Bleach -108

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[side text: Everything has its trigger... yes, even the current Shinigami battle.]
[Text: The pendulum / swings back // This story, always moving forwards into the future // pauses here for a moment // and we swing back into the past. // It lasts but the tiniest of moments... // But for that reason... // it speeds at incredible velocity into the distance. // It must not be known // Yet // It must be known. // For what lies there is the truth behind the "mask".

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Bleach -108
TURN BACK THE PENDULUM
[insert text: This is where it all began!! // Thus begins... the Past Arc!!]
[TN: awesome :D]

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[Text: 110 years ago]
Aizen: Good morning.
Shinigami: Good morning, sir!
Aizen: Good morning.
Shinigami: Good morning, sir!
Aizen: Good morning
Shinigami: Good morning, Lieutenant, sir!

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Aizen: Good morning. // Are you quite ready, Captain?
Shinji: Sure...... // Come on in.
Aizen: Sorry to intrude.

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Shinji: The hell... / Wearin' yer normal stuff?
[box: Fifth Division Captain (of the day) / Hirako Shinji]
[TN: EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC WIN]

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Shinji: It's festival time, ya know! / Didn' I tell ya ter wear somethin' flashy?! // Sousuke!
[box: Fifth Division Lieutenant (of the day) / Aizen Sousuke]
Aizen: What about you, Captain?
Shinji: Eh, I don' have to, I'm a Captain!
Aizen: Now, now... I can't be the only one around here wearing some crazy costume. // Besides which, it's not a festival at all; it's a ceremony.
Shinji: Festival, ceremony, they're all the same thing, ain't they?
Aizen: I disagree. // ...Incidentally... / What's this music that's been playing for a while now?
Shinji: Jazz! / It's a new thing from the human world / Good, ain't it?
Aizen: Well, I don't know...
Shinji: ...Well, why bother mentionin' it, then...?

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Shinji: Hey the~~~~~re!! // Fifth Division Captain Hirako Shinji he~~~~~re!! // Anybody ho~~~~~me?! // But man... comin' ter the First Division's place is real scary... / I get so damn nervous... // Maybe I shouldn' bother...
Aizen: I must say, you don't exactly look like a nervous man. / You should just stop trying to find excuses not to bother with the ceremony.
Shinji: Ah, shaddup. / Ain't like ya can see my face from over there, Sousuke.
Aizen: The door's open; you should enter.

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Hiyori: Yo! Baldy-Shinji!! // Damn stompable face you've got today, huh!!
Shinji: Dammit, Hiyori -
Hiyori: Whaddayawant! I ain't apologisin'!! // I ain't said a thing yet, y'know?!!

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Love: Oh, just apologise, you little punk!
Hiyori: Guahh!
Love: Geez, honestly...
[box: Seventh Division Captain (of the day) / Aigawa Love]
Hiyori: The hell you playin' at, Love?! // Ya think you can just go round smackin' other people's Lieutenants' heads like that, huh?!
[box: Twelfth Division Lieutenant (of the day) / Sarugaki Hiyori]
Love: Well, your own Captain's not around... and somebody has to keep you in line.
Hiyori: Stop treatin' me like a kid!

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Hiyori: I ain't freakin' apologisin' to a damn punk like that!! // Just take a look at his face!! // DAMN, it pisses me off~~~~~~~~~~~!!!
Love: All right, all right...
Aizen: You should stop that, too, Captain... // It's unseemly to make such faces in front of other officers...
Shinji: Everybody here now?
Love: Pretty much.
Shinji: What about the 11th squad...?
Love: He won't show up. / He never listens to a thing he's told, after all.
Shinji: Ugh, tenth "Kenpachi" or no, he's a real pain in the ass... / Why the hell'd we ever make a pig like him a Captain anyways?

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Love: It can't be helped. / At any rate, the holder of the name of "Kenpachi" always serves as the 11th Division Captain. // That's how it's always been. // If you want to blame somebody, blame the former Kenpachi for losing to him.
Shunsui: My, my... / It's not nice to talk that way about people behind their backs.

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Love: What's this? / You are early today, Shunsui-san.
Shunsui: Whatever could you mean? / I'm always the first in line!
Nanao: I had to smack his arse to get him up!
Shunsui: Could you please not say things like that in front of the other Captains?
Ukitake: I don't see Hikifune today... / Is she not coming?
[box: Thirteenth Division Captain / Ukitake Juushirou]
Shunsui: Mm. // Looks like she's joined up with them.
[box: Eighth Division Captain / Kyouraku Shunsui]
Ukitake: Busy, busy, huh? / It's not like there's any big hurry, she could take things a little more slowly...
Shunsui: Oh, absolutely.
Shinji: But, man, seriously... // Seems like we're gettin' through Captains at a scary sorta rate recently...

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Shinji: Only the year before last, Rose became Captain of the Third Squad, // And now the Twelfth, too... // Are we really gonna be okay like this?
Shunsui: Well, you know... / Everything has to change at one point or another. // We're just living in a time of change, that's all it is. // Hell, think about it... how many of our current Captains have even served a hundred years? / Isn't it just me, Ukitake and Yama-jii? // Hm?
Ukitake: Not quite... // Don't forget about Captain Unohana.
Shunsui: Ohhh... / Yeah, of course.
Ukitake: You shouldn't go forgetting your mega-senpai, you'll get a real telling-off. / Whew, that's scary!
Shunsui: But hey...

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Shunsui: The Third Captain retired... // The Twelfth got promoted... // It's not like anybody died, like the Tenth Captain. // Peaceful enough, don't you think?
Aizen: Promoted?!
Shinji: Oi, Sousuke!
Aizen: Ah - / My apologies, I just couldn't help overhearing, and -
Shunsui: Don't worry. / I don't mind, Sousuke-kun. // What is it?
Aizen: It may not be a matter for Lieutenants like myself... / But... you say Twelfth Division Captain Hikafune didn't retire, but was promoted?
Shunsui: That's right.
Aizen: A position above even that of Captain... would that be Central 46? // Although I confess, I've never heard of a Captain joining the Central 46 before...
Shunsui: No, not Central 46. // She's joined up with...

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Shunsui: The Royal Special Service... // Division Zero.
Aizen: !! // Royal... / Special Service......
Kensei: Hey there. // Looks like he's arrived... // The new guy. // Everybody line up and wait... // The old man...

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Urahara: Ehh?

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Urahara: Ahhhhh... / Don't tell me... // I'm the last one here...?
[box: Twelfth Division Captain (newly appointed) / Urahara Kisuke]
Shinji: The hell... // New guy seems a real layabout, huh...?
Aizen: ...Indeed.
[side text: The Shinigami... Aizen and Urahara! The pendulum swings ever faster!!]
[bottom text: Next issue, colour pages!!]