Mangahelpers Translationshttps://mangahelpers.com/translators/rss2010-03-27T15:41:44+00:00/favicon.icoMangaHelpers Adminsadmin@mangahelpers.comhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/gottheim/releases/21070[English] [Translation] SHANGRI-LA Volume 2 by Gottheim2010-03-27T15:41:44+00:00Gottheimadmin@mangahelpers.comYo! Second volume for the Shangri-La serries. You might have heard of the anime... Well, it has hardly anything to do with how crazy and awesome this manga actually is. For the scan, this way, please.
Cover page Those of the Cathedral stand up against the government's perpetual oppression! Houjou Kuniko, leader of Metal Age takes the guerrilla with her - men armed to the teeth in heavy weaponry - and seeks to invade Atlas! However... Although successful, the infiltrators have an army's worth of frightening, state-of-the-art weapons born of ultra-nanotechnology standing there, lying in wait for them...!!
Caption: An overwhelming writing style, daring you to enter its astounding, futuristic world! Comics volume 2!!
001 *waaaaaaaaaiiiiil* Speakers: Issuing warning. Heavy downpour first class, incoming! Citizens are enjoined to take shelter!!! Crowd: Here it is?!*plic plic* Crowd: Run for it. *PLISH PLASH* *BBBRRRROMMMM*
005 Nagiko: Will the deluge kill us first?/Or will the forest beat the rain to it...?//The former capital had perished eaten away by the forest as well. Takehiko: And they say Earth is a sweet place to live in!!/The ground level bears little difference with actual Hell does it not?!! Nagiko: The government wants to turn the ground level into a big forest/and create a paradise up in the sky........
006-007 Nagiko: Such is Atlas./Our Utopia.
008 Takehiko: Atlas has cast us out. There's nothing utopian about them!!/Nagiko-sama. As Metal Age's supreme ruler, you cannot say those things!! Nagiko: ... Hehe.//There is no place left on the ground for people to live in./Face the facts, Takehiko!!!//(Whether Atlas becomes our Utopia or not...)*brrroomm*
009 Nagiko: (I think it all depends on you/Kuniko!!)*fshaaaa* Kuniko: ... If we lose this fight//we'll have no choice but to die here, on the ground.*kwip* *slam*
010 Kuniko: (As the leader of Metal Age/I, Houjou Kuniko shall revolutionize this world!!!)
011 Kuniko: I can't afford to lose./Definitely not...*kyu kyu* *woosh* Momoko: KUNIKO!!!/What are you doing? Everybody's waiting for you!!!*twang* Kuniko: Momoko!! Momoko: Those clothes you're wearing, they're all mine!!!/And these cosmetics cost me a fortune!!!/That's like millennia ahead of schedule for you!!! Kuniko: Gniiiiiii.*scrub scrub scrub* Momoko: You're gonna change immediately, then we can go!!! Kuniko: EEEEEEEEK
012 *FSHAAAA* *BOM* *BRRRRRR* People: Wwaaaaaaah
013 Takehiko: Those things were still out there?!!*aaargh* Takehiko: Temporary change of strategy. Everybody move to the attack!!! Kuniko: Aah, Takehiko. Covered in wounds, yet again. Takehiko: KUNIKO-SAMA//Aah!!!*GWOOO*
014 Kuniko: Hoh.*SBAM*
015 Takehiko: Yikes?!!! Kuniko: HOH HOH HOH./My fists are more than enough for a common weed!!!*sssshhhhh* Takehiko: Ba... Bare-handed... >That's crazy...< Kuniko: Ah. That gooey substance is kinda stinky, though./I won't be doing that a second time.*gwooo* *WHACK* Momoko: YOU'RE FULL OF OPENINGS ONCE AGAIN, KUNIKO!!!
016 Momoko: How many times need I tell you?!!/A woman keeps on fighting until her make-up wears off!!!*BLAM* Kuniko: Auuuugh. That smeeeells.//But you're always there to save me, Momoko, aren't you? ...*tilt* Momoko: Y... You stink...//How much longer do you plan on talking like this. That's why you're still depending on your parents.../ORA ORAAA.*BAOM*
017 Takehiko: Kuniko-samaa./We can no longer hold this place.//Please, we need your help, quickly.*BLAM* *BRRRR* Man: Gulp. Takehiko: Normally, we would've waited until the storm was over, but... Kuniko: It's alright. It should help with the camouflage.//To Atlas./Let's go.
018 *GRRRRR* Takehiko: !!//Dick. It's attracted to the engine's heat.*woooo* *rustle* *JERK* *PAH** Kuniko: ?!
019 *GGG GRRRRR* Momoko: HUNGHH UNGH//Go, quickly!!/Kuniko!!!*Grrr* Takehiko: NO WAY. THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR ONE PERSON ALONE...!!!
020 Kuniko: Well./Shall we go? Takehiko: EH?! *vroooaaar* Momoko: ....../Uh?*creeping* *squirming* Nagiko: Heh heh heh. You counted on her to come back and save you?*bof*
021 *DUN* Nagiko: To think she'd sacrifice you, her foster parent like a pawn./I see she's able to resort to cool-headed decision-making, now.*churn churn* *splosh* Nagiko: Could Kuniko be growing into a more self-conscious leader? Momoko: ... No. Nagiko: He he he.
022 Momoko: I don't think so./Not with the face she was making./Haa. Nagiko: ....../Ah yeah? Momoko: Oh, well. Regardless./I'm ready to put my life on the line to answer the girl's expectations. Nagiko: True enough... He he he.*VLAM*
023 *GWWWOOOOO* Takehiko: ... Was the Cathedral.../really that insignificant?
024 *BEEP* *BEEP* Takehiko: !! Pilot: Oh, no.//We've been caught into Atlas' aerial defense system. Takehiko: Eh?! So soon?//BLOODY IDIOT. All the planes are disguised as a fake civilian flight!!!/We should have been able to deceive Atlas for a good 30 minutes.//If we can take advantage of this time to sneak past the radar/Victory is ours!!*tow tow tow* Takehiko: We have no option left but to press forward!!!
025 Kuniko: SAY, TAKEHIKO./Could you stop making noise while I'm eating?!!! Takehiko: Well. Hum.... This is an emergency//... Kuniko-sama, what's this? Kunuko: A special lunchbox from Momoko. Takehiko: Maybe I should've taken Momoko's share. I could do with a bite or two./Kuniko-sama. Momoko is....... Pilot: We have an emergency call from Atlas!!! Atlas: Atlas is currently at war with your guerrilla organization. None of your aircrafts is to be allowed in./Any further approach shall be considered an act of terrorism, and met with lethal force.*CLANK*
029 *BAOM* Takehiko: Gasp.*rattle* *Bof* *sshwooooo* Takehiko: MISSILES?!!//WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?!!*wooooo* Kuniko: Takehiko, use the flares.
030 *vrooooaaar* Pilot: Only two engines still in good condition!! Unable to ascertain enemy aircrafts' positions!!! *boom* Pilot: Oops. Takehiko: We did it!!*bom* Takehiko: We've lost the missiles...!*rattle* *pow* *KABOOM* Takehiko: ?!!//FROM THE FRONT?!! Pilot: Left wing engine stopped!!
031 *gwoooo* *boom* *GWWOOO* Kuniko: Everyone... Takehiko: Damn it//We won't make it./We really can't make it, then?*bump* Takehiko: (It's so close. Right before our eyes./Yet it seems so far away...!!!)
032 *baom* Kuniko: Wh??//A swarm of insects?!! *dun*
033 Kuniko: I get it./They're fleeing the monster plants as well!! *clang clang* Kuniko: What?/They're bumping into the clouds?? *chink* *buzzzzz* *chrr chrr chrr*
035 Takehiko: The. The clouds./They're turning into warplanes?? Kuniko: Just like that girl did...?! Takehiko: Kuniko-sama. We're being targeted again!!! *vroooo* *rattle* Takehiko: But the plane can't avoid the next volley in its sorry state...//KUNIKO-SAMA!!!
036 *slip* *plank plank* *brrrrrrr* Kuniko: My breath's coming out white./haa/Is that what they call winter?*vrooo*
037 *vroooaaaar* *bom bom bom* *bom* *brrrr* *plink plink plink* Takehiko: Kuniko-sama, this is insane. *gaah* Takehiko: An unprotected human being can't go battling those warplanes directly!!! [tn: Not to mention the large host of physical and biological laws that get cheerfully trodden upon so she can stand atop a plane flying at full speed hundreds of feet above the ground AND PARRY A BUNCH OF FUCKING MISSILES without any kind of ill effects. Less spectacular but every bit as jarring, how can Takehiko poke his head out of the plane like that?] Kuniko: We can't let the plane take much more punishment.
038-039 Kuniko: Bring it./Let me show you what true wings are about.
040 *zzzz* *clank* *bom* *brrrrrr* Takehiko: KUNIKO-SAMA/You can't challenge a bunch of state-of-the-art warplanes with something as primitive as a boomerang...//THAT'S CRAZY! [tn: Okay, so basically he's here to remind us how awesome Kuniko-sama is at every turn, just in case we forget.] *bom* *WOOOSH*
041 *BAM* *BRRR* *BAOM*
042 Craft: Hyperion 3, going to confirm that target "α" has been taken down.//Unable to conduct uninterrupted experimentation of the camouflage armor's efficiency.//Going to finish their remaining forces.
043 *vroooaaar* Craft: !!!//That's ridiculous!!!/How could an unprotected human get the better of a bunch of missile shots?!! *VLAM* Kuniko: Fly.
046 Nagiko: Wow. You're putting up quite a show.//It's still only the beginning, though.//Don't you let your guard down even for a second./Eh, Kuniko.
047 *CLANG* *rattle rattle* *crackle crackle* Kuniko: ... Eh? Takehiko: The insects have caused the defense system to go haywire./We'll have to go for an emergency landing on Atlas.//Please get back in quickly. Kuniko: Okay. I got...
050 Kuniko: MOMOKO?!!//It's you, Momoko. I'm saved. Momoko: Kuuu-niiiii-koooo.//I can't believe it.../you really left me behind, didn't youuuu?
051 Kuniko: I knew for sure you'd be coming for me./Because you're Momoko. Momoko: Yeah, thought so.//The bird's really not ready to leave its parent's nest./Not anytime soon./Uh?
052 Momoko: The "plane" is loaded beyond capacity./You should consider letting go of that boomerang, Kuniko!! Kuniko: Never. Momo&Kuniko: Aaaaaah.
053 Courtesan: Sayoko-sama./The guerrilla forces have slipped their way past the defense system. And infiltrated the fourth level.
054 Sayoko: And you are willing to disturb Mikuni-sama in her sleep.../over that kind of nonsense?
055 Courtesan: But the boomerang-wielding girl is among them.../And it appears she has dispatched the newly created camouflaged air force!! Sayoko: ... Oh, yeah?//Not to worry./Inside of Atlas, there's nothing those without an Atlas rank can do. Courtesan: It's probably a mistake, but all the same/she's another Triple A!!!//In addition, that boomerang she uses Mikuni: U...nh. Courtesan: I doubt it is just an ordinary weapon...!!! Sayoko: ... Care to say that again?
056 Courtesan: She's another tri... Sayoko: I didn't need you to tell me. I've already taken a few suitable measures.//(And Atlas shall be your fucking tomb/Houjou Kuniko!!)
057 Sign: Shinjuku District.[/end
059 Naruse: The 3 Sacred Treasures are indispensable if House Naruse is to be restored./Having one of them stolen from you is an unspeakable failure.//I have built Atlas./I can't have a girl from the corporation make a fool out of me!! Ryouko: Haa. Haa. Haa. Naruse: My dear Ryouko.../Certainly you understand.*zap* Ryouko: ...Yes... Grandfather... [tn: Alright. When she isn't busy being abducted and raped in JUNK, Ryouko enjoys spending some quality time with her grandfather.]
062 Takehiko: ............ We've lost Kuniko-sama./Many of our comrades have fallen......//Now there's only one way left for us...
063 Takehiko: There are 13 pillars, or Shafts supporting Atlas./We're going to occupy one of them. The Hibiya Line Shaft!!!//We'll take the elevator that runs inside the Shaft/and use it to bring in the bulk of our forces from the ground!!//ALRIGHT, BITCHES!! LET'S GIVE 'EM A TASTE OF THE STRENGTH FROM BELOW!! Forrest Gump: Some nice stuff they got there.
064 Takehiko: That's a hand grenade........ Soldier: THE ENEMY'S ATTACKING./GO TO THE BUIDINGS AND TAKE COVER. Takehiko: WAIT. DON'T START JUST DOING WHATEVER!!!
065 Mohawk: ... UH? Soldier: The door... Gasp./Argh!!! Soldier: Takehiko-san. Over there!!! Takehiko: What is it this time?!!
066-067 Soldier: I saw that ship in the Akibahara database...//That characteristic bridge. And those 46cm/45 caliber cannons on their 3-gun turrets./That battleship... was used in the great war during the Showa era [tn: Emperor Showa's reign, 1926-1989.], and it was deemed the largest and the most powerful./THE YAMATO. [tn: Okay, folks. Time for the history lesson. Simply put, the Yamato is a Japanese boat built during WWII, and was indeed one of the largest, most heavily-armed (if not THE largest and most heavily-armed) warships ever built. For a more complete explanation, Wikipedia is your friend.]
068 Takehiko: Wah!!!!//What is the Yamato doing in Atlas...?//No way. They can also...
069 Screen: X1000 Zoom./Cloaking Program./RUNNING. Kusanagi: ... Considering all the trouble you went through just to make your way here...//That was disappointingly quick./Takehiko-san.
070 Kuniko: We've landed pretty far from the other guys. Momoko: Let's go look for them. Takehiko must be crying like a child as we speak.
071 Momoko: You gotta give it to them, though./Atlas is one mighty fine city.*note* Momoko: AAAAAH. I've always wanted a jewel like this./Gasp!! Judging by the color, that brand is a limited edition!!!//Auugh. And there. That's Gallé furniture./*eeeek*[tn: Anybody knows of a brand of luxury furniture by the name of Gallé, Gallay, Garet, or anything similar, please let me know.]
Momoko: Atlas rooocks!!! *BOM*
072 Momoko: !!!//... Ahem. Hem./What's wrong, Kuniko-chan? Kuniko: For a second... I saw that pretty town and I thought of our battle as foolish.//I went mad at myself for it. That's all.
