Mangahelpers Translationshttps://mangahelpers.com/translators/rss2013-07-10T16:30:50+00:00/favicon.icoMangaHelpers Adminsadmin@mangahelpers.comhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/38314[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 10 by Dowolf2013-07-10T16:30:50+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comYao Tsukumo 10 (Final)
p1: Box: Ever since my body became immortal, / neither my hair nor my nails have grown longer.
Box: No matter how far I run, / I can always run a mile more.
Box: This place is cold. Dark….
Box: And the light
Box: is beyond my reach.
p2: Yao Tsukumo: Final Chapter: Yao and Tsukumo [inset vertical]: Before the impetuous deity, one begins to despair. [inset horizontal]: The modern fantasy reaches its moving climax!
p3: Yao: I’m not… / immortal?
Tachibana: I shall reward you for your eight hundred years of labor.
Tachibana: This is what the child desired. / Did he not ask for this?
Tachibana: For his sins to be forgiven? / Well?
p6: Yao: I thought my immortality a punishment / for my failure to protect Murasaki.
Yao: Can I stop running now…?
Yao: Can I go to meet Murasaki now…?
Tachibana: Then, child,
p7: Tsukumo: Eek!
Tachibana: you are just a brat who lacks the power to save anyone.
Tsukumo: Yah!
Yao: Tsuku…
p8:
Yao: Ahh… / I’m…
p9: Tsukumo: Ya… / Yao?
p10: Yao: This is…
p11: Yao: Ah… / I’m finally…
Yao: Murasa…
p12: Murasaki: Ya—
Yao: Don’t say it!!
Yao: …Don’t say it… / Don’t turn around… / Please…
p13: Yao: I can’t join you / on the other side. Not yet.
Yao: But if I see your face now, / if I hear your voice…
Yao: I’m too weak. / I’d never be able to make it back to the real world.
p14: Yao: There’s someone there now, crying.
Yao: She’s a softhearted idiot, / and reckless,
Yao: but, / she’s… / compared to me,
She’s so strong.
p15: Yao: I want to protect her.
But I’ll always be heading towards you, Murasaki. / I’ll grow stronger, and this time I’ll protect you. / So…
p16: Yao: That / is
Yao: why
Yao: I
Yao: can’t die yet!!!
Tsukumo: Yao!
p17: Tachibana: Why? / Why can you move?!
Tachibana: Ugh.
Yao: I won’t let anyone
p18: Yao: Ever cry again!!!!
p19: Tachibana: Yao!
------!!!
Hah / Ha
Yao: ….Tusku….Mo. / Make… / Make me immortal. / You can… / do it.
Tachibana: What are you saying?! / Don’t worry about me— Yao: What about you?
p20: Yao: What do you / really / want to do?
Tsukumo: I want to protect you.
I understand, now, / why Murasaki made Yao immortal.
p21: Tsukumo: Oh ye myriad gentle gods who dwell within this mortal realm. / Grant onto this one, onto Yao,
Tsukumo: all the protection / you have to give.
p22: !!!
p23: Yao: Oh pure water which courses through this mortal realm,
Tsukumo: we beg thee listen to our call.
Tachibana: You, too? Why do you take the path of thorns?! / There is no pain in the eternal realm, Tokijiku!!
Tsukumo: We’ll share our pain / and turn it into strength.
p24: We name thee Water Mirror.
p25: Cry forth!!
Tachibana: Ah… I see. / So you, too, Tokijiku…
p26: Tachibana: Tokijiku, / why do you cry? / Why won’t you laugh?
Tachibana: This, the Eternal Realm, is the land you sought. / There is no cold, no hunger; it is a land of beauty.
Tachibana: Do you wish to return to your village? / Then let us go home.
p27: Tachibana: What did I lack? / Your body and soul are mine.
Tachibana: I will not give up. / Do not forget that.
Tachibana: You will love me, / Tokijiku.
p28: Our footing is--!
Eeeeek!
p29: Tsukumo: Yao, / are you all right? Yao: Ugh…
Yao: You idiot. / I’m immortal. / There’s no need to worry about every little thing.
Tsukumo: I’m sorry, Yao. / It’s all… my fault, huh…
p30: Yao: Shut up. / Be quiet. / You’re too noisy.
Tsukumo: Yeah.
p31: Yao: Hah / Hah Box: Not yet.
Box: I must walk / this dark, cold road / a little longer.
p32: Aria (?): Are you going to walk off alone again, / looking like you’re about to cry?
Aria (?): It’s warmer / like this.
Tsukumo: Right?
p33: Wah!
Yao: Ahh, / Tuskumo.
p34-35: Yao: I promise… we’ll become human again, together.
Yao: That’s why, until then, / I’ll protect you, Tsukumo.
Tsukumo: Then, / I’ll protect you, Yao.
p36: They walk each other’s path, together. side: To the same future bottom: Fin
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/38098[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 9 by Dowolf2013-06-11T20:15:09+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comYao Tsukumo 09
*Reserved for Psylocke Scans
p1: Tachibana: The suffering of immortality / is not an endless eternity, / but rather eternal desolation. (between panels): Yao Tsukumo
Tachibana: The child’s wish / is to go to the land of the dead, Yomotsu-kuni,
Tachibana: that he may meet his lover. (box): A Captured Heart
p2: Tachibana: Much like how Izanagi, seeking the deceased Izanami, journeyed into Yomotsu-kuni. / A most beautiful myth.
Tachibana: You are the Tachibana’s—…
Tachibana: And thus, / you are the cost of that wish.
Tsukumo: Huh?
Tsukumo: St— / Quit it!!
p3: Tachibana: The cost is the life of my daughter, Tokijiku. (Upper right): Yao Tsukumo / Chapter 9: The Cost of a Wish (Upper left): As the ages turn, the confrontation repeats itself
p4: Gate: Awawa… / Lord Tachibana, when did you--!!
Yao: Oh grim steel who sleeps within this mortal realm, I beg thee / listen to my call.
Yao: Thy name is God of Scything.
Yao: Scythe forth!!!
p5: Gates: Huh? / Waaa!!
p6: Aria: Ah! / Yao!
Aria: …….and you are?
Yao: Why did you come here?!!
p7: Tachibana: You closely resemble that Tokijiku.
Tachibana: And this Tokijiku looks quite tasty.
Tachibana: Growing angry will change nothing. / Time itself has stopped in your heart, child.
Tachibana: And the events of 800 years ago repeat themselves.
p8: What’s going on?!! / Wahhh!
Yao: Eeek!
Yao: Tsukumo!
p9: Tachibana: You should go play, child.
Yao: You think this is the same as back then?
Yao: Don’t… mess with me.
p10: Out of my way!!
Tachibana: Once a brat, / always a brat. / Even after 800 years.
Tsukumo: ………. / You’re the cause of everything, aren’t you? / You caused the Tokijiku to exist, and caused Yao’s immortality.
p11: Tachibana: I told you before. / If you want him to regain his humanity, / it will cost you your life.
Tachibana: Come to the Eternal Realm. / Offer yourself unto me.
Tsukumo: You’ve got a few screws loose! / Why do I have to trade my life?! / Human sacrifices and whatnot are just evil old traditions!
Tachibana: Foolish girl. / It was not long ago when human sacrifices were still performed.
p12: Tachibana: What was offered to the gods were not merely lives. / Sincerity can move the heavens.
Tachibana: As can determination, / and faith.
Yao: Hah Hah Tsukumo: Yao.
Yao: Tachibana!!!!
p13: Tachibana: How weak. What have you spent the last 800 years doing?
Tachibana: Should I tear you to shreds? / Or gouge out your chest? / Or simply hang you?
Tsukumo: Stop! Tachibana: Then choose, Tokijiku.
p14: Tachibana: If you care enough for the child to offer him your life,
Tachibana: then love me.
p15: Tsukumo: Yao. Yao: Are you all right… Tsukumo…?
Tsukumo: I’m not the person Yao sees when he looks at me…
Tsukumo: And yet…
Tsukumo: That’s enough. / I’ll pay the price for everything.
p16: Tsukumo: I’ll protect you, Yao.
Yao: Tsukumo…?
Tsukumo: I’ll do what he wants, so… / I’ll go to the Eternal Realm, so…
FB: I’ll do what you want, so stop!!
