Yami no Matsuei
                       Suoodo no K/King of Swords 4
                            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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Abiko: [kneels next to the box and examines Hohjou] "..."
Abiko: "It's the same like when Wakabayashi died."
Abiko: "A strange wound on the neck..."
Abiko: "There are signs that the heart was ripped out."
Abiko: "It was probably done after the poison was ingested."

Tsuzuki: What is this...
Tsuzuki: The neck wound and the heart puzzle has come back.
Tsuzuki: When the first victim Wakabayashi died, there was still the
vampire as a suspect.
Tsuzuki: Muraki who held the power to drain other people's spiritual energy
to increase his own power
Tsuzuki: He could probably get that spiritual energy from the blood from
the heart.
Tsuzuki: ...But that guy
Tsuzuki: Is dead now

"But leaving her like this is so pitiful."

"Should we remove her from the box?"

"It would probably be better to leave the crime scene as untouched as
possible..."

[Hisoka sees the message card envelope on the ground and picks it up.]

Hisoka: ...?
Hisoka: This thickness...
Hisoka: "There are two cards in here."

Tsuzuki: "What was that!?"
Tsuzuki: "So that means someone else was killed?"

"I don't think our killer would put in the next card early."

Abiko: "That reminds me, last night I heard the owner and Hohjou-san
arguing."

Tsuzuki: "I heard that too."

Abiko: "It can't be that in a fit of anger the owner killed
Hohjou-san...!!"

Tsubaki: "Never!!"
Tsubaki: "My father has no reason to do that!!"

Tsuzuki: "Anyway, let's go to the owner's room to see. Then we can find out
for certain!!"

[They run to the owner's suit.]

Intercom: "This is a message from the captain. The stormy weather is only
temporary so please do not be distrubed by the swaying. Repeat..."

Tsuzuki: Please...
Tsuzuki: Be safe.
Tsuzuki: "Owner!!!"

Letter: "Beloved Tsubaki-hime..."
Letter: "One that loves you truly gives to you."
Letter: "Dead people can't speak."
Letter: "(Do you still not understand?) Seven of Wands."

[Kakyouin is hanging by a noose, his arms and limbs ripped off, his mouth
sewn shut with thick string. Tsubaki faints in shock.]

Akiyama: "Young lady!!"

Hisoka: [catches her] Tsubaki-hime!!!"

Tsuzuki: "Go! Quickly!!"

Abiko: [freaking out] "A...a..."
Abiko: [he staggers backwards and falls] "Hi...hi....!!"

Tsuzuki: "Abiko-san!"

[Something falls to the ground. It's Hohjou's emerald bracelet.]

Tsuzuki: Eh!?
Tsuzuki: This is...
Tsuzuki: "Hohjou-san's bracelet! Why do you have this!?"

Abiko: "N...no...it wasn't me...!!"
Abiko: "I don't know anything!!"

Tsuzuki: "..."
Tsuzuki: What is going on

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[Wherever it is they placed Muraki's body, bedsheets, roses, and all. His
hand twitches.]

It's time.

I've slept too much.

...eyes

won't open...

[The hand clenches into a fist.]

this repugnant mechanical eye!!

[Muraki's eyes open. He gets up.]

Before that girl awakens...

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[Hisoka and Akiyama have taken the unconscious Tsubaki to her room and
placed her in her bed.]

Akiyama: "Hibiki-sama."
Akiyama: "We can no longer conceal this matter...At the very least the
ship's crew..."

Hisoka: "...ah."

Akiyama: "Therefore, excuse me."

[Tsubaki begins to talk in her sleep, twitching as if she's having a
nightmare.]

Tsubaki: "N...o...father..."

Hisoka: [holds Tsubaki's hand] "Tsubaki-hime!"
Hisoka: "!?"
Hisoka: Ah...
Hisoka: Oh no...

[A myriad of images flood into Hisoka's mind as he involuntarily reads the
unconscious Tsubaki's mind.]

(The feet of a someone.)

"Eileen."

(Muraki in surgical scrubs.)

"Tsubaki-hime...We've found a heart."

(A camellia.)

"I give this to you, Tsubaki."

Hisoka: This is bad...

