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Arago Chapter 01

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>txt on left(red): The new serial from Arai Takahiro!!

>lil txt in white: (something about being 10 months from the conclusion of darren shan, idk didnt read it)

Patchman: Pray....

Patchman: While cursing your fate....

Box: That fire,
>those eyes....

Box: There's no way I'll ever forget---

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>txt on right: When these twin's path's cross,

>txt on left: There will be a rain of blood in the evil city of London----

Chapter 01 Title: Arago and Ewan

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=no txt worth translating=

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Box: London, ---England---

???: The number 5 train is arriving.

Guy: Burns, and the right foot has been amputated,
>This is the third case this month....

Guy: This is quickly becoming more and more serious....

Guy: Ewan.

>txt on right: More crap about the upcoming daren shan manga.

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Girl: Kya!!

Girl: Hey, let's go back now---
>It's kind of cold, and it's smelly in here.

Guy: Haha, don't be scared.
>It's only us and the mice in here.

Guy: You know, thirteen years ago, they found a lot of dead bodies here that had the neck burn signature.

Girl: The story of patchwork patchman right?
>I already know that one.

Girl: Nowadays, the ones who are scared by that are nursery school kids.

>txt above panel: (it has to do with translation, white it out.)

Guy: But they say even now, when darkness falls you can still hear the sound of the patchman devouring his corpses.

>2 lil bubbles same panel: munch munch

Guy: Yeah, just like that...

Guy: Geez. Can't these rats eat more quietly!!

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Arago: Which one of you said "Patchwork Patchman"?

Arago: Huh?

Arago: Just hearing that name.....

Arago: Arouses my sense of disgust you know!

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Inspector: I read the report.
>For now, it's good that the media hasn't gotten wind of what's going on.

Ewan: Yes, that is for the best...

Ewan: Well then, I'll excuse myself.

Inspector: Ah, hold on a second, Ewan.

Inspector: This is perfect timing,
>to tell you that you were recommended for a promotion to sergeant from up stairs.

Ewan: Inspector, I'm still...

Inspector: We're expecting big things from you.
>But, this time, you can't get out of it.

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All: Congratulations...

All: Sergeant!!

Ewan: It still hasn't really been decided...
>I mean, you all knew...?

Guy: As expected of CID's rising star!!
t/n: CID = criminal investigations division

Girl: The birth of the youngest police sergeant in history!

Ewan: You're being a little hasty...

Guy: I'm telling you we saw him!!

Guy: You know it's true, don't you cop?! He's in that old building down town!!

Guy: The Patchman is back!!

Guy: Local high schooler's were acting on a dare.
>Patrolman caught em while doing his rounds.

Guy: Apparently they think they were attacked by an urban legend.

Guy: Ahhh!!

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Guy: It's him!!!

Guy: I'm telling you, he's the Patchman!!

Girl: Detective!!

Guy: Geez, kids these days are no end of trouble.

Ewan: Say...

Ewan: Do you have the address of that building?

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=No Txt=

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>2 lil bubbles: Hahh (heavy breathing)

Ewan: I've been looking for you......

Ewan: After so long, you decide to come back now....

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Ewan: Arago....

Arago: Ewan!!

Arago: Damn that hurts...you didn't have to be so serious...

Ewan: You had a gun, I couldn't afford to take it easy.

Ewan: So you were alive after all.

Ewan: Arago.

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Arago: Of course I was.
>There's no way I would die before taking that bastard down.

Arago: Strange corpses...
>Three cases this month right?

Arago: Missing limbs, the neck burned after death.....

Ewan: I don't know where you got that information...
>But this case isn't related to the events that happened 13 years ago. It's none of your business, so leave this to us...

Arago: Hmph. Leave it to you?!
>There's no way I can do that, since he's back right?

Ewan: It's been thirteen years since then.

Ewan: It's already enough.

Ewan: It's about time you stopped living for the dead...

Arago(lil bubble): Hmph...

Ewan: How about trying to live for yourself?

Arago: Just like....you?

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Ewan: Ah!

Arago: Don't mess with me. After all this time...

Arago: There's no way I could be like you.

Ewan: You're fighting a ghost.

Ewan: You're like Don Quixote, challenging a windmill to a fight.
T/N: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote

Ewan: It's so ridiculous.

Ewan: Seriously searching for the monster from an urban legend, as deluded as an occultist.

Ewan: You want to beat me up?
>Just like that time?

Ewan: What's wrong? You're shaking. Do it!
>Is this strength false?

Ewan: Is it just to mask how weak you really are?

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Arago: If I can take down mom and dad's enemy, then I don't care if I die....

Arago: All I have is my revenge.

Arago: I---

Arago: am different from you!!

Ewan: Arago...

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Arago: He had the same face. My twin brother always had the dream of becoming an elite cop, looks like it came true.
>I on the other hand...

Arago: turned out very different.

Box: Every time I see Ewan's right arm....

Box: I can't help feeling guilty...

Box: I've always felt like I couldn't match up to him at all.

