Enigma 15

[Enigma 15 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Top: ☆An extra story is running in "Jump NEXT!" Check page 24!!
Title: әnígmә
e15. Before
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Sumio: Kurisu is a disqualified past participant...!?
And he's been locked in here ever since...!?
Middle Insert: President Matsurigi... makes a shocking confession!!
Matsurigi: Yes..........
Sumio: ............
SFX: Zawa zawa (muttering)
Author: Sakaki Kenji
Sumio: President... Why do you know that...!?
Could it be... Could it be you're also---

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Matsurigi: Yes... I am also a former participant.
And the sole escapee...!!
Sumio: Y... You, President....!?
Matsurigi: Yes... I'm sorry for hiding it.
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA
Matsurigi: But... Now that senpai is back like this,
let's talk... about the reality I experienced...!

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Matsurigi: Kurumiya-kun... Would you get me the photo from the first password?
Shigeru: O... Okay...
Matsurigi: It was one year and nine months ago----
For the 2nd e-test, five people were assembled...
SFX: Kachi kachi...
Matsurigi: And these were the members...!
Kurisu-senpai when he was in his second year and
me, from when I was in first year were both there!
Sumio: Ah...!?
It... It's true. It's a little hard to tell, but this is President...!
He has glasses... Our attention was totally taken up by Kurisu...!

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Sumio: President... What happened back then!?
If you escaped, why're you participating again!?
SFX: Su...
Matsurigi: By main reason... was to save him!!
I came to save Kurisu-senpai who got left behind because of me...!!
Sumio: ...!?
Sudou: ...Wait, Matsurigi. You know how dangerous this place is, right?
Even if you feel responsible, you're saying you came back here to save a low-life like this...?
Matsurigi: He is not a low-life!!
SFX: KIH

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Matsurigi: It's all because of the Shadow transformation...!
As the transformation into a Shadow progresses, your original character becomes its exact opposite!! [It's like a Hollow transformation but less stupid and less of a deus ex machina!]
It's suppressed right now. But it's happened to me, too, so I know. ...That repulsive feeling!
After you're touched by a Shadow, another self is born inside you. [It's like in Yugioh but, once again, less stupid.]
It's by no means a human that was within you... It has a nature opposite yours, a kind you would like the least to have in you!
And the moment you yield to him, you become a Shadow completely!
It was like that with senpai, too... The better a person he is
the more evil a Shadow he becomes...!!
---Yes, Kurisu-senpai was a person far from being evil.
The first time I met him was in my first year----

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Sign: Student Council
Kurisu: Best wishes to you this year, everyone!
I'm the 46th student body president, Kurisu Ryou.
You're sure to get busy, but don't give up and keep going!
And so God watches over you all...
Girls: President sure is cool, huh!?
I heard he's a Christian who was educated overseas in England, right?
SFX: HAHAHA
Kurisu: Ah, you're that first-year secretary, Matsurigi, right?
Matsurigi: Senpai, please take off those accessories. They're against the school rules.
SFX: GASH
Matsurigi: --Since then, I worked together with the President.
He was smart and was the first person who could ever discuss difficult math problems with.
And as student body president, he made negotiations with the school administration against things like bullying problems,
and he got famous performers and comedians for the school festivals, and was really popular with the students.

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Matsurigi: What I could not be... He was truly a perfect human.
As my eyes always followed his back, he seemed far away----
---And then one day, he was in church after his volunteer work.
Kurisu: This sure takes me back... A long time ago I came here to talk over my troubles...
Matsurigi: So even you have troubles, huh, senpai?
SFX: ZUZU...
Matsurigi: ----I still didn't have a firm grasp on my power yet,
and I inadvertently used my "Cubic Subtraction" which makes things smaller on something...!!
SFX: ZUZUZU...
Matsurigi: He... He saw it!!
Oh no... If this power gets out, what will people thing of me----?

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Kurisu: ...A long time ago, when when I openly discussed my troubles at church
a certain clergyman gave me this.
SFX: Chara...
"The meaning contained in the cross is 'trial'----"
"It's something given to a person because they can overcome it."
"If you don't give up, the trial will change into a treasure before long."
Every time I think of those words, my heart fills with courage...!
Matsurigi...
I'm the same... I've had a trial posed upon me...!
Matsurigi: ...Senpai!
----Ever since that day, a strange feeling of solidarity emerged between us.
We inspected each other's powers and started to spend days looking for the cause of them----

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Sumio: ............Kurisu was...
that kind of.... person...?
Matsurigi: Sorry... I'm drawling on with the story a bit...
Here's my main point...!
December 22nd of that unforgettable year's end----
Those terrible three days...!!
әnígmә: Kurisu Ryou, Matsurigi Jirou, Uesugi Kengo, Arai Yoshio, Kamiya Masaki----
The 2nd e-test will now commence.

