Nurarihyon no Mago 45

Edit: Last lines fixed, many thanks to Elkin for the help. Also have changed "mallet" to "hammer".

International Translators / Scanlators: You're welcome to use this, but I'd appreciate it if you include a credit for Niphredil.

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Top right: Nurarihyon no Mago
Box right: Shikoku was once the treasury of the youkai.
Box left 1: To the tanuki youkai especially, it was a paradise.
Box left 2: They far outnumbered the human population...

Box: About 300 years ago
Box: In a youkai tale passed down in Shikoku...

Box: The might of the tanuki youkai continued to grow... and before long, they had formed a group beneath the banner of "Fear"
Box: They attempted to capture a castle of the humans.

Box: Lying in wait for them at Machiyama Castle were ten thousand mere humans.
Box: And facing them—
Box: The youkai army spearheaded by the Inugami Gyoubu, with divine powers beyond human understanding.

Box: The outcome
Box: Was perfectly obvious...

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Box: However... the tanuki youkai were utterly annihilated
Text by title: Act 45: The Maou's Hammer
Text left of box: Smeared with the blood of ayakashi, that sword's past!
Text bottom: Shiibashi Hiroshi
Box: By a single sword held by the humans...

Box: Its name, The Maou's Hammer.
Box: A sword with the power to destroy youkai!

Yura: Move, let me through!!
Yura: It's dangerous, please get back!!

Yura: ......
Man: What's that girl on about, saying it's dangerous...
Text: What is it... this sensation...

Text: Until a moment ago
Text: I was certain there were youkai up ahead

Text: Why...
Text: Did that change...?

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Text: The youkai auras are rapidly decreasing...

Kubinashi: Wh... Why is he killing his own Hyakki Yakou?!
Ao: Beats me... has that Tamazuki bastard just gone crazy?
Kuro: I just don't understand...

Tsurara: This is dangerous, Rikuo-sama!! Please get back!!

Yoruo: ...
Text below face: Ch..

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Ao: Whaat?! Oi, run for it... he's seriously dangerous!!
Tsurara: Hey... it's heading this way!!

Ao: Hey, what're you standing around for, you Shikoku lot... you really need to get away from here!
Y: Uu... uwahh...

Oni: Uunghh!

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Oni: Tamazukiii!! Ngh... What're you doing?!
Oni: My... my arm!... You-!

Ao: You get back too!
Oni: Ggh—!

Ao: What the hell... what's going on with your commander?
Ao: Te-arai Oni, you're a Head, aren't you? He cut down that girl with the long hair too!
Oni: Huh?!

Ao: Hey... there's something weird about that sword.
Ao: Every time it kills someone... it looks more and more like it's becoming a living thing...
Oni: That's a sacred treasure passed down in Shikoku.
Oni: The sword that can take control over everything... after he got hold of that sword, Tamazuki changed...

Ao: What?

Yura: ......
Text: No, that's not it...
Text: The youkai auras... aren't decreasing...

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Yura: The spirits of the dying youkai...
Yura: That one youkai is... No, that sword is absorbing them!

Yura: It can't be...
Text: That's...
Text: A kojutsu!!

Text: Wh... Why does a youkai...
Text: Have a sword like that?!

Kanji reading: Ko
Text: The "ko" in kojutsu, just as the character shows, means a situation in which many poisonous insects are mixed together upon a single dish.

Text: In order to survive, the insects kill each other
Text: And in the end, only one remains alive.

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Box: The hatred and feelings of the other dead insects are confined within that single remaining one... and "Kodoku", the cursed creature, is created.
Box: Kojutsu is a technique that involves using that insect to do things like assassinate humans.

Text: Just like the Inugami technique...
Text: It is one of the most primitive cursing techniques, created by humans...

Text: That sword, just like the kojutsu
Text: Is transforming the bodies and hatred of the slain into power!!

Text: The Kodoku...shoulders the resentment and hatred of the dead, and turns it into power.

Text: No... but look...
Text: That youkai...

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Text: He seems to be taking in an entire Hyakki Yakou by himself

Kubinashi: ......
Kubinashi: What a... repulsive aura...

Text: Tamazuki
Text: That appearance... truly that of the leader of a Hyakki Yakou...

Text: But does that mean
Text: We Hachijuuhakki Yakou... existed only for your sake?...

Yura: ......

Text: Such a... formidable youkai...

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Text: I have to defeat him...
Text: If I don't...

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Tsurara: Huh...?
Tsurara: Is that...
Tsurara: The one from Rikuo-sama's school...

Yoruo: ...
Yoruo: Hey now...
Crowd: Whoa, there's something there!!
Crowd: Ugh, what the hell is that?!

Man: Is that a youkai?!
Man: No way... that's terrifying!!
Text: If I let him go... things will get a lot worse

Text: I can't let him run wild any longer!!
Yura: Stop there, youkai!
Yura: I won't allow you to harm humans!!

Text: I can do this!! Believe in yourself!!
Yura: Tanrou!! Rokuson!!
Yura: Let's go... All Shikigami, move out!!
Text: I... am the girl who will inherit the Keikain style onmyou techniques!!

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Yura: Wh—

Yura: What...?
Yura: Tanrou... where are you?...

Yura: Ah—
Yura: Ahhh?!
Yura: Agghh—...

Tamazuki: What are you trying to do...?
Tamazuki: Hmm?
Yura: Ha-
Yura: A..
Yura: Haa-

Yura: Ahh.. AHHH...

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[no text, just kickass]

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Yura: ......

Yoruo: You're gonna die
Yoruo: Get back.

Yura: ......
Yura: Haa...

Yura: Y... You're... the master of the youkai!!
Yura: Why are you here...
Yoruo: This is not the time!
Yoruo: Get lost.
Yura: But...

Yura: Ah...

Yoruo: Tamazuki...
Yoruo: Is that... your Hyakki Yakou...?

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Yura: Uu... Uwahhh!!

Text: Wh.. What's going on...
Text: Nurarihyon... is fighting the one who took on a Hyakki Yakou...

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Tamazuki: That's right, Rikuo-kun...
Tamazuki: Superb, is it not? My... Hyakki Yakou.
Starred text: The two rivals let loose in the final battle..!

Yoruo: Being a fellow Master of All Spirits
Yoruo: DOESN'T mean carrying a burden of corpses on your back!!
Text, bottom right: ...Act 45 // END