Apple Oneshot

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apple - oneshot

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purple: If it's for someone, you should be able to become anything.

Bottom purple: The world is in my hands... A story about an ultimate being! / Special 49 page One-shot Color Release!!

Orange: "Double arts" Complete 3-volume set!
Third volume on sale packed full of special sketches!!

p02

Top: He's just an ordinary boy...?!

Music: Shaka shaka shaka shan♪ / Shaka shan♪

Satoshi>> My name is Aramiya Satoshi. / I believe I turn 17 this year. // I've forgotten when my birthday is.

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Satoshi>> Some people think I'm weird for living alone in this vast open area on the outskirts of Tokyo, but there's a reason for it. // I don't see why they care, there's nothing great about me anyway.

sfx: *guon.... burororororor* (sound of tanks and such moving)

Satoshi>> Eh? So why am I living here?

Satoshi: Oh? They're a bit early today...

Satoshi>> Well it's because if I live in the city I'd cause trouble for the people around me.

Satoshi: Ma--n / I haven't even had breakfast yet...

sfx: *gacha* *toko toko* // *guooooo* // *burorororo*// *gogogogogogo*

p04

sfx: *rororogu*// *garyo ryo ryo ryo ryo*

p05

sfx: *rorororo*

Satoshi: one / two.. / three... // There's about 3 new tanks, 5 buggies and 100 soldiers.... / A bit light today. // I hope I can finish before breakfast gets cold.

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Satoshi>> Two years ago, // an article presented at an academic conference // changed my life. // "Extreme evolutionism". // According to the theorist the planet is alive. // It has its own will.

Back: Listen up men!! // By the honor of this squad we WILL bring him back this time!!

sfx: *rorororodo* // *gurororororo*

Satoshi>> Sometime ago, this planet knowing of a great threat advancing on itself began creating some kind of "New life force". // And it's that extreme life force named "APPLE" that is...

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Satoshi>> Me. // The theory was given full support by finding me after that article was released. / I was then stuck with all the humans coming to get me.

Soldier: He's coming this way // Don't let him get away!

Satoshi>> They're all too over dramatic. // Apple ability Number 1.

Soldier: Ah / AHH!! // He's here!!!

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Sfx: *shupa*

Satoshi>> I can become an animal.

Sfx: *gushaaaa* // *puooooooooo*

Satoshi>> More precisely, I can become any living creature on this planet.

Soldiers: Ahhhhhhhh!

Sfx: *dogo-n* // *zudo-n*
small sfx: Wahhh // wahhh // wahhh // wahhhh

Soldier: The target has come into contact with the 3rd brigade. / All of our new tanks are getting crushed!!!

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Soldier: A reminder!! We need him back UNHARMED!!! / Refrain from using anything but weapons that capture!!

sfx: *hyun!!*

soldier: Huh?

Satoshi: GARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Soldier: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH / haahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Satoshi>> Apple ability number 2!

Soldier: Aim carefully! That's special sleeping gas! // If you get him he's as good as ours!!

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sfx: *BAZUN* // *guo*

Satoshi>> I can use supernatural powers.

Satoshi: *niko* (smile)

Sfx: *kurun* // *guin* // *kyun* // *bofun!!*

Soldiers: Uwahhhhhhh // Nearly everyone in the 1st brigade is down!!

Sfx: *kua*

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sfx: *basa*

Soldier: ah HAH! / I got you!! // You're mine!! // HAHAHAHA take that!! // That net is made out of reinforced carbon tubes. No matter what creature you turn into, it won't break!! // You're coming with.... // ?!?! // NO WAY?! // .. Don't tell me... // He can turn into germs that are... // in the air... // AHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Sfx: *dokan* // *do-n*

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Soldier: Retreat--!! / Everyone retreat!! // Those that are still awake, grab those that are sleeping!! // I can't take it anymore....

Sfx: Wa--h / waaah / waaah // *dororororo* / *guooooo...* *garorororo...*

Satoshi: 6 minutes, 38 seconds... / Haha impressive! Not only that but I've yet to produce a casualty!

???: Apple, the key to saving the world. // By getting him in our possession is the same as getting control of the entire planet. // Aramiya Satoshi... // You WILL be mine.

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Satoshi: Phew... // Ah! Crap!! / I left the stove on with my miso soup!! // I better get back fast...

???: Can you spare a second? // Let me introduce myself. // My name is Grimm Stewart. // Hello, Aramiya Satoshi-san. // I don't want you to be alarmed, / I am not a threat. // I just want to talk. / We mean you no harm.

