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[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 290 by cnet128

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:36:38 +0000

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Hunter x Hunter
#290: Name
[TN: The invaders have allowed Yupi to escape...]
Meleoron: Knuckle!! // Help him, quickly!!
Knuckle: C'mon, Boss... // ?!
Morau: I told..... you not to... bother about... me! // Beat it...!!

2
Morau: You...... can still...... fight... // Do... what you can...!! // Yupi said... "whenever"... didn't he...?! // Then... go after him...!!
Knuckle: I... cannot. // I...... can no longer... see him... // ...as a simple target to be eliminated... // He actually sympathised with us, with how hard we were trying!! // He wasn't a truly bad person!! // In which case......... I...... I no longer have... // ...a reason to defeat him...!!

3
Knov: The King...!
Knuckle: Knov-sa -
Knov: It doesn't matter what the soldiers think or feel. // With a wave of his baton, they will do his bidding, no matter what that may be......!!

4
Knov: You can leave Morau to me... Shoot is all right, as well. // Do you two want to come as well?
Morau: Wai...t... // Let me punch that idiot in the face...
Knov: I've received word from a messenger of the President's. // He has taken the King to the appointed location.
Everyone: !!
Knov: It doesn't matter what the Guards do now... // They will be too late. // It looks like we're no longer needer... any of us.........
Knuckle: ......
Knov: Any word of Palm......?
Knuckle: ...No. / Not yet.
Knov: ...I see.

5
Knov: What will it be? I may not be able to come back for you... // You can see the state I'm in. // Will you go back? Or stay?
Knuckle: I'm staying. // I still have work to do here...!
Knov: I see. // ...You're strong.
Knuckle: ...... // Let's go.
Meleoron: Are you going to look for Palm?
Knuckle: No. // That can wait. // I still have work to do. // Yupi isn't... // ...the only Guard out there.

6
Pufu: ! // (That's...)
Yupi: ?! // I can't sense any other battles going on nearby... / Am I the only one left......?
Pufu: Yupi!!
Yupi: Pufu?! / You've changed quite a bit since I last saw you...
Pufu: Yes, because you're clearly one to talk. // I had to escape without being noticed by the enemy. // And if I move my dispersed particles all at once, then it's rather obvious, so I have to do it gradually. // I daresay you're impatient, but please give me a little time. / I do have some information to share with you.
Yupi: ......Well, I daresay you do have your own issues to worry about.
Pufu: ...... / You seem to have grown up. // ............ // ...And that's how it is.

7
Pufu: I have no proof one way or the other. // Will Pitou's transformation truly be of service to the King...?
[Text: Personally, Yupi could understand what Pitou was doing perfectly.]
Pufu: Yupi... What would you say... // ...we should do right now?
[Text: He was being tested. // Realising this, Yupi understood... // ...that Pufu had observed the changes that were presumably taking place in Pitou as well as in Yupi...]
Yupi: Pretty stupid question.
[Text: ...and that he feared them.]

8
Yupi: We should go to his aid right away. // To the King!!! // Surely that's all there is to it.
[Text: He spoke only his true feelings.]
Pufu: ......Indeed.
[Text: Only... // ...it was because he wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible. // Because Yupi, too, was afraid.]

9
[no text just kannon]

10
Netero: (I was sure that was a direct hit... // He's tough...!!)
King: An excellent technique. // I could not see the attack coming.

11
King: Are you finished now?
Netero: ! // (He is still... // ...asking me to sit...?)
King: (I won't... // ...say it again.)

12
Netero: San-no-Te // (...I cannot... // ...withdraw at this point. // ......... // Do you really...)

13
Netero: Netero: (...want to die that much?)
[Text: The wrath unleashed here... // ...to the King, was nothing more than a tiny flame, the level a parent might feel when confronted by a petulant child...]

14
[Text: ...but to Netero, it was enough to make him more than double his usual distance from the enemy... // ...a fierce and terrible sensation. // It was as wounding to his spirit... // ...as if his determination not to withdraw had been brushed away with a laugh.]
King: Observe.

15
King: The only thing that you can hope to exchange with me... // ...is words.
Netero: (This newborn... // ...brat...! // If that were enough... // ...I would not be doing this!!!)
[TN: I'm not even close to sure on those last two lines. I really can't seem to figure out how to interpret them...]

16
Netero: (......... // Wait... // Words...) // Your Majesty. // Do you not wish to know... // ...your own name?
King: .........Why would you... // ...know my name?!

17
Netero: My subordinate was there when your mother died. // It seems that your name was the last thing she ever said. // Though that subordinate may well have perished already in the battle against your Guards... // Feel like fighting now...? // If you manage to make me admit defeat... // I may feel like telling you, you know?

18
King: Fight without killing you, until you deem the battle over......? // Like beginning a Shogi match without one's rook or bishop.
[TN: In Shogi, the rook and bishop are by far the most powerful pieces, so this would be a major handicap.]
King: ......Very well. / I will checkmate you forthwith.
[Side text: Here he comes!!!]
[Bottom text: Starting from next issue, this series will be on hiatus. We hope you understand. We will let you know as soon as the continuation is scheduled.]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 289 by cnet128

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:04:29 +0000

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Hunter x Hunter
#289: Condition
[insert text: A killing blow sweeps towards Morau... but...?!]
Yupi: ......... // (He's gone......!! // Blood...!! // .........What's going on here? // He wasn't teleported after all...?)

2
Yupi: (He disappeared an instant before my attack connected.)
Flashback!Yupi: !!
Yupi: (I was under the impression that one of their group had the ability to teleport, but... // I didn't see anyone near him, even in the instant he disappeared!! // Besides which, if he teleported, then my attack couldn't possibly have wounded him after he disappeared... // He disappeared, but I still stabbed him...... I stabbed him, but I can't see him... which means... // He's just invisible...?! An invisibility technique!! // If he had that ability himself, though, he would have used it a long time ago!! // In other words, one of them has the ability to make not only himself, but other people invisible as well... // And just before I stabbed Mr. Shades, that's who tried to save him! // ......But he didn't make it in time!! ...That's what happened!!

3
Yupi: I sliced him...... // Deep...!!

4
Meleoron: ......... // (He knows!! // The blood...!! He can see the blood on the floor!! // Even if he can't see the actual body... the bloodstains reveal his location!! // And if he swings that sword one more time... // I have to get away, alone if I have to!! // I'm out of breath, too...!! // Dammitall!!

5
Meleoron: ?! // Knuckle?! // Why are you showing yourself now?! // There's only one thing you have to do right now!! // And that's to hide yourself for every second you possibly can!!

6
Knuckle: I'm not running or hiding any longer. // I'm fighting you. // So please... // Leave him alone!!
[Text: The reason why Knuckle let his words, and not just his fists, do the talking...]
Yupi: ......
[Text: ...is because Yupi's words had shaken him significantly.]
Yupi: Oh, come on. // How d'ya figure that's a fair deal?

7
Yupi: My answer... // ...is no. // However... // Get rid of this thing, // and it's a different story.

8
Yupi: This guy has something to do with why you've been running around this whole time, right? // I'm betting this is a good trade.
Morau: No... you can't!!! // Knuckle!!! Don't be a fool...!!
[Text: Thanks to the effect of "God's Accomplice", Morau's desperate cry could not reach Knuckle's ears. // However... // It did bring Meleoron to his senses.]

9
[Text: He released Morau, and made his escape.]
Morau: Forget... // ...about me.........!!
Meleoron: (You mustn't!!! // That's the one thing you must never do!!! Knuckle!!!)
Morau: Just... // ...leave... me.

10
Meleoron: (Everything!! // It will all have been for nothing!!!)
Morau: Don't forfeit......... everything you've...
Meleoron: (Everything Morau's done!! // Everything Shoot's done!! // Everything you've done!! // Everything you've put your lives on the line for!!!)

11
[Text: "If Knuckle gives up on Morau, the two of us can carry on the fight." // "And for that reason, I still can't afford to show myself!!" // "Knuckle is sure to listen to what Morau says!!" // These were the thoughts that led Meleoron to make his decision to separate from Morau; a decision.........]
Morau: Knuckle...!
Meleoron: (Knuckle!!!)

12-13
[Text: ...which had the opposite effect.]

14
Yupi: ......
Meleoron: ......... // (Everything......) // No...... // (...is...lost. // Our only chance...)
Morau: Why...?!!
Meleoron: (...of defeating him...!!)

15
[Text: The sight of Morau, soaked in his own blood, merged with Shoot's in Knuckle's mind... // ...and broke his will.]
Knuckle: There...... I've deactivated Potclean. // That's my side of the bargain...!! / Now leave my boss alone! // Fight me instead......!! // JUST KILL ME!!!

16
Yupi: ...Screw that.
Knuckle: Wha... Hold it...!! // Where... are you going?!
Yupi: Huh? // To the King. What are you, an idiot? // What, you want to come along too? // Don't be ridiculous.
Knuckle: ...... // .........

17
Yupi: That guy's ability isn't teleportation, right? // In which case you'd better get carrying old Shady there to a doctor pretty soon, or you'll have made that deal for nothing!!
Knuckle: ......
Yupi: Tch...
[Text: If he was truly prioritising the King's protection, then by rights he should have killed all three of them then and there.]
Yupi: It's not like I care!! // It doesn't matter how many times trash like you show up; I'll just kick your asses every time!!
[Text: Fully aware of this fact, and yet still failing to do the deed, Yupi felt a form of irritation at himself quite different from the wrath he was accustomed to.]
Yupi: Come back whenever. // Then this might border on "fair".
[Text: In the heat of battle, he had learned the true depths of his En ability from his enemies.]
Yupi: You're not even worth killing right now!! / That's all, all right?!!
[Text: This fact had profoundly shaken what little "self" Yupi actually had.]

18
[Text: In learning to separate his wrath from his mind...]
Yupi: (Shit... / I must've caught whatever Pufu's got!!)
[Text: ...his calmed emotions had actually had the opposite effect, preventing him from seeing things in simple terms.]
Yupi: ...... // (They're the ones who caused all this wrath I've built up... so why...? // Why don't I feel like turning it on them...? // This wrath...)
[Text: Was this a form of growth?]
Yupi: (What... who... am I supposed to vent it on?!)
[Text: That, Yupi could not say.]

19
[Text: Meanwhile... // Knuckle...]
Knuckle: (I lost... // Utterly...)
[insert text: Inescapable defeat...]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 288 by cnet128

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:21:15 +0000

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Hunter x Hunter
#288: Admiration
[insert text: The ants' expectations... and Gon caught in the middle!!]
[Text: As requested, Pitou began to relate to Pufu everything that had happened since the attack began - in other words, since the two last saw one another. // He explained everything for Gon's benefit as well, in an attempt to direct Gon's attention to listening to what he had to say. // The only reason he neglected to mention the King embracing Komugi in his arms... // ...was because he doubted his own ability to faithfully convey that scenario with words alone. // Gon made no conspicuous movements whatsoever... // ...and yet... // ...from the tiny fluctuations in Gon's eyes, Pitou was able to discern that his plan was working.]
Pitou: The King...

2
Pitou: ...left that place with the enemy of his own accord. // There is no need for us to join him.
Pufu: ...I see. // (To the south... // Nicely played...) // Fair enough. // (Pitou.)

3
Pitou: In that case, let us stay here for the moment... // ...and await the King's return. // (One-seventh of my "selves" is more than enough to maintain a "shell" of my body here!! // And the other six-sevenths...)

4-5
Pitou: (...can go to the King!!!)
King: A battle in which... / ...you are prepared to lose...

6
King: I cannot understand it... Do you do this for the sake of the human species? // If so, then I would like to inform you that my actions work in your favour. / In your society, you have a system, a form of demarcation, known as "national borders", yes? // On one side of the border, children starve to death. On the other, indolent dreck hold the world in their hands. // It is insanity.
Netero: ......
King: I shall destroy that for you. // And show you, in its place... // ...a world that, whilst it cannot be called "equal"... // ...is at least free of such irrational demarcation!!

7
Netero: Hmmmmmmmmm.........
King: To begin with, certainly, I will make use of force and of terror. // However... / Eventually, I mean to use such methods only for the preservation of order. // I have studied... // ...what exactly power should be used to accomplish. // It should be used to protect those who are weak, and yet deserve to live. // Using it to oppress the defeated would be a gross misapplication.
Netero: (.........He certainly is... // ...a troublesome one. // Right now...)
King: I refuse... // ...to fight you.
Netero: (He is fluctuating.)

8
Netero: (Caught between the identities of "ant" and "human"!!!)
King: The only reason I did not object to our change of location... // ...was so that we could debate this matter without reservation.
Netero: (And he has yet to realise the fact...)
King: Come.
Netero: (...that the two are utterly incompatible!!)

9
Netero: (He could lean... // ...towards either of the two. // ...However... // No matter which side he ultimately comes down upon...)
Flashback!BigShot: It's up to you. // But let me make this clear - all that we want... // ...is a swift extermination of these dangerous beings. // There have already been too many casualties. // Use whatever means necessary... is that perfectly clear...?
Flashback!Different?BigShot: So here's the deal - we're not going to tell you how to do your job. // Just as long as you make sure... / ...that these dangerous creatures are wiped out as soon as possible, we'll be happy.

10
Flashback!Netero: (So essentially, you want us to exterminate the ants...) // ............Understood. // (...and you're telling the Hunters Association to bear all the criticism regarding the methods.)
Netero: (Nothing has truly changed.) // Your Majesty... // (Right now... // ...I should take him out as soon as possible. // Before...) // It looks like we're both in a rather sticky situation.
King: ?
Netero: (...my heart begins to waver.)

11
[no text just no! bad Netero! don't attack the poor confused ant!]

12-13
Netero: Hyakushiki Kannon... // Ichi-no-Te.

14
Yupi: Ahahahah!
Morau: (............Only ten clones left...!!)

15
Morau: (It's really sink-or-swim time now......... // And from the looks of it, he means to save me for last... // In which case... // All I can do... / ...is buy every last second I can...!!)
[Text: Part of the reason why all the clones were placed within Yupi's visual range was so that Morau could observe Yupi's actions... // ...but it was also because Morau had reached such an extreme level of exhaustion that even scattering them over a wide area was essentially impossible.]

16
[Text: Any loss of focus would cause the soldiers to turn back to smoke and disperse into nothing.]
Morau: (It can't be long now......!! // Even this guy's power can't be infinite...!!! // ......And yet... // And yet... ugh...!!)
[Text: Even mustering every last shred of his almost entirely depleted willpower, he was unable to even stand unaided... his absolute limit...]
Morau: (My body... my mind... // They won't move...)
[Text: ...arrived even sooner than Yupi's bankruptcy.]

17
Morau: (...... // None... left...)
Yupi: There's one thing... I'd like to say. // I actually noticed you partway through that melee... / ...I just felt like finishing it up first. // ......
[Text: Yupi had learned to channel his wrath-borne energy into an isolated part of his body; his head was clear.]
Yupi: ...Huh. // You really are just a half-dead little fly.
[Text: In the heat of battle, Yupi had been continuously evolving at a tremendous rate; his clear superiority in power had only become more prominent...]

18
Yupi: But still... / ...you guys... // You're really somethin'.
[Text: And yet all he felt right now... // ...was admiration towards the defeated. // And simply from the fact that, considering his impression of Yupi, these were the last words he expected to hear...]
Yupi: ...... / I'm not really sure how to say this...
[Text: ...Morau somehow felt that they were in fact Yupi's true feelings, and was able to take them completely at face value.]

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Yupi: ...but I think it's because I'm so damn impressed with you...... // ...that I want to finish this properly......... / "Settle" it, you know...?
Morau: (This is "Game Over"...)
Yupi: Well...... It'll all be over in one quick strike. // So hold still, yeah......?
[Text: He even found himself thinking...]
Yupi: See ya.
[Text: ..."Right now, I don't actually mind being taken out by this guy."]
[side text: Is it all over for Morau?!]
[TN: Or is Yupi going to go bankrupt at the most convenient possible moment? =p I mean, it seems almost too obvious, but...]
[bottom text: How will the battle play out between Netero and the King?! Don't miss next issue!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 288 by shadow-skill

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:29:22 +0000

I did this only because I was asked. I probably wont do this series again.

page 1

Panel) Gon in the middle of the ant's plans!!
box1) Pitoh did exactly as Pufu told him to, took his distance and started talking.
box2) Using signal methods that Gon wouldn't understand, only to make sure he focused on what was being said.
title) Praise
box3) The reason Pufu purposely didn't mention about the king hugging Komugi was,
box4) because it wouldn't do justice to explain what happened there in words.
box5) There's no change in Gon's position.
box6) But...
box7) Pitoh noticed some change in Gon's eyes.
b1) The king...

page 2

b1) Went in that direction with the enemy of his own will.
b2) There's no need for us to go.
b3) I get it...
panel1) He went south.
panel2) Nice play, // Pitoh
b4) I understand everything now.

page 3

b1) Then we should just wait here.
b2) For our king to return.
b3) 1/7 should be enough for just my shell.
b4) The remaining 6/7 will...

page 4,5

b1) Go to the king!!!
b2) A fight where you're
b3) prepared to die huh?

page 6

b1) I don't understand that... Is it for the human species?
b2) Then what I'm doing should be called "assistance".
b3) For example, in your society you have something like territorial boundaries called national borders right.
b4) On the right side of the border, there's a child dying of hunger, and on the right, there's some trash that has everything, but does nothng about it.
b5) That's a state of madness.
b6) I'll destroy all that.
b7) And I'll provide.
b8) A world where everyone is so equal,
b9) the word "equality" wont even exist.

page 7

b1) hmmm...
b2) At first, I was using power and fear to remove the trash.
b3) But,
b4) I only used that to maintain order.
b5) I have
b6) finally learned what I should use my power for.
b7) To protect those that are weak, but still have the right to live.
b8) Not to oppress those I've already beaten.
panel1) This guy, // is dangerous.
panel2) He's, // stuck.
b9) I'm not
b10) going to fight you.

page 8

panel1) Between being an ant and being human!!!
b1) The reason I moved to a different location,
b2) was only to avoid fighting.
panel2) He hasn't noticed it yet, // That the two should NEVER mix!!!
b3) You can get closer.

page 9

panel1) And both, // have the chance of winning.
panel2) However, // it doesn't really matter which side wins out.
panel3) Its in your hands now.
b1) We're asking only one thing of you,
b2) the extermination of the dangerous animals.
b3) There have already been a lot of casualties.
b4) Can I take it as you don't mind what methods we use?
b5) We can't say anything about the methods a specialist uses.
b6) Anyway, we only wish for // the eradication of those beasts as quickly as possible.

page 10

panel1) Make sure you get rid of the ants!! // The judegment of the Hunter Society is the same all around huh.
b1) Understood.
panel2) The decision wont change.
b2) King,
panel3) Its best // to take him out quickly.
panel4) Before my // heart is swayed.
b3) we both have lots of trouble.

page 12, 13

strict kanji reading- Hyakushikikannon ichi no te
loose meaning - Single palm 100 soundwave attack

page 14

b1) hyaa
b2) There're only 10 bodies left!!
bubble sfx.1-3) haa

page 15

b1) It looks like I'm on borrowed time now.
b2) He plans on leaving me for desserts huh?
panel) If so... // I need to make this last as long as possible.
box1) The reason Yupii could only see the soldiers was becasue Morau could follow Yupii's movements.
box2) The reason the soldiers weren't going out into wide range was because Morau's fatigue had reached dangerous levels.

page 16

box1) If he lapses for a second, the soldiers would turn back to smoke.
b1) Only a little more...
b2) Its not like he has endless power!!!
b3) But still...
b4) Still!!!!
box2) With his energy all spent, no matter how much he tried, he couldn't even stand, like the word says, he's at his limit.
b5) My mind and body...
b6) wont move.
box3) And it happened before Yupii went bankrupt.

page 17

panel1) There's nothing left...
b1) I wanna say something to ya...
b2) You should've realized that
b3) I was going to come after you when I finished with the smoke guys.
box1) After learning how to quarantine his 'anger' energy, Yupii's mind became razor sharp.
b4) hmmm.
b5) You look like a larva on the verge of death.
box2) Evolving so quickly and in the midst of battle, he made the difference in ability between him and the attack group even greater.

page 18

b1) But still...
b2) You guys are
b3) Amazing.
box1) The feelings towards the loser
box2) were supposed to be those of oppression.
box3) Those words were the furthest from the impression he had of Yupii.
b4) This probably wont come out right, but...
box4) But on the other hand, Morau took it in as this is what Yupii is really like.

page 19

b1) Because I think that you're amazing...
b2) I need to make sure // I put an end to you.
panel1) Its game over for me.
b3) Well, I'll end your suffering with one shot.
b4) Don't move.
panel2) I even thought: // Getting killed by him now wont be so bad.
b5) See ya.

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 287 by cnet128

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:14:58 +0000

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Hunter x Hunter
#287: Situation
[side text: "Shut up!"... After Gon's declaration, tension is riding high!!]
Pufu: ............ // "Shut up"...? // (Hm... downwind.)

2
Pufu: Heh... I see I am intruding. // Pitou, / I'll leave the situation here to you.
Gon: Don't move. // Stay right there. // You use your powder scales to control people, right? // Don't you take a single step from that spot......!!

3
Pitou: Pufu...! // Please.
Pufu: ...... // Have you lost your mind.........? // You want me to stay here doing nothing? // For the sake of that pathetic little girl......?
Pitou: No... for the King.........! // Please, just do as the boy says.
Pufu: (What has happened here...? // Your face looks so utterly different from usual... almost as though... // What exactly has taken place whilst I was locked away...?!) // Fine, then I will promise. "I" will not move a single step from this spot. // In return, I would like an explanation.

4
Pufu: Tell me just what has happened here! // Every last detail......!! // (If I were to directly ask for the King's whereabouts, I would draw suspicion, and the boy would prevent him from telling me. // But if you could just casually slip it into the flow of events...) // Go ahead. Do it carefully, subtly. // And if you fail......... // Blood will be spilled here. // That is all there is to it...

5
Potclean: It's time! // Now adding interest!
Yupi: ......

6
Yupi: (......I've got it!!! // I can control the explosion!!! // I know the feeling!!! // If I do it one more time............!! // I can make the ability completely and utterly my own!!! // The rage...!! I have to build up the rage!! Before I forget!!!) // Not once, but twice you make a fool of me...!! You trash!! Scrap!! You piece of shit~~~~!! // NNNNGYAAAAHHHHHHH!!

7
[Text: Yupi... // ...had yet to notice...]
Yupi: (Calmly... // ...bring out the raging anger!! // Destruction... / ...and construction... / ...together as one!!)
[Text: ...just what...]
Yupi: (And then use my body...)
[Text: ...these conflicting emotions truly signified...]
Yupi: (...to manifest them!!)
[Text: ...and also...]

8
[Text: ...his own current situation.]
Yupi: (THIS IS RAGE!!!!)
[TN: Whoa. XD]

9
Yupi: (Rage... // ...isn't something you scatter around aimlessly! // You direct it at a single target!!!) // HYAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
[Text: And whilst to Morau and Knuckle, Yupi's aura must have seemed utterly inexhaustible... // ...it was in fact being continually consumed with each explosion and transformation.]
Yupi: I'M GONNA DESTROY YOU ALL!!!!

10
[Text: His remaining aura was under 500,000.]
Yupi: !
[Text: And if Potclean's interest continued increasing at its current rate...]
Yupi: HYAHAHAH! // ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, IT'S FAKE, ALL RIGHT!!

11
Yupi: More... MORE!!!! // GIVE ME MORE RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!
[Text: ...even if Yupi were to keep his aura usage to an absolute minimum... // ...he had only eleven minutes and 43 seconds from the moment the invasion began until he broke the limit.........]
Potclean: It's time!

