D.N.ANGEL Volume 1
Translated from the Japanese into English by Ryuujin.
P l e a s e • R e a d • F i r s t !
Sound effects and other information is included in brackets. Spoken words are in quotes. Thoughts are between asterisks (*).
Although I do read and understand Japanese, I'm not 100% fluent, so there's bound to be errors in my translation. If you are a native-level Japanese speaker, more or less fluent in English, and you do notice mistakes, please let me know! Thanks! Also, unlike what I do for my song translations, I'll be translating the manga more "instinctively," I guess you could say - meaning that I'll go with what I feel is the natural translation rather than trying to get a very literal translation. Of course, I will try to be as literal as possible while still getting the natural meaning. This document is subject to changes and corrections at any time.
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[ Book 1 : Story 1 ]
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CONTENTS
Story #1 : Trouble's [Love's] Notice . . . pg. 3
Story #2 : Level-up [Illusion's] Notice . . . pg. 63
Story #3 : Second [Fallen Angel's] Notice . . . pg. 97
Saucy 'N' . . . pg. 141
Atogaki (Postscript) . . . pg. 173
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"The art piece has been stolen!"
[card reads "Notice: I've taken it. -Dark"]
"What!! Without our noticing?!"
"So he's done it!! Go after him!!"
[background alarm noise: "JIIII! JIIII!"]
"He couldn't have gone far yet!"
"Yes, sir!!"
Both now and long ago, the raiding of works of art have been the thief's job
That is nothing fictional;
it's a modern-day story that is beyond natural in this country
The phantom thief's name is "DARK"
Of his true character, no one knows
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Story #1 : Trouble's [Love's] Notice
- 7 -
Risa: "This letter...I know you took great pains with it, but I'm returning it."
Daisuke: *My first love is unfruitful.*
Daisuke: "...Eh...?"
Risa: "Sorry..."
Risa: "I just can't think of Niwa-kun in that way......"
Daisuke: *I...Niwa Daisuke am...*
Daisuke: "Oh...is that so..."
Daisuke: *Of all days, it had to be on my 14th birthday*
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Daisuke: *I've been caught in this jinx...*
[Azumano #2 Middle School]
Risa: "But we'll always be friends, right? Right?"
Daisuke: "Y...yeah..."
[KIIN KOON... (sound of recess bell ringing)]
[ZAKU ZAKU ZAKU (sound of people running to class)]
[PARA PARA (sound of book's pages flipping)]
Girl 1: "Whaaat?"
Girl 2: "Risa-chan's rejected Niwa-kun? (But Niwa-kun is pretty cute...)"
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Girls:
"Buuuut"
"Isn't it a suitable match? (To me)"
[ZUUUN...]
Risa: "You might say that, but Niwa-kun is just average, and he needs a concluding factor..."
Risa: "In the way of a 'boyfriend,' he's, well..."
Girl 1: "So the guys aren't cool!!"
Risa: "It's started again--"
Girl 2: (laughing) "Risa, you're too proud--"
Risa: *Exactly! I just can't compromise*
[sound effect: "chira"]
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Risa: *That sister of mine...!!*
Risa: *I can't lose to that sister of mine!!"
Risa: *My sister, who is my natural enemy and also part of me, 'Riku'!!*
Risa: *Just because she was born 5 or 10 minutes earlier, my sister is so spoiled!*
Risa: *Besides, I'm definitely CUTER!! (Even if we are twins...)*
[sound of Risa's clenched and shaking fist: "gugugu"]
Risa: *But, for the present, she's losing in the way of chest size by 5 millimeters!!
Risa: *And for the reversal to leave her in the dust, the only way is a ["PAAPEKI na" - no idea...-MT] BOYFRIEND"
Risa: *The deciding factor will be MEN!!*
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Takeshi: "Daaisuke!"
["ban!" sound of hand slapping table]
Takeshi: "What's up with you!! You're always like this-"
["iyaiya--" Daisuke is reluctant to answer]
Takeshi: "I wonder what's happened that he's seemed so soulless since lunch break--
More than ever, he seems 50% more senile-"
Takeshi: "Why are you being so annoying!
C'mon, liven up! Liven up!"
[struggling sounds "GA! BU!"]
Boy: (sweatdrop) "With so much physical contact...?"
Takeshi: "Hey, today is night of the long-awaited big event!!"
The Saehara Takeshi news reporter blood is burning to show itself!!"
Daisuke: "O..oww...Saehara..."
