Mangahelpers Translationshttps://mangahelpers.com/translators/rss2015-05-10T01:52:00+00:00/favicon.icoMangaHelpers Adminsadmin@mangahelpers.comhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/41295[English] [Translation] Orochi 9 by molokidan2015-05-10T01:52:00+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.com5) BLOOD
8) 1: My house was a big mansion. 2: No matter how far I walked, there were always more rooms.
9) 1: I'd always get scared along the way and start running back.
10) 1: My older sister and I were both born in that mansion.
11) 1: I always played with her. No matter how much we played together, I never got bored.
12) 1: She was a very nice sister.
13) 1: When would go outside sometimes,
14) 1: and when we did, she would always hold my hand. 2: People would look back and stare at us.
15) 1: Whenever we had picnics together inside the mansion, 2: or when I would drop a cake that I was eating for a snack,
16) 1: Ahhh! SFX: splat 2: she'd always give me all of hers.
17) 1: I loved my sister.
18) 1: But I hated every day of my life.
20) 1: I hated studying so much. SFX: smack 2: You made another mistake! 3: How many times will it take for you to learn?!
21) 1: HA HI FU HE HO YA I YU (*tl note: Japanese alphabet) 2: Your older sister could draw every hiragana character when she was your age!
22) 1: Now, it's time for your piano lesson.
23) 1-2: dong dong
24) 1: Play it right! When your sister was your age, she had already finished the entire Bayer course! 2: That wasn't all I hated.
25) 1: Did you forget your morning greeting? 2: Mother!! 3: Your sister always did hers properly. And her footsteps were never as loud as yours.
26) 1: Right down to the most minute action, I was always compared with my sister.
27) 1: You forgot to bow again!!
28) 1: Sometimes, I would hide and cry by myself.
29) 1: When that happened, I would draw pictures to ease the pain.
30) 1: But someone would always appear and take my picture away from me. 2: Ahhh! 3: What is this?! 4: I can't even understand what it is you were trying to draw!
34) SFX: rip
38) SFX: slam 1: I am Orochi. I decided to follow this girl and watch her...
39) 1: after I decided to sneak in and peep inside this old-fashioned mansion.
40) SFX: slam
42) 1: What a large mansion this is!! 2: Where could they have taken that girl? It might be time for her to have more lessons in manners. I'll have to go find her.
43) 1: And so, people kept comparing everything about the two sisters. 2: Despite that, they still got along well at the time. 3: One day, they decided to plant flower seeds. 4: The older sister's name was Kazusa, and the younger sister's name was Risa.
44) 1: You can have either one. This one has a white flower seed, and this one has a red flower seed. They're both the same kind of flower, just different colors. 2: I want the red flowers.
45) 1: Then they buried the flower seeds in the ground.
46) 1: Even when Kazusa wasn't there, Risa would go and take good care of the flowers on her own. 2: Then, both of the flowers bloomed. 3: Waaah!!
47) 1: How beautiful!! 2: This white flower is Kazusa's flower, yes? 3: And then there's this red flower... 4: Hmph!!
48) 1: If they're both the same kind of flower, then why isn't yours beautiful too?! 2: Can't you even raise a flower as well as your sister, Risa?! 3: What are you crying for?!
49) 1: Now, back to your rooms. 2: They only planted those flowers for fun, and yet...
50) 1: Ahhh!!
51) 1: What did she come back for?
54) 1: Why... Why is her flower so beautiful? 2: My flower's the red one... 3: What's different about hers? 4: Ahhh!! SFX: snap
55) 1: The flower!!
56) 1: Wh-what should I do?! 2-3: Risa!! 4: Where is she?! 5: There are a lot of people here now!!
57) 1: Hey! What are you doing in a place like this? 2: Ahh! That flower!!
58) 1: Risa!! Did you get jealous of how much more beautiful your sister's flower was?! 2: You did, so you ripped it off, didn't you?! 3: N-no! No!! It just came off on its own!! 4: Silence!! 5: I was just looking at it! I just wanted to see how it bloomed, mother! Really!!
59) 1: I said silence!! SFX: slap SFX: Uwaaahhh
60) 1: What a horrible child you are! I don't remember raising you to act so twisted!! SFX: Uwaaaahhh
61) 1: Once Risa became sick, the true horror began.
62) 1: Are you OK? 2: I'll nurse you back to health. 3: I'll do anything you want me to do. 4: Kazusa!! 5: I'll be nursing her.
63) 1: No, I'll do it. I'm her older sister, after all. 2: What a kind young girl! It looks like she's grown into another gracious member of the Monzen family! But in return, her little sister only ever causes problems...
64) 1: What's wrong, Risa? 2: Ahhh!! SFX: bwap
65) 1: Looks like Risa's finally gotten better. 2: She came out of her room. Where is she going?
66) 1: She's heading to the kitchen...!! SFX: creak
67) 1: Why is she sticking her hand into the garbage can?
69) 1: Oh, Risa. It's snack time. 2: Please wash your hands and sit down at the table.
70) SFX: creak
71) 1: All ready? That one's yours, and the other one is for your sister. 2: This special pudding looks delicious, doesn't it?
72) 1: I'm going to go call your sister in. SFX: slam
73) 1: What is she doing? She put something into her sister's snack!!
74) 1: Her sister's here!! SFX: creak 2: Thank you for waiting.
75) 1: This pudding looks so good!! 2: Thank you very much for preparing it. 3: Huh? It looks like there's a hole in it. 4: Oh really? That's strange...
76) 1: It's delicious!! 2: Gehhhh
77) 1: Wh-what's wrong?!
78) SFX: Gehhhhh 1-2: Ahhhh!! SFX: kyaaaaahhh
79) 1: Kazusa!!
80) 1: Kazusa!!
81) 1: Luckily, she didn't suffer any serious injuries.
82) 1: Risa!! 2: Come here!! 3: You need to apologize to your sister!!
83) 1: There as something rotten in the trash can, wasn't there?! Someone saw you stick your hand inside it!! 2: Wh-what were you thinking?! 3: Do you even realize what kind of a family you were born into?!
84) 1: Please forgive me, mother!! 2: Why did Risa do that...?! 3: Did she really get jealous of her sister?
85) 1: I can't believe what a horrible child you are!! You're nothing like your big sister!! 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Kazusa!! I put something rotten in your pudding!! 3: That's OK. It doesn't bother me anymore. 4: But I wanted you to get sick!
86) 1: What?! 2: You wanted her to get sick?! 3: No! No! 4: I just wanted to nurse her!! 5: I wanted her to get sick so I could nurse her! That's why I wanted her to get sick...
87) 1: Terrible!! Why would you ever want your sister to get sick?! 2: No! No!! SFX: waahh 3: Whenever you're in trouble, all you ever do is cry to try and distract people!! SFX: waaahhh
88) 1: Risa!! SFX: bwap 2: She really looks like she's under a lot of stress. Where is she going?
89) SFX: creak SFX: slam
91) SFX: creak
92) 1: What could she be planning to do with that knife? 2: Maybe she's going to stab someone?! Because she's mad at her sister or her mother... 3: She's walking down one of the deserted back halls. I'm a bit worried, but I'll follow her to see what happens. SFX: creak... SFX: slam
93) 1: What is she doing, bending down toward the floor like that? 2: No matter how painful her life must be, a little girl like her would never think to kill herself... SFX: drip
94) 1: It's red!! 2: My blood really is red!! It isn't black or green!! 3: It isn't the least bit different from my sister's! It's the same! It's the same kind of blood that I saw on the spot where she fell from the window!! 4: Then aren't I smart like she is? 5: Why are we different? 6: We have the same blood!! 7: She cut her finger with the knife... Her mother's going to yell at her again!!
95) 1: It wasn't until Risa started attending elementary school that she truly started to feel clearly inferior to her sister Kazusa. 2: Risa attended a famous school that everyone knew of. 3: When she started attending it, Kazusa was already in the third grade there. 4: Don't worry, Risa. They're all nice people. If you don't understand anything, just ask someone. SFX: smack 5: Risa!! 6: Your big sister got 100 points on this problem!! 7: Risa, go look at your sister's calligraphy!! You saw the piece that's hanging in the entryway, right?! 8: That's Kazusa's little sister... Kazusa's so much sweeter and brighter than she is.
96) sign: Report Card - Monzen Risa 1: What is this, Risa?! 2: You have five less 5s than your sister!! SFX: smack 3: Don't you realize how hard we're all working here?! 4: The Monzen family isn't a normal family!! Don't you understand that the eyes of the public are always on us?! 5: Don't you care if people think of you as a stupid girl?! 6: You need to get your act together, or you'll embarrass everyone!! Don't you care about embarrassing your big sister or your mother?! 7: You aren't a child anymore! You can't keep acting like you always have!! 8: As Risa grew older, she started becoming more sensitive to how she was always compared to her sister.
97) 1: Then, Risa began to go out of her way 2: to avoid people altogether. 3: Risaaaa!! 4: Oh my!! 5: How rude. Why does she have to run away from us? 6: Even when she was at home... SFX: vroooom SFX: blam 7: She hardly ever spoke with anyone unless she had to. 8: Welcome home.
98) 1: She especially avoided crossing paths with her sister Kazusa. 2: She often shut herself up her in room, and gradually became more and more silent.
99) 1: Soon, Kazusa and Risa became teenagers. 2: The Monzon family started entertaining more and more guests, 3: and many parties were held. 4: During these parties, the conversation would always drift to how beautiful the two sisters had become, 5: and Risa would always glare at all the people 6: who gathered around her big sister. 7: Kazusa noticed this, 8: and tried to compliment her sister as best she could, 9: but that only hardened Risa's expression. 10: She would even go into her room and cry by herself after the parties ended.
100) 1: This only turned Risa into even more of a silent, gloomy, twisted woman...
101) 1: Soon Kazusa found a husband and took over the Monzen family. 2: Her younger sister Risa married as well and moved far away to live with his family. This was something that Risa had been deeply hoping for - a family who had very thin ties with the Monzen. 3: And so, she finally escaped the oppression of the Monzen family. 4: But that was only the beginning of even greater oppression... 5: Suddenly, Kazusa's husband got sick... 6: Wahhh! 7: And Kazusa was left all alone. 8: I couldn't possibly remarry!! And besides, who would want an old woman like me?! 9: But you have to, or else the Monzen bloodline will die out!!
102) 1: After checking in on Kazusa, 2: I went to go check on Risa in Kyushu 3: Risa's husband was the manager of a hotel. 4: He was a very flashy man, 5: and never stopped fighting with Risa. SFX: slap 6: You're so boring! Just leave already, why don't you?! 7: Fine then, I will!!
103) 1: You think I actually want to be here?! SFX: wham SFX: klak x3 SFX: slam SFX: vroom x3 SFX: vroooosh
104) SFX: squeaaaal 1: Oh no! She's drunk!! 2: She's going to crash!! SFX: squeal x2 SFX: screeech 3: I did my best to protect Risa's body.
105) 1: There was a car crash!! SFX: screech 2: She's just unconscious!! It was such a horrible crash, yet somehow she didn't get a single scratch on her!! 3: The man who was riding shotgun died instantly!! 4: By that time, I had already left the scene. 5: Good. It looks like Risa survived. 6: Luckily, my injuries aren't that serious either. They should heal quickly with a little rest. 7: Protecting Risa ended up making me even more interested in following the lives of the two sisters.
106) SFX: vrooom... 1: But that's when it happened... 2: I'm tired!! 3: Oh no! All of a sudden I'm getting really tired in a place like this!! 4: But why now?! This wasn't supposed to happen... for another decade!!
107) 1: I can't do this here!! I need to hurry up and find a proper spot!! 2: I've watched Kazusa and Risa for their entire lives so far... I don't want to have to stop now!! 3: Will they even be alive the next time I'm able to visit the Monzen family? 4: Will I even be able to wake up again?! 5: Aaahh, I'm so tired!! 6: I'm going to fall asleep!!
108) 1: I'm so tired!! SFX: wham 2: Uuuu...!!
109) 1: I-I can't go to sleep here... 2: They'll think I collapsed and try to treat me. 3: I need to use my last remaining strength and run as far as I can!! 4: Until I reach a spot where no one will find me!! 5: But why am I getting sleepy now? It's only supposed to come once every hundred years... Why now?!
110) 1: It came a decade earlier than it should have. Why? 2: I know!! The shock that I received when I protected Risa from that car accident must have forced my sleepiness to come sooner!! 3: The last time I slept was around the year 1900. 4: Before that, I went to sleep toward the end of the 1800 decade. And before that... 5: The only reason I've been able to survive this long is because of the long slumber I engage in once every 100 years. 6: If I don't sleep, I'll age just like normal people and die! 7: I can't go on any further! My eyesight is blurring!!
111) 1: I ran as far as I could. 2: Ahhh!! 3: Waahhh!!
112) 1: I had no idea what happened to me, or where I fell. SFX: thud 2: And then my mind faded away.
113) 1: How many years passed while I slept? 2: Whether or not a lot of time passed, I woke up from my slumber with a start. 3: It was strange awakening unlike anything I'd experienced before. 4: Huh...? 5: Where am I?
114) 1: That's when I started to realize something strange had happened... 2: I-I can't move!! 3: M-my fingers... 4: My eyes... my mouth...!! 5: I-I can't speak either!! 6: What happened to me?! 7: Ahhh!! 8: Aaaahhh!! 9: Aaahhh!! 10: My body's moving. 11: It's starting to fold up the futon!!
115) 1: My body's moving on its own!! SFX: fsssh x2 2: It's washing my face!! 3: But what am I doing here? 4: I changed my clothes, and now I'm putting on makeup. 5: Ahhh!!
116) 1: This isn't me!! 2: My face never looked this sad!! SFX: knock x2 3: How long are you going to sleep for? It's me! Open up!! SFX: rattle SFX: slap 4: What are you waiting for?! It's already time! What are you going to do if everyone else gets to all the good spots before us?! 5: What do you look so dissatisfied for?! 6: Hurry up and get ready, and then come downstairs! I'll be waiting at the entrance to the apartment with dad, OK?! SFX: smack 7: Who was that? What happened to me while I was asleep? 8: I don't get it... Something must have happened right after I fell asleep.
117) SFX: rattle 1: Yoshiko, how long do you intend to keep us waiting?! 2: C'mon! It's time to go! We aren't rich people who have all the time in the world!! SFX: creak 3: Look! The neon lights in Shinjuku are already lit up! 4: Listen carefully, Yoshiko! Even if a customer makes fun of you like yesterday, you can't cry! It's pathetic!! 5: No one will come near us if you get all gloomy at every little thing that happens! 6: I hope you haven't forgotten how we went out of our way to save you from wandering around with those vagrants, 7: and gave you a place to live and cared for you as you grew up!
118) 1: We're paying a lot of money to rent that apartment for you, you know!! You need to work hard, or else there's going to be trouble!! 2: Enough whining already. Just make sure she works hard!! 3: You be quiet!! You can barely even call yourself a singer! You're so talentless that drinking alcohol to roughen up your voice and playing guitar is the only choice you have!! 4: Not to mention her! She couldn't sing to save her life!! 5: She's a tiny bit cute, though, so she manages to draw in a few customers! That's all!! 6: Now, it's time to begin! Ready, Yoshiko?! SFX: rattle 7: Good evening. We're a traveling family of musicians.
119) 1: Oh, we don't need you today. We've got some customers who prefer things to be quiet. 2: I see. Please excuse me, then. I'll come back another day. SFX: hahahaha 3: Hmph! Those stingy assholes!! 4: Yoshiko! When that sort of thing happens, you need to look friendlier and try to coax them into taking us!! 5: We'll try that bar next. 6: Good evening. We're a traveling family of musicians. Would you like to hear a song? 7: Sure! 8: Does that girl sing? 9: Yes, we play our guitars along with her singing. 10: Can you sing 'Shinjuku Crow?'
120) 1: Yes!! 2: No matter what I try, I can't do anything about this. It's like I've been stuffed into a robot. I'll just have to watch and see what happens. 3: OK then, Yoshiko, sing the song for them. 4: The Shinjuku crow lost its nest in the back streets with their swirling neon lights... 5: He doesn't know what tomorrow ill bring... He just wanders alone for today... deep at the bottom of the night... SFX: screech 6: Hello? 7: Ahhh! 8: It's me, the woman who came to visit you earlier. 9: Today, I've come to take Yoshiko home!
121) 1: Yoshiko, how do you feel? I want to hear it from your mouth. Will you come with me or not? 2: B-but she's...!! 3: Yes, as promised, I brought the 3 million yen with me. 4: You don't need to hold back, Yoshiko. You and I share the same blood. We're family. 5: Auntie!! 6: That's it. Come to me. 7: Get in the car. SFX: slam SFX: vroom
122) SFX: Vroom 1: What's going on here? 2: Who is this woman? 3: I have no idea where she's planning to take me. 4: I have no choice but to go with her, though, since my body keeps moving on its own...
123) 1: Yoshiko, I know you've been through hell, you poor thing!! 2: Will I really be able to live a happy life now? 3: Of course. Your great aunt has been waiting for you! 4: We have no other family. If only you knew how hard we've searched for you... 5: I'm glad you have a gentle soul, though. Everyone will be so pleased. Soon, you should see the mansion. 6: I didn't tell you this yet, but... It actually belongs to the Monzen family. 7: The Monzen family?!
124) 1: The Monzen family!! 2: The same family as Kazusa and Risa... 3: What a coincidence. I never thought I'd be reunited with them like this!! 4: But why can't I move my body as I please? I can't even control my own blinks. 5: And who's this older lady? I feel like I've seen her somewhere before... 6: Did I surprise you, Yoshiko? 7: It's the truth, though. We're heading to the mansion of the famous Monzen family.
125) 1: You're a distant relative who shares our blood. 2: And that's not all. From this day forward, you're going to live together with us!! 3: OK? Starting today, you're a daughter of the Monzen family!! 4: O-OK!!
126) 1: Now I remember this place. We really are going to the Monzen mansion. 2: But why did I turn into this orphan named Yoshiko? I don't remember a thing about her. 3: I fell asleep, then I have no idea what happened next. 4: The bandage is missing from my right hand!! 5: Just what happened to me?! 6: As confusion overtook me, the car continued to head straight toward the Monzen mansion. 7: Soon, it had entered the mansion's grounds. 8: That's it, Yoshiko...
127) 1: The Monzen mansion!! SFX: screech 2: We got out of the car by the gate and went inside. SFX: flap x3
128) 1: The massive mansion hadn't changed a bit. SFX: creak 2: But for some reason, I felt like the overall atmosphere had changed. 3: What's different about it?! Don't know... It looks like it's somehow become dilapidated. Could that be why? No, that isn't it.. There's something else. SOmething i can't see, something that can't be put into words... 4: The older lady and I walked along the stone path. SFX: klak x2 5: Yoshiko. 6: There's something I must tell you.
129) 1: As I've said many times before, from this day forward, you are a daughter of the Monzen family!! 2: In exchange for that, you will be in charge of your great aunt, my older sister... It will be your job to nurse her back to health. 3: She has a bad heart, which has made her bedridden. 4: Oh my... 5: A bad heart?! 6: Do you understand? 7: Yes. 8: I'll do my best to nurse her back to health. 9: Look. There's the entrance, Yoshiko.
130) 1: You don't need to be surprised. The maids are just there waiting to welcome you. 2: Welcome, Yoshiko. We've been waiting for you. 3: Now, no need to hold back. Please go inside. 4: This way... 5: Doesn't it amaze you? This is your new home. 6: You should change into some new clothes before you go to meet your great aunt. We've already prepared some for you.
131) 1: This is your room. SFX: creak... 2: This all belongs to you now. 3: Here, put this on. 4: I can't believe I get to live in a mansion like this... Could I be dreaming?!
132) 1: And I can't believe people are being so nice to me...!! 2: Ho ho ho... It isn't a dream. From this day forward, you're going to live a happy life here. 3: You look so beautiful, I can hardly recognize you!! Look closely at yourself. 4: Now, let's go visit your great-aunt. 5: My great-aunt... Just what kind of person is she? Gradually, I became more and more interested in her. 6: What kind of a person is she?
133) 1: I said exactly what was on my mind. 2: She's a very gentle soul. 3: She's a flawless person... 4: Once you see her, you'll understand. 5: Here we are. SFX: knock x2 6: Come in. SFX: creak SFX: creak...
134) 1: I feel like I've seen her somewhere before... 2: But no matter how hard I thought, I just couldn't remember where. 3: And where are Kazusa and Risa now? 4: This is Yoshiko...
135) 1: I-I'm Yoshiko... 2: You...? 3: Welcome. Be sure you make yourself at home here. 4: You poor thing... You must have been through so much. 5: May I take my leave now? 6: Yes. If I need you, I'll call for you. 7: OK... 8: Yoshiko... Please take care of my older sister for me. 9: O-OK!! 10: If you have any questions, please come and ask me at once.
136) 1: Now then, good night. 2: Good night. SFX: creak SFX: slam 3: Yoshiko, since this was all so sudden, it must have surprised you. 4: My younger sister and I have no more family left... So she became worried about me and went to search for you. 5: Ever since I lost my health, my sister has cared for me. She's the kindest sister anyone could have. 6: Wh-when did you get sick? 7: I've been bedridden for quite a while. That's why all my hair is white. 8: It's really gotten that bad?
137) 1: Yes. Whenever I move my body, I feel pain. That's why I have to stay in bed. 2: I was told that there is no cure... 3: Oh my!! 4: I shouldn't have asked that...!! 5: Gradually, my body's movements began to match up with my emotions. 6: Ho ho ho. 7: It's fine. You don't need to worry about it. 8: More importantly, did you feel disappointed that you came all the way here just to meet a sick person like me? 9: No, of course not. I'll do my best to nurse you!! 10: Thank you. 11: Umm... Could you please tell me your name, and your sister's name?
138) 1: Oh, that's right. I completely forgot. My name is... 2: Kazusa... 3: And my sister's name is... 4: Risa. 5: Kazusa!! 6: Risa!! 7: I knew it!! 8: I had a feeling this might be them... 9: That's why I felt like I had seen them somewhere before!! 10: The reason something seemed different about the mansion is because decades have passed since I last saw it... 11: A-and the person before me now is the older sister, Kazusa!!
139) 1: While I was asleep, decades passed here!! 2: Kazusa and Risa also aged... 3: What happened to them while I was asleep?! 4: And what happened to me...?
140) 1: Oh, Yoshiko, you can go to sleep now. I'll tell you more about our family tomorrow. 2: OK... 3: Good night, then. 4: Good night. SFX: creak 5: I left Kazusa's room. 6: What happened to me? 7: Although I didn't realize it, my emotions were slowly mixing in with Yoshiko's. 8: Soon, the word "I" began to refer to not just myself, but Yoshiko as well. SFX: creak
141) SFX: chirp chirp... 1: Yoshiko, good morning. 2: Oh, good morning. 3: I figured you didn't know where the dining room is, so I came to get you. 4: There, I ate an extravagant breakfast unlike anything I'd ever seen before. 5: Everyone was very nice to me. 6: I'm as happy as could be. I don't know how to thank you... 7: In order to thank them, I did my best to take care of Kazusa. 8: Once every three days, a doctor would come to check up on her. 9: You look a bit better today.
142) 1: Thank you... I feel a bit better too. 2: Now, please take care... I'll leave your medicine here. 3: Please make sure she takes it once every two hours. 4: Yes! I promise!! 5: Whenever the doctor would check on Kazusa and see that she had become even the least bit better, he would happily encourage her and then leave. 6: But I knew that it was nothing more than talk. 7: After all... 8: I had learned to figure out what kind of a condition Kazusa was really in by checking on what sort of medicine she received. 9: And that wasn't all. I also knew that her condition was getting worse, even though it was happening so slowly that no signs were visible. 10: Poor Kazusa...
143) 1: I can't believe she's able to stay so dignified despite knowing everything...!! 2: She looks so noble!! She must have already prepared herself to die. That's why she's able to remain so noble... 3: I want to help my kind and noble great-aunt survive no matter what it takes!! 4: She fell asleep... 5: I know. Since she can't walk, I'll go pick some flowers for her to give her a taste of some fresh air. 6: I worked as hard as I could for Kazusa. 7: And whatever I couldn't do for Kazusa, Risa did. 8: Risa also did whatever Kazusa requested.
144) 1: Risa was such a nice woman... 2: Thank you, Risa. I'll have Yoshiko take care of the rest. 3: OK. 4: Everyone's so nice here. I never imagined there was a place on this earth filled with so many nice people!! 5: I'm so happy right now... 6: If this isn't happiness, then what is?!
145) 1: Yoshiko... Do you know what I always look forward to? 2: Waking up every morning and seeing you... 3: Great-aunt! I feel the same way... 4: Living here with you makes me happier than anything else could. 5: I hope we can keep living like this forever...
146) 1: I've never had a mother... But living here with you has come to made me feel like you're my real other!! 2: From now on... may I call you mother? 3: Yes!! I feel like you're my real daughter as well... Your face reminds me so much of my own face when I was young... SFX: waaahhh 4: Mother!!
147) 1: That's when it started... 2: You can go now. It's gotten late. 3: You don't need to worry about me. 4: Good night then, mother. If you need something, please ring the bell. SFX: click 5: I'm so happy. There couldn't be any greater happiness than this.
148) 1: Ahhh!! 2: Wh-who did this?! SFX: hahahahahahaha
150) 1: It-it couldn't be... 2: That's right! I did it!!
151) SFX: slap 1: Kyaaaah! SFX: slam 2: Wh-what are you doing?! 3: Do you know how much I've had to bear up until now?! 4: You couldn't possibly understand!! SFX: slap 5: Ahhh!! 6: Please, stop!! What is this, all of a sudden?! Have you gone mad?! 7: Hmph! I haven't gone mad at all!! 8: I never thought you were even the least bit cute from the very beginning!!
152) 1: You're nothing but a poor little orphan, and now you think it's OK to act like a real member of our family?! 2: What?! 3: I didn't know that I'd offended you!! If I did something wrong, please tell me, and I'll stop!! 4: Hmph! I don't care about that!! 5: Your face!! Your voice!! I hate it all so much that it makes me want to puke!! I can't take it anymore!! 6: Th-then wh-why did you bring me here?! 7: Wh-why?! In the beginning, you said my face and voice resembled that of a Monzen's... You seemed so happy!! 8: You're the one who brougtme here, 9: remember?! 10: Hahaha!! 11: If you don't want to stay here, then just go ahead and leave!!
153) 1: Just get out!! 2: No!! 3: What?! 4: Ahhh!! 5: Mother!! 6: It's locked!! 7: Mother!! SFX: bang x2 8: Wahhh!! 9: Why?! 10-11: Take this!! SFX: whap x2
154) SFX: whap x2 1: Mother!! 2: Shut up!! 3: I hate it when you say that word!! SFX: whap x2 4: Kyaaaahhh 5: No matter how much you cry, no one will hear your screams!! 6: That's why I chose to put you in this room!! 7: Take this!! And that!! And that!!
155) SFX: whap x4 1: Haa, haa...!! SFX: haa x4 SFX: stomp 2: Hmph! She lost consciousness!! 3: Maybe I beat her a little too hard. 4: Heh! No, of course not!! If you think this was enough to make me feel better, you're in for a big surprise!!
156) 1: You hear me?! If you think this is over now, you're in for a big surprise!! Just watch! I'm going to make you regret what you've done even more!! 2: But I'll leave it at here for today. SFX: slam! 3: How long did I stay unconscious for? 4: Nnngh!! 5: Ahhh!! 6: She's gone!! 7: It's almost morning. 8: Wh-why did she do all those horrible things?!
157) 1: I don't understand. The only thing I can think of is that she's gone insane. 2: Why does she hate me so much? My voice and my face? Why?! In the beginning, she seemed so happy to find me... 3: And why am I not allowed to call my great-aunt mother? 4: She was the one who wanted us to get along, and who brought me here to care for her... 5: What could I have done to make her hate me?! Why would she do all these horrible things?! 6: I'm not going to leave!! I made a promise with my mother... 7: No matter what my aunt says, I'm not going anywhere!! 8: Something must be wrong with her. If I put some time between us and then go to see her again, I'm sure she'll be back to normal. 9: No matter how I think about it, it's all just too crazy to be true...
158) 1: I must have done something wrong that I didn't even notice. 2: My life so far was just too harsh... 3: I must have done something uncalled for, or somehow let the miserable side of me get out. That must be it!! 4: From now on, I'll need to be more careful and work my hardest to make sure the both of them, and everyone else likes me!! 5: I finally found a happy life for myself. I don't want to let it get away from me!! 6: I don't want to leave this mansion!! 7: Mother!! 8: I finally found such a kind, wonderful mother!! 9: I'm not leaving this mansion!!
159) SFX: ring ring ring 1: That's the bell. Mother's calling for me. 2: What could be wrong? Did she suddenly get upset too?! 3: If I go and see her like this, she might worry. 4: But what should I do? My aunt ripped up all my clothes!! 5: I need to hurry... 6: Her health must have suddenly taken a turn for the worse!! 7: Mother!! 8: I became so worried about Kazusa 9: and wanted to go and see her so badly, that I accidentally broke the no running in the hall rule.
160) 1: I can't tell her about what happened with my aunt. SFX: creak 2: Mother!! 3: The moment I saw her face, for some reason, tears started pouring out from my eyes. 4: Yoshiko, what's wrong?! 5: I woke up and suddenly felt like I wanted to see you. I thought you might still be sleeping, 6: but I ended up pushing the button anyway. 7: Mother!!
161) SFX: waaahhh 1: What's wrong? Did something happen?! 2: Go on, tell me. 3: We promised not to hide anything from each other, didn't we?! 4: Uuuuu!! 5: Crying won't tell me anything. 6: Is it really OK for me to tell you anything? You won't start to hate me? 7: Of course not. There isn't another person as kind and wonderful as you in the world. 8: Now, tell me what happened. 9: OK... 10: Last night, when I returned to my room, I saw that it was a mess... And then... My aunt was standing inside... 11: Then she said she hated me... And slapped me! 12: Oh my...!!
162) 1: I must have done something wrong. But I can't think of what it was... 2: I see. So that's why you look so terrible... 3: I promised myself I wouldn't tell her, but as soon as I saw her, I couldn't help but to seek comfort from her, and so I told her everything. 4: I see... 5: I think I know what the reason is, though. 6: What? What is it?! 7: Ever since my little sister was young, she's had a very violent temperament... 8: She always felt confined by the strict rules of the Monzen family. 9: That's why she decided to marry a wealthy man who had very thin ties with us. But in the end, her personality didn't match with him either, so she came back home. 10: On her way home, she was in a car accident, and her husband died. By the time she returned to this mansion, she was already carrying a burden that was too heavy for her to bear.
163) 1: And so, my younger sister started living with us again. 2: Soon my heart problem was discovered, and I became bedridden. All the responsibility of caring for me fell on her. 3: That's why... it's no one's fault. 4: We share the same blood, but my sister was born a free spirit, so from time to time, she becomes unable to handle this confinement, and becomes hysteric. 5: But she's really a kind person. Even after she contacted our relatives and found out where you were... 6: She knew that bringing you here would cheer everyone up. 7: But that all has nothing to do with you. I'll talk to my sister to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. 8: B-but... SFX: knock x2
164) 1: It's Aunt Risa!! She came to say her morning greeting. 2: Go over there and hide behind that pillar. SFX: creak 3: Good morning. How are you feeling? 4: Risa... I need to speak with you... 5: Then, Risa started speaking in a soft voice. 6: As Kazusa scolded her, Risa started to look very frightened, as if she was a completely different person. 7: She kept nodding the entire time and listened to everything that Kazusa told her. 8: I can't believe she's the same person who did all that last night...!! 9: Finally, Kazusa finished speaking.
165) 1: Yoshiko, it's all right now. 2: She apologized many times and admitted that it was her fault. 3: It seems like she just got worked up. She was planning to apologize to you. She also said she'd fix your room back up... 4: I spent the rest of that day by Kazusa's side. 5: I don't feel like eating, so I'll go and tell them. 6: What?! 7: But it won't be good for your body if you don't eat. 8: But I don't want to. 9: I-I see... So be it. But you need to make sure you eat tomorrow. 10: OK. Thank you. SFX: creak
166) 1: Ahh!! SFX: slam 2: Ahh! Auntie!! SFX: Uuuu 3: I've been waiting for you to come out. 4: You're coming with me!! 5: Wh-what are you doing?! SFX: slam SFX: shove SFX: smack 6: How dare you?! You little rat!!
167) 1: You told her, didn't you?! 2: Where did you think you were going?! 3: I-I don't feel like eating, so I was going to the dining room to tell them... 4: Hmph! You were planning to go on and tell everyone that you lost your appetite because of what I did to you, huh?! 5: N-no!! 6: Ho ho ho! I figured that'd be the case!! You think I'm just going to let you do that?! 7: Now, it's time to eat!! 8: Ahh!! 9: That's your meal right over there! Make sure you eat it all up!! 10: Ahhh!! 11: C'mon! C'mon!! 12: Aaaahhh!! 13: Aahhhh!!
168) 1: And so, not only did Risa never start being nice to me, she continued to bully me when I wasn't with Kazusa. 2: As I told Kazusa about all the torture I suffered, her health gradually got worse and worse. 3: Blood...!! 4: She bullied you again? 5: Then, one day, the doctor said something. 6: The truth is... 7: If we found someone who the same blood type and constitution as you, 8: we could perform a heart transplant and save you. 9: What?!
169) 1: A heart transplant?! 2: Yes... Now we know that there's a possibility that you could survive through the surgery. 3: If we can find someone with the same blood type.. 4: The reason I didn't tell you this earlier was because I didn't have any solid evidence. 5: But please rejoice. Now we've found a chance for you to survive! 6: No... 7: I don't want a heart transplant. 8: I'm fine the way I am...
170) 1: I don't want to force myself to survive. 2: I want to leave my survival up to God. 3: What nobility... She's accepting her fate just as it is... just like God... 4: I'll do anything for her!! 5: I'd even give up my heart for her!! 6: I intend to quietly obey my fate. 7: I see. I thought you'd say that. 8: However, just for the record, the surgery isn't possible unless the donor's blood type and leukocyte antigens match yours. 9: The heart also needs to be fresh and healthy... 10: We'd never be able to find someone like that. 11: You're right. There's no way we'd find such a perfect donor...
171) 1: Your blood type is also RH-, a very special type, so it'd have to be another person like that... 2: RH-...!! 3: But I thought that talking to you about this might be able to give you some hope and energy... 4: I'm RH- too!! 5: What?! 6: I have Mongen blood in me, remember?! 7: Waahhhh 8: What's wrong? Why are you crying all of a sudden?! 9: Mother!! 10: I want to give you my heart!!
172) 1: But I can't, and it hurts!! 2: Please! Please save my mother!! 3: If I die, and my heart can help her, please use it to save her!! 4: Please!! SFX: Wahhh 5: Enough about that already!! 6: Now, now, stop crying. 7: I'll take my leave now.
173) 1: From that day forward, Risa started torturing me even more. SFX: Hoot x2 2: Yoshiko, are you in there?! SFX: bang x2 3: Yoshiko!! 4: Risa is looking for you, and she'll be here soon!! 5: What? Why?! 6: Her favorite diamond ring went missing, so she's gone into a panic. 7: But then why is she looking for me? 8: Sshhh!! 9: Here she comes. If she finds me, there's no telling what she'll do, so I need to go...
174) 1: Auntie!! 2: Are you the one who stole my diamond ring?! 3: No... I-I don't know anything about it!! 4: Hmph! But you're the only one who would do something like that!! 5: I'm going to find it!! 6: Ahh!! SFX: rustle x2 7: Please!! 8: Please stop! I'll do it!! SFX: snap 9: Aahhh!!
