Soul Eater 53

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[side text: Faced with the overwhelming power of Mosquito's form of four hundred years past...!!!]

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Soul Eater
Chapter 53: Operation: Seize Baba Yaga Castle (Part 8)
[insert text: In their eyes... // ...lies the soul of Justice.]

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[TN: blah blah anime stuff, can't be bothered to translate, especially with crappy RAW ~_~]

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[TN: Still anime stuff... ooh, pretty pictures.]

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[TN: oh look, highly uninspiring figurines.]

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Kid: (My arm's... all the way over there...)
Patty: Kidd-kun...!
Kid: (So... right now, my arms aren't symmetrical at all...)

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Patty: Kidd-kun...
Kid: Idiot!! Don't switch into your human form!! Just stay where you are!!

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Mosquito: Shinigami or no, it seems in the end... you are still a mere child... // And "The Lines Of Sanzu", too, are still incomplete...
[TN: Okay, the katakana actually reads "The Line Of Sanzu", but I'm adding in the plural so that it damn well makes grammatical sense, since it refers to the lines in Kid's hair. "Sanzu", meanwhile, is written in katakana, implying that it's probably meant to be either the English word "sons" or "suns". However, even if it is, the double meaning with the River Sanzu is undeniable. And since that's the only confirmed referent I have, that's the romanisation I'm using, at least for now ~~]

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Mosquito: Nightmare Noise.
[TN: The kanji read "buzzing on a summer night"]
Liz: Werewolf!!! You've gotta help Kid! He's going to die...!

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Mosquito: My history sets me apart from the likes of you! // For eight hundred years... what have the Shinigami done? Wasted their time on Shibusen, a gathering of snotty brats.
Kid: Are you insulting my father?!

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Mosquito: Shinigami supervision is no longer enough to hold Arachnophobia in check. // Filled with the insanity of the Kishin, the world has changed. // The graduates of Shibusen have by now formed an entity able to uphold the peace and security of the world...

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Mosquito: ...but already Arachnophobia have begun to eat away at that entity. // Ensnaring human souls is a pitifully simple task... It is but a matter of time before Arachnophobia takes Shibusen's place as masters of this world.
Kid: I will never allow scum like you to become responsible for the souls of humans!! / You will regret ever daring to intrude upon the domain of Gods!

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Kid: This is...
Mosquito: ?!

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Eibon: ! // ...... // This response...
Someone: What's wrong, Medusa...?

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Medusa: (Brew...)
Kid: What is - ?!
Mosquito: !

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Kid: Brew!! // Nnnngaaaahhh...! Wh... What is this......?! // My soul's wavelength is swelling up...!

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Mosquito: Brew?! How could it be...?! // The Brew that we obtained was destroyed... // Then could this be something that Shibusen has created anew...? ...No...
[Top-left kanji: AWAKENING]

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[no text just awesome]

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Mosquito: One of the functions of Brew... this is "Soul Amplification"...... // There can be no doubt... what this boy just used was the real Brew. // You have deceived us...!

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Patty: I'm back~!
Liz: H... / Hey there... / [aside]his... his arm just...[/aside] // Wait... Kid... one of the lines on your hair...
Kid: You don't have to tell me. In any other situation, I would be obsessing over it about now.
Mosquito: One of "The Line Of Sanzu" has just connected...
Kid: I feel power surging through me...

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Kid: Shishin Taijutsu: Stance of Punishment!
[TN: Okay, since I haven't translated one of these before, a few notes. "Shishin Taijutsu" literally translates as "Death God Combat"; not sure what other translators have done with that in the past, but I leave it in Japanese because translating "Shishin" would be awkward (We leave "Shinigami" untranslated, after all, and "Shishin" is just a variant on the same kanji), whilst "taijutsu" is a word familiar to most manga readers anyway. I refrain from leaving the latter half of the attack name in Japanese because a) it's not at all awkward to translate, and b) leaving the whole damn thing in Japanese would look awkward. And yes, this is evidently a continuation of the theme started by his "Stance of Sin" that we've seen before.]

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Mosquito: Back on your feet already...? / And what exactly do you think you're doing over there?
Kid: ! // Huh... there he goes... // It looks like we'll have to handle this one ourselves... Liz, Patty.

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Kid: I see it... My attack...
Mosquito: Not so fast~! // Four hundred years ago... that was the time when I was at my most numerous! // Nightmare Noise!

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Kid: Death Arm Blocking. // The Stance of Punishment is more defensive than that of Sin. // Liz, Patty... Soul Resonance.
Patty: Yeah~!
Liz: Right!

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Patty: Onee-chan...
Liz: ......
Kid: Death Eagle .42!
Liz: Incredible...!!
Patty: The Soul Wavelengths that we can fire just went from 38 Soulwidths to 42...!
[TN: That's 魂径 ("konkei"), literally "Soul Diameter". Not very catchy, hence "Soulwidth" :p Yay for firearm analogies?]

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Mosquito: Yes, four hundred years ago, I was legion... // Will you be able... // ...to catch all of me?
Kid: There are so many...!

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[Top-right kanji: FORMATION]
Kid: What is this...?!
Mosquito: Darkness Discord.
[TN: The kanji read "squirming dark night"]

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Mosquito: I'll destroy you from inside out with my ultrasonic waves!!

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Kid: If you must fly, then line up and fly in an orderly manner!! // I'll shoot every one of you out of the air!!

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Kid: Sanzu River Shot!
Mosquito: Impossible!! You're talking about shooting down eight thousand bats!!

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Kid: Sanzu Falls...!!!
[TN: Okay, so actually it says "Sanzu Fall". I added another plural. So sue me. The alternative was interpreting it as a portmanteau of "Sanzu" and "Waterfall", and "Sanzufall" just looks plain ugly. The kanji read "Sanzu Waterfall".]

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Kid: ...SHOT!!

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Mosquito: Brew... // Ngh... Shinigami... / My attack just now caused you no little amount of internal damage... it seems neither of us emerges from this unscathed.

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Mosquito: That explosion, so nearby... // Has the Eighth Tower's "lock" been destroyed?
Free: Destruction complete!
Kid: So you pulled it off, werewolf...
Mosquito: But how?! / You were right here the entire time...!
Free: Dimensional Magic... // ...Forwarding Vision.
[Labels: Real body // Projection]
Free: The body that remained here was just a live projection. My real body was busy elsewhere with the Artifact.

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Kid: When you noticed him making those strange movements... // That was the werewolf making his way to the lock's location.
Free: That's the deal. // Only two locks left.
Mosquito: Damn you... At this rate, Arachne-sama herself may be in danger... // That Brew... you can keep it, for now...

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Patty: Are you okay, Kid-kun...?
Liz: Wh... What now?
Kid: We can't just leave that monster to his own devices. We're going after him.
[Text: Security Monitoring Room]
Eibon: (So Brew is here...) // ...... // (I like it...!!)

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[box: Second Tower, Artifact Soldiers' Waiting Room]
Soldiers: The explosions just don't stop... // We must prevent the Second Tower from falling at all costs!
Kilik: ...... // (There have been six explosions so far... Damn... that just leaves here, and one more tower... // I can't just stand around doing nothing forever!) // Ah, whatever... screw this crap.

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Kilik: Surprise.
[TN: Okay, so his literal words are "It was me"... but I think "Surprise" makes for a catchier line in English, don't you? XD]
[insert text: Only two "locks" remain...!!!]
[bottom text: To be continued in the November issue (on sale Saturday 11th October)]