D.N.Angel vol 2 chapter 1Disclaimer and Background Info The Book D.N.Angel volume 2, Asuka Comics A-101-7 ISBN4-04-924761-5 C9979, retailed at 400 yen The original Copyright (Japanese) Yukiru Sugisaki, 1998. First printing December 16, 1998. The translation was written to allow others to read one of my favorite Japanese manga that I picked up while in Japan this year (and also for me to learn more Japanese:) Some of my translation may tend to be either a bit to literal or liberal, but I’m getting better with every page I translate:) Please remember that this translation is not for public or commercial, only personal use. *A lot of effort went into this so, Please do not redistribute, alter, post or use this translation anywhere without my permission* D.N.Angel volume 2- Yukiru Sugisaki Translated by Meredith Dillman (http://www.kyrn.org/ , e-mail: kyrn@kyrn.org) last edited 10/11/01 [ ] indicates lines not spoken, such as character’s thoughts or narration * handwritten speech % indicates flashback lines { } indicates footnotes and other text such as signs VOLUME 2 CHAPTER 1 (Act 4) ‘kaito’ means thief CHAPTER 1: ADVANCE NOTICE OF D.N.A (DARK) page 5 Daisuke: -[ A new season has come, and outside the awaited white has made a glistening world.] -[ I, Daisuke: Niwa, am from Azumano-chou, a region that’s cold.] -[ No matter where you look, there is snow, snow, snow.] -Really!! Mountain climbing in this cold weather, what is the school thinking? -There’s a danger we might slip and fall. I’d rather we didn’t go outside. -With, don’t you agree? Emiko: -Are you sure Daisuke-chan? Isn’t that a smile on your face? Daisuke: -Eh? *u-um* page 9 Sensei: -Hey everyone! -Today is going to be a really great field trip! Right everyone? Takeshi: -Senseiiiiiii, we’re going mountain climbing... Girl: -Why do we have to do this every year? -It’s cold! Sensei: -Because the mountains are so pretty!! -Isn’t it so exciting to climb it with your own legs? -And the healthy bodies of you young men are so inspiring! (O_o er, there were a few definitions for that, such as things you shouldn’t be saying about your jr high students...) -Let’s go, let’s go! -It would be bad if any of you got lost! Sekimoto: *Ugh* page 10 Takeshi: -Daisukeeee, what are ya grinning about? *it’s freaky* Daisuke: -Eh? N-nothing, ‘cause I’m not grinning. Takeshi: -Y’are to, like you’re trying to be charming. -Are your face muscles frozen that way? Daisuke: -[Until this year, this mountain climbing was done differently.] -[But this time,] Risa: -Niwa-kun, I brought the lunch I made! -Let’s eat together later! sfx- byoko Daisuke: -[Th-this isn’t fair!] -[I am not having fun!] {sign: Happiness gage} page 11 Daisuke: -[This sucks] -[Since I was a little excited, the love gene could force me to become Dark.] Takeshi: -AAAAAAAAAH! I CAN’T WALK! -Gonna dieeeee! I’m so tiiiiired! Girl: -Can’t you be quiet? Wipe that weird look off your face, I getting tired of it. -What’s your problem?! Sekimoto: ** Takeshi: ** Daisuke: -You OK Harada-san? Risa: -...F...fine... page 12 sfx- Gooon Risa: -Kyaa! -Ah! -My hat! -No! This can’t be! -I’m stuck in this place! -That hat was my favorite! page 13 -Niwa-kuuun....(*whine* she expects him to go climbing in trees?!) Daisuke: -eh...um... Risa: -But it’s way over... Daisuke: -!! Risa: *sniff sniff* Daisuke: -[But how can I get it if it’s that far away...] -[I don’t want to try any risky acrobatics in front of everyone...] -[Especially when Hiwatari-kun is also here today.] Riku:: -Kyaa! Riku:, JUST A MINUTE!! -Eh?!? page 14 Daisuke: -Ha-Ha-Ha-Harada-san!! What are... Riku: *just a little closer* Risa: -Dooon’t Rikuuuuu! Daisuke: -Harada-san!! Be careful!! Riku: -Shut up! -You guys (boys) were hesitant, so don’t worry about....! -Kya! sfx-Kakon page 25 -pashu Daisuke: & Riku: -Uwaaaaaaaaah! Risa: -NIWA-KUN!! -Riku:! NIWA-KUUUN! -Riku:UU! -NIWA-KUUUN!! -KUUN! page 16 Risa:? -uunnnnn! -uuunnnnnn! (hearing Risa:’s whining from below?) Daisuke/Riku: -...Aou... -ow ow ow... Riku: -Oooow. Daisuke: -Harada-san, are you OK...? *o-ouch* Riku: -Waah! You surprised me! -wh-wh-wh-why are you down here!!? Daisuke: -Calm down, calm down, that’s just what happened. *I’m covered in snow* -We fell quite a ways...where are... Riku: -I don’t know...maybe we’ve become lost... (actually she says that maybe they’ve become ‘lost children’) page 17 Daisuke: -I’m all right anyhow, shall we find a way back up? Riku: -Oh yeah... *let’s go* -OUu...ch! -[...wait a sec!!] -[This can’t be!!] sign: *?* -[My left ankle is hurt!!] (I can’t find these kanji, and they don’t match the words for sprain, break or fracture.) *Did I twist it?* Daisuke: -It looks like it’s a bit of a distance from here. -Harada-san? *what’s wrong?* Riku: -...Nothing...I’ll be able to go in a minute...... Daisuke: -Able to go...? page 18 -Can you stand up? Do you need a hand? Riku: -No, stop it, stop it! I can stand up myself with my right foot!! Daisuke: -Ha? Your right foot...AH! Riku: -I only twisted it a little!! *Waaaaah* -I’m relieved!! Daisuke: -But your foot... Riku: -Stop it! Don’t touch it! Daisuke: -But...*sweat drop* -[amazingly stubborn isn’t she.] -[She’s completely different than her sister.] -Harada-san, climb on. page 19 Riku: No, no!! I’m absolutely too heavy!! Daisuke; -It’ll be fine. -I want to try to return even in the fog. We have to hurry and meet up with everyone... Riku: *yeah* -I told you I’m heavy! I’ll have to get off if I hurt you. Daisuke: -It’s ok. Riku: -But I’m heavy! Daisuke: -Ok, ok. *sweat drop* Other students: -Harada-saaan...Niwa-kuuuun... -HARADA-SAAAN...! page 20 -HARADA-SAAN! NIWA-KUUUN! *can you hear Sensei’s voice?* Takeshi: -Daisukeee! Risa: -Riku-chaan! ?: -This is an emergency! Satoshi: -...Sensei... Sensei: -What is it Hiwatari-kun?!! (So that’s what he takes his little notes about.... I bet he’s got a whole notebook full of his daily observances of everything Daisuke does O_o Go geek boy go!...) Satoshi: -At 11:45 and 23 seconds Niwa and the older Harada fell from a fence by the cliff’s edge. -The cause was that the younger Harada’s hat was taken when a strong wind arose. The older Harada’s hand slipped and Niwa who was supporting her was also... (So that’s what he takes his little notes about.... I bet he’s got a whole notebook full of his daily observances of everything Daisuke does O_o Go geek boy go!...) Takeshi: - You dumb ass Hiwatari! You give us the explanation at a time like this?!!(um, he uses form of you that would translate to ‘you bastard’) -They could be dead! Do you understand that?! (and Satoshi is so perfectly calm^_^) page 21 Sensei: -AAaah! What will I tell their parents?!! *nothing like this has ever happened* Girl: -Sensei, we’ll all made a mistake together. (either that or we’ll apologize together) Takeshi: -Here goes! Lets split up and search!! *something something kanji this camera is tops* Satoshi: -It would be wiser for all of to search together than to disperse. We might end up new victims... Girl in background?: *Yeah, yeah!* Takeshi: -*Gu...* Satoshi: -Lets leave quickly to descend the mountain and search for... Takeshi: -*YEAH, I GET THE POINT* Satoshi: -[ Out of range...] -[How inconvenient, it goes in and out...] Risa: -[Niwa-kun, Rikuu...] -[It’s all because of my hat...] -[I hope those two are safe.....] page 22 Daisuke: -Haa, -Haa Riku: - careful Niwa-kun...Isn’t this path is a little steep...? Daisuke: -Yeah...but... -It’s better to get care for your foot quikly...This way is... much...faster... -Haah, Riku: -But we don’t know what could happen... Daisuke: -[I’m sweating...] -[We’ve been going up for 20 minutes...] -Harada-san, does your foot not....still hurt? Riku: -[You truly made more progress...] (I don’t think that’s it...she’s saying daisuke is absolutely more something though) page 23 -[It still hurts because of Nee-san. It hurts because she decides everything.] (or looks better, which makes sense too) -[But I’ll do my best for you.] -It isn’t healed. Daisuke: -Eeh? Riku: -[I know.] -[We’ve become 2nd year students, and since we’re in the same class.] -[I understood] -[They were always doing frivolous, essentially bad things] (Takeshi and Sekimoto goofing off) -[while you were working in ernest] Daisuke: %Harada-san!!