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Post by Patches on Apr 21, 2009 8:37:07 GMT -5
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Post by Patches on Apr 21, 2009 11:40:57 GMT -5
Chapter 1
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Sakura: "Whoa, what's that?!"
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subtext: "Crossing the boundary that no one can cross,"
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subtext: "The boy and girl meet, and the wheel of fate begins to turn... Their story begins!"
Title: "Kyoukai no Rinne" (note: The meaning of the series title itself is ambiguous given the multiple useage of the words, but "Rinne of the Boundary" might work)
title: "Chapter 1: The Mysterious Classmate"
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Sakura: "That thing spinning in the sky! Is it a ferris wheel?! Can you ride it?! Hey, Oba-chan!" (note: "Oba-chan" is a generic term of address for a middle-aged woman. It literally means "aunt", but has more of a connotation of "ma'am" in this context)
Oba-chan: ".... If you get on that, you won't be able to come back."
Oba-chan: "Please leave here on your own. There is only one road, after all."
Sakura: "Oba-chan...?"
Sakura: "Oba-chaan, where'd you go?! Oba-chaaan!"
---- 5.
Sakura: "Ah, Oba-cha..."
Oba-chan: "O-ne-e-cha-n, right?" Sakura: "Oww-ow-ow!" (note: "Onee-chan" is literally "big sister" but is also a generic term of address for a younger woman, like "miss". The woman here does appear young, but has white hair)
Oba-chan: "After this, I'd like you to forget everything you saw here. Or rather, you will forget." Sakura: "Oww-ow-ow!"
Sakura: 'When I reached high school...'
Sakura: "Sigh..." Sakura: 'I thought things would change.'
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Sakura: 'However...' ghost: "Heey! Good morning! Mamiya Sakura-san!"
Sakura: "He's here today, too..."
Sakura: "Hup..."
ghost: "Good morning!" Sakura: "Please don't talk to me anymore."
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Sakura: 'When...'
Sakura: 'I was little, I was spirited away. I don't remember it at all, though.'
Sakura: 'I was at my grandmother's rural house and had gotten lost in the mountains,' man: "Are you okay?! You're not hurt, are you?" Sakura: "I don't know why but my head hurts." Sakura: 'And I had apparently been missing for an entire week.'
Sakura: 'And ever since then, I've been able to see stuff like ghosts...'
teacher: "I'm taking attendance."
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girl: "Hey, hey, Mamiya-san." Sakura: "Eh?"
girl: "The guy next to you is absent again." Sakura: "You're right."
girl: "What do you think happened? It's already May..." (note: the Japanese schoolyear begins in April)
Sakura: 'I've never seen the guy who sits next to me ever since he transferred here.'
teacher: "Rokudou. Rokudou Rinne."
Sakura: "Ah!"
---- 9.
Sakura: "... Looks like he's here." girl: "Eh?"
Sakura: 'Hmm, so this is Rokudou-kun. ... But what's with him and his weird look? His hair... is bright red."
---- 10.
teacher: "Rokudou is absent again. I guess there's no helping it."
Sakura: 'Huh?!'
girl: "You think he dropped out?" guy: "I don't think he's ever going to come."
girl: "Mamiya-san, why'd you say 'He's here'...?" Sakura: "Eh...?"
Sakura: 'I see. Since no one else can see him, that means...'
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Sakura: 'He's a ghost. ... Wait, what is he doing?'
Sakura: 'Yikes, he saw me looking...' Rinne: "....."
Sakura: 'Whoa! What's this...?'
Sakura: '.... Dog food...?'
---- 12.
[hooray, more supernatural dogs!]
---- 13.
teacher: "All right, open your books."
Sakura: 'Whoa... what's this...?'
Sakura: 'What was it called? It's got big eyes and it's all shaky...'
Sakura: 'That's right, it's a chihuahua!'
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Rinne: "You who were called Chihua-tarou. You've taken enough of a walk, haven't you?"
Sakura: 'He spoke.'
Rinne: "Throw away your attachments to this world, and ride the wheel on its course at once."
Rinne: "Come."
Rinne: "...."
Rinne: "It's all right. Don't be afraid."
---- 15.
Sakura: 'He... he got eaten.'
girl: "Hey, Mamiya-san," Sakura: "You can call me Sakura."
girl: "Sakura-chan, I see you spacing out sometimes. Bad habit?" Sakura: "Yeah... I can't break it."
---- 16.
Sakura: "Bye!" girl: "See you tomorrow!"
Sakura: 'I thought that once I reached high school, things would change.'
Sakura: 'I'd become a bit more mature, and that these weird things I was seeing would gradually go away...' Sakura: "But... today was the first day I'd seen something like that."
ghost: "Mamiya Sakura-san! Heey!"
Sakura: "Again..."
Sakura: "Hup..."
ghost: "Let's walk together!" Sakura: "You know, you're really annoying."
---- 17.
Rinne: "Ah!"
Sakura: "Ah!"
Sakura: 'The ghost from the classroom and...'
Sakura: 'The chihuahua... It got smaller.'
Sakura: 'He doesn't really seem like a ghost, but...'
Sakura: "Hup!"
---- 18.
Rinne: "Oof!"
Sakura: 'Huh...?! He's human?'
Sakura: "I'm... I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else."
Rinne: "Hey."
Rinne: "You... saw what happened before, right?"
Sakura: "Eh...?! So..."
---- 19.
Sakura: "You really were... the one in the classroom before..."
Rinne: "Just... who are you, anyway?"
Sakura: "Well, that's really something I should be asking you, but..."
ghost: "Excuse me, what is your relationship with Sakura-san?" Sakura: "Oh, you were still there."
---- 20.
Rinne: "An earthbound spirit, huh..." (note: The word here is "jibakurei", using the kanji for "earth-tie-spirit", but "jibakurei" spelled with "self-tie-spirit" is the ghost of someone who committed suicide, which is also applicable here)
Rinne: "If you don't give up your attachments to this world soon, you'll become an evil spirit. If you're ready to pass on, I'll help you."
Sakura: 'So this guy can see ghosts, too.'
ghost: "Ehhhh, and evil spirit? I don't like that..."
Rinne: "You got any money on you?" Sakura: "Eh?"
Rinne: "There'd usually be an extra fee to send him, too, but this time it seems more economical to include him in a special set with the one called Chihua-tarou."
Rinne: "50 yen." Sakura: "I don't really get it... but that's cheap."
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ghost: "I see... so you have attachments to this world, too..."
ghost: "We're two of a kind."
ghost: "When I was alive, I was studying for exams dawn till dusk, and I was never even able to talk to a girl."
ghost: "That's why I wanted to make friends with a girl no matter what," ghost: "Good morning! Good morning!" ghost: "and just kept talking."
ghost: "But no one ever responded."
ghost: "But spring came even for someone like me." ghost: "Good morning!" Sakura: "Good morning!"
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ghost: "Mamiya-san, you were the only one who would talk to me." Sakura: "I thought you were a normal person so I did it without thinking..."
ghost: "You're the only one who understands me! You think she'd go out with me if I asked? No, I'm sure she's smitten with me!" ghost: "It started with 'Good morning' and ended with 'I love you'" Rinne: "So what should we do?" Sakura: "Hmm...."
Sakura: "You said something before that sounded like you could help him pass on for 50 yen. In that case, here."
ghost: "You... don't have to..." Sakura: "Eh...?"
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ghost: "I'm fine with staying like this. I'd be lonely if I couldn't see you anymore."
Sakura: "Um... you combined together."
Rinne: "This is bad, he transformed into an evil spirit." Sakura: "That?"
ghost: "Please go out with me." Sakura: "I'm sorry."
Rinne: "Just give it up and pass on."
Rinne: "It's all right. Don't be afraid."
---- 24.
ghost: "She..."
ghost: "She rejected me!" Sakura: "Ack!"
---- 25.
Sakura: "!"
Rinne: "Sorry, but you're coming with me."
Sakura: "Eh...?"
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[Rukongai?]
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Sakura: "!"
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Sakura: 'Wh... what is this? A red wheel is...'
Sakura: 'spinning in the sky?!'
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Sakura: "W... we're flying?!"
Sakura: "Where are we?! Who are you?!"
ghost: "Waaaaait!" Sakura: "Ack! He followed us!"
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Rinne: "The force binding him to the living world was his attachment to you. The only way to get him to follow me was to bring you here with me."
Rinne: "And... this is difficult for me to say, but..."
Rinne: "Would it inconvenience you to give up five hundred yen? For his passage fee."
Sakura: "Eh...?"
Sakura: 'I could have sworn he said 50 yen before...' Sakura: "Why the price hike?"
Rinne: "It's the price of an evil spirit. An increase of ten times is the standard fare."
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Rinne: "But it's impossible. It's so expensive!" Sakura: "Oh, no. Nonono."
Sakura: "I'll pay it, I'll pay it. Just do something."
shopkeeper: "Thank you!"
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tag: '500'
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Rinne: "The one called Chihua-tarou and the man bound by love. I will now separate the both of you from your attachments from life."
ghost: "Man bound by love?! Don't call me such weird things!"
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Rinne: "KASHA RETSUDAN!" (note: Gonna just go with an attack name here. Literally translates to "fire wheel blazing cut")
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[zomg roadkill chihuahua]
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Sakura: "Ah." ghost: "Hyaaa!" Sakura: "Well that was easy."
Rinne: "Now, please quietly get on the Wheel of Rinne over there." ghost: "Yeah..." (note: Guess it could be "Wheel of Samsara" or "Wheel of Death and Rebirth", but I'm sticking with the title of the series here. Also note that this "Rinne" is written in kanji for "wheel turn", but the character "Rinne" has a name that is simply hiragana)
Sakura: 'Rinne...'
ghost: "It really is... lonely..."
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Rinne: "There's girls on the wheel, too." ghost: "Eh? Oh. I see."
ghost: "Bye!"
Sakura: 'I...'
Sakura: 'have a feeling... that I've been here before.'
Rinne: "This is a place where living humans cannot come."
Rinne: "Despite the emergency circumstances, I'm sorry for getting you involved in this."
Sakura: "Who... are you...?"
---- 38.
Rinne: "I am... one who takes those with attachments to the living world and are unable to pass on and lead them to the Wheel of Rinne so that they may rejoin the cycle of life."
Rinne: "A shinigami... or something like it."
---- 39.
Sakura: 'Something like it...?'
Rinne: "Forget."
Rinne: "Everything you saw here. Or rather, you will forget."
Sakura: 'And with that, I couldn't comprehend a thing.'
Sakura: 'When I came to, I was at home eating dinner.' Sakura: "I love tonkatsu!"
---- 40.
Sakura: 'However, that mysterious world' Sakura: "Good morning!" Sakura: 'was still clearly etched in my memory.'
Sakura: 'And the man of many mysteries had disappeared.'
girl: "Sakura-chan, he's here! Rokudou-kun who sits next to you!" Sakura: "Eh...?"
girl: "His hair is really red." girl: "He must have seriously dyed it." Sakura: "Ah! Shinigami!" Rinne: "My hypnotism failed?!" guy: "Why's he in a jersey?"
preview: "The mysterious boy was the classmate in the seat next to hers. Is Sakura's high school life about to take a turn for the worst?! Next issue, center color!"
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Post by Patches on May 1, 2009 9:13:52 GMT -5
Chapter 2
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Title: "Chapter 2: The Legend of the Instrument Box" (note: this is technically referred to as a 'Stevenson screen' and is a box for housing thermometers and the like to shield them from the elements)
subtext: "Rokudou-kun in the adjacent seat. Just who are you, anyway?"
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instructor: "Three laps for the girls. Calisthenics for the boys." everyone: "Yes sir."
girl: "So have you talked with Rokudou-kun?" Sakura: "Hmm, not much, no..." girl: "But his seat's right next to yours! And he seems a bit 'different', you know."
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instructor: "Hm? Hey, Rokudou."
instructor: "Why are you wearing the wrong jersey?" Rinne: "This is mine from middle school."
girl: "His middle school one, huh." girl: "He was wearing that in class, too."
instructor: "It can't be helped. Can you not afford the school-designated jersey?"