Takeshi: "Uooo!"
Daisuke: "Big event?"
Takeshi: "Ouyo!" [just sounds of excitement]
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Takeshi: "I got a share of information from my pops"
Takeshi: "Tonight at 11 o'clock, something's definitely bound to happen"
Takeshi: "Oh, and I have to prepare...so it's your turn to do the cleaning! (Sasasa, hey, this is yours!)" (pushing broom handle at Daisuke)
Daisuke: "Ha?"
Takeshi: "And 'cause I'll be making an extra copy of Harada's photo"
Daisuke: "Eh!!"
Daisuke: "Sa-Saehara!"
[Takeshi: "Uwahahahahaha, I asked for it as a favor, my honeeeey--!" (speaking of Risa, I'm sure -MT)]
Daisuke: "Wait! Hey--!"
Daisuke: "Really, how many times has it been this week~!"
Boy: "You're the one who replaces him."
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Daisuke: "--God"
Daisuke: "My luck is always bad"
Daisuke: *But, on my birthday that only happens once in a year
I think, even if you gave me good luck, you would not punish me*
Daisuke: *Bad luck again today..*
Daisuke: *But..."
Daisuke: "?"
["PI." beep from the card reading machine]
Daisuke: "It won't open?"
Card Reading Machine : "PIPIPI-"
[text on card reading machine: "Art Room: Your card is wrong"]
Daisuke: "Ah!"
Daisuke: (sweating) "...aahhh..."
[background text "The wrong card ___" (I don't recognize the kanji-ish looking thing there - not sure if it's kanji, but I can't read it for some reason ^^; - I'll check with someone later -MT)]
Daisuke: "---"
["guwa" - sound from Daisuke, I think]
["u--" - sound of Daisuke starting to cry]
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Daisuke: "Vu~ [crying sound] always, always..."
Daisuke: "Why does this have to happen~"
Daisuke: *--For me, confessing took the most courage I could muster*
Clumsy and awkward,
thinking of himself as being stupid,
this was the first step for his transformation......
["SU-" - sound of Daisuke being grabbed]
Daisuke: "!"
[Satoshi silently hands Daisuke a tissue]
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Daisuke: (flustered) "Eh?! Ah! Wah!
Hi-Hiwatari-kun--!"
["ota ota" - sound from Daisuke]
["GATA-" - sound of Satoshi opening door (I think)]
Daisuke: "--Ah-! Sorry! I brought the wrong cardkey - it still needed the keycode!
It'll open soon"
Satoshi: "...Open...?"
Daisuke: (sweating) "Umm...this type must be an old model so..."
["PI- PIPI-" sounds from card machine]
Daisuke: "If I do it this way, it should open easily"
[text on card machine: "Art Room: PASSWORD? _"]
["PI PI" - beeping]
Daisuke: "--there, good-"
["PI...PI..."]
[text on card machine: "Art Room: Unlock"]
["PI----"]
Daisuke: "I did it!"
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Daisuke: "It opened!!"
["GARA-" - sound of doors opening]
Daisuke: "...Uh, but why is Hiwatari-kun"
Daisuke: "here..."
["kaki kaki" - Satoshi writes in his little book]
Satoshi: "It was your turn to clean up so..."
Daisuke: "Oh...yeah, isn't it... (SORRY. He's writing something weird...)"
Daisuke: *Hiwatari Satoshi-kun --*
Daisuke: *He's hard to talk to and though he's in the same class, I've almost never spoken to him, but...*
Daisuke: *he's not really a cold person..."
["PATAN." - sound of Satoshi closing the book]
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Satoshi: "Niwa...Daisuke-kun, you..."
Daisuke: "----Eh-?"
["giku-" - sound from Daisuke]
Satoshi: "The keycode you could open the door with......"
Daisuke: "Eh-!? ...AH-!!"
Daisuke: *That was BAD!! Normal kids can't do things like this!!*
Daisuke: "Ah~~~, th-that- t-together!!
The doors at home!! So..."
[Translator's Note: He's trying to say that he mixed up the cardkey from home with the one for school. -MT]
Daisuke: *It'll be said that I did that in front of someone...*
Daisuke: "Uh...hey- I guess I'm just used to it or that...ummm--"
Satoshi: "A modified type of DEBAKKU Company's Z1GII..."
Satoshi: "You entered"
Satoshi: "a special keycode, didn't you..."
