Air Gear 290

this was last weeks

p1


p2
txt: A small discussion before
setting out to make the storm regalia...
And the stuff they're discussing is some highly classified information...!!

#: There's just one thing... I need to ask you in advance.
#: Ringo-kun... I mean, "thorn queen",
//: about that A-T you're wearing...


p3
#: I received a report saying that it's not the original... and that it's a fake...

#: ...We call it the "pseudo-regalia" in sleeping forest.

#: It's a replica of the original regalia
//: made under the same concept and using the same materials.
#: However...
//: it's ability is a far match from the real thing.
//: Inside it... it doesn't have what makes a regalia, a regalia...

#: It doesn't have a "core".


p4
#: Then...
#: who has the original right now?
#: I don't know.

#: You don't know...? What's that meant to mean...?

#: I am certain that... Rika-nee...
//: the previous thorn queen, possessed the Thorn Regalia.

#: But... somewhere in the battle between Kilik-san and Takeuhi Sora that happened soon after,
#: it disappeared...

#: ...but... wasn't it Kilik-san and the others... who attacked Rika-san back then?
#: Yeah!
//: Are you sure that guy didn't just hide it somewhere?
#: ...I did ask him once before...


p5
#: ...Nahh,
//: I don't have it.

#: While he won't explain every detail to you,
#: he is someone who'll answer you seriously when you ask...
#: So I guess... he really...

#: So that means... right now,
#: just looking at the facts, the seat of the "Thorn Queen" is vacant.

#: Why...
//: did you ask me that?


p6
#: Does the name
//: "Gazelle"
//: ring any bells with you?

#: ...I've heard of it.
//: But I've never met him.
TL Note - I'm assuming 'Gazelle' is male... the text in this chapter doesn't say.

#: He was... the original owner of the thorn regalia.
#: The first generation "thorn king"
//: Together with Kilik-san and the others... he was a "first generation" gravity child.


p7
#: We've arrived.
//: This is the lowest level of this ship. Let's go.

#: The conclusion we reached from our own investigation says that
#: when this gravity child: "Gazelle's" A-T was released out to the civilians,
//: it was also start of when people started calling themselves "kings".

#: ...Ah...!
small: I see...
#: Now that I think back... "back then"...

#: when Kilik-san was reminiscing with us...
#: I think... he said something like at...
flashback: The "thorn queen"?
flashback: Yeah, I finally found her.
//: It's a really cute girl, and she seems to be a little famous too.
flashback: When we left the tower,
//: we released the A-T Gazelle wore to the normal riders,
flashback: and before we knew it, people started talking about the "thorn regalia" and the "proof of a king's status".


p8
#: Noyamano Rika, the successor of the "first regalia"
//: and living together with her would be
#: "crazy apple" Noyamano Ringo,
#: "princess spinner" Noyamano Ume,
//: "gale road" Noyamano Mikan,
//: and "Storm King" Minami Ikki...

#: No one
//: thinks this was a mere coincidence.

#: Stop beating around the bush!!
//: Just what are you trying to say!?

#: The truth is still...
//: hidden deep inside some shadows as complicated as forest of thorns.


p9
#: But finally... bit by bit...
#: even I
//: am beginning to see it...

#: That this "thorn" is really
#: the "key person" that connects everything...

#: I wonder if
//: idiots really can't see it...


p10-11
#: when they're about to die in one minute.

#: What about you? Are those big eyes of yours made of glass?

#: This is a real gun, you know?

#: So?


p12


p13


p14
#: GAHH...

#: I could flatten you just like a piece of paper right now, but...
//: I still have 55 seconds left.


p15
#: Fuck!!
#: That idiot!
#: He was so calm so I expected to have some kind of "plan", but...!!

#: Guhh...!
#: If I use my "fang"... it'll get absorbed.
#: And if I get in close, there this "wall".

#: Shit!! What should I do...!?
#: I'm out of "options"...!


p16
#: ...!

#: Your face looks like a girl.
//: But you really do have something down there. <3

#: Before,
//: you said something strange, didn't you?

#: I'm intrigued as to what it was.
#: Say it.
#: (just rub out the 'ツ')

#: To be the leader of the G-Men at your age...
//: Surely you have some special "power", right?

#: Weren't you acting all big and then you said something like "Who do you think I am"?


p17
#: Gehh... Eghh!
#: ...Oh?
//: ...jeez, you're so dirty...
small: ...This is why old men are such...

#: Wanijima Kaito
#: Your real name is
#: "Gazelle"... am I right?

txt: The door to the forbidden truth
is being wrenched open...!


end.