Soul Eater 27

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Soul Eater 27
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[Title] Chapter 27: Bodyguard (First Part)

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[Frame 1] 2000m underground / Baba Yaga's castle

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[Frame 2] Report... How is the development of the Demon tool - "Morality Manipulation Machine" coming along?
[Frame 3] Yes ma'am! / Right now development is progressing steadily at the island facility in the east / Mosquito-sama, the one in charge, contacted us a short while ago... / It's nearing completion

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[Frame 1] Will it be safe with just that geezer? / He's shrunken a lot in the past 800 years.
[Frame 2] I'm itching for some violence... / I'll go too.
[Frame 3] There's no need for that. / Through my network, I've employed a very strong bodyguard.
[Frame 4] Bodyguard!? / What's that about?
[Frame 5] GASHA*
* breaking glass

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[Frame 1] An "Infinite One-Sword Style" user with an unusually strong soul / Yojimbo Mifune* / This one man's soul has 99 souls' worth of power... / He's lived long enough to be a legend... enough to be called "Sword-god"*
* T/N: This of course is a reference to the Akira Kurosawa film 'Yojimbo' starring Toshiro Mifune
* lit. 'Kenshin'
[Frame 2] SASASA* / It's good that we got the cooperation of a guy like that... / Heh heh heh...
* sweeping
[Frame 3] It's easy to manipulate humans with weaknesses

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[Frame 2] School Infirmary / Okay...
[Frame 3] Say 'ahhh'~
[Frame 5] GOSOGOSO* / Maka, I wanna see the blue guy~ / Hey... / This is really embarrassing... / Why? There's nothing we can do, since you can't move... / Whenever you need something, let us know
* rummaging

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[Frame 1] Interim Doctor / Sid's Partner / Mira Nygus* / Don't be so difficult... Make sure you eat...
* Note for team: This may not be the official spelling
[Frame 2] The professor said that the magic should wear off after several days, so it won't be much longer.
[Frame 3] It seems like I can move my right hand a little... / KUTSU KUTSU* / Now that I can't move, I suddenly feel like there are lots of places I want to go...
* hand moving
[Frame 4] This time, let's have a party over at my house / Yeah! Sounds fun~ / I'll get the executive secretary to set up a perfect party / GOSOGOSO*
* rummaging
[Frame 5] Ehhh!? You will, Kid!!? / What!? Is there a problem with that!?
[Frame 6] Kid, you're too picky about this and that... Like, you always put a cup on a coaster because it might leave a stain... / I don't want to have to go to the trouble of eating over the sink when I eat a cookie... / By the way, / what have you been rummaging around over there for / this whole time?

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[Frame 1] No, no / I'm making things perfectly symmetrical in Maka's point of view / You like it, right? Even more so since you can't move
[Frame 2] Nygus-sensei, do you have one more of these medicine bottles? / If you have one it'll really, really improve the balance. / Ah, there should be some in the medical supply storage room. Shall I bring you one?
[Frame 3] No! I can't trouble you with the extra labor. I'll go myself / Ah!! No! It's because it's in awful disorder!!
[Frame 4] Waaaah!! Liz!! Patty!! Come here a second!! / What should be do, big sis? / Looks like we'll spend the rest of the day organizing...
[Frame 5] YOSHAAAA

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[Frame 1] They had one! / Tadaaa~
[Frame 2] A magic marker!? / He broke another door...
[Frame 3] To help you get better, the great Black*Star will autograph your face!! / Eh!? / Hang on a sec! Wait!!
[Frame 4] Hey!! Stop!! / You!! If you do this, I'll never acknowledge you.
[Frame 5] Kyahaha! / Well, I guess it's a promise. / KYUKYUKYUKYU*
* marker squeaking

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[Frame 1] I'm going to rip apart your achilles tendons!
[Frame 2] What's up with that guy!!? He's the worst!! And everyone was being so nice to me! / I'm sorry... I'll clean it up right now. / Heh heh heh / Gyahahahahahaha
[Frame 3] Did it come off? / Oily... / It'll come off soon, okay?
[Frame 4] KONKON*
* knocking
[Frame 5] It's lively as usual... / Oh!! Nice look~ / Sid... Is there something you need?
[Frame 6] Nygus, do you have a minute?

