*page1
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;　つまり、[wait canskip=0 time=1300]昨日こんな事があった。
　To sum up, [wait canskip=0 time=1300]there was something like this yesterday.


*page2
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;　“月の無い夜は、決して振り向いてはいけないよ―――”[wait canskip=0 time=1200]
　'Never look back on the moon-less night---'[wait canskip=0 time=1200]


*page3
;　それは教訓だったのか、警告だったのか。[l][r]
　Was it a lesson, or was it a warning?[l][r]
;　ずいぶんと昔……私がまだ今の[ruby char=2 text=ありかた]自分を夢にも思っていなかった頃。[l][r]
　Long time ago...when I had no idea about how I came to be now.[l][r]
;　突然、何の前触れもなく、泣きだしたくなるぐらいの不安でいっぱいになって、祖父の工房に逃げこんだ夜の話だ。[l][r]
　It was a story when, suddenly and without a sign, I was filled with anxiety that would almost made me cry and escaped into the workshop of my grandfathe.[l][r]
;　祖父は別人のように優しく微笑み、私の頭に静かに手を乗せて、
　Grandfather gently smiled like he was someone else, put his nad on my head, and said,


*page4
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;　“―――[ruby char=2 text=あかいろ]赤色の死が、おまえの背中を見ているからね”[wait canskip=0 time=1000]
　'―――Be mindful that red death is looking at your back.'[wait canskip=0 time=1000]
//赤色の死 hm, reference to something?


*page5
;　そんな、気休めどころかより絶望的な言葉を残して、私を家につき返した。[l][r]
　He left me with such words, not even that of comfort but of despair, and sent me back home.[l][r]
;　私はあの夜、たしかに背後に[ruby text=ひそ]潜む影を認めた。[l][r]
　At that night, I did indeed recognized a shadow behind me.[l][r]
;　ずっと遠くから私を見ている何者か。[l][r]
　There was someone watching me form a far distance.[l][r]
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;　それは少しずつ、年々距離を[ruby text=ちぢ]縮めていき―――[l][r]
　It slowly was coming closer year afer year―――[l][r]
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;　小さな点ほどだった気配は、その息づかいさえ感じるほどすぐ後ろまで迫っていた。
　and the presence that used be like a small dot was now so close to me that I could feel its breathing.


*page6
;　もちろん錯覚。[l][r]
　Of course, it's a illusion.[l][r]
;　振り向いた先には誰もいない。[l][r]
　There is no one there when I look back.[l][r]
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;　ただ―――きっかけになったあの夜。[l][r]
　But---that night that became the cue. [l][r]
;　あの時の言いようのない不安は、間違いなく、約束された[ruby text=し char=2]恐怖に起因するものだった。
　The undescribable anxiety I felt then, without a doubt, stemed from promised [ruby text=death char=2]fear.


*page7
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;“[setdefaultmessageaction type=swing]……High diddle diddle,The cat and the fiddle,[r]
“[setdefaultmessageaction type=swing]……High diddle diddle,The cat and the fiddle,[r]
;　The cow jump'd over the moon;[r]
　The cow jump'd over the moon;[r]
;　The little dog laugh'd……”[rf][resetdefaultmessageaction]
　The little dog laugh'd……”[rf][resetdefaultmessageaction]


*page8
;　……あれはいつの話だっただろう。[l][r]
　...I wonder when was it.[l][r]
;　遠い子供の頃の記憶の片隅。[l][r]
　It's the corner of the memories when I was a child long ago.[l][r]
;　絵日記じみたかすかな思い出。[l][r]
　It's a faint memory like that of a diary with illustrations.[l][r]
;　……暗い夜には決まって祖父の言葉が耳に響く。[l][r]
　...In every dark night, gradnfather's words echo in my ears.[l][r]
;　どんなに風が強く吹いても、[ruby text=かたわ char=1]傍らの少女の[ruby text=うた char=1]鐘が聞き惚れるほどのものでも、不吉な言葉をかき消す事はできない。
　No matter how strong the wind blows or how beautiful the [ruby text=song char=1] bell of the girl next to me, nothing can erase the omnious words.


*page9
;「……ご到着ね」[l][r]
"……It has arrived,"[l][r]
//need to come back to see if it's "it" or "he"
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;　傍らの[ruby char=2 text=ありす]少女が言った。[l][r]
　said [ruby char=2 text=Alice]the girl at her side.[l][r]
;　抑揚のない声は、完全に傍観者でいる事を示している。
　The monotonous voice indicated the she would remain as an observer.


