Bleach 397

Guidelines For Using My Translations

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[Insert text: Shock...?!]
Ichigo: ...All the battles......... / ...I've ever fought... // ...took place exactly... // ...as you planned them.........?!

2
Ichigo: The hell is that...? // What's that supposed to mean...?
[Bleach 397.]
[Insert text: Audacity...?!]

3
Ichigo: I SAID WHAT THE HELL // IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?!!!
[Edge of the Silence]

4
Aizen: Quiet, please. // Do not raise your voice so. // Kurosaki Ichigo.

5
Aizen: Surely there is nothing to be so surprised about? // All that I am saying... // ...is that I always believed that you would be the perfect subject for my research... / ...and as such... // ...I worked to hasten your development. // That... / ...is all that I mean. // ...Did you never think it strange?

6
Aizen: That despite never having witnessed a Hollow before in your life... // ...you happened to be attacked by one immediately after encountering Kuchiki Rukia? // That an ordinary piece of bait that Quincy use to aid in the efficient elimination of weak Hollows... // ...would attract a Menos Grande? // That just as you had begun to become used to fighting as a Shinigami... // ...Kuchiki Rukia, whose reiatsu had not been so much as detected up until that point... / ...would happen to be discovered and reported to Soul Society? // That Abarai Renji... / ...Zaraki Kenpachi... / ...and Kuchiki Byakuya... // ...would each become your opponent at precisely the point when your strength began to rival their own?

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Aizen: Did you never once... // ...think any of it strange? // Perhaps you believed that your meetings were "fated"?
Ichigo: ...Hold on...
Aizen: That those attacks were mere "coincidence"?
Ichigo: Hold it......

8
Aizen: Did you believe...... // ...that your victories were the result of your own efforts?

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[no text just clash]

10
Aizen: ...Please, do not disappoint me. // Your power at this stage... // ...should be so much greater than this.

11
Aizen: Do you find my words... // ...difficult to believe?
Ichigo: ...'Course I do...!
Aizen: Nevertheless... // These are the facts.
Ichigo: Liar!!! // You're telling me that all the battles I've been through were because of you?! // That you somehow set every last one of them up?! // Who the hell would believe that?!! // I remember hearing you say it yourself!! // You only found Rukia after she had gone missing in the human world!! // And yet now you're saying you knew about me even before I met Rukia?! // You're not making any sense!!

12
Aizen: ...An interesting argument. // Think back upon what you have just said. // You call me a liar. / You claim not to believe my words. // Why, then... / ...do you choose to believe that what I have just told you is a lie... // ...when the lie could just as easily be what I stated back then?

13
Aizen: ...I suppose it is only to be expected. // You have my pity. // There is no such thing as "truth" or "lies" in this world; there never has been. / There is only plain, hard facts. / And yet... // All beings who exist in this world take only those "facts" that are convenient to them, and take them to be the "truth". / They do so because they know no other way to live. // However... // For those powerless beings that make up the majority of this world... // ...it is those "facts" that are inconvenient for their own self-affirmation that make up the real "truth".

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Aizen: Do you suppose to be aware of all that is "fact"? // Who was responsible for assigning Kuchiki Rukia her position in the human world? // Who modified Abarai Renji's equipment to include the capacity for reiatsu detection? // Who distributed to the Lieutenants the relevant information pertaining to your movements? // Was I truly unable... / ...to uncover the location of the Hougyoku... // ...for over one hundred years after its completion?

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Ichigo: ...Let me ask you... // ...one thing. // You said just now... // ...that you always believed... / ...I would be the perfect subject for your research... // Why...? // What basis did you have for thinking that...? // If you've been watching me ever since I first met Rukia... / ...then tell me... // When was it that you reached that conclusion...?!
Aizen: ...From the beginning.
Ichigo: ...That's not a proper -
Aizen: ...Do you not understand? // I was under that assumption from the very beginning.

16
Aizen: I have been aware of your existence... // ...since the very moment of your birth.

17
Ichigo: ......Wh......... // ...What.........?!
Aizen: From the moment you came into the world, you were a special being. // For you are the -
[TN: Translating incomplete sentences is always a pain. I think the complete sentence is probably "For you are the offspring of a Shinigami and a human". All he actually gets out is the "For you are" and "a Shinigami and" parts.]

18-19
Isshin: You talk too much. // Aizen.
[Insert text: Ichigo's father, Isshin, joins the battle!!]