Ghost Hunt

Text Translation - Pages 32-54


*pokan* (Mai stands speechless)
Mai: ...
Shibuya: Take the mikes off and gather them together. I'll collect the stands.
Mai: ...What do use these mikes for?

Somehow I don't think it's for singing...

Whoa it's big...
Shibuya: Mikes are usually used to gather sound for recording if I'm not mistaken.
Mai: I don't mean like that

(I know that much already!)
Shibuya: It's dangerous to enter a haunted place that hasn't been carefully investigated beforehand.

Therefore, at first, we try to gather as much data as possible from the outside...

by recording internal sounds and setting video cameras.
Mai: Hmm.... Aren't you afraid? of haunted houses.

It's very different from the image I had...
Shibuya: Not really.

 

Mai: Why are you doing this sort of thing at your age?
*katcha* *katcha* (sound of mikes rattling together as Mai carries them)
Shibuya: Because there was a need for it.
*kippari* (states flatly)
Mai: B... but there must have been some cases that you couldn't solve?
Shibuya: None

I'm competent at what I do.
Mai: *twitch*

M...

...What the....

This guy...

He really pisses me off!


My~~! (voice breaks) That's quite something! Not only are you good looking but you're also very capable.
Shibuya: ...Do you really think...

I'm good looking?
Mai: Aren't you?

Everyone was making a big deal of it.
Shibuya: Hmm...

You don't have bad taste.
Mai: Why you...

 

Mai: ... What an... absolute...

Acting so superior...

Granted he's really good looking and his job status is also quite something, but what's with the "I'm number one" attitude?

Narcissist!!

Oh boy!

optional roses frame the image.

From now on, you're Naru-chan! Narcissistic Naru-chan!
Naru (Shibuya): Quit dawdling already!
Mai: Yes, yes coming.

*****
Mai: Hey...

I helped out like you asked. Isn't it enough?
Garatsu (Naru opens the van door)
Mai: I want to go ho...
Gashaa. (Naru gathers some lengths of metal revealing a van full of electronic equipment in the process).

 

Mai: ...What is all this~
Naru: Next we'll transfer the equipment.
Mai: ...wait!

You don't mean all of this!?
Naru: As much as is needed, all.
Mai: What part of all this is ghost hunting?

But are you able to use all this Na... Shibuya?

What is this an SF manga?
Naru: My brain's made differently from yours.

Let's go.
Mai: *gikun* (Twitches in fear)

....We're going inside?
Naru: Of course.

You don't need to worry. I won't send you on your own.
Mai: Even so....

 

Naru: What did I do to deserve this?

An old school building rumoured to be cursed

And some guy who calls himself a ghost hunter who's come to investigate

Just what...

have I gotten myself into!?

*cry*


 

*gishi* (the floor squeaks as Mai takes a step)
Mai: .... yikes. This place is feeling more and more like it really is...
*gara* (Naru opens the door to one of the rooms)
Naru: We'll use this room.
*gasha* (Naru places the metal lengths on a table).
Naru: Could you put the shelves together? I'll start bringing in the equipment.
Mai: You want me to stay here by myself!?
Naru: Did you want to bring in the equipment then? I'll have you know that some of it's close to 40 kg...
Mai: *whimper*

I'll take care of the shelves.

 

*katsu* *katsu* *katsu* (Sound of Naru's steps as he goes out to the van...).
Mai: It's still light outside...
I should be okay, right?
*GISHI*

*biku* (Mai recoils in fear and looks around the room).

*PASHI*
Mai: Kyaa...

 

Mai: Calm down...

It's nothing...
nothing
*katsun* *katsun*

*su*
(A hand opens the door quietly...)
Mai: Ah...

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