Tegami Bachi 34

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-01- [cover]
Text top right: Let's go! We're setting out on our journey!!
White text between kanji, bottom left: Asada Hiroyuki
[all other text = ads]

-02- [anime + game advert]

-03-
Ranower: I don't need any Letters!! Take them and get out of here!!

R: That girl is the wife of another man...

R: Please tell Shaz
R: Not to send any more Letters…

FakeShaz: I'm Shaz...!
Text bottom right: Chapter 34: Love Like Stone
Text: Encounter with an outrageous fake!!
FS: What's that you're saying about my Letters?!

-04-
Lag: No!!
Lag: You're not Shaz-san...!!

Lag: I'm sorry!
Lag: But...
Lag: You don't look like her at all!!

-05-
FS: Hmph... I'm Shaz, you know!...
Lag: No you aren't!!
Lag: Why are you pretending to be Shaz-san?!

FS: Now I've gotten a better look at you, you're quite a cutie, little boy...
FS: Huhuhu...

FS: How about you tell me all about those Letters?...

FS: And then, if you forget e~verything you've seen here in this mansion
FS: I'll make you feel...

-06-
FS: Reeeeal good~~~!!
Lag: Wah-!

Lag: Eh?

Lag: Huh?...
FS: Noooo~!!

-07-
Lag: Goodbye!!

FS: This is no time to be staring at my naked body!!

FS: Don't let them get away!!
FS: Capture them...

-08-
FS: ?!

Niche: You!
FS: Eee!

Niche: Your secret for growing big boobies, spill it!
SFX: stare
FS: Boobies?!

Man: You little brat...

Lag: Niche, watch out!!

-09-
Man: A shield?!

Lag: This is bad, Niche!
Lag: There's too many of them, let's get out of here!!

-10-
FS: Don't let them get away!!
FS: If they talk when they get outside, we're done for
FS: Blow them away!!

Lag: What a scary old lady!!
Lag: I wonder if Shaz-san is okay...

Lag: Ah!...
Lag: They're in front of us too?!

Lag: Ngh...

Woman: This way!
Woman: Bee!!
Woman: Quick, in here!!

-11-
Men: They're gone!

Men: Check the windows!

Lag: ......
Text right1: They've gone...
Text right2: Nuni...
Text left: Haaa......

Lag: Thank you very much...!
Lag: You saved us!
Woman: ......
Woman: It was nothing...

Lag: ......
Lag: Huh?...

Lag: !!
Lag: Could it be...
Lag: Are...

Lag: You...
Lag: Shaz-san...?!

-12-
Lag: No, doesn't look like it~~~!!!
Text: Not agaaaain...
Woman: Shhh!!

Selma: I'm a maid in the Walter House...

Selma: My name is Selma.

Lag: I'm sorry, Selma-san...!
Lag: My name is Lag Seeing, and I'm a Bee.
Lag: Um...

Lag: That (scary) old lady...
Lag: Who is she?
Text: Would you hurry up and find them?!
Selma: That's my mistress, the mother of the young lord.
Lag: Walter-san's mother?!

-13-
Lag: Um...
Lag: Selma-san! Where's the real Shaz-san?!
Lag: Please let me meet her!!
Lag: I've got to talk to her about her Letters!

Lag: I...
Lag: Need to tell her something...

Selma: Are you talking about

Selma: This Letter...?

Lag: A Letter from Shaz-san...?!
Lag: T-That's right...! It's about that...

-14-
Selma: You can't talk to my lady.

Selma: But this is good timing, cute little Letter Bee.
Selma: Please deliver this to Phillip Ranower-san, okay?
Selma: This is...

Selma: The last one...

-15-
Ranower: Lag...!

-16-
R: Did you... give Shaz my message...?

R: ?!
R: A Letter?!
R: What's the meaning of this, Lag!!
R: I said not to send any more!!

R: You've broken a promise between men...!
R: Like hell I'm gonna take it!!
R: Go away!!
R: Take that and get out of here!!