073 Kuniko: Quick. We need to go save Takehiko and the others. Momoko: Of... Of course!!!*tchrr tchrr* *tchrr tchrrr* Momoko: Ouch?!!*slit* Kuniko: Momoko?! Momoko: The ring I've stolen...!!! Kuniko: ...... Momoko: ... Ah.*tchrr tchrr*
075 Momoko: Aaa. Ah.../Haa.../I take back everything I've said. Kuniko: Over there. Momoko: THAT TOWN IS THE SUCKIEST THING EVER.
077 Head: Oraa. Momoko: Hic Kuniko: Wwah.//Hell. Momoko: No, Kuniko. Don't!!!//That weapon takes an excessive toll on your body.//You can leave things to me here!!!
078 *Ka-chink* Momoko: OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIIIIIIIIIT!!!! Kuniko: That kind of stuff shouldn't exist./Must be something altered and weaponized by the government. Quite like those battle aircrafts. Momoko: And in bad taste, too./Certainly they could have found something better.
081 Momoko: It's split itself into 2 different bodies?!! Kuniko: So that's their true form...!!! Kusanagi: ... I expected no less from you, Kuniko-san
082 Kusanagi: Otherwise./There would be no point in defeating you.
083 Kuniko: You're Kusanagi, aren't you?! Momoko: Kuniko!!! Kusanagi: I've been waiting for this day//Ever since my debacle at your hands....../This is the first time I've ever felt this way.//WITH THE ADDITION OF A PROTEAN SUIT AS A COMPLEMENT TO MY ART OF STEALTH ASSASSINATION/THERE'S NO WAY LEFT IN WHICH YOU TO DEFEAT ME!!!!
085-086 Kusanagi: Agh.
086 Ryouko: Hello, you two. How are you doing?
087 Momoko: Naruse./Ryouko!!! Kusanagi: What....... What the heck.//!!!! [tn: Now it's official. The man is a joke.] Ryouko: How about......... you turn off the cloaking on the tank battalion, sublieutenant?
088 Dude: ... Looks like Zeus has answered negatively.//There's really nothing that can be done about that girl? Nose: Rumor has it Zeus classified her as another Triple A. Dude: But it's not like there could have been an oversight regarding her lineage. Nose: You're probably right... Waiting for a little while to see how things play out sounds like a good idea I suppose.........
089 Dude: At any rate, how long does she plan on keeping us waiting? .... The bratty little girl. Sayoko: Bow those heads lower, people.//Her royal majesty Mikuni-sama is in attendance.
090 Gremlin: Today, Mikuni-sama we would like to present you with this gift.//For the time will come. The day you become our Empress./And we expectantly await that moment. Mikuni: ... That's it? Gremlin: ?! Mikuni: You've come all the way here just to say that?/Must have been hard.
091 Mikuni: You've been waiting forever./Right? Dude: Not at all... Gremlin: Most certainly not. Nose: We barely arrived here a few moments ago. Gremlin: In truth...
092 Sayoko: Is everything alright, Mikuni-sama?//The heads of the government are influential into the corporation. If only a little. Mikuni: I'll be fine./They're just weak, flimsy bags choke full with dirty lies.//Sayoko. I need to ask you a favor./Care to listen? Sayoko: ... That depends on what it is./But whatever Sayoko can do, she will...
093 Mikuni: Hahahah. That's the obedient Sayoko I know and love./You're the only one who never lies to me.//Say. I wanna meet her./I wanna see the other Triple A!!!
094 Momoko: Something's wrong with this town.//I never thought there'd be that many shapeshifted tanks around./That was really spooky, Kusanagi-chan.//Be prepared./We're going to use you until you fall apart.//... Now.
095 Momoko: You... What do you want?/Appearing out of nowhere like we're just passing through, are we?//This time around, if you go after Kuniko again/I will show no mercy. Ryouko: If you think you can take me, bring it on./....... Grandpa.
096 Momoko: WUT?!!! Ryouko: Don't worry./This time I didn't come looking for a fight.//Houjou Kuniko.*pant pant* *bam bam* Ryouko: Assuming this is how you made your way into Atlas, I must say I'm impressed.//I take it/you guys are here to bring down the government?
097 Ryouko: I can help you there./I happen to have a grudge to settle with the current administration myself. Kuniko: Alright./Welcome on board.
098 Momoko: ........./... DUH?!!!!//But!! Kuniko!!! She's...... Kuniko: Right now we need all the fighting power we can get./And somebody like her who knows Atlas' every nook and corner is more than welcome.//It's okay./If anything goes wrong I'll just have to trounce her again. *Hah* Ryouko: Some big mouth you got there. Momoko: Kuniko...*vrooooaarr*
099 Momoko: WHAT'S THAT?!!! Ryouko: A stealthy battle aircraft?!!
100 *YEEAAAAAAHHH* Takehiko: Ku/KUNIKO-SAMA!!!! Kuniko: Takehiko?!!*squeeze* Takehiko: Kuniko-sama. Thank goodness you're unharmed!!! Kusanagi: That's impossible./How the hell did they...
101 *yeeeaaaah* Takehiko: As we were being bombarded, we chanced upon that fallen aircraft./That material is really something. On top of its lightness it can repel anything, cannon shots included.//However....... Most of our comrades....... Kuniko: ... I'm glad you guys made it alive./Thank you... Takehiko: Kuniko-sama... Ryouko: Sorry to interrupt your touching reunion...
102 Ryouko: But we have company. Momoko: I take it that Holy Archway wasn't there a few moments ago... [tn: You can find Torii (rendered here as Holy Archway) in most Shinto shrines. Much like what a belfry would be to a Catholic church.] Takehiko: More survivors... maybe? Kuniko: ......./No... Whoever it is... *fshhh fshhh*
103 Kuniko: There's something a lot more sinister about them........[/end
105 Ryouko: Over here. Quick!! Kuniko: Kusanagi's protean tank?? Ryouko: I can control it thanks to the suit I stole from the dude. Kusanagi: Mmhh.*be-beep* Kuniko: Oooooh. Ryouko: I give it instructions through the nano-sized computers...//And in so doing, I can alter the disposition of the carbon molecules within.//Now it looks like nothing more than a pile of rubble.*tchrr tchrr* Kuniko: ... Here they are.
106-107 Kuniko: Who the heck are those guys? Momoko: They aren't shapeshifted, right? Ryouko: ... The Yatagarasu crest. There can be no mistake. Kuniko: (They're stopping?!!) Ryouko: They're from the Atlas corporation's Inner Sanctum.
108 Ryouko: This is the enemy/you have to prevail against. Sayoko: ...You mongrels.//You have allowed the guerrilla men to slip through your fingers...? Soldier: ...Yes./But their hours are numbered.//They should no longer have the strength to put up a...
109 Sayoko: The flapdoodle has to be coming from somewhere. Your mouth, maybe??/The corporation gives you technology to equip and use as you see fit, all for nothing. Soldier: ...GH Mikuni: Sayoko./Can I see the guerrilla girl?*gulp* Sayoko: Rest assured./This humble Sayoko shall bring her to you without delay.
110 Soldier: Gasp. Takehiko: !!! Dude: Ugh
111 Kuniko: They're shooting even at their own allies. [tn: Let's see: condescending demeanor, repeated instances of gratuitous violence and cruelty, mass-murder, salvaging a WWII warship... Just in case someone still didn't get it, the government is evil.] Ryouko: Originally, the protean material was used in the construction of Atlas itself. And they're able to pierce through that...!! Sayoko: Such a foul smell.//No need to hide./I can track the filth of a ground-dweller by scent.//Rejoice, guerrilla warriors!!/In her magnanimity, Mikuni-sama has deigned to honor you with an audience!!!
112 Sayoko: Now you can die in blessed happiness... Momoko: That girl's a freak. And I know what I'm talking about. >She's a bright spot on my weirdo-meter.< Kuniko: Who's Mikuni? Ryouko: This is our chance.//You guys buy me some time./I'll use the opportunity to capture her royal majesty Mikuni. Takehiko: ......!!! Ryouko: If all goes well, this should put me in an advantageous position/to negotiate with the corporation and the government.//(I'll let you guys have a taste of Mikuni's power.)/We get back into the game in one move.
113 Kuniko: THIS!! IS!! SPARTA!!! UNWAVERING/OPPOSITION!!![tn: Sorry. It was too tempting to resist.] Momoko: !!! Kuniko: The number one priority is to attend to the wounded!!/Flee the scene at once and go for the Megashaft!!!//There, we will make temporary preparations... Takehiko: Kuniko-sama./I shall take care of the woman...
114 Takehiko: Until now we've been fighting yet we haven't landed a blow!!/More of our comrades have fallen to them than I dare to count!//Without fail. Even if I am stricken down//I, Takehiko... Kuniko: BLOCKHEAAAAD!!!! Takehiko: BWARGL Kuniko: YOU HAVEN'T MADE ANY PROGRESS AT ALL
115 Kuniko: DID YOU COME ALL THE WAY TO THIS CHILLY PLACE JUST SO YOU COULD DIE?!! Takehiko: That is my wish./Please allow me. Kuniko: DENIED!!!!/THAT IS A COMMAND FROM YOUR LEADER!!! Takehiko: This time of all times........... I will not back down no matter what you say!!! Momoko: KUNIKO, GIVE IT A REST
116 Takehiko: If you keep insisting on stopping me/I will resent you for the rest of my life. Kuniko: ...... *baf* Kuniko: Suit yourself!! Soldiers: Ku. Kuniko-sama. Wait... Kuniko: Let's move out, boys. Momoko: Kuniko, wait a minute!!! Takehiko: MOMOKO!!!!
117 Takehiko: I beg you.../Please take care of Kuniko-sama. Ryouko: I don't like where this is going./Oh my oh my. Takehiko: Take away the cloaking. Ryouko: Are you trying to draw them in?*beep beep* Takehiko: No idea./I'm just not expecting anything from someone like you.
118 Takehiko: (I feel bad I won't be able to see Kuniko-sama's evolution for myself though...)/Oh, well... You can't have your cake and eat it too. Ryouko: ......*tchrr tchrr* Takehiko: HEY YOU.//YOU WANTED US OUT. HERE WE ARE./WHICH ONE OF YOU GOES BY THE NAME OF MIKUNI OR WHATNOT?!!
119 Sayoko: I thought I heard something.../Another dung fly I see. Takehiko: You can say whatever.//THAT DUNG FLY FACE OF MINE/I'LL MAKE SURE YOU NEVER FORGET!!!
120 Soldier: We've been able to see it for a while now, yet it doesn't seem to get any closer.... Kuniko: Spirits up! Once we make it to the Megashaft we can ask our main corps for reinforcements./Let's gooo. Soldier: Kuniko-sama.
121 Soldier: As long as you stay alive/The people on the ground are guaranteed to know peace someday. Kuniko: ... Lads? Soldier: ... Please go ahead.//We'll be joining Takehiko-dono.//So far, fighting by your side/has been an honor.
122 Momoko: You really okay with that, Kuniko? Kuniko: They went ahead ignoring my orders. *swish* *swish* Kuniko: They're free. Momoko: ... But you know... There's no law forbidding not to yield when you know something isn't quite right.//You agree, even though you're aware they can't do without you?
123 Kuniko: THEY'RE JUST DOING WHATEVER THEY PLEASE. Flashback!Takehiko: If you keep insisting on stopping me/I will resent you for the rest of my life. Kuniko: If they're so eager to die, they don't need me to do so. *SLAP*
124 Momoko: It's not like/they're fighting out of some kind of death wish!!![tn: The arbitrary close-up on Momoko's leather-clad bottom is a bit of a moment killer there.]//But fight they must, even if it costs them their lives./THEY FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL.//You can't possibly have been naive enough... to think you'd get a happy end where everyone makes it out alive?! Kuniko: Shut up. Shut up.
125 Kuniko: YOU DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH!! Momoko: Yes I do./You're my daughter aft..... Kuniko: THAT'S A LIE!!!!//YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER AND I'M NOT YOUR CHILD!!/SO FORGET I EXIST!!!
126 Momoko: Ah yeah?/I did give birth to you, you know?//Look. You can see the traces of my pregnancy right there... Kuniko: That trace is a mark from the zipper because you're too fat for your clothes, more like. Momoko: ... Aaah./Maybe I've spoiled her too much, what with her being my only child...//Alright then. If that's really what you feel like doing.
127 Momoko: You stay there and mope around all you like.//Hop. Kuniko: ... Mo//....... Momoko.
128 *pant pant* Mikuni(?): GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA//Not not bad. Not bad at all. A reward seems to be in order!! Takehiko: ........ Humph./I'll seize the opportunity to say it, then.
129 Takehiko: Allow us ground-dwellers to live in Atlas./There should be more than enough room here for everyone!! Sayoko: Pft.//HAHAHAHAHAHA Takehiko: ?!! Sayoko: Hhah hhah hhah hhah. What?/Do you think Atlas is some kind of Noah's Ark suspended above the woods?//Don't tell me you came all the way here just to say that!!/Hah. Takehiko: ...!!!
130 Takehiko: WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!!!//WHAT?! Sayoko: Take a good look at the town./Hah hah hah./You still haven't noticed anything? Takehiko: YAAAAAAAAAAARRRRH//Haa. Haa.../Uh??
131 Sayoko: Nice cutting edge./Hmm.//It's a bit heavy, though... Hurts my arm a little. Takehiko: AAAAAUUUUUUUGH Sayoko: Now let's put an end to this, shall we? Takehiko: AGHH
133 Sayoko: More scrubs. Coming out of the woodwork, and all fired-up. Incorrigible. Momoko: (So dead!!!)*SBAAAAOOOM* Momoko: She dodged?!!
134 Sayoko: Oh. So there was another one?//You took me by surprise. Momoko: !!!//Gh.(Who the heck is that girl?! I can't read her movements!!!) Sayoko: FINISH THEM.*clank*
136 Soldiers: Uuugh.../cough. Sayoko: Still alive? You folks are persistent. Soldier: Urggghh Sayoko: It is only fitting for bugs to be crawling on the ground. Soldier: Gasp Mikuni: Enough, Sayoko./Things have become entertaining.
137 Sayoko: MIKUNI-SAMA.//You can't get out of your cart!!! Mikuni: I'll be fine. The sun is almost down.//These people have impressed me./I feel like giving them a chance.
138 Mikuni: Abandon Kuniko and swear loyalty to me./Do so, and I will allow all the ground-dwellers to immigrate in Atlas.//This is what you're here for, isn't it?//I will say this only once./I will not suffer lies to be told in my presence. Momoko: You stupid or what?!/WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!!!/DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING?!/DON'T TAKE US METAL AGE LIGHTLY!!! *BOM* Soldier: MIKUNI-DONO!!!
