Muddy Oneshot : Muddy

Just reposting the old one-shot that did not make it into the new translation listing.

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white: He's like no kid you've ever seen before!
bottom green: He has the heart of a child...but his hidden power is limitless! This shape-shifting fantasy is an entire 49 pages!!
author lower right: Aimoto Shou

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right: A frantic scientist and multiplying chickens?!

-Uwaaah!

-What the..! In one night, they multiplied this much!?
-I guess the chicken-mouse Chimera was overkill...
-This is out of control

-Hah...hah...
-Can't he follow my directions and sit still?!

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-three...two...one!

-Hey, you
-Ah!

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-MUDDY!
-What the heck are you doing in this hole!!
-Can't you listen to me for once?
-Ah...ooh ooh!!
-I'm sure Clay (kurei) knows!

-Where's the "cabaret club"? (t/n - see wikipedia if you don't know what that is)

-We'll i'm sure it's NOT underground
-Ooooh

-I don't really get it but I gotta go there
-If I don't Iyo will be mad
-She said it's that kinda place!

-Iyo?
-Yea, my friend Iyo!

-friend...? hmm...
-So you made a friend...

-This is the record of the growth and behaviour of my Chimera human, "Muddy"

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-Chimera
-Is a single body, comprised of two or more original materials

-It was several years ago
-I was working at a lab conducting experiments with Chimeras
-snap
-snap

-small bubbles right - shaking
-bubble middle - pop pop pop (bubbling?)
-Okay, okay, pipe down

-What was I supposed to put in next?

-Ah, whatever

-For instance,

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-Let's say there's two objects, A and B
-And that both of these things carry differing molecular information

-My work (of making Chimeras) is really simple: By combining the two, you get an entirely new thing, AB
-It started with the improvement of different varieties of livestock and produce
-And led to the birth of all sorts of new things

-It's just that, the reality is it's not easy to find a good match

-Found it!

-I've always been an irresponsible guy
box:
*Artificial life form (purchase via shady mail-order)
*Humus (of a kabuto beetle)
*Cow milk (somewhat curdled)
*Spinach (rotting)

-What difference will it make?
-It's not like this could actually work!
box: *Toenails (fresh)
other box: But it was that experiment...

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-Back then, I would have never though in my wildest dreams that the experiment would have actually worked

-wh--
-why...?!
box: The Chimera I had produced
box: took a human form

-I-I don't get it at all
-What the hell's going on?!
-This can't...

-bang bang
-Clay! I'm coming in

-About that data I left with yo...

-huh?

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-Clay!! Is that--
-Don't barge in when I'm working!!

-Hey!! Hold it!!
box: True, it was not something made from my knowledge or intellect

このままここに在ってもわたしの手に負えないだろうことは目に見えている
-Even if I stayed here, it's obvious that the situation would have gone out of my control
-If only...

box: Besides,
-I could just remember...
-How I made it...
box: To let it become nothing but "research material" for the scientist above me...

-Was something I couldn't live with

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-By keeping close record of Muddy, he would not be forgotten.
-What about you, Clay? Did somethin' happen?

-Uh, not really...
box: For that reason, I had to take him into the outside world to allow him to gather experience

-This village seems to be farming chimera animals...I thought you might have been able to lend them a hand
-I tried asking around, but...looks like it's impossible
-Hmm
-Don't worry!

-See ya!
-Wait!!

-No!!
-Don't say no to me!
-Wai--HEY!
-CAN'T YOU LISTEN TO ME FOR JUST A SECOND!?

-About the hole!!
-I know I've told you before, whether you're in the city or the countryside, you've got to stop digging holes wherever you want!!

-Oh really?
-I must have told you a million times by now**
(t/n - this is a pun.　口にタコが出来て = 耳にタコが出来て. it means to hear something a million times your ears get callous...but, with this glutton like habit, the joke is eating instead of hearing)
-I can't believe your memory is so short

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-Anyway! The next time you're hungry,
-Make sure to tell me right away

-Okay!
-I won't do it again!

-Later!
-H-hey!!

-Gosh!
-Who does he think has to clean up after him?

-A friend, huh...

-IYOoooo!!

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-Oh, it's you!
-You're late!

-What about dinner?
-I'm ready for more!

