Claymore 79

wow. big wait for this one eh? And, didn't see it yesterday cuz I was busy with Iron man...great movie, btw, i highly recommend it.

Due to the severe scrutiny of last chapter, I will have to pour over this one more carefully, so it may take me a lot longer. If you do spot mistakes or have questions please pm me or post in this thread (I prefer both, actually). Thanks. I really don't fancy reading the gazillion posts on animesuki.

EDIT: DONE. Enjoy this shocking chapter--Claymore's about to take a complete 180...

New Edits in blue, thanks d4v1d_su for the suggestions.

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red in the corner: Presenting a special tankobon cover with this chapter! / And a center color celebrating CLAYMORE's popularity!

white: For their own sakes, for the sake of their allies,
They wield their swords to cut through their destiny

white left corner: Yagi Norihiro
red under that: The story up until now is one page over! / This shocking chapter starts on page 127!

comic box:
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(ops, almost forgot the title! thanks d4v1d_su)
SCENE 79 - Eastern Revelation

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-CLAYMORE [summary and correlation chart]
purple: The soldiers from the North finally reveal themselves! Introducing this complicated, intricate story in simple terms!!

black bar: Story up until now
-Seven years after the Northern War, Clare and her allies finally head south. Meanwhile, Miata and Claris have been given the mission to find and slay Galatea, who is hiding within the holy city of Labona. Galatea's plan is to slay the former number 2, "blood red" Agatha, who has now become an Awakened, by acting as bait for the Organization to send a team after her. However, Galatea's plan fails in the face of Miata's top priority on her mission. Even so, all three find themselves in danger against Agatha's overwhelming power!
-Clare and her allies come to the rescue! The very enemy that Galatea stuggled against is taken down in mere seconds!
big letters: Destiny is intertwined...

(eep! this is big...so, let's take it clockwise starting top left box)

-Isley and Priscilla / Drove Luciela out of the southern lands. In addition to him, the strongest Awakened, Priscilla, is by his side...simply put, they command so much power no one dare lay a finger on them

arrows: top/Ignored bottom/Sworn enemy

box: The Northern Soldiers / Warriors who survived the Northern War. For seven years they've hidden their whereabouts, and have trained to defeat upper ranking Awakened soldiers. In order to avenge their fallen comrades, they now head south!

Stupid white words: MIDDLE ROW straight across, LEFT TO RIGHT:
-In hiding
-Watching out for
-Lured out
-Enemy of
-Watching out for
-Authorized to kill
-Estranged from
-Destroyed
-Acquaintance of
-Reinforcements

back to box LEFTmost bottom:
-Riful of the West / One of the top three Awakened. In order to counter Priscilla's incredible power, she attempts gathering allies well-versed in reading Youki

white top: Watching out for
white bottom: Enemy of

-The Organization / Perfected the most powerful soldiers - Alicia and Beth. They've finally obtained the power to destroy the Abyssal Ones, but...?
pink: Miata and Claris / The soldiers assigned to slay Galatea. Even Claris is fearful of her partner's true strength.

white top: Ordered to kill
white bottom: Estranged from

Galatea / A soldier very skilled in reading Youki. Having taken her own sight, her abilities have been refined even further

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left: Agatha, the Awakened that hid dormant in Labona, is slain instantly! The seven soldiers of the North have acquired overwhelming power!

-They slew it!?
-W-what happened?!
-It was so fast, I couldn't see!

-Just who are they!?
-They're wielding Claymores, but their uniforms are different!
-Don't tell me they're a new enemy!?

-No need to worry
-They're not. I guarantee it.

-Oh?

-Take a look
-The rain has stopped

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-There were seven...
-Yes, seven Claymores who went missing in action...

-Could these be the seven lost
-from the Northern War??

-You've taken serious injuries, but none which are life-threatening
-Your arm was cut off not too long ago, so you can still recover it

-Hou...you're able to attune yourself to other's Youki and assist with healing and regeneration?
-Sorry to break it to you, but I'm a defense-type...I can do it myself

-You'll recover much faster with some assistance
-Allow me to help

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-How are her eyes?
-Can they be recovered?