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Matsurigi: Yes---- Just like in this one, the five of us awoke in the gymnasium
and were ordered to find the passwords within 3 days and escape...!!
Matsurigi: .........Senpai...
Kurisu: It's all right... No matter what happens, we'll over come it, don't give up...!!
Calm down, everyone!! Consider disorder as our enemy!!
Let's cooperate and get everyone out of here!!
Matsurigi: ---Thanks to Kurisu-senpai's cooperative leadership,
we searched for the passwords as a unit.
And in the process, we realized the other three, also----
though small, they held similar powers.
Kurisu: All five people...
seem to have talents meant to be used for this test...
Matsurigi: Yes...

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Sumio: ...A test in order to make them use their talents...!?
...I see. So like I thought, this situation was created in order to test our talents...?
Is that why changes have appeared with my Dream Diary, too...?
B... But if you only needed 5 passwords...
Matsurigi: ...Haiba.
You don't... realize your own importance.
if you had been there... all those things would never have...!!
Sumio: ......!?
Matsurigi: Only searching all over the school for the scattered passwords takes a considerable amount of time.
With the time limit drawing near, we had only obtained two passwords...!
Impatience and uneasiness brought fourth paranoia----
And that backlash got aimed towards the leader...!

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Matsurigi: Kurisu Senpai seemed perfect in anyone's eyes.
But... he was too perfect.
"No one's a match for him... One of the means for escape will probably end up as his."----
In that extreme situation without enough passwords, senpai's existence became almost something fearful.
Ironically, senpai's perfection-----
brought fourth the worst possible situation...!!
The other three thought "As things are going, I'm not going to be able to get out", and rebelled against senpai.
Slowly our unity came undone, and they started to try to steal the passwords fromeach other and get out ahead of the others.
And finally----

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SFX: FUH
Matsurigi: ...A Shadow!!
Kurisu: Hey, everyone!
Watch out, Matsurigi!!
SFX: GUIH
Matsurigi: Senpai, there's no time!
In this situation the only choice we have is for the two of us to go out and call for help...!!
SFX: DADADA

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Kurisu: ...............All right...!
This could get bad if we stay together. Let's split up and head for the roof to escape!!
We'll meet up again outside, Matsurigi!!
Matsurigi: Got it..........!!
If anything happens, please yell and I'll come help you!!
----Kurisu-senpai's back at that time...
for some reason... looked unreliable...
And finally... I reached that abominable place...!!

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Matsurigi: Ku... Kurisu-senpai...?
Senpai's password was entered...!
Typewriter: Iriai Beach
Matsurigi: He's already gone out...! Thank God!
SFX: ZAZAZAZA
Matsurigi: Dammit... The Shadow!!
There's only one minute until the time limit...! I've got to hurry!
SFX: Kachi kachih
Computer: Password No.3 confirmed.
Matsurigi Jirou only can now pass----
SFX: ZAZAZAZA

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SFX: GOGOGOGO...
Matsurigi: The exit...
opened...!!
Ku...
Kurisu-senpai! It's Matsurigi!
SFX: BAH
...Senpai? Where are you!?
You're here, right...!?
SFX: GOGOGOGO...

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Matsurigi: Kuh...
Computer: ---Time is up. e-test complete.
Sign: Matsuriji Jirou
Computer: Successful escapees, one: Matsurigi Jirou-----
SFX: JIRIRIRIRIRI
Matsurigi: Wh... What did this just say...?
O... One...? What about... senpai...?
W... Wait...
It can't be...
It can't be...!!

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Matsurigi: Kurisu-senpai's password, just before...
What if that... not entered yet...?
What if when he was there, a shadow came
and senpai got taken away...!?
That Shadow before... was that thing shining inside it...!?
Kurisu: Matsurigi...
help me, Matsurigi...!!
Matsurigi: Are you going to give up on me...!?
You... You------

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Matsurigi: I-----
What have I done!!?
Senpai... I abandoned him when he was right in front of my eyes!!
SFX: GATA GATA GATA
Matsurigi: It was at that moment----
that that voice that made my whole body fill with terror resonated said----
әnígmә: Congratulations Matsurigi Jirou...
You are the first successful participant...!!
Insert: What is that voice stating...!?
Bottom: әnígmә
...e15.
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