139 Soldier: IF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS TRUE/THEN WE PLEDGE OR LOYALTY TO YOU AND YOU ALONE. Momoko: Ah... What are you doing......? Mikuni: Good. Good!!*creak creak* Mikuni: A wise decision.//....... A pity......//But the Mirror of Yata lodged in my right eye tells me.
140-141 Mikuni: Those words you said/You didn't mean them at all.
141 Mikuni: Oh./Looks like some of them weren't lying. Momoko: Why...//WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS/THEY'RE HUMAN BEINGS JUST LIKE YOU!!! Sayoko: ... Human beings... Just like her...?//Mikuni-sama? On par with these fools?
142 Kuniko: What a bunch of complete idiots.
143 Sayoko: ?!!//(My 6th Sense didn't work........?!!) Momoko: Kuniko!!! Kuniko: I just wanted to protect everyone.../That's why I became their leader.//That... That's all I ever wanted. And yet... Mikuni: So YOU are Houjou Kuniko? ....../You're more of a scrawny kid than I expected.
144-145 Kuniko: I'm-a send you crying to Mommy. Mark my words.*DUDUDUDUUUN* Mikuni: Do you know what happens to those who try to bluff in front of me?/They die. That's what happens.[/end
147 Kuniko: Once this is over./Let's all get back to the Cathedral.//It's freezing cold around here. Sayoko: These men's blood won't go to waste./It shall help solidify the artificial land that is Atlas.//Your deaths.../will bring salvation to this world.
148-149 Mikuni: This Ancient Mirror can reflect the truth of things/and also have the power to exorcise evil.//When someone speaks lies, it can reflect them/And mete out punishment...//Such is the power of the Yata no Kagami./One of the Three Sacred Treasures!!!
150 Momoko: You get killed if you tell a lie?//I can do without such a silly death, thank you very much.//(By my reckoning/Kuniko should no longer have the strength to use her boomerang...//.........The lonely girl/The weepy little kid who kept clinging to me...)//Something must have happened when I wasn't looking...
151 Sayoko: You little piece of shit./Do you really think you'll make any difference now that you're on your own? Kuniko: ... No quarter. Sayoko: MIKUNI-SAMA.//RUN AWAY!!!!
152-153 Kuniko: NOW//GOOOOOOOOOO *blam blam blam*
154 Mikuni: ...So that's/the other Triple A's power.........//SHOOT HER DOOOOOW!!!
155 Guards: Gh./Argh. Momoko: You're really going overboard.*ache* Momoko: Gh... Guard: I feel bad having to kill that woman. Kuniko: Momoko's a drag queen, you know? Guard: ?!!
156 *KA-BOM* Guard: Bwarf//Gargl Guard: !!
157 Kuniko: GAH//?!! *BOM* Kuniko: Ugh Momoko: Kuniko!!! Sayoko: Putting Mikuni-sama in harm's way, are we.../A human's death would be too good for your sorry ass.
158 Sayoko: This is the monster born of our analysis of the Sacred Treasures./HIRUKO. [tn: Water Leech.] Momoko: What IS that thing.........?//Talk about a bad joke...
159 Sayoko: Wretched child of abhorrence who clings to life in your anger and hatred. Hiruko: AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUURRRGH. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts it hurts./The pain. The pain. Pain pain pain.*floc* Sayoko: HIRUKO!!!//Go feast upon that girl!!! Do so and your soul shall be freed. Kuniko: Ouch...//!!
160 Hiruko: Yar*BAOM* Kuniko: Waah.//In that case...!! Momoko: When did she... Kuniko: Momoko's whip!!!
161 Hiruko: You miss. You miss. You suck. You suck. You suck haaaaard. Kuniko: Agh. Hiruko: AH
162 Hiruko: ??//Ouch. Ayyyyyye. That hurts hurts huuuurts. Sayoko: No way.../She was aiming for her boomerang from the beginning........!!! Hiruko: DAMN. DAMN YOUUUUUU. LOOK./SEE HOW THE PAIN STRENGTHENS MEEEEEE.//..........???/What IS that blade...? It can't be.......
163 Hiruko: AMA NO MURAKU.........*BAAOOOM*
164 Sayoko: ... Ridiculous.//To obliterate Hiruko............ Mikuni: Sayoko. Sayoko: (There can be no mistake!!//This is one of the Sacred Treasures./Ama no Murakumo!!! *beep beep*
165 Sayoko: Mikuni-sama./Run away immediately.//This humble Sayoko will buy you the time you need...!!! Mikuni: No. I don't want to./I'm not going anywhere without you. Sayoko: Mikuni-sama.*KABOOM*
166 Sayoko: She's a monster.//... You can't have...//Don't tell me you've used up all your strength./Well of course you did. The power of the Sacred Treasures is too much for you to handle, asswipe.
167 Sayoko: Now this is the second Treasure to enter Mikuni-sama's possession.//?!//We're being bombarded?/From where?!!*poke*
168 *CRACK* Sayoko: !!!//No.../It's not a bombing.//The Daedalus we've released on the ground./It's reproduced itself?!!!//It's been able to perceive the heat from the flames here?/From down there on the ground?!!
169 Sayoko: !!! Mikuni: Ah!!//Sayoko!!! Sayoko: Who do you think is responsible for creating you?!!! *PAH* Sayoko: Haa. Haa. Haa.*sss*
170 Sayoko: Ama no Murakumo!!! Speaker: A state of emergency is declared on the level number four.//"Zeus" has issued the command. The fourth level is to be cleansed. I repeat.*clank clank clank* *bbrrrrr* Sayoko: This is bad.
172 Speaker: City planning for the whole district initiated.//12.000 seconds to reconstruction.
173 Momoko: Kunikooo. Takehikooo!!!//Look at what they've done to their own city......../It won't make much of a difference with the ground level now.//You'd think more people would be coming out in such a situation. Yet I see no one./The fourth level's inhabitants should number in the millions... Flashback!Sayoko: Your deaths.../will bring salvation to this world. Momoko: It can't be... Mikuni: ... Sayokooo. Where are youuu-hooo?//... I don't wanna be aloooone...
174 Flashback!Kuniko: ...You there//Care to play with me...? Momoko: ... Kuniko...
175 Momoko: WHA!!! Mikuni: Take me to Sayoko.//Now move it, conger-woman!! Momoko: WUT?! Mikuni: Are you gonna leave me behind?!! Momoko: Make no mistake. My first intention is to find Kuniko........//Anyone stands is my way, and they're gonna get it. Mikuni: ......//It's your fault if I ended up like this./You're like those infectious diseases that run rampant on the ground!!!
176 Momoko: Haa./... Maybe the parents are to blame for this. Mikuni: ...?/If Sayoko was there you wouldn't be around to displease me./She's gonna wipe you out for me. Momoko: Pathetic./And that's what you call/a true parent-child relationship?//Not like it's any of my business... Mikuni: ... Then
177 Mikuni: Then.../What of you and Kuniko? Are you really parent and child? Momoko: !! Mikuni: No answer?/That was a lie, right?//BECAUSE WE TRIPLE As/HAVE NOBODY TO CALL OUR PARENTS!!!
178 Momoko: I don't know about the Triple A business or whatnot./But Kuniko and I are really parent and child. Mikuni: ......./........Wh//Why./If you hadn't said anything, you would've been able to go!! Momoko: I know.../But you see
179 Momoko: I couldn't help it./That "lie" is more precious to me than anything else. Mikuni: Why do you go that far... for a lie.../A lie.//Why... Ryouko: ... Well well well. Does it really matter? Momoko: Aah... Man./Talk about a bad day....
180-181 Momoko: ... I'm sorry.../Kuniko
182 Kuniko: ... Momo... ko.//Momoko!!!//Where are youuu?//(There she is!!)//?
183 Kuniko: That girl!!! Mikuni: Uuuh... Kuniko: Mo. Momoko. What the heck are you...//... Are you... Are you really... Momoko?
184 Ryouko: Not quite.
185 Kuniko: ...Ah. Ryouko: If you're looking for grandpa, he must have dropped dead somewhere./Oh, well. You've made things a lot easier for me./I am grateful.//Kuniko-sama.*heart*
186 Ryouko: Reinforcements from the upper level.../Time to go.//I have two of the Sacred Treasures./The keys to Atlas' main frame: "Zeus" itself...... Now only one remains.//And the world will be mine to control/The Earth shall belong to me. Ryouko!!!!
187 Speaker: City planning complete. Beginning reconstruction. Kusanagi: Aren't you an inglorious one./Kuniko-san.//Come on....... Let's go back to the ground level.
188-189 *WWOOOOOOOO*
190-191 Nagiko: So she's gotten her hands on two of the Sacred Treasures./Unlucky, aren't we? Eh, Keiichirou?//Come, then./Come for the Yasakani no Magatama. Come before me!!!https://mangahelpers.com/t/gottheim/releases/17515[English] [Translation] SHANGRI-LA Volume 2 by Gottheim2009-11-11T18:58:28+00:00Gottheimadmin@mangahelpers.comCover page Those of the Cathedral stand up against the government's perpetual oppression! Houjou Kuniko, leader of Metal Age takes the guerrilla with her - men armed to the teeth in heavy weaponry - and seeks to invade Atlas! However... Although successful, the infiltrators have an army's worth of frightening, state-of-the-art weapons born of ultra-nanotechnology standing there, lying in wait for them...!!
Caption: An overwhelming writing style, daring you to enter its astounding, futuristic world! Comics volume 2!!
001 *waaaaaaaaaiiiiil* Speakers: Issuing warning. Heavy downpour first class, incoming! Citizens are enjoined to take shelter!!! Crowd: Here it is?!*plic plic* Crowd: Run for it. *PLISH PLASH* *BBBRRRROMMMM*
005 Nagiko: Will the deluge kill us first?/Or will the forest beat the rain to it...?//The former capital had perished eaten away by the forest as well. Takehiko: And they say Earth is a sweet place to live in!!/The ground level bears little difference with actual Hell does it not?!! Nagiko: The government wants to turn the ground level into a big forest/and create a paradise up in the sky........
006-007 Nagiko: Such is Atlas./Our Utopia.
008 Takehiko: Atlas has cast us out. There's nothing utopian about them!!/Nagiko-sama. As Metal Age's supreme ruler, you cannot say those things!! Nagiko: ... Hehe.//There is no place left on the ground for people to live in./Face the facts, Takehiko!!!//(Whether Atlas becomes our Utopia or not...)*brrroomm*
009 Nagiko: (I think it all depends on you/Kuniko!!)*fshaaaa* Kuniko: ... If we lose this fight//we'll have no choice but to die here, on the ground.*kwip* *slam*
010 Kuniko: (As the leader of Metal Age/I, Houjou Kuniko shall revolutionize this world!!!)
011 Kuniko: I can't afford to lose./Definitely not...*kyu kyu* *woosh* Momoko: KUNIKO!!!/What are you doing? Everybody's waiting for you!!!*twang* Kuniko: Momoko!! Momoko: Those clothes you're wearing, they're all mine!!!/And these cosmetics cost me a fortune!!!/That's like millennia ahead of schedule for you!!! Kuniko: Gniiiiiii.*scrub scrub scrub* Momoko: You're gonna change immediately, then we can go!!! Kuniko: EEEEEEEEK
012 *FSHAAAA* *BOM* *BRRRRRR* People: Wwaaaaaaah
013 Takehiko: Those things were still out there?!!*aaargh* Takehiko: Temporary change of strategy. Everybody move to the attack!!! Kuniko: Aah, Takehiko. Covered in wounds, yet again. Takehiko: KUNIKO-SAMA//Aah!!!*GWOOO*
014 Kuniko: Hoh.*SBAM*
015 Takehiko: Yikes?!!! Kuniko: HOH HOH HOH./My fists are more than enough for a common weed!!!*sssshhhhh* Takehiko: Ba... Bare-handed... >That's crazy...< Kuniko: Ah. That gooey substance is kinda stinky, though./I won't be doing that a second time.*gwooo* *WHACK* Momoko: YOU'RE FULL OF OPENINGS ONCE AGAIN, KUNIKO!!!
016 Momoko: How many times need I tell you?!!/A woman keeps on fighting until her make-up wears off!!!*BLAM* Kuniko: Auuuugh. That smeeeells.//But you're always there to save me, Momoko, aren't you? ...*tilt* Momoko: Y... You stink...//How much longer do you plan on talking like this. That's why you're still depending on your parents.../ORA ORAAA.*BAOM*
017 Takehiko: Kuniko-samaa./We can no longer hold this place.//Please, we need your help, quickly.*BLAM* *BRRRR* Man: Gulp. Takehiko: Normally, we would've waited until the storm was over, but... Kuniko: It's alright. It should help with the camouflage.//To Atlas./Let's go.
018 *GRRRRR* Takehiko: !!//Dick. It's attracted to the engine's heat.*woooo* *rustle* *JERK* *PAH** Kuniko: ?!
019 *GGG GRRRRR* Momoko: HUNGHH UNGH//Go, quickly!!/Kuniko!!!*Grrr* Takehiko: NO WAY. THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR ONE PERSON ALONE...!!!
020 Kuniko: Well./Shall we go? Takehiko: EH?! *vroooaaar* Momoko: ....../Uh?*creeping* *squirming* Nagiko: Heh heh heh. You counted on her to come back and save you?*bof*
021 *DUN* Nagiko: To think she'd sacrifice you, her foster parent like a pawn./I see she's able to resort to cool-headed decision-making, now.*churn churn* *splosh* Nagiko: Could Kuniko be growing into a more self-conscious leader? Momoko: ... No. Nagiko: He he he.
022 Momoko: I don't think so./Not with the face she was making./Haa. Nagiko: ....../Ah yeah? Momoko: Oh, well. Regardless./I'm ready to put my life on the line to answer the girl's expectations. Nagiko: True enough... He he he.*VLAM*
023 *GWWWOOOOO* Takehiko: ... Was the Cathedral.../really that insignificant?
024 *BEEP* *BEEP* Takehiko: !! Pilot: Oh, no.//We've been caught into Atlas' aerial defense system. Takehiko: Eh?! So soon?//BLOODY IDIOT. All the planes are disguised as a fake civilian flight!!!/We should have been able to deceive Atlas for a good 30 minutes.//If we can take advantage of this time to sneak past the radar/Victory is ours!!*tow tow tow* Takehiko: We have no option left but to press forward!!!
025 Kuniko: SAY, TAKEHIKO./Could you stop making noise while I'm eating?!!! Takehiko: Well. Hum.... This is an emergency//... Kuniko-sama, what's this? Kunuko: A special lunchbox from Momoko. Takehiko: Maybe I should've taken Momoko's share. I could do with a bite or two./Kuniko-sama. Momoko is....... Pilot: We have an emergency call from Atlas!!! Atlas: Atlas is currently at war with your guerrilla organization. None of your aircrafts is to be allowed in./Any further approach shall be considered an act of terrorism, and met with lethal force.*CLANK*
029 *BAOM* Takehiko: Gasp.*rattle* *Bof* *sshwooooo* Takehiko: MISSILES?!!//WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?!!*wooooo* Kuniko: Takehiko, use the flares.
