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Text beside Agni: Someone please / take this cute kitty home [heart]
Oval: Chapter 18: Varna
- Hoshino Kouichirou
Leftmost line of text: Newest 3rd volume selling amidst critical acclaim [heart]

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- Childish!! [linked] How immature~~
- You didn’t consider Lisa’s reasons for stopping you, nor did you attempt to gauge the opponent’s actual strength, and what’s more…

- just cos you’re able to freely manipulate the wind, you got waaay ahead of yourself,
- resulting in you leaving the battlefront with bone fracures that’ll take a month to heal completely.

- How nice that you’re still alive.
- They went easy on you.

Text to right of panels: He rashly challenged Vritra to a match, was utterly defeated… and is currently being lectured by Indra.

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Lisa: Nhnnn…
Lisa: Grr.. Gnhnnn…...!!

Kurando: Receiving such a stern scolding is quite refreshing, contrary to expectations.
Lisa: Bnnh…
Kurando: See? [linked] Even Lisa’s holding back since what you said was the truth.

Kurando: I fully understand that I have a long way to go.
Kurando: But I’ll say this: Next time I’ll win for sure! [linked] I’m going to do everything I can in order for that to happen.

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Lisa: You said it, Kurando!
Indra: Go figure.
Text beside Kai’s bubble: Kurando-kun isn’t depressed. That’s good.
Kai: Whoa.
Agni: ‘Scuse me…

Agni: Hey.
Agni: Hey, I said!

Agni: Why are you holding a strategy meeting at my house?
Lisa: Going to family restaurants all the time is cutting into my funds, you see.
Indra: Oh my, Agni, aren’t you serving your guests tea?
Agni: Eeeh~~~!?

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Kai: I will help, so shall we go make refreshments?
Agni: Mnn~~~

Indra: Right, [linked] what do we know about Vritra?

Kurando: It seems they were there to use that hospital’s facilities and happened to be on the scene.
Kurando: Doctors, nurses and individual employees, among these people it appears only the hospital director knows anything about them. [linked] On the other hand, not many people are able to do something like that.

Lisa: The big sister is Vritra. The little brother is her Avatar.
Lisa: They implied that defeating us right now would be a hindrance to their goal.

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Indra: Hmmm… [linked] Did they mean to make us realise their existence by sending expendable Asura and Avatars for us to defeat…?
Indra: In any case, despite attempts to discern their true colours, their plan remains a mystery.

Agni: Alright! Here’s the tea you wanted!!
Kai: Be of good cheer! I brought slices of Wasanban’s (high-quality) castella.

Indra: Hot!
Kai: I prepared cooled tea for Amano-san, who has a sensitive tongue.

Lisa: Eating with your left hand is inconvenient, isn’t it? Here, say ahhh. Ahhh.
Kurando: I’m good.

- What?
- is this?
- What on earth is this?

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Kurando: H-hey, what’s wrong?
Agni: I’d rather not say~~~
Kurando: Nah, just tell us. What a pain.

Agni: …I’m also a Deva, [linked] and I know that everyone is doing their best fighting~~
Agni: But,
Agni: But, cuz I don’t have an Avatar to depend on~~~!

Indra: Fishing for sympathy?

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Kurando: Okay, there’s a good girl.
Bold text: Good kid.

Kurando: I understand how you feel. But getting worked up over it won’t help.

Kurando: I hope you find an Avatar you can depend on.

Lisa: You HAVE a little sister… [linked] so don’t go around patting others on the head!!

Lisa: See what you’ve done!
Text beside Agni: Pat me again…

Indra: Well then, Agni. I’ll give you a job that suits the current you right down to the ground.
Indra: I doubt you’d find an Avatar if you keep mixing romance with this battle of ours.

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Indra: Apart from me, Vayu and Agni, [linked] there’re 5 more members of Lokapala. I’d like you to find them [heart]
Agni: Ehh…

Indra: What? You said you wanted to help everyone, didn’t you?
Agni: But, you know~~

Agni: Didn’t you say that in the worst case scenario, the others could be scattered around the world?

Indra: Exactly. So allow me to hold on to your passport.
Agni: Eeek!!

Indra: First, search within the country. If there’re no results within a week, I’ll have you fly overseas~~[clef]
Agni: Eeeh!?
Agni: Ah… [linked] Was… this the reason you came to my house today!?

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Papyrus: Next time, “Agni’s search for 5 Lokapala members out of the world’s population of 7 billion!” (is scheduled to) begin.
Kurando: Please, stop kidding around and get serious, Agni.

Agni: Please don’t ask me to get serious~~~!
Lisa: I also have a suggestion.

Lisa: I think we should perceive with Prana.

Kurando/Kai: Prana?

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Lisa: It’s a form of energy that everything in the world, from rocks to humans, release.
All 3 arrows: Prana [on each of the arrows]
Lisa: Good luck! Go!
Kurando: Whoa!?
Lisa: The energy an Avatar receives within the Ashram circle is one type of Prana.

Lisa: Human emotions are another type of Prana. And they’re absolutely not one-way.
Kurando: Aah,
Kurando: I kinda feel like I get it.
Lisa: If each were to deepen their understanding of the other, we can expect mutually beneficial effects.

Lisa: For example, Kurando derives energy from my encouragement.
Lisa (Kurando panel): The energetic Kurando has the upper hand when he goes into battle.
Indra panel: Indra seizes every opportunity and goes with the flow.
Kai panel: Kai-kun senses that and releases exceptionally more powerful thunder.

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Lisa: And with that, [linked] Agni will work hard to find our comrades-in-arms for us [clef]
Kurando: Work hard.
Indra: You better work hard.
Kai: Please work hard.
Agni: You’re completely misinterpreting the concept of Prana!!

