Junk Record of the Last Hero Volume 4

Author's foreword: This fourth volume, which ended up being released at the end of the year, was supposed to have been released much sooner. However I got ill and that caused it to be released two months past schedule. So I'd like to take this opportunity and apologize to my fans for the wait. I'm really sorry.

What I came to realize is that our body really is a necessity to get anything done. I thought I knew that without it I wouldn't be able to do anything, but when something really traumatic comes its way you find out how hard it is to deal with you not being able to do anything. This stands true for manga characters as well, in that all things exist solely because there are healthy people out there to do them.

Take great care of yourselves, dear readers. The previous year has been an unlucky one... (and I forgot to do an exorcism at that).

[tn: A big "Thank you" to njt for figuring out the 2nd sentence of the second paragraph. I kept the other sentences too, since your writing style is not too far off from my own.]

Promotional color page

Hiro continues to flee.
JUNK VOL.5
What will come out of his reunion with Ryouko?
Everything about the third JUNK.
The transformations and their significance.
COMING NEXT!

Justice 16: Junk Scandal

003
*glare*

006
Masakazu: Uh... Ah...
*grip*
*donk* BUZZZZ*
Hiro: ... Ww

007
Hiro: WOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
*BUUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZ*
*WOOOP*

008
*WHACK*
*CRASH*
*CHASH*
*BLAM*
*THUMP*

009
*ZZZZZ*
*clink*
*twitch*
*twitch*
Ryouko: .......

010
Hiro: Fuhhh. Fuhh.

011
Ryouko: AAAAAAAAAH/NOOOO. NOOOOOOO.//AAAAAAAAAAH!!/NO. NOOO.
Saeki: !! *step* *step*
Ryouko: WHAAAT? NOOOOOO. AAAHAAAAHAA. *tremble* *tremble*
Saeki: ......

012
Saeki: Get a policewoman! She's in a state of confusion and shouldn't be approached by a male. Then call an ambulance.
Cop: Yes sir.
Ryouko: NOOOO-HOOOOO.
*roll* *roll*
Ryouko: AAAAAAAAAH//NOOOOOOOO/AAHAHAHAAH.*clang*
Policewoman: It's fine!! It's okay, now.
Saeki: ......./A single room, about 6 tatami large, is it...?[tn: A tatami is about 90x180 cm or 3x6ft.]

013
Saeki: So this is where he sequestrated the girl...
Cop: Inspector! Over here!
Saeki: Hum?
Cop: I've found a man... Probably the laundry's owner or something...*wheeze* *wheeze*
Cop: His face is half-crushed, so we can't tell for sure, but he's barely alive...
Saeki: The criminal?/The one who kidnapped the girl...?
Cop: He's injured badly.
Saeki: There's already an ambulance, so...
Cop: Right away!
Saeki: ........

014
Saeki: (If this man is the criminal... then who on Earth did this?)*crackle*
Saeki: (Who sent him flying, smashing through the wall, all the way to this inner room? The girl?//No, no. Stuff like that happens only in movies and manga./Superpowers and all that...)*crackle*
Saeki: (I've seen that kind of movie before...//Assuming...//this is impossible........//This other huge hole... how do we explain it?*crack*

015
*thump*
*crash*
*crasshhh*
*slam*
*pant* *pant* *pant* *pant*
*pant* *pant*

016
Hiro: (Fuck! Fuck!/I'm pissed, I am! Shit!!//What am I angry for? Ryouko is saved, right?/Wrong. Ryouko got raped.//Am I angry at her?/Or else...//Maybe I felt like I should have been the first to have sex with her?/That's not it!!//Anyway... I feel so wrong.../No matter how you look at it... I wasn't able to save Ryouko. Hell!!)

017
Narrator: The next day.
Reporter: The police has published the news: Harumi Ryouko-san is fine and has been taken to safety!/The criminal has been apprehended, but he's in a critical state.
*beep*
Woman!Announcer: The culprit, Fujimi Masakazu was running a laundry in front of the station in a shopping street./He used to be married and had a daughter, but she died in an acci...
*beep*
TV: Masakazu-yougisha [tn: "yougisha" means "suspect" and is used as a suffix when referring to criminals in the media] has been taller and larger than the other children ever since primary school./He developed a complex out of this, and was prone to remain secluded at home...

018
*beep*
TV: The only things the police communicated during the press conference held this morning were that they'd captured the criminal and taken Ryouko-san to safety.//The only answer to the journalists' questions was "The investigation is currently ongoing". They were even booed by some of the reporters./We also have the information according to which Masakazu-yougisha has been admitted in a police hospital, in an intensive care unit. Which raises the question as to what happened during the arrest...
*beep*
Woman: Well, as a kid… he never stood out all that much.//That laundry, you mean? He used to have a rather girly occupation. Plenty of dolls...
Hiro: ...
Witness: He did come an awful lot to our live meetings./But he was getting old, so we didn't rub it in.
*beep *beep*

019
*creak*
Saeki: The analysis?
Cop: Finished in the morning.
Saeki: ........//I'm really concerned about this hole... It seems from the fragments' position that the way was forced from outside.../Looking at the premises, it's only natural to think about someone coming in.

020
Saeki: Someone came in and sent the criminal flying all the way to the wall over there... With enough strength to smash through the glass and a concrete wall...?//Who, then?/Even if it's old this warehouse's wall is still made of concrete. Is there a human being out there....//who can destroy it//and toss a man 5 meters [tn: roughly the same in yards] forward?//Even in that case, judging from the scene, he came in and out shortly before our intervention.../At the time, the area was surrounded by cops.//Unless he came flying and went out the same way/That's unfeasible........

021
Saeki: .........//The superman........?
*beep*
Saeki: That you, Fujiwara? ... It's me.

022
*poke*
Hiro: .......//(Funny.../The JUNK suit...//I broke through that concrete wall like it was nothing.//Then I punched the guy with all my strength... But he didn't die./On TV, they said he was gravely injured.//If I have the power to smash concrete/shouldn't human bones turn into paste?)*creak* *creak*
Hiro: (Why didn't it happen?)*clank*
Hiro: (... How come.........)

