Hokenshitsu no Shinigami 45

As always, a big thanks to umeboshi110 for helping out! And reserved for Muda Scans :D

Page 1
Text：　それはジメジメと蒸し暑い放課後のことだった
その日はひどい雨で・・・
帰るのが面倒になった　　俺の足は自然と保健室のベッドへ向かっていた
雨がおさまるまで昼寝でもしようと思い
ウトウトまどろんでいた・・・その時だ
It was a damp and humid afternoon.
It was raining terribly that day...
It was going to be trouble getting home...my legs naturally turned towards a bed at the infirmary.
I thought I'd take a nap until the rain died down.
It was at the moment that I started to doze off.

Someone：　一匹・・・
One sheep...

Text：　閉めきったカーテンの向こうから声が聞こえた・・・
声だけではない・・・何やら不気味な音まで聞こえてくる
I heard the voice from behind the closed curtain.
It wasn't just a voice...for some reason, I could hear weird sounds.

Someone：　五匹・・・
六匹・・・
Five sheep...
Six sheep...

Text：　俺は　その音に聞き覚えがあった・・・これは包丁の音だ！　血の気がサッと引いた
その瞬間・・・目の前のカーテンが勢いよく開けられた！
It sounded familiar to me...it was the sound of a kitchen knife! I suddenly grew pale.
At that moment, right in front of me, the curtain was flung back!


Page 2
Ｆuji：　そこにはウサギ形に切られたリンゴを持ったハデスが立っていた
その後俺はリンゴを平らげ・・・雨足もおさまったのでフツーに帰ったとさ
Standing there was Hades, holding apples he had cut into the shape of rabbits.
After that, I ate the apples...the pouring rain died down so I went home as usual, y'know.

Mimasaka：　「とさ」じゃねーよ！
オメーの怪談全部オチがハデス先生じゃねーか
"Y'know" my ass!
The endings of your ghost stories all have to do with Hades-sensei!

Ashitaba：　でも一応全部ノンフィクションの体験談ではあるよね・・・
But, at least they're non-fiction stories of his own experiences...

Fuji：　だろ？
Right?

Mimasaka：　くだらねー
How stupid.


Page 3
Text：　常伏中学校視聴覚室
そこでは他の教室にはない黒く分厚いカーテンを利用した怪談大会が催されていた
Tokofushi middle school audio-visual room
There, a ghost story contest was being held using a dark, heavy curtain not found in the other classrooms.

Mimasaka：　次！　次！　誰がいいネタねーのかよー
Next! Next! Who's got a good one?

Title：　後ろ向き妄想少女
The Pessimistic Delusional Girl

Mimasaka：　・・・ったく・・・こんな調子じゃ怪談大会なんて開いたイミねーじゃねーか
Jeez...if we're doing it like this, then was there any point in starting a ghost story meeting?

Kaburagi in background：　キャー　こわーい
Kyaaa, I'm scared!

Ashitaba：　美作くんって怖いのダメじゃなかったっけ？
Mimasaka-kun, I thought you weren't any good with scary stuff?

Choumabayashi：　私はもう話したわよ
I already told one.

Tobioka：　俺もだ
あと話してない奴誰だ？
Me too.
Who else is there that hasn't?

Hachiya：　あー・・・みんな
ちょっといいかな
Ah...everyone...
Can I have you attention?


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Hachiya：　ここにさっきの話マジビビリしてる奴がいるんだけど
We've got someone here who was scared out of her wits by that story earlier.

Mimasaka：　はァ？
さっきの・・・って藤の話かよ
Huh...
That story...you mean Fuji's?

Hachiya：　お～い　暑いんだからあんまくっつくなよ
Hey, it's hot, don't keep so close to me.

Higure：　うう・・・
ご・・・ごめんなさい！　違うの！
怖いのは怪談でもハデス先生でもなくて・・・
わ・・・わ・・・私のっ・・・
「妄想」なの！
Uuuh...
I...I'm sorry! It's not that!
I'm not scared of the ghost stories or Hades-sensei...
It's...it's...
My delusions!

Text：　２－Ｂ女子
日暮ふるえ
2-B girl
Higure Furue

Higure：　今七匹目の被害者（ウサギ）となった藤くんが血みどろの死体になり発見されるところまできたわ・・・・
Now I'm up to the part where Fuji-kun, who became the seventh rabbit (victim), was discovered as a blood-stained corpse...

Fuji：　勝手に殺すな！
Don't just kill me off!

Hachiya：　こいつこーいうヤツなんだよ
妄想力たくましいっつーか・・・
She's just like that.
Her ability to see delusions is strong or something...