(Buildings.)

Good-bye Hong Kong.

"We'll always be friends."

(words around the page I can't associate with anything :P)

The donor's name...is confidential.

Eileen...

Take me

"Good bye Eileen"

To Japan...

Overload... (<= this refers to Hisoka)

[Hisoka collapses on the floor next to the bed and falls into his own
disturbing nightmares.]

Hisoka: Sakura...?
Hisoka: But isn't this...
Hisoka: Is this also part of Tsubaki's dream?

[Hisoka sees Muraki above him and Hisoka is now in the half-dressed state
of his Muraki nightmares.]

Hisoka: This is wrong...!!
Hisoka: This is my dream from four years before...
Hisoka: "Ah..."
Hisoka: "N...o..."
Hisoka: "NOOOOO"
Hisoka: Though there's no reason for anyone to come save me, I can only
scream into the night.

Muraki: 'Well...look at this.'
Muraki: 'The gruesome brilliance of a dying soul departing'

Hisoka: HELP ME
Hisoka: Tsuzuki...!!!

Tsuzuki: "Hey, are you alright?"
Tsuzuki: "Hisoka."

[Hisoka is in his bed in his suite.]

Tsuzuki: "What happened? When I came to Tsubaki-hime's room, you had
collapsed on the floor..."
Tsuzuki: "As I was carrying you here, you were thrashing in the throes of a
nightmare."

Hisoka: "...I..."
Hisoka: "Did I...say anything just now?"

Tsuzuki: [silent before answering] "No, nothing..."
Tsuzuki: "Only gasping painfully."
Tsuzuki: "I'll bring you some water."
Tsuzuki: "We can talk after you've settled down."

[Closing the door to Hisoka's room.]

GuShoShin: "You lied again."
GuShoShin: "Such a slip of the tongue."

Tsuzuki: "It's alright. I've got two tongues."
Tsuzuki: "After all"
Tsuzuki: "I thought that way was best."
Tsuzuki: Even if it was for a moment...
Tsuzuki: That he clung to me
Tsuzuki: He would never allow it...

[Alone in his room, Hisoka removes his shirt, revealing some archaic
writing on his entire back. It's also on his arms and his front torso.]

Hisoka: It's always like this...
Hisoka: After seeing that dream
Hisoka: "Until it disappears, I'll have to keep it hidden..."
Hisoka: Why am I always
Hisoka: Being tormented by that man...
Hisoka: Bound by thread even when the fingers are gone, can a puppet not
return to being human again?
Hisoka: Now...

[The bracelet falls to the ground though it takes several moments before
Hisoka notices it. Of course, now it's broken...]

Hisoka: "What...is that..."

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[Tsuzuki holds up a very small square thing to the light streaming through
the window.]

Tsuzuki: "It's a microchip."
Tsuzuki: "Why did Hohjou-san..."
Tsuzuki: "No, why was something like this in Wakabayashi's bracelet?"

Hisoka: "Who knows."

GuShoShin: "Anyway, let's start with the computer."
GuShoShin: "We may find a hint to this case."
GuShoShin: "Well, excuse me for awhile."

[GuShoShin leaves Hisoka's bedroom. Hisoka is now wearing a Chinese style
top, long sleeves and high collar.]

Tsuzuki: "Abiko-san was Hohjou-san's fan."
Tsuzuki: "He wanted something of hers."
Tsuzuki: "So he stole that."
Tsuzuki: "It must be terrible..."
Tsuzuki: "Doing an autopsy on a person you liked..."

Hisoka: "That's his role."
Hisoka: "Your job is your job. Even if it's something bad."

Tsuzuki: "Right. You're back, you're back."

Hisoka: "What?"

Tsuzuki: "You haven't been yourself since...meeting Muraki."

Hisoka: "...humph."
Hisoka: "You're happy that I'm back to being sharp-tongued?"

Tsuzuki: "Yup. Happy."
Tsuzuki: "Really."
Tsuzuki: "Ah, it's best for boys to be in good health."
Tsuzuki: "There there." [Tsuzuki is rubbing Hisoka's head as if he was a
dog.]

