Soul Eater 49

Old translation that I never posted

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p.1
[Title] Chapter 49: Operation: Capture Baba Yaga's Castle (Part 4)
[1] Sorry to keep you waiting, kiddies!!

p.2 (blank, in the ritual raw)

p.3
[1] Maka!! This alarm... What happened!?
[3] Sis, I... didn't really do anything... / Yeah... It's not us they suspect. / This wavelength... It's unmistakable.
[4] What's going on, Kid...? Do you know something about this?
[5] And what's with that happy expression you have on...? / Nah...

p.4
[1] You're late, Black*Star
[2] The star always shows up late.
[3] Hey, hey... Looks like the gallery's finally coming out / to see the great Black*Star, BIG like the big bang... / right, Tsubaki?

p.5
[1] The enemy numbers about three hundred... Shouldn't be a problem.
[2] Yeah!!
[3] Wanna have a go!? / To think that a single kid would raid a place like this! / Kill him!!

p.6
[1] What's this!?
[2] BIN*
* yank
[3] BABABABA* / No matter how many of you there are, you can't win against him.
* flutter (x4)
[4] DOSA* / From here on out, this is a battlefield only those who live by the sword may enter. / Stay back.
* thud
[5] The hell'd you say, you fake-ass blue-eyed samurai!?
[6] And what, all Japanese people are samurai? How nice for you.

p.7
[1] I missed ya, Mifune. / OOOOO* / So you've come.
* wind
[3] A demon... No... / What happened to you?
[4] The hesitance in my soul has disappeared. / The path I'm following isn't that of the demon... / The path I'm following runs through you, and I'll have you let me pass.

p.8
[1] Land of the rising sun, Japan
[3] Nakatsukasa Manor

p.9
[1] Father, Mother / I'm home / GARAGARA*
* slide
[2] Tsubaki!? If you were coming, you should've told us beforehand!
[3] Well, aren't you noisy? / Nakatsukasa Sanjuro**
** T/N: Like 'Mifune' and 'Yojinbou', 'Sanjuro' is a reference to a film starring Toshiro Mifune
[4] Welcome back. / Good to be home.
[5] This is the first time I've returned... / since settling things with nii-san...

p.10
[1] You fought well. / At the end, nii-san...
[2] Yes... I'm sure that's why he entrusted you with his "power", Tsubaki.
[3] You can tell me all about it later. / More importantly, it's bad to keep people waiting. / The technician you always write about in your letters came as well, no? / Y...yeah... He's just outside.
[4] Where, where?(music note) / I'm not sure you'd want to meet him... at the moment~~~...
[5] Hm?
[6] Da- / ZURUZURUZURU*
* spin (x3)

p.11
[1] Uooooooooh / KURU (x lots)*
* spin (x lots)
[2] Tsubaki... / What's wrong with this kid? / Why is he spinning? / Err... Well~~
[3] Since I'm going to be staying here a while, / I'm switching the pivot of the earth's axis. / Hangon a sec.
[4] Haa... haa... / Well... that should do it. / I recently taught him the term "earth's axis"... / since then, he always does this...
[5] Puhahahahaha you're changing the earth's axis by spinning!?
[6] You're just as big a deal as I'd heard! / GASHITSU* / Yeah, well!!
* grab
[7] Well then, Black*Star- at least come in and have some tea. / Don't make faces at me if I keep asking for seconds! / E... Embarassing...

p.13
[2] BURITSU*
* fwish
[3] SHUBATSU*
* fwoom
[4] As expected from the technician Tsubaki chose... He moves well.
[5] SUU* / Soul Menace**
* inhale
** T/N: Transliteration - Kon'i
[6] BOTSU*
* pow

p.14
[1] My soul wavelength is coming back to normal...
[2] Black*Star- / Why do you fight? / Wha?
[3] I want to become strong and stand out. / I'll take out anyone stronger than me
[4] Even if that's the demon's path?
[5] I don't know anything about a demon's path or whatever. / You saying I should just grow roots out of my ass and stand still? / Is it wrong to become strong? What's wrong with wanting power?
[6] I want to become strong. / Even if you say that's the path of a demon, I'll keep going without looking back.

p.15
[4] Tsubaki... / I want to master the path of the sword. / Yeah.
[6] I'll kill you... and become a Kishin. / With that, I'll master the path of the sword.

p.16
[1] My brother, while seeking power, strayed from the path of the sword onto the path of the demon... / Then he was eaten by that demon.
[3] Tsubaki... Touching your soul brought me to my senses. / But in the end, he returned to the path of a man...
[5] Help me, nii-san... / What can I do...?

