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Chapter 13: Kingprotea 2
Rin: The queen… // of the moon!? // …Is she serious!? // The idea of an AI rivaling the Moon Cell isn’t even funny as a joke…!
Leo: However, she did erase the checkpoint…
Hakuno: —You said your objective was the Holy Grail. // In that case, it doesn’t make sense. // Why are you targeting me?
Caster: Master, their murderous intent is real. // I suggest postponing investigating their reasons for another—
Hakuno: Please wait a little longer, Caster.
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BB: My reason for targeting senpai? // That’s a separate matter from the Holy Grail…but in the end, it’s tied together with it. // —However, senpai? // The reason for why I would want to kill you // should be pretty obvious, don’t you think?
Text (sound effect): Shudder
Hakuno (thought): —Hatred!?
Hakuno: I have no memory of anything like that…! // In the first place, isn’t this the first time we’ve met…?
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Kingprotea: Ah♥ // So you’re finally going to die for me.
Caster: We can’t loiter here any further, Master!
Hakuno: Kuh! // We have no choice but to continue on to the ninth floor…!
Sakura: !! // Ah, wait, // Kishinami-san!
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Hakuno (thought): My body
Hakuno: Ah
Hakuno (thought): feels heavy.
Hakuno: Bwah! // C-Caster! // It’s true that this way is faster, but I can’t last like this…!
Caster: Master, please just enjoy what you’re touching for now!
Hakuno (thought): —This is bad. // The farther down we go— // the harder it becomes to run away from that girl, like what’s happening now! // This is…
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Sakura: As Kishinami-san goes further down the floors, his memory usage increases… // and his image density deepens. // Since the support from the three of you is currently disorganized and uncoordinated, // Kishinami-san can’t keep moving properly— // At this rate, Kishinami-san will—!
Leo: Miss Tohsaka! // Rani!
Rani: —As the situation currently is, Mister Hakuno’s chances of survival are extremely low—
Text (sound effect): Grit
Text (sound effect): …Sigh
Rin: One has to choose the proper time and place to be stubborn… // This isn’t a situation where we can fuss over pride and the like.
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Rani: Please wait a moment. We should come to an agreement on who is a superior supporter here.
Rin: Rani!
Rani: —If all of us weren’t here, // we wouldn’t have been able to progress this far. // Everyone here is an excellent and irreplaceable specialist. There’s no room for doubt about that. // I request joining together for our common cause!
Rin: Okay, I’m in! // Now that that’s been decided, let’s escape from this labyrinth with a bang!
Leo: —You two are exactly the kinds of people I had hoped! // Joining together hand in hand…So this is what the “springtime of youth” is!
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Rin: Leo! For now, we’ll let you take charge here!
Leo: Then I shall declare this. // This is the true start of our united front. // Until we return to the Holy Grail War—No, // until we escape from the far side of the moon, we are fellow comrades. // I hereby establish the Tsukumihara Student Council!
Rani: Student Council…!?
Rin: …Well, whatever… // —Then, shall we start, // President Leo?
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Kingprotea: Senpai♥ // Senpai♥ // Sen-♥
Text (sound effect): Haa (Note to typesetter: apply to all four, but if the bubbles too small for the text to fit, just skip it entirely.)
Hakuno: I…can move!
Kingprotea: -pai♥
Hakuno: I’m all right by myself now, Caster. // See, // look!
Caster: I think it’s about time you restrain your hopping! // Though you’re wonderful even when you act like that, Master!!
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Saber: I can’t believe this!! // BB-chan, could you, like, not destroy my Sakura Labyrinth?
Caster: Oh, didn’t you vanish already?
Saber: You worthless fox! As if you actually thought I’d be terminated that easily! // Both the me that was on the floor above and my current self here are Egos. // Eh? // Hey, wait. // Listen to what I’m—
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Text (sound effect): Whoosh
BB: Sorry, Saber. // I don’t have the time to deal with you right now.
Caster: Just what did she come here for, // that girl? // Hey, Master…
Hakuno: I hopped too much and got tired like normal…
Caster: I told you so!
Hakuno: Ah! // Hey! // Sto-!
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Hakuno: Uwaaaaaaaaaaah!
Caster: Release my Master!
Kingprotea: I got // you♥
Hakuno (thought): This… // This is bad!
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Rani: Saber… // Ego… // I know, how about using the Five Thought-Stopping Meditations program on her?
Rin: !! // I don’t know the reason why, but Saber immediately disappeared after having her SG taken— // Can you hear me, Hakuno-kun!? // Converse…Alter…Ego…Kingprotea…take…SG…
Hakuno: Y-You say converse with her, but… // Is that even… // possible?
BB: Fufufu, it’s useless. // You say you “don’t know the reason why”? // I’ll tell you.
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BB: That Saber-san is an Ego…in other words, a copy of her consciousness extracted from the original. // One Ego is set to each shield as a Sentinel.
Kingprotea: Ehehe // Hakuno-senpai, // I’m going to eat you.
