To Love-Ru Darkness 9

(The page number is made according to RawBunko's file names)

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Text: Under the sunny blue sky are the blossoming maidens.

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Manga: Yabuki Kentarou
Script: Hasemi Saki

Chapter 9 "Metamorphose~Time for a change...~"
ToLoveRu Darkness

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Rito: H... hey, not so close!
Run: Come on, it's fine (heart)

Left Side Text: Sudden approach
Left Side Text: Run is in extreme bliss...!!

Bottom Side Text: Thank you for the great support!! Manga Volume 2 goes on sale today!!

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Text: Fufufu...
Text: I didn't think that I'm actually able to get Rito-san and Run-san into a dating scenario!
Text: This is like candies falling from the sky (heart)

Mea: Well, then, I'm heading home now, MoMo-chan.
Mea: Say hello to Rito-senpai for me (heart)
MoMo: Just don't come in through the window into people's room without warning any more...

MoMo: Hmm?

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MoMo: Run-san?!
Run: Ah...
Run: It's you, MoMo-chan... Good evening.

Mea: Wah! Isn't she the idol person?!
MoMo: May I ask why you're here?
Run: Ahh, well...

Run: I have something I'd like to speak to Rito-kun about...

Run: Ah! Don't worry about it! it's nothing!
Run: It's already getting dark... Time to go home!
MoMo: ......

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MoMo: Wait, please!!
MoMo: If time's the issue here, how about you take the time and speak to Rito-san alone at another day?!
MoMo: I'll set it up for you!

Run: R... really?!
MoMo: Leave it to me! I'll be sure to pass it along to Rito-san.

Run: T... Thank you~ You are so thoughtful even though you're LaLa-chan's baby sister!
MoMo: ?
MoMo: Huh...
Text: Well, then... what will she be discussing with Rito-san alone?
Text: Could it be about love...? In any case, I have a feeling that Operation: Harem will surely be moving forth... (Heart)

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MoMo: However...
MoMo: Why did you guys follow along?

Mea: Ehehehe... I invited the two of them (8th Note)
Yami: Please don't mind me...
NaNa: I have to keep an eye on them so that Rito would do anything outrageous to Run.

NaNa: W... what's with that look?

MoMo: I knew it... NaNa also cares about what Rito-san does... (Heart)
MoMo: Don't say stupid stuff like that!! I'm not...

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Mea: Well... I do~
Mea: Will it be possible for Senpai to kiss Run-san?!

MoMo: Since Run-san is a much more forceful person, I'd like to think something even more spectacular is going to happen.
Mea: S-such as?!

MoMo: For example, since Run-san had recently moved to a new apartment...
Run: Rito-kun, would you like to come to my place?
Rito: Ehh... really?!

Run: Because no one will be there...
Run: I guess we can do whatever we want?

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Text: Let's start it off with
Text: taking a bath together... (heart)

MoMo: Like~ that (heart)
Mea: Ooooh... (heart)
NaNa: W... what are you two thinking!!

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Rito: Hey, Run, I heard from MoMo that you have something you want to talk about.
Run: Hmm?
Run: Ahh... Well...
Run: ......

Run: Rito-kun...
Run: W... what would you do
Run: if someone told you... that "you can't fall in love"?

Rito: Eh?!
Rito: W... why all sudden?!
Run: That's what my manager told me backstage the other day.

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Run: She said that because I'm already a full-fledged idol,
Run: I shouldn't make the wrong choice and get a boyfriend.
Run: For some reason... I feel strangely depressed upon hearing that...

Rito: Ahh~ so that's some of the things it takes to be an idol...
Run: Yeah...

Rito: I know it's hard... but it might be better for you to just not stress yourself out thinking about it.
Rito: Run, if you care too much, it could ruin your health and you'd be left with nothing...

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Run: So you're worrying about my health...

Run: Just what I'd expected. You're such a gentleman, Rito-kun (Heart)

MoMo: Such great atmosphere...
NaNa: Gah! What's with Rito getting all smitten.

Saki: Ho-hohoho!!

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Saki: Having tea occasionally at a peasantly cafe is part of familiarizing with society! Isn't that right, Aya?!
Aya: Now that's our Saki-sama right there!

Saki: Oh?

Saki: Why, isn't this Yuuki Rito and Run?
Run: It's been a while, Saki-senpai!

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Saki: It appears that your work as an idol has been pretty smooth.

Saki: Well... please do try your best at it!
Saki: I gave up my goal to become the queen of Showbiz for you (8th note)
Run: ... Thank you

Rito: W... well, then, should we be going now, Run?

Rito: Ou-

Rin: Saki-sama, watch out!!
Saki: !!

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Rito: Ah...
Rin: ......
Rito: K... Kujou-senpai...

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Rin: Why do you always- aaaaaalways?!
Rito: S- sorry!!
Run: Let's go, Rito-kun!
Run: Here's the money!!

NaNa: Why does Rito get tripped at places where nothing's there...?
MoMo: I must be what people call Fate.
MoMo: Let's get going too!

SFX: Waaaait

Yui: Aren't they...

