Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo 1

[Scanslation with this translation reserved for Otakami]
[all nice and better]

Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo
Chapter 1
[notes at end]

p.1
Judge: Defendant, Shizuka Aida!
Judge: Even after fully taking into account your age of 16 years...

Judge: The crime you have committed is far too atrocious.
You are hereby...

Judge: Sentenced to execution! [Red (Truth)]
That day, my execution was decided...

Side: A crime to which not even juvenile law applies. He has received the death sentence through extrajudicial measures!!


p.2
Well, naturally. Since I –
Murdered my entire family.

My kind parents,
My adorable little sister,
I killed them all.


p.3
Three days until the execution...

Shizuka: ...Oh yeah, I wonder if I get a final meal.
Shizuka: If there is, what should I have...

Hibiki: I don’t know anything about a final meal,

Hibiki: But there [i ]is[i ] a “last request.”
The one who appeared was...


p.4
Hibiki Aida. The younger sister that I had killed.
[big red text] What would you wish for
[big red text] In that last moment of your life!?

Shinigami-sama ni Saigo no Onegai wo
A young, energetic genius appears!!
Yama-guchi-Mi-ko-to
Chapter 1 [bottom left]


p.5
Shizuka: ...Hi...Hibiki?
You were alive?

Hibiki: Yep, I’m Hibiki.
Hibiki: Except... I’m not alive.

Hibiki: After I died I became a “shinigami.”
[note: Since this is chapter 1: Shinigami is “god of death” in Japanese, often grim reaper-esque.]
Shizuka: ...
Hibiki: A shinigami’s job is to guide people’s souls after death
And to “remedy” those who are greatly dissatisfied with their death.

Hibiki: So!
SFX: crouch
Hibiki: I came for you since I heard you were going to die soon.

Hibiki: Actually, we’re not supposed to get assigned to relatives,
But I made them give me the job.
Hibiki: You know why?
Shizuka: ...No.


p.6
Hibiki: To make sure you go to hell,
Hibiki: You murderer!

Hibiki: The one in charge is entrusted with how you are dealt with.
Hibiki: Which means it’s up to me whether you go to hell or even to the deepest pits of hell!

Shizuka: ...I see.
So it’s certain I’m going to hell...
Hibiki: That’s right! You scared!? You’re scared, right!!
SFX: Ahahahaha
Hibiki: It’s your natural retribution. You’re going to keep on suffering in agony even after you're dead!!


p.7
Shizuka: I’m relieved.
SFX: grin

Hibiki: NYAAAAA!!

Hibiki: You’ve always been like that... Always smirking, I can never tell what you’re thinking.
SFX: grasp

Hibiki: You were always reading creepy books,
Hibiki: And writing eerie passages, saying it was a novel or something...

Hibiki: ......
Hibiki: ...Still, *mutter*


p.8
Shizuka: Still?
SFX: flustered
Hibiki: St...still...s...s...

Hibiki: So all I can say it, it was all so stupid!
SFX: hmph
Hibiki: Oh, whatever. I’ll leave you for later.

Hibiki: Let’s go!
Shizuka: ...? Go where?

Hibiki: Outside.

Shizuka: Wha?


p.9
News: This is a follow-up report on Boy A who had escaped from prison after being sentenced to death the other day.

News: Still unable to determine his whereabouts,

News: The police, taking his viciousness into account, are considering to disclose Boy A’s identity.

Shizuka: Hey, Hibiki... Isn’t this pretty bad after all?
Hibiki: It’s fine. I’ll bring you back once I’m done.


p.10
Hibiki: Oh,
This is it.
Shizuka: This is... what?

Hibiki: My job!
This is where my other target is.
SFX: ping

Hibiki: I have to do this job as a condition for letting me handle you.
Colleague Shouko
Shouko: Thanks

Hibiki: The other job of a shinigami,
The “last request.”
Hibiki: As I mentioned earlier, a remedy for people who are greatly dissatisfied with their death... that.

Hibiki: People who die with strong regrets often become those so-called “evil spirits.”
To prevent that, we grant them just one wish before they die.
Hibiki: That’s the “last request.”


p.11
Shizuka: The “last... request,” huh.
Hibiki: Hmph...... For your information –

Shizuka: A murderer like me does not have that right... correct?

Hibiki: ...That's right.
Hibiki: Obviously!

Hibiki: ...Well, let’s meet with the target.
SFX: ding dong

SFX: open
Ye~s?
Asasmi: ...Um,
May I ask who you are?


p.12
Hibiki: You must be Asami Arisawa.

