Alive 65

P97

Anzu: The hospital? Are you sick?

Rei: I dunno…

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Rei: Aoi keeps saying weird things lately, / and she’s been moving really strangely lately…

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<footsteps>

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Yukie: No way… // Aoi too?

P98

Anzu: Mama!

Rei: Jun…!

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Yukie: I’m home…

Chapter 65: Mom

P99

Rei: So… The whole suicide disaster and the reason why Aoi’s acting strange… // is all because of that?

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Rei: I don’t get it…

Jun: [This is my power…]

Rei: No, I get that…

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<click>

Anzu: A foreign species…

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Anzu: An unknown species comes to earth from outer space… / That’s a common scenario.

Rei: You play too many video games…

P100

Anzu: Jun and Aoi turned out okay and have been coexisting with regular people. // It’s also a common scenario for the foreign species to be superior and they disrupt the current ecosystem.

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Anzu: Don’t use your power in the house, Jun. / You’re going to break my PC…

Jun sfx: <sad>

Rei: You’ve accepted all of this? [You’re listening to what your little sis says?]

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Yukia: I’m glad Anzu explained it all. / I’m bad with words…

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Yukie: But I can say this much… // If we leave “Akuro’s heart” the way it is…

P101

Yukie: The world will be destroyed.

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Rei: You finally came home after being gone for a year, / and this is what you come back with…


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Rei: Alright. // You’re leaving again ‘cuz you can’t leave this thing the way it is? / How many years do we have to wait for you to come home next time!?

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Yukie: I’m staying here…

P102

Yukie: This might be a more brutal thing to do to you all… // But this is the only way I can protect you. // We have to find the comrade that had it fall onto him… // The “final weak being” that was born from it.

P103

Rei: I get what mama was saying! // It’s better that the “heart” doesn’t exist!!

P104

The “heart” longs for…

P105

Former friends…

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Yukie: Impossible…! // The two are going to meet…!?

P106

Dan: Eek!!

P107

Nami & Taisuke: This is…!

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<shaking>

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Horner: The “heart” is coming!!

P108

Yuuta… // Rei-kun…

Yukie: Taisuke! // Megumi…

Taisuke: Huh?

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Yukie: Nothing… // The “heart” is coming! // Hirose Yuuichi too!!

P109

<splash>

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Rei: Hey, Yuuta, look!

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Yuuta: Yeah… // That’s “Akuro’s heart”…

P110

Yuuta: I’m so happy…

P111

Yuuta: To see it again…

P112

P113

Horner: That’s it…!!

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McPherson: [Hmmm…] // What?

P114

McPherson: They’re crying…?

P115

Nami: Why am I… crying…!?

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Yukie: Because it’s such a great thing… // It’s too wonderful…

Nami: Waahh

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Yukie: What does it look like to you?

Nami: It’s nostalgic…

P116

Yukie: Something we lost… / Something we wanted… // That’s how we feel it. // That’s why we want to reach out for it… // Even if it kills us…

P117

Nami: Why is Kanou okay…?

P118

Yukie: He’s not okay… / But he thinks he can’t depend on it…

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Nami: Huh?

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Yukie: I think to him… It looks… // Like his parents that died because of him…

P119

So he can’t depend on the “heart” // I knew it… / I can use him…

P120

Aoi: Mama! // This is Mama!

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Aoi: Jun-nii! / This is me!

Taisuke: Who’s this?

Aoi: An-nee!

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Taisuke: [An-nee?]

Aoi: [Anzu. Anzu-chan.]

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Taisuke: These are comrades that were looking for me…?

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Rei: About that “container” story… Wouldn’t it be easiest to just use mama’s “controlling” power? // Then just tell him to become the container?

P121

Yukie: That method would fail… // And… // I don’t want to kill everything about him, including his character …

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Rei: It’s not like he has parents that would hold a grudge… // Oh, sorry…

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Jun: I think… if his memory comes back… // He’d want to go home…

Yukie: I’m sure…

P122

Rei: Teach him some martial arts / so he knows self defense.

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Rei: And you search for the “heart”…

Anzu: Okay…

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Rei: Let’s leave it up to him to decide if he wants to be the “container”… // But I bet… he’ll…

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Taisuke: Who’s this curly hair guy?

Aoi: Rei-nii! He wants straight hair.

Taisuke: Haha!

P123

Yukie: He can be the “container”…!

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Nami: Why is it Kanou? // Why does it have to be him!?

P124

Yukie: You knew…

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Yukie: Taisuke is special… // Didn’t you feel something different about him when you first met him?

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Nami: …

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Nami: It was as if he didn’t know he was a comrade…

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Yukie: The thing that fell upon him // was very small.

P125

Yura: Are you a… // failure?

Yukie: Someone that only has a little bit like him // won’t overflow and break even after touching the “heart”…

Yuta: Something’s special about Taisuke… // He’s missing a lot of things and is incomplete. // He’s lacking a lot compared to others…

P126

Yukie: Hirose Yuuichi too… // But Katsumata tried to do something more.

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Yukie: He tried to open up the hole in his hear and make that a “container” but… // That made his ego stronger… // and he soon wanted more strength…

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Yukie: That’s why he failed.

Small text by Horner: [Eavesdropping]

P127

Yukie: By in between Taisuke and the “heart” // is an immense gap of difference!

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Yukie: He can…

Nami: I’m against this!

P128

Yukie: That’s your ego…

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Yukie: But this is mine… // watch her!

Nami: What?

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Yukie: It’s sad but it’s the first time… // I’ve ever wanted to do something for my children.

P129

Yukie: I can’t believe I wouldn’t have felt this way… // if this hadn’t fallen upon me…

<grip>

Nami: Wha…!?

P130

Yukie: I… // want to… // redo my life as a mother…!!

<rip> <rip>

P131

P132

Yukie: The piece… // of the heart…!

<panting>

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<panting>

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Yukie: Yes…

P133

Yukie: Come…!

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[Staring]

Nami: Ah! // I have to stop it, or else Kanou will…

P134

Nami: Uuh… <tears fall>

P135

Yukie: Here… // Take this…

<panting>

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Taisuke: But… // I…

P136

Taisuke: I can’t take it…!

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<panting>

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Yukie: Your parents… // will forgive you…!

<panting>

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Yukie: Hurry…

<grip>

P137

Yukie: Mitama… // I win!

P138

<wind blowing>

P139

Taisuke: Stand back!!

P140

Taisuke: Hirose…!!

Chapter 65 / END