#i just had to draw him looking as anemic as he ought to be with that wound!!!

[doodlingfoolishness]

She came back… the kid came back.

[imitranslates]

Fukigen na Mononokean Ch. 70

Finally a peek into Sakae’s past, and maybe a storm brewing in the background?

Please remember to check out the official English release when it comes out, preferably on Crunchyroll if you’re able to!

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Fukigen na Mononokean Chapter 70 - Sunflow

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Neighbor: Good evening.

Dog: Woof, woof!

Nara: Good evening.

Dog: Whine, whine...

(Could you please tell me what you know about Ashiya Sakae back when he had gold hair and eyes?)

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Demon: Kyuukyuu...

Demon: Kyuu!

Ashiya: Furyuu-san!

Furyuu: Kyu.

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Ashiya: If there's anything on this food menu

that you want to eat, please tell me!

Furyuu: Kyuu!

(Ashiya: There's Japanese food, Western food, and Chinese food.)

Furyuu: Kyu!

[A karaoke place has private rooms, so no one will bother us...]

Furyuu: Kyuu...

Mononokean: "Before I go the Underworld, I want to eat delicious food from the Mundane world! Kyuu!"

Is what our client says.

[And the menu is expansive, so it's the perfect place for him to enjoy a dinner!]

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Furyuu: Kyu!

Ashiya: Pizza!

Furyuu: Kyu!

Ashiya: Chinese fried rice!

Furyuu: Kyu!

Ashiya: Yakisoba!

Furyuu: Kyu!

Ashiya: Fries and onion rings...

Abeno: ...Will you be able to eat that much...?

Phone: Ring, ring!

Furyuu: !?

Abeno: !

Furyuu: Kyu!

(Abeno: This ringtone belongs to...)

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Phone: (continues ringing)

[Mom]

Ashiya: !

Ashiya: ......

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Ashiya: Excuse me.

Abeno: ...?

Abeno: Is it okay to decline it?

Ashiya: ......

Ashiya: I'm working, so...

Ashiya: I'll get back to her later.

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Abeno: (That stilted speech...)

(Abeno: He's acting weird.)

Ashiya: Furyuu-san, what would you like to drink?

Abeno: .....

Furyuu: Kyuu!

Abeno: (It seems like Ashiya's mother hasn't responded

To the message I wrote this morning on his behalf...)

(In that case, that incoming phone call was probably...)

(Ashiya: Anything besides alcohol is OK.)

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Furyuu: Kyuuu!

Ashiya: Furyuu-san, please eat your fill!

Furyuu: Kyu!

(Abeno: How many people could this feed...?)

Furyuu: Kyu!

Furyuu: Kyu!

Furyuu: Kyu!

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(Furyuu: Kyu.)

Ashiya: You cleared all your plates!!

Furyuu: Kyu!!

Abeno: To eat all of that at your size... I truly underestimated you...

Ashiya: You have quite the appetite, Furyuu-san!

Ashiya: Do you want another helping?

Ashiya: There's also dessert.

Ashiya: ...Furyuu-san?

Furyuu: Kyupupu...

Ashiya: ...Don't tell me...?

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Furyuu: Kyupu.

Ashiya: Where's the restroom!?

Ashiya: Over there!

Furyuu: Kyupu...

Furyuu: Kyurororo.

Furyuu: Kyurorororo.

Abeno: ...

(Please excuse us for a moment...)

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Furyuu: Kyu... Kyuu...

Abeno: You overate.

Furyuu: Kyuu...

Ashiya: He's still feeling unwell, huh..

Abeno: I'll allow him to rest for a while before exorcising him to the Underworld.

Ashiya: Please sleep until your condition improves...

Furyuu: Kyuu...

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Abeno&Ashiya: ......

Ashiya: ...Abeno-san, would you like something to drink?

Abeno: I'm fine.

Abeno: ...Hm.

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Abeno: We're taking a break from work right now, so

Abeno: Here you go.

Ashiya: !

Ashiya: ......

