Soul Eater 55

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[insert text: Arachne's magical attack assaults Soul...!!]
Soul: All the strength... // ...in my whole body... // ...it's slipping away...... // I'm... sinking......

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Soul: ...falling......
[soul Eater]
[Chapter 55: Operation: Seize Baba Yaga Castle (Part 10)]

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[Text: The Demon]

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Demon: How unsightly. // That's you. // Now try and stand up... // Come on. // This is you.

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Demon: Don't seek the insanity... / Conquer your fear... // ...and do it. / ............ / Try and stand up. // Just try and slice straight through this darkness.

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Demon: That's you. // You act all cool, like you're totally in control... / ...act so cynical... // Who do you think you are? // Take a good look at yourself... // This is what you are.

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[Text: Wes...]
[TN: "Wes" is given the kanji for "bro"]
Flashback!Soul: That's the genius violinist Wes Evans for you...
Flashback!Wes: ?!
Flashback!Soul: An incredible performance.
Flashback!Wes: What's wrong, Soul? Come on over here.
Flashback!Soul: ......
Flashback!People: That kid's Soul-kun... // Yes, his younger brother - I hear he's quite the little pianist. // Oh, I'd like to hear that!
Flashback!Soul: ......

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Flashback!Soul: (If they had an ear for talent, they'd know... // I can't become like my brother... // What is there that I can do...?)
Flashback!Wes: It's just incredible... I don't know what to say... // It was quite the shock. To think, a family of musicians like ours actually had the blood of the "weapon" flowing through our veins... / Gran was pretty taken aback too.
[Text: And so, I had my excuse to escape...]

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Demon: You're calm and composed. You're sensitive. You're pretty damn astute for your age. // You're really something. // From time to time, you make wise decisions, not straying from your path. // Really something. / But then... "That's no good"... "This is just bull"... / You reject any number of paths... choosing your path with cynicism. // What do you want to do? Where do you want to be? What does your heart tell you? // Where is it that you want to go? Say it. // Hmm?

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Demon: Fine. Just lie there eating dirt forever, you creep. // You little coward who can only move forward through a process of elimination. // Until you find something else to reject... // ...you just lie there, grumbling on the ground.

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Soul: (Stand... and do what? // Stand... and do what? // Stand... and surpass God himself!! // Hahah... yeah, right. I'm too much of an idiot for a thing like that... // But... I can't go on like this. // It's just pathetic... // Just pathetic... I guess that's perfect for me. Right? // No...)

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Soul: (I'm sinking... // Falling... // Grovelling... // Falling... // Sinking... // Falling... // Grovelling...)

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Soul: (No...! // Help me, please... // Help... // Help!!)

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Soul: (I don't like it on the ground... // I want to stand... // Help me... // Help...)

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Soul: (Help me stand... // Help me...)

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Arachne: I will show you the way to go, Soul. // You don't have to worry about where to go. You can just relax.
Soul: (Help me...)
Arachne: This darkness binds you and I together, Soul. You mustn't break it.
Soul: (Help me...)
Arachne: That's right.
Soul: (Yes...!!)

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Soul: (I'm saved!!!)
Maka: MAKAAAA...
Arachne: !!

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Maka: CHOOOOOP!!
Soul: Ngahh...?! // Guahhhh......

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Maka: Come on... / What do you think you're doing?
Soul: Ohh... // Yeah... // ......

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Flashback!Wes: Soul... are you going to stop playing the piano?
Flashback!Soul: Yeah, that's a good question... // I dunno.
Flashback!Wes: I do like your music, Soul.
Soul: (What do I want to do? It's not like back then... I know what I want...)
Flashback!Soul: ...... / Thanks.
Soul: (Maka's music will always slice through the darkness around me.)
Maka: ?
Soul: (I'll become strong, for her sake. // So burn, soul of mine.)
Maka: What was that magic just now?
Medusa: It was attempting to take control of us through our weaknesses.

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Maka: So that's Arachne's magic......
Medusa: Arachne isn't like me; direct offensive magic isn't her speciality.
Maka: So she'll try and take us out from the inside, like just now?
Medusa: Yes... // And that's why we'll be needing your capacity for soul perception, and your "Demonslayer Wavelength"... // Are you prepared? // It's time to go...

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Maka: (I can feel it... // The repulsive wavelength of Arachne's soul......)
Soul: What... / ...is this?

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Maka: It's a huge spider's web...

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Arachne: Can you detect Arachne's soul wavelength?
Maka: It's coming from over this way.
Medusa: Stand back... I'll open the way with my Vector Arrows.

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Maka: ...... // Huh...? / What's going on?
Soul: What...? What's wrong...?

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Maka: (I can see Medusa's soul just fine... // There's nothing wrong with my perception ability... // And yet...)

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Maka: (She's dead?!) // What's going on...?

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[Text: Security Control Room]
Arachnophobes: Mosquito-sama?! // You're injured... // Are you all right?

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Mosquito: What are you people doing here? / Aren't you supposed to be guarding Arachne-sama?
Arachnophobe: Hah! Eibon-sama told us we were dismissed, so we came straight back here.
Mosquito: !! / What...?! // Deciding a thing like that on your own... / What exactly is the meaning of this?!!

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Eibon: No, no... // I was merely following Arachne-sama's orders...
Mosquito: Don't lie to me. // What are you after... you ghastly mage...?
Arachnophobe: Giriko-sama!! / Giriko-sama!!
Giriko: ZZZZZ

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Giriko: Mnhaahhh...
Arachnophobes: Giriko-sama! // Giriko-sama! // What now...? If we just barge in, he'll smack us one for sure...
Kid: Which way did Mosquito head...? // This wavelength... / This way.
Patty: Kid-kun sure is having a hard time just taking out one of these guys, huh~?
Liz: Yeah, we're much more efficient than him!
Kid: ? // ? // Hmm? What are you talking about?
Patty: Ehehehehehe...
Liz: Well, we ended up making drinks for one of Arachne's goons...

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Liz: So we mixed a special little something in. // A powerful sleeping drug.
Kid: ...... / And you just happened to have a thing like that handy...?
Liz: Well, it's a trick we used to use all the time.
Kid: !! // Mosquito's wavelength is nearby!! // Here!

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Kid: ?!
[insert text: Next issue, colour pages!!]
[bottom text: To be continued in the January issue (on sale Friday 12th December)]