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For JAC only

Chapter 49

01

Zena: Hey, what's wrong?
Zena: Come and get me,
Zena: Kurenai-kun.

SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: She's the one...
Shinkurou: This is the power...
Shinkurou: that killed Benika-san...

SFX: Clench

Shinkurou: I have to do this.
Shinkurou: I can't hold back anything!!
Title: Chapter 49 An Unavoidable Fight

02

Ginko: That's why you're such an idiot.

Shinkurou: What would...
Shinkurou: she think about a situation like this?

Ginko: What's important is being able to adapt to the situation.
Ginko: If you are in danger, immediately draw back.
Ginko: If things get bad, immediately run away.

Ginko: Who are you up against?
Shinkurou: A powerful enemy.
Ginko: What are your odds of success?
Shinkurou: ...Low...
Ginko: Are you injured?
Shinkurou: Slightly...

03

Shinkurou: I'm surprisingly calm...
Zena: What's wrong?
Zena: If you won't come to me, I'll have to-

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Wham

SFX: Crash

04

Zena: So the student fights much like the master!!

04

Title: Chapter 49 An Unavoidable Fight

05

SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: Ha ha...
Shinkurou: Just one attack and I'm almost out of gas...

Shinkurou: I hope I actually managed to escape...

06

SFX: Sit

Shinkurou: So that's the <Solitary Fortress>.
Shinkurou: And she's targeting more than just Benika-san.
Shinkurou: She's after her kid, too.

Shinkurou: Does her dark spite know no bounds?
Shinkurou: Her thoughts are like those of someone from a different world...
Shinkurou: Not to mention her strength...

07

Zena: You...
Zena: aren't too bad.

Zena: That was quite an excellent move.

Zena: But...
Zena: how can you just leave partway through like that?
SFX: Hop

SFX: Land

Zena: I hate leaving things incomplete.
Zena: It just...
Zena: feels bad, y'know?

Zena: It leaves me with this...
Zena: odd feeling...
SFX: Horn

Zena: in my chest...

Zena: Hm?

08

SFX: Roar

09

SFX: Collapse

Shinkurou: She was...
Shinkurou: hit by a train?

SFX: Grab

SFX: Hop

SFX: Land

10

Zena: Ow, that hurt.
Zena: I can't believe that train would hit someone in the middle of a conversation.
SFX: Pat pat
Zena: And isn't that what you call a hit and run?

Zena: Um...How far was I?
SFX: Crack
Zena: Oh, right. I hate leaving things incomplete!

Shinkurou: A-

Zena: Hm?

Shinkurou: Are...
Shinkurou: Are you...
Shinkurou: really human?

Zena: That's a funny question...
Zena: coming from someone with a horn growing from his arm.

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Zena: Of course I'm human.

Zena: I'm female. I can have sex and give birth.
Zena: And I do feel pain.

Zena: But then...
Zena: you were really asking why I can be standing here after being hit by a train.

Zena: Kurenai-kun.
Zena: That is because I am strong.

Zena: Now then.
Zena: How about we finish thi-

12

SFX: Slice

SFX: Clatter

Kirihiko: Looks like you two...
SFX: Scrape
Kirihiko: are having fun.

13

Kirihiko: Let me join you.

Shinkurou: K-
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!!?

Zena: <Guillotine>...

Zena: Are you...
Zena: getting in my way?

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Kirihiko: I'm gonna die...

Kirihiko: Well, whatever.
Kirihiko: So long as it's for him.

SFX: Vvvvv

SFX: Beep
Zena: Hello?
Zena: What is it? I'm a bit busy...

Zena: What?

15

Zena: An intruder?

Zena: At the company?

Zena: Understood.
Zena: I'll be right back.

SFX: Beep

Zena: Sorry, Kurenai-kun.
Zena: Looks like something's come up.
Zena: That's all for today!

Shinkurou: Eh?

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Zena: I'll call you when I want to continue!
Zena: Bye!

SFX: Wind...

Kirihiko: Don't think about it too much.
Kirihiko: She's always like that.

SFX: Hoo

Kirihiko: H-hey.
SFX: Collapse

SFX: Hug

17

Box: A few days later - The day before Christmas Eve

SFX: Sizzle

Murasaki: If you are worried about something, tell me about it,
Murasaki: Shinkurou.
Shinkurou: Eh!?

Shinkurou: Wh-what makes you say that?

Murasaki: Does it have to do with your work?

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SFX: Clank

SFX: Clatter
Shinkurou: H-hey!

SFX: Kiss

Murasaki: That should do it.

SFX: Hee hee

Murasaki: By the way, Shinkurou.

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Murasaki: About what you told me about Santa before.

Murasaki: Was that true?

Murasaki: I was surprised to find that no one at school believed me.
Murasaki: They said it was all made up.

Murasaki: And...
Murasaki: I have never actually seen Santa Claus.

Murasaki: Does Santa Claus really go around...
SFX: Clatter
Murasaki: to all good kids' houses on Christmas Eve?

Murasaki: Am I...
Murasaki: really a "good kid"?

20

SFX: Glance

Kiba: Yes.
Kiba: I am aware of the speculation that Juuzawa is dead.

Box: Kuhouin Personal Guard Unit Lieutenant Commander - Kiba

Kiba: It is true that there are a lot of aspects of this that are unlike Juuzawa Benika.

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Kiba: It seems certain that there is something more to this.
Shinkurou: Kiba-san, what do you think that could be?

Kiba: I am not sure.
Kiba: But knowing her...
Kiba: it was likely something simple.

Shinkurou: Something...
Shinkurou: simple?

Shinkurou: Kiba-san is one of the few people to survive a serious fight with Benika-san.
Shinkurou: That was when he lost his eye.

Shinkurou: People cannot choose where they live or where they die...
Shinkurou: but they can choose where they might die.
Shinkurou: That seems to be the case.

22

Zena: I'll call you when I want to continue!

Shinkurou: I cannot avoid a rematch with her.
Shinkurou: But I will do...
Shinkurou: everything I can before then.

Box: Christmas Eve

Lucy: So...
Lucy: you asked to speak with me?

23

Lucy: You really are shameless.
Lucy: Telling you Hoshigami-san's location was more than I should have told you in the first place.
Lucy: Also, I am impressed you managed to survive a conflict with her.
Lucy: You are as lucky as ever.

Lucy: Kurenai-san, let me warn you ahead of time so you are not mistaken.
Lucy: I do not have the slightest intention of becoming friends with you.
SFX: Chatter chatter
Lucy: Having you call me out here is quite a bother.
Lucy: I do not enjoy it at all.

Shinkurou: Um...
SFX: Sip...
Shinkurou: Then why did you come?

SFX: Place

Lucy: Because I'm obsessed.
Lucy: I'm obsessed with anything having to do with the 13 inner families.

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SFX: Chatter chatter
Lucy: In my spare time, I investigate the traces of the extinct families,
Lucy: I find the descendants of the ones that have gone out of business,
Lucy: and I look through the old records.
Lucy: It's quite interesting.
Shinkurou: I shouldn't have asked.

Lucy: For example, do you know...
Lucy: how many students <Houzuki> has had in the past 100 years?
Shinkurou: No...

Lucy: Three.
Lucy: Only three and that's counting you!
Lucy: You are quite a valuable existence...
Lucy: so I suppose I want to preserve any connection I have with you.

Lucy: Anyway, I think I know why you are here.

Lucy: You have thought deeply about your past actions and wish to apologize.
Lucy: You have had a change of heart and wish to work for the Akuu Company.
Lucy: And so you want me to straighten things out with Hoshigami-san.

Shinkurou: No.
Shinkurou: That's not it at all.

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Shinkurou: I want any information you have...
Shinkurou: on the <Solitary Fortress> and <Hoshigami>.

Lucy: Kurenai-san...
Lucy: Do you take me for a fool?
Shinkurou: No, not at all.

Lucy: Why do you think I would give you information on Hoshigami-san?
Lucy: More importantly...
Lucy: do you still think you can defeat her?

Lucy: As Kirihiko-kun has said before...
Lucy: you are a very unusual person, Kurenai-san.
Lucy: You seem like a complete fool that does not know how the world works.
Lucy: I just don't understand you.
Shinkurou: You sure have a low opinion of me...

SFX: Hee hee

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Lucy: But...
Lucy: fine.

Shinkurou: Eh?

Lucy: I have no obligation to save you...
Lucy: but I like how shamelessly you will even make use of an enemy if you need to.
SFX: Rummage
Lucy: I'll help you out a bit.

Lucy: Think of it as...
Lucy: a small Christmas present.

Sign: Newspaper Club

27

Ginko: Here.
Ginko: It's your Christmas present.

Box: Ginko and I exchange Christmas presents every year.
Shinkurou: A tinplate cup!
Shinkurou: It sure is austere. Is it military?

Shinkurou: Okay, here's my present.

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Ginko: You're going to Houzuki-senpai's place today, right?
Shinkurou: Yes, I am.

Ginko: I will be up late tonight...
Ginko: so call me if you need anything.
Shinkurou: Okay, I will.

SFX: Close
SFX: Type type

SFX: Type

Ginko: Idiot.

Yuuno: Eh?
Sign: Houzuki

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Yuuno: These are...
Yuuno: for me?

Yuuno: Thank you like every year.
SFX: Hoo
Shinkurou: Looks like she likes them...

Shinkurou: I get so nervous whenever I give someone flowers.

Shinkurou: Although I've never given flowers to anyone but you.

Yuuno: You've never given them...
Yuuno: to Murakami-san or Murasaki-chan?
Shinkurou: No, only you.
Shinkurou: Ginko doesn't really like flowers and Murasaki is still a kid.

Yuuno: Only me...

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Yuuno: Only me only me only me only me only me only me

SFX: Sigh

Yuuno: I need to write this in my happiness diary...
Shinkurou: Oh, and I have a picture book for Chi-chan.

Shinkurou: Bye, Yuuno-san.
Shinkurou: I have to give everyone else their presents too.
Yuuno: Okay.
Yuuno: I'll give you my present when you get back.

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Shinkurou: That's Tamaki-san and Yamie-san done.
Shinkurou: That just leaves Kirihiko-chan and...

Shinkurou: For Murasaki...
Shinkurou: maybe I should attach a Christmas card from Santa.

Shinkurou: Going around like this...
Shinkurou: giving out presents the day before...
Shinkurou: a life or death fight might be another kind of escape.

32

Shinkurou: Okay.
SFX: Rummage
Shinkurou: I'll add a card for Murasaki.

Shinkurou: A foreigner?

SFX: Step

SFX: Jump

33

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Drop

Shinkurou: Ah!

33

SFX: Catch

Gergiev: I am Gergiev of the Akuu Company
Gergiev: Do you think you can remember that?

Shinkurou: Murasaki's present!!

Gergiev: Zena-sama instructed me to bring you to her. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/35855 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 48 by js06 2012-09-15T02:04:17+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 48
[Note: I translated from the volume and the chapter numbers in the volumes are one behind the ones in the magazine, so this is Chapter 48 even though the last one was too.]

01

Title: Chapter 48 Solitary Fortress

Shinkurou: B-
Shinkurou: Benika-san...

SFX: Rinnnng

Phone: Caller - Murakami Ginko
SFX: Rinnnng

SFX: Beep
Shinkurou: ...Hello?

Ginko: Shinkurou? It's me.
Ginko: I wanted to tell you before, but I lost my chance in the confusion.
Ginko: I'll tell you now.

02

Ginko: Juuzawa Benika...
Ginko: is being targeted.

Ginko: She will likely enter into a battle...
Ginko: in the very near future.

Shinkurou: Wh-
Shinkurou: Who would do that?

Ginko: The top adviser of the Akuu Company...
Ginko: known as...
Ginko: the <Solitary Fortress>.

03

Title: Chapter 48 Solitary Fortress

04

Box: Do you remember...
Box: the incident with <Red Cap>?

Box: It seems Juuzawa Benika had a skirmish with the <Solitary Fortress> then.
Box: That seems to have left a grudge.

Shinkurou: Ridiculous!!
Shinkurou: This is Benika-san we're talking about!!
Shinkurou: That arrogant and defiant woman!!

05

Shinkurou: There's no way she could have been defeated!!
SFX: Open

Tamaki: Ah!
Tamaki: Welcome home, Shinkurou-kun!

Shinkurou: What are you doing in my room?
Tamaki: Eh?
Tamaki: What are you having for dinner tonight?

Shinkurou: I already ate.

06

Tamaki: Did you hear that, Yamie-san?
Tamaki: That boy who is too kind to even kill a bug has eaten something delicious on his own.
Yamie: No, I trust the boy.
Tamaki(small): Ah.
Tamaki: You're right. We have to trust him here.
Tamaki: We're nothing more than poor little hungry bugs.

Shinkurou: Would an eggplant miso stir fry do?

SFX: Sizzle sizzle

Tamaki: Wow, that smells good!
Tamaki: It has garlic and ginger! Oh, and pork!
Tamaki: And red chili peppers too I think!
Shinkurou: She's right on all counts...

SFX: Steam

07

Shinkurou: Benika-san...

Yamie: You always seem to be worrying about something, boy.

SFX: Heartbeat

Yamie: But...
Yamie: Having plenty of worries is a good thing.

Shinkurou: It's a good thing?

Yamie: Boy.
Yamie: Remember this.

08

Yamie: It is only...
Yamie: when people have large, heavy, and painful worries...
Yamie: that they truly face themselves.
Yamie: That is when they first take an active position in their own lives.

Yamie: That is just how it is.

Yamie: Happiness teaches you nothing, boy.
Yamie: Learn from your difficulties.

09

Shinkurou: My difficulties, hm?

Shinkurou: In the year after I left the Houzuki household...
Shinkurou: I had plenty of experiences.
Shinkurou: I met lots of people...
Shinkurou: and had to say goodbye to a few.

Shinkurou: My life was constantly filled with worries...
Shinkurou: but...
Shinkurou: I get the feeling that led me to think about many things.

SFX: Click

Shinkurou: And this...
Shinkurou: must be the same.
Tamaki: Shinkurou-kun's eggplant.
Tamaki: I want Shinkurou-kun's eggplant!
Shinkurou: It's ready.

10

SFX: Rinnng

SFX: Rinnng

SFX: Beep
Lucy: Hello?

Lucy: Oh, Kurenai-san.

11

Lucy: I do not often get a call from you!
Lucy: Have you finally decided to join the comp-

Lucy: I see.
Lucy: The <Solitary Fortress>, you say?

Lucy: Yes, she is our top adviser, but...
Lucy: No, no! Of course not.

Lucy: ...Understood.
SFX: Glance
Lucy: If you insist, I will at least discuss it...

12

Shinkurou: ...Thank you.
Shinkurou: Goodbye.

SFX: Beep

Lucy: Don't look at me like that, Kirihiko-kun.
Lucy: I was just answering his questions.

Kirihiko: What are you doing, Lucy?

Lucy: I still want him for the company if possible.
Lucy: It will help if he feels indebted to me.

13

SFX: Stand

Lucy: Sit down, Kirihiko-kun!!

Lucy: Our business meeting is not over.
Lucy: And...

Lucy: I am the one that...
Lucy: got Hoshigami-san to overlook your actions in Kyoto.

Lucy: There would have been nothing you could do against her.

Lucy: She is invincible after all.

14

Shinkurou: This building...
Shinkurou: is the head of the Akuu Company.

Shinkurou: What kind of person...
Shinkurou: is the <Solitary Fortress>?

15

Zena: Hi there!!
SFX: Grab
Shinkurou: Wah!!?

Zena: I'm not letting you go tonight!!
Shinkurou: Eh!?
Shinkurou: Eh!?

Shinkurou: Wh-who is this!?

Shinkurou: You're...
Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: Hoshigami-san?

16

Zena: Ahhh!! Hey, it's you!!
Zena: So you're here to celebrate too!!
Shinkurou: Hah?

Shinkurou: Celebrate?

Zena: Never mind.
Zena: We can discuss it inside!
Shinkurou: Eh!?
Shinkurou: No, wait!

Zena: So...
Zena: For now...

17

Zena: Cheers!!

SFX: Gulp gulp

Zena: Phahhh!!

Zena: C'mon, you drink too!!
Shinkurou: N-no, I'm in high school...
Shinkurou: I'm fine with oolong tea.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: So what happened?

Zena: I had...
Zena: a major victory in a fight!
Shinkurou: A fight?

18

Zena: Just when I had my escape cut off, I went in fists flying!!
Zena: I got a good one in on that face that always looks so damn calm!!

Zena: And I made sure to get a good one in on that eyesore of a car, too!
Zena: After that, I activated the things I had set up before hand and it all went boom!!

Shinkurou: Ha ha...
Shinkurou: You're a strange person, Hoshigami-san...

Text: ...Yugamisora, Ochibana, Kirishima, Endou, Houzuki...

19

Text: ...Utsuromura, Gouga, Shimizu, Kaien, Mikanagi...

Zena: This may just be me talking here...
Zena: but I'm invincible!

Text: ...Wakuraba, Ajou, Hoshigami.

Shinkurou: Hoshigami...
Shinkurou: By any chance, are you from the 13 Inner Families?

Zena: Allow me to introduce myself again,
Zena: Kurenai Shinkurou-kun.

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Zena: I am the <Solitary Fortress>,
Zena: Hoshigami Zena.

21

Zena: I am the top advisor of the Akuu Company.
Zena: I may only be 17, but I'm an employee rather than a student.
Zena: Most of my work is deskwork, but I do get some manual labor, too.
Zena: My favorite food is natto.
Zena: I'm currently looking for a boyfriend.

Shinkurou: Y-
Shinkurou: You're the one that...?

Zena: Yes.
Zena: I killed her.

Zena: By the way...

22

Zena: I'd like for you to take a look at this.
SFX: Jangle
Zena: What do you think?

Shinkurou: Wh-
Shinkurou: What do you mean?

Zena: Just sit there...
Zena: and look.
Zena: This was my victory prize.

Zena: I got it from Juuzawa Benika.

Zena: Just as I would expect of her, it shows ridiculous style and technology.
Zena: It's special made.
Zena: At first, I thought it was nothing more than a memento...

23

Zena: but one thing...
Zena: stuck out to me.
SFX: Jangle...

Zena: The back has the initials JJ.

Zena: I could ignore the men's design.
Zena: But this inscription makes no sense.
Zena: If it was Juuzawa Benika's personal watch, wouldn't it say JB?
Zena: That means it belongs to someone else.

Zena: She intended to give it to someone else.
Zena: Perhaps it was a Christmas present for someone.

Zena: And I have heard rumors...
SFX: Jangle...

24

Zena: that Juuzawa Benika has a child.

Zena: I want to tie up all the loose ends.

Zena: Could you give me any information you have...
Zena: on Juuzawa Benika's child?

25

Shinkurou: I knew very little about Benika-san's child.
Shinkurou: The little I did know came from speaking with Benika-san herself and chats with Yamie-san.
Shinkurou: But not even that little bit had made it to the underworld.
Shinkurou: Juuzawa Benika had used all of her influence to protect that information.

Shinkurou: The child was male.
Shinkurou: He was in the lower years of elementary school.
Shinkurou: He lived in the city.

Shinkurou: Supposing...
Zena: Hm?
Shinkurou: Supposing Benika-san actually has a child...
Shinkurou: what would you do?

Zena: Well...

Zena: There are several paths I could take.
Zena: This is Juuzawa Benika's child after all.
Zena: The company could carefully train the child and then sell him or her on the black market.
Zena: After that, he or she might be tortured to death, stuffed and mounted on the wall, or made into a pet.
Zena: The world is full of people who hate that woman.
Zena: We could sell her child for a high price.

Zena: So, Shinkurou-kun.
Zena: Could you give me...
Zena: your answer?

26

SFX: Splash

Zena: What...
Zena: is the meaning of this?

Shinkurou: I hate...
Shinkurou: people who prey on children.

27

SFX: Stand
Zena: And here I thought we could get along...

Shinkurou: I would never betray someone who saved me.
SFX: Stand
Shinkurou: It is not even worth discussing.

Zena: I see.
Zena: Then I will just have to take it by force♪

Box: This is someone from the 13 Inner Families.
Box: As well as someone at the top of the Akuu Company.

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Box: She claims to have defeated Benika-san.

Box: I cannot hold back my power here.
SFX: Sharp
Box: I need to use my full power against this unknown enemy.

SFX: Hold up

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SFX: Slide

Shinkurou: A fake arm!?

Zena: That's right.
Zena: But don't mistake it for the second rate ones you see around.

Shinkurou: Mine is Hoshigami-made.
SFX: Hold up

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SFX: Click

Shinkurou: She loaded a cartridge into the fake arm.
Shinkurou: It really is meant for combat.

Shinkurou: Don't let it get to you!
Shinkurou: The Houzuki style you learned from Houzuki Housen is a killing technique.
Shinkurou: I can win if I attack first.
SFX: Press

Zena: Okay,
Zena: Kurenai-kun.

Zena: Don't die too quickly.

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Shinkurou: O-

Zena: Bang!

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SFX: Wham

Zena: Ohh!
SFX: Slam slam
SFX: Steam...

34

Shinkurou: ...Uuh...

Shinkurou: Wh-what was that!?
Shinkurou: Was it a punch!!?

Shinkurou: It felt like getting hit by a digger.
Shinkurou: If I hadn't activated the horn, I would have been killed instantly!!

Zena: How as that,
Zena: Kurenai-kun?
SFX: Pshh

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Zena: C'mon.
Zena: Quit lying there.
SFX: Clank

Zena: Come and get me.
SFX: Click https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/33435 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 48 by js06 2012-02-14T20:25:53+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 48

01

Box: Seiryou Academy

Text: Volume 8 is on sale now!!

Text: With the chaos in Kyoto resolved, Shinkurou's peaceful days return...

Announcement: Sorry for the interruption...
Announcement: but we have an announcement.

Announcement: Kurenai Shinkurou-kun of Year 1 Class 1...
Announcement: is to immediately report to the headmaster's office.

Sign: Headmaster's Office

02

Murasaki: Uuh!
Murasaki: Hinkuwou!!

Shinkurou: You...?
Murasaki: Mh?

Murasaki: You should be glad!
Murasaki: Today I came to see you!

03

Text: A flower of evil blooming in the ugly darkness!!!
Title: Chapter 48 Downfall of the Strongest
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

04

Shinkurou: Oh, so that's why!

Shinkurou: Lin-san is being released from the hospital...
Shinkurou: So...
Murasaki: Yeah.
Murasaki: I'm sure she'll be happy if you go too.

05

Sign: All sweets 20% off

Murasaki: Wha-...?

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!
Murasaki: What is that!!?

Shinkurou: What do you mean?
Shinkurou: It's just Santa Claus.

Murasaki: Santa...
Murasaki: Claus?

06

Shinkurou: Murasaki...
Shinkurou: Surely you know what Christmas is, right?
SFX: Shake shake

Box: That's right.
Box: Murasaki was born and raised in the Inner Sanctuary.
Box: She was kept from any knowledge deemed "unnecessary"...
Box: I guess that included Santa Claus and Christmas.

Box: She doesn't even know of those small joys...
Box: that even kindergarteners know about.

Shinkurou: Murasaki.
SFX: Excited

Shinkurou: Every year, there is an event in December known as Christmas.
Murasaki: An event?
Shinkurou: Yes, it's sort of like a small festival.

07

Sign: Lin Cheng-Shin
Murasaki: I see...

Murasaki: So if I stay up late, will I be able to meet this Santa Claus?
SFX: Open

Murasaki: Lin!

Lin: M-Murasaki-sama!!?
SFX: Quick action

Murasaki: Lin, did you know that on a day called Christmas this old man flies through the sky using magic and...
Lin: P-please wait while I put on some clothes...
Lin: You, don't look!!

08

Lin: Face the other way!!
Shinkurou: I-I'm sorry!

Shinkurou: A flower arrangement?

Murasaki: Kirihiko brought it!

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan did...?

09

Murasaki: Oh!

Murasaki: There's a Christmas tree here, too!

Murasaki: Santa Claus flies around to all these, right!?
SFX: Run run

Shinkurou: Lin-san.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: About Kirihiko-chan...

Lin: Don't look at me like that.

10

Lin: I have no desire for revenge.

Lin: I challenged her and lost.
Lin: That is all.

Lin: And since she saved Murasaki-sama in Kyoto...
Lin: I truly have no reason to turn my sword on her.

11

Text: The next day

Yuuno: Now then, Shinkurou-san.

Yuuno: Thank you for the explanation.

Shinkurou: Yes...
Shinkurou: Umm...

Shinkurou: About how you came and saved me at the hospital...
Shinkurou: Sorry it's taken me so long to properly thank you for tha-

12

Yuuno: Kyoto.

Yuuno: I hear you...
Yuuno: went there with Murakami-san.

Shinkurou: Um, yes...
Shinkurou: Oh, but that was...

Yuuno: I do not want to hear any excuses.

Yuuno: Why did you not tell me anything about this?
Yuuno: Don't tell me you find Murakami-san to be more-
Shinkurou: N-no, that's not it at all!!

Yuuno: Of course not.
Yuuno: You would be much happier going on a trip with me.

Yuuno: We used to live together, so we could just stay in the same room.
Yuuno: And then who knows what would happen between us.
Yuuno: Oh, maybe even that...

13

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san?

Shinkurou: I was thinking of spending Christmas here with the Houzuki family.
SFX: Twitch

Yuuno: Really?
Shinkurou: Yes...

Yuuno: Understood!!
Yuuno: In that case, we need to go have a planning meeting in the main building!!
Shinkurou: Eh? But what about practice?
Yuuno: Cancelled!!
SFX: Run run run

14

Yuuno: Okay, listen up.
On paper: Christmas
Yuuno: From what has happened in the past...
Yuuno: it is clear that there are a few barriers we must overcome to spend Christmas together.

Yuuno: First of all, there is Murasaki-chan.
Shinkurou: Oh...
Shinkurou: She has to go to some grand party with a punch of VIPs.
Shinkurou: I need to give her her present afterwards.

Yuuno: What about Murakami-san?

Shinkurou: She has to help with the restaurant.
Shinkurou: It's the same every year.

SFX: Stand

15

Yuuno: So...

Yuuno: You really will be spending Christmas...
Yuuno: here?

Shinkurou: Y-yes.
Shinkurou: I used to do that every year when I was staying here...
Shinkurou: But I was thinking it might not be the best idea now...
Shinkurou: since it would be like I was moving back in.
Yuuno: Not at all!!

Yuuno: We'd love to have you!
Shinkurou: Thanks...

SFX: Slide
Mother: Yuuno, you have another call.

16

Mother: It's Aragaki-kun from the third year.
Mother: Oh, am I interrupting?

Yuuno: I-
Yuuno: I'll be right back.

Mother: She really doesn't have to take these so seriously.
Mother: They're just asking her out on a Christmas date.
SFX: Step step

SFX: Smile

Mother: Feel free to stay over at our place on Christmas.
Mother: And of course, you can stay in her room!
Shinkurou: Wait, what...?

Mother: It's perfectly okay.
Mother: I won't interrupt, so feel free to go all out...
Mother: and have lots of sex.

Chizuru: What's sex?

17

Shinkurou: Ch-Chi-chan...
Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: That's something you'll learn about when you're older...
Shinkurou: I guess...
Chizuru: Ohh...

Chizuru: Then when Chizuru grows up...
Chizuru: you can teach me, onii-chan!

Chizuru: Promise?
Text: Eh heh heh
Shinkurou: Um, okay...

SFX: Rinnnng

SFX: Open

Shinkurou: Ginko?

18

Shinkurou: I wonder what it is...
Shinkurou: she has to tell me in such a hurry.

Sign: Fuumitei
Dad: Oh, Shin-chan, you're here!

Dad: Sorry, but she's still working on her "other" job.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Dad: She's seemed really enthusiastic ever since she got her grandfather's notebook.
Dad: She might get mad if you interrupted her.

Dad: Well, you can just go take a bath...
Dad: and wait a bit!

Shinkurou: I can't believe this. She's the one that called me over.
Shinkurou: And I even rushed over...

Shinkurou: But a house with a bath sure is nice.
SFX: Slide

19

SFX: Step

SFX: Splash

20

SFX: Drip

SFX: Stare...

Shinkurou: Um, hi...

SFX: Shock

21

SFX: Slide
SFX: Slam

Ginko: Daaaad!!!

Ginko: You did this, didn't you!?
Ginko: You...
Ginko: idiot!!!
Dad: C'mon, I'm sure with that trip to Kyoto, you already-
Ginko: Shut up, you human garbage!!
Ginko: You trash!!

Shinkurou: Sigh...
Shinkurou: So she didn't have anything to tell me after all...

Shinkurou: I feel like...
Shinkurou: I'm just being manipulated by everyone around me.

22

Shinkurou: This would never happen...
Shinkurou: to her.

23

Box: One year ago

Text: United States of America - Manhattan
Text: Just once before beginning his work as a dispute mediator, Kurenai Shinkurou accompanied Juuzawa Benika on one of her jobs.

24

Man: Our objective is world peace!!

Man: But this country's president has no plan that will achieve that!
Man: Only one man can pull it off and he is none other than me!!
Man: Appoint me as the president right this instant!!
Man: If you don't I will begin killing the hostages, one by one!!
Police: Damn him!!

Police: We've discovered the identity of the criminal group.
Police: It is a new religious group established a few years ago.
Police: A great number of the believers are active soldiers.

SFX: Vroom

25

Police: Wh-
Police: Who are you?

SFX: Step out

Benika: Who's in charge here?
Benika: Call him here.
Police: Wait!! Who are you!?

26

Chief: I am the one in charge.
Chief: Who are you?

Benika: Juuzawa Benika.

Man: Who is that woman?

Chief: Wait a second!
Chief: You can't seriously be planning to head in there alone!
Chief: There are dozens of them and they have around 100 hostages!

Chief: Also, they have already killed three hostages, all children!
Chief: They're completely insane!

Benika: Shinkurou.

27

Benika: This is the front line.

Benika: Are you scared?

Benika: You are about to start the same job as me, correct?
Shinkurou: ...Yes.

Woman: Waaaahhhn!!
Woman: Help me! Mamaaa!!

Benika: Hand me that megaphone.

28-29

Benika: Hey, you bastards!!!

Benika: I'm coming up there to kick your asses, so prepare yourselves!!!

Box: And...
Box: the case was resolved.

30

Box: A few minutes after Benika-san entered the building...
Box: the criminal group had been defeated.

Box: Her loyal subordinate, Inuzuka Yayoi, had gotten her the information she needed about what was going on inside...
Box: and Juuzawa Benika had used that information to "mediate" the issue.

31

Box: Benika-san gave me a firsthand example...
Box: of the ideal form of someone heading down the path...
Box: I was about to start down.

Box: I wonder if I...
Box: will ever be able to become like her.

SFX: Rinnng

32

Shinkurou: Benika-san!

SFX: Beep
Shinkurou: Hello...

SFX: Ksshh...
SFX: Kssshhh...
SFX: Click

Shinkurou: Benika-san!!?

Shinkurou: Benika-san!!

Shinkurou: Beni-...!!

33

Text: Meanwhile in Hong Kong.

34-35

Zena: Ah ha ha ha ha ha!!
Zena: I finally defeated...
Zena: Juuzawa Benika!!!
Bottom: To be continued in the March Issue

Text: Benika is dead!? A new life-or-death battle begins!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/33421 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 47 by js06 2012-02-14T07:26:20+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 47

01

Text: Volume 8 is on sale now!!

SFX: Rustle

Text: A mysterious group appears, watching over the chaos in Kyoto!!

02

Ginko: Stop!!

Ginko: How could you raise your hand against a child!?
SFX: Approach

Koto: Don't think that you can escape.

Koto: Just...
Koto: wait there.

03

Text: The same form, different hearts...and the same earnestness.
Title: Chapter 47 True Feelings
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

SFX: Run run

04

SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: It's no good.
Shinkurou: The grounds are just too large. I can't figure out which way to go.

Murasaki: How about you put me down, Shinkurou?

Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: No, I'm fine, Murasaki...

SFX: Wham
SFX: Crash

Shinkurou: Wha-...!?

05

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!!

Koto: You really do...
Koto: look just like my young master.

Koto: If...
Koto: I were to kill you...

Koto: the Outer Thirteen Families would be unable to maintain their nonintervention.

06

Shinkurou: Let go of Murasakiiiiiiii!!!

SFX: Clang
Shinkurou: Houzuki Style.

07

Shinkurou: Type 1 Class 2 Fighting Demon,
Shinkurou: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Koto: <Suzakujin> Guard Unit 4 Captain,
Koto: Koto.

SFX: Toss

08-09

SFX: Charge

SFX: Rustle
Koto: Too slow.

SFX: Impact

10

SFX: Impact

SFX: Land
Koto: The ridiculous strength of the Houzuki Fighting Demon is pointless if you cannot hit.
Koto: And I can hit you all I want.

Koto: In other words...

11

Koto: I have an overwhelming advantage.
SFX: Rustle

SFX: Charge

12

SFX: Rush

SFX: Jump

SFX: Impacts

13

Koto: He's getting closer!!

SFX: Charge

14

Koto: Damn him!!

SFX: Stab

Koto: He was never intending to dodge...

Koto: Not bad.

15

SFX: Wham

16

SFX: Step

Murasaki: Shinkurou...

Koto: Kill me...

17

Koto: If you...
Koto: do nothing, I will eventually take over this family.
Koto: That is the destiny of the blood flowing through my veins.

Murasaki: Hah.

Murasaki: Liar.

Murasaki: Your true goal is not the family.

Murasaki: It's Usui.

18

Koto: It can't be...
Koto: Do you have the power to read minds, too?
Murasaki: Even without that power...
Murasaki: it's clearly written on your face.

Murasaki: Your head is filled with your feelings for Usui!

Murasaki: Just like Shinkurou's head is filled with his feelings for me.

19

Koto: Heh.

Koto: You're exactly right.

Koto: My one wish...
Koto: is for Usui to be happy.

Koto: I...
Koto: wanted to purify the dirty world in which he lives even if just a little.

20

Koto: I don't know how they found out...

Koto: but as soon as the highest members of the Suzakujin learned that the family's blood ran in my veins...
Koto: they came to me suggesting that I should take over the family.
Koto: They wanted to set me up as the head of the family so they could hold the true power of the family through me.

Koto: I learned something then.

Koto: I learned just how brutal the battle over influence was in this family.

Koto: I also learned how Usui was viewed within all that...
Koto: and that I would become a spark that would threaten him.

21

Koto: As long as I am in this house, the threats to his position as head will continue.
Koto: I decided that I must play the part of the usurper to draw out all of the trash...
Koto: and purge them from this house.

Koto: And in the end, I would be eliminated as a traitor.
Koto: With that, all the loose ends would be tied off.

Shinkurou: Wh-
Shinkurou: Why would you have to go that far...?

Koto: Yes, it may be impossible for you to understand...

22

Koto: just how dirty this world is to people like myself or my young master...
Koto: who can read the minds of everyone around us.

Koto: When I saw that seven year old child desperately living on while putting up the "voices" around him...
Koto: I could not help but grow attached to him.

Koto: If I am eliminated as a portion of that dirty world...
Koto: then he will not have to be hurt.

Koto: I had hoped to draw out even more of the trash using Murakami Ginji's notebook, but...

SFX: Step forward

23

Murasaki: Give it a rest already!!!
Murasaki: You fool!!!

Murasaki: I listened to what you had to say, but it was nothing but selfish delusions!!
Murasaki: Do you really think what you are doing is for Usui's sake!?

Murasaki: If so, you don't understand anything about how he feels!!

Murasaki: What Usui truly wants is...!!

Murasaki: Mh?

24

SFX: Push
Murasaki: Wah!

SFX: Step

SFX: Grab
Usui: Stop it...

Usui: Stop being mean to Koto!!!

Koto: Young master...

25

Usui: Waaaahhhh!!!

Usui: I don't want you to go!!
Usui: Koto!!
Usui: Koto!!

SFX: Wind...

26

Shinkurou: Wh-
Shinkurou: What?

27

Koto: Run!!

Koto: You mustn't fight!!
Koto: Not against them!!

Koto: They are the dark side of the Suzakujin...
Koto: no, of the Four Western Gate families.
Koto: That combat group is intended to directly prevent interference from the Outer and Inner Thirteen Families.
Koto: They are the most powerful assassins.

Koto: They are after me.
Koto: I am their target as the one who destroyed the order of the Suzakujin.

28

SFX: Step
Shinkurou: I can't let you die.

Shinkurou: After all, we can't have Usui-kun suffer any more, right?

Tamaki: Well said, Shinkurou-kun!
SFX: Step

Tamaki: If you keep saying cool things like that, I might just fall for you.
SFX: Step forward

29

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!
Shinkurou: Tamaki-san!

SFX: Draw

Usui: Stop this!!

30

Usui: I am Suzakujin Usui, the head of the Suzakujin family.
Usui: I do not approve this physical intervention on our grounds!!

Assassin: The ways of the Four Western Gate families are absolute.

Usui: And I am one of the heads that rules at the top of those ways.

Usui: Judgment regarding this infighting has been made under my authority.
Usui: If you still intend to interfere...

Usui: I will take responsibility and end my life here and now.

31

SFX: Disappear

Koto: Young master!!
SFX: Run over

Koto: Young master!

32

Box: A few days later

Usui: As a result of the discussion between the <Suzakujin> and the other Four Western Gate families...
Usui: the interference here by the <Kuhouin>, <Kirishima>, and <Houzuki> will be ignored.

Usui: After all, it was all caused by a scandal within my own house.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: What about Koto-san?

33

Usui: He received an inquiry from the Four Western Gate families...
Usui: and is currently imprisoned.

Usui: I intend to...

Usui: No, I will...
Usui: visit him regularly.

Usui: One day, he will have atoned for his crimes...
Usui: and the two of us will be able to walk together once more.

Shinkurou: We'll come see you again sometime, too.

34

Usui: Please do!

Ginko: This would have been too much for me alone.

Ginko: Thank you,
Ginko: Shinkurou.

35

Shinkurou: W-wow. You don't often thank people.

Murasaki: That is a rather rude thing to say, is it not?
Murasaki: Shinkurou-sama.
SFX: Pff

Tamaki: Ahhhh!! Shinkurou-kun mistook her for Usui-kun and is really turned on!!

Box: Thank you, grandfather.
Box: With your notebook...
Box: I can be much more of a help for Shinkurou.
Bottom: To be continued in the February Issue

Tamaki: So you really do swing both ways, Shinkurou-kun!!
Text: Waaaahh! Waaaahh!
Shinkurou: I already told you I don't!!
Ginko: What are you all yelling about?
Text: He's had enough of look-alikes! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/33410 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 46 by js06 2012-02-12T22:06:52+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 46

01

Text: The two finally meet...

Murasaki: By the way, Kirihiko.
Kirihiko: Yes?

02

Murasaki: Why are you here in Kyoto?

Kirihiko: I just wanted...
Kirihiko: to get far away!

Kirihiko: I have no right...
Kirihiko: to be with you two anymore...

Shinkurou: Th-
Shinkurou: That's not true, Kirihiko-chan.

03

Murasaki: You fool!!
Murasaki: What are you talking about!?

Murasaki: We are friends!!
Murasaki: It's okay for us to be together!!

Kirihiko: Eh?
Kirihiko: B-but...
Kirihiko: I tried to kill all of you...

Murasaki: Such trivial things do not matter!
Kirihiko: Trivial!?

Murasaki: Anyway...
Murasaki: you didn't do anything wrong, right?
SFX: Nod nod

04

Murasaki: Okay!
SFX: Smile

Murasaki: I believe you.
Murasaki: Let's go back, Kirihiko!

Shinkurou: Let's go,
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan.

Koto: That settles it.

05

Koto: Since you covered for Kirishima Kirihiko...
Koto: you are enemies of the <Suzakujin>.

SFX: Approach

SFX: Grab

Shinkurou: No, Kirihiko-chan!

Shinkurou: Murasaki is here!!

06

Text: She isn't called Guillotine for nothing.
Title: Chapter 46 The Traitor
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke
Text: Volume 8 will be released on Friday November 4th!!

07

Ginko: Usui-kun.

Usui: You are...
Ginko: I am Murakami's...

Usui: Yes, Murakami Ginji-sama's granddaughter.

SFX: Realization

08

Ginko: You just...
Ginko: read it, didn't you?

Ginko: That is why you trusted us upon first meeting us.

SFX: Step
Ginko: That is how you knew we meant no harm.

Ginko: You used the power of the <Suzakujin>, didn't you?
Ginko: You have the power to read people's minds.

09

Koto: What are you talking about?

Koto: Oh, I see.
Koto: So you are related to that information broker.

Koto: So that means...
Koto: you must be after that, doesn't it?

Usui: Koto.
Usui: Did you find Shinkurou-sama and the others?

Koto: Yes.
Koto: There is nothing to worry about, young master.
SFX: Smile

10

Koto: Nothing at all.

Guard: Get in!!
SFX: Push push

SFX: Slam

SFX: Click

11

Murasaki: What violent people.
Murasaki: Where are we anyway?
Shinkurou: It looks like an underground prison.

Tamaki: Ahhhhh!!

Tamaki: I got a Kirihiko-chan!!
Shinkurou: T-
Shinkurou: Tamaki-san!!?

Shinkurou: And Yamie-san, too.
Shinkurou: So you two were also captured?
Yamie: Personally, I find this damp darkness much more comfortable than outside.

SFX: Realization
Shinkurou: Ginko...!

Murasaki: This is ridiculous! Let us out of here at once!
Murasaki: I will speak with the head of the family!

Kirihiko: They won't let you.
Murasaki: Mh?

12

Kirihiko: We were caught in a trap.
Kirihiko: So it doesn't matter what we say.

Shinkurou: A trap?
Murasaki: What do you mean, Kirihiko!?

SFX: Clatter

Usui: Shinkurou-sama!!

Usui: Wh-
Usui: Why are you all being held here!?

13

Usui: And even you...

Guard: Those were the captain's orders.
Guard: We were told to capture them as suspicious people who were after your life, Usui-sama.

Kirihiko: Keh.

Kirihiko: We're the suspicious ones?

Kirihiko: How can that long haired one say that?
SFX: Touch

Kirihiko: He's the one that set it all up.
SFX: Slide

14

Shinkurou: Set it all up?

Kirihiko: His face may have been hidden...

Kirihiko: but there's no way I would mistake those movements.