Yao: It’s the same as back then… / What are you saying?
p17: Tsukumo: Give Yao back his humanity.
Tachibana: You truly are
p18: Tachibana: Just like that girl.
Yao: Tsukumo!
Tachibana: Oh ye myriad gentle gods who dwell within this mortal realm. / Begone from he to whom blessings you gave.
p19: Tsukumo: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yao: Mm…
Yao: Mmph!!!
p20: Yao: You little!! / Oh grand wind who drifts within this mortal realm, I beg thee listen to my call.
Tachibana: You can no longer / use kotodama.
Yao: What?
p21: Yao: Ugh…!!
Tachibana: The myriad gods no longer grant you their protection.
Tachibana: Your blood will not cease to flow, / your wounds will not heal,
p22: Tachibana: for I have reclaimed the power of immortality.
Tsukumo: Yao…
Tachibana: Now, child, it is your turn. / I shall grant your desire.
Tachibana: and kill you, nice and slowly. Box: The calamities never end. Box (lower): Yao Tsukumo – To be continued in Issue 8 https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/37831[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 8 by Dowolf2013-05-08T23:36:36+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comYao Tsukumo 8
*For Psylocke Scans
p1: Yao: Murasaki!!
Yao: Murasaki! / It’s you, right? (lower right): Yao Tsukumo
Yao: Is this child yours, Murasaki?
Yao: Hey!
p2: Yao: Huh?
(?): She is Ours. / Lay not your hands on her.
Yao: Ugh!
p3: Side text: Beings which have overcome the limits of human knowledge— / Men call them gods. Bottom: Yao Tsukumo / Presented by Suzuki Sanami Lower right: Chapter 8: The Mockery of a God
p4: Tachibana: Fall silent, / monkeys!! / You stand before a god.
Tachibana: We are Tachibana the Divine Tree. / We come in thanks for the offering you gave to Us.
Tachibana: So We give unto you the girl you offered up to Us and a royal miko. / Each has been endowed with power most divine.
Tachibana: The power to grant eternal life, / to bear the fruit of immortality.
p5: Tachibana: Its name is Tokijiku. / They have become divine fruit!!
Tachibana has given birth to a child of the gods… / She’s become a god.
Tokijiku! / The god who protects this village! / Tokijiku! / Tokijku!
The fruit of the gods…
p6: Tachibana: Hmph. / What a base shrine.
Woman: Will you allow us to care for the Princess, / the Maiden of the Tokijiku?
Tachibana: There is no need. The Tokijiku has lost her heart.
Tachibana: For a shintai needs no heart.
Women: As… As you say. / Please relax, Lord Tachibana.
p7: Women: This village was saved through your efforts, Oh Lord. / Please, eat your fill.
Women: Whatever is the trouble? Tachibana: A man. Women: I’m sorry?
Tachibana: We want the fresh liver of a man. / Bring Us one young and supple.
p8: Tachibana: We devour women, but we devour men as well. / Will you not produce a man for your god? Should you not sweep one towards Us?
Tachibana: You may bring Us one every six months.
Tachibana: You sought power beyond that of man. / Karma must exact its toll.
Tachibana: Or would you rather the land again grow dry?
p9: Tachibana: Oh, the youth from today? Yao: Murasaki!
Yao: You… / You did this to her!!
This child was originally abandoned. No one will miss him. / He’s just a worthless insect always hovering around the Maiden of the Tokijiku. / We offer him to you.
Yao: First Murasaki, and now me? / I don’t give a fuck that you’re a god! / You’re just another punk!
p10: The village can’t go back to the way it was. / We’re sick of it all— / the cold, / the hunger.
You must die so the village can live!
Mn!
Ahhh!!
p11: Yao: That’s ridiculous!!
Man: Ah! / Wahhhhh!
Yao: Shit…
Yao: Let… Her… Go… / Hah / Hah
p12: Yao: LET MURASAKI GO!!!
Wait, Yao!! Tachibana: Very good.
Tachibana: We shall set forth. / A hunt is quite acceptable.
p13: Yao: Are you all right, Murasaki? / It’s just a little more.
Yao: This time, / Murasaki,
Yao: I will / protect you-------------
p14: Yao: ----!!!! / Ahhhh!!!
p15: Tachibana: Did the youth’s arm suit your palate? Yao: …..Ahhhhhhh!!!
Tachibana: You are rather brazen fodder, to touch that which is Ours. / Are you acquainted with the girl?
Tachibana: Then relax. You shall find rest within Our stomach, / and We shall console the Tokijiku.
Yao: Her name… is not… / Tokijiku.
Yao: It’s Murasaki!!!
p16: Tachibana: Why are you so fixated on this one girl? / Surely there are plenty more who match her charms.
Murasaki: Oh ye myriad gentle gods who dwell within this mortal realm. / Grant unto Yao all the protection you have to give.
p23: Murasaki: Live, Yao.
Tachibana: The eternal life / of the Tokijiku!
p24: Yao: Gyah! / Ugh…
p25: Tachibana: Hmph. / Our interest has waned. / We shall head home. You may do as you wish with the infant.
Tachibana: Eternal life, bestowed upon a monkey? / That, too, may prove interesting.
Tachibana: Try / to enjoy yourself, would you?
Yao: Eternal…life…
p26-27: Yao: But how can I live / in a world without Murasaki?
Yao: I miss you. / Are you in that realm, Murasaki? / Then I shall go there as well. / I shall go and join you.
Tsukumo: So that’s… / why…
Yao: You must kill me.
p28: Tsukumo: So that’s what happened 800 years ago. / And that…
Tsukumo: was Yao’s / true desire…
p29: Tsukumo: Yao… Yao: Stay back!
Gate: What emotion courses through you, Tokijiku-chan? Sympathy? / Jealousy?
Gate: Yao-chan wants to die so that he can meet his girl. / Do you still want him to regain his humanity?
(?): Power exceeding that of man / demands an excessive cost.
p30: (?): You are a pitiable thing, / used as you are by that youth.
(?): We can grant your wish. / But it will cost you
Tachibana: your life. Sidebar: He laughs as he toys with their lives. To be continued in the June issue.
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/37820[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 7 by Dowolf2013-05-07T01:58:10+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comYao Tsukumo 7
*For Psylocke Scans
p1: Yao: The Eternal Realm?
Murasaki: They say the gods live there. / It’s supposed to be so pretty, and always warm.
Murasaki: I kind of want to go there, Yao. Yao: You really do hate the cold, don’t you, Murasaki?
p2: Upper left: Chapter 7: Yao and Murasaki Right side: Yao Tsukumo Lower right: Presented by Suzuki Sanami Left: Though she knows she is destined to one day fall, for now at least she keeps her flowery smile…
p3: Yao: I see. / So it’s you.
Yao: You’re the Tsukumo-gami who compose the Gate to the Eternal Realm.
Tsukumo: Huh? / The Gate to the Eternal Realm? / These two? <little text: You said there were two, but… >
Yao: Hey… Murasaki, you’re heavy. Murasaki: But Yao, you’re so warm.
Murasaki: You’re so warm and comfy.
p13: Murasaki: I’ll help you get water. Yao: You can help all you want, but I don’t think there’s any water left in the village.
Murasaki: …Yeah.
Murasaki: Hey, / Yao?
Murasaki: Guess what? / I got a family name. / I’m Tachibana Murasaki now. / Isn’t it cute?!
Yao: Tachibana? / Huh? / Why’s / that?
Murasaki: Now I’ll get to wear pretty kimonos, / and I’ll never be hungry again.
p14: Murasaki: I’m to be / the bride of Tachibana the Divine Tree.
Murasaki: They say it’s too late now for humans to solve the water shortage problem on their own. / So I asked the gods for help.
Murasaki: The rain will come again soon, / so relax, Yao.
p15: Murasaki: Aren’t I amazing?
Murasaki: Stop! / Yao, let’s go home! Yao: If we climb this mountain and the next one, we’ll reach a big town.
Yao: Let’s go to the city. / Then the two of us can freely live together, Murasaki.
p16: Murasaki: It’s not that simple. / I have a father, and a mother, and a sister. / It’s fine. I chose this.
Yao: You can’t!!!! / You can’t marry a god!!!
There! / There he is!
So it was you, Yao!!
Yao: Murasaki, run!!
p17: Come here, Murasaki!! Eeek!
