JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8 JoJolion 51

They're losing, they're losing, they're losing their Vitamin C...

[JoJolion 51 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Insert: Get your hands on that 'Rokakaka branch'!
Insert: The newest, volume (12) goes on sale March 18th!!
Title: #051 Graft

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Narr: Aishou in the process of delivering a Rokakaka...
Sign: Kyushin Heart Tonic
1891 Yen
Box: Kyushin

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Jose: I finally found it! Da~~~ng, every other store was sold outta the stuff!
But I fi~~~nally found so~~~~~~~me!
'Eye Eye SYAA!'
'Scue me.
This eye medicine
is ju~~st like they say in the commercials! So damn refreshing!
Naw, even more than they say!
I can't sta~~~nd when I run out. Better buy a bunch!
Yeah, I think I'll just buy 'em all!
SFX: GOSORI
SFX: GORON

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Dai: ..................
SFX: GLANCE
Sign: Eye Eye SYAA!
Kira: Um~~~
You wouldn't happen to have...
that 'Eye Eye SYAA!' stuff, the eye medicine they're showing in commercials on TV all the time,
would you?
Dainen: .............
Guy: Ah~~!!
Hm... I'm afraid we just sold out a minute ago. ["just" in italics.]

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Kira: Aw, really...?
I've been trying drug stores all over town and they're all sold out......
There's pollen in the air...
And I'm gonna be pulling an all-nighter toni~~ght.
Guy: Well we mi~~~ght have some 'Eye Eye SYAA!' left.
Um, I'll try checking the shelf.
SFX: SAH
Guy: Aa~~~~~~~~H......
Sir... It looks like we a~~~~re really sold out.
I'm so~~~~ sorry, we'll get a new shipment in soon.
Dainen: Hey,
I'm in a hurry...
Ring this up.

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SFX: AHM
SFX: BZZ BZZ
Dai: Hello?
What is it?
I'll be on time...... I'm heading there now.
......I'm alone. ...I told you! It's a one-on-one exchange...

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Dainen: Don't gimme that shit about bodyguards...
If there's a problem to speak of, it'd be about 'taxes'.
These aren't 'illegal' anywhere.
Just bring the taxes.
If you bring anybody to the meeting spot... I'm leaving. Got that?
SFX: PAAAHH PACHIRI

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Dainen: !!?
SFX: KIKI GYAKIKI IIIIH

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SFX: BWAAA
SFX: BONN
Guy: AAH
UAH!
SFX: GYAGYA GI GYA GYA
Dainen: Oh!
SFX: GASHAAAN

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Dainen: .......................
SFX: GAPAAH
SFX: SUH
SFX: GASHA GASHAH
SFX: BOKIN BOKIN

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People: Hey, are you okay?!
Are you all right?
Ambulance!
Call an ambulance!
Ah... He's okay...
Uh, ah... I'm fine.
I had a blowout.
Well... it looks like it anyhow...
All of a sudden the tire just...
It's okay...
..........I'm fine...
Honestly, I'm fine......
Let's call an ambulance.
No, don't bother.

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Dainen: ......................
Guys: I wonder why it happened?
The tire got punctured.
The front wheel had a blowout all of a sudden...
Is he okay...?
Let's call an ambulance.
SFX: GOGOGOGOGOGOGO

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People: It looks like his tire got punctured...
I heard.
Is he okay? We should call an ambulance.
SFX: BUKU BUKU [Last panel]

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SFX: BWAAA
SFX: AAA
SFX: SHAH SHAH

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SFX: GUIH
SFX: DON!
SFX: POP
SFX: POP POP
SFX: POP POP
Dainen: It's just like in the commercials.
This stuff
really clears up your eyesight.

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SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
SFX: GOGO
Guys: Okay...
We finally got the 'branches'.

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SFX: DO DO DO DO DO
Damo: It's been 6 months now...
Hard to believe a half a year's gone by since then.
Morioh's terrain sure changed a lot when that earthquake hit.
It really did.
The area past your house's property changed so much you can't even recognize it.
There are uplifted faults going as high as 20 meters in some spots. Almost like it's protecting something.
Nori: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
Damo: Are you listening to me, Norisuke-san?
Face me and listen.
I see......
Is it perhaps that you're worried because your two daughters went to the entry hall and didn't come back and you can't hear their voices?

