Nurarihyon no Mago 42

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Box: Nura Clan Main House – 5 years ago

Tsurara: Master!
Tsurara: Maaaaster, where are you?
Horizontal text: Nurarihyon no Mago

Tsurara: Honestly... the sun's already up!
Tsurara: I should be getting your food ready...

Tsurara: This is a problem... it's always like this when I'm "It"...
Tsurara: Oh, there he is!

Tsurara: Found you, Master!!

Youkai: Haaah?!

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Rikuo: Too bad, that's just Ko-oni with leaves on his head!!
Tsurara: Kyaah!

Rikuo: Ahahahaha!
Rikuo: Yuki Onna sucks at Hide-and-Seek!

Rikuo: Hehehe!
Tsurara: Oh geez...
Tsurara: But still, thank goodness! I couldn't find you anywhere...

Tsurara: I thought you'd been
Tsurara: Touched by the Yosuzume or something.

Rikuo: Yosuzume?
Rikuo: What's that?

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Tsurara: The Yosuzume! It's a Shikoku youkai so you haven't met one yet, but...
Tsurara: If you're touched by those black wings... everything around you goes black.

Tsurara: It's a youkai that troubles humans walking the streets at night by making their eyes go dark...
Rikuo: Scaaary!

Tsurara: Master
Tsurara: You mustn't be scared!

Tsurara: Youkai live in the shadows... If you're afraid of the dark
Tsurara: Then Yosuzume'll get you!
Rikuo: Hmph!
Rikuo: Okay!! Now I'm "It"!!
Tsurara: You... You want to play AGAIN?!

Tsurara: Master...
Tsurara: Master...
Tsurara: Where are you?

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Yoruo: Meikyou Shisui
Text, right: Rikuo attacks suddenly, vividly!!
Text, bottom: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Text, left: Act 42
Text, left: The Youkai With Wings Darker Than Shadows
Yoruo: Sakura

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Youkai: !!

Youkai: Wh...
Youkai: What IS that... that pillar of fire...

Kubinashi: Rikuo-sama?!
Hari Onna: Tamazuki?!
Hari Onna: No way... when did he..?!

Kubinashi: The two commanders...
Kubinashi: Why... Why are they facing off against each other?!

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Tsurara: ............
Tsurara: Ri... Rikuo-sama!!

Man: Hey, what the hell's going on?! My car won't move!
Woman: Huh?! I can see fire up ahead!
Man: Ugh, what is this?!

Man: It's a fire!!
Man: Apparently there was a huge accident on the Douraku Highway!
Man: !

Yura: ......
Yura: What was that...?

Inuhouou: Tamazuki-sama?!

Inuhouou: Gyaaaaahhhhhhhh!!

Yoruo: ......
Yoruo: Hey now...

Yoruo: You just gonna shield yourself with your underlings and run away?
Yoruo: I guess you'll always be small fry.

Yoruo: Now I don't even think I'd care
Yoruo: If I killed you right now.

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[!]

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Yoruo: !

SFX: ss...

Tamazuki: ......
Tamazuki: You're correct...

Tamazuki: Those who become underlings of Tamazuki... will sacrifice themselves for him...
Tamazuki: Give themselves... to him.

Tamazuki: Show him
Tamazuki: Yosuzume

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Yoruo: ......

Text: What's happening?!

Text: It's dark...

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Text: Utter darkness—

Tamazuki: In this world
Tamazuki: There is both "yin" and "yang".

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Tamazuki: The yin is, in other words, youkai.
Tamazuki: They hide their "form"... and disappear into "darkness"... They truly are beings of "shadow".
[TN: Here, "yin" and "shadow" use the same character　陰]

Tamazuki: That which counterbalances the yin is the "yang".
Tamazuki: By using the power of yang... one can eliminate the yin.
Tamazuki: In other words, youkai exorcism is something which makes use of the power of yang.

Tamazuki: Those are the Onmyou Arts created by humans.
[TN: Onmyou (陰陽) combines the characters for yin (陰) and yang (陽).]
Tamazuki: The "Meikyou Shisui – Sakura" move you unleashed –

Tamazuki: That is a power which no ordinary youkai possesses, one handed down to you by your grandfather, who brought the Hyakki together.
Tamazuki: And likewise, so is the power which I have obtained—

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[...]

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Tamazuki: Humans once strongly feared "the shadows"
Tamazuki: However... don't you think the world now is much too bright?...
Tamazuki: This is why the youkai "presence" is weakening.
Tamazuki: Nura Rikuo...

Tamazuki: We need to change.
Tamazuki: And we must once again... become feared by humans.

Tamazuki: Yes... I, Tamazuki
Tamazuki: Will restore darkness to this world.

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Y: Huh—
Y2: T... Tamazuki-sama?!
Y3: ?!
Y4: Is that... Nura Rikuo?!

Y: Wh...
Y: What is this?!
Y: When did he get all the way down here?!

Tamazuki: Fufufu... By your appearance, it seems that you've already accepted it.
Tamazuki: The only one who cannot see is you... Indeed, the tables have been turned.

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Tamazuki: I shall ask you.
Tamazuki: Nura Rikuo, will you join the end of my Hachijuuhakki Yakou?

Tamazuki: I don't think it's such a bad deal.
Tamazuki: Depending on the work you do, I could make you a Head.
Tamazuki: What do you say?

Yoruo: ......
Yoruo: I refuse.

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Yoruo: Just the thought of exchanging sakazuki with you
Yoruo: Sets my skin crawling.

Tamazuki: Is that so...
Tamazuki: That really is a shame...

Tamazuki: In that case, I'll kill you
Tamazuki: And take control of your Hyakki's "Fear"!!

Text: This is bad...
Text: I can't see a thing...

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Text: I'll be engulfed by the darkness...

Tamazuki: ?!

Tsurara: Rikuo-sama
Text: Yuki Onna made it in time!!
Tsurara: I've... finally found you!
Bottom text: ...Act 42 // END


Chapter Notes

Yin and Yang / 陰 and 陽
These appear as "in" and "you" in the Japanese. To summarise from the chapter: Here, Yin / In / 陰 represents dark and shadow, and the kanji used can also be read kage (shadow). Hence associating youkai, creatures of shadow, with yin. Yang / You / 陽 represents light, and the kanji can also mean sun or sunlight. The "onmyou" in words like onmyouji is composed of both characters for yin and yang, 陰陽.

Page 04, Meikyou Shisui / 明鏡止水
Repasting the note from earlier in the series... Meikyou Shisui means clear like a mirror, a mind as serene and calm as still water.