Yao: Murasaki!!
Yao!!!
Murasaki belongs to the gods now!! Ouch!
Murasaki: Stop! Yao didn’t do anything wrong! / I’ll do what you want,
Murasaki: just don’t kick Yao!! / Don’t be cruel to him!!
p18: Murasaki: Just / stop / bullying Yao…
Yao: Mu… / ra… / sa…
The poor thing. / But still,
p19: if this brings rain to our village once more,
it is a cheap price to pay.
Yao: Murasaki! / Murasaki!!!
p20: Yao: Stop!! / Don’t go!!!
Yao: Murasaki!!!
Hey, / where’s big sis Murasaki going?
Murasaki is going to become the wife of a god.
Tachibana the Divine Tree. / He is a most grand and magnificent god.
p21: She will then go to live with the gods in the Eternal Realm. / They say it is a very beautiful and warm place.
p22-24: <no text>
p25: Yao: Who gives a fuck about marrying a god? / Who gives a fuck about a family name? / This is just… just a…
p26: Yao: Just a human sacrifice!!!
p27-28: <no text>
p29: Yao: Mu… / Murasaki?
Yao: Is that you, / Murasaki?
p30: Right sidebar: No matter how one struggles, he can never escape the start of the cycle of karma. Bottom: Yao Tsukumo—To be continued in the June issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/37672[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 6 by Dowolf2013-04-24T19:33:24+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comYao Tsukumo 6
*For Psylocke Scans
p1: Yao: Urgh. / Dammit! / Ah!
Yao: Stop! / Don’t go!!
p2: Yao: Murasaki!!!!!
Murasaki: Yao…
p3: Yao: Murasaki!!!!
Yao: Hah / Hah
Yao: Sniff… / Murasaki…
p4: Though only one layer separates their bodies, a multitude of layers envelop their hearts.
Yao Tsukumo Lower left: Presented by Suzuki Sanami Lower right: Chapter 6: The Gate to the Eternal Realm
p5: I, Tachibana Tsukumo, am the girl in whom dwells the power to bestow eternal life, / the Maiden of the Tokijiku.
Yao is the boy who received eternal life from the Maiden of the Tokijiku, / the Shield of the Tokijiku.
And the two of us have resolved / to once again become human.
Therefore, in order to meet with the Holy Tree of the Tokijiku, / we must first go to the land of the gods, the Eternal Realm.
The gate to that realm, / the Gate to the Eternal Realm…
p6: is apparently contained within my school.
Therefore, Yao: I have no surname. Just call me Yao.
Blackboard: Yao Yao: Nice to meet you.
Girls: He has no surname? What’s that supposed to mean? / But isn’t he kind of cute?
p7: Tsukumo: …….. / Everything feels so different.
Chii-chan: Hey, Yao-kun, are you really living at Tsukumo’s house? / What’s your relationship? Tsukumo: Chii-chan, how do you know that?!
Tsukumo: I— / I mean, our relationship is, well… Chii-chan: Are you cousins, or relatives, or…
Chii-chan: Or have you already starting hitting on him? Tsukumo: Chii-chan, don’t ask that so bluntly!!!!
Yao: Hit him? / ?
p8: Yao: We have, yeah. Tsukumo: We have not!!!
Chii-chan: Ahaha, sorry. / But Tsukumo, Boys: Tell us all about it.
Chii-chan: I’m glad you’ve found someone you like.
Tsukumo: Someone I like?
p9: Yao: Tsukumo, / let’s split up and search for the Gate to the Eternal Realm. / The gate exists as a pair. We need to find them both.
Aria: Yao / doesn’t like you at all!
Aria: Yao has thought of only one person: Murasaki!!
Yao: Hey, are you listening?
p10: Tsukumo: Hey!
Yao: Tsukumo! / What is it?
Thought bubble: He’s only thought of Murasaki for the last 800 years Tsukumo: Ah. / Mm…
Yao: Look, I’ve set up a barrier inside the school. / It should stop any Tsukumo-gami from getting in, freeing us to split up.
Tsukumo: Huh? Yeah. / Split up…
Tsukumo: See ya! Yao: Tsukumo!
p11: Yao: Murasaki!!!
Tsukumo: No. I can’t look at Yao’s face right now.
Tsukumo: Murasaki was the first Maiden of the Tokijiku, right? / If she was the first one, she must have had something special to her. / Actually, wait.
Tsukumo: Who, exactly, / was Murasaki?
Tsukumo: Do I love him? / I don’t think that’s quite right, Chii-chan.
Aria: Aria wanted to go to school together with Yao!!
p13: Tsukumo: And what’s with that uniform? Aria: My cover is that I’m a high school girl who skipped lots of grades!
Tsukumo: Hey, Aria? / Do you know anything about Murasaki? Aria: Huh?
Tsukumo: Please, tell me about Murasaki and Yao…
Aria: You’re jealous.
Animal thing: Squeal!
Aria: Long, long ago, like super long ago, / there was a super-poor village. / In it, there were two childhood friends, a boy and a girl.
p14: Aria: The two were always together. / They were super-duper in love.
Aria: But a god fell in love with the girl at first sight and made her his bride. / So the two were separated.
Aria: So his love was stolen by a god, given power, and returned to the village. / The poor village became more and more prosperous, and the girl became the divine guardian of the village. / And then,
Aria: the girl gave the boy immortality. / And they all lived happily ever after.
p15: Tsukumo: Wait—then Murasaki was the one who made Yao immortal? / Why? Aria: I dunno. Aria doesn’t know more than that.
Tsukumo: But Yao / never wished for immortality. Yao: Kill me.
Tsukumo: That’s just…
Tsukumo: What?
Girls: Nooo! / Eeeeekk!!!
p16: Monster: To… / Toki…jiku.
p17: Aria: A Tsukumogami!! / <aside: Yuck! >
Girl: Eeeeek! Tsukumo: Run!!
Tsukumo: Aria, / you have to go tell Yao! Aria: OK!
p18: Aria: You can just die, Tsukumo! <3
Tsukumo: Aria!! Aria: Good luck, stupid!
Tsukumo: That wasn’t what I meant!!
p19: Tsukumo: Dammit! / Now we’re stuck on the roof!
Tsukumo: What do I do? Now I’ve gotten my whole school involved…
Girls: Eeeeeek!!
Tsukumo: No!!
p20: Yao: Ugh… Tsukumo: Yao!
Yao: It’s aiming for you! / So don’t cover people, stupid!!
Tsukumo: Don’t yell at me… / You said you had set up a barrier!
p21: Tsukumo: I saved you last time, and the time before that. / You’re really weak, aren’t you!
Yao: Tsukumo, / what are you saying? / What’s going on with you today?
Flashback: the girl gave the boy immortality. / And they all lived happily ever after.
Tsukumo: Why… / Why / would Murasaki—
p22: Tsukumo: Eeeeek! Yao: Tsukumo!
Yao: I can’t break free!!
Yao: Aah!
p23: <no text>
p24: <no text>
p25: Tsukumo: Why did Murasaki make Yao immortal? / And why, after what she did, does he continue to think of her?
Tsukumo: When Yao’s in pain,
p26: Tsukumo: I’m in pain, too.
p27: Yao: Murasaki!!
Tsukumo: Ahh…
Tsukumo: So this is what pain feels like…
p28: Girls: Wahhh!!!
Girls: That was so disgusting!!! / What was it?!! Tsukumo: Wah!
Tsukumo: Are you OK? Are you hurt?
Yao: Aria, / did you destroy the barrier?!
Aria: Yao, you meanie! / Aria: Aria doesn’t know anything about the barrier!
Girls: Hee hee. / So that was a barrier.
p29: Girls: You’re a super good girl, Tokijiku-chan! <3 / We think we’ve grown fond of you. Tsukumo: Huh? Umm…
Yao: Oh, / so it’s you.
p30: Girls: We’re the Tsukumo-gami of the Gate to the Eternal Realm. https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/37529[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 5 by Dowolf2013-04-07T02:24:57+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comYao Tsukumo 5
*For Psylocke Scans
p0: Father: Huh? / Do you have any business here, / miss?
Aria: You see, / Aria’s waiting for someone she loves.
