Soul Eater 42

Property of myself and Binktopia.

-> To T/S: There are several cultural notes, might make sense to put them on a separate chapter notes page. Up to you to see if they fit, I guess...

p.1
[side Text] Suddenly, "The Clown" has appeared before their eyes...!!

p.2
[Title] Chapter 42: Clown (Middle Part)
-> To T/S: This really is chapter 42
[Text] The radiance of a "Soul" dwells in those eyes.

p.4
[1] I know this...
[2] This soul wavelength...
[4] I entice people into insanity. / I was born in this factory, / as the contagion of insanity
[5] This soul wavelength... / It couldn't be...

p.5
[1] Asura / That little soul feels like it's sucking everything in...

p.6
[1] Terror...
[4] KOROKORO*
* roll roll
[5] NYO*
* squeeze
[6] PON*
* pop
[7] PIN*
* flick
[8] PON (x4)* / Play / with me-
* juggling
[9] They multiplied...

p.7
[1] Zah!! / VUTSU*
* zoom
[2] GAN (x5)*
* thock (x5)
[4] KANKINKONKIN*
* clinkclunkclankclonk
[5] They're ricocheting back!

p.8
[1] GOTSU*
* thud
[2] This is bad... / If I'm overwhelmed with terror...
[4] ZAZAZA*
* slide
[5] GAKIN*
* slam
[7] GAKON* / Nngh!!
* thwock
[8] Oh- / Lucky~

p.9
[1] PORO (x3)*
* crumble (x3)
[3] W... what is that... a person?
[4] That's...
[5] Me...!?

p.10
[1] DOSU*
* thud
[3] GISURA*
* gleam
[4] That clown bastard... / He intends to infect her... / Even though I told him it's impossible...
[5] Maka? What's wrong?
[6] GISURA* / Nn
* gleam

p.11
[1] NYUU*
* stretch
[2] GATSU*
* grab
[3] Monyooooo~
[4] Meahahahahow
[5] Y... Y... / You cat!! Shit... Shit! / You shitty cat!!
[6] How's that!? Had enough!? / Gimme back my hat!! / SUPO*
* plop
[7] W... Waiiiiit!! / PYON YON* / Miss B's taking this hat!
* hop hop

p.12
[1] Wait, wait, no fair!! / You're already wearing one!! / DODODODO*
* running
[2] DACHICHICHICHICHI / You're running from me, Nithöggr**, in this factory!? / Nithöggr!!
** T/N: Nithöggr is a dragon in Norse mythology who eats the roots of Yggdrasil and is pronounced 'Nith-heg' and means 'Malice Striker'
[3] BOOOOOOOO*
* roar
[4] BUO*
* foom
[5] Meow~ / *Cough cough*
[6] Give / me / back / my / ha / aaaaaat!!

p.13
[1] GA (x4)*
* clang (x4)
[3] GOPA*
* gulp
[4] GASHIN* / Meow~
* clank
[5] Meow~ / Meow~
[6] Meow~

p.14
[1] GUSHI*
* grab
[2] GATSUN* / VUUUUUU*
* chunk / whirrrrr
[3] In this furnace, / GURIGURI CHUPPAGURIPPA GURICHUPPA GURICHUPPA CHUPAGURI KURISUTARU* / even your soul will melty melt melt
* grind grind chew grind grind chew grind chew chew grind crystal
-> Note to t/s - I have no idea wtf is up with 'crystal' so don't ask me
[4] Hat
[5] Oh no!! / My hatty hat hat hat!! / merabume / merigori / ntaaaah!!
[6] My hat my hat / Give me back my hat~~ / Aubouaaaaabaua
[7] Gebo!! / Aubaubauaaaaa!! / merabume / merigori / ntaaaah!!
[8] Aba!! Aba!! Aba!! / Baaauaaauaaa
-> Note to t/s - Everything that seems like gibberish *is* gibberish.

p.15
[1] Muaaaaaah....
[2] I wanna go home, but I'm worried about Maka's group... / What should I do!?
[3] You won't go help Maka and the others... / and you won't go home and check on the things that are bothering you, either... / You're just wasting time here being worried / You suck...
[4] Shakespeare said it, didn't he? / "To go, or to return: that is the question."** / You're a little off...
** T/N: Obviously this is a misquote from Hamlet
[5] That is the question / What a question...
[6] W... Well... Since I hate monsters... / and since Blair is there, they should be fine... / BORI* / Sis, you suck, too.
* gritting teeth
[7] Listen to this saying, Patty: / "When it comes to meeting a monster, it's okay if the whole world is destroyed instead."** / Girls suck...
** T/N: Misquote of the Talmudic phrase: "To save a life is as if you have saved the whole world"

p.16
[3] GUI*
* yank
[4] ZUZUZU*
* drag drag drag
[5] Oi...!? What's wrong, Maka!?
[6] ZUZUZU*
* drag drag drag
[7] I guess a weapon wouldn't understand this situation.

