Greetings /a/nons, about a week and 1/2 ago the new Shounen Magazine-R started publishing the first chapter of Shirodaira Kyo's new manga. He's the chap behind Zetsuen no Tempest and, a bit earlier, Spiral.
It's called "Kyokou Suiri", which is helpfully given the official english translation of "Invented Inference". It's billed as a 'supernatural, romantic mystery' series following cute, smug, cane-wielding 17-year old Iwanaga Kotoko as she (very) aggresively tries to woo the older Sakuragawa Kurou and act as a mediator/problem-solver for the supernatural world.
This is a bi-montly mag at the moment, so the first chapter is a pretty enormous 83 pages (not even the longest in issue#1). I didn't know how to do the whole digital purchasing thing, or know that it was available, so I physically bought/scanned it, so not the best quality. The better quality I found is in chinese, and not Japanese, so I'll post mine with the script and then a link to the better quality raws.
As always, I have no team or typsetter, so if the people who help me out with my other translations of this and WCW want to jump in, or anyone new, it'd be appreciated.
>>124833221
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-We beseech thee...
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>>124833301
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-We beseech thee, please become the God of our Wisdom.
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Will be monitoring, nice to see you again Tall is Love-kun.
>>124833355
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-...Nnnmm...
-Ahhh.
-It's that time already, huh?
-Yeah. Thanks.
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Invisible supernatural beings make the best alarm clocks.
>>124833405
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-Ah, Iwanaga-san, and here I was just going to wake you up.
-Your punctuality's right on the mark as usual, isn't it.
-It's because, though I look like this, I have quite the head on my shoulders.
-H~mmm.
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I love those poofy berets.
>>124833486
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-I just can't help thinking making that mistake is unavoidable.
-((You're just like a a little d~oll~))
-Ah...
-Also...
-It looks like Kurou-kun really DID break up with his girlfriend.
-Even though they'd gone so far as to promise to marry each other?!
-I didn't catch any of the details, but it looks like there's no mistake.
-In the girlfriend's case, I've heard that she's a year older, and just graduated from college this spring ahead of him. They said she found employment in a different
prefecture.
-I wonder if something like that isn't the cause?
-In any case, Kurou-kun came to pay a get-well visit again today, so go give it your all.
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By the way, the artist (Shirodaira never illustrates his own works, just an author) is one Katase Chashiba, never heard of them.
>>124833591
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-Well then...
-Even though she said to 'give it my all', whatever should I do?
-[It was two years earlier that I met the young man named Sakuragawa Kurou.]
-[It was when I was 15 years old.]
-Hurry up, let's go--!
-Onii-chan, wait up!
-Wh--
- --oahhh!
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The end of her cane is a curled cat, where the tail becomes the spiral.
>>124833726
"I almost died from dodging some kids, until a loli saved my life", a new light novel series coming soon.
>>124833831
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-Are you quite alright?
-((*gasp*))
-Ah!
-Thanks...
-...for that.
-You saved me there!
-Ah!
-Sorry.
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>>124833919
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-In that case, as your savior, if you would take heed to remember this all your life, it would be most pleasing.
-C'mon, you're exaggerating...
-I see.
-I guess it's normal for there to be times where you could die from something like that.
-Yup.
-I'll make sure to remember it.
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The smug begins. Shirodaira loves writing incredibly self-assured girls who are way wise beyond their years.
>>124834015
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-[That was Sakuragawa Kurou...]
-[...who was 20 years old at the time.]
-[He was a man who seemed to me like a goat.]
-[Slender and spaced out, always chewing grass in a dull manner, and definitely spending their whole lives absent-mindedly lost in a daze, but...]
-[...he nevertheless exuded a bizarre kind of life-force.]
-((M~aaaaahh~)
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Kotoko's mind is apparently a place of strange logic and mental connections.
>>124834116
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-[Indeed, one should not despise the goat.]
-[They are nimble by nature.]
-[Whether on mountains or plains, they are able to live easily.]
-[They have two tough horns as varied as the types of goats themselves. They resemble those possessed by the oni.]