030 *vrooooaaar* Pilot: Only two engines still in good condition!! Unable to ascertain enemy aircrafts' positions!!! *boom* Pilot: Oops. Takehiko: We did it!!*bom* Takehiko: We've lost the missiles...!*rattle* *pow* *KABOOM* Takehiko: ?!!//FROM THE FRONT?!! Pilot: Left wing engine stopped!!
031 *gwoooo* *boom* *GWWOOO* Kuniko: Everyone... Takehiko: Damn it//We won't make it./We really can't make it, then?*bump* Takehiko: (It's so close. Right before our eyes./Yet it seems so far away...!!!)
032 *baom* Kuniko: Wh??//A swarm of insects?!! *dun*
033 Kuniko: I get it./They're fleeing the monster plants as well!! *clang clang* Kuniko: What?/They're bumping into the clouds?? *chink* *buzzzzz* *chrr chrr chrr*
035 Takehiko: The. The clouds./They're turning into warplanes?? Kuniko: Just like that girl did...?! Takehiko: Kuniko-sama. We're being targeted again!!! *vroooo* *rattle* Takehiko: But the plane can't avoid the next volley in its sorry state...//KUNIKO-SAMA!!!
036 *slip* *plank plank* *brrrrrrr* Kuniko: My breath's coming out white./haa/Is that what they call winter?*vrooo*
037 *vroooaaaar* *bom bom bom* *bom* *brrrr* *plink plink plink* Takehiko: Kuniko-sama, this is insane. *gaah* Takehiko: An unprotected human being can't go battling those warplanes directly!!! [tn: Not to mention the large host of physical and biological laws that get cheerfully trodden upon so she can stand atop a plane flying at full speed hundreds of feet above the ground AND PARRY A BUNCH OF FUCKING MISSILES without any kind of ill effects. Less spectacular but every bit as jarring, how can Takehiko poke his head out of the plane like that?] Kuniko: We can't let the plane take much more punishment.
038-039 Kuniko: Bring it./Let me show you what true wings are about.
040 *zzzz* *clank* *bom* *brrrrrr* Takehiko: KUNIKO-SAMA/You can't challenge a bunch of state-of-the-art warplanes with something as primitive as a boomerang...//THAT'S CRAZY! [tn: Okay, so basically he's here to remind us how awesome Kuniko-sama is at every turn, just in case we forget.] *bom* *WOOOSH*
041 *BAM* *BRRR* *BAOM*
042 Craft: Hyperion 3, going to confirm that target "α" has been taken down.//Unable to conduct uninterrupted experimentation of the camouflage armor's efficiency.//Going to finish their remaining forces.
043 *vroooaaar* Craft: !!!//That's ridiculous!!!/How could an unprotected human get the better of a bunch of missile shots?!! *VLAM* Kuniko: Fly.
046 Nagiko: Wow. You're putting up quite a show.//It's still only the beginning, though.//Don't you let your guard down even for a second./Eh, Kuniko.
047 *CLANG* *rattle rattle* *crackle crackle* Kuniko: ... Eh? Takehiko: The insects have caused the defense system to go haywire./We'll have to go for an emergency landing on Atlas.//Please get back in quickly. Kuniko: Okay. I got...
050 Kuniko: MOMOKO?!!//It's you, Momoko. I'm saved. Momoko: Kuuu-niiiii-koooo.//I can't believe it.../you really left me behind, didn't youuuu?
051 Kuniko: I knew for sure you'd be coming for me./Because you're Momoko. Momoko: Yeah, thought so.//The bird's really not ready to leave its parent's nest./Not anytime soon./Uh?
052 Momoko: The "plane" is loaded beyond capacity./You should consider letting go of that boomerang, Kuniko!! Kuniko: Never. Momo&Kuniko: Aaaaaah.
053 Courtesan: Sayoko-sama./The guerrilla forces have slipped their way past the defense system. And infiltrated the fourth level.
054 Sayoko: And you are willing to disturb Mikuni-sama in her sleep.../over that kind of nonsense?
055 Courtesan: But the boomerang-wielding girl is among them.../And it appears she has dispatched the newly created camouflaged air force!! Sayoko: ... Oh, yeah?//Not to worry./Inside of Atlas, there's nothing those without an Atlas rank can do. Courtesan: It's probably a mistake, but all the same/she's another Triple A!!!//In addition, that boomerang she uses Mikuni: U...nh. Courtesan: I doubt it is just an ordinary weapon...!!! Sayoko: ... Care to say that again?
056 Courtesan: She's another tri... Sayoko: I didn't need you to tell me. I've already taken a few suitable measures.//(And Atlas shall be your fucking tomb/Houjou Kuniko!!)
057 Sign: Shinjuku District.[/end
059 Naruse: The 3 Sacred Treasures are indispensable if House Naruse is to be restored./Having one of them stolen from you is an unspeakable failure.//I have built Atlas./I can't have a girl from the corporation make a fool out of me!! Ryouko: Haa. Haa. Haa. Naruse: My dear Ryouko.../Certainly you understand.*zap* Ryouko: ...Yes... Grandfather... [tn: Alright. When she isn't busy being abducted and raped in JUNK, Ryouko enjoys spending some quality time with her grandfather.]
062 Takehiko: ............ We've lost Kuniko-sama./Many of our comrades have fallen......//Now there's only one way left for us...
063 Takehiko: There are 13 pillars, or Shafts supporting Atlas./We're going to occupy one of them. The Hibiya Line Shaft!!!//We'll take the elevator that runs inside the Shaft/and use it to bring in the bulk of our forces from the ground!!//ALRIGHT, BITCHES!! LET'S GIVE 'EM A TASTE OF THE STRENGTH FROM BELOW!! Forrest Gump: Some nice stuff they got there.
064 Takehiko: That's a hand grenade........ Soldier: THE ENEMY'S ATTACKING./GO TO THE BUIDINGS AND TAKE COVER. Takehiko: WAIT. DON'T START JUST DOING WHATEVER!!!
065 Mohawk: ... UH? Soldier: The door... Gasp./Argh!!! Soldier: Takehiko-san. Over there!!! Takehiko: What is it this time?!!
066-067 Soldier: I saw that ship in the Akibahara database...//That characteristic bridge. And those 46cm/45 caliber cannons on their 3-gun turrets./That battleship... was used in the great war during the Showa era [tn: Emperor Showa's reign, 1926-1989.], and it was deemed the largest and the most powerful./THE YAMATO. [tn: Okay, folks. Time for the history lesson. Simply put, the Yamato is a Japanese boat built during WWII, and was indeed one of the largest, most heavily-armed (if not THE largest and most heavily-armed) warships ever built. For a more complete explanation, Wikipedia is your friend.]
068 Takehiko: Wah!!!!//What is the Yamato doing in Atlas...?//No way. They can also...
069 Screen: X1000 Zoom./Cloaking Program./RUNNING. Kusanagi: ... Considering all the trouble you went through just to make your way here...//That was disappointingly quick./Takehiko-san.
070 Kuniko: We've landed pretty far from the other guys. Momoko: Let's go look for them. Takehiko must be crying like a child as we speak.
071 Momoko: You gotta give it to them, though./Atlas is one mighty fine city.*note* Momoko: AAAAAH. I've always wanted a jewel like this./Gasp!! Judging by the color, that brand is a limited edition!!!//Auugh. And there. That's Gallé furniture./*eeeek*[tn: Anybody knows of a brand of luxury furniture by the name of Gallé, Gallay, Garet, or anything similar, please let me know.]
Momoko: Atlas rooocks!!! *BOM*
072 Momoko: !!!//... Ahem. Hem./What's wrong, Kuniko-chan? Kuniko: For a second... I saw that pretty town and I thought of our battle as foolish.//I went mad at myself for it. That's all.
073 Kuniko: Quick. We need to go save Takehiko and the others. Momoko: Of... Of course!!!*tchrr tchrr* *tchrr tchrrr* Momoko: Ouch?!!*slit* Kuniko: Momoko?! Momoko: The ring I've stolen...!!! Kuniko: ...... Momoko: ... Ah.*tchrr tchrr*
075 Momoko: Aaa. Ah.../Haa.../I take back everything I've said. Kuniko: Over there. Momoko: THAT TOWN IS THE SUCKIEST THING EVER.
077 Head: Oraa. Momoko: Hic Kuniko: Wwah.//Hell. Momoko: No, Kuniko. Don't!!!//That weapon takes an excessive toll on your body.//You can leave things to me here!!!
078 *Ka-chink* Momoko: OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIIIIIIIIIT!!!! Kuniko: That kind of stuff shouldn't exist./Must be something altered and weaponized by the government. Quite like those battle aircrafts. Momoko: And in bad taste, too./Certainly they could have found something better.
081 Momoko: It's split itself into 2 different bodies?!! Kuniko: So that's their true form...!!! Kusanagi: ... I expected no less from you, Kuniko-san
082 Kusanagi: Otherwise./There would be no point in defeating you.
083 Kuniko: You're Kusanagi, aren't you?! Momoko: Kuniko!!! Kusanagi: I've been waiting for this day//Ever since my debacle at your hands....../This is the first time I've ever felt this way.//WITH THE ADDITION OF A PROTEAN SUIT AS A COMPLEMENT TO MY ART OF STEALTH ASSASSINATION/THERE'S NO WAY LEFT IN WHICH YOU TO DEFEAT ME!!!!
085-086 Kusanagi: Agh.
086 Ryouko: Hello, you two. How are you doing?
087 Momoko: Naruse./Ryouko!!! Kusanagi: What....... What the heck.//!!!! [tn: Now it's official. The man is a joke.] Ryouko: How about......... you turn off the cloaking on the tank battalion, sublieutenant?
088 Dude: ... Looks like Zeus has answered negatively.//There's really nothing that can be done about that girl? Nose: Rumor has it Zeus classified her as another Triple A. Dude: But it's not like there could have been an oversight regarding her lineage. Nose: You're probably right... Waiting for a little while to see how things play out sounds like a good idea I suppose.........
089 Dude: At any rate, how long does she plan on keeping us waiting? .... The bratty little girl. Sayoko: Bow those heads lower, people.//Her royal majesty Mikuni-sama is in attendance.
090 Gremlin: Today, Mikuni-sama we would like to present you with this gift.//For the time will come. The day you become our Empress./And we expectantly await that moment. Mikuni: ... That's it? Gremlin: ?! Mikuni: You've come all the way here just to say that?/Must have been hard.
091 Mikuni: You've been waiting forever./Right? Dude: Not at all... Gremlin: Most certainly not. Nose: We barely arrived here a few moments ago. Gremlin: In truth...
092 Sayoko: Is everything alright, Mikuni-sama?//The heads of the government are influential into the corporation. If only a little. Mikuni: I'll be fine./They're just weak, flimsy bags choke full with dirty lies.//Sayoko. I need to ask you a favor./Care to listen? Sayoko: ... That depends on what it is./But whatever Sayoko can do, she will...
093 Mikuni: Hahahah. That's the obedient Sayoko I know and love./You're the only one who never lies to me.//Say. I wanna meet her./I wanna see the other Triple A!!!
094 Momoko: Something's wrong with this town.//I never thought there'd be that many shapeshifted tanks around./That was really spooky, Kusanagi-chan.//Be prepared./We're going to use you until you fall apart.//... Now.
095 Momoko: You... What do you want?/Appearing out of nowhere like we're just passing through, are we?//This time around, if you go after Kuniko again/I will show no mercy. Ryouko: If you think you can take me, bring it on./....... Grandpa.
096 Momoko: WUT?!!! Ryouko: Don't worry./This time I didn't come looking for a fight.//Houjou Kuniko.*pant pant* *bam bam* Ryouko: Assuming this is how you made your way into Atlas, I must say I'm impressed.//I take it/you guys are here to bring down the government?
097 Ryouko: I can help you there./I happen to have a grudge to settle with the current administration myself. Kuniko: Alright./Welcome on board.
098 Momoko: ........./... DUH?!!!!//But!! Kuniko!!! She's...... Kuniko: Right now we need all the fighting power we can get./And somebody like her who knows Atlas' every nook and corner is more than welcome.//It's okay./If anything goes wrong I'll just have to trounce her again. *Hah* Ryouko: Some big mouth you got there. Momoko: Kuniko...*vrooooaarr*
099 Momoko: WHAT'S THAT?!!! Ryouko: A stealthy battle aircraft?!!
100 *YEEAAAAAAHHH* Takehiko: Ku/KUNIKO-SAMA!!!! Kuniko: Takehiko?!!*squeeze* Takehiko: Kuniko-sama. Thank goodness you're unharmed!!! Kusanagi: That's impossible./How the hell did they...
101 *yeeeaaaah* Takehiko: As we were being bombarded, we chanced upon that fallen aircraft./That material is really something. On top of its lightness it can repel anything, cannon shots included.//However....... Most of our comrades....... Kuniko: ... I'm glad you guys made it alive./Thank you... Takehiko: Kuniko-sama... Ryouko: Sorry to interrupt your touching reunion...
102 Ryouko: But we have company. Momoko: I take it that Holy Archway wasn't there a few moments ago... [tn: You can find Torii (rendered here as Holy Archway) in most Shinto shrines. Much like what a belfry would be to a Catholic church.] Takehiko: More survivors... maybe? Kuniko: ......./No... Whoever it is... *fshhh fshhh*
103 Kuniko: There's something a lot more sinister about them........[/end
105 Ryouko: Over here. Quick!! Kuniko: Kusanagi's protean tank?? Ryouko: I can control it thanks to the suit I stole from the dude. Kusanagi: Mmhh.*be-beep* Kuniko: Oooooh. Ryouko: I give it instructions through the nano-sized computers...//And in so doing, I can alter the disposition of the carbon molecules within.//Now it looks like nothing more than a pile of rubble.*tchrr tchrr* Kuniko: ... Here they are.
106-107 Kuniko: Who the heck are those guys? Momoko: They aren't shapeshifted, right? Ryouko: ... The Yatagarasu crest. There can be no mistake. Kuniko: (They're stopping?!!) Ryouko: They're from the Atlas corporation's Inner Sanctum.
108 Ryouko: This is the enemy/you have to prevail against. Sayoko: ...You mongrels.//You have allowed the guerrilla men to slip through your fingers...? Soldier: ...Yes./But their hours are numbered.//They should no longer have the strength to put up a...