Hibiki: I’m Hibiki.
Shinigami Hibiki.
Hibiki: I have come to grant you your “last request.”

Hibiki: I regret to inform you that in seven days’ time...

Hibiki: You will die.
Asami: Huh?


p.13
Hibiki: Though you may not be able to believe this all of a sudden...

Asami: ...No, in fact I’ve always had a weak heart,
And the doctors tell me that I don’t have much longer.

Asami: And most of all,
Asami: This profile... It’s a bit generalized, but accurate.
There are also... a number of things that only I should know.
Hibiki: Then?

Asami: ...Yes.
Asami: It’s unfortunate, but,

Asami: I believe you, shinigami-san.
Hibiki: ...That’s good.


p.14
Hibiki: Then, onto the main issue. Do you have a “last request?”
Asami: ...About that.

Asami: The thing is, I’m troubled because there are two.
Hibiki: ...Two, huh. I’m sorry, but you can basically only have one request.
Tell me what you have for now.

Asami: First, I’m looking for someone. Someone I’d like to meet once before I die.
Hibiki: I see. That’s a common request.

Asami: The other is a healthy body.
Asami: There’s a lot I’d like to talk about with this person, not just meeting with him,
But I think it would be physically difficult for me with this body...

Asami: ...Yep,
I’ve decided.
Asami: I'll choose the healthy body.


p.15
Asami: The truth is I have some leads to that person’s whereabouts,
Asami: So I thought I could search for myself if I had a healthy body.

Hibiki: Understood.
Hibiki: However, having a healthy body won’t change the fact that you will die in a week.
Asami: Of course.

Hibiki: Your clothes, please.

SFX [Hibiki]: hiss
Hibiki: You turn around!
SFX: panic


p.16
Asami: Yay <3

Asami: Thank you, I feel better than ever!

Asami: All right, I’ve got to prepare right away.
Hibiki: Oh yeah, who do you want to find? A relative?
Asami: Oh, I haven’t told you yet?

Asami: [bold]Boy A,
The one everyone’s talking about.[bold]


p.17
Hibiki: The one who killed his whole family three months ago
And was sentenced to death as a minor?
Asami: That’s right.
The Boy A who is currently a fugitive.

Asami: I believe that he was falsely accused.

Hibiki: Huh?
...What the heck?

Hibiki: Wait a minute,
Hibiki: On what grounds are you saying that?

Asami: Are you...
Asami: Interested?
SFX: sparkle


p.18
Asami: Due to my health, I spend most of my time at home on the internet...
That’s how I gained an interest in it.
Asami: There are essentially too many inexplicable aspects to this affair.

Boy A was born to a very typical family and lived with his parents and a younger sister.
He was well behaved and there are no traces of him being bullying.

Yet he resorted to that crime.
Apparently the only things at the scene were the boy with a weapon in his hand and the butchered bodies of his family.


p.19
Hibiki: Exactly! So there’s no mistake that he’s the culprit.

SFX: clack x 3
Asami: He did apparently plead guilty after being arrested.

Asami: But it was just too fast.
Boy A’s execution was decided [i ]in only three months.[i ]
Asami: Normally that would be unthinkable.

Asami: Once can only guess there was “something special” about it.
Hibiki: ......

Hibiki: But isn’t that not enough to believe in a “false accusation?”
Asami: Yes.
The reason I felt he was “falsely accused” was his novel.
SFX: clack x 4
Hibiki: His novel?


p.20
Asami: It’s titled “F.”
Asami: It’s a novel about family.

Asami: They say that this is an online novel Boy A wrote before the incident.
Asami: It’s also said to be what motivated him.

Asami: At the climax of the story, the elder brother slaughters his family.

SFX: gulp
Hibiki: ......


p.21
Hibiki: Come with me for a sec!

Hibiki: Was that true...? Was that... something [i ]you[i ] wrote?

Shizuka: ...Uh huh. There’s no mistake there.

Hibiki: Then what? You mixed up your novel with reality?
Hibiki: You murdered us for something like that?

Shizuka: ...W...well –

SFX: pee~k
Asami: Uh... excuse me, is everything alright?
Asami: This is where it gets important.


p.22
Asami: [bold]I’ll be frank.[bold]
Asami: [bold]The person who wrote this could not have killed.[bold]

Asami: You can tell if you read closely.
This is [i ]just[i ] a novel.
Asami: Though it has some wild content,
It’s a good novel, calculated with detached composure.

