Luck Stealer
6
An old friend
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Yes~ Finally, another update to Luck Stealer! \o/
An 'end-of-exams' present. :3
This chapter was hard! I think my brain nearly burst when Manaka started explaining Yuusei's ability. >.<"
Translation check done! Thanks to Bomber D. Rufi! <3
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Top left text: No. 6: An old friend.
Top right: Kazu Hajime
Right text: Day after day, he collects luck...
Left text: Hoping for his daughter's happiness
2:
Text: The place that Yuusei visits is...!?
-It's open!
-How nice of you to come. Don't hesitate, just come in.
3:
-Did you bring the item I requested?
-Is it absolutely necessary?
-Of course! We're talking about life-or-death here.
-Here.
4:
-Karin-chan! <3
-Oh Karin-chan, why are you so cute?
-You're Manaka Shouji’s eternal Angel!
-My pretty sweet heaaaaart!! [Tn: Lame, I know, but he says this in Engrish.]
-Are you retarded!?
-Oww!
5:
-It hurtssss~~
Why did you have to hit me so suddenly, Kurusu-kun?
-Of course I had to!
-I told ya to stop always saying such disgusting stuff!!
-Saying lines like 'angel' ain't Japanese style! Hurry up and give it back!
-You're gonna give me the data, right?
-HELL NO!!
-Why noooot!?
-Please give it to me! I beg you!
-I won't give my important daughter's photograph to a bastard like you! / GIVE IT BACK!
-Goddammit...
-Nooooooooooo~~ Karin-channnnn!!~~
-If say anything else creepy thing about Karin I'll seriously beat you to death, you friggin' pervert!!
-Kurusu-kun, you've misunderstood!
-I'm genuinely worried about Karin-chan.
-Because Karin-chan doesn't have her own luck by nature, she'll immediately die from a disease or an accident unless you give her luck, right?
-On the other hand, not knowing the name of the disease is a decent handicap.
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-But even you don't understand the way you cure her, let alone a doctor. Well, has someone else found a cure yet?
-As I see it, since Karin-chan can't create her own luck within herself,
-A study of luck itself is necessary. Yet, that sort of study is impossible for the average researcher. / After all, the two of you have the power of 'luck' that defies all common sense.
-When I saw your power when we were at high school, I made up my mind to research luck and help Karin-chan. / Even though I rejected a number of propositions from a ton of companies and research institutes after I left university, I don't regret it.
-See! My love is for Karin-chan's benefit! / So....can I please have the photo?!
-You creep!! So it isn't that after all!
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-I'm the guy who might become your daughter’s savior! Don't you feel any gratitude towards me?
-There is but that don't mean I can forgive your ulterior motives.
-So... has your luck research progressed at all?
-Nope, not in the least.
-Did you seriously do all this?
-When the concept of your luck is based on common sense, at any rate contradictions occur. / No matter how I come at this, I always end up at a dead end.
-In the modern age generic "luck" is, more specifically, mere "probability." / Whether the luck be good or bad, it can usually be explained by calculations.
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-Therefore you, who can steal luck from humans, become able to influence probability freely.
-Still, theoretically, it shouldn’t be possible.
-In brief, there’s a possibility that "the luck" that you exchange is not just "probability" / It may be something which is substance not a theoretical figure.
-When you directly touch the skin of a person barehanded to steal luck from them, / I thought that maybe when your hand becomes a particular kind of suctorial mouth it could absorb something of the other person.
-Like blood or cells or even secretions!
-I don't absorb such stuff!
-I’m just being hypothetical.
-Anyway, it's hard to advance my studies because the conventional documents aren't useful at all and most of the data already collected is pretty standard.
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-Therefore, it is necessary to first examine your ability thoroughly.
-I called you here today to carry out an experiment.
-An experiment?
-An experiment on the living.
-I must experiment on your ability with a something alive.
-Oi...
-There's no-one stupid enough to co-operate with an experiment that could end in their death!
-Calm down. / I never said to do it with a human being.
-When I asked around rat was recommended to me to experiment on.
-A rat!?
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-...Well, I had decided that but... / since I don't have much money I've collected a bunch of creepy-crawly's from around the house as a substitute.
-You collected "creepy-crawly's"...here?
-I can supply as much as you want and it's pretty much the ideal test subject. Plus, I'd feel sorry for a rat if you killed it.
-With this, I can examine what kind of change happens after you touch it.
-Are you bullshitting me!? You want me to touch THAT!!!?
-Ow!
-Didn't you say you'd do anything to save Karin-chan!? / What a heartless father!
-That and this are two totally different things!! What the hell is going on in your head!?
12:
-Huh?
-H...Hey!!?
-Manaka!! What's wrong!?!?
