D.Gray-Man 167

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D.Gray-man
167th Night: Suggestion
[insert text: Allen, Mana... what once seemed such a powerful bond now seems so distant...]

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Cross: You are the human into whom the Memory of the Fourteenth was implanted. // A host who exists so that the Fourteenth may be reborn into this world once more.

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Cross: When you knew the Song of the Musician in the Ark... when you could inexplicably play the piano... / ...none of that was you. // It was all the Fourteenth's "Memory". // Back then, back there... // You saw something, didn't you? // Oi.
[Kanji: freeze

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[sFX: stare]
Allen: [aside]ah...[/aside]
[bubbleSFX: SMA~~CK // stumble // thud]
Komui/LeVerrier: ?!
Cross: Don't just freeze up. / How are we meant to get anywhere like that, huh?
Allen: OOOOOWWW... / ...ngh...

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Allen: I... // Implanted...? // When...?
Cross: Huh? // Ohhh... sorry, no idea about that.
Allen: Whaaaaaaaat?!
Cross: Wait... I do have some idea! It must've been, you know, before the guy went and died...
Allen: In other words, you don't know!!
Cross: Hmmm? What?! I said "sorry", didn't I...? / Just drop it already!
Lavi: (What the.........)
Cross: Bah... truth is, I wasn't even exactly convinced myself. / Until you appeared, that is. // He tried to kill the Earl... and his life was Hell as a result. // Together with Mana... // ...he lived a life on the run, a constant battle to the death with the Noah.

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Cross: If you ask me, the Fourteenth wasn't too bothered with the "when" or the "who" of it. // The moment he saw his chance... // ...he picked out the nearest person handy to be his host. // All so that he could kill the Earl with your hands.
Allen: And that was... me...?
Cross: Yeah. Hard luck for you. // The Memory with which you were implanted will slowly but surely eat away at its host... // ...until you become the Fourteenth entirely.

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Cross: You must have felt signs of it, right?
Allen: So that's... // it... // What's with that...

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Allen: When Mana... // ...told me "I love you"... // Did he mean me...? // Or else... // Who did he...

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Cross: Something changed in Mana, that day when the Fourteenth died. // I couldn't even tell whether he even remembered anything or not. // Not just from watching him... // .........Ironic, isn't it.

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Cross: (To think that it was a child like this...) // He could've chosen any old bum to be his host, but no... // (In the end... / ...it looks like to protect something... // ...there always has to be some kind of a sacrifice.)

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Cross: And that's not to mention the whole deal with Tiedoll... / Jeez...

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Cross: What if I were to tell you... // ...that after you become the Fourteenth, you'll have to kill...? // To kill... // ...people very important to you...?
[TN: Okay, this line is bugging me on multiple levels. Firstly there's the plurality of it, because it could be referring to a single person, or to multiple people. I've tried to leave that ambiguous in the English as well by making it a loose plural, though my gut instinct would be to translate in the singular. But then when I was thinking about that, another reading of the line occurred to me that now seems to make just as much sense, which is "to kill those 'humans' you love so much". Because as we all know, Allen loves humans, in general. And "daiji na ningen", literally something like "important/precious human(s)", is so damn ambiguous. It could mean a specific "precious" person, it could mean multiple specific "people", or it could mean "humans" in general (in which case my translation here is way out ~_~). Or I suppose there's always the slight chance it means "important" in a completely different sense. Gahhhhh. I think I'm really starting to explode my brain through overthinking this line.]

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Lenalee: Allen-kun?!
Allen: Ahh...
Lenalee: (Aahh... I fell asleep!!) // Wh - Where are my brother and the others?
Allen: They're still discussing something in there. / Lenalee... if you move about like that, you'll wake Johnny...

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Lenalee: Hey... isn't your face a little swollen?
Allen: Well, I kind of got punched by my master...
Lenalee: Are you okay?
Allen: Yeah.
Lenalee: Huh...... / ......?
Allen: ...It was nothing, really.
[side text: The feelings flooding Allen's heart are beginning to change him...]