Kurenai 28

Chapter 28

01

SFX: Slosh

Lucy: Will this really be okay, Hoshigami-san?
Zena: Will what be okay?

Lucy: The "Houzuki" matter...
Lucy: that Red Cap-san is in charge of...

Lucy: The pay is good, but taking on one of the Inner Thirteen Families is quite a risk.
Zena: It'll be fine. They're at a point where they would be destroyed even if we left them alone.
Text: The secret maneuverings of the Akuu Company!!

Zena: ...Oh.
Zena: Come to think of it, you're an "Inner Thirteen Families Enthusiast".
Zena: Is that why you're worried?
Lucy: I'm not getting my personal feelings mixed up in this.

Zena: Well, there won't be any problems.
Zena: His strength isn't just that of a former "Houzuki" student.

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Zena: He also has...
Zena: my "Hoshigami" power.

Benika: You certainly talk a lot.

03

Benika: So you're Hoshigami Zena.

04

Text: Occasionally, just leave your body to the mercy of the wind...
Title: Chapter 28 Same - Different - Murasaki
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05

Bianca: You all fortify the back of the house.
Whoever: Yes, ma'am.
Bianca: Everyone else go the first floor lobby.

Bianca: I won't let him interfere.
Bianca: I'll take care of all of Seki-sama's enemies...!!

SFX: Crash

06

Bianca: Wha...!?

Bianca: "Guillotine"!!!?
Kirihiko: Uhh...

Bianca: Why are you here...!?
SFX: Pick up

07

Kirihiko: I've decided...

Kirihiko: My fr...

Bianca: Eh?
Kirihiko: My fr...
Kirihiko: I'll protect my frie...

Kirihiko: Aaaaaah!!! Whatever! I'll just defeat yooooooou!!!
Bianca: Kyaah!

08

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san!!

Man: Ah!!

Man: H-hey, where are you going!?
Man: Hurry up and defeat him...
Man: Ghoh!!

09

Seki: You're in the way.

Seki: I've been waiting.
Seki: Now we can fight freely.
Seki: C'mon, Kurenai-kun.

Shinkurou: I don't want to...
Shinkurou: fight my predecessor if I don't have to.

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Shinkurou: But Yuuno-san is part of my precious family.

Shinkurou: I won't let you cause her any more grief.

Seki: Don't make me laugh.

Seki: What's causing Yuu-chan grief...
Seki: is your weakness.

Seki: Me.

Seki: It was supposed to be me...

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Seki: that was awarded the power of the "Horn"...
Seki: and become a part of Houzuki.

Shinkurou: Yu...

Shinkurou: Let go of Yuuno-san!!!

12

Seki: ...You came here while the damage from last time still remains?

Seki: I don't understand...
Seki: why someone as weak as you was awarded the "Horn"...
Seki: or why I had to leave Houzuki.

Seki: All I wanted was to become strong.

Seki: Weren't you the same?
Seki: Wasn't that the only reason you came to Houzuki?

Seki: You really are a lot like me.

13

Seki: My entire family...
Seki: was also killed because of crime.

Shinkurou: Eh...?

Seki: So I came knocking at the gates of Houzuki.

14

Seki: Master and Meiri-san sympathized with my past...
Seki: and gave me a warm welcome.

Seki: I spent all my time completing the hellish training.

Seki: And three years later...
Seki: Yuu-chan was born.

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Seki: I believed...
Seki: that I would become a part of Houzuki.

Shinkurou: Haa
Shinkurou: Haa

Seki: I was shocked when I learned about you!

Seki: Everything about you is the same!
Yuuno: No...
Yuuno: No...
Seki: The same as me!!
Seki: The same as me!!
Seki: The same as me!!

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Yuuno: Aaaaaaaah!!!

Yuuno: No!!
Yuuno: No!!
Yuuno: No, no, no, no!!

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Yuuno: No!!
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san isn't like you!!!

Yuuno: He won't become like you!!
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san wouldn't...!!

18

Seki: "Wouldn't kill his childhood friend"?

Seki: ...Come to think of it, you have one too.
Seki: Murakami Ginko, was it?

Seki: I really started not to like her.
Seki: She was gloomy, would always follow me around, and was so condescending.

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Seki: What kind of reason is "I'm your childhood friend"?

Shinkurou: ...You killed her...?

Seki: It was her fault.

Seki: She was always telling me to quit my training at Houzuki and that I was fine the way I was.
Seki: And she even said those things in front of Yuu-chan...

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Seki: Sorry, Yuu-chan.
Seki: Don't worry about what she said.

Yuuno: Stop!!!

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san...
Yuuno: wouldn't do that...

Seki: He's the same.

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Seki: We just wanted to become strong.

Seki: We lost our families because we were powerless.

Seki: We needed power to live alone in this world.

Seki: We relied on power to live.

Seki: Admitting we were weak was the same as death.
Shinkurou: The same...
Shinkurou: We're the same...
Seki: And if reality thrust that fact in front of us, it was all the worse...

22

Yuuno: That's not true...

Yuuno: Right, Shinkurou-san?
Yuuno: That's completely ridiculous...

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san...?

23

Seki: It's true...

Seki: that I once tried to erase my memories of Houzuki.
Seki: But, in the end, I couldn't forget.

Seki: I couldn't forget the warmth of Houzuki.

Seki: And you couldn't forget me...
Seki: and were searching for me in him.

Seki: Come...
Seki: with me.

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san...

Yuuno: Sh...
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san...

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Murasaki: Get a hold of yourself, Shinkurou!
Murasaki: You're not like him.

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Murasaki: Don't forget that you have me.

Yuuno: Wha....!?

Yuuno: What are you doing, Murasaki-chan!?
Yuuno: Girls shouldn't do such immodest things!!

Seki: Murasaki...?

Shinkurou: ...That's right.

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Shinkurou: I'm weak.
Shinkurou: But Murasaki...
Shinkurou: Murasaki alone accepted all of me.

Seki: Don't tell me you're...

Murasaki: I am Kuhouin Murasaki.
Murasaki: Don't treat Shinkurou like he's as small as you!
Shinkurou: I decided then.
Shinkurou: That I would be strong before her alone.

Shinkurou: Before her at least, Kurenai Shinkurou would be strong.

Murasaki: You're a weakling.

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Seki: ...Yuu-chan.

Shinkurou: ...Thank you, Murasaki.
Shinkurou: You've opened my eyes.

Murasaki: Now bring Yuuno back with you!

Shinkurou: I will.

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Shinkurou: Sorry for worrying you, Yuuno-san.
Shinkurou: I'm not like him.

Shinkurou: I will never be engulfed by darkness again.

Shinkurou: So don't worry.

Housen: It seems it has begun...

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Housen: Perhaps we should hurry.

Yuuno: What amazing power...
Yuuno: He's like a different person from yesterday...

31

Seki: I see...
Seki: So you have the power of "Kuhouin" backing you.

Seki: But I have...
Seki: the power of "Hoshigami".

Seki: Let's have a test...
Seki: to see who has the better mastery of the "Power of Houzuki".
Text: The black horn! Intersecting power!!