JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8 JoJolion 74

[JoJolion 74 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Insert: The fruit forces a decision from these men---
Title: #74 Poor Tom and Ozone Baby Part 3
Author: Araki Hirohiko

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Insert: What is happening to the Higashikata Family...?!
SFX: GAHAH HAA HAA
SFX: HAA
SFX: GAHAH
SFX: HAA HAA
SFX: DRRRG
Guys: HAa
HAa
HAa
SFX: DO DO DO
Tsuru: U-
Uuuh.
Hah...
SFX: DO DO DO DO
Hato: Uh.
Uuh.
Uh.
Someone: H-Hato-chan...
D-Daiya-chan...

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Hato: What're you two doing in there,
Big Bro Joubin, Tsurugi-chan?
Huh?
SFX: GARA...
Guys: D-Don't open the door, Hato-chan!!
Hato: We heard a loud crashing sound coming from the garage...
Uh..?! Wha...?
Guys: CLOSE THE DOOOOOOOOOOOR!!!
SFX: DRIP DRIP DRIP
SFX: BADAM
Tsuru: H-Hato-chan!!
Daiya-chaaaaaan!!
SFX: DOSAAH
SFX: DODO DO
SFX: DO

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SFX: GO O O OH
Jou: It's a barrier...!!
The range is the entire Higashikata Estate! If the house's doors and windows are closed...
then Joushuu and my Dad in the dining room are facing the same thing!!
U... Uuh!
Tsurugi: Do you know the 'user' of thing thing that's attacking us, Dad?!
Were you friends with this 'enemy'?!
Jou: Tsurugi...
SFX: DO DO DO DO

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Jou: I'm sorry you got roped into all this.
And I don't mind if you doubt my actions... or think I'm a bad person,
but I'm doing what I'm doing with your well being in mind.
Do you believe that?
Tsuru: ...
...Yes.
SFX: NOD
Jou: Then we can kill that Poor Tom man.
We'll need quite a bit of resolve to do so, though.
Tsuru: HAA HAA HAA
Jou: P-'Pressure'. What's 'happening to the pressure' here?
And if we stay here, what's gonna happen to Hato-chan and Daiya-chan?
And Grandpa! And Joushuu!
SFX: HAA HAA GAHAH

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Jou: If I were to use 'water pressure' as an example,
a sperm whale can apparently dive to a maximum depth of 2,000 meters. But the world record for a human 'skin diving' is only 214 meters.
A trained human can withstand '21 atmospheres' of pressure.
While bare in mind it's only going to go up a little at a time, but that's where we're headed.
We'll probably be at that level in a few minutes.
But rest assured, we're not gonna get to 21 atmospheres. That's because we're going to beat Poor Tom and his Stand before that happens...
Tsuru: B... But then...
what'll happen to us... after 21 atmospheres?
SFX: HAA HAA
Tsuru: And if we just open a window, we'll die, right?
The air in our guts and stuff will expand inside our blood vessels and explode!
We can't go out of here at all!! Beat him? We can't even fight, right...?!
Jou: So we won't go outside...
We'll take down Poor Tom right from here.
SFX: HAA HAA

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Tsu: Dad, even I can tell
that this ability is a 'long-range automatic attack'!
So I really doubt the user... That Poor Tom guy is anywhere near this house!
Jou: Yes... Exactly.
He's hidden far away...
He's at a safe place where we definitely can't reach him...
Just waiting... without a care in the world.
SFX: ROLL ROLL ROLL
SFX: ROLL ROLL
SFX: BZZZZ ROLL ROLL ROLL

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SFX: BZZZZ ROLL ROLL
Woman: ............
At the place near the parking lot!
......Yea~~~h.
I remember... My business card... did you write it down?
How long are you gonna keep licking?
They say they wanna talk to you.
Here.

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Tom: A phone call...?
?
For me?
Someone: Listen, you...
You told me that finding the 'Rokakaka Fruit' was impossible, that there was no way you could get it now, so you'd given up... ["given up" in italics]
That's what you told me before, right...?
Is that what you really think?
I think the only way I'll find out is if I put it to the test... Look! ["Look" big]
SFX: CRCKL CRCKL

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Tom: Y-
SFX: GOOO O OH
Tom: You gotta be kiddin' me. That photo's of...
You bastard...
'Re you serious, Higashikata Joubin?!
SFX: DO DO DO DO DO
Woman: Wha~~~~t?
Where you goiiiin'?
And that's my cell phone, ya know...
SFX: DAN
Tsu: 'Paper Moon! Frog...' Dad, y-you lit our orchard on fire?
SFX: GUO NN

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Tsuru: So, no one knows where the 'Rokakaka Branch' is exactly...
but if it's somebody in the orchard,
it'll burn!!
Jou: Of course it will...
SFX: GO O O O O H
Jou: I don't think any different.
But when everyone sees these flames... They'll be very concerned about the fate of the 'branch'!
SFX: O O O
Jou: Here's where we need resolve.
We have to win this.
Jou: Tsurugi... Your 'Paper Moon'.
I had you fold up my cell phone an take it outside just now,
but I need you to do more...Turning this paper into origami, what can you make?
SFX: OO HAA HAA HAA
Tsuru: A fire truck.

