Yami no Matsuei
                                  Part Two
                             By Matsushita Yoko
                      Translated/Summarized by Theria

Translation Key

"Quotes" mean that someone is talking.
Unformatted text without quotes are narration that often appear in boxes.
Italics are someone's thoughts.
Smaller font are comments outside of speaking bubbles or thought boxes that
are usually handwritten into the manga.
{Bracketed items} are comments by translator.
[Square bracketed items] are descriptions of something from the manga.

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Tsuzuki and Hisoka are discussing their findings with their chief. One of
the GuShouShin is also in attendance, looking rather cute in the beginning,
hanging onto Tsuzuki's shoulder.

Konoe: "So the suspect is a dead person?"

Tsuzuki: "No chief, this Dracula case is much more complicated. The
suspect, the singer Maria Wong, was reported dead by suicide in the Chinese
database about two months ago."

Konoe: "Humph."

Tsuzuki: "But we met a living moving Maria."

Konoe: "So it's a question of a dead person coming back to life..."

Tsuzuki: "Right! Unless of course, the Chinese database is incorrect."

Konoe reminds them that the higher-ups are getting impatient and want the
case closed. Tsuzuki then goes on to say a load of nonsense while sitting
on a bookshelf. The chief asks someone get Tsuzuki to shut up. Ticked off,
Konoe throws the book at Tsuzuki (literally). He doesn't care if the
culprit is dead or alive, just solve the case.

Hisoka adds in the point that Maria is being controlled by someone and
Tsuzuki confirms that that is his suspicion as well. However, the old
Chinese legends and the concept of Yin-Yang don't match up with a blood
sucking revived corpse. Hisoka leaves on his own to do some investigation,
saying he'll meet Tsuzuki later at 3pm.

GuShouShin has a private talk with Konoe about Hisoka. The chief knows all
about how Hisoka really died as well as this 'special power'. He'll trust
Tsuzuki to deal with it.

Much later, Tsuzuki is waiting for Hisoka at the meeting place the boy
named. He's ticked off as well, about Hisoka's antisocial attitude and the
fact that he is late. Finally, he leaves (after eating lots of apple pie
and stuff). Suddenly there are screams, a young girl has fallen unconscious
and her guardian is frantic.

A doctor suddenly appears on the scene and examines the girl. He determines
she's only fainted and will wake shortly so they move her inside, out of
the sun. Tsuzuki waits, and the doctor comes out of the room the girl was
placed in, saying that she's woken up. The doctor introduces himself.

Doctor: "I'm Muraki Kazutaka, father. Your daughter is fine."

Tsuzuki sweatdropping: "I'm not her father."

Tsuzuki: "I'm afraid you've been distracted from your sightseeing because
of this..."

Muraki: "No, no I don't mind. It is the duty of a doctor."

Tsuzuki: "She recovered well from that."

Muraki: "Children really do have a strong life energy. We adults must try
to keep up."

Muraki: "Don't you think so?"

Tsuzuki: "?"

Muraki: "Humans...are a very frightening but weak beings. I've lost
patients a number of times, perhaps some people have called me a murderer.
Medicine cannot fight death."

Tsuzuki: "Well, actually I..."

Muraki: "I know, I've been a doctor for eight years, the limits of human
life. That's why I yearn for a power that overcome that. Don't you want
that kind of power? The perfect body and power..."

Tsuzuki: This person... "In this world," I sense... "there is no such thing
as 'perfect'." something very strange from him...

Muraki only looks at Tsuzuki. It is time for everyone to part. Muraki
wishes everyone to take care, the guardian thanks him, and the little girl
says good-bye. But Muraki has one last thing to say to Tsuzuki as he
removes his eyeglasses.

Muraki: "You should also take care. Else you might lose someone important."

Tsuzuki doesn't like him.

Hisoka is sneaking into the off-limits secret archive storage but gets
caught by Tsuzuki. Tzuzuki isn't too happy with him and grabs Hisoka by the
arm to go to the TV studio.

Hisoka: "Don't touch me!"

Tsuzuki's grip is blasted away, his hand bleeding. Hisoka is trying to calm
down. When Tsuzuki tries to touch him again, Hisoka backs away, yelling at
him. Hisoka is an empath, by coming in contact with other people he can see
into their minds. And when the spiritual side of someone else is very
strong, like Tsuzuki's, Hisoka can't block it out.

Tsuzuki: "Oh. My bad. Hey, boy, are you hiding anything else? Something you
won't even tell me, your partner?"

Hisoka: "...I won't tell. It doesn't concern you."

Tsuzuki: Such cold eyes... "Really. I understand. You probably don't know
since you entered this world by the chief's connection. I'll tell you this
one thing."

Tsuzuki explains the deal with Shinigami, how they are people who have a
strong desire to return to the living world. That desire is double-edged,
possessing the risk of the Shinigami putting his own interests above that
of his job.

Tsuzuki: "That's why Shinigami work in pairs, to keep an eye on each
other."

He assigns Hisoka to watch over Maria. Hisoka looks very sad, and slides
down to the floor against the wall.

Back at Nagasaki, Tsuzuki is sitting by himself and thinking. GuShouShin
looms up behind him, like some evil demon. After some trade of insults,
GuShouShin reveals his real reason for coming topside. He explains Hisoka's
past, how Hisoka was reviled by his parents because of his psychic power,
called a monster and locked him up in the basement each time the power was
displayed.