Kirihiko: That long-haired guy who is always by your side...
Kirihiko: is the one that attacked us!

15

Shinkurou: H-
Shinkurou: He was!!?

Shinkurou: Why would he do that!?
Shinkurou: And does that mean it was no mistake that he had us imprisoned?

Usui: Y-

Usui: You're wrong!!!

16

Usui: Koto would never do that!!

Koto: My grandfather, the previous head of the family, brought him here...
Koto: and he has been with me ever since!!

Koto: H-
Koto: He is my...

Koto: My only...

17

Shinkurou: U-
Shinkurou: Usui-kun...

Usui: I hate you, Shinkurou-sama!!

SFX: Mad

Murasaki: What a girly little boy.
SFX: Step forward

Murasaki: Where is he?

Murasaki: If I ask him, we can know the truth of this!
Murasaki: Where is he!?

18

Usui: Ko-
Usui: Koto is with Ginko-sama...

Shinkurou: Ah!
Shinkurou: Usui-kun!!
SFX: Dash

Murasaki: Wait!!
SFX: Clank
Murasaki: Let us out of here!!

Kirihiko: That will not be an problem.

19

Kirihiko: I can get us out
SFX: Tight
Text: Oh!
Tamaki: Oh!
Tamaki: So can I!

Usui: Impossible!!

Usui: Koto would never...
Usui: He would never...!!

20

Text: Look, that is the head of the family's grandson.
Text: He really does look just like a girl.
Text: It's pathetic that HE will be the next head.

Text: But he inherited the supernatural power of the Suzakujin family, right?
Text: He can read people's minds.
Text: It's really creepy.

Text: I hope he dies quickly like his father.
Text: That way, the head might look in my direction.

21

SFX: Bounce

SFX: Bounce bounce

Grandfather: Usui.

Usui: Grandfather!

Usui: Who is that?

22

Grandfather: His name is Koto...
Grandfather and he will be acting as your bodyguard from now on.

SFX: Smile

SFX: Step forward

Usui: S-stay back!!
Usui: If you approach me, I will be able to read your mi-!!

SFX: Grab

23

SFX: Pick up
Usui: Wah!

Koto: I don't...
Koto: mind.

Usui: I can't hear the voice of his mind!?
Usui: Why?

Usui: But for some reason...
Usui: he feels very warm.

Koto: All I desire is your smile.
Koto: So please smile,
Koto: young master.

24

25

Ginko: This is it...?
Koto: Yes.
Koto: That is what your grandfather gave the previous head of the family long ago.

Koto: The previous head trusted Ginji-san...
Koto: so it was stored safely.

Koto: He also seemed to have asked a secret favor.
SFX: Flip

Text: Remember...
Text: one thing...
Text: Ginko.

26

Ginji: If...
Ginji: you ever hit a wall while continuing my work as an information broker...

Ginji: head to the West.
Ginji: Okay?

Box: That isn't very concrete advice, Grandfather.
Box: Ha ha. I suppose not.

Ginko: A hidden page?

SFX: Flip

Box: "Investigation Report"

27

Box: "He has definitely inherited the blood of the Suzakujin...
Box: and he has now become the bodyguard of the next head based on his own wishes."

Koto: Did you figure something out?
Ginko: Eh!?

Koto: Oh, so you found out.
Koto: I really didn't expect anything about me to be written in there.

28

Ginko: You read my mind!?
Ginko: So you really do have Suzakujin blood in you!?

Koto: Yes,
Koto: I do.

Koto: Apparently, the previous head met my mother while outside our territory.
SFX: Step forward
Koto: I had Murakami Ginji search out that information and bring me here.

Koto: And of course, the fact that I had Suzakujin blood was kept a secret from everyone but the previous head.
SFX: Thud

Koto: I wish for your assistance.
Koto: You should be able to read the all the coded messages in this notebook.

29

Koto: Murakami Ginji left behind all sorts of information on the underground society.
Koto: As long as I have that, I can...

Ginko: You intend to take over the Suzakujin family, don't you!?

SFX: Bang

30

Usui: Koto.

Koto: Young master.

Usui: I...
Usui: I trust you, Koto.

Usui: I-it's true that...
Usui: you and grandfather are the only two people whose minds I have been unable read.

Ginko: Just as the notebook said...
Ginko: Those with the same bloodline kill each other and cannot read each other's minds.

Usui: But...
Usui: I do not mind.

31

Usui: I trust you, Koto.
Usui: No matter what anyone says, you are...
Usui: my only...

Koto: Ha ha.

Koto: What are you talking about?
Koto: You really shouldn't trust people so easily.

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SFX: Wham

SFX: Collapse
Ginko: Usui-kun!!

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Usui: Koto.

Guards: It's no good. We can't stop them!!
Guards: Backup!
Guards: We need backup!!

SFX: Step

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Tamaki: It looks like we've taken out most of them.
Kirihiko: But...

Kirihiko: Was it really okay...
Kirihiko: to let Murasaki...-chan go along with onii-san?

Tamaki: It's fine, it's fine.
Tamaki: The thing about Murasaki-chan is...

Yamie: Once she says she is going, there is no stopping her.

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Bottom: To be continued in The January Issue

Murasaki: Let's find out the truth.
Murasaki: Let's go, Shinkurou!
Text: They will smash through the darkness lurking in Kyoto!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/33409 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 45 by js06 2012-02-12T20:29:46+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 45

01

Text: A mysterious masked figure targets Murasaki!!

SFX: Jump back
Text: The long-awaited Volume 8 will be released on Friday November 4th!!

Murasaki: What...!?

Murasaki: Who are you!!?

02

SFX: Grab

03

Kirihiko: Uuh...

Murasaki: K-

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!?

Masked figure: Tch!!

04

SFX: Tug

SFX: Wham

SFX: Slump
Murasaki: Kirihiko!!

05

Text: The Japanese heart of this Yamato Nadeshiko conceals a deadly blade...
Bottom: Volumes 1-7 are on sale now!! Volume 8 will be released on Friday November 4th!!
Title: Chapter 45 Lies and Hugs
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

06

Shinkurou: That sound...

Murasaki: Are you okay, Kirihiko!?
Murasaki: Pull yourself together!!

Kirihiko: That...

Kirihiko: Give me that...
Murasaki: What?

07

SFX: Pull out
Murasaki: Ow.

SFX: Grab

Murasaki: Wh-
Murasaki: What are you doing!!?
Murasaki: Let go of me!!

SFX: Tense

08

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Spurt

Kirihiko: Who do you think you're laying your hands on,
SFX: Land
Kirihiko: you pig.

09

SFX: Tighten

Murasaki: A hair!!

Masked figure: Tch.

SFX: Disappear

Murasaki: Kirihiko...

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!

10

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-cha-...!

Guards: Usui-sama!!
SFX: Rush forward

Guards: What...?

11

Guards: Why you...!
Guards: What did you do to Usui-sama!?

Murasaki: Wh-what are you talking about!?
Murasaki: I'm not Usui!!

Shinkurou: Ah.

SFX: Sneak
Murasaki: Kirihiko!?

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!
Murasaki: Wait, Kirihiko!!
SFX: Dash

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!

12

Usui: Well, if you see her, please report to me.
Woman: Understood.

SFX: Clatter clatter

Koto: I'm back,

SFX: Grab
Koto: young master.

13

Usui: Koto...

Usui: Where did you get off to at a time like this?
Usui: Has our guest been found?
Koto: Yes, she has.

Usui: Eh?

Koto: But she got away.

Usui: She got away!?
Usui: What do you mean!?
Koto: Oh, I only heard about it from my subordinates.
Koto: I also learned something else quite surprising.

Koto: She is actually...
Koto: <Kirishima Kirihiko>!

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Usui: <Kirishima>...

Koto: Yes.
Koto: <Kirishima> of the Inner Thirteen Families.
Koto: The Kuhouin girl was being attacked by her...
Koto: when the guards came and saved the girl.

Koto: The <Kirishima> family is a line of hit men.
Koto: And she is the one that has been given the title of the 66th <Kirihiko>.

Usui: So she really is an assassin.

15

Usui: B-but why is someone from the Inner Thirteen Families here?

Koto: A Kuhouin of the Outer Thirteen Families is here too...
Koto: so it isn't...
Koto: too surprising.

Koto: Perhaps it is...
Koto: this <Kirishima> girl...

Koto: that has been going around assassinating high ranking members of the Suzakujin family for the past month.

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Usui: Ridiculous!!
Usui: It can't be!!
Usui: She would do something like that!!

Koto: ...That's right.

Koto: It is true...
Koto: that you have the mysterious ability to see people's ill intent.

Koto: That is why you are worthy of being the head of the Suzakujin family.

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Koto: However...
Koto: this is not someone that our normal methods will work against.

Koto: Someone who knows of your power...
Koto: might be able to use it against you.

Koto: It is also possible you have merely misread her.
Koto: You first...
Koto: need to accept the reality that lies before your eyes.

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Usui: Koto...

Koto: Do not worry.
Koto: I am with you, young master.

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Murasaki: But you're wrong!!
Murasaki: Kirihiko was...
Murasaki: Kirihiko was saving me!!

SFX: Pat

SFX: Poke

Tamaki: We know, Murasaki-chan.

Murasaki: Tamaki...

Shinkurou: What is going in...?

Shinkurou: Was Murasaki being targeted because it was revealed she is a Kuhouin?
Shinkurou: Or was it Usui-kun being targeted?
Shinkurou: And either way, who was that?

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Shinkurou: Hey, Ginko.
Shinkurou: Do you know anythi-

Ginko: I didn't know.

Ginko: Even considering Murasaki-chan and that girl's presence...
Ginko: something must be going on within the West internally.

Ginko: I didn't know...
Ginko: and yet I'm an information broker...

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Ginko: I need to get it.

Ginko: I need to get what...
Ginko: my grandfather left here.

Shinkurou: Ginko...

Guard: It seems she has been cornered in the east-southeast block.

22

Guard: Gather the guards!!
Guard: Let's go!!

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

Shinkurou: Let's go!

23

SFX: Trip

Kirihiko: Ahh!!
SFX: Fall

SFX: Pant pant

Murasaki: Kirihiko!

Murasaki: Let's go, Kirihiko!

Kirihiko: Uuh...

24

SFX: Rustle rustle

SFX: Appear

SFX: Whoosh

25

SFX: Slice

SFX: Crumble

SFX: Charge

Kirihiko: Shit!!
Kirihiko: I need a better blade!!

26

SFX: Whoosh

Kirihiko: Damn you!!

SFX: Charge

Kirihiko: Fuck...

Kirihiko: Fuck!!

27

Kirihiko: Why...
Kirihiko: Why am I doing this?

Kirihiko: Why did I...

Kirihiko: run away back there!?

Kirihiko: I always do this.
Kirihiko: I always run away when it matters most.
Kirihiko: That was even why I came here to Kyoto.

Lucy: This is good enough for you.

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Lucy: You don't need friends.

SFX: Charge

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SFX: Wham

30

Shinkurou: Please wait!!

Shinkurou: She is...Kirihiko-chan is...
Shinkurou: my friend!!

SFX: Catch

Kirihiko: Stand back,
Flap
Kirihiko: onii-san.

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Kirihiko: This will be over in 10 seconds.

Shinkurou: Kiri-...!!

Guard: Uuh...

SFX: Wham wham
SFX: Crack crack

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Kirihiko: Heh...
Kirihiko: I guess I went a little nuts.

Shinkurou: B-but you didn't do anything, did you, Kirihiko-chan?
Shinkurou: If you just explained yourself...

Kirihiko: They wouldn't listen.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Kirihiko: If my guess is correct, they wouldn't.

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Shinkurou: What do you mean?
Kirihiko: But more importantly...

Kirihiko: You need to get away from here.

Kirihiko: That wasn't even the beginning of their true strength.
Kirihiko: That guy is especially dangerous.
Kirihiko: You need to leave before he gets here.

Murasaki: I will not run.

Murasaki: Why must we flee when we have done nothing wrong?

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Murasaki: Honestly, you keep running away...
SFX: Step
Murasaki: so I never get a chance to thank you.

Murasaki: How many times...
Murasaki: do you think you've saved me now?

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SFX: Hug

Murasaki: Thanks for saving me,
Murasaki: Kirihiko.
Text: She had been wanting to say that for so long...

Bottom: To be continued in the December Issue https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/33396 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 44 by js06 2012-02-11T22:31:22+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 44

01

Text: Volume 7 is on sale now!!

Murasaki: Who are you?

Usui: I am...
Text: Another child who looks just like Murasaki!?
Usui: Usui.

02

SFX: Smile
Usui: My name is Suzakujin Usui.

Ginko: <Suzakujin>...!?

Ginko: I'm shocked.
Ginko: I didn't expect to make contact with the Four Western Gate families so quickly.

Shinkurou: The Four Western Gate families?

03

Tamaki: Now this is amazing.
Tamaki: It's like she's standing in front of a mirror.
Yamie: If you mixed them up, it would be impossible to tell them apart.
Koto: Oh, c'mon now.
Koto: I can tell them apart.
Koto: After all, our young master is a bit cuter.

SFX: Stare

Murasaki: I am Murasaki.

Ginko: W-wait, Murasaki-chan!!
Ginko: Don't name yourse-

Murasaki: I am Kuhouin Murasaki!!

04

Usui: So you are Murasaki-sama.
Murasaki: That's right!

Murasaki: And that is my honey, Shinkurou!
Murasaki: And they are Tamaki, Yamie, and David.
Tamaki: Honey.

Murasaki: Hm?

Murasaki: David,
Murasaki: I didn't know you came with us.
David: Nyahh

05

Usui: U-um...
Usui: Excuse me, but...

Usui: That cat belongs to a guest of my house.
Usui: Perhaps she is a friend of yours.

Koto: Kuhouin...

06

Text: Your uncovered face brings down your heart's defenses as well...
Title: Chapter 44 Suzakujin
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

07

SFX: Drip...

SFX: Brush

Kirihiko: He's gone.
Kirihiko: He's gone!!
Kirihiko: David!!

08

Usui: David...?
Usui: Is that the cat you had before?
Kirihiko: Yes!!

Kirihiko: David!!

Usui: Understood.

Usui: I will search for your cat.
Koto: Hah!?

Kirihiko: Until then, feel free to have your wounds treated at my house.
Koto: What!? Why do we need to do that for her!?

09

Usui: Let us go, Koto.
Koto: Ehh? Really!?

SFX: Splash

SFX: Sit

Kirihiko: It's too hot...

10

Shinkurou: Wh-what an amazing house...

Koto: Young master...
Koto: Should we really be...
Koto: inviting in these unknown people...
Koto: during this time of such dispute?

11

Usui: Koto.

Usui: We are the ones that were unnecessarily suspicious of these guests and treated them violently.

Usui: We cannot be so rude as to...
Usui: merely part ways once our business with them is over.

Koto: Young master is cute even while angry!

Koto: What are you standing there for?
Koto: Our young master invited you in...
Koto: so, please, do not refrain from entering.

12

Koto: However...
Koto: we must insist that you obey the rules of the West.

Ginko: Shinkurou...

Ginko: You must not mention...
SFX: Approach
Ginko: that you are connected to the <Houzuki> family.

Shinkurou: Wh-why not!?
Shinkurou: And what is all this about the rules of the west and the Four Western Gate families?

Ginko: Kyoto...
Ginko: is a special place.

13

Shinkurou: A special place?

Ginko: Yes.
Ginko: It is the only place in this country...
Ginko: where the outer and inner thirteen families have no power.

Ginko: Four families rule both the outer and inner portions of Kyoto.

14

Ginko: They are known as the Four Western Gate families.

Ginko: They are the <Seiryuujin>, <Byakkojin>, <Genbujin>,
Ginko: and <Suzakujin> families.
Ginko: They are said to be the descendants of the military nobles who were appointed as the defenders of Kyoto in ancient times.

Ginko: With both "outer" assets and "inner" supernatural powers, they set up a powerful barrier around Kyoto without anyone noticing.
Ginko: After a long history of resistance, they finally succeeded in eliminating the outer and inner influence of the other families.

15

Ginko: Do you understand now...
Ginko: just how dangerous it is for a Houzuki and a Kuhouin to be within that barrier?

Ginko: So do not speak the name <Houzuki>.
Ginko: And of course make sure to attentively protect Murasaki-chan.

SFX: Approach

Tamaki: That really was a surprise.
Tamaki: I can't believe how similar you two look.

16

SFX: Mad

Tamaki: Oh?
Yamie: Heh heh. It appears the girl is upset.

Murasaki: Of course I am!!

Murasaki: I can't believe...
Murasaki: Shinkurou would mistake someone else for me...

17

Usui: Oh...
Usui: I-I am very sorry about that.
Koto: Why are you apologizing, young master?

Tamaki: Hey, hey!

Tamaki: Then how about this?
Yamie: Don't play around too much, Tamaki.

18

Shinkurou: Murasaki and the others sure are taking their time.

Shinkurou: Hey, Ginko.
Shinkurou: Was the reason you came to Kyoto...

19

Shinkurou: to meet with the Four Western Gate families?

Shinkurou: Is there a connection between them and Ginji-san?
SFX: Slide
Tamaki: Sorry about the wait!!

Tamaki: Now, Shinkurou-kun.

20

Tamaki: Which one is Murasaki-chan!?
Shinkurou: Why are you just playing around, Tamaki-san!?

Tamaki: Oh?
Tamaki: So you can't tell?
Shinkurou: B-but...

Shinkurou: If they're wearing the same clothes...
Shinkurou: they look exactly the same...

21

Shinkurou: This one.
Tamaki: Wow, that's right!!

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!
SFX: Hop

Murasaki: So you really are my Shinkurou!!
Tamaki: That's amazing, Shinkurou-kun. This must be love!
Tamaki: Seeing those two is enough to bring out my passion even during the day!
Shinkurou: Ha ha...
Shinkurou: I definitely can't tell them I just chose the one that looked like she was about to attack me.

SFX: Angry

22

Ginko: Lolicon.
SFX: Stab

Tamaki: But that really is amazing, Usui-kun.

Tamaki: You really do look like a girl.
Shinkurou: Hah?

Shinkurou: What are you talking about?
Shinkurou: Usui-chan IS a gir-

Koto: Young master.

Shinkurou: Eh...!?
Shinkurou: Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh!!?

23

Shinkurou: Y-
Shinkurou: You're a boy!!?

Usui: The custom of my family...
Usui: is to dress up like a girl while we are young to ward off misfortune.

Shinkurou: But you're so cute...

SFX: Blush

Tamaki: He really is a boy.
Tamaki: I made sure to check back there.
Shinkurou: Don't check that kind of thing!!

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: So...

24

Shinkurou: So I guess I should...
Shinkurou: call you Usui-"kun".

Text: Hee hee

Usui: If you wish, Shinkurou-sama.

Shinkurou: He looks exactly like a girl.
SFX: Smile smile

Murasaki: What are you blushing about?
SFX: Heartbeat
SFX: Grab

25

Ginko: You aren't...
Ginko: feeling conflicted about something, are you?
Shinkurou: Eh!?

SFX: Rumble...

Shinkurou: N-no, no!!
Shinkurou: Not at all!!
SFX: Slide
Murasaki: Are you sure?
Ginko: Are you sure?

Woman: Excuse me.

Usui: Oh,
Usui: is she here?

Woman: Actually...

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Usui: She disappeared?

Woman: Yes.
Woman: She suddenly vanished after getting out of the bath.

Yamie: Is this the person you say was looking for David?
SFX: Step forward

Usui: Yes.
Usui: She was a girl...

Usui: just a bit younger than Shinkurou-sama and Ginko-sama...
Usui: and she had a large scarf wrapped around her neck.

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Ginko: A large scarf?

Murasaki: K-

28

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

29

Shinkurou: Ah!!
SFX: Dash
Shinkurou: Hey, Murasaki!!

Shinkurou: Could it really have been Kirihiko-chan!?
Shinkurou: But why would she be here?

Ginko: Shinkurou!!

Ginko: What are you doing!?
Ginko: Head after Murasaki-chan!!
Ginko: Hurry!!

30

SFX: Slide

SFX: Slide

SFX: Slide

31

SFX: Pant pant

32

SFX: Droop

Murasaki: Kirihiko...

Shinkurou: Where did Murasaki get off to?

33

Shinkurou: I have to find Kirihiko-chan, too.

Shinkurou: Come to think of it, Kirihiko-chan is from the <Kirishima> family of the inner thirteen families.

Shinkurou: As Ginko said...
Shinkurou: this place is dangerous for us.

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SFX: Jump back
Bottom: To be continued in the November Issue

Murasaki: What...!?

Murasaki: Who are you!!?
Text: The malice of the West shows itself!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/33385 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 43 by js06 2012-02-11T02:06:45+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 43

01

Text: Hoshigami Zena, a woman who tramples on both good and evil.

Lucy: Hoshigami-san.

Lucy: We know where Kirihiko-kun has run off to.
Hoshigami: Where?

Lucy: Kyoto.

Hoshigami: Kyo-...

02

Hoshigami: Did she do this on purpose?
SFX: Glare

Lucy: Well?
Lucy: Should we send someone after her?
Hoshigami: We can't.
Hoshigami: If we interfered in Kyoto it would start a war.

Hoshigami: A war with them.

Lucy: Ah ha ha.
Lucy: That isn't the kind of thing I expect to hear from the <Solitary Fortress>.

Hoshigami: It's too much of a risk for capturing a single stray employee.
SFX: Glare
Hoshigami: We can just watch and see what happens this time.

03

Hoshigami: Too bad.
Hoshigami: I really don't want to lose her as a pawn.

Hoshigami: Heh heh.
Hoshigami: The darkness in Kyoto is deep.

04

Text: If I'm on a trip with you, anywhere would be perfect!
Book: Kyoto
Title: Chapter 43 Resemblance
Below credits: Volume 7 is on sale now!!
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

05

David: Nyaahh
Kirihiko: Who are these people?

Kirihiko: Especially him...
Kirihiko: He has a dangerous look to him.

SFX: Whoosh

06

SFX: Slice

SFX: Jump back

07

SFX: Stiff

Koto: Hehh...

Kirihiko: Shut the hell up.
Kirihiko: Do you want to be my next target?

08

SFX: Pop out
SFX: Jingle

Kirihiko: Ah!?

Kirihiko: Davi-...!!

Koto: Slicing through a real sword with a bamboo leaf...
Koto: is pretty amazing.

09

Koto: I just have...
Koto: two things I want to ask you.

Koto: First, why did you kill someone of the Four Western Gate families?
[TN: I mistook this for a name and mistranslated it as the Nishishimon family last chapter.]

Koto: And second,
Koto: who are you?

Kirihiko: Who am I?
SFX: Pissed

Kirihiko: Let your body do the talking.
SFX: Jump

10

Usui: Stop,
SFX: Step forward
Usui: Koto.

11

Usui: She has nothing to do with this.
Usui: I...
Usui: know.

Kirihiko: Wh-

12

Kirihiko: Why are you here!?

Murasaki: Ohh!

Murasaki: So this is Kyoto!!
Sign: Kyoto

13

Murasaki: What's that pointed thing?
Shinkurou: That's Kyoto Tower.
Tamaki: This place looks amazing, doesn't it, Yamie-san?
Yamie: Heh heh. I look forward to going there tonight.

Shinkurou: Oh, right. Gin-...

Ginko: What?

Shinkurou: Ginko's really pissed...

Box: An hour prior
SFX: Rooooar
Shinkurou: Wh-why are you all coming, too!!?

14

Tamaki: We just so happened to hear from Ginko-chan's dad at Fuumitei...
Tamaki: that she was headed to Kyoto.
Shinkurou: G-Ginsei-san told you!?

Tamaki: Yes, and it hit me that you were bound to go with her!
Tamaki: Now, in that situation, who knows when you two would have your first time, right?
Tamaki: So we decided we should go along for some adult supervision.
Shinkurou: What do you mean, our first time?

Tamaki: That's exactly the problem!!
Tamaki: We were afraid because of how clueless you are!!
Tamaki: So anyway...
Tamaki: Oh, I need another beer!
Yamie: I will take a wine that is thicker than blood.
Box: *Do not be too noisy while riding the train.

15

Shinkurou: B-but then...
Shinkurou: why is Murasaki here?

SFX: Hop
SFX: Land

Murasaki: If you're going, then I'm going!
Murasaki: Is that a problem?

Box: And so...
Box: everyone ended up going.

SFX: Clatter

16

Shinkurou: Hey, Ginko...
Shinkurou: Could you please cheer up?

Shinkurou: Everyone only came because they were worried about you.
Shinkurou: ...I think.

Murasaki: What's that?
Murasaki: Let's go, Shinkurou!
SFX: Dash
Shinkurou: H-hey!
Shinkurou: Don't just run off!

Ginko: Make sure to stick with Murasaki-chan!!

SFX: Realization

17

Ginko: I-I mean, keep an eye on her because it doesn't seem...
Ginko: her guards are with her.

Shinkurou: S-sure...
Shinkurou: Oh, yeah. Lin-san is still in the hospital.

Shinkurou: But it's still weird, don't you think?
Shinkurou: She's so far away from home and yet neither Kiba-san nor any guards are with her.

Ginko: They do not want to provoke the West.
Ginko: That must be it.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Ginko: At any rate, don't let Murasaki-chan out of your sight while in Kyoto.
Ginko: I have something I must do.

Box: Come to think of it...
Box: Why did Ginko come here to Kyoto anyway?

18

Box: Did she get some information about Ginji-san?
Box: But what was with that overreaction regarding Murasaki?

Tamaki: C'mon, Shinkurou-kun. You need to be a little more proactive.
Tamaki: Ginko-chan's just waitin' for you to pounce on 'er.
SFX: Grab
Yamie: Trips have a liberating effect on people's hearts.
Yamie: But, boy, do not expect fate to knock on your door twice.

Shinkurou: What are you talking about!!?
Shinkurou: And you two reek of alcohol!!
Murasaki: Let's go to that big shrine, Ginko!

19

Box: Yasaka Shrine

Tamaki: Oeeehhhh

Shinkurou: Hehh. There are a lot of people here for a weekday.
Ginko: This is Kyoto, so that isn't too surprising.

20

Murasaki: Ohhhh!

Murasaki: What are those people!?
Tamaki: Oh, they're known as maikos.

Murasaki: Maikos?
Murasaki: What does a maiko do?

Tamaki: They're butterflies.
Tamaki: They're the butterflies that dance in the Kyoto night.
Murasaki: Can they fly?

Yamie: If you are interested, how about you try this?
Sign: Try out being a Maiko and get your picture taken. 500 m this way ->
Yamie: It looks like you can become a Maiko yourself.

21

Tamaki: Let's go, Murasaki-chan!
SFX: Dash
Murasaki: Yeah!
Shinkurou: Eh!?
Shinkurou: Right now!?

SFX: Fade away

SFX: Grab

Shinkurou: Ginko.

Shinkurou: If you're planning on going somewhere out of the ordinary, I'm coming with you.

Ginko: Hah?
Ginko: Why do I need you to-

22

Shinkurou: I'm going with you.

Yamie: Heh heh...
Yamie: I am glad everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.

SFX: Jingle

23

Yamie: Oh?
David: Nyahh

Yamie: So this is where you were?
SFX: Hop

Yamie: Did you have enough of your friend?
David: Nyaahh

24

Shinkurou: What shop did those two go in?

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat
Shinkurou: I don't think they went too far off...

SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat

Ginko: H-
Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: They're here!?

25

Ginko: How long are you planning to hold my hand!?
SFX: Pull away

Ginko: And can't you just call Murasaki-chan's cell phone!?
Ginko: You idiot!!

Shinkurou: Oh.

Shinkurou: S-sorry.
Shinkurou: I just panicked a bit with everyone separated like this.
SFX: Step

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27

Shinkurou: Murasaki!

SFX: Smile

SFX: Heartbeat

Shinkurou: O-Oh, did you get all dressed up like a maiko?
Shinkurou: Wow.
Shinkurou: It's like you have a completely different aura now.

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Shinkurou: But...
Shinkurou: this kind of outfit really does suit you.
Shinkurou: It's a contrast to your usual boy's clothes.

Usui: Thank you for your kind words.

Shinkurou: D-
Shinkurou: Did they teach you how to speak like that, too?
Shinkurou(small): At the shop?
Usui: Yes.
Usui: I have been taught the proper way to behave as far back as I can remember.

Ginko: Um, Shinkurou...
Shinkurou: Wait, where's Tamaki-san?
Usui: Eh?

29

Shinkurou: Honestly, did she leave Murasaki behind and go off somewhere?
Shinkurou: Well, we need to regroup.
Usui: U-um...
SFX: Grab

Usui: I-I cannot go with you...
Usui: I have an important task I need to-

Shinkurou: Murasaki, what are you talking abo-

SFX: Throb

SFX: Step

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SFX: Step

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Koto: You have guts.
SFX: Jump
Koto: trying to kidnap our young master.
[Note: Just to make sure 'young master' isn't seen as a mistake and changed in editing: Yes, this character is male.]

SFX: Land

Shinkurou: Eh?

32

Usui: Koto!!

SFX: Stop

Usui: ...Stop.

Koto: Eh?
SFX: Shock
Koto: But he was...

33

Usui: He was not.
Usui: He merely mistook me for someone else.
Ginko: I can't believe you.

Shinkurou: Ginko...?
Ginko: You STILL haven't realized it?
Ginko: That...
Ginko: is not Murasaki-chan.

Shinkurou: What...?

Shinkurou: No way.

SFX: Jingle
Yamie: Now this is a surprise.

34

Usui: Ah!

Yamie: Hm?
Usui: That is the cat I was searching.
Usui: Sorry, but that cat is...

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

Tamaki: Sorry. We ran across a grilled bamboo shoot store before we got there.

Shinkurou: Hm?

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Shinkurou: T-

Shinkurou: Two...
Shinkurou: Murasakis!!?
Text: Does this striking resemblance bring a premonition of trouble along with it!?
Bottom: To be continued in the October Issue https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/31755 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 42 by js06 2011-10-08T01:01:09+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 42

01

SFX: Roooar

SFX: Thunk

SFX: Thunk
Text: Who is this hiding within a truck heading west!?

02

David: Nyahh

SFX: Rustle

SFX: Pop up

03

David: Nyahh
SFX: Rumble

Text: One Week Ago

SFX: Jingle

04

David: Nyahh

Kirihiko: D-
Kirihiko: David!?

Kirihiko: Why are you here!?
SFX: Crash

05

Kirihiko: Why you...!!

SFX: Thoom

06-07

SFX: Purr purr

Text: The feelings that build up over time connect comrades.
Bottom: Volume 7 is on sale now!!
Title: Chapter 42 Westward
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

08

Tamaki: Murasaki-chan is looking kind of down.

09

Shinkurou: Yes.
Shinkurou: She's been like that for a while now...

Tamaki: She's waiting for Kirihiko-chan to return, isn't she?

Tamaki: I wonder where...
Tamami: Kirihiko-chan is...

Dog: Woof woof!

SFX: Pant pant

10

Murasaki: Ah!

Murasaki: M-
SFX: Wag wag
Murasaki: Murakurou!!?

Murasaki: Wh-what happened, Murakurou!?
Murasaki: Why did you shrink so much!?

Dogs: Woof woof
Dogs: Woof woof
Dogs: Woof

11

Murasaki: There's...There's...
Murasaki: a whole bunch of Murakurous...
Shinkurou: A whole bunch...?

Ginko: Hello, Murasaki-chan.
Murasaki: Ah.
Shinkurou: Ginko!

12

Shinkurou: I see...
Shinkurou: So those puppies are Ginkurou's...

Ginko: Don't you mean...
Ginko: Murakurou's?

Ginko: According to Murasaki-chan anyway.

Shinkurou: Sorry, Ginko. Thanks for...
Shinkurou: thinking about Murasaki.

13

Ginko: Make no mistake.
Ginko: I was just asked by the owner to look after them for another day.

Murasaki: Hmm...

Murasaki: These ones really do like Murakurou!
SFX: Warm

Shinkurou: Well, yeah.
Shinkurou: He's their father.

Murasaki: And Murakurou's father is you, right, Shinkurou?
Shinkurou: Eh?
Murasaki: And I'm his mother.

Murasaki: Hm...
Murasaki: I see.
Murasaki: I get it now.

14

Murasaki: So we're their grandparents!

Shinkurou: Ha ha... I guess so.

Murasaki: Okay!
Murasaki: We need to give names to our first grandchildren!
Dog: Woof!
Text: First grandchildren...?

Murasaki: First off...
Murasaki: you're Ginkurou!

Ginko & Shinkurou: Eh?

15

Shinkurou: Wait a second, Murasaki.
Murasaki: Hm?
Murasaki: Ginkourou...?

Murasaki: Ginko and Shinkurou make Ginkurou.

Murasaki: Now...
Murasaki: this one is Tamakurou.
Murasaki: and that one is Yamikurou.
SFX: Hang head

Tamaki: Don't get your hopes up.
Tamaki: Shinkurou-kun belongs to everyone.
Text: Heh heh heh heh heh
Shinkurou: What do you mean by that?

Murasaki: And this one...

16

Tamaki: Ah ha ha ha! So you're Tamakurou!
Tamakurou: Woof!
Yamie: Heh... Small animals are quite heartwarming.

Tamaki: Huh?
Tamaki: Where's David by the way?

Yamie: Well...

17

Yamie: With a friend I think.
SFX: Step forward

Yuuno: Hello, Murasaki-chan.

Murasaki: Yuuno!

SFX: Smile
Yuuno: Is there a Yuukurou?

18

SFX: Turn around
Murasaki: Nope!

Yuuno: I..
Yuuno: I see.

Yuuno: Well...Names are important.
Yuuno: That one can be used when Shinkurou-san and I have an actual child.

Murasaki: Wait a second, Yuuno!!
Murasaki: I am the one that will join her name with Shinkurou's!!
Yuuno: Oh?
Yuuno: I do not think so.

19

Ginko: See you.
Ginko: I'll come to pick them up this evening.
Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: O-okay...

Yuuno: Kurenai Yuuno.
Yuuno: The combination is so modest and beautiful that it must be fate.
Murasaki: Hmph! Kurenai Murasaki is way more amazing!
Murasaki: It's only two kanji, but it's perfect!

Shinkurou: Wait...
Shinkurou: Ginko is acting oddly...
Yuuno: Houzuki Shinkurou!
Yuuno: It flows nicely and has a nice, strong ring to it!
Murasaki: Kuhouin Shinkurou is way more amazing!! And it's six kanji!!

20

Ginsei: Welcome!!

Ginsei: Oh, it's Shin-chan!!
Box: Murakami Ginsei (Ginko's Father)
Ginsei: Are you helping her with those dogs!?

Shinkurou: Hello. Long time no see.

Ginsei: You should come help out here from time to time!
Ginsei: You can prepare for when you join the family!

SFX: Step

21

Ginko: Father!!
SFX: Slam

Ginko: Mother will be back soon, right!?
Ginko: I'm going!

SFX: Step step step

Ginsei: Really now...And when Shin-chan is here, too.
Ginsei: To make up for that, you can have anything you want on the house!

Shinkurou: Um...Sir.
Ginsei: Hm?

22

Shinkurou: About Ginko...
Shinkurou: Has she changed at all recently?

Shinkurou: It's just something that's been bothering me a bit...
Shinkurou: and I'm betting it's just nothing, but...

Ginsei: The other day...
Ginsei: she heard something about her grandfather.

23

Shinkurou: Her grandfather...?
Shinkurou: You mean Ginji-san?

Text: Murakami Ginji

Box: He is Ginko's grandfather...
Box: and an extremely skilled information broker who worked in secret...
Box: during the period of upheaval during and after the war.

Box: Ginsei-san was once trained in methods of combat...
SFX: Sizzle
Box: and he was supposed to follow in his father's footsteps as an information broker.
Box: But...

24

Text: He fell in love with Ginko's mother, the daughter of a ramen restaurant owner.
Text: He then washed his hands of the underground world.

Box: He's done nothing but ramen ever since.

Ginsei: That said...
Ginsei: No one knows where my old man is.

Ginsei: He just disappeared into thin air 6 years ago.
Shinkurou: Yeah...

Ginsei: Well, I know he's fine because I haven't heard anything...
Ginsei: and no one really minds.

25

26

Box: Tokyo Station

On Ticket: Tokyo -> Kyoto

Shinkurou: Ginko.

27

Shinkurou: I heard at school...
Shinkurou: that you had sent in a notification of extended absence.

Ginko: Th-
Ginko: This has nothing to do with y-

SFX: Grab

28

Shinkurou: Of course it does!!

Shinkurou: Does it have to do with Ginji-san?

Ginko: W-
Ginko: Well...

Shinkurou: I'll go, too.

29

Shinkurou: I'll go to Kyoto.

Ginko: ...Idiot.

SFX: Reach out

SFX: Step
Ginko: But our paths diverge as soon as we arrive.

Tamaki: Oh!
Tamaki: There he is!

30-31

Tamaki: Yamie-san, this way, this way!

Ginko: Eh?
Shinkurou: M-Murasaki!?
Shinkurou: Wait...

Shinkurou: Why is everyone here!!?

Box: Kyoto

32

SFX: Step

SFX: Step

33

Man: Oh...
Man: Now this is a surprise.

Man: I never thought it would be a girl like this...

34

Man: Now that you have killed someone of the Nishishimon family...

35

Man: you cannot leave this city alive.

Text: The Nishishimon family!? Kirihiko is in trouble!!
SFX: Wind
Bottom: To be continued in the September Issue https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/31101 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 41.5 by js06 2011-08-27T00:51:01+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 41.5

01

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san!!!

Text: There will be a special publication in SQ. 19. See P. 614 for details!!
Yuuno: ...No way.

Text: What has happened to Shinkurou...!?

02

Yuuno: Wh-
Yuuno: Why...?

03

Murasaki: Wait!!

Murasaki: The scene of the crime must be preserved.
SFX: Point

Murasaki: This case...

Murasaki: will be solved by me, Inspector Kuhouin Murasaki!!!

04

Title: Chapter 41.5: Inspector Murasaki's Great Deductions
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

Corner: Volume 7 is on sale now!!
Text: There is no mystery I can't solve!

Kirihiko: The victim's name is Kurenai Shinkurou.

05

Kirihiko: He was a poor student who lived alone here in the Samidare Apartments.

Murasaki: He lived alone?
Murasaki: Then who are these three?

Kirihiko: Um...
Kirihiko: This is Murakami Ginko, a worker at a ramen restaurant.
Kirihiko: Apparently, she came to recover some tableware from a delivery.

Kirihiko: This is Houzuki Yuuno, the daughter of a tea family.
Kirihiko: She came to check on the victim who was an apprentice of her family...

Kirihiko: And this is Mutou Tamaki, the resident of the room next door.
Kirihiko: She says she heard a suspicious noise and came to see what happened.

Murasaki: Hmm...

06

Murasaki: Something smells off...

Kirihiko: Have you figured something out?
Murasaki: No...

Murasaki: This room...
SFX: Sniff sniff
Murasaki: smells familiar...

Kirihiko: Inspector!!
Kirihiko: Look at this!!

07

Murasaki: This is...
Murasaki: a dying message!!
Kirihiko: Dying...?

Murasaki: Yes!!
Murasaki: This is a message left by the deceased.

Murasaki: I see...
Murasaki: I know who the murderer is!!

08

Text: Ramen Restaurant Fuumitei - Murakami Ginko

SFX: Thud

Murasaki: Spill it, Ginko!!

Murasaki: I brought out the katsudon, so confess that you killed him!!

09

Kirihiko: That's ramen, not katsudon.

Murasaki: ...This isn't katsudon?
Kirihiko: It's ramen.

Ginko: Um...
Ginko: I'm not the murderer, Murasaki-chan.

Murasaki: Don't call me Murasaki-chan.
Murasaki: Call me Inspector Kuhouin!

Murasaki: The circle left by the victim...
Murasaki: was referring to your glasses!!

Murasaki: Well!? If you confess, I'll let you eat this ramen!!

10

Kirihiko: Glasses would be two circles, so that's not it.

Kirihiko: It's not her.

Murasaki: You eat the ramen, Kirihiko!!
Kirihiko: What!!?
Text: Don't waste food!!

Murasaki: If it wasn't glasses, then what was that circle...?

11

Murasaki: That's it!! I've got it!!
SFX: Slurp
Kirihiko: Hot!

Text: Houzuki Yuuno

Yuuno: Come now, inspector.
SFX: Push forward

12

Yuuno: Do you have any proof...
Yuuno: that I am the murderer?

Murasaki: You had a motive,
Murasaki: Houzuki Yuuno.

Yuuno: A motive?

Murasaki: You were head over heels in love!!
Murasaki: You were getting on in years, so you murdered the young lover that cast you aside!!
SFX: Wham

13

Murasaki: I won't let you get out of this.

Yuuno: M-Murasaki-cha...I mean...
Yuuno: Inspector.
Yuuno: Do you have to put it like-...

Murasaki: The victim left a circle.
Murasaki: That indicated the sun!!
Murasaki: When the sun begins to sink, it is the setting sun...
Murasaki: and that points to you as the murderer, Yuuno!!
[TN: The first kanji in the Japanese for the setting sun is the first kanji of Yuuno's name.]

Yuuno: A-
Yuuno: Are you sure about that?

Yuuno: The setting sun is not round once it starts sinking behind the horizon, right?

Murasaki: Oh.

14

SFX: Stand

Murasaki: We have another suspect!!
SFX: Step forward
Murasaki: Let's go, Kirihiko!!

Murasaki: Hurry up and drink that tea!!
Kirihiko: Ehh!?

Murasaki: Mhh...
Murasaki: And I was sure this was a crime of passion carried out by the elderly Yuuno...
Kirihiko: Hot!!
SFX: Rumble rumble

15

Text: Samidare Apartments - Mutou Tamaki

SFX: Cough cough

Yamie: Sorry...
Yamie: I'm such a bother for you.

Tamaki: You promised not to say that, dad.

Yamie: If only I did not have this feeble body...
Yamie: Cough cough cough cough
Tamaki: Dad, pull yourself together!!
Tamaki: Dad!!

Kirihiko: Inspector...
Murasaki: Yes...

16

Murasaki: The circle was a bracelet...
Murasaki: and it was indicating Tamaki.
[TN: Tamaki's name is also the name of a type of bracelet.]

