Homunculus Volume 14

*Only for use by I-M.

tl by molokidan

4)
1: Hooo
2: It's cold...

5)
1: Nanako...
2: slurp...

6)
1: It was unlocked.

7)
1: Will you give me a ride?

10)
1: Nakoshi-san...
2: This isn't the right way...

11)
1: I need to make a stop somewhere.
2: Come with me.

14)
1: What are you trying to do, bringing me to such a moody place like this?

15)
1: Doesn't it bring back memories...?
2: What?
3: snicker
4(2b): Aren't you mistaking me for someone else?
5: snicker snicker
6: smack
7(2b): I've never been here before.

16)
1: Her face changed...
2(2b): Which means...she's lying...?

17)
1: Will you draw me a sketch...?
2: What?
3: Sketch
4: how I look now.
5(2b): What?! A sketch?! No waaaay...
6: You can draw, can't you?
7: Please!
8: I'm too embarrassed...

19)
1: What is this...
2: I told you, I can only draw
3: simple caricatures...

20)
1: Since when did you stop seeing...?
2: What?!
3: Stop seeing...what?
4: Since you changed your face?
5: Since you started did cosmetic surgery, right?

21)
1: When did you change your "face?"
2: Ever hear of the word "delicacy?"
3(2b): Everyone does minor cosmetic surgery like getting creases in their eyelids.
It's rude to talk about something like that with women, you know.
4: A lie...?

22)
1: I changed my face
2: right after I broke up with you...
3: "Broke up"...?
4: We've never went out...
5: Nothing's changed about your face
6: since we last met, Nakoshi-san.
7: A lie...

23)
1: Nakoshi-saaaaan.
2: This whole time,
3: you've been mistaking me with someone else, haven't you...?
4-6: A lie.

24)
1: Why do you only tell lies...
2: No wait,
3: I know why.
4: Because that's all you CAN say?

25)
1: You can only see lies,
2: which means you can only tell them...
3: If you can only hear lies,
4: then you have no choice but to say them...
5: On that "face" of yours is nothing but

26)
1: a "false mouth,"
2: a pair of "false ears,"
3: and a set of "false eyes."
4: All that "changing your face" [having cosmetic surgery done] got you was a bunch
of lies...

27)
1: There's one thing you'd never be able to see with "fake eyes"...
2: "The truth" [the heart]...

28-29)
1: Now it's my turn to look
2: at YOUR "truth" [heart].

32)
1: Oh really...?
2: You had cosmetic surgery done,
3: Nakoshi-san?
4: Wow.
5: Is she smiling...?
6: Hmmm.
7: Or is she angry...?

33)
1: I can't tell what kind of expression she's making...!
2: The Homunculi are nothing but
3: "conversations with yourself"...

34)
1: Ah...
2: Ahhh...
3: I...
4: changed my face...
5: Why did you
6: have cosmetic surgery done?

35)
1-2: B...
3: Because I was ugly...
4: grit...
5: Obviously...!
6: heh heh heh
7: You must have been
8: HIDEOUS.
9: Y...yeah...
10: I was...

36)
1: Isn't that
2: what your father said...
3: Father...
4: When I...
5: was in elementary school...

37)
1: I put a girl's clothes on
2: by accident.
3: And she said
4: "You're ugly! And gross!"
5: Then pushed me down so I hit my head.
6: But to my child's heart, the shock of hitting my head
7: was incomparable to the shock of being called ugly...

38)
1: That night, my father saw the wound
2: and took me with him when he went to go yell at the girl's parents.
3: Her dad said "What's wrong with calling an ugly person ugly?!"
4: And my dad replied with "Yeah, so he's hideous! So what?!"

39)
1: I heard the entire thing behind him.
2: His words shocked me...
3: And at the same time, I thought
4: "I have no father!"

41)
1: Yeah...
2: From that moment forward, I started to look down...
3: hiding my face and staring at nothing but my feet as I walked...

42)
1: ...through those empty days...
2: There was no strong wind...
3: nor stagnant wind...
4: Just a human in a frozen space, whose transparent existence even went
unnoticed...