Hibiki: B...but, there should have been a lot of books about bizarre murders in his room...
Book [top]: ABC's of Murder
Book: Testament of a Criminal Condemned to Death
Asami: While it’s true that the media made a big deal of that as well...

Asami: I think it’s quite the opposite.
Asami: He was reading up on it because it was something he [i ]was not[i ] familiar with.
Hibiki: ...No way...


p.23
Asami: ......Excuse me, the boy over there has been quite all this time, but,
Asami: What do you think?

Shizuka: ...I...I –

Hibiki: Answer her.
Hibiki: I'm interested in your opinion as well.

Shizuka: ......
I don’t know.


p.24
Hibiki: Don’t pull that on me.
Hibiki: It’s one or the other.

Hibiki: Did he do it? [1]

Hibiki: Or did he not?

Asami: Hey, hey, hey, please calm down.
SFX: pick up
Hibiki: Let go!
SFX: flail

Asami: I’m going to meet with the one in question and confirm it now.


p.25
Hibiki: That’s right! What did you mean by “leads?”
SFX: clack x 3
Asami: This.

Hibiki: Boy A’s... [bold]fansite!?[bold]
Boy A Fansite
/Forums
Asami: He has been deified by a group of people and they made this site.

Top right: Boy A-sama escaped. Finally ascended to godhood.
Mid right: Looking forward to another tragedy!
Top mid: Police distressed on disclosure of his identity. Just as A-sama wants.
Asami: And take note of this one post.
Bottom left: Succeeded in contacting A-sama. Agreed to participate in our meet-up tomorrow.


p.26
Hibiki: That’s... got to be a lie.
Because Boy A is right here.

Asami: I don't think this could be true either.
Asami: But the one who wrote this was the “webmaster”... in other words, someone not in a position to be able to mess around. [2]

Asami: I think that he has [i ]something[i ] at the very least.
Asami: With any luck, we’ll be able to meet Boy A,
And there will at least be some clues.

Asami: [bold]For example,
Who the real perpetrator was...[bold]

Asami: I may be jumping to conclusions a bit,
But thinking about it, I just can’t sit still.
Asami: I want to go to this meet-up!


p.27
Shizuka: Is it OK if I attend that meet-up as well?

Hibiki: ...What the heck are you thin...
Asami: Really!?

SFX: grab
Asami: Actually, I was scared to go alone.
I’m relieved there will be a boy with me.
SFX: gya~

Hibiki: ...Hey... you guys.
Asami: Yes?

SFX: squeeze

Hibiki: ......
Asami: Oh, could it be,


p.28
Asami: That you were this shinigami-san’s boyfriend!?
SFX: blush
Hibiki: NOOOOO!!!
SFX: flustered

Hibiki: There’s no way! Besides, why would a shinigami –
Asami: I guess so... and he seems to be a normal human, no matter how you look.
But I kind of felt a serious air between you two.
Hibiki: Well obviously! Because we’re –

Asami: ...We’re?
Hibiki: We’re...

Hibiki: ...We...are –


p.29

Shizuka: She's gone!

SFX: tap

Hibiki: This is the office.
Was I compulsorily transferred?
Shouko: Hi...Hi...biki

Hibiki: Wait, you!?
SFX: quiver
Shouko: Hibiki~


p.30
Saaya: Hi~bi~ki~
SFX: irritated
SFX [Hibiki]: startle

SFX: pee~k
Hibiki: Sa...

Hibiki: Saaya!!
Hibiki’s boss, Shinigami Saaya

Saaya: Hibiki... what are you doing swapping jobs without permission?


p.31
Hibiki: Forget that, hurry and send me back down to earth!
Hibiki: Just a little more and I might have figured something out!!

Saaya: Shut it!!
SFX [Hibiki]: Ack

Saaya: Are you still fussing over what happened in your life?
SFX: sigh...
Hibiki: ...I want to know

Hibiki: What exactly happened then.
SFX: grasp...
Hibiki: I won’t say any more once I find that out...

Hibiki: You know, don’t you!? Tell me!
Saaya: .........


p.32
Saaya: No. It’s generally prohibited for shinigami to involve personal thoughts and memories.
Saaya: Whether they be good or bad, bringing your emotions into your work will only serve as an impediment.

Saaya: And, as I’ve told you over and over, I don’t know anything.
Hibiki: You’re lying! [i ]You were in charge of me[i ], there’s no way you don’t –
Saaya: Leave it be!!

