Billy Bat 63

[Billy Bat 63 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Newsman: We return to our ongoing story.
Yesterday, a reporter at the Dallas Times Herald, Mr. Jim Casey
was found dead at his home.
Mr. Casey was the reporter in charge of the Kennedy Assassination case.
Jackie: UWA......
Side: Oswald, Ruby, Casey...... Mysterious deaths are occurring one after another.......Will Jackie Momochi be next!?

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Newsman: Casey was investigating the apartment of Jack Ruby, the man who killed the suspect for the presidential assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald,
together with Detective Tom Howard and Long Beach press Telegram reporter Mr. Bill Hunter.....
Title: Chapter 63 Coincidence

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Newsman: At that time, they discovered something.
He had been in the middle of writing a book relating to presidential assassination.
Jackie: ..........
Furthermore, police have identified Casey's cause of death as
a blow to the throat, specifically a karate chop.
Jackie: Ka...... Ka......
Momochi: Karate Chop!!
Jackie: WAA!!

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Jackie: Don't scare me like that, Dad!!
Momochi: I thought the culprit might be Rikidouzan, but he was killed in Tokyo last year by a gangster.
But the whole karate chop thing sounds like there's a connection to a Japanese.
Jackie: ...........
Momochi: What's wrong?
Jackie: N......Nothing......
Momochi: So this is the 13th person, huh.......?
Jackie: What?
Momochi: Since President Kennedy's assassination, Oswald and Jack Ruby and these guys...
And the FBI and the CIA......

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Momochi: Anyhow, 13 people who were either important witnesses or related to that incident in some way.......
died in strange ways.
Jackie: .........
SFX: *Swaaaay*
Momochi: Hey, Jackie.
Jackie: Yeees......
Momochi: Have you not been going to school recently?
Jackie: N......No, I'm going.......
Momochi: You liar. You mother told me she hears you rumbling around in your room during the day.
Jackie: That's because it's dangerous to go outside!!
Momochi: Huh?

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Jackie: Ah......I mean, ya know, I went to Texas, didn't I?
Momochi: Yeah. You went to the Alamo in Texas to do research.
Jackie: That was right when the presidential assassination happened.
Momochi: Hm...... So?
Jackie: So? C'mon, you just said it, didn't you?
People related to it and important witnesses are dying.
Momochi: How are you related to it or an important witness?
Jackie: No...... I'm just saying............
Momochi: Are you saying that anyone that was in Texas at the time is in danger?
If you've got so much time to think up excuses for skipping school, go study geography!!
The Alamo and Dallas are 300 miles apart, aren't they?!!

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Jackie: Ah...... Yes....... Okay.........
Nevermind......
Momochi: What's the point of that big scholarship of yours anyway?
If you don't feel like studying, quit school and go to work!!
Jackie: I do feel like studying!!
Momochi: What's with you all of a sudden!!
Jackie: I do feel like studying, but just not here!!
Momochi: Not here!?
Jackie: Not somewhere dangerous, like here, America.......
Say, for example..........
Japan!!
Yeah! I have these looks so I thought I should study Japanese more!!
And I want to do some job bridging together Japan and America!!
[You and me both... God, why is there so much talking...]

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Momochi: I see. Now you're speaking responsibly.
We, the Momochi clan have a long and distinguished family heritage of warriors.
Japanese is a given. And learning Japanese culture and the heart of Japan is important.
And more than anything, learning bushidou is something we should have as part of our family lineage.
But......
Jackie: But.......?
Momochi: We, the Momochi clan, haven't got the kind of money needed for studying abroad!!
Jackie: Right, right...

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Jackie: Ah...... Dad.
Momochi: Hm?
Jackie: I collected all the Golden Cola bottle caps, didn't I? The trip to Japan prize......
Momochi: You're not gonna win something like that!!
Just hurry up and get to school!!
Jackie: Okay, okay..........

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Jackie: E~~~veryone looks suspicious......
There's no way I can tell anyone I knew Oswald.
The fact that I'm still okay right now is probably because I've kept my mouth shut......
And if I told Dad, his life would be in danger, too.............

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Girl: It's been a while, Jackie!!
Jackie: GYAAAA!!
Girl: What's wrong?
Jackie: Hah
Hah
N-n-n......Nothing at all......!!
Girl: Jackie, you've been out for a while, so you haven't seen the call for you on the bulletin board, right?
Jackie: Call?
Girl: From the History of Oriental Religion Professor, Professor McCormick.
McCormick: It's been a long time since then, but......

