Ao no Exorcist 24

[9:31pm] Mister_Death: saladesu ane has been precleaned
[9:32pm] saladesu: kk~
[9:32pm] saladesu: will translate it... soooooon XD
[9:32pm] saladesu: (hopefully)
[10:02pm] Mister_Death: no rush saladesu
[10:02pm] saladesu: :)
[10:06pm] Mister_Death: but remember the ane fans will send death threats
[10:06pm] saladesu: :(
[10:09pm] Mister_Death: damn leechers

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01-02
a1: Chapter 24 The Empty Sword
a2: Exorcise demons with your friends!!
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a5: Latest news on the anime on page 8!

03
b1: No way... So the Koumaken
b2: Was the Myou Dha sect's honzon
b3: And that was how he came into contact with Dad...
b4: The truth of the blade Kurikara comes to light...
b5: Hurry up and finish reading it!
b6: O... Okay
b7: But damn, do I have a bad feeling about all this
b8: I may not know what Suguro's dad wanted to request of me, but
b9: Nii-san...
b10: Yukio

04
b1: Just finish reading that letter
x1: Kongou Shinzan
x2: Myouou Dharani Sect Headquarters Fudoubuji (TN: Fudoubuji [不動峯寺] literally "Unmoving Summit Temple")
b2: So this is the "original" Myou Dha Sect headquarters, huh...

05
b1: Hah
b2a~b2b: Hah
b2c: Hah!
b3: Let's hurry, "Goumadou" is just a short distance from here! (TN: Goumadou [降魔堂] literally "Devil Conquering Hall/Shrine", kanji for "gouma" is the same as "kouma" in Koumaken)
b4: But... Is Goumadou really safe?
b5: This Fudoubuji was arranged such that the Goumadou is safeguarded at its very heart
b6: The Left Eye was most likely originally sealed there
b7: It's a good plan to return it to its original place, no?
b8: ...
a1: It's been a long time since I've climbed this mountain myself

06
b1a: ... Fiiive, siiix, seeeeven, eiiiight
b1b: Niiine, ten!
a1: How nostalgic...
b2: Wait up, you monkeys!!
b3: Uwah, she's here! Run away!
b4: *sniff*
b5a: *sniff*
b5b: *sniff*
b6a: Oh my
b6b: So you were in a place like this, huh, Mamushi?
b7: Your father is worried about you

07
b1a: Come on
b1b: Let's go home
b2: Houjou-kun
b3: I assume this is Goumadou?
b4: Yes
b5: Hah
b6: Hah
a1: I doubt everyone will ever forgive me...

08
b1: ... This was once a sacred place into which no-one but the head priest was allowed to enter
b2: But now
a1: For doing something like this, huh?
b3: It is completely empty after having lost both its head priest and its honzon
b4: ...!? The homa-mandala's alight...
b5: ... Yeah
b6a: There must be a hidden door or something somewhere
b6b: Let's search
b7: Alright

09
a1: Until I gather enough evidence that the Most High Priest... Suguro Tatsuma
a2: Is trustworthy...
b1: Hah
b2: Hah
a3: I will definitely...!!
a4: Koumaken
a5: A Maken that has been passed down as the honzon of the Myouou Dharani Sect, its other name is Kurikara

10
a1: Around 150 years ago
a2: A demon named "The Impure King", who brought with him an epidemic, appeared
a3: He turned all of Japan upside down
a4: The founder of Myou Dha, Fukaku, infused the fire demon, Karura into this sword (TN: Karura [伽楼羅] is an enormous, fire-breathing creature from Japanese Hindu-Buddhist mythology. It is based on the original Hindu mythical divinity Garuda)
a5: It is said that he felled the Impure King with the power of those flames

11
a1: Following this, this sword was regarded as the honzon of the Myou Dha sect generation after generation
a2: And it was made an important law that the remaining Left Eye would be kept sealed and far away from this world
x1: As if to make a mockery of all these things, he appeared before my eyes
b1a: The hell you talkin' about!! That's...
b1b: Myou Dha's honzon, ya know!!
b2: You're so noisy. Of course I know, baldy
b3: And anyway, this...

12
b1: Is just empty on the inside to begin with, isn't it?
b2: !!
b3: I ain't getting a word you're sayin'! Yer spoutin' nonsense...!
b4a: How long are ya plannin' on holdin' on ta our honzon!
b4b: Wretched enemy!
b5: Yaozou!!
s1: Hyoi
s2: Che

13
b1: !?
b2: Didja get 'im, Yaozou!?
b3: That's the way, Yaozou-san!
b4a: No, I didn't do anything...
b4b: This guy... He's already badly injured!!
b5: *cough*...
b6: Sa... Say what!?
b7: Amazing that he was able ta move around so much with an injury like this...
b8: What the hell is up with this man!?
b9a: What shall we do, Tatsuma-sama?
b9b: Shall we dump him down at the mountain pass?
b10: ...

