Nurarihyon no Mago 153

I need to get down to finishing some WORK. As in, the work I actually get PAID for... <.<



01
a1: A record of three generations of youkai heroism
b1: Dear god
b2: Please heal my father of his illness...
b3: Please give us money... To buy medicine...
b4a: ... God will grant
b4b: That request of yours
b5: Eh?

02
b1: HYAAAAH
b2: Haaah!!
b3: Ah...
b4: Mmmm
b5: Ohh?
b6: Ugh...
b7: What...? Caught another woman, did you?
b8: Hehe, what's thiiiiis? What a pretty laaaadyyyy
b9a: Hey miss, we're gods, you know?
b9b: The gods who live in this temple... Hehe
b10: Hah

03
b1: Be good!
b2: Hehe, it'll be over before you know it
b3: Inject the druuuuugs! Hyahahaha
b4: Eh...?
b5: ... Eh, where did my topknot go?
b6: Eh? What just happened?
b7: !?
b8: Oi, what the hell!? Who the hell are yooouuu
b9a: ...
b9b: That's enough...

04
b1: Of your childish mischief
b2: fuh
b3: Kyaaah
b4: Mo... Monsteeeeeer!!
b5: Eek
b6: ...

05
b1: Hah
b2a: Oh
b2b: In here's not the place a human should be. Get out
b3: What... What are you...
b4: Hm
b5: Well... That's a good question
b6: The guardian deity... Of the guardian deity of this place, I guess?


06
b1: ... I'm sorry
b2: It's become like this everywhere...
b3: We can barely keep up...
b4: We've gotta do something soon or we're screwed
b5: Yet even the previous supreme commander's disappeared...
b6: What the fuck is going on!!

07
a1: ☆Jump NEXT! is selling fast, and Edo's the stage for a special bangaihen!! Hurry to the store to get your copy!!
x1: A trip through the underworld
x2: Nura Rihan
a2: Act 153 Kaidan Hyakuman-pen (TN: A Million Ghost Stories)
a3: Rihan, taking a trip alone through the underworld
a4: ☆Check out the latest info on the second season of the TV Anime and goods in "Nura Ban" on page 357!!

08
a1: Sanmoto's Mansion

09
b1: Nara-ya-sama (TN: Ya-sama [屋様] addresses someone who works somewhere [typically a store], while Nara [奈良], Yodo [淀], Zeni [銭], Takada [高田], Echigo [越後] and Daimonji [大文字] are all names of places)
b2: Yodo-ya-sama
b3: Zeni-ya-sama
b4: Takada-ya-sama
b5: Echigo-ya-sama

10
b1: Nakai-sama
b2: Kukukuku...
b3: Kawamura-sama
b4: The shogunal vassals and daimyo merchants I invited are gathering one by one
b5: Iida-sama
b6: Daimonji-ya-sama
b7: If the Hyaku Monogatari game goes well today... My ambition will be a step closer to fruition
b8: With this, I'll have everything! Money, power, everything!
b9: All that's left is... What was it again?
b10: God... Buddha
b11: Oh! That guy too
b12: Guess I've no choice but to become a god myself, no?
b13: The fears of this world... Will become my fear
b14: I'm going to thoroughly uproot... The hearts that believe in gods, buddhas and evil spirits!!

11
b1: Just a little bit more...
b2: Till the fear in the <Teakettle of the Hyakki> overflows...
b3: Kuku
a1: Today is the day I become a buddha
b4: Kuku
b5: Uku
a2: While still alive and kicking!
b6: Uku
b7: Ukuku
b8a: Mito
b8b: Mitsukuni-kou-sama (TN: Kou-sama [公様] addresses a monarch; Mito Mitsukuni is another name for Tokugawa Mitsukuni [徳川光圀], a prominent daimyo who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period)
b9: !!


12
b1: Scram!
b2a: My, my!!
b2b: It is my pleasure to welcome you for your first visit here... It appears my many invitations have finally paid off!
b3: Myyy, my... There is no greater honor than this!!
b4: Mm
b5: I did consider coming befooore
b6: But today I'm here for the much-talked-about... Hyaku Monogatari!!
b7: I'm looking forward to it!
b8: Hohohoho
a1: Amazing...
b9: ...
a2: Even the vice-shogun...
b10: Kukukuku...
b11a: So cocky... Even the former vice-shogun
b11b: Will be but a pawn in my hand!!

13
b1: Now then, everyone
b2: You must already have one in your hands, no...?
b3: ...?
b4: What are these?
(panel 2: on skulls, from left to right - 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
b5: Looks like something rather terrifying...
b6: There are numbers written on it
(panel 3: on skulls, from left to right - 18, 19)
b7: Today is a special day
b8: We'll tell ghost stories one by one, and as we do so, we'll pass around these skull rosary beads... I call this "Kaidan Hyakuman-pen"
(panel 4: on skulls, from left to right - 2, 1)

14
b1: Kaidan Hyakuman-pen is a new form of Hyaku Monogatari...!!
b2: When we hit a hundred, you will obtain a fear you have never seen before
b3: Those who have come here tonight
b4: Will obtain... A special power
b5: Ohh... What an interesting idea...
b6: And as for what to look forward to after we finish a hundred of them...
b7: Tonight's tea will certainly
b8: Take on a most indescribable and exceptional taste

15
b1a: Hoho
b1b: Hoho
b2: So this is Hyaku Monogatari, huh~? Hoho, wow, it is indeed interesting, just as I had heard
b3a: Fufu... I'm honored to see you enjoying yourself
b3b: Come now, it's your turn, good sir... The rumors say you have traveled all over Japan... I do wish to hear some of your exceptional tales
b4: Hmm... That's right! I guess I ought to contribute to this tea of the supreme leader too, huh...?

16
a1: Just one more story...
a2: When I tell the last story... My fear will be complete!!
b1: Hmm...
b2: That's right... When I first heard this, I was scared to the bone...
b3a: For some reason, ghost stories were told night after night at that place...
b3b: Of all things, the ghost stories told there... Would come to life and attack people!
b4: It is said that there was a heretic who would rejoice in the self-satisfaction
b5: Of watching the innocent civilians suffering as they were attacked, as if it were the appetizer along with his sake
b6: The pleasure he experienced as he controlled others...
b7: Intoxicated him and rotted his body, a rascal even worse than a beast
b8: Mitsukuni-kou
b9: What are you saying?
b10: And that's when I thought

17
b1: What about a <phenomenon>
b2: That could exterminate those heretics?
b3: !?
b4: Eh...
b5: Wha- What the...!?

18
b1: Ah
b2: !?
b3: Ohh! Oi, someone!?
b4: Stop hiiiiiiim!!
b5: Hmm, is this...
b6: All that important?
b7: OAAAAAAHHHH

19
b1: Whoopsies, my bad
b2: My foot slipped
b3: AHHHHHHHHH
a1: ☆An exclamation!!
b4: YOOOOOUUUUU BAAAAAASTAAAARD!!! What have you doooooooone!!!