AR∀GO 2

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ARAGO Ch 2 Translation

Page 1:
1: Successor to both Ewan's body and his dying wish, Arago enters the world of the police----

Chapter 2: Cursed Power

Page 2:
Panel 1:
Ewan: Arago!!
Ewan: Every day you don't come home, what are you thinking!!
Ewan: I had to get the police to help me track you down again!!

Panel 2:
Ewan: Stop it already!! Looking for that Patch Man!!
Ewan: What do you think you'll be able to do all by yourself anyway!!

Side:
Yellow Text on Black (Right side): After his parents have been killed by the Patch Man, a very young Arago...

Panel 4:
Ewan: You're hurt?
Ewan: Let me see.

Panel 5:
Arago: You want to just leave it up to the police......?
Arago: Don't touch me!!!

Page 3:
Panel 1:
Arago: The police are all useless!!
Arago: No one believes anything I say!!

Panel 2:
Arago: Even though Mom and Dad died...
Arago: Because of the fire? Don't try to tell me that...

Panel 4:
Arago: No one came to save them then,
Arago: I can't rely on anyone...

Panel 5:
Arago: By myself... I have to become stronger...
Arago: Even if I'm all alone...
Arago: I'll be fine...

Panel 6:
1: ---The present---
2: London, England

Page 4:
Panel 4:
Criminal: Heh heh, You're kinda slow, ain't ya...

Panel 5:
Criminal: All your buddies got lost and left you alone, you're actually pissin' yer pants over there, ain't ya?

Panel 6:
Arago: Nope, I'm actually pretty capable all by myself.
Criminal: No matter what you do, I don't even have anything on me anymore!!

Page 5:
Panel 1:
Arago: The police I'm with are everywhere
Arago: You'll get hurt, you know?

Panel 2:
Arago: Don't screw with me.

Panel 5:
Super: What the Hell is this,
Super: Officer Hunt!!

Page 6:
Panel 1:
Super: You used violence to apprehend another suspect!
Arago: He was a hoodlum carrying stolen goods.
Super: It doesn't matter who it is, the use of violence is strictly forbidden!

Panel 2:
Super: This isn't a battleground,
Super: In England and here in London, the numbers of hoodlums like that are shrinking.

Panel 3:
Super: Still, you're representing the dignity and character of all of Scotland Yard's policemen!
Arago: Heh.

Panel 4:
Arago: If I spent all my time thinking about "dignity", I wouldn't have recovered the jewel in this case,
Arago: Well, I guess if I waited long enough though...

Panel 5:
Super: ...You really are a person who likes to rub others the wrong way, just fraying one nerve at a time, aren't you...
Super: In that case I will tell you this,

Panel 6:
Super: We have been receiving a flood of complaints from the townspeople about you!!
Super: Your speech is rude, your behavior is overbearing, the list keeps going!!

Page 7:
Panel 1:
Super: And someone like you wants to join the CID!?
Super: Don't make me laugh!!

Panel 2:
Super: It would be wonderful if you were a proper substitue for you brother, but there is no way that you're fit for that kind of responsibility!

Panel 3:
Arago: Whether I'm fit for it or not,

Panel 4:
Arago: If you don't give me a chance you'll never know, right?

Panel 5:
Super: Get out of my office!!

Panel 6:
Arago: Haa... they're looking down on me.
Arago: I even completed the Detective's training course.

Page 8:
Panel 1:
Joe: You're most beautiful woman here again today,

Panel 2:
Sara: Oh, stop flattering me.
Joe: Why should I? You don't need to be so humble.
CID Guy: Hey, Joe! Hurry up, would you?

Panel 3:
Arago: Plainclothes... CID detectives, huh.
Arago: So they even let an old pervert like him in.
Arago: Are they investigating something?

Panel 5:
Arago: You look happy, don't you.
Arago: Something good happened?

