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思わぬ火種…妖怪の出没。本来相容れないサムライと火消だが、こん助の危機に立ち向かう！
Dialogue in this work
Page 1
- Listen up!
- Promise me you'll keep the damage to a minimum!
Page 3
- Nghh!!
Page 4
- Of course!!
Page 6
- Alright then!
Page 7
- Alright, let's do this!
- If I can catch the Hidane with my Matoi...
- ...I can use the power of the Five Elements it holds to absorb the Hidane's strength.
Page 8
- But...
- ...I have to make sure I catch it.
- If that's all it is, then it's business as usual.
Page 9
- All you have to do is dodge.
Page 10
- As for the rest...
- I'll handle it all!
Page 13
- I told you to dodge!
Page 16
- Hey!
- I did as you said!
- Now hurry up and finish it!
Page 17
- Jeez!
- You work fast, that's a big help!
- Thanks!
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- CRACK
Page 19
- You, with your 'Earth' attribute...
- ...are weak against 'Wood'!!
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- Don't you worry...
Page 21
- ...be extinguished!!
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- CRUMBLE
Page 23
- !!
- Konsuke!!
- Are you alive?!
Page 24
- ?!
- ...
- So loud...
- My head hurts...
- ...!
Page 25
- You're conscious!
- I'm so...
- ...so glad...!!
Page 26
- First, I should probably get him to a hospital.
- Come to think of it, what about his parents...?
- Why is he doing all this...
- ...for some guy he just picked a fight with...
- ...because he didn't like him?
Page 27
- Here.
- Water!
- Can you drink it?
Page 28
- ...
Page 29
- The old lady from the neighborhood is trying to get in touch with your parents.
- Um...
- ?
- You can go...
Page 30
- ...home now, you know?
- You don't have to stay...
- ...
Page 31
- I'm waiting because I already asked the lady from the soba shop to make some rice porridge.
- No, no, no!
- That's not what I meant at all!!
Page 32
- After that fight we had, you don't owe me anything.
- So why are you still here?
Page 33
- Look... how about... we eat together?
- It's just...
- It's not right to leave a sick person all by themself...
Page 34
- ...I don't like the idea of that.
- Besides...
- Eating a meal all by yourself...
- ...is lonely.
Page 35
- I know all about it.
- You see...
- A long time ago, my dad was a Hikeshi. He died in the line of duty during a disaster caused by yokai...
- ...and my mom committed suicide, as if to follow him.
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- My mom couldn't stand all the criticism...
- While some people would say my dad died a noble death...
- ...others would look down on him as a war criminal who made the damage worse with his pointless actions.
- I had to hide.
Page 37
- So...
- ...my grandpa and grandma took me in and hid me away.
- But...
Page 38
- Until the whole thing blew over, to the outside world...
- ...it was like I didn't even exist.
Page 39
- I'd see kids my age playing outside...
- ...and just watch them, thinking, 'That looks like fun.'
- 'If I could eat with them...
- ...I wonder if it would be fun,' and just watch.
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- Maybe it's a rebound from that...
- ...but now I'm always out and about.
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- That's why...
- I know that eating a meal by yourself...
- ...must be tough.
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- I'm sure...
- ...you can imagine how that feels.
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- I'm really...
- ...sorry.
- My father... and yours...
Page 44
- A 'war criminal'...
- You mean... that, don't you?!
Page 45
- When this town was attacked by a massive number of Hidane...
- ...and the whole place was torn apart...
- The Heroics of the Hikeshi...
Page 46
- ...it was a famous story of their great deeds!
- Yeah, that's the one.
- So... are you one of the people who despises me?
Page 47
- Despise you?
- Of course not!!
- You're his son! How could you not know?!
Page 48
- Jiro—!
- Answer me—!!
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- !!
- It's because I yelled...!
- This is it... I'm going to die...
Page 50
- No way!
Page 51
- We're getting out of here!
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- Hurry!
Page 53
- I see.
- You got separated from your little brother, huh?
- That you're a kind boy who cares so much for his brother...
Page 54
- I could tell...
- ...just from the way you were calling his name.
- But...
Page 55
- If you make a loud noise, they'll target you next.
- First, you need to prioritize your own life.
- If you die here, your little brother will be devastated.
- Please, trust us.
Page 56
- Right now, I need you to live, no matter what.
- I'll find your brother for you.
- A kind boy like you.
- ...Can you do that for me?
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- ...I trust you... Please... find my brother...!
Page 58
- What's your brother's name?
- His name... is Suijiro...!
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- Got it.
- You and your brother...
- ...are both going to live.
- Wait for me, okay?
Page 61
- It's probably...
- ...just something you say to calm a kid down.
Page 62
- There's no way they'll find Jiro in a town this torn apart.
- Brother?!
Page 63
- He said the Hikeshi found you and kept you safe...
- I'm so glad you're alive...!
Page 64
- He said you were shouting my name at the top of your lungs.
- Don't do something so dangerous...!!
Page 65
- Please, trust us.
- Mister... you really kept your promise...
Page 66
- He really did!
- I found out later...
Page 67
- You see,
- he saved so many people—children, women, the elderly... all the weak.
- And me.
Page 68
- My brother was no exception!
