Mahou Sensei Negima! 284

Guidelines For Using My Translations

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[Insert text: The fake Asuna's identity revealed!]
Negi: Wh... // Who are you...?
Chisame: Wh... // Who the hell are you, huh?!
Tatsumiya: A member of Cosmo Entelecheia, I presume? / Where is the real Kagurazaka? Let's hear it.
Shiori: ......

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Tatsumiya: I asked you -
Negi: Wait, please. // ...Luna-san. // That is your name, yes?
Negi: ...I have no intention of harming you. And I do not mean to force you to do anything against your will. // But please... could you just tell me where the real Asuna-san is?
Shiori: ...A... // ...ahh...
Flashback!Fate: Once you complete this mission... // ...you are free to do as you please, Shiori-san.
Shiori: ...! // ...W... / ...We have captured Princess Asuna, along with another of your companions... // I believe they must be in the Gravekeepers' Palace at this point.
Tatsumiya: O... Of all the places... // The Gravekeepers' Palace...?!
Nodoka: "Princess"... Asuna?
Chisame: ...Yeah.

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[Top-right label: GAT] [beginning of "GATEPORT"]
[Arrow label: Gravekeepers' Palace]
[Note label: Sticking out of the ground?]
[Bottom label: G PALACE] [end of "FLOATING PALACE" (cf. chapter 250)]
Negi: (...... // Asuna-san...!)
[Mahou Sensei Negima!]
[Period 284: The Captive Imperial Princess]
[Insert text: Is Asuna.........?]

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[no text just asuna]

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Asuna: ......
Flashback!Mages: Ngh... // They're here! // There's nothing else for it. We'll have to make use of her again. // But she's so young... the poor thing... // You fool! Don't be deceived by its appearance. This is no human. Consider it a mere weapon. // This being has claimed tens of thousands of lives over the past hundred years...
Flashback!Asuna: (I possess nothing... // I am nobody...)
Flashback!Mages: ...It's a monster.

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Flashback!Asuna: (I spend my days... // ...simply stealing and being stolen from...) // Aaaaaaaghhhhhhhh! // Aaagghhhhhhhhhh!!
Flashback!Nagi: No need to haul a brat like that outta here. // You can leave the rest to me.
Flashback!Mage: Y... You're...! // From Ala Rubra... / The Thousand...
Flashback!Nagi: "Asuna", huh? That's a good name. // Right then, Asuna. You just wait there.
Flashback!Asuna: ... // (Nagi... // Liar...)

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Flashback!Asuna: (The Mage of the Beginning... // A terrible... and sorrowful person...)
Flashback!MageOfTheBeginning: Twilight Imperial Princess... Descendant of mine. // It is time for you to fulfil your original purpose.
Flashback!Asuna: (My power... // ...is causing many people to disappear...)

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Flashback!Nagi: Sorry I took so long. // I'm always screwing up like this... some hero I am.
Flashback!Asuna: Na...gi...? // (Such strange people... // Fools, every one... // Yet... // ...they have a strange warmth...)
Flashback!Gatou: ...What's this now? // You crying? / First time I've seen you shed tears.
Flashback!Asuna: No... // First Nagi... and now you too... // No...! // Aahh...

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Flashback!Gatou: Live a happy life. // You have the right to one.
Asuna: NO!! // Gatou-san...! // ...You can't go away...... // ...... // ...tou...san... // Gatou...san... // ...Who... am I...? // ...What... am I...?

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Anya: Honestly... // Why do I have to do a thing like this...? / I am not some kind of royal maid! / Still... with Asuna in that state, I can hardly refuse... // Asuna~~! Time to eat~~! // Don't you worry now, I'm here to feed you! // ...Wait... // Asuna~~?! // Are you all right?! Are you hurt somewhere? Your stomach? Your head?
Asuna: Ha... // Ha...ha-ha...ha...
Anya: ?! // [aside]has she finally snapped?[/aside]
Asuna: HALLELUJAH!!!
Anya: Eehhhhh~~~?!!