12-13
Potclean: Now adding interest!
[Text: As of this moment, he had three minutes and fifty seconds... // ...until his Nen abilities were sealed off completely.]

14-15
[no text just meanwhile with the King]

16
Netero: ...Hm.

17
Netero: This is a testing ground for military heavy weaponry. // Feel free to go all-out.
King: Why do you fight?
Netero: ...What?

18
King: You have no chance of victory. // Why rush to hasten your own death?
Netero: How can you know that before you try? // You don't know a thing about me. // If you judge a book by its cover, you're just asking to be tripped up, you know?
King: ...You have it backwards. // You don't strike me as such an amateur... // ...that you cannot read the field of battle. // I was born to take control of this world. // Originally, I saw you humans as little more than cattle, but now I see you differently. // I know now that there are a few humans worth allowing to live. // Like that girl.

19
King: I feel the same way about you. // If you were to lay down your arms right now...
Netero: ......
King: I may well choose to forgive you.
Netero: And by that... // ...you mean me, and only me, correct? // I'm afraid I'm not in a position... // ...to listen to that kind of offer.
[side text: The ultimate showdown!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 286 by cnet128

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:29:25 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#286: Main Body
[insert text: A dangerous ant is now on the move!!]
Pufu: (That's the smoke-user taken care of...! // Now.. / I just have to head back to the palace, find out what's going on, and join the King...!!)

2
Pufu: (Though of course even if I am by his side... // ...likely the King will find me no more than an annoyance...) // Beelzebub!! // Come, fragments of myself!! // It is time to uncover the position and situation of those in the palace!!

3
Pufu: Kyahahahahahaaaaaa!!!
[Text: Pufu's "Beelzebub" is an ability allowing him to break down his body into miniscule fragments. // He can split himself into any number of different sizes, and the smaller the fragments are, the more of them he creates. // However...]
[Label: about this big]
[Text: No matter how small the fragments, he can never reduce the "main body", which controls all the others, to smaller than the size of a bee.]

4
Pufu: (Smoke-man... if you had not released that barrier of yours... // I myself would have been unable to escape. / My effective combat ability would essentially have been halved. // As a user of clones yourself, you should well understand... // ...that the ability of such separate selves is nowhere near that of the original. // But now that my main body is freed, I have no weak points! You have lost this battle. // You should have taken more care... // If you had been more careful, you could at least have considered, once you had realised that the cocoon was empty, whether my actual self had escaped from the barrier or not......!! // And even once you heard my voice from outside the barrier, you could have considered whether or not that was my "true self"......!! // The plan that I revealed to you back there was nothing more than a last resort......!! // Certainly, I could have escaped the barrier and gone after your friends, but only in the form of "cast-off skins". If there are others with similar skill to yours out there, then even if a few sacrifices were made in the process, they would eventually have worked it out... // That "this guy is just a fake!!")

5
Pufu: (Once that secret had been uncovered, and you learned the truth, if you had still not released my true self from the barrier... // ...you could have determined the true nature of my ability, and easily sought out my true body. // And once that had happened, that tiny self of mine... // ...would no longer have been able to fight against you. // In other words, if you had stuck to your original strategy and not released your barrier, though your friends may have suffered a little... // ...you would most likely have ultimately defeated me. // And I was 10% prepared to face that outcome. // That is just how splendid your aura was. // I suppose your heart must have wavered thanks to that gigantic explosion just beforehand... Such a pity!! // But thanks to that, I am free!!! / And now, I am off to see what is happening at the palace!!!
[Text: It is true that Morau had been in a far-from-perfect physical state ever since the staircase before the invasion.]

6
Pufu: (On the second floor of the West Tower... Pitou and Komugi; Komugi appears to be in the process of being repaired!!)
[Text: And Morau had indeed entered his battle of nerves with Pufu in a state of extreme tension.]
Pufu: (And directly beside him... a young boy who appears to be an enemy!!)
[Text: Thanks to his fatigue and impatience, he entrusted his fate to a hasty decision; that much is certain.]
Pufu: (I see three people by the entrance to the underground shelter!! Hina, a soldier ant, and Bizef!! // They may be heading underground!! // And behind them lurks Welfin... // He appears to be tailing the other three!! // ......... / It would appear that Komugi was damaged by the falling dragons... // However, why does the enemy beside Pitou not attack him...? Is he a friend of Komugi's...?)

7
Pufu: (In the soldier ants' waiting room in the East Tower... one person!! The human who was captured a few days ago!! // The birth will be proceeding imminently!!)
[Text: However...]
Pufu: (Ahhh... now this is something!! So many enemies!! // One, two, three... // Ah, but Yupi is taking them out one by one!! // So that's Yupi and about 50 enemies in the northwestern portion of the palace!! Old Smokey, and a ton of delinquents!! // Oh, and a weird little pointy-headed fat thing!! Allegiance uncertain!! // Is that pointy-headed thing some new ability of Yupi's...? Presumably only one of those delinquents is real, and the rest are smoke-clones... And the clones aren't being replaced because he can't use his ability without his pipe!! // Yupi should be able to weed out the real one from the clones in around a minute!!)
[Text: This was the only outcome in which Morau could prevent a one-on-one fight between Yupi and Knuckle, providing his much-needed support.]
Pufu: (But no King...?! Where has he gone?! // Wait up, guys... I'll be with you in a moment!!)
[Text: In terms of the outcome, one might say that the timing with which Morau chose to release his Smoky Jail was, in fact, perfect.]

8
[Text: It is not illogical to assume that this was not merely a product of random chance, but in fact rooted in Morau's large amount of experience. // Immediately after the invasion began, Morau witnessed the power of his enemies, weighed this up against the power of his comrades, and subconsciously realised that his initial estimates had been too naïve. // Sensing that his comrades would be able to hold out for even less time than he had thought...]
Killua: ...He's gone.
[Text: ...he made the decision to attack the cocoon in order to escape the internal conflict driving him to go to his friends' aid even at the cost of releasing his barrier.]
Pufu: !!

9
[Text: It was Morau's cunning battlefield wisdom... // ...that saved his comrade from his predicament.]
Pufu: (An aura explosion?! Yupi's?! // A technique that could be used in a situation like that?! // ......That intrigues me, but my priority... // ...should be discovering the King's whereabouts!!)

10
Knuckle: (Thanks for that, Boss!! // If you hadn't done that, I was about to go in for a crazy charge...!!)
Flashback!Morau: Listen up, all right? I will only bring out "angry clones" of you if you are so enraged that you are losing sight of your surroundings.
Flashback!Knuckle: [aside]yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ye~ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it, I get it...[/aside]
Flashback!Morau: If I do that, you are to blend in among the clones, take a breath, and think carefully about the best action to take in your situation!
Knuckle: (Now I've cooled down a little and thought about it, it doesn't make any sense for Yupi to have carried Shoot off anywhere. // Still, he couldn't have moved on his own... so who on Earth...?! // Ugh... I mustn't think about that!! // This isn't an enemy I can let my guard down against for an instant!!)

11
Shoot: (......... // Where......... // ...am I.........? // ......... // That's......)

12
Shidore: Aaaahhhhhhhhhhh~~!
Bizef: Aahhhhh...!
Hina: Oh, crap~~~~!! // We've gotta hurry!! // Get through before it's blocked off!!
Welfin: (Damn you...... Bizef is my prey!! // If I knew your abilities, I could attack, but...)

13
Killua: Once I've finished charging, I'm heading back to Gon. // You head over to where Knuckle is, okay? // With Pufu out of the barrier, the chances are high that the boss has been taken out. // Stake out the situation, and talk with Knuckle. / The two of you decide what to do, and don't rule out retreat.
Meleoron: Wh... What about you?
Killua: Now that Gon's like that, he's not going to move an inch... // So worst-case scenario, it'll be a double suicide.
Meleoron: .........
Killua: I'm kidding! // It'll be fine, okay? / I've got the magic word "Kaito" on my side, after all! // You can leave this to me.
Meleoron: (Are you sure...? // But then... // ...back there...)

14
Meleoron: (Why did you have that... // ...incredibly sad look on your face...? // ............ // ...It's okay, right.........? // You're not telling me because you can't, right? // ......So I won't ask, because I can't, okay?)

15
[no text just gon+pitou]

16
Pitou: Don't come... // ...any closer than that.

17
Pitou: Pufu...!!
Pufu: ......... // Why?

18
Pufu: If you had not said a word, then I could have eliminated the boy. / What are you so unnecessarily afraid of?
Pitou: ...... / This boy knew you were there. // If you had approached with intent to kill, he would have dived for Komugi without hesitation. // I don't want a sink-or-swim situation like that.
Pufu: ...I can't say I understand. // Surely he is here because he wants that girl saved? // Yet the way you speak, it is as though you think he would do her harm... / What exactly -
Gon: This has nothing to do with you.

19
Gon: So shut up...!!!
[insert text: Pufu, faced with an unwavering Gon...!!!]

[Español] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 285 by Lsshin

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:22:50 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#285: Clones
[Texto: Las fuerzas invasoras todavía no han encontrado estas dos hormigas... ¡oscuros presagios sucumben el palacio!]

2
Hina: ¡Okay! ¡No hay nadie por aquí! // Tiempo de dar una corrida - ¡Vamos!
Shidore: Honestamente... ¿Qué paso con eso de que el palacio era un lugar totalmente seguro? // Y ni siquiera podemos contactarnos con Leor-sama, tampoco... // [al lado] Tengo el presentimiento que él esta muerto...[/al lado]
Hina: Por el estado de mi estomago, creo que Djitu-sama ha sido eliminado, también... // Y tampoco hay noticias de Fratta, al carajo. // Yo creo que me iré en un viaje... convertirme en Reina algún día. // Cuando lo sea, tú puedes ser mi Vice-Reina. Suena bien, ¿verdad?
Bizef: Unghh... // Ayuden... me... // Unghh... // Por favor... saquen...me de... aquí... // Ayuden... me...

3
Hina: ¡Oh, hey~~~~! Seguro que estás en un arreglo, uh, ¿Secretaria Bizef?
Bizef: Mis piernas... // No me puedo mover......
Hina: Gran cosa, vámonos. // [Al lado] Muy peligroso...[/al lado]
Bizef: ¿Qué...? // Espera, ¡por favor...! // Tienes que ayudarme... ¡Yo me moriré de esta forma!
Hina: Olvídalo. Yo no puedo mover una cosa como ésa.
Bizef: Bueno, ¡¿podrías tú al menos llamar a alguien que me pueda ayudar?!
Hina: Mira, ¡¿okay~~~~~~~~~?! // ¡Nosotras estamos tratando de salir de aquí lo más pronto posible! // Nuestro jefe se ha perdido, no podemos contactar al Rey, y el palacio es un lío total. // ¡¿Por qué demonios nos quedaríamos más?!
Bizef: Serán bien recompensadas, ¡Yo se los prometo! // ¡Los pisos más abajo están llenos de tesoros!
Hina: ¡!
Bizef: Si me sacan de aquí, ¡Yo les daré todo lo que quieran! // ¡Entonces por favor...! ¡Sáquenme de aquí...!

4
Hina: ...Los "Pisos del fondo" ¿dónde exactamente?
Bizef: Un largo camino de la vivienda, hay una área restringida, sólo para el acceso de los comandantes... // Es mi trabajo supervisar los tesoros allá abajo... // Yo soy la única que puede entrar y salir de ahí libremente...... Ngh......
Hina: ...... // ¿"Lo que sea"...... dijiste?

5
Hina: ¡Es mejor que cumplas esa promesa! // O si no te mato, ¿'Entendido’? // [Al lado] Tesoro~~~!♡ tesoro~~~!♡[/al lado]
Bizef: ...... // (¡Es demasiado... este país está acabado...! // ¡El bombardeo Arial que empezó sin mi ayuda es prueba suficiente! // Las hormigas debieron ser la última excusa; un "Arma Viviente"... // Si soy atrapada por las fuerzas aliadas... Estaré forzada a confesar lo más conveniente... // O estaré capturada toda mi vida... //!o ellos me callarán para siempre! // ¡Yo no me puedo quedar capturada de esta forma! // ¡Yo tengo que alejarme de ellos…!)

6-7
[No Hay Texto]

8
Yupi: (Los clones sólo son una diversión... ¡es el verdadero quien me atacó, ¿verdad?! // Bueno, Tú puedes estar seguro que lo contraatacaré. / ¡Esta vez, seguro...!)

9
Morau: (Él a eliminado cinco de ellos... // ¡Ochenta y cuatro restan!)
Yupi: (Hahahah... ¡Lo sabía; los clones de humo son sólo un espectáculo! ¡No se sienten reales para nada! // ¡El momento en que me golpee el verdadero, Yo lo sabré de seguro!)

10
Yupi: (Y cuando lo haga... //¡...esto se acabará)
Morau: (75 restan... 72... // ¡Sólo 70...!)
Yupi: (Ellos me tomaron de sorpresa con ese ataque de relámpago... //...pero estoy listo ahora, ¡Ya sé que puedo contraatacar en el momento que su ataque me golpee......!)

11
Yupi: (Hahahahah... ¡¿Qué sucede?! // ¡Se te van a acabar los clones a este paso! // Mis ataques son demasiado rápidos... / ¡Ellos ni pueden alcanzarme! // ¿Debería de hacer una apertura.........? ¿Atraerlo a ese camino? // ¿Darle una oportunidad de que se me acerque y me golpee......? // Pero cuidadosamente...... // Naturalmente...... // ¡Bien, aquí está!! // ¡Ahora, ven!)

12
[NO HAY TEXTO]

13
Yupi: (¡¿Sólo humo otra vez...?!)

14-15
Yupi: ¡Maldito seas......!
Morau: ¿Ya te diste cuenta, idiota? // El verdadero nunca estuvo aquí para empezar.
Yupi: ¡YO TE ASESINARÉ!!!

16-17
Yupi: ¡...Él ESTUVO aquí!!! // El verdadero!!!
Knuckle: ¡Claro que estoy aquí!!!!

18-19
[Texto: ¡Emociones y poderes más allá de control!! ¡Esto es lo que le llaman guerra!!!]

Eng. By Carlos net
correcion. Sickomc
Thanks Kewlo210 for the name clarification.

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 285 by cnet128

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:28:07 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#285: Clones
[side text: The invading force has yet to meet these two ants... dark omens engulf the palace!!]

2
Hina: Okay~! Nobody around here! // Time to make a run for it - let's go!!
Shidore: Honestly... what happened to the palace being a totally safe place? // And we can't even get in contact with Leor-sama, either... // [aside]I get the feeling he's dead...[/aside]
Hina: From the state of my stomach, I'd guess Djitu-sama's been taken out, too... // And there's been nothing from Fratta either, so whatever. // I think I'm gonna go on a journey... become a Queen myself one day. // When I do, you can be my Vice-Queen. Sounds good, yeah?
Bizef: Unghh... // Help... me... // Unghh... // Please... get me... out of... here... // Help... me...

3
Hina: Oh, he~~~~~y! You sure are in a fix, huh, Secretary Bizef?
Bizef: My legs... // I can't move......
Hina: Whatever, let's go. // [aside]too dangerous...[/aside]
Bizef: Wha...? // Wait, please...!! // You have to help me... I'm going to die like this!
Hina: No way. I can't move a thing like that.
Bizef: Well, could you at least call someone to help me?!
Hina: Look, okay~~~~~~~~~?! // We're trying to get outta here as quick as possible!! // Our boss is missing, we can't contact the King, and the palace is a total mess. // Why the heck would we stay here any more?!
Bizef: You'll be well rewarded, I promise you!! // The lower levels are just bursting with treasure!!
Hina: !
Bizef: If you get me out of here, I'll give you anything you want!! // So please...!! Get me out of here...!!

4
Hina: ...The "lower levels" where exactly?
Bizef: A long way beyond the shelter, there's a restricted area, for commanders' access only... // It's my job to supervise the treasures down there... // I'm the only one who can get in and out of there freely...... Ngh......
Hina: ...... // "Anything"...... you said?

5
Hina: You'd better keep that promise! // Else I'll kill you, 'kay~?♥ // [aside]treasure~~~!♡ treasure~~~!♡[/aside]
Bizef: ...... // (It's just too much... this country is finished...!! // The aerial bombing beginning without my help is proof enough!! // The ants must have become that ultimate excuse; a "living weapon"... // If I get caught by the allied forces... I'll just be forced to confess to whatever is most convenient... // Either I'll be restrained all my life... // ...or they'll silence me for good!!! // I can't stay captured like this!! // I have to get away from them...!!)

6-7
[no text just knuckles]

8
Yupi: (The clones are just a diversion... it's the real one that'll actually attack me, right?! // Well, you can be damn sure I'll counter it. / This time, for sure...!!)

9
Morau: (He's taken out five of them... // Eighty-four left!!)
Yupi: (Hahahah... I knew it; the smoke clones are just for show!! They don't feel real at all!! // The moment I get hit by the real thing, I'll know it for sure!!)

10
Yupi: (And when I do... // ...it'll be over!!)
Morau: (75 left... 72... // Only 70...!!)
Yupi: (They caught me off guard last time with that lightning attack... // ...but if I'm ready for it, I know I can counterattack the moment his attack hits me......!!)

11
Yupi: (Hahahahah... What's wrong?! // You're gonna run out of clones at this rate! // My attacks are just too fast... / ...They can't even manage to get close to me!! // Shall I create an opening.........? Lure him in that way? // Give him an opportunity to get in close and hit me......? // But carefully...... // Naturally...... // Okay, here it is!! // Now, come!!!)

12
[no text just punch]

13
Yupi: (Just smoke again...?!)

14-15
Yupi: Damn you......!!
Morau: Have you finally realised, you fool? // The real one was never here to begin with.
Yupi: I'LL MURDER YOU!!!

16-17
Yupi: ...He WAS here!!! // The real one!!!
Knuckle: Damn right I'm here!!!!

18-19
[insert text: Emotions and powers beyond control!! This is what they call war!!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 284 by cnet128

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:48:12 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#284: Fifteen Minutes
[insert text: These two great men face off once more!!!]
Pufu: Yes... Fifteen minutes. // That is how long I estimated it would take you to make the decision to release your barrier of smoke... // I would use that time to slip out, through the smoke, and move around freely. // You trapped me within this barrier to separate me from the King, did you not? / In other words, as long as that cage of smoke existed, your friends would see it and believe that I was still trapped within. // I intended to use that misunderstanding to my advantage, stealthily taking out your friends one by one... // I thought that you would be sure to hesitate for long enough to allow me to do that...
Morau: You thought I'd spend fifteen minutes trying to fight an empty husk? // I guess you really underestimated me, huh.

2-3
Pufu: Oh, no... quite the opposite. I thought of you... // ...too highly.
Morau: ?!!

4
Morau: ......... // (He split himself into miniscule particles in an instant.........!! // If he used this to slip through my Smoky Jail, I wouldn't even be able to spot the individual particles...)

5
Pufu: Hehe... // hehe // hehe // hehehehe // hehe // hehe // hehe
[TN: et cetera for the ones in the background]
Pufu: You would have done better to wait... // Why, you ask? // Because this plan of mine... // ...was merely a last resort. // To tell the truth, it was troubling me... // ...being trapped in that "jail".
Morau: Try making some sense - you're contradicting yourself. // You could have got out of there at any moment!
Pufu: That's all there was to it! // At that point, that is.

6-7
Pufu: I was under the impression that you were a much greater soldier! // Focusing on your goal, placing the mission before all else... // But you made the silly decision of releasing your barrier! // For that, I must thank you! // Thank you! //Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you! // Thank you!
[TN: And yes, there are still the "hehe"s mixed in there in the background.]

8
Morau: Deep Purple!!!
Pufu: Ahahahahahahahah! // Run awa~~~~~~~~y!!!

9
Pufu: Aaaaahhhhh~~~~! // Ahahahahah! He got me~~~~! // Hahah! // Ahaha! // Ahahaha! // Ahaha!!
Morau: (I can't... destroy them?! // They're breaking down!! And then just coming back together?! // They're invincible?!)

10
Pufu: Ahahahahahah! // Thank you, and bye-bye!!
Morau: ...... // (I mustn't let him fool me!! He's using psychological tactics!! // Right then, attacking the cocoon like I did was the best choice!! // No... I shouldn't even be thinking about what's been and gone; that's what he wants. // I have to think about my next move.........!! // I have to work out what he's up to now, and stop him!! // Meeting up with the other Guards!! Finding the other intruders and eliminating them!! Heading back to the King!! // No doubt about it... // ...our interests lie in the same places!

11
Morau: There should be no problem......!!! // !

12
[no text just morau getting pwnt]

13
Pufu: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! // I'LL BE TAKING THIS~~~~!!!

14
Morau: Ngh... // (He's fast!!)
Pufu: Ahahahahahahahah! // I'll make sure I put this somewhere nice and safe~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Morau: (He's beaten me.........!! // I can't use any new techniques now...! // If I release Deep Purple now, I'm completely unarmed... // I have to make it through this somehow with just Deep Purple...!!)

15
Yupi: Yo... is it you? // The "esper".

16-17
[no text just knuckle]

18
Knuckle: What the fuck have you done with Shoot......?!
Yupi: Huh?
Morau: (89 Deep Purple bodies!! // The maximum number I could summon in my current condition!! I'll use them...)

19
Morau: (...to support Knuckle... // ...with all my might!!!)
Yupi: !! // (I know what you're trying to do. // Fine... you can have one hit. // And in return... // I'll take your life!!)
[side text: A final joint struggle with their lives on the line!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 283 by cnet128

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:32:41 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#283: Resolve
[insert text: Ikarugo's once-in-a-lifetime big showdown!!]
Brovuda: !!

2
Brovuda: (Ugh... // It's tough!!)

3
Ikarugo: .........
Brovuda: ...... // (Oh, crap.........!!)

4
Ikarugo: ...... // (I did it!!)
Brovuda: (He's blocked the entrance... // ...to the elevator... // I could have broken through the elevator's ceiling with an energy blast... // ...and climbed up to a higher level using the wire...)
Ikarugo: (Now he has nowhere to run!! // Objective 1: Clear!!)

5
Brovuda: !! // Coming out of there all by yourself... oh, you've got some guts. // I'll make a honeycomb outta ya!! // ?!

6
Brovuda: ? // ?! // Ah... // (Suicide?! Did he just not get out in time......?! // Whatever happened, this thing sure isn't going to move now...)

7
Brovuda: Ugh...... the gap is only a few centimetres wide... // The entrance really is completely blocked off!! // NGUAAAAHHH!!

8
Brovuda: ......... // Oi!! Your pal is gonna get roasted in there!! // Look, I won't hurt you, okay?!! Just open the damn shutters!!
Ikarugo: (I'm an octopus - a few centimetres is enough for me to slip through!! // Objective 2: Clear!!)
Brovuda: Shit...!

9
Ikarugo: (All that's left...)
Brovuda: .........
Ikarugo: (...is to wait for the sleeping gas to get him!! // I'm holding my breath... but I can't just sit around doing nothing!! // I have to time this perfectly...) // !!

10
Ikarugo: !!

11
Ikarugo: (No rushing, now... // Take it slowly.........!! // ...... / Objective 3... Clear!! // This is... the final objective......!! // All I have to do to clear it... is pull the trigger!!)

12
Ikarugo: (Pull it!!! // It's the best way!! // If I have him to manipulate, it'll make my escape far easier!! // And for that, he needs to be dead!! I'm the only one here to do that!! // There's nobody... // ...to bail me out of this one!! // I have...)

