I’m all right. / More importantly, we must quell this chaos. F—First things first, let’s find a flashlight. Also…
Get a hold of yourself! You’re in charge here, right?!
p25: =========================================== That freaking hurt. What the heck?!
What do you think I’m doing?!! K—Kadokura-san, / this isn’t the t—
Ah! Aaaaaaaaa!
p26: =========================================== Y—You did it!
For now, get everyone together and get outside!
p27: =========================================== Hurry! If they surround us, we’re done for! As long as the bullwork’s still working, we can pull this off.
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/39472[English] [Translation] 6000 17 by Dowolf2014-02-17T23:00:04+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com6000 17
p1: ================================================ The Cofdeece is… gone.
Did you think hesitation would improve the situation? / Confucius said one should not speak of misfortune.
He who seeks only profit shall lose all profit. All this happened because you used Wen to play detective.
Chapter 17: Once More…
p2: ================================================ The military has already finished its investigation. / There are plenty of idiots who want to use that, but such delusions are unthinkable.
The most grave decisions will be made by those who, at the very end, can bear the responsibility.
we can no longer return to the surface. / Barring some miraculous windfall, we’re stuck here at the bottom of the sea…
p14: ================================================ That settles it. This is no longer the old Cofdeece.
At some point, without my conscious awareness being interrupted even once, / I left the chaos on the stairwell and returned to my original location.
p15: ================================================ Please step aside, Kadokura-san! Even now, we still have to gamble on what little chance remains!
At any rate, let’s start by securing at least a little more electricity.
We need to do all we can to hold out until reinforcements get here.
Uemura-san! There’s no point just telling you!
p16: ================================================ I get what you’re saying, but take a good, hard look at this! Everywhere outside is crawling with those things!
p17: ================================================ Don’t you think we’ve got bigger problems than waiting for reinforcements?!
p18: ================================================ Living sacrifices to banish the darkness…
Metamorphosed humans…
Craving the sun, seeking to flee the darkness of the ocean depths…
p21: ================================================ Thinking back over the flow of events, it’s clear this was no accident.
Which means we’re never getting any damn reinforcements!
It’s checkmate. Freaking checkmate!
p22: ================================================ I was always the guy who, when push came to shove, got a jump on things, and yet…
Now bastards I can’t trust have the power of life-and-death over me. / You let your guard down, and this happens.
Hm? / The conference room…? This…. is footage from the security camera, right?
p23: ================================================ Yeah, come to think of it… Didn’t I grab all the data off of Sakonji-san’s old computer?
Right about now, I couldn’t care less about the truth from years ago, but… hmm.
!!
Wait, hold it. What are they…
p24: ================================================ That extreme conditions give rise to egocentrism is a hideous fallacy.
When the outer trappings of culture are sundered, man can catch a glimpse of chaos… I am glad I was able to sprinkle onto that even a single drop of hope.
p25: ================================================ An intensely
black hope.
p26: ================================================ Small it may be, but that is enough to overturn my fear of death. / The cold sun’s palace is complete. It is as perfect as a platonic solid, as disorderly as the demons of the seven deadly sins.
p27: ================================================ For the truth is, mankind is incorrigible.
p31: ================================================ You want to work while navigating around those monsters? That’s impossible! Please, listen to me!
But… But still, if we don’t, / then our only choice is to sit here and wait for death.
Yeah. / Here in the CCR, we’re on a different oxygen network than the rest of the facility.
If we close the bulkheads, our supplies will only hold out for so long!
We’ll be fine.
p32: ================================================ I’m sure we’ll be fine. / Let’s just wait here.
Rescue will surely come.
If we do nothing dangerous and simply wait till then, I know everyone will be saved….
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/36804[English] [Translation] 6000 16 by Dowolf2013-01-21T00:38:23+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p1: Title: Hell
SFX: Roar
(?): Ugh…
p2: <no text>
p3: Kadokura: Wahh!
Kadokura: Where… / are we?
Amakasa: Somewhere inside the facility, of course.
p4: Amakasa: I thought we were sinking into water, though. / Maybe I’m starting to go crazy.
Kadokura: A ferocious, ancient god…
Kadokura: That thing back there must’ve been the one Sakonji-san was talking about. / A being born in a ceremony three years ago…
Kadokura: We haven’t gone crazy.
p5: Kadokura: This is all real! / Why won’t anyone believe me?!!
Kadokura: You saw it too, doc! / And not just that monster!! / Just take a look around you!
Kadokura: The victims from three years ago are wandering these halls. / And there’s other dangerous things here, too. Amakasa: W—wait!
p6: Amakasa: ….. / ………..
Amakasa: Let’s just head back for now, before anything else happens. / There’s nothing to be gained by waiting here.
Amakasa: …What is it?
p7: Kadokura: Was there a straight hallway like this anywhere within the facility?
SFX bubble: Beep
p8: Man: What was that sound?!
Various: It sounded like some sort of beast… / Stop talking crap.
SFX Bubble: Tap tap tap… (?): The water pressure couldn’t have cracked the hull somewhere, right?
SFX: Fhz Man: The dorm display’s…
Xia: We need to conserve power.
p9: Xia: Our source of electricity’s been cut off. / How can you use it so frivolously? / A big-screen display is a complete waste!
Xia: …Not that conserving electricity’s going to do much right about now! Uemura: Please, wait! / Something weird really is happening on the other floors. / I can’t get any readings from elsewhere…
p10: (?): What do you mean? / They look like cut-off sections. / Maybe the emergency power failed there?
Samejima: Those areas are probably on a different power circuit than here, in the CCR. Uemura(?): Samejima-san!!
Uemura: Right now, we can check neither the temperature controls nor the oxygen supply. Samejima: And I’m worried about the welfare of all the workers…
Samejima: If we all work together, we can restore functionality and save everyone! / Uemura, you’re in charge of forming a rescue party. Uemura: Yes, sir! (?): Hey, where are the giant floodlights?
Samejima: Shia-kun, work on getting the systems back on-line.
p11: Xia: So what do you plan on doing once we save them?
Samejima: Don’t just stand around!! / There must be a large contingent of personnel stranded in the communications subsphere.
Uemura: It’s dark in here. Watch your step! SFX: *step*
Uemura: L… Light… / Bring me the lights, quickly!
p12-13: SFX: *Flash*
Uemura: What… What is this? / The stairs to the communication room are… / gone… / How far do these stairs go?
p14: SFX: *Collapse*
Guy: ….Hihi…
Guy: Keheheh. / Hihihi.
p15: Uemura: Hey! (?): Guffaw
Uemura: Calm down!
Uemura: Everything’s going to go fine, / so don’t overthink things!! SFX: Pow
Guy: What part of this is going “well”?! SFX: Clink
Guy: Stop trying to make it sound like everything’s all right!! / What are we supposed to do, at a time like this?!
p16: Kadokura: We’ve walked for quite a while, but…
p17: Amakasa: There was an Aztec codex on the walls of Herschbach’s room, right? SFX: *Step*
Kadokura: Yeah. / Those wall paintings were…
Amakasa: Aztec mythology / speaks of a battle between Quetzalcoatl, the sun god, and Tezcatlipoca, the god of darkness.
Amakasa: In order to ensure the sun rose again the next day, / priests supported Quetzalcoatl by offering living sacrifices… / They brought countless people before their alters and ripped their hearts from their chests. / All so that the sun would rise.
p18: Amakasa: Herschbach, too, must have longed for the sun. / Perhaps he became a priest for the sun god and continued offering sacrifices.
Amakasa: Anyways, it seems like this hallway goes on forever.
Kadokura: The sun god…
Kadokura: The people involved in the accident three years ago / must have been terribly afraid of the dark…
p19: Kadokura: They sought to once more see the light of the sun, / and to that end offered countless living sacrifices…
p20: Flashback “Beffroi”: I can’t go to heaven! I can’t go to heaven! / I can no longer go to heaven!
p21: Flashback “Beffroi”: And I’ll never get another chance!
Flashback “Beffroi”: My faith and my soul are lost for all eternity!
Amakasa: There’s a lot of strange things going on, but nothing that can’t be explained by the right theory. / Extreme religions often spread / in societies with severe protein deficiencies.
Amakasa: Within a collective, severe cost calculations must be made when distributing calories. / Taboos are created in order to protect the chosen distribution. / These taboos are strengthened by religion, and the religion in turn is given the power and mechanisms to accomplish the task.
p22: Amakasa: But the Aztecs had even greater problems before that. / Their environment was particularly harsh, so perhaps their sense of societal costs was blown out of proportion.
Amakasa: They gathered people from the surrounding areas and used them as living sacrifices or consumed their flesh.
Amakasa: On paper, they were religious sacrifices; / however…
Amakasa: Perhaps what the people truly feared / was the end of their age of plenty.
p23: SFX Bubble: Roar / Screech
SFX Bubble: Roar
Kadokura: That… That sounds dangerous. Amakasa: …You’re… / You’re right.
p24: SFX: *Step*
Hah / Hah
SFX: Hah / Hah
p25: Kadokura: Have I done something… / that can never be undone?
p26: Kadokura: If Herschbach / was a priest of the sun god who offered living sacrifices, / then after he killed the sacrifices / the dark would…
p27: Hah / Hah
Amakasa: Thank goodness!! There’s a door!
SFX: *Click click* Amakasa: Shit! / Open, dammit!
p28: SFX: Clong (the sound of that door opening) (?): !! / Where are we?!!
Amakasa: Wait! / Help me shut the door before they get in!
Uemura: What? / I think I heard a voice from down below… SFX: *Wavering*
p30: SFX: Roar
Uemura: If there’s anyone alive down there, please, answer me!
Kadokura: That’s Uemura-san’s voice!!
Kadokura: Everyone must be up above! / H—Hey! SFX: *Run*
SFX: Hah!
p31: SFX: Roooar / Rooar
SFX: Crash
Uemura: Dammit! This is bad! / Hurry!
p32: Uemura: They’re right behind you!! https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/36670[English] [Translation] 6000 15 by Dowolf2013-01-03T18:56:02+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p1: Chapter 15: A Black Mirror Spitting Smoke
Uemura: We’ve only switched on emergency power to the CCR. / I can’t seem to affect anywhere else!
Uemura: No, probably…
Kusakabe: Hey, somebody go / and find out what that sound was!
p2: Kusakabe: I hope nothing was destroyed… / but it did sound like an explosion…
Uemura: I’m running checks. / Right now, there is no indication of an incident from within the facility.
Uemura: No change in pressure. / The temperature’s low, but it’s within acceptable range.
Uemura: I’m still gathering information on the lower levels. / It’ll be a minute…
p3: Kusakabe: I have a bad feeling about this… Our contact with the surface is still cut, / and Wein had to leave now, of all times. And now we’ve lost contact with the DST-1 elevator, which stopped midway up…
Kusakabe: This can’t have anything to do with the incident three years ago, right?
p4: <no text>
p5: Kadokura: He sunk into the floor?!
Amakasa: Be quiet.
Amakasa: Is it a hallucination / caused by some drug?
Amakasa: But then why would we experience the same delusion? / Did we fall for some sort of trick without realizing it?
p6-13: <no text>
p14: Kadokura: ……. / ……A…
p15: Kadokura: Wh—whoa! What the?! Amakasa: No, this is—
Uemura: On a whim, I thought I’d use sonar to take a look outside the facility, and… / well…
p18: Uemura: It’s huge. / What’s this shadow supposed to be?
Kusakabe: I want to see it for myself… / Can we get a visual?
Uemura: It’s weird. / I can’t control any of the cameras in the subspheres….