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Rinne: "If I bought such a luxurious item... I'd go straight to Hell."
instructor: "Eh, is your family that poor...?" Rinne: "I will go to Hell."
instructor: "P, please forgive me, Rokudou. I'm sorry." Rinne: "Right. So don't ask again."
Sakura: 'My classmate. Rokudou Rinne-kun, who sits in the seat next to me said...'
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Rinne: 'I am one who takes those with attachments to the living world and are unable to pass on and lead them to the Wheel of Rinne so that they may rejoin the cycle of life.'
Rinne: 'A shinigami... or something like it...' Sakura: "So he says."
Sakura: 'I'd like him to tell me more about that place, but... there hasn't really been a good chance to just talk between the two of us.'
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girl: "Ah, Rika-chan, is that a new cellphone? It's so cute!" Rika: "I just bought it last week. But you know..."
girl: "A wrong number?"
Rika: "Every single day. At the exact same time after school. This is getting ridiculous." Sakura: "What's it say?"
Rika: "It's the voice of some guy I don't know..." phone: "Hey you, come behind the gym at 4:00! Don't be late! *click*"
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Sakura: "Huh?"
Sakura: 'What's that? There's something strange about that phone...'
caption: "Several days later" Rika: "This is so weird! It's freaking me out!"
girl: "What, the cellphone thing again?" Rika: "He's calling even though I've got the number blocked...
Rika: "So I thought I'd try calling back to complain, but..." phone: "The number you are attempting to reach is not currently in use."
Rika: "And then yesterday when the time came for the wrong number to call..."
---- 8.
Rika: "I had the power turned off. But even so..." phone: "Hey you, come behind the gym at 4:00! Don't be late! *click*"
girl: "... it still came through?" Rika: "It's so scary!" Sakura: 'So don't answer it.'
girl: "You think it's haunted?" Rika: "Stooop iiiit!"
Rinne: "That story of yours..."
Rinne: "I know of a place... where you can get some help."
girl: "Eh?" Sakura: "Rokudou-kun..."
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Rinne: "In the school's backyard, there's an instrument box that doesn't get used anymore."
Rinne: "If you put a letter of inquiry in that box," Sakura: 'Isn't this like Kitarou's Youkai Post?' (note: a reference to the series "Gegege no Kitarou") Rinne: "and also, most importantly,"
Rinne: "An offering and a monetary donation, then your problems will be resolved. This is a school legend."
girl: "A legend, huh." Sakura: "You know of it?"
girl: "My sister went to this school, but I've never heard of it before." Sakura: "Rika-chan, you really want to ask for its help?"
Rika: "But I have to believe it! I don't have any other options left!" Sakura: 'Yeah you do. You could get your phone number changed...'
---- 10.
Rika: "There it is."
Rika: "Please help me."
Sakura: 'Huh?! Rokudou-kun.'
---- 11.
Rika: "The cover opened by itself..." girl: "And the letter and bread disappeared?!"
girls: "Waaaah!! Scaryy!" Sakura: "Huh? Oh..."
Sakura: 'They couldn't see him...?'
Sakura: "Ah."
Sakura: "Rika-chan... dropped her cellphone."
---- 12.
label: "Yaki-soba bread"
Rinne: "Itadakimasu."
Sakura: "Oh, there you are, Rokudou-kun."
Rinne: "....."
Sakura: "You think you can ignore me?!" Rinne: "Why can you see me? Mamiya Sakura, you really are a weird one."
Sakura: "You know..."
---- 13.
Sakura: "I really don't want to be hearing something like that from you. How can you just appear and disappear like that? And why are you just standing there eating bread?"
Sakura: "Hm?! Now that I think of it..."
Sakura: "The weird stuff happens whenever you're wearing this flashy haori." Rinne: "Don't pull on it, that's quality material!"
Rinne: "This is a Hell Haori. It transforms its wearer into a spirit body. In other words, it's a treasured good that makes your body the same as a ghost's."
Sakura: 'The same as a ghost...?'
Sakura: 'So that's why no one else can see him...'
---- 14.
Sakura: "I see. So that's why I can see you, since I can see ghosts. For once I get it."
Sakura: "But more importantly, just what do you think you're doing?" Rinne: "More importantly?!"
Sakura: "That legend about the instrument box. You just made that up, didn't you?!"
Rinne: "So what? It's how I live."
Sakura: "So... are you really a shinigami?"
Rinne: "Kind of." Sakura: "What do you mean 'kind of'?!"
Sakura: "!!" phone: *bzz bzz bzz*
---- 15.
Rinne: ".... That phone belongs to the one requesting help, Rika, doesn't it."
Sakura: "Y, yeah."
Rika: 'At the same time after school every day, the voice of a guy I don't know...'
Rinne: "I feel the aura of a ghost." Sakura: "Eh? So then..."
Sakura: "So the wrong number who keeps calling... really is a ghost?"
Rinne: "Yeah..." Rinne: 'I can feel it. The will of a spirit with attachments to this world and can't pass on...'
phone: "Hello?"
---- 16.
Rika: "This is Rika. Is this the person who picked up my phone?"
Rika: "Tee-hee. This might seem like a bother buuuuut, could you bring it to year 1 class 4..."
Rinne: "Heeellll nooooo..." Rika: "Eeeek! *click*"
Rinne: "And now I don't need to tell her I won't be returning it for a while." Sakura: "Y, you jerk..."
phone: *bzz bzz bzz*
phone: "Hey you, come behind the gym at 4:00! Dont' be late! *click*"
---- 17.
Rinne: "Behind the gym... 4:00..."
Rinne: "No one's here." Sakura: "Yeah... So, you know, that ghost person."
Sakura: "You think it's someone without any connection to this school...? Rika-chan said it was a person she didn't know..."
Rinne: "Yeah... it looks like it's someone else he's trying to call out..."
Rinne: "So the only obvious explanation..."
Rinne: "Is that the person the ghost was originally trying to call was never able to meet him behind the gym at 4:00." Sakura: "So you're saying... he died before they could meet, right?"
---- 18.
Sakura: "So I wonder where he's calling from."
Rinne: "Best way is to ask him himself."
Sakura: "Huh? A can on a string?"
Rinne: "Give me the girl asking for help, Rika's phone number." Sakura: "Ah, sure."
---- 19.
Rinne: "Good job. You can go home now."
Sakura: "Eh? What are you going to do, Rokudou-kun?"
Rinne: "I must find spirits and sever their worldly attachments, then lead them to the Wheel of Rinne."
Sakura: 'Wheel of Rinne... that place...' Sakura: "Um, is there anything I can do...?"
Rinne: "It seems that you can see ghosts, but you can't exorcise or fight, right?"
Sakura: "Well, yeah, but..."
---- 20.
Rinne: "Then everything from here is my job."
Sakura: 'A shinigami's... job...'
Rinne: "... Mamiya Sakura..." Sakura: "Eh?"
Rinne: "Do you have a 10 yen coin? It's the price for placing a call on the can phone." Sakura: 'It's a payphone...?'
---- 21.
girl: "Rika-chan, you can't skimp on your offerings to the instrument box! (you'll get cursed!)" Rika: "Eeeh, but I put a lot in there! All the 1-yen coins I had in my purse!"
Rinne: 'The thing connecting the wrong-number ghost to this world is the girl asking for help, Rika's cellphone number.'
Sakura: "Umm... where are we?"
Rinne: "The Spirit Path. It connects spirits through space and time. Our connection will begin soon."
---- 22.
Rinne: 'We're connected!" Rinne: "Hey! It's me!"
ghost: "You! Come behind the gym at 4:00!"
Rinne: "What's that mean?" ghost: "What?! You bastard, don't play dumb!"
---- 23.
Rinne: "We need to keep feeding it 10 yen coins! if it cuts off, we'll never reach him!" Sakura: "Fiine..."
ghost: "I'll definitely be there. Don't be late!"
Sakura: 'That person is... the wrong-number ghost?!'
---- 24.
Sakura: 'Ah...!'
Sakura: 'So because of that... that person was never able to make it behind the gym...'
Sakura: "He was wearing our uniform, so he must have been a student at this school." Rinne: "Yeah. Come with me here at 4:00 tomorrow."
---- 25.
Sakura: "You're not sending him right away?" Rinne: "He has to meet the person he was trying to meet, or his attachment will never be broken..."
Rinne: "We'll do everything tomorrow. See ya."
Sakura: "All right, so tomorrow, then..." Sakura: 'I can see ghosts, but...'
Sakura: 'I can't exorcise or fight. But...'
Sakura: 'He's letting me help.' Sakura: "Guess I should stock up on small change for tomorrow."
preview: "Sakura gets caught up in Rinne's pace... Next issue, cover page and color cover!"
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Post by Patches on May 12, 2009 20:42:47 GMT -5
Chapter 3
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Rika: "Sakura-chan, sorry about yesterday..." girl: "We ran off and left you behind..."
Rika: "Are you okay?" Sakura: "Oh, I'm fine."
Rika: "But that legend of the instrument box... it didn't work at all, did it?" girl: "Rika-chan dropped her cellphone." Sakura: 'It's a phone that's getting calls from a wrong-number ghost... do you really want it back?'
Rika: "Rokudou-kun was lying to us, wasn't he!"
Sakura: 'Rokudou-kun...'
---- 2.
title: "4:00 Behind the Gym"
subtext: "The elegant Shinigami.... -like person?"
Sakura: 'Uh... why is he surrounded by flowers?'
---- 3.
bell: *diiiiing-dooong*
Rinne: "Almost that time... huh." guy: "He's got an artificial flower business?" guy: "First time I've seen the like."
Sakura: 'Ah...'
girl: "Sakura-chan, let's go..." Sakura: "Sorry, not right now..."
Sakura: "You're going to meet up with that ghost, right?" Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura, you intend to come with me?"
---- 4.
Sakura: "I'm going. I'm curious, after all."
Rinne: "When it comes right down to it, you know what you're for." Sakura: "Getting right to the money talk, I see."
girl: "Eeeeh?! Sakura-chan..." Rika: "When did she get to be such good friends with Rokudou-kun...?"
Suzuki: "... Hey, about Rokudou..." Rika: "Ah, gym instructor Suzuki-sensei."
Suzuki: "So he... wears that jersey to class, too."
girl: "Yeah." Rika: "Now that you mention, our homeroom teacher's mentioned it before..."
teacher: "Hey, Rokudou, where's your uniform...?" Rinne: "Tch..."
teacher: "Eh?! Did you just snort at me...?" girl: "Sensei was pretty shaken." Rika: "Yup."
---- 5.
Suzuki: "I see..." Suzuki: 'So his family really is poor...'
Rinne: 'This place...'
Rinne: 'There's no mistake, this is where the phone ghost had his accident...'
---- 6.
phone: *bzz bzz bzz*
Rinne: "He's here."
ghost: "Hey you! Come behind the gym at 4:00! Don't be late!" Rinne: 'If he can't go beyond this point, he'll just repeat the same action every day.'
Rinne: "So from here, we make a path for him to follow." Sakura: "With... that Hell Haori?"
---- 7.
Rinne: "That's right. This Hell Haori gives its wearer a spirit body. And if you turn it inside-out..."
ghost: "?!"
Sakura: "Ah!"
---- 8.
Rinne: "A spirit is given a corporeal body. It's a handy reversible." Sakura: "Eh..."
women: "Eeeek! He just appeared all of a sudden!"
Rinne: "This is the best way to move a ghost who can't move from the place where it died. That and it's free." Sakura: "Wow, it really is handy."
Rinne: "Now then, shall we go?"
---- 9.
ghost: "Huh? Where?"
Rinne: "....."
Rinne: "Behind the gym."
ghost: "What for?"
Rinne: ".... You called someone to meet you here at 4:00, riiight?" ghost: "I did?"
Sakura: "The shock of the accident seems to have wiped his memory." Rinne: "....."
---- 10.
Rinne: 'Oh man...' Rinne: "If his goal of meeting someone at this location isn't fulfilled, his attachment will never be broken..."
Rinne: "And since that hasn't happened, it's been seven years now since he became a ghost. And without any clues..." Sakura: "Eeeh?! He's been a ghost seven years?!"
Suzuki: "Ah, there you are! Heeey, Rokudou!" Sakura: "Gym instructor Suzuki-sensei."
Rinne: "Tch. Mamiya Sakura, take off the ghost's haori. It would be a problem if he was seen." Sakura: "A lot of people saw him just bringing him here, though."
