Tegami Bachi, Chapter 28 translation
Japanese raw is here! This translation can also be found at MangaHelpers.
Chapter 28
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
Blue text: Edits
-01-
Text, left: A giant Gaichuu comes flying in! Meanwhile, how is Connor feeling?!
Connor: I... I'm going numb...
Connor: Don't tell me the cookies were poisoned?!...
-02-
Connor: The cookies...
Connor: And the Letter...
Connor: Are from Sunny!!
Connor: !!
Connor: Oh no, this is bad!
Connor: Guh-
Connor: ......
Connor: Sunny...
Vertical text, right: Volume 7 from Jump Comics, on sale 4th June!
Connor: SUNNY!!!
-03-
Text, left: A strange Gaichuu which dominates heaven and earth!
Text, bottom left: Chapter 28: Together, We Went on a Journey...
Text, bottom right: Asada Hiroyuki
-04-
Lag: What is it
Lag: That Reverse is trying to do?!
Lag: Roda!!
Roda: ......
SFX: stare...
Roda: What about you?...
Roda: What are you planning, dressed like that?
Lag: Ah...
Lag: Um!...
Lag: This is... uh...
-05-
Roda: I can see straight up your skirt.
Lag: Ahh!!
Lag text: What am I doing...
Lag: !!
-06-
Lag: Lag Rocket!!
Roda: !!
Lag: Where's my Heart Bullet gun...
Lag: !!
Lag: All the way over there...
-07-
[....]
-08-
Lag: !!
Lag: What-
Lag: ......
Lag: ...she flew! Just like Niche...
Roda: There was a plan to create, by human hands, a living being called a "spirit"
Roda: Which would possess strong energy.
Roda: In the capital, I was merged with multiple creatures...
Roda: I, who was branded a failed product and discarded
Roda: Have no memories from before the fusion.
Roda: I have no idea
Roda: What creatures this "Heart" I now possess came from...
Roda: The capital Akatsuki is prospering
Roda: By preying on and exploiting helpless "Hearts"
-09-
Lag: !!
Roda: You really are cute...
Lag: Ngh...
Roda: Lag Seeing
Roda: Oblivious government worker bee
Roda: This world won't be saved
Roda: By an expendable tool...
-10-
Lag: ?!
Roda: It seems that it has arrived...
Lag: Arrived?!
Lag: Wahhh!!
SFX: kiiiiiii
-11-
SFX: kiiiiiiii
Lag: What's that noise?...
Lag: ......
Lag: I know!
Lag: This noise...
Lag: It's the sound of a Gaichuu
Lag: Eating someone's Heart!!
Lag: ...!!
Lag: No, it can't be... when you said "Human Sacrifice...
Lag: THIS is what you meant?!
-12-
Lag: You used the Letters and the people as bait
Lag: And lured the Gaichuu here?!
Lag: You want to make the Gaichuu
-13-
Lag: Attack the capital?...
SFX: kiiiiiii
-14-
Nun: Let us put our hands together
Woman: Nooooo!!
Speech: Help me!...
Nun: And pray
Speech: Ahhhh!!
Nun: For the future of this world...
-15-
Connor: SUNNY!!!
Lag: The government is exploiting Hearts?!...
Lag: Then what is it that YOU'RE doing?!
Lag: It's the same thing!!
-16-
Lag: Ugh...
Roda: !!
Lag: She's not following?...
Lag: ...The sound's coming from the top of the hill!!
-17-
Lag: Everyone went out the back entrance...
Lag: Sunny must have headed that way too!
-18-
Lag: I missed you...
-19-
Lag: Gauche...
-20-
Noir: I am Noir, the Marauder...
Noir: If you intend on hindering Reverse
Noir: Then I will take from you
Noir: Your life
Noir: ......
Lag: Why?...
Lag: Why are you so committed to Reverse?...
-21-
Noir: With the capital as it is now, in a sense this country's truths are shrouded in darkness...
Noir: And so, both the Hearts of people living anywhere outside the capital, and the "light" of the capital...
Noir: We will extinguish it all
Noir: And all shall begin from true "darkness"!
Noir: This is
Noir: What my "Heart" is telling me.
Noir: So...
Noir: Aren't you going to cry today?
-22-
Lag: Ngh...
Lag: With the Heart Bullet...
-23-
Lag: ...Roda!!
-24-
[.....]
-25-
Lag: No, the Heart Bullet-!
SFX near Lag: click
-26-
Noir: Heart Bullet
Noir: Loaded...
Noir: Shikkoku!!!
[TN: Raven-black]
-27-
Lag: Ngh...
Lag: Ahhhhh!!
-28-
Roda: The Heart Bullets cancelled each other out...
Roda: ?!
-29-
Lag: Just like with Niche's sister...