Murasaki: But I don't think a girl with such love for her father could commit such a crime...
Tamaki: Daaaddd!!
SFX: Cough cough

SFX: Slam

Benika: We're coming in.

17

Tamaki: Oh...
Tamaki: You're the president of Juuzawa Loans!

SFX: Smile

Benika: Do you..
Benika: finally have the money to pay me BLACK?

Murasaki: Black?

All: She misspoke!
All: She just misspoke...
All: She definitely misspoke...

Tamaki: Heh.

18

Yayoi: The president is asking how you are going to repay your debt.

Tamaki: S-s-s-sorry!!
Tamaki: We will definitely pay you back once dad's disease is healed...!!

Murasaki: Stop!!
Murasaki: Don't act so violently against a girl with such love for her father!!

19

Benika: Hmph.
SFX: Step forward
Yayoi: The president is saying...
Yayoi: that she will be back later.

SFX: Close

Murasaki: Are you okay, Tamaki?
SFX: Zzz zzz
Tamaki: Th-th-thank you very much, inspector.
Tamaki: Life has been rough, so we had to borrow from her...
Tamaki: but we haven't been able to pay any back...

Murasaki: A loan?

SFX: Realization

20

Kirihiko: He was a poor student who lived alone here in the Samidare Apartments.

Murasaki: That round eye patch...

Kirihiko: Ah.
SFX: Dash

Kirihiko: W-wait, inspector.
Kirihiko: My legs have gone to sleep...
SFX: Wobble wobble
Kirihiko: Ahh!
SFX: Fall

21

Murasaki: Wait!!

Murasaki: Wait, Beni-!!

SFX: Grab

Murasaki: Mh...

Yayoi: The president is asking what you want.

22

Murasaki: Did you...
Murasaki: lend any money to Shinkurou?

SFX: Smile

Yayoi: The president is asking why you are asking.
Yayoi: She wants to know if you are suspecting her.

SFX: Clench

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Grab

23

SFX: Thud

Murasaki: Kiri...

SFX: Realization

SFX: Hoo

SFX: Walk away
Yayoi: She says she has lost interest...
Yayoi: and that she will forgive you in deference to him.

Kirihiko: Inspector...
Kirihiko: You mustn't act rashly.

24

Murasaki: I know who the murderer is.

Text: 30 Minutes Later

Sign: Room 5

25

Murasaki: The circle left by the victim...

Murasaki: did indeed indicate who the murderer was.

Ginko: You mean...

26

Murasaki: The main hint was the smell in this room.

Kirihiko: The smell?

Murasaki: Once I connected that with the circle...
Murasaki: it all made sense.

Murasaki: What the victim tried to draw on the verge of death...
Murasaki: was...

Murasaki: takoyaki.

27

Ginko & Yuuno: Eh..?
Text: That looks good.

Murasaki: The smell in this room was that of takoyaki.
Murasaki: And the circle...
Murasaki: was drawn with takoyaki sauce!

Others: ...It wasn't blood?
Others: But why was there takoyaki here?

SFX: Chomp
Murasaki: The murderer was eating them.
Murasaki: After all...
Murasaki: the murderer had the exact same smell.

SFX: Munch munch

28

Murasaki: Kirihiko.
Murasaki: The murderer...
Murasaki: was you.

29

Kirihiko: Wh-
Kirihiko: Why would I kill onii-san...
Murasaki: Onii-san.
SFX: Point

SFX: Realization

Murasaki: ...As I thought, you knew the victim.

SFX: Swipe

Ginko: Ah!!

30

Murasaki: That sauce around your mouth...
Murasaki: is proof!!

Murasaki: The person who bought the takoyaki...
Murasaki: was you.

Murasaki: You can't stand hot foods, so the victim was trying to cool them off for you.
Murasaki: But he blew too hard and suffocated!!

31

SFX: Collapse

Kirihiko: ...It's...true.

Kirihiko: I'm...sorry...

Kirihiko: The takoyaki...
Kirihiko: was so good.

32

Tamaki: Okay, cut!!

Tamaki: Oh, that was great,
SFX: Clack
Tamaki: Murasaki-chan!

SFX: Bright
Murasaki: R-
Murasaki: Really!?

Yuuno: That was a wonderful performance, Murasaki-chan.

33

Tamaki: The title is "Bishoujo Inspector Murasaki-chan and the Circular Message with a Dangerous Smell"!
Text: Kyahh
On cover: Script
Tamaki: The original script was of course...
Tamaki: written by Samidare Apartments' intellectual idol, Mutou Tamaki!!

Text: All right!!
Tamaki: Academy Awards here I come!

Yuuno: It's not often...
Yuuno: that you go along with this kind of thing, Murakami-san.
Ginko: I did it to make Murasaki-chan happy...

Yamie: That was an unexpected performance from you, Benika...
Yamie: When you misspoke.
Text: How long are you going to lie there?
Benika: Do want to die?

Lin: Why...?

34

Lin: Why was I not your partner,
SFX: Clatter
Line: Murasaki-sama!?

Murasaki: What are you saying, Lin?
Murasaki: The cameraman is an important role.
Lin: B-but...
Lin: If anyone is to serve by your side...!!
Lin: Is to be your partner...!!

Lin: Murasaki-sama, for you, I would...!!

Tamaki: I have an idea!!

35

Tamaki: Next we can do "Bishoujo Swordsman Lin-chan"!!
Tamaki: You can reform the world with your courageous sword...
Lin: I-I am not a little girl!!

Label: Corpse
Shinkurou: ...I wonder if I can come out yet.

Text: Next time, a new arc begins in a new land!!

Bottom: To be continued in the August Issue https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/30696 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 41 by js06 2011-07-29T18:13:35+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 41

01

Text: Kirihiko disappears amid the rubble.
SFX: Rumble rumble

Murasaki: K-

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!!
Shinkurou: No, Murasaki!!!

SFX: Crumble

SFX: Step

02

SFX: Crash

Shinkurou: Y-

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san!!!

03

Yuuno: Getting help from others is not a bad thing.

Yuuno: I thought I had taught you that.

SFX: Crash

Yuuno: C'mon, we need to hurry!!

04

Yuuno: This way, quickly!!

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!
SFX: Grab

Murasaki: ...Kirihiko.

Murasaki: Kirihikoooooooo!!!!!
SFX: Rumble...

05

Text: Volume 7 will be released on June 3rd!!
Bottom: This manga has the cover and color pages in SQ.19's spring issue (released on 5/19)!!
Bottom corner: A friend's vow has died and disappeared...
Title: Chapter 41 Surely
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

06

Shinkurou: ...I see.
Shinkurou: So you told Yuuno-san...
SFX: Step

07

Ginko: You owe me so many things...
Ginko: that it would be a problem if you died.

SFX: Step

08

SFX: Step forward

Shinkurou: Kiba-san...

Kiba: It seems you were of assistance in...
Kiba: protecting Lady Murasaki.

Shinkurou: No...
Shinkurou: I...

09

Shinkurou: ...I...

Kiba: She had always wanted to die in the line of duty.

Text: Heh

Kiba: But, well...
Kiba: it does not seem that her life is in real danger.

Shinkurou: Eh!?

10

SFX: Roll roll

Kiba: She was cut such that all of the vital areas were avoided.

Shinkurou: ...Is that so?

Box: Kirihiko-chan...
Box: So you really did not intend to kill Lin-san.

Murasaki: Even so...
Murasaki: Kirihiko hurt Lin.

11

Kiba: Milady...It is about time to...
Murasaki: No!!
Murasaki: I will not leave here...
Murasaki: until Kirihiko...shows up...

Murasaki: ...I need to scold her.

Murasaki: I need to...
Murasaki: tell her she shouldn't fight like that!!

12

Shinkurou: ...Murasaki...

Murasaki: But Shinkurou...

Murasaki: Even so, Kirihiko is...
Murasaki: Kirihiko is...

Murasaki: Kirihiko is a good person!!!

13

Murasaki: Ahhh....Wahhhhhh.

SFX: Hug

Shinkurou: I know, Mursaki.
Shinkurou: I know.

SFX: Rinnng

SFX: Beep
Lucy: Well done, Kurenai-san.

14

Lucy: This is Lucy May.

Box: Three days later

SFX: Step

15

Lucy: Hey, over here, Kurenai-san.

Lucy: Sorry about...
Lucy: calling you here when you're so worn out.

Lucy: Oh, do you want to order something?
Lucy: This place has a really good cherry pie.

Lucy: It's on me.
Lucy: I borrowed money from you before after all.

16

Lucy: Congratulations.
Lucy: You passed,
Lucy: Kurenai Shinkurou-san.

Shinkurou: Eh?

Lucy: Frank Blanca is dead.
SFX: Clatter

Lucy: Shiguhara Ritsu-san's request was carried out.
Lucy: And you survived.
Lucy: I was a bit worried for a bit there.
Lucy: The company would have suffered a major loss if you had died.

Lucy: Anyway, you passed.
Lucy: We will be making a contract with you as someone even more skilled than Bigfoot.

Lucy: Now.
Lucy: Just sign here.
SFX: Slide

17

Shinkurou: How many people do you think died?

Lucy: ...Hah?

Shinkurou: How many people...
Shinkurou: do you think died during all this?

Lucy: What?

Shinkurou: How many people do you think died!!?
SFX: Crack

18

Lucy: How many people died?

Shinkurou: You...!!

Lucy: Of course, there were quite a few sacrifices.
Lucy: However, the company puts the completion of our requests at top priority.
Lucy: The amount of sacrifices that happen to go along with that are of no interest to us.

Box: This is the Akuu Company.

Box: It is an organization...
Box: that deals solely in business regardless of good or evil.
Box: It is an organization that will...
Box: save countless people and kill countless people without the slightest emotion.

Shinkurou: I have no intention of joining the Akuu Company.

Lucy: Come now, Kurenai-san. Stay calm.
Lucy: For instance...
Lucy: don't you want to know?

19

Lucy: There was that explosion at the international airport...

Lucy: that you and Shiguhara-san...
Lucy: were wrapped up in 8 years ago.

Lucy: Don't you want to know...
Lucy: who did that?

20

SFX: Slam

Shinkurou: Do you know something!!?

Shinkurou: Don't tell me someone from the Akuu Company did that...!

Lucy: No.
SFX: Clatter
Lucy: But we have some information on it.

Lucy: If you sign this contract with us...

Lucy: I will tell you everything.
SFX: Wind...

21

Murasaki: That's a lie.

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!?

22

Shinkurou: What are you doing here...!?
SFX: Step
Murasaki: I'll explain later.

Murasaki: I have good ears.
Murasaki: I heard what you have been saying...
Murasaki: and I had to come out like this because it was so ridiculous.

Lucy: Kurenai-san, who is this kid?

23

Murasaki: Just keep talking, you liar!!

Lucy: I'm not lying.

Murasaki: That is also a lie.

SFX: Step step

SFX: Step forward

Murasaki: Where were you born?

Lucy: Eh?

24

Lucy: Florida in America.

Murasaki: That's a lie.
Murasaki: How old are you?

Lucy: 24.
Murasaki: A lie.
Murasaki: What's your name?

Lucy: Lucy May.

Murasaki: Another lie.
Murasaki: You tell nothing but lies.
Murasaki: Don't tell me your feminine look is a lie, too.

25

SFX: Rustle

SFX: Flip flip...

Lucy: I see...A Kuhouin...
Lucy: How frightening.
Lucy: She can see through my words on intuition alone...

Lucy: Kurenai-san.
Lucy: It is true that not everything I have said is the truth.
Lucy: As this girl says, there were lies mixed in.
Lucy: However, if you join the company...

26

Shinkurou: No, thank you.

Shinkurou: I don't know what will happen from now on...
Shinkurou: but I will head forward in my own way.

Murasaki: And I'll be with you!

Shinkurou: Thanks,
Shinkurou: Murasaki.
SFX: Place

27

Shinkurou: You've taught me a lot.

Lucy: I see.

SFX: Creak

Lucy: And I was so close to getting the Fighting Demon of <Houzuki>...
SFX: Tap tap

Lucy: I'm guessing Hoshigami-san is going to be in bad mood again...
Lucy: Sigh.

28

Shinkurou: You really saved me there.
Shinkurou: Thanks, Murasaki.

Shinkurou: M-

Shinkurou: ...Murasaki.

29

Murasaki: Everyone...
Murasaki: is gone...

Murasaki: Ritsu is...
Murasaki: and Kirihiko is...

Murasaki: Shinkurou.

Murasaki: Is Kirihiko...
Murasaki: Is Kirihiko really...
Murasaki: dead?

30

Shinkurou: I'm sorry.
Shinkurou: Murasaki.

Shinkurou: If I was stronger...

Kids: That was amazing...
Kids: back there!

Kids: I didn't know there was a girl that good at video games.
Kids: The way she used that knife was not normal.

31

Kids: But I'd gladly let a girl that cute cut me up.

SFX: Slide

32

Murasaki: K-

SFX: Chatter chatter

SFX: Step forward

33

Murasaki: Sh-

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

34

Murasaki: It's Kirihiko!!!
Murasaki: Kirihiko really was here!!

Shinkurou: Yes...
Shinkurou: Surely that was...

35

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan.
Text: Surely, she is somewhere out there...
Bottom: To be continued in the July Issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/28794 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 40 by js06 2011-04-10T02:02:23+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 40

01

SFX: Thud

Text: The strike of a killer blade!!

SFX: Squirt

Shinkurou: Li-

Lin: ...Kurenai...

SFX: Wobble
Shinkurou: Protect...
Shinkurou: Murasa-...

02

SFX: Collapse

03

Top right: Volume 6 is on sale now!!
Text: They stand up to and oppose a cold fate.
Title: Chapter 40 Guillotine
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

04

Shinkurou: L-
Shinkurou: Lin-san...

05

Shinkurou: Why...!?

Kirihiko: You are the fighting demon of Houzuki,
Kirihiko: aren't you?

Kirihiko: I heard about it from my father and grandfather.
Kirihiko: They said it was strong.

Kirihiko: This isn't enough.

Kirihiko: I'm against the fighting demon of Houzuki. This weapons isn't enough...

06

Kirihiko: to kill it.

SFX: Tremble

SFX: Bump

Kirihiko: Oh.
SFX: Grab
Kirihiko: Here's a nice sword.

Kirihiko: ...Bizen Osafune, huh?
Kirihiko: The Kuhoin guards certainly do get nice things.

07

Shinkurou: K-Kirihiko-chan, what are you doing?
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san is already-

Kirihiko: dead.

Kirihiko: The same for that guard.
Kirihiko: She died because you failed to protect her.

Kirihiko: And it was us from the Akuu Company that killed them.
SFX: Tap

Kirihiko: Don't you have to take responsibility for that...
Kirihiko: by defeating me?

Kirihiko: I don't mind if you run away, though.
Kirihiko: I won't chase after you.

08

09

Murasaki: Please stop them!!!
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!!

Shinkurou: I made a promise.

Shinkurou: I said I would stop you.

Shinkurou: Even if I died in the process.

Kirihiko: ...Excellent.
Kirihiko: We must name ourselves.

10-11

Shinkurou: Type 1 Class 2 Fighting Demon of the Houzuki Style.
Kirihiko: The 66th <Kirishima>.

Shinkurou: Kurenai Shinkurou

Kirihiko: Kirihiko.

12-13

SFX: Rush in

Shinkurou: The sword!!
Shinkurou: I have to start with the sword!!

SFX: Reach out

14

SFX: Clang

15

SFX: Jump back

Shinkurou: ...Wha-?

Shinkurou: What kind of movement was that?

Shinkurou: It was extremely crude and full of unnecessary movements.
Shinkurou: It was like an amateur.
Shinkurou: No.
Shinkurou: That isn't the problem.

Shinkurou: It was incredibly fast.

Kirihiko: Were you aiming for the sword?

16

SFX: Clang

17

Kirihiko: Don't fuck around with me!!!
Kirihiko: Come in for the kill!!

Kirihiko: ...Ah.

18-19

Kirihiko: Ahhhhhh!!

Kirihiko: Kill!!

Kirihiko: Kill!!
Kirihiko: Kill kill kill kill kill!!

SFX: Slash

SFX: Crash crash

SFX: Whoosh

20

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!!

21

22

SFX: Dash

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!!

Kirihiko: Don't get in the way...

Kirihiko: I'll kill you first!!

Murasaki: ...That's a lie.

23

Kirihiko: ...Sh-...

24

Kirihiko: Shut the hell up!!!
SFX: Slash

SFX: Float...

Kirihiko: It's not a lie!!
Kirihiko: I'll...!!

25

SFX: Slash

Murasaki: Shin-...!!

26

SFX: Step
SFX: Drip

Kirihiko: ...Uuh...
SFX: Wobble...

Kirihiko: Stay back...

SFX: Step

Kirihiko: I said stay the hell back!!!

27

Kirihiko: Why!!?
Kirihiko: Why did you come HERE!!?

SFX: Crack
Kirihiko: I warned you...
Kirihiko: that you couldn't defeat me!!

SFX: Step

Kirihiko: ...St-

SFX: Slash
Kirihiko: Stay baaaaack!!!

28

SFX: Slice

Kirihiko: Stay back!!
Kirihiko: I really will kill you!!
SFX: Slash
Kirihiko: I'll kill you!!
SFX: Slash
Kirihiko: I'll kill you!!!

Kirihiko: Onii-san.

29

Kirihiko: We're friends.

30-31

Shinkurou: Let's go home,

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan.
SFX: Hug

32

Kirihiko: Fweh.

SFX: Clatter

SFX: Crack

33

SFX: Collapse

SFX: Crash

Shinkurou: Ah!

SFX: Grab

SFX: Pull

34

SFX: Catch

SFX: Collapse

Kirihiko: Kirihi-...!!

35

Murasaki: Kirihikoooooo!!!
Text: Kirihiko falls!!
Text: To be continued in the May Issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/28723 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 39 by js06 2011-04-04T00:42:46+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 39

01

Ritsu: Look, look!
Ritsu: Look how high up I am!
Text: Volume 6 is on sale now!

Ritsu: Father.
Ritsu: Mother.

Ritsu: Look!
Ritsu: Isn't it amazing!?

Text: Memories of her forever lost parents...

02

SFX: Clatter clatter

SFX: Kathoom...

Ritsu: Ahh...
Ritsu: They made it in time....

Ritsu: Now I can...
Ritsu: finally...

03

Text: Lin Cheng-shin lives by her devotion!!
Title: Chapter 39 Tragedy and Tragedy
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

04

Shinkurou: Good...
Shinkurou: They haven't made it to Ritsu-san yet...

Shinkurou: I need to get her somewhere safe...

SFX: Step
Bigfoot: So she's here...

05

SFX: Turn

Shinkurou: <Bigfoot>!!?
Shinkurou: Impossible!! I didn't sense anyone tailing m-...

Shinkurou: So he followed me!!
Shinkurou: And he gave off no presence!!

06

Shinkurou: If I let him get beyond here, it's over!!
SFX: Grip
Shinkurou: I have to do it here!!

Shinkurou: I have to use the power of the Horn of <Houzuki>!!

SFX: Breeze

07

Nurse: Doctor!!
Nurse: We need to get out of here!!
Doctor: I-I already told you we can't do that!!
Doctor: The shutters are down, so we wouldn't be able to get to the exit even if we tried!!

08

SFX: Thoom...

Nurse: Doctor!!!
Doctor: B-but we can't leave the patient-

09

Shinkurou: Khah!

Bigfoot: So Shiguhara Ritsu...
Bigfoot: is here!!

SFX: Grab

Bigfoot: Hm?

10

Shinkurou: ...W-...

Shinkurou: Wait...

SFX: Smash

SFX: Wham wham

11

Bigfoot: Gyahah!!
SFX: Wham wham
Bigfoot: H-he still hasn't broken!!

SFX: Wham

Ritsu: Shinkurou-kun.

Ritsu: Has the last 8 years been a happy time for you?

12

Shinkurou: I feel that I worked hard.

Shinkurou: I feel that because my family died...

Shinkurou: I truly did work hard.

13

SFX: Grab

SFX: Slam

Shinkurou: I worked to get stronger and stronger.

Shinkurou: I worked to be able to protect those who were important to me.

SFX: Clank

Shinkurou: I worked so that I would never be alone again.

Shinkurou: And yet...

14

Shinkurou: And yet...!!

SFX: Ksshh...
SFX: Ksh...
Murasaki: Shin...kurou...

15

SFX: Ksh...
Murasaki: H...

Murasaki: -elp...me...

SFX: Sword impacts
Murasaki: Shinkurou...

Murasaki: Kirihiko...
Murasaki: and Lin are...!!

16

Murasaki: Why...?
Murasaki: Why do the two of them have to fight!?

Murasaki: Please stop them!!!
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!!

17

SFX: Thoom

Bigfoot: Gyahah

SFX: Stop
Bigfoot: Hm?

18

Shinkurou: Out of the way.

19

SFX: Thoom

Shinkurou: Murasaki.

Shinkurou: I'm sorry, Murasaki, but please wait a bit.
Shinkurou: Can you wait...
Shinkurou: for 5...no, 1 minute?

Murasaki: Yeah.

Shinkurou: I'll be there soon.

20

SFX: Sharp

SFX: Heartbeat

Bigfoot: Oh.

21

Bigfoot: Ohh!!!

SFX: Touch

SFX: Stop

Shinkurou: I told you to get out of the way.

22

SFX: Wham

23

SFX: Collapse
Shinkurou: And stay down.

SFX: Open

Shinkurou: R-
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san!!

SFX: Twitch

24

Ritsu: Good...
Ritsu: They made it in time...

SFX: Looming
Shinkurou: Eh?

SFX: Smile

25

SFX: Flash

SFX: Boom

26

SFX: Crumble

SFX: Crash

SFX: Jump

SFX: Crash smash

27

Shinkurou: I never thought he would self-destruct...

Shinkurou: Ri-

Ritsu: Ahh...
Ritsu: This is perfect.

28

Shinkurou: I-I'll go get a doctor!!
Ritsu: No.

Ritsu: I'm fine...

Ritsu: ...Hey, Shinkurou-kun.

Ritsu: Where do you think...
Ritsu: people go when they die?

29

Ritsu: Do you think they all go to the same place?
Ritsu: I don't.

Ritsu: That's what my mother said.

Ritsu: My father and my mother were "killed".
Ritsu: They didn't die in an accident, in the hospital, of natural causes, or of suicide.
Ritsu: They went to the other world after being "killed" by a villain.

Ritsu: So...
Ritsu: in order to go to the same place...
Ritsu: that my parents went to...
Ritsu: I had to be "killed" by a villain, too.

Shinkurou: You don't mean...

Ritsu: Yes.
Ritsu: I was the one that hired the Akuu Company.
Ritsu: I was going to die before long anyway...
Ritsu: so I hired them to kill me before I did.

30

Shinkurou: But...
Shinkurou: that's just suicide.

Ritsu: No, it isn't.
Ritsu: I...
Ritsu: made sure to try and live.

Ritsu: I accepted Genjou-sama's kindness and had the guards stationed here.
Ritsu: And I hired you as a dispute mediator.
Ritsu: See? I made an attempt to live.

SFX: Cough

Ritsu: I'm sorry, Shinkurou-kun...

Ritsu: But I...
Ritsu: have something...
Ritsu: that I have to do...
Ritsu: no matter what...

31

Ritsu: I have to go to the other side...
Ritsu: and apologize...

Ritsu: I have to tell...
Ritsu: mother and father...
Ritsu: that I'm sorry...

Shinkurou: Ri-...

32

Shinkurou: I...
Shinkurou: sort of understand how you feel.

Shinkurou: When my family...
Shinkurou: died and I didn't...

Shinkurou: I wished that I could die...
Shinkurou: and see them again so many times...

Shinkurou: Ritsu-san, you were...
Shinkurou: wishing that these 8 years too...
Shinkurou: So please...
Shinkurou: grant that wish for yourself.

33

Shinkurou: And enjoy it for me since I can't die yet.

Shinkurou: I'm sure...
Shinkurou: you'll see them all agai-

SFX: Thoom...
SFX: Clatter

34

SFX: Crash

Shinkurou: Lin-san!!?

SFX: Land

35

Lin: ...Kurenai!?

Lin: Ah!!

SFX: Stab

Shinkurou: L-

Shinkurou: Lin-san!!!
Text: A killing strike!!
Bottom: To be continued In the April Issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/28573 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 38 by js06 2011-03-26T02:11:58+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 38

01

SFX: Step

Text: Stop Kirihiko the "hitman"!!

Shinkurou: Kiri-...!!

Box: I can't move...

Box: What floor did I fall down from...?
Box: Dammit...

Box: Kirihiko...
Box: -chan...

02

Top right: Volume 6 is on sale now!!
Title: Chapter 38 Hitman
Text: You're warm because you aren't alone...
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

03

SFX: Snap

SFX: Click click

Ginko: Hoo...
SFX: Creak

SFX: Knock knock

04

Yuuno: Hello,
Yuuno: Murakami-san.

Ginko: Houzuki-senpai...

Ginko: Do you need something?
Yuuno: Yes.
Yuuno: There's something I want to ask you.

Yuuno: I thought you might know something about this.

05

Yuuno: It's about Shinkurou-san's job.

SFX: Intense

Guards: Uuh...

06

Guards: Fire!!!
SFX: Dash

SFX: Bang bang bang

Guards: He's behind the pillar!
Guards: Go around!!

SFX: Jump out

Guards: ...He's gone?

07

Bigfoot: Gyahah.

SFX: Whoosh

Lucy: <Bigfoot> has made contact with the Kuhoin guards.
Lucy: They are fighting now.
Zena: I see.
Zena: What about <Guillotine>?

08

Lucy: She's following a bit behind.
Zena: A bit behind?
Zena: I just don't feel any motivation from her...

Lucy: Is that so?
Lucy: She's always this loose with her jobs.

Zena: I had heard that kid and Guillotine were "friends"...
Zena: so I thought we could easily take him in if we played our cards right.

Zena: Well, whatever.
Zena: If he's killed along with the target, the result's the same.

09

Zena: I can't wait to see Juuzawa Benika's crying face!

Lucy: ...Oh.
Lucy: I forgot to mention one thing.
Zena: Hm?

Lucy: A slightly...irregular person seems to have gotten mixed in.

Zena: ...Irregular?

10

Lin: Here, too...!!

Lin: I can't reach any of the teams deployed in the first floor lobby. That means...

Lin: I'm sorry to say,
Lin: Murasaki-sama...

Lin: but the intruder seems to be rather skilled.
Lin: This is in no way a good situation.

11

Lin: But I'm sure...
Murasaki: Don't say that, Lin.

Murasaki: I trust you completely...
Murasaki: so I'm not worried.

Lin: Those words are wasted on me.
SFX: Stand up

Lin: I have carved them into my heart!
SFX: Grab

12

Lin: I will protect you...
SFX: Energetically
Lin: with everything I have!!!

SFX: Scrape
Shinkurou: ...Uuh...

Box: Kirihiko-chan...
Box: Wait...
Box: Kirihiko-chan...

SFX: Step

13

Shinkurou: Kiri...!!
SFX: Drip

Kirihiko: Onii-san...


Kirihiko: Onii-...

14

SFX: Lick lick

Cat: Nyaaah

Shinkurou: You're...
Shinkurou: David?
Shinkurou: Why...?

Shinkurou: That's right! I passed out!
SFX: Bang bang

15

SFX: Tremble tremble
Shinkurou: Dammit...

Shinkurou: I have to...
Shinkurou: hurry...

SFX: Bang crash blam blam

SFX: Bang bang bang

SFX: Step

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan and Bigfoot are after Ritsu-san.
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san is...
Shinkurou: still in the ICU...

16

Girl: Ee!

Shinkurou: ...Ah.

Shinkurou: D-don't worry. I-
SFX: Swing
Girl: Stay back!!

Girl: P-please...
Girl: don't kill me...

Shinkurou: I'm on your side.
Shinkurou: Don't worry.
Girl: R-really!?
Girl: Can I get out of here!?

SFX: Step
Shinkurou: If you go now, you can get out through the main entrance.
Shinkurou: Take the other patients and flee.

17

SFX: Step

Shinkurou: How cruel...
Shinkurou: With this destructive power...
Shinkurou: it had to have been Bigfoot.

Shinkurou: Due to the shutters, the people that couldn't get away were indiscriminately killed.

Shinkurou: No...!!
Shinkurou: Did Murasaki get away in time!?

Shinkurou: Wait...
Shinkurou: Lin-san would make sure Murasaki was fine.

18

SFX: Run run run run

Murasaki: Lin?

Lin: Murasaki-sama.
Lin: Don't move.

SFX: Grab

Lin: Who's there!!?

19

20

SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: I have to hurry...
Shinkurou: I have to get to Ritsu-san before Kirihiko-chan and Bigfoot do...

21

Bigfoot: Gyahah.

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

22

Lin: Kirishima Kirihiko...!!!

Murasaki: Kirihiko...!
Murasaki: What are you doing here?

Lin: Murasaki-sama!!
Lin: Don't get near her!!

23

Murasaki: ...Kirihiko.

Murasaki: Is it you...
Murasaki: that's trying...
Murasaki: to kill Ritsu?

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

24

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!!

25

Kirihiko: ...Shut the hell up.
Kirihiko: Get out of the way, brat.
Kirihiko: Or I'll kill you.

SFX: Jump

26

Lin: Why yooooooouuu!!!

SFX: Slice

SFX: Land

27

Lin: Why...?

Lin: Murasaki-sama...
Lin: trusted you!!

Lin: She thought you were a true friend!!

28

Lin: Say something!!!

Murasaki: Stop, Lin!!!

Murasaki: Don't...
Murasaki: be mean to Kirihiko.

SFX: Step

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

29

Kirihiko: Don't look at me.

Murasaki: Why are you trying to kill Ritsu?

Murasaki: Ritsu has a horrible injury.
Murasaki: It may never heal.
Murasaki: She's been living in this hospital for 8 years because of it.

Murasaki: So please stop.
Box: Stop.
Box: Don't say that.

Murasaki: I'm sure Shinkurou...
SFX: Tremble tremble

30-31

Kirihiko: Don't say that name!!!!

Kirihiko: I'm of the <Kirishima>!!

Kirihiko: I'm the Kirihiko of the <Kirishima>!!
Kirihiko: I'm a hitman!!

Kirihiko: I've been one since the very moment...
Kirihiko: I was born!!

Kirihiko: You people don't understand anything!!
SFX: Whoosh

32

SFX: Slice

Kirihiko: This is a game!!
Kirihiko: It's all a game to me!!
Kirihiko: You say I should feel sorry for Ritsu!!?
Kirihiko: I don't give a fuck!!

Kirihiko: She's just my opponent in this game!!

33

Kirihiko: Ah ha ha ha!!! Slicing people open...
Kirihiko: is so much fun!!

Kirihiko: I'll kill everyone!!
Kirihiko: The doctors, the nurses, the old men and women!
Kirihiko: I'll even slice the bed-ridden kids in half bed and all!!!

Kirihiko: Do you understand now!?
Kirihiko: This is who I really am!!
Kirihiko: I'll kill them all!!
Kirihiko: Including Ritsu and Onii-

34

Kirihiko: Hh...!!
Kirihiko: Ha...!!

Kirihiko: Onii-...!!

SFX: Step forward

35

Lin: Forgive me, Murasaki-sama.
Murasaki: W-wait, Lin!!

Lin: I am now going to disobey my master's orders for the first time.

Lin: Kirishima Kirihiko.
Lin: You trampled on Murasaki-sama's kind heart.

Lin: I will cut you down...
Lin: even if it costs me my life.
Text: Will Lin's resolve lead to another tragedy!?
Bottom: To be continued in the March Issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/27411 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 37 by js06 2011-01-27T02:34:15+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 37

01

Text: No one can escape that blade or those eyes...!!
Right text: A color page in celebration of Volume 6!
Title: Chapter 37 Resolution
Bottom right: Volume 6 is on sale now!
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

02

Shinkurou: I will stop Kirihiko-chan.

Text: He can no longer hesitate!!

Shinkurou: I...

03

Shinkurou: will NOT let Ritsu-san be killed.

Lin: Can you stop her?

Lin: You're up against <Kirishima> Kirihiko.
Lin: I'm not even sure the guards deployed here are enough.

Lin: If I had known about this...
Lin: I would definitely have had the highest level guards here!

04

SFX: Grab

Lin: Why didn't you say anything about this until now!?

Shinkurou: I...

Shinkurou: didn't want to make Murasaki sad.

05

SFX: Let go

Lin: I...
Lin: don't want that to happen either.

Lin: But Murasaki-sama...
Lin: is not the type to change her opinion of that girl...
Lin: over whether she is a member of the Inner 13 Families or not.

Lin: I gave in to that kindness of hers...
Lin: and neglected to bring the main force of the guards.

Lin: If I had been properly vigilant...
Lin: we wouldn't be in this situation that could sadden Murasaki-sama!!

06

Lin: I am...
Lin: unfit to be her bodyguard...

Shinkurou: Th-
Shinkurou: That's not true.
Shinkurou: You were doing your best for Murasaki's sake.

Lin: Kurenai...

Lin: Wha-...!!
Lin: Don't take advantage of the situation and touch me!!
SFX: Pull back
Shinkurou: Eh?

07

Lin: I can't believe...
Lin: you're trying to lure me in like you do with the others!

Shinkurou: Eh?
Lin: Don't play dumb!!
Lin: I won't let you take advantage me even in a moment of weakness!!
Shinkurou: Ehh!?

Lin: And if you try the same thing on young Murasaki-sama...!!
SFX: Grab
Shinkurou: No, I...!!

SFX: Put back

Lin: Hmph...
Lin: I don't have time for your flirting.

Lin: At least I know the situation now.

08

Lin: My duty is to protect Murasaki-sama.
Lin: I will be keeping her as far from here as I can.

Lin: You carry out your duty as well.

SFX: Collapse

09

SFX: Tchk

Guards: ...What happened?
Guards: I don't know.

Guards: There were no signs of rebels.

10

SFX: Bang bang bang

SFX: Creak

11

SFX: Running

Lin: Why were shots fired on such a high floor!!?
Lin: What are the guards watching the entrance doing!?

Shinkurou: Are you here...
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!?

SFX: Stop

Lin: I will go escape with Murasaki-sama!!
Lin: You know what you have to do, right!?

12

Lin: Let me...
Lin: give you one warning.
Sign: Surgery Reception

Lin: If she has named herself as both <Kirishima> and "Kirihiko"...
Lin: then that girl is a pure direct relative of the family originator.
Lin: The <Kirishima> family has named the member of each generation who inherits the job of assassin "Kirihiko".

Shinkurou: So that's how a girl got the name "Kirihiko"...

Lin: She does not just have superficial strength.

13

Kirihiko: This is a game.
Kirihiko: Let's enjoy it.

Lin: With your power, you'll at most be able to strike at the same time as her.
Lin: Do you have the resolution needed to stab her and be stabbed yourself?

14

Text: Don't lose, Shinkurou.

Shinkurou: ...Lin-san.

Shinkurou: I leave Murasaki to you.

15

SFX: Dash

SFX: Jump

SFX: Slide

Kirihiko: What's going on, Lucy!?

16

Kirihiko: This is my job!!
Lucy: C'mon, don't get so worked up.

Lucy: I figured a simple job like this wasn't even worth your time.

Lucy: So I sent a little help.

SFX: Jump

SFX: Jump jump jump

Kirihiko: Who is it?
Kirihiko: I've been watching the hospital the entire time.
Kirihiko: There's no way I could have missed-...

17

SFX: Land

Kirihiko: If I missed whoever it is...
Kirihiko: it has to be him.

Kirihiko: <Bigfoot>.

18

Shinkurou: No way...

Shinkurou: Not just the guards...
Shinkurou: The nurses and the patients were taken out, too...

Shinkurou: ...But this is odd.
Shinkurou: The bodies look like they were killed by being hit by a giant hammer...

Shinkurou: It wasn't Kirihiko-chan?

19

20

SFX: Thoom...

Shinkurou: What?
Bigfoot: Bfhh...
Shinkurou: When did this huge man get right in front of me?

21

Bigfoot: Where is...
Bigfoot: Shiguhara Ritsu...?

Shinkurou: That voice...

Shinkurou: So the one who attacked us in the taxi...
Bigfoot: Where...
Shinkurou: was him!!

Bigfoot: is sheeeeeeee!!!?

SFX: Rattling

22

SFX: Smash

SFX: Land

Shinkurou: Pant
Shinkurou: Pant
Shinkurou: Pant
Shinkurou: Wha-?

23

Shinkurou: Who are you!!!?

Bigfoot: I...
Bigfoot: I am...
Bigfoot: Frank Blanca.

Bigfoot: A solder-for-hire...
SFX: Dissolve...
Bigfoot: called <Bigfoot>...

Shinkurou: He's disa-...

24

Box: Bigfoot.
Box: A cryptid said to have been spotted all over the Rocky Mountains in North America.

Box: It is said to have a bizarrely huge body, but its existence has never been confirmed.
Box: It has an excellent ability to remain unseen.

Shinkurou: Th-
Shinkurou: That's ridiculous...

25-26

SFX: Cracking

SFX: Crash

SFX: Thathoom...

27

Lin: ...Murasaki-sama?

Murasaki: Shinkurou's in trouble.

Murasaki: Shinkurou's in trouble!!

Lin: W-
Lin: Wait, Murasaki-sama!!
SFX: Hit

28

Lin: This hospital is now a battlefield. It's too dangerous!!
Lin: We need to leave this place.
Lin: Please!!

Murasaki: How can I flee leaving Shinkurou and Ritsu here!?

Lin: Murasaki-sama!!
SFX: Step

SFX: Appear

29

Lin: Please listen to me, Murasaki-sama!!
SFX: Hit
Lin: If anything where to happen to you, I...!! I...!!

Murasaki: ...I'm sorry, Lin.
Murasaki: I was being too selfish.

Murasaki: If I stay here, I will only get in the way of the guards.

Murasaki: And...
Murasaki: Shinkurou will surely defeat the bad guys!

30

Lin: L-
Lin: Let's go, Murasaki-sama...

SFX: Beep

SFX: Beeeep beeeep

SFX: Lower

SFX: Lower

Lin: The security system!!?
Lin: Idiots...
Lin: The enemy is already inside the building!!

31

SFX: Clank
Lin: Cutting the hospital off from the outside accomplishes nothing!!

Lin: Those fools!!

Lin: Murasaki-sama is still in here!!!

SFX: Beeeep beeeeep

32

Shinkurou: Gh...
Shinkurou: Pant
Shinkurou: Pant

SFX: Lower lower

SFX: Beeeep beeeeep

Shinkurou: The shutters...?
Shinkurou: Why...?

Shinkurou: I have to...
SFX: Tremble tremble
Shinkurou: get back...
Shinkurou: inside...

SFX: Beeeep beeeep

33-34

35

Box: Onii-san.
Kirihiko: ...Did <Bigfoot> do this to you?

Shinkurou: K-
SFX: Tremble...
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan...

Shinkurou: W-wait..!!
Box: Onii-san.

SFX: Flutter

36

SFX: Slice

SFX: Clatter clatter
Kirihiko: Weren't you going to...

Kirihiko: stop me?

Kirihiko: Just try it.
Text: A merciless gaze!!
Bottom: To be continued in the February Issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/26006 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 36 by js06 2010-11-14T22:17:36+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 36

01

Ritsu: I suppose...
Ritsu: you could say I was "fortunate".
Text: She is a survivor of the same "incident" as Shinkurou!

Ritsu: Because my family was well off...
Ritsu: I managed to survive.

Ritsu: I had organs all over my body...
Ritsu: switched out.

Ritsu: Switched out for those of people I don't even know.
Ritsu: I don't have very many of my own organs left.

Ritsu: Because I've had so much done to me, I need to be constantly tended to so the balance of my organs isn't lost.
Ritsu: If I don't get tended to, my organs will rebel and stop functioning.

Ritsu: I have no choice but to live here for my entire life.

Ritsu: Hey, Shinkurou-kun.

02

Ritsu: Has the last 8 years...

Ritsu: been a happy time for you?

03

Text: They can no longer look ahead to the same place...
Title: Chapter 36 Eight Years
Text above credits: Volume 6 will be released on December 3rd!!
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

04

Shinkurou: I can't sleep...

Shinkurou: The data Ginko gave me...
Shinkurou: didn't mention the terrorist attack.

Shinkurou: Did she leave it out for my sake?
SFX: Clatter

Shinkurou: Could it be...!?
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!?

05

Ritsu: Ah.

Shinkurou: Ritsu-san!?
Shinkurou: Why are you here at this hour?
Ritsu: Shh

Ritsu: Quiet.
Ritsu: They'd be mad if they found me here.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: That doesn't really answer my question...

Ritsu: I...
Shinkurou: Eh?
Ritsu: hired you, remember?

Ritsu: So come with me.

06

SFX: Shut

Ritsu: Wooow.
Ritsu: It's been 11 years, but it hasn't changed a bit!

Ritsu: Aww, that restaurant went out of business.
Ritsu: Well, the food was pretty bad.
Ritsu: Oh, that place too...

SFX: Place

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: It's cold, so...

07

Ritsu: Oh...
Ritsu: So it's cold tonight.

Shinkurou: Eh?

Ritsu: I lost my senses of hot and cold...
Ritsu: a long time ago.

Shinkurou: I see.
Shinkurou: She looks healthy enough, so it gives you the wrong impression.
Ritsu: Over here. Over here.
Shinkurou: She really is someone so ill she can't leave the hospital.

Shinkurou: However...
Sign: Shiguhara
Shinkurou: I understand that feeling of wanting to go home that she has so much it hurts.

08

Ritsu: You're really nice...

Ritsu: to stick with me on a selfish request like this.
Shinkurou: Well...
Shinkurou: it's my job...

Ritsu: And yet you were still dumped by your girlfriend.
Ritsu: The world really is cruel.

Shinkurou: Hah?
Ritsu: You were really down yesterday.
Ritsu: Wasn't that because your girlfriend dumped you?

Shinkurou: N-no, that was...

09

Shinkurou: That wasn't about my girlfriend...
Shinkurou: and it's not that I was dumped. It's more like...

Ritsu: Do you think you can make up?

Shinkurou: I don't know...

Ritsu: I see.

Ritsu: C'mon, let's go in.
Ritsu: This is my home.

10

Shinkurou: It's really dark...
Ritsu: Wow, it's been a long time.

