Canon compilation PART ONE: HOKKAIDO
Yami no Matsuei
Part 1 {Hokkaido Part 1}
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.
[Konoe ties a white ribbon around his head {this usually denotes a preparation
for something of intense concentration or work} and clutches a dart in
his hand. Watari, Tatsumi, and Tsuzuki are behind him, all looking very
serious.]
Konoe: "Now then, let's go! All of you!!"
Them: "...yes sir!!"
Konoe: "One Sphere Enter Spirit!!!"
{Theria: That was the literal translation. I think it's more like he's
concentrating reeeeeally hard on throwing that dart.}
[Zoom in on a map of northern Japan on the island where Hokkaido is.
The dart hits the map which is a map of Japan hanging on a wall and kind
of sags. There are collective sweatdrops.]
Tsuzuki: "It's Hokkaido."
This
Konoe: "Hokkaido isn't it..."
Watari: "Hokkaido..."
just might be...
Tatsumi: "...it is."
Tsuzuki: [Jumping up and down, holding arms with Watari] "Yeeeeeeeees!!
It's Hokkaidooooooo!!"
Watari: "Crab! Scallop!! Akanko urchin!!!"
{Theria: At least, I think 'marimo' is a urchin. It's that prickly
dark thing in Watari's voice bubble.}
Tatsumi: "This year you hit the mark chief."
Konoe: "Umm!!!"
Tsuzuki: "Last year we hit a desert island survival..."
Watari: "The year before that the ocean, a midwinter swimming
grand assembly..."
Tsuzuki: "And now this year... Hokkaido!!!"
Konoe: [very happy] "Make reservations immediately, Tatsumi!!
This is a once a year treat!! Get an expensive lodge!!! An expensive one!!!"
[In the background, Tsuzuki and Watari are screaming 'Banzai']
Tatsumi: "Of course."
The world after death--Meifu in which was founded the judicial body
JoOhCho.
EnMaCho Summons Division is a bureau that serves as back-up for the
JoOhCho administration.
Their eighteen employees called Shinigami have the highest standing
but the lowest salaries.
That Summons Division's only one grand event is the company trip.
Tsuzuki: [rushing out of the office obviously] "Got it, Hisoka!!"
Tsuzuki:"This year it's Hokkaido!!!"
[Text in box: Tsuzuki Asato/Second Block]
Hisoka: [looking rather bored, in his hand is a copy of something
titled 'Edda'] "What"
Hisoka: "You've finally been sent to Hokkaido? You're really
crossing Japan."
Hisoka: Congratulations on your demotion part
2.
{theria: EDDA is kind of the religious text of the Norse mythology.}
Tsuzuki: "You've got it wrong."
Tsuzuki: You're so mean.
Tsuzuki: "The employees are split up for the trip. Because there's
no reason to leave the division completely empty, five to six people go
at a time."
Hisoka: "Humph."
Tsuzuki: [laughing crazily] "This is a rare chance to eat and
drink excessively for free. Just watch me get stuffed on crab!!"
Hisoka: [returning to his book] "Of course, of course."
Tsuzuki: "That's right, Hisoka, you haven't met the employees
for Hokkaido have you?"
Hisoka: "Right."
Tsuzuki: "I figured. Those two are locked up in ToShiCho for
about half of the year. Can't fly when you're snowed in."
{Theria: Refer to the map in JoOhCho Basics Lecture (I). ToShiCho is
the division that takes up the northern island of Japan.}
[Matsushita: The Hokkaido pair rarely leave their station.]
Tsuzuki: "You're definitely going to be surprised when you meet
them."
Hisoka: "There's someone else who differs more than you do between
external and internal appearances?"
Tsuzuki: "No, actually, those kids have this bad habit..."
"Aaaaaaaaaah!! It's Tsuzuki-chan!!!"
Girl 1: [has two long pigtails down her front] "It's been a long
time, Tsuzuki-san."
Girl 2: [shoulder-length hair] "Yaho! Are you feeling well, Tsuzuki-chan?"
Tsuzuki: "Hey!!"
Tsuzuki: "You two have already returned!!"
Hisoka: "?"