023
Hiro: (A limiter?//So that JUNK suit.../it comes with a limiter?//Sensors.../And a built-in limiter... So it can't kill people...//If the target is human, the power will be restrained./The manual doesn't say anything about it.//But there's got to be a limiter!//Why are my parents dead, then?) [tn: Ahem... Because you're a reckless fool with too much power on his hands...?]

024-025
[tn: Translating the whole article was a real bitch. Lots and lots of tiny, barely legible text=Aaaaarrh! Good luck scanlating it!]

EXCLUSIVE!!
The abducted girl's family had already fallen apart!! The mother's affair with her daughter's classmate!!
The scene of the adulterous transgression!!

The kidnapping and sequestration case involving a schoolgirl in Suginami, (Tokyo) this month is still fresh in our memories. At some point in the afternoon, [...]ko-san (18) parted ways with her friends at a family restaurant located in the vicinity, only to be kidnapped by Fujimi Masakazu-yougisha (55) and sequestrated in his personal home for two weeks. A traumatizing event.

The mental shock was really great for the victim, [...]ko-san, who had to be hospitalized. Furthermore, Fujimi-yougisha was found grievously wounded upon arrest, and is now in the hands of an intensive care unit... Hum? ... The criminal, in a critical state? Why? A violent struggle during the arrest? Or possibly the implication of a third party? In any case, he was gravely injured, and with no word from [...]ko-san, the truth of the matter in still unknown.
::::::::::::::::::::::::
The Gordian knot is complicated even further (or maybe not, one can't tell) by the discovery of a scandal! Who would have guessed? The victim's mother (45) and one of her classmates, Boy A (18) had an adulterous affair!
Left picture: right after sending her daughter to school, she frequently heads for the young boy's place, cooking ingredients in hand. Once there, she starts to prepare breakfast, and... Would you believe it? So she was the main dish? And thus starts a jaw-dropping scene in the kitchen room (photo). Then the two of them disappear from view. Probably moving to the bedroom for a round... A bright-faced, perfectly "satisfied wife" leaves the room after that. Those housewives in the neighborhood who know her well comment: "Now that you mention it, she's been supiciously seductive, lately."

In addition, the case is entwined with the one that is currently causing the most unrest, that of the superman. This month, Boy A lost his parents to the Suginami fire incident caused by the superman, and was taken to his childhood friend, [...]ko-san's house for a short while. Then he bought a high-class designer apartment house with his parents' heritage and started to live on his own. His affair with the married woman most likely started sometime around this point. A former classmate of his explains, smiling: "The guy was bullied, and he'd stopped coming to classes..." He hasn't been going to school for the whole spring, and is currently a NEET [tn: Not in Employment, Education or Training], so to speak.
:::::::::::::::::::::
"I would have sworn he was her boyfriend", says another voice, putting her hand before her mouth. This is [...]ko-san's colleague, from the family restaurant where she worked during the summer vacations. Boy A would come to her working place quite often, and they would fondly speak to each other, she says. They were getting along well, then? In which case, the mother was laying hands on her own daughter's boyfriend...? We can do little more than speculate, at best.
::::::::::::::::
[...]ko-san is currently hospitalized. Mental repercussions from her kidnapping and sequestration, her mother's affair with her childhood friend... Thinking of how scarred emotionally the sensitive 18 year-old girl already is makes the situation that much more unbearable.

Left pic: The mother, on her way to boy A's apartment.
Right pic: On the premises, time for some action. Of the "hot" variety.

026
Hiro: !!//(What's this?!/It can't be true, can it?! Seriously...)
*step*
Hiro: (How did the mass media find out about this?/I was really being followed, then?)*step* *step*
Hiro: So maybe they know about JUNK too?*step* *step* *step*
*beep*

027
Reporter: We are standing before the abducted girl's home./The place has been crowded with journalists since morning!//But even when we ring the bell, there is no answer at all.
Hiro: ..........
Journalist: Madam!! Won't you let us in?/The photographs and what's written in that weekly magazine are true, aren't they?
*knock* *knock* *kncok*
Journalist: Madaaaam. You're there, aren't you?*knock* *knock*
Hiro: .......
*ding-doooong* *diiing-dooong*
Hiro: !*ding-dong* *ding-dong*
Hiro: Who's there?*ding-dong*

028
*ding-dong* *ding-dong*
*ding-dong* *ding-dong*
Hiro: The media........./Shit... They're coming here too...
*grit*
*ding-dong* *ding-dong**ding-dong* *ding-dong*
*ding-dong* *diiing-dooong**ding-dong* *diiing-dooooong*

029
Panel: No Visitors
Kaori: (It's the only way left, right?)

030
Kaori: (If this keeps up we won't be able to bear living with one another./Right?)
*kwip*
Kaori: .......//I'll go live somewhere.../With her....//I'll go...

031
*ding-dong* *ding-dong**ding-dong* *ding-dong*
Hiro: ........//Shut the hell up... Dang it. It's that magazine's fault. Fuck it!/They can do whatever just because it's their job?//Media assholes.../Hiding behind whatever protects them and doing whatever they please.//I have no choice other than sucking it up, for now?/Until another event comes up and they forget about this one completely...//They're like hyenas. They'll jump on to the next prey's carcass when it shows up./For now, not doing anything and not going outside shouldn't be that difficult for an ex-hikikomori like me. [tn: Hikikomori (lit. "He who withdraws and secludes himself") are a social phenomenon in Japan. School bullying victims who cut themselves completely from the outside world and eschew social interaction, even with close relatives.]//For now. Until those hyenas move on to something else.../Once they do, it's gonna be my turn to act...*ding-doooong* *ding-doooong* *ding-doooong*

032
Narrator: Two weeks later.
Hiro: .......
*grip*

033
Gossiping women: Eh? What happened to Harumi-san's place?/The house. Look. That's the one they've been talking about. The incident. Look...../Ah yeah. She was cheating on her husband with a schoolboy. It was in the mag./Anyway, they're divorced, and they've skipped town when no one was looking. Makes sense. Not a word to the neighbors, nothing.//My, they looked like such a happy family, from a distance./You can never tell what's really going on, can you?/So where did they go?/No one has a clue. But they didn't have much of a choice, did they? After all that ruckus on TV and in the papers.//But those pictures in the magazine were quite something./Yeah. I saw them, I did. Great stuff./If it was me. If such pictures of me were ever published for everyone and their mother to see, I'd hang myself.

