Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 20

[Scanlsation with this translation reserved for Muda]

Re:BIRTH
Chapter 20
Phantom


p.01
Ayaka: I hear that you’ve killed many people...

Ayaka: Well... I understand perfectly... It’s to live, of course...

Ayaka: So...


p.02-03
Ayaka: This time, I’ll have [bold]you[/bold] understand [bold]me[/bold]...
Story: Lim Dall Young
Art: Lee Soo Hyun
Chapter 20: Phantom

Ran: Who’s... p-pulling the strings...?
Ayaka: ......

Ayaka: Why should I answer...?

Ayaka: There should be a lot of people who have grudges against you.
Ayaka: It’s fine if you think it’s one of them.


p.04
Boy: What in the world are you saying? Ran killed...!?
Boy: !

Ran: L-let’s move to... s-someplace else...

Ayaka: That’s unexpected. I didn’t think you’d care about people watching.
Ayaka: Or... have you not shown that child your identity...?

Ayaka: They say you’re the strongest in this area...

Ayaka: What you’re saying is totally unbecoming of
Ayaka: The rumored Psychopath who doesn’t even think twice about killing people...

p.05
Ran: Y-you know...th-that much, yet... you’re challenging me... o-one on one...? I-I don’t recognize... y-you from around here... th-though...

Ran: ......!

Ran: ............
Ran: N-now that I think about it...

Ran: Y-you’re...?


p.06
Ayaka: Did you finally remember me?
Ayaka: You really saved me back then... I’m grateful.

Ran: I-I’m sure... o-one month ago... y-you were a beginner w-with only five life points...

Ran: D-do you… have some sort of… p-problem with me?

Ayaka: I can’t tell you... I’m already at a disadvantage...
Ayaka: I don’t want to give you any more information than necessary.

Ayaka: Actually, I’m... terrified right now...

Ayaka: The sight of you looking down on me with a butcher knife in hand... That cold gaze that showed that I wasn’t even worth killing...
Ayaka: It’s been burned into my mind since that day and it won’t leave my head...


p.07
Ayaka: Although you might now know it...

......?

...!?

...!!

Huh...!?
That’s ridiculous...


p.08
...!?

A-a hallucination!?
No, forget that... Her speed...!?

Ran: Y-you’re... l-lucky... Y-you’re... a-always...
Ran: Here... w-when I don’t want to... k-kill... a-anymore...

Ran: G-go...
Ran: I-I’ll let... y-you go...


p.09
Ayaka: Thanks, but I’m sorry...
Ayaka: I came here with reasonable determination.

Ran: That s-skill... could it be...?


p.10
Ran: A-are you...
Ran: A... Psychopath?

Ayaka: If I screw up here... there’s no way out for us...

Ayaka: That’s why I’ll have you give me...
Ayaka: Your life points... All of them...


p.11

Natsuhi: What the heck is going on!? What did Kyouka-san say!? Tell me too!!

Natsuhi: Maybe...! Did Ayaka nee-san go to fight by herself!?
Reiji: ......

That’s right, Tachibana-san came to visit the company herself.
Wasn’t it after she consulted with you guys?

Reiji: Then...! Are you saying Nee-san went to fight...
Reiji: Against that Nikaidou!?


p.12
Phone: Probably, since she was asking me about places where Nikaidou might be...
Phone: Naturally I thought she’d go after having thought of a plan with you. I never imagined she’d rush there by herself...!!

Kyouka: If that’s true, she’s in trouble! It’s not a foe that one person can fight by herself! Hurry up and go after her! Reiji-kun!

Phone: I’ll tell you about the places where she might be!
Phone: Th-thank you! Please tell me!!

Phone: By the way, your life points went up too, right?
Reiji: ......!

Kyouka: You won’t be of much use if you just ran after them.
I’ll teach you how to use your skill...


p.13
Phantom Killer, so listen up!

Reiji: Natsuhi, did you bring your sorcery device?

Natsuhi: Uh huh, I found it in Nee-san’s desk.

Wait for us, Nee-san!

You mustn’t
Fight by yourself!!


p.14

Ran...

Ran: Th-that skill...

Ran: W-which means... y-you’re... also... a P-Psychopath...
Ayaka: I guess so...

Ayaka: We’re of the same kind... nice to meet you...


p.15

......!?

Ran: Is that ... a-all you’re relying on?


p.16
Ran: A f-fledgling... w-who hasn’t even... b-been a Taker for a few months...
Ran: B-became a Psychopath...? W-who’d believe such nonsense?

Ayaka: It’s up to you whether you believe it or not...

Build-up
Load
[character on forehead means strong]

......!?

p.17
Start

Life skill...!?

Build...!? I’m sure that skill is...
An ability-raising skill that drastically increases one’s physical abilities...!


p.18
[none]


p.19
Boy: Raaaan!!

My body feels light! It’s just like the president said!!
I can do this!!


p.20
Ayaka: Augh!

What’s with her speed...!?

She’s...!
Not even using one skill...!!


p.21
It’s no use!!
I don’t stand a chance in close combat even if I strengthen myself with this skill!!

Ran: H-how are you... p-planning to kill me... i-if all you’re doing is running away?

Load
Kusanagi


p.22
[none]


p.23

......!?


p.24
Ran: Y-you’re using... the strengthening...
B-but you used... a-another skill at the same time...

Ran: Y-yes... th-that really is...