- And for his son...
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- Ah! Y-Yes, sorry...
- I didn't think I was being this tactless, but...
Page 70
- ...
- The family of a man who saved so many people had to go through something so painful, too!
- There's something seriously wrong with that, isn't there?!
- For all his efforts to lead to that...
Page 71
- Ngh!
- That's just...
- ...wrong...
Page 73
- Together...
- ...let's eat!
Page 74
- I, too...
- ...was lonely.
- Eating with someone...
Page 75
- I want to eat...
Page 76
- Here you go!
- Soba?
Page 77
- It's porridge from the shop!
- Aomi, you're not even sick. You're gonna eat porridge?
Page 78
- Everything this lady makes is delicious.
- Not just her soba!
- You said you didn't mind eggs,
- so I mixed one in for you.
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- There!
- It's more nutritious this way, anyway!
- Thanks...
- Thanks, lady!
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- !
- De-
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- Delicious!
- No way!
- My turn, my turn!
Page 82
- Oh, I'm so glad...
- This is amazing.
- Hey, don't just drink it!
- Oh, by the way...
Page 83
- You like instant soba?
- Huh?
- The kind with shrimp, I guess.
- Oh, you like shrimp!
- Well then...
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- Wh-
Page 85
- Wh-Wh-Wh-What's wrong?!
- Did I say something tactless again...?
- No...
- It's just... eating with someone...
Page 86
- ...is so much fun.
- I guess being alone...
- ...really was lonely.
Page 87
- Well...
- I mean, some people prefer being alone...
- So I've come to realize you can't really generalize.
Page 88
- I guess you shouldn't make assumptions.
- Still, I wonder why Konsuke's parents left him alone...
- Konsuke!!
- They said you collapsed from malnutrition...
Page 89
- What on earth have you been doing to yourself...
- Dad...
- Mom...
- Guh...
Page 90
- I'm sorry.
- We're the ones who should be sorry!
Page 91
- Konsuke kept telling us, 'Just leave me alone for a while,' and we just took him at his word.
- But that was no excuse to leave him by himself all the time. We were wrong.
Page 92
- We were just abandoning our duty to face what our two sons were going through...!
- I'm sorry.
Page 93
- ...I'm so sorry...!
- We've failed as parents.
- We didn't even try to properly understand how Konsuke was feeling.
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- We couldn't even act like proper parents...
Page 95
- I just thought, 'Konsuke is the eldest, so he'll be fine'... but that's no excuse.
- ...I just stopped thinking... There's no excuse for what we did...
Page 96
- Hic...
- But...
- ...I didn't say anything either...
- ...so I was wrong, too.
- So...
Page 97
- Don't blame yourselves...!
Page 98
- Well, that's settled...
- ...I guess!
Page 99
- Oh, I know!
- When Konsuke recovers, why don't we all go out to eat together?
Page 100
- I... there's something I want to eat.
- Fresh soba.
Page 101
- I'd love to have some... it's been a while.
Page 102
- Yo!
- !
Page 103
- Konsuke!
- Come on, sit here!
- Thanks!
- The soba here is so good, I can't help myself!
- And I wanted to eat with you, too.
Page 104
- Flattery will get you nowhere, you know!
- Still...
- ...it's really crowded today.
Page 105
- ...huh?
- Did something happen?
- Well, actually...
- ...I talked to the boss, too.
Page 106
- That thing you said about how 'food tastes better when you eat it with someone'...
- ...she took that to heart.
- A gift!
- Discount for groups of two or more!
Page 107
- She's giving a discount to anyone who comes in a group of two or more.
- And thanks to that, the place has gotten more popular.
- This month, you get a free grilled eggplant topping!
- I feel like that's not the only reason, though?
- Well, with fewer Hidane around lately, people have been able to go out more.
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- ...and the damage from them has been going down.
- I heard a rumor about that...
- Something about the old Hikeshi trying to make a comeback?
Page 109
- Don't play dumb!
- Wow, I had no idea there were people like that.
- I'm rooting for you,
- Aomi!
Page 110
- Turns out I'm not really cut out to be a craftsman or anything!
- So I'm giving up on the whole 'becoming a Hikeshi' thing...
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- I'm going to find something else I want to do!
- I see!
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- Konsuke, you made it!
- Hey, ma'am.
- I'll have some soba.
Page 113
- Getting me one too?
- With the eggplant!
- You got it!
- !
- But I...
Page 114
- Because...
- ...we're eating together, right?
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- ...
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- Yeah, you're right!
Page 118
- Hey!
- What are you doing taking it easy, Hikeshi!
- !
- The Samurai?!
Page 119
- Wh-
- What do you want?!
- I have been officially ordered by the State to keep you under surveillance.
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- I'm to team up with you and extinguish the Hidane...
- ...That's the order.
- Huh?
Page 121
- WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
Page 122
- I wouldn't want to do this if it weren't an order!
- Then I'm the one who's calling this off!
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- Don't make me spell it out for you! You've been recognized by the State!
- And you'd just throw that away?!
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- Huh?
- Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh?!
- And so...
Page 125
- the tale of the young Hikeshi...
- ...had just begun.
- ...To be continued, somewhere, someday.
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