AR∀GO 5

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ARAGO Chapter 5

Page 1:
Top right corner: The Ghost Carriage Case Climax! An extra-long 22 pages!!

Left side: That time of innocence, we can never return to it, but...

Bottom left: Chapter 5: The Things I Want To Protect

Very bottom right: All 12 volumes of SSC's [DARREN SHAN] are now on sale!

Page 2:
Panel 1:
1: Why didn't you die instead of Ewan!?

Panel 2:
1: Yesterday, that was completely wrong of me...
2: He'll probably never forgive me for it...

Right side (on Rio's arm): Under the control of the ghost, Rio has boarded the elevator...

Panel 3:
1: After saying such a horrible thing, even if I apologize...

Panel 4:
Ghost: Everyone...
Ghost: Ahead is...

Panel 5:
Ghost: The path to the underground crematorium,
Ghost: Please follow me.

Page 3:
Panel 6:
Rio: --------ah!!!!

Page 4:
Panel 1:
Arago: Gah!!!

Panel 3:
Arago SFX (small bubbles): Haa haa (panting)

Panel 4:
1: The thing that was driving the Ghost Carriage still hasn't been stopped!

Panel 5:
1: All this time that he's been possessing bus drivers one after another,
2: But the thing the coachman has been aiming for is here!!

Panel 6:
1: The building that was constructed on the ruins of that 19th century church is this hospital!!!

Page 5:
Panel 1:
1: Can I catch it!?
2: The falling lift!!

Panel 2:
1: No...!!

Panel 3:
1: But I've gotta try!!!

Panel 5:
1: Stop!!!!

Page 6:
Right side: (the story so far)

Panel 2&3:
1: Why are we slowing...!?

Panel 3&4:
1: The brake isn't working, is it!?

Panel 5:
1: It's no use... I can't keep this up...
2: At this rate, the lift will...!!

Panel 6:
1: Rio--!!!

Page 7:
Panel 1:
1: I promised Ewan.
2: That I wouldn't waste my life.

Panel 2:
1: I swore, to use this cursed power to make people smile so,
2: I don't give a shit how other people see me...!!

Panel 3:
1: I got it from Ewan!!
2: My reason to live!!

Panel 4:
1: Rio...

Panel 5:
1: I want to save her...!!

Panel 6:
Arago: Ewan, give it to me---

Left side:
Top Box: Character Info:
Below: Arago Hunt. After the Patch Man's surgery, he now has part of his older brother Ewan's body and a strange power in his hand. Succeeding his older brother's will, he became a police officer, and has now been selected to become a detective for the criminal investigations department.

Page 8:
Panel 1:
1: Give me the power to do this!!!!

Page 9:
Panel 2:
Arago: Eh!?

Panel 3:
Arago: Eh!!?
Arago: Eeeeh!!?

Panel 4:
Arago: Eeeeeeeh!!?

Page 10:
Panel 1:
SFX: crumble crumble...

Panel 2:
Arago: Ugh...

Panel 3:
Arago: I... I'm saved--...
SFX: Fwaaah!

Panel 4:
Arago: The floor collapsed.
Arago: I'm lucky this cavity was underneath, otherwise I would've been crushed...

Panel 5:
Arago: !!

Panel 6:
Ghost: With this, my work is...

Panel 7:
Ghost: Completed...

Page 11:
Panel 1:
Arago: That hurts!

Panel 2:
Arago; My right arm is...
Arago: I guess I overdid it, huh...

Panel 3:
Arago: What the heck was that crazy power...

Panel 5:
Arago: ...As I thought.

Panel 6:
Arago: A crematorium---
Arago: Before this hospital was built, this was a church with an underground crematorium---

Panel 7:
Arago: After their funeral services in the church above ground, the bodies were brought underground by the lift---

Panel 8:
Arago: Until it could carry the deceased people's souls down here...

Page 12:
Panel 1:
SFX: He he he
SFX 2: A ha ha!
Rio: Let me out!!
Rio: Hey, come on and let me out!!!

Panel 2:
1: You, you're an Englishman and Japanese woman's child, right!?
2: He he he, what nationality are you then!!
3: Japanese?

Panel 3:
1: A person like you fit in best with the rats, after all!!
2: Maybe we'll let you out tomorrow!!
Rio: No!!
Rio: Please, let me out!!

Panel 4:
1: Uwah! What's with you!!
2: Stop it! That hurts!!
3: What are you...!

Panel 5:
1: Rio!! Are you okay!?
2: Rio!!

Panel 6:
Rio: !

Panel 7:
1: Rio--!!

Page 13:
Panel 2:
Arago: Don't worry me like that...
Arago; Rio...
Arago: Jeez...

Panel 3:
Rio: ......

Page 14:
Panel 1:
Rio: Uh...
Arago: Oh?

Panel 2:
Arago: You're awake.

Panel 3:
Rio: ......

Panel 4:
Rio: I'm still alive...

Panel 5:
Arago: The lift fell, but you weren't seriously injured.
Arago: The doctor said you lost consciousness because of a minor concussion---
Rio: What about the other people?

