red_savant

-1-

Box: Saint Ursula’s High School for Girls [I assume this is part of the Mahora complex.  Weren’t the Black Lilies from Saint Ursula’s?]

Kagehisa: Makoto, you seriously think a monster’s gonna show up?

Splash: Seven Years Later

Makoto: It’s true, Sasaki-kun.

Already there have been ten girls attacked just from our school…

Kagehisa: Oh, that’s crap.  If stuff like that was going on, folks would be talking about it.

Makoto [Who is adorable and also perhaps the girl from that borrowing chapter in the Sports Festival?]: Like I said, the victims only get their underwear stolen from them.

Kagehisa: Ha!  That makes no sense.

But this guy must be pretty scary, yeah? [aside]A total badass.[/aside]

Splash: Many years have passed since that graduation day… even so, Mahora Academy is pretty much the same as always?

Kagehisa: You know, my big sis actually got attacked by a vampire around here a long time ago.  Or so she tells me, anyway.  It might still be around, who knows…

Makoto: S-stop that, you’re scaring me!

Kagehisa: Don’t worry.  If anything jumps out at us, I’ll beat it back where it came from.

Makoto: W-what’s this?

Kagehisa: Oh?

-2-

Kagehisa: Hii!

Kagehisa: Hau?!

Makoto: Kyaaa!

Kagehisa: Gyu…

Makoto: Aa… aah…

Makoto: Kyaaa!

Makoto: Eh…?

Makoto: Noooooo!

-3-

Splash: In the two years after the existence of magic and the Magical World was controlledly made public,

In places where the otherworld boundaries are weak on Earth, there was an increase in strange and unpredictable magical flow… and, from time to time, unexplained phenomena, Magical World citizens or magical beasts made the crossing unregulated.

Splash: Existing plans in place were not enough to counter the rapidly rising rates of magical crime, injury from magical beasts, and magical disasters.

However, within the chaos there arose a group of young women who worked to keep innocent civilians safe from harm.

Splash: Later, these young magical women came to be known as the Ministrae Negi.

-4-

Girls: Eeeh?!  Iinchou got attacked, too?!

A-are you okay?

Makoto: Y-yes… the same as everyone else…

Girls: So, just like that, without a sound, he stole all your underwear?

Makoto: Y-yeah…

Girls: And your boobs?  Your you-know-what?

Makoto: W-well, I…

Makoto: Y-yeah… I got felt up.

Girls: Aaaah, I knew it!

We’re dealing with a pervert here!  A pervy youkai!

What did he look like?

Makoto: Kind of like a big, squared-off tiger… it was really scary.

Girls: Eeh?  That’s really scary!  If something like that jumped out at me I think I’d die!

Oh, I heard from another girl who got attacked that it’s got huge ears, too!

Ew!

Girls: We’ve got a freak like that prowling around, and what are the cops doing about it?

They don’t even believe us when we tell them it’s youkai or monsters!

[Can’t quite read this one, but something about how the police chased a monster into the mountains and then came scurrying back home, maybe?]

No way!  They’re so useless… we have to call the JSDF! [Japan Self-Defense Force, which is Japan’s militia, essentially.]

Girls: Gah, can’t we do something, Iinchou? 

This makes one out of every three girls in our year that’s been attacked!  [Wow, small classes.]

If we go out in groups, we just get attacked in groups!

I’m so scared I barely want to come to school anymore!

Makoto: W-well, even if I say something…

Makoto: Aah…

Things are getting so bad…

Makoto: And I’m worried for my underwear, too…

Ah…

Kagehisa: Yo.

Come with me, Makoto.

-5-

Makoto: A… specialist?

Kagehisa: Right.  A monster extermination specialist!  I mean, we guys haven’t been able to do anything for you lot, so.

Makoto: S-Sasaki-kun, I didn’t know you were interested in this sort of thing. [Her aside is ‘Like Mu’, but I don’t catch the reference.]

Kagehisa: Dumbass!  I mean, monsters do exist, right?

Kagehisa: Ah, here we go.

Kagehisa: My big sis told me that her friend went abroad over there, and ever since she came back she’s been doing detective work.

Makoto: D-detective work?

Kagehisa: Yeah.  She’s a detective who specializes in monsters, youkai and other freaky shit.

Makoto: So people like that exist… they’re not just in manga…

Kagehisa: Excuse me!

Makoto: Maybe she’s not here?

Kagehisa: Nah, she said she’d be in when I called.

Oh, it’s open.

Kagehisa: Excuse me, I called earlier and made an appointment…

-6-

Kagehisa: U-um…

Yue: *snerk* Huh…?

What?

Yue: Mm?  Are you… a customer?

We’re closed today.

Oh…?  …Are you, perchance… Sasaki-san…?

Kagehisa: Y-yes.  It’s my pleasure… I’m her younger brother, Kagehisa.

Yue: I see, I see… can’t be helped, then.

Ah, wait just a minute, please.  I’ll make some tea.

Yue: Here, free of charge.

Put some hair on your chest, kid.

Makoto: Eh…

Kagehisa: Hey…

-7-

Yue: I see… on the way to and from school, female students are getting their underwear stolen by a monster…

Makoto: Hey, this is good!

Kagehisa: Wha-!

Yue: Certainly the number of incidents is far too high for any run-of-the-mill underwear thief…

Yue: Alright, then.  I’ll take this case.

Makoto: You will?!

Yue: Well, I don’t particularly want to.

Makoto: Eh?

Yue: I’ve been trying to get work with the ISSDA [International Solar System Development Agency], so truth be told, I really don’t have time for this sort of thing.

[Can’t read all of her aside, but I think she’s complaining about how she always got perfect scores on the tests ‘over there’, implying that there are entrance exams for the ISSDA and that she’s finding them difficult.]

I mean, I solve cases one or two at a time, and then something like this comes along…

Yue: Well, it’s not as though I can simply ignore it.  There certainly aren’t any other specialists in this field.

And I get paid for it, too.

Makoto: Ah…

Yue: Well then, let’s get started.  Show me to the place where you were attacked, please.

-7-

Yue: Ah, yes… this is definitely a job for me.

Yue: This is a magical beast user… no.

An insect user… perhaps.

Makoto: Insects?!

Kagehisa: Damn, that’s cool.  Something’s coming from her eye!

Kagehisa: Huh?  Hey, Yue-san, come take a look at this…

Yue: Hm?

Makoto: A long blonde hair…

Yue: I see…

Yue: It’s been a full day, but there should still be some mana residue…

…as I thought, Mazoku.

Yue: …This culprit will be more troublesome than I thought, it seems.

Makoto: Uh… well…

Yue: Don’t worry; all that means is that I’ll have to go all-out.  I’ll need help from the two of you, as well.

I’d like you to gather as much information about these incidents as you can by tomorrow.

-8-

Yue: Oh, this is splendid, you two.

To have gathered this much information in so short a time…

Makoto: Ehehe…

I guess it’s because I’m pretty popular, as the class rep…

Yue: With this, we can track the culprit’s movements.  We should be able to wrap this up tomorrow, even.

[She’s drinking yuzu (a sort of citrus fruit) and pepper juice.  Ew, Yue.  Ew.]

Makoto: That’s amazing!

Kagehisa: Maybe, but your mailbox is a disaster area, Yue-san.

Kagehisa: I mean, this stuff’s from today…

Oh?

[Can’t read the envelope, if it’s supposed to be legible.]

Kagehisa: Oh, hey, pictures with my big sis.  Wow… these must be you in middle school, huh, Yue-san?

Wow.

Kagehisa: Man, there are a lot of pictures of this one boy.

Makoto: You both look so happy!

Yue: We don’t have time to be looking at things that don’t matter.

Makoto: Is this boy your boyfriend, Yue-san?

-9-

Yue: Why would you assume that?!

Kagehisa: Seriously, he’s just a kid!

Makoto [being cute again]: Oh, I see… one-sided love?

Yue: No!

Makoto: But look how happy your smile is…

Yue: Hah…

Yue: All kids your age can smile like that.

You two should treasure the time you have like this.

Yue: Now come on, we’ve wasted enough time as it is!  Back to work!

Makoto: R-right!

Kagehisa: Aw yeah!

Kagehisa: I-Is he really gonna attack in broad daylight?  In a place like this?

Yue: I’ve cleared all the people out.

And he doesn’t seem to care about day or night, really.

-10-

Flask: For When Things Get Serious

Makoto: Hi…

Kagehisa: Wha…

Yue: I’m the type of person who gets stronger the more she drinks.

Kagehisa: If you drink that much, aren’t you gonna have to go to the bathroom?

Yue: We just have to settle this before that happens.  It works for me.

Kagehisa: Geh…

Makoto: U-um, Yue-san…

The truth is, there’s something I haven’t told you…

Makoto: If Sasaki-kun knew… I-I’d be really embarrassed, so I didn’t bring it up before, but… um…

Yue: Hm…

Yue: I see… not only was your underwear stolen, but your breasts were groped as well…

I feel like I’ve heard that somewhere before.