175) 1: There's a diamond ring in my handbag! How did it get in there?! 2: I can't find it!! 3: You must have hid it!! 4: N-no...!! 5: That's the handbag you always carry around!! 6: Show it to me!! 7: I said show it to me!! 8: Aaahhh!
176) 1: Aahhh!! 2: I knew it!! 3: I-I don't know how it got in there!! 4: Heheheh. Time to make you regret what you've done, you little cat burglar!! 5: Kyaaahh!! SFX: wham SFX: scratch 6: Ahhh!! SFX: AAAHHH
177) 1: You never learn, do you? Well you've really done it this time!! SFX: wham SFX: Aaahhh SFX: scratch SFX: Gyaaaahhhh SFX: scratch SFX: Gyahhh 2: Haa, haa...!! 3: You did something absolutely horrible, so you should be thankful that you got off that easily!! SFX: Uuuu SFX: Uuuuuuu 4: Yoshiko!!
178) 1: Goodness gracious!! 2: Risa really is a monster!! 3: I haven't said anything so far, but she really is a monster!! Everyone else says the same about her!! 4: We've card for Kazusa and Risa since they were very small. 5: But that woman is a monster!! 6: Kazusa is so kind and upstanding, but her younger sister Risa has always been an inhuman monster, ever since she was little!! 7: Everyone acts nice to her in person, but they're all afraid of her!! 8: But none of us can understand why she hates you so much. 9: And if she saw one of us caring for you like this, there's no telling what she'd do to us!! 10: So I must go. 11: If I stayed any longer, she'd only punish you worse than me anyway.
179) 1: I'll leave bandages and medicine for you here. 2: She must have put her ring in there when I wasn't looking. Then she made me find it... 3: Soon or later she's going to kill me!! 4: But I'm not leaving this mansion!! 5: No matter what happens!! 6: Risa's horrible torture continued... 7: Once, she even put poison in her own food, which just happened to be food that I had prepared for her. 8: When she beat me then, I felt like I was really going to die. 9: Kyaaaahh
180) 1: Kazusa worried about me more than anyone. 2: In fact, she became so worried that her health got shockingly worse than it had ever been. 3: She only has a little bit of time left!! 4: That's when I realized that no matter what happened, I couldn't let her notice even a sliver of my pain. 5: But Risa continued to torture me. And she was always watching me, so I could never leave the mansion. 6: Once, the carpet caught fire near Risa's room, 7: and without even trying to put it out, she grabbed me and tried to throw me into it. 8: She had been the one who set the fire. SFX: Gwooosh 9: The horrors continued.
182) 1: Ahh!! 2: Yoshiko, you made a doll of me?! 3: You did that because you hate me, didn't you?! 4: No!! 5: Don't try to make excuses!! 6: Look at this! It's made from your clothes!! That's proof!! SFX: yank 7: You want to do to me what you did to this doll, don't you?! 8: No!!
184) SFX: haa x2 1: Mother!! 2: S-someone, please come and help!! 3: Mother!! 4: Maids, where are you?!
185) 1: I need to call the doctor!! SFX: dash x3 2: Ahhh SFX: slip SFX: fwooosh SFX: thud SFX: crack
186) 1: I'm going to die!! 2: My body is about to die!! I broke something!!
187) 1: I can see the ceiling clearly. 2: I can see it so clearly!! My mind's still as clear as it's ever been!! 3: Is this what it feels like to die? 4: I am Orochi. I'm not supposed to die I need to stand up. I need to do something with my own strength... 5: I summoned up all my strength into my hands. 6: Soon, I could hear hurried footsteps running along the floor. 7: But by that time, my mind was already fading away...
188) 1: Then, I suddenly awakened. 2: Ahh!! 3: This is...!!
189) 1: That hole!! 2: This is the hole I ran across when my sleepiness suddenly came to me a decade earlier than it should have, and I hurried to find a proper spot... 3: How long have I been asleep for, then? 4: Was everything that happened just a dream? Me turning into a girl named Yoshiko and going to the Monzen mansion... In the dream, decades had passed, and Kazusa and Risa were both old women... 5: Ahh!! 6: My clothes are in tatters!!
190) 1: I knew it!! 2: Decades really have passed since I fell asleep!! 3: Which means that maybe it wasn't all just a dream...?!
191) 1: I need to go to the Monzen mansion!!
192) 1: I ran as fast as I could. 2: After waking up, I ran as fast as my legs would carry me!!
193) 1: On that same day, I reached the Monzen mansion. 2: It wasn't a dream!! 3: This is the same scenery that Yoshiko saw!! 4: But what about Kazusa, bedridden with her heart problem?! 5: What about Risa and how evil she had become?! 6: And what about Yoshiko, the girl I had become?! SFX: wham 7: I fell down the stairs beyond here. 8: I knew it!!
194) 1: But what happened to the body?! 2: And Kazusa, with how sick she had gotten?! 3: Who's there?! 4: Ahh!! 5: Yoshiko!! 6: Where's the corpse?! 7: It's in Kazusa's room, isn't it?! 8-9: Ahhh!! 10: The room I slowly peered into was trapped in an unspeakably tense atmosphere.
195) 1: I knew it!! 2: The moment she went unconscious, my spirit was pushed out from the girl named Yoshiko!!
196) 1: Since I was so worried about the Monzen family, and since that girl resembled me so much, my spirit must have slipped inside her... 2: Kazusa looks worse than ever... But she still looks as divine as a god... SFX: haa x2 3: Risa's here too... 4: We have to save her. We can't let such an amazing woman die like this!! 5: I could never call it lucky, but now that Yoshiko's dead...
197) 1: We can transplant her heart, and save my sister... SFX: haa haa 2: We're checking her blood type right now. 3: I think they had the same blood type. But either way, I'm sure that my sister will refuse the transplant. 4: Doctor, we finished checking the blood types!! 5: Their blood types aren't the same!! Yoshiko is RH+! 6: What?! 7: We can't perform the surgery!! 8: What?!
198) 1: Did you hear that?! 2: You don't have the same blood type as her. 3: The surgery can't be done!! SFX: UUUUUU
199) 1: But that can't be!! 2: Y-you're lying!! 3-4: That can't be!! 5: Please get a hold of yourself!!
200) SFX: HAHAHAHAHA x2 SFX: HAHAHAHA
201) 1: Risa!! SFX: HAHAHA SFX: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SFX: HAHAHA 2: Now I can tell you everything!! 3: I've been waiting for this moment!! I'm not afraid anymore! I'm not afraid to tell you anything!!
202) 1: You're going to die!! 2: Do you know why? 3: Because Yoshiko's heart won't fit in your body!
203) 1: Ggh!! 2: Allow me to explain! 3: Yoshiko was never the same blood type as you!!
204) 1: Because... 2: the story about Yoshiko being a relative of the Monzen family
205) 1: was a lie!!
206) SFX: UUUUUUU 1: Yoshiko tricked you!! 2: She knew from the very beginning that she wasn't a blood relative of ours!!
207) 1: She just lied because she wanted to become part of our family!! 2: So she tricked you!! 3: If you think I'm lying, then ask that corpse!! 4: That corpse!!
208) SFX: UUUU x2
209) 1: I softly touched Yoshiko's corpse. 2: She's alive!! 3: Her mind is completely gone yet!! 4-5: Forgive me... 6: Mother, forgive me... 7: I lied. I tricked you. Forgive me... 8: I lied because I wanted to stay by your side.. 9: I wanted to be your real daughter, so I lied about my blood type. 10: Forgive me... Forgive me...
210) 1: I didn't know that!! I was inside her body, and I still didn't know!! 2: And that isn't all!! 3: Even if you did get a heart transplant, you still wouldn't have survived!! I just asked the doctor to say something that would comfort you!! 4: You're lying!!
211) 1: Give me her heart!! 2: Give me Yoshiko's heart!! 3: Give it to me!! SFX: hahahaha SFX: hahahaha
212) SFX: fwooosh 1: Ahhh!! 2: Stop!!
213) 1: Give me back my heart!! SFX: stab x2 2: Hahaha!! SFX: stab x5 SFX: Gyaaahhh 3: Stop! That's my heart!! 4: Mine!!
214) SFX: HIIEEEEE 1: Stop it!! 2: She died!! 3: Even her mind is gone now!! 4: You're horrible!! 5: Ho ho ho! Everyone thinks I'm a monster!! But I feel fine now!! 6: Everyone, listen up! She's the real monster!! 7: She's the one who's the most responsible for Yoshiko's death!! 8: She's the one who put my ring into Yoshiko's handbag, the one who made a doll out of me and nailed it to the wall! She's the one who kept framing Yoshiko!! 9: You wanted Yoshiko to die more than anyone else!! 10: Let me go!! 11: See for yourselves!!
215) SFX: rattle x2 1: Ahhh!!
216) 1: I was afraid there wasn't any proof anywhere... But I knew it all along!! 2: The reason your health got so bad is because you started walking around and doing all those things!! 3: Ever since you heard that a heart transplant could save you, that chillingly sound mind of yours went mad!! SFX: HIIIEEEE
217) 1: And so, this bloodcurdling tale of hatred ended. 2: In the end, Kazusa died screeching and suffering.
218) 1: Kazusa... I didn't want you to die as a divine woman. 2: My goal was to make sure a divine woman like you would die a horrible death and be seen as something worse than even the foulest pig. 3: And you died just as I planned... Now no one will ever think of you as a wonderful person. 4: You have no idea what a twisted life I led, always being compared to you... 5: They'd tell me that you were smarter than me... 6: That you had better manners than me... 7: That you were a better student than me... 8: The torture of being compared to you just went on and on... 9: You were considerate to me, but it never felt like real comfort. It only ever felt like you were proving to me just how different we really are.
219) 1: Then, just when I thought I could finally leave this place, my hope was instantly snatched away from me. I got into a car crash and came home. And you were also the one who paid my indemnity. 2: Then, before I knew it, I was completely powerless against you... 3: The only reason I brought that orphan Yoshiko here was because she resembled you, so I thought I could use her as a tool to get my revenge. 4: Then I started giving her the torture that I could never do to you, in order to vent my feelings! 5: But even when I was beating her, you were always the only one I could think about. 6: And eventually, you also started hoping that Yoshiko would die from my beatings... 7: And I hoped for the same thing... Just so I could see the ugly side of you as quickly as possible! 8: To me, Yoshiko was never anything but a tool... And the same goes for you... 9: But Yoshiko died without ever realizing that...
220) 1: In the end, whose fault is it? 2: But I doubt another tragedy like that will ever happen again. 3: Someone passing by... 4: said they saw a girl walking away. 5: But you can't see 6: the Orochi who's guarding you from behind... or the Orochi who's already left you.
OROCHI - THE ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/41294[English] [Translation] Orochi 8 by molokidan2015-05-10T01:51:32+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.com121) EYES
122) 1: Darkness lives in my eyes. No matter how hard I search for a tiny star somewhere, the darkness only continues. No matter how far I walk, no matter how much sky I cover...
123) 1: I am Orochi. SIGN: Orion 2: I stopped walking because I saw a blind girl. SIGN: Umeyama School for the Blind
124) 1: It seems like she's completely blind. Is she attending that blind school? 2: I'm afraid she might get hit by a car, so I'm going to follow her. SFX: vroooom 3: She's using to following this path. She walked right up to the street and then stopped. 4: I wonder when she became blind? 5: These houses all look the same...
125) 1: This must be company housing. And she must live in one of them... SIGN: Construction 2: Watch out!! SFX: tok 3: Ahh!! 4: When her cane hit that stone, she must have realized something was different about the path.
126) 1: She'll have to make a turn up ahead. But will she notice that? 2: She turned!
127) 1: Oh, Keiko, watch out for that dog! 2: What?! 3: That dog barks a lot, so you should be careful. 4: You should go around this way. 5: Where are you coming back from? 6: I went to borrow a braille book from the blind school. 7: Oh, you should have told me! I could have gone and picked it up for you. 8: If you ever have any trouble, don't be afraid to ask someone nearby for help. Take care now. 9: OK. 10: Thank you very much. 11: Her neighbors seem pretty nice. That's a relief. 12: That must be her house. SFX: rattle 13: Her family name is Taguchi.
128) 1: After a while, a small boy came to visit her house. SFX: mrrrowr 2: Oh, Satoru... 3: I'm coming in! 4: Where did you go, Keiko? 5: I came here once already today! 6: I just went to the blind school. We studied braille there together a long time ago, remember? 7: But luckily for you, you were able to get surgery and regain your eyesight back. 8: Yeah, and now I come here every day to play with you! 9: Once you come in from outside, you need to gargle and wash your hands, right? I'll bring some water and a towel! 10: Thank you. 11: I'll go run your errands for you, too!
129) 1: Thank you, but I'm fine. I still have leftovers from what I bought yesterday. 2: Oh, then I'll read you some comics! I brought a lot!! 3: That sounds nice. I'll prepare some fruit and coffee then. 4: You can do it on your own? 5: Yes, I'm quite used to it. SFX: dong x4 6: It's already 5:00. 7: You'd better get home, Satoru. 8: Yeah.
130) 1: We made too much of a mess today, so I'll clean it up!! 2: That's OK. 3: No, I can do it! You just sit and watch! 4: I'll be back tomorrow, OK? 5: Yes, thank you. 6: Is it nice weather outside? 7: Yeah, the evening sky looks really pretty. 8: Goodbye! 9: Goodbye, Satoru. SFX: rustle x2 10: There he goes, running off again. SFX: dash SFX: slam 11: Ahh!!
131) 1: Satoru forgot his comics. 2: I wonder what the pictures look like? They sound really interesting... 3: He did his best to clean up, but I'll have to redo everything properly. 4: Oh my, he left the fruit knife in a place like this? 5: I'll have to reorganize everything. Now I don't know where anything is. 6: I wonder what the evening sky looks like? SFX: creaaak
132) SFX: smack 1: I was born blind, so I have no idea. What does it mean for something to be beautiful? 2: Dad will be home soon, so I need to prepare dinner... 3: What could be the matter? Why isn't he home yet? SFX: wham x3 4: Ahh!! SFX: wham wham
133) 1: Dad, is that you? 2: Please!! SFX: wham wham 3: Please open the door, Ms. Taguchi!! 4: P-please help me!! SFX: wham wham 5: Please!! SFX: creak 6: Ahh!! SFX: slam 7: Please! D-don't let anyone in here!! 8: Or else they'll kill me!! 9: What?! SFX: skritch x2 10: I hear footsteps coming!!
139) 1: Keiko!! 2: Wahhh!! 3: Keiko!! 4: Keiko, are you OK?! 3: The next day... 4: Ahh!! 5: Keiko's father was arrested... for murder!! 6: For murdering his friend when he came to visit!!
140) 1: Keiko's father stabbed his friend with a fruit knife when he came to visit!! 2: The motive was personal difficulties?! 3: I wonder how Keiko's dealing with this? 4: I'm going to go check on her!! 5: There's her house!!
141) 1: There's a crowd outside!! 2: There's Keiko! She's being interviewed by the police!! 3: I'm going to watch and see what happens. 4: It's the truth! My father didn't kill anyone! 5: A man suddenly came inside, and then... 6: He ran away right after!! 7: He was a tall man with a scary face!! 8: But you're blind, aren't you, dear? How could you know 9: that he's tall and has a scary face?!
142) 1: Because I could hear an angry voice from above my head the entire time!! 2: And his footsteps sounded loud and far apart! 3: He was stomping into the tatami mats with his heels! He must have been a large, bow-legged man!! 4: But what about the scary face?! 5: There are a lot of people in this word who have gentle faces but are still scary people. 6: Please stop saying things that could confuse the investigation!! 7: But it's true! Ask my neighbors!! Someone must have seen him run away!!
143) 1: Everyone said they saw no one. 2: WHAT?! 3: Yes, I didn't notice anything. I was inside watching TV at the time... 4: I felt so sorry for the poor man... 5: But then what about my father?! Please, give him back to me!! 6: Unfortunately, since he killed someone, he won't be getting a light punishment...
144) SFX: rattle 1: I can't believe no one saw what really happened... Usually, at that time of night, Mr. Shimoda is always walking his dog... 2: Uuuuu!! 3: Ahhh!! 4: What is this? This doesn't belong to us!
145) text: Nakagawa Jirou Address: Tokyo Work Address: Tokyo 1: I don't know what it is... 2: Maybe it belongs to Satoru. SFX: creak 3: Hey Keiko, it's me! SFX: smack 4: Who's there?! 5: Sshhhh! Just me.
146) 1: There were a lot of police out there, so I hid until I found a chance to sneak in! 2: So, what happened? All those police looked so cool!! 3: I was wondering when something like this would happen! 4: Tell me what it was! 5: A jewel thief? Or a bank robbing gang? 6: Or a plan to hijack an airplane! 7: Is this yours, Satoru? 8: Huh? No way! Look how dirty it is! 9: Oh my!! Then what could it be?
147) 1: It has someone's photo in it. 2: Who is this? 3: Wh-what does he look like?! 4: A scary adult. 5: Like one of the bad guys on TV!! 6: Is there anything else written there? 7: Yeah, but it's too hard for me to read. 8: Wh-why do you look so scared, Keiko? 9: Satoru, go look and see if there's anyone outside!! 10: What?! 11: N-now!! 12: And don't knock over the gas stove!!
148) 1: No one's outside. 2: OK!! Then go to the police at once!! Tell them I need to speak with them!! 3: The policemen who were here earlier might still be around. Hurry!! 4: OK!! 5: Off I go! This'll be fun! SFX: smack SFX: click 6: Haa, haa!! 7: The killer must have dropped this. 8: This is his ID!! As long as I have this the police can catch him. Then my dad will be saved!! 9: I hope Satoru brings a police officer back soon!! 10: If the killer realizes he dropped it and comes back before then...!!
149) 1: Hurry!! 2: Ahh!! SFX: thud SFX: poof SFX: bwoosh 3: Ahh!! 4: Fire!! 5: S-someone!! 6: I need to turn the gas off!!
150) 1: Aahhh!! SFX: whap x2 2: S-someone!! SFX: wham x2 3: Keiko, I brought him!! 4: Satoru!! SFX: cough x2 SFX: rattle 5: Ahh!! 6: H-hurry up and grab some water!! 7: OK!!
151) 1: Your house was about to burn down!! 2: I-I'm sorry!! 3: B-but... The truth is... The killer dropped his ID here!! And... 4: Hmph! Please, enough with that already!! 5: I'm not listening to another word out of you!! 6: And kid, you should have told me there was a fire when you first came to get me! 7: B-but I didn't go because of the fire!! 8: Please be more careful from now on. SFX: smack SFX: Blehhh 9: That guy is a real jerk!! 10: It burned up!!
152) 1: Huh? What did? 2: That thingy? 3: It-it's gone... 4: Don't get so blue. It's fine. 5: The tatami mat just got burned. 6: See, this is why I need to stick around. Otherwise you end up doing stuff like this! 7: Satoru, do you remember the face of the man in that picture? 8: What?! 9: Yeah, I remember. 10: I want you to do something for me. 11: Sure, I'll do whatever you want. What is it this time? 12: Find that man. 13: What?!
153) 1: But... how? All we know is what his face looks like. How am I supposed to find him? 2: Just listen very closely to what I say. I'm going to tell you everything I know about him. 3: He's a large man, slightly bow-legged, with a low voice. He either lives nearby or visits this area regularly. 4: If you stand by a busy back alley in the market district at night, you may be able to find him. 5: What?! 6: How do you know that? 7: Well... 8: Because this entire area smells like a factory. And he did too. 9: And when he got close to me, I could smell alcohol and barbecued meat. 10: So I imagine he goes downtown quite often. 11: Wooow! This is gonna be fun!! SFX: bong 12: He should appear right around now. 13: OK! Off I go!!
154) 1: But be careful. He's a murderer, remember!! 2: What?! 3: Whaaaat?! 4: Once you find out where he lives, come back at once!! 5: O-OK... SFX: smack 6: I need to make sure I lock the door!! 7: Will Satoru really be able to find him? 8: Please find him, Satoru!! 9: Ahh!! SFX: tok
155) SFX: rattle x3 1: Wh- 2: Who's there?!
156) 1: Who's out there?! 2: Who are you?! 3: Answer me, or I'll call someone!! SFX: klak x4 4: He's gone...
157) 1: Who could that have been?! SFX: bong x3 2: Maybe the killer realized he dropped his ID...!! 3: But I may be over thinking this. 4: What if it was just a salesman... 5: But then he would have said something. 6: There are some arrogant salesmen out there, though... 7: I wonder how Satoru's doing?
158) 1: A large, bow-legged man... 2: Oh, there's one!! 3: That might be him!!
159) 1: If I go around and look at him from the front, 2: I'll be able to find out if he's the guy from the picture or not!! 3: I can't see him too well... 4: Guess I'll go a little farther ahead! 5: Ta-da!!
160) 1: Aww, that's not him at all! 2: Hieee!! 3: Ahhh!! 4: That's him!! 5: He's exactly how she said he was!!
161) 1: I-I-I-I need to find out where he's going!! 2: Ahhh!! 3: He turned left at the bar! 4: There he is!! 5: He's going into a quieter area!! 6: He's looking around, as if he's searching for something. 7: He stopped walking. 8: Now he's walking again.
162) 1: If he finds me, I'm in big trouble!! 2: He'll blow me away with his machine gun!! sign: BAR RISBON 3: He went into a bar! 4: O-oh no! If he goes in there they'll lose all their customers!! 5: Stupid me! This isn't the time to be joking!! 6: Wahhh!!
163) 1: Kyaaaahh! 2: Why have you been following me, boy? 3: Ahh! Uuuu!! 4: Who asked you to do this? 5: N-n-n-no one! 6: I-I-I'm not saying anything!! 7: Heheheh. Is that so? 8: You're a very good boy. I know. You were probably playing detective.
164) 1: But following someone just for fun is a severe crime!! 2: If I were to call the police, you'd get thrown in jail!! 3: I-I'm not doing it for fun!! 4: Of course you aren't. I knew the moment I saw your face. You followed me for a reason. 5: And I know who told you to do it. 6: Go on, tell me. If you tell me, I'll know you're a good little boy, so I won't have to call the police. 7: It'll be a promise, just between us men. Here... 8: B-but if I tell you, then she might get in trouble! So I can't say anything! 9: Oh...
165) 1: You don't need to worry about that. She won't get in any trouble. I promise! We made a man's promise, remember? 2: But if you refuse to answer, then I really will have to take you to the police. The both of you. 3: I came here to find you! But you can't tell the police! 4: I know. How did you know I was the right man you were looking for, though? Maybe I just look like someone on TV? 5: No! I know it's you, because I saw your photograph!! 6: And she said you were tall and bow-legged!! 7: Hmm... You're a really smart boy, you know that? I'm impressed. 8: Heheheh! You really think so? 9: That's a very interesting story you just told me. 10: I know! Let's go out to somewhere brighter. 11: I hate gloomy places like this, you know? Makes me afraid a ghost might pop out!
166) 1: Wow, I never expected you to be such a scaredy-cat! 2: Hahaha! And you really are bow-legged! 3: Hey, can I touch 'em? 4: Oh, sure. 5: Hahaha!! 6: I know. How about we go and eat some taiyaki there, boy? 7: What?! 8: N-no!! I'm not supposed to take things from strangers!! 9: Oh, that's right. I'm a stranger, aren't I? 10: You're exactly right, boy. Sorry, sorry. Hahaha... 11: Now, about that picture of me... Does your sister have it? 12: N-no! She isn't my sister! But she's blind!
167) 1: She has a card thingy with your picture on it. 2: You dropped it, right? Is that what you were looking for earlier? 3: Hey, did you visit her house or something? 4: have you ever killed someone? Where do you live? Tell me! 5: OK, I will. 6: Does that girl still have the thing with my picture on it? 7: Yeah. And she told me to find you and find out where you live!! 8: But that I couldn't let anyone find me!! And that if I told anyone... 9: Ahhh!! 10: What's wrong, boy? I-I'm going home!
168) SIGN: Taguchi SFX: tick tock tick 1: Where could Satoru be? 2: I waited for so long yesterday!! 3: Excuse me. 4: I'm here to check on your gas. 5: Gas... 6: It doesn't sound like the killer, but it doesn't sound like the gas man either!! 7: Please open the door. 8: Why isn't the usual gas man here? 9: He's taken the day off, so I came in his place. SFX: rattle
169) 1: Are you alone? 2: Yes. 3: Now, I'll have to come inside to begin checking. SFX: klak 4: P-please, wait!!
170) 1: Wait!! 2: Who's there?! 2: Someone else is there, right?! 3: No, no one's there. I came here alone. 4: But I just felt someone else's presence!! 5: It's just in your mind. 6: There's no one else here!!
171) 1: But I'm positive that... 2: There's no one there. See? 3: It's all in your head. 4: Please calm down, or you might fall. 5: You must just be a little agitated. 6: But do you see now? If there was someone else here, I wouldn't have any reason to hide that from you. 7: Now, I'll begin checking your gas. 8: Haa, haa...!! SFX: smack
172) 1: Excuse me while I step inside... SFX: creak x2
173) 1: What's wrong? 2: N-nothing!! I was just worried about whether or not the gas is OK... 3: Well, I'm inspecting that now. 4: Oh no. It looks like your gas main is damaged. SFX: clink x4
174) SFX: creak 1: I heard something from the cupboard just now... 2: There's nothing there. SFX: clink x2 3: Ahh!! 4: That smell!! 5: It smells just like the killer!!
175) 1: Who's there?! 2: Please look, Mr. gas man!! There's someone in there!! 3: What?! 4: I don't see anyone. 5: How would you know if someone's there, anyway? You're blind. 6: B-but I smelled him...!! SFX: fssssh 7: Ahhh!! 8: There's gas leaking! It's dangerous, so please go near the window!!
176) SFX: clink x2 1: It isn't here!! 2: It isn't in the dresser either. SFX: creak SFX: thud
177) 1: Who's there?! 2: I've been banging on this pipe here, so some of your clothes just fell down, that's all. SFX: clink x2 3: How long is it going to take you to fix that?! 4: I'm calling the gas company!! 5: I just finished right now! 6: No! I'm calling them!! 7: Hey, wait!! 8: Watch out!! 9: Ahh!!
178) 1: Are you OK?! I'm sorry. I left my bag here.. 2: Now then, I'll be leaving. 3: Your gas should work properly now. SFX: rattle SFX: smck 4: Haa, haa...!! 5: I-I really felt someone else here!! And he smelled just like the killer... 6: But maybe it really was just me? Am I just agitated, like he said? SFX: dong x3
179) 1: It's noon already? 2: I'm too afraid to be alone right now. But I'm even more afraid of going outside!! 3: Where could Satoru be? He usually comes by around this time... 4: Hello? 5: Oh, the lady from next door!! SFX: rattle 6: Help me!! 7: What's wrong, Keiko? 8: You look pale... 9: I don't know what to do!! They took my father away, and... 10: Wahh!! 11: I brought you some scattered sushi. It's been hard for me to find a chance to come by ever since the incident happened...
180) 1: I also got a call from the blind school. 2: What?! 3: The schedule's been finalized for the special classes. 4: Bye now... 5: Keiko's outside. 6: But where is she going? 7: The men who just came to visit her looked a bit strange, too. Did she notice who they were? 8: She's going to the blind school. 9: Why are there so many people here? 10: What kind of things do they study inside? I feel bad for blind people. 11: It's over... They're coming out.
181) 1: That's strange. The school said they never called for me... 2: Oh well. 3: Maybe they just did and then forget. 4: She's going home... 5: She'd better hurry up, or it'll get dark. SFX: rattle 6: It's kind of hard for me to stand in front of Keiko's house like this. 7: Similar to what that woman said earlier, when you stand near a house where a murder was committed, people start to look at you strangely. Or maybe it's just me...
182) 1: Ahh!! 2: Wind!! 3: Where's it coming from?! 4: The window's broken!! 5: There are books on the floor!! 6: The whole house is a mess! 7: S-someone must have come in through the window!! 8: I knew it!! It was the killer!! 9: He must have been looking for the ID that got burned up!! That must be why that man came here earlier!!
183) SFX: fsssh 1: Rain!! And Satoru never came to see me!! What could have happened?! 2: Ahh! The lock's broken!! 3: M-maybe the other windows are also...!! 4: I knew it!! 5: Ahhh!! 6: They're all broken!! 7: The door's lock is broken too!! 8: Aahhh!! 9: He's going to come back again!! 10: I need to close the shutters and shut them up with nails!! 11: Where are the hammer and nails? 12: There they are!! I found them!!
184) 1: Th-the window's this way... I can't let myself get too panicked, or my intuition will go numb!! SFX: rattle SFX: smack SFX: clang x5 2: Did I get them in? 3: Now for this window!! SFX: clang x4 4: Ahhh!! 5: Uuuu!! 6: I-I need to hurry up and shut them all up!! SFX: clang clang
185) SFX: clang clang x3 SFX: haa x3 1: Now for the front door!! 2: Where did I put the nail box? 3: It's gone!!
186) 1: It's gone! 2: Where did I put it?! I need to hurry up, or he might get inside!! 3: I know he's coming back!! And he must have realized that he'll never find the ID card no matter how hard he looks, so this time he's going to force me to tell him where it is!! 4: Where did I put the nail box?! 5: There it is!! 6: I need to hurry!! SFX: fsssh
189) 1: It's me, Keiko!! 2: It's Satoru!! 3: Open up! 4: I came to get you!! 5: What?! 6: Hurry it up!! SFX: rattle x2 7: Satoru, what are you doing here at this hour?!
190) 1: I was really worried about you. 2: I told him everything!! I told the man in the photograph everything!! That's why I couldn't come for a while. 3: I told him about you, and the photograph... 4: What?! 5: He told him about the ID!! 6: That means he really must think I have it!! 7: He's definitely going to come back!! 8: I was worried about you, so I came here to get you!! 9: So let's hurry up and run away!! 10: But that means he knows who you are too now!! 11: Yeah, he does. 12: You mean you actually found him?!
191) 1: Yeah. 2: Just listen carefully to what I say. 3: I'm going to stay at home. I want you to go watch the streets from the mailbox on the corner. 4: Sshh! Someone's here!! 5: What?! 6: Someone's here?! A neighbor? Go and check! 7: It-it's him!! 8: What?! 9: The killer!! 10: He's waiting by the mailbox!!
193) SFX: rattle 1: He's trying to open it!! He must have noticed the nails! 2: He's walking around back! He's going to check the windows!! SFX: rattle 3: He's checking every single one of the windows! But he won't be able to get in any of them! I nailed them all shut... 4: Ahhh!! 5: The bathroom window!! 6: Aaaahhhhhhh! SFX: rattle 7: Aaahhh!! 8: He's coming in!!
194) 1: I need to calm down!! 2: I can't get panicked!! I need to calm down and think of a plan!! 3: He came in here to find his ID and erase the evidence!! 4: Which means that he doesn't know that it burned up!! 5: If I tell him about that, he'll get relaxed and run away. Then I'll never be able to find him again!! 6: But if I act like I have the ID, there's no telling what he'll do!! 7: I need to catch him somehow!! 8: Whatever it takes!! 9: So that I can clear my father's name!! 10: I need to turn a light on... SFX: click
195) 1: I know. There's a tape recorder in here that I used to use... 2: There it is!! 3: This should do it!! 4: Where should I put it? 5: I know! Underneath the table!! 6: I'll just press the switch when he comes in. 7: And cover it up with this vinyl cover... 8: I can't let him see the cord, so I'll put this mat over it too. SFX: rattle SFX: creak...
196) SFX: creak 1: Wh-who's there?! 2: Who are you?! 3: Why did you come into my house?! SFX: click
197) SFX: badumdumdumdum SFX: badoomdoom SFX: badumdumdumdum 1: Wh-what are you doing?! Please don't touch my stereo! 2: Shut up!! I turned it on to drown out your voice!! SFX: badumdum 3: Give me the ID I left here!! 4: I know you have it!! 5: Do you know what this is? 6: Where did you hide it?! 7: Tell me!! 8: So it really was your ID!!
198) 1: I'll tell you!! you're right! I did hide the ID that you dropped here!! 2: Where did you hide it?! 3: Where you killed that man!! 4: I already looked there!! 5: Now hurry up and tell me!! 6: OK! I hid it in the wall!! 7: But I'm blind, so I don't know where exactly I hid it at!! 8: Hmph!! SFX: crunch SFX: clang
199) 1: Wh-what are you doing?! 2: Don't move!! If you do, I'll kill you!! I have the knife in my hand!! 3: I know where you are. But you don't know where I am... 4: Your ID isn't actually here. It's in a safe deposit box at the bank. Only I can get it out!! 5: Dammit!! 6: A light!! 7: This is a tape recorder, isn't it?! 8: Kyaaaah!
200) 1: You tricked me!! SFX: rip 2: Aahhh!! 3: S-someone, please help me!! 4: Wait!! SFX: click 5: I'm going to kill you!! 6: Ahh!! 7: Aaaahh!!
201) 1: Now I want you to tell me the truth!! SFX: fsssh 2: Ahhh!! TEXT: Nakagawa 3: Nakagawa!! 4: What?! SFX: chomp 5: Ahh!! 6: Sh-she ran away!! 7: She must be trying to get out through the bathroom window!! SFX: fsssh 8: Haa, haa!!
202) 1: Help me!! 2: The lady next door should be able to help me!! 3: Please, help!! SFX: bang bang 4: Please!! 5: The gate's locked!! 6: Someone, help me!! 7: Mr. Inoue!! 8: Where is everyone?! 9: Help me!!
203) 1: Help meeee!! SFX: splash x2 2: Ahh!! 3: The killer's outside... 4: It sounded like he kicked through the gate!! SFX: crash
204) 1: Satoru!! 2: I went in the opposite direction 3: from the mailbox where he is! SFX: splash x5
207) SFX: tok x2 SFX: splash x2 1: Where am I? It feels like I just keep running down alleys! 2: And that smell is getting stronger! 3: This is the factory!! 4: The factory owned by the company where my father and all the neighbors work... 5: There he is!! SFX: splash x2
208) 1: Wahhh!! SFX: splash x3 2: He's going to kill me!! 3: Ahh!! SFX: tok x2
209) SFX: klak x3 1: Heheheh...!! 2: Hahaha!! 3: It's no use now! There's no escape!! 4: And it's very bright around here, so you'll never be able to slip past me.
210) 1: Once you die, then there will be no one left to talk about the murder. Then your father will become the convicted criminal!! 2: You're going to die! Now that you know my name, you deserve to die!! 3: He's walking softly so I can't hear his footsteps!! 4: And the smell of the factory is erasing his!!
211) 1: W-wait...!! 2: You're right. Just like you said, I may deserve to die. 3: But just tell me one thing!! 4: Why did you kill that man back there?! Tell me why!! 5: Hmph!! 6: Fine. I suppose you have a right to know. 7: That man felt a little too righteous for his own good and decided to let the world know the details about the company. He spilled inside information... 8: about the same company your father works for. 9: It was discovered that the chemicals this factory's been dumping into the river cause horrible things to happen to people. 10: The smoke that comes out of the chimneys also destroys the bodies of the people in the area.
212) 1: If the world were to find out about that, then what do you think would happen to all the company's employees? 2: So, the people up top ordered me to catch that man. But before I could, he ran into your house. 3: Then kill I killed him... And right after I left, one of your neighbors saw me. 4: But the neighbors all work for the company. All I had to do was call the company to make sure they kept the secret. 5: Then, we had your father take the blame. 6: Get it now? This is all the truth. 7: Then the neighbors are all working with you?! SFX: wham
213) 1: Owww!! 2-3: Uuuuu!! SFX: haa haa 4: I can't see!! 5: Now we're fighting on fair ground! 6: Neither of us can see! 7: Dammit!!