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Black Box: 13 year's ago---

Box: London was embroiled in mystery. The entire city was scared by reports of a new serial killer on the loose.

Box: The neck's of the victims would have burns in the shape of a hand.
>And they would have also limbs missing.

Box: The only thing the victims had in common was that they were young..

Box: There were never any clues left behind,
>And the investigation couldn't move forward at all.

Box: Motive? Purpose? Are these the actions of a human being in the first place?

Box: Rumor built upon rumor. And then the people began putting a name to the criminal.

Box: They called him this era's "Jack the Ripper."
>Patchman.

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Box: Our parents were murdered by this Patchman....

Patchman: Pray....

Patchman: While cursing your fate...

Arago: How dare you do that to mom and dad...

Arago: Uwaaaahhhh!!!

Ewan: Arago, don't!!

Arago: Ahh!!

Patchman: Hoooo.....

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Patchman: I see I see....

Patchman: Hnnnn...

Patchman: This flesh....
>You can't see my "light." And yet it doesn't irritate nor even corrupt you....

Patchman: You adapt wonderfully...this is...a miracle you know.

Patchman: Fufu....I want you~~

Patchman: Do you not understand? Do you wish to?
>AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Ewan: ARAGO!!!!!

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Arago: Ewan~~?!?!

Box: He left us there....

Box: Laughing maniacally amidst the flames and collapsing ceiling....

Box: And I'm sure I heard him say:

Box: "We will definitely meet again."

Box: Me and Ewan miraculously survived.

Box: But....mom and dad----

Box: We were all that was left from the ruins of that destroyed life----

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Arago: I'll definitely kill that bastard....

Arago: By my hand...!!

Box: We swore an oath of revenge.

Box: However---

Arago: What do you mean "I want to become a policeman"?!
>Weren't we going to do this together!?

Arago: The cops are useless!

Arago: Not one of them believed us !!

Ewan: Rather than living for revenge,

Ewan: I want to gain the strength to protect those who need it now.

Ewan: Besides,
>I think that mom and dad's death...

Ewan: May have all been an accident----

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Box: Since that time, I've been searching for the Patchman.
>I've crossed mountains, oceans, countries. It doesn't matter where, I would go anywhere there was the slightest rumor of him.....

Box: And now, I know he is hiding somewhere within this town.

Box: And I alone will bring this to a conclusion...

Arago: No, that's not it.
>This time, for once in my life...

Arago: I will beat Ewan at something.....

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Patchman: I've been waiting for this day for so~~~ long.

Patchman: We both have it seems....

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>2 lil bubbles: Ah x2 (he's trying and failing to speak)

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Patchman: Isn't that right?

Arago: Ohhhhh!!!

Arago: Wha.....?!

Arago: Eh!?

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Arago: I....from my body...

Arago: At this rate....

Arago: I'll die...

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Arago: W, Wait!!

>lil bubble bottom: Grin

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Arago: Shit! Where did he go!!?

Ewan: Arago!!

Ewan: Get in!!

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Arago: What the hell is that guy...!

Arago: Uoowwww~!!

Ewan: Put your seatbelt on!!!

Arago: Ewan! Why were you still here!!?

Arago: No way....you were spying on me?!

Ewan: Shut up!! You'll bite your tongue!!!

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Ewan: Get on the phone and call this in!!

Arago: Fuck that! He's mine!!

Ewan: You're so obsessed with this case! Have you forgotten we're up against a monster!!?

Ewan: In order to prevent more victims from piling up...
>We absolutely can not allow him to escape!!

Arago: Can we...

Arago: Do you really think we can do that?!

Ewan: Arago!!

Arago: I've always been hunting him alone!!

Arago: I'm going to finish this!

Arago: You've always only cared about yourself!!

Ewan: What are you saying at a time like this!!

SFX: Ka-ban!

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Ewan: It can't be!

Arago: Are you kidding me?!!

Ewan: Have to shake him off!!

Arago: Ewan, look out.....!!!

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Arago: Wait for me...

Arago: I said wait, Ewan!!

>txt: Having a twin has always sucked...

Arago: Ah!

>txt: No matter what I did, I could never match up to Ewan at all...

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Box: Back then,
>If the situation had been reversed.

Box: Could I have....

Box: protected him as he did me?

Arago: I...I'm fine.
>I can stand on my own...

Ewan: I see.

Ewan: That's great.

Box: I couldn't....

Box: No, there's no way I could---

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>txt on top: That's the proof.

Arago: Ewa.....n....

>3 bubbles in center: Ohhh

>txt: The wound on Ewan's right arm is more proof of my weakness, and my inferiority.

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Arago: Where...

Arago: Where am I....!?

Arago: I can't move too well..
>We were in an accident, and then...we...

Arago: Ewan...
>Where's Ewan...!!

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Arago: E.....

Arago: Ewa......

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=No Txt=

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Arago: Ewan!!

Arago: Ewan, hold on!!!

Ewan: A....

Ewan: Arago...

Arago(thought): He's alive....!!

Arago: I'm right here, Ewan!!

Ewan: The one pursuing...