Girl 2: "I'm in the same group as Tsuzuki-chan this year."
Hisoka: ...What's with these girls...
Girl 1: "Me too."
Tsuzuki: "Really? This is going to be fun."
Hisoka: Aren't they really close with Tsuzuki?
[Lots of hearts are floating around between the trio's greeting.]
Girl 2: "Hm?"
"That cute kid over there. Never seen him before."
Girl 1: "You're right. Tsuzuki-san has changed
partners again hasn't he."
Girl 2: [pointing at Hisoka] "Ne ne. Are
you possibly Tsuzuki-chan's new parter?"
Hisoka: [annoyed] "...that's right. Last year's
news." Your information is late.
[Hisoka is mobbed.]
Girl 1: [inspecting Hisoka's hand/fingers] "Oh my! It was just
rumor but you really are a cute like a girl. (insert lots of hearts)"
Girl 2: [she's got the hair] "Why! Look at this white skin!!
It's so delicate (heart)."
Girl 2: "And his hair is just like cat's fur (heart heart etc)."
Hisoka: [breaking away] "Wha-What's with you people!!!"
Hisoka: "Let go! Don't touch me!!"
Tsuzuki: "These girls are Ninth Area (Hokkaido)'s employees."
Girl 1: "I'm Torii Saya."
Girl 2: "Fukiya Yumaaaaaaa."
Tsuzuki: "This is their only bad point. They don't care about
their companions' circumstances, just immediately getting close and cozy
with them, male and female alike."
Yuma: "Whaat. We just want to be good friends."
Saya: "That's right. We just want to quickly become friends."
Tsuzuki: "Their hyper attack always settles on the newbie."
Hisoka: "...wha!!" Wait a minute, Tsuzuki
Tsuzuki: "Good luck Hisoka. Fight."
Yuma: [up close and personal again with Hisoka] "Ufu (heart)
Hisoka-kun (heart) We're going to be together before the trip ne (heart)."
Yuma: "While Hisoka-kun is sleeping we'll dress him up."
Saya: "Why!! That's terrific, Yuma!!! Hisoka-san would certainly
be suited by the Pink House or something like it."
Hisoka: [freaking out] "Ah..."
Hisoka: "Ano..."
Hisoka: "Eh?"
Tsuzuki: [laughing] "Well, shall we go? To Hokkaido (heart)."
Yuma: "This is going to be fun ne. Saya (heart)"
Saya: "It will be fun, Yuma (heart)."
Hisoka: [shivering] "....."
Hisoka: "That...Pink House..."
Surely Hisoka senses he is in danger.
....for that said reason
The party departed from Tokyo
Taking a trip to the wintry Hokkaido.
[Watari, Yuma, Konoe, Saya, Tsuzuki, and Hisoka all look. About half
of them have vapor breath.]
"Woooooooooooooooooow."
"It's huge......."
Yuma: [almost speechless :P] "You...you've really outdone yourself
Tatsumi-san..."
Tatsumi: "I was told to acquire an expensive hotel so I didn't
take any reserves."
Tsuzuki and Watari: [crying and holding hands (again)] "This
is like a dream....(heart)."
[Hisoka looks pointed at Konoe who is turned to the side counting the
money in his wallet. :-D Inside, there's a whole row of maids lining the
entrance walkway.]
You could only say it was high class.
The service was good, as was the interior.
The landlady was reeeeeeeeeeally good.
[Hisoka pulls Tsuzuki away from flirting(?).]
And then....
[Crab, lots of crabs. Tsuzuki and Watari look at their dishes at the
dinner table and begin to cry.]
Watari: "Ahhhh, I'm so happy I'm scared...."
Tsuzuki: "Can I eat this? I can eat this right!!!"
Hisoka: "Stop it, you're being embarassing"
"Well then!!"
[Glasses held up in the air]
"This year as well, everyone has done a good job!!!"
"Good job!!!"
[Around the dinner table, Saya and Yuma are serving sake to Konoe. Tsuzuki
and Watari share one side of the table, both holding their food in their
arms.]
"Hi (heart) so (heart) ka (heart) kuuuuuun"
[Hisoka nearly chokes.]
