Report 8 Joint-training in Tama - 2nd period 7 Report9 Making curry in Tama ① 27 Report 10 Making curry in Tama② 47 Report 11 Making curry in Tama③ 67 Report12 Not just in Tama① 87 One-shot Kurokuroku 107 One-shot Daida Nakajima 155
1 (7) Phone: (secret) city hall news // (yokohama) // Takashi // Rookie training has started!! Ridiculous stuff happened right away!! (Sapporo) // Teck // Details!! (Sendai) // AVY // Some human threw a drink over Itsui!! A guy of the Metropolitan office! (Nagoya) // It was a female high school student [That's what she looked like ;) ] (Fukuoka) // Take // Female High school student [what are you looking at, pervert! ] (Hiroshima) // 34chii // Juza // Seriously!!!? Amazing! www (Kobe) // Itsui-sama ww (Meguro-ku)
Both: Everyone // knows!
2 (8) Title: Report 8 Joint-training in Tama - 2nd period
Txt: Sayo // Bard // Itsui
Kuroku: I know I'm famous for some reason, but for the whole country to know you... // It sure looks like Tama is full of talent! Chiaki: Don't you mean the opposite!!
Kuroku: Look at his, it's the list of "highly anticipated Rookies". Phone: (secret) City hall news!! // Highly Anticipated Rookies // Yuki Chiaki // Please do more!! // A Human? // Good luck!! // She's... cute Kuroku: Your in 9th place! Chiaki: A National Ranking!!!?
3 (9) Kuroku: Well, anyway. // Just calm down! // (Hey!) Chiaki: (No, no, no, no, why did that happen!?)
Kuroku: The first lecture will start in 10 minutes. // And their impression of Tama already wasn't that great.
Chiaki: Wa... was it that bad...? Kuroku: That's what the teacher told me. Chiaki: But we still have a chance, right!!?
Kuroku: Good, forget about what happened so far! // Let's do what we can // and change their minds about us!!
Chiaki: .........! // Ye... // YES...!!!
4 (10) Teacher: So that means, in accordance with the legal reform of last year, // starting April this year, only residents of 260 years and older are eligible to receive the National pension. Screen: 2013 Legal reform of the National Pension // previous retirement age 250 years // this year // new retirement age 260 years
Box: In the first lecture we went straight to the practical content. // Due to that, I felt more nervous than I usually am for a class. Chiaki: (You had to be alive in the Edo period to be that old!)
Box: Well, there was another reason...
Box: why I was filled with nerves // and felt sick within 10 minutes after the lecture started. increase
Box: But Kuroku-san made desperate efforts to behave. // So I... had to do my best too...!! Kuroku: Don't start a fight, don't start a fight.
5 (11) Chiaki: ...... // ?
Box: ......... // Ah, oh!?
Box: It wasn't just Kuroku-san!? // Other representatives were sleeping like a log within 10 minutes after the start of the lecture.
Box: It started to look like a game to see who had the most creative sleep position...! // Were they trying to disrupt the class!?
Box: What on earth...
6 (12) Chiaki: ...wha!
Kuroku: ...thanks, // now I have a reason to stay awake.
Chiaki: Ku...kuroku-san, wha... what was that!? Kuroku: Even with my eyes half open, I could see that teacher was acting strange.
Kuroku: That bastard, // in between sentences he swiftly throws pieces of chalk at the students.
Kuroku: He is using a monitor, not a chalkboard, so why...!? Chiaki: That's not the problem!!
Chiaki: Di... did this kind of thing happen last year too...!? Kuroku: No, // I've never seen this happen before. 7 (13) Kuroku: Those who can't dodge them will drop out. Yokai: WHA! Kuroku: Granted that you can even see them coming,
Kuroku: Every hit increases the damage Yokai: Uu... Kuroku: making it impossible to focus during the next lecture...!! Chiaki: How on earth could a piece of chalk do that much damage!!!
Teacher: Hey, hey, don't fall asleep. // You won't be able to take the next course.
Kuroku: ...somehow, this year's joint-training // is completely different from anything I've seen before...!!
Teacher: Well then, over there... Yokai: !!'
Teacher: To pay the municipal taxes, in addition to our special coin, // some species may use their self-produced goods as...
Teacher: an alternative payment for their taxes? // Name five or more!!!
8 (14) Yokai: Goh!!
Sayo: The Azukiarai. Bard: Species registration no. 72: Azukihakari, no. 116: Keukegen, no.122 Kejoro, and no.142: Tofu-kozo Itsui: ...who cares? // We only accept coins.
T/N: Azukihakari = yokai with no form, makes the noise of azuki beans. Keukegen = small dog covered in long hair, a disease spirit that lives in damp, dark places and causes people in the house to get sick. Kejoro = yokai looking like a woman with long unkempt hair dressed as a prostitute, said to appear in red-light districts. Tofu-kozo: yokai looking like a small child with a tray with tofu.
9 (15) Sayo: Wow! That's creepy, Bard. He didn't ask you for their name and number. Bard: That reminds me, Sayo. You can't even remember you own species registration number is 7, right? Sayo: ...one more word and I'll kill you.
Itsui: You never change, do you Sayo? // Do you really hate your species that much?
Sayo: ...as much as I hate the two pests next to me. // ...by the way, you seem more chipper than usual, Itsui? // Are you all right? Shall I buy you some Nue Breast juice? (Hehehe)
Chiaki: Wait, don't do that!!
Itsui: ...oh, // ... but have you ever seen one, Sayo? A Nue's breast? // I once heard that a Nue must at least be a cup M, or else the perfect mix of 4 flavors won't come out.
Itsui: Even if it's on you, you're still a kid without chest or butt, // I would hate not being able to think of anything but that seedy tasting Nue milk.
10 (16) Sayo: ......Bard, Bard: What?
Sayo: Let me kill that idiot! Bard: ...it's not wise to make such statements in front of the person in question. // If you really want to lay him to rest, use a surprise attack or kill him with poison.
Bard: Besides, we're in the middle of a lecture. // If you want to fight, take it outside the lecture hall.
Itsui: ...that's like you, Bard. // Straight to the point.
Teacher: Hey, you two! What are you... Bard: Sir,
Bard: ...at the Metropolitan office, we approve of fights between staff members to settle mutual grudges. // Anytime, // anyplace.
11 (17) Bard: The goal of the Metropolitan office is to create the perfect competitive work environment. // Consequently, we can weed out the weaklings // and establish command and order in its most efficient way.
Itsui: ...well, I don't bother with those ideals. // Point is // you can't stop me.
Sayo: Yes, after all in this training // the guy who can neatly line up those pieces of chalk will get a full mark.
Teacher: .........hahaha,
Teacher: Well, they're serious. (Yes.) // Suppose even the rookies of Metropolitan office's can just do this.
Chiaki: No, no, you can't talk to a teacher like that!!
12 (18) Teacher: But that // is how the Metropolitan office works.
Teacher: They can say it, because each and every one of them is better than any of us. // Well,... it's about time
Teacher: to weed out all // who are unfit for this work!
Chiaki: ...Kuroku-san...!! Kuroku: Don't worry, just focus on his lecture.
Teacher: It's a dangerous job. // Those who can't even dodge these attacks with their own power will fail!
Chiaki: ......! 13 (19) Box: I got so used to my work in Tama, I completely forgot. // I'm just a high school student without special powers... // Once again I'm only getting in Kuroku-san's way...
Box: That's the truth...! Bard: .........
Bard: A person who goes on shielding // a powerless individual.
Bard: ...such a person // is very inefficient.
Bard: It's // meaningless.
Teacher: Hey, Ando! It's time you step down. // Or would you like this
Teacher: to become a test...!! // to see how long you can last!!?
14 (20) Chiaki: !!
Chiaki: Eek!!
Chiaki: Ku // Kuroku-san!!? // You... you are injured!!
Kruoku: ...hmf, // suddenly increasing the power.
Chiaki: St... stop it already! Kuroku: What!? If I stop, you'll get hurt!? Chiaki: That, that isn't... Kuroku: ?
Chiaki: what I meant...!
Kuroku: ...... // I don't understand what you're thinking...
Kuroku: They have their way! // We have our way! Chiaki: EEH!?
15 (21) Kuroku: First of all! // Whether I listen or not, I have no clue what this lecture is about!!!
Teacher: ... // ......
Yokai: Eh... // EEEH!!
Chiaki: Ku... Kuroku-san...? Kuroku: That's why I have you!! // You are listening to this shit in my place!!
Kuroku: Hey! Maybe I haven't been clear about this!! // So listen well!
Kuroku: Chiaki takes care of 15 departments on her own!! // She part of the super Elite!!!
Chiaki: No... well,... // there's just no one else to do it...
Kuroku: ...that's how it's been from the start. // I deal with the special guys! // You are in charge of everything else!!
Kuroku: That's how we do it. // One person with special powers, one without. // Running the Yokai city hall!!
16 (22) Kuroku: That's how we do it // at the (secret) Tama City Hall!!!
Kuroku: I don't want to hear any complaints! // And
17 (23) Kuroku: with an Elite subordinate like her, // as a boss, I'm looking a whole lot more awesome!!! Chiaki: That's what this is about!!?
Teacher: I see.
Teacher: ...if that's the case, //this must be your area of specialty.
Teacher: You are twice... no, four times // more amazing than a normal human!
Teacher: So that means, // you two will answer my last question.
Teacher: Of all weapons that are confiscated due to violation of the rules, // there is one type of weapons that Ward offices are allowed to keep in storage after acquiring a permit of the state. Teacher: Which type // is that!!!?
18 (24) Chiaki: ...... // ...thi
Chiaki: 3rd class Spirit Hands... // are!!!
Yokai: (OOOOOH!) Teacher: Yes, // that's correct.
Yokai: (She knew the answer!? // AAAAH! // And that guy managed to stop that blow!!)
Kuroku: Amazing! Well done, Chiaki!! Chiaki: Because of that incident earlier... // I... I was just lucky!!
Bard: ...exceptions aside, // employees aren't allowed to handle any information concerning spirit hands until their third year of employment.
19 (25) Bard: To answer that question with ease... // I was wrong about you, // Yuki Chiaki.
Box: ...I wasn't allowed to handle it? // ...well, // I wasn't aware of that.
Bard: ...but
Bard: ...in the end // your work set-up is still very inefficient.
Sayo: Ah!
Sayo: A new notice. Itsui: Hey, are you done yet, Sayo! Sayo: Idiot, I've lost interest.
Sayo: Well, as usual we passed... and // that Red-haired bastard of Tama too... // That girl who spilled her drink on you as well...
Sayo: ......... // Moreover...
Phone: Yuki Chiaki // (Tama City Hall) // Great work. // Humans are amazing. // Is she really an elite!?
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(1) Kuroku: We’ll use the same basis as always, 4-3-3… Text: Work apart, I absolutely won’t lose!! // “Kuro kuroku” Board: 6th match 5/29 (Saturday) / Commendable priests FC vs (secret) Tama FC Chiaki: Kuroku-san!
Kuroku: I thought to put myself at the left death wing in the next match… (yeah.) Chiaki: Why use such a mini 4WD-like position name? // I don’t mind if you talk about tomorrow’s league game, but
Chiaki: Please be sure to do you work as well! Kuroku: What’s that? Envelope: Very important // Secret Tama city hall
Chiaki: Don’t ask “What’s that?”! It arrived a month ago! // I brought it, because you haven’t opened it yet? Kuroku: Aah, well… things like these.
Kuroku: Well, it’s nothing important anywa----- Paper: (Secret) government staff //Joint training for new staff // Ando Kuroku // Yusa Chiaki // The above two staff members of the (Secret) Tama City Hall are expected to join us at the training center on 5/29 (Saturday) 10:00. // Ministry of Internal Affairs
Kuroku: It’s very important!!!
(2) Kuroku: The training center for new staff is in the fourth basement // that was secretly created under the Tokyo Tower. Chiaki: …I see. Title: Kuro kuroku
Text: Irrelevant to their work or interests…!!
Chiaki: I want to go home… Kuroku: I wanna go home…
Title: Report 7 Joint training in Tama Mangaka: Nakamura Atsushi
(3) Chiaki: Why am I even here!? // I’m only a part-timer!!?
Kuroku: It can’t be helped, right? It’s because you do special work! // Plus you get paid a lot! // Don’t give up this easily!!
Chiaki: That… finally… finally I thought I would be able to spend a day with my family… People: Special work…? // Paid a lot…? Kuroku: You’ll be fine if you just endure it for today, right? People: Is that JK serious… // Mama, that person.. // There are a lot of different jobs. Kuroku: It’ll be over soon enough!!
[T/N: JK = Joushi Kousei = Girl high school student]
Man: Excuse me, dear visitor. Your quarrel--- Kuroku: We’re no visitors. Man: Eh?
Kuroku: …damn, this is stupid. // We’re here to study.
Man: …excuse me my rudeness. // In that case
Man: This way // please.
(4) Woman: <Hokkaido>, <Touhoku>, <Kantou>, <East Tokyo>, <West Tokyo>, <Hokuriku>, <Chuubu>, // <Kinki>, < Chuugoku>, <Shikoku> and <Kyuushuu/Okinawa>. At all (secret) city halls of the 11 divisions
[T/N: “Chuugoku” is usually used to mean “China” nowadays, but in this context it actually refers to the Chuugoku region in Japan.]