Uemura: But this / is right above us…
p19: Kusakabe: It’s right above us?
(?): Why not display the visuals from the highest-up camera on the dome display?
Uemura: That might work… / I’ll do it myself.
Uemura: We’ve got visual! / Switching over the display.
p20-21: <no text>
p22: Kusakabe: Kyahhhhhhhh!!!
p23: (?): Huh? What’s going on?!
(?): There—there must be some mistake!
(?): Hey, wait… Isn’t that…
p24-25: (?) the elevator tube?!
(?): It’s broken off! / Why would our lifeline break off?!! / Kusakabe-san, you’re in charge, right? / Please, say something!
p26: Xia: Shit!! / I was too slow!
Xia: All the signs were there! / Dammit! / If only I had paid more attention to Wein’s actions regarding the accident!
p27: Xia: I knew all this already! / Shit! How dare they make a fool out of me!
Uemura(?): K—kusakabe-san, / may I ask you something? / What does this mean?
Xia: It means we’ve been fucking thrown away!!
p28: Xia: That was our connection to the surface, / and now it’s here at the bottom of the sea!!
Uemura: I hate this… I hate all of this…
Uemura: This is absurd… / Uugh…
(?): …Damn…
p29: <no text>
p30: (?): What was that? Another accident? / That wasn’t an explosion just then… right?
(?): Now the only lights we’ve got left are the emergency battery-powered ones…
p31-32: <no text>
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/36566[English] [Translation] 6000 14 by Dowolf2012-12-21T05:52:03+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans *Special thanks to Emily B for the Chinese transliterations.
p1: Chapter 14: A Living Sacrifice to the Sun
Wein: How—How could this happen?! / Somebody’ll pay for this! You listening?! / Now hurry up and do something!
Worker: This won’t make it in time…
p2: Kusakabe: Stop wasting time grumbling and figure out a way to save Wein! / Are the elevator technicians here yet?
Worker: They’re not coming! I can’t even contact them! Kusakabe: Can we take control of it? Worker: Not a chance. The people topside are still locking us out.
Worker: I guess that, now that they’ve got all their observation equipment set up, / they’re more worried about themselves during an emergency.
Worker: I don’t really want to think / about why communication hasn’t been restored yet…
p3: Worker: No matter how you look at it, it’s like they’re ignoring us deliberately…
Kusakabe: But why / would they do that?
Wein: Why… / Why has it come to this?
p4: Wein: It hurts… Somebody, / help…
Wein (Chinese): Wŏ kě bù xiăng sĭ zài zhèr (I don’t want to die here)… / Jiù mìng a (Save me…)
Wein (Chinese): Wŏ bù xiǎng sĭ a (I don’t want to die…) / Jiù mìng a (Save me…) / Mā ma (Mother…)
p5: Wein (Chinese): Mā ma (Mother…)
p6: (?): Looks like everything’s starting to fall apart. / And I’ve been worrying about what we should do with Sakonji-san when we head home tomorrow…
(?): What, the next patient’s not here yet?
Shirane: Dammit all… / Kids these days never show up for their appointments on time!
p7: Shirane: Hey! / Kadokura-kun’s missing!
p8: SFX bubble: Hah / Hah
(?): Hey! Wait up!
p9: Amakasu: Kadokura-kun!
Amakasu: You shouldn’t be moving yet!
Amakasu: Hey! Are you even listening?
Kadokura: Flocks of men, when faced with cruel environments, / find themselves in need of a blameless divinity.
p10: Kadokura: Three years ago, when the accident occurred, everyone sealed themselves within the conference room. /They panicked and performed an irreversible ceremony, seeking some dark…
Kadokura: Shit. Who the hell’s Ryuuzaki? / And moreover…
Amakasa: Hey, good story. / It’d be a bit of a scandal, if it were true. / But still, you need to head back!
Amakasa: Hey! That’s Professor Herschbach’s private room!!
Amakasa: For privacy reasons, we haven’t been able to go through his things at all…
p11: Kadokura: Forget about that! / If we investigate here, we should be able to figure something out.
Kadokura: Whatever happened here three years ago is affecting things now. / Last time, I bet it was Ryuuzaki. And this time, it was Herschbach.
p12-13: <no text>
p14: Kadokura: Uh! / Wahhh!
Amakasa: It can’t be…
p15: Amakasa: Are these / symbols from the Codex?* *Manuscripts filled with pictograms created from ancient times through the Middle Ages
Amakasa: Mayan? / No… Aztec?
p16: SFX Bubble: Twitch / Twitch
Amakasa: What… What’s this?!
p17: Amakasa: Hey! You all right? / Did something happen?
Kadokura: Ugh… / Geh…
Kadokura: This is too much… / I hate this. I hate it all…
Amakasa: Kyahh!
p18: <no text>
p19: Herchbach!
p20: He’s / alive…
p21: <no text>
p22: Kadokura: You’re fucking shitting me!!
Kadokura: What the hell’s wrong with you?!!
Kadokura: Dammit!!
p23: Kadokura: Ugh! / Ahhhhhh!
p24: <no text>
p25: Amakasa: In order to escape the control of darkness, / and to ensure the sun rose again the next day, their religion demanded the offering of living sacrifices… / Professor Herschbach, / whatever were you…
Amakasa: Are… Are you all right?
p26: Amakasa: Let’s head out for now. / There’s a lot I need to ask you…
p27: Amakasa: Huh? Kadokura: Shh!
p28-29: <no text>
p30: Amakasa: Hii!
Kusakabe: Wh… What? / What happened?
p31-32: <no text> https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/36449[English] [Translation] 6000 13 by Dowolf2012-12-05T19:43:59+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p1: Boxes: BeBeBe / Beep Beep Beep / BeBeBe / BeBeBe / Beep Beep Beep / BeBeBe Kusakabe: An SOS signal from outside the facility? / Out here, 6000 meters beneath the surface? / Isn’t it more likely we’re just picking up noise from a whale or undersea volcano? Chapter 13: Signal
Uemura: Impossible. The signal’s digital. / And it’s being transmitted from almost on top of us.
Kusakabe: It’s that close?
Uemura: Got it! It’s using Reed-Solomon error-correcting codes!
p2: Uemura: It’s one of ours! / It’s one of our submarines!
Uemura: One of our submarines is giving off an SOS signal.
p3: Uemura: The Otohime hasn’t been touched; it’s still in the second dock.
Uemura: Which makes this…
Uemura: The Child of the Sea, / which was docked in the area we just cut off.
Uemura: I can’t believe it… / There were survivors…
p4: Kusakabe: Pre… / Prepare the second dock to receive the Child of the Sea.
Kusakabe: Uemura-kun, take care of the preparations in the second dock. Uemura: Yes, ma’am! Kusakabe: Safety checks are your top priority. Perform them ASAP!
Kusakabe: Xia, / confirm if we can still control it remotely. Xia: Okay.
Kusakabe: Can we talk with them? (?): … Doesn’t look like it. There’s no response.
p5: PA: Medical team, please report immediately to the second dock. / All workers who are not currently engaged should also assist with maintenance on the second dock…
Shirane: There’s a stretcher in that bag. I need you to bring it. Assistant: Y—yes, sir.
Shirane: We keep getting dragged from one place to another. Assistant: I’ve never seen things get this chaotic, either.
p6: <no text>
p7: Water pressure normal.
(?): We’re prepared to receive the vessel. PA: Copy that. Then let’s begin.
Samejima: … Mei Lin.
p8: Kusakabe: Kadokura…
Kusakabe: Xia, sorry, but I’m briefly leaving you in charge here. Xia: Huh? Kusakabe: I need to hunt down Wein.
p9: Kusakabe: The hotline’s been cut off. This isn’t a laughing matter.
p10: Kusakabe: !! / W—Wein-san, umm—
p11: Wein: Out of my way!
Kusakabe: Ah! / Wait! / Wein-san!
p12 Wein: How… How could they set me aside? / Me…
Wein: No! It can’t be!
Worker: Ah! / Wein-san!
p13: Worker: There’s something I need to ask you— Wein: Shut up! Go kill yourself!
Worker: What…? Wein: Thanks to those fucking idiots, everything’s gone to hell!
Wein: Let them die! Let everyone but me die!
Wein: They can all die, so long as I alone live!
p14: Wein: You can have the facility and all the workers! / But not me!
p15: [character on the sub]: Sea
p16: (?): He’s unconscious! / We’re bringing him out!!
p17: Doc: Nice and easy, now. / Watch your step.
(?): There’s no one else. / He was the only one on board.
Doc: All right. / He’s badly hurt, but he’s still breathing.
p18: Doc: He is without a doubt Kadokura Kengo from Shanghai Kyosei.
Samejima: Ahh… / So Mei Lin’s gone…
p19: Flashback: It’s your fault I was corrupted!
Herschbach… no…
Kadokura: Ryuuzaki Shinobu….. / Beffroi ….
p20: He—He spoke! Doc: Looks like he’s awake.
Samejima: What… What did you say?
Doc: Dammit! / Hurry—to sick bay!
p21: Worker: Ku—Kusakabe, we’ve got trouble!
Kusakabe: Now what?!
Worker: It’s the DST-1… / Someone’s taking the elevator up to the surface!
p22: Kusakabe: What… / What did you say?
Worker: Wein-san forced his way in! / We tried to stop him, but he wouldn’t listen!
p23: Worker: Ah. / Kusakabe-san.
Kusakabe: Can we contact him? Worker: No. He won’t answer.
Worker: This is bad. Kusakabe: Huh?
Worker: We weren’t planning to head up till tomorrow, so we haven’t quite finished yet… Kusakabe: Ah!
p24: Kusakabe: What—what happened?
Worker: The Elevator’s…
Worker: It’s… It’s stopped…… / at a depth of 5600 meters…
p25: Kusakabe: Did you do anything?
Worker: N—no. At least not on this end…
Kusakabe: An emergency stop?
Wein: Hey! Hey!! / The elevator’s stopped! It’s broken down!
Wein: Do something! / Hey!
p26: Wein: I can’t breathe that well! / What’s going on? Answer me!!
Worker: Ku—Kusakabe-san,
Worker: As I was saying, / we hadn’t switched it out yet.
Worker: The oxygen capsule, I mean… / The current one’s nearly empty. With one passenger, it’ll last maybe 30 minutes…
p27: Worker: Soon, / he’ll probably…
PA: Would all elevator engineers currently on break please report immediately to the elevator. / I repeat, all specialists on the DST-1, please hurry to the elevator room… Doc: Man, you’d think they could at least refrain from broadcasting in sick bay.
p28: Shirane: He has bruises all over, and his left shoulder’s dislocated. / Three of his ribs are fractured. / His left ankle’s lightly sprained. Furthermore…
Shirane: These lacerations here look like animal bites.
Amakusa: But I’m impressed that, in a dock with rising pressure, he was able to get on board a submarine. / Not bad, kid.
p29 Amakasu: We should have a helicopter take him to a proper hospital once we’re on the surface tomorrow…
PA: Would the elevator engineers please hurry / to the first sphere’s elevator room.
Amakasu: …. If we can go home…
p30: SFX Bubble: Gyaahhhh!
Worker: You say something? Worker: No. Was that from the dock?
p31: Worker: Bu still, / the elevator making an emergency stop ain’t much of a joke.
