Bokura no Kiseki: chapter 109 [translation]
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Bokura no Kiseki
Comic ZERO-SUM
Issue: May 2021
Chapter 109
Page 1
Nishina: Oh please, prince! What are you so angry for?
Zeze: I'm not angry. It's just your blabbering got on my nerves a little.
Nishina: But you are well-aware that's how I am... Weren't you the one who invited me for a chit chat?
Nishina: So you just turn a blind eye on that now and give me this attitude?
Zeze: So his monologues cannot he helped... then let's have a looong talk until you spill everything.
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Chapter 109
[ What you saw in the end... was it a curse or a salvation? ]
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Kamioka: Nice to meet you! I'm Kamioka Saya from class 1!
SFX: stare
Kamioka: eh... I'm starting to feel nervous somehow...
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Minami: Kamioka has been my friend since junior high.
Kamioka: We're besties!
Minami: Uh... yeah...
Kamioka: So half-hearted!!
Minami: Noto... Kamioka has nothing to do with our past lives and such but she's the only one who knows about it despite that.
Kamioka: I only heard a little bits about Minami and everyone's circumstances~ just a little.
Noto: Do... ("do you believe them?" sounds a bit rude...)
Noto: Weren't you surprised...?
Kamioka: I heard the rumour about how Minami claimed that he was a princess in his past life in junior high but... at that time, I didn't believe that those past lives and stuff were real.
Kamioka: I thought it was just his fantasy or daydreaming... and Minami also said it.
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Kamioka: I thought that it'd be nice if such stuff existed! Past lives, magic, princesses and knights and all!
Kamioka: I get it too, so I decided to talk to Minami and and all and we got close to each other like that!
Noto: "It'd be nice if that stuff existed"....?
Kamioka: Ah, you don't think so? I see, so you're the type who doesn't think so huh, Noto-san! As for me, I really love such kind of stories.
Noto: Stories...
Kamioka: yep
Kamioka: ...I also thought they were just a fantasy story...
Kamioka: but then I got injured by magic.
Minami: After school on May 9th... there was training for the match between classes, right? On that evening, Kamioka was attacked with magic by someone on the school grounds.
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Noto: The day before our days off? I heard that there was an earthquake and someone got hurt by shattered glass from the window and ambulance was called...
Kamioka: Ah, that someone was me.
Kamioka: That was well... it hurt a lot and it was really scary...
Kamioka: But Minami talked to me a lot and now I'm feeling a lot more at ease (my injuries are healed too!)
Kamioka: After experiencing magic firsthand... it couldn't be no longer took for just a fantasy...
Kamioka: It was actually kind of exciting!
Kamioka: Although I can't really bring that up with Minami around, because he feels responsible for it after all.
Minami: Well, of course I feel that way...
Kamioka: To sum it up... I still felt that it was really exciting experience.
Kamioka: Just what it feels like to have memories of a past life?!
Kamioka: There's so many things I simply cannot phantom!
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Kamioka: The good parts
Kamioka: and the bad parts of it too.
Kamioka: I realized there's nothing wrong with not being able to understand it.
Kamioka: It's fine to not understand, we can all still remain friends anyways.
Kamioka: That's what I think.
Kamioka: Then again, Minami always says that it's dangerous so he doesn't let me get too deeply involved!
Minami: Please at least understand that part...
Aoi: For me, I always tell others everything about me and I want to know everything about my friends
Aoi: asking and inquiring about everything and anything seems a bit immature though, doesn't it?
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Noto: Perhaps they don't want to get you involved because they are aware of your personality?
Aoi: Anna and Mika... sometimes they do some stuff in secret with just the two of them and it seems pretty shady...
Aoi: But when the four of us are together we always have so much fun, so hiding things like that makes me feel horrible... is it me who's weird and who want to know everything?
Noto: To Aoi, she wants to know everything and this she gets hurt and gets in foul mood, when stuff is hidden from her...
Noto: Sometimes I want to tell her to mature a little bit...
