SHANGRI-LA
Volume 2
Cover page
Those of the Cathedral stand up against the government's perpetual oppression! Houjou Kuniko, leader of Metal Age takes the guerrilla with her - men armed to the teeth in heavy weaponry - and seeks to invade Atlas! However... Although successful, the infiltrators have an army's worth of frightening, state-of-the-art weapons born of ultra-nanotechnology standing there, lying in wait for them...!!
Caption: An overwhelming writing style, daring you to enter its astounding, futuristic world! Comics volume 2!!
001
*waaaaaaaaaiiiiil*
Speakers: Issuing warning. Heavy downpour first class, incoming! Citizens are enjoined to take shelter!!!
Crowd: Here it is?!*plic plic*
Crowd: Run for it.
*PLISH PLASH*
*BBBRRRROMMMM*
005
Nagiko: Will the deluge kill us first?/Or will the forest beat the rain to it...?//The former capital had perished eaten away by the forest as well.
Takehiko: And they say Earth is a sweet place to live in!!/The ground level bears little difference with actual Hell does it not?!!
Nagiko: The government wants to turn the ground level into a big forest/and create a paradise up in the sky........
006-007
Nagiko: Such is Atlas./Our Utopia.
008
Takehiko: Atlas has cast us out. There's nothing utopian about them!!/Nagiko-sama. As Metal Age's supreme ruler, you cannot say those things!!
Nagiko: ... Hehe.//There is no place left on the ground for people to live in./Face the facts, Takehiko!!!//(Whether Atlas becomes our Utopia or not...)*brrroomm*
009
Nagiko: (I think it all depends on you/Kuniko!!)*fshaaaa*
Kuniko: ... If we lose this fight//we'll have no choice but to die here, on the ground.*kwip*
*slam*
010
Kuniko: (As the leader of Metal Age/I, Houjou Kuniko shall revolutionize this world!!!)
011
Kuniko: I can't afford to lose./Definitely not...*kyu kyu* *woosh*
Momoko: KUNIKO!!!/What are you doing? Everybody's waiting for you!!!*twang*
Kuniko: Momoko!!
Momoko: Those clothes you're wearing, they're all mine!!!/And these cosmetics cost me a fortune!!!/That's like millennia ahead of schedule for you!!!
Kuniko: Gniiiiiii.*scrub scrub scrub*
Momoko: You're gonna change immediately, then we can go!!!
Kuniko: EEEEEEEEK
012
*FSHAAAA* *BOM*
*BRRRRRR*
People: Wwaaaaaaah
013
Takehiko: Those things were still out there?!!*aaargh*
Takehiko: Temporary change of strategy. Everybody move to the attack!!!
Kuniko: Aah, Takehiko. Covered in wounds, yet again.
Takehiko: KUNIKO-SAMA//Aah!!!*GWOOO*
014
Kuniko: Hoh.*SBAM*
015
Takehiko: Yikes?!!!
Kuniko: HOH HOH HOH./My fists are more than enough for a common weed!!!*sssshhhhh*
Takehiko: Ba... Bare-handed... >That's crazy...<
Kuniko: Ah. That gooey substance is kinda stinky, though./I won't be doing that a second time.*gwooo*
*WHACK*
Momoko: YOU'RE FULL OF OPENINGS ONCE AGAIN, KUNIKO!!!
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Momoko: How many times need I tell you?!!/A woman keeps on fighting until her make-up wears off!!!*BLAM*
Kuniko: Auuuugh. That smeeeells.//But you're always there to save me, Momoko, aren't you? ...*tilt*
Momoko: Y... You stink...//How much longer do you plan on talking like this. That's why you're still depending on your parents.../ORA ORAAA.*BAOM*
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Takehiko: Kuniko-samaa./We can no longer hold this place.//Please, we need your help, quickly.*BLAM*
*BRRRR*
Man: Gulp.
Takehiko: Normally, we would've waited until the storm was over, but...
Kuniko: It's alright. It should help with the camouflage.//To Atlas./Let's go.
018
*GRRRRR*
Takehiko: !!//Dick. It's attracted to the engine's heat.*woooo* *rustle*
*JERK* *PAH**
Kuniko: ?!
019
*GGG GRRRRR*
Momoko: HUNGHH UNGH//Go, quickly!!/Kuniko!!!*Grrr*
Takehiko: NO WAY. THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR ONE PERSON ALONE...!!!
020
Kuniko: Well./Shall we go?
Takehiko: EH?!
*vroooaaar*
Momoko: ....../Uh?*creeping* *squirming*
Nagiko: Heh heh heh. You counted on her to come back and save you?*bof*
021
*DUN*
Nagiko: To think she'd sacrifice you, her foster parent like a pawn./I see she's able to resort to cool-headed decision-making, now.*churn churn* *splosh*
Nagiko: Could Kuniko be growing into a more self-conscious leader?
Momoko: ... No.
Nagiko: He he he.
022
Momoko: I don't think so./Not with the face she was making./Haa.
Nagiko: ....../Ah yeah?
