Freesia 82

Freesia, last chapter. Go to the previous one for a link to the scanlated version.

This is (also) a Gantz Waiting Room release, obviously.

Okay, now I need a shrink and I need him about right now!
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Last Chapter: Final Reckoning.

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=Kano-san.
=Good./We got him.
=Why... How did it come to this?/What the hell have I been doing.........?

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=What did I live for?/What was the point of my life?
=That sucked hard. This isn't like you.//If you're looking for your gun, it's fallen at your feet. Quickly, pick it up.

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=This gun is a harbinger of your ruin./Cause it's a precious gadget to you.//What's the hold up?/It's not even a contest if you don't camouflage.
=Camouflage? What's that?
=Careful./He's still moving.
=Just as I predicted./I told you you'd meet the same end as me, did I not?

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=Not quite. This is the result of a choice I made of my own free will.
=Bullshit./You're just waxing poetics to justify your own failure.//You're having conversations with friends that aren't even there. That's proof enough./Keeping up this ridiculous farce won't achieve anything.

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=That's what I told you the last time.//The important thing is not what you accomplish. But how you go about accomplishing it./That's the very definition of "life".
=I am progressing. I am nothing like you guys........//Higuchi-san picked that definition by mistake,/and you, from the beginning to the end, you were never alive.
=How are we so different, you and I?
=We aren't looking in the same direction./You only see what you want to see, and for that reason I can see things that are forever invisible to you.

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=And while we're at it, the fact that I'm speaking to you is another manifestation of my free will.
=What?
=I need your help if I am to get out of this mess./That's why I called you.
=Sometimes in life you've got to be a sneaky bastard./You can't go about caring only about other people's feelings.
=People need to put some distance between one another.

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=Uh-huh... You would utilize me........//Maybe you did change. You wouldn't have pulled something that crafty before./What didn't change is that what you're doing amounts to little more than embodying your own crazy little world.//Simply put, no matter how you struggle, your destination is already set in stone./If I can get to see the traitor's demise, I'm not very specific about the particulars.//I told you I'd cooperate. Come on, show it to me./Let's see your annihilation esthetics schtick at work...
=You're a bit off about that too.

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=I do a job/so I can live.

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=So what do you think?
=Yeah............ Not bad.//How about starting a florist's shop here?
=Make up your mind already, YO-KO.

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Message: Let me have a good look on my own.
=Alright. I'll be at the open café over there...[tn: A café that's at least partly installed outdoors.]//Yeah, I get it./I'll be back for tonight's meeting... Sure.

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=It's fine. There are like 3 guys on security...//Dang./Kusaka-kun can be such a worrywart.*flick*
=I survived that bombing completely unharmed./So I'm not gonna die so easily.//Come to think of it.../this guy was alive too.......

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=Though he's the one who's got to run from place to place, this time./Times have changed.//Those who accommodate the flow of time and make it their allies/are the ones who fill best the "fittest" part in "survival of the fittest".//But it's about time to stop fooling around playing politics./Standing out too much is unhealthy.//My brother should do fine without me when I quit the public scene.
=Can you open this for me, mom?
=Give me a minute.
=If only I could start a family with YO-KO and live a quiet life.../I'd be perfectly happy with that.

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=So why have I been putting up the tough guy act?/It's not like challenging my bro and my dad would have achieved anything.//Ah yeah.../The wristband, eh.........?
*snip*

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=You can have it if you want./It's just a cheap trinket some random girl made for me.[tn: I assume it was made for him, or else he wouldn't be wearing it.]//My mother tossed the keepsake into the sea./Right along with you.//I killed the girl over that bracelet I couldn't care less about.
=Eh?
=I didn't make that up.//There's no way I'll be forgiven for that./That's why you're free to sentence me to death, if you need to. You wanna kill me? Feel free. Come and do it./People can't help having these urges. It's instinct.

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=Don't forget, though.//I stand at the top of the food chain./And the question is, whether you zebras can manage it or not.//If anyone gets in the way of me and YO-KO, I'll wipe them out, I swear. I have the power to do so./I find no meaning in a bunch of laws and moral standards that keep changing all the time. Anyone would do the same, if they had the power.//It''s part of humanity's instinctual impulses. There's no way around it.
=Le... Let's go./Here. Put on your scarf.
=Uh? But I haven't finished my juice, mom...
=...
=Come on, hurry up.

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=Where are you going?/You don't want the wristband...?//Hey...//What the hell? These guys were weird.[tn: LAWL!! :hahaha:]

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=What is YO-KO doing? She's sure taking her time.//Hey guys./You go check it out.

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=Uh? Where'd the security folks go to?
*snap*

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=Hey man.../Will you ever stop?

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=The conversation subject doesn't matter./Small talk is fine.//War, religious conflicts, the truth about the universe, the end of the world........ I have no real opinion about such grand issues.//Because I can't see any direct connection between those things and my own humble existence./Talking to you, on the contrary, does make sense to me.

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=!
=My life is merely occupying a small corner of the space and time in the world. When you look at the big picture my existence is no big deal at all.//Those in there who share the same time and space as you don't amount to much either./We're limited........//I can touch you, and therefore confirm that you exist.//Which in turn means you are the proof, and the very foundation of my existence.//Communicating with you connects me with the rest of the world./And as you discuss with me, you get connected too. You understand?

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=And that's why/I wanna talk to you.
Freesia. THE END.[/end