Mahou Sensei Negima! 229

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Mahou Sensei Negima!
Period 229: The Truth About Fate!
[TN: It actually says "228" in the chapter... but DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT ~_~]
Yue: Y - // You there! Wait a moment!
[insert text: Their reunion - so sudden...]
Collet: Jumping through the sky... manoeuvring in midair...?! // (This guy's a genius... higher than A-rank!)
Negi: Yue-san?! // Is that you, Yue-san?!
Yue: ?!

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Yue: Ahh... // Who exactly are...?
Negi: ! // (So it really isn't her...? // Just a lookalike... but her voice, too...)
Yue: ? // ?! / ?! // (Why am I blushing like this?)
Negi: ?
Collet: Yue! I know who he is - he's a wanted man! An absolutely heinous criminal!
Negi: !
Collet: You mustn't be taken in by his harmless appearance! // You, boy! I suggest you come along quietly! // We'll be receiving backup any moment now, so there's no point resisting!

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Emily: You there - wanted boy! // Throw down your weapons and surrender yourself!
Yue: ...! // You have to run - quickly!
Negi: Eh - ?
Yue: Attack me and knock me unconscious!
Negi: But...
Yue: There's an automatic system that will prevent me from falling, so don't worry! Just do it, quickly! // (Wh... What on Earth am I doing?)
Negi: ... // I'm very sorry!
Emily: Yue-san!

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Collet: Yue - ! // Ngh...
Negi: (Barrier shells designed to capture the enemy... // I don't want to get hit by one of those.)
Emily: Beatrix - help Yue-san!
Beatrix: Right!
Emily: Now, barrier shells at the ready! We're going after him in Crane-Wing Formation!
Negi: (...But I'm not going to be captured that easily. // If I can just conceal myself among the crowds...!)

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Emily: Nghh... // Impossible!! We were outwitted by a single child?!!
Beatrix: We should not judge him on his appearance. That child outran a team of five pursuers; he must possess an incredible level of skill.
Catgirls: Are they gonna be mad with us...? // Nah, our conversation logs should be enough to satisfy our superiors...
Emily: Yue-san... don't worry, I will be sure to avenge you~~~~!!
Yue: Nnh...
Collet: I told you already, she's not dead...
Asakura: Whaaat?! / You fought with that white-haired boy and his allies?!

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Asakura: I'm impressed you all made it back alive... / [aside]it must've been tough going, right?[/aside]
Kaede: (Setsuna...)
KuFei: Paru, are you all right~aru?!
Haruna: Ah, well, y'know~~! My Artifact does transfer one percent of the damage received back to me... // But my "Shield Maiden" took care of most of the damage, and Konoka healed me up afterwards anyway.
Kotarou: Yeah, she healed me up in no time, too! // Hey, come to think of it, were you two okay?
Nodoka: Oh - that wasn't blood, it was just fruit juice...
Chisame: I used my Artifact to set up some decent defence.
Setsuna: (If she'd been fighting seriously, I'd be...)
Flashback!Tsukuyomi: As long as you're still human, you can't defeat me!
Setsuna: Ngh...

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Negi: (That girl... her voice and her face were exactly like Yue-san's... Could she really just be a lookalike...? // Well, of course. She couldn't possibly be Yue-san. // How could Yue-san be one of the national Knights of Ariadne...? // But then... back there... She helped me get away. If they had both attacked me right then, I could well have been in real trouble. // ......) // There's no reaction from her card at all... Hmmmm... / I'll have a word with Chachamaru and the others about it later.
Chamo: Aniki!
Negi: Chamo-kun...
Chamo: Everyone's A-okay! / We're gonna pull in by one of these rocks.
Negi: So... this is how things stand! // As of 1 PM today, we of Ala Alba...

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Negi: ...are officially sworn enemies of the remnants of the mysterious organisation "Kosmo Entelecheia"... / ...who are plotting to destroy the world!!
[sFX: clap clap clap // *whistle, whistle* // clap clap clap]
Negi: This is no time to be applauding!
Haruna: Ahh, c'mon!
Negi: I really must apologise to all of you. / I did this without consulting any of you... // I've placed you all into an incredibly dangerous situation... I - I'm so - sorr - // SORRYYY! // ?! / ?!
Haruna: Honestly, Negi-kun! / That's nothing new, really, is it? // Ever since the incident at the Gateport two months ago... / ...we've all been preparing ourselves to fight with those guys someday. // Besides, it sounds like it was more that airhead over there's fault than yours anyway...
Asuna: Ahh, well, y'know... I didn't, uh, have much choice really... I just kind of, uh...

