Tougen Anki, chapter 255 translation
255 Unbendable will
Kuroba: How about 66 thousand yen for this oni then?
Rokuro: Just put me 6 feet under...
Kuina: I keep telling I'm buying!
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Box: His heart couldn't take the sudden loud bang
Kuina: Rokuroo!!!
Buyers: What?! | What happened?!
Kuroba: Oh, it is you.
Buyers: Who's that guy?! | A Momotarou grunt?! | How do you even educate them!
Kuroba: Ladies and gentlemen, no reason for worry... Nothing much has...
Kuroba: What exactly were you about to do to my precious merchandise?
Kuina: There'd hell to pay if it hit Rokuro!
Tougo: It's no merchandise. It's an oni. And oni are to be put down on sight.
Kuroba: I provide oni, and my customers buy them and put them to use. It is a properly established business. Besides, the endresult is the same. The oni I sell are used in experiments at the end of which they die.
Tougo: Oni aren't something amateurs should be allowed to handle. Civilians might get dragged into it if one of them escapes and goes berserk. My goal is to create a world where no one loses their loved ones to oni. And I don't care about your money-making circumstances. What's more, should I interpret your actions as your disregarding the Momotarou Agency's mission, that is, exterminating oni and providing protection to the general public from the oni threat?
Kuroba: I do my duty. We simply make money off the process of oni extermination, is all.
Tougo: All you care about is profit. You fail as a Momotarou.
Buyers: Hey, what are you wasting our time for! | Resume the auction already!
Kuroba: I beg you pardon, dear customers. In just a few moments we shall...
crash bang
Buyers: Uaaaa! | Waaaa! | Damn, run! | We're under attack!
Kuroba: Good gracious... My sources of revenue are escaping.
Rokuro: Gyaa! I'll get crushed and diiie!
Kuina: Calm down, Rokuro! She's...
Homare: I apologize for scaring you... Are you okay, Kiriyama-san, Sazanami-san?
Rokuro: Oh... It's Byoubugaura-san... What a relief...
Rokuro: Hh!
Shiki: Who could've imagined I'd run into you here. I missed ya, you unblinking bastard!
Tougo: Ichinose... I knew it, oni are best put down on sight. My fears came true and this one actually escaped. What will you say now?
Kuroba: Mnn... Merchandise management methods are not among the services we provide. After we receive the money and complete the handover, it's not our concern anymore.
Tougo: So you don't even consider the possibility of escaped oni inflicting harm on civilians, huh... Even though some humans will undoubtedly be left injured and despairing in the wake of that happening... It's to avoid that... that prompt and decisive extermination of oni is in order...
Shiki: Byoubugaura! Take these two and run!
Homare: Eh... But...!
Homare: Please hold on tight!
Kuina: Huh?
Homare: It's going to be a rocky ride!
Rokuro: Are you sure about leaving Shiki-kun behind like this...?!
Homare: (Fighting right after having suffered such massive bloodloss... it goes without saying that it would be much better if Ichinose-san just escaped with us... But... Those eyes were the eyes of someone resolved to fight... The eyes of the one entrusting everything else to me... Then there is only one thing I need to be doing right now...) He's going to be okay...! Let's have faith in him while we focus on making our getaway safely!
Kuroba: Good gracious, what a way to ruin it all. Let's see...
Box: I wouldn't mind making some more money off Ichinose. But it is highly likely that Tougo will interfere. Among the oni that escaped 2 are female... Females are worth more. Worst case scenario, I can sell off Ichinose even as a corpse.
Kuroba: All right, I will pursue the escaped oni, while you can take care of things here.
Shiki: Earlier, you were spouting all that jazz about people despairing and stuff because of oni. Must've felt real good, no? Judging and preaching all that righteous stuff. But your arbitrary assuming us always in the wrong just because you're saying the right things... and one-sidedly hunting us down ain't something I can accept! If you come at me with the intent to kill me, then I'll do the same!
Tougo: I can't allow you oni to exist.