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[Frame 1] Hey Maka? What do you dislike? / I'll go get one and put it next to you / I already warned you, I'll rip apart your achilles tendons!
[Frame 2] New intelligence has come in from Azusa of the Death Scythes. / I can't tell you here. / Follow me. / Understood.
[Frame 3] Wouldn't makeup remover work better than water? I have some in my locker. / Yeah... can I have it?

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[Frame 1] BUUN*
* punching through the air
[Frame 2] A healthy soul... / dwells in a healthy mind and a healthy body...
[Frame 3] What am I, reading a 'No Smoking' sign?

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[Frame 1] KUSU* / Wow, you're really pumped up! / It's reckless to rid yourself of fear... / Isn't that also one of Shibusen's teachings?
* chuckle
[Frame 2] Fear of being hated by others leads one to want to be a good person... A person to wants to become powerful, so he chases "power" using the pursuit of knowledge as a stimulus. / Fear creates order...
[Frame 3] But the amount of fear is much greater than the amount of actual danger. / There is an excess of fear. / It's far too perilous to gaze at the future through the eyes of fear.
[Frame 4] Actually, Shibusen, by assembling capable and talented people like you, has amassed an exceedingly large amount of "power" / in order to maintain the status quo
[Frame 5] But that's the law of Almighty God.

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[Frame 1] There's no such thing as an Almighty God in this world.
[Frame 2] Even if there is a God, inconsistencies arise between what He asks and the conduct He requires. / This world is all there is to it in reality.
[Frame 3] As such, I'd rather hold the "Spear of Attack" than the "Shield of Defense". / As a researcher, don't you feel the same way?
[Frame 4] Right? / Professor Stein...

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[Frame 1] DON* / That's why this is so important!
* dramatic
[Frame 2] Medical Supply Storage Room / Liz! Patty! / You really don't understand the true meaning of orderliness!!
[Frame 3] Huh? They ran away, huh...

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[Frame 1] What is it, Sid?
[Frame 2] We've received some intelligence from the East Asia Chief, Azusa. / It seems we've found one of the laboratories of the organization of Arachne, the witch that Maka's group fought- "Arachnophobia". / It looks like they're building some sort of evil Demon tool.
[Frame 3] The mission this time is to infiltrate the laboratory and determine the structure and purpose of the tool, and then destroy it. / We're leaving right away!! I've asked Marie to look after Maka.
[Frame 4] That's Azusa for you... How capable... / And the location?

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[Frame 1] Azusa's going to brief us. / As it stands, it looks like we'll have backup too. / Let's go.
[Frame 2] That'll help...
[Frame 3] Soul... Can you get Tsubaki over here? / Black*Star- You...
[Frame 4] I'm going to tail Sid's group and destroy that facility.
[Frame 5] Are you crazy!? I've seen that witch! (we've been using !? so why change it?) / She's not your average enemy!

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[Frame 1] BON*
* smash
[Frame 2] PARAPARA*
* plaster dropping
[Frame 3] I'm going to attack any enemy of Maka's. / I won't forgive anyone who's laid a hand on my comrade.
[Frame 4] Then, I'll go too...
[Frame 5] Soul, you should stay with Maka.
[Frame 6] Alright... / I'd just be a target with legs, huh...
[Frame 7] Sorry...

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[Frame 2] The door is always open...
[Frame 3] Shut it... / There's a stink coming from over there...
[Frame 4] Arachnophobia / Demon tool construction laboratory
[Frame 5/6] KA KA*
* footsteps on tile - 'click click'
[Frame 6] How are the results of the "Morality Manipulation Machine" experiment? / Favorable? / Yes. / We're in the last stages of fine-tuning.

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[Frame 1] Demon tool / "Morality Manipulation Machine"
[Frame 2] If one totally loses one's morality, insanity cannot be born. / Then again, plotting insanity is just a different morality... / With this demon tool, we'll lower people's notions of morality and, even if it's just a little, bring out their insanity!!
[Frame 3] Ha ha ha!!
[Frame 5] Rather than guarding that little witch, why don't you become my bodyguard? / That sound good to you?

