Tegami Bachi, Chapter 24 translation
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This translation can also be found at MangaHelpers.
Chapter 24
International Translators / Scanlators: You're welcome to use this, but I'd really appreciate it if you include a credit for Niphredil.
Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
**Asterisked lines are ones I'm unsure of.
-01-
Lag: This is... Maka...
Text: The legend, manifested!!
Lag: Two...
Lag: ...hundred... years ago...?
Lag: Um... the village's legend...
Lag: The twin children of Maka...
Lag: Then, you're...
-02-03-
Lag: Niche's...
Text: A reunion of sisters in the farthest north!!
Text bottom: Asada Hiroyuki
Text bottom: Chapter 24: "Blue Notes Blues 2"
Lag: Older sister?!
[Bottom left are adverts]
-04-
Man: M... Mr. Mayor!!
Man: Did those kids really come all the way here?!
Mayor: That golden hair...! No doubt about it, that Dingo kid is the child of Maka!!
Mayor: She was bound to try meeting with Maka!
Mayor: The fact that this road, which has always made been impassable by a deep mist surrounding it,
Mayor: Has now been made clear to see to a terrifying degree, is proof of that!
Mayor: It's because Maka has invited her child in...
-05-
Lag: Um...
Lag: I...
Lag: H...
Lag: How do you do!!
Lag: My name! Is Lag Seeing!!
Lag: I'm Niche's... I'm friends with your sister!! She's my Dingo- er, I mean, we're co-workers!!
Lag: Uh... so you really are...
Lag: ......
Lag: Um...
Lag: Ah...
Lag: Sorry...
Lag: First...
Lag: Um...
-06-
Lag: PLEASE
Lag: PLEASE WOULD YOU PUT SOME PANTS ON!!!
Sis: Please put some pants aside?
Lag: PLEASE PUT SOME *ON*!!
Lag: And.. if... if possible... your... chest too... um...
Lag: I'd like to ask you to cover your chest up too, please!!
Lag: Niche too... does something like this too...
SFX: stare~
Sis: ......
-07-
Lag: Th... Thank you very much!
Lag: You really helped me out!!
Sis: "Niche"...
Sis: Pah...
Sis: That's your name now, little sister?...
Sis: But really, what's going on?
Sis: With that appearance, I mean.
-08-
Sis: Even being a flat little shrimp has its limits!
Sis: Did you completely forget how to grow up, little sister...?
Niche: Not your sister!! Niche doesn't know you at all!!
Niche: I'll be growing straight up from now!!
Sis: [small text:] (Straight up...?) [main speech] You really don't remember anything, do you?
Sis: Have you forgotten?
Sis: What the "human"
Sis: Did to us...
Lag: !
Sis: ......
Sis: ...Hmm...
-09-
Sis: It appears that Maka doesn't detect the scene of a human here.
Sis: And I agree.
Sis: You, over there...
Sis: Are you a human?
Sis: Or...
Sis: Are you "Something"
Sis: That has taken the shape of a human...?
Lag: ......
Lag: Huh?
Sis: Which is it...
Sis: Shall we split you open and check what's inside of you?
Sis: Well?
-10-
Niche: LAG!!
Lag: GUHH!!!
Steak: NUNYA
Lag: AHHH!!!
-11-
Lag: Niche!!
Sis: ...My...
Sis: It looks like you can use your sword, despite being a little shrimp.
-12-
Niche: Niche will crush anyone
Niche: Who tries to hurt Lag!!
Niche: As his Dingo!!!
Sis: "Dingo"...?
Ppl: Uu...
Ppl: Uwahhhh!!!
Lag: !!
Ppl: Maka!!!
Ppl: Is that Maka??!
Ppl: Whoaaa!!!!!
Lag: M...
Lag: Mr. Mayor..?!
-13-
Mayor: My goodness... Maka!!!
Mayor: What a sublime, heavenly appearance...!!
Mayor: To be able to look upon you from such a short distance away...!!
Mayor: We are inhabitants of the glacier village!!
Mayor: My deepest apologies for not introducing myself sooner. I am the mayor-
Sis: Leave.
Mayor: Ahh?
Sis: I do not recall inviting you here.
Sis: Leave, human!
-14-
Mayor: Wh... Who are you?!
Mayor: I wish to speak with Maka!
Man: Mr. Mayor...!!
Man: Isn't that Maka's child...?!
Mayor: What?! But there should be twins...
Sis: Maka lost any words she had to exchange with humans long ago.
Man: Th... Then we would like you to pass our message on for us!
Mayor: Hey... don't just act on your own!!
