Billy Bat 130

Ok, I managed to get this done among all the... other stuff. Whew, this chapter was tricky. A lot more... vagueness. Really this series is excellent in that area.

[Billy Bat 130 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Side: Lines, lines, lines!! Adults and children alike have been awaiting the new 'Billy Bat' comic!! But who is the author?!

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Woman: Dear, when exactly are you going to start cleaning the yard?!!
Dad: Y...... Yeah.
Kid: Daddyyyyy hurry u~~~p!
Hurry, I wanna read Billy Bat!!
Woman: Honestly~~~

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Chuck: I'll bet you're happy, eh?
When the first comic I wrote was printed
I was over the moon, too......
Timmy: Mr. Chuck......
And this author name.....
I was supposed to be a ghost writer, but......
Chuck: Kevin stuck up for you to the bitter end.

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Tim: Kevin Goodman& Timmy Sanada......
Title: Chapter 130 Joint Work [5/8]

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SFX: CHIIIIN
SFX: UIIIIIN
SFX: KAH KAH
Guy: Quite an impressive facility you have here, Mr. Morehouse.

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Morehouse: I merely inherited it as the previous owner had it.
He was trying to run away from his fears by building an immense stronghold deep underground.
Guy: His fears...... eh?
More: Though in the end, that fear crushed him and he killed himself, it seems.
Guy: I bought it.
SFX: BASAH

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Guy: It looks like yet another Billy Bat artist has appeared.
More: Kevin Goodman & Timmy Sadana......
They're both credited as authors, but......
Guy: Even on the streets they're arguing which one is the real author.
But someone that's followed Billy Bat all this time can tell.
This isn't Goodman's style.
This has a clear new feel to it.
So you're saying this Timmy Sanada man is drawing it?
Guy: Most likely.
More: How are people receiving it?
Guy: Well, the 'Billy Bat' series itself has been stopped for a year and a half now.

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Guy: But even considering that, there's been an incredible reaction.
There's a bit of an uproar over the new Billy Bat out in the world.
More: Is it interesting?
Guy: Why don't you read it and see?

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More: I see......
Guy: What do you think?
More: Well, the drama has only just started so I see the complete picture yet,
but this man appearing in the villain role......
This is clearly modeled after that man.
Guy: That man......?
More: One who sees America, the American people, and anyone who follows them as enemies.
That middle-eastern man.

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Guy: Hm...... Then is the cartoonist that drew that a real prophet?
More: I don't know that.
But what I can say is if this man is a government official or someone well acquainted with international relations, everyone is being marked.
The artist may just be gathering information for what he draws, however.
Guy: Which means......
we do not need to dispose of him immediately?
More: We should cautiously investigate whether or not he is an opponent we should erase.
Guy: Cautiously......?
That doesn't sound like you, Mr. Morehouse.
Kevin Goodman's security has gotten stricter.
And since some time ago he has stopped drawing 'Billy Bat' so we had not disposed of him, but......

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Guy: we disposed of all of the other artists involved in drawing 'Billy Bat' quite easily, didn't we?
More: By a request from the government side.
Guy: I see.
I didn't think they were the sort of people to keep acting on Culkin's last request forever.
I suppose the government people have their eye on this scroll, yes?
Morehouse: ..........
Guy: I believe I heard an urban legend along the lines of that the man who could solve the mysteries of this scroll........
could rule the world.

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More: For now, I just want to know the identity of this Timmy Sanada man.
Figure out who he is.
Guy: Understood, sir.
More: Also......
it is in your best interests not to stick your neck out where it doesn't belong.
You should know better than anyone what happened to people like that.......
Guy: ..........
U...... Understood.......
!!

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More: What is it.
Jeff: I just had an idea.
I said before that that number might be information about some location, right?
That it was recorded on the scroll to tell us that!!
More: Yes. I listened to you going on forever about that a few days ago.
Jeff: That's separate from what the "simpletons" are always saying
about watching out for the white and black bats.
Guy: Oh, I've heard about that.
Jeff: Why do you know about that stuff?!!
Guy: Ah...... Never mind.
I shouldn't stick my neck out where it doesn't belong......
Jeff: Why is it that number...... that location information was so important it was written on the scroll like that?

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Guy: I don't want to find out anything I shouldn't so I'll take my leave......
Jeff: What if that's where you meet the bat that's not black or white, the real, true bat?!
More: The real......
Guy: true......
Jeff: A bat that's neither black nor white.

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Tim: Mr. Kevin!!
HAA
HAA
My name......
My name is on the work!!
I heard that was because of you......
Kevin: Of course.
Though really, you're the only one that wrote it so really we only need your name on there.

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Kevin: But that stubborn woman said that she wouldn't publish it if my name weren't on there.
So I took that as a compromise.
But soon, my name will disappear and only your name, the name of the real author, will be left.
Audrey: Who's stubborn?!
Guys: !!
Audrey: This week's issue sold out in a flash! If you lollygag too long it'll be the deadline for the next one!
Tim: O...... Okay.
Audrey: If we can keep this up, we can resume the production on the Billy Bat movie that's been put on hold for so long.
SFX: KAH KAH

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Audrey: Soon you won't be able to play around like an amateur and have fun drawing just when you feel like it.
Do be sure to bear that in mind.
Kevin: Stubborn people's attitudes totally change when money's involved.
SFX: GOHON
SFX: KAH KAH KAH
Kevin: Well, despite all that, she does have an eye for quality.
It was also her that discovered me......
She's several times better than her dad, Chuck Culkin.

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Tim: There's one thing I'd like to ask.
The person that drew Billy Bat before you, Kevin-san, was that Mr. Chuck, yes?
Kevin: Yeah, that old man is Chuck.
Tim: Then who was the Chuck Culkin that did the 'Billy Bat Hour' on TV?
Kevin: Her dad, the founder of Culkin Enterprises.
And.......
a fraud.
Tim: And the name Chuck Culkin......?
Kevin: He took that old man's name for himself.
Tim: Then the person that did the 'Billy Bat Hour' on TV......

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Tim: Who was he?
Kevin: Nobody knows.
One day he suddenly appeared in front of Chuck,
he stole Chuck's master, Kevin Yamagata's, Billy Bat......
he made Chuck draw it
and started calling himself Chuck Culkin.

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Kevin: Then he constructed the Culkin Enterprises empire
and created the dream country called Billy Land.
Billy Bat...... it spread through America... and all over the world......
and that earned him a huge fortune.

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Kevin: Well, he may have just been an exemplary businessman.
Tim: I...... was always poor......
A place like this was a dream within a dream.
But I didn't start drawing Billy Bat so I could get a life like this.
Mr. Kevin, you were born into a rich family, too......
but I think you'd understand what I'm talking about.

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Tim: I just drew because I wanted to draw Billy Bat.
Is it okay if I donate my royalties?
The world is going to be heading in a bad direction.
I want to use these royalties on children don't have enough to eat or drink.

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Tim: I'm not like Chuck Culkin...... that man.
Culkin Enterprises will become a shelter for the future!!
I'm gonna go do the manuscript for next issue!!

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Audrey: What do you think?
Is he really a prophet?
Kevin: He said this,
"The world is going to be heading......"
" in a bad direction......"
Side: The world is heading in a bad direction...... What is Timmy's true motive?! And what will Kevin do?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 130 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!