Billy Bat 129

Ok, I got this one done tonight, too. So there, caught up with that yet again. Hopefully with the 2nd half, I won't get caught having to do 2 a week again.

[Billy Bat 129 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Billy: Yo.
A-hem.
Side: Welcome to the Billy Bat room. Welcome to the Billy Bat room. Welcome......

Page 2:
Billy: Welcome to the Billy Bat room.
Title: Chapter 129 America's Enemy [4/8]

Page 3:
Billy: ......
Hey, is anybody listenin'?!

Page 4:
Billy: Aaaah, geez!!
Heeey, ya hear meeee?!!
No good.
HEEEEY!!

Page 5:
Billy: Darn!!
Hey, anybody in theeere?!!
Man, I give up........
I seriously give up......

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Jackie: Okaaay, gather around everyooone!
This is a model of the ship 'the Santa Maria' used by Columbus to discover the new world.
But what I'd like all of you to know
is that Columbus never knew that what he discovered was a 'new Continent' even to his death.
He always assumed that what he had reached was India.
So......
one could say that he didn't "discover" the 'new world' at all......
Billy: Yo.

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Jackie: Yes, what is it? Please raise your hand if you have a question?
Billy: It's me! Mee!!
Jackie: Um, who was that? Please raise your hand.
Billy: The Vikings landed in the Americas before Columbus did.
Jackie: That's right!! Good one. Viking nails were found in Newfoundland.
Ones from before the age of Columbus..........
Guys: ?
Jackie: Someone here's been really studying, who was that?
BIlly: Later, Oswald protected your life.
Jackie: Huh?
Billy: Was the Golden Cola Oswald gave you in the school book repository tasty?

Page 8:
Jackie: Y...... You again?!!
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA
Billy: Take a break from that museum. Hurry up and go meet him like i told you to!
Jackie: Aaah! Shut up! Shut up!
Shut up! Shut up!!
Billy: Kevin. Not Yamagata,
Goodman. Go see Kevin Goodman.
Hey, do you hear me?
Hey!!
Dang.
I got cut off.

Page 9:
Billy: Geez...... I can't believe she's the only one I can get a connection with......
Looks like there's nothing I can do......
At this rate......
somethin' big's gonna happen to the Earth.
At times like this, my only choice is to rely on the scroll, but......
Now that scroll is at Morehouse's place......
Maybe I can get somebody ta go steal it............
But......
For the proper "simpleton"......

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Billy: I guess there's really only one door that I've got an inkling for......
I'm kinda sensing a presence that I think can hear me on the other side......
Hey!
If you can hear me, respond!
The Earth's in trouble!
Respond!

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SFX: SHA SHA SHA
SFX: KARI KARI KARI KARI

Page 12:
Audrey: I see. I guess I should've expected that you weren't recommending him as your successor for nothing.
This boy really is incredible.
Kevin: Ain't he?
Timmy Sanada's gonna be the next Billy Bat artist.
A new era of Billy Bat is gonna start.
Then I'll publicly retire.
Audrey: No can do.
Kevin: Why?
Audrey: Because the readers want to read your Billy Bat.

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Audrey: The 'Billy Bat' of the prophet Kevin Goodman.
Kevin: That's just something you said on your own!!
Audrey: Culkin Enterprises will announce it purely as a Kevin Goodman authored 'Billy Bat'.
Kevin: Hey,
what're you saying?
Audrey: You're the one who said he didn't want to draw anymore, yes?
So we'll have Timmy be your ghost writer.
Kevin: Wh.....
What did you say......?

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Kevin: Then it's the same thing as what your dad did, isn't it?!!
Audrey: Yes.
I hated my father.
But now that I'm in the same position as him, for the first time......
I understand how great he was.

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Audrey: I couldn't stand this smug face,
but every week children couldn't wait to see it on TV.
He never once let his over 10,000 employees or their family go hungry
and one after another he would supply dream-like entertainment. And finally, he got people all over the world......

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Audrey: to love America.
What do you think? That's something even Kennedy couldn't do.
Kevin: ..........
Audrey: Well then, we must go right away to seeTimmy.
Kevin: Huh?
Audrey: To tell him. That he'll be drawing BIlly as a ghost writer.
If he's not happy about that......

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Audrey: I'll forbid him from drawing Billy at all.
Kevin: H......
Hey, hold on a second!
Audrey: I have the authorship rights to Billy, you know.
Kevin: ..........

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timmy: Ghost...... writer,
huh......?
Kevin: Turn it down.
That's not the job you accept.
Audrey: This is just while we're gauging your abilities.
If your Billy gets established as really good and popular, we'll publish your name as the author.
We have to think about sales.
If we suddenly have a newcomer that no one's heard of as the author, the customers will leave.
Kevin: Don't take anything somebody like her says at face value.

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Tim: I want to draw Billy.
Kevin: Hey!
Audrey: Would anyone whose ideas for Billy have all dried up, please be quiet?
Kevin: .........
Audrey: Then you'll draw without putting your name on it?
Chuck: Stop!!
What you drew
is yours.

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Chuck: I know that better than anybody.
You shouldn't draw for other people.
Draw for yourself.
Tim: For myself...............
Then..........
whether it's somebody else's name or not, I'm gonna draw now.

Page 21:
Kevin: Huh......?
Tim: I want to do something for others.
I've thought that ever since I was a kid.
I want to make a world with no hunger.
I want to make a world where anyone can always drink delicious water.
If I can't do something that big yet, then as my first step towards it
at the very least......
I want to draw an entertaining comic and make people happy.
And......
if I don't draw now...............
If I don't draw now............
the story of in my head...............

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Tim: might explode.
Kevin: The story will...............
Chuck: explode......?
Audrey: Is that because it's a prophecy?
You want to get the story out there before it becomes reality?
Kevin: What're you talking about?!!

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Audrey: You said the same thing before.
Kevin: ..........
Audrey: That's it, isn't it?
That's what I want. Your real predictions.
The Billy your drawing now is really interesting.
This one with two countries fighting......
I heard it from Kevin. One of the countries
is America, right?

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Audrey: So what happens? What comes next in the story?
If this prediction is correct, the sales will be unfathomable.
Kevin: Stop.
Audrey: Who is going to attack America, the country the whole world loves?
Side: Can Timmy hear Billy's voice......?! And with the America beloved the world over, can it even now still be hated?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 129 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!