Yuma: "Let us serve you sake (heart)."
Hisoka: [mobbed again] "Thank you..."
Saya: "Ne ne, Hisoka-san is such a cute name (heart). Your young
face is also cute...I'm jealous (heartx2)."
Watari: "Don't play too hard, boy."
Tsuzuki: "It would be good if that eased his misanthropy. But
this looks a bit too much."
One hour later--
After they've been eating and drinking for awhile
It's definitely time for Karaoke.
Tsuzuki: "First up! Tsuzukiiiiiiii."
Tsuzuki: "I will sing Merry An!!"
[Matsushita-sensei: I apologize to all Alfie fans. I like him too.]
{Theria: I'm not too sure about the singer's name or the song's name.
Apparently it's English though.}
[Text in Box: (2) Watari's Ei-chan.]
[Even Matsushita-sensei doesn't know why there are red towels flying
around.]
[Text in Box: (3) Tatsumi's Showa Withered Pampas Gras (???????)]
[The voltage for the mike has been turned 30 volts.]
Konoe: "And finally,"
The chief has grabbed the mike!!!
Konoe: "I'm going to do it 'my way'!!"
[Everyone suddenly realizes they need to be somewhere else. Tatsumi
remembers something he needs to do. Hisoka returns to his room because
he is tired. And Watari and Tsuzuki go off to the baths. The latter are
still a bit intoxicated.]
Tsuzuki: "It's a long time since I've been to a hot spring."
Watari: "Just about once a year."
Watari: "Let's take our time."
Tsuzuki: "Hm?"
Tsuzuki: "Aaaaaaaaaaaah! It's Tatsumi (heart heart)!!"
Tatsumi: [he was on his way to apologize to the landlady about
the chief's terrible singing] "!! Have I been discovered?"
Watari and Tsuzuki: "Let's go the bath together!!!!"
Tatsumi: "No, I'm not very good with that kind
of thing..."
[And at the hot spring...]
Watari: "Whooooooooa, that's a huge hot spring!! We
can swim in it."
Tsuzuki: "I wonder if I drank too much..."
Tatsumi: [he was dragged here against his will] "Drinking the
hotel's sake as you did...any amount would make a monkey like you drunk!!"
{Theria: Tatsumi-san hidoi...}
Watari: "What? Are you not feeling well? Tsuzuki."
Tsuzuki: "Yeah..."
[Tsuzuki removes his yukata. :)]
Tsuzuki: "Don't why..."
Tsuzuki: "But my body's so hot..."
[Tatsumi and Watari stare. Then freak out.]
Watari: No! No, Yutaka!! Come to your senses!!!
Watari: Tsuzuki is your friend, no more, no less!!
Tatsumi: I've misconducted myself for a man...
Tatsumi: I'm not like that...
Tatsumi: Even Tsuzuki-san...
Tsuzuki: "What are you two mumbling? Let's hurry
up and get in."
[In the hot spring. Don't ask why they're sharing it with wild monkeys.]
Watari: "Ahhhhhhhh, I'm revived."
Tsuzuki: "Hot springs are the best. Paradise paradise."
Tatsumi: "Talking like that makes you a middle-aged man, Tsuzuki-san..."
Watari: "It would have been good if the kid came too."
Tsuzuki: "Hisoka isn't good with this kind of thing."
Tatsumi: "It can't be helped."
"The newest kid wouldn't want to see the naked bodies of his friends."
Watari: "You two haven't progessed at all have you."
Tsuzuki: "....lay off."
Tsuzuki: But...
Tsuzuki: Though before us, he acts no different
Tsuzuki: Otherwise he is even more reclusive than before...
Tsuzuki: Always absorbed in his thoughts...
Tsuzuki: Like it's become harder to look here...
Tsuzuki: He isn't one to talk about himself...Hisoka
Tsuzuki: "Honestly, sometimes child, sometimes stubborn..."
Tsuzuki: It would be good if he could lighten up a bit during
this trip...
Tsuzuki: "And furthermore Muraki...! Next time I see, I'm definitely
going to punch you out!!!"
[Muraki sneezes]
Nurse: "Ah, do you have a cold, Doctor?"