*page10
;　夜の公園には私と彼女だけ。[l][r]
　There are only she and I at the park in the middle of the night.[l][r]
;　今日は私にとって“今の自分”の誕生日。[l][r]
　Today is the birthday for "myself in the present."[l][r]
;　記念すべき[ruby char=2 text=ういじん]初陣にしては、少々不吉な夜と言わざるをえない。
　Although, for my memorable first battle, I must admit it's quite an omnious night.


*page11
;　ぶあつい雲は黒い傘のように星明かりを[ruby text=さえぎ char=1]遮っている。[l][r]
　Thick clouds are covering up the starlight like a black umbrella. [l][r]
;　強い風は夜空を引き裂き、重い雲を運んでいく。[l][r]
　Strong wind was shredding up the night sky and carrying over heavy clouds.[l][r]
;　公園の真ん中に立つ柱時計の針は、二本とも頭上の月を指すように頂点を向いている。[l][r]
　The hands of the wall clock, built at the middle of the park, were both pointing directly upward, as if to point up the moon above it. [l][r]
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;　あいにくと、今日は月のない夜だったけれど。
　Unfortunately, moon was not out tonight.


*page12
;　冬の大気は、深夜になって狂暴さを増している。[l][r]
　The winter air had increased its atrocity as it[l][r]
;　息を吸うだけで体の中が凍る気がする。
　Just to breath in makes one feel his inside get freeze.


*page13
;　骨に染みこむような冷気は、そのまま背骨を通じて脳に直接入りこんでくる。[l][r]
　The chill that feels like reaching the bone directly enters into the brain through the spine.[l][r]
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;　思考が寒さで麻痺しないよう、[l][r]
　Not to get the cold paralyze my mind[l][r]
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;　指先が寒気で化石にならないよう、[l][r]
　and not to let the chill turn the tip fingers into fossils,[l][r]
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;　私は、自分の[ruby text=リズム char=2]鼓動と感情を炎にくべた。
　I threw my [ruby text=rhythm char=2]beatings and emotions into the fire.


*page14
;「触覚を[ruby text=ゆず]譲るわ。……幸運ね。[r]
"I'll let you have the tactual sense...How lucky.[r]
;　あの位置なら刻んでおいた[ruby text=ウィスプ char=2]鬼火が灯る」[l][r]
　Around that area, the wisp that we engraved earlier would be lit.[l][r]
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;　有珠の言葉に頷きだけで応える。[l][r]
　To Alice's words, I responded just with a nod. [l][r]
;　その時、一瞬だけ地面が見えた。
　Then, just for an instant, I could see the ground.


*page15
;　……私の両足はかすかに震えている。[l][r]
　...Both of my legs are slightly shaking.[l][r]
;　寒いから震えているんだ、と判断したけれど自信はなかった。[l][r]
　I concluded that the shaking is due to the cold, but I wasn't realy confident.[l][r]
;　本当は寒さではなく恐怖で[ruby text=しび]痺れてしまっているのかも知れない。……ホッと息を吐く。感情が働いているのなら、私はじゅうぶんに人間らしい。
Maybe I'm being paralyzed by fear, not by cold...I let out a sigh. If my feeling is working I am human enough.
//"...I got more than enough humanity."?


*page16
;　そんな感傷にひたる間もなく、結界の感触が有珠から私に移ってきた。[l][r]
　Without much time to be sentimental, the sensation of the Bounded Field was passed on to me from Alice. [l][r]
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;　この公園一帯に敷かれた透明の[ruby text=かべ]境。[l][r]
　It's the invisible [ruby text=wall]boader that's spread throughout this park.[l][r]
;　地中深くまで根を張った認知外の絨毯。
　It's the carpet, outside of cognition, that has its roots spread out deep down to the ground.


*page17
;　―――夜に[ruby text=ひび char=1]浸く、久遠寺有珠の[ruby text=マザーグース char=4]童話詠唱。[l][r]
　―――It's Alice Kuonji's[ruby text=Mother Goose char=4]aria of fairy tale that's [ruby text=echoing char=1] immersing in the night.[l][r]
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;　それらの感覚と、私の体がひとつになる。[l][r]
　With those sensations, my body became one.[l][r]
;　ざわり、と右腕に鳥肌がたつ。[l][r]
　With a sensation, I got goosebumps on my right arm.[l][r]
;　誰かが私の腕に侵入したのだ。
　Someone had invaded into my arm.


