DEATHTOPIA 6

Deathtopia by Yamada Yoshinobu



Deathtopia - [Chapter 6 - It’s a Beautiful World]

P01
Saki: We’ve arrived, let’s get off the car.

Insert: Is the place they’ve brought him to… possibly?!
Chapter 6 - It’s a Beautiful World

P02
Yui: Over here,
We’re entering through the back entrance.

Koh: …Is this place the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department?
Yui: That’s right though that’s not all there is to it.

Yui: The Public Safety is also in this building.

Koh, thinking: …The Public Safety? If I remember well they’re special police forces that handle any terrorists threats…
Is what they told me while I was accompanying them
But then, where are they taking me off to…?

P03
Plate: Special Crimes Investigation Division 6
Koh, thinking: The Special Crimes Investigation Division 6…?

Yui: Wait here,
We have to report on the Kirishima incident
As well as explain things about you.

Koh thinking: They sure are taking a while…
They’ve been in here for 15 minutes already… What the heck are they doing?

P04
Yui: Sorry for making you wait.
It’s alright now, come on in.

Koh: Sorry for intruding.

P05
??? : So you’re Fujimura?
I’m this division’s chief…
My name is Kokonoe.

Koh: Ah… Nice to meet you.
I’m called Fujimura Koh.

Kokonoe: I apologize, even though I expressly made you come here this place’s a mess
Which after all is understandable since this office got finished only last month, you see.
Go on, sit.
Koh: A-Alright.

Koh: …Erm… the truth is that I…
Kokonoe: I know, they told me about you.

Kokonoe: They told me you can see “them”…Is that true?
Koh: I-It is.

Kokonoe: Hm, even though I heard it from them directly I still have a hard time believing you.
Koh: What? But, they’re the same as me, aren’t…

P06
Kokonoe: Not exactly. They’re only able to faintly feel “their” presence which in a sense is the same as having an ability to sense the supernatural, or something like that.
Also, depending on the situation they’re in, this ability they have turns out to be completely useless.

Koh: I-Is that so?

Kokonoe: …Hm, I’ve never heard of something like it before;
That someone would be able to see “those people”…

Koh: I-I,
I came hear because I wanted to know more about “them”…

Kokonoe: I guess I can at the very least tell you that much.

Kokonoe: However, I’ll only let you know as far as I judge it necessary…
Can I trust you not to tell anyone else about it?

Koh: Y-Yes…

P07
Kokonoe: Here, take a look at this.

Ugh…!
Koh, thinking: How awful…

Kokonoe: Fujimura, tell me…
Why do you think people kill people?

Kokonoe: You see, when the kill is made out of hatred or for money, while the crime in itself is digesting, the reasons behind it can be understood.
However, the people shown here weren’t killed for that,

Kokonoe: But only so that the person who did this could enjoy herself.
…Can you understand the heart of murderers like these?

P08
Koh: N-No, not at all…

Kokonoe: Obviously not. I’m the same as you on that regard…
Still, how will you answer after you’ve been through to the end of what I’m about to tell you…?
Koh: Eh?

Kokonoe: This guy here, called Howard Dunning
Is a devilish homicide that murdered over 20 men and women throughout 3 states in America in 1990 and,
Seeing as he was a really sly serial killer, he left no evidence on the scene of his killings.

Kokonoe: However, as a result of an analysis done on hairs he’d left behind at a crime scene and analyzed through means of a DNA expertise, the newest technology available in those days
That man was successfully arrested after agreeing to the terms.

Kokonoe: …However, that’s not all there was to it…

Kokonoe: You see, according to that DNA expertise,
The researchers found out that his nucleotide sequence strangely differed from that of a normal humans.

P09
Koh: H-How exactly different…?
Kokonoe: Using his as a start, DNA expertise began to be made on various serial killers
And, the results of these expertise were terrifying.

Kokonoe: Several people possessing the same nucleotide sequence as Dunning were discovered;

Kokonoe: But doubtful of these findings, the researchers started the expertise anew…
Until they arrived at the single conclusion

Kokonoe: That a primitive factor
Strongly turned up in their base sequence…

Kokonoe: Or, in other words,
We can say that phenomenon was “atavism”.

Koh: A-atavism…?
What the heck is this…?

P10
Kokonoe: You see throughout the process of evolution, humans have lost various abilities…
Humans once possessed much more abilities.

Kokonoe: Let’s see, for example… I assume you’ve heard of the sea cucumber possessing a great regenerative ability, right?
When predated upon, the sea cucumber retches up his internal organs then thaw to sludge
But will restore its tissues in a few hours and be able to move once again.

Kokonoe: Or even the chimpanzee, which has a smaller body than that of humans’
Yet, possesses 4 times the strength of humans.

Kokonoe: My point is that “they” are beings that have manifested the genes
That while they were once present in humans’ bodies now lie dormant. {note for proofreader: he means that the genes humans once had in their bodies but are now lying dormant in the bodies of humans; ‘those people’ are being that have manifested these genes}

Koh: So this is what…
Cheaters are…!

Kokonoe: Indeed.
“They” are human beings without being human beings

P11
Kokonoe: And possess strength that exceeds that of humans
As well as horrifying brutality which is most likely due to their atavism.

Kokonoe: I don’t know how many of them there are in total
But, several hundreds of people become victims to their actions every year
And the number of these crimes increases every year…

Kokonoe: Not to mention that due to the development of networks in recent years
They’ve now come to possess their own means of connections.

