Billy Bat 66

This is the chapter that I was dreading doing with sooo much text, talking, and references to geopolitical stuff... I think they get easier past here, of the ones I still need to do.

[Billy Bat 66 Translation by Kewl0210]
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SFX: GOUUN
GOUUN
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Insert: The Popular Semi-Monthly Series
Urasawa Naoki
Story Collaboration
Nagasaki Takashi
SFX: GOUUN
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Momochi: Come on, go.
Jackie: Eh......?
Why can't you just go, Dad?
Momochi: If a girl goes it'll make him feel better about saying okay.
Jackie: But how do I ask?
Side: This trip is Golden Cola contest's prize, the Japan Tour. You have my sincere congratulations. Now, straight to Japan!

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Momochi: Just say you're a long time Billy Bat fan and you'd like his autograph, please.
Jackie: But the Billy I like isn't his, it's Chuck Culkin's Billy.
Momochi: Well just make sure you don't say that. There's nothing more hurtful that you could say to him!
Jackie: O...... Okay, got it......
Anyhow, even I was searching for that guy before......
Momochi: What was that?
Jackie: Ah, nothing, never mind..........
Momochi: Here's a notebook and a pen. Have him write on this!!
Jackie: Haaaah...... Okay, okay, got it......
But still...... I really don't feel like doing this.
Recently that bat's disappeared and I can't hear that odd flapping noise anymore.....

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Jackie: I'd rather do nothing to disturb the waters here......
Ah...... The seat next to him just opened up......
Haaaah, I guess I've got no excuse now.............
Ah..... Um~~~~
*Cough*
Are you Mr. Kevin Yamagata?

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Title: Chapter 66 Japan Travel Diary
Jackie: The cartoonist..........?

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Jackie: Ah...... Ahaha, sorry for bothering you like this......
Is it okay if I sit net to you for a sec?
Um...... I'm a long time fan.
So..... Umm...........
..........
Kevin: A notebook and a pen.
Jackie: Ah..... Ah, thank you very much. You'll give me your autograph?
SFX: SARA SARA
Jackie: Ooh!!
Ooh!!

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Jackie: Th...... Thank you............
.......Hm?
[Shit's already in pseudo-English]
Fuji Pontarou............ Ahahah......
That's not what I meant, actually, Mr. Kevin, um....... You know...... that other one......
SFX: SARA SARA

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Billy: Yo!

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Jackie: !!
Kevin: What's wrong?
Jackie: Ah......
N...... Nothing......
W..... Well, it's just that......
Um......
It's like your drawing is jumping off the page.
Kevin: It's not that great.

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Jackie: That's not so, it is good.
My dad actually said this cartoon moved him to tears............
Um......
I......
was searching for you.
Were you.........
in Dallas?
Mr. Oswald was looking for you, too.

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Kevin: You're......!?
Guy: A-hem.
Jackie: Ah......
Excuse me!!
Kevin: Ah.....
You......!!
SFX: DOSUUN

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SFX: GOUUN GOUUN GOUUN GOUUN

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Placards: Chief Mourner
SFX: POKU POKU POKU POKU
People: No matter what you say about him, he was a good mayor.
You're right. No matter what anyone says.
I never would've thought he'd kill himself.
No foolin'.
He seemed like the kind of person who'd never think of suicide.
And he was a greedy guy all the way to the end.
He was worried about money, was he?
Are you an idiot?!!
Do you think he was worried about money when he took so much from us in village dues?
Oh!!

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Shirts: Koumori
People: It looks like he's going home first.
Devivie: Who is that man?
People: What? You don't know?
It's the village elder, man!!
Devivie: Elder..........?
People: Uwah, a...... A foreigner!!
Since when has he been here!?
H...... H...... How'd he get here if he can't communicate with us!!?

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Devivie: By that do you mean he's the person in this village who's lived longest?
People: What? Do you not understand?
Since many years ago, he always travels like that when he needs to go somewhere.
Young ones carry him on on their shoulders.
They always need to bring him to the tops of the cliffs every morning at sunrise to pray.
I had to do it once, too. It was a tough job.
Devivie: So you say he's even more eminent than the deceased mayor?
People: I'd say so. The mayor is mayor as a job.
But the elder is the elder purely by living.
Devivie: I see.
Then I had best pay him a greeting.
People: Who is that foreigner?
I heard he gave the kids patches.

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People: Patches?
Yeah. From that TV manga "Billy Bat".
But man, we spoke with a foreigner!!
And he understood us!!
You idiot!! No one even used English once!
Yeah, seriously! Hahhahhah
Guy: HUA~~~~
Devivie: I am Henry Charles Devivie.

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Devivie: What happened to the mayor certainly was terrible.
Yesterday when he was still alive, I heard quite a bit from him.
It seems he truly loved this village.
Let me speak frankly.
I've come here in order to use this town's land to develop an amusement park.

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Devivie: But the mayor said he was firmly against selling this village.
Might you have any difference of opinion, elder?
Indeed.
Anyhow, after the war, when there was an attempt for this town to be purchased for the national railway, that mayor had not yet been the mayor.
And the mayor who refused to sell at that time,
was you, elder.
And even though president of the national railways, Shimoyama, petitioned you to sell many times,
you have resolutely refused to give up this land.

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Devivie: As things are going, this village will be left out of the progress of the world.
This area must be made into "Billy Land".
Do you have any inclination for giving up this village if it's for the same of children's dreams?
Is the scroll that important?

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Devivie: You know about the scroll......
Don't you?
Do not play dumb......
Elder: What......
What do..........
you know......?
Devivie: I don't know, that's why I am asking.

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Devivie: Regarding the scroll......
Elder: Y......
Y......
You were the one who caused the mayor to......!?

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Jackie: Hey, uh, when we get to Japan, where you wanna go first?
I guess the place to be right now has gotta be Tokyo Olympics.=
Momochi: You idiot, we're heading straight for the land connected to the Momochi family!!
Jackie: Huh?
Momochi: During the war in Tenshou Era Iga, the Momochi clan lost that land and the second generation survived as part of the dangerous Negoro-Shuu.
We'll visit that land that's part of our family heritage. We're headed to Kii Province!!
Jackie: Ki...... Kii Province......?
Where?
Momochi: Why did our Momochi ancestors have to face such hardships.......?
If only Mimizu Yajirou hadn't betrayed us, we the Momoya family would have flourished long ago.......
Jackie: Yajirou!?
Momochi: Yes...... If Yajirou hadn't betrayed us, your old man wouldn't be driving a taxi today, I can tell you that.

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Jackie: Yajirou.......
Momochi: Maybe if we get to Kii Province, we'll be able to take back our history.
Jackie: Take back our history......?
Momochi: There might be a treasure sleeping there.
Jackie: Treasure!?
Momochi: Quiet down!!
Listen, this is a secret handed down through the Momochi family for generations.
Jackie: Huh!?
SGX: GOUUN...
GOUUN
GOUUN
GOUUN

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People: The elder should be about done praying now.
Geez, this is tiring~~~
Huh? Someone's going down to the valley.
It's that foreigner.
Looks like he's going fishing.
My little brother was happy when he gave him a patch.
A patch? What?
Ya know, of that, uh, "Billy Bat"
He sure is a generous foreigner.
Elder, we're here to pick you up~~~
..........

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Guys: Elder......?
Elder----------!!
Side: The second victim...... Through joy or sorrow, Devivie's Billy Land construction plan is steadily progressing......!!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 66 / End
Next chapter appears in issue 44 going on sale 9/29! Look forward to it!