Sachi: Mozuku, did you know? // They say there's a stray Dalmatian walking around the neighborhood. // I wonder if it's true. Mozuku: He probably just ran away from home......
Sachi: He's probably a stray, because he can't get along with people. // Scary.
Sachi: Mozuku, you watch out for him too. // If he bites you, your fur will get a polka-dot pattern. Mozuku: No, it won't............
2 (62) Mozuku: Weekdays are so quiet... SFX: Nice // quiet
SFX: Alert Mozuku: !? SFX: rustle rustle
Mozuku: ......who's there?
XXX: I'm your worst fear.
Mozuku: .........what!? XXX: But I'm not the true nature // of that fear. // I'm the great "unknown".
Mozuku: I heard something about a stray Dalmatian being in the neighborhood, but // ...is that you?
SFX: rustle rustle
SFX: crunch
SFX: shiver
3 (63) SFX: crash Mozuku: He...... hey!
Mozuku: Are you hurt!?
Mozuku: I'll call someone! // Wait here!!
Dalmatian: I will // die soon.
Mozuku: Bu... but... Dalmatian: Would you do me a favor.
Dalmatian: I've travelled the world for 10 years an seen many things. // I saw flowers blooming on the scorching earth. // I saw bird lingering in Winter's snowfields. // But I'm dying. // And everything I've seen will disappear with me. // Before that happens, I would like to share my experiences with someone else. // Describe the world as I have seen it.
Mozuku: .........you're pretty old, huh? // I understand. // I will listen to your story. Dalmatian: Hm, thank you.
Dalmation: Where should I start. // I've seen so many things...
4 (64) Dalmatian: For example,
Mozuku: Wa... // Wait there!
Mozuku: ............what is this about? Dalmatian: This is my "Anything looks like it has a face if you look well" series. // I have many more, like moth patterns.
Mozuku: ...could we talk about something else? // Something like "seeing giant snakes and lions". // Or don't you have such stories? Dalmatian: Of course I have.
5 (65) Dalmatian: That was back then...
SFX: wiggle wiggle
SFX: plop
Dalmatian: Ah!
Dalmatian: I fought with the Ant that came out of the ant lion's nest...... // It was magnificent. // The ant won.
Mozuku: Err...
Mozuku: Wait here, // I'll get you something to eat...
6 (66) Mozuku: !?
Box: The old, stray Dalmatian // is gone SFX: munch munch
Box: The old man's stories weren't very spectacular. // He didn't go on any exciting adventures. // But he definitely has seen many things. // Those words: "I'm dying", // They were just a lie to make me listen. // That's what I think.
Dalmatian: I'm sorry for last time... // I didn't have enough stories ready yet. Mozuku: ............
Mozuku: I've had enough of the old man's stories...... https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/42526Translation: Natsume Yuujin Chou 812016-05-24T14:32:07+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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(1) Text: The days we can feel the warmth in the chilly wind // Mega Hit! A 40P strange story about ayakashi contracts Author: Midorikawa Yuki
Title: Natsume's Book of Friends // The Garden of those Days (2) SFX: rattle Natsume: I'm home. Toko: Takashi-kun, welcome back.
Toko: Look at these, aren't they cute? // I received these seedlings from our neighbors down the street.
Natsume: Wow, so many. // That's nice. Toko: Yes, now where shall I plant them? (3) Toko: There is no space left in the front yard flowerbed...
Natsume: Err, is there a spot in this garden I can use? Shigeru: Hm? Natsume: Toko-san received some seedlings, but there is no free space anymore in the flowerbed.
Natsume: If it's alright with you, could you tell me how to make a new flower bed? // ...I would like to give it a try. (4) Shigeru: Yes, of course.
Box: Like that, I started to make a flower bed.
Box: Even if I say so, I planned to keep it simple. // Piling up stones in a corner of the garden to create an enclosure and then fill it with fertilizer and earth. Nyanko: Hm, so you're going to turn one of my favorite nap spots into a flower bed... // Do you think you can do it?
Natsume: It didn't sound too hard when Shigeru-san explained it to me. // He even gave me stones I can use. // Come, help me carry them. Nyanko: What!?
Nyanko: Seriously! Why would a noble being like myself do such physical work!? Natsume: Because you'll be able to grow your favorite flowers when we're done.
Nyanko: ......soybeans and green peppers? Natsume: I said flowers. Box: I was glad (5) Box: that I could do something for this house. XXX: Hey, it's getting dark. Natsume: We can continue tomorrow.
Toko: I'm so happy. Takashi-kun is making me a new flower bed. Natsume: Yes, I hope it'll work out... Shigeru: If there's anything you need or don't understand, just ask me for help.
Toko: If there's any kind of flower you want to grow yourself, just tell me. Natsume: Thanks.
Natsume: A flower I want to grow? Nyanko: Like I said, let's grow soybeans, or green peppers, or peas!
Box: Aah, // somehow I suddenly remembered. Natsume: My mother loved flowers. (6) Natsume: I think my dad told me that.
Natsume: I'm back... // Ah!
Natsume: The stones are everywhere... SFX: trot trot Nyanko: Oh! You're back, Natsume! // Hm.
Natsume: Sensei, why did you do that!? Nyanko: It wasn't me! // Look, this fish is my alibi! I spend all day partying near the river.
Natsume: ...it was probably a dog or crow... // It can't be helped. Come, sensei! Let's continue. Nyanko: Are you some sort of cat slaver!
Box: But the next day...
Natsume: AAH! // Again! SFX: messy (7) Nyanko: ...this isn't the work of a pet? Natsume: ...no, some have disappeared.
Nyanko: What? Natsume: The stones. // It fell apart before the cement could dry and some are taken away. Nyanko: You're saying some trespasser entered the garden to steal stones? Natsume: ...let's keep watch tonight, sensei. Nyanko: What!?
Natsume: We'll catch that stone thief! We have to protect the flower bed. Nyanko: Natsume, you think this is the work of an Ayakashi, don't you?
Natsume: Yes, I do. // The idea of a human entering a garden to steal stones just doesn't make sense...
SFX: shiver // rustle Natsume: ...ah, what do we do if it is a human? // That's actually scarier... Nyako: Hm, // it's here. Natsume: Eh?
SFX: Sneaky... // wobble wobble
(8) Natsume: What is that by the flower bed...!?
Natsume: Hey, you!! SFX: rustle
SFX: dash // eek! // dash // Yipes! Natsume: EH!? There are more than I thought!?
SFX: jump Natsume: Wait!! // I got you! // Who the hell...
(9) SFX: turn
Yokai: Hehehe, // you caught me.
SFX: shiver // ...guh!
Natsume: Why do you damage my flower bed? // What are you doing in this garden? Yokai: Oh, you can touch us and hear our voices? Natsume: ......
Yokai: Dear me, I didn't know these stones were yours. // I'm very sorry, I took me so long to find these stones, I picked them up without thinking. Natsume: ...these stones?
Natsume: They don't look special to me... Yokai: Where did you get these stones?
(10) Natsume: What?
SFX: rustle // crowd // crowd // rustle Yokai: Well, // these are pure stones, they are very valuable to us.
Yokai: Could you spare us a few?
Natsume: ...what are you going to do with these stones...?
Yokai: Hehehe, // ...by exception, I'll show you our treasure.
Natsume: was a little house... // It looked like a Shinto shrine... Nyanko: Oh, this looks interesting. // A miniature garden? // It's very detailed, but... // the shrine and garden are both utterly neglected.
(12) Nyanko: It looks like a deserted place.
Yokai: That is right.
Yokai: We need the pure stones for the restoration of the miniature shrine and its garden.
Natsume: ...restoration?
Yokai: This miniature shrine is the home of a kami. // It can only be fully restored with the right tools and by the right person.
Yokai: You appear to be quite powerful.
Natsume: (Ah!) No, I'm just...
Yokai: Please, lend us you power! // (Heave-ho!) Natsume: Stop it!
(13) Yokai: We won't put you down until you agree. Natsume: Now, // now, // pu // put...
Nyanko: We told you to put us down! // You stupid Daruma yokai! Yokai: Yi! // Wha! // Eek! SFX: bon // bang // whack // bonk //smack
Yokai: St-strong... // More than ever...
Yokai: We would like to borrow your power... // I beg of you, I beg of you. // If you don't, we'll bring evil upon your house. XXX: !!! You brute!!
(14) Nyanko: I'm done with these guys, shall I eat them, Natsume? Natsume: ......
Box: All I wanted // was to make Toko-san happy with a new flower bed.
Natsume: Alright, I'll listen. // What do you want me to do? Yokai: Ooh! Nyanko: (Tch.)
SFX: whoosh // chirp chirp Box: When you meet ayakashi like these, // listening to their request is the fastest way to get rid of them.
Natsume: ... Toko: Takashi-kun, Good mor... Ah, is everything alright? Natsume: (Ah!) Yes, I'm fine. ...I just had a weird dream... Toko: Oh! Don't work too hard on that flower bed, alright?
Natsume: Yes.
Natsume: These five ayakashi. Box: They are the Housekeepers. (15) Box: No matter what, // it's their job to protect the box that makes one of the lodgings of the wandering kami, Shida-himesama. Nyanko: Protect? That box is about to fall apart. Yokai: Yes, this miniature house is a delicate piece of work.
Yokai: That's why originally, we took it to a specialized craftsman for repairs. // Every time, just before Shida-himesama would visit, we would take the box to one, but // by now there are no craftsmen left anymore.
Yokai: A countless times now we've naively tried to do repairs ourselves. // This time too, we planned to fix up the place with our own power, but... // our hands are very suited to smash demons, but very clumsy when it comes to holding tools. // The current state of the Miniature shrine is proof of that.
(16) Yokai: But no doubt, you should be able to do better than us. Natsume: ...I'm not a craftsman and I have a questionable taste, are you sure about this?
Yokai: Any improvement is more than we could wish for. Natsume: ......
Box: Like that, I spent the day creating a flower bed for Toko-san. // And at night I helped to renovate the miniature shrine.
Yokai: Let's start with the shrine. // Use this white feather to brush the dust away.
Natsume: You mean like this? // ...... SFX: shwip shwip shwip Yokai: Ooh!
Nyanko: Wouldn't it be easier to clean of all dust in one blow? (Fwoosh) Yokai: We would love to do that, but we can't. It's a kami's home, after all. Nyanko: It's a devil of a nuisance!
(17) Natsume: ...this is definitely not as easy as it looks... Box: Despite the soft feather, it became all the more clear to me. // With every creak I could feel the shrine's age and fragility. SFX: fwip // flop // flop // fwip
Natsume: ...it's done! // ......what do you think? Yokai: Ooh, wonderful! Natsume: ......thanks...
Yokai: Next, take off the roof and clean the inside. Natsume: What!?
Yokai: Gently. // Yes, that's...... // It's very delicate. // Yes, be careful there. // Ooh, just like that. SFX: Gently...
Natsume: Be quiet! SFX: throb throb Yokai: Yes.
Yokai: Yes, like that... // Don't forget the room on the right. Nyanko: Just blow away the dust, Natsume. Natsume: Shut up!
SFX: Sigh...
(18) Tanuma: ...are you alright, Natsume? ...ayakashi again? Natsume: Tanuma,... // ...yes, but they aren't a bad lot, no need to worry.
Tanuma: I see... what kind of ayakashi are they? Natsume: They are forcing me to do some construction-like work.
Tanuma: Eh? You said they weren't dangerous...
Natsume: I didn't tell them, because I felt to irritated then. // But the spacious, little room I found under the roof wasn't just old and damaged...
(19) Box: It was also really beautiful. Natsume: It's like I could tell that it was treated with care, // and that looking out over the garden from within would certainly be fun...
Natsume: It's such a shame that all the garden has to offer are some dead trees.
Yokai: That's right. // Now paint the paper sliding doors white using the dye made from the pure stones. Natsume: Uh... SFX: shake shake
Natsume: ...I'm done! What do you think? // What's next? Yokai: (Oooh!)
Yokai: It's wonderful! We could have only hoped it would ever look so beautiful!! Natsume: ...you're exaggerating! My paint job is done extremely irregular. // A skilled person would have been able to paint it more evenly.
(20) Yokai: Hehee, // please touch my hand.
Natsume: ... Yokai: Our hands are completely different from human hands. // Just holding a brush to paint, or a feather to gently wipe away dust.
Yokai: With our hands, it's is a challenge.
Yokai: We exorcize the evil, // and a human prepares the houses to welcome the kami who visits this land. // But when that's not possible anymore...
Yokai: Shida-himesama is a very refined person. // She loves beautiful things.
(21) Yokai: She may not want to visit this crumbling miniature shrine and its dead garden ever again. // We had accepted that. // But // when you're done // I'm sure that Shida-himesama will be pleased // and visit us again. // I'm sure.
(22) Natsume: What kind of kami is Shida-hime? Yokai: Ooh, I'm glad you asked!
Yokai: She is beautiful, // and her laugh sounds like tinkling bells. // She has been travelling for decades now, but // her skin is still as gentle as moonlight. // Her hair sways like rings on the water.
Yokai: When she scolds you, she has a look of thunder on her face. // Every time we welcome her here, // ...yes, she will always smile at us like a blooming flower.
Yokai: Never ever // will we grow bored of seeing it, // Shida-himesama's smiling face.
(23) Box: They really love her. Yokai: Hehe. Nyanko: How will you be welcoming her? Yokai: A great feast! Nyanko: Really!? You should've told me sooner!
Nyanko: Will there be sake!? Yokai: We'll serve a special sake worthy of being presented to a kami. Nyanko: That's amazing!! // Right, Natsume!? Natsume: Don't look at me! (Shut up!)
Natsume: Alright,...
(24) Toko: It's done... // ...oh, my!! // Well, // what shall I do now...!!
Natsume: I'm sorry it's a little crooked... Toko: Don't be silly, it's beautiful! Thank you, Takashi-kun!!
Toko: Let's show it to Shigeru-san when he comes home. // I'm so happy... // Thank you, Takashi-kun!
Natsume: Nyanko-sensei helped me to mix the earth. Toko: Well, well!! I'll have to give him a treat as well then!
Natsume: "Shida-himesama smiling face." (25) Natsume: "Never ever" // "will we grow bored of seeing it."
Box: I wonder if Shida-himesama will visit // that miniature shrine.
Natsume: It's old and rickety, // and the garden is dead. Box: However
Box: They still protect it. Natsume: That miniature shrine... Yokai: Thanks to you, the renovation of the shrine has been finished.
Yokai: Thank you very much. // She is expected to arrive this evening. // We've made it in time. Natsume: ...but, // ......what about the garden?
(26) Natsume: ...have you decided yet what to plant in the garden?
Natsume: To thank me for the new flower bed, Toko-san gave me these flower seeds. // I can't wait to see them bloom, although I don't know which flowers will grow...
Natsume: I could plant some in Shida-himesama's garden too // ...if you'd like me to...
Natsume: Ah! // But even if I do, it'll take some time before they bloom... and maybe they are too big.
XXX: It was already decided what trees to plant, and which stones to use, but... // I don't think we decided on the flowers yet.
Natsume: Everyone, // can you plant the seeds? I'll sieve the earth.
(27) Yokai: Yes.
Box: This very small miniature garden.
Natsume: I wonder if Shida-himesama will come. // To be honest, if possible // I would like to enter that box. // Kept save by its House Keepers. // Restored by the craftsmen time after time.
(28) Natsume: If only the garden // visible from within the shrine // could remain beautiful forever...
Natsume: (Ah!)
(29) SFX: Zzz // Zzz
Natsume: A white paint stain...? // That...
Natsume: This is...
(30) SFX: Zzz // Zzz
(31) -
(32) Natsume: The garden view from within the shrine. // Although unknown to me, // I felt nostalgic. // Like I had seen it before. // Like the garden of the Fujiwara's, // and long ago // like the garden I tended with my father
(33) -
(34) Natsume: It was a very warm garden.
Yokai: Hmm... // Hm?
Yokai: Shi // Shida-himesama! // What!? // Ooh, Shida-himesama!
Yokai: Ooh,... once more // you've decided to honor with your presence...
(35) Shida: A beautiful shrine // with a beautiful garden.
Shida: Now, // let's have a party. // All of you, // this shrine // and the garden
Shida: Let's celebrate together. SFX: woosh
(36) -
(37) Natsume: A riotous profusion of flowers bloomed like I had never seen before. // A flourish of soft colors. // Maybe these are just the memories of this garden. // However I'm sure, that between all flowers // that bloomed here until now,
(38) Natsume: somewhere // the flowers that we planted together// are blooming too.
Natsume (Ah!)
(39) SFX: Quick Natsume: (Ah!) This is... // ...my own room...?
Natsume: ......the House Keepers? SFx: yawn Nyanko: They've left already. // Ah, that sake was delicious!
Natsume: I see,... // It seems they were able to please Shida-himesama once again. // I wonder when she'll come by again.
Natsume: I hope they'll find someone else to help them when that time comes... // It all feels like a dream.
(40) Nyanko: Idiot, that wasn't a dream! They caused us too much trouble for that! Natsume: Hold your complaints, sensei. All you did was drinking sake! Toko: Takashi-kun, Shigeru-san is home! // Come down! Natsume: Ah, yes! SFX: creak creak
Toko: Oh, Takashi-kun.
Toko: You have flower petals in your hair. // Where on earth did you get those?
1 TXT: Mega Hit: A strange story about Ayakashi contracts 45P // Visible under the Autumn Sky...
Title: Ten loony nights // Natsume's Book of Friends // Midorikawa Yuki
2 Natsume: Hey, are we there yet? Yokai: Just a little further, Natsume-sama. // I heard the bread store on the corner ahead is selling a new kind of bun.
Yokai: Will the golden bean jam be made of chestnuts or sweet potatoes? I was so excited to find out that I couldn't sleep last night!! Natsume: .........I see. Nyanko: We have to check it out, Natsume!! Natsume: ......
Box: That day
3 Box: I was dragged along by some yokai to a somewhat faraway town. Natsume: Where are we? // If we don't go home soon, the sun... SFX: thud thud
SFX: thud thud
SFX: thud // rustle
SFX: thud thud
SFX: thud thud thud
4 SFX: thud thud Natsume: ?
Box: For a moment I mistook them for humans, but // those are... Yokai: Oh, a group of scarecrows. SFX: thud...
Natsume: Sc-scarecrows? ...why are they...? Nyanko: Looks like they are going to the mountain. Yokai: So it appears.
Yokai: The harvest is in, // so they were relieved of their duties. Box: Relieved from their duties......? // But, scarecrows
Yokai: (Ah, it's apple!) Nyanko: (Oh!! That's what it is!!)
Natsume: ...... SFX: munch
Box: aren't supposed to move at all. SFX: woosh
5 Natsume: That night I had a dream...
SFX: rustle Natsume: (Ah?)
Natsume: The road from today... SFX: thud
SFX: thud thud thud
Natsume: Scarecrows...!
Natsume: Why are they entering that mansion...?
6 Natsume: A sickle!? SFX: sudden // crash
Natsume: ......... Nyanko: (Hey!)
Nyanko: Seriously,
Nyanko: why did we come here again? SFX: trot trot Natsume: I have this disquieting feeling, // and I hope that finding the mansion I dreamed of will clear it up... // and let's also buy another bun before we go home, sensei.
Nyanko: ...... SFX: trot trot Natsume: I'll buy you two. Nyanko: Alright, let's do this.
Natsume: Ah!
7 Natsume: Sensei, that's it! // That gate... SFX: creak // in droves // thud
scarecrows: Te // n // Lo // on // nights Natsume: They are saying something...
SFX: thud thud
9 SFX: thud thud Nyanko: Those are the same scarecrows as yesterday, what a creepy lot. Natsume: They came from inside that mansion. Nyanko: This looks promising, shall we follow those scarecrows?
Natsume: Not yet, let's first check if the residents are... Sign: Amazawa
Natsume: Yipes! Hiiragi!! // (Ah,) ......so that means...
10 Natori: Hey, Natsume. Natsume: Natori-san! Natori: We meet again in an unexpected place. What are you doing here?
Natori: Are you poking your nose in other people's affairs again? Natsume: Not yet. // I'm not poking my nose into anything yet!
Natori: ...oh dear... Natsume: But since you are here... that means you have some business in this mansion? // Do you happen to know if something is...?
Natori: ...I'm not supposed to tell outsiders.
11 Natori: But if I'm not mistaken you have some information about this mansion. // How about an information exchange? Natsume: .........
Natori: It appears that the owner of this mansion hasn't been able to sleep for days. // He can feel a strange presence inside the house.
Natori: As you can see, this place belonged to an once powerful Lord. // Well, he's also an old associate. I heard about the situation via a certain exorcist.
Natsume: A strange presence inside the house,... you say...? Natori: So, what about you?
Natori: What did you see?
12 Natsume: Well...
Natori: I have never heard... of Ayakashi in the shape of scarecrows. Maybe it's a mountain kami or Tanuki fooling around...? // Did you notice anything else? Natsume: That's right. // Now that you mention it, they were muttering something...
Natori: The scarecrows? ...what did they say?
Natsume: ............ // ...nights // ....ten
Natsume: loon // nights
Natsume: Ten // loon // nights
Natori: Ten loon nights? Natsume: Yes, that's what I heard. Natori: ...wasn't it ten moon nights ... maybe as in the tenth night of the lunar month? Natsume: Hm, I heard there will be a harvest festival...
13 Natori: ...no, hold on! // ...it's probably something else... I remember hearing it before.
Natsume: Something else...? Natori: Very well, nearby lives some sort of acquaintance of mine. // He's a little eccentric, but very learned. Let's see what he thinks. // Will you come along, Natsume?
Natsume: Is that all right!? Natori: Leaving you to fend for yourself will only give me worries now. // Won't you give me a hand?
14 Natsume: Yes!
Box: Like that Natori and I // started to investigate the strange group of scarecrows.
Natori: He lives pretty deep in the forest, don't you think...?
Natsume: Yes, and something about this forest feels off. // Sensei,... Hiiragi, don't you feel anything? Natori: ......I see, // it's because of the barriers. It's like the ones of Hakozaki-san. // In the past the Yorishima family's exorcism power rivaled that of the Matoba clan, however by now they closed business and retired deep into the forest.
Natori: Although they are still very powerful.
15 XXX: Hey, exorcist!
XXX: How dare you enter another person's grounds without permission?
Natori: It's been a while, Yorishima-san.
Natsume: So that's Yorishima-san...?
Yorishima: I have no intention to talk to an exorcist. // Go home, Natori...
16 Yorishima: Hm? Who did you bring with you...? Natori: A friends. // He can see ayakashi.
Natsume: I'm Natsume. // ......what is this guy...?
Natsume: Something about him bothers me... Yorishima: ......
Nyanko: Hey, boy! Yorishima: (Ah!)
Nyanko: That's enough, show us your place. // Pour us guests some tea! Yorishima: !!?
Yorishima: Natori, what is that!!? // What are you planning to do to me!? Natsume: I'm sorry, that... he's my cat. Yorishima: What!? A cat!?
17 Natori: I'm very sorry for visiting today, you seem to be in ill humor. Yorishima: That's because of you. // Drink your tea and leave.
Yorishima: ...
Yorishima: You have... a strange air around you... Natsume: ...
Yorishima: Somehow it's... is it because you're pretty strong...? // The round animal, is he your servant?