Higure：　だ・・・だから私のことはあんまり気にしないで
むしろ新しい怪談で私の脳内を上書きして・・・
So...so don't worry about me too much.
Rather, I'll just overwrite my brain with a new ghost story...

Mimasaka：　ナンギな奴だな・・・
You got it hard, huh...


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Hachiya：　よーし　それじゃあ次はあたしな
パチ屋の前歩いた兄ちゃんから聞いた話なんだけどさ
All right, then, I'll go next.
This is one I heard from a guy walking in front of the pachinko shop.

Ｔext：　その男は大層困っていた
なぜなら奥さん（仮）からもらったばかりのお小遣いをギャンブルで全部スッてしまったからだ
しかしどれだけ困ろうとないものはない
男は腹をくくり家路についた・・・
家には愛する妻（限りなくその予定）の後ろ姿・・・
心なしか怒っているように見える・・・男は恐る恐る口を開いた
「うまそうなにおいだな！　何作ってんだ？」
This man was in serious trouble.
Because he wasted all the money he'd just got from his (assumed) wife on gambling.
But no matter how much he worried over it, there was nothing that could be done.
He'd prepared himself when he set out for home...
At home, he saw from behind his beloved wife (a very rough estimate.)
She appeared to be somewhat angry...the man nervously opened his mouth.
"That smells good! What are you makin'?"

Shadowy Ｎiburu：　きょうふのみそ汁よ・・・
Terrifying miso soup...

Shadowy Keiichi：　恐怖のみそ汁？
Terrifying miso soup?

Shadowy Niburu：　きょうふのみそ汁
Terrifying miso soup.


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Hachiya：　恐怖のみそ汁
きょうふのみそ汁
今日麩のみそ汁
Terrifying miso soup.
Kyoufu no miso soup.
Today, it's wheat bran miso soup.

[T/N: Let me explain this joke. In Japanese, "terrifying miso soup (kyoufu no misoshiru)" sounds the same as "Today, it's wheat bran miso soup. (kyou fu no misoshiru)" It's a silly pun. Obviously.]

Mimasaka：　だからなんでそうオマエらの怪談は平和なんだよ！　てゆーかそのネタ古典的すぎだろ！
So why are all your ghost stories peaceful like that! I mean, that joke is beyond old!

Kaburagi：　・・・って言われても
怪談の特番はみんな視てるもんねー
You say that but
We all watch ghost stories on TV...

Hachiya：　そうそう　そっからまた新しいネタ出せって言われてもなー
Right, right. So even if you tell me again to bring out some new material...

Mimasaka：　う・・・確かに
この大会は失敗だったか
Uh...that's true...
Was this meeting a failure?

Higure：　おおおおおおお
Ohhhhhh!

Ashitaba and Fuji：　うわっ
Uwaaah!

Higure：　妻の怒りのこもったみそ汁を口にした・・・その時！
その男の魂の灯もまた尽きてっ・・・
The moment he tasted his wife's miso soup that was filled with rage!
The light of that man's soul went out...

Mimasaka：　ダメだこりゃ
There's no helping her.


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Hachiya：　日暮よぉ～
あんた　毎日みんな感じでストレス溜まんないわけ？
Higure...
Doesn't being like that everyday stress you out?

Higure：　あああっ　ごめんねえ～　イライラするでしょ　本当にごめん・・・
自分でもわかってるのよ　考えすぎだって
でもやめられないの～！
Ahhh, I'm sorry. It's annoying, isn't it? I'm really sorry...
Even I get it. I'm over-thinking things...
But I can't stop!

Ｋaburagi：　大丈夫よ！　何があったら私助けに行くからね！
It's fine! Whatever happens, I'll come to save you!

Higure：　あっ・・・
ありがとう～　シンヤちゃん
・・・で・・・でも・・・
私を助けに来たシンヤちゃんは組織の者の手によって帰らぬ人となってしまった　そして次なる標的はその現場を目撃した　この私ー・・・！
Ah...
Thank you, Shinya-chan.
B...but...
Shinya-chan who's come to save me was killed by the hands of someone from the organization! And the next target will be the eyewitness to the scene of the crime...me!

Kaburagi：　何組織の者って・・・
What do you mean, someone from the organization...?

Hachiya：　も～いい加減にしろよな！
じゃあたしたちこっちだから
Oh, cut it out already!
All right, we're going this way.

Kaburagi：　日暮さん　ひとりで大丈夫？
Higure-san, are you going to be okay by yourself?