109 Sayoko: The flapdoodle has to be coming from somewhere. Your mouth, maybe??/The corporation gives you technology to equip and use as you see fit, all for nothing. Soldier: ...GH Mikuni: Sayoko./Can I see the guerrilla girl?*gulp* Sayoko: Rest assured./This humble Sayoko shall bring her to you without delay.
110 Soldier: Gasp. Takehiko: !!! Dude: Ugh
111 Kuniko: They're shooting even at their own allies. [tn: Let's see: condescending demeanor, repeated instances of gratuitous violence and cruelty, mass-murder, salvaging a WWII warship... Just in case someone still didn't get it, the government is evil.] Ryouko: Originally, the protean material was used in the construction of Atlas itself. And they're able to pierce through that...!! Sayoko: Such a foul smell.//No need to hide./I can track the filth of a ground-dweller by scent.//Rejoice, guerrilla warriors!!/In her magnanimity, Mikuni-sama has deigned to honor you with an audience!!!
112 Sayoko: Now you can die in blessed happiness... Momoko: That girl's a freak. And I know what I'm talking about. >She's a bright spot on my weirdo-meter.< Kuniko: Who's Mikuni? Ryouko: This is our chance.//You guys buy me some time./I'll use the opportunity to capture her royal majesty Mikuni. Takehiko: ......!!! Ryouko: If all goes well, this should put me in an advantageous position/to negotiate with the corporation and the government.//(I'll let you guys have a taste of Mikuni's power.)/We get back into the game in one move.
113 Kuniko: THIS!! IS!! SPARTA!!! UNWAVERING/OPPOSITION!!![tn: Sorry. It was too tempting to resist.] Momoko: !!! Kuniko: The number one priority is to attend to the wounded!!/Flee the scene at once and go for the Megashaft!!!//There, we will make temporary preparations... Takehiko: Kuniko-sama./I shall take care of the woman...
114 Takehiko: Until now we've been fighting yet we haven't landed a blow!!/More of our comrades have fallen to them than I dare to count!//Without fail. Even if I am stricken down//I, Takehiko... Kuniko: BLOCKHEAAAAD!!!! Takehiko: BWARGL Kuniko: YOU HAVEN'T MADE ANY PROGRESS AT ALL
115 Kuniko: DID YOU COME ALL THE WAY TO THIS CHILLY PLACE JUST SO YOU COULD DIE?!! Takehiko: That is my wish./Please allow me. Kuniko: DENIED!!!!/THAT IS A COMMAND FROM YOUR LEADER!!! Takehiko: This time of all times........... I will not back down no matter what you say!!! Momoko: KUNIKO, GIVE IT A REST
116 Takehiko: If you keep insisting on stopping me/I will resent you for the rest of my life. Kuniko: ...... *baf* Kuniko: Suit yourself!! Soldiers: Ku. Kuniko-sama. Wait... Kuniko: Let's move out, boys. Momoko: Kuniko, wait a minute!!! Takehiko: MOMOKO!!!!
117 Takehiko: I beg you.../Please take care of Kuniko-sama. Ryouko: I don't like where this is going./Oh my oh my. Takehiko: Take away the cloaking. Ryouko: Are you trying to draw them in?*beep beep* Takehiko: No idea./I'm just not expecting anything from someone like you.
118 Takehiko: (I feel bad I won't be able to see Kuniko-sama's evolution for myself though...)/Oh, well... You can't have your cake and eat it too. Ryouko: ......*tchrr tchrr* Takehiko: HEY YOU.//YOU WANTED US OUT. HERE WE ARE./WHICH ONE OF YOU GOES BY THE NAME OF MIKUNI OR WHATNOT?!!
119 Sayoko: I thought I heard something.../Another dung fly I see. Takehiko: You can say whatever.//THAT DUNG FLY FACE OF MINE/I'LL MAKE SURE YOU NEVER FORGET!!!
120 Soldier: We've been able to see it for a while now, yet it doesn't seem to get any closer.... Kuniko: Spirits up! Once we make it to the Megashaft we can ask our main corps for reinforcements./Let's gooo. Soldier: Kuniko-sama.
121 Soldier: As long as you stay alive/The people on the ground are guaranteed to know peace someday. Kuniko: ... Lads? Soldier: ... Please go ahead.//We'll be joining Takehiko-dono.//So far, fighting by your side/has been an honor.
122 Momoko: You really okay with that, Kuniko? Kuniko: They went ahead ignoring my orders. *swish* *swish* Kuniko: They're free. Momoko: ... But you know... There's no law forbidding not to yield when you know something isn't quite right.//You agree, even though you're aware they can't do without you?
123 Kuniko: THEY'RE JUST DOING WHATEVER THEY PLEASE. Flashback!Takehiko: If you keep insisting on stopping me/I will resent you for the rest of my life. Kuniko: If they're so eager to die, they don't need me to do so. *SLAP*
124 Momoko: It's not like/they're fighting out of some kind of death wish!!![tn: The arbitrary close-up on Momoko's leather-clad bottom is a bit of a moment killer there.]//But fight they must, even if it costs them their lives./THEY FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL.//You can't possibly have been naive enough... to think you'd get a happy end where everyone makes it out alive?! Kuniko: Shut up. Shut up.
125 Kuniko: YOU DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH!! Momoko: Yes I do./You're my daughter aft..... Kuniko: THAT'S A LIE!!!!//YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER AND I'M NOT YOUR CHILD!!/SO FORGET I EXIST!!!
126 Momoko: Ah yeah?/I did give birth to you, you know?//Look. You can see the traces of my pregnancy right there... Kuniko: That trace is a mark from the zipper because you're too fat for your clothes, more like. Momoko: ... Aaah./Maybe I've spoiled her too much, what with her being my only child...//Alright then. If that's really what you feel like doing.
127 Momoko: You stay there and mope around all you like.//Hop. Kuniko: ... Mo//....... Momoko.
128 *pant pant* Mikuni(?): GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA//Not not bad. Not bad at all. A reward seems to be in order!! Takehiko: ........ Humph./I'll seize the opportunity to say it, then.
129 Takehiko: Allow us ground-dwellers to live in Atlas./There should be more than enough room here for everyone!! Sayoko: Pft.//HAHAHAHAHAHA Takehiko: ?!! Sayoko: Hhah hhah hhah hhah. What?/Do you think Atlas is some kind of Noah's Ark suspended above the woods?//Don't tell me you came all the way here just to say that!!/Hah. Takehiko: ...!!!
130 Takehiko: WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!!!//WHAT?! Sayoko: Take a good look at the town./Hah hah hah./You still haven't noticed anything? Takehiko: YAAAAAAAAAAARRRRH//Haa. Haa.../Uh??
131 Sayoko: Nice cutting edge./Hmm.//It's a bit heavy, though... Hurts my arm a little. Takehiko: AAAAAUUUUUUUGH Sayoko: Now let's put an end to this, shall we? Takehiko: AGHH
133 Sayoko: More scrubs. Coming out of the woodwork, and all fired-up. Incorrigible. Momoko: (So dead!!!)*SBAAAAOOOM* Momoko: She dodged?!!
134 Sayoko: Oh. So there was another one?//You took me by surprise. Momoko: !!!//Gh.(Who the heck is that girl?! I can't read her movements!!!) Sayoko: FINISH THEM.*clank*
136 Soldiers: Uuugh.../cough. Sayoko: Still alive? You folks are persistent. Soldier: Urggghh Sayoko: It is only fitting for bugs to be crawling on the ground. Soldier: Gasp Mikuni: Enough, Sayoko./Things have become entertaining.
137 Sayoko: MIKUNI-SAMA.//You can't get out of your cart!!! Mikuni: I'll be fine. The sun is almost down.//These people have impressed me./I feel like giving them a chance.
138 Mikuni: Abandon Kuniko and swear loyalty to me./Do so, and I will allow all the ground-dwellers to immigrate in Atlas.//This is what you're here for, isn't it?//I will say this only once./I will not suffer lies to be told in my presence. Momoko: You stupid or what?!/WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!!!/DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'RE DOING?!/DON'T TAKE US METAL AGE LIGHTLY!!! *BOM* Soldier: MIKUNI-DONO!!!
139 Soldier: IF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS TRUE/THEN WE PLEDGE OR LOYALTY TO YOU AND YOU ALONE. Momoko: Ah... What are you doing......? Mikuni: Good. Good!!*creak creak* Mikuni: A wise decision.//....... A pity......//But the Mirror of Yata lodged in my right eye tells me.
140-141 Mikuni: Those words you said/You didn't mean them at all.
141 Mikuni: Oh./Looks like some of them weren't lying. Momoko: Why...//WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS/THEY'RE HUMAN BEINGS JUST LIKE YOU!!! Sayoko: ... Human beings... Just like her...?//Mikuni-sama? On par with these fools?
142 Kuniko: What a bunch of complete idiots.
143 Sayoko: ?!!//(My 6th Sense didn't work........?!!) Momoko: Kuniko!!! Kuniko: I just wanted to protect everyone.../That's why I became their leader.//That... That's all I ever wanted. And yet... Mikuni: So YOU are Houjou Kuniko? ....../You're more of a scrawny kid than I expected.
144-145 Kuniko: I'm-a send you crying to Mommy. Mark my words.*DUDUDUDUUUN* Mikuni: Do you know what happens to those who try to bluff in front of me?/They die. That's what happens.[/end
147 Kuniko: Once this is over./Let's all get back to the Cathedral.//It's freezing cold around here. Sayoko: These men's blood won't go to waste./It shall help solidify the artificial land that is Atlas.//Your deaths.../will bring salvation to this world.
148-149 Mikuni: This Ancient Mirror can reflect the truth of things/and also have the power to exorcise evil.//When someone speaks lies, it can reflect them/And mete out punishment...//Such is the power of the Yata no Kagami./One of the Three Sacred Treasures!!!
150 Momoko: You get killed if you tell a lie?//I can do without such a silly death, thank you very much.//(By my reckoning/Kuniko should no longer have the strength to use her boomerang...//.........The lonely girl/The weepy little kid who kept clinging to me...)//Something must have happened when I wasn't looking...
151 Sayoko: You little piece of shit./Do you really think you'll make any difference now that you're on your own? Kuniko: ... No quarter. Sayoko: MIKUNI-SAMA.//RUN AWAY!!!!
152-153 Kuniko: NOW//GOOOOOOOOOO *blam blam blam*
154 Mikuni: ...So that's/the other Triple A's power.........//SHOOT HER DOOOOOW!!!
155 Guards: Gh./Argh. Momoko: You're really going overboard.*ache* Momoko: Gh... Guard: I feel bad having to kill that woman. Kuniko: Momoko's a drag queen, you know? Guard: ?!!
156 *KA-BOM* Guard: Bwarf//Gargl Guard: !!
157 Kuniko: GAH//?!! *BOM* Kuniko: Ugh Momoko: Kuniko!!! Sayoko: Putting Mikuni-sama in harm's way, are we.../A human's death would be too good for your sorry ass.
158 Sayoko: This is the monster born of our analysis of the Sacred Treasures./HIRUKO. [tn: Water Leech.] Momoko: What IS that thing.........?//Talk about a bad joke...
159 Sayoko: Wretched child of abhorrence who clings to life in your anger and hatred. Hiruko: AAAAAAAAAUUUUUUURRRGH. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts it hurts./The pain. The pain. Pain pain pain.*floc* Sayoko: HIRUKO!!!//Go feast upon that girl!!! Do so and your soul shall be freed. Kuniko: Ouch...//!!
160 Hiruko: Yar*BAOM* Kuniko: Waah.//In that case...!! Momoko: When did she... Kuniko: Momoko's whip!!!
161 Hiruko: You miss. You miss. You suck. You suck. You suck haaaaard. Kuniko: Agh. Hiruko: AH
162 Hiruko: ??//Ouch. Ayyyyyye. That hurts hurts huuuurts. Sayoko: No way.../She was aiming for her boomerang from the beginning........!!! Hiruko: DAMN. DAMN YOUUUUUU. LOOK./SEE HOW THE PAIN STRENGTHENS MEEEEEE.//..........???/What IS that blade...? It can't be.......
163 Hiruko: AMA NO MURAKU.........*BAAOOOM*
164 Sayoko: ... Ridiculous.//To obliterate Hiruko............ Mikuni: Sayoko. Sayoko: (There can be no mistake!!//This is one of the Sacred Treasures./Ama no Murakumo!!! *beep beep*
165 Sayoko: Mikuni-sama./Run away immediately.//This humble Sayoko will buy you the time you need...!!! Mikuni: No. I don't want to./I'm not going anywhere without you. Sayoko: Mikuni-sama.*KABOOM*
166 Sayoko: She's a monster.//... You can't have...//Don't tell me you've used up all your strength./Well of course you did. The power of the Sacred Treasures is too much for you to handle, asswipe.
167 Sayoko: Now this is the second Treasure to enter Mikuni-sama's possession.//?!//We're being bombarded?/From where?!!*poke*
168 *CRACK* Sayoko: !!!//No.../It's not a bombing.//The Daedalus we've released on the ground./It's reproduced itself?!!!//It's been able to perceive the heat from the flames here?/From down there on the ground?!!
169 Sayoko: !!! Mikuni: Ah!!//Sayoko!!! Sayoko: Who do you think is responsible for creating you?!!! *PAH* Sayoko: Haa. Haa. Haa.*sss*
170 Sayoko: Ama no Murakumo!!! Speaker: A state of emergency is declared on the level number four.//"Zeus" has issued the command. The fourth level is to be cleansed. I repeat.*clank clank clank* *bbrrrrr* Sayoko: This is bad.
172 Speaker: City planning for the whole district initiated.//12.000 seconds to reconstruction.
173 Momoko: Kunikooo. Takehikooo!!!//Look at what they've done to their own city......../It won't make much of a difference with the ground level now.//You'd think more people would be coming out in such a situation. Yet I see no one./The fourth level's inhabitants should number in the millions... Flashback!Sayoko: Your deaths.../will bring salvation to this world. Momoko: It can't be... Mikuni: ... Sayokooo. Where are youuu-hooo?//... I don't wanna be aloooone...
174 Flashback!Kuniko: ...You there//Care to play with me...? Momoko: ... Kuniko...
175 Momoko: WHA!!! Mikuni: Take me to Sayoko.//Now move it, conger-woman!! Momoko: WUT?! Mikuni: Are you gonna leave me behind?!! Momoko: Make no mistake. My first intention is to find Kuniko........//Anyone stands is my way, and they're gonna get it. Mikuni: ......//It's your fault if I ended up like this./You're like those infectious diseases that run rampant on the ground!!!