Man: In order to become righteous humans who could be acknowledged by you
Man: We have put forth great efforts for many generations!
Man: We have become humans who can co-exist with Maka!
Man: Please don't misunderstand humans!
Man: We're no longer like the humans of the past!!
Man: We're different from the humans with corrupted Hearts, like Celica!
Mayor: Oi... you really shouldn't be bringing that up right now...
-15-
Sis: ......
Sis: It seems you know nothing at all...
Sis: That is... aside from the one over there.
Mayor: ......
Man: ?
Sis: Maka is only here to protect this land.
Sis: She never had any interest in humans and the like to begin with.
Sis: Still... it really is laughable.
Sis: How you people decide what is "corrupted" and what is "righteous".
Sis: Hmm... perhaps I should share a little of that story with you...
Man: Hey!... What're you doing, at a time like this?!
-16-
Man2: Look!! It's the legendary water...
Man2: That gives you a thousand years of life!!
Man: Are you stupid... if you say it, then everyone around-!!
Man3: Hey... I want some too...
Man4: Guys!!
Men: What're you doing?! Stop it!
Man3: Just a little...
Sis: Maka had neither interest in humans...
Sis: Nor expectations of them.
Sis: However, there was a single time
Sis: When she felt the Heart of a human.
-17-
Sis: 200 years ago
Sis: The ground heat in this land began to drop...
Sis: On a large scale... but quietly.
Sis: It was because of the mining for Spirit Amber in this area.
Lag: The amber mining?!
Lag: Don't tell me the AG government...
Sis: Probably because they were separated from the lake and the mountains
Sis: The villagers didn't notice.
Sis: Many humans arrived... and carried off large amounts of Spirit Amber, a solid form of energy which produces ground heat.
-18-
Sis: The fields which had lost their Spirit Amber withered away
Sis: This brought famine to the village, and many humans died.
Sis: However, Maka observed as this went on, while she continued to fulfill her own role.
Lag: Her role...?
Sis: Then, one day...
Sis: A pregnant woman, who was heavily wounded and looked like she could perish at any moment
Sis: Came to the cave.
-19-
Maka: Leave...
Maka: Human...
Maka: Leave this place...
Celica: I can't do that.
Celica: I came here to die.
Celica: Please eat me or do whatever you want with me.
Celica: If I leave here, the villagers will kill my child along with me.
Sis: I can't imagine what passing whim took hold of her...
Sis: But Maka listened to the story of the human.
-20-
Celica: It was decided that sacrifice must be made to Maka, the god protecting the land, in order to restore the ground heat...
Celica: Because I have no relatives in the village, I was chosen.
Celica: I requested that they wait until my child was born, but this was refused
Celica: So I decided to run away. Because of this, many people attacked me... and threw me down here...
Celica: My husband died of starvation...
Celica: And I don't have long left either...
Celica: Maka-sama...
Celica: I beg of you... while I still live... please accept this life of mine.
-21-
Celica: In return, please save my child...
Celica: All I ask...
Celica: Is that you allow...
Celica: My child...
Celica: To... live...
Sis: With her dying breath, the woman begged...
Sis: For the first time, Maka was touched by the Heart of a human.
Sis: At that moment
Sis: There dropped
Sis: A single tear...
-22-
Maka: Human...
Maka: I have accepted your Heart
Maka: Your wish will soon be granted...
Man: It's Celica...
Man: Celica's come back...
Man: Celica?!
Woman: Ahhh!!!
-23-
Text: Celica gave birth...
Woman: Call the mayor!!
Woman: It's...
Woman: It's a curse!!
Text: To twins who had been affected by Maka's influence...
Women: They didn't even give a single birthing cry...
Woman: How dreadful...
Mayor: Is Celica dead...?
Woman: Yes... she passed right after giving birth to *those*...
Mayor: I see...
Mayor: That alone is a relief...
Text: 20 years passed without Maka appearing even once.
Man: Why are they still babies?!
Text: The twins accepted only water
Text: But despite this, continued to live.
Woman: What on earth did Celica get up to in that cave?
Woman: She must have angered Maka terribly...
Man: The story of "Maka's Cursed Children" has become a rumour even in the eastern villages!!
Woman: We can't let Blue Notes Blues be tainted any more than it already is... Mayor!!
Man: Mayor!! Make a decision!!
-24-
[no text]
-25-
Old Mayor: The lake has frozen over this whole abhorrent affair!!
Old Mayor: We shall pass this down through posterity as a triumphant moment in history!!
Man: What...
Man: They weren't cursed children...?
Mayor: ......
Man: No way...
