Enigma 26

[Enigma 26 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Sumio: Wha... What's this...?
There's something here...?
SFX: ZUZU...
A man's....
shoes...?
Title: әnígmә
e26. Scar
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Lower Right Insert: Sumio and the others, exhausted, wander the infinite corridor... what are these shoes they found!?
Sumio: ...What?
Why's something like this...?
Narration: "It seems he was a big man, but---" Haiba Sumio racked his brains trying to figure it out but,
the long period of being lost in the maze had brought his mental capacity and physical stamina to their limits----
Author: Sakaki Kenji

Page 2:
Sudou: Guh...
SFX: ZUKIH
Sumio: Ta... Takemaru-san...?
Sudou: Shut up... Don't touch me-----
SFX: KORO...
SFX: PATAH
Sudou: ...Wha...?
SFX: FWA...

Page 3:
SFX: KOTSUN... KOTSUN...
Sumio: Th... The shoes...
started moving...!?
They're moving all by themselves...
...and on top of that, they're walking backwards...?
SFX: KOH KOH
Sumio: ...This isn't you, Hiina-san, right...!?
Hiina: no...

Page 4:
SFX: GOH GOHH
Sumio: ...Wh-Why'd they do that...?
They moved in that weird way over to in front of that door...?
...Do they want us to go this way?
Could this be the...?
Ah...!
...So they just couldn't keep moving with it closed...?
Hiina: Those shoes... it looks like all they can do is move and walk, doesn't it...?
Sumio: What on earth is this phenomenon...?
Where're those shoes going...?
Sudou: Hey... Do you think it's safe to follow these things...?
Hiina: Haiba-san...

Page 5:
Sumio: ...Well, I can't say for sure that the place those shoes are going will be a safe place...
But we've all already pushed our stamina past our limits... It's better than just wandering around here...!
SFX: KOTSUN KOTSUN
Sumio: Let's keep up with them...!!
To wherever those shoes are going...!!
SFX: DAH
Narration: ---Choosing to rely on this phenomenon, the three people pressed forward with their heavy legs.
At any rate, in this maze where the same things repeated over and over, this was the first time something had changed...!
With a glimmer of hope, the beaten and battered three were cheered up.
With their eyes on the goal that held the password...!
Hiina: ----Say, they've been going for a really long time now, haven't they...?
Sumio: Yeah... From how things have gone up until now, we'd have been back at the entrance before long, but... Maybe these arel---
SFX: FURAH
Sumio: Walking on................
the right route...!?
SFX: DORO...

Page 6:
SFX: PITA...
SFX: DOSA DOSAH
Sumio: .....!?
Wh... What happened, hey...!?
What the...? Why'd they suddenly sto---
SFX: DOSAH
...............Takemaru-san!?
Hiina: What...? Are you all right?
Sumio: ----This looks bad, he's bleeding...!!

Page 7:
Sumio: ...It looks like he has a wound on his back somehow.
Hiina-san, give me a hand...!
SFX: BASAH
Sumio: ...!!
This...!?
SFX: BASA BASAH
Sumio: It's not... a burn...
it's the mark of his skin... being cut with some sort of blade...!?
It's an old wound, but...
there's blood coming out of it...?

Page 8:
Guy: "You shitty brat..."
"What's with that look!!?"
SFX: BAH
Sumio: Eh...
SFX: GASHIH
Sudou: You bastard, how dare you...!!
How dare you look!!
SFX: DONN

Page 9:
Sudou: You want me to fucking kill you!!?
Sumio: GUH...!?
SFX: GUGUH...
Hiina: P... Please stop, Sudou-san!!
What's wrong with you...!? He just thought you were injured----
Sudou: ...Shut the hell up!! I didn't ask for anybody's help!!
SFX: BAH
Sudou: It's just a scar! And once in a while some blood oozes out of it!!
It's not something for you guys to be butting in about!!
You guys should just--------
..........
SFX: DOKU DOKU...
Sumio: Ta...
Takemaru-san...!?

