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153) 1-2: ogyaaaah 3: 4 years later 4: Woah... 5: gyahh 6: H...how do you make him stop crying? 7: I don't know what to do... 8: Sorry, Exa-sama, making you watch him while I change.
154) 1: Well, Exa-sama? How do I look? 2: Ah...well... 3: ...I wish Sheila could have seen me... 4: Yeah... 5: Am I allowed to be this happy, knowing she's still trapped in there? 6: It's alright... 7: Exa-sama... 8: He's really gotten better over these 4 years... 9: But he still looks a bit lonely...
155) 1: Geez! How could the groom run away on the day of the wedding?! 2: Hey, you know I'm not getting married because I want to... 3: Then what about this kid? 4: Awww, Gabriel! You're my little angel. 5: Well, Lakshiel?
156) 1: Hey, why do you always punch me like that! 2: Give me some love, Gabriel! 3: Because you always act stupid! 4: They sure get along well. Just like me and my honey... 5: Is that...what you call it...?
157) 1: ...it's been 4 years since the Demon Lord disappeared... 2: I was only supposed to have one year left to live... 3: The medical field is really improving quickly. 4(small): You crock! 5(small): Oh, is that how we're going to play it? How about I add a few more charges to your bill? 6(small): Sorry. 7: Congratulations, 8(small): What were you chasing that girl for? 9(small): Sorry. 10: Lakshri...
158) 1: Sheila!!! 2(2b): Kyaa! Excuse me! 3: Move it! 4: Wahh 5: I lost her... 6: No. She couldn't be here. 7: Something's wrong with me...
159) 1: Exa-dono... 2: Prince...? 3: No, I mean, Your Majesty... 4: Lakshri and Angela look so happy. 5: Your Majesty...no matter how many times I come here... 6: I know...but...
160) 1: There are still so few people that understand that in order to build this new world, we must make it a place where humans and monsters can live together. 2: Now, will you work in the castle and assist me? 3: Please, think it over. 4: ...it was a waste of time to come here. 5: Because I just can't do that right now. 6: ...you're still carrying around the torch for Sheila? 7: That does no good for anyone! Wouldn't improving the relationship between humans and monsters be the best way to honor her?! 8: Are you saying that Sheila's dead?! 9: I know...that she won't come back... 10: ...but.
161) 1: Just how many people's hearts does that man have to walk over...? 2(small): The Princess is wearing citizen's clothing incorrectly, as usual. 3: Princess Athena?! 4: Wh-why are you here...? 5(small): He actually gets nervous around her. 6: Sightseeing. 7: But then I saw something troubling. Rossi. How about telling my brother about that thing you're so desperately searching for? 8(small): Alright. 9: Waaaaaahh!!! 10: E...Exa-dono! I won't give up! I'll be back, alright? 11(small): dash 12: Hmph...I hate men who don't know when to give up... 13(small): You can go now, Rossi. 14(small): Yes ma'am. 15: There are times when you can't move your body even when you know you should. 16: There's no need to panic. 17: Because there's no proof that the day WON'T come...
162) 1: Huh? What's wrong, your majesty? 2: ...I guess I can imagine. 3(small): The documents I ordered arrived. 4: We've come this far, without ever finding out who betrayed who on that day. 5: It's kind of scary to think that the betrayer might still be in our midst. 6: ...about that. Couldn't you also consider that the person worked in our favor? 7: Hm...? 8: The hero was attacked by monsters in the beginning, but coincidentally, Rossi's bird came to the castle, told us about it, so we were able to avoid any danger. 9: Then, since many monsters were called to the castle, he was able to fight with the Demon Lord without wasting much energy.
163) 1: Since we didn't have to halve our trops on the battlefield and the castle anymore, 2: and since you completed the defense mechanism, we were able to wipe out the monsters. 3: If we had launched a full-scale attack on the Demon Lord, would things have ended up the same...? 4: You mean someone was just PRETENDING to betray us? 5: ...er, wait a minute. Are you a candidate as well? 6(small): smirk 7: Seems like it'd be a good idea not to dig too deep into this. 8: Are you sure? 9: All that matters to me is that the result is good.
164) 1: Still carrying around the torch for Sheila? 2: There are times when you can't move your body even when you know you should. 3: Sheila won't come back. 4: No matter how much I remember her. 5: ...but... 6: Why did she get trapped in that space? Doesn't she want to come back? 7: Or did she hate me...? 8: Is the hero here? 9: ...this is Sheila's voice?!
165) 1: Sheila!!! 2: I am Third, one of the Demon Lords. 3: One of the Demon Lords...?! 4: It's alright. I don't intend to destroy the world. 5: I was searching for you. I want to rescue Sheila from the territory. 6: Then the person I saw in town was... 7: Do you really want to save Sheila?!
166) 1: My power wasn't stable 4 years ago, but now... 2: I thought of a way to bring Sheila back by merging with her. 3: Merging...? What will happen to your personalities? 4: Relax. I will enter Sheila and disappear. 5: No, wait...are you alright with that? 6: Yes. My personality was forcefully created, after all. 7: And yet, Sheila gave me more happiness than I needed. 8: That's why I decided to give my body back to her. 9: I already said farewell to all that I know. I have no regrets.
167) 1: We should be able to get it done here without bothering anyone. 2: Now, I shall open the space. 3: It's just like back then... 4: Where's Sheila...?
168) 1: ...but why didn't Sheila come back by now? 2: What if she doesn't want to come back...? 3: Doesn't want to? Of course not. 4: How do you know? 5: Lately, I've been able to converse with her. 6: The original Demon Lord wasn't totally erased. 7: The reason she stayed inside was to completely destroy him. 8: No way...!! 9: The space might close before I find her! 10: Hurry...hurry...
169) 1: Need more power?! 2: I can't find her... 3: Why won't she come out?! 4: Wait! If she stayed back to suppress the original Demon Lord, then he might be the one to come out! 5: If that happens, then the world will be plunged into chaos again! 6: That voice was Sheila's voice... 7: The original can change his shape and voice!! 8: What?! 9: Eh...
170) 1: I slashed her...? 2: Mirage?! But I thought it broke... 3: Oh...it was still inside my body, huh...? 4: I can't sacrifice Sheila and open this space. 5: ...but I want to see her...
171) 1: And while we've been living in peace... 2: You've been fighting alone... 3: I found you!! 4: So this time, let's fight together... 5: Welcome back, Sheila... 6: I'm sorry, Third. 7: I just didn't want to erase you.
172) 1: It's fine, I... 2: just want you to be happy, Sheila... 3: ...Sheila? 4: Don't tell me it's the original...
173) 1: I'm soooo hungry... 2: I haven't eaten for four whole years! 3: Give me a piggyback ride! 4: Hm...? What's wrong, hero? 5: ...it's really Sheila... 6: Sheila!!! 7: H...hero?! 8: Umm...why haven't I disappeared...? 9: And I'm not hurt... 10: Oh, that's simply 11: because the hero ignored your connection with my soul and forcefully pulled me out. 12: He only cuts what he wants to cut with that sword. 13: He passed through your body and cut the space.
174) 1: Now live your life as you please, Third. 2: Oh, okay. 3: Yes. 4: So I can keep living on as Shion... 5: I heard your voice when I thought you died. 6: It gave me power just hearing it. 7: It made the impossible possible. 8: The world looks more beautiful just by you being here. 9: I feel the same way...
175) 1: It's so strange. The old me never thought about risking my life to save the world. 2: I was always forcing myself to do stuff. 3: It's all your fault. 4: Eh...?! S...sorry... 5: As punishment, you have to keep watch over me forever. 6: Huh? 7: Wha...?! 8: Just kidding. 9: So? What are you doing now, hero? Working for the Prince, right? 10: Are the humans getting along with the monsters?
176) 1: Don't tell me you haven't done anything?! What have you been doing?! 2: ...I just... 3: You're such a loser. 4: No I'm not! I was trying to, but... 5: Fine then, I guess I'll have to help you out... 6: I won't let you go... 7: ...huh?
177) 1: Huh? What? I couldn't hear you, say it again! 2: Nope. Only once. 3(small): Stupid! How could I hear you with your hands over my ears! 4(small): I can't heaaar you! 5: Now let's walk forward together. 6: If someone loves someone else 7: Maybe someday, when I can say it proudly. 8: there's no way it couldn't make the world beautiful...
Superior Cross [6] - ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/34168[English] [Translation] Superior Cross 27 by molokidan2012-04-11T11:23:45+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comSUPERIOR CROSS #27
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117) Story. 27 - What it Means to Love
118) 1: ...I'm sorry. 2: I'm sorry, Clive... 3: Doctor...Reynold? Why are you here...?
119) 1: I came because I completed the human reverting drug... 2: You're too late!! Clive's already dead!! 3: No, he just appears dead. 4: Rossi's father?! 5: Use this... 6: This was the drug he just used to fix Rossi's serum. It should bring him back to life... 7: I heard you were our enemy. Why are you helping us? 8: My daughter taught me something...
120) 1: Nothing is born from hatred... 2: Now, let's call up the other Demon Lord. 3: Then we'll be complete again.
121) 1: Since I'm here, Sheila's at the mercy of the original... 2: Dammit! It's all my fault!! 3: What is that...?!
122) 1: Sheila!! You can't go! The monsters will find you!! 2: He's calling me... 3: Watch out!!
123) 1: You can't! You'll be sucked in!! 2: Hang on!! 3: Use your true power!! 4: But I... 5: No buts!! You want to protect her, don't you?! 6: Men must protect!! 7: Okay!
124) 1: They'll catch up to us like this! 2: What should we do?! 3: What are you doing? 4: I'm being called... 5: ...no. 6: You can't go that way. Not that way, mom... 7: There's still something you need to do, right...?
125) 1: Nooo!!! 2: Good! Sheila! 3: You're awake! 4: Shi...on...? 5: Yes...but that's not all. I remember everything now... 6: Kuh...someone's getting in my way...
126) 1: But no matter. You're more than enough. 2: A castle now...? 3: First, try moving the monsters in this castle. 4: What's wrong? You want to destroy the world with me, don't you? 5: Ohh, you must not know how to do it. OK then, I'll just borrow your power and move them myself. 6: Ahh...
127) 1: Wh...what is that?! 2: F...fire!!!
128) 1: It absorbed the bullets?! 2: Please escape, Prince! 3: Ahhh 4: Waaaahh 5: I heard from a soldier that Leo's rebuilding the defense mechanism. 6: I can't escape while everyone's working so hard... 7: ...uuu... 8: I'm sorry. 9: Take Prince Valentine as far away from the castle as you can. 10: Are you sure? It's not my fault if he gets mad at you for this.
129) 1: I know it may be the same no matter where we run. 2: I will take all the Prince's anger later. 3: If I survive... 4: If that slight possibility even exists, then... 5: That's it! Yes!! 6: Make it even more beautiful!! 7: Ah...ahhh 8: Ahhhhh... 9: I can't hear you... 10: I wish I could...
130) 1: Wh...at...?! 2: Silence!! 3: What are you saying, hero...?
131) 1: It's so far away from the beauty you covet that it makes me laugh. 2: You're like a newborn baby! 3: You're just a powerless, useless baby with OCD!! 4: Make this world beautiful...? 5: Want me to show you how you're the dirtiest one of all in the mirror?
132) 1: Noooooo!!! 2: Just kidding. Killing you is against the rules. 3: You probably wanted to make me get sucked into the territory, huh? Too bad for you.
133) 1: You... 2: bas...tard... 3: Uuu... 4: Whoops. He stabbed somewhere bad there... 5: This may be the end... 6: But that's fine. As long as it makes Sheila free from me...
134) 1: Sheila!! Forget about us!! 2: You need to defeat the original!! 3: Save the world, Sheila!!! 4: I can hear everyone... 5: But I can't sacrifice you all... 6: Sheila...
135) 1: Sheila... 2: Do your best, Sheila... 3: Sheila. 4: I can hear the hero...
136) 1: This territory doesn't just belong to the original. You can make it your own. 2: If you did, you could save the world without having to hurt anyone... 3: I thought that loving someone had no point, and was just a way to make myself suffer more... 4: slip... 5: But now I remembered. 6: Your voice... 7: No, not just you. Everyone's voices supported me.
137) 1: That's right. Loving people is 2: power. 3: Agggghh 4: It's in pain all of a sudden...?! 5: What's going on?! 6: Wahhh!! 7(small): That's what you get for hitting me! 8: It's just like you wanting to protect me! 9: You'll all important to me, and I want to protect YOU!! 10: Even if I must risk my life!!
138) 1: Was the defense mechanism completed?! 2: You did it, brother.
139) 1: We did it, Chris. 2: Wh...at... 3: Heal!!
140) 1: Mmm... 2: Wha... 3: You shouldn't be able to use magic! 4: No. It isn't even possible to revive people 5: with magic! 6: That's right. Loving people 7: is a miracle. 8: I'm...getting sucked away... 9: sucked into the territory...
141) 1: Can't you see this? 2: Even if we...if this world may be incomplete, 3: we're working hard to better it, step by step. 4: Isn't that beautiful...?
142) 1: It's filth from the mouths of maggots! 2: You only dirty everything! Nothing changes! No one notices anything! Everyone remains the maggots they are!! 3: Wha... 4: The territory's opening up?! 5: This territory is mine. No one else should be able to interfere. 6: Why?! 7: I'm the one who's going to make the world beautiful!! 8: Ahh...my body is crumbling...
143) 1: Ahhh!! No one can look at my true form!!! 2: Yes...at the very least, I can take you with me...
144) 1: What?! 2: Sheila... 3: Let's go. 4: We have to hurry, or the space will close. 5-6: You can't...
145) 1: I had forgotten something very important, but I remember it now. 2: I love you, hero...and everyone. 3: Thank you.
146) 1: Thank you, everyone... 2: ...hmm? 3: Is everyone alright?! 4: Uwahh! Dr. Reynold?!
147) 1: Sorry, it broke. 2: Guess it was wrong of me to try to cut open space. 3: My sword...? 4: So you're the one who opened the territory. 5: Wait, you can use this sword?! 6: That's my line. 7: Although I guess it's only natural, since you're related to me. 8: Wait...then the legendary warrior who used this sword, was he...? 9(small): Hmmm 10: If I answer, will you do all the sorts of things that will satisfy my sadistic heart? 11: Ehhh?! 12: Unless it benefits me, I haven no intention of teaching you. (The end.) 13: ...oh well. 14: Is everyone alright?!
148) 1: Yes. 2: Yeah. 3: Uh-huh. 4: I guess... 5: Huh? 6: Where's Sheila...? 7: Sheila?! Don't tell me she couldn't get out of the territory?! 8: What?! 9: Dr. Reynold!! Open the territory again!!
149) 1: I can't. Not the way that sword is... 2: But... 3-4: Sheila...
150) 1: I...love you all. 2: Sheilaaaa!!!https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/34167[English] [Translation] Superior Cross 26 by molokidan2012-04-11T11:23:28+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comSUPERIOR CROSS #26
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91) Story.26 - The Dark Emperor's Trap
93) 1: Why did I meet the hero? 2: ...why 3: did I fall in love with the hero?
94) 1: Is this a clock...? 2: Hero!! 3: Angelica, Rossi...everyone!! 4: bang bang 5: Huh? What? 6: I can't hear what you're saying!! 7: I have to heal the hero at once... 8: Heal!!
95) 1: I can't use magic? 2: This is just like what happened with Rossi's father... 3: Maybe it's because of this dome. 4: If I break it... 5: slide... 6: What is this...? 7: This dome will never break no matter how hard you bang on it. 8: And even if you could, that wouldn't let you use magic again.
96) 1: All you can do is watch them die. 2: slide... 3: You...!!! 4: I just told you you couldn't break it...you're so simple-minded, as usual. 5: I sometimes wonder if you really are a clone of me. 6: Just watch me.
97) 1: I can get this. 2: Even this big. 3: I told you, this is MY territory. 4-5(small): Oof! 6: Whatever I imagine, I can do. 7: We play by my rules here. 8: Whatever I say is absolute.
98) 1: In return, if anyone lies, the lie will come back to you. The territory erases all. 2: ...so, he isn't actually 3: all-powerful here... 4: Why did you bring us here? 5: Because I can't forgive you. 6: You were born from me. How did you become so ugly...? 7: I brought you here to remember the past...
99) 1: Ugly...? What do you mean? 2: You like him, don't you?! 3: You didn't have any sort of feelings like that before you met him! 4: That's right! Remember the pure feelings you had back then!! 5: Pure instincts! Pure hatred!! Pure happiness!!! 6: ...Anyway.
100) 1: I'll give you two choices. You can choose either one. 2: While you're busy explaining that, they'll... 3: No, these are both good choices for you. 4: Depending on the result, I may even save the hero and your friends. I may even cease my destruction of the human race. 5: Really?! 6: Yes.
101) 1: Huh? Don't you trust me? 2: I told you I can't lie, right? 3: But I have no choice. 4: Fine, alright. 5: Then let's begin. 6: Even if it is a trap, I have to go along.
102) 1: The clock moved! 2: Here's your first choice. 3: Kill the hero by your own hand. 4: Then I will cease my destruction of the human race. 5: Your other choice...is to destroy the world with me. Then I'll let the hero and your friends survive. 6: Now, choose.
103) 1: Fuck you!! How could I pick either one of those?! 2: Hm...but the clock's already started moving. Better pick fast. 3: The minute hand will slice your friends in two when they reach it. 4: First... 5: is the hero. 6: Stop...please...!!! 7: I can't. 8: Sheila!!! Kill me!! 9: Don't falter!! 10: Hero...I can't hear what you're saying...!!
104) 1: ...but you're probably 2: telling me to kill you, right? 2: I know, because that's the kind of person you are. 3: All... 4: I've ever seen was you. 5: That's how I know. 6: I agreed to this to help you. 7: Because you gave me so much happiness. 8: How could I kill you? 9: But if you wish it, then I can even go against my own wishes. 10: I'll kill the hero. 11: Yeah. It's ridiculous to sacrifice the entire world just for one person. 12: That's the right choice.
105) 1: Hero!! 2: That's a voodoo doll of the hero. If you strangle it, you can kill him easily. 3: Like so... 4: Guuuh! 5: Uuu... 6(2b): Haa...hah...
106) 1: He...ro... 2-3: hah 4: He's bleeding... 5: I can't strangle him like this... 6: Oh, one more thing. I won't count it if you strangle him after the minute hand slices him. 7: So stop wasting time and get on with it! You want to run out of time? 8: Sheila, hurry...kill me... 9: My heart aches... 10: Yet...if you wish it...!!
107) 1: Guhhh!!! 2: Exa-sama!! 3: I can't believe he's forcing her to kill the one she loves. 4: What cruelty...!! 5: It's...it's sickening... 6: You plan on protecting this terrible world even though it's forcing you to kill him? 7: And he's just trying to torture her even more on top of it... 8: No... 9: I learned something from meeting the Hero: that all lives are equal! Every single one of them is wonderful! 10: This world is worth protecting!
108) 1: Are you serious? 2: That sounds so cliche. 3: I'm serious!! 4: Maybe you just happened to meet a bunch of people who were worth protecting? 5: There are a ton of ugly people out there. Think back... 6: To that one time... 7: That other time... 8: and that time! 9: You grew up believing that this world 10: wasn't worth protecting, didn't you?
109) 1: Yet you're starting at the hero's face and lying. Because you don't want him to hate you. 2: Go on, tell the truth. 3: Follow your instinct. 4: Look...he's in pain. Your time's almost up. 5: S...top...Sheila...don't listen to him... 6: That may be true. There are a lot of ugly people out there. 7: This world isn't filled with perfectly beautiful things. 8: You can only call the world beautiful if you pretend to be blind to its ugly spots. 9: The hero taught me that power isn't everything. 10: Live with hope, and someday, your dreams will come true. 11: But I've seen people easily killed off no matter how they struggled, no matter how right they were. 12: I...I laughed, watching them.
110) 1-2: Lie... 3: Lie...!!! 4: I have to lie to myself... 5: ...I know.
111) 1: But I just can't... 2: Sheila... 3: No... 4: Hero!!
112) 1: Please!! I'll help you destroy the world, so 2: just stop the needle...!!!
113) 1: The needle disappeared! 2: ...my wounds 3: are healing?! 4: ...so what he said about lies erasing things was true! 5: This world is filled with selfish people. 6: Why do I have to lie to myself in order to protect it...? 7: Stop! Kill me!! 8: Shut up. 9: It isn't your choice. 10: Hero...you're probably angry...of course you are. 11(2b): And...it seems like you can hear me. Why can you hear me? 12: ...but that doesn't matter now... 13: I accept it. I'm ugly.
114) 1: I exchanged the world for the hero. 2: A heart that loves people didn't make me beautiful, it made me ugly. 3: Just like this world. 4: I'm ugly. 5: Why did I meet the hero then? 6: Why did I fall in love with him? 7: I killed humans like the hero so easily before then... 8: Just like he said, in terms of pureness, I was just more beautiful back then. 9: Now come on. Let's make this world beautiful.
115) 1: I couldn't change my fate to destroy the world before, or after we came together... 2: slip... 3: I just caused pain. I served no one. 4: Why did I fall in love with the hero...? 5: S...top...Sheila... 6: Why did I bring her here, knowing the risks? 7: I didn't know she'd undergo such tenacious mental attacks. 8: But now I finally know. 9: If I could just throw her off guard a bit, I could beat her, but I never even thought about that. 10: He used me. 11: He even stole Sheila's resistance.
116) 1: That's right... 2: You're just my cute little puppet now...https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/34166[English] [Translation] Superior Cross 25 by molokidan2012-04-11T11:23:10+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comSUPERIOR CROSS #25
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65) Story.25 Infinite Reflections
1: Come on, work a little harder. 2: You're just another me, you know?
66) 1: Destroy!! 2: Heal!
67) 1: Hero...thanks... 2: Sheila... 3: Tch...what a waste of a slash... 4: I'll have to lop your head off in one hit to make sure you stay down. 5: No you won't. I'll protect Sheila no matter what.
68) 1: That isn't fair! 2: Aren't I the one who's protecting Sheila, Exa? 3: No. I'll defeat him. 4: Hmph...This wound is nothing. I'LL be the one protecting all of you! 5: Owowowow! My arm cramped up!! 6: That's what you get for overdoing it. 7: Fufu...now we really have no idea who's going to protect who. 8: Anyway.