13
Ikarugo: (...to kill him!!!)

14
[no text just squeeeeze]

15
Ikarugo: ......nhh... // Ueeghh...! // Bleeghh!

16
Ikarugo: (I can't do it......... // I just............ I'm just... // ...just a coward......!!!)

17
Pufu: (......Is he actually going to do it......?! To throw away his plans... // ...and stake everything upon a baseless solution?)

18
Pufu: (He can't possibly... // ...do...)

19
Morau: Smoky Jail... // Release!!
Pufu: ......I must commend... // ...your sheer resolve.
Morau: It was pretty simple really once I thought about it. You brought out that chrysalis as a "delayed move". // You watched how I worked and then you brought it out... that had to be your trap. // And just to confirm my suspicions, you didn't react in the slightest when I raised my pipe - and that's impossible. / I felt nothing from you - not even a lack of reaction. / That was the final proof that "you" weren't in that thing at all.
Pufu: [aside]heh... // heheh...[/aside]
Morau: ?
Pufu: Fifteen minutes...

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 282 by cnet128

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:24:04 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#282: Sealed Off
[side text: Having avoided the enemy's attack, what developments will Ikarugo witness?!]
Elevator: Please enter your security code.
Brovuda: ?
Elevator: If the number and reference data do not match...
Brovuda: (It won't open... crap! // I don't know anything about any number!)
Elevator: ...you will be held and restrained.
Ikarugo: (This is my chance!!)
Elevator: Likewise if you enter a second incorrect number.
Ikarugo: (I have two options!!)

2
Ikarugo: (If someone who doesn't know a security code enters the elevator, the doors will be locked and the elevator flooded with sleeping gas. // Once he's asleep, I have two options...!! // 1) Leave Brovuda there in the elevator and head to the surface via the vehicle exit!! / If I do that, then even if he wakes up he'll be captive in the elevator, but there's a high risk of someone up above noticing something's going on. // 2) Take the sleeping Brovuda somewhere else. // There are any number of vehicles in the garage, and the storage area needs a security code to open from the inside; if I leave Brovuda there, he won't be able to get out!! // In fact, if I return to the surface using the vehicle exit... // ...I'm actually in far less danger of meeting enemies up there than if I used the internal elevator...!! // No...!! // That's not enough...!!!)

3
Ikarugo: (I should finish Brovuda off while he's out cold!!! // That's the surest way to take care of him!! // And I may then be able to manipulate his body... // ...and use it to take out one of the other commanders while I'm at it!! I have to do this properly...!)
[Text: Ikarugo possessed the ability to manipulate corpses... // ...but he had never before dirtied his hands with another's blood.]

4
Ikarugo: (I just have to aim the gun through a gap in his shell... // ...and stick a rifle bullet in him!!!)
Elevator: Please hurry and enter your security code. // If you do not enter the code within the next thirty seconds... // ...measures will be taken to restrain you.
Brovuda: ...
Ikarugo: (The monitor room in the guards' area!!)
[Map top-right: Monitor room this way]
[Map top-left: Brovuda]
[Map bottom-left: Truck]
[Map bottom-right: Storage area this way]
[Map label: Ikarugo's current position]
Ikarugo: (That's where I'll find the monitors showing the inside of the elevator, and the controls for the elevator doors!!)

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Ikarugo: !!

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[no text just... oh. ~_~ So much for a foolproof system.]

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Brovuda: Now, then... I've managed to get out of there... // ...but I kind of broke the elevator in the process, huh... / How else can I get out of here......?
Ikarugo: (I took him too lightly...!! // To be able to smash straight through that bulletproof door.........!! // What now...?! Do I look for an opportunity to get out of here through the vehicle exit?! Or do I wait here until he's gone completely?! // Either way, I've got to hope he heads back to the surface.........)

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Ikarugo: (No!! That's not good enough!! // It's no good!!! // If he goes back up to the surface, and tells everyone else that he "took out Fratta", then how am I supposed to move about freely.........?! // What am I, an idiot?!!! // If I let this enemy just wander back up to the surface... // ...I'm only putting my friends in more danger!!!)

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Brovuda: !

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Brovuda: Ugh... this is some thick stuff...)

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Ikarugo: (I mustn't let him out of here!! // If I can't do this much... I can't call myself their friend!!! // That's right... keep moving!! // I'll shut you in once and for all...!!!)

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Ikarugo: (Just a little further... // Just a little further away... // Now!!)

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Ikarugo: ......

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Brovuda: ... // (So it wasn't just Fratta...) // There was another one... // It looks like you were trying to lure me into going that way, but... // Heheheheh... Too bad for you. // Only a single path being available? Far too convenient. // It's only natural that I'd get suspicious. And thanks to that... / Now I know that you're here! Heheheheh... // I guess you're watching me from the monitor room or something, aren't you? You little chicken...
Ikarugo: (Damn......!! If he'd just gone down there properly... // ...I'd have had him completely trapped......!! // But either way... he's still in a sealed area; that much hasn't changed one bit! // The sleeping gas will fill the area, and he'll......) // Ah - !

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Ikarugo: (Not good...!! // It's not completely sealed!! He has a way out!! // I have to do something...!! // Before he notices it......!)
Brovuda: Now, I have to get out of here somehow... // This stuff is probably sleeping gas, after all...
Ikarugo: (The tank!! If I block his escape with that...... but then I'd be stuck down there as well...!! // Think!! Using what I have here... / There has to be something!! A perfect plan......!! // Quickly!!)
Brovuda: I guess I'll just have to break down that shutter... // Ahhh, what a pain...

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Ikarugo: (............It's the only chance I have!!!)

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Brovuda: ......Shit... // I shoot and I shoot, but I barely even dent it... / I may have to think up a different plan... // (Of course...!! The shutters are controlled from the monitor room, so if I can get there, I can open the way out!!) // Nice idea!! // ...But what am I going to do about the shutters between me and the monitor room? // Da~~~mn... Either way, if I can't break down the shutters... // ...there's no way for me to get out of here......... // .........But wait... // (Maybe there is!! // Without even... // ...breaking the shutters......!!) // !! // The shutters... // ...opened...?!)

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Brovuda: (The tank...!!) // Hah... / That's just the kind of thing a chicken would think up. // (.........However... // The shutters behind are still closed...?! // The door to the monitor room... is beyond that shutter. // Which means what he's done... // ...is first closed the shutter on this side and moved the tank over there... // ...and then headed back to the monitor room, simultaneously pressed the buttons to open the shutter on this side and close that one over there... // ...and then finally rushed back to the tank?! But then he can't get out of here either!)

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Brovuda: (To settle things with me once and for all... // ...he's made sure there's no way out...!!) // ...Yeah, right. There's no way he'd do that. Heheheh... // So there was yet another one of 'em hiding about... / There's still someone back in the monitor room watching me for sure. // Dammit... // Get out here already, ya damn Peeping Tom!! // Else I'll tear that friend of yours out of this tank and rip him to pieces!!!
Ikarugo: (I have to do this somehow...!! // All on my own...!!!)
[insert text: Ikarugo makes his move!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 281 by cnet128

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:54:32 +0000

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Hunter x Hunter
#281: Kanmuru
[star: Running for a straight ten weeks starting today!!]
[bigText: IT'S BACK!!!]
[insertTextLeft: Burn, Gon! That fist will avenge your friend!]

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[blah blah blah recap]

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[side text: Strike! Strike! Strike!]
Knuckle: (Lightning...?! // He's frozen up completely!! // Now's my chance!!) // GUAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! // (As long as you're not puffed up, I can hit you...)

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Knuckle: ...ALL I LIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!!!
Yupi: .........

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[no text just - well, it's a page with no text. In a Hunter x Hunter chapter that's basically a godsend.]

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Knuckle: (I did it!! I did it!! I did it!! / Ugh!!! This is too much!!! / I was seriously almost dead for a moment there!! // I even saw a field of flowers!! // First things first - I have to get Shoot to a hospital!! // Hah!! Eight shots should've taken him out!! // Hahahahahah!
Yupi: (What... // ...just happened...? // My ploy was perfect... // So what happened? That's obvious. // There was an attack from somewhere else... // ...that I didn't see coming!!)

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[no text - wait, AGAIN?! *rejoices*]

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Yupi: (Is that even possible?! // I was hit by all that electricity from (probably) straight above me, and I didn't even notice until the moment it hit me...?!! // It was like that before, too... // This annoying little creature just appeared on me out of nowhere... // Without the slightest warning...)

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Yupi: (He's... from the stairs, before... // Him...!!)
Killua: Sorry, but...
Yupi: ?
Killua: Just so you know, everything I am about to do to you... // ...is merely my way of venting my anger.

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Yupi: !!! // (He vani - )

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[no text - THAT'S THREE F***ING TIMES! *watches the killua carnage*]

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Yupi: Ngh...
Killua: "Kanmuru".
[TN: Yeah, yeah, I know it's been said before, but I still don't know where the damn technique name comes from. Anyone? The kanji, for the record, read "Godspeed".]
[Text: Without even time to scream...]

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[Text: ...or indeed the slightest chance to transform, Yupi's freedom was stolen... // ...by the sheer level of that first blow. // Killua's "Kanmuru" involves sending a surge of electricity into his own body... // ...producing movement transcending even the limits of potential. // Fundamentally, Killua divides this into two elements.]

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[Text: "Raikou Sekka", the ability to move his body according to his own will,]
[TN: "Raikou" = "lightning", "Sekka" = "flint fire"]
[Text: and "Shippuu Jinrai", the ability to sense his opponent's movements and have his body react automatically.]
[TN: "Shippuu" = "hurricane", "Jinrai" = "thunderclap"]
[Text: His catching of the dart in his previous fight... // ...was a perfect example of the latter. // He had programmed his body in advance to react to any fluctuations in the enemy's aura indicating malicious intent. // And these attacks, transcending all limits, bypassing the brain and functioning purely on reflex... // ...outstripped the movements of his opponent's body... // ...with ease.]

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Yupi: (What the hell... // ...is going on?! // In terms of sheer, overall power... not a single one of these guys... // ...has even a tenth of what I do. // So why is it... // ...I can't do a single thing...?!!)

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Killua: Shippuu Jinrai!
Yupi: (It's so deep... this aura thing...)
[Text: The change that occurred here in Yupi's mind...]
Yupi: (Shit...)
[Text: ...led him towards a near-unbelievable decision...]
Yupi: (This is getting kinda interesting...
Killua: ?
Yupi: (Back before I let off that blast... // ...I would never have considered enjoying a close-quarters fight...)
[Text: But that is yet to come.]

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Killua: ! // (Crap... I've used it all up.)
Yupi: WAIT!!! // You're not gettin' away!! // You're staying and fighting me to the end! // Until you die!

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Yupi: (He's gone?!! // ......This is it!! Just as though he was never here... // ...he's completely vanished from this place! // There must be!! // There's gotta be at least one guy among them... // ...with the power to appear... // ...and disappear at will!!)

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Knuckle: ......... // (No...... // With his body in that state... where could he have......?! // Shoot!!!)

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Morau: (......!! // Wait... what if... // ...it's not that this guy "didn't" respond to Yupi's intrusion... // ...but that he actually "couldn't"...?! // The inside of a chrysalis is all mixed up, and doesn't even have animal form... // If in the process of transforming he has actually left himself completely defenseless... // ...then this is my chance......!!) // ...... // (Would he do that...? At a moment like this... // ...would he make such a literally fatal mistake...?!)

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Morau: (Impossible!! This must be some kind of trap!! // It has to be a trap!! ............But the problem is... // Is this a trap that activates if I attack...... // ...or is my failure to attack itself... itself the real trap?! // Which is it?!)
[side text: His doubt deepens into bewilderment...]
Pufu?: (Your confusion is the result of your excellence...)
Morau: (But that's all there is to it... // Should I attack? // Or not?!)
[insert text: Which...?!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 280 by cnet128

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:51:37 +0000

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Hunter x Hunter
#280: Direct Hit
[side text: I will never give up!! // It's time for the killing!!!]

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Knuckle: (Hakoware has been activated for nearly five minutes now!! // So the amount of aura on loan must be approaching seven thousand!!! // But there's still the danger of him paying it all back in a single attack, right...?! / If I can just... avoid taking a direct hit...!! // The worst-case scenario... would be for me to take an attack so powerful that it wipes out Hakoware and inflicts damage on me as well. // Considering that, clearly by far the best tactic is to just keep on buying time and just wait him out. // But... / That would mean just waiting around and doing nothing for over ten minutes...!! // Shoot won't... / ...he won't hold out that long...!! // I have to get him to do another one of those explosions...!! // If I don't... I won't make it in time......!!!)

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Knuckle: (Before I've even settled this fight... // ...he'll die!!) // Lively, aren't ya. // Little monster.

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Yupi: Oh, I've been waiting for you... // (He fell for it...!! My trap has been sprung......!!!) // Little cockroach. // (My fake anger... drew him out......!!) // I think it's time I swatted you, annoying fly!! // (Now...!! If it's an explosion you want, that's what you'll get!!) // This thing's been pissing me off, and I was wondering where you'd got to! // (Hahahah... though in truth, I'll only be pretending to explode...)
Potclean: It's time. Now adding interest.
Yupi: GUAAAAAAAHHHHH!! / SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!!! // (The build-up just before the explosion occurs...... he'll be sure to try and take advantage of that moment of weakness. // However!! If I keep calm and composed even as I release this anger, I know I'll be able to control the expansion!!!)

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Yupi: (He'll come at me, thinking he's taking advantage of my moment of weakness, but then I'll...) // You get this stupid thing off me right now!!! // If you don't... // (...take advantage of his!!!) // ...I'll kill you!!! // I'll smash up every single one of you pieces of trash until there's nothing left!!!
Knuckle: I don't think so, you blockhead... // You're the one who's going to go to his death, grovelling on the floor. // (The next one.........!!! The next interest announcement is the signal...!!!)

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Knuckle: Then we'll see which one of us is the cockroach.
Yupi: Hah... // Hah... // Hah... / Hahahahahahah...

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[no text just uh-oh]

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Knuckle: (I can do this!!! The timing's all right... I can get in one... // ...no, two hits!!! I can smash this idiot's face in with all my might and still get away before he explodes!!! // Take this, you stupid pig!!! // The first one's for Shoot!!! And the second is for Shoot, as well!!! // But man, how did I end up like this...? I don't remember ever liking the guy all that much... hell, to be honest, I always thought he was kind of creepy... when did he somehow manage to become such a close friend that I'd go all this way just to avenge him...? // Well, I say "avenge", but it's not like he's actually dead yet (probably)... Ah, well - we've been through life-and-death situations together... when you're risking your life together with a guy, I guess it's only natural that you end up with a powerful bond. And this absolute asshole... stamping all over Shoot's resolve... Shoot came at him perfectly ready to kill or be killed, and this lowlife ignores him...?!!)

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Knuckle: (Don't you even care about a warrior's pride?!!! // You stupid ant!!! // Agh... the more I think about him, the more pissed-off I get!! // I'm gonna put all my anger into this punch, and all!!! // But man, this is crazy... I've gotta be thinking faster than I have in my whole life... // Am I still in the middle of pulling back my fist...? Hell, I must've thought two or three hundred words already...?! ......Wait... // Could this be... that? They say time slows down... // ...and everything seems to move at a crawl... // ...the moment before you die...)

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Knuckle: (The expansion... // ...he suddenly... // ...stopped it......?!)

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Knuckle: (He got me... // He was totally calm... all along!! // I can't......... stop him......!! // Shoot...!! I'm sorry... I've failed you...!!)

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Knuckle: (This...... isn't just going to wipe out the interest... // It's over...!! // Shoot... // Boss...)

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Knuckle: (Everyone... // It's up...... to you now......!!!)

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Killua: NARUKAMI!!!!

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Yupi: GUAAAAHHHH!!!
[insert text: Time for the beast to die!!!]
[bottom text: Starting from next issue, this series will be on hiatus. We hope you understand. We will let you know as soon as the continuation is scheduled.]

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I'll do my best to make sure the series gets continued as soon as possible... // Yoshihiro

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 279 by cnet128

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:00:37 +0000

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Hunter x Hunter
#279: Escape
[Text: The third floor of the central tower... // ...being protected by Morau's Smoke Jail, managed to avoid being damaged. However, it was blasted off a little to the left of its original position... // ...and it was only through a tenuous balance that it somehow managed to retain the shape of a building. // Meanwhile, in the centre of the ruins of the central tower's substructure, all that was left of it now recalling some kind of ancient fighting arena... // ...stood Yupi.]
[side text: What is Yupi planning now?!]

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Yupi: (I've abandoned my reason for pure fury... / I am nothing more than a foolish servant of the King, roaming about in search of prey... // That's what I want him to think...!! // That's what I'll make him think!) // WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU HIDING, LITTLE MICE?!! // I'LL SMASH THIS PLACE APART UNTIL I FIND YOU, SO GET OUT HERE!! // (He's sure to show himself once more!!) // RAAAAGHHH!!
Potclean: It's time.
Yupi: (Ready to seize the opportunity to strike just before I "explode"...!!) // GUAAAAHHHHH!!
[Text: Yupi thrust his body into a false fury.]
Potclean: Now adding interest.
Yupi: SHADDUUUUUUUPP!!!
[Text: As he was screaming his heart out in an attempt to draw out Knuckle...]

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[Text: Over in the throne room...]
Morau: ...... // (No matter what's going on outside... // I will keep this guy trapped!! // That has to be enough......!!!)
[Text: Approximately one hundred billion... // ...tiny creatures, small enough even to slip through the gaps between the individual particles of smoke...]

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[Text: With the tiniest of sensations, that their opponent Morau could never hope to sense... // ...slowly but surely... // ...began to make their escape from within the "Smoke Jail".]

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A: Weaponry / Ammunition Storage Area
B: Cultural Assets / National Treasure Area
C: Leaders' Private Personal Storage Area
D: Emergency Rations and Stores Area
E: Leaders' Private Shelter Area
F: Guards' Area

[Text: To the north of the palace lies a huge underground storage facility whose shape resembles that of a dragonfly.
[box: Palace]
[Text: At the very tip of the D-Area "wing" lies a storage area that Bizef has secretly appropriated for his own use in housing his women. // Having ascertained the location thanks to Marcos' information, Ikarugo headed towards this destination. // He used a truck to advance down the five-kilometre straight road at speed.

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[Text: At the same time as he reached the junction leading off to Areas A and B, // his Satellitonbo reached the storage area itself.]
Ikarugo: (The door is open!! This is a good sign!! // Palm put Bizef to sleep and headed for the palace!! // Chances are good that Bizef rushed out of the door forgetting to lock it as he chased after her. // But whatever the reason, this has to be quicker and lower-risk for me than having to use the weapons in the area to blast down the door myself. // !!]

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[Text: The Satellitonbo stationed in the soldiers' area spotted Brovuda. // Brovuda walked around fifty metres down the path to Area E... and then stopped in his tracks.]
Ikarugo: ......
[Text: To Ikarugo, this meant...]

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[Text: ...that a confrontation with Brovuda was now inevitable.]
Ikarugo: (Brovuda has his suspicions about me... // Why...?! What did I do wrong...?! // Calm down...!! // Think carefully and work out what he could have and couldn't have noticed......!!)

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Ikarugo: (Otherwise, you won't survive...!! // Did I do something during our exchange back there to make him suspicious...?! // Was there something unnatural in my impersonation of Fratta...? // My excuse that I was going down here under orders from Hagya could certainly have been seen as unnatural... // But... the fact that he didn't call me out on it straight away back there means...... that it wasn't a fatal mistake... // ...but rather, it simply cast a soft shadow in some small corner of Brovuda's heart...!! // And in order to determine the true nature of that shadow... // ...Brovuda's waiting for me there...!! // Was my mistake something that I'll be able to cover up...?! // Or else... / ...was it a grave mistake, and all he wants is that final confirmation of his suspicions...?!

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Ikarugo: (I can't afford to hope for the best...!!) // Is anybody here?!! // (I have to assume it was a major mistake!!!) // I'm an envoy of the secretary! // (Depending on the answer... No......!! I can't take any chances. // I have to go in there with the assumption that I'm going to be attacked. // ...I'll be killed...!!) // I'm an envoy of the secretary!! I'm here under orders from the secretary!! // Shinka Bell!! (Palm's codename) If you're here, you need to come with me, quickly!!
[Text: There was no way that an actual envoy would come calling at Bizef's storage area.]
Woman: Ah - !
Ikarugo: !
[Text: This was a predetermined signal to determine that Palm was an ally.]

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Ikarugo: ......If you were in here, then why did you not respond? // Is there anyone else here?
Woman: I - / I wouldn't know about any of that...
[Text: The woman, for her part, thought that this must be a test of loyalty organised by the Secretary.]
Woman: Secretary Bizef-dono says... I mustn't leave this place... // ...and I'm forbidden from having any contact with anybody other than him, so...
[Text: The other four women reacted similarly. // The source of their doubts was that "It's odd for an envoy to come here when there's a private phone line straight to Bizef". // Thinking that the arrival of such a strange person meant that they were being tested to see if they could "stick to their orders calmly even when faced with an unusual situation", they all refused to converse with Ikarugo at any length. // And that suited Ikarugo perfectly fine.]
Ikarugo: Here we are...!
[Text: He was aware that their chances of survival would be far higher if they stayed right where they were. // Besides, Ikarugo did not have the time to spare worrying about the lives of others, never mind trying to protect them.]

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Ikarugo: There!! // Nen-writing!!
[TN: This writing, inscribed using aura alone, could only be read through the use of Gyou. // This far reduced the risk of it being discovered by Bizef, compared to leaving a message on paper or a recording device.]
Ikarugo: If I have not... // ...contacted you by the time of the attack on the palace......]
[Text: You must act under the premise that I have died.]
Ikarugo: ......

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[Text: He had been prepared for this outcome, but still, the pain Ikarugo felt was as though he had lost a part of his own body. // Over five minutes had now passed since the initial invasion of the palace; Palm's part in this mission was long since over.]
Flashback!Morau: If by any chance Palm is dead, or a similar situation arises, // you are to use your Satellitonbo and the radio contact to support your comrades in any way you can. // You should pretend to be contacting your commander, whilst actually informing Meleoron of the situation...!! // Mixing truth with lies in order to confuse the enemy is an important mission... it's up to you!
Ikarugo: (And this is all dependent upon the fact that Meleoron's existence and my own betrayal remain a secret!! // In other words... / Brovuda, who lies ahead of me, with clear doubts forming in his mind...)
[Text: Ikarugo, whilst trying to concentrate on his mission...]
Ikarugo: (Must be eliminated...!! // No matter what!!)
[Text: ...at the same time strongly resonated with the side of himself that refused to give up on rescuing Palm.]

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Brovuda: ! // Hey. / You finished that mission for Hagya?
Ikarugo: Yeah. // Well, pretty much.
Brovuda: ...... // Hagya...... eh?
Ikarugo: ......

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Brovuda: He'd get mad if you called him that, you know?

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Brovuda: ......Right. // One fake, eliminated.

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Brovuda: Hm? // Empty? // ...... / Eh, whatever. // I'll just have to ask Hagya.
Ikarugo: ...... // (This way, the suspect is dead...!)

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Ikarugo: (Now, if Brovuda just makes sure the others know about this...... / I'll be able to move about freely.........!! // But to think that Hagya had chosen some kind of different name to be called by...! How could I have known that?! // It's certainly true that I myself didn't know the name... / Will that be enough to convince the others...? // I have to think up some kind of explanation that will convince them if I run into them... // ...... / ...... // ......No, it's no use!! // Brovuda fired without a moment's hesitation back there!! // That's proof that anybody who doesn't know Hagya's new name is going to be treated as an "enemy"!!! // If I'm discovered, that'll mean battle!! // That's what I have to be prepared for when I go back up there!!