Hachiya：　あっ？　大丈夫　大丈夫！
ごめんね・・・本当に・・・
Ahh, I'll be fine, I'll be fine!
I'm sorry...really...


Page 8
Ｔext：　どうしていつもこうなの私・・・
怖い目に遭いたいわけじゃないのに・・・入ったらもう止められない！
Why am I always like this?
It's not like I want to experience scary stuff...once my delusion switch flips on, I can't stop!

Higure：　はぁ～・・・
この妄想力を活かして小説家でも目指そうかな
いや　でも締切に追われノイローゼとなった私は脱走を試みるもそれは編集者の手により
ただいまー・・・
いいにおーい
お母さん今日のごはん何？
Haa...
Maybe I should make the best of this power to see delusions and aim to be a novelist or something...
No...being pressured by deadlines made me neurotic and I attempted to escape but due to my editor...
I'm home.
That smells good.
What's for dinner today, Mom?

Higure's mother：　あらおかえり
今日？　麩のみそ汁よ
Oh, welcome home.
Today? It's wheat bran miso soup.

Higure：　きょ・・・恐怖のみそ汁・・・？
Te...terrifying miso soup...?

Higure's mother：　お腹すいたの？　しょうがないわね・・・
みそ汁だけ先に食べる？
Are you hungry? I guess it can't be helped...
You want to go ahead and eat just the miso soup?


Page 9
Higure's mother：　ほら・・・
Here...

Higure：　ひっ・・・
あ・・・あ・・・！
ぎゃああああああーっ！
Hi...
Ah...ahh...
Gyaaaaaaah!

Higure's mother：　な・・・なによ　一体
虫でも入ってたのかしら・・・？
What on earth...
Was there a bug or something in it?


Page 10
Hades-sensei：　みそ汁のおばけが見える？
She saw a miso soup ghost?

Kaburagi：　ら・・・らしいです　見ててかわいそうなくらいおびえてて・・・
もしかしたら病魔のせいじゃないかなって・・・
Th...that's what it seems like. She was so scared you feel bad for her just looking at her...
It couldn't possibly be the work of a disease demon, could it?

Higure：　おじさん・・・おじさん・・・
みそ汁の中におじさん・・・
An old man...an old man...
There was an old man in the miso soup...

Hades-sensei：　うーん・・・
入ってるね・・・間違いなそうだ
昨日は眠れなかった？　目の下が真っ黒だね・・・
もう大丈夫だから・・・少しジッとしててね・・・
Hmm...
It's in there...I'm pretty sure.
Did you not go to bed yesterday? It's all dark beneath your eyes...
Everything's okay now...just hold on for a bit...

Higure：　え・・・
Eh...


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Text：　病魔名称：
夢想（ドリーミング）
Disease demon name:
Dreaming

Hades-sensei：　日暮さん　きっともう大丈夫よ！
Higure-san, everything is definitely all right now!

Higure：　ほ・・・ほんと？　もうオバケ見えない？
Re...really? I'm not going to see ghosts anymore?

Kaburagi：　大丈夫大丈夫　ハデス先生もオバケなんていないって言ってたし・・・
It's fine, it's fine! Even Hades-sensei said there aren't any ghosts...

Hachiya：　あの先生が一番オバケみたいだけどな
でも意外と話せるカンジの先生だったなー
That teacher seems like the biggest ghost there is...
But I felt like he was someone you could really talk to.

Kaburagi：　で
でしょ？　でしょ？
R...
Right? Right?

Higure：　恐ろしい外見に反した優しげな態度・・・しかしそれは私たちをだまし　食べるためのワケだったのだ！油断したその瞬間　私たちは先生に頭からバリバリと食べられ・・・
He's really nice, despite how scary he looks...but that was a trap to trick and eat us! That moment when we let our guard down...we'll just get eaten up by him starting from our heads...

Hachiya：　肝心なトコ治ってねーぞ　おい！
She wasn't cured in the right place! Hey!

Text：　しかし・・・
病魔の見せた幻覚がきっかけでより現実味（リアリティ）のある妄想をするようになってしまった日暮は
However
Higure who started to have even more realistic delusions because of the hallucinations the disease demon showed her...

Higure：　あのシミ・・・
顔に見えなくもない・・・
いるかも・・・後ろに・・・誰がいるかも・・・いやいる　確実にいる・・・
That spot...
It could look like a face...
It's probably here...behind me...someone is probably here...no, they are here...I'm sure they're here...

Text：　症状が軽減するどころか・・・その妄想癖は徐々にエスカレートしていき・・・
Instead of the symptoms abating...her habit of delusions gradually begin to escalate...