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[Frame 1] Bodyguard / Mifune / Not interested.
[Frame 2] Mifune~ / TE TE TE*
* toddling along
[Frame 3] BUFUN*
* colliding
[Frame 3] UNHIHIII* / Little witch / Angela Leon
* grinning

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[Frame 1] I just do whatever I have to to protect Angela.
[Frame 2] What time's the shift change today? / We can't go home yet.
[Frame 3] DON*
* stab
[Frame 4] ZUZU*
* sliding down the wall
[Frame 5] What- / What's happening!?
[Frame 6] SUTSU*
* rustle
[Frame 7] GATSU*
* thud

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[Frame 1] BOKI*
* crack
[Frame 2] BONBON*
* soul vibration sound - vrmm~
[Frame 3] HYUU*
* souls flying
[Frame 4] SHUSHUN*
* souls being absorbed
[Frame 6] KACHA*
* clink
[Frame 7] Nicely done.
[Frame 8] We've reached point B. No problems so far.

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[Frame 1] What's our next move...?
[Frame 2] You're quick... / Wait one moment while I look at the map.
[Frame 3] Prepare to synchronize with me / KACHI* / Roger!
* adjusting glasses
[Frame 4] Clairvoyance*
* we might want to leave this as 'SENRIGAN' a la sharingan/byakugan
[Frame 5] VOOO*
* humming sound
[Frame 6] It's 32 meters to the target. The passage is 3.5 meters wide... / Okay, with this, the map of the complex is complete.

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[Frame 1] How's it look?
[Frame 2] Hmm... / Go 15 meters ahead along the hallway you're in, then take the stairs on the left. The target, the demon tool, is in the inner room there.
[Frame 3] Azusa's "Clairvoyance"... / The special powers of the Death Scythes are definitely handy. / It's good to know you're here as backup.
[Frame 4] Though I can only see within a radius of 50 meters using Sid, who's synchronized with me as a medium, / I appreciate the sentiment. / Long distance synchronization / Using something like a telephone (a radio in this case), / Souls can mutually communicate. / An ability specific to Azusa.
[Frame 5] The signal is weak in the room containing the target, but there's one witch's soul, one aging monster's soul... / And... be careful, there's one extremely powerful "strong soul" present.
[Frame 5 Kanji] clockwise from top left: Demon tool, Suck, 'Little Witch'*, Strong
* 'Little Witch' is in this case written with the onpu of 'ma' as used in the first character in the 'Target' box, with katakana 'ma'. This is basically shorthand, and isn't really used often - it's used here to emphasize Angela's 'little'ness

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[Frame 1] I also feel those signals... / But our mission this time is to investigate and destroy the demon tool... / I suppose we can still succeed.
[Frame 2] PIIONPIION* / Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!
* klaxons
[Frame 3] Impossible!! / We were detected!?
[Frame 4] Move it! It's the front door! / We should hurry and tell the bodyguard!
[Frame 5] Front door? / Hey! Azusa... What's going on!?
[Frame 6] Yes, / I'm checking now...
[Frame 7] GA*
* senrigan activating
[Frame 8] The main entrance is down this hall...
[Frame 8/9] OOOO*
* resonance

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[Frame 2] DOTSU*
* THUD
[Frame 3] Why are they here...? / KYUKI*
* marker squeaking
[Frame 3 Kanji] right to left: Work / Warrior
[Frame 4] GUSHU*
* smacking against the wall
[Frame 5] Shibusen students... / Keep 'em coming!! / I'll destroy every last one of you!!

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[Frame 1] My, what a lively guest.
[Frame 2] HYOKO*
* peering
[Frame 3] Huh? That kid...
[Frame 4] ZUZUZU*
* dragging
[Frame 5] Y... You guys are- / Eh!?
[Frame 6] ZUZU*
* dragging
[Frame 8] N*
* looking up

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[Frame 2] Bastard...
[Frame 3] Why...?
[Frame 4] Bodyguard Mifune... / What are you doing here!?

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[Frame 1] I swing my sword to protect children- to protect Angela... / And yet why are you, who are also children, appearing in front of me again?
[Frame 2] What's the matter?
[Frame 3] GYU* / Angela! Come this way...
* gripping hands
[Frame 4] NYA*
* grinning

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[Frame 2] How interesting...
[Frame 4] Well then, it's a fight!