Suzuki: "Can you spare a minute?" Rinne: "... I'm a bit busy at the moment."
Suzuki: "You don't have the school-designated gym jersey, right?"
Suzuki: "In that case, if it's all right with you..."
---- 11.
Suzuki: "This jersey's a bit old, but I'll give it to you."
Sakura: 'Huh.'
Suzuki: "... What's wrong? Is it really too old to be any good?"
Rinne: "No..."
Rinne: "Th... thank you very much..."
---- 12.
Sakura: 'Huh...? He looks really happy for some reason.'
Suzuki: "You'll take it?" Rinne: "If this is a dream, don't wake me up."
Suzuki: "Oh no. To tell you the truth about this jersey..."
Sakura: "Hm?"
Suzuki: "This is my classmate's jersey from when I was a student at this school. But he died in an accident..."
Sakura: "Um, are you remembering something?" ghost: "Hmmmm..."
ghost: "Hmmmm..."
Sakura: 'It's obvious he's reacting to the jersey.'
---- 13.
Sakura: "Um... so why did you have your classmate's jersey...?"
Suzuki: "Well, on that day, I'd accidentally taken his jersey home... our last names were both 'Suzuki', after all."
Suzuki: 'Then that day I got this threatening call...' phone: "Hey you! Come behind the gym at 4:00! Don't be late!"
Suzuki: "So I promised to return the jersey at 4:00, but... just beforehand, he had his accident..."
Suzuki: "It's an important jersey that I've been keeping safe until now, but if Rokudou will wear it happily, it will be a good memorial."
Suzuki: "... Wait, Suzuki-kun?!" ghost: "...."
ghost: "That's right... On my way home from school, I realized I picked up the wrong jersey..."
---- 14.
ghost: "It's my precious jersey with an embroidered message from the girl I love." sign: "Inside flap" message: "Go for it, Suzuki!"
Rinne: "I don't see any embroidery..." Sakura: "Hey, what's that you're hiding with your finger?"
Sakura: "Aha! There's no doubt now."
Suzuki: "Your'e right! I never noticed." Sakura: "Isn't this great, Rokudou-kun?"
Sakura: "His attachment... was getting his jersey back!"
---- 15.
Rinne: "Is it really?" Sakura: "What else would it be?"
Sakura: "Don't tell me... you really wanted that gym jersey?"
Sakura: "Meaning this black jersey, it's not some kind of shinigami uniform...?" Rinne: "You moron. You think there is such a thing?"
Sakura: "I see..." Sakura: 'So he really is poor...'
Rinne: "However, if by giving this up the ghost's attachment will be broken, then I'm satisfied."
Rinne: "The jersey... Sensei, you should return it with your own hand..." Suzuki: "What's wrong, Rokudou?! You're crying tears of blood!" Sakura: 'What a strong attachment...'
Suzuki: "Suzuki-kun..."
---- 16.
Suzuki: "Sorry for the mistake. This is yours..."
ghost: "Aah..."
ghost: "My... jersey..."
---- 17.
Suzuki: "Suzuki-kun...?"
Sakura: "Looks like he was able to pass on..."
Sakura: "Huh, so they're able to pass by themselves, too." (note: the word here is "tada" which means "naturally", but it's written as furigana over the word "muryou", which means "free of charge")
Rinne: "It wasn't by himself!" Sakura: "Ah." Sakura: 'So the jersey was in place of the money.'
Suzuki: "So Suzuki-kun had been unable to pass on until now... so that's why I was getting those phone calls, too..." Sakura: "Eh?! Sensei, so by phone calls, you mean..."
Suzuki: "Yeah. The day after Suzuki-kun died, my phone started saying..." phone: "Hey you! Come behind the gym at 4:00! Don't be late!"
---- 18.
Sakura: "Um... so then..."
Suzuki: "What else! It creeped me out, so I cancelled the phone service immediately!" Sakura: "Ah..."
Sakura: 'And so that phone number was eventually reassigned to Rika-chan's phone... So that's what was going on."
Rika: "Ah! My cellphone! So you found it, Sakura-chan?" Sakura: "Well, kinda."
Sakura: "I don't think he'll be calling anymore. The wrong-number guy."
---- 19.
Sakura: 'Before long,' Rika: "It totally works!" Sakura: 'the legend of the instrument box had spread around school.'
girl: "Are one-yen coins okay for the offering?" Rika: "Yep, they seem to have worked." Sakura: "Rika-chan, that's..."
Sakura: "Huh? Where'd Rokudou-kun go?"
guy: "This is the legendary instrument box." guy: "Huh? There's a sign next to it..." guy: "'Skimp on the offering and you'll be cursed. Signed, the shinigami'...?"
preview: "Rinne seems to have a lot of attachments himself... Either way, their splendid teamwork(?) solved the case!"
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Post by Patches on May 18, 2009 16:18:50 GMT -5
Chapter 4
---- 1.
title: "The Woman I Met Somewhere"
subtext: "Just what is that place with the red wheel turning in the sky....?!"
---- 2.
Obaa-chan: "Okay. Hate to break it to you, but you will die within three days."
Obaa-chan: "There is only one way to avoid it!"
Obaa-chan: "And that is an offering to the legendary instrument box! Whoooooo~!"
---- 3.
Obaa-chan: "Ah!"
Sakura: "A dream...?"
Sakura: 'What a weird dream... and that place...'
Sakura: 'The red wheel in the sky...'
---- 4.
Sakura: 'It was... that world I got dragged along to with Rokudou-kun.'
Rika: "Listen to this! I had a really scary dream!"
Rika: "A woman who looked like a skeleton said I was going to die within three days..." girl: "Huh, that dream..."
girl: "I had it, too." guy: "So did I." guy: "She told me to make an offering to the legendary instrument box..."
guy: "Me too, me too." Sakura: 'Everyone in class had it, too..!?'
---- 5.
Sakura: 'Don't tell me...'
guy: "Take this, legendary instrument box." guy: "I wonder if I should offer a banana, too?"
guy: "It's so weird." guy: "The stuff we're putting in is disappearing."
Sakura: 'So it is Rokudou-kun...'
---- 6.
Sakura: "Hey."
Rinne: "Let go of me, Mamiya Sakura. I'm busy."
Rika: "Ah, Sakura-chan." girl: "Did you come to make an offering?" Sakura: "Guys, don't be tricked so easily."
Rika: "Just now, Sakura-chan was..." girl: "Whisking past us with a pretty awkward posture." text: "Because Rokudou Rinne is not visible to normal people while wearing his Hell Haori."
Rinne: "A dream? What are you talking about?"
---- 7.
Sakura: "Don't play dumb. You were threatening everyone with a dream and planning to steal their stuff when they offered it..."
Rinne: "What kind of accusation is that? Why would I need to go to such lengths?"
Sakura: "Well, who besides you could...?"
Sakura: "!"
---- 8.
Sakura: 'Huh...? This woman...?'
Obaa-chan: "Guess who?!"
Rinne: "... Obaa-chan." (note: "grandmother" or a woman of equivalent age)
Sakura: 'Huh? 'Obaa'..."
Obaa-chan: "I thought I told you..."
---- 9.
Obaa-chan: "Not. To. Call. Me. That. Riiiiight?" Rinne: "Ow ow ow!"
Sakura: 'The woman who appeared in the dream this morning...? But... I feel like I've met her sometime before that, too...'
Rinne: "Stop it! You're killing my temples." Obaa-chan: "But I came because I was worried about you."
Obaa-chan: "Rinne, life's been pretty tough for you, hasn't it? Please come live with me."
Rinne: "I can't do that. Now leave me alone." Obaa-chan: "But you're my only grandson..."
---- 10.
Sakura: '"Grandson"...? So this woman is Rokudou-kun's grandmother...?' Sakura: "So young..."
Obaa-chan: "Eh?! What was that?!"
Sakura: "Oh, no, I just thought you looked good for your age..." Obaa-chan: "Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, you think so?"
Obaa-chan: "She can see me?!" Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura is a bit different."
Rinne: "More importantly, the one threatening my classmates in a dream this morning was you, Obaa-chan?!"
---- 11.
Obaa-chan: "Don't call me that." Rinne: "Ow ow ow ow!"
Obaa-chan: "Of course it was me. I thought I'd give you a bit of a hand with your life."
Rinne: "Just stay out of it." Obaa-chan: "Oh, in that case..."
Obaa-chan: "Here we go. Ooh, this looks tasty."
Rinne: "What are you plotting?"
Obaa-chan: "I'm confiscating this, naturally. It's technically my earning, after all."
Rinne: "Wait! At least leave a little!"
---- 12.
Sakura: "Wait, Rokudou-kun!"
Rinne: "!"
---- 13.
Rinne: "What are you doing, Mamiya Sakura?! Don't follow me!"
Rinne: "This is a place where living humans must never go!"
Sakura: "But... I've been here before."
Sakura: "I don't know when it was, but it was before I met you..."
Sakura: "A long time before I met you..." Rinne: "!?"
---- 14.
Rinne: "Mamiya..."
Sakura: "Rokudou-ku..."
Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura!"
Rinne: "She's gone..."
---- 15.
Sakura: "Phew, I thought I was a goner..."
Sakura: "... Though I'm still in a bit of a jam. Where am I?"
Sakura: "It's like... a festival or something." vendor: "Who wants an afterlife souvenier~?"
---- 16.
Obaa-chan: "Eeeh?! That girl came with you?!"
Rinne: "I lost her." Obaa-chan: "Well, obviously."
Obaa-chan: "I'll seek her out for you, so take her back to the other side."
Obaa-chan: "Not go~od..."
Rinne: "Where is she?!" Obaa-chan: "That girl... seems to be lost in the Final Entrance."
---- 17.
Rinne: "The Final Entrance?" Obaa-chan: "Yes... when a human's life is completed,"
Obaa-chan: "Those who died peacefully and without any attachments go to that place. It's just that once you enter..."
Obaa-chan: "You're filled with a peaceful mood, and simply wish to proceed to the Wheel of Rinne." Sakura: "Wow, this is so relaxing." ferrier: "You're so young, you sure it's all right?"
Rinne: 'She's already crossing the Sanzu River!' Rinne: "Don't, Mamiya Sakura! It means you're going to die!" (note: the Sanzu River is pretty much the same concept as the River Styx)
---- 18.
Sakura: "Ah..."
Sakura: 'The Wheel of Rinne... was it? It looks like a big, red ferris wheel...'
Sakura: "Huh..." Sakura: 'It feels like... I've done this before a long time ago...'
preview: "Sakura is thoroughly enjoying her trip around the netherworld, but is she having a bit of deja vu? Next issue, the memory of Sakura's early childhood is reawakened!"
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Post by Patches on May 25, 2009 15:04:00 GMT -5
Chapter 5
---- 1.
Title: "O-ne-e-sa-n"
subtext: "In this mysterious place where the giant red Wheel of Rinne spins, she met a mysterious person. Mamiya Sakura. A memory of her childhood..."
---- 2.
grandma: "Sakura! Don't go into the mountains by yourself!" Sakura: "Yes, Obaa-chan."
Sakura: 'That's right. It was the day I went to play at my grandmother's house in the countryside. "That" was standing at the entrance to the mountain.'
Sakura: "Ah!"
---- 3.
Sakura: "A bunny!" Sakura: 'A rabbit wearing a T-shirt I couldn't understand was beckoning me.' (note: The shirt is written in ateji, which is the practice of using unrelated kanji to phonetically spell out a word, similar to the English usage of "l33t". In this case, the shirt has the kanji "night-dew-death-sadness", which would be phonetically pronounced "yo-ro-shi-ku", or "hello there")
Sakura: 'I ended up lost in the mountain. And then...'
---- 4.
Sakura: "Ah, a festival!? Yaay!"
Obaa-chan: "Stop. A little girl like you shouldn't be in this place..."
Sakura: 'That's right. And then that person showed me the way home. But why is it...'
Sakura: 'I can't remember her face... Well, it was a long time ago, so it's okay.' usher: "Okay, get in line."
---- 5.
old lady: "Hey, young lady." Sakura: "Yes?"
old lady: "You're still so young, are you sure you don't have any attachments?"
old man: "That's right. We've lived full lives, so it's all right." old man: "Yeah, I'm ready to go." Sakura: 'Huh... now that I look at it...'
