Mangahelpers Translationshttps://mangahelpers.com/translators/rss2012-02-06T04:39:12+00:00/favicon.icoMangaHelpers Adminsadmin@mangahelpers.comhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/33313[English] [Translation] Homunculus Volume 15 by molokidan2012-02-06T04:39:12+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.com*Only for use by I-M.
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4) 1: click
5) 1: Wooow, look at this! 2: It's a white Christmas! 3: tap.. 4: Mm...
6) 1: Wh... 2: What the... 3: What is this...
7) 1: Wh... 2: What's happening... 3: to me...
8) 1: Nakoshi-san. 2: I brought an organic 3: christmas cake! 4: What's wrong...?
9) 1: Another Homunculus got inside me. 2: Why... 3: Why...all did was "look"...why did it have to go inside me...?
10) 1: What the hell is... 2: with these things...!!
11) 1: Nakoshi-san... 2: You... 3: already know the answer to that, don't you? 4: You know 5: what they really are, don't you?
12) 1: They're the proof, the medals that show you've "seen" what you've seen... 2: Clumps of egotism 3: saying "Yeah, look what I saw!"
13) 1: Wh... 2: What...? 3(2b): The more "Homunculi" (human distortions) you see, the more medals of proof that you "saw what you saw" build up and warp within you... 4: It's simple... 5: You must understand it somewhere within. 6: Wh... 7: What are you talking about...
14) 1: It's nothing more than a simple expression of desire, hope, and expectation. 2: You "saw" someone, so you want someone else to "see" you. 3: It's a simple side-effect from the act of "seeing." 4: You just want something in return. 5: "Look at me."
15) 1(2b): Wh...what are you talking about... 2: I've never, EVER 3: asked someone to "look back at me"... 4: Exactly. That's why those "suppressed feelings" of yours are appearing in a distorted shape. 5: No! 6: These aren't some dirty things like that.
16) 1: What do you know! 2: You can't see anything! 3: These things... 4: There's some special message hidden in them! 5: They need to be seen by someone else who can see them... 6: I need someone to look at my Homunculus...!
17) 1: You're 2: wrong, you know.... 3(2b): It's true that what you're seeing isn't merely a hallucination. I imagine you're seeing something that can't be explained through science. 4: However, 5: the things that "possessed" you bear no meaning... 6: They're simply manifestations of your selfish demands.
18) 1: You know, "looking" isn't something you sould expect compensation for. 2: What... 3: You always have a scientific explanation for everything. What are you getting all romantic on me for...? 4: The one who asks for nothing in return... 5: The stalker...is the more human one. 6: Shut up...
19) 1: Wait... 2: Then what does it mean to "look?"
20) 1: I don't know...
21) 1: You're... 2: creeping me out.
22) 1: You're creepier. 2: Oh well. 3: I guess the creepy one has to leave, then.
23) 1: Car guy! 2(2b): W...we...we got trouble!!
25) 1: Why... 2: Why would he... 3: Ita-san... 4: You had a place to return to...
26) 1: Ita-chan... 2: He cleaned his tent up so nicely... 3: He was probably deciding... 4: whether or not to go back to his daughter... 5: But... 6(2b): All he need to do was muster up a little courage...and go back home, right...?
27) 1: Just a little courage... 2: Car guy. 3: No one blames anyone for not having courage in this place.
28) 1: This is bad... 2: I need to find somewhere to go...
29) 1: I need to find somewhere to go...!
32) sign: TRAFFIC VIOLATION
33) 1: Fuck. 2: So I can't even park here now, huh...? 3: I can't be here anymore?
42) 1: Here. 2: rustle 3: I figured you'd be OK if I brought you this much. 4: Uh, sure... 5: Can you give me a ride?
43) 1: I'll pay for it. 2: I don't need your money. 3: What? 4: Just your "consideration"... 5: "Consideration"...? 6: Get in.
44) 1-2: slam 3-4: bzzzzz
45) 1-3: bzzzzzz
46) 1: beep 2: You alright? 3: Don't you need to go to your daddy's place today? 4: What do you mean 5: by "daddy?" 6: Today's 7: business got rescheduled.
47) 1: It's alright. 2: She can't completely fake it... 3: There's no power behind her lie...
48) 1: We're here... 2: rustle 3: Wait a moment.
50) 1: Th... 2: This is... sign: Extras
51) 1: Hey. Hey. HEY!
52) 1: What do you think you're doing... 2: bam
53) 1: Here. 2: What's 3: this for? 4: Let me sleep in this car 5: for 7000 yen tonight. 6: What... 7: has gotten into you... 8: Please.
54) 1: You think both of us can sleep in this cramped space...? 2: It's alright. 3: I can curl up and sleep. 4: Let's just go for now.
55) 1: Where? 2: Please don't go back THERE... 3: You mean "in front of the hotel"...? 4: Then 5: where would you like to go? 6: Just... 7: keep driving...
59) 1: Where are you, Nakoshi-san?! 2: I heard that the homeless guy from yesterday committed suicide this morning!! 3: Yeah... 4: I went to your car, but it wasn't there... 5: I got scared... 6: I found a place to go. 7: What? 8: What did you say? 9: Nothing...
60) 1: Also, 2: that creepy sugar daddy from yesterday... 3: it looks like he's a yakuza! 4: You shouldn't get further involved with that woman!!
61) 1(2b): OK, got it. 2: See ya. 3: Wait...Nakoshi-san... 4: beep 5: Something wrong? 6: Nope, 7: everything's fine.
62) 1: Man... 2: look at all that snow. 3: What did you see...yesterday? 4: Huh? 5: Remember all that stuff you were talking about at the pier? 6: Just...
63) 1: what can you see?
64) 1: Hearts. 2(2b): At least...that's what I think they are... 3: Huh? 4: H... 5: Hearts...? 6: You keep saying that word...but how can you see something like that?
65) 1: What do they look like? 2: Explain it to me in concrete words. 3: But you already know.
66) 1: You opened up a hole in your skull?
67) 1: People looked like robots and sand monsters to you? 2: Homunculus?!
68) 1: What is that...? 2: It sounds like some kind of disease... 3: it's just some kind of hallucination, isn't it... 4: Yeah... 5: Probably... 6: Don't think I believe that stupid story about you opening a hole in your head... 7: slip
69) 1: Here... 2: Touch it. 3: What?! 4: Check it for yourself.
70) 1: touch...
71) 1: Ewww!! 2: There's two. 3: Here's the other one. 4-5: rub
72) 1: flick... 2: Faceless. 3: Huh?
73) 1: You're faceless. 2: You've got no "face"... 3: Did opening holes in your head 4: make you go crazy? 5: where did you leave 6: your "face"...?
74) 1-2: pop 3: You really 4: must be hallucinating after all.
75) 1: Heh... 2(2b): A pig's nose, droopy eyes, and gross teeth... 3: What are you 4: talking about... 5: I thought so. 6: You left your face with that ugly guy 7: who has the mole on his nose.
76) 1: Don't loooooook! 2: Waah.
79) 1: Maybe your real face 2: is the ugly face that appeared in that Homunculus. 3(2b): No...that isn't my original face... 4: Maybe you just forgot 5: what you really looked like. 6: There's no way...
80) 1: Ahhh! 2: Woah.
81) 1: Buhaaah.
82) 1: A... 2: Are you alright? 3: Y...yes...
83) 1: Th... 2: That's money...
88) 1: Pfft. 2-3: Heheheheh!
89) 1: Ah... 2: What...?
90) 1: "Money" (Lies), huh...?
91) 1: Where'd you get all that...? 2(2b): It's what you saved from using your "lies" (body), right? 3: You can't escape 4: now... 5: from the abyss known as "lying."
92) 1: And yet despite all that, you have this shallow expectation that "maybe he'll look at my "truth" (heart)." 2: That's why 3: you came to me, isn't it? 4: Hilarious! 5: Who would look at the "truth" (heart) of someone 6: who only believes in lies?
93) 1: Who would look at a big pile of lies?! 2: Idiot! 3: haa...
94) 1: Fuck you!!
96) 1: That "truth" (heart) you keep talking about doesn't exist! 2: All that exists is what you see before you! 3: All "people" (men) ever look at... 4(4b): are my "lie" (face), "lie" (body), and "crotch" (lie)!!
97) 1: You were 2: no different!!
98) 1: I changed my face 2: hoping that it would change things, 3: but look at me now. 4: Go ahead and laugh! 5: Haha... 6: Ha...
99) 1: In the end, not a single person 2: looked at my "heart" (inside)...
100) 1: And all I can look at are people's "lies" (faces), "lies" (money), and "lies" (things)!!
102) 1: Liaaaaar!!
103) 1: You're lying about not looking at the heart... 2(3b): Liar, liar, liar.
104) 1: Don't you remember? 2: There was one man whose "truth" (heart) you saw...
105) 1: He had a pig's nose, 2: droopy eyes, 3: and gross teeth... 4: But you weren't fazed by his "ugliness" (exterior), 5: and you saw his "heart!"
106) 1: Yes... 2: And he saw you too. 3: Your heart...
107) 1: I fit in here...
108) 1: Ugly... 2: Looking down... 3: Staring at nothing but my feet as I walk... 4: ...empty days... 5: of... 6: nothing...
109) 1-2: throb... 3: Then... 4: you looked at me... 5: You came right into 6: my downward field of view, 7: looking up at me.
110) 1: You even drew a picture of me... 2: of my heart... 3: It was shocking to me. 4: I thought only the things you could see before you mattered.
111) 1: "You" (She) could see the invisible. 2: You... 3: were a genius of sight...!
112) 1-2: Please look. 3: Please look more! 4: As much as you can... 5: I was gradually able to raise my face...
113) 1: Staring forward... 2: For the first time, I had the courage to look at other people.
114) 1: I could face people. 2: I wanted to see. 3-4: More.
115) 1: I want to see you... 2: More and more... 3: I want to see you!!
119) 1-2: psh...
120) 1: Na... 2: Nanako...
121) 1(2b): Then...why... 2: Why...
122) 1: Why did you run away?!
124) 1: Why... 2: did you run away...
135) 1: Why... 2: did you run away...
136) 1: You're cold... 2: Let's get in the car. 3: I'll pick up all the money. 4: Let's go.
140) 1: Why did you leave me... 2: Satoshi... 3: My eyes were on nothing but you... 4: On you, yourself...
141) 1: I had thought... 2: about getting cosmetic surgery 3: long before I met you... 4: I wanted to escape my empty days 5: of looking downward...
142) 1: Then, 2: I met you... 3: and you looked at me... 4: you let me look forward. 5: But when I looked forward, 6: all I could see... 7: was what lied beyond "the truth" (Nanako). 8: Nothing but the gorgeous "lies" (material world)...
143) 1: The people I hated the most, 2: those bitches who had nothing but looks, and only wanted people to lookat them. 3: Their faces, breasts, waists, and legs... 4: kept flashing in front of my eyes... 5: Every time my eyes slipped over to the lies... 6: Nanako 7: would come back into view, 8: looking at me...
144) 1: It was scary... 2: You always looked up at me... 3: It was like you were some "underground girl," staring up at me from the bottom of a deep well.
145) 1: Here I was, being danced around by the gorgeous lies above. 2: And every time I looked down... 3: I saw the "below," ever ready to suck me down... 4: I was scared...
146) 1: You're terrible... 2: Just a few glances like that 3: was enough to make you get a big head...? 4: Yep... 5: That's exactly what happened... 6: It was Christmas...
147) 1: When "lies" (the material) shines its brightest... 2: I just... 3: didn't want to spend Christmas... 4: with an ugly girl...!
148) 1: I gripped the flyer... 2: of the cosmetic surgery clinic once more...
149) 1: and decided to throw myself into the "fake world." 2: I threw away my old face... 3: Threw away Nanako...
150) 1: What are you talking about... 2: That isn't all you threw away...
151) 1: That isn't all...
152) 1: You threw away the child in my stomach...
154) 1: You ran away from our child as well... 2: I can understand, though... 3: You wanted to throw away your ugly self and be reborn, have a new life...
155) 1: You didn't want to see an ugly clone of yourself appear before your eyes. 2: Yeah... 3: I didn't... 4: You're right... 5: It was the pregnancy... 6: that made me decide to get the surgery.
156) 1: No one looked at me, and I left no impression on anyone...I was ignored, never valued... 2: It didn't even feel like I was living... 3: I wanted to escape 4: from my "nothing" self...
157) 1: My face, 2: Nanako, 3: and my child. 4: I wanted to throw away everything...! 5: And what did you get, in the end? 6: In the end...
158) 1: I ended up having to fun another escape route... 2: Searching for a place to go... 3: Trying to figure out where I SHOULD go... 4: Everyday, 5: I did nothing but search for an escape...
160) 1: But I'm different now... 2: I finally found 3: where I need to go. 4: I'm
161) 1: going to look at you.
162) 1: From here on,
163) 1: I'm going to look at nothing but your heart.
165) 1: ...at me too? 2: What? 3: Will you... 4: look at me too? 5: At my heart...
169) 1: I... 2: don't know how to look at "hearts" (people) anymore... 3: That's not true. 4: You may not be able to now, but you used to be able to... 5: The clouds! 6: Huh? 7: Clouds?
170) 1: You looked at my "pure white clouds," 2: Nanako! 3: It's alright. 4: I know you can see. 5: You've known this whole time...
171) 1: I'm not "Nanako"...and I can't see any "clouds."
174) 1: Ahhh! 2: Owww. 3: D...don't grab my hair. 4: What...? 5: I'm saying I'm going to look at you. 6: Why can't you just reply with "I'll look at you too?" 7: What?
175) 1(2b): You're already 30, aren't you, Nanako? 2(2b): That "lie" (body) that everyone looks at you for is going to get old and wither soon. 3: Am I wrong? 4(2b): The older you get, the less and less people will look at you. You've already started to notice it, haven't you? 5: Nanako.
176) 1(2b): But that doesn't necessarily mean that someone who will look at your "truth" (heart) will just come sauntering along. 2(3b): If you have no one to look at your "lie" (body) or your "truth" (heart), Nanako, then how will you go on existing in this world? 3: Hm??
177) 1: How will you go on living? 2: You don't want to die a lonely death...
178) 1: whisper whisper 2(2b): Wh-what are you doing to my ear...?! 3(2b): I said I'd look at you. At YOU. 4: All you need to do is look back at me.
179) 1: Just a simple "exchange" (romance)...
180) 1: I look at "your heart" (you). 2: You look at "my heart" (me). 3: That's all... 4: You won't need to cover your "truth" (heart) with "lies" anymore.
181) 1: Not to people... 2: Not to me... 3: You won't need to lie anymore... 4: You... 5: just have to...
182) 1: lie a little to yourself.
183) 1: A... 2: demon...
186) 1-3: crunch
188) 1: What's wrong, 2: Nanako?
189) 1: Wh... 2: Why... 3: do I have to look at you...?! 4: Isn't it obvious...? 5: Because I'm looking at you. 6: At your heart.
190) 1: Heart...heart... 2: That's all you keep saying... 3: The only thing you're seeing 4: is hallucinations! 5: Come back to reality!! 6: There's no way 7: anyone can see a "heart!!"
193) 1: Wh 2: Why... 3: I stuck a GPS in one of the wads of cash. 4: Whoopsie... 5: Can't believe you'd try to skip town 6: with the group's "hidden stash."
194) 1: H... 2: Him... 3(2b): He threatened me and made me go with him!! 4: It's his fault!
195) 1: Please, believe me!
196) 1: Ahhhhh!
197) 1: Who'd believe you. 2: you old hag.
198) 1: Nggh... 2(2b): I thought you'd be the perfect hiding spot, and look what happens. 3: You should've learned to shut up and follow your orders, like a good old hag. 4: That hole of yours is the only useful thing about you, you know that?!
199) 1: One, two, 3: three.
200) 1: Are you with her?
202) 1: What are you doing... 2: Trying to throw me off guard with some weird movements? 3: Let's be more simple here. 4: chk...
203) 1: I want to see you crawl in the snow. 2: push... 3: Put the gun down.
204) 1: Put the gun down.
205) 1: What'll you do if it shoots her eye out? 2: Her eye...? 3: Your little sister...?
206) 1: Your little sister... 2: The gun... 3: What happened?!
207) 1: rub 2: Y... 3: You...
208) 1: Your little sister's 2: eye...? 3: Ahh. 4: It's a toy gun...! 5: What the...hell... 6: is with you... 7: I get it...
209) 1: Your little sister's eye... 2: with a toy gun... 3-4: What? 5: Ahh...
211) 1: Wh... 2: What is this...?
212) 1: I... 2: I didn't mean to... 3: I know... 4: ...Yasuko... 5: slip... 6: You don't need to do that...
213) 1: You loved her, 2: and she loves you too.
214) 1: Waaaaaaaahh
216) 1: Now, 2: hurry up and go to her! 3-4: Yeah.
219) 1: C... 2: could it be... 3: You can... 4: really... 5: see 6: hearts...? 7: I told you...
220) 1(2b): So...you can really 2: see me...?
221) 1: Of course... 2: Nanako.
222) 1: I... 2: wonder if.. 3: I can 4: see yours too...? 5: It's alright... 6: I know the perfect thing!
233) sign: KEEP OUT 1: Take-san... 2: So you need to find somewhere to go too... 3: whine
235) sign right: Trepanation Equipment sign left: All doooooone!
238) 1: Nakoshi-saaaan!
239) 1: Huh? 2: He's gone... 3(2b): All that work on this organic christmas cake was for nothing... 4: Where'd he go...?
241) 1-2: click
242) 1-2: click
243) 1: clink... 2-3: clink
244) 1: Relax... 2: I'm going to numb you up, so you won't feel anything. Just some little vibrations. 3: Opening this hole won't hurt your brain at all. It's no different from dental work. 4: They do this overseas all the time. And look, I've done it twice already. There's no danger to it. 5: It'll just... 6: It'll just...?
245) 1: make you see "hearts" a little bit.
246) 1: Alright... 2: you're alright. 3: Once your hair grows back no one will be able to see the wound. 4: Now then...
248) 1: Nanako.
249) 1: There's something I want you show you... 2(2b): Huh? Wh...what? 3: Relax... 4: With this, 5: we'll be able to look at each others' hearts.
306) 1: Sorry, sorry. 2: sniff sniff 3: I didn't notice myself... 4: Haha... 5: Yeah, I guess that's to be expected, after how I lived...
307) 1: Sorry, sorry. 2: Na... 3: Nakoshi-sama...
