Mahou Sensei Negima! 225

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
Period 225: Proclamation of War
[insert text: Which should he protect? The world or his friends...?!]
Fate: If you wish to return safely to reality, then all you need do is ignore us entirely. // Simple enough, don't you think, Negi-kun?
Negi: But you intend to destroy the world... // Ignoring your actions... / ...would mean abandoning this world in exchange for my friends' safety...
Fate: Your point? Do you wish to put your friends in danger for the sake of this world?
Negi: ...!
Fate: Heh...

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Fate: ...You get it now, don't you? If you, as a teacher, wish to fully uphold your responsibility to your students... / ...then there is only one answer you can choose.
Negi: (...He's right...) // That's... / ...true... but... still...
Fate: As ordinary middle-school students, they all have the right to live out their school days in peace. / Without getting caught up in some outrageous incident in a world where they do not belong. // If you think of it that way...

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Fate: The same goes for you, Negi-kun. / Just because you are the son of a hero does not mean you have to bear the world's fate on your shoulders. // All of you should just go and live your lives in peace.
Flashback!Nagi: Grow up well... / ...and be happy.
Flashback!Chisame: ...Do you really have to go chasing after that old man of yours? // Would it be so wrong just to stay here at the school, having fun and messing around with everyone else? Instead of running headlong into danger...
[TN: flashback flashback flashback]

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Setsuna: (Sensei...)
Fate: ...It looks like your heart is decided. // Well then, I would like to hear it from your own mouth, plainly and clearly. // "I swear that from this moment forth, I will not lift a finger against you, nor involve myself in your business." / With that, our deal will be established.
Negi: ...Tell me just one thing. // Why do you wish to destroy the world? What is your reason?
Fate: Is there any need for you to know that right now?

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Negi: (...No matter what I think... // ...as long as he's holding all the passers-by hostage... // I can't refuse him! Even if this is some kind of trap...!) // ......I swear... // ...that from this moment forth... I will not... lift... a fin - // Wha - ?!

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Fate: (Wha...?!)
Negi: Wha...? A - / Asuna-san?! // ?! // ?!
Asuna: You absolute...

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Asuna: ...IDIOT, Negi!! / I stand here listening to the two of you, and what do I hear?! / You can't let this smarmy little brat just carry you along with his horrible little speech!!! // You don't have to listen to what the likes of him has to say!! // "Ignore him and just all go home safe"?!!

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Asuna: All of us have been helped out by all sorts of people since we came to this world! / [aside]Bounty hunters, and information-sellers, and inn proprietresses... some of them have even saved our lives![/aside] / That's got to go for you too, right, Negi?! // Like hell this is just some "illusion"! Are you completely dense?! // Just look at all the people right in front of you! // Children! / Families! // Old guys! // You honestly think we can save ourselves and just sneak off home leaving all of them to him?!! // There is... / ...absolutely... / ...no reason... // ...to hesitate for one SECOND over this!!!

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Asuna: Not in a million years would we think... // ...of taking orders from a little idiot spouting such patently ridiculous nonsense!!! // All right?!!
Negi: ...But Asuna-san!! / Right now, we have to accept his demands! // He's threatening to harm all of those people in front of us, as well as all of you!

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Asuna: It'll be fine!!!
Setsuna: (Asuna-sa...)
Chamo: (What the heck is "fine" about it?!)
Fate: Heh... // Heh.. Hahah... / Hahahahahahahahahahah!

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Asuna: You're just creepy, you know that?! That laugh isn't even touching your eyes!
Fate: Hahahahahahahahahah!
Flashback!Eva: Even when covered in mud...
Negi: (There's no such thing as a perfectly "right" choice, is there...? // Master...)
Fate: So? / Negi-kun?
Negi: You heard her, Fate. // My answer is no!
Fate: Very well... // Then we are done negotiating.

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Asuna: Setsuna-san!
Setsuna: Don't take me lightly, Fate. // Sica Shishikushiro!
[TN: Seriously, what is up with the name of her Artifact? That second word kills my brain.]

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Setsuna: (That's...! So that is what he's after?! // And the magical energy it's releasing is even more powerful than I imagined... // That truly is a magical tool of the very highest class...)
Fate: Dear me, Kagurazaka Asuna... always you persist... // ...in interfering with my plans at the crucial moment. // ...However, I must thank you. In truth, I am glad that this crude strategy was a failure. / It would be boring to simply steal his son's free will, catching him in a simple trap. // Finally the two of us are truly enemies, rivals in deciding this world's fate. / My wish has been granted.
Setsuna: What?!

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Fate: Now then, Negi-kun, I shall take my compensation... // I see... Magia Erebea. // Visju Tal Li Sjutal Vangèit... // O Tartaroi Keimenon Basileion Nekron...
[TN: The first part is his personal incantation thingy. I'm trusting Wikipedia for the transcription of that >_< The actual incantation is Greek, and translates as something along the lines of "Oh Palace of the Dead That Lies In The Depths of Hell". Well, the kanji read "...lies in the depths of the ground", but I'm sure "Tartaroi" should refer to Hell... Meh. Either way, it's the same incantation he used back in Chapter 188.]

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Fate: Ho Monolithos Chion Tou Haidou
[TN: Well, **** me if that word is actually meant to be "Chion", because it makes no sense. (Katakana are "kioon") But I can't find any word that does make sense, so baaaaaaaaahhhhh. According to the kanji, it means "Stone Pillars of Hades".]
Negi: !!
Setsuna: This is bad!!
Asuna: ...!!
Negi: Agite Tenebrae Abyssi, Ensis Incendens!! // Et Incendium Caliginis Umbrae... / ...Inimicitiae Destructionis Ultionis!! // Incendant Et Me Et Eum... / ...Sint Solum Incendentes!! // Incendium... // ...Gehennae!!!
[TN: Copied this incantation straight off Wikipedia, so don't blame me if there are errors ~_~ Wikipedia gives the translation "Come Forth, Darkness of the Abyss, Burning Sword! And the Conflagration of Mist, Shadows, Enmity, Destruction, and Vengeance! Set he and I aflame, burning to our very foundation! Hellfire Conflagration!"]
Fate: Heh.
Negi: Stagnet!!!

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Negi: Complexio!!
Fate: Dear me... I had heard that you were training with Thousand-Blades Racan... / ...so I expected something of you... // ...but this is High Daylight Walker Dark Evangel's personal skill.
Negi: Armationem... // ...Sim Fabricatus Ab Incendo!
Fate: It comes as something of a surprise that the technique was passed on, but... it is a tiresome choice you have made.

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Fate: Feeding upon the user's body and soul to grant power many times that of an ordinary human... / The power of Magia Erebea...
Negi: (That was the Hakkeshou... / As I thought...)
[TN: "Hakkeshou", literally "Eight Trigrams Palm", is the name of a real martial art. Manga readers may be familiar with it as the basis for most of the Hyuuga clan techniques in Naruto.]
Fate: ...It's little more than a form of doping. / A simple increase in pure power. // Did you think that a technique of that nature would allow you to fight on a level with me? // No matter the power behind your attacks, if they fail to connect with your opponent, they may as well have none. // Huh... you almost buckled before me mentally, and physically too, you fail to impress... // A real pity. // Once more... my hopes have been dashed.

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Fate: ?!!
Negi: What was that just now, Fate? // Are you sure it's not you who needs to train a little harder?
[insert text: With the courage and power his friends have given him, Negi strikes the first blow upon Fate!!!]
[bottom text: To be continued next issue]