Woman: the staff is working day and night for the sake of its residents. // To secure their capability to deal with the complex diversification of modern society // we seek for the new staff members, who shoulder the future of these public offices, to view the cooperation with the other divisions as important.
Woman: Accordingly, this country decided to gather all new employees under one roof father 4 times for a joint training to… Kuroku: Right, I’ve seen this video before.
(5) Yokai: Two humans…? // They are from West Tokyo…
Yokai: One more human this time. // A school uniform? A student? She has a nice hobby. // The West, huh? They sure caused a lot of trouble last time.
Chiaki: I feel terrible…
Chiaki: …Kuroku-san, somehow everyone’s eyes are… Text: Curious eyes // Curious eyes Kuroku: Hm? Aah. Well, it’s because we are the only humans. (This tastes great.) // Setting aside my supernatural powers
Kuroku: An ordinary person like you really makes them wonder “What the hell is she doing here?”. Chiaki: That’s right!!!!
Chiaki: I’m sitting here without even knowing what I am supposed to do!!! // I’m only a part-timer!! // Moreover, wearing my school uniform in this kind of formal place makes it look like I’m some weird cosplayer!!! Kuroku: Come, come. Calm down.
Chiaki: We… We don’t have to battle or something… right? Kuroku: Of course not!
(6) Kuroku: We sit down at a desk and listen to some bullshit talk. Chiaki: Re…really!?
Chiaki: Tha…Thank god. Kuroku: Well, last time I was sleeping like a log, so I don’t really remember anything. Chiaki: I doubt the wisdom of that, but…
Chiaki: Even though it sounded like this would have direct impact on the evaluation of the Tama city hall… Kuroku: It does.
Chiaki: Eh? Kuroku: A fair amount. // That’s what the previous head manager said last time…
Kuroku: It seems that the budget distribution is also directly involved in this--- // Well, to be frank, If we were to cause any problem this time Chiaki: Eh? // Eh?
Kuroku: I may have to reduce your wage to 100 yen per hour! Chiaki: That’s nothing to laugh about!!!!
(7) Chiaki: Hold on a moment, what do you mean “this time”… Kuroku: We…well, wait… last time those guys of the East---- Chiaki: Anyhow!!
Chiaki: I wondered why I was called to this training, but // if anything, it’s a chance give by god. We’d be doomed if Kuroku-san came alone. God: (It’s no good at this rate.) Kanji/robe: God
Chiaki: Listen!! Kuroku: Ye…yes!!
Chiaki: I won’t allow you to cause any trouble in my presence!!!! // Properly listen to the teacher!! Don’t sleep!!! Aim to be a honor student!!!
Chiaki: Then get the best rating!! Increase our budget!! And pay me more!!! Kuroku: Hey, that last thing is obviously your personal feeling!!!
Kuroku: Well.
Kuroku: Maybe you’re right this time. Chiaki: Eh?
(8) Kuroku: …I’m also a staff member from the Tama city hall. // I can’t stand those other people thinking badly about us.
Kuroku: So you too. // Don’t cause any trouble…!
Chiaki: …what? // …how dare you?
Chiaki: …really, I don’t need you of all people to tell me that!! Kuroku: That’s my line. Yokai: Hey, hey!
Yokai: Are you really a staff member from West Tokyo? //That’s pretty amazing for a human, really admirable.
Yokai: Is this your first training? No need to be nervous. // If there’s something you don’t understand, just ask me.
Chiaki: So… so flashy. // Ha…haha. // They are the type of people I really couldn’t handle when I was still working as a receptionist…!!
(9) Chiaki: Hey, Kuroku-san---
Kuroku: …I // don’t want to cause any trouble---
Chiaki: Thi… // This bastard!!! Yokai: Your school uniform is pretty cute.
Yokai: Oh?
Yokai: Isn’t that guy next to you Ando-kun? Yokai2: Aah, he is? // He’s the one who had a dispute with the guys from East Tokyo!!
Yokai: It must be pain to have such a stupid senior. Chiaki: Hyaaaa! Well, he is a pain, but!!! // Right now you two are more of a pain.
Chiaki: O… // Oh…?
Chiaki: No…normally // Kuroku-san would? Kuroku: (What did you say!?) Yokai: (Eek!) Kanji: Flashy guy
Chiaki: By any chance… // He’ll put up with it // so he doesn’t cause any trouble…?
(10) Yokai: The lack of staff is also really annoying, right? Yokai2: At this rate, the rules will also come loose. Yokai: All of them are just too full of themselves, huh?
Yokai: That’s right! Wanna hang out with us later? Yokai2: With us you can complain about that annoying superior // or those stupid residents as much as you want. Yokai: It’s really a misfortune
Yokai: to work at Tama! Chiaki: …they are right.
Chiaki: Every month there is a lot of trouble… // These guys know a lot more about yokai and are more capable to do the job. // ……but------
Chiaki (thoughts): …they have no right to say // bad things about the residents of Tama…!? Yokai: Why don’t you come and work at our place!! (Ha ha ha) Chiaki: …Ex // excuse me!
Yokai: -----Yes? Chiaki: Eh?
(11) Kuroku: I can’t stand this!!!!
Yokai: What!? // Eek!!
Chiaki: Ah… Kuroku: I’m sorry, Chiaki.
(12) Kuroku: …anyway // let’s just give it our all after this.
Chiaki: Right. // After this // let’s give it our all.
Chiak: Besides, I was// also about to waste my drink on them.
Yokai3: Hey, hey, are you alright!? Yokai: Da…Damn… // I.. I am gonna kill him…!!
Yokai: …A…Andoooo. Yokai3: Ando?
Yokai4: …I just arrived and my mood--- Yokai: Eh?
(13) Yokai4: already tastes like Blue Hawaii. // Don’t make me remember // the name of that bastard! Yokai: Yikes!!
Yokai: Tha…That is!!? // The… the public office of the 23rd ward!!?
(14) Sayo: Err… Itsui. // How many times do I have to tell you not to go on a rampage all of a sudden!? // You’ll get my clothes dirty! // By the way, your mood tastes like Blue Hawaii? Is there a tropical paradise inside your head?
Evy: …stop ordering me around, // or I’ll kill you, Sayo. // Hey, Bud! Say something already!
Bud: …I am sure // I told you two to keep quiet.
Bud: Evy, Sayo, I never care in the least what the hell you two do, but // when I fear that this extremely pointless joint training will take even longer than expected, // I will have to waste a fruitless warning on you for the 31st time.
Bud: And that’s truly // inefficient.
(15) Chiaki: Who…… // Who are these people!?
Chiaki: We…well, they are new employees from another city hall, but..! // The atmosphere… // has clearly changed…!
Yokai: …the guys from the 23rd ward!! // Eh!? Th…they… Those people are…!?
Yokai: The public office where only the chosen elites are allowed to go inside-----The (secret) Tokyo 23rd ward office that has jurisdiction over East Tokyo!!! // Even amongst the super elites who manage to get accepted---- // They say all of the new staff holds a managerial position…!!?
Chiaki: ……at our place // I was accepted with so much as a interview.
Yokai: Naturally, on nationwide scale, // they have more than a 1000 staff members. Chiaki: …at our place // we have only two people… (16) Evy: …even so
Evy: Just like last time, one of them flew up just after we entered… // You don’t change, do you?
Evy: Did you snap again because someone called you dumb? // West boy!
Kuroku: ……of course not.
Kuroku: I’m different from before.
Kuroku: This time I // seriously snapped! // East boy!
Chiaki: Kuroku-san…
Evy: Oh.
Kuroku: Anyway, you seems pretty annoyed as well. Just like last time. Evy: Ooh, you can tell? // Well, it sold out again. (17) Evy: The Nue milk (plain flavor) I’ve been drinking since I was a kid. // …again, because of a red-haired boy wearing geta… // who bought the last cup just before I could…
Chiaki: ……that is // exactly why I am drinking right now!!!
Evy: …last time I watched how he made me aware that he drank it with relish // …by mistake I got really irritated and caused a huge stir… // But, “I” am different from before?
Evy: I even intended to buy a cup for my annoying colleagues---- Sayo: I only like strawberry. Bud: …both are sold at a higher price here than at the 23rd ward office. // It’s truly inefficient.
Evy: Therefore
Evy: this time I will kill // everyone who drank it…!!!
Chiaki: Why!!?
(18) Chiaki: This is bad, this is really bad! No matter how you think of his attitude or appearance, he isn’t your average public office staff member!!! He’s the type of person who can crack down on you anytime!!! // …or more precisely, what up with this whole scene!? Kuroku-san also feels like going at it!! He totally forgot we were here to study!! He’s the type who’ll go for a duel!!
Chiaki: An…Anyway, I have to do something…! // Eh… Excuse me!!
Chiaki: From here on // Her…here, the Nue milk you couldn’t buy--- // Eh?
Chiaki: I shouldn’t cause more…
Chiaki: problems!!!!
(19) Kuroku: …Chi // Chiaki…?
Bud: ……I see // This way of use is quite effective…
Chiaki: Ah… // I… well, // it wasn’t on purpose……
XXX: Alright, it’s time. Everyone take your seat. // We’re starting the joint training. // Ah, the 3 of you will get a penalty.
Chiaki: Eh?
XXX: …hey. Chiaki: Ye..Yes!
Evy: Because of you I cooled down. // Thanks.
Evy: Or more precisely // …let’s get along from here on, // West kids!
Chiaki: …Oh // I… // and Kuroku-san became like a set?
Text: The East won’t forgive even a JK!!
Report 7 / END https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/38942[English] [Translation] Kurokuroku 6 by Sohma Riku2013-11-02T19:05:21+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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(1) Kuroku: …ehm, // that wasn’t… // on purpose. Text: A clearly suspicious person!! Author: Nakamura Atsushi Title: Kurokuroku // Report 6 Tama’s juvenile exploration party.
(2) Woman: There’s still a lot of green left in Tama. // Just like the kappa that made the headlines a while ago, // there are a lot of mysterious yokai stories going around. Text: 3 hours earlier
Boy: We are going to discover the truth! Ryoko: Find out more about the city you live in! // That’s our homework assignment, Sis!
Chiaki: I see.
Chiaki: It finally got to this…
Chiaki: A while ago I said something like “It would be nice to meet a yokai” with a smile on my face, but… things have changed. // Now I know there is no way of telling what will happen if you really meet a yokai. (3) Chiaki: I wouldn’t hesitate to pay to see a two shot with Sara-chan…! // But all the other people I met are horrible!!! Text: Sara-chan // Cute, nice // Kuroku // Can’t catch the mood, future delinquent // The usual guys // Scary // Okonogi-san // Out of the question
Chiaki: Bu…But I would feel bad if really tried stop these kids’ attempt to do their homework… // Yes… That’s it…! In that case---
Chiaki: …I’ve never heard anything about yokai appearing in the area around the city hall, // so you’d better try somewhere else! Both: Yes!!
Ryoko: Yokai, huh… I want to see them, but I am a bit scared too. Boy: What!? Ryoko, are you scared!? // I.. I’ll beat down every yokai that comes too close!
Chiaki: Are you Ryuuta-kun…… // they boy who sits next to Ryoko…? Ryuuta: Yes! What is is, Ryoko’s sis?
Chiaki: I understand you’re feeling really happy that you paired up with the great beauty who sits next to you in class, but // this frivolous spirit will only get you killed by a yokai. Ryuuta: They will kill me!!?
(4) Chiaki: You’ll be killed by a yokai with red hair and evil eyes // who is wearing geta! Ryuuta: But I looks like you’re the one who will kill me first!! [T/N: geta = Japanese clogs; for those who don’t get it, Chiaki is describing Kuroku here.]
Both: (We’re leaving!!)
Chiaki: …I guess those two // will be fine, huh?
Kuroku: Well… That… // This is bad…
Kuroku: All of a sudden a boy who’s holding on to a poop lunges at me shouting “I found a yokai!!” ----- // Anyone would counter that……
Kuroku: Aah… Well… // This boy…
(5) Ryoko: S…So, is Ryuuta-kun going to die!? Kuroku: I didn’t kill him!!!
Kuroku: Come on, stand up! Ryuuta: Po… Poo… Poop…… Ryoko: Ah!! Ryuuta-kun is fine!!
Ryoko: I… I’m sorry. // I jumped to the wrong conclusion… // That… just to be sure----
Ryoko: Yo… You are human, right…? Kuroku: …yeah. Ryoko: I… I’m really sorry!!
Ryoko: Ryuuta-kun, you should also apologize? Ryuuta: Oooh… Yo..You… Yoka..Yokai. Ryoko: What should I do… he is like my TV when it has bad reception…
Kuroku: Don’t worry. He be fine again in a little while. // …this beats me.
Kuroku: It’s two kids… // It’s the same as with Sara… I absolutely can’t tell what they are thinking…
(6) Kuroku: By.. By the way… // What are you two doing out here? Ryoko: Eh?
Kuroku: You are here to learn more about yokai? Ryoko: Yes!
Kuroko: Oh… you got some nice homework, didn’t you? Ryoko: Eh, are you also interested in yokai? // (This is it!)
Kuroku: I tell you, I know a lot about yokai! Ryoko: Eeh! Really!!?
Ryuuta: …what!? You won’t be able to attract Ryoko’s attention with pretty words alone, you bastard!!! // If you really know, just tell us which yokai live in this area!!