Sakura: 'It's all old people. Everyone seems really content.' old lady: "You're so young, are you sure you have no attachments?"
Sakura: 'I kind of like this feeling.' Sakura: "Nope! I just feel like everything's all right now."
---- 6.
Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura!"
Obaa-chan: "That girl appears to be lost at the Final Entrance."
Obaa-chan: "Those who died peacefully and without any attachments go to that place. That girl called Sakura will be caught up in their mood of contentment and will immediately head straight to the Wheel of Rinne."
usher: "All right, please watch your step."
---- 7.
Sakura: 'Ah... these steps are connected to the Wheel of Rinne.'
---- 8.
Sakura: 'Huh... so does that mean I'm... going to be reborn as something else...?'
Sakura: 'Hmm... I wonder...'
old lady: 'Are you sure you don't have any attachments?'
Sakura: 'Attachments... huh...' Sakura: "Hmmm..."
Sakura: "Nope!" text: "Mamiya Sakura is currently completely caught up in the content mood of those who completed their lives."
Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura!"
---- 9.
Sakura: "Hm...?"
Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura!"
Sakura: "That voice... Rokudou-kun..."
Sakura: "Ah..."
Sakura: 'Back then... I ripped off his sleeve...'
Sakura: 'Rokudou-kun is so poor, and this haori was really important to him... I feel bad about it...'
---- 10.
Sakura: 'I wanted to apologize to him...'
Sakura: "!"
Sakura: "Aaah!"
---- 11.
Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura!"
---- 12.
Sakura: 'Rokudou... kun...'
Rinne: "Don't you get it, Mamiya Sakura? You were about to die." Sakura: "...."
Sakura: 'He came to take me back...' Sakura: "Th... thank you..."
Obaa-chan: "Well, that was certainly a close call. One you get on the Wheel of Rinne, it's too late."
Obaa-chan: "Anyway, why did you come along with him?" Rinne: "Hey! Don't eat my food!" Sakura: "Weeell, I..."
---- 13.
Sakura: "remembered something... When I was a child, I came here once before..."
Obaa-chan: "You were beckoned by a rabbit?"
Sakura: "Yeah. By a rabbit wearing a T-shirt I couldn't understand."
Obaa-chan: "That was Damashi-gami."
Sakura: "Damashi-gami...?"
Obaa-chan: "It's written like this." text: "Damashi-gami" Sakura: "Whoa, talk about high stroke count." (note: More ateji here. The word she's pointing out is made up of the kanji for "degenerate-evil-death-god", and would be read "Da-ma-shi-gami", however the term as spoken would likely be interpreted more as "trickster god")
---- 14.
Rinne: "Damashi-gami is one who leads even humans who have not yet died into the world of the dead in order to artificially inflate his quota..."
Rinne: "He's a very bad shinigami." Sakura: "He's a shinigami, too..."
Obaa-chan: "You were able to return home back then I take it." Sakura: "Yes... someone helped me."
Sakura: "I can't remember it very well, but..."
Sakura: "She had white hair and was wearing a black kimono... and I'm pretty sure she had a red flower pinned in her hair."
Sakura: "Oh yeah! And she also... was wearing the same haori as Rokudou-kun!"
Rinne: "Oh?"
Obaa-chan: 'I see, so this girl... is the one from then...'
---- 15.
Sakura: "She was a really kind... Oba-san..."
Obaa-chan: "Are you sure she wasn't O-ne-e-sa-n?!" Sakura: "Ow-ow-ow, you're hurting my head."
Sakura: "Wait..."
Sakura: "You're Oba-san from back then!" Obaa-chan: "O-ne-e-sa-n!"
Sakura: "Please tell me! Ever since then..."
Sakura: "I've been able to see ghosts."
---- 16.
Sakura: "I've gotten used to it, but without knowing the cause I'm not completely comfortable with it... Is it because I once was lost in this world...?"
Obaa-chan: "That wouldn't do it."
Obaa-chan: "As long as you don't eat or drink the food of this world, the spirits would still be invisible to you." (note: According to Japanese mythology, one becomes a resident of the world of the dead if they eat the food there)
Sakura: "But I did eat some. I remember that clearly."
Sakura: 'I want some taffy!' Obaa-chan: 'All right, I'll buy you some.'
Obaa-chan: "Now that you say it, I totally wasn't thinking."
Rinne: "Sorry about my grandmother." Sakura: "It's fine... now that I know the reason, I'm okay with it."
---- 17.
Obaa-chan: "Rinne, you're really going back?"
Rinne: "I told you, I can't live here."
Sakura: "Hey, Rokudou-kun, why won't you live with your grandmother?"
Rinne: "Because Obaa-chan... is a shinigami."
---- 18.
Sakura: 'Eh...?' Sakura: "Yeah, but... didn't you say you were a shinigami...?"
Rinne: "I'm human. ... Well, sort of."
Sakura: "Huh?!" Sakura: 'What's that supposed to mean?!'
preview: "'O-ne-e-sa-n' who helped Sakura was a shinigami. But her grandson Rinne is 'sort of' a shinigami... and 'sort of' a human??"
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Post by Patches on Jun 1, 2009 14:18:00 GMT -5
Chapter 6
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Title: "The Clubhouse Apparition"
subtext: "His grandmother is a shinigami. But Rinne is a human... sort of?"
---- 2.
Rinne: 'I'm human. Well, sort of...'
Sakura: "What does that mean, Rokudou-kun?"
Sakura: "Aren't you a shinigami?" Rinne: "This goes back 50 years."
Sakura: "50 years?" Rinne: "I heard it was right around when the Tokyo Tower was built."
---- 3.
Rinne: "My grandma (a shinigami) came to see a man as part of her job."
Rinne: "I heard he was a young man who was ill and in the last minutes of his life."
Obaa-chan: "My, what a handsome guy." Rinne: 'In a word, she was smitten.'
guy: "So you're a shinigami..." sign: "Near death" guy: "So beautiful..."
guy: "I'm glad I could meet a woman as beautiful as you in my final moments... Now I don't mind if I die like this and come back in the next life as an insect or a lizard..." Obaa-chan: "You're coming back as a mackerel."
---- 4.
guy: "A mackerel... huh. Those taste good boiled in miso." Rinne: 'Her heart pierced by that lonely-looking smile,'
Rinne: 'Obaa-chan fell in love.'
Rinne: "That man to be reborn as a mackerel was my grandpa."
Sakura: "Your grandpa was human..." Rinne: "At that point, Obaa-chan pulled some strings in various places, and did a bit of shady dealing as well..."
---- 5.
Rinne: "But she got my grandpa's lifespan extended by 50 years, and the two of them lived happily."
Rinne: "But my grandpa still ended up getting on the Wheel of Rinne just this spring. He's probably swimming about the Kuroshio Current right about now."
Sakura: "I... see..." Sakura: 'So his grandfather died...'
Sakura: "So what about your mother and father?"
Rinne: "Dunno. I always lived with my grandpa."
Sakura: 'Eh...'
---- 6.
Sakura: 'I wonder if I asked something that I shouldn't have...'
Sakura: 'Rokudou-kun... so does that mean he's living on his own now...? I wonder if that's why he's so poor.'
Sakura: 'The work of a shinigami doesn't seem to be very profitable. ... Speaking of which...'
Sakura: 'Even though Rokudou-kun has human blood, I wonder why he has to work as a shinigami...'
Sakura: "Ah!" cellphone: *bzz bzz bzz*
Sakura: "Hello? Ah, Miho-chan?"
Miho: "Sakura-chan, listen! I just saw something totally freaky!"
---- 7.
Miho: "Today I'd gone back to school to pick up something I'd forgotten."
Miho: "But as I passed in front of that old clubhouse set to be demolished..."
Miho: "Even though it should have been abandoned, inside the window..."
Miho: "There was like this fireball. I was scared so I ran back home, but I'm still wondering about it..."
Miho: "I want to go check it out again. Please, tell me you'll go with me tomorrow!" Sakura: "Well, I'm okay with it..."
---- 8.
Rika: "Hey, Miho-chan, are you sure you weren't just seeing things?"
Miho: "I know I saw it!" Rika: "Maybe you should ask the instrument box?" Sakura: 'That's a bit fishy, too.'
Sakura: 'So that's... the clubhouse. It certainly looks pretty dilapidated...'
Sakura: 'Eh...?! Somethings coming?!'
---- 9.
Sakura: "....."
Sakura: 'So there really was something there... and it's huge!'
Miho/Rika: "EEEEEEEEKKKKK!" Sakura: "Eh?!" Sakura: 'Can... those two see it?!'
---- 10.
Miho/Rika: "Cat monster!!" Sakura: '.... Yup, they saw it.'
Sakura: "Rokudou-kun..."
---- 11.
Sakura: '... There they go.'
Miho: "Sorry about running off and leaving you, Sakura-chan." Sakura: "Ah, Miho-chan, don't worry, I'm totally fine."
Sakura: 'Even so... I wonder what that cat monster was...'
Sakura: "Since Miho-chan and Rika-chan could see it, too... I wonder if that means it's not a ghost."
---- 12.
Sakura: "Hm?"
Sakura: "It's a kitten!"
Sakura: "Awww. It's hurt."
Sakura: "I'll get you fixed up. Come home with me."
---- 13.
Sakura: "All right, here's some milk and rice. Eat up!"
mom: "Sakura! Could you help me in the kitchen?" Sakura: "Coming!"
Sakura: "You behave."
kitten: *gulp gulp gulp*
kitten: "...."
---- 14.
Sakura: "Kittyyy, did you eat your food?"
Sakura: "Ah..."
Sakura: "Watch out! If you fall from there, you'll die!"
Sakura: "!"
---- 15.
Sakura: "Eh...? My window disappeared..."
Sakura: 'Where am I...?!'
Sakura: "Ah!"
Sakura: "Wait!"
---- 16.
Sakura: "Wait up!"
Sakura: 'Huh? Did it just get a bit bigger?'
Sakura: "!"
---- 17.
Sakura: "Huh... the clubhouse...?"
Sakura: 'A fireball...?'
Rinne: "So it really was you! Don't go doing things on your own!" kitten: "Ow! But..."
kitten: "I did it all for Rinne-sama's sake."
---- 18.
kitten: "Look, I got some rice!"
Rinne: "You... where did you get such quality food...?"
Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura... what are you doing here...?"
Sakura: "That's what I should be asking. You mind explaining yourself?"
preview: "In the haunted spot where the fireball and the cat monster were rumored to appear are Rinne and a black cat?! Next issue, the identity of this black cat revealed!"
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Post by Patches on Jun 8, 2009 19:48:43 GMT -5
Chapter 7
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Title: "Contracted Black Cat"
subtext: "A fireball. A cat monster. A mysterious cat. And Rinne appears at the clubhouse as well?!"
---- 2.
Sakura: "So the fireball in the clubhouse..."
Sakura: "was a candle...?"
Sakura: "So, Rokudou-kun, what are you doing here?" Rinne: "Nothing. I just live here."
Sakura: "You live in the clubhouse? Is it okay for you to do that?" Rinne: "I don't care if it's okay or not. I'm just here."
---- 3.
Rokumon: "Poor Rinne-sama. When he was grandfather died he was evicted from the house they were renting." Rinne: "I left on my own. The rent was outrageous."
Rinne: "Rokumon, you can go home now. I'm fine on my own."
Rinne: "Ever since the day I decided how I was going to live, I've been prepared..."
Sakura: "Hmmm, so your name is Rokumon-chan?" Rokumon: "That's right, Sakura-ojou-sama." Rinne: "Listen to me." (note: "ojou-sama" is a feminine honorific to address a young woman as something like "madam")
Rokumon: "I'm not leaving. This is an order from Tamako-sama." Rinne: "From Obaa-chan, huh."
---- 4.
Sakura: 'So Rokudou-kun's grandmother... is named Tamako-san, then.'
Rokumon: "Speaking of which, I have this employment contract..."
Rokumon: "and I'd like you to sign it as my employer. A thumbprint would work, too." Rinne: "Hang on."
Rinne: "Aren't you already Obaa-chan's contracted black cat?"
