Nurarihyon no Mago 152

I am sorry this is so late, but please understand that:

a) I was overseas for a week
b) I have a life outside of manga and the internet
c) I work two jobs - now I need to catch up on work too
d) I do translate other series too - also need to catch up here
e) I also happen to be a staff on this site/forum and have other things to take care of (eg daily front page news)
f) I'm planning events as a volunteer on top of my work and everything else - also gotta catch up with these things

As it is, I already went to sleep at 5am yesterday. I am trying my best here. The more you bug me, even if you're not obnoxious about it, about when I'm going to finish translating something, the less motivation I have to finish it. Thank you to all of you who waited so patiently :)



01
a1: ☆Volume 16 is on sale to rave reviews and full of omake pages!!
a2: Even if I play, my heart burns
a3: I cannot make a cold tone reverberate
a4: Act 152 Ripple
a5: "Nura Rihan no Yome" is published in Jump NEXT! which is now on sale!! What danger draws near to Yamabuki-sensei, who works at the Terakoya!? Check it out! (TN: Nura Rihan no Yome = The Bride of Nura Rihan)

02
b1: Kurotabou
b2: I'll ask you once more
b3: Just who is behind all this and where is he?
b4: Cuz I gotta meet this guy who's trying to do as he likes on my turf
b5: And mete out an appropriate punishment, ya know?

03
b1: Ooooi
b2: ... You listenin'...? (small text: And that was my catchphrase too...)
b3: Tch!
b4: Hey, you... You still wanna go at it!?
b5: Kuoo...
b6: I... I have... to...
b7: Kill you...!!

04
b1: Give it up! It don't matter how many times you try, I ain't feeling no fear from you
b2: No matter how strong you are...!!
b3: The crosses the two of us carry are different
b4: Your reason for existing makes you no better than a boring piece of junk
b5: ... Hah
b6: In that case, why don't you tell me yours...!?
b7: Ah?
b8: Heey, just who... Do you think this territory belongs to?

05
b1: It's a great city, it has a certain bustling busyness to it, making it lively and gay
b2: When you stand at the center of all that, it just feels so pleasant. As if you'd just get mixed into it all without even realizing it and lose yourself...
b3a: But in all things florid and gay, there also exists darkness
b3b: If someone doesn't protect it from that, things will go haywire in no time
b4: The cross I bear is that of the darkness of the entire extent of Edo---
b5: That is the reason for my existence, and my strength
b6: Kurotabou... If you truly wish to defeat me
b6: Try again when you have figured out just what you are
b7: ...
b8: Well... Despite what I said, you're different from regular junk, and I did feel fear from you
b9: From... The "depths" within you...
b10a: Perhaps
b10b: There is something within you...

06
b1: Well... When you remember it, I'll be back to test you again
b2: To see if you're fit to join my hyakki yakou, you know?
b3: ... What did you...!
b4a: Oh
b4b: You woke up?
b5: Don't joke around with me! I...
b6: I came to kill you...
a1: I'm nothing more than an assassin---
b7: Whatever, just tell me where it is
a2: No--- What!? Is that not it....!?
a3: What am I?
a4: For what reason...

07
b1: !!
b2: Nura Rihan

08
b1: We'll be having you
b2: Die here
b3: ...
b4: What...!?
b5: Wa... Wait

09
b1: What's going on!!
b2: I'll take care of Nura Rihan! Fall back!!
b3: Kurotabou-dono... There is no need for such consideration for us
b4: We are just like you, <Mysterious Assassins>... Let us consign him to oblivion together
b5: Tch...
b6: Dammit, there're too many...

10
b1: Guaaah
b2: Nura Rihan!!
b3: Did we get him?
b4a: We must report this to Sanmoto-sama
b4b: Let's return with a little souvenir

11
b1: Mm!?
b2: You're saying that this is the ponytail... Of the supreme commander of all youkai, Nura Rihan!?
b3: It's covered in blood...
b4: His blood
b5: Kuku...
b6: Good good, with this
b7: My ghost stories...
b8: Can take flight and spread throughout Edo even more~~~ (small text: Fuhahaha...)
b9: Kurotabou

12
b1: You fool... You're nothing but a disappointment!!
b2: Fail once more and I will erase you
b3: ... Yes
b4: ...
b5: Dear, dear, I apologize for making you wait, everyone
b6: Hahaha
b7: We have grown tired of waiting, Sanmoto-dono
b8: Now, now... Today is our monthly
b9: Reeeeleeeeeaaaaaseeee daaaaay~
b10: Ohh bring the <tea>
b11: We can drink it!?
b12: Come~ have as much as you like! ♡
b13: And on this day, too... We will turn Edo into a most interesting world...