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Nori: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
Damo: Why don't you try calling your daughters?
Just give them a call so they come back here...
Or perhaps
I should call Hato-chan here?
Nori: S... Stop!
D... Dammit! STOOOP!
If you do anything to my family, I'll kill you!!
I swear to God, I'll kill you!
Damo: Hey... Let's get back on topic.
This is very important.
Norisuke-san, you know about the 'Rokakaka', right?
That's the name of that 'fruit' discovered in New Guinea.
'Yagiyama Yotsuyu' was searching for a 'Rokakaka' tree.
It's somewhere close by here.
Because of the altered terrain, 'Yotsuyu' had rough goings looking for it.
And 'Yotsuyu' went missing while looking for the 'Rokakaka' on your property.
Nori: I don't know anything about any 'Rokakaka'!
Damo: No... No.
I told you I have '3' goals, but I'll be asking questions 'one by one'.
We're still on the 'first' question, Norisuke-san.

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Damo: Are you the one that killed 'Yagiyama Yotsuyu'?
Now answer.
Nori: Huh..........?
SFX: SHUUH

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SFX: DOH
Nori: U AAh!
Damo: Do not underestimate me.

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Nori: UAAAAH!
AGU AH!!
UAAA AAA AAAAA
SFX: DO DO DO DO
Damo: If you want I'll do that to your daugters, too.... If you don't answer, that is.
My Stand---- 'Vitamin C' makes you easier to cut than butter.
Noi: Aah, it was me!
Dammit, I killed him!
Yotsuyu sunk into the sea because we found out he's a Rock Human!
Damo: Mu?!
I see......
Good.

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Jose: I'm being 'careful'.
They won't find out.
Kira: I know.......
But I'm talking even after we do the 'harvest'.
You can't let anyone see or know about those "branches" you 'grafted'.
Josefumi.......
'That woman'....... have you noticed her?
She's been following you constantly.
............
Jose: ?
I know that girl...
I think her name is... 'Sakunami Karera'.

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Jose: You said she's tailing me?
She's a fellow agricultural student at the college I go to.
Kira: I've already looked all that up... She does stuff like this but still passes her exams...?
Gulls: NYAA
NYAA
NYAA
Kira: It appears she has a 'crush' on you...
Though it looks like that's all.
However, that 'Sakunami Karera'... has a 'Stand ability'.
Karera: IHIHI!
Keke!
A 'Stand' that ha something to do with 'hair'.
She complained to a beef bowl shop about having 'hair' in her food to get pocket money.
SFX: OHM
Kira: She's just a stalker, but...
'Stand abilities' are connected in some way. ["connected in some way" in italics]
What's what I'm getting at.
We have some kind of a 'fated connection'.

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Damo: Just answer my questions as I ask them.
Let's go to the next level! It would have been quite difficult for you to figure out Yotsuyu's identity and defeat him on your own. ["your own" in italics.]
That's what I'm really curious about.
Nori: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
Damo: You weren't alone, were you? 'Who' was with you?
He's sure to be one of the people I'm looking for.
SFX: HAAH HAAH HAA HAAH
Damo: 'Who' is it? 'Who' were you with back then?
'Who' is the one that really killed Yotsuyu?
SFX: HAAA HAAA

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Holly: Would you like some tea?
I'm having some myself as well......
...U~~m?
Jo: My name is Kuujou Josefumi.
I would love some tea.
Holly: ...........................
Have we met before?
Jose: Yes...
A long time ago. When I was a kid, I was your patient.
You really helped me out back then. Though I was just one of I'm sure tons of patients you've had...
Holly: I see... Well I'm glad to meet you again... It's great to see that you grew up nice and healthy.

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Holly: ....................
...?
Book: The Rose of Versailles
Holly: Oh, here, take this!
'The Rose of Versailles'! It's a great one!
SFX: DOSAN
Holly: That hat.......
Did you buy another new one... Yoshikage?
It looks soooo good on you.
You picked out quite the strange design, didn't you?
Kira: Mom, I'm the one that bought a new hat.
C'mon, it's time for bed. Let's go to your room.
Holly: Huh............?

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Holly: Uh...
Uh...
I know...... I'm well aware of that..........
Whatever happens...
No matter what kind of cruel things happen in this world...
I can never forget what's most important...
I can never forget my own children.
Not ever...
Kira: Yeah... I know, it'll be okay.
Everything's fine.
How about you go to your room and get some rest?