Tsuzuki understands how Hisoka felt, in order to be a 'normal person' he
had to close his heart, in order to not feel pain. GuShouShin trusts that
Tsuzuki will find a way to get around the emotional barriers Hisoka has set
up around himself.

However, it's time to get back to work. Or in Tsuzuki's case, back to
sampling the variety of food Nagasaki offers. There is, however, someone
following him. A girl who is fighting with a voice in her mind, it wants
her to kill for it, but she doesn't want to. When Tsuzuki checks his hair
in a store window, he notices his stalker.

Later, Tsuzuki is snoozing on a bench by the water. Hisoka sees him,
because he's been following Maria. However, Hisoka is still too far away
when Maria perpares to drink Tsuzuki's blood.

Tsuzuki flips over her. He had studied the pattern of deaths and figured
that she would strike in this area next. As he tells her to calmly return
with him to the Land of the Dead, she attacks.

Tsuzuki: "Are you happy, living by killing people!?"

Using a fuda, he paralyzes her movement. But as he approaches her again, he
sees tears streaming down her face. Understanding that she was acting
against her own will, Tsuzuki apologizes for his harsh words earlier,
sympathizing with her.

Hisoka steps out of the shadows, rather put out that Tsuzuki knew what was
going on all along.

Hisoka: "And to think that I was even worried about you for a moment. I'm
such an idiot."

Tsuzuki: "Eh!? What what? You were worried about me?"

Hisoka: "So Maria will return to normal?"

Tsuzuki: "No. The fuda's power should isolate her from the control for
about an hour. After that, she'll return to a corpse."

Maria returns to herself, panicking that she's killed people. Tsuzuki tells
her to calm down, as well as explain why she pretended to commit suicide.
However it turns out, Maria really did die. She always tried to get along
with her stepmother, but all her stepmother saw her as was a valuable piece
of merchandise. When Maria couldn't stand it anymore, she killed herself.
But she was brought back by 'someone'.

When they get back to the studio, Maria's mother appears, yelling at Maria
about how many times has she told Maria to never be late for work. Maria
calmly tells her stepmother that she won't listen to her anymore. Then
Tsuzuki steps in.

Enraged, she throws a glass at him but Tsuzuki shatters it with a thought.
He's going to have a private talk with her. Hisoka leaves to set up a
barrier to prevent other people from interfering and takes Maria with him.

Tsuzuki holds a candle, telling Maria's mother that this is her life. If
she doesn't cooperate, she'll die. He wants to know who she worked with to
bring Maria back to life. How could she as a parent let her child be a
murderer?

Maria's mother: "You want to lecture me? I don't have to listen to your
words. The words of a killer!!"

Tsuzuki is shocked.

Maria's mother laughing: "Mister told me about you, how in the past you've
also killed people. People always sacrifice others in order to live. I have
nothing to be ashamed of!! The guilty have no words to say to each other!
Am I right?"

Tsuzuki takes a water pitcher and douses the candle.

Outside, Maria wonders if her mother will be alright. Hisoka tells her not
to worry, but he wants to know who it was that was controlling her. Maria
can't remember who it is, that's the only thing she can't remember, but she
knows his voice in her head. It's some kind of selective amnesia.

Maria shivers: "He...he's coming...again..."

Hisoka: "Maria?"

Maria: "That person...!!"

Hisoka looks up.

Back inside, the candle is out. Maria's mother is still alive.

Tsuzuki: "It was a joke. Were you startled? But if you know my past then
you understand don't you? If I kill one person or two, it's all the same to
me. You brought Maria's corpse to Japan to be revived, all for the money
wasn't it."

Maria's mother: "That's right! If she dies, I can't live in luxury
anymore!! For that, I don't care who or how many people she kills."

Tsuzuki: "The person controlling Maria?"

Maria's mother is cowering: "I can't tell you. If I tell you, I'll be
killed..."

Tsuzuki: "Then perhaps if I tell you? Doctor Muraki."

Maria's mother: "You know!?"

Tsuzuki: "So it is him. What is his real goal? Not for the money correct?"
He isn't one to be motivated by money. He moved with faith.

Maria's mother: "That's right. He said he wanted the Shinigami's power to
get an even greater power. 'It's' a monster. It's right that he's after
you! You suit each other!!"

Maria bursts into the room: "Somebody come! Quickly!! That boy, Mister...!"

Tsuzuki runs outside, coming the the studio entrance covered in blood. But
the culprit is outside, Muraki carrying Hisoka in his arms.

Muraki: "You're late, Tsuzuki-san."

Tsuzuki: "...why you."

Muraki: "Didn't I say so? I wanted a power beyond human knowledge. For
example, the Shinigami's power...Even with the hint I have you, you truly
are a stupid person."

Tsuzuki throws his fuda: "Don't make fun of me!"

Muraki blocks the fuda, laughing: "Do you like it? The bloody ceiling!!"

Muraki: "I'll take this boy. I'll take good care of my new 'doll'."

Tsuzuki: Distress, then madness...! If you can't protect what's important,
yourself becomes weak. Hisoka!!"

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