Tegami Bachi 37

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Text: Aria's Heart Bullet rips into the Gaichuu blocking their path!!

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Text right: Her overflowing Heart resonates!!
Text bottom right: Chapter 37: "Houdai Franklin"
Text bottom right: Asada Hiroyuki

Niche: She got them
Niche: In one shot!!
Steak: Nuni!!

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Niche: Aria!!

Aria: Bolt...

Aria: !!

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Aria: Niche...!!
Niche: You're pretty good yourself!

Niche: Even Lag couldn't have beat them
Niche: In one shot!

Aria: Niche...

Aria: Thank you
Aria: You're a wonderful Dingo, too.
Aria: Niche...

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Aria: Not as good as my Bolt, though!
Niche: Y—
Niche: You're not as good as my Lag, either!!

Aria: Hehehe

Aria: !

Aria [memory]: Gauche...
Aria: Eh?...
Aria [memory]: Oh no!...
Aria: My memories...

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Gauche: Aria Link!

Aria: You're setting out on another delivery now...?
Aria: But you only just got back...

Aria: Gauche...

Aria: You need to rest a little...
Aria: Lately you've been working yourself ragged, you know.
Aria: Your "Heart" can't hold up like this...

Aria: Oh!
Aria: Um... Gauche...
Aria: How about coming over to my house for dinner today...?
Aria: Just... you know... I made too much food, and...

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Gauche: Thanks
Gauche: In that case... Could you ask Sylvette...?
Aria: Huh?...

Gauche: I'll be fine.
Gauche: You're very kind, Aria.

Gauche: Thank you
Gauche: I'll see you later!

Bolt text: rarruff

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Aria: This is to celebrate your promotion (Part 1)!

Aria: I'll get lonely, but...
Aria: Gauche...
Aria: You've been working so hard, so...

Aria: Congratulations!...

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Aria: What's this...?

Dr: Gauche Suede's notice of dismissal.

Dr: Bolt
Dr: Can barely see now...
Dr: It's about time to let him retire.

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

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

Aria: Bolt...
Aria: I know...
Aria: You'll always be by my side...
Aria: Protecting me...

Aria: You'll always...
Aria: Always...
Aria: Protect me, won't you...
Aria: Bolt...

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Aria: That day...

Aria: I retired from being a Bee...
Aria: I had intended to leave the Bee Hive

Aria: But Director Lloyd stopped me.
Aria: Apparently I've always been better with paperwork.
Aria: The director is always watching over people like that, you know.

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Aria: Maybe it's strange to be telling you a story like this...
Aria: But I guess I had to, you saw the Heart Bullet after all...

Niche: What happened
Niche: To Bolt?

Aria: He's still protecting me...

Aria: Even now.

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Bug: Tch!

Bolt: Rarruff!
Bolt: Rrruff!!

Niche: I see
Niche: So even now
Niche: He's still your Dingo!

Niche: I see
Niche: I see!

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Aria: Alright, Niche!
Aria: Time for the delivery!!
Aria: Let's make up for lost time!!

Aria: Our destination is Goodbye Amsterdam!
Aria: Let's hurry!
Aria: Follow along carefully—

Aria: KYAAHHHH!!!
Steak: Nuni?!

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Sylvette: Lag barely touched his breakfast
Sylvette: I wonder if he's feeling under the weather?

Sylvette: He's just like my brother, overdoing it right away...
Dr: Get a move on!!

Dr: Greco and Epiphon!
Asst: He's already on 5ml of each!

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Sylvette: Doctor...?
Dr: Damn it...
Dr: Why isn't it working?!

Dr: The Heart Measure just keeps jumping all over the place
Dr: His Heart won't stop pouring out...!!

Dr: At this rate, he'll use it all up!!
Sylvette: ......
Sylvette: L...

Sylvette: LAG?!!

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Lag: M
Lag: o
Lag: th
Lag: ...he...
Lag: ..er...

Sylvette: ?!

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Lag: AA
Lag: A
Lag: A
Lag: AA
Lag: AA

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Dr: These are...

Dr: All of... Seeing's memories...?!

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Dr: No...
Dr: What the—?!

Dr: There are too many frames here...
Dr: Showing images that couldn't belong to this kid...

Dr: What's happening here...

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Aria: It's a very deep valley, isn't it?
Aria: It's as dark as Yodaka...
Aria: The mountains block out the light of the man-made sun.

Aria: This is Goodbye Amsterdam...

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Aria: There are only handful of people living here.
Aria: To think he lived in Yuusari already, but voluntarily chose to move to the darkness of this valley.
Aria: He must have had a good reason...

Aria: Even though he was part of the elite...
Aria: A crewmember of the investigation airship...

