Alive 66

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Megumi: Yeah, it’s me, Megumi! Tama-chan is with me. / We’re… // here!

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Megumi: Really! We’re at the airport. // Where are you right now, Mickey?

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Megumi: Wow! So pretty!

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Megumi: Look Tama-chan!

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Chapter 66: Like A Family

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Yukie: The “heart”…. // The “heart”…

Taisuke: Get back!!

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Taisuke: Nami!! / You all should get out of here!!

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Taisuke: It’s Hirose!!

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McPherson: Hirose… Hirose Yuuichi… // That kid… // That… / is a person?

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Taisuke: Hirose…

<grinds teeth>

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Nami: Kanou! Don’t!

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<Bubbling sound>

<Swoop>

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Yuuta: The platform is going to sink!

Rei: I know!!

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Yuuta: Why isn’t anyone coming!? // Come on you guys!!

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Taisuke: AAH!

Nami: Ow!

D4: We’re sinking…!

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Horner: Aah!! // This is it! The true power!!

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Text above Horner: Yay!

McPherson: What is that fool doing over there…!?

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McPherson: We have to go get Doctor Horner! // The “heart” is… // D4!!

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D4: What?

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Dan: <panting> The “heart”… // I have to get away from the “heart”…

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Dan: It’s going to continue killing everyone until it’s alone… // But what it wants is…

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Dan: Chaos…

Nami: Ugh…

<pain>

Chaos… // chaos…

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<slide>

Yukie: Where is the “heart”…!? // Where is it…? // <panting>

<bang> <rumble>

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Yukie: The “heart” has captured me…

<sliding sounds>

Yukie: But // what I want is different from it’s desires…

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Taisuke: Ughh…

Yukie: I have to protect Taisuke with my life since he said he’d sacrifice himself for us… // Rei and everyone accepted this fate. // But… // I haven’t told Aoi yet…

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Yukie: She’s… going to hate me again…

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Yukie: But I must do this!

<lights up>

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Yukie: Hirose Yuuichi’s willpower // is not complete yet.

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<panting>

Chaos… // no… // it doesn’t make sense. // If there’s a chance for us // it’s there…

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Taisuke: Ow… // Waah!!

<crackle> <swoosh>

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<crackle><swoosh>

Taisuke: Yukie-san get away from there!! // Don’t… / get closer to it… // Yuki…

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Yukie: I have something to ask you. / Which one is your true desire? // Do you want to destroy everything and be alone? // Or… // do you want to see your friends?

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<stops>

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Yukie: <laughs quietly>

<grip>

Taisuke: Wha / what are you doing… // Stop!!

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Taisuke: STOP!!

Yukie: Don’t try to stop me. // I kept you alive until now to use you in these final moments.

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I kept you alive // and treated you like family // so that you wouldn’t resist against becoming the “container.”

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I used all the comrades that I could use. // It would have gone more smoothly is Yuuta’s isolation power didn’t get cut off.

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Yukie: Even if this wasn’t the right way to do it…

<panting>

If my family will be saved this way…!

<pant>

Yukie: Hirose-kun… // your wish won’t come true…!

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Yukie: To reject the world // is the same thing as rejecting yourself. // So…

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Yukie: You should die alone.

<rustle><rustle>

Taisuke: Jun-nii! / Yukie-san is… // inside…!

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<flies>

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<flutter>

Yukie: Ugghh…

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Hirose: No way.

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Yukie: Oh… She’s going to hate me…

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Yukie: She’s going to think I left her again…

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Jun: Ugh!?

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<splash>

Dan: One more… // old friend…

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Megumi: Hirose-kun?

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Tama: Don’t touch her! // Get out of here!!

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<startled>

<bubbling>

Tama: Oh no! The “heart”…!

Megumi: Wait, that’s impossible…

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Tama: It's your fault!

Megumi: What is!?

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Megumi: Is it the terrible twos? // [She is 2 after all…]

Tama: Oh well… // Next / time.

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Taisuke: Agh! // Hirose! <panting> // Hirose!?

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To be continued in Volume 18