Momoko: Oh, well. Regardless./I'm ready to put my life on the line to answer the girl's expectations.
Nagiko: True enough... He he he.*VLAM*
023
*GWWWOOOOO*
Takehiko: ... Was the Cathedral.../really that insignificant?
024
*BEEP* *BEEP*
Takehiko: !!
Pilot: Oh, no.//We've been caught into Atlas' aerial defense system.
Takehiko: Eh?! So soon?//BLOODY IDIOT. All the planes are disguised as a fake civilian flight!!!/We should have been able to deceive Atlas for a good 30 minutes.//If we can take advantage of this time to sneak past the radar/Victory is ours!!*tow tow tow*
Takehiko: We have no option left but to press forward!!!
025
Kuniko: SAY, TAKEHIKO./Could you stop making noise while I'm eating?!!!
Takehiko: Well. Hum.... This is an emergency//... Kuniko-sama, what's this?
Kunuko: A special lunchbox from Momoko.
Takehiko: Maybe I should've taken Momoko's share. I could do with a bite or two./Kuniko-sama. Momoko is.......
Pilot: We have an emergency call from Atlas!!!
Atlas: Atlas is currently at war with your guerrilla organization. None of your aircrafts is to be allowed in./Any further approach shall be considered an act of terrorism, and met with lethal force.*CLANK*
026-027
*chink chink* *beep beep*
Pilot: Over 10.000 canons targeting us!! ?!
*gah*
*vroooaaaar* *bom*
028
*crack crack*
*vvvrrroooaaaar*
*jolt*
Takehiko: ... Tha That's like/the ninth level they're constructing.//So that's how huge our enemy is...?
029
*BAOM*
Takehiko: Gasp.*rattle*
*Bof* *sshwooooo*
Takehiko: MISSILES?!!//WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?!!*wooooo*
Kuniko: Takehiko, use the flares.
030
*vrooooaaar*
Pilot: Only two engines still in good condition!! Unable to ascertain enemy aircrafts' positions!!!
*boom*
Pilot: Oops.
Takehiko: We did it!!*bom*
Takehiko: We've lost the missiles...!*rattle* *pow*
*KABOOM*
Takehiko: ?!!//FROM THE FRONT?!!
Pilot: Left wing engine stopped!!
031
*gwoooo* *boom* *GWWOOO*
Kuniko: Everyone...
Takehiko: Damn it//We won't make it./We really can't make it, then?*bump*
Takehiko: (It's so close. Right before our eyes./Yet it seems so far away...!!!)
032
*baom*
Kuniko: Wh??//A swarm of insects?!!
*dun*
033
Kuniko: I get it./They're fleeing the monster plants as well!!
*clang clang*
Kuniko: What?/They're bumping into the clouds??
*chink* *buzzzzz* *chrr chrr chrr*
035
Takehiko: The. The clouds./They're turning into warplanes??
Kuniko: Just like that girl did...?!
Takehiko: Kuniko-sama. We're being targeted again!!!
*vroooo* *rattle*
Takehiko: But the plane can't avoid the next volley in its sorry state...//KUNIKO-SAMA!!!
036
*slip*
*plank plank* *brrrrrrr*
Kuniko: My breath's coming out white./haa/Is that what they call winter?*vrooo*
037
*vroooaaaar* *bom bom bom*
*bom* *brrrr* *plink plink plink*
Takehiko: Kuniko-sama, this is insane. *gaah*
Takehiko: An unprotected human being can't go battling those warplanes directly!!! [tn: Not to mention the large host of physical and biological laws that get cheerfully trodden upon so she can stand atop a plane flying at full speed hundreds of feet above the ground AND PARRY A BUNCH OF FUCKING MISSILES without any kind of ill effects. Less spectacular but every bit as jarring, how can Takehiko poke his head out of the plane like that?]
Kuniko: We can't let the plane take much more punishment.
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Kuniko: Bring it./Let me show you what true wings are about.
040
*zzzz* *clank*
*bom* *brrrrrr*
Takehiko: KUNIKO-SAMA/You can't challenge a bunch of state-of-the-art warplanes with something as primitive as a boomerang...//THAT'S CRAZY! [tn: Okay, so basically he's here to remind us how awesome Kuniko-sama is at every turn, just in case we forget.]
*bom* *WOOOSH*
041
*BAM*
*BRRR* *BAOM*
042
Craft: Hyperion 3, going to confirm that target "α" has been taken down.//Unable to conduct uninterrupted experimentation of the camouflage armor's efficiency.//Going to finish their remaining forces.
043
*vroooaaar*
Craft: !!!//That's ridiculous!!!/How could an unprotected human get the better of a bunch of missile shots?!!
*VLAM*
Kuniko: Fly.
046
Nagiko: Wow. You're putting up quite a show.//It's still only the beginning, though.//Don't you let your guard down even for a second./Eh, Kuniko.
047
*CLANG*
*rattle rattle*
*crackle crackle*
Kuniko: ... Eh?