214) SFX: fwoosh 1: Dammit! Where did you go?! SFX: clang 2: Damn brat!! SFX: fwish x2 SFX: whack x2 3: Ahhh!! SFX: clang
216) SFX: splash x2 1: This way!! 2: How do you know? 3: Because I can see the cane marks! 4: She ran this way! SFX: splash x2 5: I am Orochi. I came back because I was worried about Keiko, and found Satoru drenched in the rain, standing in the shadow of the mailbox. 6: He appeared to be waiting for her. But then he found out that Megumi was being attacked, and ran to find some policemen. 7: They're heading toward the factory!! 8: The chemical factory!! 9: They're so close to it now!! 10: Keiko!!
217) 1: Satoru's voice!! 2: And so, they found the killer and the truth was revealed. 2: Soon, Keiko's father's name was cleared, and he came home. 3: Dad!! 4: Keiko!! 5: The next day, the name of the killer 6: and the reason for the incident were published in the newspaper.
218) 1: But ever since then, the neighbors have treated Keiko and her father with the utmost care. 2: In response, Keiko looks at them with darkened eyes, but doesn't say anything. 3: It became hard for Keiko's father to go on working at the company, 4: so eventually they both left the company housing. SFX: slam SFX: vroooom 5: Keiko's blind, but she fought against the pain, loneliness, and hardship, and worked even harder than people who can see. 6: I'm sure she'll keep working hard wherever she goes next. The whole reason this incident began is because this factory produces poisonous gas. 7: Keiko was unable to find a way to solve this contradiction. 8: Is this just how civilized society has to be?https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/21741[English] [Translation] Orochi 7 by molokidan2010-04-19T11:15:04+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comOROCHI #7
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135) BATTLE
136) South Junior High 1: Now to read Okabe-kun's essay. 2: The title is "Father."
137) 1: Ready? 2: Fathers are mysteries. 3: To me, the only way I can describe my father's actions is to say they are mysterious. 4: For example, the way he acts toward others. 5: And by others, I mean everyone besides my father. 6: Especially towards strangers, the way he acts is nothing but mysterious. 7: And that's because he is far too nice. 8: Once, when I was walking with my father... 9: I saw a drunk man spit up and fall down in an alley.
138) 1: At the moment, I felt grossed out and moved to turn away. 2: Let me borrow your handkerchief if you have one!! 3: Are you alright?! 4: Please, hang on!! 5: Where do you live? 6: Uuuu... 7: No matter how you looked at him, the man didn't seem like a normal person with a job. 8: But my father called a taxi, 9: and begged the hesitant driver to drive he and the man to where the man said he lived. 10: One time, a house nearby caught on fire.
139) 1: It was at night, but even then my father was the first to dash out. 2: He took care of clean-up afterwards and worked his hardest to take care of everyone. 3: For some reason, it felt like my heart had been electrocuted. 4: With all my energy, 5: I went to help my father. 6: But that wasn't all -- we also let people who lost their homes stay temporarily at ours. 7: My mother didn't resist this in the least. 8: My father helped provide them with food and other things they needed. 9: Soon after that, however, one time when I came home from school and my mother and father were out,
140) 1: I saw that the people were all gone. 2: Not only that, but all our belongings and money were also missing. 3: When my father came home, he was silent for a bit, but did not express any anger. 4: I'll just work hard to buy new things. 5: At that moment, my father's actions seemed so mysterious that I could barely stand it. 6: Just what kind of heart did he possess...? 7: Whenever he would meet disabled military men on the street, 8: he would always give them some sort of offering. 9: It must be because my father also was once involved in a war, in the south.
141) 1: My father suffered so much that he nearly lost his life at Guadacanal, and barely made it back to Japan. I once heard that he, the youngest member of his squad, was the only one who managed to survive. 2: Looking around the world now, I can hardly believe that war ever existed. 3: Whenever someone accuses my father of something, he never argues with them. 4: He always just smiles and apologizes. 5: At those times, I feel somewhat resentful. 6: But my father never gets involved in such petty affairs. 7: He never forgets even the smallest nicety, though. 8: No matter how tired he is, he always lets the elderly take his seat on the train. 9: Are other fathers also like that...?
142) 1: Father always does his best at work, too, so he is trusted by everyone. 2: By his students too... 3: My father is a teacher. 4: He is a teacher at South Junior High. 5: I respect my father. 6: Hoo... 7: That was Okabe Tadashi-kun's father. 8: Your writing from several viewpoints gave us a very vivid picture of your father. 9: Also...the part about other fathers... 10: express just how proud you truly are of your father. 11: I'm going to show this essay to your father, Mr. Okabe. 12: I'm sure he'll be pleased.
143) 1: That's Okabe Tadashi... 2: and I am Orochi. As usual, I've become interested in another young boy, 3: after happening to hear his essay from that classroom. 4: As I was listening, I remembered something from the past that has always bothered me... 5: And so I decided to follow Okabe Tadashi from now on.
144) 1: Hey, Tadashi-kun, welcome home! 2: Ah, the rice man! Hello! 3: Tadashi-kun seems to be quite the serious, polite young boy. 4: He must have learned it from that father of his. 5: I wonder what kind of face his father has? 6: I'm home! 7: Welcome back. 8: His mother looks like a quiet, normal woman.
145) 1: That evening, Tadashi's father came home. 2: That's him...I see. He looks to be very honest and gentle. 3: And look how well they get along with each other. 4: After that, I followed Tadashi and Tadashi's father, never missing a moment. 5: And that's because I had an idea. 6: Tadashi's father really was a good person. 7: Shall I push the back for you? 8: So I decided to test him. 9: Ahh!! 10: Ahh! That's my store's sign! Sorry about that!! 11: No worries...
146) 1: He always took on others' jobs without a speck of unpleasantness. 2: Don't worry, I'll take care of that for you. 3: He was loved by his students, and had a great reputation with the PTA. 4: One day, I fixed things so that Tadashi would walk home with his father. 5: It's been a while since we've come home together, huh? 6: For some reason, I didn't have any work to do today... 7: Walking with his father, Tadashi looked proud, but a little shy. 8: Oh, yeah, father...did you read the essay I wrote a while back? 9: Hm...? 10: Yeah... 11: It's about that essay.
147) 1: But his father gave no answer. 2: I suppose anyone would be a little embarrassed to talk about an essay about themselves. 3: Afterwards, the peaceful nature of this family continued unchanged. 4: Must be nice to have such a great father, Tadashi-kun... 5: Y-yeah... 6: If we don't hurry, we'll be late to school. 7: Ta...Tadashi-kun...!! 8: Huh?! 9: What are you making such a weird face for?
148) 1: T-that taxi behind us...!! 2: It's been following us all the way here. 3: And... 4: Some weird guy inside was staring at you, Tadashi-kun!! 5: It drove away!! Maybe he realized he noticed him... 6(2b): Did you see the guy inside?! No... 7: It might be one of those kidnappers everyone's been talking about lately. 8: Hahaha! There's nothing to worry about. I'm not a kid, after all...even if I was kidnapped, what could they possibly want from my family?
149) 1: I've never done a single thing to make someone resent me, either. 2(2b): And your father is a nice man too...you're right. No one would want to kidnap you because you're a good person, Tadashi-kun. 3: We're really going to be late, you know! Let's run!! 4: OK! 5: See you tomorrow! 6: Bye! 7: You can all go home. 8: I still have to write my journal for today. 9: Alright, we'll see you then! 10: You really are a serious kid, Tadashi-kun! 11: See ya later! 12: Alright, done. Now I can go home too.
150) 1: It's gotten a little dark out. 2: Ahh!! 3: There's someone following me...!! 4: Ahh!!
151) 1: Wh-who are you...!? 2: Tadashi...you're Tadashi, right? 3: Y-yes...!! 4: Give this to your father... 5: Got it? 6: You'd better... 7: Wait a minute, who are you, mister?!
152) 1: What could he want to give my father...!? 2(2b): What did that man just give him? Tadashi's trying to look inside. 3: Wah! 4: A-a skull!! 5: G-gross!! 6: H-how could I show something like this to my father?! 7: Uwaaaaahhh!
153) 1: That night... 2: What's wrong, Tadashi? You don't look well. 3: I-it's nothing. I'm going to bed. 4: Everyone at Tadashi's house has already gone to sleep. 5: Just what was that skull about, though...? 6: Who was that man? And why did he want me to give a skull to my father?! 7(2b): That man must be crazy!! There's no way my father could have anything to do with someone like that. sfx: brriiiing 8: The phone...who could be calling at this hour?! 9: My mother and father are both fast asleep. sfx: brriiing
154) 1: brrriinriiing 2: Hello, this is the Okabe residence. 3: It's me, Tadashi... 4: You gave it to your father, right? 5: What is he doing now? sfx: slam 6: It's that man!! sfx: uuuuuuun 7: Father's voice!! sfx: uuu 8: What's wrong, father?! sfx: uuuuuuuuh
155) 1: Ah, father!
156) 1: What's wrong?! Are you alright...? 2: Tadashi... 3: That was you moaning just now, wasn't it... 4: I've been so busy and tired lately, I guess I was just tossing and turning...
157) 1: More importantly, why are you up at a time like this?! 2: N-no reason. 3: Someone called with a wrong number. 4: Well, I'm fine. 5: I don't want your mother or Sachiko to wake up, so go back to sleep.
158) 1: Tuck yourself in, alright? 2: Yes, father. sfx: slam
159) 1: Ahh, I'm so glad nothing was wrong. 2: Being suspicious all the time only makes you see meaning where there is none.
160) 1: My father isn't hiding anything strange. 2: That one-handed, one-legged man really is just crazy. 3: I'm going to keep quiet about it to my father, though. 4: I don't want him to worry... 5: Why would he go as far as calling our house, though...?!
161) 1: Brother, 2: Father! Have a good day at school!
162) 1: Ah!
163) 1: A dead cat...!! 2: It must have run out into the street and was run over. And if traffic was heavy, then no one would have been able to save it. 3: Poor cat. I'm sure it didn't want to die... 4: Let's go bury it somewhere, Tadashi. 5: Yes, father.
164) 1: This'll do. 2: Let's go. 3: Phew...my father's acting normal. 4: That man really is just some crazy person.
165) 1: Good morning, sir! 2: Good morning! Finished your homework, have you? 3: A few days later... 4: Bye! See you tomorrow! 5: After that, nothing seemed to happen to Tadashi.
166) 1: That one-armed, one-legged man never showed up again. Just who was he...? 2: Kyaaaaah!!
167) 1: Ah, it's Sachiko. 2: Heeey, Sachiko! 3: Ahh, brother! 4: Time to go home!
168) 1: OK! 2: Gimme this back! 3: Gimme this back!! It's mine!! 4: Waaaait!! 5: Sachiko, what is that?! What are you holding? 6: I'm not showing! Then you'll take it too!
169) 1: I found it. 2: While I was playing by myself... 3: Let me see it. 4: No! 5: Sachiko!! 6: Ahhhh!
170) 1: Mother! 2: Father! 3: Sachiko! 4: I can't believe her. I bet it's nothing special at all, too!! 5: Mother, where's Sachiko? 6: Oh, Tadashi...
171) 1: She ran into the back. 2: That was Tadashi's younger sister Sachiko just now. 3: What a cutie. 4: Everyone is still together, even at this hour of the night. 5: I wonder what's going on?
172) 1: Sachiko!! 2: Ah, you're in here... 3: You're trying to hide it!!
173) 1: Ahh! 2: A hand grenade...!! 3: C-could it be... 4: a toy...?!
176) sfx: ahahahaha 1: Sachiko ran outside. 2: Wait, I mean it!! 3: Ahhh!! 4: Oh no!!
179) 1: Ahhhh...!! 2: Sa 3: Sachiko!!
180) 1: Surprised by the sound, Tadashi's parents and neighbors soon ran out. 2: Sachiko!! 3: Tadashi!! 4: Sachiko and Tadashi were taken to a nearby hospital. 5: I wonder if they're OK...?
181) 1: Why was there a hand grenade on the ground in the first place...? 2: Earlier, Tadashi was handed a skull by a strange man... 3: and now Sachiko picked up a hand grenade...what could this mean...? 4: Uu...uuuun...!! 5: Tadashi!! 6: Are you awake?!
182) 1: Where's Sachiko?! 2: Sachiko...!!
183) 1: Luckily, Tadashi escaped with light wounds and was able to go to school the next day. 2: I'm off now! 3: Tadashi's going to school. 4: But he doesn't look very well...
184) 1: I can understand why, though, considering what happened... 2: After school, he went straight home.
185) 1: Mother, how is Sachiko? 2: She's sleeping.
186) 1: She's fine, though, Tadashi. There's no need to worry. 2: What was that explosive she was holding? 3: Did you manage to see it, Tadashi?
187) 1: I-I don't know...!! Sachiko wouldn't show me... 2: She said she picked it up somewhere. 3: The police are investigating now, 4: and they're guessing it was a piece of dynamite some kid dropped. 5: Luckily, the explosive rolled away from Sachiko's hand when she fell,
188) 1: and it exploded far away from her. 2: Since she was pinned to the ground, she managed to survive...
189) 1: Soon after, 2: the chatter over the explosion incident quelled... 3: See you tomorrow, Tadashi-kun! 4: Yep, see ya!
190) 1: His face looks like he's deep in thought. 2: It must be about the series of events that have happened. 3: I'm home. 4: Huh...?
191) 1: A letter to me... 2: Who could it be from? 3: There isn't a return address.
192) 1: Who on earth could it be from...? 2: And what's inside?
193) ticket: The Battle of Remand Bridge Special Reserved Seat A 25 March 30
1: The Battle of Remand Bridge... 2: It's a ticket to a movie!!
194) 1: The battle of Remand Bridge... 2: It's a newly-released war movie...
195) 1: It's for the 30th at the Royal... 2: That's today...
196) 1: Tadashi went out to the city... 2: Who could have sent that ticket? 3: Could it be related to the hand grenade...?
197) 1: This is it... theater sign: Royal Theater movie sign: The Battle of Remand Bridge
198) 1: It's amusing to think that war scenes are going to be displayed on a large screen inside such a beautiful, cheerful place. 2: Please take this pamphlet. 3: Tadashi's actually going to watch the movie. 4: I'm going to follow him in.
199) 1: There he is... 2: He's sitting in the designated seat. 3: The Battle of Remand Bridge. 4: This movie... 5: is about the humans that risked their lives in a tragic and action-packed battle that took place on one bridge...
200) 1: a beautiful, moving drama!! 2: Just as I was sitting down far in the back so that I could see Tadashi, the movie started. screen: The Battle of Remand Bridge side sign: No Smoking 3: The war scenes nearly ripping through the screen were so great that I momentarily forgot about Tadashi.
201) 1: Ahh!! 2: Someone sat down next to Tadashi when I wasn't looking...!! 3: Ahh!!
202) 1: Ahhhh! 2: So it was you! 3: That's right...
203) 1: The one who gave your sister the hand grenade... 2: was also me. 3: Listen closely, Tadashi. I have something important to tell you!! 4: Something you must hear. 5: It's something that no matter how much I time I have to tell you, it will never be enough. 6: The truth is... 7: They've started whispering about something. 8: The movie is so loud that I can't hear them, though. I'm going to try going a little closer.
204) 1: The man continue talking until the movie ended. 2: It was an unbelievably horrible story...!! 3: The blood gradually drained right out from Tadashi's face!!!
205) 1: Finally, the movie ended. 2: Now, I am done talking... 3: and will never show myself in front of you again. 4: Farewell, Tadashi!!
206) 1: And so, the man left the theater. 2: I quickly hid myself behind another chair. 3: Tadashi's face as he left the theater...was filled with so much pain that it looked not one bit like that of a boy's.
207) 1: Hey, kid! Don't step on people's shoes, would ya?!
208) 1: Tadashi, why did you stay out this late?!
209) 1: What's wrong. Does your head hurt? 2: Nothing!! 3: Ahh!!
210) 1: Tadashi!!
211) 1: What could be wrong? Tadashi's acting strange... 2: Yes, and he won't talk to anyone.
212) 1: He stopped talking with his good friends, too. 2: What's wrong with Tadashi-kun...? 3: He's totally lost all his spunk.
214) 1: Well then, Mr. Okabe, my house is this way..
215) 1: If you'll excuse me. 2: Ah, yes...I'm this way. 3: Be careful of cars. 4: Why thank you.
216) 1: Huh...? 2: Tadashi...?! 3: What are you doing here...?! 4: Father, there's something I need to talk to you about...!!
217) 1: Talk to me about?
218) 1: What do you mean, Tadashi...?! 2: Father...!! 3: There's something I want to ask you!! 4(2b): Ask me?! A-alright!! 5: What is it? 6: I-it's... 7: Tadashi, it may just be me, but it really seems like you've been a bit down recently. Is something wrong?
219) 1: Let's walk while we talk. 2: Just what is going on? It doesn't matter, you can tell me anything. 3(2b): Don't hold back. Get it off your chest. 4: I-it's nothing. 5: Just a little something has been bugging me. 6: I just wanted to ask you about that essay I wrote a while back. 7: Essay...? 8: Y-yes, father. 9: Why are you such a nice person...?
220) 1: Nice...! 2: That's all. I really wanted to ask you, but it was a bit awkward, so... 3: That's it, though. 4: Ahh, Tadashi!! 5: I'm going home ahead of you!! 6: That's really all...? 7: Fine, I'll believe you. 8: I feel like the thing that has been bugging me has finally started to come to the surface...I need to peer in deeper, though...
221) 1: After that, Tadashi avoided his friends and his father even more. 2: And the eyes with which he looked upon his father... 3: were like a surveillance camera, watching from start to finish. 4: He also avoided doing things together with his father. 5: I'll go out later. I need to finish organizing my notes. 6: Oh... 7: Watch out, kid! 8: Bikes run along there, you know. 9(2b): C'mon, over here. It's safer to play here. 10: It can't be!
222) 1: Tadashi's emotions right now are very complicated. What could he be denying? 2: Is it what the one-handed, one-legged man told him...? 3: That has to be it...!! 4: That must be what he meant... 5: It really seems like he was changed by what the man said to him. It might have even ripped his heart in two, completely changing his personality. 6: It's understandable. 7: And he can't talk about this to anyone...not even his father, the man he respects most...that's how painful this is. 8: Huh? He's heading in a different direction than to the school. 9: Where is he going?
223) 1: It looks like he's searching for the surviving families of those who died at Guadacanal. 2: It's really moving to see a young boy like you interested in the war...!! 3: The battle of Guadacanal was truly horrific. 4(2b): Almost all of the troops were downed by enemy fire...!! Even afterwards, most who were saved died of starvation and fevers. 5: There were very few who managed to make it back to Japan alive. 6: Speaking of Guadacanal survivors... 7: There's one man who survived who always comes to visit our graves twice a month. 8: He's missing an arm and a leg... 9: Ehh?! 10(2b): What is his name?! Where does he live?! 11: I'm looking for that man!!
224) 1: I don't know the details, but it appears that officially, he is registered as having died on Guadacanal. 2: That's why he can't even get support from the country after having come home missing an arm and a leg. 3(2b): He should be stopping by today, you know. This is about the time of day, too. 4: Eh? Today!! 5: Is he a weirdo?! 6: Of course not!! He's a very serious man!! 7: Looks like he's done talking. 8: His face looks even paler now. 9: It's nothing but mysterious...for a boy like Tadashi to not only come here, but to seriously fold his hands and pray...
225) 1: Caw! 2: Tadashi's waiting for the man to come over there. 3: And then he's going to try and ascertain whether the story really is true or not. 4: He hasn't come...
226) 1: Huh...? 2: Did something happen? 3: Right here, kid, a one-armed, one-legged man got his cane stuck in a taxi's tire... 4(2b): and then he was hit away by another taxi and died instantly. It was crazy, kid! He must have flown about 3 meters, just like a little stone!! 5(2b): Musta been the first time he was ever tossed like that since losing his leg! The first, and the last! Gahahaha!! 6: He died...!! 7: The next day, a small article about the man was in the Tokyo newspaper. 8: An unknown, one-armed, one-legged man was killed instantly... 9: There's no mistaking it. This is him!! 10(2b): Father didn't show any kind of reaction. He just read it to start to finish like normal.
227) 1: Does that mean that the man really has nothing to do with father? 2: Even if he did, it would be from the distant past. So even if father did see this tiny photograph, he probably wouldn't remember anything!! 3: Then...it has to be true!! 4: Father is just like that man told me!! 5: If he wasn't, there's no way he could be that nice to people all the time!! 6: That's also why he doesn't talk much about the war!! 7: And that's why he was moaning in his sleep...
228) 1: Is what the one-armed, one-legged man told him really true? 2: Is Tadashi's father really what Tadashi is worrying that he is?! It seems like Tadashi believes so... 3: No one knows the true answer. 4: Unless they are capable of peering into Tadashi's father's heart... 5: And I can do that!! 6: Everyone's asleep.
229) 1: His father is sleeping on the second floor. 2: Here... 3: He's asleep.
230) 1: I wonder what kind of memories lurk in his mind. 2: And what is he dreaming about right now? 3: Uuu...!! 4: Remember what happened at Guadacanal, from start to finish!! 5: Mumumu...!! 6: Through my arm, 7: the happenings at Guadacanal were revived. 8: Mixing with my knowledge, the events were replayed within my mind.
232) 1: The battle of Guadacanal began as a fierce territory struggle between Japan and the Allied Forces at the center of the north beach!! In the end, the Japanese forces were chased into the jungle, where the cruel battle ended in failure and withdrawl. 2: Japanese corpses lay everywhere. 3: Some were drowned in seawater, 4: and others were submerged in swamps. 5: Some had even lost their shapes.
233) 1: The few who survived had lost since lost their wills to fight. For them, the enemy was no longer the Allied Forces, 2: but the creeping demon of "starvation." 3: Supplies from Japan had long since ended, and their food stock had long since run out. The humidity razed them, causing fevers that beckoned death. 4: Haa, haa...!! 5: The meager artillery they had left was used to shoot down wild pigs and birds. 6(2b): Damn, it got away!! I-I'm so hungry that my body is weakening, and I can't even shoot straight!! 7: Keh! I hit a damn snake!! 8: Dammit! 9: How could I eat something like that!! 10: At that time, the survival of the squad's captain provided it with the little order it had. 11: All food they found was shared and passed out to immobilized men.
234) 1: Eventually, all the wild pigs, fruits, and other edible things were eaten up, 2: and the men's hunger forced them to go after creatures like rats, snakes, and lizards. 3: There's one!! 4: Haa, haa!! 5: No matter how much a green snake is cooked, it retains a terrible, raw taste that will make anyone nauseous. And yet, the starving men... 6: did not allow the disgusting stench and horrible taste phase them. To them, it was a valuable feast with which to combat "hunger." 7: Only candles that did not produce smoke were allowed to be used for cooking, out of fear that they would be discovered by the Allied Forces. 8: As the days went on, the men weakened, turning even the capture of a snake into a difficult task. 9: If someone finally managed to capture something, they would often hide from the others and eat it alone. 10: There were also others who left the group and crept around on their own.
235) Sign: Nakano Squad 1: Okabe!! 2: Where's Okabe?! 3: Sir!! 4: Go bring us some water!! 5: You're the youngest and most energetic here! 6: Yes sir!! 7: And where's Yamanobe been? 8: I never see him around... 9: Around this time of day, he's always walking around somewhere by himself. 10: What...!? 11: Could it be, he's...?! 12: His skin has been annoyingly shiny lately...
236) 1: Eh?! 2: Okabe!! Hurry up and bring us some water already, dammit!! 3: Yes sir!! 4: There's a puddle... 5: Ahh!! 6: That's Yamanobe-san...!! 7: What's he digging over there?! 8: Ah!
237) 1: Yamanobe-san!!
238) 1: Wahh!!
239) 1: H-human 2: meat!! 3: gusah 4: Wahh!!
240) 1: Okabe... 2: Haa, haa!! 3: What's wrong?! 4: The water! What happened to the water?! 5: Haa, haa...!! 6: That night, Yamanobe did not return. 7: I didn't tell anyone about what I saw. 8: During this time, the war continued on the sea, 9: and the Allied airport on Guadacanal, which the Americans had taken over, fell victim to a firefight, resulting in the burning of over 50 aircrafts. 10: The Americans' recovery technology was quite advanced, however, so it didn't have much of an effect. 11: Not only that, but thanks to the Americans' advanced radar system, night battles, which the Japanese Navy prided themselves in, made little progress in the war. 12: Support to Guadacanal was cut off, and the hunger of the soldiers left on the island became direr.
241) 1: The American attacks within the jungle was severe and unrelenting, and microphones equipped underground informed them of the Japanese troops' movements. 2: And so, the hunger of the soldiers trapped deep in the jungle reached a limit!! 3: Not only hunger, but malaria and amoebic dysentery took the lives of dozens of soldiers each day. 4: The remnants soon began to bring the maggots squirming in the corpses of their allies to their mouths as a source of food, 5: bringing them to the brink of human reason. 6: I-I can't eat this!! I won't!! 7: Haa, haa!!
242) 1: Haa, haa...!! 2: I-I don't want to die!! 3: I don't want to diiie!! 4: Wh-what's wrong, Tamura?! 5: Hang in there!! 6: I-I don't want to die!! 7: Y-you won't die alone...we're all with you!! 8: L-let me go!! 9: D-don't touch me!! 10: Don't fucking touch me!! 11: Hmph! You think I'm gonna die like this?! I don't care what happens to me, n-no matter what, I r-refuse to die!! 12: Tamura!!
243) 1: You all think I'm gonna die any minute now, huh?! Because my body's the weakest here! 2(2b): You think so too, don't you?! And you...and you!! 3: And you... 4: And you...!! 5: And you!! 6: Tamura...why are you so obsessed with your own death?! 7: Don't say that!! 8: Stop saying stuff like that, I know you're doing it on purpose!! You're all doing this on purpose!! 9(2b): Everyone's thinking the same thing. I'm on to you all!! You're just acting ignorant... 10: But I can see it on your faces!! 11: On yours too!! You, the Captain, and everyone!! Everyone's thinking the same thing!! 12(2b): Stop being so repetitive!! Out with it, already! What are you trying to say?!
244) 1: F...fine, 2: Here I go!! 3: You're all waiting for me to die!! 4: Wh-what...!? 5: You're all just wishing for me to hurry up and die! 6: If you kill me you'll get shot to death for murder, so you're weakening me instead!! 7: The ones who died from malaria and dysentery are too dangerous, so you're waiting for the ones who die naturally!! 8: I don't want to die!! 9: I don't want to be eaten by you all!!
245) 1: Eh...?! 2: Wha... 3: What did you say?! 4: S-silence!! 5: H-how can I stay silent?! You're all trying to eat me!! 6: You're waiting for me to die!! 7: S-silence, I say!! The captain will hear you!! 8: Yeah, I want him to hear!! 9: I'm gonna scream even louder now!! 10(2b): No one wants to come out and say it, but, the reason everyone writes the words for "Americans," "Brits," and other white people in Japanese characters with the "beast" radical attached 11: is because they're trying to send the message that white people are no different than beasts! 12: But you know what...? When a human gets hungry, both white people and Japanese cease to be human...you know what I'm saying. 13: I-I'm not gonna let anyone eat me!!
246) 1: You hear me?! Anyone who eats me isn't human!! 2: H...he's dead... 3: He's dead!! 4: He died...
247) 1: Wh-what's wrong?! 2: E-everyone... 3: If this squall gets any worse, the humidity will rot him!! 4: batah 5: H-he's getting cold!!
248) 1: dooooon dooooon 2: A-another troop somewhere got taken out!! 3: Out of the way!! 4: Where's the Captain...? 5: Another canal! 6: Get everyone together! I have something to say. 7: At this rate, we have no choice but to starve and die...!! 8: I don't want to do something like this, but thinking about how our current condition means the death for every man here, I'm sure even Buddha will forgive us. 9: Listen closely... 10: everyone... 11: Surround him so the Captain can't see!!
249) 1: Wh-what are you doing?! 2: I-it can't be...!! 3: Strip him bare!! 4-5: Please, stop!! 6: Tamura was a fine soldier!! 7: Okabe, be quiet!! 8: You... 9: I can't do this!! Such a terrifying thing!! 10: I know how you feel...everyone else is terrified too. Me, and all the others...we're horrified!! 11: But even knowing that this is a horrible thing, we must do it. That's how frightening the will to live in human hearts is!! 12: Despite our fear, we cannot disobey it! Everyone wants to live!! Despite how our hearts may be feeling, we want to live!! And you do too.
250) 1(2b): B-but what are we living for? Coming to a place like this and still trying to survive!! 2: Do you really think we can make it through this alive?! A fire assault from the Americans could be coming any minute now, and we're all still trying desperately to live!! 3: Even if you don't think about wanting to live, you still want to!! 4(2b): We have come here to fight. To do war!! 5: Listen to me, Okabe...everyone came to the battlefield prepared to die, whether they liked it or not... 6: Each man was completely ready to die, just like you...right, Okabe? 7: But think about it! If you knew you were going to die, then why did you come all the way here?! 8: Why would you allow yourself to be wounded, go hungry, and suffer in a place like this if you knew you were going to die?! 9: If you truly had intended to die from the beginning, then why wouldn't you have allowed yourself to die in a more peaceful fashion before getting this far?! 10: Because deep down, you want to live!! Even if you never thought of it directly, somewhere deep inside your heart, the feeling is there! It's inside everyone!! 11(2b): Isn't that why everyone continues to live despite all this pain?! You and I as well!!
251) 1: Uuuuuu 2: Uuuuuu!! 3: I-I won't eat him!! I...!! 4: Cry!! If you don't want to eat, then you don't have to!! 5: Uuuuuuuuu 6: But if you don't, then you'll die on the fifth day. 7: And what do you think will happen after that? 8: Have you ever thought about it? What'll happen after you die... 9: T-the flesh is coming apart...!! 10: Haa, haa!!
252) 1: Ready? I-I'm going to pass out the meat!! 2: Eat it however you want, alone!! 3: The meat was passed out and eaten by each man in a hidden manner, which may have been an expression of how their consciousness of "sin" had become distorted beyond repair. 4: And so, 2 days passed. 5: Okabe!! 6: You've become totally debilitated!! 7: Come to your senses!! 8: Can you hear me? I don't want to watch you die!! 9(2b): You're the youngest one here, and I've always thought of you like a younger brother! I want to keep you from dying at any cost!!
253) 1: Listen to me! A rumor's been passing through the squad... 2: That you'll be next...!! 3: Now, do you want to be eaten by those bastards?! 4: You have to understand...none of them are human any longer...!! The "beast" radical is attached to all their names!! 5(2b): the only way to defeat a beast, however, is to become one yourself. This is the jungle! It isn't part of society! Becoming a beast is the only way to survive here! Who would there be to get angry at you if you became a beast, anyway?! 6: Now, eat this!! 7: Don't worry, it's lizard meat...beast meat...I hid it away especially for you!! 8: Now come, take it in your hand!! 9: Eat it!! 10: Eat it!! 11: Put it in your mouth!!
254) 1-2: EAT! 3: If you don't, you'll die!! 4: And if you die, you'll be eaten by everyone!! 5: Eat it for my sake!! 6: You're the only one here I don't want to eat!! 7: Do you want to make me commit a crime?! You want to force me to eat you?!
255) 1: To consume human flesh is to commit a mortal sin!! But in a jungle like this, with everyone reverting to beasts like they are now, can you really call eating human meat a sin?! 2: To me, however, eating you will still be a crime!! Until I am shot by the enemy and killed, that sin will never leave my body, and cause me to suffer for the rest of my life!! 3: Therefore, please eat this!! 4: It is not human meat!! 5: You're thinking too much! It's lizard meat! No one will incriminate you for eating it!! 6: Now eat it!! 7: Eat it!! 8: Just stick it in your mouth and swallow!!
256) 1: Uuuu...!! 2: Why are you crying?! Are you sad? Well so am I! 3: But there should be nothing for you worry about. Because the meat you just ate now was from a lizard. 4: Believe me! All you did right now was eat lizard meat! 5: It was lizard meat, goddammit!! 6: Good...you've finally gained some energy back. 7: Now look at everyone's faces...!!
257) 1: They're looking at you with glittering eyes... 2: Those are no longer the eyes of humans!! 3: And now I too am no longer human...!! 4: What are you saying, Okabe?! Why aren't you human anymore?! 5: I know the truth, Sano-san. What I just ate right now was not lizard meat...!! 6(2b): Okabe!! What are you saying?! Be quiet!! What's the big deal?! 7: So it was!! 8: W-why? Why didn't you just leave me alone back there!? 9: I wouldn't have eaten it if you hadn't put it in front of me!! Why did you do something like that?!
258) 1: How many times do I have to say it? Don't you want to live?! Do you want to die and be eaten by those bastards?! 2: Sano-san!! You ate it too, didn't you?! 3: How can you stay so calm like that?! 4: What are you talking about? There's no way I could be calm at a time like this!! I'm the same as you!! Deep within my heart, I'm suffering just as much as you are now!! 5: Liar!! You aren't suffering one bit!! 6(2b): Look at those men!! Their eyes are shining like animals, they aren't normal people anymore!! 7: Yet how is it that only you are able to remain so controlled and logical?! 8: Why?! Why haven't you turned out like them?! 9: That's what I can't understand?! Why?!
259) 1: That's... 2: because in truth, I am not one bit different from them!! 3(2b): However...if there must be a reason for why I can stay just a little bit more calm than the rest of them... 4: It'd have to be because you're here!! 5: As long as a man like you stays alive, the consciousness of a man like me will somehow be able to stay within its boundaries. 6: That's all there is to it. 7: That's all there is to it, but there are many other reasons. 8: I'm going to tell them to you now. 9: Since it looks as if you doubt what I just said, I'm going to explain everything to you! No, I must!! 10: Because as hunger ravages us, our minds become simpler and simpler, and detailed reasons like these cease to mean anything to us! 11: Just like they are...
260) 1: The most important thing now is to find a purpose to keep on living in this hopeless abyss we've been driven into!! 2: And to me, that is... 3: to make sure that, at the very least...the youngest one here lives out longer than we do. 4: The desire I have for you to live is the reason why I can go on living!! 5: I'm sure that the reason I want you to survive is because I want to entrust myself to my own ally... 6: So that even if I die, I will still be able to live on in the hearts of those who outlive me. 7: But if you die before I do, then what will happen?! 8: Having lost my purpose to live, what can I do?! 9: I'll just turn into another one of them!!
261) 1: And then I too will surely feast on your corpse!! 2: You call that living?! 3: I don't want to lose everything!! 4: That's why I refuse to let you die!! 5: Understand now, Okabe?! 6: Listen closely!! I'm going to kill one of them tonight!! 7: Eh?!
262) 1: We have no other options!! If we don't, then you'll die!! 2: None of their feelings have changed...they still want to kill and eat you...!! 3: Just look at those eyes...!! 4: So, before they get you, we'll just have to get one of them... 5(2b): I know very well how you're feeling right now. I don't want to either. 6: But we must!! 7: Understand? This is for your sake!! No, for both our sakes!! That's why we're gonna do it together?! 8: Alright?! 9: Wh-who...?! 10: We'll decide that now!! 11: B-but I can't!!