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Satoshi: Oh? You don't say? / Well would you care to have breakfast with me?

Grimm: No no, I understand. / It's hard to trust someone right away... // HEY! Did you just invite me to eat breakfast with you?!

text behind head: OHH?!

Guy: Indeed you were, young master.

Grimm: HEY!!! Don't trust me just like that!! // Can you be alarmed a bit? HELLO?! // You do realize you are being targeted by everyone on the entire planet, don't you?! Do try to have SOME sense of danger!!

Satoshi: Well you did tell me not to be alarmed...

Grimm: I also told you not to believe that!! / It might be a trap! / Are you stupid or something?!

Satoshi: *More importantly*, I gotta hurry, my soup's on an open flame.... / That and the continuation of the TV novel "Oshinko" is about to start...

Sfx: *oro oro* // *hara hara*

Grimm: *That* is more important?! // I have to admit, Apple... You're good. Putting me into your pace like that. But it's all good... Just you wait!

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Grimm: So you live here?

Satoshi: Yeah / I've been slowly building it for the past two years. / It's nice, huh?

Grimm>> It's dirty... and falling apart...

Grimm: ... Well then / Let's get back to our topic. // "Extreme evolutionism". // It just so happens the one that announced that theory / is me.

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Grimm: In other words, I'm what you can call a child prodigy. // I was 10 when I announced that article. // I predicted you showing up / and then there you were. // The reason I'm here is // we want to offer you protection. // The reason you're stuck living this kind of life is my fault. / I'm sure it must have been a very rough time. // We will be able to provide you a comfortable living here on out.

Satoshi: So you're saying I should move away from here?

Grimm: Yes, exactly. / Of course, we give you our guarantee that you'll be safe. // As well as provide you anything you should ever want.

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Satoshi: Eh? Hell no.

Grimm: ...huh? / What was that?

Satoshi: I said no. // Leaving this place is simply unthinkable.

Grimm: Why's that?!

Satoshi: I enjoy how I'm living. / I like it here. // I want to live where it's quiet and I can relax. // That's why I chose to live here. // I'd rather not move just so I can live being supervised all the time.

Grimm>> Ugh... He saw through it...

Grimm: I see... / But can you hear me out...

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Grimm: You are Apple... // Created by the Earth for the *sole purpose* of saving it from some kind of distant "threat". / That is the significance of your existence. // In that case, what if you lose that? // You do your single duty of saving the planet. / And once that's over you just might... // just might // end up dead, you know?

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Satoshi: I see...

back text: EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Grimm: What was that!!! // You.. littl... / Is that all you've got?! What am I supposed to do with a reaction like that?!

Satoshi: Not like I can help it...

Grimm: Did you even understand?! I said you're going to die!! // Just how fearless are you?!

Satoshi: ...In that case, all the more reason I want to be left alone.

Grimm: You're a freak! You sure you're OK with that?!
Small text: I can't understand you!!

Satoshi: It's not a matter of whether I'm OK with that or not. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen.

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Satoshi: Humans all end up dying anyway. / Some late, some early. // So in short, all that matters is if they lived a happy life until their time comes! / Ayanokouji Kimimaro once said that humans have a death ratio of 100%!

Grimm: Who's that? A Japanese philosopher?

Satoshi: Living where you wanna live, // Listening to what you wanna listen to and watching what you wanna watch on TV, all when you please. / Doesn't that sound nice to you?

Grimm>> Man... He's just...



Grimm: And you're content with just that...?

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Satoshi: If the world and the people on it are saved by my dying, / then yeah, I don't see a problem with it.

Sfx: Zukyu---------n!!

Grimm>> He's just... / He's just!! // He's just too pure of a human being...!! // Of course I've done my research on the history of Aramiya Satoshi. // At age four, he went to his first orphanage. // After that, he transferred to several others. // More than likely he's had a very hard upbringing due to that power of his. // But... that's not all // If you were to classify him as a living creature, // In all actuality he'd be classified as a "different type" of living creature.

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Grimm: Living creatures are especially harsh to different types of creatures. // Especially humans. // All other types of humans have been killed, and what survived was us, homo sapiens. // If those human instincts were to have acted as believed... then the amount of suffering that he's gone through would be beyond words. // After that, at the mere age of 10 he was casted out as an orphan! // Thrown out into society, alone. // But do you know what he said?!

Satoshi: Unhappy? Ahaha, nah. No way. // This is just how I'm living my life.

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sfx: *do-------*

Grimm: He's such a great guy...!!! / And here I was going to smooth talk him into coming with me and then using him. // I've changed my mind!! // That's it!! I'm going to live here too!! // Then we can come up with a way so that you don't have to die!!

