Hitomi no Catoblepas 3

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Hitomi no Catoblepas
#3 Look Into My Eye
[Top text: A fierce battle! The Yoma "Arachne"! The new series, with a centre colour and 25 pages!]
[side text: The steady justice of that crimson gaze... Shimura Tokio!!]
[bottom text: Swift and mighty reaction! Deep gratitude!]
[bottom-right author's name: Tanaka Yasuki]

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[Text: The Yoma Arachne, pressing in!]
Arachne: Fool!

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Arachne: You'll deal with me in two minutes? // Do you understand the position you're in?!
Tokio: Tch...
Arachne: Your movements are completely sealed. // I'm gonna have fun killing you nice and slowly...
Miiko: Hakutaku-san, it's useless! / How is he supposed to fight when he's all bound up by those threads?! // It's impossible!
Hakutaku: The House of Shimura, which has come through many hundreds of near-death situations, and defeated many thousand Yoma, / is not so feeble as to be defeated by this level of Yoma! // Please just observe Tokio-sama's power.

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Hakutaku: I'm more interested in that Arachne. / Certainly, those threads are powerful and his speed is impressive, // but if that's all he has...
Miiko: Eh?!
Hakutaku: Simply barging into this of all places, with no regard for his station... // Is he really just an idiot...?
Arachne: EAT THIS!

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Hakutaku: Poison needles?! / The walls are rotting away incredibly quickly...!
Miiko: Ugh... it stinks! // (If one of those were to hit his body... // They'd go straight through him!)
Arachne: You went and blocked it, huh...
Hakutaku: I had never heard that Arachne used "poison"... / And such powerful poison, too... // What on earth...?!
Arachne: "An eye that stops time", eh... // Hah. Useless!

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Arachne: You think a fancy little ability like that's going to get rid of me in two minutes? // You make me laugh... The head of the House of Shimura, the famous Guardian House of K City... / I always wondered what he'd be like, but... // Pah. // You're just a weakling. // Hmmmm?

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Arachne: Hah! There's a girl here, and with a pretty nice body too! // That... / That makes me... // That makes me want to spawn some eggs~~~~~~~~~~! Ubyurururururu!!
Miiko: (Ehhhh.... He's disgusting~~~!! // I really should have headed home when I had the chance! I'm an idiot! Dammit!)
Arachne: Shimura Tokio... Your eye can cease the time of that which is before your eyes. // But what about something that you can't see? / Gas, for instance...? // So, if I were to, say, convert this deadly poison that was given to me into a colourless, transparent gas...?! // Ahah... I see you turning pale.
Miiko: Hey, Shimura!! Why're you just letting him say all that stuff?! // Say something back!!
Tokio: Ye~s... I suppose so. // That certainly is... // impossible...

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Tokio: The "Todomeru Me" can only stop that which I can actually see. / For something that's invisible, or too fast to be seen, it's useless. // Air... bullets from a pistol... I can't see them, so I can't stop them. / So something like an invisible poison gas would be very dangerous. / I'd die for sure.
Miiko: Eeeeeeh?! // (No way?!)
Arachne: Hahaha... // So you've finally stopped acting tough and realised there's nothing you can do! / A single breath of my poison will cause your entire body to rot and send you on to the afterlife! // There's not a thing you can do! Bwahah! / Going up against me, you can't move a single limb!!!

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Tokio: What a nice smell. Kind of sugary... So this is your poison, huh? / But I'm afraid poison doesn't work on me. // You're finished.
Arachne: Why, you... // What... did you say...?!

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Arachne: Guagh?!
Tokio: Ah, sorry about that... it looks like I moved a limb.
[TN: Works much better in Japanese. The Japanese expression for "There's nothing you can do" means, very literally-translated, "No arms or legs will come out". So of course Tokio's snappy comeback is "Looks like an arm came out..."]
Tokio: You've been badmouthing me a lot this whole time. This guy gets wound up easily by things like that.
Arachne: Uohgh... // Uoouuugh...
Tokio: I summon thee... O family of mine...

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Miiko: Aaaaaahh! It really looks painful!! / It hurts just watching! Owwwwww!!
Hakutaku: Hmmm...
Arachne: But... this guy... Why doesn't my poison work?!
[Text: Catoblepas!!]
[TN: Who knows whether it's supposed to be Tokio saying that, someone thinking it, or just random text in general...]