Takehiko: The insects have caused the defense system to go haywire./We'll have to go for an emergency landing on Atlas.//Please get back in quickly.
Kuniko: Okay. I got...
048
Kuniko: ... it.
Takehiko: !!!//Kh
049
Takehiko: KUNIKO-SAMAAAAAaaaa.//..............This can't be./Fuuuuuck.
050
Kuniko: MOMOKO?!!//It's you, Momoko. I'm saved.
Momoko: Kuuu-niiiii-koooo.//I can't believe it.../you really left me behind, didn't youuuu?
051
Kuniko: I knew for sure you'd be coming for me./Because you're Momoko.
Momoko: Yeah, thought so.//The bird's really not ready to leave its parent's nest./Not anytime soon./Uh?
052
Momoko: The "plane" is loaded beyond capacity./You should consider letting go of that boomerang, Kuniko!!
Kuniko: Never.
Momo&Kuniko: Aaaaaah.
053
Courtesan: Sayoko-sama./The guerrilla forces have slipped their way past the defense system. And infiltrated the fourth level.
054
Sayoko: And you are willing to disturb Mikuni-sama in her sleep.../over that kind of nonsense?
055
Courtesan: But the boomerang-wielding girl is among them.../And it appears she has dispatched the newly created camouflaged air force!!
Sayoko: ... Oh, yeah?//Not to worry./Inside of Atlas, there's nothing those without an Atlas rank can do.
Courtesan: It's probably a mistake, but all the same/she's another Triple A!!!//In addition, that boomerang she uses
Mikuni: U...nh.
Courtesan: I doubt it is just an ordinary weapon...!!!
Sayoko: ... Care to say that again?
056
Courtesan: She's another tri...
Sayoko: I didn't need you to tell me. I've already taken a few suitable measures.//(And Atlas shall be your fucking tomb/Houjou Kuniko!!)
057
Sign: Shinjuku District.[/end
059
Naruse: The 3 Sacred Treasures are indispensable if House Naruse is to be restored./Having one of them stolen from you is an unspeakable failure.//I have built Atlas./I can't have a girl from the corporation make a fool out of me!!
Ryouko: Haa. Haa. Haa.
Naruse: My dear Ryouko.../Certainly you understand.*zap*
Ryouko: ...Yes... Grandfather... [tn: Alright. When she isn't busy being abducted and raped in JUNK, Ryouko enjoys spending some quality time with her grandfather.]
062
Takehiko: ............ We've lost Kuniko-sama./Many of our comrades have fallen......//Now there's only one way left for us...
063
Takehiko: There are 13 pillars, or Shafts supporting Atlas./We're going to occupy one of them. The Hibiya Line Shaft!!!//We'll take the elevator that runs inside the Shaft/and use it to bring in the bulk of our forces from the ground!!//ALRIGHT, BITCHES!! LET'S GIVE 'EM A TASTE OF THE STRENGTH FROM BELOW!!
Forrest Gump: Some nice stuff they got there.
064
Takehiko: That's a hand grenade........
Soldier: THE ENEMY'S ATTACKING./GO TO THE BUIDINGS AND TAKE COVER.
Takehiko: WAIT. DON'T START JUST DOING WHATEVER!!!
065
Mohawk: ... UH?
Soldier: The door... Gasp./Argh!!!
Soldier: Takehiko-san. Over there!!!
Takehiko: What is it this time?!!
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Soldier: I saw that ship in the Akibahara database...//That characteristic bridge. And those 46cm/45 caliber cannons on their 3-gun turrets./That battleship... was used in the great war during the Showa era [tn: Emperor Showa's reign, 1926-1989.], and it was deemed the largest and the most powerful./THE YAMATO. [tn: Okay, folks. Time for the history lesson. Simply put, the Yamato is a Japanese boat built during WWII, and was indeed one of the largest, most heavily-armed (if not THE largest and most heavily-armed) warships ever built. For a more complete explanation, Wikipedia is your friend.]
068
Takehiko: Wah!!!!//What is the Yamato doing in Atlas...?//No way. They can also...
069
Screen: X1000 Zoom./Cloaking Program./RUNNING.
Kusanagi: ... Considering all the trouble you went through just to make your way here...//That was disappointingly quick./Takehiko-san.
070
Kuniko: We've landed pretty far from the other guys.
Momoko: Let's go look for them. Takehiko must be crying like a child as we speak.
071
Momoko: You gotta give it to them, though./Atlas is one mighty fine city.*note*
Momoko: AAAAAH. I've always wanted a jewel like this./Gasp!! Judging by the color, that brand is a limited edition!!!//Auugh. And there. That's Gallé furniture./*eeeek*[tn: Anybody knows of a brand of luxury furniture by the name of Gallé, Gallay, Garet, or anything similar, please let me know.]
Momoko: Atlas rooocks!!!
*BOM*
072
Momoko: !!!//... Ahem. Hem./What's wrong, Kuniko-chan?
Kuniko: For a second... I saw that pretty town and I thought of our battle as foolish.//I went mad at myself for it. That's all.