309) 1: Pff... 2: I never should have come here in the first place... 3: I was just lost...
311) 1: Wh... 2: What the...
312) 1: That's me.
313) 1: Hey, you two.
314) 1: Hey... 2: Don't look away from me. 3: Huh? 4(2b): Um...excuse me?? 5: I know you're bad at expressing your feelings.
315) 1: Just... 2: It's stupid to waste time without looking at anything or saying anything. 3: You need to move forward. 4: Heeeey!
316) 1: clamp 2: You too. 3: H... 4: Hey...
317) 1: Don't lie. 2: Words aren't just things you spit out. 3: It's fine to be embarrassed. 4: You should always be honest about your feelings.
318) 1: Stop throwing lies at each other.
320) 1: Yo. 2: Hey. 3: 'sup.
321) 1: Huh? 2: You know that guy? 3: No... 4: Then why did you say hello to him? 5: I dunno... 6(2b): Hey, it's Christmas, isn't it?
325) 1: The Homunculi are me...
326) 1: Not "monsters"...
327) 1: Not "hallucinations"... 2: Not "reality"...
328) 1: Just "Homunculi." (truth)
333) 1: Am I in Heaven...?
334) 1: Or Hell?
336) 1: --One year later--
343) 1: I finally found you...
345) 1: You've gotten pretty. 2: Huh? 3: So...
346) 1: You came to see me, didn't you? 2: Huh? 3: You came to look at me. 4: That's why you came, right?
347) 1: I'm tired...
348) 1: Tired of looking...
349) 1: I couldn't get that "Nanako" girl 2: to "look at me"... 3: I was searching 4: for "someone" (a human) who would. 5: No... 6: I've always been...
350) 1: Will you look at me?
353) 1: Yeah... 2: I mean, this is all your fault to begin with. 3: It really... 4: is my fault... 5: You need to take responsibility.
354) 1-2: It's my fault...
355) 1: pull... 2: Please...
356) 1: Look at me.
357) 1: I'll look at you...
358) 1-2: I'm sorry...
365) 1: Hey. 2: It's you guys!https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/33312[English] [Translation] Homunculus Volume 14 by molokidan2012-02-06T04:38:46+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.com*Only for use by I-M.
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4) 1: Hooo 2: It's cold...
5) 1: Nanako... 2: slurp...
6) 1: It was unlocked.
7) 1: Will you give me a ride?
10) 1: Nakoshi-san... 2: This isn't the right way...
11) 1: I need to make a stop somewhere. 2: Come with me.
14) 1: What are you trying to do, bringing me to such a moody place like this?
15) 1: Doesn't it bring back memories...? 2: What? 3: snicker 4(2b): Aren't you mistaking me for someone else? 5: snicker snicker 6: smack 7(2b): I've never been here before.
16) 1: Her face changed... 2(2b): Which means...she's lying...?
17) 1: Will you draw me a sketch...? 2: What? 3: Sketch 4: how I look now. 5(2b): What?! A sketch?! No waaaay... 6: You can draw, can't you? 7: Please! 8: I'm too embarrassed...
19) 1: What is this... 2: I told you, I can only draw 3: simple caricatures...
20) 1: Since when did you stop seeing...? 2: What?! 3: Stop seeing...what? 4: Since you changed your face? 5: Since you started did cosmetic surgery, right?
21) 1: When did you change your "face?" 2: Ever hear of the word "delicacy?" 3(2b): Everyone does minor cosmetic surgery like getting creases in their eyelids. It's rude to talk about something like that with women, you know. 4: A lie...?
22) 1: I changed my face 2: right after I broke up with you... 3: "Broke up"...? 4: We've never went out... 5: Nothing's changed about your face 6: since we last met, Nakoshi-san. 7: A lie...
23) 1: Nakoshi-saaaaan. 2: This whole time, 3: you've been mistaking me with someone else, haven't you...? 4-6: A lie.
24) 1: Why do you only tell lies... 2: No wait, 3: I know why. 4: Because that's all you CAN say?
25) 1: You can only see lies, 2: which means you can only tell them... 3: If you can only hear lies, 4: then you have no choice but to say them... 5: On that "face" of yours is nothing but
26) 1: a "false mouth," 2: a pair of "false ears," 3: and a set of "false eyes." 4: All that "changing your face" [having cosmetic surgery done] got you was a bunch of lies...
27) 1: There's one thing you'd never be able to see with "fake eyes"... 2: "The truth" [the heart]...
28-29) 1: Now it's my turn to look 2: at YOUR "truth" [heart].
32) 1: Oh really...? 2: You had cosmetic surgery done, 3: Nakoshi-san? 4: Wow. 5: Is she smiling...? 6: Hmmm. 7: Or is she angry...?
33) 1: I can't tell what kind of expression she's making...! 2: The Homunculi are nothing but 3: "conversations with yourself"...
34) 1: Ah... 2: Ahhh... 3: I... 4: changed my face... 5: Why did you 6: have cosmetic surgery done?
35) 1-2: B... 3: Because I was ugly... 4: grit... 5: Obviously...! 6: heh heh heh 7: You must have been 8: HIDEOUS. 9: Y...yeah... 10: I was...
36) 1: Isn't that 2: what your father said... 3: Father... 4: When I... 5: was in elementary school...
37) 1: I put a girl's clothes on 2: by accident. 3: And she said 4: "You're ugly! And gross!" 5: Then pushed me down so I hit my head. 6: But to my child's heart, the shock of hitting my head 7: was incomparable to the shock of being called ugly...
38) 1: That night, my father saw the wound 2: and took me with him when he went to go yell at the girl's parents. 3: Her dad said "What's wrong with calling an ugly person ugly?!" 4: And my dad replied with "Yeah, so he's hideous! So what?!"
39) 1: I heard the entire thing behind him. 2: His words shocked me... 3: And at the same time, I thought 4: "I have no father!"
41) 1: Yeah... 2: From that moment forward, I started to look down... 3: hiding my face and staring at nothing but my feet as I walked...
42) 1: ...through those empty days... 2: There was no strong wind... 3: nor stagnant wind... 4: Just a human in a frozen space, whose transparent existence even went unnoticed...
43) 1: All I saw then... 2: were textbooks and dirty magazines. 3: I drowned myself in my studies. 4: If my outside was no good, then I had to fill up my inside, I thought. And I filled it as much as I could. 5: And if my face was no good, then I had to make my body look as good as I could, I thought. 6: So I worked out every day. 7: I even learned to throw up food when I ate too much.
44) 1: Even when I became a high schooler, 2: I still kept my head down and studied straight through lunch. 3: To everyone else, 4: I was nothing but an ugly nerd... 5: It was a period when everyone was sensitive to things like "love" and "sex," 6: and my male and female classmates happily mingled. 7: But I... 8: just gave them all sidelong glances...
45) 1(2b): A...among my classmates, there were guys like you, with handsome faces, who the girls would pine over. 2: When I saw you, I'd think, "his face is the only thing he's got going for him." 3: "He's empty on the inside. He's below me." I laughed at you in my head. 4: "Stop looking at that empty fool! Look at me...!!"
46) 1: bzz... 2: bzzzz... 3: Y... 4: Yeah...
47) 1: When I worked part-time as a gasoline stand attendant... 2: I was surprised by how many beautiful women I saw sitting in passenger seats. 3: The better the car, 4: the more beautiful the woman. 5: One day, 6: I saw a woman sitting in the passenger seat to a Porsche.
48) 1: She was radiant. 2: But the man in the driver seat smirking and squeezing her thighs 3: was ugly. I was shocked.
49) 1: How could it be... 2: How could such an ugly man like you... 3: get his hands on such a beautiful woman... 4: But it wasn't about the face anymore. 5: Those "cars" with their beautiful women 6: started to look 7: appealing to me... 8: So I saved up my money and bought "a cheap Carol." [this car]
50) 1: My life of nothing but studying finally paid off, 2: and I easily got into a university in Tokyo and moved there.
51) 1: In Tokyo, 2: the first thing "funned me for" (they made fun of me for) wasn't my "mug" (face)... 3: but my "accent" (words)...! 4: The women only looked at people's faces and words -- the surface, jeering at everything they saw... 5: Weren't there any who looked on the inside...? 6: When I took a look around myself, I realized I was surrounded once again by women pining over men who had nothing but looks going for them...
52) 1: "Izzat" (Is that) really all there is to life -- looks...?! 2: Aren't there any women out there who look "inside" (to the heart)...?
53) 1: Ah... 2: "Ah..." (I...) 3: I had no choice, 4: so I kept walking with my head down in Tokyo... 5: Then I saw 6: something fall at my feet. flyer: MALE COSMETIC SURGERY
54) 1: It was a flyer for a cosmetic surgery clinic... 2: I wanted a "new face"... 3: for people to look at... 4: "Ah..." (I...) 5: I thought about discarding 6: "mah face" (my face)...
55) 1: Then 2: bzz... 3: I met "Nanako" (you)...
56) 1: "You"...? 2: Are you mistaking me for someone else again...? 3: Get out here... 4: Nanako. 5: bzz... 6: First you say you're going to look at me, 7: then you launch into some long speech...
57) 1: All I can do is speak with the "Homunculi" (what I see before me)... 2: Ah... 3: Ahh... 4: It's just as "you" (Itou) told me. 5: I think I'm just talking with myself.
58) 1: The faces that keep changing into one another 2: are all "people" (faces) I've known... 3(no bubble): snicker... 4: Yeah... 5: This is all nothing more than a figment of my imagination... 6: But I have no choice but to keep watching... 7: to keep talking...!
59) 1: Talking with the "Homunculi" (self I see before myself)...is the only way to see the "heart"...!
60) 1: Now 2: get out here, 3: Nanako!! 4: pop
61) 1: Th... 2: That's not you... 3: So... 4: How was it to change your face? 5: Th... 6: This isn't you... 7: You can only talk to what's in front of you, right? 8: D... 9: Dammit...
62) 1: Y...yeah... 2: That's right... 3: You're the first girl I slept with 4: after I "got cosmetic surgery" (changed my face). 5: As I changed my face, 6: the women I chose got better and better... 7(2b): Meanwhile, I joined a foreign capital company, and thanks to all the money and material goods that presented me with,
63) 1: "people" (women) started to look at me. 2: slip... 3: I slept with women, 4: fiddled with numbers, 5: and drowned myself in money. 6: ...but...
64) 1: I didn't feel anything... 2: What... 3: is this...?
65) 1: It... 2: looks like the inside of a Porsche... 3: Not just people... 4: now my entire environment's changing...!
66) 1: I really am... 2: hallucinating...
67) 1: That's right... 2: "They" (The women) weren't really looking at "me"... 3: but at my "Porsche" (cars)...
68) 1: at my "presents" (things)... 2: and at my money... 3: They were only look at "my face" (the material)...
69) 1: All they did is look at what they saw in front of their eyes... 2: Not a single "one of them" (person) saw "the real me" (my heart)! 3: Just like before, I..."didn't exist" (was invisible)...
70) 1: Stressed out, 2: I would often 3: come to the ocean and scream out "myself" (my accent), 4: eat "myself" (my semen), which emitted my scent and my temperature, 5: then spray "myself" (the semen) into the faces of the women and defile them.
71) 1: But... 2: there was one time 3: when I saw "humanity" (feelings) beyond the "work" (numbers)... 4: When I happened to meet with someone from a huge corporation I sent under, who had fallen to the lowly position of taxi driver out in the country...
72) 1: All... 2: I ever intended to do was fiddle the numbers... 3: But I ended up getting a scent of the smells and temperature of the humans on the other side...
73) 1: And then... 2: people entering government employment agencies... 3: homeless people sleeping on benches... 4: Homeless people gathering around vents... 5: Soon that was all I saw. 6: Among them... 7: I knew, were people from the companies I had destroyed...
74) 1: All I had done thus far was destroy. 2: I hadn't built up or created a single thing... 3: I was a human who could give birth to nothing...
75) 1: Suddenly, I could no longer control the numbers as I used to be able to... 2: And so naturally, I ceased to be a good worker... 3: No matter how much I played around with women, 4: I could no longer enjoy anything, and spent my days lost in thought...
76) 1: Then, paper: Nanami 2: I invited you over... 3: And... 4: you left the sketch you drew of me...
77) 1: in the trash...
78) 1: That was it... 2: That was when I failed at my job and lost everything. 3: Why did you draw that...? 4-5: I... 6: I wasn't a pitch black, faceless monster, was I...?
79) 1: I was a "pure white cloud," wasn't I...? 2: Nanako!! 3: I know you saw what I was... 4: My "truth" (heart)! 5: Right...?
80) 1: Look at me one more time... 2: at "me." (my heart)
81) 1: Enough with the "look at me" stuff. 2: Look at "the real me" (my heart)... 3: "Just look at me!" That's all you're trying to say with this, isn't it...? 4: How could someone like that 5: see anything in ME?
82) 1: It was the same in that hotel. 2(2b): You told me that huge lie about seeing my "truth" (heart)... 3: But what you really saw was my 4: lips (lie), 5: breasts (lie), 6: legs (lie), 7: waist (lie), 8: and crotch (lie).
83) 1: Everything that comes out of "your mouth" (you) is solely to get ahold of my body. 2: Words (lie), 3: money (lie), 4: things (lie). 5: In your "sketch" (face) 6: I used to the pen to black out 7: your fake mouth, fake nose, and fake eyes.
84) 1: You became a pitch black, blank face. 2: Your face looked like nothing but a clump of lies.
85) 1: And all you've been doing here 2: is blaming the fact that no one will look at your heart (you) on the outside (your face)... 3: I'm sick of hearing it. 4: When did YOU ever look at someone's "truth" (heart)?
87) 1: All you ever cared about was young, cute, beautiful girls. 2: Their faces and bodies.. 3: Everything "on the outside" (you could see). 4: That's all you looked at.
88) 1: From the beginning, you were looking at nothing but "the outside" (lies). 2: An ugly guy looking at nothing but "the outside" (the material,) 3: asking people to look at his "inside" (heart)... 4: You have no right.
89) 1: You've never even seen a piece of someone's "truth" (heart).
90) 1-2: Y... 3: You're exactly right...
91) 1: No liar like you could ever see my "truth" (heart)!!
92) 1: I... 2: I can... 3: see the "Homunculus" (self)...!!
93) 1: You're still going on about being able to 'see,' at a time like this...? 2: What a liar. 3: You've talked about nothing but yourself. 4: "Look at me, look at me!" On and on...just what part of me do you think you're seeing? 5: All you can see 6: is my "lie," (face) 7: My "lie" (body) 8: and my "lie" (crotch).
94) 1: B... 2: Believe me! 3: Right now 4: I'm looking at "your heart" (you).
95) 1: I can see it now.
96) 1: Really...?
97) 1: Yeah...
101) 1: Don't look at my "truth" (heart). 2: Let's look at each others' "lies" (bodies).
102) 1: What's wrong, Nanako...? 2: You used to be a girl who could only see the "truth" (heart)! 3: Huh? 4: I was so "lacking" (ugly), yet you looked at my "truth" (heart). 5(2b): Heart...? How could I see something invisible like that?
103) 1: You saw it... 2: I did? 3: Because looking at the "truth" (heart) 4: is one of your "characteristics" (qualities).
104) 1: You aren't a liar!
106) 1: Wh... 2: Who is that...? 3: I...I don't know this face... 4: I've never seen it before...
107) 1: An upward-pointing nose, 2: droopy eyes, 3: ugly teeth... 4: and... 5(2b): is that a mole...on the nose?
108) 1: H... 2: How do you know that?
109) 1: A beard... 2: ...a man... 3: How... 4: can you... 5: see that...?! 6(2b): I...I don't know...I've never even seen it before myself... 7: You're hideous! 8: I... 9: I said...
110) 1: How can you see 2: Satoshi?!
111) 1: Hey!
113) 1: Who was... 2: that guy? 3: It was a Homunculus... 4: I've never experienced nor remember...
115) 1: I started to look down... 2: hiding my face and staring at nothing but my feet as I walked. 3: Like a "noppera-bo" (faceless creature). 4: ...through those empty days...
116) 1: Then, 2: she looked at me... 3: You looked at my "truth" (heart). 4: I took back my face... 5: and gradually brought it up... 6: so that I could look forward again.
117) 1: Look forward... 2: snap... 3: But right after I looked forward, 4: I... 5: snap...
121) sign: KEEP OUT 1: Over the past two days, 2: even more tents vanished...
122) 1: No open fires inside the park! 2: You know the rules.
123) 1(2b): You're not even allowed to put up a tent here, y'know. That's another rule! It can't be broken. 2: Got it?
124) 1: People from Tokyo. 2(2b): Oh, Take-san. 3(2b): It's the end of the year...they're getting desperate about clearing out the park by next year. 4: Are you listening?! 5: No open fires! Put out the fire this instant!! 6: It's a rule! It's a rule!
125) 1: Those sorts... 2: piss me off the most... 3(2b): That high-handed attitude they take...just who do they think they are? Makes my blood boil... 4: clasp 5-6: pop
126) 1: A beat-up umbrella...
127) 1: Hurry up and get out! 2: Tch. 3: Well, 4: I guess you're only here because you have no place else to go. 5: Ah...
128) 1(2b): A...knife...? 2: Heheh... 3: Oh no...
129) 1: Hey, car guy...
130) 1: Hey 2: you. 3: Hm? 4: What do you want...? 5: There's 6: crow shit on your shoulder. 7: Ahh!!
131) 1: Waaaaaah! 2: Wh... 3: When did that fall there...? 4: Dammit... 5(2b): This place is a gathering zone for injured crows. 6: Shit falls like rain around here.
132) 1(2b): You can't resist what falls from above, can you? You'd better leave before you ruin your clothes. 2: Waaaah! 3: Dammit... 4: We'll be back! 5: Hurry up and get that out of here! 6: It's a rule!
133) 1: You alright, Ita-chan? 2: Hey, you... 3: Thanks...
134) 1: clasp... 2: A mirror...? 3: He's a mirror?
135) 1: What's this egg thing...?
136) 1: Ah. 2: Yo.
137) 1: Today we have organic vegetables and rice with 16 different sprout grains mixed in. 2: ...tastes good. 3(2b): Doesn't it? And that hamburger patty's made out of tofu. 4: By the way... 5: That coffee shop "Marimo" your ex used to work at still exists.
138) 1: The owner's still in good health, 2: and he remembers Nanako. 3: She was smart, good at drawing, 4: and used to doodle on the back of receipts. 5: When I asked "Was she cute," 6: he said, "she was a charming girl," and skirted around the question.