Kokonoe: …And well, in other words that thing you can see
Is probably some kind of power of vision you received through atavism much like those people…

P12
Kokonoe: Tough, that only holds true if you really can do something like that…

Koh: W-Wait, even I don’t understand how I suddenly became able to see these things…
I’m a normal human…!

Kokonoe: About that… Fujimura
In bubble SFX : *TAP*

SFX: *CRACK*
Koh: Ghaack!!

Kokonoe: This is exactly what we want to know.
Koh: Gaah…
Haack…

Kokonoe: C’mon, take away his stuff.
Yui: Y-Yes, sir.

P13
Kokonoe: We’d get in quite a bind in you told outsiders about this you see.
But here, I’ll entrust you with this one.
Koh: W-What are you…

Kokonoe: I already mentioned it before but these girls have the ability to perceive cheaters in human skin,
And, while this kind of power is only referred to as “intuition” or even as the ability to “sense the supernatural” among commoners,
We pull out all the stops in our possession to look for people who proves themselves to be these wolves in sheep clothing.

Kokonoe: Yet, we’ve never heard of someone having a power like yours before
So, we can’t really well leave you be, can we…?

Kokonoe: From now, you’ll be under our custody so of course
We’ll want to check up your body.
Koh: A-As if I’d let you do that…

P14
Kokonoe: Whoa there…! You’d better not fight it.
After all, the cheaters existence is hidden to commoners so as to not create a panic…
And, to top it all, we also belong to a secret organization so…
I can’t be too scrupulous about my means.

Kokonoe: We’ve even been given permission to carry guns in order to face off against these monsters that have strayed from the path of humans
Which means we even have permission to kill…

Kokonoe: Here, look at this.
It must ring a bell, doesn’t it?

Kokonoe: That’s right… it’s that crime you reported.
While the culprit’s already been arrested
Your fingerprints were found all around the house so…

P15
Kokonoe: I’d even be able to frame you as the murderer if I wanted to.
I’m sure your family would feel really sad if it did turn out like this, right?
Koh: F-Fuck you! You’re playing dirty…!

Kokonoe: The girls will have you
Under a 24/7 surveillance.

Kokonoe: Alright girls, go back to today’s designated place ahead,
I still have business with him.
Girls: Yes, sir!

Kokonoe: I’ll now have you undergo a medical check at our division’s hospital,
A very thorough one.

Kokonoe: Don’t make that face, Fujimura.

P16
Kokonoe: After all, we’re only the allies of Justice
That protect the people from the shadows…
Against the monsters that run rampant in the world and can’t help but make of this Utopia a Deathtopia so

Kokonoe: Listen to what the Allies of Justice tell you, alright?

P17
???: Alright, here you are.

Koh: …Will I be living in this mansion?
???: Yeah. You’ll be living in room 302.

???: We’ll be monitoring you from here 24/7 so
Don’t even think of escaping.
Koh: You don’t need to tell me!

P18
Koh: Damnit! They examined my body from head to foot…

Koh thinking: I know they told me it’d take a while for the results to come out…
But, I hope something will actually become clear with them…

Plate : Kisaragi
Koh thinking: So that one called Kisaragi lives in 301, eh?

Koh thinking: …And, since I’m 302…
That means, the two’s rooms further ahead are those two’s right…?

P19
Koh thinking: So in the end, this has gotta mean I’m being watched from both sides…
Shit! It’s just like I’m being put on leash…

Koh: …Eh?

Koh: W-Why is the room so spacious…?

Koh: A-Are rooms are connected between them through the center…?
But why…?

P20
Saki: Huh?!

Koh: I-I-I’m sorry!!

Koh: I-I didn’t mean to peek on you or anything…
Only that since I just arrived here… I don’t know my right from my left.

Saki thinking: Hm…

P21
Saki: Phew, that just really surprised me, is all.
It appears the examination ended pretty quickly.
Seriously, they should have at least phoned us ahead if they were going to drop you off.

Koh: I-I don’t get it.
Why are the rooms connected like this…?

Saki: It’s because our enemies have high abilities so we wouldn’t be much of a threat for them by going one-on-one, you know?
In bubble SFX: *PSHHH*

Saki: And, that’s also exactly why we constantly need to act as a group.
This also explains why the rooms where built that way.
You see, the separated entrances only serve to camouflage ourselves in the eyes of the common people.
Well, rooms we each sleep in are separated though so rest assured.

Koh: Ha-
Having to live that way will be pretty troubling…

Saki: Eh? Why is that?

P22
Yui: I’m against it, I don’t want to live with him…

Maya: Really, you’re as stiff as always Yui…

Yui: That’s not what I meant…!
It’s just that I really can’t afford the time to get concerned with him…!

P23
Yui: Even you know,
Why I’m cooperating with the Police… right?

Maya: Saki, I’m pretty sure you, me and even the others
Know why, right?

Yui: I apologize…

P24
Maya: Anyway, this shouldn’t be a problem, right?
After all, he’s pretty cute

Maya: And he even supported you a little
So, he can’t be all that bad, can he…?
Yui: Y-you don’t need to remind me of that, do you…

Maya: Still, I don’t really know why…
But, I’ve felt ill at ease
Ever since we met him…
Insert : This is as far as Vol.1 goes. Next time, more of the mysteries come to light?!