*page18
;　鳥肌は[ruby text=あり]蟻のように右腕を[ruby text=は]這い上がってくる。[l][r]
　The goosebums are crawling up the right arm like ants.[l][r]
;　ゆっくりと、確実に、この心臓めがけて。[l][r]
　Toward this heart, slowly and definitely.[l][r]
;　払い[ruby text=の]除けたくなる衝動をおさえて、より決定的な位置、より確実な到来を待つ。
　Suppressing the urge to brush them away, I waited to it to come to more decisive location and more definite arrival.


*page19
;　月の無い夜。[l][r]
　The night without the moon.[l][r]
;　公園の小さな街灯だけでは、闇の[ruby char=2 text=すべて]全容は見渡せない。
　The small streetlamps alone are not enough to look through the whole of the darkeness.


*page20
;　蟻の進行は止まった。[l][r]
　The advancement of the ants had stopped.[l][r]
;　私の右腕から離れて離れて[ruby char=2 text=まなか]心臓のとなり。[l][r]
　It went away and away from my right now and now right next to my [ruby char=2 text=center]heart.[l][r]
;　視覚を動員することなく、闇に[ruby text=ひそ]潜む侵入者の姿が見える。[l][r]
　Without utilizing the sense of sight, I could see the invader, hiding in the darkness.[l][r]
;　ここから[ruby char=2 text=うげん]右舷後方三十歩ほどの茂みの[ruby text=かげ]陰、四つんばいに手足をついたソレは[ruby char=2 text=てまね]手招きするように右手をあげ―――[l][r]
　That thing, on hands and knees behind the bush around thrity steps starboard and behind of me, raised its right hand as if to beckon us, and―――[l][r]
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;「―――そこ！」[l][r]
"―――There!"[l][r]
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;　私の知覚と、敵の行動はほぼ同時だった。
　My perception and the movement of enemy was almost at the same time.


*page21
;　体が振り向く。[l][r]
　Mu body turned back.[l][r]
;　敵の腕は槍のように伸びた。[l][r]
　The arm of the enemy got longer like a spear.[l][r]
;　高速で後頭部に放たれた凶器が、私の髪をさらっていく。[l][r]
　A deadly weapon, thrown to the back of my head at high speed, took away some of my hairs.[l][r]
;　有珠から結界を[ruby char=2 text=じょうと]譲渡され、ここ一帯そのものとなった全能の知覚が、最小の回避を可能とする。
　The omnipotent perception that became the area round here itself due to receiving the Bounded Field from Alice enabled me to evade with minimum movements.
//consiousness?


*page22
;　礼儀知らずの蛮行に舞い上がる髪。[l][r]
　The hairs were whirled up by the rude barbarity. [l][r]
//vandalism?
;　頬をかする、小さいが鋭い痛み。[l][r]
　Small yet sharp pain scrached my cheek.[l][r]
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;　―――死が、魂に触れた気がした。
　―――It felt as if the death touched my soul.


*page23
;「っ―――！」[l][r]
"Gr―――!"[l][r]
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;　体内の血流を、異なる[ruby text=かいろ char=2]循環に切り替える。[l][r]
　I swithed the flow of blood in my body to different [ruby text=circuit char=2]circulation.[l][r]
;　秒速一メートルで体内を巡る血液が、架空の元素に変質する。[l]心臓はまったく別の[ruby o2o=1 text=エンジン]生成機関に成りはてて、私の体を一つの回路として利用する。
　The blood, ciculating through the body in 1 m/s, was transmutated into fictional element.[l]My heart had became totally different[ruby o2o=1 text=engine]generative system, and it used my body as a circuit.
//変質=degenerate in lit. translation, but I believe it has negative connotation.Also 架空の元素-must have something that came up with other TM-novels. Not system but unit?