Sakura: "What's a contracted black cat?" Rokumon: "Since ancient times, shinigami and we of the black cat clan have worked in tandem. Since the day we were bound to each other in contract..."
---- 5.
Rokumon: "To warn of ill omens, to curse, to threaten, to assist with the slaying of evil spirits, black cats have been contracted by shinigami as a full support position to their work." caption: "Black Cat" caption: "Evil Spirit" caption: "Shinigami"
Sakura: "Umm, so Rokumon-chan, you're..." Rokumon: "That dashing figure in the above panel..." Rinne: "If I force myself to, I guess I could imagine that's you."
---- 6.
Rokumon: "Tamako-sama said this:" Tamako: "Rokumon, I want you to help Rinne with your superior power." Rinne: "If I force myself to, I guess I can imagine her saying that."
Rinne: "I've reached my decision. I'm not contracting you. I don't have the funds to take care of you."
Rinne: "Ow."
---- 7.
Rokumon: "If I put this strand of hair here..."
Rokumon: "I~ curse~ youuu~"
Rinne: "Shut it."
Rokumon: "Contract~ meee~"
---- 8.
Rinne: "Go away."
Sakura: "Aww, I feel bad for him." Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura, you should go home, too."
Sakura: "I came here through something that looked like a spirit path, I don't have my wallet, and I'm barefoot." Rinne: "When Ojii-chan was alive, I saw an anime on TV with a pleasant yet careless housewife like that."
Sakura: "Hey, do you really have no intention of hiring the little guy?" Rinne: "None. He said he came here on Obaa-chan's orders, didn't he?"
---- 9.
Rinne: "I'm sure Obaa-chan wants to link me to the Shinigami world."
Sakura: "Ah..." Tamako: "Rinne, please come live with me. You're my one and only grandson, after all."
Rinne: "Sorry about everything." Sakura: "Thanks. See you tomorrow."
Rinne: "Bye."
Sakura: 'Rokudou-kun...'
Sakura: "I wonder if he's lonely... living all by himself in that dilapidated old clubhouse..." Rokumon: "It's obvious he's lonely."
---- 10.
Sakura: "Oh, you came back?" Rokumon: "Yes, Sakura-ojou-sama."
Rokumon: "Rinne-sama is a really pitiable person."
Sakura: "Yeah, with his grandfather dying and all." Rokumon: "Yeah, and also, his grandmother Tamako-sama lost her priviledge to live on this side as well."
Sakura: "What does that mean?" Rokumon: "Just for the time that his human grandfather was alive, the shinigami Tamako-sama made the promise to live in the human world."
Rokumon: "And then Tamako-sama made one other... very momentous promise to the shinigami world."
---- 11.
preacher: "In exchange for extending this human man's life by 50 years, do you solemnly swear to increase your standard shinigami quota by tenfold?" Tamako: "I do!"
preacher: "And in the event that you do not meet this quota, are you prepared to have this work extended even to your grandchildren?" Tamako: "I'm good!"
Rokumon: "She didn't meet her quota."
Sakura: "Eeeeh?! So that means... the grandmother's debt was shifted to the grandson, Rokudou-kun?!" Rokumon: "That's the gist of it."
---- 12.
Rokumon: "However, with his human blood, Rinne-sama is not a full shinigami. In order to carry out his work,"
Rokumon: "he has to rely on a lot more tools than a regular shinigami. The cost of these tools is nothing to laugh at."
Sakura: "So that's why... he's always out of money."
Rokumon: "That's why I want to assist Rinne-sama's work with the power of a black cat!" Rinne: 'Man, they're scattered everywhere.'
---- 13.
Rinne: "Hm?"
Rinne: "I wonder if Rokumon dropped this..." letter: "To Rokumon-sama, from Tamako"
Rinne: "...."
guy: "A cat monster?" Miho: "It was really there!" Rika: "Hey, Sakura-chan, you saw it too, right?" Sakura: "I saw it. This way."
---- 14.
Sakura: "So I should get the whole class together?" Rokumon: "This is for Rinne-sama's sake."
Rokumon: "Huhuhu... so you've come, my sacrifices."
Rokumon: "Now I can feast on the blood of untold numbers, forcing terror into the depths of their hearts."
---- 15.
Rokumon: "Rinne-sama's instrument box will be overflowing with profit. And then..."
Rokumon: "I'll succeed in raising enough money for the contract...!" Rinne: "Hey."
Rokumon: "Rinne-sama." Rinne: "Sorry, but I read this."
Tamako: "Dear Rokumon-chan, this is a notice of your dismissal. I'm sorry to leave you unemployed. Rinne's in a bit of a rough spot where he is, so maybe you'd want to check with him? From, Tamako."
Rinne: "Sorry, Rokumon."
Rinne: "You actually came here for my help... and to make yourself useful."
Rokumon: "... oh stop... You don't need to praise me..."
---- 16.
Rokumon: "I'll leave. Sorry about everything." Rinne: "Rokumon..."
Rokumon: "It's probably a lousy apology, but at least let me leave you a parting gift..."
Rokumon: "I shall feast on the blood of those students!"
---- 17.
Rinne: "Wait! When you said it was lousy..."
Rika: "Hm?"
Miho: "What was that sound just now...?" Sakura: "It sounded like something fell..."
Sakura: "Ah!"
---- 18.
Miho: "IT'S SO CUTE!"
guy: "So what about the cat monster?" Miho: "I wonder if it's an abandoned cat." Rika: "He's so well-behaved!" Sakura: "Well, because he's unconscious."
Sakura: "After that, following a discussion, Rokudou-kun bound Rokumon-chan into a minimum-wage contract." contract: "Employer: Rokudou Rinne, Employee: Rokumon"
Rokumon: "This place is like heaven, don't you think? If I turn into a kitten and just get put in a box or something, I'm showered in food." Rinne: "Then you're covering your own meal expenses."
preview: "While an excellent servant joins up (?), next issue, a new ghostly occurance!"
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Post by Patches on Jun 16, 2009 18:13:01 GMT -5
Chapter 8
---- 1.
Title: "Afraid to Sleep"
subtext: "The opponent this time is d-d-dangerous?! The outbreak of a new case!"
---- 2.
Satou: "Aww, how cute."
Satou: "Where did you get the cat, Suzuki-sensei?" Suzuki: "Ah, Satou-sensei from the infirmary."
Satou: "I've noticed it around quite a bit recently..." Suzuki: "I kind of accidentally kept feeding it."
sfx: *clang*
---- 3.
Suzuki: "Hm? What's wrong?"
Rokumon: "!"
---- 4.
Rokumon: "Rinne-sama. You intentionally let it get away, didn't you?"
Rokumon: "Is it really okay to just leave it alone?" Rinne: "Listen, Rokumon."
Rinne: "I don't volunteer my service. With that kind of thing..."
Rinne: "unless I'm given a direct request, I'm too afraid to get involved."
---- 5.
Satou: "You have a toothache?"
Sakura: "When I, Mamiya Sakura, saw that,"
sign: "Infirmary"
Satou: "Well, I can give you something to stop the pain, but you really should go see a dentist." Rika: "Sensei, is there really no other way?" Satou: "There isn't." Sakura: "I escorted her to the infirmary."
sfx: *clang*
Sakura: 'Huh? What's that noise?!'
Sakura: 'It's getting closer...'
Sakura: 'It stopped...?'
---- 6.
Sakura: 'A... fallen soldier!'
Kaori: "Ohhh... Oooohhh..."
---- 7.
Satou: "I'm having a second-year girl take a rest in there. but... it seems she's in pain."
Satou: "Are you all right, Himekawa-san?"
soldier: "Now now, Princess, drink from the cup."
Sakura: "!"
---- 8.
Satou: "Himekawa-san." Kaori: "Hah...!"
Sakura: 'He vanished...'
Kaori: "Ahh... the same dream again..."
Sakura: "Um... are you all right? What do you mean by the same dream...?" Kaori: "I don't expect you to believe me, but..."
Kaori: "Whenever I fall asleep, I have a dream where I'm being offered sake by a fallen soldier... I've become too afraid to sleep."
Sakura: "Ah..." Rika: "Um, Sempai."
Kaori: "The legendary instrument box...?"
Rika: "If it's bothering you that much, don't you think it would be best to ask the instrument box for help?"
---- 9.
Rika: "You just put a letter of consultation, plus a food and money offering, in here."
Kaori: "Money offering?" Rika: "Just a little bit works."
Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura." Sakura: 'Rokudou-kun.'
Rinne: "I can't use small change. Make them put in some bills." Sakura: "Eeeh?! Why should I?"
Rinne: "And after that, since I don't want to get food poisoning from the offerings during the rainy season, tell them to start offering the food in cans." Sakura: "So just tell them yourself." Rika: "What's the matter, Sakura-chan?" text: "While wearing his Hell Haori, Rokudou Rinne is invisible to normal people."
---- 10.
Rinne: '"Second year, class 1 student Himekawa Kaori. Last month I began having a terrifying dreams...'"
Rinne: '"Ever since the night I went on a class trip to Kyoto."'
Rinne: '"At the in, whenever I began to dream...'" soldier: "Now now, Princess, drink from the cup." Rinne: '"night after night, it just wouldn't stop..."'
Rinne: '"And even after returning from Kyoto, night after night it's still..." So she became posessed in Kyoto and it followed her back. Was she just caught up in this by chance...?'
---- 11.
Rinne: 'However, if this is some sort of fate carried over from a past life...'
Rinne: 'A money offering of a thousand yen... But can even this huge sum of money be enough to...?' (note: about 10 dollars)
Kaori: "I'm tired... I'm afraid to sleep... but I'm tired..."
Rinne: "When my client, Himekawa Kaori falls asleep, that is when the fallen soldier comes. When we catch him..." note: "When wearing his haori, Rokudou Rinne has the body of a ghost."
Rinne: "We will be able to inquire as to why he has posessed this girl."
bottle: "Mega Sameru" (note: This is a pun. While the product name could be translated as "Mega Awake", the Japanese term "me ga sameru" also means "to wake up")
Kaori: "All right. I'm awake."
---- 13.
Rinne: "There."
Rinne: "Fell asleep, huh?" Rokumon: "You didn't even go easy on her."
soldier: "Priiiiincess."
---- 14.
soldier: "Oh?"
Rinne: "Just who are you?"
Rinne: "What is your relationship with this Himekawa Kaori?"
soldier: "A man... in the princess's bedchamber..."
Rinne: "Eh..." soldier: "Princess, how could you?!"
Rokumon: "He ran!" Rinne: "Wait!"
---- 15.
soldier: "Is that how it is? The reason the princess was not accepting my cup... was because there was another man...?"
Rokumon: "I think he got the wrong idea." Rinne: "Tch."
Rinne: "I've got no choice."
Rinne: "The Hell Haori is a handy reversible that when turned inside out, a spirit is given a corporeal body."
---- 16.
Sakura: "Hm?"
punk: "Wh... what the..." punk: "He's covered in arrows."
Sakura: "Rokudou-kun and the fallen soldier... in the middle of the city?"
Rinne: "There's a lot of troublesome people gathering. Rokumon." Rokumon: "Right, Rinne-sama!"
---- 17.
Rokumon: "I'll~ curse~ you~"
punk: "C... cat monster!"
Rinne: "Hmph. Now those who saw the fallen soldier will be too muddled to remember it clearly."
Sakura: "Rokudou-kun, you working?" Rokumon: "Sakura-sama!" Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura."
soldier: "Ohh... how could this happen..."
soldier: "I became a ghost and remained in this world, waiting for the moment when the princess and I could meet again."
---- 18.
soldier: "And then I finally met her."
soldier: "The princess reborn into this world." Sakura: 'Reborn?!'
Sakura: "It's kind of romantic." Rinne: "What are you so happy about?"
Rinne: "This kind of case is the most bothersome. In all sorts of ways."
preview: "What is the reason for Rinne's misgivings about the romantic fallen warrior's lingering passion? Next issue, cover and color page!"
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Post by Patches on Jun 23, 2009 11:30:58 GMT -5
Chapter 9
---- 1.
Title: "The Pledge Cup"
subtext: "Affairs of the next life require money as well... isn't that always the way?!"
---- 2.
Sakura: "Sempai. Himekawa Kaori-sempai."
