Nurarihyon no Mago 204

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(top)
Center color, an imminent final battle & the announcement of the third popularity poll results!!
Total number of votes: 15,837!!
(top ten characters)
#1 Nura Rikuo 3,201 votes
#2 Yuki Onna (Oikawa Tsurara) 2,636 votes
#3 Zen 1,820 votes
#4 Keikain Ryuuji 1,341 votes
#5 Nura Rihan 1,091 votes
#6 Keikain Yura 891 votes
#7 Kubinashi 613 votes
#8 Nurarihyon (past) 567 votes
#9 Itaku 537 votes
#10 Hagoromo Gitsune 532 votes
(center) Here's the top 10 lineup and thanks for the support!!
(left, title) Act 204: Revival
(bottom left, star) Total copies breaks 11,000,000!! The newest volume from Jump Comics, 22, goes on sale 7/4!!

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(top)
Nue:
The Nue lives deep in the mountains, in the form of a monstrous bird. Genzanmi Yorimasa* must have named it as such because when he shot down a mysterious animal with a face like a monkey, a body like a tiger and a tail like a snake, its cry was like that of White's thrush.**
(bottom) Now, the return from hell...
(*Another name for Minamoto no Yorimasa.)
(**In ancient Japan, "nue" was originally the word used for a bird believed to be White's thrush. The word's usage eventually evolved into the "Nue" as we know it today.)

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(star) Total copies breaks 11,000,000!! Volume 22 goes on sale 7/4!!

(under top panel) Nurarihyon no Mago

(right, star) Generations of family heads are amassed at Aoi Spiral Castle...!!

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Tenkai: !? What...

Orochi: Th...this is...

Second: The air is... boiling?!

(Yuiyui): How repulsive...
(Yuiyui): This is... a grand yokai's fear?! And a large number of them!!

Group: UWAAAH!

Extras: Wh...

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(right top) The entrance to hell
(right bottom) has opened?!

(Second): A Hyakki Yako... coming... from hell...

(Second): The oni household...
(Second): They are different from the ayakashi scattered across the countryside...
Second: This is...

Tenkai: Hahaha... incredible!

Tenkai: Uhaha, so this is our lord!
Tenkai: So these are his strongest servants!!
最強の使役たちか!!

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(right) And at their head,
(left) the Nue!!

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(Encho): That's...

(Encho): The legendary master of spirits who governed Kyoto a thousand years ago...

Seimei: You have

Seimei: most wonderfully continued to protect... my place of return for me.

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Seimei: You have my gratitude,
Seimei: my children...

(Second): This voice.
(Second): It's... my father's...

(Second): Low... and nostalgic.
低く...なつかしや
(Second): And deeply moving...
感動さえする...

Seimei: In the present day...
Seimei: It appears that human and ayakashi alike have been sullied once again.

Seimei: We must
Seimei: go forth to purify this world.

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Seimei: To restore order...
秩序を以て...

Wakana: Tsurara-chan, where's Rikuo?
Tsurara: Ah, he's at the rally right now.

Wakana: Rikuo... do you have a moment?

Rikuo: M...
Rikuo: Mom?

Wakana: Everyone,
Wakana: I'll be... borrowing him for a bit, okay~

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Rikuo: Ooi!! Where're we going?!
Rikuo: Qui... stop holding my hand!!

Kana: Nura-kun's mother...?
Kiyo: That's some amazing timing.
Yokai: The general disappeared...
Yokai: Wakana-samaaa~ at such a busy time as this~~

Yokai: Seimei is being resurrected, isn't he?!
Yokai: Even though he said he doesn't know what to do in the meanwhile, the Third is really wasting time.
Zen: C'mon, now. Don't say such insensitive things.
Ryota: A mother-son chat before heading out is nice, isn't it.

Kappa: Come to think of it...
Kappa: It's rare to see night Rikuo-sama and Wakana-san together, y'know~
Kubi: Now that you mention it...

