Riki-Oh 58

05)

CAST OF CHARACTERS



SAIGA RIKI-OH

NACHI

ANEYAMA

BARON



KOHINATA

AKUTA



07)

TABLE OF CONTENTS



violence58 THE DEAD STILL DREAM

violence59 A GROTESQUE LIFE

violence60 DEATH GAME

violence61 GLASS GRAVESTONE

violence62 OBLITERATION

violence63 THE TRUE ENEMY

violence64 ANTARCTIC



08)

R: Why do you have Nachi's hand?!

orange: THE DEAD STILL DREAM



09)

violence58 THE DEAD STILL DREAM



11)

B: Kekekeke...this is an amazing hand, you know! Truly fit to be known as the "Hand of God."

B: Even though you're of the same blood, your hands can only be used to destroy things...right?

R: No blood?!

B: No matter what kind of injury, as long as one has this hand...

R: The wound disappeared!

B: Kukekekeke...now I'll show you something even more interesting!



12)

R: Th...the corpses are smiling!

B: They are soulless corpses, yet they are smiling.

B: That's because Nachi's head and hand have the ability to communicate with other materials!

R: Communicate with materials?



13)

B: While it isn't scientifically proven yet, human "spirits" it's true that human "spirits" are a unique type of material themselves -- which means that just like water and metal, "spirits" are constructed through atoms and particles.

B: Therefore, the superhuman abilities you possess break down your "human heart" the same thing way you would any other "material," then reconstruct it as you wish to control those unique abilities you possess.

R: You used Nachi's head for your scientific experiments...

B: Hey, hey, what are you talking about? We didn't do any experiments with Nachi's head.

B: Nachi's head is the Palace of Eternal Youth itself -- no, the entire universe!



14)

B: You're nothing but a tiny fish swimming in the huge sea that is your young brother's consciousness.

B: Right, Nachi?

R: Uu!!



15)

B: Hahaha, Nachi and I are best friends...brothers that are one in the same, rather.

B: Hm?!

R: Stealing peaceful rest from a dead man...

R: As his blood brother, I won't forgive you!!



16)

B: Don't make me laugh!

B: What can a little fish like you do?!

R: Uu!

R: Th..this fist!



17)

A: Wh...what's wrong, Riki-Oh?!

R: There isn't any blood running through the Baron's fist.

R: It's no different than that of a corpse's!

A: Eh?

B: Hyaahahahahahaha! Of course there isn't any blood running through it. My heart's long since stopped.

B: In other words, I am a corpse myself. Hyohohohoho!



18)

R: That can't be!

B: Hyohohoho...oh yes it can!

B: For example....

B: Boo!

R: Uu!

B: Hyohohoho.

B(2b): Hyahahaha! How pleasant, how pleasant! Surprising people truly makes me feel happy. This is why even if I'm dead, I can't stop being a human.

R: Kuh...



19)

R: Then allow me to send you on to the next life!!



20)

B: You're really gloomy! I don't like that, you know.

B: You don't even get my jokes...

B: Ahhhhh, now my face is all messed up.

B: But if I do this,

B: Look, it's back to normal!



21)

B: Hyahohoho! Through communicating with different substances in this world, the impossible can be made possible!

A: It...it's just like magic...

B: See, Akuta, isn't it fun? It's important for humans to enjoy themselves!

B: Allow me to show you something even more entertaining!



22)

B: Feast your eyes, gentlemen upon this glass capsule!

B: I shall have that gloomy character Riki-Oh shut up inside here in an instant!

R: What?!

B: Alright, here I go!



23)

R: Uu!

R: M....my body won't move!



24)

R: Lali-hoooooooooo!



25)

A: Riki-Ohhhhhh!

A: Hyahohohoho! Isn't this entertaining, Akuta?

A: Uuu..

R: Uuuuu...



26)

B: Kukukuku...you can't even believe where you are, can you?

B: But this is neither magic nor sorcery. It's nothing less than the result of nullifying the space between you and the capsule.

R: Space...?

