Holyland 46

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Chapter 46
Friend

[X.y -- page.right/left
:X -- panel
X -- bubble number, read in Japanese order
{} -- translators notes
() -- handwritten asides
_..._-- Emphasis

[0058.0
1:
1 Well this is rare...

2:
1 To think you'd come here, Mr. Shimoyama
2 Sometimes I like to go drink by myself too, you know

3:
1 I've heard a little story that worries me, see--

4:
1 A story about guy they call the "thug hunter"

[0058.1
1:
1 I listened what one young punk fielding "stuff" had to say... one of our very own pushers got right done in, says 'e
2 Once is just a spat between kids
But twice, an' three times... is another story

2:
1 This "thug hunter"...
2 Is it true he's with you?

3:
1 It's not that he's _with_ me...
2 Though I do know him

4:
1 Well that's fine, but--

5:
1 If he's one of you then you better straighten him out
2 Guess it might be too late already though
3 Ain't our way to do things half-assed... he might never be able to walk again

[0059.0
1:
1 .....
2 Seems he's quite a cocky kid, yeah?

2:
1 No... he just--
2 He just doesn't know anything

3:
1 So, like you used to be back then...

4:
1 Raging around all you like, you feel like a real bigshot
2 Spreading those wings freely, higher... higher... yeah...?

[0059.1
1:
1 But sooner or later you realize
That there's a ceiling up there

2:
1 A ceiling you can never ever overcome
If you go and try...
2 You find yourself strung up by the grown-ups {yakuza}, pursued by the police
You're sent right back to the ground

3:
1 That sky we soared in like nothing...
2 Was all within a frame drawn by the grownups... it's not a freedom you earn by yourself

4:
1 So, Mr. Shimoyama
2 Did you overcome the wall by going to _that world_?

[0060.0
1:
1 Even the Yakuza are nothing more than a part of society... there's no such thing as complete freedom
2 Not on _this Earth_

2:
1 You tell him... "go play in your own garden"
2 Mr. Shimoyama

3:
1 Izawa
2 The frame you all find so disagreeable... to look from here, it seems quite wide

[0060.1
1:
1 Go fly around, while you still can.
2 ----No...

2:
1 He doesn't want to fly freely
2 Hey, Masaki-- do you know that guy?
3 This is troublesome, we're not _that kind_ of store
4 Yeah
5 It's just that he's decided not to come down

3:
1 Seeing only darkness
2 He's going to go to the very end

[0061.0
1:
1 There's no such thing as complete freedom
.......
Not on this Earth

3:
1 Not on this Earth... is it?

[0061.1
1:
1 He's all washed up

2:
1 You mean Thug Hunter?
2 Yeah
3 Yeah, that's what I keep hearing...

3:
1 This ain't about fights or turf wars anymore, at worst it'll be a slaughter
2 Ughhh, what's that supposed to mean

4:
1 Right now he's so flipped out he'll even attack while it's still day out!
2 For real?
3 The Sawa High guys are totally pissed too, they're ready to knife him on sight, even from the back

[0062.0
1:
1 That's kinda, like-- it's no fun if that happens, yeah? ('nnat dark?)
2 Yeah, right?

2:
1 And that aint' all
2 He's even goin' after the pushers on the streets

3:
1 Are you shitting me!! You don't fuck with the pushers*!!! {anyone who can think of a slangy word for 'a place to sell drugs, insert here instead}
2 I guess he'll be coming out soon...

4:
1 There won't be any calling for bouts or whatever anymore
2 He's done for

5:
1 That guy...
2 He might die...

[0062.1
1:
1 Ahhh, saying goodbye to all you nurses, I hate to have to do it

2:
1 What are you saying, be happy that you recovered quickly!
2 But we're gonna miss you too--

3:
1 Now quit that silly gangster stuff and fly straight, you hear me?
2 I told you already, I'm not gangster

4:
1 Shin...
2 er?

[0063.0
1:
1 Congratulations on your recovery--
2 Do you have a moment?

2:
1 Ma...i

3:
1 Oooo, what is it? You had a little girfriennnnnnd!??
2 Ah, er, NOT AT ALL, no way
3 You don't have to deny it so vehemently...

[0063.1
1:
1 Are you alright, you know... leaving the hospital and all?
2 There's still a plate inside my leg, but... well, they said I could go (sucks being in here)

2:
1 Yuu hasn't come
2 His cell's been off the whole time... and no reply to my e-mails

3:
1 I heard from my visitors he's not going to school either
What the hell is h--
2 I... saw him in Kichijoji

4:
1 There was blood on his face and clothes, and he was chasing or running from someone... that's how he looked
2 His hair was long, and his eyes were scary. It was like... it was like he wasn't Kamishiro at all

[0064.0
2:
1 Shin?

3:
1 On the streets at night, he...

4:
1 He's called the "Thug Hunter"

[0064.1
1:
1 Wh... at's with that...?
2 I don't get... it. Why does he... um, Kamishiro, have to...

2:
1 It's not like he went after them on purpose. You know him too, right?
2 The guys who picked on him got beat up instead, one after the next. Then the gossip started spreading

3:
1 I don't understand... then... he's
1 Kamishiro isn't at fault?

4:
1 I dunno... but
2 Probably, by now--

5:
1 He's hunting them intentionally
2 And probably, _for my sake_

[0065.0
1:
1 But Yuu wants to be all alone
2 I bet he's thinking if we're together I might become a target again

2:
1 Whatever it takes, he's going to keep on by himself

3:
1 For better or for worse
2 Whether he wins or loses... he's probably not even worrying
3 His feelings are out of control

4:
1 You... can tell?
2 I can tell

[0065.1
1:
1 I was with him every day, so...
2 I'm sure by now, like--

2:
1 We're totally friends, yeah?

3:
1 Ahh~~~, yuck
2 That's not like you
3 Shut up! I know.

4:
1 But I'm kinda impressed
2 Oh, are you now.

5:
1 We've gotta stop him
2 Kamishiro

[0066.0
1:
1 So you say, but with this body there's no way I can go running around the streets after Yuu
2 I wonder if not hearing from Shougo means he messed up somehow

2:
1 Which would mean, there's only one person who can stop Yuu
2 One who has influence over Yuu, and who all thugs look toward

3:
1 Masaki Izawa!!
2 Your brother!

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