Tsurara: I'm going to... have a quick look.
Zen: I just said not to be insensitive.

Wakana: Sit over there, okay? ♡

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Wakana: The tea's reaaaady~♡

Wakana: Thanks for waiting~

Wakana: Fufu... I guess this is the first time I've formally talked with you?

Wakana: Fufu... I'm really somewhat nervous~
(left of Rikuo) Doesn't look like it, though...

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Kyokotsu: What's the matter?

Gitsune: I feel... a little nervous...
Kyokotsu: Eh...?

Gitsune: Fufu...
Gitsune: Even though I am simply going to see my child...

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(Gitsune): I end up thinking what if...

(Gitsune): What if I am hated...
(Gitsune): What if I will be forced to hurt him...

Wakana: Okay!! Listen up!

Wakana: I remembered a message that your father entrusted to me.

Wakana: If you ever... became the head of a Hyakki Yako!
Wakana: "I bet I won't be around when it happens, so tell him for me."

Wakana: About the hanyou village...
(Hanyou = demi-yokai)

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Rikuo: The hanyou... village?

Wakana: Y'know, your father,
Wakana: is sleeping within that very hanyou village.

Wakana: His grave is located there.
Wakana: In that place, which possesses a strange power... it seems that your grandpa has also gone there quite frequently.

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Wakana: When I married your father,
Wakana: we once went there together.

Wakana: I think... he would definitely have wanted to show it to you.
Wakana: Humans and ayakashi joined together...
人と妖が結ばれるってことを...

Wakana: And I think
Wakana: he would have wanted to say... "this sort of thing is my ideal world."

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(Rihan): Rikuo is a symbol.
Wakana: Because that place... is a society where humans and ayakashi properly coexist...
(Rihan): Of the future... of humans and ayakashi.

Rikuo: Can I... go there, too...?

Wakana: Mhm.
Rikuo: Are the people... in that village... happy...?
Wakana: Let's see...

Wakana: There are all sorts of people there, but

Wakana: Everyone in the village... greeted us warmly, accepted us,
Wakana: and smiled...

Rikuo: ...huh...

Wakana: After all... everyone was bound together by love.
だって...みんな好きでくっついてるんだもん
Wakana: So it's only natural that they are happy...
幸せに決まってるわ...

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(Wakana): Rihan-san... I noticed something.
(Rihan): Hm?
(Wakana): That humans and ayakashi here like each other to the same degree!
人も妖も好きになるのは一緒!ってこと!
(Rihan): Pretty much...
(Rihan): You're right, Wakana. This place... doesn't change at all...
Wakana: Since you're so serious and diligent,
Wakana: and from childhood have been a son who listens well to his mother... I'll say this!
(Rihan): You really understand, huh... Wakana...

Wakana: Rikuo... I love you so much... so please don't die, okay?

(Wakana): I love you.

Rikuo: Mom... the man I'm fighting against is also a demi-yokai...

Wakana: Okay...?
Rikuo: The same as me... But he is using that yokai blood to stand above both humans and ayakashi.

Rikuo: Mom... when... this is over, I'm going to visit that hanyou village.
Rikuo: I want to view with my own eyes... the scenery that you and dad wanted to show me.

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Wakana: Yeah.
Wakana: When you come back!
行っといで!

Rikuo: Well... it's about time I left.
Wakana: Right!

(sfx) Door sliding open
Rikuo: Hm?

Rikuo: Tsurara...? What're you doing?

Rikuo: Don't tell me you...
Tsurara: Just a... I certainly wasn't standing here straining my ears.
Tsurara: See... Rikuo-sama is really inarticulate, so

Tsurara: I thought I would mediate the conversation for you.

Rikuo: That sort of help is way too much...

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(Rihan): Rikuo,
(Rihan): Get on out there.

(Rikuo): Dad.
(Rikuo): ...leave it to me!

Rikuo: I'm heading out!!
(left, star) His heart full of emotion, now, onward to the decisive battle...!!