69) 1: Original Demon Lord, 2: say goodbye!! 3: Beautiful friendship, eh? 4: Makes me wanna puke. 5: Looks like you think you're all "just" people, 6: but that isn't so. 7: Darkness is true justice. 8: Because darkness is what everything's born from.
70) 1: Darkness gives birth to balance. 2: Everything returns to darkness. 3: To the beautiful world of darkness... 4: ...what, are you trying to say THAT'S why you kill? 5: Yes. 6: No. 7: We have a right to life too!
71) 1: That right is given equally to every living thing! 2: No one can should be allowed to take that away!! 3: No. I, and only I, am allowed to.
72) 1: I thought that was obvious? After all, this world is mine. 2: I'm free to do what I want with my possessions, aren't I? 3: But OK, fine. 4: If you want equality so badly, 5: then I don't mind killing you and making you all suffer equally. 6: See how nice I am...?
73) 1: Looks like talking won't work with you. 2: Too bad. 3: I wouldn't have minded making you my slave if you wanted to get along with me. 4: Over my dead body...!!!
74) 1: Too slow... 2: So many openings. 3: I'll start from the preachy one.
75) 1: What?! You can keep up with my speed?! 2: Oh...you're Graham's daughter. 3: You're the perfected version of a human monster...!! 4: Will you be able to survive an attack like this with no problems? 5: I'll just dodge...
77) 1: This is bad...I need to... 2: change my position...!! 3: Oh no... 4: It's over.
80) 1: We defeated the original Demon Lord... 2: Now...is it all over...? 3: Did we...win? 4: ...yeah.
81) 1: It's over!! 2: It's all over!!! 3: Now we can finally put an end to the long battle between the humans and the monsters... 4: No, something's wrong. 5: Far too wrong. 6: If everything's over, then why won't that presence disappear? 7: That vile presence...
82) 1: Awwww. Did I die? 2: The original Demon Lord?! 3: Impossible!! Then who's this?! 4: I wonder...
83) 1: You guys are really something. 2: You've seen so many copies already, you should have been able to figure it out after using your heads a bit. 3: But you went and used all your strength to beat a dummy like that, and were so quick to celebrate. 4: Do you even realize how stupid you are?
84) 1: You...!!! 2: Everyone, turn around!!!
85) 1: ...don't think there's just one copy.
86) 1: Everyone...!!! 2: Woah now... 3: I can't let you go heal yourself again. 4: What
87) 1: is this...?! 2: Matter isn't all I can cut. 3: I can even cut space. 4: Hero!! 5: Rossi!!
88) 1: Everyone's... 2: being sucked... 3: into the distortion in space... 4: I can't get away from it?! 5: Where is this thing going to take us?!
89) 1: Welcome 2: to MY territory.https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/34165[English] [Translation] Superior Cross 24 by molokidan2012-04-11T11:22:52+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comSUPERIOR CROSS #24
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33) 1-2: I can hear them.
34) 1: Waaaaah! 2: Monsterrrrrs! 3: Ruuuuuun!!!
35) 1: Ahhh! 2: ...fu... 3: ...fufu...
36) 1: Ahahahaha!! 2: I can hear them, I can hear them!! 3: The screams as this world is beautifully repainted!! 4(2b): So wonderful! Ahahahaha! 5(2b): Hahaha! Too wonderful to bear! 6: I can hear them. 7: The sounds of the world I imagined being created.
37) Story.24 Beginning of the End
38) 1: I'm getting 2: a very bad premonition.
39) 1: What...was that just now...? 2: A vision of people being attacked by monsters...?! 3: So the monsters' full-scale attack...has begun. 4: Don't tell me... 5: Everyone had the same vision...?! 6: But...when did I fall asleep? 7: Same here... 8: Me too. 9: My father gave you all sleeping drugs. 10: Why...?! 11(2b): He was on the monsters' side. But he escaped. You don't need to worry anymore. 12: If what we just saw was the future, then we have to defeat the original Demon Lord who controls those monsters immediately. 13: Yes... 14: You're right...
40) 1: I saw something else as well. 2: Was it just me who saw that? 3: How can I express it? 4: It was...like 5: A future that could possibly happen. 6: Lakshri...you stay here. 7: Huh? Why...? 8: Do you still have the serum, hero? 9: Uh...yeah. 10: Give this to your friend Clive.
41) 1: I'd hurry up if I were you. Thinking about how he was last time I saw him, he must be completely insane by now. 2: Having lost his senses, he'll probably instinctively chase after the man who had been giving him drugs up until now. 3: But...are you sure it's alright that I don't have it? 4: ...yeah. 5: You can't give it to him if you keep it, right?
42) 1: Relax. I've realized that I'm with you now. 2: What I'm saying is, 3: there's no point in us keeping this. 4: So this can save Clive...
43) 1: I can't shake off this bad premonition. 2: Stop worrying... 3: Worrying about the future just makes you more and more nervous... 4: What the...?
44) 1: My heart's beating fast. 2: Someone's approaching us...?! ...but who? 3: Someone close to me...?! 4: Copy?! ...no. 5: Copy doesn't exist anymore. 6: This is something more different...this is... 7: What's this pressure I'm feeling...? 8: Overwhelming strength beyond anything I could imagine... 9: Whoever it is, they're going... 10: to kill me.
45) 1: The aura...disappeared...?! 2: ...no, there was nothing there to begin with. 3: Calm down... 4: You're focusing too much on this. 5: You can't think you're going to be killed without even fighting first... 6: And besides, I wouldn't be fighting alone. 7: I have friends. 8: I'm fine... 9: Ummm... 10: Eh? 11: ...Are you people the same kind of scary person like that scary old guy?
46) 1: Kyaaaaa! Something's in that side hooole! Get out heeeere!!! 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry! (wave wave) 3: I'll come out, just please don't bully me! 4: Are you a monster? 5: Yes. I got lost in this weird place and ran into so many scary monsters and people, so I couldn't get back out... 6: You don't need to worry. I'm the hero. 7: The hero!! You mean the one that doesn't kill monsters...?! 8: Umm...a minute ago I found an injured bird. Can you heal it? 9: Ahhh, that's mine!!
47) 1: Heal! 2: There was nothing wrong with its bones. I closed up the wound on its wings, so it shoul be fine after a while. 3: Thank you... 4: What a relief... 5: Haaaa! How wonderful... 6: Exa. 7: I'm leaving. We need to hurry. 8: OK, be careful. 9: We need to defeat the original Demon Lord fast and move on. We're running out of time. 10: Is it alright to move right after ingesting the medicine? 11: You may feel a bit light-headed, but you should be fine. 12: And we just need to move opposite Lakshri's group, right? 13: Yeah. 14: It'll be fine. No monsters should attack until we meet the Demon Lord. 15: ...I mean.
48) 1: I killed every single one of them, you know. 2: By the way, you're intending to have that Lakshri person fight one-on-one versus a human that's turned into a monster, right? 3: You sure he'll be safe... 4: He might die, you know? 5: Guess it doesn't matter though.
49) 1: You'll all be dead in due time. 2: ...ahh.
50) 1: You... 2: I don't know if you can hear again or not, but I'm sorry... 3: I really hurt you...
51) 1: Clive... 2: So this can save Clive...
52) 1: No...there's a 99% chance he'll die. 2: That's why we couldn't give it to him earli... 3: Are you saying we should use this to kill Clive?! 4: No, that's not what I mean. I'm saying we should bet on that 1%. 5: Will that 1% chance turn him back into a human? 6: No. 7: He won't turn back into a human, he'll just become perfect. But he will be able to control himself. 8: ...in other words
53) 1: He'll be like me. 2: What do you mean?! 3: Just what I said. I'm the perfected form of what happens when humans turn into monsters. 4: When humans turn into monsters...?! Really?! 5: I can't believe it... 6: If his symptoms progress, he'll eventually lose all of his human heart. 7: Then even the 1% chance will be gone. 8: We're out of time. This is all we can do.
54) 1: Even if he can't turn back into a human, with this...there's still hope, right? 2: I'll go with you. 3: No! 4: No, don't. 5: Clive...wouldn't want anyone to see him if he's gone insane. 6: I'll do this myself. 7: I'm sorry...Clive... 8: This is all we can do.
55) 1: There's a 99% chance you'll die... 2: And the remaining 1% chance won't turn you back into a human... 3: I guess doing nothing would be the easiest for you, huh? 4: It's time to give up, 5: Clive.
56) 1: I remember what he told me. 2: Got any idea as to a percent of recovery? 3: As of now, less than 1%. 4: We've got a solid 1% now... 5: Even though it won't make you human again, you'll regain your sanity. 6: Your chances have really gone up. Isn't it worth a try? 7: Even if you don't feel that way, I'm just going to give up and bet on the 1%. 8: Alright? 9: Ahhhhh!! 10: Please make it work this time...!!!
57) 1: That vision keeps repeating over and over. 2: This premonition is slowly becoming an impending future in my mind... 3: You sure it's OK for us to follow this thing? 4: What, a little kid like me scares you? That's strange. 5: No, it's too suspicious. 6: Out with it. 7: You work for the Demon Lord, don't you? 8: Wh...what's that?! 9: Stop playing tricks!! 10: I'm not. 11: Go on, look. 12: ...ahh.
58) 1: I See. 2: This is what I saw back then. 3: Kagami!! 4: No... 5: Is he dead...? 6: How horrible...
59) 1: Uuu... 2: What?! Is he still alive?! 3: They put him up here while he was still alive?! That's sickening!! 4: We have to get him down at once...!! 5: Hmmm...so that's the face you make when you really get ma. 6: Did you...show me this on purpose?
60) 1: And what if I did...? 2: You little...!! 3: When...?! 4: Don't touch me with those dirty hands of yours. 5: I get it now.
61) 1: It was then... 2: Ahhhhh!!!
62) 1: Sheila!! 2: Sheila!!! 3: Huh? Is that all the Demon Queen's got? 4: What a letdown... 5: Nice to meet you.
63) 1: I'm the real original Demon Lord. 2: That one died a little too earlier, 3: But you'll work a little harder, won't you? 4: Remember, you're just another me. 5: I feel like I won't be able to beat him even if everyone is here. 6: An 7: that I'm going to be swallowed up into a world of pitch black darkness... https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/34164[English] [Translation] Superior Cross 23 by molokidan2012-04-11T11:22:37+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comSUPERIOR CROSS #23
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3) 1-2: Come out... 3: Why won't it come out?! 4: Are you talking about this? 5: It's too late... 6: Time for you to give up like a good little child.
4) 1: I've had a strange feeling for a while now. 2: Looks like this medicine doesn't work too well either, eh? 3: Diiiie!! 4: Hahah! Look! The Demon Queen, so scared she can't look straight at me!!
5) 1: It's now or never...!! 2: I have to risk it.
Story.23 - Days of Oblivion
7) 1: A sword made out of earth...? 2: Only focused on things in front of your eyes...I see... 3: I'll admit I was surprised. I mean, you grew legs, transformed into a monster, even stole my abilities... 4: But what you were controlling wasn't the heroes, 5: but my ears and eyes.
8) 1: How did you know? 2: I remember you talking about how the medicine didn't work well when you got angry at Lakshri's comment. 3: Heh...I can't believe I made such an error... 4: Good job noticing it. Yes....there was sleeping powder and Rossi's serum in there. I put another drug in there too in case that didn't work. 5: A drug that could control the eyes and the ears... 6: How could you anticipate my attack, then, if you couldn't see? 7: Because I could smell that idiot father's blood from far away.
9) 1: Because of that wound...? 2: With only this much blood...? 3: I see. So being blind concentrated her senses to her nose...? 4: ...heh. 5: You're just like a dog. 6(small): Heheh! Not bad, eh? 7: I guess. I can smell food from 5km away. 8: You're acting proud, but I wasn't complimenting you. 9: Whaaaat?! 10: Where did you go, dammit?! 11(small): You coward! 12: Looks like it isn't very precise. I guess she got lucky back there...
10) 1: If I get too close, though, she could get me again... 2: I guess I shouldn't waste all my time with the idiot, though. 3: Uuu... 4: Mmm?! You just called me an idiot, didn't you?! 5: Dad... 6: I'm grateful to you. You healed me even though I had the same disease as mother did... 7: But once you found out that I got a superhuman ability as a side-effect... 8: You went crazy. 9: Perfect...this is what I was TRULY after...
11) 1: I can use this power to destroy all those incomplete humans... 2: Rossi!! 3: Crow!! 4: It's alright, Graham. She just ran away, she'll be back soon. 5: Graham...? 6: I won't let her get away. She's mine. 7: I won't let anyone else take her. 8: Then, after you lost me, you tried to make many more like me, 9: sacrificing many people. 10: Why do you sacrifice happiness for the "perfection" you seek? 11: All you do is give birth to sorrow, you know?
12) 1: Happiness...? That's what you call happiness? 2: Do you never go hungry like that? Do you always get what you want? No..."Happiness" is just an excuse that the weak use. 3: You've used your power for your own gain, haven't you...? Be honest. 4: You're only happy because you're gifted. 5: I've never, no I WILL never transform. 6: That's the only I way I have to defy you. 7: No, you will. 8: You're helpless against the charm of that power. 9: You will use it to defeat your opponent, end the war, 10: and acquire everything you want. 11: Perfection 12: is everything in this world!!!
13) 1: Since you're a doctor, you should know of the genius doctor Reinhold. 2: What about him? 3: He thought up a way to get rid of my power once the war ends. 4: You lie!! If you do that, then you'll become worthless!! 5: The only reason you deserve to live now is because you're perfect!! Why can't you understand that?!
14) 1: Guuuh 2: Sheila?! 3: Out of the way!! 4: F...fuck you! You're a failure as a father!!! 5: Perfect or not, she's alive, that's all that matters! 6: Why can't you even say something like that to your own child?! 7: Don't you have any sympathy 8: for how miserable Rossi must feel?!
15) 1: Miserable...? I'm the one who made her perfect. She should be overjoyed! 2: Don't get conceited now!! 3: ...what's wrong?! 4: What's this vision...
16) 1: I thought I was blind...?! 2: Why am I seeing an illusion?! 3: Guhh?! 4: Ahhhhhh! 5: Sheila, what's wrong?! 6: She's seeing an illusion, but it isn't like the one before. This time, all the damage she sees happen 7: will also happen to her real body.
17) 1: But you're lucky. 2: You made me angry. 3: So I'll kill you without making you suffer!! 4: Sheila, dodge it!! 5: Can't she hear me? Dammit!
18) 1: ...a
19) 1: Amazing... 2: This is true perfection... 3: Yes. You're the only true perfect one. Compared to you, humans who transform into monsters are utter trash! 4: Your speed and power is unmatched. And besides, sooner or later they become unable to handle their abilities and break. 5: I can't let you get away. 6: I must have the perfection...
20) 1: ...! So you finally understand me now... 2: You're completely unredeemable... 3: G...guahhh 4: Ahhh... 5: Ah... 6: Not even worth killing...
21) 1: ...d 2: Don't go... 3: I'm sorry! 4: You're right! 5: Please don't go... 6: I'll do anything if you just lend me your power. Please don't go...!!! 7: ...But you know I'm right...
22) 1: Why...why can't you understand me? 2: You think Rossi doesn't understand you...? Gimme a break! 3(small): Cough 4: You're the one who isn't trying to understand Rossi...!!
23) 1: Why... 2: Why can't you... 4: Understand... 5: Why... 6: Rossi... 7: Why do things have to be so sad... 8: Everyone has their own varying means of measuring things.
24) 1: Sometimes people can agree on something, but other times they can't. 2: It isn't something that can be fixed... 3: ...are you really fine with that, Rossi...? : ...mmm.
25) 1: Stupid!! How could you be fine with something like that?!?! 2: You should want to be told by someone that they're happy you're alive!! You should want to be told by someone that you should just be yourself! That you don't need any special "worth!!" 3: I like you, Rossi!!! 4: Angelica, Lakshri, and the hero would all say that!!
26) 1: So please...!! 2: ...Just 3: Just... 4: ...hmm? 5: Just try and bear it for now... 6: ...I'm sorry. I know I can't fix this for you. 7: I know. Thank you... 8: No matter what she looks like, she's the Demon Queen. So I thought I'd have to kill her sooner or later.
27) 1: But I think at some point I realized... 2: Before she's the Demon Queen, she's my friend, who cares about me... 3: ...yes. 4: I know that eventually, the day will come when we can all understand each other...
28) 1: Hey. What does this leaf do? 2: Fig leaves help lower blood pressure, and fruit helps keep your arms and legs from chapping. 3: Hmmm. 4: What about this?! 5: Apricot prevents exhaustion and chills. 6(2b): Chamomile prevents pain and itching, and can be used as a painkiller...it's good for when you get colds. Licorice can be poisonous if administered orally, but make it into a compress and it can relieve back pain. 7: I still think back to those days. 8: Those days were so far from perfect. 9: Why did I start searching for perfection...? 10: ...because
29) 1: I thought it would allow me to protect all that warmth. 2: Warmth...?
30) 1: Ah... 2: Ahhh 3: Ah... 4: I can't believe it... 5: How could that be happiness...?! 6: Ahh... 7: ...ahh...https://mangahelpers.com/t/gottheim/releases/24198[English] [Translation] Superior Cross Volume 3 by Gottheim2010-08-22T13:49:59+00:00Gottheimadmin@mangahelpers.comThe third volume of Superior Cross has been scanlated by Enxame. This is the script. Enjoy. ------------------ 006 Contents
Story.9 Rocci (Part 2) 3 Story.10 Wish 29 Story.11 The White God of Death 71 Story.12 Sweet Fruit 124
Cover page Okina: To you goes all my gratitude. Lakshri: Thanks a million times.
009 Story.9 Rocci (Part 2)
010 Rocci: You must die. Graham: I hate to do this, but you leave me no choice. *wheeeeee*[tn: Whistling sound.]
011 Graham: If only you'd just listened to me. You brought this upon yourself.//You're coming with me. I'll use force if I have to.
012 Rocci: Let go of me.../Let g... Graham: Save yourself the trouble.*shtap* Graham: These little guys are more powerful than any human being. *silence* Graham: Will you finally be a good girl and just do as I say?//?!
013 Monster: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH*blob blob blob* Rocci: I see...//My blood is an essential component to that drug you use to turn people into monsters... Bird: Are... Are you okay? Rocci: That's why you need me...//You're running out of antidote, I take it... Right? Graham: ........ *chuckle* Rocci: I'll interpret your silence as a confirmation.
014 Rocci: One injection of serum will act as a counterpoison/but a second shot will turn it into a poison that eats away at your flesh.//The stronger the dose/the greater the rejection.//You've used it upon yourself, I presume...? *baf* *whack*
015 Graham: The serum...!!*crack* Graham: While I wanted to take you with me, I wished I could have spared you any undue discomfort...//but you leave me no choice!!
016 *CLAAAAANG* Rocci: Brother...!!
017 Crow: Dad... Graham: ........ *swish* *clap* Crow: Rocci!! That's enough!!*grab* Rocci: He's gonna kill more people. We can't let him go./He just has to die!!
018 Rocci: If we keep running away/this nightmare will never end...!!
022 *thud* Crow: .........//Dad!!*dash* Rocci: Don't bother.//The well was empty... And dug pretty deep.../Even if he lives, he'll have only minutes left once the serum spreads.
023 Rocci: I told you... He was beyond reasoning with...//If we'd let him go, many more would have suffered.../he just had to die...
024 Rocci: And you're still telling me I shouldn't have killed him...?!//Call me a criminal, I don't care!!//I don't...:care!!*baf* Crow: Don't say another word...!!
025 Crow: When we were kids... I never got injected with any poison. Perhaps because I was meant to be his successor./I didn't know anything...//But one day/when I saw your hair color completely changed, I learned everything.//That's when I took you away/fleeing is the only thing I could do...//The idea was a simple one. You'd be fine if I never let you see him again.//But in truth, I was no more no less than running away...
026 Crow: I should have killed him.//You were always the one who suffered./Forgive me...!!!//You can stop traveling with the hero, too. True enough, it was a request from the Prince/but there's no real need for you to do it.//It pains me to see you so cold-hearted... Rocci: Brother!*grip* Crow: ...What it it? Rocci: I'll do it. Somebody has to./And I had to kill him.//It was my fate.
027 Rocci: Brother... Crow: Yes...? Rocci: Can I stay like this for a minute...?*bom* Crow: Sure... Rocci: (I can't think anymore/This is all too much)/I'm tired...
028 Rocci: I'm so awfully tired.../(That's right. Let me get some rest.//On the back of the one who always protected me...)
029 Rocci: (True./There were moments like that too//We were so happy//Why did it come to this?//Is there no place in this world for kindness? Why...?)
030 Rocci: (Ah... Now I understand. That expression the Maou shows sometimes.../surely this is what she's thinking...//She's probably not her old cruel and cold-hearted self any longer.)
031 Rocci: (But the crimes she committed as the Demon Lord aren't gonna disappear overnight./So what does she intend to do about it...?//I can't think of an answer, no matter how hard I try. And there's no turning back time.//So let's just forget. Let me forget everything.)
032 Rocci: (Let me take some rest and forget it all.//So I can return to my merciless self.//I'll kill the Demon Lord./Such are my orders. The purpose of my existence.)
033 Rocci: (I always had someone to protect me./But the day comes when one must stand for herself.//And that's why I have to be merciless.//Because in this world, you just have to be if you want to survive...
035 Lakshri: Clive could do just about anything.*dash!* Clive: C'mon, Lakshri. Jump!! Lakshri: But... Dude: Wait! Lakshri: ?! *stare* Lakshri: ........//I can't do it, Clive. I just can't!! Clive: Don't stare down but ahead. Look ahead!
036 Clive: Look at nothing else but me, and jump!! Lakshri: Crap... I won't make it... *grab* *clasp*
037 Lakshri: Clive... Your hand!!*grin* *grip* Dude: I won't forget this, goddamned brats. L&C: Haa/Haa Lakshri: Clive.
038 Clive: I'll be fine. It's just a scratch... Lakshri: (You we always there to save me//That why I wanted to be the one to save you this time around.//And yet) Clive: Argh...*sharp pain* *sharp pain* Lakshri: (I don't have what it takes to do so.)
039 *sharp pain* Lakshri: (I'm so powerless) Story.10 Wish.