Shinkurou: That's right...
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san's parents and grandparents have all passed away.

Ritsu: Shinkurou-kun.
Ritsu: Thanks for coming with me.

Ritsu: I just had to come here.
Ritsu: And it's thanks to you that I was able to.

Shinkurou: Ah.

11

Shinkurou: By any chance...
Shinkurou: did you fall from the window because...

Ritsu: Ah...

Ritsu: Ha ha...
Ritsu: Yeah, I was trying to come here.

Ritsu: You know how on TV and in movies they can do that so easily?
Ritsu: So I thought maybe I could do it, too.

Shinkurou: That's crazy...
Ritsu: Ahhh! Look, look, Shinkurou-kun!!

Ritsu: I remember this rock!
SFX: Pat pat

Ritsu: I hit my head on it once.
Ritsu: That was when I was really little...
Ritsu: and I was running around.

12

Ritsu: I started crying and my father immediately came running over and hugged me.
Ritsu: My mother's face was so pale!
Ritsu: But I was perfectly fine and was running around again 5 minutes later.

Ritsu: My mother was very religious and said it was a sign from god.
Ritsu: So she made sure I prayed every day from then on.

13

Ritsu: It's hard to forget your habits from childhood.
SFX: Wind blowing

Ritsu: So when it happened 8 years ago...

Ritsu: I prayed as hard as I could...

Ritsu: while trapped in the dark under all the rubble.

SFX: Beep
SFX: Beep beep

14

Lucy: Ah, hello!?
Lucy: Where are you!?

Lucy: You're supposed to be here for your job with Kirihiko-kun.
"Insurance": Shiguahra...Ritsu...

Lucy: Hah?

"Insurance": Found you...
"Insurance": I found you...!!

Lucy: What good is "insurance" that goes in first.

15

Ritsu: When it happened 8 years ago...

Ritsu: at first what I wondered was why...
Ritsu: it had happened to me.

Shinkurou: I was the same.

Ritsu: And then...
Ritsu: I prayed.
Ritsu: I prayed that I would be saved.

Shinkurou: So did I.

16

Ritsu: "I don't care about anyone else."
Ritsu: "Just save me."
Ritsu: That's what I prayed.

Ritsu: I...

Ritsu: didn't want to die.
Ritsu: I was afraid of dying. The fear was overwhelming.
Ritsu: I didn't want to die no matter what.

17

Shinkurou: I remember clearly...
Shinkurou: what I prayed for back then.
Shinkurou: I wanted to see my mom and dad again.
Shinkurou: I wanted to see my sister and Ginko-chan again.

Ritsu: So I desperately prayed.
Ritsu: Please, god.
Ritsu: I don't care if everyone else dies, just save me.

Ritsu: And I was saved.
Ritsu: I hurt all over, but I was still happy.
Ritsu: I thought I had been chosen and I thanked god.

Ritsu: But...
Ritsu: I was wrong.

18

Ritsu: My father and my mother were crushed protecting me.
Ritsu: That's why I was saved.

Ritsu: You understand, right?
Shinkurou: No...
Ritsu: In extreme situations, people's true nature appears.

Ritsu: My parents showed there love for me by giving their lives for me.
Ritsu: But their own daughter was only thinking about herself.

Ritsu: That just shows who I am.
Ritsu: That's the kind of person Shiguhara Ritsu is.

19

Shinkurou: No!!
Shinkurou: Right now, you...!!

SFX: Boom

SFX: Screeeech

Shinkurou: Wha-!?

20

SFX: Boooom

Shinkurou: Ritsu-san, get down!!
SFX: Grab

Shinkurou: This arm...!!

Shinkurou: It's huge.
Shinkurou: How could someone this big get on the roof without me noticing it!?
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san!!

"Insurance": Shiguhara Ritsu...!!
SFX: Grab

21

"Insurance": Where are yooooou!!!
SFX: Rip

Shinkurou: Ohhh!!!

SFX: Jump

22

SFX: Wham

SFX: Land

SFX: Roll roll roll

23

Shinkurou: Ritsu-san!!
Shinkurou: Are you okay!?

Ritsu: Cough
Ritsu: Cough
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san!?

Ritsu: Huh?

Shinkurou: R-

Shinkurou: Ritsu-san!!

24

Box: The next day

Sign: In surgery

Shinkurou: What was that yesterday...?
Shinkurou: Is Kirihiko-chan not the only person targeting Ritsu-san?

Shinkurou: And why did Ritu-san seem so calm?
Shinkurou: It was almost like she wasn't afraid of death.
Shinkurou: Like she was just going to accept it.

25

Kirihiko: I don't give a fuck.

Kirihiko: I don't know who wants to kill her.

Kirihiko: And I don't know what irrational or disgusting reasons they have for it.

Kirihiko: That doesn't matter.

Shinkurou: Of course it matters!!!

26

Murasaki: Shinkurou?
Shinkurou: Ah...

Shinkurou: Sorry, Murasaki. So you came?
Murasaki: Yes...I heard Ritsu wasn't doing very well.

Murasaki: Is she okay?
Murasaki: Did some bad guy get her?

Shinkurou: No. She just forced herself and was a little too active.
Shinkurou: Don't worry. She'll get better.

Murasaki: Hey, Shinkurou.

Murasaki: Do you think Ritsu really was lying?

27

Shinkurou: I don't know.

Shinkurou: But...
Shinkurou: I WILL protect her.

Shinkurou: I won't let anything else...
Shinkurou: happen to her.

Shinkurou: I promise.

Lin: ...What?

28

Lin: You want me to keep Murasaki-sama away from here?

Shinkurou: I understand that she's worried about Ritsu-san.
Shinkurou: But...
Lin: But what!?

Lin: What are you thinking!?
Lin: Answer me, Kurenai!!

Shinkurou: I can't let...
Shinkurou: Murasaki meet Kirihiko-chan.

29

Shinkurou: The assassin from the Akuu Company targeting Ritsu-san...
Shinkurou: is <Kirishima> Kirihiko.
Shinkurou: It's Kirihiko-chan.

Lin: What...!?

Shinkurou: And I can't let...
Shinkurou: Murasaki know that.

30-31

Shinkurou: I will...

Shinkurou: stop Kirihiko-chan.
Text: Is the battle unavoidable...!?
Bottom: To be continued in the January issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/25995 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 35 by js06 2010-11-14T02:48:52+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 35

01

Shinkurou: Would you like to hire a dispute mediator?
Text: He has announced his willingness to guard Kirihiko's target!!

Lin: Hah!!?
Lin: What are you talking about!?
Lin: Actually, why are you even here!?
Shinkurou: W-well...
Shinkurou: What are you doing here, Lin-san?

Lin: I...

Murasaki: Ah!!!

SFX: Run run run
Shinkurou: Eh?

02

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!!

Murasaki: I can't believe I ran across you here! What a coincidence!
Shinkurou: Eh? Murasaki!?
Murasaki: We really must be bound by the thread of fate!

Ritsu: A dispute mediator...?

03

Text: For whose sake is she dredging through the oceans of information...?
Title: Chapter 35 Two Reasons
Left text: The deadline for pre-ordering Volume 6 with the OADVD is coming up! See page 460!!
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

Box: Seiryou Academy
Box: A few days ago.

Ginko: Here.
Ginko: It's the data you asked for.

04

Ginko: Since you needed it in such a hurry...
Ginko: it wasn't easy to get all this.
Shinkurou: This is a huge help.

Ginko: By the way...
Ginko: About what you said before...

Ginko: about whether you were going to work at the restaurant or not...

Ginko: Idiot.

05

Box: Shiguhara Ritsu. 17 years old.
Box: The only daughter of the Shiguhara family, a family made up of a number of old families.
Box: Her parents passed away 8 years ago.

Box: She is currently being hospitalized long-term.

Ritsu: ...I see.
Ritsu: So you're an acquaintance of Murasaki-chan's.

Shinkurou: Acquaintance? I guess you...
Shinkurou: could say that.
Murasaki: No!

06

Murasaki: Shinkurou's my honey!

Shinkurou: Murasaki...
Shinkurou: Where did you learn that word?
Murasaki: It was in a book Tamaki read to me.

Ritsu: Okay, fine.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Ritsu: I'm going along with your suggestion from earlier.
Ritsu: I'll hire you as a dispute mediator.

Shinkurou: Eh? Really?
Ritsu: Hah?
Ritsu: Isn't that why you're here?

Ritsu: Now...
Ritsu: What's your name?

07

Shinkurou: Ah...K-Kurenai.
Shinkurou: It's Kurenai Shinkurou!

Ritsu: Kurenai Shinkurou...?

Lin: The Shiguhara family is distantly related to the lady of the house.

08

Shinkurou: The lady of the house...That's the legal wife of Kuhouin Renjou.
Shinkurou: That means she isn't blood related to Murasaki.

Lin: Since you have responsibility for what happens here too...
Lin: I'll fill you in.

Lin: The Kuhouin information network...
Lin: has received information saying Ritsu-sama is going to be assassinated.
Shinkurou: Eh!?

Lin: Everyone else in her family is dead...
Lin: so Ritsu-sama is the final member of the Shiguhara family.

Lin: The Kuhouin personal guards have been dispatched to guard her.
Lin: This is all on Renjou-sama's orders.

Shinkurou: ...Huh?
Shinkurou: But aren't you Murasaki's bodyguard?

Lin: Of course I am!!!
SFX: Wham

09

Lin: Murasaki-sama just happened to hear about this incident.
Lin: Ever since she got to know Ritsu-sama...

Lin: she has come to visit her here often.

Lin: Murasaki-sama...is kind.

Shinkurou: ...Yes.

SFX: Hold out

Lin: And now I need you to answer some questions.
Lin: Why are you here?
SFX: Shiny

10

Shinkurou: Um, well...
Shinkurou: I thought she might need a bodyguard...

Lin: How did you learn about her?

Shinkurou: W-well...
Shinkurou: ...from Ginko...

Shinkurou: She got some information that someone was being targeted for assassination...
Shinkurou: and so...
Shinkurou: I'm sorry, Ginko...

Lin: ...Murakami Ginko.
Lin: The granddaughter of the legendary information broker, Murakami Ginji.

SFX: Sheath
Shinkurou: Hoo

Lin: Hey, you.

11

Man: Yes, ma'am!
Lin: This man will be on guard duty along with you all.
Lin: I can vouch for his identity.

Shinkurou: Lin-san...

Lin: Make no mistake...
Lin: Ritsu-sama was the one that hired you.

Shinkurou: Sorry...

Murasaki: Oh, so you're going to be working here too!

Murasaki: Then I'll come here every day!

Shinkurou: About that...
Shinkurou: Murasaki.

12

Shinkurou: I think...
Shinkurou: that you should stay away from here...
Shinkurou: for a while.

Shinkurou: B-Because...
Shinkurou: Having to socialize with you so often must be tiring out Shiguhara-san.

Lin: Wh-what the hell are you saying!?
Lin: How can you trample on Murasaki-sama's kind heart like that!?

SFX: Hold out

13

SFX: Stare

Murasaki: Is there something you aren't telling me?

Murasaki: And it feels like Ritsu is hiding something from me too.

Shinkurou: Eh...!?

SFX: Smile

14

Murasaki: Maybe she'll open her heart to you, Shinkurou.

Murasaki: Let's go, Lin!
SFX: Turn

Shinkurou: She...
Shinkurou: knew I was lying...

15

Shinkurou: I'm sorry, Murasaki.
Shinkurou: You're the last person...
Shinkurou: I would want to know about Kirihiko-chan.

Shinkurou: Nishisato General Hospital.
Shinkurou: Apparently, the facility is made so that only the most affluent can afford it.

Shinkurou: It is surrounded by nature and there is no background city noise.
Shinkurou: It's the ideal place for someone to recover.

Shinkurou: There is even a pool and a small theater in the facility.
Shinkurou: But...the focus on comfort means the security equipment is a bit lacking.

Ritsu: Heeey, Shinkurou-kuuun.

16

Ritsu: Over here, over here.

Shinkurou: ...Shiguhara-san.

Ritsu: Come over here for a bit.
Ritsu: You don't have anything else to do, right?

Shinkurou: I suppose not.

SFX: Point

Ritsu: Also, call me "Ritsu-san".
Ritsu: I don't really like my family name.

17

Ritsu: And I'll call you Shinkurou-kun.
Ritsu: You're younger than me, so it should be fine.

Shinkurou: That's fine...um...
Shinkurou: Ritsu-san.

Ritsu: Y'know, life here really does suck.
Ritsu: Being stuffed full of medication is horrible.
Ritsu: Know what I mean?

Ritsu: And on the holiday a while ago they had a Kabuki play or something.
Ritsu: All the old folks loved it! This is like a home for old people or something!
SFX: Chatter chatter chatter
Ritsu: And I'm so tired of looking at all the nature around this place.
Ritsu: Nature's so annoying.

Ritsu: I mean...
Ritsu: it's been 8 years.
Ritsu: I've seriously been here for 8 years.
Ritsu: Do you think I could sue them for confinement and sexual assault?
[TN: The terms for confinement and sexual assault used here are often used together like this, and she only uses hiragana for the sexual assault part which shows she doesn't really know what that part means.]

18

Shinkurou: ...Um.

Ritsu: Hm?

Shinkurou: I know I probably should have asked this earlier...
Shinkurou: but why did you fall from the window?

Ritsu: Hmm...
Ritsu: I was just half-asleep and fell out, I guess.

Shinkurou: Also...
Shinkurou: why did you hire me?

Ritsu: I had...
Ritsu: two reasons.

19

Ritsu: The first reason...
Ritsu: is that I think I should make an effort towards living.

Ritsu: Someone is targeting my life.
Ritsu: Renjou-sama has kindly sent some bodyguards, but I hadn't done anything myself.
Ritsu: Not doing anything when you might die is the same as committing suicide, right?
Ritsu: So I hired you.

Shinkurou: ...I see.
Shinkurou: And what was the other reason?

Ritsu: The other reason?
Ritsu: That was...
Nurse: Ritsu-san.

20

Nurse: It's time for your examination.

Ritsu: See you, Shinkurou-kun.

Ritsu: I'll tell you the rest later.

Shinkurou: 8 years...
Shinkurou: She's been in this hospital for 8 years.

21

Shinkurou: Why does she have to be killed!?
SFX: Slide

Shinkurou: I might still be able to make it.

SFX: Dash

SFX: Click click
SFX: Wham wham

22

SFX: Step

SFX: Slide

Shinkurou: She's not here...

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan...

23

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Land

Zena: I'm surprised that that shard of glass is enough to throw your switch.

24

Zena: And you even attacked me, your superior.
Zena: A natural-born hitman really is a different thing altogether.

Kirihiko: Did you just come here to bore me with talk?
SFX: Land

Zena: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Zena: You told him to protect Shiguhara Ritsu, didn't you?

25

Kirihiko: ...Yeah, so?

Zena: What were you thinking?
Zena: Well, I guess it doesn't matter.

Zena: But I will...
Zena: tell you one thing as the Akuu Company's top advisor.

Zena: When you kill, make sure you actually kill.

SFX: Pat

Zena: We...
Zena: won't let you hold back on the job.

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Zena: ...Oh, yeah.
Zena: You were called here, too.
Zena: So you're Lucy's "insurance"?

SFX: Smile

27

Shinkurou: In the end...
Shinkurou: I couldn't find Kirihiko-chan.

Shinkurou: I guess, I have no choice but to...
Shinkurou: fight her.

Ritsu: ...You almost look worse than me.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: O-oh, I'm just...

Ritsu: ...Hey, Shinkurou-kun.
Ritsu: Let me show you something.

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Shinkurou: What?

SFX: Unbutton

Shinkurou: Eh!?
Shinkurou: No, um...!!
SFX: Clatter
Ritsu: Oh, no, no.
Ritsu: That's not what I'm trying to show you.
SFX: Unbutton

Ritsu: But this is something you don't see everyday.
Ritsu: I guarantee it will shock you.

SFX: Open...

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Shinkurou: Scars.

Ritsu: See? Isn't it amazing?
Ritsu: Everyone always freaks out...
Ritsu: when they see it.

Shinkurou: There were a number of distorted scars.
Shinkurou: Scars from being cut again and again and being sewn back up again and again.

Ritsu: I got these scars when I got wrapped up in an incident some bastard caused at an airport...
Ritsu: 8 years ago.

Shinkurou: An incident at an airport 8 years ago...

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Ritsu: That's right.

Ritsu: I was there...
Ritsu: too.

Ritsu: At the airport terrorist bombing 8 years ago.
Ritsu: I noticed right away that you were another survivor of that incident.
Ritsu: You have quite an unusual name after all.

Ritsu: That's the other reason I hired you.

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Ritsu: Hey, Shinkurou-kun.
Ritsu: Has the last 8 years...
Ritsu: been a happy time for you?
Text: Inside her, the tragedy has not yet ended...
Bottom: To be continued in the December issue. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/24679 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 34 by js06 2010-09-16T03:06:36+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 34

01

Text: Cut, rip, destroy...That is all she could do...
Title: Chapter 34 Game
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

Bottom: A 64p one-shot was published in SQ. 19! See page 434 for details!! Now taking preorders for Volume 6 with the OADVD! See page 402!!

02

Text: Kirihiko is a member of the Akuu Company!?

Shinkurou: K-
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan?

Kirihiko: ...What's going on?

Kirihiko: Why are you here!!?
Kirihiko: Huh!!?

03

Lucy: Kirihiko-kun.

SFX: Slice

SFX: Flutter

Lucy: Calm down a bit.

Lucy: Are you going to kill your friend?

Lucy: We've gathered a bit too much attention...
SFX: Chatter

04

Lucy: Let's change locations.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: You're Kirihiko-chan,
Shinkurou: right?

Kirihiko: I told you who I was...
Kirihiko: a long time ago.

05

Kirihiko: I'm a hit man.

Benika: The person I'm chasing is here...
Benika: A hit man from the "Akuu Company".

Benika: This hit man is amazingly skilled.
Benika: This person is known as...

06

Benika: "Guillotine".

Shinkurou: Why...?

07

Lucy: I'm sorry, Kurenai-san.

Lucy: Thanks to Kirihiko-chan, we have to do this outside.

Shinkurou: W-
Shinkurou: Wait a second. Um...
Lucy: Now, let's get down to business.

Shinkurou: Kurenai-san.
Shinkurou: We need you to take an entrance test.

Lucy: Look at this picture.

Shinkurou: ...A test?
Shinkurou: Do I have to find her?

On picture: Shiguhara Ritsu

Lucy: No.

08

Lucy: You have to kill her.

Lucy: You're first kill.

Lucy: That's the test we want you to take.

Shinkurou: Why do you want me to do that?

Lucy: Everyone who is a part of the Akuu Company has to have killed someone.
Lucy: So we need you to meet that requirement.
Lucy: That's all.

09

Lucy: But make no mistake.

Lucy: We don't encourage murder.
Lucy: There's nothing better than for no one to have to die. That should be obvious.
Lucy: But just in case!

Lucy: We can't have you hesitating if it needs to be done.
Lucy: We want people who will carry out the best course of action without hesitation.

Shinkurou: So you want me to kill the girl in this picture?

Lucy: Yes. This was actually supposed to be Kirihiko-kun's job.
Lucy: But look at her...
Lucy: she's strong.

Lucy: This job looked a bit too easy for her...
Lucy: so we thought it would be perfect for your test.
Shinkurou: I can't do this.

10

Shinkurou: I can't kill someone...
Shinkurou: for the sake of a test.

Shinkurou: It's true I learned techniques for killing people at Houzuki.
Shinkurou: But even so...
Shinkurou: killing someone just to have the experience is ridiculous.

Shinkurou: I'm sure Kirihiko-chan...

Shinkurou: doesn't actually want to do this either.

11

Shinkurou: The Kirihiko-chan I know...
Shinkurou: wouldn't...

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Thoom

SFX: Thud thud...

12

Kirihiko: Pathetic.

Kirihiko: Don't use...
Kirihiko: such pathetic excuses after coming this far.

SFX: Swipe

Kirihiko: Her name is Shiguhara Ritsu...
Kirihiko: She looks about 17 or 18 years old.

13

Kirihiko: I don't know who wants to kill her.
Kirihiko: And I don't know what irrational or disgusting reasons they have for it.

Kirihiko: But...
Kirihiko: That doesn't matter.

Kirihiko: I don't give a fuck.
Kirihiko: I'll do it.

Shinkurou: K-
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-cha-...!!

SFX: Whoosh

14

SFX: Stab

Kirihiko: Once you've heard about an assassination job...

15

Kirihiko: you can't just say no and that's that.
SFX: Squeeze

SFX: Wham

Lucy: K-Kirihiko-chan!!
Lucy: I told you not to kill him!!

Shinkurou: Eh?

Shinkurou: I'm not bleeding...!?
Shinkurou: And there's no wound?

Shinkurou: What did you...?

Kirihiko: My name is Kirishima Kirihiko.

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Shinkurou: That's right. <<Kirishima>>.

Shinkurou: When Yuuno-san was telling me about the Inner 13 Families...
Shinkurou: One of them was <<Kirishima>>.

Shinkurou: I was too careless. I wasn't cautious enough.
Shinkurou: How could I not notice that until now?

Shinkurou: She is <<Kirishima>> Kirihiko.
Shinkurou: She is a natural-born assassin.

17

Kirihiko: I know.

Kirihiko: How about this?

Kirihiko: You protect that girl in the picture.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Lucy: Eh?
Kirihiko: I'll be coming to kill her before long.
Kirihiko: You try to stop me.

Kirihiko: If you defeat me, we'll forget about this.
Kirihiko: And the Akuu Company will leave you alone.

Lucy: W-wait, Kirihiko-kun!!

Lucy: What are you saying!?
Lucy: You can't just decide things like that for yourself!!

18

Kirihiko: Shut the fuck up!!

Kirihiko: This is a game. Let's enjoy it.
Kirihiko: I'll leave you alone for today.

Kirihiko: Take that and get lost.

19

Lucy: You can't do things like that.
Lucy: The one Hoshigami-san will be mad with is me.
Lucy: You aren't planning on killing him along with the target, are you?

Lucy: I guess it really is impossible for you to have "friends".

Lucy: I just can't tell what she's thinking...

Lucy: But just in case...
Lucy: I'll set up some insurance...

Sign: Samidare Apartments

20

Shinkurou: No...

Shinkurou: She's just too different from...
Shinkurou: the Kirihiko-chan I know.

Shinkurou: And furthermore...
Shinkurou: What would Murasaki and the others think if they found out?

Shinkurou: If they knew she was part of the Akuu Company...
Shinkurou: and saw her treating assassination like a game.

21

Yamie: Hey, boy.

Shinkurou: ...Yamie-san.

Yamie: You look exhausted.
SFX: Appear
Yamie: It almost looks like you were attacked by a hit man or something.

Shinkurou: U-um, well...
Shinkurou: A lot has happened.

Yamie: Don't move,
Yamie: boy.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: And...let me see your cell phone.

SFX: Rinnng
Yamie: Is this Yamaura Clinic?

Yamie: I have a patient for you.
Yamie: Come to the Samidare Apartments.

Shinkurou: I-is someone hurt?

22

Yamie: You are.

SFX: Drip

SFX: Drip

Shinkurou: Kirihiko...-chan...

SFX: Collapse

23

Sign: Yamiura Clinic

Shinkurou: Where am I...?

SFX: Slam

24

Shinkurou: Y-
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san...
SFX: Sit up

Yuuno: I heard you were here at Samidare!!
Yuuno: Were you really stabbed in the stomach!!?
SFX: Step step step
Shinkurou: Um...Yes.
Shinkurou: But I'm fine n-

SFX: Fling open

Shinkurou: Ah...

25

Shinkurou: U-um, Yuuno-san...
Yuuno: Quiet.

Yuuno: This is a very interesting wound.

Shinkurou: ...Interesting?

Yuuno: When you get back home and relax thinking, "Oh, what an exhausting day," the wound opens and blood starts flowing out.
Yuuno: That's how you were cut.

Yuuno: And it was purposely done so it would be easy to treat if the wound hadn't fully opened yet.

Yuuno: This was meant to show the difference in ability between you and whoever did this.
Yuuno: In other words, it was a warning.

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Yuuno: Who did this to you?

Shinkurou: I'm sorry, Yuuno-san, but this is part of my job...
Shinkurou: so I'll do something about it on my own.

Yuuno: I understand.
Shinkurou: I can't tell her.

Shinkurou: I can't bring sadness to the others.
Yuuno: But if you really do need help...
Yuuno: make sure to tell me, okay?
Shinkurou: I have to stop Kirihiko-chan.

27

Text: The next day.

SFX: Kachunk kachunk

SFX: Kachunk kachunk

Shinkurou: Nishizato General Hospital...

Shinkurou: This is it.

28

Shinkurou: She's in a hospital?
Shinkurou: Is she a patient here?
SFX: Plop

Shinkurou: Why did a slipper fall from above?

29

Ritsu: Ah...

Shinkurou: Someone's...!!!

SFX: Dash

SFX: Wham
Ritsu: Kyaah!!

SFX: Collapse

Ritsu: Th-

30

Ritsu: That really...
Ritsu: surprised me...

Shinkurou: Ah.

Shinkurou: You're...
SFX: Thud thud

SFX: Appear

31

Lin: Damn rebel.
Lin: You've got guts doing this alone.

Lin: Hm?

Lin: You're...!!
Shinkurou: Eh, Lin-san!!?

Ritsu: By the way...
Ritsu: who are you?

Shinkurou: Do you need hel-

Shinkurou: Would you like to hire a dispute mediator?
Text: A sudden sales promotion as a body guard!!
Bottom: To be continued in the November Issue https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/24022 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 33 by js06 2010-08-11T03:28:06+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 33

01

Text: Volume 5 is on sale now.
Box: There are some companies...
Box: that you naturally end up hearing about whether you want to or not while living a normal life.

Box: In the normal world, they could be electronics makers, game companies,
Box: cosmetics companies, or food companies.

Box: And in the underground world...
Box: it's always the "Akuu Company".
Lucy: Kurenai-saaan.
Text: Who is he waiting for...!?

02

Lucy: Ah, nice to meet you.
Title: Chapter 33 Tempter
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

Text: A smile isn't necessarily a sign of friendship...
Lucy: I'm Lucy May of the Akuu Company.
Bottom text: A oneshot is being published in SQ. 19! See P. 239 for details! Now taking advance orders for Volume 6 which comes with an OAV DVD! See P. 632!!

03

Lucy: Sorry for calling you out on your day off.
Lucy: You probably had a date planned or something, right?
SFX: Chatter chatter
Lucy: I'm the assistant director of the personnel department...
Lucy: Oh, here's my business card.

Box: The Akuu Company.
Box: A syndicate of talented people that included "Iron Arm" and "Red Cap".

Box: Why are they contacting me...?
Lucy: I'm sorry about how sudden this is...
Lucy: but could I ask you a favor?

Shinkurou: What?

Lucy: Could I borrow some money?
Lucy: I forgot my wallet.

04

Text: The next day

SFX: Press press

Shinkurou: Hey, Ginko...
Ginko: What?

Shinkurou: Do you...
Shinkurou: have much money in savings?

Ginko: How much do you need?
SFX: Type type

Shinkurou: Eh?
Ginko: I won't charge you any interest, so just tell me.
Ginko: How much do you need and how long until you'll be able to pay me back?
SFX: Turn around

05

Shinkurou: No, I'm not saying I need to borrow anything.
Shinkurou: Hey, stop looking at me like I'm your prodigal son!!
Shinkurou: And I've never borrowed money from you before!
Ginko: In first grade...

Ginko: there were 7 times that I lent you 100 yen so you could buy ice cream on the way back from the pool.

Ginko: In 2nd grade, there were 5 times I lent you ten yen so you could draw lots at a small candy shop.
Ginko: Once, on a field trip, you were crying after losing your snack money so I lent you 300 yen.
Ginko: And...
Shinkurou: I'll make sure to pay you back for all that...

Shinkurou: Why does she always remember things from way back then so well?
Text: And it's always things I'd rather she forgot.
Ginko: If it isn't that, what is it?

Ginko: Why would you ask that?

Shinkurou: Um, well...
Shinkurou: Have you thought about your future?

06

Ginko: Hah?

Shinkurou: I don't mean anything by it.
Shinkurou: It's just a simple question.

Ginko: My future...
Ginko: Hmm...

Ginko: Well, I can easily imagine what YOUR future will be like.
Shinkurou: Oh, and what's that?

Ginko: A proletariat. A loser at life. The lowest of the low in society.

07

Ginko: But, well, when that happens, you can always work at my restaurant.

Box: Working with Ginko at the ramen shop, huh?
Box: That might not be too bad...
Lucy: Oh, sorry about that.
Lucy: But I'm starving.

Lucy: I didn't have any breakfast today.
Lucy: I'll make sure to pay you back.
Lucy: Oh, do want half of this oolong tea?
Shinkurou: Uh...no thanks.

Shinkurou: Could we hurry up and get to the subject at hand?
Shinkurou: What exactly do you want from me?

Lucy: Okay then...
SFX: Place

Lucy: There is one simple reason why I've called you out here.

08

Lucy: I want you,
Lucy: Kurenai-san.

Lucy: Would you...
Lucy: come to the Akuu Company?

Shinkurou: ...You're scouting me?

Lucy: My company would like you to sign a contract with us.

Shinkurou: Um...I defeated one of your soldiers-for-hire, right?
Shinkurou: Do you really scout people who do that?
Lucy: Of course. We will scout any talented person who could be of use to us.
Lucy: We don't let our feelings get in the way of that.

09

Shinkurou: I've heard a lot of rumors...
Shinkurou: about the Akuu Company.

Lucy: "They're an evil secret society that will assist in any crime so long as they're paid"...
Lucy: Things like that?

Shinkurou: W-well...
Lucy: It's true we help people commit crimes.

Lucy: But we also help resolve crimes.

Lucy: Some people may look down on us...
Lucy: but we do save people, too.
Lucy: We do not distinguish between good and evil.
Lucy: We will dispatch the best people to match our clients' wishes.
Lucy: That's what we do.

10

Shinkurou: Thank you for offering...

Shinkurou: but I refuse.

Shinkurou: If I can, I would like to make decisions about my work for myself.
Shinkurou: I'm just don't like having others interfere with my life.

Lucy: Heh.

Lucy: How childish.
Lucy: I'm surprised.

11

Shinkurou: ...Childish?
Lucy: Yes, your thinking is childish.
Lucy: Completely childish.

Lucy: Kurenai-san.
SFX: Pull out
Lucy: How much have you thought about your future?

Lucy: You're currently 16 years old and in your first year of high school.
Lucy: There are a lot of dispute mediators like you.
Lucy: The competition is fierce.

Lucy: Hmm...
Lucy: This may be a bit rude...

Lucy: but your current earnings don't let you save much, do they?
Lucy: You barely manage to have enough for living expenses and school expenses, right?

12

Shinkurou: Th-...!!
Shinkurou: That's true.
Shinkurou: But I believe the only way to deal with this kind of thing is to simply work hard.
Shinkurou: So...

Lucy: Just work hard?
Lucy: That's your plan?

Lucy: If you keep working as a normal dispute mediator...
Lucy: when is your future going to improve?

Lucy: Kurenai-san,
Lucy: to be blunt...

13

Yuuno: Is something bothering you?

Shinkurou: Eh?
Yuuno: Does your right arm still hurt?
Yuuno: I can give you some medicine for that.

Shinkurou: No, my arm's...
Shinkurou: fine.
Yuuno: Then is there something else?

Shinkurou: Yes.
Shinkurou: I was just thinking that I was
Shinkurou: still fairly inexperienced.

14

Yuuno: That's right.

Yuuno: You are still inexperienced.

Yuuno: There were still plenty of things you needed to learn here.
Yuuno: And yet you left to go live on your own.
Yuuno: Do you know how painful that was for me?

Yuuno: Ahh...
Yuuno: Now I'm remembering how painful it was.
SFX: Lay head down...

Yuuno: I might even cry...

15

Yuuno: ...Tell me you love me.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Yuuno: Just say...
Yuuno: that you love me.

Shinkurou: I love you, Yuuno-san.
SFX: Twitch

SFX: Clench

Yuuno: Anyway!
Yuuno: Whenever you're troubled you can always rely on us, the Houzuki family.
Yuuno: You shouldn't be embarrassed about needing help from others.

Lucy: ...Kurenai-san.

16-17

Lucy: It seems...
Lucy: you have a bad habit of trying to deal with everything on your own.

Lucy: Do you hate being used by others?
Lucy: Are you uneasy about belonging to an organization?

Lucy: I understand that.
Lucy: Everyone feels that way.

Lucy: But overcoming those things greatly helps you grow.

Lucy: I'll give you a great example.

Lucy: Juuzawa Benika.

Lucy: She's known as one of the world's top class dispute mediators.

Lucy: Right now, she's working on her own.
Lucy: but she once belonged to an organization known as the Imperial Guards of the Kuhouin family.

18

Lucy: And that was when she was about your age.

Lucy: She polished her skills there,
Lucy: made personal connections, and saved up some capital.

Lucy: Her current success is due to what she did back then.

Lucy: Kurenai-san,
Lucy: you are raw ore.

Lucy: If you are polished, you will shine wonderfully.

19

Lucy: Belonging to an organization expands a person's influence...
Lucy: and expands their knowledge.
Lucy: It would be quite beneficial for you!

Lucy: I don't mind at all if you use us...
Lucy: in order to give yourself that step up you need.

Lucy: Please let us help you...
Lucy: achieve your goal more quickly!

Shinkurou: Give me...
Shinkurou: some time to think about it.

20

Sign: Room 5

Shinkurou: Instead of working on your own...

Tamaki: Hm?

Shinkurou: learning amidst of collection of professionals can be better, can't it?

Shinkurou: Oh, I'm not saying I'm going to be joining an organization or anything.
Shinkurou: I was just thinking about the fact that I had that option.

21

SFX: Munch munch

Tamaki: Yeah, I guess that could work.
Yamie: Indeed.
Shinkurou: They're taking this lightly!!
Shinkurou: They're really treating this like someone else's problem!

Tamaki: Well, they say doing something is better than doing nothing! I'm sure it'll work out!
Tamaki: I don't really get it, though...
Text: Gah ha ha
Shinkurou: Th-that's true...

Yamie: Boy.
Yamie: You shouldn't consult others about the truly important things.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Yamie: People give more serious consideration...
Yamie: to what they realize themselves than to what others point out to them.

Yamie: You should...
Yamie: find one for yourself.

22

Yamie: Just find one "answer"...
Yamie: for yourself.

Yamie: If you do that, you'll be able to overcome most anything.

Box: An answer...
Box: huh?

Shinkurou: An email...

23

On phone: Murasaki

Shinkurou: Murasaki...!
SFX: Press

Box: "Shinkurou, how are you doing?"

Box: "This is my first email."
Box: "It's kind of complicated, but it's fun..."

Shinkurou: She...
Shinkurou: can do things like this now...

Box: Even little Murasaki is working so hard...
Box: She's carrying out her duties as a Kuhouin...
Box: And she isn't complaining.
Box: Murasaki is really working hard.

24

Box: How do I, a 16 year old...
Box: compare to a 7 year old like her?

Box: I'm getting so afraid over something as simple as joining an organization.
Box: I'm pathetic.

Box: If I can't even make a decision like this, how am I supposed to deal with the underground world from here on out?

Box: Kuhouin Murasaki is continuing on.
Card: Lucy May

Box: Kurenai Shinkurou needs to as well.

25

Lucy: ...I see.
SFX: Step
Lucy: Then I'll see you at noon on Sunday.

SFX: Beep
Lucy: We've got a bite from him,
Lucy: Hoshigami-san.

Zena: Hey...

Zena: I wonder what Juuzawa Benika's face...
Zena: will look like when she hears...
Zena: that we've taken him.

26

Lucy: Before that...
Lucy: we need to have Kurenai-san take the "Entry Test".

Zena: That's right. The test.
SFX: Creak

Zena: That'll be fun, too.

27

Box: A few days later

Box: The crowded shopping district on a day off...
Box: has a fairly unique feel to it.

Box: The groups of boys hanging out in front of the convenience stores...the couples walking hand-in-hand while smiling and jokingly quarreling...
Box: It's an optimistic atmosphere that makes you feel like you've been put into a stupor.

Box: It's an atmosphere I just can't get used to as I am now.
Sign: Steakhouse

SFX: Open...

28

Lucy: We've been waiting for you, Kurenai-san.
Lucy: Please, come in.

Shinkurou: ...Make no mistake.
Shinkurou: I'm just here to hear what your proposing in more detail.

Kirihiko: Is this him?
Kirihiko: This is the new rookie you're hiring?

29

Shinkurou: Eh?

Shinkurou: Waaah!!
SFX: Wham
SFX: Smash
Lucy: Wait...
Lucy: Kirishima-san!!
Lucy: Don't crush him.

30

Kirihiko: You're...!

31

SFX: Jump back

Kirihiko: What's going on, Lucy!!!

Kirihiko: Why is he here!!?

Shinkurou: K-

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan...?
Text: Shinkurou has finally discovered Kirihiko's true identity!?
Bottom: To be continued in the October issue https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/23873 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 32 by js06 2010-08-03T20:06:24+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 32

01

Top:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

Under manga title: A color page in celebration of the volume release!!
Middle text: My heart feels so warm! So this is what having friends is like!!
Bottom left: Volume 5 is on sale now! Set price: 460 yen (Tax included)
Title: Chapter 32 Hoshigami Zena
Bottom: A new one-shot is being published in the SQ. Summer Issue 19! Details on the next page!!

02

Text: This place has been completely destroyed. Who went on a rampage here...!?

Lucy: Looks like Hoshigami-san's been at it again.

Lucy: She just couldn't stand having been defeated by Juuzawa Benika...
SFX: Crack

Lucy: And now with the "Houzuki" incident...

Lucy: it doesn't seem like a good time to discuss trying to get "him" to join us.
Lucy: Not even I want to be around her right now.

03

Zena: Juuzawa Benika...!!

04

SFX: Gulp

Zena: Ahh!!
Zena: C'mon!!

Zena: I need more to drink!!!

05

Zena: If I don't get any more, I'll die!!
Zena: I'll slit my wrists and die!!

Zena: I'll take some poison and die!!
SFX: Flailing around
Zena: I'll hang myself and die!!

Zena: And I'll...
Zena: Uh...
Shinkurou: Um...
SFX: Reach out
SFX: Pant pant

SFX: Grab

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Zena: I'll do a shoulder throw and die!!!
Shinkurou: Waah!!!

SFX: Crash
People: Is there a fight?
People: She's just drunk.
People: Oh, it's just a drunk.

Text: Hic
Zena: Hm?

Zena: Who're you?

07

Text: The Same Day (Midday)

Ginko: And so...
SFX: Type

Ginko: Every night, a drunk has been rampaging in that area.

Ginko: Your job is to do something about it.
Shinkurou: A drunk...

Ginko: Are you complaining?

08

Shinkurou: No, it's just...
Shinkurou: this is the first down-to-earth job I've had in a while.

Ginko: You're taking this lightly.
SFX: Slide...
Ginko: And if you get careless...

Murasaki: I don't get it.
SFX: Heartbeat

Murasaki: Why is that drunk rampaging?
Ginko: Eh?

Murasaki: A drunk is someone who drinks too much alcohol, right?
Murasaki: Why does that make you go on a rampage?
Shinkurou: What are you doing in there?

Tamaki: Well, Murasaki-chan...

09

Tamaki: That's because everyone gets lonely when they drink!!

Tamaki: Found you, Murasaki-chan!
Text: Yay!
Murasaki: Mh...She found me.
Shinkurou: Oh, you're playing hide-and-seek.
Shinkurou: Wait, Tamaki-san, you reek of alcohol!!!

Ginko: Well, I'm leaving.
SFX: Get up
Shinkurou: Oh, sorry. I'll see you off.

Tamaki: Oh, it's Ginko-chan!

10

Tamaki: I found Ginko-chan, too!!
Ginko: Kyaaah!!
Shinkurou: Get out, you drunk!!
SFX: Pow

Tamaki: Ahh, Ginko-chan, your boobs are so soft!!
Ginko: Hey...No, Tamaki-san!!
Murasaki: I see. So this is what drunk people are like.

Shinkurou: Uuh...

11

Zena: Ahh.
Text: Hic
Zena: You came to.

Shinkurou: ...Eh?
SFX: Get up...
Zena: And I thought I'd broken your neck.

Shinkurou: Oh, that's right. She just threw me all of a sudden...
Zena: Hey, hey.

12

Zena: Could you go buy me a drink?
Shinkurou: Hah?
Shinkurou: She reeks of alcohol.

Zena: The one with 95% alcohol.

Shinkurou: Ninety...!?
Zena: I think they sell it at drugstores.

Shinkurou: Th-that's not a drink.
Shinkurou: You should stop drinking it.
Shinkurou: Your liver's gonna...

13

Zena: I'll diiiiiie!!!!

Zena: If you don't give me any alcohol, I'll just die!!

Zena: I'll shoot myself in the head and die!!
Zena: I'll jump off a building and die!!

Zena: I'll get hit by a car and die!!
Zena: I'll get hit by a train and die!!
Zena: I'll get hit by a tank and die!!

Zena: And if I die, I'll die!!
Zena: I mean it!!
Zena: If you take my alcohol from me, I'll die!!

14

Box: Every night, a drunk has been rampaging in that area.
Shinkurou: It's...

Box: It's gotta be her!

Box: Just telling this kind of person not to drink won't work.
Shinkurou: Umm...It's quite clear that you like to drink.
Shinkurou: But if you're going to drink, don't you want to drink liquor that actually tastes good?
Zena: Liquor that tastes good?

15

Shinkurou: I saw a bar over there.
Shinkurou: I bet if you drank something that tasted good, you'd feel a lot better while drunk.

Zena: Hm...

Zena: ...Yeah.
Zena: Maybe I should drink something normal every once in a while.
Zena: Even if it won't affect me much.

Shinkurou: That's what you should do.
Shinkurou: I'm sure of it.

Zena: You seem used to dealing with drunks...
Shinkurou: Ha ha...
Text: Yes

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Zena: By the way, what's your name?

Shinkurou: Eh? Oh...
Shinkurou: It's Kurenai Shinkurou.


Shinkurou: I think it was over here.
Zena: Ohh...
Zena: What a coincidence.