-[Their irresistibly simple sharpness.]
- ----------!
-?
-[This is...]
-[Is this what they call love at first sight?!]
-Uhmmm...
-What ARE you doing, Kurou-kun? How shameful/unsightly.
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I love how her mind starts reading her personal pokedex entry for goats, and then she's horrified when her emotions send her the code for "you're in love now".
>>124834220
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-Saki-san.
-Well...I was saved by this girl here, y'see.
-Yes, I saw.
-All because you were spacing out again.
-Geez.
-Sorry about that. Him causing such a bother.
-Thanks.
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Enter the tall, interfering Onee-san type. Note how the loli, attempting to initiate mating senses a threat.
>>124834354
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-(..........Why are YOU the one apologizing?)
-(His older sister?)
-(Some other relative?)
-(No, there's also the possibility she's his younger sister and...)
-His name's Sakuragawa Kurou-kun.
-He's a second-year at H-University and a student at their law school.
-*pump*
-*pump*
-He comes by all the time to pay get-well visits to his cousin who's been hospitalized long-term.
-((The possibility she's his cousin!!))
-Could it be, when you say 'his cousin', you mean a tall young woman?
-However...
-..."hospitalized long-term". However, she seemed rather, well, energetic I should say. She had a certain vibrance/intensity.
-Vibrance/Intensity?
-Ahhh.
-We're not talking about HER.
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>Her face when she lost the goatbowl before she could even contend.
>>124834447
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-That young lady who's always with him, HER name is Saki-san. She's a year older than him,...
-...his girlfriend!
-((Cousin)) ::cracked::
-She said they've been dating since high school.
-And that, in order to follow his girlfriend, Kurou-kun enrolled in the same college she did.
-....Y~eeeeeeeh~....?
-No offense, Kotoko-chan, but I'd have to guess that Kurou-kun is a lost cause, don't you think?
-He's both easy on the eyes and seems sociable, so some of my fellow nurses have tried hitting it up with him, but...
-All he ever does is talk about 'Saki this, my girlfriend that' with a happy look on his face.
-Well, isn't that just pleasant for him.
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>>124833486
Where the hell did the cane come from?
I'm monitoring this, thanks OP.
>>124834597
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-And by the way, the same goes for his girlfriend as well.
-If Kurou-kun's speaking with one of the nurses, she'll come over, all smiles, insert herself between them and break them apart.
-((Hi th~ere~))
-Without ruining the mood, she'll pull him away ASAP and they'll head off somewhere!
-((Well then~))
-Even though they didn't USED to come in together in the past.
-She started to suspect that there were nurses interested in him, so it seems she started to accompany him everywhere.
-It looks like she's got a strong desire to monopolize him, so I get the feeling she's in love with Kurou-kun too.
-Are you telling me you think it looks like I have no chance of victory?
-((Tiny as always! :heart:))
-Since women like her are Kurou-kun's type, I'd guess you couldn't even become a target of his affections.
-Well...
-...there's always the chance the impossible will happen, so I suppose it's fine if you don't want to just give up right off the bat.
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The nurses are like, 'down girl, down! Don't be plotted an unwinnable NTR!'
>>124834722
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-[I saw him 2, maybe 3 times each month around the hospital.]
-[I observed/surveyed him each time, but without ever saying anything.]
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From bubbles and sparkles to gloom in 2 seconds.
The funny thing is, Kotoko would probably be highly offended if you called her a stalker.
spiral author, and presented by Tall Is Love? I'm down.
>>124834844
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-[Approximately two years have passed since that meeting.]
-Once Kurou-kun and Saki-san graduate...
-...they told me they're getting married.
-They told me they'd just gone to introduce each other to their parents before this.
-It's about time they got engaged like they planned!
-(This was inevitable...)
-((*Sigh*...))
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>Birth of a supervillain.jpg
>>124834937
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-(He's alone today...?)
-Has Kurou-san broken up with his girlfriend?
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>>124835059
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-Eh?
-No way.
-Now that you mention it though, I guess it was February since he's brought her up as a topic.