Ryoko: Ryuuta-kun, that’s a scarecrow…
(7) Kuroku: That’s right, I’m pretty sure there live kasabaka in this area. // Nearby is an exhibition showing the new pattern designs. Ryoko: Eeh!?
[T/N: Kasabaka = an umbrella yokai.]
Kuroku: This year the polka dots are really popular… // ------oh!!
Kuroku: …damn. // I’m not… supposed to talk about this with normal people, right…?
Kuroku: …come on, look at Her! // Her face looks totally them same as Chiaki’s, when sees an akaname!!
[T/N: Akaname = a bathroom yokai, it is the personification of the fear to use a dark bathroom late at night. It is said they come out at night to lick up the dirt that accumulates in a bathroom.]
Kuroku: …what // What should I do---
Kuroku: ……it // it seems. // What’s going on here!!?
Ryoko: …he, he. Kuroku: Eh?
Ryoko: Thank you…… // brother…!!
(8) Kuroku: …I really // don’t get what’s going on!!?
Ryoko: Even though we caused you trouble // you still showed interested in our homework assignment. Paper: The yokai in Tama // Q. Where do the live? // Q. What is their favorite food?
Ryoko: To make sure Ryuuta-kun doesn’t make a fool of himself, // you worried about his health… Ryuuta: (Take this, scare..scarecrow.. // Kasabake yokai!)
Ryoko: That… am…amazing // kindness… // is…
Chiaki: I wonder if Ryoko will be alright. // She’s such an angel. She’s really too pure.// She’s a real angel.
Ryoko: Excuse me…! Kuroku: Y..Yes!?
Ryoko: If… If you // don’t mind
Ryoko: could you help us… // with our assignment!?
(9) Kuroku: The riverbed of the Tama river---- // Even since the past a lot of stories have been told about the yokai living near the waterside.
Ryuuta: Kappa try to drown people, right yokai professor? // (What did you say?) Kuroku: …that’s right, I asked them to prick your ass with a cucumber, // if they happen to see you at the river, brat.
Kuroku: ……in the end // I went with them…
Kuroku: Originally, I was… // in the midst of finding the pet tsuchinoko that fled from the yokaigarten…
[T/N: tsuchinoko = a mythical snakelike creature.]
Kuroku: To find myself in a situation where I have to watch over two little kids… // But “kids” in general can easily see them.
Kuroku: Just be talking about yokai is fine. // But if they were to find out the truth, this could become a problem…
Kuroku: It would be best if I tried to hide that yokai really exist…! // …well, they don’t turn up all that often, so… Ryoko: Oh? That person---- (10) Yokai: Phew… // With this… With this my adzuki bean-hating brother will certainly……!!
Yokai: Wha… What are you doing!? Ku… Kuroku-san!? Kuroku: You bastard, why are you freely washing those adzuki beans!!!! Yokai: Because I’m an Adzukiarai!!?
[T/N: Adzukiarai = a yokai with the appearance of an short, grotesque man with a bald head. It’s found near rivers bent over a pail washing adzuki beans.]
Ryoko: Bro… Brother… Ryuuta: Tha… That guy----
Kuroku: It’s nothing!! He’s just a guy who loves to wash his adzuki beans in the river!! // Right!! Yokai: E…ehm // That’s right, I know it’s a weird hobby…
(11) Ryoko: Is that… Ryuuta: so…?
Kuroku: Come on, why is this happening!? Both of them can perfectly see him..!! // …seriously, I know kids can easily see them, but this----
Ryoko: For a moment I thought we met a real adzukiarai…! // I see, there exist humans with such a hobby, huh! Kuroku: Anyhow, her extreme “pureness”----- Ryuuta: Is that how you make bean paste? Kuroku: and his “stupidity”, does the combined effect enable them to easily see a yokai!!?
Ryoko: Alright, let’s go to the next place! Ryuuta: Yes! Kuroku: Seriously!? Ryuuta: This time we’ll catch a yokai for sure!!
Kuroku: ……Shi…Shit… // We..well, because we’re in broad daylight, there shouldn’t be too many hanging around…
Yokai: Ah! Kuroku-san!
(12) Yokai: In a minute, the goukon---- [T/N: goukon = a gathering over food and drink at which single young people can meet people of the opposite sex]
Both: Just now, someone----- Kuroku: Hm? I didn’t see anyone?
Box: After that Yokai: That game you borrowed from me--- // Kuroku: Ah, these flames are an illusion made by them! Box: we Kuroku: He grows really fast--- Ryoko: (Eh.)
Kuroku: Wow, they are shooting a movie here!! Ryoko: Eh! Ryuuta: Amazing!! Box: went around to different places.
Ryuuta: Aah!
Ryuuta: I don’t care who you are, just come out!! // I’m only a bit tired! Kuroku: Ah, really… // I’m really tired…
(13) Ryoko: Excuse me, brother!
Ryoko: Thank you very much for today! // Ah, my sister poured this tea for me. // Would you like some.
Kuroku: Oh… // Ooh…
Kuroku: You’re a nice girl… // I bet your sister is also really nice, unlike my nagging subordinate…! Ryoko: Th…that!
Kuroku: …it’s strange. // I’m somehow getting along with these kids…!
Ryuuta: By the way, in the end we didn’t see any yokai, professor!! Kuroku: You are a different story, huh brat?
Ryoko: It’s really too bad, huh? Ryuuta: Even though I would’ve beaten them down!!
(14) Kuroku: Really want to meet a yokai that badly? // You both. Both: Eh?
Kuroku: Don’t you think // it’s dangerous // or scary? Or something?
Ryoko: Scary and dangerous yokai… // Do they exist?
Kuroku: …yes // they do.
Ryoko: As brother says…
Ryoko: I guess there really are // scary yokai in this world.
Ryoko: But… // my sister told me this before! Chiaki: For some reason I think // you could become good friends with a little Kappa girl…! Ryoko: …is what she said!
(15) Ryoko: Because // that sounds like a lot of fun // …I really want to meet a yokai!
Ryoko: Hey! How about you, Ryuuta-kun? Ryuuta: It… It’s the same for me! // I’ll beat up all the bad yokai!!
Ryoko: …hey, brother. // If I happened to meet a kappa girl // do you think we could be friends…?
Kuroku: …I think you would. // She is a little // shy in front of strangers, but…
Kuroku (bubble): I’m sure… // You and her // would become great friends. // I promise. Kuroku (thought): …Aah, // that was it.
(16) Kuroku: I-----
Ryuuta: Yikes!!? Ryoko: Th… That----
Ryuuta: Ah… That… Ryoko: Th… That is---
Kuroku: It’s just // a fat snake.
(17) Ryuuta: Really!! I thought we finally found an unknown creature!! Ryoku: We’ll have to find another topic for our homework, Ryuuta-kun…
Kuroku(bubble): Come… it’s already late. // You kids should go home already. Kuroku (thought): The reason // why I fight---- Both: Yes!
Kuroku: ………and // what----- (18) Kuroku: I want to do for the “(secret) Tama city hall”----
Both: ………!!? // Eh…? Eh…? Ryuuta: Ryo…Ryoko, did you see that……? Eh…Eh…!!?
(19) Ryuuta: He…Hey, you too---- Ryoko: Bro…Brother, this----
Ryoko: …what.
Both: Eh? Kuroku: …someday
Kuroku: It would be nice if we could // meet under normal conditions someday. Ryoko: Oh? Brother was right here… Ryuuta: What! Err? The park that was here…
Kuroku: …I’ll do my best // at work?
Text: Striving for a village where humans and yokai peacefully live together… someday!!
Poster: The mysteries of Tama // We investigated the places where yokai are said to appear // An old man washing adzuki beans in the Tama river… // Tama river // A lot of strange shadows!! // Station // At this place we saw the yokai world. // Tama city // Yokai professor // The yokai professor told us a lot!! // I was happy that the yokai professor led us around. (Ryoko) // I want to play with the yokai professor again. (Ryuuta)
https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/38941[English] [Translation] Kurokuroku 5 by Sohma Riku2013-11-02T19:02:52+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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(1) Kuroku: Damn... // I totally forgot... text: An annoying job that dampens the enthusiasm!! Circles: Nakamura Atsushi
Chiaki: The poster for the Umibouzu swimming class should be done by tomorrow. Kuroku: Well, I certainly forgot about that too, but... [T/N: Umibouzu = a yokai that looks like a round headed sea goblin.]
Chiaki: "Medical examination for citizens"? Board: Information about the "medical examination for citizens" // Right now the CC disease is going around. // Symptoms ---- etc. // Consultation day: 00/00 〇day // Time: 16:00 ~ 20:00 // Place: 3F ---- // (Applicants should hand in the application form at the designated place before 00/00. Kuroku: Yeah.
Chiaki: Even with yokai it's health first, huh? Kuroku: That's right. Chiaki: But why do they look so gloomy? Yokai: (Woman this way, please. // Men that way.)
Title: Report 5 The dependable doctor of Tama?
Kuroku: Even if you ask me---- Yokai: Eek!!!
Yokai: How...dare he!? That doctor...!! // It's unbelievable!!!
Chiaki: Eh...? Wh...What... Kuroku: He did it AGAIN...
(2) Yokai: Err... // Doctor...
Yokai: I heard I would only get a preventive injection... // Why do I need to pose like this...
Doctor: ...compared to males the female characteristics of a posture stand out. // In other words, it's a pose that makes it easy to diagnose if a woman has contracted this highly-contagious disease or not.
Yokai: I.. I see! Doctor: I would like to make a thorough diagnosis. Nurse: Doctor.
Nurse: The next patient is waiting at the men's side. Doctor: He's fine. // Next.
(3) Doctor: Alright, next I would like you to wear this china dress and pose like that again. Yokai: Why!!?
Nurse: Doctor, the next patient is waiting at the men's side. Doctor: ...Ah, he's a yellow one. // Use the yellow one on the left side of the shelf. Nurse: A shot of penicillin Z, right? Understood.
Doctor: If you don't like it, you can also wear this Kappa costume. Yokai: You said it's a costume!!!
Yokai: This is definitely weird!! Doctor: Ah!?
Doctor: ...how foolish of me. // Well, she wasn't ill, so I guess it's fine...
Doctor: The next are two real ladies, an Uminyoubou and a Bakekitsune... // Heh, heh... I'm looking forward to it...
[T/N: Uminyoubou = a yokai that's half-fish and half-woman (not to be confused with a mermaid); Bakekitsune = a three-tailed fox yokai with magical powers often used for shape shifting to a human form.]
Kuroku: You haven't changed, have you?
(4) Kuroku: The pervert doctor, // Doctor Okonogi.
Doctor: ...ha ha ha. // It's not nice to call me a pervert, Kuroku. //I'm just a petty village doctors who wishes to know more about the female body. Kuroku: Ha!
Doctor: Don't I always tell you? // How females are splendid creatures who will certainly enrich us males...
Kuroku: If you are our doctor, don't say unnecessary things. // Just do your job and get out of here!
(5) Chiaki: ...Kuroku-san seems to hate this person quite a bit... // I wonder what happened between those two...?
Doctor: Surely, I am Tama's Doctor Okonogi. // But, as A MAN----
Doctor: I'm worried about you, // Kuroku.
Doctor: You should show // some more interest in women.
Doctor: Oops. Chiaki: YIPES!!!
Doctor: As always, you lack skill... // (Even though it was about that...) // Will you keep reacting in the same way as you did with the first issue, Kuroku? Chiaki: Has he always been like this!!?
Kuroku: ...damn you. // The line outside...
(6) Kuroku: Because it takes you 20 minutes to examine one female, while it takes 2 seconds for a male // the line became gravely distorted!!! Doctor: My, my.
Chiaki: Ar..are you really a doctor? Making a diagnose in such a short time... Doctor: Oh, are you doubting me?
Doctor: I am a yokai, a Tenome. // These eyes see through everything they won't fail to detect any disease. [T/N: Tenome = literally "eye of the hand", a man-like yokai that has eyes in his hands (and not in its face).]
Doctor: As I proof I'll examine by touch if my assistant, Satsuno-kun, isn't suffering from a disease in her chest. Satsuno: Oh, I wonder if I turned off the gas at the main today.
Doctor: Whoa!!! Like a main tap, you, my right haaaaaand----!! Chiaki: Ar... are you alright!? Kuroku: Leave them alone, Chiaki.
Chiaki: Bu...but. Doctor: Uu...
(7) Doctor: Well
Doctor: On top of that, because my arm // reached the highest level, // it'll heal right away.
Chiaki: (Waaaaa!)
Doctor: O...ouch... Ni...nice kick... // ...well, but Chiaki: Waaaaaaa!!
Doctor: Unfortunately it heals right away. Kuroku: Bastard... get serious already! Doctor: Oh, this is a new reaction, right? (8) Chiaki: Uuu... Kuroku: ...well, // that was a disaster... Text: reception
Kuroku: And it'll get even worse.
Kuroku: After this, it's time for the periodic medical examination of the city hall employees. Chiaki: Whaaaaat!!? // I don't want that doctor to examine me!! I'd rather go to work in a swimsuit!!?
Kuroku: I..I wouldn't mind that!! Chiaki: I already had a health check at school.
Kuroku: ...no, that's no good. // A living human body is weak and for it to be constantly affected by supernatural powers...... // That alone is already unusual.
(9) Kuroku: As long as you wear that hair ornament, you'll be alright 99% of the cases, but
Kuroku: Still // we can't be absolutely sure.
