AR∀GO 9

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ARAGO Ch 9 Translation

Page 1:
Top right corner: Breaking into a new episode! The extremely popular police action!!

Center: The power to curse... Where will this power lead me!?

Bottom right corner: Chapter 9: Vim Patior

Left Side (vertical): News flash!! Volume 1 will be on sale starting March 18th!!

Page 2:
Panel 1:
Larry: According to an eyewitness, one hour before the body was discovered, a single car was seen fleeing from the scene of the crime.
Larry: However they couldn't provide us with any particular identifying characteristics.

Panel 2:
Larry: So we also want to canvass the neighbourhood's residents for possible information.
Larry: If someone...
SFX: Fuun!
Overwriting: Arago eagerly volunteers!?

Panel 3:
Larry: Booth, you go.
Booth: Got it.

Panel 4:
Larry: Lee, you check in with the victim's associates.
Larry: Carnes, the combination lock code--

Panel 5:
Larry: That's all. Everybody get to work.

Panel 6:
Arago: H- hey! What about me!?
Larry: Huh? So you were here.

Page 3:
Panel 1:
Arago: I want to do something too!! I'll definitely be helpful!!
Arago: Let me participate in the investigation!!
Larry: There aren't any jobs I can entrust to a snot-nosed brat like you.

Panel 2:
Larry: Until I come up with a job like that, why don't you go make enough coffee for the actual investigation team.
2: Let's go, Larry.

Panel 3:
Arago: Hey!!
Larry: I'm too busy for this, so we're finished talking!!

Panel 4:
1: I really can't stomach that Cockney accent of his.
2: Yeah, he just exudes his ill-breeding.
3: He's completely inappropriate for the CID.
4: Recommending a guy like that, what on earth was Joe thinking?

Panel 5:
1: Well, Joe is the kind of guy that you never know what's going on in his head anyway.
2: He probably just used his family connections.

Page 4:
Right side: ((the story so far))

Panel 1:
Arago: Damn shitheads!!!!

Panel 2:
Arago: That bastard Larry, ever since Braem's case he's been completely leaving me out of every investigation!!

Panel 3:
Arago: And the old man Joe too...
Arago: Lately he's always disappearing somewhere, and I never even see his face...

Panel 4:
1: I'm entrusting you with my life.
2: Don't waste it.

Panel 5:
Arago: If this is how it was gonna end up being, then why the hell did I bother joining the CID!?

Panel 6:
Arago: !!!

Panel 7:
Arago; Uwegh!!!
SFX: Pitu! Pitu!

Page 5:
Panel 1:
Arago: Aaah... I did it again.
1: What happens if it comes in contact with this "power" for even a moment,

Panel 2:
1: I've gradually come to understand it a little better.
2: I can use it for spotting ghosts, catching falling lifts, and stopping blows.

Panel 3:
Arago: It doesn't affect metal or plastic at all for some reason.
1: But for everything else, the rule is different, it seems.

Panel 4:
1: Anything that comes in direct contact with my body...
2: It rots, withers, is damaged, or gets altered somehow.
3: That's not the worst thing about it though,
4: The main ability of this curse is that it reacts to anything living, stealing away the light that represents their life.

Panel 5:
1: Yeah, it looks like this is the true form of the Patch Man's cursed power.

Left side (vertical): Top Box: Character Info:
Below: Arago Hunt. After the Patch Man's surgery, he now has part of his older brother Ewan's body and a strange power in his hand. Succeeding his older brother's will, he became a police officer, and has now been selected to become a detective for the criminal investigations department.

Page 6:
Panel 1:
1: Thanks to that guy, my life's goals,
2: Even things I do in ordinary life have become inconvenient, jeez...
SFX: Sigh

Panel 3:
1: Hey, Seth!!
2: Seth Stalinger!!
3: What're you doing in a place like this? You haven't been coming to school either.
4: We thought you were dead!

Panel 4:
1: Me too, I thought you just couldn't stand the bullying!!
SFX: Gya ha ha!
SFX: Ha ha ha!
2: And you wanna quit school!

Panel 5:
1: William Blake?
2: Ah, how boring.

Panel 6:
1: Yo, it's been a while!!

Page 7:
Panel 1:
Arago: Who'da thought we'd run into each other here!!
Arago: It's me!!!

Panel 2:
1: What the? Who the hell are you!?
Arago: Aw, you're making me feel bad---

Panel 3:
Arago: But whatever. This is right in full view of the police station, you know?
Arago: You might wanna pick a better spot for a shakedown.

Panel 4:
Arago: Boy!!!

Panel 5:
Arago: Let's see, Matt? You're a high schooler, huh.
1: My wallet!!

Panel 6:
Arago: Brats like you should go home already!

Page 8:
Panel 1:
1: Die!! You damned policeman!!!

Panel 2:
SFX: Snort

Panel 3:
Arago: And as for you, I don't know what kind of trouble you're in but,
Arago: You should go home quickly.

Panel 4:
Seth: "A person who loves others as he loves himself does not exist."
Seth: William Blake said that but,
Seth: It seems like you're different.

Panel 5:
Seth: That was an interesting way of policing.
Seth: Thank you very much for saving me.

Page 9:
Panel 4:
Joe: Ah, Arago. Is the detective's room empty right now?
Arago: Old man Joe?

Panel 5:
Arago: Sorry, but I'm actually outside right now...

Panel 6:
Arago: Huh? Where'd that kid go?
SFX: Turn Turn
Joe: Just a moment ago, some information on a case came in to the CID.

Panel 7:
Joe: It looks like a pretty complicated murder case.
Joe: And since everyone else is already out...

