Hitomi no Catoblepas 8

Hooray for late raws (/not)

To quote mario, "Heeere we a-go!"
I'm skipping names and simple lines with only a few words in writing out the script.

01
left is just the comic's name

in the panel:
white on left - The Ceremony of Succession begins!
#8 - 蠢動 - A disturbance in the Force
/ha - (credit to Elkin)

我は倉持家第２１代当主
-I am the 21st family head of the Kuramochi house
-Kuramochi Michiru

02
娑伽羅王よ
今日この時よりそなたと妖飼の契約を結ばん
-Oh great "Shakaraou"
-Today, at this very moment, I wish to bind a contract with you
(the term is youkai no keiyaku, but just like prev. ch's it's actually that demon-rearing contract)

03
我が肉体に宿り
その力を貸し給え
-Come lodge within my flesh,
-And in return, grant me with your power

04
竜や！
すごい・・・大きい・・・これが倉持家の妖魔！
-A dragon!
-Wow, it's huge!! This is th' Kuramochi's youma?

始まった・・・たまき様から２１代めみちるさんへ
守護家当主の妖魔をうけわたす
継承式
-It has begun...Master Tamaki is passing on to Michiru
-The guardian family's Youma, making her the 21st family head
-This is "The Ceremony of Succession"

これより志村家当主の
継承式をとり行う
-At this very moment, we shall begin
-The Ceremony of Succession for the Shimura family's head

-GYAAAAH!
-Stop it, Tokihito!

-Brother...

志村家２１代目当主は兄さんのはずでした
-The 21st family head was supposed to be you...
-What are you doing, Tokihito!?!

05
-Tokihitooo!!
僕はあなたを許せない
-I cannot forgive you

魔道に堕ちてしまった以上
あなたは僕の瞳で葬る
Since you have fallen away to [b]Mictlan[/b],
(T/N - This is crazy. No longer are we talking Buddhism, now the author's mixing aztec myth. Mictlan is the lowest level of the underworld. Madou, the kanji presented, is also a bad term in Buddhism, representing heretics (lit means the way of evil). The term I put as "fall away" is also "degenerate into." ...Since we're on the topic, didn't I say his bro was uchiha itachi? Ha! I called this one)
-I will stop you with this eye!
(t/n - Actually, although "tomaru" = stop is written as the furigana, the kanji means to bury or entomb. He is really saying he'll kill his brother. ...which means he's sauske! Add the eye powers and you have a blatant naruto ripoff. ROFLAMO)

06
no txt here, the bubble is purposefully illegible.

-Ung!! (or you could put "kya!".../not)

07
-Uwbu! (what's a good sound for getting covered in water?)

おーおぼれる
どうなってんの！？この水は？
落ち着いてください
これは本物の水じゃありませんよ
-I'm drownin'!!
-What's goin' on!? Where'd this water come from?!
-Ugugu (muffled underwater cough?)
-Please calm down ms. miiko
-This isn't actual water

水を司る娑伽羅王の力が見せている幻覚・・・
ホラ息も出来ます
-This is just an illusion to display the power of Shakaraou, who controls water
-Look, you can even breathe just fine

-Ah!? No kiddin'!
sfx - shuuuu

腕のアザが消えてく
呪いが解けた！
-The mark on my arm's goin' away!
-The curse has been removed!!

08
いいだろう・・・倉持家の若き当主みちろよ
我’が大いなる水と治癒の力
そなたに授けようぞ
-Very well...Michiru, the new Kuramochi family head,
-My abundant water and healing power
-I shall grant to thee

09
すごかったわ～継承式って
-Wow, that ceremony was amazin'!

いきなり洪水みたいになんねやもん！
娑伽羅王のあり余る力があの式場にいたみんなを治癒したみたいでせ
ミーコさんの呪いが解けてよかった
-But what was up with that flood, comin' outta nowhere!
-It seems that Shakaraou's abundant power healed everyone present in the room.
-I'm glad your curse was lifted as well, Ms. Miiko

わしは腰痛が治りましたわい
オレも風邪気味だったのなおっちゃいましたよ
娑伽羅王はやっぱスゲーっス！
よかったなオメーら
-My hip pain is gone!
-I had a slight cold, but it's all gone too!
-This Shakarou is somethin' else!
-Glad to hear it.

