Kagerou Nostalgia
Volume 1, part 1/3
by Satomi Kubo
['Kagerou' means 'heat haze.'
Appeared in Gan Gan Wing Comics.
ISBN 4-7575-0057-2]
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Translated by: Terasu
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/7072
Translator's note:
This is another one of my attempts to translate...
It's been a while since I've touched Japanese, but I really really
really like this series! So, the attempt, a quick attempt that's
sure to be filled with glaring mistakes. Please be kind enough to
point them out to me gently. =P
Version 1.0
Last Modified: 18 September 2002
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{--Commenter: comments--} = random comments by editers
[] = clarification/translating notes
** = action/description
// = mangaka's handwritten comments
Names are written with last name first.
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GanGanWing Comic
Kagerou Nostalgia
*A picture of the five young boys that are about to begin an long
adventure influenced by their past.*
Satomi Kubo presents...
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Contents
Chapter 1 Dazzling Malice ....3
Chapter 2 Sheer Madness ......123
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Narration: Long ago from the ancient days, that country was always
lost in the clutches of war beyond count.
Narration: And even now, after 500 years, that world where the
people overcame the lords is lost as well-
Narration: But.
Narration: With Shogun Kuroda Kiyotaka's rise in power, maybe this
war-ridden world's end will come.
Narration: However-
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Narration: That...
Narration: Was the beginning of a new terror-...
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Title: Chapter 1 Dazzling Malice
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Location: Oozu Country
Commanding Officer: Looks like they showed up.
Commanding Officer: Those human hunters...
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Commanding Officer: Attack!!!
Commanding Officer: Defend this Oozu fort from Kuroda's hand to
the death!!!
Mercenary A: Hm, I guess I'll go too.
Mercenary B: It's time to work.
Headband Mercenary: Yo, Kazuma, it isn't like there's a surplus.
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*A small image of Shiranui and Kazuma overlaying a battlefield.*
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Human Hunter A: Here here!
Human Hunter A: Ha ha ha ha, kill, kill!!!
Human Hunter A: Die!
Human Hunter A: Die!
Young Soldier: Sh...
Young Soldier: SHIT!! These guys... they're not human!!
Young Soldier: Why are they... enjoying it so much...!
Human Hunter A: We, Kuroda-sama's army! Didn't come here to destroy
the fort!
Human Hunter A: This is hunting!!
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Human Hunter A: We came to kill you bastards!!! No one will
survive!!!
Young Soldier: AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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Young Soldier: ... Ka....
Young Soldier: Kazuma-dono... tha... thank yo...
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Human Hunter B: Die, kids!!!
Human Hunter B: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Human Hunter B: Ha...?
Human Hunter C: Huh?
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*A fierce Kazuma ripping his way through the human hunters, filling
with anger.*
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*Blood and body parts go flying as Kazuma releases his anger.*
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Bunch of Human Hunters: !!!
Human Hunter D: Damn you-!
Human Hunter D: KID~~~~~!!!
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Commanding Officer: Everyone! Don't just pick up the mercenary's
leftovers! We, the Oozu people, should protect Oozu country with
our own hands!
Commanding Officer: Take them!!!
Human Hunter D: No way in hell are we scared of one little kid!
The rest are only trash!
Human Hunter D: KILL~!
Human Hunter D: KILL~!
Narration: This.
Narration: Was not a battle between a country trying to take over
a territory and a country trying to protect their home.
Narration: It's between those killing and those trying not to be
killed.
Narration: Just.
Narration: Just.
Narration: Killing each another.
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Narration: Eight different countries of this continent are already
under Shogun Kuroda Kiyotaka's control.
Narration: Yet, from this whole land, only two countries have
escaped his control, the first being Oozu country.
Narration: However, this doesn't mean that they escaped the horrors
of war.
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Narration: Human Hunting
Narration: Murders without distinction... since Kuroda Kiyotaka's
decree, 15 years ago, all at once this began.
Narration: In different countries, in their own country, villagers,
townspeople, samurai, farmers, men, women, children, the elderly,
without distinction...
Narration: Without a purpose, without a reason.
Narration: Kuroda's men having been killing anyone.
Narration: ...while enjoying themselves....
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Monk *thinking*: ... going mad...
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Monk *thinking*: Human desires are being amplified...
Monk *thinking*: Staggering...
Monk *thinking*: An evil atmosphere is being made to cover...
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Commanding officer: Syudou Kazuma.
Commanding officer: You did good work. Keep it for tomorrow too.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: Hey hey.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: What's up the difference?
Commanding officer: A newcomer? Your pay is determined by the number
of people you kill.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: !
Spikey-haired Mercenary: We report the numbers ourselves, right?
Then can't anyone lie about how many?
Headband Mercenary: What a bastard like you didn't also lie...?
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Spikey-haired Mercenary: Wh... WHAT!?
Headband Mercenary: Wouldn't you say that Kazuma's killing style is
such that there isn't anything left... right?
Spikey-haired Mercenary: Grr...