Saaya: If you pursue this any further, I will have no choice but to erase your memories.

Saaya: Don’t make me do something like that...

Saaya: Only... we shinigami do not have the right to look at others’ memories...
But we do not have the right to stop people who want to talk about it.

Saaya: You should be able to finish the formal job change procedures in one day.
Saaya: There are two days left until your brother's death...


p.33
Saaya: You'll have one full day. Have a nice, long talk with him.

Hibiki: Yes!

This is my last chance...
I’ll ask him properly about what happened then...

—3 months ago
My memories remaining from that time.


p.34
Father: Stop it Shizuka!!
What? ...My father’s voice?

Hibiki: !!
Father!!?

...Who’s that?
Doing something like this...
SFX: drip drip
...I can’t get up.
My legs... something’s wrong.
------!!?
NOOOOOO!!!!


p.35
Hibiki: ...Huh?...
The pain’s gone... Was that a dream?

Saaya: It wasn’t.

Saaya: ...I’m sorry, but you’re dead.
Hibiki: I’m floating...

...What the... Is that me?

Father...

Mother...

Onii...wha?
[note: Also since this is chapter 1: "onii-chan" is “older bro.”]


p.36
Did you...
SFX: drip drip
Do this?

Unforgivable.
Unforgivable.
This is unforgivable!! [3]

...That’s all I could think at the time...

But as time passed by, I remembered...
That guy was always smirking and I can never tell what he’s thinking...
Always reading creepy books...
And writing eerie passages, saying it was a novel or something...
...Still,


p.37
You were so kind...

I didn’t...
Actually hate you.. you know.

Perhaps the criminal was someone else.
This time I’ll make sure to find out.
Hibiki: Alright, I’m finished.

Hibiki: Here I go!
SFX: zoom
It should be just about time for the meet-up.


p.38-39

Hibiki: [bold]What the?[bold]
Everyone’s... dead...


p.40
Asami: Eeeek!!!
SFX: ah!
Hibiki: Is that Asami’s voice!?

No way!
SFX: run

SFX: run
I don’t want to think about it.

It can’t...
Tell me it’s not!


p.41
SFX: drip drip

Shizuka: ...Hi...Hibiki.
SFX: pant pant

Hibiki: What do you think you’re doing?
——It’s... the same as back then.


p.42
Asami: Shinigami-san, help!!

Asami: He was Boy A!!
My theory was wrong, he's crazy!!
SFX: swing
Shizuka: Wai…


p.43
Hibiki: SHIZUKAAA!!!!
Shizuka: Hibiki!!?

Shizuka: Please let me go Hibiki. Listen to…
Hibiki: Quiet, shut up!

Hibiki: I don’t want… to hear anything out of you!!
Dammit! I wanted to believe, I wanted to believe in you!!

Asami: Teehee <3. This makes seven.


p.44
SFX: splash

SFX: fall


p.45
SFX: sit

SFX: grin


p.46
Hibiki: Huh... What happened?
SFX: pouring

Asami: I’m so sorry, shinigami-san...
Asami: I’ve lied a whole lot.

Asami: For starters, my “last request.” That was a lie.
Asami: What I really wanted the most was...

Asami: “Just once, to try killing someone.”
Asami: “...desu <3” [accuracy FTL? :P]


p.47
Asami: I have two hobbies, surfing the net and... MMORPG’s.*
*[I believe this is what they usually refer to when they say "net games."]
I especially like games in which you just keep hunting.
Asami: And hunting...
And hunting...
Asami: And while hunting,
Asami: I started to want to “hunt” in real life.

Asami: So, if you are going to hunt, it’s gotta be [i ]humans[i ].
‘Cause there’s 6 billion of them, it’s only reducing that by a few, right <3

Asami: ...Only, I didn’t want to cause trouble for my parents whom I love.
Asami: I thought to gather people as degenerate as possible and kill them, [i ]blaming it on someone else[i ]... but,

Asami: Ultimately, because of my body,
it was all just a delusion of mine...
Asami: But that’s when I chanced upon two miracles!

Asami: “A healthy body,”
Asami: And Boy A's escape.


p.48
Asami: My plan was nearly perfect at the point when those conditions were fulfilled.
Asami: Targets:
The scum who worship a homicidal maniac
Asami: Scapegoat:
Boy A
Asami: And the “healthy body” to carry it out.

The police will definitely believe Boy A was responsible when they see the discussion on that website.

Hibiki: Hold on...
Wasn’t the discussion on that just site a coincidence?
It couldn’t have been so convenient!