-You're supposed to say "I've already eaten!"
あたレたちケンタイキの夫婦って設定なんだから！
-We're supposed to be a couple that's going through marital problems!
-You're useless! You can't even play house right!
-?? sorry!

-Wow, a girl
-And she's in complete control

-KYAAAA!

-wha....

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-You dummy! This is dirt!! You're not actually supposed to eat it!
-You're not just useless, you're an idiot too!

-But I'm not supposed to eat anything but dirt

-If I eat normal food, Clay will get mad

-And stab me with a fork
-What? That's really weird
-You're not just an idiot, you're a weirdo too!!

-Is Clay your mama?
-Clay is the person who made me by accident

-I see, so he made a mistake one night?
-No way...he never plans things out?
-I feel for you
-kids these days sure are something else...

-I guess you're more interesting than I thought...

-Hey, c'mere...

-What? They suddenly started whispering
-Are they going somewhere?
-Excuse me

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-Couldn't help but notice how you've been staring over there for a while now
-Ah...

-So, you're interested in my daughter?
-You pervert

-See? See?

-Wow!

-I'm not really supposed to tell strangers, but...I'll make an exception for you
-You should feel honored

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-Got it? I'll say it so even an idiot like you can understand
-Behind this is really another part of the village
-uh-huh
-That being the case, why do you think it's blocked off?
-You know what else? Mama said it wasn't always here in the past, either!
-uh-huh

-Why?
-Guessing is the fun part!!
-Try to use your head for once!!

-I guess I gotta tell you...you'll never figure it out

-I think...
-The people in the village are hiding something!

-Why?
-Geez!!! Don't you think it's interesting at all?!
-You're really making me mad!!

-huuuuh
-It's hiding something?

-Three...two...one...

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-Wha...!!!

-Ah!!

-Huh...?
-That's weird...

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-Hey!! What's going on!
-Your hand...
-Just...

-hand!!!

-No way...I swear it was...

-If Clay was here,
-I'm sure I could do it

-Huh?
-What are you talking about

-I'm really tired of this!
-I'm going home!
-Already?

-Bye bye!!

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-What do you mean "bye"?? You're coming too!
-Trying to let a girl leave by herself...are you even a man?!

-Like I said...

-How do I have to say it to make you believe me...your daughter was with a young boy who's my son
-I don't know my way around here, so I was worried and kept following him

-And?!

-Then why won't you show me what's in the book?
-I'll forgive you as long as I see there's nothing strange in there!
-W-well
-You see, I...

-This is...

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-Muffgh!!
-Just stay quiet!!

-Come in

-Sorry to disturb you!

-Oh, didn't bring your "favorite" along with you today?
-You're a lot earlier than normal

-You're talking about Mee-chan?
-That boy just does whatever he wants...
-Today I just felt like going for a walk

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-Or I should say, for the usual patrol

-I hope everything's the same as usual
-What??

-The neighbors across the street were crying
-That "pet" of yours ate all of their pigs

-I heard about it
-So I developed a new Chimera pig!

-It's a blend of a cockroach, you see! With a longer lifespan and more fertility, there's nothing to complain about
-I'll bring one over on my next visit and let them try to raise it

-Mee-chan really hates them a lot...
-I'm sure he won't be able to stand eating a Chimera from a cockroach!!
small - kuku (hehe)

-Aah...!!

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-This is a problem!

-Didn't we agree that when an outsider happens to visit,
-You should report it to me without exception?

-And you are?
-Uh...

-Looking to move into our village here?

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-...?
-Not really...

-Ah! Is that right!
-No?
-That's all I wanted to hear

-In that case I leave the rest to you
-I'll be taking my leave now

-He's all yours,
-Madam

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-Ah!

-Hello, there!
-Thanks for looking after him

-MAMA!!

ママのバカ！いくらパパが死んじゃっていないからってあんまりよ！！
-Stupid mom! Just because papa's not alive anymore, you've already found another man? (t/n - just my guess)
-I can't believe you!
-Iyo!!
-I'm not letting you watch soap operas any more!!
-Hah...
-Let's get out of here while we still can...

-Oh! Hey, Clay!
-I got a favor
-You're asking me? What is it?

-Let's go break some rocks!
-Huh?

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-Hmmmmm
-Iyo said the villagers are hiding something here

-Hiding what?
-The fun part is trying to guess!