176 Momoko: Haa./... Maybe the parents are to blame for this. Mikuni: ...?/If Sayoko was there you wouldn't be around to displease me./She's gonna wipe you out for me. Momoko: Pathetic./And that's what you call/a true parent-child relationship?//Not like it's any of my business... Mikuni: ... Then
177 Mikuni: Then.../What of you and Kuniko? Are you really parent and child? Momoko: !! Mikuni: No answer?/That was a lie, right?//BECAUSE WE TRIPLE As/HAVE NOBODY TO CALL OUR PARENTS!!!
178 Momoko: I don't know about the Triple A business or whatnot./But Kuniko and I are really parent and child. Mikuni: ......./........Wh//Why./If you hadn't said anything, you would've been able to go!! Momoko: I know.../But you see
179 Momoko: I couldn't help it./That "lie" is more precious to me than anything else. Mikuni: Why do you go that far... for a lie.../A lie.//Why... Ryouko: ... Well well well. Does it really matter? Momoko: Aah... Man./Talk about a bad day....
180-181 Momoko: ... I'm sorry.../Kuniko
182 Kuniko: ... Momo... ko.//Momoko!!!//Where are youuu?//(There she is!!)//?
183 Kuniko: That girl!!! Mikuni: Uuuh... Kuniko: Mo. Momoko. What the heck are you...//... Are you... Are you really... Momoko?
184 Ryouko: Not quite.
185 Kuniko: ...Ah. Ryouko: If you're looking for grandpa, he must have dropped dead somewhere./Oh, well. You've made things a lot easier for me./I am grateful.//Kuniko-sama.*heart*
186 Ryouko: Reinforcements from the upper level.../Time to go.//I have two of the Sacred Treasures./The keys to Atlas' main frame: "Zeus" itself...... Now only one remains.//And the world will be mine to control/The Earth shall belong to me. Ryouko!!!!
187 Speaker: City planning complete. Beginning reconstruction. Kusanagi: Aren't you an inglorious one./Kuniko-san.//Come on....... Let's go back to the ground level.
188-189 *WWOOOOOOOO*
190-191 Nagiko: So she's gotten her hands on two of the Sacred Treasures./Unlucky, aren't we? Eh, Keiichirou?//Come, then./Come for the Yasakani no Magatama. Come before me!!!https://mangahelpers.com/t/gottheim/releases/17513[English] [Translation] SHANGRI-LA Volume 1 by Gottheim2009-11-11T18:54:39+00:00Gottheimadmin@mangahelpers.comA-000000 Story: As the result of global warming and a radical afforestation program, Tokyo takes a turn for the worse, becoming the inhuman hellhole known as Shangri-La. An organ from the central government as well as a portion of the wealthiest classes migrate to an artificial land, the multi-storied superdreadnought [tn: That's a warship.] Atlas. Meanwhile, those who were left on the ground barricade themselves into the Cathedral, a gigantic slum-like town, resisting a furious nature's advance as well as pressure from the government...
Caption: The comic's 1st volume!! A new world as you've never seen before, drawn in a tempestuous style!
001 *KABOOM* Voice: A prisoner restrained in the isolation quarter for criminals of critical importance has broken out./The escapee is a vicious terrorist.//And is to be shot down on sight. I repeat:/The escapee is to be killed on sight.
005 Radio: We have just received some information according to which...//Early this morning, Houjou Kuniko (18), the to-be leader of the anti-governmental organization Metal Age.../has escaped her reform school for young females in Kantou.
006 Radio: As of now, the police is actively pursuing the investigation....../Now the weather broadcast for the first level.
007 *vrooom* Radio: Today the temperature will reach a 41 degrees maximum...//Making it the 90 consecutive day of tropical climate.//Not unlike what occurred last year. Takehiko: THIS FOREST IS SAFE, MY ASS!!/EH, KUSANAGI-SAAAN. Kusanagi: We've escaped our pursuer, haven't we, sir? Takehiko: SAY WHAT?/IF WE HAVE AN ACCIDENT OR ANYTHING......... Kusanagi: I'm not too fond of the forest either!! Please be patient.
008 Takehiko: PATIENT...?/TO HELL WITH THAAAAT.
009 Kusanagi: Wwaah. Takehiko: KUSANAGI, DO SOMETHING. Kusanagi: Could you please keep quiet for a minute?!!! Takehiko: AAAUUUUUGH.//Di... Did we make it? Kusanagi: .......
010 Kusanagi&Takehiko: !!! Takehiko: Bloody hell... It's flying.//HEY. THA HELL IS IT DOING?!!!//I will protect our leader...
011 Takehiko: YA SON OF A BIIIITCH*SBOM* *bah* Beardie: Gahahahah.//IN YOUR FACE/LOUSY INSECT...
012 Kusanagi: No way... That was an antitank round. Takehiko: ... Fracking asshole.//THA HELL'S YER BODY MADE OOOF? Kuniko: Continue to Ookubo Avenue./Once there, turn right. Kusanagi: But ahead from there... Kuniko: Do it.
015 Kuniko: Sorry I ruined your garden.//I'm about to return home, and it's been a couple of years./Forgive me. Takehiko: I'm relieved we could make it this far!!!/The government's assassins should be no problem!!//We'll get out of Shinjuku forest straight to the Cathedral, Ma'am. Kuniko: Good.
016 Kusanagi: For my part/it's gonna be one less thing I need to worry about. Kuniko: Hey you.//You're so stiff it's almost painful./Take me on your back. Kusanagi: ... Kuniko-san./You may be Cathedral leader in name only, but all the same.//It would be embarassing. Kuniko: Oh noooes. It's embahrusshiiing. Now move it. Kusanagi: Why me? Kuniko: Blame your driving skills. Takehiko: START WALKING NOW. NIGHT IS COMING.
017 Wall: Welcome to the Cathedral. Takehiko: WAKE THE HELL UP!!!//BEHOLD KUNIKO-SAMA'S MAGNIFICENT, TRIUMPHAL RETURN.//THIS IS GONNA DO THE GUERRILLA A LOT OF GOOD, YEAH?!!! Kusanagi: How did I... end up like this... Takehiko: ATTENTION PLEASE!!/JUST ONE MORE MINUTE!!! Kusanagi: !!!
018 Crowd: KUNIKO-SAMA/WELCOME HOME. Kusanagi: ...Wha/What's going on... Takehiko: You've kept the lads waiting. Kusanagi: Kuniko-sama.../We have arrived...//Duh?//WWWAAAAAH Crowd: It's Kuniko-sama/Welcome, Kuniko-sama./Welcome. Takehiko: OH, SHIT. NOT AGAAAAAAIIIIN
019 Kuniko: I'm back, Cathedral.//?!! Momoko (Momoka's cousin?, LOL): It's been a while, Kuniko...
020 Momoko: You've become quite the celebrity./Now that you're back to Cathedral, it's only fitting that you greet me, the great Momoko-sama first thing, isn't it? Takehiko: FUCK YOUUU MOMOKOOOOOO.
021 Momoko: Ahahaha. Kuniko: Waaah. Momoko: Is that all you can do?!!//Is that our leader? Don't make me laugh. Kuniko: !!!//Waaaaaaah. Momoko: ... Maybe I should.../make you suffer a little bit.
022 Kuniko: ... You haven't changed, Momoko./You're as pretty as ever.//Drag queens really don't age, I see. [tn: The term "okama" is ambiguous, in that it can mean "gay" or merely "male transvestite".] Momoko: Tha... That's right. I'm an eternal 28-year-old.//But that's not the point./I don't want you to get in harm's way. Kuniko: It's okay. /I'm your disciple, after all. Momoko: Wai... Kuni......
024 Takehiko: RETURN KUNIKO-SAMA TO US./WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER........ Momoko: ...... Responsible?//You guys... responsible for her, yes?/Now that's rich.//Lemme seeee. Kuniko: Wah. Momoko: Make sure you're unhurt./Oh, my. You're still an A-cup.//If she has even the tiniest scratch on her, say your prayers. Takehiko: Wha?!! Say what? Momoko: And what if I were an assassin...?/What would you do?
025 Momoko: YOU GUYS ARE WORTHLESS AS BODYGUARDS!!/I'M NOT GONNA LEAVE MY PRECIOUS LITTLE GIRL BETWEEN YOUR HANDS!!!//By the way, Takehiko. Kuniko: Yikes. Spider?: !! Momoko: Can you tell me something?//Who does a nubile girl need most? A mother or a father? Takehiko: Like hell I'd know.//YOU BITCH-ASS FAG. Momoko: ... Precisely.
026 Momoko: A "FAG" CAN BE BOTH Kuniko: Eeeek./Auuuugh. Momoko: Now, Kuniko. Kuniko: !!! Momoko: Let's start training right away!!
027 Momoko: Follow me as if your life depended on it!!!/HOHOHOHOHOHO. Kuniko: Move out the waaaaaayyyy. Bycicle: Oh?!! Kuniko: Eeeeep./?! Seller: Welcome. Momoko: A helping please.*twang* Momoko: Ack. Seller: Yes. Coming. Kuniko: ....Ah. Momoko: Not half bad......../Kuniko.......
028-029 Sayoko: ... Indeed...//History had lost trace of this for a very long time./The Mirror of Yata. The real article...//Now the day she'll be allowed under the sun is close at hand./Mikuni-sama shall be most pleased. Mutant: Hahaa. Sayoko: Which reminds me/Your Atlas rank is a D, isn't it?
030 Sayoko: As a reward I'm going to promote you./You are now a C-rank. *beep* Mutant: !!! Sayoko: Now your life should be a lot easier. Mutant: I... I'm so happy. Thank you...!!! Sayoko: Look up. Show Mikuni-sama how happy you really are.......//The ground is so hot it can't be good for your health. Mutant: Whe... when I think of you, Mikuni-sama...//I feel like my loving reverence to you.../would sustain me even on the hell that is the ground level.
031 Sayoko: ...What did I hear...? Mutant: Huh? Sayoko: ... I'm dumping your sorry ass to G-rank... With your eyes gone you won't notice when you're brought down to the ground.//ASSWIPE... Mutant: Aaaaah. Sayoko: DON'T YOU SPEAK OF LOVE TO MIKUNI-SAMA. LOUSY DRUDGE.
032 Mutant: SPA... SPARE ME...... Sayoko: A lowborn such as yourself has no business voicing such words. Mutant: Hic.//I'll do anything./Please, I'm begging you. Sayoko: Ever since she was born./Mikuni-sama's had such a poor health she couldn't go outside.//She's never been to ground level. Tell her of things she doesn't know./If it proves worthwhile....../I'll consider letting you live. Mutant: I... I can't s...
033 Sayoko: MIKUNI-SAMA...*BONK*[tn: Everyone in this series seems to be fond of speaking very loudly.] Sayoko: My wretched self is to blame/for allowing such an individual in your presence.*bash bash bash* Servant: Eeek. Sayoko: I can offer nothing but my life to make up for my sin. Servant: Sayoko-sama./Sayoko-sama, please stop this!!!
034 Sayoko: Now that the Mirror of Yata is between your hands...//The day when the 2 remaining Treasures fall within your grasp/that day is nigh. [tn: Together, the Mirror of Yata, the Sword of Kusanagi and the Yasakani no Magatama necklace are the Sacred Treasures, or Japanese imperial regalia. Tradition has it these objects come straight ouf of mythology.] Sayoko: Someday, Mikuni-sama/will extend her rule upon this country. Servant: Sayoko-sama?! Sayoko: Even if my body falls apart. Even if I'm reduced to a mere strand of hair...
035 Sayoko: Without fail, I, Sayoko/shall bring you along to a pacified land.
036 Kid: Good mooorniiing!!! Woman: Yep. Have a good day.*KABOOM*
037 Hippo: Furnace number 8: 80% operational. Carbon emission over 120%. Hippo's shoulder: Kuniko *heart* Takehiko: STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!!//I NEED MORE HEAT//Kuniko-sama back/No more quarter.//LET'S SHOW ONE THING OR TWO/TO THOSE ATLAS GOVERNMENT RASCALS!!!!
038 Kid: Mister.//Say, mister./You're a soldier, aren't you? So where's your weapon? Kusanagi: ....... Aren't you a sharp one./I don't need a weapon. Kid: Whoa.//OOOOOOOOH. Kusanagi: Now I may not look like it Kid: Awesum Kusanagi: but I'm quite busy myself.//... I've got a lot on my plate...
039 Kuniko: ... YAAAAWWWN.../...... Ah? Kid: There's smoke, look!! Other kid: The furnace has been lit up. Kuniko: Uuuuh..../What a ruckus... Kid: Hey, hey, Kuniko-sama./Let's eat breakfast together pleaaaaaaase!!!
040 Kuniko: Seconds please!! Miiko: Not so fast!!! Kuniko!!!/You do have the money, don't you?!! Kids: Ooooooooh. Kuniko: Ah, yeah. It's been pretty noisy. Miiko: That's right./They're resuming the heat production!!//During those two years when you were taken as a hostage.../Things have been pretty tough here, what with the regulations and oppression...
041 Miiko: That's why/everyone's been expecting you.//By the way. Here!!!/Momoko-nee-san took great care of this!! Kuniko: Gnat'ch my... Miiko: You're going to lead us all/So how about you put something on?
042 Miiko: Waaait, Kunikoooo./Take your Miiko-Special lunchbox with you. Kuniko: Oh./That's very thoughtful of you. Now what could it......... OH, THE SMELL!!! Miiko: That's one's for freeloading in my restaurant. Feeeel my wraaaath...
043 *VLAM* Kuniko: ?!! Miiko: Wha?!/What the heck?!//That's my shop's signboard!!! Kuniko: Miiko, take care of the kids!! Miiko: Wait. Kuniko?!!
044 Kuniko: My uniform...
045 Kuniko: !!! Takehiko: I SEE YOU'RE UNHARMED, KUNIKO-SAMA!!!//?!!//I was wondering when I'd get to see you... I can't believe an assassin from Atlas has slipped into our ranks...../... That's gotta be the biggest mistake in my whole life. Kusanagi: At first I thought I'd just let it slide. But it turns out you are indeed a thread, my lady.
046 Kusanagi: The ground level here has no future./Today, this is the end for you, and for the Cathedral. Takehiko: KUSANAGIIIII/YOU AAAASSHOOOOOLE!!!! [tn: LOL, "Boisterous" doesn't even begin to describe the man.]
047 Takehiko: Heh./In yer freakin' f...//face...?!!//Agh.
048 Kuniko: WATCH OOOOOOOOUUUUUT!!! Takehiko: Gasp Kuniko: That was faster than I expected./I thought you'd take a bit more time to size me up... Kusanagi: ......./You live up to your name...