Man: The one who got rid of the twins was...
Man: So everything was brought on by the mayor's ancestors?!
Man: You knew about this too, didn't you?! You knew all this time, and yet...
Lag: ......
Mayor: Th... This is all happened before I was born!!
Mayor: I can't be blamed if the facts have become distorted over time...
Men: !!
-26-
Sis: Feeble-minded humans...
Sis: I have changed my mind.
Sis: This time, it's a passing whim of my own...
Sis: Humans...
Sis: Die...
-27-
Mayor: Uu... Uwahhhh!!!!
-28-
Lag: Watch out!!!!
Mayor: Gahh-!
Lag: Ugh...
Lag: !!!
-29-
Niche: Lag!!
-30-31-
Sis: ...
Sis: Why are you protecting humans...?
Sis: Little sister!
Sis: That story just now was both mine... and yours, you know.
Sis: Even after hearing that, do you still intend to continue this ridiculous game of yours?
Niche: It's not a game!
Niche: It's work!
Niche: Lag's job is to deliver the Heart in Letters!
Niche: Niche protects Lag!
Niche: No matter what happens
Niche: That will never change!!
-32-
Lag: Niche!!
Man: L... Let's get out of here!
Lag: I...
Lag: Guh...
Lag: Isn't there anything I can do?!
Lag: For Niche...
Sis: To think that you exist in this lowly world, unable to grow
Sis: And have chosen to tag along and obey orders as the underling of a human...
Sis: Pitiful sister...
Sis: Perhaps it would be better, for your own good, to wipe you out as well...
-33-
Steak: Nuni..?!
Sis: Too slow!
-34-
Niche: !!!
Sis: You're weak
Sis: Too weak
Sis: Frail.
-35-
[...]
-36-37-
Lag: NICHE!!!
Steak: NUNIIII!!!
Sis: This is the end.
Sis: Goodbye.
Sis: We cannot merely call it a parting this time.
Sis: Goodbye... my...
-38-39-
Sis: Little sist-
Sis: !!
-40-
[nothing]
-41-
Sis: !!!
Sis: ......
Sis: What just flowed inside me...
Sis: This...
Sis: What is this??!
Text: Hit by the Heart Bullet! Will her Heart cry out...?!
Text: Tegami Bachi... to be continued.
- - Chapter 24 END - -
This translation can also be found at MangaHelpers.
Chapter 24
International Translators / Scanlators: You're welcome to use this, but I'd really appreciate it if you include a credit for Niphredil.
Line break: New speech bubble / text box within the same panel
Blank line: New panel
**Asterisked lines are ones I'm unsure of.
-01-
Lag: This is... Maka...
Text: The legend, manifested!!
Lag: Two...
Lag: ...hundred... years ago...?
Lag: Um... the village's legend...
Lag: The twin children of Maka...
Lag: Then, you're...
-02-03-
Lag: Niche's...
Text: A reunion of sisters in the farthest north!!
Text bottom: Asada Hiroyuki
Text bottom: Chapter 24: "Blue Notes Blues 2"
Lag: Older sister?!
[Bottom left are adverts]
-04-
Man: M... Mr. Mayor!!
Man: Did those kids really come all the way here?!
Mayor: That golden hair...! No doubt about it, that Dingo kid is the child of Maka!!
Mayor: She was bound to try meeting with Maka!
Mayor: The fact that this road, which has always made been impassable by a deep mist surrounding it,
Mayor: Has now been made clear to see to a terrifying degree, is proof of that!
Mayor: It's because Maka has invited her child in...
-05-
Lag: Um...
Lag: I...
Lag: H...
Lag: How do you do!!
Lag: My name! Is Lag Seeing!!
Lag: I'm Niche's... I'm friends with your sister!! She's my Dingo- er, I mean, we're co-workers!!
Lag: Uh... so you really are...
Lag: ......
Lag: Um...
Lag: Ah...
Lag: Sorry...
Lag: First...
Lag: Um...
-06-
Lag: PLEASE
Lag: PLEASE WOULD YOU PUT SOME PANTS ON!!!
Sis: Please put some pants aside?
Lag: PLEASE PUT SOME *ON*!!
Lag: And.. if... if possible... your... chest too... um...
Lag: I'd like to ask you to cover your chest up too, please!!
Lag: Niche too... does something like this too...
SFX: stare~
Sis: ......
-07-
Lag: Th... Thank you very much!
Lag: You really helped me out!!
Sis: "Niche"...
Sis: Pah...
Sis: That's your name now, little sister?...
Sis: But really, what's going on?
Sis: With that appearance, I mean.