Page 12
Hades-sensei：　さ・・・
再発した・・・？
She...
She relapsed?

Kaburagi：　また見えるようになっちゃったって
She said she can see them again.

Hades-sensei：　うーん
しかしそれでよくここまで来れたね・・・とりあえずずたんこぶの手当てしようか・・・
Hmm...
But you really managed to get here like that...first off, let's do something about those bumps...

Higure：　うっ・・・
もうやだ・・・私・・・怖いこと考えちゃダメって思ってるのに・・・
そしたら余計色んなこと考えちゃって・・・！
自分でもどうやったら止められるのか・・・わからないんです・・・
シンヤちゃんも蜜味もごめんね・・・
私めんどくさいよね・・・
Uuh...
I've had enough of this...I...although I thought I shouldn't think about scary things...
Then I thought about even more things...!
Even I don't know how to stop it...
Shinya-chan, Mitsumi, I'm sorry.
I've been a pain...

Kaburagi：　そんな
Oh, no -

Hachiya：　あたしらは別に・・・
We aren't really -

Hades-sensei：　そう
I see.


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Hades-sensei：　君はとっても真面目でいい子なんだね
大丈夫
考えることをやめられないならやめなくていいよ
ちょっと方向を変える努力をしてみよう
You're a really good, honest kid.
It's fine.
You don't have to stop thinking about things if you can't.
How about we change direction a bit?

Hachiya：　日暮は考えすぎで悩んでるのにやめなくていいって・・・？
Although Higure is all upset because she's thinking too much, you're telling her it's okay not to stop?

Kaburagi：　一体どうするんですか？
先生優しい
Just what are you doing to do?
Sensei is so nice...

Hades-sensei：　特別講師を呼びます！
I'm going to call a special lecturer!

Kaburagi：　えっ？
Eh?

Yasuda：　はじめまして！
ミスターポジティブ安田貢広です！
Nice to meet you!
I'm Mr. Positive, Yasuda Mitsuhiro!


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？：　あ・・・ど　どうも　お噂はかねがね・・・
Ah...nice to meet you. I've heard a lot about you...

Yasuda：　ニーハイ
Knee-high...

Hades-sensie：　人と話すときは目を見ようね　安田くん・・・
When you're talking to someone, you need to look them in the eye, Yasuda-kun.

Yasuda：　イッ
Eee!

Mimasaka：　安田なんか連れてきてどーなるってんだよ
What are you planning on doing, bringing someone like Yasuda along?

Hachiya：　あたしが聞きたい・・・
安田（あいつ)のせいで日暮のやつ男性不信になったりしないだろうな・・・
つーかあんたら何でいんのよ
冷やかしならはっ倒すぞ
That's what I'm asking.
Higure won't start distrusting guys because of him, will she?
Anyway, why are you guys here?
If you're gonna make fun of her, I'll beat you down.

Yasuda：　いいだろ別に
友達の友達は友達だ！
It's fine, isn't it!
A friend's friend is a friend!

Higure：　あっ・・・
Ah...


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Higure：　曲がり角・・・
あの奥何かいるかも・・・あっだめ　気にし出したらそんな予感でいっぱいになってきたわ・・・
その曲がり角からナイフを持った男が飛び出してきて私は串刺しに・・・
The street corner...
There's probably something inside of there...ah, it's no good. When I start to worry, I just get all filled up with those kinds of premonitions...
A guy holding a knife is going to jump from that street corner and come skewer me...

Hachiya and Kaburagi：　出た・・・
There it is...

Hades-sensei：　ふふ・・・そうかな・・・？
安田くん確認して来てあげてくれる？
Fufu...really?
Yasuda-kun, would you go make sure for her?

Yasuda：　えっ？　ここで俺？　
いいすけど・・・
よォし・・・
裸のお姉ちゃん！　来い！
Eh? Me?
That's fine...
All right...
Naked woman! Come out!

Mimasaka and Hachiya：　来るかァ
Like one would!

Yasuda：　なぜだ？　俺は曲がり角を曲がる時この祈りを欠かしたことはないぞ
Why? When I go around a corner, I don't fail to say this prayer.

Mimasaka：　高望みしずぎだろ！　せめてパンチラとかを望めよ
That's aiming too high! At least wish to see their underwear!

Hachiya：　そういう問題じゃねーよ　アホ男子共死ね
It's not a problem like that! Die, you dumbass boys!

Fuji：　おい　女子と一緒にして大丈夫なのか？
歩くセクハラだぞ　あいつ・・・
Hey, is it okay for him to be with girls?
He's a walking sexual harassment case...