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Arachne: ...!!
Tokio: What's with that face of yours? / You can regenerate, can you? // What a stubborn guy...!

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Tokio: To deal with someone like you...
Arachne: W- wait! / Wait a minute! // (Blood! It's blood! // This guy made a sword... from my blood...!) // Wai-

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Tokio: Even if I can't move a limb... Doesn't seem like any big deal...

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Arachne: No... way... // (His swordsmanship... // I can't see a thing...)
Hakutaku: As expected of Tokio-sama! / The helplessness was all an act, so as to draw his nimble opponent in and strike when the enemy was unprepared!
Miiko: Seriously?! // What about the poison? Is Shimura okay?!
Tokio: Any Yoma that stands before this eye, / will, in the name of Shimura, // be destroyed without fail.

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Miiko: Amazing... // I couldn't see what happened at all... // It was over so quickly...
Arachne: What the... I never heard anything about Shimura Tokio being this powerful!! // He told me I could rampage to my heart's content if I came here... // And he said there would be many humans for me to consume! / All ... there were was... those stupid paper women... // Even poison didn't work... Dammit... he....... // The bastard went and tricked me...!!
Hakutaku: ?!

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Arachne: Ah... / Ugh...
Tokio: Don't underestimate / the House of Shimura.
Catoblepas: LOOK AT ME... // LOOK...
Arachne: Such power! I can't move... Aargh! What is this eye...?! // Why... Why can't I look away?!! // I can't stop looking! Into this guy's eye...!!
Catoblepas: AT ME...
Arachne: This terrible eye...
[side text: Always needs vegetable juice while writing manga?! Show your support by sending Tanaka-sensei your letters! (There follows an address, but I'm damned if I can be bothered to translate it.)]

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Tokio: Look into my eye.
Arachne: (I can't stop looking!)

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Miiko: He did it!
Hakutaku: That is Tokio-sama's true ultimate power! "Shitomeru Me"! // The real reason to fear Catoblepas... is the deadly poison concealed within that red eye! / If he calls forth Catoblepas, a poison dwells in Tokio-sama's gaze, leading only to death!
Miiko: Poison!!
Hakutaku: Five seconds.

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Hakutaku: When he activates the Shitomeru Me, any being who meets Tokio-sama's eyes for five seconds... // will have the time of its very life ceased. // He always has the ultimate lethal poison kept safely within his body. // No poison of this world can kill Tokio-sama.
Miiko: (Shitomeru Me... // Incredible... this is his true power...)

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Miiko: Shimura! // Are your wounds alright?! / You did it! You're amazing, really amazing! // The Guardian House of K City is really amazing, isn't it! You were so cool! // Like an ally of justice!
Tokio: Stop that... it's nothing, really.
Miiko: Eh?
Tokio: It's true that as the Head of the House of Shimura, I bear the mission of fighting the Yoma. // But in truth, that's not all.
Hakutaku: Tokio-sama...
Tokio: There's someone... / someone I have to defeat with my own hands, at all cost.
[TN: Yay! Tokio has an emo-Sasuke side!]

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Miiko: (...?!)
Hakutaku: Tokio-sama, / could that ball be... // ...the "Ayatsuri no Tama"?
[TN: Literally, something like "Puppet Orb". But that doesn't sound remotely cool, so the original Japanese it shall be :p]
Hakutaku: That cursed orb, implanted into the bodies of Yoma in order to manipulate them at will... / Could that Arachne...? // "Daimaen"... Tenma Hajun's suggestion...
[TN: These terms are irritating me, since I can't figure out exactly what they refer to. Only reference material I can find is the Japanese Wikipedia, and my Japanese isn't nearly good enough to use that to any effect. As far as I can figure out, they're related to Buddhist demon-legend of some kind. At any rate, leaving them in Japanese works fine, even if there is a translation, so that's what I'll do.]

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[box: Several days later...]
Dude: Honestly... // Why do I have to come all the way here for something that could be settled perfectly easily by phone?

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Dude: That fool Tokio... // Couldn't you at least install a telephone in that temple of yours?!
[Top text: A mysterious man, causing a tense situation?!]
[TN: Horrible translation, I know. Sorry about that.]
[bottom text: What Tokio said was intriguing too, but who is this guy?! Next issue, "The Second Person"!!]

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