049 Kusanagi: Just as I thought. Your continued existence/will usher in calamity someday.//I shall take your life here and now./Kuniko-san.
050 Kuniko: Oooh?!! Kusanagi: (She dodged it?!!/No way...) Kuniko: Whaddayaknow? You've become a pretty good shot. Kusanagi: (She must have lucked out)
051 Kusanagi: ........ How about/now we get serious? ....... Kuniko: ....../He's gone?!!//Wow.//Aah./That was a close call.//Uh?
052 Kuniko: ?!!//ACK. Kusanagi: Did I get her?! Regardless, she can't have avoided my knives a third time...//After all, no one comes anywhere close to me in speed........
053 Kusanagi: ... Wh. Wha
054 Kuniko: You sir/have piqued my interest. Kusanagi: (Silent assassination...//is the cornerstone of my fighting style.../Which means open confrontation would be the epitome of foolishness./... Despite this)
055 Kusanagi: (When I try to go for her openings/My body won't listen/my legs are shaking//... Could it be...//ABJECT FEAR?!!) Kuniko: If I win, I'll make you my underling.
056 Kuniko: Cuz Takehiko is way too boooooriiiing.//You're a sharp one. That's gotta be more fun. Kusanagi: .....//I'm at a bit of a disadvantage here.../I'll have to retreat for a little while... Kuniko: AH. NOT AGAIN!!!//?!! Kusanagi: We shall meet again...... Kuniko: Make sure you catch this.
057 Kuniko: My fist will send you/straight to La-Laland Kusanagi: .....//... Too bad. But once I've erased my presence, it's impossible even for an animal to detect me...
058-059 Kusanagi: BWARGL
060 Kusanagi: .....!!!/ACK!!!! Kuniko: Ah. You're still alive.//By the way./You lose. Now you're my underling. Kusanagi: Gah.//Even with you hostage, the only reason this district hasn't been wiped out/is because the government didn't feel like it.
061 Kusanagi: And now/playtime is over.//This town has been overlooked out of sheer luck.//But now that you've renounced your duty as an hostage/the government will regard the Cathedral as an enemy location. Kuniko: Ah.
062 Kuniko: Wah!!! Kusanagi: You brought this upon yourself.
063 Kusanagi: The Atlas Government has issued a decree against the Cathedral, as well as Metal Age./The whole area shall be disarmed, and the unlawful habitations evacuated.//... Without you around, the Cathedral is but an incoherent mass... Kuniko: Momoko always told me... Kusanagi: ?!! Kuniko: When a drag cross-dresses.//It's not to conceal himself./It's preparation to appear in his greatest glory//And against those who can't even manage to fight one-on-one.
065 Kuniko: I'll take you on whenever you want. Kusanagi: ....../.......Kof...//Very well. Kuniko: I swear when I get my hands upon you.../HEY THERE. WAIT...
067 Kuniko: Waaah. *rubble rubble* Kuniko: That was a cheap trick, Kusanagiiiii. Man: Kunikooo. Takehiko: Kuniko-samaaaa. Kuniko: NEXT TIME WE MEET/IT'S GONNA BE YOUR FUNERAL!!!
068 Ryouko: ... Just now./... That was a bombardment. By the anti-aircraft artillery.......//I guess that means someone's been beaten./What was the name again? Eeeeeerm.//No matter. There's no point in learning the name of a loser./Things are pretty much working in my favor.
069 Ryouko (Man, getting raped in JUNK really messed her up!): Now it's time for me, Ryouko-sama/to start having some fun.
071 Dude: Kuniko-sama/huff/huff/Kuniko-sama//Hey/Do you know where Kuniko-sama is?!! Fatso: What's your problem? Dude: Please. It's an emergency. Fatso: I don't know a thing!! Dude: I... Fatso: ?!!
072 Fatso: Hagh. Ryouko: You don't even know where your leader is./Useless ground-dwellers.
073 Ryouko: Oh, well. Even looking for her should be quite an amusement.//I hope I can see you soon./Houjou Kuniko.
074 Radio: The government offers a ￥100.000.000 prize for Houjou Kuniko (18)/The vicious criminal is currently in hiding in the refugees' quarter.//The anti-governmental organization Metal Age has repeatedly failed to comply with the demands to turn her in. [tn: Roughly ＄9.75 million.] Customer: Hullo. Shop owner: Welcome.
075 DS owner: Those Atlas dudes DS: .... DS owner: They're sure wetting their pants before Kuniko-sama. Boy(?): You're gonna hack Atlas net broadcasting again?/What if you get caught? Shop Owner: Here!!!/Two large helpings, with their roasted pork!! Frog:: *slurp slurp* DS owner: How've you been doing after the last bombardment?*snap* Boy: *puff puff*/My roof's been blown away.../Now the sky itself is our ceiling.
076 Boy: I'm glad Kuniko-sama is back... It's not like I can't eat my steaming hot ramen./But now that means the government has turned its attention to us, right?//And what of the "Round Slice Killer"?/Gottat be the government's handiwork. That's spooky... DS owner: Look who's talking... Who's got pictures of Kuniko-sama?//And when she returned/And who's been shouting KUNIKO-SAMA I LUV YOUUU at the top of their lungs? Boy: Yipes. Stop it!!
077 Kuniko: ... Somebody called?//I'M IN TOP FORM TODAY/AND THE MEAL WAS WONDERFUL!!! Boy: Gasp DS owner: Borf
078 DS owner: KU./KUNIKO-SAMA!!!! Shop owner: What?!! Kuniko: Ah./Crap.//Your cooking was top-notch today as always, sir./And I'm not Kuniko-sama, by the way. Farewell. Boy: I luv youuuu. Kuniko: ... Well*yank* Shop owner: KUNIKO-SAMA. THE BILL!!!! Kuniko: Is there a greater reward than a customer's satisfied smile? Shop owner: YES. MONEY. Kuniko: You lousy cheapskate.../You're no better than Momoko
079 Momoko: WHOOOO DAAAAARES.../WHO CALLED ME A STINGY SCHEMING OLD WIIIIIITCH??? Kuniko: Cripes. Momoko: Now that's funny./Uh-huh?/I'm pretty sure Kuniko would volunteer to clean up the shop. Kuniko: Wait. It's a mistake./I'm not Kuniko-sama!!
081 Momoko: Is that so?/Then I'm sure you can help me out with something. Like right now. Kuniko: Ooh. Shop owner: Hey. Momoko: OOHOHHOHOHO. Shop owner: IT'S EAT AND RUN AGAAAAIN!!! Momoko: HOHOHOHOHOHO Passers by: Woops./What's that?/A ghost. Shop owner: ... I got scammed again. Boy: Kuniko-sama...
082 Announcer: After the Transvestite Trio/the Tropical Fish gives you its pulchritudinous owner, in the role of a Phoenix!!!
083 Announcer: Is it the gods, jealous of her beauty/who cast her down on Earth in the skin of a man?...//Behold our Venus, the goddess whose beauty gives even the gods pause./MOMOKOOOO. Momoko: I'll allow you to dream of me tonight./Alright, boys?
084 Miiko: Momokooo!!!/You're awesome. Momoko: ... Awesome?//Don't be silly, Miiko.//I AM THE BEST!!!
086 Momoko: Lift that leg higher! Kuniko: Pfokay./Pfokay. Momoko: You're out of pace and your steps are all messy!!//You kick like a child! Higher.//More!/Your pivot leg is placed wrong. Kuniko: Eeep. Momoko: Put some more strength and grace in your dancing!
087 *paf* Dancer: Oops *roll roll roll roll* *BONK* Kuniko: Gasp*splat* Crowd: The pillar!!!/Aaaaargh. Momoko: Uh!!!/Oh, crap. The ceiling...!!!
088 Momoko: Oh, well. It's just a ceiling after all... And nothing beats a bath in open air.//We're gonna have to work on your dancing skills, Kuniko./I don't have much in the way of advice.//But next time, I'm gonna lend you this.
089 Kuniko: AAAARGH. MY EEEYES Momoko: ... You see, a jewel/will play in favor of the woman who wears it. Kuniko: But I'm Metal Age's leader!!!/Not a dancer. Momoko: HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.//You're still a cute little girl in body and mind./Do you seriously think you can take up a leader's mantle? Now that's funny.
090 Kuniko: Momoko you can't understand. Momoko: I do understand. Kuniko: ?!! Momoko: And in minute detail, too!!//Because you're my daughter... Kuniko: I HATE DANCING!!!
091 Kuniko: I don't even have your big breasts. I'm no adult./I can never become like you.//So forget about it!!!//...Hah. Momoko: ... Indeed. You're probably right...//You're not me./You should probably be making your own decisions.../That said Kuniko: Momoko...
092 Momoko: THAT WAS NO WAY/TO ADDRESS YOUR PARENT!!!//You stay there and count to 1000. That should give you the time of reflection!!! Kuniko: *glub glub*//Ooone. Twooo.
093 Kuniko: Fooour. Fiiive.*slam* Momoko: (... I hope/I'm making the right decisions...//Eh, Nagiko.......) Kuniko: 866... 999/1000.//Stupid Momoko... *SBAM* Kuniko: GASP?!!
094 Kuniko: ?!! Ryouko: We meet at long last./Kuniko-sama.*heart*
095 Kuniko: A bounty hunter...... Ryouko: The paltry ￥100.000.000 from Atlas?/I can't even buy a dog house with that.//Now tell me. Before you lose consciousness.
096 Ryouko: I want one of the three Sacred Treasures. Kuniko: Ugh... Ryouko: Tell me the location of the Yasakani no Magatama.//Next time I ask, I'm gonna take my time to do it. Physically. Kuniko: .......
097 Ryouko: ?!! Momoko: ... You were taking forever./So I thought maybe you'd run away before you were done counting...//Now who do I have the honor to speak with?
098-099 Momoko: Sorry, but this isn't a bathhouse, here.//Or maybe... Could you be a relative? Ryouko: Who are you?/Do you mind stepping out of my way?//I have no intention to fight you, lady./Understand? Momoko: ... No way. She's gone?!!
100 Momoko: Just joking. Ryouko: WHAT?!!//(Crap. Must be the bloodstain.)/I'm still not ready for real combat... Momoko: You don't really think you can lay your hands upon my child/and walk away like nothing happened, do you?
101 Ryouko: PRETTY PUFFED UP, ARE YOU/FOR A CHRISTMAS CAKE!!! [tn: "Christmas cake"="a woman past her prime". Imagine a Christmas cake (the pastry) after December 25th. It's still good, but its glory days are clearly behind it.] Momoko: Hell no./I'm still in my twenties.
102 Ryouko: YAAAHAAA./"TWENTIES"? THAT'S A CONVENIENT WAY TO PUT IT. Momoko:!!
103 Momoko: MY COVER'S BLOWN?!/I'M STILL IN MY TEENS ACTUALLY!!/Now it's over.
104 Ryouko: !!!//...GH. Momoko: I think I've seen that face somewhere.//You're Ex-Prime Minister Naruse's granddaughter, aren't you?
105 Momoko: Certainly you're not after the prize money. And I don't think you belong in the military./What do you want with Kuniko? Who sent you? Ryouko: ...... Momoko: Oh, my. Some tough boobies, you got there.//I'm wondering what grandpa would say/if he could see his grandchild in such a situation. Ryouko: Kh kh...?/Kh hihihihihi. Momoko: Uh? Is that kid really serious?/Ow, bummer.
106 Momoko: Yikes!!!//(... No way.)/Wha?!!
107 Momoko: (That was a boomerang.) Ryouko: Ow./Oww.//Let me tell you something...
108 *sharp pain* Ryouko: I hate it when someone inferior makes a fool out of me. It gives me headaches. Momoko: .......Gh.//I'm a goner...!!! *BOM*
109 Momoko: GAH.//?? Ryouko: What's wrong?//Where is all that energy you showed me earlier?!!//What, mommy, your batteries are out already?!!! Momoko: Agh!
110 Momoko: Gasp. Ryouko: Bow down./So I can kill you more easily. Momoko: GH!!! Ryouko: Come on, quick!!*stomp stomp stomp*
111 Momoko: ... Aaah. So good./I'm gonna cream my pants.//Give me more./Please. Ryouko: You goddamn freak.*sharp pain* Ryouko: I'll grant you your wish then./I'm going to hurt you good. Momoko: Ah-hah. Then if...
112 Momoko: THAT'S THE CASE//I'LL PASS!!!! Ryouko: Gwah.
113 Momoko: I've been that twisted since the day I was born./And even before that.*searing pain searing pain* Momoko: I'm a queer after all. Ryouko: DAAAMN YOOUUUU.
114 Momoko: !!!! Ryouko: Wha//She stopped it with her leg?!!
115 Ryouko: Ugh.//GAH Kuniko: ...Momoko told me
116 Kuniko: What makes a drag queen's strength/It's not a question of defeating somebody else./It's about not losing to yourself!!!
117 Kuniko: Your defeat was set in stone Ryouko: Silence./Silence./Silence. Kuniko: the moment you switched opponents from me to Momoko. Momoko: Kuniko... Ryouko: DON'T./DON'T YOU DARE MAKE FUN OF MEEEEE. Kuniko: YUP.
118-119 Kuniko: YAAAAAAAARH Ryouko: GH!!!
120 Ryouko: ERGH.//She's... she's able to wield.../Ama no Murakumo...? [tn: The alternate name for the Sword of Kusanagi. Made all the more necessary as that name was already taken.] Kuniko: Awesome weapon you got there./I like it!!!!
122 Momoko: Auuuugh. Kuniko: BWWWWWAAH. Momoko: MY THEATEEEEEER./Aaaaaargh. Kuniko: Momoko!!!! Momoko: MY SOOOOUUUUL. Kuniko: Momoko, quick!!!!//WOOOPS. Signboard: Tropical Fish.
123 Momoko: Put me down. By passer: Woops. Kuniko: Shut up.//I'm taking you straight to the hospital!!/Now be silent!!! Momoko: Saved by a kid./How unsightly... Kuniko: No, really!!!/And you're supposed to be the adult!! Momoko: (And here I was, thinking I would protect you forever...)/... Kuniko
124 Momoko: Whether you carry on dancing or not/that's your decision. Kuniko: EH?! Momoko: Don't worry about the theater. I was planning on some modifications anyway. Kuniko: Uh-huh... Momoko: Now....... The real problem is this.../how should I put it... Kuniko: So... I'M SORRY MOMOKO!!!/I DIDN'T DO THAT ON PURPOSE!! Momoko: ... It's okay./To me, you're worth just about any jewel. Kuniko: ... Momoko.