Natsume: No, he's a freeloader. Nyanko: BODYGUARD! I'm Nyanko-sensei!! Yorishima: So, well... he's quite powerful. Yorishima: ...
Yorishima: Ten loon nights...
18 Yorishima: ...I see, if I'm not mistaken // "Ten Loony nights" is // a game that ayakashi play with humans. // It concludes itself within ten nights. // To obtain the house that caught its eye, the ayakashi in need of a residence will propose a game. When the family accepts, the game starts.
Yorishima: The rules are simple: for a period of ten days the ayakashi will visit the family once a day. // If the ayakashi manages to scare them off, the ayakashi wins the house.
Yorishima: If the family doesn't give in to fear and remains in the house, it's their win // and the ayakashi won't get to live in their house. // That's it.
19 Natsume: A game between humans and ayakashi... // ...
Natsume: (AH!) ...so, the family of that place accepted the challenge?
Yorishima: Well, to start the game // all that's needed is for the person to answer with yes when the ayakashi calls their name. Natori: A surprise attack by the ayakashi.
20 Box: I guess that makes sense. // ...they can't tell it's an ayakashi.
Natsume: They accidently come in contact and before they know it they're tied together. Nyanko: ...... Natsume: Ah, can I ask you another question?
Natsume: Is there a scarecrow ayakashi? // Somehow... they didn't feel the same as the ayakashi I usually encounter in the forests and mountains.
Yorishima: ...scarecrows...? Natori: ...... Yorishima: They were probably created with forbidden arts.
Natsume: Forbidden arts... Yorishima: Most humans make scarecrows without a second thought, // but sometimes powerful people who are unaware of their abilities // accidently create scarecrows that'll turn into ayakashi.
Yorishima: All the more because of these people are heavy with thoughts and appreciation towards the fields and crops. 21 Natsume: Forbidden arts that are used unknowingly... Reiko: "Hey"
Reiko: "Want to play a game?" Box: Maybe
Natsume: that's also what Reiko-san did. // To her it was a whimsical game to kill time. Box: And yet it's
Natsume: Because she had strange powers.
Natsume: she bound many beings.
Natsume: ... Yorishima: It's basically a restricted soul. // They create a vessel to house a new soul. // However, humans were never meant to create new souls that way. // In truth, the scarecrows created in such a way
22 Yorishima: have no place to go, so they hide up in the mountains // after they fulfill their duty to protect the crops from beasts and birds. // That group of scarecrows you saw was such a lot.
Natsume: ... // No place to go...
Yorishima: ...they were probably persuaded by an ayakashi to do this. // And Natori, you shouldn't involve children in your savage exorcism practices!
Natori: I know that. Yorishima: Natori, // you are starting to act more and more like that Matoba brat.
23 Natsume: No, // Natori-san and Matoba-san aren't the same. // Matoba-san has his own way to handle things, // and so does Natori-san.
Natsume: I understand not everyone may agree with Natori-san's methods, but // somehow // if I had to help anyone... // I think Natori-san is an amazing person.
Yorishima: I'm sorry, // I didn't mean to offend your friend. Natsume: (Ah!)
24 Natsume: No, I'm sorry. // I should thank you for all you've told us.
Natsume: (Excuse us!) Natori: We'll be going then. Yorishima: Leave and don't come back! Natori: Yes, yes. Yorishima: But... the air around that boy.
Yorishima: Something I know, // something I don't, // the air around him... // Is he possessed by something? ...is it something he holds...?
Natori: ...Yorishima-san, // have you ever heard of Reiko-san? Natsume Reiko?
Yorishima: ... // No.
25 Natori: Then, // the "Book of Friends"?
Yorishima: ...what? // ...never heard of it. // What is it? What are you saying, Natori?
Natori: No, well, it's an important item. // I can't talk about it... // But please remember this, // if you ever hear of it, let me know.
Yorishima: I owe you nothing.
Natori: That's right.
26 Yorishima: ...
Nyanko: Well, that was unpleasant. SFX: plink Natsume: Are you alright, sensei...? // I am... actually feeling a little calmer now. // What's this feeling... Nyanko: What? You're too sweet. Natsume: yes, yes. Natori: Sorry for the wait, Natsume
Natori: We know the cause. // Shall we go?
Natsume: Yes!
XXX: Ah, Natori-san! It's nice to see you again.
27 Box: Our client, the head of the Amazawa family, was a big-hearted person, who owns many fields in the area.
Amazawa: Recently, during my afternoon nap or at night // I've been having nightmares about strange people chasing me around the house. // I'm getting more and more afraid to stay in my house, that's why I called you. // ......but... I see, // scarecrow ayakashi... don't hear about that very often...
Natori: How many days has it been since this started? Amazawa: Well,... // it started last Friday, so today is the 9th day.
Natsume: Ten Loony Nights a will last 10 ten days, just one more to go... Natori: If you can bear with it for one more day, it'll all be over. // Just in case, we'll put up a barrier and prepare to exorcise them.
28 Amazawa: It's old, but this place holds the memories and history of my family. // Please do what you have to protect it. Box: With his permission, we stayed for the night, // and made our preparations as darkness fell.
SFX: crunch...
Natsume: If tomorrow is the last day, we should be fine. Natori: Yes, you've been a great help, Natsume. Natsume: Are you being sarcastic? I haven't done a thing. Natori: You have, Yorishima-san isn't always that talkative.
Natsume: He's a strange person. // There's fear and longing... // It's like talking to an ayakashi.
Natori: ......you're not too far off. // Despite his appearance, it seems he's actually pretty old.
29 Natori: And he's rumored to be half-ayakashi... Natsume: Eh... // A mixed race? Natori: Well,
Natori: There are rumors, like his left arm was devoured by an ayakashi, but he grew it back by the next day. // Or the ayakashi turned into his left arm and possessed him...
Natori: When he is around people who meddle with ayakashi // his insecurities and cares // feel very small. // ......however,
Natori: no matter how small they are, // ...he has faced hardships,
Natori: and he definitely was scared sometimes.
30 Natsume: Yes.
Natori: They probably know we've set up the snares. // While the game lasts, the ayakashi are guests. Don't expect too much of the barrier, but it should keep them in the garden. Natsume: Yes. SFX: ...thud
SFX: thud thud
31 Natsume: !! // They are here!?
Natori: It's only just after midnight!
Natsume: !! SFX: hop hop hop
Natori: Natsume, check on Amazawa-san! // He's in the veranda room that looks out over the garden! Hiiragi is guarding him. Natsume: Yes!
32 Natsume: Hiiragi, Amazawa-san! Amazawa: Uu... Hiiragi: He's having a nightmare, but won't wake up. // I'll keep an eye on him, you go outside to help Natori, Natsume.
Natsume: Yes, I will! SFX: run...
Natsume: (Ah!)
SFX: sway
SFX: swoosh
33 SFX: buzz
Nyanko: Hm, // that's one! Natsume: Thanks, sensei. There are probably ten ayakashi.
Natsume: This way. // You won't win unless you catch us!
Scarecrow: Caw // caw // caw
Scarecrow: caw
35 Scarecrow: Ca... SFX: crash
SFX: pop Scarecrow: caw Natsume: That's two.
Natsume: (You!) SFX: jump jump
SFX: thump thump Nyanko: Ouch! // Ouch!
SFX: rustle Natsume: Natori-san! SFX: rustle
36 SFX: clap Natori: Thou, art no more than soil. // Thou art plain soil that cannot protect. // I won't excuse thee who steps on others. // Perish! // Thou art unwanted. SFX: blow...
37 SFX: roar
Natsume: That's nine... // one more.
Natori: Urihime, Sasago, // is he inside? XXX: I can't find him.
Natsume: Sensei, can you smell it? Nyanko: It's a straw doll! Of course not!
38 Natsume: One more.
Natsume: Where? // Where...
Amazawa: ...uu,
Amazawa: Uu...... // .........
Amazawa: .........
Natsume: He woke up! // Amazawa-san, are you all right...?
Amazawa: ... // ............
39 SFX: unsteady...
SFX: rattle Natsume: Ah, // No, Amazawa-san! It's not over yet. // We're still looking for the last one!
Amazawa: ...
Amazawa: ... // ...I'm sorry, scarecrow ayakashi they say. // It must be hard to not have a home.
40 Amazawa: I'm sorry, but this place is important to me. // I won't let you have it.
SFX: clatter
Natsume: The broom...
SFX: whiz... 41 SFX: thud
SFX: thud thud
SFX: thud thud
Box: And that's // how the scarecrows left.
42 Box: The strange game between humans and ayakashi had ended.
Nyanko: Hey, you sure we should let them go? // They may challenge another human to a fight.
Natori: They lost. // Once they've lost, they can't try again until they have fulfilled their obligations again. // Besides, they are only puppets. // Doing this took an outrageous amount of energy, soon they won't be able to do much anymore.
Natsume: ......
Natsume: A product of forbidden arts, // that was accidently used. // Some sort of mischief...
43 Natsume: Those scarecrows...
Amazawa: Thank you very much. Natori: No, the most important thing // ...is that we learned where the scarecrows came from. // In your dreams you were chased by a scary lot. So that broom by the gate was...
Amazawa: I've lived a long live and I've seen strange things. // ...I wonder why they took a liking to my place.
Amazawa: My wife passed away, // and my children started out in life. // Hehe, this house has always been sustained by the fields. // Soon the crops those scarecrows protected will hit the market.
44 Amazawa: To thank them, // if possible, please set those scarecrows free, Mr Exorcist.
Natsume: ......
Natori: ...I will do my best. SFX: rustle...
Natsume: Is something like that possible, Natori-san? Natori: Who knows. Natsume: Eh? Natori: I told you before, it's harder to annul or release than eradicate.
Natsume: That's right.
45 Natori: ...I'll discover it someday... // A way to release you from the Book of Friends.
Translator Note: In this chapter, Natori and Natsume have a hard time finding out what the scarecrows are saying. In the original Japanese it's written in hiragana: とおかんや (tookan'ya), as obviously, Natsume won't be able to hear kanji. Natori speculates it could be written as: 十日夜. Only later in the chapter, Yorishima explains it should be read as: 十完夜. But of course all of this didn't translate very easily to English, because English doesn't have different character sets like that. So I had to come up with something else.
十日夜 (Tookan'ya/Tookaya) [lit. Tenth night] refers to the harvest festival that takes place on the 10th night of the 10th lunar month. It's celebrated from North Kanto region to the South Tohoku region. It's the day people thank the agricultural kami （田の神）for their help in securing a good harvest and send them off to the mountains. In Nagano prefecture there appears to be a custom where the scarecrows are worshiped as gods. At the end of the harvest they are taken from the fields and placed in the garden. They are given straw hats to wear, a broom or rake and rice cakes to accompany them on their way to heaven or on their road to become a full-fledged mountain kami. The harvest festival seems loosely related to 十五夜 (Juugoya), also know as 月見 (Tsukimi), a festival on the 15th night of the 8th lunar month to honor the Autumn moon. (The 15th night is always a full moon) And 十三夜 (Juusan'ya) on the 13th night of the 9th lunar month, to celebrate the waxing moon. You can find similar festivals all over Asia (Mid-Autumn festival).
十完夜 (Tookan'ya) [lit. Completes at the tenth night] I translated it as "Ten Loony Nights". Loony doesn't just mean mad or silly, it's also an abbreviation of Lunatic. Lunatic originates from the Latin word Luna (moon) and the old belief that the changes of the moon could cause insanity. Although it's far from its literal meaning "Ten Loony Nights" seemed the perfect choice, because it conveys the mad game of the ayakashi, but also allowed me to create a link to the lunar calendar-related harvest festival that caused confusion in the original Japanese. https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/42208Translation: Kurokuroku 82016-01-14T18:14:09+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.comKurokuro CONTENTS VOL2
Report 8 Joint-training in Tama - 2nd period 7 Report9 Making curry in Tama ① 27 Report 10 Making curry in Tama② 47 Report 11 Making curry in Tama③ 67 Report12 Not just in Tama① 87 One-shot Kurokuroku 107 One-shot Daida Nakajima 155
1 (7) Phone: (secret) city hall news // (yokohama) // Takashi // Rookie training has started!! Ridiculous stuff happened right away!! (Sapporo) // Teck // Details!! (Sendai) // AVY // Some human threw a drink over Itsui!! A guy of the Metropolitan office! (Nagoya) // It was a female high school student [That's what she looked like ;) ] (Fukuoka) // Take // Female High school student [what are you looking at, pervert! ] (Hiroshima) // 34chii // Juza // Seriously!!!? Amazing! www (Kobe) // Itsui-sama ww (Meguro-ku)
Both: Everyone // knows!
2 (8) Title: Report 8 Joint-training in Tama - 2nd period
Txt: Sayo // Bard // Itsui
Kuroku: I know I'm famous for some reason, but for the whole country to know you... // It sure looks like Tama is full of talent! Chiaki: Don't you mean the opposite!!
Kuroku: Look at his, it's the list of "highly anticipated Rookies". Phone: (secret) City hall news!! // Highly Anticipated Rookies // Yuki Chiaki // Please do more!! // A Human? // Good luck!! // She's... cute Kuroku: Your in 9th place! Chiaki: A National Ranking!!!?
3 (9) Kuroku: Well, anyway. // Just calm down! // (Hey!) Chiaki: (No, no, no, no, why did that happen!?)
Kuroku: The first lecture will start in 10 minutes. // And their impression of Tama already wasn't that great.
Chiaki: Wa... was it that bad...? Kuroku: That's what the teacher told me. Chiaki: But we still have a chance, right!!?
Kuroku: Good, forget about what happened so far! // Let's do what we can // and change their minds about us!!
Chiaki: .........! // Ye... // YES...!!!
4 (10) Teacher: So that means, in accordance with the legal reform of last year, // starting April this year, only residents of 260 years and older are eligible to receive the National pension. Screen: 2013 Legal reform of the National Pension // previous retirement age 250 years // this year // new retirement age 260 years
Box: In the first lecture we went straight to the practical content. // Due to that, I felt more nervous than I usually am for a class. Chiaki: (You had to be alive in the Edo period to be that old!)
Box: Well, there was another reason...
Box: why I was filled with nerves // and felt sick within 10 minutes after the lecture started. increase
Box: But Kuroku-san made desperate efforts to behave. // So I... had to do my best too...!! Kuroku: Don't start a fight, don't start a fight.
5 (11) Chiaki: ...... // ?
Box: ......... // Ah, oh!?
Box: It wasn't just Kuroku-san!? // Other representatives were sleeping like a log within 10 minutes after the start of the lecture.
Box: It started to look like a game to see who had the most creative sleep position...! // Were they trying to disrupt the class!?
Box: What on earth...
6 (12) Chiaki: ...wha!
Kuroku: ...thanks, // now I have a reason to stay awake.
Chiaki: Ku...kuroku-san, wha... what was that!? Kuroku: Even with my eyes half open, I could see that teacher was acting strange.
Kuroku: That bastard, // in between sentences he swiftly throws pieces of chalk at the students.
Kuroku: He is using a monitor, not a chalkboard, so why...!? Chiaki: That's not the problem!!
Chiaki: Di... did this kind of thing happen last year too...!? Kuroku: No, // I've never seen this happen before. 7 (13) Kuroku: Those who can't dodge them will drop out. Yokai: WHA! Kuroku: Granted that you can even see them coming,
Kuroku: Every hit increases the damage Yokai: Uu... Kuroku: making it impossible to focus during the next lecture...!! Chiaki: How on earth could a piece of chalk do that much damage!!!
Teacher: Hey, hey, don't fall asleep. // You won't be able to take the next course.
Kuroku: ...somehow, this year's joint-training // is completely different from anything I've seen before...!!
Teacher: Well then, over there... Yokai: !!'
Teacher: To pay the municipal taxes, in addition to our special coin, // some species may use their self-produced goods as...
Teacher: an alternative payment for their taxes? // Name five or more!!!
8 (14) Yokai: Goh!!
Sayo: The Azukiarai. Bard: Species registration no. 72: Azukihakari, no. 116: Keukegen, no.122 Kejoro, and no.142: Tofu-kozo Itsui: ...who cares? // We only accept coins.
T/N: Azukihakari = yokai with no form, makes the noise of azuki beans. Keukegen = small dog covered in long hair, a disease spirit that lives in damp, dark places and causes people in the house to get sick. Kejoro = yokai looking like a woman with long unkempt hair dressed as a prostitute, said to appear in red-light districts. Tofu-kozo: yokai looking like a small child with a tray with tofu.
9 (15) Sayo: Wow! That's creepy, Bard. He didn't ask you for their name and number. Bard: That reminds me, Sayo. You can't even remember you own species registration number is 7, right? Sayo: ...one more word and I'll kill you.
Itsui: You never change, do you Sayo? // Do you really hate your species that much?
Sayo: ...as much as I hate the two pests next to me. // ...by the way, you seem more chipper than usual, Itsui? // Are you all right? Shall I buy you some Nue Breast juice? (Hehehe)
Chiaki: Wait, don't do that!!
Itsui: ...oh, // ... but have you ever seen one, Sayo? A Nue's breast? // I once heard that a Nue must at least be a cup M, or else the perfect mix of 4 flavors won't come out.
Itsui: Even if it's on you, you're still a kid without chest or butt, // I would hate not being able to think of anything but that seedy tasting Nue milk.
10 (16) Sayo: ......Bard, Bard: What?
Sayo: Let me kill that idiot! Bard: ...it's not wise to make such statements in front of the person in question. // If you really want to lay him to rest, use a surprise attack or kill him with poison.
Bard: Besides, we're in the middle of a lecture. // If you want to fight, take it outside the lecture hall.
Itsui: ...that's like you, Bard. // Straight to the point.
Teacher: Hey, you two! What are you... Bard: Sir,
Bard: ...at the Metropolitan office, we approve of fights between staff members to settle mutual grudges. // Anytime, // anyplace.
11 (17) Bard: The goal of the Metropolitan office is to create the perfect competitive work environment. // Consequently, we can weed out the weaklings // and establish command and order in its most efficient way.
Itsui: ...well, I don't bother with those ideals. // Point is // you can't stop me.
Sayo: Yes, after all in this training // the guy who can neatly line up those pieces of chalk will get a full mark.
Teacher: .........hahaha,
Teacher: Well, they're serious. (Yes.) // Suppose even the rookies of Metropolitan office's can just do this.
Chiaki: No, no, you can't talk to a teacher like that!!
12 (18) Teacher: But that // is how the Metropolitan office works.
Teacher: They can say it, because each and every one of them is better than any of us. // Well,... it's about time
Teacher: to weed out all // who are unfit for this work!
Chiaki: ...Kuroku-san...!! Kuroku: Don't worry, just focus on his lecture.
Teacher: It's a dangerous job. // Those who can't even dodge these attacks with their own power will fail!
Chiaki: ......! 13 (19) Box: I got so used to my work in Tama, I completely forgot. // I'm just a high school student without special powers... // Once again I'm only getting in Kuroku-san's way...
Box: That's the truth...! Bard: .........
Bard: A person who goes on shielding // a powerless individual.
Bard: ...such a person // is very inefficient.
Bard: It's // meaningless.
Teacher: Hey, Ando! It's time you step down. // Or would you like this
Teacher: to become a test...!! // to see how long you can last!!?
14 (20) Chiaki: !!
Chiaki: Eek!!
Chiaki: Ku // Kuroku-san!!? // You... you are injured!!
Kruoku: ...hmf, // suddenly increasing the power.
Chiaki: St... stop it already! Kuroku: What!? If I stop, you'll get hurt!? Chiaki: That, that isn't... Kuroku: ?
Chiaki: what I meant...!
Kuroku: ...... // I don't understand what you're thinking...
Kuroku: They have their way! // We have our way! Chiaki: EEH!?
15 (21) Kuroku: First of all! // Whether I listen or not, I have no clue what this lecture is about!!!
Teacher: ... // ......
Yokai: Eh... // EEEH!!
Chiaki: Ku... Kuroku-san...? Kuroku: That's why I have you!! // You are listening to this shit in my place!!
Kuroku: Hey! Maybe I haven't been clear about this!! // So listen well!
Kuroku: Chiaki takes care of 15 departments on her own!! // She part of the super Elite!!!
Chiaki: No... well,... // there's just no one else to do it...
Kuroku: ...that's how it's been from the start. // I deal with the special guys! // You are in charge of everything else!!
Kuroku: That's how we do it. // One person with special powers, one without. // Running the Yokai city hall!!
16 (22) Kuroku: That's how we do it // at the (secret) Tama City Hall!!!
Kuroku: I don't want to hear any complaints! // And
17 (23) Kuroku: with an Elite subordinate like her, // as a boss, I'm looking a whole lot more awesome!!! Chiaki: That's what this is about!!?
Teacher: I see.
Teacher: ...if that's the case, //this must be your area of specialty.
Teacher: You are twice... no, four times // more amazing than a normal human!
Teacher: So that means, // you two will answer my last question.
Teacher: Of all weapons that are confiscated due to violation of the rules, // there is one type of weapons that Ward offices are allowed to keep in storage after acquiring a permit of the state. Teacher: Which type // is that!!!?
18 (24) Chiaki: ...... // ...thi
Chiaki: 3rd class Spirit Hands... // are!!!
Yokai: (OOOOOH!) Teacher: Yes, // that's correct.
Yokai: (She knew the answer!? // AAAAH! // And that guy managed to stop that blow!!)
Kuroku: Amazing! Well done, Chiaki!! Chiaki: Because of that incident earlier... // I... I was just lucky!!
Bard: ...exceptions aside, // employees aren't allowed to handle any information concerning spirit hands until their third year of employment.
19 (25) Bard: To answer that question with ease... // I was wrong about you, // Yuki Chiaki.
Box: ...I wasn't allowed to handle it? // ...well, // I wasn't aware of that.
Bard: ...but
Bard: ...in the end // your work set-up is still very inefficient.
Sayo: Ah!
Sayo: A new notice. Itsui: Hey, are you done yet, Sayo! Sayo: Idiot, I've lost interest.
Sayo: Well, as usual we passed... and // that Red-haired bastard of Tama too... // That girl who spilled her drink on you as well...
Sayo: ......... // Moreover...
Phone: Yuki Chiaki // (Tama City Hall) // Great work. // Humans are amazing. // Is she really an elite!?
Kuroku: ......... Chiaki: Now I'm in 4th place... https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/42157Translation: Birdmen 212016-01-01T19:46:48+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.comCONTENTS flight019 NEW WORLD 003 flight020 TRANSFORM 047 flight021 MONSTER 085 flight022 DISTANCE 123 flight023 ADVANCE 157
[BIRDMEN] Character Data Collection 191
STORY: After an traffic accident, Karasuma and his friends find themselves able to grow wings -to be "Birdmen" -. While they try to unravel the mysteries of their new abilities, the existence of a hostile organization -[EDEN]- comes to light. On the orders of FOX, one of EDEN's agents, Kamoda was shot...!?
1 (003) Kamoda: huh?
Title: flight 019 NEW WORLD
Eishi: !? // What is this pain...
Eishi: Kamoda!? 2-3 (004-005) Title: flight 019 NEW WORLD
6 (008) Eishi: Don't tell me, EDEN?! // Anyway, we need to get out of sight!
Eishi: We need to take shelter! // Let's make for the park below! Kamoda: AAAAAH!
Fairy: What did you do to him...? Fox: He's a real pro. // Looks like he shot him straight in the belly, as I asked.
Fairy: His cells are going wild.