Father: Someone you love? / Here? Sign: Tachibana Kendojo
Aria: Yep! / Hey, mister? / While I’m waiting,
p1-2 Title: Chapter 5: Aria’s Scorn Aria: let’s do something that feels good together. <3
(left side): Life flickers in the wintery, desolate sky. Yao Tsukumo
p3: Sign: Tachibana Kendojo
Tsukumo: My father’s probably training…
Yao: He should have already been contacted by the main house. It’s fine. Tsukumo: What—wait! It’s not fine at all!
Father: Maiden of the Tokijiku, / congratulations on your ascent to divinity.
Tsukumo: He never even came to visit me while I was in the hospital… / He didn’t call or e-mail me, either… / And moreover,
p4: Tsukumo: I’ve lost my sense of taste.
Tsukumo: Ever since I was able to use that power, / I’ve truly become less and less human…
Tsukumo: I haven’t told Yao yet. / At times like this, there’s only two people I really want to talk with…
p5: Tsukumo: Wah!
Yao: What happened to your usual bold self? / You can worry after we’ve seen them.
Tsukumo: Yeah. / They’re just my parents.
Tsukumo: I’m sure they’ll greet me the same way they always do. / I’m home!!
p16: Aria: Those are special handcuffs with thorny insides. / Doesn’t it feel like your wrists are about to come off? / And you can’t use Kotodama, either. / You can’t escape.
Aria: Oh, people look so sexy / as they near death.
p17: Aria: And you look great, Yao! <3
Tsukumo: Who the hell are you?!!
Aria: I am the Tsukumo-gami Aria. / I’ve had a hot and painful relationship with Yao for the last 200 years.
Tsukumo: You’re a Tsukumo-gami?
Aria: I super-duper-ultra hate you, Tokijiku, / for getting in our way!
p18: Aria: With men you wound the body, but with women you wound the heart.
Aria: Pogya. Pogya(?): Beep!
Tsukumo: What?! Aria: I want to hear your gasp in ecstasy.
p19: Tsukumo: Mn! / Ah! / Stop
Tsukumo: it!
(Panel 4, sfx on the bottom): Ahhh hah hah aheh aheh Tsukumo: She’s happy?!!
Tsukumo: Enough of this!! / Let everyone down right now!!
Aria: Then, / let’s play a game.
p20: Aria: We’ll play tag. / If you win, I’ll listen to you.
Tsukumo: Huh?
Tsukumo: Wah!
Aria: And of course…
Yao: Mn! / Mngh!!
Aria: Aria’s It!
p21: Aria: If I catch you, I’m gonna kill you!!!! Tsukumo: Wait!!!
Parents: Mnnngh!! / Mnnnnn!!
Tsukumo: She won’t listen to me. / What do I do? I need to find a weapon…
p22: Tsukumo: What… / What is this?!!
Tsukumo: She must have done this. / Don’t tell me my room is like this, too?
p23: Aria: Well? Well?! / Do you like it? / Doesn’t the interior design trigger your endorphins? <3
Tsukumo: Yeah.
p24: Tsukumo: I can feel the norepinephrine flowing through me. Box: Norepinephine is a substance inside your brain which awakens fighting instincts. Below the box: Brain Expert / Shirako.
Tsukumo: You stupid / kid!!!!
Tsukumo: Poooooiiiinnn
Tsukumo: nnt!!!!!!!! Aria: Squee!
p25: Tsukumo: I have to hurry and save everyone! / Why would you do such a horrible thing to them?
Aria: Why? / Oh! / I never told you, did I?
Aria: Aria
p26: Aria: is the Tsukumo-gami of an Iron Maiden.
Tsukumo: Damn!
p27: Aria: I’ll make you give me a hug / and play with me.
Aria: So many people used to play with me some four hundred years ago. / But no one comes to play anymore.
Aria: But with Yao around, / I’m not lonely anymore. / Even if I stab him with needles and his blood flows out, he gives me more and more hugs.
Aria: Yao’s ragged breath, / his contorted face, / his dying gasps...
p28: Aria: I love / Yao!
Tsukumo: But that’s… / Well, what about Yao’s feelings?
Aria: Huh?
p29: Tsukumo: Yao has been in pain forever. / I want to free him from that. / So,
Tsukumo: the two of us are going to become human again.
Aria: Huh? / What?
Aria: Yao has to be immortal! / I won’t let you do that!
Aria: Die, Tokijiku!!!
p30: Aria: It’s / empty?!
Aria: You’re wide open!!!!
p31: Aria: Cough / cough / It hurts! / It hurrrts!
Aria: No! / Stop!!! / Quit it!!!
p32: Tsukumo: With men you wound the body, / but with women you wound the heart.
Aria: Wahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! / Don’t actually write on me, stupid!!!!!!
p33: Tsukumo: Are you all right, Yao? Yao: Ah, yeah. Aria: Yao, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!
Tsukumo: Hey! Do you want me to tease you again?
Yao: Sorry. She won’t attack you anymore, Tsukumo. / She doesn’t really bear any ill will against—
Aria: — Yes I do. Yao: At any rate, SFX: Yep.
Yao: we’re sort of… / inseparable, I guess. SFX: Smack Smack Kiss Kiss Lick Lick
Tsukumo: Huh? / Yao, / you let her / do that to you?
SFX: Glare
p34: Aria: Don’t flatter yourself, Tokijiku. / Yao doesn’t like you at all!!!
Tsukumo: Huh?
Aria: For the last 800 years, / Yao has thought of only one person: Murasaki!!
Tsukumo: Murasaki? Aria: Don’t get full of yourself, you foolish fool! Yao: Aria…
Tsukumo: Wasn’t Murasaki the first Maiden of the Tokijiku? / And if he thinks of her constantly, does that mean he liked her?
p35: Tsukumo: So Yao has someone / he likes, too.
Tsukumo: How has Yao lived / for the 800 years before I met him?
p36: Tsukumo: Well, I mean, it’s not like I really care. It doesn’t matter to me!!
Father: Tsukumo. / …my lady.
Father: My humblest apologies, Lady Tsukumo. / Again you have had danger thrust upon you…
Tsukumo: Stop it… / Don’t talk to me so formally, / Father…
p37: Tsukumo: *Spittake*
Tsukumo: Bahahahaha!!!! Ahahahahaha!!!! / How can I take you two seriously when you look like that?!
Parents: Well, / I mean… / Tsukumo…
Tsukumo: I’m home.
p38: Parents: The two of you are going to return to being human?! / Tsukumo, you…
Tsukumo: Yup! Aria <aside>: Don’t do it!
Tsukumo: You explain, Yao. Yao: In order to erase the power of the Tokijiku within Tsukumo and myself, I suspect…
p39: Yao: we will need to meet with the god who first gave that power to the Maiden of the Tokijiku.
Yao: That deity lives in the land of the gods, / in the Eternal Realm.
Yao: First, we will need to open the gate to the Eternal Realm. / However, it hasn’t opened once these past 800 years.
p40: Yao: However, we know where it is.
Yao: It’s on top of a hill just outside of town,
Yao: in the high school Tsukumo attends. https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/37383[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 4 by Dowolf2013-03-20T17:50:12+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*For Psylocke Scans
p1: Tsukumo: Sigh… / It’s still a long walk back home.
Yao: It’s because everything on this mountain belongs to the Tachibana family. Tsukumo: The Tachibana family really is rich… (bottom right): Yao Tsukumo
Tsukumo: I was attacked, / protected,
Tsukumo: and offered to the gods.
Tsukumo: A lot of stuff has happened these last few days, / but now I’m finally heading home.
p2: Upper right: An unadorned heart. Bottom left: Yao Tsukumo Bottom right: Chatper 4: “Together” Presented by / Suzuki Sanami
p3: Tsukumo: Come to think of it, Yao, / are you really heading home looking like that? / Just take those clothes off. I’ll lend you something.
Yao: No, I’m good. / I’ll fix them.
Tsukumo: Huh? Yao: Oh wise leather and thread
Yao: who hath been layered within this mortal realm.
Yao: May thy misfortune, thy sins, and thy defilement
Yao: be purged from thee and thus thy self be cleansed.
p4: Yao: So let thyself settle into thy true form.
Tsukumo: Amazing! Is this also the power of those Tsukumo-gami things or Kotodama? / <aside: I get it—that’s your only suit! > / I don’t quite understand yet, but…
Yao: Something cannot be created out of nothing. / In other words, this is equivalent exchange. / Only the form of something changes, not its value.