Chiaki: Bu... But. Kuroku: ...Chiaki.
Kuroku: ...don't skip the medical examination. // That's on order of your boss.
Chiaki: Eh...n...no, I, that... Kuroku: I understand your feelings.
Kuroku: So, // if he tries something funny
Kuroku: tell me at once // and I'll send him flying.
(10) Chiaki: Eh?
Chiaki: Eh... th..that...!? Kuroku: ......by the way.
Kuroku: Just in case, // the head chief already gave me permission to hit him if he tries something again. Chiaki: That's some messed up system!!
Doctor: We...well, if that's how it is. // I under...... // stand...!
Doctor: Well,
Doctor: Then, please take off all your clothes. Chiaki: He did it again, already!!!!
(11) Doctor: Ah, I'm sorry. Don't misunderstand me! // When I say "all", you don't have to take of your socks. Chiaki: Just go and visit that sort of shop!!!
Chiaki: Kuroku-san!! Kuroku: I'm here. Leave this to me!!
Doctor: Hey, hey. Wait a moment, Kuroku! // As I thought, I failed to convince you! // But you're also a "man", right!?
Doctor: Hey, hey. Just be honest, you're interested too, right!? // You also want to see Yuki-kun's improper figure!! Chiaki: Kuroku-san, more to the left!! Hit him!!!
Kuroku: Bastard! That side of you...!! // I've despised it right from the start...!!
(12) Kuroku: Back then, you reorganized my desk without asking!! // Everyone who saw it------ // Take some responsibility, bastard!! Yokai: Well, Kuroku is also a boy after all... (It worried me though.) // Kuroku-san, you've got some good stuff! // Ah, but it's too soon for you to watch any videos!!
Doctor: ...heh. // That's right, I felt like decorating that place a bit.
Chiaki: Ku...kuroku-san! (He's really too much-----) Nurse: They're always like this. // Ah, but Kuroku-san seems to be more upset than usual.
Chiaki: Al.. always like this!? Nurse: That's right. // It looks like they don't get along, but in truth----
Nurse: they really don't get along. ♡ Chiaki: Eeeh...
Nurse: ...heh heh. // But...
(13) Chiaki: Eh!!? Nurse: Oh... over there.
Yokai: Buruooooo! If you didn't apply, you can't undergo a medical examination!! // Respect the patient!! Because I also don't have a health insurance card, issue me one!!!
Kuroku: Okonogi... Doctor: Yeah... (14) Doctor: "CC disease". // Especially yokai that don't have a shred of willpower, self-restraint or self-reliance // will catch the latest epidemic virus, that will change them into a monster claimer that is affected by the ill will which is flourishing through the human world. Chiaki: Even yokai suffer from modern diseases!!
[T/N: CC = Claimer Claimer]
Yokai: Y... You are the line...!? // Are... Are you the first...!?
Yokai: Cha... Change // with me...!!
(15) Kuroku: Get away, quick! Yokai: Yes! // Thank you very much!
Kuroku: ...it's an emergency case, you shitty doctor! // Treat him already!
Chiaki: Ku..Kuroku-san, at any rate... // Doctor Okonogi is dangerous-----
Doctor: ...sure, it's dangerous. // The "CC disease" will forcibly extract your normal strength in tenfold until you lose all reason. Chiaki: Wha...! (In that case...)
Doctor: ...that's why you have to treat it quickly. // If he would hold hands with a girl in this state, // he'll grow a body that won't allow him to go on a date in Tama park.
Chiaki: Eh... Nurse: Chiaki-san. // Please trust the doctor.
Nurse: To treat a yokai. // The difference between each species is about the same as the difference between a veterinary and a dentist.
Nurse: Even in the species registration file alone, // there are a several hundreds of species-----
(16) Nurse: In other corporate towns, it's only natural to have a large hospital that is split in almost a 1000 specialized departments. // But, the doctor... // has to take care of Tama all on his own...!
Nurse: ... he's a petty vilage doctor, who won't fail to detect any illness, // but loves to sexual harass his female patients.
Kuroku: ...yes, that's right... even though it makes me mad, // he's certainly-----
Kuroku: Tama's // doctor!
(17) Nurse: Oh.
Doctor: ...how foolish of me. // Pride is inevitable to a brilliant person, but
Doctor: I was had a suppository made by mistake. Chiaki: He absolutely did it on purpose!!!! [T/N: (for the non-native English people), a suppository has to be inserted into the rectum or vagina. Yes, that doctor-guy just put that huge injection like thing up in its ass, if you didn't notice yet.]
Doctor: ....even so Kuroku: Ah? Doctor: You have changed, Kuroku. Kuroku: What?
Doctor: You didn't touch him. // If it had been a few months ago, you would've given him a good beating to end it, right?
Kuroku: ...he only got a bit weird, because he was ill. // ...by the way, you shouldn't have used that.
Kuroku: You could've healed him in a different way. You really have a bad personality. Doctor: Ha ha ha, you're so strict on the guys.
(18) Nurse: In the end they are like two of a kind.
Nurse: On the outside they appear to hate each other, // but on the inside they respect each other's work. // Moreover
Nurse: when it's for Tama's sake // they can flawlessly turn the switch.
Nurse: They are // two professionals... I guess... right?
Kuroku: By the way, Okonogi. How about Chiaki's examination (you got interrupted.) Chiaki: Eeh! Doctor: Ah, about that...
Nurse: The doctor's "Tenome" can see as far as 2 kilometers. (No need to take off your clothes... ♥) Chiaki: What, that shitty doctor!! (19) Chiaki: ...huh. // Oh?
Kuroku: What's wrong this time... Chiaki: No... why... // My shoulders... // feel really light...? (This one too...)
Doctor: Yuki-kun, // for a girl of your age, you try to shoulder a burden that's too heavy. // You've been living your life, always tired from trying to be nice and from working too hard, right?
Doctor: You don't like to depend on others. // It's an illness common to nice people.
Doctor: ...because you're like that, // if you don't mind, // please keep looking after Kuroku from here on as well. (I'll always be there to treat your shoulders.)
Kuroku: Hey, Okonogi, what about my examination... Doctor: Ah, it's done already. Kuroku: What?
Doctor: You're getting healthier. // ...looks like my treatment is working.
Doctor: Females are splendid creatures // who will certainly enrich us males. Text: Without knowing it, that new bond is a miraculous medicine for all sorts of diseases!?
Kurokuroku Report 5 / End
https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/38940[English] [Translation] Kurokuroku 4 by Sohma Riku2013-11-02T18:58:46+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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(1) Text: Above the ground are human, under the ground are yokai. Tama city hall
Chiaki: This way, please. Yokai: Oh, Chiaki-chan.
Yokai: That's a nice hair ornament you're wearing, was it a present from a great guy? (Ha ha ha) // (It's an extremely rare item.) Yokai2: It suits you, Chiaki-chii! Chiaki: We.. well, it wasn't really a present, how should I explain...!
XXX: ...sniff. Me too.
XXX: I also treated the gift I received...sniff // from a beloved person with great care... Chiaki: A....... // A crying child-----!?
XXX: But------
Text: Chapter for of the yokai city hall comedy!! "Kurokuroku"
(2) XXX: That person died already... Chiaki: What, an old man!!!? Text: An old man who isn't afraid to cry in public! Only because it's a yokai!!
Title: Kurokuroku // Report 4 First errand Author: Nakamura Atushi
Vertical text: Read up to chapter 3 for free on the Jump HP!!
XXX: ...well, I'm sorry. // Acting like this at my age, in a public place.
(3) XXX: To cry like a like a little kid like that. Chiaki: Oh, another strange word.
XXX: ...ah, I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Noboru, I am an konakijijii. Chiaki: Ah, I knew that much. Noboru: My wife and I run a restaurant here at the (secret) Tama city hall...
[T/N: Konakijijii = a yokai that takes the form of a baby, but has the face of an old man. It cries loud to lure people into the woods. If they pick it up (to take care of it), they won't be able to let go of it, even though it'll became so heavy it'll eventually crush that person.
Kuroku: You mean that restaurant that suddenly closed due to special circumstance a few days ago. Noboru: Yes, that's it!!
Noboru: ...M..My beloved Honey suddenly left me... // I...I'll have to close, because I can't...!!
Noboru: Stupid Honey!! Why did you leave!? I thought you loved me too!! // That's right! Look at my sweat shirt!!
Noboru: I'm still wearing the shirt she gave me 10 years ago! Shirt: Pig Chiaki: Looks like your wife has been unhappy for 10 years already.
(4) Yokai: But, even if she left, that no reason to suddenly close the store, is it? Yokai2: (Indeed.) Chiaki: (Yes, yes.) Text: Citizen consultation window Noboru: Eh? Well, but
Noboru: My wife // made all the food.
Yokai: Yes, your wife's cooking is really delicious! Noboru: Indeed! It's really good! // Her cooking skills are really amazing! // All America cried as a baby to get her cooking!!
XXX: ...hey.
Yokai: What!? Yo..you had your wife to do all the cooking!? Yokai2: Husbands who don't work are the worst!! Chiaki: It's all your own fault!!!
Kuroku: ChiakiL For the time being, (5) Noboru Chiaki: That's even worse!!! Yokai:
Chiaki: ...so.
Chiaki: What should we do about the cooking... Noboru: ...m.. my...
Noboru: ...eyes have been opened!! I.. I was wrong!! // I... will....... I will cook...!!!
Noboru: And... I'll show her how I've changed...... // I'll bring my beloved Honey back!!!!
Chiaki: Ooh...! Kuroku: Noboru...!
Kuroku: Alright, that's the spirit!! Tell me if there's something I can do for you!! Noboru: Kuroku-san! Chiaki: They hit of well because they both don't do any work!!!
(6) Kuroku: Andou Kuroku, belonging to the safety department of daily matters, will make a declaration!! // This day is Noboru... is the "Noboru day"...!! // Let's enjoy a splendid Noboru day!! XXX: No, this Kuroku-san is scary!!
Noboru: Err... Well. // I'm sorry, but could the two of you...
Both: Eh? Noboru: While I study the recipes left behind by my Honey----
Noboru: ...the ingredients. // Can I ask you to buy me those?
Kuroku: Sure...
Chiaki: Why did I have to come... // Where... is that "market place" anyway? (permission to pass?) Kuroku: We're almost there.
Kuroku: It often happens that a street that passes through a hideaway of the yokai-----
Kuroku: gets placed in the crack of a human's consciousness.
Chiaki: ----"crack of a human's consciousness"...? Kuroku: A shop you often pass by, but never went inside. // A side street that bothers you, yet you've never passed through it. // A deserted house that no one cleans, a door of which you don't know where it connects----
(7) Kuroku: ...these // close, yet so far away places
Kuroku: Are the entrance // to the yokai world.
Kid: Mom, I saw a light behind the window. Mother: Eh? // That...
Mother: I don't see anything.
XXX: ...hey!
(8-9) Chiaki: Wow! Kuroku: You finally noticed?
Kuroku: XXX // Well, let's go.
Chiaki: Eh! Kuroku: Well.
Kuroku: Let's do some shopping.
Yokai: I'm cheap, really cheap!! // Right now 100 grams of Nessie, only 200 yen!!
Chiaki: A..amazing.
Chiaki: This place. // Where in Tama is it...!? Kuroku: It's a hideaway secretly created inside the mountain of Tama. (The blue sky is a projection.)
(10) Kuroku: As for that entrance (City crack 136), was opened by a citizen meeting discussed the grounbd place in the past
Kuroku: Influence by thevoice of Hally Xtter who was really popular back then. Chiaki: Is it alright to make decisions like that!!!
Yokai: Oh! // What decision are you making?
Yokai: If you're wonder what to eat for dinner, I have a dessert to recommand // Would you like to try our specialty, "Nue Milk ice"!!
XXX: It's rare for human to come here! Kuroku: We're from the city hall. Yokai: Ah, that explains it! Chiaki: Th...that "nue", what is it...?
(11) Yokai: "Nue" is this! // Hey, store manager!
Yokai: It's a yokay with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, a snake as a tail and the limbs of a tiger. XXX: Can I help you? XXX: XXX
Kuroku: It looks like normal milk ice. Chiaki: It's Nue milk...
Chiaki: O, well,----
Chiaki: I will try!!
Chiaki: ...mi
Chiaki: Mild!!! What is this!? It's so good!!! //
Yokai: Chiaki: I don't really get it, but it tastes great!!!
Chiaki: Those people who are in full dress... Kuroku: Ah, that's an auction. Chiaki: "Auction"?
Yokai: Well!! It's decided! Today's centerpiece "The dirt from under Lady Ga〇's nails"!! // The bid starts at 1,500,000 yen!!!
Yokai: Uooo!! I bid 2,000,000 yen!! // I'll give you 4,000,000 yen!!! // I..I will pay 6,000,000!!!
Kuroku: The dirt auctions of the Akaname are still as lively as ever. Chiaki: ......Kuroku-san. // I hate that youkai.
[T/N: Akaname = a bathroom yokai, it is the personification of the fear to use a dark bathroom late at night. It is said they come out at night to lick up the dirt that accumulates in a bathroom.]
Box: -----and
(13) Box: we went from store to store. Chiaki: I'm totally full!! Kuroku: I'd like one Blue Hawai.
Box: and finally concluded our shopping for the needed ingredients.
