Zettai Karen Children 198

Chapter 198

01

Kyousuke: Starting today, your name is...
Kyousuke: "Mussle Okamanov"!!

Magi: Isn't that fairly straightforward?
Muscle: C'mon.
Muscle: You always make things up on the spot like that!

Muscle: My names are always puns!
Muscle: Like "Muscle" and "Full Muscle Alchemist"...
Text left of Magi: Ah

Magi: So Muscle isn't your real name!!?
Muscle: Who would name a child "Muscle"?
Muscle: My real name is "Ookama Masuo".

Double Face: Ah.
Double Face: Another new girl.

Double Face: It must be easy when you can read her mind.
Double Face: You can just bring them in and break up with them as you please.
Sakaki: I don't do that!!

Sakaki: I don't cheat like that in love.
Sakaki: I want each of us to get to know each other bit by bit.

Double Face: ...is what he usually says to bring them in.
Sakaki: You do it, too.
Double Face: Those cowards...!!!

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Text: Is the future entirely in the hands of this man?
Small text on the right: It's almost time for Volume 19 to go on sale!! Go to your bookstore on December 18th!!
Title: 198th sense. The Mysterious Transfer Students (5)

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Top: Previously: The members of P.A.N.D.R.A are behaving as they wish in contempt of B.A.B.E.L.'s strict guard. Meanwhile, "Phantom Daughter" is burning with rage and plans on striking out at them...

Class: Stand...
Class: Bow...
Class: Goodbye...

04

Kaoru: Wait!!
Mio: Dah!?

Mio: What?
Kaoru: Where are you going home to?
Kaoru: That ship?

Mio: I'm not gonna tell you where the Catastrophe is!
Mio: It'd be a pain if it got attacked!

Kaoru: That's not what I mean.
Kaoru: How are you getting home?
Kaoru: A train?
Kaoru: A bus?

Aoi: Just so you know, you're not allowed to use your powers on the way to or from school!
Kazura: Ehhh!!?

05

Kazura: School's over, so who cares!!!
Aoi: School isn't over until you get home and take off your uniform.
Mio: Why!? I don't understand!! Why would you punish us for no reason!?

Kaoru: The standards of the world were created around Normals.
Kaoru: It's an old system and I don't think it's the best one...

Kaoru: but we need to compromise if we're all going to live in peace together...
Kaoru: And, um...
Kaoru: School is a place to practice being around Normal friends.

Kaoru: So...
Kaoru: Um...
Kaoru: Well...
Kaoru: What was I going to say?

Shiho: That's how...
Shiho: we and B.A.B.E.L. are slowly bridging the gap between Normals and Espers.
Shiho: We want to create a world where no one cares whether you have powers or not.

06

Text right of Aoi: Hee hee

Minamoto: For now, I'm sure you'll feel a bit restricted...
Minamoto: but please understand.
Minamoto: You three don't just have strong psychic powers.

Minamoto: You have plenty of other strengths and much more charm.
Minamoto: All of that is important to humanity.
Minamoto: Learn about and strengthen those strengths at school.

Shiho: ...is what Minamoto-san told us.
Aoi: That was when we started going to elementary school.
Mio: That guy did?

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Mio: ...That reasoning seems pretty convenient for Normals.
Mio: But, well...
Mio: Fighting over this would be a pain, so fine.

Kaoru: Really?
Kaoru: You understand?
Mio & Kazura: Yes, yes.

Aoi: So how are you getting home?
Mio: Let's see...
Mio: We have gates in various places...
SFX: *beep*
Mio: but we were told to return to the embassy after school.
Mio: It's here.

Shiho: You have to take a bus and a train...
Shiho: And you'll have to switch trains so it'll take about 2 hours.

Shiho: And this'll be really packed.

Kaoru: No good...!
Kaoru: They've clearly lost all intent to go through with this!

08

Kaoru: I want to let them use their powers if its just for getting to and from school...
Text right of Kaoru: Hmm...
Kaoru: but, with the way the world is right now, that's just asking for trouble.

Text right of Kaoru: Ah
Aoi: What is it?

Kaoru: Nothing...
Past Kaoru: Ehh!? What a pain!
Minamoto: Don't complain!