263) 1: Are you crying, Okabe...?! 2: This isn't your fault. It's the fault of those who drove us into this situation!! 3(2b): Why are you crying?! We just killed one man! 4: If you can kill others in the name of war, then why do you have to cry after killing a single man in a time like this?! 5: You must survive! And while surviving may be sad, you still must!! 6: That's why you also cannot admit defeat. Understand, Okabe? Please, understand?! 7: Okabe...!! 8: Afterwards, hunger mercilessly attacked the men. 9: Patrol by the Allied Forces was carried out very intensely, so the Japanese troops had no choice but to stay put where they were in the jungle.
264) sign: NAKANO TROOP 1: In addition to those dying from fever and hunger, there was also a neverending series of mysterious disappearances. 2: And not a single person said a word about where they vanished to. 3: With strangely slimy faces, sunken-in eyes, and shining yellow eyes, 4: the men began to glare at and proceed with caution around one another as if they were enemies. 5: Sa...Sano-san... 6: Here's some water...
265) 1(2b): Okabe...? See, your youth really is helping you survive!! 2: Look, all those other guys are completely withered away... 3: Their numbers are dwindling... 4: Okabe, you sleep next. 5: I'll stay awake. 6: You're going to survive until the end of this, Okabe. 7(2b): And whoever's alive last wins!! That's true for anything. Whoever manages to survive the longest... 8(2b): Okabe, what are you thinking about right now? 9: N-nothing... 10: Nothing...huh...
266) 1(2b): Sano-san...what are you...thinking about? 2(2b): Probably the same thing as you. Sad thoughts... 3: But don't think about stuff like that before you sleep!! 4: Ah! 5: An American plane, Okabe!! 6: YOu did something to allow them to find us, didn't you?! 7: Here they come!!
267) 1: Sano-san!! 2: Ahh!!
268) 1: Are you alright?! 2: Uuuuuu 3: They're coming back!! 4: Th-they got me...!! 5: My leg...!! 6: I can't feel my right hand!! 7: Sano-san!! 8: Please, hang on!!
269) 1: Where are the others...?! 2: N-no one's here!! Just you and I... 3: You think I'm gonna die here like this?! 4: Just now... 5(2b): When Sano-san asked me about what I was thinking about...I answered nothing, but 6: the truth is, I was thinking about Sano-san... 7: along with safety, I felt strangely uncomfortable...and I was trying to figure out why. 8: What was that? 9: And so, months passed since the fires of the battle of Guadacanal died out. By that time, Japan had long since left the men on the island for dead.
270) 1: Wh-who's there?! 2: R-retreat...!! 3: Retreat?! 4: T-take me with you, please...a retreat order was passed!! 5: The night after tomorrow, we'll be able to leave this island on a boat!! 6: D-didn't you guys k-know?! 7: Ehh?! 8: M-malaria!! 9: Retreat...!! 10: The night after tomorrow...
271) 1: W-we're saved!! 2-3: We're going to live!!
272) 1: Now conscious of his desire to live, Okabe's heart burned toward survival. 2: Sano-san!! 3: Sano-san, you really are a frightening man!! 4: Yes, indeed, you're frightening!! 5: M-more than anyone else I've ever met...!! 6: Even more than all those men with their shining eyes!! 7: I finally get it now!! The one you were really trying to keep alive until the end was yourself!! 8: The reason you were so nice to me is because I was the youngest and would live out until the end. 9: And you were planning to keep me hidden as the final food source!!
273) 1: N-no!! Y-you're mistaken!! 2(2b): Sano-san, I want to bring you with me, but...I don't have that much strength left! 3: At the very least, I will do what I can...and bring back your ruined right arm!! 4: Ahhh!! 5: buchih 6: Uwaaaah 7: Uwaaaah! 8: Ahh!! 9-10: uuuuuu
274) 1: The events in his memories were so powerful that they cut off the scene altogether. 2: Let me try once more and see if I can find out what happened afterwards.
275) 1: I opened up the past once more, but all I could see 2: was Okabe walking feebly along 3: holding Sano-san's ripped-off arm, 4: which soon disappeared. 5(2b): So it was true...everything happened just as Tadashi heard from the one-armed, one-legged man. Tadashi's father ate human flesh at Guadacanal!! 6: Everything that man said was true. 7: It's no wonder that Tadashi got shocked enough to completely change his personality!!
276) 1: Tadashi's father killed people, ate people, and even ripped his ally's arm off, all on that island...!! 2: Who knows how shocked Tadashi would be if he was able to actually confirm what he's heard like I just did!! 3: Having only heard this from the one-armed one-legged man, Tadashi must be truly suffering over the doubt he feels toward his father... 4: That man must be Sano-san. 5: And the one who ripped his arm off is Tadashi's father, Okabe!! 6: bam 7: Ahh!! 8: It's the middle of the night, and yet someone woke up. 9: Who could it be?! 10: It's Tadashi. He can't get to sleep. 11: It'll be dangerous if I'm caught here!!
277) 1: creak 2: bam 3: Why did Okabe rip Sano's arm off and take it with him after realizing his will to live?! 4: Did he really take it with him solely for the sake of Sano's memory? 5: Or...?!
278) 1: Could he have taken it with him as a food source to keep him alive until he made it to the ship...?! 2: Was it only through that act that he was able to be saved and return to Japan? 3: Tadashi's father has never spoken a word about Sano's arm, however...and I didn't see anything resembling it in the house. 4: Did Tadashi's father really ate Sano's arm? Or did he lose it along the way? I can't tell what's the truth... 5: But then Sano was miraculously saved after losing an arm and a leg, and reappeared seeking revenge... 6: And then he told Tadashi about everything his father did at Guadacanal 7: as a way to get back at the man he had treated so nicely for betraying him in the end. 8: Does that mean that Tadashi's father really did take Sano's arm with the intent to eat it, and left the man for dead?
279) 1: No one knows the truth... 2: That may be exactly it. 3: Or it may just be a misunderstanding of Sano. 4: Not only that, but it's not exactly clear whether Sano himself was truly concerned about Okabe's survival... 5: ...I'm not sure...it all concerns events that happened in an extreme situation, and everything is hard to believe. 6: All things incredibly hard to judge in the peaceful conditions we live in now.
280) 1: One thing I can believe, however, is that times of war push people to commit atrocities like that. 2: And just because wars end doesn't necessarily mean their effects disappear... 3: That's what I wanted to know... 4: I'm going to keep watching Tadashi and his father.
281) 1(2b): Something wrong, Tadashi? It looks like you didn't get a wink of sleep last night. 2: N-nothing's wrong. 3: Hurry up and eat, or it'll get cold. 4: I don't want to eat!! 5: You have to try and eat a little, even if you don't want to. You really haven't been feeling good lately, huh? 6: Ah! 7: Chicken!!
282) 1: I know it might be a little much for breakfast, but chicken will give you energy for school. 2: crash 3: What's wrong, Tadashi?!
283) 1(2b): F-father, did you also eat it?! The meat...?! 2: Eh... 3: Why do you ask? 4: You wouldn't wake up, so we already finished. 5: Your father likes lighter foods, however, so he didn't eat much... 6: But why did you ask about that? 7: You don't understand a thing, mother!! 8: Tadashi!! 9: slam 10(2b): I don't get it!! I don't get my father's feelings!! I absolutely don't understand him anymore!!
284) 1: The one-armed one-legged man told me that a long time ago, at Guadacanal, my father... 2: ate human meat!! 3: And not only that, but at the end, he ripped off his ally's arm and left him for dead!! 4: I can't believe my father would do such things...!! 5: It's frightening!! 6: It looks like Tadashi's brooding over something. I can understand... 7: Ahh!! 8: Tadashi's father's come out...he's following his son!! 9: Tadashi...
285) 1: Uu... 2: Tadashi, today I have something I want to talk to you about. 3: You said you wanted to talk to me about something earlier, didn't you? 4(2b): And it turned out to be about your essay. About why I'm so nice to people. 5: I want to talk to you about that right now. 6: You're still a child now, Tadashi, but one day you will grow up and leave my side. 7: Eventually, all humans become alone. 8: When I first realized I was alone on my own, I felt both a hollow sensation in regard to my father, and also a sense of relief. 9(2b): I thought there was nothing to be afraid of in this world. And then one day...that's right...I went to war, and experienced many painful things... 10: Since that point in my life, I became able to possess a gentle heart toward others.
286) 1: Wanting to be nice to others may be a transformation of the feeling of wanting others to be nice to you. 2: To live is a difficult thing. I may not be someone you respect, Tadashi, because I am a being that at some point was sullied in certain parts. 3: But if I became able to be kind to others because of that, wouldn't you agree that it was good for me? 4: And, for the sake of the argument, even if I was being kind to others for some hidden reason, why wouldn't you forgive me? 5: Tadashi...what is tormenting your heart so much? Will you tell me? 6: I'm afraid!! 7: I'm afraid of the fact that I carry your blood!! 8: Okabe-kuuun! 9: Ah, Okabe-sensei! Good morning! Hi there! You're Tadashi's good friends, aren't you? 10: Ah...Tadashi-kun...!!
287) sign: South Junior High 1(2b): Lies...everything my father said was a lie! It's all just excuses! 2: The reason my father is nice to people is because...he ate people! It's a way for him to atone to the people he ate and their surviving family. 3(2b): No matter how severe a condition it may have been, my father still committed cannibalism!! And that blood of his is now flowing through me!! 4(2b): That means I too will surely become a cannnibal sooner or later!! And even if I don't ever come to eat human meat, I'll probably do something else that's just as evil...!! 5: Now that I think about it, I enjoying watching cruel scenes in violent movies... 6: Okabe!! 7: Hey, Okabe!! Sensei's looking at you!! 8: Ahh!!
288) 1: Now, just to repeat and make sure you all heard me: tomorrow afternoon we will be going to Okutama to collect plant samples. 2: Hear that, everyone? It's not going to be a picnic, so don't misunderstand! 3: Okaaay!! 4: We get it!! 5: And so, the next day, Tadashi's class went to Okutama. 6: We'll be moving in groups. 7: chatter chatter 8: Waaah! What a find! So many rare plants!! 9: Ehh?! 10: Look at these tulips!! 11: You idiot! Those aren't rare at all! 12: Why not? Don't you think it's rare to see tulips growing in the mountains like this? 13: Tadashi's going deeper into the mountain with his friends.
289) 1(2b): What's been wrong with you lately, Tadashi-kun? Yeah...everyone's really worried about you! 2: Nothing's wrong! 3: Ah, look at that! How can there be such a huge hole in a place like that?! 4(2b): I got it!! Hey Tadashi-kun, how about we go explore inside? It'll cheer you right up! 5: Whaddya say, guys... 6: Yeah, that sounds fun! 7: N-no, stop!! Sensei will get mad at us. 8(2b): It'll be fine! We're just gonna go in for a few seconds. And it might have some weird plants inside! 9: Ready, guys...? 10: Yeah!! 11: But it's dangerous! Stop!! 12(2b): Don't worry! If you're really that scared, then use your light pen. C'mon, let's go, let's go! 13: Our stuff will just get in the way, let's leave it here. 14: But aren't we gonna collect plants? 15: This'll just get in the way!
290) 1: Wow, there's moss growing in here! 2: Maybe this cave used to be a bomb shelter or something? It looks man-made. 3: But look how deep it is! It looks pretty naturally made to me. 4: heeey 5: uwaaaaan 6: Stop that! Those echoes are creepy. 7: dosuuun 8: Ahh!! 9: Ahh, the entrance!!
291) 1: The entrance caved in!! 2: Waaah! 3: Be careful!! If you get closer it might cave in even more!! 4: N-now we can't get out!!
292) 1: Wh-what should we do now?! 2: Let's try screaming really loudly!! 3: No, loud voices might make it collapse even further!! 4: You screamed just a little bit ago, so it probably fell in from that!! 5(2b): But if we keep quiet, then no one will know we're in here!! And besides, it's already completely caved in, how can it get any worse?! 6: I'm gonna try calling. 7: Heeeey! 8: Someoooone, help uuus!! 9: Heeeeey!! 10: Heeeeelp!! 11: Haa, haa...!! 12: I-it's not good...at this rate we'll just tire ourselves out and lose our voices!!
293) 1: We're completely shut in!! 2: Are our voices even being heard on the other side?! 25 minutes have passed already!! 3: But someone has to realize that we've disappeared eventually.
294) 1: We're going to have to work together on our own until then!! 2: T-that's right! Let's help each other until the end!! 3: Phew...so it was just me overthinking. 4: When times get touch, people really can unite and work together!! 5: The lightpens are g-getting weaker!! 6: Ehh?! 7: I feel like I'm gonna go crazy just sitting here like this!! I'm gonna try digging a little bit. 8: And let's try shouting every 30 seconds. That way we won't tire ourselves out and still be able to shout loudly.
295) 1: Man, we should have brought our bags with us!! There are shovels for digging up plants in there!! 2(2b): We all left them at the entrance...you're right, we should have brought them! 3: I brought mine. 4: Ehh?! 5: Look... 6: Let's try using this. 7: gah 8: And so, we took turns digging. 9: bakih 10: It's no good!! 11(2b): The lights are getting dim...at this rate, they'll go out soon. 12: Those lights are all we have to count on in a dark place like this. Don't use them until we absolutely need them!! 13(2b): Give it to me. I'll take responsibility for it.
296) 1: Eh? But... 2: Don't worry, I'll be sure not to lose it. 3: I won't do anything horrible like my father...no matter what happens!! 4: Ready, guys? I'm gonna turn it off now. 5: Ehh?!
297) 1: T-this is scary!! 2: T-turn it back on! I'm gonna go nuts!! 3: Please, turn it back ooooon!!
298) 1: kachin 2: Uwaaaahh!! 3: Get together, guys! 4: Try closing your eyes when I turn it off this time. It should make you feel more at ease. 5: Then let's put our voices together and try shouting!!
299) 1: piiih 2-3: clamor 4: What's wrong? I don't see Tadashi...? 5: Sensei, Tadashi-kun's group is gone! 6: We can't find them no matter where we look!! 7: Maybe they went home ahead of us. 8: Impossible!! 9(2b): Yeah, Tadashi-kun won't do such a thing. All the other guys in his group are pretty serious, too. 10: Let's all try searching together once more. 11: And if you don't find him then, we'll call the police, since it's getting a little late.
300) 1: Heeeey!! 2: Heeey, Tadashi-kun!! 3: That's weird...we can't find them no matter how long we search! 4: And all five of them are gone...maybe they really did go home. 5: Rain...!! 6: Everyone needs to go home now. I'll call Tokyo and check whether or not they went home, then call the police. 7: Where could they have gone? When I was busy staring at the mountain landscape... 8: I doubt they would have gone this deep into the mountains... 9: Oh, there's a cave over there... 10: It's collapsed in!! 11: Could they be in there?!
301) 1: Oh my... 2: It sounds like someone's calling?! 3: Ahh!! 4: Th--these are...?! 5: B-bags!! 6: And more over here!! 7: I knew it!! 8: T-that means they're under these stones?! 9: Tadashi-kun!! 10: Boys!! 11: It's no use!! I can't get rid of it all using my power!! 12: There's a big rock deep within there... 13(2b): The teacher and others must still be close by!! I have to let them know!! 14: If they really got crushed under those stones... 15: then it might already be...
302) 1: Haa, haa...!! 2: The flooding is getting worse. 3: I-I'm cold!! 4: rumble 5: I-I'm hungry!! 6: I have some chocolate I brought for a snack. 7: If I turn the light off and then eat it by myself, no one will notice!!
303) 1: I can't do that, though...!! If I do such a cowardly thing, then it'll be proof that I'm going to turn out just like my father!! 2: I have to share it with everyone. 3: Hey, guys...I brought some chocolate with me, so let's share it. 4: Eh?! 5: R-really?! 6: One piece each!! 7: Thanks. 8: Let's try a little harder. Everyone's probably already looking for us by now. 9: I...it's already 7:00!! 10: But why is so much water coming in here?! 11: I-it's so cold I feel like I'm gonna die!!
304) 1: This place is completely soaked...w-we can't sit here any longer!! 2: That's the only spot that isn't wet!! 3: Ready? I'm going to turn the light off.
305) 1: Slide over a little. 2: This is as far as I can go!! 3: Ahh!! 4: Wh-what's wrong, Tadashi-kun?! 5: The light...
306) 1: I-I dropped the light!! 2: Ehhhh?! 3: I'll find it, don't worry. 4: I-it's gone!! 5: Wahh!! 6: Did you find the light...?! 7: I can't find it!! What should we do?! 8: What's gonna happen now?! We can't see anything!! 9: I-I'm cold!! 10: My clothes are all wet!
307) 1: Tadashi-kun, this is all your fault! You dropped the light!! 2: I-I didn't even want to come in here in the first place!! 3: B-but y-you were the one who was looking so gloomy, that's why we decided to go inside!! 4: I-I'm cold!! 5: Where is everyone?! 6(2b): W-where's my seat...? I was in between Nakanishi-kun and Baba-kun. 7: Y-you're all wet! 8: Ahh!! 9: I-I'm cold!!
308) 1: It's freezing!! 2: N-no one answered...everyone's ignoring me!! 3: No one's offering to wipe me off!! 4: At this rate we'll freeze to death!! 5: To think everyone was this cold-hearted!! 6: Ahh!! 7(2b): The smell of chewing gum...s-someone brought gum with them...a-and yet...and yet... 8: Ahh!! 9: Voices!! 10: They're calling for us!! 11: They've figured out we're in here!! 12: Heeeeey! 13: Help us!! 14: Help uuus!! 15: Help us!
309) 1: And so, the rest of the night was spent getting the children out. Tadashi's mother and father came running out to the mountain. 2: All the boys were extremely tired and famished. 3: Where's Tadashi...? 4: Tadashi!! 5: A-are you alright?! 6: Hurry up and massage him!! 7: Tadashi's group was taken immediately to the hospital. 8: After he recovered, he didn't speak with them for a long time. 9: He was asked about what happened in the cave, but Tadashi didn't tell about any of the details. 10: If I do, everyone will get hurt. 11: Finally, Tadashi recovered and started going to school again.
310) 1: If I see any of them, I'm just going to smile and say hi like normal. I'm different from my father. 2: Ah, Nakanishi-kun, Baba-kun!! Heeey, Nakanishi-kun! 3: Ahh!! 4: Wh-what's wrong?! 5: Everyone really ended up suffering because of you, Tadashi-kun!! 6: Ehh?! 7: You forced them to go into the cave even though they didn't want to?! 8: What did you say?! 9: Who told you that?! 10: Everyone's saying it! Because of you, they almost died! 11: Eh?!
311) 1: After entering the school, Tadashi found that everyone was spreading rumors about him. 2: It's Tadashi-kun!! 3: Tadashi-kun forced everyone to go into that cave! 4: Takahashi-kun!! 5: You told that to everyone, didn't you?! Why would you lie like that?! 6: T-tell them the truth!! 7: Stop, what are you doing?! 8: I-I can't believe this!! 9: I was the one who tried to stop them!! 10: I don't know what's going on anymore...I can't trust anyone!! 11: The rumors, while being completely opposite of the truth, even caused problems in the PTA. 12: How cowardly! They all think that by making me out to be the villain, they can hide the shameful things they did in the cave. 13: Takashi, Baba, and Nakanishi have become really distant... 14: This is turning out just like things did for my father at Guadacanal!!
312) 1: And that's not all...now my father hates me too!! 2(2b): He just glares at me and won't talk me!! I know why!! He thinks I'm causing problems for him!! creak: creak 3: Father!! 4(2b): Tadashi...I heard the rumors about you. I have no intention of doubting you, but I want you to tell me how you intend to take responsibility for your actions. 5: Please, stop it!! 6: Who gives you the right to say that, father?! You ate human meat at Guadacanal, how are you going to take responsibility for THAT?! You're a demon! 7: A demon!! 8: Fool! 9: slap 10: wham
313) 1: Wait! Where are you going?! 2: slam 3: Tadashi!!
314) 1: Tadashi!! 2: Wait!! 3: slam 4: Wait, I said!! 5: Ahh!! 6: A demon!! 7: That man is a demon!!
315) 1: I can't return to my father's side anymore...!! 2: When I told him that he ate human meat, his face completely changed from that of the father I know... 3: It really must be true, then!! 4: And now he hates me!! Because of that rumor that says it was my fault that my friends were shut up in a cave and almost died, 5: my father's position as a teacher has gotten worse. 6: I can't trust anyone anymore!! No one!! 7: Not even myself!! 8: Because my father's blood flows through me!! 9(2b): How long is Tadashi going to keep riding the Yamanote Line? If he doesn't go home soon...
316) 1: A train personnel... 2: Hey, kid. 3: Just how long you going to keep riding, huh? 4: And so, Tadashi returned home that night. 5: While his mood was still heavy, he apparently gathered up enough courage to enter the house. 6: Tadashi...!! 7: Where's father? 8: He went out, and hasn't come home yet. 9: I'm going to sleep. 10: creak 11: slam sfx: click 12: I-I have to lock it...!! 13: Father went looking for me...
317) 1: It's morning!! 2: When did I fall asleep...? 3(2b): I saw a horrible dream...a dream in which I killed father...!! 4: He was trying to kill me, so I killed him first!! 5: Did he come home, I wonder? 6: creak 7: Wah! 8: F-father!!
318) 1: After that, Tadashi's father spoke not a single word to him. 2: His classmates also started to avoid him. 3: Everyone believes the rumor and hates me now!! 4: whisper whisper... 5: Look at them, pretending to be such good people...and my father's no different!! 6: Even during the test yesterday, they were all simply focused on getting the highest scores for themselves!! 7: And so, Tadashi's distrust deepened. 8: Because of Okabe-sensei's son Tadashi-kun, he missed out on becoming Principal, you know. 9: This year was supposed to be the one where he made the jump. 10(2b): That really is a shame. Not like it has anything to do with us, though... 11: Wait a second, though. Who's going to become Principal if it isn't him, then? 12: Yamada-sensei, maybe? Or Adachi-sensei? Adachi-sensei is addicted to gambling, though, so I dunno. Should be interesting to see.
319) 1: Rumors of this gradually spread through the school. 2: Everyone's all the same! They say tons of things, but when it comes down to it, they're just looking out for themselves!! My father's the same, and that's why he hates me!! 3: That night... 4: knock knock 5: Tadashi, it's me. Open up!! 6: Father...!! 7: I want to talk to you. 8: creak 9: Tadashi...let's go mountain-climbing on Saturday. 10: Ehh?!
320) 1(2b): I want to go climbing alone with you, on the mountain we always used to climb. 2: But listen carefully...you are not to talk about this to anyone. Not even your mother...this is just between the two of us. 3: Got it? 4: I'll take care of the equipment. 5: slam 6(2b): Why mountain-climbing...and just the two of us...?! 7: Father is trying to kill me!! 8: I'm in his way!! 9: As long as I'm around, his reputation and career will all go down the drain! 10: He probably wishes I had frozen to death inside the cave!! 11: When we're alone on that mountain, he's going to murder me!! 12(2b): Tomorrow is Saturday...ever since he came in my room, father's been watching me...he thinks I'm going to try and escape!!
321) 1: The day has finally come!! 2(2b): I'm not sure about either of their feelings, but I know one thing: they've both come up here to settle something!! 3: They're going to climb that one.
322) 1: Look! Those are edible plants. 2: If a snowstorm were to come, 3: and we ran behind that outcropping to find shelter, the snow would actually slide in and trap us even worse. 4(2b): Mountains are fickle and frightening...!! You never know how they're going to change. 5: If you know a thing or two, however, it's possible to survive dangers on mountains or being trapped in caves, even without any food. 6: And so, I, Orochi, desperately followed the two men. 7: Gradually, the mountain got steeper and steeper. 8: Now we're really getting started. 9: There isn't a person to be seen for miles around.
323) 1: Here, Tadashi. Eat some rock candy. 2: Eat up! It'll relieve your fatigue. 3: I'll eat it later. 4: Oh really... 5: Fine then. 6: Tadashi, you climb first!! 7: Ehh?! 8: I'll go after you. 9: Oh, really... 10: Let's go, then. 11(2b): This rock candy might have poison in it. And if I had climbed before him, he might have cut me with that knife!!
324) 1: Those who climb after someone need to be careful of rock that gets dislodged by the people in front of them!! 2: garah 3: Ahh!! 4: What's wrong?! 5: He might be planning to take me to the top and then push me down! 6: zupah 7: And so, Tadashi and his father kept climbing higher and higher. 8: Look down there. All those mountains look pretty short, huh?
325) 1: He might be planning to push me down...!! 2(2b): I might actually be the one to push him, though...but if I do that, then I'll become no different than him. 3: Ahh!! 4: Wahh!! 5: What's wrong? Did you get dizzy? 6: N-nothing's wrong!! 7: The mountain gets tougher from here on out. 8: We're going to have to use a piton to climb now, alright?!
326) 1: Let's go!! 2: It's impossible to climb any further than that. 3: To find out just what kind of fates these men have been dealt, I have no choice but to sit and watch what happens!! 4: The two continued climbing. 5: Ahh!! 6: Ahh!! 7: Alright? You should drop your right leg.
327) 1: Hmph! How nice of him...he's just pretending, though. But whenever he tries something, I'll be ready!! 2: We're almost to the summit. 3: This is the hardest part. 4: He's really just praying for me to slip and fall. That's why he brought me all the way up here!! 5: He might have rigged this rope to break at some point! 6: Go ahead, let's see you try!!
330) 1: Uuuu!! 2: The rope snapped!! 3: If father's right hand leaves that stone, we'll both fall to our deaths!! 4: He might cut my rope with his knife! 5: Uuuu!! 6: hyuuuuh 7: I-it's no good!! 8: My strength...!! 9: Is it alright for me to just swing around like this, though? 10: If father doesn't cut the rope with his knife, my weight will cause us both to fall. 11: If I know that and still let myself swing here, then it simply means I want to be saved! A selfish feeling!! 12: It makes me no different from father and the rest of them!! 13: bachih 14: I'm cutting it myself!!
331) 1: I'm not gonna turn into a beast!! 2: T-Tadashi!! 3: What are you doing? Stop!! 4: Throw away your pack and claw your way up! 5: Yes, I did eat human meat once ago!! Does that mean I have no right to keep living?! 6: Who is the one judging our sins here?! What are you going to do if my hand slips? Don't you want to live?! 7: That's it!! 8: Let's go!! 9: I'll pull you, so just...!!
333) 1-2: uuuuuuuuun
334) 1: Ah! Father?!
335) 1: What's wrong?! Are you alright?! 2: That was you moaning just now, wasn't it...!! 3: Tadashi... 4: I've been so busy and tired lately, I guess I was just tossing and turning... 5: More importantly, why are you up at a time like this?!
336) 1: N-no reason. 2: My father is a terrifying person!! 3: He's just pretending to be a good man!!
337) 1: Well, I'm fine. 2: I don't want your mother or Sachiko to wake up, so go back to sleep. 3: Tuck yourself in, alright? 4: Yes, father. 5: slam
338) 1: Ahh, I'm so glad nothing was wrong. 2: Being suspicious all the time only makes you see meaning where there is none.
339) 1: My father isn't hiding anything strange. 2: That one-handed, one-legged man really is just crazy.
340) 1(2b): I'm going to keep quiet about it to my father, though. I don't want him to worry...
341) 1: Brother! Welcome home, father!
342) 1: Ahh!!
343) 1: A dead cat...!! 2: It must have run out into the street and was run over. And if traffic was heavy, then no one would have been able to save it. 3: Poor cat. I'm sure it didn't want to die... 4-5: Poor thing...
344) 1: Tadashi, let's go bury it somewhere. 2: Yes, father. 3-4: Let's go bury it... 5: Even if my father was a horrible person just pretending to be a good one... 6: does that really mean I have to deny all the good things he's done up until now, even if he was doing them for a certain reason?
346) 1: Snow on the brink of the season... 2: I am Orochi. I am awaiting two men right now. 3: So that their two separate feelings would grow a bit closer, they decided to climb this mountain. 4: Will they be able to come back down alive? 5: I don't know. But I'm waiting...ever since the battle happened, I have been watching. Because I must watch...I am waiting. Waiting for them both to come down. https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/9159[English] [Translation] Orochi 6 by molokidan2009-01-27T12:45:02+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comOROCHI #6
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02) STAGE...3 BATTLE...133
05) STAGE
06) L: This show was sponsored by the Ooiso Company. Next up is "Wild Jungle Boy!"
07) sfx: putsun sfx: gih O: It happened when Yuuichi was three years old, when he went to go meet his father, who was coming home from work. G: Where are you going, Yuiichi? Y: To meet daddy! G: Be careful. O: Right when he was about to cross the street...
08) O: the signal turned red. sfx: gohhhhhhh sfx: dododododo O: Yuuichi waited until it turned green. Y: Yellow... Y: Green... O: When the signal turned green, no cars were passing by.
09) O: And yet, Yuuichi crossed while glancing left and right. O: He raised his right hand just like his mother had taught him... O: and just then, spotted his father. F: YUUICHI!! Y: Daddy!! sfx: gohhhhhhh sfx: gokohhhhhhhhhh F: AHHH!!
13) sfx: hyuuu O: Just then, I happened to be walking by. O: Ahh!! Y: Wahhhhhh!! O: What's wrong!? O: Are you alright!? F: Uggghhhh!! F: Owwww...!!
14) F: Don't worry, I'm fine. Y: Wahhhhhh! O: Will he really be alright? O: From that moment on, things just got worse. sfx: gacha M: Wh-what's wrong!? F: M...my head...!! M: What's wrong? F: My head hurts!! O: That evening, his pain got worse, M: Dear!!
15) O: and he died. M: Uwahhhhhhhh!! O: The cause, of course, was the accident. O: No one knew who the driver had been. M: Who in the world would do such a terrible thing...?! M: Please, Mr. Policeman, I beg you, catch this criminal!! Y: I know who did it.
16) Y: It's the big boy on Good Morning. Y: The big boy on Good Morning hit daddy. M: What!? P: What is he talking about? Y: The big boy on Good Morning!!
17) Y: He's the piggy!! M: Who are you talking about?! P: Calm down, miss. P: You're saying that man drove the car that killed your father? P: How do you know it was him? P: Where is he right now? Y: Over here!! Y: He's always here. M: Yuuichi, where are you going?
18) sfx: bibibibibi B: Alright, children, let's all sing together now. B: Clap your hands! Y: This boy!! Y: This boy hit daddy!! B: OK, clap clap clap...all together now! B: Very good! M: This man...!? M: This is just someone on television! M(2b): Yuuichi!! Are you sure this man hit your father!? Are you SURE!?
19) P: Please calm down, miss. P: Yuuichi...you always watching TV, don't you? Y: Yeah! P: I see...so that's why you remembered him, huh? P: He was just the first person you thought of, isn't he? Y: No, it's him!! Y: This boy hit daddy!! B: Alright children, that's all for today! B: See you tomorrow! B: Bye-bye! B: Goodbye everyone! Y: It's true!! Y: I saw this boy hit daddy!!
20) O: Because of what Yuuichi said, the boy on Good Morning, Tanabe Shingo, was later interrogated. O: Tanabe did not have an alibi for the time when the crime happened. O: After that, Yuuichi would not stop talking about him. Y: The boy on Good Morning! Y: The boy on Good Morning hit daddy! sfx: buchi M(2b): This boy is the only witness! And he won't stop talking about i t! M: Tanabe Shingo must be the criminal!! He's the one that killed this boy's father! M: I beg you!! Please arrest him!! O: Soon, Tanabe was apprehended, but denied the allegations and went to court. O: This is the court hall...
21) O: I decided O: to watch the trial... O: Tanabe Shingo was there in a very stylish suit, the eyes on his pale face flitting to and fro. O: On the other side was 3-year old Meguro Yuuichi, being hugged in his mother's arms. S: We have determined that Tanabe Shingo has no alibi. S: Now, we will question the victim's son, Yuuichi. S: Did you see the man who hit your father?
22) M: Yuuichi, tell them who hit your father. S: Please be quiet and allow the boy to speak, miss!! S: Yuuichi, did you see the man who hit your father? M: Yuuichi... Y: The boy on Good Morning hit him... S: A man who looked like the boy on Good Morning, you say? Y: The boy on Good Morning hit him... S: Can you tell me who this man is...? M: Yuuichi... M: Look at him!!
23) Y: It's the boy on Good Morning!! Y: The boy on Good Morning Y: hit daddy!! Y: Uwaaahhh!! S: No more questions, your honor. J: There will now be a 5-minute recession. O: Poor thing. Only three years old, and not only has he been caught up in this court trial, but they're interrogating him as well... O: What Yuuichi is saying has to be the truth. Tanabe Shingo's statements were all sloppy... J: I have made my decision.
24) J: Tanabe Shingo is not guilty. M: Ehhh?! J: Just because he's a child, it doesn't mean I'm throwing out his testimony. J: But I think there was something lacking in his memory and visual recognization. J(2b): In short, we have no conclusive evidence. Thus, I cannot accept Yuuichi's accusation. M: You can't be serious!! M: Are you saying that Yuuichi is just making up nonsense!? Y: It's the boy from Good Morning!! Y: The boy from Good Morning hit daddy!!
25) Y: The boy from Good Morning hit daddy!!
26) Y: The boy from Good Morning...!! J: This case is now closed. O: How terrible...!!
27) P: *mutter mutter* O: Yuuichi was speaking so seriously!! Y: Tanabe Shingo looked so relieved when he was found not guilty, too. O: He's obviously overlooking Yuuichi because of his age!! O: But there was no one else at the scene, so it's impossible to ascertain whether or not Yuuichi is telling the truth. O: He could be mistaken after all. O: But if it was the truth, what would that mean? O: This results of this case will deal a huge shock to Yuuichi's being!! O: What will happen to him from here on out? O: The trial is over, but this case still hasn't been solved.
28) O: Afterwards, I decided to follow Yuuichi.
29) O: Without his father, Yuuichi's mom was forced to work full-time. Y: No! M: Stop yelling, I have no choice! M: If I don't work, we won't be able to survive! M: Since your father died... Y: The boy from Good Morning Y: hit daddy!! Y: It was the boy from Good Morning, mommy!! M: Be quiet!!
30) M: Settle down!! M: The judge couldn't have been mistaken!! M: You just saw someone that looked like him!! M: The man who killed your father was someone else!! Y: Uwaaaaaahh!! O: Even after that, Yuuichi would not stop talking about the boy from Good Morning.
31) Y: The boy from Good Morning hit him! B: Are you sure you really saw him? B: You're too little, who knows what you really saw. Y: I saw him! I saw the boy from Good Morning hit him! B(2b): Stop lying! The judge said it wasn't him, right? Enough already!! B: Yeah! Someone blackmailed my grandpa before and made him go to jail, you know!
32) Y: Uwaaaaaaan B: Haha, he's crying!! B: Crybaby!! O: Wait a minute!! O: Why are you teasing Yuu?!
33) B: You wanna try and stop us? You're just a girl!! B: Outta the way!! B: Ahh! B: Owwww! B: Owwwwwww....!!
34) B: You'd better not do it again! B: Wh-who was that...!?
35) G: *whisper whisper* G: Ah, they're home. G: That child... G: He really thinks the man from Good Morning killed his father... G: But he's still so young... Y: The boy from Good Morning killed daddy!! M: Yuuichi!! M: No more talking about that!! Y: But it was him!! sfx: bisha
36) O: Meanwhile, Tanabe Shingo's character had disappeared from the "Good Morning Children" TV show. G(2b): Hello all you good kids out there! Today I have a never friend to introduce to you: Sakagami Kinichi! sfx: uhahaha S: Nice to meet you all! Y(2b): The boy's gone!! He's gone...!? Y: He's gone!! O: After that, Yuuichi kept searching for the man on TV. Y: Ahh!! Y: It's the boy from Good Morning!!
