101Leafy researched the game with the Hilltop Works fan translation patch, English translation by Cargodin
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A merchant on Lung Shing Road who guesses that the player was sent from Yang. He explains guilü, objects possessed by malice, and fears the mirror merchant could not withstand it.
Bottle Merchant speaks 21 times in the script, in Lung Shing Road, West City Road.
Stage: Lung Shing Road, West City Road
Each block is one message window, with a link to the place in the script where it appears.
Let me guess...
You came here from Yang. On a mission, I take it? Well, don't get too lost. Vengeful ghosts that us locals call "guilü" wander these back streets. These dangerous guilü are born when malice possesses inanimate objects. The mirror merchant... most likely didn't stand a chance against them.
なんだい、あんたは…？
陽の世界から送り込まれた…そうなんだろ？で、奥に行こうっていうのか…奥じゃ鬼律（グイリー）どもがうろついてる。物の怪（もののけ）だよ。邪気が物にとり憑いて生まれる。九龍じゃそれを鬼律って呼んでるんだ。…鏡屋はきっと…邪気に耐えられなかったんだ。
Say, you're not going to enter the taxidermist's little contest, are you? It's being held over in Kowloonfront. The taxidermist wants folks to catch three malices, or "the Three Corpses". A few challengers entered the hutongs to join the hunt, but none returned.
Eerily, I've heard the Three Corpses spawned from yet another district.
To catch the Three Corpses, you'll need a certain bottle. I had a few, but the taxidermist bought them all up, hehe.
もしかしてあんた、剥製屋のコンテストとやらでやってきたんじゃないだろうね？九龍フロントの剥製屋だよ。あいつ、なにやらここで三尸（サンシー）を捕まえるコンテストやってて、これまでに何人か胡同に入って行ったが、誰も戻らない。
そもそも、三尸自体がどこかよその街から来た邪気だっていうじゃないか…
…うちには三尸を捕まえるのにぴったりのびんがあったけど、剥製屋がみんな持って行ってしまった。ふふふ…
To catch the Three Corpses, you'll need a certain bottle. I had a few, but the taxidermist bought them all up, hehe.
三尸のびんじゃないと捕まえられないんだ。そのびんは剥製屋が持って行ったんだよ、ふふふ、みんな持って行ったんだ…
Look who's back on Lung Shing Road! Tell me, did the taxidermist give you a Corpse bottle? Mind if I see it?
結局、あんたが来たのか。剥製屋から預かったんだな、三尸（サンシー）のびん。どれ、持ってるなら見せてくれ。
... Yep, that's the genuine article.
The Three Corpses are malice, born from rotted sawdust elsewhere in Kowloon.
Since drifting to Lung Shing Road, they've worked to stay undetected. They may slip up if you cleanse the hutongs connected to Lung Shing Road. Hehe, let's hope nobody in the district gets possessed in the meantime!
…確かに。これは本物だ、間違いない…
三尸はどこかの街から漂って来るんだ。腐ったオガクズから生まれた邪気らしい。
なんでも巧みに姿を隠してるってよ。龍城路の胡同の邪気がきれいさっぱりなくなったら、三尸も姿を見せるはずさ。居場所がなくなってな…ひひひ、三尸が人間にとり憑いたら、ちょっとやっかいだな。
Restore the qi flow in the hutongs so the Three Corpses run out of places to hide on Lung Shing Road. They may try to possess people who have darkness in their hearts. Heh, could you be one of them?
胡同の気脈が戻ると、三尸は行き場がなくなって、この龍城路にやってくるんだ。それで、心に闇を持つ人間に憑くんだ。そうなんだろ？いひひひひ…あんた…
To catch the Three Corpses, you gotta use a bottle.
That whatchamacallit sword won't help you here. Nothing beats a good purpose-made bottle. Heheh.
三尸を捕まえるには、やっぱりびんだな。なんとかっていう刀じゃ無理だろうな…
三尸は三尸のびんに入れるのが一番なのさ…ふふふ、びんが一番さ。
Heh! Feeling good about yourself?
Expelling malice from the hutongs only displaces it somewhere else. Funny how that works, huh! Hehe...
ひひひひ、どんな気持ちだ？
あんたが、胡同の邪気を鎮めると、誰かが邪気に冒されるんだ…皮肉な話だな…ひひひひひ…
All righty, let's see who those Three Corpses run off and possess. This'll be good, hehehe. Hehe...
さあて、三尸が誰に憑くか、お楽しみはこれからだな、ひひひひひひひひ、ひっ…
The qi flow feels way closer to normal, I've noticed.
So, have you found anyone who might be possessed by one of the Corpses?
You know... the old shoe merchant is pretty suspicious, don't you think? He'd be a riot to watch either way. Hehehe, like my hobby, it's more fun to see where the pieces fall. Watch it go niiice and slooow, hehe.