Worker: If this were just a normal electric train, he could just get out and walk along the track, but…
Worker: Hahah. Worker: Stupid. This ain’t something to laugh at! / He’s dead if he runs out of oxygen! Worker: No, it’s just, I was happy to head home too, / but I really don’t want to ride that thing…
Worker: So, you planning on heading home alone in the sub? / Like that survivor from the crushed section?
p32: (sub): Child of the Sea Worker: You sure he’s all right? No one told me / the guy had bled out this much.
p33: <no text> https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/36309[English] [Translation] 6000 12 by Dowolf2012-11-14T20:20:30+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p2: In a certain part of the Philippine Sea lies the deep-sea residential facility Cofdeece. This large facility, located 6,000 meters below the surface, was closed after a “certain accident”. That, combined with maritime territorial disputes between Japan and China, caused the facility to be abandoned for some time.
In the year 201X, an investigation into whether or not the facility could be activated was begun; however, inexplicable things began to happen one after another. Plans have been made for the investigation team to return to the surface, but while this was happening Professor Herschbach was possessed by something, became cannibalistic, and attacked Kadokura Kengo and other investigation staff members!! And meanwhile, the Cofdeece is in growing danger from rising water pressure…
p3: Chapter 12: Pressure Chapter 13: Signal Chapter 14: A Living Sacrifice to the Sun Chapter 15: A Black Mirror Spitting Smoke Chapter 16: Hell
p4: <no text>
p5: Chapter 12: Pressure (?): We have no confirmation that anyone’s alive! / There’s no time to lose!! / If we don’t hurry, we all die!
p6: (?): Preparing to cut off subsphere. / Releasing interlocks from S2-1 through S2-10.
(?): Boosting subsphere’s internal pressure in order to prevent the crushing of the links.
(?): Electrical systems will be cut off once pressure reaches 100 atmospheres.
p7: Uemura: Kusakabe-san! / Kusakabe-san!
Uemura: Preparations are complete. / Please give the order to proceed.
p8: (?): Kach… / Hah! / Kacch…
SFX Bubble: Crack
SFX Bubble: Creak
p9: <no text>
p10: Uemura: I know what you must be thinking, but the pressure inside the second subsphere has already exceeded 100 atmospheres. / Even if someone in there were still alive, under such pressure they would soon…
Kusakabe: … I know.
Kusakabe: Preparing to cut off subsphere…
p11: SFX Bubble: Click
p12: SFX Bubble: Poosh
p13: SFX Bubble: Bam / Bam
p14-19: <no text>
p20: SFX: Tap tap
SFX: Tap tap
(?): How many do you think were in there?
p21: (?): Ah—I’m… / I’m sorry…
Kusakabe: No… / There’s no need to apologize…
Kusakabe: Instead, check for any impact on the main sphere. Xia: Looking up the ID of those who entered the cut-off region… / Found them.
p22: (text on ID is illegible)
Xia: Huh?
Worker: Kadokura-sannnn! About the dock in the second subsphere…
Xia: Kadokura, / you idiot…
p23: (?): Don’t tell me something else is going wrong?!!
(?): We’re still safe here, right?!! / What about the elevator?!
(?): The evacuation is still going according to plan, right?!
(?): Wein-san, please, say something! Wein: Out of my way!
p24: (?): Hey! Are you trying to run?!
Sakonji: They called down their mercenaries. / A massacre. / You and I share the same fate! Wein: Ridiculous.
Wein: Those were simply the ramblings of a lunatic…
p25: <no text>
p26: (?): Ow! / Wait!
(?): Give us an explanation!
p27: Wein: How stupid!
Wein: Why are you getting so worked up over a ghost?
Wein: You damn slackers!
p28: Wein: I am a manager of Shanghai Kyosei Shipwright LLC. / I simply must remain resolute and professional. Woman: This is the surface communications room.
Wein: This is Wein Chan Guo from undersea. I need to speak with your superiors.
Woman: ….. / I am afraid they are currently in a meeting and cannot be interrupted.
Wein: This is an emergency! / Just tell them Wein needs to talk!!
Wein: Stop blubbering and let me speak!
p29: Wein: Hey! Who the hell are you! / Why are you wearing a uniform?!!
Wein: No. The chain of command can’t have…
p30: Uemura: Kusakabe-san, / our hotline with the surface has been cut!
p31: Kusakabe: … Wait, go back a second…
Kusakabe: What do you mean…? / Wouldn’t that leave us completely stranded?
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/33043[English] [Translation] 6000 11 by Dowolf2012-01-15T20:24:24+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.comp1: Chapter 11: The Deceased Herschbach(?): Hhh / Hhh/ Hhh / Hhh
Herschbach(?): Gchah p2: Kadokura: Girh!
Herschbach(?): Uguuuu
p3: Worker: It hurts… / It fuckin’ hurts…
Kadokrua: Ah… / This… This is bad. Worker: I’m gonna die! / Help me!
Kadokura: Uwah! / Don’t… Stop! / Don’t touch your wounds!
p4: Kadokura: Guh! / Ach… Tzah…
Kadokura: Uahhhhhhh!
p5: Worker: Help… / Help me…
Worker: Gah! / Ahhhhhh
Herschbach(?): HA HA HA HA / HA HA
p6: Kadokura: Ah…
p7: Kadokura: Mei… / Mei Lin!
Mei Lin(voice changed): So you are stubborn enough to show your face again. / I know what was “down there”. / The culprit behind everything.
p8: Mei Lin(voice changed): Have you nothing to say? Answer me! / Ryuuzaki Shinobu!
Kadokura: Ryuuzaki?
Kadokura: This guy’s Herschbach, right?
Ryuuzaki (voice changed): ……..Be…/ …..roi…
p9: Ryuuzaki (voice changed): Jacqueli… / …..
Ryuuzaki (voice changed): Jacqueline Beffroi
“Beffroi”: Don’t speak my name so lightly!
Kadokura: ………. / What the hell?
Kadokura: What are these guys talking about?
p10: “Beffroi”: It’s your fault I was corrupted!
“Beffroi”: Tempting me through a wicked ceremony…. / onto…
p11: “Beffroi”: the path of demons… / Ah… The path of…
“Beffroi”: Ah!
“Beffroi”: Ahhhhhhh!
p12: “Beffroi”: I can’t go to heaven! I can’t go to heaven! / I can no longer go to heaven!
“Beffroi”: And I’ll never get another chance! / My faith and my soul are lost for all eternity!
Kadokura: …O… Oy….
p13: Kadokura: What the?!
Worker: Hah / hah / hah! / A… A monster…
p14: <no text>
p15: Xia: Eh? / The dock’s flooding?
Xia: Oy, oy! With so much stuff stored in there, if that place floods…
p16: Kadokura: Hey, open up! Hey! / Hey! / What’s going on?! / I said, open up!
p17: “Ryuuzaki”: Hahahahaha / hahahahaha
Kadokura: Stop! / Get a hold of yourselves! Take a look around!
Kadokura: If we… / If we don’t’ do something soon, we’re gonna die!
p18: <no text>
p19: Kadokura: Run…. / We need to run!
p20: (?): The dock won’t stop flooding! / The pressure-resistant barrier is damaged! / The oxygen tank’s been compromised! The flood valve’s been destroyed!
(?): We’re not getting any feedback from the shaft! / There’s probably a crack somewhere in one of the main 6 support beams! (?): What do you mean, “probably”?
Kusakabe: Where are you, Wein? We need you…
p21: sign: We’ll be out until 2000 hours. / –Sickbay Sakonji: Enoki, Li Zhen Yue, Jacqueline Beffroi, / Amanda……. / Aoki, Tsukamoto, / Ryuuzaki Shinobu…. / My comrades who descended into madness in that conference room…
Sakonji: All I could do was hide, even as I heard the rescuers’ screams…
Sakonji: But do you know / what Shanghai Kyosei decided to do once they heard what was going on?
p22: Sakonji: They called down their mercenaries… / And told them to massacre everyone.
Sakonji: That’s not the kind of thing you can just go back from.
Sakonji: It’ll just keep happening.
Sakonji: So as I said, you and I / share the same fate!
p23: Sakonji: …Hm. / You don’t understand anything. Not you, not your company.
Sakonji: In the end… Everyone, from the survivors to the rescuers, and even the mercenaries. / every single person was found horribly disfigured. / But the corpses’ headcount didn’t match up.
Sakonji: As long as they don’t understand why that happened, they’ll keep trying to restore this place…
p24: Kadokura: Hah. / Hah.
Kadokura: Sh— / Shit! What do I do…
p25: Kadokura: Ignoring the dock for a second, the pressure inside should rise until it matches the water pressure outside… / We can’t control anything from in here… That’s just how it’s designed…
Kadokura: And I doubt she knows anything useful.
p26: <no text>
p27: Kadokura: Huh?
Mei Lin (back to normal): Where… are we? / Why… am I…
Mei Lin: I’m scared….
p28: <no text>
p29: <no text>
p30: (?): Pressure leaks are starting to spread to the communications floor! / This is bad! / All cables have been severed! / We can’t monitor anything!
Samejima: The main sphere was designed to be able to handle additional pressure, but / if there is even a single weakness, the coupling system would…
p31: Samejima: If that system even starts to break, we’ll be crushed by 600 kilograms per square centimeter of water. / The entire Cofdeece will be sunk before you’d have a chance to scream.
Samejima: We have no choice, Kusakabe-kun.
Samejima(?): Safety must be our top priority. / “We can limit the effect by quarantining the damaged area.”
p32: Kusakabe: Cut off the entire second subsphere!
Worker: It’s souvenir! A souvenir photo! / After all, we’re heading home tomorrow!!
Worker: And then we’ll be transferring, so…
p7: Kusakabe: ….. / Ah, that’s right… Worker: I’mma take a bath. I need a break, dammit.
Kusakabe: It’s good that they’re so relaxed… / But since they’re still planning to fix this place up, I have work to do. / I need to get as much data as I can, or it’ll be my neck on the line...
Uemura: Ku… Kusakabe-san! / Section Chief Samejima’s found the blueprints…
Uemura: We should probably hurry… umm…. Kusakabe: Yes, I know, I know. I’ll be there soon. / Just… just five more minutes...
p8: (?): Are we really going to finish by tomorrow?
Kadokura: …….. I’m starved…
p9: Kadokura: A round trip on the DST-1 elevator takes 8 hours, and can only take 8 people at a time. / Inspection and replacing the oxygen cartridges takes another two hours. / Which means moving everyone will require nearly two days?!
Kadokura: No, wait. Maybe we could squeeze a few more chairs in there….? / I should ask Wein-san…
Kadokura: though come to think of it, I haven’t seen hide nor hair of Wein-san since yesterday…
Kadokura: He’s not here, either….
p10: Kadokura: What the hell? We’re so fucking busy / because of the schedule he set, and now he just leaves everything to us?!
Kadokura: There’s going to be problems if we don’t hurry up and figure out the order everyone’s heading up in…. / And we still have that pain-in-the-neck scientist to deal with…
Kadokura: Wait, Xia! / What are you doing?!
p11: Kadokura: Those were the security cameras you were just looking at! / What are you peeking around for? Xia: Errr….
Xia: Don’t be so harsh on a guy~! Kadokura: And… And you know food and drink’s not allowed in here!
Xia: You know, you’ve become a lot like Wein-shi. Really matured…
Kadokura: And…. And what’s with that shitty old laptop? / And that smell… / Don’t tell me…
p12: Xia: I found them in the storeroom. Kadokura: The… / You know the storeroom’s off-limits!
Xia: Yeah, but… That place is so smelly and unclean, it’s almost unbelievable. / I thought I was going to faint for a second there… Kadokura: Listen to me! / I bet that laptop belongs to Sakonji! You can’t just take it!
Xia: If I reformat it, there’s no problem, right? / Although, there might be a lot of fun stuff to look through first…
Xia: You can’t get his story out of your head either, right? / It’s not the kind of story you can just believe, but I feel like there’s some small bit missing that would explain everything…
p13: Xia: I mean, it’s unnatural how everyone died in the end. / We only have until we go back up to figure this out, so now or never, right?