37) R: You've had a rough time lately, Mr. Tanabe. T: Yes, out of all things, the prosecuting party was a three-year old... T: It's an age where it's difficult to discern between reality and fantasy. He seemed to be a child who loved TV, and always watched my show. T: Obviously, my character had a strong effect on his mind, so he naturally tied that to his father's death. T: In the end, the judge realized that the child was unreliable, and my innocence was proved. R: How terrible for you to be accused of something like that, especially in your line of work. Y: NO!! Y: You hit him!! T: Yes. But of course, I bear no ill will toward the child. T: Rather, as an entertainer, I want to think of this as a positive experience. R: I see. T: As long as I work hard to better my everyday life, hopefully doubts like these should cease.
38) T: But if I continued to appear on TV despite the controversy, I think it would trouble the public, so I decided to quit the show. T: I will soon be saying farewell to my acting career. R: Well, I can't stop you, but at least know that you have my sympathy. R: Please do your best in whatever new path you follow. T: Thank you...I think I will be returning to the countryside, actually. T: Well then, goodbye everyone. sfx: gachaaan M: Ahh!!
39) M: What was that sound...? sfx: gara M: Ahh!!
40) M: Yuuichi!! M: A-are you alright? M: Huh!? M: Why is the TV...? M: Y-you broke it, didn't you?! M: Yuuichi!! O: After that, Yuuichi didn't say another thing about the boy from Good Morning. M: What could be the matter...? M: It seems like he's very angry. sfx: gasha O: From that day forward, Yuuichi grew to hate TV. sfx: rrrip
41) O: He once got in trouble for trying to destroy a bunch of TVs in a store display. T: Hey!! O: Since he seemed to have a short temper, other children all kept their distance. B: Can't catch us! Heeheehee!! O: His mother was unable to keep supporting the two of them, and their lives continued to become poorer and poorer. Eventually they were forced to move out of their house. O: Possibly due to this, Yuuichi became an extremely gloomy boy. O: It's Yuuichi...already in elementary school. He's growing up so fast. O: What year is he now?
42) O: He couldn't seem to concentrate on his schoolwork. O: Reading, math, O: art, music... O: His friends also made fun of him. B: Look, there's the grouch! O: No matter how much his friends talked about the latest stars or popular performers, he made no attempt to join in. B: So in the new yazuka movie they're making... O: On the contrary, he lashed out against anything related to that and soon lost his friends. O: Whenever he walked home, he was always by himself. O: His aging mother was hard-working as usual, but she and Yuuichi never had any good times together. sfx: basah O: One day, Yuuichi, for the first time in his life, demanded something. sfx: garah Y: Mother!! M: Ehh!?
43) Y: Give me some money. M: Eh? Wh-what are you going to use it for? Y(2b): I want a transistor radio!! Give me $100. M: What?! M: $100? Are you out of your mind?! Y: If you won't give it to me, I'll just take it myself. M: What did you say!? Y: I know where you hide the money!! M: Wait!! O: After taking the money from his mother, Yuuichi bought a transistor radio and spent his days locked up in his room listening to it. M(2b): Yuuichi, what are you listening to? How about studying a bit once in a while? Y: Be quiet, and don't bug me! sfx: busah
44) Y(2b): Hey mom, I need more money. This time I'm going to buy a record player. M: Do you really think we have the kind of money to be buying such useless things? What will you do with a record player anyway? Y: Put records on it and listen to them, obviously!! M: Ehh?! Y: If you don't want to give it to me, fine. I'll just save up my lunch money until I have enough to pay for it. M: Yuuichi!! M: Stop causing me so much trouble!! M: What got him so interested in records anyway? O: And so, Yuuichi did nothing but listen to records in his free time. M: Yuuichi, what do you keep buying so many records for!? Y: I'm going to become a singer!! M: EH?!
45) M: A singer!? Y: That's right... Y: So don't get in my way!! Y: Look, while you were wasting my time talking to me, the song ended. Y(2b): I can't hear them if you're being noisy. Just go to work already. M: I took the day off today! M: More importantly... M: While I've been gone, you've been listening to those records at a very high volume, haven't you? M: The Yamanas next door have been yelling at me. This is just an apartment, remember!?
46) Y: What!? The Yamanas said the record's volume was too loud...? M: That's right. They said the singing was becoming a bother!! M: And also that they kept hearing the same song over and over, which was quite annoying. sfx: Ufufufu Y: Fufufu... Y: FUFUFU
47) M: Yuuichi!! Are you listening to me?! M: What's so funny!? Y: Fufu...I'm listening, alright. Don't worry. Y: It was just a bit funny. Y: I'm going to the record shop. M: Yuuichi!! sfx: kata Y: Hahaha...
48) sfx: pissha Y: Hahahahaha Y: What has gotten into him? Y: He always hated TV and those flashy stars so much, so why would he suddenly want to become a singer!? M: If only his father were still alive, this would have never happened...!! M: Buying all these records without a thought to all the hard work I've done for him...!! M: He hasn't read a page of his schoolbooks, and spends all his time buried in these fashion magazines!! M: Just whose songs are these...?
49) O: It's Yuuichi. Is he off to the record store again...? O: I thought so...
50) sfx: creaaak music: Let the burning sunlight shine down on your back~ The petals that bloom on a man, the flower of courage~ M: Oh, welcome. Looking for Hanada Hideji records again, my boy? M: Ah, that's right. His new single is out today. "Flower of Courage"... M: He sure has a lot of fans, this Hanada Hideji. Y: Of course. He's a great singer. M: Unfortunately, though, we're already sold out. All that's left is this display copy. Y: Ehh?! M(2b): He's sooo popular, after all. From children to adults, everyone loves him. M(2b): Even though his debut was just a little bit ago, he's got more charisma than Yuujiro, Kitajima Saburou, and the Beatles combined.
51) M: He's having a signing here next week, you should come. Y: What?! Y: Are you serious!? M: Yeah, just look... O: Yuuichi came out! O: What's going on? He seems really excited.
52) Y: Hanada's coming!! Y: Hanada Hideji is...!! O: It seems like he's decided to become a singer for some reason. O: And it all seems to be because of this Hanada Hideji. O: Speaking of which, it seems like I can hear Hanada Hideji's song coming from somewhere... O: Yuuichi's decision to become a singer was only further strengthened after he went to see Hanada Hideji during the signing. G: Waah, waah...!! G: Waah, waah...!! sfx: waah waah Y: Hanada Hideji!!
53) sfx: boing Y: Ahh!! H: Well, time's up, ladies, so you'll have to let me go. If you want to come to my hotel later, I'll finish the signing for you. sfx: kyaaaa G: Kyaa, kyaa...!! sfx: batan sfx: burururu G: Waah, waah...!! G: What a wonderful man! He seems so sincere, so gentle, so cool!!
54) O: From that day on, Yuuichi didn't pay attention to school at all. O: All his classmates made fun of him. sfx: katan B: Th-thief!! O: He was even called a thief just for picking up a pen someone dropped. B: Gimme back my pen!! I know you tried to steal it, thief!! Y: Ehh?! P: *whisper whisper* B: He's poor, you know... B: And he seems pretty stupid, too...
55) Y: You'll see!! Y: Just watch me, you'll all see!! Y: Just watch me... sfx: uuuu sfx: uuuu G(2b): I love Hanada Hideji!! He'll definitely be in the singing festival this year! G: Huh!? Y: Hmph!! Y: I hope they all keep their eyes on me!!
56) B: Look, Yuuichi's going into his dirty old apartment!! B: Ah, he saw us!! B: Run away!! sfx: ban O: I wonder what he's doing in his room? Let's take a peek. O: This is it. O: I can hear singing coming from the record player...
57) sfx: gih O: Ahh!! O(2b): It's Yuuichi!! I thought it was just the record, but he's singing together with it!! O: Watching him singing together with the record made Yuuichi look completely different. O: He seemed vibrant and live. O: To think he could sing that well!! O: I see...so the complaints earlier about the songs being too loud were actually about Yuuichi's voice!
58) O: That's why Yuuichi started laughing -- he thought it was funny that his voice was mistaken for the real singer's. O: Wow, so if he was mistaken for the real record... O: Maybe he received those qualities as a child since he loved TV so much. O: After singing to forget his loneliness for so long, he's gotten extremely good!! O: No one knew about Yuuichi's voice. B: Ahhhhh!! O: After that, Hanada Hideji's popularity grew even more, and he started to appear on TV and in movies. O: He had a zeal for performance and was always serious and warm-hearted toward everyone, which made him a favorite among the magazines and TV reporters. O: For a while, he had monopolized the media. O: And then, when Yuuichi was in his last year of middle school...
59) B: Oh look, it's Meguro. B: Just ignore him and keep walking! Y: Hey there!! B: Huh!? Y: I've decided to go to a high school in Tokyo. B: Ehh!? B: Tokyo...!? Y: That's right. An uncle I have there is going to look after me. B: Wow...I never knew he had an uncle there. O: When his mother returned home on the day of Yuuichi's graduation... sfx: gara M: Ahhh!!
60) M: Yuuichi's clothes are gone!! M: His records are all shattered...!! M: A-a letter... M: "I've gone to work in Tokyo, but please don't look for me. If you do, I'll kill myself." M: "I've taken all your savings with me." M: Yuuichi!!
61) sfx: gohhhhhh O: Tokyo...
62) Y: This is it. Hanada Hideji's house...!! It looks like he's just gotten back from a singing. Y: Excuse me. sfx: bibiiih ?: Who are you? Y: I've come to meet Hanada Hideji. I'd like to become his protege. Y: Please let me meet him!! Y: Alright, come in and wait while I go ask him. sfx: batan Y(2b): He seems pretty nice...but what's taking him so long!? sfx: grrr Y: Ahhh!! sfx: wrarrr wrarr
63) sfx: gabuh sfx: birih Y: Shoo!! sfx: rrrrr Y: The gate's locked...?! Y: But it was just open a minute ago!! Y: Ahhh!!
64) sfx: birih ?: Fufufufu... ?: FUFUFU ?: Ahahaha!! Y: P-policeman!! P: Ahh!! Y: This dog...!! Y: Dammit!! Y: I'm trying to leave, but the gate is locked!! sfx: byuh
65) ?: Hmph!! Seems like you still haven't gotten the point!! ?: Trying to sneak into the house again, I take it?! Y: Ehh?! ?: Mr. Policeman, you have no idea what fans will do these days. ?: Sneaking into people's houses is just a matter of course for them these days. Unless I keep a dog, who knows what'll happen! ?: My client is a very popular one, after all... sfx: gachi ?: Now come on and get out of here! sfx: gih sfx: ban ?: By the way, Mr. Policeman, it looks like he's a runaway. sfx: dadah
66) ?: Hahahaha...by the way, it's MR. Hanada Hideji to you, punk!! Y: Haa, haa...!! Y: I knew it... Y: I figured that would happen. Y: I'll just have to start my plan from step one. O: I followed Yuuichi the whole way.
67) O: He's going into a coffee shop... O: What is he going to do in there? O: Here he comes. O: ahh!! sfx: bisha O: He looks like a completely different person. Look at that flashy outfit...!! O: Where could he be going? sign: CLUB RAINBOW Y: This is it... Y: The special guest for the 10-year anniversary performance is Hanada Hideji...
68) O: From that day forward, Yuuichi, after changing his name and lying about his age, started to work at Club Rainbow as a waiter. O: He was a new lively Yuuichi, completely different from before. O: Many different singers came to perform there. O: Yuuichi watched them all with bated breath, O: especially when Hanada Hideji performed. O: When that happened, Yuuichi completely forgot about his job and watched, as if in a trance. O: Afterwards, he was scolded harshly by his boss. Y: Hmph. Just watch me, you'll see...!!
69) O: Most of the money he earned was used to treat the band members. Y: Hmph! What naive idiots!! Now I've gotten on their good sides... Y: Now I just have to convince them to accompany my singing. sfx: dadadada Y: That guy playing the guitar is a fan of Hanada Hideji, so I just need to ask him. Y: Excuse me, but I have a request. Y: I love singing, and I was wondering if you'd teach me. G: Ehh!? Y: I can't sing, though. All I can do is play the guitar. Y(2b): OK!! That'll be more than enough. It will really help me out. G: What do you want to sing? Y: Hanada Hideji's "Flower of Courage." G: Oh, I love that song!! G: Here, go stand on the stage.
70) Y: The stage... O: This was the first time Yuuichi would be standing on a stage, O: as well as singing in the presence of others... G: You do a great Hanada Hideji impression! Y: Oh, no... O: And so, whenever he had free time, Yuuichi would practice singing. Y: Hmph. Idiots!! Y(2b): With this, I can practice as much as I want. Now it's time for step two. Y: I must apply to "You too can become a star!!" TV screen: You too can become a star!! G: Stars are everywhere!! They just haven't noticed it yet!! G: That's right, even you could be tomorrow's star!! Stars -- these are the symbols of modern times!! G: Come and sing on our show and become a star!! G: Our judges will be Mr. Hanada Hideji and Ms. Iibaba Hanako...
71) O: Yuuichi wrote a musical score in order to stand out and sent it in to the program. sfx: koton O: Finally, he received a notice. Y: "At 3:00 on Friday, please come to Stage #3 at BBS." Y: 3:00 on Friday... O: That day, Yuuichi put on one of Hanada Hideji's favorite striped ties, O: and did his hair in the same fashion as Hanada Hideji as well. Y: I must win, no matter what... Y: No matter what!! Y: If something goes wrong, then I always have this...!!
72) Y: This is it...!! Y: Where is Stage #3? Y: There's no way I could lose, after practicing so much. Y: Not only that, but the kids from back home will definitely be watching me on TV!! Y: No one could possibly realize that I am the same person... Y: They'd never think that quiet boy would be singing like this!! Not even my mother... Y: I've really changed since I've come to Tokyo... Y: There it is!!
73) Y(2b): Look at all these people!! They must all want to become stars too... P: Seems like that's everyone. P: Well now, it's time to begin the tryouts. P: Let me explain the details... P: We'll pick 5 people from the crowd who will be able to take the test. P: Then we'll start the real thing. P: Let me say just one more thing... P: The order of who will go up will be decided by the tryouts. B(2b): Eh? The tryout will decide who performs!? You mean Mr. Hanada or some other judge won't decide who gets to go up!? sfx: hahaha sfx: hahahaha
74) B: Wh-what's so funny!? P: The order is always pre-determined for the real thing. B: So that means the shows are always fake!? P: That's what TV is. In order to fit it all in a 30-minute timeslot, we have no choice. B: Is that really how things work!? P: Of course. There's a rehearsal and an actual cut. P: It's all fixed. P: Therefore, you can't singing the same during the filming as you do in the rehearsal. P: During the real thing, the guests will all be reading from the script, so you have to sing like it says. B: Ehhh..!? P: No, let's begin. P: This show is sponsored by the France Chocolate Shop! O: I slipped into the stage with the other applicants. Y: Wh-what the...!! Y: I didn't know about this!!
75) G: Well, it's too late now. It looks like they've already decided who'll get first prize. Y: Ehh!? Y: Ridiculous!! G: See that girl over there in the polka-dot pants? G: She appears to be a student of the songwriter Mizuno Jun. Anyway, she's already in the script as winning first. G: I don't think she's that great a singer, though... ?: Alright everyone, please take a seat over there. The tryouts will begin in three minutes. Y(2b): This should have been a shoe-in for me!! After all I've suffered until now... O: And so, the tryouts began. O: The tryouts focused on singing, but also included pantomiming and speed talking. G: Now for our next contestant, Imanishi Kouichi. O: Finally, the tryouts commenced.
76) O: Of course, the results had the girl in the polka-dot pants getting first, followed by a girl wearing a miniskirt from Osaka. Yuuichi was third. O: It was then that Hanada Hideji entered through the back door!! G: It's Hanada Hideji!! G: Good morning, sir! G: Good morning! O(2b): The man who Yuuchi worships, Hanada Hideji...he really is charismatic, just like his reputation says. O: Eventually, the other judges arrived. G: Good morning! T(2b): well then...here is our order for this show. We have their specialties listed here. T: By the way, it seems as if our third contestant is quite skilled at performing your songs, sir. He's quite the fan. H: Hmm... T: He's right over there.
77) Y: This is it...they can't possibly change the order now!! Fufufu...but on the contrary, this order will backfire for everyone else... Y: Keep your eyes on me!! T(2b): Five minutes until we start! Get in your places, everyone!! T: This way, contestants!! Y: I'll start with the girl in 2nd...!!
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79) T: All you extras, make sure you clap extra hard for the girl who's supposed to get first! T: But other than that, just act as any other audience member normally would. T: Alright, start!! T: Commercial!! Y(2b): Fufufu...she's so nervous that she hasn't noticed. With this, I should get 2nd place. Y: Now the girl in 1st is all that's left!!
80) Y: She's all the way on the other end... Y: which means she'll be going after me!! Y: If I remember correctly, she always sings really close to the mic...probably because her voice has no volume. And since her voice is so bad, she tries to use the mic to cover up!! Y: Hmph. With this, I should get 1st...!! B: You too can become a star!! B: These five boys and girls are this week's contestants!! B: Alright, let's start looking for this week's star!! Tomorrow's star is among these five!! O: Yuichi's actually looking a bit pale-faced. More importantly, what did he do earlier? O: And so, the show began...
81) B: Our first contestant is Miss Taguchi Yoshiko, from Osaka!! Y: Fufufu... B: Now then, in order to test whether or not she has the elements of a true star, we shall begin her performance! First is the pantomime test! B: You're heading to school, but you can't find an important paper. Begin! B: I thought I put it in my desk here... G: Pff...!! G: *snicker snicker* G: Ewww!! sfx: Kukkukku sfx: snicker snicker sfx: fufufufu
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83) Y: Fufufu...she froze because she thinks they're laughing at how bad an actor she is... Y: Just as I expected! T: Ahhh!! sfx: Biri Y(2b): Looks like she's realized...but it's too late now!! This is the real thing!! All of her movements are being aired live on television! O: Next was her singing performance. O: Taguchi Yoshiko's singing, compared to how well she did during the tryouts, was full of mistakes. Y(2b): I don't care how rigid their script is...look, the judges are even whispering among themselves now. O: After Taguchi Yoshiko, it was Yuuichi's turn.
84) O: I watched it all from a TV within the studio. O: Even after watching all he had done in the tryouts, I was still surprised. O: When did Yuuichi become so talented...? O: This song... O: Of course, it's "Flower of Courage," by Hanada Hideji. O: This was the first time I had seen Yuuichi sing so earnestly. O: He's so good!! O: This is being aired live all over the country...I hope Yuuichi's mother and his friends can see him as he is now!!
85) sfx: pachi pachi B: Thank you very much! Please sit and wait for our final announcement. B: Next up, Miss Minami Sachie! Y: Hmph...!! Y: How could they let that girl become 1st?! To think they'd rig the entire thing like this... Y: Hmph...she may have unparalleled looks, but that's where it ends!! Y: Fufufu...it's almost time for her to start singing!! B: Miss Minami Chie's song is the "Rumba of the Black Butterfly!" sfx: zudadada sfx: zudododo Y: Fufufu...she's started sticking herself so close to the mic...
86) O: However, soon after she started singing, Minami Chie, for some reason, started getting choked up, making mistakes, and otherwise ruining her own performance. O: After she finished, despite still being on stage, she fell to her knees and began crying.
87) Y: Fufufu Y: Ufufu...everyone's so nervous!! Y: The expectations placed on her from the tryouts must have driven her crazy. Y: With that, there's no way they can give her 1st place...unless they wanted to risk offending the thousands of people watching this program right now!! B: Now then, everyone, it's time to present the results of our contest, which have been much deliberated over... B(2b): 1st place goes to...Mr. Imanishi Kouichi!! O: Imanishi Kouichi... O: That must be Yuichi's fake name. O: He got 1st place...!! sfx: pachi pachi sfx: pachi pachi
88) Y: Hmph!! Look at them call my name into the mic like that!! B: As a reward, Imanishi Kouichi will start training under the Hiyoko Group and eventually appear again in front of us all as a new star!! B: Now then, this week's "You Too Can Become a Star!" is now finished. N: Aaaaaand cut! B: Good work! B: Good work! O: However, Yuuichi refused the invitation to join the Hiyoko Group!! Y: I beg you!! Please allow me to study directly under Mr. Hanada Hidei!! Y: Please make me your disciple!! Y: I beg of you!! N: What do you say, sir? It seems as if he'll only be satisfied if you teach him yourself... H: Indeed.
89) O: With that, Yuuichi began living at Hanada Hideji's house. Y: I will do my best, Mr. Hanada!! H: Seems like you know nothing about the entertainment world. This will be very hard work!! Sure you can handle it? Y: Yes!! As long as I am at your side, I will be happy!! sfx: gih sfx: creaaak G: Ah, welcome back. Right now, your songwriter Yamada and your manager are waiting. G: Ahh!! G: You are!? Y(2b): Please excuse me for that time back then. I hope to work well together with you from now on. H: You know this boy, Yasukawa? H: This is Imanishi Kouichi, my new protege.
90) O: Hanada already had another protege at his house named Hirota. Y: Let's work well together. H: This is my manager, H: and this is the man that writes all of my songs, Mr. Yamada. Y: My name is Imanishi Kouichi. It's a honor to meet you all. O: Yuuichi worked hard to accomplish even the unsightly tasks that Hirota and Yasukawa didn't want to do. In this way, he worked hard for respect as Yasukawa and Hirota's inferior. K: Sorry about, you know, siccing the dog on you that one time. Will you forgive me? Y: Oh, no, don't worry about it. That was my fault.
91) O: From that day forward, Yuuichi could be seen driving Hanada to the studio every day. G: Ahh, it's Hanada Hideji!! Kyaaaah!! G: Look how fast his car is going!! G(2b): Hanada Hideji seems so serious, and doesn't really talk to people much, huh? But I think that's such a great quality, it shows that he really has manners!! G(2b): Who was that boy driving his car, though? Probably just one of his servants...but I'm still jealous!! sfx: gohhhhh
92) O: Yuuichi paid intense attention to every minor detail concerning Hanada, fixing things even a manager would miss. O: With this, he gained more and more of Hanada's trust. O: And eventually, Hanada opened up with Yuuichi more and more about the details of his work. Y: Looks like he's finally come to trust me. O: Eventually, Yuuichi started taking his singing lessons and vocal criticism right along Hanada Hideji himself. S: Well then, let's start from the most basic solfege. S: Ready? Y: Aaahhhhhh sfx: bon bon bon S: Not "aaaa," start with "ma" and then continue on into your regular voice. S: Sing from your stomach!! Make it vibrate down there, then move your lips to increase the vibrations!! When you get louder, keep your chin still, and stop moving your hands and legs along with the sounds!!
93) O: And so, Yuuichi further strengthened his ability to sing like Hanada Hideji. S: Hmm...your voice is still a little different, but I suppose it's close enough. O: Then, finally, the performance... B: Not like that. Your legs should be posed like this. B: Not like that!! Your eyes should be looking slightly above the camera lens!! That will make them look clearer!! B: From now on, if your performances aren't full of charisma, you'll be doomed!! That's what everything hinges upon!! B: when you turn, focus on a single point and do not move your eyes from it!! sfx: la la la O: It's Yuuichi...he's still practicing by himself, deep into the night... O: He really must have a deep respect for Hanada Hideji!! O: But I wonder...has Yuuichi's past truly been erased from his mind? O: He hated the media so much...and yet later decided out of his own volition to go down such a path.
94) O: No, he hasn't forgotten. Rather, it was because of his past that he chose to dive into this world. O: And with that, he intends to show everyone... O: Yes...everyone... O: It's Yuuichi!!
95) Y: Fufufu...this it!! Y: Now, it's finally time for step three!!
96) sfx: riiiing K(2b): Hello, this is the Hanada residence. Eh? Today's Night Parade was postponed!? K(2b): Yes, he is out with the manager right now. Understood. Y: Fufufu... Y: Fufufu Y: What a fool!! Y: I just called from another phone in the house, while I played some muffled recordings to cover up my fake voice!!
97) Y: Next is the TV studio... Y: It'd be bad if they sent a car over, so I'll just use Yasukawa's name and fake my voice to lie and say that Hanada is in Yokohama. sfx: jyah sfx: jyah Y: Fufufu...thanks to all my training, it's become so easy to mask my own voice. Y: Is this MHK? (*Note: This is a play on NHK, a public broadcasting channel in Japan) Hello, this is Hanada Hideji's assistant, Yasukawa...
98) O: That night, because of the second call, Hanada showed up late to the MHK broadcasting of Night Parade, and caused a huge uproar. O: With that, his trust for Yasukawa was broken, O: and he quickly fired the man. K: I'm telling you the truth, I had nothing to do with this!! K: This is the truth!! Y: Fufufu...
99) Y: Next is Hirota!! O: That day... H: Sir, I've brought the usual medicine for your throat. H: Ah, thank you. S: Now, Mr. Hanada, let's start praciticing your new song, "A Man's Duty." sfx: boron boron H: Uuu! sfx: boron S: What's wrong!? H: M...my....voi...ce!! S: Ehhh!?
102) Y: Sir!! Y: Wh-what happened!? Y: Please calm down!! Y: What are you standing around for, Mr. Hirota?! Y: Hurry up and call the doctor!! H: Ah...ahhhh...
103) sfx: gacha D: His throat has been destroyed!! Y: Ehhh!? D: He appears to have drank mercury!!
104) Y: Mercury?! Y: That reminds me, he drank his medicine just before it happened. Y: The medicine that Mr. Hiroda brought in! H: Ehh!? H: I-it wasn't me!! H: I didn't do anything!! H: Please believe me, sir!! H: Look in my eyes and tell me I'm lying!!
106) O: After this, Hanada Hideji did not appear on the stage again. N: Suisenji Kiyoko is replacing Hanada Hideji on our show tonight. O: In the newspapers and magazines, it was reported that he had suddenly come down with a severe illness. O: Hirota was forced to stop studying under Hanada. O: No matter how much Hirota protested, the fact that Hanada Hideji himself had suspected that Hirota fed him the mercury could not be overlooked. O: The broken thermometer they later found in Hirota's room closed the case.
107) sfx: batan Y: How could Mr. Hirota do such a thing? He was such a good singer!! G: What an idiot!! From the outside, he looked like such a nice, gentle guy... G: But now there's no way he could ever stay in the entertainment world now. And Mr. Hanada had such great expectations for him, too... Y: My rivals have disappeared!! O: From that moment on, Hanada Hideji could no longer use his voice. G: Sir, there's someone here from Mitsuba Records to see you!! R: How have you been feeling, sir? R: We've come to talk about your upcoming single, "A Man's Duty." R: Over at Diamond Records, they have been releasing a ton of hit songs like Tsukiten Gachou's "Thunderous Lamentations" and such, but we only have you to rely on. H: U...uu... R: What should we do...?
108) R: If only you could still sing... R: Is there nothing we can do to help? Y: What if I sang in place of him? R: Ehhh!? Y: If it's a voice like his you're looking for, then I have the utmost confidence!! R: Ehhh?! R: B-but what about when he has to appear on television? Y: Fufufu... Y: All Mr. Hanada needs to do on stage is move around and lip sync. Meanwhile, I'll be off to the side doing the actual singing. O: Yuuichi was soon brought to the studio to begin the recording of "A Man's Duty." O: Hanada watched him the entire time from the side, with a troubled expression. O: Finally, the record was released.
109) O: Of course, it possessed all the charisma of Hanada Hideji's previous hits. O: Not only that, but it also boasted a fresh charm that Hanada Hideji himself lacked, and this caused the record to receive great praise from many critics. R: How wonderful, sir!! R: This will surely be a major hit!! H: Uuu... Y: Great work, boy!! From now on you shall act as Mr. Hanada's shadow! Y: Yes sir!! O: The picture and name on the jacket were both Hanada Hideji's, but the voice in the song was Yuuichi's. Sign: New release!! Hanada Hideji's New Song "A Man's Duty" CD Jacket: A Man's Duty O: The song was an immense hit!! B: It's Hanada Hideji's record!! R: Hanada Hideji's new release "A Man's Duty" has skyrocketed instantly into the top 10!! This sudden rise is unprecedented, and only after three days, the record has sold over 100,000 copies!!
110) O: A new song bearing a charm different from all of Hanada Hideji's previous work... O(2b): All the critics seem to be praising it. There isn't a record company that hasn't highlighted it... O: And yet none of the fans know that Yuuichi is doing the singing. O: That Yuuichi, of all people, is singing...!! O: Even though his father was run over by the entertainer Tanabe Shingo, there wasn't enough incriminating evidence present. O: After that, he grew to hate anything to do with the media. Right after Hanada Hideji's debut, however, he suddenly devoted himself to singing. O: Could it possibly because Yuuichi wished to restore the reputation of entertainers in the eyes of the public? O: He worked so hard to finally study under Hanada, the man he respects so much. O: Moving himself closer to the stage, step after step... O: Just what kind of human did that incident turn Yuuichi into? O: And what will he turn into from here on out?
111) O: Hanada Hideji has finally returned to television. sfx: The one who carries out a man's duty sfx: he is who is one with the winds of the world sfx: Come forward, he who has a sense of moral obligation and human duty sfx: I will embrace you with all my heart!! O: It really looks like Hanada's doing the singing. O: He's just lip-syncing, though. Yuuichi's somewhere in the background doing the real singing!! O: Yuuichi's the one singing, and Hanada is the one going through the motions like a puppet on a string... O: This really must be taking a toll on Hanada's ego. O: And so, Hanada and Yuuichi continued their fantastic performances together. O: Yuuichi became an indispensable part of Hanada Hideji's livelihood, and was the source of his continued success. O: Soon, Yuuichi became the one guiding Hanada Hideji during meetings and interviews.
112) O: But Yuuichi never seemed to become full of himself and, on the contrary, seemed to show more respect and reverence for Hanada than ever before. O: It seemed as if there wasn't a thing about Hanada that Yuuichi didn't know. Y(2b): His favorite food is sushi, and the number of appearances he's had on TV is... O: Yuuichi was always extremely busy planning Hanada's various performances. sfx: pon N: Keep this on the down low, but...how do you feel about going solo? Y: Eh? N: Continuing not as someone else's shadow, but as a true star on your own.
113) Y: A star!? N: Anyone can become an entertainer...but only a choice few can become a s tar. N: You yourself should know how important a chance like this is. N: This is only between you and me, but there have already been talks about abandoning Hanada. N: We'd like to have you become popular right away so you can take his place...
114) Y: No offense, but I refuse. N: ehhh?! Y(2b): I am fully satisfied being Mr. Hanada's shadow. Moreover, I do not possess the personal ability necessary to become a star. N: What?! You... Y: I respect Mr. Hanada...and that's all that matters to me. Y: I want to continue to serve him as best I can. N: I-if you say anything about this, you'll be in a world of hurt! Y: Oh, you don't have to worry about that...
115) Y: By the way, Mr. Hanada mentioned that the car he's riding in right now is too garish for his tastes. Y: What do you think, Mr. Manager? M: Y-yeah. Y: We're going to have a new car bought for you. H: Uuuu... Y: The car you've been riding in lately is no good. It doesn't fit you at all!! Y: I've already found a more suitable one. Y(2b): It's a sports car. The style is a little retro, but...I believe it is perfect for one like yourself, who takes classic trends and revives them in modern times such as these, Y: in order to bring peace to those who live in such a turbulent era...in that respect, I believe this is the perfect car for you. Y: Incidentally, we are also going to fire your driver. I will be escorting you myself, in his place. H: Uu.....!! Y: Wait here a moment while I bring the car around. sfx: batan
116) O: Yuuichi's going somewhere... Y: The time has finally come!! Y(2b): The long awaited true performance is here!! The true performance...!! O: What is he thinking about...? O: Eventually, Yuuichi returned. Y: Here is your new car, sir.
117) Y(2b): What do you think...? I bought it with my own money. H: U...uuu....!! O: What's wrong? Hanada's countenance looks so intense. Is he that pleased...? O: No, he looks more shocked than anything!!
118) sfx: gyuh sfx: gohhhhh sfx: gohhhhh Y: Fufufu... Y: From the outside, everyone must be thinking that he is in charge, and I'm the one being led around!! But it isn't that way at all!! It's the opposite!! Y: I have no respect for Hanada Hideji at all!! Y: No, in fact...!! Y: Without me, Hanada Hideji could never survive in this world!!
119) Y: Everything has gone as I planned!! If only all those idiots who laughed at me could see me now...!! Y: And... Y: And...!! Y(2b): I'm going to speed up a bit, sir!! If people ever found out you couldn't sing, that'd cause trouble for you, after all... sfx: gogohhhh H: Uuuuu!! sfx: gogohhhh sfx: gooohhhhhh
120) Y: And so, Hanada was taken to the TV studio in a car by Yuuichi. O: It looks like the broadcast is over. Here come Hanada and Yuuichi. O: Yuuichi looks so lively and excited, while Hanada... O: It seems Hanada was drinking. O: I'm getting a really bad feeling about this. sfx: gohhhh Y: As usual, he looks concerned about me speeding.
121) sfx: gogohhhh Y(2b): No, it's more than that...the fact that I'm simply gripping the handle instead of him is tortorous!! Just the fact that I'm driving instead of him!! Y: Yes...everything is in my hands now. Y: But that's not all!! The other reason he's suffering is... Y: Ahhh! H: Ugggghhh! Y: What are you doing, sir!? Y: Stop that!! I'm the one driving here!!
122) sfx: bashih Y: Ahhh! Y(2b): Fine, by all means, take the wheel!! I'll sit behind you. sfx: buohhhhhhh Y: Everything's going as planned!! The time has finally come...!! Y: Sir!! My real name is Meguro Yuuichi!!
123) sfx: gohhhh Y: And the fact that my father was run over when I was three years old... Y: I doubt you have forgotten that! Y: You see, I clearly saw the face of the criminal!! His name was Tanabe Shingo, an actor on the TV show Good Morning!! Y: In other words, you!!
124) Y: I've been waiting!! For this moment!! This place!! This situation!! Y: The time when all the conditions would be met to allow me to say these words!! Y: You cannot possibly fathom how much suffering I've endured ever since my father died!! Y: How many times there have been since then that I've wanted to say these words!! Y: I had no proof that you killed my father!! However, even after your fake departure from the entertainment world, I continued to watch TV every day, waiting. Y: I've searched out every single photo I could find of you...memorized the structure of your face...all the old pictures of you...!! Y: I studied it all!! H: Uuuuuuu!!
125) O: Watch out!! O: The car's swerving!! O: It's going to crash!! sfx: Gagaaan
126) H: Ugggh..... H: Uuu.....
127) H: Uuu! Uuu! H: Uuuuuuuu!! Y: Hmph!! Y: You fool! No matter how much you try to call out for help, no one will come to your aid because of your voice!! Y: Just as I expected, having your hands on this steering wheel one more time drove you mad...that's more proof than any other that you are the true murderer. Y: And just as I planned, taking out your voice has kept you from calling for help... Y: I have prepared for this from the very beginning...!! All I have to do now is pretend like I've lost consciousness. O: Yuuichi and Hanada were eventually rescued from the crash.
128) Y: Sir, the reporters should be arriving soon to ask you about the cause of the accident. Y(2b): But you cannot tell them the truth!! With this, there is absolutely nothing left for you, is there? H: Uuuu...!! Y: Well then, I'll be leaving now. Y: Farewell... O: I watched as Yuuichi finally left Tokyo behind.
