Freezing 9

Freezing Chapter 9

Page 104

Bubble 1: Arrrrrrrgh! Ahhhh!

Page 105

Bubble 1: Ugh!
Bubble 2: LEO!
Bubble 3: Yes ma’am!

Page 106

Bubble 1: Agh…!
Bubble 2: I’ve caught her!
Bubble 3: Senpai!
Bubble 4: Ugh, he’s…!

Page 107

Bubble 1: This…can’t be!
Text: He’s used freezing…
Up until here on me?!
Bubble 2: He didn’t just freeze his targets…
Bubble 3: He made a zone that extended in every direction…

Page 108

Bubble 1: He has the power to expand his freezing!
Bubble 2: The same power that the Nova can use!
Text: That first-year…!
Text: What on earth…?!
Text: That boy…
Text: That’s the same power as before…
Text: Aoi-kun…!
Bubble 3: I…I can’t believe it…
Bubble 4: I’ve…heard about something like this.

Page 109

Bubble 1: LEO!
Bubble 2: Our own freezing will counteract against theirs and I’ll be released immediately!
Bubble 3: Satellizer’s coming!
Text: My body feels light…!
Text: All right then!
Bubble 4: AAAH!
Bubble 5: AHHHHHH!
Bubble 6: GET OUT OF THE WAY, LEO!

Page 110

Bubble 1: LEOOO!
Text: I outmatched him…!
Text: She shouldn’t be able to move since her Limiter’s gone!

Page 111

Bubble 1: Guhh…
Bubble 2: Ughhhh…
Bubble 3: AHHHHHHH!
Bubble 4: Uwahh!

Page 112

Text: Pandora Mode: Powered Suit Type

Page 113

Text: Oh no…!
Text: There’s still the third-year left…!
Text: That’s…!
Text: Pandora Mode…!
Text: She was…
Text: Pushed that far…?

Page 114

Bubble 1: YAAAAAAAAHHH!
Text: Marine…
Text: Please answer me…!
Text: I’m not…
Text: Making a mistake, am I?!

Page 115

Bubble 1: She’s moving?!
Text: Emergency System Mode!
Text: Certainly, you should be able to move after a few minutes of being in freezing, but…!
Text: Even if I had needed to break formation at that time…
Text: And even if those first years did run away…
Text: Marine finished it off without dying!
Text: She should still be standing here next to me!
Text: Genetics are an army! Severe and elaborate regulations that become the foundation under which everyone should operate for their safety!
Text: You take this far too lightly! You only run away, protecting yourself while leaving your comrades in danger!

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Bubble 1: Abandoning your comrades, trampling on regulations, and doing just whatever you like…
Bubble 2: I absolutely will not be defeated!

Page 117

Bubble 1: Ah…!
Bubble 2: This is over,
Bubble 3: Satellizer!

Page 118

Bubble 1: Guh!
Bubble 2: A-
Bubble 3: Aoi-kun!
Text: T-the freezing grew stronger…
Text: Even though I’m in Pandora Mode?!
Text: Isn’t this like…
Text: What the Nova did before?!

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Text: By one’s own will, one can activate the stigmata cells throughout his body and forcefully evolve the Volt cells into Nova ones.
Text: Moreover, for a short amount of time, there is a forced change in the genetic make-up of the Nova, allowing one to free himself from the freezing’s bindings.
Text: However, the Nova system will break down if the evolution does not stop upon reaching the body’s limits.
Text: Though controlling that breaking point was the suit’s true purpose…
Text: Nevertheless, high attacking power is forcibly brought forth because of the suit’s forceful increase in the body’s abilities…
Text: What in the world is this boy…to be able to stop me through freezing?!

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Text: As it is…this can’t go on…!
Text: I must hurry and inform and the instructors!
Bubble 1: Please stop this already…
I’m not sure why I have this kind of ability, but…
Bubble 2: I will continue freezing to the very limits of my abilities. You do not have any chance of winning, Ingrid-senpai…
Bubble 3: I do not understand why you must be so fixated on the regulations to such an extent, Senpai!
Bubble 4: Although it is true that we did rise up against the upperclassmen, it was originally Miyabi-senpai who started this fight in the first place.
Bubble 5: Satellizer-senpai only resisted and broke the rules in order to protect herself!
Bubble 6: There’s no reason to have this fight anymore! This is nothing more than a group lynching!
Bubble 7: This is merely nothing but a false accusation of violence!

Page 121

Bubble 1: There is no meaning for clinging to something like this!
Bubble 2: Please cease from hurting each other more!
Text: They’re…
Text: Meaningless attachments…?!

Page 122

Bubble 1: Hiiragi.
Bubble 2: What’s wrong?
Seems a bit noisy over towards the first-year dorms.
Bubble 3: And…why are you in your pajamas?
Bubble 4: Ah!
Virginia-senpai and Chiroru-senpai!
Text: They were in Marine’s platoon a year ago…
Bubble 5: Please help me!
Bubble 6: Ingrid Bernstein-senpai is…!

