Mangahelpers Translationshttps://mangahelpers.com/translators/rss2012-07-14T03:48:40+00:00/favicon.icoMangaHelpers Adminsadmin@mangahelpers.comhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/35122[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 29 by Dowolf2012-07-14T03:48:40+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for use by Muda Scans
p1: Reiji: Ishigami… / Ryuusuke!!!
Ishigami: Can you really just…
p2-3: Ishigami: throw me away, Final Chapter: Separation [inset]: A deadly game, with two sibling’s lives hanging in the balance! / A shocking climax!! Ishigami: Galatea?
p4: Princess: Let go, Ryuu…
Princess: I can no longer… / travel alongside you.
Ishigami: Why? / Is it because I became a bad adult?
Princess: That is precisely the reason why... / You should know that well…
p5: Ishigami: But you yourself, Galatea, should know / that man can never turn his ideals into reality…
Ishigami: You should know better than anyone else that man will always search for someone to guide him, to take responsibility… / so that he can rest in the safety given to him and endlessly whine about his petty desires!!
Reiji: SHUT UP!!
Reiji: Humans aren’t that weak! / You think we just force our responsibilities onto others, that we just whine about our desires?! / It’s people like you who force us to do that!!!
p6: Reiji: Powerful people like you, who drown others in temptation!! / And on top of that, you ridicule those same people while doing whatever you please! Just because you’re strong!!
Reiji: I… I…!!
Reiji: I’ll never forgive those / who use their power to distort the world!!
Reiji: I’ll eliminate every last one of them!
p7: Ishigami: Long ago… there was another who said those same words.
Ishigami: Isn’t that right, Galatea?
Ishigami: They were said by a man who felt the same things you do… But he came to taste sadness and pain, and in the end… he became a monster. / However, some part of him, deep inside his heart, might have been waiting… for someone to try and stop him…
Ishigami: But do you really think you’re that someone, / Tachibana Reiji?
Reiji: I am! Just you wait, Ishigami Ryuusuke!! I swear it! / I swear I’ll stop both you and Life, Inc!!
Reiji: And you won’t be able to stop me!!!
p8: Ishigami: Then you should have to bear this, too.
Ishigami: You, who proclaim to serve justice without bearing any hardships, / are what the world calls “naïve”.
Ishigami: If you truly have the will to fight me, you must accept sadness and pain! / In exchange, I’ll permit you to live on.
Reiji: Exchange…?!
Reiji: What are / you saying…?
p9: Ishigami: Tachibana Reiji… I’ll be taking / that which protected you when you were young, that which you hold “precious”…
Reiji: S-stop… / Please, stop…!!
Reiji: I’m begging you!! / I’ll give you anything else; just don’t take her!!
Ishigami: I told you, didn’t I? / Throw away your naïveté…
p10-11: Ishigami: become a powerful adult… / and stop me.
Reiji: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
p12: <no text>
p13: Ayaka: You’ll definitely be home for dinner, right?
Ayaka: Won’t you give your beloved big sister a kiss good morning?
Ayaka: I don’t need anything as long as I have you by my side, Reiji.
p14-15: Ayaka: I’ll love you, Reiji… / Forever… / and ever…
p16-17: Reiji: Nee-san…
p18-19: Three years later
p20: <no text>
p21: Kyouka: Sir, the personnel from our American division / are waiting for you in the meeting room.
Ishigami: Heh
Ishigami: With this, we’ll have finished tying off loose ends. Kyouka: Yes… Ishigami: And we’ll finish our merger with the Nikaidou Group.
Kyouka: At long last, the dinosaur who will rule the earth has been born. / Congratulations.
Ishigami: At long last, the majority of humans alive today have never experienced chaos. / We have taken the first step towards peace.
Ishigami: What of Nikaidou Ran? Kyouka: Events are proceeding as you anticipated.
p22: Kyouka: In exchange for the lives of the two girls she was protecting, / they have unconditionally agreed to our requests.
Kyouka: She no longer seems like much of a threat to us as a Taker. Ishigami: Right about now, she must be thankful she’s still alive.
Ishigami: What of the plan Hayashibara was working on to mass-produce Sorcery Devices? Kyouka: They should enter testing soon.
Kyouka: In order for normal humans to use the mass-produced Sorcery Devices and Skills, / they must be able to use Life as an energy source and furthermore be able to handle complex computations.
Kyouka: The cybernetic Summon Assist Interface is designed to make that possible. / The prototype is nearly finished, and will then enter testing.
p23: Ishigami: So everything… is going well.
Ishigami: The illumination in Tokyo / trembles tonight, silently and dangerously.
p24: Mook: Who—who are these guys?! They’re too strong!! / You—you bastards!!
Mook: Where do you think you are?! / This is Life, Inc.!! The holy ground of Takers backed by every government on Earth!
Goggles: I know~ Everyone knows that much~
p25: Goggles: Today’s the ceremony where you’re going to swallow up the Nikaidou Group, right? / We thought we’d come congratulate you, but I never expected this sort of welcome.
Mooks: These guys… / They can’t have come here trying to stop the ceremony, right?!
Mooks: You idiots! There’s tons of Takers from Headquarters there! / What do you punks think you can do?!
Mook: With Igarashi-sama, all of our strongest Takers are gathered there! / Don’t tell me you’re trying to get yourselves killed, you little rats!!
Goggles: Or it means our target is Igarashi herself and your boss, Ishigami. / There’s no point in telling you anymore. Just die already.
p26: (?): Man, you can only look down on a guy for so long before he starts to get annoyed.
(?): Our president had good instincts, of course. / He said some punks my show up, try to crash the party.
Mook: He’s here! / One of the Guild’s strongest Keepers!
Mook: Life Inc.’s Taker!! / Hoshi Rensuke!
p27: Goggles: Hmm… I’ve heard rumors about this guy… / Guess it’s time for the real show to begin.
Rensuke: No matter how much stuff people like you try to destroy what we’ve built, the useless old world is gone now. / The world is safe and logical now. Our society is one where everyone can live together in peace.
Rensuke: Why do you oppose such a thing? / Do you know nothing except how to indiscriminately destroy? Goggles: Oh~ / You’ve got quite a mouth there.
Goggles: How can you call giving up, living in a cage you all built / and living off the dog food your master hands you “peace”?
p28: Rensuke (thoughts): I never even sensed anything… / How’d you get behind me? Rensuke (speech bubble): Huh…?!
Rensuke: Who are you?!
p29: Reiji: I’ll let you live for now, but tell Ishigami… / that as I promised,
Reiji: I’m here… / to kill him.
Goggles: Tachibana!
Rensuke: Hmm… / A brat like you…
Rensuke: Is a hundred years too early to talk that big!!!
p30: Rensuke: What—what skill… was that?!
p31: Rensuke: The Phantom Skill…?! / You can’t be…!!
Reiji: It’s too bad.
Reiji: You… / are no longer qualified to be the messenger.
p32: <no text>
p33: Reiji: Let this / return to ash…
Rensuke: Uh… / Ah…
Mooks: He’s—he’s a monster! / Run!! <aside>: Uwahhhh
p34: (?): Sunrise?! Natsuhi: Didn’t we say not to run anywhere?!
p35: Goggles: C’mon, c’mon! Forget about the corpses, and move! / We need to be inside soon!!
Natsuhi: With the Nikaidou Group on their side, they’ll have the power to consume the whole world. / And they’ll pretend to be the heroes who saved it.
Reiji: Do you think I’ll let them?
Reiji: I will stop them. p36: Natsuhi: Yeah!! / And I’ll follow you wherever you go!
Reiji: The Princess said that / as long as my sister is alive, half my Life will continue to flow into her.
p37: Reiji: And even now, half the Life I gather always flows away. / So my sister must still be alive, somewhere…
Reiji: So wait for me, Ayaka-nee-san!! / I’ll kill Ishigami, and bring you back!!
p38: Kyouka: Yeah. I had an important day at work today… / I’m still at the company.
Kyouka: Don’t worry, Yu-chan. This is just what I have to do to get recognized at work. / More importantly, how’s Kyouya doing? (TL/N: Kyouya is glossed as “Touya”; however, the kanji are the same as those for Kyouya in SAI: Takers, so… yeah.)
Kyouka: I should be close to figuring out a way to cure Kyouya. Yuma: Yeah. He misses you too, Onee-san.
Kyouka: I miss him too… / Say hi to him for me.
p39: Kyouka: Well then. / I should get to work on preparations for tonight’s event.
(?): People live… / by relying on those they can trust.
(?): Some live to protect those they hold dear…
p40: (?): Others live to fix their mistakes…
(?): Many live for those they love.
(?): Still more… / live to reclaim what they lost…
p41: (?): The will of those who walk the path they believe in is strong and unwavering.
(?): They seek to fulfill their will by obtaining power… Some of them are named evil; others, justice.
(?): Thus, where man gathers, / so too do those feelings, like a snake.
p42-43: Princess: Reiji, please remember / what you hold dear…
p44: Princess: I believe that is the path / mankind must walk.
p45: <no text>
p46: Is what you currently believe… / Good? / Or evil? https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/34635[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 28 by Dowolf2012-05-29T19:11:13+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for use by Muda Scans
p1:
Reiji: My sister… She never had the slightest intention of running!! / She was always planning on defeating the Angel, so that we could all be free!
Reiji: That’s right… So why did it take me… / so long to figure that out?
Reiji: My sister has never / disappointed me, not even once…
Reiji: I have… to stop her…
Reiji: It’s all my fault… / There’s no value in protecting someone as horrible as I…
p2: Reiji: NEEEEEEE-SANNNNNNNN!!!!
[title]: Chapter 28: Siblings
p3: Ishigami: You’re going to lose control over the angel soon!! / Galatea!!
Princess: At this rate, she will die. Ishigami: I don’t care! That idiot actually thinks she can win!
Ishigami: Her chances are one-in-a-million! She would throw away both Reiji and this organization’s honor! / There’s nothing we can gain from this fight!
Princess: You think there’s nothing… to gain here? Ishigami: What are you thinking—of course not! / At any rate, our deal’s off! So release the Angel already!
Princess: That is unacceptable. To let her die would be to break my promise. Ishigami: They’ve already broken the contract!
Princess: And I’m trying to tell you, I won’t sit back and watch her die.
Ishigami: Out of my way!
p4: Princess: Ryuu…! / Are you…?!
Angel: Kioooohhhhh/oeeeeeeeeee
p5: Natsuhi: What was that? It felt like something changed… Reiji: Nee-san! I’m begging you, please run away!
Reiji: I want… I want you to… / to please just forget about me!!!!
Ayaka: Huh? / It’s starting to move faster…?!
Ayaka: This is impossible…!! / I can’t slip under its guard…?!
Ayaka: Well, it’s not like I plan on turning pro; / I’m no match for people with true talent.
Ayaka: And this means I’ll get home earlier, / so we’ll always be able to eat dinner together at home, Reiji.
Reiji: Nee-san had a perfect poker face when she said that, but… / I knew… It was just an inkling, but I knew the true reason she quit gymnastics…
Reiji: It was so she could get home before me and prepare dinner. / But… I didn’t stop her… / I was so happy that my sister would be at home waiting for me, and her food was so warm and loving…
p10-11: Reiji: I was always like that… / pretending to not have seen my sister’s sacrifices.
p12: Reiji: Ha… haha…. / Hehheh… Hehhehheh…
Reiji: Wait for me, Nee-san… / I’ll be right there to save you.
Natsuhi: Don’t go, Reiji!! / If you do, you’ll die!! / You’ll be throwing away your life for nothing!
Ishigami: How pathetic… You really made a fool out of me, / you little Psychopath…I
Ishigami: Right up until the end, she continued the farce of fighting for her brother’s sake. It never occurred to me… / that a Psychopath could maintain that hypocrisy…
p13: Princess: Do you still not understand, Ryuu?
Princess: You lost / to those children.
Reiji: Let go, Natsuhi! If we don’t go save her, Nee-san will die! Natsuhi: Get a hold of yourself! She’s already…
Natsuhi: R-reiji… / L-look… over there…
p14: <no text>
p15: Reiji: Didn’t she… / get nailed in the head?
Spectators: Hey, look! / She stood back up!
Ishigami: But… but how?
Ishigami: How are you still alive, / Tachibana Ayaka?
p16: Reiji: Please, wait!!!
Reiji: Please, stop this already! Natsuhi: Reiji!!
Reiji: President Ishigami, / I’m begging you!!
Reiji: Please, save my sister! It might not be too late! / I’ll do whatever you ask; please, just save my sister!!!
Ishigami: Please calm down, Reiji-kun. / There seems to have been a bit of an accident…
Ishigami: However, this is still within the scope of my plan.
p17: Reiji: But that means… Ishigami: That’s right.
Ishigami: Giving her a head wound was a tool we had prepared… That certainly must have rendered quite the shock onto you, but it was Ayaka-kun who earlier didn’t act according to plan. / In order to satisfy the Takers gathered here and save your sister, emergency measures were necessary…
Ishigami: But there is no need to worry. Your sister will quickly recover. / Now she will retreat according to the original scenario, and everything will be all OK.
Reiji: But… how is she…
Reiji: How is she supposed to escape in that condition?! / She’s been hit in the head, and is barely aware!
Ishigami: We will find out for ourselves soon enough.
p18: Ishigami: Now that her consciousness has left her, the girl will certainly act according to instinct! / And her instincts are that of a Psychopath!
Ishigami: What are her genes telling here? / That family and friends are meaningless before a hopeless battle!!
Ishigami: Take a good, hard look, Reiji-kun! / Ayaka-kun is right about to start making her move!!
Reiji: Do you really think…
p19: Reiji: that this is a joke?! / You piece of shit!
Reiji: She’s barely standing, she’s barely breathing, so enough with your bullshit! / Stop this! If you don’t, she’ll die!
Ishigami: Shut up! Do you still not get it?!
Ishigami: The only way she can live is by running away! Now, while we’re restraining the Angel! It’s now or never for her! / She should flee pitifully, as her instincts as a Psychopath demand!
p20: Ishigami: Ultimately, you lot would have ended up as Tachibana Ayaka’s prey, and nothing else! She would have betrayed you!! / Why won’t you understand that?!
Ishigami: If you want to survive, you have to accept reality as it is! / A Psychopath will never act for the benefit of others!! So accept that already! Accept Tachibana Ayaka’s true nature!!!
Natsuhi: Is she… / still going to fight? Ishigami: Huh?
Natsuhi: Look…
p21: Spectators: Hey, is she… is she still moving? / You’re right…
Spectators: Does that mean… that she still intends to fight?
Spectators: The idiot… She nearly got her head blown clean off.
Ayaka: Rei… ji…
p22: Ayaka: Let’s… go home… / To…ge…ther...
p23: Reiji: UWAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Reiji: I’m coming, Nee-san!!
Ishigami: Tachibana Reiji!!!
Ishigami: Wait!
p24: Reiji: I couldn’t trust… / my own sister!
Reiji: Just throw away your Sorcery Device, Nee-san!!
Reiji: Aren’t you just using “protecting me” as an excuse / to justify murder?
p25: Reiji: You idiot!! What does Psychopath even mean, anyways?! / Just that someone has a strong ego!!
Reiji: But the one with the biggest ego, who was the most selfish, who was always so naïve… / was none other than myself…!!
Reiji: My sister suffered so much for me… / I was the one who was always focused on what I wanted.
Reiji: She’s not the real Psychopath… I am!! / AYAKA-NEE-SANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
p26: Ayaka: Rei…ji…?
p27: Reiji: Nee-san…
p28-29: <no text>
p30: Ishigami: Right… At this rate, it’s best if… / Tachibana Ayaka dies here and now…
p31-32: <no text>
p33: Spectator: What the?!
Spectator: Wh-what’s happening all of a sudden?! / Did a door open?!
p34: Ishigami: Galatea… / What did you do?!
Spectator: It’s—it’s an Angel! / Ahhh! I’ve never seen one that big!
p35: Ishigami: Did the Life Galatea released draw them / to the inside of the doorway?
p36: Spectator: Everyone, form up! / Start by surrounding the smaller ones and taking them out!!
Spectator: Dammit!! There’s too many of them!!
Natsuhi: Reiji…
p37: Natsuhi: Hurry up… / If we don’t get out of here now, we’ll…
Reiji: You’re…
Reiji: The princess?
p38: Reiji: Please… save her…
Reiji: If you can just save my sister… / I’ll give you my soul, or whatever else you want…
Natsuhi: I’m sorry I wasn’t able to keep my promise. / Ayaka’s actions went… beyond what I was able to predict…
p39: Natsuhi: Uwah?!
Princess: Don’t be afraid… let me control your bodies…
Princess: This space is connected to a safe place. / No Taker will be able to follow you there…
Reiji: Princess… are you…?!
p40: Princess: Look at them… Look at this pathetic spectacle they have wrought… They sacrifice others, looking out only for themselves… / This is a world where the only source of happiness is one’s own personal survival.
Princess: That is why… we must depart.
Princess: We must depart from this world filled with people who love only themselves
p41: Princess: so that the light of your souls, which drive you to so selflessly give of yourselves for the sake of others,
Princess: will never be extinguished.
p42: Natsuhi: Awahhh!!
Natsuhi: Reiji!! Reiji: Natsuhi!!
Princess: Let us go.
Reiji: Wah!
p43: Reiji: You’re…
p44: Reiji: Ishigami… / Ryuusuke!!!
Princess: Ryuu… [inset]: Next time, the climax!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/34459[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 27 by Dowolf2012-05-08T20:15:21+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*For use by Muda Scans
p1: Why do people kill each other?
Title: Chapter 27: Obligations of Good and Evil
p2: Princess: Long ago, before even a fragment of culture existed, when death was always at one’s doorstop, men survived by acting solely according to their instincts. / Those who lacked for food would starve and die. So naturally, those who were unwilling to steal from others were weeded out and eliminated.
Princess: And the genes which directed men to kill others, steal, and survive are those of the Psychopaths.
Princess: Today, those people who refused to take or steal and died alone… / are called people with gentle hearts.
Princess: In a world without law or order, it’s only natural / that the strong take from the weak. / Nevertheless, so-called “good” people who rejected that doctrine existed.
p3: Princess: They refused to harm others, and soon became prey for the strong.
Princess: However, the strong were limited in number. / The weak had no choice but to cling to the strong, who could so calmly steal lives.
Princess: They willingly gave themselves to the Psychopaths / so that they could live on.
Princess: The Psychopaths protecting them became their kings, and the provisions they brought back kept the “good” alive. / And they… no longer had to kill anyone.
Princess: Psychopaths controlled the weak; in return, they bore the risks of battle and walked alongside death.
Princess: The weak need not encounter strife; in return, they submitted to the control of Psychopaths.
p4: Princess: All of this is simply a mutually beneficial relationship born of mankind’s true natures. / To name one of the groups “evil” is simply silly.
Reiji: Do you really expect me to believe… / that Psychopaths aren’t evil… that they’re necessary?
Princess: When did I name one path “right”? / I am merely explaining how things began.
p5: Princess: To be sure, in modern times / the Psychopath genes are “evil”.
Princess: However, that is at most a difference of perception brought about by the changing times. / Only now has mankind developed enough technology that they can obtain all the food and drink they need without killing.
Princess: Well, only the urge to directly kill has disappeared, but…
Princess: The strong still seek to control the weak. / Master and slave. / Landlord and renter. / The great and the base…. Nothing has changed.
Princess: As people no longer needed to kill each other, their population grew explosively. / The strong became an increasingly small minority, and the weak began to live together with each other. / In the end, as the numbers of the weak grew the strong’s control over them began to crumble. / So the leaders desperately tried to find a way to stop that process.
p6: Princess: They ultimately created law.
Princess: They created regulations, and by enforcing them controlled the populace. / Society became more precise, and the reasoning of the past started to lose its luster. / However, under the protection of the law, the numbers of the weak continued to grow. / And in time, the weak created a new theory which benefited themselves.
Princess: It stood in contradiction to the old law: that for someone to gain something, someone else must lose it.
Princess: It was a theory designed to force the Psychopath leaders who took for themselves to descend from the stage.
p7: Princess: The reasoning stated that, for the good of all, one must not injure others. / It became the definition a new word: justice.
Reiji: Justice… / contradicts the truth of the world?
Princess: Justice became accepted because the new right to rule decidedly came from the myriad weak. / For the contradictory reasoning to become reality, the form of leadership itself would have to change.
Princess: It was the antithesis of the absolute power the Psychopaths had reigned with. / The new leaders, who ruled not by murder and fear but through love and peace, were known as¬¬
p8: Princess: Anti-social Hysterias… / Highlighting conscience and justice, they became the absolute controllers of the new age.
Princess: But when you think about it, no theory should have been able to surpass the truth. / In the end, all must steal in order to live.
Princess: What had changed… was that by having justice as their shield, / they need not kill by their own hands. / They simply had others do the work for them.
p9: Princess: That’s right, Tachibana Reiji. / Just as your life was preserved by your sister.
p10: Princess: You don’t believe me? Well, that’s fine… / I am only speaking of the truth I know, after all…
Princess: Psychopaths and Anti-Social Hysterias… / in the end, no one can determine them objectively good or evil.
Princess: Whether they are good or evil / is simply determined by the situation.
SFX: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Reiji: Stop it!! / Please, just stop it!!!
p11: Reiji: I… I couldn’t… / I couldn’t trust my sister!! It was so much easier to blame her!!
Reiji: It’s… It’s all my fault… Because of me… Because of my ego… / Because I was so foolish, so cowardly, I hurt my sister and sent her to her death…!!
p12: Reiji: Please… / Help me…
Reiji: Please… All I need is a chance… / Just let me talk with my sister… / Let me apologize to my sister!!!
Princess: What will apologizing accomplish? / She’ll still be a Psychopath. / And you’ll still be separated, in the end.
Princess: After all, you still won’t accept / your sister’s true nature, will you?
p13: Reiji: I don’t care that she’s a Psychopath anymore… My sister’s still my sister. / I can’t believe it took me so long to realize that….
Reiji: I’ll accept my sister, just the way she is!! / No matter where that road leads, I’ll take it! / So please, I’m begging you… Let me meet with my sister!!!
p14: Princess: Tachibana Ayaka will be brought to a sacred ground within the Gap in Time I will create. / It is a special region, connected with various regions of time and space, and it is there where she will fight.
Princess: It is difficult to persuade Ryuusuke, so… / We will have to do something on our own.
p15: Reiji: Aren’t you… / on his side?
Princess: I … if you are a true Anti-Social Hysteria / I think you must accept even Psychopaths.
Princess: That is the one sole truth born of the contradiction with the logic of this world. / It is nobility: the willingness to sacrifice oneself completely and fully for the sake of a stranger.
Princess: Are you willing to walk that path, / Tachibana Reiji?
Reiji: I will.
Reiji: I swear it. So please, let me speak with her… / Let me speak with Ayaka-nee-san!
p16: Princess: Never forget / how you feel right now…
p17: Kyouka: Man, you’re a scary little bitch too, aren’t you… / OK, I give up; you win~
Kyouka: I can’t believe you ate all that food / even though it was all on the floor. Is your stomach all right?
p18: [graph: Location of the Punishment] Kyouka: The Punishment will take place at an irregular space created in a corner of the Gap in Time. / There are dimensional portals connecting it to every corner of the Earth, and only Takers can enter.
Kyouka: We will open one of those portals for you. / While pretending to fight, be sure to make your escape.
Ayaka: Will Reiji and Natsuhi be there?
Kyouka: Why do you ask? Do you want revenge?
Kyouka: Well, can’t say I’d blame you, but… / Try to focus on the task at hand.
Kyouka: Just getting out of there… / should be hard enough.
p19-21: <no text>
p22: (free text): This place is so huge… / How did we never know about this place?
Ishigami: Have you got your mind sorted out?
Reiji: If you will really let my sister escape safely… Ishigami: You need not worry about that at all.
Ishigami: Look over there.
p23: Reiji: Th…
Reiji: That’s…
Ishigami: It is the source of everything; the seed of life…
Ishigami: We simply call it Life.
p24: Ishigami: Life may be what keeps us Takers alive, but it is also a great source of energy. / If normal humans could obtain it, the abilities they would obtain would be astronomical. / Certain people may even be able to open dimensional portals / and summon things from the other side.
Ishigami: It’s not perfect, but… we have successfully captured an Angel and can, to a certain degree, control it. / That is what Ayaka-kun will be fighting today.
Reiji: B-but that means…! Ishigami: That’s right—the Princess will be controlling it.
Ishigami: Ayaka-kun will escape, just as we promised. / I always make sure to keep my promises, after all.
p25: Princess: Tachibana Ayaka is sure to bear a grudge from your betrayal of her. / So she shouldn’t hesitate to flee.