-08-
Sis: Even being a flat little shrimp has its limits!
Sis: Did you completely forget how to grow up, little sister...?
Niche: Not your sister!! Niche doesn't know you at all!!
Niche: I'll be growing straight up from now!!
Sis: [small text:] (Straight up...?) [main speech] You really don't remember anything, do you?
Sis: Have you forgotten?
Sis: What the "human"
Sis: Did to us...
Lag: !
Sis: ......
Sis: ...Hmm...
-09-
Sis: It appears that Maka doesn't detect the scene of a human here.
Sis: And I agree.
Sis: You, over there...
Sis: Are you a human?
Sis: Or...
Sis: Are you "Something"
Sis: That has taken the shape of a human...?
Lag: ......
Lag: Huh?
Sis: Which is it...
Sis: Shall we split you open and check what's inside of you?
Sis: Well?
-10-
Niche: LAG!!
Lag: GUHH!!!
Steak: NUNYA
Lag: AHHH!!!
-11-
Lag: Niche!!
Sis: ...My...
Sis: It looks like you can use your sword, despite being a little shrimp.
-12-
Niche: Niche will crush anyone
Niche: Who tries to hurt Lag!!
Niche: As his Dingo!!!
Sis: "Dingo"...?
Ppl: Uu...
Ppl: Uwahhhh!!!
Lag: !!
Ppl: Maka!!!
Ppl: Is that Maka??!
Ppl: Whoaaa!!!!!
Lag: M...
Lag: Mr. Mayor..?!
-13-
Mayor: My goodness... Maka!!!
Mayor: What a sublime, heavenly appearance...!!
Mayor: To be able to look upon you from such a short distance away...!!
Mayor: We are inhabitants of the glacier village!!
Mayor: My deepest apologies for not introducing myself sooner. I am the mayor-
Sis: Leave.
Mayor: Ahh?
Sis: I do not recall inviting you here.
Sis: Leave, human!
-14-
Mayor: Wh... Who are you?!
Mayor: I wish to speak with Maka!
Man: Mr. Mayor...!!
Man: Isn't that Maka's child...?!
Mayor: What?! But there should be twins...
Sis: Maka lost any words she had to exchange with humans long ago.
Man: Th... Then we would like you to pass our message on for us!
Mayor: Hey... don't just act on your own!!
Man: In order to become righteous humans who could be acknowledged by you
Man: We have put forth great efforts for many generations!
Man: We have become humans who can co-exist with Maka!
Man: Please don't misunderstand humans!
Man: We're no longer like the humans of the past!!
Man: We're different from the humans with corrupted Hearts, like Celica!
Mayor: Oi... you really shouldn't be bringing that up right now...
-15-
Sis: ......
Sis: It seems you know nothing at all...
Sis: That is... aside from the one over there.
Mayor: ......
Man: ?
Sis: Maka is only here to protect this land.
Sis: She never had any interest in humans and the like to begin with.
Sis: Still... it really is laughable.
Sis: How you people decide what is "corrupted" and what is "righteous".
Sis: Hmm... perhaps I should share a little of that story with you...
Man: Hey!... What're you doing, at a time like this?!
-16-
Man2: Look!! It's the legendary water...
Man2: That gives you a thousand years of life!!
Man: Are you stupid... if you say it, then everyone around-!!
Man3: Hey... I want some too...
Man4: Guys!!
Men: What're you doing?! Stop it!
Man3: Just a little...
Sis: Maka had neither interest in humans...
Sis: Nor expectations of them.
Sis: However, there was a single time
Sis: When she felt the Heart of a human.
-17-
Sis: 200 years ago
Sis: The ground heat in this land began to drop...
Sis: On a large scale... but quietly.
Sis: It was because of the mining for Spirit Amber in this area.
Lag: The amber mining?!
Lag: Don't tell me the AG government...
Sis: Probably because they were separated from the lake and the mountains
Sis: The villagers didn't notice.
Sis: Many humans arrived... and carried off large amounts of Spirit Amber, a solid form of energy which produces ground heat.
-18-
Sis: The fields which had lost their Spirit Amber withered away
Sis: This brought famine to the village, and many humans died.
Sis: However, Maka observed as this went on, while she continued to fulfill her own role.
Lag: Her role...?
Sis: Then, one day...
Sis: A pregnant woman, who was heavily wounded and looked like she could perish at any moment
Sis: Came to the cave.
-19-
Maka: Leave...
Maka: Human...
Maka: Leave this place...
Celica: I can't do that.
Celica: I came here to die.
Celica: Please eat me or do whatever you want with me.