-Muddy, I would really like to grant your wish,
-But I have absolutely no clue what you're trying to tell me
-Eh? Like I said, there's something...

-the villagers...
-uh huh

-...are hiding
-uh huh

-OKAY!!
-okay, okay, i get it!!

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-Whatever it is, you want to get to the other side, right?
-Right!!

-Then, if you just grew a little more, you could probably get to the other side without breaking (壊さんでも）？
-Want to give it a shot?

-The possibility did not even occur to me!
-Where did you learn to say that??

-When I came with Iyo,
-I thought I could break the rocks...but it didn't work

-Well, of course
-With your current size, that would be impossible

-I'm diggin' in!

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-Muddy
-Hm?
-You said breaking the rocks didn't work...exactly what happened?

-My arm broke off
-...and what did Iyo-chan say when she saw that?

-"I'm tired"
-"I'm leaving"
-...is that right...

-Puuu

-Nggh....

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-I did it!!

-Yosh!!

-Hey!!

-HEY!! WAIT JUST A SECOND!!
-I need to go with...

-Ah!!

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-Ha...!

-You expect me...
-to climb this myself?!

-...Hello

-EH?

-I'm sorry about before
-Eh!? A-ah, no problem
-I'm sorry about the misunderstanding from earlier...

-Uh,
-What is it?

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-What is this place?

-weird
-It's empty

-Hey, Clay
-Cl--

-Huh?

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-CLAY?

-Where did you go?

-GUH....
-owowow

-Eh?
-I'm tied up?
-You've finally come to, I see

-The man who invented the Chimera human,
-Doctor Clay

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-Um...is it really okay to keep on doing this?

-Hiding "that" behind the rocks...
-Delivering all the strangers to him...

-Then do you want to swap places and become food for "it"??

偽善ぶってんじゃないよ
-Since you don't even have the guts, quit talking like a hypocrite!
我が身かわいさに他人を犠牲にしておいてさ？・・・所詮！あたしらも
-Leaving strangers to take the place of our own lives...Of course!! We're all hypocrites!

-That makes us all his accomplices!!

-You!!

-My name is Julie, professor (t/n - is that a male spelling?)
-I'm just your average Chimera researcher (端くれ）
主に村へ家畜キメラの開発・提供をするかたわら・・・
-Basically, I develop Chimera livestock, and provide them for the village. In addition to that...
-I also assume the responsibility for "managing" this village

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-So,
-What do want with me?
-You want something i know?

-Because I didn't know your face, I didn't realize it back in that woman's house

-Until I took a peek at this book here...

-It seems to be a log about you and your Chimera

-"The inventor of the Chimera human who let the sample escape"
-The scientific community is in a frenzy to find you
-They even contacted me, saying that if I ever found you to return you to them...

-But I'm not interested in that

-By "managing" I mean
-In exchange for furnishing the village with Chimeras, the villagers furnish "a special something" for me
-That comprises the cycle of the system I've created
-And as for that "something"...

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-AHAHAHAHA!! Surprised?!
-Allow me to introduce you, my adorable, most powerful Chimera!
-Mee-chan the mouse!
-Welcome home!

-M-m-
-Mouse?!

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-Come, come professor! Stand! And behold!!
-This is the part that makes Mee-chan so "excellent"!!

-Huuuh....

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-Oh no...
-I'm lost...

-A kid?!

-Ah!

-Where are you from?! Who told you about the hidden path!?
-Hello!!

-No one would have told some stranger about it
-This kid is that guy's son

-Wha...

-Ooh ooh!
-Do you know Clay??

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-Just wait a sec, I'll draw you a picture!

-H-hey!! Put that down--it's dangerous!

-Now, now, it's all right
-Just leave it these guys here to find Clay

-So come back to the village with aunty!
-eh? but...
-I'm telling you it'll be fine! It's dangerous to be out here

-Then I can't!
-Why??
-Because Clay's really smart but he's not very strong
-And, he told me that because of his age he gets tired really easily!

-That's why I...

-What's wrong?

-A Chimera
-Is like a fusion
-By feeding on other prey, Mee-chan is able to fuse with it
-It can absorb its prey's power!

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-The more it eat...
-the bigger...
-And the stronger-!!

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-...it gets!!

-I suppose you know
-What's about to happen now...!

