Kurenai 39

Chapter 39

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Ritsu: Look, look!
Ritsu: Look how high up I am!
Text: Volume 6 is on sale now!

Ritsu: Father.
Ritsu: Mother.

Ritsu: Look!
Ritsu: Isn't it amazing!?

Text: Memories of her forever lost parents...

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SFX: Clatter clatter

SFX: Kathoom...

Ritsu: Ahh...
Ritsu: They made it in time....

Ritsu: Now I can...
Ritsu: finally...

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Text: Lin Cheng-shin lives by her devotion!!
Title: Chapter 39 Tragedy and Tragedy
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

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Shinkurou: Good...
Shinkurou: They haven't made it to Ritsu-san yet...

Shinkurou: I need to get her somewhere safe...

SFX: Step
Bigfoot: So she's here...

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SFX: Turn

Shinkurou: <Bigfoot>!!?
Shinkurou: Impossible!! I didn't sense anyone tailing m-...

Shinkurou: So he followed me!!
Shinkurou: And he gave off no presence!!

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Shinkurou: If I let him get beyond here, it's over!!
SFX: Grip
Shinkurou: I have to do it here!!

Shinkurou: I have to use the power of the Horn of <Houzuki>!!

SFX: Breeze

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Nurse: Doctor!!
Nurse: We need to get out of here!!
Doctor: I-I already told you we can't do that!!
Doctor: The shutters are down, so we wouldn't be able to get to the exit even if we tried!!

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SFX: Thoom...

Nurse: Doctor!!!
Doctor: B-but we can't leave the patient-

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Shinkurou: Khah!

Bigfoot: So Shiguhara Ritsu...
Bigfoot: is here!!

SFX: Grab

Bigfoot: Hm?

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Shinkurou: ...W-...

Shinkurou: Wait...

SFX: Smash

SFX: Wham wham

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Bigfoot: Gyahah!!
SFX: Wham wham
Bigfoot: H-he still hasn't broken!!

SFX: Wham

Ritsu: Shinkurou-kun.

Ritsu: Has the last 8 years been a happy time for you?

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Shinkurou: I feel that I worked hard.

Shinkurou: I feel that because my family died...

Shinkurou: I truly did work hard.

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SFX: Grab

SFX: Slam

Shinkurou: I worked to get stronger and stronger.

Shinkurou: I worked to be able to protect those who were important to me.

SFX: Clank

Shinkurou: I worked so that I would never be alone again.

Shinkurou: And yet...

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Shinkurou: And yet...!!

SFX: Ksshh...
SFX: Ksh...
Murasaki: Shin...kurou...

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SFX: Ksh...
Murasaki: H...

Murasaki: -elp...me...

SFX: Sword impacts
Murasaki: Shinkurou...

Murasaki: Kirihiko...
Murasaki: and Lin are...!!

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Murasaki: Why...?
Murasaki: Why do the two of them have to fight!?

Murasaki: Please stop them!!!
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!!

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SFX: Thoom

Bigfoot: Gyahah

SFX: Stop
Bigfoot: Hm?

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Shinkurou: Out of the way.

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SFX: Thoom

Shinkurou: Murasaki.

Shinkurou: I'm sorry, Murasaki, but please wait a bit.
Shinkurou: Can you wait...
Shinkurou: for 5...no, 1 minute?

Murasaki: Yeah.

Shinkurou: I'll be there soon.

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SFX: Sharp

SFX: Heartbeat

Bigfoot: Oh.

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Bigfoot: Ohh!!!

SFX: Touch

SFX: Stop

Shinkurou: I told you to get out of the way.

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SFX: Wham

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SFX: Collapse
Shinkurou: And stay down.

SFX: Open

Shinkurou: R-
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san!!

SFX: Twitch

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Ritsu: Good...
Ritsu: They made it in time...

SFX: Looming
Shinkurou: Eh?

SFX: Smile

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SFX: Flash

SFX: Boom

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SFX: Crumble

SFX: Crash

SFX: Jump

SFX: Crash smash

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Shinkurou: I never thought he would self-destruct...

Shinkurou: Ri-

Ritsu: Ahh...
Ritsu: This is perfect.

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Shinkurou: I-I'll go get a doctor!!
Ritsu: No.

Ritsu: I'm fine...

Ritsu: ...Hey, Shinkurou-kun.

Ritsu: Where do you think...
Ritsu: people go when they die?

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Ritsu: Do you think they all go to the same place?
Ritsu: I don't.

Ritsu: That's what my mother said.

Ritsu: My father and my mother were "killed".
Ritsu: They didn't die in an accident, in the hospital, of natural causes, or of suicide.
Ritsu: They went to the other world after being "killed" by a villain.

Ritsu: So...
Ritsu: in order to go to the same place...
Ritsu: that my parents went to...
Ritsu: I had to be "killed" by a villain, too.

Shinkurou: You don't mean...

Ritsu: Yes.
Ritsu: I was the one that hired the Akuu Company.
Ritsu: I was going to die before long anyway...
Ritsu: so I hired them to kill me before I did.

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Shinkurou: But...
Shinkurou: that's just suicide.

Ritsu: No, it isn't.
Ritsu: I...
Ritsu: made sure to try and live.

Ritsu: I accepted Genjou-sama's kindness and had the guards stationed here.
Ritsu: And I hired you as a dispute mediator.
Ritsu: See? I made an attempt to live.

SFX: Cough

Ritsu: I'm sorry, Shinkurou-kun...

Ritsu: But I...
Ritsu: have something...
Ritsu: that I have to do...
Ritsu: no matter what...

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Ritsu: I have to go to the other side...
Ritsu: and apologize...

Ritsu: I have to tell...
Ritsu: mother and father...
Ritsu: that I'm sorry...

Shinkurou: Ri-...

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Shinkurou: I...
Shinkurou: sort of understand how you feel.

Shinkurou: When my family...
Shinkurou: died and I didn't...

Shinkurou: I wished that I could die...
Shinkurou: and see them again so many times...

Shinkurou: Ritsu-san, you were...
Shinkurou: wishing that these 8 years too...
Shinkurou: So please...
Shinkurou: grant that wish for yourself.

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Shinkurou: And enjoy it for me since I can't die yet.

Shinkurou: I'm sure...
Shinkurou: you'll see them all agai-

SFX: Thoom...
SFX: Clatter

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SFX: Crash

Shinkurou: Lin-san!!?

SFX: Land

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Lin: ...Kurenai!?

Lin: Ah!!

SFX: Stab

Shinkurou: L-

Shinkurou: Lin-san!!!
Text: A killing strike!!
Bottom: To be continued In the April Issue.