139) 1: He was a man of method, and apparently kept all the resumes of his old employees. 2: Seems like he'll search for her for us. 3(2b): He said he'd call if he finds her. 4: I see... 5: It was a really run-down place. 6: Like it's been around for a looong time. 7: ...yeah...
140) 1: That's where we met... 2: In my empty days... 3: that continued, even after I came to Tokyo... 4: I kept looking down, 5: doing nothing but reading and studying. 6: I went there a lot. 7(2b): One time, someone spilled coffee on my shoe. It was Nanako.
141) 1: Ohh. 2: As an apology, 3: she gave me new shoes. But I returned them, and that's how we started meeting. 4: Bound together by ugliness! 5: Yesterday, I saw that woman. 6: What?! Again?! 7: ...so, 8: did you do her? 9: No...
142) 1: Then... 2: How did it go?! 3: Was she your ex? 4: I don't know...
143) 1(2b): But...just like you said, 2: the Homunculi are all figments of my imagination. 3: Up ntil now, 4: It had only looked like people were turning into weird "Homunculi" (things)... 5: Yesterday, 6: my car turned into a Porsche. 7: Non-human things started to change...
144) 1: And... 2: All the Homunculi and settings I'm seeing... 3: are people and things connected to me in some way...
145) 1: I knew it. 2: Yeah... 3: The Homunculi are hallucinations.
146) 1: There's just one... 2: "person" (face) that I don't know. 3: Who is that...? 4: It's a face I've never experienced nor remember... 5: Someone I don't know...!
147) 1: I see, I see. 2: You probably just forgot. 3: It's someone that's been locked up deep within your subconscious. 4: Someone connected to something traumatic that you can't consciously recall. 5: It can't be... 6(2b): I really...don't know...that guy...
148) 1: Guy? 2: What kind of a face was it? 3: A pig's nose, 4(2b): droopy eyes, gross teeth... 5: a really ugly guy. 6: Isn't it 7: just your old ugly face?
149) 1: No... 2: You saw my old picture, remember? 3: Yeah, 4: true... 5: But that "picture" (thing), 6: was that really you? 7: Maybe you completely forgot what you looked like...?
150) 1: Maybe your true face 2: is the one that appeared in that Homunculus?! 3: There's no way something you've never experienced could appear as a "Homunculus" (hallucination)!
151) 1: There's one of her... 2: sugar daddies. 3: Geh. 4(2b): I can't believe she can sleep with such a gross old guy... 5(2b): If her "lie" (body) is shown, then all she can see are "lies" (money)... 6: An eye for an eye...a tooth for a tooth.
152) 1: They're just exchanging lies... 2: She must be pretty up in her years by now. 3: If the "lie" (body) she uses to make her exchanges gets old and withers, then she won't be able to get any more "lies" (money). 4: Then where will she go...?
153) 1: She'll just have to have someone look at her "truth" (heart). 2: How could a "liar" (bitch) completely submerged in a world of lies like that 3: all of a sudden have someone see her "truth" (heart)?! 4: Who in the hell 5: would be able to see it?
154) 1: Heeey. 2: Car guy! 3: Take-san. 4: Oh. 5: It's the fag from before. 6: I...I'm not a fag... 7: What the... 8: You look even prettier now! 9: E... 10: Excuse me...?!
155) 1: More importantly! 2: Ita-chan's in trouble... 3: Ita-san? 4: Oh yeah... 5: He should be feeding the pigeons over there like he always does, 6: ...but he isn't. 7(2b): Can you come with me for a sec?
157) 1: Ever since he started fighting with the Tokyo people, 2: he's been feeding the crows... 3: They're noisy, 4: and they poop so much. 5: More than anything, they give me the creeps... 6: The other guys have been complaining too...
158) 1: Ita-saaaan! 2: rustle 3: I understand how he feels. 4: The more homeless the government gets rid of, 5: and the more KEEP OUT signs they put up, 6: the more afraid I get..
159) 1: They all have nowhere to go... 2: Where are we supposed to go...? 3: He doesn't want to leave the park... 4: or his tent... 5: or that "egg" (place)...? 6: That place...?
160) 1: Hey. 2: What? 3: If you have a mirror, 4: can you lend it to me? 5: Huh?! 6: A mirror...? 7: Um... 8: Ummm... 9: Well... 10: I do have one... 11: Here...
161) 1: Where 2: will you go...?
162) 1(2b): H-hey... 2: Nakoshi-san...
164) 1: I'm coming in... 2: Ita-san... 3: clasp
165) 1: Ita-san...
168) 1: How about coming out...? 2: I... 3(2b): I can't...leave... 4: the park...
169) 1: Of course not! 2: But you don't need to leave 3: the park or the tent. 4: But how about coming out from "that egg" (yourself)?
170) 1: My... 2: self...? 3: Yes. 4: From that egg. 5: Egg...? 6: You're inside, aren't you? 7: I knew you were in there.
171) 1: Come out. 2: Come... 3: out...? 4: Where am I supposed to go...? 5: Where...? 6: I mean, 7: YOU probably have somewhere to go. 8: You never had the balls to come all the way into the park... 9: You just lived half-assedly in that car of yours.
172) 1: You always had a place to return to... 2: You just came here to play around... 3(2b): I don't have anywhere to go either. 4: Tch! 5: Don't lie to me! 6: I failed at my work and resigned the other day. I have no job. 7: Privately, I lost all the stocks and money I had invested, so my apartment was taken away. I have no place to live.
173) 1: L... 2: Liar... 3: I'm not lying... 3: I... 4: I also... 5: don't have anywhere to go. 6: Except my car...!
174) 1: You're a really good liar, you know that... 2: What about your friends... 3: ...I don't have any... 4: Right after I lost my job and my money... 5: All the people around me... 6: up'n disappeared.
175) 1: I have no one to count on. 2: What about your family... 3: M... 4: My family... 5: Ah can't go back to 'em!
176) 1: I haven't been back since before I got cosmetic surgery... 2: It's been about 14 years... 3: I've done nothing but send them money. Not a single photo. 4: And even'f ah did go back, my face is all diff'rent, 5: so they woul'nt recognize me anyway.
177) 1: Ah can't 2: go back now!
178) 1(2b): Why are you speaking with an accent...? 2: Huh? 3-4: A... 5: Are you making fun of me?!
179) 1: Y... 2: You've... 3: been making fun of my accent. 4: N... 5: No... 6: Ah'm just talkin' 7(2b): n...normally!
181) 1: H... 2: How do you know...? 3: Why... 4: are you holding a knife...? 5: D... 6: Do you... 7: know... 8: about dat?! 9: An accent...?!
183) 1: What do the "accent"... 2: and the "knife"... 3: hafta do wit each other?! 4: So... 5: you DO know...
184) 1: Blood... 2: Ya (You)... 3: used that... 4: to stab him?!
187) 1: S... 2: Something's there...
188) 1: N... 2: Nothing...
189) 1: split 2: bloob bloob bloob 3: bloob
190) 1-2: split
191) 1: It's just turning inside out... 2: It's still just an egg... 3: slide
192) 1: Oh... 2: So he was inside... 3: the mirror shell surface...!
193) 1: You're... 2: so invisible to yourself 3: that you're in your own mirror...? 4: How many years has it been 5: since you've seen yourself?
194) 1: S... 2: Stop it... 3: When I see my face... 4: I... 5: remember my past! 6: Unless you look back on your past... 7: you won't be able to see your future!
195) 1: I don't need a future... 2(2b): Ah'm gonna stay here forever! 3: Look at yourself!
196) 1: I've... 2: gotten old...
198) 1-4: bloob 5: Come... 6: out...
202) 1: Wh... 2: What the...
203) 1: What's this Homunculus...?! 2: It's like a bunch of mirrors are matched up... 3: an infinite corridor...
205) 1: Ah... 2: It's going in chronological order... 3: You did judo. 4: I see. 5: You've always had a strong body. 6: H... 7: How...
206) 1: You finished middle school, 2: and immediately started on a path to become a chef. 3: H... 4: How do you know this...?!
207) 1: Huh. 2: You got married earlier. 3: Married... 4: You look... 5: really happy... 6: Happy...
209) 1: I'm sure you had a good wife. 2: Yeah... 3: She was the life of the restaurant. 4: The other cooks were jealous of me... 5: She was a good wife...
210) 1: And you were blessed with a good child. 2: A girl? 3: Yeah. 4: She was lovely. 5: She made me serious about my work, 6: and I was excited to come home every day.
211) 1: I was happy...
212) 1: Your wife passed away...
213) 1: J... 2: Just...what... 3: are you looking at...? 4(2b): I don't know either... 5: Are you seeing Michiko's ghost?! 6: Nothing like that. 7: Oh...
214) 1: It was so sudden... 2: Acute pneumonia... 3: It was over so quick... 4: We had her cremated. 5: Her white ashes went dancing straight up into the clouds in the sky.
215) 1: It was like Michiko 2: had become a pure white ghost... 3: I couldn't stop crying...
218) 1: After that... 2: I neglected my daughter, 3: turned to alcohol, 4: and when I got drunk at the bar, I'd get violent... 5: My daughter often went to the police station to pick me up. 6: I caused her a lot of pain.
219) 1: One day, 2: I went into the kitchen drunk... 3: got into an argument with an employee. 4: Before I knew it, I started speaking in my old accent. 5: He made fun of me for it... 6: So I stabbed his right arm... 7(2b): I didn't take his life, but because of the place where I stabbed him, he became unable to use his right hand...
220) 1: I got a year of time... 2(2b): The only one waiting for me when I got out 3: was my daughter... 4(2b): Even though I wanted to go back to being a chef, I was too afraid to hold a knife again... 5: When I picked one up, I started to shiver... 6: I had no job, so I just started drinking again and accumulating debt... 7: Nothing mattered to me anymore...
221) 1: And... 2: then... 3: Oh yeah... 4: I escaped here... 5: with nothing but a knife in my pocket, 6: so that I could die at any time... 7: ...then... 8: my daughter...
224) 1: Your daughter was the only one who looked at you... 2(2b):and you abandoned her, you! 3: Uhhh... 4: You weren't looking at anything in the present... 5: you were just staring at the clouds, searching for a way out...
225) 1: Uhh... 2: Why did I abandon her...? 3: She always had her eyes on you...
226) 1: Why did you abandon her... 2: H... 3: Hey, car guy...
227) 1: ...Nanako... 2: Did you also...
229) 1: It's your fault.
230) 1: I didn't look at "the heart" (you) in front of me... 2: My eyes were blinded by the "lies" (material) beyond... 3: I abandoned "the heart" (you)...
231) 1(2b): I purposefully ran right into 2: a world of lies... 3: You have no place 4: to return to...!
232) 1: She was always so excited to eat the christmas cake 2: every year... 3: It was right before Christmas Eve... 4: when I ran away...
233) 1: This Christmas... 2: how about eating a cake with her...? 3: You have somewhere to return to...!
236) 1: Yikes! 2: Wahh!
237) 1: Snow...
238) 1: Ugh... 2: Ugggh... 3: Car guy...
239) 1: It isn't just "machinery" (the car) for you... 2: You have the power to feel 'humans' too...? 3: 'Humans' and 'machines' 4: are completely different.
240) 1: Nakoshi-san. 2: Car guy! 3: We heard the entire thing from out here. 4: Just what... 5: Nakoshi-san... 6: "What" 7: did you see?!
241) 1(2b): Ahh, Nakoshi-san. 2: Nakoshi-san!
243) 1: rustle
244) 1: Where should I go now... 2: Where...
245) 1: ...where...https://mangahelpers.com/t/ars-magna/releases/30855[English] [Translation] Homunculus Volume 13 by Ars Magna2011-08-07T11:40:52+00:00Ars Magnaadmin@mangahelpers.comHomunculus Volume 13 Translator: Ars Magna _____________________
02 Volume 13
09 Bank of Manhattan 東京支社 Bank of Manhattan Tokyo Branch 名越 進 Nakoshi Susumu ななみ Nanami
10 Oh right. Aya introduced her to me at that high-rise.
Her name was... Nanami?
11 Are you awake?
Ah.
I'm at your place...
12 I can't believe you did it by yourself.
I've warned you so much about this.
I couldn't stich your wound completely, but "luckily" the suppuration only caused an inflammation and fever which knocked you out for two days.
13 I've slept... for two days?
More importantly!
Why would you try doing a self-trepanation?! If you had made a single mistake, you were dead by now! What were you thinking by that?!
14 I can see the homunculi again.
Thanks to my "second pair of eyes," my ability is back.
Sheesh...
15 Is this woman the homunculus you have been talking who changes her face?
Yeah.
16 What do you think she's doing in that hotel?
She's a mistress. L'amant.
A mistress?
17 From what I've seen in the past two days,
she was together with a stock company's executive, head doctor of a hospital, a company president...
These three are her sugar daddies.
18 There are more.
Huh?
I saw her going out with other men too.
Oh... So she's just a slut.
But... Isn't it kinda dangerous to meet her sugar daddies "secretly" in a hotel?
19 Although it looks careless at the first glance, she's pretty wary.
I ran a background check on her, but I ended up nowhere.
Her name, age, residence... I couldn't find anything about her.
Nanami...
Pardon?
20 Nanami. I think that's her name.
I remembered a bit of that night.
21 What happened?
Although I said that she didn't leave an impression on me,
even without being able to see the homunculi, she was the only one that looked like an homunculus.
It's normal to think that something must have happened then.
22 I can only remember that someone introduced her to me at a party of my coworker.
Did you sleep with her?
I don't know.
Oh, come on...
23 By the way, had she always that "face"?
What do you mean?
Just like you, she had a plastic surgery.
24 You'd call her a "cyborg." You know, a cyborg.
That's the reason why her face changes.
Despite the plastic surgery, she's lost between a woman who could enjoy real love and a prostitute what we call a "lover."
25 She's just like you, Nakoshi-san.
Your ex who only looked at you...
26 The ex you saw in a homunculus...
What is she doing right now?
I've no idea.
What does she look like?
I can't remember...
27 What?!
I can't remember her face at all...
Did you forgot about your ex's face just like you forgot yours?
I just...
remember that she was completely ugly.
28 U-Ugly?!
You... Love between two ugly people?!
Shut up!
An ugly woman who can see the homunculi. The only one who could see you.
29 You know,
this woman had some heavy surgery.
It's possible that she was an ugly woman just like your ex.
30 Up's-a-daisy.
Your wound should be fine now.
Your suit and shirts were on the cleaning.
I left your car in the parking lot in a good shape, too.
Thanks.
31 I've left some drugs in your car. You should take them for a week.
Ah. Okay.
Bye then.
33 Oh, car boy. Ah.
Ken-san. Hi.
I couldn't see you lately. Where were you?
You know, I had some business with ladies.
Hahahaha.
34 In the past few days, more and more tents disappeared.
I see.
Where would I have to go if all the homeless are gone from the park?
35 I can't return to the hotel again.
36 It's possible that she was an ugly woman just like your ex.
37 He face is completely different, but...
I think she was about the same height.
38 Oh. Nakoshi-sama!
Welcome.
Ah. Thanks.
45 What's wrong?
Is there something on my face?
No, it's nothing.
Nothing... ...at all...
49 I think this gloss will look lovely on your lips.
Why don't you try it?
Do you always carry this along?
52 Hey... Hey!
We aren't alone here...
54 She... She has no mouth!
58 Tanaka-san
61 She...
She's staring at me. {lit looking into the car}
65 Ah...
66
Th... This is...
67 Not a dream!
The nopperabou wasn't a dream...
Na...
68 Nanako?
70 What are you drawing, Nanako?
78 Hm...
Is this supposed to be a cloud?
80 Hamburgers?
What's the meaning of this?
81 I bought more than I needed. You can have them if you want.
Are you showing me mercy?
What? Is there a reason for me to pity you?
82 Is your life so pitiful that you need my mercy?
83 What do you see?
Sorry?
What do I look like?
84 What does my "current self" look like?
86 A homeless.
Are you really homeless?
87 Don't be silly. Just on a journey to look for myself.
ニコ = Smile Oh, I see.
So...
Are you a "lover"?
88 What's a "lover"?
You go to that hotel and meet up with different men.
"Papa"?
Oh...
They are important clients.
89 Hold on. What kind of job are you doing?
Does your job require kissing in the elevator?
Kissing?
Is kissing passionately your job?
Who are you talking about? Didn't you mistake me for someone else?
Hey... Can't you even try coming up with better lies?
90 Do you mean my sister by any chance?
We're siblings. I'm the younger one.
No... No way...
91 What?
You didn't know, Nakoshi-san?
You're lying.
92 Haha.
I'm serious.
Don't lie to me!
93 Then... Did your older sister...
Also undergo plastic surgery?
What do you mean by plastic surgery?
A plastic surgergy is a plastic surgery.
94 Are you talking about yourself?
95 Anyway,
I've to get back to work.
Are you still drawing? Sorry?
You are drawing, aren't you?
96 Yes, I am. I'm good at drawing.
What kind of pictures do you draw?
From sceneries to people, from simple sketches to oil paintings, I draw pretty much anything.
Should I draw your portrait?
97 Hmph. I'll pass on that.
Nakoshi-san! Are you taking your drugs?
98 Oh.
ニコ = Smile I'll be going then. Bye.
99 Why did that ex-ugly woman come here?
She isn't my ex.
She isn't that kind of woman. Nanako would never lie.
100 One of these hamburgers is 280 yen.
27 of them make 7560 yen in total...
101 So?
It's impossible to eat them all. Yeah.
It's not like you're going to eat it for the next few days either. So, they'll spoil.
I know that.
You're being stubborn. I can't see your point.
You returned to the person when I just met you.
102 Well, I might be over-interpreting this.
Your ex could "see through you," right?
So in other words, she could see your "homunculus."
103 Plus, she was always straightforward, right?
So, what kind of homunculus did she see?
104 In which form would she see people's distortion and true natures?
Did she see deformed, inorganic forms like you?
She's a bit different.
She could see it as organic substances.
105 Like flowers, wind or fire... She could see with her imagination.
Flowers? Wind? Fire?!
People who can tell a person is "like a flower" are dime a dozen. Most of the women are like that.
That's what I thought at first, too.
106 Unlike me, Nanako could see clear patterns.
Well yeah, you seem to suck at drawing.
She'd hold the pencil like this, and would show me "people's hearts" as she sketched.
107 She'd a rather avant-garde way of sketching.
First, she paints the blank page of her sketchbook all black with her pencil.
And there she'd add expressions with her rubber.
