Nurarihyon no Mago 8

Sorry about the wait!

As if it needed saying over a week after the fact, this chapter is love and win.

Scanlators / International Translators: You're welcome to use this translation, as long as you credit Niphredil for the translation and Kirimi for proofreading. Please also include the chapter notes which appear at the end.

Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel

-01-

Red text, top centre: The Hyakki advance, on a night long overdue, to hunt an ostentatious evil!!

White and red text, bottom left: Act 8: Rikuo Faces Off Against The Fangs of Kyuuso

-02-

Right vertical sidetext: After many long years, this being transformed. And by doing so, it turned evil…!!

Image text, top right: Kyuuso
Image text: A large rat youkai

Text: They are said to feed on kittens.
Text: Weaklings which learn from their natural enemy every time.
Text: And before too long, their hearts become warped,
Text: And they bare their fangs

-03-

Text: Ukiyoe District
Text: First Street

Girl: Kya~~~ Seiya, you finally came~~~
Girl: I've been waiting for ages!!

Kyuuso: Fufu... I won't be letting you sleep tonight either
Kyuuso: Let's enjoy ourselves until morning comes...
Girl: Woo! Master, bring us Dom Perignon~!
Text: Coming right up!

Text: Ahahaha~

Text: Aha

Text: Aha...

-04-05-

Youkai: Yes please, thank you

Girl: Wh... Where am I?
Girl: Seiya~...

Girl: Ugh, it's gross in here... what is this place...
Girl: Wasn't I... in the club...? How horrid!

Girl: It's scary... it's like an attic...
Girl: Oh, Seiya!...

Girl: Hiiie...
Girl: R... Rats...?!

Text: Ahhhhhhhhh
SFX: chomp
SFX: crunch
Kyuuso: Heheheh... Tonight's the pre-celebration!!
Kyuuso: The night before the dawn... of the Kyuuso Clan
Kyuuso: We'll be chewing on you 'til morning~

Gyuuki: Heh
Gyuuki: So then, Kyuuso... you're saying you can pull this off?

Kyuuso: Leave it to me, Boss...
Kyuuso: But, we're going in circles ... It'd have been so much easier if you'd let me kill that little brat back there.

Gyuuki: No, Kyuuso
Gyuuki: The death of their leader would give rise to a newfound unity.

Gyuuki: The important thing is to kill "hope"

-06-

Text: Nura Clan Main House
Karasu Tengu: M... Master Rikuo...
Karasu Tengu: Master
Karasu Tengu: What on earth is this~~~!!

Karasu Tengu: What exactly
Karasu Tengu: Do you mean by this~~~!!

Youkai: What's going on?
SFX: mutter
SFX: murmur
Rikuo [top centre]: Exactly what I wrote there, Karasu Tengu!!
Rikuo: Please!! I want you to send this out to all the bosses in the country immediately!!
Rikuo: If you don't... then I won't be able to save Kana and Yura!!

Karasu Tengu: Y-you can't do that!!
Karasu Tengu: No matter what happens, I can't allow you to do that, Master!!

-07-

Karasu Tengu: Announcing that you'll never take on the position of The Third in your lifetime?!

Karasu Tengu: Sending out an official decree... is as absolute as expulsion!!

Rikuo: I know, I know! And that's why I'm doing it, so...
Rikuo: Please
Karasu Tengu: Eh?
Karasu Tengu: Master
Youkai: Master is... bowing his head

Karasu Tengu: But then... what about your declaration last time?

Rikuo: Th... That...
Rikuo: Sorry, but... I really don't remember it at all...
Karasu Tengu: I misjudged you, Master!!

-08-

Nurarihyon: I heard what's going on
Nurarihyon: Rikuo
Nurarihyon: Come over here

Rikuo: Grandpa...?

SFX: tear
Rikuo: Ah!

Rikuo: What are you doing, Grandpa?!
Nurarihyon: I should be asking you the same thing, you...
Nurarihyon: Stupid grandson!!

-09-

Nurarihyon: Bringing an onmyouji over here in the daytime... are you trying to get all of us youkai wiped out?!
Rikuo: I had no choice!! And, youkai are all "evil" anyway so what's the big deal!!

Nurarihyon: Whaaat?!
Karasu Tengu: Ahhh.. please stop it, you two...

Rikuo: And anyway, having those guys as part of our clan...
Rikuo: What are you thinking?!
Rikuo: That's why... I don't want to be in a youkai household!!

Karasu Tengu: Master...
Rikuo: You're the lowest of the low!!