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Satoshi>> Something weird just happened.

Butler?: You... Young master!!? / Are you serious?!

Grimm: Of course I am!! Let's get moving!!

Satoshi: Eh...? // Huh...?

Satoshi>> I made a roommate.

Satoshi: It's ok with me and all, but... // There isn't room for you to sleep, you know?
Small text: I made it for one person only, after all...

Grimm: Oh, don't worry about it! / I've already made arrangements.

Satoshi: Arrangements...?

Sfx: *bababa bababa* (helicopter)

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Grimm: Alright alright~~ // Keep it coming~~

Satoshi: Stop that!!!

Grimm: Ahhh! // What gives?

Satoshi: You can't do that!! / It's against my policy!! // This is against the rules!!

Grimm: Huh?

Satoshi: Listen up. If there is something you need, you make it! Things you want you get yourself!! / If we're going to live together, you'll have to match my style! // With that said, this goes BYE-BYE!!

Small text: Flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Grimm: EHH? You have supernatural powers?!

Small text: That's against the rules!!

Satoshi>> This is how...

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Satoshi>> Grimm and I started living together.

Grimm: Awww... there goes my bed----

Satoshi>> He's quite the talker. // First he complained all the time about no electricity, / the lack of candy, and how he only drinks water from Scotland. // But, slowly but surely he started getting used to it. / Teaching me how to make better water.

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Satoshi>> How to grow vegetables, / How to get rich off of stocks... // He even taught me how black holes are made. // I called the extremely childish, but genius kid, "weird" and he said, //"Like you should talk!" / I was like, "True..." and we both laughed. // And so, // two weeks flew by really fast.

Grimm: Ma~~n!

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Grimm: It's no good, / I can't come up with anything. // Satoshi, you start thinking of something too! // A great "threat" advancing on the planet. // Without knowing what we're up against, we're hopeless. / If only we knew what...

Satoshi: "Light" will fall from the sky.

Grimm: Say what?

Satoshi: It was in my dream. // I dream it a lot lately. // A thin arrow of light falls upon the Earth, / and then I become light too and absorb and stop it... // then we both disappear.

Grimm>> A dream..? / Could it be he used his supernatural power and "foresaw" the future?!

Grimm: A light... An arrow of light... // It couldn't be!!

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Grimm: A meteorite?! // Going really fast?! // Yeah, that certainly would be possible. // Something moving extremely fast has an unimaginable amount of kinetic energy. // Something of small mass could even destroy the Earth. // But... // That means you'd definitely die!! // Why didn't you tell me sooner?!

Satoshi: Well I thought turning into light would be a bit romantic...

sfx: *hoon*

Grimm: Yeah, it is romant--/ HEY!! You stupid or something?! // Satoshi // You wouldn't happen to know *when* that'll happen, do you?

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Satoshi: Probably tonight.

Grimm: WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?! // That makes me look dumb!! // Why didn't you tell me?! / Here I am, looking like a moron for thinking so hard!!

Satoshi: Sorry... / I don't even know why, myself. I just couldn't say...

Grimm: Ohhh really? Well I've lost all respect for you. // Yea-h I know you've lived all by yourself up until now. / The only one who was worrying about you was me, and you couldn't care less about how I felt. / I thought we were friends!

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Satoshi: We... / were friends...

Sfx: *biririririr* (ringing)

Sfx: *biririririr* (ringing)

Grimm: Heh... // ring, Hello... // What's that?! // Shit... // Damn them...!! // Satoshi, something bad's going to happen! You'd better run!!

Satoshi: Eh...? What's up?

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Grimm: The UN troops are on the move. / They're coming after you...! // These guys aren't like anything you've faced before!! / They're the best of the best!! // I had persuaded them once before but... / You'd better run.

Satoshi: Eh...! Wait a sec, that's too much. / I gotta go home and get my things...

Grimm: This isn't the time!!

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Sfx: *bo bo bo*

Grimm: Satoshi!!

Satoshi: It's OK! Stay away, Grimm!

Satoshi>> I'll transfrom into a germ...!

Sfx: *shuuuuuuuuu*

Sfx: *paaaaaaaa* *pasa*

Captain: Now!! / Move in!!

Sfx: *gon* *biiiiiii*

p34

Satoshi: Wha-, what is THAT?!