Kaori: "Oh, it's you. First year Mamiya Sakura-san."
text: "Second-year student Himekawa Kaori-san (17) has been troubled every night by the ghost of a fallen soldier offering her sake at her bedside."
Kaori: "You heard there's a way to resolve this?! Are you sure, Mamiya-san?" Sakura: "Yeah. What it is, though..."
Satou: "Ah, Himekawa-san."
---- 3.
Satou: "Are you all right? You seemed to be in pretty bad shape yesterday." Kaori: "Ah, Satou-sensei from the infirmary."
Sakura: "Ah, Rokumon-chan."
Satou: "Mamiya-san, are you familiar with this cat?" Kaori: "How cute~" Sakura: "You got some milk? Good for you!"
Suzuki: "Oh, he's popular today. You think he'd go for some dried sardines?" Sakura: "Suzuki-sensei from phys-ed."
Satou: "You're so cute I just want to snuggle up to you." Suzuki: "It's so calming!" Kaori: 'And so the topic turns to the cat...' Sakura: 'You've got it made, Rokumon-chan.'
---- 4.
Kaori: "Isn't this the clubhouse that's about to be demolished?" Sakura: "There's someone inside who wants to see you."
Rinne: "You're late, Mamiya Sakura." soldier: "Princess!"
---- 5.
Sakura: "Wait, Sempai."
Rinne: "My client, Himekawa Kaori. Without your cooperation, this matter can't be resolved."
Kaori: "You're..."
Rinne: "I will merely say that I am... offering my cooperation to resolve what troubles you."
Kaori: "Well, no, you're Rokudou Rinne-kun from year one, class four, right? You've gained quite the reputation for your red hair and constant wearing of a jersey." Sakura: 'Even among second-years...?'
Rinne: "First of all, I'd like you to speak with this ghost of the fallen soldier."
---- 6.
soldier: "Princess... do you not remember? You and I were engaged."
soldier: "When this war is over, we will be wed." princess: "Please be safe."
soldier: "I promised to return safely. However..."
soldier: "When I came to, I was standing in some sort of line..."
chauffer: "All right, it's your turn to go to the next world!" sign: "Miyoshi Army Party" (note: the Miyoshi were a powerful family in the 1500's from the Kyoto region)
---- 7.
soldier: 'The next world... I'm dead?!'
soldier: 'But I can't go. The princess is waiting for me.'
soldier: 'So I broke from the line of the dead and headed home. I don't know how much time had passed.'
soldier: 'When I finally reached home, the princess was already gone.'
Rinne: "So this ends your hundreds of years without seeing her." Sakura: "Poor guy."
Kaori: "Um... so what does this mean, exactly?"
---- 8.
soldier: "I've been waiting all this time, princess. For the moment you would be reborn in this world."
Kaori: "Reborn?! Me...?"
Rinne: "And this is where the problem starts, client Himekawa Kaori."
Rinne: "Do you have any intent of granting this ghost of the fallen soldier's wish?" Kaori: "Wish...?"
soldier: "Princess, if only for a moment... I would like for the two of us to be wed."
---- 9.
Kaori: "Wed... you mean you want us to get married?"
soldier: "I would like for us to exchange pledge cups." (note: in a traditional Japanese wedding, the bride and groom each drink from a sake cup)
Rinne: "That is what the ghost of the fallen soldier's attachment to this world is. If broken, he will be able to pass on."
Kaori: "Are you sure that's all...?" soldier: "With that, I will have no more regrets."
Sakura: 'Somehow... the conversation seems to be proceeding pretty naturally.'
Rinne: 'This kind of case is the most bothersome.' Sakura: 'Even though he had insinuated something like that.'
---- 10.
Kaori: "I understand. It's a bit sad... but romantic at the same time."
Rinne: "Then we will be the witnesses." Sakura: "Huh, me too?"
Sakura: 'I see... so this is part of a shinigami's job, too. If I can help out like this...'
Sakura: 'Good for you, fallen soldier.'
---- 11.
Rinne: 'Will it really... go that well? Please just pass on now.'
Kaori: "Um... so when are you going to pass on?"
---- 12.
Rinne: "Are you SURE she's the girl?"
soldier: "There's no mistake. Look at this!"
soldier: "This is a portrait of the princess I always carry with me." Sakura: "It's someone else..." Kaori: "Ugh..." soldier: "Don't you think they're identical?"
soldier: "Princess, let us be together in the next world." Kaori: "Huh?"
---- 13.
soldier: "Now that we have exchanged cups, we are husband and wife!" Kaori: "Hang on..."
Kaori: "Rokudou-kun, this isn't what you said!"
Rinne: "Tch! Did you think it would be that easy?!"
---- 14.
Sakura: "Rokudou-kun?!" Rinne: "If it's what I'm thinking, then don't worry!"
Sakura: "I'm shocked... the fallen soldier was lying..."
Rokumon: "It wasn't a lie, it was just badly-managed." Sakura: "Rokumon-chan."
Rokumon: "Over the past few hundred years, he probably prettied up his memories,"
---- 15.
Rokumon: "So to the ghost of the fallen soldier, Himekawa Kaori-san and the fallen soldier were the same person." Kaori: "Waaah!"
Sakura: "Yeah, but with this..."
soldier: "Princess, soon we will be in the next world!" Kaori: "Nooooo!"
Rinne: "Khh, so I really do have to use this."
---- 16.
Rinne: "MEIDO SHADAN!" (note: "Hell Block")
soldier: "!"
---- 17.
soldier: "Open up! Can't you open this?!"
Rinne: "Even if you made it to the next world, as you are now you won't be able to pass on."
Sakura: "Rokumon-chan, is this okay? You took Rokudou-kun's wallet without asking." Rokumon: "This is for Rinne-sama's sake."
text: "The afterlife festival" Rokumon: "One mirror, please."
---- 18.
Sakura: "Mirror?" Rokumon: "Pick whichever one you like. They're Ungaikyou and will reflect your past life's form."
Sakura: "So we just need to reflect Himekawa-sempai in it, then, right?" Rokumon: "It's what we need to persuade the ghost of the fallen soldier."
Rokumon: "But please be careful, Sakura-sama. As soon as you touch one, it's impossible to cancel the sale."
Sakura: "Eh?"
Rinne: "So..."
---- 19.
Rinne: "You bought the most expensive one?!" Rokumon: "It was Sakura-sama's choice." Sakura: "That's underhanded, Rokumon-chan." Kaori: "Can I go home?" mirror: "Please do not be afraid to have a look."
Rinne: "Now, please." Kaori: "Is it okay to look?"
Rinne: "Now I'd like for you to see for yourself whether or not she's your princess."
Kaori: "...."
Rinne: '?!" Sakura: "Tears?!"
preview: "Himekawa-sempai begins to cry! Did she witness something sad from her past life? Next issue, the shocking resolution!"
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Post by Patches on Jun 30, 2009 9:40:24 GMT -5
Chapter 10[/b]
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Title: "Reunion"
subtext: "Now, the shocking truth reflected in the mirror!"
---- 2.
soldier: "The princess is crying. What's going on?!" Rokumon: "Let's see, this phenomenon..."
---- 3.
Rokumon: "is caused by Himekawa Kaori-san resonating with the Ungaikyou."
Sakura: "So she's remembering something from her past life?"
soldier: "Could this possibly be..."
soldier: "Her past life's regret that she was unable to join with me in marriage?!" princes: "We had yet to wed and yet you died in battle..."
Sakura: '1573...? Oh, I get it, the year 1573. This must be when the fallen soldier died.'
Sakura: "!"
---- 4.
Rinne: "What's this?" Sakura: "Looks like the sea at night."
soldier: "She mourned my death by the midnight sea?!" princess: "We had yet to wed, etc...."
soldier: "Ah, someone's curled up over there!"
mirror: "Zoom... in!"
---- 5.
Soldier: "Princess...!"
---- 6.
text: "The sea turtle sheds tears when laying its eggs."
Rinne: "This isn't the princess... It's a turtle."
soldier: "Perhaps I was mistaken..." Kaori: "Why am I a turtle?!"
mirror: "There is no mistake. That girl was a sea turtle during the same era the fallen soldier lived."
---- 7.
soldier: "But wait! The princess had a flower petal-shaped birthmark on her right wrist!"
soldier: "If you have this birthmark as well..." Sakura: "She doesn't."
Rinne: "It's unfortunate, but this makes it quite clear." Rokumon: "So it was a good thing we bought this, huh, Rinne-sama!"
Rokumon: "At any rate, this Ungaikyou is the latest model of monitors that connects directly to the Wheel of Rinne and can display all sorts of images collected from past incarnations." text (wheel): "Data" text: "Transmission" text (mirror): "Monitor"
Sakura: "Hmm... Huh?"
---- 8.
Sakura: "It's getting bigger. So what's this number for?"
Rokumon: "Naturally, it's the connection fee."
Rinne: "There's a connection fee?! I hadn't heard of this!!"
Rinne: "Make it stop. Right now."
Sakura: 'So Rokudou-kun didn't know about this system...'
Rinne: "Anyway..."
---- 9.
Rinne: "With this, it's obvious that Himekawa Kaori is not the reincarnation of the princess." Sakura: "Ah, what an oppressive mood..." soldier: "Princess..." Kaori: "Turtle..."
Rinne: "At least by confirming her previous life, he probably won't be bothering my client Himekawa Kaori at her bedside any longer. However..."
Rinne: "This fallen soldier has been a ghost for hundreds of years, waiting for his princess to be reborn."
---- 10.
Rinne: "Those hundreds of years of feelings have bound him to this world, and it's become impossible for him to easily pass on." Sakura: "So then..."
Rinne: "Until he finds the real princess reborn in this world, he will likely remain wayward on this plane."
Sakura: "But... there's no telling how many more years that would take..."
Sakura: "What are you doing, Rokumon-chan?" Rokumon: "I just remembered something!"
Rokumon: "He said the princess had a flower petal-shaped birthmark on her right wrist, right? I need to go check something."
---- 11.
Sakura: 'Wha...'
Rinne: "You think you have a clue?" Rokumon: "I feel like I've seen it somewhere..."
Satou: "Oh my..."
Satou: "Here, kitty! Come here!"
---- 12.
Rinne: 'Satou-sensei from the infirmary!' Satou: "There there."
Kaori: "Sensei is the reincarnation of the princess?" soldier: ".... I think not." Rinne: "No, sure looks like her."
Sakura: "Let's check to make sure, Rokudou-kun." mirror: "Please make note that the act of walking adds to my meter." Rinne: 'It restarted!'
---- 13.
Sakura: "Satou-sensei." Satou: "Ah, Mamiya-sa..."
Satou: "Ah. It looks like an old-fashioned mansion..."
soldier: 'Please don't be the princess, please don't be the princess!' Rinne: 'Please be the princess, please be the princess!'
mirror: "Zoom... in!"
---- 14.
text: "Koi. Members of the koi family of freshwater fish have two sets of whiskers. They may be used for food or decoration."
Sakura: "Koi." soldier: "YES!" Rinne: "Impossible!"
Rinne: "Wait, and she doesn't have the flower petal-shaped birthmark, either!" Satou: "What are you doing, everyone?"
Suzuki: "You guys haven't gone home yet?" Sakura: "Suzuki-sensei from gym class."
---- 15.
Suzuki: "Oh, hey, what's up?"
Rinne: 'A flower petal-shaped birthmark... Don't tell me...'
mirror: "Zoom... in!"
Suzuki: "Hm?"
---- 16.
Kaori: 'Suzuki-sensei is...' Sakura: 'She's actually a bit prettier than the picture.' Kaori: 'the reincarnation of the princess...'
---- 17.
Suzuki: "Huh...?"
Suzuki: "Have... I met you somewhere before...?"
soldier: "No... you must be mistaken."
Rinne: 'And so the fallen soldier passed on right away. It was like all his attachments were suddenly lifted.'
Rinne: 'Furthermore, my client, Himekawa Kaori...' Rinne: "I hate to ask, but could you spare an additional payment..." Kaori: "I'm not paying it. And more importantly..."
---- 18.
Kaori: "If you tell anyone about my past life, I'm letting the whole school know about your bogus exorcisms." Rinne: "I won't tell."
Sakura: "Rokudou-kun, here..."