-17-
Lag: The Heart Bullets I shoot can see the "Heart" within objects...!
Lag: Ranower-san...!!
Lag: Please look at this!
Lag: This is Shaz-san's Heart...!!

Lag: The memories within
Lag: Her Letters!!!
R: !!

-18-
Walter: Okay, get a move on!
Walter: We're all gonna let loose again tonight at the opium den's VIP room~~~
Women: Kyaaa~

Women: Doesn't your wife mind? You're newlyweds... What a bad man you are!

Walter: Our marriage is just a bond enforced by our parents!
Walter: Who'd ever want to marry a boring peasant girl like that otherwise?!

R: That's her husband...
R: Walter...

-19-
Walter: Besides, what I'm interested in is this part of you, and this one, and this part right here too~!
Girls: Kyaaaa~~~!!
Walter: Yahahaha!

R: !!

R: ......

R: Shaz......

-20-
Mother: By god, you get on my nerves!!
Mother: Just how stupid are you?!

Mother: If your father wasn't so rich, I'd just sell you off right this minute!!
Shaz: I'm very sorry, Mother...

Mother: Hmph!!
Mother: I don't want the likes of you calling me "Mother"!!

Selma: My lady
Selma: How are you feeling...?

Shaz: I'm fine...
Shaz: Thank you, Selma-san

Selma: I'll leave your clothes over here...
Selma: Oh!...

-21-
Selma: Are those... Letters?

Selma: There are so many...!
Selma: I should take them to the post office tomorrow!
Shaz: You don't need to...
Selma: Huh?

Shaz: This is... enough...

Shaz: They're just Letters I've written and sealed
Shaz: They aren't to be sent...

Text right: They just have my feelings of longing
Text left: Sealed inside of them...

-22-
Text: Phillip...
Text: The stone seats you made
Text: Were rough, uncomfortable, and cold...

Text: But before I knew it
Text: They were comfy and warm...

Text: I believe that one day
Text: This place will turn that way too...

Father: If you marry into the Walter family, then even you with your poor health will be looked after for the rest of your life.
Father: We've made this decision with your best interests in mind...

-23-
Father: Please...
Father: Would you please give us this peace of mind
Father: In our old age...

Text: I miss you......

Text: I miss you...
Text: I miss you...
Text: I miss you......
Text: I miss you...

-24-
R: Every one of the Letters...
R: They just say "I miss you"...

Lag: But that was surely... something she could never say aloud...
Lag: So she wrote it in a Letter...

Lag: I don't understand it...!!
Lag: Being away from someone, even though you love them... But still going on loving them, all that time...

Lag: Writing Letters but not sending them!!
Lag: Receiving them but not reading them!!
Lag: Will I understand too, when I grow up?!

-25-
R: Lag......!
Mother: B.. Bankrupt?!

Mother: What do you mean, bankrupt?!
Walter: Yeah!!

Man: Well, we've just spent too much money!
Man: And ever since his lordship passed away, our businesses have just drowned in debt too...
Text: Hey—that hurts...
Mother/Walter: You idiot!!

Mother: Isn't it our accountant's job to do something about all that?!
Walter: That's right!! What about my personal funds?!

Shaz: Mother!
Shaz: You too, dear, please calm down...

Walter: You shut up!!!

-26-
Selma: My lady...!!
Selma: My lord, call the doctor...!
Selma: Please call the doctor!!

Walter: Q-Quiet!!
Walter: Like I knew she was so weak or whatever!!
Man: No, actually...
Man: This is bad.

-27-
Man: We're only just managing to survive right now thanks to the financial support coming from Lady Shaz's family.
Man: If she died, even that small income would stop!!

Text: Whaaat?!

Shaz: Selma-san...
Selma: Yes?

Shaz: If I die like this...
Shaz: Then please
Shaz: Burn those Letters...

-28-
Selma: No!
Selma: I'm going to filch stamps from his lordship and send out every single one of them!

Selma: So...
Selma: Don't say things like that, please.

Selma: ......

Selma: My lady...

-29-
Selma: There's someone out there that you love, isn't there...
Selma: Why couldn't you be together...?