[Back at the hotsprings, the men hear noises coming from next door.]
Yuma: "Wow, it's really wide, the hot springs here."
Saya: "Yuma! If you run like that, you'll slip."
Yuma: "Don't worry, Saya!!"
Tsuzuki: "Is the female spring...next door?"
Tatsumi: "....so it seems."
Watari: "OH (heart) lucky."
Yuma: "Oh my, Saya, have you gained weight?"
Saya: "Whaaaaaaaaat! Of course I haven't!! You're the one whose
gained weight, Yuma."
Yuma: "Have not! This is just my chest growing bigger!!"
[Tsuzuki, Tatsumi, Watari simply listen speechless.]
Saya: "Huh, I can tell by touch that it's different than before."
Yuma: "You think!? This was a lot of trouble!! Let me see how
your's is?"
Saya: "Kyaa! Hey! Where are you touching, Yuma!!"
[The male trio are still listening.]
Saya: "Honestly, suddenly touching a strange place!!"
Yuma: "What's wrong, we're both girls. There's nothing embarrassing
about it right."
Saya: "That isn't the problem!!"
[The trio are blushing.]
Watari: "....dangerous."
Tsuzuki: "An old(er) man like me doesn't know what young girls
are thinking."
Tatsumi: "Honestly, girls these days..."
{Matsushita-sensei: Actually, Tatsumi isn't good with dealing with any
females.}
Tatsumi: "Shouldn't we get out now?"
Tatsumi: "It's been over an hour. I've gotten dizzy."
Tatsumi: "I'm also worried about the chief...he
might still be singing..."
Watari: "Yeah...if we stay in any longer, we'll be really tired
tomorrow."
Tsuzuki: "That's true."
[There is some rustling in the bushes. There stand a fox, a hare, and
an alligator all wearing old european type dress coats.]
Fox: "This is troublesome, Yan-sensei. What shall we do...?"
Hare->Yan: "We've come to here. Sebastian."
Alligator: "Troublesome, very troublesome."
"Troublesome, very troublesome."
Fox: "Quite quite..."
[They notice they have an audience.]
Tsuzuki: ".....eh?"
[At another hot spring that is internal, Hisoka is leaning against the
side of the bath.]
Hisoka: "It feels good..."
Hisoka: "Going to the bath alone really lets you relax..."
Hisoka: "If I went with them..."
[Hisoka's imagination shows Watari and Tsuzuki teasing him about growing
and stuff.]
Hisoka: "They'd say things like that."
My body is stopped at sixteen...
Even if I become 20, become a middle-aged man
My body will always be sixteen...
I'll always be a kid causing trouble for him(Tsuzuki)...
Though I want to quickly be able to catch up to him...
Though I want to quickly become an adult...
Hisoka: "...better stop. This kind of thinking is useless."
Hisoka: "There may not be any problems this time..."
"GYAA!!"
"HEEEEEELP!!!"
[Hisoka trips while getting out of the bath. And he hit his head.]
Hisoka: "Perhaps I should quit this job..."
Fox: "Are you people..."
Fox: "Not beings of this world?"
Tatsumi: [actually looking frightened/perturbed] ".....hai."
Hare->Yan: Katsue-san, perhaps people of EnMaCho?"
Alligator->Sebastian: "Oh! They do seem to be so, Yan-sensei."
Tsuzuki: "Why is a fox talking?"
Watari: "The rabbit is also talking."
Tatsumi: "Why is there an alligator at a hot spring?"
Yuma: [leaning over the fence] "Has a bear come out?"
[The males immediately lower themselves into the water.]
Tsuzuki: "Don't peek into the men's side!!"
Yuma: "Huh?"
Yuma: "Why, I wasn't expecting to see you Katsue-san!!"
Alligator->Sebastian: "Oh, you."
Alligator->Sebastian: "Yuma-sama!!"
[Hisoka comes running in dressed in a yukata and geta.]
Hisoka: "Has something happened again...?"
[He sees the Hokkaido duo dressed in similar yukatas.]
Yuma: "WAAAAAAAA!! IT'S HISOKA-KUUUUUUUN!!!"