"It's more human" when you paint a black page into white.
By sheeding a bit light to the pitch-black darkness of humans, you can see the form of their souls.
108 For example like this.
One day when we were at the park, she drew a flower.
Well it was a flower, but... it was still premature.
109 Right in front of her was a girl who was probably still in elementary school, and an old man who was probably her grandfather.
And that "premature flower" was that girl.
I can understand the flower part, but why premature?
When I asked Nanako, she quickly frowned. Her eyes wre locked on the old man who was walking with that girl.
110 That old man with her... He deflowered her against her will. What?!
He's a bad person.
What are you... No way... I doubt that.
111 When I looked at the girl, I noticed that she had burst into tears
as blood flowed down between her legs.
112 Her first menstruation came too quickly.
That was the meaning of Nanako's "premature flower."
The sexual abuse part was Nanako's misinterpretation.
The picture standed for the early bloom of the flower instead of the first menstruation..
113 Hm...
I'm fine with the one half, but the other half is just... "Hmm" I'd say.
That's what happened. Nothing more to it.
And? And?
114 How did Nanako draw your homunculus?
116 A cl... A cloud.... Yes.
A... Cloud?!
Not a "spider" you'd think of but the "cloud" that floats in the sky?
*Kumo can mean spider (蜘蛛) or cloud (雲).
Ye... Yeah...
117 And? And?
What about the heart?
That's why I didn't want to talk to you about this. Oh, I totally understand you.
When you say "cloud," you'd think of a pure heart, a lovely prince who'd protect his love as if he'd gently caress her. ♪
Isn't that your selfish wish as an ugly, amorous escapist?
118 Nakoshi-san, my credibility-o-meter has changed from 50:50 to 2:8. Yeah, I guess.
Nakoshi-san, do you seriously believe that?
Yes. Just like you "believe" iny my homunculus.
It's... It's 25:75 now!
Besides, does "I saw my true self," "I'm a cloud" even make sense? This sounds like that you, who used to be ugly and ran away from reality just made everything too convenient for yourself.
119 And? And?
Why did you broke up with that lovely and ugly girl
after three months?
Did you jilt her? Or was it the other way?
Don't wanna talk about that.
I can imagine.
120 Can you tell me more about Nanako? Like her surname, where she's from or her age?
I'll take a look at it.
You're the one who ruined my talkative mood.
But if I investigate her, I might find out if that woman who "transforms her face" is your ex.
Are you deaf?
She's someone else. Nanako would never lie. Ever.
121 Okay, okay. Let's say she's not your ex.
But there must be something about the transforming face woman.
Nakoshi-san, even when you lost your ability, she was the only one who looked like an homunculus, right? Besides, your memories of meeting her are so vague. You don't even remember whether you have slept with her or not...
There has to be something you're trying to fill the gap unconsicously.
123 Guess I'll hit the sack.
125 Yeah?
126 Can you give me a ride?
It's Friday night, and not a single taxy in sight.
127 Oh is this not enough?
Or... Do I have to pay with my "body"?
Do you want to bone her? She's the only one who looked like a homunculus. Something must have happened back then.
128 Get in.
To Higashi Nakano please.
130 Pardon me. {actually Don't mind me (not literal) would work better for situreisimasu}
Mm.
131 I can't kiss lips that lie.
132 It'll rub on me.
So you would kiss if they don't lie?
Perhaps.
133 You're the liar...
Excuse me? Ah... Nothing.
What happened the day I met you?
134 Sorry? "What happened?" Well... I think I used to spend some time with you before...
Hmmmm...
I think it was only once.
*Close*
Her face doesn't change.
And... That time...
135 Did we do it? Sorry?
Did we have sex?
Whaaat? You really don't remember? Y-Yeah...
136 Disgusting...
No way we had sex...
Oh gosh... This is so embarrassing...
Her... Her face transformed.
137 Another lie? What is the truth?
You really irritate me.
138 Nakoshi-san,
what happened to your lovely porsche?
139 I still have it. I left it in a garage at Hiroo.
Oh. So your consulting business is doing fine.
Yeah.
There'll be a recession in the near future. This means that business like mine will make more profit.
Wow!
*close*
140 Nakoshi-san, you're so amazing! ♪
Wait. Then why did you leave your car there, and started living in this car?
141 Just like the old days... It's the quest to find myself...
Sometimes I remember the zeal I had in my youth. But being homeless is kinda cool too.
I've been asked to be the consultant for that hotel to collect some data.
There's been an increase of homeless people since the downsizing, so I was doing my research based on own experience.
142 M... Mymymymymy...
143 My... My... My work...
wa... wa was... a total failure...
I-I-I was deprived of my job... Lost all the perks... And then I got fired of course...
The stocks I invested all my money are gone too. I've just debts now.
144 Therefore I lost my house, and my porsche was pawned too.
All that's left is this Carol {mazda carol} and my suit.
145 But you said your porsche was in a garage in Hiroo, and your business was doing well just a moment ago.
Huh?!
That was a lie, duh.
146 This is the place.
Thank you for the ride.
Don't mention it.
I bet this appartment is another lie anyway.
*giggle*
Yeah... There's nothing common with her.
She's full of bullshit.
148 Would you like to come up for something warm? {lit tea but later she says coffee}
150 Step in.
151 I'll prepare the coffee.
152 Dirt?
153 Debt?
154 You want it with milk?
156 Why did you invite me to your place?
Why do you approach me?
Hah.
Hahahahhaa.
You're still as self-conscious as ever.
157 "What" happened between us?
Uhmmm...
Something must have happened, otherwise you wouldn't be following me!
Oh come on...
Di...
Did we kiss?
158 Give it a rest already! Hey!
160 Did we sleep?
Are you trying to
seduce me or what?
161 It sounds like you just want to have sex with me.
N... No!
That's a really weak pickup line, you know.
I'm not trying to seduce you. I just want to know what happened between us.
Or are you saying that you want to sleep with me for giving me a ride?
I already gave you 5000 yen. You're so petty...
162 *Tap*
Enough with your lives. Give me an answer now!
Did you sleep with me?
163 You're the liar here.
164 If you really want to do me, then just say so.
What's with your act? Will you stop calling me a liar?
So?
Well?
165 How much are you paying?
168 Why are you staring at my face? It's not your face.
I'm looking at you, Nakoshi-san.
Nakoshi-san, what do you see?
169 Yep. That gross
fits perfectly to your lips.
Heh.
Oh dear...
So you are looking at my lips?
170 Well...
171 I was looking at your mouth that only spoke what's really on your mind.
Huh?
Just like your ears only hear the truth, and your eyes only see the truth as you perceive me...
172 I'm trying to look at your heart.
173 My... heart?
Yeah.
That's...
How can you see how I feel...
174 Your heart is pure, pretty and clean, right?
But maybe it's too clean which leads to misunderstandings and of course you end up getting hurt. You also have a part that's as frail as a glass.
I want to cherish your fragile heart, you see?
175 I'm serious.
I don't want to go back tonight.
Come on, open your heart to me.
176 Whoa.
177 *smile*
I told you earlier.
I can't kiss lips of a liar.
Haha...
You think I'd do you just because you have money?
178 I haven't even laid a finger on her!
179 Hm?
What's this smell?
180 It's coming from here.
He... Hey... What are you doing?
That's it!
181 Hey...
183 She went home...
Heh. Why did she come to my room then?
185 Wha...
What the hell...
is this?!
187 Sheesh, that's so embarrassing...
You You are...
189 I knew it. You're Nanako.
190 Nana who?
You don't have to lie to me. I can see it.
You can see "them," right?
That's why you drew me like that!
191 Are you sure you aren't mixing me up with someone else?
Oh I know.
Wh-What are you doing?
Where's the sketch where you drew me? Please, will you cut this out? There's nothing there!
192 on bags: Remains
Wait! Don't open that!
193 What are they? Can't you tell? It's face lotion.
Will you stop that?
Here are napkins...
194 Whoa.
Why do you hoard all the same stuff?
They are the leftovers of what I bought
text: Remains
Are you an impulse purchaser?
That's none of your business.
195 Anyway, where's the sketch?
Can you leave now?
199 Nakoshi-san, are you nervous?
Are you just sorting out your feelings?
You're more profound than usual. You're trying to make that "cloud" grow bigger...
200 It's so pretty...
Thank you. What?
201 This was the first place where we kissed.
203 Whoa, this is good. Where did you get them? I made them myself.
I switched to vegetarian cuisine since yesterday. These sandwiches are all made from organic compounds. Absolutely vegetarian.
Aha... Speaking of which, I think you lost some weight. What? Re...
Really?
204 Last night I went to her place. What?!
Did you sleep with her?
Nah, I didn't.
I remembered eevrything that happened that time.
205 What happened?
I hadn't laid a finger on her.
I took her to the hotel room, but she didn't let me do anything to her.
Are you serious?
When I woke up next morning, I found a sketch of my sleeping face.
A sketch of your sleeping face?
206 She painted my "face" as pitch black. In other words the sketch of a faceless ghost. {nopperabou}
A pitch black faceless ghost, huh?
207 Only Nanako would draw such pictures.
She is "Nanako."
H-Hold on. Slow down.
Something must have happened. From painting black into white she switched to paint white into black. There's no mistake it's her painting.
But Nakoshi-san, weren't you a "cloud"?
208 That time when my face changed into a cloud, I thought it was a sign. But I didn't look like a cloud.
It's completely different than now where I threw away everything.
And that's why she approached me now.
Are you saying she approached you because you look like a c loud now?
Listen, Nakoshi-san. That's just what you want, it's your fantasy.
That's not all!
209 Her homunculus changes her face with a swirl.
It turns into a faceless ghost.
Into a faceless ghost?
Lately I've been dreaming of Nanako a lot. A dream where she has no face.
210 You just forgot the face of your ex, and now it lingers in your brain without a face.
That's the reason why she appears like a faceless homunculus. So you think she's your ex.
Yeah.
As I said, it's merely a product of your own desires, dreams and imagination.
211 Don't you have any solid evidence?
Something on her body like a scar or a mole? A picture from the past, a driving license or a health insurence card? Has she anything particular to verify her identity?
She's as tall as I am. I don't remember any other details. And there wasn't really anything I could call a proof in her room.
I got it.
For now let's focus oh physical things we can find.
Tell me anything that comes to your mind. I'll jot down all the information about your ex.
212 Her name is Nanase Nanako. Currently 31 years old. The name of the cafe she was working at was "Marimo". Location, Narimasu.
That's all I remember. OK.
That's enough for me.
I think this will keep me busy for a while, but I'll do my best to dig out everything about her.
213 Looks like they are at it on broad daylight.
It looks like they are headed to a hotel.
214 She...
That woman had her place full with lotions, napkins and all that crap.
Oh... She has to be an impulsive purchaser.
Considering that she's prostituting herself, it has to be caused by the stress. If she doesn't give out the money she has, she'll feel like some object. That's why she would buy all the trivial stuff.
Well, I guess you get stressed if you that kind of job.
Haha... Even if you can't see it, she's a human after all.
215 Her homunculus...
The fact that her face changes is a symbol for a change of herself.
Depending to her sugar daddy, she changes her face and lies to him. She puts up everytime a different act.
Since she doesn't have her own personality she sticks with, she herself doesn't know who she is.
216 Then, how do you explain the faceless ghost?
Hmm...
Unable to act, she can't lie either. That's why her facial expression cannot be read.
In other words she is the closest to her self she appears to be.
Well that's just my analysis. But I told you before...
217 The homunculi you see are merely a product of your imagination? That topic again?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not poking fun at you. Just hear me out, okay?
The face of the homunculus changes. All the "faces" are the ones of the women you know, correct? Yeah.
So in other words, the faces you remember are surfaced in front of your eyes and change.
This means something that isn't part of your recollections cannot emerge as a homunculus.
218 Then again it doesn't mean what you see is just hallucinations or delusions.
The memories you link with a person become a message for you that appears as a homunculus in front of you.
Either way, talking to that person about this is pointless.
You have to talk with yourself.
219 That would be the fastest solution.
Talk to myself...
220 Whoa... It's cold...
221 Nanako...
*slurp*
222 It wasn't locked.
223 Homunculus Volume 13 ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/ars-magna/releases/30854[English] [Translation] Homunculus Volume 12 by Ars Magna2011-08-07T11:40:05+00:00Ars Magnaadmin@mangahelpers.comHomunculus Volume 12 Translator: Ars Magna _____________________
02 Volume 12
05 Puah! You're drinking a lot today, car boy.
I feel my blood circulates better when I drink alcohol...
I can see monsters... What? Monsters?
Hahahaha. I think you drank a bit too much, eh?
06 *Tap*
Shit...
07 As I thought...
This hole is way too small.
09 It's huge.
If I'd open such a big hole...
It'd be awesome.
10 Ups-a-daisy.
Whoa, it's cold!
11 *Hick* Hm?
That woman...
I think... I used to flirt with her.
What was she doing again? Uh... I can't remember. I brought way too many chicks to this hotel.
12 Gu...
My eye...
13 Either way, she-
Huh?
Yumeko-chan?
14 What?!
That's Hiromi I saw at Felis yesterday.
15 Huh?
Heh. I drank too much. I'm seeing things.
I should get some sleep.
18 O... Oww...
Damn hangover...
19 [No Entry] Huh?
20 Oh, car boy. You've a hangover?
Ah, good morning, Ken-san.
By the way, what happened to Numa-san's tent? He left.
Huh?
The city has started an "Appartment Project" where they prepare a reasonable place to stay in order to reduce the amount of homeless people. They say they want to bring the people back into the society, but their real plan is to rinse the park of homeless and their tents.
21 立入禁止 = No Entry
And when people leave, they put the sign "No Entry" to that place, so they won't build up their tent there again.
Well, half of the tents in this park are gone now.
22 I see...
Sooner or later, we won't be allowed to stay in this park either.
24 She's the one from yesterday.
26 That face... Isn't that Chika-chan?
27 Ah... Aaaahhh...
28 I get it... Or rather... They are...
29 The girls I've flirted with.
I'm sober right now.
Is that woman...
30 A homunculus?!
32 Which means...
33 I can't see it.
What's going on?
Why can I only see her?
Why is only she a homunculus?
34 Na-Nakoshi-san?! What happened?
Just open the door. I can't open right now.
Ah!
35 H-H-Hold on...
Hey!
You can't just waltz in here. Come on, Nakoshi-san...
36 I can't see them properly... Can't see what?
The homunculi.
37 What do you mean by "properly"?
That you can see only some of them?
Are you sure it's not because of the hole? What?!
Isn't it because the hole is too small?
38 Oh, don't start with that again. Give me a break!
The size of the hole doesn't matter. But...
I've been repeating myself over and over. The phenomenon you're experiencing right now is what we call the "placebo effect." The homunculi you see are just a product of your imagination.
The size of the hole does not damn matter!
If they're just a product of my imagination...
39 That means if I think about them they will exist.
So, if the hole gets bigger, I'll be able to see them clearly.
40 So, by can't see them properly, you mean you can see them after all, right?
Just one person.
There's a woman that looks like a homunculus.
41 Just one person?
Right... She's the only one.
[Six round slices.] [Gal-kei.] [Only hips are spinning.] What does she look like?
It's only her face that keep changing.
Oh, oh.
It takes the form of the girls I've slept with. One by one...
42 So it takes the form of the women you know. Yeah.
And...
Did any of them look like a homunculus?
43 Your exes. No...
Do you personally know her? Yes.
She's one of the women I flirted with when I was working for a foreign company. She didn't really leave huge impression on me though.
Oh, yeah? So that's where the story's going.
44 How should I say... I'm not interested.
I've the feeling that I'll be able to see more homunculi when the hole is bigger.
You're still going on with that? It's getting tiring now...
45 This is...
46 Is he doing that by himself? What?
Oh, that? Yeah, it's called "self-trepanation."
By yourself, huh?
Hey!
Don't even think about that! It's way too dangerous!
47 It's extremely difficult to remove bone of your skull without damaging your brain's membrane. Doing it by yourself means committing suicide!
Several people died when they tried self-trepanation!
Of course I wouldn't do that, silly.
48 You'll do that, right?
Ah.
I've to get my clothes from the dry cleaning.
I'll be right back.
49 He ran away...
51 手術屋 Operating Room
55 トレパネーション(林料) Trepanation {no idea what the text in paranthesis means} 終了よ～ん It's over. ♥
56 I'm back.
Huh?
He comes and goes when he pleases...
57 Whatever. He was a pain to deal with anyway.
[Operating Room]
58 トレパネーション(林料) Trepanation {no idea what the text in paranthesis means} 終了よ～ん It's over. ♥
61 Hm... Still a bit awkward...
Darn, split hair again.
Shit, shit!
[Operating Room ] Where are the scissors?
62 Come on, scissors!
Huh?
63 The reports about trepanation are torn off.
Crap!
It's gone.
64 Nakoshi-san...
65 He isn't here!
66 Nakoshi-san!
67 Nakoshi-san...
Nakoshi-san!
68 Nakoshi... *pant* san...
Oh... Hey...
69 What... What happened?
Give me a break, Nakoshi-san...
Whoa, a transvestite? Yeah. Looks like some high class transvestite though. Don't you call them "new-half"?
70 Don't just take my documents about trepanation, will you? Sorry about that.
I just wanted to read up a bit about trepanation to sort things out. Mind lending me those papers?
Is that all?
What do you mean?
71 I hope you aren't considering to do it by yourself, do you?
Hm?
Ah! You're talking about trepanation?
Of course not! Don't be silly.
72 Anyway, just drink a bit.
Nah, I'll pass. I'll be going then.
Don't forget to return them. Sure.
74 Who is it? Who is it?
Nanako?
75 Who is it?
Nanako?
Who is it?
78 It's dangerous to make the hole bigger.
A way to increase the hole... Something that's safe...
Oh, there's a way to make the hole bigger.
84 田中さん Tanaka-san
87 使用中 Locked {or literally In use}
93 Ouch...
Good thing I've brough this with me.
95 Good. The anesthesia is working.
98 This is 7mm. It's huge.
99 I hope it'll stop drilling by itself when I hit the meninges.
I'm just gonna drill a bit on the skull...
If I tear the meninges... I'm dead.
Come on!
100 Phew...
104 Hahaha... What the hell am I doing?
No way I'm going to die stark naked in a toilet like this.
114 It stopped...
Is it open?
116 Oh.
Yeah, it is.
117 What... What's this sound?
118 My... My brain...
It's throbbing!