Princess: However, after she’s fled through the exit I’ll have created, you should have a chance at the endpoint… / So you should go meet her afterwards.
Reiji: I don’t care if she throws me away! I have no right to complain about anything she does to me! / So please! Just let her escape safely!
Ishigami: We are one!
Ishigami: And one is all! That is who we are! Today, we have someone who inflicted harm upon our brothers and sisters!! / However, this person has claimed she acted in self-defense! And of course we cannot judge her unilaterally! So, in accordance with our rules…
Ishigami: Tonight, we have brought this person here, to the field of judgment! / Let us give her an opportunity to prove her innocence!
Ishigami: The one who will be judged / is named…
p27: Ishigami: Tachibana Ayaka!! / If she survives, that will serve as proof of her innocence; otherwise, she will simply be dead.
Reiji: Nee-san!
p28: Princess: But even if you meet with her again, do you think Tachibana Ayaka will forgive you? / And if she doesn’t, can you accept that?
Reiji: Even if my sister thinks of me as nothing more than a bug, / I’ll calmly accept her hatred.
Reiji: So please, wait for me! / I promise I’ll come to you, Nee-san!
p29: Ishigami: So let our judge / arrive!!
Ishigami: The Angel Tetravortex!!
p30: Reiji: That’s an Angel?! / But it’s just a child!
Ishigami: Begin…
p31: Reiji: She… Natsuhi: became an Angel?!
p32: Ishigami: Even a small-type Angel / is far too powerful for a single Taker.
Reiji: Nee-san…!!
Reiji: Hurry, / and run away!!!
p33: Ishigami: Oi, oi… / You can’t make it too obvious you’re running….
Ishigami: You need to make sure… / to put on a proper show.
p34: <no text>
p35: Angel: Geohhhhh!!
Reiji: Ahh!!!
p36: Natsuhi: What’s going on?!!! Reiji: This is—!!
Reiji: If she hadn’t dodged that last attack, she would have died!! / This isn’t what you promised!!
Ishigami: Hush! Just calm down! / Do you want everyone to figure out what’s going on?! Reiji: But that’s—!!
Ishigami: Tachibana Ayaka… / What the hell are you trying to do?!
p37: Ishigami: You didn’t have to go / anywhere near that far!! *
Ayaka: Ahhh!!
p38: Reiji: Nee-san!!
Reiji: Ishigami?!! Ishigami: This is all just a misunderstanding, Reiji-kun!
Ishigami: The reason she didn’t get killed right then and there was because of the Princess’s control! / It’s Ayaka-kun who’s not acting according to the plan!
Princess: If I try to control the Angel any further, I’ll just cease its movements entirely. / Tachibana Ayaka, what are you thinking? You’ve put on more than enough of a performance!
Reiji: Nee-san, get out of there already!
Ishigami: You idiot! Haven’t you had enough? / What do you think will happen if you lose your mobility?!
p39: Ishigami: You’ve put on enough of a show… Now get out of there already! / Even against a small-type, you can’t win, Tachibana!
p40: Angel: Gieeeeeeehhhh!!
Reiji: Nee-san… / Why won’t you run?
p41: Reiji: Why isn’t she running, / Ishigami-san?!
Ishigami: Then, as thanks for agreeing to our deal, / I’ll make sure the Angel is a small-type.
Ayaka: You promise the Angel will be a small-type, right? / I will… accept that proposal.
Ishigami: You got us good, / you little bitch.
Ishigami: The reason you were so fixated on it being a small-type Angel… / wasn’t because you wanted to make sure you could run away.
p42: Ishigami: You never intended to run away… / She really thinks she can defeat the Angel.
Reiji: Ishigami-san!! / Where are you going, Ishigami-san!!
(?): Kyahh!! Reiji: Look out, Nee-san!!
Reiji: Nee-san!! / Run!!!
Reiji: What are you doing?! Just run away!! / Please, just run!!!
Reiji: What… What are you trying to do? Why…
Reiji: Why are you fighting?! / It’s not just because you’re a Psychopath, is it?!
p43: Natsuhi: You don’t get it yet?
Natsuhi: Ayaka-nee-san never had any intention of running away…
Natsuhi: She always intended to defeat the Angel! / She would win according to the rules of the Guild, so that we would all be free!!!
[side]: Ayaka fights… for what is important.. next issue is the climax!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/34250[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 26 by Dowolf2012-04-16T15:21:43+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*For use by Muda Scans*
p1: Kyouka: In the end, that’s a Psychopath for you. / Looks like all that stuff about her brother was just talk.
Ishigami: It has nothing to do with her being a Psychopath.
Ishigami: All humans… / are like that…
p2: I take lives to protect those whom I must.
p3: Title: Chapter 26 – True Natures
p4: Reiji: Sniff/ Sniff
Reiji: Sniff sniff / Sniff
p5: Natsuhi: Get a hold of yourself! Do you plan on whimpering all night?
Natsuhi: Hey! Look at me when I’m talking to you!! / Reiji…!!
Reiji: I didn’t sell her out…
Reiji: There’s no way / I would sell out my sister.
p6: Reiji: It was all for her sake…
Natsuhi: Reiji…
Natsuhi: You… / really don’t…
Ishigami: How are you doing? / It must be hard, with so little time to prepare.
p7: (?): President… / Ishigami?!
Natsuhi(?): Princess…
p8: Reiji: What have you done to my sister? / Let me see her!
Reiji: Where is she?! / I have to check on her!!
Ishigami: Your sister is fine. / She’s currently enjoying her meal.
Ishigami: It’s best that she saves her strength for now. / She’ll need it if we want things to go according to plan during the Punishment.
Reiji: Wait… what are you talking about?
Ishigami: Well…
p9: Ishigami: The time and place of Tachibana’s Punishment have been decided. / It will be held during today’s Gap in Time.
Ishigami: There, your sister / will fight a small-type Angel we’ve captured one-on-one.
Reiji: A small-type angel?
Reiji: But… shouldn’t we have prepared more?
p10: Reiji: Won’t Nee-san need something to help her win the fake fight? / You have a plan, right?
p11: Ishigami: Why would I?
Ishigami: No single Taker could match blades with an Angel, no matter how small. / If she fights the Angel, she will die.
Reiji: Ish…
Reiji: Ishigami…!
Reiji: You tricked us! You liar!!
p12: Ishigami: Please relax, Reiji-kun. / I certainly said I would ensure Ayaka-kun survived the fight…
Ishigami: But I can’t recall ever saying there was a way… / for her to win.
p13: Ishigami: There’s no need to fret. Your sister won’t die.
Ishigami: I’ve already spoken to Ayaka-kun about the plan. / We’ll prepare a secret passage for your sister to escape through.
p14: Ishigami: Thus, as promised, your sister’s life will be spared.
Reiji: Th-then, when will I be able to meet my sister? / How will I meet up with her after she’s fled?
Ishigami: You will never see her again.
Ishigami: The condition of our agreement is that she never again be allowed to appear before the Organization. / Which means she can’t appear before you two, either.
p15: Reiji: Shit…
Reiji: You shitheads! You did trick us after all! You said you’d save her; that under your Organization’s control she wouldn’t go berserk!!! / But from the start, your only objective was to pull us apart!! But why? Why are you doing this?!
Ishigami: We are in control… / if perhaps not in the way you expected.
Ishigami: I have “controlled” your sister so that she can inflict no harm on you two. / You must understand—a Psychopath can never be truly controlled, after all.
p16: Ishigami: I realize this may be hard for you, her family, to accept; however, she has earned her punishment. / Please understand that even allowing her to flee is going above and beyond what we are allowed to do.
Reiji: How can I accept that?
Reiji: I will never accept that my sister… / would run away and leave us behind!!
p17: Ishigami: Why not?
p18: Ishigami: You may not want to accept the truth, but please remember that it was you who first contacted us… / Why was that? It was because you were afraid of your sister, a psychopath. You acted only to secure your own safety.
Ishigami: To your sister, this deal is nothing more than a matter of survival. / That’s why we’re arranged for her to have a small-type Angel and an escape route.
Reiji: I’m sure… my sister has some sort of plan… / After all, she’s really smart…
Reiji: I’m sure that… I just have to wait for some date in the future!! / I know she’ll come visit me sometime! / Her promise with you would mean noth—
Ishigami: She will never come.
p19: Ishigami: Why would she want to visit / the brother who sold her out?
p20: <no text >
p21: Reiji: Th-that’s wrong… I… I did everything for my sister’s sake…
Reiji: I just wanted… to protect her…
Ishigami: Yes, I’m sure that was your intent…
Ishigami: However, can you truly say that you’ve never doubted someone / when he said he was doing something for your sake?
p22: Ayaka: Look out!! / Reiji!!
Ayaka: I was trying… / to protect you…!!
Ayaka: Why won’t you / understand!!!
p23: Reiji: Isn’t “protecting me” just an excuse / for you to justify killing others?
p24: Ishigami: I’m sure you’re still very confused right now… / But please try not to blame me for it.
Ishigami: You made the right choice. / You didn’t sell out Ayaka-kun.
Ishigami: If you had stayed like that forever with your sister, / I imagine misfortune would have soon struck.
Ishigami: You’ll see the proof of that yourself / when you watch Ayaka-kun pretend to fight.
Ishigami: You’ll see how easy it is for a Psychopath to doubt and betray a younger brother’s feelings. / After all, that is what a Psychopath truly is.
p25: Reiji: I… / my sister…
Reiji: I… / my sister…
p26: Kyouka: You’re such a good girl… / Look at how quiet you are!
Kyouka: Are you hungry?
p27: Kyouka: We’ve scheduled the event, just like we promised. / It’ll be today, during the Gap in Time.
Kyouka: You’ll pretend to fight properly, then run away. / We’ll take care of your little brother for you.
p28: Kyouka: But first, you want to eat, right? / Even a Psychopath can’t flee from a fight on an empty stomach.
Kyouka: Oh, but it would be hard for you to eat with your hands like that… But I don’t have the authority to free your hands…
Kyouka: Oh, I know—if it’s fine by you, / I can feed you myself.
p29: Kyouka: Why the fuck would I do that?! / I’ll never lay a single finger on a Psychopath like you!
Ayaka: Kyah!
p30: Kyouka: Eat up.
Kyouka: What’s wrong? You can’t eat? / Oh, are the pieces too big for you?
Kyouka: Oh look… / It should be easier now, right?
p31: Kyouka: That reminds me… / We set your brother up in a hotel. I’m sure he wasted no time getting… intimate with the girl.
Kyouka: You’ve been her rival for so long… / Only a stupid Psychopath-chan would fail to realize that.
Kyouka: Well, it doesn’t really matter to me. / You’re kind of pathetic… but you’re not worth my pity.
Kyouka: No Psychopath is. / You’re all disgusting monsters.
p32: Ayaka: Chomp / chomp
p33: Kyouka: You’ve been her rival / for so long…
Ayaka: Chomp / chomp / chomp
p34: Ishigami: You’ll see how easy it is for a Psychopath to doubt and betray a younger brother’s feelings. / After all, that is what a Psychopath truly is.
Reiji: What part is her true nature… / and what part is her being a Psychopath?
Reiji: Of course she would throw me away. / I doubted her first…
p35: Reiji: If one of us is a Psychopath, / it’s me, not her!!!!
Natsuhi: Reiji…
Princess: Do you regret it?
p36: Natsuhi: Princess?
Natushi: Why are you…
Natushi: If you’re just here to be a prick to Reiji, then get the hell out! / Everything’s already going exactly how you planned, right? So what else could you want?!
Princess: Tea.
Princess: Bring us some tea.
p37: Reiji: If—if Nee-san has misunderstood us… / if we met, couldn’t we resolve that?
Princess: You didn’t trust your sister.
Princess: That’s why you threw her away, right? / And that’s why the pain you feel in your heart is a burden you must bear.
p38: Reiji: I didn’t throw her away! But she was a Psychopath! / I just wanted to use the Organization’s power to turn my sister back to normal!!
Reiji: It’s your fault it’s come to this! / Just because she’s a Psychopath…!!
Reiji: If that could be fixed… / I…
Reiji: I just wanted… / to cure my sister…
Princess: I understand… In the end,
p39: Princess: you sold out your sister/ because she didn’t fit your image of her.
Princess: But don’t you understand? If she were the person you envisioned, / you wouldn’t have been able to survive as long as you have…
Reiji: You’re right… It is thanks to my sister / that I’ve been able to live this long.
Reiji: But how could I live like that?
Reiji: How could I live, accepting that my precious sister / has in her such a strong killing instinct?
Princess: Why not?
p40: Princess: If there are people who sacrifice themselves in order to protect others, / then there must also exist people who protect themselves by sacrificing others.
Princess: That’s simply how this world was built.
p41: Princess: Good and evil, avarice and charity… / All are at the core of humanity. They are the true natures born so that humanity could survive…
Princess: Anti-social Hysterias, who sacrifice themselves for others… / and Psychopaths, who will calmly kill others for their own gain…
Princess: To insist that one of those paths is fundamentally wrong / is a stupidity born of pride…
p42: Reiji: Psychopaths…
Reiji: are one true nature of humanity? / They were born by necessity?
Reiji: Why would a person ever have to kill another person?! / That makes no sense!!
Princess: Because it was necessary.
p43: Princess: In the distance past, when mankind had neither law nor order and were ruled only by their true natures, / Psychopaths were undoubtedly necessary.
Princess: They were the ones / who could protect their families, survive, and give birth to children. https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/34089[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 25 by Dowolf2012-04-03T15:52:26+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*For use by Muda Scans
p1: title: A Breach of Trust
p2: Natsuhi: You couldn’t have… / Don’t tell me you contacted Life, Inc.! / Answer me! You didn’t, right?!
Reiji: I did…
Natsuhi: But why would you… Do you really trust them?
Reiji: I don’t really trust them, no… Natsuhi: Then why would you call them?!
Reiji: Because I couldn’t believe her.
p3: Reiji: I couldn’t believe… / my sister, either.
Natsuhi: Reiji…
Natsuhi: You…
p4: Natsuhi: What?!
Natsuhi: Shit!
p5: Reiji: Natsuhi!!
p6: Natsuhi: Shit…!!
Natsuhi: We’re on a completely different level from them… If they’re this strong, / then we were being used…!
Reiji: Na—Natsuhi!! Natsuhi: Reiji…!!
Reiji: Ishigami-san…!
p7: Ishigami: Please relax. I don’t want this to be any worse than it has to.
Ishigami: I need you to play along / if we are to safely put your sister under our protection. Reiji (lower right, not in bubble): … An act…?
p8: Ishigami: Please wait.
Ishigami: Impressive. Even in a situation like this, you’re able to react in a cool and collected manner. / I wouldn’t expect any less from a Psychopath.
Ishigami: However… / I already hold the keys to victory.
p9: Ishigami: Tachibana Ayaka!!!
Ishigami: Come out and surrender quietly!! / If you don’t, your brother will lose his life!!!
p10: Ishigami: Is that your choice, then?
Reiji: Kh?!
Natsuhi: Reiji!!!
Ayaka: I’m coming out now.
p11: Reiji: Nee-san…
Ishigami: She does seem a little off… A Psychopath is supposed to value herself above all others, but… / She seems to be… bound, somehow, to her brother.
Ishigami: Of course, in the face of real danger, / she’s quick to show her true, monstrous self.
Ishigami: Drop your Sorcery Device. / If you do, I can guarantee the safety of your brother and Natsuhi.
p12: Reiji: Just drop it… / Nee-san…
p13: Reiji: Nee-san?!
Ishigami: Use any of your skills, and your brother’s life is forfeit. / I recommend you not do anything rash.
Ishigami: Come with me to the car.
p14: Extra: Hey! On your feet!
Extra: Walk forward, nice and slowly!
Reiji: Nee-san…
Ishigami: Thank you for your help…
Ishigami: I’m sorry things had to get violent. / But I’m sure you understand the necessity.
p15: Natushi: Reiji…!
Reiji: What was with that rough treatment? What are you going to do to my sister?! / This isn’t what you promised!!
Ishigami: Don’t cause such a fuss over something like this. She killed some of my people; you have no grounds to stop me from exacting punishment. Reiji: “Over something like this”…?!
Reiji: Natsuhi…!
p16: Natsuhi: To be blunt… You’re saying you’ve saved us, right? / And that you had to use such harsh methods changes nothing?
Ishigami: You must think I’ve done a horrible thing to you. / While this may be an adult situation, I suppose I have used you.
Ishigami: So I would like to take responsibility for that / and offer you a place of protection at my company, but…
Reiji: Ishigami…
Natsuhi: What of Ayaka-san?
Natsuhi: Ayaka-san… Ayaka-san will be allowed to join us, right?
p17: Ishigami: The truth of the matter is there are orders to punish her as soon as she’s found.
Ishigami: We have been forced to accept that responsibility as well. / We won’t kill her; however, she must receive a punishment proportional to her crimes. Reiji: A punishment?
Ishigami: Yes… A Punishment. / A ritual designed to allow her to atone for her sins.
Ishigami: She must survive fighting a Small-type Angel on a stage we’ve prepared, / one-on-one.
Reiji: That’s ridiculous…
p18: Reiji: That’s completely screwed up! You want her to fight an Angel, alone?! / Why not just kill her yourselves and get it over with?!
Ishigami: Well, if you would calm down for a second / and allow me to finish…
Ishigami: Justice must be served. If she loses, then of course she dies. But if she wins, her sins are forgiven… / All we have to do is ensure she lives and is pardoned.
Ishigami: We must guarantee Tachibana Ayaka survives the fight. / If we do, the rest of the Guild should accept my decision. / I’m sure you’re old enough to see where this is going, right?
p19: Ishigami: Your sister lives, and we have our justice: a method that satisfies all. / Of course, since your sister’s a Psychopath, I must insist on keeping her under our watch from now on…
Ishigami: Well? How does that sound? Reiji: Well—I mean, if you’re telling me the truth… then of course…
Ishigami: Then why don’t we sit down before we go over key details? / Let’s head out to my car.
p20: Kyouka: A ferocity beyond your years… That’s the mark of a Psychopath… / You’ve clung so strongly to hatred…
Kyouka: My goodness, how scary~ / What is it? Would you like to show off the Skill you’re so proud of?
p21: Kyouka: Just try it.
Kyouka: Just try and see if that Skill of yours can kill me.
Kyouka: Hmm, you’re a sly one, aren’t you? Quick to turn tail when there’s no chance of victory. / Well, that’s simply who you are: / someone who cares for herself above all others.
Kyouka: That’s why your brother sold you out. / So how does it feel to be set aside?
p22: Ayaka: Ummph!
Ayaka: Uumph!! / Ummpphhhh!!
Kyouka: Don’t interrupt me!!!
Kyouka: All I’ve done is told you the truth, so why blame the messenger? / It’s almost like you think I’m lying.
Kyouka: Why don’t you see the truth with your own eyes?
p23: Kyouka: Take a good, hard look.
p24: Kyouka: Looks like he chose his girlfriend over his loony sister. / But anyone would, so try not to take it personally.
Kyouka: That’s what little brothers do around that age, right? Hehheh.
p25: Natsuhi: Ayaka-san’s… safe, right?
Natsuhi: Reiji, can we… / can we really trust Ishigami?
Reiji: They’re the only ones…
p26: Reiji: strong enough to contain Nee-san’s insanity.
Natsuhi: Still… I just can’t seem to trust him…
Reiji: I do.
Reiji: I no longer have any choice… / but to trust Ishigami-san.
p27: Ishigami: It seems that the sheer idiocy of the younger brother has made things progress more smoothly than I had anticipated.
Kyouka: However… she is far too cooperative. / Even if we ignore how often she acts to protect her brother,
Kyouka: for a Psychopath… / doesn’t she seem a little off?
p28: Ishigami: That is simply a quirk we see while she is far away from the specter of death.
Ishigami: As soon as she has to face death, a Psychopath will instinctively consider only herself. / We should force Reiji to witness that side of her.
Ishigami: We should show him that Tachibana Ayaka/ is really the type of person that can throw away her little brother at any time…
Ishigami: Once he knows that, Reiji-kun should choose to work with us by his own volition. And his Phantom Killer is quite the valuable combat ability.
Ishigami: Are we ready to hold the Punishment during the next Gap in Time? Kyouka: Preparations are nearly complete.
Kyouka: All that remains is to have the Princess… Ishigami: I’ll take care of that myself.
p29: Ishigami: When I’m done, I’ll go visit Tachibana Ayaka. Please go on ahead of me and check on her condition. Kyouka: Yes, sir.
Kyouka: Ah, I almost forgot to ask…
Kyouka: Should we have / Tachibana Ayaka fail to survive the Punishment?
p30: Ishigami: We need to put on a proper show for Nikaidou Ouji.
Ishigami: And the members of the Guild who will gather for the Punishment must receive a suitable sacrifice.
Kyouka: As you wish.
p31: Princess: Will you… / kill her?
Ishigami: It will be she herself who decides whether she lives or dies.
Isghigami: If she can escape, she will survive. / It’s all up to her.
p32: Ishigami: But in that case, we gain control of the brother…
Princess: So that means you intend to separate the siblings.
Princess: You were different, back when you were a child.
Princess: Have you become / the kind of adult you despised?
p33: Princess: You were the same as him, once. You held the class antithetical to Psychopaths… / You felt so strongly the pain of others, and tried to live an honest life…
Princess: You were an Anti-Social Hysteria, right, / Ryuusuke?
Ishigami: I’ve learned that what is “correct” varies depending on the time and place.
Ishigami: I was like Reiji, once. / I believed in noble ideals, back then…
Ishigami: But those ideals did nothing / to protect what was precious to me…
p34: Princess: What’s precious to you… but haven’t you made too much?
Princess: I don’t need any of this, Ryuu… / I would go anywhere, as long as I had you beside me. / We could live as we did back then…
Princess: The two of us could live a quiet life…
p35: Ishigami: Humans are selfish creatures, thinking of no one other than themselves… / And when God grew bored of caring for them, He created Takers…
Ishigami: However, without some system of order, we Takers cannot complete our mission.
Ishigami: Galadea wanted me to understand that someone had to do it… / I’m the same man I was back then. I’m just a bit taller, now.
Princess: I believe…
p36: Princess: that if you’re the person I knew, / you won’t kill her.
p37: Ishigami: How are you doing, / Tachibana Ayaka-kun?
p38: Ishigami: Kyouka tells me you’ve been quite cooperative. Is your brother’s safety that important to you? / I’d like to learn your true motive.
Ishigami: Don’t you want to live? / Your instincts as a Psychopath should compel you to.
Ayaka: I want… to live.
Ayaka: But first… / I want to kill you.
p39: Ishigami: And yet she still refrains from using her Skills… / Is this really for her brother’s sake?
Ishigami: But how long can she hold on to that hypocrisy? / Let me make you an offer.
Ishigami: Traitors who kill their comrades must be erased… That is this organization’s cardinal rule. / But your brother committed no wrongdoing.
Ishigami: So let me give you an opportunity…
p40: Ishigami: We have prepared a stage where you will fight a Mid-type Angel, one-on-one. / If you emerge victorious, your sins will be forgiven.
Ishigami: If you’re destined to die… then why not cling to one last chance?
Ayaka: Thank you so much.
Ayaka: What a generous offer. / A solo fight against a Mid-type Angel?
Ayaka: There’s no way I can win that. / If all you want is a show, just kill me now.
p41: Ishigami: In that case… / why don’t you flee?
Ishigami: If you so desired, I could prepare you an escape route.
Ishigami: And I could change the Angel to be a Small-type. You could certainly handle that.
Ayaka: You would have me abandon Reiji… / and flee by myself? Ishigami: Is that not to your liking?
p42: Ishigami: Or would you rather fall in battle / for the sake of the brother who sold you out?
p43: Ayaka: The Angel… will be a Small-type, right?
Ayaka: I will… / accept that proposal.
p44: Kyouka: In the end, that’s a Psychopath for you. / Looks like all that stuff about her brother was just talk.
Ishigami: It has nothing to do with her being a Psychopath.
Ishigami: All humans… / are like that… box: To protect that which is important… https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/33954[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 24 by Dowolf2012-03-26T18:10:00+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*For use by Muda Scans*
p1: Ayaka: Forgive me!! / Please, forgive me!!
Ayaka: I won’t do it any more, I promise! / I’ll do whatever you ask, and be a good little girl!
p2: title: Chapter 24: A Choice
p3: Haruka: What… / should I forgive you for?
Ayaka: It’s—it’s my fault… / I upset you, Mother…
Haruka: I told you not to call me “mother”!!