Kaburagi：　で・・・でもハデス先生には何か考えがあるみたいだし・・・
B...but...it seems like Hades-sensei has some kind of idea...

Yasuda：　チッ
なんもいねーや
Che.
Nothing here.

Mimasaka：　いてたまるか！
I'd be damned if there was.

Higure：　あ・・・
Ah...


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Hades-sensei：　どうしたの？　何もいないそうだよ
さあどんどん行こう
What's up? Looks like there wasn't anything there.
All right, let's go on.

Higure：　は
はい・・・
R...
Right...

Yasuda：　出た・・・
大型トラック！
There it is...
A large truck!

Hachiya：　いちいち騒がしいなあ・・・
別にめずらしーモンでもないじゃん！
How annoying...
It's not anything really unusual or whatever...

Mimasaka：　どうせまたくだらねーこと考えてんだろ
She's still just thinking about worthless stuff.


Page 17
Higure：　何言ってるの　大変じゃない！
トラックの運転者さんが居眠り事故なんて漫画やアニメの世界じゃテンプレ中のテンプレよ！
大体あの荷台・・・何を積んでるのかわかったもんじゃないわ　もしや　白い粉が・・・
What are you saying! Isn't it awful?
The truck driving having an accident where he dozed off is a typical scene you'd find in a manga or an anime!
Besides, you don't know what's piled up in the bed...could it be...white powder...

Yasuda：　お前ら急いでトラックの後方に回れ！
発進時に起こる風によるパンチラの可能性無きにしも非ず！
Guys, hurry up and go around behind the truck!
When it takes off, there's a possibility your underwear will show because of the breeze!

Higure：　え
Eh...

Fuji：　同じモン見た感想がここまで違うとは・・・
To think they have that much of a different impression of the same thing...

Ashitaba：　世の中色んな人がいるよね・・・
They are a lot of different kinds of people in the world...

Higure：　長い階段！
足を踏み外した私は真っ逆さまに転げ落ち頭がい骨を粉砕脳みそをまき散らして・・・
A long staircase!
When my foot slips, I'll fall down head first, smash my skull and my brains will spill out...

Ｈades-sensei：　安田くん　危ないから前見て降りなさい
Yasuda-kun, that's dangerous so look ahead of you when you're going down.

Higure：　どぶ川！
落ちるだけでは飽きたらず　私はその汚水をごくごく飲みほし・・・
A drain river!
It's not just that I would fall in; I'd drink up all that filthy water...

Lady：　あなたが落としたのはこの金の美作ですか？
Did you drop this golden Mimasaka?

Ｍimasaka：　ドブに女神がいるか！
なんだ　金の美作って
As if there's a goddess in the drain!
What the hell is a golden Mimsasaka...


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Higure：　安田くん・・・
楽しそう・・・
Yasuda-kun...
Looks like he's having fun...

Ｈades-sensei：　未来に何が起こるかなんて誰にもわからないなら
楽しいことが起こる可能性も怖いことが起こる可能性も一律だと僕は思うよ
No one knows what's going to happen in the future.
I think there's just as much of a possibility of bad things happening as there is good things happening.

Kaburagi：　考え方次第ってことですね！
安田くん程極端なのもどうかとは思うけど・・・
It all depends on how you think of about things!
Though I don't know if you need to be as extreme with it as Yasuda-kun...

Higure：　私の・・・考え方次第・・・？
On how...I think about things...?

Ｈades-sensei：　今のうち・・・
Right now...


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Ｔext：　こうして
日暮の妄想癖は治ることこそなかったものの・・・
その方向性はややポジティプな方へ向かうようになったという
And so
Although Higure wasn't exactly cured of her daydreams...
It turned to a somewhat positive direction.

Higure：　あ・・・！
あの・・・曲がり角・・・
パンをくわえたイケメンとぶつかる可能性・・・
無きにしも非ずー
Ah...!
That street corner...
There may be a chance that
I'll bump into a cute guy carrying bread in his mouth.

Ｔext：　が・・・
どっちにしろめんどくさいことに変わりはなかった
But...
In any case, it didn't change the fact that it was annoying.

Hachiya：　てめーのせいだ　このー！
This is your fault, you -

Ｙasuda：　えっ？　何？　急に
なんのご褒美？
Eh? What is it all of a sudden...
Some sort of reward?

Ｍotoyoshi：　安田気持ち悪い・・・
Yasuda is creepy...

Mimasaka：　白米携えたイケメンならいるけど
There's a cool guy holding rice here...

Ｆuji：　寝坊した・・・
I overslept...

Higure：　イヤよ～　パンがいいの～！
No! I want one with bread...!