Hisoka: "Wha! Don't touch me, I don't like it!!"
Hisoka: Couldn't save me
Hisoka: "Don't pat me, am I a dog!!"
Hisoka: But maybe Tsuzuki...
Hisoka: Can save me.

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[Hisoka is up and about now.]

Hisoka: "Well?"
Hisoka: "Have you progessed on the card mystery?"

Tsuzuki: [waay too cheerfully] "Not at all."
Tsuzuki: "All I did was take care of you."

Hisoka: [ticked off] Are you some kind of NUMBSKULL! With that kind of free
time, try and think a bit!!"
Hisoka: "We haven't even solved one mystery yet!!!"

Tsuzuki: "Okay, I'll think! I'll think!!"
Tsuzuki: [now sporting a bandage on his cheek because Hisoka hit him]
"Um..."
Tsuzuki: "The cards were layout like this."
Tsuzuki: "Old man Wakabayashi's Ace of Wands was right side up."
Tsuzuki: "Muraki's King of Swords was torn so we don't know."
Tsuzuki: "Hohjou-san's Six of Pentacles was reversed. as was the owner's
Seven of Wands..."
Tsuzuki: "For now, this is all we have. With the exception of the owner,
all of the bodies were first found in a hidden(locked?) chamber."

Hisoka: "The problem of the hidden/locked chambers, if anyone made a copy
of the master key, then it would be solved. It's the cards. It's the
meaning of the cards I want to ask about."
Hisoka: "What were the types yesterday?"

Tsuzuki: "White and Marseille."
Tsuzuki: "I noticed this when I was looking up the meaning of the cards in
the book...which way is up or down is difficult to understand for cards in
the Marseille deck if they aren't picture cards."
Tsuzuki: "Therefore, old diviners would put a mark to identify which way
was upright and which was reverse."
Tsuzuki: "So, look carefully at this card. The picture is Marseille but it
uses the numbering of the White."

Hisoka: "Hah!"
Hisoka: "So the position of the card is the source of the culprit's
worries?"

Tsuzuki: "I've investigated the various meanings of the cards. Ace of Wands
is 'beginning'. King of Swords can mean either 'advisor' or 'cruel man'.
Six of Pentacles is 'receiving a bribe'. Because we don't know which
position Muraki's card is, we have to consider both meanings."
Tsuzuki: "Then there's the owner's card."
Tsuzuki: "Threaten!!!"

Hisoka: "..."
Hisoka: Threaten...

GuShoShin: "You two, I've got the contents of the chip."
GuShoShin: "It looks to be a blueprint of the ship...the Queen Camellia."

Hisoka: "And that spot marked with an 'X'?"

Tsuzuki: "..."
Tsuzuki: "That's the food storage area. I'll check it out."

Hisoka: "Then I'll go too..."

Tsuzuki: "No, it's alright! You go check on how Tsubaki-hime is doing."

Hisoka: [looks like a sad puppy] "..."

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Hisoka: "Tsubaki-hime."
Hisoka: "How are you?"

Tsubaki: "..."
Tsubaki: "Not very well."

Hisoka: "I'm sorry."
Hisoka: "About your father..."

Tsubaki: "..."
Tsubaki: "Please, I don't want to remember anymore about it..."

Hisoka: "Actually, I have something I want to ask..."

Tsubaki: "I see. That's fine."
Tsubaki: "I also have somethings to ask about you, Azumi."
Tsubaki: "About you and Sensei."
Tsubaki: "Tell me, what is it?"
Tsubaki: "Between the two of you!!"
Tsubaki: "Do you know? When you look at Sensei, your eyes..."
Tsubaki: "They become like ice."
Tsubaki: Like you're desperately
Tsubaki: Trying to save yourself.
Tsubaki: "Please tell me."
Tsubaki: This fragile reason
Tsubaki: "Tell me only the truth...Azumi..."

Hisoka: "Four years ago...Muraki killed me."

Tsubaki: "...eh?"

Hisoka: [unbuttoning his cuffs] "I"
Hisoka: "Am not human."
Hisoka: "Now...I'm someone...no longer of this world..."

[His cuffs and collar are open, revealing the marks of the curse that
Muraki marked on his body.]

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