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Elevator: Please enter the numerical code.
Brovuda: ?
Ikarugo: (.........? // The elevator isn't going up......? // Don't tell me... // ...he came down here not even knowing about the identification numbers?! // This is my chance!! // The perfect either-or choice!!)
[side text: The octopus gleams!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 278 by cnet128

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:20:40 +0000

[TN: I don't know why I bother even mentioning that Hunter chapters are a pain to translate any more, but... well, it was :p The gigantic pieces of exposition in the Yupi battle were an absolute bitch, and I'm certainly not 100% on some things. But as ever, I've translated it as best I can ~~;]

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Hunter x Hunter
#278: Destruction
[side text: Yupi at boiling point!!!]
[Text: With a piercing roar... // ...Yupi changed his form. // This change... // ...was sufficient that Knuckle was forced to prepare for the worst... // ...and switch his stance to a defensive form. // It was at though Yupi had become an embodiment of evil... // ...and it was clear...]

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[Text: ...all too clear... // ...that its focus was destruction alone.]

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[no text just oh shit that form is worrying.]

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Someone: ............

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Shoot: Ngh...
Knuckle: Hold on!!
Shoot: Did you... get him?
Knuckle: Huh?!
Shoot: Did you smash him... for me...?
Knuckle: Not yet... dammitall! // I'll get it in in the end, just you wait!! // But I can't have you dying on me before then, so we have to get out of here...

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[TN: holy goddamn fucking shit]
[Text: Yupi... // ...through the sensation he had never before felt, of overwhelming mental stress, // came to an understanding of the ability he possessed.]

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[Text: ...Far removed from the defense of the King... // ...it could feed upon his violent wrath, increasing both his physical size and the magnitude of his aura at an astonishing rate. // There was a pure ecstasy in this "destruction". // But immediately thereafter, he was overcome by a sudden reduction in physical size, and a profound sense of loss.]
Yupi: .........

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Knuckle: An opening!!
[Text: Knuckle, with his large quantities of experience, was able to analyse Yupi's condition with almost complete precision.]
Knuckle: (Such ridiculous destructive power......!! Did he just push himself far too hard... // ...stupidly thinking that he could draw out a power like that without causing damage to himself......?! // But in taking that risk, the power he managed to gain in return...... // ...was ridiculously immense!!! // "Literally exploding when angered"......!!! // But the sheer consumption of aura necessary for such an explosion should leave him open for a decent interval!! // And that moment of weakness is just what I need to get in my single attack...)
[Text: The plan that Knuckle came up with in an instant, considering Yupi's near-trancelike state, was, one might say, almost perfect.]

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[Text: However. // Yupi's true worth lay after the explosion. // Caught in the void between that lingering sense of ecstasy and a profound despondency, // what might be called the dregs of his "self" pondered this selfish ability, // and devoted themselves to ascertaining... // ...just how this power could be used to aid the King. // SELFLESSNESS]

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[Text: The instincts of an ant and the nature of a monster... // ...were still able to function calmly and clearly even after uncovering this overwhelming wrath.]
Yupi: (I must not be distracted by my emotions... // I must find a way to advantageously control this new anger-fueled ability... // ...it is my duty to the King. // And the obvious first step is to eliminate these irritating intruders!!)
[Text: Facing a Yupi who had simultaneously obtained both calmness and passion... // ...the risk that Knuckle now bore... // ...was extremely high.]

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Zeno: I think I'll respectfully decline. // I'm really not in the mood.
Djitu: Come, now, don't say that! // What you should be doing is regretting you ever ran into me!! // You can be the first test subject! // For my... // ...new technique!♡

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Djitu: Oh, c'mon, you don't have to look like that. // Tell the truth, you're not the guy I really want to be fighting, either. / That guy with the big pipe and the sunglasses... he's your nakama, right?
Zeno: ...... / If you want him, why don't you look for him?
Djitu: I found him already! But it was no good!! // Guy uses smoke, y'see - he shut himself up in this weird smokescreen... / ...and I tried and tried, but I couldn't get through! // I thought maybe I could get in from above, so I headed up to the roof... // But then of course, I bumped into you up here!
Zeno: ......So... // You're saying you want to fight me as a warm-up to the main event?
Djitu: Ding-di~~ng!!
Zeno: ...... // What a tiring day...

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Zeno: Would you listen to me a little? // The thing is... I think I may have accidentally killed an innocent bystander for the first time since I inherited this profession...
Djitu: Hey, hey!! My technique, right? It's amazing!! // I'm gonna let you have a taste of it pretty soon, but don't be too amazed!! / Well, I can say that all I like, but I guess you'll be amazed anyway, huh?
Zeno: *sigh*... // You're not a very good listener, are you... // So, you're not going to just let me go in peace whatever I say?
Djitu: Ding-ding-ding-di~~~ng!♡ // ?
Zeno: I think... // You might want to look out behind you.
Djitu: Hahah!! Yeah, right!! // Like I'd fall for the oldest trick in the book!! // It was your nakama who taught be a valuable lesson... / ...you never take your eyes off the enemy in the heat of -

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Zeno: Well... // I suppose it made little difference whether you looked or not.

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Silva: Would you have preferred I leave him alive?
Zeno: Mmm... // I don't mind.
Silva: How's Killua?
Zeno: Hm... / He's grown up. // I suspect he has removed that needle of Illumi's, too.
Silva: ...... // I see.
Zeno: Oh, yes! That reminds me - I had the most incredible experience today. / It was like time started moving re~~~~~ally slowly...
Silva: ...... / I suppose I should hear my old dad out at least a little.
[side text: The climax approaches!!]
[bottom text: Knuckle vs. Yupi, a mighty brawl!! And then, Gon...!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 277 by cnet128

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:22:17 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#277: Insult
[side text: Amidst the terror and crushing pressure // Meleoron meets up with Killua!!]
Killua: ......All right, we should be okay here. // Give me the situation.
Meleoron: God's Accomplice, release!! // Shoot is out for the count, and Knuckle is trying to take on Yupi alone. / You have to help them! // It looks like Knuckle's trying to buy time by just running from Yupi's attacks... it's crazy!!
Killua: Okay... // How long can you be sure of holding "God's Accomplice" for?
Meleoron: The first time, I screwed up and ended up tapping after ten seconds, but I've calmed down since then. // If I don't have to move around, I'm sure I could make a minute at least!
Killua: Fine. / Then I'd like you to lend me that power one more time.

2
[Text: About three minutes and five seconds before Killua raised his index finger... // Knuckle was in midair. // If there was one thing in which Knuckle had confidence... // ...it was his ability to run.

3
[Text: There was one occasion where, in order to let his friends escape, he knocked down a policeman, and was forced to evade, on foot, four police cars and two patrol bikes for an entire day and night. // Eventually, he managed to escape - this was on the day of his primary school graduation. // He's a "Gazelle Type".]
[TN: Thanks to shrimpy for figuring out what the katakana meant - it makes perfect sense now I think about it.]
[Text: His stamina, his capacity to maintain his top running speed for as long as he needs to, far exceeded that of a cheetah. // His decision to show himself in order to distract the enemy from Shoot, using a hit-and-run disturbance strategy...]
Knuckle: !
[Text: ...was, in general, a good idea.]

4
Knuckle: (He's not coming after me...?!)

5
[Text: If we are to say that Knuckle made a miscalculation, it was a simple matter of perspective.]
Knuckle: (Shoot...!! Oh, shit!!!)
[Text: To Shoot and Knuckle, Yupi represented a major, important target... but to Yupi, Knuckle and Shoot represented nothing of the sort. // The job of the Royal Guards was to protect the King; Yupi's priority was to ensure that nobody managed to approach the King. // Yupi was still under the impression that the King was in the Throne Room, // and believed that whilst he himself had been assigned to watch over the Great Staircase, both Pitou and Pufu were guarding the King himself. // As such, as far as Yupi was concerned, the most important thing was to prevent the enemies from approaching the throne room. // With the number of intruders currently unknown, the abilities of the enemies that appeared before him were but a secondary concern. // Enemies who ran away, and enemies who had been thoroughly disabled, were no longer worthy of his attention.]

6
[Text: Shoot was still alive.]
Knuckle: What, you're just swatting us aside...? // ...Is that all we are to you assholes...?
[Text: It was evident that Yupi's eyes must have passed over him as he made his way back. // In other words, Yupi could not care less whether Shoot lived or died. // This was a greater humiliation than either of the two of them had ever before experienced.]
Knuckle: Are Shoot and I... // ...just flies to be swatted?!

7
Knuckle: (Fine, then...... you'll regret looking at us that way!! // We'll see just what you think of this fly's attack in ten minutes or so......!!!)
Yupi: You in there, huh?!! // Hey!!
Knuckle: (Boss is using "Smoke Jail" in the throne room right now... // ...which means that he's going one-on-one with Pufu!! That can't be where the King is...!!) // Hahahah... // (That idiot... // Protecting the room the King's left behind...!! // I can take Shoot... // ...over to the other side, and get a decent overview of things!!)
Shoot: Dammit...all...
[Text: But once Knuckle noticed this miscalculation... // ...a new miscalculation was born.]

8
[Text: Entirely contrary to the calm, reasoned words he had just thought to himself, Knuckle's insides...]
Knuckle: (Shoot met Yupi's eyes head-on...! // From that moment, Shoot was prepared to die in battle... // That's the kind of battle this was meant to be!!)
[Text: ...were boiling over with the most profound fury he had ever felt in his life. // He imagined Yupi's face, giving Shoot only the slightest of glances as he made his way up to the third floor...]
Knuckle: (But that bastard... // ...ignored him completely!!)
[Text: ...and recognised the new miscalculation that he had made.]
Knuckle: (That guy slighted the honour of my comrade-in-arms...)
Shoot: ...all... // ...dammit...all...
Knuckle: (How can I just stand by?! // For what purpose?!)

9
Knuckle: (For the world?! // For humanity?! // But then once this mission is complete... // ...will I be able to shake Shoot's hand?! // Will we be able... // ...to smile and laugh together about this afterwards?! // Knowing all the while... // ...that I just let this bastard insult my friend like this.........?!)

10
Knuckle: (Not a chance in hell!!!) // It's impossible...

11
Shoot: ...... // Hey... / What... are you......
Knuckle: Ah... / ...Sorry. // I'm real sorry about this... // ...but could you just hang on in there a little longer? // 'Cause I still haven't looked that guy in the eye... // ...and placed my fist straight in his idiot face. // Now... for your sake, too...!! // I'm gonna smash this bastard up for sure!!!
Shoot: (...This is where I ought to keep calm, and stop Knuckle doing anything stupid... // But seriously?! That's crazy!! How can I just lie here and buy time like that......?! // That's... my...!!)

12
Shoot: Please... Knuckle!!! / Dammitall!!! That bastard... // He just... he looked at me... like a piece of trash...!! // You smash that bastard... // ...For me, too...!!!

13
Knuckle: Leave it to me!!! // (I'm sorry, Master!! // We're just simple fools.)
[Text: He had miscalculated...]
Knuckle: (There are some things more important than the world!!)
[Text: ...the importance of precious things.]

14
Yupi: (Even my attacks can't penetrate this smoke?! // Your Majesty!! // Pitou!! Pufu!! // Are you in here?!! Hey!! // HEY!!
Morau: (Is that Yupi...?! // The two of them couldn't have been... defeated...?! // I sure hope the old guy's doing all right...)

15
Morau: (But why isn't Pufu responding to his call? // That's very strange...! How can he just sit there so calmly in his shell?! // Surely he should be panicking a little and trying to get to the King... // Is there... something... // ...something we've misunderstood about the Royal Guards...?! // Is this operation really... // I must not hesitate!! // I must concentrate on completing my mission!! // ...proceeding as it should......?!)
Pufu: (Doubt... insecurity... uncertainty... even as these negative sensations sweep through your body, the part of your mind concentrating on your true goal does not waver... // The mind of a truly excellent warrior... I am sincerely impressed. // However, that itself will serve as the shackles that dull your resolve...)

16
Yupi: Shit! // (Why the hell can't I feel Pitou's "En"?! // Have the King, Pitou, and Pufu all disappeared off somewhere?! // Am I the only one left here...?! // What happened?! What's going on?!)
Potclean: It's time. // Now adding interest!
Yupi: Shaddup!!! // (This weird black fog on my shoulder won't disappear... // ...and the numbers on this thing just keep on going up... // I've gotta find the King, and quickly! // Dammit... maybe if I'd killed that fly down below, this stuff on my shoulder would've disappeared... // But finding the King comes first! // The hell is going on here?!! // It pisses me off so much!!!)

17
Knuckle: Hey.

18-19
Yupi: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH EVERYONE AROUND HEEEEEERE?!!!!
[insert text: Disinterest, scorn... slighted by the enemy!! Now rage, grind, fight, Knuckle!!!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 276 by cnet128

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:06:41 +0000

[TN: As has relatively often been the case with Hunter, some of these translations have been absolute pains in the ass and I can't be absolutely sure that I haven't screwed something up a little. Still, I think I've done a pretty good job.]

1
Hunter x Hunter
#276: Missileman
[side text: Knuckle shows his face!!]

2
Potclean: Time up! // Interest added!
Yupi: ?! // (The number went up?!) // ......

3
Yupi: (My attacks don't affect it?!) // What is this thing?! // Oh no, you don't!! // Answer me!! // What is this thing?!!

4-5
Knuckle: Yeah, like I'd tell you that, dumbass!!!! // You wanna know, you gotta catch me first!!
Yupi: Nghhh...

6
Meleoron: ...... // (He's actually trying to take him on alone, the idiot!! // And with those lethal blades flailing around, I can't possibly reach him...!! // In which case...!! // Not too slow, not too fast... // Making sure I use my air as efficiently as possible!!)

7
Shoot: (I can't... allow myself to lose consciousness...!! // If I pass out, "Hotel Rafflesia" will be deactivated...) // I... // (Even if...... I can wound him just a little...... it has to be worth something...!!) // I can... still... // I... can... do this...!

8
Meleoron: (I can't do it...!! I can't say it...!! // I can't ask Shoot to do any more than this......!!!)

9
Meleoron: (What I have to do right now...!! // It isn't saving Shoot...!! // I have to use my ability to help the other members... // ...to help them complete this mission even a single second sooner!! // Keep it up!! Shoot!! // Don't die~~~~~~~~!!!)

10
Meleoron: (Nobody here...!! // But I mustn't rush... I have to look around carefully... // Even if I do by some horrible accident get found, I can pass as one of them...... but... // Depending on who I'm trying to fool, they might see straight through me...!! // "Perfect Plan", release!! // Okay!! // Activate!!)

11
Meleoron: (Morau's Prison Lock...!! That means... / Morau and Pufu are engaged in a battle in the throne room that can't be interfered with!! // In which case, all that's left... // ...is Gon and Killua. // Where are they?! // Where are Gon and Killua?! // Which way did they...)

12
Meleoron: (Welfin!! // Not good!! // I can't hold my breath much longer... do I run?! // He's dangerous!! // Which way?! // If he were to move in the same direction......!! // Of all the commanders, he's the biggest sceptic! // Or do I wait for him to leave?! Will my breath hold?! // If he doubts me in the slightest, that's it!! He'll suspect me to the end!!)

13
Meleoron: (It's no good!!! I can't hold it!!! // I'm at my limit!!! // I'm just going to have to breathe out as hard as possible... // ...and suck it back in as fast as I can!!)

14
Meleoron: ("Perfect Plan", release!! // And suck!!! // Activate!!)
Welfin: (Just now... For a moment... // ...I sensed a presence...?)

15
Welfin: (An enemy!!!)
[Text: Welfin's ability was a powerful projection of his character... // ...giving him a deeply mistrusting and sly power.]
Welfin: (Missileman!!!)

16
Welfin: You, hiding behind the building!! // If you're there, you have until three to show yourself and surrender!! / If you do not, I will attack immediately!! // Three! // Two! // One! // Fire!!!

17
Welfin: (Nobody there... // Did I imagine it......?)
[Text: The moment Welfin sensed his presence, Meleoron had moved from his position.]
Welfin: (No... but... // There's the scent of an odourless deodorant... / You can't fool this nose of mine...!!)
[Text: Welfin's "Missileman" has three stages: 1) Establish a target. 2) Load a "bullet" in the form of a question or order. If the target lies, or refuses to obey, then 3) The attack commences. // If Meleoron had stayed in his position, behind the building, then despite the fact that Welfin could not sense him, the attack would have proceeded regardless. However, since the "target" had been incorrectly identified, a misfire was all that resulted.]
Welfin: (Somebody was here...!! I know they were...!! // Since I only felt their presence for a moment... they must be pretty good.)
[Text: Once Missileman is successfully activated, it will continue the pursuit until it hits its mark.]

18
[Text: And nobody has survived taking one of those hits.]
Welfin: (If he's using deodorant like that, he must be watching out for me... // There's no doubt about it; we have a traitor amongst the enemy!! // Someone other than Fratta...?! It looks like a yes!!)
[Text: But Welfin did not believe that his own weapon was invincible.]
Welfin: (And it's somebody I know!! // That's why he made sure to eliminate his scent...!! // Who?! // Doesn't he mean to fight me?! // Could he do it at any time, then?! // I...?! I...)
[Text: "Missileman should only ever be one of my tools of negotiation." Even Welfin's own ability was not exempt from his suspicions.]
Welfin: (At this rate... // Should I really stick with the Chimera?!)
[Text: Why, even his aim to become a "shadow King" was merely because becoming the "true King" would increase the number of people he had to suspect beyond what even he could allow.]
Yupi: What's with all these damn people?!!
Welfin: (Don't tell me... he's actually being challenged?! // Yupi...?!! // Is finding Bizef really... // ...what I should be doing right now...?!)
[Text: As Welfin, at the main entrance to the Great Staircase, began to doubt even that the King truly was the "King"...]

19
Killua: (Meleoron!!)
[Text: Gon's cry... // ...was showing Meleoron the way.]
[side text: What scene was to meet Meleoron's determined eyes?!]
[bottom text: Next issue, a change in the relationship between Gon and Pitou...?! Also, Knuckle's deadly battle!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 275 by molokidan

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:45:41 +0000

HUNTER X HUNTER #275

tl by molokidan

01)
G: Dammit...
G: Who...
G: Who would listen...
G: to what you guys say...
K: Gon!
K: Wait a minute...!

No. 275 : Promise

02)
K: The party that injured that girl...
K(2b): was probably our side -- through Gramps' "Dragon Dive."
G: And?
K: And Pitou saying she's healing the girl right now
K: might be the truth.
G: So what?
K: ...let's wait.
K: Until the healing is finished.
G: Probably? Might be?
G: Something probably might be, so we just wait?
G: And after we wait, whether or not she does what I say is another probably, isn't it?!?!
G: Probably!!! MAYBE!!!! Are you serious?!?!?

03)
G: Give me a break!
G: Get real!!!
G: Have you gone nuts!!?
G: Saying we should believe...
G: Believe the words of a thing
G: like this!!?
G: There's no way we could!!!

05)
P: If you so desire...
P: you may also have my right arm.
P: And if that isn't enough...
P: both legs...!!!
P: If, after the healing is finished...
P: you feel that I am acting even slightly suspicious,
P: As long...as it does not impede her healing...
P: I don't even mind if you destroy me...!

06)
P: I'm begging you, though...
P: please let me save her...!!

07)
G: ggh....ggh...

08)
G: That isn't fair!!!
G: That isn't fair, dammit!!!
G: Why are you only thinking of her?!?!
G: After doing such a horrible thing to Kaito!!!
K: Gon!!
G: Why, dammit?!

09)
G: WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!
G: Uu...
G(2b): Uu...uu...

10)
G: Don't mess around with me...
G: First is--
K: Gon!!
K: If you kill now,
K: Kaito will never come back.

11)
G: Must be nice,
G: Killua...
G: To be so cool like that.
G: Since this
G: is of no concern to you.

12)
K: I know this is just your temper talking right now,
K: but have you forgotten what you said originally?
K: You're going to bring back Kaito!!
K: Get ahold of yourself, dumbass!!!

13)
G: Yeah.
G: I'm alright now...

14)
G: How long?
G: How long do I have to wait?
P: In order to fully restore her...
P: I expect it will take 3-4 hours.
G: That's no good.
G: I can't wait.
P: If I have...one hour...
P: I can heal her most critical wounds.

15)
P: I beg you.
P: Please...!!
G: After one hour, you're coming with me to Pei Jing.
G: Then you're going to bring Kaito back.
G: Can you promise me that!?
P: Certainly...!!
P: I promise.

16-17)
G: I'll wait here
G: for one hour!!

19)
Black text: The past that even now hasn't ended...everything is for the sake of his friend!!!

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 275 by cnet128

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:06:52 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#275: Promise
[side text: Where will those clenched fists land...?]
Gon: Dammit all... // Who the... // Who the hell would ever... // ...listen to the likes of you...?!
Killua: Gon! // Wait a moment...!

2
Killua: I'm pretty sure that girl... // ...was wounded by us, not them. / It was Gramps' "Dragon Dive".
Gon: ...... // ...And?
Killua: And I think that he's telling the truth, as well... // ...when he says he's healing her.
Gon: ......... // ...Your point?
Killua: ......Let's wait. // Just until he's finished.
Gon: You're "pretty sure"? You "think"? // You want me to wait because of something like that?! // And sure, he says he'll do as we say once he's finished... but we don't know that either!!! // "Probably"!!! "Maybe"!!!! But is it true?!!

3
Gon: Don't screw with me... // STOP SCREWING WITH ME!!! // IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU?!! // You think...... // You think we can actually believe... // ...the likes of him?!! // There's no way in hell we can do that!!!

4
Gon: !

5
Pitou: If you so desire... // Take my right arm, too. // And if that's still not enough... // Take both my legs......!!! // If you think once I've finished healing her... // ...I might suddenly turn on you, or anything... // Then as long... as it doesn't interfere with my healing... // I don't care what you do to me...!

6
Pitou: I'm begging you... just let me... // ...Let me save her...!!

7
[no text, just frustration and rage and awesome]

8
Gon: IT'S NOT FAIR!!! // IT'S JUST NOT FAIR, DAMMIT!!! // WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT HER?!!! // YOU DID ALL THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS TO KAITO...!!!
Killua: Gon!!
Gon: WHY, DAMN IT?!

9
Gon: WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!!! // Ungh... // Ahhh... / ...hhh...

10
Gon: Don't screw with me............ // First comes...
Killua: GON!! // If you kill him... // You'll never get Kaito back.

11
Gon: ...... // ......... // It must be...... // ...nice, huh...? // Being able to stay so calm... // Because you're not... // ...involved...

12
Killua: I know it's because you're so filled with pent-up rage... // But have you forgotten what you said yourself? // We're here to get Kaito back, aren't we?!! // Pull yourself together, you idiot!!!

13
Gon: Yeah... // I'm... okay now.

14
Gon: How long? // How long do we have to wait?
Pitou: If I'm going to restore her completely...... // I think it'll take about three or four hours.
Gon: No. // I can't wait that long.
Pitou: ...... // Give me... one hour... // ...and I should be able to get her life out of immediate danger.

15
Pitou: Please. // I'm begging you...!!
Gon: One hour. Then you come with me to Peijin, // and you bring Kaito back to normal. // You promise?!
Pitou: I promise.

16-17
Gon: One hour... // We wait here!!

18
[no text just wait]

19
[insert text: The past that never comes to an end... All for the sake of their nakama!!!]
[TN: I swear Hunter x Hunter is fucking incredible. Best. Chapter. Ever.]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 274 by cnet128

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:46:33 +0000

1
[insert text: Finally, he has found his nemesis!!]
[TN: As for Pitou... // Gon's words did not even register to him. // Every one of his brain cells... // ...was hard at work attempting to find the solution... // ...to the problem of how best to overcome this situation and properly execute the King's orders.