気脈はかなり元に戻ってきたみたいだな。
で、見つけたのか？三尸に冒されそうな人間とやらは…
俺はな…古靴屋がそうじゃないかと思うんだ。あんた、どう思う？とにかく、成りゆきを見物させてもらうよ。そして…ひひひひ、ゆっくり趣味の時間を楽しむんだ。俺の趣味は特別でね、ひひひひひ…
As nice as this place is, people keep interrupting my hobby time.
Were any of those drifters meandering about friends of yours? I'd assumed they were here for the Corpse hunt... So, have you found all three yet? Can you tell whom in our district has been possessed by the malice? Surely you have an guess by now!
せっかくいいところだったのに、趣味の時間はいつも邪魔が入る…
あんた、今うろついてたあいつらと友達なのか？あいつらも三尸を捕まえにきたんだな。そうか、で、もうわかってるんだろ？誰なんだ？邪気に憑かれたやつっていうのは？もう目星はついてるんだろ？
Why're you talking to me? Go find that malice mirror! A guilü inside of the hutongs is bound to have it, so go!
邪気の鏡を手に入れなきゃ、話にならないな。どうせ、鬼律が持ってるに違いない。胡同の中で探すんだな。
Finally ready to capture the Three Corpses, are you? Don't bother using a bottle. I can think of a million better ways to use one of those, hehe...
あんた、本当に三尸を捕まえるつもりなんだな…俺だったらびんにそんなもんなんて入れないさ、もっと楽しい物があるんだな、俺には、ふふふ…ふふふふ…
Finally ready to capture the Three Corpses, are you? Don't bother using a bottle. I can think of a million better ways to use one of those, hehe...
あんた、本当に三尸を捕まえるつもりなんだな…俺だったらびんにそんなもんなんて入れないさ、もっと楽しい物があるんだな、俺には、ふふふ…ふふふふ…
All right, little earring, into the bottle you go... Plink!
You're just so tiny, see? I'd rather put you in, haa haa...
Hey. Do you... like earrings?
Me? Ahem! Ahahahaha! Haah... I love my little darlings veeery much. Haa haah, i-if you see any earrings l-lying around... bring them to me. I'll give them a good home. Pl-plea...
びんにはなあ、ピ、ピアスを入れるんだ…
ピアスを入れてなあ、ちりんとしているからな、はあはあ…
なあ、あんた…ピアスは好きかい…？
お、俺は、あは、いひひひ、か、かわいこちゃんのピアスがだーいすきさ。はあはあはあ、ピ、ピアス、見かけたら、持ってきてくれ…集めてるんだ、お願いだ、はあはあ、な…
Hehe, there's no malice in me, baby. See, my heart's already full, thanks to my hobby of collecting earrings.
へへへ、俺は邪気なんか寄せ付けない。俺には…大切なピアスがあるからな、それが趣味なんだよ、ピアス集めが。
Hehe, today's my lucky day. Do you want to know whyyy? Because! ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... I found this huge earring near that passage exit you came from.
You don't find something this juicy sitting around every day! Only, it's a liiittle too big.
へへ、今日はお宝日だなあ…なんでか、分かるか…………………………………………………………………手に入れたんだ、でっかいピアス…今あんたが出てきた扉のところで…
ピアス拾うなんて、めったにあるもんじゃない。でも、ちょっとでかすぎるんだ…
Woah, l-look at that...! What's that cutie you have there?
D-do you... wanna trade that little thing for this big hunker I have? Please...?
うおおおお、こ、これは…可愛いピアスじゃねえか。
これ、俺に、くれ…さっき拾ったやつ、あんたにやるからさ。…な…。
You know this feeling, don't you?
No, you can't hide it from me... You and I... share the same hobby. Here. Take this deluxe bottle. When you get home, drop that earring into this bottle. It's big, sure, but an earring's an earring.
同じ気持ちだ…分かるだろ…
俺とあんた…同じ趣味でさ、隠せないもんだな…そうだよなあ。ほら、これもやるよ、特製びんだ。うちに帰ったら、そのピアスをびんに入れるんだ…ちょっとでかいけど、ピアスはピアスだよ。
Man, am I happy. To think, I'd find someone else with this hobby.
When I first saw you, I had a feeling you were just like me.
When it comes to getting bottled, earrings beat Corpses any day,
what, with their satisfying, "Plink!" sounds and all.
いやあ、うれしい…同じ趣味の人間に会えるなんてな…
最初にあんたを見たときから、そうじゃないかって感じてたんだ。
三尸なんかより、ピアスだよ、びんにはピアスがお似合いなんだ。
中に入れて、ちりんちりん、いい音がするじゃないか。
When I get to thinking about a woman's ear, I lose myself.
Ears with little pointy bits pricked into them? I love 'em! Hehehehehehehehehehehe!
女の耳のことをいろいろ考えてると、自分を忘れそうになるんだ。
俺はなあ…小さくて先っちょのとんがった耳が好きなんだよ、ふふふふふふふふふふ。
English translations by Cargodin for Hilltop Works Fan Translation Patch: https://www.patreon.com/hilltopworks/posts/kowloons-gate-160555525?collection=18503