is...!!
= How did things like this...!!

Benika
= You don’t need to know

Shinkurou
= Do...!!
= Don’t joke with me!!

Page 7
Shinkurou
= Guh...!!

Benika
= It’s fine, Yayoi
= Let him go

Shinkurou
= Please explain...
= Tell me what all of this is about......

Benika
= And what would you do about it

Page 8
Benika
= Can you even fight them?

= ...That wound
= You’ve been done in by a professional mercenary, no?

= If you get involved in this case any more, you won’t get away with just that
= You’ll be killed for sure

Page 9
Shinkurou
= She...
= Saved me...

= She protected me
= Even though protecting was supposed to be my role...
= But regardless...

Benika
= Even after you find out, nothing will come out it, you know?

Page 10
Shinkurou
= That’s not for you to decide

Benika
++ No sign of backing down...

Tamaki
= Shall I excuse myself?

Benika
= No...
= I don’t mind

Page 11
Benika
= So
= What do you want to know first?

Shinkurou
= Your... goal

Benika
= Some straight ball

= My goal is to keep a promise

Shinkurou
= A promise?

Benika
= A promise
= With Murasaki’s mother

Page 12
Benika
++ In the past
++ There was a time when I went in and out of the Kuhouin because of work
++ I met her there

++ That place was called the “Inner Yard”

Shinkurou
= The Inner Yard...?

Page 13
Benika
= Women born to the Kuhouin spend their entire lies there
= While to the world, the media, the government
= Their existence is kept in a state of complete secrecy

Ginko
= No daughters exist in the Kuhouin

Shinkurou
= Wh...
= Why would they do such a thing...

Benika
= This is a heavily classified secret

Page 14
Benika
= Those of the Kuhouin
= Can only make children within their own clan
(t/n: OH HELL NO, WTF, this is what I was fearing from day 1 of this manga... !@^*$&@!^% )

Shinkurou
= Wha...

Benika
= I don’t know the reason in detail
= I suppose it’s along the lines of hereditary problems...

Page 15
Benika
= But marriage within the family is a complete taboo in this day and age
= It’s something that can never be made public

Shinkurou
= That’s why... a place like the Inner Yard...

Benika
= Yes...
= And in the Inner Yard

= Women are treated as tools to bear the clan’s children
(t/n: WOW, my nightmares are coming true....)

= You can’t comprehend, can you?

= I couldn’t understand it at first, either

= The emotions of the women who obey and live under a system like that...

Page 16
Benika
= But to put it in words...
= That place is something of a different world altogether
= And the common sense on this side was absolutely disregarded...

++ A clan that treats women as “tools” for bearing children
++ An facility for that purpose

= Does it piss you off?

= Nevertheless, in that infuriating place...
= Was my friend

Page 17
++ The Inner Yard (More than a decade ago)

Mother
= Want to leave this place?
= Me?

Benika
= That’s right
= If you want to leave, I’ll take you out

Mother
= Thank you, Benika

Page 18
Mother
= But it’s OK!
= This is a happy place
= There’s no fighting or crimes in here at all unlike the outside world

= I’m staying here with full understanding

= I’ll live here
= And bear children here

= And die here

Benika
= Are you really alright with that?
= In a place like this for the rest of your life, do you really...

Mother
= You’re right

Page 19
Mother
= Then... could you do me just one favor?

= If someday...
= If I bear a girl

= I’d like you to grant one wish of that girl

= I don’t have any complaints against ending in this land
= But the coming girl may not be so...

= Yeah?

Benika
= I understand

= I’ll definitely... grant it

Page 20
Shinkurou
= By any chance
= That girl you speak of is...

Benika
= Yes

= It’s Kuhouin Murasaki

Shinkurou
= Th Then just what was Murasaki’s wish!!
= Didn’t she want to leave the Inner Yard!!

Benika
= You’re wrong
= That child

Murasaki
++ I

Page 21
Murasaki
= Want to try that thing called love

++ My late mother would say often

++ That love is a very wonderful thing

Page 22
Murasaki
= But there is no such thing called love in the Inner Yard...

= Is it a difficult wish?

Benika
++ No...

Shinkurou
= That’s why...

= To me?

Page 23
Benika
= Well, it was my own arbitrary judgment, and I did feel bad...
= But there was no one else suitable

++ Thank you, Shinkurou
++ Thank you

Benika
= Hey, what are you planning?

Page 24
Shinkurou
= I’m going
= Where she is

Benika
= Hey

= Hey! Do you understand the situation?
= The Kuhouin family isn’t an adversary that you alone can do something about

= It’s like duking it out with a country’s military

Page 25
Benika
= Planning to die?

Shinkurou
= I’m going to meet her before that

Benika
= Meet her and then what will you do
= That child may remain on that side, you know?

Shinkurou
= That’s for her to decide
= I’ll see her
= And ask her what she really wishes for right now

Benika
= If she seeks to be saved?

Shinkurou
= I’ll save her!!!

Page 26
Probably both gals
= Fu...
= Fufufufu...

= HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Benika
= It seems that...
= My personnel selection was right on the money

= I had you figured out all wrong, Shinkurou
= Since when did you become man enough to make an enemy out of a corner of the Three Great Front Families for the sake of one woman? (t/n: OK, this was a bit hard to translate... so I more or less did a literal translation of 表御三家...)

(t/n: OK, the obnoxiously big, bolded, italicized text is the part of the text that I missed on my first pass... which also happened to be my only pass.. Yeah, this is why you should always proofread your own work -____-)

Page 27
Benika
= If you have the resolution, then there’s no helping it

= Let’s go, Shinkurou

Shinkurou
= Eh...

Benika
= I
= The Juuzawa Benika will be your guide

Page 28
Yamie
= You’re going, then, Benika

= I leave the boy up to you (t/n: Btw, it’s not like she owns him, please don’t start up a discussion about that...)

Benika
= Yeah

Tamaki
= Aw-w I’m going, too –

Shinkurou
= Drunks are not allowed

Page 29
++ Wait, Murasaki
++ I’ll definitely

Benika
= This...
= Is an unexpected guest

Shinkurou
= Huh?

= Yu...!

Page 30
Shinkurou
= Yuuno-san!!!

Yuuno
= You are going to Murasaki-chan, right?

Shinkurou
= Wh Why are you at a place like this...

Benika
= <Houzuki>, huh...

= As expected of the Thirteen Families of the Underworld (t/n: Again, an almost literal translation)
= You’re sensitive to information on the underworld

Yuuno
= Ever since I found out about Murasaki-chan
= I have been paying attention, so...

Page 31
Yuuno
= I’ll say the conclusion first
= (SFX) Snap

= There is now way...
= I will let Shinkurou-san fight the likes of Kuhouin

++ Unexpected, yet the greatest barrier!?

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Notes
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