Text (sound effect): Slurp
BB: It’s precisely because the Ego was just a portion of her original consciousness that she vanished when her SG was taken. // However, Protea is the real thing…Neither a sentinel nor an Ego—Do you understand?
Text (sound effect): Haa // Haa
Hakuno (thought): Talk…! Something…to talk about!
Leo: …Unbelievable. Then there’s no way to break out of // this situation…?
Text (sound effect): Aah // Aah
Kingprotea: With this, you’ll love me, right?♥
Hakuno (thought): Talk—
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Hakuno: You’ll never obtain love // by doing something like that…!
Kingprotea: … // ?
Caster: Uu- // oooooh! // Make it in time, me—!!
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BB: The interior of Kingprotea’s body is a sea of imaginary numbers that not even I can grasp— // Now, // devour Hakuno-senpai.
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Text (sound effect): Gulp
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BB: Kingprotea… // You… // That’s the wrong place. // Why, instead of the Imaginary Numbers Space,
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BB: did you draw them into your heart?
Caster: Master…!!
Hakuno: Caster, thank goodness you’re also okay.
Sakura: …! // From Kingprotea’s interior…! // It’s slight, but I can detect Kishinami-san’s life signs—
Kingprotea: S-Sorry. // But I have to properly…hear what… // he has to say…right…?
BB: —!
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Leo: !! // That last thing he said saved his life…!?
Rin: If that’s true, he really does have good instincts when it comes to choices in the face of death…!
Rani: Mister Hakuno is confirmed alive! // However, we can’t monitor him…!
Caster: It seems I managed to accompany you by grabbing your hand, Master. // It doesn’t seem to be the road to the underworld, but still, will it be a demon or a snake that comes out…? // Let’s begin the Issun-Boshi* Attack Plan, Master. // They say if you stumble into a fox hole, you’ll be blessed with children, you know!
Hakuno: Yeah, let’s……You really twisted the train of logic there! // !
Kingprotea (thought): Is it fun? // Is it tasty? Is it warm?
(TL Note: Issun-Boshi is the story of a boy the size of a finger, similar to the English fairy tale of Tom Thumb)
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Caster: I see. // This is a Poem Road that leads straight to the depths of the heart with no going back. // Master, // that woman’s inner thoughts are automatically being transmitted to us directly, but make sure not to get overwhelmed by it.
Hakuno: Ah… // Yeah, I got it.
Kingprotea (thought): I was always drifting through a dark, dark sea empty of anything. // No, // I was just endlessly falling within it. // Why? // Why was I thrown away? // Am I a bad girl? // My stomach is so empty and hungry. // My heart keeps breaking further and further.
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Kingprotea (thought): That’s why I, // in order to get rid of all those feelings, // I always, always, always, always kept thinking of just that one thing. // Because that is the very last, very precious fragment // that was left to me.
Hakuno: …
Kingprotea (thought): Hey, do you know? // The sea is // very desolate, lonely and cold. // Is love fun? // Is it tasty? // Is it warm? // Someone will give me love, right? // Lots and lots of love. // Because it’s all just a lie if I’m not compensated for everything. // I kept waiting in vain for so, so long. // So I’ll eat lots and lots of it.
Caster: …Her inner thoughts and feelings are merely leaking out here, // but it seems her disposition to brag of her own misfortune and drag others down with her is truly incorrigible.
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BB: Kingprotea…this love you speak of, // are you referring to Hakuno-senpai?
Kingprotea (thought): Ah… Aah… // That’s right… // Hakuno // Senpai♥ // Senpai♥ // Hakuno- senpai♥
Hakuno: Hey… // wha…!
Kingprotea (thought): Senpai♥ // Hakuno- senpai♥
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BB: I see… it’s not just his name you forgot.
Kingprotea (thought): Senpai♥
BB: After wandering for practically an eternity, // you’ve even forgotten who and what he is.
Kingprotea (thought): Senpai♥ // Senpai♥
BB: The only thing that remains carved into your soul is the fact that he exists.
Kingprotea (thought): Senpai♥
BB: So Hakuno-senpai is merely a symbol of love to you now, huh? // This is beyond funny to the point of being
Kingprotea (thought): Senpai♥ // Senpai♥
Caster: In the first place, she’s speaking of love when she has none of the resolve to shoulder the responsibility that comes with it. // Well, I do think there is room for sympathy for her, though. // But that’s exactly why we should end her already.
Hakuno: C-Caster!?
Caster: Master, it’s impossible for anything except conflict to exist between you and this girl.
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Caster: I don’t know whether she // was like this from the start or not. // But she’s become twisted to the point of no return now.
Kingprotea (thought): If… // If Hakuno-senpai // gives me love, // that would // be very…very…
Hakuno (thought): …This is // the deepest depths of her heart…! // It’s different from how I thought it’d be…
Hakuno: That center part is probably Kingprotea’s—
Kingprotea: …Hakuno-senpai.
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Kingprotea: You’ll // talk to me lots // …right?
Originally Posted by Arashi_Leonhart
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