Ayaka: I’m sorry, Haruka-san!! / I won’t call you that again! I won’t!!
Ayaka: It’s just, I’m really hungry and it hurts, so… / But I definitely won’t do it again!!
p4: Haruka: I really don’t care about that. / You’ve committed other sins.
Haruka: You… / Your sin is being my daughter.
Haruka: Your shear existence, / and my bringing you into this world, is an indelible sin.
Haruka: Your birth itself / was an unforgivable crime.
Haruka: At this rate, maybe it’d just be better / if you disappeared from my sight…
p5: Extra: Isn’t that the mother of that household?
Extra: Every night, I can hear a girl’s screams… And the last time I saw her, her body was covered in bruises… Do you think there’s child abuse? / Maybe we should tell the police.
p6: Ayaka: Lord God…
Ayaka: Is Ayaka a bad girl? / Should I have never been born?
p7: Ayaka: If I went to join you now, Lord, would it make Mother… / would it make Haruka-san happy?
Ayaka: Haruka-san is…
p8: Ayaka: Moth… / Haruka… san.
Haruka: Here… / Eat up…
Haruka: Is it good? Ayaka: Yes! It’s delicious!!
Haruka: When you’re done eating, why don’t you go take a bath with your mother?
p9: Haruka: Ayaka, do you want to be a good girl? Ayaka: Yes, Haruka-san! I want to be a good girl!!
Haruka: You know your mother can’t stand a liar Ayaka: I’m—I’m not lying!! / Honest!!
Haruka: Then follow me.
p10: Ryuji: Mama! Mama! Haruka: Yes, come to Mommy, Reiji…
Ryuji: Mama! Haruka: There, there! You really are a good boy, aren’t you, Reiji?
Haruka: Reiji, could you look over there for me?
p11: Haruka: That’s your big sister, / Ayaka.
Reiji: Onee-chan!
p12: Haruka: His name is Reiji… / He’ll be your little brother from now on.
Ayaka: My brother…
Haruka: Ayaka, can you keep him close to you forever? Ayaka: Y—yes! Haruka: Will you protect him, no matter what happens, even if you have to sacrifice yourself?
Ayaka: I’ll treasure Reiji forever! I’ll protect him forever! / He’ll mean much, much more to me than myself!
Haruka: Never forget those words. Never forget how it feels to sacrifice yourself for others. / That is the value of humanity… If you lose that, you’ll no longer be human.
p13: Haruka: If you ever thrust Reiji into despair for your own personal gain, or if he grows to hate you, / then I will give up on you. Completely and forever.
Haruka: Therefore, you must always love Reiji as a member of your family, / so that he grows to love you in return.
Haruka: If… if you can’t do that, then you’ll…
p14: You’re wrong… Haruka-san… I’ve worked so hard for Reiji all this time… / There’s no way he could hate me… But if he did, what should I do for him?
p15: <no text>
p16: Natsuhi: Reiji? Is that you?
p17: Reiji: Uh… uhn….
Reiji: Natsu…hi?
p18: Reiji: Ne…
Reiji: Nee-san…?
p19: Reiji: What—what are you... / what are you doing…?
Ayaka: I’m sorry… Your sister should’ve thought things over a bit more. / After all, you’re not a child anymore, Reiji.
Ayaka: I can’t believe it took me so long to realize that… I’m such an idiot. / But I know how to make you happy.
Ayaka: After all, I’m… / someone who exists for you and you alone.
p20: Ayaka: Uwahhhhh!!!
Reiji: What’s wrong with you, Nee-san?!!! / Why are you doing this?!
Reiji: Please, start acting sane again!
Ayaka: I am sane.
Ayaka: After all, Takers can’t go back to a normal life, nor can they date normally. / You’re a man, Reiji. It must be hard for you to hold back so much, right?
p21: Ayaka: But I am your sister… and a woman… and a Taker… / Isn’t that just perfect…?
Natsuhi: I was right… It was too early for you to leave the hospital.
Reiji: Na—Natsuhi…!! Natsuhi: However… It’s your head that’s really messed up.
p22: Natsuhi: Reiji, you have to tell it to her straight, here and now. / If you don’t, she’s just going to keep on deluding herself.
Natsuhi: You have to tell her she’s your sister. / Nothing more, and nothing less.
Ayaka: I get it… You’re the cause of all this. It’s your fault that Reiji… / can’t make the right decisions anymore...
Natsuhi: How can you say that? Are you insane?! / You’re the one who can’t the right decisions!! /
Natsuhi: Right now, the one you’re hurting most of all / is Reiji himself. Why can’t you figure that out?
p23: Ayaka: You’re a Taker. The second you start running out of life points, / you’re going to slit Reiji’s throat while he sleeps.
Ayaka: So what right do you have to harass me, / you whore?!!!
Reiji: STOP IT!!!!!
p24: <no text>
p25: Ayaka: Do you think…
Ayaka: Do you think you, / of all people,
p26: Ayaka: can take my one-and-only Reiji from me?!
Natsuhi: Is your love for him still that fucked up?!!!
p27: Reiji: ENOUGH!!!
Reiji: Enough… / Enough already…
p28: Reiji: If you don’t stop, I’ll… / I’ll take my own life.
Ayaka: Reiji!!! / What are you doing?!
p29: Ayaka: What would cause you do this? Why? / Why would you do this?!
Reiji: What about you, Nee-san? Why are you doing this to me?
Reiji: The Nee-san I knew was nicer than anyone else… / She was a bit clumsy, but you could always count on her in a pinch… *
Reiji: And she always made sure / I had a place to call home.
Reiji: She took the place of our harsh mother, / and gave me a place of tranquility.
p30: Reiji: How can that sister / have become so scary?
Ayaka: I was afraid… / So afraid…
Ayaka: Afraid that you would leave me, Reiji… That you would disappear from my side… / I had to fight to save you!! / But as the fighting continued, you grew to hate me!! I didn’t know what to do! Of course I was insecure!
p31: Ayaka: Could I have left you behind and lived by myself? Of course I could! But how could I have lived with myself?! / So in a situation like this, what choice did I have? / I would have done anything to protect you!
Ayaka: Why can’t you understand? / Why?!!!!
Kyouka: Your sister, Ayaka-san, / is a Natural-Born Psychopath.
Kyouka: Our genes drive us to cling to our lives and our personalities. / That is why we possess a killer instinct.
p32: Reiji: Isn’t “protecting me” just an excuse / for you to justify killing others?
p33: Reiji: Tell me the truth… Am I really the most important thing in the world to you?
Reiji: Now that you’re unbound by the morals and laws of society, and can kill others at will, / aren’t you having the time of your life?
p34: Reiji: After all, Nee-san, / you’ve always been a Psychopath.
Reiji: It wouldn’t even surprise me… / if you were glad you became a Taker.
Reiji: Isn’t it easy now? / You get to reveal your true self…
p35: Reiji: Stop pretending to be doing this to protect me and show me who you truly are, / Tachibana Ayaka!!!
Ayaka: You think me wanting to protect you… / is an excuse…?
Natsuhi: Don’t you think / you went a little too far back there?
p37: Natsuhi: Putting everything else aside for a second, I think your sister meant every word she said about you, Reiji. / You must know that.
Reiji: Apparently… she’s a Psychopath. Natsuhi: So what?
Reiji: It’s the highest class a Taker can achieve, usually obtainable only after one has murdered countless others. / But my sister was one from the start.
Reiji: Why do you think that is?
p38: Reiji: It’s because she was always a Psychopath…. / She was always… someone who couldn’t repress the urge to kill.
Natsuhi: Why would you…
Natsuhi: Did someone from the Guild tell you that…?! Don’t tell me you believed something that stupid?! / Did you forget that they attacked your sister at the hospital?!
Reiji: In the end, how much am I supposed to believe?
p39: Reiji: Do you have any proof / what my sister said was true?
Natsuhi: Reiji… did you…?
p40: Natsuhi: You… couldn’t have…
p41: Reiji: Was that really all for my sake?
Reiji: Isn’t “protecting me” just an excuse / for you to justify killing others?
Reiji: …show me who you truly are, / Tachibana Ayaka!!!
Ayaka: You’re wrong… You’re wrong… It was all for you, Reiji… / No… It was for my own sake.. / But that’s wrong…?! I… In order to protect Reiji, I…
p42: Ayaka: Enjoyed… killing…? / And in order to justify it, I…
p43: Ayaka: That can’t be it… / I love him…
Ayaka: I know that much… I definitely… / should love Reiji.
p44: box: The division between the siblings grows ever deeper. https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/33895[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 23 by Dowolf2012-03-21T01:20:03+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for use by Muda*
p1: Chapter 23: Cracks
p2: <no text> p3: Nurse: Tch! / You can already move?!
Nurse: Hah… Kh…. Uhhh…
p4: Nurses: What? / Did she spot us?!
Nurses: Kh?! / Tachibana!!
p5: Natsuhi: I need to bring a change of clothes… and some underwear… / What else…
p6: Natsuhi: Well, I’ll head back to the hospital. / I’ve prepared some food, so eat it when you get hungry.
Natsuhi: I really am a good cook. You knew that, right? / I’ll be expecting your compliments when I get back!!
Natsuhi: …You should probably show your face at the hospital, once you’re feeling better. / <aside: C’mon… No comeback? >
p7: Ryuji: A….
Ryuji: Ayaka-nee-san?!
p8: Natsuhi: What happened? Why’d you leave the hospital? You shouldn’t be up and about! Ayaka: Forget about that—we need to get out of here, now!
Natsuhi: We need to leave? … But where would we go? Ayaka: Somewhere far from here!
Ayaka: I’ll explain later! / Reiji!! You need to get moving, too! Now!!!
p9: Natsuhi: Wow… I didn’t know you had a resort home… I’m kinda shocked… Ayaka: Our mother bought it… we used to come here every year during summer break.
Natsuhi: N-nee-san? You all right?
Natsuhi: Eh? You’re bleeding! / We should get you back to the hospital…!!
Ayaka: Don’t worry about me… I should recover after a night’s rest… Natsuhi: But there’s something wrong here… Shouldn’t you have finished healing by now?
Ayaka: It might have been because of that Nikaidou bitch’s Sorcery Device, or maybe some skill of hers… / Reiji’s eye hasn’t healed yet, either.
p10: Ayaka: I’ll be fine. But we should hide here until I’ve fully recovered. / You guys shouldn’t head out carelessly, either.
Natsuhi: Hold up… What’s going on? Why won’t you go back to the hospital? / And why do we have to hide here?
Ayaka: If they find us, / they’ll kill us.
p11: Natsuhi: Th—they?! / Who’s “they”? Nikaidou?
Ayaka: Life Inc… / A gang sent by its president, Ishigami Ryuusuke.
Natsuhi: What—what are you saying?
Natsuhi: Why would they be after us? / We’re working for them—
Ayaka: Because we couldn’t kill Nikaidou Ran!
p12: Ayaka: No; there might be some other reason. / But the crux of the matter is that they no longer have any use for us. / That they just tried to kill me at the hospital proves it.
Natsuhi: But—but that’s…
Natsuhi: Are you certain? Why would the Guild even do this? … Are you saying they’re going to kill us because we failed the test…?! / Why? We never wanted to oppose the guild…!
Ayaka: I can’t be 100% certain. But I was attacked by multiple Takers… / And when you think about it, doesn’t something strike you as a little off?
Ayaka: There’s no way a group of Takers that large couldn’t defeat Nikaidou. / So why enlist a couple of beginners like ourselves?
Natsuhi: To—to protect the group… / from taking the blame, maybe?
p13: Ayaka: It was so they could back out whenever they wanted / and lay all the blame for killing Nikaidou at our feet.
Natsuhi: You—you mean because we screwed up? You think they fear payback from Nikaidou? Ayaka: Weren’t you listening? I just told you that an individual could never defeat such an organization, no matter how powerful she is.
Ayaka: Nikaidou was certainly a monster. Nevertheless, if Ishigami and his crew went all out, I doubt she’d last long against them. So why do you think he left things to us? / … It’s because Ishigami needed Nikaidou Ran to disappear without dirtying his own hands…
Ayaka: I suspect it didn’t matter to him whether or not we killed Nikaidou… He must have had some other goal. But he needed a scapegoat… And that’s where we come in… / Even if we had succeeded, he would have gotten rid of us in the end.
p14: Ayaka: Add in what happened at the hospital, and it all starts to make sense. / How could I have been so foolish? I’m so sorry!
Natsuhi: Like a lizard cutting off its own tail to survive… / He really used us good.
Reiji: Khkh…!
Reiji: Khkhkh!
Reiji: Khkh… Khkhkhkh! / Ahahahaha!
p15: Ayaka: Rei…ji?
Reiji: What a laugh… Following up a murder with a conspiracy theory? It’s almost like we’re in a TV show.
Reiji: Oh, I get it. If you do that, you get to keep on playing the victim, don’t you? / You want to make the organization into our enemy,
Reiji: and fight them off, right?
Reiji: You think that’ll make up for the guilt you feel over killing someone?!
p16: Natsuhi: Reiji! What do you think you’re saying?! Reiji: Do you disagree?
Reiji: From the start, it was Nee-san who betrayed us and ran off to treat with them! / And that choice led to the death of an innocent child!! / And now she claims to be the victim, that she was used by the organization?
Reiji: Words cannot describe how selfish you’ve become! / No; I think I’ve finally figured it out.
Reiji: You’ve always been that way, haven’t you? /A pathetic egoist who acts only for her own convenience.
p17: Ayaka: Rei… / ji?
Natsuhi: Don’t you think you’ve gone too far?! Why are you so eager to doubt everything your sister has to say? If you think about it, what she says really does make sense! Reiji: So everything’s fine as long as it “makes sense”?
Reiji: You can accept her killing an innocent boy because you understand her taking a request to kill someone else?!
Natsuhi: That—that was an accident; no one could have done anything…
Reiji: That woman killed someone.
p18: Reiji: She decided we were more important than a child / and killed him so we could live!
Reiji: She selfishly went on a rampage, and is guilty of murder… / And now, she starts spouting on about a conspiracy? Don’t make me laugh.
Reiji: I’m leaving.
Reiji: I don’t think I…
Reiji: can trust you anymore, Nee-san. Ayaka: You can’t!!!
p19: Ayaka: You can’t go!! Reiji: Out of my way!!
Ayaka: I won’t move!! Reiji: I don’t want to argue with you. Move!
Ayaka: I won’t let you leave… / Even if I have to stab you!
p20: Reiji: Is this who you really are, / Nee-san?
p21: Reiji: I used to respect you, Nee-san.
p22-23: Reiji: But I can’t. / Not anymore.
p24: Natsuhi: Ne—Nee-san…
Ayaka: for… his sake…
Ayaka: I did… everything… for Reiji’s sake… / for your… sake…
Natsuhi: Please don’t worry, Ayaka-nee-san… / I’m sure he’ll be back soon…
p25: <no text>
p26: Ayaka(?): This is our one and only chance, / Reiji…
Reiji: Uahhhhhhhhhh / hhhhhhh!!!!
p27: Phone: Igarashi Kyouka
Reiji: Igarashi… / san…?
Reiji: Hello?
Igarashi: Reiji-kun?! / Are you alright? Where are you?
Reiji: What would you do if I told you? Finish cleaning up loose ends?
p28: Reiji: Just do whatever you want… Track my location, even… and kill me. Igarashi: Don’t—don’t hang up!!
Igarashi: Please, let me tell you something!! / I’m trying to help you!!
Igarashi: I’m just asking you to listen!! Is Akaka-san with you right now? / If she is… you need to get away from her, right now!
Igarashi: She is… / She’s not thinking straight anymore!
Reiji: My sister is…
Reiji: Not thinking straight?
p29: Igarashi: She stabbed a nurse at the hospital before running off! / It looks like she’s convinced herself someone’s after her! / She’s starting to develop a case of megalomania…
Igarashi: It seems she’s embraced her true nature as a psychopath / and is starting to go on a rampage!
Reiji: Her true nature… / as a psychopath?
Igarashi: My boss didn’t want to tell you, but… / you know that Ayaka-san’s class is Psychopath, right?
Igarashi: That’s supposed to be a class unobtainable unless you get lots of experience hunting and killing other Takers. / However, your sister was a Psychopath from the start… What do you think that means?
p30: Igarashi: It means that Ayaka-san is a Natural-born Psychopath. / And a Natural-born Psychopath can no more control her urge to kill than she can her hunger or sex drive.
Reiji: A Natural-born… Psychopath? / Urge to kill…?
Ayaka: In the end, isn’t humanity a form of life that only survives through the sacrifice of others? / I’ll kill you!! / That’s the only way anyone can survive this game!
Igarashi: Reiji-kun? Are you still there? Reiji-kun!! Reiji: Yeah, I’m here…
Igarashi: Do you understand? Psychopaths always have a strong desire to kill. However, until now Ayaka-san has managed to keep that desire checked. / That’s probably because… because she didn’t want to lose her family… However, we believe… that she has found a way to satisfy her urges.
p31: Igarashi: That brings us to you, Reiji-kun. / She plans to use protecting you as a pretext to satisfy her urge to kill, her own personal desires!
Ayaka: This is all for your sake, / Reiji.
Igarashi: You have to believe me!!! Where are you right now? / We need to stop Ayaka-san before it’s too late!!
p32: <no text>
p33: Ayaka(?): Rei…! / Reiji…?!
Natsuhi: Hey—welcome home! Oh… We were so worried about you!!
Natsuhi: See? I told you he’d come back!
Ayaka: Rei… Reiji…
p34: Reiji: Nee-san, can you do something for me?
Reiji: Can you… / stay away from me for a while?
Reiji: I’ll be resting on the second floor… I want to be a lone for a little while.
Natsuhi: Nee-san…
p35: Natsuhi: Uwah! It smells so good!
Ayaka: It’s Reiji’s favorite. Natsuhi: I’ll bring it up to him; you should take a break, too, Nee-san.
Ayaka: No, I’ll bring it up myself. Natsuhi: OK, that’s fine…
Ayaka: Reiji…
Ayaka: I’ve brought dinner… / It’s your favorite: crème stew!
Reiji: I told you I wanted to be alone…
Ayaka: Then I’ll just leave it here for you…
p36: Ayaka: Kyah!! Reiji: I’m telling you, I’m not hungry!!
Ayaka: I’m…
Ayaka: I’m so sorry… Was it too hot?
Ayaka: I’ll go get some things to clean this up…
p37: Reiji: Just shut up and get out!! / I don’t need you to care for me!!!
Natsuhi: Here. Have some hot chocolate.
p38: Reiji: Thank you…
Natsuhi: Your sister’s asleep. She seems to be handling it pretty well… / Do you know how hard she worked making that stew for you?
Natsuhi: I can’t blame you for panicking, after all that’s happened… / But please don’t take it out on Ayaka-nee-san.
Natsuhi: Your sister’s been working really hard… You know / why that is, right? And I don’t think…
Natsuhi: that you hate her… / right?
Reiji: My sister… / isn’t just a sister to me…
p39: Reiji: Our mother way always overseas… She might as well have just left us to fend for ourselves. / I don’t think I could ever express how much I resented her for that…
Reiji: So my sister practically raised me… She devoted herself to me… / Even though she was so good at gymnastics, she quit so that she could take care of me.
Reiji: While my mother was always so far away that I could barely even remember what she looked like, my sister was always right by my side. / She was the only one… who really felt like family.
p40: Reiji: So how could she… / How am I supposed to accept that she could have done something like that?!
Natsuhi: Isn’t it time… / that you grew up from being your sister’s child?
Natsuhi: You’ve gotten too used to relying on your sister, Reiji.
Natsuhi: Your sister’s her own person… It’s selfish of you to want her to stay by your side, precious and beautiful, forever and ever…
p41: Natsuhi: Tachibana Ayaka has desires, gets angry, does things we wish she wouldn’t…. Just like anyone else. You need to… accept your sister more for who she is…
Reiji: Just like… / anyone else…
Igarashi: Your sister… / is a Natural-born Psychopath!!
Reiji: But… what if Nee-san is… Natsuhi: Oh, for goodness sake! All you do is whine on and on about your sister!
Natsuhi: What is with this mystical version of your sister?! / You encounter one aspect of her you didn’t expect, and suddenly she’s dead to you?!
p42: Natsuhi: Now’s the time to be a man! You should act cool and accept everything about her, even the things you don’t like! / Stop relying on her for everything, and find your own answers! / That’s the Tachibana Reiji I know!!
Natsuhi: And maybe you’ll help out your sister with her problems from time to time? / And when things get really, really tough, and it seems like it can’t get any worse…
Natsuhi: Then maybe I can join you, and we can bear the weight together. / We’re childhood friends, aren’t we?
Natsuhi: Huh? / Umm…. What?! p43: Natsuhi: Wait—what are you…?
p44: box: What comes after… an instinctive rampage? https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/30389[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 20 by umeboshi1102011-07-08T09:12:51+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[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...!?
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...
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 [none]
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...!? https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/30266[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 19 by umeboshi1102011-07-01T04:10:12+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.comRe:BIRTH Chapter 19 Test
[Scanslation with this translation reserved for Muda]
p.01 Chapter 19: Test
p.02 Ayaka/Reiji/Natsuhi: Woooooow~
Natsuhi: Last time we were taken here at night so we couldn’t get a good feel for it... Natsuhi: But taking another good look at it, it’s a really big company.
p.03
Reiji: Um... excuse me... Well...
Reception: Are you looking for something?
Ayaka/Natsuhi: What’s he blushing for...?
Reiji: We have a meeting scheduled with the person on this card... Card: Igarashi Kyouka Reception: Oh, Igarashi, is it? One moment, please. I’ll contact her right away.
p.04 Kyouka: Thanks for waiting~
SFX: stand x2 Kyouka: !
Kyouka: W-what are you being all formal for? I’m not your interviewer, so you don’t have to be nervous. Reiji mutter: Yes... Kyouka: Now sit, sit!
Kyouka: You’re all tense~ how cute~ Reiji: Th-that’s...
Reiji: So, normally... are interviews done in places like this? Kyouka: There’s no way they would, right?
p.05 Kyouka: I called you guys because there was something I personally wanted to warn you about...
Reiji: To... warn us?
Kyouka: Well, as someone who works closely with the president, It’s technically not okay for me to say something like this...
Kyouka: But I’ve started to become interested in someone...
Kyouka: So I guess this is a special service? Reiji: A-and what would that be?
p.06 Kyouka: No matter what the president starts saying from now on, don’t ever let yourselves be taken in by it. ......!!
Kyouka: The president will almost certainly try to persuade you in a way that you won’t be able to refuse, but you should refrain from making your decision on the spot. Reiji: ......
Kyouka: Since I think that once you’ve stepped into it... you probably won’t be able to go back ever again... This woman... wasn’t she a close associate of that president...? Why is she...
Kyouka: ...This is a warning... as an adult.
Reiji: Thank you for the advice, Igarashi-san. We will take it to heart. Kyouka: ......
Kyouka: Now, we should get going soon.
p.07 Reiji: A-anyway, we were really surprised. This is a pretty big company, isn’t it. Reiji: What does it actually do?
Kyouka: We manufacture water. Kyouka: Haven’t you seen them in nearby convenience stores? It’s the best selling ionic mineral water.
p.08 SFX: rigid
Ryuusuke: You don’t have to be so nervous.
Ryuusuke: About the interview... actually, that’s already over with. Reiji: Pardon?
Ryuusuke: Isn’t it? I’ve already told you how I wanted you to join us the other day... And you responded to that. You’ve cleared interview with that. Reiji: So that’s how it was... we didn’t know and we’ve been nervous the entire time...
p.09
They’re naïve kiddies after all... They’re already right where the president wants them...
Reiji: Then are you going to accept us as members of this company?
Ryuusuke: Yes... But before that... Ryuusuke: I’ll have you take just one final test. Reiji: Test?
p.10 Ryuusuke: We’re deciding on accepting allies with whom we will be dealing with each others’ lives here, after all.
Ryuusuke: Naturally I’ll have you go take a test befitting this.
Reiji: And... what kind of test is it?
Ryuusuke: Before that...
Ryuusuke: Have you guys heard of the word “Psychopath”? ......!?
p.11 Natsuhi: Is that... about people such as serial killers who lack certain human emotions...? Reiji: !
Ryuusuke: That’s exactly right. To be precise, it refers to people who have a different brain structure from the average person... From an extreme egoist at the mildest, Ryuusuke: And a murderer at the severest – in other words, a person who is overflowing with murderous impulses and will kill people for a small benefit without a second thought.
Murderous impulses...
Ryuusuke: However, are you aware Ryuusuke: That there also exists a class of the same name for us Takers?