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Nara: Hello.

Ashiya: Oh!! How was work today!!

Ashiya: It's me!!

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Ashiya: Please forgive me for not being able to take your call earlier...!

Nara: (It's fine.) Were you busy...?

Do you have a little time to talk?

Ashiya: Yes!

Nara: ...After you come home would be fine, too, but...

I thought it would be easier to talk over the phone...

Nara: ......

Nara: I read the message you sent me this morning...

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Nara: Hanae... Why do you know that Sakae used to have gold hair and eyes?

Ashiya: Eh?!

Nara: I've never told you that, you know?

Ashiya: Oh, about that... I heard it from my sister?!

Nara: I don't think she would have told you that either...

Ashiya: Oh, it wasn't her? Maybe it was a customer at the shop, then?

Nara: ...I see... So one of our customers is someone who knew the old Sakae...

Nara: Well, he did stand out...

Nara: ...Me, too...

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Nara: When I first laid my eyes on Sakae-kun in high school,

I was surprised by his gold hair and eyes...

Ashiya: ! (High school..?!)

Ashiya: Mom, you attended the same high school as my dad!?

Nara: Yeah. Our years were different, but we went there together.

Ashiya: (Then she knew Sakae when he had gold hair and eyes...!)

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Ashiya: (If so, then...)

Ashiya: (I might hear something about how Sakae came to attack demons!)

Abeno: !?

Ashiya: (I'll put the call on speaker and...)

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Ashiya: Mom, if you don't mind,

Ashiya: I'd like you to tell me about Dad back then...!

Nara: ...I see.

Nara: I haven't told you about it before now,

Nara: but since you want to know, Hanae... I'll tell you.

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Nara: ...I...

Nara: When I saw Sakae-kun, who looked like a sunflower...

Nara: I fell in love at first sight!

Ashiya: Ngh?!

(Abeno: Like a sunflower...?)

Nara: When we met, I was in my second year...

Nara: On that day, I'd fainted from anemia soon after reaching school...

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Nara: Uuuugh...

Nara: (This splitting headache...)

Nara: (It's cold...

I feel so awful...)

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Nara: (Whenever I come to school, I feel anemic...)

Nara: (Medicine doesn't have any effect,

and the hospital can't find anything wrong...)

Nara: Uuu...

[It hurts...]

[Why...

Why do I have]

[Such a horrible condition all of a sudden...?]

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Sakae: Disappear...

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Nara: Kyaa!? Who's there?!

Sakae: !?

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Sakae: ...So you were awake...

Nara: ....

[Golden...]

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[This guy...]

[His hair and eyes are golden...]

[Just like a sunflower...]

Sakae: ......?

[Currently admiring.]

(Nara: Hieee... (wonderment))

Sakae: ?

Sakae: ?

Sakae: ......

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Sakae: How...

are you feeling?

Nara: How am I...?

Nara: Now that you mention it, my chills and headache and nausea are gone?!

Sakae: ...

Nara: My condition always goes downhill when I enter the school, but

Nara: I'm glad I recovered so quickly today! (I might even be able to participate in P.E.!)

Nara: (Could it be?) Maybe when you gave me that shock, you cured me!

Nara: Thank you! Umm... Sunflower-kun!

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(Sakae: Sunflower-kun...?)

Sakae: .......

Sakae: My name is Ashiya. (Don't give me a weird nickname...)

Nara: (What a coincidence?!) I'm Ashiya, too!

I'm a second year in class 2, Ashiya Nara! What about you?

Sakae: ......

First year, Ashiya... Sakae.

Sakae: ...Hey.

Sakae: Does your health always have problems like today?

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Nara: Yeah...

Nara: From around the time I started high school, I started fainting a lot due to anemia.

Nara: And lately, even when I'm away from the school, my back will suddenly feel heavy and I won't be able to move,

Or my legs with seize up and I'll fall down on a totally flat path,

Or I'll feel itchy, like something is trying to move through my body...

Sakae: I see, so it's like that...