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Zena: Aren't you going to drink?
Shinkurou: Eh?
Zena: Don't worry about it. You can have some of mine.

Shinkurou: Um, but...
Shinkurou: I'm still in high school and...

Zena: Then what did you come here to do?

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Shinkurou: Well...
Shinkurou: I'm on a job.

Zena: A job?

Shinkurou: I'm a dispute mediator.

Shinkurou: And apparently there's been a drunk rampaging in this area lately.
Zena: And you come to take care of it?
Zena: I see.
Text: Ha ha

Zena: You don't look like the kind of person for that job at all.

Shinkurou: Ha ha...
Shinkurou: Benika-san tells me that a lot, too.

SFX: Clank...

19

Box: I was right.
Box: There's some connection between this boy who defeated Red Cap and Juuzawa Benika.

Box: I thought it was odd.
Box: It didn't make sense for her to come out to help "Houzuki".

Box: But Juuzawa and this boy clearly aren't equals.
Zena: Speaking of dispute mediators...
Box: So the only thing that makes sense...

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Box: Is a master-apprentice relationship.
Zena: There's something that's really been pissing me off lately.

Zena: Some showy old woman has been getting in the way of my work...
Zena: and ruining the work of my subordinates.

Zena: So I've really needed to get rid of some stress lately.

Shinkurou: Wh-who is this person?

Zena: Hey...
Zena: What do you think?

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SFX: Crash

Men: This bar sucks!!
Men: Get the manager out here!!

Zena: What a pain.

People: Oh, not those people again.
People: They're around here every night.
People: Can't they stop getting...
People: into drunken fights?

Shinkurou: Um...
SFX: Stand up
Zena: Hm?
Shinkurou: Do you come to this area often?

Zena: No.
Zena: This is just where I ended up today.

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Box: Don't tell me...
Box: I stopped the wrong person!?

Shinkurou: Th-thanks for the drink!!
Shinkurou: Excuse me!!
SFX: Dash

Zena: He sure is enthusiastic about his job.

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Shinkurou: And so...
Shinkurou: you've been causing problems for the people in this area.

Shinkurou: Could you stay away from this area for a while?

Men: Heh.

Men: Did you really expect us to just agree to that?
SFX: Shnk
Men: Ha.

SFX: Bam
SFX: Crash

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SFX: Wham

Men: Uuh...

Men: Shit!

SFX: Wham

SFX: Spin

SFX: Crash

25

SFX: Stop

Zena: Hmm...

SFX: Pant pant

Men: D-
Men: Don't move!!

Men: If you do, I'll kill this hostage!!

Shinkurou: Ah!!

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Men: Heh heh...I saw you two in the bar.
SFX: Press
Men: This woman's with you, isn't she?

SFX: Prick

Zena: ...Hee hee.
Zena: Hostage?

Zena: What hostage?

Men: ...What was that, you bitch!?

SFX: Disappear

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SFX: Dash

Shinkurou: Y-you bastard!!

SFX: Grab

Men: Uuh...!!
SFX: Pull

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Men: Waaaah!!
SFX: Throw

SFX: Slam

SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: A-are you alright!?
Shinkurou: Are you hurt!?
Zena: Nope.

Shinkurou: Thank god...
Zena: What about you?
Zena: Is your hand okay?

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Shinkurou: Yeah, a knife like that won't do anything to me.
Shinkurou: The rest of me may not be, but my body's tough.

Zena: I see.
Zena: So you're saying your body is pretty tough for flesh and blood?

Zena: But...
Zena: Ha ha.
Zena: I never thought an apprentice of Juuzawa's would save me.

Shinkurou: Ah...
Shinkurou: You shouldn't mess with that. Knives are dangerous.

Zena: Are they?

30

SFX: Jab

SFX: Falling apart...
Zena: I'm pretty tough too.

31

Zena: Kurenai-kun.

Shinkurou: Wh...
Shinkurou: Who are you?

Zena: Hoshigami Zena.

Shinkurou: Hoshigami...

Zena: I thought I would just kill you here and now to vent my anger...
Zena: but I've changed my mind.

Zena: I thought of something much better.
SFX: Spin
Shinkurou: Eh?

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Zena: See you later,

Zena: Kurenai Shinkurou-kun.
Text: Shinkurou is being targeted! And Kirihiko watches over them...!?
Bottom: To be continued in the September Issue https://mangahelpers.com/t/aoikage/releases/23849 [Italiano] [Translation] Kurenai 4 by AoiKage 2010-08-01T16:17:15+00:00 AoiKage admin@mangahelpers.com
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[Scuola superiore dell'accademia Seiryou]
{Aoi: in Giappone ci sono diverse "accademie" che incorporano al loro interno tutti i tipi di scuole, dalle elementari alla superiori}
Ginko: Il mercato di New York... / Se dovessi trasferire dei fondi sarebbe meglio Londra o Shanghai...?
[Capitolo 4: Murakami Ginko]

02
[Capitolo 4: Murakami Ginko]

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*Kure-nai*

04
Shin: Buongiorno, Ginko. / Anche oggi sei arrivata prima di tutti, eh? / Mattiniera come al solito!
[Murakami Ginko] / [Una mia compagna che in classe tende un po'...] / [Anzi, molto, ad estraniarsi dal resto del gruppo]

05
[Io conosco Murakami Ginko] / [come la figlia dei proprietari di un negozio di Ramen che invogliava i clienti ad andare a mangiare da loro...] / [e come la mia amica d'infanzia che conosco fin dai tempi dell'asilo]
Ginko: Il guadagno sarebbe di... / 15 milioni... / non c'è male, dai.
[E' la nipote di Murakami Kenji, meglio noto come "il leggendario informatore", di cui ha ereditato l'intero network di informazioni,] / [è il secondo erede di questa stirpe di talentuosi informatori]

06
Ginko: Perché mi stai fissando in quel modo?
Shin: Uh? / Ah, no... niente.
Tizi: Palla in arrivo sulla destra!! / Shinkurou!!
Shin: Ah...
Tizi: Razza di idiota!! / Sei proprio un inetto, con te abbiamo chiuso!
Shin: Scu- Scusate.

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[Accademia Seiryou...] / [Quando mi trovo dentro queste mura, non sono nient'altro che un normale studente delle superiori] / [In origine il mio piano era quello di diventare un mediatore a tempo pieno una volta finite le scuole medie] / [Però due persone hanno insistito un sacco affinché continuassi con gli studi andando alle superiori]
Tizi: Questo è proprio un buono a nulla
[Una era Ginko...]
Shin: ...... / Sono proprio allo stremo delle forze...
[Mentre l'altra, invece...]
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san

08
Yuuno: Che c'è che non va? / Non sembri molto in forma...
Shin: Yuuno-san.... / Non avevi lezione...?
Yuuno: Sono venuta a controllare la situazione perché ero preoccupata
[Yuuno-san è una senpai ed ha un anno più di me*]
{*: il termine senpai è già stato spiegato nei capitoli precedenti}
[Tutti pensano a lei come ad un bellissimo fiore rosa, simbolo di grande femminilità e bellezza, in grado di attrarre le attenzioni dei maschi della scuola]
{*: Nel testo originale parla di "Yamato Nadeshiko", oggettivamente uno dei fiori più belli che abbia mai visto in vita mia, che spesso, in passato, veniva accostato alla figura della donna in grado di mostrare appieno la propria femminilità}
[Una volta abbiamo anche spiegato che era solo una lontana parente, ma...]
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san / Hai mangiato come si deve a pranzo, vero?
Shin: Eh?!

09
Shin: E-Ehm... ecco...
Yuuno: Ricordati che puoi venire a casa nostra quando vuoi / Casa Houzuki è anche casa tua!
Shin: Scu-Scusami / Ma sai, anch'io devo tornare in classe a seguire una lezione...!
[La famiglia Houzuki si già è presa cura di me per 8 anni] / [Non ho intenzione continuare a dipendere da loro come un parassita!]
Shin: growl (stomaco che brontola)... / Ad ogni modo... / Devo proprio cercarmi un lavoro...

10
{Insegna: Club di Giornalismo}
Shin: Ti prego, Ginko / Va bene qualunque cosa! Dai, mettimi in contatto con qualcuno
Ginko: Mi lasci proprio di stucco. / Non mangi da tre giorni perché sei rimasto senza il becco di un quattrino...
Shin: Oh, beh... / E' successo perché avevo l'affitto da pagare ed ho dovuto affrontare diverse spese...
Ginko: Devi pagare anche la mia parcella come informatore.
Shin: Se aspetto un aiuto da lei sto fresco... / grooowl (stomaco che brontola)
SFX Baloon: Click / click click (digita)
Ginko: Aspetta un attimo.
Shin: Eh?

11
Ginko: Ti va davvero bene qualsiasi lavoro?
Shin: ..... / Sì.
[Domenica]
Shin: .... / Un cane?
Ginko: I suo padroni sono in viaggio e staranno lontani da casa per una settimana / Il tuo lavoro consiste nel prenderti cura del piccoletto durante la loro assenza

12
Shin: Prendersi cura di un cane... / Ah, forse è uno di quei cani di altissimo rango, uno dei tre migliori cani al mondo... / O forse ha un microchip segreto impiantato...
Ginko: No, è un cane normalissimo. / Sbaglio o avevi detto che ti andava bene qualunque lavoro?!
Shin: Sì, l'ho detto...
Ginko: Per una settimana questa sarà la tua nuova casa, piccolino.
Cane: Bau!
Ginko: Bravo, cucciolino...

13
Shin: Uh? / Quel cane....
Ginko: Che c'è?
Shin: No, niente...
Ginko: Bene, lo lascio nella tua mani allora, mi raccomando!
Shin: Sì. / Ora che ci penso... non so neanche come si chiama...

14
Shin: Uh... / Waaaaaaaah!!
[Il giorno dopo]
{Insegna: Scuola elementare}
Murasaki: Che ti è successo, Shinkurou?!

15
Shin: Oh, beh, ecco...
Murasaki: Prenderti cura di un cane? / Capisco... / quindi i Mediatori di Conflitti devono svolgere anche questo tipo di lavori, eh?
Shin: Viste le mie condizioni attuali non penso di essere nella posizione di potermi scegliere i lavori. / Anche se Benika-san non si sarebbe mai abbassata a tanto...
Murasaki: Fammelo vedere!
Shin: Eh?
Murasaki: Fammi vedere il cane / Non interferirò con il tuo lavoro in nessun modo!
Shin: No, beh, sarebbe meglio se rinunciassi...

16
Shin: ..... / Che cavolo è successo...
Tamaki: Shinkurou-kuuuuun...

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Shin: Tamaki-san! / Tu-Tutto bene?!
Tamaki: Shinkurou.... io... / Mi ha sporcata tutta... / Non sarò più in grado di essere una buona moglie, quindi... tutte le tue responsabilità nei miei confronti, Shunkurou-kun...
Shin: Ma perché esageri in questo modo?!
Tamaki: Non sto assolutamente esagerando!! / Di questo passo io, con quel cane nella residenza...
Shin: Fai silenzio!
Cane: BAU! BAU!

18
Shin: Eccolo!! / AAAAAAAAAAH!!! / Ba... Basta... / Datti una calmataaa!!
Murasaki: Ehi...!
Shin: Murasaki! / E' pericoloso, non avvicinare le ma...!!

19
Murasaki: Pericoloso? Non mi sembra proprio.
Shin: No... / quel cane è incontenibile...
Tamaki: Proprio così! Dovevo tenerlo d'occhio io mentre Shinkurou-kun non c'era, ma...
Murasaki: Allora ci prenderemo cura di lui tutti insieme / Alla fine questa volta ho dovuto prendermi cura anche di voi due, eh?
Tamaki: Ma no, Murasaki-chan, non dire così, sennò ci fai sembrare una coppietta...

20
Murasaki: Sono sicura che quel cane volesse solo giocare un po' con te ed i tuoi amici... / E' davvero dolce, mica come me!
Shin: Ahah...
Murasaki: Shinkurou, tu hai mai cresciuto un altro cane prima d'ora?
Shin: Eh? / No... / Mai... / però...

21
[Cos'è questa strana sensazione] / [Mi sembra di aver già visto questo cane molto tempo fa]
Murasaki: .... / Senti, Shinkurou...
Shin: Uh?
Murasaki: Ecco... / Vorrei tenere anch'io... il guinzaglio, ma... / No. / Se Shinkurou dice che non posso, non posso. E' inutile chiederlo, quindi non lo farò.
Shin: .....

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Shin: Tieni.
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!
Shin: Questo cane sembra molto affezionato a te, Murasaki... / Guarda, devi inserire il dito in questa parte circolare.
Murasaki: Waaaaaaaaaaah!
Shin: Murasaki!! / !!

23
Shin: Yuuno-san?!
Yuuno: Fermatevi!! / Murasaki!!

24
Shin: Gr... Grazie mille, Yuuno-san...
Yuuno: Sono andata alla residenza Samidare / Mi sembrava che tu non stessi troppo bene, quindi ho pensato di prepararti qualcosa da mangiare e di portartelo per merenda. / E quando sono arrivata là... / Mutou-san mi ha riferito che tu, Shinkurou-san, eri ad un appuntamento con Murasaki-chan...
Shin: Un... / "Un appuntamento"?!

25
Yuuno: Ah, è andata davvero così? / Siete solo usciti per portare il cane a fare una passeggiata, eh? / E poi sono arrivata io a disturbare...
Shin: No.
(Murasaki: Non si corre così velocemente!)
Shin: Sei arrivata al momento giusto e ci hai tirati fuori da una brutta situazione
Yuuno: Lo pensi davvero?
Shin: Eh?
Yuuno: "Sono davvero contento che Yuuno-san sia qui per me" / "Riesco ad essere felice solo quando sono insieme a Yuuno-san" / "Non riesco neanche a pensare ad un mondo senza Yuuno-san"
Shin: Ehm... / direi che stai un pelino esagerando...

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Yuuno: Come dici?!
Shin: Assolutamente sì, lo pensavo.
Yuuno: Eheh... / E' proprio bello camminare insieme come una coppia appena sposata, vero?
Murasaki: Verissimo... / Shinkurou è il papà ed io la mamma, per questo cucciolo!
Yuuno: ...... / Ti stai sbagliando, Murasaki-san...
Murasaki: Che ho detto di sbagliato?
Yuuno: Non eri tu la sposa di Shinkurou di cui parlavo io...
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san... calmati...
{Qui era tutto molto difficile da adattare, in pratica Murasaki fraintende le parole di Yuuno, che stava chiaramente parlando di Shinkurou e sé stessa. Purtroppo, nonostante abbia cercato di adattare la situazione nel modo migliore cercando di generalizzare il più possibile la frase di Yuuno rendendola "fraintendibile", ammetto che non è la stessa cosa in italiano...}

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[Sabato]
Shin: Finalmente domani, come stabilito, finirà la mia settimana da dog-sitter... / Questi sette giorni sono stati più lunghi di quanto pensassi / Immagino che dopo la piccola Murasaki si sentirà un po' sola...
SFX Ballon: Drriiiin / driiiin

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Ginko: Senti, domani verrò io a prendere il cane a casa tua / Non devi portarlo da me per nessun motivo, ok?
Shin: Ricevuto, / non gli permetterò neanche di avvicinarsi a casa tua / ... / .... / Ma dimmi un po', Ginko...
Ginko: Cosa c'è?
Shin: Quel cane... / non è che forse...
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

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Murasaki: Siamo nei pasticci!! / Il cane è sparito!!
Shin: Eh? / Cosa?! / E il guinzaglio? / Non lo avevi legato?!
Murasaki: ....

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Murasaki: Beh, ecco... / Il fatto è che... vederlo legato... / mi faceva stare male...
Shin: ... / Non preoccuparti... / Lo troveremo sicuramente! / Invece di piangere sul latte versato... / iniziamo a cercarlo immediatamente! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/23218 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 31 by js06 2010-06-28T01:16:33+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 31

01

Text: Volume 5 goes on sale Friday July 2nd!

Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: You already left?

Lin: Yes.
Lin: An important person from a certain country suddenly came to Japan.
Lin: Murasaki-sama will be busy dealing with that person for a few days.

Lin: We won't need you to come get her during that time.

Shinkurou: I see...

Lin: Well, we're busy now, so I'm going to hang u-
SFX: Swipe

Margin: They just missed each other...

02

Murasaki: Shinkurou!

Shinkurou: Ah...
Shinkurou: Murasaki?

Murasaki: Yeah...
Murasaki: It's me...

Shinkurou: Are you okay?
Shinkurou: You spent a whole day at a big party last week, didn't you?

Murasaki: I'm fine...
Murasaki: As long as I can hear your voice...
Murasaki: I'll be fine.

Shinkurou: Don't push yourself too much, okay?

Murasaki: ...Yeah.
Murasaki: Yeah.
Murasaki: Thanks, Shinkurou...

SFX: Beep

03

Murasaki: Cell phones sure are convenient...

04

Text: I want to feel the touch of the person watching over me...
Bottom left text: Don't miss "Glass Magic" the new one-shot appearing in Square 19!!
Title: Chapter 31 Festival!
Credits:
Original Work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shueisha: Super Dash Bunko)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Script: Koyasu Hidemiki
Continuity Organization: Furuya Daisuke

05

Text: A few days later

Murasaki: Oh, so this is a "festival"!!
SFX: Clank

Murasaki: What's that, Shinkurou!?

Shinkurou: How about you calm down a little, Murasaki?

06

Murasaki: What are you saying!? I haven't been able to have fun with you like this in a while!!
Murasaki: How am I supposed to stay calm!?

Shinkurou: Oh, yeah.
Shinkurou: This is your first temple festival, isn't it?

SFX: Sizzle

Murasaki: Wow...They're so round.
Shinkurou: Those are takoyaki.
Shinkurou: There's octopus inside them.

Murasaki: So it's a delicacy!
Murasaki: Okay.
SFX: Rummage rummage

07

Murasaki: Shopkeep!
Murasaki: I'll pay with this card...

Shinkurou: M-Murasaki!! I'll pay for it!!
Murasaki: Why?

Shinkurou: Your card doesn't have a credit limit.
Shinkurou: You shouldn't use it for kid things.

Shinkurou: Oh...Do you want any, Lin-san?

Lin: No...I'm fine.

Shinkurou: Oh, you're wearing a yukata, too.
Lin: Murasaki-sama...
Lin: ordered me to...

Shinkurou: Sorry for making you...
Shinkurou: clear your schedule for this.

08

Lin: There's no reason you need to thank me.
Lin: Every minute of Murasaki-sama's schedule is full tomorrow...
Lin: so I thought she could at least have this.

Shinkurou: You really do care for Murasaki, don't you?

Lin: So do-
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

Murasaki: It's true!!
Murasaki: There really is octopus inside!!

Murasaki: See, Shinkurou!
Shinkurou: Yes, yes.

Lin: ...So do you.

Tamaki: Murasaki-chaaan!
Tamaki: This is good, too!

09

Murasaki: Wow...

Murasaki: This is amazing...
Murasaki: There are so many delicious things at this festival!

Murasaki: I have to tell Kirihiko about it all later!

Tamaki: Kirihiko-chan isn't coming?

Murasaki: ...No.
Murasaki: She said she was busy today, too...

10

Tamaki: Then you'll have to enjoy everything here so you can tell her about it all!

Murasaki: Look, Kirihiko!
Murasaki: This is takoyaki!
Kirihiko: It's so round.
Murasaki: This is cotton candy!
Kirihiko: It's so fluffy.
Murasaki: This is roast squid!
Kirihiko: You really know a lot, Murasaki-san. I'm impressed.

Murasaki: Yeah!!

Meiri: Hee hee...
Meiri: It looks like everyone's here.
Shinkurou: Ah.

11

Shinkurou: Meiri-san!
Shinkurou: Chi-chan!

Meiri: Oh, my...

Meiri: She's so engrossed in it...
Meiri: How cute.
Shinkurou: Ha ha...

Meiri: But look.
Meiri: My Chi-chan is cute, too.

Shinkurou: Yeah.

Shinkurou: It looks good on you, Chi-chan.
SFX: Squat

12

Murasaki: What about my yukata, Shinkurou?
Shinkurou: Eh?

Shinkurou: Ah...
Shinkurou: Yeah.
Shinkurou: It looks good.

Tamaki: Hey, hey.
Tamaki: What about mine?

Shinkurou: T-
Shinkurou: Tamaki-san!!

13

Yamie: What about my outfit, boy?
Shinkurou: That's what you always wear, Yamie-san!!

Meiri: Mine looks good too, right?
SFX: Squeeze
Shinkurou: Meiri-san!!

Murasaki: C'mon, Lin-san! You too!
Lin: D-don't drag me into this!! Wah!!

Yuuno: There he is.

Yuuno: I'm glad you came, Shinkur-

14

Shinkurou: Y-
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san...

Shinkurou: Um...Thank you for...
Shinkurou: telling us there was a festival at the shrine you work at.
Shinkurou: Murasaki's really enjoying it.

Yuuno: You're welcome.

Meiri: Yuuno's in a bad mood.
Shinkurou: Eh?

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Meiri: This is the shrine for...
Meiri: a god of matchmaking.

Meiri: She called you here using the festival as an excuse...
Meiri: but now that it doesn't look like she'll get to be alone with you...
Yuuno: Wh-
Yuuno: What are you saying, mother!!?

Murasaki: What's "matchmaking"?

Tamaki: It means if you pray to the god here...
Tamaki: guys and girls can get along even better.

Murasaki: Is that true, Shinkurou!?
Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: Uh, yeah...That's right.

Murasaki: Let's go pray to the god! C'mon!!
Tamaki: Wait...Murasaki-chan!!

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Murasaki: Nnh...
Murasaki: There are a lot of people here...

Yuuno: This is the busiest time.
Yuuno: So let's wait until the crowd dies down so we can take our time,
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san.

Text: Mh...

Murasaki: I'm going now!
Shinkurou: Ah!
SFX: Dash

Shinkurou: Hey, Murasaki...!!

SFX: Bump
Shinkurou: Wai-...!

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Shinkurou: Ah...I-I'm sorry!!

Shinkurou: Huh?

SFX: Running quickly

Woman: Hey, did you know...

Woman: that there's another shrine in the forest out back?
Woman: And if you go there...

Shinkurou: Ginko!!

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Shinkurou: So you came too!
Shinkurou: How about you come with us and-
Ginko: No, I'm fine...

Yuuno: Good evening,
Yuuno: Murakami-san.

Yuuno: Are you here to pray to the matchmaking god, too?
SFX: Smile smile

Ginko: No...
Ginko: I'm just here for a normal shrine visit.

Yuuno: Oh, I see.
SFX: Smile smile smile
Yuuno: I came here to pray to the matchmaking god about Shinkurou-san and me.

Yuuno: I guess that has nothing to do with you.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: Can we just all have fun together...?

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Tamaki: Wow. Yuuno-chan's smiling solely with the muscles in her face.
Meiri: Oh, my.
Meiri: Thos two really are terrible.

Meiri: I guess I'll take this chance to steal Shinkurou-kun away.

Yuuno: M-mother!!!
Yuuno: Don't seduce Shinkurou-san!!
Small text in the left of Yuuno's bubble: That's all you've been doing!
Meiri: Hee hee hee... How cute. He's blushing.

Lin: Kurenai...
Lin: Where is Murasaki-sama?
Shinkurou: Eh?

Shinkurou: She's...

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Lin: She's...
Lin: She's not here!

Lin: I can't find Murasaki-sama!!!

Shinkurou: L-let's split up and look for her!!
Yuuno: U-understood!
Tamaki: Murasaki-chaaan!

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SFX: Clank

Lin: Murasaki-sama...
Lin: Murasaki-sama...!!

Lin: Ah...
Lin: Where is she!?

Meiri: It looks like she didn't come this way...

SFX: Pant

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Lin: I'll call in help from the Kuhouin family...!
Lin: N-no, wait. That would ruin the festival for her...

Lin: She was having so much fun...

Lin: Wh-

Lin: What am I supposed to do...?

Lin: If something...
Lin: happens to her...

Meiri: Calm down, Lin-san.

Meiri: Don't worry.
Meiri: Murasaki-chan's strong.

Meiri: If only...
Meiri: there was some way to contact her...

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SFX: Pant pant

Shinkurou: I can't believe we can't find her after this much searching...
Chizuru: ...Onii-chan.

Shinkurou: Chi-chan!
Shinkurou: What is it?
Shinkurou: You should be with Meiri-san...!

Chizuru: ...I saw her.

Shinkurou: Eh?

Chizuru: Murasaki-chan...
Chizuru: went up the hill back there...

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Murasaki: Pant
Murasaki: Pant

Murasaki: Pant
Murasaki: Pant

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Murasaki: Uuh!
SFX: Fall

SFX: Pant pant

Murasaki: Th-
Murasaki: There it is...

Murasaki: Oh, god...
Murasaki: I...

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Murasaki: want to be with Shinkurou more.

Murasaki: Lately...I haven't been able to see him very often.
Murasaki: There are...
Murasaki: so many things I want to talk to him about.

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Murasaki: Is that too hard to grant?

Shinkurou: Murasakiiii!

Murasaki: Shinkurou!

Shinkurou: Mu-

Shinkurou: Why are you up here, Murasaki!!
SFX: Shock

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Shinkurou: Everyone's worried about you!!
Shinkurou: Don't leave without telling us like this...!!

Murasaki: I-
Murasaki: I'm sorry...

Murasaki: A bit ago...
Murasaki: I heard in front of the shrine...

Murasaki: that there was a smaller shrine in this forest back here.
Murasaki: And that if you prayed at it, whatever you asked would come true.

Murasaki: ...Sorry for causing trouble.

SFX: Reach out
SFX: Jump

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Shinkurou: I'm glad you're okay.

Shinkurou: We need to get back and put Lin-san at ease.

Murasaki: ...Yeah.

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Shinkurou: Oh, that's right.
Shinkurou: Rummage

Shinkurou: I thought I'd give you this as a gift.
Murasaki: Eh?

Shinkurou: I wish I'd given it to you sooner...

Shinkurou: It's a cell phone.
Shinkurou: You don't have one, right?

Murasaki: ...For me?

Shinkurou: With this, you can at least talk to me even when you're busy.
Shinkurou: And we can find you right away if something like this happens again.

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Murasaki: Wow...
Murasaki: It already came true!!

Shinkurou: Well, we'll have to come by hear a lot as thanks.
Murasaki: Yeah!!!
Murasaki: And I'll give lots of offerings!! I know, I'll use my card...
Shinkurou: No!
Text: That would surprise even a god!
Bottom Text: To be continued in Issue 8 https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/22597 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 30 by js06 2010-05-30T02:26:34+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 30

01

SFX: Boom
Text: Volume ５ will be released on July 2nd!!

SFX: Bang bang
Text: Zena vs. Benika! A mid-air battle!!

Zena: I'm glad, Juuzawa Benika!!
SFX: Ching

Zena: I get to fight with a business rival of the Akuu Company, a dispute mediator.
Zena: And a top-class one at that!!

02

SFX: Punch

Zena: And that Kurenai kid is getting killed right now!!

Zena: Because "Red Cap" was given the Hoshigami Horn!!
Benika: ...What?

Zena: Ah ha ha ha!!
Zena: His method of straying from the proper path was quite the odd one!!

Zena: He had the Hoshigami-made murder weapon...
Zena: transplanted into his arm!!

03

Text: That smile is where he needs to return to...
Title: Chapter 30 Akama Seki
Text: A new one-shot will appear in SQ. 19 (Coming out 5/19)! See page 4787 for details!!

SFX: Land

04

Tamaki: Lin-san, did you win your battle?
Lin: ...Of course.

Tamaki: I really wanted to get along with such cute girls...
Tamaki: But...

Lin: The Akuu Company isn't bad...
Lin: They were pretty strong.

05

SFX: Step

06

SFX: Twitch

07

SFX: Spurt

Yuuno: Sh-...!!

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san!!
SFX: Grab

Yuuno: Let go!!
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san is...!!

Seki: It's useless.
Seki: After that attack, he's already-

08

SFX: Stand

Seki: Was my strike too shallow...?

09

Shinkurou: An attack like that...can't defeat me...
SFX: Drip

Shinkurou: The burdens held by your blade and my horn...
Shinkurou: are completely different.

Shinkurou: It's true you're a lot like me.

Shinkurou: A lot like...
Shinkurou: how I was before I met Murasaki.

Shinkurou: What did you think would change if you got Yuuno-san?
Shinkurou: Nothing would change.
Shinkurou: So long as you continued treating her like an "object"...

SFX: Jump

10

SFX: Clang

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san is a precious member of my family.

Shinkurou: She's irreplaceable.

Shinkurou: And that's...
SFX: Crack

Shinkurou: what resides in my "horn".

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Shinkurou: It's the power of "Houzuki"!!!

SFX: Bam

12

SFX: Shatter

13

Leftmost SFX: Bang
Bubble SFX: Kaching
Rightmost SFX: Wobble

SFX: Ching

14

SFX: Bang

SFX: Push

SFX: Bang bang

Zena: Ow...!!
Zena: You really do choose some painful spots...!!

Zena: She used the gun's recoil to get to the other building...!!?

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SFX: Land

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Crash

Benika: How are things over there?

Yayoi: Housen-sama seems to have spoken with the client's organization.

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Yayoi: He asked them to choose between...
Yayoi: giving up on Houzuki or having their organization destroyed.

Benika: Heh.
Benika: So they underestimated him just because he's retired from the underworld.

Benika: I came out here thinking I would repay them for taking care of Shinkurou back then...
Benika: but it seems I wasn't needed.

Lucy: Are you okay, Zena-san?

Lucy: Wow...Juuzawa Benika sure is formidable.
Lucy: Even someone as obsessed with the Inner Thirteen Families as me can clearly tell her strength is something else...

SFX: Crumble...

Lucy: Also...
Lucy: It's a bit awkward to report this to you at a time like this...

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Lucy: but Red Cap-san seems to have killed the client.

Zena: What do you mean?

Lucy: Who knows.
Lucy: Maybe he's "strayed from the proper path" again.

Zena: The "Houzuki" matter is no longer of any consequence...
Zena: More importantly, you need to call "Guillotine".
Lucy: Eh?

Zena: The idiot who completely ruined our work needs to be severely punished.

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SFX: Drip

SFX: Stop

Seki: Heh.
Seki: So I was treating her like an object...?

Seki: Then what about the girl who has become the source of your power...?
Seki: That Kuhouin girl?

Seki: Kuhouin women are no more than objects in that house...

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SFX: Drip
Shinkurou: Quiet.

Shinkurou: Murasaki's...
Shinkurou: different...

Shinkurou: ...Murasaki's...
SFX: Wobble...

SFX: Collapse

SFX: Catch

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Housen: It's been a while,
Housen: Seki.

Seki: M-master...
SFX: Prop up
Seki: Meiri-san...

SFX: Hug

Meiri: ...I'm sorry, Seki-kun.
Meiri: I didn't notice the darkness that was inside you...

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Housen: We've heard the story from Ginko-chan.
Housen: This was all your doing.

Housen: As was what happened 5 years ago...

SFX: Sit
SFX: Surprise

Housen: You damn fool.
Housen: You really haven't changed at all since back then.

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Housen: You never, ever...
Housen: tell us anything.

Housen: In the end...
Housen: I didn't get anything.

Housen: Power...
Housen: or a family...

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Meiri: Seki-kun...

Meiri: If you like, you can come back to Houzuki...
Seki: I can't do that.

Seki: There's no way I can do that!!

Seki: I...

Seki: I...

SFX: Stand
Meiri: ...Ah.

Meiri: S-Seki-kun!

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Housen: Meiri.

Housen: Let him go.

Meiri: B-but...
Meiri: This is too much...

Housen: It's our responsibility as well as his...
Housen: that he turned out the way he did.

Housen: We have no choice but to silently...
Housen: bear his sins along with him.

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Text: The Next Day

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san.

Shinkurou: Are you thinking about him?

26

Shinkurou: I'm sure he'll...

Yuuno: I know.

Yuuno: I'm sure he'll come back, too.

Yuuno: It may not be anytime soon...
Yuuno: but I'm sure...
Yuuno: he'll atone for his sins and come back.

Yuuno: That's what I believe.

Shinkurou: Yeah.

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Shinkurou: He was your first love,
Shinkurou: wasn't he?
Yuuno: Huh?

Yuuno: ...What are you saying?

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: But...you always look so happy when you talk about him.

Yuuno: I don't know what you're talking about.
SFX: Snub

Yuuno: C'mon...How can you never figure it out?

Yuuno: My...

Yuuno: first love was...

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Murasaki: Shinkurou!!
SFX: Bam
Shinkurou: Wah!!

Murasaki: Are you done!? Then let's go play!!
Text: Ow ow ow
Shinkurou: O-okay, okay.

Shinkurou: ...Huh?
Shinkurou: Come to think of it, where's Kirihiko-chan?

Murasaki: Hm?
Murasaki: She said she wouldn't be coming.

Murasaki: She said she had something to do.

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SFX: Slash

SFX: Wobble...

SFX: Collapse...

Box: Kirihiko-kun may not have cared...
Box: but Hoshigami-san was furious at Akama-san for attacking the client.

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Box: In order to maintain trust with the Akuu Company...
Box: he had to take responsibility for what he had done.

Kirihiko: ...Whose grave is that?

SFX: Gasp gasp

Seki: An old...
Seki: friend's...

Seki: One who...
Seki: I killed...

Seki: ......I wanted...
Seki: to apologize...

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Kirihiko: Shut up!!!

SFX: Pant pant
Kirihiko: ...Damn it...!!

Kirihiko: I...!!
Kirihiko: I...!!

Kirihiko: Aaaaaaah!
Text: Friend...That word has shaken Kirihiko!!

Bottom: To be continued in the July Issue https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/21838 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 29 by js06 2010-04-23T18:25:28+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 29

01

Text: In order to celebrate the upcoming release of the volume that will come with an OA DVD, this month's chapter is a special chapter starring Kirihiko!!

Box: This is an odd feeling.

Box: Have I changed slightly...
Box: since I met them...?

02

Box: Kirihiko-chan.

David: Nyaoh

Kirihiko: Are you...

03

David: Nyaahn
Kirihiko: calling for me?

Text: The girl who carries the sin of murder, "Guillotine" Kirishima Kirihiko.
Title: Chapter 29 Kirishima Kirihiko
Text at bottom: Volume 5 (being released on July 2nd) will have a limited version for reserved copies that will come with an original anime DVD!! Details on Page 441!!

04

David: Nyaahn

Sign: Samidare Apartments

Kirihiko: I thought I'd seen that cat before...
Kirihiko: I was right.

Kirihiko: Hm.

05

SFX: Throw

SFX: Droop...

SFX: Sleepy

Yamie: Hey, ribbon girl.

Yamie: It seems David invited you here.

Kirihiko: ...David?

06

SFX: Land

Yamie: That's this cat's name.

Yamie: And...
Yamie: It was the name of the man I once loved.

Yamie: He had a strong sense of justice.
Yamie: He worked as a free journalist because he wanted to report the truth to the world.

Yamie: In the end, he got caught up in some trouble in a developing country and died.

Yamie: THIS is a part of him.
Yamie: Even now, he is with me...

07

Kirihiko: ...No, it isn't.

Yamie: Hm?

Kirihiko: An adult man's skull is bigger than that.
Text: It's about this big.

Yamie: Oh...
SFX: Smile

Yamie: The boy simply believed that made-up story...
Yamie: but it seems you're used to seeing the real thing.

SFX: Jump

08

Yamie: Oh.
SFX: Land

Yamie: Girl.
Yamie: Sorry, but could you catch David for me?

Kirihiko: Eh?

Yamie: He's quite the mischievous cat.
Yamie: Who knows what he'll do if we leave him to it.
Kirihiko: Okay...

SFX: Walk

Sign: Room 6

09

SFX: Messy

SFX: Trip

SFX: Fall

Tamaki: Ahhn.

Tamaki: No, Shinkurou-kuuun.
Tamaki: You can't be sneaking into my room at night again!
SFX: Hug

10

Tamaki: Shinkurou-kun, your skin's so soft.
Tamaki: It feels like pure bliss.
SFX: Huuuug
Tamaki: Give it to me.

Tamaki: Hnyuh?

Tamaki: Oh?
Tamaki: Kirihiko-chan.

SFX: Annoyed
Tamaki: Hmm...

Tamaki: Oh, that's right.
Tamaki: That is today, isn't it?
Tamaki: So you were invited, too.

Kirihiko: That...?

11

Tamaki: The. Flower. Viewing.

Tamaki: We were talking about everyone going together today.

Tamaki: By the way...
Tamaki: How are things going with, Shinkurou-kun?

Kirihiko: ...Eh?

Tamaki: You've been getting along pretty well, haven't you?
Tamaki: And the other day you even slept in his futon...

12

SFX: Bam!

Yuuno: Who...
Yuuno: slept in Shinkurou-san's futon...?
Tamaki: No, um...
Tamaki: He was just nursing her because she was sick and...
Yuuno: Tamaki-san?

Yuuno: I...
Yuuno: I...
Yuuno: I...!!

13

Yuuno: I haven't even gotten in the futon with him yet!!!

Yuuno: I'm shocked!! That's so dirty!! And after I came all the way over for the flower viewing...!!
Tamaki: No, no, no. I never said anything about it being with him!
SFX: Walk

Kirihiko: Ah...

Tamaki: W-wait!! Stop, Yuuno-cha-!!
SFX: Crack
Tamaki: Gwah!!
SFX: Step

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Chizuru: Ah...

SFX: Turn

SFX: Grab

Chizuru: ...No.

Chizuru: You shouldn't...
Chizuru: go in his room...
Chizuru: while he's gone.

SFX: Kneel

Kirihiko: David.
Chizuru: Eh?

Kirihiko: The cat...
Kirihiko: Have you seen it?

Chizuru: The kitty...
Chizuru: went outside through there.

SFX: Rattle

15

Yamie: "Guillotine", huh?
Yamie: Doesn't ring a bell.

Benika: I see...

Benika: And Shinkurou's gone today, too...

Benika: Sorry for bothering you.

Benika: Let's go, Yayoi.
Yayoi: Yes, ma'am.

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SFX: Grab

Chizuru: ...Are you scared?

Yayoi: Is this really enough, Benika-sama?

Yayoi: The knife was here...
Yayoi: so "Guillotine" must have been here.

Benika: Honestly, I'm not all that motivated.

17

Benika: The person "Guillotine" is said to have killed was a big Hollywood producer.
Benika: But from what I've heard, he was an underground specialist in child trafficking.

Benika: The Akuu Company completes their jobs regardless of if the job is good or evil.
Benika: I don't make a habit of punishing people for being unorthodox.

Yayoi: Understood.

Yayoi: But...
Benika: Hm?

Yayoi: What should I do with this knife?

Benika: Hm...
Benika: Just wash it and put it back where we found it.
Yayoi: ...Yes, ma'am.

18

Kirihiko: I can't find David...

David: Nyaah...

Ginko: Eat as much as you like.
Ginko: I've got plenty more.

19

David: Nyaah...

Ginko: Heh heh...
Ginko: Were you saying "thank you"?
SFX: Pick up

Ginko: Nyah nyah nyahn?
David: Nyah...

Kirihiko: Nyah nyah nyah?
Text: Nyaah...
Ginko: Hee hee...

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Ginko: Ah...

Ginko: N-no, it's not what you think...
Ginko: I was just, um...

SFX: Point

Kirihiko: You are pretty.
[TN: She says this in English.]

SFX: Jump
SFX: Catch
SFX: Run
Ginko: Wh...!!

Ginko: Where is that idiot at!!?
Ginko: And after he invited me over so suddenly...!!

21

Ginko: After he said Murasaki-chan wanted me to come over for the flower viewing, and I went out of my way to...
Ginko: come all the way here...

Kirihiko: So you...
Kirihiko: were invited, too...

Ginko: Eh?
SFX: Walk

22

Yamie: Oh.
SFX: Land
Yamie: Do you ever calm down?

Yamie: ...Oh?

Yamie: Where are you going, girl?

Kirihiko: ...I'm leaving.

Kirihiko: Because...
Kirihiko: I wasn't invited.

SFX: Run

23

SFX: Hit

Murasaki: Ow...

Murasaki: Kirihiko!!!

Murasaki: Wh-where have you been!?
Murasaki: Shinkurou and I have been looking for you to invite you to the flower viewing!!
Murasaki: We've been circling the area where the arcade you're always at is...
Murasaki: Shinkurou's still out there looking for you!!

24

Murasaki: Kirihiko?

SFX: Kneel

SFX: Hug

Murasaki: Are you crying?

Murasaki: O-okay.
Murasaki: Now that everyone's here...
Murasaki: let's go!

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Murasaki: There's a rare cherry tree that only blooms at this time of year on the Kuhouin land.
Murasaki: I wanted to show it to you!

Murasaki: Its cherry blossoms are so pretty...

Murasaki: Mother loved them, too...

26

Murasaki: N-no...
Murasaki: It was blooming so much just yesterday...

Murasaki: Kirihiko...?

SFX: Grab

27-28

SFX: Swoosh

Murasaki: A...

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Murasaki: Amazing!!
Murasaki: That's amazing, Kirihiko!!
Murasaki: It's in full bloom!!
Murasaki: The cherry blossoms are in full bloom!!

Murasaki: Ah!!
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

Murasaki: Look! Kirihiko made the blossoms bloom!
Murasaki: Isn't it amazing!?

30

Box: This is an odd feeling.

Box: I really have changed slightly...

Box: since I met them...
Text: Kirihiko plays a role in the DVD, too! Next issue will contain the return of the Red Cap arc!!

Box: I suppose...
Box: I'll see what happens if I hang around with them a while longer. https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/20478 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 28 by js06 2010-03-07T01:09:36+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 28

01

SFX: Slosh

Lucy: Will this really be okay, Hoshigami-san?
Zena: Will what be okay?

Lucy: The "Houzuki" matter...
Lucy: that Red Cap-san is in charge of...

Lucy: The pay is good, but taking on one of the Inner Thirteen Families is quite a risk.
Zena: It'll be fine. They're at a point where they would be destroyed even if we left them alone.
Text: The secret maneuverings of the Akuu Company!!

Zena: ...Oh.
Zena: Come to think of it, you're an "Inner Thirteen Families Enthusiast".
Zena: Is that why you're worried?
Lucy: I'm not getting my personal feelings mixed up in this.