129) L: Mr. Meguro Yuuichi -- The reason I changed my identity after the incident, was because I wanted to forget about it. L: But even after being declared not guilty, for some reason, I could not erase what happened from my heart. L: That is why I tried with all my might to live as a better person. sfx: biri sfx: gohhhhhh
130) O: That evening, Yuuichi returned to his mother. M: Yuuichi!! Y: Mother!
131) O: Once again, Yuuichi's life with his mother began again. However, Yuuichi spoke to no one about his past. O: Just like before, people looked at Yuuichi with cold eyes. N: Look what the cat dragged in!! O: His classmates continued to make fun of Yuuichi, just like how they used to. O: But Yuuichi's face had lost the gloominess it had in the past, and he looked cheerful everyday, walking down the street to the ramen shop where he worked. O: Hanada never appeared again on the TVs lining the streets of Yuuichi's hometown, and he once again became a boy who hated music and television. O: And so, I once again left the side of a human whose life I chose to follow.https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/9158[English] [Translation] Orochi 5 by molokidan2009-01-27T12:44:28+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comOROCHI #5
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245) Key
246) "Key"
Scary people are gentle, and gentle people are scary. Yet scary people are still scary. Does that mean that gentle people are really gentle as well? No one can answer this. People build buildings, and these buildings in turn build more people, so I want a key. A key that can open doors to real things.
247) O: I am Orochi. The reason I decided to live in these apartments is because I became rather interested in the lives of the people who lived here. O: Which one is M-3? O: There's a boy over there. Maybe I'll ask him. O: Hey, do you know which apartment is M-3? B: Yeah, I know where M-3 is. B: Just keep going straight that way. O: This boy was known to everyone as the liar. But I didn't know a thing about that.
248) O: Thank you. G: Hey, did you see a baseball bounce through here? B: Nope. G: That's odd... G: Maybe it went that way then. sfx: creeaaaak Sign: Trash Furnace O: How strange...no matter how far I walk, I can't find it. And beyond here is the shopping district. O: Upon asking another person, and realized I had been walking in the opposite direction!! O: I was tricked!!
249) O(2b): But it's no good to suddenly suspect him. He was still quite young, so maybe he just didn't know. O: I quickly realized, however, that this wasn't the case. This is because that boy was also living in the same M building as I. O: This is it. O: Ahhh!! O: My!! O: What's that boy's name? B: Everyone just calls him the liar! O: Liar!? B(2b): Yeah, liars eventually turn into thieves!! He's a really bad boy!! You can't play with him, no matter what, got it!? O: At that moment, possibly because I was so tired, I became quite unlike myself and started to harbor bad feelings toward the liar.
250) O: The room I lived in was in the most inconvenient place, on the corner of the fifth floor. O: The liar lived on the second floor, O: together with his mother and father. O: Next to him lived a good-looking salaryman. O: The salaryman and his wife had a single daughter who had been unable to walk since birth. O: Once in a while, they would take her outside as a treat. O: She was a very cute girl. O: Most of the people living there were salarymen. O: The wives all enjoyed talking with each other, O: the children played freely together, O: and all the while, a lonely figure watched them.
251) Sign: WATANABE eating sfx: gah gah M: Come on, Hiroyuki, finish your breakfast so we can go to school. It's getting late. sfx: gah gah gah sfx: zuuuuuh sfx: gulp sfx: gatan H: There was something wrong with the scrambled eggs this morning!! I ate it all, though... M: What!?
252) H: Never mind. I want to watch TV! H: Ki-Ki Korosuke might be on!! sfx: pachin H: Waaaahhh, it's on! Squirrel: Kii kii kii H: Yaaay, yaaay! Hahaha!! sfx: Hee hee hee! M: Hiroyuki!! M: Stop this, turn off the TV!! M: If the volume is too loud it'll wake up papa! sfx: kii kii kii kiiii sfx: gah gah H: No! I want to watch TV!! H: I'm not going to school until this is over!! M: Hiroyuki!!
253) M: Your papa will wake up!! H: How come I have to go even though papa's still asleep?! You'll still be at home too, mama... M: Turn off the TV, I said!! sfx: gachih M: We work very late every night, so we're tired in the morning! Why don't you understand that!? H: Shut up!! P: What's going on!? P: Please let me sleep! M: Look!! H: Uuuu!! H: Uuuu... P: Eh? Wh-what's wrong, Hiroyuki...!! sfx: uuuuuuuuu P: Hiroyuki!!
254) H: My stomach h-hurts!! M: Ehh!? P: Wh-what's wrong!? H: Papa...!! H: I think I'm going to die soon!! It hurts...!! H: Those scrambled eggs I ate were rotten!! P: Is that true!? H: Mama made me eat them!! Only my eggs were rotten!! It hurts...!! M: Stop acting up this instant! M: You're trying to trick us again, aren't you?! sfx: Bashih M: You liar!
255) H: Hmph!! M: Look at his attitude, he's obviously lying!! You just lie, lie, lie, and don't care a bit, do you know? What a terrible child you are!! M(2b): Come on, you're leaving!! Try all you want to stay home, I won't let you!! H: Hmph... M: Hiroyuki, you forgot your key! M: If you don't take good care of this, how will you get in after school? sfx: gachan sfx: dadada sfx: baan
256) sfx: dadada M: Hiroyuki, we're leaving too! M: When you get back, the house will be empty! M: Your food and allowance will be on the table! M: What is wrong with that boy!? M: Where on earth did he learn how to lie like that...? He was such a well-behaved baby!! sfx: gacha sfx: gacha sfx: gyu Dog: Kyan sfx: don sfx: zuu O(2b): It's the liar...he made such an angry face, and left without even apologizing for bumping into me!! O: Ahhh!! O: He wiped his nose when he bumped into me! O: What a terrible child!!
257) K: Ahh, it's the liar!! O: He was uncooperative at school, O: had no sense of teamwork, sfx: lalala sfx: lalala sfx: ugagaga O: and yet he would always rudely intrude on the other children. O: Of course, the children would never listen to the words of a liar. H: I'll give you candy, I said!! B: No way! You must have stole them!! B: There's probably poop inside the packages!! O: And so he started telling more and more lies to people, O: while they continued to hate him. H: At the Ueno Zoo, he said a lion had escaped from its cage and started a huge panic. P: Hiiieeee!! sfx: kyaaa O: At that time, even the mild-mannered Principal lost her temper and dragged him all the way back to his apartment.
258) O: After school, he would be alone for a while until his parents returned. sfx: click O: He spent most of his time watching TV. sfx: zoom sfx: beep O: One day, he got together all the precious things in the house, O: and dumped them in a trash can outside. O: When his parents came home, he told them a thief had broken into the house. O: They called the police and caused another huge panic, but soon his lie was found out. O: On that day, his parents got extremely angry, and their attitude toward lying became extremely strict. O: After that, he also got in trouble for writing terrible graffiti on a neighboring apartment. O: He kept saying it wasn't him. P: We saw you with our own eyes!! O: But on the contrary, he insisted that it was another kid that he walked to school with. P: That night, the boy in question got a fever out of shock and caused his family a great deal of worry.
259) O: Even worse, though, was when he tried to imitate the girl next door. O: Since she was unable to walk, she spent most of her time bed-ridden. O: Her parents were very nice, and would always buy sweets and toys for her. P: Here, you can have one too. O: Her parents were always constantly at her side. H: Hmph!! writing on cup: Ice Cream sfx: besha O: On that day, he wrapped his leg in a bandage and colored it with red lipstick. O: He said that he had fallen from a tree and broke his leg, and refused to go to school. O: But of course, his mother soon realized he was lying, and lost her temper. M: What a horrible lie!! Don't you feel sorry for Emi!?
260) O: Soon, everyone started to call him the liar, and averted their faces from him. O: Even I never expected to find even a speck of sympathy in my heart for him. O: But then, something happened... H: Hmph!! sfx: gacha sfx: creaaaaak sfx: batan
265) sfx: bisha H: Emi H: from next door... H: was killed!! H: Mama!! H: Papa!! H: Uwahhhh! sfx: bachi TV: Hey all you kiddies out there, it's game time! Come on, let's all go play with sister together!
266) sfx: kan sfx: kon M: How did Hiroyuki become such a liar...? It's just unbelievable. M: I can hear the TV. He must be watching it with the volume up high again. M: Huh? The door's locked. M: What is wrong with this child!? Even when he goes out to play and there's no one home, he still never locks the door! M: And now he's home with the TV on, and yet he has it locked!!
267) sfx: gachi sfx: giiih sfx: bibibi sfx: bababaran sfx: lalala sfx: lali lali sfx: bon bon sfx: bububuuun H: Mama!! H: Mama!! H: Ahhh!! M: What are you doing? Let me go!! My clothes will get dirty!! H: Mama, I saw her!! H: A murderer!! M: A murderer!? M: Sshh! Don't shout so loudly! M: You're trying to make trouble for me again by lying, aren't you?
268) TV: Last night in Kugayama in Suginami, there was a murder. The suspect is described as a man with dark eyes and disheveled hair... sfx: bachi M: Hmph!! You just came up with that while you were watching TV! H: No, I'm telling the truth!! H: Emi, Emi from next door... H: She was killed!! M: Ehh!? M: Why must you think up such disgusting lies, Hiroyuki?! H: It's the truth!! I saw her mom strangle Emi!! H: Emi spit blood out from her mouth and died!! H: It's true!! I was looking through their window from the veranda and saw her mom strangling her with a scary look on her face!!
269) M: Fine! Lie all you want, but I'm not listening to this any more! H: Mama!! H: Mama, you can't tell anyone about this!! H: Please!! M: Like I would repeat such horrid nonsense to anyone!! Just wait until your father gets home and I tell him! He'll give you the worst spanking of your life!! H: I'm not lying!! Mama, I know you talk a lot, but you can't tell anyone! H: It's the truth, Papa!! P: Fine, fine! I get it, so just go to bed already!! O: It's the liar. He's looking outside and frowning... O(2b): What is he doing? Probably planning some trick to play on someone...if I get caught up with him, I know something bad will happen.
270) M: Hiroyuki, wake up! M: How long do you intend to sleep?! M: It's because you stayed up so late last night that you're tired!! Hurry up and wash your face and eat your breakfast so you can go to school!! H: Mama!! H: Emi was murdered!! I saw it!!
271) M: Won't you ever stop? Enough already!! M: Get dressed right now! H: Ahhh!! M: What's wrong? H: It's gone!! H: My key's gone!! M: What!? H: I know I put it in my pocket yesterday... M(2b): Yesterday you were home the whole time, weren't you? I haven't seen it anywhere around here. M: Or did you secretly go out somewhere? If you stayed home, then the key should be here somewhere! H: That's it! I must have dropped it on the veranda yesterday!! H: I just remembered! Yesterday when I was running I must have dropped it! H: It must be on the veranda next door! M: Hiroyuki!! M: So that was your idea, huh?!
272) M: You threw away your key somewhere so you wouldn't have to go to school! M: And you lied about Emi being killed, too! M: That's how you got rid of the key!! M: Enough with these terrible lies!! H: It's the truth!! I even broke the flower pot when I was running!! H: Mama! H: Waaaaaaaahhhhh!! M: Don't think I'll go easy on you if you cry!! M: There's no way such a thing would happen when you're out on the veranda anyway! M: You're just trying to stay home from school like I thought!! M: Just like you lied before about the thief and the scrambled eggs! Everything that comes out of your mouth is a lie!! M: I'll give you my key!!
273) M: You'd better not lose this one! M: Here... M: If you don't hurry up, you'll be late! sfx: gataan M: Just a minute. You said the veranda next door, didn't you... M: Hiroyuki!! M: I don't care if you're lying, you can't do such a thing!! M: What if you fell?! M(2b): You don't really do those kind of things when mama isn't here, do you?! If the neighbors found out, can you imagine how embarrassing it'd be... H: It's true, it's true, it's true, it's true!! H: The flower pot... sfx: grah M: Where are you going, Hiroyuki!?
275) sfx: bisha M: Look!! M: Nothing's wrong with the flower pot, and your key isn't here! H: That can't be!! H: You're lying, mama!! H: You're lying to me!! M: What are you talking about? You're the liar here!! M: Now I KNOW you weren't telling the truth!! Hurry up and go to school! P: GYA!! sfx: dotah P: Enough already!!
276) M: Hurry up and go to school!! I'll take you there myself! H: Noooo! H: Noooo, mama!! P: Shut up already! I don't want to be tired again today! M: Look, you've made papa mad! H: No!! M: Let me go!! M: Come on... sfx: creaaak H: Ahhh!! M: Ah, good morning, neighbor.
277) N: Good morning. H: Mama!! M: Are you going out today? N: Yes, just for a bit... M: Well then, let us go together... M: Um, the truth is... M(2b): My son has told me a horrible lie!! He climbed onto your veranda last night, and-- H: Mama!! M: He said he saw you strangling poor Emi...can you believe that... M: Not only that, but he said he also broke your flower pot and dropped his key there. H: Mama!! N: Oh my!!
278) H: Mama!! M: Why do you have to be so noisy all the time!! M: This child's lies have truly become a problem lately. M: He's just trying to make up excuses for losing his key. N: Well, children always make up things.
279) M: Speaking of which, how is Emi doing? N: Oh, fine as usual. M: She's so selfish, it can be a pain. Like now, for instance, she demands we bring her chocolate...so I'm going out to buy some. M: Well then, see you later... M(2b): Alright, Hiroyuki! Stop trying to lie to me and go to school already!! O: The liar's being yelled at by his mother...he must have misbehaved again. O: Here he comes. O: Why does he always frown like that? Today he looks even angrier than usual.
280) O: I think I'll follow him. S: ...whisper whisper... O(2b): He must have really done some terrible things lately. Everyone looks at him as they would a bug or a spider. O: Oh no! He's going to cross the street without using the crosswalk!! O: Watch out!! sfx: gigigi sfx: sah sfx: gicha
281) G: CRAZY KID!! O: What a troublesome boy he is!! Everything he does is rebellious!! O: That day, the liar didn't speak to anyone. O: No one even wanted to get near to him out of fear. T: Well, children, that's it for today. T: Tomorrow is a holiday! K: Yaaaaaaay!! sfx: chi chi chi chi O: What's going on? The liar isn't leaving to go home.
282) T: What are you doing in a place like this, Hiroyuki!? You need to hurry up and get home to your mama and papa! H: Teacher, Emi was killed!! It's true!! H: I saw it!! The lady next door strangled her!! T: My!! T: Watch your tongue! You're trying to trick me again, aren't you?! H: No, it's true!! H: IT'S TRUE!! sfx: da da da T: What a boy!! sfx: Liar, liar T: Oh no!! T: Because of that boy, even the myna bird's been corrupted!!
283) H: It's true!! It's true!! Emi was killed!! H: And the lady next door is lying about it!! H: She's lying even though she's the one that killed Emi!! H: And mama told her everything!! H: Now that lady must really hate me...!!
284) O: What is he doing crouched down like that!? It looks like he's picking up rocks. But it's gotten so dark outside!! O: The liar's mother is home. M: Hiroyuki!! H: Mama!! M: What are you doing out here!? I gave you my key, so how come you aren't at home!! M: Come on, hurry it up!! O: I'll leave them alone for now. sfx: kachih M: Understand? I won't tolerate any more lies around here!!
285) M: Now take this chocolate to Emi next door. H: Ehhhh!? H: NO!! M: What!? H: I SAID NO!! M: Hiroyuki!! M: What is wrong with you?! sfx: knock knock M: Yes, who is it? sfx: creaaaaak H: Ahhh!!
286) M: Miss... N: Ah, so your husband isn't home yet, I take it? M: N-no. N: I prepared some meat pies at my home, so I thought I would bring some for you to try. M: My, what a treat!! N: They're Emi's favorite. M: Well then, I'm sure we'll enjoy them too. Thank you very much. M: That's right, we had just prepared something for Emi as well... M: Hiroyuki, come and bring that chocolate to her.
287) M: Hiroyuki!! M: Hiroyuki!! M: Bring over the chocolate, M: right now!! M: I've been telling him over and over again to take it over, but this child, he... M: Come on!!
288) M(2b): Thank you so very much. Oh, how happy Emi will be!! M: Good evening. sfx: batan M: Look at that!! Don't you feel bad about what you said about Emi?! M: You still haven't eaten dinner either, have you? M: I'll help you, so hurry up and finish these meat pies. H: Ahh!!
289) ?: Th... ?: There's hair on them!! M: Oh my!! M: Your hair fell out onto them because you were being so rowdy!! sfx: gachan H: Ahhh! H: I-it's Emi-chan!! H: Emi-chan was killed and made into meatballs!! H: This is Emi-chan's meat!! M: HIROYUKI sfx: bashih M: What a horrendous thing to say!! M: Don't you even dare think I'm going to let you off easy for that!! M: Now do you see? I've had it up to here with that child!! F: Yeah, well, there's nothing we can do...
290) B: The next day... M: Today is a holiday, isn't it? M: Make sure you stay inside the whole time we're gone. H: Mama, you can't leave!! M: By the way, I'll be getting home later than usual today. Make sure you keep the door locked. M: I'll let the neighbors know in case anything happens. H: Ehhh!? sfx: gachan M: Ah, good morning. M: I was just about to come tell you -- I'll be getting back from work late tonight, so my son will be home alone all day. N(2b): Ah...I see...I'll keep an eye on him. H: Mama!!
291) H: She's gonna kill me!! H: Oh no... H: That lady must have picked up the key I dropped on her veranda!! sfx: gatan sfx: dosu sfx: dosu
292) sfx: garagara H: No one would believe me!! sfx: gacha sfx: gih
295) P: Hiroyuki!! H: Papa!! P: What on earth are you doing!? P: What is all this!? P: So this is why I couldn't get the door open!! P: Ahh, all my books...!! H: Pa-papa...!! P: What?! P: Isn't waking me up in the morning enough for you?! H: N-no!!
296) P: Hand it over!! H: Ahh!! P: You've really done it this time!! H: No, you're wrong!! P: Look at all these rocks...!! P: Aahhh!! H: Gimme those!! P: Silence!! You're totally out of control!! P: When we ask you to do something, you don't even try, P: and yet you can muster up incredible strength to do such idiotic things!! H: Stop it, papa!! P: Outta the way!! P: All I came back for was to get something I forgot, and I find the house like this!! Now I know what you're really up to when we're gone!! H: Papa!!
297) H: You're wrong! The lady next door is going to try and kill me!! P: Stop making up such ridiculous lies!! P: I'm throwing this away!! H: Give it back!! P: And don't you dare try and leave the house!! sfx: BATAN H: It's true!! The lady next door killed Emi!! And now she's going to kill me since I saw her!! H: She has my key, too!! H: She's probably watching me from somewhere right now!!
298) O: The liar!! It looks like he's trying to spy on next door from his veranda. O: It looks like they're talking about something. Why isn't the husband at work? O: And what happened to their daughter Emi? O: Ah! The liar disappeared. O: Everything seems so tranquil. O: The sparrows over there are foraging in the grass... O: But what's the matter? For some reason, I can't get that liar out of my head.
299) sfx: creak sfx: creaaaaak sfx: pata H: I know that lady's going to try and kill me!!
300) sfx: creaak H: I knew it!!
301) sfx: ga....cha sfx: creaaak H: I knew it all along!! They're gonna kill me...!!
302) sfx: dadada sfx: dada O: The liar's running from something!! H: Someone help me! H: I'm gonna to be killed!
303) H: Help me!! H: Grandma, help me!! I'm gonna be killed by the lady next door!! G: Out of the way, please!! G: You're just trying to trick me like you did before...!! G: What a troublesome child!! O: The liar's become quite infamous around here!! G: Huh? G: Where are you off to, miss? N: Just out for a bit... G: Oh, so Emi is all by herself, I take it? N: Actually, no. We put her in an institution for disabled children. My husband and I are just going out today... G: I see! By the way, the liar came running through here saying he was going to be killed by you! N: Well!! That boy really seems to like joking around, doesn't he...would you happen to know which way he headed?
304) G: This way! Watch out, he's really in a bad mood today!! G: See you later... N: Please excuse us. O: So they put Emi in an institution... O: I imagine it must have been hard for them to look after her and hold their jobs as well... H: Haa, haa... H: Haa, haa...!! H: Policeman!! P: What do you want?! P: C'mon, go home! Go home!! H: I'm gonna be killed!! P(2b): Quiet down!! If you keep lying about stuff like that, it'll really happen!! Now go home!! sfx: dosun P: Go on, now!!
305) H: Haa, haa...!! H: Ahhh!! H: It's the people from next door!! Sign: Subway
306) sfx: kan kan sfx: kan kan sfx: kan kan sfx: kan kan H: Wahhhh!! H: Wahhh! H: Ahhh!! N: Wait a moment!! You musn't enter without a ticket!!
309) sfx: gohhhh H: Wahhhhh!! H: Help me!! H: They're trying to kill me!! Help me!! H: Someone help me!!
310) N: You're trying to make fun of your mother by lying again, aren't you?! H: No way! You aren't my mama!! N: Wait, Hiroyuki!! H: Help me, grandma!! H: Ahhh!! H: If they catch me, I'll be killed!! N: What a rude child you are!! Stop lying already!! H: HELP ME!! P: Fufufu... P: *snicker snicker* sfx: don P: To think he'd climb up on my knees with his shoes on... P: And he called me grandma, to boot...what a horrible child!!
311) H: Help me! sfx: gatah sfx: gohhhhhhh P: Ahhh!
314) sfx: gohhhhh sfx: gigigigigigi H: Let me in, gramps!! sfx: don don H: Take me to where my papa is!!
315) P: You idiot!! P: One more second and I would've run you over!! H: Let me in!! I'm gonna be killed!! P: SHUT UP! sfx: buruuuh sfx: Buah H: Wah! H: Papa!! sfx: bururu
316) P: Please put your fare in the box. P: Hey, wait a minute, you!! P: You still need to pay for your other passenger!! G: Ehh!? G(2b): What are you talking about!? Other passenger? I'm all by myself!! P: That's weird...I could've sworn I saw a kid behind you! G: Ahh!! G: Let go of me!! G: This isn't my child!! G: Let go, I said!! sfx: katsun G: What a terrible child this is!!
317) H: It's gone!! H: My money's gone!! H: I dropped my money somewhere!! H: When that old man hit me, my money fell somewhere! G: Ehh!? H: It's gone!! H: It's gone! G: Hiieeee! H: That old man knocked it out of my hands!! P: Hmph! P: You shouldn't go around bumping into kids like that!! G: Fine, whatever. G: Here's your money!! sfx: gachan
318) H: Ahh!! sfx: bururu sfx: bururururu H(2b): Phew!! This bus should be heading to where papa works!! P: Man, what a traffic jam!! sfx: bururu sfx: bururu
319) sfx: burururu P(2b): It's really packed!! It'd probably be faster if we walked, at this rate!! H: Hurry it up already, grandpa!! P: Shut up!! Stop complaining when you just got on!! I'm doing the best I can!! sfx: Bururu sfx: goton goton sfx: goton goton P: Next up is city hall. All those getting off, please gather by the exit. H: Wahh!!
320) sfx: garah H: Uwahhhh!! H: Uwahhh!! sfx: dadadada H: Ahh! H(2b): Help me, papa! Someone help me!! N: Someone, catch that child!! N: Haa, haa...
321) H: Ahh! H: Lemme go!! H: Lemme go, I said!! N: Please excuse us! He's our child!! H: They're lying!! Lemme go!! N: No more running, Hiroyuki!! You're just causing trouble for everyone!! H: You aren't my mama!! You're gonna kill me!! G: Stop causing problems for your parents, boy!! H: Lemme go! H: Lemme go! N: Thank you so very much for your help. H: Haa, haa...!! P: Just when we were about to escape from our torturous lives...you think we'd let you ruin everything?! H: Papa! H: Papa!
322) H: Papa!! sfx: gih N: What a bad child you are, not listening to your parents like this! H: Papa!! sfx: bururururu H: Ah, it's papa!! H: Papa!! P: What are you talking about? Your papa's right here!! N: Do you realize how much you're embarrassing us with your lies!? H: PAPA!!
323) H: PAPA!! H: PAPA!! H: WAHHHHH!! H: Uwaaahhh! H: Help me!! N: Honestly, I don't know what's wrong with you...why won't you obey your parents? Look over here!
324) H: NO!! D: Excuse me, you two, but would you mind keeping it down? The more you harass him, the louder he gets. D: If you keep carrying on like this, I'm going to have to ask you to get out. H: Ahh!! H: My breath is fogging up the glass!! H: Help, help... H: How do you write "ta" again...!? (*Note: "TA" is the first syllable of the word, tasukete, which means help) H: It starts with a long line, right...? H: I can't remember...!!
325) H: That's right! Ta is one of the syllables in my last name, Watanabe!! H: "Su"...how do you write su... H: Su....su....su....
326) H: What's going on? My head's pounding so hard that I can't remember!! H: Papa!! Mama!! I'll do whatever you say from now on!! And God, I promise I'll be a good boy!! H: So please, God, teach me how to write su!! H: Su...su...su... H: That's it!! Su is one of the symbols from Kii Kii Korosuke on TV!! H: Yeah!! "Ke" is also part of Kii Kii Korosuke!! H: And the "te" is also in my last name too!! H: Te...te... H: Te...te...? sfx: gyuruuu
327) H: Ahh!! sfx: giiih G: Huh...? G: There's something written there. G(2b): But the letters are backwards...I can't figure it out. Graffiti on a car window, how childish...fufufu...
328) sfx: bururu N: Ahh!! N: When did you...!! N: Wahh!! sfx: gohhh P: Just stop here, please!! P: Keep the change!! sfx: burururu H: Uuuu... P: Keep quiet!! There's no use struggling!!
329) sfx: kan kan sfx: batan M: Haa, haa...!! P: Good, no one saw us!!
330) sfx: dosa H: This is...!? H: Emi's bed!! P(2b): That's right, this is our apartment. If you try and scream, we'll kill you, got it?! P: This is finally our change...after such a long time, our social position will be raised!! But you had to see us... P: If you talk about anything you saw that day, our lives will be ruined forever!! H: I knew it! You really did kill Emi, just like I saw!! N: Stop it!! N: That's not it! Listen to me, Hiroyuki! P: Quiet! There's no use talking about it!! N: No, I want to tell him the truth!! N: We-we didn't kill Emi!! Please believe me! That's just how it looked!!
331) N: Can you possibly fathom how much we've suffered since Emi was born unable to walk? N: We had to give her medicine every day. N: This is the very medicine I laid next to her that day... N(2b): But then she drank it all in one gulp!! She thought it'd make her better!! N: She thought that if she drank it all, she'd be cured!! N(2b): When I came home, I went to check on her!! But when I turned her around, she was dead!! N(2b): And then, wondering whether or not I'd be able to bring her back to life, I shook her violently...!! N: I thought maybe if I made her throw up what she drank, I'd able to save her, but it didn't work...!! N: That's what you saw!! N: But now, Emi is gone forever!! However sad it may seem... N: That's why we don't want you to talk about what happened to Emi. Everyone will think we killed her ourselves. N: My husband got promoted and we'll be traveling overseas soon. But if Emi's death is found out, all that will be taken away!!
332) N: And yet you spied on us!! That's why...that's why it's a problem that you're here!! H(2b): You killed Emi....where is she now!? N: No, I didn't kill her!! P(2b): Enough! None of this matters now!! The point is, she's a corpse now!! H: Corpse...? P(2b): That's right...Emi's inside this refrigerator!! If you don't be quiet, we'll stick you in here too!! P: Here, eat this bread!! P(2b): Hmph. You think we've poisoned it or something!? Don't worry. If you behave yourself, we'll let you go home eventually!! P: Now write!! H: Ah, this is...!? P: That's right, it's your family's message board.
333) P: Write that you went out to play!! P: Write it!! P: Write it, I said!! You were able to write easily in the car, weren't you?! H(2b): I'm trying, but I can't remember how! I knew how to once, but I forgot! P: Tch! What a pain in the ass you are!! H: Here, read this. H: NOW do you remember? H: Read this and write it!! Letter: Mama, I went out to play. -Watanabe Hiroyuki P: Alright. P(2b): Put this inside their apartment. You still have his key, right?!
334) sfx: batan H: H-hey...what are you gonna do with that rock? P: Nothing!! sfx: batan P: No one saw you, right?! N: No, no one was home. N: But they should be coming back soon!! P: He might make some noise, so let's tie him up!! H: Uuu!! P: We'll take him some place where no one can see us, tie up his legs, and hit him over the head wit hthe rock.
335) O: My name is Orochi...and for some reason, I couldn't get the liar out of my head. O(2b): I met with his teacher and talked to her for a bit...but despite that, I think he is quite the child. O: But where did he go off running to like that? I couldn't stop thinking about it. O(2b): Hmmm...the lights at his house are off!? Then that means he still hasn't come back.. O: But knowing him, he's probably off playing somewhere. O: I'll go check it out. O: Huh? His mother and father are home. M: What a coincidence that we're both home at the same time. P: I hope Hiroyuki is still there...I really don't know what to do with him. P: I came home earlier today because I forgot something, and ended up having to punish him since he was up to something again.
336) P: What? The door's locked. sfx: kachi M: Hiroyuki!! M: He's gone!! P: Maybe he's just hiding somewhere. M: Hiroyuki!! M: He's really gone. Where did he go? M: Huh? There's something written here. M: "Mama, I went out to play. -Watanabe Hiroyuki" M: This is his writing. He really did leave!! M: Where could he be at this time of night...!? P: He's probably still angry that I punished him. M: I know, I'll ask the neighbors.
337) sfx: ton ton M: Excuse me, this is Mrs. Watanabe. sfx: kih M: Have you seen our Hiroyuki today? N: Yes, he went out somewhere around lunchtime...he was saying bad things about us all the while as he ran away... M: Is that so? We'll go search for him now, sorry about that. sfx: patan M: Where could he be...? P: What a pain. Let's just look around. M: Hiroyuki!! O: Ah, the key is... O: Could this be...!? O: I knew it, it's the key to this room!!
338) O: Which means...!! O: Where did his parents go?! O: There they are!! O: Mrs. Watanabe!! M: Who are you? O: Please show me Hiroyuki's note!! M: Ehh!? M: This...? O: Strange... M: Ehh?! O(2b): I have to ask you something...I asked his teacher about it too...
339) H: Uuu...!! M: Wait, I can't find his key!! P: We'll just look for it later!! If we don't kill him now, there might be a problem with his time of death!! sfx: ban P: Ahh!! P: Ahhhh! O: I knew it!! M: Hiroyuki!! H: Uuuu...
340) O: With this, the liar was saved and the truth was found out. O: So he really was telling the truth...the next-door neighbor did kill Emi...and tried to kill him too. O: All of it was just to cover up her death. O: The lair suffered because of his own tendency to tell lies, but in the end his lies saved him...he could have even told it unconsciously. O: After I talked to the preschool teacher and his parents, they told me that he never ever studied, and as a result couldn't write anything more than his own name. O: Here he comes. O: After that event, the liar kept on telling his lies. O: But for some reason, I no longer carried any resentment toward him. O: For some reason I had a feeling that eventually he would grow up to be a respectable young man, O: and so I left this town behind. https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/9157[English] [Translation] Orochi 4 by molokidan2009-01-27T12:43:51+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comOROCHI #4
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123) Hometown
124) Poem: Coming to my hometown for the first time in many years blooming flowers crying birds rustling wind the whispers of the small river by my porch haven't changed since olden times my house the ruins that remain are devoid of all inhabitants
(by Indou Kyuukei)
O: Hometown...to humans, what relations does the bittersweet sound of that word mean to humans? I, Orochi, wish to ponder this through a certain man.
125) O: The day Sugiyama Shouichi abandoned his hometown is a thing of the distant past. O: In Nakase Village, within this farmhouse that had remained since ancient times, Shouichi was born. B: Ogyaaah O: His parents brought Shouichi out into the field with them while they strived to do their work. O: Soon, Shouichi was able to walk on his own. O: He pestered his mother to let him hold the hoe. O: Once he got ahold of a smaller one, he started imitating his parents' work. O: While it only added trouble to his parents' work, O: they both simply smiled and let him do as he please.
126) O: To anyone, it would have appeared a tranquil, pleasant scene. O: Shouichi continued to grow up in this simple environment. O: In spring, he picked wildflowers and caught butterflies. O: In summer, he fished and enjoyed the summer festivals. O: In autumn, he'd pick fruit, O: and wrestle.
127) O: Finally, he went to school, O: graduated, O: and then Shouichi said he wanted to leave the village.
128) M: I beg you, please don't go, Shouichi!! S(2b): It's alright. All my classmates are going there too...if I stay in the country like this, I won't amount to anything. I don't want to be a farmer anymore, mom. O: And so, Shouichi left the village. S: I'm going now, so don't follow me, mom. Sign: Nakase M(2b): Please, please make sure you write to us. If anything happens, come home immediately.
129) M: Uuuuuuu S: It's fine, I know. There's nothing for you to worry about. O: And so, Shouichi put the village behind him. O: This was his eternal parting with his hometown. O: Shouichi went to Chuushou City, where his friend lived. O: At the station, his friend came to meet him.
130) O: After that, he started living with that friend in the same apartment. O: And then, through his friend's introduction, he started working at a restaurant. O: To Shouichi, who had grown up in the country, everything he saw and heard was completely new and rare. O: In a letter to his mother, Shouichi wrote that he'd definitely become successful and then go home. O: A letter came back from his mom. O: With messy handwriting, she wrote about nothing but how lonely she'd become since Shouichi left. O: After he wrote that, Shouichi strongly decided in the bottom of his heart that he would never return to the countryside. O: And so, Shouichi worked hard. B: Here's this month's pay.
131) O: On that day, O: when Shouichi returned to his apartment, S: Ahh!! S: It's gone!! My savings and my checkbook! S: All my clothes, too!! O: his friend was nowhere to be found. B: Sugiyama-san, the rent you owe for this apartment keeps piling up. How long do you expect me to wait...? S: Ehh!? S: Impossible!! I clearly remember giving what I owed to him... B: Nope, he didn't say a thing about that.
132) O: But that wasn't all. A few other people had all borrowed money in Shouichi's name. O: After being used by everyone, Shouichi didn't even have a single penny to his name. And on top of that, his friends' excessive debts remained. O: It was at that moment when Shouichi resorted to stealing. O: So hungry that he couldn't take anymore, he put out his hand out to grab some bread. B: Thief!! B: So you're the one that's always stealing from me!! O: For just a single loaf of bread, Shouichi was taken to the police and subjected to some questioning. O: But Shouichi refused to reveal the name of his village.
133) O: Shouichi soon left that town. O: In this fashion, he continued drifting from town to town. O: Of course, he didn't return to the countryside. He also ceased writing to his mother. O: He started hanging out with shady people, O: and eventually stopped thinking about his hometown altogether.
134) O: And so, time passed. O: I am Orochi. O: How long have I been wandering the earth like this? O: I don't know how many times I've watched people from their birth until they die. O: When I think about it, many faces come to mind...and many different places appear. O: If I have a hometown, it must be a very small, nostalgic one. O: It was at that moment that I caught sight of Shouichi again!! O: That's definitely Nagase Village's Sugiyama Shouichi.......
135) S: Just whose turf do you bastards think this is!? T: Keh!! T: That's our line, asshole!! T: How lucky of me to have caught you here! This time I'll make it so you'll never be able to eat rice again!! T: Hmph!! S: EAT THIS!! sfx: bakuh S: And here's one more for ya!! sfx: gan sfx: gyah T: You've really done it now!!
137) T: B-bro......!! T: You guys have gone too far. You're dead meat now! T: Wahhh! I d-don't know nothin'!! T: That was a pretty good kick back there, punk!! S: Uuuu T: Suck on this!! O: Without thinking, I shouted O: Stop!! sfx: baki T: Ahhh T: Wh-who the hell...!? T: Y-you witch!!