43)
1: All I saw then...
2: were textbooks and dirty magazines.
3: I drowned myself in my studies.
4: If my outside was no good, then I had to fill up my inside, I thought. And I
filled it as much as I could.
5: And if my face was no good, then I had to make my body look as good as I could,
I thought.
6: So I worked out every day.
7: I even learned to throw up food when I ate too much.

44)
1: Even when I became a high schooler,
2: I still kept my head down and studied straight through lunch.
3: To everyone else,
4: I was nothing but an ugly nerd...
5: It was a period when everyone was sensitive to things like "love" and "sex,"
6: and my male and female classmates happily mingled.
7: But I...
8: just gave them all sidelong glances...

45)
1(2b): A...among my classmates, there were guys like you, with handsome faces, who
the girls would pine over.
2: When I saw you, I'd think, "his face is the only thing he's got going for him."
3: "He's empty on the inside. He's below me." I laughed at you in my head.
4: "Stop looking at that empty fool! Look at me...!!"

46)
1: bzz...
2: bzzzz...
3: Y...
4: Yeah...

47)
1: When I worked part-time as a gasoline stand attendant...
2: I was surprised by how many beautiful women I saw sitting in passenger seats.
3: The better the car,
4: the more beautiful the woman.
5: One day,
6: I saw a woman sitting in the passenger seat to a Porsche.

48)
1: She was radiant.
2: But the man in the driver seat smirking and squeezing her thighs
3: was ugly. I was shocked.

49)
1: How could it be...
2: How could such an ugly man like you...
3: get his hands on such a beautiful woman...
4: But it wasn't about the face anymore.
5: Those "cars" with their beautiful women
6: started to look
7: appealing to me...
8: So I saved up my money and bought "a cheap Carol." [this car]

50)
1: My life of nothing but studying finally paid off,
2: and I easily got into a university in Tokyo and moved there.

51)
1: In Tokyo,
2: the first thing "funned me for" (they made fun of me for) wasn't my "mug"
(face)...
3: but my "accent" (words)...!
4: The women only looked at people's faces and words -- the surface, jeering at
everything they saw...
5: Weren't there any who looked on the inside...?
6: When I took a look around myself, I realized I was surrounded once again by
women pining over men who had nothing but looks going for them...

52)
1: "Izzat" (Is that) really all there is to life -- looks...?!
2: Aren't there any women out there who look "inside" (to the heart)...?

53)
1: Ah...
2: "Ah..." (I...)
3: I had no choice,
4: so I kept walking with my head down in Tokyo...
5: Then I saw
6: something fall at my feet.
flyer: MALE COSMETIC SURGERY

54)
1: It was a flyer for a cosmetic surgery clinic...
2: I wanted a "new face"...
3: for people to look at...
4: "Ah..." (I...)
5: I thought about discarding
6: "mah face" (my face)...

55)
1: Then
2: bzz...
3: I met "Nanako" (you)...

56)
1: "You"...?
2: Are you mistaking me for someone else again...?
3: Get out here...
4: Nanako.
5: bzz...
6: First you say you're going to look at me,
7: then you launch into some long speech...

57)
1: All I can do is speak with the "Homunculi" (what I see before me)...
2: Ah...
3: Ahh...
4: It's just as "you" (Itou) told me.
5: I think I'm just talking with myself.

58)
1: The faces that keep changing into one another
2: are all "people" (faces) I've known...
3(no bubble): snicker...
4: Yeah...
5: This is all nothing more than a figment of my imagination...
6: But I have no choice but to keep watching...
7: to keep talking...!

59)
1: Talking with the "Homunculi" (self I see before myself)...is the only way to see
the "heart"...!

60)
1: Now
2: get out here,
3: Nanako!!
4: pop

61)
1: Th...
2: That's not you...
3: So...
4: How was it to change your face?
5: Th...
6: This isn't you...
7: You can only talk to what's in front of you, right?
8: D...
9: Dammit...

62)
1: Y...yeah...
2: That's right...
3: You're the first girl I slept with
4: after I "got cosmetic surgery" (changed my face).
5: As I changed my face,
6: the women I chose got better and better...
7(2b): Meanwhile, I joined a foreign capital company, and thanks to all the money
and material goods that presented me with,

63)
1: "people" (women) started to look at me.
2: slip...
3: I slept with women,
4: fiddled with numbers,
5: and drowned myself in money.
6: ...but...

