Zettai Karen Children 229

Chapter 229

01

Minamoto: Finished!
Minamoto: Here's your bird house!
Feather: Thanks, Minamoto.

Kaoru: You didn't have to go that far for her!
Minamoto: No, but I did it anyway.
Minamoto: I felt like doing some carpentry work for a change.

Minamoto: I mean...
Minamoto: when I was a kid I would always cook and clean on the weekends.

Minamoto: This is something new for me!!
Feather: Wah!?
SFX: Fall apart

Magi: Black Phantom's brainwasher!!
Magi: We'll be up against a worthy foe for once.

Kagari: Magi-san!?
Kagari: Are you going to be fighting sometime soon!?
Magi: No...not really.

Mio: Who are you going to be fighting!?
Mio: We'll help you!
Magi: This has nothing to do with you!

Magi: I must be...
SFX: Growing
Magi: emitting enough killing intent for them to pick it up.
Momotarou: Um...Isn't it because your carbon fiber hair is growing?

Margin: Carpentry isn't the hobby for Minamoto. If you want a good hobby, go pick up volumes 1-22 which are on sale now.

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02

Text: Enemy and friend are all in the same class at the cultural festival...!?
Title: 229th sense. Phantom Portrait (2)
Bottom: Shiina Takashi

03

Text: Ho ho ho ho
Shiho: If you give me a red rose...
Shiho: I will let you dance with me...
Shiho: at the prince's ball tomorrow.
Kaoru: But...I don't have a rose.
SFX: Clench
Text: The Children are in rehearsal!!

Kaoru: With just a red rose...
Kaoru: I can have her cling to my arm and hold my strong hand!
Kaoru: Oh, if only I had a rose!
Box: Previously: The cultural festival draws near. The Children's Class 1-A have decided to perform "The Nightingale and the Rose". They are currently rehearsing.

04

Touno: Why is he crying?
Yuuri: He's crying and saying he wants a red rose.
Chisato: He wants a red rose?

Touno: Oh, that's just great!
Text: Ah ha ha ha ha
Yuuri: No.
Yuuri: I understand.

Yuuri: He truly loves someone.
Yuuri: What I sing about is bringing him sadness.

05

Yuuri: Um...Patty?

Yuuri: Where's the rest?
Patty: I'm thinking it up now!!

Yuuri: Thinking it up?
Yuuri: What about the original?
Patty: There's something wrong with the original!!
Patty: I'm adapting it to make it better!

06

Patty: First of all, Minamoto was wrong about the nightingale...
Patty: falling in love with the young man.
Kaoru: Eh?
Patty: If you actually read the original, she never falls in love with him.

Patty: But...
Patty: I think this adaptation is good.
Patty: It fires me up.

Patty: It fires me up just like any kind of fan-made work does!!
Text: Ha ha ha ha ha
SFX: Roaring flame
Kagari: Patty's...!!
Kaoru: Patty's on fire!?

07

Minamoto: The nightingale...
Minamoto: empathized with the young man who was personally experiencing...
Minamoto: what she sang about.

Aoi: For a red rose to bloom...
Aoi: the flower must be made as you sing your song in the moonlight.
Mio: And it must be dyed red with the blood from your heart.

Yuuri: You're kidding...!

08

Yuuri: Death is too high a price for a single red rose.
Yuuri: But...
Yuuri: love outweighs all else.

Yuuri: And what worth does a bird's heart have...
Yuuri: in comparison to a human's?

Minamoto: She decided to...
Minamoto: give up her life for "love". For something with no physical form.
Minamoto: She was quite the romanticist.

09

Yuuri: Please take it.

Yuuri: This is the red rose you desired.

Kaoru: Oh...
Kaoru: What wonderful luck!!

Minamoto: And yet...

Shiho: That doesn't match my dress at all.
Shiho: And...
Shiho: I was just given a true jewel.

SFX: Sparkle

10

Shiho: Everyone knows jewels are more valuable than flowers.
SFX: Shock

Minamoto: Love is absolutely...
Minamoto: worthless!!
Minamoto: It has no physical form and is completely useless!!