073
Kuniko: Quick. We need to go save Takehiko and the others.
Momoko: Of... Of course!!!*tchrr tchrr*
*tchrr tchrrr*
Momoko: Ouch?!!*slit*
Kuniko: Momoko?!
Momoko: The ring I've stolen...!!!
Kuniko: ......
Momoko: ... Ah.*tchrr tchrr*
074
Head: Heeeyyy theeeere.//You accursed thiiiieeeef.
075
Momoko: Aaa. Ah.../Haa.../I take back everything I've said.
Kuniko: Over there.
Momoko: THAT TOWN IS THE SUCKIEST THING EVER.
077
Head: Oraa.
Momoko: Hic
Kuniko: Wwah.//Hell.
Momoko: No, Kuniko. Don't!!!//That weapon takes an excessive toll on your body.//You can leave things to me here!!!
078
*Ka-chink*
Momoko: OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIIIIIIIIIT!!!!
Kuniko: That kind of stuff shouldn't exist./Must be something altered and weaponized by the government. Quite like those battle aircrafts.
Momoko: And in bad taste, too./Certainly they could have found something better.
079
Kuniko: !!!
080
Kuniko: Pant. Pant.
Head: ?!!
Momoko: Kuniko!!!*grrrrr*
081
Momoko: It's split itself into 2 different bodies?!!
Kuniko: So that's their true form...!!!
Kusanagi: ... I expected no less from you, Kuniko-san
082
Kusanagi: Otherwise./There would be no point in defeating you.
083
Kuniko: You're Kusanagi, aren't you?!
Momoko: Kuniko!!!
Kusanagi: I've been waiting for this day//Ever since my debacle at your hands....../This is the first time I've ever felt this way.//WITH THE ADDITION OF A PROTEAN SUIT AS A COMPLEMENT TO MY ART OF STEALTH ASSASSINATION/THERE'S NO WAY LEFT IN WHICH YOU TO DEFEAT ME!!!!
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Kusanagi: Agh.
086
Ryouko: Hello, you two. How are you doing?
087
Momoko: Naruse./Ryouko!!!
Kusanagi: What....... What the heck.//!!!! [tn: Now it's official. The man is a joke.]
Ryouko: How about......... you turn off the cloaking on the tank battalion, sublieutenant?
088
Dude: ... Looks like Zeus has answered negatively.//There's really nothing that can be done about that girl?
Nose: Rumor has it Zeus classified her as another Triple A.
Dude: But it's not like there could have been an oversight regarding her lineage.
Nose: You're probably right... Waiting for a little while to see how things play out sounds like a good idea I suppose.........
089
Dude: At any rate, how long does she plan on keeping us waiting? .... The bratty little girl.
Sayoko: Bow those heads lower, people.//Her royal majesty Mikuni-sama is in attendance.
090
Gremlin: Today, Mikuni-sama we would like to present you with this gift.//For the time will come. The day you become our Empress./And we expectantly await that moment.
Mikuni: ... That's it?
Gremlin: ?!
Mikuni: You've come all the way here just to say that?/Must have been hard.
091
Mikuni: You've been waiting forever./Right?
Dude: Not at all...
Gremlin: Most certainly not.
Nose: We barely arrived here a few moments ago.
Gremlin: In truth...
092
Sayoko: Is everything alright, Mikuni-sama?//The heads of the government are influential into the corporation. If only a little.
Mikuni: I'll be fine./They're just weak, flimsy bags choke full with dirty lies.//Sayoko. I need to ask you a favor./Care to listen?
Sayoko: ... That depends on what it is./But whatever Sayoko can do, she will...
093
Mikuni: Hahahah. That's the obedient Sayoko I know and love./You're the only one who never lies to me.//Say. I wanna meet her./I wanna see the other Triple A!!!
094
Momoko: Something's wrong with this town.//I never thought there'd be that many shapeshifted tanks around./That was really spooky, Kusanagi-chan.//Be prepared./We're going to use you until you fall apart.//... Now.
095
Momoko: You... What do you want?/Appearing out of nowhere like we're just passing through, are we?//This time around, if you go after Kuniko again/I will show no mercy.
Ryouko: If you think you can take me, bring it on./....... Grandpa.
096
Momoko: WUT?!!!
Ryouko: Don't worry./This time I didn't come looking for a fight.//Houjou Kuniko.*pant pant*
*bam bam*
Ryouko: Assuming this is how you made your way into Atlas, I must say I'm impressed.//I take it/you guys are here to bring down the government?
097
Ryouko: I can help you there./I happen to have a grudge to settle with the current administration myself.
Kuniko: Alright./Welcome on board.
098
Momoko: ........./... DUH?!!!!//But!! Kuniko!!! She's......
Kuniko: Right now we need all the fighting power we can get./And somebody like her who knows Atlas' every nook and corner is more than welcome.//It's okay./If anything goes wrong I'll just have to trounce her again.
*Hah*
Ryouko: Some big mouth you got there.
Momoko: Kuniko...*vrooooaarr*
099
Momoko: WHAT'S THAT?!!!