64)
1: I didn't feel anything...
2: What...
3: is this...?

65)
1: It...
2: looks like the inside of a Porsche...
3: Not just people...
4: now my entire environment's changing...!

66)
1: I really am...
2: hallucinating...

67)
1: That's right...
2: "They" (The women) weren't really looking at "me"...
3: but at my "Porsche" (cars)...

68)
1: at my "presents" (things)...
2: and at my money...
3: They were only look at "my face" (the material)...

69)
1: All they did is look at what they saw in front of their eyes...
2: Not a single "one of them" (person) saw "the real me" (my heart)!
3: Just like before, I..."didn't exist" (was invisible)...

70)
1: Stressed out,
2: I would often
3: come to the ocean and scream out "myself" (my accent),
4: eat "myself" (my semen), which emitted my scent and my temperature,
5: then spray "myself" (the semen) into the faces of the women and defile them.

71)
1: But...
2: there was one time
3: when I saw "humanity" (feelings) beyond the "work" (numbers)...
4: When I happened to meet with someone from a huge corporation I sent under, who
had fallen to the lowly position of taxi driver out in the country...

72)
1: All...
2: I ever intended to do was fiddle the numbers...
3: But I ended up getting a scent of the smells and temperature of the humans on
the other side...

73)
1: And then...
2: people entering government employment agencies...
3: homeless people sleeping on benches...
4: Homeless people gathering around vents...
5: Soon that was all I saw.
6: Among them...
7: I knew, were people from the companies I had destroyed...

74)
1: All I had done thus far was destroy.
2: I hadn't built up or created a single thing...
3: I was a human who could give birth to nothing...

75)
1: Suddenly, I could no longer control the numbers as I used to be able to...
2: And so naturally, I ceased to be a good worker...
3: No matter how much I played around with women,
4: I could no longer enjoy anything, and spent my days lost in thought...

76)
1: Then,
paper: Nanami
2: I invited you over...
3: And...
4: you left the sketch you drew of me...

77)
1: in the trash...

78)
1: That was it...
2: That was when I failed at my job and lost everything.
3: Why did you draw that...?
4-5: I...
6: I wasn't a pitch black, faceless monster, was I...?

79)
1: I was a "pure white cloud," wasn't I...?
2: Nanako!!
3: I know you saw what I was...
4: My "truth" (heart)!
5: Right...?

80)
1: Look at me one more time...
2: at "me." (my heart)

81)
1: Enough with the "look at me" stuff.
2: Look at "the real me" (my heart)...
3: "Just look at me!" That's all you're trying to say with this, isn't it...?
4: How could someone like that
5: see anything in ME?

82)
1: It was the same in that hotel.
2(2b): You told me that huge lie about seeing my "truth" (heart)...
3: But what you really saw was my
4: lips (lie),
5: breasts (lie),
6: legs (lie),
7: waist (lie),
8: and crotch (lie).

83)
1: Everything that comes out of "your mouth" (you) is solely to get ahold of my
body.
2: Words (lie),
3: money (lie),
4: things (lie).
5: In your "sketch" (face)
6: I used to the pen to black out
7: your fake mouth, fake nose, and fake eyes.

84)
1: You became a pitch black, blank face.
2: Your face looked like nothing but a clump of lies.

85)
1: And all you've been doing here
2: is blaming the fact that no one will look at your heart (you) on the outside
(your face)...
3: I'm sick of hearing it.
4: When did YOU ever look at someone's "truth" (heart)?

87)
1: All you ever cared about was young, cute, beautiful girls.
2: Their faces and bodies..
3: Everything "on the outside" (you could see).
4: That's all you looked at.

88)
1: From the beginning, you were looking at nothing but "the outside" (lies).
2: An ugly guy looking at nothing but "the outside" (the material,)
3: asking people to look at his "inside" (heart)...
4: You have no right.

89)
1: You've never even seen a piece of someone's "truth" (heart).

90)
1-2: Y...
3: You're exactly right...

91)
1: No liar like you could ever see my "truth" (heart)!!