Makoto: I-is it really that common?! [Guessing, mostly.]

Yue: Hmph…

Yue: Excellent.  Adeat.

Kagehisa: Eh…

[Is that Yue’s Pactio hat?  Can’t be; there’s no reason for her to use the Orbis Sensualium Pictus in battle, and that would mean Negi never created a permanent Pactio.  The Adeat was for her Ariadne sword, so I guess she just added the hat in.]

Yue: Come out, underwear thief!

There’s no escaping my barrier!

-11-

Paio: Ehehehe…

I like your spunk, young lady.

Makoto: Hii…

Makoto: Kyaaaa?!

Kagehisa: T-that’s a real monster!  Are you shitting me?!

Yue: That was easier than I expected.  That’s rather a lot of tools for a mere underwear thief, don’t you think?

Let’s be honest – you’re a spy from somewhere or another, here to check out this place’s security, correct?

[aside]For the Empire or the Federation, perhaps, seeking to expand their influence.[/aside]

Paio: Eheheh.  A spy?  You give me too much credit.

I am simply a humble adherent to the Way of the Boobies.

Incidentally, I take the underwear as souvenirs.

-12-

Yue: Pah!

You’re nothing but an enemy of womankind!

Yue: Emittam!

Yue: Dios Tukos [Axe of Zeus]

Makoto: Kyaaaa?!

Kagehisa: Wh-wh-what was that?!

Yue: Magic.

Kagehisa: Magic?!

Makoto: Migyaa?!

Kagehisa: What is it now?!

Yue: Dragons’ Teeth.  They’ll protect you.

Paio: Gh!  A delayed spell with that kind of power…

Who on earth are you, little girl?!

-13-

Yue: Magical Detective Ayase Yue.

I don’t particularly care if you don’t know me on sight.

Paio: Nnnaah!

Yue: Emittam!

Yue: Iaculatio Fulgoris [Lightning Spears]

Paio: Wh…what?!

-14-

Yue: It’s over.

Yue: Emittam

Yue: Jovis Tempestas Fulgoriens [Jove’s Lightning Storm]

Paio: Muooh!

Th-this is bad!  Can’t be helped – off it goes!

Makoto: Yue-san, you’re amazing!

Yue: The robe is empty…

Yue (thinking): Damn… an empty shell?!

-15-

Yue: Impossible… To tear through all of my defenses with her bare hands…?!

Paio: Eheheh.  It’s no use being surprised.  This is my legendary tactic – the thousand blades whirring at the speed of sound to strip my targets.  I call it Soundless Stripping.

Yue: I should have known this person would still be causing trouble!

Yue: You…!

Paio: Ehehehe.  The type who can’t do anything naked, huh?  Oh, it gets worse, sweetie.

-16-

Yue: Ah… hey- stop-!

Aah?!

Paio: Ehehe.  Not bad at all… the thin layer of squishness above is a lovely contrast to the shape of the chest below.  What can I say?

Truly all boobies are wonderful.

Yue: N-no… aah…!

Yue (thinking): It’s hopeless… against this many arms…!

This… this is bad… she’s draining my strength, and all of the spells I stockpiled are…

Yue: E… Emi…!

Paio: Ehehehee!

Can’t let you do that.

Now, how about here…?

Yue: Aah?!

Yue (thinking): I-it’s no use… My strength…

It’s… it’s…!

-17-

Yue: It’s coming out!

Yue: Ow…

Yue: Eh?

[aside]It didn’t come out?[/aside]

Yue: Eh-

Splash: Saved before being ruined for marriage!  Who is this who has appeared in her time of need?!

Other splash: Next issue… the emotional conclusion!

Negima will continue next week.

-1-

Splash: Serialization begins again!  Only three chapters until the end!

Transcending time itself, back to the place of their parting…?!

Konoka: Uwaaaaaah…

Konoka: Asunaa…

Asunaaa…!

Negi: Gh… uh…

-2-

Asuna: H-hey, this is…

Right after I left…

Other folks: Eh…

Asuna: I…

I’m back…

-3-

Eva: Wha-

Ayaka: Eh…

A-Asuna-san?

But didn’t you just… I mean…

Ch-Chao-san… and there are two Eva-sans…

Konoka: A…su…na?

-3—4-

Splash: All the memories we’ve made since meeting each other are shining beautifully!

[Heh, I love Paru’s pose.]

-5-

Konoemon: Mahora Academy Girls’ Middle School, Class 3-A!

Konoemon: Attendance number 1,

Aisaka Sayo!

Sayo: Present!

Students: Wait, who is that girl?

Wait, the ghost one?

Konoemon: Attendance number 2,

Akashi Yuuna!

Yuuna: Present!!

Chao: Ahahaha!

-6-

Chao: I figured something like this might crop up, so in addition to my time machines,

I took the liberty of putting together a Concurrent Dimensional Travel device, the ‘Tokaisa’ [kanji reads ‘degree world machine’, so I assume it has something to do with dimensional plane angling or something], in my spare time!

Well, truth be told it was really hard to make, but you know how it is.  [aside]Eva-chin’s magic really helped, too.[/aside]

Chamo: How much of a genius is this girl anyway?

Chao: Anyway, here’s how this worked out!

Right branch: Timeline before the change

Chao label: Future Chao Linshen

Arrow label: Dimension Hop Machine

Eva label: Eva after a hundred years

Asuna label 1: Asuna after a hundred years

Main line change: Timeline after the world changed by Negi’s plan

Second arrow label: Time Hop Machine

Asuna label 2: Asuna, returned home

Negi label: Present Negi

Bubble label: Present

Left arrow label: Present timeline

Negi: I- I see.

Setsuna: B-but Chao-san…

Asuna: And Eva-chan from a hundred years from now…

Why would you go this far for me…?

100-years Eva: Heh… I was asked by the man who broke your promise.

Chao: Yeah… and I was brought there by Eva-nyan’s power.

100-years Eva: …Anyway, such a serious role didn’t suit you.

An idiot like you should just pass her days with her stupid little friends, living out a pointless life… and only after a whole life like that…

…should you die, ordinarily, in your bed.

-7-

Asuna: Ah…

Negi: U-um, but…

Chao-san, future Eva-san…

Negi: To have come from a different timeline as us…

What’s going to happen to you?

Chao: Well, I’m gonna head back to my own world.  I’m happy just seeing this one.  [Bullshit, Chao.]

Well, I guess I can stay until graduation, anyway.

Eva: I think I’ll borrow Chao’s Tokaisa and do some sightseeing, maybe see if there are any leftover Nagis lying around.

If I ever start feeling nostalgic, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to stop in here every now and again.

Chao: Anyway, Negi-bouzu, we’re not the ones you should be worrying about.

Eva: Right.  The next century won’t be a walk in the park for you either.

Eva: Well, good luck or whatever.

I’m going now.

Chao: I’ll see you off.

Asuna: W-wait, Eva-chan!

The Ne… I mean, the guy from that place… what the heck happened to him?

I thought he was supposed to be the same as you, wasn’t he?

Could something bad happen in the future…?

-8-

Eva: Pfft… calm down.  That one died satisfied.  [aside] Though he didn’t have you around.[/aside]

The one over here… well, that depends on you.

Or perhaps… even after receiving such a miracle as this, you’re still worried about the future?

Asuna: Uh…

Eva: Oh, right.  Boya, one thing about the future.

A hundred years from now… everyone will know you as a Magister Magi.

Negi: Eh-

Eva: And not just the nonsense title the Megalo slobs bestow on the people who beat their little tests. 

The old meaning…

The one that comes to people naturally, without having to be told.

In the truest sense, a Magister Magi.

Negi: Eh…

-9-

Negi: R-really?

T-the… The same as my father…?

[aside] Ma-Ma-Ma-Magister Ma-Ma-Ma…

Chao: That’s right, Negi-bouzu.

Eva: Well, I can’t say for sure if this timeline’ll line up the same way.

Especially looking at you right now.

Negi: Ah – no, th-this-!

Konoka: Ehehe.

Eva: Hey, Chao.

It might have been a mistake bringing Asuna back, eh?

Chao: Certainly.  I wonder if losing Asuna was the thing that really helped him to grow…

Chao: Hm… suddenly I’m very concerned about this timeline’s future.

Eva: That boya was so much better…

Negi & Asuna: Hey!

Negi: I’ll be just fine!

I’ll do wonderfully!

Asuna: So will I!  Nothing bad’s happening on my watch!

Eva: That’s the spirit.

Everything after this is up to you lot to decide.

Tomorrow is a blank page.

-10-

Eva: It’s the future you’ll all build together.

Go forth, brats.

To tomorrow.

Konoemon: …zaka Asuna.

Kagurazaka Asuna.

Misora: Heeey… you’ve been being called for like an hour now.

Asuna: Ah!

Konoemon: Class 3-A, attendance number 8.

Kagurazaka Asuna.

Asuna: P…

Present!

-11-

Fumika: Chao, Chao!  Do you really have to go home today?