034
*CLANG*
*CRASH*
*grit* *grit* *grit*

036
Panel: Kameyama Publications.
Journalist: Ah. Onodera-san. Heading straight back home?
Onodera: Not quite. Author supervision.

037
Journalist: Yeaaaah. And that involves partying with the author, too? Rumor has it you take more than your share of people back home.
Onodera: Hey, don't talk like that, you could ruin my reputation. Jeez.
Journalist: See you around.
Onodera: Yeah.//So what if I go party over and over?/Maybe I'm messed up or something.
*thud*
Onodera: Woops...//Hey there. Don't just stand in the way like some light bulb... Geddit? ......../Uh...?

038-039
Onodera: ?!

040
*CRASH*
Onodera: AARGH!![

Justice 17: Junk Destruction

041
*step*
*clack*
*frrrrrr*

044
Note: The information desk's opening hours for the day are over. If you need someone, please phone them directly.
*push*

045
*slide*
*slide*

046
Rucksack: Sigh. It's over, we're done. Oh, man.
Suitcase: What? You're going to Shinjuku now?
Rucksack: Tomorrow's my day off./Haven't had one in a while.
*clank*
Suitcase: !
Rucksack: ...... Er.
Hiro: ...........

047
Suitcase: Wai... *stomp* *stomp*
Suitcase: What? The superman?
Rucksack: Hah. No way.//Probably an anime project, or whatever?
Suitcase: Hahaha.

048
*WHAM*
Journalist: Wha... What's going on? Heeey?
*creak* *creak*
Female journalist: EEEEK

049
*pash*
Someone: How come?*creak*
Journalist: The... the superman?! The black one!!
Journalist: What's the security doing?/Ne... Nevermind that, CALL THE POLICE!!
*slam*
Journalist: Ah!
Kougami: Do not call the police. This is just fine.
Journalist: Wh... Why, sir?
Kougami: Special information. What else? Brought to us on a silver platter./Unexpected, but this should be a juicy conversation.//Cameras!! Video, whatever!! Even a cell phone will do!!/I don't care how you do it, but I want this recorded!!*creak* *creak*
*buzz*

050
*THUD*
*BASH*
Black: I want this recorded... he said...
White: Uh... Yeah...
Hiro: !
Panel: Weekly PHOTO EYE'S

051
Kougami: If that ain't mayhem, I don't know what is. The superman who's been causing so much trouble. So he's that kind of guy?
Hiro: !
Kougami: By the looks of things, he's got something against our editorial department.
*eeep*
Kougami: Pleased to meet you. I am Kougami Haruhiko, editor-in chief for the Weekly PHOTO EYE'S./How may I be of service today?[tn: As a reminder: I leave names in Japanese order. Last name comes first.]*clang*

052-053
Hiro: I am here to destroy you guys.

054
*crip* *CRUNCH*
Kougami: AAAAAAARGH/GHAAAAAAAA
*stomp*
AUUUGHHHHH
*clink*
Kougami: Asshole... What... What was that for?
Hiro: ........

055
Kougami: Do... Do you have any idea what you are doing? This is violence against the media... No. Against the freedom of the press./There are laws... against this...... Those superhuman powers of yours... Are you trying to use them... to take our rights away?
Hiro: "Rights", you say?/What rights do you think you have?*yank*
Hiro: Are you gonna tell me butting in people's private business, spying on them and making it all public is one of those rights?
Kougami: Of rights we've got plenty. Like freedom to let people know the truth./And... knowledge of the truth is something people are entitled to...

056
Hiro: An ordinary family of ordinary people has been destroyed because of that article of yours./Ruining people's households is something you don't have the right to do.
Kougami: I have no idea what article you're talking about.../If it's something we've disclosed... It must have been some kind of dirty secret.
Hiro: So you really had to expose such a secret?/About people's privacies?!
Kougami: Yes... Probably./Must have been one of those private things people are looking for... A scoop.

057
*grab*
Kougami: Agh.//We won't yeld to such violence... It may be an old saying, but the pen is mightier than the sword... We're not going down.
Hiro: You're using the right to inform freely as your power...*bonk*
Hiro: I'm just using my costume's power in the same way.//Stepping into people's private affairs and wreaking havoc is a right I don't approve of.*slam*
Hiro: I will take away your rights and freedom...//And break them apart.

058
Kaji: Fujiwara-san! Fujiwara-san!!
Fujiwara: Uh...//What is it? It ain't morning yet, is it?
Kaji: The... Looks like the superman has showed up!!/At the Iida bridge!!
Fujiwara: What?!
*step* *step* *step*
Kaji: He's appeared at the Iida bridge and he's on a rampage!!
Fujiwara: So... Is it the white, or the black one?
Kaji: The black one, I think......

059
*WHAM*
*crack*
Kougami: Waaah.
Hiro: Sheesh...
Kougami: You... You've raised your hand against the wrong people./No one will support you anymore... Humph.//Messing with the media... with information... What were you thinking...
Hiro: Pah!

060
Hiro: If I wanted support, I wouldn't be doing this.*buzz*
Hiro: Don't get the wrong idea. Stooooopid!

061
Kougami: !
Hiro: This, here, is the difference between me and you guys.*grip*
Kougami: WA.... WAIT UP.
*KABOOM*

062
Hiro: Pff...
Kougami: Uh... Gasp.../Hic...
Hiro: Relax. I'm not going to kill you... I can get the job done without killing people./Heh... Hehe. Speaking of which, I can make sure you're in no shape to do your job.
Journalist: Sir!!
Other journalist: You asshole!!
Hiro: Humph./Your men do care about their boss.

