Digimon Bilievers English Translation (quick)

Digimon Bilievers
quick translation by garmmy

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*This is a quick and not word-for-word translation, there will be adjustments if I find it easier to get the point across
*The protagonist has a bit of old-timey(?) sounding way of talking, which I did not translate over (as it would take time..). This translation is mainly for meaning
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P1:
[Year 2105, Japan Area, Shinjuku Block--]
(In a ruined city...)
???: Urgh...
???: Having to work on a cold day like this is such a pain...

???: Oho,
???: This is a big one.
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P2:
???: Awright.

???: Time to start the transfer.

[10 years ago...]
[An experiment fusing AI with a computer virus was conducted.]
[This resulted in the birth of computer organisms..."Digital Monsters".]
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P3:
[These monster-like AI were capable of recursive self-proliferation and hacking.]
[Eventually, they were able to materialise the data of their own body.]
[Digimon began to spread throughout the real world,]
[threatening the entire world with destruction.]

[In order to prevent the intrusion by AI, humanity gave up most digital technology. In the end...]
[civilisation regressed greatly.]

[Despite that, complete containment of Digimon was not achieved.]
[And so, humans continued to live alongside a continued threat...]

???: (They're returning to the Net.)
???: (I managed to do it again without deleting them...)
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P4:
DIGIMON BILIEVERS
Manga: Minato Ayumu
Original Concept: Hongo Akiyoshi

[Within the degenerated future,]
[live and breathe monsters...]
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P5:
???: Finished reporting to the Secure Corps.
???: I wonder how much my reward will be?
(THUD)

???: Hm?

[That's...]

???: A small Digimon...
???: This is my first time seeing one...
???: ...But.
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P6:
???: What did I think I could do by bringing them back here?
???: I'm such an idiot...

???: (...Could we become friends...?)
???:: (Ahahahaha...)

???: (...You're a great student, you know.)

???: ...Master...

???: What would she have done...
???: Oh?

???: Ryoma!
Ryoma: Wahh!!
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P7:
Bark: I guessed that you'd be back.
[Secure Corps]
[Commander]
[Bark]

Bark: You wrap up a job quickly, as always.
Ryoma: Wha... Why do you always have to come to my house, Bark-san?

Bark: "Why", you ask...
Bark: You're always so efficient at deleting Digimon, even though we're the ones formally dispatched to handle them...
Bark: So we just have nothing left to do.

Ryoma: That's not a reason! (You could just go back to your base instead.)

Bark: Hm?
Bark: Why're you squeezing your stomach?
Kyokyomon: Piiii!
Bark: "Piii"?
Ryoma: M-m-my stomach hurts, it's gotta be the cold weather!
Bark: Ah, "pain", you mean...stomach pain, huh?

Bark: ...That aside, it's commendable that you managed delete a monster like that on your own.
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P8:
Bark: I'm sure that Rin,
Bark: your master, must be proud of you as well.

Bark: You're already 13 this year, aren't you?
Bark: You should join our Secure Corps, instead of being a freelancer like Rin.
Ryoma: Y-yeah,
Ryoma: of course I'm considering it.

Bark: Isn't it tough, living life as a freelancer?
[Today's reward]

Ryoma: Ugh...
Ryoma: (Finally earned enough for 3 days' worth of meals...)

Bark: In any case, if you're deleting Digimon, it's best if you join our Corps.
Bark: Digimon are the enemy of humanity, after all.
Bark: Not only that...
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P9:
Bark: Deleting them means avenging your master...Rin.

Bark: Ensure that you delete any Digimon that appears,
Bark: Ryoma.

Ryoma: ...Of course.

(Slam)

Kyokyomon: Grrarr!
Ryoma: Wah!
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P10:
Kyokyomon: Grrrrr....

Ryoma: ...It might be a baby,
Ryoma: but in the end, it's still a monster.

Ryoma: Guess I've got no choice.
Kyokyomon: Grgrrrrr...

Ryoma: ...Hey, you...
Ryoma: Is that your stomach growling...? (That's some noise it's making)
Kyokyomon: Guhh... Grrrrgrgr...
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P11:
Ryoma: I'll give you half.

Ryoma: It's my favourite.

Kyokyomon: ....Chomp.

Ryoma: (...Avenging, huh.)
Kyokyomon: Chomp chomp, crunch crunch.
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P12:
(BEEEEEP)
Ryoma: That's unusual...
Ryoma: Seems like another one's appeared.

Ryoma: ...You wanna come too?

Ryoma: This is the Online Area, where the Net still persists.
Ryoma: People don't live here.
Ryoma: Because it's where Digimon appear.
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P13:
Ryoma: Deleting them is the Secure Corps's job.
Ryoma: Otherwise, if the Digimon make it to the residential zones, it could result in casualties.

Ryoma: That said, I'm a freelancer, so...
Ryoma: I don't delete them.
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P14:
Ryoma: I just transfer them,
Ryoma: returning them to the Net.