Sfx: Gyugooooooooooo

Satoshi: Ah / AHH!!! // I'm being sucked in~~~

Sfx: *ooooooooo*

Sfx: *doka

Satoshi: Ouch!

sfx: *kyuuuuun*

captain: Hahahahaha. We know exactly what you do after you get caught in a net. // I've collected all the data about you!

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captain: You can't escape. / That place is airtight. // And the strength of it has been built according to your data.

Grimm: Captain!! // What's the meaning of this?! // We've gone over this before. / The deal was you weren't to touch him if I gave you half of the Stewart family capital..!! // You lied to me!! // You were content in our...!!

Sfx: *DON*

Sfx: *jiwa*

Grimm: Eh...?

p36

Satoshi: Grimm...?

Captain: What we talked about... // doesn't matter anymore...

Satoshi: Grimm?!

Captain: Those who have control over Apple control the world. / The moment someone has it, // is the moment that person wins. / No matter the means of getting it. // Fufu.../ hahahaha

Satoshi: Gri...

Captain: HAHAHAHAHAHA / AHAHAHAHAHAHA

p37

Sfx: *DOKAAAAAAOOOOOOOO*

Captain: Huh...?!

p38

Satoshi>> That was the first time.

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Satoshi>> That my blood ran so hot. // That I moved so rough. // That I sweat so much.

Captain: Ahh.... // ahhhh

Satoshi>> To get THIS worked up.... // Sorry, Grimm // This was the first time...

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Satoshi>> That I had a friend.

Sfx: *gin*

Captain: AHHHHHH!!

Sfx: *jyakin* / *puu*

Captain: AGH!! // Ahh... My hand... My hand is...!!

Soldiers: Cap... Captain!!

sfx: *zu zu*

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Sfx: *hun!*

Satoshi: Don't worry, Grimm / I healed you.

Grimm>> Eh... In that instant?!

Satoshi: Ummm // I was wondering why you / wanted to save me?

Grimm: Eh? Why are you asking me that?! // I don't know. / And really, don't ask either. // There's no law against wanting to save a friend.

Satoshi: I see...

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Satoshi: I wonder... / if it'd be lonely to lose a friend...

Grimm: What the..? Of course I'd be lonely...!
Small: Seriously, what the hell

Satoshi: Yeah, I thought so. / I'd be lonely, too.

Grimm: Hey hey!! / I'm not going to die yet!
Small: Eh? Is there a problem with that?

Satoshi: Ahaha / Yeah, I know... // That's why, // I won't die either. // I won't let it kill me...!!

Grimm: Satoshi?

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Sfx: *DON* // ooooooooooooooo

Satoshi>> Grimm, if you were to die, / I bet I'd be really sad. // So, // If you were to become sad with my dying...

Satoshi: Here. / This is where it fell down in my dream.

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Satoshi>> To hell with dying here!!!!!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Grimm: In order to counter something moving at a very high speed, / Your only chance is to hit it with something of equal speed. // Is he gathering energy to accelerate? // Wait... // No, that's something different... That's... //

Sfx: *ooo*

Sfx: *bari bari bari bari*

Grimm: No way, it can't be!!

Sfx: *ka*

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Sfx: *kazunnnnn*

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sfx: *ji ji* // *ha ha* // * bu bu* // *bachi bachi* *ha ha* *bachi chi*

Grimm: He just made a very small black hole?! // A black hole definitely could stop a high speed meteorite...!

p47

Grimm: Not just a meteorite, a black hole can trap and bend light itself! // By compressing space extremely tight using an unbelievable amount of psychokinetic power. // He momentarily created a small black hole! // But if he were to produce a supernova like burst of energy like that... // He'd....

Satoshi>> The threat on the planet is over.

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Satoshi>> And my life had yet another // big change. // When i woke up, // All the power I had that made me Apple was gone. // I'm currently under Grimm's care. / The threat was gone, and so were my powers,so the military no longer had any reason to come after me... // Since I no longer had any merit for being a test subject as Apple. // Even so / I'm living very peacefully.

Grimm: Satoshi... / You sure you're OK with it...?

Satoshi: Hmm?

Grimm: That house was pretty important to you, no?

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Satoshi: It's cool. // I realized I'd be losing something if I stayed there. // More than that, I'm still pretty down about losing my Apple powers.

Grimm: Yeah... it happens~~~ // You probably lost them because the Earth lost its threat.

Satoshi: Oh, so that means they might come back if the Earth is in danger again! // Just watch, I bet it'll actually be really soon...

Sfx: *pon*

Grimm: NO WAY?!

Satoshi: Yes way!

Next issue will have Usuta Kyousuke sensei's special Oneshot. We'll be presenting "Daburu Mamedaichi!"