Sakura: "I made you a bento." Rinne: "B... bento..."
Sakura: "You're in a lot of trouble paying off that Ungaikyou, right?"
Rinne: "Yeah..."
Sakura: "So I'll make these for you occasionally." Rokumon: "Sakura-sama's so nice!" Rinne: "It's like a treasure box." text: "The contents of this treasure box are boiled eggs, wieners, and parsley."
preview: "Though the incident left him deep in the red, Sakura's kindness is priceless!"
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Post by Patches on Jul 6, 2009 20:37:22 GMT -5
Chapter 11
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Title: "Songstress of the Pool"
subtext: "Breaking into a new chapter! A sound resonates from the bottom of the pool. Is it a devilish voice tempting people into Hell?!"
---- 2.
instructor: "Individual free practice time!"
Sakura: 'Swimming season had arrived.'
Rika: "Sakura-chan, come practice with me!" Sakura: "All right, Rika-chan."
---- 3.
Sakura: "That mysterious voice" sfx: "Yu-- re--" Sakura: "came resonating out of the pool."
Sakura: "Hm?" Rika: "What's up, Sakura-chan?"
Sakura: "It sounded like... a voice..." Rika: "A voice?"
Sakura: 'It's like a wail... a ghost's voice...?'
Rika: "Eek!"
Sakura: 'Rika-chan?!'
---- 4.
Sakura: "!"
Misora: "You... can see me?"
sfx: *nod nod* Misora: "I see... then,"
---- 5.
Misora: "At your lunch break, come here again."
Rika: "I'm serious!"
Rika: "Somebody grabbed my leg!" Miho: "Rika-chan, that's probably the songstress of the pool."
Sakura: 'Songstress of the pool?'
Rika: "What is that, Miho-chan?" Miho: "It's a spooky story from this school. Although I just heard it from my sister..."
---- 6.
Miho: "About ten years ago, the most beautiful girl in school died. That girl was the choir's ace,"
Miho: "She'd been practicing really hard for their big performance, but on that day, six hours after the pool had closed, she hadn't shown up at the club..."
Miho: "I heard they discovered her sunk at the bottom of the pool. So now, every year when it gets to be swimming season..."
Miho: "A bitter singing voice can be heard from the pool, and something grabs at people's legs..." Rika: "Stop~ it~!" Sakura: 'That must be the girl. She was beautiful, after all.'
---- 7.
Sakura: "... and that's how it is."
Sakura: "Please, Rokudou-kun! Come to the pool with me." Rinne: "So you've been summoned... by that ghost woman who sings every night?"
Sakura: "You know about her?" Rinne: "I didn't want to, but I heard. Also..."
Rinne: "There was a request from Rika in the instrument box."
Rinne: "Getting her leg grabbed must have really scared her. Since that tightwad Rika..."
Rinne: "Managed to cough up three hundred yen for the offering." Sakura: "That covers it."
---- 8.
Sakura: "Huh?"
Sakura: "You want to pass on right away?" Misora: "That's right."
Misora: "I'm tired of being in the pool..."
Sakura: "That's great. That means this'll go quickly."
Misora: "Tell us your attachment."
Misora: "Attachment?"
---- 9.
Rinne: "If you want to pass on but can't, it's because you still have attachments to this world. I'm the one who will help you sever those attachments."
Misora: "Hmph, I don't remember any attachments, and I don't want to remember them, either."
Sakura: "Huuh?"
Sakura: "Um... you were in the choir, right?" Misora: "That's right."
Misora: "Third year class three, Utagawa Misora. I was the school beauty and a talented singer."
---- 10.
Misora: "And that day was... an especially important day to me."
Sakura: 'That day... the day she died?'
Misora: "It was the day that, after swimming class ended, the club was going to choose the lead soprano."
Sakura: 'But she died in the pool, and she couldn't make it to the choir...'
Rokumon: "Well this seems pretty easy to solve." Sakura: "Rokumon-chan." Rinne: "Easy, huh?"
Rokumon: "Easy. You won't even have to worry about getting involved, Rinne-sama."
---- 11.
Rokumon: "*ahem* Attention all students."
Rokumon: "Assemble in the gymnasium at once."
Rokumon: "If you do not obey this order, you will be cu~ursed."
Rokumon: "All right, put on the Hell Haori and get out of the pool."
text: "When the Hell Haori owned by Rinne is turned inside-out, it gives ghosts a corporeal body."
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Misora: 'I was able to leave the pool.'
Sakura: "She looks kind of happy." Rinne: "...."
Rokumon: "All right, let's go." Misora: "Where?"
Rokumon: "You wanted to sing in front of everyone, right?! All the students are gathered in the gym." sign: "Utagawa Misora's Recital"
Misora: "Huh?"
---- 13.
Misora: "Hup."
Rokumon: "EH?"
Rokumon: "Why?!"
---- 14.
Misora: "You're completely wrong, you moron! Don't butt in where you're not wanted!"
Misora: "Hurry up and make me pass on! If you don't, I'll drag everyone in the school into the pool!"
Sakura: "She's starting to turn into an evil spirit..." Rinne: "Tch."
Rinne: "The one called Utagawa Doremi." Misora: "It's Misora."
---- 15.
Rinne: "Don't you like singing? You sing every night."
Misora: "I do like it. And I do sing every night."
Sakura: 'Hmm... so she likes to sing, but...'
Sakura: "So that isn't her attachment."
Misora: "I don't remember having any attachments, and I don't want to remember, either."
Sakura: "She said that, but I wonder if that girl is hiding something." Rinne: "No..."
Rinne: "It's likely she really did forget. It happens sometimes."
---- 16.
Rinne: "Even if it's connected to being able to pass on, if she had some sort of horrific memory..."
Rinne: "a ghost will forget it." Sakura: 'Horrific memory...'
Rinne: 'Figuring them out and forcing them to remember is also a shinigami's job.'
Sakura: 'That girl... I wonder why she died in the pool. Did something...'
Sakura: 'Now that I think about it, that voice I heard in the pool... it was...'
---- 17.
sfx: "Yu-- re--" Sakura: 'like a wail...'
Sakura: 'Yuurei?!' (note: "ghost")
Sakura: 'Does this mean that Utagawa Misora-san was also dragged down by some other ghost?! That's definitely horrific!'
Rokumon: "She's yodeling again tonight." sfx: "Yu-- rei Yu-- rei Yu-- rei Ho--" Rinne: "The same racket every night." text: "It was one of the choir's pieces"
Rokumon: "Rinne-sama?" Rinne: "Let's go."
---- 18.
Rinne: "If we observe the one called Utagawa Misora," sfx: "Yu-- rei Hi-- Yo-ho-ho-- i"
Rinne: "I'm sure she'll repeat her actions around the time of her death. We should be able to get a clue as to what her attachment is."
Rinne: 'Just what happened at the pool?!'
Misora: "What are you looking at?" Rinne: "No, please just go about your business as usual." Rokumon: "You do want to pass on, right?"
preview: "Misora-sempai was the school beauty and a good singer. Just what is the attachment of this proud songstress who seems to have no regrets in life?!"
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Post by Patches on Jul 14, 2009 9:16:25 GMT -5
Chapter 12
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Title: "Something Lost"
subtext: "The songstress who cannot pass on. What is your attachment?"
---- 2.
girl: "Have you heard about the rumor about the songstress of the pool? This time it was a second-year who was pulled down by her leg."
girl: "I heard even one of the swimming staff members got pulled down."
Sakura: 'So you still haven't been able to pass on... Utagawa Misora-san.'
instructor: "We've done a lot of investigating into these strange reports."
---- 3.
instructor: "I know there's a lot of strange rumors floating around, but listen, everyone."
instructor: "There is no ghost in the pool." sfx: *splash* *glub* *splash* girls: "EEEEEK!"
Sakura: 'Misora-san?!'
Sakura: 'Wow, even using a crab clutch...'
---- 4.
Rinne: "She's angry that you're getting in the way."
Sakura: 'Rokudou-kun.'
Misora: "Release." Rinne: "Now then, I should announce the results of my observation of Utagawa Misora."
Misora: "So do you know? The reason I can't pass on?"
Rinne: "The one called Utagawa Misora. You are most certainly looking for something."
---- 5.
Misora: "Eh..."
Misora: "Looking for something...? Me...?" Rinne: "When you're not singing..."
Rinne: "You're instead searching around the bottom of the pool."
Sakura: "Oh, so that thing she's looking for is the attachment binding Misora-san to this world?" Rinne: "Most likely. When we find out what it is, she'll be able to pass on."
Rika: "Sakura-chan sure talks to herself a lot." text: "When wearing his Hell Haori, Rinne is invisible to normal humans."
Misora: "So tell me. What is it I'm looking for?" Rinne: "Dunno."
Misora: "Then that's no help. You're useless!" Rinne: "Tch."
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Sakura: "So, Utagawa Misora-san was... preparing for an important club event that would be after school on the day she died."
Sakura: "I know they were going to choose the lead singer for the choir, but..."
Sakura: "She must have lost something really important." Rinne: "Right. And yet..."
Misora: "I don't remember having any attachments, and I don't want to remember, either."
Rokumon: "Rinne-sama, I bought one! An amateur lantern assembly kit!" Sakura: "Rokumon-chan." Rinne: "I have no choice but to use a lantern."
Sakura: "Those lanterns... Isn't that what lets people on the verge of death relive their lives...?"
Rinne: "Right. If I attach this to a ghost, I can draw out memories that they can't remember." Rokumon: "And today they were having a wagon sale, so I got it for really cheap." Sakura: "30 yen?! That is cheap!"
text: "At that time, the teachers had gathered at the pool..." priest: "All right, I will begin the exorcism." teacher: "It looks like the ghost stories were true!"
priest: "Let us present the treats and offerings."
Misora: "!"
---- 8.
Misora: "Wh... what? Stop it..."
Sakura: "!"
Sakura: "Oh no!" Rinne: "Tch."
---- 9.
Rinne: "!"
teacher: "Th... this is..." teacher: "The treats we offered...!"
Rinne: "The teachers are in the way. Rokumon." Rokumon: "Right, Rinne-sama."
Rokumon: "Everyone out of the pool~" teacher: "C... cat monster!"
Rinne: "Hmph, and now they will be too flustered to remember the strange events at the pool." Sakura: "I don't really think that was necessary."
Rinne: "The one called Utagawa Misora."
---- 10.
Rinne: "Did you remember something?"
Misora: "I... I don't know."
Rinne: "At this rate, you'll transform into an evil spirit."
Rinne: "I would like to help you regain your memory." Misora: "... Can you do that?"
---- 11.
Sakura: "Something's coming out of the lantern?"
Rinne: "Soon it will display images of her earthly life."
Rinne: 'Even if it's a horrific memory that she's forgotten, if I can make her remember it...'
---- 12.
Sakura: 'It's kind of like a movie...'
guy: "Utagawa-san, won't you go out with me?" guy: "No, me!" Misora: "Oh, I don't know. Oh-hohoho." girl: "Oh, Misora is so popular." girl: "I'm so jealous!"
guy: "Utagawa-san, you're the greatest!" guy: "You're beautiful, smart, and a genius at sports!" guy: "And a wonderful singer!"
---- 13.
Rokumon: "This is turning out to be just one long, boring self-congratulatory show..." chatter: "Misora, you're so cute! Misora, you're the best! Misora, banzai!" Sakura: "There isn't anything horrific in there."
Misora: "Hey, what happened?" Rokumon: "It... it broke." Sakura: "That's because it's cheap."
Sakura: "But Misora-san... really was popular, though."
Misora: "I suppose... I don't like saying so myself, so have kept quiet about it..."
---- 14.
Misora: "I wonder if my memory just popped out." sfx: "Oh-hohohohoho"
Sakura: "Hm?" Rinne: "!"
Rinne: 'I get it! This is her attachment!'
Sakura: "Rokudou-kun!"
Rinne: 'That girl really did want to sing in front of everyone. But she wasn't able to do that.'
---- 15.
Misora: "Oh... I'm slowly remembering. On that day..."
guy: "Today they're choosing the lead singer in the choir, right?" guy: "Can we come watch?" Misora: "Oh-hohoho, of course you can."
Misora: 'But in swimming class, I...'
Misora: 'Lost something very important.'
