Kurenai 32

Chapter 32

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Top:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

Under manga title: A color page in celebration of the volume release!!
Middle text: My heart feels so warm! So this is what having friends is like!!
Bottom left: Volume 5 is on sale now! Set price: 460 yen (Tax included)
Title: Chapter 32 Hoshigami Zena
Bottom: A new one-shot is being published in the SQ. Summer Issue 19! Details on the next page!!

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Text: This place has been completely destroyed. Who went on a rampage here...!?

Lucy: Looks like Hoshigami-san's been at it again.

Lucy: She just couldn't stand having been defeated by Juuzawa Benika...
SFX: Crack

Lucy: And now with the "Houzuki" incident...

Lucy: it doesn't seem like a good time to discuss trying to get "him" to join us.
Lucy: Not even I want to be around her right now.

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Zena: Juuzawa Benika...!!

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SFX: Gulp

Zena: Ahh!!
Zena: C'mon!!

Zena: I need more to drink!!!

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Zena: If I don't get any more, I'll die!!
Zena: I'll slit my wrists and die!!

Zena: I'll take some poison and die!!
SFX: Flailing around
Zena: I'll hang myself and die!!

Zena: And I'll...
Zena: Uh...
Shinkurou: Um...
SFX: Reach out
SFX: Pant pant

SFX: Grab

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Zena: I'll do a shoulder throw and die!!!
Shinkurou: Waah!!!

SFX: Crash
People: Is there a fight?
People: She's just drunk.
People: Oh, it's just a drunk.

Text: Hic
Zena: Hm?

Zena: Who're you?

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Text: The Same Day (Midday)

Ginko: And so...
SFX: Type

Ginko: Every night, a drunk has been rampaging in that area.

Ginko: Your job is to do something about it.
Shinkurou: A drunk...

Ginko: Are you complaining?

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Shinkurou: No, it's just...
Shinkurou: this is the first down-to-earth job I've had in a while.

Ginko: You're taking this lightly.
SFX: Slide...
Ginko: And if you get careless...

Murasaki: I don't get it.
SFX: Heartbeat

Murasaki: Why is that drunk rampaging?
Ginko: Eh?

Murasaki: A drunk is someone who drinks too much alcohol, right?
Murasaki: Why does that make you go on a rampage?
Shinkurou: What are you doing in there?

Tamaki: Well, Murasaki-chan...

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Tamaki: That's because everyone gets lonely when they drink!!

Tamaki: Found you, Murasaki-chan!
Text: Yay!
Murasaki: Mh...She found me.
Shinkurou: Oh, you're playing hide-and-seek.
Shinkurou: Wait, Tamaki-san, you reek of alcohol!!!

Ginko: Well, I'm leaving.
SFX: Get up
Shinkurou: Oh, sorry. I'll see you off.

Tamaki: Oh, it's Ginko-chan!

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Tamaki: I found Ginko-chan, too!!
Ginko: Kyaaah!!
Shinkurou: Get out, you drunk!!
SFX: Pow

Tamaki: Ahh, Ginko-chan, your boobs are so soft!!
Ginko: Hey...No, Tamaki-san!!
Murasaki: I see. So this is what drunk people are like.

Shinkurou: Uuh...

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Zena: Ahh.
Text: Hic
Zena: You came to.

Shinkurou: ...Eh?
SFX: Get up...
Zena: And I thought I'd broken your neck.

Shinkurou: Oh, that's right. She just threw me all of a sudden...
Zena: Hey, hey.

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Zena: Could you go buy me a drink?
Shinkurou: Hah?
Shinkurou: She reeks of alcohol.

Zena: The one with 95% alcohol.

Shinkurou: Ninety...!?
Zena: I think they sell it at drugstores.

Shinkurou: Th-that's not a drink.
Shinkurou: You should stop drinking it.
Shinkurou: Your liver's gonna...

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Zena: I'll diiiiiie!!!!

Zena: If you don't give me any alcohol, I'll just die!!

Zena: I'll shoot myself in the head and die!!
Zena: I'll jump off a building and die!!

Zena: I'll get hit by a car and die!!
Zena: I'll get hit by a train and die!!
Zena: I'll get hit by a tank and die!!

Zena: And if I die, I'll die!!
Zena: I mean it!!
Zena: If you take my alcohol from me, I'll die!!

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Box: Every night, a drunk has been rampaging in that area.
Shinkurou: It's...

Box: It's gotta be her!

Box: Just telling this kind of person not to drink won't work.
Shinkurou: Umm...It's quite clear that you like to drink.
Shinkurou: But if you're going to drink, don't you want to drink liquor that actually tastes good?
Zena: Liquor that tastes good?

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Shinkurou: I saw a bar over there.
Shinkurou: I bet if you drank something that tasted good, you'd feel a lot better while drunk.

Zena: Hm...