138) sfx: dosuh
139) sfx: dosuh
140) O: Oh no!! I accidentally got involved. T: Hiieee!! O(2b): He really is Nagase Village's Sugiyama Shouichi after all. What terrible wounds!! O: I quickly phoned the hospital, O: and Shouichi was soon taken there. O: This is bad. He's still conscious, but his fever won't go down. S: Uuuuuuun O: Shouichi's condition gradually became worse.
141) D: There's a piece of metal lodged in his brain, and it's too hard to remove through surgery. S: What pain.....!! S: I want to go home!! S: Ahh, I want to go home to the countryside!!
142) O: I know, I'll just go to Nakase Village in his place. That village was so nice and simple. O: I put the hospital behind me. sfx: gooooh O: I'll get off this train at the last stop, then take a bus through the mountains to Nakase Village.
143) O: Ahh!! sfx: pisha O: Shouichi!?
144) O: Shouichi...it's definitely Shouichi!!
145) O: No matter how I look at him, it's the wounded Sugiyama Shouichi who should be in the hospital right now. O(2b): But it might just be someone who resembles him. He was wounded so badly, there's no way he could be up and about. sfx: goton goton sfx: gatan O: Shouichi-san!! S: Ehh!? O: I felt his reaction through my right hand. O: It is Shouichi after all. O: You're Shouichi-san, right? S: Yes, I'm Shouichi. S: Who are you!?
146) O: I'm Orochi...but you don't remember me. O: I only lived in Nakase Village for a short while, so I doubt anyone there remembers me either. O: More importantly, you should be in the hospital right now with severe wounds, so why are you here? S: Ahh, these, huh... S: I've already gotten better. S: Look!! There isn't a scratch on me!! S: I'm fine!!
147) O: Ahhh!? S: I got permission from the doctor to leave and return to the countryside. S: Besides, how do you know I was injured and in the hospital anyway!? O: That's... O: I-it doesn't matter...well, I was in that hospital too, so that's how I knew you were there. O: I suddenly started feeling nostalgic about Nakase Village and decided to return there. O: Although it didn't feel right, I was heading to Nakase Village with Shouichi. Since he still didn't know me well, he definitely must have been trying to hide the lifestyle he had been pursuing lately. O: I decided to follow Shouichi and see what would happen to him.
148) S(2b): The village is just past this ridge. When I first left the village, my mother followed me all this way. S: The village!!
149) S: It's just like before! Sign: Nakase Village S: I can see my house!! S: Mom! S: MOM! O: In an instant, I was swirled up into this inexplicable turn of events. O: I didn't even realize that I had inadvertently been drawn into it as well.
150) S: It's just like old times!! S: Not a single thing has changed!! S: My house!! It hasn't changed a bit!! S: The persimmon tree is right where it should be! S: That smoke means someone's cooking food!! Mom must be making lunch inside! sfx: garah
151) S: Mom!! M: Shouichi!! M: You're Shouichi, aren't you!? S: Mom!! M: Shouichiii!! M: Uuuuu!! F: Shouichi, you've come home?! S: Father!! F: Y-you crazy fool!! Where have you been all this time!? Why haven't you returned even once!? F: We've always prepared an extra serving for you ever since you left. S: I won't leave!! I won't leave you again!!
152) O: As I took my first step into that village, I could keenly feel a bizarre sensation rush over me. O: Something's different.....from the last time I came!! O: What could be different? I don't know... O: Trees...mountains... O: Fields...the people working...
153) O: It must just be me. O: After that, the lights didn't go off in Shouichi's house until morning came. sfx: gara S: Ahhh, this air feels so great! S: Nothing's changed at all. S: The forest, the river... S: I always used to go fishing here. S: And I used to climb that tree with everyone. S: Ahhh, that's granny Yone working over there. She hasn't changed at all! S: And the Nakase Shrine! I'd always come to pick fruits here. S: All the village's important events are held here. S: And wrestling...
154) S: That's right, one time when I was a kid, I shut my childhood friend Ryouko inside there. S: Enshrined within there is a stone that is said to have fallen from the sky in a ball of flame. People say that even now, it gives off a pale glow at night, and so out of fear, no one goes near it. S: Even though it's obviously a meteor, no one will go near it. S: It was on the way home from school. S(2b): I was always together with Ryouko. But one day, Ryouko started saying she didn't want to walk together with me anymore. S: Then I got mad, grabbed Ryouko's hair, S: and started pulling her toward the steps to the rock. S: Then I closed her up in the stone's shrine. sfx: batan
155) R: Let me out!! R: I'm scared, let me out!! R: Kyaaa R: The stone's shining! R: Help me!! S(2b): Then I just went home. Later in the evening, she was saved, but had lost consciousness.
156) S: There's no way it could glow like that. sfx: gigi sfx: giiii S: Look, it's just a dull hunk of rock. sfx: batan S: I wonder what Ryouko's up to nowadays?
157) S: I'll go see her. F: Hey, could you be...Shouichi...? S: Nobuo, Takeshi, Eiji!! N: So it really is you, Shouichi! You're alive! N: This is great! There was a rumor going around that you were dead. S: Everyone was so worried about you! It's great that you're back!!
158) S(2b): Has anything changed around here? How is Ryouko doing? N: Ehh?! S: What's wrong? N: No, nothing out of the ordinary... S: What's that supposed to mean? N: B-but Ryouko had a kid. S: She got married? N: A-about that... N: Well, the child... T: Nobuo, enough about that!! E: I'm going home! T: W-well, see you around, Shouichi! N: I'm g-going home. N: Sorry. S: Wait, what's the matter!? N: Ahh!! N: P-please leave me alone!!
159) N: Uwaahhhhh!! N: Hmph. What's the meaning of this?! What are they so afraid of? O: I had been following Shouichi the whole time. sfx: gyaaaaaaaah O: That sounded like Nobuo... O: Ahhh!! O: Nobuo!!
160) O: What happened!? O: Nobuo-san!! O: He......he's dead....!!
161) O: Who could have....? O: There aren't any wounds on him!! O: Just what is going on here!? O: Even by looking around, I can't see a single person. O: Ahh!!
162) O: Who are you? O: Have you been here all this time? O: Did you see anyone run past you? B: I didn't see anything. O: He dropped some fish. O: Ahh!!
163) O: Their eyes have been carved out!! O: This one's had its fins all scraped off! O: How ghastly....!! S: Nobuo!! S: What's wrong!?
164) S: You're....!! O: Shouichi-san... S: What are you doing in a place like this!? That scream just now was Nobuo's, wasn't it?! What's going on here!? O: I don't know. He has no wounds, and there wasn't a trace of anyone else... S: Could you have... O: At that moment, all the animosity Shouichi felt toward me came to light. O: Soon, the other two that had run away earlier came back, with two other villagers. T: Nobuo!! S: Takeshi, Eiji... T: I-it got him!! S: Takeshi, just what is happening around here!?
165) S: Takeshi!! O: With trembling hands, the villagers started to carry Nobuo's body off with them, escaping without uttering another word. S: Hmph!! sfx: peh O: It seems like Shouichi bears nothing but ill sentiments toward me. O(2b): But who was that boy earlier...I'll check it out. O: For some reason, I couldn't get that boy out of my head. O: I had no choice. O: There he is!! O: Where are you going?
166) O: The village elementary school..... B: Let's play. K: O... K: Okay!!
167) sfx: hahahahaha Sfx: hahahahaha sfx: hahaha sfx: hahaha sfx: hahahaha O: It seems like he's playing happily with everyone. O: But something's strange!! Even though they all look like they're having fun... sfx: fufufufu sfx: fufufufu B: Hahaha, fufufu... B: Hahaha...... B: Now let's play hide-and-seek. K: O-okay! B: I'll be the demon. (*In Japan, the demon is "it.") K: Okay... K: It's the bell, we have class now!! sfx: uuuuuuuuuuuuh B: Who cares?! Studying is boring, let's keep playing!!
168) sfx: kyah sfx: kyah O: They're still playing hide-and-seek even though the bell has rung. B: Hahaha, fufufu.... T: What are you kids going?! The bell's already.... T: Ahh!
169) T: Haa, haa....!! B: Come on, everyone, let's keep playing! sfx: wahahahaha sfx: wahahahaha sfx: wahahaha O: What? Why isn't the teacher scolding them...? And it looks like all the kids are running as if their lives depended on it!
170) sfx: hahahaha sfx: hahahaha K: UWAAAAN K: UWAAAAAAAAAAN sfx: waaaaaaan sfx: waaaaaaan B: How noisy!! Come on, everyone, let's tie this nuisance to a tree!! B: Now!! sfx: uwaaaaaaan B(2b): Hmph!! Still crying, huh? Then I'll shut you up myself!! sfx: guh B: If all of you don't act like you're having fun, I'll do something even better than that!!
171) B: We're one person short!! B: That's it, Ken-chan isn't here!! B: He ran away!! B: So he doesn't like playing with me, does he?! B: Ken-chan!! B: I'll find you!! B: He must be inside the classroom. sfx: dota dota B: There!! sfx: gara
172) B: You're all hiding Ken-chan, aren't you? B: It's no use. Ken-chan's right there!! B: Here!! K: Hiieee!! K: Wahhhh!! B: I'm gonna rip you to pieces!! K: Ahhh!!
179) sfx: dota dota sfx: UWAAAAAAAAAH K: I'm scaaaaaared!! K: Shin-chan's gonna kill me!! O: So that boy was Shin-chan... K: I'm scared!! O: It's alright, that boy's gone now. O: Let's go home, everyone.
180) O: This is your house, right? O: I soon found out that Shin-chan, that boy, was the son of Shouichi's childhood friend, Ryouko. O: So he was Ryouko's child!! O: Afterwards, it looks like he ran off somewhere...could he have gone home? O: Would you happen to know where Ryouko-san's house is... P: EHHH?! O: After pointing in the direction of Ryouko's house with his finger, that farmer ran off without looking back. O: Everyone's so frightened. O: Maybe this was that abnormal feeling I got O: when I first stepped foot into town. O: It's different... O: The mountains, trees, houses, and people are different after all......even though I can't pick out specific things that have changed...
181) O: That's Ryouko's house. O: Maybe that boy is here... O: I wonder what she's doing...? O: She looks so worn out. O: Ahh!! O: Shouichi's here...he came to visit Ryouko!! S: Ryouko... R: Ahh!! S: What are you doing!?
182) R: He said he wanted to cook the cat's tongue and eat it!! S: Ehhh? R: Shouichi-san!! S: Please listen, the townspeople are afraid of me! S: No one will come close to me!! S: It's all Shinji's fault!! S: He's not home right now, though. Around now, he's probably playing at the Nakase Shrine. S(2b): He only comes home at night. That's the only time when townspeople are able to do their work. We should be able to talk now.
183) S: What's the meaning of this?! This won't make any sense unless you start from the beginning!! R: Shouichi-san, help me...!! R: I'm scared. It was Shinji's fault that his father died. The villagers say it was because of a disease, but the truth... S: A little after Shinji was born, his father just lightly scolded him for having bad manners, and then....!! S: This is madness...I don't understand a word you're saying. How could a child kill his father?! R: It's true!! He also killed the cows and dogs we had!! R: If you look the wrong way at him, you'll die!! His eyes glow!! S: That's impossible!! R: Shouichi-san, save me!! sfx: zara
184) R: Wah! S: Mother!! R: S-Shinji...!! R: When did you... O: Suddenly, Shinji appeared from inside the house. Even I hadn't noticed that he was there. S: I was just watching you talk about me behind my back. R: Shinji!! S: I heard everything. R: Shinji, forgive me!!
185) S(2b): What are you apologizing for? Isn't he your own son?! What are you so afraid of him for?! S: Fufu.... S: Fufufu.... S: What's so funny?! S: Come inside, mother. R: Shinji, forgive me!! S: I won't do anything, so just do what I tell you!! S: Now!! sfx: suton S: Ahh!! S: That stone...?
186) B: It's nothing!! S: Ryouko, you don't have to listen to him!! R: No, let me go!! R: I'm begging you, let me go!! B: Mother, you didn't cut off that cat's tongue, did you? B: And not only that, you talked to that man about me!! sfx: bisha S: What in the...!!
187) O: Could it be......!? S: Ah! It's you!! S: Wait!! S: Ahh!!
188) O: I knew it..... O: Sh-she's dead!! O: It's just like what happened to Nobuo!! O: But this time her tongue's been cut off!! S: Ryouko!! S: Get out of here!! S: Nothing but bad things have happened since you came to this village!! S: Please go away!! I've finally returned to my hometown after all these years, only to find you destroying it!! S: If you won't leave, then I'll just do this!! O: Stop!! S: Ahh!! S: So it was you after all!! You did it -- you brought all the misfortune to this village!! O: He felt so much hatred for me that I had no choice but to leave Shouichi's side. After that, Shouichi spread around the news that Ryouko had died to the whole village.
189) O: That night, the doors to every house in the village were shut tight, and no one went outside. O(2b): Where did Shinji go...? Those eyes he had when he stared at me were unreal. O: Ahh!! O(2b): That's Shinji...what is he staring at in a place like that? It's like he's looking straight at the cliff. sfx: gara
191) O: That's the road that leads out of the village...!! O: But why....!? O: Now he's going to the other side.
192) sfx: uuuu sfX: gyan sfx: gyan
193) sfx: pin O: The bridge!! sfx: baaaaaaaaan
194) sfx: dododo B: Fufufufufufu.... O(2b): He's trying to isolate the village!! But for what purpose? O: Ahh!! sfx: buh
195) B: Fufufu...... O(2b): The phone lines......all communication to the outside has been cut off!! O: He must be making it so that I can't escape!! Otherwise, why would he do this all of a sudden... O: But if I truly wanted to leave, there's a multitude of different ways I could do so. B: fufufu B: hahaha B: hahaha O(2b): Where is he going now? He's holding that strange rock again, what does he intend to do with it? B: hahahaha O: He's going to the house of the boy he scared and caught today, Ken-chan.
196) sfx: ton ton B: Ken-chan!! B: Open up!! sfx: don don B: It's me!! B(2b): I said open up! Granny!! Isn't anyone there? O: What is he planning to do at this time of night? I'll wait and see. B: You're pretending to be out, aren't you? B: Well, if you won't open up, I'll just do it myself. sfx: bari B: Ken-chan!! B: I knew you were here!! K: I'm scaaaared!
197) B: Come with me, Ken-chan! K: Hiieeee!! K: Wahh!! K: Please, forgive him!! O: He came back out!! K: I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry, please help me!! B: Shut up! I told you I'm not going to do anything!! K: Waaaaan! sfx: gasa sfx: gasa sfx: gasa sfx: gasa O: Ken!!
198) O(2b): Into the tall grass...!! What is he trying to do? O: Could it be.......... sfx: zazaza sfx: zazaza O: Ken-chan!!
199) K: Let me go!! O: Ahh!! O: Ken-chan!! K: We're not doing anything!! K: I'm friends with Shin-chan. S: Well, Ken-chan, see you later. K: Bye! O: Ken-chan!! M: Ken... M(2b): Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere? K: Leave me alone, I'm fine! M: Ken!!
200) O: What did you do to that boy!? B: Nothing. O: Just what are you planning!? O: And what happened to that stone you were carrying around for so long? B(2b): Pfft. I threw it away. O: Could he have possibly....? O: Ken-chan!! O: Where's Ken-chan? M: I can't find him anywhere!!
201) O: He's gone? O: He must have gone out the back door!! O: I can't see him anywhere!! O: Up here is the Nakase Shrine. O: I'll check and see if the stone Shinji was carrying was the enshrined meteorite... sfx: giii
202) O: This isn't it!! O: It's just a normal rock!! O: Then the real stone must truly be... O: I have to figure out where Ken-chan went. O: There's some water... O: No one should be able to see me out here.
203) O: It's Ken-chan!! O: Where is he going? sfx: bashah O: It disappeared!! O: Ken-chan!! O: I'm pretty sure it was around here. O: Ken-chan. O: Where did you go? O: Where's the rock? K: I don't have anything like that... K: Goodbye.
204) O(2b): Just what was that about!? I really have no idea what's going on here. O: As if to wash away my uneasiness, a warm, thick breeze began to slowly drift down from the sky. O: Morning has finally come... O: I'm going to peek into Shouichi's house.
205) O: But there wasn't anything unusual going on. It didn't seem like Shouichi had changed at all, and was just enjoying life with his parents for once in a long time. O: Huh...? sfx: kaa kaa O: The crows are all flying away in a hurry. O: What could be...? O: Ahh!! O: All of the children are gathered up here....!!
206) O: What could they be doing all together like that? O(2b): Shinji and Ken-chan are there too. Everyone seemed so afraid of him, yet now they're all together beside him....!! O: It looks like they've all made a ring around him as if they're discussing something, but no one's said a word!!
207) O(2b): What a sinister feeling!! They all broke into wide grins at the same time!! sfx: gasah sfx: gasah gasah K: Hey, what are you kids doing in the middle of my field!? K: What do you think this is, a playground? Get out!! K: What are you looking at me like that for!? sfx: zah zah sfx: zah K: Wh-what... K: You brats!! K: Wa-wah... K: You little ghouls!!
209) O: But the rest of the adults in the village still had yet to realize the children had gone crazy. O: Meanwhile, I hid myself in the shed of a girl named Sayoko. O: That night, after Sayoko neglected to finish all her food, the true horror began. D: You spoiled little brat! How dare you leave food in your bowl?! D: You'd better finish it all right this instant!!
210) D: Don't you understand what I'm saying? Eat up, already!! M: Sayoko, do as your father says!! You know how he gets when he drinks!! D: Eat!! D: Why won't listen to what your parents tell you!? sfx: bashih D: I'm going to strangle you!! M: Stop, dear!! D: What are you glaring at me like that for?! D: I'm shutting you up in the shed!! sfx: garah D: Ahh!!
211) sfx: zah x4 sfx: zah zah sfx: zah zah M: D-dear, all the children are coming this way!! D: Wh-what do you want? D: Go home!! sfx: zah x3 D: Don't you understand? Go home, I said!! D: I'll beat you all to death!!
212) D: Ahh!! sfx: gan D: Wahh!! D: Dammit!! D: You little monsters!! sfx: wahhhh! D: ahhh! sfx: beri beri biri sfx: uuuuuuu sfx: barih sfx: barih
213) M(2b): Hiieee!! S-someone help, please!! D: Please, save me!! sfx: baki D: GYAHHHH! D: GYAAAH! sfx: boki sfx: GYAAAAHHHH! SFX: BAKI sfx: GEH! sfx: bari bari bokih
214) sfx: zah zah zah M: Hiiiieeee~!! O: After seeing such a grotesque scene, even I could do nothing but stand in bewilderment. O: I just stared in disbelief. O: She's in a daze!! O: The villagers can't possibly believe what their children are doing. O: Now they're all trying to do something!! K: Hahaha..... K: Hahaha.....
215) K: Hahaha sfx: dosu O(2b): They're damming up the river! And now they're going over to the thousand-year old willow!! K: Hahahaha sfx: bakih sfx: dododo sfx: hahaha sfx: hahaha O: They're destroying everything!! O: Stop!! O: Stop! K: Hahaha K: Hahaha O: Stop, I said!! sfx: hahaha sfx: hahaha
216) O: The villagers are here!! O: Who's there!? S: Whose daughter are you? O: We need to worry about the children right now!! O: The villagers had come looking for all their children, who had suddenly disappeared from home. O: I told them exactly what happened, but no one believed me. V: That's ridiculous!! My child would never do such a horrible thing!! V: Mine neither... O: The villagers ended up becoming suspicious of me instead. V: She's running away!! V: Heeey, Yasuo!! V: Norihiko!! sfx: heeeeey
217) O: The next morning... M: Shouichiii!! M: Wake up!! S: Wh-what's wrong, mom!? M: Shouichi, wake up!! It's terrible... M: See for yourself!! sfx: garah S: Ahh!! M: Look!! M: The persimmon tree.....!! sfx: gatah S: Wh-who would do such a horrible thing!? S: The persimmon tree we've had since I was a child!! S: Wahh!!
219) S: The whole village has changed!! S: The stone statue that should be here S: has been destroyed!! S: The shortcut I took to school is gone!! S: Who could have done all of this!?
220) S: There's Grandpa Gon... S: How strange. His field didn't look like this yesterday. S: Grandpa, how did your field become like this overnight!? G: What are you talking about? It's always been this way!! S: You're lying!! S: Then how do you explain the trees falling down, water being cut off, and what happened to the bridge and the stone wall!? G(2b): I have no idea what you're talking about. I can't see one thing that's changed. S: Hmph!! sfx: don S: Who's ruining my hometown like this!? S: Ahh!!
221) sfx: gara gara sign: Nakase Elementary sfx: gara gara S: Wh-what are you doing!? Why are you tearing down the school?! S: Hey, stop it!! S: Ahhhh!
222) S: What are you staring at me like that for!? S: Why are you tearing down the school!? Why!? P: We're going to turn it into a graveyard!! S: Ehh!!
223) S: I won't let you!! S: You've all gone crazy!! sfx: gan S: You, and you! sfx: gan gan S: What the hell happened to you!? sfx: hehehehehehehe sfx: hehehehehehehe S: You're all insane!! S: What happened to this place!? S: Ahhh!! S: The road's gone!! S: The tunnel over there is destroyed too!! S: Ahhh!!
224) S: The children... S: They've surrounded the village!! This is getting out of control!! S: I knew it!! They've made it so no one can escape the village!! S: What's wrong with everyone?! S: Heeey!! O: Looks like Shouichi's finally realized the village has changed. O(2b): But what pushed the rest of the townspeople to go crazy too!? If my hypothesis is correct... O: And that abnormal feeling I've had since I first stepped foot in this village hasn't dulled one bit.
225) O: I decided to follow Shouichi once again. O: He was running as if he was possessed by something!! O: Ahh!! O: The villagers are coming!!
226) O: From this side, too!! O: They're getting closer!! O: It looked as if Shouichi had caught on, too. O: Their expressions all look distorted!! They've all changed!! O: Strange...how do they know where we're running!? Shouichi and I shouldn't have been visible, yet they're coming straight for us!! S: Mom!!
227) M: Shouichi, what are you in such a hurry for?! sfx: bisha S: Something terrifying has happened.....!! S: The whole town...it's awful... M: What are you trying to say? I don't understand!! S: The townspeople have all turned into something else!! S: And they're coming this way!! S: Look!! sfx: giiii S: Wah!
228) O: They've gotten closer!! O: Are they after me? O: At this rate, they'll find me...!! They must be able to tell what I'm thinking. Otherwise there's no way they could have followed me so perfectly!!
229) O: I let my body go still and stopped thinking entirely. O: How mysterious. Even though I was right beside them, they simply passed by as if they didn't notice me at all!! O: Now they're heading straight for Shouichi's house...!! S: Look, mom!! S: The townspeople keep coming closer!!
230) S: What do you want from us?! M: They just want you to become one of them, Shouichi!! S: Ehhh!? S: Mom!! S: Wait, mom, could you be...!! M: Yes. M: Now come, Shouichi, and hold this!! S: That's--!! M: The shining rock from the Nakase Shrine. M: All you need to do is touch it. M: It won't hurt a bit, and you'll feel much better afterwards. Now hurry up and touch it!!
231) M: Come on!! S: Mom!! M: Put out your hand!! M: Become what your mother has become! M: Shouichi!! M: Quickly, put out your hand!! M: You'll feel so much better! M: Come...!! sfx: pikah
232) O: I thought so!! O: That rock is the source!! M: Ahh!! M: Ahh!! M: Ahh!! sfx: byuh sfx: byuuuu
233) sfx: baaaaaan
234) O: I wonder how much time passed after that...
235) O: Ahhh!
236) O: This place is...!? O(2b): This ruined land...there isn't a single house left standing...nor Shouichi, nor the townspeople...!! O: I wandered around that place in disbelief. O: There was not a single fragment remaining of Nakase Village!!
237) O: Instead, that abnormal feeling that been forever dangling in my consciousness O: had now disappeared as if it had all been imagined. O: How could this be...!! O: No matter how hard I searched, it seemed as if Shouichi, the villagers, and everything else had completely disappeared. O: So I left, utterly astounded. O: After walking for a while, I eventually reached a place I remembered. O: The ridge... O: I'm pretty sure this is the place Shouichi first saw the village and then ran down, shouting with joy.
238) O: But no matter how hard I look, it seems like Nakase Village was never there...but then what have I been doing until now? O: I started walking again. O: Finally, I reached the town that I had originally got off the train in. O: I felt relieved that I had returned to civilization. O: There, I asked a mild-mannered woman about Nakase Village. W(2b): Nakase Village!? Nakase Village isn't there anymore. W: About three years ago, a typhoon came and destroyed the entire village. Now it's just a construction site for a dam, and no one lives there anymore. O: Ehh!? O: But then what have I been experiencing up until now...!?
239) O: At that moment, in a Tokyo hospital... D: What a mystery!! For some reason, the piece of metal that was lodged in his brain is gone now!! D: But that can't be...!! D: It's true!! A little bit earlier, I saw something shining from deep within, but then all of a sudden it disappeared without a trace!! D: Unbelievable...the metal inside his brain disappeared?! D(2b): Well, whatever the case, that means he's saved now...!! He was on his last legs, too...!! That piece of metal was starting to interfere with his other organs in there... N: The patient Sugiyama Shouichi was saved, you know. N: Oh, really? He had such a terrible fever, that's great to hear.
240) O: Shouichi's life was saved... O: Shouichi must have wanted to return to his hometown so badly that his thoughts conjured it up with some strange power. O: And then he himself appeared there as well? O: Is that where I've been wandering?
241) O: But... O: I wonder how Shouichi will feel afterwards once he finds out that his hometown is really gone and his father and mother both died in the typhoon?https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/9156[English] [Translation] Orochi 3 by molokidan2009-01-27T12:43:27+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comOROCHI #3
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02) PRODIGY ... 3 HOMETOWN ... 121 KEY ... 243
05) PRODIGY
06) O: I am Orochi. The reason I decided to follow and observe the life of a certain human O: was because that baby I briefly caught sight of was so very adorable.
07) M: Thank you so much. Here, look how adorable this child has become!
08) M: I will definitely, absolutely raise him properly so that he will become a great man.
09) Sign: Tachibana ?: Daa..... sfx: ahaha sfx: hahaha sfx: hahahaha O: I decided to watch the road that this Tachibana child would follow.
10) O: As the leaves began to change... sfx: kasa kasa F: Hahahaha... M: Fufufufu...
11) B: Daa... F: That's it, Yuu, blow them out. F: Blow like this! Hoo! Hoo! F: Uuu, uuu... F: Alright, alright, papa will help you out. F: Hoo! F: They went out!! M: Yuu...when you grow up, you'll become a great man just like your father. M: You're surely an intelligent one, just like he is. M: Papa graduated from K College, you know. F: Hey, hey, what are you saying to him? There's no way Yuu can understand that!
12) M: You're right, it's too early to think about college. I definitely won't force him to overstudy against his will. Honestly, I just want him to grow up to be a man with a gentle heart. F: Don't worry about that! He takes after me, remember? M: I don't know about that! His brain may take after you, M: but he has my heart. B: Daa daa... F: Hahaha, look, he's laughing! M: Hohoho..... F(2b): Oh, it's getting late. We should put Yuu to bed. He looks sleepy enough. M: Okay.
13) sfx: giii M: Ahh!! M: When did the window get open?! sfx:gatan
14) M: Ahhh!! M: Wh-who are you!? G: Don't make any noise!!
15) G: Make noise, and I'll kill you!! G: G-Gimme all your money!! G: I said, gimme all your money!! M: L-let me go, and I-I'll go get it!! G: Hurry up already!! M: B-but there isn't any money in this room!! M: The money...the money is in the room where my husband is... M: Then go there!!
16) F: Yoshiko... F: Ahh!! G: Make any noise, and your wife's dead!! G: Now hurry up and gimme all your money!! If you cough it up, I won't do a thing. F: Uuuu... F: A-alright...
17) G: And make it snappy!! B: WAAAAAAHHHH M: Yuu!! B: GYAAAAAAA G: S-shut up!! B: GYAAAAAAA G: Why won't he shut up?! M: Ahhh!! M: What are you doing?! B: UWAAAAAA
19) G: Ahh!! M: Yuu!! M: There's a murderer!! M: A murderer!! P: Wait!!
20) G: Please forgive me! G: I...I just wanted money, that's all! Really!! G: I just wanted to feed my wife and child good food for once! M: Yuu!! B: HAAA HAAA M: Yuuuuuu!! M: Stay with us!! B: Haa haa....!! O: The criminal was arrested and locked up with a heavy punishment. O: The poor house of the criminal was just as he confessed, with a sick wife and a starving child inside. O: It all happened on an autumn day, as if to indicate the coming of gloomy winter. O: And it was on this day that I decided...to closely watch what would happen in the life of this baby known as Yuu...
21) O: After such a frightening event happened, the Tachibana family quickly moved to Tokyo. O: But it was at this time when everything started to change for them... sfx: peta Y: Ahh! K: Yuu-chan, that scar on your neck is so gross, so we're not gonna play with you! K: Wahhh, we'll get infected! sfx: gara M: Yuu!! Y: Mama... Y: Those kids...
22) sfx: bashi Y: Ahh! M: Since when have you been out here!? M: Even after I told you you aren't allowed to play around like this!! M: Now come inside and study!! M: You still have to learn the rest of your hiragana! (*Japanese letters) Y: Waaaaa Y: I'm sorry, I'm sorry! But I don't wanna study, I wanna play!! M: What are you saying?! Since you're papa's child, you should be smart! M: Come!! hold your pencil tight!! Y: Mama!! I'm sorry!! Y: I hate studying!! M: I said, hold your pencil tight!! Y(sfx): AAAAHHH
23) M: Grab your pencil, I said!! M: Open up your palm!! sfx: giiiih Y: AHHHHHHH!!
26) M: Now, I want you to write all the hiragana you learned yesterday!! M: What's wrong?! M: Write a, i, u, e, o!! M: Write them, I said!! M: You forgot, didn't you? M: What is the matter with you, Yuu? There's no way you could possibly be this stupid, Yuu!! M: No dinner for you until you remember them. M: And you won't be allowed out of your room either. Is that understood?
27) M: Yuu!! You'll never become a great person like this. M: A great person, like your father!! sfx: ban Y: Waaaaaaaaah Y: Waaaaaaahhhh Y: I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Y: No matter how hard I try, I can't remember! Y: I don't want to become great!! Y: I hate studying, I just want to play!! Y: Mama!! Y: MAMA
28) O: Whenever Yuu turned to the window and stared out with his pale face, O: I would gaze back at him from afar. O: I wonder how he will be changed... O: Yuu was seldom able to leave the house. O: Instead, in addition to studying, he was also forced to take up paining and playing the piano. M: Come on, Yuu!! Sit in front of the piano!! M: Yuu!! Do you remember this piano...? M: No, there's no way you'd be able to. M: Because right after you were born, M: I bought this piano as a way to celebrate.
29) M: In order for you to become a plentiful human being, M: I hoped that you would someday find interest in this. M: But you can't learn to play the piano just by looking. M: Play it!! Y: Mama! M: That's it, Yuu!! You are my child, M: so you should at least be able to play this!! Y: Mama! M: Place your fingers on the keys!! M: Not like that!! M: Put your right thumb on the key of "do" from "do-re-mi-fa!"
30) M: I'll play the keys an octave above, so just follow my lead! sfx: boron boron sfx: pon M: You're doing it wrong!! Once you get to your middle finger, you have to start over from your thumb again!! M: That's wrong, I said!! F: Stop doing such cruel things to him!! M: You!! M: You're drunk again, aren't you?
31) F: Stop harassing you!! M: You call this harassing?! M: What are you talking about?! F: Why are you harassing him so much!? M: I'm just doing what needs to be done! M: I'm smart enough to know what should and shouldn't be done!! M: But you don't think that way, now do you?! Y: Stop!! Y: Mama!! M: Don't call me mama!! sfx: bashih
32) F: Yoshiko, you've completely changed.... M: You've changed as well, haven't you? M: Doesn't what happened back then vex you?! M: The scar on Yuu's neck!! Y: Waaaaaah M: Doesn't this make you remember it!? M: Doesn't this mortify you?! F: Stop it!! F: Uuu... M: Haa, haa... Y: Waaaaaaah
33) Y: Finally, Yuu's old enough to go to kindergarten!! C: Waa, waa... O: He began to study so well that he surprised even the teacher, O: and seemed to have no interest at all in playing with others. C: Kyaa, kyaa....!!
34) O: He never made any friends, and was always alone and downhearted. O: He was always left out, and therefore had no social skills. O: Another problem was the scar on his neck... K: Yaai, yaai... O: Like this, Yuu became more and more separated from everyone!! O: The scar was always on his mind.
35) O: Poor thing....but just a little longer...I'll just watch him for a little longer... sfx: gara gara Y: Mama!! Y: Mama! M: Looks like you managed to sneak home quickly again. Y: But...but everyone always laughs at my scar...
36) Y: Why do I have this scar!? Y: Papa just said I got it from falling out of a tree, but... Y: Why!? M: The... M: The real reason for that... M: Mama will tell you when she dies. Y: No!! I want to know now!! Y: I want to know now! Tell me, mama!! Y: Mama!! Y: Tell me!! M: Alright, I'll tell you... M: An evil man put that scar on you.
37) M: Yuu...on your birthday, an evil man came to rob us... M: And then, all of a sudden, you started crying...and he stabbed you with a knife. M: But your papa and mama desperately tried to tend to your wounds and called the doctor, while you were on the verge of death... M: That's why you have a scar on your neck! M: And after that, your papa and mama completely changed!! M: Uuuuuuu M: Waaaaaaa M: Waaaaaaaaaaaa Y: Mama, what's wrong!? M: Yuu!!
38) M: Yuu!! Y: Mama!! Y: Mama, I'm sorry!! Y: I won't ask about the scar anymore, so don't cry!! M: Don't touch me!! Y: Ahh!! M: Hmph!! Don't ever touch me!! M: How could you understand what I went through?! M: I don't even want to look at you!! M: It'd be better if you just went away!! sfx: don Y: Ahhhh! sfx: pishah Y: MAMA
39) Y: Open the door!! Y: I won't ask about the scar anymore, so please forgive me! Y: I'll even study too!! Y: Mama, open the door!! sfx: gatah sfx: gatah M: WAAAH Y: MAMA M: Yuu!! M: Yuu!! M: My Yuu!! If only that had never happened to you!! M: Ohhhhhhhhh Y: Mama, I'm sorry!! M: WAAAAHHH
40) sfx: garah M: Hmph! How long are you going to keep crying for?! sfx: gyuu M: Just look! You've wasted enough time that you should have spent studying. Now come on, start studying!! M: Get into your room this instant!! sfx: ban M: If you don't write the alphabet 30 times, I won't let you go to sleep. M(2b): But that should be too easy for such a smart kid like you. You're the son of your papa, after all. M: Yuu...listen closely. It's because your papa's turned into such a good-for-nothing that your mama's gotten so hot-tempered. M: It's all the fault of that scar on your neck!! M(2b): Because you were so cute, we had big dreams for you! That's why we were so shocked when that man stabbed you. After that, your paper became a bum, and your mama became irascible...