Chao: Well… I didn’t really intend to stay such a long…

Fuuka: Oh, no!  You have to come on the graduation trip with us!

Hakase: Oh, what’s the harm in it, Chao-san?

Chao: Guess I have no choice, then!

Twins: Yaaaaay!

Asuna: The sakura are just busting out everywhere, aren’t they?

Negi: They really are.

-12-

Asuna: It’s almost too peaceful… it doesn’t feel right, you know?

Negi: It’s going to get harder from here on out.

Asuna: Hehe.

Asuna: Hearing about you being so awesome

Really makes me wonder if we have to worry at all.

Negi: Well, if we don’t try our hardest, none of that might happen.

Asuna: Oh, right…

Asuna: Well then, let’s do our best!

Negi: Right!

Asuna: Ehehe…

More im-por-tant-ly…

Negi: Eh…

-13-

Asuna: Who’s the girl you like?

Negi: Eh?!

Negi: N-no, I mean – that’s-!

Asuna: Oh, come on!  It’s okay if you tell me, isn’t it?

Asuna: I mean, I only worked a hundred… no wait, a hundred thirty years for you…

Eva-chan told me I should rest for at least a year, but no, I came back for you.

Wow, I’m really, really tired…

A hundred and thirty years of work for no reward at all…

Negi: …My most precious person is Asuna-san.

Asuna: Th-that’s nice, but still.

Asuna: Come on, tell your big sis.

I won’t tell anyone.

I promise.

Negi: Auu…

Negi: …I understand.  Please, really don’t tell anyone.

Chamo: A-Aniki?!  You’re seriously gonna tell her?!

Negi: Um… that is…

Thanks.

Chamo: Oh, come on, ane-san!  God, young people these days!  Let me hear it!

Negi: I…

-14-

Asuna: Eh…

Asuna: Eeeeeeh?!

Asuna: Wait wait wait wait, seriously?  Are you sure?  Seriously?!

Negi: I-I-I’m sure!

Asuna: Woooow!

Asuna: Aaaaaah, I seeeee~!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…!

Wow, that’s backwards!  [Can’t figure this one.  ‘The passage of one week’, perhaps?]

Gee, I don’t know if I approve…

But really, if you started dating for real, I wonder what would happen…

And I guess in a way, you’re both pretty similar…

Negi: Aaah!  That’s why – I mean, um!  Asuna-saaan!

Chamo: Ane-san, who is it?!  Who is iiiit?!

Asuna: ...Right!

Asuna: You!  Get over there under the sakura – right under the World Tree –

Chamo: Oh geez, blood’s gonna rain from the skies.

Asuna: And you confess!  Give her a proper graduation!

Negi: I knew I shouldn’t have told you!

-15-

Fuuka: Heey!  What’re you talking about?

Fumika: Did someone say ‘confession’?

Ayaka: Confession?!

Makie: Oh, I know!  They say if you confess under the sakura at graduation, you’ll be together forever!

Yue: No, that’s just the World Tree.

Ayaka: What did you say?!

Ku Fei: Seriously?

Ayaka: A-anyway, I will not let you escape!

[Can’t read the middle.  Probably still Ayaka, though.]

Yuuna: This is turning into a right harem, isn’t it?!

Makie: Right!  Attendance number 16, Sasaki Makie.

I love Negi-kun.

Ayaka: We know that!

Yue: Do you have any shame at all?!

Chamo: Hey, ane-san.  Is this really okay?  They’re in for a nasty shock, you know.

Asuna: Hey, it’s not like that!

Well, I guess it might be,  but really.

Asuna: The future’s a blank page.

Anyone could have a chance.

You know?

Chamo: Well, maybe… but…

Negi: E-everyone, if you crowd around me like that, I… I… ah…

Asuna: Eh?

[Wait, didn’t we just call this as the End Four Pages?]

-16-

[Hoo boy, Chisame’s ass is [strike:fine] pissed.]

Asuna: …Really.

You rotten little…

Girls: Adeat!

Haruna: Oho, the bra’s left!

Asuna: On our precious graduation day…

Girls: As expected of Asuna!

[Yuuna.  Dat coat.]

Negi: Ee-

Girls: Hahaha!

Chachamaru: Master, a change of clothes.

Asuna: Punish him!

Eva: Heheheh… after all, if something like this didn’t happen I wouldn’t have been able to relax.

Chao: Nice and peaceful, eh?

Negi: Nooooo~

-17-

The beloved Class 3-A walks toward the bright, shining future.

-1-

Splash: After an endless eternity, Asuna’s clock begins ticking once again…

Himeko: …It’s time,

Asuna.

Asuna: Time…?

Himeko: …Yes.  You’ve done well.

Asuna: I don’t care anymore… I’m so tired.

Just let me sleep…

Asuna: Afu!

Asuna: Wh-what was that for?!

Himeko: Have you forgotten your promise?

Himeko: To awaken as Asuna, the one who made that promise… that’s why you’ve been striving for all this time, isn’t it?

-2-

Splash: A hundred years have passed since the last time they met.  Transcend time, Asuna, and return to the promised place…

-3-

Asuna: Ah… oof…

Asuna: H-hey…

Theodora-san?

Rakan…-san?

Asuna: Negi?

Negi, where…?

Asuna: Eh…

Asuna: Ah…

Aah…

-4-

Asuna: Whoa…

Asuna: Holy…

Just how tall is that tower…?

Asuna: I see… that must be the Orbital Elevator, stretching all the way up into space…

But isn’t this Mahora? 

Didn’t he say it was going to be built at the Equator?  What happened?

Asuna: But… heh.

You really did it… you little spaz.

Asuna: I see… Negi…

-5-

Asuna: Wow, that’s some development…

I guess this really is the future!

Asuna: Wawawa-

Hang on, hang on!

Newscaster: Good morning, everyone.  We now bring you the morning news for this, the 26^th of March, 2135.

Preparations continue for the opening of the Worlds’ Fair in Granikus in three days’ time, and the current insider buzz…

Asuna: 2135, huh…

I guess I overslept a little.

Asuna: That reminds me… Where’s Negi?

I have to find him…

-6-

Asuna: Negi…

-7-

Wikipedia: Negi Springfield, May  2, 1993 -.  The first Secretary-General of the International Society for Solar Development.  Magister Magi.  Born in the United Kingdom; current whereabouts are unknown.

Asuna: Whereabouts unknown…

Listing: Onishi

Kondou

Kondou

Asuna: Not here… [‘Konoe’ would be between ‘Onishi’ and ‘Kondou’.]

Asuna: There…!

Listing: Yukihiro Koushirou

Guard: Yukihiro-sensei is a public figure.  You can’t just walk in here.

Asuna: But… I mean…

Guard: Sorry…

Little Girl: Are you looking for Negi-san?

Asuna: …Iinchou?

-8-

Asuna: No way…

Asuna: This person was very important to my great-great-great-grandmother.

-9-

Asuna: N-no…

How…?

You… you said you would never die, because your body was the same as Eva-chan’s…

There was no other choice, so you’d work hard until I woke up…

Isn’t that what you told me…?

Bodyguard: My lady, we should be heading home.

Koiinchou: I was told this by my grandmother…

That even when my great-great-grandmother began to age, he looked the same…

Koiinchou: There was another person that was very precious to her, as well.  In order to meet that person again, she lived a very long life.

‘If I had been able to meet that person, I’m sure she would have been very surprised, and smiled and laughed like a child’, she said…

She passed away at the age of one hundred and fifteen.

Asuna: One hundred and fifteen?!  That’s a long life!

Koiinchou: I am told she was a very healthy individual.

Koiinchou: Well then, I shall take my leave.

Asuna: Iinchou…

-10-

Asuna: So what do I do now…?

Asuna: Iinchou…

Ah!

Asuna: The time capsule!

Asuna: It’s still here…

-11-

Asuna: Hey… what’re these?

Photos?

Asuna: Hey…!

These’re so nostalgic!

Asuna: Oh yeah, here they are… Christmas and Valentine’s Day sure were hectic…

Asuna: Hey, what’s this?  ‘Five years after’…?  After I went to sleep?

Wow!

Asuna: It’s Konoka and Setsuna!  Wow, they’re both so pretty!

Hey, what’s this?

The day of the Magister Magi examination?

They passed!  That’s so cool!

-12-

Asuna: Wow, she’s so cute!  Maki-chan in college!  Those four got along even in college, I see.

Directly to the left: Geh, Kakizaki looks super-popular!  That ticks me off, ehehe!

Below: Oh wow, Paru!  What’s this, an interview?  In Megalo, no less!

Left of that: Oh, Asakura put out a book!  Heh, Negi’s on the cover!

Next bubble: Oho, so Natsumi-chan did after all…

Wow, Satsuki-san!  Is this France?  She won!  That’s amazing!

Hey!  Fuu-chan and Fumika-chan!  Who the heck are those two hotties with them?  Boyfriends?  No way!  [aside]Those ears and tails look real, by the way…[/aside]

Huh?  There are two Zazies… oh, her older sister!  And this beardy guy…? [Hermann?!]