92)
1: I...
2: I can...
3: see the "Homunculus" (self)...!!

93)
1: You're still going on about being able to 'see,' at a time like this...?
2: What a liar.
3: You've talked about nothing but yourself.
4: "Look at me, look at me!" On and on...just what part of me do you think you're
seeing?
5: All you can see
6: is my "lie," (face)
7: My "lie" (body)
8: and my "lie" (crotch).

94)
1: B...
2: Believe me!
3: Right now
4: I'm looking at "your heart" (you).

95)
1: I can see it now.

96)
1: Really...?

97)
1: Yeah...

101)
1: Don't look at my "truth" (heart).
2: Let's look at each others' "lies" (bodies).

102)
1: What's wrong, Nanako...?
2: You used to be a girl who could only see the "truth" (heart)!
3: Huh?
4: I was so "lacking" (ugly), yet you looked at my "truth" (heart).
5(2b): Heart...? How could I see something invisible like that?

103)
1: You saw it...
2: I did?
3: Because looking at the "truth" (heart)
4: is one of your "characteristics" (qualities).

104)
1: You aren't a liar!

106)
1: Wh...
2: Who is that...?
3: I...I don't know this face...
4: I've never seen it before...

107)
1: An upward-pointing nose,
2: droopy eyes,
3: ugly teeth...
4: and...
5(2b): is that a mole...on the nose?

108)
1: H...
2: How do you know that?

109)
1: A beard...
2: ...a man...
3: How...
4: can you...
5: see that...?!
6(2b): I...I don't know...I've never even seen it before myself...
7: You're hideous!
8: I...
9: I said...

110)
1: How can you see
2: Satoshi?!

111)
1: Hey!

113)
1: Who was...
2: that guy?
3: It was a Homunculus...
4: I've never experienced nor remember...

115)
1: I started to look down...
2: hiding my face and staring at nothing but my feet as I walked.
3: Like a "noppera-bo" (faceless creature).
4: ...through those empty days...

116)
1: Then,
2: she looked at me...
3: You looked at my "truth" (heart).
4: I took back my face...
5: and gradually brought it up...
6: so that I could look forward again.

117)
1: Look forward...
2: snap...
3: But right after I looked forward,
4: I...
5: snap...

121)
sign: KEEP OUT
1: Over the past two days,
2: even more tents vanished...

122)
1: No open fires inside the park!
2: You know the rules.

123)
1(2b): You're not even allowed to put up a tent here, y'know. That's another rule!
It can't be broken.
2: Got it?

124)
1: People from Tokyo.
2(2b): Oh, Take-san.
3(2b): It's the end of the year...they're getting desperate about clearing out the
park by next year.
4: Are you listening?!
5: No open fires! Put out the fire this instant!!
6: It's a rule! It's a rule!

125)
1: Those sorts...
2: piss me off the most...
3(2b): That high-handed attitude they take...just who do they think they are? Makes
my blood boil...
4: clasp
5-6: pop

126)
1: A beat-up umbrella...

127)
1: Hurry up and get out!
2: Tch.
3: Well,
4: I guess you're only here because you have no place else to go.
5: Ah...

128)
1(2b): A...knife...?
2: Heheh...
3: Oh no...

129)
1: Hey, car guy...

130)
1: Hey
2: you.
3: Hm?
4: What do you want...?
5: There's
6: crow shit on your shoulder.
7: Ahh!!

131)
1: Waaaaaah!
2: Wh...
3: When did that fall there...?
4: Dammit...
5(2b): This place is a gathering zone for injured crows.
6: Shit falls like rain around here.

132)
1(2b): You can't resist what falls from above, can you? You'd better leave before
you ruin your clothes.
2: Waaaah!
3: Dammit...
4: We'll be back!
5: Hurry up and get that out of here!
6: It's a rule!

133)
1: You alright, Ita-chan?
2: Hey, you...
3: Thanks...

134)
1: clasp...
2: A mirror...?
3: He's a mirror?

135)
1: What's this egg thing...?

136)
1: Ah.
2: Yo.