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Jou: A fire truck.
I like the idea... Ok, go ahead.
SFX: KASAH
SFX: SFFT
Jou: Wait! ...I think we can soak some more kerosene into it.
There! Okay, send it out!
SFX: GLUG GLUG
SFX: SPLISH
SFX: PUKUH
SFX: BOING SPLISH SPLISH

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SFX: DOSHUUUUUUUH
SFX: UU
Jou: 'Speed King',
"Ignite"!!
SFX: BONN
SFX: GOOOO

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Jou: The 'branch' will burn...
But if nothing happens and the 'Rokakaka Fruit' is destroyed by the fire,
then everyone loses!
SFX: O O O O O O O
Jou: But he should be here... ["he" in italics]
He must be nearby!
'Jousuke' must be somewhere around this orchard.
And the plant appraiser, too! Now, how course of action will he take?
SFX: OOO
Jou: "Jousuke" should make a move...
I'm confident we're walking the 'path of righteousness'.
So I'm certain we'll win this in the end!
SFX: HAA HAA

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Rai: It's that door!!
Jousuke, close the door!!
Keep it closed! We can't go outside right now!!
SFX: DRIP DRIP DRIP GABAH DO DO DO DO
Jou: This is...
an enemy attack...
SFX: ZUN DROP DROP DO DO
SFX: BONN
SFX: DRUBB

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Jou: Mamzuku-san!
SFX: DO DO
Jou: Th... This is a 'pressure' attack!
At some point, the 'pressure increased' in this passageway without us noticing!
SFX: DO DO
Jou: The enemy knows we're here!
The 'enemy' must be outside!
They've already found us!!
SFX: DO DO DO
Rai: Wait!
SFX: DAH!
Rai: Jousuke, hold on!
That can't be right!

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Rai: Maybe if we were sitting under the arbor,
but Norisuke-san hasn't even told his eldest son Joubin about this underground passageway!
There's no way anyone knows about it! There's no way anyone's found out that we've come here!!
Jou: Look at the proof!
This passageway is under attack!
Rai: The Rokakaka's location hasn't been found out! This is probably a long-range automatic trap!
Probably just in case we got close to the orchard!
It's an attack to keep us from getting away once we came here!
Jou: I guess that could be... I don't know...
Then, Mamezuku-san, tell me this. I can see what's going on outside through the window in this hatch.
How do you explain what's going on outside?

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Jou: The entire orchard is on fire!
What in the world is this person thinking?!
They must be trying to burn the 'Rokakaka branch'!!

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Rai: What...?
SFX: GO O O O O O O O
Guys: Where are they? Where's the enemy that lit the fire? [Top left]
The 'branch' is still all right. [Bottom right]
SFX: O O O O
Someone: But the fire's approaching it.
SFX: O O
Rai: Because the enemy's lost track of me... and lost track of the Rokakaka...
rather than let the 'Rokakaka branch' fall into our hands... they're going to burn down the whole orchard.
They're intending to slaughter us along with the Higashikata family.
Jou: Slaughter?
MUH

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SFX: FLOAAT
SFX: FOON
Jou: This enemy... They're trying to get us out in the open and slaughter us...
There's no doubt about that...
But...
SFX: OOO

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Jou: it seems like they have some other goal in lighting the orchard on fire.
Right now, at this point where it's possible the 'branch' might burn...
and disappear forever.
Rai: 'Goal'?
Jou: They lit this orchard on fire with a 'goal in mind'!
SFX: GO O O O O O O O O O
Someone: D-
Dad...
...U.
Uuuh....
SFX: BEGOOOO
SFX: GO O O O

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Tsu: Th-The 'pressure' in here... H-how much...
is it at now?
Jou: I-I think it's just past 15 atmospheres...
SFX: HAA HAA HAAA HAA O O O O
SFX: BEKON
SFX: GUSHA GUSHAH
Jou: Tsurugi... Don't think about that...
All we can do is wait... There's no time, but... we have to wait.
Tsurugi: 'Iwasuke'...
SFX: HAA HAA
Tsuru: D-Do you think he's okay...?
SFX: GAHAH
Jou: Before, across the parking lot... I saw Iwasuke going into his doghouse.

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Jou: Iwasuke most likely turned his body to stone inside the doghouse.
If he's 'stone', I'd think he'll be able to withstand this.
Tsu: If he's stone...
he'll be able to withstand the pressure, huh...? Yeah, I'm sure
he'll make it through.
Jou: Tsurugi... Your Paper Moon origami.
Next... is there anything you can make... that can fly?
Tsuru: A crane.
SFX: O O O O O O
Jou: A crane...
I like it.
Make it.