Lag: I have to shoot my Heart with all that I have
Lag: Into Gauche's Heart
Lag: Nocturne Number 13!!
-30-31-
Lag: RESOUND, AKABARI!!
Roda: Noir!!
Lag: PLEASE REMEMBER!!!
Lag: GAUCHE!!!
-32-
Text above Lag: The two of us
Text above Lag: Together...
-33-
Text , top centre: We went on a journey...
[Top left corner, bottom two panels]
Lag: Does that mean
Lag: We can't be friends?
Gauche: ......
[Top left corner, top panel]
Gauche: Lag
Gauche: Have you ever written someone a Letter?...
[Right, centre]
Lag: ...
Lag: You...
[Bottom right corner, upper panel]
Lag: And Letter Bees...
Lag: I HATE YOU BOTH!!
[Bottom right corner, lower panel]
Gauche: I don't mind if you don't like me.
Gauche: That's nothing to do with my job.
[Bottom left corner, upper panel]
Lag: Gaichuu!!...
[Bottom left corner, lower panel]
Lag: G...
Lag: Gauche!!!
-34-
Text: It was back then...
Text: That I decided...
Text: I want to become a Letter Bee...
Text: Just like you...
-35-
Text: The delivery...
Text: Is over now...
Text: Lag...
Lag text, right: So... we're...
Lag text, left: Friends?...
Text, light: Friends...
-36-
Noir: ......
-37-
Noir: ......
Noir: L...
Noir: ...ag...
Lag: ...
Lag: ...che...
Text: He...
Lag: Gauche?!...
Text: He came back...
Lag: Gauche...
Lag: Gauche!...
-38-39-
Noir: But...
Noir: Our friendship
Noir: Is over now
Noir: Lag...
Noir: I am the Marauder of Reverse...
Noir: My name is
Noir: Noir
-40-
Noir: And now
Noir: I will be taking your life
-41-
Zaji: Don't you dare lay a finger on my little sweetheart here!
Zaji: ...just kidding.
Zaji: But there's no way I'm letting you snatch anything else away!
Zaji: Don't underestimate the Letter Bees!!!
Text, left: Zaji versus Noir!!
Text, left, smaller: Also: Next time, an important announcement!!
Text bottom: Tegami Bachi... To be continued
[Had a note here about the 38-39 spread but only belatedly realised I was talking rubbish, thanks to haya5h1 XD; Don't mind me.]
Also, am finally trying out the "Resound" for 響く after so long resisting it. Thoughts?
Apologies for the delay on this one.
Chapter 28
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
Blue text: Edits
-01-
Text, left: A giant Gaichuu comes flying in! Meanwhile, how is Connor feeling?!
Connor: I... I'm going numb...
Connor: Don't tell me the cookies were poisoned?!...
-02-
Connor: The cookies...
Connor: And the Letter...
Connor: Are from Sunny!!
Connor: !!
Connor: Oh no, this is bad!
Connor: Guh-
Connor: ......
Connor: Sunny...
Vertical text, right: Volume 7 from Jump Comics, on sale 4th June!
Connor: SUNNY!!!
-03-
Text, left: A strange Gaichuu which dominates heaven and earth!
Text, bottom left: Chapter 28: Together, We Went on a Journey...
Text, bottom right: Asada Hiroyuki
-04-
Lag: What is it
Lag: That Reverse is trying to do?!
Lag: Roda!!
Roda: ......
SFX: stare...
Roda: What about you?...
Roda: What are you planning, dressed like that?
Lag: Ah...
Lag: Um!...
Lag: This is... uh...
-05-
Roda: I can see straight up your skirt.
Lag: Ahh!!
Lag text: What am I doing...
Lag: !!
-06-
Lag: Lag Rocket!!
Roda: !!
Lag: Where's my Heart Bullet gun...
Lag: !!
Lag: All the way over there...
-07-
[....]
-08-
Lag: !!
Lag: What-
Lag: ......
Lag: ...she flew! Just like Niche...
Roda: There was a plan to create, by human hands, a living being called a "spirit"
Roda: Which would possess strong energy.
Roda: In the capital, I was merged with multiple creatures...
Roda: I, who was branded a failed product and discarded
Roda: Have no memories from before the fusion.
Roda: I have no idea
Roda: What creatures this "Heart" I now possess came from...
Roda: The capital Akatsuki is prospering
Roda: By preying on and exploiting helpless "Hearts"
-09-
Lag: !!
Roda: You really are cute...
Lag: Ngh...
Roda: Lag Seeing
Roda: Oblivious government worker bee
Roda: This world won't be saved
Roda: By an expendable tool...
-10-
Lag: ?!
Roda: It seems that it has arrived...
Lag: Arrived?!
Lag: Wahhh!!
SFX: kiiiiiii
-11-
SFX: kiiiiiiii
Lag: What's that noise?...
Lag: ......
