Bleach 397

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BLEACH #397

tl by molokidan

01)
1(2b): All of my battles...so far...
White: Astonishment...!?
2: have been...
3: in the palm of your hand...!?

02)
1: What the hell...
2: do you mean...
white: Fearless!?

03)
1: Just what the fuck
2: is that supposed to mean?!?!

04)
1: Your voice.
2: Do not raise your voice,
3: Kurosaki Ichigo.

05)
1: There is no reason to be so surprised, now is there?
2: I simply
3(2b): believed that you possessed the finest raw materials needed to carry out my research
4: and therefore helped you grow.
5(2b): That is all I meant.
6: ...did you not think it strange?

06)
1: One such as you, who had never laid eyes on a single Hollow his entire life,
2: meeting up with Kuchiki Rukia and then immediately being attacked by one,
3: then a Menos Grande appearing
4: due to a Quincy using the destruction of weak Hollows as bait.
5: Just when you had begun to get used to fighting as a Shinigami,
6(2b): Kuchiki Rukia, who did not even possess supplement reiatsu until that point, was conveniently found and reported to Soul Society.
7(3b): Abarai Renji...Zaraki Kenpachi...Kuchiki Byakuya...
8: When fighting with each of them and seeing your own power rivaling theirs,

07)
1: Did you not even once
2: think it strange?
3: Did you think your meetings were fated?
4: ...wait...
5: That the attacks were coincidences?
6: Wait...

08)
1: That your victories in battle
2: were the results of your own effort?

10)
1: ...please do not disappoint me.
2: At this point,
3: you should be capable of much more.

11)
1: Do you not believe me?
2: Do you not believe my words?
3: ...hell no I don't...!
4: And yet,
5: they are "truth."
6: Liar!!!
7: You're saying you were responsible for all my battles up until now?!
8: That it was all something you planned!?
9: Who the hell would believe something like that?!
10: You said it yourself once!!
11: "Rukia was found after she went missing in the material world!!"
12: And now you're telling me "I knew about you from the moment you met up with Rukia?!"
13: Your claims don't match up!!

12)
1: ...what amusing things you say.
2: You said it yourself just now.
3(2b): "Liar." "No one would believe that."
4(2b): Despite the fact that you call my words lies now,
5: you are somehow able to say that my words back then were not?

13)
1: ...I suppose it cannot be helped.
2: I sympathize with you.
3: Since the inoculation of this world, neither truth nor lies have existed.
4(2b): Only authoritative reality. Regardless,
5(2b): Every being in this world live misrecognizing only convenient "facts" as "truth." This is because they have no other way to live.
6: However,
7: For the powerless who make up the majority of this world,
8: the inconvenient "facts" they affirm through themselves is entirely the truth.

14)
1: Now, do you know all the facts?
2: Who ordered Kuchiki Rukia to be stationed in the material world?
3: Who installed a reiatsu detection ability on Abarai Renji's equipment?
4: Who added information detailing the direction of progress for your group into the report to the Vice-Captains?
5(2b): Do you really think that from the creation of the Hougyoku, for over a period of 100 years,
6: I could not ascertain its location?

15)
1: ...I wanna...
2: ...ask you one thing.
3: You said it just now...
4: That you believe I...possess the finest raw materials for your research...
5: Why...?
6: Where's the proof for that belief...?
7(2b): If you've been watching me from the moment I met Rukia...then let's hear it...
8: When did you gain that conviction...!?
9: ...from the beginning.
10: ...don't gimme anymore bullshit...
11: ...do you still not understand?
12: I said: from the BEGINNING.

16)
1: I have known about you
2: from the day you were born.

17)
1: ...wha...
2: ...t....!?
3: You have led a special existence from the moment of your conception.
4: Because you are a Shinigami and a--

18)
1: --you talk too much,

19)
white: The father, Isshin, now hastily joins the fray!!
2: Aizen.