Hokenshitsu no Shinigami 21

Poor Hades-sensei, poor Kaburagi, poor Mimasaka. Valentine's is a crap holiday. And now we get the Valentine's chapter, many months later!

Reserved, tell me if I effed up something beyond belief.

Also! I assume anyone who's read a Valentine's chapter of any manga knows about giri and honmei chocolate but still, here some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giri_choco and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honmei_choco.

Page 1
Boy：　ホンットくだらねー行事だよな
It really is an annoying event.

Boy：　男ひとりで特設ワゴン前ウロウロしてっと「うわー」みたいな目で見られんじゃん
普通にチョコ買いたいだけだっつの
Before they can get the guy by himself, they just wander around with this look like, "Uwaaah..."
Generally, they just want to buy chocolate.

Boy：　もらったらもらったでメチャクチャからかわれるしさー
もらわない方がむしろ助かっていいよな
If you get it, you get it and you get made fun of.
I'd rather they not give us any and help us out.

Boy：　頼んでもねーのに義理だなんだで好き勝手バラまいてよ
ホワイトデー３倍返しとか意味わからなくね？
Even if you don't ask for it, you get giri - they're just wasting their money.
I just don't get why you have return the favor three-fold on White Day.

Boy：　もう迷惑行為以外の何モノでもねーって感じ
I just feel like there's nothing more than annoying than this.

Boy：　あ～あ　本当・・・
バレンタインなんて・・・
Ahhh, it really is...
Valentine's...


Page 2
Text in sky：　消えてなくなればいいのに・・・
It'd be good if I could disappear...

Title：　チョコレート・コンプレックス
Chocolate Complex

Disease demon：　くくく・・・聞こえる　聞こえる・・・
恵まれない男たちの魂の叫びが・・・
Ku ku ku...I can hear them, I can hear them...
The souls of the unfortunate boys are crying out...



Page 3
Mimasaka：　おーっすアシタバ
Hey, Ashitaba.

Ashitaba：　あっ　美作くん
おは・・・
よ・・・
何・・・その格好・・・
Ah, Mimasaka-kun.
Good...
Morn...
What's with your clothes...?

Mimasaka：　え？
なんだよ・・・このオレのフォーマルな一面に釘付けか？
Huh?
What? Are you just transfixed by how formal I am?
[T/N: 一面 is means, like, "all over" in this case...it just sounded strange to me in English. Same for 釘付け, which means "to be rooted to the spot".]

Ashitaba：　へっ？　いや・・・うん　どうしてスーツ・・・
・・・あっ
そっか　今日バレンタインか・・・それで・・・
Heh? No, but...why a suit?
Ahh...
That's right...today is Valentine's. That's why...

Mimasaka：　まあ見てな　オレは今年こそ輝くぜ！
You can see that this year I'm going to shine!

Ashitaba：　そ・・・そう
がんばってね・・・
R...right.
Good luck...


Page 4
Hades-sensei：　どういうことだ・・・？
学校中いたる所から病魔の気配がする
これは一体・・・
What is this?
I can feel the presence of a disease demon inside the school...
Just what is...

Woman：　ハデス先生いやに挙動不審ですね・・・
Hades-sensei is acting awfully suspicious...

Woman：　あんな外見でも一応バレンタインは気になるのよ　きっと・・・
With the way he looks, maybe he's worried about Valentine's.

Man：　おはよーございます　才崎先生
Good morning, Saizaki-sensei.

Man：　おはようございます
Good morning.

Saizaki：　あ！　お
おはようございます
Ah, go...
Good morning.

Man：　チッ
ナシか・・・
Che...
Nothing, huh?

Man：　元々こういううわついたの嫌いなんだよ　彼女
さっきも生徒からチョコレート没収してたぞ
I've always hated when women were fickle like that.
She just confiscated chocolate from a student.

Saizaki：　あ～落ちつかない！
研修で迷惑かけた詫び充分にできてないし　いい機会だと思ったけど・・・
やっぱりチョコレート（こんなもの）を神聖な学舎に持ち込むなんて公私混同もいいところだわ
でも仕事以外で会うっていうのもなんだか　おかしいな・・・
Ah, I can't calm down!
At the field trip, I didn't quite get to apologize for being an annoyance. I thought this would be a good opportunity...
Bringing chocolate into such a dignified place as a school...is it okay to mix up business with pleasure?
But we do we meet anywhere besides work? It'll be strange...