Fairy: Poison!? // That bullet was poisoned!? Fox: A normal bullet won't hurt you lot.
Fairy: WHY!? // They haven't done anything wrong, have they!? // If you do this...
7 (009) Fox: I'm not interested in maintaining the status quo. // Don't make me repeat myself.
Fox: Oh, looks like they are going to land somewhere. // Fairy, it's your turn now.
Kamoda: A // GUH // A // AA... Rei: Calm down. Eishi: We can't stay in this open spot... // Let's go over there!
Kamoda: AAAH! Rei: Put him down gently. Umino: Kamo-chan! Kamo-chan!
Umino: Why!? // Why was Kamo-chan shot!?
Eishi: Keep guard from above! // Umino! Umino: Ye, // yes!
8 (010) Eishi: How bad is it!?
Rei: It looks like a strange inflammation is spreading from the wound. // And he's also unable to control his wings. // It feels like the blood in his body and wings is boiling.
Rei: I'm not an expert, but I'm quite sure a normal bullet wouldn't cause such a reaction... Kamoda: Eep!
Kamoda: GUAAAA!!!
Rei: The inflammation is spreading...!! Kamoda: AAAAAAAAH!!
Eishi: They're from EDEN, right...!? // To do such damage, you would need to have quite some knowledge about Birdmen...
Eishi: What did we do to them?
Eishi: We haven't abused our power, // we quietly continued our lives...
Eishi: What reason do they have to hurt us...!?
17 (019) Eishi: I don't care about their reason ... // Ah, it's me. // We're in trouble.
Eishi: This won't be the end of it.
Eishi: Kamoda was shot. // Whoever did this better prepare themselves.
Eishi: I'll drive them to despair... 18 (020) Eishi: They'll wish I had just killed them!
Fairy: His anger and hatred are... so violent...!
Fairy: If he keeps up this output, no defense training could...
19 (021) Fairy: I can't breathe...! Fox: I'm in luck! (Yes!) // It's a great success!
Fox: A Linker and a Bellwether! // I found the greatest combination with a minimum amount of work. // If I could apply the Linker's power to connect people to the Bellwether's power to control...
Fox: It's even possible to rule the world...!
Eishi: We need a plan. // I'll tell you what the wound looks like.
Eishi: Yes, I could switch to a video conversation... Rei: Wait, Red! What are you doing!?
20 (022) Kamoda: Eep!
21 (023) Rei: The inflammation is spreading to Takayama-kun's arm...
Rei: !?
Eishi: Takayama! Your wings...
Rei: A wound in the same place as Kamoda-kun... // Impossible... is he transferring the wound to himself...!? Eishi: Hey!! // Why you too!!? // What on earth are you doing!?
22 (024) Kamoda: Ah... oh? // It's not hurting as bad anymore...
Takayama: Uu...
Rei: STOP!! // RED, STOP!! // That's enough!
Fairy: What...? // The Bellwether's power suddenly disappeared... Fox: Yo, good job! // WOLF, your aim is wonderful!
Wolf: ...... // I only put one bullet in him though. (Shut up...) Fox: No, no, that was plenty.
23 (025) Fox: I never intended to kill him.
Fox: We had a great harvest. // I'll transfer the rest of the money as soon as you've the returned my gun.
Eishi: Hey, what did you... Takayama: ...... Rei: Take it easy, // there's greasy sweat all over you. // Green, how do you feel? Kamoda: It still hurts...
Rei: Sounds like you've calmed down too, Black... Eishi: Eh?
Rei: The voice of your heart was like an uncontained leak. Eishi: Eh... // EEEH!? Kamoda: I heard it too. Eishi: Even you, Kamoda!? Prof: Hey, what's going on!? Eishi: Ah, I'm sorry! I forgot you were there...
24 (026) Fairy: Ah...... // ...... // No,...
25 (027) Fairy: Eep... // Stop, don't search me! // You have it wrong! // You 're mistaken, // I am...!
Fairy: Stop! // I'm not your enemy!!
Fairy: NOOO!!
Fairy: NOOOOOOOOOOO!! Fox: Fuck, a compulsory link!
26 (028) Fairy: Ah...
Fox: Well, // I hope he didn't get too much information... // We better clear off before they start moving again...
Prof: So,
27 (029) Prof: this is the result?
Prof: No traces of anything on the outside. Kamoda: I still feel a little numb, but otherwise I am well. Eishi: I took a photo of the original wound.
Prof: Sou-kun, // how come the wound transferred to you?
Takayama: ...... // He seemed to be in a lot of pain, // so I wondered if I was possible to switch places, and then...
Prof: ...... // so many questions, but there's no getting away from it. // There was another Birdman? Eishi: Probably.
28 (030) Prof: Most likely someone from EDEN.
Prof: And from their character, // he or she was used to search you.
Prof: They've probably identified all of you by now. Eishi: EEH!!? Prof: But...
Prof: It's one thing that they hurt you, but they aren't chasing you. They are taking it too slow. I assume that today's event's were like a threat.
Kamoda: A threat? Prof: It usually means you need to keep quiet.
Eishi: We are keeping quiet!! // And despite that someone took a shot at us!!! Prof: Even if that's your intent, they are the judge of it...
Kamoda: Ei-chan, if you don't watch yourself, your telepathy will activate again. Eishi: Tha, // Stop talking about that!
29 (031) Rei: (Hehehe) But it was really impressive! // My whole body went numb. Kamoda: They'll wish I had just killed them, was it? // It's like the line of some evil boss... Eishi: Stop! // Stop talking... // about that!!
Umino: Err... Eishi: (Well, you were crying and had a runny nose!) Kamoda: (I did?)
Umino: Don't you think it was really strange?
Prof: Strange? Umino: Yes,... I'm not sure how to say it, but suddenly I just felt strange...
Umino: Err, you know! // After that it felt like Karasuma had somehow changed...
Eishi: Me!? // Where!? Umino: Err...
Umino: ......
30 (032) Umino: I don't know!
Fairy: Where... am I?
Fox: Awake again?
Fox: Ah, don't get up.
31 (033) Fox: Just in case. // How many fingers? Fairy: One...
Fox: Your name? Fairy: Fiona...
Fairy: Ah...! Fox: Oh, your real name?
Fox: Looks like you're doing fine.
Fox: To be sure, we've left Tokyo. // We're staying at a hotel.
Fox: I don't think there's any damage to your body, but // your job is done. //So take a good rest.
Fox: Oh, but let me confirm one more thing.
32 (034) Fox: It was him who invaded you, right?
Fox: OK, // that linker is talented. (Hehe) // You can tell me the details tomorrow.
Fox: Well then, // let's make up a satisfactory report and wrest away a budget!
Fairy: AH! // Wait, back then my clothes...
33 (035) Shirt: I love Tokyo
Fairy: NOOOOOOO!! (for various reasons) Fox: Shut it and sleep!
Fox: You've done a better job than I expected. // I'll include some words of praise about you.
Fox: Sleep well, Fiona.
Fairy: What's your name?
Fox: Secret.
34 (036) Woman: Yes, I see. // Are you sure we don't need to reimburse you for the new clothes? // If she would properly apply, she'll receive a clothing allowance. Fox: No, no, it's fine.
Woman: Excuse us. // Let's go, Fairy.
Woman: Wearing black clothes again? // Next will be the USA. // Let's rest in the lounge until departure.
35 (037) Fairy: Excuse me, could you wait a moment?
Fairy: Tell me why they disposed of the Originals? 36 (038) Fox: Well, to keep it simple. // Those Seraphim became unable to communicate with humans.
Fox: That's basically why right now all fully awakened seraphim have their own caretaker. // As the evolution of the seraphim progressed, their need to verbally communicate disappeared. // The first thing the Originals lost was their ability to speak.
Fox: At that moment, mutual understanding between them and the humans became very difficult. // That meant it was impossible to set up any kind of operation. // Soon they completely shut themselves off and stopped paying attention to their surroundings.
Fox: In the end, they looked at humans as if they were nothing but scenery. // They also lost interest in all animals and plants.
Fox: I suspect that due to that seclusion, // they lost their power of imagination. // Thus they became unable to feel empathy. // It seems that by then they were unable feel anything but the most basic emotions.
37 (039) Fox: I think such beings are weak. // They should be destroyed.
Fox: Eva was the youngest amongst them. // Although she was raised between them, she never lost her ability to speak. // it was probably on purpose... that she decided to live her live unawake and without specialization.
Fox: She was the only one // who thought of the future.
Fox: All current seraphim, including you, are direct descendents of Eva. // I think a different future is awaiting you all.
Fairy: I see.
38 (040) Fairy: I never thought I'd say this, but // thanks for telling me.
Fairy: When he searched me, I felt like I understood their bond a little better.
Fairy: He's an unfathomable person. // And I'm convinced he is from a different world than us.
fairy: But those cherubs. // To him his friends are the seeds of wisdom that broaden his world. // When one of them was hurt, when one of them awakened... // Then...
39 (041) Fairy: For the first time in his life // he felt such violent hatred and anger.
Fairy: It's unbelievable, but until then he didn't know these emotions. // Even I was startled at its intensity, I didn't know how to cope.
Fairy: If you aren't our enemy, than what am I supposed to do?
40-41 (042-043) Fairy: Back then // you've pulled on a trigger you shouldn't have.
42 (044) Fox: I want to see the next world.
43 (045) Fairy: Hm, // even if it kills you?
Fairy: Bye.
44 (046) - https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/42150Translation: To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts 82015-12-25T18:36:55+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com1 (79) Box: I don't know my parents. // Just like so many of the children in this city.
Box: I deceive,... // and steal,... // only to keep myself alive.
Box: I never thought about the purpose of my life. // My heart was dark and cold.
Box: That was, until I met "him"...
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3 (81) Topher: Even as a pseudo-god soldier... // I couldn't cure it right away.
Title: Chapter 8 The Conviction of the Gargoyle (2)
Topher: White Church............... // After all this time... it's still a grubby place.
4 (82) Box: While I sat abandoned on the streets, I was invited into the church // by this odd clergyman. // He distributed food to the poor children // and read to them from the Holy Book.
Clergyman: "Thou shalt not steal", // ''Thou shalt preserve thy chastity.", // "Thou shalt not commit suicide.".
Box: My craving for food caused me to attended every day. 5 (83) Box: Before long // I started to enjoy my studies. // Learning to read and write. // The plan of our world. // The joy of being noticed. // The joy of reward. // And...
Clergyman: "Thou shalt administer true justice." // Topher,... you are a good kid. Box: It lit the flame inside my heart.
6 (84) Box: But he left me. Topher: Father,... // why can you stay here!?
Clergyman: The lord keeps watch over you wherever you go,
Clergyman: Topher...
Box: Onto me... // he bestowed God's justice.
7 (85) XXX: Did you find him!? // No,... he isn't here! // That little thief...!
8 (86) Clergyman: The lord keeps watch over you wherever you go, // Topher...
9 (87) Box: It was hard to live by God's rules in this city. // But I didn't know where else I could go. Topher: AAAAAAAAH... // AAAAAAH...
Box: Soon the war started and this city turned into Hell.
Box: All kinds of necessities for survival ran out. // Even family members would fight each other over food.
Box: But it provided me a chance. // If I joined the army, I could flee this city. // No danger I would have to face // could be worse than this city.
10 (88) Box: I was a natural talent.// As a pseudo-god soldier... and in living on a battlefield...
Box: The ways of war suited me. // In that place I found Justice.
Box: Despite all the sins I committed, it was the purpose of my life. // ...that's what I thought.
11 (89) Topher: A cease-fire...? // Peace...?
Topher: Didn't we fight for justice? // Those bastards of the Southern Army are still out there!!
Topher: Are leaving them to their own course!?
Box: The war ended without administering // justice. 12 (90) Box: The appearance that once frightened my enemies on the battlefield, // also scared away the village people.
Box: So I fled back to the slums.
Box: It was the only place that accepted all sorts of people.
Box: I quietly lived in the church, away from the eyes of the people. // As I watched the city from above, countless small crimes were committed. // But justice was never delivered.
Box: I became cold again. // I wondered, how much good would it do if I could turn into a real stone statue...?
Box: Of course I could not kill myself. // That was against God's will. 13 (91) Box: Stealing is a sin. // But to survive, the poor had no other choice.
Box: If so, it was not up to me... // to judge.
Topher: You stole that, didn't you?
14 (92) Topher: Don't be scared... // I won't hurt you. // I would like to talk with you about justice.
Box: Like my former teacher, I would teach him about justice. // That despite the hard times, // in a brighter moment // he'd be able to thrown out his chest...
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16 (94) Topher: Cain...?
Topher: My purpose is to administer true justice to this city. // Come as often as you want, my answer won't change.
Cain: ...so cold. // Well, you were always like that.
Cain: ... but we have a common enemy.
17 (95) Topher: What's this? Cain: It can rob a pseudo-god soldier of his power. // If used correctly, it could even take his life...
Cain: A keepsake from Elaine.
Topher: ...why do you have this? Cain: ...hehe, // let's meet again when you've administered your justice.
Topher: ............
18 (96) Hank: Guh...!
Hank: If I had any choice, I had rather stayed clear of that church, but... // since his wing's damaged, I may just have the upper hand.
Hank: Char... // Don't you dare follow me. Char: ......!
19 (97) Hank: If I'm not back by dawn,... // follow Liza and get out of this city.
Kid: ............
20 (98) Kid: ...hey, // why didn't you shoot that gargoyle when it attacked you? Char: ......eh?
Topher: The echo of my voice makes it impossible for you to pinpoint my location.
Topher: Captain... This is not like you. // Entering enemy territory without a plan...!
23 (102) Hank: ......! // A stone statue......!? 24 (103) - https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/42108Translation: Natsume Yuujin Chou 792015-12-10T13:27:15+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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[001] Title: Natsume's Book of Friends Text: Mega Hit! // A Strange Story about Ayakashi Contracts 45P Vert.txt: Washed away // Rocking on the mysterious waves // of the pond is…?
[002] Nishimura: Damn, // why the mountains for this year’s study trip…!? I wanted to go to the ocean!
Friend: We could go fishing in the river in our spare time, if you’d like to? Nishimura: NO! I’m tired of mountain rivers!! // I want to light fireworks on the beach! Don’t you agree, Natsume!?
Natsume: It seems you can light fireworks in the garden, if you ask permission first. Nishimura: That’s not what this is about!
[003] Box: The annual 3-day study trip for our school // is a fun and relaxing trip, where we spend cleanup time tidying the mountain area. // Our group was entrusted with cleaning the area around this old, but pretty shrine.
Friend: I wonder what’s enshrined here in this mountain. Nishimura: Hm? Oh, that? Just take a look inside // Natsume, Tanuma, you too! Tanuma: Eh?
Tanuma: Natsume, will you be all right…? SFX: whispering Natsume: Yeah, it looks well-kept and you don't feel anything strange, do you? Tanuma: No.
Natsume: …excuse me…
[004] Natsume: Masks… Nishimura: Can you see the masks? Apparently this place is called the “Mound of the Four Faces”.
Box: I see, that explains why there are four masks… Friend: Mound of the Four Faces? Tanuma: Even though there are only three masks?
Natsume: Eh? Nishimura: That’s right.
Nishimura: Even though there are only three masks, they call it the Mound of the Four Faces // Pretty interesting, don’t you think? Natsume: So I’m the only one who can see the fourth mask…? // In that case
[005] Natsume: One of them is an Ayakashi?
Nishimura: I don’t know the details, but my brothers told me that long ago the kami of this mountain used to live around here. // Unfortunately she retired to a place further up on the mountain, but her four attendants stayed behind // to protect her and the mountain from below. Tanuma: Really?
Tanuma: Sounds romantic. Natsume: You think? Tanuma: Yes. Friend: They don’t look dangerous, but they do give me the creeps. Don’t you think so too, Natsume? Natsume: !
Natsume: I suppose. // They definitely are a little creepy, // but if it’s an Ayakashi that protects the Kami of this place.
Natsume: It’ll be fine as long as we leave it alone.
Teacher: Cleanup time is over! Everyone gather! Students: Yes!
[006] Nishimura: Are you kidding me!? Nomiya-sensei, why can’t we have dinner with the girls!? Nomiya: Because the dining rooms in this old building and the newer one, where the girls are staying, are both too small to hold all of you. Boys: EH!?
Nishimura: Really,… why did we even come here!? SFX: sob Friend: Hey, speak for yourself! Natsume: Cheer up, Nishimura! I’ll give you my pudding. Tanumu: Look, it started raining.
Tanuma: Those are some thick clouds… it probably won’t stop for a while. SFX: vssshh (heavy rain) Box: Tanuma’s prediction was right.
Someone: This is bad! // The river is going to overflow! Box: The teachers decided we should all move to the newer building to spend the night there.
Box: Since the old building lies very close to the river, it already has a raised floor. // Despite that, it appears the flood water still grazed the underside of the floor.
Someone: Hey, the sky cleared up! // Looks like it never rained at all!
[007] Teacher: I heard the water has gone down, but // you still shouldn’t get too close to the river! // All right, it’s time for self-studying!
Teacher: I'll be in the night-keeper's room! Students: OK.
SFX: spit
Natsume: NYANKO-SENSEI!!
Natsume: Hey, you! // Nyanko-sensei! SFX: rustle Teacher: (All right, time for a break!) Nyanko: Yo, Natsume. Natsume: What are you doing here!? How did you even get here? Nyanko: How do you think? I hid in your bag.
[008] Natsume: So that’s why my bag was so heavy!! But when I opened it when I arrived, you… Nyanko: I slipped out on the way. // I’m looking for the sake waterfall that is said to be around here, but due to the rain I haven’t found it yet. Be good and help me find it! Natsume: I came here to study! Make sure no one else sees you, sensei! Nyanko: Hm?
Natsume: Because it would be humiliating to admit I accidently brought my pet cat on a study trip! Nyanko: After all this time… you still care about such little things… // ………
SFX: woosh
Natsume: …what’s wrong, sensei…? // … // the river?
SFX: creak
SFX: creak
SFX: creak...
Natsume: It’s a little boat, but after the rain of last night…
SFX: ...creak... Natsume: The woman quietly passed us in her boat. Not even once lifting her head from the water.
Box: She probably wasn’t human… Nishimura: Ah, there he is! Hey, Natsume! SFX: startle
Friend: It’s dangerous to go that close to… // Oh? Natsume, that cat… Natsume: Eh? Ah! This… Nyanko: …… SFX: quick
Nyanko: (Tch!) This is such a pain! SFX: cough // Poof
Nishimura: …oh? I thought he looked like you pet cat, but… // now that I look again… Natsume: ! SFX: Plop
[011] Nishimura: ……a wild boar? Natsume: Ah, no, it’s just a homeless cat, and… Nishimura: A cat!? So there exists another of these big-headed cats.
Nishimura: You really like these cats, don’t you Natsume? (Right? Right?) Natsume: Ye, yes…
Natsume: (Sigh…)
Tanuma: …I see,… so that wild board tiger cat is actually Nyanko-sensei…? // Leaving him behind was too mortifying, huh…………….? Natsume: …you can laugh about it, Tanuma…
Natsume: However, // that ayakashi in the little boat… // It felt like she was just drifting along the river's current.
Natsume: I probably should let it go… Teacher: Hey, Natsume! // Could you hand me those papers?
[013] Box: It’s one of the masks I saw in the Mound of the Four Faces.
Natsume: (Guh…)
Natsume: Err, Nomiya-sensei, // are you feeling all right? No headaches or heavy limbs…? Teacher: Hm? No? Natsume: I see…
Natsume: No one else can see it…
Box: Am I the only one // who can see that mask? Student: (Sensei, is this the correct value?) Teacher: (Oh? You need to use another formula.)
Nyanko: Hmm.
[014] Nyanko: If Tanuma can’t feel anything, it’s only small fry. Just leave it be. Natsume: But it wouldn’t possess a human without reason, right? It feels a little weird.
Nyanko: The act of possession itself is a bit eerie, but this one is virtually the same in power as the small fry that can’t possess anyone.
Natsume: Virtually the same, // huh…?
Nyanko: Well, if it really bothers you, why don’t you show me that mask. Natsume: Eh, thank… Nyanko: You have more free time than I thought!! Natsume: ……
SFX: Stealthily
Natsume: I wonder where Nomiya-sensei is.
[015] Natsume: At this time, probably the night-keeper's room…? SFX: ...woosh
Natsume: Sensei, did you hear that too?
SFX: woosh...
Natsume: ! Nyanko: Water!?
SFX: splash
Natsume: …wow, the water came all the way up here… // Is it because of yesterday’s flooding? But why is it still here…?
[016] Natsume: …I have to inform the teachers…
SFX: ...woosh
SFX: woosh
Natsume: What is this feeling? Box: From the end of the hall.
Natsume: Somehow all this water… maybe it’s a leak or the flooding…
[017] Tanuma: Hm? // What are you talking about? Natsume: Eh, wha, Tanuma! SFX: slap
Tanuma: Hm? …what do you see, Natsume…? SFX: woosh...
Natsume: Ah, well. // There is water… SFX: pull
Tanuma: Water? Natsume: Well, not just water, // it’s more like a river… SFX: woosh...
Natsume: The river…
Natsume: is slowly getting closer. SFX: woosh Box: This Natsume: Should I be scared? // Will we be fine?
[018] Natsume: Right, this sensation.
Natsume: The unknown is scary.
Box: Tanuma took a look at the end of the hallway, but // he didn’t find anything suspicious. // Along the hall were just bedrooms and a storeroom. // Inside the rooms he couldn’t find anything strange either. // And the hall ended with a wall.
Natsume: Through the window it was possible to see the river and the places it flooded last night.
Natsume: Thanks, everything’s normal? Tanuma: Yes, I didn’t sense anything. Natsume: I see… so I’m the only one who can see this… Tanuma: Probably.
[019] Nyanko: But Natsume, it would be better // if you’d stayed clear of this river. // What you can’t see can’t hurt you, but // what you can see could get you caught up in the flow.
Nyanko: That’s what a “flow” does.
Natsume: That’s right, I understand.
[020] Tanuma: Then you could be caught in it too, sensei! // Come, let’s get away from here. SFX: sudden
Tanuma: Come now, quickly! Natsume: Ah, yes…
SFX: Bump Natsume: Ah, // I’m sorry…
XXX: No, it’s my fault too.
[021] Natsume: A mask!? // Wait…! Teacher: Hey, I’m about to call the roll.
Natsume: (Ah!)
Natsume: WAH! Sensei, the mask!? Teacher: Huh!? What’s wrong, Natsume?
Natsume: The mask moved to that student!?
Natsume: What is it up to!?
Natsume: ……
SFX: woosh... Natsume: And that water
Natsume: Maybe it has something to do with the woman in that little boat…? XXX: …me!
[022] Nishimura: Natsume! Natsume: Ah!
Nishimura: You all right? // You don’t look well.
Natsume: Thanks, I’m fine. // At this rate, // I only make people worry about me.
Box: I’m the only one who can see it. // I have to make sure no one else gets caught up in something strange.
Nishimura: (All right, let’s grab some food!)
Natsume: Why is that mask moving around?
Natsume: I’m sure I saw it in the Mound of the Four Faces, so why…
[023] Natsume: What should we get for dinner, Natsume… Natsume: Yes, I think…
SFX: ba-dump
Natsume: Hey! // Get away from him! Kid: …? // Natsume?
Natsume: Don’t you dare hurt my friend!
[024] Nishimura: Na… // Natsume?
