Ao no Exorcist 27

Exhausted after another week of early-morning-till-late-night school, but the "end" is in sight! :D Though in reality, that "end" is but the REAL beginning... D:

Also, is it my imagination or was this chapter much wordier than usual? o.O Or have I been away from translating for too long? Especially wordy series like Bakuman...?

Anyway, without further ado.



01
b1: Ugyaaaaaah! What the hell is that!!?
a1: The Impure King... Revived...!!
b2: How the hell're we supposed to defeat something that huge!!?
b3: Is this the apocalypse!?
b4: That's the Impure King...
b5: It's practically a fortress on its own...

02
b1 *cough*
b2: (all coughing sfx)
b3: Caught the summer cold?
b4: (more coughing)
b5: (zomg more coughing)
b6: Oh dear, are you alright?
b7: (whaddaya know! more coughing!)
b8: ...!
b9a: Would you please distribute these amulet masks to everyone?
b9b: The miasma may come flowing down the mountain
b10a: !
b10b: Right
b10c: Right away!

03
b1a: Also, I can't seem to find the exwire kids
b1b: Could you look for them?
b2: Understood
b3: Tatsuma-san...
b4: Alright! We'll start searching here
b5: Got it
b6: 'aiiiight
b7: Roger!!
b8: Don't venture too deep into the thicket
b9a: So you've gotten Rin out, have you?
b9b: Thank you
b10: For the time being, would you guys search for Most High Priest Tatsuma?
b11a: !?
b11b: Did something happen to Pops!?
b12: He isn't where Houjou Mamushi and the rest last saw him...

04
b1: Pops...!!
b2a: First, find the Most High Priest and ask him about what he wrote in that letter
b2b: However, stay away from the Impure King!
b2c: Don't be reckless, and deliver a situation report thereafter
b3: Yuppp
a1: Should I let Yukio know
b4: Now, then
a2: That I've let Rin out and am letting him act behind the scenes?
a3 ... Yeah
a4: I better not give the poor guy any more stress
b5a: Yukio, I'm offering my apologies in advance
b5b: I'm sorry~ <3
b6: Huh?

05
b1a: It makes no difference even if you apologize now...
b1b: I've long discarded any and all expectations I had of you...
b2: Yukioo
b3a: I don't really care
b3b: But at the very least, be true to yourself
b4: ... What do you...?
b5: Captain Kirigakure!
b6: The Branch Chief is calling
b7a: Hey, hey
b7b: Show me the way, won't ya~
b8a: Everyone is truly terrified
b8b: This is the first time they've fought against so huge a demon...
b9: Well, size and all that's all about experience, ya know?
b10a: Ju- Just what you'd expect from an upper first class exorcist from the Vatican headquarters!
b10b: How heartening!!

06-07
b1: Gee, but ya know, this is the first time I've seen a monster this huge!
b2: Eh?
a1: Chapter 27 The Decider on Kongou Shinzan!
b3: What draws near is overwhelming decay...!

08
b1: So
b2: What are you planning?
b3: I'm going to summon Ucchuṣma, the Impure Contract Vajra
b4: It takes the combined chanting of more than ten upper class Tamers to summon Ucchuṣma
b5: I would like to ask for Captain Kirigakure's assistance as well
a1: The Impure King is of the "family of the King of Decay"
kanji in circles, clockwise starting with the one below "ignis": fire | decay | air | earth | water
for each pair of arrows, the top kanji is "strong against" and the bottom kanji is "weak against"
a2: In other words, according to the "Demonic Elements Chart," it should be weak against fire

09
b1: However... Just the attacking power of a flamethrower or mid-class flame demon would be insufficient
b2: The best card we have is Ucchuṣma, the strongest of the flame demons we can summon
b3a: Agni, huh? (TN: Agni is the Vedic god of fire)
b3b: Ucchuṣma
b4: It would indeed be reassuring to have him as an ally...
b5a: On!
b5b: Shurimari mamari
b5c: Mari shushuri
b6a: Shurimari mamari
b6b: Mari shushuri sowaka...!!

10
b1: My name is Ucchuṣma, contracted to the ten high priests of Myouou Dharani
b2: Ohhh...
b3: If you wish to attain my flames, show me proof of your lineage

11
b1: In these 150 years, the families of the high priests have shrunk
b2a: Now, only five high priests remain here
b2b: We wish to borrow your flames!
b3: Five is too measly!
b4: However, it wouldn't be very interesting to let the Impure King do as he please, putrefying the whole earth
b5: !?
b6: I will bequeath you the divine protection of flames befitting the blood of five persons
b7: !!
b8: Our khakkara...!!