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McCormick: you're showing me no indication of handing in a finished report.
Jackie: Y...... Yes......
McCormick: As things stand, I can't give you credit for the class.
Jackie: Yes......
McCormick: But since it happened, I've been interested in that statement you made.
Jackie: Um...... Which statement was that again......?
McCormick: I was surprised!
Jackie: ..........!!
McCormick: What you said about Father Xavier's first disciple,
Yajirou............
Jackie: Yes......

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McCormick: You said he was a ninja from Iga.
Jackie: U......Umm...
Well......
McCormick: Here in here. Yajirou, in this "History of Iga"!!
Jackie: Aaaaah.
McCormick: How did you know?
There is a story of Tenhou Era Iga about a ninja who betrayed Iga and his name was Yajirou...... There's a possibility he they were the same person.
How did you know that?
Jackie: Ah~~~ Well~~~
Things lots of things happened.......
McCormick: Well anyhow, please write it.
Jackie: Eh!?

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McCormick: Yes. Please go to Japan to do field work, Miss Momochi.
Jackie: Fie...... Fie......?
McCormick: While you're in Japan, I'll give you credit for attending lecture.
Jackie: Uwa~~~
McCormick: For someone like me who has studied history for many long years, I know this well.
There are people that are selected by history.
Jackie: Huh?
McCormick: Investigating this is your destiny.
Jackie: Uwaaaa, you're starting to sound like the bat.
McCormick: What was that?

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Jackie: N......
Nothing, sir.............
Momochi: Sir, there's construction going on in the direction of the east village so I'll be taking a detour.
Kurusu: Sure, I don't mind.
Driver, you like Billy Bat, do you?
Momochi: Yeah, you mean this?
This little guy hangs her and navigates for me.
Kurusu: Navigates?
Momochi: He tells me which whey to go when I'm lost.
Kurusu: Haha......
Interesting.
Momochi: But I prefer the old Billy Bat.
Do you know about him, sir?
The guy who makes the Billy that's really popular right now is Chuck Culkin, but......
The original was made by a guy named Kevin Yamagata who's a Japanese American like me.

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Kurusu: Heh. So you're a Japanese American, driver?
Momochi..........?
Momochi: Yes, Momochi!!
Despite how I look, I'm from a lineage of samurais with a real history.
There are stories of us having commanded ninjas, too.
Kurusu: Ninjas, really......? Heeeh...
Have you ever gone to Japan, driver?
Momochi: I'm second generation, so I've still never been.
Kurusu: I hear Golden Cola's holding a contest where the prize is a trip to Japan.
Momochi: Yeah, I entered.
But I'll never win something like that.

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Kurusu: Is there a grave site of your ancestors or something you could visit?
Momochi: Yeah, visiting graves?
There could be but the truth is....
It's a story passed down for generations, but one of my ancestors......
He hid a scroll or somewhere, or something like that.......
Kurusu: Scroll...........?
Momochi: Yeah, it's some sort old document they have in Japan, it's coiled, like this.
Kurusu: So what about the scroll?
Momochi: Yeaaaah. Well it's kind of an absurd old legend.

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Momochi: They say that the one who hold that scroll controls the world.
Momochi (old): My name......
is Momochi Sandayuu.
Where did you hide the scroll?

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Kanbei: The bat transports people somewhere......
It is there before the people are born..........
and is still there.........
after they perish......
Always just sneering at people's foolishness.
Momochi: I'm done listening to this nonsense!!
!!

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Momochi: Sounds like a real traditional story, though, doesn't it?
Ninjas stealing a scroll from each other and all that.
Kurusu: Heeeh. That is a really interesting story.
Ah......
Driver, I can get out here.
Momochi: Kay.
Kurusu: You should really go to Japan sometime.
Momochi: Hehe, yeah, I guess.
Kurusu: Give my regards to your daughter.

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Momochi: Okay, thank you.
SFX: BAMU
SFX: BUOOON
Momochi: Hm?
Regards to my daughter?
Did I talk about my daughter?
Billy...... Did I mention Jackie to him?

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SFX: CHI.. CHICHI...
Momochi: Jackiiiie!!
Wake up, Jackie!!
Jackie: Wha...... What......?

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Momochi: We won!!
Jackie: Huh?
Momochi: I won the Golden Cola trip to Japan!!
[The misspelling on congratulations is so racist... Also the word "Nortificate".]
Side Text: Whether it's a dream or it's real, and who made it happen...... What is the future of Jackie and her father in going Japan, boiling with the Olympics, which is connected to their fates......!?
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 63 / End
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