The Ring of the Nibelung 5

Nibelungen #05


p117
Ring 5: The Timeless Walhalla


p118
Ohne die Apfel... erstirbt der Götter Stamm !
Without the apple... the race of the gods will vanish! (Loge, scene 2)


p119
[nothing]


p120
Tadashi... I came to get you to the captain's cabin.
Yo!!!

Here's Miimay.

I'd like to live in this room, too.
This is not a place for you. You're more suited for the main bridge. Come on, get out.

Take my hand...
Miimay...


p121
Miimay... Alberich's sister...
You are the last woman...

of the fifth lost world.

How do you know that?!
?
?
?

Please come in, chatting in the corridor would be rude.


p122
He is the son of professor Aiba.
His son...!!


p123
I see...

My father told me a lot about you...

I'm happy that you came.
I was waiting for you.
You were waiting for me?

Since your birth...
I knew that one day, you'll get on my ship...

and that I'll face the son of professor Aiba.
...


p124-125
We left the Solar System.
From now on, nobody can neither pinpoint the Arcadia, nor approach it.
To all crew members, please take some rest!


p126
Discipline prevails in the Arcadia...
Discipline? What do you mean?

This is a pirate ship, don't forget it.

Has the jolly roger been risen?
Of course.

It's floatting on the mast, even in the middle of the outer space.

The ones who dared confronting that flag are all dead.


p127
We'll introduce you to the ship's crew during tonight's dinner.
There's still quite some time!!
Just have some little talk with Miimay.


p128
I'm gonna take some sleep.
...

We weren't introduced to each other...
True... But you probably know more about me than anyone else here...


p129
You know that I studied tons of documents...

Maybe I'm wrong, but...
in that pile of books... Your name was appearing again and again...

Miimay... Alberich's sister... Leader of the Nibelung... of Nibelheim...

The Miimay from the legend that people narrate since ancient times... is in front of me right now...

I probably wouldn't have believed it if I didn't have met Alberich...
You saw my brother?!


p130
I forged him a ring.
With the gold?

!!

And here's what he gave me as way of thanks.
Though he shot me with an antic weapon, it almost broke my bulletproof barrier.

So you forged the ring...
Here's the best evidence that you're truly professor Aiba's son!!


p131
Once, I was wandering... and I was saved by professor Aiba who made me get on this ship.
And his son forged, for my brother, a ring with the gold of Rhine!!
That means that this cursed battle, which wasn't supposed to happen ever again, is about to burst for the second time!!


p132-133
The Walhalla already knew about the completion of the ring.
Wotan, the illustrous king of the gods and the head of the Walhalla, must have awoken...
All my prayers so that he won't awake were useless... Wotan is getting ready to counter the ring's assault...


p134
Because the timelessness of the Walhalla has stopped!!
The timelessness of the Walhalla?

In "The Ring of the Nibelung", Wagner's opera...
all about Walhalla, the Gods' land, is accurately described...

But what does its timelessness mean?

That is...

?!
!!


p135
[nothing]


p136
If the Walhalla was ever to disappear...
it would mean the end of the entire universe as suddenly as the Big-Bang.

And all the space would be reduce to a single point!!!

Where is the Walhalla?

I don't know... I can't say for sure if it's up or down... in front or behind... it might just be hidden within everyone's heart.


p137
What's going on?
We were attacked from starboard.

Who's the ennemy?
We don't know.


p138
Who is enough crazy to attack my barrier?!
We're not the kind who would refuse a fight, right?!
Yeah, let's counterattack!!!