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Galaxy Express 999 22

The Graveyard at the Bottom of Gravity

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+ posted by Hunk as translation on Sep 8, 2014 17:55 | Go to Galaxy Express 999

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GE999 #22


p42-43
The current position of the Galaxy Express is at... 750,000 light years... of the Milky Way...
Everything seems normal in the navigation system, but the train is going to to arrive at the place where there was an accident two days ago...
22nd stop
The Graveyard at the Bottom of Gravity
Send immediately a message to the locomotive of the 999!! We need to warn them!!


p44
[nothing]


p45
The stars are blurred, I can't clearly see them.

And soon, you won't be able to see them at all.
In this area, the train is at its maximum speed. It's close to the light speed, so human eyes cannot see anything.

Ah! He seems trouble...

Maetel, please sit in the same direction as Tetsurou.
Why?

Two days ago, a train from a little solar system disappeared right after its derailment.
To be prepared for any eventuality, I'm asking you to sit backwards.

Then the shock will be less important.
I see!!!

We can't see any star anymore.
The speed is at its maximum!!!


p46
[nothing]


p47
Maybe the rails are twisted...
They aren't straight.


p48
The train has derailed!!!
You're right!!!

We have lost control! Please brace yourself!!


p49
[nothing]


p50
It seems like we're going to fall in hell!! When will it stop...?
Though there's no gravity in space!!!

The locomotive isn't responding anymore, it completely fall silent!!!

Driver! Please do something!!

...


p51
The fall has stopped...?!

!!


p52
There's a train out there!!!
It's the one that derailed recently!!


p53
We hit the other train!

I think it was around the 6th wagon.

I wonder why we stopped all of a sudden.

We are at the bottom of gravity.
What's that?

Something that you often find in ancient tales of space travel... It looks like the Sargasso Sea...

The Sargasso Sea...?
The deadly sea where ships were washed up?!

We're also trapped... Is is really the same train that derailed two days ago?
Indeed. The number and the description don't leave any doubt.

However, don't you think it looks kinda old?
Huh?


p54
[on train] Galaxy Railways Company


p55
The locomotive has gotten back to normal, the engines are functionning.
The protective field has spread on the other train.

The locomotive can faint.

Can we explore the other train?
Yes!

Here is the point of impact. Just sneak in from here.

There is no sign of life, there must be no survivor.

This train engines have stopped, nothing is moving.
It's gloomy!!!


p56
...
Aren't all the passengers already at their seat...?


p57
I am going to bring some electricity from the 999.


p58
There are only skeletons...?!

It's really strange...

There is a reason why they're all dead...
Their clothes are literally tearing apart.

Look, Tetsurou... These synthetic clothes are usually treated in order to last several centuries.

The train engines have enough energy to function at least 100 years.
Then why are they empty after 2 days?

It's like this train... has aged of 300 years.
There isn't any survivor, just like a lot of years has passed.

300 years?

Tetsurou, how much time has passed since we're here?


p59
Well, I'd say 2, 3 minutes.

34 hours 24 minutes and 30 seconds have passed...

What...?!
You must be hungry, right? Here's the proof!

...
It means the time is going faster on this train than in the 999?!

Exactly, the time here is flowing at an incredible speed...
... It's even accelerating...!

If we stay here two of our days, we will become just like them.
It's dangerous to stay here.

Someone is coming from behind...!!
Huh... Who might that be?!

This person is getting closer!! I can feel him too!!
How could he survive in this train where time is flowing so fast?


p60
The difference of time flow is generally happening in totally different places. No one has ever experienced a contact between them. Tetsurou had heard a space expert say that in the universe, there were several forms of time flow.


p61
[nothing]


p62-63
[nothing]


p64
Luz? You're Luz, aren't you...?
You know me?! Ah... You're Maetel...

Ah! She's one of your friends, so there's nothing to fear.
Quite the contrary!

Yes, you'd better worry.

What do you mean?
If you're making the time flow, all men will end up like them?

You too, then... What's your name?!
Hoshino Tetsurou...

How many trains did you deviate, Luz?
About twenty of them!!!


p65
I don't need you, go back to your train instead of shivering here!!
Err... Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!

What about us?

You're free to go, Maetel... I won't do any harm to you...