Daisuke: (sweating) "Ahahahaha"
*Unlucky day...*
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Daisuke: "...I'm late, aren't I"
["KII.." - sound of opening gate]
Daisuke: "I'm h..."
["KACHA" - sound of door latch]
[text on stone thing: "Niwa"]
Daisuke: "...ome-!"
["YAKO-" - floor disappears]
["GA-" - Daisuke grabs the ledge]
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["TA-" - Daisuke jumps up]
["SUTA." - Daisuke lands on ledge]
["kuru-" - flip sound]
["BATAN" - door closes behind Daisuke]
Daisuke: "........."
["PIIIII" - sound of lasers]
Daisuke: "...There isn't a day when I can be let in directly, is there?"
Daisuke: "...Home, that is. (*sigh* if I were let in...)"
["GUI" - tightens belt]
Daisuke: [not sure how to translate]
["gugu-"]
["TA-N-" - jump]
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["PIIII" - laser tripped]
Daisuke: "The first line is a dummy
The second and third and all those on the right are the other dummies"
Daisuke: "The one left over is the real thing..."
Creatures: "Baubaubaubau-"
[text above door: "Congratulations! This is the living room! <3"]
Daisuke: "......"
["PIKU-" - click]
["BACHI-" - zap]
Daisuke: "Geh."
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Daisuke: *I'm really getting electrocuted......*
["BACHI BACHI" - zap zap]
Daisuke: "I'm ho..."
["daki--" - Daisuke's mom hugs him]
Daisuke: "Wa-"
Mom: "Welcome home, Daisuke-chan-- <3"
Mom: "Full points today--!
Mom is happy----! (Watch out for that last thing, ok--?)"
Daisuke: "Umm, Mom--"
["pyon pyon" - sound of mother jumping up and down]
Grampa: "Good job!! Daisuke!!"
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Grampa: "And so, you're 14 years old today!!"
Grampa: "Up to today, you have put up with a lot of training!!
And with this, there is not another thing we can teach you...!
Grampa: "--eh-hey! Daisuke--!! Hear me out to the end--!!"
["TON TON" - sound of footsteps]
Daisuke: "Sorry, Grampa"
Daisuke: "Today...that's just the last thing I can think about."
Mom: "Father..."
Mom: "Somehow the last finish was just in time, wasn't it?"
Grampa: "--Ahh, now perhaps he also inherits the Niwa family's will."
["..ta ..ta ..TON" - sound of Daisuke going upstairs]
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Mom: "Well, well
For that, I must prepare!"
["pata"]
TV: "Here, at the ESUVIIRU Art Museum in Azumano District, Tokyo, they are presently holding an exhibition of a collection exclusively of valuable works, opening the exhibition the other day.
Today at noon, a notice was found attached on the right hand of Saint Tiaazu ["Tears," perhaps. "St. Tears" is also referred to as "the maiden saint statue" simultaneously in the Japanese text -MT]
TV: "This is an announcement of trouble. The police say tight security measures will be--..."
["PA... TAN.." - sound of door slowly shut]
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"Kyuu---..."
With: "KYUU."
Daisuke: "Sorry about that, With"
Daisuke: "I didn't bring you with me to school today"
With: "KYUU."
["PATA PATA" - sound of wagging tail]
Daisuke: "I had some important things to do but..."
Daisuke: "It's all over now so..."
Daisuke: "This letter...
I don't need it anymore, either..."
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["PI-......" - sound of Daisuke tearing letter]
*Risa: "Niwa-kun..."*
["DO KUN" - pulsing]
Daisuke: *Wh-at is this...*
["DOKUN DOKUN dokun DOKUN dokun DOKUN" - more pulsing]
Daisuke: *Something is...weird...*
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*Risa: "I'm sorry"*
*Risa: "I...Niwa-kun..."*
Daisuke: *My body...*
Daisuke: *My body is hot!!* [...hot as in temperature, of course :P -MT]
*Risa: "----I like you!"
Daisuke: *'like'?*
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Daisuke: *Who?*
Daisuke: *Her--*
Daisuke: *I...*
Daisuke: *Who--?*
Daisuke: *--This voice is...calling out within me...*
["SA-" - transformation]
Daisuke/Dark: *Within myself...another one of "me"...?*
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Daisuke/Dark: *Another...one of----...*
"Fu-hahahahahaha!"
Inspector Saehara: "Come near St. Tears, won't you!!"
["zuraaa-"]
Inspector Saehara: "You so saucily sent that notice!!