Page 10:
Panel 1:
Joe: Do you want to accompany me to the scene of the crime?

Right side (vertical): Top Box: Character Info:
Below: Joe Sullivan. A skirt-chasing assistant inspector from the detective section. He has a high opinion of Arago.

Panel 2:
Arago: I- I'll go!! I'll definitely go!! Please take me with

you!!
Joe: Ha ha ha, that's a good spirit.

Panel 3:
1: The victim is Tracy Ryan, 17 years old.
2: She's a student at Sixth Form high school.
3: The one who discovered the body was one of the homeless squatters living in this abandoned building.
4: I see, I see...

Panel 4:
1: Everyone says to/wants to just leave such a case up to you.
2: It's your turn, Joe-san.
Small bubble: ha ha

Panel 5:
1: Our turn?

Panel 6:
Arago: What the heck is this?

Page 11:
Panel 1:
1: Devil worship...
2: A cult ritual, it seems.
3: Cult?
4: A cult religion is a sociopathic religious group, so to speak.

Panel 2:
Arago: A magic circle?
Joe: You're well informed.

Panel 3:
Arago: No, I've just seen something kinda like this in a book before...

Panel 4:
1: It's a demon summoning circle.
2: The two summoners would have been standing on the triangles inside of the circle.
3: And then the demon would be summoned into and restricted to the triangle that's outside of the circle.

Panel 5:
1: The grimoire used was "The Key of Solomon".
2: No, maybe it was Plancy's "Dictionnaire Infernal".
Arago thought: Old man Joe really knows a lot about this stuff, huh.

Page 12:
Panel 1:
Joe: Sociopathic conduct...
Joe: Inspires repulsion from many people...
Joe: It might be a message.

Panel 2:
Joe: Vim Patior...
Joe: The Latin meaning is...
Joe: "Unending suffering."

Panel 3:
Arago: Suffering...

Panel 4:
1: It is currently 9:41 AM,
2: We are now beginning the autopsy of Tracy Ryan.

Panel 5:
1: There are many external wounds caused by a sharp instrument.
2: It appears as though the cause of death was due to massive blood loss.
3: Furthermore, there is a gunshot wound to the chest.

Panel 6:
1: The bones of the extremities appear to have been broken using a blunt weapon.
Joe: !

Page 13:
Panel 1:
Joe: Are you feeling sick? The toilet is just out in the hall...
Arago: No... I'm fine.

Panel 2:
Joe: It's difficult, huh.
Joe: After witnessing their first autopsy, newcomers always end up puking.

Panel 3:
Arago: I do feel bad. ...it makes me sick to my stomach.

Panel 4:
Arago: Old man, I'm fine with seeing all kinds of horrible things but,
Arago: The thing that did all this to this person was no human. ...It was a demon...

Panel 6:
Joe: Things like demons don't actually exist.
Joe: This is just the work of a human who is like a demon.

Page 14:
Panel 1:
Joe: Right?

Panel 2:
Arago: ......

Panel 5:
1: First, let's check out the high school the victim was attending.
2: There may be some clues there.
3: Gotcha!!

Panel 6:
Joe: Oh, you're certainly all fired up, aren't you?
Arago: Of course!! This is exactly the kind of work someone in the CID should be doing!!

Panel 7:
1: Whether it was a monster, or it was a human...
2: The kind of people that would do such a thing, there's no way I'm gonna leave them alone to do as they please.

Panel 8:
1: It's finally come around, now it's my turn!!
Joe: Hey there, thanks for your hard work.

Page 15:
Panel 2:
Rio: Thank you very much!

Panel 3:
Arago: Rio!? Why are you here!?
Joe: From the state of the victim's remains, it's very likely that the culprit possesses a gun.

Panel 4:
Joe: Since we plainclothes officers usually don't deal with this kind of serious case, we don't carry guns, so I've asked Rio-chan to help us out this time.
Rio: Please take good care of me.

Panel 5:
Arago: Help us out? You've gotta be kidding!
Arago: You'll be more like a hindrance!!
Rio: That's my line!!
Rio: So don't suddenly come running to me!
Joe: ......

Page 16:
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Panel 1:
Joe: Now now, from here on out, we're a three man team.
Joe: Let's all try to get along, shall we?

Panel 2:
Arago: Hey, old man! What the hell do you think you're doing to Rio!!
Joe: To Rio?

Panel 3:
Arago: H- he- her butt, you touched it, didn't you!?

Panel 4:
Joe: I shouldn't?
Arago: Of course you shouldn't, you perverted old man!!
Rio: Hey, come on you two.

Panel 5:
Joe: Getting upset about such a thing...
Joe: Do you like Rio-chan or something?

Panel 6:
1: Old man!! Joe-san!!

Page 17:
Panel 1:
Joe: Ha ha ha ha, now nice!!
Joe: Young people should be so energetic!

Panel 2:
Joe: "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme"
Joe: It's a charm against evil.

Panel 3:
Joe: Now then, let's go catch a monster, shall we?

Page 18:
Panel 1:
1: The police are at our school, it looks like they're asking questions about the incident that happened yesterday.
2: We'll have to just forgive the trouble.

Panel 2:
1: Right, Ames-sensei?

Panel 3:
Ames: Yes.

Panel 4:
Ames: The day before yesterday's ritual went well, don't you think?
Ames: Seth...
Seth: Yes... Sensei.

Panel 5:
Ames: I'm so looking forward to tonight's ritual too.

Right side (vertical): The boy that Arago saved from the bullies, along with a suspicious teacher. Will Arago's pursuit of this case bring them into contact!?