Soil 20

Soil, Volume 3, Chapter 20 (pp. 85~108)


<85>
=RATTLE


<86>
=Hey,
=Wait.

=Umm... Sorry about yesterday... I didn't even say thank you...
=I thought you might show up if I waited here...

=You're hurt... Are you okay...?


<87>
=That sort of thing... Happens pretty often, and...
=I'm actually really scared...

"Together"
=Can you walk home with me...?


<88>
=WHAP WHAP

[x?]WHAP


<89>
=Thanks.
=I didn't fall asleep today.

=Alright, I'll be waiting again tomorrow.
=Huh?


<90>
[x5]=TRRR

=...Hello.

=Kento?
=It's me.


<91>
=Did you hear about Mizuki's place?
=I saw it.
=Yeah.

=What was that? Why?
=Who did it?
=Dunno...
=Yeah.

=I feel sorry for her.
=Yeah.
=Poor Mizuki...


<92>
=Umm...

=Just so you know...
=I... Wasn't trying to save you that day...


<93>
=I just... I don't know why, but I feel like that stuff is really disgusting...

=So when I see cats doing dirty things...
=I can't hold myself back, and...
=The same thing happened... That one time...

=Tomorrow...
=Huh?

=I'm going somewhere tomorrow, and I want you to come with me.

=If you can make it,
=I'll be waiting at the train station after school.


<94>
[x?]=PRRR

=BLIT


<95>
=Kento?
=Hey, Kento?

=You're home, aren't you?

[x2]=TAP
=The computer's giving me all these error messages,
=Can you come take a look?

=GACHUK


<96>
=Why haven't ya come over to my place these days?
=Huh?

=Is it 'cause you're with that girl from the Suzushiro place?

=...Why do you know about that...?


<97>
=You don't wanna have nothin' to do with those folks!
=You know what the townspeople are doin' to them, right!?

=Then why don't you stop them?

=This might be a little hard for you to understand, Kento...

=But there's times when a community needs a common enemy to stay workin'...
=Might even be the purpose of a community to weed out the "foreign organisms" and eliminate them...

=And besides... There's nothin' I can do about it anymore...

=I've got to go.
=Wait, Kento!


<98>
=That family's a "foreign organism!"
=Dunno why, but I've felt it! Ever since they first moved here!
=Let me go...

=I knew it was gonna turn out this way!
=I've had this bad feelin' all along!
=Somethin's gonna happen!

GRACK
=Let go!!

=Somethin's gonna happen...

=Somethin's definitely...
=Gonna happen...!


<99>
[x?]=RATTLE

=Hey...
=Where are we going...?

=This is it!


<100>
=RIIIING
=H-
=Hey...!

=What... Is this...?


<101>
=This isn't right...!!

=W-Wait for me!
=What's not right!?

=It's supposed to be here...
=But it's not...!

=This isn't right...!
=I've never seen this town before...!
=This isn't right...!


<102>
=Listen! What isn't right...!?
=Explain it to me!!

=Where's my house!?
=My school!?
=That park where all my friends were!?
=Those stores I went to!?

=Then who...
=Who's memories are these...!?

=Who...
=Am I...!?


<103>
=It's getting late.
=We should go home.

=...I don't want to go home...

=But I don't want to stay here either...

=I want to go someplace where no one can find me...


<104>
=CLINK

=It's the first time,
=I've let somebody in here.

=What's wrong...?

=But this place...//I heard there's ghosts here...

=I haven't seen one before.


<105>
=Maybe I'm the ghost they were talking about.
=I come here a lot when I'm cutting school.

=What do you do here? All the time...
=I don't really do anything.
=I just imagine... Stuff.
=Imagine...?

=Like what if...
=I stopped existing in this world.

=No one knows about this place.
=Which means I disappear from this world whenever I come here, right?

=But the world keeps moving even when I'm gone...


<106>
=So... Sometimes I think...
=Maybe I was never meant to exist in this world in the first place...

=You're too dark.

=Sorry about dragging you around today...
=I'll tell you everything next time...

=I'm just too...
=Ti-

=re...

=THUD


<107>
=Hey...
=Are you asleep...?

[x2]=SS—
=...What should I do...
=Th-This is awkward...


<108>
=Hey...

=Did you really fall asleep...?