Zena: Well, there won't be any problems.
Zena: His strength isn't just that of a former "Houzuki" student.

02

Zena: He also has...
Zena: my "Hoshigami" power.

Benika: You certainly talk a lot.

03

Benika: So you're Hoshigami Zena.

04

Text: Occasionally, just leave your body to the mercy of the wind...
Title: Chapter 28 Same - Different - Murasaki
Text in the bottom right: There will be a limited preorder edition of Volume 5 (Set to be released July 2nd) that will include an Original Anime DVD! Details on Page 546!!

05

Bianca: You all fortify the back of the house.
Whoever: Yes, ma'am.
Bianca: Everyone else go the first floor lobby.

Bianca: I won't let him interfere.
Bianca: I'll take care of all of Seki-sama's enemies...!!

SFX: Crash

06

Bianca: Wha...!?

Bianca: "Guillotine"!!!?
Kirihiko: Uhh...

Bianca: Why are you here...!?
SFX: Pick up

07

Kirihiko: I've decided...

Kirihiko: My fr...

Bianca: Eh?
Kirihiko: My fr...
Kirihiko: I'll protect my frie...

Kirihiko: Aaaaaah!!! Whatever! I'll just defeat yooooooou!!!
Bianca: Kyaah!

08

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san!!

Man: Ah!!

Man: H-hey, where are you going!?
Man: Hurry up and defeat him...
Man: Ghoh!!

09

Seki: You're in the way.

Seki: I've been waiting.
Seki: Now we can fight freely.
Seki: C'mon, Kurenai-kun.

Shinkurou: I don't want to...
Shinkurou: fight my predecessor if I don't have to.

10

Shinkurou: But Yuuno-san is part of my precious family.

Shinkurou: I won't let you cause her any more grief.

Seki: Don't make me laugh.

Seki: What's causing Yuu-chan grief...
Seki: is your weakness.

Seki: Me.

Seki: It was supposed to be me...

11

Seki: that was awarded the power of the "Horn"...
Seki: and become a part of Houzuki.

Shinkurou: Yu...

Shinkurou: Let go of Yuuno-san!!!

12

Seki: ...You came here while the damage from last time still remains?

Seki: I don't understand...
Seki: why someone as weak as you was awarded the "Horn"...
Seki: or why I had to leave Houzuki.

Seki: All I wanted was to become strong.

Seki: Weren't you the same?
Seki: Wasn't that the only reason you came to Houzuki?

Seki: You really are a lot like me.

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Seki: My entire family...
Seki: was also killed because of crime.

Shinkurou: Eh...?

Seki: So I came knocking at the gates of Houzuki.

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Seki: Master and Meiri-san sympathized with my past...
Seki: and gave me a warm welcome.

Seki: I spent all my time completing the hellish training.

Seki: And three years later...
Seki: Yuu-chan was born.

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Seki: I believed...
Seki: that I would become a part of Houzuki.

Shinkurou: Haa
Shinkurou: Haa

Seki: I was shocked when I learned about you!

Seki: Everything about you is the same!
Yuuno: No...
Yuuno: No...
Seki: The same as me!!
Seki: The same as me!!
Seki: The same as me!!

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Yuuno: Aaaaaaaah!!!

Yuuno: No!!
Yuuno: No!!
Yuuno: No, no, no, no!!

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Yuuno: No!!
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san isn't like you!!!

Yuuno: He won't become like you!!
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san wouldn't...!!

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Seki: "Wouldn't kill his childhood friend"?

Seki: ...Come to think of it, you have one too.
Seki: Murakami Ginko, was it?

Seki: I really started not to like her.
Seki: She was gloomy, would always follow me around, and was so condescending.

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Seki: What kind of reason is "I'm your childhood friend"?

Shinkurou: ...You killed her...?

Seki: It was her fault.

Seki: She was always telling me to quit my training at Houzuki and that I was fine the way I was.
Seki: And she even said those things in front of Yuu-chan...

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Seki: Sorry, Yuu-chan.
Seki: Don't worry about what she said.

Yuuno: Stop!!!

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san...
Yuuno: wouldn't do that...

Seki: He's the same.

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Seki: We just wanted to become strong.

Seki: We lost our families because we were powerless.

Seki: We needed power to live alone in this world.

Seki: We relied on power to live.

Seki: Admitting we were weak was the same as death.
Shinkurou: The same...
Shinkurou: We're the same...
Seki: And if reality thrust that fact in front of us, it was all the worse...

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Yuuno: That's not true...

Yuuno: Right, Shinkurou-san?
Yuuno: That's completely ridiculous...

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san...?

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Seki: It's true...

Seki: that I once tried to erase my memories of Houzuki.
Seki: But, in the end, I couldn't forget.

Seki: I couldn't forget the warmth of Houzuki.

Seki: And you couldn't forget me...
Seki: and were searching for me in him.

Seki: Come...
Seki: with me.

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san...

Yuuno: Sh...
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san...

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Murasaki: Get a hold of yourself, Shinkurou!
Murasaki: You're not like him.

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Murasaki: Don't forget that you have me.

Yuuno: Wha....!?

Yuuno: What are you doing, Murasaki-chan!?
Yuuno: Girls shouldn't do such immodest things!!

Seki: Murasaki...?

Shinkurou: ...That's right.

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Shinkurou: I'm weak.
Shinkurou: But Murasaki...
Shinkurou: Murasaki alone accepted all of me.

Seki: Don't tell me you're...

Murasaki: I am Kuhouin Murasaki.
Murasaki: Don't treat Shinkurou like he's as small as you!
Shinkurou: I decided then.
Shinkurou: That I would be strong before her alone.

Shinkurou: Before her at least, Kurenai Shinkurou would be strong.

Murasaki: You're a weakling.

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Seki: ...Yuu-chan.

Shinkurou: ...Thank you, Murasaki.
Shinkurou: You've opened my eyes.

Murasaki: Now bring Yuuno back with you!

Shinkurou: I will.

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Shinkurou: Sorry for worrying you, Yuuno-san.
Shinkurou: I'm not like him.

Shinkurou: I will never be engulfed by darkness again.

Shinkurou: So don't worry.

Housen: It seems it has begun...

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Housen: Perhaps we should hurry.

Yuuno: What amazing power...
Yuuno: He's like a different person from yesterday...

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Seki: I see...
Seki: So you have the power of "Kuhouin" backing you.

Seki: But I have...
Seki: the power of "Hoshigami".

Seki: Let's have a test...
Seki: to see who has the better mastery of the "Power of Houzuki".
Text: The black horn! Intersecting power!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/19913 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 27 by js06 2010-02-14T02:21:43+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
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Chapter 27

01

Text at the top: The anime returns! Details on page 592!!

Primula: Here, raise your arm.

Text: What will happen to the captured Yuuno...!?

Bianca: Is she really only 17?

02

Bianca: She's got a really sexy body.
Bianca: It pisses me off.

Primula: Hey, you two help me wash her.

Box: We no longer need you.

Bianca: And that that old man got away so easily...
Bianca: I'm just so pissed off.
Eugenie: Could you just shut up already?

03

Box: Big brother.

04

Seki: Kh...
Seki: ha ha ha.

Seki: Ha ha ha ha ha!!

05

Text around Shinkurou: They were supposed to always be together, looking at the same scenery...
Text above title: An Original Anime DVD is set to be released with Volume 5 on July 2nd! Details on page 592!!
Title: Chapter 27 Prisoner

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Shinkurou: He's...

Shinkurou: my predecessor...?

Shinkurou: Wait...
Shinkurou: I've never heard of him...

Shinkurou: I've been a student of "Houzuki" for 8 years...
Shinkurou: and I've never met him!!

Ginko: Of course.
Ginko: He was excommunicated from "Houzuki" 12 years ago.

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Ginko: And...they made it so a student names Akama Seki was "never there".

Shinkurou: Why would they do that?

Ginko: I don't know.
Ginko: But it's clear he carried a grudge against "Houzuki".

Ginko: Enough of one to set fire to their mansion.

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Shinkurou: Even that fire...
Shinkurou: was him...?

Shinkurou: Don't worry...
Shinkurou: I'll protect you, Chi-chan.

Shinkurou: I'll never let anything scary happen to you again.

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Bianca: Seki-sama.
Bianca: She's ready.

Seki: I see.

Seki: You're beautiful, Yuu-chan.
Seki: It's like we've gone back to the old days.

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Seki: The last time I saw you, you were 5 years old.

Seki: Back then, you followed me around wherever I went.

Seki: You truly adored me...

Yuuno: Please don't touch me.

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Yuuno: Big broth-...
Yuuno: What do you want with "Houzuki"...?

Primula: Don't misunderstand.

Primula: He's one of the Akuu Company's leading soldiers-for-hire..."Red Cap".
Primula: He destroys his enemies with nothing but pure power...
Primula: and their blood beautifully dyes his hair.

Primula: I'm sure you understand.

Primula: From the beginning, this had nothing to do with his connections to "Houzuki".

Primula: This was merely...
SFX: Rinnng

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Primula: ...Yes.
Primula: That's right.

Primula: Red Cap-sama.
Primula: He will be arriving soon.

Seki: Understood,
Seki: Primula.

Seki: Are you thinking of HIM?

Seki: I thought so.
Seki: After all, you came here without resistance...
Seki: so as to not involve him in this any further.

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Yuuno: Promise me...
Yuuno: that you won't do anything to Shinkurou-san.

Seki: Of course I won't.
Seki: He's you're precious family, isn't he?

Seki: As long as you behave and stay here, that is.

Sign: Samidare

Shinkurou: Thank you, Ginko.

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Shinkurou: You've been a huge help...
Shinkurou: by finding where Yuuno-san is so quickly.

Ginko: Do you have any chance of succeeding?

Shinkurou: ...No.

Shinkurou: Being a dispute mediator isn't about winning or losing.

Ginko: That doesn't sound very convincing coming from you.

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Shinkurou: Take care of Chi-chan.

Ginko: Wait.

Ginko: Your tie is twisted.
Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: Oh...thanks.

Ginko: Ok.

Ginko: Get going.

Murasaki: Are you ready?

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Murasaki: Then let's go,
Murasaki: Shinkurou!

Shinkurou: Wh-what are you saying!?
Shinkurou: There's no way I can take you with me...!!

Murasaki: This is a race against time, right?

Murasaki: Then leave it to me, Kuhouin Murasaki!

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Bianca: He's here.
Bianca: Go tell Seki-sama.

Seki: Well...let's go,
Seki: Yuu-chan.

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Seki: No...
Seki: "Houzuki Yuuno".

Seki: I'll be handing you over to the client.

Seki: This client...

Seki: was seeking a living member of the "Houzuki".

Seki: Did you think I did this based on my personal feelings?
Seki: Well, I didn't.

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Seki: I'm part of the Akuu Company.
Seki: This was all business.

Primula: Stand up.

Yuuno: When you were with the Houzuki...

Yuuno: was the kindness you showed to me and my family...
Yuuno: all an act, too?

Yuuno: Understood...

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Yuuno: Farewell,
Yuuno: big brother.

SFX: *close*

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Client: Oh...

Client: Is that beautiful young lady her?
Primula: Yes.

Client: Wonderful!
Client: So this lady is of the bloodline of "Houzuki", one of the inner thirteen families and the possessor of that "Fighting Demon Horn"...!

Client: Heh heh...
Client: I need to investigate this.

Primula: Don't resist.

Primula: If you do...
Primula: you know what will happen.

Client: So our transaction is complete.
Client: Then without delay...

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Client: Wh...!!
Client: What's that!!?

23

Pilot: We're above the landing point, Murasaki-sama.
Pilot: Fasten your seat belt.

Murasaki: Shinkurou.

Shinkurou: It's okay.
Shinkurou: I'm going.

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Murasaki: Heh heh.

Murasaki: That was a good luck charm to keep you from trembling!

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Shinkurou: Thank you, Murasaki.

Bianca: ...It seems you're here to get Houzuki Yuuno back.

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Bianca: It's useless...
Bianca: Don't you know that you were only allowed to live because you were weak?

Shinkurou: I know.

Shinkurou: I am weak.

Shinkurou: I'm weaker than him or Yuuno-san.
Shinkurou: There are plenty of other people I'm weaker than.

Shinkurou: But "Houzuki" and the person who taught me how to do this job know it isn't about that.
Shinkurou: There's something beyond strength and beyond whether you win or lose.

Shinkurou: That's what I'm fighting for.

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Bianca: A member of the Akuu Company,
Bianca: "Octagon Staff" Bianca.

Eugenie: A member of the Akuu Company,
Eugenie: "Ripping Claws" Eugenie.

Bianca: Here we come!!

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Eugenie: ...An iron geta?

Shinkurou: Ah...!

Shinkurou: Tamaki-san!!
Shinkurou: Lin-san!!

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Tamaki: I'm gonna make you let me join in this time!
Tamaki: That's why I'm here.

Lin: I'm here on Murasaki-sama's orders.
Lin: I'm to provide backup for you.

Lin: Go,
Lin: Kurenai.

Bianca: Ah!!

Eugenie: What are you doing, Bianca!?
Eugenie: Don't let him by!!

Lin: I will be your opponent.

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Client: Wh...

Client: What's going on? Isn't the Akuu Company supposed to keep anyone from interfering!?
Client: Do you know how much I paid for this!?

Primula: Do not worry.

Yuuno: Why...?

Yuuno: Why...!?

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Seki: ...So you came.
Seki: As I thought, you're the same as me.

Seki: I have only one wish.
Seki: That we fight.

Seki: Let's finish this.
Text: The rematch begins!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/18660 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 26 by js06 2009-12-30T04:24:12+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
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Chapter 26

01

Yuuno: Leave.

Yuuno: We no longer need you.

Shinkurou: Wait...
Shinkurou: Yuuno-sa...

Text: He doesn't get to argue! She responds with a single strike!!

02

Red Cap: ...Heh.

Red Cap: How sad,
Red Cap: Yuu-chan.

03

Text: The best fortune gets you smiling!!
Small text to the left of the big text: ...but not everyone gets that fortune.

Title: Chapter 26: Identity

Ginko: ...rou!!

04

Shinkurou: Ginko...

Ginko: The Akuu Company attacked, didn't they?
Ginko: What happened to the Houzuki family?
Ginko: Where's Houzuki-senpai...?

05

Ginko: Shinkurou...?

Shinkurou: I...

Shinkurou: couldn't do...anything...
Shinkurou: Just like you said...

Box: And...

06

Box: Yuuno-san and that man disappeared...

Box: Chi-chan and master, too.

Box: And Meiri...

Box: Everyone...

Text: The next day.

Sign: Samidare Apartments

Tamaki: Morning, Shinkurou-kun.

07

Shinkurou: Tamaki-san...?

Tamaki: Ginko-chan brought you here.
Tamaki: Don't you remember?

Tamaki: And she's been attending to you this whole time. Wiping away your sweat and such.

Tamaki: You just can't move at all after bringing out the horn.

Tamaki: You should thank her with a kiss.

08

Murasaki: I've come over to play, Shinkurou!!

Murasaki: Shinkurou...
Murasaki: Why are you injured?

Murasaki: What happened!?

Shinkurou: Nothing...

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Murasaki: Something clearly happened!!

Shinkurou: I'm serious. Nothing happened...
Murasaki: Tell me, Shinkurou!!
Murasaki: Something happened!!
Murasaki: Tell me what it was, Shin-...!!

Shinkurou: I said nothing happened!!

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Shinkurou: Uh...

Ginko: What are you-...?

Ginko: Shinkurou!!

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Yamie: The tears of children are nice.

Yamie: They're like crystallized emotion...
Yamie: They're like jewels.

Yamie: Don't you think so,
Yamie: boy?

Box: Stop it...

12

Box: Don't criticize me.

Box: I abandoned Yuuno-san.
Box: I burdened Ginko with bringing me back from the brink of death.
Box: I made Murasaki cry...

13

Box: What is this?
Box: It's like I'm just a horrible person.
Box: Why I am I like this...?
Box: Is it because I lost to him?

Box: That's it.

Box: I should have been more serious back then.
Box: I should have been as "serious" as he was...

Box: I need to be willing to kill.
Box: I need to intend to kill.

Benika: What are you thinking about?

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Tamaki: Aren't you going to go after him?

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Ginko: No.

Ginko: I have nothing to say to an idiot who makes girls cry.
Ginko: He needs to cool his head a bit...

Murasaki: Shinkurou isn't an idiot!!
Murasaki: Take that back, Ginko!!!

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Murasaki: Shinkurou...!!
Murasaki: saved me from Ryuuji-niisama!!

Murasaki: He taught me so many important things!!

Murasaki: Because of Shinkurou...!!
Murasaki: I...
Murasaki: I...

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Ginko: ...That's right.
Ginko: Sorry...
Ginko: I'm sorry, Murasaki-chan.

Ginko: It's okay.
Ginko: He'll come back.

Ginko: Lin-san...

Ginko: There's something I want to check on, so I'll be leaving for a bit.
Ginko: I leave Murasaki-chan to you.

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Shinkurou: I just...
Shinkurou: wanted to be strong.

Shinkurou: I wanted to be strong like you, Benika-san.

Shinkurou: But I had it all taken from me.
Shinkurou: And in the end, even Yuuno-san said she didn't need me...

Shinkurou: He didn't hesitate at all in his attack.
Shinkurou: If I could be like him...I wouldn't have been so pathetic...

19

Benika: Grit your teeth, Shinkurou.

Shinkurou: Eh?

Benika: Are you trying to change your job from dispute mediator to soldier-for-hire?

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Benika: Why did you go to the Houzuki house?
Benika: Was it to win a fight?
Benika: No.

Benika: It was to save Houzuki Yuuno.

Benika: Being a dispute mediator...
Benika: isn't about winning or losing.

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Benika: It's about dealing with what's happening right in front of you.
Benika: Don't lose sight of who you are.

Benika: Now...Sorry, but we need to get on to the main issue at hand.
Benika: I don't have any time to spare.

Benika: Yayoi.

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Shinkurou: Ch...

Shinkurou: Chi-chan!!

Chizuru: Wahhhh
Shinkurou: Wh...

Shinkurou: Why do you have her...?

Benika: The leader of the Houzuki left her with me.
Shinkurou: M...
Shinkurou: Master did!?

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Benika: I'm not good with kids.

Benika: So I want you to take care of her.

Benika: I'm counting on you.
Shinkurou: W...

Shinkurou: Wait!!
Shinkurou: Is Master...
Shinkurou: Are they all alright!!?

Benika: That old man isn't the type to go down so easily.

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Benika: Anyway...I'm counting on you.

Sign: Samidare

Murasaki: Will this really work?

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Tamaki: Ahh! You're so cute!
Murasaki: Will this really cheer Shinkurou up?
Text left of Murasaki: And I feel like I've done something like this before.

Tamaki: Yes. Nothing's better than a maid outfit or a shrine maiden outfit to make guys happy.
Lin: Why did I have to...?

Murasaki(?): Tamaki-san, you think like an old man.
Tamaki: Oh, thank you.
Text left of Tamaki's bubble: Eh heh heh heh heh

Shinkurou: What are you all doing?

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Murasaki: Sh...!!
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

Tamaki: Oh.
Tamaki: Chi-chan!!
Tamaki: I'm so glad you're all right!

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Murasaki: I heard about Yuuno...
Murasaki: from Ginko.

Murasaki: You didn't tell me.
Murasaki: You're being distant...

Murasaki: Do you...not need me anymore?

Shinkurou: O-of course I do...
Murasaki: Then!

Murasaki: Tell me everything.
Murasaki: Tell me the painful things, the sad things, and the happy things!

Murasaki: If you...
Murasaki: say you need me...

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Murasaki: I'll make sure I do my best...
Murasaki: to live up to that...!

Shinkurou: ...Murasaki.

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Ginko: Oh, so you're back?
Ginko: You lolicon.

Shinkurou: G-Ginko!

Murasaki: What's a "lolicon"?

Tamaki: Well, it's-

Ginko: The Houzukis are safe.

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Shinkurou: Really!?
Ginko: I looked into a lot of things while you were gone.

Ginko: It seems they managed to get through the attack.
Ginko: They're hiding right now, most likely looking for a chance to attack back.

Ginko: The same can't be said for Houzuki-senpai...

Shinkurou: Wh-where's Yuuno-san...!?

Ginko: First...
Ginko: I found out who that white-haired man you mentioned is.

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Ginko: His real name is Akama Seki.
Ginko: Code name "Red Cap".

Ginko: He's a soldier-for-hire for the Akuu Company...
Ginko: And a former...student of the "Houzuki".

Ginko: He's...your predecessor.

Left margin: Shock!! His enemy is his predecessor who he didn't know existed! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/18112 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 25 by js06 2009-12-06T22:36:12+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
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Chapter 25

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Text in the top right: A color page in celebration of exceeding 2 years of serialization and the release of Volume 4!
Text on the right: To protect the power residing within him!!
Title: Chapter 25 Excommunication

02

Shinkurou: They were bait.
Shinkurou: Why didn't I realize it!?

Shinkurou: No...wait a second...
Shinkurou: Why is the Akuu Company after the Houzuki family in the first place...!?

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san!!
Text on the left: A mysterious evil approaches... Will he make it in time!? A special chapter will be appearing in SQ II (On sale 12/18)!

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Yuuno: B...
Yuuno: Big brother...

04

Housen: Damn it, Meiri...

Housen: Why do I have to go get Chizuru...?

Meiri: What's wrong with doing it every once in a while?

Meiri: Chi-chan will be glad to have her grandfather come get her.

Text above Housen: Hmm

Housen: I have no choice...
Housen: On the way back I can buy Chizuru something...

Housen: Hm?

05

Brother: I'm shocked.

Brother: You used to be so small, Yuu-chan...

Yuuno: St...!!
Yuuno: Stay away from me!!!

Yuuno: Why are you here...?

06

Brother: Is it really that odd?
Brother: I mean, this is my-

Yuuno: Please stop!!!

Yuuno: You can't be here!!
Yuuno: You're..!!

Yuuno: ...You're....!!

Brother: This isn't like you,
Brother: Yuu-chan.
Yuuno: Eh?

07

Brother: You're wide open.

Girl: So you're Houzuki Housen-sama...

08

Girl: This is the first time I've had the honor of meeting you.

Housen: I'm happy that a lady as young as you would try to hit on me...

Housen: But I'm sorry.
Housen: I'm on my way to meet my cute granddaughter...

Chizuru: Grampa...

09

Girl2: Our orders from "Red Cap"-sama were...
Girl2: to destroy the roots of Houzuki...

Housen: Red Cap?

Shinkurou: Haa
Shinkurou: Haa

10

Ginko: You idiot!!!

Ginko: What are you thinking!?

Ginko: I wasn't done talking to you!!
Shinkurou: Haa
Shinkurou: Haa

Shinkurou: Sorry...
Shinkurou: But I need to get to the Houzuki place now...!!

Ginko: What can you do on your own!?
Ginko: You don't know who you're up against!!

Shinkurou: B...
Shinkurou: But that's exactly why I have to do something...!

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Ginko: The Akuu Company has sent some soldiers-for-hire...

Ginko: in order to attack the Houzuki.

Ginko: You know very well what a professional soldier-for-hire is like, right?

Ginko: If you go there now...
Shinkurou: ...True

Shinkurou: Master and Yuuno-san are both much stronger than I am.

Shinkurou: But...
Shinkurou: I...!

12

Shinkurou: Master!!!
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san!!!

Shinkurou: Y...

13

Yuuno: *gasp*
Yuuno: *gasp*

Brother: Hey.
Brother: You got here sooner than I thought you would.

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Shinkurou: You're...

Brother: I didn't really think you'd take on that group I hired...
Brother: but I did get a pretty good idea of how strong you hare.

Brother: Kurenai Shinkurou-kun.

Shinkurou: U...

15

Shinkurou: Ohhh!!!

16

Shinkurou: What...?
Shinkurou: That was exactly the same as Yuuno-san's throw...

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Shinkurou: He's fast...!!

Woman: "Red Cap"-sama.

Woman: I can take care of someone of his level.
Brother: No...
Brother: I'd like for you to let me do this.

Brother: Please.

Woman: Okay...

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Shinkurou: "Red Cap".
Shinkurou: He's a soldier-for-hire from the Akuu Company...!

Brother: Also...
Brother: He probably hasn't shown us all of his "powers" yet.

Shinkurou: Why does he use the exact same type of martial arts as Yuuno-san...?
Shinkurou: Haa
Shinkurou: Haa
Shinkurou: No, this isn't the time to be thinking about that.

Shinkurou: I have no choice but to use the power of the "Horn".

Shinkurou: I will save Yuuno-san!!

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Brother: I see...
Brother: So it was true after all.

Brother: You are...
Brother: the inheritor of the power of the Fighting Demon of "Houzuki"...

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Brother: I didn't want to believe it.

22

Yuuno: Sh...!!

23

Shinkurou: You should leave.
Shinkurou: If you try to fight, you'll end up like him.

Yuuno: N...
Yuuno: No, Shinkurou-san!!
Yuuno: He's...!!

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Brother: A punch like that...

25

Brother: isn't going to work on me.
Brother: My body's foundation has been thoroughly trained.

Shinkurou: Wh...!!

Shinkurou: Why!?

Shinkurou: Why does a soldier-for-hire from the Akuu Company...
Shinkurou: know the "Houzuki Style" of fighting!!

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Brother: My body was originally made this tough...
Brother: so that I could withstand the power of the transplanted "horn"...
Brother: and so I could master using it.

Brother: And now...
Brother: you have that horn.

Brother: And yet...
Brother: this is the best you can do?

Brother: If that...

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Brother: If that's all you have...!

Yuuno: P...!!

Yuuno: Please stop!!
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san's relationship with the Houzuki family is already...!!

Shinkurou: Yu...!!

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Shinkurou: Yuuno-san...!!

Brother: You will break.

29

Yuuno: Stop...!!

Yuuno: Stoooop!!!

30

Woman: How wonderful...

Woman: His white hair dyed red with...
Woman: the blood of his enemy.

Brother: Now...
Brother: to finish this.

Brother: If I'm going to destroy you, I'm going to make it so you can never be resurrected...

31

Shinkurou: Y...
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san...

32

Yuuno: We have no use for the weak.

Yuuno: You had already left the Houzuki house.
Yuuno: And now you use the power of the fighting demon that I forbade you to use. And you did so right in front of me...

Yuuno: You are excommunicated.
Yuuno: We no longer need you.
Text: A sudden pronouncement! Why...!? https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/17587 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 24 by js06 2009-11-14T19:01:44+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 24

01

Ginko: The soldier-for-hire that captured Murasaki-chan...
Ginko: And...

Ginko: the attempted terrorist attack on the hotel the other day.

Ginko: ...What's going on?
Ginko: It's all related to the Akuu Company.
Text: Ginko the information broker demonstrates her specialty!

SFX: Click

Ginko: At this rate...
Ginko: they're going to be a major threat for that idiot.
SFX: Pah
Ginko: I need to get whatever information I can...

02

Ginko: I've hacked in.

Top name: Houzuki Yuuno
Second name: Houzuki Housen
Third name: Houzuki Meiri
Bottom name: Houzuki Chizuru
Ginko: What the...?

03

Text on the upper right: When I'm with you...
Text on the left: the everyday city glows.
Title: Chapter 24 Big Brother

04

Shinkurou: You can't seem to hit them, can you?
Kirihiko: Uuh.
Murasaki: Are you not feeling well today?

Murasaki: You were really, really good at that game you were playing before.

Kirihiko: I was using a character that fought with a knife.
Kirihiko: I'm no good with hammers.
Murasaki: You sure are problematic.
Shinkurou: 5 points...

Lin: Hmph. How silly.

05

Lin: Murasaki-sama.
Lin: I will now demonstrate my skill for you...

Murasaki: Okay, let's play this one next, Kirihiko!!
Lin: Murasaki-sama!!?

Shinkurou: Let's go, Lin-san.

06

Yuuno: That's right...
Yuuno: It's been 12 years since then...

Yuuno: In the end...
Yuuno: I wasn't able to be in the same family as him...

Yuuno: But...
Yuuno: That's why I won't let myself lose Shinkurou-san.

Yuuno: If I think about losing a family member again...

07

Yuuno: B...
Yuuno: Big brother!!?

Shinkurou: Eh?

Yuuno: Ah...

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san...

08

Yuuno: S-sorry.
Yuuno: I just blurted out something weird...!

Yuuno: E-excuse me!

Lin: Big brother?
Shinkurou: I don't know what she meant either!

Sign: Samidare Apartments

09

Shinkurou: What was with Yuuno-san just now...?
Shinkurou: "Big brother"...?

Shinkurou: Even if she mistook me for someone else...
Shinkurou: I didn't think she had any brothers...
SFX: Rinnng

Ginko: Okay, are you at Samidare right now?
Ginko: I'll head over there.

Shinkurou: What is it?
Shinkurou: Come to think of it, you weren't at school today...

10

Ginko: "Houzuki" is being targeted.

Shinkurou: What?

Ginko: I'll tell you the details in person.
Ginko: Anyway, be cautious of your surroundings...

11

Ginko: Kyah...!!
SFX: in the left of Ginko's bubble: Ksssh

Shinkurou: G...
Shinkurou: Ginko!?
Shinkurou: Ginko!!!

Shinkurou: Gi...!!

12

Shinkurou: Haa
Shinkurou: Haa

Shinkurou: She's not here...
Shinkurou: Where is she...?

Shinkurou: Damn it...!!
Shinkurou: I knew all too well how much danger an information broker who's gotten some information can be in, but I just let her leave...!!

Shinkurou: What was she going to tell me...?
Shinkurou: She said something about Houzuki...

13

14

Shinkurou: Ah...

Guy: ...I'm shocked...

Guy: You all of a sudden try to punch me on our first meeting.
Shinkurou: Ah...I-I'm sorry!
Shinkurou: It's just that I'm in a hurry...!!

Guy: Are you Kurenai Shinkurou-kun?

Shinkurou: Huh...?
Shinkurou: Eh?

15

Guy: I...
Guy: found this over there a bit ago.

Guy: I thought it might belong to a friend of yours.

Guys: Hey, what're we supposed to do with her...

16

Guys: I dunno.
Guys: We already got our money, so can't we just do what we want with her?

Guys: Do what we like...? With those glasses?
Guys: You idiot. There're a buncha freaks who love that kinda thing.

Guys: Guys with a glasses fetish...
Guys: you mean?

Guys: Ow!!

16

Guys: She kicked you good.
Text to the left and right of last speech bubble: Ha ha ha ha ha
Guys: Tch.
Guys: Hey, start the camera.

Guys: I'm gonna show you just where you stand, bitch.
Guys: I'll make sure of it.

Ginko: Shinkurou...!!

17

Guys: What...?

18

Shinkurou: Don't you dare touch Ginko!!!

Guys: What!?
Guys: Do you know who you're talking to here...!?

Guys: Eh?

19

Guys: Gweh!!

20

Shinkurou: Haa
Shinkurou: Haa

Shinkurou: Ginko!

Shinkurou: Are you okay!?
Shinkurou: Are you hurt!? Did they do anything to you!?

Shinkurou: ...Thank god...

21

Shinkurou: I'm so glad...
Shinkurou: Ginko...

Ginko: Why are you crying? You're an adult.
Ginko: Idiot.

SFX: *stare*

22

Guy: I see.

Guy: His fighting style isn't bad...

Guy: But that's it.

Guy: I don't get it...
Guy: Why did this guy receive the Horn of "Houzuki"?

23

Shinkurou: The guy who found this told me where to find you.
Shinkurou: He saw you get taken here...

Ginko: Did you look in my cell phone?
Shinkurou: Huh?
Shinkurou: No...
Shinkurou: Well, I saw the screensaver, but...

Shinkurou: ...I see.
Shinkurou: I guess it's normal for people to get mad that you looked at their cell phone without permission.

Shinkurou: Come to think of it...
Shinkurou: why did that guy know my name...?

24

Shinkurou: And I definitely felt...
Shinkurou: deadly intent back then.

Ginko: Who ordered you to do this?

Guys: Um...
Guys: Well...

Guys: We were just given money and...
Ginko: By who?

Guys: I-I don't know!
Guys: I'm serious!
Guys: It was some guy with white hair...

25

Shinkurou: White hair...?

Ginko: Could it be...?

Ginko: Shinkurou.
Ginko: These guys might have some connection to the information I got.

Sign: Houzuki

26

Guy: It hasn't changed at all...

Guy: Why is that?
Guy: I thought I'd done a proper job of destroying it...

27

Shinkurou: The...!!

Shinkurou: The Akuu Company is targeting "Houzuki"!?
Shinkurou: Why...!?

Ginko: I don't know.

Ginko: But the "Houzuki Family" has a lot of influence in the underworld...
Ginko: It's not surprising that someone would be targeting them...

28

Shinkurou: They're bait.

Ginko: W...!!
Ginko: Wait!!

Ginko: You might be a target too!!
Ginko: Shinkurou!!

29

Guy: You certainly look depressed.
Guy: Did something happen?

30

Guy: Yuu-chan.

Yuuno: Wha...?
Yuuno: Big...brother...
Text: A reunion wrapped in mystery...!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/16568 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 23 by js06 2009-10-05T01:43:51+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com
For JAC only

Chapter 23

01

Lucy: I see you went the showy route again.
Lucy: All sorts of things are scattered all over the place.

Zena: I was just playing.
Zena: But more importantly, what job did you call me out here for?
Text: This is a battlefield!? The shadow of Akuu...!!

Lucy: Well...
Lucy: There's a certain skilled person I want to invite into the Akuu Company.

02-03

Lucy: But I thought I'd speak it over with you.

Lucy: Seeing as you're the Akuu Company's greatest advisor.
Lucy: The "One-Man Stronghold" Hoshigami Zena.

Title: Chapter 23 Evil Omen
Text: The ruler of destruction.

Zena: A skilled person, huh...?
Zena: What's this person's name?

Lucy: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Lucy: Have you heard of him?

04

Murasaki: I don't get it at all.

Yuuno: H-how can you not get it!?
Yuuno: I even brought over an old photo album!!
Yuuno: It means that Shinkurou and I have been the perfect match since way back...
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san, calm down...

Yuuno: Understood...
Yuuno: I guess the fact that you used to live at my house no longer means anything...

Shinkurou: Quit exaggerating...

Murasaki: Hm?

05

Murasaki: Who's this?
Yuuno: Eh?

Yuuno: ...Ah.

Yuuno: Th-this isn't anything!
Yuuno: It was put in by mistake...!

Yuuno: Ah!

Murasaki: You're acting suspiciously, Yuuno!!
Murasaki: Let me see it!!
Yuuno: Y-you can't, Murasaki-chan!!
Yuuno: It really isn't anything!!

06

Text: 5 Years Ago

Text: The Houzuki Residence

07

Shinkurou: Sorry...

Yuuno: N...
Yuuno: Noooooo!!
SFX: *smack*
Yuuno: You're impuuuuure!!!

Meiri: Are you okay, Shinkurou-kun?

08

Box: Kurenai Shinkurou Age 11

Meiri: Is it getting in the wound in your mouth?
Meiri: Sorry for what Yuuno did...
Box: Houzuki Meiri Yuuno's Mother

Yuuno: I didn't do anything wrong!!

Yuuno: It...
Yuuno: It's because Shinkurou-kun came into the bath all of a sudden...!!
Box: Houzuki Yuuno Age 12

09

Housen: That was just a mistake, Yuuno.

Housen: Why would anyone want to see the slight bulges of your breasts...
Housen: Right, Shinkurou?
Box: Houzuki Housen Head of the "Houzuki" Family

Yuuno: Grandpa!!
Yuuno: You're impure!! You're perverted!!
Meiri: Yuuno.
Meiri: It wasn't Shinkurou-kun's fault.

Meiri: I thought the bath was free, so I told him to go in.
Meiri: Right, Shinkurou-kun?

Shinkurou: Thanks for the meal...

10

Housen: It's been 3 years since Benika brought him here...
SFX: *smack*

Housen: He's progressed physically because of his training...
Housen: but mentally...

Meiri: That's right...

Meiri: Since he came to our house...
Meiri: I haven't seen him smile once.
Meiri: He trains all day everyday and never takes time to have fun...

Yuuno: I-I was against it.
Yuuno: Ever since that incident, we haven't taken in a single apprentice...

Housen: Ohh...

Housen: But Yuuno. Weren't you glad...
Housen: that a future husband had come along?

11

Yuuno: I-I never said that!!!
Housen: Oh, is that so?
Yuuno: You just made it up, grandpa!!

Yuuno: I don't intend to...
Yuuno: to make him my husband.

Yuuno: Men are...

Yuuno: Men are...

Meiri: Yuuno.

12

Meiri: Feel your...
Meiri: mother's belly.

Meiri: The baby will be born soon.

Meiri: You'll be a big sister.

Yuuno: Yes...

Meiri: But Shinkurou-kun...
Meiri: He lost his family...
Meiri: He lost his big sister.

13

Meiri: So you have to become a kind big sister.

Meiri: For this child...

Meiri: And for Shinkurou-kun.

Housen: Well, I'll be gone for a bit.

14

Housen: I leave Meiri to you.

Yuuno: Of course!
Yuuno: This is the most important time for mom!

Housen: I'd stay with her too if I didn't have this meeting of the inner families.

Housen: Geez...
Housen: Even though we cleansed ourselves of most of the dirty jobs, it really is a pain to be part of...
Housen: the thirteen inner families...

Housen: By the way, Yuuno.

Yuuno: Yes?

Housen: Don't touch Shinkurou...
Housen: while I'm gone.

15

Housen: I'll teach you how to do it properly later.
Housen: Right now he might put it in the wrong-
Yuuno: No...!!
Yuuno: Give it a rest already!!

Yuuno: Hm...
Yuuno: Ahem!

Yuuno: Do you understand?
Yuuno: While he's gone, we have to take care of things.
Yuuno: We can't be careless...

Yuuno: Geez!
Yuuno: Why did grandpa have to say that...!!

Shinkurou: ...rry.

Shinkurou: I'm sorry.

16

Yuuno: Huh?

Yuuno: Wh...
Yuuno: Why are you apologizing...?

Meiri: What are you doing, Yuuno?

Yuuno: N-nothing!!
Yuuno: I-I'm going for a run!!

17

Meiri: *sigh*...
Meiri: Our children really are difficult to deal with...

Yuuno: Haa
Yuuno: Haa

Yuuno: I just can't do it.
Yuuno: I can't be the kind big sister...!

Yuuno: I just can't figure out what men are thinking.
Yuuno: Why was he apologizing?

Yuuno: Why?

Yuuno: It was like this before.
Yuuno: I just can't figure out what men are thinking...!!

18

Yuuno: Wha...?

People: What? A gas explosion!?
People: Hey, it's on fire!!

People: Over there!!
People: On that huge estate...!!

Yuuno: Mom...!!

19

Text on either side of Meiri: *cough*

Meiri: Why is this...
Meiri: happening now...!?

Meiri: The fire surrounded me too quickly...

Meiri: I let my guard down...
Meiri: There are so many reasons for someone to target the "Houzuki" family.

Yuuno: Mom!!

20

Meiri: Yuu...!!

Yuuno: Mom!!

21

Shinkurou: Ohhhh!!

Meiri: Shinkurou-kun!!
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san!!

22

Yuuno: Pull yourself together!!
Yuuno: Why would you do something so reckless...!?

Shinkurou: I'm sorry...

Shinkurou: It's my fault...

Shinkurou: Because I came to this house...
Shinkurou: Yuuno-san and master were fighting...
Shinkurou: and even Yuuno-san and Meiri-san were fighting.
Shinkurou: The whole family has been messed up...

Yuuno: Wh...
Yuuno: What are you saying...?

23

Shinkurou: I've had enough.

Shinkurou: Hurry and get Meiri-san out of here...
Shinkurou: You can just leave me...

Meiri: Yu...

Yuuno: What kind of stupid things are you saying!!?

24

Yuuno: You're an apprentice of Houzuki!!

Yuuno: You're part of our precious family!!

Yuuno: You and mom...
Yuuno: and the new member of our family!!
Yuuno: I won't let any one of you die!!!

25

26

Box: 1 Month Later

Meiri: Shinkurou-kun.

Meiri: Here...hold Chizuru.

Meiri: Because you saved me...
Meiri: she was able to be born.

27

Yuuno: That was...
Yuuno: the first time it truly felt like we'd become a family...

Text: The Present

28

Yuuno: A family...

Yuuno: In the end...
Yuuno: this person alone didn't fit in.

Zena: Houzuki Housen's apprentice?

29

Zena: Ah ha ha ha ha. You mean a fighting demon of Houzuki!?
Zena: You mean there's still one of that endangered species around!?

Lucy: But speaking of Houzuki Housen...
Lucy: He's said to be the man who held Juuzawa Benika off one-on-one.

Zena: Hmmm...

Zena: Understood.
Zena: I leave it to you, Lucy.

Man: Gh...
Man: You damn demon...

Man: ...Die...

30

Zena: Ow...

Man: Wha...!?

Man: Ah!!

SFX: *snap* *crack*
Man: Gh!!

Zena: Heh.

Zena: You're as harsh as ever...
Zena: in how you kill people.

31

Guy: If you're going to defeat your opponent...
Guy: you need to destroy them to the point where they can't be resurrected.

Zena: Oh.
Zena: This is perfect.

Zena: We were just talking about "Houzuki".
Zena: Aren't they your target?

Text: The man from...Yuuno's photo!? https://mangahelpers.com/t/shurou/releases/15877 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 22 by Shurou 2009-09-06T02:41:51+00:00 Shurou admin@mangahelpers.com Kure-Nai 22 - FRIENDS

= speech/thought bubbles
++ everything else (usu also labeled to some extent)

Finally got some time to regain sanity enough to translate Kurenai again... Good to see someone’s been picking up the slack while I was gone, too. Anyhow, enjoy!

1
++ Kirihiko meeting in secret with Lucy May!? (t/n: Kanji written “Aku-u Company”.. keeping with the previous translation... just added a hyphen to make the reading clearer)

Lucy
= So, in other words...
= “That” the other day was a coincidence

= After all, going anywhere for a job commission sis what Aku-u Company is about
= I did not expect one bit... that Kirihiko-kun would at that hotel

= But... I didn’t know

2
Lucy
= Kirihiko-kun
= Had so many friends

= You seemed to be quite close with them
= When did you make so many...

= ...Ah

= Haha, no, excuse me
= My mistake!