Nishimura: What’s wrong…? SFX: slow
Mask: I’m very sorry to trouble you.
Natsume: It disappeared. // Did it move to someone else!?? Friends: Na.. // Natsume…?
SFX: sudden
Natsume: “I’m very sorry to trouble you” // ……
[025] Friends: Hey, Natsume! SFX: run
SFX: pant
SFX: woosh
SFX: woosh
SFX: woosh Natsume: The river, it’s longer than before… SFX: creak
SFX: step Natsume: Just now!
[026] Natsume: It sounds like there is a little boat in the back.
SFX: thud
SFX: pant // rustle
Nyanko: Where are you going, Natsume? Natsume: The Mound of the Four Faces. // …I don’t think that mask is up to something evil, but…
Natsume: I hope that Mound can give me some answers.
Natsume: Someone is here…
[027] Man: Hey, hey. // You are one of the students staying at the inn down here? // Last night must have been scary? I seems the water flooded all the way up there. Natsume: Yes,… are you familiar with this place? Man: Haha, I’m the priest of a nearby shrine. This shrine was also put under my care. // Because of all the rain, I got a little worried, but… the shrine looks fine.
Natsume: …nothing… // unusual…? Man: Yes? …ah, you mean there are only 3 masks? Yes, the names a little weird. // But I’ve taken a liking to it.
Natsume: …err,… do you happen to know anything about those masks? I’m… just interested. // I mean, why are there only three masks…?// For example… what about the little boat, and that woman in it…?
Man: Hm? // I see……
[028] Man: Long ago a female kami lived here, she was protected by her four attendants, but // one day she fell in love with a human. // But human lives are fleeting and he left this world.
Man: Heart-broken, clutching the hair ornament he gave her, she confined herself on the top of the mountain. // It appears her four attendants stayed behind to protect her and the mountain.
Man: But as time passed, these four started to lose their power too. // They felt sorry for their master that even they would leave her, // so it is said the attendants carved their faces into masks and hung them in the shrine before they disappeared.
[029] Natsume: So, those three masks are... Man: Three of them disappeared from this world. // But only three.
Man: Seeing that there are only three masks in the Mound of the Four Faces means there is still some hope left in this world.
Man: There is still one left // to protect this mountain and its Kami.
[030] Natsume: The four attendants that protect this mountain's Kami. // Three disappeared,
Natsume: one is left.
Box: Somehow…
Natsume: I think I understand it now.
Natsume: The little boat that came down the river.
Natsume: The woman who didn't lift her face from the water. // That was...
Natsume: She is looking for something… SFX: woooosh
[031] Friend: Natsume! Where did you go?
Natsume: Nishimura, // I’m sorry for the weird stuff I sai… Nishimura: You're hopeless, don't freak out over a bug! Natsume: …eh.
Nishimura: But well, thanks for worrying about me.
Box: It seems that Tanuma convinced them I freaked out over // a huge bug sticking to Nishimura.
Nishimura: Let’s get dinner!// Tomorrow will be the last day!
Natsume: That night I had a dream. [032] SFX: Woosh
Mask: …way // Away.
Mask: Carried away. // I’m so sorry. // Somewhere. // Carried away. // The mountain's Kami. // I’m very sorry. // Somewhere. // Carried away… // Mountain's // Kami // important
[033] Natsume: Yes. SFX: creak SFX: creak
Natsume: Yes,… in the distance // I can hear the little boat.
Nyanko: Hey, Natsume! // It’s still dark, what are we doing here? Natsume: Help me look!
Nyanko: What for? Natsume: I’m not really sure. Nyanko: WHAT!?
[034] Natsume: I think that heavy rain washed something away. It was important to this mountain's Kami.// It should be somewhere around here. SFX: thud thud
Natsume: I think that mask moved around the teachers and students hoping to find it. // This mountain's Kami’s……
Natsume: Something important to the broken-hearted Kami.
Nyanko: Hm. SFX: poof
[035] Nyanko: I’ll search the area over there. // You take care of the area below. Natsume: Sensei.
Nyanko: Let’s get this over with, I want to sleep!!
SFX: grab grab
SFX: rustle
SFX: glitter
SFX: crunch
SFX: poof Natsume: Found it.
[036] Natsume: The hair pin... // That mask, // this is what he was looking for. SFX: creak
SFX: creak Natsume: For the sake of this mountain's Kami…
Natsume: Having lost her beloved hair pin, // never looking up from the water to find it. SFX: creak
[037] SFX: gulp... Natsume: Is this what you’re looking for?
Natsume: Your attendant // was looking for this.
SFX: slow...
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[039] Kami: Still // looking after me?
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[041] SFX: Woosh
Box: When I returned to the inn, the river had disappeared. // It probably had been an illusion that allowed the Kami to extend her search area. // That’s how I cleared the case of the mysterious little boat.
Natsume: I wonder if she returned to the top of the mountain.
[042] Nyanko: Probably. // She retrieved her hair pin, so I don't think she'll come down for a while. Natsume: ......
Nyanko: But well, // she realized her loyal attendants are still looking after her.
Natsume: Yeah.
Natsume: Three attendants who lost their power as time passed, // and the remaining one, who will probably lose its last bit of power soon.
Natsume: Although it possessed a human body, it didn't control them to move around. // And the words spoken to me in my dream sounded weak.
[043] Box: Even so Natsume: It’s still here.
Natsume: It is still // here for her.
Nishimura: Finally! // We’re finally going home! // You’ll have to say goodbye to the wild boar cat! SFX: tight Friend: Nishimura, get here! Let’s clean up! Nishimura: I’ll be right there!
[044] Tanuma: Natsume? Natsume: Yeah,… hey, Tanuma,… // How many masks do you see? Tanuma: Hm?
Tanuma: Hm………
Tanuma: Only three.
Natsume: I see.
[045] Natsume: Take care.
Student: (Yay!) Student: All right! Teacher: Right, everyone gather! // We’re going home! Students: (Hey! // Be quiet! // Yay!)
Box: The mysterious Mound of the Four Faces.
Natsume: I’m sure there will forever be three masks. https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/42107Translation: Baby, Kokoro no Mama ni! 32015-12-10T13:21:32+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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(1) Vert blck txt: He doesn’t want her to, yet she keeps coming. Time after time he shakes her off, yet she still follows him. // A mysterious creature, approaching rapidly.
Title: Chapter 3 Feeling Rewarded
Author: Okuyama Puku
(2) Masaki: Oh, Shizuru? // What are you doing here?
Shizuru: Ma- Mama- Masaki!? // Speak for yourself! Why are you...!?
(3) Shizuru: If Nana-san were to meet Masaki, she'll fall prey to this popularity-pheromone...... // I can't let them meet...! For the sake of my bright future! Masaki: (See you!)
Shizuru: This is a private property! Masaki: I'm here to pick up my little sister.
Shizuru: ...little sister? Girl: Maa-chan!
Girl: I told you I'm old enough to walk home by myself! Masaki: Karin.
Karin: Every time you show up, the eyes of all teacher’s turn into hearts! Women: (Oh! It's Masaki-kun! // Kyaa! Kyaa!) Masaki: That's not true...
(4) Masaki: Haven't I told you? (I have 4 little sisters.) Text: High school student // Elementary school students - Twins Karin: (Let go of me!) Shizuru: Why did you mention they are twins...?
Masaki: (Hehe) Anyway,
Masaki: you seem to be having fun too. (Who's that kid?)
Shizuru: I was… just helping out… Nana: Roji-kun. // Who's your friend?
(5) Masaki: Oh,... you must be Nana-chan? // Shizuru has told me all about you. // You really are cute. // Shizuru: It’s all over for me now… Masaki: (I knew there was no way Shizuru came to this place by himself.)
Shizuru: I have to be on my guard, I can't have him talk to Nana-san... Masaki: Nana-chan, what are you specializing in?) Shizuru: “chan?” !?
(6) Shizuru: (Go, my little pest!) // OK! // Maida attack!!
Shizuru: Interrupt their conversation to play!
Shizuru: Yes, yes.
Maida: Here! Masaki: Eh? Thank you!
(7) Maida: You welcome! // Welcome!
Txt: Failure Shizuru: Good girl, good girl…
Karin: Hey boss, are you possibly…
Karin: in love with // my SISTER?
(8) Shizuru: Don… don’t be ridiculous!
Kids: Boss! // Hey, let’s use this as a skipping rope! // Let’s play a game of tag!
Kids: (Boss, can you turn the rope? I can!) Shizuru: (Well…) Kids: (I’m really good at turning the rope. // Ahaha! // You need to jump!)
Karin: They’re so childish // and boring, don’t you agree Kokoro-chan?
(9) Masaki: …I see, so he was doing a puppet play? // He’s even wearing a costume… Don’t see that often. Kids: (Boss, you’re doing horrible!) Shizuru: (It’s because of my tail!)
Masaki: ……
Masaki: Hey, Nana-chan. // Next time, why don’t we…
Shizuru: Masaki! // Nana-chan’s hand… // (What the he is he doing!? // So close!!)
(10) Shizuru: Let go…
Kids: (Boss, what are you doing!?) Nana: (Are you alright?)
Masaki: (Hehehehe.)
Nana: Ah, I forgot! // We can’t go home without cleaning up. Girl: (Nana!)
Nana: Today you’ll be coming home with me, Kokoro-chan. // So, just wait a moment. // We can go… Kids: (Boss, you can’t!) Shizuru: ( I’m going too…) Kids: (Let’s play more!)
Nana: Oh?
(11) Nana: Kokoro-chan…?
Karin: Skipping is a game for little kids. // A lady wouldn’t play such a game. // Ladies get a Caramel Macchi at the Farbuk!*
*A Caramel Macchiato at the Starbucks
Karin: I have a lot of dolls at home! // (They’re hands-me-downs from my sister though.) // Let’s play with those!
Karin: Don’t worry! I know the way! // Leave it to your big sister, Kokoro-chan!
(12) Karin: (Look, so pretty!)
Karin: (Put it in here to take them home.)
Karin: (It’s frozen…)
Karin: (I wonder what made this hole.)
Karin: (There’s another one here!)
Karin: (Look, it’s a cat! // Wait for me!)
(13) Karin: I have no idea where we are… // Hey,… // Hey Kokoro-chan, have you ever been around here?
Karin: (Kyahahahaha! // What kind of face is that? // Hahahaha! // Hahahaha! // Oh!)
Karin: (Hey, do it again! // Again!)
(14) Maida: Ah! Karin: A chestnut!!
Karin: Look, there’s more of them! Maida: Hm! // Hm!
Karin: Wait! Don’t touch them! // They have thorns!
Karin: (Tada! // These mittens are really useful!
(15) Karin: (Hehehe, // I love chestnuts! // Shall we have a Mont Blanc? // Or chestnut rice? // Chestnuts with mashed sweet potatoes?)
T/N: Mont Blanc is a desert made of chestnuts
Karin: Kokoro-chan, // we made some great discovery, right?
Crow: caw
(16) Karin: EEEK!! Ko… Kokoro-chan! // That crow is gonna eat her! // I have to do something…!
Karin: Ah! // Get away from her!!
(17) Shizuru: …OUCH! // DAMN IT! // (Don’t look // at me like that!)
Karin: Uaaaaaa, Maa-chan! Masaki: (Now, now.) Shizuru: (Hey, hey! // I wasn’t leaving you behind…) // Masaki,… you’re fast! Damn…
Masaki: Hey, would you like me to thank you for finding Karin?
Shizuru: I don’t care, // I’m just glad we found them. (Sigh… // My feet are all wobbly.)
(21) Shizuru: ……
Shizuru: Why are you so clingy?
(22) Masaki: I guess she was also scared. Shizuru: Huh?
Shizuru: ……
Shizuru: It… it’s alright. // It’s alright now. // Good? (23) Nana: (There you are, kokoro-chan!) Shizuru: (I’ll use this // to get… away…)
Nana: Roji-kun, what happened to you hand!? Shizuru: Eh? Well…
(24) Nana: You’re bleeding! // We need to treat it! Shizuru: Am I going to Nana-san’s house!?
Karin: Boss, I’m so sorry! // It’s my fault, so I’ll treat you wound… Nana: Eh? Shizuru: (Don’t be // ridiculous!)
Shizuru: Listen! This! I did this! I caught that chestnut! // You didn’t do anything wrong! Just leave this to Nana-san, you don’t have to do anything! Got that? Got it, right?
(25) Masaki: Hey, look! I found a first aid kit!! (Here!) Shizuru: DAMN YOU!!
Shizuru: (Why do they have one here?) Masaki: (In case someone gets hurt?) Nana: (Thank god!)
Shizuru: But thanks to this search I did get Nana-san’s phone number! // DAMN! (so nice!) Masaki: (Stop grinning…)
Maida: Hm!
Nana: (Shall I make us a chestnut cake? Karin: (Yeey!) Masaki: (I’d love to try it.) ShizuruL She can cook too!
Text: To be continued https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/42087Translation: Mozuku, Walking! 92015-12-04T15:19:22+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com1 (57) Title: Chapter 9 [Howl]
Mozuku: That tumbler...... // He looks angry.
SFX: push Mozuku: Let see, are you a "tumbler" or a "fumbler" ......
SFX: wobble // wobble Mozuku: ............stupid.
SFX: push
SFX: roll // crash // wobble // wobble
2 (58) Mozuku: ............ // He's got some nerve, looking angry at me............... SFX: wobble
SFX: wobble // wobble
Mozuku: Somehow I should be able to get on top of it. SFX: carefully
Mozuku: Oh! It works!
SFX: tremble tremble Mozuku: I did it!
SFX: tremble tremble Mozuku: .........for some reason // I want to howl.
Mozuku: ......aawo
SFX: crumble
3 (59) SFX: Fall
SFX: BAM!
Mozuku: Ouch...
Mozuku: ! SFX: bang bang
SFX: bang bang
SFX: bang bang bang
Mozuku: ............that reminds me. SFX: bang bang bang
Box: In Japanese the world tumbler includes the characters for little monk. // Watching this little monk hit it's head against the glass door, // feels like seeing all the suffering of Bodhidarma during his 9 year long meditation // ...... facing a wall.
4 (60) Mozuku: It really looks angry......
Mozuku: Let's try to climb it again.
SFX: BAM! // wobble
Brother: Dogs are really stupid...... SFX: serious
Mozuku: ...did // he watch me all this time......!? SFX: bang
SFX: bang bang bang https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/42084Translation: To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts 72015-12-01T21:28:41+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (43) Hank: The slums...
Hank: No big city without it. // It was like that before the war... // And since the end of it, it only became worse.
Hank: The war is still eating the poor out of their houses.
Title: Chapter 7 The conviction of the Gargoyle (1)
2 (44) Kid: Don't stare.
Kid: This is... my home.
3 (45) Kid: Well,... it's not really a home, // it's just the attic of some vacant house.
Kid: But // it's not too shabby, huh?
Hank: ...indeed. // It's enough to stay alive.
Kid: Yes... can you tell? Old man! Hank: ...... // Old man......
4 (46) Kid: You can see it, right? // That is the White Church. // It's been part of this city since forever. // Due to all the smoke it's no longer white, but // ...that's the place where I saw the Gargoyle.
Kid: Hey, you... // It's true you defeated all those beasts, right?
Kid: So, please...
5 (47) Hank: ......yeah.
Liza: I'm sure the army informed every city about the Pseudo-god soldiers... // So the police of this city should also know, right? What this means...!? Kid: They don't listen, that's why you're relying on me, right? Liza: I suppose, but...
Liza: Why would we believe this kid?
Liza: Tell me, boy. // Where is your mother?
6 (48) Liza: What the hell are you doing!? Kid: You were asking for it!!
Kida: Old man! // You have to kill that Gargoyle!
Liza: Wait, you little brat!!
7 (49) Char: That Gargoyle...... // is only after the people of this area, right?
Hank: ......it seems so.
Char: Why do you think the police doesn't listen? Hank: ...because these are all guys who live by the laws. // They don't deal with the absurd... // And that's what this is.
Hank: Topher... // Christopher Cairns // "Gargoyle". // He was always thirsting for justice. 8 (50) Box: We all became Pseudo-god soldiers, because we had something we wanted to protect. // Our home, // our family // ...our own life. // We ought to have been ready for it.
Box: ...but the days on the battlefield would make our hearts waver. // Nothing had prepared us for the task of killing people. Guy: I can't do it anymore!
Guy: I can't do it... I am...... Killing, being killed... // I don't want to see it!
Guy: When will this end......? I want to go home already... // Soon...
Guy: Shut up,...Theo!
9 (51) Box: Topher fought for justice. // It was his pride and joy. // He would do anything to deliver justice.
Topher: Justice is with us from the North!! // Don't hesitate to kill those of the South!! // We will conquer the evil!!
10 (52) Box: I never understood // what justified this war..., // what was good about it?
Box: But at that moment // he saved us with his strong belief that we delivered justice.
Hank: Maybe it was because somewhere we had all been searching // for a reason that warranted the use of our alien powers.
11 (53) Hank: Gargoyle... // A demon statue that stands guard over the people from up the church. // It will swoop down on those who sin and punish them with its claws. // In fear of its retribution, the people will life an honest life. // ...a warning from the devil.
Hank: In a sense, // it exist to bring justice to the people.
Hank: Topher... // What's going on in your mind...?
12 (54) Char: I am... going to look for that boy, I'm worried! Hank: ......hm, will you be fine by yourself?
Char: I can // protect myself!
Hank: That Gargoyle... it seems he only after girls.
Hank: If he attacks you or someone near you, // will you be able to shoot him? 13 (55) Char: ........... // ...I'll be fine.
14 (56) Hank: ............ // Makes me nostalgic, // this kind of place.
Hank: If that kid is right, the Gargoyle should be in that church, but... // from his place he couldn't have seen it came from here...... it doesn't follow...
15 (57) Hank: !! // That is!?
16 (58) Char: Found you!
Kid: Are you fine without the old man?
Kid: This place... is pretty dangerous, you know?
17 (59) Char: I'll be fine... // I have this!
Char: If I have to, I'll shoot!
Kid: Hm......
Kid: ...I heard you were raised in an orphanage, // I bet it was a nice place.
Kid: So why are you travelling with the old man?
Kid: He... is a Beast Hunter, right? // That's dangerous!
Char: That...
18 (60) Char: What do you think of that Gargoyle? Kid: ?
Kid: He's killed people, he's a bad guy. // He probably killed a lot of people in the war too.
Char: ...my father // was a pseudo-god soldier.
Char: And he // was killed by a Beast Hunter.
19 (61) Kid: !? // So the old man is your enemy!?
Char: That's right... // My father was very important to me. // So I detest the person who killed him. // However...
Char: It's possible that my father committed crimes, just like the other pseudo-god soldiers. // To make sure of that I am travelling with Hank-san. Kid: ............
Char: But... right now I still don't know. // Every Pseudo-god soldiers I've met, had done something wrong. // However, they weren't bad too the core... // They were all tortured by experiences...
20 (62) Char: The more... // I get to know about them, // I start to feel they aren't gods nor beasts... // they are humans.
Kid: ...............
21 (63) Kid: Oops...
Man: Watch out, lad! Kid: I'm sorry!
Kid: ...hehe.
Char: You stole it!? // Again you...! Kid: It's fine.
Char: It's not! // I have money, so...
22 (64) Char: Ah......
Kid: I know it's wrong. // But I have to live.
Kid: My mother... // was killed by that Gargoyle. Char: !!
23 (65) Mother: If I don't do this, we won't survive...
Kid: To see her being killed by that monster,...... it wasn't right!
Sachi: Stop it! // Don't use Mozuku to clean the porch!!
2 (52) Mother: ...Sachi, // do I look like some childish person who would use Mozuku as mop? Sachi: You didn't?
Mother: Of course not. // The opposite...
Mother: I pretended he was a toy car! // (vroom vroom) Sachi: That's even worse!!
Mother: Hahaha......... // I'm joking. Sachi: Stop it with the weird jokes!
Mother: Moreover, Sachi, // Mozuku's fur is pretty long, don't you think? // It's easy to mistake him for a mop. Sachi: Eh? // You think so?
Sachi: I've got an idea!
Sachi: Mozuku, // I'll be right back.
3 (53) SFX: run run Sachi: Scissors! // Scissors! Mozuku: I have a bad feeling about this...
Sachi: Oh? The scissors are gone... SFX: relieved
Sachi: Ah! // A carving knife! Mozuku: A carving knife!?
Sachi: Found the scissors! Mozuku: ............
SFX: Bam!
SFX: cut cut
Sachi: Mozuku, // I'm going to make you look great! Sit still now. Mozuku: I knew this would happen......
Mother: Sachi, // be careful! Sachi: Yes!
Sachi: Here we ! // go! SFX: cut
4 (54) Sachi: Yeey! // This is fun! SFX: cut cut Mozuku: ......
Mozuku: By the length of our fur, you can tell whether the dog is a long-haired breed or a short-haired breed. // The presence or absence of an undercoat tells whether we are a single coat dog breed and double coat dog breed.
SFX: cut cut Box: I'm a long haired dog bread with a single coat.
Box: That doesn't mean that I only have my topcoat to protect me from the cold // It just means it simply keeps growing until I'm completely covered. // In regard to my existence, whether it's to bring out my "shadiness" // or a manifestation of my self-consciousness about looking plump, // I don't know why my fur keeps growing.
Box: On the contrary, // I don't even know what kind of being is confined // underneath this long fur. // And I don't have the courage to find out.
SFX: cut Box: So, what I'm trying to say is
Box: I hate // to have my fur trimmed! SFX: cut cut cut cut
5 (55) SFX: cut Sachi: Oh! Mozuku: "Oh"!?
Sachi: Hehe! Mozuku: I looks funny!?
Sachi: ............
Sachi: Mother, // do we have scotch tape? Mozuku: Scotch tape!?
Mother: How much did you cut off...... Sachi: Hahaha...
Sachi: Just joking! Mother: Well, // I suppose I deserved that, huh?
Mother: You're such a child! // Hahahaha... Sachi: Ehehehehe....
Box: ............
6 (56) Sachi: Alright, I'm done! // Don't you think Mozuku looks more handsome now? Mozuku: !
Mozuku: ...how unexpected, // she actually did a good job.
Box: I have no wish to know // what I look like beneath my fur.
Box: It's just, // finding that my body feels slightly lighter now,
Mozuku: ! Sachi: Hm!
Box: no matter who I am, // to peacefully live together with human beings, who also have an endlessly growing, single coat. // That wish will never // feel strange.
Sachi: Mozuku, // next time we'll give you a full-body perm! Mozuku: ............https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41676Translation: Baby, Kokoro no Mama ni! 22015-08-22T13:19:39+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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(1-2) White/red txt: Someday, let's have a picnic... // together♪ Red txt: Baby, // kokoro no mama ni! brown txt: Chapter 2 // My tumbling life is like a rice ball Black txt: Okuyama Puku white/green/yellow txt: A Puffy Baby, A Plump Comedy
(3) -
(4) Shizuru: You finally came back from the repair service...!! (All healthy again!)
Masaki: It's like a reunion of lovers, right Shizuru? Box: Tachibana Masaki (19) / Roji's Childhood friend, loves to play games, (incredibly) handsome
Masaki: Have you finally decided to date your phone~~? // (I'm happy for you!) Shizuru: Shut up, Masaki...