Worker: Kadokura-sannnn! About the dock in the second subsphere…
Kadokura: Fine! But I’ll be taking that back afterwards! / So just shut up and help Kusakabe-san out, OK! / And stop drinking!
p14: Kadokura: He’s mocking me… / Unapologetically, right in front of me, right in front of someone from Shanghai Kyosei…
Worker: It’s about the second subsphere’s Energeia… Kadokura: Ah… / Umm… That’s the supercomputer, right?
Worker: That’s correct. / In the barrier accident, our specialist, well… Kadokura: Yeah…
p15: Worker: We keep it cooled with an inert gas called 134-a, but… / Without someone who understands how heat exchange works, we’re in a bit of a bind.
Worker: Kusakabe-san and Uemura-san are too busy, / and I can’t get any of the research types to help me.
Kadokura: W-well, at any rate, I suppose I can give it a look. Worker: Up ahead is the dock for the submersible.
p16: Kadokura: If things are like this, will we really finish by tomorrow? / And more importantly, where in the world is Wein-san?!
Kadokura: Oh, dammit. / I have a bad feeling about this… [sign]: We’ll be out until 2000 hours. / –Sickbay
p17: (?): This injection of potassium chloride will upset the balance of your ion concentration.
(?): And an overdose should induce cardiac arrest…
p18: (?): 5 grams should suffice…
Sakonji: I don’t care if you’re the demon or just a man. / It’s all the same in the end.
p19: Sakonji: I’ve made my peace. Do it.
(?): Don’t think poorly of me. / This is so that everyone can go home safe.
Sakonji: So you are silencing me. / What a faithful little pup you are. Well done.
p20: Sakonji: Shanghai Kyosei.
Sakonji: You guys are heading home tomorrow, right? / I figured if you were coming, it’d be today.
p21: Sakonji: You try so hard to be the faithful pup, but you and I share the same fate. / You idiot; why do you still trust them?
Sakonji: Do you know why, over these past three years, / I never so much as sent out a distress call?
p22: Worker: Huh? I thought I left the door to the dock open…
Worker: Think someone else is here?
p23: Worker: Weird, huh.
Worker: Though since this place is so cold, I don’t think anyone actually likes it here.
Kadokura: It’s a bit of a mess in here, isn’t it? Worker: Yeah; it’s been causing us some problems.
Worker: When I said we couldn’t use it, I really meant that we don’t really know where it is…
p24: Kadokura: Clothes…? Worker: Wah!
Kadokura: Are… Are you all right? Worker: Hahaha… I’m just making a fool out of myself. / Must’ve slipped on some oil or something…
p25: Worker: Huh? / Isn’t this… blood? What the… Kadokura: Uwah! Doesn’t that hurt? / Where are you injured?
(?): …Where.
p26-29: <no text>
p30: Worker: Hyahhhhhh!
Worker: Ah
p31: Kadokura: Huh? / What?
Worker: Gyahhhhh!
Kadokura: Shit!
Kadokura: Hey! Calm down! / Quit it!!
p32: Kadokura: Stop! / I said, stop!
Kadokura: Gehha! / !!
Kadokrua: Her…. Herschbach?! Herschbach(?): Hhh / Hhh https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32950[English] [Translation] 6000 9 by Dowolf2012-01-07T22:30:44+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*note: I've changed the spelling of the scientist's name from Harshbach to Herschbach, since it seems to be a reference to Dudley Herschbach, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist
p1:
…ry… / Henry!
Henry Herschbach!
Chapter 9: Possessed
p2: Worker: It feels like it’s getting harder to breathe lately.
Worker: My shoulders have been really stiff, too, and my head is killing me.
Amakasu: Let me give you some vitamins for the time being.
Worker: I’ve felt really sluggish and my ears have been ringing… My blood pressure’s been normal, but…
Worker: I’ve had a horrible stomachache. Amakasu: It might have been from overwork. / These kinds of circumstances can be pretty hard on your chest.
Amakasu: For starters, let’s have you try some sleep medication.
p3: Amakasu: It’s quite worrisome for everyone to be exhibiting these symptoms at the same time. / All of these people coming in highly stressed and with symptoms appearing in their autonomic nervous system could be considered a pattern. / Insomnia, abdominal pain, myotonia, migraines…
Amakasu: There have also been some people here and there exhibiting neurotic depression… Shirane: Hmm.
Amakasu: For the most part, the problems have been minor, but it would be too risky to leave it at that. / I fear that a lapse in concentration could lead to an accident, or all sorts of trouble.
Shirane: Hmmm….
(?): Doc… / Doc! Over here!!
p4: Worker: He’s been hurt! / We were using the drill, and it slipped, / and I can see the bone…!!
Shirane: Lay him here, quickly!
Shirane: This is bad…
Amakasu: I was right… / The situation is deteriorating.
p5: (?): Uwah!!
Kadokura: I… / I’m sorry… Worker: Oh, for goodness’ sake! / I told you it was dangerous to leave them there! Other worker: Oh, Kadokura-san! I was looking for you!
Kadokura: Y… / Yes?
p6: Worker: It’s been a week since then, hasn’t it? / Since we lost contact with the outside world / and the elevator tube became unusable.
Worker: We haven’t gotten resupplied, and it feels like nothing’s getting done. So I was wondering: / when do you expect to have everything back up and working again?
Worker: And also… I wanted to ask Wein this directly, but… / I feel like there’s something wrong with that famous scientist. / What was his name again… Herschbach?
p7: Worker: He treats people like a slave driver, / and we don’t even work for him! / He even harasses us over our private lives…
Worker: I was hoping you could pass on my worries to Wein-san? / Oh, and no need to tell him it was from me.
p8: Kadokura: No one can rest easy in a crowd…
Kadokura: But alone in their rooms? / I don’t get it. What are they so afraid of that makes them clutch their Maglites all night long?
Kadokura: Seems kinda stupid, if you ask me…
p9: Kusakabe: What was that I felt last night?
Worker: Ever since last night, I felt like my head was about to crack right open. / You’re a doctor, right? So do something!
Amakasu: Well, we haven’t been able to get fresh shipments of medical supplies, / and a lot of the other workers have been exhibiting similar symptoms, so…
Worker: “Others”? / Are you keeping the medicine from me so you can give it to someone else?!
p10: Herschbach: I am far too important to wait.
(?): Are you insane?!
Herschbach: Hey! Would someone please tell this idiot of a doctor what’s wrong with this picture?
(?): Well, Doctor, I…
p11: Herschbach: Don’t you dare touch me! Do I look like your friend?! / Just being around all of you useless sloths makes me sick.
Herschbach: What about my equipment?! / How long until my cooled CCD camera arrives?!
Kadokura: I’ve heard enough from you! / You’re not the only one who’s been inconvenienced by the elevator being out!
Kadokura: What… What gives you the right to do whatever you want?! / All you do is whine about your own problems.
Kadokura: It’s jerks like you who make things miserable, / you…
p12: Kadokura: You selfish bastard! Kusakabe: Calm down!
Kusakabe: He’s not just trying to cause a fuss!!
Kusakabe: I’m very sorry. I’m the facility engineer, Kusakabe.
Kusakabe: I understand your concerns.
p13: Kusakabe: But Kadokura is right when he says everyone’s patience is starting to wear thin. / We engineers are also having to make do with what little we have while,
Kusakabe: thanks to this situation, being required to work day and night to—
p14: Herschbach: Don’t you dare talk to me, you worthless scum!!
Kadokura: You… You bastard! / What the hell?!
p15: Herschbach: You’re all worthless commoners!!
Herschbach: You useless, idling scum!! / You don’t even stop to consider the circumstances before whining “What do we do”!
Amakasu: Uh… / Dr. Shirane?
p16: Herschbach: Don’t touch me!
Herschbach: Are you bastards even listening to me?! Kadokura: I’ve never liked the guy, but this?
Herschbach: You imbeciles!!
(?): Enough.
p17: Kadokura: Wein-san?
Wein: Some important news has come up since our last meeting. / Kadokura, go gather everyone.
p18: Wein: Five days. / We will all be returning to the surface in five days.
Wein: Everything we are currently working on—every department’s repairs and the researchers’ preparations—will be halted. / Everyone is to now gather data on the facility’s current status, and that is what we will be bringing back with us.
Wein: We will use those reports in order to develop a new plan for the restoration of the Cofdeece. / I have made this decision myself after careful deliberation. We will not inform those above sea level until after the fact.
Wein: I will take full responsibility.
p19: Wein: These should give you unlimited access to the Cofdeece. / For these five days, you may act as you see fit without first seeking my express permission.
Wein: Kusakabe-kun.
Wein: I leave you in command.
p20: Wein: Samejima-san.
Wein: I know you’ve often been uncomfortable with my company’s objectives. / However, these actions are mine and mine alone. / I ask for your full support.
Wein: If everyone’s working hard to get back topside, we should be able to complete the reports in time. / I know you could just call my timing convenient, but still I ask for your assistance.
Wein: I beg of you, please.
p21: Kadokura: We’re going home……
p22: (?): Henry Herschbach!
p23: (?): A large number of people wish to meet you. Herschbach: Where have they been loitering?
(top): You may be one of the most important students this school has ever had. (right): You’re the brightest mind of the decade… no, the century! (left): Amazing!
p24: (?): So it seems you haven’t submitted your application for tenure*. / If you were accepted, you would not just be the youngest associate professor this university has ever had, / but you would also be guaranteed a teaching post. *the right to lifetime employment given to college faculty
Herschbach: I am not interested. / I can do research wherever I desire.
(?): Hmm… I was planning on writing you a recommendation, but…
p25: (?): A man like you must have some sort of plan. / Though I wouldn’t profess to know what it is.
Herschbach: ….. The truth.
(?): Hm? / I’m sorry; I didn’t catch that.
Herschbach: It's nothing; I’m just not much good with awkward things like that.
p26:
(?): You are my son, my pride and joy, / Henri.
Herschbach: F… / Father!
p27: Herschbach’s father: Generations of Herschbachs have excelled in academia. / You too must live up to the family name. / Even when compared against everyone in the history of our family, you are … / you…
Gehgh! [sizeptpt=200]https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32873[English] [Translation] 6000 8 by Dowolf2012-01-02T01:46:53+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for use by Lazy Ass scans
p1: Chapter 8: Wanderers
p2: <no text>
p3: Kusakabe: An ancient god…?
p4: Sakonji: A heartlessly cruel god who craved blood, / born of unbelievably tenacious spirits.
Sakonji: For better or for worse, it seems that that is what brings it here. / However, the first to fall into madness were people from outside that group.
Sakonji: We had to eliminate them without exception…
Sakonji: Yes… / No one was spared…
p5: Sakonji: Not even the long-awaited rescue team…
Kusakabe: Rescuers?! / You just said that the survivors were in the meeting room, right? / Did they head there?
p6: Kusakabe: Wouldn’t that mean that someone must have surviv—
Kadokura: They were killed!! / Haven’t you been listening?! / They were attacked by some bizarre monster,
Kadokura: It attacked as swiftly as a wild beast, / and then… well, we don’t know what happened next, but…
Kadokura: Something was there!! / I heard it myself back when the power went out!
p7: Kadokura: It—it was something dangerous!! / I could hear the sound of bones breaking, and of innards being torn into—
Kusakabe: Stop speaking nonsense!!
Xia: It’s said that people find religion in times of stress. / I imagine they feel a sense of security in the group. / You think there was a wild beast down here?