040 Dudes: Welcome back, Crow-sama. Rocci-sama. Crow: Nothing unusual here in the castle while I was gone? Dude: !*nervous* Crow: What's wrong? Did something happen? Dude: Huuh... Actually... Crow: .......? *startle* *worn out* Crow: Your Highness...?!!
041 Crow: Your Highness, is there something wrong?//Your High...*dash* Juneau: Stupid, stupid Crow. Crow: ........ *stap stap stap* *blaaam* René: Welcome back. That was fast... *duduuuuuuuuun* Crow: I see... Looks like the paperwork hasn't made any progress at all....... It's pretty much hopeless without me around..........
042 René: Actually, everything's done. Crow: Uh?! You managed that much in only one day?!/How did you work that one out?! René: The answer to that is a quite simple one./I merely exercised a little bit of severity.//Just a little bit...*smirk* Crow: That would explain the Prince's reaction...!! Juneau: Waaaaaaanh René: Come on, faster. Let me see some work!! Crow: That's René the Fiend for you.//Aaaah. So much done in only one day...//(If he's always gonna be THAT efficient, maybe I should let him do the job every once in a while...)*smile* René: Considering having me do the job on occasion? Forget about it. I'm a busy man.../That defense mechanism is not gonna build itself.//What happened to that Graham man, by the way? Did you find him? Crow: ?!!//........
043 René: It didn't go over so well, it seems./What happened...? *knock knock* René: ! | ...Come in. Val: Sorry for interrupting.*creak* Crow: Valentin, eh...?/So you must be the doctor. Raynald: My name is Raynald Altmann. | It is an honor.
044 Raynald: And here are... | the famous human beings who turn into monsters.*shclank* Raynald: Sleeping? Is that normal? Doc: No. They're always fairly hectic, possibly out of pain. We're currently drugging them into settling down. | Please be careful. Itwouldn't be the first time a doctor got killed off./Also... Here's the data we've been able to collect so far. Raynald: Physical ability 4 times greater than that of a normal man.../And about 10 times when they assume their monstrous shape........ Yeah.//Whoever did this was criminally insane./He modified them with utter disregard for the limits of human resistance./Any more of this treatment and their bodies won't be able to withstand it. They'll die...//?!! René: ...What is it? Raynald: ........
045 Raynald: His pulse.../where is his pulse...?!//Are these guys really alive at all? René: What are you talking about?//They ought to be. This morning again, they... *todom* *todom* *todom* *glare*
046 Raynald: ?!! *GNAP* *clink clink clink* *gnap* Doc: Drug him...!! | Quickly...!!*gnap* Crow: Are you alright? Raynald: Haaaah//I'll live. But this won't be going anywhere as long as you don't find whoever did this and bring them here.../Have you?
047 Crow: No. He's dead... René: Dead?! What is the meaning of this?! Raynald: Are you sure?! Crow: ?! Raynald: Did you really go check?! Crow: We could no longer see him once he fell down the well... Raynald: Make sure, then. He might have survived. Crow: Why... Raynald: I've scanned this data as thoroughly as I could. It doesn't touch upon this ability of theirs at all.
048 Raynald: These people.../can enter a state of apparent death at will. Crow: ?!! Raynald: Go check the well again!!
049 *pain* Lakshri: (My leg hurts...) *knock knock* Dude: Excuse me. I'm bringing some water.*creak* Dude: He kept the curtains closed.../He hasn't touched his meal either...//Ahem... You haven't left this room in quite a while. How about going out for a little walk?
050 Dude: I could lend you my shoulder if you wish... Lakshri: No need.//I don't wanna go anywhere... Dude: .......//I... I guess so./That wasn't a smart thing to say to someone with a wounded leg...//The weather's just wonderful, out there. I'll open the window. *clasp* Lakshri: Stop it.
051 Lakshri: Sorry. Please leave me alone.*baf* Dude: My... My apologies./......... *slam* Lakshri: (I'm exhausted...)//Haa...//(I woke up thinking of Clive./Yet no matter how hard I try, I can't find any way to help him out.//Maybe I really should have...)
052 Lakshri: Then I won't mind it if my leg never heals...*knock knock knock* *BAOM* Raynald: I'm here for an examination.*fwash* Lakshri: .......//Ray... Raynald, was it...? Raynald: Man... You didn't use to look quite that depressing, as I recall. Nevermind./You're next. Let me see.
053 Raynald: I told you to let me examine your wound./Hurry, or I'll strip you naked Lakshri: It's healed...? Raynald: Healed? Lakshri: Yes. There was a hole in my leg.... Raynald: Uhm. I see.//Which reminds me. The last time you got hurt you took the medicine that I created./It must still be effective.//What about the pain? *sharp pain* Lakshri: Argh... Raynald: You're still hurting? Maybe your leg's healed but your nerves haven't recovered just yet./You seem perfectly fine to me, but I think I'll have another look...
054 Lakshri: You said I was next. Raynald: Yeah.//So you've already seen to those people who change into monsters? Raynald: ......... Lakshri: You were able to cure them? Raynald: I hate to say it.../But in all honesty... | I'm having trouble...
055 Raynald: As long as we don't find the one who did this, I won't know what to do./Even if we do find him, there's no guarantee that we'll manage anything. Lakshri: What are the chances of recovery according to your estimations? Raynald: .......//Currently lesser than one percent. Lakshri: .........!!
056 Lakshri: Heal them... Heal them, I beg you...!!*bwaf* Raynald: What's the problem...? Lakshri: My friend is one of them! Raynald: ?!! Lakshri: I can't do... anything.
057 Lakshri: I promised I'd save him/yet there was nothing I could do.//At this rate/I'll have no other choice but to kill him...//I can't do anything.../I'm totally worthless.//And I'd sooner die than live this way.[tn: Boo-hoo-hoo!! Seriously, I'll never understand how a story that corny managed to become so popular.]
058 Raynald: ........*grit* *whump* Lakshri: Ooooooooooow?!!//Wha... What are you doing...? >Right in my sore spot...< *bump bump* Lakshri: Aaaaagh Raynald: Don't be so full of yourself!!//I don't need you to ask me. I always work to the best of my ability. I'll heal those people./Less that one percent? So what? Enough of your whining!!
059 Lakshri: But... Raynald: I said I'd heal them, so I will.//Don't speak of things you know nothing about./Let the doctors handle the doctoring.//I'm a genius doctor. You just leave the difficult patients in my care. Lakshri: ......../He just called himself a genius... Raynald: A depressing guy like you couldn't even hope to help them even if he died trying.//Life and health belong only to the living.
060 *grip* Raynald: Don't you look down so long as you live. Face forward.//Even one as boring as you should manage something of note this way.//Dang it. Always thinking of something pointless. Why don't you clear your head some?! >I'm off< *pain* Rocci: So? How do you feel?/Was that a doctor? And what happened to the door? Lakshri: ....... Rocci: ......./(No explanation?)//You'll be staying here a little longer, I presume? I'm leaving...
061 Lakshri: ..........//Hey, Clive. You can do just about anything. Clive: Of course not. Lakshri: But you always end up saving me. Clive: I'm merely putting up a good facade so you don't notice when I'm in way over my head. Lakshri: Really...? Clive: Yep. *pain* Lakshri: (I can't do anything...)
062 Lakshri: (But I'm gonna do my best. For you.)
063 Lakshri: (That's right. To hell with the pain.//To hell with the fatigue.//If anyone should be hurt an exhausted, it's him.)//My leg's fine, now. Let's go. We have a battle to fight.//(Let my leg hurt as much as it wants)*pain*
064 Lakshri: (That way, I'll never forget about you. That's all.)*step step* Val: This is the first time I see you really angry. Raynald: I can't bear to hear someone wholesome blathering about their own death.//(But the thing I can bear the least/is that I showed weakness myself by saying those things.)//Sadism is my middle name. Val: I know. Raynald: But I didn't show much of that, today. Val: Then who pounded someone's hurting leg repeatedly again?
065 Raynald: Shut up. I cannot torment these people if they aren't at least somewhat healthy.//No way around it.//I'm gonna have to cure them. Raynald: (Men struggle/in order to obtain what they wish...*swash* Raynald: No matter how great the hurdle/No matter how powerless they feel)
066 Raynald: Because they just can't let go of whatever it is they wish for.)*bwash* Lakshri: (I'll look straight at you//And this time around, I'll return the favor.)//Ah...//Sorry for what happened earlier...
067 Lakshri: Can you relay a message to the doctor who was there earlier?//Tell him I'm counting on him.//(Clive.)
068 Lakshri: (I'm gonna save you, I swear)/Alright. Let's go./(Just wait for me...//And watch me at it...) *cough cough*
070 Clive: What happened to your leg? Graham: A little quarrel between parent and child.../It's nothing. Just give it some time, it's gonna grow back. Clive: Grow back? Graham: More importantly, we have a job to do. Clive: ?!//........ Rocci: Following orders even if they disagree./Committing crime upon crime.
071 Rocci: (Unable to flee, unable to die under their own terms.) Clive: (I'll reach my limit soon enough.)//Kill me please./(I may have said that//But I don't really wanna die./If there's any I can be saved, I want it.//I wanna escape from this vicious circle.) Lakshri: I'll help you! Clive: (I'm placing all my hopes into you.)
072 Clive: (Lakshri/Please help me...) Copy: The village, eh? There it was...//Thank you for leading me here./Aaah, I see. A barrier. Small wonder I had so much trouble locating it.
073 Girl: The village gets attacked by monsters a lot. Copy: Eh?! Girl: But we're fine. Thanks to the defense mechanism René created for us. Copy: That'd be the barrier, I take it? Girl: Yes. People can get in, but monsters can't. Copy: Is that so./So all those people must have grown foolish with peace. Girl: Uh... *crackle* Girl: You're a monster?!*baf*
074 Copy: Not quite.*crackle crackle* *ploc* Girl: Ugh... Copy: I am the Demon Lord.
077 Narrator: I was always there inside of her.//Confined in a dark and narrow cell. Copy: Let me out./This isn't my place... Narrator: Chances are this isn't what it really was like. | But this is how I remember it. Copy: This isn't my world.//Please. I want to be free...*grab* Copy: ?!
078 Sheyla: Rise./You are my Copy.//Rise.//...I created her out of myself/and a little bit of earth.
079 Narrator: ...This/is my new world. Sheyla: Use her as your Demon Lord. Narrator: This is... freedom... Story.11 The White God of Death
080 Girl: *singing*//*more singing*
081 *bumpf* Girl: Hey! Hey! What was it like?! Copy: ...What do you mean?! Girl: The song! What did I sound like?! Copy: ......../Uuuhhhhm.//I felt like sleeping. Girl: You mean it was boring?! Copy: ...Oh well. It wasn't so bad, now was it...?*grin* *rustle* Copy: ..Though I'm somewhat under the impression that you were expecting some praise.//Come on./Hoppity/Weren't you supposed to take me to the village if I listened to your song? Girl: ...Can't say I didn't expect better, but a promise is a promise.
082 Girl: My mummy used to sing in the city's theater./So I wanna leave the village to go there too, someday. Copy: Wherever people live, I can't see any difference./Why don't you just sing in your own village? Girl: Yeah.../This village is free from monster attacks. | The flowers are pretty and everyone is so kind. I like it. I really do.//But this isn't my place...
083 Girl: Try to imagine.//The stage, completely silent. | The audience, gazing./The beautiful echo of a singing voice.//A hurricane of applause... Copy: ...... Girl: It's all right there, in my heart.
084 Girl: Someday, I'll leave for the city, and sing my songs on stage, like mummy used to. Copy: You're just curious about the wonders of the whole wide world, aren't you?/Humpf/I get that a lot, from daydreaming little girls like you. Girl: You don't understand.//It's not like... the daily life in my village is boring, or anything./I really mean it.//I can't find a good way to put it, but this isn't my world./Have you never felt the same...? Copy: ...... Girl: Ah. Look. There we are. *chuckle* Copy: Go figure... Girl: Go figure...?
085 Copy: I've forgotten what the past was like...//because my present is just so much fun...*chatter* People: Monster?!//What is a monster doing inside our village? How did it get there?!
086 People: What happened to the defense mechanism?!*fwash* People: Is it broken?! Copy: Step one: Infiltration. Complete.*vzum* Copy: Now the next step./It's party time. People: Eeeeeek.../Waaaaaaah!//Run for your lives!
087 *thump* *swash* *whishh* People: Aaaaaaaaah./Waaaaaaah!! Copy: Come have fun with me, everyone.
088 People: Haa.../Haa...//What was that...?!//Nevermind that. We're almost out of the village...//We're gonna make it...//?! *bfwwashhh* People: Aaaaaaaaargh!! *perk..* Copy: Sounds like somebody fell into my trap./Am I to understand some more people made it out?
089 *grip* *drag* *drag* Copy: This is only the beginning. | Why don't you go have some more fun?*grrrruuuoooooaaaaaaaarrr*
090 People: A dragon?//That monster just pulled it out of the ground. Copy: Go, dragon./These humans are yours to crush and trample at your leisure. *grrrrraaaaaaaaaaaahhh* *rrrooooaa* *rooooh* Dude: ! *THAAOOOOOOOMP*
091 Specs: ...The//The beast's movements are slow!!*grrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaah* *stooooomp* *dash* Dude: If we flee fast enough we should manage something. *booom* Dude: Everybody run. Ruuun!!*booom* Copy: ...*tsk* *peeved* *grind grind* Copy: ! *grin* Copy: I almost forgot./This isn't a party if nobody's dancing!
092 *stooooomp* *gash* Dude: Uh..? Did that monster just.../save us...? *grrrrraaaaaaaaaarrrrrghhh*
093 *whump* *crrraaaasshhhhh* *grrraaaah* Copy: Good!*baoom* *crunch* *brraom* *Aaaaaaaah* Copy: Now you're showing me some nice steps!//Keep dancing. Keep dancing!/Ahahaha.
094 *thump thump* Copy: What do you think, humans?//Heh./They're all way too busy running...//Can't have that. Way too boring!/Go get yourselves squashed. Entertain me more!!//Ahaha Haha.. Dude: .......
095 Dude: What's wrong with that one? Guy: (Hey, stop it.) Dude: People die, and she gets a kick out of it...//Treating even her ally like filth./You monstrous freak... *vzum* Copy: What...? *stap* Dude: Run away.//Uh?!*thump* Copy: Monstrous freak, eh...?/Not quite.
096 Copy: I am the Demon Lord.
097 Copy: Mh? What's wrong You don't look so good./If you've got anything more to say, go ahead. I won't stop you. *twitch twitch* Copy: Uh?/I can't hear you.//Aah! I get it.
098 Copy: You can't say anything more because you're already dead?!/HAHA HAHA/AHAHA//Ahahahaha | Hahaha! *creak creak* *thwack* *thunk* *swish*
099 Bow: ! Copy: Too bad. Try aiming better next time... mhh? *tremble tremble* Bow: ........ Copy: Oh, my. You're positively shaking./Fire the next round quickly, or I won't waste any time killing you.
101 People: Hurray! The dragon's burning.*grrrrraaaaaaaaaah* People: And the Demon Lord got caught in the blast!!//We defeated the Demon Looooooord!!!*yeaaaaaaaaaaah*
102 Copy: Heh heh.../Heh heh//That was... amusing.*baf* Copy: You seriously thought that little explosion would be enough to get the best of me? Amusing indeed.*gwoooooosh*
103 People: She... she survived the flames...?![tn: She... She ain't naked?! Guess even her clothing is fireproof. Too bad. :hahaha:] Copy: Here's your reward for keeping me entertained./Hope you like it!
104 Copy: Ahahaha | Hahaha...//(So much fun...//So much, so much fun...//The best fun/ever...!!!//More grief/More cries...!!!)
105 Copy: More fear...!!!//As long as I have these, I shall control everything./I'll be free.//This world/is a brimming well of pleasure...!!![tn: This is gonna get misinterpreted. :konokono:]
107 *tremble tremble* Copy: ...If I fool around too much/I'll get an earful from Kagami/...Heh.//I hate to leave you guys, but everything must come to an end./We all had such a great time, too.//Till we meet again...*snap*
108 *gwoosh* *thump* Copy: ...Just kidding./You guys won't be there to see it. *drawing in* *drag*
109 *dragging* Girl: Mummy... Copy: Uh? Strange.//I was pretty sure I'd killed you.//And if you get out of here, you're gonna get blown to bits...//........./Ah.//I see. Not high enough, eh?/Silly me.
110 Copy: ....... Girl: Mum... my...//(This isn't my world./Have you never felt the same...?) Copy: This place/it isn't my world.
111 *baaaooom* *crackle crack* *fwoosh* Copy: I was told.../to obliterate this village and its inhabitants.//You no longer live here.
113 *zwooosh* Copy: I get to have some fun at long last./The best time I ever had.//I ought to be free of her.//But the image of her just keeps getting in my way.//Am I to understand I won't see the end of it until I take her life?
114 Copy: If it must come to this/I shall fully claim my freedom.//By taking the head of the Original.*yumm* Chef: Dear customer. If you'd be so kind... Exa: Uh...? But I haven't bought anything... Chef: The lady over there is with you, is she not?*om nom nom* Exa: ......... >Ahem<
115 Exa: Hey! Sheyla, who told you you could...*nom nom* Exa: .......*yummy* Exa: Why, you... Chef: Come on. Let me see some money... Exa: At least ask me before you start eating everything!!//Aaah, women... Damn.../Huff Puff Puff.*ka-ching* Chef: Thank you. Sheyla: Last but not least. My favorite part../Aaaaah *GULP* Arrow: Hero. Exa: It's your punishment for eating without asking for permission.*munch munch* Exa: Hum. Delicious. *brrrr brrrrr* *brrrrrr*
116 Sheyla: STOOOPIIIIIIID!!! >You had to take this of all things!!<//It's a crime!/A crime, you hear me!!/You will face eternal hell, for this!!*bash bash* Angelica: Sheyla-chan. If you trample him any more, he'll die before he gets the chance to have an offspring. Dude: Another village has been destroyed. Sheyla: ?! People: And apparently there's only one survivor...//All of it perpetrated singlehandedly by a monster styling itself the Demon Lord.//I hear a village has been destroyed...//Wasn't that village experimenting a defense mechanism?/Yeah. The one created by René, the genius?/This means that René guy was all talk, doesn't it?
117 People: Towns and villages have been destroyed increasingly fast, lately./I'm afraid the same fate might befall our village too... Exa: (...Maou...//Sheyla's been with us all the time./It can't be her.//That means the one I met once was the real deal, then...?/Judging by her looks I'd swear she was Sheyla's twin sister. But what is the connection between the two?)//Haaaah./(I'm gonna have to come right out and ask her someday...//...But when is this "someday", exactly...?)
118 Exa: (I've been putting off that question forever...)/........//(I'll ask her now)*todom* Exa: (No more time for procrastination. | ...Is there?)/_____ Sheyla: Hero.*todom* Sheyla: We'll defeat the Demon Lord... We must. Exa: Uh...? *smile* Sheyla: ......... Exa: Su... Sure!/(You've got nothing to do with the Maou./Or you wouldn't be talking like that, right? Right?//Would you, Sheyla?)[tn: Ooops...]
119 Sheyla: (Hero.../If you ever learned the truth you'd never forgive me...//I made her that way. She's been killing people by the dozen while I was traveling with you./And she'll probably kill more.//I can't allow her to continue./Not anymore.//I've made up my mind./I shall put an end to my trip with the Hero and go destroy the Copy.)
120 Sheyla: (Farewell. I guess we shall never meet again.) Exa: Sheyla, what's wrong?! Sheyla: ...Uh... *shiver* Angelica: Must be because you ate Sheyla-chan's portion, Exa-sama. Exa: That's it?! But this is nothing worth crying about. Old man! Another cake!! Chef: Right on.
121 Sheyla: ....... Exa: There.. Don't cry. Sheyla: (But.../I'll never see you again...)//Ugh *brrr brrr brr brrrrr* Angelica: Sheyla-chan, you can have mine too. Exa: Ten more!! Chef: I ain't go that many. *todom todom* Sheyla: (My head understands.../but my heart won't hear it.)
122 Sheyla: (Sigh...//What should I do...?) Bro: ..........
123 *knock knock* Bro: !/Come in. *creak* Esu: I'm Esu. Bro: Aah... | I get to see someone different every time. Esu: I hope you're feeling comfortable here in our village. Have you gotten used to the place yet? Bro: I like it. It's quiet, and all. Whenever I need something, someone takes care of it for me right away./Um. There's one thing I wanted to ask, though...
124 Bro: Why are there only females in this village? Esu: To make it easier to spot any intruders./You're here to carry out the Lord's orders. | We wouldn't want to get you killed by monsters, brigands or anything of the sort. Such negligence would be unwelcome. Bro: Yeah.../I'm not sure I understand, but yeah...//...So?/Did it work out? *grin* Esu: A great success./The Lord was very pleased.
125 Bro: The Lord...?!/Pleased...?! Esu: I must apologize for not giving you any time to relax./But let's begin mass production immediately. | We shall be counting on your guidance. Bro: Yes! Of course... Esu: You have a sharp mind, on top of which you're such a wonderful person. It is a pleasure for us to work with someone like you.*creak* Esu: We'll be more than happy to help you should you need anything. Just let us know. *slam* Esu: ......... *gwosh*
126 Kagami: We wiped out an entire village just to manufacture this./We have a significant number of humans gathered under our control thanks to that medicine./Although since we made soldiers out of the males because we needed them for their strength, only the females remain.//And now finally, this device is complete...//Soon/we will exterminate the human race...
127 Tails: .......//.......... *clank* Bro: René, my brother. I did it... *grasp* Bro: The Lord is pleased with me... *thunk*
128 Bro: Gahahahahaha!!//I created a device that incapacitates your defense mechanism./I have surpassed you, my older brother.//That's right./I'm the genius. Me.
129 Bro: Forget about that worthless picture.*CRACK* Bro: I will squash you flat/and stick you into the frame so I can admire that instead...