063
Hiro: If only you'd cared the same about people's lives.*zzzzzzzz*
Hiro: You who've got nothing in mind other than yourselves and your company's profits. You dirty rotten sick bastards!!//If you're gonna run away, take your chief editor with you.*plic* plic*
Hiro: I'm wiping this place off the map.//Unless you plan on dying together with your company?
Journalist: .....
Hiro: More like, with a company and a network of societies that don't physically exist!/Knowing that, what are you gonna do?
Journalist: You've got nowhere to run. We've already called the cops. What you're doing here is being recorded too.

064
Hiro: Nevermind.*zzzzzzz*
Hiro: The way I see it, you guys are evil. No more, no less. This is more than enough of a good reason for what I'm about to do.//HAAAAAAAA.
*WHAM*

065
*plink* plink* *plink*
*crash* *crash* *crash*
*plink*
*crumble* *crumble*

066
*wail* *wail*
*step* *step*
*wail* *wail* wail*
*slam* schlack*
Fujiwara: He's still in there?*wail* *wail* *BAM*
Kaji: Loos like he is.

067
*BASH* *sssss*
Fireman: I've found casualties!!/The stretchers! Bring them over here!! Quick!//Get anyone in there out!*rumble*
Fujiwara: Does that mean this is the work of one superman alone?//This isn't the kind of guy we can capture easily./No choice but to keep watching...
*BOOM*

068
*BAM*
*thud* *thud*
*CRASH*
*rumble* *rumble*

069
*rumble*
rumble*
*phew*
*BOOM*
*CUMBLE* CRUMBLE*
Fujiwara: This is bad!! The building's collapsing?!*crumble*
Fujiwara: EVERYONE FALL BACK...

070-071
*BBRRRRRRR*

072
WAAAAH!!
*SBOM*
CRUMBLE*
*rumble rumble*
*zzzzzzzzzz*
*brrrrrrrrrr*

073
*zzzzzzzzzz*
*brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

074
*crumble* *crumble*

075
*crumble* *crumble*
*click*
Fujiwara: Wait!!//Today... you're not going anywhere.*clank*

076
*guh*
Fujiwara: (He's trying to fly away...//Again?!)
*bang* *bang* *bang*[

Justice 17: Junk Movement

077
Fujiwara: Did I... get him?
*clink* *clink*
Kaji: He's used his weapon...

078-79
*WOOOOOOO* *stomp*

080
Fireman: The su...
Fujiwara: The superman...
Kaji: He's dead?!
Fujiwara: Wait!!//We don't know that for a fact./Maybe he only looks like it.....*click*
Fujiwara: But now may be our chance to capture him......./.....

081
*slam* *clang*
Fujiwara: After all the trouble, the guy's lying down, in front of me!!//What am I chickening out for?*woooooooo*
Fujiwara: Uh...

082
*tow* *tow* *tow*
Fujiwara: Wha...*tow* tow*
Fujiwara: Journalists!!*tow* *tow*
Fujiwara: No air security?
Kaji: Yes! There should be...*tow* *tow*

083
Fujiwara: !!
*step*
Kaji: Ah...
Police: Wah.*vlam* *vlam*

084
Police: Withdraw from this airspace quickly!/I repeat!!*tow* tow*

085
*STOMP*

086
*BAOOOM*
*GRRRR*
*crack*
*GRRR*
Kaji: Waaah!!
*whabam*

087
*GRRRRRRRRR*
*crackcrackcrack*
*BRRRRRRR*

088
*BAM*
*brrrrrrr*
Police: Every team, report!!/Resume your formations!!
Fujiwara: Drat...
Police: This time, he's not getting away!!//Comb the area! He should still be nearby. After him!/Blockade the surrounding roads! Hurry!*clang* *clang* *clang*
Police: Contact the headquarters and request for rescue teams and the riot police force! Check the surrounding hospitals, habitations and other potential hiding places where he might take shelter!
Fujiwara: (Even the gun didn't work on him.../Superman, eh? .... Fuck it!)

089
*grrrrr*
Hiro: Pffff...//Phewww./Huff.//Here's to a job well done.

090
*stomp*
Hiro: Pffh. Pfuhuhu./Hu... Huhahaha.//Ahhh. Hah hah hah. Hah hah hah. Hah hah./Serves 'em right. Hahahahahaha.//Ha.../Woops... I only got 10 minutes left. Sucks...//Let's get outta here, quick.*bolt*
Hiro: Gotta get as far as I can...

091
Hiro: Even in 1 minute........!*dash*

092-093
Woman!Announcer: Today, early in the morning, someone who appears to be the superman broke and entered in Kameyama Publications, in the Chiyoda district./The company's building is completely destroyed, and evacuation is underway.//The superman's whereabouts are still unknown./The police is inspecting every location...//The inhabitants in the vicinity are being evacuated to the nearby schools and gymnasiums.

094
Woman!Announcer: With a total absence of information regarding the superman, we are heading towards a night of dread and fear.
Hiro: .....
Woman!Announcer: Furthermore, a detective officer fired 4 shots at him with real bullets, all of them hitting home. To no avail, however.*slap*
Woman!Announcer: The police headquarters have commented upon the officer's action, calling it a bad move.//The police's handling of things regarding this affair comes off as late, and awkward./On the other hand, after such violence against the media, the superman has essentially forfeited every bit of the hero of justice praise he'd obtained from his dealing with the situation at the Saitama Arena.

095
Tsujidou: ...//You've been overdoing it, haven't you?//Oh, gosh.....//This problem is gonna crop up at the next board meeting...*beep*
Tsujidou: Way to make me feel bad...

096
*tweep* *tweep* *tweep*
*slide*
*plic*
*fshaaa*
Hiro: Phewww.//Ow... A contusion...?

097
Hiro: From the bullet, back then...?/Didn't see that coming, so I was caught off guard... But this costume is proof even against firearms, eh...//! //Bruises...//Guess perfection doesn't exist anywhere, after all.../I'm hurting, kinda.