Kuroku: ...we really bought a lot.
Kuroku: This is the last place. Chiaki: It has quite an overwhelming atmoshpere...
Chiaki: Hm? Oh...? Come to think of it, this address------ Yokai: ...I think some noisy customers came in.
Yokai: Hm... // Human, huh?
(14) Yokai: ...I don't sell to humans. // Get lost.
Kuroku: ...Oh?
Yokai: Some told me that humans don't understand the sublime taste of my store... // Well, even if you ask me why...
Yokai: Even if you use brute force. // I'll be happy to use it, human!
(15) Kuroku: Oh...
Kuroku: Chiaki: Ku..Kuroku-san!!
Kuroku: Fall back, Chiaki!! Chiaki: ...ah, no----
Chiaki: I don't want to X, but... // I've been researching this shop.
Chiaki:
Chiaki: ........to put it bluntly // it would be strange to close it down......
XXX: Err...
Kuroku: ...next, you // Chiaki: You suddenly doubled it!!
XXX: You'd better give up right away, pig!! Noboru: So mean!!
Kuroku: You're exaggerating!! You should think about his feeling more!! // It's not that bad!!! XXX: In the end it's Kuroku-san who's awfull!!
(17) Chiaki: As expected, just gathering all ingredients is... Yokai: Without a person to make it...
Noboru: Damn...! Even though you bought me the ingredients... // At this rate my Honey won't...!
Kuroku: Noboru...
Noboru: Why...! I followed the recipe---- XXX:...you did.
XXX: So... Noboru: Eh?
XXX: How about a subtle seasoning!
All: Eeeeeh!!!?
XXX: Wha...
(18) Noboru: Buboba... Hoho... // .........Ho
Noboru: Honey!!! Honey: ...I heard how you all got involved in my husband's try to start cooking...
Honey: I'm very sorry for causing so much trouble. Chiaki: Ye...yes. (She's beautiful...) Yokai: (Why is she married to him...?) // ...but, didn't you have enough of him...
Noboru: That's not true, right Honey!!? Honey: Yes, that's right... // He's a useless pig.
Honey: And I had no intention to return at all. XXX: Ouch!! // crawl!! Honey: When I heard he had a change of heart // I remembered all the hard times we faced together... Noboru: Ah, Honey!! // I won't cry!! I won't cry, Honeyyyy!!!
(19) XXX: So
Honey: How long are you going to keep wearing that dirty sweater? // I wanted to verify it by myself.
Noboru: Honey!!! I love you!!! Honey: Don't touch me, your clothes are dirty! Noboru: Kuroku: ..that's great, right Noboru...! Chiaki: ......ha ha ha. // So that was the meaning behind the shirt.
Box: Like this----
Box: The restaurant in the (secret) Tama city hall re-opened Noboru: Welcome!!
Noboru: Sweatheart! One Katsudon for table 12! Honey: OK! Box: and Noboru-san started to help his wife.
Box: Their love // is deeper than the eye can see. Noboru: Sorry to make you wait!
Text: Snap
Chiaki: This is awful!! Kuroku: Hey, Chiaki, you're exaggerating! It isn't as bad as before! Noboru: You...You're even worse!? Box: Noboru-san started to help behind the scenes.
Report 4 / End https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/38534[English] [Translation] Kurokuroku 3 by Sohma Riku2013-08-19T21:57:24+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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(1) Text: Kuro Kuroku
Girl: It's been 2 weeks already.
Girl: Chiaki-chan, did you get used to your job yet? Chiaki: Eh? // Yes, I'm doing fine.
Text: The girl who works at the Yokai City Hall...
Chiaki: My boss it a bit weird though. [Arrow: Weird] Girl: What? Sounds interesting. (Heh heh heh.) Chiaki: More specifically, it's weird in every possible way.
Girl2: So, did you save up already? // Money. // I've been waiting all this time, Chiaki?
Girl2: You promised to slap me on the cheek with a bundle of banknotes, remember? (Ahahaha.) Chiaki: (Ufufufu) I'm waiting for you to build a wall of banknotes, Shion. [Bank notes wall] (It angers me that you can really do it.) Girl: ...you've been like this for 3 years, and I'm still not used to it...
Text: is just a normal High School student at noon!!
(2) Box: Truth is, I use that high wage Girl: By the way, Shion-chan, did you change your hair band? (It's so cute!) Shion: Yes, it's a gift from a boy.
Box: to pay off a huge debt. // So my daily life hardly changed. XXX: But it'll be of no help at all to build a wall. XXX: Ha ha...
Shion: ...because Chiaki finally got a new job, // maybe it'll change her mood a bit? Girl: Yeah, that'd be great ♪
Chiaki: Eh! Me!? Shion: But
Shion: You never got a gift from a boy, did you? Chiaki: Shut up, Shion. // Is it my fault? Shion: More or less.
(3) Box: ...well, speaking of it. Shion: So, as a compensation, I'll take this soy-flavored omelet. Chiaki: Then I'll eat this expensive-looking meat.
Box: I have no thirst // for such a "present"---- Chiaki: This meat tastes great...
[T/N: present = situation]
Girl: ......but.
Girl: Receiving a present isn't always a good thing. // ...have you heard about it?
Girl: This school school's mystery // "Spirited Away".
(4) Black text: A yokai office comedy // The 3rd Chapter of the new series is 23P!! // Kuro Kuroku // Report 3 The firewood that's given as a present in Tama //
White text: A bizarre present for you!!
Circles: Nakamura Atsushi Text: Read chapter 1~2 for free at the JUMP HP!!
Girl: ...a present that is send to you by someone from the opposite sex will suddenly disappear... // After that, a mysterious chunk of iron will appear in its place... // That's "Spirited Away"!!! Girl: (What!?)
(5) Shion: But that rumor // already goes around Tama's Easters high school for over 50 years. (A pervert with a fetish for iron?) Girl: (Ma..Maybe there is one.)
Kuroku: ...indeed.
Kuroku: It could be the work of a yokai. Chiaki: I thought so too, Kuroku-san. If it's true, maybe...
Kuroku: Anyhow, if it enters the school // it's in violation of Article 27 of the (secret) city regulations, the provision on intrusion outside the living quarters.
Kuroku: In the past a group of Akaname sneaked into the University's girl's dorm. // It's only one of the many violations of the regulations. Chiaki: That's not what you'd call mere trespassing, right!!?
[T/N: Akaname = a bathroom yokai, it is the personification of the fear to use a dark bathroom late at night. It is said they come out at night to lick up the dirt that accumulates in a bathroom.]
(6) Chiaki: An..Anyway! (cough.) // I'm sorry for bothering you during work...! Kuroku: That's fine, I can do this with one hand. Chiaki: You're unusually dependable today! That's a surprise!
Kuroku: A present from the opposite sex... // Going on for more than 50 years...
Kuroku: Alright, Chiaki. After class ends, wait for me at school! Chiaki: What!!? Kuroku: Ah, a full house. Chiaki: Full house!!?
(7) Chiaki: ...what am I doing here at this hour... // Ryoko went to bed, after asking " You'll be late again?"...
Chiaki: Eh? By the way, why isn't he here yet? // I've been waiting for 5 hours already. // I'm only still waiting so I can tell him off.
Chiaki: Kuroku-san... // Because he's so slow // my friend fell victim too... Shion: (It's really a chunk of iron!) Girl: (It's not funny!) Chiaki: ... I wonder if she feels hurt, oh...?
Chiaki: ...well, it's not like he'll // ever apologize. (ha ha ha)
Chiaki: Because he really // has no tact.
(8) Kuroku: Why do you sleep // during work?
Chiaki: Ku...Kuroku-san!? Kuroku: The preparations took some time. // ...well, it's convenient that everyone else left already.
Chiaki: ...convenient......
Chiaki: Wh..What time do you think it is!? Kuroku: Here.
Chiaki: ......eh? // Wh..What's this? Kuroku: What do mean?
(9) Kuroku: It's a present.
Chiaki: Eh?
Chiaki: Wh...Wh...W..Wh... // Wh..Why, all of a sudden!!? (It's even a bouquet!) Kuroku: ...huh, does aren't you in a hurry? // ......well, whatever.
Kuroku: Now the next step. Chiaki: Ne...Next step...?
Kuroku: We go to a dark and inconspicuous place. Chiaki: HEEEEEEEEY!!!
Chiaki:N...No. Eh!? What!? Wh...Wh..wh..What are you saying!? // Is this yokai-style power harassment!!? Kuroku: You can leave the bouquet here. Chiaki: What?
(10) Kuroku: It'll be in the way. // You don't need it. Chiaki: HEEEEEEY!!!!
Chiaki: Wh...Wh..What will be in the way!? What don't I need!? Kuroku: Shut up and come here. Chiaki: No, I don't want----
Chiaki: that...!!
Kuroku: ...oh // just as I heard...
(11) Kuroku: The story about the bouquet // that would be stolen if left behind.
Yokai: ...at a holy school building... Chiaki: That...
Chiaki: at that place... Yokai: To make vulgar demands from a woman one hates-----
Yokai: I absolutely won't allow it!!! XXX: No way, // that person was-----
Yokai: ......I'll teach savages like you // the way of piling firewood!!!!
(12) Chiaki: ------just // Who is he!!!?
Chiaki: Who is this macho!!? // I have absolutely don't know him!!! Yokai: ...if you demand to know my name, I'll tell you, young woman.
Yokai: My name is Ninomiya Kinjirou. // I'm an "artman". Chiaki: What the hell is this person talking about!!?
[T/N: Ninomiya Kinjirou, a.k.a. Ninomiya Sontoku was prominent Japanese agricultural leader, philosopher, moralist and economist of the 19th century. Statues of him are often found in front of schools, depicting him reading a book and carrying firewood on his back. They say he would read and study whenever he could.]
Yokai: No, to be precise... // I'm the manifestation of the a deep-seated grudge that Kinjirou bore before his death...
Kuroku: ...he's like one of the subspecies of the tsukimogami. Chiaki: ......ah!
[T/N: tsukumogami = a type of yokai. The term is generally applied to any object that is 100 years old and came to live.]
Chiaki: ...that reminds me! // Kinjirou was like the symbol of diligence, abstinence and honesty!! (I'll pick up firewood // while I read a book.)
Chiaki: As a kid he plaited straw sandals, so he could buy alcohol for his father and he worked hard to lit a lamp so he could read, applying himself to his studies // Also, he once predicted it would be a cool summer based on the taste of an eggplant! Kuroku: What the hell are you talking about?
(13) Chiaki: For that person to steal---- (He's one of my heroes!!) XXX: Therefore. Chiaki: ......eh!?
Yokai: During my lifetime, I cultivated myself devoting myself to my studies. // But, those who are too talented, are sometimes incompatible with their surroundings...
Yokai: ... you probably can't imagine. // The great amount of unjust I received. Kinjirou: (Furuko... you are worthy of me. // Would you accept this "firewood" as the "symbol of my love" ...?) Furuko: (This... firewood symbolizes your love.. Ha ha // Furuko) Friend: (Ugh! What's that? So disgusting!! // Friend) Friend: That's really disgusting!! // Friend) Man: How much love can you carry on your back!!? Man: It must be heavy because of the double meaning!!
Yokai: ...and soon I realized it. // This world where I'm not popular...------ // is distorted...!!!!
Yokai: One day at this school // I met with the grudge of some boys who carried the same mental wounds like I did during my life. // Wounds that don't burn away like firewood, and I became more powerful!!
[T/N: burn away like firewood = disappear with a present]
(14) Yokai: It was all to clean up!!!!
Chiaki: Fi...Firewood!?
Yokai: "Firewood" is the symbol---- // It's the crystal of our spilled tears...!!!
Yokai: I absolutely cannot permit presents that are filled with happiness!! // The perfect friendship between men and women is detestable, it's pure evil!!
Chiaki: ...is that why he exchanged the "presents" for "firewood"...!? // That's...... // That's creepy!!
[T/N: present = happiness, firewood = garbage]
(15) Chiaki: You..you've been doing that for 50 years... Yokai: ...as expected, you don't understand?
Yokai: Let me ask you, when a person finished piling up the firewood // What's the next thing they wait for...? Chiaki: Eh!? We...Well...
Yokai: ...to pile up // the firewood again. Chiaki: Will all people turn out like this, if they aggravate being smart!!?
Yokai: A girl would never understand... // No... that is-----
Yokai: ...I could say the same to // a handsome boy like you.
(16) Kuroku: ...hm? Ah, that reminds me of earlier... Yokai: (Kuroku-san is pretty handsome, but // you're not friendly at all. This way you'll never be popular with the girls.) Kuroku: That's what he said... Chiaki: Well, you say a lot of nasty things!!!
Yokai: Die----
Yokai: Wha...!!? // M... my body // doesn't move...!!?
Kuroku: That's because // of my technique.
Kuroku: At first I had a lot of trouble using this technique, but... // if I prepare a method with the soul charms built within beforehand, even I ------
(17) Kuroku: simply with my supernatural power, // can use it. Text: "The Law of Teishin" [T/N: Teishin = fixed body]
Yokai: Guguuh! The...then you... // Ri..right from the start...!
Chiaki: So......
Yokai: That present // was a trap......!!!
Kuroku: To be honest, I am
Kuroku: the same as you are. // I know nothing about presents.
Kuroku: ...but
Kuroku: Even though they knew it was only a tool to do my job, // just as they heard that I would give it to Chiaki.