130 Story.12 Sweet Fruit
131 Sheyla: Haa/Haa//?!! *tchrrrrrr* *crack crack* Sheyla: A dead end... Dude: Nowhere left to run!!
132 Dude: Demon Lord...!! Sheyla: You're wrong. I'm not the Demon Lord!! Mob: ........*stare* Sheyla: (It's not like I expected my words to get through... But how did they find out who I was?/Only my ears would give it away that I'm a monster, and they're well-hidden...//I'm not sure what's going on/but let's just get out of here...)*vzum*
133 Girl: Do you think we forgot what happened just a few days ago?!// What have you done to my village...?!/I survived, but now my voice is ruined.[tn: A small mob against a person they deem capable of singlehandedly destroying an entire village? Are these people nuts?] Sheyla: ?! Girl: Singing in the city theater was my dream./But I can't anymore...//Even if you do forget, I won't. Sheyla: ...?!//Th... that wasn't me... Girl: Did you think changing your hair and skin color would be enough?!*Ha* Dude: Another village has been destroyed.
134 Sheyla: (It must have been her.../But her creator is no one else but me.) Girl: Do you have any idea how much pain I've been though by your fault...?//I'll never forgive you... Sheyla: (So her current troubles are actually my fault.)
135 Sheyla: (All I have is power//power for destruction//I did this to her...//Hero... You were right all along...//Harming others is unbearably painful...)
136 Sheyla: (Yeah. It'd be so much better to just flee from it all.) Exa: Huh...? Where did Sheyla go? Didn't I just tell her to wait for me here...? Angelica: Exa-sama! We have a problem.
137 Angelica: The townspeople found out Sheyla-chan was a monster, and now they're chasing her! Exa: What...?! Rocci: Hullo Lakshri: Aaah, Exa. Angelica. Here we come. We catch up to you at last.//Uh...? Where's Sheyla-chan at...?
138 Sheyla: Uh... Jerry: Art! Art! She's waking up! Art: That so, Jerry?[tn: Art? Now we know what happens to people who don't leave the Drome. :XD:] Sheyla: ........ Jerry: My brother Art found you after you fell off a cliff. Art: You fell from so high, yet somehow you didn't break a bone. Quite the miracle, if you ask me.//What on Earth happened? You got careless?
139 Sheyla: ........ Art: Don't you think you owe us an explanation for saving your bum? Jerry: Art! Don't be so harsh with her! Art: Can it.... So? Who are you? Where do you come from?/It's not like we're gonna let you stay here forever, you know. Sheyla: ......... Art: Are you still half asleep or what? Answer me. Jerry: Art.
140 Sheyla: I... I don't know who I am...[tn: I hereby officially coin the Kaiman syndrome.] Art&Jerry: Huuuh?! *flap* Jerry: First things first. Let's give you a name.//How about Margaret...?*clank clonk* *rustle* Art: Whatever. Not like it matters. *creak* Art: ......./These clothes of yours are a real mess. Just trash 'em.
141 Art: Don't expect me to go easy on you just because of your amnesia.//The very fact that you still live makes you a burden. So just get to work.
142 *FLAP* Sheyla: Art, you're awesome. >You did great, right there< Jerry: Yaaay.*huff puff* Art: Awesome, my foot. >I ended up doing the job myself.<//Here you go.*woosh* *spat* Sheyla: ........ Art: I trust at least you know how to prepare a stew?
142 Art: ........*brr brr brr* Sheyla: Ouch.*snip* Art: You're the epitome of useless.../Let me show you. *pissed* Art: And you're bleeding, too.*pfeh* *dudun* Art: Just look at Jerry.*assiduous* *dejected* Art: Well.. I guess I can leave the rest to you guys.//I'm going to town. Jerry: See you later, Art.
143 *assiduous* Sheyla: .......//I...//I'm really not good for anything. Jerry: ........//Of course you are.//Just take your time over it./Eh, Miss Margaret. Sheyla: ......../Sure. You're right.//Thank you.
144 *dun* Art: .......What the hell is this? Sheyla: Stew....*clank* Art: What's this, dog food?//Well no. Even a dog wouldn't touch this...//Cut 'em smaller...*dash!* Art: What's wrong...?! Jerry: That was terrible. She tried her best!!
145 Art: Jerry, are you going after her?/Forget it. Jerry: ......... *slam* *splotch* Sheyla: .......I can't even cook or clean properly........
146 Sheyla: The more I think of it, the more I realize how useless I am...//I don't even have my memories..../But I'm sure I used to just as worthless. Jerry: Miss Margaret!!/Thank goodness I found you...//Are you okay....? Sheyla: You're a nice boy, Jerry..//But I'm wondering why Art is so harsh? Jerry: Art can sure be unpleasant/but he's really kind.
147 Jerry: He's a no-nonsense kind of guy./And I respect him a lot. Sheyla: But he can be so strict.../Haaa. Jerry: ...Sure. He could stand to be a little nicer./Anyway. It's pretty cold, around here. Let's head back...//Okay...? Sheyla: Okay.
148 Jerry: Uh...?//Where did I come from again...? Sheyla: Uh...? Well, I don't remember either. Jerry: What are we gonna do, nooooow...?!*swish* Art: I warned you, didn't I? Jerry: Art!! Art: You have no sense of direction whatsoever... Jerry: I knew you'd come. >Yaaay< Art: Heh./How convenient... Sheyla: ......... Art: Hey, you. Are you gonna stand there, spacing out forever? Jerry: Art Art: Do you think that's how you're gonna get somebody to help you?
149 Sheyla: ...rsh....//Why are you so harsh...?//........ Art: Because I hate people who just run away.//Don't do it...
150 Art: You're no good if you don't even know how to take care of yourself./Even Jerry's doing his best in that regard.//I'm gonna protect him no matter what, until he's old enough to manage on his own./I'll never run away from this task!//But someday he'll be on his own./Now you know why I'm so harsh.//Tell me I'm wrong... Sheyla: ....... No.
151 Sheyla: I'm sorry. Art: .........//>Tsk< Going out again made me hungry. Sheyla: Sorry. All we have is the stew. Art: Ah. The stew. Never mind how it looks. It was almost edible. Jerry: Art!//........../(I think I heard you wrong)*snap* Art: ...........>Ugh<//Yeah... It was... good.../Kaaah.
152 Art: Margaret!! Sheyla: Yes Sir. Art: I want seconds.... Sheyla: Eh...//Sure!! *clank clank* Art: There... Sheyla: ...Mh...? Art: Your clothes. These are for men. We can't have you wearing them forever, now can we?//I bought those at the human town nearby.*creak* Art: I'm a guy, so my selection may not suit your tastes, though... >And I'd be neck-deep in trouble if the townspeople had found out there was a monster among them.<
154 *snap snap* Art: Oh-ho. She's become pretty good.//......... Jerry: Sure she did./Sure. Art: Hey, Jerry. Jerry: Mh...? Art: Would you like it if Margaret was to stay with us? Forever...? Jerry: Sure./But why do you ask? Art: ......... *bwoom* Jerry: Ow. | What the...?! Exa: Sheyla!!
155 Exa: I've been looking for you...!! Bros: ?!! *todom todom* *baf* Sheyla: Let go of me!! *stat tap tap*
156 Exa: Sheyla, the heck is wrong with you...?! Art: That'd be her name, I take it? Exa:..........? It is... Art: What's going on between you and her? Exa: We're more or less friends. Art: And why would she be so afraid of her friends?! Exa: ......... Angelica: Sheyla-chan!!*dash* Lakshri: Sheyla-chan, what happened?! Art: Stay where you are! Lakshri: Duh?! Art: She's lost her memories./But surely she subconsciously remembers running away from you. I don't know what happened? but you must have done horrible things to her!
157 Lakshri: Hey pal! You have no idea what you're talking about... Listen up. We're... Exa: Lakshri: we're off. Lakshri: Uh...? But... Exa: Let's go.//Please take care of Sheyla. Art: ........ Exa: Farewell, Sheyla. Lakshri: Hey, Exa! Not so fast!! Angelica: Wai... Exa-sama... Lakshri: What do you think you're doing?! Sheyla-chan is one of us!/We can't ditch her now, especially not when she's lost her memories!
158 Exa: Sheyla's better off with them./These monsters don't look like a bad sort... Lakshri: But come on...!! Exa: And I trust you didn't forget? We're out on a trip to defeat the Demon Lord. Lakshri: ......./Sure, but... Exa: If she's lost her memories, fair enough./She's a monster. She had no business traveling with us in the first place. It was wrong. Lakshri: .......
159 Exa: ......../(Sheyla. If you are the Demon Lord, I'll have no other choice but to kill you./I don't wanna have to think of it. Not anymore.//If you really are the Demon Lord/I am betraying everyone and everything I ever stood for.//Even then... I wish you happiness. Even if the entire world must turn against me for it.)
160 *todom todom* Art: Everything okay? Sheyla: Uh-huh...//That man... He scared me.../I could feel my heart racing/when he set his hands upon me. Art: Huh//Tell me... Should your memories never return, would you mind staying here with us for a while...?
161 Sheyla: Uh...? Art: ...I'll be there for you. Jerry: Brother!! Mob: After you fell from that cliff it wasn't likely you'd survived, but we looked around just in case./Turns out it was a good idea.//You live.*brush* Mob: Maou!!*DOOOOOM*
162 Mob: We're gonna make sure to kill you off this time. Personally.//Say your prayers...!! *whoomp* Mob: ?!! Art: I'll protect you!!
163 Mob: Kill all the monsters!! Jerry: Art!/Help me...!! Art: Jerry!! *gash* Sheyla: ?!!
164 *DOOOOOOOOOM*[tn: Sfx for "Yur gon' get RAEPD"]
166 Girl: I'll never.../forgive... you... Sheyla: You're lucky you're still alive./If you have time to waste burning with thoughts of revenge, why don't you spend it thinking about your own dream instead?//Unless you wish to share the same fate as those unfortunates?
167 Girl: Uh.../...Ah...//Ah...//Waaaaaaah!!Aaaaa-haaah.//Aaaaaaaaah.../Waaaaaah Art: Uh... Sheyla: Come to your senses? Art: Margaret...?//Jerry... What about Jerry...?! Sheyla: He'll be fine. He's just unconscious.
168 *clank* Sheyla: 'll go get some water. Art: ?! | Are you... bailing out on us? Sheyla: ......... Art: ?!!//It's him...!!/You're in love with the man who came here looking for you, and now you're going back to him, that's it?!//I don't care if you're the Demon Lord//It doesn't change my feelings for...
169 *wham* Sheyla: Even with my memories gone, I can't believe I wasted my time with you guys...//I mean, this isn't exactly my idea of entertaining.//Killing people off. Now that's fun.//You say you're gonna protect me? Me?/Don't make me laugh.
170 Sheyla: Remember what happened!!//I'm the strongest being ever!! Mob: Uh...//Huh...?//Strange... We've lost so much blood, and now our wounds are healed...//How the hell did that happen...? Girl: ........
171 Girl: ...Ahhh.//I got my voice back?! Jerry: .........Was that really the Demon Lord? Art: Beats me. Jerry: Miss Margaret was really a nice monster./I'm sure she was...//When she hurt those people, she did it to protect us. Art: Who knows?
172 Jerry: The place feels empty, now. Art: Hmph. Fine by me.//Now we can get back to the tranquility of our daily life... Jerry: Art... Art: !//........ Jerry: ........ Angelica: Exa-sama. Exa-sama!!//Exa-sama!! Exa: Mh? Uuuh... What is it? Angelica: (You've been lost in your won world)/You're looking kinda down, today...
173 Exa: Ah, uh... Yeah...//Let's camp here for the day, then. Angeica: We've bought some ingredients in town. How about a stew?//Alright. Lakshri, lend a hand!! Lakshri: Uh?! I kinda suck with a knife, you see... *brawn-for-brains* Lakshri: Maybe I can use my sword... Angelica: Put that down, you're scaring me. Rocci: Knives are my specialty.*twink* Angelica: I'm counting on you, Rocci-san... *whack whack whack* Rocci: What do you think? Pretty neat, eh? Angelica: Are you gonna put them all through the same treatment? >Thanks, but no thanks<//Exa-sama Exa: Uh...? Angelica: I'll let you take care of the potatoes. Exa: Okay. *brawn-for-brains* Angelica: Exa-sama. This isn't a potato...//Hey, Exa-sama. Helloooooo. Exa: .........*gush* Sheyla: Let go of me!! Exa: Haaaaaaaaaaaaah*thump* Exa: (It really hurts, after all) Angelica: What's wrong, Exa-sama?! Exa-sama!!
174 Angelica: There we are, and we still don't have anyone capable of preparing some ingredients properly.../Haaah.[tn: Is it a good time to ask how they manage to survive that long in the wilderness if they were unable to cook their own food properly?] Sheyla: Give me that, Angelica. Angelica: Uh... Sure. There you are.//Sheyla-chan...?! Sheyla: There... Angelica: That's awesome, Sheyla-chan. When did you become such a great cook?//What am I talking about?!/You got your memories back?! Sheyla: Yeah... This is where I want to be./Because this is my place...
175 *sob sob* *bampf!* Sheyla: Whoa! Angelica: I was so worried, Sheyla-chan!! Lakshri: Looks like fun. Can I join...?*trot trot* *Shoo Shoo* Angelica: Stay away! Lakshri: Duuuuuh... Exa: .........
176 Sheyla: ......... Art: You're going back to him because you love him, that's it?! Sheyla: (You don't understand./The truth is that my memories were already back by the time the hero showed up.//But I still didn't want to go. I was afraid.//I wanted to feign amnesia and live with Art and his brother/I wanted to escape from reality.//But when the humans hurt them/I just had to do something.//At the thought of it, I could only feel one thing.)
177 Sheyla: (Relish.//It's right there, inside of me. No matter how hard I try to stamp it out, the part of me that revels in destruction just won't go away./That's right. I'm the one who created the Copy. There's no mistaking it.//I have no power./Nothing. Except the power to destroy...)
178 Sheyla: (So this time around I'll turn that power against all that is grief and sorrow.//No matter how far I run away, it will never be far enough.//Art. You taught me that escaping my problems was not a solution./So I'll face them. And I'll fight.)
179 Sheyla: (I will fight against that other side of me...)//...Thank you. Art... Superior Cross { 3 }. The End.
180 Afterword Ichtys: You're holding Superior Cross volume 3./Yahoooeeey. Lakshri: (Yeeee-haaah)/Thank you for buying. Ichtys: Days go by at a breakneck speed./Monthly publications is really fast business. I'm not quite used to it yet./Wooh.//Now I can't even tell night from day. I've lost any notion of time passing, actually./Ah. Flowurrrz. Ooh -hoo-hoo. Ah-hahaa.[tn: Literally “flower garden”, but meh.] Lakshri: Hey, get a grip on yourself. Ichtys: Ah. Come to think of it, I can't even remember how old I am. Lakshri: That's because you DON'T WANT to think of it.
181 Bonus manga Rocci: My left shoulder's been feeling kinda heavy, of late.*pain pain* Rocci: (Maybe it has to do with something I've been carrying. Nah, can't be.)//Huh. Angelica: Aaah. So cuuute. Sheyla: You look tasty nyaaow. Maybe you could make a good snack? Rocci: (They're fattening him up?!) *pudgy*
182 Bonus manga Exa: I've been feeling a bit dumpy these days. I'm wondering why...//Huh Sheyla: Hero, what do you wannyaaa have for lunch today? You look pretty appetizing yourself, lately. Exa: She... She's fattening me up...?!https://mangahelpers.com/t/gottheim/releases/24103[English] [Translation] Superior Cross Volume 2 by Gottheim2010-08-17T10:04:43+00:00Gottheimadmin@mangahelpers.comScanlation available from Enxame. Third volume soon to follow. ------------------ Superior Cross Contents
Story.5 Best friend (Part 2) 3 Story.6 Best friend (Part 3) 49 Story.7 A Magical Course in Dread. 97 Story.8 Rocci (Part 1). 149[tn: And they're giving the proper spelling for her name now? WTF?!!]
003 *THUD* Dude: Out of my way, goddamn brat!!//Dang it. My clothes are all stained now.*paf paf* Dude: You just come out of nowhere, grabbing my leg. What's the big idea?!*step* *flick...* Lakshri: C... Clive...? You okay...? *step step* *flick*
004 Clive: Everything has a right to live. Even if it's not pretty, or if it lives in darkness.//Even me. And you...
005 Story.5 Best Friend (Part 2).
006 Clive: (Yes.../I must kill Lakshri//I have a good reason to want him dead.) Lakshri: Clive...
007 Lakshri: You turn out to be the monster, then...?! *wham* Lakshri: Clive! Stop it...!!
008 *BAOM* Lakshri: (He doesn't respond to my voice.../Can't he understand what I'm saying...?)*grrr* Lakshi: (Clive... I'm sorry...)*bonk* Lakshri: (I'm gonna have to knock you down...!!) *swish* *BLAM* *crack crack*
010 *crash crash crash* Lakshri: O... oowww...*tilt* Lakshri: I... I'm saved. But that was a lose call... *wham*
011 Lakshri: You gotta be... kidding me.......//Quick. Before he can see me...*dash* Lakshri: He's gotten really tough, he has... *step step* Clive: ?!
012 *bash* Lakshri: Don't........../Don't underestimate me...........//I have some escape routes even you don't know about... >It was a narrow escape, though. Literally.< *wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*[tn: Whistling sound]
014 Exa: (No. I'll worry about that later...//Where in the world did that monster go to...?!)//What? Four monsters, you say...?//What about you, Lakshri...? Lakshri: Well... I haven't seen any... Exa: Operating under the assumption that there was only one of them was a mistake, apparently... Sheyla: Next thing we knew, they retreated in a jiffy. What gives? Angelica: Didn't you hear some kind of noise? A voice, or something./Somewhat disturbing, too... Exa: Eh? I didn't hear anything. Angelica: Am I the only one?
015 Rocci: A buzzing mosquito, perhaps... Bird: My favorite dish! Angelica: A BUG?!/I don't think it sounded anything like a mosquito![tn: Angelica merely says "mosquito", but unlike Rocci she uses the Japanese word. "Bug" is an arbitrary translation.] Rocci: Well, they say young people can perceive high-pitched sounds. Bird: Dejected. Exa: And Angelica is the youngest among us. Yes, that's within the realm of possibility.//They might be manipulated by means of some noise we are unable to hear./Which makes it kinda hard to file them under the "regular monster" category. Rocci: Bodily potential activation.............*mutter* Exa: Come again........? Rocci: No.... Nothing...
016 Exa: Anyway. I have no idea if they'll show up tomorrow, but we'll keep an eye out. Rocci: Yes sir. Angelica: Understood. Sheyla: What a pain-nya./I don't like the guy. Lakshri: ...........//(Ultimately, I was unable to say a word about Clive.../How could I mention the one responsible for the abductions was my own best friend....?//But... how did he get to turn into that monstrous form?/And whatever I said it just didn't seem to register...//The other 4 are presumably human, too...)
017 Lakshri: (Assuming it's true, I should let Exa know about it./But Exa wouldn't kill them, even if they weren't human... So I'd rather... keep that to myself for the moment.//And help Clive out in the meantime.//But how...?/Does he even want to be saved, in the first place?)//If I talk to him... and it doesn't get through./If he wants to kill me so badly he won't have it any other way...
018 Lakshri: (Will I have no other choice but to end his life...?) *staaaare* *jump* Lakshri: What is it? Angelica: Eeheehee... You noticed? Lashri: What with all the staring........*step step* Lashri: ............*awkward silence* Lashri: Ah. I got a hangnail. Angelica: ........... Lakshri: You got something to say?/Why are you here? Angelica: Oh crap./Ha! I had nothing special in mind.........!!/............
019 Angelica: Er... Are you okay? Lakshri: Don't "you okay" me. Angelica: Are you fine or what? Say something!*peeved* *snap* *ow* Lakshri: What are you angry for?//The bloke who used to be my best friend hates me, and he contemplates the idea of bumping me off./Of course I can't be fine... Angelica: .........../You aren't the kind of guy people get to hate...
020 Lakshri: Do you.... think so...? Angelica: Yeah. Lakshri: Yeah, I figured. Angelica: Sure.//Because you're a big idiot.*gasp* Lakshri: Hey... Watch it... Angelica: You're a pain in the bum, but also the best friend one can have, I think.//Contrary, but actually very kind./You aren't slick enough to do anything underhanded. What would anyone hate you for?
021 Angelica: There must be something happening to him./Something he doesn't want to talk about to anyone, not even you.//So don't be so hard on yourself.//Think positive, and surely something will come out of it./Come on. Im fine./Repeat after me.[tn: In English in the original text.] Lakshri: IIII aaaam fiiine./IIII'm fiiine.//IIIII'm fi...//Yeah... I guess you're right...//But um... If you're gonna praise and comfort me, can't you be a bit more honest about it?*chuckle*
022 Angelica: Not happening. Cause your usual behavior is just that plain bad.*Casual* Lakshri: Ah... I see.//But well... I'm feeeling better somehow. Thank you.//Must be great to be so simple-minded!*POP* Angelica: Heeey. What tha heeeeell Lakshri: I call it payback.//(She's right... He must have some kind of problem./And he can't have anything to do with those disappearances either.//Man up. Clive used to be a nice guy, didn't he?/I have to believe in him. And he needs my help...
023 Lakshi: (Let's go see him. Speak to him again.//And my sword won't leave its scabbard, no matter what... *clink*
024 *Zzzz* *twitch* *rustle* *tap tap tap* *creak* Clive: Doctor!!//The medicine isn't working anymore. Graham: (So he can pick up my presence from that far away...)/Is that so...? Let's get you some stronger stuff, then.
025 Clive: Doctor... I'm gonna lose my sense of self at this rate, aren't I...? Graham: Certainly not... *poke* Clive: U...gh//(I can tell/he isn't telling me the truth//I'm falling down//tumbling into utter darkness...)
026 Clive: The longer it goes on, the closer this monster gets/to taking over everything I am.//I need to end Lakshri's life/before that gets to happen...!!
027 Kagami: (Am I still attached... to the old Maou-sama?)//I'll be borrowing them again... Graham: Go ahead... They are your tools to use, after all...//This drug enhances one's physical potential and restores any lost faculties.//Then eventually... bodily chemistry goes to Hell/and transformation into a monster ensues.
028 Graham: At first, they periodically revert back to their initial form, but as they keep on taking the medicine, soon enough, the metamorphosis becomes complete./The strength thus achieved is roughly equal to 10 times that of a human being. But even in human form, they're still 4 times stronger than normal.//Upon reaching completion, all sense of self is lost, and they're just monstrous sock puppets for someone else to handle.//Since the original being is human, it sustains none of the injuries from its monstrous shape./You won't find a finer weapon anywhere in the world. Kagami: Yes. They're magnificent indeed. Graham: These words are the greater reward I could ever hope for. Kagami: But are you sure you don't mind? Considering you're human, too...