Celica: If I leave here, the villagers will kill my child along with me.
Sis: I can't imagine what passing whim took hold of her...
Sis: But Maka listened to the story of the human.
-20-
Celica: It was decided that sacrifice must be made to Maka, the god protecting the land, in order to restore the ground heat...
Celica: Because I have no relatives in the village, I was chosen.
Celica: I requested that they wait until my child was born, but this was refused
Celica: So I decided to run away. Because of this, many people attacked me... and threw me down here...
Celica: My husband died of starvation...
Celica: And I don't have long left either...
Celica: Maka-sama...
Celica: I beg of you... while I still live... please accept this life of mine.
-21-
Celica: In return, please save my child...
Celica: All I ask...
Celica: Is that you allow...
Celica: My child...
Celica: To... live...
Sis: With her dying breath, the woman begged...
Sis: For the first time, Maka was touched by the Heart of a human.
Sis: At that moment
Sis: There dropped
Sis: A single tear...
-22-
Maka: Human...
Maka: I have accepted your Heart
Maka: Your wish will soon be granted...
Man: It's Celica...
Man: Celica's come back...
Man: Celica?!
Woman: Ahhh!!!
-23-
Text: Celica gave birth...
Woman: Call the mayor!!
Woman: It's...
Woman: It's a curse!!
Text: To twins who had been affected by Maka's influence...
Women: They didn't even give a single birthing cry...
Woman: How dreadful...
Mayor: Is Celica dead...?
Woman: Yes... she passed right after giving birth to *those*...
Mayor: I see...
Mayor: That alone is a relief...
Text: 20 years passed without Maka appearing even once.
Man: Why are they still babies?!
Text: The twins accepted only water
Text: But despite this, continued to live.
Woman: What on earth did Celica get up to in that cave?
Woman: She must have angered Maka terribly...
Man: The story of "Maka's Cursed Children" has become a rumour even in the eastern villages!!
Woman: We can't let Blue Notes Blues be tainted any more than it already is... Mayor!!
Man: Mayor!! Make a decision!!
-24-
[no text]
-25-
Old Mayor: The lake has frozen over this whole abhorrent affair!!
Old Mayor: We shall pass this down through posterity as a triumphant moment in history!!
Man: What...
Man: They weren't cursed children...?
Mayor: ......
Man: No way...
Man: The one who got rid of the twins was...
Man: So everything was brought on by the mayor's ancestors?!
Man: You knew about this too, didn't you?! You knew all this time, and yet...
Lag: ......
Mayor: Th... This is all happened before I was born!!
Mayor: I can't be blamed if the facts have become distorted over time...
Men: !!
-26-
Sis: Feeble-minded humans...
Sis: I have changed my mind.
Sis: This time, it's a passing whim of my own...
Sis: Humans...
Sis: Die...
-27-
Mayor: Uu... Uwahhhh!!!!
-28-
Lag: Watch out!!!!
Mayor: Gahh-!
Lag: Ugh...
Lag: !!!
-29-
Niche: Lag!!
-30-31-
Sis: ...
Sis: Why are you protecting humans...?
Sis: Little sister!
Sis: That story just now was both mine... and yours, you know.
Sis: Even after hearing that, do you still intend to continue this ridiculous game of yours?
Niche: It's not a game!
Niche: It's work!
Niche: Lag's job is to deliver the Heart in Letters!
Niche: Niche protects Lag!
Niche: No matter what happens
Niche: That will never change!!
-32-
Lag: Niche!!
Man: L... Let's get out of here!
Lag: I...
Lag: Guh...
Lag: Isn't there anything I can do?!
Lag: For Niche...
Sis: To think that you exist in this lowly world, unable to grow
Sis: And have chosen to tag along and obey orders as the underling of a human...
Sis: Pitiful sister...
Sis: Perhaps it would be better, for your own good, to wipe you out as well...
-33-
Steak: Nuni..?!
Sis: Too slow!
-34-
Niche: !!!
Sis: You're weak
Sis: Too weak
Sis: Frail.
-35-
[...]
-36-37-
Lag: NICHE!!!
Steak: NUNIIII!!!
Sis: This is the end.
Sis: Goodbye.
Sis: We cannot merely call it a parting this time.
Sis: Goodbye... my...
-38-39-
Sis: Little sist-
Sis: !!
-40-
[nothing]
-41-
Sis: !!!
Sis: ......
Sis: What just flowed inside me...
Sis: This...
Sis: What is this??!
Text: Hit by the Heart Bullet! Will her Heart cry out...?!
Text: Tegami Bachi... to be continued.
- - Chapter 24 END - -