Kurenai 35

Chapter 35

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Shinkurou: Would you like to hire a dispute mediator?
Text: He has announced his willingness to guard Kirihiko's target!!

Lin: Hah!!?
Lin: What are you talking about!?
Lin: Actually, why are you even here!?
Shinkurou: W-well...
Shinkurou: What are you doing here, Lin-san?

Lin: I...

Murasaki: Ah!!!

SFX: Run run run
Shinkurou: Eh?

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Murasaki: Shinkurou!!!

Murasaki: I can't believe I ran across you here! What a coincidence!
Shinkurou: Eh? Murasaki!?
Murasaki: We really must be bound by the thread of fate!

Ritsu: A dispute mediator...?

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Text: For whose sake is she dredging through the oceans of information...?
Title: Chapter 35 Two Reasons
Left text: The deadline for pre-ordering Volume 6 with the OADVD is coming up! See page 460!!
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

Box: Seiryou Academy
Box: A few days ago.

Ginko: Here.
Ginko: It's the data you asked for.

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Ginko: Since you needed it in such a hurry...
Ginko: it wasn't easy to get all this.
Shinkurou: This is a huge help.

Ginko: By the way...
Ginko: About what you said before...

Ginko: about whether you were going to work at the restaurant or not...

Ginko: Idiot.

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Box: Shiguhara Ritsu. 17 years old.
Box: The only daughter of the Shiguhara family, a family made up of a number of old families.
Box: Her parents passed away 8 years ago.

Box: She is currently being hospitalized long-term.

Ritsu: ...I see.
Ritsu: So you're an acquaintance of Murasaki-chan's.

Shinkurou: Acquaintance? I guess you...
Shinkurou: could say that.
Murasaki: No!

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Murasaki: Shinkurou's my honey!

Shinkurou: Murasaki...
Shinkurou: Where did you learn that word?
Murasaki: It was in a book Tamaki read to me.

Ritsu: Okay, fine.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Ritsu: I'm going along with your suggestion from earlier.
Ritsu: I'll hire you as a dispute mediator.

Shinkurou: Eh? Really?
Ritsu: Hah?
Ritsu: Isn't that why you're here?

Ritsu: Now...
Ritsu: What's your name?

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Shinkurou: Ah...K-Kurenai.
Shinkurou: It's Kurenai Shinkurou!

Ritsu: Kurenai Shinkurou...?

Lin: The Shiguhara family is distantly related to the lady of the house.

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Shinkurou: The lady of the house...That's the legal wife of Kuhouin Renjou.
Shinkurou: That means she isn't blood related to Murasaki.

Lin: Since you have responsibility for what happens here too...
Lin: I'll fill you in.

Lin: The Kuhouin information network...
Lin: has received information saying Ritsu-sama is going to be assassinated.
Shinkurou: Eh!?

Lin: Everyone else in her family is dead...
Lin: so Ritsu-sama is the final member of the Shiguhara family.

Lin: The Kuhouin personal guards have been dispatched to guard her.
Lin: This is all on Renjou-sama's orders.

Shinkurou: ...Huh?
Shinkurou: But aren't you Murasaki's bodyguard?

Lin: Of course I am!!!
SFX: Wham

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Lin: Murasaki-sama just happened to hear about this incident.
Lin: Ever since she got to know Ritsu-sama...

Lin: she has come to visit her here often.

Lin: Murasaki-sama...is kind.

Shinkurou: ...Yes.

SFX: Hold out

Lin: And now I need you to answer some questions.
Lin: Why are you here?
SFX: Shiny

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Shinkurou: Um, well...
Shinkurou: I thought she might need a bodyguard...

Lin: How did you learn about her?

Shinkurou: W-well...
Shinkurou: ...from Ginko...

Shinkurou: She got some information that someone was being targeted for assassination...
Shinkurou: and so...
Shinkurou: I'm sorry, Ginko...

Lin: ...Murakami Ginko.
Lin: The granddaughter of the legendary information broker, Murakami Ginji.

SFX: Sheath
Shinkurou: Hoo

Lin: Hey, you.

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Man: Yes, ma'am!
Lin: This man will be on guard duty along with you all.
Lin: I can vouch for his identity.

Shinkurou: Lin-san...

Lin: Make no mistake...
Lin: Ritsu-sama was the one that hired you.

Shinkurou: Sorry...

Murasaki: Oh, so you're going to be working here too!

Murasaki: Then I'll come here every day!

Shinkurou: About that...
Shinkurou: Murasaki.

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Shinkurou: I think...
Shinkurou: that you should stay away from here...
Shinkurou: for a while.

Shinkurou: B-Because...
Shinkurou: Having to socialize with you so often must be tiring out Shiguhara-san.

Lin: Wh-what the hell are you saying!?
Lin: How can you trample on Murasaki-sama's kind heart like that!?

SFX: Hold out

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SFX: Stare

Murasaki: Is there something you aren't telling me?

Murasaki: And it feels like Ritsu is hiding something from me too.

Shinkurou: Eh...!?

SFX: Smile

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Murasaki: Maybe she'll open her heart to you, Shinkurou.

Murasaki: Let's go, Lin!
SFX: Turn

Shinkurou: She...
Shinkurou: knew I was lying...

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Shinkurou: I'm sorry, Murasaki.
Shinkurou: You're the last person...
Shinkurou: I would want to know about Kirihiko-chan.

Shinkurou: Nishisato General Hospital.
Shinkurou: Apparently, the facility is made so that only the most affluent can afford it.