Minamoto: In exchange...
Minamoto: I'll give you a stamp for each day you do it.
On paper: School Transit Record Card

Below stamp: Good job

09

Minamoto: If you fill this up, you can ask for one thing you want.
Kaoru: All right!!
Text above Aoi: Kyaaah

Kaoru: Back then...
Kaoru: he must have felt like this...

Minamoto: They're late.

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Minamoto: Chisato-chan and Yuuri-chan have already left.
Minamoto: That means...
Yuuri: They really seem like they know each other.
Yuuri: I wonder how they know each other.
Chisato: Maybe we shouldn't ask about it too much...
Minamoto: Only the high-level espers are left.
Minamoto: Are they fighting over something?

Minamoto: Could they be...
Minamoto: planning on using their powers to get home...!?

Minamoto: I want to let them do it for just that, but...

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Minamoto: Daaaaah!!!
Yo: Hmm?

Yo: Huuuh? How very odd...
Yo: I thought I heard some strange noise...
Yo: And my bumpers all bent in...

Yo: But I must have been imagining it...
Yo: Cause I can't see anything.

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Minamoto: That's Yo from P.A.N.D.R.A...!!
Minamoto: Th-that bastard!!
Minamoto: You use ultrasonic waves, so you know I'm here, don't you!?

Yo: Ah, I really have to pee.
Yo: I just feel like taking a piss right here.
SFX: *zip*

Minamoto: Wait...!! Hey!!!

Yo: It's not like anyone's here or anything.
Text around Yo: Heh heh heh heh heh...

Mio: Don't do anything obscene, you moron!!
Yo: Ow!!!
Yo: It's caught in the zipper!!!
Kaoru: When you're in a school zone, don't take out that thing that hurts when it's caught in the zipper!!!

13

Mio: Thanks for coming for us!
Mio: We'll be leaving now.

Mio: See ya!
Kaoru: Ah, hey!

Kazura: Heh hehn.
Kazura: It's our territory in here.

Yo: The major says hi to you three.
Kyousuke: Come by to play every so often.
Kyousuke: You'll just be going to a classmate's house.
Kyousuke: Even that annoying guardian of yours should let you do that.

Yo: Bye!

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Kaoru: Well...

Kaoru: Using psychic powers in that way's fine, right?
Aoi: I wish we could do that.
Shiho: You really should've called for a car today.
Minamoto: ...I really wish I had.

15

SFX: *turn*

Mirage: Hey, Phantom.
Mirage: If you can't use Patty...
Mirage: you'll have to turn one of the others into a "doll".

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Mirage: Phantom?

Phantom: Ah...?
Phantom: Yeah.
Phantom: Sorry.
Phantom: I've been really tired lately.

Phantom: Hey, Mirage...
Phantom: have you been using your powers without me knowing?
Phantom: It feels like my energy has been sucked away.
Mirage: If I could do that...
Mirage: I would have started a long time ago.

Phantom: Odd...
Mirage: More importantly, how are you going to drive out P.A.N.D.R.A?

Mirage: When you think about it...
Mirage: isn't causing a big disturbance a bad thing?

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Mirage: With Patty, it would look like an after-effect of the brainwashing...
Mirage: but if the others go berserk, they'll suspect our presence.
Mirage: We can't get too deep in this.

Phantom: Oh, that.
Phantom: They betrayed Kaoru-chan...
Phantom: so I have to get them out of the school, but that's it.

Phantom: I don't need to brainwash them strongly.
Phantom: I just have to prod at their emotions a little.
Phantom: At that level, they won't be able to tell we were involved.

Phantom: My target is the boy...
Phantom: "Kagari".

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Phantom: It'll be simple to get that teenage boy to break his promise.

Yo: So, how was it?
Yo: Were there any cute girls?
Yo: Did you already lick their flute?
Kagari: No!! What the hell kind of person do you think I am!?

Minamoto: Sakaki-kun.
Minamoto: Do you want to switch out with me on surveillance tomorrow.
Text left of Minamoto: Ow ow...
Sakaki: No.
Sakaki: I'm not babysitting history's worst brats.

Right margin: Phantom Daughter's sacrifice is Kagari!? Next Chapter: It looks like a storm is blowing in...

Bottom: Well, Yo is Sakaki's natural enemy... (For more information, see Volume 18!)