Bleach 651

Guidelines For Using My Translations

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[Text: Wake up, now. // Shunsui-san.]
Flashback!Woman: Come, now. / Wake up.
Flashback!Shunsui: ...Oh...
[Side text: Beneath the brightly-shining sun...]

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[Side text: He recalls the face of a woman he held dear......]
Shunsui: Morning... // Nee-san.
[Bleach 651]
[The Theatre Suicide]
[Scene 5]

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Barro: ......He vanished. // Where did he hide?

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Barro: Oh...of course. // He’s right there. // I see, I see. / I did not realise that “Kageoni” allowed one to remain within one’s shadow for such lengths of time. // In that case... // What will happen... // ...if I wipe that shadow from the ground’s surface?

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Flashback!Nanao: “Kyoukotsu”......?

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Flashback!Nanao: Wh... / What do you mean by this......? // I knew that Katen Kyoukotsu is divided into two blades, one named “Katen” and the other “Kyoukotsu”, of course, but...... // Do you mean to say that she...... // ...is my Zanpakutou......?
Flashback!Shunsui: Well, yes. / And...no. // It’s not as simple as all that. // But what’s certain... / ...is that Ohana gave birth to Okyou in order to conceal your Zanpakutou. // At your mother’s request.

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Flashback!Nanao: .................. // ......Why would she...... / ...request that......?
Flashback!Shunsui: .................. // The House of Ise is a matrilineal clan. / As far as the records show, only females have ever been born into it. // So of course, they have to take in husbands from outside. / But it was said that every man who married into the House of Ise... / ...would depart this world before his time, thanks to the Ise curse. // Some people might scoff at the notion of a curse, and think it ridiculous... / But she was not one of those people. // She wanted to put an end to these dark rumours. / So she married into another house, intending to let the line of Ise die with her. // But in the end... // Her husband, too, died all too soon.

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Flashback!Shunsui: She was the wife... / ...of my own elder brother. // I never really got along with my brother very well... / But after she married him, something changed. / I found myself becoming quite comfortable in my brother’s home. // I went to visit him all the time, and often found myself napping on the veranda there. // But then... / My brother died.

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Flashback!Shunsui: Amongst nobles, it’s quite common that when a man of the family dies, all ties are cut with his widow, and she is sent back to the house she came from. // And so she was returned to the House of Ise. // That’s right. // Though she had resolved to leave her family behind and abandon it utterly... // In the end, she was unable to escape it.
DoubleFlashback!Woman: .........So it is true...... / No woman of the Ise line can escape from the curse...... // Perhaps it is all...... // ...because of this sword...

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Flashback!Shunsui: Your mother... / ...was desperate to ensure that her daughter, at least... / ...would be freed from the curse that plagued her line. // So I... / ...took that sword... // ...and placed it in the care of Okyou... / ...who loves to play “hide and seek”.

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Barro: You can even emerge... // ...from shadows as small as this?!
Flashback!Nanao: I can tell...

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Flashback!Nanao: You don’t... // ...want to give me this sword, do you, Captain? // Is it... // ...for my sake? // Just as my mother decided to cast aside her curse of her own will... // I choose with my own will... // ...to take that curse upon myself. // ......And besides...

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Flashback!Nanao: Even if I do become cursed, I will......... // ......No... // I have a feeling the one I love... // ...will be the kind of man to scoff at the notion of a curse... // ...and laugh it off as ridiculous.

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Flashback!Shunsui: ......All right. // I’ll give it to you. // That sword will surely be just what we need......
Barro: ......What’s this? // Now that I look more closely... / It’s only the lieutenant who emerged from the shadow.

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Barro: Don’t tell me you intend... // ...to do battle with me by yourself?
Flashback!Shunsui: The House of Ise is a line of priests. // They see over sacred matters... // ...and do not possess Zanpakutou individually. // The head of the house inherits the lone sword the House possesses. // It is a sword with no blade, used for ritual purposes... / ...and is unable to harm a human soul. // It is said to have the power to face gods. // To take their divine power upon itself... // ...and scatter it in all directions. // Its name...

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Flashback!Shunsui: “Divine Blade” // Hakkyouken.
[TN: “Sword of Eight Mirrors”]
[Insert text: Her heart as calm as the stillest water, her mind as clear as the brightest mirror!!]