RYOKO 19

Maaan that was much harder than I initially anticipated, but it was also probably the best chapter of the series.....despite it only being maybe 21 chapters long. I really hope Shogakukan will keep Mitsuhashi around for the long haul.



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(Top text- For the dinner at the end of the world….the end of world battle action manga!!)
RYOKO
(Side text- Volume one is in stores now to great fanfare! The digital edition has also begun distributation!!)
(Middling text- Currently rounding up those wicked ingredients!)
Vol 19. THE DAYS ARE GONE.
MITSUHASHI KAITO

002
(Side text- The Abalone has seized control, and Rere, a woman who has made a promise to the death lives alone in the city. Just what is in her past…)
{Five years ago –Winter--}
???: Rere-neechan, wake up…
(Sfx- Mozosooh *ffft*)
Rere: Hn…
Rere: Nana…
I said you don’t need to go out of your way to wake me up early…
Nana: Teehee..

003
Nana: I made breakfast so before you go to work…
Let’s eat it together!
Oh right, neechan! You haven’t done the welfare inspection yet have you?
Rere: Ah..
Nah, but we don’t even need that.
Nana: Eeeeeh? Why? They’ve even turned off the water here y’know!
Rere: Then I’ll just have to work harder.
Nana: And there you go again.
You always try to shoulder eeeverything on your own.
(Handwritten- You’re quite the handful, sister.)
Rere: C’mon Nana…

004
Rere: What’s so great about living in the lap of luxury?
Nana: Aww why are we having this conversation about things that happen only in dreams?
Umm…well there’s clothes, uh..earrings, and then…then…
Ah! Then there’s high class foods like abalone…I’d love to eat it together with you~
Rere: Okay, gotcha.
Clothes and earrings and abalone….I’ll remember that.
Welp, I’m off.
(Sfx- hah)
Nana: Take care!
{My world was just the two of us.}

005
{I don’t need anything else.}
{Not my dead father or the step mother who ran out on us nor the relatives who scammed us out of our inheritance.}
{As long as Nana and I are together, I could care less about the rest.}
{It’s fine, the two of us will survive on our own.}
{It’s painful now, but do the very best that I can.}
Rere: Still…
To randomly have to deliver fresh foods this week is…
(Sfx- Gogogogo *rmmmble*)

006
Rere: That sounds bad…
(Sfx- Mekiiiii *grinnnd*)
{It was all so sudden.}
{The load I was carrying bust and killed seven people.}

007
{This huge incident was in all the papers in the blink of an eye. Since they weren’t able to determine the reason for the explosion…}
{They had to end the investigation prematurely due to the list showing what exactly I was transporting wasn’t found in my workplace.}
{Since I was the only one who actually had any contact with the load, and then was the one who brought it to the scene of the incident, I was naturally the suspect.}
{In recent years it was unusual for a single person to plan out and execute an indiscriminate mass murder,}
{So my death sentence was decided upon with unprecedented speed.}
{Even though I bitterly complained, nothing worked and I was unable to protect Nana.}

008
{Even though we were so far apart, I repeatedly wrote Nana letters.}
{Despite being afraid of the date of execution coming up.}

009
{As Summer came closer, the letters from Nana suddenly stopped coming.}
{The next day the guard also show up.}
Rere: Hey.
{The day after that and the day after that too.}
Rere: Where’s my food?
Heeey, is someone there?
{No one came.}
Rere: Quit messin’ with me!
Answer me out there dammit!
Is my execution supposed to be the result of starvation?!
What the hell is going on?!
(Sfx- Gan gan gan *thoom thoom*)

010
Rere: Dammitall…
Something’s…coming?
(Sfx- Zoooooo *fwhooooom*)
(Sfx- Gobaaaanannn *craassssh*)
Rere: Kyaaaah!!!
Thing: Nebaaaaaaaaaah

011
{Wh…}
{The hell is that?!}
{What the hell is that monster?!}
(Sfx- Gogoooonn *booooom*)
Rere: Aah…
Hah…hah..

012
(Sfx- Gooooooooh *fwhooooom*)
Rere: What the---Nana…where’s Nana!!
(Sfx- Datsh *dash*)
{I ran.}
{Impossible to believe scenery, a cruel scene, cries for salvation..}
{I shook all of them off and started running.}
{For that day and the next day I ran out of hell.}
{Seeking that far away house.}

013
(Sfx- Hah hah hah)
Rere: Nana…
Nana…Nana…
Where are you Nana?
(Sfx- giiitshhh )
Rere: Nana!!

014

015
{Shutting herself in her room and not eating…}
{Nana had died as if she were sleeping.}
{She had become the disheartened little sister of a death row inmate –my only family left in..}
{This world at its end with monstrous food products roaming around…}
{The life I had pursued had already disappeared.}
Rere: What do I…
Vent to…
Where do I…
This anger what do I…
{And now I was the only one left.}
{Thus I had become the only one left in my world.}

016
(Sfx- Baaan *thoom*)
(Sfx- DOoooooohhhh)

017
{This anger of mine that had no refuge..}
{Continuously exhausts itself upon the abalone eating this city.}
{However my heart gradually began to erode…}
Rere: That’s dirty…
{And I too came to a decision.}

018
{I had already decided on how I’d die.}
Rere: Today’s the day it all ends.
???: Whoaa!
Ryoko: Zen-kun!
This is amazing, Zen-kun! Incredible even!
Rere: Humans? And asparagus?
Up we go…
The hell do they want on my death anniversary?
(Side text- Unable to protect her beloved little sister, Rere remains in the world. This is “Dish City” where everything is being crushed. Next issue, what will Ryoko do?!)
TO BE CONTINUED IN ISSUE 16.