Ran: Undoubtedly... the Phantom... Skill.


p.25

Kyouka: Although we drove them into it well, just according to plan...

Kyouka: Do you think the sister...
Will last until the little brother gets there?

Ryuusuke: She shouldn’t lose that easily
Ryuusuke: Since she has Phantom.


p.26
Kyouka: But the enemy also has it...
Ryuusuke: Even if they’re both Phantom, there is a slight difference between their skills.

Ryuusuke: Phantom itself is not a lethal skill.
Ryuusuke: What’s dreadful about it is its trait...

Ryuusuke: One can equip multiple skills simultaneously and use them together.
Ryuusuke: That’s why it’s fearsome... the more one’s level and number of skills go up...

Ryuusuke: Although we charged up her life points, Nikaidou has...
An overwhelming advantage in experience and life points...

Ryuusuke: However...

Ryuusuke: You also saw Tachibana’s loading capacity
Ryuusuke: When the princess was charging her life points, didn’t you?


p.27
Kyouka: The potentials they were born with are different...
Is that what you’re saying?

Ryuusuke: Well...
Ryuusuke: There’s no problem if you understand it as such...

Ayaka: I saw it for myself by crossing swords with you ... I don’t match up with you at all in terms of our levels as Takers and in physical ability...
Ayaka: Given that... this... was the method I thought up of beforehand...


p.28
Ayaka: I can attack you with this skill without you closing in on me!!!

What evasion...!

Ayaka: One more...!!


p.29

......!?

Boy: Raaan!! Behind you!!!


p.30

......!?

Ran: Y-you hid your... o-other blade... and attack me... f-from a blind spot...
S-so a ranged... a-attack... i-it was a good decision...

Ran: H-however... there... h-has been an untold number...
Ran: O-of enemies... l-like you...

Ran: S-so... o-of course I’ve prepared...
Ran: S-suitable... c-countermeasures...


p.31
Ran: I-if I use this... i-it’ll be a lot easier on me... t-to defend...
Ran: I-I have... a-a lot of allowance to move, too...

An omnidirectional...
Guard skill...!?

Ayaka: Tch...!!


p.32-33

Only two? Is she coming with a time-lag attack with the rest...!?
But to think she can simultaneously load five skills...! I’ve never seen that before...!

It even has pinpoint control!?


p.34

Ran: Th-the strengthening skill has a... t-time limit...
Ran: D-didn’t you know?


p.35
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p.36

Ayaka: You’re... really... amazing...
Ayaka: I can’t help but acknowledge it. You’re far stronger than me...

Ayaka: From the beginning... it was impossible to hold back for want of life against an enemy like that...

Ran: Hold back...?

Ayaka: So that I don’t use it too much... Because Phantom consumes life points...
But it seems like I won’t have any chance of winning...
Ayaka: I don’t even have a 1% chance of winning unless I bet all of my life points...


p.37
Ran: I-it seems that you believe... b-being able to load more... g-gives you an advantage.
I-it’s certainly true that I was... s-surprised you were able to... l-load five simultaneously...
Ran: H-however... y-you’ll learn... s-soon...

Ran: That a battle... b-between Takers is more about the q-quality of skills... than their quantity...

Ayaka: But that’s all I have...
Ran: ......!
Ayaka: I have to tough it out with numbers all the way...

You converted all five...
To the offensive...?


p.38
Ran: ......!?

Six...?

Ran: ......!


p.39
Kyouka: ...I still can’t believe it.
Kyouka: Hasn’t Tachibana-san just become a Taker… a Psychopath?

Kyouka: How can she equip such a large number of skills?

Ryuusuke: She was born with it... there’s no other way to put it.
Kyouka: ……?

Ryuusuke: In contrast with Nikaidou, an ordinary human who became a Taker and later became a Psychopath by continuing to murder...

Ryuusuke: She was a psychopath from the moment she was born.
Ryuusuke: She was born with those genes imbedded before she became a Taker...


p.40
Kyouka: ...Born a Psychopath, eh?

Ryuusuke: In the first place, although Psychopath is a class for us Takers...
It refers to those with an antisocial personality disorder in human society.
Kyouka: ......

Ryuusuke: They use their personal gains as the largest incentive for their actions, and killing others for profit is completely natural for them...
Ryuusuke: They don’t get blamed by their conscience, and thusly they have the tendency to be seen as criminals and serial killers.
They’re certainly unnecessary evils in human society. It’s taboo to sacrifice others for one’s own sake.

Ryuusuke: However, when one becomes a Taker, that all gets reversed.
The instinct to kill others itself becomes power.
Ryuusuke: That’s why our ultimate class is the Psychopath... Isn’t that how things are set up?


p.41
Kyouka: Then... what if she hadn’t become a Taker?
Ryuusuke: Since she has so much potential... she probably would have either become a murderer
Or gone crazy trying to suppress her homicidal impulses.

Ryuusuke: However, Tachibana Ayaka became a Taker.
And with that, the genetic traits that she originally here was entirely reproduced as power.
Ryuusuke: She fundamentally had the ultimate trait, which requires a great deal of experience, equipped.

Ryuusuke: No... its potential exceeds that of an acquired Psychopath.

Ryuusuke: It should be called the chosen genes to be Takers which were passed down from heaven.
Ryuusuke: A very rare case of one’s inborn psychopath genes blooming when she becomes a Taker...


p.42-43
She is
A natural born psychopath!


p.44
What...

Exactly...
Is she...!?