Bleach 424

Guidelines For Using My Translations

1
[Side text: A new day begins...]
[Text: Karakura Town // 7:00 AM // Monday]
Yuzu: Onii-cha~~~~n!
[Sign: Kurosaki Clinic]
Yuzu: It's morning~~~~~~~~~!! // Wake up~~~~~~~~~~!!
[Text: Kurosaki Ichigo - 17 years old // Hair colour: Orange // Eye colour: Brown // Occupation: High schooler]
Ichigo: Man, I'm sleepy...
[Text: Not able... / ...to see ghosts.]

2-3
Bleach
[Insert text: A new chapter begins!! Colour pages!! // Onward to a new path, reflected in his eyes...]

4
Yuzu: Ta-daaaa~~~~~~~~~~!!
Ichigo: Oh, yeah. / Today's your school enrolment ceremony. // Karin! / Get the soy sauce, would you?

5
Yuzu: Here! / Your soy sauce!!
Ichigo: What're you so mad about, Yuzu?
Yuzu: I'm not mad!! // What do I care if you don't take a second glance at my new uniform, even though I've made sure not to let you see it until my enrolment day?! / Forget it! // But I'm not giving you any of the tasty toasted bit of the rice!
Ichigo: Your zipper's undone.
Yuzu: Aahh!!

6
Karin: See? He is paying attention.
Yuzu: Stupid Onii-chan! / You - you pervert!!
Ghost: My glasses!!
Ichigo: What's up, Karin?
Karin: Nothing...
Isshin: YU~~~~~~~ZU~~~~~~~~~!!! // Take a look at this for me, Yuzu!! / What d'you think of this suit?! // Which would go better - the tie or the bowtie?!

7
Yuzu: Mm... / I don't think it really matters. // Does it?
Isshin: It doesn't matter...?!
[Text: 17 months have passed since that battle. // A little over a year.]
[TN: TIMESKIIIIIIIIP!! aka: when in doubt, copy Oda]
[Text: I'm now in my third year of high-school. // Chad, Inoue and the others told everyone about my Shinigami powers while I was still asleep. // Apparently nobody doubted it for an instant. // Well... // I guess after seeing a thing like that happen right before your eyes, you'd believe just about anything.]

8
[Text: Even so, I was happy that they accepted it all without saying so much as a word.]
Mizuiro: Morning!
[Text: And yet... // Right now... // ...I have no Shinigami powers whatsoever. // After my spiritual power disappeared, Karin's abilities began to get stronger...]
Yuzu: Onii-cha~~~~n!!
[Text: And by now, she's grown into a fully-fledged spirit medium.]
Yuzu: See you later~~~~~~~!!

9
[Text: She does complain from time to time, but she never comes to me for help. / It looks like she's managing to deal with them just fine.]
Ichigo: Let's go, Mizuiro.
Mizuiro: Yep!
Keigo: I~~~~~~~~~~CHI~~~~~~~~~~~ // GO~~~~~~~~~~~!!!

10
Ichigo: Hey~~~~~~~~~~.
Mizuiro: Well then... / I'd better be off~!
Ichigo: Right! / See you at lunchtime, then!
Keigo: Ichigo! Ichigo!! / I give! I give already~!
Tatsuki: Ichigo! / You got my Tekken game? // There's a new one coming out, so I'd kind of like it back this year, yeah?
Ichigo: Oh - yeah. // I've got it, I've got it.

11
Tatsuki: What's that? / You forgot it again?!
Ichigo: Ah, shaddup. / I said I've got it! See?!
[Text: Come to think of it, I never did give my Acting Shinigami Emblem back... // With my Shinigami powers gone, it looks like it doesn't actually do anything any more... / The observation barrier's gone too, and it's stopped sounding its Hollow alerts - it's basically just a plain piece of wood now, so I'd forgotten it was even in my bag.]

12
[Text: This is the only thing... / ...I have left in my possession... // ...to prove that I was ever a Shinigami at all...]
Teacher: Hold it!! / Where are you going, Ishida?!!
Ishida: The medical room!

13
[Text: As for the Hollow extermination I used to do, Ishida takes care of that these days. // You'd think he could just leave it to Imoyama-san, but it looks like the guy's even more useless than he seems.]
Ichigo: Just as long as he doesn't overdo it and get Soul Society on his case...
[Text: And as for Rukia... // ...she hasn't set foot in Karakura Town since that day.]

14
Keigo: Hey, have you decided what you're gonna do? // Like, in the future?
Ichigo: You mean, like careers and stuff?
Keigo: "Careers and stuff", he says! / What else d'you think I mean?!
Ichigo: I dunno, does it really matter?
Keigo: We have careers sessions at the end of term, you know! / You gotta start thinking about these things soon. // I mean, your grades were pretty good back when you started here, but they've got worse ever since the second half of first year...
Ichigo: Ah, shaddup. You know I was busy back then, so what was I meant to do? / Besides, I'm still above-average.
Keigo: ...I wonder what Rukia-chan's doing now.

15
Ichigo: What's Rukia got to do with anything?
Keigo: Well, you know...! She could at least stop by and say hi once in a while, couldn't she?! / She hasn't come back even once since you-know-when! Isn't that kinda cold?
Ichigo: 'Course it isn't. // She's not responsible for Karakura Town any more, remember? There's no reason why she should come back here.
Keigo: ...Don't you get lonely?
Ichigo: Why the hell would I be lonely?

16
Ichigo: It took me 16 long years to finally find myself an ordinary life! // I just wanna live it out peacefully 'til the day I die.
Keigo: ...Well, I guess. / It's not like I want to go through any scary stuff like that again, either.
[Text: That's right. // It's not like I ever felt superior to anyone else because I could see ghosts. / And I never planned to take it up as a profession. // Hell, I never even felt the need to use my ability to help others. // All I ever wanted... / ...was the normal life I couldn't have. // I've finally achieved what I always wanted.]

17
Someone: Ahh...! / Why, you - !
Keigo: Whoa-!
SomeGuy: Hold it, thief!! // Give me back my bag!!
Ichigo: Mizuiro...

18
Ichigo: Hold this.
[Text: There is one other thing I have left... // ...to prove I was once a Shinigami.]

19
[no text just asskick]

20
[Text: The physical strength and reflexes I trained so hard to achieve victory in battle... // ...still come in handy from time to time.]
SomeGuy: Whoaaaaa~~~~~!! / Man, you really are something, kid! // Thanks so much! // Say, are you hungry? I'll treat you to some ramen or something! / Sounds good, right?
Ichigo: No, thanks. // Oh, and it'll be a pain if people find out I've been getting in fights... // ...so I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone about this.
SomeGuy: Hm? / Okay... // If you... say so. // Man, what's his problem...?

21
SomeGuy: You're more cautious than I expected...
[Bleach 424]
[The Lost Agent]

22
SomeGuy: Kurosaki Ichigo.
[Text: The Vanished Acting Shinigami Arc]