Page 5
Saizaki：　大体独身（多分）の男性にこんなもの渡したら必要以上の意味に取られちゃうじゃない？
もし　そんなことになりでもしたら
Generally, if you give stuff like this to (probably) single men, don't people read more into it than they need to?
So, if it something like that happened...

Hades-sensei：　才崎先生
Saizaki-sensei.

Saizaki：　はい　なんで・・・
Yes, what is -

Hades-sensei：　ちょっとよろしいですか
その荷物なんですけど・・・
Could I talk to you for a minute?
It's about that package.

Saizaki：　あ・・・は　ハデス先生？
何を・・・
Ah...Ha...Hades-sensei.
What...

Hades-sensei：　その荷物です　見せていただけますか？
これは・・・
That package - could I see it, please?
It's...

Saizaki：　そ・・・それは先程生徒から没収したものです
学校には必要ありませんから・・・
Th...this is something I just confiscated from a student.
It isn't necessary in a school setting.

Hades-sensei：　やはり・・・ここから病魔の気配がする
だが「物」からとはどういうことだ・・・
なんだ・・・ここからも・・・
I knew it...I can sense a disease demon from this.
But just why is it coming from "this"?
What...from here also...

Saizaki：　あっ！　
ちょっ・・・そ・・・それは・・・！
Ahh...wai...that's...!

Hades-sensei：　これもだ　どうなってる？
何か・・・意味が・・・
This too. How come?
Does it have some kind of significance...?

Saizaki：　あ・・・そ・・・
さっ・・・
Ah...tha...
You're...


Page 6
Saizaki：　最低！
じょ・・・女性の鞄勝手に漁るなんてどういう神経していらっしゃるんですか？
見損ないました！
You're disgusting!
You...you have some nerve just digging around in a woman's purse!
I've misjudged you!

Hades-sensei：　え・・・？　あの・・・
Eh? Um...

Vice-principal：　だ・・・大丈夫かね　ハデスくん
しかし今のは確実に君が悪いぞ・・・
Are...you all right, Hades-kun?
However, that certainly wasn't very nice of you...

Hades-sensei：　くそ・・・
気配を辿るだけでは埒があかないな・・・
三途川先生に相談してみるか・・・
Shit...
I'm not going to get anywhere just following its presence.
Maybe I should try talking to Mitogawa-sensei?

Mitogawa：　そりゃあ君こんな時期に強く思い悩むものといえば
想い人に気持ちを伝えるに伝えられん 恋する乙女か・・・
今年もまた母親からしかチョコレートをもらえずプライドを傷つけられている 男子のどちらかだろうよ
It's about how worried I am about you around this time of year.
You want to tell someone your feelings but you can't. Do you have anyone you like?
You're still just getting chocolate from your mother and it's wounding your pride.　 For young guys, it's one or the other.


Page 7
Mitogawa：　君はその力に頼りすぎているからいかんのだ
もっと頭を使え　頭を
You're relying on that power of yours too much.
You need to use your head more.

Hades-sensei：　はあ・・・
あの・・・先生
言いにくいんですけど
そのチョコレートからも
病魔の気配がします
Uh-huuh...
Um, sensei.
This is hard to say but...
I feel the presence of a disease demon
Coming from that chocolate.

Mitogawa：　ん？
おや
Hmm?
Ohh.

Hades-sensei：　な・・・
肥大化した・・・？
Wha...
She swelled up...!

Mitogawa：　おおっ
Ohhh!

Hades-sensei：　こ・・・これは・・・
Th...this is...

Mitogawa：　さすがは病魔の気配のするチョコレート
一味違うな
Oh, you really can sense a disease demon in this chocolate.
That's different.

Hades-sensei：　呑気なこと言ってる場合じゃありません
病魔（その）チョコレートを僕は外でいくつも確認してるんですよ！
This really isn't the time to be so laidback.
I need to confirm how many other chocolates there are!


Page 8
Someone：　うわあああああっ！
Uwahhhh!

