Mephisto 25

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MEPHISTO #25

tl by molokidan

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Chapter VI 4 - Trip Game

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1: shooh!

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1(2b): Wait! Alma!
2: Fufufu...
3: I want to stay together a little bit longer.
4(2b): We can't. You know it's too dangerous to keep going like this.
5: I really enjoyed it...
6: Me too...

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1: Uuu...
2(2b): Whew...no matter how many times I do that...
3(2b): it always blows my mind. To think that we could take a trip across the world just sitting here...
4(2b): And it isn't like virtual reality. It's completely real!
5: This is the first time I've experienced such hypnosis...
6: Alma! How about we go to Antartica next?
7: Let's watch the aurora together!

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1: Sorry, but let's call it quits here...
2: Eh?
3: This is different from hypnosis.
4: This controls your brain directly, and it's very dangerous for a normal human like you.
5: Are you saying you aren't a normal human?
6: In any case, there's no telling what kind of side effects it may have...
7: That's what I'm afraid of...
8(2b): But it's already my fourth time. See...? There's nothing wrong with me!
9: That's not all!
10: You work as a cameraman, and you have a family...
11: You can't keep running away from that.
12: The first time you came here, you were extremely neurotic...
13: I just tried doing the trip game as a way to give you a change of pace.

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1: If you end up becoming dependent on the game, though, then it won't solve anything.
2(2b): Alright...let's stop playing the game.
3: In return, I have a request!
4: Will you model for me?!
5: Not in the game, but for real work! I want to take your pictures!
6: Just once will be enough!
7: Sure...if you're fine with using someone like me...
8: Thank you.
9(2b): Okay, then the day after tomorrow...it's a promise!

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1-5: grin

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1: I'm sick and tired of this...
2: Of...what?
3: This agency job.
4: Shooting these kid models day in and day out...
5: Having to bow my head and thank those stuck-up little brats all the time...
6: I can't wait to go independent and shoot the photos I want to...
7: Well that's why you have to do your best right now!
8: You don't understand what it feels like...
9(2b): Oh, come on! That's all you ever say...

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1: Just bear it for now!
2(2b): The loan on this apartment, school fees...we don't have time to be complaining about things like that.
3: What happened to my life...
4: Just where did I go wrong...?
5: Come on! Say goodnight to papa!
6(2b): Papaaa! Papaaa!
7: Good niiight!
9: Don't forget your promise, papa!
10: Promise...?
11: Oh, would you get it together already?!
12(2b): You promised to take them to an amusement park the day after tomorrow, on your day off! Oh yeah...I forgot!

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1: Sorry
2: for calling you out so suddenly...
3(2b): I finally got a day off, but then I got stuck into doing some family service...oh my...
4(2b): I'm impressed...so you really are fulfilling your duties as a father after all.
5(2b): Yeah...I guess...to me, though, they're duties and nothing more...

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1: Are you...married?
2: Never thought about it...
3: But a beautiful woman like you must get approached by men all the time, right?
4: Don't you have a boyfriend right now?
5(2b): Well...I did have one in the past...
6: But what does that matter?

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1: Hmmm...
2: Guess I'm not a total failure after all...

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1: Huh?!
2: A man's corpse...
3: How can that be...?!
4: I didn't notice when I was shooting...

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1: Oh my God!
2: I'm not lying!
3: You can see it right in the photo.
4: There was someone aiming at you with a pistol from the bushes back there!
5: I'm worried about you.
6: I'm going to come over right now.

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1: This is a side-effect from the trip game.
2: Eh?!
3: As we continued our games, some kind of changes must have occured in your brain, unsealing abilities that you were unable to use up until now.
4: Like thoughtography...
5: In other words, your subconscious desires were directly infused onto the film in a symbolic state...
6: The pistol represents your masculinity.
7(2b): And the male corpse represents your desire to have me all to yourself...I suppose...fufu...
8: You've got to be kidding me!

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1: How could I believe something so ridiculous...
2: Cheese!
3: What are you doing...?
4: Hurry up and take the picture!
5: Ah...

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1: clack!
2: I don't know...
3: It defies explanation.
4: You mean something happened to my brain...?!
5(2b): No, that can't be! It was right in the actual photo!
6(2b): A photo taken by a camera! How could I control a machine?

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1: Looks like the side-effects are progressing...
2: Maybe...
3: You're projecting your own future into these pictures...
4: Impossible...
5: I can't believe that...
6: Let's make this the last time we meet...
7: At this rate, you'll only end up making your family suffer...
8: Make it one more time...
9: I want to trip with you...

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1: Please...
2: Alright...
3: Just relax...
4: Concentrate all your nerves into your forehead.
5: Don't think about anything...
6: Alma...
7: I want to be with you!
8: I love you...

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1(2b): So the photos are true...I could throw away my whole family if it just meant being with you!
2: You can't do that...
3: I possess...
4: many secrets that cannot come to light...
5: As you once said...
6: I am not a normal human...

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1(2b): No matter what you may be, my feelings cannot lie!
2: I don't think I could ever forget you...for the rest of my life...
3: I'll erase your memories, then...
4: What?!
5: It looks like that's the only way...
6: Papa!
7: Come on, hurry it up!

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1: Okay, don't rush me!
2: Hurry! Hurry!
3(2b): It's been such a long time since we all went on a drive as a family! I'm just so happy!
4: Huh?!
5: Was there a girl that beautiful in our building?!
6: Come on!
7: Ow...
8: Letting your eyes stray is the prime way to cause an accident!
9: Sorry.

Chapter VI 4 - Trip Game / End