Spikey-haired Mercenary: ......
Spikey-haired Mercenary: ... Hm. Where are you saying that's great
about this kid!
Spikey-haired Mercenary: He's got an expression that belongs on a
girl!
Headband Mercenary: ... don't bother him.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: Hey, serve some sake or something.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: !
Spikey-haired Mercenary: You bastard!
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Spikey-haired Mercenary: Now, just wait a minute!!
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Kazuma: ... DON'T TOUCH ME.... !
Spikey-haired Mercenary: .....
Spikey-haired Mercenary: H... he.. real... really was going to kill
me....
Headband Mercenary: If you pick a fight with him, you'll die.
Headband Mercenary: That one you call a kid will do anything to
protect to protect himself.
Headband Mercenary: Well. It can't be helped in this time; kids
have to live by themselves.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: Shit! That's not interesting.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: The food's bad. There's no women. And that
kid's here!
Spikey-haired Mercenary: Even a small town like this should give out
better treatment!!
Headband Mercenary: ...then it would be better if you went and
joined Kuroda's side. The treatment would be better, definitely.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: ! Are you saying that I should become
a human hunter!?
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Spikey-haired Mercenary: Gr... That's right... I'm trash...
Spikey-haired Mercenary: But I'm not that crazy.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: He might be dark shogun or something, I
don't know, but things are getting out of hand.
Spikey-haired Mercenary: Just... just to kill people... What's up
with that?
Kazuma *thinking*: Snow...
Kazuma *thinking*: White... white snow...
Kazuma *thinking*: Snow more and more.
Kazuma *thinking*: Snow more and more on top of me.
Kazuma *thinking*: All on top of me... cover me up...
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Kazuma *thinking*: And please take away my sin.
Kazuma *thinking*: So someday I don't have to bear this sin.
Kazuma *thinking*: So that I don't go insane...
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Young Soldier: !
Young Soldier: Kazuma-dono!!
Young Soldier: U..Uh... Thank you for helping me.
Kazuma: .....
Kazuma: .....
Young Soldier: Ah!
Young Soldier: Where are...!!
Young Soldier: It's dangerous to walk about alone.
Young Soldier: Kazuma-dono!
Kazuma: DON'T TOUCH ME!!
Young Soldier: So... sorry.
Kazuma: ...worried about other people...?
Kazuma: Someone like you shouldn't be worrying about other people.
Kazuma: I hate weak people...
Young Soldier: !
Kazuma: When I see them...
Kazuma: I'm disgusted.
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Young Soldier: ... Kazuma-dono...
Kazuma: ...
Kazuma: ...not here... It's only human corpses.
Kazuma: ...if Kuroda's troops can't take this battlefield, then they
will appear...
Kazuma: It's been already 5 days since I came to Oozu's fort...
after how... many days more to fight before they will show up...
Kazuma: ... they...
Young girl *flashback*: Kazuma!!!
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Young girl *flashback*: Kyaaaaaaaa!
Kazuma *thinking*: I'm different from that time....
Kazuma *thinking*: This time for sure I'll defeat him...!
Kazuma *thinking*: Definitely this time...!
Kazuma *thinking*: DEFINITELY THIS TIME....!
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Kazuma *thinking*: .... a monk....?
Kazuma: ... what are you doing in a place like this?
Monk: ....
Monk: ... hold a funeral...
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Kazuma: A funeral...?
Kazuma: These guys don't need any prayers.
Kazuma: They came to kill people.
Kazuma: Guys who just kill people for the fun of it...
Kazuma: NATURALLY THEY DIED.
Monk: ...
Kazuma: ...!
Kazuma: Th... there's fort up ahead. They... killed many.
Kazuma: Anyways, pray for the ones they killed.
Monk: ....
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Location: Kuroda Kiyotaka's castle
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Kuroda: Good. Good. Play out what was in the book.
Kuroda: Is that the one you like the most? Which one?
Kuroda: Wanna lend it to me?
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Kuroda: The Oozu fort... it's been giving you trouble for five days
now...
Shadowed man: They're resisting with a mercenary group made of
professional fighters.
Shadowed man: The human hunters started 15 years... so, all the ones
left are all strong...
Shadowed man: There are only two countries left that have not allied
with you.
Shadowed man: ... therefore it becomes easier for the strong gather
in one place...
Kuroda: ...ah, that's right.
Kuroda: It's finally coming together.
Kuroda: Kuki Getsusyou...
Kuroda: Your purpose...
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Getsusyou: My men will make the difference. By morning, Oozu will
have fallen...
Kuroda: Hmm...
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*Three weapons crash through the ceiling, killing an assassin.*
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Kuroda: Ah. Sleepy, Rasetsu?
Nanny: Then shall we go to the bedroom, young master?
Kuroda: Make sure that he doesn't catch a cold, Yasya.
Nanny: Yes, Lord.
Black Knight 1: He's a man of the adviser Kanpe-dono.
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Kuroda: Did he go to get rid of Kanpe...?
Kuroda: ... is that alright? Kanpe may be more useful to you than
me...