Saya: "KYAAAAAA! HE'S LOVELY EVEN IN A YUKATA!!"
[Hisoka gets attacked by them. The other males are dressed by now.]
Tsuzuki: "Well, what are you all of you?"
Yan: "We are retainers of the Queen of Snow."
Watari: "Queen of Snow?"
Tatsumi: "Ah!"
Tatsumi: "So then, you are dwellers of Beatrice-sama's kingdom?"
Tatsumi: "That's why you can talk?"
Yan: "Hai. You know of our queen?"
Katsue: "Beatrice-sama is the one who controls the winter of
this kingdom."
Coming from somewhere
Civilizing a country awarded to her
The Queen of Snow enveloped by mysteries
Saya: "All of the inhabitants of the queen's domain are animals
so all of them can talk."
Tsuzuki: "Ooooh."
Tsuzuki: "In all of my 70 years at EnMaCho, this is the first
time I've heard of this."
Watari: "Me too."
[Above their heads is the words "Main continent only"]
Tatsumi: [he cracked] "...why don't you try studying about other
areas once in awhile you two...!!"
Yuma: "We're good friends with the queen."
Katsue: "Yes, you two have been very good friends with our queen..."
Watari: "Well? What are you doing here?"
????: "It looks like you're searching for something."
Katsue: "Well the truth is..."
Katsue: "The truth is...the queen is missing."
Katsue: "She has been missing since this morning...."
EH!?
Tsuzuki: "That's terrible. I'll help too. Let's search together."
Katsue: [crying] "Such a kind hearted soul..."
[There is an eyedrop bottle behind him.]
Tatsumi: "WAIT A MOMENT!!!"
[He hates working for free.]
Tatsumi: "The queen's disappearance has no relation to EnMaCho
does it not?"
Tatsumi: "We do not lend a hand out of courtesy!!!"
Tsuzuki: "No way! Tatsumi!!"
Katsue: "But...!!"
Katsue: "Without the queen, winter will disappear from this
country!!"
Tatsumi: "Fine. I don't like winter."
Katsue: "You won't have Kani-suki and Uni-Ikuradon and Ishikari-nabe
anymore."
Tatsumi: "I'm of a nature that isn't particularly attached to
food."
[Tatsumi and Katsue engage in a staring contest.]
Sebastian: [holds up several fingers(?)] "How about a reward of this
amount?"
Tatsumi: "Rest assured we will do this."
Hisoka: [bug-eyed] "...Tatsumi-san?"
Yan and Sebastian: Very good, Katsue.
Yan and Sebastian: If food didn't work, use money.
Yan and Sebastian: His prey will not escape...such an unpleasant
battle
Tatsumi: [on fire] "Well then, everyone. Let us go search for
Queen!!"
Tsuzuki:"...are we really that poor...?"
Tsuzuki:"Hey, Tatsumi..."
{Matsushita-sensei: Actually, the truth is that Tatsumi is a miser.}
This year's trip apparently won't be free of work.
Yami no Matsuei
Part 2 {Hokkaido Part 2}
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.
"Wooow, it's huge..."
"This is the palace of ice huh..."
[Inside of the european castle, the animals are leading the Shinigamis
who are dressed in appropriate winter clothing.]
Yan: "This castle was built from the shaved ice from domestic
natural crystals and eternal ice walls."
Tsuzuki: "Heeeeee..."
Yan: "Completed with such quality approaching clarity, it's never
been seen by humans."
Yan: "The interior is completely heated so feel free to remove
what clothes are necessary and feel at ease please."
Tatsumi: "..."
Tatsumi: Of course, the southern climate.
Hisoka: Is that good? This castle could melt...
Katsue: "Oh, we still haven't introduced ourselves yet."
Katsue: "I"
Katsue: "Am the Queen's steward, Katsue."
Katsue: "This is the castle doctor, Yan-sensei."
Sebastian: "Music professor Sebastian."
Yan: "We are all spirits of animals who have been treated cruelly
by humans and killed by them."
Yan: It was painful...
Yan: The queen taught us wanders words....
Yan: Gave us a place to stay
Yan: Watched over us...
Tsuzuki: "An amazing person."
Yan: "It's our proud Queen."
