Kokou no Hito 152

This chapter stands out as having WAAAAY more text than ALL the chapters around it. And yet, it's still only about average for a manga chapter.

152 Scan:
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I happiness may come from that tragedy...

[Kokou no Hito 152 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Sign: Courthouse
Side: Abandoned by climbing history, a climber who sacrificed himself. It's an inflated ordinary thing, but she brings something for the man that climbed with him.

Page 2:
Guy: Sis?
Momo: I think I'm dropping the case after all..
Guy: Eh?

Page 3:
Kurosawa: So in the end, you gave up on
getting the insurance money from Niimi-kun's mother, huh?
Momo: Yes.
Insert Text: A "lost item" from climbing history, a fragment from a heart's history----.
Title: 152nd Climb Prayer

Page 4:
Kurosawa: But in your current situation, with the loss of Niimi-kun,
it must have been hard to get recognition after his death...
Momo: Yes. His body was cremated very quickly.
And because we were kicked around as a cause, we didn't see a hair of him.
And even his mother wouldn't accept a DNA test.
So all we had to rely on was
the writing back of this map he left behind......
[I translated that stuff back around chapter 80 when it first showed up. You can read it there if you want.]

Page 5:
Kurosawa: I see... you must
mean here.
Paper: I wanted to see my and Momo-chan's kid [The thing above his thumb]
Kurosawa: ...You were using this one sentence as proof that Niimi-kun knew about the existence of Keiji-kun before he died.
Momo: ......That's correct.
We appealed to the district court to peacefully get recognition that Keiji is Niimi's child.
And they decided that the 10 million yen in insurance money would go to Keiji, but...
Kurosawa: That money had already been given to Niimi-kun's mother...
Momo: Yes...
[Well, glad we got that major plot point wrapped up.]

Page 6:
Brother: What are you saying after all this time, Sis?!!
It's already within reach!!!
What we're doing isn't a bad thing!
We're just talking about getting Keiji's money back from that greedy old lady, right!?
Momo: ...But she's Taku-chan's mother...
And for Keiji, she's his only grandmother...
Keiji's already in elementary school. And doesn't understand what we're talking about at all.
I don't want him to see his blood relatives quarreling anymore.
Brother: Forgive me, but
why do you think he kept that map with him, it's so you could get recognition after he died, don't you think!?

Page 7:
Momo: ...Back then, Taku-chan didn't know I had Keiji in my belly.
I don't want to dirty the words Taku-chan left behind any more!!
Brother: Uh-oh.
H...
Hey, sis, it's time. Let's go.
Momo: Just leave me alone!!!
Brother: Ah, why do you never follow through with anything, Sis?
You're so undisciplined!!!

Page 8:
Brother: I have a mortgage loan to pay off,
and I don't even have a big salary..
Couldn't you just help me out a little bit, as a sibling!!?

Page 9:
Guy: Eh?
You're asking about my old man after all this time?
SFX: PAKIH (snap)
Guy: Memorial collection?
Sure... as long as me and my little sister don't need to show up for it, I don't mind.
He lost his toes on Makalu. Uncle had a real attachment to mountains.
But to us, his family, he really sucked as a dad.

Page 10:
Guy: With having to take over supporting the household from my dad that didn't work much,
my mom's relationship with him got bad.
And finally they got divorced...
and my family was forced to break up.
So when we heard about the accident
Headline: Northern Alps Mountaineering
Team of 5 in an accident? [The tops and bottoms of these are cut off]
[I can't read that newspaper because huge parts of it are cut off.]
My feeling were pretty much that he had reaped what he'd sewn.
And that Spring, when we got the news that the corpse was miraculously found,
Sign: Oomachi North Police Department
Guy: Anyhow, he was my dad without any other relatives, so I figured I'd have to go get him or no one else would, so I went to the police station.
Someone: Until the corpse identification process is over,
please wait here.

Page 11:
Guy: Eh...
Why...!?
People: I thought... no one would come to accept him...
Me, too...
So did Mom...

Page 12:
Guy: Puh.
Girl: Heh.
Mom: ...I guess it's been 20 years, huh?
I wonder if it's your father that brought us together...

Page 13:
Guy: When I thought about it, the same dad that had torn the bonds of our family apart
were tied back together by him. It was pretty ironic.
Kurosawa: He probably got so obsessed with mountains in order to make up for his failure on Makalu.
The fact that he poured so much passion into the K2 East-Face was in order to win his trust back from his family. I heard that from Captain Ninomiya.
Guy: Please use this.
It's a photo from when our family got along best.
In that time, I hated everything in the world...
and things were tough, but......

Page 14:
Guy: That man, alone,
would reach his hand out to me when I was at rock bottom...
And when even the police had given up on my father's corpse
that man, alone, kept looking for him...
Kurosawa-san,

Page 15:
Guy: If you see Katou-san, please tell him this,

Page 16-17:
Guy: That I'm truly thankful...
Tell him thank you so much for what you did...

Page 18-19:
Insert Text: Just like how those words saved him from the path of carnage----
Bottom: Kokou no Hito
152nd Climb
Next tissue, who is the one that wishes for Buntarou's survival more than any other...!?