Psyren 68

The plot thickens!
Skip everything and read from page 13! You're not missing anything, seriously.

PROOFREADING EDITS MADE, THANKS.

looking at the timeline here, i'm guessing i must have made a mistake somewhere in way earlier translations. for example, maybe i said "half a year later" when i should have said "a year and a half later". if you guys are looking up old stuff and spot anything strange, let me know. this chapter should clarify everything.

my theory: amagi miroku may NOT be a bad guy. (maybe)

01
bold: Ageha and Amamiya make their way to the underground hideout!
bubble: It's amazing! They got everything down here

-Rather than serving as a mere shelter, this place was made to be inhabited
-I can't believe this is underneath that hospital...

-So this is the "Root"? ...they've been hiding out here for 8 1/2 years...

SUMMARY
While our protagonists Ageha and co. travel back and forth between the present and future, they fight for both for their lives and for a way to prevent the destruction of the world. Guided by the children, the survivors of Ageha's group are taken to their underground hideout, which they call "The Tenju's Root." There, they even find Elmore, who was thought to be deceased. Ageha's frantic actions succeeded in changing her fate after all...!!

02
white: Volume 6, hits store 6/4 (weds)!!
white: Look out for a PSYREN special in this-coming Akamaru '09 / Spring Issue! Don't miss it!
(t/n - if this is like before, it's a goofy 2 page joke special. i'm sure someone will scan them, but if it isn't related to the story, i'm not going to bother with it)

bold: Stretching out deep beneath earth's surface / is the giant stronghold which protects the remnants of mankind! (t/n - i embellished it, sue me)

box: "Tenju's Root" ...an underground colony established for times of crisis
by the cooperation of the Elmore foundation and the Japanese government

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-Not only does it contain residential blocks, an agricultural plant, ventilation systems, purified water, and electric generators, but also enough emergency supplies to sustain upwards of 1,000 evacuees for 5 years...

CALL.68 - "The Day of Rebirth (1)"
IWASHIRO TOSHIAKI

04
-Yoshina...are you back there?

-Uh...
-yeah?

-It looks like your actions back at the airport weren't for nothing after all

-When you stole her luggage, you accidentally lost her seizure medication in the process...
-She was also without Van that day

05
-The physical exertion of trying to chase after you likely put bad stress on her heart...
-and right before takeoff, she went into a seizure
-ANE flight 765 was forced to return to the Haneda airport...and thanks to that, they found mechanical problems which made them cancel the flight

-So in the end, the accident never happened. Elmore survived
-And paved the way for a future in which the children are also alive...

-You changed the future, Yoshina

06 ...weak

---but, I'm not happy at all about this future

-....Hiryuu and Oboro are alive.
-We'll find them

07
-Not only did my White Fu-Chi fail to pick up any trace of their PSI signatures,
-Even a full-area search turned up nothing

-It's possible they were around, but their PSI was so weak I failed to notice it
-Just detecting them is hard enough, but having to return there and spend time looking would prove even worse...

-There's no doubt the WISE's scouts would spot us, leading to an inevitable fight
-I hate to admit it, but just me and Yoshina wouldn't be enough to survive...

-There's no way we can ask them to go out there and help us search

-We'd obviously run into more 'Star Commanders'...and things won't necessarily end pretty

08
-Still, I think the kids would be happy to lend a hand
-But if we're responsible for giving away the location of this hideout, then...

-The 8 1/2 uncomfortable years they spent hiding out down here
-would've been all for nothing

-We can't do anything but endure it! And don't abandon hope...

-no matter what...!

-Yeah...

09
-(already in english :))
-MGH!!

-...YOU!?

-Howdy~ It's been a while, Yoshina Ageha!
-Aren't you going to greet Frederica-sama, the Magnificent?

-I hope you know that's MY precious outfit you're wearing! You'd better be grateful!
-Thanks...?

10
-Well you sure haven't changed, I see
-What's that? You have a complaint about the person who just saved your life?

-Fph! It's about time you stop treating me like a child. I'll have you know I'm already 19!
-That makes me more gr~own~up than you!
side: bleh!

-Uh-huh
-W-what!?!

-Even though there's parts of you that haven't "grown" a bit?
-wha---

-You're a scumbag!
-EH!?

-NOW YOU'VE DONE IT

11
-YOU'VE SAID THE WORST THING YOU COULD POSSIBLY SAY!

-Daaaaa!!

-You can DIE for all I care
-A-amamiya-san!?

12 x-men?

13 FINALLY
-Are the two of you feeling better?
-...well then, it's time I told you all that's happened from 2008 onwards

---at last!

-To begin with, it was July 2008...you two disappeared only a few days after the entire scuffle with Amagi Miroku at his mountain retreat
-Unable to locate you, I determined that you must have been sent to Psyren and never made it back

---Wait...that means we were all supposed to be killed during this round!?
-Oboro's question--"Why didn't any of us show up to the Declaration of War?"--
-must've been because we were already dead!!

14
-I'd had never seen the children so depressed before...

-Yeah, Marie was a total mess!
-Speak for yourself, Kyle!

-What happened with Amagi Miroku?
-About a year and a half later, during December 2009, he had his "Declaration of War", right? None of you went?

-Mm...If he could be stopped, the world would be saved...believing that, we worked hard to hunt him and the WISE down
-But we were unsuccessful. Days and months passed...In November 2009, their flyers started to show up all over
flyer: World Rebirth Project / The Day of Rebirth is at hand!!

-The Declaration of War...!! But I knew from my visions that had we challenged him, we would certainly lose...so we had no choice but to refrain from going

15
-It was already fall 2009 and we had failed to gain any insight as to Amagi Miroku's whereabouts...!
-And then...everything came to an end

-12/10/2009...starting with Shinjuku's Yoyogi Park
-Everything was destroyed. It wasn't even a city anymore.

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-Thereafter, Osaka, Sendai, Nagoya....all the major cities, one by one, were wiped out

-12/10, Shinjuku...neither the date nor the location match the ones we know. That means we must be changing the future slowly, bit by bit!?
-Why? For what purpose?!

-Thinking about it now...maybe it was his way of appealing to the doomed human race
-For an unprecedented calamity was about to befall mankind...a calamity that was no natural disaster...yes, it was a "human disaster." Something we brought upon ourselves...

17
-The giant, 150km-diameter asteroid "Uroboros"...observatories all said that it was going to pass by earth at a safe distance

-But January 5th...without any warning, it changed trajectory to a direct collision course with earth

18 psyren rocks! (?)

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-January 7th was the day th[sizeptptpt=200]at marked the end of human civilisation.
-the day...of "Rebirth"

white: Crashing down from the heavens, / was "Uroboros"--harbinger of the end!

CALL.68/END
NEXT TIME: At long last...the details of what happened on the day the world was destroyed come to light! Don't miss it!!

END

[sizeptptpt=200]DAMN YOU GOLDEN WEEK