Yao: Hm? / <aside> Huh?
p5: Yao: Spirit dwells in the words we utter. / From them springs power. / That is Kotodama.
Yao: I used Kotodama to convey / to the leather and thread in my clothes / that they should return to normal. SFX: Hut two hut two hut two hut two
Tsukumo: Ah! / You made that sword by asking the iron to become a weapon, right? Yao: However, you are also being hunted by Tsukumo-gami.
Yao: Spirits dwell in the wind, in the earth, in the water, in everything. / So everything in this world is at once your enemy and your ally.
p6: Tsukumo: Then can you teach me how to use Kotodama? / Then I can fight, too!
Yao: Stop thinking such foolish things / You can’t.
Tsukumo: But Yao, / you’re always putting yourself in the way / and I can’t stand to watch you get hurt. / Why do you do so much to protect me?
Yao: I was made immortal by the power of the Tokijiku. / So I suspect only the Tokijiku can fix that.
p7: Yao: The only one who can kill me / is you, Tsukumo.
Yao: Kill me
Tsukumo: Again with that? / What’s with you? / You protect me because you want to die?
Tsukumo: Then / why? / Why did you become immortal?
p8: SFX: Thump
Tsukumo: Again with that look. Again with those pained eyes. / And of course I don’t want to see him like that…
p9: Tsukumo: So I guess even I…
Yao: Oh grim steel who sleeps within this mortal realm…
Tsukumo: Oh… all ye gods who sleep within this mortal realm. / Lend me your strength.
Tsukumo: Huh? / Did it really work? Yao: Tsukumo, / you idiot!
p10: <no text>
p11: Yao: Every single Tsukumo-gami is answering your Kotodama! Tsukumo: Huh? All of them?!!
Yao: The power of the Tokijiku dwells within you, Tsukumo! / That’s why it’s so easy for you to call out to the Tsukumo-gami.
p12: Tsukumo: Eeek! / Even the gods in my clothing responded! Yao: Tsukumo! / Restrain the Tsukumo-gami!
Tsukumo: But / how do I…
Tsukumo: !!! / Nooo!!!!
p13: Tsukumo: Kyahhh! Yao: Tsukumo!!!!!!!
Tsukumo: Ngh…
Tsukumo: !!
p14: Yao: Ugh! / Gah! Tsukumo: Yao!
Tsukumo:: Even if his wounds heal, the iron rod will remain within his body. Yao: Cough / Gah / Gah / Gah / Hah / Cough Tsukumo: If I don’t do anything, Yao will be pierced by that rod forever.
Tsukumo: He’ll struggle in pain for all eternity / without the release of death.
Tsukumo: Immortal and unaging, / an undying body? / No.
p15: Tsukumo: He can’t die.
Tsukumo: Earth and sand!! / Lend me your power once more…
Tsukumo: But / what if I screw up again?
p16: Tsukumo: Yao hasn’t closed his eyes.
Tsukumo: No matter how painful or hard it gets, / he doesn’t look away.
Yao: Kill me. Tsukumo: He even struggles against his fate.
p17: Tsukumo: So then,
Yao: Tsuku… / Gah!
Yao: Spirit dwells in words. / That is Kotodama.
Tsukumo: I must focus my feelings, / focus my spirit, / and convey how I feel.
p18-19: Tsukumo: I want to save Yao. / So please. / Oh iron, oh rock, oh earth,
Tsukumo: Move aside.
p20: Tsukumo: I / did it, / Yao!
Tsukumo: Huh?
Tsukumo: No! / That’s enough! Now stop!!! Yao: Tsukumo.
Tsukumo: Yao.
p21: Tsukumo: Why—why do you look like that? / <aside: Like something from the Paris collection? > Yao: ….. Tsukumo: Huh?
Yao: Looks like you used up all your strength with that last Kotodama.
Yao: These clothes, and everything around us, / is all because of your screwed-up power. Tsukumo: Huh?
p22: Tsukumo: Whoa! / I’m an artist! Yao: This isn’t a laughing matter…
Yao: Oh wise leather and thread who hath been layered within this mortal realm. May thy misfortune, thy sins, and thy defilement be purged from thee and thus thy self be cleansed.
Yao: So let thyself settle into thy true form.
Yao: For goodness’ sake. / You’re always so reckless. / However,
p23: Yao: You saved me.
Tsukumo: Yeah. / Yeah.
Tsukumo: I know. / I heard your Kotodama, Yao.
p24: Tsukumo: I will kill you, Yao.
p25: Tsukumo: You will feel pain, / and laugh, / and cry, / and grow old, / and die,
Tsukumo: And will live normally.
p26-27: Tsukumo: Let’s become humans again, together.
p28: Yao: Tsukumo… / I can’t imagine / the Maiden of the Tokijiku becoming a human… Tsukumo: Mm-hm. I don’t know if I can, either. / But—
Tsukumo: From now on, / we’ll try to find it.
Tsukumo: OK?
p29: Yao: Yeah.
p30: It has finally blossomed.
Huh?
p31: You may have deified her as the Maiden of the Tokijiku, / but the current Tsukumo-sama bears but a trivial amount of power.
Its flower blooms, / its petals scatter, / and it bears fruit.
Such is the fragrant / Tokijiku-no-Kagu-no-Konomi.
I have waited so long.
And yet it will not take much longer. / The Divine shall draw near. / And then,
p32: Her Humanity will grow distant.
Yao: Tsukumo, are you all right? / Drink up. Tsukumo: Huh / Ah. / Yeah.
Tsukumo: Why amazake? Yao: Because it’s very nutritional. Tsukumo: Ah… I see.
Yao: Hurry, and regain your strength.
p33: Tsukumo: Thank you. / It’s so warm.
Tsukumo: Oh, Yao. / Even you can be so kind.
Tsukumo: Huh? / It’s not sweet. / It doesn’t taste like anything.
p34: Tsukumo: But why? (right side): She draws closer to the Divine she does not want to be… (bottom): To be continued in the March issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/37173[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 3 by Dowolf2013-02-26T20:07:07+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comYao Tsukumo 3
p1: (upper left): Yao Tsukumo (sign): Yamato University Hospital Tsukumo: 95 / 96 / 97 / 98
Tsukumo: Tsukumo! / <aside: Tee-hee. > / Mm-hm! / I’m back in action… (TL/N: “Tsukumo” is literally written with characters meaning “99.”)
Nurse: Tachibana-san!! Tsukumo: Did—did you just hear me pronounce “99” as “Tsukumo”?! Nurse: No, that’s not it.
Box: My shoulder wound has healed since then, / and today’s the day I finally get discharged from the hospital.
Box: However… Nurse: You haven’t fully recovered from your injuries yet. You may -- discharged, but that doesn’t mean you can overexert yourself recklessly. You should be especially – not to hurt--- back here. (dashes==covered up by Tsukumo, the nurse, or the box)
p2: Box: Neither my father nor my mother / has come to visit me since then.
Father: Lady Tsukumo
Tsukumo: Can I even… go home?
Yao: Tsukumo, / let’s go. Tsukumo: Huh?
Butler: Lady Tsukumo, / I have come to gather you.
p3: As their lives flicker, so too do the magic lanterns. Yao Tsukumo (bottom right): Chapter 3: “Protect me, k?”
p4: Tsukumo: So then. / Where are you taking me? Yao: We’re taking you home.
Yao: Your house is just up ahead. Tsukumo: My house?
Yao: Do you remember? / You lived there until you were four.
Yao: This is the home where you were born.
p5: Yao: The Tachibana Family Home.
p6: Welcome home, Maiden of the Tokijiku.
(?): Princess, / Oh! / Ah… / Welcome home!!!
p7: Mutsuki: I am Mutsuki. / Do you remember me?
Tsukumo: Err, uh, / sorry, but no…
Tsukumo: I did remember about Yao, though…
Women: No, they were both young then. / Even so, she did remember Yao.
Mutsuki: You did quite well yourself, Yao.
Mutsuki: However, / while you / were acting as the Tokijiku’s shield…
p8: Mutsuki: YOU LET HER GET INJURED!!!
Mutsuki: You’re a worthless piece-of-shit shield!!!
SFX: Turn and smile
Mutsuki: So then, allow me to show you around the Tachibana estate.