Phantom Thief Dark, don't be timid now!"
"The museum is closely surrounded by the police and security equipment!!"
"Entrances and exits included, and every possible entry point aaare all blocked!!"
["zuraaaaa-"]
Guard: "Inspector Saehara!"
Inspector Saehara: "What?"
["waa waa"]
Guard: "The commander has arrived!"
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Inspector Saehara: "Punctually on time, I see. Thank you for your trouble."
Inspector Saehara: "Commander."
["KA-" - guards snapping to attention]
Commander: "I'm changing the structure of the defense...
It's necessary, you see..."
Takeshi: "If I stay here, I should be able to record it! (he-he-he)"
Takeshi: "For whatever reason, Phantom Thief Dark is making an appearance after 40 years!"
["waa- waa"]
"U-WAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!!"
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["DADADA" - sound of feet running downstairs]
Daisuke/Dark: "Mother. Mother! Mother!!"
["ban-" - reaches downstairs]
["ba-!"]
Daisuke/Dark: "Mother!!"
Daisuke/Dark: "What happened to me----!!!"
Mom: "Ohmygosh! You're so good looking! <3"
["Moshi moshii--" - "Hellllooo?"]
Daisuke/Dark: "N-not thaaat--!!"
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Daisuke/Dark: "When I recovered, I became like this!!"
Daisuke/Dark: "What and how am I...I don't......"
Daisuke/Dark: "My body just turned big of it's own volition and-
This is ... completely ... somebody else......"
["niko niko" - Daisuke's mom just smiles]
With: "Pyoko"
Mom: "This is our 'family line'"
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Mom: "You've at least heard of it, haven't you?
The story of Dark, the phantom thief whose true self is unknown"
Mom: "This time, it's your turn to inherit Dark's name,
Daisuke, no, Dark"
Daisuke/Dark: "Wha..."
Mom: "Every generation of the Niwa family since the Edo period, once everyone became 14 years old [became of age], we all performed magnificently as phantom thieves"
Mom: "That's the destiny of we of the Niwa family"
Mom: "Ojii-chama [Grampa] was Dark, too, you know <3"
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Daisuke/Dark: "Wha-what is this!! I know about Dark, but that's me!?"
Daisuke/Dark: "I can't do it. Being a phantom thief and all...I want to be what I was before...!!"
Mom: "Daisuke"
Mom: "Mom has already put out the notice"
"...that tonight at 11 o'clock you would steal the St. Tears statue"
"We can't push it back any further"
*Takeshi: "Tonight at 11 o'clock..."*
*Takeshi: "Something's definitely bound to happen"*
Daisuke/Dark: *--Ah!!*
Daisuke/Dark: *So that's it*
Daisuke/Dark: "That...
I can't do that..."
Daisuke/Dark: *What Saehara was talking about...it was this, wasn't it*
Grampa: "No one but you can do it!!"
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Daisuke/Dark: "Jii-chan [Grampa]..."
Grampa: "In the Niwa family, besides you, there's no one left who inherits the blood.
For that reason, since when you were little, we've pounded the Phantom Thief's techniques into you"
Grampa: "All of that was for the day called today!!"
Grampa: "The key to undoing your transformation is..."
Grampa: "in the Saint Maiden!!"
Daisuke/Dark: *St. Tears!?*
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Daisuke/Dark: "So, if I get that statue and bring it back, I'll turn back to normal, right?!"
Mom: "That's how it is <3"
Grampa: "Ohh, right
With, lend a hand, would you?"
Daisuke/Dark: "Eh? (...him?)"
Grampa: "Every generation, he's been Dark's servant demon
He's Dark's partner. Only you can unbind the seal"
Grampa: "Try putting your hand on his head"
Daisuke/Dark: "...Like this?"
["soro~"]
["BASAA" - sound of With exploding into his new form]
Daisuke/Dark: "Wah-!"
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Grampa: "Dark's 'black wings' are this one's wings"
Dark/Daisuke: *The 11 'o-clock toll?!*
Dark/Daisuke: *I'm behind schedule, aren't I...*
Dark/Daisuke: *...since Mother was so particular about my costume--*
[text below: "he's wearing it properly"]
*Mother: "It's your long-awaited debut, and if you don't dress up--
Ahh, but since you look so good in anything, Mother was in a quandary--"*
[Mother: "run run"]
Dark/Daisuke: *...there it is, is it!*
Dark/Daisuke: *ESUVIIRU Museum with the St. Tears statue!!*
Dark/Daisuke: "Geh"
Dark/Daisuke: "What's up with this - so many security guards..."