Lag: I know!
Lag: This noise...
Lag: It's the sound of a Gaichuu
Lag: Eating someone's Heart!!
Lag: ...!!
Lag: No, it can't be... when you said "Human Sacrifice...
Lag: THIS is what you meant?!
-12-
Lag: You used the Letters and the people as bait
Lag: And lured the Gaichuu here?!
Lag: You want to make the Gaichuu
-13-
Lag: Attack the capital?...
SFX: kiiiiiii
-14-
Nun: Let us put our hands together
Woman: Nooooo!!
Speech: Help me!...
Nun: And pray
Speech: Ahhhh!!
Nun: For the future of this world...
-15-
Connor: SUNNY!!!
Lag: The government is exploiting Hearts?!...
Lag: Then what is it that YOU'RE doing?!
Lag: It's the same thing!!
-16-
Lag: Ugh...
Roda: !!
Lag: She's not following?...
Lag: ...The sound's coming from the top of the hill!!
-17-
Lag: Everyone went out the back entrance...
Lag: Sunny must have headed that way too!
-18-
Lag: I missed you...
-19-
Lag: Gauche...
-20-
Noir: I am Noir, the Marauder...
Noir: If you intend on hindering Reverse
Noir: Then I will take from you
Noir: Your life
Noir: ......
Lag: Why?...
Lag: Why are you so committed to Reverse?...
-21-
Noir: With the capital as it is now, in a sense this country's truths are shrouded in darkness...
Noir: And so, both the Hearts of people living anywhere outside the capital, and the "light" of the capital...
Noir: We will extinguish it all
Noir: And all shall begin from true "darkness"!
Noir: This is
Noir: What my "Heart" is telling me.
Noir: So...
Noir: Aren't you going to cry today?
-22-
Lag: Ngh...
Lag: With the Heart Bullet...
-23-
Lag: ...Roda!!
-24-
[.....]
-25-
Lag: No, the Heart Bullet-!
SFX near Lag: click
-26-
Noir: Heart Bullet
Noir: Loaded...
Noir: Shikkoku!!!
[TN: Raven-black]
-27-
Lag: Ngh...
Lag: Ahhhhh!!
-28-
Roda: The Heart Bullets cancelled each other out...
Roda: ?!
-29-
Lag: Just like with Niche's sister...
Lag: I have to shoot my Heart with all that I have
Lag: Into Gauche's Heart
Lag: Nocturne Number 13!!
-30-31-
Lag: RESOUND, AKABARI!!
Roda: Noir!!
Lag: PLEASE REMEMBER!!!
Lag: GAUCHE!!!
-32-
Text above Lag: The two of us
Text above Lag: Together...
-33-
Text , top centre: We went on a journey...
[Top left corner, bottom two panels]
Lag: Does that mean
Lag: We can't be friends?
Gauche: ......
[Top left corner, top panel]
Gauche: Lag
Gauche: Have you ever written someone a Letter?...
[Right, centre]
Lag: ...
Lag: You...
[Bottom right corner, upper panel]
Lag: And Letter Bees...
Lag: I HATE YOU BOTH!!
[Bottom right corner, lower panel]
Gauche: I don't mind if you don't like me.
Gauche: That's nothing to do with my job.
[Bottom left corner, upper panel]
Lag: Gaichuu!!...
[Bottom left corner, lower panel]
Lag: G...
Lag: Gauche!!!
-34-
Text: It was back then...
Text: That I decided...
Text: I want to become a Letter Bee...
Text: Just like you...
-35-
Text: The delivery...
Text: Is over now...
Text: Lag...
Lag text, right: So... we're...
Lag text, left: Friends?...
Text, light: Friends...
-36-
Noir: ......
-37-
Noir: ......
Noir: L...
Noir: ...ag...
Lag: ...
Lag: ...che...
Text: He...
Lag: Gauche?!...
Text: He came back...
Lag: Gauche...
Lag: Gauche!...
-38-39-
Noir: But...
Noir: Our friendship
Noir: Is over now
Noir: Lag...
Noir: I am the Marauder of Reverse...
Noir: My name is
Noir: Noir
-40-
Noir: And now
Noir: I will be taking your life
-41-
Zaji: Don't you dare lay a finger on my little sweetheart here!
Zaji: ...just kidding.
Zaji: But there's no way I'm letting you snatch anything else away!
Zaji: Don't underestimate the Letter Bees!!!
Text, left: Zaji versus Noir!!
Text, left, smaller: Also: Next time, an important announcement!!
Text bottom: Tegami Bachi... To be continued
[Had a note here about the 38-39 spread but only belatedly realised I was talking rubbish, thanks to haya5h1 XD; Don't mind me.]
Also, am finally trying out the "Resound" for 響く after so long resisting it. Thoughts?
Apologies for the delay on this one.