*page24
;　熱量として計測されない不可知の運動。[l][r]
　It's the unknowable exercise that cannot be measured as quantity of heat.[l][r]
;　私を今の私にならしめた、いまだ人の手の及ばぬ神秘。[l][r]
　It's the mystery beyond the reach of man that made me who I am now.[l][r]
;　あらゆる奇跡、[ruby char=2 text=ぐうわ]寓話の動力となる生命の火。[l][r]
　It's the fire of life that serves as a the source power for any kind of miracles and fables.[l][r]
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;　これを、私たちは魔力と呼ぶ。[wm canskip=0]
　We call this, Prana.[wm canskip=0]
//Prana orMagical Energy

*page25
;「―――[ruby text=セット char=2]接続」[l][r]
"―――[ruby text=Set char=2]Connect"[l][r]
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;　振り向いて敵を視界に収め、片手を振りかぶる。[l][r]
　I looked back to have the enemy in my sight and raised my hand up. [l][r]
;　腕は意志の代行だ。[l][r]
　The arm is the agent of will.[l][r]
;　私はまだ未熟だから、[ruby o2o=1 text=こえ]発音と[ruby char=2 text=どうさ]手足を使わないと魔術は働いてくれない。
　I'm still a novice, so I still need to use [ruby o2o=1 text=voice]chanting and [ruby char=2 text=movement]limbs, or Magecraft wouldn't work.
//literally it's "pronounciation"


*page26
;　魔術式は予め公園に刻まれている。[l][r]
　Magecraft equation was already engraved on the park.[l][r]
//魔術式=Magecraft equation?{*}
;　私がするコトは、その式に火をくべるだけ。[l][r]
　What I do is to simply put fire to that equation.[l][r]
;　体内で生成した魔力を、各自それぞれの方式で流しこめばいい。
　I just have to pour in the Prana that I generated inside my body into there with my own way.


*page27
;　たいていは魔術師は転移方式だ。有線にしろ無線にしろ、式に魔力を[ruby text=そそ char=1]注げばいい。[l][r]
　Usually, Magus use tranference method.With or without a wire, one simply has to pour in Prana into the equation. [l][r]
;　“出す”“撃つ”“流す”と色々あるけど、私の場合はなんていうか、こう―――[wait canskip=0 time=400]自分の手足で[ruby text=はじ char=1]弾く感じ……！
　There are many varieties of them like "take out," "shoot, "flow," and others, but, in my case, it's like--- [wait canskip=0 time=400]flick with my limb!


*page28
;「―――燃えろ！」[l][r]
"―――Burn!"[l][r]
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;　高速に高速で対抗する。[l][r]
　I confronted with high speed against the high speed.[l][r]
;　数メートル伸ばした腕はそのまま、敵は炎に包まれた。[l][r]
　With the arm still stretched for a few meters, the enemy was engulfed in flame.[l][r]
;　夜の公園というコトもあってキャンプファイヤーを連想させる。ただ、炎の中で影絵のように[ruby text=うごめ]蠢くのは人間らしき姿だったけど。
　Since it's at the park at night, it made me think of a campfire. Although the figure, wiggling inside the flame like a shadow picture, was like that of a human.


*page29
;　不自然に発した炎は、やっぱり不自然に消えた。[l][r]
　The flame that appeared unnaturally also disappeared unnaturaly.[l][r]
;　物を焼く音も、焦げた臭いもあまりない。
　There aren't much sound of burning or scorching smell.


*page30
;「―――結界、返すわ。死体を確認するから」[l][r]
"---I'll hand you back the Bounded Field. I'll go examine the corpse."[l][r]
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;　傍らの彼女に言って、もう動かない人影に足を向けた。[l][r]
　I said so to the girl next to me, and I walked toward the figure, no longer moving.[l][r]
;　殺した。[l]殺した。[l]殺した。[l][r]
　I killed. [l]I killed. [l] I killed.[l][r]
;　相手が何者であれ、人の命に、手をかけた。[l][r]
　Whoever he was, I took away someone's life.[l][r]
;　その、現実味もなければ手応えもなかった事実を、[ruby text=かわ]渇ききった喉で嚥下する。[l]硬くて苦くてこれっぽっちも飲み込めないけど、嚥下しようと努めていた。
　I swallowed such unrealistic and irresponsive fact through my dried up throat.[l]Even though it's solid and bitter and couldn't get it to go down the throat at all, I was trying my best to swallow it down.
//手応えもなかった= no response or no joy of accomplishment, etc; also in the first sentence she said she swallowed it, but in the next she said she is trying to. weird as it may sound, it's what's on there. I probably should put "Or rather," at the beginning of the second sentence, but that's my interpretation of the lines.