Ryouko: A stealthy battle aircraft?!!
100
*YEEAAAAAAHHH*
Takehiko: Ku/KUNIKO-SAMA!!!!
Kuniko: Takehiko?!!*squeeze*
Takehiko: Kuniko-sama. Thank goodness you're unharmed!!!
Kusanagi: That's impossible./How the hell did they...
101
*yeeeaaaah*
Takehiko: As we were being bombarded, we chanced upon that fallen aircraft./That material is really something. On top of its lightness it can repel anything, cannon shots included.//However....... Most of our comrades.......
Kuniko: ... I'm glad you guys made it alive./Thank you...
Takehiko: Kuniko-sama...
Ryouko: Sorry to interrupt your touching reunion...
102
Ryouko: But we have company.
Momoko: I take it that Holy Archway wasn't there a few moments ago... [tn: You can find Torii (rendered here as Holy Archway) in most Shinto shrines. Much like what a belfry would be to a Catholic church.]
Takehiko: More survivors... maybe?
Kuniko: ......./No... Whoever it is...
*fshhh fshhh*
103
Kuniko: There's something a lot more sinister about them........[/end
105
Ryouko: Over here. Quick!!
Kuniko: Kusanagi's protean tank??
Ryouko: I can control it thanks to the suit I stole from the dude.
Kusanagi: Mmhh.*be-beep*
Kuniko: Oooooh.
Ryouko: I give it instructions through the nano-sized computers...//And in so doing, I can alter the disposition of the carbon molecules within.//Now it looks like nothing more than a pile of rubble.*tchrr tchrr*
Kuniko: ... Here they are.
106-107
Kuniko: Who the heck are those guys?
Momoko: They aren't shapeshifted, right?
Ryouko: ... The Yatagarasu crest. There can be no mistake.
Kuniko: (They're stopping?!!)
Ryouko: They're from the Atlas corporation's Inner Sanctum.
108
Ryouko: This is the enemy/you have to prevail against.
Sayoko: ...You mongrels.//You have allowed the guerrilla men to slip through your fingers...?
Soldier: ...Yes./But their hours are numbered.//They should no longer have the strength to put up a...
109
Sayoko: The flapdoodle has to be coming from somewhere. Your mouth, maybe??/The corporation gives you technology to equip and use as you see fit, all for nothing.
Soldier: ...GH
Mikuni: Sayoko./Can I see the guerrilla girl?*gulp*
Sayoko: Rest assured./This humble Sayoko shall bring her to you without delay.
110
Soldier: Gasp.
Takehiko: !!!
Dude: Ugh
111
Kuniko: They're shooting even at their own allies. [tn: Let's see: condescending demeanor, repeated instances of gratuitous violence and cruelty, mass-murder, salvaging a WWII warship... Just in case someone still didn't get it, the government is evil.]
Ryouko: Originally, the protean material was used in the construction of Atlas itself. And they're able to pierce through that...!!
Sayoko: Such a foul smell.//No need to hide./I can track the filth of a ground-dweller by scent.//Rejoice, guerrilla warriors!!/In her magnanimity, Mikuni-sama has deigned to honor you with an audience!!!
112
Sayoko: Now you can die in blessed happiness...
Momoko: That girl's a freak. And I know what I'm talking about. >She's a bright spot on my weirdo-meter.<
Kuniko: Who's Mikuni?
Ryouko: This is our chance.//You guys buy me some time./I'll use the opportunity to capture her royal majesty Mikuni.
Takehiko: ......!!!
Ryouko: If all goes well, this should put me in an advantageous position/to negotiate with the corporation and the government.//(I'll let you guys have a taste of Mikuni's power.)/We get back into the game in one move.
113
Kuniko: THIS!! IS!! SPARTA!!! UNWAVERING/OPPOSITION!!![tn: Sorry. It was too tempting to resist.]
Momoko: !!!
Kuniko: The number one priority is to attend to the wounded!!/Flee the scene at once and go for the Megashaft!!!//There, we will make temporary preparations...
Takehiko: Kuniko-sama./I shall take care of the woman...
114
Takehiko: Until now we've been fighting yet we haven't landed a blow!!/More of our comrades have fallen to them than I dare to count!//Without fail. Even if I am stricken down//I, Takehiko...
Kuniko: BLOCKHEAAAAD!!!!
Takehiko: BWARGL
Kuniko: YOU HAVEN'T MADE ANY PROGRESS AT ALL
115
Kuniko: DID YOU COME ALL THE WAY TO THIS CHILLY PLACE JUST SO YOU COULD DIE?!!
Takehiko: That is my wish./Please allow me.
Kuniko: DENIED!!!!/THAT IS A COMMAND FROM YOUR LEADER!!!
Takehiko: This time of all times........... I will not back down no matter what you say!!!
Momoko: KUNIKO, GIVE IT A REST
116
Takehiko: If you keep insisting on stopping me/I will resent you for the rest of my life.
Kuniko: ......
*baf*
Kuniko: Suit yourself!!