-Oh, shit... Did I hit you too hard!?
-So...hun...gry...
13:
-You saved me, Kurusu-kun!~
-Delicious!! I'm so happy! It's my first meal in so many days...!
-You really are an unpredictable guy... / didn’t you notice you were so hungry you were on the verge of collapsing?
-Right now I don't have any money to buy food.
-Wha...!? / But you said you sold the program you developed in University for a ton of money!!
-A girl who I recently started to go out with told me her father was sick and needed 10,000,000 yen, so I gave her everything I had.
[Tn: Roughly $120,300 AUD or $109,600 USD.]
-But because I didn't have enough, I borrowed some money. / I haven’t heard from her since then, but I’m sure she’s just really busy with nursing her father back to health.
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-She’s such a kind girl, you see.
-Don't you know how to doubt anyone!?
-Because you're like that you're being deceived left and right by any people you meet!
-But you were a good person, right? At high school you were the only one who spoke to me. / Since you were at my high school for only 1 year it's a wonder we were friends, especially considering we were exact opposites.
-You got that right. In class I was dropout and you were the genius.
-But back then, you were the only one who came to talk to me.
-Even though everyone else was afraid of Kurusu-kun I didn't see you like that.
I can prove that now.
-You have to distrust people more.
-Human beings are able to hide as much of their true selves as they like.
15:
-Nah, you're a good person Kurusu-kun.
-What?
-Because you still love your wife Rika-san so much and Karin-chan, right?
-You're the type of who can sacrifice themselves for the people they love. In everyone else's eyes it is a beautiful but very foolish act.
-If you weren't a good person you wouldn't love her so deeply. That's my logic.
-How can you say such embarrassing things without hesitation?
-Who knows?
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-So anyway, how have you been lately, Kurusu-kun?
-The last time we met you said you were working part-time as a security guard. / Is it hard?
-Ah...yeah..
-Well...I'm busy. Very busy.
-Not that. I was talking about "Luck".
-This might be my imagination but
-As Karin-chan gets older, she'll start to believe that it's normal for her luck to be low, when it is in fact essential....
-If I don't think of a method of attracting luck more efficiently soon she'll...
-Kurusu-kun?
17:
-You really are a good guy too, Manaka.
-It’s alright. I told you before there isn't anything to worry about.
-Ah~~~
I’m so full! Thanks, Kurusu-kun. That was enough to keep me going for two, no three, days!
-Now then, let’s come up with a ‘experiment plan’.
-First think about money before experiments!! How are you supposed to live without eating any food!?
-I..I know but…
-What’s wrong?
18:
-It’s…It's nothing.
-That so? I thought you might have forgotten something.
Text: ... I thought I felt a strange gaze...
I'm too sensitive even though I'm not working.
-Well, I'm looking for a casual job to somehow or another pay for my living expenses...
-You can trust me this time. I asked some of the young graduate students if we can use their laboratories at the University...
-There he is!!
-Crap!!
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-Run away!! Hurry!!
-What...what do you mean?
-Manaka! Wait, you asshole!!!
-SHIT!!
-They're escaping in the direction of the train station! / I can see him with some guy, an acquaintance of his!
-Oi, Manaka.
-Who the hell were those guys?
-Debt collectors.
-What!?
20:
-When I was at their office before, they threatened to kill me if I can't pay up.
-You bastard! Where the hell did you borrow money from!?
-Uhh...I think it was...Kamo Finances?
-RUN!!
-W-What's with that car!?
-That’s the threat you spoke of before!!
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-Uwaa..
-Woah, it’s chasing after us pretty fast!
-Retard! That's the sort of speed it needs to run us down! / Run faster!!
-Bu...but…
-Shit...
- Ah...!
-Kurusu-kun!?
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-Guugh…
-Arrrrrrgh!!
-Hiiiiiiiih...
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-Don't stop! Run!
-Wa..wait!
-Put away the gun, retard.
-But they’re getting away!
-Goddammit! I’ll be glad when they’re finally six feet under!
-Listen up, you bastard. / Killing them outright is too big of a risk, you know?
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-That's why they call me the accident magician.
-And do you know why I'm called that?
-The reason is because I can pull off the 'perfect crime'- just like magic I can make it appear like a natural accident.
-A fall, a fire, drowning, a car accident... And so far even now, they're seen as mere accidents.
-And that’s why it’s your job to just shut up and drive.
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-Otherwise,
-Your fate will be crashing the car into that telegraph pole and dying.
-U-Understood...
-Yo...What!?!?
-Really!?!
-They found them!
-It seems like our friends saw those guys in front of the train station.
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- Alright. Let's head out.
-It's alright. They're not here.