This is something I’ve heard, but the highest class for us Takers... Seems to be something called Psycopath... Reiji: Ah...!!
p.12 Reiji: I have heard of it before! I think it’s said to represent the highest level of Takers... Ryuusuke: [empty bubble... probably another one of those mistakes] Natsuhi: The highest level of Takers?
Ryuusuke: Oh, then we can wrap this up quickly.
Ryuusuke: A Taker’s class... using the innate natures one was born with as a base, it advances with strength. At the end of that growth, what exists after honing only one’s strength to the ultimate levels, Ryuusuke: The highest position, the pinnacle of Takers... That class...
Ryuusuke: Is the Psychopath.
Reiji: By class, do you mean that thing... That’s written on the Taker’s status?
p.13 Reiji: ...I remember the same word written on my older sister’s... !?
Reiji: B-but isn’t that weird? It hasn’t even been that long since we became Takers...!! Reiji: There must be some kind of a mistake, or the same word was there by coincidence, since we’re beginners.
Ryuusuke: No,
Ryuusuke: You’re sister’s class is undoubtedly Psychopath.
Ryuusuke: We’ve already confirmed that she’s already acquired “Phantom,” the ultimate skill that only Psychopaths can have. Ryuusuke: There can’t be any better proof than this.
p.14 Ryuusuke: Normally, Takers are each given a class devised from your identity and consciousness in the instant you become one. It is basically determined by the three mental faculties that govern people’s psyches.
Ryuusuke: Those are the ego, id, and superego.
Natsuhi: Freud...
Ryuusuke: Normal people have a propensity to control their desires, the “id,” with their conscience, the “superego.” However, Takers are the opposite. In other words, it is normal to be in a state in which the “id” is greatly amplified... Ryuusuke: In this instance, mental hysteria extends its effects to the body and physical conditions increase severalfold. This means that they change into a new kind of human with many abilities and statuses akin to superpowers.
Ryuusuke: In other words... they enter a state in which they have no qualms with expressing their inner desires. ......!
p.15 Reiji: Does... that mean it’s hard for Takers to control their desires? Ryuusuke: Not quite. It’s more accurate to say they don’t hide their desires and openly reveal them.
Ryuusuke: All the desires that rule humans, such as lust, greed, and appetite... It means that Takers don’t hesitate in carrying them out.
Ryuusuke: Even if that... were to be murder. ......!!
Ryuusuke: The stronger the Taker is, the more the id continues to be bloated, and eventually dominates the superego (conscience). If that continues and surpasses its limits, the superego collapses... and completely disappears. Ryuusuke: In psychoanalysis, this is called superego lacunae (super egolacuna)*... *[The words in parentheses were originally in English, and are misspelled...]
p.16 Ryuusuke: To put it simply... a frenzy... it means they go into a lunatic state. People who surrender their mind and body to insanity... Ryuusuke: Hehe, don’t you think it’s a perfect expression for us Takers?
Ryuusuke: We don’t have any inhibitions towards letting out our bare desires... Even if we were to kill people... Ryuusuke: By doing that, we get in the best condition to survive as Takers.
Reiji: I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say. What do the classes and identities of Takers have to do with our joining the company? Reiji: Even if my sister were to be in the Psychopath class, she has nothing to do with that example.
p.17 Reiji: Ayaka nee-san is not the strongest, and she hasn’t ever killed anyone before!! Reiji: Comparing such a crazy evildoer with Nee-san... it’s absurd!!
......
Ryuusuke: However, your sister should be strong. Reiji: ......!!
Ryuusuke: Rather, it would be accurate to say that she will become stronger. Ryuusuke: Regardless of what kind of person Ayaka-kun is, it’s a fact that she has Phantom, right?
p.18 Ryuusuke: The owner of Phantom, the strongest Taker skill! That alone gives her plenty of qualification to join the organization...! Ryuusuke: Yes, as long as we can confirm that her strength is real.
Reiji: How many times must I say it until you understand!? My sister isn’t like that...!! Ayaka: What do I have to do?
......!?
p.19 Ayaka: What do I have to prove?
She’s quick to understand... As I thought, without a doubt, this girl is...
Reiji: Nee-san!! Ayaka: Please be quiet for now, Reiji.
Ayaka: It seems that thanks to the skill I have... I’m rather useful to the organization... Ayaka: But the things I must protect... for example, you, Reiji...
p.20 Ayaka: If I want to bring you guys, whom the organization doesn’t need... pay the appropriate price. Ayaka: That is what this man is saying to me right now.
Reiji: W-we’re... baggage...?
Ryuusuke: I’d rather you didn’t take it so negatively. I’d like you to understand that Ryuusuke: Thanks to your older sister’s outstanding skill... you will all be saved if you clear the test.
Ayaka: So... what is that test like...?
p.21
Reiji: ......!
Ryuusuke: There is one more Psychopath class Taker... Ryuusuke: Who is indiscriminately slaughtering members of our company... our guild.
Ryuusuke: Her name is Nikaidou Ran. Ryuusuke: If you can erase her... all three of you will become part of our family.
p.22
Reiji: Ha...
Reiji: Haha... Reiji: Hahaha...
Reiji: Ahahahaha Reiji: Hahahahahahaha!!!
Reiji: You’re shitting me!!!
p.23 The president will almost certainly try to persuade you in a way that you won’t be able to refuse. Since I think that once you’ve stepped into it... you probably won’t be able to go back ever again...
Reiji: You’re making Nee-san murder someone!? In order to join the organization!!?? Reiji: Who do you think would do such a ludicrous thing!?
Ryuusuke: In any case, it’s all the same once you join us. Ryuusuke: The organization’s enemy is your enemy. If you’re planning on becoming our family...
Ryuusuke: You will have to obey orders Ryuusuke: That are much more severe than this...
Reiji: You’re kidding me! In the event that we did accept that request... Didn’t you say the enemy was the strongest, a Psychopath, that even you guys can’t do anything about!? Reiji: Let Nee-san fight against someone like that!? That’s absurd! Ryuusuke: ......
p.24 Ryuusuke: In Takers, just like normal humans, their ego controls their mind and body. This balance is a strength. However, as their id (desires) keep increasing, unlike humans, Ryuusuke: A Taker’s strength drastically increases.
Ryuusuke: As they repeatedly commit massacres and their mental condition of leaning towards the id continues... they surpass superego lacunae and finally... Ryuusuke: They are able to reach the highest stage, Psychopath. I don’t know how your sister obtained that class, but...
Ryuusuke: Those who are engraved with that class, even if they are beginners... Ryuusuke: Can surpass their limits at any time!!
p.25 Natsuhi: In summary... it’s a medal you get by abandoning your conscience And killing, and killing again, and by completely giving up your humanity, right?
Ryuusuke: By human standards, that’s certainly what it is... However, it’s different for us Takers. Becoming stronger and surviving... that’s the main point for Takers.
Ayaka: I don’t even know how to use the so-called Phantom. Do you have any expectations for me to win? Reiji: Nee-san!?
Ryuusuke: There’s no need to worry. We will teach you how to use it. Also, we’ll offer you plenty of bribes to fight. ......!?
Reiji: No!! We can’t stay in a place like this any longer!! We’ll be leaving!! Reiji: Nee-san! Let’s hurry back!!
Ryuusuke: Even one of you is fine.
p.26 Ryuusuke: As long as you can pass the test, I’ll permanently guarantee life points for the other two. Ryuusuke: Think about it carefully...
Reiji: Don’t listen! It’s not even worth listening to!! Let’s leave this place quickly! Natsuhi!! Natsuhi: Oh, uh huh...
Kyouka: So that’s how you’d approach it... I knew it. Ryuusuke: Hehe.
p.27 Kyouka: I did stir them up just before, but... it’s going so according to plan that it feels weird. Ryuusuke: Yeah, it will be a problem if they agreed to it so readily... before we can even confirm if they really have the power to get rid of Nikaidou. [looks like the bubble is pointing to the wrong person again.]
Ryuusuke: Normally I would like to crush anyone who bares their fangs towards the organization with our full force, but... Kyouka: ...... Ryuusuke: Nikaidou has a bit of a troublesome backer... besides, it’s just not right for the owner to have to come out because one stray dog was bitten... we need a hound...
Kyouka: So, you’re planning to make those kids who have no connection with the organization take the blame in the worse-case scenario, right...? But looking at their reaction just now... will they really agree to it? Ryuusuke: It’ll be fine.
Ryuusuke: At any rate, if we can make the sister move... Ryuusuke: They’ll be as good as ours after that...
p.28
Reiji: Damn iiiit!!!
Reiji: They tried to use us as tools for murder...! I can’t believe them!! Makes me want to vomit!! Reiji: Become one of those bastards? There’s no way in hell we can!!
Natsuhi: B-but... now our life points really are at their limit... The next interspatial time will a do or die situation. Reiji: Huh? Oh... yeah.
Reiji: It’ll be dangerous if we mess up next time... no, it’ll all be over. That’s why we have to prepare more carefully... Ayaka: ......
p.29 Ayaka: Is there really no room to consider it? Ayaka: That proposal... Reiji: Wha...!?
Ayaka: In any case, we’ve become Takers. Hence, we have to kill Takers someday... then in fact it would be better if we had a rationale for it... Reiji: This isn’t about stuff like rationales!!
Reiji: If you self-justify murder like that... If you get used to sacrificing others...!! Ayaka: ...... Reiji: Ultimately, things will get irrevocable... Weren’t we just warned about it?
Ayaka: As long as we are human, we ultimately can’t continue to live without sacrificing something... even if that is life. ......!?
p.30 Ayaka: It’s often said that sinful life, that is, humans... exist based on a system of sacrifice, including what we eat. Ayaka: We sacrifice livestock for the sake of food, sacrifice the environment for the sake of living better, sacrifice others for the sake of wealth...
Ayaka: That is none other than one of the principles that presently make up human society, you know? Ayaka: Then, shouldn’t we who became Takers also accept the appropriate principles...?
People are made to be like than from the time they’re born! They can sacrifice others whenever they want if it’s for themselves. That’s the kind of creatures we are!!
Reiji: That’s just a trick!! We’ll never become like that!!
p.31 Natsuhi: Reiji!
SFX: running [second panel]
SFX: heavy rain [last panel]
p.32
Ayaka: Reiji. Reiji: ?
Reiji: Nee-san...
Ayaka: I’m going to be studying for a test at a friend’s house today, And I think I’ll be home a little late. Reiji: A study session? Is it okay to be doing something like that when there’s not much left until the interspatial time?
Ayaka: Like they say, even if the world were to be destroyed tomorrow, plant an apple tree today.* I don’t plan on dying at all, so I’m fine. *[This is a Japanese saying which basically means do what normally would.]
Ayaka: You don’t have to worry about anything either, Reiji. I’ll surely be fine. It’ll all work out.
Ayaka: I’ve asked Natsuhi-chan to take care of dinner. Reiji: Okay, bye bye.
p.33
My older sister Is really strong, isn’t she...
Ryuusuke: This is Ishigami.
Phone: We got a call. It’s from the sister.
p.34 Ryuusuke: I got it. I’ll head over right away with the princess.
Ryuusuke: If we pull in the sister, the brother will come along with her... and with the brother... comes the possibility of taking down Nikaidou Ran... I trust there’s really no mistake with that,
Ryuusuke: Princess...
p.35
Reiji: !?
Reiji: Whoa!? What? This is!! Reiji: What’s happening all of a sudden!?
...!?
p.36 Reiji: Nee-san!! Reiji: Look at this! What in the world...!!
p.37
Phantom has to be used to defeat Phantom...
Fortunately, the target should have her guard down. That’s because she hasn’t been attacked by anyone for a pretty long time. If you aim for that opportunity and strike with Phantom... there’s plenty of chance for you to win.
p.38 I’ll definitely keep the promise. If you succeed, I’ll guarantee life points for your little brother and your friend. Depending on your resolve, everyone will be saved including yourself, Tachibana Ayaka-kun.
p.39 Kenta: Geez, I don’t get you... It’s so late, and it’s even raining really hard. Why are you forcing yourself to go home?
Kenta: It’s dangerous out at night, so stay over.
Ran: I-I have to be h-home by m-morning... Kenta: What’re you saying now? You always suddenly drop in late at night and stay almost until dawn.
Ran: B-because... y-you, a boy, i-is here... Kenta mutter: Wha? Ran: I c-can’t be s-sleeping together in the s-same house as y-you...
p.40 Kenta: Y-you’re right! It can’t be helped if that’s the case! There’s no way around it! I’ll walk you to the taxi. Girls: ......
Kenta: One second, I’ll go bring umbrellas for the two of us.
Kenta: Whoa! Isn’t it getting worse...?
p.41 SFX: twitch
p.42 [none]
p.43 Kenta: W-who’re you...?
Ayaka: I hear... Kenta: !! Ayaka: That you’ve been killing many people...
Ayaka: Well... I can perfectly understand... Since it’s to live...
Ayaka: So...
p.44 Ayaka: This time, I’ll have [bold]you[/bold] understand [bold]me[/bold]. https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/30014[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 18 by umeboshi1102011-06-10T22:24:19+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Scanlation with this translation reserved for Muda]
Re:BIRTH Chapter 18 Nikaidou Ran
p.01 Box: Saint Rosetta Girls’ School
Girl: Look, look! Over there! Girl: !
p.02-03 Girl: It’s the third year, Nikaidou-senpai. The strongest Taker, Nikaidou Ran, appears——!! Chapter 18: Nikaidou Ran
Ran: Et toi, alors, qu’est-ce que tu fais dans la vie, maintenant? Ran: Th-then... w-what... do... you... do for... a l-living... now? Ran: Bien, tu vois, je travaille. Je suis secré taire à l’institut francais.
Ran: W-well, th-this... job... as y-you can... see. I-I’m... a s-secretary... of th-the French Ins...titute.
p.04 Teacher: P-perfect. You’re magnificent as usual.
Girl: That wasn’t at a level you can get to through studying. It’s completely like it’s her native tongue. It’s really mysterious... even though she stutters in Japanese... Girl: She was also at the top of the grade in the last all-subject test.
Girl: That’s the lady of the leading Japanese corporation for you. Girl: She lives in a different world from us. I wonder what she usually spends her time doing.
p.05
Audience: The painful feeling in her fingers that resonates from the strings... Audience: It’s almost as if we’re being shown her passionate interior itself.
Audience: There’s no doubt she’ll win this time as well. Audience: She’s one of the great talents who will support the artistic world in Japan from now on, to say the least.
p.06
Maid: The president is home.
Gramps: You’re back, Ran?
p.07 Ran: I...
Ran: I-m... h-home... g-grand...father.
Gramps: I heard about you winning the music competition. Even though it may simply be a hobby... Gramps: Since you’ve won, I might as well praise you.
Gramps: You are an individual befitting our Nikaidou family. You must always be at the top in every aspect... Gramps: You are a person who won’t be crushed by that kind of destiny.
Gramps: Yes, unlike that Kyouji...
p.08 Gramps: I have high expectations of you. Gramps: Keep up that diligence.
p.09
Ran! Nii-san’s going to do his best! I’ll meet Grandfather’s expectations for sure!
Onii-sama!! Onii-sama!!
Onii-samaaaa!!!!
p.10 Onii... Sama...
p.11 [none]
p.12 Boy: Geez... It started raining so suddenly...!
Boy: !
Boy: What’s up... with you...?
p.13 Boy: You’re just sitting there again? Boy: And you’re drenched.
Boy: Why didn’t you go in? My little sisters should have been here...
Ran: B-because... i-it seemed like... it was... b-before you got... home. Kenta: You’re polite about the weirdest things, really...
Sis1: It’s nii-chan~ Sis2: Kenta nii-chan~!! Kenta: Have you guys been behaving?
Sis1: Oh, it’s Ran-chan. Sis2: You were here too, Ran?
p.14 Kenta: What’re you scowling for? I bought this properly with money I worked for. Don’t worry!
Kenta: Anyway, come in. I’m making hot pot. Doesn’t it taste better when you eat in a larger group~?
p.15 Ayaka: I think the same as before. Joining Life Inc. is the most rational and safest method to survive.
Reiji: You’re saying a company that does business with life points, which are equivalent to people’s lives... is safe? It’s not strange to think that they must be plotting something bad, right?
Ayaka: In any case, I intend to follow you if you deny them...
Ayaka: But you’ll keep the promise, won’t you? Reiji: Promise?
Ayaka: If you don’t find some kind of safety measure, whether it be an organization or whatever...
p.16 Ayaka: We were going to have Natsuhi-chan leave, right?
Reiji: Nee-san... there’s no need to go that far... Ayaka: It’s not like I’m saying this out of contempt.
Ayaka: I won’t oppose accepting Natsuhi, Ayaka [top left]: But must ensure our safety for that. Ayaka: Isn’t it very commonsensical? Reiji: ......
Reiji...
p.17
That’s right. It shouldn’t even have to be mentioned... Even though it’s a problem that their lives depend on... I’m causing a lot of trouble for them...
If, by me staying here... There’s an irrevocable result for Reiji...
Nooo!! I don’t want to leave this place...!!
p.18 I never want to go to a place like that...!! Where I don’t even have a mom!
It’s okay. You’re just going for a little bit, right? If you want to return, you can come back whenever you want, Natsuhi.
Really...? Is it really okay if I come back? Will you wait for me, Reiji?
I’m okay at any time, Since I’ll always be waiting here in Japan.
p.19
Unfortunately, there’s... no possibility for your father to regain consciousness. However, even though he’s in a brain dead state... he certainly is alive...
Maintaining that... will be very costly. We need you to make a decision... since medical costs are high here in America.
I hear you’re going to Japan? And leaving Frank behind? What is it? Are you planning to force the living corpse on us, your relatives, just because he’s not your biological father?
You’re going to Japan in order to earn money for the hospital bills? Hah, what an excuse! That’s why I didn’t like you from the beginning! You little girl of that Asian...!!
That’s right! I’m running!! So what!!? This country! And you people!! ...And that father, I’m sick of it all!! W-what are you saying...!? You really are like a demon...!
p.20 You’re going back to a country you’ve been away from for 10 years!? What can you do there when you don’t have anywhere to return to!? Hmm?
I do...
I also...!! Have a place... to return to...!!
p.21 Reiji: Natsuhi, do you have a second? Natsuhi: ?
Reiji: I’m sorry, we were kind of talking just by ourselves... don’t take too much offense... Natsuhi: ......
Natsuhi: Reiji, it’s all right now. ......!? Natsuhi: I’ll look for an apartment after all.
Natsuhi: It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to keep up with you lovey-dovey siblings~ The third wheel will be making her exit here. Reiji: Whaa?
Reiji: What happened all of a sudden? I’ve talked to Nee-san, too, you know? Natsuhi: ......
p.22 Reiji: If we decide to join the company, ...!? Reiji: You’ll join too, of course, right?
Natsuhi: Join? You mean that company? Life Inc.? Reiji: That’s right.
Natsuhi: But, Reiji... Didn’t you not want to join it...? Reiji: This isn’t a problem that should be decided upon with my personal policies and such. I think that what Nee-san’s saying basically makes sense.
I knew it... because of me... He’s trying too hard...
p.23 Natsuhi: Nah, it’s all right.
Natsuhi: I’ll leave. I thought it over, and I’ve been causing you a lot of trouble. Reiji: Trouble? How!?
Natsuhi: Isn’t this you and Ayaka nee-san’s place? Natsuhi: I’m the one who rudely came in uninvited!
Reiji: Could it be... Reiji: You’ve forgotten... your promise with me?
Natsuhi: Promise? Reiji: That’s right.
p.24 Reiji: When you were going to America, didn’t we promise? You can come back at any time... Reiji: Isn’t that why you came to our house right away when you returned to Japan?
No way... Natsuhi: Reiji...
Natsuhi: You... remembered that...? Reiji: Yeah, and that it’s a secret only between us.
Natsuhi: Isn’t it stupid...? Even though it was just mindless babble when we were kids... Reiji: What, it may have been that way for you, but to me it was a proper promise...!!
p.25 Reiji: Huh? Huuh!? N-Natsuhi...? What’s wrong all of a sudden? Reiji: Why’d you suddenly start crying?
Reiji: W-Wha? Did I make a mistake somewhere? Reiji: C-come one, stop crying, alright? Alright?
Reiji: Yes, I understand. Have a nice day.
p.26
Natsuhi: What happened? What did they say? Natsuhi: When are we going to go there? Reiji: The thing is...
Reiji: There... seems to be an interview. Natsuhi/Ayaka: Come again?
p.27 Kyouka: They seem to want to join. Ryuusuke: That’s good.
Kyouka: Is it all right, though? Saying something harsh like having to do an interview, even though they decided to join... Wouldn’t it be bad if they changed their minds? Ryuusuke: It’s the opposite, in fact.
Ryuusuke: Humans are creatures that don’t expect much of what’s inside treasure boxes that are opened with ease. We can get them to rely on us more if we show them this much strictness. Kyouka: ......
Kyouka: At any rate, I made the date in one week as per your directions. Ryuusuke: Good work.
p.28
Reiji: So then all three of us are going to join the company. That’s all right with you, right, Nee-san?
Ayaka: Sure. Just one thing, though...
Ayaka: Until we formally join in one week, could I hold on to Natsuhi-chan’s sorcery device?
Reiji: Nee-san! Are you still...!! Natsuhi: Okay, that’s fine.
p.29 Reiji: Fine? You...! Natsuhi: I’m fine with it. It’s not like Nee-san’s going to do something to me.
Natsuhi: Harming me would mean betraying Reiji’s trust. Ayaka: ...... Natsuhi: As long as Reiji is on my side, Ayaka nee-san won’t ever lay a finger on me, right?
Reiji mutter: What is this... this suffocating atmosphere...
Reiji: Seriously, when did it get so twisted between these two...? Box: You’re the cause... Reiji: I have to get them to make up somehow...!
Reiji: !
Reiji: Oh, that’s right...! Natsuhi: ? Ayaka: Where are you going? You still have food left, don’t you?
p.30 Reiji: Here they are! Ayaka: The pool? Reiji: These! They’re the free passes to the municipal indoor pool that recently got renovated!!
Reiji: How about it? Why don’t all we go together? Reiji: See, don’t you remember? The three of us have a lot of fun at the pool back then, didn’t we?
Ayaka: In this kind of situation, even if you suggest the pool... Reiji: It’s because it’s this kind of situation! We have a week until the interview, so isn’t a change of pace necessary?
Natsuhi: If Ayaka nee-san declines, the two of us should go. Ayaka: !
Natsuhi: That pool, how nostalgic... It’d be nice for the two of us to return to the past. Reiji: Well, but then... the purpose...
p.31 Ayaka: It’s dangerous with just the two of you. Natsuhi-chan doesn’t have her sorcery device, either. Reiji: ...... Natsuhi: I’ll be fine~! I’ll have Reiji protect me~ right?
Ayaka: Really, you’re still such kids...
Ayaka: You’d probably be worried about your luggage, too...
Ayaka: There’s no helping it. I’ll go along with you. Ayaka: Don’t mind me and have lo~ts of fun.
Natsuhi: Demon hag... Reiji mutter: Scary... Reiji mutter: Why in the world...
p.32 Natsuhi: It’s really been a while since we’ve been here. Reiji: It’s become very gorgeous since it’s been renovated, though.
It’s my first time seeing Nee-san... with a swimsuit like that. Is it new...?
p.33 Natsuhi: Reiji~
Natsuhi: Wow, what? It’s become really beautiful~! It’s worth coming to swim~
Reiji: N-Natsuhi... that swimsuit... Natsuhi: Hm? This is the one I wore in America.
Ayaka: ...... Guy mutter: W-what a beauty... Guy mutter: Is she a model?
p.34 Natsuhi: Whoa~! The ceiling’s made of glass~ Natsuhi: You can directly enjoy the sunlight, huh... It might be just right for tanning.
Natsuhi: Oh~? Ayaka nee-san, you have an unexpectedly daring one. Are you pretty fired up about this, perhaps? Ayaka: ...... Ayaka: No... that’s... not true...
Natsuhi: That so? You should be a bit more considerate from now on, just like that! The basics aren’t bad, okay~? Ayaka: ............
Natsuhi: !
Natsuhi: Reiji, come here please~ Reiji: Huh? What’s up?
Natsuhi: I want to tan. Rub oil on me. Natsuhi mutter: This, this Reiji: W-what? Oil!?
Natsuhi: What’re you panicking for? You saw me naked as childhood friends more than enough back then, right? Reiji: Oh, that’s... well...
p.35 Natsuhi: M’kay~ I’ll leave it to you~ rub it in all the nooks and crannies, too~
Th-this is... the first time... I touch the body of a girl other than my family...
p.36 Natsuhi: Get my armpits as well. I want to tan it nicely. Reiji: Y-yeah... hang on a sec.
