Bleach 642

Guidelines For Using My Translations

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Flashback!Akon: What? // Captain Kurotsuchi won’t call you by your name?
Flashback!Nemu: That’s right. // Recently he only ever calls me “Nemu”.
Flashback!Akon: What’s wrong with that? That just means “Nemu” is your name, doesn’t it?
Flashback!Nemu: No. // My name is...
[Side text: Memories of younger days...]
[Bleach 642]

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[Baby, Hold Your Hand 5 [Eyes Are Open]]
Flashback!Nemu: Nemuri the Seventh.
Kuna: Ahh! // Something came out!
Akon: Damn it, Kuna! / What are you doing?!
Kuna: I...I didn’t do anything!
Akon: Honestly...... / You do realised we’ve got to get this whole facility fixed up and working again before the Captains get back...? // !

3
Akon: Oh, these are the early legacy samples from the “Nemuri” artificial soul project...! // That sure takes me back...
Kuna: “Nemuri”... You mean Nemu-chan?
Akon: That’s right. // These are the First to the Third. / We call them “legacy samples”, but...well, they’re basically corpses.
Kuna: Huh......... / These tiny stringy things are corpses...?
Akon: For the early samples, yeah. / The first few attempts were all failures. / The Fourth was the first one where we managed to produce a full brain.
SomeGuy: Y... / You fixed my head with... // Technology from the Fourth...
Akon: That’s right. // Then there was the Fifth, who managed to evolve all the way into an embryo. // It was using that technology that the Captain managed to modify his own Zanpakutou and earn his current rank.
Kuna: Ahhhhh......... // ......That makes sense......
Akon: The Sixth, we managed to raise to the level of a two-year-old infant...

4
Akon: ...But at that stage, its cells stopped dividing and it died. // Sadly, that’s the lifespan of artificially created soul cells. // So when the Seventh managed to overcome that lifespan and grow to full maturity... // You should have seen the glee in the Captain’s face.

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Flashback!Nemu: Why... // ...did Mayuri-sama stop calling me Nemuri the Seventh?
Flashback!Akon: Why are you asking me instead of Mayuri-sama himself?
Flashback!Nemu: I do not think Mayuri-sama would answer, even if I asked.
Flashback!Akon: If you’ve figured out that much, you oughtta figure out that I’m not gonna know any better than you!

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Flashback!Akon: ...If I had to guess... / I’d say he’s...embarrassed, that’s all.
Flashback!Nemu: Embarrassed......? // I cannot imagine Mayuri-sama possessing such an emotion.
Flashback!Akon: You say some pretty out-there things from time to time, you know that...? // The Captain told me once...
DoubleFlashback!Mayuri: To create a new soul out of nothing... // An artificial Shinigami... This is the dream of all Shinigami.

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DoubleFlashback!Mayuri: And yet... / Nothing could be more foolish than to dream while one is awake. // As such, / I have chosen to name this project... // ...the “Nemuri Project”.
[TN: “Nemuri” = “sleep”]
Flashback!Akon: It’s just the Captain’s sense of irony. // ......Now... // From here on out, this is just my speculation. // I think creating an artificial Shinigami... / ...isn’t the dream of “all Shinigami”. // It’s Captain Kurotsuchi’s own dream. // Do you see?

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Flashback!Akon: While you’re... / ...eating, sleeping, breathing... / ...learning new things each day and growing before his eyes... // All that while... // It’s like Captain Kurotsuchi... // ...is in a dream. // I think he must be... // ...too embarrassed to let you see he feels that way.
Flashback!Nemu: ............... // ......I did not notice anything of the sort.
Flashback!Akon: Watching you grow more intelligent with every day that passes... // Even I can tell you’d notice eventually.

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Flashback!Nemu: ......If I could stay ignorant forever... // Would Mayuri-sama still call me the Seventh?
Flashback!Akon: That’s not possible. // You’re the Captain’s greatest creation.

10
Flashback!Akon: For you not to evolve would be unthinkable.

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Mayuri: Nemu......! // You......?! // How do you have this kind of power.........?!

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Nemu: This is the power that you gave me, Mayuri-sama. // You gave me the body of a Shinigami. / I have drawn out that body’s abilities to within 0.8% of the limit at which its structures would collapse.
Mayuri: ......Why, you......
Nemu: There is no problem. // I can survive another 400 seconds at this level of output.
Mayuri: That is not what I am talking about! / When did I order you to -
Nemu: This is not an order. // This is my calling. // My calling is to protect you, Mayuri-sama.

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Mayuri: No! // Your calling is to grow and evolve!
Nemu: I believe... // I can best demonstrate that growth by protecting you, Mayuri-sama.
Mayuri: Tch... // She has certainly learned to speak her mind... // ............... // ...To think... / ...the day would come when I would leave a battle to Nemu...

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Mayuri: I can scarcely stand the humiliation.

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Nemu: Soul shaving... // Six percent. // I will shave 6% from my soul’s material... // ...and directly inject it into the target, destroying it.

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Nemu: Gikon Juurinjuu.
[TN: “Artificial Soul Heavy Ring Cannon”]
[Insert text: Converting her own soul into strength......!!]