p.17
[1] KEI*
* grab
[2] GUI*
* yank
[3] No... / Soul...
[4] Come... to where I am... / I'll grant you true freedom...
[5] Come... Come...

p.18
[1] KARAN KARAN* / Maka!
* clatter
[3] You bastard!!
[4] GOBA*
* crunch

p.19
[13] This is...
[14] Hey... You okay? / Can you stand?

p.20
[1] Yes, papa
[2] Maka, you're amazing! You don't cry even when you fall! / Hee hee
[3] I'm going to enter Shibusen too... / So I won't cry.
[4] Maka, you're still too little...
[5] Then what about that kid? / Chowah~*
-> Note to t/s: copy/paste the star
[6] That child was taken in on the same day you were born / He's not a Shibusen student... / Oh~
[7] PAN* / Hai~*
* smack
-> Note to t/s: another star
[8] Coool~ / Papa won't allow it!! It's still 20 years too early for you to have a boyfriend!

p.21
[3] Papa / Papa
[4] Papa... That's pointless now
[5] since he's dead...

p.22
[1] I don't care what happens to my soul! / Gimme back my papa!
[2] He died because you're weak... It was inevitable.
[3] BOTO BOTO BOTO BOTO*
* pop pop pop pop
[6] Stop it!!
[8] PETAPETAPETA*
* tap tap tap

p.23
[4] You and I have become one. / That's it... That clown is a mirror that reflects me...
[5] This sensation of freedom... / The one who'll tell me the truth, in the end, is the clown... / This is me...

p.26
[1] MAKA!!! / Can you hear me!?
[2] Maka!! / Sense my presence!! / My soul wavelength... / sense it...

p.27
[4] PEKU*
* tap
[5] SU*
* slide
[6] Maka...
[7] Have a seat.

p.28
[1] Not there on the edge. / Ah... / Okay...
[2] GII*
* creak
[3] Well? / What?
[4] Didn't you hear and feel it before...? / There's insanity in my piano.
[5] That's not true / I don't know much about music, but I really like your piano playing.
[6] That's because insanity has the power to fascinate people.

p.29
[1] Insanity gives you power. / I realized it when I was playing the piano before, during the battle for "Brew".
[2] You should understand it the best, right? / While terrified... A soul frantically trying to resist falling into insanity... / Maybe that's where true strength lies... / maybe that's what makes it so fascinating.
-> Note to t/s: the bubbles go counterclockwise, as connected, not r/l/r/l
[3] If insanity is the source of power... / what do you think that power is?
[4] PIKI* / PARA*
* crack / fall
[5] Courage.**
** T/N: Refer to Chapter 1 (after the intros) circa p.40
[6] Insanity is the source of courage... That might be a bit of as stretch, but / let's believe that.
[7] We have to teach that to Chrona, too. / Soul...

p.30
[1] I'm not as strong as Black*Star or Kid...
[2] So until I've done my utmost... / KOOOO* / All I can do is muster courage.
* rumble
[3] The depth of my courage... / I can't see the end of it at all yet...
[4] Maka, give me your hand...

p.31
[1] I can't see souls like you can... / so let me hear it... / just one note is fine... / of the sound you've chosen, Maka.
[3] TO-N*
* ping

p.32-33
[1] DODZU*
* kerblam
-> Note to cleaner: might not be obvious that 32/33 is a spread
[2] What!!? / What's this powerful anti-demon wavelength!!?
[3] "G", huh? Straightforward... It fits you, Maka.
[4] Che!!

p.35
[2] BOU*
* fwoom
[3] SOUL RESONANCE

p.36
[1] OOOOOO*
* wind
[2] That damn clown... This is why I said... / that it wouldn't work as well as it did with the other one...
[3] Meow~... This light is intense, even for a monster cat like meow~
[4] How!? How can you be here!!? / Cuz I'm Miss B! / So bright...
[5] KOOOOO*
* smoke

p.37
[1] Haaaaaaaa / GOOOO*
* rumble
[2] Witch Hunter? / You won't beat me with a technique of that level.
[3] Soul... This... / It's different from before...
[4] Yeah... / It's the Witch Hunter that exceeds the Witch Hunter.

p.38
[1] WARLOCK HUNTER
[2] Here I come.
[Text] This is the strength Maka gained by surmounting terror...!!