Yami no Matsuei
                    Akuma no Toriru/Demon's Trill Part 3
                             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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Hijiri: "Hey, hey, Hisoka, where are we going next? Misumi Harbor? Amakusa
Village? Or even look at fish on a marine sightseeing boat?"

Hisoka carrying Kazusa whose sleeping: "Mo...more sightseeing? Hijiri. Why
are so you so cheerful?"

The comment pointing to Kazusa says she got tired at the battle frontlines.

Hijiri: "Naturally! Amakusa has a ton of places to visit. Alright then,
next let's see Amakusa's Japan's #1 four statues!!"

They came sightseeing on Hijiri's day off from school.

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They've taken a rest on a bridge.

Hijiri: "The sea air really hits the spot!! The ocean really is the best.
Though I would have been glad if Tsuzuki had come, where is he?"

Hisoka: "...He said he still had some work left so he went to the school."

Hijiri: "That's no fun. I thought to take him to the ocean to have fun in
return for what he did yesterday."

Hisoka: "Sorry about that, Hijiri... I had something else I had to do at
that time so..."

Hijiri: "Um, no, that's not what I meant, Hisoka! You misunderstand."

Hisoka: "Right now, old chief Konoe is teaching me although you'll never
hear talk of a Shinigami that can't use fuda(paper charms)...because I want
to be on equal footing with Tsuzuki..."

Hijiri: "Yeah...I understand. All I could do was watch as Tsuzuki fought, I
wanted to do something. If I had some power, then perhaps Tsuzuki wouldn't
have gotten so wounded..."

Hisoka: "Wounded?"

Hijiri: "The demon bit into his shoulder. There was a big fuss over whether
it managed to infect Tsuzuki but everything seemed fine."

Hisoka: "Bitten by the demon...?" He never said anything about that...

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Back at the music school, Tsuzuki is walking with an old man, probably the
school janitor, downstairs to somewhere.

Old man: "You're quite amazing, coming to school to work even on Sunday.
Some unfinished business?"

Tsuzuki: "Yes, something I still need to get used to."

Old man: "The principal and the director of the school don't get along, so
you'll have to stay strong."

Tsuzuki: "Thank you."

Old man opens a cabinet and removes something: "Ah, here it is. What we
were talking about."

Tsuzuki: "Sorry for all of the trouble."

Old man: "But what are you planning to use it for? It's dangerous."

Tsuzuki removes the wrapping to reveal a hefty meat cleaver: "I'm thinking
to cut a twig that is an eyesore."

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That night at Hijiri's home.

Hijiri: "Ah, Tsuzuki. Welcome back. Just in time for tea."

Tsuzuki: "? Isn't Kazusa with you?"

Hijiri: "Kazusa? Watari-san took her to EnMaCho to do a detailed study of
her power right? Did you forget?"

Tsuzuki: "Oh yeah..."

Hijiri: "What an idiot."

Hisoka watches suspiciously.

Hisoka: "Tsuzuki!"

Hisoka: "I got some salted cuttlefish guts as a souvenir for the chief. You
think that's alright? Not that Amakusa has any unique souvenir."

Tsuzuki: "...isn't it alright?"

Hisoka: "I got this because the chief hates sweet stuff. And dried octopus?

Tsuzuki: "Fine. Fine. Ah, this is getting bothersome, I'll leave it to you.
Well, I'm going to take a bath. Been covered with dust since yesterday."

Hijiri: "Then your change of clothes..."

Hijiri looks at Hisoka who suddenly grabbed his wrist.

"Hisoka?"

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In the shower, Tsuzuki is in pain again.

Saaga: "It's bad being on the point of death, Tsuzuki. Even at this time,
you resist me...No matter how hard you struggle, your body will remain
under my control. You will obey me!!"

Tsuzuki: "N...no..No...No..."

Saaga: "You will kill all the ones you love with your own hands!!!"

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Hijiri is in his room, wrapped in one of the curtains by his window when
Tsuzuki comes in.

Hijiri: "...ah, Tsuzuki...look at the strange lights over the sea. It's
unusual to see them at this time of year. It's been said that those lights
are the spirits of people who have died at sea. They're beautiful."