Katsue: "All of the inhabitants of this kingdom love the queen
from the bottom of their hearts."
Katsue: No one can think of a world without her...
Katsue: "That's why we must find her as quickly as possible.
We want our peace of mind."
Katsue: Our lives...
Katsue: "Of course, we will pay a reward..."
Tatsumi: [holding Katsue's paw] "I sympathize."
Tatsumi: "Leave everything to us!!"
Tsuzuki: "Hm?"
Tsuzuki: [he notices some squirrels on the ground and picks
them up]
Tsuzuki: "Don't worry. We'll definitely find the queen."
Hisoka: "..."
Tatsumi: "Well? How long has the queen been missing?"
Katsue: "We can confirm her location up until 9 pm last night
by the maid's words but...since this morning we don't know..."
Hisoka: "A disappearance with no reason...?"
Watari: "Perhaps she got caught up in something."
Tsuzuki: "Uh...!!"
Tsuzuki: [Tsuzuki seems to not be well in the stomach.]
Watari: "What!?"
Watari: "What's wrong, Tsuzuki!?"
Yan: "Tsuzuki-sama?"
Tsuzuki: "...."
Tsuzuki: "I'm hungry..."
[Watari facefaults. Tatsumi cleans his glasses, commenting about how
much of a kid Tsuzuki is.]
Tsuzuki: "Yan-sensei, can I borrow your kitchen?"
Yan: "But the cook and everyone else has already left..."
Tsuzuki: "It's alright. I'm going to make something myself."
Tsuzuki: "I'll make something nice and sweet okay."
Hisoka: "Make it himself!!?"
Tatsumi: "What kind of horrific cooking..."
{Matsushita-sensei: Apparently, everyone knows how utterly terrible
Tsuzuki's cooking is.}
Tsuzuki: "Sorry to have kept you waiting!!"
Tsuzuki: "A true apple pie using Jonathan apples."
Watari: It looks normal on the outside...
Hisoka: It looks okay to the eye...
Hisoka: Since it's sweet, he's probably already tasted it...
Saya: "Why, Tsuzuki-san, you can make pies as well."
Tsuzuki: "Hehehe....my older sister's teaching."
Tsuzuki: "It was because they had the apples and pie ingredients
down in the kitchen."
Tsuzuki: "Well, eat up, eat up."
Hisoka: "Okay..."
Watari: "A little..."
[They take a spoonful.]
BRAIN FREEZE
Hisoka & Watari: [gagging] TERRIBLE!!!
Yuma: "Ah! This is delicious."
Saya: "Yes, it is! Crispy and not too juicy."
Hisoka: ...amazing. Treating something this bad as if it was
nothing...
Watari: "Your sister is crying in the other world(?) Tsuzuki!!!
Tatsumi: If someone doesn't just tell him the truth next time...
Tsuzuki: "Ah."
Tsuzuki: "That's right."
Tsuzuki: "The last time you came down, I gave you a muffin to
take back up."
Tsuzuki: "Have you eaten it?"
Yuma: "Eh?"
Tsuzuki: "It was the first time I made one so I was a bit worried
about the taste...it's really been bothering me."
Yuma: [nervously] "Of...of course it was delicious."
Saya: [also nervous] "Ye...yes it was."
Tsuzuki: "Thank goodness!!"
"Thank goodness!!"
"Well. then, next time I'll make another one."
Saya: "I...I can't wait."
Katsue: "Well everyone...about the search for the queen..."
"Oh yeah."
"Let's put everything away and return."
[Saya and Yuma stay back.]
Yuma: "Ne..nee...Saya, what did happen to that muffin?"
Saya: "We...well, after we came back we came here...perhaps forgot
it in the queen's chambers..."
BRAIN FREEZE
Saya: "Well...someone must have eaten it or thrown it away by
now!!"
Saya: It has been about half a year...
Yuma: "Let's keep this a secret from Tsuzuki-chan, about leaving
it behind here..."
[Queen's chambers]
Katsue: "Before we begin the search for the queen, shall we attempt
to divine her location first?"
Watari: "Divine?"
Katsue: "Having a lead to follow is better than searching aimlessly..."