Page 9:
Panel 1:
Arago: What the hell was that for!?
CID Guy: You idiot!!!

Panel 2:
CID Guy: She just lost her husband in an accident! Why did you say such a thing!!

Panel 3:
CID Guy: Got it!? Now hurry up and get back to work!!
Arago: So plainclothes are allowed to beat on uniformed officers, huh!?
CID Guy: Get lost!!

Panel 4:
CID Guy: Geez, even though they're twins there's such an incredible difference from his older brother, isn't there.
Joe: Twins?

Panel 5:
CID Guy: Yeah, he was killed in the line of duty, Detective Ewan Hunt.
CID Guy: He was also assigned to this office and looked exactly the same. He was also quite a smart and capable person.

Panel 6:
CID Guy: Their outer appearance is similar, but
CID Guy: I can only conclude that their insides aren't, unfortunately.
Joe: ......

Panel 7:
Joe: Oh, Sheryl! How about another dinner date?
Joe: What do you think?
CID Guy: Hey, Joe!!!

Page 10:
Panel 1:
Arago: That's weird...
Arago: That old lady from earlier, I coulda sworn she was smiling, and the light she was giving off looked happy,
Arago: I saw it, but...

Panel 2:
Arago: Ever since I got my revenge on the Patch Man, the world around me has completely changed.
Arago: Geez... ganging up on me to make me look dumb
Arago: I can see things like people's emotions, apparently it's their life energy or something.

Panel 3:
Arago: It looks like a kind of wavering light...

Panel 4:
Arago: When it started it was really irritating, but now I'm pretty well used to it.
Arago: In other words, I've given up.
Arago: Maybe I'm really not cut out for it ...this job...

Panel 5:
Arago: Ewan...

Page 11:
Panel 1:
Arago: Because of the death of the detective that was investigating the Patch Man cases,
Arago: Ewan's name became just the last victim in the series of murders.

Panel 2:
Arago: A heavy burden was finally lifted from the backs of the police, but it was much too late.

Panel 3:
Arago: The Patch Man was erased that night, as the fire burned itself out.

Panel 4:
Arago: The truth of this mystery case was hidden in the darkness---

Panel 5:
Arago: Any evidence of the Patch Man's existence was completely turned to ashes...
Arago: No,
Arago: There's still one thing that remains---

Panel 8:
Arago: Hey, you okay!?

Page 12:
Panel 1:
Arago: It's because you were running in a crowd of people, you know.

Panel 2:
Arago: Can you stand?

Panel 4:
Nina: !!

Panel 5:
Arago: Oh crap!
Arago: I'm not wearing my glove...!!

Panel 6:
Arago: Ah!

Page 13:
Panel 1:
Arago: In exchange for Ewan's life, this hand took it in,
Arago: The Patch Man's power, or so it seems.

Panel 2:
Arago: The cursed power that he used to chop my body up back then...

Panel 3:
Arago: I see things that can't be seen, and I wound things that I touch.
Arago: What is this cursed power?

Panel 4:
Arago: Until I can repay Ewan's soul,
Arago: What can I do...

Panel 5:
Nina: Hey!!

Page 14:
Panel 2:
Arago: Egh!?

Panel 3:
Arago: Guaah!!
Nina: Found you! The Galley Beggar monster!

Panel 4:
Arago: Youuu... don't screw with me, you damned brat!!
Nina: I saw through your disguise!
Arago: Wha? Disguise!?

Panel 5:
Arago: Your right hand has light coming from it!!

Panel 6:
Nina: Since I am here,
Nina: I won't let the Galley Beggar do bad things!!

Panel 8:
Arago: What the heck, Galley Beggar she said...
Arago: And also...

Page 15:
Panel 1:
Arago: She can see it?
Arago: This light...

Panel 2:
1: Well then, see you tomorrow
2: Later, Tiernan.
Tiernan: Yeah, take care of yourselves

Panel 3:
Tiernan: ...
Tiernan: It got pretty chilly, huh...