Tsuzuki: "Hijiri...You haven't shown me your thanks and gratitude me
yet..."

Hijiri: "Eh?"

Tsuzuki has pushed down Hijiri. {Theria: O_o}

Tsuzuki: "Thanks for protecting you from that demon..."

Hijiri: "Of...of course. I'll do whatever I can do in return."

Tsuzuki: "Any...thing...you say. Well then...I'll have your body. Hijiri."

{Theria: ?!?!?!?!?}

Hijiri panicking: "Wai...Wait! Stop joking, Tsuzuki!"

Tsuzuki has removed Hijiri's shirt. {Theria: -_-}

Tsuzuki: "You said anything didn't you?"

Hijiri: "I,I,I,I'm a GUY!!! A girl, do this kind of stuff with a girl!"

Tsuzuki: "Your body..."

Hijiri: "Ah...sto..."

Tsuzuki: "Your life...give to me!!!"

The meat cleaver cuts deep through Hijiri's left shoulder half way down his
torso. Crazy laughter echoes in the slaughter. Somehow, wings have appeared
on Tsuzuki's back again.

Tsuzuki: "Ah...So lovely, Hijiri. Your soft white skin is well matched with
blood's red and lead's dark gray..."

Tsuzuki picks up a knife and stabs it into Hijiri's left eye, gouging it
out.

Tsuzuki: "The moon is full...the contract has concluded. Minase Hijiri."

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At JuOhCho's Fifth District Court EnMaCho.

"What?"
"Is that true? Kurosaki-kun."

Hisoka: "Unfortunately..."

Konoe: "Oh no. If EnMaOh-sama learns of this... This is terrible."

Watari: "How can this be...I checked his body...Of course, above the waist
only."

Hisoka: "Probably it only spread slowly. But there is no mistake, the demon
is in his body. Why his usually flighty, noisy emotions I can't sense at
all today. His passionate feelings I can't see a thing, only nothing."

Konoe had been freaking out in the background.

Hisoka: "He didn't even remember the chief's sweet tooth."

Now Konoe looks rather miffed. Watari and Tatsumi are looking at him.

Watari: "Bad. That's bad."

Hisoka: "Watari-san, Kazusa...?"

Watari: "Of course, she's been removed to a safe place. Anyway, we have to
somehow protect Hijiri-"

The building shakes and alarms go off all around.

Konoe: "What!?"

Building: "Damage Status Report."

Konoe: "What happened?"

Building: "Entire structure, Level 3 damage. Automatic restoration
initiated."

Hisoka looks outside. Is it too late?

Outside, Phoenix and White Tiger are attacking the building.

Tsuzuki: "Where are you, Kazusa...Come out..."

Staff: "Wh...Are you crazy, Tsuzuki! Attacking EnMaCho!! You thinking of
opposing Meifu's JuOhCho with just two Shikigami!!"

Tsuzuki: "Two Shikigamis is more than enough for the likes of you. Come
out, Kazusa! If you don't want more people to be sacrificed!!"

{Theria: I'd say 'die' except mostly everyone here is already dead. Pay
special attention to the image of the two Shikigamis destroying the rest of
EnMaCho. It's cute.}

Konoe: "Stop it, Tsuzuki!"

Watari: "You're being controled by the demon!!"

Tsuzuki: "Old man Konoe? Hijiri is dead! By the contract, are you going to
hand over Kazusa to me?"

"You shouldn't kill people out of hand."

Hijiri: "I'm still alive, Saagatanasu."

Watari, Konoe, 003 freaking out: "Hijiri!? What the hell...!"

Tsuzuki: "Impossible. I killed you with these hands!!"

Hijiri: "That's right...You killed me...Tore off my arm, gouged out my left
eye. But you made one mistake." [Pulling off the dark wig.] "You killed me
acting in Hijiri's place."

Tsuzuki: Hisoka!!

Hisoka: "The real Hijiri was put under EnMaCho's protection long before.
Same with Kazusa."

Hijiri comes out. Hisoka is also wearing Hijiri's school uniform though his
coat is white whereas Hijiri's is dark.

Hisoka: "Game over, Saagatanasu. It's a great offense in the Demon World to
kill your contractee isn't it?"