-It was an honor to meet you professor, fufufu...The inventor of the chimera human!
-All of that deep knowledge you have...

頭から丸齧りにしてあげますよ！！
-Is about to be gnawed right out of your skull!

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-Mu--
-MUDDY!!

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-He...
-Regrew it?!?

-Mee-chan...!?
-What's wro--

-...huh?
-MUD?!

-Instead of biting the professor,
-You took off that kid's arm and leg...
-Just now...
-You ate it...?

-I SEE...

-YOU'RE the human Chimera!!

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-What is this...what happened?
-MUDDY, that's enough!! It'll take you way too long to get this off!
-I can handle it myself!
-Quick, you've got to increase your size...
-Do something about that thing!!

-OKAYY!!
-You can do it, Clay!!

-Yosh!!

-Y-you don't need to follow me!!
-I can't eat...you're in the way!!

-"eat"...??

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-When Mee-chan ate the Chimera human's body...

-It wasn't able to absorb it into its body...
-Why was there so much mud?

-Shortly thereafter, the Chimera human re-grew its arm when it shouldn't have been able to
-...and its body shrunk in the process...

-Now it's trying to eat...

-Is it trying to absorb?
-Like Mee-chan?

-Then...! It eats mud and turns it into flesh, which allows it to control its size....If part of its body comes off, it returns to mud...
-It's a Chimera made from mud and flesh!

-Saved!

-I'm saved!
-T-thank you so much!
-Forgive me...

-Please forgive me!!
-I-I let that child...
-Because I led that child here...he...

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あの子は見つかってなかったのに！
-If only I hadn't found him...! If only I had brought him back to the village...
-Now the two of you are going to be...
-It's all right

-Was it "Julie"? That guy's assumption
-is completely wrong
-With nothing but a hulking frame, that Chimera

-Can't defeat my Muddy

-Ah!

-CLAY!!

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-Thanks for keeping it busy

-Now it's my turn

-Huuuh? What, what, what???

-Don't tell me, the professor plans to take on Mee-chan?!
-Impossible!
-Tehehehehe Reeetard...!

-Ha...
・・・同一固体内に3種以上の生命の情報を有するキメラ体は極めて珍しい
-It's extremely rare to see a single Chimera comprised of the information from over three different life forms

-It's because the chances of success are slim to none
下手に合成して細胞に異変が起これば・・・ただくっつくだけでは済まなくなる
-If it's carelessly fused, then when even the slightest abnormality occurs, its cells won't even be able to adhere

-What are you trying to say?!

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-Look, it's starting

しばらくマディに引っ掻き回されたせいで興奮状態が長いだろう
何度も融合をくりかえした不安定な体で細胞が活性すると
-Because of running around with Muddy, it's been over-stimulated for too long
-Its cells are working hard trying to repeatedly adhere, leading to instability throughout its body
-First, its eyesight will rapidly deteriorate

-It will lose everything but its ability to move

わたしは優秀な方じゃなかったんでね
失敗作は人の倍は見て来ている
-I was never a great scientist
-I've seen far more failures than anyone (t/n - my guess)

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-S-S-SHUT UP!!
-MEE-CHAN!! what are you doing!? Hurry up and kill this piece of trash!!

-EEEK!!

-Kill... ...
-Ah!!

-This is an example
-of a success!!

46 no txt

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-I WIN!!
-my, my...

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-The next day
-IYO!

-Uncle Takada!
-Hey! Please choose Kaya too!
-Why mom?
-Everyone agrees that the person best qualified to be the next village head is Kaya
-After all, Kaya was the most calm when Julie was around

-Is that creepy guy already gone?

-Huh? Yeah...
-Hmph...
-Well, I kinda knew he wouldn't be hanging around for long

-That creep didn't have what it takes to fill in papa's shoes!

-Here comes one...

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middle: Do just as I taught you
left: If we can just hitch a ride we can reach the next town before tomorrow
right: Roger!

-Can I get a lift?

-Huh?

-That's not the way to signal the driver!!
-Where did you learn that from?!

-Eh? Iyo showed it to me...
-How are we going to cover their repair bill...?!

left: He's got a lot of growing up to do!

...END. In the next issue, Future Golden Cup winner Oikawa Yutaka-sensei's "Sugar Lolly"!!