"Excuse me."
[Tsuzuki suddenly slips, falling flat on his back. There is a geta on
the floor. 'Geta' are the wooden Japanese sandals.]
Tsuzuki: "...owwwww..."
Watari: [holding the geta] "...what is this, geta...??"
Katsue: "Cait Sith!! I thought I told you to stop using getas
for divining because it's too dangerous!!"
Tsuzuki: Cait Sith?
Cait Sith: "...aw, don't be so angry meow, Katsue."
Cait Sith: "It's ruined before men meow."
[Cait Sith is a talking cat dressed in robes.]
Cait Sith: "I was only divining the location of the queen meow."
Hisoka: "A cat is the diviner?"
Tsuzuki: "Granted that geta divination is really ancient..."
Katsue: "Uh...! You're drunk!"
Katsue: "You've been drinking the Matatabi wine again!!?"
Cait Sith: [holding a geta] "Well...the result of my divination
is that the queen..."
Cait Sith: "Is west of here meow."
Katsue: "...of course, I understand."
Katsue: "It's EAST."
Tsuzuki: "EH!!?"
Katsue: "Cait Sith's divinations always come out reversed."
Cait Sith: "Noooooo. It's just hard to tell when I'm drunk."
[Tsuzuki facefaults.]
Tatsumi: "Well, I and Watari-san and the females will investigate
the interior of the castle one more time."
Tatsumi: "Tsuzuki-san and Kurosaki-kun will go with Katsue-san
and Cait Sith-san."
Saya: "No way! Tatsumi-san!! That's mean."
Yuma: "We want to go together with Hisoka-kun!!"
Tatsumi: "Restrain your self-indulgence."
Tsuzuki: "To the east means toward MaShuuKo...?"
Yan: "The master of that lake isn't on good terms with the queen."
Hisoka: Let's hurry and go.
Saya & Yuma: Hurry and come back, Hisoka-kun.
Hisoka: Don't wanna.
Katsue: "Shall we be going?"
Katsue: "Be careful of your footing."
[Outside, Hisoka pauses. Tsuzuki notices and stops.]
Tsuzuki: "What's wrong, Hisoka?"
Tsuzuki: "Does your feet or something hurt?"
Hisoka: "..."
Hisoka: "I'm not good with darkness. Can't see anything."
Tsuzuki: "Oh...today's a new moon so it's pitch black."
Hisoka: Bad things always occur in the dark.
Hisoka: I don't know where I am.
Hisoka: I become uneasy.
Hisoka: Afraid...
[A gloved hand is held out to him.]
Tsuzuki: "Hold it."
Tsuzuki: "I can see in the dark."
Hisoka: "..."
Hisoka: "Why are you treating like some kind of child!!!"
Tsuzuki: "What, what! You said you weren't good in the dark so
I..."
Katsue: "Ah, please look."
Katsue: "The head waters of Kamisshu, MaShuuKo."
Katsue: "We can't search around here so shall we go to KusshaRoKo."
Tsuzuki: "Ah."
[Hisoka begans taking in the psychic emanations in the area.]
Katsue: "What is Hisoka-sama doing?"
Tsuzuki: "Tracing the consciousness of the queen. He's a psychic."
[Tsuzuki hears something.]
Tsuzuki: "Look out..."
[Tsuzuki jumps in the way of an arrow flying for Hisoka.]
Hisoka: "Tsuzuki!?"
Katsue: "Tsuzuki-sama!!?"
"Don't move!!
"If you move, we will shoot!!!"
Tsuzuki: [pulling out arrow] We're surrounded.
[A tall old man who looks like he has seaweed in his hair steps toward
them.]
Old Man: "What do you want..."
"Enma's dogs."
Hisoka & Tsuzuki: This is...the master of MaShuuKo....!!?
Old Man: "Begone, Shinigami. This is no place for you to come."
Old Man: "You would do well to leave peacefully..."
Old Man: "Or else a shower of arrows will pierce your bodies."
Tsuzuki: "A...ano, lord...do you know of the Queen of Snow?"
Old Man: "Queen...?"
Old Man: "Humph...no."