137)
1: Today we have organic vegetables and rice with 16 different sprout grains mixed
in.
2: ...tastes good.
3(2b): Doesn't it? And that hamburger patty's made out of tofu.
4: By the way...
5: That coffee shop "Marimo" your ex used to work at still exists.

138)
1: The owner's still in good health,
2: and he remembers Nanako.
3: She was smart, good at drawing,
4: and used to doodle on the back of receipts.
5: When I asked "Was she cute,"
6: he said, "she was a charming girl," and skirted around the question.

139)
1: He was a man of method, and apparently kept all the resumes of his old
employees.
2: Seems like he'll search for her for us.
3(2b): He said he'd call if he finds her.
4: I see...
5: It was a really run-down place.
6: Like it's been around for a looong time.
7: ...yeah...

140)
1: That's where we met...
2: In my empty days...
3: that continued, even after I came to Tokyo...
4: I kept looking down,
5: doing nothing but reading and studying.
6: I went there a lot.
7(2b): One time, someone spilled coffee on my shoe. It was Nanako.

141)
1: Ohh.
2: As an apology,
3: she gave me new shoes. But I returned them, and that's how we started meeting.
4: Bound together by ugliness!
5: Yesterday, I saw that woman.
6: What?! Again?!
7: ...so,
8: did you do her?
9: No...

142)
1: Then...
2: How did it go?!
3: Was she your ex?
4: I don't know...

143)
1(2b): But...just like you said,
2: the Homunculi are all figments of my imagination.
3: Up ntil now,
4: It had only looked like people were turning into weird "Homunculi" (things)...
5: Yesterday,
6: my car turned into a Porsche.
7: Non-human things started to change...

144)
1: And...
2: All the Homunculi and settings I'm seeing...
3: are people and things connected to me in some way...

145)
1: I knew it.
2: Yeah...
3: The Homunculi are hallucinations.

146)
1: There's just one...
2: "person" (face) that I don't know.
3: Who is that...?
4: It's a face I've never experienced nor remember...
5: Someone I don't know...!

147)
1: I see, I see.
2: You probably just forgot.
3: It's someone that's been locked up deep within your subconscious.
4: Someone connected to something traumatic that you can't consciously recall.
5: It can't be...
6(2b): I really...don't know...that guy...

148)
1: Guy?
2: What kind of a face was it?
3: A pig's nose,
4(2b): droopy eyes, gross teeth...
5: a really ugly guy.
6: Isn't it
7: just your old ugly face?

149)
1: No...
2: You saw my old picture, remember?
3: Yeah,
4: true...
5: But that "picture" (thing),
6: was that really you?
7: Maybe you completely forgot what you looked like...?

150)
1: Maybe your true face
2: is the one that appeared in that Homunculus?!
3: There's no way something you've never experienced could appear as a "Homunculus"
(hallucination)!

151)
1: There's one of her...
2: sugar daddies.
3: Geh.
4(2b): I can't believe she can sleep with such a gross old guy...
5(2b): If her "lie" (body) is shown, then all she can see are "lies" (money)...
6: An eye for an eye...a tooth for a tooth.

152)
1: They're just exchanging lies...
2: She must be pretty up in her years by now.
3: If the "lie" (body) she uses to make her exchanges gets old and withers, then
she won't be able to get any more "lies" (money).
4: Then where will she go...?

153)
1: She'll just have to have someone look at her "truth" (heart).
2: How could a "liar" (bitch) completely submerged in a world of lies like that
3: all of a sudden have someone see her "truth" (heart)?!
4: Who in the hell
5: would be able to see it?

154)
1: Heeey.
2: Car guy!
3: Take-san.
4: Oh.
5: It's the fag from before.
6: I...I'm not a fag...
7: What the...
8: You look even prettier now!
9: E...
10: Excuse me...?!

155)
1: More importantly!
2: Ita-chan's in trouble...
3: Ita-san?
4: Oh yeah...
5: He should be feeding the pigeons over there like he always does,
6: ...but he isn't.
7(2b): Can you come with me for a sec?

157)
1: Ever since he started fighting with the Tokyo people,
2: he's been feeding the crows...
3: They're noisy,
4: and they poop so much.
5: More than anything, they give me the creeps...
6: The other guys have been complaining too...