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Anya: Are you all right, Asuna?!
Asuna: I'm fine! Never been better! Kagurazaka Asuna is back in action!
Anya: But ever since those people did that thing to trigger the memories of your past... // ...you've been in a super-depressive closed-off state for a whole week! / How on Earth did you manage to recover from -
Asuna: Past... / My... past...
Anya: YOU'RE NOT ALL RIGHT AT ALL~~~~~!!
Asuna: Just kidding... I'm fine. // I'm sorry I made you worry so much, Anya-chan. ...Thank you.
Anya: Asuna...! // Thank goodness...!
Asuna: Ahh...
Anya: I... I thought you might never be coming back...!
Asuna: ......
Fate: So you have awakened, Princess.

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Fate: I am quite taken aback. / To think that this mere fabricated personality... / ...would succeed in reasserting its own dominance, unswayed by the memories of your past...
Asuna: You...! // So you show your face, enemy leader!! // Kankahou!! // If I defeat you...!!

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Asuna: !
Fate: Dear me... // A tomboyish princess on whom neither magic nor Rewrite have any effect can be quite a handful.
Anya: Asuna!!
Fate: ...Your assumption is false, Kagurazaka Asuna. // Defeating me will solve nothing.
Asuna: Owww...
Fate: ...Yes... very well. // It would perhaps be more convenient to have you fully understand. / Our objective, that is.

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Homura: Please observe.
[Top-left label: Earth]
[Inside top-left circle: Population / 6.8 billion]
[Line label: Gate]
[X label: Severed]
[Top-right label: Mars]
[Inside right-hand circle: Mundus Magicus / 1.2 billion / of which Megalomesembrian citizens / 67 million]
[Inside arrow: sooner or later]
[Bottom-left label: Collapse]
Asuna: S... So what exactly... does that... mean...? // ? // ?
Anya: Asuna, you idiot~! // They're saying this world is going to collapse! // Though I have no idea why...!
Fate: The magical energy supporting this world will eventually be depleted. You may think of it as similar to the environmental issues plaguing your own world. // It may take ten years, or a hundred... or it could even happen tomorrow... // But this world will eventually meet its end. // This is an inevitable fact.

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Fate: And with the illusory magical world extinguished... / ...all humans who reside there... // ...will be thrust out into the uninhabitable wilderness of Mars itself.
Asuna/Anya: ?!!
Anya: B... But that's terrible!! / We have to save them somehow!
Fate: The Earth cannot hope to support 1.2 billion refugees from the Magical World. // Even if it were possible, who can say what consequences might follow... // It would be difficult even for the Earth to support the 67 million Megalomesembrian citizens alone... / Whichever course one chooses, the results will not be pleasant.
Asuna: ...? H... Hold on a minute. Where's this stuff about the Megalo-whatever citizens coming from? // If you're talking about saving people, it ought to be all 1.2 billion of them! Why're you giving these Megalo-whatever people special treatment? / [aside]on that diagram, too...![/aside]
Fate: ... // You are absolutely correct, Kagurazaka Asuna. There should be no preferential treatment. And as such...

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Fate: I intend to have all of them, without exception, disappear from the world. // Using your power, I will overwrite the entire Magical World, and seal it away.

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Asuna: Hey... // What do you mean, "disappear"?! That's not even funny!! // You mean you're going to kill them all?! Not a chance!!
Fate: No, not "kill". They will merely be relocated to the overwritten world of Cosmo Entelecheia. // From what I hear, it is an eternal garden - a paradise free of all cruel and needless misery.
Asuna: ...B... But... / Why would you...
Fate: Because there is no other choice. // Unlike the citizens of Megalomesembria, who are truly "human"... // ...the remainder of the Magical World's population do not exist in reality.
Asuna: ...Wha? / What... is that supposed to mean...?
Fate: They are formed from the same substance as the Magical World itself. / When the Magical World vanishes, they too will vanish alongside it. // In other words...

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Fate: They are but an illusion. // ...There is no way to save them. / This is the final piece of the "secrets of this world". An irresolvable issue.
Asuna: N.... / ...No... way...
[Insert text: The truth of the Magical World... all is revealed!! Can you stand up to this inevitable fate... Asuna?]