Soul Eater 88

[Scanslation with this translation reserved for MRI scans]

Soul Eater
Chapter 87*
Hunt
*[probably should be 88, as last chapter was 87]


01
Box: Shishepa Village

Soul: Do we still have some time until our prey comes?
Maka: I think it’s almost time.

Man: Hey, you people from Shibusen, what’s this?
Soul: Pardon?

Man: It’s rather long…
Man: Does it have to do with the hunt?

Maka: Oh… This is…


02
The awaited newest tankoubon, volume 20, and “Soul Eater Not!” volume 1 both scheduled to be on sale September 22 (Thurs)!!
Chapter 87: Hunt
Ookubo Atsushi


03
Star: Tsubaki…
Does this count as flying?

Tsubaki: Hmmm… Not really flying…
Tsubaki: Stretching?

Star: Well, who cares about the details!!
Star: I’ve already conquered the land, and now I finally have the sky!

Soul: He’s as crazy as usual…

Heming: Sorry to have kept you waiting.


04
Heming: We’re late because we were doing cold water abdulations.
Box: Magic Ballista Ahab*
Box: Young hunter from the village Heming*
*[The names are in bigger font]

Ahab: I’m sorry, this guy’s still just a novice and needs your help.
Heming: I can do it alone.

Ahab: Each year a Meister and I would hunt as a unit, but… that Meister went and collapsed, you see.

Maka: So we need to herd the prey in the sky?
Ahab: Yeah!
If we can take down one, this town will have plenty for a year.

Heming: We’ll be counting on you.


05
Maka: Tsubaki-chan, Black ☆ Star
Star: !

Star: Is it almost time?
Maka: Yup.
Maka: Get ready.

Star: Today we’re just herding for the hunt, right? What a plain job.

Maka: It also serves as flight training for us.
Soul: Besides, it’s questionable whether or not you’re flying!!
Tsubaki: He’s right! It’s questionable, Black ☆ Star.
Star: You’re all saying it.
You guys must really like me.

Maka: ……

Soul: Hm?
What’s up, Maka?


06
Maka: What is it… this sky…
Maka: It’s giving me the chills…

Ahab: Young city girls are so cute.
Heming: Perverted old man
Stop your grumbling and let’s get going as well.

Heming: Hunting would be easier if we could fly too.
Ahab: You lazy brat, stop your grumbling and let’s get going.
Ahab: Transform!!

Mook: Do your best, it’s all up to you.


07

Heming: Let’s go, old man.

Ahab: Hoho~

Ahab: Yeehaaaaw!!


08
Soul: The sky’s giving you chills… is that a sign of our quarry approaching?
Maka: …Yeah, it might be.

Heming: The clouds are getting thick.
Ahab: It’s a sign that it’s coming.

SFX: Hooeeh


09

Maka: Whoa…

Star: Grr…
It’s like we’re getting sucked in.
Maka: Wawawah

Ahab: It’s comiiing!!


10-11
[none]


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Star: Hey, hey, this is bigger than I imagined…
Maka?: This is the sky whale!?

Soul: How the heck… are we supposed to herd such a huge thing to a place under the sky to shoot easily…

Maka: At any rate, let’s chase after it.


13
Star: Should we just hit it and drag it down?

Maka: Weren’t you listening to the briefing?
This hunt is a village tradition so we can’t directly harm it!

Heming: It’s no use! The clouds are too thick! I can’t see at all.

Ahab: Don’t follow it with your eyes!!
Feel it!!


14
Star: I’m surprised such a huge thing can fly. I’m also big and flying, though.

Tsubaki: Sky whale… they usually fly at higher altitudes, but they seem to come down here during the ebb tide once a year.


15
Star: Hey!! It blew water.

Maka: !

Maka: This is…
Maka: Madness…

Soul: !?

Maka: So that’s it… I didn’t notice when we were on the ground…
Maka: The madness is at a higher concentration high in the sky…

Maka: What does this mean…?


16
Box: Lost Island
Kid: Where are you planning to take me?
I came to ask about the location of the Kishin.

Kid: Don’t you know about it?

Eibon: I don’t know either…
No…

Eibon: It might be more accurate to say I’m made to not know…
Kid: ?

Eibon: That’s the kind of existence we Old Great Ones are.
Eibon: That idiot seems to understand this as well…

Kid: We, Shibusen, can’t afford to relax.
Kid: Is there any way for you to tell me?


17

Eibon: There is no need to rush…
Eibon: The answer is almost there.

Kid: !?
What do you mean…
Eibon: Your precious friends will know.

Eibon: …The collapse has begun.

Eibon: In this world of the magnetic field, just an hour’s worth of occurrences repeats itself eternally.

Eibon: Take a look at this flower.


18

Eibon: Reset.

Eibon: Doesn’t this flower, which repeats without even straying one second, feel pleasant to you who values order?

Kid: The occurrences in this world have no productivity. The same as “nothingness.” I found in the “Book of Eibon” that uneven and unbalances things have the ultimate “order.”

Eibon: I see.
Then you will learn whether Shinigami is the cause of madness or not,
Eibon: You are not a fragment anymore. You are a fine shinigami.


19
Star: …

Star: Maka! You may be feeling something, but leave it for later!!
To be frank, there’s nothing for me to do except follow you guys!

Maka: Yeah,
I know.

Soul: It hit me as soon as I heard about the mission.

Maka: What, Soul?

Soul: Sound!!


20

Soul: Sky whales are sensitive to sound.
Soul: I’ll use sound to lead it around.

Soul: Here I go!!


21

SFX: Boom

Maka: Whoa!! It shot it back.


22
Soul: I’ll keep going!!

Star: ?
Star: What’re they doing?

Tsubaki: We can’t hear it since it’s an ultrasound battle.

Heming: Not yet?

Ahab: Let’s believe in them.
Ahab: Be ready to shoot at any time.

Ahab: !!


23

Heming: It’s here!!


24
Heming: Here I go!!

Ahab: Bring it down in one shot!
Straight through the heart!
Ahab: Don’t make our prey suffer!

Heming: I know.


25

Heming: Gooooo!!


26

Star: Huh!?

Heming: I did it!!

Star: Whaaaa


27
Villagers: Yeaaah!!
Villagers: It’s coming down!!

Heming: Now the village will thrive for a year!!

Heming: Hm?

Star: No, it won’t thrive.

Star: That’s

Star: Because!


28
Star: I’ll destroy it now!!

Star: DIE!!
Tsubaki: Stop it, Black ☆ Star!
Maka-chan, Soul-kun, someone, stop him!!

Soul: …

That feeling I sensed in the sky—…
Kishin—…


29
Box: Shibusen

Star: That was an easy mission!!
Soul: All you did was rampage in the village.
Tsubaki: A letter of apology…
Maka: …

Marie: Maka-chan, everyone…
Maka: Marie sensei, what’s wrong?

Marie: Stay calm and listen.

Maka: ?


30
We were told about it there.

Chrona
Was recorded in Shinigami-sama’s list
And an order to execute
Was given to us, Spartoi.