To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts 1

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Text: A hard-boiled fantasy // New series

Girl: It's unfair...

Girl: Even though the war has long ended... // Even though we are supposed to be at peace...

Vertical text: A lone girl carrying a gun on her back, walking over a road lined with rotten corpses.
Overlooking a small village that harbors a secret no one is allowed to know.

Girl: ...dad, // give me strength......!

Title: katsute KAMI datta KEMONO tachi e // to the abandoned Sacred Beasts

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Red vertical text: Forgive or Kill?
Black vertical text: A NEW SERIES about LOVE, VIOLENCE and SORROW.

Title: katsute KAMI datta KEMONO tachi he // to the abandoned Sacred Beasts // [Chapter 1 Beast Hunter]

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Box: "Pseudo-god soldiers." // A civil war divided the country in North and South for a long period of time. // Outnumbered, the North used forbidden arts to create strange-looking soldiers. // In exchange for their human appearance, they gained power equal to a god. // With that power, they ended the war and ushered the country into peace------

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Girl: DAD!

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Girl: Welcome.........home...

Box: ---but // those godly powers are far too great for a human to bear. // The people came to fear their power for it corrupts the hearts. // After the Civil War ended... // the soldiers who were once worshiped as gods // are now treated as mere "beasts".

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Men: ...but Danny is doing a great job. // Yeah... // Thanks to him, we can take it easy.

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Girl: ............

Man: Hey, miss... // You are not from here, are you? // What business do you have in these parts?
Girl: ............

Man: ......hm?

Man: Wait...? // That is...

Girl: !

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Girl: Found him!!

Girl: The man wearing a... // hooded white coat..!

Girl: You will pay for murdering my dad...!!
Man: ...wha?

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Man: Gah...

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Girl: Haa // Haa

Girl: Haa... // Haa...

Girl: Did I get him...!?

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Man: Aaw... // There goes my precious nap...

Girl: !?

Man: !!

Man: You can't just do such things... // You'll frighten everyone.

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Girl: How... why!?

Man: Well... I'm sorry. // Didn't mean to disturb you all...

Man: Run!
Girl: What!?

Men: The guy who was shot... // ran off... while carrying the shooter!?

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Girl: The bullet... it did hit you, right!?

Man: Really, you......what person // would fire a gun in front of so many people...?

Girl: ......the bullet, // it did his you, right!?

Man: ...hm? // Yeah...

Man: Only the first one though.
Girl: !!

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Girl: A steel plate...!? // There's no way that's why he...

Man: An "Elephant gun", huh...? // You know... that's not something you should be pointing at humans.

Girl: This is... a keepsake from my father!

Man: ......!
Girl: Don't tell me you forgot...!

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Girl: You are the "beast hunter" who killed... // my father, a pseudo-god soldier!

Girl: I am Nancy Char Bancroft! // The daughter of pseudo-god soldier John William Bancroft!

Man: ......! I see... // You are his...

Nancy: I came all the way here... pursuing you // who killed my father and then ran!

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Man.........

Men: Hey! Danny is back!

Man: ...I didn't run away. // I left to see HIM.

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Men: Danny! // How was work over there?

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Dany: I was able to get a lot this time. // If we sell these, our village will soon be flourishing again.

Men: Wow, amazing! These are excellent pearls! // Danny, good job!

Woman: ...after they finished the new main road, this place became desolate. // Yet, you went to fight a war for us anyway... // And even now you're back, you still travel far to provide for us...

Woman: Although... you physically changed, // you are still the same sweet boy you used to be. // Thank you, Danny.

Danny: I'd do anything... // for my family.

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Nancy: ............

Man: ...that pseudo-god soldier was born in this town.
Nancy: !

Nancy: You... // Are you planning to...!?

Man: You are already out of bullets. // You used all of them earlier.

Nancy: AAH!?

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Man: Hey, Danny! // You are doing quite well nowadays, huh?

Man: What kind of job do you have? // Tell me.
Danny: .........