Panel 5:
Tiernan: ?

Panel 7:
Tiernan: What the?

Panel 8:
Nina: Look out!!

Page 16:
Panel 1:
Tiernan: Whoa!!
Tiernan: That's dangerous!!

Page 17:
Panel 4:
1: No way, Tiernan did...
2: Yesterday, after we separated at the pub...
3: Yeah, it seems that somehow a life was ended, but...

Panel 5:
Super: That's what I'm saying!!
Super: It's urgent, you have to send us a replacement officer from the detective's department of the main office!!

Panel 7:
Arago: It's so noisy... did something happen...?

Panel 8:
Nina: I'm telling you, I saw it!!

Page 18:
Panel 1:
Nina: And then the old man was surprised, and he jumped into the road!!

Panel 2:
Officer: So, it was a ghost...
Officer: Eeh, have you been here before, maybe?

Panel 3:
Nina: Yeah, thanks.
Officer: I'll have someone look into it.
Officer: Be careful on your way home.

Panel 5:
1: That kid again?
2: Yeah, she's still saying it was a ghost that caused it,
3: Detective Tiernan's incident---
4: Do you think she's alright in the head?

Panel 7:
1: She's just telling lies to get attention.
2: A boy who cries wolf, or rather a girl who cries wolf?
3: Yeah, exactly!!

Page 19:
Panel 1:
Nina: But I'm not lying...

Panel 2:
Nina: I really saw it...

Panel 3:
Arago: Yo!

Panel 5:
Nina: Stay away from me!
Arago: Hey now, you're still suspicious of me?
Arago: I'm telling you, I'm not that carrot whatever!

Panel 6:
Nina: Galley Beggar!!
Arago: ?

Panel 7:
Nina: It's a ghost surrounded by a glittering light, and looks like a skeleton!
Nina: He's afraid of people, so he hurts them!!
Nina: The old guy from yesterday too...!!

Page 20:
Panel 1:
Nina: Oh, leave me alone! No one ever believes anything I say!
Arago: I believe you!

Panel 2:
Nina: Liar! You're just like all the other policemen!
Nina: You don't believe the Galley Beggar exists!!

Panel 3:
Arago: Whether or not he does exist,
Arago: Since I haven't seen him with my own eyes I can't really say, but...

Panel 4:
Arago: I do know that you're not lying about it.

Panel 5:
Nina: If you say I'm not lying,
Nina: Then yo must think that ghost really does exist, right?

Panel 6:
Arago: ...I was the same way back then...
Arago: I'm telling you, Mom and Dad were killed by the Patch Man!!
Arago: Why won't you believe me!?

Panel 7:
Arago: Well, never mind that!
Arago: You are not lying!!

Page 21:
Panel 1:
Arago: I will believe you. So you have to believe me too!!

Panel 2:
Arago: Let's take on that ghost together,

Panel 3:
Arago: And we'll show everyone else that you were telling the truth!!

Page 22:
Panel 3:
1: A person fell from up there!!

Panel 5:
Nina: There it is! Up on the bridge!!
Arago: Yeah! I saw it too!!

Page 23:
Panel 2:
Arago: Leave the rest to me!
Arago: Don't follow me any further!
Nina: No! I'm going too!!

Panel 3:
Nina: There's still something I want to do!

Panel 4:
GB: HE HE HE, YOU---!!
GB: YOU CAN SEE ME!?
GB: CHASING ME AROUND SO PERSISTENTLY, YOU BASTARDS!!

Panel 5:
Nina: Why are you hurting people!?
Nina: You hurt my Mama too!!
Nina: Stop doing those things!

Panel 6:
GB: HA HA... SO IT'S YOU, LITTLE GIRL.
GB: LAST NIGHT, YOU INTERFERED IN MY FUN!

Page 24:
Panel 1:
GB: IF IT'S YOUR WISH...
GB: I'LL SCARE YOU TO DEATH----!!!