Shaz: ......

Shaz: I couldn't tell him...
Shaz: And I would surely have been... a burden to him...

Shaz: He...
Shaz: Never said anything either...

Selma: Well, that's exactly when a Letter can help you!...
Selma: To show your true feelings...

Selma: ...
Selma: My... lady...?

Selma: Did you... fall asleep...?

-30-
FS: How does the black hair look?
Walter: It's perfect, Mama!

Walter: We simply cannot allow the funds from Shaz's family to be cut off!
Walter: In the meantime, I've got to find a rich girl somewhere...!

-31-
R: Eat this!!!

Lag: Ranower-san...?!

R: After you've eaten
R: Come with me.

-32-
Walter: My name is Walter. It is a pleasure to meet you!!

Walter: Your beauty far surpasses my imagination, Lady Kelly... I can barely contain the stirring of my heart!...
Kelly: Oh my, how charming!

Walter: This is the rich westerner's daughter?! What a beast...
Walter: Nevermind, if I don't handle this well, then...
Text: Hahaha...

-33-
Walter: Please accept this gift!
Kelly: My, what a beautiful ring!

Kelly: But, is it really alright for me to accept this...?
Kelly: You being married and all...

Walter: I'm about ready to part ways with my wife.
Kelly: Oh my, how awful for you!!
Walter: Not at all, I'm relieved!

Walter: She was a brazen girl
Walter: Who spent too much money and fooled around with other men

-34-35-
Lag: Excuse the interruption!

Lag: Do you mind if I see that ring?

Text: G-Go ahead...

Lag: Show us your secrets!
Lag: Akabari!!!

-36-
Walter: Give me the cheapest glass ring you've got.
Shopkeeper: Are you sure?
Walter: The woman's not worth the price of a real one.
Walter: Besides, she's hideous so it wouldn't even suit her.
Kelly: ......
Walter: Ow!
Walter: Oww!

Lag: In a few days time, Shaz-san's parents will receive a notice
Lag: Telling them to stop sending funds to the Walter family.
Walter: ?!

Lag: They won't be sending you money
Lag: Ever again.

Man: My lady.
FS: Mmph?!

FS: What is it...?
Man: If you'll excuse my directness, it's been 60 days since we were last paid.

FS: We'll be getting a deposit from Shaz's lot in 25 days!
FS: When it comes in, I'll pay you.
Man: We can depend on that, then?
FS: Of course you can!

-37-
Man: Well...
Man: If, by some chance, the next payment is delayed
Man: What do you intend to do about it?

FS: I'll sell anything in this mansion, even down to my back fat
FS: And pay you with that!! Moron!!

Man: Please be sure...
Man: To remember those words...
FS: Sure, sure!
FS: You worrywart, you!!

Lag: Phillip Ranower-san
Lag: Here they are.

-38-
Lag: Shaz-san's
Lag: Letters...!

R: Back then, I couldn't ask her to be with me...
R: Even though I was poor, and didn't believe in myself... As a man, I should have said it.

R: I'll continue living my life, together with Shaz's Letters.
R: There's nothing else
R: I can do for her now...

-39-
Lag: Yes there is...
Lag: Oh, I see...!
Lag: Ranower-san, you've got it all wrong...!

Lag: There's something you can do!

-40-
Lag: Selma-san went to see the neighbourhood committee in Central, and put in an application for a divorce.
Lag: Shaz-san has been waiting in hiding in a far away town, so that someone wouldn't try to bring her back.

Lag: With recent events taken into consideration
Lag: The marriage is sure to be annulled...

-41-
R: Lag, you little—...
R: Next time you come here on a delivery, I'm gonna make you eat til you burst!!

Lag: Aria-san!!
Lag: Cold Letter File #77, the 240 item delivery
Lag: Has been completed!!

Aria: You're late!
Lag: Wow! The room's sparkling?!
Niche: She did cleaning!
Text left: The Cold Letter has melted, and brought the two of them together...!!
Text bottom right: Tegami Bachi... To be continued in January's issue