2
Hunter x Hunter
#274: Solution
Gon: [distorted and illegible text]
Pitou: (I MUST PROTECT KOMUGI // NO MATTER WHAT...!!!)

3
Killua: (Something's wrong...)
[Text: Killua, watching the scene from just behind Gon, noticed something odd.]
Killua: (Why is it that even though I'm right in front of him... // ...he doesn't seem to be preparing to fight...? // He only has a weak aura around him... // He's as good as naked. // He's almost completely defenceless!! // Is he just that confident that he can win......? // He thinks he doesn't even need his Aura? // No!! That's impossible! // The aura around Gon is on a completely different level to before!!)

4
Killua: (Even Pitou... // ...couldn't possibly hope to survive that with flesh and blood alone...!! // In which case... // The delay? // At this distance, even if the enemy does attack... // He has the confidence that he can activate his Nen to meet it in that interval...?!! // I could accept that. // But... why?! That's not what it looks like at all...!! // To look at him... yes... // ...You'd almost think he was...)

5
Killua: (A mother...!!! // Protecting her feeble young with her own body...!! // But that's crazy............!! That's...!! That's not like him at all!!)

6
Killua: (But... // In that case, why did Gramps...)
Flashback!Zeno: The situation inside is your call.
Killua: (Why did he give a cryptic remark like that...?)
[Text: Whilst Killua was struggling with his own intuition... // Gon, for his part... // ...was gazing at the floor behind Pitou... // ...and though it was a girl lying there... // ...all he saw was Kaito.]

7
[no text just rage]

8
Gon: Get away... // ...from that person.
[TN: Oh, no... bad move >_<]
Gon: I'm telling you and that freakish monster of yours... // ...to get away from her!!! // And then... // Fight with me!! // Fight me... // And then... Kaito...

9
[Text: Those upturned palms... // ...were Pitou's ultimate gesture to show that he held no malice. // Killua understood this.]
Pitou: Please... // Just wait...

10
Gon: Don't screw with me!!! // What are you asking me to wait for, huh?!!! // Get up!!!! // We're going outside!!!
[Text: Faced with an utterly unviolent Pitou, Gon had lost his outlet for his overflowing emotions. // Meanwhile... // Killua was slowly beginning to grasp the situation before him...]

11
Flashback!Zeno: I know nothing outside the confines of my mission.
Killua: (He meant... // He meant that there was something he hadn't been told about!! // He sent his dragons crashing down oblivious of the situation...!! // Almost certainly, Gramps' mission... // ...was to use "Dragon Dive" and "Dragon Head" to separate the King from his Guards. // But what he hadn't been aware of... // ...was this girl here! // No... more than that, this girl... // ...She must be a third party of whom none of us were aware!! // In which case... this is only speculation, but... this could also be the reason the King injured himself...!! // Why would the King do a crazy thing like that...?! // ......The reason for that must be... // ...He considered this girl "special". // Right now, this girl... // He's not harming her...)

12
Killua: (He's following the King's orders... // ...and healing her wounds...!!!)
[Text: But telling this to Gon would only make things worse...]
Killua: (Pitou's healing ability doesn't just force him to release his En... // ...it forces him to concentrate his entire Aura on that single task!!)
[Text: ...of this, Killua was fully aware.]
Killua: (What should I do?! // What can I say.........?!)

13
Killua: Go -
Pitou: Anything!! // I'll do anything you ask of me!! // So please, just wait! // I...

14
Pitou: I have to save this person... // ...no matter what it takes!!
Gon: "Save"......? // "Save"...... what?

15
Killua: "Anything"... He said he'd do anything, Gon -
Gon: Killua. // I know what he said. // "Have to save"...... // What do you mean?
[Text: Komugi's life rested on his answer to this question. // But he did not know how best to reply. // With the atmosphere strained to its very limits...]
Pitou: This person... she is...
[Text: ...the answer which Pitou chose...]

16
Pitou: ...someone very important... // ...to someone precious to me.
[Text: ...was the simple and honest truth.]
Pitou: Because of this person, the King... the King... // If she were to perish now, the King... // ...he would no longer be the King. // That's just how important...... that's why... // Just as long as I save her... // ...I don't care what happens after that.

17
Pitou: As soon as I've healed her... // I'll do whatever you say...!! // So... // Please, wait...
Gon: You want... // ...to save her? // "Have to save"......... // That's what you meant?
[Text: Gon...]
Gon: *pant*... // *pant*

18
Gon: How can you say... // ...a thing like that.........?!
[Text: ...was engaged in...]
Gon: How can you.........?!!!
[Text: ...a most furious battle. // Unable to find any excuse to fight this man...]
Gon: Dammitall......!
[Text: ...he battled furiously with himself......]
[insert text: Wavering!!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 273 by cnet128

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:45:25 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#273: Reunion
[side text: Morau VS Pufu... // A calm, hidden battle!!]
Pufu: So you think that shutting us in will be an effective tactic against me... // ...We'll see about that.

2
Morau: (Scales...... from what Novu said, they have a hypnotic effect... // I must make sure not to inhale them...!)
Pufu: You seem to have fallen silent. // Well, assuming you have any skill, that much should be obvious... // (Caution... // Resolve... // And confidence... // In a ratio of approximately 2:3:5.)

3
Pufu: (The relative lack of caution is testament to his confidence... his character, at least, is strong.) // We should at least make our introductions. / My name is Shauapufu, of the Royal Guards. // (Though he is in enemy territory, he takes comfort in his ability to draw the enemy into his own domain... interesting.)
[Text: Pufu's "Spiritual Messenger" allows him, by engulfing the enemy in his scales, to read his opponent's aura and thus his mental state. // By analysing the combinations of around thirty major types of emotional patterns manifested in the aura, he can make a good guess at his opponent's thoughts.]

4
Pufu: (......His caution seems to have grown intensified.) // Hm. // Will you not give me even your name? // If you are under the misapprehension that this request for a self-introduction is a mere ruse, intended to cause you to inhale my scales, then let me assure you, this is not the case. // I am a little shocked... // ...That is all...

5
Pufu: When we are reborn, we shall forget it all... // Ahahahahah... Please, just wait a moment...... Hahahah... // Ahah... // Ahahah... // Ahahahah...
Morau: (Well, if you're going to take your time, I'm not going to complain! // Be it a demon or a serpent that emerges...!!)

6
[Text: The palace basement elevator... anyone may freely use it to descend... // But to ascend, one is required to enter a security code. // Each authorised user has his own personal security code, and as such this also serves as a form of identification. // If one fails to enter a valid code once, the door locks automatically... // If one fails three times in a row, the guards are notified and a sleeping gas is released into the lift. The culprit will be restrained and tortured... death is inevitable.]

7
[Text: The computer keeps a record of each access, and Secretary Bizef regularly checks up on when, how many times, and for what purpose access has been granted. // If access is granted under suspicious circumstances, the owner of the number in question will be summarily disposed of, so one's number is to be protected with one's life. // Marcos only told Morau his own number the moment before his getaway plane took him out of the country.
Ikarugo: Satellitonbo!
[TN: "Tonbo" meaning "dragonfly", and I think "satellite" is fairly self-explanatory.]

8
[Text: Ikarugo did not know Palm except through the data he had been given... // But he had resolved at an early stage that he would not leave the palace until he had found her.]
Ikarugo: (I'm going to take her out of here......!!! // Palm is the nakama of my nakama... // which makes her my nakama!! // Palm is my nakama!!!)
[Text: "Palm is risking her life for us right now" - just knowing that allowed Ikarugo to respect her deeply.]

9
Ikarugo: (This isn't a "mission" or a "duty"!! // I want to save her...!! That's what I decided I would do!!!)

10
[Text: After descending to the basement, the elevator uses surveillance cameras and weight sensors to confirm that there is nobody inside, before automatically returning to the upper levels. // When being used to return to the surface, only one person may board the elevator at a time; if the data gathered by the sensors differs significantly from that corresponding to the owner of the security number, an alarm sounds immediately and the elevator imprisons its occupant. // The only people who need not abide by these restrictions when using the elevator are Bizef and Malkos. // These exceptions are in place so that rather than taking classified materials, such as humans, through the vehicle entrance, where they would be observed by soldiers, they can instead be taken discreetly through the elevator.]

11
Welfin: Ugh...! // (What is this scent...?! // Where the hell does Fratta live, a morgue?! // Beside that... Brou must have come down here ahead of me; his scent is strong... // Damn... there are some other faint scents, but......)
[TN: The scent of Fratta's corpse, which had been rotting for a few days already, was obstructing Welfin's sense of smell.]
Welfin: (If Brou came down here after Fratta, then... // Does that mean he noticed Fratta's "Hagya-sama" comment, too? // Or else... // Is Brovuda in on this too?! // While I was busy watching the rebel... Brou... // Was he watching me from behind?! // ...... // If so...)

12
Welfin: (If Brou is in with the rebel, then he'll have noticed that I noticed that something's up with Fratta. // In which case, the reason he came down here ahead of me... // Was in order... // ...to ambush me here??!!)

13
Welfin: Damn... / This is my chance!! // There's definitely something up with Fratta...!! / If I can make him out as the perpetrator of my supposed scheme to blow up the palace... / Bizef's estimations of me are sure to rise...!) // Bizef.........!! // (What about Bizef?! // That's not good... What if he died in this attack...? // This entire plan would become meaningless! // Finding Bizef comes first...)

14
[no text just gon and killua]

15
Zeno: Hey.
Killua: (Gramps......)
Zeno: My job here is over now. // I know nothing outside the confines of my mission. // (You've changed......) // The situation inside is your call.
Killua: (...... // Inside...?)

16
[Text: Biting back the many things he wanted to say, // Zeno disappeared into the night.]

17
[no text just healing]

18-19
Gon: Do you... // ...remember me......? // My name is Gon Freecss!!! // And I've come here to see you... // ...to get back Kaito!!!!
[insert text: Everything depends on this moment!!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 274 by molokidan

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:24:19 +0000

Note about this chapter: The gender of Nefelpitou has been an oft-debated topic for many HxH fans, since the character looks very effeminate, but uses "Boku" to refer to itself, which is a decidedly masculine word. In the Japanese text whenever the narrator talks about Pitou, it always snakes around using gender-specific vocabulary and therefore us fans have never had a definitive answer to the question. In my previous translations, I've used he, as that seemed to be the consensus. After this chapter, though, I think I'm leaning toward Pitou being female. There are instances in other manga (and fiction altogether) of females using masculine pronouns for themselves, so I'm willing to excuse that, especially with the new proof we're given in this chapter.

I'd like clear this up if possible, though, so after reading this, if anyone has any good ideas or possible clues as to what gender Pitou truly is, reply to the thread and let me know what you think. Anyway, sorry for cluttering up the top of this -- enjoy another great chapter.

HUNTER X HUNTER #274

tl by molokidan

01)
Black: At last, face to face with his bitter enemy!!

Box: None of Gon's words
Box: Reached Pitou.
B: At that moment,
B: all of the cells within Pitou's head
B: were devoted to figuring out
B: how to overcome this situation as well as follow the King's orders.

02)
No. 274 - Answer

03)
P: Protect Komugi.
P: No matter what...!!!

04)
K: Strange...
K: Killua, who was a step behind Gon, noticed the abnormality.
K: Why, despite being right in front of us,
K: isn't she in a stance prepared to fight?
K: Protected only by a thin aura...
K: virtually naked!
K: In other words, completely defenseless!!
K: Does she really think she can win...?
K: Without even relying on her aura...
K: No!! That can't be.
K: The aura swelling from Gon is different than before!!

05)
K: No matter how powerful Pitou is,
K: she can't possibly fight against that while being completely defenseless...!!
K: Which means...
K: the space in-between?
K: But at a range like that, even if the opponent had some trick prepared,
K: I'm confident that the invocation of enough nen would still allow for a pre-emptive strike...!!
K: That can mean only one thing.
K: But...why!? I can't see that at all...!!
K: But...that's it.
K: Yes, that stance is just like...

06)
K: a mother's...!!!
K: Just like she's volunteering her body out to protect something weaker....!!
K: That's impossible...she's...!! She's not kind of person!!

07)
K: But...
K: Then why did Grandpa
Z: Judge what's happening inside for yourselves.
K: mention such a suggestive phrase...?
B: While Killua was desperately arguing with his own intuition,
B: in Gon's eyes,
B: the figure of the girl lying down
B: and the broken body of Kaito
B: were overlapped.

08)
sfx: gyuru gyuru

09)
G: Get away
G: from that person.
G: I said, get yourself and that monster
G: away from her, right now!!!
G: And...
G: fight me!!
G: Fight me,
G: and bring Kaito--

10)
B: Her open palms
B: were a gesture made with all her might to show that she bore no malice.
B: Killua knew that.
P: I beg you.
P: Please wait...

11)
G: Get serious!!!
G: What do you want me to wait for?!?!
G: Stand!!!!
G: Let's go outside!!!
B: Pitou's unthinkable lack of resistance left Gon lacking any means by which to strike the hammer of his emotions.
B: Meanwhile,
B: Killua was in the process of grasping the situation -- which was...

12)
Z: What happens afterwards is of no concern to me.
K: That means there were conditions he wasn't informed of!!
K: Grandpa sent down the dragon without knowing anything...!!
K: His job was most likely
K: just to use "Dragon Drive" and "Dragon Head" in order to separate the King from the Royal Guards.
K: What he didn't know
K: was that she was here.
K: No...I bet this girl is
K: that "third being" that none of us were aware of!!
K: This is just a hunch, but -- she's also the reason the King hurt

himself...!!
K: Why would he do such an irregular thing...!?
K: ...that's because to the King, she is
K: "special."
K: Right now,
K: she isn't being taken apart...

13)
K: She's being healed
K: by the orders of the King...!!!
K: Pitou's healing ability doesn't only keep her from using "En,"
K: it also requires her to concentrate all of her aura onto the target!!
B: To Gon what could only be interpreted as a negative outcome,
B: was keenly realized by Killua.
K: What should I do?!
K: What should I say...!?

14)
K: Go...
P: Anything!!
P: I'll do anything you say!!
P: So please wait.
P: I...

15)
P: I absolutely must
P: save this human!!
G: Save...?
G: Save...what?

16)
K: Anything? By "anything," do you mean--
G: Killua.
G: I'm doing the talking here.
G: Has to save her...?
G: What?
B: Komugi's life depended on her next answer,
B: but she didn't know exactly what to say.
B: And so, in this atmosphere, strained to its utmost limits,
P: This human is...
B: the answer Pitou chose was

17)
P: of importance to
B: was not a lie.
P: the one who is of importance to me.
P: Since this human has been here, His Majesty...His Mjaesty--
P: If this human dies, His Majesty will...
P: no longer be His Majesty.
P: It's to that extent...therefore,
P: If I must save her...
P: then so be it.

18)
P: After I finish healing her,
P: I will do as you say...!!
P: Therefore
P: please wait...
G: You want
G: to save her?
G: Must save her...?
G: Means she is saving her?
B: Gon
G: Haa...
G: Hah.

19)
G: How can you say...
G: such a selfish thing...
B: fought
G: So selfish.....!!!
B: with all his might.
Black (right): What he could only see as one with which to fight,
G: Dammit...!
Black(left): and himself...
Slanted black text: Swaying!!!

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 273 by molokidan

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:49:06 +0000

HUNTER X HUNTER #273

tl by molokidan

01)
side-text: Morau VS Pufu...

No. 273 : Reunion

P: Whether the act of confinement, to me, is truly advantageous...
P: Go ahead and test that theory.

side-text: The quiet hidden battle!!

02)
M: His moth scales...according to Novu, they have a hypnotic effect.
M: I can't get caught up in them...!
S: Seems like you've finished talking.
S: Such an act...befits a respectable practicioner.
S: Vigilance...
S: Preparation...
S: And confidence...
S: A blend of 2 x 3 x 5.

03)
P(2b): At the very least, allow me a self-introduction. I am the Shauapufu of the Royal Guard under direct supervision of the King.
P(thoughts on right): A somewhat diluted sense of vigilance due to the manifestation of confidence...in other words, a strong personality.
P(thoughts on left): Despite being in the enemy's territory, the relief from pulling the enemy into his own battlefield outrivals all else...that is the illustration of his emotions.
Box on right: Pufu's "Spiritual Message," through surrounding the opponent with scales, allows the flow of their aura to be interpreted in order to understand state of mind.
Box on left: Through analyzing the mixed conditions of about 30 different patterns of strong emotions that appear in the flow of the aura, the opponent's thoughts can be predicted.

04)
P: ...his somewhat diluted vigilance has become a bit stronger.
P: Fu.
P: Would you be so kind as to tell me your name?
P: It would be quite a saddening misconception if you were to be suspicious of me using these self-introductions as a way to lead you into being caught up in my scales.
P: I'm slightly shocked.
P: That's all...

05)
P: Let's forget that and become reborn.
P: Ufu
P(big one at left): Ufufufufu. Please wait a moment...fufufu.
P: Ufufu
P: Ufufufu
M: If you're just going to waste time, that's fine with me!
M: Whether a demon or a serpent comes out...!!

06)
B: The elevator to the palace basement...anyone can use it to go down,
B: but in order to go up, an passcode must be entered.
B: Each 8-digit code differs between the user for the purpose of identification.
B: If even one digit is misplaced, an alarm will sound and the door will lock.
B: Repeated errors will be transmitted to the guards, resulting in the release of hypnosis gas followed by restraints and torture...in other words, death.

07)
B: The circumstances of the user are supervised by a computer, from which the purposes, frequency of inputs, and usage times are all relentlessly checked by Chief Bizef.
B: Since suspicion regarding a code will result in the unconditional punishment of its keeper, one's code is equivalent to their life.
B: Marcos, just before the plane through which he was going to escape the country arrived, finally gave his code to Morau.
I: "Satellitonbo" (*Tonbo = Dragonfly)

08)
B: From what was told to him, Ikarugo knew nothing of Palm,
B: yet he quickly made a firm resolution not to leave the palace before finding her.
I: I'll definitely bring her back...!!!
I: Palm is my allies' ally!
I: Which means she's my ally!!
I: My ally!!!
B: "Right now, Palm is risking her life" -- From that quote alone, Ikarugo respected her.

09)
I: This is not a matter of duty or obligation!!
I: I want to save her...!! I've decided that I will save her!!!

10)
B: This elevator, complete with a surveillance camera and a scale, after going underground, ascertains that "nothing is inside" and automatically rises back up.
B: When the elevator is rising, only one person can ride. During this time, if there is a noticeable anomaly in the user data and the physical data of the user during the time of input, the alarm will immediately sound and the elevator will become a virtual prison.
sfx: pi
B: The only two people who have codes and can utilize the elevator without those constraints are Bizef and Marcos.
B: Including the humans, there are various "classified things" that are transported through the palace, so compared to the vehicular entrances and exits, this way of transport is the more convenient one.

11)
W: Uuu!
W: What's this stench...!?
W: Is Flutter living in a morgue or something!?
W: Other than that...the only other strong scent is that of Brou(*T/L note: Werefin's nickname for Brouda, apparently), who went down before me...
W: Shit...it's indistinct, but it's there...
Box: The rotten smell of Flutter, who had been dead for several days, was blunting Werefin's nose.
W: The fact that Brou went down after Flutter means
W: that he also must have noticed when Flutter said "Hagya-sama?"
W: Or could it be...
W: Brouda's with him!?
W: When I was watching for the intruder...Brouda
W: was watching me from behind!?
W: Which would mean--

12)
W: that if Brouda truly is on the intruders' side, then he is keen to the fact that I'm keen to Flutter's unnatural behavior.
sfx: suu...
W: And so the reason he went down ahead me is so that...
W: down there,
W: he can intercept me!?!?

13)
W(2b): Shit!! This should be my chance!!
W(3b): Flutter is obviously acting suspicious...!! If I can set him up as the perpetrator who set up the bomb plan...Bizef's trust in me will be resolute!
W: Bizef.....!!
W: Where's Bizef!?
W: This is bad...if he died in the assault...
W: this whole plan will become meaningless.
W: If I don't find Bizef first...

15)
Z: Yo.
K: Gramps...
Z: My job is finished here.
Z: What happens afterwards is of no concern to me.
K: Strange...
Z: Judge what's happening inside for yourselves.
K: Inside...?

16)
B: Gulping down all he wanted to say,
B: Zeno slipped into the darkness.

18)
G: Do you
G: remember me...?

19)
G: I am Gon Freecs!!!
G: In order to bring back Kaito,
G: I've come to you!!!!
White text: Going all-out in an instant!!!

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 272 by cnet128

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:33:51 +0000

1
[insert text: Knuckle in pain!!]
Potclean: It's time! // Now adding interest!
Knuckle: (No... // Only ten seconds?! // Is that all?! No way!! // How much longer am I going to have to stay here and endure... // ...upon this choking bed of needles that makes me want to run away right now...?!)

2-3
Hunter x Hunter
#272: Miscalculation
Knuckle: (What kind of joke is this?!! // This is no joke...!!!)

4
Knuckle: (I can't stand this!!!!)

5
[Text: The thing that stopped Knuckle's wild dash... // ...was Meleoron's first tap.]

6
Knuckle: (No way... just another ten seconds!! // But... could that have just saved me?!)
[Text: Meleoron was not thinking of Knuckle, however... // ...he had simply reached his own limit.]

7
Knuckle: (......... // Oh, crap.........!! // He just nicked me with the edge of a single claw...)
Potclean: oh, my!
Knuckle: (...yet he paid off all the interest, and plenty of that attack I put all my strength into...!!)
[Text: Yupi did not notice that he had hit anything, and nor did he notice Potclean's pronouncement...]
Knuckle: (Shoot's putting his life on the line to give me this chance......! // And yet I, even though I'm not hurt in the slightest, managed to do such a stupid thing!!)
[Text: ...nor even Knuckle's cry.]
Knuckle: DAMMIIIIT! // (You've gotta calm yourself down, idiot!! // You're gonna ruin everything at this rate!)

8
Knuckle: This distance ought to be good... // It's not so close we'll get noticed, but not too far for us to move back in!! // As long as Shoot's fighting for us out there... // Even if he does notice Potclean for a moment, it shouldn't be a problem!! // Take a huge breath, all right, Meleoron?!!
Meleoron: God's Accomplice... // Release!!

9
Yupi: ?! // (What the hell is this thing?! // When did he... no. // I couldn't possibly have missed him!! // He must have appeared just now!! // Did I take an attack?! No... I couldn't have...!! // Some kind of delayed effect...? It must have been back then...!! / Did I somehow fulfil the conditions for it to activate while I was attacking?! // That number... what does it mean?! A countdown?! Is it a bomb?! // No... the number isn't going up or down... // ? // ? // Ugh, this pisses me off!!)

10
Yupi: (But I guess all I have to do is take out the source!!!)
Shoot: (Something's coming!! // I've gotta run!!!)
[Text: One reason... // ...why Yupi, even confident as he was in his sheer overwhelming power, had not managed to actually defeat Shoot... // ...could, perhaps, be seen as a clear difference in true ability.]

11
Shoot: (So fast!! // I can't get away...!!!) // .........
Yupi: (One skewered lump of meat... // ...coming right up!!!)

12
[no text just stuff]

13
Yupi: (He attacked himself for extra acceleration... // ...... // Eh, whatever.)
[Text: His confidence that "I can win this whenever"... // ...only served to encourage Yupi, never one to plan ahead, to relax prematurely.]
Shoot: (That was close!)
[Text: Yupi's assessment was essentially accurate. // Accurate, in that this was indeed a fight that would be sure to go to Yupi in the end. // If we are to say that he made a miscalculation... // ...then that miscalculation lay in his failure to realise that Shoot, for his part, was thinking "That's fine".