p.17
[2] Your name is / Black Star.** / You steal people's hopes / and live in darkness.
** T/N: Kanji says 'World of Darkness'
[4] World of Darkness. / What an awful name I got stuck with...

p.18
[1] What are you doing, Black*Star? / You'll catch a... well, no... but aren't you cold?
[2] I was looking at the sky.
[3] In Death City, it's bright even at night. / When the sky's dark, you can see the stars pretty well, right?
[4] Yeah... it's pitch black... / It's pretty.
[5] Hey, Tsubaki-chan... / I'm the last survivor of the infamous Hoshi** clan... Right from the start, I've got to avoid living in the darkness...
** T/N: Star
[7] If this dusky sky is me, / you're the shining stars...

p.19
[1] What's up? This isn't like you.
[2] The dark sky and the shining stars... / I think when you put them together, they're like you, Black*Star.
[3] I know that already. / I just wanted to thank you. / Yeah~
[4] Tsubaki... / I have a favor to ask. / That deer... / Let me meet him one more time.
[6] Inside the "Will of Nakatsukasa"

p.20
[3] I'm starting, Black*Star-
[4] Yeah.
[5] OOOO*
* wind rushing

p.21
[2] Tsubaki... / I'll show you the way.
[3] BASHI*
* spash
[4] BABAPAPA*
* skid

p.22
[3] So you've come again, child of the Hoshi clan... What's the meaning of that look in your eyes? / It doesn't look like you've come to talk.
[4] I never intended to just talk. / Take a look at my soul.

p.23
[1] Oh? / Tsubaki... I'm borrowing your body, okay? / Alright.

p.24
[1] So let me see your soul, then.
[2] I'd show it to you even if you didn't ask.
[3] BAMU*
* foosh
[4] GAJII*
* yank
[5] Hrmph!! / DON* / Kuh-
* boom
[6] BABABABA*
* skid

p.25
[2] The hell are these!?
[3] BATSU*
* zoom
[4] BASHIN*
* splish
[5] They're the souls of those who aimed to be the strongest, and had their dreams crushed... / Before the sword... By fear... The souls of those who were eaten by the demon.

p.26
[1] DOTSU*
* fwoom
[3] KABO*
* thwump
[4] ZURURURU*
* pour
[5] The images... / Are flowing in...

p.27
[1] Aahhhhhhh / BOBOBOBOBO*
* gush
[2] GOBU*
* thud
[4] KATA (x4)
* shake (x4)
[5] What happened to that big talk from before? / You're shaking.
[6] Those were the wavelengths of regret of those who were defeated by the sword. / Fear... Defeat... Resentment... / Despair.

p.28
[1] That's what you'll consume, / on the path of the demon... / Will you continue, nonetheless?
[2] Will you become a demon!? Well, child!?
[4] Though you act tough, you're just a child starting out. / That's what real fear is. / For someone who can't even stand after being smashed by despair, / the dream of being greater than a god is just another dream.
[5] I can stand against fear! I'll never give up!
[5/6] But to think humans have been reduced to this... Have gone through this much despair...

p.29
[1] I don't want to lose!!!
[2] Listen up, you deer bastard. / I don't show my tears. / These are the tears of those who have fallen to regret.
[3] The regretful souls of those who aimed at the true way of the sword and fell... / If you're telling me to clear away that regret, I'll shoulder that burden.
[4] The path I'm following isn't that of the demon, who takes life.

p.30
[1] It's the path of the sword which resurrects the dead!!!
[2] Are you saying you'll clear away all the accumulated regret?
[3] Bring it on, Nakatsukasa. / The summit of the sword you all weren't able to reach... / I'll show it to you.

p.31
[5] Our souls... / are with you.

p.32-33
[2] Your brother's dream... / I'll definitely make it come true.
[3] Yeah.

p.34
[4] Let's go, Tsubaki. / Soul Resonance.
[5] Right!

p.35
[1] Mifune... I understand your strength now...
[2] You've put on a warrior's face... / It'd be rude to take it easy on you any longer. / I'll be serious.
[3] This is our third time... / Yeah, there won't be a next.
[5] A shadow is gathering around the katana.
[6] Black*Star's wavelength is flowing into me. / Give us strength.

p.36
[1] Shadow*Star / First Form / "Black Chain"**
** T/N: The reading is "Rengoku," a homonym for "Purgatory"

p.37
[1] Uraaaaah!

p.38
[1] GAGON*
* clang
[3] TAN*
* jump
[4] KUN*
* yank

p.39
[1] GAN*
* clang
[2] DOTSU*
* thud

p.40
[3] GIN*
* shing
[4] ZAZAZA*
* skid

p.41
[4] Infinite one-sword style... / Here it comes.
[5] DODODODODO*
* boom (x5)

p.42
[4] Here I come.