Chapter 2
Translater's note: 'Kekkai' is a Japanese word for a shield or barrier, usually supernatural in nature.
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-Page 1-
[2] Ky: Why am I running?
[3] Ky: No,
[4] Ky: If I run
Nothing will change
[5] That's why
I'll fight
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[1] Ky: !?
Tyr: Hey
[2] Ky: Sorry
Tyr: No, I should say the same
[3] Tyr: I'm Tyr
What about you?
[4] Ky: I'm Ky Kiske
[5] Tyr: Ky, huh?
Ooooiii! Kliff!
-Page 3-
[1] Kliff: What's a brat doing in a place like this?
This isn't a playground. Lose your mother?
[2] Ky: No. Half a year ago, my mother died.
[3] Ky: If I run, I'll probably die. So, I want to fight.
[4] Kliff: Even out there?
[5] Ky: (nod)
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[3] Kliff: Don't kid around.
[4] Right now, you can't use anything like weaponry or shields
You'll just be in the way
[5] Kliff: But, well
[6] Kliff: The will to fight, that isn't wrong.
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[1] Kliff: So you're called Ky
I'll give you a mission
[2] Kliff: No matter what, survive for just five years
After that, come and find me again.
When that happens, I'll let you fight as much as you want.
[3] Kliff: Now get going!!
[4] Kliff: (thinking) Using a kid as a tool in battle. I'm going to hell.
[5] Tyr: What's wrong, Kliff?
Kliff: It's nothing.
Now,
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[1] Kliff: Let's just cause one little ruckus!
Tyr: I've been waiting for this!
[3] Ky: That's all already...
[4] Ky: Fifteen years ago...
-Page 7-
[1] Ky: (English text) Et in Arcadia Ego
[2] Ky: The kekkai's strength has decreased even more than was reported...
[3] Ky: Huh?
[4] Ky: Looks like someone's already been here before me...
[5] Ky: It seems like I should probably hurry.
-Page 8-
[4] Tyr: It's already autumn?
[5] Mizuha: It's always autumn here.
[6] Tyr: Huh? Here?
[7] Mizuha: Yeah. If you go down to the town, it's spring and the sakura is beautiful all year round. In the fields and on the waterside it's summer.
[8] Tyr: Weird.
Grandpa: It's the kekkai's fault.
[9] Mizuha: Grandpa! You should still be lying down!
Grandpa: I'm rehabilitating.
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[1] Tyr: Gramps, what did you mean about the kekkai's fault?
Grandpa: Well, you see
[2] Grandpa: The whole area of this colony is covered by a powerful kekkai
Because of the strength of that, even the weather is fixed.
[3] Grandpa: We're blocked off from the rest of the world.
[4] Tyr+Mizuha: Blocked off?
Grandpa: Like something that smells bad...
[5] Grandpa: Like a bad sitation or a dangerous thing, like something that people should have nothing to do with. That kind of thing...
Since the Holy War... no, even before that, everyone has been thrown in here.
(Signs in background: Danger)
[6] Grandpa: In truth, for us Japanese
It's only protection in name
[7]Tyr: Then, after all, I...
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[1] Tyr: ...was thrown away.
[2] Mizuha: It'll be okay!
Tyr: I'm don't really know anything, but...
[3] Mizuha: It'll definitely be okay!
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[2] Ky: Excuse me for calling so late at night.
[4] Ky: What!?
[5] Tyr: Ah!? It's Ky!
[6] Ky: You're... I don't believe it...
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[1] Ky: Tyr
[2] Tyr: You didn't have to do that
Ky: Sorry about that
[3] Tyr: Huh?
[4] Tyr: Ky
In the brief time I haven't seen you... haven't you grown a lot?
[5] Ky: No, it's just that you haven't changed at all.
Tyr: Oh, right.
[6] Ky: (thinking) You really...
[7] Ky: (thinking) ...haven't changed at all.
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[1] Caption: The final stage of the Holy War
[2] Soldier: Captain Ky
[3] Soldier: Epsilon division has completed its withdrawl
Ky: Understood
[4] Ky: Our division should commence withdrawl as well
Soldier: Roger
[5] Ky: Can you stand?
Girl: Y...Yes
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[2] Ky: A manticore class gear!!
[3] Ky: (thinking) Sol is..?
He won't be able to help out here?!
[4] Ky: At this rate, we're in trouble!!
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[3] Ky: This is.. diamond dust!?
[4] Ky: No!! Everyone get down!
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[1] Ky: Are you alright?
Girl: Yeah, somehow.
Soldier: Ky-sama!
[2] Soldier: I have a message from Kliff-danchou.
Ky: Good work. What is it?
[3] Soldier: "Right now my hands are tied, I'll leave the babysitting to you."
Ky: !?
[5] Ky: Take care of this girl
Soldier: Yes sir!
Ky: (thinking) So that's how it was?
[6]Ky: (thinking) A manticore-class gear was annihilated in an instant
How many times have I heard of do-or-die situations like this...
That enormous flash of light...
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[1] Ky: (thinking) Was you?
[2] Ky: (thinking) After that giant flash this certainly has become...
Ky: ...a babysitting mission.
[3] Ky: (thinking) You slept, recovering,
As I took you back to the Danchou
[4] Ky: (thinking) Kliff-Danchou had such sad eyes
[5] Ky: (thinking) So I couldn't even ask what kind of thing you are.
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[1] Ky: Why... are you in a place like this?
Tyr: Ah, it looks like I was thrown out.
[2] Ky: Thrown.... out?
Is this connected to your disappearance just before the end of the Holy War?
[3] Tyr: What? The Holy War's over!?
Ky: Huh? You didn't know?
Mizuha: What's this Holy War thing?
[4] Grandpa: You've certainly become energetic, aren't you?
[5] Tyr or Mizuha: Sorry
Grandpa: So, what was you official business here?
[6] Ky: Well, formally...
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[1] Ky: I am Ky Kiske of the International Police Force
Tyr (in background): The war... it's over..... ;____;
Ky: I'm here on behalf of the Holy Order to retrieve the Jinki, Zetsusen.
[2] Grandpa: Hm, you're the real thing
But even if you ask us for it, the Zetsusen is...
[3] Grandpa: Hey, look here Mizuha
What are you doing walking off in front of us while we're talking, idiotic grandchild!
[4] Grandpa: .....hm?
[5] Grandpa: Mizuha?
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[2] Mizuha: Ma... ka
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[1] Mizuha: Makaotsu (This is deliberately ambiguous, but it seems to translate as something like "Disaster from the Sky")
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[1] Ky: ku..
Grandpa: What
is this?
[3] Tyr: Mizuha!!
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[2] Ky: He... he's fast!!
[3] Tyr: What's going on?
[5] Tyr: A hand (gyaaaa)!?
Grandpa: Our shrine!
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[1] Mizuha: Heaven's pillar
[2] Tyr: Oi!
[3] Tyr: Are you alright?
[4] Tyr: Geez
[5] Grandpa: As I thought
Without the focus point of the Zetsusen, the kekkai is weakening.
(End Chapter 2)
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