Mahou Sensei Negima! 218

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[insert text: Such strength! Such cruelty! This bounty-hunter association sets its sights on Nodoka!!]
Lyn: Ugh... // !!
Craig: (Oi, Lyn, are you okay?!)
Lyn: No! I'm in serious trouble here!
Craig: Aisha-san, what about you?!
Aisha: (They've got me!!)
Kris: Aisha!!
Aisha: *pant* // *pant*

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
Period 218: Boobies On The Line!!
[insert text: Completely helpless in the face of these bounty hunters! Will Nodoka be the next to go?!]
Nodoka: Aisha-san!
Craig: Stay back, Jou-chan! // They'll shoot you down in an instant! [aside]with that crazy long-range magic of theirs![/aside] We have to wait for them to move first!

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Nodoka: Craig-san, I have an idea...! I'll use my Artifact! I just have to get close enough to see their faces...
Craig: What?! / [aside]Arti...?![/aside]
Kris: (Craig! I'm going to save Aisha! You cover me!)
Craig: (WHAT?! You idiot - wait! Don't be so hasty!)
Kris: I can't wait! I'm going in there!
Craig: Aargh, dammit! // Jou-chan, you just stay right where you are!!
Nodoka: Ah - / [aside]Craig-sa...[/aside]
Craig: Oi - Kris, you idiot - !
Kris: But they got Aisha...!
Craig: There are other ways to go about this! // But no use worrying about that now... Distance remaining to the target is 800! / We've just gotta dart right in under their noses and confuse them with agility. You get Aisha, I'll regroup with Lyn... // ?!!

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Craig: Guahh?! // (What is this guy?! Aaaghh - !)
Nodoka: Craig-san!! // Wh - what do I do...?! All on my own... even with my Artifact... I... I can't...! // Ahh... no... I can't give in... I just have to think... think...! / I have to be like Haruna... like Yue... like Sensei... // Ahh - ! // !! // Nn... // ...nhh...

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Rizo: So that girl's the target, is she?
Nodoka: Ugh... // Aaahhh...
Zaytsev: No doubt about it. This is Miyazaki Nodoka, of Ala Alba.
Rizo: I'm finished up over here.
Nodoka: Lyn-sa - mmph!
Morborgran: I'm finished, too. // Gahahahah... they weren't even worth fighting.
Nodoka: E - Everyone...
Lyn: I'm... I'm sorry, Nodoka... I guess we couldn't... protect... you...
Nodoka: Oh, no...! Ly...n...san...
PaioII: Mwahahaha... what a boring job.

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Zaytsev: Oh, come, now. We're only just getting started. This kid is just the bait.
Morborgran: And I suppose she poses no threat...?
Zaytsev: No worries there. She's just a brat, no power whatsoever.
Nodoka: (Just getting started...? Bait...?)
Rizo: And the ones we don't need for bait?
Zaytsev: Useless. Just eliminate them.
Nodoka: ?!
PaioII: Well... when you put it like that... // I guess that makes them... spoils of war?
Lyn: Unhh...
Nodoka: (No...!! At this rate, everyone's going to die...! / [aside]it's all my fault...![/aside] // I mustn't let myself give up... there must be something I can do...! // Something I can do...!!) // Ahh...!
Zaytsev: Hmm?

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Nodoka: COULD ALL OF YOU PLEASE... // ...TELL ME YOUR NAMES~?!!
Hunters1+2: ...? // Pfft...
Zaytsev: Heheh...
[sFX: hahahahah]
Zaytsev: What's wrong, little girl? Gone crazy from the fear? // Hahah... fine, then. I guess it's a little rude not to introduce oneself to a lady.
[sFX: hahahahah]
Rizo: Oi, oi, Cap'n... you playing around with brats now?
Zaytsev: I'm Captain of the seventeenth unit of the bounty-hunting division of the mercenary association "Canis Niger"... // Alexander Zaytsev.

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Zaytsev: Also known... // ...as "Twilight Zaytsev".
Nodoka: "Chiko☆Tan"...san?
Zaytsev: ?!! // Wha - ?! Wh - Wh - Why, you - why do you - ?!
PaioII: ?
Zaytsev: Nobody ought to know that name...!
Rizo: ? // [aside]Chiko...?[/aside]
[TN: As I'm sure you can see, the names of all the members are written out in both katakana and romanised. Which would be all very well if the romanised version wasn't practically illegible. And one of them doesn't even have the kana for reference. Aghh. I've done the best I can >_< Is there a higher-quality version of this page somewhere...?]
Zaytsev: (Impossible... how could this little girl know that embarrassing name I was given back in my home town...?! [aside]wait, wasn't she doing something weird just now...?[/aside] / If my companions ever knew my real name, I'd be a laughing stock... could this be a trap of the Chief's...?!)
Morborgran: (Whew~~ I managed to win again today... Two on one, that's just not fair... they were pretty tough... why it is always me who has to end up in scary fights like that...? Must be my face... yeah, it's totally my face... Well, I am just bones, after all... they do say that appearance is 90% or whatever... I guess it's just a tough world... Ahhh... I wanna go back to the demon plane...)
Rizo: (Whew... haven't had a big job like this in a while. Bet I'll get a bonus for this. I'll be able to send some cash back to my ailing mother... You're okay, aren't you, Mother...? I haven't had much chance to contact you since I joined this crazy underground organisation...)
PaioII: (Mwahahahah... boobies~! boobies~! I got me two sets of great boobies~! Great job today~! GO BOOBIES! I'd sure like a piece of those cute little boobies on that girl over there, too... but I've gotta resist... so I can get more boobies...)
Nodoka: (Not exactly that I expected from a scary group of bounty-hunters like these...!)
Zaytsev: Girl, what exactly are you...?!
Nodoka: (Although one of them was just really screwed-up...)