But you, Tetsurou, you're going with me!!
Hey!!
What do you intend to do if he refuses?

I'm going to accelerate time and make 1000 or 2000 years pass in a flash!!

Which means, Tetsurou...
that you'll become a skeleton! Even worse, you'll be reduced to ashes!

Come!!!
No! There's no way I'm going with that woman without saying anything!!


p66
Maetel!!!

Maetel, what are you doing?!
...

Don't worry, you'll have food. Come on, Tetsurou, follow me to my house...

because it's where you're going to live.

Wha... What?
With you?

No waaaaaaaay!

Don't protest and get on!!!
!!


p67
You have a rather classic vehicle. You can control time, yet, you have an old machine!
There's a difference between controlling time and moving through space, Tetsurou.

Here's my home.
It's a ridiculous planet!! It's all small!!


p68
Get in!
...

I'm going to cook you something, so get some rest.

There are skulls everywhere!!
They are the remains of those who didn't listen to me, so I accelerate the time!


p69
No one ever loved me, so I couldn't love anyone.

Wait for me here!
I'm scared!

You're afraid of those skeletons?
Yet, you have one, don't you?

Okay, follow me to my room...
Your room?!

No, no, I'm good here!
If you're a man, you need to be less indecisive! If you're scared, come with me!!

God, please help me, I'm begging you!
There is no god in space, only the tangible truth and the flow of time...

Come in!!!
...


p70-71
Oh...?!
In my room, I can see in a flash the time flow of the whole space.


p72
You must think the time is flowing at the same pace everywhere, right?
Of course...?

There isn't two same speeds.
Maetel must have told you.

Will I be able to see her again someday? It seemed like she wanted me to live here...
...

If you want, I can turn you into a skeleton.

What's wrong? Is is that amazing to have a robotized body?
!!


p73
You know, I have eternal life!!

...

If you wish to live here...
I'll give you an android body, Tetsurou...

Look! There are all kinds of bodies you can wish for. They belonged to the passengers of the trains.

I didn't make this travel to exchange my freedom for a mechanized body.

Of course, I don't have money, that's why I'm going to the planet where they are free.
Maetel told me that what I was about to live until reaching it was the only fees.

If I need to earn a robotized body at the cost of my freedom...
then I refuse to have one, because I'm sure there will be plenty of occasions next.


p74
I see...

I've lived alone for so long that no one can understand my feelings anymore!

For 300 years, I was the sole inhabitant of this planet...

and before arriving here, I had a warm and living body just like Maetel's one.

But to seduce the one I loved, I exchanged my body for a robotized one...
for the love I had for him. But it was only a game for him... a mere entertainment.

Just like you abandon an old car, he left me with my android body...
Then, I came to this planet at the bottom of gravity... to live alone...

During my robotization, an error occurred. I understood way later that I had been given the strange ability to control the flow of time...
Of course the one who abandoned me had no idea about it too.


p75
You prefer not to live here even if I kill you because of that?!

Exactly!! There are still so many things I have to accomplish.

I want to decide myself about my future and my destiny!! I don't want to be controlled by someone else...
I would have no regret dying for that!!

...

Your mother must have been an exceptional person.

I accepted the favour of the one I loved against my own will...

If only I had the same determination as you...

But, it doesn't matter, because one day, you'll have to lose your freedom in order to protect Maetel!


p76
One day, you'll deadly suffer to have lost Maetel or your independence!!!
But it will probably to protect her that you'll have to give up on your freedom.

It's your destiny, Tetsurou!

Luz has brought back the flow of time by decreasing its speed.
Why did you let me go without saying anything?

I understood that Luz would never harm you...
To tell you the truth, she's not able to make a determined person suffer.


p77
Luz told me that she spent 300 years on this planet...

And she's friend with Maetel... I wonder how old she is.

Tetsurou, do you think you'll come back to this planet someday to see her again?
Yes... On my way back, when I'll be robotized, I'd like to pay her a visit.

Even if I never get this android body, I'd like to see her again.

She will probably wait...

for your return.

They say that the planet at the bottom of gravity is remaining small because of its weight. You can often find similar planets at the bottom of black holes.


p78
They also say that this kind of planet can hold memories, sadness and regrets... Travellers say that it's a graveyard for men's heart...

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