Shinkurou: It is surrounded by nature and there is no background city noise.
Shinkurou: It's the ideal place for someone to recover.

Shinkurou: There is even a pool and a small theater in the facility.
Shinkurou: But...the focus on comfort means the security equipment is a bit lacking.

Ritsu: Heeey, Shinkurou-kuuun.

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Ritsu: Over here, over here.

Shinkurou: ...Shiguhara-san.

Ritsu: Come over here for a bit.
Ritsu: You don't have anything else to do, right?

Shinkurou: I suppose not.

SFX: Point

Ritsu: Also, call me "Ritsu-san".
Ritsu: I don't really like my family name.

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Ritsu: And I'll call you Shinkurou-kun.
Ritsu: You're younger than me, so it should be fine.

Shinkurou: That's fine...um...
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san.

Ritsu: Y'know, life here really does suck.
Ritsu: Being stuffed full of medication is horrible.
Ritsu: Know what I mean?

Ritsu: And on the holiday a while ago they had a Kabuki play or something.
Ritsu: All the old folks loved it! This is like a home for old people or something!
SFX: Chatter chatter chatter
Ritsu: And I'm so tired of looking at all the nature around this place.
Ritsu: Nature's so annoying.

Ritsu: I mean...
Ritsu: it's been 8 years.
Ritsu: I've seriously been here for 8 years.
Ritsu: Do you think I could sue them for confinement and sexual assault?
[TN: The terms for confinement and sexual assault used here are often used together like this, and she only uses hiragana for the sexual assault part which shows she doesn't really know what that part means.]

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Shinkurou: ...Um.

Ritsu: Hm?

Shinkurou: I know I probably should have asked this earlier...
Shinkurou: but why did you fall from the window?

Ritsu: Hmm...
Ritsu: I was just half-asleep and fell out, I guess.

Shinkurou: Also...
Shinkurou: why did you hire me?

Ritsu: I had...
Ritsu: two reasons.

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Ritsu: The first reason...
Ritsu: is that I think I should make an effort towards living.

Ritsu: Someone is targeting my life.
Ritsu: Renjou-sama has kindly sent some bodyguards, but I hadn't done anything myself.
Ritsu: Not doing anything when you might die is the same as committing suicide, right?
Ritsu: So I hired you.

Shinkurou: ...I see.
Shinkurou: And what was the other reason?

Ritsu: The other reason?
Ritsu: That was...
Nurse: Ritsu-san.

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Nurse: It's time for your examination.

Ritsu: See you, Shinkurou-kun.

Ritsu: I'll tell you the rest later.

Shinkurou: 8 years...
Shinkurou: She's been in this hospital for 8 years.

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Shinkurou: Why does she have to be killed!?
SFX: Slide

Shinkurou: I might still be able to make it.

SFX: Dash

SFX: Click click
SFX: Wham wham

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SFX: Step

SFX: Slide

Shinkurou: She's not here...

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan...

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SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Land

Zena: I'm surprised that that shard of glass is enough to throw your switch.

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Zena: And you even attacked me, your superior.
Zena: A natural-born hitman really is a different thing altogether.

Kirihiko: Did you just come here to bore me with talk?
SFX: Land

Zena: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Zena: You told him to protect Shiguhara Ritsu, didn't you?

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Kirihiko: ...Yeah, so?

Zena: What were you thinking?
Zena: Well, I guess it doesn't matter.

Zena: But I will...
Zena: tell you one thing as the Akuu Company's top advisor.

Zena: When you kill, make sure you actually kill.

SFX: Pat

Zena: We...
Zena: won't let you hold back on the job.

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Zena: ...Oh, yeah.
Zena: You were called here, too.
Zena: So you're Lucy's "insurance"?

SFX: Smile

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Shinkurou: In the end...
Shinkurou: I couldn't find Kirihiko-chan.

Shinkurou: I guess, I have no choice but to...
Shinkurou: fight her.

Ritsu: ...You almost look worse than me.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: O-oh, I'm just...

Ritsu: ...Hey, Shinkurou-kun.
Ritsu: Let me show you something.

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Shinkurou: What?

SFX: Unbutton

Shinkurou: Eh!?
Shinkurou: No, um...!!
SFX: Clatter
Ritsu: Oh, no, no.
Ritsu: That's not what I'm trying to show you.
SFX: Unbutton

Ritsu: But this is something you don't see everyday.
Ritsu: I guarantee it will shock you.

SFX: Open...

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Shinkurou: Scars.

Ritsu: See? Isn't it amazing?
Ritsu: Everyone always freaks out...
Ritsu: when they see it.

Shinkurou: There were a number of distorted scars.
Shinkurou: Scars from being cut again and again and being sewn back up again and again.

Ritsu: I got these scars when I got wrapped up in an incident some bastard caused at an airport...
Ritsu: 8 years ago.

Shinkurou: An incident at an airport 8 years ago...

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Ritsu: That's right.

Ritsu: I was there...
Ritsu: too.

Ritsu: At the airport terrorist bombing 8 years ago.
Ritsu: I noticed right away that you were another survivor of that incident.
Ritsu: You have quite an unusual name after all.

Ritsu: That's the other reason I hired you.

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Ritsu: Hey, Shinkurou-kun.
Ritsu: Has the last 8 years...
Ritsu: been a happy time for you?
Text: Inside her, the tragedy has not yet ended...
Bottom: To be continued in the December issue.