And wow, Tatsumiya-san’s just covered with kids…

Hey, Sayo-chan has legs!

Asuna: This is… Yue-chan, fifteen years after?  Ahaha!  She looks the same as ever. [aside]…Though she’d get angry if I said that.[/aside]

Hm?

Asuna: Honya-chan?!  Whoa, they both got super-hot!

And hey, isn’t that space?!

What’s this?  They’re working in the same place?

Ha!  That’s amazing.  Working in space…

Asuna: Wa!

Anya-chan turned into an adult!

Asuna: Hey!  That’s Stan-san?!

So Konoka really did it!

Konoka…

Asuna: I see…

Everyone had a great life…

-13-

Asuna: Ah…

Asuna: Negi…

Asuna: He’s so tall… must be the Age-Changing Pills…

Paper: *click*

Negi: Um… pardon, can you hear me?  This is Negi.

Asuna: Eh…

Negi: It’s now 2023.  Asuna-san, are you listening?  This feels so strange, but Ayaka-san insisted, so…

Asuna: A recording…?

Negi: Um… The project is proceeding quite well!  There was a lot of disagreement over the Elevator, but it’ll be open to the public in the next five years.

The terraforming, too, is coming along, thanks to the efforts of many people.

Negi: Well… yes… it’s coming along, but…

Negi: Recently… it’s a terrible habit, I know, but…

That is… I’ve started worrying a little… that is… after all, what Fate said… um…

Haha… even saying things like that, it’s not like we have a choice, right?

Aah… I wish you were here, Asuna-san…

Chisame: What the hell?  Hey, are we not good enough for you, or something?  Oh, I get it!

Negi: Awawawa?!  No – I mean, that’s not what I meant at all!

Chisame-san, I’m in the middle of a recording!

Asuna: Ahaha…

Negi: Asuna-san…

-14-

Negi: I want to see you.

I miss you very much.

Asuna: Negi…

Asuna: Idiot…

What do you think you’re saying…?

And then to go ahead and die off…

Paper: *click*

Ayaka: It is now nearly 2090… Asuna-san.

Are you listening?  It’s me… Yukihiro Ayaka.

Asuna: Ah…

Iinchou?

Ayaka: Ahaha… I’m an old woman now.

Most of our dear friends have already gone on ahead…

I’ve managed to live until now wanting to see your surprised face.

-15-

Koiinchou: At the age of one hundred and five…

Asuna: One hundred and fifteen… 2104…?

The year I should have woken up…

Ayaka: Asuna-san, do you know where I am?

Ayaka: This place…

It makes your body feel lighter.  Very good for your lower back, I’m told.

Ayaka: If possible…

I would like to see you again before the end, with my own eyes.

Here… in the land that you and Negi-sensei built together.

-16-

Ayaka: Alright, Asuna-san?

Kids: *laughing and playing*

Asuna: I’m so sorry, Iinchou…

You waited so long for me…

I’m so sorry I was late…

Asuna: And Konoka… and Setsuna-san…

Kakizaki… and Misora…

Takahata-sensei and that idiot Chamo, too…

Asuna: If this is…

How it turned out…

I…I should have vanished after all…

-17-

Asuna: I want to see them…

I want to see my friends again!

Wah…

Asuna: Uaaaah!

Eva: Well now… causing quite a racket as usual, I see, Kagurazaka Asuna.

-18-

Asuna: Eh…

Chao: Never expected you to have overslept by thirty whole years!

Asuna: Ah…

Aah…

Chao: Thanks for all your hard work this past hundred years.

You did a good job, Asuna-san.  <3

Splash: Don’t write off the long passage of months and years as a waste!

Until the conclusion of ‘Negima!’… three chapters remain!

Negima will return on February 29^th.

Also known as: Period 351: Red Teared Up On Page 3.

-1-

Splash: Today, the same sun that always rises on Mahora Academy seems to shine sadly…

Asuna: Mm…

Asuna: Hm…?

-2-

Asuna: Mmh… [Lots of moaning up until Setsuna starts getting frisky, then:]

Setsuna: Mm… [And what is she doing?]

Asuna: Aah?!

Asuna: Geez, come on, Negi!

How many times do I have to tell you-

Setsuna: Oof!

Asuna: !? [aside]Setsuna-san?[/aside]

Ayaka: Nemi-fu… Nemi-fuun~ [Probably ‘Negi-kun’, given that she’s licking his shin].

Negi: Setsuna-san, help…

Asuna: Wh…what the hell happened here? [What did we do last night?]

Asuna: Oh, that’s right… last night we stayed up late having a pajama party…

Oh…

-3-

Asuna: So… it’s today…

[I like this panel.  Konoka’s not happy about this, but you can see her put the smile on.]

Konoka: Good morning, Asuna!

Asuna: Konoka! [aside]I didn’t know you were awake.[/aside]

You know, if you were awake anyway, you could’ve done something about these guys.

Konoka: Ahaha!  It was funny, so I just kind of left them alone.

Konoka: Okay, Asuna, here’s your breakfast.

I made you my specialty for today.

Asuna: Thanks, Konoka.

Man, I never thought I’d get your cooking as a last meal (for a while).  Lucky me!

Konoka: Mm… eat it slowly,

And make sure you remember the taste… okay?

Asuna: Right!

-4-

Sign: Room 651: Kakizaki Misa

Shiina Sakurako

Kugimiya Madoka

Asuna: Hey, Kakizaki!  You in?

Misa: Obviously.  Come on in.

Oh, wait, who is that?  Asuna?

Hang on a sec!  I don’t want you coming in just now.

Misa: What’s up?

Asuna: The CDs!  The ones I borrowed from you!  I came to return them!

Misa: Eh?  Oh…right.  Who really cares about that at this point?

Oh, hang on.  My hands are full right now, so…

Misa: Just leave ‘em over there.

Asuna: Eh?  By ‘over there’ you mean…?

Misa: Hm… the floor.

Asuna: Geez…

Asuna: Okay, there you go.

Misa: ‘kay, thanks.

Asuna: …Bye-bye.

-5-

Fuuka: Hey, Asuna!

Fumika: Hey there, Asuna!

Asuna: Hey!

Natsumi: Oh, Asuna.  I got saddled with the planning for the graduation ceremony, so is the usual place alright?

Asuna: Eh?  Yeah, that should be fine, shouldn’t it?

Fuuka: Oh, that reminds me!  Did you hear, Asuna?

Fumika: Iinchou’s Indian villa!

Fuuka: She said she’d treat us all to a post-graduation vacation!

Fumika: You’re coming too, right, Asuna?

Asuna: Y-yeah!

Fuuka: Yay!

Girls: Things just got more interesting!  Heheheh…

Indonesia, huh?  It sounds like so much fun!

What do they have in India?

Uh… like… curry and stuff?  …And yoga?

And international conferences and stuff.

Asuna: Oh?

Asuna: Well, if it isn’t Negi!  Whatcha reading?

Asuna: Oh hey, the class roster.

Negi: That’s right.

Asuna: That reminds me, have you written anything else on there?

-6-

[Oh god what]

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=3974922&postcount=7866

[Here, have Hata’s notes on the roster.]

-7-

[And the rest.]

-8-

Asuna: Oh, you have!

That’s a lot of notes!

Negi: …Yes.

Asuna: Somehow… all of these feel so nostalgic, don’t they?

Negi: Heh… yes, I suppose they do.

Asuna: I guess… that’s it, really…

-9-

Asuna: …Hey.

Negi: Yes?

Asuna: What are you going to do when I’m gone?

Negi: …I’ll find my father.

Asuna: Oh… Nagi-…san?

Negi: Yes.  If it takes ten years or fifty.

Asuna: B-but didn’t you say there was no way to help Nagi-san if I’m not around …?

You said there was no other choice but to use that ninth spell you learned, right?

Negi: …It’s all right.  It’ll work out somehow.

Asuna: W-work out?  You…

Don’t give me that flippant crap!  You’ve got no basis for that!

-10-

Negi: Heh…

Asuna: W-what?

Negi: You’re right… I have no basis.  Saying flippant things is usually your role, though, isn’t it, Asuna-san?

Asuna: Ah…

Asuna: I… I’ll be fine.  I just have to go to sleep, wake up and it’s done, after all.

You’re the one who has to work for a hundred years, you know?

All the time, for a hundred years!  A century!  Ten times how long you’ve lived already.

Negi: It won’t be a problem at all.

Asuna: Come on!  How can you keep saying stuff like that?

Negi: Because.

Negi: After a hundred years, you’ll be waiting for me.

Asuna: Eh?!

Wha…

-11-

Asuna: Idiot…

Negi: Eh…

Asuna: Idiot!

Negi: Eh?

Asuna: *ahem*

Negi: Um…?

-12-

Negi: Ah…

Asuna: A farewell kiss from your big sis.

Do your best, dumb Negi.

-13-

Asuna: Kisses from you

Should be hung onto for the girl you like.

Make sure you confess properly.

Negi: Eh…

N-no, that’s…

Asuna: Nope.

