Episode 3
The mystery of the sign.
Page 81:
Manta: You're really a lazy bum!
Yoh: Manta... I'm still asleep. It's not nice to yell like that.
Manta: We had a rendezvous and you made us be late!
Manta: We have a kendo test this morning!! What would we look like if we ever missed it?
Yoh: I want to go back home to sleep. I have a feeling that the day will be bad.
Manta: Don't say stuff like that!
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Manta: Waah!
Men: What's wrong? It's horrible! A kid just got crushed by the sign!
Manta: Yoh!?
Yoh: Hello!
Manta: Uwaah!
Passerbys: Wow, that thing's awful. I was really scared.
Ghost: ... Missed.
Episode 3
The mystery of the sign.
Page 84:
Yoh: Wah...
Yoh: That really scared the shit out of me earlier. Woke me up.
Manta: The sake store guy said that he had it fixed several times but it keeps falling back down. Damn sign.
Yoh: Several times?
Manta: Yes. A strange story.
Yoh: Hmm... that's very troublesome.
Manta: What's bothering you? There are a lot more troublesome things awaiting us.
Manta: Tell me Yoh, are you going to be okay for the test? In our school, sports are just as important as the rest. There could be consequences for the rest of your studies.
Page 85:
Yoh: Nothing easier.
Referee: Test passed!
Manta: Amidamaru!
Amidamaru: A good samurai has a sense of recognition and loyalty towards his benefactor. It's his destiny.
Amidamaru: I'm ready to follow Master Yoh wherever he goes!
Manta: What?
Yoh: Hi hi hi. I also made some other friends.
Manta: What?
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Yoh: These are all the ghosts that couldn't fit in with the school life.
Manta: Gyaa!
Yoh: He's Suzuki, first in his class. He committed suicide 5 years ago because of the peoples' jokes.
Suzuki: Eh he. Passing exams is my speciality.
Yoh: He's the capitain of the gym team, Kobayashi. He was hit by a car during a marathon.
Kobayashi: Racing is my thing.
Yoh: Ashida took care of the art section. He died after 15 nights without sleep. Noriko is a pianist. A sickness got to her before a concert.
Yoh: They all left a memory in our school! With them we can face any situation!
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Manta: You're really awful!
Yoh: Me? Awful?
Manta: Yes!! Tests are used to measure what one knows. It's not fair to delegate the tests to ghosts.
Yoh: And why is that? I'm becoming a professional shaman. I don't need studies.
Manta: A pro?
Yoh: A bit like a pianist or an artist.
Yoh: This technique is a demonstration of what I can do. I must continue to cultivate it. These tests won't do me anything good at the end of school. What counts is the fact that I went to school.
Manta: But then... is that really what you want? Live your life without making any effort.
All your life using what others know.
Page 88:
Manta: You disappoint me!!
Manta: I really thought a shaman was really cool before. I didn't think he was a straight cheater.
Yoh: Ah! Manta...
Amidamaru: Hmm... I don't think Manta has yet realized that the life of a shaman isn't at all restful.
Yoh: It's all right Amidamaru. He lives for tests; that's why he's telling me this.
Yoh: There's something that's bothering me more than that. Come with me, Amidamaru?
Manta: Fhmm!
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Manta: And to think that I thought he was good. Actually, he only thinks about having fun. Professional, my ass!
Manta: ... Earlier in the locker room...
Manta: He had lots of wounds on his body. Does he undergo a rude training?
Manta: Bof! He's always in the clouds! He must certainly have scraped himself or tripped against a fence. Buh buh.
Manta: It's true. He's totally the type who would get crushed by this sign.
Manta: Eh?
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Manta: Kyaa!
Amidamaru: Jump this way!!
Manta: Hah!!
Manta: But... it's...
Amidamaru: Manta, he almost had you.
Manta: Amidamaru, what are you doing here!?
Amidamaru: Master Yoh told me to protect you.
Manta: Protect me.
Amidamaru: Exactly.
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Amidamaru: To protect you from the one who haunts this sign. From this evil spirit!!
Manta: ...!? What!?
Manta: What is that thing!?
Ghost: ...!
Ghost: Shriii... shiii!
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Ghost: White!!!
Manta: Uwaa!
Manta: White what?
Manta: ..!
Amidamaru: Manta, get back! It's a Jibakurei of bad temper.
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Manta: Jibakurei!? Does that mean that he was originally a human!?
Amidamaru: Exact. The ghost is made of a mass of memories. If the memories are bad, the ghost will be evil.
Amidamaru: I don't know what he lived before but this type of ghost tries to attract towards the darkness those who are perceptive of the presence of spirits.
Manta: Attract towards the darkness? Such frightening ghosts in the village?
Amidamaru: They're not just in this village?
Amidamaru: Those who die of an unforseen death often don't know the reason of their death. Their souls put them through a despaired roaming in which they can become Jibakurei.
[Station for traffic accidents.]
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Amidamaru: Manta, you're not very sensitive to the presence of spirits. He's just an ordinary example of the type.
Manta: ...!
Manta: So Yoh, who's a shaman sees them everywhere and has to confront them?
Amidamaru: That's it. But this one is particularly...
Ghost: Shiii... shiii....
Ghost: White!!
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Manta: Aaah! Amidamaru!
Amidamaru: It'll be all right. But!
Amidamaru: It's neither force nor technique that will determine the victory in a battle against a ghost. It's the intensity of the memory.
Amidamaru: But the feelings of the ghost isn't ordinary. I would like to know his motive.
Ghost: Whi... white!! White!!!
Yoh: White? What are you talking about?!
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Yoh: Here. I brought you white paint.
Ghost: ...!
Manta: Yo...!
Amidamaru: Master Yoh!
Ghost: Whi... white!?
Yoh: It wasn't easy to do the research on you. I asked the people here and all the ghosts around here. It was rather annoying.
Manta: Paint? What is he going to do with it?
Ghost: Whi... whi.... white!!
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Ghost: White!!!
Manta: ...!!
Manta: Blood!
Manta: What is he doing!?
Amidamaru: He let himself get hit.
Amidamaru: Normally a human and a ghost can't enter in contact. A ghost can't even touch flesh. By letting himself get hit, he just showed him the presence of a shaman.
Yoh: It was one year ago while you were painting this sign, you lost your balance while trying to catch a bucket of white paint and you fell on the road with the scaffolding. A truck hit you. It was very quick.
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Yoh: You were quite a perfectionist. You let out an immense frustration of having left an uncompleted work. And it's also because of that that you weren't able to go into the heavens and you haunted this place by calling those who could feel your presence. But after a bit of time, this bitterness turned into an obsession and you thus became a jibakurei.
Yoh: Really...
Yoh: It's unfortunately also the role of the shaman to take care of lost ghosts like you. Kanta, if you want to finish your work, you can use my body.
Ghost: ...!!
Manta: ...! Amidamaru!
Amidamaru: It looks like the negotiation ended on good terms.
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Kanta: ...! I remembered what I looked like!
Kanta: But who are you to be able to succeed at such a thing?
Yoh: I'm just like you. I risk my life in my work.
Manta's narration: And thus the sign was finished and it never again fell on top of people. On my part, I understood the why behind the wounds on Yoh's body. I was even a bit touched to know I had been brought along so...
End episode 3.
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