119 It's beating... {生きている = its alive while the text above it 鼓動している reads "it's throbbing/beating" - just pick one of the combos you like} Like my heart!
130 Tonight I've the feeling that I can even see "my own" reflection...
131 Phew...
That was lots of blood that splashed out... Guess I feel anemic because of that.
133 Her face is different.
Ah...
Ah!
134 Again... Her face changed in a whirl.
139 Uh... Ugh...
141 Are you okay?
Ah... Yeah...
Should I call an ambulance? Nah, I'm fine.
142 Do you remember? Sorry?
Remember me?
Nakoshi-san, right?
Ah... Right.
143 It's been a long time.
Sorry, I forgot your name.
What? Oh.
I'm Makimura Yuki.
Huh? Did I knew someone by that name?
144 Where are you going at this hour?
I'm headed to my mother's place.
Your mother's place? Darn, it's already this late.
I've got to go. Take care of yourself.
I will, thanks.
145 Her mother's place? Yeah right.
She's headed toward the hotel.
What a big fat liar.
Wait...
Did I really know that woman...
146 Hope there aren't any blood stains.
Man, I'm sleepy...
150 Who're you?
151 Clo... ..ud?
Clo... Cloud?
As I thought... Nanako, right?
156 It's back to "normal."
157 You're in the way.
What the hell? Creepy!
161 Is there something in that egg?
Soone or later, I'll drag it out.
162 [No Entry]
163 Ah... That's a nice view.
164 It's... It's cold...
I feel sluggish, too.
166 Uh...
Whoa... It's too bright...
It's already evening...
170 Hello.
171 Were you all right?
Ye... Yeah... I just drank a bit too much.
Today you look pretty pale too.
172 Are you going
to that "home" again today?
173 Home? That's just a hotel.
Home?
Your name was Makimura Yuki, right?
174 Where did we meet? Were were you working again?
My name isn't Makimura.
175 My name is Satiou Michiko.
Besides, who are you?
176 Sorry, sorry. I was just pulling your leg.
Yes, I am Makimura. We met at a home party at Aya's reception, Nakoshi-san.
177 Ah.
Oh... Aya's...
At Kazu-kun's appartment at Takanawa. {appartment being a high rise/tower block - same thing on the very last line of the last chapter} Kazu-kun?
After that, we had dinner together.
178 That was
when I get to know...
You!
Ah...
179 Is that another lie?
180 Oh gosh.
You don't remember?
Well?
181 Don't you remember what you did to me?
182 You lied to me too!
187 Uh...
189 Ah...
You...
190 Where did that face come from?
191 You have turned into a "nopperabou" {faceless ghost - see wikipedia}
Did you forgot your own face?
194 You are Nanako, aren't you?
203 Nakoshi-san.
Nakoshi-san?
204 Nakoshi-san! Nakoshi-san!
205 Nakoshi-san!
213 Bank of Manhattan 東京支社 Bank of Manhattan Tokyo Branch 名越 進 Nakoshi Susumu ななみ Nanami
214 Oh right. Aya introduced her to me at an apartment. {
Her name was... Nanami?
215 Homunculus Volume 12 ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/26145[English] [Translation] Homunculus Volume 11 by molokidan2010-11-21T15:25:20+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.com*Only for use by I-M.
HOMUNCULUS VOLUME 11
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3) sign: Flea Market
4) 1: Someone who looks exactly like me... 2: Where are they...
5) 1: Where is there someone who knows my old face?
9) 1: My feet are now completely devoid of a stench... 2: How did they smell before?
10) 1: No... 2: Is it necessary for them to have a smell? 3: Is it necessary to remember something like that...? 4: That's it...
11) 1: I don't need actual feeling...
12) 1: What good will it do 2: to search for my true self? 3: What good will it do 4: to remember how I once was? 5: What are these Homunculi, anyway? 6: What am I, anyway?
14) 1: Car boy! 2: Hey. 3: Boy.
15) 1: Wahh. 2: Ken-san... 3: You can't do that. 4: You can't still be lookin' down and walkin' like that.
16) 1: If you look down, 2: then you won't be able to see ahead, behind, up, or to the side. 3: It's still too early for you 4: to be cutting off everything but yourself.
17) 1: See for yourself.
19) 1: Me and the other homeless eventually end up looking down and walking like that... 2: And it's not like we're looking down searching for money. 3: No one wants to see anything, 4: and no one wants to be seen by anyone... 5: They don't want anything to happen, 6: don't want to feel anythin'...
20) 1: Nothing... 2: Huh?
21) 1: No 2: thing?
22) 1: If you cut off everything around you and look down at your feet like that, 2: you won't even know where you are anymore, 3: and won't even be able to tell whether you still exist...
23) 1: Then, you'll suddenly get worried about whether or not you still exist, and want to look at yourself for confirmation, 2: but you won't be able to muster up the courage to look at your full self in the mirror... 3: All you can do is walk, knowing that at the very least, your feet are still connected with the ground...
24) 1: It's too early for you to be lookin' down. 2: Yes.
25) 1: Hm? 2: What's that smell? 3: Where's it coming from?
26) 1: Shoes...?
27) 1: Welcome. 2-3: sniff 4: Mmm... 5: They stink...
30) 1(2b): Only one remained... 2: Excuse me...? 3: One photo... 4: of my old face...
31) 1-3: haah
33) all bubbles: haah
35) 1: Boy do these stink.
36) 1: These are the ones...
43) 1: Did something happened before I changed my face...? 2: Did I really feel like I was alive...? 3: Did the real me exist?
44) 1: Nothing...
48) 1: Ehhhhh...
49) 1: There was nothing... 2: You...
50) 1: No trauma, 2: no enjoyment, 3: no frustration, 4: no joy... 5: If you always walk looking down...of course there'll be nothing... 6: Is that why you changed your face?
51) 1: You thought if you changed your face, something would happen... 2: You had nothing, and yet you blamed that on your face... 3: Now look at my face.
52) 1: Nothing's changed, has it? 2: The shape of this face may have changed, 3: but its expressions haven't changed one bit...
53) 1: Maybe I understood somewhere. 2: That I wasn't moving forward at all...
56) 1: look at me more
58) 1: be interested 2: it isn't about the face
59) 1: it isn't about money 2: it isn't about cars 3: look at 4: MYSELF
60) 1: I exist!
61) 1: I 2: am not an invisible man 3: I 4: am not a Noppera-bo 5: I 6: am not zero
62) 1: Look at me!!
63) 1-4: Look at me
64) 1: look... 2: at me...
65) 1: plea...se...
66) 1: Ah...
67) 1: Ahhhh...
68) 1: There was one person 2: who did look at me...
74) 1: Oh no... 2: My car won't...be able to... 3: klak
75) 1-2: knock
76) 1: Can you roll down the window? 2: I come in peace.
77) 1(2b): Here. 200,000 yen. 2: Let me buy the clothes from yesterday 3: as a memoir.
78) 1: After checking online, 2: I determined they cost about 240,000. 3: Let me off on the 40,000, please. 4: Now how about not staying all shut up in your car and taking a walk or something?
83) 1: "A park in winter" is nice, isn't it? 2: "A park in summer," 3: is full of overgrown trees and greenery... 4(2b): In a spacious park like this, the wall of greenery acts like a labyrinth, often making one feel like they have no idea where they actually are...
84) 1: Look over there. 2: "A park in winter" contains nothing but dead trees full of gaps, allowing for a wide frame of view, 3: allowing one to really feel the width of the park... 4: And more than anything, one can understand where they truly are.
85) 1: Apparently, when I was in elementary school, I kept a guppy. 2: Oh... 3: so you did have one...
86) 1: And it seems that I loved it very much. 2: And I also seem to have dressed up in girls' clothes often. 3(2b): Seeing the guppy as a symbol of beauty, I must have been comparing it with myself. 4: My father saw me doing this and panicked, so he killed the guppy...
87) 1: He apologized today. 2: It looks like my father has another half a year to live. 3: Eh... 4: But I thought he only had a bone fracture...? 5: Apparently, he only said that to hide the truth.
88) 1: I think he forever doted on the guppy somewhere in a corner of his heart. 2: And with the end of his life drawing closer, 3: he wanted to feel at ease... 4: What do you think about that? 5: You mean whether or not I think 6: it's selfish? 7: Yes...
89) 1: It's human. 2: And this may be the first time I've ever seen my father's human qualities.
90) 1: Things are just how you saw them, Nakoshi-san.
91) 1: Just like in your sketch, 2: I had lost sight of my true form within the case known as my "father." 3: And was probably living out a life void of real feeling. 4: Generally, I've been blessed in my form, 5: and unlike you, Nakoshi-san, I was popular, and never had to worry about women. 6: I thought I was living a life free of discontent. 7: But...
92) 1: There was one part where I could never achieve true feeling. 2(2b): Of course I have experience with women, and I'm not a virgin, but... 3: I've never ejaculated during intercourse... 4: So you could say I'm a cum virgin.
93) 1(2b): Now that I think about it, my flight from 1775 was probably just an expression of rejection. 2(2b): But with that said, I of course do not think that I have a gender identity disorder, 3: and I possess not the least bit of desire 4: to sleep with you, Nakoshi-san. 5(2b): However...from this point on, if similar emotions come bursting out of me, I do not think I will be able to suppress them anymore.
94) 1: Now that the "father" case is broken, 2: I would like to do as I please. 3: Moving toward my true form...
95) 1: Hey. 2: What do I look like now?
97) 1: I see. 2: So that's why it didn't become a part of me. 3: Your Homunculus isn't gone yet. 4: There's no need to worry... 5: You can bury it little by little.
98) 1: How about getting some cosmetic surgery? 2: Cosmetic surgery? 3: That's not a bad idea.
99) 1: I 2: know why I picked you, Nakoshi-san. 3: I thought that I had chosen you for the trephination experiment out of some vague interest I had, 4: but I know the real reason now.
100) 1: I had been studying humans from various angles, 2: but when it came to the human shape... 3: I was extremely interested, including what we know as cosmetic surgery. 4: And at that time, I came across a man who had undergone cosmetic surgery, curled up like a fetus sleeping inside a car... 5: Not only that, but he was a "car homeless" smack dab in the interstice between the hotel and the park... 6: Nakoshi-san.
101) 1: Why did you get cosmetic surgery, 2: just to become a homeless person in a place like this? 3: What do you mean...?
102) 1: If cosmetic surgery is supposed to make people happy, to better their conditions... 2: then why 3: are you in this situation right now? 4: Subconsciously, I was troubled over my own shape, 5: which lead to my research, 6: and secret hopes toward cosmetic surgery...
103) 1: At the same time, 2: there was someone who became a homeless after getting cosmetic surgery, 3: telling nothing but lies, 4: and questioning himself... 5: My fears then transformed into interest in you... 6: And I chose you.
104) 1: So why did you change your face 2: and then become a "car homeless" person...?
106) 1: What does it mean to be human...?
107) 1: What?! 2: Now that your human research is over...what would you define a person as? 3: What is a human...? I wonder... 4: Stop acting cool...
108) 1: Humans are 2: "forms." 3: All that talk about humans being soul and mind is bullshit...
109) 1: It's because humans have forms 2(2b): that they can see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and communicate with others. 3: It's because there exists "human-formed meat" capable of controlling souls 4: that "humans" exist.
110) 1: We can speak therefore we lie, 2: we have bodies therefore we hurt others, 3: we have eyes, therefore we can be seen by other people...
111) 1: It's because we have forms that we can worry over a few millimeters-large pimple, 2: get irritated over a few centimeters-large deviation in face or body, 3: panic over the loss of a single front tooth... 4: Eyes are drawn to other eyes a few millimeters too large, 5: eyes peer away from noses a few millimeters too large, 6: eyes are stolen by women a few centimeters thin, 7: and a man a few centimeters too short can never find eyes to look upon him.
112) 1: Without forms, humans cannot suffer.
113) 1: These forms are the problem...!
114) 1: Before my surgery... 2: That's all I ever thought about... 3: You remembered what happened before your surgery? 4: Yeah...
115) 1: Huh. 2: You weren't as ugly as I expected you to be. 3: What happened to you when you had this face?
116) 1: Nothing... 2: Huh?
117) 1: ...nothing...
118) 1: I was a boring human...
119) 1: One that no one was interested in, one that no one would look upon or give attention to... 2: Just like an invisible man... 3: Nothing...
120) 1: In the single moment that people glanced over me, the lack of interest in their eyes was all too apparent... 2: People who passed me by quietly smiled... 3: Gradually, I began looking down to hide my face, 4: walking while cutting myself off from others...
121) 1: Every day, I looked only at my feet as I walked, 2: being nothing but a gloomy human... 3: Pfft. Not like there would actually be anything there... 4: No trace of trauma...no joy, sadness, pain, happiness... 5: And of course, no real feeling...
122) 1: I know I was looking down because I was afraid of getting hurt, 2: while wandering through an empty world, 3: occasionally giving sidelong glances to people who were popular, or getting some kind of attention or fame, 4: envying them, cursing them in my mind, 5: mocking the pigs who would go on and on about how "it's all about what's on the inside," despite making much of their own outward appearances,
123) 1: and then looking back down to my feet and walking on... 2: paying careful attention so as not to let the emotional seesaw teeter...
124) 1: I blamed that lack of true feeling 2: on my face. 3: If only I could change my face, I'd be able to walk with my head up, be looked at by others, 4: be noticed, be popular, and finally really feel something.
125) 1: You thought "something" would happen if you changed your face? 2: Of course. 3: And so you did. 4: Yeah...
126) 1: Women began to look at me, I slept with them, was successful in my career, got money, 2: and my days became abundant with commodities.
127) 1: snicker snicker 2: You didn't really feel anything, did you? 3: Yeah...
128) 1: Even if I kissed someone, I doubted whether they were actually kissing me, 2: and their gentle words started to sound like direct whispers to my wallet. 3: The hands that touched me looked like soiled hands that often touched brand-name goods. 4: The eyes were angled clearly toward me, yet the focus wasn't set on me. 5: Were they looking far past me, or were their gazing stopping way before they reached me...?
129) 1: I wasn't even sure if they were actually noticing my existence... 2: They were treating me like an invisible man...!
130) 1: And so, my eyes filled with distrust, 2: and the words that left my mouth became painted in lies, 3: so much that I even began to lie to myself... 4: There, I had no real feeling, and of course no "self" existed, either.
131) 1: I panicked, throwing away my apartments, money, and all other things which drew fake interest, 2: wanting to escape somewhere... 3: And so I came to the interval between the hotel and the park. 4: Ah... 5: There was one thing I didn't throw away, though: my face. 6: True. 7: That would be a little difficult to get rid of.
132) 1: I see. 2: So you changed your face and got people to look at you, 3: but it all looked like falsities to you, so you couldn't get any real feeling. 4: Yeah... 5: I can't get real looks... 6: Nothing's changed from the time when I walked staring at my feet...
133) 1: Now, and back then, 2: there's nothing. 3: For 34 years... 4: Have I had nothing...?
134) 1: Just where am I...?
135) 1: Ehh?! 2: Let's go back.
136) 1: I'm sick of looking at my own shadow...
137) 1: There was only one time...
138) 1: when I actually existed.
140) 1: When was that? 2: Just before I changed my form, 3: I couldn't decide to do for a few months... 4: Was it really to OK to throw away the face I'd had for so long...? Was it OK to throw away the "me" that had lived up until now...? 5: And during this time when I was taking another look at myself, questioning myself...
141) 1: There was a single person who looked at me... 2: A woman who gave the ugly me a true stare, while I was staring down at my feet...
142) 1: At that moment, I WAS.
143) 1: What kind of a person was she?
144) 1: A woman who could see Homunculi...
145) 1: A woman who could see Homunculi...? 2: Yeah...
146) 1: That's the first I've heard of such a thing. 2: Do you mean... 3(2b): She could see distortions of the heart...or something like that? 4: Yes. 5: She was a woman who could see others' "homunculi."
147) 1: Did you see her? 2: Yeah... 3: During those three months... 4: She saw at me...
148) 1: And how did she see you, Nakoshi-san? 2: What kind of a Homunculus did she see in you?
149) 1: Did you have a robotic arm and a leg made of sand? 2: My Homunculus... 3: back then...
150) 1: is something I can't tell you about. 2: Ehh?! 3(2b): Ehhhhhhh? Why noooot? 4: Pleaaaaase tell meeeee! 5: I most certainly 6: will not...
151) 1: C'moooon, Nagoshi-saaaaan.
152) 1: Ohhh, two whole bottles! 2: You sure are feeling generous tonight, Car Boy!
153) 1: I had a pachinko streak today. 2: Huh? 3: But you were just talking about horse racing... 4: Ignore it, ignore it. 5: He's just lying again. 6: He's got the lie disease, the lie disease. 7: Eheeheeheehee.
155) 1: The rice girl at the Ehime Church today sho' was a looker! 2: Ahhh, that cutie with the ponytail! 3: Boy was she a looker! 4: I'd love to do some o' the ol' in-an-out wit' her! 5: I had two or three dames like that when I was younger. 6: I banged the shit outta 'em! 7: You serious? 8: Hell yeah!
156) 1: You've made a lot of cuties cry up until now, haven't ya, Car Boy? 2: Since you're so handsome. 3: If it's model-level women you're talking about, then I've slept with more than I can count.
157) 1: Whaaaa?! 2: Del-Mooooooooo?! 3: Boooooooy, 4: you're pullin' our legs. 5: You ain't be catchin' no ladies with that car. 6: Shishishishi. 7: Except... 8: The most beautiful woman I've ever seen... 9: was unbelievably 10: ugly.
158) 1: Uuu... 2: Uglyyyyyyy?! 2: Sh...she was ugly, b-but beautiful...? 3: What was good 'bout her? 4: The sex? She had a nice hole? 5: What I mean by ugly, I suppose, is that she was different 6: from the "simply beautiful" women you often see...
159) 1: She could see people's hearts. 2: Whaaaa?! 3: What'd you say?? 4: See heaaarts?!
160) 1: Yes... 2: She could clearly see people's hearts... 3: Anyone kin see somethin' like that. 4: By checkin' the atmosphere, you know, people who look mean, people who look nice... 5: It's all about the atmosphere! 6: It was a level beyond that kind of human observation... 7: She could see human hearts in clearly defined forms.
161) 1: That woman... 2: How did she see these hearts?
162) 1: Like this... 2: The distortions in people's hearts... 3: would appear in weird shapes...
