Skip Beat Chapter 159

July 23, 2010

translation by unrelatedwaffle [at] gmail

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unrelatedwaffle’s manga translation key:

Dialogue is listed by page number-panel number [000-00]. The page corresponds to actual page numbers and not file numbers when page numbers are available.

Line breaks indicate a new speech bubble.

Text in italics indicates thoughts/internal monologue.

Text in italics after a speaker’s name also in italics and preceded by tilde ~ are flashback/memory sequences (example: ~Tanaka: That was back in the day. . .)

Text in [square brackets] indicates asides/handwritten text.

Sound effects are in ALL CAPS.

 

[001-1]    Narration:              A black shadow he can’t escape

                                                is eating into him now.

 

The Magnificent Show-Biz Challenge

                Skip Beat!
                Act 159  Violent Mission, Phase 5.5

Nakamura Yoshiki                Volume 25 Now On Sale!

                                                                What is this unbelievable development!?

 

[002-1]    ~Ren:                     In my next movie,

                                                I’m going to play a coldhearted killer.

[002-2]    ~Ren:                     When the movie comes out,

                                                and for a while afterwards,

[002-3]    ~Ren:                     it’s going to be a secret

                                                that I’m the actor.

 

[003-1]    ~Narration:          He flies out of the darkness

                                                like an arrow,

                                                riding the wind to approach his prey

                                                and pierce it.

[003-2]    ~Narration:          An apparition

                                                without a heart.

                SOUND                  F. . .

 

[004-1]    SOUND                  WA. . .

 

[005-1]    Kyoko:                   . . .B. . .

[005-2]    L’il Kyokos:          [Murderous intent!]

                                                [Kyaaa!]

                                                [Murderous intent!]

                                                [Kyaaa!]

[Murderous intent!]

                                                [Stiffen stiffen]

                Kyoko:                   [Eek. . .]

                                                B.J.!!!

 

[006-1]    SOUND                  RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN

[006-2]    SOUND                  BYOO BYOO BYOO BYOO

                                                RUN RUN RUN RUN

[006-3]    SOUND                  BYOO BYOO BYOO BYOO

 

[007-1]    Kyoko:                   EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!
                                                . . .R. . .

[007-2]    Kyoko:                   Run away!!! Run away as fast as your legs can carry you, Seaweed Hair!!!

                                                [Please!!!]

                                                [Too slow!]

                                                [You’ll have to be faster than that!]

                                                [Awawawawa!]

                                                What’ll happen if he kills him!?

 

[008-1]    Kyoko:                   Tsuruga-san!!!

                                                I don’t know what will happen if he hurts him. . .he’s not Tsuruga-san right

now. . .!

He’s completely become B.J.!!!

[008-2]    Kyoko:                   What should I do!?

[008-4]    Kyoko:                   I’ve got to stop him. . .!!

 

[009-4]    Kyoko:                   . . .!

 

[010-1]    Kyoko:                   . . .Nii-san. . .!

                                                Tsuruga-san. . .!

[010-3]    Kyoko:                   No!!!

                                                . . .!

                                                D. . .

[011-1]    Kyoko:                   Don’t kill him!!

 

[013-1]    ~Voice:                  Murderer!!!

                SOUND                  BYOO

 

[014-1]    SOUND                  THUD

                                                TNK

                Voice:                     Gyah!!
                SOUND                  JUMP

                Kyoko:                   !

                SOUND                  FWUMP

[014-3]    Kyoko:                   . . .!

                                                . . .!
                                                . . .!
[014-4]    Kyoko:                   . . .D. . .

                SOUND                  . . .LOOK. . .

[014-5]    SOUND                  . . .UP

                Kyoko:                   . . .Did he do it. . .?

                SOUND                  THUMP THUMP THUMP

[014-6]    Kyoko:                   Huh. . .?
                Guy:                        [. . .Urk. . .]

                                                [Ohhhhhhh. . .]

                Kyoko:                   [Huh?]

                                                Why is he holding the back of his head. . .?

                                                [Did something happen?]

 

[015-1]    Caption:                 [What Really Happened]

[015-2]    SOUND                  WHFF

                                                FOOM

                Guy:                        [G. . .]

                Caption:                 [He just missed the blow]

[015-3]    SOUND                  THUD

                Caption:                 [got stuck]

[015-4]    SOUND                  THUNK

                SOUND                  THUD

                Guy:                        [Gyah!]

                SOUND                  FWUMP

                Caption:                 [and fell down.]

[015-5]    Kyoko:                   . . .?
                SOUND                  KSH KSH

                                                THUMP THUMP

[015-6]    Kyoko:                   . . .Tsuruga-san didn’t hit him. . .right. . .?
                                                No matter how you look at it,

                                                if he was going to get hit on the back of the head,

                SOUND                  STEP STEP

[015-7]    Kyoko:                   Seaweed Hair would have had to do a vertical roll in mid-air. . .

                                                [There’s no way. . .not that ungraceful-looking guy. . .]

 

[016-1]    Kyoko:                   . . .At any rate, it’s a good thing Tsuruga-san stopped. . .

                                                . . .

                                                . . .Nii-sa. . .

 

[017-4]    Kyoko:                   . . .

[017-5]    Kyoko:                   . . .Tsuru. . .

                                                ga-san. . .?

                SOUND                  PULL

                                                START

 

[018-1]    SOUND                  FWIP

                Kyoko:                   !

                SOUND                  THUMP

[018-3]    Kyoko:                   . . .Is. . .

                                                this. . .

[018-4]    Kyoko:                   Tsuruga-san. . .?

                                                Or. . .

 

[019-1]    Kyoko:                   Cain Heel. . .?

                Ren:                        . . .

                                                . . .Wh. . .?

                Kyoko:                   . . .Eh. . .?
[019-2]    Ren:                        . . .Who

                                                am I. . .?
                Kyoko:                   That’s what I’d like to know!!

                                                [Tsuruga-san? Or Cain Heel!? Which one are you!?]

[019-3]    Ren:                        . . .A black apparition just came from inside of me. . .

                SOUND                  DROOP

                Kyoko:                   . . .Yes.

                                                [That’s true.]

                                                You were completely taken over. . .weren’t you. . .?
                                                [From the top of your head to the tips of your toes. . .]

[019-4]    Ren:                        . . .So. . .

                                                Am I still

                                                taken over by him,
                                                . . .Setsu. . .?

 

[020-3]    SOUND                  GRIN

[020-4]    Kyoko:                   . . .No. . .?

[020-5]    Kyoko:                   You’re Cain Heel,

                                                my precious, adorable, clumsy oaf of an older brother.

                                                . . .It looks like. . .

                Ren:                        . . .!

[020-6]    Ren:                        [What do you mean, “clumsy oaf”?]

                                                [Your own brother!]

                Kyoko:                   [We’re not even in a movie and you flew in to hit that guy! You’re too reckless.]

                                                [Maybe I should have called you “hopeless” instead.]

                Ren:                        [. . .]

                                                [“Clumsy oaf” is fine. . .]

                Kyoko:                   that wasn’t Tsuruga-san. . .

 

To Be Continued in Issue 15, July 5th!