Rozen Maiden II 15

Guidelines for using my translations

Thanks to Heiji-sama for providing the RAW, also thanks to Kuu Scans for their awesome job on their scanlations (and I used abit of their translation for a flashback XD) and most of all, thanks to you, the reader, who will be reading my first translation.

I made this translation to aid in my quest to understanding the Japanese language. I know virtually no Japanese. This translation was produced using Adobe Acrobat's OCR reader and various translation tools, including google translate, babelfish, wwwjdic, and most importantly ATLAS. Some help was also provided from grammar guides.

What I'm aiming for is for people who have a strong background in Japanese to point out where I can and how I can improve.
★ <----- dialogue with this star symbol means that the translation may or may not be perfect.

OK, after explaining all that, and if you're still reading, you're awesome :)
I hope I did an acceptable job, I wonder?

RAW: http://mangahelpers.com/downloads/details/41742
http://mangahelpers.com/downloads/details/39596 (dead)

Context: It has some spoilers, so I've included it at the end

Thanks Bikuta-San and Olivine for your Translation Checks!


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Page 1
Chapter title: 誓いのキス
The kiss of the contract

Quote: 「さあ選択をーー」
Now choose---

Central text: もう逃げられない!
You can no longer escape!

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Page 2-3
1 Jun: 選ぶ?
Choose?

2 Shinku: ジュン...
Jun...

3 Jun: 僕はどうすれば...
What should I do...?

4 Suigintou: 決めるのはお前よ人問
The person to decide is you, human.

5 Jun: 何が正しいんだ?
What is right?

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Page 4
1 Shinku: ジュン
Jun

2 Jun: 真紅...
Shinku...

3 Shinku: 悪かったと思っているわ巻き込んでしまって...
I completely feel that it was wrong to get involved...

4 Shinku: 貴方のこの世界 の幸せや存在意義を
In your happiness and existence in this present world of yours.

5 Shinku: 私達のような異界の闖入者が壊す権利など無いというのに
Even though intruders like us have no right to ruin different worlds,

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Page 5
1 Shinku: 貴方を巻きこみたくはなかった... 本当よ
I really didn't want to in you... in this reality

2 Shinku: ごめんなさい
Sorry

3 Shinku: ごめんなさい...
Sorry...

4 Flashback:
Its none of your business*

5 Flashback:
No there's nothing*

6 Flashback: If I make a contract with you, I'd be no better than the way I was...*
* OCR didn't work... Source from Kuu Scans chapter 5 & 12. All credits to mechworrior.

7 Jun: そうか...
Is it...

8 Jun: そうだったのか
So that's how it was?

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Page 6
1 Jun: つき放した態度も
何も話さなかったのも
全部
Both finally opening up and never telling me anything, all of it,

2 Jun: 僕のために...
Was for my sake...

3 Shinku: だからせめて...
So at least...

4 Shinku: どうか貴方の好きにして
Whether you have a favourite or not,

5 Shinku: 悔いのない選択を...
Please do not regret your choice...

6 Jun: 真紅
Shinku

7 Jun: 僕の作つだ人形
That doll that I made

8 Jun: 僕がこの手で
I, by this hand,

9 Jun: 例えレプリカでも自分の力で作りあげたはじまりの人形
For example, even though she is a replica, she is the first doll I made with my own power

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Page 7
1 Shinku: ジュン...
Jun...

2 Suigintou: 真紅を選ぶ気...?
Shinku has been chosen?

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Page 8
1 Jun: !!

2 Shinku: ジュン
Jun

3 Kirakishou: 早計は命取りだわマスター...
Being too hasty can be fatal, master...

4 Kirakishou: お手つきは二度まで...
I'll give you a second chance...

5 Shinku: 雪華綺晶
Kirakishou

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Page 9
1 Shinku: なんてこと...
How...