Soldiers: Ku. Kuniko-sama. Wait...
Kuniko: Let's move out, boys.
Momoko: Kuniko, wait a minute!!!
Takehiko: MOMOKO!!!!
117
Takehiko: I beg you.../Please take care of Kuniko-sama.
Ryouko: I don't like where this is going./Oh my oh my.
Takehiko: Take away the cloaking.
Ryouko: Are you trying to draw them in?*beep beep*
Takehiko: No idea./I'm just not expecting anything from someone like you.
118
Takehiko: (I feel bad I won't be able to see Kuniko-sama's evolution for myself though...)/Oh, well... You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Ryouko: ......*tchrr tchrr*
Takehiko: HEY YOU.//YOU WANTED US OUT. HERE WE ARE./WHICH ONE OF YOU GOES BY THE NAME OF MIKUNI OR WHATNOT?!!
119
Sayoko: I thought I heard something.../Another dung fly I see.
Takehiko: You can say whatever.//THAT DUNG FLY FACE OF MINE/I'LL MAKE SURE YOU NEVER FORGET!!!
120
Soldier: We've been able to see it for a while now, yet it doesn't seem to get any closer....
Kuniko: Spirits up! Once we make it to the Megashaft we can ask our main corps for reinforcements./Let's gooo.
Soldier: Kuniko-sama.
121
Soldier: As long as you stay alive/The people on the ground are guaranteed to know peace someday.
Kuniko: ... Lads?
Soldier: ... Please go ahead.//We'll be joining Takehiko-dono.//So far, fighting by your side/has been an honor.
122
Momoko: You really okay with that, Kuniko?
Kuniko: They went ahead ignoring my orders.
*swish* *swish*
Kuniko: They're free.
Momoko: ... But you know... There's no law forbidding not to yield when you know something isn't quite right.//You agree, even though you're aware they can't do without you?
123
Kuniko: THEY'RE JUST DOING WHATEVER THEY PLEASE.
Flashback!Takehiko: If you keep insisting on stopping me/I will resent you for the rest of my life.
Kuniko: If they're so eager to die, they don't need me to do so.
*SLAP*
124
Momoko: It's not like/they're fighting out of some kind of death wish!!![tn: The arbitrary close-up on Momoko's leather-clad bottom is a bit of a moment killer there.]//But fight they must, even if it costs them their lives./THEY FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL.//You can't possibly have been naive enough... to think you'd get a happy end where everyone makes it out alive?!
Kuniko: Shut up. Shut up.
125
Kuniko: YOU DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH!!
Momoko: Yes I do./You're my daughter aft.....
Kuniko: THAT'S A LIE!!!!//YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER AND I'M NOT YOUR CHILD!!/SO FORGET I EXIST!!!
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Momoko: Ah yeah?/I did give birth to you, you know?//Look. You can see the traces of my pregnancy right there...
Kuniko: That trace is a mark from the zipper because you're too fat for your clothes, more like.
Momoko: ... Aaah./Maybe I've spoiled her too much, what with her being my only child...//Alright then. If that's really what you feel like doing.
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Momoko: You stay there and mope around all you like.//Hop.
Kuniko: ... Mo//....... Momoko.
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*pant pant*
Mikuni(?): GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA//Not not bad. Not bad at all. A reward seems to be in order!!
Takehiko: ........ Humph./I'll seize the opportunity to say it, then.
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Takehiko: Allow us ground-dwellers to live in Atlas./There should be more than enough room here for everyone!!
Sayoko: Pft.//HAHAHAHAHAHA
Takehiko: ?!!
Sayoko: Hhah hhah hhah hhah. What?/Do you think Atlas is some kind of Noah's Ark suspended above the woods?//Don't tell me you came all the way here just to say that!!/Hah.
Takehiko: ...!!!
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Takehiko: WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!!!//WHAT?!
Sayoko: Take a good look at the town./Hah hah hah./You still haven't noticed anything?
Takehiko: YAAAAAAAAAAARRRRH//Haa. Haa.../Uh??
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Sayoko: Nice cutting edge./Hmm.//It's a bit heavy, though... Hurts my arm a little.
Takehiko: AAAAAUUUUUUUGH
Sayoko: Now let's put an end to this, shall we?
Takehiko: AGHH
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Guard: Ack.
Guard: Bwah.
*chink*
Soldier: TAKEHIKO-DONO/WE'RE WITH YOU, SIR!!!*YEEAAAAH*
Mikuni: Wow.*note*
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Sayoko: More scrubs. Coming out of the woodwork, and all fired-up. Incorrigible.
Momoko: (So dead!!!)*SBAAAAOOOM*
Momoko: She dodged?!!
134
Sayoko: Oh. So there was another one?//You took me by surprise.
Momoko: !!!//Gh.(Who the heck is that girl?! I can't read her movements!!!)
Sayoko: FINISH THEM.*clank*
135
*pow pow pow pow pow*
*pow*
Mikuni: ...........
136
Soldiers: Uuugh.../cough.
