Jio to Ougon to Kinjirareta Mahou 28

Misread one of the names-- the magic research institute should be Elzion, and not Energion (however much I prefer the latter).

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[1]

Top right: Chapter 28 / World's Top Magician
Right: Leave it to me!!
Left: ad
Bottom: Kirihata Ayumi // Jio and Gold and Forbidden Magic

[2]

Text: Jio is being hunted down by the Magical Research Institute, Elzion...

1: Die, and make me, Ride Varoudia the world's top magician,

2: Jio.
3: Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!

[3]

1: Shit---!
2: This ain't funny--!!

3: Wah.
4: Woah!
SFX: bam bam

5: You trying to kill me here?
6: I'm gotta die if I get hit with that!

7: Wait a sec, how come there aren't more people on my tail?
8: They're the same people waiting for me on the train.

9: Heh, // If you wanna kill me, let's see you try!
10: After all, I'm Jio Aria Ruetas, said to be harder to kill than cockroaches!

[4]

1: Gyaah!

2: Crap, crap, // That'll kill even cockroaches!

SFX: yank
3: ?!

4: Wha...
5: Quiet.

6: !

SFX: whooosh

[5]

SFX: poof

1: What the...
2: Smoke screen?!
3: Mere smoke won't be enough to hide you from this magical true sight ma...

4: We can't see through it?!

[6]

1: It's magical smoke, that's why.
2: You can't see through it that easily. You can't blow it away either.

3: Come, this way.

4: Attack! // Doesn't matter even if you kill him!
SFX: vooosh

SFX: snuff out

5: It dispelled the flames?!

[7]

1: ...
2: They got away?

3: Useless.
4: Shut down all exits to the underground tunnels. Then scour them from top to bottom for the boy.

5: [intentionally illegible]
6: ---What?

7: The magical tool's flames were erased by the smoke screen...?

[8]

1: Well~ It's something I prepared beforehand.
2: A secret passageway inside the underground tunnels <3

3: Thanks a lot for helping out.
4: Hm? Oh, it's nothing.

SFX: grab

SFX: spin
SFX: thud
5: Woah what?!

6: I'm sorry to do this to someone who rescued me, but there's something I'd like to know.
7: Er, yes?

[9]

1: You're wearing the same monocle thing as the guys who were after me. Are you one of their pals?
2: !

3: Woah woah, wait! I'm not, I'm not. // I mean, it's true but I'm not!

4: It's true, but?

5: It's for a different reason, but I'm also being chased by Elzion, just like you.

6: Truth is, I'm...

[10]

1: A traitor, Reisel Eldio.

2: If it really was him who produced that smoke screen,
3: Then things are gonna be a pain.

4: Isn't he supposed to be dead...?
5: ...

6: Well, it doesn't change what needs to be done.

[11]

1: We'll just have to eliminate any obstacles,
2: So I can become the world's top magician.

3: Why did you betray them?

4: If you were their top researcher, it must be quite a nifty position, right?
5: Why were you unhappy? // Was it your pay? / Money's a big deal, isn't it--?

6: I'm not actually interested in anything but research.

[12]

1: Performing experiments to obtain results that will verify whether my theories are correct-
2: That's all that matters to me...

3: I'm not the slightest bit concerned about how those results will be used.

4: In other words, you saved me from the spot of trouble I was in?
5: Ahaha / Putting it simply, yes.

[13]

1: All right then, it's a bit of a basic question, but why am I being targeted?

2: Putting that simply as well,

3: It's because you possess the Gold.
4: Jio Aria Ruetas.

[14]

SFX: lean close...

1: Like hell I do! // Geddit?!
2: No, well, calm down.

3: Grampa never left behind anything like gold for his descendents!
4: Or else some other ancestor splurged it all away, whoosh!, like that.

5: Gold is true gold,
6: And true gold isn't simply just a commodity.

[15]

1: It is the Curse of Gold.

2: And you are the heir to it.

[16]

1: Curse of Gold?
2: The hell's that?

3: I'll show you my hideout. Let's talk things out where it's nice and calm.

4: Curse of Gold? I know about the Curse of Fire and of Ice, but I've never heard about anything like it.

5: ...
6: Gold...

7: The Curse of Fire and Ice must be some magic that produces awesome fire and awesome ice, right?
8: So in other words, the Curse of Gold...

[17]

Text: Is magic that creates gold...?
1: Buahahahahahahahahahaaa hahaha!!

SFX: grin

2: Why're you making such a disgusting expression?
3: Eh?
4: We're here.

[18]

1: The secret passageway leads to this hideout.
2: As one would expect, isn't it wonderful?

3: I'm back~!
4: I'm back?

5: Ah, Professor Reisel, welcome back.
6: You really worried us, running off all of a sudden.

[19]

1: Hm? Who's this child?
2: Trouble again?

3: These two are pretty beautiful girls.
4: However...

[20]
1: I hunger for money, but not girls. // Sorry gals.
2: What's with him?
3: He kind of annoys me.

4: How'd things suddenly become so unpleasant?

5: Let me introduce them.
6: These girls are my assistants,

7: Sherry Bayle.
8: Fi Regaura.

[20]

1: And he is the world's number one magician...
2: ...that famous grampa's grandson.

3: Jio Aria Ruetas.
4: ?!

5: Huh? // Whaddya say?
6: The world's top magician is my ancestor, y'know?!

7: I'm just his grandson, not...
8: That's not true.

9: The Curse of Gold,
10: Just by being in possession of that makes you the world's number one magician.

Text: What, was that? // I've never heard that before...
Box: Continued in chapter 29