125 Momoko: ... LIKE HEEEELL/I DIDN'T MEAN A SINGLE WOOOOORD*BLAM* Momoko: You gonna pay me back, you will./A lifetime of service in my establishment. Kuniko: Whaaaat? Forget it. Momoko: There's still an alternative. I could hand you over for the bounty...... Kuniko: AAAAAAAAAARRGHH.
126-127 Voice: Here, son. I'll leave you between the hands/of her royal majesty Mikuni-sama's personal bodyguard. [tn: Here, "son" is to be understood in the military sense.] Kusanagi: So that's what the Atlas corporation is like......... Sayoko: Hey. You.
128 Sayoko: What are you doing, sublieutenant Kusanagi?/Start walking immediately, will you!!//Or should her royal majesty be delayed at the discretion of a military-hired civilian? Kusanagi: Most certainly not./I was merely stupefied by the solemnity of the premises. Courtesan: Hhe hhe hhe hhe. Sayoko: ... Humph. Courtesan: Hhe hhe hhe.
129 Sayoko: Don't fret./You won't be staying all that long anyway... Dude: I... If you stay here you're doomed... Sayoko: ! Dude: Doomed.//There's no escape from "it". For anyone...//There's no one left. "That" is no longer human. Everyone's gonna die./Me. You. Everybody's...
130 Dude: ... doo... Kusanagi: Doomed this, doomed that./Stop. Just stop.//I may not look like it but I'm easily scared./So please.//......Though I must say/your royal majesty's caprices go well beyond reason. Sayoko: What? Mikuni: ... SAYOKO!!
131 Mikuni: I've been expectantly awaiting your return. Sayoko: Mikuni-sama. Mikuni: I've seen everything these men had to offer./Kusanagi, was it? Make your way over here.
132 Mikuni: Come on./Let us play.
133 Plane: Aircraft 776 now flying over the target area./O-5-O-O... Unloading Daedalus. Daedalus: *roll roll...*
134-135 Sign: Shinjuku (Train) Station.
136 Ape: EEEEP Daedalus: *Munch munch*
137 *BLATANT* Plane: Daedalus' implantation, confirmed.//Returning to base.
138 Worker: HEY THERE.*creak* Worker: No dawdling around, you fuckers!!! Takehiko: If the government sent its army at us they'd squash us without even breaking a sweat!!!//Where the heck is Kuniko-sama when you need her? ...
139 Takehiko: Ow maaan!!/You little pests will be the end of me!!!//!!!*creaak creaaak* Takehiko: Leave that alone.*snap* *snap* Takehiko: The wire's...
140 *SBOM* Kuniko: HEY TAKEHIKO./Did you buy the ice-creams I asked you for?
141 Kid: That's right. Toss 'em over here. Takehiko: !!!//Kuniko-sama, currently the reparations are the topmost priority... Kid: That's guy's so boring. Let's play something else./Say, say. Kuniko: Okay then. It's been a while since we last played "chimney dive". Kids: Yaaaaaay. Takehiko: ENOUGH'S ENOUGH!!!//I'M GETTING SICK OF THE CONSTANT PRANKING./CARE TO SPARE A THOUGHT FOR THE CATHEDRAL'S FUTURE?!! Kuniko: Aaaaaah.
142 Kuniko: Mhhhhh. Well.../Spending my life playing games every day sounds good. Takehiko: Kuniko-sama, we men are ready to lay down our very lives/You need only order it!!!*spittle spittle* Takehiko: Today. Yes, today./Uuurgh. Uurgh./I shall speak my mind. Kuniko: Ah.
143 KUNIKO-ZA/MBAH?!//Hop hop hop. Woow./That thing weighs a ton!!!//There is no doubt that someday you will play a decisive part in taking down Atlas. I'm sure of it!!
144 Takehikko: That's how important you are. Yet with your current behavior/AAAAAAARH/There is no way you could look at those who died straight in the face!!!!//Ah?//Ugh./Gunigo-za...mba... Kuniko: ... Always with the long face...
145 Kuniko: Takehiko./You're still as big a moron as ever.[tn: Says the irresponsible little brat.] [Flashback]Nagiko: What a fool you are./Takehiko... Narrator!Takehiko: Ah, yeah... Back then...
146 Nagiko: ... Now./Come over here. Narrator!Takehiko: I was unable to open myself to the others around me./But "She"........ [tn: The Japanese "ano kata" means "he" or "she", but conveys an additional notion of respect that simply doesn't exist in English.][/Flashback] Momoko: Kunikoooo.*whip* Takehiko: Uh? *SBAM* Takehiko: NNRRGH!!!
147 Momoko: Picking up dance from me, the great Momoko-sama turned you into no less than a transcending beauty, did it not?!!/Sure as hell, you gonna help with my establishment's repairs!!! Signboard: TROPICAL FISH/Closed for an undetermined amount of time. Kuniko: The old ogress is comiiiing. Run awaaaaayy. Kids: Waaaaaah. Momoko: Hey there. Kunikooooo!!! Takehiko: .....
148 Smokes: This area is so old it got damaged pretty badly. Helmet: Gotta fix things here post-haste.//The trees grow up so fast. The place would be overrun by the forest in no time. Smokes: Maybe Atlas is on to something... Helmet: What, you wanna go there? Smokes: Tha... That's my business! Helmet: ... Wait. There's a vine eating its way at the rampart. Smokes: !!!
149 Smokes: Wai... That's bad news alright. Helmet: Gotta burn it down right away. *snip snip* *GAPE* Helmet: ......? *munch munch* *slurp* *glob* Smokes: ... Huh?
150 *VLAM* Smokes: ...... I've gotta be dreaming./When I wake up, I'll be back in Atlas... And then *MUNCH*
151 *brrrr* *poke* *poke* Courtesan: bleep//bleep/...The spy-balls are all in position...
152 Courtesan: I'll go ask the administrators for their report./Sayoko-sama. Sayoko: Don't bother.../These fools are incapable of accomplishing anything anyhow.//We don't have the time to twiddle our thumbs waiting after their half-baked afforestation program//If this experience proves successful/we can wipe out those annoying slums and the guerilla in one fell swoop.
153 Sayoko: All for the sake of Mikuni-sama.../Give it your best shot, Daedalus.
154 People: AAAAAARGH Kid: Waaaaah.
155 Kid: Waah. Momoko: You're barely more than a plant yet you're fixating on the boy's asses./There can be only one man-eater here.//Face the great Momoko-samaaaa./HOHOHOHOHO.
156 Momoko: Ho..........//Wai. Wait up./DON'T YOU DARE IGNORE ME Takehiko: ROOOAAAR.*DADADADADAM* *POW POW POW* Momoko: Uh-huh?/.......
157 Takehiko: WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING?!!/LOOKS LIKE IT'S GROWING!!! Momoko: Takehiko./That thing doesn't prey on everything. It's picky. Takehiko: Momoko?!//When did a bunch of weed grow a pair of eyes?!/We don't need you interfering!!!//Haa... Momoko: Never a moment's rest.
158 Takehiko: HEY!/MOMOKO!!!//DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE PLACE FOR A CASUAL SMOKE?!//MOMOKO!!!
159 Momoko: It's not about eyes or ears./And even less about a nose.//I'd say these plants are like snakes.//They've got some specialized organs/that react to bodily heat.
160 Sayoko: Daedalus choses increasingly high sources of temperature for its prey/It's programmed so that the heat causes it to swell at a literally explosive rate.//In other words, as you keep on fighting it with your heavy firearms/Daedalus will keep on growing.//Mikuni-sama only needs a little bit more patience.
161 Kusanagi: Am I to understand you've been carrying out this experience behind Mikuni-sama's back?/Sayoko-sama. Sayoko: Says the asswipe who should be busy fighting Mikuni-sama./What happened to that, sublieutenant Kusanagi? Kusanagi: You can hardly call it a fight. "Massacre" would be more like it. Sayoko: You administration cur./I won't suffer impertinence from a D-rank Atlas.
162 Sayoko: Listen. Do you know why Mikuni-sama, the first, rightful heir to the royal throne cannot be instated as such?/That's entirely because of the ground level, that has yet to be subjugated.//In addition to which the polluted materials that emanate from there are extremely poisonous to her frail health.*sob...* Sayoko: The ground must be cleansed free of the ignorant rabble and restored to purity. Kusanagi: ... This, Sayoko-sama/Is an overstepping of your authority.
163 Kusanagi: Protean suits? I never thought the government had already put those to practical use. Sayoko: OUR SCIENCE HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO AN OFFENSIVE PLANT LIFE/THAT WILL DEVOUR THE CATHEDRAL DOWN TO THE LAST MAN!!!//Just be content to sit back and watch, sublieutenant Kusanagi./Ha ha HAHAHA. Kusanagi: (Indeed...)
164 Kusanagi: (Mikuni-sama's unability to ascend upon the throne./doesn't go without its little problems...) Arcade: Amaterasu Ookami. [tn: God-Empress Amaterasu.] Kusanagi: (Is the ground level and its pollution really the sole responsible for this?) Mikuni: Kusanagiii.//Where are you. Are you dead yet?/I wanna play some more.
165 Mikuni: Siiiigh./I'm sick of this place already.//I'M BORED TO TEEEEAAAAAARS!!!/SAYOKOOO!! KUSANAGIIIIIII!!!*DU-DUUUN* *bat bat bat bat bat*
166 Takehiko: (Damn. They're heading towards the heat generators?!)/ACTING LIKE WE OWN THE PLACE, BITCHES?!!//OVER HERE!!!/DRAG YOUR SORRY ASSES THIS WAAAAAY!!!
187 *blam blam blam* Takehiko: IN YOUR FRACKIN' FACE!! *SBAM* Takehiko: !!! Momoko: Idiot!! Why are you using fire against it?!!! Takehiko: What choice do I have? I must protect the heat generators. I'm luring them away. [tn: The tatoo possibly means "Temple of Happiness, maybe as a stand-in for "Cathedral", or is more simply the family name "Kichijouji".]
188 Takehiko: In the meantime, you guys need to...*whack* Momoko: Takehi...//Noooooooo. Takehiko: Momoko!!//(After the the first woodlands war made me an orphan...)/AUGH(I'd do just about anything if it meant a full belly.)
189 [Flashback]Narrator!Takehiko: The Cathedral/was little more than a small orphanage when it took me in.//I was struggling my hardest not to die, and little else.//This is the place where/I've been alive for the first time...
190 Narrator!Takehiko: This town/is no less than my family.[/FLASHBACK]
191 Takehiko: ....... Humph./You're attracted to heat, that's right?//THEN I'M GONNA GIVE YOU/THE BEST DINNER OF YOUR LIFE.
192 Kuniko: WHAT THAAAAA HEEEEEEEL/TAKEHIKOOOOOO//STILL FANCYING THIS IS GONNA MAKE YOU COOL OR WHAT?!!/YOU DIMWIT!!!
193 Kuniko: YOU KNOW WHAT?/THAT'S WHAT I HATE SO MUCH ABOUT YOU Takehko: Kuniko-sama... Kuniko: We aren't fighting to the death.
194 Kuniko: We're fighting for our lives.
198 Sayoko: IMPOSSIBLE!!!!//No feedback from the Daedalus. It's completely gone./What happened?! Who in Heavens is that girl?!!//FIND ME HER DATA!! Courtesan: Tchh tchrr Sayoko: IMMEDIATELY!!! Courtesan: Searching the ZEUS' Management Domain./Retrieving data. Retrieving data. Retrieveing data... *beep* Sayoko: Houjou Kuniko........./Atlas rank..........
200 *twitch twitch* Sayoko: Are you trying to pull one over me, scrub?/Triple A is the topmost rank in Atlas. Courtesan: Analyzing data. Analyzing data. Sayoko: Mikuni-sama is the sole reason why that rank exists at all. Screen: War[ning] [War]ning. Warning. (Loading bar): Forcibly shutting down system./Restarting in :74s*beep beep beep* Sayoko: WHAAAT!!!//..... Courtesan: ZEUS switching over to self-termination mode. Isolating circuits......*CRASH*
201 Sayoko: HOW CAN A CESSPOOL-DWELLING GROUND TROLLOP........../BE ON THE SAME LEVEL AS MIKUNI-SAMA!!!!//AAAAARGH. Kusanagi: (Houjou Kuniko... Who are you exactly.......?) *twitch* *drop*
202 Sayoko: Notify the Inner Sanctum at once!/Houjou Kuniko must be eliminated!!!//I won't allow anyone to get in Mikuni-sama's way. No matter how many they are!!!//I'll will destroy you flesh. Fat. Entrails. Brain cells. Including your breath of life./Down to your DNA... I shall erase your despicable existence for the aeons to come.
203 Sayoko: JUST YOU WAIT. HOUJOU KUNIKOOOOOOO.
204 Takehiko: KUNIKO-SAMA!!!//I humbly ask that you take our lead/that we may settle the scores with Atlas in battle!!! Kuniko: ... Yeah, alright.
205 Takehiko: WITH YOUR STRENGTH ON OUR SIDE, BRINGING DOWN ATLAS SHALL NO LONGER BE A DRE.........*WHACK* Momoko: Can I know why you're causing such a commotion all by yourself?/Uh? Don't make me kiss ya, you got that?/Try not lying entirely on Kuniko's back, for once!!! Takehiko: Mmghhh.//I'M BEGGING YOU KUNIKO-SAMA!!*shove* Momoko: Uunh. Takehiko: FOR THE SAKE OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE!!!
206 Kuniko: Very well. Let's take the fight to Atlas./We're going up there, and we'll be doing it with a smile.
207 Takehiko: GAHAHAHAHAHA. Kuniko: Woohahaha. Momoko: Here's to a real moron. Nagiko: Whaaaaat's going ooooon? Who's responsible for this tasteless dramaaaaaa? *SBOM* Momoko: Urgh.
208-209 Nagiko: What a noisy bunch of kids. Momoko: GH!!! Nagiko: There's nothing like waking me up to put me in a bad mood.
210 Takehiko: Ah./You, Ma'am?!! It can't be... Kuniko: Now that's cool!! Nagiko: I see you still haven't gotten rid of that silly expression of yours...//HOUJOU NAGIKO-SAMA IS BACK./PREPARE FOR BATTLE!!!
212-213 Title: OPERATION INVADING ATLAS/BREAKING OUT! Text: At the topmost levels, the armed group Metal Age breaks into Atlas and its impregnable defensive system! Expecting them, however, is a dreadful, state-of-the-art mass-murdering machine...!!
Meanwhile, will the conspiracy to attempt at the young leader Houjou Kuniko make its move?!
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