Page 25:
Panel 1:
Arago: What the heck is up with this guy!?

Panel 3:
Arago: !?

Panel 4:
Nina: Mr. Policeman!!

Panel 5:
GB: AWFULLY EAGER, AREN'T YOU---!!
GB: WELL SO AM I---!!!

Panel 8:
Arago: Hey, are you okay!?

Page 26:
Panel 1:
Arago: !!!

Panel 4:
Arago: How low. Oh well...

Panel 5:
Arago: This ain't over...!!

Panel 6:
GB: GUWEH!
GB: AAAAH! IT SLIPPED RIGHT THROUGH---!!

Panel 7:
Arago: I wanna hit him!!
GB: HOW IS IT? SCARED YET---!?

Page 27:
Panel 1:
GB: BUT YOU KNOW, MY POWER...
GB: CAN DO MUCH MORE THAN JUST THAT!!!

Panel 2:
GB: WHAT DO YOU THINK? ISN'T THIS FUN!
GB: LIGHTNING SHOOT!!

Panel 5:
GB: PACHINKO!!
GB: IT'S PACHINKO!!!

Panel 7:
GB: EH?

Page 28-29:
Panel 3:
Arago: It protected me...
Arago: The light did...!!

Panel 4:
GB: WHAAAAAT!!?
GB: THIS GUY SPLIT IT!!!

Panel 5:
Arago: In that case...
Arago: I'm gonna beat the crap outta you!!

Page 30:
Panel 1:
GB: NO WAAAAAY!!

Panel 2:
Arago: If I had used this power back then...

Panel 3:
Arago: Back then...

Panel 4:
Arago: I'll become stronger by myself.
Arago: Even if I'm all alone, I'll be fine...

Between panels:
---In order to protect someone---

Panel 5:
GB: GYAH!!
GB: MY BUTT!!

Panel 6:
Arago: Nobody else,
Arago: In front of my eyes...

Panel 7:
GB: I won't let you come back together!!

Page 31:
Panel 1:
GB: HE HE HE, THAT WON'T DO, SONNY!
GB: BUT YOU KNOW!

Panel 2:
GB: HOW ABOUT THIS!!

Panel 3:
GB: SHOCKING DOCKING!!

Panel 6:
Arago: He, he vanished...?

Panel 7:
Arago: !!

Panel 8:
Arago: Are you alright!?
Arago: Are you hurt!?

Page 32:
Panel 3:
GB: JUST AS I THOUGHT!! I CAN LIVE INSIDE THIS BRAT!!
GB: SHE COULD SEE ME!
GB: HER SENSES ARE VERY STRONG! THE MAKINGS OF A SPIRIT MEDIUM MAYBE!!?

Panel 4:
Arago: He possessed her!?
Arago: He's in that kid!!

Panel 5:
GB: YOU'RE NOT GONNA USE THAT HAND OF YOURS, SONNY!?
GB: HOW SWEET!!
Arago: Wait!!

Page 33:
Panel 1:
GB: ME, YOU KNOW, I'M TOTALLY GONNA USE THIS GIRL TO SCARE PEOPLE LIKE CRAZY!
GB: SO DON'T FOLLOW ME!
Arago: It's because of your screwing around that we're here in the first place!!

Panel 2:
GB: WE'VE BEEN WAITING SO PATIENTLY ALL THIS TIME!
GB: SO I GUESS IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER IT'S ONE PERSON OR TWO!

Panel 3:
Arago: You son of a...!!

Panel 6:
GB: !!

Page 34:
Panel 1:
GB: HEY NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GONNA DO!?
GB: YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO ME WITHOUT HURTING THIS BRAT, AHHN?

Panel 2:
Arago: No matter what, you have no intention of coming out?
GB: ARE YOU AN IDIOT? IF I DID THAT, YOU'D DESTROY ME WITH THAT LIGHT OF YOURS...