Misora: 'And while I was searching for it, I ran out of breath...'
Rinne: "The one called Utagawa Misora."
---- 16.
Rinne: "Take this."
Misora: "What is it?"
Misora: "Th... this is..."
---- 17.
Misora: "Aah... it's just right..."
Sakura: "She was looking for a false tooth..."
Misora: "The reason I was so angry at the offering of sweets, was because that was what had broken my tooth..."
---- 18.
Misora: "I'm so happy... with this, I'll be able to sing in front of people with all my heart."
text: "And with that, the songstress of the pool, Utagawa Misora-san"
text: "Passed on with a loud song. All the students in the school heard that singing voice."
guy: "Wha... what's that?!"
guy: "Did you hear that?" guy: "It doesn't sound like a voice of this world..."
Sakura: "A false tooth... you had to take out a loan to buy that..." Rinne: "It wasn't covered by insurance..."
preview: "The proud songstress rises to the high sky and disappears. But the price of that false tooth was also high..."
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Post by Patches on Jul 25, 2009 9:38:56 GMT -5
Chapter 13
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Title: "Curse"
subtext: "An ominous shadow lurking over Rinne...?! A new case develops!"
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Miho: "I heard a little while ago, a second-year got into an accident around here."
Sakura: "Heh?" Miho: "He was apparently on his motorcycle on his way to see his girlfriend."
Miho: "And then he hit a telephone pole..." Rika: "Did he die?"
Sakura: "..."
---- 3.
Sakura: 'I guess... that's the guy.' Reiji: "Nnnh..."
Sakura: "Hm...? A bat...?"
---- 4.
Sakura: 'Eh...? What the...?! A bat person...?'
---- 5.
Batman: "You're no good like this."
Reiji: "Nnh...? Oh... really?"
Batman: "You want to curse them, right? Right!" Reiji: "Nnh... Ah, okay."
Batman: "Then it's a promise."
Sakura: 'He said 'curse', but...' (note: The character that was written was supposed to be "tatari", but is missing a number of strokes, so is mostly meaningless)
---- 6.
Sakura: 'Did he just... write the wrong word?'
Miho: "What are you looking at, Sakura-chan?" Sakura: "Nothing..."
Sakura: 'I wonder what that was... it's the first time I've seen something like that.'
students: "Good morning!" students: "'sup?"
Rinne: '"Please help me, I have been cursed."'
---- 7.
Rinne: '"My boyfriend was in a motorcycle accident three days ago."' Rinne: "My client is a second-year girl... huh."
Rinne: '"I will give you more details on the roof"...'
Sakura: "Good morning, Rokudou-kun." Rinne: "Mamiya Sakura."
Sakura: "A letter from a client?" Rinne: "Well, it seems that way, but..."
Rinne: "This handwriting..." (note: The letter reads what Rinne was reciting above, however most of the kanji is mis-written)
---- 8.
Tomoya: "Ah, they're here, Minami." Suzu: "Were you the ones who sent me this letter...?"
Sakura: "Eh...?"
Sakura: "So you two were sent up here with a letter, too?"
Tomoya: "I'm just her escort." Suzu: "Well... it's the same handwriting."
Suzu: "But why... It is true that my boyfriend got in an accident."
Sakura: 'Eh... so could she be...'
---- 9.
Sakura: 'That guy's girlfriend?'
Suzu: "!"
---- 10.
Reiji: "Fall~ to~ your~ dooom~"
Sakura: 'That mark... it's the ghost from the telephone pole!'
Tomoya: "What's wrong, Minami?!" Rinne: "Tch."
---- 11.
Suzu: "Hiyah!" Reiji: "Hauaah!"
Reiji: "I~ won't~ forget~ this~"
Tomoya: "Are you all right, Minami?!" Suzu: "It felt like something was grabbing my neck."
Tomoya: "Ah! There are distinct finger marks on your neck!"
Suzu: "I threw him off without thinking, but I was really scared!" Tomoya: "You would have been in trouble if you weren't on the wrestling team!" Sakura: "Wrestling team... wow!"
---- 12.
text: "Second year, class two: Minami Suzu" text: "Classmate: Tadano Tomoya" (note: "Tada no tomoya" also means "just a friend")
text: "Relation to the ghost" text: "Ghost: Todoroki Reiji" text: "Tomoya-Reiji: Friends" text: "Reiji-Suzu: Lovers" text: "Tomoya-Suzu: Classmates"
Suzu: "Reiji has become a wandering spirit?! But that's impossible... since Reiji is..."
Rinne: "Still alive, I take it." Sakura: "Eh?!"
Suzu: "Three days ago, Reiji got in an accident while he was coming to see me..."
---- 13.
Suzu: "His motorcycle had run out of gas and he was walking it."
Suzu: "He tripped and had the bad luck of hitting a telephone pole..."
Suzu: "He hit himself pretty badly and hasn't been able to wake up since..."
Sakura: 'There's no mistake. That's the guy!'
---- 14.
Rinne: "There's no way he can wake up. Not until his spirit is returned to his body..."
Tomoya: "His spirit?!" Suzu: "But why?"
Sakura: "Rokudou-kun, I saw something... that looked like a bat person take Reiji-san away..."
Rinne: "A bat?!"
Sakura: 'Hm?'
Tomoya: "What is that?" Suzu: "It sounds like a motorcycle..."
Rinne: 'Even though it's a ghostly sound, these two can hear it?!'
---- 15.
Suzu: "Eh?!"
Suzu: "Reiji?!"
Reiji: "Suzu... Tomoya... you two..."
---- 16.
Reiji: "Started dating ever since I got admitted to the hospital, didn't you! I know all about it!"
Suzu/Tomoya: "Huh?"
Sakura: "Is that true?" Suzu/Tomoya: "Nononono."
Reiji: "You think you can trick me?! I'll curse you!"
Rinne: "Go back." Reiji: "Wha...?!"
---- 17.
Rinne: "!"
Sakura: "Eh? A credit card...?!"
Sakura: "Ah! It's that guy..."
---- 18.
Rinne: ".... So this is your doing. You're sick."
Batman: "Then just try to stop me. Rinne-kun."
Sakura: 'Eh... they know each other?!'
preview: "Rinne and the man who gives off the feeling of an unusual connection. This bat-like person... who is he?!"
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Post by Patches on Aug 1, 2009 10:56:54 GMT -5
Chapter 14
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Title: "Confrontation at the Rabbit Hutch"
subtext: "Friend or foe?! God or devil?! A mysterious bat person appears!"
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Masato: "Not a day goes by where I don't remember my grudge against you, Rinne-kun."
Sakura: "Rokudou-kun... who is this person?"
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Rinne: "Your grudge is misdirected. I was merely exorcising a devil."
Masato: "Hmph."
Tomoya: "A devil...?!"
Sakura: 'This person is a devil... So his grudge against Rokudou-kun is...'
text: "Six years ago, Devil Elementary" teacher: "All right, everyone, tomorrow begins your summer vacation."
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teacher: "Your summer homework is to go topside and find an unsalvageable soul, then submit it into Hell." kids: "Okaaay!"
Masato: "I chose the soul of a lonely rabbit about to die."
kid!Masato: "Everyone's forgotten about you."
Masato: "I was about to capture the rabbit's soul... and that was when..."
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kid!Rinne: "She's not dead yet."
kid!Masato: "Who's there!"
kid!Rinne: "Year four class two, Rokudou Rinne. I'm in charge of the pets."
Sakura: "Huh, you look pretty well-off." Rinne: "That was when Jii-chan was still alive."
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Rinne: "Back then I could buy popsicles every day..." Masato: "We don't need to hear about your wistful memories."
kid!Rinne: "Usako-chan, no one's forgotten about you."
kid!Rinne: "Here." kid!Masato: "Aah!"
kid!Masato: "How dare you! It was about to die, too!"
kid!Masato: "Take this, my Devil Fork!"
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kid!Rinne: "So you're a devil! In that case!"
kid!Masato: "You idiot, you think I'd retreat from a cross!"
kid!Masato: "Ow-ow-ow-ow!"
Sakura: "Umm... so that's your grudge...?"
Rinne: "I was still a kid, too, so I didn't know how to hold back..." Masato: "Thanks to that, I got five stitches."
Suzu: "You're so cruel! You got Reiji involved over something as stupid as that?!" Masato: "Hmph."
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Masato: "My name is Masato. 'Masato' written as 'evil narrow person'. Because when it comes to narrow-mindedness, no one has me beat."
Masato: "I'm taking him in exchange for that rabbit... and eventually dragging him down to Hell."
---- 9.
Sakura: "Oh no!" Suzu: "Reiji!"
Rinne: "You think you can escape?!"
Tomoya: "They vanished..."
Sakura: 'They've escaped through a spirit path!'
---- 10.
Masato: "Hmph."
Masato: "Take this, my Devil Fire!"
Rinne: "Ugh!"
---- 11.
Rinne: "Oh no! If my Hell Haori burns, I won't be able to fight!"
Rinne: "Tch... he escaped..."
Tomoya: "But..."
Tomoya: "Reiji is still alive." Suzu: "So taking his spirit to Hell would mean..."
Rinne: "The longer a spirit is detached from the body, the harder it is to return it." Sakura: "Eeh?! Then we have to hurry..."
---- 12.
Rinne: "Yeah, we have to return it right away. However..."
Rinne: "Masato has influenced Reiji's soul to believe some things whether they're true or not, and intends to turn him into an evil spirit while he's still alive."
Reiji: "Suzu, Tomoya, you two started going out while I was admitted to the hospital!" Suzu: "So that's why he said something like that..."
Sakura: "What should we do?"
Rinne: "Well, the guy has to want to go back himself..." Suzu: "Come on... it's not like he's a runaway."
---- 13.
Rokumon: "Eeh!? Rinne-sama, you're going to work for free?!" Rinne: "I don't have a choice."
Rinne: "Reiji-san is a victim of getting dragged into a problem between Rokudou-kun and Masato-kun." Rokumon: "Aw, man."
Sakura: "Oh, that's right, here." Rokumon: "A Devil Bank (Akuma Ginkou) cash card?!"
Sakura: "Masato-kun threw it and left it in the hospital room." Rokumon: "That careless fool... I'll withdraw everything he's got and make him suffer."
---- 14.
Sakura: "But what about his PIN number...?" Rokumon: "That moron wrote it on the card."
Sakura: "Is he stupid? Or is it a trap?" Rinne: "It's 50/50."
text: "The next day" teacher: "Rise. Bow."
Sakura: 'Rokudou-kun is absent... Where could he have gone at a time like this?'
Suzu: "Rokudou-kun! Mamiya-san!" Sakura: "Ah, Minami Suzu-sempai."
Suzu: "It looks like Reiji's curse has started." Sakura: "Eeeh?!"
---- 15.
Suzu: "My bento ended up like this..." bento: "Fool. From Reiji. Curse" Sakura: "Oh my."
Suzu: "It's minor, but I still hate it." Sakura: "Um, what about Tadano Tomoya-sempai?!"
Tomoya: "Ugyaaah!" Suzu: "That's Tomoya's voice!"
guy: "He suddenly collapsed!" guy: "Tire marks?!"
---- 16.
Suzu: "Tomoya!" Sakura: "How cruel..."
Sakura: 'Reiji-san!'
Sakura: 'I see... it's so he can secretly harrass them...'
Suzu: "You're horrible..." Sakura: "Eh?"
---- 17.
Suzu: "I don't know what that devil put into your head... but aren't you just being stupid?!" Sakura: "Um, Suzu-sempai..."
Suzu: "I hate you! I'm not going to visit you in the hospital anymore!"
Suzu: "Hang in there Tomoya!" Sakura: 'Reiji-san...' Reiji: "I hate everything!"
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Masato: "Hmph, human bonds are so fragile."
Masato: "Reiji's spirit will not return to his body and he'll go to Hell..."
Masato: "And I've set... one other fiendish trap."
Masato: "It'll be all over when Rinne-kun succumbs to his poverty and uses that cash card..."
text: "The results of the fiendish trap" puppet: "Stupid stupid stupid!" Rokumon: "Lame."
preview: "His demeanor is refined, but he is small-minded in the execution of his actions! Before such a fiendish enemy, what can Rinne do...?!"
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