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Inspector Saehara: "!?"
Guard: "...It's the black wings--!!"
Reporter: "That Dark, well-known phantom thief, has at last appeared before us-!!"
Guard: "Dark's shown up-----!!"
Reporter 1: "Please look, everyone! After 40 years, Phantom Thief Dark has appeared before us!!"
Guard: "Tighten security---!"
Reporter 2: "I'd do anything to get in there!!"
[sound of footsteps: "bata bata-"]
Reporter 3: "It's Dark!! Though he is running a bit later than the arranged time, he has made an appearance!!"
Reporter 4: "This is the press---!! Excuse me---!!"
Takeshi: "...it's the real McCoy..."
Takeshi: "Cool!! He's finally come!"
[background noise: "waa"]
Riku: "--Risaa, hurry up and take your bath!"
Reporter's voice: "Right!! This is the scene of his arrival!!"
Reporter's voice: "Play last time's VTR once more!! Everyone, please watch!!"
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Reporter: "It's Dark!"
Riku: "Hey, Risa!! Are you listening to me--!?"
Riku: "I knew it...
just watching TV like always..."
[Risa: "tota"]
[Riku: "hita hita"]
Reporter: "Aahh-!"
Reporter: "He has disappeared-----!!"
Reporter: "Dark has vanished before our very eyes-----!!"
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Inspector Saehara: "WHAAAT!?"
[thunderclap! "GAN"]
Guards: "He's vanished!?"
Inspector Saehara: "LOOK FOR HIM~~~-!!"
Dark/Daisuke: (falling out of tree) "Adadadada..."
[I don't know how to explain the sound properly, but it's a sound that a Japanese person might make when about to drop something or when something's about to fall. -MT]
With: "KYU~N"
["zubo"]
Dark/Daisuke: "I'm...okay. Just fine!"
Dark/Daisuke: "The real problem is how to get inside...
isn't it?"
["GASA" - sound of pulling aside branches]
["BATA BATA BATA" - sound of footfalls]
Dark/Daisuke: "That
...should I do it?..."
["uuu uuu uuu" - sound of alarms/sirens]
- 40 -
["BASHA-!"]
Guards: "!?"
Guards: "What's going on----!?"
["SU-" "BASA-" - sounds of Dark swooping, landing, etc.]
Guard: "A black out!"
Guard: "It's Dark's doing!!"
Guards: "He's stolen the St. Tears statue--!"
["zaza-" - sounds of guards running]
Guards: "WHAT?"
Guards: "Damn- He's done it!! Chase him down~~~~~~~-!!"
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Inspector Saehara: "AH"
Inspector Saehara: "IDIOTS! Run around, will you, you bastards-!"
Guard: "Ahh ahh, it's because we use the security device recklessly and rashly..."
Guard: "It's no use, Inspector Saehara!!"
["PII PII PII" - I think these are alarm sounds]
Dark/Daisuke: *I've only evaded this, but it would have been inconcievable to an ordinary person...*
["PII PII" - alarm]
Dark/Daisuke: *Though 40 years have passed, and this might be natural, but I don't feel at all better about dealing with this----"
Inspector Saehara: "Immediately, but just for a moment, call off the alarms---"
Guard 1: "Roger!"
Guard 2: "Roger-!!"
["PIII" - alarm]
["ba ba ba ba ba" - footsteps]
Dark/Daisuke: *Inspector Saehara is it...
Why do I feel like I've heard that name before...*
["sasa-" - sound of movement]
Inspector Saehara: "HEY, YOU! What are you doing!!"
["BATA BATA BATA" - footsteps]
Dark/Daisuke: "Inspector Saehara, sir! I've been left here to continue security-!!"
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Inspector Saehara: "Good - you stay there!! The security system's being restored, so I'm a little worried, but-"
Inspector Saehara: "I'll return right after I put the exterior system in order!"
Dark/Daisuke: "Yes, sir!"
Inspector Saehara: "Hmm - was that guard there before--"
Dark/Daisuke: "...Whaat, I've already gotten into security."
(Dark/Daisuke: "We-lcome!")
Dark/Daisuke: "...Umm...to neutralize the final lock is..."
Dark/Daisuke: "'Voice' is it. It must be the museum head's voice"
Dark/Daisuke: (trying different voices) "Ah
ah, Ah"
[...to be continued...]
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