3
Lucy
= To think Kirihiko-kun would have “friends”... haha
= There’s no way

= Dear me, I am sorry... I fail as deputy head of human resources
= How on earth could anyone befriend a beast?

= However, Kirihiko-kun, you should be proud of that
= Even within our Aku-u Company, you’re a leading...

4
Kirihiko
= Shut your mouth
= Lucy May

Lucy
= Butter knife... huh?

= Well, before I shut my mouth
= Regarding the case from the other day, there is a talent I’d like to ask you a bit

= About that male high school student...

5
Lucy
= You are scary

= Yes
= That’s for the best

= You have no need for friends

= We’ll be in contact again
= Kirihiko-kun

6
++ Between
++ Destruction
++ And loneliness...

7
Kirihiko
= Blabbering about useless shit...

= That bitch...

Hooligan
= Ow!

= Hey

= Hey! You bumped into my shoulder!
= The hell are you playing dumb abou...

8
(Big SFX) Slash (t/n: and with a BUTTER KNIFE!!! o____O)

Pussy
= Ee...!!

= Eeek!!
= You m-monster!!

9
Shinkurou (aka dumb-ass :P)
= Kirihiko-chan

Kirihiko
= Onii-chan... (t/n: I opted for “onii-chan” instead of “big brother” because... well, that’s more loli, which is what a large part of this manga is, after all xD)

Tamaki
= ....Oh?
= It’s Kirihiko-chan

10
Shinkurou
= Speaking of which...

= There’s never anyone besides you in here, Ginko...
= This is the newspaper club’s room, right?

Ginko (aka biggest victim in Shinkurou’s love-...what is it, like a hexagon?)
= This is my room
= Didn’t you know that?

Shinkurou
= The rumor that she kicked out all the club members might be true...

Ginko
= Forget that
= You should be careful

Shinkurou
= Huh?

11
Ginko
= Those guys you punched out at the pool a few days ago...
= They seem to have borrowed the help of “Aku-u Company”

= A giant talent syndicate of the underworld
= If you tactlessly make yourself an enemy, you won’t get away with it unscathed

= But then... those guys from last time were amateurs no matter how you look at it
= So I don’t think you need to worry about it that much

Shinkurou
= So it was Aku-u Company again...

12
Tamaki
= Shinkurou-kun?

= He should be at school

Kirihiko’s SFX
++ Looking looking

SFX
= Rustle

Murasaki
= Ugh...

13
Murasaki
= Nuu...

= Hm?

= Oh, s-sorry
= I don’t know who you are, but...

= ...Oh
= It’s you, Kirihiko

14
Murasaki
= I see
= You’ve come to see Shinkurou, too...

= I wanted to see him all a sudden as well
= So I sneaked out of elementary school!

= This is a secret, OK?

= Let’s ask them about Shinkurou!

= Hey, you....

15
Yuuno
= Eh?

= Oh, Murasaki-chan

= Why are you doing in a place like this?
= You’re supposed to be at your elementary school at this hour...

Murasaki
= Let’s run away, Kirihiko!!

Yuuno
= Murasaki-chan!!

Classmate
= Houdzuki-san, do you know them?

16
Lin/Rin (oh, why bother -____-)
= Kurenai Shinkurou!!

= Where is Murasaki-sama!!

Shinkurou
= Eh...
= Lin-san....?

Lin
= I know she’s at this school by GPS!!

Shinkurou
= D-did something happen to Murasaki!?

17
Sign
++ Biology Lab

Murasaki
= Hide here, Kirihiko

= I’ll go find Shinkurou!

Kirihiko
= ...Friend
= Friend

18
Kirihiko
= Um...

Yuuno
= Looks like Murasaki-chan isn’t here...

= Did you get lost somewhere?
= Kirihiko-san...

19
Yuuno
= <<Kirishima>>
= Kirihiko-san

= This is first time we speak alone like this

= I was surprised the first time we met
= Like <<Houdzuki>>, one of the Thirteen Families of the Underworld <<Kirishima>>...

20
Yuuno
= Moreover, the fact that you call yourself “Kirihiko”
= Must mean you’re of the direct line of the main house

= “Kirihiko”...

= The name taken on by the one who succeeds the family business of professional murder...

= If Murasaki-chan knew of your identity, then even she wouldn’t...

21
Lucy
= You have no need for friends

Yuuno
= For what purpose
= Do you approach Shinkurou-san?

= I’d like you to answer truthfully

22
Murasaki
= What are you doing, Yuuno!!

Yuuno
= Mu...
= Murasaki-chan!?

23
Murasaki
= Yuuno!!
= If you’re bullying Kirihiko, I won’t...!!

= Uh...

24
(Action page!)

25
Murasaki
= Wha...!

= Ar-are you alright, Kirihiko!

Kirihiko
= I’m OK

Murasaki
= I’m sorry...
= I thought I’d be able to find Shinkurou if I climb up high

26
Murasaki
= Kirihiko
= Please don’t think ill of Yuuno

= Yuuno is a good person
= She invited me to her house and entertained me with a meal even though I’m of the “Front”... (t/n: the Japanese actually says she’s of the 裏, or the Underworld, but I’m pretty sure that’s a typo... pretty bad one, mind you)

= You can’t know the truth by just books or hearing what others say
= Yuuno was the one who taught me that

27
Murasaki
= I won’t judge you on the fact that you’re of the Thirteen Families of the Underworld

Yuuno
= Murasaki-chan...
= Even though she knew Kirihiko-san is a <<Kirishima>>...

Murasaki
= Thank you for saving me
= Kirihiko

= We’re friends!

28
Kirihiko
= Friends...
= I’m so happy...

Yuuno
= Kirihiko-san

= I-it’s not that I trust you...
= But as a courtesy in deference to Murasaki-chan...

29
Kirihiko
= We’re friends

Lin
= Murasaki-sama!!

Shinkurou
= ...Huh?

= Yuuno-san and...
= Kirihiko-chan!?

= Why are you two here, too...?

30
(LOLOLOLOLOLOL)

31
Kirihiko
= We’re friends

Yuuno
= Wh-why are you only hugging Shinkurou!!?
= Isn’t something strange here!?

Kirihiko
= There’s nothing wrong

Murasaki
= Kirihiko!!
= Switch!!

Kirihiko
= No

Shinkurou
= Wha...
= Just what happened here!!?

Lin
= Are you guys always like that?

Ginko
= Please don’t include me in with those “guys”

++ Hug is a sign of something “special”1?

Notes
- As usual, the credit stuff, and feel free to use it - just let me know! :)
- Scanslators, PLEASE try to keep all the formatting... the emphasis are there for a reason... especially the italics! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/15873 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 22 by js06 2009-09-06T00:13:55+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com Chapter 22

01

Lucy: And so...
Lucy: That "incident" the other day was a complete coincidence.
Text: Kirihiko is having a secret meeting with Lucy May of the Akuu Company!?

Lucy: The Akuu Company will go anywhere if we're asked to do a job.
Lucy: Who would have thought that you would be in that hotel, Kirihiko-kun...? I certainly didn't.

Lucy: But...I did learn one thing.

Title: Chapter 22 Friends

02

Lucy: Kirihiko-kun...
Lucy: You have a lot of friends.

Lucy: You really seem to get along well.
Lucy: When did you make so many friends...?

Lucy: ...Ah.

Lucy: Ha ha. Oh, sorry about that.
Lucy: I guess I was mistaken!

03

Lucy: You having "friends"... Ha ha.
Lucy: Yeah, right.

Lucy: Sorry...As assistant director of HR...I can't let that happen.
Lucy: Who would someone let a wild animal make friends?

Lucy: But there is one thing you should be proud of, Kirihiko-kun.
Lucy: You are the Akuu Company's leading...
SFX: *grab*

04

Kirihiko: Shut up,
Kirihiko: Lucy May.

Lucy: A butter KNIFE...huh?

Lucy: Well, seeing as I'm shutting up...
Lucy: I'd like to hear about a certain talented person who was present at the incident the other day...

Lucy: It was a male high school student...

05

Lucy: Oh, how scary.

Lucy: That's right.
Lucy: This is good enough for you.

Lucy: You don't need friends.

Lucy: I'll contact you later.
Lucy: Kirihiko-kun.

06

Text: In the gap between destruction and solitude...

07

Kirihiko: How dare she ask me about such worthless shit...
Kirihiko: That bitch...

Guy: Ow!

Guy: Hey.

Guy: Hey! You ran into me!
Guy: How can you just ignore me like that...?

08

Guy: Ee...!!

Guy: Eee!!
Guy: Sh-she's a monster!!

09

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan.

Kirihiko: Onii-san...

Tamaki: ...Huh?

Tamaki: It's Kirihiko-chan.

10

Shinkurou: By the way...

Shinkurou: Are you always the only one here, Ginko...?
Shinkurou: Isn't this the newspaper club's room?

Ginko: This is my room.
Ginko: Didn't you know?

Shinkurou: I guess the rumor that she drove out all the other club members was true...
Ginko: More importantly...
Ginko: You should be careful.

Shinkurou: Eh?

11

Ginko: The group you beat up at the pool the other day...
Ginko: seemed to have gotten some help from the "Akuu Company".

Ginko: It's a huge syndicate in the under world.
Ginko: They aren't someone you want to make enemies of.

Ginko: That said...that group was clearly made up of amateurs.
Ginko: So I don't think you have to worry too much.

Shinkurou: The Akuu Company again, huh...?

12

Tamaki: Shinkurou-kun?

Tamaki: He would be at school.

SFX: *climb*

Murasaki: Kh...

13

Murasaki: Nhh...

Murasaki: Mh?

Murasaki: O-oh, thanks.
Murasaki: I don't know who you are, but...

Murasaki: Oh...
Murasaki: It's Kirihiko.

14

Murasaki: Oh.
Murasaki: You came for Shinkurou, too...

Murasaki: I just really wanted to see him all of a sudden.
Murasaki: So I snuck out of school!

Murasaki: Keep it a secret, okay?

Murasaki: Let's ask those people if they know where Shinkurou is!

Murasaki: Hey...

15

Yuuno: Eh?

Yuuno: Oh, Murasaki-chan.

Yuuno: Why are you here?

Yuuno: Shouldn't you be at your school...?

Murasaki: Run, Kirihiko!!
Yuuno: Murasaki-chan!!

Girl: Houzuki-san, do you know them?

16

Lin: Kurenai Shinkurou!!

Lin: Where is Murasaki-sama!?
Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: Lin-san...?
Lin: I know from her GPS that she's at this school!!

Shinkurou: Wh-what has Murasaki done!?

17

Sign: Biology Lab

Murasaki: You hide in here, Kirihiko.

Murasaki: I'll go look for Shinkurou.

Kirihiko: ...Friends.
Kirihiko: Friends.

18

Kirihiko: Ah...

Yuuno: I don't see Murasaki-chan here...
Yuuno: Have you gotten lost...
Yuuno: Kirihiko-san...?

19

Yuuno: "Kirishima"
Yuuno: Kirihiko-san.

Yuuno: This is the first chance I've had to talk with you one on one.

Yuuno: I was surprised when I first met you.
Yuuno: "Kirishima" is one of the Thirteen Inner Families. The same as "Houzuki".

20

Yuuno: And seeing as you're named "Kirihiko"...
Yuuno: you must be a direct descendant of the head family.

Yuuno: "Kirihiko"...

Yuuno: That name is given to the one who takes over the family occupation of hit man...

Yuuno: If Murasaki-chan knew who you really were, she wouldn't act like this towards you...

21

Lucy: You don't need friends.

Yuuno: Why are you...
Yuuno: getting close to Shinkurou-san?

Yuuno: Answer me honestly.

22

Murasaki: What are you doing, Yuuno!?

Yuuno: M...
Yuuno: Murasaki-chan!?

23

Murasaki: Yuuno!!
Murasaki: Don't be mean to Kirihiko...!!

Murasaki: Ah...

24

25

Murasaki: Wha...!?

Murasaki: A-are you okay, Kirihiko!?

Kirihiko: I'm fine.

Murasaki: Sorry...
Murasaki: I thought I would be able to find Shinkurou if I managed to climb up somewhere high.

26

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

Murasaki: Don't think badly of Yuuno.

Murasaki: Yuuno's a good person.
Murasaki: She may be part of the "Inner Families", but she invited me into her house and gave me food...

Murasaki: You can't know the truth just by what you read in books or what people tell you.
Murasaki: Yuuno taught me that.

27

Murasaki: I won't make any judgments about you based on the fact you're part of the Thirteen Inner Families.

Yuuno: Murasaki-chan...
Yuuno: She knows Kirihiko-san is a "Kirishima"...

Murasaki: Thank you for saving me,

Murasaki: Kirihiko.

Murasaki: We're friends!

28

Kirihiko: Friends...
Kirihiko: I'm happy...

Yuuno: Kirihiko-san.

Yuuno: I-I don't trust you, but...
Yuuno: I won't stop Murasaki-chan...

29

Kirihiko: We're friends.

Lin: Murasaki-sama!!

Shinkurou: ...Huh?

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san and...
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!?

Shinkurou: Why are you two here as well...?

30

31

Kirihiko: We're friends.

Yuuno: Wh-why did you only hug Shinkurou-san!!?
Yuuno: There's something wrong with that!
Kirihiko: No, there isn't.
Murasaki: Kirihiko!!
Murasaki: Get off, it's my turn!!
Kirihiko: No.
Shinkurou: Wh...
Shinkurou: What's going on!!?

Lin: Are you people always like this?
Ginko: Please don't put me in the same category as them.

Text to the left of the last panel: The hug signifies someone "special"!? https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/14824 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 21 by js06 2009-08-06T01:35:54+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com Chapter 21

01

Guy: Is this really okay?

Lucy: There's no problem.
Sign on barrel: Hypochlorous Acid
Lucy: These are just normal chemicals used for disinfecting pools.

Lucy: "If you use them normally", that is...

Lucy: My company does not distinguish between right and wrong.
Lucy: We merely carry out our customer's request.
Text left of Lucy's hand: And we try to be surreptitious about it...
Lucy: We are...

02

Lucy: The Akuu Company after all.
Title: Chapter 21 The Akuu Company
Text on the left: Even if it is a crime, they will sell their services...

03

Murasaki: Oh!!

Murasaki: Wow! It's so bright and shining!
Lin: Yes, Murasaki-sama.

Shinkurou: Um...Lin-san.
Shinkurou: Taking katanas to the pool is...
Lin: These are accessories.

04

Shinkurou: Well, do as you wish...

Shinkurou: This high class hotel has connections with the Kuhouin family.

Shinkurou: The indoor pool is amazing.
Shinkurou: Apparently a lot of important foreigners stay here...

Shinkurou: Well, I guess this is fine every so often.
Tamaki: Shinkurou-kuuun!

Tamaki: Sorry for keeping you waiting!

Shinkurou: Ah.
Shinkurou: Tamaki-sa-

05

Tamaki: Tah-dah.

Shinkurou: Um...
Shinkurou: Eh?
Tamaki: Well, y'know...
Tamaki: I teach at a karate dojo, right?

Tamaki: These are the idols of that dojo.
Kids: Nice to meet you!!

06

Tamaki: But you said I could call some friends to come.
Shinkurou: Not this many...!!
Kid: Eh? Wow, you had a wedding?
Murasaki: Yes.
Murasaki: I wore a pure white dress...
Kid: That sounds nice.

Yuuno: Sorry for keeping you waiting.

07

Murasaki: Okay, everyone's here!
Murasaki: Don't hold back and relax!

Tamaki: Heh heh. Nice view, huh?
Shinkurou: If I deal with all this, I'm gonna be so worn out.

Yuuno: So...
Yuuno: You were called here by Shinkurou-san, too?
Ginko: Yes.
Ginko: He said that it would make Murasaki-chan happy.

Yuuno: This is rare.
Yuuno: You usually sit out during PE.
Ginko: I'm just going to relax in a beach chair.
Ginko: Don't pay me any heed.
Tamaki: Okay, everyone!
Tamaki: Let's do some warm-up exercises before getting in the water!

08

Tamaki: One, two, three, four...
Tamaki: Five, six, seven, eight...

Yamie: Tamaki sure is helpful.
Shinkurou: Yeah...
Shinkurou: And, Yamie, what's with your clothes...

Yamie: You should do the exercises too, or you could end up like that.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Box: Kirishima Kirihiko Age 14

09

Shinkurou: Waah!! K-Kirihiko-chan!!!
Kirihiko: Sorry...the water was just a bit too cold...
Kirihiko: It's my enemy...
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan, you have a lot of enemies.

Tamaki: Ah, Shinkurou-kun is assailing Kirihiko-chan.
Shinkurou: No, I'm not!!

10

Sign: Materials Room

Lucy: Will these chemicals really be enough?
Guy: ...Yeah.

Lucy: If you like, the Akuu Company could provide you with some most talented individuals...
Guy: That's not necessary!!

Guy: I won't be satisfied unless I do this with my own hands!!
Lucy: Is that so?

Lucy: But...this is a pretty major thing for amateurs to be doing.
Lucy: Terrorism, that is.

11

Murasaki: Here you go, Lin!!

Lin: O...!
Lin: Okay!!

Lin: Daah!!

Murasaki: Lin...
Murasaki: You used too much power.
Lin: I-I'm sorry!!

12

Shinkurou: Y-Yuuno-san, that was amazing...
Yuuno: I'm pretty good at volleyball.
Shinkurou: That was a bit beyond the level of "pretty good"...

Girl: Hey, let's go explore over there!
Boy: Okay.

Shinkurou: Ah...No. Don't go so far away!
Shinkurou: Tamaki-sa-...!

Shinkurou: Damn it...!
Shinkurou: I knew it would end up this way!

13

Lucy: Oh...Kirihiko-kun?

Lucy: What a coincidence that we would meet here.

Kirihiko: Lucy-san...?

Lucy: You should get out of this building as soon as you can.

Lucy: Something big...
Lucy: is about to happen here.

14

Shinkurou: Where did those kids go...?

Shinkurou: Ah!

Shinkurou: W-wait...!

Girl: Kyah!!!
Guy: Woah!!

15

Girl: Uh...
Guy: *cough*

Shinkurou: Wha...!?

15

Shinkurou: You two, hurry over here!!

Guy: Gh...!!

Guy: Damn it!!
Guy: Don't get in the fucking way!!!

16

Shinkurou: T...
Shinkurou: Tamaki-san!?

Shinkurou: K...
Shinkurou: Kickboards!?

17

Tamaki: Are you two okay?
Shinkurou: Tamaki-san...

Shinkurou: So you actually were watching over the kids.

18

Tamaki: Of course I was.

Tamaki: And everyone else has noticed it, too.
Shinkurou: Everyone?

Yuuno: Those unrefined men have slipped in.

Tamaki: Ginko-chan, too.
Shinkurou: Eh?
Ginko: The kids down below are being watched by Houzuki-senpai and Lin-san.

19

Tamaki: What kind of chemicals are these?

Ginko: Hypochlorous acid...
Ginko: It's a chemical used for disinfecting pools.

Shinkurou:
Eh?
Shinkurou: So, there's no problem...

Ginko: But the small container that man had.
Ginko: It had a strong acid in it.

Ginko: At this concentration, if you mixed them together it would create quite a bit of chlorine gas.

20

Shinkurou: Chlorine gas...?

Ginko: It's a poisonous gas.

Tamaki: Hey, you.
Tamaki: What are you trying to do to my idols?
Guy: I don't know who you're talking about!!
Guy: We just want revenge on this fucking hotel!

Guy: Cause, y'know what!? This hotel's so huge, but you just embezzle a million or two and they fire you and make you pay 'em back...!!
Tamaki: Wait a second.

Tamaki: We?

21

Tamaki: Where are the others?
Guy: Fuck you, you old hag!!
Guy: Why would I tell you anything...!!

Tamaki: Where are they?
Guy: Aaaaah! In the air conditioning rooms on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th floors!!

Ginko: Houzuki-senpai!! Lin-san!!
Ginko: Head to the air conditioning rooms on the 1st and 3rd floors!!

22

Yuuno: I guess I have no choice...

Yuuno: And I finally got a free day with Shinkurou-san...
Yuuno: I even went all out on my swimsuit...
Lin: W-wait!
Lin: I can't leave Murasaki-sama's side...!

Murasaki: I don't mind.

Murasaki: Help them out, Lin!

Lin: Yes, ma'am...

Ginko: What are you spacing out for. Get to the 5th floor.
Ginko: I'll get the kids out of here.
Shinkurou: O-okay.

23

Ginko: This gas will travel downwards.
Ginko: So you're the most vital one.

Ginko: Go do your job.

Shinkurou: ...Understood.

24

Guy: Wha...?

Guy: Who're you...?

Shinkurou: A dispute mediator.

25-26

Guy: Haa
Guy: Haa

Guy: ...Damn it!!

Guy: No good...No one's picking up...!!
Guy: What the hell is going on...!!

27

Guy: Damn it...!!
SFX: *click*

Guy: I'll finish this off by killing you!!

SFX: *trip*

Guy: Gwaah!!

Guy: What the fuck're you doing...!?

28

Kirihiko: Shut up,
Kirihiko: old man.

Yamie: Hm...
Yamie: So it's over.

29

Murasaki: Wonderful job, Shinkurou!
Shinkurou: No...this time I was just saved by everyone else.

Murasaki: That's right. Everyone was strong this time!

Murasaki: I wonder if I could be strong like that, too.
Murasaki: Ah...that's right.
Murasaki: Those kids are learning karate...

Murasaki: Then I guess I'll go to Tamaki's dojo, too!

30

Shinkurou: No, you can't do that!!
Murasaki: Why?
Tamaki: Leave it to me, Murasaki-chan! I'll teach you all of the positions!
Shinkurou: What do you mean positions? The term is "Kata", right!?
Tamaki: It's a similar concept.

Lucy: Hm...
Lucy: He may have been up against amateurs...
Lucy: but he did quite well...

Lucy: And he's quite popular...

Lucy: He's a most interesting person.
Text: The Akuu Company...what are they planning!? https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/13829 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 20 by js06 2009-07-06T01:28:02+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com Edit: Added the three bubbles I missed on Page 5.

Chapter 20

01

Lin: Swear it,
Lin: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: S-swear...what?

Lin: Your eternal love.
Text: A threatening marriage proposal!?

Text at bottom: It all started yesterday evening.

02

Title: Chapter 20 Loyal One
Text to the right: Dark Steel-Like Intentions!!

03

Ginko: What is this?
Shinkurou: Well, I told you I was going overseas, right?
Shinkurou: This is a souvenir from then...
Shinkurou: Murasaki was pretty excited to get one.

Ginko: You truly are naive.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Ginko: How can you go along with what Juuzawa Benika says and yet keep laughing?
Ginko: If you keep going along with her, you're not going to have a pleasant death.

Shinkurou: I-it'll be okay.
Shinkurou: It is me after all...
Ginko: You'll probably end up dying in jail.

04

Ginko: Or worse, get shot to death, burned to death...
Ginko: eaten by something, chopped to pieces...
Ginko: or tortured until you go insane...

Shinkurou: H-hey...

Ginko: Well, I guess I'll thank you for this.
Ginko: Thank you.

Man: Heh heh...

05

Man: What a filthy necklace.
Man: You should just throw away that toy.
Text left of man: Hic

Man: I'll buy you something better than that.
Man: C'mon over and pour me another drink...

Ginko: No, thank you.
Ginko: If I want something, I'll buy it myself.

Ginko: And this isn't a bar.
Ginko: Once you're done drinking that, get out.

Man: Wha...!?
Man: Th' fuck did you say!!?
Shinkurou: Ginko!!

06

Man: Ow...!!
Lin: You scum.
Man: Ow ow ow ow ow ow!!!

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Man: I give.
Man: I give!

07

Ginko: Someone you know?

Shinkurou: No...

Shinkurou: If I'm not mistaken, that was...

08

Shinkurou: That person yesterday...
Shinkurou: I wasn't mistaken.

Shinkurou: I saw her before during Murasaki's case...
Shinkurou: Lin Cheng-Shin, one of the Imperial Guards of the Kuhouin family.

09

Shinkurou: Was it a coincidence that she was at Ginko's place?
Shinkurou: No, wait...
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san.

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san...

Yuuno: I came here wearing...
Yuuno: the present you got me!

Shinkurou: Ah...
Shinkurou: Eh, you wore it to school...?

10

Yuuno: But it's the present you got for me alone.
Yuuno: I was so happy I couldn't help it...
Shinkurou: I probably shouldn't tell her I got one for Murasaki and Ginko as well...

11

Yuuno: ...Someone you know?
Shinkurou: N-no...

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san.
Shinkurou: Yes?

Yuuno: You only got this present...
Yuuno: for me, right?
Shinkurou: Eh?

12

Yuuno: It was just for me...
Yuuno: Right?

Shinkurou: I don't get it...
Shinkurou: Why would an Imperial Guard of the Kuhouin family be tailing me...?

Shinkurou: It's true that...

13

Shinkurou: I made an enemy of the Kuhouins for Murasaki's sake back then...
Shinkurou: And they won't let there be any danger to them.
Shinkurou: Is that why...?

Shinkurou: But why now and not earlier...?
Kirihiko: Achoo!!

Shinkurou: ...Ki-!
Kirihiko: It's cold...

14

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!!?
Shinkurou: What are you doing here!?

Shinkurou: And why do you look like that...!?
Kirihiko: The cold...is affecting me...
Shinkurou: Eh?

Kirihiko: I have a weak constitution...
Kirihiko: I can't stand the heat...or the cold...

Kirihiko: The earth...
Kirihiko: is my... enemy...
Shinkurou: Geh...
Shinkurou: K-Kirihiko-chan!!

15

Partially cut off sign: Samidare

Shinkurou: I've had enough...

Shinkurou: Well, for now...
Shinkurou: I guess I get her something warm to eat...
Text left of Shinkurou: Does she have any money...?

16

Tamaki: Shinkurou-kun, you ladies' man!!

Tamaki: You're even bringing a girl to your room in the middle of the day!!
Shinkurou: N-no, that's not it!!
Tamaki: Geez...
Tamaki: Ah!!

Shinkurou: This is making me a little mad, Tamaki-san!!
Tamaki: C'mon, don't be like that.

Tamaki: Let me join in.
Shinkurou: Join in what...!?

17

SFX in first panel: *whack*

Shinkurou: And...
Shinkurou: When I came to...

18

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: My eternal love...?

Shinkurou: W-wait a second. Why am I at a church...?
Shinkurou: And why am I in a tuxedo...?

Lin: I have seen with my own eyes...
Lin: how inappropriately you deal with women.

19

Lin: The daughter of Murakami Ginji the legendary information broker.
Lin: Murakami Ginko

Lin: Direct descendant of the "Houzuki", one of the Thirteen Inner Families.
Lin: Houzuki Yuuno

Lin: And then you sink your fangs into a weak girl you happen to pass by...
Shinkurou: Sink my fangs into...?

Lin: If you keep wandering from woman to woman, who knows who you'll end up with!!!

Lin: Now, swear it, Kurenai Shinkurou.

Lin: Swear your eternal love!

20

Lin: To Murasaki-sama.

Shinkurou: Mu....!
Shinkurou: M-Mu....!!
Shinkurou: Murasakiii!!?

21

Murasaki: Shinkurou...?

Murasaki: What is going on, Lin!?
Murasaki: What is this? Why am I wearing this fancy dress...?

Lin: This is a wedding.
Lin: For you and...
Lin: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Murasaki: A wedding!?
Murasaki: For me and Shinkurou!?

Murasaki: I see. So this is a wedding!
Shinkurou: What...!?
Shinkurou: Wait, wait!!

Shinkurou: This is pretty sudden...!!

22

Lin: Now, swear it.
Lin: Swear your eternal love to Murasaki-sama.

Shinkurou: Wh...!!
Shinkurou: What kind of wedding is thiiiis!!?

23

Lin: I see...
Lin: I did not know that Shinkurou went overseas.

Murasaki: Lin is going to be my guard from now on instead of Kiba.

Shinkurou: Lin-san is?
Shinkurou: Why...?
Lin: It was My Lord's decision.

Lin: Because Murasaki-sama is a girl...
Lin: He decided that a woman being her guard would be more convenient.

Shinkurou: Kuhouin Renjou...
Shinkurou: He may seem cold, but he is thinking of Murasaki...

Shinkurou: Wait...then does that mean...
Shinkurou: that this wedding was his idea, too?

24

Lin: This was my decision.

Lin: Murasaki-sama said that she wanted to marry you.
Lin: And Murasaki-sama is my master.

Lin: And for a servant to grant her master's wishes is natural!

Shinkurou: This person...She truly is doing this solely for Murasaki's sake...
Shinkurou: So this is one of the Kuhouin Imperial Guards...

25

Shinkurou: But is this really okay?
Shinkurou: Lin-san, can you really arrange the marriage of a Kuhouin on your own?

Lin: Come to think of it, that doesn't sound okay at all!!

Shinkurou: She's kind of a careless person...
Lin: B...!!

Lin: But it's true that you deal inappropriately with women!!
Lin: Everything I observed was exactly as I was told...!!
Shinkurou: W-wait a second!!

Shinkurou: Who exactly told you this...?

26

Lin: Who...?

Shinkurou: So it WAS you!!!
Text above Tamaki: Wa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Shinkurou: It was you, Tamaki-san, wasn't it!?
Shinkurou: While I was unconscious, you told Lin-san a bunch of half-truths!!
Tamaki: Eh? But it was all true.

27

Lin: Murasaki-sama....
Lin: Can you really trust that boy...?

Murasaki: C'mon, Lin.
Murasaki: Don't cause Shinkurou so much trouble.

28

Murasaki: I believe in Shinkurou.

Text to the upper right of Tamaki: Kyaah

Murasaki: This was a bit sudden, so it surprised me...
Murasaki: But I'm still fine with how things are.

29

Murasaki: Shinkurou!

Murasaki: From now on, I'll be learning more about you bit by bit.
Murasaki: And you'll be learning about me.

Murasaki: That's what this time is for.
Murasaki: There's no reason to rush things.

Shinkurou: This girl...

30

Shinkurou: Really is the most honest of us all...

Tamaki: But, y'know...

Tamaki: If you're gonna get married eventually, why don't you just do it now?
Shinkurou: Hey!!!
Murasaki: That's true, too.

Yamie: Her attendant is here and everything.
Shinkurou: Eh?

31

Shinkurou: Ya...
Shinkurou: Yamie-san!?

Shinkurou: Why are you...!?

Shinkurou: Why is everyone here?
Ginko: We were called here.
Ginko: You lolicon.
Yuuno: What exactly is going on here, Shinkurou-san?

Yuuno: Oh, Murakami-san, what a lovely necklace.
Ginko: You too, Houzuki-senpai.
Yuuno: But mine looks a little bit more expensive.
Ginko: Aren't you just imagining things?
Shinkurou: No, um...
Shinkurou: You two...?

Kirihiko: I'm...
Kirihiko: hungry...

Text in left margin: Will this pinch continue!? https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/13708 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 19 by js06 2009-07-01T21:27:57+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com Chapter 19

01

Text: A certain country in Southeast Asia.

Shinkurou: It's so hot...
Shinkurou: 6 days ago...
Shinkurou: I took on a job that Benika-san requested of me.
Shinkurou: So I came to this country.
Text: Shinkurou's first overseas mission!!

02

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: A doll?

Shinkurou: No...I don't need it.
Shinkurou: No, thank you.
[TN: He says this last line in English.]

Shinkurou: Well...
Shinkurou: I'll take one.
Shinkurou: How much?

03

Girl: Thank you!

Shinkurou: N-no, I'm fine!! I don't want anything!!
Shinkurou: No money!!
[TN: Another English line.]

04

Text to the right: One who protects and one who destroys... They will have an inevitable chance meeting...
Title: Chapter 19 Guillotine - Last Part

05

Text: 6 Days Ago

Murasaki: To another country?

Shinkurou: Yeah.
Shinkurou: I won't be able to see you on your way home from school for a while...
Shinkurou: Sorry.

Murasaki: Why are you apologizing?

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Murasaki: You're going for your job.
Murasaki: That's a wonderful thing.

Murasaki: It's true that...
Murasaki: not having you here will be a bit lonely...

Murasaki: B-but I'll bear with it!
Murasaki; I'll bear with it!

Shinkurou: Murasaki...
Tamaki: Don't worry!

07

Tamaki: Leave Murasaki-chan to me!
Shinkurou: That's what I'm most worried about...

Shinkurou: A wonderful thing...
Shinkurou: Huh...?

Shinkurou: Okay!

08

Shinkurou: This is the job Benika-san left to me...

Shinkurou: I have to do it in this country.
Shinkurou: It's the destruction of a slave trade organization.

Shinkurou: For 6 days...
Shinkurou: I've been gathering information on the area mentioned in the file.

Shinkurou: And...

09

SFX in second to last panel: *hide*

Shinkurou: So this is the place...
Shinkurou: There are three people outside.

10

Shinkurou: Th...

Shinkurou: That girl is...!!

Shinkurou: Ah.

11

Shinkurou: Shit...!!
Shinkurou: What should I do...?
Shinkurou: Should I go back for now...?

Murasaki: Why do we have to run?

Murasaki: Doesn't this make it look like we're the bad guys?

12

Shinkurou: Haaa!!

SFX: Bang!
SFX: Bang!
SFX: Bang!
SFX: Rattattata.

13

Shinkurou: It's okay...
Shinkurou: Hide in here.

SFX in last panel: *fall*

14

SFX: *land*

Shinkurou: Strange.

Shinkurou: With that much gunfire, why isn't anyone coming out?
Shinkurou: For that matter...it's like no one's here at all...

Shinkurou: And...
Shinkurou: What's this smell...?

15

Shinkurou: They're dead...!?
Shinkurou: Was it infighting!?

Shinkurou: No!
Shinkurou: All of them have been decapitated...!!

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17

Shinkurou: Wha...!?
Kirihiko: Oh, so you dodged it.

Shinkurou: Who is that!?
Shinkurou: Is this who killed everyone in this room!?
Shinkurou: If so, I'm completely outmatched...
Shinkurou: when it comes to killing power...

18

Shinkurou: What should I do...!?

Kirihiko: You're...

Benika: Get down, Shinkurou.

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Benika: Follow her, Yayoi.
Yayoi: Yes, ma'am.

Shinkurou: Benika-san...?

Benika: Are you alive, Shinkurou?
Shinkurou: Somehow...

Shinkurou: M-more importantly, why are you here!?
Shinkurou: Didn't you have another job to do...?

Benika: This is that job.

21

Benika: The person I'm chasing is here...
Benika: A hit man from the "Akuu Company".

Shinkurou: The "Akuu Company"...?

Shinkurou: That's right... That "Tetsuwan" guy was part of that company...

Benika: It's a pretty major company in the underworld that hires people with various skills.
Benika: As long as you pay them, they'll do anything you ask.

Benika: I don't know if someone screwed up or what...

22

Benika: But it looks like someone went to both me and the Akuu Company...
Benika: requesting the destruction of this slave trade organization.

Benika: And I only got the information that this person had been dispatched for this mission...
Benika: after I'd already sent you out.

Benika: This hit man is amazingly skilled.

Benika: I told Yayoi not to take any major risks...
Benika: so we'll have to settle this next time.

23

Shinkurou: What...
Shinkurou: What is this hit man's name...?

Benika: I don't know any details.

Benika: Just that...this person is known as...

Benika: "Guillotine".

24

Sign in 3rd panel: Elementary School

Shinkurou: I'm back.

Murasaki: ...Shi-

25

Shinkurou: H-hey, Murasaki.

Shinkurou: Don't cry...
Shinkurou: What's wrong?

26

Murasaki: It's been a whole week!!
Murasaki: I haven't seen you for a whole week, Shinkurou!!

Murasaki: I was so lonely...

27

Shinkurou: In the end...
Shinkurou: Benika-san saved me on the job again.
Murasaki: Eh?

Shinkurou: Maybe I'm...
Shinkurou: just not meant to be a dispute mediator.

Murasaki: What are you saying?

Murasaki: You saved me, Shinkurou!
Murasaki: And you've saved other people who were in trouble!
Murasaki: Just the other day, you saved that Kirihiko girl!

Shinkurou: That was just a coincidence...

28

Murasaki: Coincidentally saving someone is a wonderful thing!
Murasaki: Don't you think so?

Murasaki: Be proud, Shinkurou!

Kirihiko: Um...

29

Shinkurou: ...Ah.

Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!

Kirihiko: Um...
Kirihiko: Here...

Kirihiko: This is my apology.

Shinkurou: "Apology"...?
Shinkurou: If you're talking about the other day, the word you want is "thanks"...

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Kirihiko: I'm a hit man.

Shinkurou: ...A hit man...!!
Shinkurou: It couldn't be...
Shinkurou: Is this girl "Guillotine"...?

Murasaki: What are you spacing out for?
Murasaki: Let's go, Shinkurou.

Murasaki: Do you want to come, too?
Kirihiko: Eh?

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Murasaki: We're going to be eating Shinkurou's cooking for the first time in a while!
Murasaki: If we all ate it together, it would taste even better!
Shinkurou: H-hey, Murasaki...!

Kirihiko: I'd be glad to.

Shinkurou: No...that can't be...
Shinkurou: This girl couldn't be "Guillotine"...
Kirihiko: Oh, but I won't help with the cooking.
Kirihiko: When I hold a knife, my personality changes.
Shinkurou: ...probably.

Text in left margin: Friends with a hit man!? With a smile like that, it could happen!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/13641 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 18 by js06 2009-06-29T01:36:48+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com Chapter 18

01

Kirihiko: Such a boring job...

Kirihiko: Against such boring opponents...
Text: Criminals slipping into the darkness...and a predator!!

Kirihiko: And such boring kills...

02-03

Text on the right: The girl thirsts...
Title: Chapter 18 Guillotine - First Part

Man: Hm?

04

Man: W...
Man: We're under attack!!!

Man: "Guillotine"!!!

05

Kirihiko: You people...

Kirihiko: are so boring.

06

Text in top panel: The next day

SFX in bottom right panel: *drop*
Murasaki: Aaah!!

Shinkurou: ...Do you want me to do it for you?

07

Murasaki: No!
Murasaki: I'm going to save it!

Murasaki: Just like you saved me, Shinkurou!

SFX: Rinnnng

Sign: Newspaper Club

Ginko: ...I see.

08

Ginko: I thought you were leaving earlier than usual lately...
Ginko: So you're with Murasaki-chan...

Shinkurou: Yeah... She's taken quite a liking to the crane game.
Shinkurou: She plays it here every day...

Ginko: You sure are carefree...

Ginko: You haven't been doing it at all lately, have you?
Shinkurou: Doing what?

Ginko: Your job as a dispute mediator!

09

Ginko: Keep this up and you're going to be wandering the streets in a couple of years.
Shinkurou: S-sorry.
Shinkurou: We can talk about this later...

Shinkurou: Murasaki's waiting for me, so...

Counter 48 People Defeated

SFX: Beep

Shinkurou: Wow...

10

Ginko: Well, if worse comes to worse and you're out of a job, you can stay with me at the ramen shop...

Ginko: Are you even listening!!?

Shinkurou: ...Sorry.

11

SFX: Beep

Guy: Don't fuck with me, bitch!!!

Guy: Who cares if you've beaten 50 people in a row!!!
Guy: How 'bout you fight me for real!?
Guy: Huh!!?

Shinkurou: ...Ginko.
Shinkurou: I'll call you back.

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Murasaki: Why is that guy getting so worked up over a stupid game?

Shinkurou: Murasaki!
Shinkurou: Stay back! It's dangerous...!!
Text left of Shinkurou: And I don't want to hear that from you.

Guy: Say something!!

Guy: Ngah!!

13

Shinkurou: Hurry. Come with me!!

Murasaki: Shinkurou.

14

Murasaki: Why did we have to run?

Murasaki: This makes it look like that bad guy was stronger.

Shinkurou: No...
Shinkurou: It doesn't.

Kirihiko: Um...

Shinkurou: Ah...
Shinkurou: Sorry, but you should stay here a bit longer...

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Kirihiko: I'm...
Kirihiko: a virgin.

Shinkurou: Ahh...

Shinkurou: Huh?
Kirihiko: I appreciate the thought...

Kirihiko: But...
Kirihiko: Taking me out into the back alley so suddenly is...
Kirihiko: Well...um...
Kirihiko: How should I put it...

16

Murasaki: What's a "virgin"?
Shinkurou: Eh!!?

Kirihiko: And...

Kirihiko: A threesome?

Shinkurou: Wait...N-no, that's not it!!
Murasaki: What's a "threesome"...?
Shinkurou: I said that's not it!!!

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Kirihiko: So that's it...

Kirihiko: I was sure you were trying to pick me up...
Shinkurou: No...I don't try and pick up chicks.
Shinkurou: And especially not in that kind of situation...

Murasaki: ..."pick up chicks"...
Small text in the left of Murasaki's bubble: I don't understand.
Shinkurou: You don't need to understand.

Kirihiko: You're...
Kirihiko: a good person.

Kirihiko: You are a nice guy.
[TN: She says this in English.]
Shinkurou: ...Thanks.
Shinkurou: Umm...

Kirihiko: I'm Kirishima...
Kirihiko: Kirihiko.

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Kirihiko: Please call me...
[TN: English again.]
Text right of Kirihiko: You write it like this.
Kirihiko: Kirihiko.

Shinkurou: Kirihiko...
Shinkurou: Wait...
Shinkurou: That's a...guy's name...

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Shinkurou: Eee!!?
Kirihiko: They're there.
Kirihiko: Even if they're small.

Kirihiko: If you want, I can show you down below...
Shinkurou: No, that's enough!!!

Murasaki: Mine may be small, but I have them, too!!
Shinkurou: Murasaki!!!

Shinkurou: You...
Shinkurou: You probably shouldn't be doing that...
Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan.

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Kirihiko: Kirihiko...
Kirihiko: -chan...

Kirihiko: How cute...

Kirihiko: That's the first time...
Kirihiko: someone's called me that.

SFX: Beep beep beep beep

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SFX: Beep
Kirihiko: ...A job.

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: A job...?

Kirihiko: I'm a hit man.
[TN: English again.]

Shinkurou: A hit man...
Shinkurou: A professional killer...?

Murasaki: Mh.

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Murasaki: That's it for today.
Shinkurou: Eh?

Murasaki: I have a party I have to go to as a representative of the Kuhouin Family.