Sayoko: Still alive? You folks are persistent.
Soldier: Urggghh
Sayoko: It is only fitting for bugs to be crawling on the ground.
Soldier: Gasp
Mikuni: Enough, Sayoko./Things have become entertaining.
137
Sayoko: MIKUNI-SAMA.//You can't get out of your cart!!!
Mikuni: I'll be fine. The sun is almost down.//These people have impressed me./I feel like giving them a chance.
138
Mikuni: Abandon Kuniko and swear loyalty to me./Do so, and I will allow all the ground-dwellers to immigrate in Atlas.//This is what you're here for, isn't it?//I will say this only once./I will not suffer lies to be told in my presence.
Momoko: You stupid or what?!/WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!!!/DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING?!/DON'T TAKE US METAL AGE LIGHTLY!!!
*BOM*
Soldier: MIKUNI-DONO!!!
139
Soldier: IF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS TRUE/THEN WE PLEDGE OR LOYALTY TO YOU AND YOU ALONE.
Momoko: Ah... What are you doing......?
Mikuni: Good. Good!!*creak creak*
Mikuni: A wise decision.//....... A pity......//But the Mirror of Yata lodged in my right eye tells me.
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Mikuni: Those words you said/You didn't mean them at all.
141
Mikuni: Oh./Looks like some of them weren't lying.
Momoko: Why...//WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS/THEY'RE HUMAN BEINGS JUST LIKE YOU!!!
Sayoko: ... Human beings... Just like her...?//Mikuni-sama? On par with these fools?
142
Kuniko: What a bunch of complete idiots.
143
Sayoko: ?!!//(My 6th Sense didn't work........?!!)
Momoko: Kuniko!!!
Kuniko: I just wanted to protect everyone.../That's why I became their leader.//That... That's all I ever wanted. And yet...
Mikuni: So YOU are Houjou Kuniko? ....../You're more of a scrawny kid than I expected.
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Kuniko: I'm-a send you crying to Mommy. Mark my words.*DUDUDUDUUUN*
Mikuni: Do you know what happens to those who try to bluff in front of me?/They die. That's what happens.[/end
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Kuniko: Once this is over./Let's all get back to the Cathedral.//It's freezing cold around here.
Sayoko: These men's blood won't go to waste./It shall help solidify the artificial land that is Atlas.//Your deaths.../will bring salvation to this world.
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Mikuni: This Ancient Mirror can reflect the truth of things/and also have the power to exorcise evil.//When someone speaks lies, it can reflect them/And mete out punishment...//Such is the power of the Yata no Kagami./One of the Three Sacred Treasures!!!
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Momoko: You get killed if you tell a lie?//I can do without such a silly death, thank you very much.//(By my reckoning/Kuniko should no longer have the strength to use her boomerang...//.........The lonely girl/The weepy little kid who kept clinging to me...)//Something must have happened when I wasn't looking...
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Sayoko: You little piece of shit./Do you really think you'll make any difference now that you're on your own?
Kuniko: ... No quarter.
Sayoko: MIKUNI-SAMA.//RUN AWAY!!!!
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Kuniko: NOW//GOOOOOOOOOO
*blam blam blam*
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Mikuni: ...So that's/the other Triple A's power.........//SHOOT HER DOOOOOW!!!
155
Guards: Gh./Argh.
Momoko: You're really going overboard.*ache*
Momoko: Gh...
Guard: I feel bad having to kill that woman.
Kuniko: Momoko's a drag queen, you know?
Guard: ?!!
156
*KA-BOM*
Guard: Bwarf//Gargl
Guard: !!
157
Kuniko: GAH//?!!
*BOM*
Kuniko: Ugh
Momoko: Kuniko!!!
Sayoko: Putting Mikuni-sama in harm's way, are we.../A human's death would be too good for your sorry ass.
158
Sayoko: This is the monster born of our analysis of the Sacred Treasures./HIRUKO. [tn: Water Leech.]
Momoko: What IS that thing.........?//Talk about a bad joke...
159
Sayoko: Wretched child of abhorrence who clings to life in your anger and hatred.
Hiruko: AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUURRRGH. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts it hurts./The pain. The pain. Pain pain pain.*floc*
Sayoko: HIRUKO!!!//Go feast upon that girl!!! Do so and your soul shall be freed.
Kuniko: Ouch...//!!
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Hiruko: Yar*BAOM*
Kuniko: Waah.//In that case...!!
Momoko: When did she...
Kuniko: Momoko's whip!!!
161
Hiruko: You miss. You miss. You suck. You suck. You suck haaaaard.
Kuniko: Agh.
Hiruko: AH
162
Hiruko: ??//Ouch. Ayyyyyye. That hurts hurts huuuurts.
Sayoko: No way.../She was aiming for her boomerang from the beginning........!!!
Hiruko: DAMN. DAMN YOUUUUUU. LOOK./SEE HOW THE PAIN STRENGTHENS MEEEEEE.//..........???/What IS that blade...? It can't be.......