-This wound was inflicted a very long time ago
-At best, my power only enhances someone's already existing power to regenerate
-So in all likelihood...

-Healing and regeneration depend a lot on one's capacity*
-But even for me, it's been far too long to regenerate them now

*(t/n - okay. this was the most difficult line of the chapter, mainly because i think there's more meaning than what's said. original line: 修復と再生は自らの記憶によるところが大きいからな... First, is kioku really memory? It seems to have more of a connotation of capacity/ability here to me, although I will admit I haven't read the old Claymore chapters in some time. Does anyone know if memory affecting regeneration was spoken about anywhere else? Plus, it doesn't make sense to me that she would have "forgotten" her eyes or what it was like to see...With my assumption here that she's talking about "capacity", the rest seems to follow that "healing and regeneration have a lot to do with one's capacity", in fact stretching this further, likely that capacity is their Youki. So, i've adjusted these lines to reflect that she's talking about her power (which was very great since she was so highly ranked), and that for even her abilities now it's impossible to recover from that wound. make sense? please, correct me if i'm wrong)

-It was a wound I inflicted upon myself so that I could reside in this town in the first place
-If I had wanted to undo it, I would've healed myself a long time ago

-It seems...
-You have no regrets

-About what?
-It just goes to show that I found something far more precious than light

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-Ugu...
-Ngh...

-Ah?
-What're ya doin'?
-Think you can take us on, brunette?

-No
-She's after me. It's her mission

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-Sniff...
-Ugh...

-Please accept my apologies for using you
-Now that my business here is finished,
-My life is all yours

-Kuh...
-Sniff...
-What--
-what's wrong with you?

-How can you be like this?!
-You...you're supposed to be more evil!
-Telling me something like that, how could I bring myself to strike you down?!

-Even though I know our orders are absolute,
-Even though you're right in front of me...
-How am I supposed to act in a situation like this...?

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-Then,
-Don't go back to the Organization

-Eh?

-If you were to return the the Organization like this,
-It would no doubt be seen as treason...they would most likely eliminate you on the spot

-After all, they aren't the type to accept your excuses, like "We never found her, maybe she escaped"
-This leaves you with only one available option: Never go back

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-B-but!!
-If I do that...
-W-we're...!!

-Correct
-You'd become deserters
-And they'd send others to kill you

-But, if you remain in this city, even they couldn't dare to waltz right in
-Though it may resemble an ordinary city, this is holy ground
-As such, this city is well known for having strict prohibitions on people like us

-At best, that's just buying some time
-If they feel like it, the Organization wouldn't hesitate to erase us even if the city goes along with it

-Indeed...
-But even buying some time is more than enough

-What?

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-Our aim
-Is to destroy the Organization

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-No way!?

-Are you serious!?
-That has got to be the most foolish and absurd thing I've ever heard

-Just to avenge your fallen comrades from the Northern War?
-You plan on crossing swords with the new generation of soldiers?

-We have no business with them
-Our goal is the Organization alone
-And not its soldiers

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-It's the same thing!
-You wage war on Organization and it will send them after you!
-And then that will start a pointless war between all the former and current soldiers!

-Former number 6...
-I can't imagine that you, Phantom Miria, haven't realized this fact...

-And what of the Youma?
-The fact that people detest our existence as half-Youma aside, we are the only one who hunt Youma
-Without the organization, the world will return to the way it was when Youma would feed on people without encountering any resistance

-While it may be true what the Organization is doing unforgivable things to soldiers like us,
-The people of this world need it to survive!

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-Ah, yeah, that's kinda true
-Without it, won't the common folk be in trouble?
-I never realized that
-Did you, Denev?

-True...
-Miria's sworn revenge involves a glaring contradiction

-If you ignore the common people then there's no reason to go against Miria's plan. But she's not that kind of person
-I didn't want to cause doubts among the others, so I never asked why...but I do wonder, what is her true intent?

-Hmph...

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-Very well
-Now's a good chance for me to share with you everything I've learned

-Everything...
-about what?