14-15
Shoot: (I can still do this!! // I can...)
[Text: Even so, softly but surely,]
Shoot: (...still fly...!!!! // I can......)
[Text: Shoot was fast reaching his limit.]

16-17
Knuckle: DAMMIT, YUPIIIIIII!!! / TRY LOOKIN' OVER HERE, DUMBASS!!!

18
[Text: After managing to calm down, Knuckle had reached a conclusion.]
Meleoron: (Knuckle.........)
[Text: The decision to show himself.]
Knuckle: (Outright telling him that there's another enemy out here?! // Sounds great!!!)

19
Knuckle: (That way, Yupi'll be nice and distracted... / ...and Shoot will be able to survive!!!!) // COME AND GET IT!!!
Yupi: ......I see. // So this thing's yours, huh?
[Text: Knuckle's assessment was essentially accurate. // If we are to say that he made a miscalculation......]
[side text: Battle!!!]
[bottom text: Next issue, Knuckle and Yupi...!! Meanwhile, what will Gon find waiting for him?!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 272 by molokidan

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:22:03 +0000

HUNTER X HUNTER #272

tl by molokidan

01)
Black text: Knuckle suffers!!
H: Time's up.
H: The interest will now be added.
K: Wha...
K: It's only been ten seconds!?
K: Only that!? No way!
K: Even after all the unbearable, choking pain so far...
K: How much longer must I withstand this!?

02-3)
Right side: You've gotta be kidding me!!?
No. 272 : Miscalculation
Left side: This is ridiculous...!!!

04)
K: AS IF I COULD STAND THIS!!!!

05)
sfx: pon pon
Box: What stopped Knuckle's violent dash
B: Was Meleoron's first tap.

06)
K: Are you serious? There's only 10 seconds left?
K: But...could that just have saved me?!
B: This of course had nothing to do with Knuckle's thoughts,
B: but because Meleoron was also at his limit.

07)
K: Dammit....!!
K: Even though his claw just barely touched me...
P: Whoopsie!
K: It dealt enough damage to null the interest and halve my power as well...!!
B: Yupi failed to notice the fact that he had grazed something, nor Potclean's proclamation of interest,
K: Shoot's fighting with his life on the line...
K: and yet I, completely unscathed, just made an idiotic mistake!!
B: nor Knuckle's howl.
K: SHIIIIIIIT!!
K: Calm down, you fool!!
K: Or everything will be ruined!

08)
K: I suppose this is the best range I can get.
K: It's not close enough to be seen, but it isn't too far that I can't get close to him!!
K: As long as Shoot is doing his best...
K: He shouldn't have any way of noticing Potclean for an instant!!
K: Take a breather with all your might, Meleoron!!
M: God's Accomplice -
M: Rescinded!!

09)
Y: What the hell is that!?
Y: When did it...no.
Y: There's no way I couldn't have noticed it!!
Y: It just appeared all of a sudden!!
Y: Was I attacked!? No, there's no way...!!
Y(2b): Is it a delayed effect...but then that means it's from back then...!! Or could I have somehow fulfilled the conditions to make it spawn during battle!?
Y: What are these numbers!? A countdown!? A bomb!?
Y: No, the numbers aren't rising or falling!
Y: What a pain in the ass!!

10)
Y: It just means I have to get rid of the source, right!?!
sfx bubbles: buh x7
S: Something's coming!!
S: From far away!!!
B: One reason
B: as to why, Yupi, despite the pride he had in his own overwhelming power, could not hit Shoot,
B: could be explained as a difference in true ability.

11)
S: Fast!!
S: I can't get away in time...!!!
Y: One skewered piece meat...
Y: comin' right up!!!

12)
sfx: gun

13)
sfx: tch
Y: He hit himself to speed around to the rear.
Y: Whatever.
B: The response "I always win"
B: was a drawback to the plan-less Yupi, who was not the type to polish up his own battle strategy.
S: That was close!
B: Yupi's readings were more or less correct.
B: Eventually, he would come out on top -- that was indeed true.
B: But if there was any miscalculation,
B: It was the fact that Shoot thought "that's fine," and Yupi did not notice.

14-15)
S: I can still fight!!
S: I...
B: And yet quietly, certainly,
S: I can still fly...!!!!
SL Still...
B: Shoot's limit crept up on him.

16-17)
K: YUPIIIIIIII, DAMMMMIIIITTT!!!
K: I'M OVER HEEEERE, YOU DUMBAAAAAAASSSSSS!!

18)
K: The conclusion that the cooled-down Knuckle had come to,
M: Knuckle...
K: was to reveal himself.
K: Purposefully reveal to the enemy that he has another opponent!?
K: Excellent!!!

19)
K(2b): This is the only way to distract Yupi's concentration, and save Shoot!!!!
K: C'MOOOOOOOOONNN!!!
Y: ...I see.
Y: So you're the one over here.
Y: Knuckle was more or less correct.
Y: But if there was a miscalculation...
Black text: Carelessness!!!

Next Issue: Knuckle and Yupi...!! And what's waiting ahead for Gon!?

[Português] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 271 by Uehara

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:21:04 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#271: Separação
Topo: O Rei em frente aos seus olhos. O momento do confronto chegou.

2
Rei: Prossiga. // Eu entendo que vocês querem cumprir seus objetivos enquanto mantém os sacrifícios humanos num nível mínimo. // E vocês queriam se aproveitarem do caos para me separar dos Guardas Reais, certo? // Não interessa. // Continue.

3
Zeno: Dragon Head.* (Vou deixar os nomes dos ataques em inglês)
Netero: Que ser assustador...
Caixas: "A técnica de Zeno não continha nenhuma malícia contra o Rei." O Rei entendeu isso em um instante, e os dois perceberam isso. // A razão pela qual Zeno projetou sua técnica da maneira mais séria possível... // Pode ter sido por respeito ao Rei? Ou talvez...

4-5
Sem texto

6
Gon: Killua. // O Pitou está ali. // Vamos.

7
T: "Em qual torre?" - Killua conseguiu resistir ao seu impulso de perguntar. // Certamente ele viu que não era hora, mas além disso, ele sentiu algo mais... // Se ele abrisse sua boca // não haveria mais como parar o que estava acontecendo..! // Nenhum jeito de voltar atrás!! // Se ele tivesse deixado tudo aquilo sair, o resultado... // O caminho a frente que só as pessoas experientes conseguem alcançar... // Com o medo de perder algo que é precioso para ele... // Killua não pôde fazer nada a não ser se aproximar desse caminho.

8
T: Aproximadamente 10 segundos antes do vôo do dragão
Nota: Aqui ele se refere ao Dragon Head do Zeno

9
T: Não temendo nem mesmo seus ferimentos mortais, Shoot atacava com tudo... // e isso, por estranho que pareça, era o que o mantinha vivo. // "Hotel Rafflesia." // Antes que seus graves danos o levassem à morte, Shoot conseguiu roubar uma pequena coisa: // Um único olho composto do ombro de Yupi. // O dano físico que Yupi recebeu foi perto de zero. // Entretanto...

10
T: Yupí não conseguiu atacar com tudo mais. // O estranho sentimento de que algo "havia sido roubado, ao invés de destruído" // Influenciou profundamente o estado mental de Yupi. // Não conseguindo determinar a natureza do ataque que o atingia pela segunda vez, Yupi foi forçado a dar um passo atrás.
Yupi: Eu não posso deixá-los chegar perto do Rei!!
T: Yupi e Shoot estavam empatados nesse ponto. // Entretanto... // Esse fluir dos eventos tão bem planejado...

11
Knuckle: .............
T: ...estava na verdade causando muita dor a Knuckle.
Knu: Calma!!! // Eu não posso atacar... ainda não!!!// Se eu o atacar agora... // Seria o mesmo que lhe contar que "há mais um inimigo escondido aqui...!'
T: Mesmo aumentando a guarda ao seu redor, os ataques de Yupi continuavam a tirar a vida de Shoot.

12
T: Encharcado no próprio sangue, Shoot continuou a tomar os ataques furiosos de Yupi.
Knu: Aguente firme..!!!
T: E ao seu lado, sem poder fazer nada a não ser assistir... // ...lutando contra si mesmo só para conter sua respiração... // Não importando o quanto ele repetisse essas palavras em sua cabeça...
Knu: Aguente firme!!! // Você tem que aguentar!!! // Dê o seu melhor!!!
T: Knuckle... // ...não conseguiu segurar as lágrimas que caiam.

13
Sem texto

14
t: Os dois que apareceram das portas // Eram Ditoh e Brouda. // O motivo que Werefin estava secretamente seguindo Fratta... // ... era porque ele tinha sentido o cheiro de uma anomalia.

15
T:Alguma coisa estranha...
Were: Foi muito rápido....!! // Aquelas duas formigas soldado soaram o alarme e então foram imediatamente mortas... // O período de tempo entre quando o rebelde terminou de matar as duas e voltou para o corredor e quando Fratta apareceu... // Foi muito curto!!! // Se for assim, então com certeza... // Fratta e o intruso devem ter se encontrado no corredor! // Nesse caso, por que ele matou os dois // e deixou Fratta vivo....? // Fratta deve estar com eles..... em outras palavras, // um traidor....!?

16
Ditoh: Ohh? Se não é o Fratta!! O que 'tá' acontecendo? 'Cê' sabe??
Brovuda: O En do Pitou disapareceu denovo...
Were: (Ele está sozinho?! Ou então... // ... Trabalhando para o Hagya?!)
Ikarugo: Ah, eu acabei de chegar também... // Tudo o que sei é que parece ser um ataque do inimigo...
Brovuda: Sério?!
Ditoh: Bem, eu já achava que seria alguma coisa do tipo...
Broduva: O que aconteceu com suas asas?
Ikarugo: Ahh, bem... // Fui pego no ataque enquanto vinha pra cá...

18
D: Você está descendo?
I: S- / Sim. / Ordens de Hagya-sama...
Ditoh: O que deveríamos fazer?
B: Hm? / Bem... ninguém nos ordenou a guardar esse lugar...
D: É que tem uma coisa que eu quero testar muuuuuuuuuito, sabe // Minha técnica nova!// Whooa!
B: Que forte...
I: .........

19
D: Parece divertido~~~!! // Vou lá ver!!
B: Se cuida! / Eu vou ficar aqui por enquanto...
I: Bem, então eu vou indo...
B: Tá..
Were/Bro: ........ // ("Hagya-sama", eh...?)
t: Ikarugo enrascado!!!

This trans was based on the trans of Melokidian, thx for it!

And btw, this is my first ever trans, I wanted to give it a go so...
if any group out there is interested in using this, pls just pm me!
cya!

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 271 by cnet128

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:15:56 +0000

[TN: Pages 11 and 12 appear to be backwards in the RAW; as such, I've reversed them here. I'm pretty sure about this; page 10 in the RAW is clearly a right-hand page, yet the page following it also seems to be a right-hand page. Then there's the fact that the sentence started at the bottom of page 10 appears to finish at the top of page "12"... and finally, the continuity issue. Knuckle bursts into tears at the bottom of page "11", but he's perfectly dry-eyed at the top of page "12".]

1
Hunter x Hunter
#271: Clone
[insert text: The King right before their eyes. The moment has come.]
[Top-right text: Back once more!!!]
[Top-left text: The legend revived! Centre colour pages to mark the return to publication!!]
[Lower top-left text: To run for ten full weeks starting this issue!!]

2
King: Go ahead. // I understand that you wish to keep human casualties to a minimum whilst accomplishing your objective. // And you wished to take advantage of the chaos to separate me from my Guards, yes? // No matter. // Go ahead.

3
Zeno: Dragon Head.
Netero: A formidable being...
[Text: "There was no malice towards the King present in the technique Zeno unleashed" - the King understood that fact in an instant, and both of the others recognised this. // The reason why Zeno had released the technique in an utterly serious manner... // Was it an expression of his resolve, or else...?]

4-5
[no text]

6
Gon: Killua. // Pitou is in that tower. // Let's go.

7
[Text: "In which tower?" - Killua just managed to suppress his urge to inquire. // Certainly, he felt it was not the time, but more than that, he felt something else... // If I were to say that out loud... // ...that would be it......!! // There would be no turning back...!! // That which could be achieved by letting it all out... // The path ahead at which anybody with sufficient experience can arrive... // With the fear that comes from the possibility of losing that which is precious... // Killua could not even begin to approach that path.]

8
[Text: Approximately 10 seconds before the dragon's release]
Yupi: Ngh... // Nnnhh...

9
[Text: Fearing not even mortal wounds, Shoot made his reckless charge... // ...and that, oddly enough, was what allowed him to stay alive. // "Hotel Rafflesia". // What Shoot managed to steal in exchange for wounds that would soon have left him doomed to perish... // ...was but a single compound eye from Yupi's shoulder. // The physical damage inflicted was utterly negligible. // However...]

10
[Text: Yupi could not attack properly. // "It was not destroyed, but stolen" - this realisation... // ...had a profound mental effect upon Yupi. // Once more unable to determine the nature of the attack he had recieved, Yupi was forced a step back.]
Yupi: (I can't let him get anywhere near the King!!)
[Text: Yupi and Shoot were on equal footing at this point. // However... // This carefully planned flow of events...]

11
Knuckle: .........
[Text: ...was actually causing Knuckle incredible pain.]
Knuckle: (Hold on!!! // I can't shoot... not yet!!! // If I let off an attack right now... // It would be equivalent to outright telling the enemy "there's one more threat still hiding in the area"...!!)
[Text: Even as Yupi mounted his vigilance towards the surrounding area, his attacks were gradually whittling away at Shoot's life.]

12
[Text: Soaked in blood, Shoot continued to take Yupi's fierce attacks.]
Knuckle: (Hold on...!!!)
[Text: And by his side, able to do nothing but watch... // ...engaged in his own battle to simply hold in his breath... // ...no matter how much he silently repeated those words to himself...]
Knuckle: (Hold on!!! // You have to hold on!!! // Do your best!!!)
[Text: Knuckle... // ...was unable to hold back the flow of tears.]

13
[no text just nice picture :p]

14
[Text: Who should appear from those two doors... // ...but Djitu and Brovuda. // Welfin was carefully shadowing Fratta in secret... // ...because he had sniffed out something odd.]

15
[Text: Something odd...]
Welfin: (It's too fast......!!! // Those two soldier ants sounded the alert, and then were taken out immediately afterwards... // The time taken for the rebel who killed those two to retrace his steps, and Fratta's sudden appearance... // They're too close!! // If that's how it went, then surely Fratta... // ...would have crossed paths with the rebel in the corridor! // In which case, why were the other two killed... // ...but Fratta left alive......? // Fratta must be with the rebels...... in other words, // ...a traitor......?!

16-17
Djitu: Ohh? If it isn't Fratta!! What's going on, d'you know?
Brovuda: Pitou's En has disappeared again...
Welfin: (Is he alone?! Or else... // ...working for Hagya?!)
Ikarugo: Oh, I've only just got back here, too... // It seems like there's some kind of enemy attack...
Brovuda: Seriously?!
Djitu: Well, I figured it must be something like that...
Brovuda: What's up with the feathers?
Ikarugo: Ahh, well... / I got caught up in the attack back there...

18
Djitu: You going down?
Ikarugo: Y - / Yeah. / Orders from Hagya-sama...
Djitu: What should we do?
Brovuda: Hm? / Well... we haven't been ordered to guard this place...
Djitu: ......But there's something I'm itching to try out, y'know? // A new technique! // Whoa!
Brovuda: So huge...
Ikarugo: ......

19
Djitu: Sounds like fun~~~!! // I'm gonna check it out!!!
Brovuda: Watch yourself, okay? / I think I'll stay here for the moment...
Ikarugo: Well, then, I'll just be going...
Brovuda: Yeah...
Welfin/Brovuda: ...... // ("Hagya-sama", he says...?)
[insert text: Ikarugo in trouble!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 271 by molokidan

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:01:47 +0000

Note: This is my FIVE-HUNDREDTH translated manga chapter! Thanks to everyone for their nice comments -- and here's to 500 more!

HUNTER X HUNTER #271

01)
Green Text: The King before their eyes. The moment of confrontation.

271. Separation

02)
K: Proceed.
K: I've more than realized the fact that you are trying to fulfill your goals while minimizing as many human sacrifices as possible.
K: And what you hoped to accomplish through taking advantage of the confusion was separating the Royal Guards from myself, correct?
K: It matters not.
K: Proceed.

03)
Z: "Dragon Head."
N: What a frightening being...
B: "The technique that had been drawn out bore no malice toward the King." The two noticed the very moment when the King himself discerned this.
B: The reason Zeno had not even a slightly playful attitude about him as he activated his technique...
B: Could it have been out of respect for the King? Or possibly--

06)
G: Killua.
G: Pitou's over there.
G: Let's go.

07)
B: "Which one?" --Killua just barely managed to suppress the urge to ask such a question.
B: Killua felt something far greater than simply realizing now was not the time.
B: If he opened his mouth
B: there would no longer be any way to stop what was happening....!!
B: No way to turn back...!!
B: If he let it all come out, the result...
B: The path just a little ahead of the place people who gain experience end up.
B: Due to the fear that he might lose something important to him,
B: Killua could do nothing but draw closer to that path.

08)
B: Roughly 10 seconds before the dragon flew down, (*T/L Note: This must be referring to the Dragon Head).
S: Guhh...
M: Nuui!

09)
B: The reckless charge of Shoot, who was not even afraid of his own fatal wounds,
B: was, on the contrary, extending his own life.
S: "Hotel Rafflesia."
B: Just before the heavy wounds on his body should have led him to sudden death, Shoot stole a single thing:
B: One of the compound eyes from Yupi's shoulder.
B: The physical damage Yupi felt was equivalent to zero.
B: However--

10)
B: Yupi was unable to go all-out.
B: The strange feeling that had something had been "stolen rather than destroyed"
B: had considerably influenced Yupi's mental state.
B: Having received another attack that he was completely unfamiliar with, Yupi took a step back.
M: I cannot let this guy get close to the King!
B: Yupi and Shoot's advantages and disadvantages were equal.
B: However,
B: As expected, this development

11)
B: As he was drenched in his own blood, Shoot continued to take Yupi's violent attacks.
K: Bear it!!!
B: And at his side, doing nothing but watching,
B: Fighting on his own just to keep his breath in,
B: No matter how much he screamed to himself in his head,
K: Bear it!!!
K: Please, bear through it!!!
K: Do your best!!!
B: Knuckle
B: was unable to hold back his tears.

12)
B: On the other hand, Knuckle was suffering greatly.
K: Bear it!!!
K: I...can't hit him yet!!!
K: If I attack right now,
K: it'd be like purposefully telling him "you have another enemy in your midst!"
B: While strengthening his surveillance of the surrounding area, Yupi's attacks continued to gradually shave Shoot's life away.

14)
B: The two who appeared from the doors
B: were Zitow and Brouda.
B: The reason Werefin was secretly following Flutter
B: was because he had sniffed out an anomaly.

15)
B: Anomaly.
W: It was too fast...!!!
W: The sound when the two guard ants spotted something, and the sound of their deaths immediately after...
W: The period of time from when the intruder finished killing the two and went back into the corridor to when Flutter appeared
W: is too short!!
W: Which means that without a doubt,
W: Flutter and the intruder must have passed by each other in the corridor!
W: So then why would he kill those two
W: but ignore Flutter...?
W: Flutter's on the intruder's side...in other words,
W: A traitor...!?

16)
Z: Oh!? If it isn't Flutter!! What's all this ruckus about!?
W: Is he on his own!? Or could this be..

17)
B: Pito-dono's "En" is still gone.
W: The work of Hagya!?
F: I just came back, so...
F: All I can surmise is that we're being attacked by the enemy...
B: Really!?
Z: Well, it'd be hard to come up with any other conclusion.
B: What happened to those wings of yours?
F(2b): Ah, right. They were destroyed in the assault back there.

18)
Z: Going down?
F(2b): Uh...yeah...I've been given orders from Hagya-sama...
Z: What should we do?
B(2b): Hm? Well...no one told us we need to keep standing guard here or anything.
Z: ...but I'd reaaallly like to give it a try, you know.
Z: My new ability.
Z: Woahhh!
B: It's massive...

19)
Z: This is gonna be fun!!
Z: See ya later!!!
B(2B): Take care! I'll check things out a bit more.
F: Well then, I'll be off now.
B: Bye.
B&W: Hagya-sama, huh...?

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 270 by cnet128

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:47:37 +0000

1
[side text: Dance!!!]
Pufu: (What a situation... Separated from the King at such a crucial moment... // Can I truly call myself a Royal Guard? // I do not even know the King's location... // Can I truly call myself a Royal Guard? // Nay... // I am no longer... // worthy of that title!!! // That is all there is to it......)
[Text: Pufu's loyalty...]

2
[Text: ...was powerful to the point of fragility. // His absolute idealism would permit no modification.]
Pufu: (Former Royal Guard Pufu... // Now, Pufu... // Worthless Pufu... // You fool... // You failed Guard, Pufu... // Where shall you go now? // Don't you have any idea? // If the King isn't in the next place you look... // ...that makes you a worse-than-worthless piece of trash, you know? // No...... Worthless Pufu... // You just don't want to admit it, do you?!! // You don't want him to be with that girl!!!!)
[Text: And this applied not only to himself... // ...but extended also to the King.]
Pufu: (The mere possibility that the absolute King could be worried about a common human, and take it upon himself to visit the room of that mere human...)

3
Pufu: (That is unacceptable!)
[Text: This feeling, almost a kind of fanaticism...]
Pufu: And yet... // (The King may well indeed be there... // I daresay it is likely that before I even came here... // ...I had already realised that this was the case. // The reason why I am truly unworthy of the title of Royal Guard is not that I knew not where the King would be... // ...but that I knew full well, and yet failed to be there by his side. // Now... // Pufu, traitor, lower than trash...)

4
Pufu: (From now on, you are no more than a worm! // You should expect nothing of yourself! // As such, you should likewise expect nothing from the King! // And so simply for the King's sake...! // For the King's sake!! // For the King's sake!!! // For the King's sake!!!! // For the King's sake!!!!!)
[Text: ...by a few seconds after he had arrived in the throne room...]
Pufu: (I shall go... // To the King's side.)
[Text: ...had robbed Pufu of his capacity for rational thought.]

5
Hunter x Hunter
#270: Spiritual Message

6
Morau: Yo... // ...Hey, are you ignoring me?!! // (Heading off to find the King without payingme the slightest heed, huh...?) // Bad luck, I'm afraid... // I've got you surrounded.

7
Pufu: ...... // What can I do... // ...to make you let me go......?
Morau: We~~ll... // I'm afraid I can't do that.
Pufu: Spiritual Message // Is that so.

8
[Text: As the bodies of the two soldiers who had lost all semblance of command began to topple to the ground...]
Killua: (Dammit! What... // What am I doing...?!)
[Text: Killua and Ikarugo saw one another... // Their eyes met.]

9
Ikarugo: Killua...

10
Ikarugo: I owe you one!!

11
[Text: As Killua came to his senses, a tumult of emotions began to swirl chaotically within his head... // ...but Ikarugo's voice swept that all away. // By the time the two ants' bodies hit the floor with a thump... // Killua was facing onward once more.]

12
[Text: Positioned at either end of the corridor containing the elevator to the lower levels were rooms intended for the use of servants. // Currently, they were being used by the soldier ants. // Ikarugo ran straight past the two fallen ants... // ...and just as he reached the elevator itself... // As though breathing in unison... // ...the doors at both ends began to open.]

