amatsuki 84

amatsuki 84

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Text: [Chapter 84: See the Forest for the Trees]
Tsuyukusa: [Byakuroku always encouraged us to be inquisitive.]
Shinshu: Bounce, bounce, bounce.
Shinshu: Bounce, bounce.
Tsuyukusa: [But I guess I'd started copying Bonten's indifference to everything.]
Shinshu: I win!!
Tsuyukusa: So what?
Tsuyukusa: Let's climb trees.  Then I'll win.
Tsuyukusa: [He'd probably be disappointed if he know I'd broken my promise.]
Byakuroku: ...You always want to climb up here.
Byakuroku: But I'm not complaining.
Tsuyukusa: [But remembering just makes me feel even more alone.]

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Tsuyukusa: Byakuroku?
Tsuyukusa: [Byakuroku was always there for me.]
Tsuyukusa: [Whenever I needed him, he was there.]
Tsuyukusa: Hey, Byakuroku!
Tsuyukusa: [But it always seemed like...]
Byakuroku: Oh, Tsuyukusa!
Tsuyukusa: What are you looking at?
SFX: [*point*]
Byakuroku: The sky.

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Byakuroku: And that little bird.
Tsuyukusa: [He was looking at someone far away.]
Tsuyukusa: ......
Tsuyukusa: All you ever talk about is "Hiwa this, Hiwa that!"
SFX: [*grumble*]
Tsuyukusa: What's so great about Hiwa?
Tsuyukusa: Don't you care about me, too?
Byakuroku: Of course I care about you,
Byakuroku: Tsuyukusa.
Byakuroku: You're the child of my master, after all.
Tsuyukusa: I never even knew your master!
Byakuroku: ......

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Byakuroku: One day, your branches and roots will grow to entwine with the whole forest.
Byakuroku: And then you'll see.
Byakuroku: All of this forest belongs to you.
Byakuroku: Your will is the will of the forest.
Byakuroku: All living things within this forest belong to you.
Byakuroku: And I, as the forest's guardian, am yours as well.
Byakuroku: And if I am ever unable to protect it,
Byakuroku: Then...
Byakuroku (2 bubbles): I entrust myself and this forest to you.
Byakuroku: I know...
Byakuroku: You're always comparing yourself to him.
Byakuroku: But he's just a little, lonely bird.
Byakuroku: A little bird...
Byakuroku: With no name,
Byakuroku: And with no one to hear him sing.
Byakuroku: A little bird...
Byakuroku: With nowhere to call home.

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Byakuroku: Don't you feel sorrow for him?
Text: [Chapter 84: See the Forest for the Trees]

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Demon: This is it!!
SFX: [*snap*]]
Toki: NOOOO!!
SFX: [*rustle*]

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SFX: [*stab stab stab stab*]
Demon: Gah!
Demon: Ugh...
Demon: What!?
SFX: [*crack crack crack*]
Demon: What!?
Demon (2 bubbles): What is this!?

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Tree Spirit: Now!!
Tree Spirit: Attack!!
SFX: [*wave*]
SFX: [*roar*]
SFX: [*crash*]
Tree Spirit: Go!!

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SFX: [*stab stab stab*]
Toki: Eh!?

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Imayou: Woof!
Toki: ......!!
Toki: ...Imayou!?
Bonten: That fox...!!
Bonten: It's the one from Nakamura-ya...
Tree Spirit: I was just in time!
Demon: Ugh...
Demon: You bastard...
Demon: What have you done...

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Tree Spirit: I owe these people a debt of gratitude.
Tree Spirit: Hey, Unwritten Page!  Long time no see!
Tree Spirit: Sorry I didn't stop to say hi before now!
Toki: ...?
Toki: You're...
SFX: [*gasp*]
Bonten: ...Imayou's master!!
Toki: Huh!?
Toki: But that tree was cut down...
Bonten: It must have grown new shoots!
Bonten: Just like Tsuyukusa!
Tree Spirit: That's right!
Tree Spirit: But I haven't regrown all of my power and memories yet.
SFX: [*fwoosh*]
Tree Spirit: So I only know what Imayou's told me...
Tree Spirit: Still!

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Tree Spirit: I owe you guys big time!!
SFX: [*wave*]
SFX: [*roar*]
SFX: *grr!*
SFX: *grr!*
SFX: [*pull*]
Tree Spirit: Shoot!
SFX: [*stab stab stab*]

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SFX: [*stab stab stab*]
Demons: GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!
Tree Spirit: Tsuyukusa-sama, forgive us for borrowing your power.
SFX: [*step*]
Tree Spirit: We'll just take a little.  Too much and you could die!
SFX: [*stab stab stab*]
Tree Spirit: Now let's see what we can do here...