Sakae: Your constitution makes it easy for you to get drained....

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Sakae: ...Senpai.

Sakae: While you're still feeling well,

You ought to hurry back to your classroom...

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(If you're here, you'll become even more drained.)

Ashiya: ......

[Mom can't see demons,

So she misunderstood Sakae's words...]

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(He meant that her constitution makes her easily drained by demons...)

Abeno: ......

Abeno: ......

Abeno: (Ashiya Sakae...)

[Used his influence to kill demons to help humans...

...Was that sense of justice his motive for attacking demons?]

[When I saw his remnant back then, rather than having that sort of justification,

It felt as though he had a much darker reason behind his actions...]

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Nara: Because of that...

Abeno: !

Nara: I returned to my classroom like Sakae-kun said.

Nara: There, I told my classmate about Sakae-kun.

"I fell in love at first sight!" I said.

Nara: My classmate's face turned downcast...

Nara: She told me not to have anything to do with him,

Nara: And that misfortune would inevitably befall any person that gets close to him.

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Nara: In truth... His family died in mysterious circumstances, and the relative that took him in suffered from an unknown illness and was constantly going in and out of the hospital.

One after another, his friends suffered from poor health or got injured in accidents...

Nara: That's why people began to secretly call him a "God of Death" and avoid him...

...I heard.

Ashiya: (Could the source of it be...?)

Abeno: .......

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Nara: That's everything I remember clearly,

About Sakae back when he had gold hair and eyes.

Nara: The second time we met, Sakae's hair and eyes had become black...

Furyuu: Kyu.

Furyuu: Kyu.

Nara: ...Did you have anything else to ask me?

Ashiya: .....

Ashiya: ...Yeah.

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Ashiya: But that's more than enough for today.

Ashiya: ...I'll make sure to ask you next time.

Furyuu: Kyu!

Ashiya: Yeah...

Ah, I'm still at school.

Ashiya: Okay...

Furyuu: Kyu?

Ashiya: Okay... I'll see you later.

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Furyuu: Kyuu!

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Abeno: That story before...

Abeno: If the misfortunes occurring around Ashiya Sakae,

were a tragedy caused by a demon...

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Abeno: I can see how he'd come to think that demons had to be exterminated.

Ashiya: .....

(He lost his connections to the people he cherished because of demons...)

Ashiya: To Sakae, demons...

Ashiya: ...were probably the source of his misfortune and loneliness, huh?

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(Since he was someone who had experienced that suffering firsthand...)

(He surely couldn't leave Mom alone, when he saw her suffering from possession...)

Sakae: ((Uwah...) I thought I felt an awful lot of demons around...

Does this person draw demons toward them...?)

Ashiya: ...!

Ashiya: ...In that case, demons are...

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Abeno: Ashiya.

Abeno: Haven't you realized something?

Ashiya: Even if demons were responsible for stealing away his bonds with people,

They were also the Cupid that tied those two together in love!

Abeno: !?

Abeno: (Ah?)

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Ashiya: If demons didn't exist, I wouldn't have been born!

So it's thanks to them that I'm here today!

Abeno: (I'm an idiot for trying to talk to this 5 year old seriously.)

[The person in question, trying his best to have a serious conversation.]

Ashiya: I wonder how those two ended up hooking up...?

Abeno: ......

Ashiya: Maybe Mom confessed? (She did fall in love at first sight...)

Ashiya: It'd be really troublesome if demons kept interfering with their dates, though...? Hmm... I'm curious...

Abeno: You... Why don't you walk home today...?

Ashiya: Huh, why? I wanted you to send me back. (With the Mononokean, it's like woosh...)

Abeno: Don't make me look at your idiotic face any longer. Hurry up and leave in the next 10 seconds. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6...

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Nara: !

Ashiya: Thank you for telling me so much today.

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Ashiya: Right now, I'm walking home from school...

Ashiya: I'm hungry! I wanna eat omlete rice~

Nara: Come back home soon,

Hanae~