(5) Shizuru: Listen well! // Early in the afternoon last Sunday, while I had to sacrifice my precious phone to dodge a little devil, my dearest Nana-san called me by my name... Masaki: Aah, the girl you always talk about?
Masaki: Shall I act as a go-between~~? Shizuru: You!
Shizuru: I wonder how many have cried because of your kindness. Masaki: (He's my friend. Let's get along.) Shizuru: (nervous) girls: (in love) Box: Elementary school Masaki: (Let's hang out in the park together?) Shizuru: (nervous) girls: (in love) Box: High School
Masaki: I'm just being nice to all girls. // All I do is telling a cute girl that she's cute. Shizuru: EH~~? // Then what am I?
(6) Shizuru: Anyway! Your face won't do any good, so stay away from Nana-san!! // Moreover, I hate you for looking so damn good! // (Though you're a good-for-nothing game addict!) Masaki: I do love that part about you though... (Just saying, I'm not going to court a girl you're in love with.)
Masaki: But now I do really want to meet her. Shizuru: Stop it, I'm serious!! Masaki: Yes, yes.
Shizuru: Nana-san...!
Masaki: ?
(7) Masaki: What? Shizuru: NOOO!
Nana: Roji-kun! Masaki: Ye // ...yes!?
Nana: ...err, // will you do me a favor // and meet with me after school...? (8) Shizuru: EEAAAH! // With pleasure!! Masaki: (Ugh!)
(9) Nana: Our club will do a puppet show here today. (We're the puppet show club.) // I'm sorry it's so sudden, but thanks for standing in for the part of a sick member.
Shizuru: Puppet show!? (Wearing a costume?) // That's... a bit much.
Nana: You can keep the script with you. (Yes, we'll all be wearing them.) // Just follow it.
Nana: ...is it too much?
(10) Shizuru: No, it's fine!! (I need those cat ears!)
Nana: Kokoro-chan goes here too. // You can meet later.
Shizuru: Maida...!? // I'm getting a bad feeling about this... Nana: (Come, let's practice!)
(11) Shizuru: (No...)
Shizuru: (No...)
Sign: Matsudai Puppet show club // The tumbling rice ball
Puppet: "Oop!" Nana: Then, the old man's rice ball rolled away...
Shizuru: Yikes... // So many children!! // They are all looking!
(12) Shizuru: Can I talk in front of so many people...?
Shizuru: .........
Shizuru: That, // since I had my had to give the command in Junior High, I...!! (Ri... Rise...)
Shizuru: Impossible... // I can't do it! Impossible!
Girl: Roji-kun? Shizuru: I need to use the toilet... Girl: It's almost your turn, right?
Shizuru: (It'll be fine!) I'm just going to calm down my racing heart...
(13) Shizuru: Ma... // Maida!!?
(14) Shizuru: Yipes!!
Boy: Ro... Roji-kun, your hand... Shizuru: When did you... Hand?
Shizuru: Ah! (It popped out!) Nana: In the hole in the ground lived a lot of mice. // They ran out, surprised by the fallen old man. Shizuru: She easily fixed my mistake!
Shizuru: Ah... that scared me! (falsetto) // Welcome, old man! (Nana-san is so great...) // Sir, thank you for the rice ball.
(15) Maida: Yes, // you welcome! Shizuru: I wasn't talking to you!
Shizuru: Oh!
Maida: ......
Maida: You dropped this. Shizuru: Oh, yes... thanks. (I don't need it yet...)
(16) Maida: You welcome! // You welcome! // You welcome! // You welcome! Shizuru: Yipes!! She's getting all excited.
Shizuru: No,... don't pay attention to her. (Err...) // In the next scene I'll show the old man my thanks...
Shizuru: She's looking...
XXX: Roji-kun, take out the dumplings. Shizuru: Ah, yes.
(17) Shizuru: "As a token of my gratitude, I will give you this. // Please enjoy IT." Text: IT
Shizuru: This present // is very graphic!
Maida: You welcome! // You welcome! Shizuru: You little!
(18) Text: Ignores it and continues Boy: "W...well, Mr Mouse, to show your gratitude..." // "Ma...maybe, if you would" // "Could you sing me another one of your songs?" Shizuru: Hey, // You. // Don't...
Shizuru: ...ah!
Woman: Kokoro-chan, let's go back. Maida: Hm! Shizuru: Ah!
Shizuru: Eh! // EH!
(19) Shizuru: Waa!
(20) -
(21) Kids: It's the Mouse Boss!!
Shizuru: ...... // Aah,... to show my thanks, // old man,
Shizuru: I will gladly sing my song for you. // Now, let's sing together...!
(22) Shizuru: The Tumbling Rice Ball!
(23) Shizuru: I bet I disappointed Nana-san......
Shizuru: (I should have thought this through......)
Shizuru: Come to think of it!
Maida: Mama! // Mama! Shizuru: ...... (I'm not your mother.)
Shizuru: Why do you follow me around?
(24) Maida: Hm! Shizuru: ? For me?
Shizuru: Haha, I'm not that depressed.
Shizuru: ......
Shizuru: I'm sorry, I'm feeling worse than I thought. // I will gratefully accept. Maida: You welcome! Shizuru: (It's "You're welcome".)
Maida: Here.
Shizuru: Don't wipe me off, I'm not dirty.
(25) Shizuru: Ah!
Shizuru: This tastes good...
Nana: Ah! // Found you!
(26) Nana: You were amazing, Roji-kun! Shizuru: Eh!?
Shizuru: Huh? She isn't mad at me...?
Kids: Boss! // There he is!
Kids: Boss, you were great! // You'll come again, right? // I want to touch him!
Nana: You know, // the principal also asked if Mr Mouse will come again! Shizuru: Eh?
Shizuru: Th... // There will...
(27) Shizuru: be a "NEXT"!!?
Masaki: Good afternoon!
Masaki: Ah, Shizuru. // What are you doing here?
Text: To be continued // He came, he came, a great man came! (Not yelling!) https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41585Translation: To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts 62015-08-01T14:49:29+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.comVOLUME 2 CONTENTS Chapter 6 The Unleashed Beasts 003 Chapter 7 The Conviction of the Gargoyle (1) 043 Chapter 8 The Conviction of the Gargoyle (2) 079 Chapter 9 The Conviction of the Gargoyle (3) 105 Chapter 10 The King of the Beasts 141
Note: All Italic text in this translation was printed in the Magazine only, not in the volumes
01 (003) [color page] Txt: Cain Madhouse - "The man whom unleashed the BEASTS onto this world" Char: (Hmm...)
Title: to the abandoned Sacred Beasts
Char: ...alright!
02-03 (004-005) [color page] black/yellow Txt: Opening color pages to commemorate the exceptional reception & release of the 1st volume! Black/purple txt: The Lamentation of a War beyond human power. White/Pink txt: Volumes 1 goes on sale at December 9 (Tuesday)! White: Includes a data collection of the "Pseudo-god soldiers"! White/Purple txt: Continuing the ungodly journey to hunt down his friends who came down to being no more than Beasts.
Title: to the abandoned Sacred Beasts
Title: [Chapter 6 The Unleashed Beasts]
04-05 (006) Interview with Maybe & More info [won't be translating this]
To the abandoned Sacred Beasts
06 (007) Title: to the abandoned Sacred Beasts
Txt: Chapter starts 6 pages back!!
Char: Hank-san, // let's go have breakfast?
Char: ...oh, it's open. (How careless...)
Char: (Yeah... he's really sloppy...)
07 (008) Char: Hank-san, wake up! Hank: Hmm...?
Hank: What... it's still light outside... Char: Of course it is, it's morning!
Char: Come on! Let the morning sun refresh you! / Refresh!! Hank: Stop it... I told you to wake me up when we arrive...
08 (009) Char: No way! // Breakfast time is almost over! // We should leave for the dining car now! Hank: Sure... I get it... // Just let me put on some clothes...
Old lady: He he...
09 (010) Char: Since I heard people say you can have meals in the train... // I've been waiting for this...!
Hank: ...come to think of it, // you said you had never seen a train before, right?
Char: Yes, I grew up in an orphanage... // So I never travelled far... // nor did I have the money for it.
10 (011) Hank: Yet you eat with good manners.
Char: When I was little... my dad taught me. // So no matter where I'd go... and no matter who I'd be, I'd be fine.
Hank: ...I see. // Sounds like him.
Char: .........
Char: What about you, Hank-san? // In... the past...
Hank: I was much like you. // I've been alone for as long as I can remember. Char: You... were...? Hank: But I never felt at home in the orphanage. // A lot happened, but somehow the days just felt like an endless sequence of meals. Char: Why did you join the army?
Hank: Because they accepted anyone who was healthy. // Well, it opened my way to become a pseudo-god soldier.
11 (012) Char: ............
Hank: ...you want to know, right?
12 (013) Char: All I know... is that my father was a pseudo-god soldier... // But... about you... // or about the war... he never......
Hank: ...that's right. // I should explain some things...
Hank: Why it was // decided to unleash the Beasts onto this world...
13 (014) Box: Someday near the end of the war, // we were still on the battlefield and hadn't heard so much as a whisper about peace being near... // We found ourselves in a seemingly endless dispute.
Box: We were strong. // We wielded a power our enemy couldn't deal with. // We had achieved victory on the battlefield.
Box: But......, no matter how strong we were, we couldn't escape death. // Hampered by tens of thousands of enemy soldiers, only a few of us were left, the supposedly unbeatable pseudo-god soldiers.
14 (015) Box: The few of us who had survived averted their eyes from death, // and wondered what would happen to them once the war had ended... // Just thinking of that kept them alive.
Box: Some had the hopeful view of going home to be with their family again.
Box: Some whined that with these bodies they would never fit in anywhere.
Box: And I... I hadn't thought about my future yet. // I was completely focused on leading my party, so... // ......no, I had made sure I didn't think of what would be next.
15 (016) Cain: Hank!
Hank: Cain...?
Cain: Are you still thinking about tomorrow? Hank: Yeah... // I committed all surviving pseudo-god soldiers to this battle. // I want to do as much as I can in advance.
Hank: The place where we are going is a battlefield of pure despair. // It wouldn't surprise me if we'd all die there.
16 (017) Cain: But many of us are still alive. // You've done a great job, Hank. // I'm proud of you.
Cain: ...hehe, who would have thought that sniffling boy would do this well.
Hank: Cain, you were the same. // I bet no one expected that the young master of a distinguished family would volunteer to become a pseudo-god soldier.
Cain: ...most certainly.
17 (018) Cain: ...right, Hank. // Your girl is looking for you. // It seems she wants to speak with you.
Cain: I think you should see her. // ...in the wake of a big battle, // I suppose there are things you would want to say to your lover, right?
Cain: ...Hank, // you are a splendid person, // but you are too serious.
18 (019) Woman: ...so you came.
Hank: What do you want? // ...Elaine.
19 (020) Elaine: ...Hank, // the day we first met the sky looked the same as now. Hank: It's not like you to give yourself over to sentiments. // ...well, considering tomorrow, maybe it's not that impossible?
Elaine: ...do you remember the vow we made as pseudo-god soldiers? Hank: ?
Hank: Those who have lost their heart // will be killed by the hands of their friends. // This power need to be restricted.
Elaine: This power... you don't regret it, right?
Hank: No, // this power allowed me to survive. // Moreover, I was able to protect a lot of people. // ...that's how I feel. 20 (021) Elaine: ......Hank, // this war will be over soon.
Hank: !
Elaine: Even in the army, few know about this, but... // Headquarter has secretly agreed on a cease-fire. // They already made up a draft for a peace treaty.
Elaine: The country that was once divided in North and South will become one again. // The shape of this new country is already visible.
Hank: ...I see.
21 (022) Hank: Then finally... // peace will... return, right?
Elaine: Yes,... but there is no place for us in that world.
Hank: !?
22 (023) Elaine: Sooner or later a pseudo-god soldier will lose their heart. // So... before that happens I will take the lives of our whole party. // That is my duty.
23 (024) Char: It was her duty... to kill all pseudo-god soldiers...? // Elaine-san...
Hank: Elaine... // was the engineer who had created the pseudo-god soldiers.
Char: !! Hank: Knowing full well what pseudo-god soldiers would bring about... // She still used that skill for the sake of saving our country.
Hank: So... to kill all pseudo-god soldiers... // That was her was of taking responsibility.
24 (025) Elaine: I really... // loved you,... Hank.
Hank: !?
Hank: What...!?
Hank: My body... I can't move...!?
25 (026) Elaine: Hank, I love you... that's why I need to stop you. // Because of you... I was hesitant to do it.
26 (027) Hank: ...Ca...in? Elaine: ...I'm done. Cain: I'm very sorry I'm getting you involved in something I should carry about my myself. // But, thanks... for being my friend even in this time.
Elaine: As planned, you will kill the rest of our party. // With these bullets, I'm sure they'll die without feeling too much pain.
Elaine: And then... after we die too, everyone involved with the pseudo-god soldiers will have been erased from this world.
Hank: I see... // Cain... For the sake of Elaine...
Cain: No,...
27 (028) Cain: The two of you // are the only people who will die!!
28 (029) Elaine: Cain... // You... why...
Cain: ......hehe,
Cain: Muhahahahahaha! // Hahahahahahaha...
29 (030) Hank: ...but I // didn't die.
Hank: Maybe it was just luck... // When I woke up at the clinic in a nearby village // the war had ended. // All pseudo-god soldiers returned home as heroes.
Hank: And... // what had happened to Cain and Elaine... // no one knows.
30 (031) Hank: Right now, the pseudo-god soldiers left alive in the world... // Elaine gave them the body of gods, // I taught them how to survive as a soldier, // and Cain... he unleashed them into the world.
31 (032) Liza: ...ah, // so this is where you are!
Liza: Well, we are almost there. // The city where Cain Madhouse was seen.
32 (033) Liza: Steam Street, White Church.
Liza: This city is located right above a vein of coal.
Liza: You can find many mining galleries under the surface outside town.
Liza: This is a city of merchants who make their fortune by selling the coal they extract. // It seems that in the past the earth here held more valuable ores, but...
Char: Wow... so pretty! Liza: That's the union of Ore dealers. Hank: ...so it's a mining town, right?
33 (034) Liza: Oh... // What's going on there?
Liza: Excuse me...
All: !!
People: Another one from the slums... How many makes this? // Ugh,... I'm scared! // This is the work of a Beast... Hank: Could it be...?
34 (035) Char: Ah... // My bag!!!
Kid: Haha, // strangers are really too easy...
35 (036) Kid: !?
Kid: No way... // When did he catch up...!?
Kid: Ouch! 36 (037) Police: You again! // Seriously... Enough of that, you dirty boy! // If I catch you again, it's won't end with a simple warning!
Kid: Hm. Police: Shh Shh! Leave now! // We are trying to find a serial killer here! Hank: ....are you sure about that?
Police: I'm sorry for all the trouble, officer. // But we don't have a jail for the likes of him. // If we'd arrest every poor soul, there'd be no end to it. Hank: ............
Hank: ...just now, you mentioned it's a serial killer... Police: ...yes, // he's been killing people on the trot. // In the last two weeks, 8 people were killed.
Police: All victims were prostitutes, waifs or of the slums. // He rips them to pieces and leaves their remains all over the city. // People are even starting to say it the work of a Beast. // It's dirty, it stinks and causes us a good lot of trouble...
Hank: ...may I take a look at the body? Police: ...huh? I don't mind, but...
37 (038) Hank: Sure enough, this doesn't look like the doings of an ordinary person... // ...but, is this Cain's work? For that it's...
Hank: Parallel wounds... claw marks...? // Besides... the body looks like it was dropped from quite a height.
Hank: This... could it?
38 (039) Kid: I know who did it.
Police: Why, you... are you still here!? Kid: ...I saw it.
Kid: A demon statue... // killed that woman.
39 (040) Kid: The gargoyle on top of the church...!!!
40 (041) Hank: The gargoyle... // you say...?
Hank: What's going on here,... Liza?
Hank: You said Cain would be in this city, but // you didn't tell me another pseudo-god soldier dwelled in this city.
Hank: This is bad... // Two pseudo-god soldiers // in just one city...!
vertical text: Pseudo-god soldier who turned into a bloodthirsty killer & the Man of Fate! It's the start of a Blood Street fight!
horizontal text: No chapter next time. To be continued in NO.3!
2 (46) Mozuku: Hey! // Don't use my face as a pillow! Cat: Meow!
Mozuku: ...you are that cat from before. // What do you want? Cat: Mozuku, // meot's play!
Mozuku: Can't you tell? // I don't have time for that! Cat: Meow meow.
Cat: Meot's play! // Meot's play! SFX: roll roll // roll roll
SFX: clang
SFX: roll roll roll roll
Cat: Boing! SFX: Bam Mozuku: Don't "boing" me!!
3 (47) Mozuku: Don't force me to play... // Go home already. Cat: So cold. // Meow're one icy pillow. Mozuku: Don't be smart with me!
Cat: Meow'll be going then.
SFX: run
Mozuku: That was easier than I thought.
Mozuku: .........I'm free. // Just why do I // let her sue me as a pillow...?
Mozuku: On a madder-shining midday in the Spring season, resting her uncertain life on a bed's pillow // The mortal one has gem-black dreams......
Mozuku: Because I'm a pillow now, // I tried to make a poem using pillow words. // I have no idea what it means...... Cat: Mozuku!
T/N: Pillow words (Makura kotoba) are figures of speech used in Japanese poetry. Mozuku's poem: Azusayumi haru no / Akanesasu Hiru / Tamakiharu Inochi / wo shikitahe no makura ni / utsusemi no hito wa / nubatama no yume. The italized words are all pillow words.
4 (48) Mozuku: ! // You came again? Cat: I brought meow a present!
Cat: Meow. Insect: crawl Mozuku: !?
Mozuku: This is a cockroach! // Take it off me!!
Cat: Meow'll be fine. // He'll go to sleep soon. // He'll go to "sleep" soon. Mozuku: Don't be smart with me!
Cat: How strange, I thought meow'd be happy. SFX: twitch twitch Mozuku: This wasn't the first time you had one in your mouth, is it...?
SFX: rustle rustle Mozuku: ...what? Hey!
Mozuku: Why did you crawl under here!? Cat: I thought I'd give meow a hand in being a pillow.
Mozuku: I don't need help! SFX: totter totter Cat: Mozuku! // The cockroach is coming meow way!
5 (49) Mozuku: Release the cockroach already! SFX: clank
Father: Hm?
Father: Oh, my. // Sachi fell asleep with the window still open. SFX: roll
Father: Seriously! // She'll catch a cold......
Father: I would like to close the window, but // I'm scared Mozuku will bark at me......
Cat: Meow!!
XX: smack
6 (50) Father: Meo... "Meow!!"!?
SFX: clang
Cat: Did he think meow meowed, Mozuku? Mozuku: It's your fault! //Take responsibility!
Cat: ...because we are pillows, // meow will be my cover. Mozuku: Don't be smart with me! https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41374Translation: Mozuku, Walking! 62015-05-31T18:12:34+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (39) Title: Chapter 6 [Hiccup] Mozuku: Hic! Sachi: Oh? // Mozuku, do you have the hiccups?
Sachi: BOO!!
Mozuku: Hic!
Sachi: It didn't work... // ...alright! 2 (40) Sachi: Look! // The pencil is soft! // Are you scared? // Are you scared?
Mozuku: Hic!
Isao: What are you doing, sis? Sachi: It doesn't work. // I can't stop his hiccups.
Isao: I heard you can stop hiccups by sneezing. // Why don't you tickle his nose? Sachi: Already tried that, he didn't sneeze. Isao: Then, have you tried the "Drink a glass of water upside down"? Sachi: It didn't work. // I also tried to make him say "Soybeans" by asking him "What is Tofu made of?" // but it's no use. He won't say it. Isao: That's because he's a dog! T/N: The Tofu/soybean (daizu) question appears to be a way to get rid of hiccups.
Sachi: I also stuck an plum in his navel, but it has no effect. Isao: That's against car sickness.
Isao: I also heard something about "holding your breath for a moment". Sachi: That's it! Mozuku: What!? 3 (41) Sachi: Here we go, Mozuku! // One, two, three! Mozuku: Wuf!
Mozuku: ...seriously!
Box: Humans are very // selfish creatures.
Box: In a world where I can't breathe // I think of Kudryavka. // In 1957 she boarded the "Sputnik 2", a artificial satellite of the former Soviet Union. // Kudryavka was the first living animal // to go to space. // For the sake of Human evolution, she was abandoned in space as a test animal. // She died all alone. Sachi: Mozuku!
T/N: Kudryavka is the original name of Laika.
Sachi: Mozuku! // Do you still have the hiccups? Mozuku:!
Mozuku: Hic!
Mozuku: To think of myself as a test animal is probably a bit too much though... Sachi: This is strange... // Alright, one more time.
Sachi: One, two, three! Mozuku: Wuf! // No way! 4 (42) Box: In a world where I can't breathe // I think again of Kudryavka. // In 1957 she was the first living animal //to go to space. // Kudryavka is Russian for "curls". // There was a time it felt like I was in love with this curled lady that I only knew from my imagination. Sachi: Mozuku!
Sachi: Mozuku! // Right now, // do you still have the hiccups? Mozuku: !
Mozuku: Hic!
Mozuku: I'm stupid. // That has nothing to do with this... Sachi: Alright! // Let's try it one more time!
Sachi: One, two, three! Mozuku: Wuf! // EEH!! 5 (43) Box: In a world where I can't breathe // I'm made to think of Kudryavka again.
Laika: You are // so persistent!!!
Mozuku: Ah!
Box: That's how // my hiccups stopped.
Box: Being in love is a lot like having the hiccups. // It suddenly appears and takes an annoying control over your body. // Then it suddenly disappears again. 6 (44) - https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41367Translation: Mozuku, Walking! 52015-05-28T18:01:00+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com1 (33) Chapter 5 [Mashiro]
Sachi: Satomi-chan, you dog is really cute! // What is his name?
Satomi: He's called Mashiro, // but he's very timid... Sachi: Mashiro!
Satomi: Mashiro, this is Mozuku. He lives with Sachi-san. Sachi: Look! // Mozuku, a friend!
Mozuku: She named you Mashiro, // because you're white? T/N: Masshiro = Pure white, snow white
2 (34) Mashiro: Eh... yes, I suppose. // You are // Mozuku, because you look like ”Seawood”? Mozuku: Seawood? What's that?
Mashiro: I'm // I'm sorry! SFX: nervous
Sachi: Be friends you two!
Mashiro: How do // you be friends? Mozuku: Well, that............
Mozuku: By chatting. Mashiro: CHATTING!? SFX: Nervous
Mozuku: No need to get nervous. Mashiro: I'm sorry... // But I'm not good at chatting.
Mozuku: Well, we could // mess about? Mashiro: EEH!!
3 (35) Mozuku: What's wrong? Mashiro: Well... it's our first meeting // Messing about right from the start is a little......
Mozuku: But it'll show we are "friends". Mashiro: ............ // Like snuggling up to each other...?
Mozuku: ............
Mozuku: Somehow this is // incredibly awkward!!!
Mozuku: ............we look like a middle-aged couple. Sachi: Look, they are already friends!
Sachi: I wonder what they are talking about // as fellow dogs. Satomi: I love to imagine their conversations.
4 (36) Sachi: Really? // I want to hear! Satomi: Err, their conversation.
Satomi: " ...I think // I may have... fallen in love with... you?" // " I think that I... // I don't... hate you?"
