Tegami Bachi 33

Gonna be posting up chapters 33-37 so apologies in advance for any PM spam.

Numbering follows raw from JAC

International Translators: You're welcome to use this, but please include a credit for Niphredil.

Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
Blue text: Edits
Corrections, comments, and advice always appreciated!


-01- [cover]

-02- [colourspread, top page]
Pink/White text, centre: May our Hearts cry out!!
[rainbow is just... talking about anime airtimes. Again.]

-03- [colourspread, bottom page]
White text, by book covers: Volume 8 and the Tegami Bachi Handbook now on sale!
White text, between kanji: Asada Hiroyuki

-04-
Thunderland: The Cold Letter Division...?!
Thunderland: The Director wasn't enough, you want to demote Seeing too?!
Text left: The sudden announcement enrages Thunderland!

Thunderland: Garrard!! Even if you ARE an official from the capital—
Garrard: Listen up, Doctor.
Garrard: Until Gauche Suede is in fit condition to be taken back to the capital, I have authority here.
Garrard: So until then

Garrard: The weak-willed work you've been doing up until now will not be tolerated.
Garrard: You'd do well to remember it.
Text bottom: Chapter 33: The Cold Letter Division

-05-
Garrard: Connor Culh has not yet returned.
Garrard: Thus other than the express delivery specialist Jiggy Pepper
Garrard: The only one with high delivery efficiency is Mock Sullivan.

Zaji top text: Tch…
Zaji bottom text: Efficiency my ass…

Garrard: "Tch?" That's rich coming from the pussy who couldn't even leave his claw marks on the Cabernet.

Zaji: WHAT WAS THAT, ASSHOLE?!
Lag: Zaji!!

Garrard: So on top of showing no respect to your superiors, you're incompetent too.
Garrard: Is that really what they call skilled Gaichuu exterminators now?
Zaji: WHAT?

-06-
Garrard: You will leave immediately for eastern Yodaka and conduct a search for the Gaichuu Cabernet along the 400 kilometres between Shark Cape and the cliffs.

Zaji: A search?...
Zaji: Covering... 400 kilometres?!

Garrard: If the Cabernet is another Gaichuu with the ability to regenerate
Garrard: It should be hiding somewhere and gathering its strength, don't you think?
Garrard: If you can't best it, then beat it down before it can get moving.
Garrard: You're obviously free if you've got time to be loafing around down here.

Garrard: I'll let you off for the previous incident with pay cut.
Garrard: If you fail this time, you're fired!!
Zaji: !!

Garrard: Doctor Thunderland
Garrard: If you want to send me packing back to the capital, then get Suede fixed up as quickly as possible.

-07-
Garrard: Lag Seeing

Garrard: You buckle down and get to work too.
Garrard: While you dream those childish dreams
Garrard: Of becoming Head Bee, or whatever.
Lag: !!

-08-
Niche/Valentine: ......
SFX: stare

Steak/Niche: ...

Aria: Let's just get through this, Lag!
Aria: We must simply be patient for a while.
Lag: Yes, ma'am!

Lag: But... Aria-san
Lag: When Garrard-san goes back to the capital, will he take Gauche with him as well?

Aria: ......
Aria: It looks like it...

-09-
Lag: I never thought Garrard-san would be so strict...
Aria: It's called arrogance!

Lag: I had so much to ask him too... But I don't think he'll give me any answers.
Lag: Like what it's like in the capital...
Lag: And about my mother, to...

Aria: Your mother...?
Lag: Ah!... Nothing...

Aria: The Director was his usual self!
SFX: hmph

Text: Oh well, it can't be helped!
Text: I leave it to you, Aria-kun!
Text: I'll bring you back a bunch of souvenirs~~!
Lag: He went on holiday?
Text by Lag: Eh?...
Aria: He doesn't take anything seriously!!!

-10-
Lag: B... By the way, this is the far side of the Eastern Building, isn't it?
Lag: It looks pretty run down around here...
Lag: What exactly is the Cold Letter Division, Aria-san...?

SFX: creak
Aria: Letters gathered here remain undelivered for various reasons.
Aria: In other words...! [small text:]Ngh, it won't open...
Aria: It's storage!!
Aria: You see?

