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BLEACH 424. The Lost Agent
空座町 午前7時 月曜日
黒崎一護/17歳
髪の色/オレンジ
瞳の色/ブラウン
職業/高校生
ユウレイは、 見えない。
寝起きの一護 眠ぃと一言。
センターカラー、1話目と同じ感じでイチゴが前面に、バックにキャラが数名（たつきとか石田と か）いるけど みんな後ろ向いてる。
制服に着替えた一護 台所までいくとゆずが制服姿でｼﾞｬｰﾝと登場。髪を後ろで二つに縛って る。
しかしそれにたいした反応をせず、醤油とってと一護。その態度に怒りながら醤油を渡す。
入学式の日まで制服姿を見せないでいたのに、今全然みてくれないお兄ちゃんなんか知らないとい いつつも一護 にごはんをよそうゆず。
それに一護はファスナー開いてるぞ、ちゃんと見てるだろとボソリ。
そのやりとりを見てるかりん、自分の周りにくっついてるユウレイのメガネに箸をつきたてる。一 護はそれが見 えない。
そこへ大声でゆずの名を呼びながら、入学式にきていくスーツと、どの蝶ネクタイが似合うか聞い てくる。
ゆず、うん、いいんじゃないかな どうでも。と興味なさげ。一心ショック。
あの戦いから17ヶ月、１年とちょっと。高三になった一護。
死神の力のことはイチゴが寝てる間にチャドたちがケイゴたちに説明し、信じてくれたらしい。
何も言わずにそのことを受け入れてくれてうれしかったと一護。
家をでると水色が待っている。耳が髪で隠れていてルキアっぽい髪形に。
かりんとゆずは一心と中学へ。一護の霊力がなくなったころからかりんの霊力が強くなり、今では ハイスペック な霊媒体質はかりんのものに。
イチゴに相談しないとこからもうまく折り合いつけてやっていってるらしい。
学校につくとケイゴがダッシュで近づいてくる。挨拶しながらプロレス技をかます一護。
水色はクラスが違うらしく、また昼飯の時にと自分のクラスへ。
3-3と書かれた教室に入ると、たつきが一護に鉄拳持ってきた？ときいてくる。かりんは空鶴くらいの 髪の長さに 。
持ってきた持ってきたといいながらバッグを開ける一護。そこには古びた死神代行証が。かりんに 鉄拳を返す一 護。
代行証は返しそびれていて、死神の力を失ってからは代行証の機能も停止したらしく、視覚防壁も 警報もならな くなってただの板になっている。
ただこれがイチゴが死神だったことを証明する唯一の証拠でもある。
授業を受けながら代行証を手で遊ばせていた一護。そのとき石田！どこいく！という声が。
保健室ですといいつつ走り去る石田。（クラスが一緒かは不明）
今は石田が虚退治をしている。アフロは想像以上に頼りにならないらしい。
そしてあれからルキアは一度も空座町にきていない。
屋上でケイゴと進路の話をする一護。一護は入学したころは成績よかったけど１年後半から落ちた もんなーとケ イゴ。
あの頃は色々忙しかったんだよ、それにまだ中の上だと一護。そこでルキアちゃん何してんだろう なとケイゴが つぶやく。
なんでそこでルキアがでてくんだよと一護。あれから一度も顔見せないとか冷たくね？とケイゴ。
空座町の担当は外れてるんだから普通だろと一護。淋しくね？ときくケイゴに淋しいわけねえだろ と一護。
16年かけて手に入れた普通の生活。このまま死ぬまで平和結構と一護。それもそーだ、俺もあんな怖 い思いも うしたくねえしとケイゴ。
ユウレイが見えて優越感はなかった、それで食っていこうとも思わなかったし、誰かを助けたいと も思ったこと はなかった。
見えない生活にはあこがれていた、俺は憧れたものになれたんだと一護。
一護、ケイゴ、水色三人の帰り途中、目の前からバックを持った男がすり抜ける。それを追いかけ る大柄な男。
水色にバックを預けると、逃げる男を追いかける一護。
追いつき肩に手をかけ振り向いたとこを殴る。倒れた男は立ち上がりざまナイフで反撃するが、
それをナイフの切っ先をうまく指の間に通し、ナイフを持った手をそのまま受け止めもう一度殴る 。
死神の頃、勝つために鍛えた体と反射神経は今でも残っていて、これも死神だったことを証明する もののひとつ 。
バッグを持ち主である背の高い男に返す一護。オールバックの髪形をした男はお礼をいいつつ、ラ ーメンとかお ごってやるよと上機嫌。
あとで怒られると面倒なんで殴ったこと内緒にしてくださいと誘いを断り去る一護。
そうか、残念だなと男。一護が去ったあとバッグを持ち上げると開いたファスナーから一護と同じ 死神代行証が 。
意外と用心深いんだなぁ、黒崎一護とつぶやく男と、BLEACH424. The Lost Agent 死神代行消失篇という題字で次号。
BLEACH Chapter 424. The Lost Agent
Karakura Town, 7am, Monday
Kurosaki Ichigo/17 years old
Hair Color/Orange
Eye Color/Brown
Occupation/High School Student
As for spirits, I can’t see them (TN: this is exactly the same as the first chapter of Bleach, save for his age and inability to see spirits)
Ichigo wakes up, saying “I’m sleepy”
Center color looks similar to the one from the first chapter – Ichigo is in front, with numerous characters in the background (such as Tatsuki and Ishida), but everyone is facing towards the bacl.