Ryoutaneko: You're wrong, Master!!

Rikuo: ...?
Rikuo: Who are you?

-10-

Ryoutaneko: I'm the head of the Bakeneko Clan under the Nura Clan group. My name is Ryoutaneko.
Ryoutaneko: The truth is... the clan given charge of the First Street by the Supreme Commander was...
Ryoutaneko: Our clan... Master Rikuo.

Nurarihyon: ......

Ryoutaneko: We... called ourselves the Bakeneko Clan...
Ryoutaneko: We're old youkai who, before Master Nurarihyon set up residence in Ukiyoe District,
Ryoutaneko: Piled up our evil deeds as gamblers.

Text: When the Nura Clan came to this land, it was only natural that it would take us in.
Text: It was at that time that the Supreme Commander granted us the right to control the street.

Text: After that... for a long time...
Text: The street became an entertainment district for the inhabitants of the night.

-11-

Rikuo: .........
Ryoutaneko: What we did...
Ryoutaneko: It would probably seem bad to Master Rikuo.

Ryoutaneko: But gamblers have rules.
Ryoutaneko: We didn't want to sully the Nura Clan's emblem of "Respect", so we wanted to govern our place with dignity too!!

Ryoutaneko: However... now that street...
SFX: slam
Ryoutaneko: Has been taken over by those cursed rats!

Ryoutaneko: As soon as they showed up
Ryoutaneko: Before we knew it, they had changed the street, just like that...

Ryoutaneko: They put on a flashy appearance and lure girls into their dazzling world
Ryoutaneko: And then devour them just to satisfy their lust!!

-12-

Ryoutaneko: Master... Things will just get worse if you let them do as they please in that street!!
Ryoutaneko: Please... save that street!!

Rikuo: ............
Karasu Tengu: These ones are also
Karasu Tengu: Weak youkai, like Master Zen.

Rikuo: But... I...
Rikuo: What could I do?!

Ryoutaneko: Master Rikuo!
Rikuo: I'm... I'm just a human, you know?!

Rikuo: That's why... all I can do...
Rikuo: Is send out the decree to save my friends!!

Ryoutaneko: You mustn't trust anything they say!!

-13-

Rikuo: Eh?!
Ryoutaneko: Those guys... they think of nothing but their own desires!!

Ryoutaneko: You'll be killed!!
Ryoutaneko: Whether you're human or not!
Ryoutaneko: They're... They're just using you!!

Nurarihyon: ...The Kyuuso Clan...
Nurarihyon: That's right... I had a feeling there were guys like that in our clan...

Nurarihyon: But they've got no good sense at all.
Nurarihyon: In the end they're of no use... I thought they'd been expelled early on.
Nurarihyon: But I see now, they're just in First Street now...

Nurarihyon: Rikuo
Nurarihyon: You better not just give in to them! That's pathetic.
Nurarihyon: Aren't you gonna take responsibility for this?!

Rikuo: You're telling me to do something like that
Rikuo: But I'm not strong or anything at all!!

-14-

Rikuo: I'm not...

Karasu Tengu: Master
Karasu Tengu: If you throw away the title of The Third... you're throwing away your servants too!!
Rikuo: S...Shut up!!

Text: What was that... just now...
Text: I feel... hot...
Rikuo: You're wrong... I...

Text: I don't know anything—
Karasu Tengu: Master...
Text: I've got no strength...

Text: Because I'm a human...
Nurarihyon!Rikuo: By now you should be aware of it

-15-

Nurarihyon!Rikuo: Of your
Nurarihyon!Rikuo: True strength

Text top right: Huh...?

Text: Cherry blossom...?
Rikuo: My...
Text: Why...
Rikuo: My true strength...?

Text: The person from the weeping cherry blossom...
Text: From my dream...

Nurarihyon!Rikuo: Now
Nurarihyon!Rikuo: It's time

-16-17-

[no text, just joy]

-18-

Karasu Tengu: M...
Karasu Tengu: Master...?

Rikuo: Karasu Tengu
Rikuo: Call everyone out here.

-19-

Rikuo: We have till dawn
Rikuo: To go rat-hunting.

Yura: ...nn...
Yura: Nnn...

Yura: Wha...
Yura: Where am I?!

Kana: Nnnn...
Yura: Ienaga?!

Yura: Wh...What's this cage for...
Yura: It's outside...

-20-

Kyuuso: Yo, onmyouji girl
Kyuuso: How does it feel? Knowing that you're gonna be executed under the neon lights?

Yura: What... executed...?