Ewan: The one who was always chasing him was me...
>That bastard.........

Ewan: His goal...was us....no

Arago: What's this........light?

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Ewan: Arago....

Ewan: Get....get out of here.

Arago: Don't talk like that!!

Arago: You're coming too!!

Ewan: ....hide...
>While I distract him, you get out of here...

Arago: Ewan!!

Ewan: Listen......don't think about that monster....

Arago: But!!

SFX: Ga-Cha

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Ewan: Now, Arago!!

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Ewan: Ahhhh

Ewan: Ah!

>lil bubble bottom right: kuku

Patchman: Sad isn't it? For your naked soul to be enveloped by this imperfect flesh...

Patchman: This is the only way I can experience it---

Patchman: Through your death...

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Arago: The one who's going to die is you!!!

>lil bubbles: heavy breathing

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Patchman: Ufufufufu....welcome back.

Patchman: You're a good child.

Ewan: Damn it, Arago.

Ewan: Why do you never listen to what I tell you......

Arago: Did you really except me...

Arago: To just leave you and go...?

Patchman: Perfect...no inflammation nor corruption...

Patchman: As I thought, this is a good one....

Patchman: My eye is perfect....

Arago: Monster....

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Patchman: I've always been searching...
>For the container able to withstand this enormous power......

Patchman: Using inferior materials, it's always been necessary to patch up this body...

Patchman: Since that night 13 years ago....

Patchman: I have been waiting for my soul's container to grow to adulthood.

Arago: Damn you! What did you do to us.....

Patchman: Ufufu.....I saved your lives you know.

Patchman: How does it feel? Using your older brother's arm.

Arago: Stop spouting this unbelievable bullshit at me!!

Patchman: I understand, it's quite a shock.
>But, it couldn't be helped. I had to do it.

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Patchman: Both of you were at deaths door after the accident.
>Your bones broken, your flesh torn....truly a miserable sight to behold.

Patchman: But you know, I knew it. "Separate, yet one"...

Patchman: If one dies,
>The other may live.

Patchman: It was like a puzzle!!
>Which pieces to use, which not to use...

Patchman: Tossing out the damaged portions, fixing what could be fixed!!

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Patchman: You should really think of it as an honor, dieing for the sake of my glorious future....

Arago: Is it going to be the same...as that day.

Ewan: Arago...

>txt: I can't do a thing...

Patchman: Now, pray, brothers!!

Patchman: And I will relieve you of your cursed fate!!

>txt: I can't protect anyone...

Patchman: And you of course,

Patchman: Surrender your body to me!!!!

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>txt: The most important person to me....

>txt: Always get's hurt because of me.

>txt: It pisses me off! My weak self!

Arago: Not ye....

>txt: It's irritating...these wounds...

>txt: and this pitiful me!

Arago(middle of page): Damn it~~!!

Ewan: ....light.....?

>txt: I wanted to as well...

Patchman: Wha....

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>txt: With this hand...

Arago: Ahhhhh~~~

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>txt: I wanted the strength to protect you!!

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Patchman: What is.....this intense reaction is....to me...

Patchman: This pressure...!!

Patchman: Will I burn once again? The fires of perdition......!!

>lil bubbles: him laughing

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>2 bubbles on right: groan

Ewan: A....

Ewan: Arago...

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Arago: Ewan....

Arago: I...

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>2 bubbles top: Hahh x2

Arago: Ewan!!

Ewan(lil bubble): Groan

Ewan: Get out of here, Arago...

Ewan: I'm already...

Arago: Shut up, don't talk!

Arago: We're getting out of here together.....

Arago: No objection!!

Ewan: You're so strong...

Ewan: Arago...

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Arago: What the hell are you saying at a time like this?!

Ewan: I was....always scared....

Ewan: Parting with you,

Ewan: and doing everything on my own....

Ewan: I wanted you to give up on your revenge...
>That was why I said and did all those cruel things...

Ewan: The one who was running was me...
>I was too frightened to face Patchman...

Ewan: I wasn't nearly....

Ewan: As strong as you are...

Arago: That's not true, Ewan!!

Arago: I could never beat you in anything!!

Ewan: So, you see...

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Ewan: That wound---
>was my pride.

Ewan: It was proof, that even the weak me...

Ewan: Could muster up courage...if it was for you....

Ewan: That wound isn't a chain that binds you..

Ewan: It's a bond between you and me...
>Our bond.....

Arago: Ewan....

Ewan: Arago...

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Ewan: I entrust my life to you...

Ewan: Don't....

Ewan: ....waste it...

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Arago: Ewa~~~~~~~~n!!!

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Arago: Hey....it's been a while huh?
>Ewan...

Arago: Ah...

Arago: About this get-up...

Arago: What do you think, does it suit me?
>You'd probably be laughing at me huh....

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Arago: For your information...

Arago: I'm not trying to copy you or anything...

Arago: It's...

Arago: just that...

Arago: It's the first thing that came to mind....

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Arago: So, I'm off, Ewan!

>txt on right: The successor to his brothers will, Arago's become a police officer, what next....?!