Tsukumo: This mansion is amazing. / Did I really live in a place like this?
p9: Mutsuki: The Tachibana family has been a prominent family for over 800 years. Tsukumo: 800 years?!
Mutsuki: Since the Kamakura era, your family, through control of the central temple and landownership, / has governed the surrounding region.
Mutsuki: Even now, the banks, factories, real estate markets, the schools, / and even the hospital where you were hospitalized, Princess, are under the management of the Tachibana family. Tsukumo: Wow…
Mutsuki: All of that is due to the divine aegis of the Maiden of the Tokijiku. / But before I explain further,
Mutsuki: We must purify you.
Tsukumo: Purify me?
p10: Mutsuki: The Tachibana home is a shrine of the gods. Tsukumo: Huh?
Mutsuki: We must cleanse you of all unclean things from the mortal realm. Tsukumo: Wait— / Wah!
Tsukumo: Stop it!
Tsukumo: Eeek!
Tsukumo: You could at least react a little!!
p11: Tsukumo: Cold!
Tsukumo: Your name’s Mutsuki-san, right? / I can wash myself, if that’s all there is… Mutsuki: This is quite fine. This is my job, after all.
Tsukumo <aside>: So cold~
Tsukumo: Princess, was this from the other day? Tsukumo: Ah, yeah.
p12: Mutsuki: How heartrending! Tsukumo: Wah!
Mutsuki: It must have been so hard all by yourself. / But we are your allies, Princess.
Tsukumo: Mutsuki -san, / thank you.
Mutsuki: Then let us dress you, Princess, in vestments befitting your station. Tsukumo: “Vestments”? SFX: Hug
Mutsuki: These are the vestments which have adorned generations of Maidens of the Tokijiku.
p13: Mutsuki: You look quite beautiful.
p14-15: Mutsuki: Come, Princess. This way.
Tsukumo: Mandarins? / Maybe they’re from the tachibana tree?
Tsukumo: But then why? / Why does my heart / feel so… noisy here?
Mutsuki: Then let us speak / of the Maiden of the Tokijiku and the history of the Tachibana family.
p16-17: Mutsuki: Roughly eight hundred years ago, an era when the capital was in Kamakura, / this land was still but a small village.
Mutsuki: In it, / there was a girl / who was cheerful, kind, / and beautiful. / Her name was Murasaki.
Mutsuki: Lady Murasaki was beloved by all; / she even curried the love of a god. / The god was the Great Tree of the Tokijiku, the Tachibana-no-Amatsukami.
Mutsuki: Lady Murasaki was given in marriage to the Tachibana-no-Amatsukami. / The Tokijiku’s power of immortality was inserted into her body, and she became the Maiden of the Tokijiku.
Mutsuki: The god gave the house of Lady Mursaki the name Tachibana, / and made them a noble family entrusted with the protection of the Maiden of the Tokijiku.
Mutsuki: Under the god’s divine protection, the Tachibana family prospered. / Even now, they bear the burden of protecting some of Japan’s key locations.
p18: Mutsuki: And Princess, / you are the 14th Maiden of the Tokijiku.
Tsukumo: …. / Huh…
Tsukumo: Well, then, / what about Yao? Mutsuki (background): That is why I have been so looking forward to meeting you. Working for you is like my dream. Even now, I cannot stop my heart from beating so loudly in my chest. In order to make things tonight more stimulating, I -------- morning------, if you so desire. (dashes covered by Tsukumo)
Tsukumo: Yao’s immortal, so how long has he been the Shield of the Tokijiku?
p19: Mutsuki: That person has been the Shield since Lady Murasaki herself was the Maiden. / <aside: Though I don’t see any reason why you should pay him much mind. > Tsukumo: For that long?
Tsukumo: He’s been alive / for over eight hundred years…
Mutsuki: However, / there is no longer a need for a Shield of the Tokijiku.
Tsukumo: Huh?
Mutsuki: Princess, you must not be dirtied by the mortal realm. So please, discard what bonds you have formed till now. / Yes. You need not study as well. Let us go inform your school that you will no longer be attending!
p20: Mutsuki: You will spend your entire life here, at the main home. / And we shall protect you, Princess.
Tsukumo: Mutsuki-san, what are you saying? / Is this a joke? / It is, right?
Yao: Hey!
Mutsuki: The Princess was injured under your care. / You can no longer be entrusted with her, Yao.
Mutsuki: We must concern ourselves chiefly with protecting the Princess’s body. / There is no need to treat her like a human,
p21: Mutsuki: for she is the child of a God.
Mutsuki: So then. / Princess, let us make arrangements.
Tsukumo: Hell no.
p22: Tsukumo: I’m / going home!!!
Mutsuki: Eek!
Mutsuki: Princess! / Why do you run, Princess!! / Please, wait!!!
p23: Mutsuki: This is quite a cruel joke!
Tsukumo: At this rate, I’ll be pulled further and further away from my father and mother, / and I’ll never be able to meet them again.
Mutsuki: PRINCESS!!!
Mutsuki: I cannot allow you to be defiled! Tsukumo: She’s fast!
Mutsuki: Please forgive my use of force!!
p24: Mutsuki: What are you planning, / Yao?
Tsukumo: Yao?
Yao: Oh grim steel who sleeps within this mortal realm,
Yao: I beg thee listen to my call.
p25: Yao: Thy name is God of Scything
Yao: I act only as per the Maiden’s will.
Mutsuki: Seriously? / So annoying. / Shit. / Fuck! / Fine then!
Mutsuki: I’ll fight you one-on-one. / Let’s go!
Mutsuki: You have employed one of the Tsukumogami as a weapon. / Then let us have a battle between Tsukumogami.
p26: Mutsuki: I’ll murder your ass!
Tsukumo: Batteries?
Mutsuki: Oh wise lightning who sleeps within this mortal realm, / I beg thee listen to my call!
Mutsuki: Thy name / is God of Bursting!
p27: Yao: Damn—lightning?!
Mutsuki: And your Tsukumogami weapon is steel. / You can’t win, you bastard!
(left text): Burst!
Yao: !!!!!!!!!!! / Gaaahhhhhh!
Tsukumo: Yao!!!
Mutsuki: You are the God of Bursting’s lightning rod. / And now you’re getting roasted!!!
p28: Mutsuki: How despicable!
Mutsuki: If you weren’t fucking immortal,
p29: Mutsuki: you’d be nothing more
Mutsuki: than a piece-of-shit little kid!!!!
Tsukumo: Enough! Please, stop!!
Mutsuki: How could such a crude shield / ever hope to protect the Princess?
p30: Mutsuki: However, / here,
Mutsuki: she never will become involved with others,
Mutsuki: and never will an indelible scar mar her fair skin!
Mutsuki: For there is no need / to wound her heart!
p31: Tsukumo: Tsukumogami who are after me might wind up attacking Chii-chan or one of my other friends once again. / And my father and mother might be wounded.
Tsukumo: If I remain here, they won’t become involved. / I won’t meet anyone ever again. / But…
Tsukumo: I… / If only I can put up with it…
Yao: Tsukumo!!!
p32: Yao: You’re such a softhearted idiot. / So tell me!
Yao: What do you want to do?
p33: I………….
Mutsuki: You shitty shield! / You are trying to deceive the Princess!
Mutsuki: I shall be the one / to protect her!!!!
p34: Mutsuki: You son of a…!! / You weren’t even strong enough to dodge…
p35: Mutsuki: P—Princess!!! / Why are you there? / Why would you be there, of all places?!!
Tsukumo: Why, you ask?!!! / Yao!
Yao: I get it.
Yao: Oh ferocious bamboo who sleeps within this mortal realm, / I beg thee listen to my call.
p36: Yao: Thy name is God of Sweeping!!
Mutsuki: The Princess could have been injured!! / That was your fault, you bastard!!!
Mutsuki: Now burst!!!
Mutsuki: What? / Why did it disappear?
p37: Tsukumo: Too bad!! / You see, bamboo
Tsukumo: is an electrical insulator!!!
Sweep!
p38: Mutsuki: But I adored the Princess / far more than anyone else.
Tsukumo: I’m sorry, / Mutsuki-san.
Mutsuki: Princess…
p39: Tsukumo: I hate being tied down, / but I hate just being protected, too.
Tsukumo: So I’m going to become strong, too, and fight myself.