Panel 3:
GB: GUWEH!!?

Panel 4:
GB: Y- YOU... WHAT ARE YOU DOING...
Arago: ...Well then, I guess I'll rip you outta this kid by force...

Panel 5:
GB: HEH, IF YOU'RE GONNA DO THAT, THEN...

Panel 7:
Arago: I'm sorry... just hold on a little longer. I'll finish this up right away...

Panel 8:
Arago: It can be done ...I can do this too!!

Page 35:
Panel 2:
GB: WHA... WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?
GB: I'M BEING TORN OUT OF HER!!

Panel 3:
Arago: Patch Man was able to pull and extract people's souls from their bodies...
Arago: If this light has the same power, then
Arago: I should be able to do it too!!

Panel 4:
Arago: It injures people,
Arago: Touching the soul...

Panel 5:
Arago: This cursed light that he used to chop me up!

Page 36:
Panel 1:
GB: I- I SEE, THIS LIGHT...
GB: SO IT WAS YOU, HUH...

Panel 2:
GB: THE ONE WHO GOT MASTER PATCH!

Panel 3:
GB: BECAUSE HE KEPT APPEARING AND DISAPPEARING SO EASILY...
GB: BECAUSE OF THAT HE WAS THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO EVER STOOD OUT...

Panel 4:
GB: WE'VE WAITED SO LONG,

Panel 5:
GB: IT'S THE POWER TO RULE THE WORLD THAT WE'VE DREAMED OF...!!

Panel 6:
GB: IT'S OUR CHANCE! OUR CHANCE TO PARTY HAS COME!!
GB: IT'LL BRING TOGETHER THE BIG SHOTS ONE AFTER ANOTHER,
GB: AND WE'LL CONTROL LONDON AS THE CAPITAL OF EVIL!!
GB: THE POWER BALANCE HAS NOW COLLAPSED...
GB: ALL KINDS OF STRANGE THINGS WILL ROLL ON INTO LONDON!!

Page 37:
Panel 1:
GB: WHATEVER YOU DID TO KILL OFF MASTER PATCH, I DON'T CARE
GB: WITH THAT POWER, A PERSON CAN DO INCREDIBLE THINGS.
GB: THIS IS A WORTHY WAY OF DYING, I THINK!!

Panel 5:
Arago: ...

Panel 6:
Officer: Don't move!!

Page 38:
Panel 1:
Officer: You, what are you doing there!!

Panel 2:
Arago: This is bad, it's the patrol officers...
Arago: Hey!! It- It's me!!

Panel 5:
Arago: Tch!!
Cop: Hey, stop!!

Panel 6:
Cop: This is C58DYX!!
Cop: We need urgent assistance!!

Panel 7:
Cop: An assault suspect wearing a black hood is fleeing!!
Cop: Urgent---!!

Page 39:
Panel 2:
Cop: The injured girl received medical treatment, and presently we are monitoring her condition,
Cop: Everyone, pay careful attention during late night patrols for any suspicious persons!
Cop: That is all! Dismissed!

Panel 3:
1: Geez, another child.
2: It's really disturbing, isn't it?
3: But there was a handprint burned into her neck, right?
4: Yeah, exactly. And that's not all, the death of the detective is still an unsolved case...
5: Maybe it was the Patch Man!

Panel 4:
1: Isn't it just the work of some dumb copycat criminal?
2: Yeah, if the Patch Man really existed, vampires and other stuff would too!

Panel 5:
1: All of you standing around talking about those kinds of things, are you still children?
2: Monsters, vampires, and all those things are just kid's stories---

Page 40:
Panel 1:
Arago: Burned the neck...
Arago: I'm the one who did that!

Panel 2:
Arago: Patch Man? Me!?

Panel 3:
Arago: No I'm not, this power is!
Arago: It's like I'm living a nightmare...

