Billy Bat 23

BILLY BAT #23

tl by molokidan

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Chapter 23 - The Scroll of Momochi [6]

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T: And so, 450 years ago, a bat appeared in front of the shinobi bearing the entire fate of Iga...

05)
Side text: Overcoming both sky and mountain, they have come to our land...GHQ has come to our land.

06)
1: Why you make me say you so much?!
2: Me is respectable second-generation Japanese!!
3: Papa and mama immigrate to Hawaii and farm pineapples with lots of strength!
4: Then they suffer and have me!!
5: If you're really a second-generation Japanese, then why is your English so horrible?
6: Cuz papa and mama are so Japanese they make me say only Japanese!!
7: So I know many Japanese song! You wanna hear?!
8: Saaaakuraaaa, saaaakuraaa, yayoiiii no sorrrraaa waaaa~
9: What is your parents' address in Hawaii?

07)
1: Wowww!!
2: Oh oh...wait minute...
3: I think they move, so I don know.
4: What was their address before they moved?
5: Uhhhhh...
6: America address is difficult, you know...
7: I used to remember, but now I forget, you know...
8: Now my plane gonna leave, so please stamp passport please...
9: Hey, hold on!
10: This is a fake passport!
11: Eh?
12: You can tell us all about it over here.
13: W-w-wait!!

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1: What you mean fake?! It real!!
2: I paid big money!!
3: Hooo...
4: Next please.
5: May I have your passport...
6: Ummm...
7: Kevin...Ya...Yama...?
8: Kevin Yamagata.

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1: And your job in the service?
2: Eh...ah...
3: Your post?
4: OSS (Office of Strategic Services)...
5: I have a friend there named Kenneth O'Connor, you know him?
6: No...
7: Go ahead!

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1: Ahhh, hold it right there.
2: You're Kevin Yamagata, aren't you?
3: I'm Special Inspector Finney.

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1: Back to America, huh?
2: Wh...what business do you have with me?
3: Just want to ask you something.
4: Well if you don't hurry up, I'll miss my flight!!
5: Yes. That's why I wnat to ask you before you leave.
6: N...no matter what you ask me, I'm not going to say anything!!
7: I have nothing else to say regarding Charlie...
8: Charlie Ishizuka...
9: is dead.

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1: Suicide.
2: Just so you know...
3: His body was trampled to pieces on the train tracks, too.
4: Sounds like a story I heard once before...
5: Th...
6: That's unfortunate...
7: Yes, extremely unfortunate...
8: because we lost the whereabouts of a certain ancient text along with Charlie's death.
9: The last person to see that text besides Charlie happens to be you.

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1: I don't know where the text is!!
2: All I saw was Charlie taking it out of the vault on his own!!
3: But I have no idea where the copy went after that!!
4: What did you say just now?
5: Eh?
6: You say copy.
7: Y...yes, copy.
8: It looked to be a really old copy, the binding was about to fall apart...
book: THE BLACK BAT

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1: Hmph...so it wasn't the scroll.
2: Scroll...?
3: Alright, you're free to go. I have no use for you anymore.
4: However...
5: You'd better not tell anyone about what we talked about jus now.
6: If you do, though...

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1: don't be surprised if you end up getting stabbed in the back.

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1: What's wrong?!

17)
1: What's wrong?! Hurry up and stab him!!
2: All your wishes will come true! Just hurry up and stab him in the back!!
sfx: gashah

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1: U...
2: Uahhhh...
3: Uaaahhhhhhhh!!
4: I may be a coward...
5: I may be a horrible coward who betrayed my allies, but!!

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1: I can't do it!!
2: I can't stab him!!
3: Ahhhhhhhhh!!
4: Take it.

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1: "The land of Iga will be demolished."
2: "Oda cannot conquer the land."
3: Wh...what...?
4: "The true conquerer will appear,"
5: "and after 350 years, the shinobi's work will prove paramount."
6: Wh...what are you talking about?!
7: That's what he said.

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1: I'd bury it if I were you.
2: As soon as possible...
sfx: zah...
sfx: hyuuh

22)
1: A dart?!
2: Yajirou-san!!
3: Yajirou-san, hold on!!
4: Dammit...where are they aiming from?!
5: Hang on, Yajirou-san!!

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1: Regardless...of whether you stabbed me or not...
2: This is...my fate...
3: No!! No it isn't, Yajirou-san!
4: It's already been decided...
5: that humans who commit such deeds will...
6: Yajirou...I'm entrusting this to you.
7: This...
8: I penned this scroll myself.

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1: Whoever holds this will gain control of the earth.
2: But at the same time, it can...
3: turn the world mad...
4: Father Xavier...
5: Yajirou...
6: Bury it...as soon as possible...

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1: You cannot show it to anyone...
2: Swear to me...
3: You will bury it...swear to God...
4: Yajirou...
5: Where...
6: Yajirou...
sfx: haa x2

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1: Yes!!
sfx: haax2
sfx: zah
2: Yaji...rou...
3: As long as I have this scroll...
4: and pass it over to the rulers of Iga...
5: I'll...I'll...

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1: I'll someday become the ruler of all the land!!
2: Humans who commit such betrayal will...
3: all end up like this...
4: Yajirou-san...

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1: God...
2: Devil...?
3: Bat...
4: What are you...?!
5: Yajirou-san!!

Next: Dec. 10