Sachi: Haha!! // That's what they said!! Satomi: Ehehe... // That's what they said?
Satomi: Why don't you give it a try? SFX: Nod Sachi: Yes! // I'll give it a try.
Mashiro: I knew it, // it's strange to snuggle up right away, right? SFX: quick Sachi: Oh? // They are separating!
5 (37) Sachi: Err, err. // So Mozuku says. // "The~~ Da~~Ru~~Ma // fe~~ll... // over!" Mozuku: ? SFX: turn T/N: "Daruma ga koronda" (The Daruma fell over) is a children's game similar to "Peep behind the curtain".
Sachi: He turned his head when I said "over"!! Satomi: Amazing!
SFX: Chatter // chatter Mozuku: What are they so excited about?
Sachi: Well, Satomi-chan, // I'll see you at school tomorrow. Satomi: Yes. // See you.
Sachi: Look, // what if Mozuku and Mashiro would say goodbye?
Mozuku: ............ // Err, well......
6 (38) Sachi: "...my feelings for you // are... serious?" Mozuku: Until next time... see you.
Satomi: "Your feelings... // they don't make me... not happy?" Mashiro: See you!
Sachi: Ahahaha! // That's what they said! Satomi: That's what they said!
Mozuku: That's NOT what // we said!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41341Translation: Mozuku, Walking! 42015-05-22T15:44:06+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (27) Txt: Chapter 4 [A Stroll]
TV: In the Kantou area the probability of rain is 50%. Mozuku: 50%, huh? // Don't pretend it's an achievement to give such an evenly split prediction......
Mother: Sachi, // they expect it's going to rain later today, why don't you take Mozuku for a walk while it's still dry? Sachi: Hm.
Sachi: Mozuku, let's go for a walk! SFX: nod
Box: A walk is like going on a little trip.
Box: It's a threadbare, tawdry turn of phrase, but // I like the wording. Mother: Bring an umbrella just in case. Sachi: We're off! Box: Walks are the premonition of a short story. 2 (28) Box: Well, in truth // going on a trip or going for a walk don't necessarily make a story. Sachi: Wait, Mozuku. // I'm still putting on my shoes. Box: But the most precious moment of a trip // isn't the time you are away or the time you come back. // It's probably the moment you set off because you "wish" to go on a trip?
Box: That's why I // go on an trip every day. Sachi: Mozuku, you're so fast! SFX: dash
Mozuku: But, // we always walk the same route.
SFX: meow meow Sachi: Hm?
SFX: meow meow // search search Sachi: I hear a cat......
Sachi: !? // Over there! Cat: meow meow Sachi: It climbed up in the tree and can't get down!!
Sachi: Err, err! SFX: confused confused Sachi: What should I do?
Sachi: Mr. Cat! // Here! SFX: rapid Mozuku: You aren't trying to catch a wood chip......
Mozuku: Guh! SFX: thud
Cat: Oh, that was close, you saved meow! // Thank meow very much!
Sachi: Mozuku, that's so cool! // You made a super catch! Mozuku: ............
Mozuku: By the way, // get off me!
4 (30) Cat: Eh? // Well, I'm in a good mood today...... // More importantly, I need to repay the favor......
Mozuku: Don't ride me...... Cat: Fuu. SFX: cling
Mozuku: Don't just lie on top of me!! Cat: Meow.
Cat: Are all of meow 8 nipples directly touching your back? Mozuku: ...what are you trying to say?
Cat: I'm returning meow kindness!
Mozuku: You don't have to!!!
T/N: I'm not sure what this conversation between Mozuku & that Cat is about... and I'm not sure if I want to know xD
5 (31) Sachi: Mozuku, // I'm glad you made a friend. Mozuku: Are you a female......? Cat: Meow am a cute girl with cat ears.
Mozuku: Cat ears? You're a cat, right!? SFX: drip drip
Sachi: ! // It's raining!
Sachi: Mozuku, time to go home! // Don't want to catch a cold.
Mozuku: ............ // Seriously! SFX: dash
Box: I'm caught in the rain and some strange cat is lying on me. // Today is quite the unusual day.
Sachi: Oh? Mr. Cat is coming with us? Cat: !
SFX: dash Sachi: Ah!
Sachi: He left.
6 (32) Mother: Sachi, didn't I tell you to bring an umbrella? Sachi: Hm. // Ah? // Mozuku is barely wet!
Sachi: I see! // Mr. cat has shielded Mozuku from the rain! Mozuku: !
Sachi: He repaid the favor. Mozuku: That cat......
Mozuku: I forgot to ask her name.
Box: Going out for a walk is no guarantee for a big story. // But on days with a 50% chance of rain, sometimes you'll even have cats fall from the sky. // The most precious part of a trip // sometimes happens after you set off. // That's what I learned today.
Box: Tomorrow I will // go on another trip.
Sachi: Mozuku! // If it rains tomorrow too, // let's just stay inside. https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41332Translation: Jigoku Koi Sutefu 92015-05-18T17:57:37+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (27) Girl: So this is Hell...?
Girl: As I thought
Girl: The atmosphere here is quite different...
Girl: Or rather...
Girl: For some reason... // everyone's staring at me...? // (Why...?) Title: Jigokukoi / Sutefu
2 (28) Box: This is Hell. // Anyone who is cast into Hell will be cursed.
Box: This is Heaven. // Everyone who ascends to Heaven will get a wish granted.
Man: You are going to Heaven. // So...
God: Tell me, what do you wish!? Girl: Why the curtain!!?
Man: (Because it's more fun this way ...) Girl: (Right...)
Girl: (Then) I would... // like to go to Hell!!
3 (29) Hidamari: Ah!! // There she is!!
Hidamari: You are under arrest!! // Come with us! Girl: Wh... why!?
Hidamari: A newcomer...?
Hidamari: In Hell you are obliged to wear this jacket. (You should remember that) Board: Rules of Hell no one told you about // All inhabitants of Hell are obliged to wear their prison jacket when they leave their room. Aside from the jacket they are free to wear whatever they want.
Hidamari: For now we'll take you to the Disciplinary Committee room. Mikoto: So this is also the duty of the Disciplinary Committee? Homura: Well, to put in plainly, we're in charge of all the odd jobs.
4 (30) Girl: Excuse me, what are you doing!? Hidamari: Please be good and quietly wait there for our senpai and teacher to arrive.
Girl: Really, this situation ... // To be tied up like this is...
Girl: somehow making me feel a little excited...
Girl: No, no good... I can't let them know! // They can't know I'm a true M and that's why I came to Hell...
T/N: M = Masochist = someone who derives sexual gratification from their own pain or humilation
5 (31) Girl: I better avoid all conversation!
Homura: So, where's your jacket? Girl: I lost it due to some accident... Juri: (Is that so?) By the way, your curse...
Girl: Curse!? // That's right, everyone in Hell is cursed!
Girl: I shouldn't arouse any suspicion... // I have to think of something safe...
Girl: Right, my curse. // They whip me like a horse!!
Juri: Eh... Girl: Did I say something weird!? (My perfect idea!!)
6 (32) Natsumi: To be whipped like a horse... Homura: Pretty harsh... Girl: Eh... // What are your curses?
Hidamari: They make me eat carrots. Girl: That's plain...
Mikoto: I keep biting my tongue. Girl: That's plain...
Homura: I commit bloopers. Girl: That's plain...
Juri: My love for people is never answered☆ Girl: Is that a curse?
Natsumi: I am
Natsumi: loved by everyone. Girl: Are you kidding me!!?
7 (33) Girl: Str.. strange... // This isn't how I envisioned Hell at all!
Girl: This warm atmosphere, it's not right...! // Is this really Hell...?
Girl: Where are the Pond of Blood and the Mountain of Needles...!? // Getting whipped like a horse,... //having salt sprinkled in your wounds, it's nothing like that?
Juri: Ah, Senpai!
8 (34) Himiko: Hey.
Juri: Ah!!
Juri: Senpai, it appears this newcomers is cursed to be whipped like a horse. Himiko: What?
Himiko: Well, let's go for it then? Girl: Yes, // please do!! Box: And that's how the Identity of Hell was protected again!
9 (35) Girl: I'm not // a pervert!!
10 (36) XXX: Natsumi-kun...
Natsumi: You, stay away!!!
XXX: Natsumi-kun, you asked for this! // Because you never look at me...
All: But since he was dead already // all was fine!!!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41331Translation: Jigoku Koi Sutefu 112015-05-18T17:55:55+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (47) Juri: (Congrats!) MIkoto: (Congrats!) Paper: Congratulations / You lost / 60 KG
Title: Jigoku koisutefu
Mikoto: But, I'm glad you lost all that weight... Hidamari: I'm Futomari-chan. Date: Hidamari-san, what is your secret to losing all that weight? Hidamari: The secret... // That...
2 (48) Hidamari: This magazine, "4-koma Nano Ace"! // After reading the magazines I would use them as training weights. The results were shocking! Date: It's too late for that! (This is the last publication!!!) Text: "Jigoku koisutefu was published in "4-koma Nano Ace" (Kadokawa Shoten)."
Hidamari: But this isn't just paper!! You can feel the weight of everyone's contributions!!! // It's heavy!!! (The stories)
Himiko: Oh...
Himiko: But today is our last day in Hell. // Has everyone finished their business here?
Juri: Ah! I still have something!! Himiko: Hm?
3 (49) Juri: There is something I wanted to ask. Date: Hold on.
Date: Don't you think something feels different today? Juri: Don't worry about it.
Juri: Is there a reason one of Mikoto-chan's eyes is hidden? Mikoto: (My right eye has special powers...)
Mikoto: No, my eye is just normal. Juri: I see!!
Juri: And I have another question! Date: Hold on.
Date: I really think something is off today. Juri: Don't worry about it.
Juri: Did Hidamari-chan really grow bunny ears?
Hidamari: No, it's just a headband. Juri: I see!!
4 (50) Juri: And I have another question.. Date: Shut up for a moment!!
Date: What is up with this tempo...!!
Juri: Right... this is a 4-koma.... // Even though every first page said it was a "Dead out 4-koma", it never appeared as such! Don't you think that's some dangerous business... Date: Please just ask the editor!! Juri: I'm scared to ask... Txt: Hell is the stage of this "Dead out" 4-koma! // Only printed in the magazine publication
Himiko: Anyway, // that is all you left unfinished, right? Juri: Yes. Date: (Haa // Haa)
5 (51) Hidamari: When we step over this line, we will leave Hell. Mikoto: (Yes,) Then our curses will be lifted, right?
Hidamari: Alright, let's go.
Hidamari: One, two...
6 (52) Hidamari: Ooh... // ...err, since all I had to do was eat carrots, I have no idea if our curses are gone. // Mikoto, how about it? Mikoto: A... A...
Mikoto: This bamboo leans against the neighbor's bamboo fence, because I wanted to lean a bamboo against the bamboo fence , so now the bamboo leans against the bamboo fence.
T/N: Tonari no takegaki ni take tatetekaketa no wa take tatetekaketakatta kara taketatetekaketa
Hidamari: Yeey!!
Natsumi: I won't be bothered by stupid confession anymore...!! Mikoto: Tokyo patent approval station!! T/N: Tokyo Tokkyo Kyokakyoku
Date: I'm starting to feel it's a good thing I won't be hit anymore! (with a stick)
XXX: (Ah,) Senpai, you don't have to wear your blindfold anymore, right? Himiko: Yes.
7 (53) XXX: EH!!! Himiko: The light it too bright without the glasses.
Juri: Hidamari-chan, Hidamari: Hm?
Juri: What should I do? I don't think my curse was lifted! // My heart beats quickly when I look at Natsumi-kun...
Hidamari: ...... // I don't think that's your curse's doing. Juri: Eh? 8 (54) Hidamari: You were cursed to suffer "unrequited love", // but that curse was lifted.
Hidamari: Requited love... // You are now able to fall in love with someone who will love you back, right?
Hidamari: And Natsumi-kun refused every confession until now, // because you are his true love?
9 (55) Text: Jigoku koisutefu - The End
10 (56) Text: Omake // You didn't get much to do, sorry Date-san. Date: Hmpf.
God: You have come to Heaven once more... // What is your wish?
Date: Give me a S!!! T/N: S = sadist
Date: Why didn't I ask for this right away...?
11 (57) Text: After word Juri: Thank you for reading Jigoku koisutefu!
Ohmiya: Everyone, thank you very much for staying with us until now! As a kindred spirit I'm really glad the whole story got published! // I'm sorry everyone was just fooling around for the last publication of Nano Ace! And a big thank you to my manager, who approved it...!
Date: Wait!!
Date: (Oh!) Why am I not on the character introduction page!?
Ohmiya: Oops, I forgot // about her Text: I didn't think I had to include her...
Txt: Date-chan / Curse: none Ohmiya: Here you go, forgive me...! Date: Eh!
Nueko: some bad news // and some bad news. All: Only bad news!!
Nueko: First, // class C's Okada-sensei was dumped by his girlfriend. Hidamari: Who cares about that!!
Nueko: and second,
Nueko: Next month Hell will be discontinued. All: What!?
2 (38) Nueko: Looking at the recent students who entered Hell, Paper: Taba // Curse: gets bitten by a mosquito one time a day XXX: So dull...
Nueko: the gravity of the curse should be on par with your actions during life. // The number of people who haven't done anything really bad is increasing. // That includes you all...
Nueko: I know it's sudden, but Hell will be discontinued and you will all be united in Heaven.
All: EH!?
All: Eh...?
Juri: Then our curses will be lifted!! Mikoto: We will live in Heaven!! XXX: ......
Box: And I, I finally // made it to Hell...! XXX: (You've got to be kidding me...)
3 (39) Hidamari: So that means I won't have to eat any carrots anymore!! Mikoto: And I'll be able to talk properly!!
Natsumi: And I won't be popular anymore. Hidamari: Annoyed...
Juri: And Date-chan, you won't be whipped like a horse anymore, right? XXX: Eh, yes...
Box: By the way, that is the first time anyone used my name. // Why is this world so cruel to me...!? XXX: (I'm Date.)
Date: But... I kinda // like it that way!
4 (40) Box: Next morning
Mikoto: Fluut Gawking!!
Date: Mikoto-chan?
Mikoto: Nonawah A koom kisnink wa budgue tsopi(Somehow I keep biting my tongue today) // Awawawawawawawa (I can't talk properly anymore)
Juri: I think I fell in love // with this earthen pot. Date: Wow...
5 (41) Date: What in Hell is going on!? // Sensei!
Nueko: Well, // you are receiving everything that is left of your punishment all at once. Date: What!?
Date: Natsumi-kun... Sign: 120 minute wait Date: No good, his confession queue makes it look like an attraction...
Date: Hidamari-chan!!
All: !!
6-7 (42-43) Text: Carrots
8 (44) Box: A few days later
Both: Good morning.
Mikoto: How are you? Box: Mikoto-chan gave up on talking and decided to go with sign language.
Box: Juri-chan started producing goods. Shirt: I ♡ earthen pot text: earthen pot
Box: Hidamari-chan... Hidamari: Good morning! Date: EEK!
Hidamari: Even carrots can make you fat if you eat too many of them. Date: Hidamari-chan, you look off-putting. // This is the end!
Text: Next time, the end!
9 (45) Text: Marumari-chan // Maru = Round
10 (46) Juri: Takashi-kun...
Juri: Takashi-kun, this is your own fault! // You never look at me...
Text: But since he is an anatomic model // all was fine!!!! // (Takashi-kun) https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41329Translation: Mozuku, Walking! 32015-05-18T17:52:43+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (21) Title: Chapter 3 [Mother]
SFX: tap / tap / tap / tap Mozuku: Drinking water makes me feel so alive. // To be alive is to be thirsty. SFX: gulp / gulp / gulp / gulp / gulp / gulp
SFX: soft / soft Mozuku: !?
SFX: tap / tap / tap / tap
SFX: tap / tap / tap / tap
SFX: soft / soft Sachi: Mom!
2 (22) Sachi: You're wiping your feet on Mozuku again!
Mother: Ah, Sachi! Good morning! // We'll have the leftover curry from yesterday as breakfast. Sachi: Curry!? // Yeey!
Sachi: That's not the issue! // Stop using Mozuku as a door mat! Mother: Mozuku? // I was just gently stroking him. // With my foot.
Sachi: ......!? // He smells like hand soap.
Sachi: You wiped your hands on him too!! Mother: Hehehe... // You got me? // He also smells like shampoo, right?
Sachi: ............you're right.
Sachi: EEH!? Mother: That was a nice shower. SFX: rub / rub Mother: You used him to dry your hair!?
3 (23) Mother: Of course not. // I tried to use him as a pillow. Sachi: That scared me. // Because Mozuku isn't a "multi-purpose toy".
Mother: ............ // But sachi, // think about it.
Mother: Now Mozuku's smell is // the same as my smell, // right?
SFX: smile
Mozuku: !? ...somehow, // she made it sound like a "good story"!!
4 (24) Mother: Now, // take Mozuku out for a walk before we have breakfast. Sachi: Yes!
Sachi: Mozuku, // today's weather is really nice, huh?
Sachi: It's nice to take a walk in the morning. // Morning walks are nicer than evening walks. // It's light, // and you can bask in the sun. Mozuku: So, "Walk in the Light While There is Light"......?
T/N: "Walk in the Light While There is Light" = a short story by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy
Box: A dog's life is shorter than a human's. // Our lives end while we still circle around in the same place.
Box: We die when we've consumed all possibilities // that "something could happen tomorrow". // But // it's the same for most people. // The only difference is their longer lifespan. // I'm sure their life is nothing more than "a process of losing possibilities" too. // Every time they walk the same route at the same time of day, // that's what they think about.
Sachi: Look, Mozuku! // That cloud looks weird! Box: But even though all days look the same // the scenery changes a little every day.
5 (25) Box: That's why I like // to go for a walk every day.
SFX: wag / wag / wag / wag / wag Sachi: Mozuku really loves to take walks, huh?
Sachi: We're home! Mother: Welcome back!
Mother: The curry is ready. // I was about to wake up // you father and Isao. Sachi: Yes! SFX: trot / trot
SFX: pet / pet
SFX: pet / pet
SFX: pet / pet
Sachi: Hm.
Sachi: Ah! // He smells like curry!
Sachi: You used him to wipe the curry of your hands! Mother: Hehehe......
6 (26) Sachi: Don't use Mozuku as a towel! SFX: angry / angry Mother: Now, now. // Listen to me, Sachi.
Mother: Now Mozuku smells // like me and like curry. // In short......
Mother: Mozuku's smell is // the same as my //Indian-style smell, // right?
Sachi: That doesn't make it okay! Mozuku: Somehow, // I don't care anymore. https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41308Translation: Birdmen 152015-05-13T12:21:20+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (157) Eishi: "That was the voice of my dead brother."
Title: flight013 RAIN
Eishi: Is it really possible for a Black Out to speak with the voice of his deceased brother...?
2 (158) Title: flight013 RAIN
3 (159) Tsubame: Rei-kun and I went to the same cramming school when we were little.
Tsubame: I knew he had an older brother.
Tsubame: He would happily tell me where his brother would take him next.
Tsubame: But then Rei-kun started studying under a private tutor and stopped coming to cramming school... // After that we didn't meet for a while...
Tsubame: It was probably last year... // One of my friends, who is in the art club, forced me to visit an art gallery with her. // That's where I saw Rei-kun again, he was alone.
4 (160) Tsubame: I knew with one look at his face, // yet I couldn't help but feel something had changed about him.
Tsubame: But when I called out to him, // he was still the same Rei-kun as I had known as a child.
Tsubame: He treated us to some tea and cake.
Tsubame: (Ah, it looks delicious!) Friend: Sagisawa-kun, do you often visit art galleries?
Rei: Yes, well... // Those are the paintings made by my brother's favorite painter, I just wanted to see the real pieces...
5 (161) Tsubame: After that we would meet now and then, // but it wasn't until a few months later he told me about his brother...
Tsubame: At that time, // he also showed me a picture of his brother...
Tsubame: It was like looking at an adult version of Rei-kun. // They really looked alike.
Tsubame: It seems he committed suicide... // I'm not good at serious conversations, so I didn't ask for the details...
Tsubame: It was quite unexpected, so his family fell apart and he failed all exams... // I think he also mentioned something about transferring to a school where no one knew him...
6 (162) Eishi: He's a rich guy. He could buy everything he wants. Why do I feel sorry for him?
Eishi: Even though we depended on Takayama-kun again... // He took care of that Black Out without sustaining any severe injuries...
Takayama: The previous Black Out...
Takayama: If it had been any of the other 3, they probably would have died there.
7 (163) -
8 (164) -
9 (165) Text: TITLE: To you who feels down... / I discovered a new way to use our wings! / For tonight you'll be the only one I'll tell this! / Really... I never expected this could be... / If you are interested, GO to the Sky Terrace!
10 (166) -
11 (167) Eishi: This idea, it's not that amazing. Rei: Yes... Well...
Eishi: These wings are very efficient. They are water-repellent. // So even if it rains we can fly, because they don't get heavier. // The raindrops roll off with a wiz. Did you know that? Rei: (With a wiz...?) No...
Eishi: And it's depressing when the rain pours like this, your sight is limited and you could get wet. / No one would willingly set a foot outside, right? Rei: Well... Eishi: That's when I realized it.
Eishi: If we want to fly around the city without anyone seeing us, // this is the best time!! (They won't hear us either!)
12-13 (168-169) Eishi: We're going all the way to the ground!
Rei: EH!?
14 (170) Rei: Wha!
Rei: Wha! // This is dangerous! // Too fast! Eishi: Did you know? // Contrary to expectations, there are less car accidents on rainy days!
Eishi: Whoops!
Eishi: Did you ever fly this low? Rei: I haven't!
Rei: Ah...!!
15 (171) Woman: !?
Rei: (Aah) I'm sure she saw us. Eishi: That's why we can't slow down.
16 (172) Driver: ?
Eishi: We will never have to pay for a taxi ride again! Rei: We never had a reason to take a taxi to begin with.
Eishi: Wow, see all that rain!
Eishi: Let's fly around some of the skyscrapers? Rei: Wow, // that looks pretty cool!
17 (173) Eishi: We're pretty drenched though? Rei: No, we look sexy!
Eishi: Come to think of it... // Sexy and Taxi sound the same? Rei: Then, let's switch those words in the sentences we just said.
Eishi: We will never have to pay to be sexy... Rei: The opposite, we're a taxi...
Eishi: I don't think it works like that... (Hehe...) Rei: You're right... (Ahaha...) 18-19 (174-175) -
20 (176) Eishi: It's still raining... // Wow, // according to the forecast it will rain until after noon.
Rei: My brother...
Rei: would often sneak out in the middle of the night // and drive around Tokyo Bay without any specific purpose.
21 (177) Rei: I'm starting to understand // why he did that.
Rei: I always... // thought my brother was the perfect human being... // Guess I was wrong.
Rei: You probably noticed the paintings and sculptures in my room? // They all belonged to my brother.
Rei: I thought that I would understand him better if I kept them close, but // he's still a mystery to me...
Eishi: ...... // What kind of person was he? 22 (178) Rei: Hehe... he was really cool. // A cheerful person, who loved to entertain the people around him. // He had many friends, was popular with the girls and he was always surrounded by people... // He was very skilled with his fingers and was able to make anything he wanted.
Eishi: Popular, huh...? Rei: My brother
Rei: He was my hero.