14
b1: Ooh...
b2: You awake?
b3a: ... True Cross Order Japan Branch, Upper First Class Exorcist...
b3b: Fujimoto Shirou-kun
b3c: You're 34, which makes you younger than me, huh...?
b4: ... Where am I...?
b5: Kongou Shinzan, Fudoubuji
b6a: Ya suddenly collapsed on me...
b6b: No way could I just leave ya like that, so I brought ya here
b7a: Are you for real?
b7b: You coulda sent me rollin' down the mountain instead. You're way too kind
b8: Ah, lend me a light, won't ya?
b9: Hm?

15
b1: Mmph! Hang o...!
b2a: More importantly, Fujimoto-kun
b2b: Just how much do ya know about our honzon... About Kurikara?
b3: Why do you want Kurikara!?
b4a: Beats me
b4b: I'm just here cuz I was ordered to by my superiors
b5: Well
b6: I assume they'll be killing kids with it
b7: !?
a1: Killing...
a2: Kids!?

16
a1: He said it with such a straight face...!
b1: ... If you can move, then please leave as soon as possible
b2a: I don't care what circumstances there are
b2b: I will not care for a child-killing heretic
b3: Yeah
b4: I'll leave
b5: But you gotta hand over the Koumaken first
b6: !! Ya haven't given up on that yet!?
b7: I don't even know where exactly in this... This Fudoubuji it is, now, do I!
b8: Sounds good on paper to just obliterate each temple in turn, no?
b9: ... But gee, I don't have the time for that, you know?
b10: It'd be faster if I just asked you instead
b11: Hey, where is the sword?
a2: Thi... This man...!

17
b1: ... Kuh
b2a: Haha, what's with that?
b2b: You plan to take me on with just that tokkosho? (TN: A tokkosho [独鈷杵] is a pestle with a single sharp blade at each end)
b3a: Give it up, give it up, guh...
b3b: *cough*
b3c: *cough*
b4: ...
b5: !?
b6: Uwah
b7: Oi
b8: Hold it!!!
b9a: Where are you go-...
b9b: !!
b10: That's!

18
b1a: That's
b1b: Stop...
b2a~b4: *cough*
b5: What...
b6: Is this?
b7: Stop it!

19
b1: Uwah!?
b2: AHHH!! What did you just!
b3: Shut the hell up and stop with the farce this instant!!
b4a: Bastard...
b4b: Do ya know whatcha just did...!?
b4c: If ya stop our conversation with Buddha
b5a: Buddha will abandon us
b5b: And we won't be able to attain his power!!
b6: Then let me ask you: Did praying ever do these guys any good!?
b7: !!

20
b1: ... Hah. You're just a coward masquerading as a saint
b2: I hate people like you the most
b3a: Now is not the time for things like prayer
b3b: We need to get the toxins from the miasma out of their bodies as soon as we can
b4a: Yo...
b4b: ... You can save them...!?
b5a: Yeah
b5b: I can save them all... Probably
b6: !!
b7a: Hey! You!
b7b: Get me some radish, spring onion, valerian, calamus, rock salt and Japanese hot claw!
b7c: Ahh, and some Vaseline, beeswax or lard
b8a: Eh!?
b8b: Ah, ex- excuse me?
b9: Ya really gonna... Save them...!?
b10a: How many times do I have to say it!?
b10b: You, boil me a truckload of hot water!!

21
b1: And get me a lighter while you're at it!
x1: If he really
x2: Really saves them...
x3: Just what
x4: Have we been believing all this while?
b2: Torako...

22
b1: Tatsuma-san, I...
b2a: To...
b2b: To... DORAGOOOOOOO!!
b3a: Tatsuma-san...
b3b: I
b3c: I actually... Thought I was a goner...
b4: I really can give birth to this child after all, can't I?
b5: Of course you can!!
b6: Thank goodness
b7: I'm so thankful...!!

23
b1: ... Thank you, Fujimoto-kun
b2: When ya said you were here to take the sword, I was sure ya had ta be a bandit or something
b3: But I was wrong
b4: Huuuh!?
b5: Huh?
b6a: This and that are entirely separate matters
b6b: Hand over the sword
b7: Eh!?
b8a: I mean, I saved so many sick people!
b8b: I even taught you how to treat them!
b9: It's only natural that I'd ask for some compensation, no?
b10: Tatsuma-san?
b11: Just... Just take it easy, Torako
b12: I thought you were being a good Samaritan!
b13: I really hate people like you the most

24
b1: I'm not a good Samaritan
b2: If you won't tell me, I'll just find it myself
b3: You'll never be able to move forward if you're afraid of soiling your hands
b4: !
b5: Most High Priest...!?
b6: That's the guy
b7: Seize him!!
b8: ???

25
b1: On amiriti hatta!!
b2: What are you...!!
b3: Che
b4a: He got away
b4b: After him!!
b5: Don't let that thief get off this mountain alive!!
b6a: Most High Priest!!
b6b: What are you doing!!
b6c: That man is...
b7a: Tatsuma!!
b7b: Don't expect this mistake to go unpunished...!!