13
b1: Mm... An exquisite taste... So this is what Sanmoto-sama was drinking...
b2: I feel like I'm in paradise!
x1: Fears gathered from all over Edo through ghost stories, melted into this <tea>, a taste that makes people go wild...
b3: I want it... I want it... More of it... This is the taste of a supreme leader...
b4: A taste only a man who has obtained everything can taste...
x2: Almost as if it were a drug...!! Once one is acquainted with this taste, one can no longer stop oneself. The ghost stories spread ever further due to their desire for the <tea>
b5: I want to drink more of this <tea>...!!
b6: I have to spread more ghost stories...!!
b7a: Ooh...
b7b: This is bad... It's gotten so late...
b8: Eek
b9: Ahh... Ah...
b10: This guy... He's the <Ashitori Bouzu> I've heard about (TN: 足取り坊主 - Literally "leg-grabbing boy")

14
b1a: Have you heard of the <Ashitori Bouzu>!?
b1b: I'm scared
x1: Regardless of whether there was any truth
b2a: I heard the <Kaokui> appeared over there this time (TN: 顔食い - literally "face eater")
b2b: Help me!
b2c: I heard it's really unlucky if you fall down on any day with the number 3 in the date...
x2: In the countless ghost stories birthed by Sanmoto, Edo was filled with fear and the people sent into a state of panic
b3: I heard you musn't wash your hands in the well
b4: No way...
x3: They spread just like groundless, baseless rumors... The people became more and more afraid
x4: And the number of people playing the game of Hyaku Monogatari increased as well
x5: New ghost stories spread like vermin...
x6: At small gatherings all over the land, the game of Hyaku Monogatari was played and from them, even more new ghost stories came into being
x7: All the fear from the Hyaku Monogatari game gathered about Sanmoto, and the <Tea of the Supreme Leader> was produced in large amounts and distributed to the masses
x8: The mysteries of Hyaku Monogatari thus enshrouded all of Edo

15
x1: In this age where the population was booming, it could be said that in some sense, the method used by Sanmoto was necessary
x2: Sanmoto knew that his ghost stories would spread as explosively as the population increased
x3: These numbers and the vigor with which this happened far exceeded that of the Nura Clan's...
b1: You bastard!
b2: Hey, you, you shouldn't be hanging around a place like this all alone!
b3: We're the Nura Clan! If anything happens, we've got your back...!!
b4: Eek~
b5: Dammit, there are a crap load of them here too...
next to Kubinashi's head: Hah hah
b6: No matter how many of them we take down, we'll never get them all...
b7: Hyaku Monogatari's the cause of all this... That much we do know
b8: But even so, they're everywhere

16
b1: Second, where have you gone...?
b2: Edo's a lost cause without you around
b3: Rihan...
b4: I wonder if this thunder's also because of some ayakashi
b5: That's possible! But it'll be okay!
b6: What do you mean okay!? You're the one who's always such as scaredycat!
b7: Not this time!! There are youkai who stand on the side of justice too, you know!!

17
b1: We've been pushed into quite the corner, now haven't we...
b2: Yo
b2: Yaya
b3: Whatever do we have here? I've caught myself an fine magical fish of some sort
b4: Even a place like this is brimming with youkai, you sure that's alright? (brushed text: Back you go)
b5a: Not at all...
b5b: Our subordinates have all been dispatched to search the town with a fine-toothed comb, but it's been totally ineffective
b6a: Hmph... If they're coming from ghost stories, then it's like the whole town is an ayakashi breeding ground
b6b: At this rate, even the tochigami are going to have their fear stolen by these ghost stories (TN: 土地神 - land gods)

18
b1: Geez, that damn profligate of a prodigal son! (small text: What the hell is he doing)
b2: If he doesn't put a stop to this spread of ghost stories asap, the enemy's gonna get a hyakumanki yakou for himself! (TN: 百万鬼夜行 is a play on the original hyakki yakou [百鬼夜行], so instead of a "hundred" monsters, you have a "million")
b3: ... Just what trick are you pulling here, Rihan...?
b4a: Yo, pops
b4b: Shhhh, let's not be too conspicuous now
b5: ... Huh?
b6: Hey, everyone's been real worried about you, little Koi
b7a: Naah, you know what they say, to fool your enemy you gotta fool your comrades first...
b7b: I enlisted Kappa's help and secretly did some investigating
b8: However
b9: I've finally found it
b10: The location of the source of all this!

19
b1: What...!
b2: You've found out the location of the Hyaku Monogatari headquarters!?
b3: Yeah...
b4: But the place... is a place that only <invited guests> can enter
b5: Besides, from what I saw, it looked like they were all wealthy merchants or high-ranking samurai
b6a: I see
b6b: If there's a special kekkai like that set up, it's gonna be a pain to try and enter...
b7: My point exactly... I said it before, didn't I?
b8: Hm?
b9: That someone among Pop's tea-drinking buddies... Had some connection to Hyaku Monogatari
left: ☆A secret plan!? Next issue, the counterattack begins...!!
b10: You... You don't mean him, do you!?
b11: N... No way, bringing him there would be... Hold it, hold it
b12: Nope! You're gonna do it
b13: If we can get in, I'll take over... And finish them in a heartbeat!