Enigma 54

It looks like the series might end next chapter. If so, it had a good run. I've really enjoyed it.

[Enigma 54 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Sumio: Imizuka Kidou?
You're Kiri's old man!?
SFX: GATAN... GOTON...
Kidou: Yep. Right, sons?
Kirio: Shut up......
Kijima: .......
Side: Kirio's father appears...!!
Sumio: Why were you in that getup----
Kidou: You'll hear that from that guy up ahead.
Sumio: That guy...?
SFX: KIKIIIII
Sign: Express to Gaikotsu Island
SFX: ZAZAAH

Page 2-3:
Insert: There is the yet unknown island!!
Title: e54. Island
Author: Sakaki Kenji
Announcement: Gaikotsu Island~~ Gaikotsu Island~~
SFX: PUSHUUU...
SFX: BAH
Sumio: Y...
You'e...

Page 4:
Sumio: Old man...!!
Dad: It's been a long time, huh?
Sumio...!
Sumio: Wh... Why...?
Shigeru!
SFX: TAH
Dad: It's all right. She's just unconscious.
Sumio: Shigeru...!
SFX: BAH

Page 5:
Sumio: What's going on, old man...!? Why are you here!?
Dad: Sumio...
Kidou: Haiba!
Good job staying alive, wahahah!
SFX: DONN
Kidou: Look, it's Kouda! He's back.
Dad: Izumi-sensei... Shimei...!
SFX: GUGIGI
Dad: What's most important is you're safe... The fact that you made it here is thanks to sensei, too.
Sumio: ...!?
Dad: ------Sorry, Sumio.
The sequence of events relating to the skull is all our fault...!
Sumio: You're fault...!?
What do you mean!?
Dad: ...Let me start from the beginning.
We met several decades ago in Yuuyami High School----

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Sumio: ...Oh? You're interested in occult studies, too?
Paper: Occult Studies
Kouda: Eh... You, too?
SFX: WAI WAI
Dad: Me and Kouda were fellow new students.
And we both likes the occult and mysterious and scary things like that. So we hit it off right away.
SFX: OOH!
Dad: What do you think? Should we take a peek inside...?
Sign: Occult Studies
Shimei: It's pretty suspicious... And there are no signs of life...
Kidou: -----What's all that noise?!
Shimei: GYAH!!
SFX: GARAH MUNYA MUNYA
Kidou: What? You want to be my servants...
Er, I mean members of my club?
Okay, you've got permission! I really wanted some assistants.
Dad: O... Okay.
Shimei: Servants...!?
SFX: GUI GUI DOKI DOKI
Dad: We were in the club before we knew it. Izumi-sensei was the advisor to the occult research club. He was a part time lecturer and in his spare time, studied folklore at a college.
While we helped out sensei, we dreamed of working by his side to do research.

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Sumio: Kiri's old man is a teacher?
Kirio: Yeah... Just like this one.
Kijima: ......
SFX: CHIRA... (glance)
Dad: ----That dream came true in a form we never expected.
Shimei: Sensei... What're we doing in this old warehouse!?
Kidou: So I, a famous researcher, can investigate a certain object.
And inside a strictly stored old paulownia wood box, there it was.
Kidou: This...?
Dad: ...!? Sensei, your hand...
SFX: ZUZU...
Sumio: Kiri's old man became әnígmә...!?
Kidou: ......Well, yeah.
I wasn't convinced at first, but of course I soon believed.
According to a testamentary letter, the owner is was called әnígmә. It granted wishes, but on the other hand it also scattered curses.
Its roots were unidentified. Another report suggested it may be a magic tool created by the mystics of a certain island...

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Dad: At the end of several years of investigation, we learned that the many previous owners had all lost their lives and we judged that it was uncontrollable----
Kidou: This thing is dangerous... We have to destroy it!
Dad: Immediately after that wish was made, we boarded a mysterious train, and eventually arrived at Gaikotsu Island.
but our efforts ended in failure.
Matsurigi: That was the video record we saw...!
Kirio: ......
...So seeing that made me lose my voice?
Kidou: It's thanks to Kouda you didn't lose your life, too.
Dad: And Shigeru-chan was in danger of being a human sacrifice like Shimei...
Sumio: Shigeru...!
Dad: We shook off Shimei who was pursuing us, and in the chaos, we fled by going on the train home.
Shimei... Shimei was...!
SFX: GOTON... GOTON...
Kidou: ......
SFX: SUH...
I'm mad.
How could you do something like this to my assistant?!

Page 9:
Kidou: Kouda... I have a wish.
Please tell me the way to end this chain of events.
Dad: Sen-----
SFX: BASHIH
Dad: Th... These images are......!?
This is a grown up Sumio...!? And Kirio-kun!
What is that...!? Someone bringing the skull to the grave...!?
Kidou: ----One of them will be the next әnígmә...
And lead us to a future where we'll be released from the skull... Isn't that right, Shimei...!?

Page 10:
Hiina: You saw the future...!?
Moto: And you saw us...!?
Dad: ----One of these people is going to become әnígmә!? They're still just kids, aren't they?!
Kidou: ----Even so, this is the only way it can be ended.
This is the only future we can go to...
So we'll create the flow to reach it!
SFX: GATAN... GOTON... GATAN...
Kijima: F... Father, you searched for the әnígmә of the next generation...!?
Kidou: Yes... That's why we first gave it to you, the eldest one among the candidates.
But we all know what the result of that was... You couldn't become әnígmә.
Kijima: Is that why you drove out mother and I in such a hurry!?
Dad: ...I understand what you're saying, but realize that sensei didn't want to get you involved, so he purposefully tried to distance you.
Kijima: ......Father...!

