Zettai Karen Children 236

Chapter 236

01

Keiko: Hatsune-chan!!
Keiko: You've been growing a lot lately, so you need to wear a bra!!
Text: Nh
Keiko: You're making Akira-kun uncomfortable!!

Hatsune: No way!!
SFX: Boing
Hatsune: I hate tight things like that!!

Hatsune: I've never understood why you would wear clothes under clothes!!
Hatsune: I'm not a kid anymore, so I can do what I want!
Hatsune: I'm fine like this!!

Keiko: Eh?
Keiko: Does that mean...
Keiko: she's...not wearing...any!?
Text: Even in that mini-skirt!?

Minamoto: What do you want for dinner?
Kaoru: Anything's fine.
Shiho: But it's fall, so be careful.

Minamoto: Pumpkin cream pasta...
Minamoto: and seasonal game bird, grilled turtledove.

Minamoto: Ciopinno (a seafood tomato soup) with seasonal seafood.
Minamoto: And for dessert, a home-made chestnut cake!

Aoi: We told you to be careful!!!
Above Kaoru: Hahhhn!!
SFX: Chomp chomp
SFX: Chew chew
Kaoru: You get fat so easily in the fall!!!
Shiho: Ah, damn it. It's all so good!!!
Small text next to last panel: The heartwarming ending.

Margin: The Children's fall will be a fall of growth...or so it seems.
Bottom: Volume 23 is on sale now!! In celebration of breaking 5 million in sales, you can get a cell phone background & character-voice ring tone!!

02-03

Announcer: That was the middle school's Year 1 Class A...
SFX: Applause applause applause applause
Announcer: with "The Nightingale and the Rose"!
Text: The performance during the cultural festival ends with a moving curtain call!!
Title: 236th sense. Phantom Portrait (9)
Bottom: Shiina Takashi

SFX: Cheering
Text: One, two...Kaoru-chaaan!!
Text: Kyaaah!
Text: Mio-samaaa!

04

SFX: Applause applause
SFX: Whistle applause

SFX: Applause applause

SFX: Applause applause

Bottom: Previously: Hyoubu has sealed the Phantom Daughter personality inside Yuuri. Now she stands upon the stage having forgotten her past of being forced to control espers. The curtain falls on The Children's play.

05

Sign: Private Rokujou Academy Middle and High School Cultural Festival

Yo: Thank you very much, doctor.
Sakaki: Take care.
Sakaki: And don't take any more weird pills.
Chief: What?
Chief: Did something happen!?

Hyoubu: See you.
Hyoubu: I'll contact you again once I get more information on Black Phantom.
Fujiko: As those kids' guardian, you'd better come to all the school events!
Fujiko: Like PTA meetings.
Hyoubu: Don't joke.

Hyoubu: I know you'll try to imprison me the second I give you a chance.
Hyoubu: I know you won't forgive me for the things I've done in the past.

06

Fujiko: Of course I won't!
Fujiko: I won't speak ill of you to the school...
Fujiko: but we're still in negotiations with the Robietian government.
Fujiko: We'll have you one day.
Hyoubu: Heh heh heh...
Hyoubu: Well, try your best.

Hyoubu: But once I take over the world...
Hyoubu: I really don't think there will be anyone left to punish me for what I've done.

Chief: You bastard...!!
Minamoto: Hyoubu!

Hyoubu: What?
Hyoubu: Is there something you want to tell me?

07

Minamoto: I want to thank you...
Minamoto: for the respect you've shown those kids.
Minamoto: You've given them some good, peaceful memories.

Minamoto: I couldn't get rid of the feeling that you had some ulterior motive...
Minamoto: but it seems I was wrong.

08

Minamoto: Thank you!

SFX: Rip

Hyoubu: You piss me off!
SFX: Flick
Minamoto: Wha-!?
Minamoto: What are you doing!?
Hyoubu: Shut up!! You piss me off!!

09

Mio: Majoooor!!
SFX: Fshh
SFX: Thoom thoom

SFX: Trip
SFX: Wobble

SFX: Kathooom!!
SFX: Crack crack
Mio: Wah!?

Kazura: We're going already, major?
Hyoubu: Yeah.
Hyoubu: This was fun.

Kagari: Hm?
Kagari: Who are they?
Momiji: Ah!

10

Momiji: These two?
Momiji: Um...they're new members.
Momiji: But they aren't going to be living with us, so I'll introduce them to you later.

Kazura: Hmm...?
Momiji: Okay, hurry up!

Kaoru: Minamotoooo!!
Kaoru: Kyousukeeee!!

11

Hyoubu: Good work, Kaoru.
Hyoubu: Goddess and Empress, too.
Minamoto: Don't call them that!!

Fujiko: What is it, Kaoru-chan?

12

Kaoru: Ah, nothing...!
Kaoru: It's just...
Kaoru: I'm glad everyone is getting along so well.

Minamoto: We're not!!
Hyoubu: Not at all!
Fujiko: We're really not.
Kaoru: Oh? Really?

Kaoru: Well, anyway...
Kaoru: I wanted to thank Kyousuke and the others.
Hyoubu: ...For what?

13

Kaoru: Well...
Kaoru: you came to see Mio and everyone perform.
Kaoru: And...
Kaoru: Umm...?

Kaoru: I don't really know what, but I feel like there's something else.
SFX: Hee hee
Kaoru: So thanks!

Hyoubu: Tch.
Hyoubu: I guess that's the Queen for you.

Hyoubu: You piss me off!!
Hyoubu: Seriously!
SFX: Jab jab
Minamoto: The hell is wrong with you!?

14

SFX: Ignore
Hyoubu: Well, I'm leaving!
SFX: Hyuh
Mio: Major...?

Aoi: What's with him?
Fujiko: Who knows...
Minamoto: Just ignore him!

Yuuri: Hey, Hanai-san.
Chisato: What?

15

Yuuri: Can I...
Yuuri: keep this costume?

Chisato: But you're not going to wear it again.
Yuuri: Yeah, I know.

Yuuri: But I'd love to have...
Yuuri: another treasure.

Yuuri: It hasn't even been a year since I became a middle schooler...
Yuuri: and yet it feels like I'll have a house full of treasures by the time I graduate.
Chisato: Ha ha...yeah.

16

Feather: Hmm...

Feather: So Phantom Daughter was sealed.
SFX: Squish
Momotarou: T-too bad, right!?
Momotarou: Now the future isn't going to turn out the way you think it will!

Momotarou: P.A.N.D.R.A used the information we got from you to create a future!
Momotarou: And Kyousuke even said he has a good guess as to who you really are!
Feather: Oh, and who might that be?
SFX: Tremble tremble
Momotarou: He didn't tell me...

Hyoubu: At any rate, there's a different version of her in the future I'm creating.
Hyoubu: So Feather...
Hyoubu: will disappear into the gaps of space-time.
Momotarou: ...Is what he said, you idiot!!
SFX: Pant pant

17

SFX: Zvuuhn!
Feather: Ah ha ha ha!

Feather: Tell this to your boss:
Feather: I wish I could have met him today...

Feather: and even if I'm not sure what my purpose is yet...
Feather: I know I don't exist in the final scene I want to create.
Feather: And that the "voice" inside me is telling me that...
Feather: I didn't have to do anything today.

18

Feather: And that I should believe in...
Feather: the picture of the future he is painting.

Feather: That my true enemies...
Feather: are the ones who would take happy memories away from people and destroy that future.
Feather: Just like he let happen.
Text: The future of the Normals...The future of the Espers...What does the future Hyoubu envisions look like!?
Box: To be continued in Issue 49