Do it right.

That’s my condition for waiting for you.

Negi: Right.

-14-

Theodora: Are… you ready, Asuna?

Asuna: You two…?

Setsuna: Yes…

Konoka: Okay…

Konoka: But… but we’ll

Be able to meet again, right?

Eva: Well… probably not.

Come on.  We’re talking a hundred years here.

Konoka: W-well, Eva-chan will still be here!

And maybe, after a hundred years… we’ll be able to meet you again, just in the nick of time, you know?

Eva: Don’t forget.

‘Kagurazaka Asuna’ is a constructed personality imprinted onto the Twilight Imperial Princess.  When she opens her eyes again, she’ll be a different person.

-15-

Eva: …That’s just how it is.

Even if you manage to live another hundred years… the only person waiting for you will be a stranger with a familiar face.

Chamo: Ane-san…

Theodora: Come on…

It’s time.

Asuna: …It’ll be alright, Konoka.

Asuna: We’ll meet again.

Definitely.

Konoka: Asuna…

Ayaka: Re…

Ayaka: Really, Asuna-san?

Asuna-san!

-16-

Asuna: Eheh!

Setsuna: Asuna-san!

Konoka: Asuna…!

Asuna: Negi!

Asuna: I’ll be waiting for you!

I’ll be waiting for the great Magister Magi to come and see me!

Yeah!

As long as you all stick together, everything’ll work out just fine!

-17-

Asuna: Bye-bye!

See you later!

Konoka: Asuna…!

Asunaaa…!

Splash: And so, to the one bearing a world’s happiness and sorrow on her shoulders, Kagurazaka Asuna… we bid farewell.

Negima will continue next week.

Also known as Period 350: Red Teared Up On Page 16

-1-

Kaede: Forgive me, Paru-dono, for my betrayal.

Paru: Wha-

Twins: Aah, that’s not fair, Kaede-nee!

We’re defecting too!

Makie: I-if everyone has a chance... then…

Ako: I did get to thinking that making him tell us against his will wasn’t good…

Yuuna: Wha!

Haruna: Aaah?!

Hang on, you lot?!

Splash: Everyone is Negi’s ally after all <3

[strike:Dem Hips]Makie: Sorry, Paru, Yuuna!

Ako: But we’re going to stick with Negi-kun after all!

Girls: And so, counteroffensive!

Haruna: Gyaaaah!

How did this happen?!

Yuuna: The haremettes are pissed off!

Akira: Oh, wow.

Konoka: Mm… but, Negi-kun,

Who really is the girl you’re interested in?

Asuna: Konoka, what the hell!  If you start asking him, then what the heck was all that for?!

Konoka, outside bubble: I won’t tell anyone, though…

Ehehehe…

Konoka: I can’t?  But I thought as his third older-sister figure, I should check…

Asuna: No!

-2-

Yue: Please accept my apologies.

I allied myself with the others today, and caused you no end of trouble…

Negi: No…

Negi: I’m the one at fault here.

This situation came about because I was treating everyone so coldly… um…

Yue: Negi-sensei.

Will you… without revealing your feelings to anyone…

Not even to the one you’re thinking of…

Can you really devote yourself to your century of work saving the world?

-3-

Splash: Everyone’s beloved Negi will soon face his time of departure…

Yue: Will you…

Be satisfied…

Yue: *swallow*

Yue: …No.

Yue: I’ll… from here on, I’ll study hard… very, very hard…

I intend to help you with your project!

So that someday… I can help support you…!

Someday… for sure!

Yue: So I…!

Negi: Yue-san…

Moment-killer: Yue-saaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

-4-

Ayaka: What do you think you are saying?!

Ayaka: You think you are going to assist with my project?

You are a Baka Ranger!  I would never admit someone with your grades!

Yue: This is my end-of-term test from Ariadne Academy!

I’ll have my grades over here improved in no time, and after graduation I’m planning to study abroad on the other side!

Makie: Ehehe, Negi-kun <3

Ayaka: Oho, in that case… this space elevator will be a joint effort by many countries.

The terraforming, too, will be a massive project.

We are collecting the elite of the elite from across the planet, and you think you have what it takes to join them?

Yue: I certainly do!

Ayaka: Don’t you dare depend on your connections with Negi-sensei or myself for this!

Yue: I don’t need them!  I’ll earn it for myself!

Negi: You all…

Makie: I… won’t give up, either.

Even if I’m not the one you like.

Ku Fei: Right!

-5-

Ayaka: All of you, leave me alone!

Yue: Ah…

Nodoka: I’m not going to give up.

Yue.

Yue: Nodoka…

Ayaka: I see… in that case,

From now on, we all…

Ayaka: Are what you would call rivals, I suppose.

Yue: Iinchou…

Nodoka: …Right!

Ako: Right!

Ku Fei: You got that right!

-6-

Ayaka: Let us make this a clean and fair contest, ladies.

Ako: R-right.

Ku Fei: And with no hard feelings!

Chachamaru: Yes!

[Brofist!]

Makie: *ahem*

Which is to say…

Makie: Prepare yourself, Negi-kun! <3

Negi: Eeh?!

Makie: I’ve seriously fallen for you, you know!

Ku Fei: This is a contest, Negi-bouzu!

Ayaka: Negi-sensei~  Please accept my love~

Ako: H-hang on, everyone, that was so sudden!

Negi: Uwaaaaah!

[Can’t read that last one.]

Mana: Heh…

Life is hard for a savior, isn’t it?  …Still, what’s with this tone?

Mana: Doesn’t this mean he’s going to be pursued by the chaff, as well?

Hakase: Incidentally, this is a fake~

Mana: Given how overbearing that girl was, it seems like his wife would be even worse, really.

Eva: Heh…

Misora: You sure you’re good over here, Chisame-chan?

Chisame: I told you it’s not like that already.

-7-

Asuna: I wonder if this is really okay…

Konoka: Oh, it’s fine, isn’t it?

Setsuna: Wah…

Asuna: …But still…

Asuna: I think he’ll be alright.

Yue: We’re losing to the pushier people…

Asuna: Even if I’m not here…

Things’ll turn out alright.

-8-

Chisame: Eh…

Setsuna: Asuna-san…

Asuna: Hm?

Konoka: Wa?

Konoka: What was that just now?  Did you see?  Why did Negi-kun smile so happily?

In a situation like that, while looking at Asuna, he smiled!

Maybe it really is you after all, Asuna!

Asuna: Eh?!  What?!

Asuna: What are you talking about?!  He wasn’t even looking at me!

I-I’ve got good eyes, so yeah, it might have looked like he was looking at me, but he wasn’t!  It was someone over there, more to the left!

Someone over there could be it, right?!

Like Eva-chan, or Tatsumiya-san, or Chisame-chan maybe!

Konoka: Oh?  I wonder…?

Eva: Huh?

Mana: Uh, no, that’s not happening.

Misora: Which means…

Chisame: A-

-9-

Chisame: A-are you an idiot, Kasuga?!  Like hell!  I’m the last person that little shrimp would like!

Misora: Hm, I wonder… I wouldn’t have pegged you for it, but you sure seemed to get along with him over there…

Chisame: I friggin’ did not!

Konoka: Hey, Chamo-kun, can you tell who Negi-kun is interested in with your powers?

Chamo: Hey, hey!  You think I’d sell out Aniki?

Chamo: If I knew that, it’d just be boring! [aside]Kakizaki-neechan said the same thing.[/aside]

Konoka: Aw…

Ayaka: Very well, then!  Right here and now, let us decide the rules!

First of all, confining Negi-sensei or restricting his movements by any means is strictly prohibited!

Yue: We would never do something like that!

Ako: You’re the one most like to do that, Iinchou!

Negi: Um, in my opinion…

Makie: Be quiet, Negi-kun!

Misora: You know, somehow… it seems like that glance Negi-kun gave you was a little different from usual, Chisame-chan…

Chisame: Would you give it a rest already!  I’ll obliterate your reputation online!

-10-

Five Months Later

-11-

One Week Remains to the Mahora Girls’ Junior High Third-Years’ Graduation Ceremony.

-12-

Negi: Receiving her diploma,

From third year, class A:

Negi: Kagurazaka Asuna.

Asuna: Yeah!

-13-

Negi: This serves as a testament that you have graduated from this house of education.

Standing as proxy for the Headmaster, Negi Springfield.

Negi: I’m sorry… a graduation ceremony like this…

Asuna: You dummy.

I said I was fine with it!

Asuna: I hate weepy events like this,

So I’m actually glad.

Takamichi: With only one week left until your appointment, Asuna-san…

You couldn’t have graduated with everyone else, anyway…

Takamichi: …Forgive me, Asuna-kun.

Takamichi: To have laid such a heavy duty on your shoulders…

Asuna: Sen…sei...

-14-

Asuna: It’s fine, Takahata-sensei!

I’m sure I’ll be able to have fun and enjoy myself even a hundred years in the future.

Maybe I’ll be able to bag your great-grandson, you know?

Asuna: So make sure you get married, got it?

