Trigun Maximum 42

Translated by Molokidan.


#3 - Lonesome King

66)
Vash: Rem told us everything.
Vash: Knives just sat, wide-eyed, and listened.
Vash: She told us everything about her past.
Vash: About Tesla's Birth,
Vash: about the opposition on the ship that she and Conrad had started.
Vash: about how for our safety, Rem had violated the crew's rules.
Vash: about how we were all going to go to the new world together, in a capsule together with forged data.
Vash: Our future lives...
Vash: Her resolution...

67)
Vash: And then, at the end...
Vash: she made a deep bow with her head.
Vash: Knives seemed the same.
Vash: It seemed as if he really had blocked out the memory...
Vash: And I felt that it would have been better if he had just known the truth.

68)
Rem: Knives...
Rem: It seems like..
Rem: You're...
Rem: trying to deal with this all by yourself?
Rem: Tesla's story must have horrified you.
Rem: I'm sorry to be rude, but to me it just seems like you're trying to shut everything up inside.
Knives: Trying?
Knives: I'm doing it.

69)
Knives: It WAS horrifying.
Knives: It was horrifying, but..
Knives: We still have to move on.
Knives: ...isn't that what you said?
Knives: In order to make sure it never happens again,
Knives: We have a lot of work to do.

70)
Vash: Rem...
Vash: Thanks.
Vash: Oh,
Vash: Knives...

71)
Vash: Knives,
Vash: that's the way to the...

72)
Knives: What's wrong? Vash...
Knives: You freakin' scared?
Knives: There's no use in being afraid.
Knives: It's
Knives: pointless.

73)
Knives: Vash...
Vash: Knives.
Vash: It's just as you say.
Vash: I'll keep moving forward.
Knives: Yeah.
Knives: Everything's gonna be alright.

78)
Knives: Su....ha.....su....ha......(etc)

82)
Vash: KNIVES!!
Vash: Everything...you...
Vash: Rem...and I...
Vash: You lied to us all...
Knives: Hey now.
Knives: Don't say something you'd regret.
Knives: I was acting under pure rationality.
Knives: I wanted to know what would make the universe more beautiful...
Knives: Ya know?
Vash: You liar!!
Vash: You were afraid of them!!
Vash: ...of humans!!
Knives: The one who was scared was YOU!!
Knives: Get ahold of yourself...you're so freakin' gullible.

83)
Knives: You really don't know anything, do you, Vash?
Knives: You have to learn to look at the bigger picture.

[BIG FALL]

Estimated Casualties: 20 Million. Missing People: 60 Million. Ruined Spacecrafts: 802. Emergency Landings: 74. Missing Spacecrafts: 124.

The cause is thought to be a malfunction in the flight program...but as of now, it is impossible to prove anything.

85)
Knives: I repent.

86)
Knives: I was rash back then.
Knives: Too many of our brothers were...
Knives: sacrificed.
Knives: It's not fear,
Knives: but anger.
Knives: These humans...
Knives: without self-control,
Knives: they act simply on their desires.
Knives: Someday, they will devour their home like the parasites they are.
Knives: Even now...
Knives: They're trying to consume US.
Knives: They don't think about anything but themselves.

87)
Knives: Lend me your power.
Knives: It seems like, at this rate...
Knives: I just can't do it all by myself.

89)
Elendria: Master Knives--!

94)
And from that moment on--
The world plunged into chaos.