(18) Kuroku: Those guys // lost themselves in helping me.
Kuroku: ...at this playful workplace // she's always working really hard. // Our new staff member. Yokai: (I'm not doing this to help Kuroku-san. // It could be the perfect opportunity. // Sis, Chiaki-chan~ // You can only give those that look beautiful...!)
Kuroku: Today is her // two week anniversary.
(19) Kuroku: ...how should I say. // Those guys-----
Kuroku: wanted it to be a "present"// that would convey their gratitude.
Kuroku: .......even now, I don't // really understand it
Kuroku: ...but, if you've been // trampling on...... // that kind of feeling until now...!!!!
Yokai: Wa... // Wait!
(20) Kuroku: that makes me really angry----- // ...that's what // I do understand.
(21) Chiaki: Ah...
Chiaki: I see...... // It disappeared...
Box: After that // we found all the stolen items inside the pedestal // and returned all of them to their owners. // As a punishment, Kinjirou was to make sure of that...... // But Chiaki: ...huh?
Chiaki: There are still some left, Kuroku-san? Kuroku: He said the rest is too old and he doesn't know who the owners are. // Well, they'll become the property of the (secret) Tama City Hall.
(22) Chiaki: Wow...
Chiaki: It's beautiful...it's a hair ornament, right? (An ornamental hairpin?) Kuroku: ...hey, hey, are you serious? // This is made from granite, right...!?
Chiaki: Is it something special?
Kuroku: It emits an extremely powerful Hama. // This thing has as much defensive power as a spirit hand... (He didn't take this from a student...)
[T/N: hama = the power to destroy evil.]
Chiaki: Oh...
Kuroku: That's perfect. Chiaki: Eh? Kuroku: Put it in. Chiaki: What!!?
Chiaki: ...err.
(23) Chiaki: Af...After all, I can't accept such a special...!! Kuroku: ...you'd better wear it at all times, also after work.
Chiaki: Bu... // But...
Kuroku: ......Aah! // Well.
Kuroku: If it's a present from me // It's okay, right?
Kuroku: Ah... or would you rather have this... Chiaki: No, it's fine.
Chiaki: ......Kuroku-san. // Thank you...! Kuroku: Ah... you're // welcome. Text: Without realizing it (!?) Good job, boss!!
Text: Kuro Kuroku // Report 3 / End
https://mangahelpers.com/t/sohma-riku/releases/38484[English] [Translation] Kurokuroku 2 by Sohma Riku2013-08-07T22:14:45+00:00Sohma Rikuadmin@mangahelpers.com
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(1) [color page] Blue text: Today's there's another mysterious job to do! / Chapter 2 of the new serialization about the Yokai City Hall comedy is 25P from the center color page!! Red text: Kuro Kuroku Orange dots: Nakamura Atsushi
Pink text: For human and Yokai to live happily in the "city", // I'll gladly work overtime today as well!! Blue text: Report 2 Taking a ride in Tama
(2) Girl: Chiaki-chan! // Let's go home together!
Chiaki: I'm sorry. // I have to work today as well!
Girl: Good luck!
Girl: Seems like she's really busy, but I'm glad she found a side-job. (It's a bit lonely though.) Girl2: ...but, I've been wondering for some time. // Why does she // go by the roof every day?
Vertical text: The secret side-job of this girl student is!?
Chiaki: ...well then, // I'm counting on you, Watanuki-san.
(3) Watanuki: Don't worry, Chiaki-chan. // Well, hop on. Hop on.
Box: In this city // live 150.000 people. // This is the sky of the Metropolis of Tokyo, Tama city.
(4) Box: Here is my part-time job. // At the Tama city hall.
Box: ------with a water tank on the roof. Watanuki: See you tomorrow! Chiaki: Thank you very much!
Box: Passing through that door,
Box: and going to the 2nd basement. // There Chiaki: breathe...
Box: is my workplace------ Chiaki: Excuse me for being late------
(5) Chiaki: Hm. Box: The window of the Yokai residents. // The (secret) Tama city hall.
Yokai: The winning move is a scoop throw! Box: ......and this Yokai: It's Kuroko-san's win!
Box: messed up man...
Kuroku: Hi, Chiaki. Chiaki: Do your job!!! Box: is my boss.
Chiaki: You were the one who told me, right!? // That there is no other staff at the moment!
Kuroku: They said they were in Kusatsu some time ago, I believe they are on an long business trip in Las Vegas right now... Chiaki: However you look at it, you were playing a game!? // An..anyway!! (I haven't even met them once!)
(6) Chiaki: We both have to do our best if we want to make this work!! Kuroku: Well, I had some spare time... XXX: -----I heard the rumors, but
XXX: it's true. // A human girl took on a part-time job here!
XXX: ...ah! It's nice to meet you! // I'm a police officer from the Eastern police station of Tama. // My name is Ozu Juuzaburou!!!
Chiaki: Hu..human!!? Yokai: Now she's even surprised to see humans. // I guess she's getting too used to us.
(7) Kuroko: ------Ozu is
Kuroku: definitely a human. Ozu: I'm friends with a small number of Yokai...
Kuroku: It's normal for yokai to use a technique that makes them invisible when they go outside. // Therefore, if they cause a problem, it's classified as a mysterious phenomenon. (Like a lapping sound, or balls of fire...) Text: Forgot to extinguish
Kuroku: The information is gathered by the police like any other incident. // Inside the police station we have a liaison department that specializes in handling these mysterious phenomena. // They've been giving their information to us since the past.
Kuroku: In charge of the 31st division---- // is the "Mysterious phenomena Safety measure Investigation unit"!!!
Ozu: Commonly known as "MSI". // I'm Ozu Juuzaburou!!! Chiaki: What did you say!!?
[T/N: original Japanese name of the department was "KAS" = Kaikigenshou Anzentaisaku Sousakei = Mysterious phenomena Safety measure Investigation unit = MSI]
Ozu: Ah, I'm sorry. The status of our department is pretty low, so this kind of name is... (I'm the only officer.) Chiaki: O..oh...
(8) Ozu: Nobody believes in those mysterious phenomena, and it's also a secret... the (secret) Tama city hall. // Some time ago as well------
XXX: -----hey!! // You're that Ozu-chan of "MSI"!!
XXX: It's amazing how your chase after ghosts all by yourself. // It already requires the efforts of three to hunt down a wanted criminal~~ SFX: grin grin
Ozu: That's alright! If you round it off, it's the same zero people! XXX: How dare you remonstrate us from above!?
XXX: How free of you to say we're "the same"! The only similarity is that we all work here...! // Well, amongst us all, you're on the bottom by far! Text: The lowest in rank, whatever he does.
XXX: By the way, are you still playing around with that beloved figure of yours? Ozu: Ah! XXX: Aah! That reminds me. Is he the only one who understands you!?
(9) XXX: ...really, this place is perfect for you. // Right here there's no need for anyone to acknowledge you----- Door sign: Mysterious phenomena Safety measure Investigation unit
XXX: some stupid guy of "MSI"----- Ozu: ...Even my reason to become a police officer.
Ozu: It's all because I still admire the heroes I saw on TV... ha ha ha, it's that simple. Chiaki: How on earth was that figure broken!!? Ozu: ...but every day is like a failure.
Ozu: I don't understand myself... // but...!!
Ozu: My dream to become a hero!!! // will never change!!!
Ozu: Hey!! Kuroku-sa---- Kuroku: Ah, I don't care about that. Chiaki: Show some interest!!!!
Chiaki: This is the reason why Sara-chan is scared of you, right!? (You know that, right?) Kuroku: Stop it! Don't mention it anymore!!
(10) Ozu: It's alright, Yusa-san!
Ozu: Ha ha ha...! // I'm fine, don't worry!
Ozu: Well then! Let's get to the point! Kuroku: (That's why I said I'm no good with children...)
Ozu: -----well then, // this is a video of the problem.
Yokai: Move, move, move!!!! // Hey, hey, the Oboro race team is coming through!!! // Damn!! Paved streets are absolutely great!!
Yokai: Brother!! The wind feel great, huh!? Chiaki: What's this!!?
Ozu: As you can see, their thoughtless act of speeding causes a lot of noise and vibrations, disturbing the people living in the area----- // On top of that, the fact that cause is unknown doubles the scare... // There's a large amount of damage done.
Ozu: The police has no means to stop them... Yokai (video): Hey, this human has a video camera!! Human (video): Yipes!! Yokai (video): Film, film, hang him, hang him!!! Box: Through a special video conversion, the Yokai are visible. Chiaki: This video has quite some visual impact, right!!!?
(12) Ozu: ...er, Kuroku-san?
Kuroku: Aah, I'm sorry, Ozu. Ozu: What should I do------!? Chiaki: His pants...
Kuroku: It's
Kuroku: obvious------
Chiaki: Are these contacts that allow you to see Yokai...? Kuroku: Yes! Please put them in!
Chiaki: ...come to think of it, Ozu-san. // Why are you here? (Don't close...)
Ozu: Eh? // I could ask you the same question, right?
Chiaki: No, if I don't write the reports, it'll become a mess here...... // To be frank, I'd rather go home right now. (That guy can't properly write a repot...) Ozu: I...I see.
(13) Chiaki: Can't you just leave those "yokai" up to Kuroku-san? Ozu: Ha ha ha ha.
Ozu: Sure enough, our opponents are yokai, // and there's probably not much a simple human like me, who's hasn't supernatural power, can do.
Ozu: But------
Ozu: "It will be all the same." // "Just follow your heart."
Ozu: Ah, by the way, that's a line of the red ranger in episode 16 of Shakaiha Sentai Machine Chaos! // He says it to the blue ranger, who refused to fight... Chiaki: Ah, don't worry. I don't really know the series. (outright.) Ozu: I..I see, you're a girl after all...
[T/N: Shakaiha = Socially aware]
(14) Yokai: Yooo-hooo!!! // Route 20 of the Tokyo municipal road is amazing!!!
Ozu: Th..they are here!!? Chiaki: Bu...t, they are running down the road in the wrong direction...!!?
Man: Wh..what happened!? Did you also feel the car shaking!? // What an incredible noise!!
Yokai: After all, we really need an empty mountain ridge or something! // This road isn't large enough for us to express our youth!!
(15) Chiaki: Th...they'll cause a huge accidents... // ...!?
Chiaki: O... // Ozu-san!!?
Ozu: ...I am
Ozu: a police officer, who'll protect this city!!! // Because I want to protect them!! // That's all what I have to do!!
Ozu: Uoooooo!!! // Stooooooop!!!!
(16) Ozu: Yiiiiipes!!! Chiaki: O..Ozu-san!!!
Ozu/Chiaki: Ah, what happened!? // N..No, that's not the problem now!!!
Yokai: What's this person doing!? Hang him, hang him!! // Let's part, let's party!!
Ozu: There's no need for anyone // to acknowledge "MSI"-------
Kuroku: All of your // driver's licenses are suspended! Sword: Tama City Hall
Ozu: Aah...
Ozu: As I thought // Kuroku-san is amazing...
(19) Ozu: We're so different------
Ozu: He is a true // hero----
People: ---------what's that? // I heard a loud noise coming from over there... // Is it another one of those mysterious phenomena...!?
Chiaki: He made a mess... Kuroku: Hey, Chiaki.
(20) Chiaki: That thing... you can change both its size and form, huh... Kuroku: Amazing, huh?
Chiaki: Well, you can't surprise me anymore... Kuroku: What are you saying? That's why woman are (No romance at all)
Ozu: Uu...
Chiaki: O..Ozu-san!! Kuroku: Hey, Ozu. Ozu: Ha ha ha... // ...looks like it's over already...
Ozu: In the end... // I was of no use at all.
Chiaki: Su...Such a thing... Kuroku: Don't worry,
Kuroku: that's fine.
(21) Kuroku: Come on, hurry up. (need to clean)
Chiaki: Hold it... you really went too far this time! Ozu: Well... it's fine. I really don't mind. Kuroku: We..Well, certainly, this time------ (Ooh?)
Kuroku: Ozu made my job a lot easier... // Anyway, I more or less did my job so don't get mad...!
Ozu+Chiaki: Huh?
Kuroku: Don't go " huh?"! // This happens every time! // You thoughtlessly rush at our enemy! Ozu: Eh? Oh?
Kuroku: That's why I waited for "that time". // I'd come close when they were distracted by you. Ozu: (Yiiipes!) Yokai: (Heave-ho! // Heave-ho!) Kuroku: (That's it)
Kuroku: to take them down // in one shot, that's all.
(22) Kuroku: My job is that simple. Chiaki: Er...what's that for a reply?
Ozu: S... So. Kuroku: Hm? Ozu: W...was I of any use... to you...? Kuroku: Huh?
Kuroku: Of course. // You were the one who gave me this idea in the first place.
Kuroku: ...but if you want to protect any citizen, it's important to know the meaning of fear. // Well, good luck next time.
Chiaki: Ah------...
(23) Ozu: Good luck // next time-----
Ozu: ...Ku // Kuroku-san...! Kuroku: Hm?
Ozu: Well, I thought about this before, but... // after all... after all------!!
Ozu: ...Kuroku-san, // you are the "hero" whom I admire!!!
(24) XXX: ...Ah-----
Kuroku: That sounds kinda gross.
Box: "Report" Concerning the speeding incidents-----
Box: The yokai causing the incidents // had to repair the damaged roads as a punishment. Chiaki: ...for just a little // Pay attention!!!