For the sake of me, a hundred years in the future!

Don’t you dare let Shizuna-sensei get away now.

Takamichi: Wha- Asuna-kun?!

Takamichi: B-but-

Asuna: Nope, don’t even try it!  No excuses, sir.

Though I understand if the mop-up with Kosmo Entelekheia is difficult.

Yeah, yeah, I know you think you’re not worthy and all that,

But from Negi and my point of view, that’s just not true!

Takamichi: Hey-

Asuna: If you don’t get properly married and raise a few kids, I won’t forgive you.

Takamichi: …You win.

I can’t argue with that.

Takamichi: Congratulations on your graduation,

Asuna-kun.

-15-

Asuna: Sensei…

Ayaka: Asuna-saaaaan!

Asuna: Ah… Iinchou?

Ayaka: Oh, thank goodness… you have not yet departed…

Ayaka: I could hardly sleep last night…

Asuna: W-wait, why does Iinchou…?

Eh?

[Negi’s face is now my new avatar.  All y’all back off.]

Ayaka: Honestly, you of all people…!

You expect me to forgive the matter of you keeping secrets from me?!

Quite on the contrary, I would ask you to come along with me this instant!

Asuna: Inviting me somewhere without Negi?  What’s up with that?

Ayaka: I shall forgive your tone.  Wait here for a moment, please.

Asuna: What’s this for?

Ayaka: We have come this far, and you cannot recall?

-16-

Asuna: Hey, seriously, what’re we doing?

Ayaka: You truly do not remember?

Asuna: Ah…

Asuna: Our… time capsule…

Ayaka: I am glad to see you remembered eventually.

Asuna: Oh, wow, this brings back memories…

Asuna: Ahahaha… what the heck is this?  We’re both naked.

Why did you even put this in here?

Ayaka: I would like you to take these with you.

Asuna: Eh…

Ayaka: Y-you said a hundred years…

After such a span of time, there will be no one left who remembers you as you are now, will there?

I’m telling you to bring this along with you in my stead!

-17-

Asuna: Oh…

Asuna: Aha… ahaha!  Come on, Iinchou!

‘In my stead’?  That’s a little bit…

Making such a big deal of this… are you feeling alright?

Ayaka: Why wouldn’t this be a big deal?!

This is a hundred years we’re talking about!

I can’t think of anything that could possibly be a bigger deal!

I don’t care how many people you’re saving… no, I mean… why does it have to be you…?

Ayaka: We’ll never see each other again, you know?!

After tomorrow, never again!

So how can you be so calm...?

You’ve always been so… so frivolous… and…

Asuna: Mmph!

Ayaka: You fool…

Oh…

You intolerable fool…

Asuna: B-but Iinchou, there’s no other way…

Ayaka: I know that!

-18-

Ayaka: If… if it has to be this way… you…

We should have had this past half-year to play together with everyone and make so many more memories…

If you… if you’re gone, then I… I…

Asuna: P-please, stop.

Even with you saying things like that…

Ayaka: You stubborn… I suppose there’s nothing I can say to make you change your mind… is there?

Asuna: N…no.

Ayaka: Then, I… I was never, well… never that important to you?

Asuna: No, that’s not it at all…

Asuna: …Right… Negi and Nagi-san, Takahata-sensei… Konoka and Setsuna-san…

I’ve met so many people in my life, but…

Well… meeting you was the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to me.

Asuna: Thank you so much…

Asuna: I love you.

Iinchou.

Splash: Thank you for those days filled with smiles…

Negima will continue next issue.

-1-

Splash: With a kiss, the way will open and they’ll be safe!

Akira: Aaaah!  I can’t do it after all!

You’re just not supposed to do this kind of thing!

Chamo: Hey, hey, what gives?

Akira: There’s something seriously wrong with telling me to kiss Negi-kun to protect his innocence! 

Not even if the world were ending!

Chamo: No, I get that, but you already promised to do it, yeah?

Don’t worry.  If you make a contract with Aniki, you’re bound to get something that’ll help you guys escape.

If he gets caught, though, you can count on it that they’ll make him spill his guts.

Chamo: Once he spits it out, there’s no puttin’ that back in, you understand?

What’s more important to ya, your own standards or yer classmates’ happiness?

Akira: Aaah…

Akira: B-but, I mean… for something like this… won’t Negi-kun object?

I mean… doing it with… me, that is.

Negi: N-no, not at all!  I wouldn’t have any objections at all!

If it was with you, Akira-san, then gladly…

Akira: Eh…

R-really?

-2-

Chamo: Pactio!!

Splash: To safeguard his precious innocence, they become one <3

Akira: This is my card…

Spybot: *whirr*

Chamo: Geh!

Akira: Eh-

Negi: Ah-

-3-

Yuuna: Found ‘em!

Haruna: Over here!

Fuuka: Here they are!

Fumika: We’ve got them surrounded!

Akira: W-what should I do?!

Chamo: Call out ‘adeat’!

Akira: A…adeat!

Akira: What…?

Chamo: That’s probably an Artifact that lets you jump between bodies of water. 

There’s a puddle over there.  Get in there!

Akira: …Understood!

Akira: Negi-kun!

Negi: R-right!

Haruna: Ah?!

Yuuna: They’re gone!

Fuuka: What?  What was that just now…?

-4-

Negi and Akira: Ah!

Akira: Ah… w-we really are in a completely different place…!

Girl 1: Huh?  Ookouchi-senpai?

Girl 2: And the kid teacher?!

Negi: T-that’s an amazing ability, Akira-san! [aside]Being able to teleport without any expenditure of magic is just…[/aside]

Yuuna: Sh-she can teleport?!  [aside]Since when?![/aside]

Kaede: I can sense the two of them in a swimming pool three hundred meters in that direction.

Kaede: I shall go see what I can see.

Asakura: Eh-

Yuuna and Haruna: Ooh!

Kaede: Ho!

Akira: Kya?!

Akira: Negi-kun!

Negi: Right!

Kaede: What?!

-5-

Akira: Haah!

Negi: The river?

Akira: Hah!

Th-this looks like someone’s bathtub…?

Chamo: This is great!  If we keep goin’ like this, they’ll never catch us!

Kaede: They’re teleporting continuously. [aside]The effective range appears to be around three hundred meters.[/aside]

Capturing them will prove difficult, I believe.

Yuuna: Damnit!  If this keeps up, we’re gonna run out of time and he’s gonna get away!

Fuuka: Eh, we lost?

Fumika: But I wanted to know who Negi-sensei likes…

Haruna: This is definitely a setback, I’m not gonna lie.

But if all of us use our powers together, who knows what’ll happen!

Yuuna: What, seriously?!  How are we gonna do that?

Fuuka: Yay!

Haruna: Heh heh heh… leave it to me.  First off, we need to contact people.  Chachamaru-san and Sakurako…

[aside]And if Eva-chan lends us a hand…[/aside]

Yuuna: Alright, Paru!

Haruna: …is what I had in mind.  Think you can manage it?

Chachamaru: Locate all the pools of water within Academy grounds?  It should be doable.

Haruna: Sweet!  When you’re done, send ‘em to Sakurako.

Haruna: Sakurako!  Great Goddess Sakurako, I’ve got a job for you!

Sakurako: Okay!

Misa: Hey.  If this is about finding out who he’s interested in, leave us out of it.

Haruna: Well, you know, that’s part of it…

Haruna: From what I’ve figured out, all the crap Yuuna and the others went through over the summer was because of your weird luck. 

So, are you gonna help them out or not?!

Sakurako: Okay, okay!

-6-

Akira: It’s hot… Negi-kun, are you alright?

Negi: L-let’s move on!  [aside]This is the girls’ bath…[/aside]

-7-

Negi: M-Master?!  Why…?!

Eva: Well now… even I feel like lending my classmates a hand now and then.  And besides, I’ve heard that you…

Eva: Have got someone in mind, apparently?

Negi: Eh-

Negi: Well, I – mbuh?!

Eva: Now why on earth would you keep such a juicy story from me, boya?

Hmm?

Negi: No, whatever you heard was probably just a misunderstanding…

Eva: What are you saying?  This is a joyous occasion, isn’t it?

Come now, you can tell me.  That’s an order from your master.

Negi: Aaau~

Akira: W-what’s going on here?  It feels like those two have some seriously illicit relationship…

Akira: No!  Now’s not the time for that!

Akira: Gh!

Eva: Hm?

Akira: Rrrgh!

-8-

Eva: So, Ookouchi,

That’s your Artifact, huh?

Yue: No more of this!  We will not let you lay another hand on Negi-sensei!

Nodoka: If you want to know his true feelings, you’ll have to go through us first!

Haruna: Hell yeah!  Just like Sakurako said!

You’re not getting away this time!

Yuuna: Give it up!

Eva: Oho… are you propositioning me?

You little brats.

-9-

Yuuna: Fire!

Yuuna (casting): Mahou Kinshi Dan [Magic-Sealing Bullets]

Makie: Take this!

Yue: For So Cra Tica Socratica!