Page 10:
Sumio: The skin is...
peeling...!?
SFX: ZUZUZUZU
Sudou: ...Wha...!?
SFX: BERON...
SFX: PARI PARI PARI
Sumio: It... It's flying...?
SFX: Fuwa... fuwa...

Page 11:
SFX: Fuwa... Fuwa... (drifting)
SFX: Petah...
Sumio: Wha...
What is this...!?
Shoes: Hour [Upper Right label]
Min. [Lower Right]
Month [Upper left]
Day [Lower left]
SFX: ZUZU...
SFX: GACHIH Gyuru Gyuru
Sumio: ................The numbers on the counter...
are turning back...!?
Ah...!!
SFX: KOTSUN KOTSUN

Page 12:
Sumio: The... the shoes are moving again...!!
Now what's going on...!?
----That mark... Those numbers turning back...
...could it be...!?
Rewinding---
So by "turning back", it means... The way these shoes are moving...
they're a reverse playback of when someone was wearing them and walking in them...!?
Hiina: Eh...?
...Reverse playback!?
Sumio: Yeah...!
That's why they've been progressing backwards!
So in other words, these shoes----
are returning to the place where their owner put them on, aren't they!?

Page 13:
Sumio: Takemaru-san...
This is your ability... isn't it?
Sudou: .............
Sumio: Your scar peels off and attaches to something----
and rewinds the object's movements!!
Sudou: Wha...!?
Sumio: That would also explain the door appearing in the old school building!
Your "scar" attached itself to the newly completed wall and rewound it---
returning it to how it was before that wall was made, causing the face of an older door appear!
...I've been thinking there must be some reason you haven't been talking up until now, but...
Sudou: ..........!

Page 14:
Sumio: Everything was the----
power of your "scar"...!!
Sudou: .............
N... No way...
Sudou: This... is my...
ability that әnígmә was talking about...!?
The ability to return to the past---- Even in a cruel ironic way,
it was appropriate for him, someone held captive by the past, to have.
----Sudou Takemaru, the wound he bears on his back was given to him when he was 10 years old...
and inflicted by the "irrationality" of the dictator that controlled his household.
In those days, the Sudou lived with his family of his real mother and his stepfather; her second husband.
After the stepfather had married her, he would be violent towards Takemaru and his mother---

Page 15:
One day when he was drunk, Takemaru had stopped him from beating his mother----
and in compensation, he had his back stabbed across with a knife...!!
The stepfather did nor bat an eye at the cruel act he had committed.
Far from it, he forced the blood-splattered Takemaru to apologize to him.
In that household, the ones who were strong were the "law"... And no matter what he did, the stepfather was the righteous "king"...!
But he never once gave out a scream, nor ever asked for forgiveness----
he would not yield to this irrationality!
He would crush miserable actions with methods of justice...!
He would drag that man down from the throne of "king"!

Page 16:
Narration: ---And so Takemaru convinced his mother have a divorce suit.
And when the papers for divorce were thrust in front of the stepfather and he tried to go wild, Takemaru called the police.
He went further to testify to the man's ill-treatment, domestic abuse, neglect ion of parental duties and other such things in court----
No matter what, he would make the irrational right...!
That past and belief were engraved into the scar on his back...!
---And when he grew other, he found a new
irrationality to engage, wishing to make right.
............If
I have this power... maybe I can subvert that...!? ["that" in italics.]
SFX: KOH KOH
Takemaru: Can I free her from...
.............that repulsive irrationality...!?

Page 17:
Takemaru: Since I can use it----
I'm gonna make sure to make thorough use of it...!!
Hiina: ...Look!
A dead end!
And the shoes...
stopped in front of that wall!
Sumio: ..........It's true...
Then this door is the goal------!!
SFX: GARAH

Page 18-19:
Sumio: Wha...
What is this place...!?
This room is the goal...!?
Is there a password here...!?
Insert Text: Uncountable monitors... The final barrier to obtaining the password...!!
Bottom: әnígmә
...e26.
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