Hades-sensei：　まさか・・・
これは・・・皆「チョコレートを食べて」・・・
ま・・・まずいぞ・・・これは・・・
It can't be...
This...did everyone "eat the chocolate"?
This is awful...

Mitogawa：　こら！　逸人くん　待て
私も行くぞ
Hey! Wait, Itsuhito-kun.
I'm going too.


Page 9
Hades-sensei：　う～ん・・・
なんて光景だ・・・
Oh...
What a scene...

Mitogawa：　ふむ・・・しかしこれほど学校に菓子を持ち込んでいる生徒がいたとは
それはそれでゆゆしき事態だな
Mmm...
But to think that there are students who would bring sweets like this into the school...
This is very serious.

Text：　治してもらった
Back to normal.

Hades-sensei：　「感情」のない「物」に病魔が宿るということはまずあり得ません
罹患者本人が物を操っているというケースはありますが・・・
本体が存在するのに気配が分散しているというのもおかしな話です
A disease demon taking up residence in something without feelings is hardly likely.
There have been cases where the person who contracted it were manipulating something themselves but..
Even if it does have a real form, having its presence spread around is ridiculous.

Mitogawa：　本体が・・・
多数いる・・・？
Does it...
Have lots of forms?

Hades-sensei：　わかりません
が・・・つい先刻から分散していた気配が一点へと集まっているような・・・
I'm not sure.
But...it seems that just a little while ago, the presence that had been spread has been collected into one unit.


Page 10
Boy：　おっと
悪い悪い・・・
Oh.
My bad, my bad.

Ashitaba：　よく見たらみんななめちゃくちゃソワソワしてる
なんだか　僕までドキドキしてきたな・・・
Now that I get a good look, everyone is really nervous.
What...even my heart is starting to beat...

Motoyoshi：　美っちゃん　おはよう
どうしたの格好いいね
Micchan, good morning.
What's up? You look good.

Mimasaka：　だろ？　もっとほめろ本好！
それもできれば女子の前でほめ・・・
See? You should tell me that more, Motoyoshi!
If you do, say it in front of a girl -

Sign：　藤くん
祝　藤くんへ愛をこめて
Fuji-kun
A gift, to Fuji with all our love

Fuji：　げっ！
マジ・・・かよ・・・
Geh!
Seriously...?


Page 11
Ashitaba：　お・・・おはよう藤くん
Go...good morning, Fuji-kun.

Fuji：　お・・・おお
クソ・・・！　もう今日学校休めばよかった・・・
去年はここまでじゃなかったのに・・・！
Ye...yeah.
Damn...! I knew I should have stayed home today...
There wasn't this much last year...!

Mimasaka：　藤ィィ　オメーという奴は毎度毎度ふざけんなよ！
顔だけが取り柄のくせしやがって！
Fujiii! You bastard! You've got to be kidding me with this!
Your face is your only good quality!

Fuji：　あーもーうるせー　何とでも言ってろ
もう・・・今日は疲れた・・・
Okay, shut up already. Say whatever you want.
I'm already tired...

Kaburagi：　こんにちはーっ
Hello!

Ashitaba：　鏑木さん
Kaburagi-san.

Kaburagi：　へへへ
あの・・・みんなちょっといいかなあ・・・
He he he...
Um...can I talk to everyone for a minute?


Page 12
Fuji：　石炭じゃん
It's coal, right?

Kaburagi：　チョコレートよ！
こういうの初めて作ったからちょっと自信なくて
よかったらみんなに味見してほしいんだけど・・・
It's chocolate!
This is my first time making anything like this so I'm not all that confident...
If it's all right with you, I'd like everyone to try it out...

Fuji：　味見たってこれは石炭だろ
まあ人間の食い物から石炭を精製する技術は認めるけど・・・
Even if we taste it, it's coal.
Well, I do appreciate the art of refining coal from food.

Kaburagi：　チョコレートだって言ってるでしょ！
I'm telling you, it's chocolate!

Mimsaka：　お・・・オレは食うぞ！
I'm...I'm going to eat some!

Ashitaba：　凄い・・・にぎりしめてても全然溶けない
Wow...even though I'm holding it tightly, it's not melting at all.

Fuji：　ったく・・・
Jeez...

Mimasaka：　しょーがねーな・・・
It can't be helped...