163
Hiruko: AMA NO MURAKU.........*BAAOOOM*
164
Sayoko: ... Ridiculous.//To obliterate Hiruko............
Mikuni: Sayoko.
Sayoko: (There can be no mistake!!//This is one of the Sacred Treasures./Ama no Murakumo!!!
*beep beep*
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Sayoko: Mikuni-sama./Run away immediately.//This humble Sayoko will buy you the time you need...!!!
Mikuni: No. I don't want to./I'm not going anywhere without you.
Sayoko: Mikuni-sama.*KABOOM*
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Sayoko: She's a monster.//... You can't have...//Don't tell me you've used up all your strength./Well of course you did. The power of the Sacred Treasures is too much for you to handle, asswipe.
167
Sayoko: Now this is the second Treasure to enter Mikuni-sama's possession.//?!//We're being bombarded?/From where?!!*poke*
168
*CRACK*
Sayoko: !!!//No.../It's not a bombing.//The Daedalus we've released on the ground./It's reproduced itself?!!!//It's been able to perceive the heat from the flames here?/From down there on the ground?!!
169
Sayoko: !!!
Mikuni: Ah!!//Sayoko!!!
Sayoko: Who do you think is responsible for creating you?!!!
*PAH*
Sayoko: Haa. Haa. Haa.*sss*
170
Sayoko: Ama no Murakumo!!!
Speaker: A state of emergency is declared on the level number four.//"Zeus" has issued the command. The fourth level is to be cleansed. I repeat.*clank clank clank* *bbrrrrr*
Sayoko: This is bad.
171
Sayoko: Mikuni-sama!!!
Mikuni: Sayokooo.
Momoko: Water?!!
172
Speaker: City planning for the whole district initiated.//12.000 seconds to reconstruction.
173
Momoko: Kunikooo. Takehikooo!!!//Look at what they've done to their own city......../It won't make much of a difference with the ground level now.//You'd think more people would be coming out in such a situation. Yet I see no one./The fourth level's inhabitants should number in the millions...
Flashback!Sayoko: Your deaths.../will bring salvation to this world.
Momoko: It can't be...
Mikuni: ... Sayokooo. Where are youuu-hooo?//... I don't wanna be aloooone...
174
Flashback!Kuniko: ...You there//Care to play with me...?
Momoko: ... Kuniko...
175
Momoko: WHA!!!
Mikuni: Take me to Sayoko.//Now move it, conger-woman!!
Momoko: WUT?!
Mikuni: Are you gonna leave me behind?!!
Momoko: Make no mistake. My first intention is to find Kuniko........//Anyone stands is my way, and they're gonna get it.
Mikuni: ......//It's your fault if I ended up like this./You're like those infectious diseases that run rampant on the ground!!!
176
Momoko: Haa./... Maybe the parents are to blame for this.
Mikuni: ...?/If Sayoko was there you wouldn't be around to displease me./She's gonna wipe you out for me.
Momoko: Pathetic./And that's what you call/a true parent-child relationship?//Not like it's any of my business...
Mikuni: ... Then
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Mikuni: Then.../What of you and Kuniko? Are you really parent and child?
Momoko: !!
Mikuni: No answer?/That was a lie, right?//BECAUSE WE TRIPLE As/HAVE NOBODY TO CALL OUR PARENTS!!!
178
Momoko: I don't know about the Triple A business or whatnot./But Kuniko and I are really parent and child.
Mikuni: ......./........Wh//Why./If you hadn't said anything, you would've been able to go!!
Momoko: I know.../But you see
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Momoko: I couldn't help it./That "lie" is more precious to me than anything else.
Mikuni: Why do you go that far... for a lie.../A lie.//Why...
Ryouko: ... Well well well. Does it really matter?
Momoko: Aah... Man./Talk about a bad day....
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Momoko: ... I'm sorry.../Kuniko
182
Kuniko: ... Momo... ko.//Momoko!!!//Where are youuu?//(There she is!!)//?
183
Kuniko: That girl!!!
Mikuni: Uuuh...
Kuniko: Mo. Momoko. What the heck are you...//... Are you... Are you really... Momoko?
184
Ryouko: Not quite.
185
Kuniko: ...Ah.
Ryouko: If you're looking for grandpa, he must have dropped dead somewhere./Oh, well. You've made things a lot easier for me./I am grateful.//Kuniko-sama.*heart*
186
Ryouko: Reinforcements from the upper level.../Time to go.//I have two of the Sacred Treasures./The keys to Atlas' main frame: "Zeus" itself...... Now only one remains.//And the world will be mine to control/The Earth shall belong to me. Ryouko!!!!
187
Speaker: City planning complete. Beginning reconstruction.
Kusanagi: Aren't you an inglorious one./Kuniko-san.//Come on....... Let's go back to the ground level.
188-189
*WWOOOOOOOO*
190-191
Nagiko: So she's gotten her hands on two of the Sacred Treasures./Unlucky, aren't we? Eh, Keiichirou?//Come, then./Come for the Yasakani no Magatama. Come before me!!!
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