Panel 4:
Arago: I'm lucky the patrol officers didn't see my face...
Arago: But, if that kid talks about me...
Arago: The Patch Man's crimes will be blamed entirely on me...

Panel 5:
Arago: Ah!

Panel 6:
Nina: Mr. Policeman?

Panel 7:
Nina: Hey,

Panel 9:
Arago: Ewan's murder,
Arago: I'll be blamed for it...!!

Page 41:
Panel 1:
Nina: You've got some chocolate,
Nina: Right there.

Panel 2:
Nina: On your cheek!
Arago: Eh!?

Panel 3:
Nina: Mama, this is the policeman I told you about!
Arago: H- Hey!!

Panel 4:
Arago: Why haven't you said anything?

Panel 5:
Nina: But it's fine this way.
Nina: No one would believe me anyway.
Nina: After all, I'm supposed to be a kid that only tells stories to get attention!

Panel 6:
Arago: But, you're the one who said it, right? You wanted evidence to solve this important case.

Panel 2:
Nina: I'm not that dumb!

Panel 7:
Nina: I know.
Nina: I know that you wouldn't do such a bad thing.

Page 42:
Panel 1:
Nina: So then, when I called you the Galley Beggar was just a misunderstanding,
Nina: Now, I can definitely see that.

Panel 2:
Nina: Your light, it's really gentle.
Nina: You were desperately trying to save me.

Panel 4:
Nina: Look, for some reason they put on this really exaggerated bandage,
Nina: But still, it's really nothing!

Panel 5:
Mom: Nina!
Nina: Mama!

Panel 6:
Nina: No one would believe be, and I was really bitter...
Nina: But it was because I was the only one who could see the Galley Beggar.

Panel 7:
Nina: But, you did!
Nina: You beat the Galley Beggar!

Page 43:
Panel 1:
Nina: You believed me,
Nina: So thank you!

Panel 2:
1: Until I am able to repay Ewan's soul.

Panel 3:
Nina: Let's play again some time, okay!
Arago: Now, I finally understand this feeling.

Panel 4:
Arago: Even if it's the same as the Patch Man's,
Arago: Even if this is a cursed power that can injure people...
Arago: If this power can be used to save someone ...and make her smile,

Page 44:
Panel 1:
Arago: Okay!!
Arago: If I don't use it,

Panel 2:
Arago: There was no meaning in me receiving your life like this

Panel 5:
Arago: Right, Ewan...?

Panel 6:
Arago: Now, I really want to become a person with the ability to save people.

Panel 7:
Arago: The thing that you aimed for...
Arago: It's not such a bad thing, huh...
1: Oh! (Heart) Where do you think you're touching!!

Panel 8:
1: Joe-san!

Page 45:
Panel 1:
Joe: [Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman]...
Joe: Those are the words of the Greek novelist Menander.
(T/N: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander)

Panel 2:
Joe: The day before yesterday, that woman suspect,
Joe: We're going to arrest her for killing her husband for the insurance money.
Arago: Ahn?

Panel 3:
Joe: She killed a person for money, and that was why she was crying.
Joe: That's why women are such truly scary beings...

Panel 4:
Joe: But even so, I just can't help myself, you know?
Arago: What do you want, old man?

Panel 5:
Joe: You, at that time you said something interesting to the suspect--- wasn't it...
Joe: [You look happy, don't you]...

Panel 6:
Arago: Th- that was...
Joe: You've got good eyes.

Page 46:
Panel 1:
Joe: Tiernan is going to be hospitalized for a while.
Joe: And the higher ups are kind of shorthanded.
Joe: ...You wanna do it?

Panel 2:
Arago: Ahn?
Arago: Do it ...what are you talking about?

Panel 3:
Joe: Officer Arago Hunt,
Joe: Welcome to the CID.

Right Side: Arago became a detective, and his next case will be...!? It will be in the next issues' super volume with 30 pages!!