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SFX: [*creak*]
SFX: [*step*]
SFX: [*sniff sniff*]
Tsuyukusa: UGH...
SFX: [*touch*]
SFX: [*silence*]
Tree Spirit: .....
Tree Spirit: Oh no...

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Toki: Um, is everything alright?
Toki: I mean,
Toki: If there's new growth, he'll be okay, right...?
Tsuyukusa: UGHH...
Imayou: woof!
Tsuyukusa: IT'S ALREADY...
SFX: [*shudder*]
Tsuyukusa: TOO LATE.
Toki: Huh?
Toki: What are you saying?
Tree Spirit: I'm afraid...
Tree SPirit: He's right.
Tree Spirit: ......
Tree Spirit: Look...
Tree Spiit: All the new growth...
Tree Spirit: Is gone...!!

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Toki: What...!!?
Tree Spirit: It's a broken vessel.  There's nowhere for his spirit to dwell.
Toki: ......!!!
Tree Spirit: All we can do now is say goodbye...
Toki: What!?
Toki: No!!
Toki: There...
Toki: There's got to be something we can do!!
Toki: Anything!!!

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Toki: Bonten!!
Bonten: Shut up, I'm thinking!!
Toki: !
Tsuyukusa: HEY...
Tsuyukusa: IT'S OKAY.
Tsuyukusa: JUST...
Tsuyukusa: LEAVE ME ALONE.
Tsuyukusa: I REMEMBER NOW.
Bonten: Tch!
Tsuyukusa: I KNOW WHY YOU ALWAYS HATED ME.
Tsuyukusa: IT'S BECAUSE...
Tsuyukusa: I KILLED BYAKUROKU.
Tsuyukusa: I WAS THE ONE...
Tsuyukusa: WHO BROUGHT SHINSHU INTO THE FOREST.
Tsuyukusa: IT WAS....
Tsuyukusa: ALL MY FAULT.
Tsuyukusa: SO...

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Tsuyukusa: So...
Tsuyukusa: Just forget me.
Tsuyukusa: I...
Tsuyukusa: [I used to blame the humans.]
Tsuyukusa: [I used to blame Bonten.]
Tsuyukusa: I...!!

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Bonten: I don't care about any of that right now!!
Bonten: Don't...
Bonten: Tch!
Bonten: Don't you even think about leaving me!!

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Byakuroku: Tsuyukusa,
Byakuroku: He's just a little bird.
Byakuroku: There is no place for him on the ground,
Byakuroku: And no place for him in the sky.
Byakuroku: But Tsuyukusa...
Byakuroku: Your branches can reach into the sky, and your roots can reach into the earth.
Byakuroku: Your tree can become a home for a little bird.
Tsuyukusa: Byakuroku...
Byakuroku: And if you ever feel lonely...
Byakuroku: All you have to do is listen.

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Byakuroku: That little bird will sing for you.
Tsuyukusa: I'm sorry...
SFX: [*hisss*]
SFX: [*whoosh*]

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SFX: [*crackle crackle crackle crackle*]
SFX: [*crash*]
SFX: *snap*
SFX: *snap*
Toki: TSUYUKUSA!!
Toki: That must be Tsuyukusa's soul...!!
SFX: [*whoosh*]

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(Note: the print is too small and I can barely read most of this.)
SFX: [*gasp gasp gasp*]
Ginshu: [And so I live on like this...]
??: [There is nothing you can't do, Rikugou.]
Utsubushi: [My body is just a vessel.]
Utsubushi: [It's filled with bits and pieces of other ayakashi.]
??: [He's neither human nor demon.]
??: [He's a mix of both.]
Bonten: [I'll pull the soul from your body.]
Bonten: [I won't let you die.  Even if I have to stop everything.]
Utsubushi: [I don't know all the details, but Bon created me.]
Utsubushi: [He put together pieces of ayakashi that had already died.]
Ginshu: [See?  He took the soul out of my body...]
Ginshu: [And put it inside Byakuroku's body.]
Tree Spirit: [It's a broken vessel.]
Tree Spirit: [There's nowhere for his spirit to dwell.]
Bonten: [You're going to be okay!]
Bonten: [Ginshu,]
Bonten: [Look at me!]
??: [Heaven's Net has been changed.]

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Tsuyukusa: [If your spirit needs a home,]
Tsuyukusa: [Then home is right here.]