098
*beep*
Eyebrows: I knew it. This black superman is nothing like a hero of justice./Just a criminal.
*beep*
Woman!Announcer: The problem now is with the superman's violence against the media!/The freedom to inform is being denied by force...
*beep*
Announcer: For now, what interests me the most is to know whatever it is that gives the superman his powers./By the looks of things, I'd say that clothing... It looks like a costume of sorts, but what kind of costume is it?
Lisa: Phewww.//That Hiro boy has gone on some showy rampage again./Things are gonna get difficult for me too.
Shanlan [tn: Obviously Chinese, but I don't know jack about Chinese names. If anyone knows the proper spelling for this, please let me know]: But you haven't done anything wrong. Only good things. Protecting Hiiragi Manami. Defeating evil wherever you can find it.
Lisa: True.

099
Lisa: I really mean to use that suit's power.../ to do the right thing...//But maybe him and myself are the same, in that we both do what we feel like doing./We JUNK suit owners have been promised we could uuse them as we see fit...//Shanlan./What is it, Lisa?
Lisa: I have you as an instructor.../Hiro-kun should have someone as well, right? An instructor, I mean.
Shanlan: ...//Probably... Someone's gonna have to take responsibility./For this incident, that is...

100
Hiro: (Ryouko.../Ryouko...//Where are you now?/What are you doing? ...//Ryouko.../Ryouko...//Ryouko.../...)

101
Narrator: Okinawa.
*tweep* *tweep*
Ryouko: (The superman...//When he appeared, back then.../He...)

102
Ryouko: (What he felt like... The way he breathed.../That air about him...//It's all familiar....../No way...//That was...)*splasshhh*

103
*ding-dong*
Tsujidou: Yo!
Hiro: Tsujidou-san?//Something going on? What's the suit for?
Tsujidou: A meeting, at the company. I came straight from there.
Hiro: It's the first time I see you like this.
Tsujidou: Gives a good impression.//Actually, I've been relieved from my duties towards you, and somebody else is gonna take you in charge. I'm just here to let you know.

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Hiro: Eh? Really? But why?
Tsujidou: Oh, well. Stuff happens. Grown-ups' business and whatnot.
Hiro: That counselling thing. How does the contract work? Does it just end if I say "no"?
Tsujidou: The money's taken from what your dead parents have left for you, until you hit your twenties./Of course, you're free to cancel it.//You won't get the money back, though./Oh, well...//But aren't things fine just the way they are? You won't run out of people to talk to./Human relations. The kind I've told you about. This is what a guy like you needs.
Hiro: Err... Will you be in charge of somebody else, Tsujidou-san?

105
Tsujidou: No idea. That's for the top brass to decide./See ya. Take good care of yourself.//And get outside more, too.//It's not about getting out. It's about letting your heart get in contact with the outside world.

106
Tsujidou: Break out of your shell and get out.

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Hiro: (Getting.../outside.../I don't know.)*slam*

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Chikaishi: You look like crap.
Fujiwara: Mh?//Course I do. Do you know how many times I've had to explain what happened at Kameyama?
Chikaishi: What do you think?
Fujiwara: What do you mean, "what"?/I'm talking about how we deal with the superman.
Chikaishi: There's talk even among the higher-ups about whether the case should be taken out of the police's hands.
Fujiwara: Yeah, maybe./How about seeking out the Self-Defense Force [tn: Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force, a.k.a the local (proto-)army], or the Us military for help...?

109
Fujiwara: We're policemen, right? Taking on monsters is way out of our league.*clank*
Fujiwara: I'm not interested in how we're going to capture the superman.//What I want is to find out who he is and go arrest them.
Chikaishi: ....
Fujiwara: Maybe I should put an anti-superman special squad together. Or use the SAT. [tn: Special Assault Teams, whatever that's supposed to mean. Not Japanese, since the raw itself contains a footnote in which SAT is likened to something that actually is.]/I'll corner this guy from somewhere else. Right?//And then, how about no longer calling him a superman?/He's a criminal. Calling him by a number will do.

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*step step*
Kaji: Fujiwara-san!!
Fujiwara: Did you find something?
Kaji: This PHOTO EYE'S, from Kameyama Publications dates from a little while ago!! I've checked it up!/Here!! Just have a look!
Fujiwara: !!//What tha...
Kaji: This issue was released two weeks before the disturbance caused by the superman!

111
Fujiwara: And the boy is involved once again./The connection's so obvious it's almost painful.*slap*
Kaji: Ye... Yes sir!
Fujiwara: (I don't know if the boy and the superman are the same or if there's just that much of a strong connection between them.../But this time, there's no way I'm letting him get away!!//No way!

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Hiro: ......//That superman thing...... I'm getting tired of it. Kinda...

113
*pheeew*
*puff* *puff* *puff*

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Suzuki: Hey!
Baldie: Uh?
Suzuki: Do you have any idea whether what you're doing is right or wrong?
Baldie: Come again?[/End

Justice 19: Junk Sedition

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Suzuki: Walking with a lit cigarette is dangerous./Especially for children. It might get into their eyes.
Baldie: Uuuh?/What are you talking about? ...
Suzuki: Listen up, okay? Walking with lit cigarettes is forbidden in this district.
Baldie: What's wrong with a smoke while I'm walking?!//Dang it.
Suzuki: You are in the wrong.
*DASH*

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*THUD*
*spat*
Baldie: RAH. GYAAAAAAAH.*flomp*
Baldie: AAAAAAAAAH. My hand... My haaaand./It hurts...//Someone heeeelp.../AAAAAAAH.

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Hiro: ___!*wooo*

119
*HYOOOOOO*

120
Hiro: Uh. What?
*gah*
Hiro: A..../Uh... I can't move?
Ryouko: Hiro-kun...
Hiro: !//Ryouko!
Ryouko: Hiro-kun... Hurry... Come save me.......
Hiro: Ryouko!!