Ryoma: The "Trans-code" embedded in this weapon...
Ryoma: It's different from the "Delete-code" used by the Secure Corps.

Ryoma: This is...
Ryoma: the way my master does things.

Ryoma: Transferring a Digimon instead of deleting them?
Rin: These poor souls are simply 'lost'. That's why they wandered into our world.
Ryoma: B-but...
Ryoma: Isn't it dangerous if they go on a rampage?
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P15:
Rin: That's IF they go on a rampage...right?
[Ryoma's master]
[Rin]
Rin: Humans were the ones who turned AI into such monsters in the first place.
Rin: In other words, it's up to 'how we raise them'.

Rin: If humans are their parents, then we should believe in our children.
Rin: That's why...
Rin: I won't kill these children, not when they possess no malice.

Ryoma: ...If news of our transfers gets out to the Secure Corps, we'll be...
Rin: Haha!
Rin: We'll deal with it when the time comes.

Ryoma: ...But,
Ryoma: if they're not bad guys, then...
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P16:
Ryoma: Could we become friends with them?

Rin: ... "Could we become friends"...?
Rin: Ahahahaha!

Rin: ...You're a great student, you know.

Ryoma: ...Hey.
Ryoma: What should I call you?
Kyokyomon: Gau?
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P17:
Ryoma: ...Say,
Ryoma: "Gau".

Ryoma: Humans and Digimon...
Ryoma: Do you think we can really get along...?
Gau: Gauuu...?

[However...]
Ryoma: Hey! Who said you could eat that?!

Ryoma: That was a whole week's worth of meals you just gobbled up...!

Ryoma: That's my coat...!!

Ryoma: That's my BED, goddammit!!!
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P18:
Ryoma: I've had enough.
Ryoma: I'm gonna transfer you!

Ryoma: GWAAAAHHHH!!
[Living together tested his utmost limits.]
[...Half a month later...]

Ryoma: I'm going to grab some provisions,
Ryoma: so be a good kid and stay home, okay?

Ryoma: ...Also, that's our last apple.
Ryoma: So you'd better not eat all of it by yourself!!

Ryoma: It's definitely going to be gone by the time I'm back...
Ryoma: (...Maybe "becoming friends with Digimon" just...)
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P19:
Ryoma: (isn't possible...)

Ryoma: (Snow...)
Ryoma: (Master's late today.)

Ryoma: (Is the snow slowing her down...?)

Ryoma: ...Bark-san...?

Bark: It's Rin, she's...!!!

Bark: Fighting in the snow might have put her at a disadvantage.
Bark: By the time our Corps arrived on the scene, it was too late...

Ryoma: What about the Digimon that appeared...?

Bark: You don't need to worry.
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P20:
Bark: The Digimon that killed Rin...
Bark: Needless to say, we've deleted them.

Bark: ...Join our Corps, Ryoma.
Bark: I promise to take care of you.

Ryoma: Please...
Ryoma: Give me some time to think...
Ryoma: (Could we become friends with them?)

(...You're a great student, you know.)

Ryoma: (I'm supposed to be avenging her, yet I'm giving shelter to the same kind that killed her...)
(*click*)

Ryoma: (Would you really call me a "great student", even now...? Master...)
Ryoma: I'm home...
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P21:
Ryoma: Gau!

Gau: Grruuu...

Bark: ...This is a serious crime, you know.

Ryoma: Bark-san...
Bark: Rin!! She was killed by Digimon, remember!? And yet...!
Bark: Is this really...
Bark: what you should be doing as her student!?
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P22:
Bark: For Rin's sake, I'll let you go this time.

Bark: Let's be off.
Subordinate: Understood.

Ryoma: (...He's not wrong.)
Ryoma: Haha...

Ryoma: I guess I really am...
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P23:
Ryoma: An idiot of a student...

Ryoma: (All that talk of avenging,)

Ryoma: (of "becoming friends"...)
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P24:
(Ryoma: ...Also, that's our last apple.
Ryoma: So you'd better not eat all of it by yourself!!)
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P25:
Ryoma: I may be an idiot of a student...

Ryoma: But I'm still Master's student...!

[...Hold on.]

[Why did they...]
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P26:
[TAKE Gau away...?]
[Secure Corps]
[Shinjuku Base]

Subordinate: All systems normal.
Subordinate: Starting installation.

Bark: ...This is the third one, correct?
Subordinate: Yes.
Subordinate: It's progressing as planned.

Subordinate: An experiment to turn Digimon into our weapons by overwriting their program...
Subordinate: The top brass can really come up with some scary ideas.
Bark: Having Digimon kill each other...
Bark: Hahaha!
Bark: What a splendid idea it is, don't you think...!

Bark: If our experiment succeeds...
Bark: Our promotions are all but guaranteed...!
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P27:
Subordinate: What do you think you're doing!?

Subordinate: Ahhh!
Subordinate: That's our precious test subject!!
Subordinate: ...He's deleting...no, wait... What's going on...!?

Ryoma: "I don't delete them."
Ryoma: "I transfer them."
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P28:
Ryoma: That's what my Master taught me.