029 Graham: You see, in this world some people like myself just enjoy to be contrary.//Feel free to wipe out humanity, for all I care... *stap* Exa: What happened to Lakshri?! Angelica: (I don't wanna cause him any trouble)/Said he'd get some rest. He's feeling better, but he's not exactly back at full strength. Exa: Wait a minute... there's only one of them, today...?
030 Exa: Aaah, never mind. We gotta capture it! Party: Aye. *swish* Exa: An abandoned... factory...?//Where'd he go...? *clang* Exa: ?!!
031 *clang clang* Exa: It's... It's dangerous around here. Sheyla, you okay?! Sheyla: Meooow. Exa: Angelica! Rocci!! Are you alright?! Angelica: We're fine! Rocci and I are both unharmed! What about you, Exa-sama?! Exa: I'm okay!//Thing is... we've got no way to go, now... We need to join up with the girls...*clang*
032 *flick* Exa: Monsters... Now of all times... Sheyla: ?!! Exa: Whoaaaaah!!*whud*
033 Sheyla: Hero!! Clive: (I hate Lakshri so much... so much I just can't help it...//If he so much as smiled, I'd still damn him for it.)
034 Clive: (Once I kill him//I'll carve him to pieces and erase every single trace of him from the face of the Earth.)
035 Clive: (That's how much I hate him...) *step* Clive: I thought you'd come... Have you cleared away your doubts?
036 Lakshri: ........//Ha Clive: Because if you don't kill me...*creak* Clive: You will die by my hand... *CLANG* Clive: Got it?!
037 Clive: Tsk...//Draw you sword!! Lakshri: No........./I won't...! Clive: Aren't you ready to fight and kill?
038 Lakshri: I'm here to help you! Clive: Hah... Lakshri: Clive... What is it you're transforming into...?/Just what happened to you while I wasn't looking...? Clive: ........../You don't need to know.
039 Lakshri: Under that other form, you couldn't understand anything I said. Clive: .......... Lakshri: Are the other 4 human too...?/Did you kidnap those people? Clive: ........... Lakshri: Why, then...?!! Clive: ...........//........../Why, you ask...*Heh*
040 Clive: Hey, Lakshri. Remember when we were kids?/Didn't you ever ask yourself why the world had to be so unfair...? Lakshri: I...//........... Clive: A guy like me has no choice but to live his life like the piece of trash he is./Scum I am. Forever scum I'll remain...//Doomed to live deep in the Abyss, always envying all that is light./That much is not gonna change, it's still true to this day..........
041 Clive: Unlike you, most people can't go against whatever fate had in store for them since the day they were born.//All the time since you left, I spent it in the dark...//All of it...//Then at some point, I realized. Lakshri: Hah Clive: Since I'd lost my right hand, it was only fair for me to crush everyone else's right hands in kind.//That's right. To achieve this, I needed power.
042 Clive: Only through power can this world ever achieve equity.[tn: LOL, this manga embraces its corniness with a rare gusto. :XD:] Lakshri: You're wrong...!! Clive: Some day, when the time has come for the last battle, these monsters will engage humanity in combat./Parents against their children. Friends against their friends. Brothers and sisters, they will all be at each other's throats.
043 Clive: That'll be the most entertaining spectacle ever, don't you agree...? Lakshri: Clive...!!
044 Clive: Hah... Now you know my motive.../What? You thought I'd been forced into this form and made to go kidnap people?/Did you expect me to go "Save me, Lakshri-chan" so you could go on and have your mushy happy ending?//Get fucking real!*startle* Clive: I kidnapped those people willingly and I helped make them that way./And this is what I, too, will become myself.
045 *dash* Clive: And we'll drown the world in a tide of disaster and death!!*clang* Clive: That's right... Let's break it all apart./Destroy everything...!! Lakshri: Stop it... I don't wanna kill you... *cling* Lakshri: Ah. *snap* Clive: You won't kill me in spite of everything...?/Are you sure about this?
046 *thump* Lakshri: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH Clive: I'll wreak even more havoc upon the world, you know...?
047 Clive: I take it now your uncertainties have been cleared away./You were a naive fool to think you could save me... Lakshri: (If I get attacked in those conditions I won't survive it.../I'm gonna have to kill him...!)*Gh* Clive: (I must/kill Lakshri//I hate him so much/I hate him to no end............)
048 *thunk* Clive: (Because//I have to die by his hand...)[/end
049 Story.6 Best friend (Part 3)
050 Clive: (Because Lakshri:.../I have to die by your hand...)
051 *thunk* Clive: (Abandon the idea that I'm your friend, or that you can save me./You don't have that kind of luxury.//What you do have here is a worthless insect/that doesn't even deserve to live.//It won't be a crime/if you act in legitimate self-defense.//Yes... That's it.)
052 Clive: (Kill me//and in so doing, please save me...!!)
053 Lakshri: (Clive was hurt because of my chronic immaturity back then.//Even now I'm strong enough not to need anybody else's protection//do I still have to kill Clive with my very own hands?!!
054 Braids: Valentin-dono, I presume...? Val: You must be the investigators. You're late... Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting...?/May I inquire just what took you so long? Gal: .......... Braids: The men... have been killed.
055 Braids: The inn they stayed at and the rest of the town have been obliterated overnight, apparently./By a silver-haired girl who styles herself the Demon Lord... Val: What...?/Are you telling me an entire town has been wiped out by one person alone?!
059 Sheyla: ?!//What is the meaning of this? We thought we were dealing with monsters, but they turn out to be human...? Kagami: We've been carrying out an experiment to change human beings into monsters./Because it is more convenient to have the humans at each other's throats. Sheyla: Kagami...? Kagami: Maou-sama... I've been abiding by every single one of your orders so far./Out of the belief that you'd kill of the hero someday.../Except you never did. On the contrary, you've been protecting and defending him.
060 Kagami: Because you fell in love with him.../Because of such a trifling emotion. Sheyla: Of course I didn't... *swish* *whud*
061 Kagami: Of course you didn't...?//Even now, you saved the hero yet again when they attacked him./How am I supposed to believe you in those conditions...?//I'm taking the Copy Maou-sama's side./I'll have even somebody like her over what you've become any day.//Just this once, I'll forget about what I saw today, for the sake of my past loyalty to you.//That's the reason why I came to you, Maou-sama./To signify that effective today, we'll be going our separate ways.
062 Kagami: Rest assured that the next time we meet will be the moment when I take your life. Sheyla: ..............!!
064 Sheyla: I'm sorry... The hero told me not to hurt people, and yet...//I'm sorry.../I am sorry... Rocci: It's alright. He's wounded, but nothing that cant' be handled with proper medical care. Angelica: You were trying to protect Exa-sama, weren't you...?*swip* Angelica: You didn't have a choice...
068 Clive: Why won't you kill me...? Lakshri: I ask you the same question............ *katang clang*
069 Clive: Lately......//The periods between my lapses of consciousness have been getting shorter and shorter.//Sure as hell, I'm becoming more and more of a monster...//Strangely enough, I never resented you for the loss of my right hand.//I still meant to protect you regardless./Just like I'd been doing so far...//But you went ahead, all by yourself.
070 Clive: I was proud./But I couldn't help feeling miserable for being unable to escape from here myself.//And gradually, the fact that my hand couldn't move started to weigh down on my me.//That's when I met him.//He whispered his honeyed words to me... Graham: I can help you fix your hand./In exchange, I would like to avail myself of your cooperation. Clive: I can tell........//I didn't lose to the world's absurdity or egoism./I lost to no one but myself.
071 Clive: And I've already come past the point of no-return, by now.//I'll keep on killing people, and putting them through what I'm going through myself.//Sorry for being such a sad excuse of an adoptive brother./Lakshri... If I stand before you now, it's because want yo to kill me. If I must die by somebody's hand, I want it to be yours.
072 Clive: But even with all my provocations and attempts on your life/No matter what I did, you wouldn't raise your sword against me. I give up.//Do you remember that day?//The one when you spent your request of a lifetime on a mere apple... Lakshri: !
073 Clive: Well I still haven't used my own......... Laksri: Stop... Don't say it...!! *don*
075 Clive: I want you... to kill me...
076 *tattle rattle* Clive: Quickly... You've got to hurry, or I'll be taken over again... Lakshri: (No... I want to save you) Clive: I don't wanna kill more people or put them through what I'm going though...!! Laksrhi: (I wanna help you out.)
077 Clive: Please... Lakshri: (.......I want to)
078 Clive: Kill me!!! Lakshri: Save you...!!!)
079 Val: Anyway, let's head for the Hero's inn./He might not be around, though, what with the investigation... Clive: GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! Val: What's that? *step step step* Val: Lakshri?! I just head that ear-splitting cry...//Ha
080 Val: That's one serious wound... Lakshri: Sorry... I let him get away... Val: Eh...? Lakshri: I can't... possibly kill him...
081 *roll roll* Braids: we were able to get a merchant to lend us this coach. Val: Looks solid enough. If a bit old... Hey, there's plenty of junk falling off it. >Apples, apparently.< Braids: We acted a bit precipitously. They must have dropped off during the confusion. Shall we clean up the mess? Val: Nah, too much trouble. Just drop it. >Now we know what to eat if we get hungry.< Braids: Uuuuh?! Val: Aah. Hero. Who are these people? We've put them in chains just as you asked, anyway...//What? The missing people themselves might be responsible for this...?! Exa: Yeah. They turn into monsters because of some kind of drug. At which point they can be controlled through sound, apparently. Rocci: Hero-sama. The man who created that drug might well be someone I know. Val: SAY WHAT?!
082 Rocci: I merely caught a glimpse of him back there, so I couldn't see him properly. But chances are high... Val: Come with us to the castle, then. We could use your help. Exa: Please........... Rocci: Understood. Exa: Valentin. Val: Yes. Exa: How about having Doctor Raynald check them up? Val: ...Sounds like really hard work. But now is not the time for such considerations. I'll go ask him.../(Doc Sadist is good at what he does, after all.) Exa: You take care of Lakshri's wound, too. Val: Sure. *thud* Lakshri: Ow..........
083 *slip* *snap* Lakshri: Sorry... There's nothing you can do to get me to smile, this time. Please leave me be... *snap* Angelica: You don't have to force yourself into it. Lakshri: ?*brush brush* Lakshri: .........//You were right... Clive did have his reasons... Angelica: He's in your hands, now. Rocci: Take care of yourself too, Angelica-san...
084 Braids: Off we go!!*whip* *roll roll* Angelica: .........//To have his friend... turned into this... Exa: It's alright, Angelica. Lakshri's a tough guy./He'll get better. Probably not right away, but soon enough. Sheyla: (There's no coming back, now........ I can no longer be the Demon Lord...)
085 Sheyla: (Can I......../really hope to live like this...?) Exa: Sheyla. What are you doing over there?*dun* Angelica: You shouldn't.......//be too hard on her./She just did what she had to do to save you.
086 Exa: Is that so...? I got it... *katang katang* Braids: Z *katang katang* *slump* Lakshri: Why did he do this?/Why did he ask me to kill him..........? Rocci: Although this medicine activates the cells.../the more you take it, the harder you cling to life, and you become unable to put an end to your own existence. Even if you were to die in battle.
087 Rocci: You keep following orders that go against your will, but even that will fades away eventually, and the only thing left is a tool of murder.//Given no choice in its course of action, not even allowed to put an end to it.//A fate... painful beyond words...//Perhaps he expressed the wish to die by your hand/because he felt you were the only person he could trust.
088 Clive: I don't wanna kill more people or put them through what I'm going though...!! Lakshri: (He used to be a kind fellow.//He'd never be able to casually inflict pain and suffering.//And yet, he had to put up with it constantly. And he'll have to again...!!)
093 *dash* Val: Lakshri?! I just heard that ear-splitting cry... *katang katakng* Lakshri: (I cannot kill you/not as long as a fragment of your heart remains...)
094 Lakshri: (This time around I wanted to save you.//Even if I had to sacrifice my life to do it.//Even if I told God that my last request of a lifetime didn't count. That this was the real one.)
095 Lakshri: Even if I did all this//That one wish might never, ever be granted to me...[/end
097 Story.7 A Magical Course in Dread.
098 Sheyla: (I am Sheyla./The Demon Lord.//However) Kagami: I'm taking the Copy Maou-sama's side. Sheyla: (I've just been notified of my dismissal.//Should I keep on traveling with the hero? That question bothers me.
099 Sheyla: (So why am I doing this...?) Exa: I'm gonna teach you about restoration magic.//It's easy to learn. And you can patch yourself up, as well as your friends in a heartbeat.//Serious injuries are right out, however. You could safely describe it as a means to enhance the body's natural ability for recovery. Sheyla: (Aah yeah. Angelica... If only she hadn't decided to act out of the blue, back then...)
100 Exa: We've reached the town earlier than I expected.//The next city is really far ahead, so let's call it a day and find an inn in town to stop at. Angelica: ...........//I'm wondering if Lakshri's gonna be okay... Exa: I used my magic to heal his wound somewhat. It's his state of fatigue that got me worried, so I had him sent to the castle./Since he doesn't perform all that great in those conditions.//He'll get better and come back to us soon enough, no doubt.
101 Angelica: I guess you're right...//Wo.. Wooooow. These clothes are so cute...*tap tap tap*[tn: Angelica specifically says "Western-style clothing", but since in this series people hardly ever wear kimonos and such...] Angelica: Exa-sama... Can I go have a look........? Exa: Why, I didn't even have the time to answer that she's already gone...//(Oh, well. She's been constantly worrying about Lakshri. A little change of mood cannot hurt...)
102 Exa: But it's gonna take quite some time, apparently. Angelica: Hum/hum. Sheyla: Meeooow. Exa: That's right. Sheyla, I said I'd teach you about restoration magic, didn't I? Sheyla: Eh?! When did that happen?! Exa: Superior Volume 01, the first chapter. Sheyla: So what the heck have we been doing for 9 whole volumes?!//(Well........ That more or less explains how I found myself in this mess.) Exa: The most important thing in restoration magic is to sympathize with the other party.
103 Sheyla: Um... Sympathize with the other party./It's all Chinese to meow! Exa: Aaah.../It's like, when you have warm feelings for somebody else, or when you hold someone dear... Sheyla: Hey, face me!! I said I didn't get it!!//(Let's give it a thought.../Hold dear... Hold dear... Warm feelings.../*Jumbled mess*/Thinking about the other party........//*DUN*) Exa: Correct me if I'm wrong.......... But your mind wasn't completely on the task at hand, was it? Sheyla: Duh?! Exa: Okay, never mind. Let's get down to practice./It doesn't really matter what you say in your incantation, but wording does have its benefits. So how about "Heal", or something similar?
104 Sheyla: He... Hell?[tn: The original text keeps the "Heal" reading, but substitutes the "cure/treatment" Kanji for "bad guy". And the pro-wrestling "heel" reference (i.e bad guy) might be a bit too obscure for the general public.] Exa: Wrong!! *stap* Exa: The word's "Heal".//........Come on, now. Let's give it a try. Sheyla: Eeeeer.... Ahem... Sympathize with the other party//Holding them dear... And warm food.../Nnngh.. *tudun!* *8 feet tall okina*[tn: Okina means "venerable old man".]
105 Sheyla: Hell!!! *BAOM* Exa: ..........//Sheyla!! What are you thinking, blowing stuff up like this!! Sheyla: Meooow Exa: Alright! Try again!! We'll keep at it as long as it takes for you to pull it off!! Sheyla: (Uh... Uuuuuum... Sympathize with the other party. Sympathize with the other party. Sympathize...........)/Nyaaa/Heal!!
106 Exa: Achoo!!//(The pollen from these flowers, maybe...?//...No...)/Sheyla. Did it work out, this time?//(The dolt... She thought she couldn't manage it, so she bailed on me...!!)//Where are you?!! Sheyla, show yourself. Come out now, and I'll let it slide./You need to show up now. We're gonna have something you like for dinner!!
107 *rustle* Exa: ..........//(She's not showing up... She always does when I mention this, usually...)/Helloooo. Sheeeeylaaaa!/(I've been a bit too strict, perhaps...) Sheyla: (Hero.)/Meow/Meooow meoow meow!! Meoooowwww./(I'm right here. I'm not running away or anything.)//(Ah. Why is he ignoring me?)/Meow. Exa: Eeerm. Sheyla: Meowww/(I wanna have my favorite dish for dinner, you hear me!!)//Eh? I can't speak?)/Meow?!/Meow meow meow./Why can't I produce any sound outside mewing?!)/Co... come to think of it, why does everything look so much taller...?//A... a cat...?! Did I turn into a cat?!!
108 Exa: What's wrong? You're a dog, aren't you, so why are you mewing? Sheyla: Meow...//MEOOOOOWWW?!/(WHUUUUT?!!) Exa: You don't have a collar... Are you a stray? >A Chihuahua, maybe?<*todom* Sheyla: (Se.../Seriously...?!)//No, I'm not. I am Sheyla. You do understand what I'm saying, right? Look. Black hair, black eyes. No matter how you cut it, I'm still Sheyla!!)/Meoow/Meooww. Exa: Guess it doesn't like me much... Sheyla: Meowww meoww meoww. Exa: Here. Gimme paw./(Is that what you meant?)*tap**squishy* Sheyla: Meooooww!!/(WRONG!!)
109 Exa: Anyway. Gotta find Sheyla... She must be loafing around here somewhere... Sheyla: Meowww/(I keep telling you I'm right here...)//UH?! Am I gonna spend my entire life like this, unable to turn back to normal?!//Hell no, I'd hate that. The hero would go bad-mouthing me, what with accusing me of running off/to say nothing of a Demon Lord spending her life as a mewing dog...)Settle down. Hat: You won't find two dogs like this one in the entire world.*cling* Sheyla: (Meow//It can't end like this...!//Settle down and give it a thought. That's it! Let's think about how it happened./If I do the same thing again, I should be able to get back to normal.//Must be because of the restoration magic./So if I conjure restoration magic again, it should fix everything.)
110 Sheyla: (Heal!!!)/Meow meow! Exa: Gotta admit, that pup knows how to make a ruckus... Sheyla: Haaa...*splat* Sheyla: (That's right.../I can't say anything outside "meow". *flap flap* *swoop* Sheyla: ?!
113 *tap* *zip* Drac: GROOAAAAAAAAA//AAAAAAAAH *sting* *rustle* Dude: What's up?! What's all the commotion about...?! Exa: It's dangerous out here, man. Go take cover........!!
114 Dude: A dragon? Now that's odd. They're pretty docile and quiet around these parts, usually...........//They don't get angry without a good reason. As in, destroying their nests, for example... Exa: Destroy?! I didn't destroy...//Ha/Well... I do remember something... >There used to be a tree around here< Dude: You're a hero, aren't you? What do you think you're doing? >Aah, dang. What a pain in the neck.< Exa: I am sorry...!! Dude: Oh, well. Getting them back in a good mood is not all that difficult either, so I'll work out something. You go hide over there, Hero-san. Exa: Tha... thank you very much. *flap* Sheyla: Meow. Exa: I'm saved. Even fleeing wouldn't have been much of an option with that one.../That guy was nice enough...
115 *clang* Exa: (Nice...........?/Hell no..........//When he said he'd work out something, he meant cutting the beast down?!
116 Dude: What... are you doing...? Sheyla: MEEEOOOOOOOOOOW!!! Exa: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! *tap* Sheyla Hah//(Hero...!! You're forgetting your sword...!!!)*stap*
117 Exa: Haa/Haa//(Was this the aftermath of all the monsters he'd killed...?/And he's offed the dragon too, possibly............)//No... I don't like the idea, but he might have been killing humans...!!) Sheyla: (Hero... I brought you your sword.)*swip*
118 Sheyla: Praise me...♥*slip* Exa: AAAAARGH Dude: Aaah. There you are./I've been looking for you, I have.//Can't go about forgetting that sword, now, can we...?
121 Exa: Where's Angelica at, by the way?!//?!!//Angelica, thank God you're unharmed........!!
122 Angelica: What do you mean, unharmed?/Eh, Exa-sama...........
123 Exa: .............!!!>My voice won't come out.<
124 Sheyla: ..............!!!*ZOOM!* Exa: ..............!!!//Haa... Haa...//Haa...//No.. no way. Even Angelica...!!!//What's going on in this town? Everyone is walking about, covered in blood.*sneaky-sneaky* Exa: Maybe everybody's been going around, killing monsters... or people...
125 Exa: (This entir town's got to be some sort of evil organization...!!) Sheyla: Meow... Meow/Meooowww./(Thes... these humans are scaring meowww//Why am I experiencing such fear.../As a dog, I can't do anything outside fleeing and running all around the place...//Why did things have to become like this...? Exa: You're still following me around... Sheyla: Meow./(Becuz I have nowhere else to go...)
126 Exa: Since you're a stray, why don't you stick with me until you can find yourself a master...? Sheyla: ..........!//(Assuming... I can't go back./should I accept things the way they are and stay with the hero...?//Maybe that's a good idea. Being unable to become Sheyla again is gonna be painful, but should I remain a dog forever, no one will ever suspect me of being the Demon Lord./No more carelessly putting him in harm's way either.)
127 Sheyla: But//does that mean the sins I've committed as the Demon Lord are gone...? Exa: Let's give you a name, for starters.../! Alright. I just came up with something neat.
128 Exa: Poochie. Sheyla: (>Came up with something neat, my foot!! That name's like, totally hackneyed!!< HE THINKS I'M A MALE.........?!!) Exa: Pleased to meet you, Poochie. Sheyla: (That's it?! You're settling for this?!!//............Ah...)
129 Sheyla: (He's......... He's shaking...? Exa: For a hero, I can be a real blockhead, eh...?//Whenever I fight, I'm always trembling like this...) Sheyla: (Always...?//Even then...?)
130 Sheyla: (And then...?) Exa: But running away's not an option...//Cause I'm a hero, after all... *todom* Sheyla: (Yeah......)
131 Sheyla: (I see...)*todom* *todom* *thunk* *splish*
132 Dude: Phew... Exa: Did you kill that dragon...? Dude: ......... Exa: .......... Dude: Here...*swish* *clap* Exa: A fruit...?/(Weird shape. There's one detail that kinda stands out)/It's red..........