Hades-sensei：　待った！
Wait!


Page 13
Kaburagi：　は・・・ハデス先生？
なんで・・・
Ha...Hades-sensei?
Why are you...

Mitogawa：　見ろ　逸人くん
あれだ！
Look, Itsuhito-kun!
There!

Disease demon：　クソったれ・・・！　あと少しで
学校一のイケメン君を肉ダルマにできたってのによお～
You son-of-a-bitch...! Just a little bit more...
And the school's most handsome boys would have been my puppets.
[T/N: It actually says 肉ダルマ but I can't quite get a good explanation for what exactly how to put that in English so I'm changing it to puppet.]

Mimasaka：　お・・・オレを狙ってたのか？
Was...was he aiming for me?

Fuji：　お前はすでに肉ダルマだろ
You're already one.

Disease demon：　なんだ・・・アンタ　オレの邪魔する気か？
オレの名は「エンヴィー」
その恵まれねーツラからしてアンタもどうせこっち側の人間だろ？
仲良くやろうぜ・・・仲間じゃねーか
What...you intend to get in my way?
My name is "Envy".
Judging from your ugly mug, wouldn't you at least be on their side?
Let's get along. Aren't we friends?


Page 14
Hades-sensei：　断る
I refuse.

Ashitaba：　おお！
瞬殺！
Ohhh!
An instant kill!

Mitogawa：　なんだ？　ずいぶんあっけなかたな
What?　That was way too quick.

Hades-sensei：　ええ・・・
妙ですね　見つけるまで骨だった割に・・・
な・・・
Yes...
It is strange. It was harder finding him.

Disease demon：　ひっひっひひひひ
バカが・・・やったと思ったか？
Hihihihi...
You idiot...did you think you'd killed me?


Page 15
Hades-sensei：　そうか！
こいつは・・・姿こそ１体の病魔ですがその実は違う
無数の病魔の重合体です
チョコレートの中に１体１体身をひそめていたんでしょう
気配がバラついていたのはそのせいか・・・！
I see.
I was mistaken in thinking you had one form.
It has infinite numbers.
Inside of the chocolate, it must have hidden that form.
That's the reason why its presence was taken apart.

Disease demon：　ご名答・・・
オレたちを呼んだのはひとりの人間じゃない
この地区だけでも何十何百といる
欲しいってねだれるほど子供じゃねーし開き直れるほど大人でもねえ！
バレンタインにチョコもらねーでヒザ抱えてる　切ねえガキ共さ！
朝起きて！　郵便受け見て！　ゲタ箱覗いて！　机い手ェ入れて！　鞄ん中探って！
ないならないあったらあったでそれぞれ違う　地獄が待ってる
これがオレたちのバレンタインなんだよ！
こんな行事滅びて無くなっちまえばいいんだ！
Correct.
The ones who called on us were not alone.
In just this district, there were tens and hundreds of them.
They ask for the things they want to the point where they're not children but they're so defiant they aren't adults either.
If you're not given chocolate on Valentine's, there's all kinds of problems. The little brats are so miserable!
They wake up in the morning! They look in the mailbox! They peek into the shoe rack! They put their hands in the desks! They search their bags!
It's not there. If it was, it would have been. Each is mistaken. They are awaiting hell.
That is our Valentine's!
It would be wonderful if this event could be destroyed!


Page 16
Mitogawa：　それがチョコレートを食べた物を膨張させた理由だとでも言うのか？
ずいぶん勝手だな
So are you saying that's the reason why the chocolate they ate caused them to swell up?
You're just doing things for your own convenience.

Kaburagi：　チョコもらうのが地獄ってどういうことよ
What do you mean, "giving chocolate is hell"?

Disease demon：　うるせえ！　女は黙ってろ！
見ろ！　男共は静かなモンだろーが！
Shut up! Be quiet, women!
Look! The men aren't saying anything!

Kaburagi：　なによ！
What!

Ashitaba：　か・・・返す言葉がない・・・
I'm...I'm not going to say anything back...

Mitogawa：　おい　逸人くん！　何をぼさっとしているんだ
あれを消さねば騒ぎは収まらんのだぞ
さっさと丸呑みにしてしまえ
Hey, Itsuhito-kun! What are you standing around for?
If you don't get rid of him, this whole uproar is never going to be settled.
Hurry up and swallow him down!