Xia: Is your head on straight?
p8: Kadokura: B—but I know I…
Kusakabe: I’m sorry to interrupt, / but might you be speaking figuratively? / That is to say, a small fire caused the security systems to malfunction…
Kusakabe: The people sealed in began to lose their sanity, / and attacked their rescuers. / Is that how it went?
Kadokura: And I said, you’re wrong! / I watched one of the rescuers bleed out before my very eyes!
Kusakabe: I’m sorry, / but could you please shut up?
p9: Kusakabe: In the end, you and Wein are the same… / You both say such pointless lies in order to keep your secrets.
Kusakabe: Sakonji-san, / I know I’m asking a lot, asking you to remember what happened three years ago. / I once noticed some oddities in the schematics for the Cofdeece itself.
p10: Kusakabe(?): And someone died in the accident with the barrier. / I figure any obligation you had to Shanghai Kyosei is long gone by now.
Kadokura: You’re wrong. / You’ve got it all wrong…
Kusakabe: Sakonji-san?
p11: Sakonji: Run away…
p12: Sakonji: Right now, you need to figure a way out of here.
Sakonji: Don’t forget that this place is always out of sight. / The eyes of neither god nor man reach here!
p13: Worker A: Hey, there’s gotta be something weird going on. / I mean, the elevator tube’s been out of service for five days. / In this season, would a storm that can knock out the tube last for five days?!
Worker A: And what’s the point in suddenly installing personal sensors in the passageways? Worker B: They’re just tightening up security, right? Worker A: But that’s my point—why are they tightening up security?!
Worker A: They’re watching us all the time now; it’s creeping me out.
Worker A: Hey, did you hear?
Worker A: People are disappearing at night. / They say these alarms are supposed to try to catch whoever’s doing it. Worker B: Huh?
p14: Various: Hey, hey! We’ve finally installed the damn things, and they keep breaking down? / I wonder if they’re just “breaking down”? / Shit… I’m not going to be able to sleep well tonight, either.
Scientist(?): Hey, what the hell’s going on?! / Are you trying to make me refill the coffee beans?!
p15: Scientist: Who the hell do you think I am?!
Various: It’s Dr. Harshbach… / Not again… <aside: Hysteria > / I don’t know if he’s a genius or not; his title’s just a piece of paper, for all I care.
Dr. Harshbach: Hey, you there!!
Dr. Harshbach: You’re from the management company, right? / You refill it!
p16: Kadokura: Here you go. / Take as many as you like.
p17: Dr. Harshbach: Your like can always be replaced!!
Uemura: Kadokura-san!! Kadokura [inset]: Son of a bitch Uemura: Excuse me!
p18: Uemura: I wanted to do a check of the barrier that malfunctioned, / so I was hoping you could ask Wein-san for permission for me…
Kadokrua: To cut the power? Uemura: Well, for safety’s sake, we’d be restraining it to only the floor where the problem occurred…
Kadokura: We can’t do that. Uemura: Huh?
Kadokura: If you want a reason, ask Wein yourself.
p19: Kadokura: If you have to take out the power to do it, then it’d be better for you to just leave the door out-of-order.
p20: [date]: 23 (Sunday) 22:17:28
p21: Kusakabe: I wonder how John’s doing… / Yuuta never does remember to give him walks…
p22: Kusakabe: What… / Huh…?
p23: Machine: Your ID has not been recognized SFX bubbles: Strum / Strum Machine: Please try reinserting your ID.
p24: SFX bubbles: Strum / Strum
(?): Dammit! / Again?!
p25: <no text>
p26: <no text>
p27: <no text>
p28: <no text>
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32866[English] [Translation] 6000 7 by Dowolf2011-12-31T16:11:55+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for use by Lazy Ass Scans
p1: Chapter 7: God
p2: <no text>
p3: Wein: This is Wein Chan Guo from the Cofdeece. / I have some information to report regarding the accident three years ago.
Operator: One moment please.
p4: <no text>
p5: Sakonji: My eyes… still aren’t better yet. / But my head’s gotten a whole lot clearer…
Kusakabe: Ah—sorry to barge in on you.
Kadokura: Did they cut his hair? Kusakabe: I’m the facility’s engineer, Kusakabe.
p6: Kusakabe: I’m currently working to get this place operational again, / but let me be frank. / The management company Shanghai Kyosei Shipwrights hasn’t released any of the data from the accident three years ago, / and it’s started to become an obstacle preventing us from fixing our current problems.
Kusakabe: And while on the official report it says there was simply a fire…
Kusakabe: When you consider that everyone on board was killed, there’s too much that seems unnatural.
Kusakabe: But even though an investigative committee was never formed, we’re being asked to get the Cofdeece back in working condition.
p7: Xia: Doesn’t he seem a little dangerous?
Kadokura: I’ve certainly been curious about the accident, but… [inset]: But… yeah… that’s gotta be it.
[inset]: After all, I was the only one who saw that.
p8: Sakonji: One night… / there was a fire.
Sakonji: I think a fuse box or something like that shorted out.
p9: Sakonji: And then…
Sakonji: And then all of a sudden… / Every door in the facility was locked.
*Central Control Room Sakonji: At the time I was working overtime alone in the CCR*. / The door closed, and I couldn’t contact anyone. / Even so, at first I figured things would be back to normal soon enough. / However.
Sakonji: I was wrong.
p10: Xia: It’s almost like they were trying to suppress a riot…
Xia’s aside: Right? Kusakabe: But then what were they trying to accomplish? Just undoing what they did must have been a pain in the ass.
Sakonji: After a week, I was able to leave the CCR. / From there I kept opening so many barriers, trying to find another survivor.
Sakonji: I tried to keep going, grabbing what food and water I could.
Sakonji: It was that sense of purpose that allowed me to control my fear…
p11: Sakonji: However, no matter how hard I looked, I couldn’t find anyone.
Sakonji: I spent a month searching for survivors and waiting for help from topside, but to no avail. / Though I did manage to fix some of the monitors in the CCR.
Sakonji: Things felt hopeless. All I could do was pray…
Sakonji: And then…
Sakonji: I should have never gone searching in the first place… / if I…
p12: Sakonji: if I were going to only find that thing…
Sakonji: Their meeting probably ran long, and they were all sealed in there.
Kusakabe: In the conference room? / But there are no tools in there; they’d never be able to escape!
Sakonji: However, they managed to survive there…
p13: Sakonji: They survived disturbingly well…
Xia: What do you mean? / Wouldn’t that be a happy ending?
Xia: After that, all you’d have to do is hurry up and open the barrier to the conference room / and then figuring out something with the com line. <aside: You’d just have to try > Kusakabe: Shh!
p14: Sakonji: They say that the a survivor’s environment is as harsh as religion is strict…
Xia: ? So in the worst of times, you’re the type that believes that people need strong laws and rules in order to stick together?
Kadokura: Huh? / Do you mean… rules regarding food and stuff?
Sakonji: People stuck in the worst of times need to blame a god they’ve never blamed before. / No…
p15: Sakonji: In the most extreme situations, they want God Himself to bleed.
Sakonji: And that situation certainly qualified…
p16: Sakonji: In order to escape their greatest fear, their fear of annihilation,
p17: Sakonji: they gave their bodies to an evil god.
p18: <no text>
p19: <no text>
p20: <no text>
p21: <no text>
p22: Sakonji: They gave birth to a god, / an ancient deity, in that room…
p23: <no text>
p24-25 <no text>
https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32813[English] [Translation] 6000 6 by Dowolf2011-12-27T23:19:07+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for use by Lazy Ass scans
p1: Chapter 6: Survivors
P2: Kadokura: Three years…
p3: Kadokura: Three years alone in an iron box at the bottom of the sea, far away from the light of the sun… / Is he still alive?
Kadokura: While it was closed, the temperature inside the facility was the same as the water outside: two degrees Celsius. / Within that ice-like darkness… it must have felt like an eternity.
p4: Old Guy: If you’re going to kill me, do it already!
Old Guy: I’m sick of being scared. / Everyone does the same thing in the end, anyways.
p5: Old Guy: Wait—are you guys even real? / Or am I just talking with my own delusions? / ….How long has it been since then?
Old Guy: Heh / heh / It feels like I’ve been here for a hundred years, but now that I think about it…
Old Guy: Was that infernal gate ever closed?
p6: Old Guy: Did that demon born of despair and darkness / ever go back to hell?
p7: Uemura(?): Man, I’ve mostly gotten used to working with the Chinese on joint ventures, / but their attitude towards accidents still feels weird.
Samejima(?): They’ve got to answer to their bosses, who answer to their bosses, and stuff like that. / Is it a difference in culture, or a difference of ideals?
Doctor: The patient’s name is Sakonji Kyohiko. / It seems he came here as a marine biologist three years ago, but…
p8: Doctor: All things considered, his mental state is remarkable.
Doctor: It’s his physical state I’m worried about. / The unsanitary environment in there gave him a really bad infection. / We’re currently giving him antibiotics, but / his muscles have massively deteriorated, and I don’t know if his eyesight will ever return.
p9: Doctor: But still, it’s hard to believe, isn’t it?
Doctor: That someone could have survived / that enigmatic accident three years ago.
Wein: ….. / Dr. Shirane.
Wein: It seems accidents are continuing to pile up faster than we can respond to them. / Furthermore, since the elevator is closed, we cannot airlift him out.
Wein: As such, I would like you to keep this man’s existence / a secret for the time being…
p10: Amakasu: That’s fine by me. / It’s best if we just keep this secret amongst ourselves.
Shirane: Hey, Amakasu-san.
Amakasu: I’m this facility’s counselor, Amakasu Sakura.
Amakasu: Recently, most of the researchers and laborers have been in a severe mental state. / Insomnia born of stress, people suffering neurotic panics…
p11: Amakasu: There’s a lot of them sleeping with the lights on. / Saying that it’s too scary to sleep in the dark.
Shirane: Ah—
Amakasu: That they saw something… strange.
Amakasu: At—at any rate, we should forbid passage through the problematic areas. / And you should probably raise our security levels, too.
p12: Kadokura: Umm… / You said the stress arose from people seeing weird things, right?
Amakasu: ….. Did you think of something?
p13: No… I know / that wasn’t an illusion.
p14: Sakonji: Did that demon born of despair and darkness / ever go back to hell?
p15: Kadokura: Just a little while ago everyone was lively working overtime… / And now, there’s no one here.
Kadokura: Huh?
p16: Kadokura: Should you really be up and about?
Kadokura: By the way,
Kadokura: back in the conference room, you said / you saw your father outside the window, right?
[inset]: …… Huh?
p17: She seems…… / different, somehow…… no…..
Mei: I’m sorry, but could you leave me alone?
Kadokura: Huh? Mei: A lot happened, but I’ve got myself in order now. I’m sorry.
Kadokura: But—you recovered that fast? / After you fainted just by seeing that, and then tried to kill youself…
p18: Mei: Thanks for back then. / I’ll give you one piece of advice in return.
Mei: You belong somewhere bright. / Where your life will never succumb to the darkness of regret.
Kadokura: What... are you saying?
p19: Kadokura: …..Shit. What the hell?
p20: Kadokura: In the end…
Kadokura: The only one who can hold a conversation is that survivor… how ironic. / I should try to ask the man some questions…
Kadokura: Whoa!
p21: Hey…. Kusakabe-san! / Xia!
Kadokura: What are you doing! Kusakabe: I… I could ask you the same question! Kadokura: And you already told him?! <aside: Guess your words don’t mean much. >
Kusakabe: It’s because you guys are keeping so many secrets… / We want to know what’s going on, too!