Kyuuso: That's right...
Kyuuso: That is, if that kid, the Third... breaks his promise.

Text: grin

Yura: The Third...? What do you mean...?
Yura: Kyuuso...
Yura: Stop this nonsense!! Stop messing around with us!!

-21-

Youkai: Oi, girl... don't call him that name.
Youkai: On this street...

Youkai: You call him Mr. Seiya!!
SFX: rip

Youkai: Hey...
Youkai: Without your shikigami you're just a girl!
Kana: Yura...

Kyuuso: Now then... it's almost time.
Kyuuso: Well... I couldn't care less whether he shows up or not, but...

-22-

Kyuuso: Did you know...? Human blood... it's thickest before dawn, and that makes it much tastier.
Kyuuso: And that's... right about now...

Kana: No...
Kana: Hiie...
Yura: ...
Yura: Th-This is a youkai...

Kana: Stop...
Youkai: Heheh... this one's just my type~
Yura: What
Yura: Terrible creatures

Yura: I have to defeat them...
Yura: I'm... I'm an onmyouji after all...

Yura: If I only had my shikigami...
Yura: I could beat them
Yura: No...

-23-

Yura: Noooooo..!!
Yura: Someone
Yura: Someone, please...
Yura: Someone save us!!!

SFX [bottom right]: hsssss...

Youkai: Hm...
Youkai: What's that...?

Youkai: Huh?

-24-25-

Youkai: Wha...
Youkai: Th...This is...

Yura: ......
Yura: Eh?!

-26-

Youkai: Heheheh...
Youkai: It's been a while since we came out for a fight.
Youkai: I'm gonna go all out!

Youkai: Mr. Seiya!! Wh-What's going on?!
Youkai: Master Seiya!!
Youkai: There are Bakeneko Clan guys there!!

Rikuo?: Bakeneko Clan... Is that them?

Ryoutaneko: Yeah...
Ryoutaneko: They're those hateful rats....

Yura: No way...
Text: The Hyakki Yakou...?
Text: It can't be...

Text: Then...
Text: That man is...
Text: The Supreme Commander... of Youkai?

Kana: .........

-27-

Aotabou: What is it, Yuki Onna?
Aotabou: Are you having that much fun just coming out for a little scuffle?

Yuki Onna: Because!...
Youkai: W...We're going for a fight?!
Youkai: You mean we're going to save that girl?!

Rikuo: Stop your complaining
Rikuo: Doing your enemy a favour... isn't always a bad thing.
Yuki Onna: Master Rikuo of the Night... isn't he so reliable?

Rikuo: Sorry we kept you waiting...
Rikuo: Rats...

-28-

Youkai: Who the hell are you?!
Youkai: They must be from the Main House...
Youkai: Where's The Third?!

Kyuuso: I don't give a damn about the brat...
Kyuuso: What about the decree? Show me the decree that get sent out!!

Kyuuso: You better have sent it round!!

Rikuo: ......
Rikuo: If he'd written it, I must have ripped it up.

Youkai: What did you say?!

Youkai: Bastard...

-29-

Kyuuso: Then as promised, we'll kill the girls...

Youkai: Hm?

Kyuuso: —Huh?!
Kana: It's floating...
Kubinashi: Hold on.

Rikuo: What are you gonna do, Emperor of the Night?
Rikuo: Your kittens have escaped.

Text: Ch...

Kyuuso: Don't underestimate me, asshole! Kill them!!

-30-

Text: Uwahhhhhhh

SFX: smash
SFX: slam
SFX: thud
Text: Gyahahaha

Kurotabou: Ao! Shall we see who can exterminate the most rats?
Aotabou: Gahaha Kuro~~~ Have you EVER beat me~?

Kuro: What did you say~
Rat: Die!!

-31-

暗器黒演舞
Text: *Anki Kuroenbu!!

Rat: Guuuergh.... that's dirty...

SFX: jangle
Kuro: Heh...

Kuro: That's the greatest compliment of all
SFX: jingle
Kuro: To this Assassination and Destruction Monk... Kurotabou

Ao: While you're standing there bragging, I'm killing a bunch of them!!
Text: Gahaha
Kuro: Ahh!!

Rat: The girl!!
Rat: I'm gonna kill the girl~!!!

-32-

Text: Noroi no
Text: Fubuki

雪化粧
Text: *Yukigeshou

Kejourou: Hohohoho
Kejourou: Hohohoho Hohoho

Kejourou: I hate rats!!!
Text: Gshaaaa

-33-

Kyuuso: Why... why are you guys here...
Kyuuso: Whose orders are you following...
Kyuuso: The Hyakki Yakou don't move out except on the orders of their master...