% page 24 Riku: -[But you can seem timid...but you’re not a coward.] -[Always properly considering......] Daisuke: -Ha -Ha -...Harada-san...I’m tired... -Just a but since it flat he... -Hey, Harada-sa... Riku: -Stop calling me “Harada”! -I can’t tell if it’s me or Risa you mean. page 25 Daisuke: -...... -...eh? -[Th-that was? Just then I was calm and...] -[Why is my heart beating like this...!?] Riku: -Niwa-kun? Daisuke: -[Oh no!! This feeling...] Riku: -NIWA-KUN!! Just a...! -[I’m going to TRANSFORM!!!] page 26 -[Why?] -[I thought my instincts were supposed to react to Risa...!] -[What’s changed since then?!!] Riku: -Hey...wait Niwa-kun where are... -...Ou -ch... sign: This body is With. Riku: -...Niwa-kun...? page 27 Dark: -[Saaaved...I thought she’d find out...*thanks With*] Riku: -I wasn’t worried about the steep slope, -...But...where’d you go off to...? -Niwa-kun are you understanding me? sign: deaf in the head Dark: -With...! Right!! It’s the right one!! With: -Eh, what? Left? -That’s no it? Dark: -*That’s not it* Noooooo!! page 28 Risa: -[Niwa-kuuun, Riiikuuu] Satoshi: -[It works!] sfx: kata ta Risa: *huh?* sfx: pilupilu... Saehara: -WHAT? -Do you need a search party?! Where’s ‘he’ going Supreme Commander? page 29 -[The fog is becoming quite thick...] -[With ‘him’ I think it’ll be all right. At too much expense of time.] (or time for official duties?) Risa: -Wait! Hiwatari-kun where... -We’re not supposed to leave everyone... Satoshi: -...Shh. Risa: -[...Wh...what’s he-!!] -[Damn!] -...Niwa-kun... -Why did we suddenly become more lost? *?* page 30 Dark: -[Harada-san’s progressed quite a bit...(again, I don’t think that really makes sense) Her foot...maybe it hurts...] -[They’re rapidly going off course] -[Harada-san looks terrible] -[But, I can’t come out of here...] -[THE SOUND OF WATER!?] Riku: -Hey, Niwa-kun why don’t you say anything. You’ve become so anxious. -Hey, Dark: -[NO!!] -[THE FOOTING THERE IS...!!] page 31 sfx: gara Riku: -KYAAAAAAA!!! With: -Poni! Dark: -Harada-sa... sfx: kyu -[I don’t care if she finds out] -[Right now it could be really horrible...] page 32 -RIKU-SAN...!! -[could be horrible...] -WITH... -COME TO ME...!! page 34 sfx: kata Satoshi: -The search......was a waste......it seems. Dark: -Rescued...just in time... Riku: -Niwa... -kun... page 35 -[I hour after that] -[Me and Hara...Riku-san met Sensei and the others at the base of the mountain.] Sekimoto: -*Daisuke!* Sensei: -Harada-san!! Niwa-kun! Are you all right!!? Takeshi: -DAISUKE! Risa: -Rikuuuu- Kid: *?* *yeah, yeah* Risa: -*waan* -*Sorry Niwa-kun!* Daisuke: -*Harada-san’s hat...* Takeshi: -*come here, come here Daisuke!* Sekimoto: -*you...* Daisuke: -[Riku-san’s hurt foot is not very serious.] -[The time of the fall from the cliff...Riku-san was a little down.] -[No one found out about me and Dark.] page 36 -[The words Dark said] -[at the time of “merely becoming a spirit and returning to the origin” (Ok, I’m not really sure how to puzzle that out...unless he’s referring to the first time Daisuke transformed.) Dark: -%Are you my rival?% Daisuke: -[I... possibly...] -[maybe was stealing something else.] -[That is----] -[From somewhere became the chime of a declaration of war.] -[At that time I was encouraged...The chime had begun to sound...] End of D.N.Angel 2 chapter 1