Tsuzuki: "...how did you know I've infected Tsuzuki's flesh? No one saw the
mark on the body..."

Hisoka: "I am an empath. You can't hide from me what you can hide from
normal people."

{Matsushita-sensei: Empathy is the power to read other people's emotions.}

Tsuzuki: "Of course...so that's the reason you pretened to be Hijiri, using
your Shinigami regenerative ability to pretend to be killed...Hahahahaha!!!
That you could fool a brigade commander of the Demon World such as myself!!
You've got a lot of nerve, boy!! The contract no longer has any connection.
Anyway, I will find Kazusa and kill her. And after her, will be you...You
alone will die under the torture of hell Hisoka...This time, there won't
even be enough time for your cells to regenerate."

White Tiger blasts EnMaCho again.

Building: "Red Alert! Red Alert! JuOhCho preparing to raise all defensive
shields against enemy invasion!! Repeat..."

Konoe: "This has become a big mess. The prison guards probably can't do
anything...but there may be time to call in the other Shinigami..."

Hisoka: "But during that time, EnMaCho may be sent flying. ...Chief,
'ReiBaku' may separate the demon from Tsuzuki."

Watari: "What!?"

Konoe: "No! That's too dangerous!!! If the effect is too strong, the
opponent's spiritual energy will be loaded onto you! And if it fails, it
will backlash onto you as well!!"

Hisoka: "So you say we should just stand here silently and watch!? Letting
that demon freely use him to hurt his friends...this humiliating thing...I
don't believe he wants something like this!!" I know. "There's nothing else
to risk, Tsuzuki's spiritual power." Tsuzuki's self...would with it more
than anyone else.

Konoe: "...alright. You have my permission." Forgive me, Tsuzuki...I may
have sent you to that darkness of insanity again...!!

Tsuzuki: "Where are you hiding!! Come out Kazusa!!"

Hisoka: "Hei. Sha. Kai. Jin. Retsu. Zai. Sen. ReiBaku!!"

{Theria: The kanji characters for 'ReiBaku' are 'Spirit' and 'Binding'
respectively.}

Tsuzuki is hit with a massive, restraining force.

"It did it!!"
"He stopped moving!!"

Hisoka: After I finished binding the outer seal, all of the seals will be
complete.

Tsuzuki/Saaga is obviously in pain.

"Stop!"

Hijiri grabbing onto Hisoka's arm: "Please stop, Hisoka!!"

Hisoka loses his concentration: "!? Hijiri!!?"

Hijiri: "That's Tsuzuki's body!! If you do anymore, it'll be ruined!!"

Hisoka: "But the way he is now, he'll never return to how he was!!"

Hijiri: "But..!!"

Hisoka: "There's nothing else to do!! Hijiri!!! I want to save Tsuzuki!!!"

Sounds of something breaking.

Tsuzuki/Saaga has begun to move toward the edge of the barrier.

"What!?"
"That guy...is he planning to break the ReiBaku!!"

One of the GuShoShins is screaming "Heeeeeelp!!!"

Watari: "Not good! More than the seal's imcomplete state, Tsuzuki's power
is much higher than the boy's...!! It won't work!!"

The levels are too different!!!

Tsuzuki/Saaga is tearing open the ReiBaku with his bare hands.

"The ReiBaku is being broken open!!!"
"Do something, Konoe!!!"

Konoe: "It's no use now. Might as well give up."

Tsuzuki/Saaga finally succeeds in breaking the ReiBaku.

Hisoka: The ReiBaku is being rebounded!!? "Look out! Hijiri!!"

Hijiri is knocked back toward Konoe and Watari.

Konoe: "Hijiri!"

Watari: "Kid!!"

Tsuzuki/Saaga steps down hard on Hisoka's hand.

Tsuzuki: "Is that it, boy? You alone I will not forgive...Once, twice, you
filthy Shinigami!! I'll rip apart your flesh and send it flying into a
different dimension!!! At best, I'll do it with the power Tsuzuki used to
protect you!!! Die in agony!!!"

Watari: "Stop! Don't kill that kid!!"

Hijiri: "Hisoka!!"

"STOP IT TSUZUKI!!!"

A beam of energy erupts to the sky amidst the wreckage of EnMaCho.

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