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Negi: But after I promised you I'd get you all home safely, as well...
Asakura: Ohh, bah. You can forget all that, don't worry about it!
[sayoSign: Terrorism is BAD!♡]
Asakura: It's not like you could give in and do what the terrorists wanted.
[Label: Girl who almost did what the terrorists wanted]
Setsuna: [aside]ah, but you know, it might be okay if it's just to buy time or something... right...?[/aside] // And then, there's this. // We recovered an item that Fate dropped and left behind.
Negi: That's...
Setsuna: Ennomos Aetosfragis. A magical tool with the power to enforce absolute compliance to a contract once made. Even in this world, items with power like this are forbidden. / [aside]it requires levels of magical power beyond anything a normal human could muster, though...[/aside] // The contract he proposed - "From this moment forth, I will not lift a finger against you, nor involve myself in your business"... // With this, he could have engraved that contract into your soul itself, a bond that would hold you for life. // There must be something about you, as the son of the Thousand Master. / It seems that their objective here was to place you in an utterly powerless, defenseless state. // If you had agreed to Fate's conditions back then, it would all have been over. Including your search for your father. // You would most likely have been rendered powerless to even protect us from them.
Negi: ...!

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Haruna: Well, whaddaya know! You really did do the right thing!
KuFei: Looks like we've all got to thank Asuna~aru!
Konoka: Asuna, you're the best~!
Asuna: Eh - Ehh~~? R - Really... ahh... I don't think I'm that...
Asakura: Asuna-san, you ge~nius!!
Kotarou: Yo, Asuna-neechan!
Asuna: Ehhh~?!
Chamo: Okay, okay, guys, listen up! / [aside]pay attention now![/aside] // Whether we're fighting or going home, the thing we need right now is information! // So I say we should all pitch in with what we know. / After all, ever since that first time in Kyoto... // That nasty little Fate brat's been doing nothing but kicking our asses. / And we didn't even know who he is or what he wants. // But this time around, there's been some improvement in that area. // Girlie.
Nodoka: R - Right! // This time... I managed to use the power of this Comptina Daemonia... // ...to discover Fate Averruncus' true name.

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People: I - Is that true, Nodoka-san?! / Hell, great work, Miyazaki! // His "true name"? // Yes, his real name.
Nodoka: O - Okay! So, his real name is... // Tertium.
Negi: Tertium... / That means "the third" in Latin...
Konoka: "The third"?!
Haruna: ...Is that even a proper name?
Negi: Well, you know, you do have names like "Hajime" and "Saburou" in Japan too, so...
KuFei: If it means "three", does that mean there's a "one" and "two"?!
Kotarou: What about "four" and "five"?!
KuFei: I - If there were four, or FIVE guys like him...! // That would be terrible~aru.
Kotarou: [aside]yeah, that wouldn't be too good...[/aside]
Negi: Rakan-san, would you happen to know anything...?
Racan: Heh... // Don't you have something more interesting to tell everyone, girlie?
Nodoka: Ah - yes - well... the truth is...

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Nodoka: My Artifact, the Diarium Ejus, / managed to record a little of Fate-san's thoughts regarding his objectives.
People: Eehhhh~?! // Wh - Is that true, Nodoka?! // You're... incredible!! // Are you sure you're not overworking yourself, Miyazaki?! / Do you just not do dying, Honya?!
Nodoka: It was turned to stone, so it didn't get everything... / But I'd like you all to take a look... // Here.
People: Oooohhhh...
[left page:]
Dear me // You are such a fool. Could you please call me Fate? I can't stand my real name.
30th September, Tertium
I don't really want to get people from the real world involved here. But your artifact is simply too dangerous to ignore. Sorry, but I think I'm going to have to get rid of you now.
[/Left page]
[right page:]
Fate's Plan 101 // Watch out for spoilers.
30th September, Tertium
- Destroy all 11 Gateports in the world
- Investigate the Ostia area
- Render the Negi boy powerless (failed)
- Induce a diversion involving the various countries' forces => have the former Gateport rendered a blank zone
- Secure the former Gateport
- Infiltrate the depths of the former Royal Palace - Twilight Imperial Princess?
[/Right page]
Chisame: ...Y'know, the sheer niceness of it all kind of ruins the tension...
Nodoka: Th - That's just how I do things...