Lag: Huh...
Lag: Wha—?
Lag: Wooow!!
Lag: This is all undelivered mail?!

-11-
Lag: This is amazing...!
Lag: If this was Yodaka, the Gaichuu would come swarming in for these!

Lag: Is there no one in charge of this division then?
SFX: coughing
Aria: There is, actually.

Lag: Cold... Letter Division
Lag: Head...

Lag: Head?!
Lag: Then you got shoved down here too—
Lag: Ah!

Aria: Alright, Lag...!
Aria: Let's begin!!

-12-
Lag: Yes ma'am!!
Lag: I'll go get a bucket and mop !!
Lag: Niche!! Come on, quickly! We have to get cleaning!!
Niche: Clean!
Aria: You're going out on delivery!!

Aria: We're going to start taking care
Aria: Of the Cold Letters here.
Lag: A... All of them...!
Aria: As quickly as we can! Rapidly!!
Aria: At the speed of light!!

Aria: We'll show that Garrard how we get work done here!!
Niche: Get done
Aria: Is that understood?......
Aria: We'll show him, all right

Aria: First, let's see...
Aria: Let's start with this.

Aria: Cold Letter File 77!
Aria: Addresee Phillip Ranower, Delivery Denied, 240 pieces...
Text: Here you go.
Lag: 240?!

-13-
Aria: They are going to Phillip Ranower, who lives in Belladonna.
Aria: For the past two years, Letters have arrived frequently for him, but he has refused to accept them at time of delivery.

Lag: The sender's address is unknown, other than the fact that they are in Yuusari Central.
Lag: Because of this, they also can't be returned.
Lag: The previous delivery attempts were made by... Mock Sullivan!! [small text:]Wahh, I bet I'll be coming back right away~

Lag: Even so...
Lag: Does Ranower-san really live all alone on this stony mountain?

-14-
Lag: Whoa!

Lag: Niche... you've made even more progress with your hair moves!
Lag: Speaking of which... What did you talk about with your sister at the underground lake?!

Niche: We didn't talk.
Lag: Eh?! Didn't she teach you the hair moves?!

Niche: She came at me trying to fight, so I fought back!
Lag: YOU FOUGHT WITH HER?! [small text:]Again?!

-15-
Niche: And then she fought me back! And then I fought her back then! And then I then fought her then back!
Niche: Again!!
Text: You said "again" too much...
Lag: ...I think she was just training you hands-on...

Lag: *pant*
Lag: *pant*
Lag: We're here...!
Lag: It's this stone cottage.

Lag: Hm...?
Lag: Chairs made out of stone...?

-16-
Lag: Hello, Ranower-san!
Lag: Here's your mail!

Ranower: ......
Ranower: I don't need that!!
Ranower: Take it and go back where you came from!

Lag: But... you haven't even looked inside them!!
Ranower: They're the same old Letters.
Ranower: I can tell just by looking at the envelope.

Lag: So you know the person who sent them?

Ranower: Hell if I know!! Take that stuff and go back!!

-17-
Lag: How can you just call them "that stuff" without even reading them!!
Lag: There might be something really important written inside!!

Ranower: No there isn't!!
Ranower: Go away!!
Lag: Please take them!!
Ranower: I'm not taking them!!
Lag (bottom right corner): Please!!

Ranower (top centre): I don't want them!!
Lag: Sign here!!
Ranower: I'm not signing anything!!

Ranower: I don't need
Ranower: Any of that stuff!!
Ranower: Now go home!!!

Lag: You called them "stuff" again!!
Lag: I'm not going back until you accept them!!
Lag: Letters contain the Heart of the person who wrote them, you know!!

-18-
Lag: Grrr...

Lag: ......

Lag: Just when I thought the sound of stone chiselling had stopped...
Lag: Now there's a delicious smell...

Lag: Uuh...
Lag: Uuuh...

-19-
Niche: Hey Lag...

Niche: This chair...
Niche: My butt's all warm... it's so comfy...

Lag: These are the chairs that Ranower-san is making, aren't they?
Lag: Well then, let me try...
Lag: Ahh!!
Lag: Hyahh!! It's cooold!!
Lag: This isn't warm at all, Niche...!!