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Rai: Jousuke... what on earth is going through your head?
Get your hands off that wheel.
SFX: O O O O
Rai: Jousuke! Get away from that hatch right now!
Jou: I'm thinking about the 'Rokakaka branch' out there.
The flames are almost right under the 'branch! The roots of the tree are starting to burn!
Rai: Are you saying you're going to go out that door?
Jou: Well, 'going outside', at least...
is something I can do.

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Jou: It should be possible.
"Soft & Wet".
SFX: SUUUUUH
Jou: I'm going to go out this door...
and collect the 'Rokakaka Branch' to get it out of harm from the flames!
SFX: SHUH!
Jou: With this enemy Stand, the between the inside and outside of a wall is 'boundary line'.
If you're inside that boundary line, the air pressure goes up.
So then if I wrap up the air with the walls of a soap bubble... the same rules should apply! The air will keep pressurizing,
but I should be able to go out of the hatch like this!
Rai: If you go out to get it,
then the location of the 'branch' will be leaked to the enemy.

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Jou: And that... is what the 'enemy's' goal is.
I'll be telling them where it is, giving them a chance to take it! ["chance" in italics.]
SFX: GO GO GO GO GO
Jou: But I can't just sit here and let the 'branch' disappear!
Rai: ......
SFX: SUH
Rai: If you go down that hall, and go through the door at the end of it...
then keep going... and you'll reach the coast. It continues to a hidden passageway beneath the lone pine.
If you go out the door at the end of it...

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Rai: we may be able to get out of the enemy's attack range. Have you thought of that?
Jou: I have a woman waiting for this Rokakaka!
I'm going to take back the past I lost!
If Norisuke-san gets that Rokakaka, it should open the righteous path that brings everyone happiness.
And if we lose this Rokakaka branch, all that will be left is despair!
No matter what it takes, I cannot let the enemy get the Rokakaka or let it burn! ["or" in italics.]

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Rai: I like your style!
...So you're gonna open the door
...and go outside?
...This is an ability that kills you if you venture outside.
So if that 'soap bubble' pops, you'll die.
SFX: DOSHOOOMM

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Jou: I'm going to pen the door, go outside, walk over to the 'branch', collect it, and come back.
The pressurization won't change.
And then I'll go back into the passage and we'll go escape.
Rai: Jousuke... I don't like this, but that speech of yours just now... I liked it. Parts of it, at least.
I didn't care about the other parts,
but the line about Norisuke-san struck a chord.
Knowing Norisuke-san... with that 'new Rokakakak' branch,
everyone should open up the righteous path and bring everyone happiness.
That 'branch' is a demon plant! There's no human that can tame it!
So I'll go collect it!
SFX: GAPAH
Jou: !

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Jou: M-Mamezuku-san!
SFX: GOOO OO

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Rai: The 'branch'...
has 4 "bugs" that have entered inside it.
The 'branch' has to be broken off in a way that does not kill the bugs.
If the 'bugs' die, the 'branch' will immediately wilt.
Jousuke, that's a lot to take on your shoulders.
SFX: OO O O
Rai: If I shoot my wires out of this bubble, I should be able to break the 'branch' off without it dropping into the flames.
SFX: GO O

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SFX: MUH GOOOO
Jou: Tsurugi...
Look.
Walking out there!
SFX: OOO HAA HAA
Rai: Someone's appeared... inside a bubble!
Who is that...?
SFX: O O O
Jou: The 'plant appraiser'... That must be the plant appraiser!
He's finally arrived!

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Jou: He came out... I knew he was here! So that must mean Jousuke's here, too!
The decided to go out to collect the "branch"!
This is what we've been waiting for!
SFX: DO DO DO DO DO
SFX: DO DO DO DO
SFX: CRCKL CRCKL CRCKL

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SFX: ZAH
Jou: ? ....
Mamezuku-san?!
Where are you looking?

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Jou: What're you doing?
The Rokakaka 'branch' is on that tree...
The flames are making their way over to it!
Rai: ..........
SFX: CRCKL CRCKL
Jou: He's not moving.
And he's looking the wrong way...
What's he doing?
The flames are getting to the 'branch'!

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SFX: DO DO DO DO
Tom: 'Ey...
Stare at me all ya want, but...
Ehh...
You got a decision ta make...

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Tom: And ya may wanna hurry up wit it...
SFX: CRCKL CRCKL
Tom: I knew it. There really is a Rokakaka 'branch'...
SFX: CRCKL CRCKL
Jou: Ha...
M-Mamezuku-san!!
Don't tell me
someone's coming...?
SFX: HAH
Tsuru: D-Dad, somebody's in the bushes...
Rai: Poor Tom is here!!
Tom: It wasn' me that lit this orchard on fire.
But if the 'branch' yer tryin' ta collect
is in the trees over there...
SFX: CRCKL CRCKL CRCKL
SFX: DOSHU UUUUUUUUUH

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SFX: GANN
Jou: H-He did it!!
SFX: CRAAAAAACK
Tom: So that's the branch, eh?!
Got it!
And so does everybody else!
Insert: Is a free-for-all battle inevitable?!
Bottom: To be continued