Nejimaki Kagyu 73

Sadly, simply believing I'm not a bad translator doesn't make it true Tomie-chan.



(Handwritten- Elisa imperial guard.)
{It’s chief duties consist mainly of being a human chair.}
Chief: And I’m in the center!!
(Handwritten- Center.)

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NEJIMAKI KAGYU.

101
Ran: You sure that friendship isn’t just ‘fiction’ too…?
Tomie: Tomie’s rage….
is fierce……!!!!!
Chapter 73: A boundless world.

102
Ran: Though y’know no matter how tough…
You might think you are…
{On your marks…}
Ran: You ain’t gonna be able to lay a finger on me.
{Get ready…}
Ran: Because this crouching start is…

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{About 100 years ago, Thomas Burke won a gold medal in Athens for his 500 meter dash…}
{And became known around the world for the power behind this starting pose!}
Ran: Do..
GYAAAN!!!

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{Yamakashi!!}
(TN- The kanji reads ‘Running Pegasus.’)

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(Sfx- Pera *flip*)
{Fighting at your utmost limits is one thing…}
{But what decides the outcome of a bout is..}
{The strength of one thought.}
Olufe: Do not allow the reason that you got involved…
Become a lie.

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{That is your individuality…}
{A strength that only you have.}
(Sfx- Parariii *sfft*)
{For Tomie, life is mostly…}

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{What she reads in the confine of books.}
{Becoming one with the characters in the story…}
{Is something she has little difficulty with.}
{Immersing herself in the book…}
{And making the world inside its pages one with that of reality.}
(Sfx- Kyuuhh *shfft*)

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{Synchro.}

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{Swift footed Melos!!!}
Tomie! Melos: Melos is enraged….
Ran: …What?

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Ran: Wha…?
How did you catch up with me?!

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Ran: Wh—
A gloomy culture obsessed bookworm is able to keep up with me…?
NO WAY IN HELL!!

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Tomie: Whew…
You’re a fool.

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Ran: Guh…
I won’t….
Accept this!
Can someone who doesn’t even understand what real pain is be able to beat me…?
SOMEONE WHO RUNS AWAY INTO THE WORLD OF FICTON...
WILL NEVER BE STRONGER THAN SOMEONE WHO FIGHTS IN REALITYYYYY!!!
Tomie: You asked if my friendship…
Was fiction too…
But I realized something…
That is…
That it doesn’t matter either way….

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{The real world…}
{Caused me despair…}
{I found myself captivated by the world within books more than matters of flesh and bone…}
{Because there…}
(Book- The galactic railroad by Miyazawa Ke)
{Nothing aged…}
{Nothing died…}
{It was all within imagination…}
{And perfection.}
{For me…}
{It was a world where my heart could be at ease.}

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{Just one book…}
{Could have a completely different meaning if read once…or twice.}
{Each time depending on what meaning I sought the expression I had would change in various ways.}
{An ever changing world, like a kaleidoscope…}
{Where infinite possibilities exist…}
{The world within books is wider and less confined than the real world….}
{They say that real matters are what inspire novels…}
{But to me…}
{The novels were real matters…}
{But when I met Kagyuu-chan…}
{I realized…}

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{That real matters and novel matters can be the same thing.}
{I shed tears over the beauty…}
{Of something that exists in the real world.}
{From then on…}
{The real world spread before me just like in the books I read…}
{And my heart flourished….}

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Tomie: Kagyuu-chan…
Caused my world to open wide and become boundless…
This…
Isn’t a matter of what is fiction or real…
But I wonder if your heart can believe or make sense of this…
It’s as you said..
Even If my friendship with Kagyuu-chan is fiction
I choose to believe in that friendship.
The one who decides whether something is real or fiction..
Is the person themselves.

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Tomie: If one unflinchingly believes in fiction…
That is reality….!!!