Noto: But... who am I to say that... when that time-
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Noto: I willingly made the choice to follow and undercover...
Noto: the secret they so desperately tried to conceal.
Noto: And because of that, I was told a reason behind this chaos... and I still have hard time believing in it while I was just nagging them...
Noto: Minami, Kamioka-san.
Noto: Thanks for telling me about it.
Noto: I just wanted to know what Anna and Mika were always doing...
Noto: and what Zeze and Moto were up to...
Noto: So I followed you.
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Minami: There's one thing I'd like to ask you, Noto.
Noto: Hm?
Minami: Among our classmates there's been many cases of people getting their memories back after seeing the letters or magic from our past lives.
Minami: Do you feel anything of such sort now, Noto?
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Noto: ..huh?
- - -
Ootomo: Maki, Yamada.
Ootomo: Takao and Kamioka arrived by Minami's side already.
Maki: Any suspicious people around?
Ootomo: We did some rounds patrolling.
Ootomo: For now, everything seems fine.
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Ootomo: Ah by the way, there's something I'd like to check with you, Yamada.
Yamada: What's up?
Ootomo: If a regular folk die because of healing magic being cast on them...
Ootomo: Will they reincarnate the same way the people who died from offensive magic do?
Yamada: Isn't it already proven by how Bart Belbania, who had healing magic used on him, and still reincarnated?
Ootomo: ...I can't reveal yet that Hiroki is actually Glen...
Ootomo: Ah, right
Ootomo: I sort of wanted to hear what were Churches views on that matter.
Ootomo: Carlo wasn't well versed in the darker side of the Church so I want to consult you, Yamada.
Yamada: ...normally you don't retain your memories after reincarnation, so it was decided that it just cannot be verified.
Yamada: That was universal answer.
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Yamada: But despite it, there were many inquiries regarding this matter.
Yamada: According to the myths, reincarnation was meant to be salvation for those who died from magic.
Yamada: In God's eyes, using magic to kill others were wrong path, but nonetheless he didn't take magic away from them.
Yamada: How will humans use magic... that itself may be a trial from God.
Yamada: So with regards to reincarnation happening or not, it risen a question of whether having an intent to murder play a factor in it.
Ootomo: I see...
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Yamada: Then what about...
Yamada: Those who died from friendly fire?
Yamada: Those who wished for a better next life and killed themselves with magic?
Yamada: Those fataly injured by magic which was meant only as a threat?
Yamada: Will they reincarnate after killed by magic with no killing intent? It raised many questions.
Yamada: ...using knowledge that only Patty possesed... let's see...
Yamada: Oracles...
Yamada: Through the ritual of oracle the holy spirits could enter priest's head
Yamada: and use their mouth to pass their words to us.
Ootomo: Yeah.
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Yamada: During the oracle, holy spirits share the vision and hearing of the host, so they can gaze upon us and hear us.
Maki: Huuuh.
Ootomo: I've never heard about this before.
Yamada: This is restricted knowledge. Furthermore, it was recorded only in an ancient record scroll.
Yamada: It said that once upon a time holy spirits descended upon the pope
Yamada: and they inquired for a name of one of bishops who were recording oracles
Yamada: despite the pope himself surely knowing the name of that bishop.
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Yamada: Therefore, the spirits can control host's mouth and use their eyes and ears
Yamada: but they don't have access to human's cogitation or memory... is what we think.
Yamada: So back to our previous topic...
Yamada: As such, the spirits cannot tell for every individual person whether they were harbouring any murderous intent or not when they used magic.
Ootomo: So what you're saying is "everyone killed with magic will reincarnate"...
Ootomo: correct?
Yamada: It was the most common interpretation for me and among my peers.
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Ootomo: Thanks, Yamada. I learned something new.
Yamada: ...no problem.
Maki: If Shino-chan was also reincarnated, who could she be...
Ootomo: Who, indeed...