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Ryouko: Hurry...//Save me...
Hiro: Ryouko!! Ryouko!!
*stap*
Hiro: Ryouko!

122
Hiro: .....//Ryouko...//Ryouko!!

123
Hiro: !!//......//Phewww.//Ryouko...

124
*grik*
*grip*
Hotoke: *whistle*
Suzuki: Hey.
Hotoke: Um?
Suzuki: Parking here is forbidden.//Do you have any idea whether what you're doing is right or wrong?
Hotoke: What? I don't get what you're babbling about. I'm not parking, I'm only stopping for a short while.

125
Suzuki: Don't stand here. Move...
Hotoke: Co...//You are.../Wai...
Suzuki: You are in the wrong./I'll make sure you can never park again.
*clank*
*grrrr* *creak*
Hotoke: Hey... Hey.
*craaaack*
*crunch*

126
*CRASH*
Hotoke: GHAAAAAAAH.*creak* *creak*
Hotoke: Aaaaaaahhh*creak* *creak*
Hotoke: Aha.
*creak* *creak*
*drip*
*ZOOOM*

127
Suzuki: Hewww.//Don't you ever park in the wrong place ever again!//You dirty little fiend.
Woman: Eee...//EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK.

128
Fujiwara: So whaddaya think about the boy? 'Sit okay if I drag him out a little?
Chikaishi: Hummmmm./There should be no problem. Not with such a conspicuous connection...
Fujiwara: Oh, well. This interrogation will more or less have to be voluntary. Actually, I thought I ought to search his house too.
Chikaishi: Easy. This is a minor, you're talking about.
Fujiwara: .......//And maybe a violent criminal.
Chikaishi: Yeah, maybe.

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*step*
Kaji: Fujiwara-san. Are you serious?!!*step* *step*
Fujiwara: I am. We go now and we get him.//He's still in his room at the moment, right?*bam*
Kaji: Tani-san is currently tailing him..../But he hasn't left his room at all.
Fujiwara: Him and I have lots of talking to do. Let's take our time and hear him out.*wail*
Fujiwara: This might be a matter of one, maybe two full nights.
Kaji: Sigh.

130
TV: Newsflash. Today, on a road in the Nakano district, a man unexpectedly amputated a passer by of an arm.//The culprit, as we may call him, took offense that the victim was walking with a lit cigarette.*ding-dong* *ding-dong*
Hiro: !*bolt*
TV: He severed the arm with a sharp tool and disappeared.
Hiro: Who's there?*creak*

131
Fujiwara: Yo! It's been a while.
Hiro: !!//Detective... -san.
Fujiwara: I've got plenty of questions for you, so you're coming with us.
Hiro: Right away?
Fujiwara: Right away. Even though you're totally free to refuse./It has to do with the superman.
Hiro: (...../Wha... What now? The thought he might come at me directly never crossed my mind. No way...)

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Hiro: (On the other hand if I just say no, I'll look suspicious... So.)//Understood. I'll go. *cree*
Hiro: Just give me a minute to prepare myself.
*CLANG*
Fujiwara: Nope.//You're fine just as you are. Come immediately.
Hiro: !

133
*whack*
*shuuuu*
Suzuki: Nice shooot.
Golfer: !
*clap* clap* clap*
Golfer: What...?

134
Suzuki: But you know what? Golfing on this riverbed is forbidden.
Sign: GOLFING FORBIDDEN!!
Golfing is forbidden on this riverbed, as it is a disturbance to those who reside in the vicinity. We humbly ask that you refrain from it. Thank you for your comprehension. The riverbed management (staff).
Suzuki: You know that, and you're still doing it, aren't you?
Golfer: ......
*twirl*
Suzuki: ......
*chuck*
*CLASP*
Golfer: !!

135
Suzuki: If you wanna play golf, you shouldn't be doing it on these forbidden premises, but on a course or a driving range, or whatever.*gr* *gr*
Golfer: Wha...
Suzuki: What happens if the ball flies towards a bunch of kids playing near the river or into a nearby house?
Golfer: Shu... Shut up!! I'm not the only one doing this./Stop bothering me.
Suzuki: Do you have any idea whether what you're doing is right or wrong?/If you're so eager to see a "ball" flying, I'll make it fly for you.
*BASH*
*SPLASH*
Suzuki: .......

136
Sign: Inquiry Room B
Fujiwara: You've spared me a lot of trouble by coming quietly./And I didn't want trouble, even of the minor variety.
Hiro: Don't worry... If I am suspected in any way, this is a good opportunity to clear my name. That's what I think.
Fujiwara: I see. So you're confident, aren't you?/You're changing, you know. Normally, an underage boy in your situation would have gone batshit insane, and there'd be no calming him down.//But you. Strangely enough, you are calm.//You look funny to me.
Hiro: ......

137
Chikaishi: So this is the boy?
Kaji: Yes sir.
Chikaishi: Ummmm.........
Fujiwara: First, let's proceed by chronological order, shall we?/The su... I mean the "Black" appeared for the first time somewhere near your school.//There, he assaulted a bunch of youngsters who were hanging around a convenience store.//After that, he attacked several kids in the same grade as you... Why?
Hiro: .....
Fujiwara: A little investigation later, we learned the group of kids he attacked were from your school./And that they'd been bullying you before.

138
Man: Uh?
Woman: ?
Man: What's that?

142
Hiro: I wasn't bullied.
Fujiwara: ......./Then, the "Black" rushed into your house, for God knows what reason.//Your house exploded because of this, and your parents died./But you were unharmed, save for a few minor bruises and burns... Why?
Hiro: No idea. It's a coincidence./I can't know. How would I?
Fujiwara: Afterwards, the "Black" and the "White" fight in Nakano./Where were you at the time?
Hiro: I was staying at my classmate Harumi-san's house, sleeping.
Fujiwara: .......