Page 11:
Dad: We judged that before they reach the ages in the video, inheriting the skull would be dangerous.
So for a few years, we acted to draw Shimei's attention.
---But
Shimei is too dangerous!
I really think pushing this responsibility onto children is far too dangerous after all!
Sensei, please send me to the island!
I'll be a human sacrifice in Shimei's place!!
Kidou: You idiot... I won't allow that!
Dad: Please! For the sake of Shimei and the children!
I forcibly convinced sensei to consent.
And I became sensei's third wish, but...
SFX: ZUH...
Dad: Why...? Why won't anything happen!?
Is something wrong with me!?
So like we thought, we have to wait for those kids!?
Dammit...!!
SFX: ZAAA...

Page 12:
Sumio: Old man... is that the reason you disappeared!?
Dad: Yes...
Kidou: Now alone, I decided I would have no choice but to wait for this future, like I expected.
So it could at least be a relative, I handed Kiri the skull.
Kirio: ......!
Kidou: Kiri became әnígmә, but because he lost his voice that day, he couldn't have wishes granted.
For medical treatment and for his own safety, we temporarily moved far away.
---But then, one day...
SFX: BAH
Shimei: Interlopers...
will be sealed...!!
SFX: GACHA GACHA GACHAH
Kidou: What is this...!?
----It was at this time when I first realized that Kouda received a talent at the school festival as well, the ability to "eat people"...
Using an ability he had taken from someone, he sealed me so I could not fight back against him.
And Kouda's gaining of other talents would be a great obstacle for the future... So out of necessity, I separated from Kiri and investigated his actions.

Page 13:
Kidou: ...Kouda could eat people and then become them.
In order to steal the skull, he was wiping out anyone who could pose even a slight threat to that.
Kirio: ......So his body and heart had fallen to the level of a monster?
Kidou: ----When Kiri was in an isolated cell and the e-test started,
I was surprised at the members the skull had gathered.
These all are...
the ones we saw in the future...!?
Is it evaluating them... for being its next master!?
There is a future beyond the results of this test!!
That was him... Haiba's son.
He's the one I had the most hopes in...!
To give Haiba any advantage I could, I sent his mother instructions.
Sumio: Ah... So that letter was you...!?

Page 14:
Kidou: ----After the test ended, Haiba became әnígmә.
And then you came here...!
As I thought, you were...
the әnígmә we were desired...!
Sumio: No way... you're saying you were my ally this whole time!?
You said something like "әnígmә is wonderful"... And called me someone who was in the way, didn't you!?
Kidou: ...It is wonderful. In terms of folklore.
If the problem had been mine and mine alone, I would probably have lived a life where I gambled on facing it.
But now, this skull is Kouda.
And though my desire is to end it, if it would destroy Kouda's head,
then I wanted to stop it, even if I had to steal it from Haiba.
Sumio: ......!

Page 15:
Sumio: Old man...!
Old man, you've...
always...
Dad: I'm sorry, Sumio... Everyone...!
This is all our responsibility...!
Moto: No way... We...
Matsurigi: Hey, Sumio...!?
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA...
Sumio: ......
Kirio: ...Hmph.
...Hey, what we do about these idiots, you incompetent?
Kijima: I... I...!
SFX: GAN

Page 16:
Kijima: ...I understand the pain and regret of being at the mercy of the skull...
And Father... in all of this, acted with this own ideals and beliefs...
So... I won't say anything...
Kidou: .....
Kirio: Hmph... Prissy.
Shimei: That monster showed contempt for my dignity.
It looked down on me with clearly evil intent, and would mercilessly kill any helpless person...!
Kirio: ...But the truth is in the accident you blamed me for,
was just instinct from a living corpse...
SFX: GUIH
Kirio: You're not even worth getting angry at.
Forget you...
I just want one more wish granted by the skull.
Sumio: Kiri...?

Page 17:
Kirio: What're you going to do, Sumi?
Sumio: Guh.
Oh... Me...!?
SFX: DONN
Sumio: ...I'm not really sure what I want to do myself.
But there's one thing I am sure of...
Even if I have to be dragged, I want to see my old lady again!
And have the three of us live together again!!
SFX: KYUH
Dad: Sumio...!
Sumio: ...Gh.
Shigeru: Th... That hurts, Sumio...

Page 18:
Sumio: Shigeru!!
You're awa...
Kirio: Are you okay, Shigeru?
Shigeru: Kirio...!
SFX: GUIH
Shigeru: Wh... Why am I here...!?
And all of you, too...!?
I... I was all alone on an island...
And was dragged into a dark well... and then...
Sumio: That future didn't happen!
We all stopped it!
Shigeru: Sumio...
Kirio...!
Yes... You guys always...
change the futures I see, don't you...!?

Page 19:
Shigeru: Thanks for coming to get me...
Everyone...!
Sumio: ...Old man.
Could you guide us there?
Dad: ...To the well?
Are you prepared to end it all?
Side: To putting an end to everything!!
Sumio: This is the end.
Let's go!!
Bottom: әnígmә
... e54.
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