Asami: Oh, I’m sorry.
That’s the second lie.

Asami: [bold]I’m the one who runs that site.[bold]


p.49
Asami: I wrote in that “got in contact with Boy A” part when you two left the room.
SFX: clack
Asami: Of course that was supposed to be a lie at the time.

Asami: By the way, the reason I was so happy he would come with me was...
Asami: For the one flaw in the plan, if Boy A was arrested prior to the execution,
To have a "spare" scapegoat.

Asami: But soon after you disappeared...
Asami: Boy A’s identity revealed to the public.

Asami: I was almost delirious with my good fortune
Asami: When I realized that he was Boy A.


p.50
Asami: Then all I had to do was put my targets to sleep...
Asami: And enjoy the hunt...

But I did not expect him to oppose me.
I didn’t know what to do when he took my weapon.

Hibiki: ...Boy A’s escape?
A healthy body?
Hibiki: When he took your weapon?
Hibiki: ...It’s all my fault.

Asami: [bold]You’re mistaken.[bold]


p.51
Asami: It’s all [i ]thanks[i ] to you.
Asami: I was able to kill seven people.

Asami: Thanks for granting my wish before I died, shinigami-san <3

SFX: fall
Hibiki: ...It can’t be.

Hibiki: Then was that a lie too?
When you said “Boy A was falsely accused.”


p.52
Asami: Aah... That part was true.

Asami: I've confirmed it for myself.
Asami: He tried to defend those scum with his life, you know.

Asami: You would have understood too, if you were with us for a bit longer.
That guy could not have committed murder.

Hibiki: ...I already,

Hibiki: I already
Knew that... from the very beginning.


p.53
Shizuka: ...Hi...Hibi...ki

Asami: Huh!?
SFX: Whoops~
Asami: You’re still alive? Though I felt a little bad for killing a Samaritan,
I might be more annoyed that I didn’t finish you off.

Asami: !!

SFX: collapse
Asami: Wha!?

Hibiki: I’ve “cancelled” your “last request.”
Hibiki: Your body returned to how it originally was, disabled by heart disease.


p.54
Shizuka: ...Hi...Hibiki.
SFX: pant
Hibiki: What?

Shizuka: I...I’ll tell... you, about what happened... that day...

Shizuka: From the morning there was nothing out of... the ordinary.
Same as usual...
Shizuka: Only... as night fell,

Shizuka: I... don’t know.

Shizuka: I don’t have... any memories... of that night.


p.55
Shizuka: What I do remember... was only after I was caught by the police.

Hibiki: You should have told that to the police!
Why did you admit to it right away?

Shizuka: They didn’t ask me anything.
Evidence, motives... even juvenile law... they didn’t explain... anything.
Shizuka: What's more, the investigation and the trial proceeded on... the basis that I was guilty.

Shizuka: Not having any memories, I,
SFX: pant
Shizuka: As a result... started to believe I was guilty as well.

Hibiki: ...It’s,
SFX: drip
Hibiki: It’s my fault.
Shizuka: Hi... Hibi...ki?

At that time, under the impression that you were the perpetrator,
Wished with my “last request,”


p.56
Hibiki: To give you the greatest punishment!

Hibiki: ...But it always bothered me... I wanted to talk with you once...
Shizuka: ...I see, that’s how it was.

Shizuka: ...Hibiki, I want you to believe me. I still don’t know the truth... but...
SFX: pant pant
Shizuka: I loved our family.
I have never once wished for them to die!


p.57
Hibiki: I know onii-chan!
Hibiki: Because we’re our only siblings.

Hibiki: Let’s find the truth together.
SFX: pant pant
Shizuka: ...Su...re.

Hibiki: It’s a promise, onii-chan.
Shizuka: ...Uh huh.
[I have a blank page here that I don't think is supposed to be there.]


p.58-59
SFX: slice

Asami: Yay <3
Asami: That makes seven [i ]for sure[i ]. [4]


p.60
Hibiki: N,

Hibiki: NOOOOOO!!!!
An unreasonable death strikes!!

~~notes~~

[1] Because subject is omitted, it is the same as saying “Did you do it? Or did you not?” but depends on context. E.g. to Asami, Hibiki is just asking him his opinion.
[2] First reaction was lol wut, but now it’s reasonable to me, all things considered.
[3] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsUnforgivable :) If it’s your first time there, it may change your life. But try not to waste your day away.
[4] Now that’s how to make suspension of disbelief