Billy Bat 51

*Only for use by MS.

tl by molokidan

1)
1: My mission...
2: Yeah, your mission is to protect that comic book artist.
3: Protect Kevin...
4: Yeah, and if you don't get to it soon...
side: Billy appears once more before Oswald -- ordering Oswald to save Kevin from the assassin!

2)
1: then the human race will end.

Chapter 51 - The Earth...

3)
1: The human race...
2: will end...
3: It's impossible to explain it in a single phrase.
4: I'll have to use a bunch of difficult formulas and stuff, you catch my drift?
5: Anyway, I have no idea how many days it'd take me to explain it to YOU.
6: The gist is, there's trouble, and you gotta do something about it.
7: His successor has appeared
8: and we can't let him die until he draws my story.
9: Successor...?
10: Now stop blabberin' and get to work already!!

4)
1: Scoot on over to Manderville Street!! You wanna be a hero, don't ya?!
2: A hero...

5)
1: The comic book artist will die any minute now, and we will have the assassin sunk into the marshlands later this evening.
2: Make sure to finish things up cleanly as usual...
3: Yes, sir.
4: You ever read it?
5: Hm?
6: The comic he draws.
7: Comic books aren't exactly my cup of tea...
8: I'm not interested in that sort of thing either.
9: But there's something nice, you know,
10: about what he draws...

6)
1: The Chuck Culkin version of Billy Bat that's so popular right now can't even be compared.
2: Are you saying it's a shame that you won't be able to read the continuation?
3: No, I wasn't referring to the quality of the comic itself.
4: I was just thinking that with that comic book...
5: we might be able to find the whereabouts...
6: of a certain scroll sleeping somewhere in Japan.
7: The artist is simply being manipulated by the bat...

7)
1: But with the scroll, humans can manipulate the bat...
2: Do you understand what I'm saying?
3: We could control history.

8)
1: Bad boys like you...

9)
1: gotta be punished!

10)
1: Hurry up and run!!
2: Oswald...!!
3: You gotta hurry!! The bat sad so!!

11)
1: The bat...
2: He told me not to let you die!!
2: Guoh...
3: Hurry!!
4: Kuh...!!
5: Nuohh!!
6: Bastard!!
7: Nuohhh!!
8: Agahhh!!

12)
1: Lemme go!!
2: Stop gettin' in my way!!
3: Asshole!!
4: Guhohh!!
5: You think I'm gonna let some dog like you steal my year-long Bourbon from me?!
6: Die, dog!!
7: I'm...
8: a hero...

13)
1: Someone call the police!!
2: Shit!!
3-5: murmur
6: I'm...
7: a hero...
8: Thank you...
9: Are you alright...?

14)
1: Heheh...
2(billy): Bats don't fly for just any reason...

15)
1: Just hurry up and run!
2: Are you alright?!
2: What happened...?
3: Call an ambulance!!
4: It's nothing to be worried about.
5-7: Mr. President!!
8: He overcame his assassination attempt...
9: And in November, his unflinching spirit (*cut off)
10: We will join forces...
11: and step foot on the moon!!
12: Step towards a bright future!!

16)
1: Towards a bright future!!
2: The End...
3: You're saying I have to die...
4: for this happy ending?

17)
1: The bat said so.
2: If something happens to you, then the human race will end...
3: I guess that means you can't die until you become a shield for the President?
4: Maybe that's why I saved you today?
5: A happy ending...
6: Whether the ending is happy or not
7: all depends on where the author chooses to stop writing.
8: Once the man and woman are happily together...
9: if the story gets cut off there, it'll be a happy ending, but...

18)
1: Keep writing to the end, and their love might turn to hate...
2: as they both die in sadness.
3: Did the bat tell you...
4: what happened next?
5: I didn't want to hear,
6: so I became an alcoholic for a while.
7(2b): But the bat kept talking. No matter how much I said I didn't want to hear it...

19)
1: You heard something from the bat too, didn't you?
2: Yeah...
3: If you die...
4: something terrible will happen...
5: I think this might be what he's talking about.
6: skritch skritch
7: skritch...skritch

20)
1: skritch
2(2b): skritch skritch
3: skritch
4: skritch...skritch
5: Boy oh boy...if only you hadn't kicked the bucket...

21)
1: Woah, well what do you know, look at the time...
2: Later, pal!
3: Bats don't fly for just any reason...
4: At that moment, a single bat flew into the sky.

22)
1: The bat flew high, high, until he eventually left the earth...
2-3: and then...
4: Th...this is...
5: This is what will happen...

23)
1: If I die this year...
2: The bat said this will become the true final chapter.
3: I can't believe it...
4: This...

24)
1: This is really how the earth will end up...?!
side: Does the "true final chapter" that Kevin refused to draw entail the end of the human race and the earth?! Or...?!

Next: Feb. 17