Minamoto: I'm going back to my studies!!
SFX: Toss

SFX: Clatter clatter clatter

SFX: Crush

11

Feather: That's pretty blunt.
Feather: How is this romantic?
Minamoto: Why was I there in the end!?
Minamoto: And you were the one that brought it up!
Feather: I was just making a suggestion.

Feather: Did the author write this after some woman turned him down or something?
Minamoto: Well, we don't really know...
Minamoto: but it's about people who believe in things with intangible value and the people who can't understand that.

Minamoto: What value does love or beauty have? There's no standard and they can't be measured.
Minamoto: People who believe they're important will risk their lives for them...
Minamoto: and yet other people don't see any value in them at all.

Feather: Then did the author write it after someone said something he wrote was a piece of shit?
Minamoto: Like I said, we don't know.
Minamoto: Although it's true the nightingale could represent the "Artist".

Feather: So...

12

Feather: since you remembered it as being a love story about two people with unrequited love...
Feather: you must be a sentimental romanticist like the nightingale.
Feather: Surprisingly enough.
SFX: Press up against
Minamoto: What do you mean "surprisingly enough"?
Minamoto: Don't say things that make me sound like I have no social skills!!

Feather: But it's true.
Feather: You're always thinking about your official position so you act like you haven't noticed your own feelings.
SFX: Vyuh.
Minamoto: What do you mean by that!?

Feather: An excellent question...

SFX: Vhhn
Minamoto: What is it?

13

Kaoru: We're home!
SFX: Click

Feather: If they think we're always together while they're gone...
Feather: they'll get jealous.

Feather: See ya!
SFX: Hop

Minamoto: What's with her?
Minamoto: She always acts like she can see right through everyone.

Minamoto: I don't know what memories she has, but...
Minamoto: Hm?

Kagari: Hello.

14

Minamoto: Kagari-kun?
Minamoto: He came home with you?
Shiho: He brought us home because it got dark while we were preparing for the cultural festival.
Kaoru: I'm pretty sure that if even an armed pervert attacked us we could kick his ass...
Aoi: But we are girls after all.

Kagari: Also there's Black Phantom.
Kagari: The major ordered me to do this since the B.A.B.E.L. guards wouldn't be able to handle it.
SFX: Vyuh
Bullet: The hell'd you just say!?

Minamoto: Calm down, Bullet.
SFX: Smile
Bullet: But...!!

Minamoto: Sorry you had to go so far out of your way, Kagari-kun.

15

Minamoto: Thank you very much.
Minamoto: Would you like some tea?
SFX: Glare...
Kagari: N-no thanks.
Kagari: I'm fine...

Kagari: Well, I'll be going.
Kagari: S-see you tomorrow!!

Shiho: Sure.

Shiho: You just got a bit jealous...
Shiho: didn't you?
Minamoto: Eh?
Minamoto: I was?
SFX: Blank stare
Minamoto: No, I wasn't!

Minamoto: Oh, about that fairy-tale.
Minamoto: I reread it and actually...
Kaoru: Yeah.
Kaoru: Patty's working hard on it.

Kaoru: But it looks like fun.
Kaoru: Because...

16

Kaoru: We can...
Kaoru: make our own happy ending.
Kaoru: We'll make sure to bring happiness to the nightingale.

Minamoto: I see.
Minamoto: Okay, then.

Yuuri: Thanks for seeing me home, Touno-kun, Hanai-san.
Touno: No problem.
Chisato: See you tomorrow, Yuuri-chan!

17

Yuuri: ...Hoo.
Yuuri: Acting really isn't my thing.
SFX: Beep

SFX: Vvvvvv

Mirage: But...
SFX: Ding
SFX: Open
Mirage: I've never had so much fun!

18

Nai: Oh...?
Nai: Yuuri-sama?
Nai: Welcome home.
Mirage: I'm back, Nai.

Mirage: Hey.
Mirage: How about you come see our play at the cultural festival?
Mirage: I'm gonna do my best.
Text: Black Phantom's brainwasher feels happiness for the first time...but!?

Nai: Yuuri-sama...?
Nai: Wait...?
Nai: Which one is this...?

Box: To be continued in Issue 41