- - -
Zeze: Spouting such ridiculous nonsense with a smile on your face... you really hasn't changed since your past life, has it?
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Nishina: And your short temper is also just as it was back then.
Zeze: What did you say, you bastard?
Nishina: See?
Zeze: I need to fan your irritation, Nishina...
Zeze: just like Minami has planned.
Minami: "I have an important business to take care of first."
Zeze: Given the speed and frequency at which so many incidents occurred, it's clear that Nishina is in a rush, anxious about something.
Zeze: The same as that time with Enomoto... Minami purposely put the brakes on him, to get Nishina frustrated
Zeze: When he's frustrated, Nishina will inevitably show more of his true intentions.
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Minami: Last evening I spoke with Nanaura about Nishina...
Minami: This is only my guess but...
Minami: Nishina seems to be afraid of someone... or something...
Minami: and it makes him act like "Lucas Erlanger who's faithful to the Church".
Minami: Nanaura said that there is no consistency whatsoever between some of his conduct...
Minami: But what if there's some reason behind it?
Minami: Maybe there's another meaning behind his rough actions and words...
Minami: and if we could figure out his hidden intention... we may be able to figure something out.
Zeze: Huh...?
Page 20
Ooki: "...you being nice to me was also just a facade, right? To make me join your ranks..."
Nishina: "...but is there anything I could gain by lying to you like that?"
Zeze: So Nishina didn't mean "using Ooki has no value whatsoever" but...
Zeze: "the kindness I showed you wasn't just a lie"...?
Zeze: If so, then...
Nishina (chapter 106): "I was struck down by magic, on the verge of death and begging for help... and yet you abandonem me so peremptorily. Still, I owe you my thanks!"
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Nishina (chapter 106): "it was all thanks to you that I was able to reincarnate!"
Zeze: What if those words weren't out of spite but his actual feelings?
Nishina (chapter 108): "All of you need to... leave current lives aside and understand properly how magic is a truly terrifying thing."
Nishina: Seriously... You always had been on tenterhooks... so you frowned when princess invited you to spend some time leisurely
Nishina: while simply listening to the soothing sound of rain or making some sweets together.
Nishina: You just assumed it to be pointless to start with.
Zeze: If even him spouting such nonsense...
Zeze: has an actual meaning behind them-
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Nishina: Hey...
Nishina: We're right in front of your work place, right?
Nishina: Wouldn't it be bad for you if someoe you know caught you on doing such things?
Zeze: And what about you? Would it be troublesome for you if someone saw your actions or heard your words?
Zeze: Why are you always using such roundabout ways?
Zeze: Let's try setting a trap for him then.
Zeze: Are you sure you want to give me such attitude?
Zeze: Don't forget I was the one who pulverized Lucas.
Zeze: Do you want to experience being in such pathetic state again
Zeze: while lying down in the puddle of your own blood.
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Zeze: What did you say back then again? At the very end...
Lucas (chapter 100): "It doesn't matter anymore..."
Nishina: Ah geez, only threats leave your lips each time you open your mouth and it's so dull it's making me sleepy! You really did live without a care in the world for last 15 years, huh?
Nishina: You're giving me a headache!
Zeze: What did you say?
Nishina: Haa... I'm ashamed of myself saying I wanted to cooperate with you. Forget about it! It was such a miscalculation on my part!
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SFX: "thump"
Black box right: "head"
Chapter 71 quote: "The holy spirits are whispering to Minami"
Chapter 71 quote: "Is it..."
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Chapter 71 quote: "Something similar to the prophecies received by the pope?"
Chapter 73 quote: "Those who receive an oracle experience severe headaches, lethargy and memory impairment..."
Nishina: "it's making me sleepy", "giving me a headache" "Forget about it"
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Ootomo: Holy spirits can share vision and hearing...
Ootomo: but they cannot read one's cogitation or memory... huh.
"Would it be troublesome for you if someone saw your actions or heard your words?"
Zeze: Inside... his head...?
End of chapter 109.
End of volume 24.