Getsusyou: ...
Kuroda: A dance to be your best...
Kuroda: And right now, I'm the best...?
Kuroda: ... it's pleasant being your best...
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Kuroda: As everything is going as I want...
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*flashback*
Young Kazuma: Aneue, I did it!!
['Aneue' means older sister.]
Young Kazuma: Aneue!
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Young Kazuma: Today, I am a real member of the dojo!!
Kazuma's older sister: Really?
Young Kazuma: I can be an instructor or more!! Next is get a full
mastership!!
Young Kazuma: I'll become more and more strong!
Young Kazuma: Even if the human hunters attack our villager, I'll
kill them all!!!!
Young Kazuma: Aneue...?
Kazuma's older sister: Kazuma...
Kazuma's older sister: ... don't say... things like killing... okay?
...
*end flashback*
Kazuma: That monk...
Kazuma: His eyes were the same as Aneue when she said that...
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Kazuma: ... Aneue.
Kazuma: ... I didn't protect you...
Kazuma: ... I'm sorry, Aneue...
Kazuma: I'm sorry...
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Random soldier: UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Headband Mercenary: !?
Headband Mercenary: What's going on?
Headband Mercenary: A night attack?!
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*A horrific monster with a butt-ugly face, not to mention the nose,
towers over the mercenaries.*
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Mercenaries: !!?
Mercenaries: ......
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Soldier: WAAAAA!!!
Headband Mercenary: Wha....
Headband Mercenary: What is that...??
Spikey-haired Mercenary: Mon...
Spikey-haired Mercenary: Monste...!?
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Spikey-haired Mercenary: It's... it's eating...
Headband Mercenary: Kazuma...?
Headband Mercenary: Stupid, run! Even if it's you...
Kazuma: ... run...?
Kazuma: ... don't joke...
Kazuma: ... I've been waiting...
Kazuma: I've been waiting... for these monsters...!!!
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Headband Mercenary: Ka...
Kazuma: ... I'm not letting you bastards do what you please...!
Kazuma: ... Monster...!!
Headband Mercenary: Kazuma!!
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Kazuma: UWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
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Monster: GYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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Mercenary B: Awe... awesome...
Headband Mercenary: With one hit, that monster...
Headband Mercenary: ... Let's go too! Even though we can't match
Kazuma.
Headband Mercenary: We can do something even if it'll take a lot of
people.
Mercenaries: UWWWW!!
Mercenary B: Guufu
Headband Mercenary: !
Headband Mercenary: SHIT!!
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Headband Mercenary: !!
Headband Mercenary: The wound...!!
Mercenary C: It's no good!!
Mercenary C: Even though we cut and cut them, it doesn't work.
Kazuma: !
*flashback*
Young Kazuma: Why!?
Young Kazuma: Even though I cut and cut them, they wouldn't die!!
Young Kazuma: No matter how many times I cut them...
Young Kazuma: They won't die...!!
*end flashback*
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Mercenary C: GUUUUUUUU!!!
Spikey-haired Mercenary: SHITTTTT! Let him go!!!
Young Kazuma *flashback*: Let go!! Let go of Aneue!!
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Spikey-haired Mercenary: U... UWAAAAAAAA!!!
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Kazuma: ... get...
Kazuma: Get out of the way!! I'll kill them!!
Headband Mercenary: Kazuma!!
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Demon: ... so this is why.
Demon: You were here?
Demon: So, that's why this fort... won't fall so easily...
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Demon: It's been a long time.
Demon: Have you been well?
Kazuma: ...
Kazuma: ... SHIMARI... !!
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Headband Mercenary: ... what is this? What...
Headband Mercenary: Is going on...?
Mercenary B: The monsters...
Shimari: I was looking. For you.
Shimari: How long ago has it been? My kind don't have a good sense
of time.
Shimari: You've become a little more powerful from that time.
Kazuma: ...
Shimari: This time, I think I'll be nice and take you to a certain
person's place.
Kazuma: ... !?
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Shimari: ... But before that, let's play a little.
Kazuma: !!
Shimari: Like that time...!
Kazuma: SHUT UP!!
Shimari: I want to hear that weeping voice of yours again.
Kazuma: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!!!
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Shimari: ...
Shimari: You're not used to it but...
Shimari: You've definitely got dreadful degree of reiryoku.
['Reiryoku' can be translated as Spirit Power.]
Shimari: And those eyes are good...
Shimari: Spite and malice, dread and shame... it excites me.
Shimari: ... for a little while, I'll have you sleep.
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Kazuma: !!
Kazuma: UWAAAAAA!!
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Shimari: ... even after being this injured, you didn't let go of
your sword...
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*Bullets fly into Shimari's back. He looks back to stare in surprise
at the monk.*
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Shimari: ... a monk...?
Shimari: ... it won't work. Something like that.
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Shimari: ... What!?
Shimari: It... It can't be...!!
Shimari: U... UWAAAAAAA!!
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*The monk picks up Kazuma and walks away.*
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