2 Suiseiseki: 選ばせるだとか言っておいて
I say we compete for the choice...!

3 Suigintou: 何でもアリなようねあはは! いいわよ!
I guess it's a free-for-all now. Ahaha! This is good!

4 Suigintou: それは私の媒介!力ずくで頂こうじゃない!
That's my medium! Don't get him by force!

5 Suiseiseki: どいつもこいつも
Everyone

6 Suiseiseki:これじゃ
This is it

7 Suiseiseki: ですよっ
Desu-yo!

8 Jun: ぐっ...
Gu...

9 Kirakishou: いいのよ! いいの!
Good! Good!

10 Kirakishou: 最後に私を選んで下さればそれでいいの!
If I am chosen in the end, that will be good!

11 Kirakishou: さあ!いらしてマスター!!
Now! Here I come Master!!

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Page 10

1 Jun: ぐっ
Gu...

2 Kirakishou: さあ...マスター...
Come... Master

3 Jun: いや... だ... っ
No... way...

4 Shinku: ジュン...
Jun...

5 Suiseiseki: させない
ですよ
Do it!

6 Suiseiseki: スィドリーム!
指輪を!!
Sui Dream! The ring!!

7 Suiseiseki: 元チビ人間の
ところに...
For the former chibi human...

8 Suigintou: それこそ
させるもの
ですか
Is that the only thing you can do?

9 Suigintou: メイメイ!
Meimei!

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Page 11
1 Suiseiseki: 指輪が...
The ring...

2 Suigintou: ......

3 Suigintou: レンピカ...
Lempicka....

4 Shinku: ジュン!
Jun!

5 Jun: 真... 紅...
Shin... ku...

6 Jun: 手を...
Your hand...

7 Shinku: ジュン
だめ
Jun, its useless

8 Shinku: 契約したら
私はともかく
貴方の身が...
Besides, if you make a contract with me, your body...

9 Jun: 僕はどうなっても
いい...
No matter what I become, its alright...

10 Jun: もしお前がバラバラに
なったとしても...
And even if you fall to pieces...

11 Jun: ぼ... 僕が...
I...

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Page 12
1 Jun: 僕が何度でも
作り直すから
I'll rebuild you any number of times. Because,

2 Jun: だから...
Because of...

3 Jun: 大丈夫だから
Because it's okay

4 Shinku: ジュン...
Jun...

5 Jun: う
U...

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Page 13
1 Jun: うわっ
Uwaa!

2 Jun: 緑の...
チカチカ...?
A flicker of green...?

3 Jun: ...何?
何トた...?
...What? What's this...?

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Page 14
1 Jun: 指...輪...?
A ring...?

2 Jun: 契約しろって?
Whose contract is this?

3 Jun: けど...ごめん
僕はもう
But... I'm sorry. I've already...

4 Jun: 決めたんだ...
Decided.

5 Jun: 僕は真紅を...
Shinku, I...

6 Suigintou: ちっ
Hmph

7 Suigintou: 結局
それか...
After all that...

8 Kirakishou: まあ...
Well...

9 Kirakishou: うれしい
I'm glad,

10 Kirakishou: マスター
Master...

11 Kirakishou: 私を選んで
下さるのね
That you chose me right?

12 Jun: ちょっ...
Wai...t...

13 Jun: おま...
人の話ちゃんと
聞い...?
Can't you listen to a person's conversation properly...?

14 Kirakishou: それでは
Well then...

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Page 15
1 Kirakishou: そんな指輪は
放っておいて
Leave such a ring alone

2 Kirakishou: ほら... 貴方の
口づけは
Here... Your kiss

3 Jun: ま...待て
W... wait

4 Kirakishou: 私の指輪に...
...to my ring

5 Suiseiseki: そうは
させるかーーツ
What do I do---?

6 Suiseiseki: です!
Desu!

7 Jun: わーーツ
Waaa-a

8 Suigintou: いいえ
こっちよ!
No, Get over here!

9 Kirakishou: ずるいわ
お姉さま方
Cunning, my elder sister

10 Jun: わっ...
Wa...

11 Jun: わっ
Wa

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Page 16
1 Jun: けっ 契約
こんなーツ!?
A contract like this!?

2 Suiseiseki: えっ...えーと
こういう時は
たしか
引っぱりあって...
U... Ummm... At a moment like this, surely to pull....

3 Kirakishou: 左腕を
ちぎった方が
勝ち...
Tearing up the left arm wins...

4 Suiseiseki: それです!
That's it desu!

5 Shinku: 貴女たち
いい加減に
なさい!
That's enough you girls!

6 Shinku: ジュン!
Jun!

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Page 17
1 Jun: たっ
Taa

2 Jun: これ...
This...

3 Jun: 僕
I

4 Jun: 死ぬんじゃ...
Am I dead...?

5 Jun: ...ん?
...Mm?

6 Shinku: 貴女たち
何てこと...
You girls, what have you...

7 Suigintou: あんたが一番
ひどいんじゃ
ないの?
Aren't you the most terrible?

8 Shinku: ジュン
大丈夫!?
Jun, are you alright?

9 Shinku: ジュ...
Ju...

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Page 18
1 Jun: !?