Ranower: Sango Chilli Stone slowly warms and penetrates deep into the body.
Ranower: If you don't sit a while, you won't understand how good these chairs are.

Lag: Ranower-san!

-20-
Ranower: The sound of your stomach rumbling is way too loud.
Ranower: Eat this!!
Lag: Eh?!
Lag: Th...
Lag: Thank you

Ranower: Eat and then go home!!
Lag: Ranower-san!!

Lag: Please wait a moment!
Lag: These Letters have been coming for 2 years!
Lag: Ever since then, and still now...
Lag: I feel sorry for the person sending them!

Ranower: Then she should just stop sending them.
Ranower: I've got no interest in getting rich.

-21-
Lag: The way you talk about her!...
Lag: So you really do know the sender then, don't you?...
Lag: Why won't you read them? If you don't read them, you won't know anything!

Lag: I had no idea how good those chairs were!!
Ranower: What...?!
Lag: I figured stone chairs are just heavy, boring, uncool, and weird coloured!!

Lag: But
Lag: After I sat for a while...
Lag: Then I understood, right?!

Lag SFX glare
Ranower: ......

Ranower: The Tegami Bachi who came by last time... Not only did he not talk to me
Ranower: He didn't even look at me...

-22-
Ranower: But you're interesting.
Ranower: Eat this!!
Lag text: Seconds?!

Ranower: What's your name?

Lag: L... Lag Seeing!
Lag: That's my Dingo, Niche, and...
Lag: Huh?
Steak: Nunini!!

Niche: Tasty if you... cooking himmph... Niche's...
Niche: Food...

Ranower: These Letters...
Ranower: I can't read them.
Lag: Huh?...

-23-
Ranower: 5 years ago... When I was 16
Ranower: There was a girl I had fallen in love with.
Ranower: A girl with a kind heart, by the name of Shaz.

Ranower: Shaz loved me back, too...
Ranower: But due to a marriage proposal her parents had wished for
Ranower: Shaz was married into a rich household.

Lag: What beautiful black hair...

Ranower: For me, who had just started out on my path to become a stone chair craftsman, there was nothing I could do...
Ranower: A dirt-poor craftsman, and a pure young girl brought up in a wealthy household...
Ranower: From the very beginning, there was no way we would make a good match.

-24-
Lag: But Shaz-san loved you...~

Ranower: Shaz tended to get sick easily, so she had a frail body, and I'm sure her parents were worried about that as well.
Ranower: She obeyed for her parents' sake... and for her life's safe...

Ranower: She'd have a hard life in this stone house...

Ranower: But 2 years ago...
Ranower: A Letter arrived.
Ranower: There was only one thing written inside...

Ranower: "I miss you"...

Lag: It's the same as my Letter Bullet...

-25-
Ranower: I only ever opened that first one.
Ranower: I can't read them.
Ranower: That girl is the wife of another man...

Ranower: ......
Ranower: You said your name was Lag, right?
Lag: Yes

Ranower: Would you go to Walter House on Beautiful Brad Street?
Ranower: The sender is the wife in that house.
Ranower: And please tell her
Ranower: Not to send any more Letters.

Ranower: If you can do that for me, then I'll accept those Letters, and take them to my grave.
Ranower: What do you say?

Lag: You'll... definitely accept them?

Ranower: Yeah
Ranower: It's a promise between men!

-26-
Ranower: There!

Lag: Oh!!!

Lag: This stone chair
Lag: It's waaaarm!!
Ranower: Right?

Ranower: All I want is to prevent Shaz getting stuck in a tough situation...
Ranower: Please, make sure her husband, Scarl Walter doesn't found out!!

-27-
Lag: He said... he'll take the Letters to his grave.
Lag: He wants to protect Shaz-san's honour until the day he dies...
Lag: Ranower-san... You really do still love her a lot, even now.

Lag: I don't know anything about marriage or love
Lag: But it hurts to think about the sadness of being separated from someone dear to me...
Niche: ......

Lag: Letters are supposed to connect the Hearts of people who can't be with one another...
Lag: So this is kind of frustrating...
Lag: To think our work is of no use at all...

