Galaxy Express 999 34

GE999 ch34


p5
The tolling bell is always carrying sadness in the heart of those who hear it. The one resounding in the silence of a town covered by a thick fog is snatching an endless flow of tears to men...
34th stop
The Funerals of the Misty Planet


p6-7
Tetsurou... Please forgive me to wake you up, but before we arrive to our next stop, I'd like you to put this coat on.
Where are we landing this time? It looks like a funeral suits. It's not really cheerful!


p8
Next stop: the funerals planet...
It will last 3 hours and 40 minutes...

We won't be around there for long!!!

You shouldn't underestimate this planet.

I wasn't expecting that it would be of such a beautiful blue!!


p9
What a thich fog, you can't see anything.
It fits perfectly the feeling that is grasping us.

But what's this smell?
It's incense.


p10-11
[nada]


p12
How rude!!!

They have no respect for the souls of the deads!!

Go to hell!!!
Go to hell!!!


p13
Those damn blasphemer tourists!!!

We'll be the ones to send them to hell!!


p14
It really smells like incense and candles!!!

You shouldn't laught at it...
Lower your head and walk!!!
I would've prefered to stay in the train.

It can't be helped. We have to get our stamp from the travelling office ourselves.

Don't forget to cast your eyes down whenever you meet people in single file...


p15
Speaking of the devil...

My sincere condoleances...

...


p16
They were really quiet.
Don't look behind you!

What's going on, Maetel?
Hurry up and run away behind that building!!


p17
What the hell are they doing?
They want to kill us!

Why?
To prepare funerals!!!

But why the hell?!


p18
Are they dead?
Not yet!!!


p19
But it won't prevent us from burrying them.
Indeed. And it will be a truly wonderful ceremony!

Look at them. A young boy...
and a really beautiful woman...

We've never witnessed such a sad burial!!!
How sad, I can't stop shedding tears.

Now, ring the tolling bell out!

May the souls of the deads find their way to the lord...


p20
[nada]


p21
...

Maetel, where are we?

Am I locked in a box?

But...

It's a coffin!!!

Waaah!! Let me out!!!
I'm not dead!!!


p22
May this young life and this pretty flower rest in peace!


p23
O lord, thou who watch over each and every thing in this universe, please give these two souls eternal rest and welcome them in your benevolent arms.
Please grant them the absolute peace and eternal life. Amen.


p24-25
Let's strike up a farewell song in memory of those two souls!!
Let's follow the sound of the bells to this lament in tribute to immortal souls.
song: May our pure tears be the witness of fleeting life in the time of men.


p26
Hmm...
Hmmmm...

Hey!!!

They buried me alive.

They were dead serious...

How long will I have air?

And Maetel? What happened to her?


p27
Arg! My throat is starting to burn!

And I'm about to lose consciousness... This is the end!

It hurts. I'm buried alive without knowing why...

And I won't be able to keep the promise I did to my mom.
Shoot...

...


p28
Come on!! May the next funerals start!!!!


p29
[nada]


p30
Are you awaken, Tetsurou?

Maetel!!!
It was really close!

How did we get out?
You'll understand someday.

This bell again...

There is another funeral...
Huh? There are so many funerals on this planet?


p31
Yes. Here, burials are coming one after another.
But people don't die on such regular pace, right?

They're murdered!!!

Murdered?

You see, without dead, you can't celebrate funerals.
But!!!

You mean that the people on this planet are enjoying funerals?!

That's right... What they like the most is the sadness of these ceremonies...

and in order to enjoy sadness...
they murder people...
Weird hobby!!


p32
More of them.
We're forced to take another way to get back to the train.

What are we gonna do?
Take this!

I don't want to be buried another time.


p33
Sorry... sorry... sorry...


p34
[nada]


p35
We got them!
Thanks to our low energy weapons, they've just lost consciousness... and they will wake up soon.


p36
We need to get away then!
It's alright, we can take our time.

More burials are about to start.
How do you know that?

I'm talking about these persons.
But they've just lost consciousness, right?

It doesn't matter. On this planet, as long as you can't move anymore, you can be buried...
Even by burying people alive, they can feel a great sadness...

Listen to these tolling bell ringing.
...


p37
And the undertakers are coming in great number!!


p38
[nada]


p39
[nada]


p40
Who would thought that people could enjoy burying people?

When I'll die, I don't want any ceremony. I'd just want you to never forget me and that you'd think about me from time to time...

This is the first time Maetel is talking about her own death...
I've never seen her so sad...

Maetel seemed really pensive. Tetsurou thought then that she had a thought for all the people she had met and that were dead. He also wondered how they've managed to escape death. But decided not to ponder too much about it...