Box: By the way, after that // we discovered a human who got accidently crushed by the flying Ozu-san.
Box: At a later date we heard he was actually a wanted person // and Ozu got some unexpected credit. Ozu: (I think I've seen him before...) Paper: Wanted criminal
Box: And------
Kuroku: ...hey // Hey, Chiaki!
(25) Kuroku: ...while on duty, regular staff member Andou gave priority to personal acts (riding a Oborogurama) ------ ...what's this about? Chiaki: That's what happened, right?
Kuroku: After that, I said something about giving a lighter punishment if they let me ride them. // Chiaki: It's like accepting a bribe, right? Kuroku: (Somehow!) Kuroku: No, it's not! It's like showing mercy! Mercy!!
Box: ...how should I put it. // He's still the same... I guess.
Box: ...but Kuroku: You're always coming here riding on him!! Chiaki: Eh!? // That's just an act of kindness!!
Box: Inside my heart, my view of Kuroku-san // is gradually changing----- Kuroku: What!!? // No matter how often I asked him, he'd never let me ride him...
Box: ------No. // I'm sorry, that's not true after all.
Box: A few days later Ozu: I got a promotion! Paper: I'm a Police sergeant. Kuroku: What!!?
Vertical text: A change in fate!!
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(1) Jump cover XXX (2) color page Orange txt: New series "Kuro kuroku"
Box: Hello! My name is Yusa Chiaki. I'm a normal girl high school student! // My motto is simplicity and frugality! The person I respect most is Uesugi Youzan!! Green text: The wild flight of a JK. Pursuing her are...!?
[T/N: JK - Joshi Kousei = girl high school student]
Box: I love sweets and cash! (Yeey!) I dislike Kappa, I guess ☆ // -----what? // Why I dislike kappa?
[T/N: a kappa = a water goblin haunting mainly rivers.]
Box: It should be obvious. It's because they are attacking meeeee!!
Boy: ...Ah. // Finally here.
Boy: ...well then------
(3) color page Boy: It's time for work------
Blue txt: The long-awaited legend! The supernova of the next generation!! / The second new series to celebrate Weekly Shonen Jump's 45 year anniversary!! / 54 pages with colored opening pages!!!
Box: There live 150.000 people here.
black txt: Report 1 Red txt: If you take on a part time job in Tama, it's in this city hall Bluish txt: Nakamura Atsushi
(4) color page Red txt: Kuro kuroku orange txt: Sacrificing himself for the sake of a shining "city"!! Green txt: New series small red text: This manga will be continued from page 27!!
Box: In the Metropolis of Tokyo, Tama city------
(5) Box: 1 week earlier. News: By now this rumor has taken a strong hold // on men and women of all ages in our Tama city! Text: The mystery lurking in the toilets of Tama Park!! // There are kappa in Tama!!? Vertical text: A dubious mystery!!
Box: ...ridiculous, like kappa would exist nowadays. // Instead of worrying about such unrealistic problems----
Chiaki: Haa... again in the red... Girl: Sis, sis!
Girl: They said there are kappa! // I wonder if there are really kappa here!
Chiaki: I wonder if I could make some cash of those kappa... Girl: I'm not sure what you're talking about, but the look in your eyes is scary, Sis!
(6) Box: ...for two sisters living together // the decreasing family budget is a much more complicated and inscrutable problem than those kappa. Girl: Look, look. Those kappa-san are cute! txt: A mystery!! Are there kappa in Tama?! // Imaginary picture // Professor Ota
Box: Ryoko's camping school will be next month, huh? // To be honest, it makes me sad... Paper: Camping school announced Chiaki: I really have to find a job soon...
Chiaki: Aah damn, it came off again! (Gee!) Ryoko: Oh, this...
Chiaki: What's up? Ryoko: ...Sis, you always said it, right!?
Ryoku: To always choose // the "part-time jobs" that pay well-----
Paper: Notice of Tama City's City Hall!! / Looking for a part-timer!!! / [Terms] / Girl High School Students Only / Hourly wage: 100,000- / [Interview location] / Inside the toilets of Tama Park / Work description / Just come, we'll explain later. XXX: It's a nice place!! / Tamami-chan // We're waiting for you!! / Tamazou-kun
[T/N: 100,000 yen = about 1000 US Dollars]
Chiaki: ...a part time job // for the City Hall...!?
(7) Girl: Wow, amazing! It has a lot of zeros! Box: It's extremely // suspicious.
Chiaki: Ah, well. Ryoko, this is---- Ryoko: ...if they pay you this much
Ryoko: you'll make a lot of money in a short time.
Ryoko: Then you won't have to // come home late in the night anymore either. Ryoko: Sis, // come home early, 'key!?
Chiaki: Even if kappa don't // Angels do exist, huh?
Ryoko: Al...Alright. Sis, give it your all!! Chiaki: I'm leaving ♪
Box: ...that's right. // This precious family
(8) Box: is the symbol of my daily life----- // That's why, right now
Box: the scene in front of my eyes. // I didn't believe it was reality.
Box: Judging by his appearance, he is a bit older than me? // The mysterious guy, who appeared out of nowhere.
Box: Without hesitating even a second. // The infinite number of violent kappa.
(9) Box: Within my dispersing field of vision. // He knocked them down one by one--- // ...so, oh?
Box: Why again did I start losing my conscious in the first place? // I went to the toilets for a job interview, when I was attacked by the kappa... // Then, a door suddenly opened in front of me...... XXX: No, don't make fun of me! // I'll get you for that! // Ah!
Box: This is a dream... // It's only a dream... XXX: Got ya!!!!
Chiaki: Uu...nn.
Chiaki: ...eh?
(10) Chiaki: Ah, right... // It was really a dream...
Chiaki: That's right. If you carefully think about it, there's no way kappa would really exist. // Those were just some shots from a movie or so... // ...oh? Come to think of it, where am I-----
Boy: ...ist.
Chiaki: Eh? Boy: They exist.
Boy: Yokai.
[T/N: Yokai = collective noun for all kinds of Japanese monsters]
(11) Chiaki: Gyaaaaa....aaaa!!
Chiaki: Aaaaaaaaaa!!
Chiaki: S-s-s-s-so it wasn't a d-d-dream... Boy: You really hit you head quite hard.
Boy: Here, cool your head with this. // By the way, do you remember anything? Chiaki: (Hit my head?) What? Ah...hahahaha. Most of it...
Chiaki: ...all of that // happened for real...!?
Chiaki: Sure enough, I saw those kappa... and // that boy too----
Chiaki: Hahaha... I'm not sure what's what anymore. // Ah... this cooling pack feels great... // ...Hm?
(12) Kappa: Ah, you know? // That's my favorite.
Chiaki: This is also a kappa!? Kappa: Aaaargh!!
Kappa: Aaaaah, my bowl!!! // Aaaaah, just what are you doing!? [T/N: Kappa have a bowl with water on/in their head. They need it to survive when they are away from water.]
Boy: To be accurate, it's actually a bowl cover. (If the real bowl would break, he'd die.) // It's some sort of fashion sense that emerged amongst the younger kappa lately, or so. Kappa: What are you saying!!?
Kappa: And here I thought I could become one of the top kappa this year... Boy: I heard they had to do leave their home due to a change in their environment or so. // They didn't have a place to go and thus settled in these toilets... // They caused quite a big fuss.
(13) Chiaki: ..."This".
Chiaki: Where... // on earth are we...?
Chiaki: And
Chiaki: Who on earth // are you supposed to be...!?
Boy: My name is Andou Kuroku. // I'm an ordinary city hall employee.
Kuroku: But... well. SFX: rattle!
(14) Kuroku: My window-----
(15) Kuroku: specializes in Yokai though.
Kuroku: ...normally they remain hidden from the human eyes, but // "Yokai" also // live their lives // in the Heisei Era like any human.
Yokai: Wow! ww Got a rare silk spider ww // I am at the same temple ww we're family ww
[T/N: Heisei era = from 1989 on; ww = haha, hehe, LOL]
(16) Kuroku: If they'd be seen by humans, it could cause a lot of trouble. Chiaki: Ah... Kuroku: Take those kappa for example.
Kuroku: Therefore, at the request of the country, places to register all Yokai were secretly established. // This is one of them, the place in charge of West-Tokyo---- // This is the "(Secret) Tama City Hall".
Chiaki: Wha...
Chiaki: So, in Tokyo, and also my neighborhood... // Fo...For such a place to exists----- Arrow: Here Board: Tama City Hall Floor plan / B2F No Unauthorized Entry
Chiaki: Moreover, to have this "Yokai City Hall"... // They're just like humans... (I still can't believe it...)
(17) Chiaki: ...hm? // ...oh? // Come to think of it...
Chiaki: "City hall"... // Seriously-----
Kuroku: ...so, let's discuss the details of your job------ Chiaki: I refuse.
Kuroku: No... what!? Wai.. You won't do it!? Chiaki: No, I will. It's not that I don't want // But this isn't a job a normal girl high school student can do!!!
Kuroku: The interview location is the rumored Yokai toilet... // So, a normal girl wouldn't come here on her own!! (Chiaki: I'm here for a job interview.) Chiaki: You didn't have to repeat THAT!!!
(18) Kuroku: On the whole, you are already on your first job. Chiaki: Eh?
Kuroku: These kappa who lived in a area prohibited for residence didn't show themselves at all. // Then I remembered they absolutely love human girls
Kuroku: and I got an idea! // Making use of the employment advertisement, I could lure them out... using a human girl high school student as decoy-------
Kuroku: The kappa would get excited and show themselves... Chiaki: How is that a job description!!?
Chiaki: Even if I die, // I won't do this!! This is no job!!! // You used me as a bait!!!
Chiaki: It's too dangerous!! Don't play games with me!! Kuroku: Well...
(19) Kuroku: Damn! And here the head managers said it's be alright, since the pay was good...!! // Tch... how much was it again? // Hourly wage...
Kuroku: Let's see. // 100.000 yen...?
Box (Chiaki): .........oh boy, // calm down. I have to calm down.
Box (Chiaki): Consider the surrounding situation! // Living an extraordinary life brimming with yokai as far as the eye can see. // How dangerous will it be!!?
(20) Ryoko: Sis, come home early, 'key!? Box (Chiaki): ...that's right, above all I need to return home safe...
Chiaki: I..In the first place, a hourly wage of 100.000 yen. // It's too good to be true-----
Kuroku: Anyway, for now......
Kuroku: Here's your pay for today.
Kuroku: You worked for 2 hours, // so that makes 200.000 yen.
(21) Kuroku: Ah... Chiaki: Eh...
Chiaki: Well...
Chiaki: What time do I start tomorrow? Kuroku: Right after school ends.
Box: The next day
Kuroku: -----well then, // shall I explain what you're supposed to do...?
Kuroku: Having said that, it's practically the same as working in a normal city hall. No need to worry. XXX: Number 30, please. Kuroku: Just take the needed documents... Yokai: (Please.)
(22) Kuroku: Then you...
SFX: click XXX: Number 31, please. Chiaki: H..He pressed it!!!
Kuroku: These stupid glasses... Chiaki: That has nothing to do with this. Just take them off! // An..Anyway------
Chiaki: Fi..First of all, I'll check the entries // and compare them to his Identification...
Chiaki: I fill this out and make a copy... // ...and that should do it.
Chiaki: H..Here you go. Youkai: Yes, th..thank you.
(23) Kuroku: Eh... Chiaki: Ah! My family's really poor, // so I've had a lot of side-jobs in the past...!
Chiaki: I did some jobs like this one before. / We..Well, it's nothing really to be proud of.
Kuroku: ...... // I see... Chiaki: Ah... I..I'm sorry for butting in. Kuroku: But
Kuroku: remember this is a yokai city hall, not a human city hall. // If you think nothing of it, you'll experience some dreadful things. Chiaki: That's the complete opposite of what you said earlier!!!
(24) Box (Chiaki): With this and that, Chiaki: (So, it was at the umbrella stand of the bus stop in front of the station...) Kuroku: (Yes, yes.) Yokai: (Yes, that's right.)
Yokai: (I'm here to apply for child allowance---) Chiaki: (Yes, yes, I see...)
Chiaki: (Er, next is...)
Kuroku (Er, next is...)
Yokai1: Hey, listen. There's a new human at the city hall! Yokai2: Yeah, she's working there. Yokai3: Wow! Really!? That's great!! Yokai4: Oh! Then, let's visit here next time!
Box: Two days later Yokai: Chiaki-chan!
Yokai1: Thanks for your hard work! Yokai2: We came to see you again! Yokai3: Hey? Where do you live? You know, my favorite graveyard is not far from here--
(25) Chiaki: Oh. // I have work to do right now, so...
Box (chiaki): This is how it became. Chiaki: Er...
Yokai: No, it's great to have you here-- // The other staff are away on a business trip right now, right? // You're amazing, doing all this work on your own. Text: section // Insurance section // Lost property section // Accounts section // Finance section // Elderly support section // Child care support section
Chiaki: No, no, it's nothing... // Somehow I'm getting a lot of compliments, but... // I'm too busy to feel happy about it!!! There's no way I can do all of this on my own!!
Chiaki: This data----- // Why did this happen...?
Yokai: I dreaded what would happen when I heard Kuroku-san would sit at the window! (Ahahahaha)
Chiaki: ...... // Ah.