Men: What do you want...? // A stranger!?
Man: Lately... on the new main road, // there have been numerous incidents of loaded carriages being attacked...

Man: Danny, // that's your doing, right?
Danny: !!

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Danny: Who... // ...are you?

Nancy: ...hold on!

Nancy: ......you intend to kill him too, don't you...!? // Just like how you killed my dad!

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Man: Are you protecting him? // He is a murderer.

Nancy: ...even so! // When he dies... there will still be people who are sad...!

Nancy: ...moreover, // he is one of the heroes who saved this country! // There is no way he would kill without reason...!

Nancy: Huh...

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Danny: Please forgive me... // If I don't kill... anyone who knows the truth, // I won't be able to stay here...

Danny: !?

Man: ...you've become // pretty selfish, haven't you?

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Danny: !?

Danny: You are...... // Captain!? // How... I thought you were dead!?

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Nancy: ......eh...?

Nancy: You are... A "beast hunter" is... // the captain... of the pseudo-god unit!?

Captain: Danny,... do you remember // the promise we made?

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Captain: Those who have lost their heart--- // will be killed by their own friends.

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Danny: I... // became like this for the sake of everyone...

Danny: That's why... // I would do anything to be accepted... // Even kill!!

Danny: This village is already // the only place where I belong...!!

Danny: WOOOOOOO!!

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Captain: ...look! // This is his true form.

Canptain: Pseudo-god soldier "Spriggan". // He can swell to enormous size.

T/N: Spriggans are legendary creatures know from Cornish fairy lore. They are depicted as grotesquely ugly, generally acting as fairy bodyguards. They are also said to be busy thieves and have the ability to swell to enormous size.

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Danny: Call me a beast, if you want... // but I will use this power... to live!

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Captain: Daniel "Spriggan" Price,

Captain: you were once a kindhearted man...

Danny: My village is so poor, there isn't even enough coffee for everyone. // But their lives will become a little easier when I'm out fighting.

Danny: ...that thought makes me happy.

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Danny: AAAAAAAA!!!

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Danny: Captain......

Danny: How... should I have lived my life...? // After all... should I never have returned alive?

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Danny: At the battlefield... // In that hell... // I took this body to survive... // I killed... to survive!

Danny: Friends and foes alike... everyone... everyone, // for peace... for their family, they died...

Danny: Then... // The war... ended, and I could finally break out of that hell... // But even though I survived... for their sake.

Danny: Waiting for me were // their cold eyes... // calling me a murderer... // calling me a Beast.

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Danny: Captain... please tell me. // Should I...... // Should we...

Danny: At that battlefield // Should we have died as "gods"... as heroes?

Captain: Danny......

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Captain: I'm sorry.

Woman: Aah... Danny...

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Woman: !

Captain: This is the reward the new government and the army put on Danny's head. // It'll the ticket for you all to leave this city.

Captain: Thank you for looking after Danny // all this time.

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Nancy: So this is how... you killed my father? // Even though all he wished for............ was to live.
Captain: That is the promise... // of our unit.

Nancy: Why...? // The war is already over...

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Captain: ...it's not over. // ......none of it is.

Captain : We... // couldn't end it.

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Nancy: .........!

Nancy: Your hair... color...
Captain: ...hm? Yeah...

Captain: I am also a pseudo-god soldier. // I am... their "captain" after all.

Nancy: I don't... understand. // Why make a promise... to kill your former friends...?

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Captain: ...in that case, won't you come along?

Captain: You are Will's... // a pseudo-god soldier's daughter.

Captain: Come and see for yourself whether or not your father

Captain: deserved to be killed by this "beast hunter".

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Captain: ...my name is Hank.

Nancy: I am... Char!

Nancy: ...ah! Hold on, I forgot my things at the bar... //......hold on! Wait a moment, Hank-san...! // I will shoot you!? // Eeh...

Text: Is it a sin to live? This is the start of the journey of a man and a young women that'll be filled with sorrow, violence and love.