D.Gray-Man 169

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[side text: The end of a long night...]
Guard1: *snore~~~~~~~*
Guard2: *snore~~~*
Guard1: Whaaaa?! Why the heck am I asleep~~~?!!!
Guard2: Huh...? // I'm so sorry, Secretary LeVerrier! // ...Huh? Secretary? Where's the Secretary?
Guard1: Wake up, you fool!! If the Secretary sees us like this, we'll be in for it!
Guard2: General Cross is still in there, right?
Guard1: I'll just check. // General? Is everything all right?

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Guard2: H - / Hello~~~? General~~~?
Guard1: General~~~~?
Guard2: Hey... If he's gone and escaped while we were asleep... and the Secretary ever finds out......!
Guard1: Hey! // I'm coming in, all right?! // Excuse me!! // General? // Is anybody th.........

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Guard1: ......
Guard2: Is - Is he there?
Guard1: G... // Go get the Secretary.

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Guard2: What? But surely finding the General comes -
Guard1: JUST GO AND GET HIM, NOW!!
[bubbleSFX: crash]
Guard1: ! // ?!! // What...?!

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[no text and no cross]

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D.Gray-man
169th Night: There was a silence
[side text: Has even Cross been swallowed into the darkness that engulfs this battle...?]
[TN: srsly, I don't think I'd ever encountered the word "oou" ("engulf") before, yet this is the THIRD time I've seen it this week! It was in Tsubasa, it was in Bleach, and now D.Gray! >_<]
[box: And nobody has ever seen Cross Marian since that day.]

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[Text: Ten days later; London]
Link: Bishop d3.

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Maosa: I'm really sorry about this, Miranda... we just ran out of batteries for the barrier apparatus... / We didn't expect to end up going all this way...
Kie: You're already using Reverse on the chessboard, and now we're making you use Time Out as well......

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Miranda: O - oh, I'm just fine! Kie-san, Maosa-san, you just get some rest.
OldWoman: Aaaahhhhhhhh! / O Lord God, lend us your protection~~~~~~~~~!!

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Akuma: I'll smash that flimsy sword of yours to pieces!!
Kanda: Ohhh? // Smash Mugen, will you? // You just try it.

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[no text just pwnt]

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Akuma: GIVE US THE INNOCENCE~~~~!!!
OldWoman: Aaaaahhhh!!
Akuma: OPEN IT UP~~~~~!!
Old: I - I don't want to~~~!! / You'd kill us if we came out, wouldn't you?!
Akuma: 'Course I would, stupid woman!!
OldWoman: Are you two still not finished?!
[Kanji: serious]
Link: Please don't distract me. // e5.
Akuma: PUNY LITTLE WOMAN~~~~~!!
OldWoman: A - Are you all right?!
Miranda: M...... My strength is about to give out...
Kie/Maosa: WHA?!

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Akuma: STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID SHITTY WOMAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
Miranda: Aaaaahhhh!!
Akuma: ?!!
Allen: "Shitty"... "Puny"... // You should show a little more respect for women.

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Miranda: Ahhh! // I think I'm going to die...
[TN: Okay, lost in translation, but does anyone else who reads Japanese think "hentai" when reading that line? XD]

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Allen: Pitiful Akuma... // Let me save your souls......
Kanda: Oi, how are things going over there? / If you're losing, I'll kill you.
Miranda: I - I wish you wouldn't say things like that, Kanda-kun... / Except for Howard-san, all of us were losing over here......
Kanda: Oh, shut up.

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Link: Checkmate.
Miranda/Maosa/Kie: All right~!
Link: Whew... / Why do I have to do these things...?
Allen: Well, since you're here, you know!
Link: You've lost the game, Mr. Martin. // Now we'll be taking your ring.
OldWoman: Honestly, some champion you are! Haunting this place night after night! // Bothering people even after you've gone and died... stupid brother!!

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OldWoman: But now you've been beaten. // You should be satisfied now, yes?
Kanda: Innocence successfully retrieved.
Intercom: Roger that. Standby at the Gate 28 position. / We'll just open it for you. // Your orders are to return to Headquarters.
Kanda: Understood.
[side text: Onward to the next story...]
[bottom text: Next issue, D.Gray will be taking a break so that the author can collect data.]