13
Gon: (That's Morau's "Smoke Jail"... // The technique he said he'd use to keep Pufu from going to the King's side!! // And considering that it's enshrouding the entire third floor of the tower in smoke... // That means the King and Pitou can't be up there!! // Where are they?!)

14
[no text just king]

15
[still no text just awesome king]

16
[side text: Seething!!!]
[bottom text: Starting from next issue, this series will be on hiatus. We hope you understand. We will let you know as soon as the continuation is scheduled.]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 270 by molokidan

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:15:54 +0000

Note: NOT to be used for scanlation.

HUNTER X HUNTER #270

tl by molokidan

01)
P: What a plight, not being at His Majesty's side in a time like this.
P: And yet I call myself a Royal Guard under His Majesty's direct supervision?
P: Not even knowing his Majesty's whereabouts--
P: And yet I call myself a Royal Guard under His Majesty's direct supervision?
Black text: Dancing!!!
P: Fie
Big text(right): Failure as
big text(left): a royal guard!!!
P: That's all it is...
B: Pufu's loyalty

02)
B: was so powerful that it also made him fragile.
(from the bottom right, going counter-clockwise)
P: You can't even make a guess?
P: You're a failure as a Royal Guard, Pufu.
P: You fool.
P: You're an Ex-Royal Guard, Pufu.
P: Now, Pufu.
P: Incompetent Pufu.
P: Where will you go next?
P: If the King isn't where you go next,
P: You'll be a waste worse than incompetent.
B: His absolute idealism allowed for no modifications along the way.
P: My...how incompetent you are, Pufu.
P: You just don't want to admit it!!

03)
P: You don't want that woman to be with him!!!!
B: That affected not only himself,
B: but also the King.
Side text: A true King, no matter what, would never care for the body of such a lowly human or step foot within that lowly human's room.

04)
B: Those feelings, which were almost like fanaticism,
P: It cannot
P: be allowed.
P(small): And yet
P: Perhaps his Majesty is there.
P: Even before I came here,
P: I realized that was probably the case.
P(black, left): The reason I am a failure as a Royal Guard is not because I do not know the whereabouts of His Majesty,
P: Yes,
P: Pufu, a traitor below that of a waste.
P(black, right): but because I, knowing full well, did not go there.

05)
P: From now on you are merely a maggot.
P: You can expect nothing of yourself anymore,
P: nor anything from His Majesty.
P: Just for the sake of His Majesty!
P: For His Majesty!!
P: For His Majesty!!
P: For His Majesty!!!
P: For His Majesty!!!!
B: From a few seconds after he reached the throne room,
P: I will go...
P: to His Majesty's side.
B: Pufu was no longer able to think rationally.

06)
No. 270 Spiritual Message

08)
M: Yo...
M: --he's ignoring me?!
M: Heading straight for the King without even looking at me, huh?
M: Unfortunately,
M: I've completely enveloped you.

09)
P: What shall I do
P: in order to get out...?
M: Naah~
M: I'm not letting you out.
Black(right): Spiritual
Black(left): Message
P: Is that so?

10)
B: As the bodies of the two ants who had lost all command began to lurch over,
K: What is this..
K: Shit!! I'm...
B: Killua and Ikarugo's
B: eyes met.

11)
I: Killua.

11)
I: I "owe" you!!

13)
B: As he came to his senses, complicated by various emotions, the confused Killua's head
B: was swept clean by Ikarugo's voice.
B: When the two ants collapsed and made a sound,
B: Killua was already facing what was ahead.

14)
B: On both ends of the corridor where the elevator to the basement is situated, there are servant quarters,
B: currently in use by the ant soldiers at the present time.
B: Ikarugo cut through the gap of the two ants,
B: reaching the elevator at the same time.
B: Then, as if they were synchronized,
B: both sides began to open.

15)
G: That's Morau's "Smoky Jail." (*While the characters read: Jailhouse Rock)
G: The technique he said he was going to use to keep Pufu from the King!!
G: Since the entire third floor of the tower is covered in smoke,
G: The King and Pitou aren't there!!
G: Where are they!?

19)
Black text: Seething!!!
Bottom: Next week, there will be a break. Please understand. When the re-serialization is decided again, we we let you know through the magazine.

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 269 by cnet128

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:27:01 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#269: Loan
[insert text: Knuckle gets in a mighty blow, but...!]
Knuckle: (...Tch... // That punch should have sent him flying into the distance, but... // 590 in total...!! // Those ten seconds are going to last an age...!!)
[Text: Hakoware takes any additional damage and uses it to calculate interest as time elapses.]
Yupi: Nghh... // .........

2
Yupi: Where is he......?!!! // WHY, YOU.....!!!
[Text: Yupi began to rage, but a glimpse of a shadow through on of his many eyes brought him back to his senses. // Though his right leg had been destroyed... // Shoot had used Yupi's lapse to stand himself atop his own arm. // Though he had never actually tried it before, Shoot held a conviction that this was his "ultimate technique".]

3
[Text: Likewise, he had no particular reason for covering up his right eye. // He was simply caught up in the flow of the power brimming up within him. // Feeding on adversity... // Shoot soared.]

4
[Text: His terrific speed and vigour... // ...succeeded in shifting Yupi's attention to his defences for several seconds. // All with the aim...]

5
[Text: ...of restoring another!!!]
Morau: (Knuckle... // Shoot...)

6
Morau: (Once this is all over... // We're gonna drown ourselves in good drink and get drunk out of our minds. // After all, normally you'd hate it if I tried to embrace you with all my might...)
[Text: The huge quantities of dust that had been kicked up by both sides allowed Morau to spreading his aura throughout the palace, and grasp the situation more clearly.]
Morau: (...so I can't think of any other way!!)
[Text: Pufu was in the throne room...]

7
[Text: Gon and Killua had changed direction as soon as they had dodged Yupi's attack. // Their goal - to leap from the second floor of the right-hand tower directly to the third floor of the central tower - the location of the throne room. // They overtook Ikarugo, who had headed straight for the elevator to the basement from the moment the invasion had begun. // With his ability to control dead bodies as though they were his own, "Living Dead Dolls", Ikarugo had gained the advantage of compound eyes, and successfully evaded the Dragon Dive unharmed.

8
[no text just overview]

9
[Text: And then in the corner of Killua's vision... // He saw two soldier ants.]

10
Killua: (They're standing... // right in Ikarugo's path...!!)

11
[Text: In that instant... // Killua turned at a run.]
Killua: (What the hell am I doing?! // Am I crazy?!)
[Text: Killua, who had been more adamant than any of the others... // that each person must concentrate upon his own task, deal with his own obstacles.]

12
[Text: His reason was suspended entirely.]
Ikarugo: (Killua?! // Why is he heading towards the elevator...?!)
[Text: But he had not fallen into a panic; quite the opposite. // His body was acting under a pure logic.]

13
[Text: Keeping his aura under perfect control, wasting as little as possible, // ...swiftly... // ...he struck... // ...and with such precision...]

14
[Text: The combat capacity of the two soldier ants, // as well as any action they may have taken, was instantaneously eliminated. // Watching this scene were Ikarugo... // ...and one more ant.]

15
[Text: Meanwhile... // Seeing the cloud of smoke engulfing the throne room... // Gon understood at once what it must mean.]
[insert text: His only goal is to take Pitou's head!!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 269 by molokidan

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:52:11 +0000

NOTE: NOT TO BE USED FOR SCANLATION.

HUNTER X HUNTER #269

tl by molokidan

01)
Black text: A one-sided attack from Knuckle...
K: Tch!
K: Although I'm hitting him with enough power to send him flying as far as the horizon...
K: The sum is at 590...!!
Box: "Hakoware" accumulates interest through the supplemental damage and the time since the ability was invoked.
K: 10 seconds is like an eternity...!!
Y: Nuuu!

No. 269 Loan

02)
Y: I lost sight of him...!!!
Y: BASTARD!!
B: What restored the seething Yupi's serenity was a silhouette his propagated eyes caught sight of.
B: Shoot, with his ravaged right leg,
B: was unconsciously standing tall on his remaining leg.
B: Despite all the things he had tried in the past, Shoot was convinced that this was indeed his hidden purpose.

03)
B: There was no clear reason why he covered up his right eye.
B: He was simply enjoying the swell of all the power within that was pushing him ahead.
B: With adversity as his provision,
B: Shoot leaped forward.

04)
B: His tremendous speed and vigor
B: succeeded in forcing all of Yupi's nerves to focus on defense within milliseconds.
B: It was all
SFX: Pashi

05)
B: in order to reclaim something else!!!
M: Shoot,
M: Knuckle,

06)
M: First thing after our mission is over...
M: let's get drunk and bathe ourselves in delicious sake!
B: The large amount of dust both parties had created allowed Morau to spread his smoke's aura throughout the entire palace, conveniently allowing him to understand the progress of the entire battle.
M: Although you hate it, I'll be embracing you two as tight as I can.
M: that's the only thing I can think of!!
M: His target (Pufu) was in the throne room.

07)
B: Gon and Killua had both avoided Yupi's attack and, at the same time, changed their courses.
B: They planned to speed directly from the second floor of the right tower to the third floor of the central tower, where the throne room was.
B: In the garden they passed Ikarugo, who had been aiming for an elevator to the basement since the invasion began.
B: "Living Dead Dolls," the ability that lets him control corpses as if they were his own body, made it possible for Ikarugo to utilize his host's compound eyes and flawlessly evade the "Dragon Dive." (*Compound Eyes = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_eye)

09)
B: On the edge of his field of vision,
B: Killua caught sight of two soldier ants.

10)
K: That's where...
K: Ikarugo's heading...!!

11)
B: In an instant,
B: Killua was off running.
K: What the hell!?
K: What am I doing!?
B: It was natural for him to feel shocked by his own body's movements.
sfx: Jyaki
B: More than anyone else, he had been the one relentlessly advocating the importance of each person abiding to their individual duties.
sfx: Jyaki

12)
B: Killua's thoughts had come to a complete standstill.
I: Killua!?
I: Why are you heading toward the elevator...!?
B: But rather than collapsing into panic,
B: his body moved rationally.

13)
B: While limiting his aura to its minimum level of consumption,
B: with swiftness,
B: yet
B: also precision,

14)
B: The fighting abilities of the two soldier ants
B: and all choice of action they had were both obliterated.
B: Watching him were Ikarugo,
B: and one other.

15)
B: Meanwhile,
B: Gon instantly realized
B: the significance of why the throne room was covered in smoke.
Black Text: His sole aim is Pitou's head!!!

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 268 by cnet128

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:10:14 +0000

1
[insert text: Pitou meets the King's gaze!!!]

2
Hunter x Hunter
#268: The King
[insert text: The scene that Pitou witnessed...!!!]

3
[Text: When the king looked away, time once again began to move. // ...No... // Aside from the King himself, time remained frozen.]

4
[Text: As for the reason why even the invaders, who had infiltrated the castle with the purpose of killing the King, stopped in their tracks, breath caught in their throats... // The bloodstained girl... // And... // The grotesque being cradling her in his arms... // Looking upon those two, the tenderness welling up within the King was unmistakable.]

5
King: Pitou.
Pitou: Yes.
[Text: And then the King's face returned to its usual expression. // Oddly enough, that only served to unsettle Pitou further. // ...But then...]
King: Fix Komugi.

6
King: I need you to do this.
[Text: The King. // That voice, laced with an abnormal level of intensity, left no room for doubt. // Immediately, Pitou began to move. // His entire body was shaking with a kind of joy. // He didn't know where the drops running down his cheeks were coming from. // Meanwhile... the two veteran combatants simply stood quite still, simply observing the actions of the enemy. // It was a form of respect.]

7
[Text: This being's actions, brimming with affection for this single life... // To disturb that would be to lose any claim to righteousness, to cease to be truly human.]
Zeno: This isn't exactly turning out how you predicted.
[Text: It was only natural that Zeno should bring up this subject. // And Netero was thinking along the same lines.]
King: But here......
[Text: Muttering indistinctly, the King arose... // ...and made a less-than-prudent decision.]

8
King: Shall we go somewhere else? // That would be more convenient for me... // ...and for you as well, would it not?
[Text: Separating the King from his Guards... // Netero had expended a great deal, and even borrowed Zeno's power to accomplish this. // He could not have had any objections. // But...]
Netero: Well... // Hm.
[Text: He was unable to shake the feeling that the initiative was being stolen from him.]

9
Pitou: Doctor Bryce.
[Text: In the instant Pitou activated his ability... // They felt that they may have been fatally negligent.]
[background kanji: DEATH]
[Text: That for a moment the two of them were readying themselves for that possibility is only natural.]

10
[Text: And yet so easily and so calmly, // the King walked across that line between life and death. // Once more, the enemy... // ...was a remote monster.]

11
[Text: Meanwhile, the other invaders had been separated by Yupi's attack.]

12
[Text: Having destroyed the stairs, Yupi stood ready to assault anyone who attempted to climb up once more. // But behind him... // Knuckle and Meleoron had just managed to evade the attacks and reach the second floor.]

13
[Text: Down below... // Shoot had taken the attack from closer proximity than anyone else.]
Shoot: (He got... my leg!!)
Mamoru: Shoot!! // I'll handle the rest.
[Text: And Morau. // Calling out Knuckle's name was not an option. // By the time Yupi noticed anything strange about the dust clouds rising around him, // Morau's Deep Purple was already on the attack.
Yupi: Why, that impudent...!

14
[Text: Yupi eliminated the Deep Purple attack with a single attack, in the blink of an eye...]
Yupi: (...Smoke?!)
[Text: But this was all part of the plan that Morau had laid out. // To take advantage of this momentary weakness...]
Yupi: (Those were decoys, huh? // This resistance... // This is no smoke!)

15
Yupi: !! // (It was only the weapon that wasn't smoke?!)
[Text: To slip through his fingers...]

15
Yupi: Why, you... // Not a chance!!
[Text: Having used even his own weapon as a decoy, there was nothing left for Morau to do but run... // But Knuckle...]
Knuckle: HAKOWARE!!!
[Text: ...understood without needing to be told.]
[insert text: The unsurpassable bonds of master and student!!!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 268 by molokidan

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:48:03 +0000

*Note: NOT to be used for scanlation.

HUNTER X HUNTER #268

tl by molokidan

01)
black text: Glances toward the King intersect!!!

02)
No. 268 - King.
black text: The spectacle Pitou saw was...!!!

03)
B: As the King cut off his glance, time began moving again.
B: Or rather,
B: all time but the King's was left frozen over.

04)
B: The reasons why the two assassins who had intruded in with the intent to kill the King had swallowed their breath and stopped moving were
B: the girl splattered in blood,
B: and
B: because the gestures of the grotesque figure embracing her body
B: were unmistakably overflowing with nothing other than tenderness.

05)
K: Pitou.
P: Your Majesty.
B: The King had returned to his normal facial expression,
B: which actually heightened Pitou's anxiety.
B: --However,
K: Heal Komugi.

06)
K: I'm counting on you.
B: KING.
B: That voice swelled up a force exceeding common consent or refusal.
B: At the same time, Pitou moved.
B: His whole body was quivering, full of excitement,
B: and he had no idea where the things wetting his cheeks were coming from.
B: What could be seen as a foolish act of attentively standing still and watching the enemy's movements at that time, continued by the two veterans,
B: was an expression of respect.

07)
B: To trespass on someone overflowing with so much love toward a single life
B: was an act reserved for those with little knowledge of proper conduct.
Z: This is turning out pretty different from what you told me.
B: It was understandable for Zeno to press such a question,
B: and Netero felt the same way.
K: Now then...
B: The unclear murmuring that was heard as the King stood up
B: was a suggestion beyond prudence.

08)
K: Shall we change our location?
K: That way should be
K: more convenient for you as well, correct?
B: The King and a division of his Royal Guard.
B: Netero had wasted a great sum of the power he had borrowed from Zeno in order to make that happen.
B: He shouldn't have had any objection.
B: And yet
N: Well...
N: hmm.
B: He could wipe away the feeling that he had had the first move taken from him.

09)
B: The moment Pitou activated his ability,
P: "Doctor Blythe!"
B: they felt a fatal negligence.
Center Kanji: DEATH
B: It was natural for those two to instantly prepare for death.

10)
B: And yet, how easily the King
B: calmly crossed their point between life and death.
B: Their enemy
B: was still a distant monster.

11)
B: Thanks to Yupi's attack, the punitive force had been separated.

12)
B: Having destroyed the entire stairway, Yupi stood poised to ambush anyone who would try and traverse the ruins.
B: Behind him
B: were Meleoron and Knuckle, who had missed the second floor by a hair's breadth.

13)
B: Below the stairs
B: was Shoot, who had been in the closest proximity to Yupi's attack.
S: Shit...
S: He got...my leg!!
M: Shoot!!
M: Leave the rest to me.
B: Morau
B: wasn't able to call out Knuckle's name.
B: The moment Yupi felt an abnormality in the whirling dust,
B: he was attacked by Morau's "Deep Purple."
?: What rashness!

14)
B: "Deep Purple" was torn to pieces in the blink of an eye as Yupi attacked,
Y: Smoke!?
B: but was only "the easy part" of a plan cleverly devised by Morau,
B: which allowed him access to Yupi's blind spot,
4 small sfx: meki
Y: Those were decoys!
Y: This resistance...
Y: it isn't smoke!

15)
Y: It's not smoke, just a weapon!?
B: and a chance to slip through.

16)
Y: Fool!
Y: As if I'd let you get away!!
B: Morau, using his own weapon as a decoy, had nothing else to do now but run.
B: And Knuckle
K: "HAKOWARE!!!"
B: understood, even without hearing the call.
black text: The unique bonds between teacher and student!!!

[Español] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 267 by Fires

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:35:52 +0000

Credit To Cnet!

1
Yupi: ?! // ??! // (¿Qué...?!)
[Texto: ¡Un golpe perfecto!]
Yupi: (¡¿Quien lo hizo?! ¡¿Quién fue el que me atacó?! // ¡¡No pude ver nada!! ¡¿Puede que fuese un ataque a larga distancia?! ¡¿Desde un punto que no lo pude ver?!)

2-3

Hunter x Hunter
#267: Actívate

Knuckle (Hakoware... // Actívate!!!)
[Texto: ¡Manteniéndose firme ante Yupi!! ¡¡Los Ataques Despiadados de Knuckle!!!]

4
[Caja: Naturalmente, Se han llevado a cabo pruebas para confirmar si Hakoware y el Cómplice de Dios están trabajando juntos.]
Yupi: (Que yo sepa, Me parece que no he recibido ningún daño... Así que...)
[Caja: Mientras que El Cómplice de Dios este haciendo su trabajo, sería imposible para Yupi detectar la presencia de Potclean.]
Yupi: (Nos podemos olvidar de eso por un rato...)
[Caja: Tanto así, que era natural que Yupi dejará sus dudas de lado y se concentre en el enemigo que podía ver.]

5
[Caja: Hasta este punto, todo ha procedido e acuerdo a lo que la Fuerza Invasora predijo . // Sin embargo...]
Knuckle: ......
[Caja: Knuckle, en vez de que diera el primer golpe... // ...se estremeció de miedo.]
Knuckle: Ngh... // ¡¿Qué demonios...?!

6
Knuckle: (Es solo que...... // ...este Aura es interminable !!!)
[Caja: Para Knuckle, quien siempre supo usar su experiencia en cada una de sus más de 5000 batallas y su aguda percepción para analizar rápidamente los poderes del oponente, encontrarse contra un enemigo con una fuerza que ni en su vida se imagino presenciar; no es por sí solo un raro acontencimiento... //
Incluso si peleara contra el enemigo más fuerte con el que se haya enfrentado,otra vez; y si tomamos la medida como base,esta ni se le acerca...!!! ¡¡Este es un verdadero monstruo con una inimaginable cantidad de aura!!!]

7
Knuckle: (¿Tendrá el aura 5 veces mayor a la de un Jefe?! No, 10 Veces...?! ¡¡Aún más que eso?!! // No lo puedo ni decir...)
[box: Esta realmente es una experiencia inesperada.]
Knuckle: Si decimos, por ejempl, 10 veces - sería un Aura de 700,000...
Knuckle: (...Y cuanto demonios demoraría acabar con eso......)
[Caja: En ese momento, / El aura siniestra de Pitou absorbió a los intrusos completamente. // Pero Yupi... // ...no dejo que esa situación lo distrayera.]

8-9
[Nada]

10
Pitou: (Su Majestad...)
[Caja: Justo en ese momento, un grupo de dragones destrozaba el palació...]

11
[Caja: Reflexivamente, Pitou extendió el campo de su En. //
Para Pitou, que no tiene alas propias, el hecho de que no pudo hacer más que solo caer por el aire es , de un modo extraño, como una bendición. //

Si su curso de acción no hubiera sido tan limitado, Pitou probablemente hubiese reaccionado de la misma manera que Pufu, y naturalmente, como miembro de la Guardia Real, corrió con todas sus fuerzas para encontrar el Rey, y aún en esas circunstancias, es dudoso que hubiera tenido alguna oportunidad de utilizar su En.
Pero lo hizo...

12
[Nada]

13
Pitou: (En el segundo piso de la torre oeste; esa habitación de invitados / / El está allí, con la niña prohibida.)
[Caja: Fue el primero de la Guardia Real en tomar conciencia del paradero del Rey, y de los dos asesinos haciendo su camino hacia él.
Pitou: (Deben haberlo encontrado usando el En también...)
[Caja: Tanto así, que fue capaz de entender la gravedad de la situación - el Rey solo sin su Guardia para protegerlo.]

14
[Caja: En la forma de la bestia de cuatro patas que él era esencialmente, Pitou se convirtió bola ... / /
Sus muslos, ahora fuertes como el acero, se endurecieron y crecieron hasta dos veces más, tanto así que se volvieron más fuertes de lo que eran justo antes de atacar a Kaito.]

15
[Caja: ¡¡Rápido!!! // ¡Tenía que llegar hasta el rey antes de que los intrusos lo hicieran!]

16
[Caja: Pero un instante después ... // Sintió un aura oscura, una energía negativa, lo suficientemente poderosa como para hacer que quiera volver un mometno antes de dar ese salto . //
La energía se emitía desde el mismo lugar hacia el que se encaminaba Pitou.]
Pitou: (...Eso es...)
[Caja: El aura que su maestro estaba emitiendo estaba tan descontrolada que su actual estado mental pudo percibirlo fácilmente .]
Pitou: (El Rey.........!!!)
[Caja: Como resultado de ello, Pitou no pudo sino darse cuenta de ... / / ... De que estaba avanzando en una dirección mucho más peligrosa de lo que él había imaginado.]

17
[Nada]

18
[Caja: Y entonces se derrumbó la Gran Escalinata.]
[Texto: Y el sonido de los pasos de la desesperación se acercó ...]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 267 by cnet128

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:22:47 +0000

1
Yupi: ?! // ??! // (What the...?!)
[insert text: A perfect hit!!!]
Yupi: (Who was it?! Who attacked me?! // I didn't see a thing!! Some kind of long-range attack?! From my blind spot?!)

2-3
Hunter x Hunter
#267: Activate
Knuckle (Hakoware... // Activate!!!)
[insert text: Unflinching before Yupi!! Knuckle ruthlessly attacks!!!]

4
[box: Naturally, they had conducted tests beforehand to confirm that Hakoware and God's Accomplice could be used in tandem.]
Yupi: (But I don't seem to have taken any damage at all... so then...)
[box: So long as God's Accomplice was active, it would be impossible for Yupi to detect Potclean's presence.]
Yupi: (Let's forget about that for the moment...)
[box: As such, it was only natural that Yupi should push his doubts aside and focus on the enemy he could see with his eyes.]

