Nurarihyon no Mago 155

I'm slow and lazy :|



01
a1: A record of three generations of youkai heroism
a2a: I... I see...
a2b: That option is viable, too...!!
a3: (7) Continue the Hyaku Monogatari game
a4: Just one more to complete the game
a5: In other words, just one more... And a new youkai will be born!!
b1: Wonderful, wonderful! Why didn't I notice this earlier!!?
a6: It'd be great if one were born now
a7: An ayakashi that could turn the tables in this situation!!
b1: Kurotabou!! I'll leave you to watch my back!!
a8: Does Sanmoto have a plan to recover from this hopeless situation!?

02
b1: Hold it right there!
b2: I'm gonna make
b3: An ayakashi!!
b4: Hehehehehehehehehehe
b5: It's gonna emerge from here!
b6: Just you watch!
b7: Just what kind of ayakashi will it be!!?

03
a1: ☆A picture scroll of the three generations of Nura Clan youkai! JC #1-16 on sale to rave reviews!!
x1: Buddha
x2: Sanmoto Gorouzaemon's dream
a2: Act 155 The Hundredth Hyaku Monogatari
a3: The man who wanted to become buddha... Alas, that fate has befallen him

04
b1a: ... Good morning
b1b: You're as early as ever
b2a: Ah... Setsura-san, good morning!
b2b: I've got a lot of work backlogged over at the terakoya as well, so...
b3: Why not leave things like that to your subordinates?
b4: Oh, no

05
a1: Geez, why the hell is "The Bride of Nurarihyon"...
b1a: Eh?
b1b: Se... Setsura-san!?
b2: A stupid woman like this!?
b3a: If it were me, I'd be sitting back enjoying my position of power
b3b: Yet Otome-chan, you never do think like that, do you?
b4: Huh... Yeah...
b5: ... (small: "Yeah", she says...)
b6: Is this the "difference" between me and her!?
b7: ?
b8: Ahhhh geez... And all that Rihan knows how to do is to make this poor Otome-chan worried sick...
b9: Eh?
b10: You've got it rough too, huh...
b11: I'm amazed you're not more annoyed with your husband for always wandering about

06
b1: ...
b2: Yup...
b3: Eh?
b4: I
b5: Will simply wait
b6: I don't know what he's doing right now
a1: Do you like this town?
a2: So do I
b7: I'm sure... That he's working hard for the sake of this town
a3: We'll be together
a4: You'll be with me forever...
b8: So, until he fulfills his objectives
b9: I want to wait for him at home... Because that is my duty

07
a1: Eiiiiiii what am I saying
b1: Fufu... But
a2: I know, I know...
b2: If <Kurotabou> were around... I think he'd be able to change the world real quick
b3: What's that?
next to b3: Kuro...?
b4a: The children were talking about it
b4b: The youkai of justice, they call him
b5: He's an ayakashi that was created by children who were orphaned by wars and famines
b6: A youkai born from the earnest desire of wanting to be saved
b7: From the endless tragedy... Of political opposition... and of the farming samurai
b8: Hmm...

08
a1: Help me... Help me...
a2: Kuratabou...
a3: When will you come for me...? When will the jet black monk come to save us?
a4: That monk is strong... And tall...
a5: And wields countless weapons
a6: He'll defeat the bad guys, no matter how bad they are...!
b1: ...
b2: Indeed an ayakashi a child would think of...
next to b2: such an absurd setup
b3: It is said to be passed down in secret... As the hope of the children
b4: It would be great... If he really appeared... A youkai of justice like that...

09
b1: Move away... From there
b2: Did you forget your <homework>? I ain't got no reason to be stopped by an ayakashi like you who doesn't even know what he is, ya know!?
b3: Shut up... Speak for yourself! Why
b4: Do you pose a hindrance to that man!
b5: ... He's manipulating you, ya know?
b6: I did my research. You... Aren't an ayakashi birthed by that fatso
b7: Nonsense!!

10
b1: Boooosss!!
b2: Please go!
b3: You've gotta be the one to handle Sanmoto!!
b4a: Ohh, Ao, eh?
b4b: My bad... I'll leave that headstrong guy to you
b5: Wait!!
b6: Ohhhh no you don't! I ain't letting you pass, ya know!?

11
b1a: Yo there... Teaching a lesson to people like you lot...
b1b: Who mess around in people's territories... Is my job!!
b2: Scram... Fatso
a1: An ayakashi that can obliterate all of them!!
a2: I can do this... I can do this... I have an idea...!!
a3: I'll make it the worst, the most evil!!
a4a: An indomitable one that wouldn't even budge no matter what!!
a4b: One like the ghost story Kurotabou...

12
b1: There... There it is
b2: Kuku... In the first place, the objective of today was to play the forbidden Kaidan Hyakuman-pen and create an ultimate, super ayakashi
b3: And to take the whole of Edo by surprise with it... Kuku... With this...
a1: ... Wait a second!?
a2: Now that I think about it, Kurotabou was not originally an ayakashi birthed from <hyaku monogatari>
a3: We brought him here, controlling him with the power of the tea...
a4: <Hyaku Monogatari> allows us to reproduce large numbers of ayakashi... But they're not very strong...
a5: Are they incomplete... When created solely through my conceptions alone!?
a6: Will one birthed like this now
a7: Be of any good...!?

13
b1: That's as far as you're gonna get
b2: Eek
b3: Eeeeeek
b4a: ... Ah
b4b: Oh...
b5: Sa... Sanmoto-sama!!

14
b1: !?
a1: Wha...!?
b2: For "that body" into which was all those desires were amassed... To kill itself of its own accord... How pathetic
a2: Am... Am I...
a3: Going to die here...?
b3: *heave*
b4: Gafuh...
b5: Gu... Geh... Gih...
b6: What a pity, huh?
b7: Your ambitions end here
a4: What...? That paper is...
b8a: I... Don't wanna die...
b8b: In... A place... Like this... My ambitions...

15
b1: That's right... I just need to do this...
b2: ...?
b3: (side text: kafuh...) As if I'd let things end like this...
b4: (side text: Fuhi...) You leave me no choice... I have no choice... But this...
b5: I will... Become buddha...
a1: I will not be destroyed... Even if this body disappears
b6: !?
a2: I will obtain every fear...

16
b1: !?
a1: !?
b2: !!
a2: I despise you
a3: Nura Rihan

17
a1: The hundredth Hyaku Monogatari>
a2: There was once a great merchant
a3: Money, women, freedom... The man lacked nothing he desired
a4: Yet he wanted to obtain every fear, and become an entity akin to buddha or god
a5: However, those ambitions were unfortunately crushed by the youkai that lived by slurping up fear...
b1: Gyaa
b2: What is this?!
b3: Pieces!! Pieces of meat are...!!
a6: The man died, his heart full of hatred, turning his very own self into a ghost story...
b4: pecho
a7: And was never to be destroyed until he had destroyed the Nura Clan
b6: becha
a8: He became
a9: A youkai

18-19
a1: The name of that ayakashi was
a2: Maou Sanmoto Gorouzaemon (TN: Maou [魔王] means "devil king")
a3: Sanmoto has turned himself into a youkai, and that terror will assail Edo in the next issue!!