158)
1: Ita-saaaan!
2: rustle
3: I understand how he feels.
4: The more homeless the government gets rid of,
5: and the more KEEP OUT signs they put up,
6: the more afraid I get..

159)
1: They all have nowhere to go...
2: Where are we supposed to go...?
3: He doesn't want to leave the park...
4: or his tent...
5: or that "egg" (place)...?
6: That place...?

160)
1: Hey.
2: What?
3: If you have a mirror,
4: can you lend it to me?
5: Huh?!
6: A mirror...?
7: Um...
8: Ummm...
9: Well...
10: I do have one...
11: Here...

161)
1: Where
2: will you go...?

162)
1(2b): H-hey...
2: Nakoshi-san...

164)
1: I'm coming in...
2: Ita-san...
3: clasp

165)
1: Ita-san...

168)
1: How about coming out...?
2: I...
3(2b): I can't...leave...
4: the park...

169)
1: Of course not!
2: But you don't need to leave
3: the park or the tent.
4: But how about coming out from "that egg" (yourself)?

170)
1: My...
2: self...?
3: Yes.
4: From that egg.
5: Egg...?
6: You're inside, aren't you?
7: I knew you were in there.

171)
1: Come out.
2: Come...
3: out...?
4: Where am I supposed to go...?
5: Where...?
6: I mean,
7: YOU probably have somewhere to go.
8: You never had the balls to come all the way into the park...
9: You just lived half-assedly in that car of yours.

172)
1: You always had a place to return to...
2: You just came here to play around...
3(2b): I don't have anywhere to go either.
4: Tch!
5: Don't lie to me!
6: I failed at my work and resigned the other day. I have no job.
7: Privately, I lost all the stocks and money I had invested, so my apartment was
taken away. I have no place to live.

173)
1: L...
2: Liar...
3: I'm not lying...
3: I...
4: I also...
5: don't have anywhere to go.
6: Except my car...!

174)
1: You're a really good liar, you know that...
2: What about your friends...
3: ...I don't have any...
4: Right after I lost my job and my money...
5: All the people around me...
6: up'n disappeared.

175)
1: I have no one to count on.
2: What about your family...
3: M...
4: My family...
5: Ah can't go back to 'em!

176)
1: I haven't been back since before I got cosmetic surgery...
2: It's been about 14 years...
3: I've done nothing but send them money. Not a single photo.
4: And even'f ah did go back, my face is all diff'rent,
5: so they woul'nt recognize me anyway.

177)
1: Ah can't
2: go back now!

178)
1(2b): Why are you speaking with an accent...?
2: Huh?
3-4: A...
5: Are you making fun of me?!

179)
1: Y...
2: You've...
3: been making fun of my accent.
4: N...
5: No...
6: Ah'm just talkin'
7(2b): n...normally!

180)
1: D...
2: Don't lie...
3: Ah'm not!
4: A...knife...?
5: You're...holding a knife again...?!

181)
1: H...
2: How do you know...?
3: Why...
4: are you holding a knife...?
5: D...
6: Do you...
7: know...
8: about dat?!
9: An accent...?!

183)
1: What do the "accent"...
2: and the "knife"...
3: hafta do wit each other?!
4: So...
5: you DO know...

184)
1: Blood...
2: Ya (You)...
3: used that...
4: to stab him?!

187)
1: S...
2: Something's there...

188)
1: N...
2: Nothing...

189)
1: split
2: bloob bloob bloob
3: bloob

190)
1-2: split

191)
1: It's just turning inside out...
2: It's still just an egg...
3: slide

192)
1: Oh...
2: So he was inside...
3: the mirror shell surface...!

193)
1: You're...
2: so invisible to yourself
3: that you're in your own mirror...?
4: How many years has it been
5: since you've seen yourself?

194)
1: S...
2: Stop it...
3: When I see my face...
4: I...
5: remember my past!
6: Unless you look back on your past...
7: you won't be able to see your future!

195)
1: I don't need a future...
2(2b): Ah'm gonna stay here forever!
3: Look at yourself!

196)
1: I've...
2: gotten old...

198)
1-4: bloob
5: Come...
6: out...

202)
1: Wh...
2: What the...