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Holly: Let go of me!
I can go to my own room by myself!
You, just give Yoshikage The Rose of Versailles to read!
SFX: DON
Kira: .......Let's go.
Jose: By the way, how is 'it' progressing?
How's it looking?

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Jose: 'It' is doing just fine.
The ground is moving in that area with the uplifts from the aftershocks.
But there is no problem with 'it'.
'Two'.
We'll be able to harvest 2 of them.
Kira: About how much longer?
Jose: It'll be soon.
I think it'll be around 1 week until they're ripe...
Wanna see?
Kira: Yeah... I'd like to see... how they're progressing.
But I think it would be better 'not to go near' until the 'harvest'. That goes for both you and me.
Be cautious until the end.

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Kira: We're here right now because of "flying fish jumping out of the South Sea". ["here right now" in italics]
Anyhow, don't go near 'it' until the harvest.
End of discussion.
Let's go back to the marina.
Seagulls: NYAA
NYAA
NYAA
Kira: Take care of the mooring rope.
SFX: SHUH
Gulls: NYAA
NYAA
NYAA
NYAA
Jose: She's still there.
Ya know, getting a good look at her, she's kinda cute.

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Kira: Josefumi, make sure you get the ship firmly anchored to #2.
The mooring rope is falling into the water.
Jose: Hm. I was sure I tied it......
...................
SFX: SLIP

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SFX: SLIIIP
Kira: Hm?!
SFX: BACHAH BACHA BACHAH
Kira: !?

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SFX: ZABAAAA

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Jose: !?
Damo: Today is Friday, August 19th.
Since that day last year, 10 months, 16 days, 3 hours... and 24 minutes have passed... ["that day" in italics.]
until this moment...
We've always checked the 'weight'.
'Before' and 'after' a trade,
we've always made sure to 'weigh' them.
Because if someone stole the materials of the 'Rokakaka' and did a scientific analysis on it,
that would spell all kinds of trouble for us.

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Damo: It was just by '9 grams'...
but on that day, after Aishou sold the 'Rokakaka' to that customer, the tree got heavier. ["got heavier" in italics.]
But we didn't suspect a thing.
If the weight of the fruit tree 'went down', then we'd have known right away... But the tree actually increased in weight by '9 grams'...
...We figured it was some miscalculation with the water content in the soil or something and ignored it.
I'm awed by your ingenuity.
I only realized what had happened in winter when the earthquake hit and the Rokakaka wilted.
6 months had already passed...
when the tree wilted
and we finally realized its branches had been replaced with 'different branches'.
And we realized that 'two branches' had been stolen.
So you 'grafted' branches on, did they...?
it was completely unbelievable to me that someone that could actually do that and steal them.

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Damo: But on the other hand, I swore I would search out whoever it was that would do something so conceited.
With 6 months having passed already it was impossible to check traffic records or security cameras.
SFX: HAA HAA HAA
Damo: So our only choice was to check people one by one.
All of the 'injured people' and 'sick people' in the entire nation of Japan...
We decided to investigate them all. And there are over 150,000 in a single prefecture.
We could be certain that the motive for stealing a 'Rokakaka' was to overcome an 'illness'...
And because of that notion...
though I don't believe she's been cured yet... we were eventually able to find the name "Kira Holly".
It was a very long journey.
It took 4 months, but we finally arrived at you, her son.
'Kira Yoshikage', age 29, occupation: ship's doctor... Allow me to introduce myself. My name is
'Damo Tamaki'! And this is Yagiyama Yotsuyu. [quote big]

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Kira: WRYYYYYEEEEAH!!
SFX: DON DON DON
SFX: GOH
SFX: BUSHAAAAAA

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Jose: What...?!
Kira: UGOH!
UUH! OH!
OOO ORUU RUH
SFX: YAGUUH
Kira: "Sheer Heart Attack"!
Damo: 'Vitamin C'.
SFX: DOBAH
SFX: GOH
SFX: DROOP
SFX: DROOOOP

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Damo: Looks like you didn't reach me.
SFX: DROOP DROOP DROOP DROOP DROOOOOOP
SFX: DRON
Jose: UuuH!
Damo: Now then......
I came here with two objectives. ["two" in italics]
And before I ask them, I want to let you know something that should be quite obvious.
SFX: DO DO DO
Damo: Do not lie to me.
Insert: The questioning begins...
SFX: DODO
Bottom: To be continued