Kusakabe: Besides, this is a Japanese facility! Kadokura: Huh? / Huh? Kusakabe: Why do we always have to do what the Chinese management company says?!
p22: Xia: If you believe the fish dangling from the line / is the equal of the one who holds the pole,
Xia: it’s usual to seize some advantage. Kadokura: Huh?
Xia: Didn’t I tell you when we first met? / That you have “gullible” written on your face. Kusakabe: Shut up for a second!
Kusakabe: It’s about to become clear / what happened here three years ago. https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32723[English] [Translation] 6000 5 by Dowolf2011-12-22T15:17:42+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p1: Chapter 5: Arrival—2
p2: <no text>
p3: Kadokura: Did… did the emergency lights break down? / That sort of thing normally wouldn’t…
Kadokura: Shit… I’m completely lost. / Where the hell am I?
Kadokura: And didn’t I just see / some white thing a second ago?
p4: Kadokura: Damn, that hurt!
Kadokura: Huh? / W-what happened? / A cut… blood?
Kadokura: Ouch!
p5: Kadokura: Dammit… It’s so dark, I can’t see a…
p6: Mei: Yeah, there’s nothing there. / There’s no way something like that could really…
p7: Mei: It’s just like that old pharaoh said… / But then, what did I see?
Mei: I thought I could figure out what happened if I came here, but I… I can’t… / I’m sorry, Bà.
p8: <no text>
p9: Rescuers: Don’t move! / We’re the rescue squad!
Kadokura: Huh?
Kadokura: A rescue squad? Why would you be…?
p10: Rescuers: We’ve finished putting out the fires. / Are you the only survivor?
Kadokura: Hold up a second—I don’t understand! / What do you mean, a fire? There wasn’t a fire anywhere!
Rescuers: Please don’t move! You need to do exactly as we say!
Kadokura: …..Who… are you?
Rescuers: Ah? What are you doing?! / Stop!
p11: Rescuers: Don’t do it!
Kadokura: …..? / H…. hey…
Rescuers: Pl… Please stop…
p12: Kadokura: F… fuck…
Kadokura: Fuck!
p13: Kadokura: Fu…
Kadokura: God dammit; I can’t see for shit. / Where the hell’s the exit?!
p14: Ahhh / Ahhhh!
p15: Worker A: Look’s like Miwa-sama’s lost her head. Worker B: All she could say was / “Uemura-kun, do something!”, right?
Worker B: Huh?
Worker A: What is it? Worker B: I’m not sure, but I thought I heard someone…
Worker B: Wha?
p16: Worker A: Ah.
Worker A: … What the…
p17: Mei: That’s right…
Mei: I no longer have the right to live.
Mei: What did…
Mei: What did I do… Mei (speech): Oh God…
p18: Our Father, who art in heaven, / hollowed be thy name. / Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done / on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread Kadokura: Shit… What the hell? / What’s going on here?
and forgive us our trespasses / as we forgive those who trespass against us.
p19: And lead us not into temptation, / but deliver us from…
[Flashback!text]: A kama… / throat [inset]: His own throat… with a kama…
(?): but deliver us / from evil.
Kadokura: Don’t—
p20: <no text>
p21: Kadokrua: Hah… / Huh? / This is…
Kadokura: When did I… / !! / You again?! / Why the hell are you trying to kill yourself?!
p22: Mei: Why… Why am I here? <aside: Where are my glasses? > Kadokura: How the hell would I know?!
p23: Kusakabe: Uemura-kun, did you…? Uemura: It… it looks like the problem managed to fix itself.
Worker: Well then, back to work. / Oh?
Worker: Why’s the bulwark closed?
Worker: Hey, you alright there?
Worker: What is this? / Hey! Did something happen? Other worker: At any rate, I’ll have my ID open this. Worker: Ah! Wait! Don’t—
p24: Worker: open…
(?): More and more workers appear to have become distressed.
p25: Wein: There are others eager to get back to work.
(?): … Any clue as to the culprit’s objective?
Wein: Are you sure there is / a culprit?
(?): The incident involving the bulwark could not have been an accident. / Thus we must assume the existence of a culprit.
p26: (?): At any rate, we have chosen to shut down the elevator system for the time being.
Wein: You’re shutting it down?
(?): There is the possibility of a crime. This is simply the natural response.
Wein: Th… then will the police be getting involved? (?): Wein-kun, have you taken leave of your senses as well?
p27: (?) No matter what else happens, we cannot afford to have them pay us a visit. / Don’t forget that we have two ships in the Arctic Ocean waiting on us.
Wein: … Very well.
p28: Kadokura: Which means… I can’t go home…
Worker: What do you mean, we can’t head back up?!
Kadkoura: Ah… well, that’s…
Kadokura: There’s currently a low-pressure system passing through overhead, so the tube is dangerously crooked and cannot be used at the moment.
Worker: Don’t lie to me! Aren’t there safeguards against that sort of thing?!
p29: Kusakabe: What perfect timing for a storm to roll by. / You know, don’t you. / That people are dying.
Kadokura: Umm… / About that…
Kadokura: There wasn’t a response team, / or something like that, was there?
Kusakabe: A response team? / That’s the first I’ve heard of it.
Kusakabe: Anyways,
p30: Kusakabe: We’ve stockpiled more than enough food in case of just this sort of emergency, / but why am I being asked to check on our stockpiles now? / What are you guys planning?
Inset: That’s not it. / Was the accident because something broke down? / Or are they trying to hide something?
Kusakabe: Damn, this is tight. / Why did this have to be planned on such short notice?
Kusakabe: I mean, no one's even been in there for three years. / Hmmph…
Though this certainly isn’t the time to be saying such things.
p31: This isn’t that kind of light-hearted fairy tale!
I can’t explain it really well, / but I know I’m right.
I know there’s something even worse in here…
p32: Kusakabe: Gh… / What is that?!
Kusakabe: It smells horrible… Kadokura: I can’t… breathe… and my eyes…
p33: Kusakabe: What? What is it? Kadokura: There’s something in there.
p34: Kusakabe: What are you talking about? This place hasn’t been opened in three years! Kadokura: There it is, at the far end.
Kadokura: You’ve gotta be kidding me…
Kadokura: It’s a person. / There’s a person in here! https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32706[English] [Translation] 6000 4 by Dowolf2011-12-19T14:27:43+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p1: Chapter 4: Arrival
Kadokura: Shit! The afternoon meeting’s already started! / I get the need for security, but / it’s too damn strict! Why do I have to hand-deliver all this stuff?!
Wein: … and figure out whether or not it’s in your best interests to anger me.
Kadokura: Ah! Stop thinking about that! / But he seemed so serious, so I can’t get it out of my mind! / I must be thinking about it because I expect him to make good on his threat.
Kadokura: That wasn’t a joke. The guy’s a friggin’ robot; the next time I see him, he probably won’t even have to breathe anymore.
p5: Kadokura: What happened? / Huh? Aren’t you the woman from the garden? / <aside: The stalker…>
Glasses woman: M-my father, he’s…
Kadokura: Huh?
Kadokura: Well, at any rate, let’s get you some first aid… / Shit… Didn’t anyone else hear her?
Kadokura: Ah, great timing! / Sorry, but could you give me a hand here? / There’s a lady here who’s fainted…
p6: Suit: That sort of thing seems like a job for laborers like yourselves.
Suit: Why would I do something so menial? Kadokura: Huh? No, that’s… / what?
p7: Uemura: Why don’t you just skip the meeting? Kusakabe: You know there’s no way I can do that.
Kusakabe: And more importantly, I have to make sure everything’s in order for today’s tests. Uemura: You look really bad; you should just…
p8: Glasses: My father…
Kusakabe: What’s going on here?
Kadokura: She’s been mumbling like that ever since I got here. I think she’s out of it. Kusakabe: Hmm…
Kadokura: Something about her father being outside the window…
p9: Suit: Let’s not joke around.
p10: Suit: It seems you lack the proper appreciation of your current environment.
Suit: I have spent 20 years involved in deep-sea research, / yet still I marvel at how these facilities can withstand the external pressure.
Suit: We are presently some 6,000 meters under the sea / which means the external pressure is roughly 60 megapascals. / A living hell being crushed by some 600 kilograms per square centimeter. / Outer space seems like a paradise compared to this.
p11: Suit: So if this woman actually saw a “clump of protein”, / then why, in an environment with very little food in it, did it last three years without other life forms tearing it apart? / And its original form preserved to boot?
Suit: So the very idea she saw her father outside the window is simply laughable.
Old guy: Ah / You’re…
Old guy: Mei Lin. / You must still be…
Mei: I’m fine, Chan-sensei. / I think I’m just a little tired.
p12: Chan: Don’t worry about the meeting—just go rest in your cell. Mei: I’m sorry; I’ll do just that. Suit: How long do you intend to keep me waiting?!
p13: <no text>
p14: Kadokura: This is nice… / Get this far out, and no one ever comes by.
Kadokura: Even though this is still in the main sphere, / the lower floors look a lot messier. / How could they let the communication floor directly below the CCR* get in such a shape? *central control room
Kadokura: If things are this bad here, I don’t even want to think about how things are in the six sub-spheres…
Kadokura: But that girl… Mei Lin, was it? / What was she trying to say?
p15: Kadokura: There’s no way this place is “fine”. / Everything’s a pain in the ass, and everyone’s on edge… / Is it afternoon already? I’ve been here six days, and I’m still not sure when it’s night.
Kadokura: I wish I could see the sun…
Kadokura: Dammit. I keep spacing out like this, and I’m just going to get chewed out again.
Kadokura: What was that, just now? / There shouldn’t be anyone else down here, but…
p16: Kusakabe: We haven’t completed repairs there yet, so if you’re hungry, go eat in the cafeteria.
Kadokura: Ku… Kusakabe-san?
Kadokura: That was pretty bad back there.
p17: Kadokura: But man, good thing I was there, huh? Though I was kinda surprised… Kusakabe: Well, you’ve gotta be pretty tough mentally to survive down here.
Kusakabe: What?
Kadokura: I’ve got a toolbox of my own. / Seeing yours brought back a lot of memories
p18: Kadokura: My family ran a factory when I was young. / We were subcontractors for Ekoda Machinery, and our dirty factory worked with sheet iron.
Kadokura: So I’ve always lived amongst the sounds and smells of machines. / There’s something that just feels right about them… I like it more than when I’m with other people…
Kadokura: Once I get back up to the surface, I think I’ll wait for Danzaki-san to get better / and try to get another manufacturing job with him, or something…
Kusakabe: I’m sorry… Kadokura: I’m going back to work.
p21: Kusakabe: Umm… / I don’t think you should worry about it too much…
Kusakabe: At any rate, you need to calm down! / There’s a full system check planned for today.
Kusakabe: I had wanted to do it earlier, but… Kadokura: I’ll check everything down here.
Kusakabe: You’re only going to make things worse! / You should head back right now, because…
Kadokura: Because nothing’ll come from picking a fight with Wein, right?
p22: Announcer: We will now begin the full system check. / The check will be performed on every floor. At that time, / after the alarm sounds, the power may cut out for around 30 seconds, / so please try to respond in a calm and orderly fashion.
p23: Announcer: We will start on the top floor of the main sphere, the elevator floor, at 1800 hours. / We will then proceed to each lower floor at 2 minute intervals. / Those are, in order, the living quarters, the CCR and laboratory facilities floor, and the sub-sphere contact floor. / We expect to be finished by 1810 hours. <On the map, starting from the top, going counter-clockwise: Elevator Tube, Elevator Floor, Garden, Living Quarters, Submarine Dock <note: LQ is below the dock>, Sub-sphere, Sub-sphere Contact Floor, CCR Floor, Main Sphere, CCR >
Kusakabe: At that time, we will begin testing the sub-sphere and submarine docking station as well.