Bark: ...You're her student, all right.

Bark: That very day, Rin, too...
Bark: couldn't stop yapping about "not deleting Digimon" when she got in our way.

Bark: I think highly of you, Ryoma.
Bark: Your sense for battle, your physical abilities...they're all superb.
Bark: ...And yet...

Bark: You just had to go on to resemble that IDIOT.

Ryoma: ...What're you talking about?

Bark: Idiot of a student...
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P29:
Bark: I'll delete—no, kill—you the same way I did your idiot of a master!
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P30:
Bark: Grh...!

Bark: Don't let him get away!
Bark: Kill him!
Ryoma: Gau! You okay!?

Gau: Grggrguu...
Ryoma: Don't worry...!
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P31:
Ryoma: I'm...
Ryoma: on your side!

Ryoma: Gwah!
???: Fire should be fought with fire.
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P32:
Bark: I'll kill you with the Digimon that you all love so much!

Bark: Hahaha!
Bark: This is just like that day.
Bark: That was how Rin...
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P33:
Bark: died trying to shield a Digimon!

Bark: Before we end this,
Bark: I might as well ask you the same thing I asked her.

Bark: ..."Why do you save the likes of Digimon?"
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P34:
Ryoma: I believe in Master,
Rin: I believe in my student,
Both: that's why.

Both: Humans and Digimon...
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P35:
Both: "Can become friends with each other"!!!

Bark: ...Both master and student are equally insane.

Bark: Kill him.
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P36:
("...Could we become friends...?")

("Ahahahaha...")

Bark: ...What the...!?
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P37:
(You're a great student, you know.)

Bark: ...!? Once more! Burn them down!
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P38:
Bark: ...The flames are being repelled!?
Bark: By them...!?

(*nod*)

(In other words, it's up to 'how we raise them'.)
[It's exactly as you said,]
[Master.]
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P39:
[That's why...]

[I believed in Digimon.]

[That's why Gau...]
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P40:
(Is willing to!!!)

(Fight alongside me!!!)
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P41:
Ryoma: This is...!

Gau: I transferred them.

Ryoma: You...turned small again...!?
Ryoma: Hold up, did you just talk...!?

Gau: I don't delete them.
Gau: I transfer them.
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P42:
Gau: That's the way you do things...right, Master?

Ryoma: You've got it!

Bark: Urgh...
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P43:
Bark: R-Ryoma...

Bark: You...
Bark: You even managed to tame a Digimon...
Bark: I always knew you had potential.
Bark: That's right,
Bark: why don't you join our Corps? I'll see to it that you're treated favourably.

Bark: I'll raise you to be a fine... Bphhpt!

Bark: Gah...
Ryoma: I'm a kind soul, just like my Master.

Ryoma: So I won't take your life here.
Ryoma: However...
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P44:
Ryoma: Being raised by you...
Ryoma: is a complete NO from me!

[A few days later...]

[Secure Corps commander arrested on suspicion of murder]
[Dangerous experiments conducted in the facility[...]]

[I've avenged you, Master...!]
(Beep!)
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P45:
Gau: Ryoma! Another lost Digimon is here!
Ryoma: Awright,
Ryoma: it's time to get moving again!

Ryoma: Time to save Digimon,
Ryoma: our friends!!!

[With his Master's teachings in his heart, a boy sets out to save a friend he has yet to meet...!!]

[Digimon Bilievers -end-]
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Bonus: Special mini-interview with Minato Ayumu-sensei

Q: What is your favourite Digimon?
A: The Ryudamon line and Tyranomon line! Especially Ryudamon, I've loved them ever since I met them up till now!

Q: Since when did you start liking Digimon?
A: From the day I first watched Digimon Adventure!

Q: Please let us know what made you apply for the Digimon Comic Award.
A: When I was into Digimon cards, I watched Digimon Con and came to know of this project. I thought there was no way I could let this opportunity to let out my creative urges pass, and so I put my all into drawing that comic out no matter how shoddy it might've turned out.

Q: What did you have in mind when you drew the one-shot manga in this issue?
A: I thought that the charm of Digital Monsters would shine most in an analog world, so instead of depicting a near-future filled with advanced technology, I decided to make the stage of this story a ruined future world instead. And so I carefully drew the meeting of a boy and Digimon living in this world.
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TL note:
The term 抹消 ('masshou': erasure) is mainly used in this work in 3 ways:
1) 抹消す (pronounced ころす 'korosu') - to mean/imply 'kill'
2) 抹消 (pronounced デリート'delete' or まっしょう 'masshou') - to mean/imply 'delete'
3) 抹消隊 (pronounced セキュア隊 'secure-tai') - translated as Secure Corps
i mainly use 'delete' for digimon and 'kill' for human, but regardless of the pronunciation the implication of 'killing' a living being is there.

The term 転送 ('tensou': transfer) in some parts is also pronounced かえす 'kaesu', meaning to return something.
The implication is the 'transferring' is returning the Digimon to the Net.