12
b1a: This is more than enough!! Be they the Impure King or some pieces of shit
b1b: I, Kinzou-sama, won't let any of them get away without some heat sterilization!!
b2: First division... Follow me!
b3a: All dragoons
b3b: Grab a flamethrower and head to your respective positions!
b4a: Magnus Ignis Pneuma... (TN: Greek for Great Fire Breath/Soul/Spirit)
b4b: Come forth, Salamander!!
b5: Those with Doctor qualifications, you may join the first aid squad if you prefer!
b6a: The enemy may not be moving about, but it's getting even bigger even as we speak!
b6b: We must first incinerate the giant kinkai and slowly advance inwards! (TN: kinkai [菌魁] literally fungus harbingers)
b7: YEAH!!!!

13
b1: Charge!!!!
b2: !
b3a: Wait a sec, isn't that...
b3b: The Most High Priest!?
b4: Pops!
b5a: No
b5b: No way...
b6: I- I'll contact Kirigakure-sensei

14
b1: !?
b2: Wha...
b3: I am Karura, servant of the head priest of Myouou Dharani
b4: Karura...!? P... Pops' familiar!?
b5: ... Formerly so. But now that the "secret" is no longer such, the contract has been annulled
b6: I am now fulfilling the private, individual contract I have with Suguro Tatsuma
b7: *cough*
b8: Ugh... I...
b9: Pops!!

15
b1a: Ryuuji...!
b1b: Why are all you children here...
b2: We came to help you
b3a: How reckless...
b3b: Guh
b4a: Your wounds may be closed
b4b: But you can't move just yet, Tatsuma
b5a: Is that you, Karura? ... You sure have gotten small...
b5b: I thought we were both dead
b6a: I also bear the name of the phoenix. I would merely reincarnate every time I died
b6b: Besides, I still have the "Gouhaen" contract left with you
b6c: I couldn't let you die just like that
b7: !
b8: Okumura-kun...!

16
b1: Did you come here... After reading my letter?
b2: I read it too
b3: Wha!?
b4: All of us here came here with a rough understanding of the situation
b5: I'll have you tell us everything without keeping any secrets to yourself
b6: ... I understand
b7: I will tell you how to defeat the Impure King

17
b1: According to the "Truth of the Impure King" passed only to the head priests
b2a: The Impure King will grow bigger and bigger... As big as a city...
b2b: Shortly after, a great sporangium will form within it
b3: And that's the sporangium?
b4: That round thing at the very top of it!?
b5: Most likely
b6a: When that sporangium matures and ruptures
b6b: It will release toxic spores... A thick "miasma"
a1: It was also the rupture of this same sporangium that killed those 40,000 people 150 years ago
a2: This time, the death toll in Kyoto probably won't just be 40,000

18
b1: We have to prevent that no matter what...!
b2: That means we have to defeat it before the sporangium ruptures, right?
b3: Things aren't that simple
b4: The Impure King's only known vital spot, its "heart"
b5: Lies within the sporangium itself
b6: Fukaku, who fought the Impure King 150 years ago
b7: Having fought a tough battle against an unknown monster, had no choice but to split that heart into two and seal it away
b8: And those were its Left and Right Eyes... Correct?
b9: In- In other words...

19
b1a: If the sporangium ruptures
b1b: We can no longer get at the "heart", right!?
b2: Yes
b3: How troublesome...
b4: Fifteen years ago, I...
b5: Made a contract with Karura over here to borrow "Gouhaen"
b6a: Gouhaen is a technique that takes the years the person has lived and turns it into flames
b6b: A great blaze to be let forth at the end of one's life, incinerating everything
b7: I thought that would be my trump card in defeating the Impure King
b8a: However, I used that flame of fifteen years
b8b: Just on stopping the Impure King in its tracks
b9: I don't have much left...

20
b1: I'm going to use the remaining Gouhaen
b2: I'll set up a kekkai so that the miasma won't escape even if the sporangium ruptures
b3: Okumura-kun, I want you
b4: To use that Koumaken to reduce its heart to ashes

21
b1: ... I'm sorry, I...
b2: ... No
b3: It's only natural. I'm asking you to put your life on the line here...
b4: Eh? Oh no... Right now, I can't unsheathe the sword...
b5: Eh?
b6: I've been trying to unsheathe it since just now, but I just can't
b7a: HUH!?
b7b: The hell!?
b8: I don't get it myself either, but apparently it's a psychological problem
b9: For real!?

22
b1: I'm as worried as you are!! ... But that's why I can't be of any help right now
b2: I'm sorry, Suguro's dad!
b3: I see... That's a worry in itself
b4a: However! If that's the case...
b4b: At the very least, I'll do what I can and put up that kekkai...!!
b5a: It's impossible, Tatsuma
b5b: You've lost too much blood
b6: What...
b7: Ugh...
b8: Most High Priest!!
b9: Your wounds may have healed but you're a hair's breadth away from exsanguination

23
b1a: If you chant the "Kekkai Spell" with that body of yours
b1b: You will surely die
b2: I just need to hold out for a short while
b3: My life isn't the only one hanging in the balance...!
b4: Konekomaru, you still haven't gotten through to Kirigakure-sensei?
b5: All I could get was static noises...
b6: Pops, isn't there anything we can do?
b7: ...
b8a: Hm?
b8b: Now that you mention it, you're Tastuma's son, aren't you?
b8c: That's just perfect
b9: Gouhaen can be transferred between persons related by blood
b10: !