Panel 6:
Arago: Other people? ...Ah, they're fine, they're fine.
Arago: It looked like they were satisfied...

Panel 7:
Rio: Satisfied?

Panel 8:
Arago: Well then, I'm gonna go...
Rio: Hey,
Rio: You saved me...

Page 15:
Panel 1:
Arago: ?
Arago: Hahn?

Panel 2:
Rio: ...Ah, no, sorry...
1: So that really was... a dream.

Panel 3:
SFX: jiwa... (crying sfx)

Panel 4:
Arago: Wha, what's this all of the sudden!?
Arago: Are you hurt somewhere!?

Panel 6:
Arago: It looks like I've managed to say something bad again, somehow...

Panel 7:
Rio: I still don't know...
Rio: ...I...

Panel 8:
Rio: Ewan is dead... And I said such horrible things to you...
Rio: Getting irritated all by myself,
Rio: That's not the kind of person I want to be!

Panel 9:
Rio: But this feeling...
Rio: I still don't know what I should do about it!!

Page 16:
Panel 2:
Arago: Isn't it already fine this way?

Panel 3:
Arago: It's just that you're sad, and in pain...
Arago: If you want to confront someone about it, that's fine...

Panel 4:
Arago: I don't understand too well myself, but you're the kind of person that tries to handle everything yourself, and bottles up everything deep inside, right?
Arago: Instead of keeping it all inside, just let it out.

Panel 5:
Rio: Will you...
Rio: ...Forgive me?

Panel 6:
Arago: Ewan is definitely watching over us.
Arago: Look, it's because he's always worrying.
Arago: In yesterday's accident, I'm absolutely sure...

Panel 7:
Arago: Ewan was protecting you.
Rio: ......

Panel 8:
Rio: ...Thank you...
Rio: ...Arago...

Page 17:
Panel 1:
Arago: Hahan, finally,
Arago: You finally called me by my name...
Rio: Eh?
Arago: No... it's nothing.

Panel 3:
Arago: I thought you might have changed, but...
Arago: You haven't changed at all, have you?

Panel 4:
Arago: Not since we were kids.
Arago: Crybaby Rio.

Panel 5:
Rio: Dummy.

Page 18:
Panel 1:
1: This was supposed to have happened yesterday but,

Panel 2:
1: From today on this person will be assigned to the CID, Officer Arago Hunt.

Panel 3:
Arago: It seems that I will just be filling in for Detective Tiernan...
1: Of course you are, you little brat.

Panel 4:
Arago: Ahn!?
1: Hey, Larry.

Panel 5:
SFX: Tch.

Panel 7:
1: In the ruins of a 19th century waterway, complete with human remains---
2: A funeral carriage dating from those times was excavated---

Page 19:
Panel 1:
1: The bus accidents that have been happening lately,
2: While it was transporting corpses to the church, it seems it met some kind of accident on the canal and sank...
3: And the soul of the funeral carriage's driver, awakening from his long sleep and having only his memories of that, was causing the accidents.

Panel 2:
Joe: That was a lovely introduction just now.
Small outside: Eeeh?
Arago: Thanks.

Panel 3:
1: The power balance has crumbled now,
2: All kinds of strange things will roll on into London!!

Panel 4:
1: That Ghost Carriage was definitely one of those...

Panel 5:
Joe: Well, if we work hard together from now on,
Joe: London's scoundrels won't stand a chance, I'll bet.

Panel 6:
Arago: Gotcha!
Arago: This is the start of my real performance...
1: Just watch, Ewan.
2: Monsters and villains, we'll take care of them them all!!

Panel 7:
1: Hey, stop struggling!!

Page 20:
Panel 1:
1: Hey, somebody stop him!!

Panel 2:
1: Get outta my way!!!!

Panel 3:
1: ?

Panel 5:
1: I'm sorry! Is anyone hurt?

Panel 6:
Arago: Amazing... a woman...?
Joe: hyo--! (whistling)

Panel 7:
Arago: What the heck, she's like a gorilla...
Rio: Who're you calling a gorilla? Arago.

Page 21:
Panel 1:
Rio: Starting today, I'm beginning my assignment with the Cross Quarter's Special Division,
Rio: I'm Officer Rio Butler!

Panel 3:
Arago: R- Rio!? You've gotta be kidding me.
Arago: Special Division!!?
Joe: Hoh?

Panel 4:
Rio: Yep, we're a combat department devoted to actively handling crimes with firearms!

Panel 5:
Rio: My duty station is different but, let's work hard together, okay?

Panel 6:
Arago: Ha...
Arago: Ha ha...
1: You can't be serious...

Page 22:
Panel 3:
1: Wh-what I have done, tell me!!
2: For you to arrest me...
3: I've already cut my ties with all of that!!

Panel 3:
1: Don't come any closer!!
2: Don't...

Right side: The case is resolved for a brief moment, but the deceased older brother, Ewan, is!? You'll have to see the next issue!!