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Yui: Yuuki-kun... and Run-san?
Yui: Why are the two of them...

Both: Haa...
Both: Haa...

Rito: S... sorry, Run. Let me pay you back!
Run: I... it's fine, that kind of money...
Run: Haaaaaa.... Haaaaaa...

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Run: Ugh...

Rito: A... are you alright?!
Rito: You look really tired for some reason...

Run: Haha...
Run: I... I'm fine... I just haven't run in a while.

Text: What's going on...?

Run: E... enough about that. Look, Rito-kun!
Run: The sunset is really pretty (heart)
Rito: ... The sunset?

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Run: The sunset on earth is so pretty whenever I see it...
Rito: You're exaggerating, Run.
Rito: Doesn't your planet have pretty sunsets as well?

Run: Nope, there isn't.

Text: Memorze has two suns and no "night time".
Text: It's a desert planet with 80% of it being dry.
Text: The environment could only be described as punishing wherever it is...

Text: Memorzorians being born with both male and female within the same body is an evolutionary trait for the sake of thriving in such environment.
Text: Since food and water were such precious commodities prior to us trading with people from other planets.

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Rito: S... so that's what Run's planet
Rito: is like...

Rito: Do all the folks on your planet able to transform when they sneeze?
Run: Ahh... that's not it.

Run: Original, the exchange period has its "cycle".
MoMo: Hurry
Run: It's around 1 month on average, but for Ren and I, our condition changed due to earth's environment.
Rito: Huh... that'd be rather troublesome...

Rito: Just earlier, my body became that of a girl because of LaLa's invention...
Run: Ehh?

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Rito: While it's slightly different than your situation, I can more or less understand Run's pain.
Rito: It's just such a hassle... having your gender changed all of the sudden.

Run: It won't be once you're used to it.
Run: It's also because Ren and I have a set of rules in deciding when to exchange.
Run: Though lately, my job takes priority...

Text: Also, our consciousness is asleep when we exchange, so we won't invade the other person's privacy.
Text: Not to mention we have many people like my friend Kyouko and many at the TV station who know about our condition and are willing to assist us.
Text: (Though the truth is that they're aliens as well.)

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Run: But it's still a real hassle~ when I want to sneeze in the middle of a live performance.
Rito: Yeah~ it'd create a huge stir if you transform at a place like that...

Rito: ......

Text: About Run...
Text: I really...

Run: What's wrong?
Rito: Ahh... nothing... I was just... thinking about how little I know about you, Run...

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Run: Do you want to...
Run: know more about me...?

Rito: Ehh?

Run: If it's Rito-kun,
Run: I'd be fine with it.

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Rito: ......

MoMo: Run-san is setting up the trap!!
Mea: M... MoMo-chan, what's going to happen?!

MoMo: Well... since it's Run-san, it'd be something that'll force Rito-san to...
Run: Come on, Rito-san.
Rito: Run...

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Run: Rito-kun, you're the only one... that'll see me like this.

Run: S... so...
Run: Would you like to try touching...?

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Text: All rationale
Run: Ah
Run: Not so rough
Text: shattered!!

MoMo: Like that...
NaNa: You guys...
Yami: What a bunch of ecchi people...

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Run: Ah-chuuu!!
All: !?

Rito: Ah... Ren...
Ren: Waaaaaah! Q... quit looking at me, Yuuki Rito!
Ren: I... it's not like I'm dressing this way because I like it!! It's Run...
Rito: I... I know! I got it!

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Ren: Ah-chuuu!!

Run: Sorry!
Run: I sneezed without warning.
Rito: Ahahahaha...

Mea: Awesome! She really changed into a boy after sneezing!!
MoMo: All the great atmosphere just went poof in a blink of...

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Text: Run-san's condition is indeed a huge problem to Operation: Harem...
Text: How can it be readily solved?

Text: Should I ask Onee-sama to make a machine that'll separate Run-san and Ren-san?
Text: ... Ahhh, but then...
Text: Onee-sama's inventions do not usually guarantee the desirable result,
Text: but, instead, might even poses danger...

Text: While Run-san would make a perfect concubine for Rito-san by being a beautiful girl as well as an idol and a royalty of planet Memorze,
Text: the part about her being half male is definitely a huge obstacle...

Mea: Ah... MoMo-chan, they're leaving.
MoMo: O... oh, no, let's go after them!

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Run: Sigh...

Rito: What's the matter, Run?
Run: I was just thinking about me turning into Ren in front of Rito-kun again.

Run: I was able to withstand anything while at work,
Run: yet I slipped up when I'm in front of Rito-kun.
Run: I mean with this, there is no way you'd see me as an ordinary "girl"...

Rito: W... what are you talking about? I don't care about th...
Rito: !

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Rito: R...

Run: I...
Run: have always thought of LaLa-chan as my romantic rival.
Run: But...

Run: somehow, I really knew it all along.

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Run: That because I'm limited by sharing a body with Ren, I can never be Rito-kun's romantic partner.
Run: That I can never be... on the same stage as LaLa-chan...

Text: And because the job in showbiz has been fun and challenging,
Text: I've been thinking to do what my manager said and focus on that
Text: and to bury my affection for you deep within my heart, Rito-kun...

