Hitomi no Catoblepas 7

Finally! I thought the raws were never coming out.
Page #s off raw and space = panel break.

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left: The 21st Guardian Family Heads, together - Shimura Tokio & Hosomi Kazuto! The spirit of those who bear their duty is silent, but beaming!

#7 - To the Kuramochi Home
right is author - Tanaka Yasuki

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right: Miiko is poisoned by the Youma Itsumade's Shichi-Hoda Curse (lit. seven step snake). The countdown to death is only seven steps...!?

-Just seven steps...
-And I'll die?!

-"Shichi-Hoda"...
-Those exposed to its saliva receive a curse of death!
-It does not kill by the passage of time...
-Rather, if the victim moves exactly seven steps from that spot, they'll...

-DIE...

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-I did not realize it since the Itsumade's tail always takes the shape of a snake...
-(picture?? this is a first)
-Because of that special technique, this particular Itsumade must have be fused with a Shichihoda!
-I believe that was a Chimera/Synthetic Youma/Chimerama!!*
(NOTE: it really says "Kimera-ma"! Chimera + Ma which is from youma. the kanji is lit. "synthetic youma"...i like that better. How would you spell this in english? Chimeraama? Let me know what you think. For now I'm just using plain 'ol Chimera).

-A Chimera, you say?! (original +ma)

-Chimeras (+ma) do not come into existence naturally. They are artificially-made Youma
-Someone has produced them
-This one must have also been an assassin!

-Hakutaku!
-Please take Ms. Miiko to the Kuramochi Home!

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-But Master Tokio, today is the ceremony of succession!
-Outsiders are prohibited from entering the home!
-But...!
-Quit bein' so stubborn, Hakutaku!

-It's my fault she ended up like this!
-Bring her with us!
-I'll handle the talking!

-Mr. Kazuto!
-What's goin' on?

-The Kuramochi Family's Youma, "Shakaraou"（娑伽羅王） has the power to heal wounds and illnesses.
-It can probably do something about your curse as well, Ms. Miiko.
-For real?!

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-Ah...that's one step
-Damnit!! But, how am I supposed'ta get there?! I can't move from here!
-Pretty energetic for someone who's cursed...

-Hey Tokio, you can do somethin' about this with your eye, right?
-Stop her time so we can stuff her in a bag to take her along!
-I ain't luggage!!

-I'm sorry but living creatures, or things that have life, can't be stopped.
-A human's "time" won't stop.

-Damn, and this would be the best time to use it, too...
-S-so what should I do?!

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-Don't worry. All that matters is that you don't walk seven steps.
-Let's take a car.
-What?!

-Yeah but you don't have a license, and I came on by bike, so...
-Where are ya gonna get a car---

-Hey everyone, please hop in!
(T/N - so tempted to abuse this panel... "check out my wheels" ..."let's go for a ride, little girl"..."bling bling, baby"...so many possibilities...)

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-We have a car at the temple
-Because Hakutaku does all the driving.
-ARE YOU KIDDIN'?!
bottom: Check out my gold license!!**
-Well then, let's go--!!
**(T/N - time for japanese license lesson. they have color codes, green is 1st time driver, you get blue after about 2 years+, and gold comes after that, provided there's no violations. Many people who have gold licenses never really drive - they call that a "paper driver" in japanese. [no joke, that's a katakana word]).

-You have a license, Mr. Hakutaku?!

-We're off to the Kuramochi Home!

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-Why do we always gotta wear suits?!
-T-this is the Kuramochi Home?!

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-I was so sure it was gonna be a temple!
-The Kuramochi Family is in control of a trading corporation
-It's an enterprise with over 100 subsidiaries!

-They're like, super rich!!

-The Kuramochi Family's
-Seiryuu Group HQ Building

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-We have been expecting you, master shimura and master hosomi
-The ceremony is being held in the hall on the 40th floor
-Please, this way

-Hey...what's this "ceremony of succession" thing?
-The current Kuramochi family head, Master Tamaki, has fallen ill from a grave sickness
-It was decided that the seat would be passed on to Master Michiru, the granddaughter

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-The ceremony in which a Guardian Family's secret Youma
-Is passed down from the current family head to the next is called the "ceremony of succession"

-We were the ones invited to the ceremony
-It's not really a place for a commoner like you

-Still, to think Michiru's first job as family head
-Is gonna be removing some freak's curse...heh
-Gotta have some sympathy for the girl. Right, Tokio?
-Please don't include me in this conversation

-QUIT CALLIN' ME A FREAK!

-Ah

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-Hey, over here!
-Your late, young master. Did something happen?

box middle top - Hosomi Family "mitsura-suzaku" = (The three-group Suzaku? I don't see any need to make this english at the moment, though)
boxes left to right:
Ikarashi/nanao mitsuki/yoshii touji

(t/n - the guy on the right is Yasu and the guy in the middle is naoki. Wait, so that means...Kazuto is Takumi?!?!)

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-Nothing special. I just took care of a single youma.
-young master?!
-really?! That's our master!

-...oh!

-It's been a while, Mr. Tokio, right?
-You really came!
-Nice to see you, Nanao
-lower left - I thought you hated leaving home, so you were probably arguing about coming here...hahaha!
-lower right: oh...he's kinda cute

-Who's this cute girl?
-Well, it's a long story
-Nice to meet'cha!

-Who are these people?
-The Hosomi family's "mitsura-suzaku"
-They are the closest of Master Kazuto's close associates!

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-I was expecting you to be a no-show too.

-You hate looking people in the eye so much that you hole yourself up in that temple
-and yet you say "let's go!" to this ceremony where there's gonna be a huge crowd in every direction...
-Is that so?

-It it because you're thinking about Tokihito's...your brother's ceremony that day?
-You're worried about it.

-That day Tokihito killed everyone at Genbuji temple
-Your mom
-and dad included

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-What...what're they talkin' about?!
-His brother...!

-I'll never let
-That mistake happen again

-Yeah...

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-hmm...they finally made it

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-These are the remains of the itsumade
-It fell before Hosomi Kazuto

-...useless
-Forget Kaimei...we can't leave it up to such a lower rank any longer!

-To kill the four guardian dieties...is our, the Youma's...and master Hajuun's dearest wish*
(*neat pun? here. 悲願 - dearest wish, is a buddhist term for the desire to save all of mankind...used here but by the very demons of buddhist myth, clearly wishing the destruction of mankind)
-No matter how careful we've been, there's been no progress!!

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-hmph.
-Do you want to try?
-"Shikyou" (=four curses)...

-Please leave it to us,
-We'll return with good news without fail, master Hajuun.

left: The "Shikyou", "Kaimei", and now "Tenma-Hajuun"!! The darkness is far deeper than we can imagine...and it's now moving toward chaos!!

-end-

sorry i was very sleepy so this may be pretty loose trans this time.

I invite everyone to post some feedback about that chimera term.
What do you think it should be? I want to get a standard for the next chapters.