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Page 19
1 Suigintou: 誓いの...
The contract...

2 Shinku: 口づけ...
The ring...

3 Shinku: ...しかも
あの指輪...
...that has been kissed,

4 Shinku: 翠星石...
Suiseiseki...

5 Suiseiseki: あれは翠星石の
持っていた
指輪です
That's the ring Suiseiseki had.

6 Suiseiseki: ーでも
But...

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Page 20
1 Suiseiseki: 契約の相手は
別にいるですよ...
The partner of the contract is at another place

2 Shinku: 一体
どういう...
How in the world...

3 Kirakishou: ......あ
...... ah

4 Kirakishou: あ...ア...
ah... Ah...

5 Kirakishou: ア...
Ah...

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Page 21
1 Kirakishou: ああああツ
AAAAAH!

2 Suiseiseki: ---!

3 Suiseiseki: やっと
At last...

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Page 22-23
1 Suiseiseki: やっと......会えたですね...
We could finally meet

2 Shinku: !

3 Shinku: オッドアイ...あの瞳の色...
Those odd eyes... The color of those pupils...

4 Shinku: 蒼星石
Souseiseki

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Page 24
1 Suiseiseki: そうです! あの指輪は
蒼星石のもの!!
Thats right! That ring is Souseiseki's!!

2 Suiseiseki: そのボディ
返してもらうですよ
雪華締晶!!
That body, return it Kirakishou!

3 Jun: !

4 Shinku: 馬鹿な!
ローザミスティカを
失った蒼星石の
指輪が何故...
No way! Why is the ring of Souseiseki who lost her Rosa Mystica...

5 Suigintou: ぐつ
Gu

6 Shinku: !

7 Shinku: 水銀燈
貴女...
Suigintou, you...

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Page 25
1 Suigintou: そう..そうよ
Is that... is that so

2 Suigintou: 蒼星石の
ローザミスティカは
私の内にある
Souseiseki's Rosa Mystica is within me...

3 Suigintou: でも返す
ものですか
But, return it?

4 Suigintou: 絶対に
返さない...!
I will never return it...!

Central text: 勝利への
執念...!
Desperate efforts to win.

Bottom text: 次回は36.37合併号(8/6発売)
に掲掲載予定です.お楽しみに!
Next time, there will be a chapter in issue #36-37 (released on 8/6)
scheduled to be published for your entertainment!

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Context for proof readers
About the series
Rozen maiden is about 7 living dolls who have been created by the legendary doll maker Rozen in order to fight in a battle royale called "The Alice Game" where taking one's "Rosa Mystica" (which is the equivalent of a soul in crystal form) leaves a doll lifeless.

Rozen maiden II is the continuation of the series set in an alternate universe called the "unwinded world" where the main character Jun made a decision "don't wind" and hence subsequently did not come into contact with any of the dolls. The dolls from the original "winded world" have contacted the "unwinded" Jun and have crossed over to this universe to escape from a trap set by the doll Kirakishou in the first series.

In the previous chapters
It was revealed that Kirakishou, who has no physical body, has taken over Souseiseki's lifeless body which was dismembered, sent to the "unwinded world" and mistakenly put together by Jun. Suiseiseki, although against Kirakishou, is trying to protect Souseiseki's body because Souseiseki is her twin sister. Shinku and Suigintou are in a temporary alliance against Kirakishou. Jun wants to change his traumatic past so that he can live in a world he belongs to. Shinku is using a replica body which was created by Jun, but her real body still exists in the "winded world". Because she exists in two universes at once, there is risk that her presence in the world will cease to exist, especially if a catalyst is used such as a contract.

All the dolls want to form a contract with Jun, which will essentially give them enough power to defeat the other dolls. Each of the dolls have different motives, Suigintou wants to take Kirakishou's Rosa Mystica, Suiseiseki wants to retrieve her sister's body, Kirakishou is targeting masters, and Shinku wants to protect the "winded" Jun from Kirakishou by changing masters but at the same time does not want to put the "unwinded" Jun in danger.

Other notes
Contract: A contract between a doll and a human commenced by a kiss to the doll's ring
Medium: The human in the contract who is able to supply power to the doll
Artificial spirit: A bright flickering spirit that acts as a helper to the doll that it belongs to
Ways of talking: Suiseiseki has a habit of using "desu", and Shinku with "da wa"
Lempicka is the name of Souseiseki's Artificial spirit
Suigintou has Souseiseki's Rosa Mystica
Kirakishou is using Souseiseki's body