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Thanks for you help, as well as a few websites for grammar help.

Yeah, I was a bit unsure of what she was trying to say here
でも、この手で　殺したいって事じゃない...,
as the next sentence talks about her being no better than they are if he was killed, and I couldn't really parse whether she was taking about onimaaru killing him or herself so that clears that bit up.

Also thanks for the suggestion on the second わからない as I thought it sounded a little off and 'you' instead of 'why' does fit better.

I plan on translating a bit more as I try and memorize the other new kanji/word I don't know that are in the rest of the document, and hope to post more later. Once again thanks for the help.

Thanks for the clarification on that line. Yeah It's been some time since I started reading detective conan, it got me started on a bit of a mystery kick so I've been listening to many of the famous detective novels recently. Sherlock Holmes, Detective Poirot, Rex Stout and a few others, the detective's he mention's in the back of each volume have been helpful in finding interesting works so far.

I also started reading the Kindaichi Case files, as it turns out tokyopop actually did license series over here, unfortunately they've now since gone under so any future translation's from them seem unlikely.

Anyway I've spent a bit of time today trying to translate the next bit, and it's given me a bit of trouble, part of this issue I think is that I never watched any sort of shows like kamen yaiba in the manga so I'm not used to all of this justice and pure evil kind of stuff.

オニマール：　............
Onimaaru: ………...

（博士を殺したヤツを追いつめ､裁きを受けさせるのは、 正義...)
(I had chased down the professor’s killer, it would have only been fair to render judgement...)

[This as well as the next two have given me the most trouble so far. I’m not sure how to translate, the 裁きを受けさせるのは、 正義... seems like he is saying that he would have forced judgement and that would be justice, but I’m not sure if 受けさせる would be forced to take or something else.]


（だが、　博士のかたきを俺が直接うつのは...悪...)
(For his rival to make such a direct attack was...evil...)

（生みの親のかたきも取れないなんてそんな力に意味なんかあるのか！？）
(To take away my creator, is there any meaning to that kind of power!?)

[I kind of get the gist of what he is saying, そんな力に意味なんかあるのか I translated as “is there any meaning to that kind of power!?” but the first part of this 生みの親のかたきも取れないなんて the 生みの親のかたき I assume to mean “my creators rival”, the 取れないなんて I’m not entirely sure of as I don’t know how to translate 取れない in this context]

オニマール： 風よ...!　教えてくれ！
Onimaaru: Oh wind...! Tell me!

こんなに悩むのは、俺が人造人間だからなのか?
Is it normal for a cyborg like me, to be this disturbed/troubled?

それとも、　俺のAIが不完全だからなのか？
Or is is that my AI is incomplete / defective?

オニマール： 風よ、　心あるならば教えてくれ!　製下とは何だ!?　悪とは何だ!?
俺は...　どうすればいいんだ...!?
Onimaaru: Wind, if you have the heart/power tell me! What is justice!? What is Evil!?
Tell me.. what should I do...!?

つづく
To Be Continued

Thanks again for any help you can give me, I've left a few of my note's trying to work out what is being said in different place to give an idea of what I was thinking at the time.

Thanks for all your help so far. This phrase
博士を殺したヤツを追いつめ､裁きを受けさせるのは、 正義...
you said that 追いつめ could also mean to drive someone in a corner mentally, I think it's probably supposed to be taken literally as in the previous scene he had actually caught the killer. So maybe 博士を殺したヤツを追いつめ､裁きを受けさせるのは、 正義... this could be translated as:

"I had finally caught up to the professors killer, killing him then an there would have been just"

Than the next line
（だが、　博士のかたきを俺が直接うつのは...悪...)
(but, for me to take a life would have been...evil)

（生みの親のかたきも取れないなんてそんな力に意味なんかあるのか！？）
(Is there any meaning to having power if I am unable to use it to avenge my creator!?)

As for him taking to the wind, during this monologue he has been riding on his motorcycle. Yeah 正義, I typed the wrong thing in when I was transcribing it, thanks for catching that.
風よ、　心あるならば教えてくれ!　
"If you can hear me wind, tell me!"

Maybe something like this would work.

Thanks again for all your help, it really shows that I need to just do a whole bunch of practice sentences to get my use and knowledge the different particles up to par. Also I spent way more than I should have translating like 2 pages of the second kindaichi case, today so I might put that up next time as it looks oddly, potentially easier to translate.

"I had finally caught up to the professor's killer, [avenging/killing] him then an there would have been just." -> "I had finally had him within my grasp, killing him then an there would have been just"

So is this (そのような力) taking about power/ability in reference to 生みの親のかたきも取れないなんて and than に意味なんかあるのか is taking about there being a meaning with the rest of the sentence.