Yue: Limes Aerialis [Wind Boundary]

Nodoka: Nine o’clock, up above!  Sh-Shadow Stitching!

Yue: For So Cra Tica-

Kaede: Ha!

Yue: Flans Paries Aerialis [Blowing Wind Barrier]

Kaede: Nicely done, no?

Eva: Heh…

Eva: What’s with this sudden change of heart, Ayase Yue?  Miyazaki Nodoka?

Eva: Are you that afraid to know who the boya’s got his sights set on?

-10-

Eva: Are you that afraid of knowing who he likes… or that afraid of your current lukewarm efforts finally no longer being enough?  No…  it’d be fine as long as you were both dumped.

But if by chance one of you did win the boya’s heart… you’re afraid that it would shatter your friendship apart, huh?

Yue: N-

Nodoka: You’re wrong!

Haruna: No she’s not!

You two are gonna have to face this decision someday!

I’m not gonna let you two ignore what’s right in front of your faces any more!

Akira: This…

This isn’t right!

Akira: Makie!  Ako!

Negi-kun himself is saying he doesn’t want to tell us!

Akira: It’s true that Negi-kun is amazing in many ways, but in this respect, he’s still just a boy!

Don’t you have any pity for that?!

Eva: Shut your mouths, girls.  This is the end!

Lic Lac La Lac Lilac!

Eva: Hajike yo, kooreru ibuki!  [Burst forth, freezing breath!]

Nivis Kasus! [Ice Explosion]

Yue: Kh…!

I can’t stop a spell from someone of this caliber!

-11-

Eva: …Zazie Rainyday.  [And yet again, Zazie gets a wide-panel badass shot!]

Eva: Ah-

Eva: And…

Satsuki: Evangeline-san!

Eva: …Yotsuba Satsuki, huh.

-12-

Satsuki: To think that you of all people

Is acting so immature. [Oh god no furigana]

Eva: Uh… well, I mean, I’ve been alive for a long time.

I don’t really care if people call me immature.  And what’s wrong with cutting loose once in a while when I feel like-

Satsuki: Negi-sensei has only been alive for ten years.

Eva: Oh, come on.

Um… anyway, why exactly are you getting involved this time?

Satsuki: Negi-kun has already given up his freedom.

Even if he is working to fulfill his dream,

It’s cruel.

Yue: Evangeline-san is…

Nodoka: Yotsuba-san is amazing…

Satsuki: To a boy like him, that is the only remaining secret in his heart.

A small, faint feeling.

Understanding that, what use are we if we don’t protect it?

-13-

Eva: Uh…

Well, I…

Zazie: A mere boy of ten years having sacrificed all that he is to the world…

Truly an ashen resolution.  The tale of his adventures ends in failure… that seems like a result that would normally quite please you.

And yet you remain unsatisfied, Lady Dark Evangel.

Eva: N-no…

Well, that’s true, but…

Satsuki: Besides, Evangeline-san.

If you force him to tell you…

What will you do if the one he likes is you?

Eva: What?

Eva: Pfft… Ha!  Ahahahaha!  No, no, no, no!  Not a chance in hell!

Hahaha!  Oh, that’s brilliant!

For that boy to have-?  With me?  Ahahahaha!

Yuuna: Eh?

Eva: What?

Yuuna: Wait… you don’t think so?

Haruna: More like, you seem surprised by that…? [Can’t read the aside.]

Eva: Uh… no, I can’t be.  Right?

Yuuna: Well, when you look back on Negi-kun’s reactions, it’s a little…

Haruna: Seems like they’re a little much, you know? [Can’t read this one either.]

Haruna: Gah!  Enough with the chatter!

That’s not the point!

-14-

Haruna: You’re wrong, Satsuki-chan!

This isn’t for Negi-kun’s sake no matter how you look at it!

Haruna: This is for the sake of all the girls whose feelings he crushed when he ran off to the other side!

Haruna: Negi-kun!

We’re serious here!

Haruna: Right?!

Yuuna: R-right, I guess!

Makie: W-well, yeah, I guess…

Ako: I mean, it’s understandable…

Ako: It’ll just feel wrong if we force him to tell us who he likes, right?

Haruna: What the hell?!  Who cares?!  It’ll all be settled!

Yuuna: Get it together already!

Asuna: Alright, hold it right there!

Haruna: Gyaaa!

-15-

Haruna: Asuna!  And… Hakase?!

Hakase: I thought this sort of thing might happen!

So I took the liberty of bringing along a decisive piece of evidence for when you lot couldn’t decide whether to find out or not!

Asakura: Isn’t that… Chao Linshen’s secret weapon, the family tree?!

I thought that was burned?!

Hakase: Come on, keeping a backup copy is basics!

Hakase: That’s right!  This is a record of Negi-sensei’s future.  It shows who he gets married to, among other things!

If we just read this, you won’t have to force it out of Negi-kun!

Hakase: Now, look to your heart’s content!

Yue: Wait…

Nodoka: No! [I note she’s actually covering her eyes, while Yue’s not.]

Text: Negi

-16-

Yue: It…

Nodoka: It’s blank…?

Hakase: Correct!

After the trip Negi-sensei took with you all,

The future has changed!

What will happen in the future of this timeline, no one on earth can say now.

Asuna: The future is blank.

Meaning, everyone has a chance… or something like that, you know?

Splash: The contest for Negi will never end?!

The next issue of Negima will be released on January 25^th.

-1-

Splash: Until Negi’s true intentions are known, no progress can be made!

Asuna: You guys!  Paru and Yuuna!

I should have known you were behind this!  Give it a rest already!

Yuuna: Hoho!  We’re powered by womanly spirit!  We won’t give up that easily!

...Is what I’d like to say, but the circumstances have changed a little…

-2-

Yuuna’s Paper: Negi-kun’s true intentions

Asuna: Huh?

Yuuna: Don’t play dumb!  Asakura bugged the cheerleaders’ talk with Negi-kun!

Things are different now!  We know that Negi-kun’s got his eye on someone, so the game has changed!

So, feel like talking, Negi-kun?

Who’s the girl you like?!

Time to settle up!

Asuna: What nonsense are you spouting now?! 

Wait… what?!  You mean…

You know Negi likes someone because he told Kakizaki?

If that were true, then what’s all this stupid fuss about?

-3-

Asuna: So, do you have a girl you like?

Negi: Asuna-san!

Negi: U-um, well, that is… Kakizaki-san said that even a little bit of feeling was fine, so I said there was, but I didn’t think it would cause so much-

Asuna: What?!

W-wait, really?

Yuuna: God, enough chattering already!

Asuna!  Move your ass!

Asuna: Ha!  Try and make me!

Negi: Asuna-san, above you!

Negi: So it was Natsumi-san and Kaede-san after all…!

-4-

Negi: What an astounding technique!

With Natsumi-san’s Artifact, they can make sure that an attack goes unnoticed until the very last second!

And striking from the Kakuremino, the strike itself is probably instantaneous…!

If the attacker is inside the cloak’s dimension, then even the surface of the cloak itself is magically hidden!  I couldn’t tell what I was seeing the first time it happened!

Sign: Magical Concealment

Kaede: Forgive us, Asuna-dono.

[That slip looks like some sort of seal – it’s not a request paper.]

Asuna: Kh… you!

Asuna: Negation Field – Full Power!

Kaede: She cancelled the cloak’s pocket dimension…?!

Haruna: Wow!  Nicely done, Asuna!

I didn’t expect you to beat the Natsumi-Kaede combo!

Yuuna: Damnit!  Fire!  Fire everything!

Honya-chan, read him!

Nodoka: R-right!

-5-

Asuna: [Like a boss.]

Yuuna: Gah!  [aside]They’re not doing anything![/aside]

Haruna: Take this! Inferno Dante!

Asuna: [Even bosser.]

Haruna: Gya!

Nodoka: M-my diary’s not working, either!

Yuuna: Is she freakin’ invincible?!

What the hell are you, Asuna?!

Haruna: Hah!  As expected of Asuna!  With things going like this…

We have no choice but to bring out our own devilgirl and empress as well!

Makie: Our what?!

Asuna: Come on, Negi!  Get serious and fight!

Negi: B-but, with the class as my opponents, if I got physical…

Devilgirl: No, sensei…

-6-

[Okay, wow.  That’s really bloody cool.  Also, Zazie’s outfit is crazy hot.]

Spirits: Aah~ Hello~

Zazie: I think it would be best to be serious.

My power rivals that of my dear older sister Poyo, after all.

Negi: U-um, Zazie-san, that form…

Zazie: Here I come.

Negi: Wha-?!

Asuna: Negi?!

Zazie: This is my serious form, sensei.

It seems like the rest of the class has decided on a steep goal, after all.

-7-

Negi: Bha!

That’s too serious, Zazie-san!  This is…

Zazie: Well, it’s… how should I put it?

Even I want to support my classmates from time to time, I suppose.

[She’s SO CUTE.]

Asuna: Negi-!

Sexy Stubble: Asuna-kun.

Asuna: Ta-!