-Ku..Kurusu-kun… you can run really fast…Even though you ran that much, you’re not tired?
-Nah, not really. But more importantly, about that shifty place where you borrowed the money from.
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-Kamo Finances pretends to be civilian, but I have no doubt that they're really a money lending racket for the Yakuza. / If you borrow money from them just once you'll never pay it back.
- Seems that way… no wonder I thought there were a lot of scary people there. / I sold off some of my old research equipments and books yet and paid them back, yet somehow the interest was 5 times more than what it was originally...
-They know it's ridiculous to expect me to manage to pay them that back, so they forced me to enter into a life insurance policy.
-Life insurance!? So it was your life they were aiming at this entire time!
-L-Looks that way...
-Even knowing that you still did stupid stuff like gathering cockroaches instead of protecting yourself, practically leaving the key in the door for them?!
-Becauseeee, my research is also importaaaant...
-Crap... At any rate, it's dangerous here too. We need to get away.
-No...Kurusu-kun, you should go home already. / I'll escape the rest of the way alone.
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-Huh?
-What are you saying!? Our opponent is a professional assassin! You're an amateur who can't possibly succeed in escaping!
-And aren't you the same, Kurusu-kun?
-Don't worry about it. What's more important is that I don't want to get you mixed up in this...for Karin-chan's sake.
-No...
-But I...
-H...Hey!!
-Manaka!!
-The only thing I'm good for is studying. I'm such a hopeless person. / But Kurusu-kun, you've always been there for me as a friend.
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-But I couldn't forgive myself if an important friend like you was placed in danger because of me.
-Well then, see ya! / If there are any developments in my research I'll contact you.
-And when that happens I expect you to come bearing a photo of Karin-chan in return!
-Hey, I told you to wait! Listen to me!
-Manaka!!
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-That retard... Always trying to be a friggin’ hero!
-Shit!
-...Hey, it’s me.
-It's Kurusu.
-I have a request that I can only ask you to do for me.
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-Huh, it seems Kurusu-kun isn't coming after me...
-I regret I wasn't able to keep that photo of Karin-chan...
-I also regret that my research is only half-completed...
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-Hah...
-The next train will be arriving at Platform 1.
-Heh...
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-To stay out of danger please stay behind the yellow line painted on the floor.
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-You...You’re that bastard from earlier!
-MOVE OUTTA MY WAY!!
-So you're the killer working for Kamo Finances, huh...
35:
-The doors are closing,
-Please stay clear
-The doors are closing,
-Please stay clear.
-Son of a bitch!!
36:
-Who the hell are you?!
-How do you know about me?!
-Give up on killing him. /If you keep trying I'll be your opponent.
-What!?
-Hahahaha! You'll be my opponent!?
-That so...?
-Admittedly when I let him go a while ago, it seemed like you knew a little about the Underworld...
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-But this ain’t child’s play. / Pro's can't afford to be careless in the business of killing.
-Look.
-Don anythin' strange and I'll immediately blow your fuckin' brains out
-Turn around so I can dispose of you first.
-Shall you also die by jumping into an oncoming train? Or would you prefer to commit 'suicide' by leaping to your death?
-OK, but I'll be faster than you considering you don't want to pull your gun out here.
38:
-Wh...
-at…!?
39:
-What the hell are you doing, brat!?
-A professional fuckin' despises an amateur!
-I'll kill you right here!
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-I'm a professional too, ya know.
-Huh!?
41:
-But I choose how you're gonna meet your maker.
-An accident!?
-Kyaaaaaaaaaa!
-Hey...This guy’s got a gun!
42:
Phone: *Insert ringtone here*
-Oh...! It's Kurusu-kun!
-Manaka, you safe?
-Yeah, Kurusu-kun. I'm kinda safe for the moment.
-But I'm still a bit scared since I'm by myself and all.
-Don't worry.
-No-one will come after you anymore. / Your debt has been canceled.
-What!?
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-Hey, Kurusu-kun! What do you mean by that? / Is it really true!?
-How did you...
-I asked an acquaintance of mine.
-But if you do it again...next time, I won't save you.
-Kurusu-kun...
-Well, I was able to finish my business, so it worked out.
-Hey! Kurusu-kun!!
-My luck research will definitely succeed and save Karin-chan. / I promise.
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-I believe in you. / See ya.
-*dial-tone noise* beeeep / beeeep beeeep
-Thank you, Kurusu-kun.
-You finished playing make-believe at being a friend,
-Yuu?
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- Well, shall we go to our next job?
-All right already, Tenzaki-san.
-This is fine...
-Even though I may be deceiving you,
-I can't live up to the type of friendship that you're expecting from me.
Left text: I’d do anything for my friend…
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