Run: But I knew it...
Run: I knew that it's just impossible...

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Run: I want Rito-kun to look at me...!
Run: That my love... for Rito-kun...
Run: is no less than that of LaLa-chan's...

Rito: Run...
Text: Her love for me is at such a level...
Text: It's true that I've been focusing on just LaLa and Haruna-chan...
Text: and that's probably why I never seriously faced Run's true feeling...

Text: Having so many girls longing for Rito-san to make them happy... (Heart)

Text: ......!!

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Run: Ah...

Rito: Run?!

Run: S... sorry. I really don't feel so well...
Run: I guess it's because I've been so busy with work lately... Haa... Haa...

Rito: A... Anyway, let's get some rest over there!
Rito: Lean on my shoulder...

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MoMo: Where did Rito-san and Run-san go...?
NaNa: Should I summon a pet that can track scent?

MoMo: Well...
MoMo: !

MoMo: I hear something! Everyone, hide!!

Run: Rito-kun... My body is burning up...
Rito: Run... you're sweating a lot.
Run: Take off... my clothes for me...

Rito: G... got it!

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NaNa: W... what?! What's going on?! It's too dark to see!!
MoMo: C... could it be...?

MoMo: Could it be that Rito-san...
MoMo: has already been seduced by Run-san's aura of diva?

Run: Rito-kun...
Run: What if someone sees us...?
Rito: Run...
Rito: I can't... stop myself anymore!!

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Text: His "carnivorous" side...
Text: has awaken?!

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NaNa: ~~~...

Mea: Nana-chan?!

NaNa: You animal!!
NaNa: I thought you'd be better than thi...
Yui: Yuuki-kun!! Run-san!! Have you no shame?! That's against school policy!!!
NaNa: Huh?

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NaNa: K... Kotegawa?!!
Yui: Oh.

MoMo: Kotegawa-san?! What are you doing here...?
Yui: T... that's what I want to ask you!

Rito: Ehh...? That voice... Is it Kotegawa and NaNa?!
Rito: Are MoMo and the others here as well?!
MoMo: !!

MoMo: O... oh, noooo!!
MoMo: Ah... Rito-san, we're just...

MoMo: !?

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MoMo: Run-san?!

MoMo: W... what happened?!
Rito: Ahh... I just got sick all of the sudden...

Run: Uh...

Run: Ahhhh
Rito: Run?!

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NaNa: S... she's glowing?!
Rito: W... what's happening, MoMo?!
MoMo: I... I'm not sure. I've never seen symptoms like thi...

MoMo: A... anyway, let's get her to Mikado-sensei's office!
Rito: G... got it!

Run: ... Rito-ku...
Rito: Run...! Hang in there!

Run: That's... not it...
Run: This is... probably...!

Rito: !?

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Rito: Woah!

NaNa: Wah...
MoMo: W... what is it?!

Yui: Yuuki-kun?!

Text: !?

Rito: Muh?!

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Run: Nnn...
Rito: ......

Yui: R... Run-san?!
Yui: W... why are you naked?!

NaNa: Huh?!

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Ren: W...
Ren: what?

Text: !!?

MoMo: Ren... san?!
NaNa: H... how?! I mean Run's over here...
Yui: W... what is going on~?!

MoMo: Yami-san.

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Yami: According to this Encyclopedia of Rare Galactic species,
Yami: in addition to the normal primary and secondary sex characteristics,
Yami: Memorzorians have their own unique biology, where their bodies would become fully mature upon going through the developments of "tertiary sex characteristics".

Yami: In short, it is Metamorphose... where the one is separated into two independent man and woman.
Yami: Run Elsie Jewelria, tonight it'll be red rice for dinner.
//The text in this chapter had the typo, Run's middle name is Elsie, not "Elune".
TL Note: Red rice is a special dish for to celebrate special occasions of girls, such as their first period, etc.

MoMo: Wha...
Mea: So that's what you've always been reading, Onee-chan...

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Run: Huuuuurray
Run: I'm finally an adult now, Rito-kuuuuuun (heart)
Ren: Waoooooooh! Finally! Free at last~!!

Yui: H... Hold on, Run-san, put some clothes on first!
NaNa: I... I'll call Ane-ue and Peke and have them come over!
MoMo: I didn't expect them to separate as they reach adulthood...
MoMo: I guess I didn't study hard enough.
MoMo: It's true, though, that without this, they wouldn't be able to get married or more...

Mea: Ufufu... Wouldn't you say this is an amazing development for you, MoMo-chan?

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MoMo: That's true.
Text: With this, one of the main obstacle for Run-san joining the harem is cleared...!
Text: It's not just candies, but even short cakes are falling from the sky (Heart)

Run: Rito-kun, I won't be wavering any more!
Run: I'll become the best idol there is that will steal your heart in an instant (heart)

Text: T... this is bad...!!
Text: For some reason, I feel like I've fallen into a deeper hole now...!!

Side Text: Operation: Harem has made steady progress!!

ToLoveRu Darkness ---- To be continued in September issue