しかしたまきのババ死にかけの病人のわりに元気そうだったよな
みんなをこんな所に集めてよ・・・話があるっつってたが
-But still, for someone who's supposed to be deathly ill, that hag tamaki looked fine to me
-And since she called everyone here it must mean she's got something to tell us...

-Ow--!!?

10
だれが死にかけのババっだって！？
-Who ya callin' a hag, huh!?
-Mr. Kazuto, are you all right?
おばあちゃんたら乱暴なんだから
-Please forgive my grandmother's rudeness

んだよババ！後ろからどつきやがって病人はペッドで寝てやがれ！
なーにが病人じゃ？わしゃこの通りピンピンしとるわ！ボケ！
-What the heck, you old hag!! Hitting me from behind...sick people are supposed to be resting in bed!
-Who's sick!? I'm perfectly fine just as you can see! Idiot!

ギックリ腰で数日寝ていたとは伝えてあったが・・・・
おおかたおぬしの部下が勘違いしおったんじゃろ！
-I thought I had said I was resting a few days because I strained my back...
-I guess your subordinate got it wrong!
-Nanao, why you...!!
-Oh really? Well, sorry 'bout that.

11 (I'm skipping the script for this page, it's really simple stuff)
-I'm glad you were able to make it Tokio
-It's been about a year, right?
-Congratulations, Ms. Michiru
-Congratulations!

-So you're Ms. Kishida Miiko? I heard about you
-I'm so glad my power lifted your curse
-Thank you so much!

-Tokio, you came because you were worried about me, didn't you
-Thanks

-It's nothing...
-I'm glad the ceremony went without a hitch

-By the way, I didn't see Iwao-dono anywhere...

-Father...
-Father didn't come

12
それにしても美人やなあみちるさん
守護家当主であり貿易会社清竜会社長令嬢！
スゴイわぁ、セレヴわ・・・
-Wow, Michiru's so pretty...
-And on top of that she's not only the family head but also the Seiryuu trading company head's daughter...
-She's like a celebrity!

私みちるさんみたいな女の人があこがれです！
おしとやかで大人の女性ってカンジで
巨乳ですし
-I really look up to you, Ms. Michiru!
-You've got such grace, it's like you're already an adult!
-And you've got huge boobs! (why do they always have to say this)

-huh?

13
-O-oh, i don't deserve such complements, Ms. Miiko
-WOOOAAAH!

-wha!?

おお、すまぬみなのもの
みちるはまだ力の制御がうまくできとらんでな
-Oh, my apologies everyone.
-Michiru is still unable to control her powers yet.
-Oioioi...
動揺したり興奮したりするとあたりの水が暴れだすようじゃわい！
-If she gets agitated, or even excited, surrounding water will gush out!

-N-no, I...

14
-I'm so sorry!!
-She's dangerous!!
-...Dangerous!!

-ahem
-anyway,

今日はまことに良き日じゃ！
-Today was truly a great day!

-I want you to listen up, Michiru
-Tokio
-And you too, Kazuto

15
これからはより一層気を引きしめよ
-Pay even closer attention from now on

みちるはもとよりおぬしらはみな若い・・・当主になって数年のぺーぺーじゃ！*
わしから見ればまだまだ未熟者よ
敵はこのスキをついてくるぞ
-It's not just Michiru, you're all young...you're just infants with a couple of years' experience as family heads!
[*I finally discovered this word. It indeed means someone inexperienced. However i'm really curious as to its origin, so if anyone knows please share!!]
-In my eyes you're all immature
-Your enemies will use this to their advantage

なんてバーさんだもうヨーマの力は失ったってのに・・・動きが見えなかったぞ！
頼りのホンアミも今はＫ都を空けとるしな・・・
-I can't believe this old hag...even after losing the Youma's power I couldn't even see her get behind us!
-You can't even rely on Honami now either, since he's out of town
(t/n - in case you were wondering like me, honami is the 4th family whose identity is yet to be revealed)

16
実はわしの占星術によるとＫ都に４つの凶星が迫っておるのじゃ
おそらくこれはあの四凶のことじゃろう！
-To be frank, in my latest reading I saw 4 bad stars drawing near
-More than likely it's the "Shikyou"!