Old Man: "A negligent woman such as that, whatever happens is
nothing I know of."
Tsuzuki: "Wait a minute..."
Tsuzuki: "I don't think it's as you said..."
Old Man: "You...do you not understand..."
Old Man: [Old Man suddenly transforms into a serpentile dragon
out of Asian mythology]
Old Man: "The words 'begone'!!!"
{Matsushita-sensei: The real form of the Old Man is that of a dragon.}
Cait Sith: "This has become serious meow."
[The dragon has unleashed a powerful wind directed at the intruders
and specifically the Shinigami.]
Old Man: "Disappear!!"
Old Man: "You disgusting mice."
[Tsuzuki lands in a crouch in the snow.]
Tsuzuki: "Why...you..."
Tsuzuki: "BLOCKHEAD!!!"
Tsuzuki: "If you have a dragon, we'll oppose you with a dragon!!"
Tsuzuki: Humbly do I present
Tsuzuki: My wish to those twelve that grant me divine protection
Tsuzuki: "Blue water, blue light, and freezing sigh; destroy
my enemy!!"
Tsuzuki: I command you to appear before me!!
Tsuzuki: "Come forth, SohRyu!!!"
Old Man: "SohRyu!!?"
Old Man: Impossible...why can a measely human call upon dragon
ruler that is nearly god...
{Matsushita-sensei: The type of dragon that the Old Man is not a very
high level dragon.}
[Tsuzuki takes a step back and slips/trips, bending his back over a
snowman laying on the ground.]
Katsue: "What's a snowman doing here..."
[The Old Man dragon sweatdrops. Removing the snow from the 'head' of
the snowman reveals...]
Katsue: "Ah!! This is..."
Katsue: "The Queen!!?"
Tsuzuki: "Eh!!?"
Tsuzuki: "Why did I screw up again in a place like this!!"
Katsue: "Your majesty!! Are you alright!!"
Old Man: "Absurd!!"
Old Man: "I'm leaving!!"
[Back at the castle]
Queen: "...my my."
Queen: "What a terrible thing that has happened to me."
Tatsumi: "In truth, what did happen?"
Queen: "Um."
Queen: "It's a rather shameful story but..."
Queen: "Last night, I found a sweet delicacy out on the veranda."
Saya & Yuma: Sweet delicacy!!?
Queen: "It appeared quite frozen and something left there for
quite some time. I suppose it was something someone left in my chambers
and the maid simply put it outside."
Katsue: "Your majesty!! We've always cautioned you to be war
of what you eat...!!!"
Queen:"So you've always said I thought."
Queen: "So I snuck out of the castle late in the night."
Queen: "I had planned to eat it outside and then return but..."
Queen: It was dark without the moon
Queen: I wandered over into the Old Man's domain
Queen: "I've tried hard to stick with my diet but..."
Katsue: Liar. She just wanted it all for herself.
Queen: "It was so utterly terrible...I didn't think things of
this world could be so terrible."
Saya & Yuma: [freaking out] It was...!!!
{Matsushita-sensei: Saya and Yuma apparently do know how bad Tsuzuki's
cooking is.}
Queen: "It was so terrible I fainted. That's why I was unconscious
there."
Katsue: "Who brought that thing..."
Yan: "This can't be forgiven!"
Yuma: "Gomen! Tsuzuki-chan!!"
Saya: "Ano..."
Yuma: "The truth is that sweet delicacy..."
Tsuzuki: "Eh?"
So the problem reached a resolution but...
Katsue: "Since the source of all the trouble was from your side,
we shall say that the (monetary) gratitude shall be nothing."
Tatsumi: [jaw dropping] "EH!!?"
Tatsumi: "..."
Tsuzuki: "Ano...Sorry Tatsumi..."
Tatsumi: [removing his glasses and looking scary] "Tsuzuki-san...You
really are...."
[Something explodes and Tsuzuki is right in the middle of it.]
This was definitely a trip with no ties to money.
[Konoe is still singing back at the hotel.]
{theria: Brought to my attention by Janice (aka Sparkle!), Queen 'Beatrice' and her animal servants may actually be a play off of Beatrix Potter, the author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and many other famous children's stories about talking animals.}