-((*gasp*))
-Huh?
-Has nobody really spoken to her much lately?
-[And thus, today I confirmed my judgement was correct.]
-(Whether or not I view this as a chance for myself or what-have-you is a difficult decision to make.)
-However...
-...it's high time I at least greeted him.
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>>124835177
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-Greetings. It's been quite a while.
-Uhmmm...
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Doumo, loli cane-san desu.
>>124835239
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-Who are you again?
-Have you forgotten the face of the one to whom you owe your life?
-Sorry to say, but I haven't felt like my life's been in any sort of danger for about 10 years.
-((H~mmm~...))
-It was roughly two years ago. Here at this hospital.
-Ahh!
-That time I fell backwards and looked like I was going to bash my head.
-Although the girl back then wasn't wearing a beret.
-((Even though you SAID you were going to remember.))
-So you identify girls by their hats, do you.
-Sorry, I'm just bad when it comes to recalling girls' faces.
-On top of that, when I DID remember a bunch of them Saki-san's mood plummeted.
-Well then, once again, please attempt to remember.
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The imperious ones are the cutest.
So, as a reader as well myself, I'm counting a tally of the dangling plot points/threads for the future.
-"It's been 10 years since I felt in danger."
-Mysterious cousin in hospital for years she knows nothing about but he always visits.
-Saki-san the girlfriend, who's name is written in only katakana which is pretty weird.
>>124833221
>cane-wielding
>(very) aggresively
So she beats the guy with her cane? Fucking dropped.Unless someone shoves the cane down her cunt.
>>124835367
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-My name is Iwanaga Kotoko.
-Kanji-wise, that's the "gan" from <ganseki>/rock, the "ei" from <eien>/eternity, "koto" like the musical instrument, and the "ko" from child.
-I'm seventeen years of age.
-I'm energetic and healthy.
-Yeah, I won't forget this time.
-Indeed you shouldn't.
-After all, it looks as if you've broken up with Saki-san as well.
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She probably accessed her own personal pokedex entry.
Also, the term 'too straightforward' is probably not IN that pokedex.
>>124835512
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-How do you know that?
-I've been frequenting this hospital for close to seven years now.
-Since I've grown so close to the nurses, I can curry favors with them.
-Your name is Sakuragawa Kurou.
-According to the intel I've gathered, you're currently twenty-two years old and, in order to wish your cousin well, you've visited here for at least the last three
years.
-That's what I've been able to get out of the people I've asked!
-I wonder what happened to protecting peoples' personal information at this hospital.
-They said their duty to protect those rights doesn't extend to those paying get-well visits and the like.
-Is that so?
-Smells pretty fishy to me.
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You know you're in a work by Shirodaira or Nisioishin when a lot of scenes consist of two+ people in the same place engaging in repartee'. How many episodes of the Tempest anime did they spend in that logic battle with Samon over which side Mahiru would join?
>>124835790
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-However, as you might expect, they didn't tell me the name of your cousin, Kurou-san, nor things such as what they were admitted for.
-You're better off not knowing.
-And besides, the reason they were hospitalized long-term mostly isn't all that interesting in the first place.
-So.
-Regarding our conversation about your breaking up with Saki-san near and about the beginning of spring...
-My personal data REALLY isn't protected at all, is it.
-That's due to you engaging in needless chit-chat with young nurses without thinking.
-In any case, you find yourself quite publicly single.
-Do you have any inclination towards trying to get a fresh start through meeting a NEW girl?
-.........Could you please just jump to the main point?
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>>124835860
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-Won't you go out with me, as a preamble to one day getting married?
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Gotta love her dedication. "Oh dear, he's just broken up with his very serious girlfriend he was possibly engaged to for many years. Mental pokedex? Bring up the entry for "rebound girl".
>>124835959
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-I've been carrying a one-sided torch for you for two years now.
-And I've been waiting for this moment.
-You're much more direct/(perhaps "blunt") than you look.
-And persistant too, waiting two years and all, but...
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>>124835959
Well that was fast