Mutsuku: What are you saying? / A Princess shouldn’t…!!!
Tsukumo: It’s fine. / It’s not like I’ll be alone.
Tsukumo: Right?
p40: Tsukumo: You better protect me, Yao.
p41: Yao.
p42: Yao: …..Lady / …ki.
Tsukumo: Hm? / What?
Yao: Nothing.
Yao: We’re heading home, right? Tsukumo: Yeah.
p43: Mutsuki: W-- / Please, wait, / Princess!!
(?): Mutsuki, / that’s enough.
Mutsuki: But I…
(?): Let us leave her alone, / for now.
p44: After all, Lady Tsukumo does not have much time left.
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/36894[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 2 by Dowolf2013-01-31T20:57:43+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*For Psylocke Scans
Yao Tsukumo chapter 2
p1: top: The second chapter of the occult fantasy that’s already getting a great response!!
Tsukumo: “Tokijiku”? / What does “Tokijiku” mean?
Yao: Tokijiku is the name / of the chains that bind you.
Yao: Resist it. / Defeat it. / Grow strong.
Yao: Someday, I will protect you, Tsukumo. (Bottom): Yao Tsukumo
Tsukumo: Yeah. / I’ll get strong. [sidebar]: Like a wafting fragrance, the childhood promise is revived.
p2: Tsukumo: I’ll get strong, / and I’ll protect you, Yao.
p3: A hand-picked flower / shall bear its fragrance forever. [bottom left]: Yao Tsukumo / Presented by / Suzuki Sanami [bottom right]: Chapter 2: Vessel and Shield
p4: That’s right. / I remember now. / I remember his face and his name.
And I remember unilaterally making a promise with you,
Yao.
p5: Yao: So you’ve awoken, Tsukumo.
Tsukumo: Ya… / o.
p6: SFX: *rising quickly*
Yao: Have your memories returned, then? SFX: Ring
Tsukumo: !! / Give it back!!
SFX: *Tremble*
SFX: *Snatch*
p7: SFX: *Sliding door*
Father: Tsukumo…
Tsukmo: Father. / Mother. SFX: *Sigh*
Father: I am overjoyed to see you survived, / Tsukumo-sama.
Tsukumo: Huh? / What? / Why are you acting so distant?
Father: …… / Tachibana Tsukumo-sama— / no.
p8: Father: Maiden of the Tokijiku, / congratulations on your ascent to divinity.
Maiden of the Tokijiku
Tsukumo: Why? / Why are you calling me the same thing that monster did?
Father: ….We are— Yao: Enough.
Yao: This is why I told you to explain things earlier.
p9: Yao: Tachibana Tsukumo, / now that you have reached 16 years of age, you have become the Maiden of the Tokijiku,
Yao: the child of the gods who can bestow eternal life and unaging immortality.
p10: Yao: Japanese mythology speaks of a legendary fruit, the Tokijiku-no-Kagu-no-Mi. / It is said he who eats of that fruit shall have the power of immortality.
Yao: The Maiden is the one in whom rests the Tokijiku’s power. / She is a mere vessel.
p11: Tsukumo: A vessel?
Yao: Countless beings seek the power of immortality.
Yao : A soul dwells in every single object in the world: / in mountains, in water, in the air, / and in man-made goods.
Yao: An object which has existed for over a century may even gain sentience. / The monster from last night was a soul dwelling in a katana.
Yao: Such beings are called / Tsukumogami
p12: Yao: They will seek to destroy the vessel and steal the power of the Tokijiku.
SFX: *Pat* Tsukumo: Kyahh!
Yao: You are but the vessel. You have no power of immortality yourself. / You can be injured,
Yao: and you can die.
p13: However, SFX: *Cha*
Yao: Oh grim steel who sleeps within this mortal realm, / I beg thee listen to my call.
SFX: *Schwing* Yao: Thy name is God of Scything
Yao: Your chains will be your blade…
Yao: The power of words can change a Tsukumogami into a weapon. / This is called kotodama.
p14: Yao: You must think of the entire world as your enemy, / yet at the same time it is your ally.
Yao: And I... SFX: Slice
SFX: Slice
SFX: Drip drip Tsukumo: What are you…
SFX: *Blup*
p15: SFX: *Sst* Yao: I am one who has acquired the power of the Tokijiku.
Yao: And I shall be the shield of the maiden who holds the power of immortality, / the Shield of the Tokijiku.
Yao: You must prepare yourself, Tachibana Tsukumo. / The vessel cannot live a normal life.
p16: Yao: You are not human.
Tsukumo: That’s… That’s not funny, you know… / I’m just a girl in high school, and the only daughter of a small dojo!
Yao: What sort of an idiot would run at her enemies?!! / You should run away!! Don’t do unnecessary things!!!
Yao: And you actually punched it with your right arm? Are you insane?! / Now you’ve opened your wound back up! Tsukumo: Ah
Tsukumo: It was just / pissing me off…
Yao: Huh?
p49: Tsukumo: But my head feels clearer now.
p50: Yao: Dammit. You’ve always been screwed up, / Tsukumo. [box to the right]: The words they share hold a wish for the future.
Tsukumo: Says the one with a screwed-up body, / Yao. Box: I will grow strong. [bottom left]: To be continued in issue 1 https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/36701[English] [Translation] Yao Tsukumo 1 by Dowolf2013-01-08T21:42:38+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*For Psylocke Scans
p1: Ikume-Irihiko-Isachi-no-Mikoto proclaimed / that he was to be brought the Tokijiku-no-Kagu-no-Konomi.
This task was bequeathed to Taji-Mamori. / What sort of object was it?
It was a fruit which bore its scent through all seasons, / whose scent was said to never, ever vanish.
And furthermore, / he who ate of that fruit would there and then return to youthful form and never again age.
p2: Title: Chapter 1: The Maiden of the Tokijiku
That is the power / of the Tokijiku. / A miracle drug granting unaging immortality.
[story title]: Yao Tsukumo
p3: [blue text]: Spinning a tale / of the life of the girl who bears eternal time.
Presented by / Suzuki Nanami
p5: Girl: Hah / Hah / Haah
Girl: No! / Stop! / Please, let me go…
(?): Oh? / This scent / is wrong.
p6: (?): So where / is the Maiden of the Tokijiku?
p7: Sign: Tachibana Kendojo
Tsukumo: Ah!
p8: Tsukumo: Mask!
Ref(?): Point! / Winner: / Tachibana Tsukumo!!!
Tsukumo: Hah Cloth: Tachibana
Tsukumo: *Sigh*
p9: <no text>
p10: Girls: Nice! / You did it, Tachibana Tsukumo! / You, the only daughter of the Tachibana Dojo, scored a point on Shihan! [inset]: (top): Congrats! Congrats! (bottom): Thank you! Thank you!
Tsukumo: Shihan, / thanks for increasing my allowance like you promised!
Father: Do not grow prideful, Tsukumo! Do you believe scoring a single point makes you a warrior? You must maintain your calm! Clearly, I must again teach you the basics of a warrior’s spirit! / Now sit!!
Girls: Well, we’ll head out now, then. Tsukumo: Wait—
Girls: Good luck, Tsukumo! Tsukumo: You three meanies!
p11: Father: Listen to me, Tsukumo.
Father: You must know yourself, and work to improve yourself. / In other words:
Tsukumo: Huh? / Huh? / Huh?
Tsukumo: Ah! / That’s a really big bruise!
Tsukumo: I thought you might have hit me back there. Father: You thought?!
Tsukumo: That’s cold! / You could put it on a little more gently, Father…
p12: Father: So you really don’t feel anything other than the coldness.
Box: From the day I was born, I’ve never felt any pain. Tsukumo: Yeah. / There’s no pain.
Tsukumo: I have a sense of touch and can feel temperature, / but for some reason pain is different.
Father: That bruise shouldn’t be enough to interrupt your training. / [inset]: Don’t worry about it, don’t worry about it. Tsukumo: Thank goodness.
Father: Look, / how many times have I told you? / You’re not like other people.
p13: Father: That’s why I have used martial arts to train your mind and body. / You shouldn’t overestimate yourself, Tsukumooooo!
Father: It looks like your summer oranges have grown bigger, Tsukumo! / No—they’re more like dekopons!
Box: And this is my idiot father.
Mother: Husband, Tsukumo, / dinner’s ready!
