Kagurabachi Chapter 98 Raw Scans and Translations – The Incompetent Captain: Hagiwara Ikuto

October 17, 2025
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Sorenamoo
Posted in Jejepangan Manga

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Hagiwara: Hello my dear subordinates, get a look at this!

Shiyumi: Woah? The heck’s that? Black peppers?

Kugara: Sesame seeds, clearly!

Kazane: That’s what you thought of, sesame seeds?

Hagiwara: ..It’s magnetite sand.

Uzuki: “Dear subordinates” is way too formal, man.

Makoto: Magnetite sand?

Hagiwara: Knit it real tight to your clothes, it’ll go a long way.

Editor Note: “If you too thought “Wait, who were these people again..?” go and re-read Volume 2!

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Hagiwara: With my magnetic controlling capabilities, I’ll be able to control everyone freely when we’re mid-air.

Shiyumi: Eh?! So we’re going flying? (Yaaaaayy!)

Hagiwara: I won’t let a single hit get through to you.

Shiyumi: But in that case, if Ikuto’s defeated it’ll spell real trouble for the rest of us, right? Best everyone goes down together then, right?

Hagiwara: You make a good point.

Shiyumi: EH!?

Hagiwara: All it means is that nobody will die before me – As the captain of the Cloud Gouger Special Forces, your lives are in my hands.

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Chapter 98 – The Incompetent Captain: Hagiwara Ikuto

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Hagiwara: ..Everyone in the HQ knows of me. And now they know that I killed them. Let almost every one of my subordinates die..

Kugara (?): Hey now, how long’s this moping session gonna last for?!

Hagiwara: Shut up already, you..

Kugara (?): COME ON NOW, LETS GET UP AND DO SOMETHING.

Hagiwara: Even if I get up, then what. An useless, incompetent person like me fits this bed more than it does the battlefield.

NPC: …

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NPC: ..Uhm, so —

Hagiwara: What now? ..Oh. Yeah, go ahead and take it back.

NPC talking to NPC 2: I can’t bear witness to that type of person..

NPC 2: Talking to himself, ‘all alone’.. ¨

NPC: He keeps talking to this “partner” of his.. According to the doctors –

NPC: He’s using Kugara’s mask with sorcery and moving it subconsciously, like it’s to serve as a ghost from the past.

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NPC: He’s already become well aware of his passing but his consciousness is completely clouded. But can you blame the guy? I mean, all of the victims of that tragedy he’s known for 10 years if not more. Especially that of Kugara, for they’ve been childhood friends ever since the age of 5. I guess he’s just not in the right mind to accept reality. If there’s any saving grace here, its that the new-guy Kazane ended up safe..

NPC 2: Wait.. That’s iron sand, right?

NPC: Apparently it was found woven into every single uniform of the group. Being surrounded by it apparently makes him feel safer. Like “everyone’s still here” or at least that’s what he said to me.

NPC 2: He was such a stalwart hero yet look at him now..

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NPC: If I had to guess? He’s not in fighting condition for a while.

Hagiwara (muttering to himself)

Kugara (?): OI, HAGIWARA. You didn’t eat anything, AGAIN!

Hagiwara: ..You expect me to have an appetite?

Kugara (?): YOU’RE GOING TO DIE!

Hagiwara: ..You expect me to care?

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Kugara: WHAT A LAME WAY TO GO OUT IF THATS SO! MIGHT ASWELL DIE FIGHTING, NO?!

Hagiwara: ..There’s nothing that requires fighting. Besides, you really think they’d pass work onto someone as incompetent as me.. A decaying, decomposing death like this? Sounds just right for a guy like me..

Announcement: ENEMY ATTACK. I REPEAT – ENEMY ATTACK. CLEAR THE FIRST FLOOR. ALL NON-COMBATANTS, HEAD TO LEVEL 3 AND BELOW IMMEDIATELY!

Kugara (?): HEY NOW LOOKIE LOOK, A CHANCE YOU CANT PASS UP NOW IS IT?

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Barrierkeeper: In order to get the barrier back we need to kill whoever it is that holds the control to the barrier – and that person, is one of the Hishaku.

Izaru: And there’s no easy way to just identify them?

Barrierkeeper: Hold on..! T-the Shinuchi just experienced a massive power-spike..!

Izaru: That just means we really gotta hurry..

ANNOUNCEMENT: IN ANY CASE – KILL EVERY LIVING, BREATHING HISHAKU.

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Bingo Uran and Chomage guy are in a stand-off when…

Chomage: HAGIWARA? WHAT’S A BASTARD LIKE YOU DO-

Hagiwara (thinking): You four died to protect this country.. And I, although still as incompetent of a captain as ever before.. DEDICATE THIS to you..!

Hagiwara: I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT I’M CAPABLE OF!

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Chomage: HAGIWARA!!!!

Uran: (Oh sorry, what was that?)

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Hagiwara blocks the bite!

Uran (thinking): Iron sand..? So he had some hidden in his clothes, is that so?¨

..?: Yes, I was entrusted him. And he told me.. Something quite remarkable.

As Hagiwara falls into the ocean crushed under a rock, a hand extends itself..

..?: He told me: “As my consciousness faded, I clearly saw a human figure.. Kugara had pulled me back to the surface, all the way to the beach.. Considering the circumstances however, it was clearly his own strength and grit that brought him ashore. Yet the man had clearly lost his mind, and unexpectedly created this figment of imagination of Kugara having come to save him. If seen like that by the general public, the consensus would’ve been obvious:

“Hagiwara? That guy is done for”..

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..? (thinking): But the secrets of sorcery lie in the natural flow of spiritual energy – one unimpeded by unnecessary consciousness.. Hagiwara, who now treats his own sorcery as if it belonged to someone else in the first place.. would be the very definition, of having reached a state of “ultimate unconsciousness”..

Hagiwara: LET’S DO THIS, KUGARA!

Kugara (?): LETS GOO!!!

..?: Which would coincidentally mean that.. In combat? Barely anyone would stand a chance.

Kugara (?): HAGIWARAAAA!!!

Hagiwara: ..Oh?

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Hagiwara: ..My body feels so HEAVY all of a sudden..!

(“There’s another vessel, they lie on the side of the Hishaku”)

Hagiwara: So all we have to do is kill the main target, right?! Sounds REAL simple NOW DOESN’T THAT!

Kugara (?): IM SURE IT IS!

Narration: Magnetic Resonance Imaging also known as an MRI is a piece of tech that applies a powerful magnetic field to the human body, utilizing its magnetic properties and gaining vital, visualized information through that.

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