Claymore 89

...for the lulz

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SCENE 89 - "An Unfulfilled Dream"

-bari (all sfx bubbles say this. it's munch, munch)

-Ch!!
-Dirty animals...

(last panel has author, YAGI NORIHIRO written)

left vert: The Akuma set their bare fangs to devouring Isley!!

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-Boko

-boko x4

-GHYAAAAAH!

-bari (munch) x3

-filthy little--!

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-GI....

-GI...

-GI...
-GIHYA
-boko x3 (bolder of the bubbles)

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-Biku x3 (twitch)

-Gi
-GIII....

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-Damned creatures
-No time to even regenerate

-GISHAAAA

-Hmph
-Biki

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-GIHYA

-GA

-Gi...
-Ga...
-ga

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-boko x4

bold bubbles: Boko x3
-Gi...
-Gi
-GA....
-Ga

-Things are no longer
-as straight-forward as destroying your heads, I see...

-GIHA
-GIHAHI

top: biki
below x2 - Boko

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-So in the end...
-It comes to this (t/n - by "this" he refers to his sword, in kanji)

-Gi
-GI...
-Gi

-Come!
-I'll exterminate the lot of you for good!

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-The Organization created
-a total of 11 Akuma...?

-You mean to tell me that out of the 11 they started with...
-All 11 have managed to survive thus far?

-No. Barely any of the originals are still extant
-When more than half...or, 6 of them are vanquished, they instinctively return to headquarters

-Then, utilizing the flesh and blood from hunted Awakeneds,
-They produce even more Akuma...even more "Abyssal Eaters"

-Trying to hunt down fleeing Akuma is difficult
-They don't emit Youki, and they spread out in all directions

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-Even if Isley were able to catch one and kill it...
-The remaining 4 would synchronize their minds with the newly-created ones, allowing them to share their experience

-Then, you mean...
-...it can't be...!
-It is.

-Slow, be it may...
-The Akuma continue to grow stronger until they are able to exterminate Isley

-Wha?!

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-So that's the reason
-Isley hid in the city, mixing among humans...

-Most likely.
-For creatures that only go by their sense of smell, it is most difficult to search in a place where many odors mingle

-So no matter how many of the slobbering things he kills, they get stronger one after the other!?
-I'd sure run for cover!!

-It serves as little more than a temporary deterrent
-In fact, this attack came even sooner than the last
-I don't believe Isley has yet even recovered from the wounds he suffered last battle...

-I surmise the Organization...
-intends to end the chase here.

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-Cancel our vacation plans, Helen
-We're heading West.
-Eh?!

-We must rendezvous with Clare and the others
-that way, Cynthia will be able to heal that eye of yours

-Eh...
-Ah...

-Dietrich, was it?
-Can these Akuma pinpoint other Abyssal Ones as well?

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-Their sole mode of action is to devour whatever target bears the scent their minds were imprinted with
-As long as there is a piece of the target's body to use, it is possible

-Ah!!

-There is one!! Back West...
-I severed a piece of her body!!

-A fragment of Riful's body...
-That was back when our current group fought her...the Organization must have collected it by now

-What bad news...

-? Why is that?
-I do hope I'm wrong, but you'd best hurry

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-The Organization is proactively hunting down Awakeneds, even before being contracted to do so
-They're doing it under the pretense that it's to wipe out the survivors of the Northern War, when in reality it's for the sole purpose of creating new Akuma

-I highly doubt these 11 are all the Akuma that exist
-The second the Organization obtains fragments of an Awakened, they're certain to act immediately

-No!

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-Isley is...
-dying...

-So even during our battle
-He was already wounded...

-Damnit!!
-Even with a handicap, I couldn't beat him!?

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-Biki

-biki x2

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-Baki (snap?)

-Biki x3 (crumble)

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-Kuh...

-D-damn...
-This sensation is nothing like the exhilaration...
-of when Pricilla instantaneously severed half of my body...

-Having your body whittled away bit by bit...
-is so very...unnerving...

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-Gihi x3

-Gihi
-Gihya!
-hya!

-Hpf!

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-Gi

-Gi x2

-Just one more...
-...and you wretched things were supposed to leave...

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-MUNCH x8

-Since when...did I start to feel relieved...?
-Each time I managed to force these creatures to retreat...

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-GIHI
-GIHYA x3

-Unbelievable...
-From head to toe...
-what vile-looking things you are

-GaPA!!

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-MUNCH x4

-It must have been around that time...
-the time I left Pricilla to Raki and drove them out of the South

-I don't understand myself...at first, I wanted to use Pricilla
-I wanted to make everything mine, but...

-At some point, while watching Raki grow with Pricilla clinging to his side,
-I found myself being content on only the absolute minimum of meals...

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-I don't want to die...

-Although I knew that this fake family...

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-Would one day vanish like the illusion it was...
-Just a little longer...

-Yes, even for a little moment longer, how I wished it could have lasted...

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-Numbers 28, 35, and 42 have been retrieved
-Only number 8 has yet to be found

-Did you find the remains of their assigned target there?
-Yes. There was the body of an Awakened, severed in two

-Likely they had outside help...
-Or, it could have been Dietrich herself who landed the killing blow

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-The trifling matter of Western Lacroix aside... (t/n - "the western city of Lacroix")
-We've got the strong suspicion there's been an outside group acting...

-What say you,
-Louvre?

-I haven't the slightest idea...
-In fact, I'm embarrassed to admit this, but...
-I was already knocked unconscious somewhere around that time

-But given our situation, I believe your "trifling matter" is far more pressing...
-We should be putting all priority to saving Renee from Riful as soon as possible

-You needn't worry about that
-We've already released the latest Abyssal Eaters to the West
-Oh...?

-However, this time they will serve merely as guides...

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-We've received word that Isley has fallen in the South
-The power balance of the Abyssal Ones is shattered
-And we no longer intend to take our time with Riful as we did with Isley

-Alicia and Beth, our Organization's top 2,

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-Are heading West as we speak
vertical lines: The Organization's only controllable Awakeneds... / The twins Alicia and Beth step into action!

CLAYMORE - TO BE CONTINUED IN THE MAY ISSUE
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