四凶だすと！？
かって中国大陸で暴虐のかぎりを尽くした邪悪なる四妖魔
そんな奴らまでも復活してきたと申されるか！
わしの占いが１００％当たるのは知っておろうハクタク殿！
-The Shikyou, you say?!
-You mean the four wicked Youma that committed terrible atrocities in ancient China?
-You're saying that even they've been revived?!
-You know my predictions are always true, Hakutaku

四凶は波旬めの刺客と見ていい
狙いは我ら守護家抹殺
戦いは避けられぬ！
-You'd best think of the Shikyou as the Hajun's assassins
-They only thing they could be after is the destruction of the guardian families
-There's no way to avoid this battle!

みんのもの心して戦いに備えよ！
-You'd all better prepare yourselves well for the battle ahead!

17
フン・・・なにが来ようがオレの敵じゃねえさ
-Hmph. I don't care who's coming, there's no enemy that can stand in my way!

-Shimura...
-Relax, Ms. Miiko. There's no need to worry.

これは僕がやらなきゃならにんだ
兄さん
-This is something I must do...
-Brother,

たとえ刺し違えることになったとしても
あなたは僕が葬る
-Even if it comes down to having to use force, (t/n - i really wanted to use "even if we have to cross swords" because the phrase means to stab at one another. But he doesn't have a sword. oh wait, what about ch 4...? hmm, up to scanlators)
-I will stop you (again, tomeru = stop is written but kanji is houmuru or bury)

18
-It seems you've mobilized the Shikyou,
-Kaimei (t/n - remember back last ch, ithe enemy's servant is named "enlightenment". This is a pun no doubt b/c in buddhist lore the evil never attain it)

-Yes...
倉持たまきが本日孫娘みちるに当主の座を受けわたしました・・・
-Today Kuramochi Tamaki has handed down the position of family head onto her granddaughter

19
強力な妖魔をあやつる守護家当主といえどいまや若造の集まり
守護四神を潰す絶好の機が巡ってまいったと
-It seems the family heads that control those powerful youma at present are all nothing but a bunch of inexperienced brats
-It would appear that the best opportunity to destroy the Four Guardian Dieties has arrived...

奴らさえ消せば
我らをこの異界へ封じ込めている結界は消え去る
御意・・・
-If we can just wipe them out,
-Then this annoying barrier that's keeping us trapped in the netherworld will vanish...
-Your command, sire?

Ｋ都を・・・いや世界を
再び我ら妖魔の手に取り戻す日は近い
-The day that K city...no, the world
-Will once again come under the Youma's control is close at hand!

すべての指揮はこの開明めにお任せてくださいませ
波旬様！
-Please, entrust all of your plans to me,
-Master Hajun!

20 - blank

21
深遠なる闇の底・・・男は座る「天魔波旬」その瞳、その容貌・・・間違いなく「あの男」！！
Within the very depths of darkness...A man called the "Tenma Hajun" lies upon his throne...Those eyes, that face...without a doubt, it's ..."that man"!!

t/n - they're beating around the bush, but i say just go ahead and say "those eyes, that face...without a doubt, it's tokio's brother UCHIHA ITACHI!! /ha
no seriously, that man sounds so lame. make it "him", or just say "without a doubt, that man is ...tokio's older brother"

-END-

Thanks for the encouragement and sorry for the delay.

Extra note: Last week we learned about Shakarou but I wasn't able to get any dirt on him.
Well, it's not much but I found a page dealing with some mythology. I think it's a guide to shrines, but it's
really hard for me to read: [[b][u]link[/u][/b]]. It doesn't have much info but does state that Shakaraou lived in the sea and held power over rain. His palace? was decorated with the seven treasures (the 7 precious stones) and was decorated to resemble heaven. ...or at least that's what I got. It's really hard to read because it contains so many names and i know absolutely zero nanori readings...