-28-
Lag: This is it...! The Walter Estate!!
Lag: What a huge house!!

Lag: Ah!...
Lag: There's a carriage coming out!

Lag: !

Lag: Eh?...
Lag: Ah!...
Lag: Granny....?!

-29-
Lag: Watch out!!!

Niche: Lag!!

Walter: You won't get away with this, fool!!
Walter: You're fired!!
Driver: P-Please forgive me, Walter-sama!! Just now, there was someone...

-30-
...Slutty girl1: Oh nooo~~!
SG1: The wine spilled~

Scarl: While we're at it, why don't we put those breasts of yours in a glass?
Scarl: I'd like to drink those right up at the speed of sound!
SG2: Oh my~~~

Scarl: Get going, driver!!
Driver: Y-Yes, sir!!

Lag: Are you alright...?
Lady: Yes...
Text: Thank you!
Text2: What the heck...
Man: Simply awful...!
Man: So irresponsible!

Lag: Was that person Scarl Walter-san?
Man: Yep!
Man: He's probably off to another scandalous party at the opium den with his mistresses today.

Man: His wife must be miserable, but what can you do?
Man: She's quiet, and pretty much never goes outside...

-31-
Man: His late predecessor was such a fine gentleman, too...
Guard: What're you doing in front of the mansion?!
Man: Ahh, nothing!! We'll be right on our way now!

Man: The guards at the Walter House are a nasty bunch.
Man: Make sure you don't get involved with them!
Lag Text: Thank you

Text right: A girl with a kind Heart
Text left: By the name of Shaz...

Lag: ......

-32-
Lag: It looks like we can get in through there, Niche.
Niche: Why aren't we going in the door, Lag?

Lag: It could be that Shaz is stuck with painful thoughts in this house
Lag: Hoping for help from the Letters...
Lag: If that's true, we've got to find out Shaz-san's true feelings without anyone else noticing
Lag: And tell Ranower-san...!

Lag: I'll become
Text centre: Wahhh!
Lag: His Letter~~~
-33-
Lag: Guh!!

Lag: Owwww...
Lag: ?!

Lag: ......
Lag: What is all this...

-34-
Lag: How horrible...
Lag: What on earth happened here?!

Lag: Don't tell me that...
Lag: Something happened to Shaz-san...

Lag: It's the same envelope! So Shaz-san really did send the Letters...
Shaz: Stop!...
Lag: !!

Man: This is it...
Man: Shaz-sama...
Man: Prepare yourself...

Shaz: Noooooo!!
Lag: !!

Lag: Shaz-san...?!


-35--36-
Lag: SHA...
Man: This is my Royal Straight Flush Golden, Shaz-sama!
Shaz: Noooo~~!! I don't wanna lose agaaaaaain~~~!!
Man: Come on now! It's a penalty for you, Shaz-sama!!!
Lag: ...

Man: Drink up, Shaz-sama!! Here you go!
Shaz: If I get any drunker, you two'll just eat me right up~
Shaz: Starting from my head
Man: I-It would be a pleasure.
Shaz: Hm?!
Shaz: Who are you?

-37-
Text: ...I'm... Lag...
Text: A...
Text: Letter...
Text: Bee...

Text: Who...

Text: Are...
Text: You.........?

Shaz: Shaz Walter!!
Shaz: You got a problem with that?!

Fake-Shaz: What the... The kid actually believed me!
Man: Well, should we at least cover your face?
Fake-Shaz: The black hair doesn't suit me, does it~~~

-38-
FS: Ugh, honestly... Right in the middle of my fun...
FS: It's so hard pretending to be 20 years younger~
Lag: !!

Lag: You're... a fake...?!
Lag: Then, what about the real Shaz-san...

Lag: Who sent the Letters?...
FS: Letters...?

Guard: You morons!! A rat got in!!

Lag: !!

-39-40-
FS: I'm Shaz...
FS: Give or take about 20 years.
FS: What's this about my Letters?!

Lag: What...
Lag: What's going on here...
Text left: This is a Cold Letter! It can't be dealt with the normal way...?!
Text bottom left: Tegami Bachi... To be continued in the December issue