Rei: But what I loved most, was watching him quietly work on a painting. // Brother.
Brother: What's up, Rei? Rei: Can I watch you?
23 (179) Brother: Sure.
Rei: My brother said that painting allowed him to relax.
Rei: But, it was only a hobby then. // When he graduated from university and he had to take up his position at our dad's firm, he suddenly said he wanted to go to an overseas art school and had an argument with my dad...
Dad: Hey, Rui. // Just keep doing it as a hobby.
Dad: Just like me... // skills alone won't bring you to the top, you don't have what it takes. // Don't get too serious about the painting.
Dad: Focus on reality...
Dad: Just get serious.
24 (180) Rei: After that my brother left our house. // Sometimes, // only when my father wasn't around he would come home, but he always looked depressed...
Rei: Brother, you're back... Brother: Fuck off, I'm just here to get some stuff.
Brother: I can't bear the sight of you. // Always daring to gauge my feelings with that foolish smile on your face... // You think everyone will treat you nice if you smile at them...
Brother: The truth is, I really hate you.
25 (181) Rei: Later my brother took his own life. // In his suicide note he wrote...
Rei: "I am empty inside." // Like that...
Eishi: As I thought, to me it sounds // like a luxury problem... // I don't think that was true.
Eishi: As long as you are alive, it's impossible to be completely empty inside.
26 (182) Rei: I guess so...
Eishi: Ah, old man? // Got some time?
Eishi: I'm not sure... // He didn't come to school, but // I expect him to show up for our bird club meeting.
27 (183) Eishi: I did as you said. // After I got him to let off some steam and clear his head, I waited for him to start talking by himself. // I made sure not to interrupt him and had him verbalize the situation between him and his brother to some extent.
Tatsume: I see, // if he starts talking about his brother again, just listen quietly again.
Tatsume: It is said that PTSD is deeply connected with one's temporary memory. T/N: PTSD = Posttraumatic stress disorder
Tatsume: First you gather the memories as a temporary memory in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, // then you take steps to move them to the cerebrum to be preserved as long-term memories. // A smooth transfer of said memories to the cerebrum, // or leaving them in the "past", is the best cure for him.
Tatsume: Arranging the events and verbalizing them, quickens that process. // Rather than letting him forget, you allow him to talk about it. However this should never be forced.
28 (184) Tatsume: And... because his brother committed suicide, // don't try to sympathize with his brother too much. Eishi: Yeah... // I'm going to Kamoda's place now, but I'll also tell the others.
Eishi: But he and his brother are different, right? // Because, when he was in that bus accident // he chose to live.
Tatsume: I see... // Well, you should be able to understand him pretty well. Eishi: Well, that... // ...........................
Eishi: I don't. // I'm not a kind person, // and I don't understand other people.
Eishi: I wouldn't know how to handle this kind of stuff unless I do a cunning thing like thing... // In the end, I don't really get what he told me, I can't sympathize with him...
Eishi: It worked this time, but // for him it's---
29 (185) Tatsume: "I want to help." // That's what you thought, right?
Tatsume: This, // even though you had to depend on some adult you barely know.
Tatsume: You did everything in your power. // I'm sure he understood.
Tatsume: That's right, // I got the results of your blood tests. (Your hemoglobin levels and such)
30 (186) Tatsume: Well, in a sense your values are comparable to those of an average top athlete, but // what really stands out is this.
Tatsume: Every value I tested // came back the same for all of you.
Eishi: Eh...? Tatsume: It's like all of you have the exact same blood running through your veins.
Tatsume: Well, your DNA isn't the same of course, but // it's possible that your physical conditions, and maybe even your mental states, are connected. // If that's the case, every thought and action towards one of your friends could have a huge impact of the group.
31 (187) Tatsume: As you said, // that all birdmen are connected, // I'm starting to believe it too.
Tatsume: I would like to see your progress notes soon. // Please bring them as soon as you can. // The connection between the Blackouts and your mental states worries me.
Eishi: I understand.
Tatsume: Well then,
32-33 (188-189) Tatsume: to have heard the song of an angel just before taking the first step towards Paradise... // It brightens my mood and makes this backache and the narrowness of this net cafe booth mean nothing...
Tatsume: Well then, let's see what trouble I will find...
Text: BIRDMEN VOL.3 - END https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41271Translation: Mozuku, Walking! 22015-04-28T12:29:25+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (15) Title: Chapter 2 [Father]
Mozuku: I am a Pisces, so err...... // Found it! // "The Pisces' lucky item is a teddy bear." // ......probably because fish are eaten by bears!
Mozuku: ? SFX: jolt // clang
Father: Sachi! // Mozuku took my magazine, would you get it for me?
Sachi: What is it, dad? // It's not like Mozuku can read it. // He won't get angry when you take it back. Father: I... I guess...
2 (16) Sachi: Here. // Get along with Mozuku, alright? // I'll be sewing in my room.
SFX: stare
Box: It seems he is afraid of dogs. // I think he's right not to trust someone who can't talk, but // sometimes humans put too much confidence in words. // They are unable to perceive the sincerity of silence.
Father: Oh! // "The Leo's lucky item are iron dumbbells". // Maybe I should put some in my bag. Box: Magazines are a pack of words, but // there is no reason to trust them. // Right when the Leo was appointed iron dumbbells as his lucky item // he became an unlucky fellow.
Father: "They may allow you to conquer a difficulty"......?
Mozuku: He... he brought iron dumbbells!! // It's not the Leo who's unlucky! // It's me (the Pisces)!!!
SFX: rumble rumble // BANG! Father: Oops!
Father: Hey, Mozuku. // Get it! // Train your body!
4 (18) SFX: rumble... Father: Alright, // you can do it!
SFX: PLOP
Mozuku: Heavy!!
Mozuku: My neck! // My neck! // Woof! // Woof! SFX: struggle // Jolt Father: Ah! // EEK!!
Mozuku: It's going to break my neck!! // Woof! // Woof! // Woof!
Father: It's barking!! // EEEK!!!
5 (19) Mozuku: I'm saying my neck will break!! // Woof! // Woof! // Woof!
Father: EH? What!? // EEEEK!!!
Mozuku: No, it snapped! My neck snapped! // Woof! // Woof! // I can't see it, but I'm sure it's broken!!
Father: Eh? What!? // EEEK!!!
SFX: clatter Sachi: Be quiet!! SFX: startled
6 (20) Sachi: Dad, you're an idiot! // Why are you bullying Mozuku!? SFX: tightly Father: I... I didn't mean for that to happen...... // I'm sorry, Mozuku...
Father: This magazine's horoscope // had it wrong...... // It was more of an unlucky item.
Mozuku: So stupid...... Sachi: Mozuku, // I made you something! SFX: rustle
Sachi: Here! // A teddy bear! // I just finished sewing it!
Mozuku: Isn't that the unlucky item of the Piscus!? SFX: Jolt https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41193Translation: Jigoku Koi Sutefu 82015-04-05T15:12:41+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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Boys: Ah! // Those are!!
txt: Disciplinary
Hidamari&Juri: Disciplinary Committee!! // At your service!!
Boys: It's the disciplinary committee!! // Run!!
Hidamari: ? Juri: ?
2 (018) Hidamari: Wait... Boys: Yipes!!
Box: Any inhabitant of Hell is cursed. // In case that curse loses its function, txt: (Example: Hidamari comes to love eating carrots) Hidamari: (Yeey!)
Box: the disciplinary committee will correct this. txt: --> Create a new trauma... // Rotten carrots Hidamari: (Yipes!)
Himiko: Being hated is part of the job. Hidamari: Chief, // is that really the only reason they hate us?
Himiko: Today you're wearing 100% cotton, vertically-striped underpants, aren't you Hidamari? Hidamari: Yes, I suppose that's the only reason they hate us. (How do you even know the design!!?) Box: Our chief can tell what you're wearing by the rustle of your clothes!
3 (019) Mikoto: Juri-chan!! // Higawari-chan!!
Mikoto: It's been a... Hidamari: Don't mess up the pronunciation of my name! I'm not a lunch set!
Himiko: You are Hidamari: Chief, // please don't sexually harass Mikoto!
Himiko: (Don't push your luck...) Juri: Where's Natsumi-kun? Mikoto: Natsumi-kun is over there.
Juri: Huh?
4 (020) Juri: Oh!?
Hidamari: Natsumi, why are you hiding in a locker? Natsumi: Hidamari, // I've realized it.
Natsumi: I'm very popular, right? // And that's extremely annoying. (It's not a power, it's a curse.)
Box (Natsumi): But instead of rejecting every love confession, // I should just make sure I stay out of sight. Hidamari: You really lost your head while we were gone, Natsumi...
Homura: That secret power would be really useful in our investigations! // How about it, want to be my partner? Natsumi: Homura-senpai!!
Homura: No, would you be my life partner! Natsumi: Yikes, shut up!! (He fell in love with me!!)
5 (021) Text: In the end they came along...
Himiko: Well, sensei, // who's our next target? Nueko: Hm.
Nueko: Our target is a boy from class 1B. XXX: That's our class!
Nueko: He's cursed to be attractive to the same sex, but ... Natsumi: Hold on, // I'm attractive to everyone. (Don't look at me!)
Nueko: he recently realized he is HOMO... Natsumi: Hey!
6 (022) Nueko: Class 1B, Sanada Makoto. Homura: It's him...
Homura: I found our target. Himiko: Keep an eye on him.
Homura: Roger.
Homura; Chief! // We have a situation!!
Homura: He's going at it with a male student!! Himiko: Alright, stop it!
Homura: It would be dangerous to interfere now!! // For us!!
7 (023) Himiko: What a useless bunch!! // We'll do it ourselves!! Hidamari: Y, yes!
Hidamari: How is our chief going to guarantee his suffering?
Himiko: Hold it there!! Sanada Makoto!!
Himiko: I'll make you remember the merits of being with a woman! Hidamari: Eh?
Himiko: With this! Hidamari: I think that'll teach him something completely different!!
8 (024) Mikoto: Your chief is quite a woman, huh? Hidamari: Yeah, but I wonder if that really solved the problem.
XXX: Sanada!!
Boy: I love you! // Please go out with me!!
Sanada: I'm sorry, I can't... A normal boy isn't good enough for me... // He has to be exciting!!
Sanada: Hit me! Box: And that's how order was restored to Hell!!
9 (025) Mikoto: Between Homura-senpai and Natsumi-kun, who do you think is on top? Juri: Hmm, // I guess it's Homu X Natsu...
Page: Kaeru Pyoko / Pyoko Mi Pyoko // Pyoko Awasete // Pyoko Pyoko // Mu Pyoko Pyoko
T/N: It's a tongue twister, roughly meaning something like: "Take two sets of three chicken cackles add them together and they make six chicken cackles."
Mikoto: ~~~~~ // ~~~~~~
Mikoto: ~~~~ // Bit my tongue!! Teacher: Mikoto-chan!!
All: But since she is already dead, // all is fine!!!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41192Translation: Mozuku, Walking! 12015-04-05T15:09:47+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com 1 (8) Title: Chapter 1 [Name]
Sachi: Ahahaha! // Mozuku! // Mozuku!
Isao: Sis, // why did you name him "Mozuku"? Sachi: Eh?
Sachi: Why? // Because his fur looks like seaweed.
TN: mozuku = seaweed of the family Spermatochnaceae
Isao: Hm. // Mozuku doesn't seem to like him name very much. Sachi: Of course he likes it.
Mozuku: Humans like to name everything. // By giving something a name // they are able to understand and control it.
2 (9) Sachi: I'm going to the toilet. Mozuku: Take this daifuku.
TN: daifuku = a soft round rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam; dai = big, good; fuku = fortune, luck
Mozuku: They probably named it that, because they regard it to be a sign of "good fortune", but // they completely omitted the essential part that says it's a "mochi". // It don't see how it would bring good fortune. // This food clearly lost its true name. TN: mochi = a rice cake
Mozuku: I can't help but think it's funny that humans unquestioningly call it a daifuku. Isao: What is it, Mozuku? // Do you want the daifuku?
Isao: Here. Mozuku: !
Mozuku: gobble
SFX: chew chew chew
Mozuku: !? // Delicious!!!
3 (10) SFX: flush // trot trot Sachi: Ah, that's better. Mozuku: Maybe it holds more fortune than I thought...
Sachi: Ah! // Where is my daifuku!
SFX: chew chew
Sachi: One of you did this!! Isao: Mozuku ate it.
Sachi: I know you ate it! SFX: smack Isao: Look, he's still chewing.
SFX: Stare~~ // chew chew chew chew
Sachi: I'm going to give you a punch perm!! SFX: smack Mozuku: I'll become a different dog breed!
TN: punch perm = hair permed in short, tight curls (usually associated with yakuza and delinquents)
4 (11) Mozuku: Ah, crap...... SFX: wilt Isao: Don't worry about it, Mozuku. // My sis is just small-minded.
SFX: rattle Sachi: ...Mozuku.
Sachi: I'm sorry I got angry with you... // I didn't think of your feelings... Isao: ? // Mozuku's feelings?
Sachi: I get it. // It's because you don't like your name, right? // It's too plain...... // So you became jealous //of the "daifuku", which has a meaningful name......
Isao: You think so?
Mozuku: You're wrong, // but whatever.
5 (12) Sachi: So, that means // we have to think of a new name for Mozuku. // Any ideas? Isao: You're enjoying this, aren't you?
Mozuku: Yes, humans really like to name everything.
Sachi: Since he didn't like "Mozuku", // what about "Mozukusake"? Isao: How is that any different?
Sachi: Well. Isao: If you want to name him after food, // why don't you give him a name that actually fills your stomach?
Sachi: "Mozuku-zukushi"! Isao: How do you fill your stomach with seaweed!?
TN: mozuku-zukushi = full of seaweed
Sachi: "Chaahan&ricegomokugohantsuki" Isao: That's all rice! Sachi: "Gyoumuyou Pasta" Isao: I don't really get it, but // sound like you would need a lot...!
TN: Chaahan&ricegomokugohantsuki = Chinese fried rice & rice steamed in stock with vegetables with rice; Gyoumuyou pasta = pasta for business use
Box: With this and that...... Sachi: So many ideas! Isao: Why don't we let Mozuku choose? Papers: Calpis // Mozuku-zukushi // Chaahan&rice (gomokugohantsuki) // Miso // Melon pan // Big Mac // Mozukusake // Gyoumuyou pasta // Koorimizu // Kona 6 (13) Sachi: Go, choose the name you like! Isao: It's your choice!
SFX: trot trot
SFX: wriggle wriggle
SFX: excited // trot trot Sachi: He's back!
Sachi: Ah!
Paper: sake // Mozuku // Mozuku
Sachi: He wants to be "Mozuku"! Isao: Huh, I thought you didn't like it?
Mozuku: It's just // the other choices were worse. https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41173Translation: Mozuku, Walking! 002015-03-30T18:18:59+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.comMozuku, Walking! -prologue-
1 SFX: Stare~~...
Boy: What do you want, sis?
Girl: Our homework is to write an essay. // It should be about our family.
2 Boy: Don't write weird stuff about me.
Box: [My Family] by Fujimura Sachi. // I have a mother, a father and a dog names Mozuku. SFX: write / write
Box: My brother's name is Isao. // He is at a cheeky age. // He always reads cheeky books, // eat cheeky sweets // and sleeps cheeky.
Isao: Hey......! Don't just write whatever you want! Sachi: Huh? // But it's mostly true.
Isao: Cheeky books... // This is a manga novel! Sachi: Novel!? // Cheeky!
Isao: And we eat the same sweets... Sachi: You drink your tea without sugar. // Cheeky! Isao: Why would you drink sweet tea with your sweets!?
3 Mother: What's going on here? SFX: rattle
Isao: She's writing weird stuff about me. Mother: Is it homework? Sachi: I have to write about my family.
Mother: Make sure to write nice things about me. Sachi: Yes!
Box: My mother is... Sachi: Err...
Sachi: My mother is // a good mother, // and a good wife. // And...
Mother: I'm the only "woman" in the house! Sachi: I can't write that......
Box: My mother is funny. // She always says strange things.
Sachi: Mozuku! // Let's go for a walk!
4 Box: My dog's name is Mozuku.
Box: Mozuku is a really smart dog.
Box: When I was at the park and suddenly felt ill // he went to get help.
Sachi: ......so, // I only went to the park // (Fufufu...) // to put on a little act and write about it in my essay...
Sachi: ...... // Let's get started.
Sachi: UU!
Sachi: My stomach hurts! // My stomach hurts!
Mozuku: !
5 Sachi: Ow.
SFX: glance
Sachi: Ow! Mozuku: ......
SFX: running Sachi: Yes! He's going to get help!
Sachi: He's taking long... SFX: excited
Sachi: ! // He's back!
Sachi: !? Paper: To Sachi / Isao and I went out to get some groceries // Mom Sachi: She went out!!
6 Box: Despite everything I really love my family. // The end.
Father: Sachi, // I heard you are writing and essay about our family? // I hope you didn't write something bad about me. SFX: rattle
Sachi: I forgot!
Father: REALLY!?
Box: Despite everything I really love my family. // My father wears glasses. // The end.
2 (114) Tatsume: If someone sees this, I will definitely lose my job... // Warn me if someone approaches.
Eishi: I'm going to record everything you do. (If you try anything funny, I'll report you for sexual harassment.) Tatsume: ...you're the distrustful type, huh?
Eishi: DNA is the greatest form of private information, right? // And we are giving it to a pro. // We're definitely at the disadvantage.
Tatsume: Unfortunately, I'm not a genetic expert.
3 (115) Eishi: You're not!? Tatsume: It isn't part of my specialty. // Don't expect too much.
Eishi: Then why would I give you my DNA!? Tatsume: I know more than you. // Generally, using all materials on hand proves to be very effective. // The more samples the better.
Tatsume: I also need an sample of your wings and of your blood after transformation, but we can do that another time. // To be sure, I also want a hair sample.
Tatsume: Well then, // it's a bit early, but why don't we have dinner together to strengthen our friendship?
Kamkoda: Count me in! I'm starving! Rei: (Sounds good!) Tatsume: Make sure you call your parents.
4 (116) Tatsume: Aah... // Sou-kun, I'll give your grandfather a call. (You don't have a cell phone, right?)
Tsubame: Err, my little brother is waiting at home, I really have to go... Tatsume: There's still something I would like to ask... can't you stay a little longer?
Tsubame: Well... // Maybe a cup of tea...
Eishi: Oh? What about your hair sample? Kamoda: That's a secret.
Eishi: A family restaurant...? Tatsume: Perfect for a middle-school student. // (I'm treating you, don't complain.)
5 (117) Rei: I really love family restaurants. Eishi: Anyone else hear the irony in that statement!?
Tsubame: Err... // Can I also order some pancakes...? Tatsume: Of course.
Kamoda: Can I order everything I like!? // Can I order everything I like!? Tatsume: Yeah... // Why did he repeat himself...?
Eishi: What shall I have... // Come to think of it, I never had an adult buy me dinner... Actually, I don't even have much memories of eating with my whole family together...
6 (118) Eishi: You ordered too much... (They had to bring an extra table?) Kamoda: I'm fine, I'm fine! I'll eat it all!!
Kamoda: Plus, I'll eat even more when I get home...... // Why, you ask? Because the curry that I made yesterday is perfect today! Eishi: I see...
Kamoda: Alright, // let's say grace...
7 (119) Kamoda: Enjoy your meal!!! Eishi: There he goes! // (Use your knife!) // Eating like a bandit!!
Eishi: ...... // Kamoda is a nice guy, but it's very embarrassing to eat with him in public... Box: Carefully watching to avoid flying food.
Eishi: Take a look at Sagisawa's elegance... Is that the difference in their upbringing...? // By the way, what middle school student would order a light menu like pasta with spring vegetables!? I don't understand...
Eishi: And the old man... Oh? He makes it feel like we're in a stand-up noodle shop... // His choice to order Inaniwa noodles covered in a thick starchy sauce only confirms his age...
T/N: Inaniwa noodles is a thin type of noodles from the Akita prefecture
Eishi: And Umino...
8 (120) Eishi: You're using way too much!! (Syrup!) Tsubame: Eh?
Tsubame: I have a very sweet tooth! // I rather die than cut down the sugar!!! Eishi: That's pose is too old!!
Eishi: Really... Maybe I'm more honest.... //than I ever thought I was... Box: Japanese style hamburger set
Eishi: Oh... // Takayama is eating pretty quietly...
Eishi: !!
9 (121) Eishi: You... // are done already!!?
Kamoda: Ei-chan, you're just slow. Eishi: I am slow!? (I didn't even hear him eat!?)
Eishi: I don't get it... I don't get the standard of this group...!! // Why do I feel so self-conscious right now!?
Kamoda: Ei-chan, you're making quite a triangular motion as you eat. Eishi: I know I am a boring person!!
Tatsume: So, as I said in the lab... Txt: Using a toothpick Eishi: Don't start a conversation looking gross like that!!
10 (122) Tatsume: If I do all the research in secret, the result will be limited. // So I need one of you to "supervise". Eishi: Supervise?
Tatsume: I would like you to create a record of your transformation progress and other happenings. // I want to get a better grasp of the current situation, so it should include everything until now.
Tatsume: There are two points to keep in mind. // Always include who did what, where and when, and what was the result. // And, preserve the distinction between fact and hypothesis.
Tatsume: Stick to the facts for the who, what, where and when. Always mention it when you're not absolutely sure about something. // In case of rumors, state the source material. // Aside from that you are free to make up hypothesis.
Tatsume: At this stage more information would be really welcome. // I don't care about subjectivity, so please include your thoughts and feeling about everything as well.
11 (123) Rei: That's great, Karasuma-kun! // The record you kept for the Bird Club will come in hand! Eishi: Wait, are you saying I should do it!?
Tatsume: Who else would do it? Eishi: Who are you to decide that! Tatsume: Well, look around at the others.
Tsubame: Still look at the last bite
Kamoda: Clearly lost interest
Takayama: Half-open eyes
Tatsume: Do you think we can entrust this to anyone else?
Rei: Ah, // I'm not that interested either. Eishi: Really!? 12 (124) Rei: Well... In my case, it's... // I'm just really happy to spend time with everyone...
Rei: I feels like I found myself new siblings.
Tatsume: Hmm...
Rei: Well, I help you out. Eishi: I get it...
Eishi: Then, should I send it to you by email? Tatsume: No, // please write it down in a notebook.
13 (125) Eishi: Eh? Tatsume: Keeping everything analogue is the most effective way to avoid information leaks.
Tatsume: The current capacity and computing power of our electronics // basically allow us to access anything that goes on the air. // This is the age of electronics and communication after all. // In theory it's possible to hack any device that's connected.
Eishi: Hold on, // are you saying it's more likely this information will leak, // because you expect someone will actively seek to get his hands on it, rather than our own screw-up? // Why do you think that will happen?
Eishi: Do you... know anything about the origin of our wings?
tatsume: That's a good question. // I understand what you think.
14 (126) Tatsume: But at this moment I can't say anything for sure. // Right now I'm just suggesting we need to be careful.
Eishi: Because... // our enemy is to be taken serious?
Tatsume: I don't know even know if they are our enemy... // To be honest, I didn't expect you wouldn't know anything at all... // So, instead of just studying your case... I've started to think I should make it my priority to protect your existence.
Tatsume: Looking at you right now... // that's feeling is even stronger...
15 (127) XXX: Well, thank for the meal, professor Tatsume.
