Saike Once Again 82

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SAIKE ONCE AGAIN
(Top text- The “M arc” of conflict's soul shaking finale!!)
Take 82: A special existence.
FUKUCHI TSUBASA
(Side text- Combined covers and hot blooded content!! Volume #8 is in stores everywhere!!!)
Hirayasu: Thank you!
Um...
Saike: Saike.
Kuzushiro Saike's the name.
Hizu: We were around this time to beat some sense into those guys...
But are you gonna be okay? They're gonna come around again.
Hirayasu: I'll probably get beat up again...

002
Hirayasu: But it's okay!
No matter how many times I fall, I'll get back up!!
Next time I'll be the one to scare them!
Like a monster would!
Saike: That's right!!
Hirayasu-kun you're plenty strong as is!
Hirayasu: Yeah!!
Plus you have your “oracle”!!
Hirayasu: Huh?

003
Saike: You were able to control your power with your will.
Now that ability of yours won't go berserk.
Now it all depends on how you use that power.
Hirayasu: How I use it?
Saike: No matter what kind of power it is, if one uses it correctly it's a “talent”.
And I know that you have that talent!!

004
(Sfx- Bakkuuaaan thooom)
Saike: Moreover you have the bravery to stand up for yourself!
Would you like a “job” that puts that talent to good use?
Hirayasu: Huh?
Job?
Saike: The job of saving the people of this city...
Together with us...

005
Saike: Do the work of a hero!!
If you're feeling up to it, come to our place.
We'll welcome you with open arms!
As a fellow oracle holder!
006
Hirayasu: Um...
This ability....
is a “talent”....?

007
{No matter what kind of power it is, if one uses it correctly it's a “talent”.}
{Together with us –do the work of a hero!!}
???: You're “Hirayasu Hideo” I presume?

008
Someone: Good morning!
'Sup.
Heyo.
(Handwritten- I'm telling you it's nothing..)
(Handwritten- But you've been so beat up lately!!)
Saike: Hey there Hirayasu-kun!
Hirayasu: G—Good morning Saike-san!
Mikan: Who's he?
Saike: Um...a friend!
You can go on ahead, Mikan.

009
Saike: What's up?
Hirayasu: Um...this place is a bit....
M—Meet me after school...
Behind the gym!
Saike: Okay?
Ana: I wonder what he wants to talk about?
(Handwritten- Called the two of them out just in case.)
Saike: He's probably accepting our offer to be our heroic comrade in arms!
That'll make four of us!
(Handwritten- We're slowly getting bigger!)
Hiraysu: Ah.
Saike: Could it be you're here to talk about heroism?
With your ability we'll be a hundred people strong!
Hizu: Hold up Saike.

010
Hizu: Something's off here.
Saike: Huh?
Hizu: He's not emitting...
Any “power fumes”!!

011
Hirayasu: I lost my oracle!!
(Sfx- Dooonn thoom)
Saike: Wha?
Hirayasu: I'm sorry.
Saike: What do you mea--
Hiraysu: I'm happy you invited me...
To do heroic work with you.
Saike: Huh? Wait..
What?
When you say lost...
Why....
Hirayasu: Yesterday...

012
Hirayasu: I met Kuroda Yumewo-san.
Apparently he saw me in a prophetic dream.
And my oracle's awakening...

013
Ana: And he erased your oracle?!
He probably forced you into...
Hirayasu: No, that's not it!!
Kuroda-san asked me to choose...
Did I want to keep my ability or have it erased...
And I chose...
To have it erased.
Ana: But...
But you...
Hirayasu: I'm frightened.
Saike-san said this oracle is a “talent”...
But no matter how I try to rationalize it, I can't think the same way.
Should this ability run berserk again, what will I do?
If the possibility exists that next time I'll hurt an uninvolved person, then..

014
Hirayasu: I can't think of this oracle as anything more
than a “lethal weapon”
Even if the person using it is careful...
One still has to hide the “fear” that this ability will hurt someone.
That's just asking for too much.
Saike: Th—that's....
Hiraysu: Supposing if..!!

015
Hiraysu: I could eventually learn how to control this oracle completely..
I just can't see it...
A future where...
We oracle holders are accepted by everyone –by humanity!!
{You're a monster!}
{A monster who pretended to be human to fit in!!}
Hirayasu: Saike-san...

016
Hirayasu: These abilities are “different”.
And if I continued to possess one I just can't see myself with a bright future ahead..
People aren't that nice.
If we're found out I'm we'll earn people's scorn.
Saike: Th--
That's...
That might be so, but...
There's someone out there who wants to destroy humanity with his oracle!!
A man named Johann wants to create a world exclusively for those with oracles!!

017
Saike: Our oracles are necessary...
To stop his schemes!!
Hirayasu: Then, let's say...
You're able to defeat that person and stop his plans.
Saike-san...
Would you give up your ability?
Saike: Huh?
W—well, no...
I'd still have my work as a hero...!!
Hirayasu: So you wouldn't then.

018
Hirayasu: There is no future where humans and those with abilities can co-exist.
Yet you won't give up your oracle...
Saike-san...
Isn't it more like
You just want to be “special”?

019
Hirayasu: If that's the case then you're no different...
You and that Johann person..
Are exactly the same.
{I just...}
{Want to be special?}

020
(Sfx- Hyooooooh fwhoooooo)
{I'm the same...}
{As Johann...?}
(Side text- At a loss for words...!!)
“SAIKE ONCE AGAIN” Series 9 END.

And that's it, I managed to catch up before the next (10th!) Part starts in a week. I really, really enjoyed this arc for what Fukuchi set up, and hope he can keep the ball rolling. It's not often enough in shounen that the protagonist is called out on their bullshit like this, and I like that Fukuchi is approaching it in this work. There's a kind selfishness about what Saike does and while it is arguably for the greater good, it's still selfish. In any case I think my tempo for now on will be to translate series (Serials) after they're done like this so I suppose I'll see you at the end of the next one unless it ends up being a two parter like 7&8 were. Till then.