133 Dude: Try it. Tasty, isn't it? Exa: This is neither the time, nor the place...*crunch* Dude: The sole problem is, you can get really, really dirty while eating it./Looks a lot like blood, don't you think? *tu-dun* Dragon: Gimme. Exa: Whoa?!
134 Dude: Dragons love it as well, so it gets them back in good spirits pretty fast./(There you go)*snap* *crunch* Dude: And I've made a business of selling them. Exa: He didn't kill anyone... So Angelica...//Why....//.........
135 Exa: (I've been embarrassing myself all this time!!!)/AAAAAAAAAAAH*roll roll*//Aah. How hopeless can I get? Sheyla: (You aren't.) Exa: I'm thick-headed, cowardly, unable to manage anything on my own.../(Running about, not even stopping a moment to think.//Totally pathetic...)
136 Sheyla: (No. That's not true. You're really, really cool.)//Meooow Exa: Is that an encouragement? Thank you... Sheyla: (You always keep fighting, despite those feelings, and the constant trembling/Guess I'd never have found out if I hadn't been under this form...) Exa: Very well, I really gotta go find Sheyla, now.../(I never bumped into her, despite running all about town as if my life depended on it.) Sheyla: (SCHEIßE)[tn: Feel free to replace this with a more traditional "Oh, crap", or “This is bad”.]
137 Sheyla: (How do I get back to normal? How do I get back to normal...?!!*woosh* *sniff* Sheyla: Achoo!! *poof* Sheyla: I... I'm myself again?!! Exa: Sheyla. Where have you been...? Sheyla: Thank goodness-meow!!
138 Exa: What are you talking about? Sheyla: Ha//No... nothing at all-meow.//(I can't exactly tell him I've been turned into a mewing dog.../Even if do have a habit of mewing routinely!!//By the same token, the hero certainly has some things he doesn't want me to find out about... Exa: Uh? Poochie was still around a few moments ago...*tilt*
139 Sheyla: The... the dog? Went about that way-meow./Meow/Meow/Meow/Found itself a master, probably-meow. Some really nice people took it along-meow. Exa: Really? Good.../(I wasn't wrong about Poochie being a dog./It was always mewing, which is rather counter-intuitive.) Sheyla: (...Such a random, half-baked tale and he swallowed it. >He's a major simpleton.<//Ah... That's right... I'm the one who destroyed its nest in the first place...)//Heal.
140 Exa: Sheyla... You can do it, now...? Sheyla: I think... I understand a bit/What sympathizing is about.........//That warm feeling deep inside./I often get the same thing when I think about you...
141 Sheyla: (And Angelica, and Lakshri, and Rocci, as well.//(It's a little different for the hero, however...//But that's what sympathizing with others feels like//I've always been wondering how I ended up in this whole mess.)
142 Sheyla: (When I transformed into a dog...) Kagami: I'm taking the Copy Maou-sama's side. Sheyla: (And when Kagami said this to me.//Despite all this, I still had to assume this shape to be able to understand that feeling.//A feeling//I would never have known if I hadn't been on this journey with the hero.)
143 Sheyla: (Surely the choice that allowed me to know such a thing can't be wrong.) Angelica: Ah! There you are, Exa-sama!!//You did think it was blood didn't you? I cried out too, at first. It was an easy mistake to make.
144 Sheyla: (Lakshri and Rocci should be back soon.//This is a really nice place to be. I'm glad I was able to make it here..........
145 Sheyla: (But I'll never belong in that comfortable place, and I know it./Because)
146 Sheyla: (No one would ever suffer me to remain here forever.........)[/end
149 *tap tap tap* *sbom* Crow: Are you alright, Rocci...? Rocci: Brother... I can't run anymore. Crow: Come on, get on my back, then. You should be fine that way, right...? Rocci: (I've always been hiding behind someone else's back for protection.)
150 Rocci: But the day comes for everyone when they must stand for themselves.//And that's why I have to be merciless. Story.8 Rocci (Part 1).
151 Narrator: Orders from: Juneau Obsidias to: Rocci Arnesto./For one thing: Confirm whether Sheyla, who travels with the hero is the Demon Lord or just an ordinary monster. And then: Should Sheyla turn out to be the Demon Lord//you are to assassinate her. Juneau: Thank you for going through the trouble of traveling all the way to the castle, Rocci-san.
152 Juneau: Forgive the lackluster reception, but as you can see, I have a mountain of work to deal with... Rocci: It's nothing...//Prince Juneau.
153 Juneau: That said.../It's been a while since we last met, Rocci-san./Seeing you well pleases me more than you know.//Crow, you haven't seen her in a while either, have you? You can have a moment between siblings later. Crow: (Keep that hand moving while you're talking please)./As soon as your work is done, yes. >I'm a busy man, being your attendant and all.< Juneau: (Woops. A ranged attack...)//Very well, let's get to the main issue./(That's it. Run away.)//First, let's hear the latest information about Sheyla-san. Rocci: Yes.../She called herself the Demon Lord when nobody was looking. Which leaves no more room for doubt concerning her identity... Juneau: She called herself... that...?/.......... Rocci: ...However
154 Rocci: Rather than killing the hero and his friends, she's been saving them/which is all rather puzzling to me... Juneau: Indeed... That's the problem, isn't it...//We have all been saved by Sheyla at some point.//According to the testimonies of those monsters we now count among our allies, the Demon Lord does match Sheyla-san's description./To say nothing of Rocci-san's report.//Normally, with that much evidence/It'd make sense to conclude that the Maou and her are one and the same, and to have her assassinated//But we still want to believe/that Sheyla-san is not the Demon Lord...
155 Juneau: Maybe she isn't the Maou, but merely called herself that...//.........//Well, I know how naive that makes me sound, but I need something more./Some more unshakable proof that she is...//Sorry, but I'm gonna have you resume your continued surveillance of Sheyla-san... Rocci: Unshakable.../proof.../Understood. Juneau: ........... Let's get to our other problem, then.
156 Juneau: According to the report I've received, 12 townspeople have been going missing one after another, for about a month. Many elements about this had me worried that something might be going on, so I've had the hero investigate the case./The missing people are administered a drug that turns them into monsters. Furthermore they've been known to attack human beings... Rocci: Yes sir........ Juneau: And Rocci-san, one of the culprits happens to be somebody you know. Rocci: The man used to live in the same village as my brother and I./He goes by the name of Graham Vereno.
157 Rocci: Our village specialized in medicine, and sold its drugs to several countries around the world./One man among them was the best when it came to antidotes and counterpoisons. Juneau: And that man was Graham, I take it... Which means he might well be the one who created the drug that turned those people into monsters. Rocci: Probably, yes... Juneau: The unfortunate people thus transformed have been captured thanks to the hero./But from time to time, they run amok, possibly out of pain...//Valentin has been sent to call upon a skilled physician/But can we really expect him to cure them...?//I also heard about a human-turned-monster eluding capture. In addition, the number of people we've caught doesn't quite match with that of the disappearances. We'd be well-advised to consider there might be more of them./The monsters might be plotting to use those people for God knows what reason. Thing is, I don't understand much of what's going on.
158 Juneau: The monsters probably submitted Graham by force. We need to break him out./We won't be able to settle this matter otherwise.//I want him found immediately. Rocci: ..........//...About that, my Prince I think I'll be heading towards the village.//Maybe I can grasp some clues about the man that way. Juneau: Is that so? Well, that wouldn't hurt.
159 Crow: Rocci... Do you intend to go there by yourself? Juneau: He's right. You can take some men with you. Rocci: No, thank you. I'll have an easier time operating on my own./And I lived in that village, originally. It can't be all that dangerous... Crow: Not happening.//I will not allow you to go there on your own. Rocci: ........... Juneau: ?/?
160 Juneau: You can't say your brother is not worried about you, now can you?/Here's an idea. You may take Crow along with you. Crow: That's not an option either./(You plan to spend the time I'll be gone dawdling.) Juneau: (D'oh... >I'm busted<). Crow: If I have to go, I'll have René replace me.[tn: Or Renée, if that character is female.]/(He's gonna look over you with that glacial stare of his.) Juneau: It's gonna come to that...?/(Sounds even stricter than Crow himself.) Rocci: I'm gonna take my leave, now./(Since it's gonna take some time, apparently.) *blah blah blah* *slam*[tn: The expression I translated as "blah blah" stands for "loud and repetitious clamoring" or pressing stubbornly for something".) Bird: Masteeeer. Crow: .......... Rocci: ...........//(Forced into it, he was...?/...Him...?)*flap flap*
161 Rocci: (I don't know about that...)//Alright. I'm in the village, now//but what is the meaning of this...?
162 Rocci: Why isn't there a single human soul around...?*peeep*
164 *CHUUUUUUUUUURN* Monster: Uuurgh. Uuurgh...!! Rocci: ........./........//What was that?
165 Rocci: A monster...?/With a weakness to daylight...?//On closer inspection, the town is choke-full of them...*grrrrrrrrrrrrrr* Rocci: Never mind the snakes. Did these guys settle in the village when the inhabitants went away...?*grrrrrrrrrrrr* *rrrrrrrrrrrrr* Rocci: ..........//I'll be fine as long as I stay out of the shadows... I guess.*chink*
166 Rocci: But wherever I go*clatter* *clatter* Rocci: All I find is those monsters...//Where'd the villagers vanish to?/Whatever happened while I wasn't there...?//And what about that man?/Where did he go...?//How am I supposed to gather any clues in those conditions?
167 Graham: Welcome back.../Rocci... Rocci: You. You are...*baf* Rocci: Graham Vereno...!!//Where are the villagers...?!!/Are you responsible for their disappearances too?! Graham: The villagers? Gone?/You just greeted them a few moments ago...
168 Rocci: Moments... ago?//!//It can't be. That was...//a villager...?! Graham: We have a winner.*clap clap clap* Graham: To turn human beings into monsters, I needed a lot of people to carry out my experiments upon.
169 Graham: I've used all the villagers as my test subjects.
170 Rocci: ...........?!! Graham: I was able to create a fine drug thanks to this./Something you can testify for, am I right...? Rocci: What/have you done... Graham: Why so angry?/Humans are vile, revolting creatures. Who cares whatever happens to them...?
171 Graham: I enjoy perfection./Which means imperfect human beings hold nothing of interest for me.//But you. You're special./So come back to me. Rocci: Back to you...?//Thanks, but no, thanks!!
172 Graham: This is no way to address your father./Rocci Vereno.[tn: Insert Star Wars reference here.] Rocci: Father.........?/Hah............//I've just been bitten by a snake./Despite this//My arm's not even swelling...//You've kept inoculating me with poison. Every single poison in existence.../So you could create the perfect antidote out of my blood serum.[tn: As it turns out, this is actually a valid way to create an antitoxin.]//The best antidote master in the whole village, my foot...!!/If I hadn't fled the village, I'd sure as hell be dead by now.
173 Rocci: Yet you still dare call yourself my father?!//The only things you care about are your own research and your antidotes.//And for those, you'd sacrifice everything, including other people's lives./Or even your own daughter...!!//I have no parents./I did have a mother, but she died when I was still a child.
174 Rocci: Truth be told I considered capturing you if I ever found you, just like the Prince said./Because I thought you might know of a way to cure those people.//But our encounter today has taught me one thing./You can't heal them... Better yet. You don't even want to. Graham: Indeed. Why would I have to...?//No one can capture me. Even if they could, I have no intention to cooperate. I'll just run away as many times as needed./And I'll plunge the world in fear and dread.
175 Graham: Humanity can be exterminated, for all I care. Rocci: You have brought hurt to countless people/And rather than reflecting upon your deeds, you would cause even more pain and suffering.//You must.........*dash!*
176 Rocci: You must die. Superior Cross [2] The end.[/end
177 Postscript Ichtys: Thank you very much for purchasing the second volume of this series./(Yaaay. A decent postscript.) Exa: Thanks a lot. Narrator: She's been spending most of the time she wasn't drawing this manga at the dentist's. Doc: If it hurts, put your hands up. Ishtys: Okay. Narrator: Thing is, the pain was so unbearable Ichtys would grab onto the doctor's hand even right in the middle of her treatment.*grab* Doc: Hey, that's dangerous./Well, if it really hurts, I'll just stop. Narrator: Apparently a nerve in her tooth that ought to have healed several years ago started to suppurate for some reason, thus leading to this state of affairs./Take great care of your teeth, people. *silent farewell* Exa: Alright. See you again for Volume 3.
COVER[tn: Left side first, as it's the first thing you'd see when picking up the printed manga.] {Your Fortune for the Day.} A Type.[tn: Quick n' dirty update: blood types are surrounded with the same kind of bullshit mystique as birthsigns in Japan.] You're gonna slip on a banana peel, but quite miraculously, you won't fall off. Agelica: Aaaaah.
B Type. A pair of jersey trousers will fall on the road after it's rained, and you'll witness it. Lakshri: What gives?! Footnote: Ichtys saw something similar, a long time ago.
O Type. You will dream about bumping your toe into your dresser. Exa: A dream, eh...
AB Type. Aliens will abduct you. Right: What a strange life form... Okina: Okina.[tn: LOL.] Left: What a strange life form... Footnote: ...NOT. Just kidding. A good day to everyone.https://mangahelpers.com/t/gottheim/releases/24102[English] [Translation] Superior Cross Volume 1 by Gottheim2010-08-17T10:02:39+00:00Gottheimadmin@mangahelpers.comBah, I never bothered posting this here, because there wasn't a ready-made entry for it. Now it's done. Scanlations for this volume and the second one is available from Enxame. Third volume will follow shortly. Additional note: the canon (and highly counter-intuitive) spelling for Rocci's name wasn't available at the time the first volume was released. It has been since corrected in the script here, but not in the corresponding scanlation. -------------- 003 Narrator!Sheyla: This is a world where man and monster war against each other.//I'm Sheyla./And I'm a monster.//I'm with the hero, on a trip.
004-005 Story 1. Prologue
007 Exa: Sheyla, you're a bit heavy. You don't mind getting off? Sheyla: ZZZ~~~ Exa: Faking sleepiness, are we? I know you are. You said only 5 minutes. Well, it's been 5 minutes already. Sheyla: Don't wannyaa. I'm tired. You can't expect me to recover in just 5 minutes.[tn: Just like Maou and Demon Lord, I'll be using "meow" and "nyaa" alternately.] Exa: 5 minutes. Sheyla: BLOCKHEAAAD!!*pang* Narrator!Sheyla: This is the hero, Exa. He looks nice enough, but he can be straight-laced and stubborn to a fault. Exa: Ah. *peeved...* *BAOM* Exa: Hey, Sheyla!! Don't take out your frustrations on the landscape!! Lakshri: Say, Sheyla-chan./Forget about this uncouth individual's back.
008 Lakshri: You can have mine, if you want to. Narrator!Sheyla: This is Lakshri. Not halfway bad, but he's also an incorrigible womanizer. Angelica: That again? Don't you ever stop...? Narrator!Sheyla: That's Angelica. Tiny and cute-looking. Lakshri: Now that you mention it, you did weigh a ton. Angelica: I'll blow you off into oblivion!!*BOOM* Lakshri: AARGH Narrator!Sheyla: As it turns out she's among the scariest ones out there. Narrator: She did the exact same thing, though.
009 Rocci: Snort.....*bonk* Narrator!Sheyla: This is Rocci. She's been traveling with us for some reason, but honestly, I have no idea what's going on through her head. Bird: Chirp. Rocci: It's nothing. My bad... *glint* Rocci: ........ Narrator!Sheyla: On top of it, I feel like she's observing me or something. She's not all that good at it.//The 5 of us are all on a trip to defeat the Demon Lord.
010 Woman: AAAAAAAAAH. Rocci: A female voice?! Angelica: Over there!! She's being attacked by a monster!! Exa: We need to go save her...!!*baf* Lakshri: What?! Did you say "woman"?!
011 *swish* Exa: ?! *flomp* Lakshri: YAHOO
012 *STAP* Lakshri: Angelica. Rocci. You do your thing!!! Angelica: Air Cutter. *kabom* *tap* *tak tak tak tak*
013 *stap* *stap* *thump* *SBAAAAAAAM* *Grrrrrr* Narrator!Sheyla: Ah, yes. I haven't told you the reason why a monster like me is traveling with this bunch.
014 Narrator!Sheyla: They never kill monsters at all. For any reason. Monster: Grrrrrrrr Narrator!Sheyla: Once they defeat the Maou, under whom monsters are rallied. Monster: grrrrrr Lakshri: Don't worry. You're so small he won't be coming after you anymore.*startle* Narrator!Sheyla: They want to create a world where monsters and humans can live in harmony.//The Demon Lord is the hero's only enemy. Lakshri: Are you alright, little miss? Now that I'm here, you need not worry./Give it another 10 years and you'll grow into a real beauty. Come see me when that happens. Angelica: Hey there. Lakshri. *pop*
015 *poink poink* Lakshri: Monster?!//Duh? So he attacked you despite the two of you being of the same kind? Exa: Lakshri... Lakshri: Yikes?! Exa: Have you just... stepped on me? Lakshri: (Revenge for being unable to carry Sheyla on my back...)/Eh?! Must have been you imagination. Exa: Dang it....... *poink*
016 Exa: Heal.......//You don't have to be afraid. We have no intention to harm you, even if you're a monster. Lakshri: But you did look quite scary earlier. Girl: It's healed. *grin grin* Narrator!Sheyla: A real bunch of patsies.........
017 Girl: Thank you for saving me./Erm... This is all I have, but take it with my thanks. Everyone: Berries...? Girl: Ah... I knew these wouldn't be quite enough... Exa: Thank you. We can eat them later. *beaming*
018 *swish*
019 *SNAP*
020 *zzz*[tn: Penultimate panel. Look closely.]
021 Girl: Hhe hhe hhe... Looks like everybody's sleeping.//Didn't you ever learn not to put something you got from a stranger to your mouth...?*tchh* Girl: Hero-sama. What a simpleton you make........ *crrrr* Girl: Aaah... I wanna murder you so badly I can't help myself./The moment of the kill is the sweetest of all... Now, how should I proceed?*crack crack crack*
022 Girl: Shall I bite you head off.........?//No, that'd be boring./I wanna see you suffer more./Yes. I know.//I'll hurt you enough so that you can't move. Then, when you come to your senses/I'll kill your companions one after another...//As you see them die, you can have a good idea of what fear tastes like./You will be the last one to go. Kh kh kh.
023 Girl: UGH?!! Sheyla: A simpleton....? Indeed. The hero's not exactly bright.*crack crack* Sheyla: But I don't wanna hear that from you./You bloody simpleton........
024 *grrrrr* *swoosh* Monster: ?!! Sheyla: Your cronie from earlier? ... That was easy to figure out. *CRACK* *whack* *BAM* Girl: What the heck is going on?!
025 Sheyla: I fed him those berries of yours, and he didn't even notice./Ahahaha./Brainless as they come. Girl: Why, you!! *shrrrr* Sheyla: ?!//Gh./I can't get away...? Girl: I'm gonna swallow you whole.*gnah*
026 *GAPE* *bom* Girl: Aaagh.*Sbam* Sheyla: Certainly you didn't expect me to be undone that easily?*teeter* Sheyla: I knew about the berries' sleep-inducing effect, but I didn't tell the hero. Why do you think that is...? Girl: Beats me.//(She doesn't seem weak at all. But maybe I can get away...? What a joke. I'm being kicked around by my prey.) Sheyla: See, the hero won't kill anyone, human or monster. He's always like don't kill this, don't kill that. A real bummer.
027 Sheyla: I wanna stay around him, so I listen, but I've been feeling all rusty, as of late... Girl: ?! Sheyla: All the stuffiness is getting to me.//That's why I let him sleep. It was intentional./It's gonna be a lot more fun that way, don't you think?//Surely you can see where I come from.........? *BAOOM* Girl: AAAAAAARGH.
028 *rustle rustle* *Dash* Monsters: RAAAAH Sheyla: Attacking by surprise and all at once, are we?
029 *DUUUN* Monsters: Uuuh...... Sheyla: It's pointless./Pointless. Don't bother. Girl: You're strong... Why are you so powerful?*teeter* *grab*
030 Sheyla: Say... I could kill you easily, but you don't wanna die, yes? Do you? Girl: I... I don't wanna die... Sheyla: I see. Must be the same for all of you guys.../You don't care about others, but you value your own lives. We have that much in common.
031 Sheyla: Thank God...//See, it's kinda boring to kill off people who already have a death wish.
033 Sheyla: I merely knocked you guys out, but I don't think you're gonna try anything else against us after that little lesson in terror...//You asked me why I was so strong earlier, yes? *squeeze* Sheyla: I'm gonna tell you.
034-035 Sheyla: I am the Demon Lord. That's why.
036 Sheyla: I'm gonna kill off the hero eventually.//So until that day comes/I won't let him die to anybody else.
037 *rustle rustle* Exa: SHEYLAAAA//I wake up and I find a huge hole into the ground. You've been going wild on the landscape again!/What was the sudden rampage for?/And why didn't it wake me up? Sheyla: I... I don't know what you're talking about-meow. Exactly what do you mean?
038 Monsters: Uuuuh... Exa: You lie!! If this isn't one of the craters you open at every given opportunity, I don't know what is!! So why are you lying?! Sheyla: I... I, eeeer.../(Crap. I can't exactly tell him why I've opened that crater.//That's why I came up with a suitable lie. But you figured it out./You should be thanking me! But I guess that ain't happening...!!)*peeved* Sheyla: Damn it!! Exa: Don't you run away. I'm not done talking. Sheyla: Don'tcha come after me, stoopid. Exa: What do you mean, "stupid"...?!! Narrator!Sheyla: I am the Demon Lord.
039 Narrator!Sheyla: And I'm on a trip with the hero, in order to kill him someday/but now I can't anymore. Exa: I said wait!!/You've got a bruise on your hand!!//And here I was, trying to heal it for you.//Come on!!*grip* *sbaom*
040 Exa: Sorry!! I didn't mean to pull that hard...!!*bolt* *CLASP* Exa: Why are you holding on to me...?/I'm not taking you on my back. Lakshri: Ah. I feel so cheated. If you wanna hug someone, Sheyla-chan, try me. Angelica: You're really incorrigible.