Hades-sensei：　え？　あ　はい・・・ちょっと目頭が・・・
そ・・・そうでしたね・・・
Eh? Ah, yes...I've just got a little something in my eye...
But...that's true, yes.

Disease demon：　くくくくくく
キャハハハハー
それもう一発！
バーカ！　オレがどれだけ大勢の人間に呼ばれてると思ってんだ？
無駄さ！　諦めなァ
Kukukuku...
Kyahahahaha...
One more shot!
You idiot! How many humans do you think called out to me?
It's impossible! Give it up!


Page 17
Fuji：　なんだ　こいつ
しょうもねーくせにキリがねえ
What's with this guy?
Even though it's useless, there's just so many of them.

Mimasaka：　しょうもねーとはなんだ　この野郎
What's useless, you bastard?

Mitogawa：　そんなに気にするものでもないと思うがなあ
それに同じ悩みでも君などまだまだ可愛いほうだぞ
逸人くんなどいよいよアラサーだと言うのに・・・
未だ女性から一度たりともチョコレートを貰ったことがないんだぞ
本命はもちろん義理すら・・・ん？
So you think that's not something to worry about?
You're worrying about the same things, like you're not that cute yet.
Even though you're pushing 30...
You haven't even once gotten chocolate from a woman.
Of course, not honmei but even giri...hmm?

Hades-sensei：　な・・・ぜ　今・・・それを・・・
Why... now are you...

Disease demon：　お・・・お前　そうだったのか・・・！
そうとは知らずオレは・・・
Is...is that true...!
If it is, without knowing that, I've been...

Hades-sensei：　同情してくれなくていい
I don't need your sympathy.

Mitogawa：　逸人くん　なぜだかわからんが病魔が動揺しているぞ
今のうちだ
Itsuhito-kun, I don't know why but the disease demon is upset.
This is your chance.

Hades-sensei：　なぜだかわからんことはないでしょう
も・・・もうやけくそだ・・・
It's not, "I don't know why"...
I'm...I'm already desperate here...


Page 18
Text box：　こうして・・・
涙目のハデス先生と病魔の死闘は夜まで続いた
Thus...
Teary-eyed Hades-sensei and the disease demon's death struggle continued on until nighttime.

Mitogawa：　やれやれ
なかなか手強い相手だったな
My goodness.
That was a considerably difficult opponent.

Hades-sensei：　先生が余計なことを言ってくれたおかげで・・・
割りと早めに納得して消えてはくれましたけどね
That was because sensei said too much.
Since you grasped what was going on, it disappeared and it was all over.

Mitogawa：　無論　あれも計算のうちだ
Of course. That was my calculation.

Hades-sensei：　よく言いますよ・・・
You said an awful lot.
[T/N: Alternately, "It was well-said"? I don't know, can't quite figure out which to use. I am dumb.]

Mitogawa：　なんだ　どうした　逸人くん・・・
What? What's wrong, Itsuhito-kun...

Card：　ハデス先生いつもありがとう
Hades-sensei, thank you always.


Page 19
Text box：　翌日
The next day

Someone：　へェー　よかったじゃん
Heeh, I'm glad.

Hades-sensei：　誰がくれたかはわからないんだけどね
どこに飾ろうかまだ迷ってて・・・
I'm not sure who gave it to me but...
I don't know if I should decorate with it...

Fuji：　それは食えよ
Eat it.

Hades-sensei：　そんな・・・とても食べられないよ・・・
No way... I can't eat it.

Ashitaba：　犯人鏑木さんでしょ
You're the culprit, huh, Kaburagi-san.

Kaburagi：　えっ？
そ・・・それは・・・
Huh?
Tha...that's...

Hades-sensei：　だって
貰ったの石炭だったからね
今時石炭なんて逆におしゃれだよねえ・・・
あれっ・・・
鏑木さん・・・？　どうしたの　顔色が・・・
Because...
What I got was coal.
Is that what's in these days?
Ah...
Kaburagi-san...? What's wrong? Your expression...

Kaburagi：　なっ・・・
なんでもありません・・・
No...
Nothing's wrong...