Kusakabe: However, no one is actively using those sections, / so we plan on conducting those tests without forewarning.
p24: (?): Thanks for covering for me.
Announcer/Kusakabe: I repeat: At 1800 hours the top floor of the main sphere, / then each subsequent floor in two minute intervals…
Kadokura: Dammit, I’m pissed. / Should I go give him a piece of my mind?
Kadokura: But this and that are completely different things…
Wein: Go cool your head.
p25: Kadokura: Maybe you’re the one who needs to cool his head.
Kadokura: Though to be fair, / was he really trying to insult me?
Uemura: The test will begin in 5 seconds. / 3 / 2 / 1
p26: (?): Huh?
p27: Whoa! This is dangerous!
What’s going on here? Weren’t they supposed to start from the top?
A feint?
Th-the entire sphere has gone dark!!
Kusakabe: Even our backups failed? There’s no way that can be right! / Uemura-kun, start getting everything back online.
Uemura: Please, wait!
Uemura: This is really weird…
p28: <no text>
p29: Uemura: It’s not working! There’s no response!
Kusakabe: The temperature and oxygen systems are offline, too! / We need to figure something out, fast! Uemura: Shit!
p30: Kadokura: What is it this time? / Didn’t they say it was for only thirty seconds? And that it was supposed to start from the top?
Kadokura: Umm… / excuse me?
Kadokura: Err…
p31: Kadokura: At… at any rate, I should probably follow them…
(?): Hey… / Isn’t this running long?
p32: Kadokura: Umm, excuse me!
Kadokura: Where exactly are we headed?
p33: Kadokura: Huh?
p34: <no text> https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32566[English] [Translation] 6000 3 by Dowolf2011-12-13T01:47:47+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p1: Chapter 3: Reunion
Hey, Kadokura! / We’ve already closed! But still, it’s hard to believe after thirty years that this company would be bought out by a Chinese person…
Well, that’s all in the past now, right?
p2: Are you really going to stay?
p3: Haven’t you figured it out yet? / You screwed up.
p4: You never had a chance from the start.
You should have just left with everyone else.
But it’s too late to run away now, / Kadokura Kengo.
p5: Kadokura: Wahhhhhh!
p6: Kadokura: Hah….
Kadokura: Shit…
p7: Kusanabe: A resonance transmission? / We didn’t send any dispatches…
p8: Kusanabe: You must be mistaken. / The undersea resonance transmission system hasn’t been set up yet.
Surface: However, we have records of a message being received topside. Kusanabe: And as I said, we didn’t send it. / And it wasn’t SSB-AM* or signal diffusion, either. * A method of information transfer
Kusanabe: And why would we send anything up there wirelessly when there’s a cable connecting us? / And I’m not sure why I’m being asked to focus on these things.
Surface: There was undoubtedly a message received. / And it wasn’t vocal data. It was
p9: Surface: “silence”.
Surface: At any rate, we’d like you to try to achieve confirmation. Kusanabe: Yeah…
Kusanabe: Are they trying to stop me from working on repairs? / Are they just using me before they cut me off?
Kusanabe: But then why…
p10: Kusanabe: Wh… what…
Kusanabe: W… wait…
p11: Kusanabe: What are you doing, barging in—
p12: Kusanabe: Huh…?
p13: Kusanabe: But… I’m sure I just…
p14: Kusanabe: Isn’t this the undersea resonance transmission software? / It found a connection?
Kadokura: I guess / there’s no fish swimming near here today.
Kadokura: I want some sushi… Wein: You’re not homesick anymore, are you?
p15: Wein: The rest of the staff is busy restoring the facility. / Is filing reports really that tedious?
Kadokura: Well, / I was just about to, er… Go to the CCR*… *Central Control Room
Wein: I’m sorry, but this isn’t the kind of place where you can just sit around and think. / How much maintenance do you think we complete in a day?
Kadokura: Umm…
p16: Kadokura: I was hoping you could tell me about Danzaki-san’s condition… / Well…
Kadokura: It was an attempted suicide, right? / Why were you calling it an accident?
Kadokura: All right! I said it!
Kadokura: Let’s see / how he responds to that!
Wein: How idiotic.
Wein: Listen. / Put fifty or a hundred people together, and all sorts of crazy rumors will start flying about.
p17: Wein: You didn’t actually take them seriously, did you?
Kadokura: I did, but I heard it from one of the workers who was… Wein: We just brought in a new set of workers.
Wein: At any rate, you should try to put this incident in perspective.
Wein: You have a bad habit of focusing on the little things.
Kadokura: What happened to Danzaki-san was a “little thing”?
p18: Kadokura: If this work is that important, / then you should have just filed your reports however you liked from the start.
Kadokura: You just blind yourself to anything inconvenient!
Wein: You’re an interesting man.
Wein: Go take some time to cool your head
p19: Wein: and figure out whether or not it’s in your best interests to anger me.
Kadokura: This isn’t about me, dammit…
(?): Looks like you two aren’t that close. / Your conversation was pretty interesting.
p20: Kadokura: Y…You again.
Xia: Call me Xia Nozomi*. / I’m half-Japanese. *Family name is Chinese; pretty sure that’s the correct romanization
Xia: I’m here as a programmer…
Xia: Ah, hey! / I said, hey!
Xia: My goodness…
p21: Xia: If he can’t understand that Wein-shi is a fair representative of that company, well… / He does seem the type to fight all his battles alone.
Xia: The type who dies early on.
Kusanabe: Considering how he just acted, maybe he’s just the type who doesn’t even know what he’s looking for…
p22: Kusanabe: But on the other hand, he’s from Shanghai Kyosei. / I think he knows something, but…
Kusanabe: But Wein Chan Guo is practically a brick wall.
Xia: And Kadokura’s just an idiot.
Kusanabe: All the same, / there’s too many strange things going on here.
Kusanabe: I’m supposed to be responsible for the machines. / Why am I not allowed to view the data from the accident?
p23: Kusanabe: And this whole thing about the “silent transmission” is giving me the creeps.
Xia: Huh? / Did something happen?
Kusanabe: N-no, don’t worry about it.
Inset: They immediately changed the workers after Danzaki’s attempted suicide.
Inset: Shanghai Kyosei must be hiding something. And whatever it is, that’s what’s at the heart of all these malfunctions.
p24:
Glasses: The repeated alarm malfunctions, incessant pressure abnormalities / and the unreliability of the temperature control system…
Glasses: This place has completely gone to shit.
Glasses: So it’s exactly as Kusanabe-san surmised.
(?): At least as far as you can tell. / Right, Uemura-kun?
Uemura: Ah, Chief!
Chief: You must be Xia-kun.
p25: Samejima: It’s nice to meet you. The name’s Samejima.
Xia: But that means…
Xia: You must be the Samejima Tamotsu-san from Shinnou Heavy Industry,
Xia: the company that owns the Cofdeece.
Xia: Making you the person responsible for its structure.
p26: Xia: You guys did a really good job. Even though it’s a 3-year-old facility, / the design of the systems and layout still feel extremely modern.
Xia: Well, I’m sure she’d know more about that kind of thing than me…
p27: Xia: Long day today, Miwa-chan?
Samejima: I’m certainly glad for the complement, but / the management at Shanghai Kyosei seem to be hiding a few too many secrets.
Samejima: Even regarding the accident three years ago, / we don’t know much beyond the official announcement.
Samejima: At any rate, we’re always being treated as outsiders. / To be blunt, I still don’t feel at home down here.
p28: Samejima: We’d like to be able to give their families some closure, but, well… Girl from c.2: Phew…
Samejima: I feel sorry for them.
Xia: So… / How big was the accident?
p29: Samejima: All hands were lost. / That much we can be sure of.
Samejima: All thirty-two people died. / If we hadn’t been able to confirm that by satellite, / even the journalists would have never even found out about an accident this far underwater.
Samejima: But it was turned into a diplomatic issue, and no bodies were ever returned. / All I’ve gotten out of anyone involved was that there was a fire, but…
p30: Samejima: even though I came down here as soon as I could get clearance, / everything was as clean as a whistle.
Samejima: There wasn’t a hint of damages anywhere in the facility.
Kusanabe: Uh…
p31: Samejira(?): If there were a fire large enough to kill everyone…
Samejira(?): Or perhaps we should consider the possibility that all thirty-two were “disappeared” somewhere…
p32: <no text>
p33: KYAAAAAAA!
Glasses woman: Heh… Hah…
p34: Glasses woman: Bà… (Father) https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32462[English] [Translation] 6000 2 by Dowolf2011-12-05T16:59:03+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p1: Chapter 2: Mass Hysteria
p2: <no text>
p3: Kadokura: It’s not too late to say something.
Kadokura: There’s no reason I have to just sit back and do whatever he says, after all!
Kadokura: I… I should quit.
Kadokura: Umm… Wein-san?
p4: Kadokura: I was just wondering—when does this elevator makes its return trip?
Kadokura: I mean, we get to spend our time off topside, right?
Kadokura: Shit. Say something, dammit!
Kadokura: At any rate, if I don’t think of something fast, I’m going to be stuck 6,000 meters under the sea with this bastard…
p5: This is suicidal.
Is Danzaki-san alright?
p6: ….ved. / Please wait a moment while we prepare the exterior for docking.
p7: That took forever.
Kadokura: Did we arrive?
Kadokura: Looks like I’m fucking stuck here now.
p8: <no text>
p9: Wein: Welcome to the Cofdeece!
Wein: This is the elevator room, which is on the top floor.
Worker: I hope your trip was pleasant.
p10: This is Cofdeece, a deep-sea residential facility located 6,000 meters underwater. / It consists of seven pressure-resistant spheres intended for residential use, along with two pressure-resistant columns.
p11: It’s a giant facility, capable of housing up to 50 people.
Wein: These bulkheads are scattered throughout the facility. / Please be aware of them in case of emergency.
Wein: They consist of a five-fold lock which is set up to automatically close in the span of 0.2 seconds, even if someone wants to get through.
(?): They’re more like passageways than bulkheads…
p12: Wein: First, let’s head to the CCR, the central control room. / As the name suggests, it serves as Cofdeece’s core.
Kadokura: … It’s huge… Wein: Therefore, unlike elsewhere the CCR has a secondary pressure-resistant…
p13: Wein: What the fuck is going on here?! Kadokura: Ah…
Wein: Have you accomplished nothing?!
Worker: Are… Are you alright? Guo: How long has the ban been lifted for? Worker: 3 days, sir.
Kusakabe: And I think we’ve accomplished a lot over these three days, / Wein-san.
Wein: Good job,
p14: Kusakabe-kun.
Kusakabe: And on top of being so busy, / Danzaki went and…
Kusakabe: Who’s that?
p15: Wein: Oh, him? He’s my new subordinate.
Wein: Apparently, he’s from the same company as Danzaki.
Kadokura: I’m Kadokura.
Kusakabe: Ah… / Nice to meet you… / I’m Kusakabe Miwa, an engineer here.
p16: Kadokura: Umm… Kusakabe: About my security level—
Guo: This again? Kusakabe: But I need to get into… <trails off>
Kadokura: So she’s Kusakabe-san… Kadokura: *grunt* Kadokura: What’s in here?
Kadokura: I think I could learn to like working— Kadokura: Whoa!
p17: Kadokura: …….. / Is this place gonna fall apart? …. Dammit.
p18: *Kadokura: My Fairlady Z35… / I have a five-year loan… / I could quit, but then I wouldn’t be able to pay it off…
p19: Kadokura: Guess there’s no water in here… / How am I supposed to bathe?