163) 1: Is that that uh, you know? 2: That spiritual supernatural mumbo jumbo?? 3: No, nothing like that... 4: It was like, 5: this... 6: That was just her imagination. 7(2b): A hallucination! A delusion! 8: ...what... 9: smirk
164) 1: True, it might have just been a delusion. 2: Boy, what did a girl with a crazy power like that do for a living?
165) 1: She helped to serve rice at church-sponsored volunteer events. 2: V...volunteer... 3: rice...? 4: I'm gonna go to the bathroom. 5: Fuaaaaaah
166) 1: Nothin' but lies... 2: Seriously... 3: Before he said he dated a stewardess. 4: If he's that much uvva liar, then he must have some mental illness... 5: Well, he brings us booze, 6: so just let him be. 7: He don't mean any harm. 8: hic
167) 1: hic
178) 1: chak 2: Nnnnnnnn 2: Nnn...
180) 1: Nako-chan is a "cloud." 2: All white and pure... 3: but unattainable... 4: A "cloud."
182) 1: Doesn't look like a cloud to me... 2: My left hand, 3: and right hand, 4: are distorted 5: now... 6: Hm?
199) 1: Long time no see. 2: Y... 3: Yeah... 4: All of a sudden I wasn't able to contact you anymore... 5: Er... 6: What happened...? 7: What are you doing here? 8: Huh?
200) 1: What happened to your Porsche...? 2: Ah... 3: Ahhh...
202) 1: Puh. 2: Hiromi-chaaan. 3: Ah. 4: Sorry to keep you waiting! 5: Hiiiii. 6: I'll be right theeere.
203) 1: Nakoshi-san. 2: See ya
205) 1: beep 2: boop 3: bap 4: beep 5: rrrrring 6: gach 7: Hello? 8: Hey. 9: What the hell's going on?! 10: What is this all of a sudden?
206) 1: You can't see the Homunculi anymore...? 2: Congratulations
207) 1: This means your problem is solved, doesn't it?! 2: What...? 3: No, this is really a great thing 4: Let's celebrate with a drink! 5: Nothing about my problem has been solved! 6(2b): I think I can't see them anymore because of some physiological problem...probably...
208) 1: I'm sure... 2: this hole has sealed up... 3: Haha, 4: Well that's still a good thing then! 5: Those monsters that creeped you out are gone.
209) 1: Nakoshi-san, 2: don't you think you're lucky?! 3: Or...could it be that you miss them now... 4: The Homunculi...
210) 1: Open the hole! 2: Huh?? 3: I said open the hole! 4: Ehhhh? 5: Nooooo...that's dangerouuuus...
211) 1: Dangerous... 2: This is something you started! 3: Also... 4: I don't think the hole is sealed up. 5: The hole I opened this time was 3mm. 6: Cranium holes regenerate, but sealing up within a few days is an impossibility.
212) 1: Open this up and see for yourself, then! 2: Nakoshi-saaaaan. 3: To be honest, your problem is over and done with, 4: and I really don't want to do such a troublesome thing, soooooo...! 5: Damn you...
213) 1: I have to move on to the next thing... 2: You aren't finished yet. 3: There are still some minute deformities left. 4: I can't see it now, 5: but the only one who can see your Homunculus is me.
214) 1: What was that about a girl who could see Homunculi? 2: The one you dated... 3: Yeah...
215) 1: So it didn't 2: come from the trephination hole after all. 3: Through the placebo effect from the trephination, 4: your old girlfriend's special ability (Homunculus) appeared within you. That's all there is to it.
216) 1: Your imagination was infected by what you saw in that girl. 2: And 3: rattle... 4: What your girlfriend saw was also no more than some sort of hallucination or fantasy. 5: By the way...
217) 1(2b): Were the Homunculi she saw of the same structure as the ones you've seen? 2: ka-ching 3: click 4: Probably... 5: Their appearances were different, but their "meanings" were the same.
218) 1: Don't you think that rather than filling up the hole, 2: searching and finding that woman would be the quicker way to solve things? 3: Why don't you just have your ex take a look at you? 4: wink
219) 1: At the Homunculus you have now. 2: Just hurry and open it up, alright? 3: I'll look at myself, by myself!
220) 1: Uh-oh. 2: What's wrong?
221) 1: The hole in your cranium... 2: The bone isn't closed, 3: but the hole is filled with pus and scab, so it appears like it IS virtually closed. 4(2b): Hm...I see. So then if I removed what's in the hole now, it'll revert to its previous open state. 5: It's simple
222) 1: OK, OK, OK... 2: Okay. 3: If you doubt me, Nakoshi-san... 4: Then take this mirror and watch for yourself...
224) 1: Hey, I can't see anything! 2: ...Nakoshi-san. 3(2b): Please don't get all flustered. It took a good bit of time before you were able to see anything the first time, didn't it... 4: Anyway, let's close up your skin.
225) 1: clink clink
226) 1: Hey. 2: Yes? 3: You said the hole in my cranium 4: is 3mm, right? 5: Y, 6: yes. 7: In that report, it says that "if the hole is any smaller than 7mm, then one cannot expect any actual effects from the trephination." 8: Haah... 9: And your point...?
227) 1: Don't you have to make the hole bigger? 2: Oh, enough already. 3: Nakoshi-san... 4(2b): The size of the hole will have no effect on whether or not you can see the Homunculi! 5: But... 6: It says that there will be no effect unless the hole is bigger than 7mm... 7: Nakoshi-san...
228) 1(2b): The trephination effects that report refers to are not necessarily related to "seeing Homunculi." 2: I know. 3: The sixth sense appears in different shapes, right? 4: Wrong. 5: That is also just a hoax. 6(2b): In modern medicine, trephination is utilized for treating things like epidural hematoma, and it is certainly not administered to healthy people. 7(2b): The exceptions to this rule are people overseas who attempt it in a way to stimulate their consciousnesses, but the actual effectiveness of this, honestly, is not definite.
229) 1(2b): Psychic powers, ESP...all that talk about a sixth sense appearing is a lie. It's just a hoax I created. 2: Don't you remember what I said...? 3: The "Homunculi" you saw 4: were just your imagination.
230) 1: That's a good one. 2: You should know more than anyone 3: that these Homunculi are neither hallucination nor fantasy.https://mangahelpers.com/t/njt/releases/16856[English] [Translation] Homunculus Volume 10 by njt2009-10-15T20:17:38+00:00njtadmin@mangahelpers.comp01
Waiter: Welcome, Mr. Nakoshi.
Nakoshi: Hello.
Waiter: Is this the wine you desired?
Nakoshi: Yes.
Waiter: Excuse me.
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Nakoshi: Hey!
Manabu: Yeah?!
Nakoshi: Let's at least make a toast.
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Nakoshi: Cheers!
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Manabu: pfhuuuu
Nakoshi: Woah!
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Manabu: Ah...
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Nakoshi: That's where everything started. // I was unable to enter that pitch black park, / nor return back to this hotel. // You contacted me // when I was in that car,
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Nakoshi: and because you put a hole in my skull, / everything turned out like this.
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Manabu: I knew it... split-ends...
Nakoshi: Huh?
Manabu: Mister Nakoshi, // why did you choose this wig~~~?
Nakoshi: WHAT?
Manabu: Just look at it! / It's just full of split-ends!
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Manabu: That's why everyone is looking at me... / Couldn't you have picked one without as many split-ends?! // Honestly... // You have no taste~~~
Nakoshi: Why do you // avoid people "looking at you" so much?
Manabu: Huh?
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Manabu: Why else?! Look at how you dressed me up! // And these split-ends...
Nakoshi: No one is looking at your split-ends // and no one is looking down on you. // Face them. // Our "eyes" are the only thing that connects us to the outside world.
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Nakoshi: You should never look away.
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Manabu: Mr. Nakoshi... // Are you talking to yourself? // Aren't you the one // who always tries to avoid other people's eyes?
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Waiter: Excuse me.
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Waiter: How is the wine?
Manabu: Fa... // Fa...
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Manabu: Fabulous.
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Waiter: Splendid.
Manabu: Just Fab♪
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Manabu: Thank you.
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Manabu: You won't find it there, // Mr. Nakoshi. // Your reflection.
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Manabu: Your reflection is right in front of you. // Inside the face of the person that you made wear makeup.
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Manabu: You're capable of being honest, right? // So tell me what it is you see. // Inside the mirror, inside this face.
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Manabu: Misssster Nakoshi. // Wasn't it yo~~~~u / who was just telling me you shouldn't run away from people's "eyes"?
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Manabu: Did you see your face before you had plastic surgery or something? // Mr. Nakoshi. // Why did you have it done anyway? // What happened to you?
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Nakoshi: ...an't ember...
Manabu: Pardon?
Nakoshi: I can't remember...
Manabu: Eh?
Nakoshi: I can't remember... / what my face looked like.
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Manabu: EHHH?!? // Well // you can remember by looking at an old photo or something.
Nakoshi: I trashed every picture I had before the surgery.
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Manabu: Are you serious? // You really can't remember what your own face looked like?
Nakoshi: Yeah... // Even memories of me when I was a kid has me with a younger version of this face...
Manabu: Quite some work you had done there...
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Manabu: Mr. Nakoshi, // I'm dying to know what trauma you went through. // It was obviously something so bad that you'd want to suppress it, // want to forget your own face.
Nakoshi: I really don't know...
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Manabu: People are so interestin~~~g♪ // Oh, wait. No, it's just you who's interesting Mr. Nakoshi.
p37 manabu: So we're clear? // Mr. Nakoshi. // You saw my homunculus... // went to the extent of dressing me up as a girl, and treating me to dinner, // I guess you were trying to substitute me for a mirror or something,
p38 but in the end, it's you who doesn't understand yourself. // Of course you don't. // Homunculi are just your one sided illusions. // Your egotistic delusions that have nothing to do with other people.
p39 So in short, // you and I have nothing in common! // You were forced into living in your car, and you're just seeing delusions from your mental stress and fatigue.
Nakoshi: This homunculus... // has nothing to do... // with you...?
p40 manabu: Right, it's 100% purely your distortions.
Nakoshi: Then... what about that...
manabu: Huh? // What was that?
Nakoshi: Then... // the... // what about the guppy?
manabu: Excuse me?
p41 Nakoshi: Why do you have a guppy as a pet?
manabu: Uhh... // Why are you bring that up now?
Nakoshi: Oh, // well, you owned one before... // right?
manabu: No I haven't. // That was my first one.
p42 Nakoshi: You're lying...
manabu: I'm lying?
Nakoshi: I've never owned one either... Hmmm then what's with that homunculus...?
manabu: What are you going on about?
Nakoshi: !//
manabu: What about it? // You keep talking about a guppy....
Nakoshi: ・・・・・・・・//
p43 Nakoshi: There was a guppy, // inside your homunculus.
p44 manabu: What in the world... is this?
p45 manabu: That's what I'm saying, a guppy...
manabu: Well you never mentioned it.
Nakoshi: Ah... Yeah... // I hid it...
manabu: You hid it? // Honestly, // you're just keep lying, don't you~~~!!
Nakoshi: For... // forgive me...
p46 manabu: And you say it as if that guppy has everything to do with me...
Nakoshi: Well... it was inside your homunculus.
manabu: Are you listening?! // I said // that it's // nothing but your illusions!! // What does it matter if I own a guppy?!
p47 Nakoshi: There... // there's no reason for that...
manabu: Actually, you probably saw me owning a guppy // and lied again, stretching the truth even more!
Nakoshi: Now that's... // going to far...
manabu: Not to mention I just told you // that the homunculus that you are seeing // have nothing to do with me!
p48 Thus there is no relation between me and that guppy!
Nakoshi: But... I've never owned one either...
manabu: Ah!
p49
Mr. Nakoshi, // could it be you've forgotten?
Nakoshi: Huh?
manabu: That's it! // You've forgotten! // I get it now.
Nakoshi: ?//
manabu: You've forgotten // that you used to own a guppy!
Nakoshi: !?//
p50 manabu: And something happened // between you and it.
Nakoshi: That's absurd.
manabu: You've just forgotten it. // Just like you did with that face of yours.
Nakoshi: !?//
p51 manabu: You've suppressed that memory and forgot it.
Nakoshi: ... // I doubt that...
manabu: Mr. Nakoshi, why don't do some soul searching?
Nakoshi: ・・・・・・・//
p52 manabu: Let's grow up from blaming people saying you see homunculi and the sort. // It's about time to confront yourself.
Nakoshi: I... // owned a guppy...?
p53
manabu: *phweew* // Burp // Excuse me.
p54
Burp // I get it~~~
Nakoshi: !//
p55
manabu: You hid talking about the guppy // from me~~~.
Nakoshi: ?//
manabu: So that means this homunculus, // has to be of you.
Nakoshi: !!/
manabu: Guppy being the hidden keyword that proves this.
Nakoshi: ・・・・・?//
p56
manabu: The guppy being the symbol of your desire to look cool, // desire to look nice. // You wanted to be like a guppy and so you had surgery or you tell me, // Mr. Used to be ugly♪. p57
So how was it? // After the surgery. // Did the world change?
p58
Nakoshi: ... Shut up...
manabu: Well, didn't it?
p59
manabu: Money, women, possessions, // the world around you just glowed, didn't it. // Just like the treatment is different // for a girl that is pretty and one who isn't... // appearance // does that.
Nakoshi: ・・・・・・・//
p60 manabu: However, living a lie took away the feel of living, // so you gave up the money, women, possessions and even though you ran away to the middle of the hotel and park you still couldn't find that feeling. // Crawling up like a little baby, // sleeping with your thumb in your mouth and thinking // "But I want my old self back" ♪
p61 If that happens... // going back to how you were... // Maybe the real you still exists.
Nakoshi: !//
p62 manabu: Although... // just like the guppy... // you can't remember // how you looked, // or what you did.
Nakoshi: ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・//
p63 manabu: What exactly happened... // before that surgery...?
Nakoshi: !!//
p64
p65 manabu: *burrp* // *BELCH* // I... // have an idea~~~~.
Nakoshi: !?//
p66 Wha... // what do you know...?!
manabu: Fufufu. // *burp* // Excuse me...
p67 We----ll isn't it easy enough to figure out?
Nakoshi: !?・・・・・//
p68 manabu: Before the surgery... // you were like this glass, an invisible man. // Grew up in a strict family environment that didn't allow you to assert yourself.
Nakoshi: ?//
manabu: Yeah, // that's gotta be it♪
Nakoshi: His voice... // sounds like a woman's..?
p69 manabu: And here, // this face indicates // your father was exceptionally strict. // This glass case represents how your father // did whatever he wanted, and tried to take over you. Nakoshi: I...
p70 I thought I told you that I didn't have a father...!
manabu: Right right♪
p71 And the guppy inside here, // is a symbol of yourself! // The yearn to look nice! // the desire for change...
Nakoshi: ・・・・//
manabu: You've just forgotten that important guppy // Fufu...
Nakoshi: ... Still, // I've never owned a guppy.
p72 manabu: Something must have happened that relates to the words "guppy" and "father". // Some trauma that you've forced out. // *burp* // Oh my... // Excuse me. // Yeah, // the "father"... // must have done something // to block out the guppy.
p73 Maybe he... // threw it away? Killed it even...?
Nakoshi: What's with this guy...
p74 manabu: Mr. Nakoshi♪ // Do you think maybe your pet guppy // was killed by your father?
p75 Nakoshi: He's... // He's carelessly talking about himself!
p76 manabu: That's gotta be it, I'm sure of it. // Fufufu.
p77 Nakoshi: *cover*
p78
Nakoshi: The once invisible man... // is now visible.
p79 I can see him...
p80 Nakoshi: What's this smell...
p81 Hm...? Where's it coming from? // From below...
manabu: I hate these split ends...
p82 Can't we do something about them?
Nakoshi: *scrape* // Is it his feet...?
p83 *sniff* // That reeks!!
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That's it... // His feet....
p89
Unlike his feet, // mine... // lack smell, weight, warmth. // They've lost all life to them...
p90
The bottoms of my feet were the only things left... // that had any life to them... p91
p92 manabu: Waaah. // What's the matter, Mr. Nakoshi?
p93
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Mr Nakoshi... // Ah hah! I was right on the money so now you feel like you just want to run away from the world?
p95 Nakoshi: Shut up...
manabu: Huh?
Nakoshi: Yoar feet be reeking up the place... (Speaking like a hick again)
manabu: Excuse me?
p96 Nakoshi: So what if you got feet that smell, feel weight, have warmth. (still hick - need to hickify)
manabu: What's the matter... // Nakoshiwoshy?
Nakoshi: Don't you be all high and mighty just cause you got life in dem feet. (still hick)
manabu: Oh my oh my // what's wrong with this boy...
p97 Hey now... // you're scaring me so // come on, look at me. // Wasn't it you who said // we should look each other in the eyes?
p98 Nakoshi: I'm not the only one that was lying to myself... // You weren't living until just now!! (still hick)
manabu: What?
p99 Nakoshi: Liar!
p100 manabu: *erm*... // *burp* // *phew*
p101
Oh... Excuse me... // How embarrassing. // Excuse me while I go to the rest room.
p102
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p104 Which one... // Going into the ladies room would be a crime...
p105
foreigner: oh!// Lady's room is that way.// You're cute.//
manabu: ・・・・・//
p106 ・・・・//
p107 Hmm... // Umpgh... // *burp*
p108 ・・・・// !//
p109 *Bel...* // *Belc...* // *..lch*
p110
*burp*
p111
EHHHHHH!!!!
p112
Huh...? // Maybe I'm drunk... // I do feel better though~~~~ // But wait... // What is this feeling...?
*blink* // Hm? // *rumble* // It's no good. // I can't *feel* the car... (feel as in, like he could before, understand it by just touching it)
p135 ojisan: Oh, it's the car guy!
Nakoshi: Hey, // Nice to see you Ken.
ojisan: Morning.
p136
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p138 manabu: Going back to how you were... // Maybe the real you still exists.