Tatsume: (I just spend 20.000 yen at a family restaurant...!?) // Take care. Tsubame: Yes!
T/N: 20.000 yen = $170. The average meal in a Japanese family restaurant will be around 1000 yen and you can get unlimited drinks for about 300-400 yen.
Tsubame: I have to hurry, so I'm going to run to the station! (See ya.)
Rei: Ah, wait! I'm coming too...
Eishi: Eh, what!?
16 (128) Eishi: Eh!? // Wait! // What!? // Why are we running!?
Eishi: Hey! Kamoda: Wouldn't it // be faster to fly? Rei: Well, the sun is still up... // Didn't we just discuss how dangerous it could be to be discovered.
Kamoda: Ah!
Kamoda: That bastard! Rei: Alright!
Eishi: Wait...!
17 (129) Eishi: We look... // like idiots running like this...
18 (130) Rei: Uh... Kamoda: Ouch, I tripped... Eishi: Hey, that feeling...
Takayama: It's a Black Out!
Eishi: Guh, why now...? // Takayama!!
Eishi: Wh, what now? We're in the middle of the city...
19 (131) Eishi: I see, a construction site... // Wow, you're quick!!
Tsubame: Hey! // Wait for me!!
Tsubame: EEK!!
Rei: Tsubame, you can change after us. (Just watch the entrance for now.) Tsubame: Yes...
20 (132) Eishi: You know where the Black Out is going to appear!? Takayama: It'll go where we are.
Rei: Guys! // There! // Look!
21 (133) Eishi: Eh... // Somehow... it looks bigger than last time...
Tsubame: Great, I caught up with you.
22 (134) Tsubame: Eh...
Tsubame: Eh!? // What!? // What's that!? // It's huge!? Eishi: That's a pretty bad place, huh? (Right above a building) Takayama: Let's pull it out...?
23 (135) Eishi: Yipes! // It's slippery, I can't get a good hold on it!
Kamoda: Ei-chan! Eishi: Don't use my real name when we're are transformed, idiot!!
Kamoda: Got it! // I'll give you a hand, Black!
Eishi: Damn, I grow weak when you call me that... Kamoda: Alright!
Eishi: So long!
24 (136) Tsubame: Eww, that's just gross...
Rei: But we have to do something... // Let's give them a hand.
Eishi: Alright, this should keep him still... // Oh!
Eishi: Damn, I can't fly like this!! 38 (149) Tsubame: Hng!
Eishi: Sorry... // Of all places, couldn't she have caught me somewhere else... (This pose is so lame...)
Takayama: Leave the rest to me... You get away from here...
39 (150) Eishi: Damn... // We'll have to depend on Takayama once again...
Kamoda: What happened, Black! // Why are you in that pose!? Eishi: SHut up! Go and help him!!
Eishi: You're safe now, Sagi... White. // What the hell...
40 (151) Rei: That was the voice... // of my dead brother.
41 (152) XXX: Eva.
XXX: I came to Japan. Eva: Really...
42 (153) Eva: And?
XXX: I want to // give you a name.
XXX: Your codename for our next project. // I'm counting on you, "Night Bird".
Eva: Aah...
Eva: I see, // then, // you'll be "Fox".
43 (154) XXX: That, // because of my looks?
Eva: Your inside.
XXX: I see. Box: Red Eye Institute of Life Sciences / ----- "FOX" (22) https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/41018Translation: Birdmen 132015-02-18T18:42:02+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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1 (75) Box: Bird Club Emergency Lecture & Meeting Rei: All right, let's do that one more time! // One, two, three!
Title: flight011 NEW GEAR
2 (76) title: flight011 NEW GEAR
3 (77) Kamoda: These masks really max out our creepiness. // We look like some sort of gang.
Rei: I think that being able to grow black wings already maxed out our creepiness.
Rei: Anyway, to prevent anyone will discover our identity, // we should make it a rule to wear the basic mask when we're flying around...
Rei: Hiding our nose and mouth is the minimum. // The full face mask is too hot. Eishi: You really hate to sweat, huh?
Eishi: So... // what about our names?
Kamoda: Names? Eishi: I'm talking about codenames. // Remember... Takayama's name went viral after I yelled it in that vid.
4 (78) Kamoda: Oh, I think that was a very lame way to out him! (Makes you look like an idiot...) Eishi: Idi, // we're not talking about ways to out each other!!
Rei: So, we're looking for codenames to hide our real identity? // Since we're starting to look like some sort of squadron, can't we just go with color names? Tsubame: squadron...
T/N: squadron a.k.a. power rangers!
Rei: Well, Takayama-kun is most definitely "Red".
Rei: The red ranger is like the leader, the heart of the team, right? Tsubame: Yes, he's the coolest one!
Tsubame: Ah, I can be Blue! // I love the color blue! // Okay? Rei: There have been blue female rangers. // It's fine with me.
5 (79) Rei: Then, I'll be White. // Karasuma-kun, you could be Black.
Eishi: Black... // A saturation and brightness of 0... // Too dark... Kamoda: Ah, // what about me?
Rei: Kamoda-kun... // I know, // you are Green?
Eishi: Yeah, leek green. Kamoda: Leek? Rei: No, because you have the kanji for tree in your name.
T/N: In Japan there's a saying that goes like: "Kamo ga negi wo shotte kuru", literally meaning: " A duck bringing along a leek (for the hot pot)". Not so literally it means: " Be in double luck".
Kamoda: Green, huh... Eishi: It's just for convenience sake, the color doesn't really matter in the end. Kamoda: Then, would you have a try at calling me that?
Eishi: What does it matter? // Tell me, // Gre, // Green? Kamoda: Come on, don't be shy! // You are the one who proposed this!
6 (80) Rei: Ah, // I forgot to ask. Takayama-kun, are you alright being Red? Eishi: (I'll get used to it, I'll get used to it, I'll get used to it.) Takayama: I don't care.
Rei: ...that's it! // Stick to the rules // Do as we just agreed on.
Eishi: I'm still not completely sure about this, but... Box: White / (Sagisawa Rei) // Blue / (Umino Tsubame) // Red / (Takayama Sou) // Black (Karasuma Eishi) // Green / (Kamoda Mikisada)
Eishi: Project // Start!!
7 (81) Woman: Ah, wait! Professor! // Too fast! Tatsume: Go home.
Woman: Noo!! Tatsume: Ugha!!
Woman: The last train left already. Come to my store. Tatsume: ...... // Call a taxi.
8 (82) Woman: Then, call a taxi for me. // And let's Go To Heaven together... Tatsume: Let - Go - Of - Me...
Tatsume: Oh, // I'm sorry, your fake nail came off. Woman: What, that can't be!
Woman: Geh!
Woman: Aah!!
Woman: You... // old bastard!!
Tatsume: Yipes!! // She took off her heels! // She's serious!!
9 (83) Tatsume: No good! I shouldn't have neglected my health!! // I can barely breathe... // My heart!! Help me! Someone help me!! // At this rate, I'll Go To He.........
Tatsume: Hell?
10 (84) Woman: Wai...
Woman: Oh? (Gone?)
Eishi: You really weren't kidding you'd find him if you got near? // You sure he isn't a Birdman? Takayama: Tatsume-san is also a very "loud" person... Tatsume: What!? // What's going on!?
11 (85) Tatsume: Sou-kun!? // Is that you!?
Eishi: Could you shut him up already!? Tatsume: Geh guguh...
12 (86) Rei: Don't you think this a bit too much? Eishi: I told you, people are more likely to show their true character in a tight situation.
13 (87) Eishi: We can't trust anyone who can't handle stress or wants to take advantage of us. // We're going to find the truth now.
Tatsume: Err,... // Sou-kun. // Would you explain to me what's going on...?
Tatsume: Did I do anything to upset you...? // I always... meant to keep the promise...
Eishi: Promise...? Tatsume: Ah! // I get it!! // Maybe, maybe...
14 (88) Tatsume: Is it because I observed your school? // I just really wanted to see your normal self, even if it was only once...
Eishi: Hm...? Tatsume: It was just one time! One time! // And from far away! // I thought of entering the school grounds, finding your classroom and searching your shoe cupboard, but I didn't do any of that!!
Tatsume: Believe me! I stopped calling and unexpectedly visit you at your home as I promised. // I should at least be allowed to watch your from far away, use the internet to do research on you and fantasized about you in my head!?
Tatsume: If I can't watch over your growth from close up, at least from far away... // I mean, I can't be helped, I'm worried about you!!! (You should consider my feeling too!!)
15 (89) Eishi: Stalker...? // He's definitely a stalker... Tatsume: You know, I really wanted to take pictures of you... // I really wanted to! // But I figured it would be really wrong, so I cried and suppressed the urge...
Tatsume: I'm sorry! I'm very sorry!! // I never meant to bother you!! // Forgive me!! Takayama: Tatsume-san, I'm not here to talk about that.
Takayama: These guys here want to talk to you...
Eishi: No, wait. // You first. // I already thought it was strange he knew you name, but why does he also know you home address and phone number? Takayama: Because we exchanged contact information.
16 (90) Eishi: WHAT!? // Are you that close!? // Why didn't you say so!!
Takayama: We aren't close. Eishi: Why did you give him your contact information!?
Takayama: He said he'd kill himself if I didn't tell him...
Tsubame: (That sounds serious.) Kamoda: (Could be dangerous.) Eishi: Just... // Just... Rei: Err... I don't think he was serious about killing himself if...
Tatsume: No!! // I was serious! Eishi: Shut up, you pervert!!!
17 (91) Eishi: Stop joking around, Takayama!!! // What are you!? // You call that privacy management!? // Why did I even bother to apologize to you!? Rei: Calm down! His name is "Red", Black! Eishi: Shut up!!
Kamoda: Calm down, it was you who proposed we use codenames, Ei-chan. Tsubame: Don't, Kamo-cha...
Kamoda: Oh! Eishi: Are you all stupid!!?
Eishi: This is crazy! // If we can't withhold our personal information, we might as well kill ourselves. // Although it was an outrageous to think that everything would be fine if we just kidnapped an adult without disclosing our names,... // none of that mattered right from the start!!
18 (92) Tatsume: Wait... // I can't see any of you...
Tatsume: Sou-kun, // you and your friends didn't bring me here, because you are angry and want to punish me? // Well, I didn't know you had any friends...
Tatsume: It's those four that need something from me? // You are strangers to me, but what did you want to talk about?
Eishi: .........whether or not we can get onto the main subject, //depends on what type of person you are. // If you do anything unnecessary, you will be punished.
Tatsume: In that case, could we change our location?
19 (93) Tatsume: If you want to know more about me, let's find a place where we can talk. // This isn't fair.
Tatsume: Listen. // I never intended to tell anyone about Sou-kun.
Tatsume: Also, // I can tell you are probably still young and are finding yourselves in peculiar circumstances, but // hoping to find someone's true character, without showing yourself, only adds to your problems.
Tatsume: So for now...
Tatsume: would you please return my glasses.
20 (94) Rei: How come we agreed to meet him for lunch?
Eishi: ...... // Because he isn't running away... // And I have a feeling he persuaded us when he said this wasn't fair.
Rei: I think we can trust him. // I hope he'll agree to be our professor.
Takayama: Tatsume-san stopped following me, after realizing I was a middle school student.
21 (95) Takayama: "Your future is more important, than my research or curiosity". // That's what he said.
Sign: Touto University
22 (96) Eishi: He tricked us.
Eishi: I really // want to go home.
23 (97) Tatsume: I'm a true workaholic. Seeing my workplace will be your first step to learn more about me. // Please visit me at my research lab. Eishi: Maybe it's just me, but I feel he just lured us into his territory...!
Eishi: Why is the guy next to me not just wearing his full uniform...? // Why is he wearing that strange wig and giving everyone a death glare...? // This is not the time for new students to enroll, we totally stand out in this crowd of merry university student... Box: Kamoda
Eishi: Sagisawa suggested we'd all go together, but left school early without telling us... Rei: (Let's meet at the school's central square.)
Eishi: Before we knew it we lost sight of Takayama, who was supposed to come with us...
Eishi: Umino will be late again... (I wonder if she's ever on time?) Tsubame: (Oops! // I'm late again!)
24 (98) Eishi: It's too much... Kamoda: (Everyone's so flashy.) Eishi: How did I end up entering enemy territory with this strange guy...?
Student: What are you two doing here? // A school trip? // You are so young! // Are you lost? // Shall I show you around?
Eishi: This isn't fair!! // University is scary!!!
Eishi: What is this place!? Student: (Hey!) // (How's it going?) // (Yo!) // (Hahahaha) // (Yes.) // (Hey!) // (Haha) // (Hehehe) Eishi: I don't think I'll ever fit in here!
25 (99) Eishi: How can they do this... Is this supposed to be a happy co-ed campus life...? // Being the center of attention all the time will get you anywhere in life, go study!
Eishi: ......no good... even if I call them names, // my courage will still be as thin as the lead of a mechanical pencil... Student: (Bye!)
Eishi: Oh god! One of those friendly-posing students is approaching us... // Go away... Compared to you were are just pebbles by the roadside!
Rei: Sorry to make you wait. Eishi/Kamoda: Sagisawa!?
Eishi: You, // what were you doing!? Rei: Infiltrating a university.
Rei: Nice wig! (This one is also just for show.) Eishi: No, you were definitely flirting with those girls?
26 (100) Rei: I was gathering information. // All the girls here are very nice.
Eishi: That's only because it's you! (Die!) Rei: I wanted ask them about Tatsume-san's lectures... // We're just in time, he's giving one now.
Rei: He's a liberal arts kind of guy giving lectures in a big hall, so it's easy to sneak in. (Let's go!) Kamoda: Do we have to?
Eishi: Wait, have you seen Takayama...? Rei: Aah... // have you tried to call him?
Kamoda: That's right, use your telepathic skills! (It's awesome!) Eishi: Don't call it telepathy!! Rei: You're yelling.
Kamoda: Come on, give it a try. Eishi: No, I'm not good enough... I have to transform to... Rei: If you don't hurry, his lecture will be over.
27 (101) Eishi: ......
Eishi: Hey, Taka...
Kamoda Amazing! Eishi: Yipes!!!
Eishi: Wha, // what were you doing!?
28 (102) Takayama: ...... // Aah...
Takayama: A chick fell from the nest... // up in the tree there...
Takayama: They really have some nice trees here? (Easy to climb) Eishi: You take it too easy!
Eishi: Anyway,
Eishi: now that we're with more, // why does it make me feel so much better...! Rei: (We can use the backdoor to enter.)
29 (103) Eishi: This... This is what having friends is like...? // Having friends is so nice...
Tatsume: Eh, for example, recently...
Tatsume: Even in Japan, biodiversity has become a matter of concern... // Well, as the characters suggest, we're talking about the diversity of life...
Blackboard: Survival Strategies of the Future / Biodiversity Tatsume: It's a very effective survival strategy for organisms // all over the world.
30 (104) Tatsume: Simply put, when many difference species exist, // it's very likely that a certain species will survive // any environmental change, because it's already adapted.
Tatsume: This also applies on a smaller scale, for a single species. // A genetically diverse species is much more likely to survive an environmental change.
Tatsume: Sometimes however, as a result of evolution, the genetic differences between members of the same species become too big // and they can't breed anymore.
Tatsume: But unless they evolve, they can't adapt to their environment. And an organism can only survive if it constantly adapts itself. // In short, evolution itself // is fundamentally a survival strategy.
Tatsume: Actually, there are several cases about species that went extinct, because they had lived in a stable environment for too long // and their evolution reached a standstill, leaving them unable to adapt to the slightest of environmental changes.
31 (105) Tatsume: Well then,...
Tatsume: let's move on to your favorite fictional exercise. // Time to let our fantasy loose.
Tatsume: Today's subject, the human race. // Since we discuss this from a human point of view, it's alright to discard all morals. Student: Finally! // I've been waiting!
Tatsume: Why do you think we started to preach different values in different places? // Was it the rise in our awareness and science literacy? // Because it was alright to think different, that could be true, but...
Tatsume: But what if it is the result of a sense of danger that we humans have reached an evolutionary standstill?
32 (106) Tatsume: In a harsh environment evolution accelerates. Yet humans passed their time living contently in a comfortable environment. // Now human evolution has reached a standstill, and some studies say we will still be the same, even after a 1.000.000 years pass.
Tatsume: If we don't evolve // we are a failure as an organism.
Tatsume: All right, you there! Student: Me!? Tatsume: What do you think the next survival strategy is for the human race!?
Student: We have a lot of children? Tatsume: Nice! As you'd expect from a male's mind! // It's definitely a problem we could solve with numbers!
33 (107) Tatsume: But if we overpopulate, there won't be enough food for everyone, right? Student: Err, then we'll fight over it, // a harsh environment will present itself, forcing human evolution to accelerate...
Tatsume: You hope that an age of civil food wars will cause evolution? Student: Professor! // It's possible a species of humans will appear, who can survive with eating less!
Tatsume: A human race with a more efficient energy intake... // That would be a great adaption! // It's too bad we'll lose all pleasure in eating, though...
Student: Professor! I think it would be great if a human race would exist that could get all the nutrition they need from anything they eat! Tatsume: I see! // That would be the humans race of dreams! // The business for cooks would thrive!
Tatsume: If we could eat anything we want, in the worst case we could even survive without putting forth any effort. // That's environmental adaptability. // A dreadful evolution...
Tatsume: Err...
34 (108) Tatsume: It's interesting how our conversation about survival strategies... ended being a conversation about interesting human races, but... // The fact there is room for such fantasies in biology makes it so fascinating.
Tatsume: Whereas chemistry and physics are specialties that pursue our unchanging psychology, //the concept of evolution, will always keep something that's "unknown" in biology. // Although we will never be able to grasp everything, biology provides us with inexhaustible intellectual excitement.
Tatsume: But you need skills to fully enjoy this intellectual excitement. // But once you've acquired those skills, they'll last a lifetime. You can use them in any field.
Tatsume: I'm dedicated to continue these lectures that hopefully help you to polish your skills. // So if it has spiked your interest, don't be shy and join me again in the next session.
35 (109) Rei: Come on, Karasuma-kun! You are faltering again!?
Rei: Hurry up, we have to get to the lab. Kamoda: Are you a baby!? Eishi: That's not it, we on enemy territory! I'm simulating possible attack patterns in my head... Kamoda: He isn't our enemy.
36 (110) Rei: Oh, Tsubame. Tatsume: Wow, you are all younger than I expected! Eishi: Well, excuse us!!
Tatsume: No... // I think this is a serious matter. // It always exciting to deal with the future of young people.
Tatsume: Aah, Sou-kun told me. // You are the one who is most eager to learn the truth about these wings, right?
37 (111) Tatsume: Thanks to all of you, Sou-kun gave me permission. // I want to uncover the secret your wings too.. // Let's get along.
1 (005) bx: This is Hell. // Anyone who is cast into Hell will be cursed.
title: Previously in Jigoku koisutefu
bx: Our protagonist is Eto Juri, she is one of Hell's inhabitants. // Her curse: "unrequited love". // Together with her cursed friends, she happily spends her days in Hell. 2 (006) bx: One day, Juri fell in love with a boy from Earth. // At the suggestion of her friend Hidamari, they slipped past their teacher and made it down to Earth. // But unfortunately, Juri was disappointed in love. // To have her love be unrequited is her curse after all. // Then, when Juri and Hidamari returned to Hell...
Mikoto: You can read it all in volume 1! txt: (Small Advertising) 3 (007) bx: After the release of Volume 1 of "Jigoku koisutefu", at a certain place. txt: Going to a meeting bx: Ohmiya txt: Tea House
Title: What happened next in Jigoku koisutefu
txt: Thank you for your work today. // You too. bx: manager Ito-san
Ohmiya: About the next chapter, I wanted to introduce a new character... Manager: Ah, about that..
Manager: Publications of Nano Ace will be discontinued in 4 months. Ohmiya: WHAT DID YOU SAY!!?
txt: *Nano Ace: the name of the magazine where Jigoku koisutefu was being published in.
Ohmiya: Well, then...
4 (008) Ohmiya: Then what should I do with all the ideas I came up with... Juri: I will protect the peace of Hell! Natsumi: Mikoto... // I am your brother, we were separated at birth... no, by death... Mikoto: My right eye is actually sealed away!!
Manager: Did you really think about doing that!? Ohmiya: No!! (I haven't even decided on the next name.) bx: To be continued in this volume
5 (009) Sign: Disciplinary Committee
Hidamari: So it's here...? Juri: Yes.
SFX: knock knock XXX: Good boy~
XXX: Alright, good boy! // Fufufufu♥ Boy: AAAAAAH!!
Title: Jigoku koisutefu
6 (010) XXX: Stay right there!
XXX: I am Ushiroya Himiko, the chief of the disciplinary committee.
Himiko: I'm sorry I scared you, but I was just teaching my blundering subordinate some manners. // Nueko told me about you two.
Himiko: I'll make sure to teach you a lesson.
Himiko: Hold it!
7 (011) Nueko: Then,
Nueko: You went down to Earth without permission, as punishment // you'll have to join the disciplinary committee. Hidamari: I'm sorry. Juri: I'm sorry.
Nueko: Committee members act as Hell's public morals, you ensure all curses are suffered correctly.
Nueko: For instance, if Hidamari-san would start to love carrots, it would no longer a curse. // For that, you will have to keep an eye out. txt: I love carrots!
Nueko: I also want you to organize my documents, // and do all my grocery shopping, // massage my shoulders,... Juri&Hidamari: We'll be her servants!!
8 (012) Himiko: Let us introduce ourselves again. Boy: I'll start.
Boy: I am Homura, I'm good at reasoning. // My curse is to always blunder. (By the way, I'm the one who just got tortured by our chief.) Box: *In Hell you have one curse per person.
Homura: When I poured our dear chief some tea (Here's your tea.)
Homura: I brewed some tea confusing a T-back with a T-pack... Hidamari: Is that even possible...!?
Himiko: And I am the Chief here, Ushiroya Himiko.
Homura: By the way, because our chief was a Peeping Tom in her previous life, her curse is to wear a blindfold at all times.
Juri&Hidamari: Wow...
9 (013) Hidamari: But, are you alright wearing a blindfold all day? (Isn't it hard to function?) Himiko: I'm fine.
Himiko: I've been wearing this blindfold for so long, I can tell a lot from listening. // From the rustle of your clothes I can tell what you're wearing. Hidamari: Amazing!!
Himiko: (For instance) Hidamari-chan, you have bunny ears and wear your hair in two pigtails. // You wear the designated cardigan // and a thin one-piece dress.
Juri&Hidamari: OOH!! (Amazing!!) Himiko: Fufu...
Himiko: Underneath you're wearing cotton underpants with a little bit of lace... Hidamari: That's enough!!!
10 (014) Homura: If Nueko-sensei needs us, this lamp will light up and blare. Juri: Really!!? That's so cool!!
Box: Three days later Hidamari: Does she ever need us...?
Homura: Ah!! Chief!!
Homaru: I forgot to plug it in the power source...
11 (015) Homura: I'm the guy who can confuse a T-back with a T-pack... Txt: T-pack
12 (016) Title: This is Hell
SFX: much munch
Hidamari: Hm!
Hidamari: Guh...
Hidamari: No good, a piece of carrot got stuck in my throat... // I can't breathe!
XXX: Hidamari-chan!!!
Hidamari: But since I am already dead, // all was fine!!!!