#chapter 89.5

[Note: each dash ( — ) separates one panel.]

(P1)

F: “Is this so.”

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F: “The acting in the waiting room with the signal transmitter in my hand right now, are these all based off of intelligence from the mafia boss?”

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F: “As expected of him.”

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T: “That thing is a voice recorder at the same time.”

T: “At this very moment, the military police are listening in on this conversation.”

T: “Which means,”

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T: “This will be the end, Captain Fukuchi.”

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F: “Is that so.”

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T: “….”

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(P2)

T: “I will admire with great pleasure how your reputation will lie in tatters in the news.”

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F: “My destruction? Why would such a thing happen?”

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F: “The military police secret service follows the principles of secrecy, and they are the minority.”

F: “Let Bram bite them all and turn them all into his familiars.”

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F: “If that comes to be, then my plan will not fall through. Wake up, Bram.”

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(P3)

B: “Mmhm… How many years has it been since the last time I hath opened my eyes?”

F: “No, you’ve just woken up once not long ago……”

T: “Do you think,”

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T: “I’ll let you do that?”

F: “You cannot win against me.”

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T: “That’s not for certain. You must protect that man with only his severed head left. The situation lies in my favour.”

T: “Moreover, with regards to your Ability, I had already thought up a counter-strategy for it.”

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M: “Tachihara, go destroy the enemies of the world.”

Orders make me, become myself.

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(P4)

F: “Laughable.”

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(P5)

He’s coming!

The sword of time and dimension, “Amegozen”!

F: “The tip of the sword will piece the you who existed in the past, and then everything will be over!”

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(P6)

The tip of the sword… can’t move!

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(P7)

T: “You forgot an important premise, Mr Captain.”

T: “No matter what kind of famous sword it is, it is but metal.”

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(P8)

T: “Which means, that’s right down my alley!”

Metal manipulation!

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Amegozen, can’t pierce the “past”……

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T: “Then let’s have a sumo wrestling match.”

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(P9)

….. very good! With my strength I can win this.

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(P10)

… I was careless.

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(P11)

Amegozen has been seized from me……

T: “‘To cut the past’, you certainly have the strongest Ability. And the Ability certainly has no faults.”

T: “The only way to counter your Ability, is to seize the sword from your hands before being cut by you.”

F: “…… the number of Ability users in the world who would do this, I could count on one hand.”

As expected, Tachihara’s Ability is very strong……!

But, moreover,

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(P12)

T: “To be praised like so is my honour, Captain.”

This Ability is my greatest enemy……

T: “But our boss has said this.”

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T: “Whether it is to skin you alive, or to beat you to your last dying breath, I must never let down my guard.”

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(P13)

He was able to stave off a blow from a sword travelling at the speed of a bullet!

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T: “But,”

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T: “It is all according to plan.”

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F: “What?!”

The sword broke into pieces. Did he make cracks in it from the beginning?

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(P14)

F: “Ugh!”

I could not fully evade it. I got pierced by the shards on all over my body.

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(P15)

T: “I’ve said it before, we’ve got a countermeasure for you here.”

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The shards of the sword, is travelling up my blood vessels!

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T: “This is the plan of attack of the boss. Even if it is a god-slaying hero, if his brain or heart is run through with shards of metal, he will, too, die.”

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(P16)

T: “It looks like the sequel to the movie can’t be completed.”

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F: “Ugh!” I must take it out quickly……

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(P17)

“…!”

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T: “I do have enough shrapnel over here to open an outlet store, though?”

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F: “Tsk!”

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He wants to escape the area of attack of my Ability.

T: “It’s useless.”

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(P18)

(No dialogue)

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T: “Even though you clutch at your body, it is futile. The shards will follow the path of the blood vessels deep inside of you and go up without fail.”

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What is this? A “T” shaped marking? Had this been here in these ruins originally?

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F: “Well done……. Tachihara.”

F: “Amongst the Hunting Dogs… those who could have forced me to such a perilous position, are few in number.”

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(P19)

T: “I am not a Hunting Dog. I am Tachihara Michizou from the mafia. However,”

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T: “I had thought it was not so bad in the Hunting Dogs, if you hadn’t done this kind of thing.”

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T: “The Hunting Dogs were also……”

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T: “Why did you betray us! A person like you!”

T: “Why did you have to betray the world! Why!”

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(P20)