Nakoshi: How did I look...? // Before I got this face... // What in the hell happened...?
p139
I can't remember. // I guess the only thing that's not different, // are my eyeballs...
p140
It's not just my face that's different... // but other places too... // Just how distorted must I get?!
p141
That reminds me... // I wonder if his has still yet to change...?
p142
p143 man: How is it? // Father.
p144
Isn't it beautiful?
dad: ・・・・・//
p145
When was it that you wanted that ultrasound machine?
man: Oh, whenever is fine. // Whenever you can. // Actually, // I may not even need it.
dad: !?// ・・・・・//
p146 man: More importantly, // what do you think? // Isn't Siesta cute?
p147 dad: Si... // Siesta...?
man: Right, // it's his name.♪
dad: ・・・・・・・・・・//
man: Don't you just love it.
p148 dad: ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・。// man: !?//
p149
Whoopsy.
dad: !// ・・・・ man: Wait?
p150
This is my album.
p151
Ahaha // this brings back memories.
p152
Wait... // who's this?
dad: That's... // you.
p153 man: What!? // Weren't all the pictures before elementary school lost? // Ehh?? // What's this?? // Why do you have it??
p154
p155 dad: Sorry...
man: Why are you apologizing?
p156
Wait... // We owned a // guppy??
p157
I...
dad: Siesta...
p158
I wanted to say sorry about... Siesta...
p158
Si...
man: Siesta...?
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Si... // Siesta...
p183 dad: Manabu... // I killed him...
p184
p185
I'm sorry... // Manabu...
p186
I really am...
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p191 Nakoshi: There must be the real you // before you changed your face. // Something must have happened... // Before the surgery... // What was it...?
p192
The only clue I have // to help remembering my face, // and my memories are the...
p193
homunculi.
p194
p195
Who's the one... // the one that can prove I lived... // the one that knows my face?
p196
Where's the person that knows the real me? // What in the hell happened to me // before my surgery...?? // What happened??
p197 otoko: What are you looking at!!
Nakoshi: !!// Sorry.
otoko: Sheesh...
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p201https://mangahelpers.com/t/njt/releases/8674[English] [Translation] Homunculus Volume 9 by njt2009-01-26T06:17:30+00:00njtadmin@mangahelpers.comFirst some rules for this trans~ It can be used Only if the raw isn't the one that is publicly available (If you like the series enough you'll scan it :p) I want to see quality since that's what has happened so far with the series and I expect it to continue. This was originally brought to me by Fleshcut, but due to some problems I decided to make this trans public with the above rule^^.
Also from page 30 or so on some guy by the name of Draagon transcribed the volume for me to help the translation go faster (busy guy ya know :p) so- if you feel like mentioning him too, knock yourself out :).
Also this release wouldn't be half as good if it weren't for LoserBait's extensive English checks and help with the Hick part :3. Thanks LB~~~ <33333333333
Expect me to translate volume 10 too when it comes out in feb~(next month~)
With that said~ Enjoy :3. Become a fan if you liked it :P
p06
おまえは、 // なぜ俺を選んだんだ？ Why... did you pick me?
p07 めんどくさいなあ・・・・ Oh my god...
もお〜〜〜〜 Fiiiiiine~
ピタ・・・ Stop...
じゃあ言わせてもらいますよ。 Let me say this.
p08
あなたはなんで あんな所でカーホームレスをしているんですか？ Why were you living in your car in a place like that?
p09 一流ホテルとホームレスの集まる公園の挟間で自分探しぃ？ Trying to find yourself by going between top-notch hotels and places where homeless gather?
嘘だ！ Lies!
ポルシェに乗っていた外資系銀行マンが、 Why would a guy with a Porsche that works at a foreign bank
p10
なんで オンボロ車でガソリンもやっとの車上生活をしているんですかあ？ be living his life in a beaten up car that barely has any gas?
な・・・ How...
なぜ 知っている・・・？ How do you know that...?
p11
車のナンバーからある程度の情報はいただきました。 I was able to gather a reasonable amount of information from your car plates.
てめえ・・・・ Why you...
それに その顔 And then there's your face...
p12
いつ整形したんですか？ When did you have plastic surgery?
p13
やっぱ、// 知ってたのか・・・ So, // you knew...
そりゃわかりますよ。// これでも医者の端くれです。 Of course I did. // I am a doctor after all, albeit not a great one.
公園で、車の中で 寝ているのをビデオに撮らせてもらっている時からわかっていました。 I knew from the moment I started filming you sleeping in your car in the park.
p14
だいぶいじってますよね？ // 目、//鼻、//歯並び、//あご、 Got the whole works done, eh? // Your eyes, // nose, // teeth alignment, // chin,
p15
他にもありとあらゆる所やってるんじゃないですかあ。 you've had other various places done, wouldn't you say?
本当の名越さんは一体どんな顔をしているんですかあ？ I wonder what the true face of Mr. Nakoshi looks like.
p16
p17 し・・・ // 知るか // すでに・・・// 俺にも・・・//わからない・・・ Wh-... Who cares... // I don't... // even know... // anymore...
ハッ // わすれちゃったんですかあ〜〜？！//自分の本当の顔！ハハハ Hah // You can't remember~?! // You forgot your own face?! Hahaha
p18
そんな 忘れてしまいたいような、//ひどい顔だったんですかあ〜〜？ Was it a face so bad // that you wanted to forget it?
p19
そりゃ そうでしょうねぇ//あなたは嘘の塊だ！ I guess it figures. // You're nothing but a liar anyway.
p20
そのニセモノ顔のように自分を嘘で固めて いきてきたんでしょう。 // 整形という嘘、金という嘘、女という嘘、名誉という嘘、自分という嘘、 Just like that fake face of yours, you've lived your life fortifying yourself with lies. // Plastic surgery lies, money lies, women lies, reputation lies, a lie of yourself.
p21
嘘、//うそ、//うそばかりだ。 Lies, // lies, // just full of lies.
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名越さん 初体験はいつですかあ？ Mr. Nakoshi, when did you lose it?
なに・・・？！ Excuse me?!
恥ずかしがらないで。 // さあ初体験ですよ。 Don't be shy. // Now tell me, your first time.
19だ・・・ I was 19...
わかりやすいなあ・・・ You're so easy to read...
p26
きっと その頃に整形でもしてやっと女だけたんじゃないですかあ？ // 19っていうと・・・ // 高校卒業して 大学入学するためにド田舎から東京へ来るのを境に顔を変えたってところですか。 //図星ですね。 And that'd probably be around the time you got the plastic surgery done and so was finally able to get a girl? // Age 19... that means, // you just finished high school and so in order to get into a college you moved away from the deep countryside to Tokyo and that's when you changed your face. // Looks like I hit right on.
生まれ変わりたかったんですねえ。 // そんなにひどかったんですか？ // それとも何か嫌なことでもあったんですか？ // いや 違うな。 So, you were looking for a fresh start, eh... // Were you really that ugly? // Or did something bad happen? // No, that couldn't be it.
p27
ただブサイクで モテなくて 外見のコンプレックスに日々モンモンしている、 // 誰もが持ちそうなありきたりな悩みだ！//きっと鏡でも見ながら「これは本当の俺じゃないんだ」とか思っているんじゃないですかあ？ You were just ugly and unpopular fretting everyday over a complex about your looks. // A complex that lots of people have! // You probably looked at the mirror and thought, "This isn't the true me", didn't you?
p28
そして整形という、//「嘘の顔」を手に入れて、//「嘘の金」を手に入れ、//「嘘の女」を手に入れ、//「嘘の地位」を手に入れ、//「嘘の生活」を手に入れ、 Then, through plastic surgery, // you got your "False face", // then your "False money", // your "False women", // your "False status", and your "False life".
p29
あらゆる「嘘」を、//身にまとったところで、//更に本当の自分の姿がわがんねぐなっていっただげだっぺが！！ With all those lies // wrapped around you, // you done begun to furghett th' wey you looked evhen moar!
pg30
pg31
嘘が息苦しぐなって、//すべでをすてで、//楽になりだがっだだげだべ。 Gaht 'ard to breeve. // Juss wanted to buh free // by throwin it all away.
・・・え。 ...eh?
p32
リセットしたがったんだべ？ // 胎児みでえに丸まっち寝でよ・・・ // 自分がら金や女や生活やらの嘘を捨てでよ、たどり着いだのが公園とホテルの挟間って・・・ // 笑がしてくれんな。 Ya wanted tuh start ovah? // Crawl up like 'en inphant 'an sleep. // An' da place ya ennup in aftar ya give up yer monie an' women is in bahtween a park anna hotel... // It cracks meh up!
Pg.33 おまえ、一体 何してぇんだ? // 何がしてぇんだよっ! // ちっ、 // 嘘の顔だげは捨てらんにくせによっ... what'n da hell you want? // What'n da hell you want boy?! // Damn, // ya got rid of ev'ryfin' else, bu' hold onto dat fake face o' yers...
...う、 ... Shu-
Pg.34 う...るせぇ... Shu...t up....
右目まで縫ってくだらねぇホムンクルス見でる場合ではねぇべ。 Yuv got bedda issues t' deal wif den sewin' yer right eye shut t' see Homunculus illusions.
Pg.35 心の歪みがカタヂになって見えるだの、自分自身が投影されるだの... // オマエ、ホムンクルスに自分自身のヒントが見えるんじゃねぇがど、 // 期待してんじゃねぇのが? Sayin' fings like yer mind's distortions take on shape, or seeing yerself bein' projected back atcha... // Yer not hopin' t' git some kinda hint as t'what ya shoo be doin' // from dese Homunculuses, now are ya?
Pg.36 くだらねぇ妄想だぞ、／ヒントなんかありはしね。 They're stoopid delusions, / ain't no hints or nuffin'.
わがってるよ... I kno...
わがってねぇよっ。 No, ya don't.
なに... Say whut...
んだらば、 // オレが見でやっつぉい。 // オマエのホムンクルスを...! Well den, // lemme see here for meself. // Yer own Homunculus...
Pg.37 ピト・・・ Cover...
や...// やめろ... St- // Stoppit!!
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Pg.39 見んな...!! Dun look...!!
う~~ん... 醜ねなぁ~~ Hmmm... it nasty~~
Pg.40 おまえ... Yoar...
醜ね 海老天だよ。 a nasty lookin' deep-fried shrimp.
え... // えびてん...? A deep... // a deep-fried shrimp?
「嘘」どいう分厚~~い衣をはおった天ぷら。 A deep-fried shrimp dressed inna VERY fick coat 'f liez...
嘘の... // 衣... Coat of... // lies...
Pg.41 ただ、嘘を捨てるごとによって衣を所々 剥がし落どそうどしてんだげんちょ、 // 部分部分腐った衣がへばりついだまま... // 特に顔にはべっタリどな! Howeva, by givin' up sum o' yer lies, you've shed sum layers off yer coat, // but dere are sum rott'n pieces yer still hangin' onto. // Particularly tightly t' that mug o' yers!!
Pg.42 ただただ、 // 醜ね!! It downright // UGLY!!
え...っ。 Eh...
それにオマエ... Nort only that but...
Pg.43 右手がロボになり左手に砂が移っただあ? Ya did say y' saw yer right hand as robotic an' yer left hand as sand?
そんなカダヂ、 // 嘘だ! Them shapes // is liez!!
おまえ、 自分の幻覚にも嘘をついているのに気付がねぇのが? *** Damn boy, // yer lying 'bout yer illusions even, an' yet ya still dun notice?!
な...にぃ...? whut...you say?
Pg.44 自分に自分が、 // 嘘ついでるんだよぉ。 Yer // lying t' yaself.
ば... // ばがな... That... // That's ridiclous...
人ばっかし疑ってる場合じゃねぇんじゃねぇのが... Now's not th' time t' be doubtin' whut other peeples is sayin'...
Pg.45 自分を疑え!! Doubt yerself!!
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Pg.47 俺がじっくり近ぐで見でやっつぉい。 Lemme get a closer looksee.
や... // やめろ... Sto-... // Stop rite there...!!
どれどれ? Lessee...
来んな... Stop...!!
Pg.48 よぐ見せろよ。 Gimme a bedda look!
み...っ、 Dun...
Pg.49
見んなぁっ。 Dun look!
Pg.50 お、/おいっ、// 何 すんだ!? He- hey!! // What are you doing?!!
Pg51 おいっ やめろっ。 Stop right there!
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Pg.54 名越さん.../何やってるんですかあ... Mr. Nakoshi... / What is the meaning of this...?!
Pg.55 危ないなあもお~~~ You could have hurt yourself! Sheesh~~~!
Pg.56 え? Eh?
Pg.57 ちょ... // ちょっと名越さん...! Mr. Na-... // Mr. Nakoshi-san...!
ほっ...// よかったあ... Phew... // Thank god...
Pg.58 す...// すみません、僕も ちょっと言いすぎました。 // そんな こわがるとは思わなかったから。 My... // My apologies, I said too much. // I didn't expect you to get so worked up.
Pg.59 おまえにも ホムンクルスが見えるのか...? You can see Homunculi too...?
え? Eh?
そ... // そんな妄想見えるわけないでしょう... There-... // There's no way I could be seeing those kinds of delusions....
海老天 // 見えたろ。 You saw a deep-fried shrimp, // didn't you?
いや だから... // それは僕の単なるイメージで、あくまで印象です。 Oh, that's... // That's nothing but a mere image I had, at most just the impression I get of you.
Pg.60 それが ホムンクルスだ。 That's a Homunculus.
え? Eh?
Pg.61 その力タチがリアルに目の前に見えるかどうかの違いだけで、/そのイメージ自体が、 / ホムンクルスなんだよ。 It's just the difference of whether you're able to see it physically or not. / The image itself // is a Homunculus.
何を... // こじつけみたいなことを... Don't be... // giving me that nonsense...
おまえにも見えている...// ホムンクルスが...! What you are seeing... // are Homunculi...
Pg.62 ば... // 馬鹿らしい... Don-.... // Don't be ridiculous!
おまえの見えた ホムンクルスは、// おまえ自身のホムンクルス。 The Homunculus (distortion) you saw // was your own Homunculus (distortion).
Pg.63
おまえ...俺に説いてるのと同時に、/自分自身に説いていることに気付かないのか? You didn't notice when you were preaching to me, / that you were preaching to yourself as well?
Pg.64 ただ 俺とおまえは鏡合わせ。 // 問題は同じだが、 //すべてが真逆になっている! It's just, you and I are like mirrors facing each other. // Our problem is the same, // but everything that is reflected back is the exact opposite!
真逆...? The exact opposite...?
Pg.65 ピロロロロロ Ring ring
わあっ。 Ah.
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で...電話です... Ce- My cell phone's ringing...
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ち... 父親です... It-... // It's my father...
Pg.66 どこ行くんだ? Where are you going?
病院です。 To the hospital.
Pg.67 バイクじゃ寒いだろう? // 乗ってけよ。 Isn't it too cold to go by bike? // Hop in.
車には他人を乗せない主義じゃなかったんですか? Didn't you have something against strangers riding in your car?
Pg.68 他人じゃないだろう。 You're no longer a stranger.
ふ~~ん... Well then...
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Pg.70 何も 後ろに乗ることはないだろう。 There's no reason for you to ride in back, you know.
いや... // ちょっと準備があるもので。 Nah... // It's just I gotta get ready and all.
準備? Get ready?
Pg.71 クリクリ・・・ Detach...
Pg.72 ペリ Rip
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Pg.74 な... // なんだそれは...? Wha-... // What in the hell...?
へっ、// なんで? って... Heh, // You're wondering why eh?
Pg.75 父親に会いに行くんですもん.../当たり前でしょう。 We're about to see my father... / What did you expect?
[sign]関東医科大附属病院 Kanto Medical School Hospital
Pg.76 [sign] ...学式 ance Ceremony
Pg.77 パラ flip (or turn)
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Pg.79 コン コン Knock knock
はい。Yes?
学です。 It's Manabu.
Pg.80 お父さん、// 調子は どうですか? Father, // how are you feeling?
まあ そこに座りなさい。 Oh just have a seat.
Pg.81 お父さん、僕すぐ行かなきゃいけないから...// 話って なんですか? Father, I have to leave here soon... // What was it you wanted to talk about?
座れ。 Sit.
Pg.82 おまえの本棚にあったそうだ。 Apparently those were on your bookshelf.
またママ、勝手に部屋に入ったんですね... Mom has been snooping through my things again I see...
なんで 美容整形の本なんか持っている? What are you doing with books on plastic surgery?
[book]脂肪吸引注入術/市田正成 Liposuction & Implants / Ichida Masanari
Pg.83 いろいろな分野を勉強しておくのもいいと 思ったんです。 I thought it'd be a good idea to study various fields.
頭部外傷には急性硬膜下血腫と急性硬膜外血腫があるが... A head injury can either cause one to get an acute subdural hematoma or an acute epidural hematoma.
この二つの疾患をCTで撮影した時の写り方の違いを述べてみろ。 // 学... Tell me how these ailments differ on a CT scan. // Manabu...
Pg.84 美容整形の勉強させるために、// あのマンション買ってやったんじゃないんだぞ。 // うちは 脳神経外科の病院だろ。 I didn't buy that condo for you // so you can study plastic surgery. // Need I remind you that our hospital deals with neurosurgery.
脳神経の勉強に専念できる場所を与えてやったんだろ。 I gave you a place where you can absorb yourself in cerebral nerve studies.
急性硬膜下血腫では病変部が 三日月状であるのに対して、/急性硬膜外血腫では病変部が 凸レンズ状になります。 Acute subdural hematoma is when the affected area takes a crescent moon shape, whereas / acute epidural hematoma is when the affected area takes a convex lens shape.
Pg.85 なぜ 美容整形なんかに興味を持っている...? Why is it you have an interest in plastic surgery anyway...?
人体の内側にある脳や内臓も大切ですが... I understand the importance of the brain and internal organs of the human body, but...
Pg.86 外側にある空気と視線が触れている部分も、//人体 なんです。 The parts that come into contact with the wind or eyesight // are part of the human body too.
外側も、// 人間 なんです。 Our exterior // is human too.
Pg.87 もともと 病気でもない人間にメスを入れるような仕事は医者とは言えんっ。 I still can't call someone, who sticks a scalpel into someone who isn't sick, a doctor.
僕は医者よりも人間に興味があるんです。 I'm more interested in humans than doctors. Pg.88 [no text]
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Pg.90 そういえば学... By the way, Manabu...
超音波診断装置がほしいって言ってたな。 I believe you said you wanted an ultrasonograph?
はいっ。 Yes sir!
今度 パンフレット持ってこい。 Next time you come, bring a brochure.
わかりました! Thanks very much!
お父さん、 病院も殺風景でしょう。 Father, don't you think this place is a bit bare?
Pg.91 今度 グツピーを水槽に入れて 持ってきましょう How about I put a guppy in a fish tank and bring it over later?
グ... // グッピー...? A... a guppy...?
ええっ、// 綺麗ですよお! Yes, // and she's a beaut!
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楽しみにしていてください Look forward to it.
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Pg.95 これも嘘なのか...? So this... is also a lie?