Ichigo changes into his school uniform. When he goes to the kitchen, Yuzu appears in her uniform and goes “ta~da!”. She has her hair tied back in 2 pigtails.
However, Ichigo doesn’t give much of a reaction to that and just asks her to pass the soy sauce. Yuzu gets angry with him over that as she passes him the soy sauce.
“I went through all that effort to keep what I look like in my new uniform a secret, and now that I’m showing it to you, you won’t even look at me! I’ve never seen a brother like that,” Yuzu passes Ichigo the rice.
At that, Ichigo murmurs, “I’m looking alright, and your zipper’s open”
Karin watches this exchange, and pokes her chopsticks at the glasses of a spirit that is hovering around her. Ichigo does not see this at all.
Isshin appears, calling Yuzu’s name loudly, asking which bowtie he should wear with the suit he is wearing to her entrance ceremony.
Yuzu: “Yeah, it’s alright, either one is fine”, she doesn’t seem interested at all. isshin is shocked.
It has been 17 months since that battle, a little over a year. Ichigo has become a third year student.
With regards to his Shinigami powers, when Ichigo was sleeping, Chad and the rest had told Keigo and the rest all about it, seeming to trust them with it.
Ichigo says that he’s happy that they had accepted it without saying anything.
Mizuiro is waiting for him outside when he leaves the house, he has a new hairstyle with his ears hidden by his hair, a little like Rukia.
Karin and Yuzu go to the middle school with Isshin. Ever since Ichigo lost his spiritual powers, Karin’s has gotten stronger, and Karin now has hi-spec spiritual disposition.
She doesn’t discuss it with Ichigo, so it seems they have reached some sort of mutual understanding on the matter.
When they reach school, Keigo comes dashing towards them. Ichigo does a pro-wrestling move as he greets him.
It seems Mizuiro is now in a different class, so he heads to his own class saying “see you at lunch”
Inside a classroom labeled 3-3, Tatsuki asks if Ichigo has brought the Tekken (TN: fist? it’s also the name of a game). Karin (TN: I think this might be a typo. 69ruma might mean Tatsuki) hair is now as long as Kuukaku’s.
Ichigo opens his bag saying “I brought it, I brought it”. In his bag is the old Shinigami replacement identification. Ichigo passes the Tekken to Karin (TN: Tatuski?)
He didn’t get a chance to return the shinigami replacement identification , and since he lost his powers it has stopped working as well, it’s just a wooden plank now that it can neither serve as an alarm, and now normal people can see it too.
But it is also the only remaining proof that Ichigo was once a shinigami.
Ichigo absently plays with the badge even during lessons. Suddenly, there is a voice, “Ishida! Where are you going!”
Ishida runs away shouting “Nurse’s office!” (it’s not clear whether they are in the same class)
Now Ishida has taken on the role of Hollow purifications. It seems the afro dude is even more unreliable than expected.
And since that day, Rukia has not come by Karakura town even once.
Ichigo talks about university choices on the roof with Keigo. Keigo: “Ichigo, your grades had been good when we first entered high school, but somewhere in the middle of the first year you started failing”
Ichigo: “I was busy with all sorts of things then, and I’m still above average”
Keigo murmurs: “I wonder how Rukia-chan’s doing”
Ichigo: “Why are you suddenly bringing up Rukia?”
Keigo: “She’s so cold, she hasn’t even shown her face since that day”
Ichigo: ‘That’s to be expected, she’s no longer in charge off Karakura town.”
Keigo: “Aren’t you lonely?”
Ichigo: “No way”
Ichigo: “Only from the time when I was 16, did I finally get to live a normal life. I’m fine if I could live peacefully like this until I die.”
Keigo: That’s true, I don’t want to feel that sort of fear again”
Ichigo: “I never felt superior just because I could see spirits. I never thought of making a living off that either, and neither did I think of helping others with that power. I longed for a life where I couldn’t see spirits, and it’s come true”
A guy carrying a bag slips past Ichigo, Keigo, Mizuiro, who are on their way back to the classroom. A hefty guy is chasing after the other guy.
Ichigo passes his bag to Mizuiro and chases after the guy who is running away.
He catches up to the guy and punches by the guy when he turns around. The guy who falls to the ground stands up again and pulls out a knife to counterattack, but Ichigo manages to catch the knife’s blade between his fingers and stop the hand holding the knife and punch him again.
The body and reflexes he had trained as a shinigami in order to win are still with him, also another of the proofs that he was once a shinigami.
Ichigo returns the bag to the owner, who is the tall guy. His hair is all swept back, and he thanks Ichigo, and humorously says that he’ll even treat Ichigo to ramen.
Ichigo rejects the offer and walks away, adding that he’ll get into trouble so keep it a secret that he’d hit someone.
Guy: “I see, that’s a pity”
After Ichigo leaves, he opens the zipper of his bag, and just like Ichigo, he is holding onto a replacement shinigami identification.
Guy: “He’s a surprisingly wary one, isn’t he, that Kurosaki Ichigo”
BLEACH 424. The Lost Agent
The disappearance of the Shinigami Replacement arc.