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People: This is really something... Hell, it even tells us what their next moves are gonna be... / Though looking at the illustrations, you kind of get the feeling he told us on purpose... // Hmmm~? He seems surprisingly friendly... / Nice of him to leave us that one last Gate... / [aside]What's this "Twilight Imperial Princess"?[/aside]
Haruna: So doesn't this continue on the next page? Can't we look?
Nodoka: Well, it's turned to stone, so...
Haruna: Well, hey! If you just reload it, won't it go back to normal?!
Chamo: Hey, good idea! That should get rid of the stone issue!
Nodoka: Oh no, I can't do that... If I just reload it like that, it'll all disappear...
Chamo: Huhhh? Seriously?
Haruna: Ohhh, like if you force-quit a program without saving and you lose all your work?
Chamo: Mmnnhh... What should we do? / There could be some really big info hiding right there~~!
Kotarou: Hmm... wait up. / Let me take a look at that. // It's not much, but look... isn't there a gap between this page and the next?
Haruna: It's true! I guess the page was fluttering up a little when it turned to stone...
Kotarou: Lucky us! This might actually work out! // We just gotta get a knife in the gap...
Chisame: Hey, Kotarou, be careful with that...
Asuna: Hm? // If there's a gap, why don't we just flip it right over? I mean, c'mon~!
Kotarou/Chisame: Ahh!
Asuna: Ahh...
Kotarou: The hell're you doing, Asuna-neechan?!
People: Asuna-sa~~n?! // Asuna, you idiot! / It's smashed to pieces! / Don't go making an idiot of yourself just when everyone was praising you!
Asuna: Aaahhh~! But - !
People: *pant* // *pant* // *pant*

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Kotarou: Okay, it's all stuck back together~!
Asuna: [aside]I'm really sorry![/aside]
Haruna: Okay, Negi-kun, now turn it over slo~~~wly...
Negi: Right.
[Text: You're reading this, aren't you, Negi-kun.]
[Text: To be honest, I couldn't care less whether this plan succeeds or not. Right now, you're the only one who can...]
[Text: ...really perk my interest. I suppose that's to be expected of his son. Why, he was the only... ...these centuries... ...finally reached... ...and defeated...]
[TN: Obviously, there are numerous bits of this that are cut off, and I'm just kind of trying to get a sense of what's there ~_~ Dammit, Akamatsu, show us the whole text.]
[Text: ...ten years ago...]

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[Text: defeated one another]
[TN: Note that this isn't the same instance of "defeated" that appeared in the fragment on the previous page.]
Rakan: ... // Huh...

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Haruna: Hmmm... It's not too easy to read stone. / So, what's it say, Negi-kun?
[sFX: smash]
Negi: Ah - no - there was nothing important on there, really - !
Chisame: Whaaa?!
Kotarou: Dammit, Negi, what're you smashing it like that for?! / [aside]after I worked so hard...![/aside]
Haruna: Like hell it's "nothing important"!
Negi: No - look -
Chisame: Give it here, brat!
Rakan: O~~~kay, you guys... // I guess there's nothing else for it at this point. // I'm gonna let you all in on a few things as well.
Negi: Huh...?
Rakan: Okay, everybody just take a seat, anywhere you like!

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Rakan: Now, I don't like doing this... / ...but if you guys are seriously all gonna go up against 'em, I guess I should at least tell you who they really are.
People: *gulp*...
[TN: *looks at Sayo* Awwwww. Too cute.]
Rakan: But I'm Jack Rakan, who lives for the present. I'm not big on talking about the past. // So, anticipating this eventuality... // I prepared this independent movie for you all! // The production costs are coming out of Negi's wages!!
Negi: Whaaat?!
Rakan: A~nd... here we go!
People: Who~~a, what's with this?! / This is some serious stuff~aru. // ...The hell happened to not wanting to tell us?

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[screen:]
ALA RUBRA SAGA
EP1: Rakan Sets Out
[/Screen]
People: Hey... Rakan-san's too big. / So big! // Since when are you the main character?! // Make Negi-kun's father bigger already~! // So. Lame.
Rakan: SHADDUP AND WATCH!
Chamo: Aniki, are you okay...?
Negi: Chamo-kun... // ...... // It looks like Fate... and my father's whereabouts... / It was all connected from the start.
[insert text: As the truth unfolds, will it shape Negi's destiny...?!]