Yao Tsukumo 10

Yao Tsukumo 10 (Final)

p1:
Box: Ever since my body became immortal, / neither my hair nor my nails have grown longer.

Box: No matter how far I run, / I can always run a mile more.

Box: This place is cold.
Dark….

Box: And the light

Box: is beyond my reach.

p2:
Yao Tsukumo: Final Chapter: Yao and Tsukumo
[inset vertical]: Before the impetuous deity, one begins to despair.
[inset horizontal]: The modern fantasy reaches its moving climax!

p3:
Yao: I’m not… / immortal?

Tachibana: I shall reward you for your eight hundred years of labor.

Tachibana: Choose / your weapon,

Tachibana: your battle,

p4:
Tachibana: and your death!!!

Yao: Gah—ugh. / My wounds aren’t healing…

Yao: I’m really… / human….

Now rest, child.

p5:
------!!!!

Tsukumo: Stop! / That’s enough! / Don’t hurt Yao!!!

Tachibana: This is what the child desired. / Did he not ask for this?

Tachibana: For his sins to be forgiven? / Well?

p6:
Yao: I thought my immortality a punishment / for my failure to protect Murasaki.

Yao: Can I stop running now…?

Yao: Can I go to meet Murasaki now…?

Tachibana: Then, child,

p7:
Tsukumo: Eek!

Tachibana: you are just a brat who lacks the power to save anyone.

Tsukumo: Yah!

Yao: Tsuku…

p8:

Yao: Ahh… / I’m…

p9:
Tsukumo: Ya… / Yao?

p10:
Yao: This is…

p11:
Yao: Ah… / I’m finally…

Yao: Murasa…

p12:
Murasaki: Ya—

Yao: Don’t say it!!

Yao: …Don’t say it… / Don’t turn around… / Please…

p13:
Yao: I can’t join you / on the other side. Not yet.

Yao: But if I see your face now, / if I hear your voice…

Yao: I’m too weak. / I’d never be able to make it back to the real world.

p14:
Yao: There’s someone there now, crying.

Yao: She’s a softhearted idiot, / and reckless,

Yao: but, / she’s… / compared to me,

She’s so strong.

p15:
Yao: I want to protect her.

But I’ll always be heading towards you, Murasaki. / I’ll grow stronger, and this time I’ll protect you. / So…

p16:
Yao: That / is

Yao: why

Yao: I

Yao: can’t die yet!!!

Tsukumo: Yao!

p17:
Tachibana: Why? / Why can you move?!

Tachibana: Ugh.

Yao: I won’t let anyone

p18:
Yao: Ever cry again!!!!

p19:
Tachibana: Yao!

------!!!

Hah / Ha

Yao: ….Tusku….Mo. / Make… / Make me immortal. / You can… / do it.

Tachibana: What are you saying?! / Don’t worry about me—
Yao: What about you?

p20:
Yao: What do you / really / want to do?

Tsukumo: I want to protect you.

I understand, now, / why Murasaki made Yao immortal.

p21:
Tsukumo: Oh ye myriad gentle gods who dwell within this mortal realm. / Grant onto this one, onto Yao,

Tsukumo: all the protection / you have to give.

p22:
!!!

p23:
Yao: Oh pure water which courses through this mortal realm,

Tsukumo: we beg thee listen to our call.

Tachibana: You, too? Why do you take the path of thorns?! / There is no pain in the eternal realm, Tokijiku!!

Tsukumo: We’ll share our pain / and turn it into strength.

p24:
We name thee Water Mirror.

p25:
Cry forth!!

Tachibana: Ah… I see. / So you, too, Tokijiku…

p26:
Tachibana: Tokijiku, / why do you cry? / Why won’t you laugh?

Tachibana: This, the Eternal Realm, is the land you sought. / There is no cold, no hunger; it is a land of beauty.

Tachibana: Do you wish to return to your village? / Then let us go home.

p27:
Tachibana: What did I lack? / Your body and soul are mine.

Tachibana: I will not give up. / Do not forget that.

Tachibana: You will love me, / Tokijiku.

p28:
Our footing is--!

Eeeeek!

p29:
Tsukumo: Yao, / are you all right?
Yao: Ugh…

Yao: You idiot. / I’m immortal. / There’s no need to worry about every little thing.

Tsukumo: I’m sorry, Yao. / It’s all… my fault, huh…

p30:
Yao: Shut up. / Be quiet. / You’re too noisy.

Tsukumo: Yeah.

p31:
Yao: Hah / Hah
Box: Not yet.

Box: I must walk / this dark, cold road / a little longer.

p32:
Aria (?): Are you going to walk off alone again, / looking like you’re about to cry?

Aria (?): It’s warmer / like this.

Tsukumo: Right?

p33:
Wah!

Yao: Ahh, / Tuskumo.

p34-35:
Yao: I promise… we’ll become human again, together.

Yao: That’s why, until then, / I’ll protect you, Tsukumo.

Tsukumo: Then, / I’ll protect you, Yao.

p36:
They walk each other’s path, together.
side: To the same future
bottom: Fin