(26) Kuroku: ...yes. // Well.
Kuroku: You're doing better than me, huh? Chiaki: That's pathetic!!!
Chiaki: Er... Well, that... Er... // Ah! I..I see you're not wearing your glasses today---! Kuroku: ...glasses?
Kuroku: Oh well, there's no need for me to work. // I'll do what I can. Chiaki: Why would you think that!?
Kuroku: ...... // Listen well, Chiaki. (27) Kuroku: That's because the job that's right up my street just hasn't shown itself yet. Chiaki: Whatever, just get back to work!!!!
Chiaki: You can't keep sitting there forever!! // There's too much work for one person to handle!! Kuroku: However, you can do everything on your own, right Chiaki-chan!? Chiaki: Aaargh!! You make me sick!! (Damn---!!)
Chiaki: It's too much for me!! // Yesterday for example---- Yokai: Hello, I came to register my family's seal---
Yokai: Well, actually I think the stroke count used to write boroboroton is too high-- // If I use too much cinnabar seal ink, it'll blur and become unreadable. I recommend to solar dry a soggy futon, a dry futon is like rock crystal ♬ [T/N: Boroboroton = a futon yokai, a ragged piece of bedding that presses itself down upon the sleeper to suffocate them.] [T/N: Futon = bedding]
Chiaki: A huge one appeared!!!
(28) Yokai: Ah, that's right. I'm a baketoro. Yes, that's correct. // The surface of the place where I used to live was rather soft and my girlfriend disliked it. // So, I moved to a place with a hard surface made of 100% concrete, so my address----- Chiaki: Out of nowhere!! // Overall, there are a lot of flashy yokai!!!
[T/N: baketoro = a lantarn yokai, this lantern will run out of oil right after you light it and thus go off again. You can make it function normally by slicing it with a katana every night.]
Kuroku: ...I // I never heard such private stories from them... Chiaki: I don't want to work here anymore!!!!
Yokai: -----excuse me...
Yokai: ......can I // have a moment?
(29) Chiaki: ------A lost child? Yokai: She's the daughter of a kappa, but... // she lost sight of her family, it seems.
Chiaki: Ka...Kappa!? (This child!?)
Kuroku: It's common for yokai to have a different appearance based on their sex. Chiaki: Even so...
Kuroku: To hold up the heavy shell, the males have a developed upper body. Chiaki: That's true, but it's not the point here!!!
Kuroku: Well, the greatest difference is their mind-set about the "bowl" on their head. // The males see their bowl as a way to show off their sex appeal.
Kuroku: While on the other hand, the females usually hide it under a hat.
(30) Kuroku: For anyone to see their bowl seems to be the ultimate disgrace.
Kuroku: If you try to force a female to show it, // she'll come to hate you. Chiaki: Stop hurting yourself already, Kuroku-san!!!
Chiaki: -------so, what's your name? Girl: ...Sara. Chiaki: So, you're Sara-chan. Where do you live?
Sara: ... far, far up the river. // We were on our way to here...
Chiaki: Why did you all go to Tama? Sara: Tama is an easy place to live for Yokai...
Kuroku: You know a lot for a little girl. (Here, have a candy.) Sara: ...but
Sara: "They"...-----
(31) Chiaki: Y...You don't have to force yourself to remember! // Just calm down and take your time----- Kuroku: No // Talk.
Kuroku: I should've questioned those guys of three days ago more, huh... // A great migration amongst your kind, who actually don't want to be separated from the water source where they were born and raised... Kuroku: On reflection, a lot of strange things don't make sense. // So, talk. Sara: Ah....
Woman: -----Run!! Sara: Eh...
Woman: Sara!! Sara: Er...
Chiaki: Hold // Hold on, Kuroku-san!!
Chiaki: She's terrified!! // Don't push her so much!! Kuroku: Eh? No, I didn't mean to...
(32) Chiaki: If that's true, then you shouldn't ask about her private life!! Arm: End of discussion
Chiaki: Are.. Are you alright? Don't force yourself, 'key? // Eh... Er. // Ah! Co..Come to think of it! Kuroku: (I'm just no good with kids...)
Chiaki: That's a really pretty hat! // Did you choose it yourself?
Sara: Eh... // Eh...
Sara: My // My sister... // chose it for me...
Box (Chiaki): Si... // Sis... (Sister...)
Box (Chiaki): Sh..She's so cute... // It looks like she's about the same age as Ryoko. // She's really cute!
(33) Box (Chiaki): ----wait!! // What am I thinking? She's a Yokai, right!? // Who knows how dangerous she could be----
Box (Chiaki): ......... // But
Box (Chiaki): How much // do I actually know about these Yokai...? Yokai: She's here. // Ah!
Box (Chiaki): Even one little kappa Yokai: Do you like cucumber? // It's been a while since I saw a kappa. Box (Chiaki): is a complete mystery for me--------
Box (Chiaki): ...So
Kuroku: Chiaki!!!! Chiaki: Eh? Box (Chiaki): More
(34) Box (Chiaki): If I know more about Yokai---------
Yokai: Oh boy, I was so happy // I used a bit too much power.
(35) Chiaki: Eek!!
Chiaki: Ku..Kuroku-san!!?
Sara: Ah!
Yokai: I finally found you! Damn... // I thought they'd take you here...
Yokai: Hi. // I came to collect my lost property------
(36) Chiaki: Lo..Lost property? // Ca...came to collect, what do you...? Sara: ......it's "them".
Chiaki: Eh?
Sara: "They" were the ones who attacked... // my home and my family...!
Yokai: ...hey, clerk. I am a stingy merchant. // In short, I deal in object from "our" world. (moreover, it's strange to see a human here.)
Yokai: But, I lost a precious item just before I could sell it. // You gather all lost items of "our" world at this place, right? // It would be dangerous if they'd get mixed up in the "human" world, right? Board: Lost property department
Yokai: So give it back to me, 'key? // THAT.
Yokai: I don't think a simple clerk like you know, but the bowl of a kappa is a secret medicine. // Especially the bowl of a little girl sells at an unbelievable price.
(37) Yokai: So, I leave the formalities to you. // Aah, I don't have a seal, so is it okay to use my signature?
Chiaki (Kuroku): A lot of things are bothering me-----
Yokai: Come on! // Just return the item first.
Yokai: Well? Will you be a good girl and come back with me? // You would like to meet up with your family, right?
Chiaki: ...but, you're a kappa, just like Sara-chan, right!!? // Wh..Why would you do------
Yokai: No, no, you've got it wrong. // It's because we are the same.
Yokai: That makes it really easy // to capture kappa, right?
(38) Chiaki: Then I'd be better for her to stay here forever!!!! // ----------...huh......
Chiaki: Why am I... // getting so angry about this...?
Chiaki: Even though my opponent is a yokai---- Yokai...wow.
Yokai: Even though you are a human, you side with a yokai? // But you know
Yokai: this has nothing to do with you, right?
Chiaki: Sara-chan!! Yokai: What would happen-----
Yokai: if you got hurt while protecting a yokai?
(39) Chiaki: Tch... // ......such a thing------- // I'm just a human girl high school student------- Sara: Eek!
Chiaki: Even though it hurts to admit...! // I can't do anything against such a huge opponent, can I?
Chiaki: ......ah! // This is just a side-job to earn some money.
Yokai: Alright, come with me!! Sara: ......no! // ...don't! Chiaki: ...but still
Chiaki: I... Sara: ...don't touch...
Sara: the hat... // my sister gave me!!
(40) Chiaki: Sara-chan!!!!
Chiaki: I don't // really understand, but
Chiaki: right now // Right now, already ...! Sara: Human...
Chiaki: I don't want this child to cry!! Sara: Sis......!
(41) Yokai: Aaah! // Even though it's my principle to act like a gentlemen at a public facilities. // Oh, well. // As long as her bowl is safe, I don't care.
Chiaki: Someone--------
(42) Chiaki: ...eh?
Kuroku: Listen well, Chiaki.
Kuroku: I had something else to take care of... // that's why I'm a tad late. // Usually I'm much faster!
(43) Chiaki: Kuroku-sa----
Chiaki: ------wait!! No, no, no!!!? // How did you stop that!!? What kind of crazy power do you have!!?
Kuroku: Hm? Oh. See this stick. // In the past an old man named Gokuu set up a shabby dojo in Tama. // Before he fled by night due to a whoring debt, he gave me this as a graduation memento. Chiaki: Why now!!?
[T/N: dojo = [in this context probably] a seminary for the Buddhist priesthood.]
Yokai: H...He stopped my attack...!? // N...No, more important, that "stick"-----
Yokai: However you look at it, it's a spirit hand... no, could it possibly be a kind of god hand...!? // ...either way, it's an item that doesn't sell, unless it has "supernatural powers"... // Are you a yin-yang diviner... no, a mountain ascetic? Even so------
Kuroku: This or that, think whatever you want...... // For the time being // I'm just a simple city hall employee.
(44) Yokai: Da...Damn! What's up with that!? // On..On the whole, you are just a mere city hall employee...!
Yokai: This kid isn't from here... she falls outside the jurisdiction of this office, right!? // Isn't it a breach of agreement to meddle with the affairs of those outside your jurisdiction!!?
Yokai: Moreover, you are a human... // You and that girl make a nice pair...
Yokai: Why on earth would a human // want to protect a yokai!!? // Well!!? // Tell me, are you really human!!?
(45) Chiaki: Kuroku-san......
Kuroku: No need to make such a serious face, Chiaki.
Kuroku: However you look at it, I'm not a normal human. Chiaki: You are extremely self-conscious!!!
Kuroku: More precisely...
Kuroku: Because I
Kuroku: wasn't normal.
Yokai: (Oh, welcome.)
(46) Yokai: Oh, a human. Don't see them often around here. // Oh, no. Your clothes are in rags! // Shall I get some of my children? // Do you have "supernatural powers"? Can you tell I'm strong? // Ah, do you like adzuki beans? // Do you like to eat tofu?
Man: How about it, Kid? XXX: In "this place" even you
Man: You'll be working // at this kind of place, right? XXX: should be able to become somewhat happy, right?
Kuroku: ...this is a place where protruding humans // like me feel more or less at home.
Kuroku: That's well, because we are humans
Kuroku: There probably are some jobs// we're not cut out for. Paper: Certificate of residence / Name / Place / Sara (kappa) (female) / I approve / no complaints / Andou
(47) Kuroku: It's the same for somewhat annoying, yet capable kohai... Chiaki: This has nothing to do with being a human anymore, right!?
Kuroku: I'll protect anyone // who is a part of Tama .
(48) Kuroku: Affiliated to the "safety department of the living" // of the (secret) Tama city hall, // which is in charge of maintaining the public order.
Kuroku: I, Andou Kuroku, warn you.
Kuroku: Surrender. // This is your last chance.
Kuroku: If you pay for the broken goods and clean up the mess you made, I'll let you off the hook. Yokai: .........Haha...
Yokai: ......well then, // let's see who's stronger, human!!!!!
(49) Chiaki: Ge..Get out of there, Kuroku-san!!! Sara: ...human brother...!!
Kuroku: No, I just told you. Chiaki: Look in front of you-----!!!
Kuroku: (Look at the other one.) Chiaki: (This?) Sara: (Another one...?) Kuroku: With this // you // and your family, // I will protect Paper: Certificate of residence / Name / Sara's family / and all other kappa // Certificate of Residence // Name // Sara
Kuroku: all of you.
Kuroku: -----Besides
Kuroku: This is // my "specialty"------
Kuroku: Extend!
(50) Kuroku: Something stick.
(51) Kuroku: ...well
Kuroku: I still have no proper name for this thing. // ...Aah, and also
Kuroku: I forgot to mention it. // Er......
Kuroku: Chiaki... // Well do... (52) Kuroku: ne------ Chiaki: ......no,----- Chiaki: I waaaaa-----!!! XXX: Achoo! XXX: Eek!
Yokai: As we'd expect of Kuroku-san!! // Your work is absolutely amazing!! Chiaki: Did you see my worth!? Yokai: So that's why you don't do deskwork!!
Yokai: I'm glad you're safe, Chiaki-chan!! // You were really cool!! Chiaki: Eh... Ah... So..somehow... Yokai: I loved how you said "Don't talk nonsense"!! // I would love it if Chiaki-chan would yell at me like that...
Sara: ...human // brother and sister.
(53) Sara: Thank you very much.
Sara: That... we absolutely don't want for anyone to see it... // is what they say... but...
Sara: Those who helped us out and those we lo...love...... // It's okay for them to see it......
(54) Sara: Is what I heard...so..... Chiaki: (It's drying up.)
SFX: Smile.
Chiaki: Sara-chan!
Chiaki: You have a really cute bowl! Box: Here------ Kuroku: It looks great, huh?
Yokai: A...aaah! // Th...they took down our boss...!!
Yokai: Le..let's get out of here!! // Da..damn...! That staff------
Yokai: Waaaaaa!
(55) Man: Looks like something happened. Woman: My, my, that Kuroku...
Box: There live 150.000 people // in the Metropolis of Tokyo, Tama city.
Box: Men and women of all ages and yokai come and go in this city. // And I took on a strange part-time job.
Box: It's only been 4 days since I started. // I still have a lot to learn though.
Box: but first of all, // hey, Ryoko----- // Kappa do exist // and their children are really cute. Text: It starts from here, a fun a scary job.