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Nodoka: Wh - what was all that about me being some kind of bait? What are you really after?
Zaytsev: What...? // (Hah... like I'd tell you that. We're after some real big prey this time. It's notoriously difficult to capture Sakurazaki and Nagase, and their bounties are shooting up every day... But now that we've got you, another member of "Ala Alba", as the bait, our preparations are finally complete. We can lure them right here where we want them... we've already sent out the letter of challenge... / [aside]heheheh...[/aside])
Nodoka: Preparations complete... lure them where you want them...?! // Is this... a TRAP?! / ...what exactly are those "preparations"...?
Zaytsev: What...?! / Girl... you can't be...?! // Ngh! // GET HER! // That little girl's a mind-reader!!
Nodoka: (I have to get away and warn the others...!)
Rizo: (Here goes... from the right...)

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Rizo: What?!
Nodoka: I can do this... I just have to read their actions...! // ?!! // Ahh!
PaioII: Mwahahaha... Bad luck. // Reading minds won't be enough to get away from us. // (Good job there trying to run, little girl... // HERE'S TO BOOBIES!!!)
Nodoka: Ahh...?!

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Nodoka: NOOOOA
Zaytsev: Search her. She must have some kind of magical tool.
PaioII: Leave it to me, Captain.
Nodoka: Ahh...! // Wait - no - !
PaioII: No~w then... where should I start...? // (Gotta be the boobies.)
Nodoka: ...! // (It really was no use... On my own, I can't do a thing... Craig-san... everyone... it's all my fault... I'm so sorry...!)
PaioII: Mwahaha~!
Nodoka: ...! // (Sensei......!)

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PaioII: Mwaaaagh?!
Setsuna: RAIMEIKEN!!!
Zaytsev: Hmm.
Rizo: They're here...
Nodoka: Setsuna-san!
Setsuna: Nodoka-san... we're here to save you!!

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Nodoka: No - you mustn't, Setsuna-san! // It's a t - aahh?! // Aaaaaghhh?!
Setsuna: Ngh...
Zaytsev: Heheheh... you don't really think we'd give you our hostage that easily, now, do you?
Kaede: ...Something's wrong. Setsuna, I have a bad feeling about this...
Setsuna: You fiends!!
Zaytsev: Now, now, calm down. As a matter of fact, I rather think you people should be thanking me. / After all, I sincerely doubt this girl could withstand the attack you're about to taste. // See?
Setsuna: ?!! // A transference spell...?!!

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Setsuna: This is...!
Kaede: A wide-range tactical magical formation!!
Setsuna: A trap - ! // Aaaaahhhh!
Zaytsev: A leftover from the great war... an anti-army magical landmine. A hundred-metre storm of lightning attacks.
Nodoka: Ah... / Ahhh...
Zaytsev: ...It cost us a pretty penny, but for those guys, it was worth it. / [aside]wasn't easy getting permission to use it, either...[/aside]

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Nodoka: Setsuna-san! Kaede-san! Noooooooo!!
Zaytsev: They're surrounded for a hundred metres on all sides by a storm of lightning attacks for a hundred seconds. / No matter how incredible they may be, no matter what defensive measure they may possess, they cannot withstand this.
PaioII: Still, considering just how tough they are, I doubt they'll die. // (Beautiful giant boobies and a delicious flat chest!! / [aside]no way we're letting THEM die!![/aside] // And that makes five!! Today really is Boobies Day!! / [aside]I'm in heaven!![/aside]) // Not that they're gonna be exactly unharmed.
Nodoka: Ahhh...
Rizo: Oh, don't make that face. / We're pros, you know. We capture our prey, perfectly and exactly. That's our job. // The strong prevail; the weak are defeated. If you're in this line of work too, you should understand that. // (Just give it up, little girl.)
Nodoka: ......!
PaioII: Hmm?
Zaytsev: What is it?
PaioII: Something's wrong!
Zaytsev: What?!
PaioII: It's not nearly time for them to stop yet, but...!!

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PaioII: The lightning... // ...Someone seems to be wiping it out completely!!
Nodoka: That's...!
[TN: ...Deus Ex Machina-san!!]
Nodoka: Asuna-san!!

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Zaytsev: Impossible! // What is that girl - / Huh? // ?!!
[insert text: The strongest fighters of Negi's party have arrived! Next issue, Negi's wrath explodes onto the scene!!]