Just so everyone can suffer as I do

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Oh god. I need to have Shisui's characterization! I need more of Lulu so I can write proper femslash for her and Aya! Because Aya rocks so hard!

*goes to gnaw on her own liver*

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Very approximate translation of the Chinese Issue 29

[elsevita.livejournal.com]

P1 Kou flies through the darkness

P3 Kou: “That’s strange… It seems that lately, the Kokuchi…”

P4 Kou sticks something into Kokuchi
Kou: “Have increased in strength!? Re… release!”
Kou is in pain.
Kou: “Or is it me?”

P5 Kou: “Or is it the same on both sides? No matter what, I won’t welcome it!”

P6 Kou pants.

P7 Kou bites the Kokuchi.

P9 Kou: “Ah… This time it has drained / damaged a lot of my energy. It hurts… I really shouldn’t have come alone…”

P10 Kengo: “What spirit place [?] are we going to today?”
Shirogane: “No, we won’t go to any such places today. To increase efficiency, I think we should all sit down to have a chat.”
Aya: “But why aren’t we meeting up at Kengo’s place?”
Kengo thinks: “Has my place become the default meeting spot now?”
Akira: “Because we can’t contact Kou and we don’t know what’s going on with him. Let’s go and see.”
Aya wonders why they are going to check up on Kou.
Akira: “No… no big deal. I just feel a little worried… Kou? What the?”

P11 Akira: “Is this blood?”
Aya: “Has something gone wrong with his work?”
Kengo: “Kou would not be defeated by that type!”
Akira: “Kou!”

P12 Akira: “Kou!”
Kou: “Hmmm? Akira? And everyone…”
Kengo: “What’s happened?”

P13 Kou: “Ahaha, sorry to scare you like this. I was bored, so I went to search for the crack/weak spot [?]. But I was negligent, and was injured by the Kokuchi. To have you guys see me like this…”
Kengo: “Let’s get you to a hospital!”
Kou: “There are many reasons why I can’t go to a hospital. I’ve stitched up the wounds in my abdomen and arm. I’m used to this sort of injury. It’s all right.”
Akira: “I will bring the Master here.”
Kengo: “We’ll leave Kou in your care, Shirogane.”

P14 Shirogane: “Understood.”
Kengo: “The Master? The one at the Ageing shop/bar?”
Akira: “He has healing powers and will help Kou for sure. I’ll be back soon.”
Aya: “I’ll come too.”
Kengo: “Huh? Me too!”

P15 Shirogane: “Kou, did you just say you were injured by the Kokuchi?”
Kou: “What about it?”
Shirogane: “For someone as strong as you to be injured by the Kokuchi… What happened?”

P16 Kou: “I’m telling the truth. I was injured by the Kokuchi. They have become stronger. And… um… nothing.”

P17 Kou turns over and thinks to himself: “And I was deceiving myself so I wouldn’t perceive it, but now I see the cruel reality. Even though the enemy is only the Kokuchi, unless I transform, I cannot defeat them. Even after I transformed, it wasn’t perfect. I am nearing a hopeless end.”

P18 Kou: “Say, who’s the Master? I only know of one person with healing powers.”
Someone: “It’s someone you haven’t contacted in a long while. He owns a bar in the town.”

P20 Girl [Mayu? The Kanji looks different to that in Wikipedia] sobs: “They’ve been saying he hasn’t looked well in a while. When I came today, he had collapsed on the counter. They say it’s anemia, but it looks more like he’s in a coma. The ambulance just came to take him to hospital.”
Akira talks on mobile phone: “Ok, understood. We’ll leave Kou with you. Talk to you later.”
Aya: “What did Shirogane-san say?”

P21 Akira: “He says the Master’s collapse probably has to do with the speed of the invasion/corrosion [I’m guessing it’s about the barrier]. We’ll go see him at the hospital tomorrow. Shirogane says he has a little healing power to help Kou. He will do his best for Kou.”
Aya: “Really?”
Kengo: “Hmm”

P22 Kengo: “Akira, will Kou and the Master be ok?”
Akira: “How should I know!? …But we don’t know how long it would take for Shirogane to heal Kou, considering the [low] level of Shirogane’s healing powers.”
Kengo: “But how is it that Kou was defeated by the Kokuchi?”
Akira: “I can’t believe it. Maybe it’s because of the invasion of shadow / darkness, and the Kokuchi have grown stronger.”
Kengo: “Really?”

P23 Aya: “Kou-san is injured. The Master collapses for some unknown reason. Shirogane-san is helping Kou-san, so he is out of action. Are all the adults all out of action? Even so, we must stop the invasion / corrosion [of the barrier?].”

P24 Things just seem to go from bad to worse.
Kengo: “So… What are we to do?”