Kadokura: Well, if a thing’s worth doing, / it’s worth doing right.
Kadokura: Huh? What’s this?
p20: Kadokura: Wha?!
Kadokura: Dammit! / What is this—dirt?! / Shit!
p21: Kadokura: It’s just one thing after another…
Kadokura: Guess they didn’t finish cleaning out the last guy’s stuff…
p22: Announcer: Warning.
Announcer: Warning. / An abnormality has been detected in the internal pressure.
Announcer: An abnormality has been…
Kusakabe[?]: This sort of stuff’s has been happening all the time. Kusakabe[?]: I’ve looked into the machinery, but everything seems to be working OK.
p23: Kusakabe: But the pressure, temperature, and personnel sensors keep going off…
Kusakabe: So to be blunt, the whole system’s screwed up.
Kusakabe: This place has fallen apart worse than I had imagined. / I don’t know if we could get this place back up to par in a month.
Kusakabe: But at any rate, wasn’t Shanghai Kyosei a proprietary company which made use of above-sea facilities and elevator units, right? / So I don’t think it would be a breach of trust for you to provide me with the those companies’ private maintenance data…
Wein: I’m sorry, Kusakabe-kun.
p24: Wein: But could you please stop prying into unnecessary matters?
Wein: You’re a mechanic. / Your need only concern yourself with machinery.
Wein: And furthermore, / we will be the judge of whether or not we can resume operations, not you.
p25: Wein: And by “we”, I mean Shanghai Kyosei.
Kadokura: “An abnormality in the air pressure”?!
Kadokura: Isn’t that really bad?
Kadokura: Though the alarm did stop going off…
Kadokura: Where was it I was supposed to go?
Kadokura: To wherever he is?
Kadokura: Dammit all… And I had finally gotten some time alone, too…
p26: Kadokura: Umm/ Excuse me?
Kadokura: What the hell… / What’s wrong with her?
p27: Kadokura: But / I’ve got a bad feeling about this… What is this place?
p28: Kadokura: Amazing… / A greenhouse… or maybe a botanical garden?
p29: Kadokura: No, this is a full-blown forest.
(?): This forest is one part of a perfect recycling environment, / developed for use even in outer space.
(?): An encapsulated man-made forest which makes use of the agglutinative capabilities of polysilica iron…
(?): Or at least, it was supposed to become that. Now it’s just a bunch of ruins…
p30:
Kadokura: Ah, you’re…
(?): You’re / from Shanghai Kyosei, right? / There’s something I want to ask you!
Kadokura: Wh… What is it?
p31: Kadokura: And… I just started here today, so… (?): Don’t play dumb!
(?): And don’t give me that bullshit about territorial waters under the Sino-Japanese accords or being banned from the area! / That’s not what I want to know at all!
(?): I want to know the truth behind the accident.
(?): What exactly happened then? (?): Why did everyone… (new ?): Umm…
p32: Worker: I’m sorry to interrupt. Kadokura: No, it’s fine.
Worker: Umm… / She just said you were from Shanghai Kyosei, right?
Worker: We were really surprised / by “that”, too.
Worker: Ah… forget it. How’s Danzaki doing?
p33: Worker: He was a good man, so I’m concerned…
Kadokura: You know about Danzaki-san’s accident?!
Kadokura: I saw him being evacuated earlier! Workers: … Kadokura: What the hell happened to him?!
Worker: That wasn’t an accident.
p34: Worker: I saw it happen with my own eyes. / While we were working on cleanup operations in here, Danzaki… He took a kama / to his throat, and… https://mangahelpers.com/t/dowolf/releases/32377[English] [Translation] 6000 1 by Dowolf2011-11-28T19:36:14+00:00Dowolfadmin@mangahelpers.com*for Lazy Ass scans
p1. Chapter 1: 6000 Meters Year 201X, in a certain part of the Philippine Sea
We’re only running on emergency power.
It’s dark out there, so please, be careful.
Worker: Ah, you’ll want to put on a mask, sir. Suit: I don’t need one. Worker: But sir, the smell is…
Suit: Don’t make me tell you again.
p2: Other suit: Ugh.
Masked worker: We’ve cleaned up… The worst of the fat…
Suit: That was much faster than I expected.
p3: Suit: Alright, let’s hurry this up! / There’s only three hours left in the day! Suit: Once the accords come into effect, / we’ll no longer be able to operate in this region!
Suit: And then this place’ll just become cold storage.
p4: 3 Years Later
Kadokura: How many times to I have to show you my papers?!
Kadokura: I’m staff here! You know me!
p5: Kadokura: Why, on top of working out here in the middle of nowhere, / do I have to put up with all this bureaucratic bullshit?!
Kadokura: I mean, without a convenience store, how am I supposed to receive my packages from Amazon?
Kadokura: I’ve put up with all of this bull. / No internet, no television, no magazines, no hook… I mean, no girlfriend!
Kadokura: Don’t look at me like that! Worker: It’ll just be another second.
p6-7: Kadokura: Dammit! I’m already late!
(?): Is that the Japanese man you spoke of?
p8: Hmm… / But doesn’t he seem a little off?
After our company was acquired,
He seems to have decided to grab onto whatever he could.
And besides, I’m sure he won’t look really excited / until he learns the details of his work.
Does he have guts? Or is he just an idiot?
p9: Wein: He’s a dog. Just look at him.
Kadokura: First impressions are everything. / First impressions are…
p10: Wein: I’m Wein Chan Guo* of Shanghai’s Kyosei Shipwrights. *name is Chinese; I am completely guessing on the transliteration. If anyone has a better one, I’m all ears Wein: I’ll be your new boss.
Wein: I apologize if I made you wait.
Kadokura: I’m—I’m Kadokura Kengo. / I transferred to your department yesterday! It’s—It’s nice to…
p11: Kadokura: meet you… Wein: Wasn’t there supposed to be one more? / I heard you were a two-man group… Kadokura: Ah, yes; that’s right! He’s going to be meeting up with us later, though…
Kadokura: Though he was the top salesman at our old company… Wein: So then, what do you know about what you’ll be doing for us?
Kadokura (not speech bubble): What was the job again? Kadokura(speech bubble): Umm… err… / I heard it had something to do with reworking some things at a “certain institution”…
Kadokura: And apparently it’s been closed for the last three years… Wein: That’s right.
Wein: There was a bit of an accident. Problems in territorial waters. Things became rather difficult.
p12: Wein: We weren’t even allowed to get close to it for the past three years.
Wein: A lot of money was spent building that state-of-the-art facility, so I’m sure you can imagine the inconvenience.
Wein: At any rate, our business focuses on / securing the key ingredients for industrial work: herbs, minerals, energy sources, and so on.
Wein: And we found the motherlode in the ocean depths.
p13: Kadokura: What….? Wein: We began operations 6,000 meters beneath the surface three years ago / in the deep-sea residential facility Cofdeece. Kadokura: 6,000 meters?! Wein: Our job is to evaluate the facility and report our findings topside.
Kadokura: The bottom of the ocean…?!
Kadokura: Wh-when you say the ocean depths, do you mean— Wein: Moving on!
Wein: I’ll spare you the details until that “top” man gets here. Extra: Wein-san!
p14: Kadokura: Umm / excuse me?
Kadokura: A facility 6000 meters under the sea…
Kadokura: So the job isn’t here, then.
p15: Kadokura: So how the hell / are we even getting there?
p16: Kadokura: Bioprospecting… / It can cause cancerous cells to undergo apoptosis.
Kadokura: As for other poisonous properties, it also serves as a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory...
Kadokura: Shit…. I don’t understand any of this. If I don’t meet up with Danzaki-san soon, I’ll…
p17: Good work today!
Yamada(?): Reemployment? / I feel like that choice has already been made for us.
Yamada(?): Who’d a thunk that, after working at a company for thirty years, it’d get bought out by some Chinese guy?
Kadokura: Look’s like Yamada-san’s complaining as much as ever.
Danzaki: Hey, Kengo! / I heard they didn’t let you go!
Kadokura: How are you taking this so lightly?
Danzaki: Have you ever seen me nervous?
p18:
Kadokura: Guess not. / Well, as for me…
Kadokura: I’m still owed a favor by the outgoing company president!
Danzaki: Oh? What a laugh.
Danzaki: Well, Ekoda Machinery still lives on in my heart. / You’re an engineer, so I figure you feel it more than I.
Danzaki: At any rate, relax. / I’ll get us out of this rut soon enough.
p19: Kadokura: Danzaki-san… I’m sorry, but I’m still nervous.
Kadokura: No!
Kadokura: I have to stay confident, or I’m doomed.
Kadokura: It’s not like I can just find another job now. / And I still have Danzaki-san.
(?): You seem down in the dumps.
(?): Do Japanese people always look like that while trying to hold on to their pride?
(?): If only you would keep your head up / and act like everything were going to turn out just fine…
Kadokura: “Wh—“
p20: (?): You’re / one of the people from the company Shanghai’s Kyosei Shipwrights bought out, right? (?): I was wondering if you had any regrets.
Kadokura: Since you’re here, you must be one of the staff working below, right? / Why’d you decide to start talking to me?
(?): Oh, I get it.
(?): You’re the kind of guy who just puts on a brave face, aren’t you?
p21: Kadokura: Don’t you dare talk to me like that!
Extra: Why’s a helicopter here? / Weren’t we supposed to be on standby after Wein-san arrived?
Extra: Apparently, someone got hurt down below. / You’re not saying we’re going to send him out on the chopper, are you?
p22: <no text>
p23: Kadokura: Da—
Kadokura: Danzaki-san!
Kadokura: Wait! / Please, wait!
Wein: KADOKURA.
Wein: It’s time for us to enter.
p24:
Wein: The final group of specialists will now begin their descent to Cofdeece. / Looks like we’ll be traveling together.
Kadokura: No, but… / Danzaki-san’s…
Wein: Is that a sufficient reason to keep the rest of the staff waiting?
Wein: Get a hold of yourself. / That was nothing more than a mild accident.
p25: Wein: Leave the rest to the medics.
Wein: Please watch your step, / as there’s a small step down here.
p26: Wein: From here, this elevator tube will take us / down the 6,000 meters to Cofdeece
p27: Wein: The Deep Sea Elevator DST1, / Shanghai’s Kyosei Shipwright’s pride and joy.
Wein: The outer layer consists of a carbon fiber developed in western Japan specifically for this project. / It can theoretically withstand up to 110 megapascals.
p28: Wein: The interior of the tube is filled with a special fluid / which flows in a strikingly smooth manner! It makes the ride quite pleasant.
Kadokura(?): What is this “special liquid”?
Kadokura(?): Something resistant to both heat and pressure… No, that can’t be it.
Kadokura: How am I supposed to do this alone…
p29: <no text>
p30: Wein: KADOKURA!
Wein: Stop spacing out! Hurry up and take a seat!
p31: Wein: The descent will take four hours. Along the way, / we will activate a mechanism which will resist the rising water pressure within the tube itself.
p32: Kadokura: Umm, what… what was it I saw back there?
Kadokura: Was I just stressed out because of what happened to Danzaki-san?
p33: Kadokura: Wein Chan Guo…
Kadokura: I can’t trust that man at all.
Kadokura: How was that a “little” accident? / Does he think I’m an idiot?
Kadokura: Slow down… I’m just letting myself get carried away. / But still, am I really heading 6,000 meters under the sea / with no one I can trust?
p34: Kadokura: This is no joke… / Everything’s fucked up.