Dantalian no Shoka 8

043
Chapeter 2 Po-up book IV
Servant: ..... Tsh. // wha...


044
Clown: And you are... !? /
Conrad: Thank you for coming this evening.


045
Conrad: "The princess of the dark world" and "the young lock keeper"
Huey: ....... // [ This man is the real criminal who killed my grandpa. // ... Why is he smelling like blood?]
Huey: I am Huey Anthony Disward // excuse me but what do you mean by "The princess of the dark world" ?
Dalian: ......
Conrad: Pardon me


046
Conrad: It's an honour to be int he presence of "The princess of the dark world"
Huey: [Do these two know each other... ? ]


047
Huey: huh? // Wait a minute. // Do you know Conrad? // In that case you should had said that from the beginning.
Dalian: I have no time to get involved with someone like that. // We must hurry to get the book.
Huey: I know grandpa's book is important but, // I have to reveal that Conrad is the killer ... // [ ... huh? ]


048
Huey: [ Where did he disappear to? He was right behind us the whole time.. ] // We're quests after all.... // What is this sound...!? // Just now, was it the servants scream?
Salian: Yes. // Seems like we're late after all.


049
Huey: huh.... // ... hei // Thats the... // .. .Tsh. // Crap... // You can newer know what waits ahead.


050
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051
Huey: ..... ghh // ....Wh- // What the hell is going on? // This is ..


052
Huey: Dalian / do you know something? // What the hell is going on in this manor?
Servant: .... ghhh.
Huey: !! // Are you ok? // Keep it together... // Crap... // Please tell me !!


053
Dalian: Its the north tower. // The one witch released this abnormal events ... is in the Conrad's study.
Huey: the Study? // Conrad is the one responsible for this horror?
Dalian: No. / That is not correct.
Huey: Dalian?


054
Huey: What is it Dalian?
Dalian: Don't hide, come out.


055
Huey: Wh- // What is that!?


056
Huey: He came... / out of a paper!?


057
Huey: !!
Clown: *...... Kuke?*


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059
Huey: What was that...?
Dalian: He's ... // just a lousy tool.
Huey: But I saved you from that "Lousy tool".
Dalian: No one asked to be saved!!
Heuy: my-/my.. // Can't you express any gratitude?
Dalian: In that case save me from that also !!


060
Huey: heh?
Dalian: From that tiger!!!
Huey: .. ah!! // Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh- // Why is there a tiger inside the house---!? // whoa! // I'll save you!


061
Heuy: There is no way I'll aim a gun at 200kg weighing wild animal---!!!


062
Heuy: ...... // Looks like we have to hide in here for a little while. // My-my
Dalian: Do you know the story of "The World in the Vase" ?
Huey: The World in the Vase.... A tale from the east?. // I remember some sort of a legend.


063
Huey: [The World in the Vase / A man who lived in the Jyonan, was wondering about and found the vase of Shinsen* // The vase was guarding a huge palace and a wast universe inside it.] // That universe is called the The World in the Vase...
Dalian: Surprisingly you do know something, I praise you for that.
Huey: well thank you... but why bring up the story?
Dalian: That is not the end of the tale. Soon after that the Southern Dynasty was perished // With that the "World in the Vase" was lost. // And now, more than three hundred years ago it has ended up to the hands of a king.
Huey: ... a king?
Dalian: King of the capital of dark sorcery, Prague. The Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
TN *Shinsen - taoism immortal wizard*

064
Dalian: [ The king took advantage of the Vase power. / He collected the dark magics // forbidden manuals. // Wizards and sages of the old times wanted to get a hold of that wisdom, you see, // In order to protect it // countless numbers of forbidden literature was burned. // So the king wrote down the knowledge of devils, and collected them for himself to a secret library. // In order to protect the knowledge form other countries he collected the information about demons into the World of the Vase. // A foolish story...


065
Dalian: In the world there are things // one should not know.
Huey: Thats true.. // Well it was a interesting fairytale.
Dalian: Wh.. // A fairytale!? // Didn't you sense the mystery in this place!?
Huey: I am a realist, I believe only what I can see with my own eye.
Dalian: What are you talking about you imbecile...
Huey: I do acknowledge that something // is going on in the manor...


066
Huey: [ Crushed to death..? What the hell? // A corpse that looks like a big Elephant would had trampled it... ]
Dalian: Yes. // That is correct.
Huey: But a Elephant inside a house ....!!
Dalian: Just as you said. // Do you still not comprehend it? // The clown, // The tigers // Elephant...


067
Dalian: It's "The Circus"


068
Dalian: The ones wandering about the manor // are the Circus performers. // Knife throwers, rope walkers // There probably is a big reptile around also. // Don't you know the Harlequinade?
Huey: Harlequinade...
Dalian: An illustrated book that has moving pictures - a pop-up book. / I am sure you must have had it when you were a kid.
Huey: Wait up Dalian... // What are you talking about?


069
Dalian: I am tailing about the Phantom book // Conrad stole after killing Wes. // Tonight is the full moon. // The book has crossed the boundaries.

070
Huey: !?
Dalian: In this world there are phantom books that should not exist. // The devils books.

071
Dalian: If a person who knows how to read the book possesses it, / then good fortune and bless will fall upon him. // However, / If a person who lacks knowledge opens it, the book will cross over to this world. // Only thing that can seal those books... // ... is the labyrinth library.
Huey: "Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian"
Dalian: Yes. / Your grandpa Wes learned about the book of Harlequinade and the misfortune it brings to its owner and tried to seal it away.


072
Dalian: However.. // Once his rival Conrad found out about it, he eliminated him.
Huey: That is the reason my grandpa was murdered... // and the book stolen. // I can't believe it. // For a illustration to be able to turn into a real thing!
Dalian: You're still stuck on that... //... Tsh. // !!


073
Huey: Don't worry, // Believe in me!!
Dalian: ........ // Huey...
Huey: Just stay here, // Run away once you get the chance...
Dalian: Huey?
Huey: Please escape, / I'll be the prey.


074
Huey: If I take them out, // There is no telling weather or not they'll hurt the village people.
Dalian: take out your key, // Human
Huey: Dalian! // Its no time to talk about that...


075
Huey: crap... // ghaaaa // aaaaa
Dalian: I don't like this but there is no other way. // If you truly posses the qualifications to be the "lock keeper" read out the binding words.
Huye: Pain... // [ What is she talking about? // The words engraved // on this key....?


076
Huey: [The binding words--- // Shit, I can't take it anymore！！！ ] // This I ask of thee-


077
Huey: This I ask of thee- // Art thou mankind?
Dalian: Nay.
Huey: ... wha.


078
[ I ask of thee // Art thou mankind?]

Pop-up book IV END