24
b1: No!!
b2: !!!
b3: That absolutely will not do...!!
b4a: He's still a child!
b4b: I definitely will not allow Ryuuji to get dragged into this!!
b5: I'll cut these ties of obligations in my generation
b6a: I swore that with my very life!!
b6b: That alone...
a1: Ahh... I see

25
a1: That's it...
a2: The reason why Pops always kept his distance from those around him...
a3: And always, all on his own

26
b1: Up until now... Bearing that cross upon your back, all alone...
b2, b3: (wheezing)
b4: Haah... What are you talking about...?
b5: I did all that of my own accord
b6: I won't let you...!!
b7: !!

27
b1: I'll bear that cross, too!!!!
b2: I won't let you utter any objections when you're in that state...!!!
b3: Tatsuma... Your son is smarter than you are
b4: ...!!
b5: ... That's the kind of child he is...
b6: And that's precisely why I didn't want to involve him...

28
b1: Well then, I will now commence the succession of the Gouhaen
b2a: He who is of the blood of the current owner, Suguro Tatsuma
b2b: Show proof of your blood
b3a: Indeed
b3b: You are of the blood of Suguro Tatsuma
b4: !

29
b1: Suguro Ryuuji
b2: You have now become the owner of Gouhaen
b3: Red flames...!
b4a: Ryuuji
b4b: I will teach you the strongest kekkai spell
b5a: One that is only passed to the head priests
b5b: Come here

30
b1: There is even a seal that you have yet to see
b2: Watch closely how I form the seal
b3: Got it? I can only do it once
b4: You only have once to watch and remember it all
b5a: First
b5b: Tie the seal with chiketsu (TN: chiketsu 地結 literally "earth contract")
b5c: "On kirikiri basarabajiri"
b6a: "Homaranda manda"
b6b: "Hatta"
b7: And then the shihouketsu (TN: shihouketsu 四方結 literally "four directions contract")
b8: Ryuuji

31
b1: ... Didn't I tell you not to come in here?
b2: ... Guess I can't say no, can I?
b3: Come here

32
b1: And finally, with the "shokuchi-in," touch the ground (TN: shokuchi-in 触地印 literally "touch earth seal")
b2: And with that, the kekkai will...
b3: Pops...!
b4, b5: *heave*
b6a: Moriyama-san, and Kamiki
b6b: Will you stay here with Pops?
b7a: O-
b7b: Okay!
b8: ... Got it
b9a: Shima, Konekomaru
b9b: Please go inform Kirigakure-sensei and everyone in Myou Dha
b10: About what transpired just now

33
b1: What about you, Bon?
b2: I'll go set up the kekkai
b3: This kekkai forms with the point of the shokuchi-in as its center
b4: So I have to set it up as close to the sporangium as possible
b5: !?
b6: Y- You're saying that you're gonna go in there!?
b7: That's too reckless!!
b8: Bon!
b9: I've always kept my mouth shut and listened to you since my parents were a pain in the neck
b10: But this time's different, and I just have to say this
b11: You're really gonna get yourself killed, ya know?
b12: It's okay

34
b1: I'll protect Suguro!
b2: HUH!?
b3a: It's fine, isn't it!?
b3b: I can't unsheathe the sword but I can use a little of the flames!
b4: More importantly, I'm strong!!
b5a: Leave it to me, alright?
b5b: Konekomaru
b6: ...!
b7: Eh? And what about me?
b8: ...!? Hold on, Koneko-san!?
b9: Dah! I ain't gonna give a damn if you end up regretting this later!!

35
b1: ... I'll leave Pops to the two of you
b2a: Le-
b2b: Leave it to us!
b3a: ... Tch
b3b: We're off, too
b4: !
b5: Yeah!
b6: Be careful...
b7: I'm truly sorry
b8: ... Ryuuji, please forgive... This worthless father of yours

36
b1: I... Truly liked hearing Pops chant the sutra
b2: So no matter what, please don't die

37
b1: Uwah
b2: Uwah uwaaaaaah

38
b1: !!
b2: Are you alright?
b3: Th... Thanks!!
a1: What is this?
a2: It's strange
a3: It's as if the noises around me are reverberating from far, far away

39
a1: As if this isn't even real
b1: Yukio
b2: At the very least, be true to yourself
b3: ?
a2: A red light...
a3: Just where could it be coming from...?
b4: ...
b5: !

40
b1: Haah
b2: Haah
a1: Toudou Saburouta...!?
a2: No, he looks even younger...!?
a3: What's with those flames...
a4: What should I do? Call for back-up?
a5: Or...
b3: Why, hello there

41
b1a: You're there, aren't you?
b1b: Right over there
b2a: ... hah
b2b: Hah
b3: It's no use hiding
b4: Now then, come on out, Okumura Yukio-kun
a1: A chance meeting of fate!