143
Fujiwara: Have you been in Niigata?
Hiro: !//I haven't./I don't know anybody there.
Fujiwara: The guy on the picture looks a lot like you, don't you think?*slip*
Fujiwara: The image is from the train station's home camera./The "Black" has appeared in Niigata for some reason.
Hiro: I don't know Niigita./What would I need to go there for?
Fujiwara: Later, he shows up in Saitama's Super Arena. At Hiiragi Manami's live.//You went to this live, didn't you?
Hiro: ...../Yeah.

146
Hiro: I'm a fan of Manami's. That's why I go to her concerts and the like./And I did see you and the superman facing each other...
Fujiwara: Speaking of which, I forgot something./The day Manami was in Kanda, signing autographs.//That time, the "Black" had showed up too./Did you go to there as well?
Hiro: !/Yes.
Fujiwara: Yeah. And lately, your girlfriend has been kidnapped and sequestrated./Your girlfriend.......

147
Fujiwara: By the time the police had taken care of her, the criminal had already sustained grievous injuries from somebody else.//Somebody else had gone in./Smashing through a thick concrete wall along the way./Who could it have been?//She didn't let even one word out about whether or not this person had something to do with her.*glare*
Hiro: ...../I don't know.
Fujiwara: The "Black" and you have way too many things in common, by the looks of things./No. Circumstances speak for themselves.
Hiro: !
Kaji: 'Scuse me... Fujiwara-san.*creak*

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Fujiwara: What. You sure?!
Kaji: Yes!
Fujiwara: The superman has showed up?!
Hiro: ![

Justice 20: Junk Panic

151
Fujiwara: The superman has showed up? For real?!
Kaji: ...
Hiro: Superman...
Fujiwara: So. Is it the "Black"? Or the "White"?
Kaji: Well... You see...//The report says he's black...
Fujiwara: The "Black", then!
Kaji: Does that mean the boy is not the superman?
Fujiwara: No idea.
Hiro: (A superman? And it's not the white JUNK?/So...)

152-153
Hiro: (Just who is it?/Who's that guy?)*wooooo*

154
Kaji: What do we do with the boy?*slam*
Fujiwara: Let's keep him here some more.//Until we get confirmation that superman is the Black or whatever.
Kaji: Yes sir.
Fujiwara: I say we have him stay as long as the situation allows it.
Hiro: ......//What the heck...//am I doing.../here of all places.../Sigh...

155
Kaji: According to the eye-witnesses, a car and all of its contents have been crushed by a black superman.*wail*
Fujiwara: The car and its contents?//So what of whoever was inside?
Kaji: Dead, sir.//But there's more to it.
Fujiwara: More? What do you mean?
Kaji: On a road in Nakano, a man who was walking with a cigarette in hand has had his arm cut off./He's in a critical state.//On a riverbed in Tamagawa, he took the head of a man who was golfing there......./The man didn't survive. [tn: No shit, genius!]
Fujiwara: ....../Something doesn't feel right...
Kaji: Yes?
Fujiwara: I think... he might not be the “Black”.

156
Fujiwara: Killing someone in particular is something he's never done up to this point./Maybe it's just a natural turn of events, but...//There might be a third superman out there....../Even if I don't like the idea...//Hm?
Kaji: What is it?
Fujiwara: The ad-balloon. You don't see that every day. But its flying at a fairly low altitude... if you ask me./It's really huge... But I can't see anything that looks like an advertisement....
Kaji: Maybe the cables were cut off and it flew away?
Fujiwara: Sure, why not?

157
Cop: Sorry. We can't let you go home just yet.*creak*
Hiro: !
Cop: Do you want to eat something?*slam*
Hiro: Uh... Yeah.//Anything will do.
Cop: Uh-huh...
Hiro: Errr.... Can I ask you one question?
Cop: What is it?
Hiro: What time is it?
Cop: ......

158
Forensics: This is by no means something a human being could do.
On the curb: No trespassing.
Fujiwara: So it's gotta be a superman, right?//What of the car?
Forensics: It's already been brought to the police office.....
Fujiwara: What about Hotoke-san?
Forensics: Horrible. He didn't even look human. More like some shapeless mass.
Kaji: Put in chronological order, that's Nakano, here, and Tamagawa.
Fujiwara: No point in inspecting them, I take it...//All on the same day? Today?
Kaji: On the same day, today... Yes sir.
Fujiwara: We went at the boy's place at 11 a.m.../Guess that gives him an alibi...
Kaji: That's pretty much it...
Fujiwara: ......

159
Kaji: So what do we do with our young friend?
Fujiwara: ....//He gets to walk, for today.../But don't you lay your eyes off him! Everything hasn't been clarified just yet.
Kaji: Yes sir!*clank*
Fujiwara: (Sigh...)//I've really lost my touch./On this case, that is...*vvrrrrr*

160
Passers by: Uh./What's this?//A frikkin' huge panda./Maybe an ad for some zoo?
*zzzzzzzz*

161
Passers by: Wai... Hey there. It's gotten down quite a bit./This can't be good, can it?
*wawwwww* *zzzzzz*
Girl: Shouldn't we be running for it?
Blond guy: No, no. Let's take a picture of it.
*crack*

162-163
*BOOM*

164-165
*SCHLORF*
Woman: EEEK.*BAOOOM*
*DRRRRR*
*SLAM*
*GRRR*
*ZZZZ*
Woman: EEEK
Man: He... Help m...
*VLAM*

166
*GRRRRR*
Man: An explosion has been reported in the environs of Kabuki street, Shinjuku./I repeat!! AN explosion has been reported...
Chief: Quick. I want a info on the state of the premises!!/The top priority is to confirm the extent of the damage and report it!!
*wail* *wail*

167
Cop: Close all the main roads that lead to Kabuki street in Shinjuku!!/Suspend circulation for the private and national subway lines...
*WAIL*
*clank*
Firefighter: Are you alright? Can you hear me?
Victim: Here!! Hurry!!
Victim: It hurts. Aaaah.*roll *roll*
*grrrrr*

168
*grrrrr*
Lisa: And this happened right under my nose...*riiiiing*
Lisa: Yes!/Yes, I'm on the rooftop. Moving in right away. Yeah.
Shanlan?: Be careful.
Lisa: Even in a situation like this, the boy hasn't come.*woooo*
Lisa: Once again, he's using the costume's power only for his own benefit.//Well, let's get going, shall we?