Ryoutaneko: What are you talking about?
Ryoutaneko: He's right here in front of you.

Kyuuso: What...
Kyuuso: D... Don't tell me...

Ryoutaneko: It's this person of course!! The grandson of Nurarihyon!!
Ryoutaneko: The one who will become the Supreme Commander of Youkai!!

Kyuuso: Th... That's...
Kyuuso: His... awakened form?!

SFX: scratch?
Kyuuso: Ugh...
Kyuuso: I knew it...

-34-

Kyuuso: I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU BACK THEN!!

Rikuo: So now that you're cornered, you're baring your fangs

Rikuo: But, they don't look like anything special...
SFX: *blows*

SFX: whoomph
Kyuuso: ?!

-35-

てめぇらが向けた牙の先
Rikuo: Before you go bearing your fangs

本当に．．．闇の王んなりてぇなら
Rikuo: If you truly... want to be king of the darkness
歯牙にかけちゃならねぇ奴らだよ
Rikuo: Make sure your fangs can't be broken.

Rikuo: You guys... aren't fit to serve beneath me.

-36-37-

奥義　明鏡止水
Rikuo: *Ougi Meikyou Shisui
Rikuo: "Sakura"

Kyuuso: Wh...
Kyuuso: What the hell is this?!

Rikuo: Until these ripples die down
Rikuo: They'll keep burning everything.

Rikuo: By dawn, you'll be nothing but dust.

-38-

Guy: ...Hmph

Guy: Weak as always.

Guy: It's a good thing we used youkai that had been expelled already
Guy: So that their death won't lead back to us.
Guy: Right?

-39-

Guy: Gyuuki.

Bubble: .........

SFX: chirp chirp
Cat sfx: Nya~ Nya~

-40-

Yura: .........
Yura: W... Wait!
Yura: Are you the Master of the Youkai?!

Yura: I came here to defeat you!!
Yura: The next time we meet
Yura: I'll definitely defeat you!!

Rikuo: Be careful going home.
Rikuo: Kubinashi... you're so weak when it comes to girls.
Yura: I... still... need more training.
Yura: I never thought I'd need to be saved like that!

-41-

SFX: chirp chirp
Zen!!!: Hey, Karasu!!
Karasu Tengu: Master Zen?

Zen: Where's Rikuo?
Zen: I've got a bone to pick with him.

Zen: I heard you guys went out for a fight last night!!
Zen: Why didn't you call me?
SFX: *gebooeuurgh*
Karasu Tengu: Waahhh?!

Zen: Damn him, we had a deal...
Zen: I'm gonna complain to Master... *gebooeuurgh*
Karasu Tengu: Wahhh, someone stop him!!
Karasu Tengu: Master's gonna be covered in blood!
Label on present: Thank you very much, Bakeneko Clan
Image text: After a night of mayhem... his peaceful sleeping face...!!
Image text [bottom]: Next issue, having realised his own strength, Rikuo unexpectedly jumps into action?!

- - - Chapter 8 END - - -

Chapter Notes:

Page 10, Bakeneko Clan
A bakeneko is a cat that has transformed into a youkai.

Page 15-19, [insert awesome here]
Uh, this isn't actually a chapter note. I just wanted to say I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR A SCENE LIKE THIS. Youkai!Rikuo makes me ridiculously happy.

Page 31, Anki Kuroenbu / 暗器黒演舞
[i think I'm going to leave all the moves un-translated and include notes like this from now on.]
Anki = Shadow weapons; Kuroenbu: Black Dance/Performance. So maybe, "Black Dance of Shadow Weapons".

Page 32, Noroi no Fubuki / 呪いの吹雪
Translates to "Cursed Blizzard".

Page 32, Yukigeshou / 雪化粧
Okay, all I could come up for this was "Snow Cover". Kirimi pointed out that the "keshou" means make-up/cosmetics and suggested "Snow Makeover".

Page 36-37, Ougi Meikyou Shisui / 奥義　明鏡止水
Ougi means secret. Meikyou Shisui means clear like a mirror, a mind as serene and calm as still water.

Page 39, Gyuuki / 牛鬼
The characters in his name are cow and oni (ogre, demon). The youkai called Gyuuki commonly appears on coastal areas or in mountainous areas, and spits poison at humans before eating them. It is said to appear usually either with a cow's head and an oni's body, or a cow's head with a spider's body.