041 Sheyla: I don't want you... to see my face... Exa: Why?[tn: When they said he was a simpleton, they weren't lying.] Sheyla: ....... Exa: You wouldn't get hurt like that if you stopped doing all these bad things./(Maybe she was hit in the face...? Is she okay...?)/Nevermind. I'm gonna heal you... Narrator!Sheyla: I can't kill him
042 Narrator!Sheyla: Because I've fallen in love with him.
043 Narrator!Sheyla: The hero is kind, but also stuffy, and an easy mark./Not a day goes by when I'm not left not knowing what to do with him. A real pain in the bum. He gets on my nerves...//An idiot who can't even tell left from right. Cold like dead fish. A cretin. Exa: Is she bad-mouthing me...? Narrator!Sheyla: Stupid. Stupid...//But for some reason*pat pat* Exa: Helloooo. You're healed already. Can you hear me? Let me have a look at your face, now. It needs healing too, right? Narrator!Sheyla: I've fallen in love with the guy... Sheyla: Don't wanna. Dummy. You freak. Exa: Whaaaat?!
044 Sheyla: (Aaah. So annoying.//I'm the Demon Lord, ya know./Yet you've done pretty much everything to piss me off, by now.//Like yelling at me.)Haa.//(.......Wait/That's right!! Why am I listening to him at all?!)*gasp* Sheyla: (I mean, I even saved his life, despite all the trouble he's causing me. And I didn't even kill those monsters, because you've asked me not to./Why am I getting yelled at in spite of all this?!
045 Sheyla: (And he called me a liar, too...!!/Well, I did tell a lie, but it was a well-meaning one!!//That's right!!/I'm not a liar!!!//Aaah. Being called a liar even though I didn't tell a lie? Now I'm mad.)*chirp chirp chirp* Sheyla: That, and I'm weak at the knees, in front of him.//This won't be settled until he makes an apology./I want him to apologize!!But I don't know how to talk him into it!! Hell, I'm pissed. I wanna run amok, but I can't.*peeved peeved peeved*
046 Lakshri: Hey. Sheyla-chan. Sheyla-chan. Sheyla: (Well, he did heal my hand) Lakshri: ............ Sheyla: (But he healed that other monster too... If that ain't funny.)//Haaa. Lakshri: (Uh? Was Sheyla-chan pouting?) *bonk* Lakshri: What are you doing?!! Angelica: Don't "what are you doing?!!" me. You've done something bad to Sheyla-chan, haven't you?!! Lakshri: I haven't.//Exa! It's you!! Whatever you did, Sheyla-chan's all weird, now. Apologize!! Angelica: Eeeh? It's Exa-sama's fault?! Lakshri: Yeah. No doubt about it.
047 Angelica&Lakshri: Apologize and cheer her up...!! Exa: (The... these two get along pretty well...)/Um, Sheyla.*peeved* *gasp* Sheyla: .........//..........*ignores* Exa: Uh...? She's ignoring me? Sheyla, do you want something...? Sheyla: .......... ignores. Exa: How about we have whatever you want for dinner tonight?/......../Alright. If you want something, anything, just say so.*peeved* Sheyla: Humph. Exa: ..........
048 Exa: (Well, no./What the heck am I playing at...?)//Excuse me.......//I've reprimanded you harshly... and for no good reason.../I won't just dismiss whatever explanation you have anymore. >Probably... No, for sure... Though it might still happen every once in a while...<//I'm really sorry... Sheyla: ..........//When you said I could ask for anything, did you mean it? Exa: Yeah.
049 Sheyla: So take me on your back./Till our next destination.*tilt* Sheyla: By the way, I opened that crater in the ground for no good reason. I was in a bad mood, and that's about it. Exa: (SHE........) Sheyla: And don't forget about tonight's meal Exa: (SHE GOT ME COMPLETELY...!!!)
050 Narrator!Sheyla: How long will this happiness last? Lakshri: Ah. Sheyla-chan, I can carry you forever, if it makes you happy. Angelica: You really have a problem. *doze* Exa: She fell asleep?! Narrator!Sheyla: I want it to continue for as long as possible. Flashback!Sheyla: I'm gonna kill off the hero eventually. Rocci: You're really the Demon Lord, after all... No. You were from the beginning. I thought you were, but now I've been able to hear it from you.//Then I have only one thing to do./Look out for a opening, and wipe you out of existence..........[/end
051 Story 2. Exa
052 Sheyla: (I am the Demon Lord./I'm on a trip with the hero.//Heroes and Demon Lords aren't compatible.)/Yawn.../(In truth, he's a mortal enemy, but I couldn't help taking an interest in him.//The Hero is perfection made man.)*tap tap tap*
053 *cling* Narrator!Sheyla: Good reflexes. Angelica: Exa-sama. I've found plenty of delicious-looking berries. Lakshri: Heeey, Exa. The fire is ready. Rocci: Hero-sama, I've found some medicinal plants that could be used to heal wounds, so I picked them up. >If someone needs healing, just let me know.< Exa: Thanks. Narrator!Sheyla: He's perfect, and has the power it takes to organize people.
054 Narrator!Sheyla: Pisses me off.*peeved* Narrator!Sheyla: Human beings are allowed to have flaws./Despite this, he sports exceedingly few of them. Sheyla: !//Heroooo.*splash splash* Exa: Ah. The fish is getting away. Sheyla: Here. You can have this.*tudun* Narrator: Poisonous Frog./Height: 6 cm./Its alkaloid poison attacks the nerves.
055 Exa: What am I supposed to do with it...? Sheyla: It's got a nice color. You could eat... Exa: YAH//It's poisonous. I can't eat something like that. Narrator!Sheyla: He can tell on such short notice! That's what I can't stand about him. Sheyla: (Crap. It was poison, then.../I was unable to tell, but he could?)*pout...* Sheyla: Alright. It's fine if there's no poison, yeah? I'll bring you something that isn't poisonous so you can eat it!! Exa: That's was the fishing is for.../Of course.
065 Sheyla: Here. Narrator: Okina./Okina genus (monster). Height: 30 cm (Span: 50 cm). Non-poisonous. Found all around the world. The most common variety of the Okina genus. *rustle rustle* *rustle rustle*
057 Sheyla: I wasn't poisonous. Exa: Like hell I could eat that!! >And you pulled the same thing in the past, too.< Sheyla: Damn it. I'm sure as hell gonna find some food. And you shall prostrate yourself before me.*rummage rummage* Sheyla: Lakshri.*beckon* Lakshri: Whaaat it iiiit, Sheyla-chan? Sheyla: Eat.
058 *munch munch munch* Sheyla: Tastes good? Lakshri: Ummm. It's got a pretty wild taste. Yes, it might fly.*munch munch* Lakshri: It's hard to chew upon, too. Sheyla: (Good... It doesn't look poisonous. The hero won't be able to raise any objections.) Lakshri: Sheyla-chan. I'll let you have something nice as a thank-you gift. Sheyla: What is it? Does it taste good? Lakshri: Yes. Sheyla: 'Kay, give it, then. *smack*
059 Lakshri: It's called a kiss. How do you like it? Sheyla: Gross.*swipe swipe* *crestfallen*
060 Shyela: Com on. What about that tasty treat you had for me.......? Lakshri: Well... um. I just gave it to you. It was the kiss... Ya know? Sheyla: What? If you've got nothing, don't go lying about it.*putt* Lakshri: Rocci-chan. I'm sad, console me!! *woosh* *pat*
061 Angelica: Aaaah.//Gaaaaaah. Narrator!Lakshri: Normal woman.*bouncy curvy bouncy* Narrator!Lakshri: Angelica*sbom* Lakshri: Oooh. This is dangerous!!/Something that should be there isn'...
062-063 Angelica: Now is not the time to mention it!*WHACK*
064 Exa: ........ Sheyla: What? Exa: Nothing......*annoyed* Sheyla: If you've got something to say, spit it out. Exa: It's nothing, I said... Sheyla: That's a lie! I can tell you wanna say something!!//You're always like that, only showing the best part of yourself./Always playing the perfect human. Where's the fun in that? Exa: What are you getting angry for?/What's wrong with a nice human being?
065 Sheyla: Yeah... Guess you're right. Exa: What are you trying to pull, dragging me down like that? Sheyla: That's not quite the point... Angelica: Sheyla-chan, Exa-sama!! Dodge!! *baf* *baf*
068 Exa: Achoo!! *tilt* Angelica: Aaah. Exa-sama?! Rocci: He's feverish... For now, we better let him rest for a while. Lakshri: A cold? How delicate. He really lacks in discipline./Look at me. I fell into that river just like he did, and I'm perfectly fine. Angelica: I don't think so... When you keep steeling yourself on principle, the fatigue eventually catches up to you, all in one go./All the more as he's got a particularly strong sense of responsibility.........//In addition.........
069 Angelica: He wouldn't have caught that cold if it weren't for a certain something... Lakshri: Hah hah hah.//What are you trying to say? Are you blaming it on me?/It's your fault in the first place, isn't it? Angelica: No. It's yours./Erm. No. I don't really know what that something would be.//Uuummm. Lakshri: Ummm. Flashback!Exa: What are you trying to drag me down for? FlashbackSheyla: Nothing... That's not quite the point. Sheyla: That's not what I mean...
070 Sheyla: (So what is it I was trying to do?) *perk* Sheyla: (A monster... Now of all times... It's alone, though. Should be easy pickings...)
071 *zzz* Sheyla: (It's my fault//He didn't need to help me, anyway. He wouldn't have caught that cold./Falling is no big deal, but he had to act all cool.) Monster: Hh hhe he.../She's all alone./The prey's doing all the work by itself.
072 Sheyla: Gotta admit, though... I'm glad he did...*todom todom* Monster: Heeey. *giggle* *Heeeey* *Heeeey* *chuckle* Sheyla: ?! *SWOOSH* Monster: Heh Heh Heh.../I have you now...
073 Sheyla: What the heck is this...?! Monster: I have y... Sheyla: Eeeek. It's coiling around meee!!! Monster: I HAVE YOU NOW.//........ Sheyla: .........//Erm. And who are you?/Don't wanna have to deal with that dude. Monster: You've just thought of me as a bummer, didn't you?!! Angelica: We should tell Exa-sa... Lakshri: He's sick. Leave him be... Exa: What happened...? Lakshri: Uh........
074 Lakshri: Sheyla-chan's gone into the forest, and she hasn't come back./We think she might be lost... Exa: How long has it been...? Angelica: One hour......... Strange, don't you think?/We were discussing whether we should all go look for her together... Exa: Together...?
075 Exa: That'd be inefficient. You'd better split up.*brush* Lakshri: Hey, Exa. Your fever.........//Duh//He's ignoring me... Angelica: Could he be angry, by any chance...? Lakshri: Eh? Why...?
076 Monster: Hah hah ha. So?/You're unable to move, aren't you? Sheyla: (The more I move, the more I get entangled into these threads.) Monster: (This net is sturdy and flexible. No one has ever been able to escape from it.) Sheyla: (The hero did save me/but a rescue from anyone is unlikely to happen in this situation.//Here he comes again./Hum!/Mister Good Guy!!*startle*
077 Sheyla: (That's right. The hero is among the best of what humanity has to offer./Brimming with a sense of justice, profusely courteous, inviting gratitude./Whatever happens, things will go for the best.*Hn Hn* Monster: Ahem./Care to listen already?/I'm trying to explain the reason why you're tied up. Sheyla: (I fall for it, and even in a situation like this I think about you, and I always end up in trouble. Then, the cycle repeats itself.)/Tsk Monster: Heey. Heeeey. Sheyla: (Damn. If only you could share the same feelings, even one time out of ten...)[tn: I'll be honest. Sheyla's stream of consciousness makes absolutely no sense to me, so I can't guarantee the accuracy of this translation.] Monster: Now it's time for you to be a good prey and keel over already. >I mean, are you even listening to me?< Sheyla: (Excuse me...? If I got serious, I could vaporize you without even thinking about it...
078 Sheyla: (But if I do, the hero will get mad at me./That's why I'm keeping my power in check, and mulling things over.)//Haaah.*miffed* Monster: You've been ignoring me from the beginning.*spit* Monster: It's about time you looked over here./The conversation isn't really progressing. *splish* Monster: You can't do anything, can you? Come on, let's see you get angry.//Blllll. Slappin' my ass.*one buttock* Sheyla: Damn you...!! Now I'm pissed!! Why should I show you mercy for the sake of the hero?/He ain't gonna find out if a small fry like you dies. I'mma kill you dead!! >Both halves of you.< *dudududunn*
079 *crr crrr* Monster: Wha........What?/Are you trying to cut off the threads?//Don't bother. It's totally.......//POINTLEEEEEESS*SNAP* *grin* Monster: Hic.
080 *BZZZZZUUMM* Sheyla: Now it's time to finish this.//Had enough time to say your prayers...?//DIE!! Monster: Hiiic
082 Monster: ?! Sheyla: .........//Ju... Just kidding-meoooooow.//Heh heh heh.//... Monster: H... Humph. You were just trying to look threatening...?//Then I'll grant you your wish and kill you right away!! Sheyla: I won't be able to dodge this...!
083 *CLANG* Sheyla: U... Uh?
086 *swish* *stap* Sheyla: Tha... Thanks... Monster: H... Hmph.//More prey just jumping spontaneously into the predator's maw?!/I'm gonna kill the two of you and put an end to this!!
087 Exa: I've got a fever, I'm feeling sluggish, and my head is spinning./Then you come along and piss me off.//I won't be able to hold back. Monster: And here I...
088-089 Monster: Come...*SBAOM* *SLAM* *whud* *frrrr* Monster: Unh... Exa: Don't worry. My sword doesn't have an edge.
090 Sheyla: Ahem... Hem.//(Well... I already said thank you earlier.../If I thank him for cutting the threads, and for the monster he's just defeated... that's 2 more times.//But it'd be kinda awkward not to say anything... Maybe I should mention how annoying that monster was, just to break the ice.)*tilt* Sheyla: Hero!! Exa: .......... Sheyla: What is it?!
091 Exa: You idiot!! *baf* *poof* Sheyla: Calm down.../Calm down Exa: Why did you have to go about it all by yourself. Sheyla: I couldn't afford to let you get involved... Exa: But it wouldn't have happened if all of us had fought together, yeah?*Uh* Sheyla: ......../(Whatever you say, you're always right./Never a useless move, never showing any weakness.)
092 Sheyla: (That's what I can't stand about you)/Are you mad...? Exa: Yeah. Because you just went about it without consulting anyone...//And... Sheyla: And...? Exa: .........
093 Exa: Nothing. Sheyla: The heck! If you've got a problem, just spit out the whole thing!! Exa: Enough. I'm tired.../Time to sleep. Sheyla: No you don't!! Hell no!! *zzzzz* Sheyla: That was fast.../(Why don't you show it all, hero? Except for the nice side, you keep everything else locked up inside yourself...)
094 Sheyla: (I'm not trying to drag you down.)/I wanna know it all. Your nice facet/as well as your ugly side.
095 Sheyla: (That's what being in love is about, right...?//Hah.//(I thought nothing of it, back then.)*bluuuush* Sheyla: But who would've guessed kissing could be so embarrassing?!!)
096 Angelica: Exa-sama... Are you gonna be alright? Exa: I will. Give me some time, and I'll be as good as new. Flashback!Sheyla: The heck! If you've got a problem, just spit out the whole thing!! Exa: (I felt something, back then./I was feeling jealous.)
097 Exa: (I didn't know what to do with myself.//I can't exactly show you that unsightly part of me./And talking about it is also right out...) *todom todom* Sheyla: (Why do I feel like this whenever I remember that moment...?)
098 Angelica: Well, let's get going...//? Exa: Yeah. Sheyla: Yup.*chirp chirp chirp* Flashback!Sheyla: Tastes good? Flashback!Lakshri: Ummm. It's got a pretty wild taste. Yes, it might fly.*munch munch* *grrrrrrrr* Lakshri: (What is it she gave me...?)[/end
099 Narrator!Angelica: My daddy is the son of my granddad, a monster, and my human granny./My human mother married him, and thus I was born.//That makes me 1/4th. Story 3. Angelica.
100 Narrator!Angelica: Whenever I was bullied, I would come to loathe my eye, and my blood.//Why did you have to fall in love with a monster?/I asked my grandmother this. My grandmother, who gave me my name......//But she couldn't tell me.
101 Granny: But whenever she talked about grandpa/she'd invariably be happy about it.//I can't understand. I heard he'd left her without a word... Kaward: Excuse me, hero-sama. Can I ask a favor of you?//I've sprained my ankle...
102 Kaward: So could you bring these paints to Umberto-san...? Exa: Paints...?
103 Umberto: Yes? Umberto, yes, that's me. What is it?*cough cough* Umberto: Eh? From Kaward-san?/He's sprained his ankle? Is he gonna be alright?//Well, thank you very much. Party: (A bear/He's a bear//Looks like a bear, and his hobbies involve painting.//Nah, I must not be looking properly. Let's have another look.)
104 Umberto: Please come in./I don't have much to offer, but still... >Would you like some honey?< Party: He's a bear alright!!! >Even talks about honey< *SBAM* *spontaneously playing dead* *poke*
105 Umberto: How rude. I'm not a bear./I'm a honest to goodness monster.*plop plop* *stir stir* Exa: Ah... Our apologies... Umberto: But to think you're a hero... And that you even have such an adorable girl following you... This makes me merrier than what my age would allow.*bashful* Angelica: Oh, my. Adorable. That's too much. Umberto: If only I was 40 years younger...//What are you talking about. You're pretty well beyond words. Lakshri: He's gotta have a poor vision.*bonk* Angelica: Shaddap. Umberto: The two of you get along pretty well, don't you? I'm jealous... Angelica&Lakshri: He does have a poor vision after all... Dude: Umberto-saaaan.*knock knock* Umberto: Yes? Dude: Aaah, Umberto-san. Your honey from earlier tasted wonderful. Thank you./Take these apples with my thanks. Umberto: I enjoy these more than anything else.
106 Dude: Also, Umberto-san.//Thank you for that nice picture from last time./It's done a lot of good to my room's atmosphere. Umberto: I'm glad you like it. I don't paint landscapes all that often... Dude: Don't forget to drop by for lunch. *peck* Exa: Monster and human getting along so well.../What a strange vision... Lakshri: People around here don't seem to mind monsters. Sheyla: *munch* Tastes good./Nah. He doesn't mind the villagers, so they don't mind him either, more like./They ignore me too. Even though I'm a monster.
107 Angelica: So villages like that exist too...//Some good taste, too... Sheyla: Apples, tea, scones, honey. It's all delicious./Tasty. Lakshri: What's the connection? Angelica: Well, it's very important for a girl. Umberto: Aah, excuse me. What a host I make. Party: It was nothing. Angelica: (Umberto-san is such a nice person.) Umberto: Ah. Stop paying attention for one minute, and it's getting dark already.//In the enjoyment, I didn't even notice when we started talking. Angelica: Same goes for us......
108 Exa: Guess we'll spend today's night in this village... Angelica: And you know, Umberto-san is really entertaining, and he's pleasant conversation. Exa: She sure talks a lot./Angelica, we're going ahead. Bartender: Aah. Umberto?/He's special...//He came to this village 40 years ago.../He was in shambles... Obviously in bad shape...//He'd been roughed up by human beings...
109 Bartender: Something about him falling in love with a human woman.//And a little girl being born from their union...//Then the villagers drove him out of town.../Sad, it is...//At first, people here thought they'd let him stay just long enough for his injuries to heal...//That's when Umberto turned out to be a very sociable fellow, who never balked whenever something was asked of him, and handled it like it was nothing... You get the picture.
110 Bartender: Before anyone knew/people started to gather all around him... Angelica: I see....../So that kind of monsters exist too... Bartender: He's still a monster, though.//And when a monster gets along well with humans, the other monsters come along, looking for trouble./That's why even though he's on good terms with us, he has to put some distance between us and himself.
111 Bartender: By the same token, his house is built slightly away from the rest of the village.//A sad story....... Angelica: (This is the kind of sadness Umberto-san had to get over...//It never showed even once on his face...)*cough*
112 Umberto: Today's really been a good day...*working hard* *stomp* General Grievous: I heard there was a hero in town... Umberto: So... What of it...? Grievous: Kill him.
113 Umberto: Me? Not happening.*pout* Grievous: What?/Last time I checked, you were a monster... Umberto: I don't wanna stick to the monster or the human side.//I'd rather be on good terms with both, if possible./If there's something wrong, it's with the world, not me.
114 Grievous: You're just sugar-coating the fact that you wanna live around humans...!!/Looks like it's gonna take some pain to make your eyes open.//I can help there. I will make you suffer!! *SBAOM* Grievous: Wha........../Magic...?!
115 Angelica: You torment Umberto-san...//I teach you how to fly!!! Grievous: AAAARGH*WHAM*
116 Angelica: Umberto-san, are you alright?! Umberto: Well, that was scary enough. Thank you.*poke* Umberto: Aaah. If only I was 40 years younger.../A strong girl, just how I like them.//What are you doing here, at this time of night...? Angelica: Eeer... Um.../I wanted to ask you something.//The old man at the inn told me about you./How you fell in love with a human woman...
117 Umberto: Ah, yes... Angelica: I guess it's impolite to ask this, but I need to know.../Can humans and monsters... really fall in love with one another...? Umberto: Yes they can. At the very least, it happened for me... Angelica: .......
118 Umberto: Yes. But is doesn't matter./Human or monster, I just loved my honey.//She was strong.//Had me cry a lot. Angelica: (A monster losing to a human...)//Honey? That's what you called her? Umberto: Yes. That's what I called my lover.//She had nerve, and courage.//When I was worried, she'd pat me in the back. Honey: Cheer up, my darling. Cheer up.
119 Umberto: She might have been strong, but she was a real crybaby./So quite often, the two of us argued and cried at the same time.//Her smile was so beautiful./The mere sight of it was enough to raise my low spirits through the roof.//Tears of anger... Laughs.../I enjoyed those moments I spent with her.//I enjoyed them a lot...//By now, the mere memory of it is more than enough.
120 Angelica: (A simple memory, more than enough........?/Really?/Because for me, it isn't...//Not knowing my granddad makes me feel lonesome.)/You have a daughter, don't you?/Don't you want to meet her...? Umberto: I wish I could meet her./That's right...(I do.../I do.../I'd like to take a look at my daughter...)/If I have any regret, it's this. I wish I could have seen her grow up, but I couldn't...
