Tegami Bachi 36

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Text: Tegami Bachi
Text: 4-panel manga
Slanted text: The hugely popular 4-panel strips which appeared in JSQII and the TB Handbook!!
Bottom text: Kawamura Taku

Title: Beautiful
Niche: Lag!
Niche: Do you have to have large breasts to be beautiful?!
SFX: *shocked*
Lag: Huh?!
Lag: Th... That's...

Lag: ...Niche, you are beautiful.
Niche: Really?!

Niche: Even though I don't have breasts...
Niche: Am I more beautiful than these people who all have breasts?!

Lag: Number 3 isn't right!!!
Niche: Mama Sandra, you're beautiful!
Text: Good work!
Sandra: Oh my, what a child you are~ [small text]I know that already!
Text left: Are underpants and breasts all there is to Niche?!

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Title: Cat Ears #1
Dr: I've made something especially for you, who likes cats.
SFX: Hu hu...
Dr: It's for taking a little break. Go on, take a look!
SFX: meow meow
SFX: meow meow
Zaji: What is it?

Dr: The ultimate in refreshing items, Cat Ears!!
Dr: By putting these on, girls and even boys can undergo drastic transformations into cute kittens!!

Dr: Take a look! When we put it on Connor...
Dr: Connyah!!
SFX: Hahahaha
Dr: What do you think? It really gives that refreshing feeling, doesn't it?!
Connor: *smile*
[TN: Nya: Japanese equivalent of "meow"]

Title: Cat Ears #2
Dr: I guess it can't turn just ANYONE cute.
Dr: And here I was, thinking I could try it out on Suede...
Zaji: Just give up now.

Zaji: Besides
Zaji: There's no way it would've worked on Connor!
SFX: meow
SFX: meow
SFX: disappointed
Connor: !!!
Arrow text: Was confident it would work

Dr: In that case, let's try it on Lag!!
SFX: Hahaha
Lag: ?
Dr: Of course, he's got girl's clothes on too!!
Lag: ?

Zaji: He's leagues ahead of Connor!!!
Large sfx: stunned
Small SFX: Aaaaaah...
Connor text: I lost!
Zaji: But Lag looks cute even without the Cat Ears...

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Title: Express Delivery #1
Box: Jiggy-san created Amberground's largest church and bell
Box: In Yodaka, in a town called Kyrie.

Box: He did this so that even if they disliked him, both he and his siblings could look up at the stars together.
Zaji: S...
Zaji: So by the way... About how much did all that cost...?
SFX: Awa-wa-wahhh...

SFX: whisper
SFX: whisper
SFX: whisper
Jiggy: ............
Zaji: !!!!!

Lag: ...What's up with Zaji?
Zaji: I wanna do express deliveries toooo!
SFX: Whooooooa!
Connor: Beats me...
Connor: Though he was asking what the difference in salary is between those who do express deliveries and those who handle regular post...

Title: Bakery
Box: In Yuusari
Box: You can find many goods which are rare commodities in Yodaka.

Box: For example, this...
Box: ...Super Gross Soup.
Lag: Who the heck wants to buy this stuff anyway?...
Text: Aside from Gauche and Sylvette...
Text: Lag

Box: ...Also, Heart Bullets.
Box: These can be bought at the government-approved weapon shop, "Sinners"

Box: By the way, it is now mostly a bakery.
Text: Delicious!!
Husband: Think of it as strategic management restructuring!
Niche: ?
SFX: Hahahahaha
Steak: Nu...
Sandra: He just means we were in trouble and having a tough time moving stock
Sandra: Niche
SFX: Hahaha

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Title: Red Spirit Amber
Box: For certain reasons, Lag decided to infiltrate the abbey disguised as a girl.
Lag: I...
Lag: I'm Lara...

Lag: ...
SFX: *ba-dump*
SFX: *ba-dump*
Large SFX: *stare*
Box: Sunny
Large SFX: *stare*
Sunny: I feel like I've seen this person somewhere before...

Lag: Oh!
SFX: slip
Lag: Oh no, my hood—
Sunny: !
Sunny: Her left eye's really red!!
SFX: Ahhhh!

Sunny: Um... Th...
Sunny: These are eye drops...
Text above arrow: It's painful just to look at
Lag: Heh?
Lag: What for?!
Sunny: F-For if your eyes are tired, or bloodshot...
Lag: Wh... Why's she talking about stuff like that...