Agni: I’ll do it, I will, it’s just…
Agni: somehow it feels like I let my guard down and got used…

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Agni: The method of searching for our comrades…
Box: You know how the Ashram circle activates when Deva / Asura are with their Avatars?

Box: Being FREE, you can come into contact with those circles without being detected by Asura, and concentrate solely on seeking out Deva.
Box: It’s a job that can only be done by the FREE you. FREE!!
Agni: Free, free, she says. It’s annoying!

Agni: Anyhow, there’s no way I’ll find them using such a meticulous method!
Agni: …but
Agni: since I’m also searching for an Avatar (boyfriend) along the way, I have to do my best!

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Agni: Sigh~~~
Agni: Geez, my feet are swollen!

Agni: …I could cry.
Agni: Being in a crowd makes me really aware of my loneliness.
Agni: I can’t believe this! Such a cute girl is all by herself here, yet no one’s trying to chat her up.

Police: Hey, you.
Agni: Y-yes [heart]

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Police: Looks like you’ve been wandering around here a while,
Police: do you want to drop by the station and let me listen to your troubles?

- I’m…
- I’m…
- being pitied?

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- Kyaaaaaa!!
- Uwaah!

Agni: …wh!!

- koff
Agni: An explosion… [linked] fire?

- Just now… I felt an Ashram circle!
- Was this caused by an Asura? Is this an Asura’s doing!?

- There’re people who can’t move here…
- Call an ambulance… quickly!
- I can’t see them, but I’m sure they’re escaping amidst the confusion!

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SFX: whee-whoo whee-whoo
Bold SFX: fwshhh

- People are too careless in places where they think fire hazards won’t occur.

- Get a little blaze going and you have chaos. [linked] Under these conditions, robbery’s a piece of cake.

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- Compared to the end of the world, money’s more my thing~~
Aside: Super—
Guy aside: One— two— three—[clef]
- Whatever Vritra’s planning, it’s a perfect cover for us. [linked] And even if Deva do notice, it’ll be blamed on Vritra.

Agni: Fire is powerful, and with the passage of time it becomes a formidable foe, but…
Agni: …as long as it is used properly, everyone can benefit from it. Yet…
Agni: …you use it to hurt others out of greed!

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Agni: Asura wielding the power of fire!!
Agni: I, Agni, guardian of the southeast and god of fire, will not forgive you!!

- Agni~~? So you’re a Deva. [linked] The Ashram circle didn’t react, did it?
- Your Avatar ain’t around, huh?
Agni: Huh!?

Agni: What do I do now? I got this far on guts alone!

- Fool, what’d you come here for?

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Agni: Kyah!

- Ahahahaha!!

- You said you’re Agni? Then you’re one of Lokapala!
- Revealing yourself without an Avatar is the height of stupidity!!

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- It’s hot…
Agni: Koff…
- It hurts…
Agni: Koff…

- I… I don’t want the world to end yet!
- I still haven’t had a proper relationship!!

- If only…
- I had an Avatar like Vayu and Indra…

- Ooooh, one whole fried fire god coming up!!

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Linked: The water pipes…
- The fire’s… going out!

- One,
- simply put, I like girls.

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- Two,
- I’m tirelessly devoted to girls.

- Three, [linked] delicate good girls…
- are my business!!

- Who the heck … [linked] The steam is obscuring my vision!
- Oh my?

- Heeey, dollar lighter dude!
- Dollar!?
- Take that ability to a camping ground and do people some good with it there!!

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- Don’t look down on me, you!!

- Those who would bully a cute girl…

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- deserve to be stuck in limbo for eternity!!

- In an instant, my flames…

- That ability! Are you Varna, the water Deva!?

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- Right then.

- Oh my?
- Mizuki—
- Mizuki-chaaan, where are youuu?

Agni: Uh…

Agni:…hn.

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Agni: Noooooo!!

- Whoa— I didn’t do anything! It’s okay! [linked] I just saved you!

Agni: Eh, [linked] you saved… me?
Agni: From the Asura?
Agni: How…?

- I should ask you, why were you at a place like that?
Agni: Eh…

Agni: I have to keep things like Deva and Asura a secret from normal people…
Agni: At the scene of today’s fire, I saw some people who seemed to be the culprits and followed them.

- Hoho— you got a keen sense of justice there!
Agni: Thank you very much. [linked] I have to be off…

Agni: Ah…!

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- Nonetheless,
- overdoing it is forbidden, young miss.

- It’s… like my heart is being squeezed?

- Aah,
- boy or girl, it no longer matters…

- I want…
- this person to be my Avatar.

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- Sanae-chan.
Sanae: Oh!

Sanae: Alright, time to go!
Agni: Ah… wai…

- I got my heart broken way too early!!!
Box: The instant she completely lost her purpose.

Box: As for her original purpose, she didn’t notice as she didn’t come into contact with the Ashram circle.

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Sanae: Where did you go, Mizuki~~~!
Mizuki: Seeing as I get soaked whenever Sanae-chan fights, I maintained a distance that was barely within the Ashram circle.
Sanae: Taha—!

Mizuki: By the way, that was an unbelievably girly girl. She’s just your type, Sanae-chan.
Sanae: Are you jealous? You’re so cute, Mizuki!
Mizuki: I told you over and over, I don’t lean that way.

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Sanae: …In any case, was it just a coincidence? [linked] That piece of s***. To think we followed them and ended up in this city.
Mizuki: True.

- I feel like we’re heading toward the heart of a huge vortex.
- Deva Varna and her Avatar, what are they after!?

- Continued in chapter 19

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- Next time
- Team of two girls vs / Kurando & Lisa!!
- A team of two girls who could be Deva appear in front of Kurando and co., who’re searching for Lokapala comrades. They never thought it’d turn out to be a battle of Deva against Deva…
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