Tougen Anki, chapter 243 translation
243 A cold room
Shiki: Eh...? Where... am I...?! What the hell's with the bindings?! Wait, the damn collar again! Ow...! (Oh right... I lost to that guy...) Right... Ugaargh! That bastard! I'll avenge myself, I swear, just you wait!
Rei: Shut up.
Shiki: Mn? That voice. Is that you, Rei? They got you, too, huh? You should've just escaped while I was fighting. ...Wait, could it be that you...! You didn't want to abandon me, and that's why...
Rei: Are you dumb?
Shiki: What'd you call me, you prick?!
Rei: You were blabbering about revenge and stuff just now... But it's impossible.
Shiki: Wh-What are you people?!
Chairman: To think we'd get our hands on not one but two Children of Kishin. Lady Lucky smiled upon us.
Secretary: If the Momotarou Agency catches the wind of this, I'm afraid we will be forced into a difficult position, sir...
Box: Soukoku Pharmaceuticals, in front of the Chairman's office
Chairman: Never mind that. We're financing them. They'll have to be somewhat accommodating of our little whims and look the other way. Get the experiments underway on the double before they come and collect those two by force. It's our chance to make a breakthrough in the research where using regular oni yielded no progress.
Box: Soukoku Pharmaceuticals Chairman Kishiba Shinichi
Chairman: If it goes well, we'll secure vast profits for ourselves forevermore...
Researcher1: All right, let's get started right away.
Researcher2: Let's first see if his blood undergoes any particular change when he's in pain.
Shiki: What do you plan on starti... UGHAAAAA!
Researcher1: He had his blood drawn out to the limit so be careful of where and how much you cut. You won't be getting away with just being fired if you let him die.
Researcher2: Scary~~
Researcher3: Like with other oni, no relevant change observed in the blood due to pain.
Researcher1: The healing is slow due to most of his blood having been extracted.
Researcher2: Still faster than other oni's though.
Researcher1: All right, next. Give me the drill.
Shiki: Stop... St... hhh!!!
Chairman: How is the other Child of Kishin doing? We're doing the experiments on them in turns alternating between the two of them precisely to see how fear impacts their blood. ...Ohh. He's utterly composed, huh.
Secretary: His heart rate is within the normal range even in a situation like that... He's so calm he might as well be relaxing at home...
Chairman: What a weird fellow. I hear he kept his cool on the way here and even wished, of his own accord, to be taken here... What's his goal here?
Shiki: (It hurts so damn bad I can't even black out... Why do I have to be put through this just because I'm an oni...)
Researcher1: His leg's almost back to normal.
Researcher2: To think something like this is possible on so little blood in him. Oni are monsters, but these Children of Kishin sure are the monsters among monsters...
Researcher1: Any changes in his emotional state readings due to the pain?
Researcher3: They're running higher than for regular oni.
Researcher1: Be careful. If he goes berserk, that'll be it.
Researcher2: I'll give him a shot of medical-use cannabis just in case.
Shiki: (What the heck is this... Why are these guys even capable of doing something like this...)
Researcher2: Well, doing this to a child really pains me, you know.
Researcher1: Yeah, right.
Researcher3: Oni are basically the same as atrocious mass murderers. No need to waste any kindness on creatures like this. The Momotarou Agency is engaged in similar research, too. And the results of our research will fall into their hands anyway. So if anything, we're doing the world a favor and helping achieve the world peace.
Researcher1: Right, right. You can tell your kids they can be proud of their daddy because daddy is a champion of justice who defeated evil oni.
Shiki: (This is justice...? This helps achieve the world peace...? This is doing the world a favor...?! This is fucked up...! As if I can ever accept a justice like this....hh!) AAAAAAA!
Researcher2: Isn't he about to go berserk?
Researcher1: Shoot him up with more medicinal cannabis.
Shiki: (If you claim this is justice... ) You people...
Researcher1: Hm?
Shiki: You're prepared for what's to come, yeah...?!
Researcher2: Prepared for what?
Researcher1: Pay no attention. He can't do anything anyway.
Shiki: Like hell I'd die in a place like this...!
Researcher1: Oh, but you will.
Shiki: My friends... will come to get me...!
Researcher2: Criminals sure are partial to the feeling of camaraderie, aren't they.
Researcher1: Yeah, sure, let's hope they will come for you. All right, next, let's take out his eyeball...
Homare: Isn't that... Eek... What happened here, I wonder...
Sis: Grawr!
Homare: Is something wrong, oneechan...? Blood...?! And the bloody tracks go on...?! I-Is this Ichinose-san's blood...? Did he get... c-caught up in something...?! Wh-wh-what should I do... Ichinose-san got mixed up in some trouble because of me... If only I could act smart and decisive...
Sis: Grawr.
Homare: But... it was I who was with him right before he got in trouble... If he had been with someone else, nothing like that would have happened in the first place... I'm so sorry... I'm nothing but a burden... what can I even do... What's wrong, oneechan?
Sis: Grar!
Homare: Eek! B-But...
Sis: Grar grar!!
Homare: I'm sorry!
Sis: Graawr!
Homare: I have better things to be doing than wallowing in self-loathing...?
Sis: Graw Graw!!!
Homare: Did I forget what you said to me before, you ask..?
Sis in flashback: Live depending on others and be there for others to depend on you.
Homare: Right... This is precisely the time when I need to try my hardest... I'm the only one who can come to Ichinose-san's rescue right now, after all... Ahh, but is it even feasible to someone like me...
Sis: bite
Homare: Kya! O-Okay... Let's just try our best...
Sis: Grawr!
Homare: Let's go s-save Ichinose-san...!
Box: Soukoku Pharmaceuticals. Branch office in Toyosu. Laboratory. Underground detention facility
Inou: Is somebody here for me to give me my last rites at long last...? This warm presence... Enki-sama... how dearly have I missed you...