Title: Express Delivery #2
Box: Before he was fired, Largo-san was secretly worried about something.
Lloyd: We're a little short-staffed for express deliveries, since we've only got Jiggy...

Lloyd: Do we have anyone else who could handle express deliveries...
SFX: WHOOSH

Box: Slow Motion
SFX: OOOO
SFX: OOOO

Lloyd: THAT'S IT!!!
Text: Tegami Bachi 4-panel manga... THE END

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Top right: JC Volume 9 on sale Thursday, February 4th!
Top right: TV Anime now airing!! 10:55, every Saturday night~

Bottom right: Chapter 36: Bolt the Brave
Bottom right: Asada Hiroyuki

Top left: You can trust them to watch your back – That's what it takes to be a Dingo!!

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Aria: Gaichuu...
Aria: Tequila Sunrise... 5 of them?!
Text right: The delivery route was a Gaichuu nest?!

Aria: Niche...!
Niche: You don't need to tell us.
Niche: We know...

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Aria: We'll run away with as much speed as we can muster!
Text: Quietly, and as quickly as possible...
Niche: WHY?!
Niche: WHAT ABOUT YOUR HEART BULLETS?!

Aria: Well, my Heart Bullets are quite different from others...
Aria: Listen!! A Bee's job is to deliver Letters, Niche!
Aria: There's no need for us to overdo it trying to fight!

Aria: This unsure footing is dangerous for you too, you know—
SFX: slip

SFX: splash
Aria: KYAHHHHH~~~!!

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Aria: See? What did I tell you!!
Text: It's dangerous!
Steak: ....
Niche: ...That's......

Niche: That's enough!!
Aria: !!

Aria: NICHE!!
Aria: You won't be able to defeat it just like that...

Niche: This is how I always do it with Lag
Niche: I use this...

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Niche: And do this!!!

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Niche: !!

Niche: It's mud!

Steak: Nuni!
Steak: Nuniiii!!

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Niche: Steak says
Niche: Its weak point is the gap on its back!
Steak: Nu.

Niche: Beat it with your Heart Bullets!
Niche: Hurry!!
Steak: Nunini!
Niche: Do it now!!
Aria: Nnngh...
Niche: Aria!!
Steak: Nunini!
Steak: NUNINU!

Aria: Honestly...
Aria: Like I said, it's not that easy!

Aria: Heart String Instrument!! "Solo Violin Sonata"!!
Aria: " No. 1 in G Minor"...

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Aria: The notes I play
Aria: Are fragments of my Heart...

SFX: crack
Aria: !!

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Aria: The tempo's too fast...
Aria: ......
Aria: My footing's unsteady...
SFX: crack

Aria: I've got to calm down...
Aria: Concentrate
Aria: ......
Aria: I wonder when the offensive-style Heart Bullets started...
Aria: ...Concentrate
SFX: burst

Aria: That failed...
Aria: There's mud in my boots...
Aria: Interval
Aria: Concentrate
SFX: crack
Aria: Th...
Aria: This is...

SFX: burst
Aria: Ngh...

Niche: !!

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Aria: Sss...
Aria: Contained within

Aria: Is my Heart...

Niche: Resound, "Aribari"!!!
Aria: Th—
Aria: That's not what it's called!!
Niche: Who cares, just hurry up and shoot!!

Aria: But if I don't concentrate, I can't create Heart Bullets!
Aria: Don't distract me, Niche!
Aria: I'm not young like Lag anymore, so I can't just fire off pure Heart so easily...
Text: Concentrate...

Aria: I must concentrate...

Niche: The Gaichuu have grouped together!

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Niche: ARIA!!
Niche: DO IT WITH A SCRAMBLE DASH!!
Aria: Scr..?!
Aria: Oh Niche...

Aria: All the Heart keeps bursting!
Aria: Now I can see more closely, Steak's cute...
Aria: I wonder if Lag's alright?
Aria: It's not turning into
Aria: Heart Bullets!!
Aria: It's no use...

Aria: This melody...
Aria: It won't make it to inside of the Gaichuu's body...!!
Aria: Gnngh...
Aria: !!

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Aria: RUN, NICHE!!

Niche: I won't run!

Niche: As a Dingo!!

Niche: !!

Aria: NICHE!!

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Aria: Don't go overboard, just pull yourself out slowly...!!

Aria: ?!
Aria: Ugh, honestly...
Aria: What was all that "as a Dingo" stuff...

Text: Rrruff!!

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Aria: !!

Niche: ARIA!!

