Kurenai 38

Chapter 38

01

SFX: Step

Text: Stop Kirihiko the "hitman"!!

Shinkurou: Kiri-...!!

Box: I can't move...

Box: What floor did I fall down from...?
Box: Dammit...

Box: Kirihiko...
Box: -chan...

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Top right: Volume 6 is on sale now!!
Title: Chapter 38 Hitman
Text: You're warm because you aren't alone...
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

03

SFX: Snap

SFX: Click click

Ginko: Hoo...
SFX: Creak

SFX: Knock knock

04

Yuuno: Hello,
Yuuno: Murakami-san.

Ginko: Houzuki-senpai...

Ginko: Do you need something?
Yuuno: Yes.
Yuuno: There's something I want to ask you.

Yuuno: I thought you might know something about this.

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Yuuno: It's about Shinkurou-san's job.

SFX: Intense

Guards: Uuh...

06

Guards: Fire!!!
SFX: Dash

SFX: Bang bang bang

Guards: He's behind the pillar!
Guards: Go around!!

SFX: Jump out

Guards: ...He's gone?

07

Bigfoot: Gyahah.

SFX: Whoosh

Lucy: <Bigfoot> has made contact with the Kuhoin guards.
Lucy: They are fighting now.
Zena: I see.
Zena: What about <Guillotine>?

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Lucy: She's following a bit behind.
Zena: A bit behind?
Zena: I just don't feel any motivation from her...

Lucy: Is that so?
Lucy: She's always this loose with her jobs.

Zena: I had heard that kid and Guillotine were "friends"...
Zena: so I thought we could easily take him in if we played our cards right.

Zena: Well, whatever.
Zena: If he's killed along with the target, the result's the same.

09

Zena: I can't wait to see Juuzawa Benika's crying face!

Lucy: ...Oh.
Lucy: I forgot to mention one thing.
Zena: Hm?

Lucy: A slightly...irregular person seems to have gotten mixed in.

Zena: ...Irregular?

10

Lin: Here, too...!!

Lin: I can't reach any of the teams deployed in the first floor lobby. That means...

Lin: I'm sorry to say,
Lin: Murasaki-sama...

Lin: but the intruder seems to be rather skilled.
Lin: This is in no way a good situation.

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Lin: But I'm sure...
Murasaki: Don't say that, Lin.

Murasaki: I trust you completely...
Murasaki: so I'm not worried.

Lin: Those words are wasted on me.
SFX: Stand up

Lin: I have carved them into my heart!
SFX: Grab

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Lin: I will protect you...
SFX: Energetically
Lin: with everything I have!!!

SFX: Scrape
Shinkurou: ...Uuh...

Box: Kirihiko-chan...
Box: Wait...
Box: Kirihiko-chan...

SFX: Step

13

Shinkurou: Kiri...!!
SFX: Drip

Kirihiko: Onii-san...


Kirihiko: Onii-...

14

SFX: Lick lick

Cat: Nyaaah

Shinkurou: You're...
Shinkurou: David?
Shinkurou: Why...?

Shinkurou: That's right! I passed out!
SFX: Bang bang

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SFX: Tremble tremble
Shinkurou: Dammit...

Shinkurou: I have to...
Shinkurou: hurry...

SFX: Bang crash blam blam

SFX: Bang bang bang

SFX: Step

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan and Bigfoot are after Ritsu-san.
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san is...
Shinkurou: still in the ICU...

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Girl: Ee!

Shinkurou: ...Ah.

Shinkurou: D-don't worry. I-
SFX: Swing
Girl: Stay back!!

Girl: P-please...
Girl: don't kill me...

Shinkurou: I'm on your side.
Shinkurou: Don't worry.
Girl: R-really!?
Girl: Can I get out of here!?

SFX: Step
Shinkurou: If you go now, you can get out through the main entrance.
Shinkurou: Take the other patients and flee.

17

SFX: Step

Shinkurou: How cruel...
Shinkurou: With this destructive power...
Shinkurou: it had to have been Bigfoot.

Shinkurou: Due to the shutters, the people that couldn't get away were indiscriminately killed.

Shinkurou: No...!!
Shinkurou: Did Murasaki get away in time!?

Shinkurou: Wait...
Shinkurou: Lin-san would make sure Murasaki was fine.

18

SFX: Run run run run

Murasaki: Lin?

Lin: Murasaki-sama.
Lin: Don't move.

SFX: Grab

Lin: Who's there!!?

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SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: I have to hurry...
Shinkurou: I have to get to Ritsu-san before Kirihiko-chan and Bigfoot do...

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Bigfoot: Gyahah.

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

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Lin: Kirishima Kirihiko...!!!

Murasaki: Kirihiko...!
Murasaki: What are you doing here?

Lin: Murasaki-sama!!
Lin: Don't get near her!!

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Murasaki: ...Kirihiko.

Murasaki: Is it you...
Murasaki: that's trying...
Murasaki: to kill Ritsu?

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

24

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!!

25

Kirihiko: ...Shut the hell up.
Kirihiko: Get out of the way, brat.
Kirihiko: Or I'll kill you.

SFX: Jump

26

Lin: Why yooooooouuu!!!

SFX: Slice

SFX: Land

27

Lin: Why...?

Lin: Murasaki-sama...
Lin: trusted you!!

Lin: She thought you were a true friend!!

28

Lin: Say something!!!

Murasaki: Stop, Lin!!!

Murasaki: Don't...
Murasaki: be mean to Kirihiko.

SFX: Step

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

29

Kirihiko: Don't look at me.

Murasaki: Why are you trying to kill Ritsu?

Murasaki: Ritsu has a horrible injury.
Murasaki: It may never heal.
Murasaki: She's been living in this hospital for 8 years because of it.

Murasaki: So please stop.
Box: Stop.
Box: Don't say that.

Murasaki: I'm sure Shinkurou...
SFX: Tremble tremble

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Kirihiko: Don't say that name!!!!

Kirihiko: I'm of the <Kirishima>!!

Kirihiko: I'm the Kirihiko of the <Kirishima>!!
Kirihiko: I'm a hitman!!

Kirihiko: I've been one since the very moment...
Kirihiko: I was born!!

Kirihiko: You people don't understand anything!!
SFX: Whoosh

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SFX: Slice

Kirihiko: This is a game!!
Kirihiko: It's all a game to me!!
Kirihiko: You say I should feel sorry for Ritsu!!?
Kirihiko: I don't give a fuck!!

Kirihiko: She's just my opponent in this game!!

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Kirihiko: Ah ha ha ha!!! Slicing people open...
Kirihiko: is so much fun!!

Kirihiko: I'll kill everyone!!
Kirihiko: The doctors, the nurses, the old men and women!
Kirihiko: I'll even slice the bed-ridden kids in half bed and all!!!

Kirihiko: Do you understand now!?
Kirihiko: This is who I really am!!
Kirihiko: I'll kill them all!!
Kirihiko: Including Ritsu and Onii-

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Kirihiko: Hh...!!
Kirihiko: Ha...!!

Kirihiko: Onii-...!!

SFX: Step forward

35

Lin: Forgive me, Murasaki-sama.
Murasaki: W-wait, Lin!!

Lin: I am now going to disobey my master's orders for the first time.

Lin: Kirishima Kirihiko.
Lin: You trampled on Murasaki-sama's kind heart.

Lin: I will cut you down...
Lin: even if it costs me my life.
Text: Will Lin's resolve lead to another tragedy!?
Bottom: To be continued in the March Issue.