26
b1a: An exorcist from the True Cross Order, you say...!?
b1b: How couldja bring a pagan like him into the temple and allow him to cast his spells here...!!
b2: No! Most High Priest, he's a lifesaver!
b3: He saved everyone... He saved Torako!
b4: I don't care about that!!
b5: Any outsider who knows about the Koumaken and even a little of our Myou Dha sect's secrets
b6: Must die!!
b7: I bear on my shoulders the responsibility of protecting Myou Dha!!
b8: Most High Priest, what yer protecting...
b9: Are merely the "laws"...
b10: I...
b11: I'm different
b12: Tatsuma... Where are you going!

27
b1: I won't letcha get away!!
b2: He's over there!
b3a~b3c: Hah
b4: Damn, are they persistent!
b5: Now my wound's opened up again!
b6: Fujimoto-kun
b7: !
b8: Tatsuma!
b9: Take it
b10: Wha...
b11: The Koumaken...!?

28
b1a: I'll help you escape
b1b: Follow me
b2: Wa... Wait a second!
b3a: What are you trying to pull?
b3b: You sure this is okay!?
b4: It'll be fine
b5: I knew it all along, actually
b6a: ... When I was a child, I once secretly unsheathed the sword
b6b: I wanted to see Karura, you know?
b7a: Neither Karura nor any flames appeared at all... That sword was empty
b7b: I knew it all along... And yet...
b8: I've stopped worshiping an empty shell
b9: And I've finally found the resolve in me to fight

29
b1: It was all thanks to you
b2: ...
b3: I'm gonna kill some kiddies now, ya know?
b4: That's okay
b5a: You'd never kill
b5b: I know it
b6: Hmph
b7: You're really a hopelessly good guy
b8a: !! The pursuers' voices...
b8b: Run away now!!
b9: With this, we'll be even!

30
b1: Nuh-uh
b2: With this, we've made up!
b3: !!
b4a: Over there!!
b4b: That's a crazy height to jump from!
b5: He's down below! Surround him!

31
x1: The story of Fujimoto-kun and myself ends here
x2a: A few months later
x2b: The "Blue Night" happened
x3: Father died after leaving me the true "secrets" of the head priests and of Myou Dha
x4: That "secret" was truly frightening

32
b1a: So this is where it was hiding, huh...
b1b: Let's go down and take a look
b2: There's a door!
b3a: I never expected there to be a cellar like this under Goumadou
b3b~b3c: *cough*
b4: ... Give me the right eye
b5: Eh!?
b6: Bu... But you said it was dangerous to have both on your body...
b7: We're almost there
b8: Besides, I'm also worried about you
b9a: ... I'm regretting it a little
b9b: The fact that I dragged so precious a student as you into this conjecture of mine, that is...
b10: I'm thinking about your future

33
b1:Do you regret it?
b2: ...
b3: I do not
a1: Right now, the only one who can protect everyone, is me...!
b4: You really are a good kid
b5: Come now, let's open it
b6: !!
b7: This is

35
b1: The Impure King
b2: ... Eh?
b3: In the fifth year of Ansei (TN: The Ansei Era [安政] lasted from 1854 to 1860)
b4a: Your founder, Fukaku
b4b: Made a contract with the maken Kurikara which was possessed by the fire demon Karura
b5: He had fought with the Impure King before, but had never been able to put so much as a dent into him. By taking both his eyes and sealing them, he was able to suppress the Impure King.
b6: At that moment, Karura left Kurikara
b7: This is the truth behind the legends of the Myou Dha sect

36
b1: This is the secret that you of the Myou Dha sect have kept closely guarded generation after generation
b2a: ... This is the Impure King...!?
b2b: You kidding me!?
b2c: Are ya tellin' me it was here in the Goumadou all along these past 150 years!?
b3: ... Then the Right and Left eyes...
b4: That's right, in other words, we'll be returning this "Right Eye" and this "Left Eye"
b5: To this dried-up Impure King
b6: And in so doing, we will be reviving the Impure King in his original form

37
b1: Toudou-sensei
b2: Just what the hell are you?
b3: Houjou-kun
b4a: You are a precious student to me
b4b: And it pains me to hear you use such a tone on me
b4c: However, you have already served your purpose

38
b1: !!
b2: My, my!
b3a: Mo...
b3b: Most High Priest!?
b4: Mamushi...
b5: Everything's gonna be okay!
b6: I'll bring ya back ta where ya father is

39
b1: The Impure King is a cancer that brings disease to people
b2: I'll end it in this generation and will never let it be passed on to the next!
b3: I'll protect everyone!
b4: I, Suguro Tatsuma, the seventeenth Head Priest of the Myou Dha sect
b5: Will never forgive those that try to hinder this determination of mine!!!
a1: Rage... A clash!!