Double Arts 16

...kind of interesting to me in reading this chapter, it made me think of more than a few people i know who've passed away very recently from illness. And what a good point it raises, are we really spending our lives in a way that has lasting value? ...

edit: page 12 missing part corrected.
01
-Two days before the Falzen troops were to arrive
bold vert: A lone Sister / meets the two...
-Heine?
box: The sky
box: was pouring
white at bottom: Look for the blue and white cover! Volume one, along with the debut work "island," hits stores 8/4 (mon)!!

bold at top of this panel: "DOUBLE ARTS"
-Yeah
-yesterday we met that sister
-She was pretty interesting
-I agree, she was an incredible person!

-Sister...Heine...
-If I'm not mistaken...she's the one...

-what...?

02
bubble top: today will be
bubble left: her "final assignment," i believe...
bold vert: and now they come to know / what's in store for her...
long box right: "about the story"
While Kiri and Elle are on standby in the city of Deodorad, they come across Sister Heine, who's quite cheerful despite her weighty responsibility. But then, she learns that she's likely to vanish after one more treatment...what will become of her!?

CHAPTER 16 - "The life story of Sister Heine" (t/n - thinking about it, we had her introduced and backstory last chapter, so, this seems more fitting to me [inserting the "life"] because it makes it sound more like, well, her last chapter)
Komi Naoshi

03
-Hey, Sister Chris...
-hm?
-Y'know today,
-I met Sister Elraine...

-She was like, as amazing as I thought
-I wish I could've become like her

-Y'know, I think it's like totally fate that she met that Kiri guy!!
-I'm sure that he's, like, the one who'll save everyone from Troi!!

-Heine...

-You know, there's still
-another job waiting for you...

04
-The only available Sister in the area is you right now
-And yes, it's possible
-that this assignment may be your last...

-Heine...won't you think this over?
-You can always retire, like we have...
-Why not provide support to traveling Sisters like I do?

-...we've had this conversation, like, a thousand times...
-I intend, 'till the very end...
-to offer treatments as a traveling Sister...

-So...yeah! I gotta get going, 'cause I don't ever want to arrive late again!
-So, uh...
-HEINE!!

-(sniff at top) Forgive me...

05
-Chris...

-thanks...

-Thanks for pickin' me up that day...
-I'll always be grateful to you for that!

-Gotta run...

06
-...that conversation was about 20 minutes ago...
-Are you really going to try to save her?

-I hope you understand
-what exactly that means for you two...?
-Haa...
-Can you keep going?
-...yes!

-...I know she's doing it because she's proud to be a Sister and all...
-but she doesn't have to force herself to work on the verge of death!

07
-Didn't she say that she wanted to be an artist?

-When she was talking about it,
-she had the biggest sparkles in her eyes
-Almost as if...she was still pursuing that dream even now

-Even though there's things left that she wants to do--!!
-Why sacrifice her precious dream and her life...
-just for her work? It's ridiculous!!

-Geez! What's with you Sisters!!
small - i don't get 'em one bit!
-Hey, don't you have anything to say about this?
-hu-huh??
-W-who knows...I have no idea
small - not even the slightest!

08
-...anyway, I just can't let this slide
-I'm going to save her!

-Tell me
-What do you plan on doing after you've saved her?
-It's just like Martha said
-You really think you can make it to their headquarters with a lady in each hand?

-How many hundreds of people do you plan on dragging along?
-Do you intend on saving every single person you come across in the future?

-...He's right...
-It's just plain impractical...
-But that doesn't mean--

09
-Please! I'll have plenty of opportunities to think about that later!
-If she dies, we won't have any options to work with, right?

-C'mon, let's go!
-We have to hurry!

-...yeah
-what he said is right...

-Kiri-san, I...
-think I've got an idea

-to save Heine-san

10
-And I think it's the best way...

-...hm~
-This day...
-has finally come...
(t/n - even though the font looks the same, now we're reading heine's thoughts)

-It'll be all right
-I don't have any regrets
bubbles:
-Ah!! It's the Sister!
-We've been waiting for you!
-Please, come in!

-I probably have like no right to say this,
-But I always wanted to be a praiseworthy Sister

-When I decided to dedicate myself to this work...
-I prepared myself for what it meant to walk this path

11
-So I don't have a single regret, Chris

-Today, the stage is all mine!
-So watch as I give my best performance...

-This is like, probably...

-The last treatment I'll give...

-So...

-What will it be...?

12
-GA
-GAHO
-GEHO
top left: It's here...

-The seizure came after all...
-COUGH
-COUGH
-s-sister!!
-W-what's wrong...!?
-COUGH

-Gngh!! I've seen this happen to like tons of people, but...
-It's like way more excruciating than I thought!

-I've got to hold it back!
-This is the hard part--!!
-I don't want to die in an embarrassing way! I've gotta be an admirable Sister to the end!

-Just endure...
-a little longer...!

13
-The feelings I was supposed to have suppressed...

-No...
-My real feelings that I never once noticed...

-Now...
-Now of all times--!!

-I'm beginning to notice!!

14
-I'M SCARED
-I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!

-No!! You can't die!!
-Death is too much to take!!

-Someone...
-somebody please help me!!
-I can't...
-I can't breathe!!
bubbles all "haa"

-I don't want to die!!
-I...
-I haven't yet...!
-Mommy!!

15
-Wow, you painted an amazing picture again!
-As I'd expect from the future's best upcoming painter!

-Heine!

-Wow!!
-What's that!? Did you make it!?

-INCREDIBLE!!
-You had a talent like that all along!?
-Woah...I also paint, but this is a bit...how do you say...
-Amazing Heine!!
(last bubble i left out was heine's) - Oh no, I'm not talented at all...

-You could totally be a painter in the future!
no bubble left: yeah, for real!
no bubble top: It's so good!!

-...don't blame yourself, Heine
-If you don't make it on time, take comfort
-because it happens to everyone at least once

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-No, Chris...
-I've already decided
-I've thrown away, like, everything...my paints, my canvas...
-I don't wanna let anyone go through that painful experience
-I'm gonna live from here on thinking totally about the work I've got to do

-Until the very end.../as a Sister...

-Oh yeah...that's right, I like threw away everything, even all the pictures I painted!!
-That means I'm really gonna disappear!
-There won't be anything left of me!
lower right: That "aspiring painter Heine" won't be remembered by anyone!!

top right, then going clockwise:
-I don't want this!!
-Even though I painted so much...
-I still--!!
-There's still so much I want to paint!!

-I still want to live!!
-PLEASE, SOMEONE...ANYONE...SAVE ME!!
-SAVE ME!!!!

17
-Heine-san!!

-Sister--!!
-Elraine...!?

-YOUR HAND, NOW!!!

18-19
bold: She takes firm hold / of his saving hand!

CHAPTER 16/END