Natsuhi: Heeheehee! That tickles~
Natsuhi: You can rub it more boldly. Make sure to get the lower parts~
Natsuhi: !
p.37 Natsuhi: W-what? Why...! Natsuhi: I-is this going too far...?
Natsuhi: ......!?
p.38-39 W-what is it, so suddenly...!? Reiji...
I didn’t even think you’d be this bold...!! A-and... you don’t look it, but...
A-ah...! Th-that’s...!!
W-what should I do... Should I be stopping him...!? But I’m the one who baited him... If I embarrass him now...!!
p.40 Natsuhi: Y-you’re surprisingly... manly... to think you had this kind of side to you... Natsuhi: You’re quite good with your hands, aren’t you...?
Ayaka: Really? I’m happy that you’re praising me. Should I stop already? Natsuhi: No... you can keep going... a little...
Natsuhi mutter: Huh...!?
Natsuhi: A-Ayaka nee-san!? What’re you doiiiiing!!!? Reiji: ...... Ayaka: I was rubbing oil, as you can see.
p.41 Natsuhi: W-what part of this was rubbing oil!? What are you touching someone’s breasts without asking for~!? It’s disgusting!! Ayaka: Oh, but I was just rubbing it in the nooks and crannies like you asked.
Ayaka: In fact, I’d even like you to be grateful. Wasn’t it pleasurable for you, like a dog in heat...?
Natsuhi: Oh... really...?
Natsuhi: Then... I have to repay the favor... Natsuhi: Come over here, Ayaka nee-san. This time I’ll rub it on for you. Ayaka: I’m going to decline. I have sensitive skin and I don’t want to get sunburned.
Natsuhi: Don’t turn me down on your own! Stop complaining and get over here!!! Ayaka: I-I’m telling you I don’t want to, aren’t I!?
Ayaka: Eeeek!! Ayaka: Nooo! Stop iiiit!!
p.42 Natsuhi: I’m saying I’ll make you feel good with the way you do things! Relax! You!! Ayaka: Don’t assume I’m like you!! I hate tanning!!
Natsuhi: Shut up and strip! You demon hag!! Ayaka: H-hag!? You’re finally showing your true colors!! People mutter: Yay~ it’s a fight~
p.43 Box: One week later
Ayaka: Reiji, you’re going to be late! You still haven’t finished getting ready? Reiji: Oh... just a little bit longer.
Reiji: This... it’s pretty hard to tie...
Ayaka: Here, I’ll do it for you. Reiji: Oh, sorry...
Natsuhi: Reiji~ are you ready? Reiji: Yup! We’re leaving now!!
p.44 Reiji: Well then,
Reiji: Let’s go! Reiji: To Life Inc.! https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/29707[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 17 by umeboshi1102011-05-21T08:01:04+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Scanlation with this translation reserved for Muda]
Re:BIRTH Chapter 17 Guild
p.01
Kyouka: What do you think? Kyouka: Isn’t it on a different scale from your hunts?
Kyouka: It’s... finished.
What they witnessed there was an unbelievable scene...
p.02 Chapter 17: Guild Volume 4 on sale August 23!! Story: Im Dal Young Art: Lee Soo Hyun
p.03 They actually...! Defeated a large-size angel...!!
Kyouka: So, you showing up here... can I take it to mean you’ve accepted my offer the other day?
Kyouka: Let’s go. Kyouka: There’s someone I’d like to introduce you to.
Ryuusuke: Princess!! Ryuusuke: Get ready.
Reiji: ......!
p.04
An iron... mask...? Is it a woman?
p.05 [none]
p.06 She’s absorbing the life points... Is that woman going to absorb it all...?
Ryuusuke: !
Ryuusuke: This is the first time I’ve seen you...
Ryuusuke: Who are they, Ryuusuke: Kyouka?
p.07 Kyouka: They’re the super rookies I reported about the other day.
Ryuusuke: Mmm...
Ryuusuke: The ones Ryuusuke: Who bloomed the phantom...
Reiji: That person is...? Kyouka: Yeah, the very person I wanted you to meet. I’ll introduce him.
Kyouka: He is the chief of our guild... Or rather, the president of the corporation Life Inc... Kyouka: Ishigami Ryuusuke.
p.08 Corporation...? Life Inc.?
Ryuusuke: It’ll be a bother if you exaggerate my introduction with stuff like president or corporation. We’re simply a guild that assembled for the same purpose... Ryuusuke: Wouldn’t that be much quicker for them to understand? Kyouka: I thought it would be better for them to know if they were joining us...
Reiji: I am Tachibana Reiji. Reiji: I know we just met and this is abrupt, but there’s something I would like to ask.
Reiji: I heard this from Kyouka-san... If we join this guild... Reiji: We won’t have to fear the stealing and the limits of life points...!!
p.09 Reiji: Is that true? Reiji: And what is the restraint that eliminates betrayal between everyone!?
Ryuusuke: For how abrupt they are, those are some questions that strike at the core...
Ryuusuke: From how you said that, Ryuusuke: It seems you’ve had quite a grim path...
Ryuusuke: If you sum it up, that is true. Ryuusuke: We aren’t in fear of life points and can’t betray each other...
Ryuusuke: We have indeed arranged a system for that, Ryuusuke: Since that is our absolute rule.
p.10 Rule...?
Ryuusuke: Those who join this guild must never harm another of our Takers. Those who break that will be dealt with by the entirety of our guild’s power. Ryuusuke: It’s a very simple rule.
Ryuusuke: Those who bring harm to one of us... Will have to suffer a detriment several times worse. Natsuhi: ...... Reiji: Is it okay with something so simple?
p.11 It’s absurdly simple, but it certainly is a rational restraint... Only, it’s a system that can only be realized with the premise that individuals won’t be pressed by the consumption of life points...
Ayaka: ...... Ryuusuke: !
Ryuusuke: By the way, the lady over there... Ayaka: ! Ryuusuke: Doesn’t look like she’ll last until the next interspatial time.
Ryuusuke: Princess.
p.12
The one who took all the life points for herself just now...!? Reiji: What are you...!?
Ryuusuke: You don’t need to worry. We won’t do anything bad. Ryuusuke: How many life points do you currently have?
Can I reveal it...? Reiji: ...16...
Ryuusuke: Give them to her so they’ll have the same amount.
Natsuhi: ......!?
p.13
Ayaka: !? Reiji: ......!?
Natsuhi: Mm...Mbgh... Natsuhi: Urgh...!?
Natsuhi: ......!?
p.14 Natsuhi: Huh...? Huh...!? Reiji: ......!!
Reiji: Your life points!? Reiji: Could it be that that person has an ability to replenish life points!?
Ryuusuke: It’s a skill to transfer her own life points to others, to be precise. Ryuusuke: It’s not like she can infinitely recover life points.
Ryuusuke: Why don’t we continue after changing locations?
Ryuusuke: You might become important guests. This street corner isn’t very suitable... Ryuusuke: For your hospitality, is it...?
p.15
Ryuusuke: Igarashi-kun, I’m sorry, but can I ask you the tea?
Ryuusuke: Now then...
Ryuusuke: What should I talk about first...?
p.16 Reiji: This guild... No, it was Life Inc...
Reiji: What does it do? Reiji: Since it’s a corporation... don’t you do something?
Ryuusuke: A reasonable question... Yes, Ryuusuke: Of course you’d be interested in what this company is.
Ryuusuke: To explain it briefly... Ryuusuke: For some reason, Takers continue to increase in this world.
Ryuusuke: However, angel hunting, which is crucial to our survival, is not something everyone can do successfully. Ryuusuke: Even so, there were many people who weren’t able to kill other Takers to steal their life points...
Ryuusuke: But that doesn’t mean they’d sit around waiting for their approaching death, does it? Ryuusuke: We are a company born through the aspirations of people like that.
p.17 Ryuusuke: In other words, for Takers who are not able to fight against angels or start killing each other, Ryuusuke: Concentrate our power so they can gain life points safely and stably... That’s what we mainly do.
Reiji: I-if what you’re saying is true... There was a way to be saved in a place like this...!!
Reiji: An organization for protecting good Takers without power! Reiji: It was a company for that!?
Natsuhi: Are you saying... for free? Reiji: ......!
p.18 Natsuhi: Such a one-sided and risky business... of course it won’t be free of charge, right? Natsuhi: There must be a price in exchange for the life points.
Natsuhi...!
Ayaka: ......
Ryuusuke: Of course we receive expenses befitting that. Ryuusuke: We are risking our lives to secure life.
Reiji: What’s... that cost?
p.19 Ryuusuke: Of course, just as the word means... Ryuusuke: It’s money.
Ryuusuke: We need quite a bit of preparation to hunt angels. Of course our members’ ordinary lives will be sacrified. We need the appropriate funds in order to support them. It’s give and take.
Reiji: H-however... that’s almost like...!! Reiji: Buying lives with money, isn’t it...?
Ryuusuke: I can’t deny that.
p.20 Ryuusuke: But Tachibana-kun, you can’t live in our current society without money, can you? Reiji: Th...that’s true, but...! Ryuusuke: Even though we’re Takers, we’re essentially human so there’s no difference.
Ayaka: It’s very rational. Reiji: ......!?
Ayaka: Gather life points at high risk, Make money by trading it, and turn it into an organization. Then, prevent the largest problem, betrayal between Takers, and give them life points and money for their work. Ayaka: It’s a really well-made system.
Nee-san...?
Ryuusuke: I’m happy you were able to understand it. Ryuusuke: I’d like to move on to our main topic, then...
p.21 Ryuusuke: Would you... like to join our company?
Ayaka: Does that mean you’re scouting us? Do you think we have that much value? Reiji: Ayaka-nee-san!?
Ryuusuke: You do, in abundance... That’s why I called you directly to offer you... Reiji: Let us think about it for a little while! Ryuusuke: !
Ryuusuke: ......
Reiji: We’ll... consider your offer... So could we excuse ourselves for today?
p.22 Ryuusuke: ...... Ryuusuke: Of course. Well then, think about it amply.
Reiji mutter: Let’s go home then.
p.23
Kyouka: They’re cautious for Takers these days.
Ryuusuke: It’s probably that... they’ve seen their fair share of battles.
Ryuusuke: Even so, they’re just on the level of children... I suppose.
p.24 Reiji: To do business with life points! It kind of feels creepy! It’s suspicious!!
Ayaka: It had me in agreement, though... I can maintain Reiji’s safety with that, too. Reiji: Agreement!?
Ayaka: What that Ishigami person was saying was logically sound. Ayaka: Regulations you must obey, a way to transfer life points— It’s all too rational as an environment for Takers to continue surviving in.
Ayaka: It’s more realistic than the fairy tale Misaki-san spoke of.
Reiji: Then are you saying you’re going to join them, Nee-san?
p.25
Ayaka: I’ll follow your decision on that, Reiji.
Reiji: Hey! Why are you bringing the topic to... Ack!? Natsuhi mutter: You sister complex Natsuhi: Geez~ that was where you should clearly make up your mind!!
Reiji: S-since when... did I take on a... role like that...? Mutter: Don’t hit my vitals... Ayaka/Natsuhi: You’re a boy!!
p.26
An organization that trades people’s lives for money... Is it really okay if we side ourselves with it...?
Ishigami-san’s logic is very rational. I think it’s a well-made system.
If I don’t decide soon... Natsuhi... And Nee-san would also regard Natsuhi as a threat again...
Reiji: !
p.27 ......!?
Igarashi...san?
Kyouka: What a coincidence to meet in a place like this, eh? Maybe we have some sort of connection...? Reiji: ...... Reiji: W-who knows.
Kyouka: Our president was worried... are you okay with life points? Reiji: We’re... still okay.
p.28 Kyouka: I don’t know if you can say... not being able to guarantee the next time by failing a hunt once to be okay.
Kyouka: How about it? Did you think about it? Joining the company...
Reiji: Yeah... Reiji: But I can’t really decide, to be honest...
Kyouka: Get on for now. Reiji: Excuse me?
p.29 Kyouka: I’m telling you to get on. Kyouka: I’ll drive you home.
Reiji: N-no... I’m almost there...! Kyouka: What? Are you trying to humiliate a girl?
Kyouka: You’re mean, Reiji-kun...
Kyouka: Or is it that you don’t want to associate with a middle-aged woman? Reiji: I-i-it’s not like that!!
p.30
I got on without thinking... Is it really going to be okay like this...?
Reiji: This is a nice car... It looks very expensive... Kyouka: Hm?
Kyouka: Yeah, maybe around 25 million? [around $306,000] Reiji: T-twenty...!?
Kyouka: I’m working with my life on the line, after all. Isn’t this amount of luxury natural? Kyouka: The world is a “zero-sum game” regardless of Takers and whatnot.
Kyouka: If I don’t have it, someone else will just take it.
p.31 Reiji: I don’t think so. Kyouka: !
Reiji: Because it’s not a world like that, as well as to make sure it doesn’t become like that...! Reiji: People came up with ways to help each other out!
Kyouka: You’re scary when you get sullen. Are you surprisingly the type who has to have his way? How cute~ Reiji: Huh? N-no... that’s not what I intended...
p.32 Kyouka: It’s kind of moe! I’m not going to return you home! Let’s go on a date! A date!! Reiji: Huuh!? A date!!? Even though they’re waiting for meeee!?
Reiji: ......
p.33 Kyouka: Now~ don’t hold back and you can keep ordering whatever you want~ you’re growing, right?
Reiji: Igarashi-san... Reiji: It’s a lie that we met by coincidence, right? Kyouka: !
Reiji: Did the company put you up to this? To persuade us to join...
Reiji: Do they think I’d be okay it right away if you showed me the money and environ?
Kyouka: And if it was? Reiji: Please don’t underestimate us. I don’t have any intention of handling lives with covetous feelings!
p.34 Kyouka: What are you saying is wrong with openly acknowledging your desires? You little~ Kyouka: You’re young, but you say things an old man would, Reiji-kun.
Kyouka: Desires are pure. People are creatures that take things they can hold without hesitation. Kyouka: If they let the chance to have something go, they criticize those who have it.
Kyouka: A good home, a good car, and a nice member of the opposite sex... What’s so strange about being drawn to those things? I think it’s a very natural thing. Kyouka: Only, those things only approach those with ability. That’s why you should be confident in yourself and grasp for them.
Reiji: What kind of cheap logic is that!? Even animals can live according to their desires! Reiji: Aren’t there things more important than desires for people to be people?
p.35 Kyouka: Well, I don’t know about that.
Reiji: ......!
Kyouka: You say all that... Kyouka: But I wonder how much control you have over your desires...
p.36
Reiji: It-it’s true that it’s not something I can say for sure, but... Reiji: I have to work hard all the time to become like that...
Kyouka: Didn’t you... just now ......!? Kyouka: Imagine the shape of my breasts?
Kyouka: You want to see the rest that’s hidden by my clothes... what they feel like if you touched them... Kyouka: What color they are... didn’t you imagine things like that?
p.37 Reiji: Hey!! There’s an extent to jokes...!
p.38 Kyouka: Oh~ right here... Kyouka: It’s very honest, unlike your thoughts, though~
Kyouka: Desires are the true natures of humans...
Kyouka: A governing structure called society tries to force us to emphasize reason to maintain those inborn things. Kyouka: However, now that we’ve become Takers, those who are honest with their true natures survive. Am I wrong?
Reiji: Are you telling me to live...
Reiji: Following my instincts, like a beast? Kyouka: ......
p.39 Kyouka: You’re too stubborn, even though you’re still a high school student... Kyouka: You must have... been raised properly by good parents. Reiji: ......
Kyouka: Then I’ll change the way I say it... If you’re that confident, then there’s actually no need to hesitate, is there?
Kyouka: Take advantage of the company...!
Kyouka: Regardless, there they hold a large power that you don’t have. Kyouka: You... are wary of being drawn in by that power and drowning in it.
Kyouka: But if that conviction of yours is certain, you can stay the same. Kyouka: Protecting people precious to you with power you obtain like that... There’s no problem with that, is there?
p.40 Kyouka: Put protecting those precious to you and fulfilling your desires onto the same table... Kyouka: That’s what an adult is.
p.41 Kyouka: The desire to not just protect yourself... to protect others... But in order to accomplish that, at times compromise is also necessary. Kyouka: I think it’s a truly noble thing.
Reiji...!
Be careful!! Reiji!!
p.42 I think it’s rational!! I can maintain Reiji’s safety that way.
Reiji: The desire... Reiji: For protecting others... is it?
p.43
Princess: Those children... do you think they have that much value...? Princess: Enough to invest life points in them...?
Ryuusuke: Value... huh. They have more than enough of that If Kyouka’s report is true.
Ryuusuke: In any case...
p.44 Ryuusuke: They might be able to become the key... Ryuusuke: To solve the matter with Nikaidou Ran... Box: The strongest Taker also casts her shadow here... Next issue, color pages to celebrate the volume release!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/29582[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 16 by umeboshi1102011-05-14T17:09:54+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Scanlation with this translation reserved for Muda]
Re:BIRTH Chapter 16 Their Battle
p.01 Ayaka: You didn’t come back since then...
Ayaka: Forever... Natsuhi: Wasn’t that your real intention? From the beginning?
Ayaka: It’s helpful that you’re so quick to understand. Natsuhi: ?
p.02-03 Chapter 16: Their Battle The highly praised volume 3 on sale now!! Story: Im Dal Young Art: Lee Soo Hyun
Natsuhi: Owwww!!! Natsuhi: What’re you going to do if I get cut by the gla...!?
p.04
Natsuhi: ......!!
She’s making sure to aim for my face!? Is she seriously trying to kill me?
Natsuhi: Whoa!?
p.05
......!?
p.06
......!?
Natsuhi: It’s your first time experiencing it, isn’t it? Getting your brain rattled directly. Ayaka: !?
Natsuhi: That’s what boxing is. Natsuhi: If you aim precisely, it won’t lose to a single sword being swung willy-nilly.
p.07 Boxing...?
She’s certainly moving like she practiced something... Natsuhi mutter: That’s really mean. Natsuhi mutter: Were you seriously trying to stab me? Since when did she do something like that...?
Natsuhi: Let’s just cool our heads for now. Natsuhi: We can calmly talk things out when Reiji comes b...
Natsuhi: Whoa!?
Natsuhi: H-hey!? Are you trying to act like this to the very end!? She’s fast! She was about to cut them off in an instant!!
p.08
What’s with her...!! Those leg movements...!?
p.09 The edge of my sword won’t reach at all...!!
Natsuhi: Look, you were the one who started attacking me, alright...!!? Ayaka: !?
p.10
Ayaka: !?
Natsuhi: See, my sorcery device...!! Seems to have this kind of use, too!!
Ayaka: Augh!?
p.11
She dodged it!? At this distance??
p.12
Natsuhi: So? Are you going to keep going? Even though our weapons are the same... Natsuhi: There seems to be a gap in the users’ potentials, you know? A decisive one.
She’s just become a Taker... she shouldn’t have learned any skills yet. That was likely her sorcery device’s basic skill...
In that case... it means it’s already a chance for me... To test mine out as well...
p.13 Phantom
[character meaning sky/empty]
p.14
Wh...what? The color of her eyes... changed...?
A symbol appeared...? But it doesn’t really feel like anything’s changed...
p.15
Wow, you showed me something rare...
Phantom Skill... to think I’d encounter it in a place like this... You really can’t tell what could happen...
Natsuhi: Wh-what's that? ...Is it what they call a skill? Which means you want to take this to the end...?
Natsuhi: I got it! I get it now!! You don’t know how to use it!! Natsuhi: I hit the nail on the head, didn’t I? What!? Seriously!?
Natsuhi: That’s too bad~ you even tried to make it look so cool~ Natsuhi: You shouldn’t haphazardly try to act cool~ kyahaha!
p.17 Ayaka: I can do it... Natsuhi: ...!?
Ayaka: I can get rid of you even without using skills!!! Natsuhi: Hm~ph! I won’t let it go that easily~!
Ayaka: !?
Natsuhi: !!
p.18 Ayaka: Renji!?
Reiji: What in the world... is this supposed to be...
Natsuhi: R-Reiji... it’s not my fault, you know? Ayaka-nee-san started...
Reiji: You keep your moth shut!!
Reiji: Tell me, Nee-san. What is the meaning of this? Why did you point your sword at Natsuhi? Ayaka: ......
Ayaka: It’s going to go like this for sure someday... Reiji: ......!
p.19 Ayaka: Dealing with this before it’s too late is for Natsuhi’s sake, too, you know? Reiji...!! You should also face reality soon...!! Reiji: Stop iiiiit!!!!
Reiji: Then what’re you saying we should do!? Laugh and start killing each other!? What good will come out of us fighting!!? Reiji: Why don’t you try to believe in each other!!? Are you saying it’s a mistake to trust each other!?
Reiji: Continuing to trust someone... even if they were to betray you!! Is that such a foolish thing!? Reiji: To trust someone...!! To keep trusting them...!!
p.20 Reiji: Even if it’s only that!! Reiji: It holds a lot of meaning!!!!!
Taker: There’s a limit to being soft you know? Little boy... Taker: There’s nothing more foolish than trusting someone and then being betrayed...
Taker: Then you should create a situation in which you can’t betray each other in the first place... Don’t you think that’s the best way?
On top of the roof...!? Could it be...!!
p.21 Takers!?
We were way too defenseless...!! Even though we had known Natsuhi would easily become a target...!!!
Taker: You’re extremely on guard... Taker: From what I can tell, you guys became Takers not long ago, right? Boy and girls...
p.22 Reiji: And you are...?
Taker: Yes, as you guessed, we’re Taker’s too. Taker: We came over to the place we detected low levels with a search.
Reiji: D-don’t look down on us because of the amount of life points we have left! Reiji: We’ve fought through many battles and built up skills until now!!
Taker: Wow... but in that fight just now you didn’t show me those skills you’re so proud of... Natsuhi: ...... Ayaka: ...... Taker: Heehee, you were obviously beginners no matter how you look at it, you know?
p.23 Ayaka: So, are you ultimately saying you want to hunt those beginners or something? Ayaka: If you see us as convenient prey... you’ll be disappointed.
Taker: Just calm down... While it’s true that in the beginning that’s what we were going to do...
Taker: I’m getting interested in you guys. Taker: How about it? Do you want to group up with us?
Ayaka: You’re telling us to act together? With you guys…? Taker: Right. We can even make you our allies right away.
Ayaka: You think we’ll believe you? Taker: ......
p.24 Taker: You’re right, in the beginning you’re constricted by life points so it can turn into a situation where you can be betrayed at any time... That really is the scariest thing, isn’t it. Taker: But you see, if you always stay like that, in the end everyone except the strongest person will be dead... but it’s different in reality.
Taker: An experienced Taker will find a way to overcome that situation. Taker: As proof of that... we’re also acting together, as you can see. Wouldn’t this pairing never have been formed if we were hunting for life points?
She has a point...
Taker: This is the reason for its formation... It’s because we’re part of the “guild.”
Taker: It’s set up so that once you join, there’s no more reason to betray each other.
p.25 Guild!?
Taker: If you enter this guild, there will be a force preventing you from being able to betray. Taker: Also, you can even say that you won’t be reaching 0 life points and dying. It’s the way with the highest probability of success and is indispensable in order to survive as a Taker.
There even also those who created an organization!! They create situations where they can’t ever betray each other!!
Taker: Of course it’s not like we’re accepting just anyone. Taker: This is only limited to those who possess talent. You’re really lucky~ you let us witness a glimpse of your talent.
p.26 Talent...? What... exactly for?
Ayaka: You’re telling us to listen to that nonsense so easily? Taker: Well, that kind of reaction is very normal, isn’t it?
Ayaka: ?
Ayaka: !
Taker: Try coming there in the next interspatial time. You can still make your decision after seeing us directly.
Taker: You may not realize it, but we’re really considering you strongly, you know...? Even though, looking at things rationally... we could just kill you guys as our prey...
p.27 Taker: Your life points... you’re pretty short on them, right? Natsuhi: !
Taker: Personally, I feel it would be a waste for eggs with a lot of talent to break... Taker: You got it? If it goes well, you can gain life without any risk, alright?
Taker: Well then, I hope we can meet again~
p.28 Ayaka: See, it’s just like I said. Something like this happened because Natsuhi’s here. Natsuhi: You’re totally trying to make it my fault!?
Reiji: Both of you, stop it already!!
A guild...? Is there really such a thing!? Something like that...!?
p.29
Reiji: Are you really planning on sleeping here? Nee-san? Ayaka: I’ll keep doing it as long as Natsuhi-chan’s here.