Zena: ...Yeah.
Zena: Maybe I should drink something normal every once in a while.
Zena: Even if it won't affect me much.

Shinkurou: That's what you should do.
Shinkurou: I'm sure of it.

Zena: You seem used to dealing with drunks...
Shinkurou: Ha ha...
Text: Yes

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Zena: By the way, what's your name?

Shinkurou: Eh? Oh...
Shinkurou: It's Kurenai Shinkurou.


Shinkurou: I think it was over here.
Zena: Ohh...
Zena: What a coincidence.

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Zena: Aren't you going to drink?
Shinkurou: Eh?
Zena: Don't worry about it. You can have some of mine.

Shinkurou: Um, but...
Shinkurou: I'm still in high school and...

Zena: Then what did you come here to do?

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Shinkurou: Well...
Shinkurou: I'm on a job.

Zena: A job?

Shinkurou: I'm a dispute mediator.

Shinkurou: And apparently there's been a drunk rampaging in this area lately.
Zena: And you come to take care of it?
Zena: I see.
Text: Ha ha

Zena: You don't look like the kind of person for that job at all.

Shinkurou: Ha ha...
Shinkurou: Benika-san tells me that a lot, too.

SFX: Clank...

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Box: I was right.
Box: There's some connection between this boy who defeated Red Cap and Juuzawa Benika.

Box: I thought it was odd.
Box: It didn't make sense for her to come out to help "Houzuki".

Box: But Juuzawa and this boy clearly aren't equals.
Zena: Speaking of dispute mediators...
Box: So the only thing that makes sense...

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Box: Is a master-apprentice relationship.
Zena: There's something that's really been pissing me off lately.

Zena: Some showy old woman has been getting in the way of my work...
Zena: and ruining the work of my subordinates.

Zena: So I've really needed to get rid of some stress lately.

Shinkurou: Wh-who is this person?

Zena: Hey...
Zena: What do you think?

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SFX: Crash

Men: This bar sucks!!
Men: Get the manager out here!!

Zena: What a pain.

People: Oh, not those people again.
People: They're around here every night.
People: Can't they stop getting...
People: into drunken fights?

Shinkurou: Um...
SFX: Stand up
Zena: Hm?
Shinkurou: Do you come to this area often?

Zena: No.
Zena: This is just where I ended up today.

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Box: Don't tell me...
Box: I stopped the wrong person!?

Shinkurou: Th-thanks for the drink!!
Shinkurou: Excuse me!!
SFX: Dash

Zena: He sure is enthusiastic about his job.

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Shinkurou: And so...
Shinkurou: you've been causing problems for the people in this area.

Shinkurou: Could you stay away from this area for a while?

Men: Heh.

Men: Did you really expect us to just agree to that?
SFX: Shnk
Men: Ha.

SFX: Bam
SFX: Crash

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SFX: Wham

Men: Uuh...

Men: Shit!

SFX: Wham

SFX: Spin

SFX: Crash

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SFX: Stop

Zena: Hmm...

SFX: Pant pant

Men: D-
Men: Don't move!!

Men: If you do, I'll kill this hostage!!

Shinkurou: Ah!!

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Men: Heh heh...I saw you two in the bar.
SFX: Press
Men: This woman's with you, isn't she?

SFX: Prick

Zena: ...Hee hee.
Zena: Hostage?

Zena: What hostage?

Men: ...What was that, you bitch!?

SFX: Disappear

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SFX: Dash

Shinkurou: Y-you bastard!!

SFX: Grab

Men: Uuh...!!
SFX: Pull

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Men: Waaaah!!
SFX: Throw

SFX: Slam

SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: A-are you alright!?
Shinkurou: Are you hurt!?
Zena: Nope.

Shinkurou: Thank god...
Zena: What about you?
Zena: Is your hand okay?

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Shinkurou: Yeah, a knife like that won't do anything to me.
Shinkurou: The rest of me may not be, but my body's tough.

Zena: I see.
Zena: So you're saying your body is pretty tough for flesh and blood?

Zena: But...
Zena: Ha ha.
Zena: I never thought an apprentice of Juuzawa's would save me.

Shinkurou: Ah...
Shinkurou: You shouldn't mess with that. Knives are dangerous.

Zena: Are they?

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SFX: Jab

SFX: Falling apart...
Zena: I'm pretty tough too.

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Zena: Kurenai-kun.

Shinkurou: Wh...
Shinkurou: Who are you?

Zena: Hoshigami Zena.

Shinkurou: Hoshigami...

Zena: I thought I would just kill you here and now to vent my anger...
Zena: but I've changed my mind.

Zena: I thought of something much better.
SFX: Spin
Shinkurou: Eh?

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Zena: See you later,

Zena: Kurenai Shinkurou-kun.
Text: Shinkurou is being targeted! And Kirihiko watches over them...!?
Bottom: To be continued in the September Issue