Ta-Ta-Takahata-sensei?!

Takamichi: Is this really right, Asuna-kun?

Standing in the way of all of your classmates’ efforts?

Asuna: Ah… I mean, but, this is…

Takamichi: Here, hand me your Artifact.

Asuna: Y-yes… huh?!

-8-

Asuna: Kyaaaa!

Takamichi: Hahaha!

Takamichi Doll: Ha ha ha.  Bleeeh.

Haruna: Pffft-hahahahaha!  Attack a physically strong character with psychology!  That’s the basic of the basics!

Asuna: A fake…!

Asuna: God damnit Paru!

Don’t screw with a girl’s emotions like that!

Negi: Asuna-san!

Zazie: Now!

Ako: Ei!

Negi: Oh bollocks.

Negi: Uugh… what…?

Ako: Sorry, Negi-kun.  It’s a disorienting shot.  Up is down and left is right…

-9-

Haruna: Got him!

Alright, Empress, you’re up!

Chizuru: I’ll be lending a hand this time – and I’ll have you strip down.

Natsumi: Chizu-nee?!

Chizuru: While my staff here is penetrating you, it cures all sicknesses and other ailments.

You also have to listen to whatever I say. [Holy shit, that wasn’t on the card!]

Natsumi: A staff?!  That’s just a leek!

Ako: P-penetrating…? [aside]Where…?[/aside]

Negi: C…calm down.  Up is down, and right is left, so…

Chizuru: I won’t give you time to get your bearings back.

SFX: *shove*

Natsumi: Fast…!

Ako: Eeeee!

-10-

Ako and Natsumi: Eeeeeee!

Makie: Ne-!

Makie: There’s a negi (leek) in Negi-kun?!

Yuuna: Oh geez, that… that was worse than I imagined.

Haruna: I guess it only works if it goes in there…?

Chizuru: Was that good enough?

Haruna: Uh… sure.  Just… put him down already.

Haruna: Anyway, with this, we can finally make Negi-kun tell us his true intentions.

Asuna: Negi… gah! 

Kanka-hou…

Setsuna: Wait, please.

Asuna: Setsuna-san?!

Setsuna: Forgive me.

This time, I’m with the others…

Chizuru: Now then, shall we ask?

Yuuna: Hell yeah, let’s do this!

Chizuru: Negi-sensei, you’re such a good boy.

We have a little question for you, so answer honestly, okay? <3

-11-

Chizuru: Right now, who…

Is the girl you like the most?

Yue: Wai…!

Chizuru: …Oh?

Chizuru: Well now… this is…?

Zazie: Negi-sensei’s high magical power and willpower are allowing him to resist.

Quite a master, I must say.

However, if you ask him repeatedly, not even he will be able to withstand it.

Chizuru: Oh… how admirable, Negi-sensei.  In that case…

Kazumi: Hang on!  Since we’ve all been waiting for this…

-12-

Ayaka: What?

Ku Fei: Negi-bouzu’s true intentions?

Kakizaki: They’re gonna ask him?!

Chamo: Holy crap, that was some impressive combo work.  Seriously.

Chachamaru: Th-th-they’re going to broadcast it very shorly.  Wh-what shold we do? [Yes, I mean to omit letters.  If you’ll look closely, you’ll see a k and an r in Chachamaru’s speech bubble – she’s so nervous she’s misspeaking, in the same way typing Japanese on an English keyboard would mistype.  Since the computer turns ‘ki’ into き, for instance, a typo in ‘kikimasu’ looks like きｋます, that sort of thing.]

Chisame: Who cares?  I don’t give a shit who he likes.

Chizuru: Now then, sensei, I’ll ask you again.

Who is the girl you like?

Negi: …mu…

Fumu…gh…

Fuuka: Oooh!  Somehow, he’s managing to resist it!

Fumika: That’s what I call willpower!

Asuna: Hang on, everyone!  Are you okay with this?

Can you really be satisfied if you force him to tell us with magic?!

Asuna: Yue-chan!  Honya-chan!  Are you really okay with this?!

Yuuna: Gah, shut up, Asuna!  You have no right to say anything!

Yue: Nodoka…

Zazie: One more time.

No one would be able to withstand a third time.

Chizuru: Understood.

-13-

Chizuru: Who is it?

Negi: Bha!

Negi: The…

The person… I… like… is…

[Chisame’s shiny glasses…]

Negi: I… uu…

Yuuna: Ah…!

-14-

Yue: Scattered: White Lightning! [Kakusan Algoratio Albicans] [I thought ‘lightning’ was fulgoratio…]

Yuuna: Peh!  What?!

Haruna: A lightning smoke screen?!

Nodoka: Ne-Negi-sensei looked so miserable…

Yue: And we believe that nothing good can come of coercion!

[Action Nodoka is cute.  Also, gotta love short shorts.]

Yue: And so-!

Yuuna: They’re running away!

Yuuna: W-we’ve been betrayed!

Asuna: Yue-chan!  Honya-chan!

Haruna: After them!  Get after them!

-15-

Nodoka: Fumi-chan and Fuu-chan are keeping pace with us one street over to the right!  Kaede-san is circling ahead! 

Now they’re on the left!

Yue: Understood!

Haruna: Gaaah!  Damnit, that picture diary is such a pain!

Yuuna: Come on, Zaziecchi, go help!

Zazie: As a fellow girl, my opinion has changed somewhat…

Akira: Over here!

Nodoka: Akira-san!

Nodoka: You saved us!

I thought they got you, Akira-san?

Akira: Kotarou-kun and the others got me out. [I don’t know which ‘others’ she means, no.]

Akira: Anyway, if you hide here until the contest ends…

Yue: No, it’s too dangerous.  We’ll lead them away – you take care of Negi-sensei.

Yue: More importantly, if we don’t remove this…

Akira: I-i-i-is that really…? [aside]In his butt…?[/aside]

Yue: No.  Most likely, it is merely a magical construct… I think. 

Akira: Th-then, who’s going to…?

Yue: Sorry, I… [aside]Forgive me.[/aside]

Nodoka: I can’t either… [aside]Sorry…[/aside]

Akira: Me?!

Akira: Ah… uum…

SFX: Pop

Negi: Gah!

Akira: Eee!

-16-

Nodoka: We’ll leave Negi-sensei to you!

Akira: R-right!

Negi: Oh…

Akira: Ah!

Negi: H-huh…?  Akira-san?  What on earth…

[aside]Why does my bottom…[/aside]

Akira: U-um, it’s probably for the best if you don’t know.

So, Yue-chan and Honya-chan defected, and now they’re acting as diversions for us.

Negi: Yue-san and Nodoka-san…

Negi: Wow… I never suspected everyone in the class was this amazing.  [aside]I’m truly surprised.[/aside]

Akira: Hahaha… it’s because we got through that adventure together that we’ve become such good friends.

Akira: A-anyway.

If we hide here, everything should be okay.  Don’t worry.

Negi: Ah… if it weren’t for that question, I would face them openly, and not run away… [A good old-fashioned battle, like the climax of Negi vs Rakan.]

Akira: Negi-kun…

There really is someone you like isn’t there?

-17-

Negi: N-no, that’s not true! [Great reaction face!]

Negi: Ah… well, no, it’s not untrue, but… Kakizaki-san said…

Aah… well, I did say there was… I shouldn’t have said anything…

Negi: This is all terribly… that is… my feelings…

Negi: They’re not… anything I can reply to everyone’s serious, true feelings with.

Akira: Eh… oh.

That’s fine!  Everyone knew that from the start, really.

Akira: You’ve been working so hard, and shouldering so much more than you should have to…

We’re all just happy to know that you do have someone you like.

We just want you to grow up having precious feelings like that.

Negi: R…really?

Akira: Yes.  Well, they’re getting a little carried away right now, and that’s not good, but…

Akira: Don’t worry!  I’ll take care of you and keep you safe. [aside]I promised Honya-chan, after all.[/aside]

Chamo: And yet you’re interested in knowing who he likes…

Akira: Well, yes…

Akira: Hey!  Chamo-kun?!

Chamo: Got it, I see.

Akira: N-no…!

-18-

Chamo: Who knows?  Maybe it’s you. <3

Akira: It’s not!  I’m the least likely!

Chamo: Oh, sounds like someone’s in denial!  Nice shade of red there, too, toots.

Akira: It’s because you’re saying creepy stuff!

Akira: I’m very fond of Negi-kun, but

It’s nothing more than that.

Chamo: Well then, you won’t have a problem

With kissin’ him.

Akira: Why do you go right to that?!

Chamo: Geez, I was right in front of you when you said it in the Magical World…

Akira: Th-that was…

Chamo: ‘No, I don’t wanna do it here’, you said.

Akira: Eh?

Chamo: [I’m not quite sure what he’s saying here, nor am I clear if the last few bubbles are correct either.]

Chamo: Well then, Akira-san, we’re countin’ on ya!

To protect Aniki’s innocence, let’s get this Pactio goin’!

Splash: The defenseless Negi gets a hand <3 <3