Is she Still...
Reiji: I guess we should try going after all... Ayaka: !
p.30 Ayaka: You’re going to believe it? What those two were talking about...!? Reiji: There’s just something that’s bothering me. I want to confirm it. I’ll be careful I won’t be found, just in case...!!
Reiji: If that story were to be true, we couldn’t ask for better! Reiji: If we could gain life without the fear of betrayal...!
Reiji: We’ll just figure out what we’ll be doing in the future after we check that out! This is the most I can compromise... Reiji: Natsuhi will stay with us until then. Ayaka: ...
Ayaka: Then... Can you promise me this? Reiji: !
Ayaka: If there is nothing to reap there, Ayaka: Make Natsuhi-chan leave unconditionally!
Natsuhi: I’m in a position where I don’t even know what’ll happen to me tomorrow. That doesn’t bother me. Natsuhi: It’s not like I’m losing anything if I show it, either...
Reiji: Are you... okay...? Natsuhi: Huh? Yeah...
p.33 Natsuhi: Pretty much~
I guess there’s no way she’d be okay... And she’s purposely trying to be lively...
Reiji: I’m really sorry, Natsuhi... Natsuhi: !
Reiji: Just because Nee-san is trying to protect me... I think she’s lost her composure... Reiji: I know it’s shameless... but would it be possible if you could understand her...?
Natsuhi: How about you, Reiji? Reiji: Huh?
Reiji: !
p.34 Natsuhi: Can you believe in me...? Can you really say for sure... that I’m not dangerous?
Reiji: Obviously! Because you’re my childhood friend. Reiji: I will protect you. Reiji: I will never leave you by yourself.
p.35 Reiji: And because of this, in the next interspatial time I want to try getting in contact with those people from before. But if we do that, you...
Reiji: Won’t be able to do anything but watch your life points decrease until then. Reiji: It’s a cruel request, but... will you wait together with us?
Natsuhi: When is that interspatial time?
Reiji: It’s probably in 11 days at night... Natsuhi: Then if we mess up there I’ll have 8 left... Natsuhi: I’ll be out for sure for the next one... I guess.
Reiji: Th-that’s... I knew it’d be too much... there’s too much of a risk for Natsuhi.
Natsuhi: Sure. Reiji: !
p.36-37 [none]
p.38
A-a kiss on the cheek...? No, just now... our lips...
Natsuhi: That was a reward for helping me before. Reiji: !
Natsuhi: Protect me from now on, just like you are. If you do, the rewards might keep getting upgraded~
Natsuhi: Aren’t you excited? For the next one, right~? Reiji mutter: Geez... Reiji: Natsuhi... this isn’t a problem you should decide on jokingly...
Natsuhi: There’s no way it was a joke. Reiji: ......!
p.39 Natsuhi: I believe in you, Natsuhi: Reiji.
Reiji: Thanks... Reiji: Natsuhi...
p.40 Box: 11 days later
Natsuhi: So this is the interspatial time... Natsuhi: It’s hard to believe, even though it’s happening right in front of me...
Reiji: That was quite a distance to cover by walking. Natsuhi: Well, it was good that we got some exercise~
She did well in maintaining her presence of mind until today... She has a strong will.
p.41 Reiji: The spot written in this note... should be somewhere around here.
Angel: Kyaaaargh! Ayaka: ......!!
Reiji?: Over there!!
......!?
p.42-43
Wh-what is that giant thing...!?
A large-size!? It was something that big!?
p.44 Angel: Kreeeh
Those people... are all Takers...!?
Taker: So you came, after all.
......!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/29350[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 15 by umeboshi1102011-04-22T09:08:15+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Scanlation with this translation reserved for Muda]
Re:BIRTH – The Lunatic Taker Chapter 15 Collision
p.01 Reiji: Open your eyes! Natsuhiii!! Reiji: Hang on! Natsuhi!
It can’t be true! This has to be some sort of bad dream...!! It’s not true, right...!!? Natsuhi being like this...!!
Ayaka: What in the world happened? How’s Natsuhi-chan!?
Reiji: We don’t know yet... She’s getting an examination now... Natsuhi: Examination...? They said she got hit by a car... what about surgery...!?
Reiji: Yeah... A large truck hit her straight on... But she was fine... and she didn’t even seem to have any major injuries... Reiji: She was either saved miraculously......
p.04 Reiji: Or... Reiji: She died once and came back to life.....
Reiji: If... Reiji: It’s the latter...
Natsuhi: Oh man~ Sorry, sorry! I had you guys worried~
Natsuhi: That must have been a heck of a nuisance~ even I completely thought I was dead~ Natsuhi: But I’m surprised as well! Could it be one of those miracles that I’m so fine like this?
p.05 Reiji: Natsuhi... are you really okay? Natsuhi: Yeah, they said it was just some light bruises.
Natsuhi: Maybe it’s because of my good deeds~ God knows what he’s doing. Natsuhi: Well, afterwards I’m going to meet with and talk to the other side’s insurance company.
Natsuhi: Wh-what is it!? This is the girl’s bathroom! Why’s Reiji in here too!? Hey!
p.06 Reiji: Show me your chest for a bit. Natsuhi: Wha...!?
Natsuhi: Can you save those kinds of things for when we’re alone...? Natsuhi: Wait... what is this, really? And even Ayaka-nee-san...?
Natsuhi: Eeeeek!!!
Natsuhi: What’re you doing!? Natsuhi: I can’t believe this! Ayaka-nee-san!?
p.07
She has... life points...!!
Reiji: Ha...ha...
Reiji: What kind of joke... is this... Why is this happening...? Natsuhi: These clothes were borrowed from here, but you ripped them! How could you!!?
Natsuhi: Um... you two...? Ayaka: ...... Natsuhi: Is something the matter...?
p.08 Natsuhi: Wow... what an interesting story, eh?
Natsuhi: So then... this writing on my chest is the sign of a Taker... and I was dead, and I’ve already been revived~?
Natsuhi: You’re telling me to believe that now!? Natsuhi: That’s just like a light novel~ isn’t it? Reiji: Believe us, Natsuhi!
p.09 Reiji: That number on your chest is proof above all else! That’s the limit on your life! Natsuhi: But even if you throw such a ridiculous story at me so suddenly...
Natsuhi: !
Natsuhi: Whoa~ a magic trick? How’d you do that?
Natsuhi: Eek!!!
p.10 Natsuhi: Waaaah!! You cut the face!? The face!! My face!! Reiji: Nee-san!? Ayaka: It’s okay. It should recover right away.
Natsuhi: Recover!? Don’t fool around!! This is a woman’s life, how dare you...!!!
Ayaka: You still can’t believe it? Natsuhi: ......
Reiji: Natsuhi, there’s a place called Taker Net. It seems to be a gathering place for people who became Takers like us. Natsuhi: Taker Net?
Reiji: You’ll be able to know everything if you access it, since I think you’ve already been registered...
p.11
Natsuhi: Did you just... say... “like us”?
Natsuhi: Then, Reiji... you and... Natsuhi: Ayaka-nee-san, too...?
p.12
Welcome to Taker Net. Please enter your name and date of birth. Name Date of birth
Your injuries get healed right away if you leave them alone, you know? Isn’t it awesome!? [same with two lines of horizontal text underneath it] It’s safest to finish it by taking their head out, right? [one line of horizontal text going through the middle] Looking for people to newbie hunt with! [bottom right and horizontal text at bottom] Re: You must be joking! How are we supposed to trust someone we’ve never even seen? [long horizontal text that starts in Re)] I haven’t been feeling much since after I killed about 10 people. [top left and two lines of horizontal text on the top left] It feels a lot better to kill weaklings than those dangerous angels. [two lines of horizontal text going through the lower part of it] I’m starting to feel like I want to fight to the death with stronger guys these days. Is this getting monotonous? [horizontal text second and third lines from the bottom]
p.13
Taker... ability points... skills... So this is this all real? And apparently you even have to steal other Takers’ life points to survive.
Natsuhi: ......
Ha ha ha... I’m at a loss... seriously...
p.14
Reiji: To think that even Natsuhi would become a Taker... Reiji: How the heck did things get so messed up?
Reiji: What’ll we do... What should we do to do from now on...
Ayaka: We have to make a decision. Reiji: A decision...? About what...?
Natsuhi: Will we abandon Natsuhi-chan like this... Natsuhi: Or perhaps...
p.15 Reiji: Abandon her like this...?
Reiji: Nee-san... don’t tell me...
Reiji: Are you talking about the danger between Takers again!? Are you saying Natsuhi would try something against us!? Ayaka: It’s completely possible! She might start going crazy at any time when her life points gets to the brink!!
Ayaka: Did you forget about what happened with Misaki!?
p.16 Reiji: Then! Why don’t you just erase me as well!? I’m a Taker too, right!? Reiji: You don’t know when I’ll go for your throat when you’re sleeping, Nee-san!!!
Ayaka: Wh...why...
Ayaka: Why’re you saying something like that...
p.17 Reiji: I’m sorry, Nee-san... I went overboard... I just wanted to say that Natsuhi’s also in the same position as us... Ayaka: ......
Ayaka: Natsuhi and I are in the same position...? Reiji: O-of course. She’s different from you, nee-san, who’s family... but she’s also...
Ayaka: It’s definitely not the same! It’s completely different!!
Ayaka: We’re sharing life points so we’ll never be a threat to each other!! Ayaka: But Natsuhi’s different!! Depending on the situation! We could become the perfect prey for her!!
p.18 Ayaka: I am the only Taker in the entire world... Ayaka: That you can believe in!!
Reiji: At any rate, let’s call Natsuhi over and talk about what we’ll do from now on.
Reiji: Natsuhi is a complete beginner. It’s alright if it’s just this, right? Ayaka: ......
p.19
Reiji: Natsuhi, can we come in for a bit?
Reiji: Natsuhi!?
p.20 [none]
p.21 I died once. And gained a body that can recover as long as it’s not a fatal wound that will kill me right away... That’s what a Taker is...
Is this about four stories high...? If it’s from this height... Even with a normal body, as long as you land right you shouldn’t die...
p.22 [none]
p.23 I landed... and very naturally, even...! That should have been 15 meteres...!!
There’s no strain on my joints... It seems it’s true that Takers have heightened physical abilities as well as healing...! I’m getting excited for some reason...!!
p.24 And this is...!! My... sorcery device...!!
p.25 Man: Urrrrggh!!
Man: That little shit!! What do you mean, manager!! You’re just a god damn kid compared to me!! Man: If you want to show off so much, why don’t you just make her your wife!!
Thug: Hey, old man! Man: Hm!?
......!?
Thug: You’re causing us trouble dirtying the street like that~ Thug2: For everyone’s sake, think of the people who have to clean that up.
p.26 Man: Gah!!
Thug: Hurry up and fork over what you’ve got!! Thug2: Don’t give us too much manual labor to do!
Man: Y...!! Man: You punks...!!
Man: I’ll have you guys arrested!! Man: I’ll definitely get you thrown in the slammer!!
Thug: Then we have to make it so you won’t tattle on us!!! Thug: Just die! You piece of trash!!
p.27 Natsuhi: Whoa... is it okay for you to murder so easily? Thug: ......!?
Thug: The heck are you...?
......!?
p.28
Thug: What? Just a girl? Thug2: Whaddya want? Just run along now, girlie.
Natsuhi: I’m sorry I can’t comply with your requests... ......!? Natsuhi: It’d help me out if you bothered me too, you know~?
Natsuhi: I just need to try something out a bit. Won’t you help me out? Thug: What, are you joking? Thug2: What’re you saying you want to try out against us?
Natsuhi: Yes, trying out.
p.29
Thug: Whoa!! What is it!? This light!! Thug: What’s she using!? This bitch!
p.30 “Sorcery device Orpheus” Weapon Mode
Thug: She transformed...!? Thug2: Huh? A hidden camera show? Or is it a special effects show!?
Natsuhi: Now, come bother me. You’re thugs, right, boys? ......!?
p.31 Natsuhi: The first customers for the power of justice try-out period... Natsuhi: You people are really lucky.
Man: Hieee Man: Hiiii
p.32 Amazing~!! What wonderful power! And what is this!? My body’s so light! Is this what a Taker is!? The power of a Taker!!
And it heals mostly any injury to boot!! As long as you can obtain life points, aren’t I pretty much immortal!? This!! I can’t get enough of it~!
p.33
Ayaka: Welcome back. Natsuhi: !!
Natsuhi: A-Ayaka-nee-san... Were you waiting the entire time...? Perhaps...
Ayaka: Where were you? Natsuhi: Oh, I just went around for a bit... But where’s Reiji?
p.34 Ayaka: He’s looking for you. He was extremely worried... Ayaka: You may not know this yet, but there’s a skill called lower level search and you’ll become a target if you recklessly move about. Natsuhi: Huh!? Really!? It wasn’t my intention to make you worry...
Natsuhi: Anyways! I tried it out a bit but it was amazing!! Are Takers all like this? Nee-san, too? Ayaka: ......
Ayaka: That’s right. But we require life points. Natsuhi: You can just gather them!
Ayaka: Gather them......
Ayaka: You’re talking about this as if it were a train pass. Ayaka: Do you think you can just easily recharge it if you pay money or something?
p.35 Natsuhi: I know! I looked it up, too! You can defeat other Takers and steal them Natsuhi: Or get them by hunting those angel things, right?
Natsuhi: Then this is great! There are three of us now!! Aren’t angels tremendously backbreaking work? Ayaka: ...... Natsuhi: No harm in having more allies, right!?
Ayaka: Who’re you calling allies? Natsuhi: Huh?
Ayaka: Your habit of getting ahead of yourself is the same as ever. Ayaka: You have no allies here.
p.36 Ayaka: You are an enemy. Ayaka: I’m sorry, but can you leave right away? And... don’t ever show yourself in front of us again.
p.37 Natsuhi: What? You want to cast me away me, someone who just became a Taker? Well sure I sort of noticed that you didn’t like me very much...
Natsuhi: Come to think of it... when I found the sorcery device, didn’t you tell me to throw it away? Knowing that if I had done that, I would have died and been finished there... Natsuhi: You wanted me dead?
Ayaka: That’s right.
Ayaka: Either way, since you had your soul eaten by an angel, it had to be either a scheduled death or becoming a Taker. Ayaka: It would’ve been better for you to die if it meant you becoming a Taker and turning into an enemy. For Reiji’s sake as well... that was the best path.
p.38 Natsuhi: How awful... You don’t have any feelings at all for a childhood friend...? Does Reiji think that too? Ayaka: I don’t plan on asking for Reiji’s opinion.
Ayaka: What’s important is that you are a danger. So please hurry and get out.
Natsuhi: Won’t it make you feel better to tell the truth? That I’m in the way. Ayaka: In the way?
Natsuhi: You’re thinking that your dear Reiji’s heart might get stolen away, right!? I won’t let you say it’s not by this point!
p.39 Ayaka: How childish... I now understand that that imagination’s the source of your ability as an author. Ayaka: There’s no way I would harbor such feelings towards my younger brother, is there?
Ayaka: And besides, Reiji has no interest in someone like you.
Natsuhi: I don’t know about that. You don’t think I can make him feel that way right away if I really wanted to?
Natsuhi: It’s true that it’s ten billion times more realistic to feel an awareness of the opposite sex towards an attractive childhood friend than your own older sister!! Natsuhi: If you want, why don’t I go for him starting from now!! How about it?
p.40 Ayaka: I wonder why... you won’t understand me... Ayaka: Even though no matter how you look at it, now that you’re a Taker, it’s better for the both of us if we don’t have anything to do with each other...
Ayaka: Or... are you really interested in Reiji...? Natsuhi: I wasn’t intending on that in the beginning, but~
Natsuhi: I’m completely pissed off at your ways, Nee-san!! I really want to get at you once!!! Yes! That’s right!! I like Reiji so much that I can’t help myself!!!
p.41 Ayaka: That’s enough with your nonsense, so just hurry up and get out. Natsuhi: It’s not gonna go like that! I definitely won’t get out until I hear Reiji’s opinion!!
Ayaka: If that’s how you’re going to be no matter what... it can’t be helped... ......!
p.42 Ayaka: You didn’t come back since then... Forever...
p.43 Natsuhi: Wasn’t that your real intention? From the beginning~
p.44 Box: Volume 3, on sale August 23!! An important announcement on the band...!!* *[The volume raw didn’t have the band thingy on it D:] https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/29287[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 14 by umeboshi1102011-04-18T05:38:42+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Scanlation with this translation reserved for Muda]
Re:Birth Chapter 14 Accident
p.01 Natsuhi: Whoa~
Natsuhi: It’s pretty hot, even though it’s only May. Natsuhi: And there weren’t as many places I could live in then I thought...
Natsuhi: Geez~ what a pain...! Should I just buy an entire apartment?
Natsuhi: ...!
p.02-03 Natsuhi: ...!?
Chapter 14: Accident
p.04 Can use a unique phantom skill
Ayaka: There’s... a new skill! Reiji: Phantom? Did you learn it at 30 life points?
Reiji: You can retain it even if your life points go down because it’s a unique skill, right? Ayaka: According to the information from this, yes. Check yours too, Reiji.
Can use a specialized skill against phantom skills
Reiji: The skill name is... similar to Nee-san’s... Ayaka: ......
Reiji: The names are similar, but I wonder what kind of techniques they are. Ayaka: Since it’s the same sorcery device, they should have analogous abilities...
p.05 Ayaka: We should look into this a little further. It wouldn’t be funny if we don’t know how to use them when the time comes... Reiji: ... Ayaka: Especially since we had a hard time against the enemy’s skill earlier.
Reiji: About that... Only one of them appeared, right...? Ayaka: !
Ayaka: Naturally, right? The other one only had 1 life point left... She must’ve gotten killed trying to steal them from the other.
Like I would ever throw away...!! The life that Kagami gave me!!
Reiji: Um... what I think is that Natsuhi: I’m back~! Ayaka: Oh, it seems Natsuhi-chan’s back...
Ayaka: Welcome home. You haven’t eaten yet, have you? Natsuhi: It’s hot~! Water first~!! Put in a lot of ice~ Reiji: ...
p.06 Natsuhi: So, I found this thing... Natsuhi: While walking today.
Natsuhi: They don’t seem that expensive... but I thought I might as well take them to the police offi... Reiji: No!!
Natsuhi: Wh- what’re you... yelling for all of a sudden...? Reiji: ...!
Reiji: N- no... I just... thought they might look good on you... I... like them. Natsuhi: Hmm?
p.07 Reiji: R-right, Nee-san? Aren’t they perfect for Natsuhi!? Try them on once! I’m telling you they’d look great on you!! Reiji: Don’t you think so too, Nee-san? Natsuhi: ...... Ayaka: Huh...? Oh, sure...
Natsuhi: Whaa? Would these look good on me? But you have to open holes in your ears for piercings... Reiji: Why don’t you? It’s an unusual design, but they don’t look so expensive!! Reiji: I bet the owner won’t show up!!
Reiji: You’ve got a great body, so it’d be killer if you wore those! Natsuhi: You’re really weird all of a sudden... are you complementing me? Or fooling around with me? Ayaka: ...
Natsuhi: Well, if you recommend it that much, I’ll try to think about it again~ Natsuhi: It’s hot so I’ll go take a shower.
p.08 Ayaka: Reiji... That accessory... Reiji: Yeah...
No way... No way...!! I don’t think that can be... It couldn’t have... happened to Natsuhi, too!!
p.09 I’m sure they’d look staggeringly good on you if you wore them!
What should I do... Maybe I’ll take them...
Ayaka: Natsuhi-chan? Would you like a snack?
Ayaka: Those earrings... you said you picked them up? Natsuhi: Mm?
p.10 Natsuhi: Yup. They’re not in bad shape... but I don’t know who was wearing them, so yeah... Ayaka: True...
Ayaka: I wouldn’t really want... something someone else was wearing...
Ayaka: If it was me, I think I’d throw them out. That, or hand it over to the police office.
That’s how it is.
p.11 Natsuhi: I’ll wear them after all.
Natsuhi: Reiji did say they’d suit me~ Natsuhi: You saw it too, right Nee-san? That eager face of his ...
Ayaka: ...
Natsuhi: Huh? What’s wrong? Could it be you don’t like how Reiji complemented another girl? Ayaka: Oh come on~ You’re also pretty much a younger sister. How could that be?
Natsuhi: You, who incited him on to kick me out...? Natsuhi: Oh, that’s right! I recently found a book I’d like to recommend to you.
p.12 Natsuhi: It’s a manga named “Zero –The Beginning–”*... There’s a girl who is in love with and clings to her younger brother. *[This is a manhwa by Im Dal-Young and Park Sung-Woo, also called Zero – The Gate of Beginning, or, more commonly, Zero.] Natsuhi: But the younger brother chooses another woman...
Natsuhi: Ultimately, the sister couldn’t abandon her attachment to her brother and brings forth a calamity... Natsuhi: That’s the kind of sad, painful story it is.
Ayaka: Why are you recommending such a scary story to me? Natsuhi: Who knows~?
Natsuhi: I was curious how that story would look from your eyes, Nee-san... Natsuhi: From the same standpoint of an older sister who has a younger brother...
p.13 Ayaka: I don’t really know, since I don’t read much manga. Natsuhi: !
Ayaka: I think this book has a better story than that manga. “Anne of Green Gables.” Ayaka: You know it, right? It’s a world-famous novel, after all. Natsuhi: ...!
Ayaka: In that story, didn’t the siblings, Matthew and Marilla, spend their lives living together and supporting each other? I think that’s beautiful... that kind of sibling relationship...
Natsuhi: How can you read that novel and see it like that? Natsuhi: And do you think that’s normal?
Ayaka: Why? There’s nothing weird about it, is there? Ayaka: They’re just living together because they’re siblings...
p.14
Ayaka: Well then, how about we go to bed? Natsuhi: Y...yeah... Ayaka: I hope you can find a good place tomorrow.
I thought she wasn’t normal, but... Was she serious...
p.15 That woman...
Could it be that even Natsuhi...? No...! It’s a coincidence! It’s gotta be! Like something like that could be happening around me so often...!
Hagiwara: Tanaka, don’t act like you’re so above us so much. Reiji: !
p.16 Hagiwara: I’m just asking if we could eat lunch together you know? Hagiwara: It’s free food, so there’s no reason to be indecisive, is there?
Hagiwara: Even I’d get a bit upset being ignored this much.
Reiji: Hey you... You’re not in this class, are you? Tanaka: !
Reiji: Why don’t you return soon? Fifth period’s about to start.
Hagiwara: Is it also your job to get in the way of people’s romances? Is it that high and mighty of a position? Huh?
Reiji: Go. Reiji: Don’t bother girls too much.
Hagiwara: Bother, you say... Hagiwara: Are you saying that’s the kind of guy I look like...?
Hagiwara: I’m sorry I couldn’t fulfill your expectations, but it’s not my style to bully girls. Reiji: !
p.18 Hagiwara: But I do like to hurt guys!! Hagiwara: !?
Compared to fighting against angels... Mutter: Hey, what’s wrong? Guys like this...
p.19
Reiji: Leave, please... Hagiwara: ...!
Reiji: It’s... Reiji: Hard for me, too...
p.20
Lackey: Hey! Hagiwara! What’s wrong? You’re not actually scared are you? Hagiwara: Shut up!
Just you watch...! I won’t let you go like this! Definitely not...!
p.21
No matter how hard I try to remain calm, it’s useless... It’ll be impossible to live a normal life at this rate...
p.22 Can you really... Call this living...!?
Tanaka: Are you interested in women’s underwear?
Reiji: Tanaka...? Tanaka: You were looking at that for a while... Could it be a present for someone? Reiji: N- no... that’s not it... Reiji: I didn’t notice at all... that I was standing in a place like this...
p.23 Tanaka: Thank you... for when we were at the classroom. Reiji: It’s okay... it’s my natural duty as a part of the student council...
Tanaka: You’re brave, Tachibana-kun. Well, it’s how you always are...
Brave...? Me...?
Reiji: That’s not it at all... I’m a coward. A real big one.
Tanaka: If it’s a coward like Tachibana-kun... I think that’s good.
p.24 Tanaka: How about... we try going out, Tachibana-kun? Tanaka: I’d be happy if you were my boyfriend...
Reiji: Wha...
Reiji: Are you... SFX: nod Reiji: Confessing... to me right now...?
Reiji: Haha... a confession... a confession, huh...
Why... Why is it...
p.25 To think... I wouldn’t feel any emotion to this extent...
Tanaka: Oh no... was I rejected with just a look...? Reiji: Oh... n...no! That’s not...!