Aria: ...Is it really okay...
Aria: If I give him a name?!
Niche: !
Aria: Thanks, Dad!

Aria: Your legs are so big!
Aria: Hey look!
Aria: He's got a huge scar on his forehead!

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Aria: Your scar looks like a thunderbolt
Aria: I've decided...!
Aria: Your name is
Aria: Bolt...!

Bolt: Rruff...

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Speech: Aria Link has found another delivery route, you say?
Speech: Now our efficiency of movement between towns will go up yet again.
Speech: And it's all thanks to her.

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Aria: KYAAAAHHH~~~!!

Bolt: Rruff!
Aria: Bolt...!

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Speech: Don't you mean...
Speech: All thanks to Bolt...?

Speech: They defeated the Gaichuu Douglas?!... That's impressive...
Speech: Looks like Bolt was wounded yet again.
Speech: Poor thing...
Speech: Aria is truly blessed to have that Dingo.

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Speech: Becoming the Head Bee's Dingo
Speech: Might not be a stretch for him...
Speech: That is
Speech: If Aria Link wasn't his owner...

Aria: I know
Aria: All of that already...

Aria: You think that way too
Aria: Don't you, Bolt?
Bolt: Rarruff!!
Bolt: Rrff...
Aria: Haaa...

Aria: Gauche has got Roda...
Aria: What about Ryuui?
Bolt: Rarrufff...
Aria: I wonder if she'd take you?
Aria: But I don't think it'd work with her Dingo Ocean and the sled...

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Aria: ...Bolt...
Aria: I'm sorry...

Aria: I'm so sorry
Aria: For being such a useless owner...
Bolt: Rrruff...
Aria: But you know...

Aria: You're... the only one
Aria: I can rely on...
Aria: So...

Aria: You'll let me rely on you...
Aria: Right, Bolt?...

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Bolt: RRRARRRUFFFF!!!
Aria: !!

Bolt: RARRUFF!! RARRUFFF!! RARUFFF!!
Bolt: RRRUFF!! RRARUFFF!!
Bolt: RARRUFF!! RARRUFF!
Bolt: RRRUFFF!!!
Aria: Wh.. What?! Hang on...
Aria: Bolt?!
Aria: What is it?!

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Aria: Nngh...
Aria: Its tentacles absorb Heart...!!

Aria: Huh?...

Aria: Kyahhh!...

Aria: !!
Aria: N... Niche!!

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Niche: No matter how strong I am
Niche: I can't beat the Gaichuu...

Niche: The only one who can defeat them
Niche: Is Aria!

Niche: Even though I'm Lag's Dingo Niche
Niche: All I have to rely on are your Heart Bullets...!
Aria: !

Niche: That's what Bolt was saying too!
Aria: ......?
Aria: Bolt...?!

Aria: ?!
Aria: Niche?!

Niche: And apart from that, he said...
Niche: "Count on me!! Count on me!! Count on me!!"
Niche: "I'll protect"
Niche: "All of you!! I'll protect you!!"

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Niche: Your Dingo was... pretty good
Niche: ...for a pretty good Dingo!

Aria: ......
Aria: [small text]So high up... [regular text]This is amazing...
Aria: Niche...!

Aria: Thank you...
Aria: I'm sorry
Aria: I really should have trusted you more...

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Dr: It's likely
Dr: That Bolt can barely see out of his eyes now.

Dr: He's also extremely weak.
Dr: Even "Bolt the Brave" can't win against old age...
Dr: It's about time to let him retire.

Dr: You haven't raised a new Dingo yet, right?...
Aria: ...I......
Dr: If you want to continue being a Bee, you'll need to think about this carefully...

Aria: Yes... Um...
Aria: I'm sorry, but... I've still got deliveries to do...
Aria: They're close by, so I'll be back right away, but until then...

Bolt: RRRARRUFF!!!
Bolt: RAARR
Bolt: RRRUFFF!!!

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Bolt: RRRARRUFF!!!
Bolt: RRRUFFF!!!

Text: Protected by their proud Dingos
Text: Bees travel the land to make their deliveries

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Aria: The notes I play
Aria: Are fragments of my Heart...


Aria: "Solo Violin Sonata"
Aria: " No. 1 in G Minor"...

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Aria: RESOUND!!
Aria: BENIHIIRO NO SENRITSU!!
[Crimson Melody]
Text bottom left: A clean sweep! The Heart Bullets of their bond!!
Text bottom: Tegami Bachi... To be continued