Saike Once Again 43

So the plan is to TL one of these a day until I've finished volume six. Expect success, but be mindful of failure is my life motto, so with that in mind let's do this.



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(Top text- For a review of what’s happened up until now, check the right page!!)
SAIKE ONCE AGAIN.
Saike: Who are…
You people?
(Middling text- Saike has finally broken…)
(Bottom text- The sixth series filled with loss starts….)
Saike: What is an “oracle”?

002
(Middling text- We’re a team….right?)
SAIKE ONCE AGAIN.
Take 43: Evolutionary Theory.
FUKUCHI TSUBASA
(Bottom text- The more I drown the stronger I become.)
(Bottom text- The new awareness Time slip drama’s anticipated 5th volume hits stores on June 17th!)

003
???: Wha….
What are you talking about Saike…?
Ana: Geez, are you still groggy or something?
I’m Ana.
That guy there is round brows.
Hizu: Who are you calling round brows?
(Sfx- Zukiiihh *pound*)
Saike: Ugh…

004
Saike: Mikan’s in danger!!
Mikan!!
That’s right she was hit by a truck and…
(Sfx- Gabaaah *fwapp*)
Hizu: Huh?
(Sfx- Boroohh *plop*)
{God…}
{Why did you take Mikan from me…??}
(Sfx- GYuuuhhh *grrnnd*)_
(Sfx- Pota pota *drip drip*)
{The one you should have taken was me, right?!}
{Why did it have to be Mikan…?!}
Hizu: This is…
(Sfx- Garaaahh *clatter*)
Mikan: Hey Saike! I heard you fainted again…is it true?!

005
(Sfx- Hah hah hah)
Mikan: Ah, thank goodness…
Getting bedridden again….

006
Mikan: Huh?
Wait-wait-wait!!
What are you doing Saike?!
(Sfx- Gyuuuhhh)
Saike: Thank goodness….
You’re alive and well huh?
Back when the truck hit you I thought you were a goner…
Mikan: What are you talking about?
That was a whole month ago?!
{M…}

007
{Memory Loss?!}
Ana: What the heck is going on here?
I don’t get it.
Hizu: I don’t either.
Seems like Saike has lost his memories of “Everything before he got his oracle.”
Which includes saving that Mikan girl from her truck accident….
And of course us too.
Ana: So do you think…
It’s what that Myuton guy was talking about? The “Brain contradiction?”
Hizu: Probably.
Every time Saike used his ability, it recoiled against him.
So if he had kept using it the way he was, it wouldn’t have been weird if he just up and died.
The memory loss might act as a “stopper”.
Ana: Huh?

008
Hizu: His brain which was being continuously burdened sealed off his memories to prevent further harm. ..
So that Saike wouldn’t use his oracle anymore.
Though I couldn’t tell you for sure if that’s what’s going on.
(Sfx- Pihh beep)
(Sfx- Gakoohh *thunk*)
Ana: T—then what do we do?
Will Saike’s memory return at all like this?

009
Hizu: It’s not…
Particularly bad if it doesn’t come back, right?
Ana: Huh?
Not particularly bad?!
What are you blabbering on about?
He’s forgotten about me…
And you!
Hizu: Ana, If his memories return, he’ll use his oracle again.
Who knows if the next time he does that he won’t just die?
It’s fine.
Just let him forget.
(Sfx- Gakooon *thunk*)

010
Hizu: Saike would have never met us….
And in that way he can continue to live.

011
{Hizu….}
(Sfx- Pirorinnn)
{One new message.}
{Yumewo?}
(On phone: Sender: Kuroda Yumewo/Recipient: Ana Egerton/Subject: None. Beware of Johann, He has teamed up with Will and is scheming something.)

012
Johann: Ana Egerton.
Yaotome Kenji,
Jyuujou Mako,
And Kuroda Yumewo.
(Sfx- SHariiih)
Johann: Those four managed to get away…
(Sfx- Mogu mogu *chew chew*)
Johann: Though their other comrades have been completely brainwashed.
All of which is going according to plan, Will-kun.

013
Will: That’s great Johann!
But why did you let Yumewo escape?
Johann: It’s a difference in “ideals”.
Yumewo’s ideal is to find those who use their oracles for evil, snatch their powers away and have them return to being ordinary “humans”.
However my ideal is the opposite.
Oracle holders are the ones who are supreme.
Having them return to being ordinary humans is sheer stupidity.
(Sfx- Shakuhh *shfft*)

014
Johann: These oracles are the proof of human evolution.
(Sfx- Toonn *tp*)
Johann: Then, what is evolution?
“Evolution” is…
“Division”.
It’s not as if every monkey became bipedal at the same time.
On a certain day, a single one stood up suddenly on his own.
And that is where humanity descended from.

015
Johann: We Oracle holders are like that first monkey.
We are the “next” step of humanity.
Someday they –old humanity will notice us…
The existence of us oracle holders…
(Sfx- Zuhh *Sfft*)
Johann: And when that happens…
They will persecute us.

016
Will: But why?
We’re obviously better than them…
(Sfx- peraaah *fwap*)
Johann: It’s for exactly that reason.
No matter what era it is, those who are granted great power are feared…
And subjected to unwarranted persecution.
That’s what kind of creatures people are.
But we must continue to live….
For the sake of humanity.
(Sfx- Patamm *clamp*)

017
Johann: To start, we require “power”.
I will make an organization of oracle holders from around the world.
Someday the day will come where we will need to fight old humanity…
And when that happens we will need stronger allies.
Kalim: Hey Johann…
Did you find a new power using comrade for us?

018
Johann: Yes…
I did.
One of the best out there.
(Side text- a new enemy targets Saike!! Next issue, Johann sinks his fangs into Saike’s “Memory”….)
TO BE CONTINUED IN ISSUE 25.