Natsuhi: Oh~!? Isn’t that Reiji!? Reiji: !
p.26 Natsuhi: Whoa!? Who’s that girl you’re with!?
Reiji mutter: Na- Natsuhi...? Natsuhi: Could it possibly be a date!? Is it a date!?
Natsuhi: I was committed to you since we were young and you betray me...! You’re horrible!! Reiji: Wh- what’re joking about?
p.27 Tanaka: So that’s how it was... Tachibana-kun...
Tanaka: You could have just told me honestly... how you had such a beautiful girlfriend... Natsuhi mutter: Huh? Reiji: Huuh!? No, you’re misunderstanding...!
Tanaka: I’m sorry for causing so much trouble!! Reiji: Tanaka! Wait!! Natsuhi: !!
Reiji: !!
Natsuhi: Did it... go too far? My joke...... Reiji mutter: You... really are “dynamite”...
p.28 Natsuhi mutter: Okay? Okay? Natsuhi: I’m really sorry~ I didn’t know you were being confessed to~ I’ll even go and tell her the truth now!
Reiji: It’s okay. I was going to reject her anyways... Natsuhi: Whaa? What a waste! That girl just now was really high level, wasn’t she!?
I feel bad for Tanaka... But I’m in no shape to be immersed in something like love...
Natsuhi: Are you interested in me perhaps? Reiji: Is that what you want me to be?
Reiji: You put the earrings on... Natsuhi: Oh, these? Natsuhi: I pierced my ears. They said I shouldn’t take them out for a while.
Reiji: I’m glad...
Reiji: They suit you. Reiji: Keep them on.
p.29 Hagiwara: I’ve been watching for a bit, but Tanaka, and this girl... Reiji: ! Hagiwara: You were quite a playboy, eh...?
...!!
Reiji: You’re... from before...?
p.30 Reiji: I doubt we bumped into each other in a place like this by coincidence...
Reiji: Did you follow me? I’d like to turn down male stalkers. Hagiwara: Don’t you go mouthing me off!! You piece of shit.
Reiji: We’re in the middle of town. If you have something to talk about, I’ll hear you out at school tomorrow.
Natsuhi: !
p.31 Reiji: !?
Reiji: Let go of her!!
Hagiwara: Are you doing well yourself while cockblocking others? Reiji: ...! Hagiwara: It’s my turn now. If you’re going home, do it alone.
Natsuhi: Hey, Reiji... Are these your friends...?
Reiji: No... Natsuhi: Then can I fling this away? Hagiwara: ...!
Hagiwara: You’re cheeky as well!! Each and every one of you...!!!
p.32
Hagiwara: Y- you little...
Hagiwara: If you keep messing around...!
p.33
What...!?
Hagiwara: Ah...
Hagiwara: Y...you...!?
Hagiwara: I’ll kill you!! Hagiwara: You biiiitch!!!!
p.34 [none]
p.35 [none]
p.36
Lackey: He...hey! Hagiwara!! Lackey: A- are you okay!!? Get a hold of yourself!!!
Reiji: Na- Natsuhi... what... in the world!?
Natsuhi: Oh, didn’t I mention it? Natsuhi: I was in an extracurricular association in America... Extracurricular... Then, not like track, but... that was...
p.37 Boxing!?
Natsuhi: You know that this was self-defense, right? Natsuhi: So I’d like you to go home without having a grudge on me.
Lackey2: You’d better quit making fun of us, bastards!! Lackey: Crush them!!
p.38
Natsuhi: Uh oh... there’s a bit too many. Reiji: This girl doesn’t have anything to do with this, right? I’m your opponent!!
Lackey2: Don’t mess around. We’ll kill both of you!!
Reiji: I’m telling you to stop!
Reiji: Natsuhi!! Get behind me!! Natsuhi: Huh... Okay...
p.39
Passerby1: Oh no... a fight? Passerby2: In broad daylight... seriously, kids these days...
p.40 Lackey: Didja think you could take the four of us by yourself!!? Dipshit!! *[God, the bubble’s pointing at the wrong person again :/] Natsuhi: Reiji!!
These guys... I’ll seriously...!!
Lackey: This is it for you!!
Granny: Oops...
p.41 [none]
p.42-43
Natsu...!?
p.44 Box: Earrings... and an accident... There’s only one path for Natsuhi to take...!? https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/28832[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 13 by umeboshi1102011-04-12T10:03:02+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Scanlation with this translation reserved for Muda Scanlations]
Re:Birth – The Lunatic Taker Chapter 13 The Weight of Life
p.01 [none]
p.02 Chapter 13: The Weight of Life
p.03 Haruna: Even though they’re lives that were once supposed to be dead... Those who have been granted life again...
Haruna: Shouldn’t you be grateful just for that?
Reiji: Just because it’s a life that was once supposed to be dead...! Are you saying it’s okay to live any way you want the second time? Reiji: While people are killing other people...
p.04 Reiji: To keep living with a straight face while taking other people’s lives...!! Reiji: Don’t say that like it’s completely natural!!
Haruna: People... ...!? Haruna: Can only survive by taking other lives anyways...
p.05 Haruna: Isn’t that right? You eating every day... and the clothes you’re wearing, of course... Haruna: Everything in this world is made upon the sacrifices of other living things...
Haruna: It’s just that... you don’t try to look at it... Haruna: At the reality...
Haruna: That you yourself are an existence that can’t even live one day without having to sacrifice something...
p.06
Haruna: Is it that strange for people to kill other people in order to live? You just haven’t realized it, right? Even looking at history, the reason for every massacre was for self-preservation. Haruna: No, it still would’ve been nice if it was just self-preservation.
Haruna: They can kill tens of thousands of people without a second thought if it was for their own benefit. Haruna: That’s the inherent skill people are born with...
Haruna: To sacrifice anything and be satisfied with it if it’s for themselves! That’s the kind of creatures we are!!! Reiji: You’re wrooong!!!
p.07 Reiji: You can’t call that human!! It’s mistaken! That’s nonsense to twist our dignity as people! Reiji: Compassion!! And human honor!!
Reiji: People who are driven by their own gains and sacrifice others... Reiji: People like that...
Haruna: Broken, you say...? What is...? Where’re they broken? Haruna: You still don’t seem to get it, so I’ll tell you...
Haruna: This is the true nature that people should originally have!! Haruna: What you call broken people is their true form!!
Haruna: Under the cage called laws, that instinct is called ego and treated as poison, isn’t it!? It’s the complete opposite in the world we belong to!! Haruna: This is the world where only those who more deeply understand that true human nature! Their true essence!! Can survive!!
p.09 Haruna: You’re out if you’re not one of those humans who thinks nothing of sacrificing others for themselves! Haruna: You will die in obscurity on the losing side!! As a loser!!
Haruna: If you’re hungry, you’re supposed to eat, aren’t you...? Haruna: Help others by sacrificing yourself...? Stop spouting stupid things.
Haruna: I... Haruna: Definitely won’t become a loser like that...
I’m... not a loser... I can win... In this world, even I have the power to win...!!
Haruna: I’ll survive... Haruna: I’ll keep winning from here on as well... and I’m going to survive...
p.10 Haruna: Like I would ever throw away Haruna: The life that Kagami gave me!!!!
Kagami...!? SFX: whip The one that was with her...!?
Reiji: ...!?
Reiji: Gah!!!
p.11 Ugh...!! She...!! Had that...!!
Reiji: Ah...ck...!!
Haruna: I’m not someone who loses... I’m not a loser. Haruna: I have power now...
Haruna: Because Kagami’s not here... I have to win even by myself...
p.12 Haruna: That’s right... Haruna: I can’t be together with Kagami anymore...
Heeey!! You’re bullying Haruna again! You guys!!
Kagami: Haruna, why don’t you fight!? Kagami: You have to stand up to the bullies even if you have to bite them!
Haruna: But... Haruna: I want to get along with everyone...
Haruna: I don’t want to... hurt anyone...
p.13 Kagami: I’m like that too. But look, there’re a lot of people who aren’t like that in this world. Kagami: It’s crawling with idiots who feel good by bullying others, you know?
Kagami: You don’t have to think about people like that. Kagami: That’s just the excuse of a loser who runs away!
Kagami: So fight, Haruna. Kagami: Because I’ll always fight with you...
You have to fight and win... and proudly enjoy your own life... Haruna: Kagami...
Haruna: That’s right... Haruna: In this world... there’s an untold number of warped people...
p.14 Haruna: Why is it bad to fight in order to live in that kind of world!!? I haven’t thrown away my dignity as a human!! Haruna: Now that I’m a Taker... now that I was thrown in this game! This is my way of life!!
Haruna: It’s the same with the others!! Haruna: Everyone, in order to live...!! They’re just fighting in order to live!!!
Haruna: !
p.15-16
Reiji: Nee-san!!
Ayaka: Reiji! Your sword!!
p.17
Haruna: ...Ts!!
Haruna: Aaaaahh!!!
p.18 Haruna: That’s right... In the end, your basis is the same... Haruna: You can’t help... but want to kill me and take my life...
Haruna: But! Killing me!! Haruna: Won’t be that easy!!
p.19
Are her injuries healed...? Even so... how can Nee-san move like that...!!?
p.20 Haruna: Grrr...!! Where is she...!?
...!?
Haruna: Urgh...!!!
...!?
p.21
Haruna: Ah...
p.22 She created a blind spot in my field of view...
And went in there in an instant... To finish it...!!
...!?
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p.24 [none]
p.25
Ayaka: Reiji...!?
Ayaka: Don’t stop me this time!! We can’t handle this girl’s skill!! Ayaka: We beat her this time by chance with a surprise attack, but it doesn’t mean we can win again next time!!
Reiji: So what!!!!!
p.26
Reiji: What about it? Nee-san... after that... do you want to say... Reiji: We’re going to kill her because now’s our chance!!?
Ayaka: That’s... not it...
Reiji: You being like this!! Aren’t the Ayaka-nee-san that I know!! Reiji: You’re not Nee-san!!!
p.27 Reiji: Tell me! Nee-san! Can people really not keep living without hurting other things!? Reiji: Is this what we really are!?
Ayaka: That’s...
Reiji: We have little life left. That’s true... we’ll probably die in the end if we fail to get life this time... Reiji: But you know... if we survive like that... what’ll happen?
Reiji: Killing like that in order for us to live! And changing who we are completely while taking people’s lives...!! Reiji: Can you really call that living!?
Reiji: To live... Reiji: Even if it’s just for one day...
p.28 Reiji: It should be right to live and die as human beings... Reiji: That’s what it means... for us... to be human...
p.29
Ayaka: Let’s go. Reiji: ...?
Reiji: Where...? Ayaka: Where... obviously...
Ayaka: We’re going to hunt angels. Reiji: ...!!
p.30 Ayaka: The interspacial time hasn’t ended yet. We have to do what we can... Ayaka: We can’t sit still like this and wait for our death. I don’t care if it were just me... but,
Ayaka: I will never let you die in a place like this.
Ayaka: Come with me. Ayaka: I’m ordering you as an older sister.
She was this strong a person... My sister...
p.31
Even if it’s just for one day... It should be right to live and die as human beings!!
Make sure... To survive, okay...?
Haruna: What’s... wrong with it... Reiji: !
p.32 Haruna: What’re you saying is wrong with Haruna: Struggling to live even one day longeeeeer!!!?
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p.35
Angel: Kiaaargh
p.36 Reiji: So it was still chasing us...!! Ayaka: Be careful!! Reiji!!!
p.37 Ayaka: ...!? SFX: silence
Reiji: ...Ahh...?
Reiji: The angel... Reiji: Disappeared...?
We lost it... The angel’s life...
Reiji: Nee-san... Reiji: Could this be...
p.38 Ayaka: It ended... Ayaka: The interspacial time...
SFX: Kuku SFX: Hack [hmm, we could use a better one for coughing up blood...]
Haruna: What’s... wrong with... it...
p.39 Haruna: I wanted to live... Haruna: For the sake of that... I...
Haruna: If I could... I’d be with Kagami... Haruna: Always... from now on...
Reiji: Don’t talk anymore...!! Any more than this...!!
p.40 Haruna: You guys... are strong... ...! Haruna: Your mind, and body... and your luck, too...
Haruna: I see... if I were strong like you guys... maybe I could survive... without killing other people... but...
Haruna: There are many who can’t keep living without sacrificing others...
Haruna: Yes... people who have to bring others down...
Haruna: Or else they can’t keep going... Haruna: Because the world is always unfair...
p.41 Haruna: People like that... to desperately struggle to live... Haruna: For people who know that unless they step on others... it’ll happen to them...
Haruna: To try to live... Haruna: Is that such an inhuman thing...?
Haruna: You’re lucky... Haruna: Without hurting anyone, and without being hurt yourself...
Haruna: Always... being able to walk... on the path you’ve decided on... Haruna: People like that...
p.43 Ayaka: Reiji... Ayaka: I know how you feel, but...
Reiji: I know, Nee-san... Ayaka: !
Reiji: How important... this girl’s life is for us right now...
Reiji: In the end... even I can’t give up this life... Reiji: Because I want stay alive... Because... I’m human...
p.44 Reiji: But still... Reiji: Ayaka-nee-san
Reiji: Please, just a little... Reiji: Let me stay like this for a little bit longer...
Reiji: I want to feel it... this girl’s whole life... Reiji: The 23 life’s worth... that I’m about to steal...
p.45 Reiji: The weight of her life... https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/28650[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 12 by umeboshi1102011-03-30T00:02:56+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Scanlation with this translation reserved for Muda scanlations]
Re:Birth Chapter 12 Mistake
p.01 [none]
p.02 Chapter 12: Mistake
p.03 Ayaka: I think you already feel it too... Reiji...
Ayaka: How much of a risk it is for everyone... For Natsuhi-chan to be with us...
Reiji: I was panicking... Ayaka: ...!
Reiji: I was trying my hardest to act like I was fine... But actually, every night... I was trembling in unease while looking at my remaining life in front of the mirror. Reiji: I even dragged you into it... and I was about to go crazy, but seeing you firmly overcoming it, Nee-san... I thought I had to do my best, too... but it wasn’t going so well...
p.04 Reiji: And then... I tried to run away from my panic through Natsuhi... And the amusement park today, too...! How selfish... can I be...!!? Ayaka: ...... Reiji: But... it really was just like you said, Nee-san...
Reiji: I’ll tell Natsuhi directly... Reiji: I can’t put her in any more danger because of my ego...!
Ayaka: With Natsuhi-chan gone... Ayaka: You’ll definitely be okay...
p.05 Ayaka: Because I’ll always be... Ayaka: By your side, Reiji...
Reiji: Nee-san...
SFX: thump, thump
Natsuhi: There!! I finally found you!! Natsuhi: What’re you doing!? You taboo-taboo siblings!!
p.06 Reiji: Na... Reiji: Natsuhi!?
SFX: Huff SFX: Huff
Reiji: Wh- what taboo!? What’re you saying...!!? Natsuhi: Shut up! Sneaking away, just the two of you... You’re too suspicious!!
Reiji: No, you see... Nee-san tripped and got a little injured... See, right here... her clothes are ripped, right...? Natsuhi: Huh? You tripped and got hurt?
Natsuhi: You’re not just making up an alibi, are you? You said she got injured, but it’s just a little scrape!! Reiji: Are you an idiot!? Like we’d hurt ourselves on purpose for such a stupid reason!! Ayaka: ...
p.07
Reiji: She’s tired from playing around too much...
Reiji: Oh yeah, Nee-san... Ayaka: Hm?
Reiji: Those two from before. Even in that situation where she only had 1 life... they trusted each other quite a lot. Reiji: I wonder how... they were able to be like that...
p.08
Ayaka: They trusted each other... huh. Ayaka: I wonder how long that will really last...?
Ayaka: In the end, they’ll wind up... having to go for each other... Ayaka: This is a game that’s set up that way.
If that fight had continued on like that... No... if the enemy had more life...
Would... Nee-san have... killed her in the end...?
p.09
Haruna: Kagami...!! Are you okay? Kagami!?
Kagami: We failed... didn’t we...
p.10 Kagami: We messed up angel hunting in the interspacial time, too... Kagami: So this was... my destiny after all...
Haruna: No! It’s not too late, even now! Let’s find another way...!! Haruna: I’ll do something about it!!
Kagami: I lost my sorcery device... and my arm’s gone, too, you know...? Kagami: In the little time that’s left... it’s impossible, Haruna...
Kagami: But... I was happy I had you as a partner with me... ...!
Kagami: The days we lived as Takers... were a continuous chain of fear and panic, but... Kagami: I held out because my childhood friend Haruna was there...
p.11 Kagami: If you weren’t there, I... think I would have gone crazy way before... Haruna: Ka...Kagami...
Haruna: Ka- Kagamiii!!
Kagami: It’s already about time...
Kagami: Will you listen? It’s my last selfish desire... Before I disappear...
p.12 Kagami: I want you to have... Kagami: My 1 life, Haruna.
Haruna: Huh?
Haruna: Wh- what’re you saying...? Haruna: Kagami...?
Kagami: My life as a Taker... before that vanishes... I want to give it to you. I want you to carry it on... Kagami: At least this tiny shard...
Kagami: Because... Kagami: I want to always be connected with you, Haruna...
p.13 Haruna: Are you telling me... Haruna: To... kill you with my own hands, Kagami...?
Haruna: There’s no way I can...!! Why...!? Haruna: Never!! I can never do that!!
Kagami: Haruna... ...!! Kagami: I thought you would say that...
Kagami: Make sure... Kagami: To survive, okay...?
p.14
Don’t die Before I do, Haruna
p.15 [none]
p.16 SFX: peek
Reiji: Wow, you’re pretty good~ Natsuhi: Huh?
Natsuhi: Oh, this? I learned this in an association in the school over there, you see~ Reiji: Oh, really? Reiji: Association? Is that a club?
Natsuhi: So? What? You look like you want to ask me something, right? Reiji: Hm? Nah... nothing like...
p.17 Reiji: Ooh... actually... there was something I wanted to talk about. Natsuhi: Wha?
Natsuhi: What? It’s getting annoying. Natsuhi: Say it already.
Reiji: If you could... Reiji: Could you... find a place to stay soon...?
Natsuhi: Do you mean... you want me to leave? Reiji: No...!
p.18 Reiji: N- no matter how many times I thought about it...!! Isn’t it a bit difficult for a young man and woman to live in the same house?
Reiji: And Natsuhi, since you’re a popular writer... wouldn’t it be easy to rent a place? Natsuhi: ......
He’s not really the kind of kid who could say that... Maybe “someone”... Put him up to it...
Are you saying I’ll be in the way if I stay here...? It’s... suspicious, alright... Reiji mutter: So what I want to say is...
p.19 Natsuhi: OK. You’re right, now that you mention it. It certainly is immodest. Natsuhi: I’ll find a large apartment right away. Reiji: S- so you understand! Natsuhi...!
Natsuhi: In exchange, can you do one thing for me? Reiji: Yeah, what is it?
Natsuhi: Let me stay for a few days until I find a large apartment. Natsuhi: I want to eat a lot of Ayaka-nee-san’s cooking, too...
Reiji: O- of course! Reiji: It’s not like it has to be right away.
Ayaka: We’re off.
Ayaka: Natsuhi-chan, I heard you’re going to look for a place to stay?
p.20 Natsuhi: Well, that’s how it is. Ayaka: That’s a shame. But come visit whenever you want.
Ayaka: We’re the only ones you know, right? If something happens, feel free to tell us. [weird, the bubble’s not pointing at her...] Natsuhi: Just the thought makes me happy.
Always under the dominion of his sister... Being too gentle could also be a problem... You’re going to have a hard time from now on if you’re like that, you know?
p.21
Kagami... I’ll make sure... your death won’t go to waste...! I’ll definitely... get your share of life, too...
Because that’s the fate... Of those who get involved in this game...
p.22 Box: 3 days later
Ayaka: Where’s Natsuhi-chan? SFX: shh Reiji: She’s focused on her work right now.
Ayaka: Let’s go, then. SFX: gulp
SFX: creak
p.23
Going out this late at night, just the two of them... this reeks of something dangerous. SFX: lick My writer’s intuition is ringing out an emergency...
Reiji: Nee-san... Ayaka: Yes, it’s almost 12 o’clock.
p.24 Reiji: It stopped. Ayaka: So it’s started.
Ayaka: Are you prepared? Reiji... Reiji: Yep!
p.25 Reiji: Even if they are small-sized... we don’t know if we stand a chance... Ayaka: ...
Reiji: Is... Reiji: That one really okay...?
p.26 Ayaka: We don’t have any choice either way.
Ayaka: We’re retreating at all costs if it’s medium or larger. Reiji, got it?
Reiji: You too, Nee-san. Don’t push yourself.
Reiji: Make sure to fall back if you determine that it’s dangerous! Reiji: I’ll shield and protect you, Nee-san!
Ayaka: Thank you... Ayaka: Reiji...
The plan is simple. Reiji, go in from the front to gather its attention!
p.27 I’ll take that chance to jump in from a blind spot and cut off its head in an instant! This plan will be the most effective!!
Act as a decoy and keep its vision fixed! I’ll do it! I can’t put Nee-san in danger!!
Here I go!!
Aaaaaah!!!
Angel: Kiii!?
p.28
Reiji: Over here!! Reiji: I’m your enemy!!
Angel: Kiaargh
Angel: Kieeeeeh!!!
Th...!! This size!!
p.29 Angel: Kiaaaaargh!!!
It’s small-sized...!!
There’ll only be one chance...! Reiji: I’m your opponent! Come at me!!
p.30 !?
Is that...!?
Could it be...!!!
p.31-32
reiji: Nee-saaaaaan!!!!
p.33
Reiji: Ayaka-nee-san...!!
Reiji: Aaaaah!!
p.34 We were thinking too childishly...!!
Even if they’re small-sized...!! It’s only natural that each is a different type...!!
Reiji: Nee-san! Get a hold of yourself!
p.35
Reiji: Aaaaah!!!!
Random strikes...!! What a messy attack...!!
But with Nee-san in this condition... I can’t even run...!!
p.36
...!?
p.37
SFX: Pant x4
p.38 SFX: bang SFX: startle
SFX: step, step, step
SFX [big black in middle]: Kieeeeh
It’s scary... Damn it...
p.39 I’m so scared...!! I can’t stop shaking...!!!
p.40
Reiji: pant Reiji: pant
Reiji: huff Reiji: huff
p.41 It seems... SFX: pant SFX: pant I somehow managed to get away...
Even in that situation, your sorcery device... You’re really amazing... Nee-san...
Reiji: Nee-san...
Reiji: Nee-san! Open your eyes! Reiji: Ayaka-nee-san...!
p.42 Even though her injuries are healing...! Why won’t she wake up!!?
p.43 SFX: thump
Reiji: Why... in the world...
p.44 Reiji: Why do we have to go through this...? Reiji: Why on earth...
Haruna: It’s because... you became Takers...
p.45
Reiji: You... are...?
p.46 [none] https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/28213[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 11 by umeboshi1102011-03-06T01:12:26+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Scanlation with this translation reserved for Muda scanlations]
Re:Birth –The Lunatic Taker
p.01 Chapter 11 Weak Point
p.02 Reiji: Grr, it was a trap after all…! Ayaka: Stay sensible, Reiji!
Ayaka: Judging from how she purposely lured us to someplace she can make pitch dark, ayaka: It’s safe to say the enemy has some skill that can attack even in the darkness. Reiji: …!
Damn… I should have heeded Nee-san’s warning…
But, after hearing about Natsuhi getting involved… We couldn’t have just reacted thoughtlessly…!
p.03 Kagami: But still, what a happy-go-lucky pair of siblings….
Kagami: To be able to want to have fun at an amusement park even though you only have 11 life… How does she know our exact life…!?
Akaya: Looking up low levels…? But can you even get our numbers that way…? Ayaka mutter: To the right!?
She’s moving around near us… Is she measuring the timing for an attack…!?
Kagami: Did you know? If your life goes to 0 your body burns up into ashes and disappears.
Kagami: Which means you guys… After only 11 days… Kagami: Will be reduced to dust, you know?
p.04 Reiji: It won’t go like that!! There’ll be one more interspacial time before that!! Reiji: Then we’ll do whatever we can to get life…!!
Kagami: What? Interspacial time!? Are you talking about angel hunting? SFX: giggle x 3 Kagami: You’re relying on something like that? It’ll be over the instant a medium-size comes out.
Ugh, that’s something I don’t want to remember…
Kagami: You’re aiming for a big win on a roulette… What a carefree guy. SFX: giggle x 2 Kagami: You could come back alive if you’re lucky… but it’s most likely you’d die.