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-I swore my revenge in anger against the Organization when I lost my dear friend
-But I found myself shortly plagued by the same dilemma Galatea just brought up

-I decided to carry out every mission given to me while secretly doing my own investigation
-Since, after all, I had no particular reason to deny working for them at the time

-From sneaking deep inside headquarters...
-...to traveling to the edge of the continent, I gathered all the information I could

-My suspicions arose in the land farthest away from the Organization, off to the southwest
-It was a forgotten village deep within the mountains where I heard those peoples' words...

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-On catching sight of me, the villagers were struck with fear. They knew nothing of the existence of Youma!
-When I told them about how Youma had been running rampant for centuries, they said it was the first they'd heard of it

-No...

-That led me to come up with a hypothesis...

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-That the Youma...
-Were a product of our very Organization itself

20 (speechless!)

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-Hey, what is she saying?
-It's too far, I can't hear

-Something happened...they look really tense
-I don't think we should step any closer, guys...

-Eh? The Youma are...??
-Huh??

-Ridiculous!
-Do you know
-what you're saying?

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-I'm sure plenty of other people must have had this thought cross their minds at least once
-I mean, we've always had our doubts about the existence of Youma to begin with

-But this theory cleanly wraps up all the loose ends
-An existence centuries old...feeding upon humans...a predator higher than humans...

-Who was it exactly that spoke these words?
-The answer is our Organization--the very Youma themselves

-At first, people probably had doubts, but time passed...
-The generation which never heard of Youma passed away with it, ushering in a new generation where those words became the truth

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-I don't buy this...just some guess based on the words you heard in a village isolated from the rest of society?
-You don't have any proof, do you?

-Oh but I do!
-Something unseen, that's far closer than you think
-In fact, each one of us here has it

-Has what?

-Could it be?
-No, it can't be...

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-Our Claymores...
-Haven't you ever thought they were far to heavy for just cutting down Youma?

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-From all of my fights up until now, not once have I ever broken this sword
-Nor have I ever seen the edge chip or scratch

-It's as if these swords
-Were made for the express purpose of fighting the Awakened, or something more powerful than them...
(t/n - here she says それ以外の者を相手にするために造られたもののようでな・・, I now understand that igai refers to her suggesting that there's something else they haven't seen, so my slant on this line is that it's something even worse than awakeneds, thats why i wrote more powerful)

-something more...?

-than the...
-Awakened??

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-I've traveled the entire continent and I've never to date found any mineral like the one this sword is made of
-Even when I infiltrated headquarters, I couldn't find any place where they were manufacturing these

-My conclusion is this:
-Our Claymores were never created on this continent

-W-w-woah! Hold your horses! If that's true, then...
-Not from this continent...?
-You mean it doesn't even exist in our known world??

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-Exactly. This was yet again part of the Organization's plan...
-See, they've made us believe that this continent is the only one out there

-Until now many boats have tried to discover new land, but none of these expeditions succeeded
-Thus, people have continued to believe that this continent is the only one in existence

-But that too is a lie...
-There is an even larger continent than this one!

-Wha...!

-But that land
-Is anything but a peaceful place...

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-It is a land of many people and many kingdoms, as well as never-ending conflicts and bloodshed...
-Around a century ago, two major powers arose and continued the fight for supremacy

-However, one power persuaded a race of creatures, thought to be the descendants of dragons, on their side--creatures with extremely hard outer shells--
-They instantly turned the tide of battle

-Faced with this, the other side sought a way to counter this threat
-They frantically worked to develop another tool for war

-Before long, their experiments bore fruit
-And it marked the birth of a new weapon

-Yes, that was...

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-A diabolic weapon capable of turning humans into monsters

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-However, this new weapon always carried the tremendous risk of destroying their own forces...
-So they decided to force their research on an island separated from the mainland

-No...!

-You're kidding!
-That sounds like...!

-I'm afraid so

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-This continent
-Is nothing but a testing ground for creating the Awakened

bold: The startling truth, revealed!!

CLAYMORE--TO BE CONTINUED IN THE JULY ISSUE (6/4 ON SALE)