Pg.96 鏡に映っている自分にも嘘をつかれたら、 If I'm even lying to the person looking back at me in the mirror,
Pg.97 本当の自分をどうやって見つければ いいっていうんだ... Then how in the hell am I supposed to find the real me...
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本物の俺はどこに映っている...? Where is the real me being reflected...?
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Pg.99 お待たせしました。 Sorry to have kept you waiting.
Pg.100 い...行きましょうか... Sha-... Shall we go?
あ、 // ああ... Ah, // yeah...
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Pg.102 病気 なんだな、// 親父さん。 So your father is quite sick, // eh?
父親が死期を迎えようとした時、息子は 父親との問題に向き合う... //映画などでもよくある パターンです。 // そんな時、 // 目の前に幻覚が見える救世主が現れる。 When the father is on his death bed, the son confronts the problem with his father... // A pattern used all too much in movies. // And that's when // a Homunculus appears right in front of them and then the Messiah appears.
Pg.103 名越さん、// 一体 何をしてくれるんですか? Mr. Nakoshi, // what am I going to do with you?
Pg.104 でも残念ながらうちの父は ただの交通事故の外傷で命に別状はない状態で... However, unfortunately, my dad is just suffering from some trauma due to a traffic accident. There's nothing threatening his life.
「父親」ではない。// 何度も 言ったろう。// お前と俺を結ぶパイプは 「父親」ではない。 It's not our "fathers". // I've told you many times. // The thing connecting us isn't that.
でもですねえ... But I believe...
Pg.105 俺には 父親はいない。 I don't have a father.
Pg.106 幼い頃に亡くしている。 He died when I was very young.
ま...// まあいないからこそ、／「父親」というキーワードにこだわりがあるんじゃないですかあ。 We-.. // Well even more the reason why / we should focus on the word "Father".
やたらと 問題を「父親」にしたがるんだな。 You seem to insist on the problem being "Father", don't you?
だってえ... Well...
Pg.107 それ自体が「父親」でない証拠だ。 Which is proof that it isn't the problem.
美容整形も勉強してるんだな。 So you're studying plastic surgery eh?
ええ。 Yes.
Pg.108 人間を研究するに当たって 心理学や脳生理学はもちろん、／精神分析や催眠療法など臨床技術や、さらには気功やオカルト新興宗教 怪しげな民間療法まで、ありとあらゆるものを研究してきました。 そして たどり着いたのは... // 「人間の外側」、// 肉体、 // 皮膚、 // 身体、 In studying humans, I've not only used the usual psychology and brain physiology methods, / but have done psychoanalysis and hypnotherapy clinical techniques. I've further studied other various suspicious folk remedies like Qigong, Occults, and even newly-formed religious groups. // Where I ended up at, is... // "The exterior of the human". // The flesh, // the skin, // the body.
Pg.109 ようは外見です。 // 美容整形の研究は、// その中の一つに すぎません。 In short, the outward appearance. // And studying plastic surgery is // a part of that group.
それで 俺を選んだのか? So that's the reason why you chose me?
Pg.110 ハハ、 // そんなところかもしれませんね。 Haha, // that might just be it.
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Pg.113 波は 落ぢづぐなあ... Them waves relax me...
Pg.114 波は 俺を映さねえ。 Them waves won't reflect me.
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Pg.120 顔を整形して~~ Had plastic surgery~~♪ (Changed my shape)
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人の見る目が変わった // 人々の関心を手に入れた //女・金・モノを手に入れた People looked at me differently♪ // Got their interest♪ // Got women, money and things ♪
Pg.122 だけど... // 生きてる 実感がない // 女とのキスは // まるでラップ越しにしているよう...// 実感がない But... // I don't feel like I'm living♪ // Kissing women, // is like I'm kissing through saran wrap... // I can't feel it.♪
Pg.123 金を操れば // 人の言葉や気持ちに重みがなくなり... // 実感がない // ブランド物を持てば // 人間の温度が伝わらない... // 実感がない If you manipulate money // people's words and feelings lose their ground... // You can't feel it♪ // If you have brand-name possessions // You can't feel people's warmth.... // Can't feel it
Pg.128 ただ 伊藤と俺は鏡合わせのように... // 真・逆・だ。// 俺は 身体を変えだこどで 嘘こいできた... // 伊藤は 身体を変えないこどで 嘘こいでる...? Jest him 'n' me is like two mirrors facin' each udder. // Exact opposites. // I lied by changin' mah body(shape)... // So, izzee(Ito) lyin' by not changin' his body(shape)...?
Ｐｇ．129 身体を 変えないこどで実感がねえ...? // あいづは まだ自分の身体に気付いでねえ...! He ain't able tuh feel anyfin' 'cuz he hasn't changed his body...? // He's still unaware ov whut his own body(shape) is...!
[on tape]伊藤090-7 Ito 090-7
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Pg.131 ヅィ~~.. Stare~~
コポポ Blub blub
ヅィ~~. Stare~~~~
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Pg.134 ピロロロロロ Ring ring
ピッ Beep
はい。// あっ 名越さん。// えっ、// 今からですか? // 食事... Yes? // Ah, Mr. Nakoshi. // Eh? // Right now? // Dinner...
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ホテルで...? At a Hotel...?
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Pg.137 どーしたんですか...ネクタイなんかしちゃって? What's the occasion?... All dressed up in a suit and tie.
今日は内面ではなく、// 外・見・にこだわっていこうと思ってな。 I thought we'd focus on the *outer appearance* // rather than the interior.
オマエもその格好じゃあれだな... // ら・し・く・ない。 As for you, that's not *like you*... // at all.
Pg.138 らしくないって... // いつもの格好じゃないですか。 What do you mean, "not like me"?... // It's what I always wear.
用意 してある。// 着替えよう。 I've made preparations. // Let's get you changed.
ガチャ.. Close...
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Pg.141 名越さん...// 勘弁してくださいよ~~... // 僕を女装させるために、 // こんな所へ呼んだんですか...? Mr. Nakoshi... // Give me a brea~~k... // You called me all the way here, // to dress me up in drag?
女装なんて下品な言葉を使わないでもらいたいな。//美しい姿にさせるためだ。 I'd prefer you refrain from using vulgar terms like "drag". // I've called you here to make you look beautiful.
Pg.142 名越さん、言ったじゃないですか... // 僕は ホモでもなければ、 // オカマでもないんです。 Mr. Nakoshi... I thought I told you... // I'm not gay // and certainly not a cross dresser.
わかってる。 // 俺も オマエのこと襲ったりしない。 // 信用しろ。// 全財産使ったんだ。// 頼む、付き合ってくれ。 I know. // And I'm not doing this to come on to you. // Trust me. // I spent all I had on this. // Bare with me, I beg you.
えっ!? Eh?
Ｐｇ．143 今日 渡した実験代40万円、// 全部 使ったんですか!? You spent the whole 4 grand experiment fee// that I gave to you today?!
ああ... // 部屋 取って服 買ってモロモロそろえりゃ、// 40万なんてすぐなくなっちまう。 Yeah... // Getting this room, buying clothes and all the various accessories, // 4 grand goes quick.
名越さん...／あなた...何 考えてるんですか...? Mr. Nakoshi... / What is going through that head of yours...?
Pg.144 わかるだろう... You already know...
Pg.145 きっと 僕のホムンクルスをいじくろうと思っているんでしょうが、// あなたの見えているホムンクルスというのは、// あなたの自分勝手な幻想なんですよ。 You're probably thinking about messing around with my Homunculus, but // the Homunculus that you are seeing, // is just an illusion you made up on your own.
コポポ Blub blub
このグッピーは一体...? What is with this guppy...?
Pg.146 そして このケース... // やっぱり固い。 And this casing... // Yep, still hard.
コポ... Blub...
Pg.147 やはり 真・逆・だ... So we are *exact opposites*....
Pg.148 グッピーは伊藤自身... // 俺は外・側・から変えてきたが...伊藤は内・側・からしか変わらない。 The guppy is Ito, himself... // I've started to change from the *outside* but... he(Ito) will only change from the *inside*.
それに、ホムンクルスは精神の歪みであり心の苦しみです。 And besides, Homuculi are distortions of the mind, and the suffering of the heart.
Pg.149 化粧やら女装やら、// 身体を どうこうしても意味ないんですよ。 There's no point in doing anything to the body, // be it using make-up or dressing in drag.
アホか... // ホムンクルスをいじくるには、／「精神」より「身体」をいじったほうが手っ取り早い。 You dumbass... // The fastest way to mess with a Homunculus / isn't by messing with their mind, but by their body.
そんなことしたら、僕のホムンクルス、名越さんに移っちゃうんじゃないですか...? If you do that, won't my Homunculus transfer to you? Mr. Nakoshi...?
Pg.150 ええい。 // めんどくさいっ。 ARGHH. // Pain in the ass!!
えっ!? // ちょちょちょ... // ちょっとっ。 // また キスとか 勘弁して くださいよ~~ Ehh?!? // Wa- wai- wai-- // Wait a sec!! // I've had enough with the kisses already!!
俺はオマエみたいに分析したり 左脳を使うのが得意ではない。 I'm not good at analyzing things or using the left side of my brain like you are!
Pg.151 身体で 感じることしかできない。 I'm only good at feeling things through my body.
車や建物を感じるみたいにですかあ。 Like you do your car or buildings?
ああ...// ただ そろそろ 「モノ」ではなく、 Yeah... // Though, instead of "things",
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「人間」を感じなくてはいけなくなったみたいだ。 I've reached a point where I have to try with "humans".
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Pg.155 ちょ...ちょっと... He- hey...!!
Pg.156 え~~... // もお~~... Ack... // Come on~~~
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コポ.. Blub...
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Pg.159 コポポ Blub blub
Pg.160 わぁっ。 // さ...さっきから何やってるんですかあ... Ahh. // Ca-... can you please explain what it is you're doing?
イメージは固まった。 The image became solid.
Pg.161 ほんとにやるんですかあ~~ // 何の 罰ゲームかわかりませんが、// セクハラだけはかんべんしてくださいよお~~ Are we really going through with it? // What did I do to deserve this? // Just don't sexually harass me, OK?
Pg.162 めいわくだなあ、// もお~~ For crying out loud! // This is really annoying me~~~
Pg.163 つべこべ言わずまっすぐ正面を向け。 Quit bitching and look straight ahead.
ちゃんと 正面 向いてるじゃないですかあ。 Er, I am looking straight ahead?
あっ ああ... いや... // 気持ち的に正面を向けということだ。 Ah, right... // I mean... // have your emotions directed straight ahead.
Pg.164 コポポ... Blub blub...
え...っ。 Eh!
小さくて見づらいな... It's too small to see clearly...
ジィ~~... Stare~~
ち... // 近い ですよお~~ Yo-... // You're too close~~
Pg.165 固定して見やすくなった。 I can see it better now that it's fixed in one place.
ちょっと~~... He- hey!...
ジ... Stare...
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Pg.167 プルル wobble
唇が 同一化した。// ここまでは前と同じだ... The lips have become one. // We've gotten this far before...
まともに メイクなんかできるんですかあ? // 順番が ムチャクチャですよお。 // 口紅は最後の締めでしょう。 Sure you know how to put make-up on right? // 'cause your order is a mess. // Lipstick is supposed to be the finishing touch.
わかる所からやってるんだ。 // 黙ってろ。 I'm doing what I know first. // Shut up.
わかる所...? What you know...?
Pg.168 男の化粧は初めてだが、 // 女に化粧はさんざんやってきた、まかせておけ。 This is the first time I've done a guy's make-up, but // I've done quite a few women's before, so just let me handle it.
モコ Appear
モコ Appear
Pg.169 ん? Hmmm
青...? いや...薄い紫か。 Blue...? No... a light purple.
Pg.170 あとは...// ファンデーションで隙間を埋めていけばいい。 // ヒゲも薄いし厚塗りする必要はない。 Now for... // some foundation to cover up the gaps. // His beard is light so no need to put it on too heavy.
Pg.171 若さだな。 // ファンデーションのノリもいい。 Must be your young age. // Foundation looks good on you.
なんすかそれ... Are you mocking me...
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Pg.173 あとは... // 髪の毛か。 Next is... // The hair.
名越さん。 Mr. Nakoshi.
ん? Hm?
もしかして、 // 自分にも 化粧したことあるんじゃないですかあ? You wouldn't happen to have // put make-up on yourself before, would you?
Pg.174 自分に、// 化粧... // あるでしょ? You have, // haven't you? // Put make-up on.
もちろんある。 // 女の化粧ではないがな。 Of course I have. // It wasn't woman make-up though.
Pg.175 化粧ってのは、 // 自分をごまかすこともできれば自分を生かすこともできるもんだからな。 The way make-up works is, // if you can fool yourself you can also take advantage of yourself.
クククク...// なるほどなあ。 // 自分を ごまかすために、// 地味ぃに 頑張っていたんですねえ。 Hahaha... // I see. // So you could fool yourself, // tried hard not to let anyone know, eh?
Pg.176 どんだけ ブサイクだったんですかあ。 Makes you wonder just how ugly you were.
ククク。 Hehehe.
Pg.177 うるせえ! Shut up!
Pg.178 いいから さっさと その服に着替えろっ。 Now go over there and change your clothes!
Pg.179 え゛~~ // マジで 着替えるんですかあ!? Ehh!! // I really have to wear that?!
Pg.181 本当に こんなの 着るんですかあ。 Do I really have to wear this?
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Pg.183 着替えましたよお。 OK, I'm dressed.
Pg.184 どうです。 // 笑えます? How do I look? // Laughable?
Pg.185 おおっ。 Oh!
ペト Cover
うん。 // イメージ通りだ。 Yep. // Just as I imagined.
足がスースーして気持ち悪いですよお... I'm uncomfortable with how my legs are all cold now...
あっ、// 忘れてたっ。 Ah! // That reminds me.
Pg.186 足 貸せ。 Give me your legs.
えっ!? Eh?!
スネ毛の処理するのを忘れていた。 I forgot we have to shave your legs.
わっ わっっ。 // ちょちょ ちょっとお~~ Ah ahh! // Wha- what do you think you're doing~~
あれ? That's odd...
おまえ スネ毛の処理してるのか? Do you shave your legs?
今時の若者はやってる人多いですよ。 Lots of kids are doing it these days.
男性専用エステなんて 当たり前ですよ。 Quite common for male esthetic clinics.
そんなもんか...? Is that so...?
Pg.187 あ... // なるほど。 Ah... // I see.
Pg.188 さあ、 // 食事をしに行こう。 All right, // now let's go eat.
はい...? Excuse me...?
上の レストランに席をとってある。// 食事しよう。 I've reserved a table in the restaurant upstairs. // Let's eat.
はあっ!? SAY WHAT?!
Pg.189 いやですよ~~! // こんな 格好でえ~~ No way!! // Not like this!!
金かけたんだ。// 俺の気が済むまで付き合ってくれ。 I've spent money on this. // Just hear me out until I'm satisfied.
名越さんわかるでしょう... // こんな格好で人前に行くなんて恥ずかしいし、/みっともないですよ... You do realize, Mr. Nakoshi... // That going out like this in front of people is not only embarrassing, / but degrading.
頼む。 Please.
よくいるゲテモノ系のオカマみたいに、変な目で見られるのがオチですよお~~ I look like a horribly-poor cross-dresser, I'm bound to get weird looks...
意外とそんなことはない。 Actually, you don't look that bad.
Pg.190 男に見えないことはないが、女に見えないこともない。 It's not like I can't see you as a guy, but it's not like I can't see you as a girl either.
なんすかあそれ。 What do you mean by that?
自分の姿を鏡で見てみろ。 Check yourself out in the mirror.
Pg.191 もお。 Fiiiine.
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Pg.196 やっ...やっぱり、 // どう見てもオ力マじゃないですかあ。 Ye-ah... Yeah, // I totally look like a cross-dresser.
オマエは俺だ。 // 目の前の俺が正直なカタチになれば、 // 俺も正直になれる気がする。 You are a man. // If the reflected me can become an honest shape, // then I believe I can become honest too.
Pg.197 一杯だけでいい。 // 付き合ってくれ。 Come on. // Bare just one drink with me.
Pg.198 ヒ...ヒールが... My he- heels are wobbling...
Pg.199 ほらあ... // 僕のことを変な目で見てる人ばかりですよお... See... // Everyone is looking at me weird...
挙動不蕃にしてるからだ。 It's because you're acting weird.
背筋 伸ばして 堂々としてりゃいいんだ。 Stand up straight, look dignified.
そんなこといってもですねえ~~... Easier said than done...
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Pg.201 ほらあ~~/僕を男だって疑っているんですよお... See--- / they suspect I'm a guy...
気にするな。 // オマエのことを男だと疑う やつはいても、// 「オマエ自身」を疑うやつは一人もいない。 Don't worry about it. // Even if someone suspects you're a guy, // there's no one that'd doubt that you're being "who you are".
Pg.202 こんなに「人の目」気にするの、// 初めて ですよお~~ // もお~~ This is the first time I've cared // about how people "look at me". // So annoying~~~.
それで いいじゃないか。 // オマエはもっと「人の目」を気にするべきだ。 Isn't that good though? // I think you should care how people "look at you" a bit more.
Pg.203 わっ。 // イダアアアア。 // あっ。 AHH! // SON OF A! // Ah!
Pg.204 女? // 男? A girl? // A guy?
Pg.205 さあ 行こう。 Come on, let's go.
Pg.206 ちょ、 // ちょっと。 He- Hey!
Pg.207 おっ。 Hey.
放して くださいよっ、/もお~~っ。 // バッカじゃないの... // もお... Let me go, please. / Sheesh. // Are you crazy?... // For Pete's sake...
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Pg.210 名越様 いらっしゃいませ。 Welcome, Mr. Nakoshi.
こんにちは。 Good evening.
こちらでよろしかったでしょうか? I believe this is what you ordered?
ああ。 Yes.
失礼 いたします。 Excuse me.
Pg.211 ジ~~... Stare...
おいっ。 Hey!
へっ!? Huh?!
乾杯くらいしよう。 We should at least make a toast.
Pg.212 乾杯。 Cheers.
Pg.213 [ホムンクルス]第9集:完 Homunculus Volume 9: The end
Pg.214 鏡合わせの二人が...、 The two that are like mirrors facing each other...
[週刊ビッグコミックスピリッツ]にて衝撃連載中!! Currently being serialized in Weekly Big Comic Spirits.
集は、今夏発売予定!!!! Volume 10 scheduled for release this summer!! (note: it *was* scheduled for that day but >.> well it's just really late :))