Reiji: Don’t mess with me…
p.05 Reiji: It won’t go like that!! We’ve survived, as you can see now!! Reiji: We’ll definitely get it! We’ll hunt angels and survive!!
Kagami: That’s wishful thinking, right? Kagami: But it’s no good. You guys’ll die in the end.
Reiji: Gaah!! Ayaka: !?
Ayaka: Reiji!? Reiji: Urgh…!?
Kagami: I have nothing against you two… but if you’re going to die anyways…
Kagami: Why don’t you… die after giving your life to me…? Kagami: You’ll be helping someone out, right…?
p.06 Reiji: Argh…!!
Reiji: Raaaaa!! Ayaka: …!!
Reiji: Nee-san!! The entrance should have been that way!! Reiji: Grab my hand!!
p.07 Reiji: Gaaa!! Ayaka: Reiji…!!
Ayaka: What’s wrong!? Reiji!! SFX: throb throb Ayaka: Don’t separate from me!! Reiji: Ne…Nee-san…!!
Kagami: Are you making fun of me? Kagami: Who said I’d let you go…?
Kagami: With the light completely shut out, your eyes will never get used to this… Kagami: But I can see your movements completely… But I put safety first, so I’ll do this as carefully as a fox hunting rabbits.
Kagami: I’ll attack slowly to exhaust your strength … Kagami: Then I’ll finish you off when it’s 100% safe…!!
p.08 I knew it…! The enemy has a skill which lets her see in the dark…!!
Ayaka: Ack!!
Reiji: Nee-san!! What happened!?
Kagami: Oh…? You’ve got good intuition… Reiji: …! Kagami: I aimed for your vitals, but it missed.
p.09 Ha, haa, fu, fuu [panting]
It doesn’t look like my eyes will get used to the dark… Ha, haa We’re sure to lose at this rate…
Reiji… will also die…
Reiji……!!
p.10-11
…!?
Reiji: Was that you just now, Nee-san!? Reiji: Are you okay!? Nee-san!! Ayaka: I’m okay.
What? What was that!? A fluke…!?
p.12
This’ll be certain!!
!!
p.13 Tss!!
Reiji: ? SFX: unease Reiji: ?
What…!!? Why!? Why!? What is it!? What’s with her!!?
She can see me!? That can’t possibly be true!
p.14 Haa Fuu [more panting…]
…… Ha, haa
…! Fu, fuu
Kagami: …!?
p.15
Wha…!?
p.16 D-don’t tell me! She…!!
My breathing and footsteps…! She can pick up on my body’s presence!?
Breathing! Footfalls! Any by clashing our blades…! I can measure our distances even in the dark!!
p.17 I can do it!! I can beat her!!
C-crap…!!
Something’s wrong with her!! The plan failed! I have to withdraw…!!
Kagami: !
…!?
p.18-19
Kagami: Er…!!
Kagami: Aaaaaa!!!
From over there…!! She’s yelling and coming in…!
p.20 Kagami: K…ha!?
Reiji: Nee-san!! I found the entrance! Over here, quickl…!!
…!?
p.21 Kagami: What is… with you… Haa, haa [pants (I’m not wearing any) maybe we should just leave them in Japanese]
Kagami: You should have become a Taker just recently… Kagami: This… is just wrong…
Ayaka: I don’t care about anything like that… But…
…!?
Ayaka: Since you were aiming for people’s lives, I’m sure you’re suitably prepared?
Reiji: …!?
…!
p.22
…!!?
Reiji: What in the world!? Nee-san! What did you…!?
Kagami: Kuku…! Ayaka: !
Kagami: Kuku! Kuhahaha!! Kagami: Kyahahahahaha!!!
p.23 Kagami: I’m sorry! For not having any life to steal!! Kagami: You see, this is what happens for failure after failure in angel hunting.
Kagami: Hunt angels the next time…!? How naïve can you get!? Kagami: I wonder how one can become so simple.
Kagami: Should I tell you… the most effective method to survive?
Kagami: Hunt Takers! Kill your own kind!! Kagami: That’s the quickest way! Right!?
SFX: haha haha haha
p.24 Ayaka: Don’t laugh! Kagami: Whoa there…
Kagami: Wait a second. Ayaka: ! Kagami: Can you take a look at this?
Reiji: !? Ayaka: …!!
Reiji?: Natsuhi!? …!? Reiji: Wh-what…!? This video! Who’s taking it!?
Kagami: As you can see… This isn’t a picture… Kagami: It’s a live video being taken as we speak…
Kagami: Now, I’ll have you back off if you realized the situation…
p.25 Kagami: If you… Kagami: Understood that my ally holds your friend’s life in her hands!!
Natsuhi’s… A hostage…?
Ayaka: Like a Taker could make allies so easily!! Ayaka: This is some sort of trick…!! Kagami: Well. You’re a lady who really doesn’t listen to others.
Kagami: It’s true that there’s nothing more dangerous than camaraderie among Takers…
p.26 Kagami: But Takers can have allies, too. There’re even cases of organizations being set up from long ago. Kagami: It’s necessary to create situations where you can never betray each other, though.
Situations… where you can never betray each other…? What does that mean…?
Kagami: !!
Kagami: Ouch!!
p.27 Ayaka: These are the conditions for the exchange. Kagami: …!?
Ayaka: Call your ally to a specified place. Ayaka: We will return your mage device then. [umm I forgot what this was translated to before] Kagami: That’s right, you should turn an ear to what others have to say.
p.28 Haruna: Kagami…! Kagami: Hey~
Kagami: I failed. It was correct to have insurance after all.
Ayaka: Go on. Kagami: I get it, don’t push.
Haruna: Kagami? Are you okay? Kagami: Yeah, I’m sorry…
Kagami: You can rest easy now, right? This means your friend is unharmed… Give me back my mage device.
Ayaka: I can’t do that. Kagami: !?
p.29 Kagami: Whaa!!?
Kagami: What are you trying to pull!!? That’s not what you promised!! For a Taker, a mage device is like a part of you!!
Ayaka: Why should we have to keep it?
Ayaka: If you’re done here, hurry and get out.
Kagami: I don’t want to, either.
p.30
Kagami: You saw my life, right? If I back down here, there’s no future for me. Kagami: You guys are just the right prey that I finally found… I tend to act only if it’s 100% safe, but,
Kagami: Now that it’s come to this, it’s already do or die, right!? I’ll take if from you no matter what!!
Kagami: ! Reiji: Hold up!!
Reiji: We don’t even know each other at all and we don’t have any grudges towards each other. And despite that you still try to kill us and survive yourselves? Reiji: How can you do something like that? Doesn’t it pain your heart!?
p.31
Kagami: There’s a limit to sleeptalking, boy… Reiji: !?
Kagami: How could we be thinking of others…
Kagami: When we’re gonna die if we don’t do it!!? Kagami: Harunaaa!!
p.32 Ayaka: !?
Ayaka: !!
Ayaka: It’s almost as if I’m fighting two people…!! Ayaka: I though it was someone I could beat…
Reiji: Nee-san!!
p.33
Fast…!! Both the shadow and her real self…!!
Reiji: Nee-san! I’ll help!
Reiji: !?
Kagami: Did you think I was powerless… Kagami: Without my mage device…?
p.34 Kagami: Diiiie!!
Kagami: Kya!?
p.35
Reiji: Nee-san!!
…!?
Kagami: !?
p.36-37 Kagami: AAAA!!!!!
p.38
Haruna: Kagamiii!!!
Now to finish her…!!
Reiji: Stop!!
Ayaka: Step back! Reiji!! Reiji: What are you going to do? Are you trying to murder!?
p.39 Ayaka: Are you still talking about that!? They attacked us first!! Ayaka: Hurry and get out of the way!! Reiji: Even so!! If we were to do the same thing…!!
Ayaka: Now’s not the time for saying things like that…!!
Ayaka: We’re going after them!!
p.40
Ayaka: Ack!! Reiji: Ayaka nee-san!
Reiji: You’re hurt too, Nee-san! Let’s stop it already!!
SFX: Grrr
That was… The perfect chance to finish them off…!!
p.41
Reiji: Are you feeling a little better? Ayaka: Yeah, looks like my wounds are mostly healed.
Reiji: I’m sorry, Nee-san. I’m such a wimp… I can’t even fight with you sufficiently… Reiji: Because of my soft-heartedness, you’re always…
Reiji: But still… because I remembered about Ichirou-san… I couldn’t do it… Reiji: To take someone’s life to survive…!
p.42 Ayaka: Look, it’s okay… Reiji: …!
Ayaka: That’s what it’s like to be you, Reiji… Ayaka: I like everything about you, including those parts…
p.43 Reiji: Is there anything I can do? Tell me anything! Reiji: I want to do at least something else for you if I can’t be of any use in battle.
Reiji: I want to do what I can… for your sake, Nee-san.
Ayaka: Really? Then will you do this one thing…? Reiji: Yep, tell me anything! What is it?
p.45 [none] https://mangahelpers.com/t/umeboshi110/releases/27827[English] [Translation] Re:BIRTH－The Lunatic Taker－ 10 by umeboshi1102011-02-17T07:57:11+00:00umeboshi110admin@mangahelpers.com[Reserved for Muda Scanlations]
Re:Birth Chapter 10
p.01 Ayaka: Like. I. Said!!! Chapter 10 A new threat
Ayaka: Disgraceful acts like being naked in front of a boy without any shame, Or lowering his z– z– zipper, are!! [this part can be in a bigger font than the one before (if you care about font sizes)] Natsuhi: But it was just a harmless joke between childhood friends...
Ayaka: Even if you are childhood friends, in order to live together... Natsuhi: Hmph... Ayaka: You must follow basic manners!
Natsuhi: Is that just concern as an older sister? Ayaka: Yes? Natsuhi: Or did it... have another meaning, perhaps?
p.02 [none]
p.03 Chapter 10 A new threat Chapter 11 Weak point Chapter 12 Mistake Chapter 13 The weight of life
p.04 Ayaka: O– of course it has to be concern as an elder sister. What else is there!? Natsuhi: Oh~ I just thought that maybe you were caring for your brother so much that you couldn’t get a boyfriend.
Ayaka: I don’t think that’s something you should concern yourself over...!! Natsuhi: ...... Ayaka: It’s a sister’s natural duty to worry about her younger brother!!
SFX: grin Natsuhi: Ohh... Then...
Natsuhi: Since I’m a little sister too~ don’t just get mad at me, dote on me too~!! Ayaka: Natsuhi-chan!!
Natsuhi: Yay~ Like I thought, you’re the type to look thinner in clothes, Ayaka-san~ Pretty voluptuous~ Ayaka: D– don’t touch me... If you rub me there...!! A– ah! Th– there... Don’t touch...!! Natsuhi mutter: Aah
p.05 [none]
p.06 [none]
p.07 Reiji: Phew~ Like I thought, no match for that Natsuhi. It’s really been a while since I saw Nee-san like that~
I hadn’t imagined... Until just the day before... That I could once again laugh like in the past...
It’s OK... I can endure it... No...! I must overcome it...!
p.08 Natsuhi: I don’t think there’s a problem with the deadline, though. Natsuhi: I’m already 80% done, too.
Natsuhi: Yes, please don’t worry. I will contact you when I finish up the manuscript. Okay then.
Natsuhi: Phew~ What a worry wart.
Natsuhi: Now~ maybe I’ll try to plow through it~ Natsuhi: I’ve been going at around half the speed I thought I would so I’m gonna fly tonight~
Ayaka: Natsuhi-chan~ I peeled some fruit. Would you like some?
p.09 Natsuhi: Yaay, thanks Ayaka nee-san.
She is a bit on the exposed side, but... Uh huh, it’s okay. She’s properly wearing clothes this ti...
Ayaka: H– hey... Natsuhi-chan... What’s with that outfit...? Ayaka mutter: A girls shouldn’t be like that... Natsuhi: This? I’m fine! Since it’s not cold~
Ayaka: No, that’s not the problem... Natsuhi: Oh, this?
p.10 Natsuhi: I just have to be like this when I write~
Natsuhi: Well, you can rest easy since I’ll be proper in front of Reiji~ Ayaka: ...... Ayaka: O... okay...
Ayaka: Oh, did you contact Oji-san in America? Natsuhi: Mm?
Natsuhi: Course! I made sure to contact him. Ayaka: OK. Also, let me greet him too, okay?
p.11 Natsuhi: My father’s on a business trip in Europe, so maybe it’ll be a little longer when he comes home? Ayaka: Oh, I see.
Ayaka: Well, good luck with your work. Natsuhi: Mhmm! Thanks, Nee-san.
SFX: clack [door closing]
p.12
Reiji: I’ve been awfully thirsty lately. Did I sweat quite a bit?
SFX: yawn
SFX: glance
She’s still not asleep... Is she... writing her novel...?
p.13 Reiji: WHOA!!!
Reiji: Na...Natsuhi!?
Natsuhi: I don’t know... Reiji: Wh...what...!? Natsuhi: What does saliva taste like?
Reiji: Wha!?
Natsuhi: The taste of the saliva of someone you’re French kissing... How should I express it? Natsuhi: Sweetness? Saltiness? Bitterness? SFX: step, step
p.14 [none]
p.15 Natsuhi: Saliva... SFX: thump x 3
Natsuhi: Is flavorless!! That’s what it was!! Natsuhi: A French kiss tastes like flavorless saliva!!
Natsuhi: Problem solved!! Next! Next!! SFX [black]: stare~
SFX: jolt ...!?
p.16
Reiji: Uh... Um...
Reiji: A– Ayaka nee-san!! Th– that’s not it! It was an act of God or something!!
Ayaka: I know, since I was also watching...
Reiji: Whaa?
Ayaka: You were forcibly kissed, right? It wasn’t your fault. SFX: phew Reiji: Ne– Nee-san...
SFX: smile
p.17 Ayaka: Penalty game, then. Do the same thing to your nee-san.* *[to me] Reiji: Huh...? Reiji: ?
Ayaka: You don’t want to with me? You have to do it fairly. I won’t forgive you if you don’t~ Reiji: Oh... I see... in that case...
Reiji: Well then, good night Nee-san...!
Reiji: ...?
p.18 Ayaka: What kind of joke was that?
Ayaka: Do the same thing as* with Natsuhi-chan. *[Alt: same thing you did with] ...!?
p.19 Reiji: Th– the same thing...!? You mean... on the... l– lips with you, Nee-san!? Ayaka: Right... Do it.
SFX: thump, thump
Th– this is out of desperation...!!
p.20 SFX: peck
Reiji: Please let me off with that, Nee-san!! Ayaka: Re– Reiji...!! SFX: dash
SFX: close Ayaka: ......
It’s completely... not the same, but... This is, well...
Natsuhi mutter: what, what Natsuhi: ......
p.21 Taker Net... You can’t log on to it unless it is with your own name. Of course it’s not possible to search for information on other people on the net... I wonder how it’s set up...
Level 1 is regeneration... There’s no change in skills... it seems.
It’s already been 1 week since we came back home... There doesn’t seem to be any trace of an attack or any strange activity...
As I thought, they won’t haphazardly attack us because some time has passed since we became Takers...
p.22 Although we haven’t actually learned any notable skills... Things such as our cooperation with Misaki-san May have combined to produce an effect to inhibit the enemies’ novice hunts...
SFX: Ahahaha Ayaka: ...!
Reiji: Kuhahaha! That’s rich!! Haha! Natsuhi: Really~ that so makes me laugh! Kyahaha!
Natsuhi: ...... SFX: Kyahahaha x 2
Reiji...
p.23 He’s purposefully trying to act cheerful in order to forget Misaki-san’s last moments... The reason he accepted Natsuhi-chan’s suggestion... is also to use that to recuperate.
Reiji: Hey, aren’t you going too fast? Don’t take my share as well! Natsuhi: The high schooler should satisfy himself with that~ ※ Drinking by minors is prohibited by law! [They’re drinking Asahi, a popular Japanese brand of beer.]
Reiji: You’re a high schooler yourself~!! Ayaka mutter: Since when... Natsuhi: It’s okay for me! My mental age is different~ Ayaka: ......
Ayaka: Should I make some snacks so you don’t drink too much?
p.24 Natsuhi: Oh, Ayaka nee-san! Tomorrow’s Sunday, so let’s go to the amusement park or something! Let’s go! Ayaka: The amusement park?
SFX: stare
Ayaka: She’s wearing something today... Ayaka: What is it all of a sudden? Reiji: As I was talking to her, she suddenly got nostalgic. Isn’t it alright? You may oppose it if it’s just us 2, but since it’s 3 people. Natsuhi: Right, right! Let’s have fun like back then!
Ayaka: Yeah... I don’t think that’s a bad idea... Natsuhi: Right~!?
Natsuhi: Is the air dry here? My back’s ichy.
p.25 Natsuhi: Hmm~? I can’t reach it. SFX: scratch, scratch
Ayaka: Na– Natsuhi-chan!! You’re not wearing anything again!? Natshi: Mm?
Natsuhi: What are you saying!? See, I’m hiding my bottom today.
Ayaka: There’s no meaning to it if you don’t wear something on the bottom, is there!? Ayaka: Hmm!?
p.26 Natsuhi: Why~? Even though I have it covered down there with my shirt!? Ayaka: I’m saying that’s not good! Properly wear a skirt or pants!
Natsuhi: What’re you saying is so wrong about relaxing at home?
Ayaka: This isn’t just your space, right? And Reiji is here, too...!!
Natsuhi mutter: Heh... Natsuhi: Hmph... In the end, the root of the argument is Reiji, right?
Natsuhi: I finally understand it. Ayaka nee-san...!! You didn’t like Reiji seeing my panties or my thighs!! SFX: blush
Ayaka: I– it’s not a matter of me liking it or not! Natshi: But you know! It’s my principle to consider hiding the beauty a female possesses! To be a sin!!
p.27 Natsuhi: If it bothers you so much, why don’t you just show them as well, Nee-san? Reiji mutter: Eeeeek
Natsuhi: Speaking of which, don’t you always wear long ones...? Is your lower body fatter or something by any chance? Ayaka: Wh– what was that...!? I have a bit of confidence in my legs...!!
Ayaka: I– I might have... some... confidence... Ayaka mutter: I– I have muscle on them, but... Ayaka mutter: It’s only a little... Natsuhi: Oh~?
Ayaka: Eek!! Natsuhi: Then show them to us! Your beautiful legs, nee-san!!
p.28 Reiji: Natsuhi!! What are you doing~!!!?
Natsuhi: Now, now~ you judge us, Reiji. Which is more beautiful~?
p.29 Ayaka: I– I’m also... not wearing long clothes because I don’t... have any confidence...!
SFX: stare
Reiji: B– both of you!! Quit it already~!!
p.30 SFX: Haha SFX: Kyahaha
It’s certain that two are Takers... The other one is most likely... a normal human...
p.31 SFX: smirk
?: It seems... ?: I can use that somehow...
p.32 Natsuhi: Yay~ It’s really the amusement park~
Natsuhi: I’ll go through all the rides~! Natsuhi: Both of you better prepare yourselves!
Ayaka: Oh, Natsuhi-chan~ She’s completely into it, and it’s like when she was a kid...
Ayaka: What’s wrong? Reiji... you seem to be pale...
Reiji: I finally remembered after coming here...
Reiji: I get severe motion sickness from rides... Reiji mutter: I’m scared... Ayaka mutter: Oh, now that I think about it...
p.33 Reiji: She seems awfully good with rides, so can I ask you to tag along with Natsuhi for this? Ayaka: I’m not really that good with them either, but... if you say so, Reiji...
Natsuhi: Geez! What are you two doing!!?
Natsuhi: This! Let’s ride this!! Sign: Super Dimensional Train Sign [black]: Experience the death!!! Natsuhi: You seem to “die” the most on this!!
Reiji mutter: Just as I thought. Reiji mutter: Please, nee-san. Ayaka mutter: Experience death...? Ayaka: Th...that makes me lose confidence...
p.34 [none]
p.35 Natsuhi: That last one really was too mild! Let’s go with this next!! SFX: Kyaha x 2 Ayaka: Naturally! There’s no meaning to it if it’s not fast! It’s got to be fast!! Reiji: What was that seeming lack of confidence before...??
Reiji: Say, how about a little break? Ayaka: Oh, Reiji, sorry. Natsuhi: What? Have you given up after only that?
Reiji: I’ve gotten thirsty. Do you want some drinks? Ayaka: Sounds nice. Natsuhi: Oh, in that case I saw a booth.
Natsuhi: I’ll go buy them~
Reiji: Fuhee~ Why is that Natsuhi so tough? Reiji: I’m barely hanging on just keeping up...
p.36 Ayaka: You’re right. Maybe it’s because she grew up in America? It was like she changed personalities when she got on a ride~ Reiji: You were also at the same level, Nee-san.
Reiji: But... it really was good that I came. Natsuhi: Mm?
Natsuhi: Yeah... Natsuhi: It may have been good...
p.37 ?: Wow~ You’re a couple that looks well together. Reiji: ?
Reiji: ...? SFX: smile x 2
Reiji: Oh, we’re not like that... ?: Oh my, is that so? Ayaka: But we’re siblings.
SFX: smirk
?: I see, so you amiably became Takers together as siblings~?
p.38 Ayaka: Are you...!? Ayaka: A Taker!?
?: Stop! Stop!! Ayaka: ! ?: Do you seriously intend on sword fighting in the middle of this crowd!?
?: I haven’t said anything about fighting... ?: I want to trade information with you for both our sakes, but do you want to move to a place where we won’t be seen?
p.39 ?: That way, I can protect my identity just in case, And you won’t have to involve your friend... ......!?
Reiji: Wh– what did you do with Natsuhi!? ?: Oh my, nothing yet.
?: I’ll only say this now...
SFX: smirk ?: Though, if my deal goes bust and a fight breaks out here... It might mean I can’t guarantee that your friend will stay safe forever...
p.40
Reiji: !
What is it...!? Is she thinking of going at it...!?
Reiji: Nee-san...! What are you doing!!? Ayaka: Why would you get yourself cajoled by the enemy...?
Ayaka: It’s our top priority to ensure our safety in this case. Reiji: N– No way...!!
Reiji: A– anyways, stop it for a bit!! For now, it’s not a good idea to fight here! Ayaka: R– Reiji...
p.41 ?: What are you thinking!? Isn’t your little brother’s reaction natural in this situation!? ?: This woman’s ridiculously unbelievable! Do you want to announce that you’re a Taker here or something!?
Ayaka: Do you think we’d follow you even though your trap’s as clear as day? ?: ...... ?: Are you that afraid of changing locations? I’m saying we’re only going to talk, you know?
Reiji: Let’s go. Now that we’ve been found, we’ll continue to be targeted. Ayaka: Even though she doesn’t know her enemies’ abilities*... She must be planning something...? *[It could also mean “Even though we don’t know the enemy’s abilities.” Hard to say, really.]
Reiji: There’s only one enemy. I don’t think Takers would act in groups that easily, And it’s also viable to respond after changing locations... Ayaka: ......
?: Well? Did you finish your discussion? Will you come?
p.42 It’s a Taker’s nature to be unable to trust others... It’s not a simple matter for Takers, who hunt each other, to act in teams... eh. Ayaka: ...I got it...
Natsuhi: I’m~ baaack~!!
Natsuhi: Hmmm~?
Natsuhi: What? Is this!!? They’re gone together!? Natsuhi: What’s up with those siblings, really~!!?
p.43 Natsuhi: The smell that they’re dodgy siblings seems to be getting stronger and stronger... I believe this merits some investigation, but how about you Watson...?
Natsuhi: If you’re doing something dirty when I find you, I’m gonna kill you~!! Natsuhi: You forbidden siblings...!!
p.44 Sign: Under construction We are terribly sorry for causing you trouble.
Reiji: Is this...
Reiji: A planetarium? Reiji: Where you gaze at stars...?
Why a place like this...? Reiji: So is it really... a trap...!? Even though you said it was a deal...!!
Reiji: Are you after our life after all!? But it won’t be that easy!! Reiji: We have two people, and have gained skills that you don’t know about!!
p.45 ?: *giggle
?: You still don’t get it...? You guys... It doesn’t matter what skills you have. ...!? ?: It’s obvious that I brought you here because I would have a 100% chance of winning.
?: Normally just changing locations won’t matter much... ?: Especially when you think you have an edge number wise.
?: But that naivety will cost you your lives!!
p.46 Reiji/Ayaka: ...!?
I can’t see anything...!? Even right next to me!!
?: This is the end of the game~ Reiji: ...!?
?: You know, the stage equipment of darkness...? Changes it for me in one go. ?: To a stage for us Takers to hunt you, who have fallen from an equal standing.