169
*Heeeeewwwww*
Lisa: Enter.
*beep*
*ZAP*

170
*BLAM*
Lisa: ......*chip* *chip* *fsssss*

171
Girl: Uh... Unh...
*Craaack*
Lisa: Hold on!! You must remain conscious!!
Girl: ....
Lisa: I'll take you somewhere you'll get first-aid right away!!
*zah*
Lisa: (Guess that's about all I can do with the power I have now...)

172
*GWWOOOOO*
Lisa: (For all that power I have, I feel like I'm powerless.../Especially when it comes to saving people......//I wish I had enough power to save all those people faster.//I know just how strong this power makes me.../But.)

173
Lisa: I still wish I had the power to save people!/Maybe this is a way to preserve me.....
*woooooo* *tow* *tow* *tow*
Heli: Great fire spotted in the environs of Kabuki street in Shinjuku and the East entrance!!/There are also lots of people lying down on the streets, and smoke from cars that have crashed into one another.

174
Woman!Announcer: Early in the morning today, an ad-balloon exploded in Shinjuku's Kabuki street, Tokyo. The gas it liberated caused a great deal of damage in the area./We don't know what kind of gas it was just yet, but its effects have extended to trucks, buildings and gas stations, creating a large fire.//
Panel: Red Board. *clack* *clack* *clack* (typing)
Woman!Announcer: Balloons similar to the one that exploded in Shinjuku have been spotted in Roppongi, Ikebukuro and Shibuya./The police is currently evacuating the nearby areas. Warnings have been issued to those who live in the vicinity, that they should remain calm and not give in to panic.
Panel: Have you seen the catastrophe in Shinjuku?*clack* clack* *clack*
Woman!Announcer: It's very likely the balloon was rigged with explosive charges./Judging from the pictures, the ballons are currently staying put. In opposition with the wind's direction. As long as they are not controlled by someone...

175
Panel: This is only a bit of advice. We have disposed three more balloons like that one. Don't run away. Don't run away from us.
Announcer: The three balloons that have been spotted should be taken away as soon as possible./But whoever rigged them might cause another disastrous explosion.
Panel: This is full-fledged terrorism. Merely something our ideology is based upon. If we see spot anyone trying to be smart, we'll detonate the bombs. Anyone caught into the blast will be sent to Hell.
Announcer: Ahem... An information bulletin has just arrived. According to it, someone who's likely to be the culprit has left an Internet entry. Although we don't really know whether this entry really comes from the criminal.
Panel: There is only one way to salvation.

176
*zah*
Hiro: Talk about a change. I even get to go home in a taxi.//Uh?//What's that?/Looks like the Shinjuku area.//Maybe something happened.*gwwoooo*
Hiro: Something must have happened.//Well, I've had enough for today. I'm tired.*clank*
Hiro: Phewww.*slam*

177
Hiro: Dang it. A whole day with the cops.../Not exactly what I'd call an ordinary experience. Bah./Putting on a JUNK suit and doing all kinds of stuff ain't normal either./Aaaah.//Time to sleep. Off to bed.
Ayano: Welcome home. [tn: More Japanese etiquette. When you leave home, you say "Itte kimasu"="I'm off", or any variant thereof. When you're back, you're supposed to say "Tadaima"=I'm home". The polite answers to these are respectively "Itte rasshai"="Have a nice day" and "Okaeri"="Welcome home".]
Hiro: Eh?
Ayano: I went ahead and climbed upstairs.

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Ayano: Yuuki Hiro-kun.

179
*sbam*
Gramps: Uh...
Lisa: Thank God he's still breathing.
*shift*
Lisa: I only have 15 minutes left. Maybe I can save a few more people within that time......
Suzuki: Ohhhhh. This is wonderful. Just as I thought, you're a super-human who fights for justice, White.*clap* *clap* *clap*
Lisa: !

180-181
Suzuki: Let me applaud you for using this power to do the right thing.*clap* *clap* *clap*
Lisa: !

182
Lisa: ...../You're a JUNK too?
Suzuki: That I am./Well, that's pretty much the logical conclusion.//Today, I've come to learn from my senpai [tn: senior student/co-worker].
Lisa: Here. I leave him to you./Now if you'll excuse me.//Well now... Shall we start the lesson? Freshman-san?*shift*
Suzuki: There are still people suffering out there. You're okay with that?
Lisa: ......

183
Lisa: Alright. Just sit there so you can watch and learn, then.
Suzuki: Watch and learn.//I have one question. Do you have some kind of conviction you put on this suit for?
Lisa: Conviction...?/If you're talking about personal opinions, I don't use this suit for evil purposes.
Suzuki: I see./For my part, I just crush wrongdoers to a pulp.

184
Hiro: Wh... Who are you?
Ayano: I'm the counselor who's picking up where Tsujidou left off. Hoshi Ayano. Nice to meet you.
Hiro: Hoshi... -san?
Ayano: Come on. You'd left the door open!//Nevermind. I'll tell you everything in detail./Come over here. There's too much noise outside.

185
Hiro: Ye... Yeah.*creak*
Ayano: You've been taken away by the police, so that explains it.
Hiro: How do you know? [tn: Put some thought into it, genius! What kind of people would give you a superpowered suit for free and just leave it at that?]
Ayano: I know everything about you.//But you've spent a lot more time with the cops than I expected.
Hiro: Yeaaaah.
Ayano: .......//What's going on? Weren't you going to bed?
Hiro: Ah... Well no. I'm just a bit tired...
Ayano: Humph...

186-187
Ayano: Let me sleep with you, then.
Hiro: Ee... Eeeh?

188
Hiro: Wahh.*thud*
Ayano: Huhuhuhu.//Nothing prevents us from talking while in bed./I'll even tell you about what Tsujidou held back from you.
Hiro: Eh?
Ayano: What and who we are exactly.
Hiro: Uh?[