B: I doubt an uneducated person like yourself would understand, but in any case, it all boils down to space and matter.

B: Say we took the particles that made up a certain substance -- for example, an entire house. The "nuclei" of the particles that make up that house are no bigger than the tip of a pin, and the "electrons" that spin around the cores of those nuclei are even smaller.

B: Even if you compressed the Earth itself into its smallest form possible, it would be no larger than this tennis ball. In other words, including human bodies, every substance on this planet has an existance as thin as heat.



27)

R: Are you saying what you did was instantly mix my "vapor" with the glass's "vapor"?

B: Hohohh...for being uneducated, you sure figured that out fast.

B: What I just achieved with you exceeds even space travel in scientific importance!

B: We should thank the head and hand of your brother.

R: Kuh!



28)

B: Hah, so you really are an idiot!

B: You must not even understand that getting all wound up like that will only deplete the amount of air you have left.

A: Ri...Riki-Oh...

B: Hyahohoho! See, you're finally starting to suffer now.

B: You'll soon be dead. Dead, and happy!

B: If you die, you can become one with your brother.

R: Wh...what?!



29)

B: The reason I lured you to the "Palace of Eternal Youth" was because I wanted that body of yours.

B: With Nachi's head attached to that tough body of yours, the true "Child of Destruction" will be born.

N: C...child of Destruction!

N: That's what Washizaki said back at the cape!

B: It is written in the holy bible that God gave the humans 6000 years. 2000 passed from Adam to Abraham, and another 2000 from Abraham to Jesus Christ. Therefore, the time in which the second coming of Christ and the "Last Judgement" will occur is presumably the year 2000.

B: That is to say, if the human race survives the serious damage of the Armageddon and do not die out, that will mean that God's Plan was not realized.



30)

?: "God's Plan" will not be realized!

R: God's...Plan?



31)

B: Which will "speed the destruction of the world," as written by the first of Christ's disciples, St. Peter!

B: That, combined with what St. Paul, who was murdered by the Nero, Emperor of the Roman Kingdom, wrote in his "Book of Thessolonians":

B: "If the Child of Destruction does not appear, the 'Lord's Day' will not come!"

B: You brothers, along with my hand, will begin the dance of the end, and wreak catastrophe throughout the entire world!



32)

N: Us brothers were not born by coincidence...

N: So the plan Nachi was talking about was God's Plan...

N: So Nachi and I were born in order to lead the human race to destruction with "God's Plan?!"



33)

B: Originally, you and Nachi should not have been born as twins, but as a single person. However, afraid of God's Plan, Oh Birei's mind unconsciously split the fetus in two as a way to counteract it.

B: As a result, the older of the twins was born with the Star of David as a sign of his mother's bloodline, and the younger twin with the swastika, representing his father's ideology.

(*T/L Note: I suppose this is the best time to let the readers know that Nachi's name, while it has meaningful kanji in Japanese, as detailed earlier in Volume 3, phoenetically, sounds exactly the same as how the Japanese pronounce "Nazi," or, in Japanese, "Nachi," since there is no 'zi' syllable.)

N: The swastika!

N: Then my true father is a believer of Nazism?!



34)

B: It looks like I went a little farther than I should have...hyahohohoho!

R: Who is my true father?!

R: Like they say, one who kills demons will soon become possesed by one...everything's gone as he expected. I've performed my last rites...

R: Nachi...you knew the true form of our enemy, and in order to try and forever destroy their horrible intents, you struck out at them, but couldn't accomplish it on your own.

B: Oh my, it looks like you've gone and become sentimental again. You really do have a gloomy personality by nature!



35)

R: I won't let you do as you wish!

R: I will never...

R: hand this body over to the devil's underlings!!



36)

B: I...impossible! There's a crack in that ultra-hardened glass...

B(2b): Wh...w-what?! Wh...what's he trying to do?!



37)

R(2b): It's true that this ultra-hard glass container of yours was almost completely devoid of air. But "ki" is a "power" that transcends even the limits of matter itself, and by shooting it toward even the most microscopic crack on the surface, it is possible to break through.