[inset]: You perverted old man! Mother: My goodness.
p14: Tsukumo: Ah!
Tsukumo: Sorry, Mom, / but I’m having dinner with Chii-chan tonight. Mother: Oh, is that so?
Mother: There’s been a random slasher on the streets at night lately. / Be careful out there, Tsukumo.
Tsukumo: I’ll be fine! / Leave it to me!
Tsukumo: I’ll be off!
Mother: She said “leave it to me,” right? Father: She must be / planning something, again.
p15: Mother: But / she’s such a good girl, / right, husband?
Father: I know that much, / wife.
Mother: Also, / husband?
Mother: There was a call from the main family.
Father: Sorry. Take care of things today, too.
p16: Mother: I will.
Box: Yes. I feel no pain. Sign: Watch for the slasher!
Box: And that’s why
Box: I can’t bear to watch people get hurt.
p17: Box: I won’t show mercy to anyone who wounds another!
Punks: What the hell, bitch? / You watchin’ something? / You wanna play, too?
p18: Tsukumo: Mask!!!
Punk: Ah! / ‘The hell you doin’?!
Tsukumo: You’ll bite your tongue,
Tsukumo: Mr. Slasher!
p19: Tsukumo: Killing blow!
Tsukumo: Power Bomb!
Box: Mom, dad, I did it. / I avenged my friend, Chii-chan.
Box: I, Tachibana Tsukumo, captured the slasher!
p20: Chii-chan: Tsukumo, / those people aren’t the slasher!
Tsukumo: Bwuh?
(?): You idiot.
p21: Chii-chan: The slasher is pitch-black, / gangly, / and wears a wide-brimmed hat / and a sword… He’s nothing like them.
Chii-chan: Tsukumo, / trying to capture the slasher is really dangerous. / You should stop.
Tsukumo: I can’t stop, Chii-chan.
Tsukumo: It hurt when he cut you, right? / You didn’t like it when he chased you down, right?
p22: Chii-chan: Yeah.
Chii-chan: But I was one of the lucky ones. / Others were hurt a lot worse than I.
Tsukumo: Yeah… / Those girls must’ve felt a lot of pain.
Tsukumo: I don’t want any girls to have such painful memories. / And I won’t just sit back and wait for him to be caught!
Chii-chan: Tsukumo…
p23: Tsukumo: Also, did you see / how gallant I was?
Tsukumo (?): Right now, I’m in perfect form. / And Tsukumo-san’s going to become even stronger! *
Chii-chan: So this is all because you feel no pain, right? / Are you worried you won’t become stronger?
Tsukumo: Uh, yeah. / And there’s one more reason, too: / A promise.
SFX: Ring
p24: (?): Tsukumo!
(?): I told you that tree has thorns and that you needed to be careful! Tsukumo: But it feels so nice under that tree!
Box: It was back when I was four. / I have faint memories of a certain boy. (?): Take this, Tsukumo. Box: Though I’ve forgotten both his name and face.
SFX: Ring
Tsukumo: Wow! / Pretty! (?): It’s a charm that will stop you from ever hurting yourself again.
p25: (?): You’re going to grow strong one day. / And someday,
(?): I’ll protect you, Tsukumo.
Box: His eyes / always looked so sad and alone.
Box: And then / I happened to think:
p26: Tsukumo: Yeah! / I’ll grow strong! / Stronger than anybody else! / And then
Tsukumo: I’ll protect you, ■ ■ ■!!!
(?): You’re a weird one, / Tsukumo.
p27: Tsukumo: So yeah.
Chii-chan: … / That / was a PROPOSAL, right?
Tsukumo: Chii-chan, that reaction was all wrong! <aside: You should’ve gone, “That’s just like you, Tsumuko,” or something! > / He must have been thirteen or fourteen at the time!
Chii-chan: So now, twelve years later, / he must’ve grown up into an elegant, hot 25- or 26-year-old.
[inset]: Tsukumo
p28: Tsukumo: OK, OK, OK, OK, OK!!! Girls talk is now over! Chii-chan: Interesting.
Tsukumo: So then, I’m going to take another look around. Chii-chan: Don’t push yourself too hard, Tsukumo.
Tsukumo: I’ll definitely get that slasher!
Chii-chan: OK.
p29: Tsukumo: So then!
Tsukumo: You’ve been following me for a while now. / But I’ve caught you now!
Tsukumo: Who are you? / Show yourself!
p30: <no text>
p31: Tsukumo: Huh? / … A boy?
Tsukumo: But / What is / this feeling…
p32: (?): You are an idiot, Tsukumo.
(?): Come.
Tsukumo: Huh? What?
(?): The spirits have noticed you. Now run!
Tsukumo: Quit it! Let go of me!
(?): I can’t! / Don’t leave my side!
p33: Tsukumo: Huh?! / What / do you think you’re doing?
(?): So, / you’ve forgotten about me entirely.
Tsukumo: Fay! (?): “Fay”?
Tsukumo: Your face is too close!!!! (?): Ow!
Tsukumo: So who are you? / What middle school do you go to? Tell me!!! (?): “Middle school”?
p34: (?): Tsukumo, have there been any changes to your body? Tsukumo: Huh?
(?): Any changes to your ability to sense things?
(?): I am asking whether or not / you have lost something besides pain.
Tsukumo: What? / How do you know…
p35: Tsukumo: Huh? What’s this smell? / It stinks!
(?): Tch. / It’s the smell of iron. / Shit…
p36: Tsukumo: Gangly, / pitch-black, / and a wide-brimmed hat.
Tsukumo: It’s the slasher!!
p37: (?): You idiot! Run!! Tsukumo: Don’t get in my way!!
Tsukumo: I’ll avenge Chii-chan!
(?): Stop!
p38: Tsukumo: Huh?
Slasher: My apologies. / My cutting edge has again grown dull.
p39: (?): Tsukumo!!!
Slasher: You / are quite / boorish.
p40-41: <no text>
p42: Tsukumo: Huh? / Huh?
p43: <no text>
p44: Slasher: Augh, again my blade has been chipped. / I ask you, what sort of blade designed to cut down humans dulls after only two or three people? Don’t you think that’s a little
Slasher: odd?
Tsukumo: Ahh!
p45: Slasher: The brain?
Slasher: The heart? / No. / It must be
Slasher: the liver.
Slasher: This time I am certain. / This is the miraculous eternal drug—the fruit which bears its scent through all seasons.
p46: Slasher: You are the Tokijiku-no-Kagu-no-Konomi— / the Maiden of the Tokijiku.
Tsukumo: “Tokijiku…”?
Slasher: So long as I possess / the flesh and blood of the Tokijiku / eternity / will be mine.
p47: Slasher: My master passed away some years ago. / Since he kept me hidden, when he died I was left alone.
Slasher: However, I cannot live for long without a human’s power.
Slasher: But with the power of the Tokijiku, / I can cut all things once more: dogs, cats—
p48: Slasher: and humans.
Tsumuko: Wh—what the hell are you saying? / You’re not making… any… any sense!
Tsumuko: This isn’t nearly enough to hurt me! / And I’m sure not scared…
Slasher: A lady must be graceful.
p49: <no text>
p50: Tsumuko: Shit! Shit… Shit…..
p51: Slasher: Oh, what a fragrant aroma.
Slasher: Truly, this is the smell of the eternal fruit.
p52-54: <no text>
p55: (?): … Ugh. / Gah.. / Ah…
Slasher: Oh… / Hii… / You’re…
(?): Mo… / Tsu… / Tsuku…mo. / …Don’t…
p56: (?): Don’t lay a finger / on Tsukumo!!!
p57: (?): Oh great skein, / who meanders through this mortal realm!
(?): I beg thee listen to my call.
(?): Thy name is God of Gouging.
p58: Gouge through!
p59: Slasher: It can’t be… / You! / The power of the Tokijiku…
Slasher: No fair! / No fair! / No fair!!!!
(?): You have lived a long life. / Now, as steel,
(?): Return to the earth.
p60: Tsukumo: No. / Stay away… / What are you?
(?): Remember, / Tsukumo.
p61: Yao: My name / is Yao.
Yao: I will protect you, Tsukumo
Tsukumo: No… / It can’t be…
Yao: So you
p62-63: Yao: must kill me.
p64: Box: His eyes looked so lonely / and in pain.