Murasaki: I want to play more, but this is the duty of a Kuhouin.
Shinkurou: Oh...
Shinkurou: Is that so...?

Murasaki: See ya tomorrow, Shinkurou!

Shinkurou: Yeah...

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Shinkurou: Murasaki really has been trying hard since she left the "Inner Sanctuary"

Shinkurou: For the sake of her wish...
Shinkurou: For the sake of living in the outer world.
Shinkurou: And she's at an age where she really just wants to play around...

24

Shinkurou: If you compare me with her...

Ginko: Keep this up and you're going to be wandering the streets in a couple of years.

SFX: *cough*

25

Benika: Quite a troubled expression you have there.

Shinkurou: B...!!
Shinkurou: Benika-san!!

26

Shinkurou: When did you get to Japan...?
Benika: Yesterday.

Benika: Are things not going well with Murasaki?
Shinkurou: No...it's not that...

Benika: I've been so busy with all these jobs.
Benika: I haven't even properly seen my son's face.

Benika: The organization of organ smugglers in Southeast Asia.
Benika: The French cannibal sisters.
Benika: The perverted lolicon priest of that demonic church...

Benika: Geez...
Benika: There are more disputes in this world...
Benika: than there are grains of sand on the beaches.

Shinkurou: ...You do sound busy.

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Benika: How about it?
Benika: Can I leave one of them to you?

Shinkurou: ...Benika-san.

Shinkurou: Does that mean...
Shinkurou: that you knew I didn't have any jobs of my own...?

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Kirihiko: Ah...
Kirihiko: Yes.

Kirihiko: Sigh...
Kirihiko: Understood...So that organization is the target.

Waitress: Sorry for the wait.

Kirihiko: Okay...I'll go.

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Kirihiko: By the way...

Kirihiko: The opponents this time...

Kirihiko: They're worth getting excited over, right?

30

Benika: Yayoi.
Benika: Give him the file.

Benika: So?

Text left of Shinkurou: A foreign criminal organization, huh...?

Shinkurou: Understood.

Shinkurou & Kirihiko: This job...

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Shinkurou: Please let me do it!!

Kirihiko: I'll do it!!
Text in lower left: A sudden change in Kirihiko! Will they inevitably clash!? https://mangahelpers.com/t/js06/releases/13539 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 17 by js06 2009-06-26T04:29:29+00:00 js06 admin@mangahelpers.com Chapter 17

01

Yuuno: You mustn't...
Yuuno: use that in actual battle yet.
Yuuno: If you use it now, you could shorten your lifespan considerably...

Shinkurou: Sorry, Yuuno-san.
Text: He wants to save her no matter what he must sacrifice!!

Shinkurou: But there's something more important than that.

Shinkurou: I want to show her...
Shinkurou: what I can do.

02

Text: Release!!
Title: Chapter 17 Wish

Shinkurou: "Houzuki-Ryuu" Type 1 Class 2 Fighting Demon
Shinkurou: Kurenai Shinkurou

03

Shinkurou: Give your name, "Tetsuwan".
Shinkurou: Let's battle.

Tetsuwan: I'm a member of the Akuu Company.
Tetsuwan: "Tetsuwan" Daniel Blanchard!!!

04

Tetsuwan: Th...!!
Tetsuwan: This power...!!

Tetsuwan: ...So that's it...!!
Tetsuwan: His body is so solid because it has to keep this power in check...!!

Shinkurou: You're surprisingly light.

05

Ryuuji: He...!!
Ryuuji: He's a monster...!!

06

Ryuuji: D-do you understand what you're doing!?
Ryuuji: It's already over for you, you idiot!
Ryuuji: Anyone who opposes the Kuhouins is executed!!

Ryuuji: Ee...!!

Ryuuji: Stay back, you monster!!
Ryuuji: If you get any closer, I'll...!!

07

Ryuuji: Eeeeeh!!
Ryuuji: S-stop...!!

Murasaki: Shinkurou...

Shinkurou: Murasaki...

08

Shinkurou: Murasaki!!

09

Ryuuji: Y...
Ryuuji: You!!

Ryuuji: Lin Cheng-Shin!!

Ryuuji: As one of the Imperial Guards, how dare you point a blade at me!!
Shinkurou: Imperial Guards...
Shinkurou: Is she one of the leaders?

Lin: Quiet.

10

Lin: My lord is coming.

Ryuuji: F...!!
Ryuuji: Father is!!?

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12

Renjou: I return to the country early and this is what I find...?
Renjou: You fool.

Ryuuji: F-father...
Ryuuji: This is...

Shinkurou: This is Murasaki's father...
Renjou: I am well aware of the situation.
Renjou: I do not need to hear your excuses.
Shinkurou: The head of the Kuhouin Family, Kuhouin Renjou

Renjou: I have made my decision.
Renjou: Ryuuji shall be confined to the mansion.

13

Renjou: Murasaki will be brought back to the Inner Sanctuary.
Renjou: That is all.

Shinkurou: W-wait!!
Shinkurou: Do you know what you're doing to your daughter...!!

14

Lin: Silence, servant!!

Shinkurou: Please listen to me!!
Shinkurou: Murasaki has something she wants to tell you...!!
Shinkurou: That she wants to tell the Kuhouin Family!!

Murasaki: Shi...
Shinkurou: It's okay.

Shinkurou: I'm with you.

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Murasaki: F...
Murasaki: Father...

Murasaki: I...
Murasaki: I want to leave the Inner Sanctuary!

Renjou: That is not even worth considering.

Renjou: Living in the Inner Sanctuary is the fate of Kuhouin women.
Renjou: That system will never change.

16

Shinkurou: Then let that family be destroyed.

Renjou: What?

Shinkurou: If the Kuhouin family can't continue on without that fucked up system...
Shinkurou: then let it be destroyed!!!

17

Renjou: You certainly can roar...
Renjou: Little Demon of Houzuki.

Lin: You servant!!!
Lin: I'll take off your head!!

Benika: Oh, I see we made it in time.

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Benika: It's been a while...
Benika: General of the Kuhouin.

Renjou: So this was your doing after all...
Renjou: Juuzawa Benika.

Lin: Kh...!!
Lin: You damn dog of Juuzawa....!!
Yayoi: Indeed I am.

Renjou: What is your purpose here?

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Benika: To keep a promise.

Benika: One I made...
Benika: with Souju, Murasaki's mother.

Renjou: ...Hmph.

Renjou: Such foolish sentimentality.

Renjou: That Little Demon of Houzuki...
Renjou: So he is your apprentice.

Renjou: His impertinent manner of speaking is exactly how you used to be.

20

Benika: How rude.

Renjou: Hm.

Renjou: I am a busy man.
Renjou: I don't have time to spend on this trivial matter.
Renjou: I have made my decision.

Renjou: Murasaki!
Murasaki: Y...
Murasaki: Yes!?

Renjou: You may leave the Inner Sanctuary.
Renjou: That is all.

21

Murasaki: Eh?

Ryuuji: F...!!

Ryuuji: Father, how can-....!!

22

Benika: I see you know when to quit.

Renjou: It's not like there isn't a precedent for this.

Renjou: This outcome is also known to us.

Murasaki: Amazing...
Shinkurou: Huh?

23

Murasaki: Amazing, amazing!!
Murasaki: You're amazing, Shinkurou!!

Murasaki: You won against father!!!
Benika: Well...
Benika: I wouldn't really say he won...

Murasaki: Were you worried about me?

Shinkurou: If I wasn't, I wouldn't have come all the way here.

Murasaki: Answer the question!
Murasaki: Were you worried about me?

Shinkurou: Yes, I was.

24

Murasaki: Am I important to you!?
Shinkurou: Yes, you are.

Murasaki: Congratulations, Shinkurou!!
Murasaki: We have a mutual love!!!

25

Murasaki: Marry me, Shinkurou!!!
Shinkurou: Eh...
Shinkurou: Ehhh!!?
Murasaki: Boys and girls who love each other are supposed to get married!!
Murasaki: There's no problem!!
Shinkurou: Yes, there is!!

Shinkurou: And like that...

Shinkurou: Murasaki's and my time of living together came to an end.

Shinkurou: And starting then...
Sign partially covered by the text box: Elementary School

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Shinkurou: Murasaki began living in the Kuhouin mansion instead of being brought back to the Inner Sanctuary.
Shinkurou: And she was allowed to attend an ordinary elementary school.

Shinkurou: On the other hand, my body was in bad shape for a bit from using the power of the "horn" I got from my master...

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san was mad that I had disobeyed her.

27

Shinkurou: And Ginko...

Shinkurou: has been in a bad mood for a while now...

Shinkurou: And that is how...
Shinkurou: this long, long job as a dispute mediator...
Shinkurou: came to an end.

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Text in first panel: Present Time

Murasaki: Shinkurou!!

Shinkurou: Murasaki...
Shinkurou: Is school out?
Murasaki: Yes!
Murasaki: But more importantly, I wrote a love letter!

Shinkurou: Eh?
Shinkurou: A love letter?

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Murasaki: Did you forget?
Murasaki: I told you I was going to write one.

Murasaki: C'mon, hurry up and read it!
Shinkurou: Well...I'll read it after I get home...

Murasaki: Shinkurou...
Shinkurou: Hm?

Murasaki: To tell the truth...
Murasaki: I didn't hate the Inner Sanctuary.

Murasaki: I hated Ryuuji-niisama of course...
Murasaki: but it really was a kind place.

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Murasaki: It's just...
Murasaki: It was missing something.

Murasaki: And then I remembered...
Murasaki: what my mother told me...

Murasaki: She said that she was satisfied with loving father.
Murasaki: That it made her happy.
Murasaki: So...I wanted to love someone, too.

Murasaki: Shinkurou...
Murasaki: I'm happy.

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Murasaki: I want to be with you forever...

Murasaki: Ah.

Murasaki: Oh, no!!
Murasaki: I just told you what I wrote in the love letter!!

Murasaki: Forget everything I just said!!
Shinkurou: Ha ha.
Murasaki: Okay, Shinkurou!?

Shinkurou: Thank you,
Shinkurou: Murasaki...

Text in left margin: For the sake of that irreplaceable ordinariness. https://mangahelpers.com/t/shurou/releases/11188 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 15 by Shurou 2009-04-08T01:54:01+00:00 Shurou admin@mangahelpers.com Kure-nai 15 – Choice

= speech/thought bubbles
++ everything else (usu also labeled to some extent)
- Gonna skip ads and stuff

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Yuuno
= Shinkurou-san

++ Yuuno stands in the way... why!?

Yuuno
= I won’t let you past this point

Shinkurou
= Yu.. Yuuno-san...
= Why are you here...?

Yuuno
= You’ve had Murasaki-chan taken away
= By a member of the Kuhouin family, right?

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Chapter 15 Choice
Original work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shuueisha: Super Dash Book Collection)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Scenario: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Composition: Furuya Daisuke

++ Because she couldn’t just watch over him -

Shinkurou
= Th-that’s right!!
= That’s why I’m going to Murasaki...!!

3
Yuuno
= If you’re going to pass through

= Defeat me before you do so

= Benika-san...
= You really are a horrible adult

4
Yuuno
= To be tormenting a kind one like...
= Shinkurou-san like this...

Shink (sorry, I’m getting tired of typing Shinkurou =_=)
= Sorry...
= Yuuno-san

Yuuno
= Shi...!!
= Shinkurou-san!!

5
++ (SFX) Pat

Maki
= Couldn’t you let him go?
= Shinkurou-kun, I mean

= Huh

= Whoa!!!

= Oops

++ (small text) Holy... (t/n: as in, “Holy (insert whatever you say here)”)

6
Maki
= Yu-Yuuno-chan
= Calm down...

Yuuno
= ......
= That’s why I objected

= To leaving the Houdzuki House and living in Samidare-sou!!

= Living alone’s turned him into a hooligan!!

= It’s made him not listen to me anymore!!

7
Yuuno
= And eventually he’ll be loitering around the city at night on a stolen bike or something!!
= That kind Shinkurou-san!!

Yamie
= ... Can’t deny that this place isn’t good for education...

Maki
= B-but, y’know, hey
= Shinkurou’s all like that because he’s worried about Murasaki-chan, and...

Yuuno
= ...
= Of course
= Murasaki-chan’s situation troubles me as well...

= But...
= But...

8
Yuuno
= To me, Shinkurou-san...
= Is that much more important me...!! (t/n: the two lines here are an example of a change in my style a bit – they’re changed up a bit for smoother dialogue, but the meaning is completely preserved. It’s already happened in a couple of other places, but I thought I’d mention it now. Literally, it would have been “Even more than that...//To me, Shinkurou-san is important to me...!!”)

Maki
++ (Small text) Hmm-

Yuuno
= If you’re going to interfere...
= I won’t hold back, understand?

Maki
= ... Well
= Can’t help it, I guess

9
Maki
= Looks like this is my job this time around

Yuuno
= ... You’re going to regret it
++ (SFX) Su

10
Benika
= How’s the condition of your body?

Shink
= I’ll manage somehow...

= By “I want to fall in love”...

Benika
= Hm?

Shink
= Bringing her to someone like me...
= Did you really think things would go well with that?

Benika
= My instincts have never been wrong
= Those instincts chose you

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Benika
= But... Well, it was a love affair
= I couldn’t help but wonder how this case would have turned out
= And as a result, it was my bad for playing with both of your feelings... I apologize

Shink
= I should really be getting angry...

= ... But I’m fine with it now

Benika
= ......
= For someone who’s fine with it, you’ve put on a good face (t/n: this may be slightly confusing... she’s trying to say that Shinkurou looks fierce, determined and ready to kick ass even though he says he ain’t angry...)

= It’s the face of a man

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++ (Box) Hotel Oberon

Shink
= Murasaki’s here...?

Benika
= I did think this sort of turn of events was possible as well
= I had a competent information broker (t/n: I translated 情報屋 as “information bureau” before... I just found this more natural substitute for English speakers) investigate beforehand

Shink
= But... why here instead of the Inner Yard...

13
Benika
= He’s probably going to do what he can’t in the Inner Yard

= I thought it was fishy no matter how I looked at it

= Why he had hired a “mercenary” instead of using the court guards... that is
= If it was a trouble purely within the Kuhouin House, he could just use the court guards

= Rather, in the present case, not one officer of the court guards made a move (t/n on “officer”: 幹部is a loose term describing someone high up in an organization. In a military/combatant organization such as this, it usually describes a person of authority who is also usually a powerful combatant himself)
= Since I would have rather avoided clashing with an officer class, it is a relief if you say so, but...

Shink
= Wait a second
= What do you mean by “what he can’t do in the Inner Yard”?

14
Benika
= To the Kuhouin who can only reproduce children within their family, women are precious assets
= Consequently, there is a strict rule

= A rule that says that “one must not touch a female who has not gone through her first menstruation”

Shink
= ...
= You mean

Benika
= It’s probably so

= It seems that guy called Ryuuji had been quite rough with Murasaki from the beginning
= That’s probably how he was relieving the stress from not being able to satiate his lust because of the rule

15
Benika
= On top of that, right now, both the head and the eldest son of the Kuhouin are out overseas

= The one in charge in their absence is the second son, Ryuuji...

= There isn’t a better chance for him than this

Murasaki
++ You weren’t scary

++ It hurt, but it wasn’t scary

++ This is the first time that it hurt but wasn’t scary

16
Murasaki
= Hurting and being scared isn’t the same, I see!

Shink
= Murasaki...!!

Ginko
= Shinkurou!!

17
Shink
= Ginko!!?
= Why are you at a place like this...!!

= You mean... the information broker that investigated was...!

Ginko
= ......
= I was thinking of refusing

18
Ginko
= But I knew perfectly well that you were way involved

= That from when you wanted information on the Kuhouin...
= You would be dragged some good-for-nothing mess...

= You can’t stop?

= The opponent is that Kuhouin
= Even for an idiot like you, you understand that it’s not something you can win against, right?

Shink
= ......
= Sorry, Ginko

19
Shink
= But I already decided

Ginko
= Your stubbornness hasn’t changed at all from a long time ago, has it?
= Even though you’re stupid...

++ (SFX) Slap

= The pass key to the top-floor suite room
= Murasaki-chan is there

20
++ (SFX) Squeeze

Shink
= Gin... (Shinkurou, you f*ckin’ ass -_____-)

++ (SFX) Turn

Benika
= Let’s go

Shink
= ... Yes

Benika
= Let me tell you something good

= There are infinitely many choices in life
= But there is no such thing as a correct choice

Shink
= ... Are they all wrong?

Benika
= Wrong

= After you make the choice
= You make that into the right one

++ No matter how difficult the choice...

Notes
- Mang, it feels good to have some time to catch up (even if only a chapter) on this series... this seriously needs more love!!
- As usual, the credit stuff, and feel free to use it - just let me know! :)
- Scanslators, PLEASE try to keep all the formatting... the emphasis are there for a reason... especially the italics!
 https://mangahelpers.com/t/shurou/releases/8041 [English] [Translation] Kurenai 14 by Shurou 2008-12-24T21:58:01+00:00 Shurou admin@mangahelpers.com (NOTE: Please see proofreading of Loserbait and my comment on it below the translation)

(SHIIIIIT MAJOR ERROR!!!! Last line from Benika in page 26!!!)

Kure-nai 14 – Promise

= speech/thought bubbles
++ everything else (usu also labeled to some extent)

Page 1
++ - Having Murasaki taken away, Shinkurou is...!?

Page 2

Tamaki
= Oh
= You came about?

Shinkurou
= Tamaki-san...

Tamaki
= Want some water?

= I called Dr. Yamauchi to have a look at you for good measure
= But at any rate, he said your vital organs are safe

= Guess it’s thanks to your training to get sturdy at Houzuki!

Page 3
Chapter 14 Promise
Original work: Katayama Kentarou
(Shuueisha: Super Dash Book Collection)
Manga: Yamamoto Yamato
Scenario: Koyasu Hideaki
Continuity Composition: Furuya Daisuke

++ With you... once more –

JC Comics Volume 2 Second Edition Now Complete!!
TV anime DVD information on page 510!!
Extra chapter compilation and appendix in the Special Edition “Square II”!!

= Knock
= Knock

Page 4
Benika
= Are you alive?

Shinkurou
= Be...
= Benika-san...!

Benika
= ... You seem alright

= Oh, I see that Tamaki’s with you

Tamaki
= Hello–

Page 5
Benika
= It seems that I was a step behind
= I didn’t expect that they’d find this place

= I’ve caused you troubles, Shinkurou
= I’ll throw in some extra in your commission
= Recuperate with this for a while

Shinkurou
= ...Wai
= Please wait!!

Page 6
Shinkurou
= Please explain!!
= Just what on earth is...!!
= How did things like this...!!

Benika
= You don’t need to know

Shinkurou
= Do...!!
= Don’t joke with me!!

Page 7
Shinkurou
= Guh...!!

Benika
= It’s fine, Yayoi
= Let him go

Shinkurou
= Please explain...
= Tell me what all of this is about......

Benika
= And what would you do about it

Page 8
Benika
= Can you even fight them?

= ...That wound
= You’ve been done in by a professional mercenary, no?

= If you get involved in this case any more, you won’t get away with just that
= You’ll be killed for sure

Page 9
Shinkurou
= She...
= Saved me...

= She protected me
= Even though protecting was supposed to be my role...
= But regardless...

Benika
= Even after you find out, nothing will come out it, you know?

Page 10
Shinkurou
= That’s not for you to decide

Benika
++ No sign of backing down...

Tamaki
= Shall I excuse myself?

Benika
= No...
= I don’t mind

Page 11
Benika
= So
= What do you want to know first?

Shinkurou
= Your... goal

Benika
= Some straight ball

= My goal is to keep a promise

Shinkurou
= A promise?

Benika
= A promise
= With Murasaki’s mother

Page 12
Benika
++ In the past
++ There was a time when I went in and out of the Kuhouin because of work
++ I met her there

++ That place was called the “Inner Yard”

Shinkurou
= The Inner Yard...?

Page 13
Benika
= Women born to the Kuhouin spend their entire lies there
= While to the world, the media, the government
= Their existence is kept in a state of complete secrecy

Ginko
= No daughters exist in the Kuhouin

Shinkurou
= Wh...
= Why would they do such a thing...

Benika
= This is a heavily classified secret

Page 14
Benika
= Those of the Kuhouin
= Can only make children within their own clan
(t/n: OH HELL NO, WTF, this is what I was fearing from day 1 of this manga... !@^*$&@!^% )

Shinkurou
= Wha...

Benika
= I don’t know the reason in detail
= I suppose it’s along the lines of hereditary problems...

Page 15
Benika
= But marriage within the family is a complete taboo in this day and age
= It’s something that can never be made public

Shinkurou
= That’s why... a place like the Inner Yard...

Benika
= Yes...
= And in the Inner Yard

= Women are treated as tools to bear the clan’s children
(t/n: WOW, my nightmares are coming true....)

= You can’t comprehend, can you?

= I couldn’t understand it at first, either

= The emotions of the women who obey and live under a system like that...

Page 16
Benika
= But to put it in words...
= That place is something of a different world altogether
= And the common sense on this side was absolutely disregarded...

++ A clan that treats women as “tools” for bearing children
++ An facility for that purpose

= Does it piss you off?

= Nevertheless, in that infuriating place...
= Was my friend

Page 17
++ The Inner Yard (More than a decade ago)

Mother
= Want to leave this place?
= Me?

Benika
= That’s right
= If you want to leave, I’ll take you out

Mother
= Thank you, Benika

Page 18
Mother
= But it’s OK!
= This is a happy place
= There’s no fighting or crimes in here at all unlike the outside world

= I’m staying here with full understanding

= I’ll live here
= And bear children here

= And die here

Benika
= Are you really alright with that?
= In a place like this for the rest of your life, do you really...

Mother
= You’re right

Page 19
Mother
= Then... could you do me just one favor?

= If someday...
= If I bear a girl

= I’d like you to grant one wish of that girl

= I don’t have any complaints against ending in this land
= But the coming girl may not be so...

= Yeah?

Benika
= I understand

= I’ll definitely... grant it

Page 20
Shinkurou
= By any chance
= That girl you speak of is...

Benika
= Yes

= It’s Kuhouin Murasaki

Shinkurou
= Th Then just what was Murasaki’s wish!!
= Didn’t she want to leave the Inner Yard!!

Benika
= You’re wrong
= That child

Murasaki
++ I

Page 21
Murasaki
= Want to try that thing called love

++ My late mother would say often

++ That love is a very wonderful thing

Page 22
Murasaki
= But there is no such thing called love in the Inner Yard...

= Is it a difficult wish?

Benika
++ No...

Shinkurou
= That’s why...

= To me?

Page 23
Benika
= Well, it was my own arbitrary judgment, and I did feel bad...
= But there was no one else suitable

++ Thank you, Shinkurou
++ Thank you

Benika
= Hey, what are you planning?

Page 24
Shinkurou
= I’m going
= Where she is

Benika
= Hey

= Hey! Do you understand the situation?
= The Kuhouin family isn’t an adversary that you alone can do something about

= It’s like duking it out with a country’s military

Page 25
Benika
= Planning to die?

Shinkurou
= I’m going to meet her before that

Benika
= Meet her and then what will you do
= That child may remain on that side, you know?

Shinkurou
= That’s for her to decide
= I’ll see her
= And ask her what she really wishes for right now

Benika
= If she seeks to be saved?

Shinkurou
= I’ll save her!!!

Page 26
Probably both gals
= Fu...
= Fufufufu...

= HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Benika
= It seems that...
= My personnel selection was right on the money

= I had you figured out all wrong, Shinkurou
= Since when did you become man enough to make an enemy out of a corner of the Three Great Front Families for the sake of one woman? (t/n: OK, this was a bit hard to translate... so I more or less did a literal translation of 表御三家...)

(t/n: OK, the obnoxiously big, bolded, italicized text is the part of the text that I missed on my first pass... which also happened to be my only pass.. Yeah, this is why you should always proofread your own work -____-)

Page 27
Benika
= If you have the resolution, then there’s no helping it

= Let’s go, Shinkurou

Shinkurou
= Eh...

Benika
= I
= The Juuzawa Benika will be your guide

Page 28
Yamie
= You’re going, then, Benika

= I leave the boy up to you (t/n: Btw, it’s not like she owns him, please don’t start up a discussion about that...)

Benika
= Yeah

Tamaki
= Aw-w I’m going, too –

Shinkurou
= Drunks are not allowed

Page 29
++ Wait, Murasaki
++ I’ll definitely

Benika
= This...
= Is an unexpected guest

Shinkurou
= Huh?

= Yu...!

Page 30
Shinkurou
= Yuuno-san!!!

Yuuno
= You are going to Murasaki-chan, right?

Shinkurou
= Wh Why are you at a place like this...

Benika
= <Houzuki>, huh...

= As expected of the Thirteen Families of the Underworld (t/n: Again, an almost literal translation)
= You’re sensitive to information on the underworld

Yuuno
= Ever since I found out about Murasaki-chan
= I have been paying attention, so...

Page 31
Yuuno
= I’ll say the conclusion first
= (SFX) Snap

= There is now way...
= I will let Shinkurou-san fight the likes of Kuhouin

++ Unexpected, yet the greatest barrier!?

(Sorry, not doing the last advertisement page...)

Notes
- As usual, the credit stuff, and feel free to use it - just let me know! :) https://mangahelpers.com/t/shunran/releases/7364 [Italiano] [Translation] Kurenai 3 by Shunran 2008-11-22T14:04:15+00:00 Shunran admin@mangahelpers.com Kurenai 03 – Kuhouin Murasaki
“Questa è la maestosa villa della famiglia Tateyama... Un pezzo storico dell’aristocrazia…”
“Fin dal periodo prebellico hanno accumulato un’immensa fortuna con il traffico marittimo…”
“E questo è il loro concetto di “festicciola per pochi intimi” ”
“Mi sembra di essere completamente su un altro pianeta…”
“Ehi tu! Potresti portarmi un altro bicchiere?”
“S-sì… subito!”
scritta: “Il lavoro part-time di Shinkurou?”
Pag2
Shin: “ Uah!”
Shin: “uhaaaaaaa!”
Shin: “S-sono d-desolato…!”
Voce: “Sembra un bel pasticcio… Serve una mano?”
Shin: “ Oh no… Non si preoccupi… Tutto a posto…”
Shin: “Il vero pasticcio sarebbe stato sporcarsi questi vestiti super costosi…”
Shin: “ Non sono mica quelle robe da maschio che si mette sempre Murasaki…”
Voce: Shinkurou?
Shin:Uhm?
Pag3
Shin: Mu-
Shin: Murasaki…!
Pag4
“Un legame profondo…!”
Capitolo 3: Kuhouin Murasaki
Pag5
“2 giorni prima”
Shin: E quindi… Io dovrei essere la guardia del corpo dell’organizzatore del party?
Benika: Mi faresti questo favore?
Shinkurou: Sì ma…
Shinkurou: … Questo era un incarico che avevano affidato specificamente a lei… Io non-
Benika: Quel giorno per l’appunto è il compleanno di mio figlio…
Shin: Eh…?
Benika: Rilassati… Stavolta ci sarà anche Yayoi…
Pag6
Shin: Eh? Yayoi san…?!
Benika: Yayoi originariamente era un ninja… In due non dovreste avere problemi di sorta
“Inuzuka Yayoi, subordinata di Juuzawa Benika”
Shin: “Ah sì eh?”
Shin: Molto bene… Sarà un piacere allora
Shin: Non avrei mai pensato di incontrarti in un posto del genere…!
Shin: Quant’è piccolo il mondo…
Shin: Ma in effetti è vero che questo mondo è anche il vostro
Pag7
Murasaki: Esatto!
Murasaki: Presenziare a questi ricevimenti è dovere dei Kuhouin in quanto grandi membri dell’elite finanziaria!
Shin: Capisco…
Shin: “Certo che… Una bimba di sette anni come lei…”
Shin: “ Cosa può trovare di divertente in un posto da adulti come questo…?
Murasaki: Ora che ci penso… Che ci fai qui vestito da cameriere…?
Shin: Che ti prende?
Murasaki: Scusami! Non volevo disturbarti!
Murasaki: Sicuramente starai facendo un lavoro importantissimo!
Shin: Ahah
Pag8
Kiba: Signorina… Fuori fa molto freddo… Credo sia meglio rientrare…
Murasaki: Kiba!
“Kiba – Vicecomandante delle guardie della famiglia Kuhouin”
Murasaki: Di’ un po’ Shinkurou….
Murasaki: Ti piaccio vestita così?
Shinkurou: Sì…
Shinkurou: Sei molto graziosa
Murasaki: Grazie!
Shinkurou: (sospira)
Pag9
Yayoi: Shinkurou kun
Shin: uwaaa!
Shin: Ya-Yayoi san! Da quanto tempo eri lì…?
Yayoi: Non possiamo permetterci alcuna distrazione
Yayoi: Il nostro compito è proteggere il cliente senza che si accorgano di noi
Yayoi: Esattamente il contrario di quello che stavi facendo adesso
Shin: Hai ragione... Scusa…
Yayoi: Bene allora… Torniamo al lavoro
Shin: Sparita…
Pag10
Tizio: Allora… Le mie più vive congratulazioni per il successo della vostra nuova impresa!
Minako: Oh… La ringrazio molto
Minako: Ma del resto tutto ciò non sarebbe stato possibile senza il supporto di tutti voi…
“Tateyama Minako – Figlia del capofamiglia dei Tateyama”
Tizio: D’altra parte questo è ciò che si aspetta da una Tateyama…
Tizio: Nonostante sia una donna tiene alto il nome dell-
Minako: Oh no… Questo non ha niente a che fare con la mia famiglia…
Minako: Sono stata io a volere fortemente questa nuova impresa e a portarla fino in fondo con le mie sole forze…
Minako: Dai Tateyama non ho ricevuto mai alcun sostegno…
Minako: Ciò che mi preme farvi capire è che tutto ciò non ha niente a che vedere con la mia famiglia…
Pag11
Minako: L’ho fatto da sola… Con le mie forze
Minako: Vogliate scusarmi
Voce: signorina
Minako: Hazama…
“Hazama – Maggiordomo di casa Tateyama”
Pag12
Hazama: Che uomini volgari…
Hazama: Gente digiuna di buone maniere che pensa solo al denaro…
Minako: Smettila Hazama…
Minako: Anche loro sono ospiti importanti…
Hazama: Però… Se mi permette…
Minako: Grazie Hazama
Minako: Tu sei stato l’unico ad avermi sempre sostenuta… Ti sono infinitamente grata…
Hazama: Dovere
Minako: La realtà è che se niente cambia nel sistema dell’impresa odierna ben presto i Tateyama cadranno in rovina…
Minako: In ogni caso…
Pag13
Minako: … Non ci si può fare niente
Hazama: Signorina…
“Lo scopo di questo party è raccogliere il sostegno economico necessario…”
“Per avviare la nuova azienda…”
shin: “Se è vero che c’è un pericolo concreto che attentino alla sua vita… allora questo posto non mi pare assolutamente ben difeso…”
Shin: “Anche quelli della sorveglianza… Troppo pochi!”
Shin : “Se adesso accadesse qualcosa ci andrebbero di mezzo un sacco di persone che non c’entrano niente… E poi… Stasera c’è anche Murasaki…”
Voce: A proposito… Hai sentito della figlia dei Kuhouin?
Pag14
Voce2: Oh sì… Pare che tutto d’un tratto abbiano cominciato a farla uscire in pubblico…
Voce: Beh sai… Probabilmente i Kuhouin si saranno stufati di tutte quelle storie inquietanti che si raccontano su di loro da un pezzo…
Voce: Si dice che tutti i Kuhouin facciano figli solo per endogamia*… (*endogamia = fare figli tra individui della stessa famiglia)
Voce: E che poi tutte le donne della famiglia vengano tenute chiuse in un posto speciale al solo scopo di fare figli… Aspetta… Com’è che si chiama?
Voce: Se non sbaglio ha un nome tipo “ Edificio interno”… Può essere?
(*Per chi non ha visto l’anime: l’”edificio interno”, “Oku no In”, è il luogo della residenza dei Kuhouin in cui vengono rinchiuse le donne della famiglia (solo quelle di sangue Kuhouin), totalmente isolate dal mondo esterno. Il loro unico scopo è quello di dare alla luce i figli di altri consanguinei Kuhouin. Anche a Murasaki sarebbe stato riservato lo stesso destino una volta raggiunta una certa età. Gli uomini Kuhouin, poi, si sposano con donne non appartenenti alla famiglia come copertura, senza però avere da loro figli).
Voce2: Ma allora… anche quella bambina…?
Voce: Oh beh… Sono una delle tre grandi famiglie dell’aristocrazia insieme ai Kirinzuka e ai Kouganomiya… Eppure di scheletri nell’armadio ne hanno a volontà…
Pag15
Yayoi: Shinkurou kun…
Yayoi: Stai lavorando
Shinkurou: Lo so…
Yayoi: Cerca di stare calmo…
Yayoi: Dopotutto pare proprio che lei se la cavi anche meglio di te…
Shin: Che vuoi dire?
Murasaki: Tateyama sama (*sama = titolo onorifico superiore a “san”)
Pag16
Murasaki: Sono onorata di poter fare la Sua conoscenza
Murasaki: Sono la figlia di Kuhouin Renjou… Il capofamiglia della casata Kuhouin…
Murasaki: Il mio nome è Kuhouin Murasaki
Murasaki: Sono consapevole di quanto sia sgarbato che sia io a fare le veci della mia famiglia… Tuttavia la prego di accettare di buon grado le felicitazioni di mio padre Renjou
Murasaki: Perciò la prego…
Pag17
Murasaki: … Mi consideri in rappresentanza dei Kuhouin
Minako: Il piacere è mio… Kuhouin Murasaki
Shin: Murasaki…
Shin: Ma guardala…
Minako: …Qualcosa non va?
Pag18
Murasaki: Il suo colorito non è dei migliori signorina…
Minako: Eh?
Minako: Oh… Mi dispiace molto… Ma sai… Neli ultimi tempi sono stata molto impegnata e sono in debito di diverse ore di sonno…
Minako: Forse è per questo…
Minako: Uh…
Minako: Grazie Hazama…
Hazama: Si figuri
Pag19
Hazama: Le suggerisco di ritirarsi un po’ a riposare…
Minako: Sì… forse cinque minuti non mi farebbero male…
Murasaki: FERMI!
Minako: Che succede?
Murasaki: Stia ferma! Non segua quell’uomo!
Murasaki: E’ un bugiardo!
Minako: Murasaki san…
Pag20
Minako: Questa persona si chiama Hazama
Minako: E lavora da noi come maggiordomo da molti anni…
Murasaki: Sì ma… Lui-
Kiba: Signorina… Non mi sembra il caso di creare problemi ai signori Tateyama…
Murasaki: Ma che cavolo dici Kiba! Perché non capisci?
Murasaki: Io… Io…
Sfx: risate
Pag21
Hazama: Se non c’è altro…
Shin: Aspettate un attimo per favore
Murasaki: Shinkurou!
Minako: Tu…
Minako: Sei venuto per conto di Juuzawa Benika…?
Shin: Esatto
Pag22
Shin: Sono un mediatore di conflitti
Shin: Il mio nome è Kurenai Shinkurou
Minako: Ma…
Minako: Ehi..!!
Pag23
Shin: Andiamo Murasaki!
Murasaki: Oook!
Shin: G-gh
“Ma cosa…!?”
Kiba: Signorina…!
Pag24
Hazama: Questa è la dimora dei Tateyama
Hazama: Vi prego di lasciare a noi questa incombenza
Hazama: Per questo ero stato contrario sin dall’inizio…
Hazama: Assumere un mediatore è stata una pessima idea…
Hazama: Quella ragazzina è una spina nel fianco…
“Ehi….!”
“Un att-…!”
Pag25
Minako: Mettimi giù!
Minako: Lasciami ho detto!!!
Minako: E non osare toccarmi!!!
Murasaki: … Dov’è che la stavi toccando Shinkurou?
Shin: Eh?
Shin: Ehi ma… No…!
Shin: Da nessuna parte…!
Pag26
Minako: Che vi è preso?
Minako: Avete per caso intenzione di uccidermi…?
Murasaki: Assolutamente no!
Murasaki: Il suo viso…
Murasaki: Non è certo quello di una persona che soffre di insonnia! Quella è la faccia di qualcuno che sta soffrendo nel profondo!
Murasaki: Mia madre è morta… E anche lei aveva sempre quella stessa faccia…
Pag27
Murasaki: E anche quell’uomo… Sicuramente aveva qualcosa di losco in mente!
Murasaki: Aveva quegli occhi-
Minako: Ma si può sapere cosa stai dicendo?!
Minako: Hazama si è sempre preso cura di me!
Minako: Per me è sempre stato parte della famiglia!
Minako: Non è neanche pensabile una cosa del genere!
Minako: “Ah-!”
Shin: Aspetti…!
Pag28
Shinkurou: Ecco perché dentro la villa ce n’erano così pochi…
Murasaki: Perdonami Shinkurou… E’ tutta colpa mia…
Shinkurou: Non preoccuparti… Tu sei quella che sei… Non hai peli sulla lingua…
Shinkurou: E potranno dirmi tutto quello che vogliono… Ma io ti crederò sempre
Pag29
Kiba: Sono costernato per quanto è successo…
Kiba: La prego di accettare le mie più sincere scuse…
Shinkurou: Ki-
Shinkurou: Kiba san!
Kiba: La prego di lasciar fare a me
Kiba: Lei ha un incarico da portare a termine
Shin: Beh… Allora…
Kiba: Lascio Murasaki nella sue mani…
Pag30
Minako: Sciocchezze…
Minako: Solo sciocchezze… Hazama non vorrebbe mai la mia morte…!
Minako: Ma soprattutto… Che ragione avrebbe per volermi uccidere…?
Hazama: L’ho trovata finalmente…
Hazama: Signorina…
Minako: Ha-
Minako: …Hazama…!
Pag31
Minako: Ha-…!
Minako: … … … Ha-
Minako: …Hazama…
Minako: …Che stai facendo…?
Minako: …No… Dev’essere un incubo…
Hazama: Lei è la ruota bucata del carro
Pag32
Minako: Che dici?
Hazama: Mettere su una propria impresa senza contare sull’aiuto della famiglia? Roba da folli…
Hazama: Senza il nome dei Tateyama… Nessuno vorrà mai prendere sul serio i suoi stupidi castelli in aria!
Minako: io…
Minako: Io…..
Minako: IO LO FACCIO SOLO PER SALVARE QUESTA FAMIGLIA!
Minako: è per questo che sto cercando di tirare su quest’impresa con le mie forze! Solo per questo…
Hazama: Vede… Queste non sono altro che parole di una ragazzina cresciuta sotto una campana di vetro…
Hazama: Per questo ho deciso di mettere fine a questa storia… Ho tentato dapprima con le minacce…
Hazama: In ogni caso… Fino a questo momento…
Pag33
Hazama: Non avevo alcuna intenzio di arrivare ad ucciderla in questo modo… L’assassinio della figlia dei Tateyama avrebbe fatto troppo rumore…
Hazama: Per questo avevo pensato di ucciderla lentamente… Facendola ammalare…
Hazama: Somministrandole nelle bibite piccole dosi di veleno… poco per volta…
Hazama: Allo stato attuale… Non le potrebbero appiccicare addosso neppure un matrimonio di convenienza…
Hazama: E così… Adesso lei morirà… Uccisa da un uomo misterioso che l’ha rapita…
Minako: Hazama…
Hazama: Addio… Signorina…
Pag34
Hazama: E tu chi sei?
Pag35
Hazama: Ancora voi…
Shin: Perché la vuoi uccidere…?
Shin: Lei si fidava ciecamente di te!
Hazama: Umf…
Hazama: Io mi limito a proteggere il nome dei Tateyama
Pag36
Hazama: La nostra famiglia è al servizio dei Tateyama da generazioni e generazioni… Il nostro compito è quello di proteggerli…
Hazama: L’unica cosa che conta per noi è il destino di questa casata storica…
Hazama: la nostra esistenza è interamente votata a questo…
Hazama: E siamo ben lieti di sacrificare la nostra stessa vita per questa missione…
Murasaki: Padre…
Murasaki: Io…
Pag37
“Le donne della famiglia Kuhouin….”
Murasaki: …Desidero uscire dall’Edificio Interno…
“…Non sono altro che strumenti il cui unico scopo è dare alla luce figli…”
Shinkurou: Che vada in malora!
Pag38
Shinkurou: Una famiglia del genere deve solo estinguersi!
Hazama: Come osi!!!
Pag39
Shin: Minako-san…
Shin: Conosco una bambina che proprio come Lei era prigioniera dei vincoli della propria famiglia… Anche lei ha vissuto momenti bui e disperati…
Shin: Ma adesso vive la sua vita…
Shin: Ed è felice
Minako: Una bambina…?
Yayoi: Shinkurou!!!!
Shin: Si chiama Mu-
Pag40
Minako: Shinkurou kun!
Yayoi: Non si agiti… Con l’Houzuki-ryuu ce ne vuole per fargli del male…
Hazama: Tu…!
Hazama: Cosa diavolo sei…?!
Pag41
Shin: Sono un mediatore.
Hazama: Gwaaa
Pag42
Yayoi: Beh.. Complimenti…
Yayoi: Sei stato assolutamente sprovveduto ed incauto…
Yayoi: Ma alla fine si può dire che tu ce l’abbia fatta…
Shin: Grazie…
Yayoi: Solo una cosa… Vorrei capire…
Yayoi: … Cosa ti rendeva così sicuro che Hazama fosse un criminale?
Shin: Beh… Per quello…
Murasaki: Shinkurou!!!
Pag43
Murasaki: Allora sei riuscito a finire il tuo lavoro!!!
Murasaki: Stavolta sono stata brava anch’io!
Shinkurou: Ma certo…
Pag44
Minako: Sì…
Minako: Sono fermamente decisa a portare avanti la mia impresa…
Minako: Stavolta…
Minako: Solo ed esclusivamente con le mie forze!
Benika: Molto bene…
Benika: Pare proprio che lui l’abbia spronata parecchio…
Pag45
Benika: Se le occorrerà nuovamente aiuto… Ci chiami
Benika: Ma la prossima volta si rivolga direttamente a lui…
Benika: D’altra parte… E’ proprio questo che gli piace…
“Camminare sulla strada che si è scelta…!”