Woman: Franklin? Oh, yes... The man with the scars on his face...
Woman: He's in the house at the lowest point of the valley.
Aria: The... lowest?
Woman: He lives alone, and I barely ever see him.

Woman: He's just a little...
Woman: Well, no.
Woman: He's quite a strange one, so be careful.

Niche: ......
Aria: There it is—

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Aria: Mr. Franklin!
Aria: Mr. Houdai Franklin!

Aria: ......
Franklin: *stare*

Aria: I have your post.
Aria: Please open the door.
Aria: I've come to bring you a Letter originally delivered to Astal.

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SFX: creeeaaak
Franklin: A "Letter"...
Franklin: You... say...
Aria: ......
Franklin: Are you... a Bee.........?!

Franklin: Wh...
Franklin: Why
Franklin: are...
Franklin: you...
Franklin: here...

Franklin: WHY?
Franklin: GO AWAY...

Niche: Aria!!

Aria: Eh?!

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Steak: Nuni!!

Franklin: BEGONE!!
Franklin: Cursed puppet of the Devil!!!
Franklin: I...

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Franklin: I...
Franklin: I WON'T BE TRICKED AGAIN!!
Franklin: NEVER AGAIN!!

Aria: ......
Aria: I'm not sure what you've misunderstood here but...

Franklin: Your lot stole my eye!
Franklin: You stole my friends!
Franklin: You stole my LIFE!!
Franklin: That...! That... Such a... terrifying thing...

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Aria: Terrifying...?
Aria: Are you talking about the airship...?
Franklin: Don't play dumb!!
Franklin: I saw it!!

Franklin: I'm sure you government lot know everything, but are keeping your traps shut...
Franklin: As if you could even talk about that!! Sending such a terrifying thing to float up there in the sky..!!

Franklin: Still snatching away precious things from people...!!

Niche: Aria
Niche: Should I make him hurt?
Niche: Should I take him out?

Aria: No, it's fine, Niche... Don't get involved, please.

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Aria: Back then on the day of the Flicker
Aria: What was it that you saw in the sky...?

Aria: Mr. Franklin...

Franklin: Don't...
Franklin: Don't come any closer!!

Aria: Niche! It's fine!

Aria: Mr. Franklin!
Aria: Please tell me!!

Franklin: ......
Franklin: Never...
Franklin: Again

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Franklin: I WON'T LET YOU TAKE ANYTHING ELSE FROM ME!!

Niche: ARIA!!

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Franklin: !!

Aria: You...
Aria: Aren't the only one...
Aria: That day...

Aria: The person dear to me saw that flickering light
Aria: And lost a part of his Heart...

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Aria: The memory

Aria: Of the mother he loved...

Aria: Since that day, that person's life changed...
Aria: In trying to fill the gap left by the Heart he lost, he became desperate, and...

Aria: One day
Aria: He lost

Aria: All of his Heart...

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Aria: According to the announcement made by the government about the airship crash
Aria: It was "trouble with the ship's hull, unrelated to the man-made sun..."

Aria: It's not that I believed it completely, but...

Aria: Even we weren't told anything about what happened on the Day of the Flicker.
Aria: That's why... if you know something, I'd like for you to tell me...

Aria: But... please believe this, at least.
Aria: I am not your enemy...
Aria: I came here

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Aria: To deliver this precious Letter to you
Aria: Mr. Houdai Franklin

Franklin: ......
Franklin: To... me...
Franklin: ......

Franklin: Who... sent it...
Aria: It is from someone named Negiche.

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Franklin: That's the relative of my friend who died protecting me
Franklin: Back then...
Franklin: I bet they've written out all the grudges they hold against me...

Franklin: I lost one eye
Franklin: And now I can barely see out even the other one left untouched, due to an illness...

Franklin: I'd really appreciate it if you could read it out for me...

Franklin: In return
Franklin: I'll tell you
Franklin: What I saw that day on the airship...

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Franklin: I'm really sorry
Franklin: We have to see to your injury too...
Franklin: Please, come in.

Niche: ......

Niche: Listen, Steak
Steak: Nu
Niche: Sylvette is a hundred times stronger than Lag...

Niche: But Aria's strength might be even stronger than that...
Steak: nuni...
Niche: About 500 times stronger than Lag...

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Room: ......
Dr: Has it calmed down...
Sylvette: Lag...!!

Sylvette: Lag!
Sylvette: Hang in here!
Lag: ......
Lag: Syl...
Lag: vette...

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Lag: Just now...
Lag: I... was dreaming...
Lag: Such a long...
Lag: Long... dream...

Lag: Of a landscape... so familiar...
Lag: ...so beautiful...
Lag: From long ago...

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Lag: In... our world...

Gauche: Doctor...

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Gauche: Sylvette...

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Text left: Gauche, awakened!
Text bottom: Tegami Bachi – To Be Continued