203)
1: What's this Homunculus...?!
2: It's like a bunch of mirrors are matched up...
3: an infinite corridor...

205)
1: Ah...
2: It's going in chronological order...
3: You did judo.
4: I see.
5: You've always had a strong body.
6: H...
7: How...

206)
1: You finished middle school,
2: and immediately started on a path to become a chef.
3: H...
4: How do you know this...?!

207)
1: Huh.
2: You got married earlier.
3: Married...
4: You look...
5: really happy...
6: Happy...

209)
1: I'm sure you had a good wife.
2: Yeah...
3: She was the life of the restaurant.
4: The other cooks were jealous of me...
5: She was a good wife...

210)
1: And you were blessed with a good child.
2: A girl?
3: Yeah.
4: She was lovely.
5: She made me serious about my work,
6: and I was excited to come home every day.

211)
1: I was happy...

212)
1: Your wife passed away...

213)
1: J...
2: Just...what...
3: are you looking at...?
4(2b): I don't know either...
5: Are you seeing Michiko's ghost?!
6: Nothing like that.
7: Oh...

214)
1: It was so sudden...
2: Acute pneumonia...
3: It was over so quick...
4: We had her cremated.
5: Her white ashes went dancing straight up into the clouds in the sky.

215)
1: It was like Michiko
2: had become a pure white ghost...
3: I couldn't stop crying...

218)
1: After that...
2: I neglected my daughter,
3: turned to alcohol,
4: and when I got drunk at the bar, I'd get violent...
5: My daughter often went to the police station to pick me up.
6: I caused her a lot of pain.

219)
1: One day,
2: I went into the kitchen drunk...
3: got into an argument with an employee.
4: Before I knew it, I started speaking in my old accent.
5: He made fun of me for it...
6: So I stabbed his right arm...
7(2b): I didn't take his life, but because of the place where I stabbed him, he
became unable to use his right hand...

220)
1: I got a year of time...
2(2b): The only one waiting for me when I got out
3: was my daughter...
4(2b): Even though I wanted to go back to being a chef, I was too afraid to hold a
knife again...
5: When I picked one up, I started to shiver...
6: I had no job, so I just started drinking again and accumulating debt...
7: Nothing mattered to me anymore...

221)
1: And...
2: then...
3: Oh yeah...
4: I escaped here...
5: with nothing but a knife in my pocket,
6: so that I could die at any time...
7: ...then...
8: my daughter...

222)
1: You left your daughter?!

223)
1: Y...
2: You abandoned her?!
3-4: Uhh...
5(3b): YOU!

224)
1: Your daughter was the only one who looked at you...
2(2b):and you abandoned her, you!
3: Uhhh...
4: You weren't looking at anything in the present...
5: you were just staring at the clouds, searching for a way out...

225)
1: Uhh...
2: Why did I abandon her...?
3: She always had her eyes on you...

226)
1: Why did you abandon her...
2: H...
3: Hey, car guy...

227)
1: ...Nanako...
2: Did you also...

229)
1: It's your fault.

230)
1: I didn't look at "the heart" (you) in front of me...
2: My eyes were blinded by the "lies" (material) beyond...
3: I abandoned "the heart" (you)...

231)
1(2b): I purposefully ran right into
2: a world of lies...
3: You have no place
4: to return to...!

232)
1: She was always so excited to eat the christmas cake
2: every year...
3: It was right before Christmas Eve...
4: when I ran away...

233)
1: This Christmas...
2: how about eating a cake with her...?
3: You have somewhere to return to...!

236)
1: Yikes!
2: Wahh!

237)
1: Snow...

238)
1: Ugh...
2: Ugggh...
3: Car guy...

239)
1: It isn't just "machinery" (the car) for you...
2: You have the power to feel 'humans' too...?
3: 'Humans' and 'machines'
4: are completely different.

240)
1: Nakoshi-san.
2: Car guy!
3: We heard the entire thing from out here.
4: Just what...
5: Nakoshi-san...
6: "What"
7: did you see?!

241)
1(2b): Ahh, Nakoshi-san.
2: Nakoshi-san!

243)
1: rustle

244)
1: Where should I go now...
2: Where...

245)
1: ...where...