生みの親のかたきも取れないなんて<--そのような力に意味なんかあるのか！？<br />I just couldn't do it, is there any meaning to all of this!?
Being able to, but not taking a life, is there a meaning behind all of this!?

Maybe something along those lines

風よ、　心あるならば教えてくれ!　
"If you can hear me, [oh] wind, [pray] tell me!"

The changes with [oh] wind, [pray] tell me, I thought was a nice touch. It makes him sound desperate to find an answer.

Thanks for your help with all of this. I've been playing way too much rayman origins today so the only thing I can post is a bit of my translation from the second case of the first kindaichi series.

その白骨は俺達の住む不動山市の外れの雑木林で発見された
The skeleton was found in a grove near the outskirts of Fudosan (City).

骨は２５～３０歳の男性のもので　死因は頭部を強打され殴殺
The victim was male, between 25 and 30, cause of death was a blow to the head.

埋められ　少なくとも一年以上は経過していると見られた
Given the state of decomposition, the body was buried at least 1 year ago.

―そして　白骨こそが
The discovery of that body

これから起こる血ぬられた事件の始まりだったんだ―!!
Would kick off a blood soaked chain of events.

ファイル２
異人館村殺人事件
File 2 : The Case of the Western Village

金田一（きんだいち）：　いてててて!!
Kindaichi: Ow, ow ow, ow!!

美雪（みゆき）：　もう！　朝っぱらからサボりだなんて!!　今日は許しませんからねっ!!
留年するわよこのままじゃ!

Miyuki: You! I see your trying to skip class early . Well, I’m not letting you off today!!
If you keep this up you'll be held back.

金田一：　んなの俺の勝手だろうォ!?
代返たのんであんたから大丈夫だよ

Kindaichi: Hey, isn’t that my choice!?
Anyway if you had just covered for me I would have been fine.

俺の名前は金田一一かの名探偵　金田一耕助をジッチャンにもつ由緒正しい高校二年生だ
My name is Hjime Kindaichi, I’m the grandson of Kosuke Kindaichi the famous detective.
[this bit is the only one that is really giving me trouble, 由緒正しい高校二年生だ made it seem to me that having the name passed down like this was troublesome for a second year in high school. But I'm not really certain of the translation]

―ったく!!

ストⅡ戦士たちがオレを待ってんだよゲーセンで

Dagnit!! Strike Warriors 2, the arcade.
[this bit is a little comment on the side of the dialogue bubble so I tried to make it short]

Also there is a kanji than I'm having trouble looking up as it's rather indistinct.
http://i.imgur.com/PKUQHSx.png
It's the one before でかいわりに <- this means radish sprout according to the site, so I assume it's part of some Japanese idiom, but so far I've been unable to find anything about it. <br />
Anyway thanks for all the help, I'll probably post a bit more of Kindaichi as I'm interested to see how the case proceeds.

Ah, mune, well that makes this part make more sense now. I decided to just upload the whole page so there is more context as to what is going on in this scene.
http://i.imgur.com/SrxjvMl.jpg
Also you'll note from the image that the second 一 from 金田一一 is はじめ、I'm not sure if that changes the meaning there

俺の名前は金田一一かの名探偵　金田一耕助をジッチャンにもつ由緒正しい高校二年生だ
My name is Hajime Kindachi, yes from that famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi, I suppose I was looked on as his successor though I was still in high school.
[something like this possibly]

そしてこいつが幼なじみの　七瀬（ななせ）　美雪（みゆき）
And this is my childhood friend Miyuki Nanase.

優等生で学内の男どもの人気も高いらしけど俺にいわせりゃタダのおせっかい女!
She was an honours student, and popular with the boys, but to me she was just a pain in the neck.

要するに餓鬼なんだよね　胸でかい 割りに…
Her chest being the only adult thing about her.

あら？
Hunh?

I decided to finish up the page after learning what the kanji was. Now I wish I had the official translation around to see how they interpreted some of those little side remarks. As always thanks for the help, I started recently watching the anime so now I have a bunch of kindaichi related stuff to go through.

Edit: I just remembered for this
異人館村殺人事件
File 2 : The Case of the Western Village

The tokyopop translation of this was The mummy's curse, I've not read far enough in the chapter yet to know what the case is about though Wikipedia states "The small hexagram-shaped village in which the classmate lives is packed with wealthy aristocrats who keep mysterious, cut-up mummies in their luxurious homes. " So maybe "Murder at the Western Estates" might be a better fit.