5
[box: Up to this point, everything had proceeded just as the invading force had anticipated. // However...]
Knuckle: ......
[box: Knuckle, rather than executing the first strike... // ...trembled with fear.]
Knuckle: Ngh... // What the hell...?!

6
Knuckle: (There's just...... // ...no end to his aura!!!)
[box: To Knuckle, who always used his experience of over five thousand battles and his keen perception to numerically analyse his opponent's power, meeting an opponent with strength such as he had never before witnessed was not in and of itself a rare occurrence... // But even if he took the strongest enemy he had ever faced as the base by which to measure, it did not suffice to weigh up against this...!!! This was a true monster with an unimaginably massive aura!!!]
[TN: So basically, what you're saying is that the scouter says his power level is over nine thousand.]

7
Knuckle: (He's got five times Boss's power?! No, ten...?! Even more than that?!! // I can't even tell...)
[box: This was a truly unprecedented experience.]
Knuckle: If we say that it's 10 times - an aura of 700,000...
[TN: Wow, that IS over nine thousand.]
Knuckle: (...Just how the hell long will it take to......)
[box: At that moment, / Pitou's sinister aura engulfed the invaders from head to foot. // And Yupi did not... // ...let that momentary distraction slip past him.]

8-9
[no text]

10
Pitou: (Your Majesty...)
[box: At the moment the flock of dragons pierced the palace...]

11
[box: Pitou reflexively reached out his En. // For Pitou, who had no wings of his own, the fact that he could do little but simply fall through the air was, in a strange way, a blessing. // If his course of action had not been so limited, Pitou would likely have reacted in the same way as Pufu, and naturally, as a member of the Royal Guard, rushed with all his might to find the King; under such circumstances, it is doubtful whether he would have had any chance to use his En. // But since he did...

12
[no text]

13
Pitou: (The second floor of the west tower; the guest room // He's in there, with the forbidden girl.)
[box: He was the first of the Royal Guard to become aware of the King's whereabouts, and of the two assassins making their way towards him.]
Pitou: (They must have found him using En as well...)
[box: As such, he was able to comprehend the sheer weight of the situation - the King alone without his Guards to protect him.]

14
[box: In the manner of the four-legged beast that he essentially was, Pitou curled up into a ball... // His thighs, strong as steel, swelled up and stiffened twice as much still as they had back just before he attacked Kaito.]

15
[box: QUICKLY!!! // He had to reach the King before the intruders could!]

16
[box: But an instant later... // He felt a dark aura, a negative energy, powerful enough to make him regret for an instant taking that leap. // The energy was being emitted from the very place towards which Pitou was heading.]
[TN: Obviously it's the energy of RAPE! ~_~]
Pitou: (...This is...)
[box: The aura that the master was emitting was so unrestrained that his current mental state could easily be sensed from it.]
Pitou: (The King's.........!!!)
[box: As a result, Pitou could not help but realise... // ...that he was advancing in a far more dangerous direction than he had ever imagined.]

17
[no text]

18
[TN: oh, SHIT.]
[box: And then the Great Staircase collapsed.]
[insert text: And the sound of the footsteps of Despair drew near...]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 267 by molokidan

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:24:44 +0000

**NOT to be used for scanlation.

HUNTER X HUNTER #267

tl by molokidan

01)
Y: What!?
Black text: Perfect hit!!!
Y: Who's the one that hit me!?
Y: I couldn't see it!! Was it a projectile!? Was it in my blind spot!?

02)
K: INOVCATION!!!
K: "HAKOWARE"
No. 267 INVOCATION
Black text: Without retreating, even from Yupi!! Knuckle's furious pre-emptive strike!!

03)
Box: The fact that it was possible for "Hakoware" and "God's Accomplice" to work in cooperation with each other was of course something they had verified earlier.
Y: If it didn't cause any damage or irregularities...then,
Y: I'll put that aside for now.
B: While "God's Accomplice" is invoked, there is no way for Yupi to sense Potclean.
B: Therefore, Yupi shelving his doubts and pressing on to focus on his enemy was an extremely natural flow of events.

04)
B: Everything so far was completely in line with the punitive force's expectations.
B: However
B: Knuckle, who should have thrown the first attack,
K: Guh...
K: Are you serious...!?
B: trembled in fear.

05)
BT(right): I can't see...
BT(left): the bottom of his aura!!!
B(right): For Knuckle, who had a combat history of over 5000 different instances where he had calculated his opponent's ability through transforming it into numeric values, meeting a new enemy who possessed a level of strength he hadn't run into before was by no means a rarity.
B(left): But even setting the foundation with the strongest enemy he ever fought before, that power proved too light an amount for this scale!! This was a monster that possessed an unreachably enormous aura!!!

06)
K: Five times the boss!? Ten times...!? Even more than that!!?
K: I don't know...
B: It was an unprecedented experience.
K: Even if it was ten times, with an aura of 700,000...
K: Just how long would it take for him to run out...?
B(2b): At that moment, Pitou's nefarious aura spread over the entire punitive force.
B: Their stiffening
B: was not overlooked by Yupi.

08)
P: King...
B: The moment the dragons pierced through the palace,

09)
B: Pitou reflexively produced his "En."
B: One could say that Pitou, a being without wings, falling through the sky with no alternative option, was conversely happy as a result.
B: If his movement hadn't been restricted, Pitou, just like Pufu, would have used all his power to head to the King's side, which would have been the natural instinct of a Royal Guard. In that circumstance, whether he truly had the allowance to use his "En" was exceedingly questionable.
B: As a result,

11)
N: in the guest chamber in the second floor of the west tower,
N: with the blind woman.
B: Between the Royal Guards, he was the quickest to conceive of the two assassins who were creeping up on the King,
P: They're both using "En" and heading toward the King...
B: and with that, realized the true direness of the situation they had been placed in.

12)
B: In an instant, Pitou curled up into a form essentially the same as a four-legged beast.
B: His steel-like thighs swelled outwards, stiffening to twice as powerful as what been seen just before he attacked Kaito.

13)
B: Quickly!!!
B: In order to reach the King's side faster than the villains would.

14)
B: But immediately after that,
B: he was forced to realize that emanating out from the center of the very placed toward which he headed,
B: was negative energy producing a dark spirit that made him instantaneously regret leaping.
N: ...This is
N: the King's......!!!
B: The current mental condition of his aura didn't have the vigilance to easily understand the aura emitting out from the King.
B: And so, the situation became extraordinary,
B: as he was forced to realize that he was heading in a direction more terrible than he could possibly imagine.

17)
Black text: The footsteps of despair have started to be heard...
Box: the huge staircase crumbled down.

[ไทย] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 266 by Ju-da-su

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:09:14 +0000

OK! This time . . . no more of the "I'm going to use the LQ Raw and produce a LQ translation" (Don't really like working with Cam pic . . . it's way too hard to figure out the kanji - -")

Done and clean~! MQ if I were to really rate it (not that I know the standard for translation quality . . . I can only guess that my Embalming Ch. 1 is LQ because of the horrible mood swing . . . doesn't affect the Thai one, but the English is just . . . terrifying - -")

ENJOY!! XD

ฮันเตอร์ x ฮันเตอร์ ตอนที่ 266
“หนึ่งในหมื่น”
หน้า 1
คนเล่า - ในช่วงที่คิรัวร์บุกเข้ามาในปราสาท ก็คิดว่า
คิรัวร์ – กะไว้แล้วเชียว! !
** ศัตรูที่ไม่ได้รับเชิญ! ! **

คนเล่า - ไม่รู้สึกถึง “เอ็น” ของบีโต้เลย นอกจากนั้น ต่อหน้าพวกเขา ยังมียูปี้ที่ไม่น่าจะอยู่ที่ชั้นหนึ่งอยู่ เรียกได้ว่า “เป็นสถานการณ์ที่ไม่น่าจะเป็นไปได้”
ในสถานที่พบประที่ถ้าเพียงแต่พิจารณาได้ก็คงรับมือได้ คิรัวร์ที่มีประสบการณ์เผชิญหน้าสถานการณ์แบบนี้มาก่อนแล้ว รักษาความเยือกเย็นเอาไว้ได้

ฮันเตอร์ x ฮันเตอร์ ตอนที่ 266
“หนึ่งในหมื่น”

หน้า 2
ยูปี้ – อะไรของพวกนี้ฟระเนี่ย?
คึกคักกันเข้ามาจากไหน?
คนเล่า - “สถานการณ์ที่ไม่น่าจะเป็นไปได้” ยูปี้เองก็เคยแบบเดียวกัน

ยูปี้เลิกคิดในทันที

หน้า 3
ยูปี้ – ข้าคือโล่

คนเล่า – รูปร่างประหลาด

ยูปี้ – ด้วยร่างๆนี้
ฉันจะปกป้องราชา
คนเล่า – ไม่ใช่แค่เป็นอันดับหนึ่งในกองกำลังป้องกัน เป็นร่างประกอบของสัตว์ประหลาด
นอกจากนั้น ถ้าเทียบกับอีกสองตัวแล้ว เป็นพวกไม่มีความสนใจในกองทัพ แต่ว่า พอขาดสติก็จะแข็งแกร่งอย่างมาก

หน้า 4
ช่วงที่เปลี่ยนร่างเป็นสัตว์และแสยะรอยยิ้มแห่งความบ้าเลือด ชู้ตก็หยุดการเคลื่อนไหว

แต่ว่า
ไม่ใช่ว่าชู้ตจะความรู้สึกจิตใจช้าไปแต่อย่างไร

หน้า 5
“เข้าไปใกล้แค่นั้นพอ แล้วคอยตั้งรับยูปี้ด้วยสิ่งนั้น”
“การโจมตีครั้งนี้ ต่อให้จะแค่หนึ่งในพัน แต่ก็ต้องหลีกเลียงการเข้าไปโดนลูกหลงของพวกนัคเกิ้ลที่น่าจะอยู่ข้างหน้า” เพื่อการนั้น

เพื่อให้การเตือนของยูปี้หันมาทางตัวเองแล้ว ในช่วงเวลาที่ควบคุมมือลอยได้และกรง
สิ่งนั้นก็จะมา

หน้า 6-7

หน้า 8
คิรัวร์ – นี่คือ “ดราก้อนไดรฟ” ของตาลุงนั้นหรอ! !?
คนที่รู้จักกับประธานก็ . . .

คนเล่า - คิรัวร์ผู้ซึ่งได้รับคำตอบแค่หนึ่งเดียว ก็ตัดสินใจเรื่องนั้นได้ในช่วงพริบตาเดียว

ความตกใจของคนที่ไม่รู้เรื่องราวก็เป็นได้แค่นั้น

ในนั้นเองมีแค่สองคน

หน้า 9
กอร์น

กับยูปี้
มองไปที่ศัตรูเท่านั้น

หน้า 10
โมราว – บ้าน่ะ
วิ่งเข้าไปแบบนั้นเลยหรอ!?

คู่ต่อสู้ของนายไม่ใช่ยูปี้ซะหน่อย!?

คิรัวร์ – ไม่ . . . ! !
มันไม่ใช่แบบนั้น! !

คนเล่า – คิรัวร์ที่ออกตัวช้าไปนิดหน่อย
ได้ทำให้คนอื่นๆเข้าใจในอีกหลายวินาทีต่อมา

คิรัวร์ – ไอ้บ้านั้น ในสถานการณ์แบบนั้น . . . ! !
ทำไมถึงให้เร็วกว่านี้! ! ทำไมถึงมารู้ตัวเอาปานนี้เนี่ย! !

หน้า 11
คนเล่า – “หนึ่งในหมื่น”
การที่เมเลโอลอนกับนัคเกิ้ลปล่อยท่า “คามิโนะเคียวฮันชา” (ผู้สมรู้รวมคิดแห่งเทพ) นั้น ถ้าโดนศรแห่งมังกรพวกนี้แล้วตายในทันทีล่ะ?

ความสามารถจะถูกปลดออกงั้นหรอ? แล้วถ้างั้น
หลังจากตายแล้วเน็นจะแข็งแกร่งขึ้น ถ้าเป็นแบบนี้ พอใครๆรู้เข้าก็ตายจากไปอย่างงั้นหรอ?

คำตอบคือ “ไม่รู้”
ถ้าสมมุติว่ากรณีหลังถูกต้องล่ะก็ สองคนนั้นจะปลอดภัยหรอเปล่าก็ไม่มีทางรู้ได้เลย
ถ้าอย่างงั้น

กรณี “หนึ่งในหมื่น”
แทนที่จะให้เป็นแบบนั้น ใครซักคนจะต้องเข้าไปจัดการกับยูปี้ซะเอง

หน้า 12
ชู้ต – จริงๆแล้วมันเป็นหน้าที่ของฉัน . . . ! !
กอร์น . . . ! !

โมราว – ชู้ตนะไม่มีปัญหาอยู่แล้ว! !
ฉันเองก็รู้สึกตัวช้ากว่าคิรัวร์ซะอีก . . . !

ชู้ต! ! อย่าตำหนิตัวเองนะ! ! ตั้งสมาธิให้ดีๆเอาไว้! !
ถ้ากอร์นกับคิรัวร์จัดการยูปี้ล่ะก็ นายก็จัดการบีโต้ก็ได้! ! !

คนเล่า – แต่ว่า ชู้ตในตอนนั้น ในใจของเขา
ได้ถูกความรู้สึกอื่นรบกวนอยู่

เช่นความรู้สึกที่
อยากจะกรี๊ดร้องเสียงดังและร้องไห้โหออกมา! ! ! !
ชู้ต – กอร์น! ! !

หน้า 13
ถ้าทำได้ล่ะก็ อยากจะตะโกนออกไปหาคนทุกคนบนโลก! !
นั้นแหละกอร์นล่ะ! !

ทั้งที่ยังเด็กกว่าฉัน
แต่เขาก็เป็นผู้มีพระคุณกับฉัน! !

กลัวและหนีห่างจากการทุ่มพลังทั้งหมดไม่ว่าจะเป็นช่วงอันตรายหรือว่าช่วงได้โอกาสดี
อยู่ในกรงที่ปลอดภัย ปิดบังคำพูดของตัวเอง ไม่ให้ใครทำร้ายได้

ฉันนะเกลียดการเป็นแบบนั้น
แต่ว่า รักษายังไงก็ไม่หาย

ต่อให้ . . . เป็นคำพูดของเพื่อนหรืออาจารย์
จริงแล้วฉันไม่เคยฟังทฤษฎีของพวกคนที่แข็งแกร่งเลย . . . แต่ว่า! ! ถึงอย่างงั้น! !

คนเล่า – ชู้ตนั้นจริงแล้ว
ลังเลในช่วงเวลาที่มีโอกาส และมีความอ่อนแออยู่ในตัว

ชู้ต – นายซึ่งอ่อนแอยิ่งกว่าฉัน
กลับช่วยทำลายกรงของฉันให้! !

หน้า 14
ชู้ต – ต้องมีชีวิตอยู่และบอกนายให้ได้
ว่าฉันขอบคุณ! ! !
คนเล่า – แต่ว่าในช่วงเวลาที่มีอุปสรรค ก็ได้พลิกผันความคิด
ออกมาจากฐานที่มั่นได้โดยที่ตนไม่รู้ตัว

ชู้ต – เอาล่ะ! ! !

หน้า 15

หน้า 16-17
“ฮาโควาเรย์! ! !”

?? – พวกนัคเกิ้ล
ยังมีชีวิตอยู่! ! !

หน้า 18
พูฟู - ราชา! ! !
ราชา! !

คนเล่า – ในเสียงที่ดังกึกก้องจากบันไดที่พังลงมาพร้อมกับแรงสั่นที่รุนแรง

พูฟู – รา . . .

หน้า 19
คนเล่า – ห้องประทับที่ไร้ซึ่งราชานั้นเอง
พูฟูยิ้มอย่างเงียบๆ
** ราชาไปที่ไหน . . . !? **

Thank you for reading . . .

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 266 by cnet128

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:28:48 +0000

1
Hunter x Hunter
#266 "Worst-Case Scenario"
[insert text: Uninvited, they rush in to fight on enemy turf!!]
[box: The moment Killua penetrated into the palace...]
Killua: (I knew it!!)
[box: ...is what he thought. // He couldn't sense Pitou's En in the slightest, and standing right before him was Yupi, who should not have been on the first floor... an impossible scene. // Even confronted with this, a situation that had never come up in discussion, Killua's experience allowed him to retain his composure.

2
Yupi: (Who the hell are these guys? // Where did they appear from?!)
[box: To Yupi, too, this was an "impossible scene"... // But Yupi simply stopped thinking immediately.]

3
[YupiBox: I AM A SHIELD]
[box: Grotesque...]
[YupiBox: WITH THIS BODY]
[box: The only one of the Royal Guards to have been based in form upon beasts rather than humans...]
[YupiBox: I PROTECT THE KING]
[box: The reasoning behind this: unlike the other two Guards, he has no concern for himself; this selflessness gives him his strength.]

4
[box: Upon witnessing Yupi's transformation and his barbaric grin, Shoot stopped in his tracks. // However... // This was not because the sight affected his good judgement.]

5
[box: "If I get any closer than this, Yupi will attack." // "I have to avoid even the tiniest possibility that he will chance to hit Knuckle, who should be up ahead." That was his reasoning. // But at the very moment he brought out his flying hands and cage, to further draw Yupi's attention to himself... // It arrived.]

6-7
[no text, just Dragon Dive]

8
Killua: (This is Grandpa's "Dragon Dive"...?!! // The old guy's friend...!!)
[box: Killua, the only one to grasp the situation, simply froze for a moment. // The others, who didn't know what was going on, were affected worse than him. // Only two people there...]

9
[box: ...Gon... // ...and Yupi... // ...were focused completely upon the enemy.]

10
Moraou: (What the?!! // He's charging in...?!)
Killua: (Your opponent isn't Yupi, you know?! // No, wait...!!) // ...... // (Of course!!)
[box: After a moment's delay, Killua too... // And a few seconds later still, the others grasped the situation.]
Killua: (Damn him... in a situation like this............!! // Such speed!! Of all the points to notice...!!)

11
Killua: (In the worst-case scenario... // ...What happens if Meleoron and Knuckle are hit by one of these raining dragons and die instantly without taking a single breath? // Would the technique be deactivated? // Or since Nen can become even stronger after death, would they just rot away like that, still undetectable by anyone? // The answer is, "I don't know." // If the second possibility is the correct one, there is no way to know right now whether they are safe or not. // In which case... // The worst-case scenario... // Somebody would have to take on Yupi in their stead!)

12
Shoot: (But by all rights, that should have been myduty...!! // Gon...!!)
Morau: (Shoot, you haven't done anything wrong!! // Even I was slower than Killua to grasp the situation...! // Shoot!! Don't blame yourself!! You need to clear your mind!! // If Gon and Killua are taking Yupi, then you have to go after Pitou!!!)
[box: But in Shoot's head at that moment... // ...an entirely different emotion was gushing forth. // To the point where he felt like crying and screaming out loud... // He was moved!!!!
Shoot: (Gon...!!!)

13
Shoot: (I wish I could just scream it out to the entire world...!! // "THIS IS GON!!" // He may be a heck of a lot younger than me... // ...but he saved my life!! // I always used to run, afraid, when danger or opportunity appeared before me... // I hid myself away in my cage where it was safe, hiding even my own words, doing everything I could to avoid being hurt... // I hated myself back then.)
[box: It's true that Shoot always...]
Shoot: (But I couldn't manage to change. // Nakama... that was just a word that other people used.)
[box: ...used to shrink back when faced with opportunity.]
Shoot: (I couldn't understand the things that stronger people tried to tell me... but then!! Even so!! // Even though you were so much weaker than me... // You broke me out of that cage!!

14
Shoot: (We need to come out of this alive!!)
[box: But even he himself never truly realised what he was capable of...]
Shoot: (So that I can thank you properly!!!)
[box: ...thanks to his unique ability to think and develop in the face of adversity.]
Morau: (All right!!!!)

15
[no text]

16-17
Knuckle: HAKOWARE!!!
Everyone: (Knuckle and Meleoron... // ...are alive!!!)

18
Pufu: YOUR MAJESTY!!! // YOUR MAJESTYYYYY / YYYYY!
[box: Amidst the dreadful quaking and the thunderous roar of the collapsing main staircase...]
Pufu: Ahh...

19
[box: In a throneroom without its King... // Pufu allowed himself a soft smile.]
[insert text: Where is the King...?!]

[English] [Translation] Hunter x Hunter 265 by cnet128

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:49:55 +0000

1
[side text: The life of the man who stands at the summit of the Hunter Organisation... revealed!!!]
[sFX: whistle]
[sFX: illegible symbols]

2-3
Hunter x Hunter
#265: Break-in (5)
[insert text: President Netero's path to the top!!]
[Text: Netero, 46 years old. Winter.]

4
[Text: Feeling that his body and his martial arts had approached a limit, he worried until he could worry no more, and reached a conclusion. // The conclusion that he eventually reached was... // GRATITUDE. // His deep debt of gratitude to the martial arts skills that had brought him this far... // He resolved to pay back that debt to what extent he could in his own way. // Ten thousand every day. // The Righteous Punches of Gratitude!!]

5
[Text: Preparation, // worship, // prayer, // readying, // and the thrust. // To complete this cycle once initially took him five to six seconds. // On the first day, it took him over eighteen hours to complete the full ten thousand.]

6
[Text: After completing that, he would collapse immediately and sleep. // And once he awoke, it was back to the cycle of punching. // After two years of living like this, // He noticed something terrible. // He had finished the day's ten thousand punches, // yet the sun had not set.]

7
[Text: As he passed the age of fifty, // he underwent a true metamorphosis. // Those ten thousand Punches of Gratitude... // ...could be completed in a single hour!! // As such... // He spent more of his time praying.]

8
[Text: When Netero descended from the mountain, // His fist...]

9
[Text: ...was faster than... // ...sound itself.]
Dudes: (I must have... imagined it... // For a moment... he vanished... // The sound... came after the punch...) // Master......?
Master: Ka... // ...Kannon-sama has.........!!
[TN: Kannon is the Buddhist deity of mercy]

10
Netero: Now, then... // Shall we battle for your sign?
[TN: Referring to the tradition in which one can take the dojo's sign for oneself as a sign of victory if one defeats its master.]
Master: My sign... // I lay it at your feet. // I beg of you... // Take me as your apprentice......!!
[Text: A monster... // was born.]
Netero: Okay. // If you'll let me have something to eat.
[Text: This all happened over sixty years ago.]

11
Pitou: (At this rate, I'll be blown far away from here...) // PUFU!! // (He doesn't hear me... // All his attention is on protecting the King...)

12
Pitou: (Doctor Price!!!)
[Text: Originally, this ability had no use whatsoever outside of healing. // "Doctor Price" cannot move from the position to which she is initially summoned, and Pitou, who created her, is connected to her by a tail, and so his radius of movement is limited to a twenty metre radius.]
Pitou: Nnnngh...

13
[Text: But that limitation... // ...is exactly what Pitou needed in this predicament.]
Pitou: I've stopped......!!
[Text: About 100 metres above the ground, Pitou deactivated the ability, and descended towards a point approximately 500 metres from the palace.]
Pitou: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Faster...!!
[Text: Right in the middle of this fall, which to Pitou seemed to take an eternity,]

14
[Text: The dragon rain... // ...pierced the palace.]
Pitou: (Your Majesty......!!!)

15
[no text]

16-17
[no text]

18-19
[TN: Damn, this manga-ka knows how to create awesome manga. Just the way he's covering the actual entrance of the invaders... and those two double spreads... just wow.]
[insert text: And in that instant, the "Dragon Dive" hits!!!]