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Text: She reached her time limit?!
Bubble 1: GUHHH…
Bubble 2: AAGGGHHHHH!
Bubble 3: There’s…no meaning…you say?
Bubble 4: You say…I’m clinging…onto my ideals? (ideals added for clarification of subject being clung to)

Page 124

Bubble 1: In order…to not...have another death…like Marine’s…
Text: This isn’t good!
Text: Even though she went over the time limit, she’s forcing the Nova system to stay activated?!
Bubble 2: From now on…I will…do away with…Pandoras’ meaningless deaths….!
Bubble 3: Whether…!
Bubble 4: Whether that’s pointless or not, you fool!
Text: This is hopeless! The starting of Pandora’s system overflow is causing her to forget herself from anger!
Text: As it is, her body is breaking down due to the excess of the Nova system’s activation!
Text: It’ll force her to lose consciousness if it’s not stopped…
Text: Ingrid’s life will be…!
Bubble 5: That’s called “clinging”.

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Bubble 1: Always predicting and making decisions in impossible emergent situations is a commander’s duty.
Bubble 2: Marine-senpai could have retreated as well. However, within the number of options there were, she made the choice for own personal fight.
Bubble 3: And ranking the tasks to maximize priorities was a commendable deed: …protecting…the civilian residential areas. As a Pandora, she accepted her death.
Bubble 4: Ingrid-senpai, this decision…do you think Marine-senpai regrets it?
Bubble 5: She threw away her life and accomplished her duties. Marine-senpai’s death is…fully worthy of respect.
Bubble 6: But…what about the you as of now, Ingrid-senpai?

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Bubble 1: Only tying yourself to her death without even thinking of Marine-senpai’s feelings and even yet, just continuing to do nothing but blame other people for it…!
Bubble 2: Doing away with a death like Marine-senpai’s?! Is there no meaning to her death?!
Bubble 3: The one having such contempt for her precious death…is no one but you!

Page 128

Bubble 1: If Marine-senpai were here right now…
Bubble 2: She would probably choose to do the exact same thing.
Text: Impossible…
Text: I…for Marine…
Text: Held…
Text: Contempt…

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Text: I…
Text: For Marine…
Text: Marine.
Text: Marine…

Page 130

Text: Please answer me, Marine!
Text: Am…I showing contempt for you?
Text: No, Ingrid… You’re doing your very best.
Text: Thank you…very much, for not forgetting me after all this time.
Text: No, Marine! I don’t understand!
Text: Please don’t go! Stay close to me for just a little longer… Marine!

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Bubble 1: You’ve come to, haven’t you,
Bubble 2: Ingrid-senpai?
Bubble 3: Second-year Virginia…
Bubble 4: And Chiroru…
Bubble 5: You two…
Bubble 6: Ah!

Page 132

Bubble 1: Do not overdo it just yet. You almost just barely hit the limits of the Nova activation overflow.
Bubble 2: It was fortunate that you were stopped there… Had you continued for just one more minute, you would have lost your life.
Bubble 3: It’s a relief that Aoi-kun could somehow stop you.
Bubble 4: There’s so much you must thank him for.
Text: That’s right…
Text: I was held down by his freezing…
Bubble 5: Well then, Senpai,
Bubble 6: Please excuse us.
Your facial wounds from the Overflow will heal up in about 2-3 days.
Bubble 7: Virginia.

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Bubble 1: As the squad leader of that incident a year ago…you fought alongside Marine, didn’t you?
Bubble 2: I have something I want to ask you.
Bubble 3: Those first years that ran away and abandoned you and Marine…
Bubble 4: Did you ever feel bitter towards them?
Bubble 5: I was bitter…
Bubble 6: However, I’ve already forgotten about it.

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Bubble 1: Let us retreat from such meaningless battles.
Bubble 2: That was the very last order from Marine-senpai just before you arrived, Ingrid-senpai.
Bubble 3: The first-years’ stigmatas weren’t completely mature either, so action against the Nova was realistically impossible.
However, the first-years fought with all their strength and eventually reached their limits… At the very beginning, Marine-senpai was also desperate to defend the battle formation, but…
Bubble 4: In the end, she tolerated their retreat…
Bubble 5: Tolerated…? Why would Marine do a thing like that…?
Bubble 6: In such a circumstance, even just one Pandora would…!
Bubble 7: I’m not certain…
Bubble 8: We were under too much strain in that situation… When Albert was killed in action, I’m sure Marine-senpai was feeling despair as well…

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Bubble 1: However, in that kind of situation, caving into panic would have made the first-years inefficient, and dying to defend their posts would have been meaningless.
At the very least you fought up until the end.
Bubble 2: “I wanted to keep alive just one more kouhai,” was what her mentality changed to, I believe.
Text: Just…
Text: One more kouhai…
Bubble 3: Well then, we’ll be taking our leave, Leo.
Bubble 4: Thank you for coming.

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Text: Always making decisions is a commander’s duty!
Text: She threw away her life and accomplished her duties. Marine-senpai’s death is fully worthy of respect.
Text: “I wanted to keep alive just one more kouhai,”
Text: was what I believe her mentality changed to.
Text: I don’t understand, Marine…
Text: Was I mistaken…?

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Bubble 1: And the blame goes to the unexpected intruder…
An unexpected notification of second-year Ingrid’s defeat.
Bubble 2: That first year Limiter, Aoi Kazuya, was not normal!
Bubble 3: I’m not sure what kind of power he has in him!
Bubble 4: Oh…this isn’t like you at all, Athea.
You’re scared of a first year?
Bubble 5: What’d you say?!
Bubble 6: What are your thoughts on the matter, Elizabeth?

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Bubble 1: For the time being…let’s pay close attention to
Bubble 2: Bridget L. Satellizer, and…
Bubble 3: Aoi Kazuya’s movements.