121 Angelica: It'd be nice if you could see her... Umberto: ........//I cannot./I left them behind, even though I knew people were making them suffer./All I deserve is God's punishment upon me... Angelica: .........And that's why I'd like to let him meet her.
122 Angelica: Because.../from what I hear, I can tell/Umberto-san is a good person. Lakshri: He's a bear, though. Angelica: He's not. He's a monster.//He can take a nearly-human form as well./He doesn't do it now, because he's tired.*Umberto, younger and assuming his human form.* Exa: Is that the case for you, Sheyla? Sheyla: That kind of monster does exist-meow. But this here is my original form. Lakshri: But we're talking about stuff from 40 years ago. We aren't exactly drowning under the potential leads...//On top of that, we're on a trip to defeat the Demon Lord./We don't have much room for that kind of things...
123 Angelica: .........//I guess you're right....... Lakshri: I mean, for all we know he could be your grandpa. Angelica: He's not. Because I got the half-monster blood from my father./And Umberto-san had a daughter. Lakshri: How old are you? Angelica: Are you trying to say I'm 40? >And I'm quarter monster. You know that, right?<//.......... But
124 Angelica: If my own granddad is like him, I won't mind at all... Umberto: Oh. The hero and his friends.*cough* Exa: We're here to thank you for the help...
125 Umberto: Resuming our travel, are we...?*cough* Grievous: UMBERTO!!//You went way too far, yesterday.../We're gonna destroy that village, along with the hero and his friends!! Angelica: The monsters from yesterday?! Come to pick on Umberto-san again?! >Even brought your little friends with you...!!< Exa: Everybody! To the fight! Sheyla: Time ter go hide meowself. Lakshri: You got it. Rocci: Yeah.
126 *cough cough cough* Angelica: Wait a minute... Are you alright...?//Blood?/Umberto-san?! Umberto: My medicine.........*cough* Angelica: Where is it?! Umberto: Second floor......... Angelica: Exa-sama! I'm going. Exa: Right!! Grievous: Oh no you don't!
127 Angelica: Out of my way*BLAST* Grievous: Argh. *sbom* *fshhhh* Grievous: The little brat... She's playing me for a fool... Angelica: I need to find it, quick...//Medicine...Where is the medicine...?//Here!/Gotta bring it back to him ASAP...*slam*
128 Angelica: A painting...?/(Me?!!//No. The picture's much too old./And the eye colors are mismatched.//Plenty of pictures of the same person.../What is the meaning of...)
129 Angelica: Now... I remember.../(My grandfather/Granddad disappeared before my father was born, without a word.//That's why he thinks he's had a daughter./The only name he could think of, back then was Angelica.//"Because she'll be our angel", he said...
130 Granny: Gosh... He was such a scatterbrain...//So when our granddaughter was born, we gave her the name.*cough cough* Granny: Which means your real godparent is your grandfather...*cough cough* Angelica: Umberto-san!!
131 Grievous: Where are you looking at?!*zip* *whack* Angelica: Aaah. *sbam* Angelica: ?! Grievous: You!! You'll pay for what you did yesterday...!!//Without your staff, you can perform magic no longer./I win... *DUUN*
132 Grievous: ?! Angelica: You're right... A staff normally serves as a magical enhancer.//But I'm a quarter monster.//And sometimes, the product of an union between human and monster is gifted with incredible power. In my case, the staff is a shackle that helps me keep my abilities in check... Grievous: ?!/So........
133 Angelica: You're gonna be so sorry!! *DUUUUUH* Lakshri: Angelica. You caught me into the blast.
134 *gulp* Umberto: Thank you... Angelica: You're my grandpa... aren't you...? Umberto: I noticed the moment I set my eyes upon you./Because you're the spitting image of my honey...//The butt, particularly... Angelica: That's why he was after my butt. He was checking... Umberto: Is she still alright?
135 Angelica: She died of a disease when I was a child. Umberto: I see....../Guess I won't get to see her again... Angelica: Why didn't you let me know who you were...? Umberto: .......//I was afraid that you would hate me.//For abandoning honey behind with the child...
136 Angelica: You didn't abandon them.//I asked the old man at the inn./You left them behind because staying with them might have gotten them killed... Flashback!Umberto: I understand...//If that's what it takes for you not to bring harm upon my wife and my child... Villager: Yeah. We don't wanna live with a monster around, who could take our heads in our sleep anytime.//You get lost, and we close our eyes on the half-monster and its mother.
137 Flashback!Bartender: It's not... like he could tell this to his bride./Because he wanted her to live peacefully with the rest of the villagers.//We proposed him to stay here in our village./But because of the monster attacks, he'd have to live away from the rest of us...//(The truth is, he wanted to see them./To live with them...//But he wanted them to be happy./So he spent the rest of his life denying himself that wish. He wasn't a very powerful monster//So he had no other choice.)
138 Flashback!Bartender: If God is watching, I think it's about time he gave the man his reward... Angelica: (I've been bullied, but they've never tried to kill me.../Certainly I have my granddad to thank for that..) Umberto: I hope life hasn't been too hard...?/Honey hasn't been crying...? Angelica: No. For the most part, we've been happy./(He wasn't nearby, but his spirit never failed to protect me........)
139 Umberto: I see...//That's good to hear... Angelica: That said, granny's always been worried about you./She must have cried a lot too, because she was a crybaby. Umberto: Huhu. I'm quite the crybaby myself... Angelica: She must have understood what happened./So she forgave you.
140 Umberto: (I see... She understood...//Aah. To think I had to grow this old to see my granddaughter...) Flashback!Umberto: I wish I could see her once./See her. I want to see her.) *cough cough cough* Angelica: Are you alright?!
141 Umberto: I... I have no more regrets............... *baf* Umberto: (This is probably God's whim. He was meant to punish me.) Angelica: Noooo. Granddaddy, don't die!!!
142 Umberto: I'm not dying. I'm just allergic to pollen.*cough* Umberto: The pollen went into my throat, and blood mixed with my saliva. I wasn't expecting it, though. My allergy will heal by the time the season is over.//Terrible. Aah, how I hate that period. Angelica: Well... Umberto: Take care of yourself, Angelica. Angelica: Take care of yourself too, granddaddy. *pfff*
143 Umberto: Well, we haven't talked in a while, honey./My wish has been granted./I'll be coming your way soon enough...//..........//Call me an egoist. My wish has just been granted, but now I've come up with another one.../(I wanna see her grow up for myself./I wanna see her be happy. Even rumors will do... *slip* Honey: Stupid... You've never really wished anything for yourself.../There's nothing wrong with your wanting to stay alive a little longer.
144 Honey: I've had more than enough time to enjoy our granddaughter's company.../Now it's your turn... Umberto: I guess you're right, Honey.//I won't be able to join you before a little while...
145 Lakshri: Angelica, you're gonna be fine? You don't wanna stay behind with your grandfather?/He seemed nice enough. Angelica: ....... Yeah.//Until now, I've always hated my eye and my blood.//Every day, I was bullied for being a monster's daughter./I was so powerful I had to use a staff to contain my power./And my monster granddad had left without a word...//But human or monster, it doesn't matter anymore...
146 Angelica: Now I know I was born because my parents wanted me.//So I can live on, and carry myself with pride./This is my way of repaying the people who wished me to life.//And my companions here are what makes me happy./We'll build a world where monsters and humans can be happy. So no one ever gets to experience the same sadness as my grandfather did.//Don't you agree?/And I have no shortage of strength either. Lakshri: .......
147 Lakshri: That's right. You're strong... *pat* Lakshri: Alright... Today, you get a little treat. I'm gonna stroke your hair. *Uh-oh./That's close.* Lakshri: I guess that's a bit unfair...*stroke stroke stroke* *smooooch* *trying hard*
148 Angelica: (That's right. It's a bit sad to go away from the grandfather I've met at last. But I have to give it my best shot.)/Aaaaah. Stupiiiiid.*BAOOOM!* Exa: Hey. Lakshri is flying away?! Sheyla: Someone tell meow what the heck is going on. Rocci: I saw it happen. >The man has no decency.<
149 Lakshri: Clive. This is the request of a lifetime.*GRRRRRR* Lakshri: Give it to me. Clive: Uuuh...? What are you talking about, Lakshri?*namu namu*[tn: Buddhist prayer.]
150 *munch munch* Clive: Shouldn't you be using your request of a lifetime on something a bit more significant?*rub rub* Lakshri: Don't mind. Don't mind. Clive: You don't have to do that for me to share my food with you, you know./Because we're like siblings, and the older brother protects the younger one. Lakshri: Well yeah. Since I've used my request, feel free to use yours as well, Clive. Clive: That said, it does look delicious when you're eating it./You took me a bit by surprise, there...//......... .........//Nothing comes to mind.*bat* Lakshri: Ack.*GULP* Clive: Some other time, I guess.
151 Lakshri: Back to this town, it is.......... Exa: What's going on, Lakshri...? Lakshri: .......... Erm...//Well. Maybe I can chance upon him./My best friend Clive. I've been dying to meet him forever...[/end
152 Story 4. Best Friend (Part 1)
153 Exa: Whereabouts unknown...? Val: Yeah. That's right.//12 people have gone missing until today. Adult males, all of them./The castle has dispatched the militia in order to investigate, but they've run into an obstacle, so they're stuck.
154 Val: And the prince has asked for a hero to investigate instead./Are you in? Exa: So? Who are you? Val: Hum. That's a long story. Exa: Well, make it brief, then.//Also, this is my money. Get you hand off it, please.*grr* *money* *grr* Val: Ungh. My hand is against the idea./Well, that's gonna make for another long story...//I did it. Julie, big brother's been able to earn more money! Rocci: Exa-sama... Exa: Okay, okay. It's small change, after all.*not very keen on it* VAl: I am Valentin. It's been a while, Hero.
155 Exa: Valentin...?! But you looked more like that, didn't you? What happened? Why are you answering that message from the Prince?*wooosh* Val: >What impudence!< Read Superior Volume 9 for the details./Wait up!/The Prince is offering a job. And I've got a massive debt to pay!/I mean, listen already. Book: Superior 9 Val: Guess I have no choice. I'll give you a rough explanation. Yesterday's foe has become today's ally. That's what's going on between the two of us.*AFTER* Exa: Face me, will ya. Val: The reason for my being neck deep in debt is that originally, I was gathering money to heal my little sister's eyes, but my body got torn to pieces along the way. That major sadist of a doc put me back together, and because of this I've contracted a massive debt towards him, damn it!! I'll never be able to repay it, even if I lived for centuries!! Exa: Can you make it a bit quicker? Val: Of course!! Exa: And why are you shouting?//I'm willing to investigate the missing people, but wouldn't it be simpler to assume they've been assaulted by some monster?
156 Val: Guess you're right. That's very likely... Exa: "Guess you're right..." Am I to understand this isn't going to settle the matter...? Val: Yeah. We haven't found the flimsiest of traces of those 12 people. No corpse, nothing. I find it hard to believe a monster's just attacked them to satisfy its appetite.//Also, if a monster's gonna attack people, why has it been ignoring the weak, like women, children, and the elderly altogether...? Exa: Indeed...//There must be some kind of plan going on. I guess that's what needs to be investigated. Val: That's my hero. You assimilate things quickly. Makes things easier.
157 *AAAAAAH* Lakshri: Here we are. More recklessness for the Prince. Rocci: (I see.../So this is the kind of guy my brother works as an attendant for.) Angelica: (The Prince thinks Exa-sama is a drudge of his, doesn't he?) Exa: What about my main job as a Maou exterminator? Val: Duh? Why do I feel such a drop in temperature from you guys? Sheyla: Don't worry-nya. They're always like that. Lakshri: We can't exactly walk away from the job, though./What with the people disappearing... Exa: Yeah. Of course./We'll look for the culprit. I'll be the bait. Lakshri: Guess there's no way around it. Rocci: I'm not really getting it...*dozing off* Angelica: Understood! Sheyla: Count on meow. Val: You're helping me a lot, there. Sheyla: Well, you did have a way of forcing yourself upon us, meow./The Prince has read him like a book. Lakshri: Tell me about it. Exa: Hey, that's harsh!!/Lakshri. You have betrayed me.
158 Lakshri: The town hasn't changed.../Just like in the old days..........//It sickens me./(Returning here makes me feel all kinds of miserable.)
159 Narrator!Lakshri: (Back then, I was but a worthless orphan.//Actually, I did have a home to return to/but I would have sooner died than returned there.) *grrrrrr* Lakshri: (So I'd steal whenever I was in need of food.//I felt guilty about it)
160 Narrator!Lakshri: (I persuaded myself that those who had something were the ones to blame. That it was their fault if they'd had it stolen from them.//I was always on my own./The whole world was my enemy.//I had no choice but to live that way.//Among them)
161 Narrator!Lakshri: (Clive was the only ally I ever had.//The only one I could accept. As an older brother of sorts.//I'm wondering where he is right now.)*phew* *woosh* *stap stap* Lakshri: Hey... Woops...
162 *CLANG* Lakshri: ?!!
163 *grapple* Lakshri: Ungh. Exa: Lakshri, what's wrong?!! Clive: Don't move...!! Lakshri: Un...gh Clive: This is our first reunion after a long while, so don't interfere. *close in* Exa: (No openings... What should I do...?) Lakshri: (No way... I can't imagine it's him, but...)/That voice...
164 Lakshri: That you, Clive? Exa: (Clive...?! As in, Lakshri's best friend?!/Why?!) Clive: Heartless though you may be, you remember me, I see./Has life treated you well? My little brother........ Lakshri: (Heartless.......?! Me.......?!)//Agh...*cling* Clive: What's wrong? You don't look so good. Oh. I guess that's because of me.//Why are you returning, after all this time.../After the way you fled... Lakshri: ............?!
165 Exa: Guess jumping him all at once ain't gonna do a lot of good... Angelica: It's a good thing he's surrounded, but the situation still stinks... Sheyla: Pah... A stealthy attack from Lakshri's back is out of the question... Rocci: We should wait for him to get tired, I take it. But if we do, Lakshri won't make it. *crack crack* Clive: ........?! Angelica: (An opening...?!)//Step aside!!*BOM*
166 *stap* Lakshri: Why... are you doing this...? Clive: It should be obvious. I want revenge from you... Lakshri: Why...? Clive: Don't tell me you've forgotten what you did to me.
167 Clive: That's why I came here today. In order to kill you.//If you wanna stop me, you'll have to kill me first.//Cra...*tremble tremble* *DASH* Clive: Let's postpone the mutual killing to a later date! Lakshri: (You're wrong. I was trying to set things right...)*pant pant* *teeter* Lakshri: (And...)
168 *bom* Lakshri: (If you hated me for it, why did you act as if you'd forgiven me...?!) Exa: Lakshri... Are you alright...?! Lakshri: (That's right. I committed a sin against you that even a lifetime couldn't repay.) *step step step* *step step step* *baf* Dude: You again!!
169 Clive: Let's split up!! Lakshri: Ri... right! *baf* Hat: Ah. You're that kid from earlier....... Clive: Crap! Dude: Please catch him for me!! Clive: Lakshri...?! Lakshri: Ah. Hat: We're gonna make sure you can't do any wrong ever again!! Lakshri: Clive...!! Help me...!!
170 *splat* *sniff* Clive: Don't cry, Lakshri... You've been able to escape, so everything's fine... Narrator!Lakshri: (Because of that wound, Clive became unable to use his hand.)
171 Narrator!Lakshri: (Despite this, he never confronted me about it.) Clive: Don't worry. Even with one hand, I'll be there to protect you. Narrator!Lakshri: (But as it turns out, I really shouldn't have asked him to come to my help.) Voice: Extra edition!! Narrator!Lakshri: (Clive wouldn't have been injured for the rest of his life.) Lakshri: A fight to determine who's gonna be a hero.../And there's a reward, too. *swoosh*
172 Lakshri: (I don't know how strong I'll need to get./But I know I can trust my own speed.//Clive would always praise me about it.//And I/I would always rely on him.//And this is the result.//It's always been like that. I always berated myself about my own weakness./I never did anything to move forward, away from it. And I'd envy those who made it to the top.//I'm must believe in myself!!
173 Lakshri: (Because I have nothing but myself to put on the table.) Narrator!Lakshri: Then I made my way through the hero tournament, up to the finals.*YEAAAAAAAH* *YEAAAH* Narrator!Lakshri: And I felt relatively comfortable/as I lost to Exa.
174 Narrator!Lakshri: I decided to join the hero on his travels, as his right hand man./In order to change the person I'd been up until then.//So I wouldn't have to be depending on Clive ever again.//I've been able to obtain a hefty sum of money that way.//I wanted Clive to have it./That's why I wanted to see him.//But as it turns out, he never forgave me for the loss of his hand.
175 Lakshri: I just wanted to set things right...!! Clive: Money...? You can't possibly think you can set things straight with that kind of trash!! Lakshri: I always wanted to see you. Clive: And I've spent all that time hating you!!/You frigging fled from me... Lakshri: I wasn't flee...*flapping* Lakshri: ..........?!! *chink* Clive: That's why today, I am here to kill you.
176 *bolt* Lakshri: Haa... Haa...//Haa.//(But it looked like his hand had been able to heal...//So why did he pretend he'd forgiven me?//No...//It doesn't matter./I am to blame for this, there's no doubt about it.//And Clive hates me enough to want to kill me.
177 Exa: Well, I'll act as a decoy and walk about town. Everyone on my trail. Anything happens, initiate the mutual feedback. Angelica: Exa-sama... Exa: Yeah. I'm gonna have to be isolated. No way around it. If it comes to a fight, I'll be counting on you to back me up.//I have high hopes for this. *Angelica: Aaaah. Lakshri: ......... Exa: Lakshri!//You're sleeping or what? You're all over what happened today, right? Lashri: Nah, I'm okay.
178 Lakshri: What do you think you can do without me anyway? Exa: Guess you're right. You don't seem to be at the peak of your form eith... Lakshri: I'm okay. I'm okay./I just remembered Sheyla-chan's underwear, and that kinda distracted me. Exa: Wu... Man, that's wrong in so many ways... Lakshri: Regarding Clive, there's nothing to worry about. It was just some kind of bad joke./(Even at the best of times, Exa has a lot to worry about. No need to add any more to his concerns.) Exa: Ye... Yeah... *strut strut* Angelica: Doesn't look like anything is about to happen... What if these people just ran away from home...? Rocci: Don't think so......
180 Angelica: Exa-sama!! Is this monster responsible for the disappearances?!*baf* *close in...* *DASH* Exa: Lakshri!! Lakshri: On it!
181 *Dash* Lakshri: ........!!//Waaah.//.......... Exa: Lakshri... Are you okay?
182 Lakshri: Yeah. Sorry./In ended up spacing out, after all. *pat* Exa: Don't worry, it can't have gone too far. Let's split up and look for it.
183 *BAOM* Exa: Sure helps to have you come out and attack.//That saves me the trouble of looking for you. Kagami: The hero.........//So the Maou must be in town as well...//It would be wise to retreat from this city before he can find me...
184 Clive: Haa.../Haa...*squeeeeze* Clive: Haa... *zzzz* Clive: (There's no more time.//But there's something I have to do before the end.//Lakshri. I have to..........)
185 *creak* Clive: Uh. *tremble tremble* Clive: ?!//(Spasms...? No. I'm just done taking the medicine.) Lakshri: How nostalgic... You always came here whenever you were feeling down. Clive: ?! Lakshri: Clive...? Clive: Lakshri...
186 *TREMBLE TREMBLE TREMBLE* Clive: (Cra... So they were spasms, after all. Am I to understand I didn't take enough medicine...?! Lakshri: Clive... What's wrong...? Clive: Get lost! Or I'll kill you!!
188 Clive: I said I'd kill you. Don't just close in like the old friend you clearly aren't!! Lakshri: This is neither the time nor the place for this!! What's going on?! Tell me!
189 Lakshri: Should I take you to the hospital?! Clive: Please... Just... go away... Lakshri: You're still talking about that?! Clive: Stop... Not now... I can't have a fit of spasms in from on him.*tremble tremble* *dun* Clive: AAAAAAAAAH!!! *CRACK CRACK*
192 *BAOOM* Lakshri: Haa/haa//(I guess it's gonna be a tough piece of work to capture him on my own.../Would be cake if I had someone to act in tandem with, though...*swipe* Angelica: I've gotta do something... Rocci: Bummer... Sheyla: A pain in the bum-meow.
193 Lakshri: So that monster//Clive, it was you...?! Superior Cross [1] The End.
Author's afterword scribbling inside the cover page. Ichtys: Why? Why do I have to put my afterword there...?! Er, cover page scribble, I mean.*GASP!* Sheyla: That's because you drew so much there was no room left. Ichtys: Manager-san. I want an explanation! Sheyla: She told you already. I mean, you've done the same thing before. >It's not like we didn't understand each other. Were you listening at all?< Outside frame: That happens every single time!! Hopeless. Ichtys: I'm out of motivation. I've been out of motivation lately, and I'm not getting any better./I'll just play video games already./I feel like crying, honest. Sheyla: Alright, alright. Forget about the whiny explanation. How about you make this afterword thing look like one?*drag drag* Ichtys: Right. Let's do that. Pleased to meet you. Or nice to see you again. I'm Ichtys./Ah, crap. They're all cold.*teeter* Sheyla: Cold means nice. Ichtys: Superior Cross Volume 1 is out. Outside frame: The title is a bit long, so we're gonna call it SC. Ichtys: I've written it so it'd be understandable even for those who start out with it/But if you like it, you can read the previous 9 volumes of Superior. I'd appreciate it.//But man, that's essentially the 10th volume... Someone: It was meant to last 4 volumes at first. We thought the 10th one would have been the end of it. Ichtys: Oooh... People who've been reading from the beginning. Outside frame: Thank you! Author's scribbling inside the cover page. The end![tn: I could barely understand anything at all, so the translation is bound to be inaccurate.]
Ashi-san's word of wisdom gibbering nonsense for this volume. *scunch scrunch* Outside frame: Substitute. White Sheyla. White: I'm hungry./I wanna eat Yakitori.[tn: Grilled chicken dish.]*whisper* Ichtys: ?! *Umberto, as a kid.* Umberto: Thank you very much. Tn: Trying to read the following list of names without the pronunciation hints would be an exercise in futility. If these are available somewhere else, please point them out to me. Last sentence reads "And you, and me."