41) M: After you were stabbed, you got a terrible fever and were saved, but because of that, you were changed in the end!! M: That's right. You no longer became the proprietor of your papa's genius blood!! M: That's why papa gave on you!! M: But your mama still hasn't!! I'm going to show him that you can still become a great person just like he was!! M(2b): No matter what I have to do, I'll get you into K University just like Papa!! Come on, that's why you need to study!! M: That's why you're mistaken to curse your mama. If you have to curse someone, curse that evil man that stabbed you!! M: Dinner's on your desk. sfx: baan sfx: gacha
42) Y(2b): I...I can't take it... sfx: suu suu Y: I hate studying... Y: I want to play!!
43) O: At that point, I could no longer stand by and watch his pitiful state any longer. O: Poor thing...!! O: He hasn't even done half. O: I'll just do the rest for him. sfx: suu suu sfx: hita hita O: His mother's here! O: I still have a bit left... sfx: gacha sfx: giih M: Ahh!!
44) M: The window's open. M: Ahh!! M: He did it!! sfx: suu M: But there's still three remaining... M: Yuu!! M: Yuu, wake up!! M: Wake up!! M: Why did you fall asleep without finishing!? M: Come now, open your eyes!
45) O: Soon, Yuu entered elementary school. O: He got such good good grades that everyone's eyes were on him. K: whisper whisper... O: Once school got out, he always had to get home as quick as possible. O: At that time he had a tutor, O: and was swarmed with numbers even more. O: His mother became even stricter with his studies, but his father was now nothing more than a shadow who never said anything back. O: Although he excelled in his studies, his social skills gradually disappeared, O: and everyone came to dislike him. K: That kid doesn't play with us even a little, all he does is study! He's no fun at all. K: What a square!
46) K: Yaaaay, I took the kitty!! sfx: waa waa K: Hey, look! Mr. Study's staring at us! K: You're no fun, go away! sfx: yaaaaay
47) Y: Ahh!! Y: There are so many marbles here. Y: Whose are these? Y: I wonder if someone dropped them. sfx: poten Y: Fufu.... Y: Ufufu, I hit one!!
48) M: Yuu!! Y: Ahh!! M: Yuu, what are you doing over there!? Y: Mama!! Y: I'm sorry, I was playing with marbles. I'm sorry!
49) M: Hmph! Stop making up silly stories like that. I can't see marbles anywhere!! M: You were trying to lie to me and stay outside, weren't you? M: Come on, we're going home! O: Poor thing...but I've got to keep watching him from here on out... O: After that, Yuu wasn't even allowed to watch television or even read manga. O: He was only allowed to do things that would increase his intelligence.
50) O: Soon, Yuu grew to be a very bright child. O: But as he continued getting smarter, O: His mother continued getting more hysteric, forcing him to study even more. O: And then, when Yuu was in 5th grade... O: Well then, today's homework will be related to this societal problem, so I want you all to research it a bit.
51) K: Yaaay, it's over, it's over! I hate social studies! sfx: uuuuu K: Hey, where's Mr. Study going? sign: LIBRARY sfx: giii L: I see...so you want to look up the state Japan's society was in ten years ago. L: We have some books and newspapers on the subject, so feel free to look at them.
52) L: They should be back there. Y: This is it. sfx: basa Y: Ahhhh!! Y: A burglar in the house of a university professor.... Y: Professor Hiroshi Tachibana's eldest son Yuu-chan (1) was.... Y: Cut in the neck by the burglar...
54) sfx: BOOOONG L: Excuse me, how long are you going to stay here reading for!? L: We're closing now.
55) sfx: basa L: Hey...
56) L: Why are you making such a ghastly face? Do you feel alright!? sfx: batan
57) sfx: gara M: Yuu!! M: What's wrong with you, coming home this late!? You were playing, weren't you! M: What about your studies!? M: Ahhh!!
58) M: Wait, Yuu-chan!! M: Yuu! sfx: batan M: Yuu!! M: U-unlock this at once!! M: Open up!! M: Open up, I said!! I won't forgive you! M: Yuu!! M: What's with that attitude of his!?
59) O: The next morning... M: Yuu!! M: Have you finished the studying you had left yesterday!? sfx: giiii M: AHHH
60) M: He's gone!! M: Yuu!! M: His bag and books are all here. M: He hasn't been studying at all!! M: Ahhh!! M: Natsue Iwao......!! M: The man who stabbed Yuu's neck.......!! M: Why is that man's name.....!? M: Yuu!! M: Yuu!!
61) sfx: goooooooooh O(2b): Where is he going instead of school!? I'm pretty sure he bought a ticket to N Town. O: N Town... sfx: buu baa
62) Y(2b): Natsue Iwao......if he's still at the address that was listed in the newspaper, then... Y(2b): Excuse me, may I ask you something? Is the Natsue house around here? G(2b): Natsue? Ahh, you mean the sick Natsue Shizu-san? Y: Sick? G: Yes. After her husband Iwao-san went to prison, she's gotten worse and worse. O: They're talking about something, but they're too far away to hear. O: He started walking again. Y: This is it...!!
63) Y: Excuse me. sfx: gohon gohon S: Who is it? sfx: gata gishi sfx: giiii S: Who are you? Y: I'm Yuu... Y: Tachibana Yuu.
64) S: Ehhhh?! S: Tachibana Yuu........ S: Then that means you're....!? S: Hiieee! Y: Ahh!! sfx: bishah Y: Please wait, I want to talk to you!! Y: Hey, lady!! S: Please go away, I don't know you!! Please go away, please!!
65) S: Please don't ever come here again!! S: Waaaaah Y: Who's the one who stabbed me in my neck!? Y: Who's the one who gave me this terrible wound!? Y: You know, don't you, lady!? Y: Please tell me!! S: I don't know!! Y: You're lying!! Why won't you say so even though you know?! S: Waaaahhhh!! Y: Lady!! S: Waaaaah S: Uuuuuuuuu...
66) O: Poor thing..... O: Could these be tears? For the first time in ten years...and I never cry!! O: What a shame...this body has done nothing wrong, yet he has to bear such horrible suffering!! That young boy!! O: But I don't know why I suddenly felt so sorry for him then. O: Late that night, Yuu went straight home without stopping anywhere else... sfx: garah M: Yuu!! M: Where did you go today instead of school?! M(2b): Are you really such a slovenly child as this?! Just like the son of a thief who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong! Y: Mama!!
67) Y: Mama, what's the name of the man who cut my neck? M: Ehh!? M: Don't talk about such terrible things!! M: Come, it's time to study! You still have 20 equations left to solve! M: Understand? Even if you try crying like you usually do, I won't let up on you!! Y: I'll do it!! sfx: giiiii Y: I'll stay up all night and do it all!! sfx: batan M: There's no way M: someone like you could........!! O: The light in Yuu's room was still on when dawn came. M: It's time for him to go to school, and Yuu still hasn't come out yet. M: He must still be sleeping!! And I bet he hasn't studied one bit! M: Ahhh!!
68) Y: Mama!! Y: Look, I finally finished. sfx: batan M: Yuu!! Y: I'm fine. I've gotta get to school and keep studying... O: Is he really alright? He's trembling. Despite being an elementary school student, he's already pulling all-nighters!! K: Look at Mr. Study walking with such a pale face! K: Heeey, Mr. Studious!! K: He's trying to ignore us! K: Wahhh! K: Look, he's just walking straight through!!
69) sfx: kaaan sfx: kaaan K: Waaahhh!! Even though the bars are down, he won't stop walking to school!! K: I'm telling on you!! K: Th-th-the train's coming!! sfx: gooooooh
70) sfx: goooooh sfx: uwaaaaah K: He's gonna get hit!
71) K: Waaaaaah sfx: don
72) K: Gyaaaaaah sfx: gagaga K: Ahh!! K: Wahh, Mr. Study's alright!! K: Heey, you blockhead!! K: NOW you realize what happened?! K: Stop making people all worried if you're just going to be fine in the end!!
73) K: Ahh!! K: Look, blood!! K: This is creepy, whose blood could it be?! K: It didn't look like Mr. Study was hurt at all. sfx: giii M: I want to talk about Yuu. M: A few days ago, I found that man's name...Natsue Iwao's name written in his notebook. M: Where did he find out about that? I never said a single thing!!
74) M(2b): If he...somehow finds out about what happened...!! M: You didn't tell him anything about it, did you!? M: Say something, dammit!! sfx: basa F: I haven't said a word... F: Since we moved out so quickly, there should be no one who knows of what happened back then. F(2b): There's no way he could find out. You're just overthinking things. M: That's right, there's no way! M: That boy...!! M: Even if he somehow found out, there's no way a boy like him could understand such a complicated matter. M(2b): Yes..if he ever found out, he wouldn't be able to calm down and study anymore.
75) M: Lately, that boy has changed a lot. M: He's been studying so much!! M: Obviously he's been doing so at school, but now even at home, he never complains at all. M: Why? M: Are you listening to me!? F: Why did this happen...the pain I feel will never go away, so maybe it'd be better if he found out and brought us all to destruction... F: The way things are now... F: But no matter what, eventually, the day he understands will come. F: Along with the day we are destroyed. M: What?!
76) M(2b): What are you talking about?! What is it about this situation that you can't stand? Why shouldn't we force him to keep studying?! M: I'm just making it so that he can come to possess the same intelligence you do! F: Enough!! sfx: gara gara M: Yuu's home! M(2b): That's right...studies. I have to make sure he studies...I have to make sure it's more challenging for him... M: Yuu!! Y(2b): Ahh, if it's about my studies, I'll do them, mama. I like studying, you know. My tutor's waiting for me, right?
77) M: But you can't just like studying. M: You have to be able to do difficult things too!! M: Teacher!! Make sure you give him harder questions! T: Ehh?! M: Those second-level equations are too easy for him. Teach him the third level!! T: I can't do that, all of a sudden!! M: No, this boy must become smarter!! Give me those problems!! M: These, and these... M: Make him do all of them!! T: Th-that's too much!! Y: I'll do it!! M: Ehh!? Y: I'll do it!! Y: Now go away, you two. M: Understood? In order to make you smarter, mama will do anything!!
78) sfx: batan M: Hmph. There's no way he'll be able to finish this time!! M: It isn't that easy... M(2b): Seems like he finally went to bed. I must see if he's solved the problems or not. M: He's done them!! M: I-Impossible...!!
79) M: This can't be! There's no way that child could do such hard problems!! M(2b): He just must have gotten lucky this time and figured them out by chance. That has to be it!! M(2b): That's right, I'll just make him do harder ones. Then he definitely won't be able to solve them!! M: Yuu!! Y(2b): I'm not going out to play. Playing around is boring. I'm just going to the bathroom, mama. M(2b): Yuu!! I want you to solve this. Your tutor also wanted you to do this one!! M: Right here!! Y: Ahh, this one? I've already finished it. M: Ehh!? Y: I even remember the answer: X is 1 and 2/3, Y is 32, and Z is 5. Y: Right now I'm working on square roots, mama. Y: And for language, I'm working on classical speech.
80) M: That...that's impossible!! M: There's no way he should be able to do that!! O: With that, Yuu's intelligence continued to increase -- so much, in fact, that he was able to finish his homework at an abnormal degree, O: until he finally was out of his mother's reach. M(2b): Does Yuu know everything about what happened then? But he still hasn't said a thing about it... O: Soon, Yuu entered middle school. O: There, he earned a perfect record.
81) sfx: gaya gaya K: Nyohohoho, I hope my name gets up there!! Otherwise my parents will work me hard at home again!! K: There's Tachibana. K: I hear he wants to go to K University. K: Ehh!? Then why didn't his parents put him in a middle school affiliated with K University? Wouldn't that make it easier on him? Y: Ahh!! Y: Number two....!! Y: Hirai Katsuya is number one.....!! Y: It's time for P.E.!
82) Y: Please put all your belongings in here. K: Wahhh, what a nice watch!! K: It's my father's, I brought it with me without telling him. K: If the teacher finds it, he'll confiscate it!! K: I'll just put it inside my desk. K: Waa, waa.... K: Those who are feeling bad today, just sit to the side and watch. sfx: waa waa K(2b): That nerd is just sitting to the side and reading a book, even in gym class! He can't play sports at all, you know.
83) O(2b): It's Yuu......he's grown quite a bit. It's too bad that I had to miss out on so many years in order to heal my wounds from back then. O: Hm? Where is he going? O: He's certainly changed a lot!! Those hesitant eyes of his have become such a sharp glare!! O: Ahh!
84) O: What is Yuu trying to do...? Y: Ahh!! Y: Maybe it's just me...but I felt like there was someone watching me...
85) Y: Hmph. Of course there was no one there. I made sure there wasn't before I came in here... Y: That's Hirai's desk!!
86) O: That was close! What a sensitive kid he is. O: It seems like he could tell that I was watching him. O: But what did he do back there?! O: It seemed lke he was pulling something out from a desk... O: Could he be stealing...?! sfx: giii sfx: katan O: Ahh!!
87) sfx: tch tch tch tch tch O: It's a watch. O: It must have fallen out from the desk. O: I should put it back in... O: Ah, that's it. I'll put it in his bag so it won't get stolen... O: Hira Katsuya, huh? He appears to be a rather studious child. O: Look at all these notes he's written down..... O: That should do it. O: I was overthinking about Yuu's situation. O: Just because he's a smart boy doesn't mean every move he makes has a purpose.
88) sfx: uuuuu uuuuuu sfx: waa sfx: waa K: It's gone!! K: Ahhh, my watch is gone! K: Ehh?! K: My dad's watch!! K: I put it in my desk, but it's gone now!! K: Does anyone know what happened?! K: How would I know? Don't look at me like that!! K: Everyone, please help me look! If I lose it, I'll be in big trouble!! sfx: gatan K: It's nowhere to be found!
89) H: Sssh! Everyone, the English teacher's coming!! sfx: kata sfx: kata sfx: gara T: Alright everyone, please take out your textbooks. sfx: gatan K: Ahhh! K: Ahh!! O: Could that watch be....!? O: Oh no, I can't use my powers! The wounds I previously incurred were too severe!!
90) K: Mutter mutter... K: Whisper whisper... K: G-give that back, that's my watch!! K: Gimme!! K: THIEF! K: It wasn't me, someone must have put it in there!! K: I don't know anything about it!! K: You liar! You're just trying to cover up since you've been found out. It doesn't matter how studious you are, you won't be forgiven!!
91) O: After that incident, Hirai was watched closely, and his grades began to drop. K: It's Hirai... K: That guy is a thief, so we shouldn't get too close to him!! O: Later, Yuu took the top spot in the practice exams. K: Amazing!! Tachibana got a 486, and is at the top again!! K: And look at this! Hirai is way at the bottom!! O: Eventually, Hirai transferred to another school. O: With that, Yuu clearly became #1. Sign: Tachibana O: Yuu has really changed..... Y: Mama....
92) Y: You're happy that I'm always #1, right? Y(2b): You know about Hirai stealing that watch, right? I'm the one who did that. M: What!? Y: Surprised? It was really me. I just made it look like Hirai was the one who stole it. M: You did!? M: Of all the...!! Y: Why are you so surprised!? You're making a face that seems like you knew it all along. M: Uuuuuu... M: Silence!! Who would believe such a ridiculous thing?! M: If you have the time to make up such stupid jokes, go and work on some hard math problems or something!! Y: You're right. I have to get into K University just like papa did, after all. Y(2b): Mama, not only will I get into K University, but I'll get even better grades than papa. All with my own ability, too. I won't rely on you a bit. M: Uuuuuuu!!
93) O: Soon, Yuu was ready to enter high school. M: Yuu!! M: Eimei High is the most competitive school, understand?! If you don't pass in, you'll never get into K University! Y(2b): Oh, I know. You're interrupting my studies, so could you please leave? sfx: batan M(2b): This time...this time, it won't go so easily for you. Here there's nothing but prodigies..... O: But Yuu easily got into Eimei High. M: What? Yuu passed in the #2 spot...?! M: That's impossible!! Don't you have anything to say?! He shouldn't be that smart a child!! Right?! sfx: uuuuuuuuuu G: Kyaa....kyaa....
94) O: Soon I entered Yuu's class myself, because I just couldn't bear watching him from afar anymore. O: Yuu's really changed so much. It seems frightening just to get close to him. Y: But Yuu would never talk about studying with anyone at school. Y: On the contrary, after school, he would just sit and read manga. K: That Tachibana guy's acting like he isn't the tiniest bit concerned about his studies. K: Even though I bet when he's at home he gets to sleep around 1:00 or so. K: Despite the fact that he's just putting a show on, it still gets on my nerves. G: I really can't stand Tachibana-san. G: And that scar on his neck is so gross!
95) O(2b): But once he passed through the school gates, Yuu's expression became severe. Y: Nakane...and Kishibe are aiming towards K University... Y: And also Nogami from Class D... Y: Those three can do it... Y: At this rate, Yuu will destroy himself. O: Tachibana-san..... Y: Ehh?! O: How about joining the chorus club? O: Practice is only one hour long, and it'll make you feel better. O: If you entered, it'd make me really happy.... O: In trying to change Yuu's feelings even a little, I tried touching Yuu's hand. Y: Hmph! O(2b): It's no use. Yuu's heart is closed up too tightly!! Even my power can't break through.
96) O: And so, Yuu fell deep into his studies. O: Finally, three years passed, and the day in which he would take the practice exams of K University drew near. O: As if I'd lose to Nakane, Kishibe, and Nogami..... O: And also.....!! M: Yuu!! sfx: gacha M: I'm really impressed that you're still studying!
97) M(2b): I've brought you a snack. Eat this and do your best! M: You'd better not lose to Nakane-san or Kishibe-san. M: If you did, how would you be able to overcome Papa at K University? M: Who knows if you'd even be able to pass the exam....? sfx: batan O: Poor Yuu, he's all alone... O(2b): He's still studying. It'd probably be a good idea to rest for a little... O: Rest for a bit, Yuu!! sfx: katan
98) sfx: katan O(2b): Yuu....looks like you rested a bit. Then I'll leave you for tonight. Y: Uuu!!
100) Y: The pain....my stomach.....!! sfx: geh sfx: gata M: Yuu!! M: Wh-what's wrong?! Y: That's my line, mother! What are you doing outside my room like this?! M: I-I just heard a strange sound now so I came to see what was the matter...are you alright?! Y: It-it's nothing. I finished studying, so I was just getting ready to go to bed. Tomorrow is the K University practice exam, after all. Y: Uuu!!
101) O: The next morning.... O(2b): Yuu must be sleeping, even though he should be awake by now...I'll just have to do it myself..... O: But..... O: Last night.... O: Yuu!! sfx: giii O: Ahhh O: Ahh!! O: He's gone!! O: Yuu!! O: He must have gone to school to take the test!! O: In that condition...!! O: That's right, there's no way he can pass...and if he doesn't pass the practice test, O: he'll lose all confidence to take the real one!!
102) Y: My stomach still hurts. Y: No matter what, I have to do my best on the exam...no matter what!! O: Tachibana-san.... O: It's me, Orochi. O: Why are you sweating so much?! You don't look so good. Isn't today the day of the exam? O: Ahh, Tachibana-san!! Y: I'm fine, just leave me alone! O: Ahhh!! O: Despite what happened, Yuu did well on his test -- even despite his horrible ailments!! O: If I would have healed him back there with my right hand, he probably could have done better, though.
103) O: Then finally, it was almost time for the real examination. O: Tomorrow will be the day Yuu takes the K University entrance examination.
104) M: Yuu...... M: Finally, the day we've all been waiting for has come!! M: Do you know how painful it's been, all this time?! But now the day has finally arrived! M: The day when everything will become clear!! M: You must enter K University at all costs, and do better than your father! Y: I know that.
105) M: Well, after you've prepared everything for tomorrow, go to bed, understand? Y: Of course. Y: Good night, now, mother. M: Good night. M: If you can sleep, that is. F: Yo-Yoshiko... Y(2b): But I wonder if everything will go as you think it will, mother...if in the end, everything will end up the way you want? M: What was that!? sfx: batan Y(2b): Just watch me!! I won't lose to anyone, no matter what!! Y: Father, mother... Y: Everyone must watch me!! sfx: kiii Y: There's a newspaper on my desk...?
106) Y(2b): This newspaper is from six months ago, isn't it? Why would this be on my desk...!? Y: Ahhh! Y: A woman living alone hung herself?! Y: Last night Natsue Shizu, a woman suffering from illness and the pain of her life, committed suicide... Y: Natsue Shizu.....!! sfx: basa Y: Hmph!! Y: You think I'd be unable to sleep just after reading some stupid article like this?! Y: Fufufu.... Y: Hahaha...... Y: The light went out. Yuu must be sleeping.....
107) O: All night, I stood out there waiting for the sun to come up. O: Just what would happen to Yuu and those other people? Since I felt so sorry for Yuu, I had no choice but to protect him like this. Y: Well then, father, mother, I'm going to take the test now. M: Goodbye. M: Do your best and get a good score. Y: There's nothing to worry about. I got a good night's sleep last night. O: Yuu left! O: Now, finally, he's about to take the K University exam...!!
108) O: I wonder what Yuu's true purpose in studying so hard to get into K University could be... O: Yuu, do your best. That's all I can say to you right now.
109) O: Soon, the examination came to a close, O: and the test was finished. O: I watched over the entire thing as if I were made of stone. O: Yuu's face looks tired, but his expression makes it seem like everything still isn't over yet. O: What kind of score did Yuu possibly get...? O: Tachibana-san... Y: You again... O: How was the test? O: If you don't mind, I'd like you to come to a party we're having to celebrate passing the exam. I want to give you a present too. Y: Who knows whether I passed or not...farewell. O: Yuu!!
110) O: No, Tachibana-san..... O: Yuu used to be so adorable..... O: Now he's like a completely different person! M: Welcome home, Yuu. How was it? Y: I dunno... O: Yuu slept for three days straight as if he was dead. M: He's really sleeping a lot. M(2b): Hello, is this Professor Yamaoka from K University? This is Tachibana...have you figured out Yuu's results yet? M: What did you say!? M: Eh? Then Yuu is...!!
111) M: Hello? If that's the case, I'd like you to go forward with what we discussed earlier. M: What? Why can't you do it? You agreed earlier, how can you say this all of a sudden!? M: It's because I don't want him to turn into a robot of a human who does nothing but study!! That's why I want you to change his answers!! M: Hello... Y: Mother!! M: Ahh!! Y: Mother! After you forced me to study so much...and after you told me so many times that I had to get into K University...how could you do this all of a sudden!? Y: I'll tell you why. Y: Because to forcing me to study was nothing other than a way for you to torture me!! Y: Because I am not your true son!! Y: I am the son of a thief!!
112) Y: The son of Natsue Iwao, who stabbed the real Yuu and killed him!! Y: The son of Natsue Shizu, who recently hung herself!! M: Yuu!! Y: Don't call me that!! I am not Yuu!! Do you know how much pain I feel every time I hear that name?! Y: I found out about this when I was in fifth grade, when I read about how Yuu died of his wounds in the newspaper!!
113) Y: Yet why am I still alive, I thought!? Then after going to the Natsue house and talking to their neighbors, I found out their child was gone! Y: I am the son of the murderous thief who killed Yuu!! Y: Out of hatred towards the murderer who killed your only son, you forcefully stole his son from him!! And forcing me to study myself to death every day was your revenge!! Y: "What can the son of a thief do?", you thought!! And despite the pain I felt at knowing the truth, I withstood it! Y: Stolen from the hands of my true mother, and constantly tortured by you -- Ever since I was a child, I've always been alone!! Y: And now, I've finally won!! I got a good score on the test and should be able to get into K University!! Y: I HAVE BEATEN YOU!!
114) Y: But there's one question I want you to answer!! Y: Who's the one who made this scar on my neck!? Y: Who did it?! Y: Mother!! Y: Who did this!? Y: Mother!! Y: Where are you going!? Y: Yoshiko!! Y: Mother!!
115) Y: Wh-what are you doing!? M: I'm the one who put that scar on you! M: With this very knife!! M: What do you know about the pain I felt after my son was killed?! M: You still haven't won yet!! Y: Ahh!! F: Stop it!! Y: You really intend to kill me?!
116) M: Hohoho! You think you've won now?! Y: Ahhhh! Sfx: zubah Y: Mother!! M: Don't call me your mother!!
117) M: How could you know how much pain I feel every time you call me that... M: It's your loss now!! No matter how well you did on the exam, M: now you'll be branded a murderer for killing your own mother...!! M(2b): You really do possess the blood of a murderer after all!! Now your admission will be retracted! Y: N-no way!! F: Yoshiko!! M: Dear!! Finally, the day of destruction has come!! M: Yuu!! M: My Yuu!! M: Yuu!! M: Yuu!!
118) M: Yuuuuu!! Y: Mother!!
119) M: Yuuuu!! Y: Mother!! sfx: waaaaaah O: It must happen this way.......!! O(2b): Living together for such a long time...with such hatred between them...but they're both his parents. If they weren't, they wouldn't have continued like this for so long...
120) O: That night, the Tachibana house was bathed in silence. O: The three slept together in one room as if they were nothing but empty shells. O: If I take off the bandage around my right hand, O: and put it on Yuu's neck... O: as well as his mother's wounds, O: then finally rest it on his father's tired forehead, O: I can put the Tachibana house behind me. O: Everyone's wounds will definitely heal.https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/9155[English] [Translation] Orochi 2 by molokidan2009-01-27T12:42:45+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comOROCHI #2
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96) S: Hey, you. Why do you hate bones? Bones are beautiful!! Isn't what truly repulses you the meat that's on top of them?
97) S: Chie was born in Koyoshi Town, in the northeast.
98) M: Please, dear...take care of this child. S: Chie's mother died just as she gave birth to her. S: Her mother's death was when their misfortune began. Baby sfx: Ogyahhhh S: The child's father didn't even feel a bit of love toward her. F: Hmph.
99) S: Chie never had a full bottle of milk, and was hungry ever day, yet she continued to grow...in that poverty-stricken house. S: When Chie turned four, a new mother came. M: Hmph!! S: She was a frightening stepmother...and was mean to Chie in every way. M: I already told you, there's no more food for you!!
100) S: Everyday, Chie passed her time crying, full of sadness. S: The neighboring children even started calling her Crybaby Chie. K: Yaaai, Crybaby Chie! K: She's crying today too! S: Although she was so sad, Chie didn't have anywhere else to go.
101) S: When the stars came out, she would head home, S: and her mother would beat her, saying she was late.
102) S: Her alcoholic father didn't so much as glance at her. S: As he grew older, he just became more and more addicted. S: Her parents' fighting got worse and worse, and afterwards, they would always take out their anger on Chie.
103) S: On top of that, the grandfather, who was bedridden with sickness, also lived in their home, S: and it was Chie who took care of all his needs. S: The only reason she continued to stay at the home at all was because of that duty.
104) S: But Chie's grandfather was not content just with her nursing, and would often cry in order to abuse her kindness. S: With that, he would demand food from Chie, who was already going days at a time with an empty stomach. S: What little Chie had to eaten was mostly taken by her grandfather, so Chie became malnourished.
105) Wind: Zahhhhhhhh S: Chie cried out of sadness, S: and when it rained, a strange stench would rise from her grandfather, which only deepened her sorrow.
106) S: Chie learned how to cry without making any sounds...and became a girl who would not open her heart.
107) S: In addition, her uncle, a man with a terrible countenance, often came to their house looking to extort money from them. S: Due to all this, Chie rarely went to school anymore. S: Sometimes she would go for a day, but couldn't stand how everyone did nothing but stare at her. S: Despite that, as Chie grew up, people would often remark on how beautiful she was becoming. S: Beautiful girls look good in anything.
109) S: But that beauty only heightened Chie's misfortune. C: Ehh!? S: Chie's father started talking about selling her off for a high price in order to fund his drinking habit. S: It was then that talks about Chie's marriage began. S: He was an ordinary man, but was extremely kind and gentle. From the start, he had instantly won Chie's heart. S: Without any hesitation, Chie decided to go with him. S: Needless to say, the man had to sacrifice much to Chie's mother and father in order to receive her. S: They eventually moved to Inatori, in Izu, S: and Chie's life was completely changed.
110) S: In one way or another, Chie's husband always managed to be nice to her. S(2b): Chie truly felt happy by her husband's side, and did her best to be useful to him. S: And so, those happy days flowed on.
111) H: Ahhhh!!
112) ?: It's a hit-and-run!!
113) C: My husband! He was hit by a car and fell down, do you know where he is?! O: You're his wife, correct? We've been waiting for you. O: He's right this way. C: He...he's alright, isn't he?!
114) S: Right now he's sleeping due to the anesthesia. C: Dear!!
115) C: Wahhh!! N: Miss, to be honest, it seems that the time until your husband fully recuperates, N: will be around three years.
116) S: Chie bravely tended to her husband.
117) C: Thank you so much. My husband has gotten so much better now, that I think I'll take him home and continue nursing him there. O: Well then, take care. If there is anything you need, please let us know. C: Of course.
118) S: Soon, Chie started going out to work herself. S: Her husband was recuperating quicker than she expected, and soon he was able to walk a bit. C: I'm so glad!! Soon you'll be all better. F: Yes, thanks to you. F: I think I'll go on a walk to help get my legs back to normal. C: But please, be careful to watch out for cars. F: Hahaha, I'll be alright. You think I'd let myself get hit again? C: However that day, her husband ended up slipping off a cliff and falling to his death. F: Wahhhh!!
121) C: Wahhhhh!! C: Waaaaaahhhh!!
122) S: Chie's husband was buried in a nearby cemetery. C: Wahhhhhhhhhhh!!
123) S: And from then on, Chie's days of sorrow began once more. F: Chie-san, we understand your feelings, but please, stop crying. F: It's been over a month now since he passed away. C: Dear...please come back to me. C: Please come back to life, by my side!!
124) O: As the days passed on, those feelings only grew stronger. O: People felt sorry for Chie, and began talking about her endless tears. ?: Look, tonight she's praying in front of the Buddha again. ?: Poor thing!!
125) C: Please come back, dear. C: You're the only reason I have to live. door sfx: Giiiiiii door sfx: giiiiii C: Ahhh!!
126) C: Wh-who are you!? O: I'm the person that can revive your husband. C: Eh!?
127) C: Y-you!? C: Th.....the nurse....
128) C: Wh-what did you say just now!? C: If I heard you correctly, you said you could revive my husband... C: You said you could revive him, didn't you!? C: Can you truly bring him back to life!? C: Is it even possible for modern medicine to do such a thing?
129) C: Please answer me! Can you bring the dead back to life!? C: Don't try to comfort me with lies! C: You're just here to make fun of a woman who's had as much bad luck as me, and add to my sadness, aren't you...
130) O: I'm sorry, but I was really worrying about you, so I... O: You just seemed so sad to me, so...so I just... O: blurted it out...
131) C: What's that!? C: Haa, haa... C: Then that means... C: You really can't revive my husband!?
132) C: You just said that to try and console me, didn't you? That's what you did? C: He was everything to me!! He was the reason I could keep living!! C: Lying about that is just too much!! C: Wahhhhh!! C: Waaaahh!!
137) O: It wasn't a lie...even if he can't be revived, I'll do whatever I can to allow Chie-san to see her husband again... O: I've already prepared everything!!
138) door sfx: giiiii
139) O: Seems like the patients are sleeping too.... Door sign: LABORATORY
146) O: He shouldn't look like a doll to anyone!! O: I went to a lot of trouble to make him look exactly like her husband. O: While I can't bring someone back to life, O: I can still move lifeless things... O: But if I somehow fail, I could lose my life......
147) O: I'll start at his chest....
150) O: To life, to life!! Move, you lifeless object!! O: Move and come to life!!
151) O: Haa, haa......!!
153) O: Now move!! Open your eyes!! O: Awaken!!
154) O: This is no good, it won't move!! O: Despite having emptied my entire spirit to him!! sfx: Pih O: Ahhh!! D: Oooooohh!
156) O: Ahhhhhh!! sfx: Baaaaaaaaaan
157) O: I failed!!
158) S: Then...
159) sfx(2): ooooooooonnnn
160) gravestone: GRAVE OF SABUROU sfx: ooooooooomm
162) H: Where am I!? H: Why am I in a place like this?
163) H: Ah! H: I'm inside a coffin!!
164) H: I died!! H: I died, and them came back to life!! H: This is insane!! I've come back from the dead!!
165) H: I remember!! H: I remember it all now!! I was put into this coffin. H: I can remember everything that happened after I fell off the cliff so clearly now.
166) H: Uuuuuuuuuu H: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhh H: What should I do? No matter how much I try to shout, no sound will come out. sfx: skkkkkritch H: Uuuuuuuuu
167) H: Being alive again in this coffin, without being able to call for help, scratching uselessly against this wood, is only hurting my body as a result. H: How many people have been in the same situation as me, only to die again in the end? H: If only I could somehow make a sound!! H: No...I have to break out of her, no matter what!! H: I'll do everything I can to make it out of here!! H: In order to return to Chie!! H: No matter what it takes!! H: Chie!!
170) O: I failed!! O: I couldn't get the doll to move. O: But why? Why wouldn't it come to life!? O: I don't understand. It shouldn't have happened that way! O: I'm going to have to get rid of this blood quickly... O: If anyone sees this, I'll be in big trouble!!
171) O: But since it's my own blood, it'll be easy to clean it up. O: It won't disappear!! O: It's not working!! O: It must be because my right hand's injured!! O: I have to hurry up and heal myself, or...!! O: I failed!! Fortunately, I managed to save my life, O: but I couldn't keep my promise to Chie-san!!
172) O: Even after I told her so strongly that she would see him again!! O: Even after she's been yearning so much to reunite with her deceased husband...!!
173) wind sfx: zahhh sfx: Bokoh
176) H: Chie!!
177) H: N-no matter what, I'll make it back to her!! H: No matter what!! sfx: gggrrrr sfx: gggggrrrr
178) sfx: ggarrhh H: I-it's going to attack me!! H: Uuuuu!! H: A-ahh...no matter how hard I try to shout, I can't make a sound!! H: Ahh!! H: My tongue...!! H: It's rotting!!
180) H: Ahh!! H: There's a hole in my throat!! H: Ahhh!!
181) H: Guwahhh! H: I'm rotting!! H: I came back to life, but my body's decaying!!
182) H: Uahhhhhhhhhh!!
184) D: Bahhh D: Gabuh
185) sfx: gyuuh sfx: Bannn sfx(2): Buh
186) D: Gyaaaaannn D: Gggyyyaaannnn
188) rain sfx: zazaaaah H: As if I'd let you stop me!! H: Chie!!
190) O: Good... O: The pain seems to have stopped too. O: It's about time to start taking the patients' temperatures. O: I just hope no one noticed what happened last night...
191) ?: A man fell down in the middle of the road!! O: Ahhh!!
192) D: what a mystery. The inside of his body is decaying, and yet he is alive!! D: This rotting corpse must have somehow come back to life!! D: But who could this be!? D: I don't know. But we need to concentrate on rehabilitating him now. D: Could it be?! ..... D: But...how could he have...
193) O: Doctor, if this person had been dead for over a month, would his body have completely decayed by now? D: I can't really say. In some instances, catalepsy can result in temporary death. O: His blood type is the same. Chie-san's husband... O: Everything matches the check-up he had when he was admitted earlier... O: But if that's true, Chie-san will be so happy. O: How are his vital signs, Doctor? O(2b): He's sound asleep, but he's already lost so much flesh. Those wounds of his are terrible, too.
194) O: Ahhhh!! O: That face of his O: really does look like Chie-san's husband. H: Uuuu!! H: Uuuuuuuu! O: He must be trying to say something. O: What could he be saying...!? H: Uuuuuoooohhhhhh!! O: What's wrong!?
195) H: Uuuuuu O: Is he trying to shout Chie-san's name!? O: You're calling for Chie-san, aren't you!? O: You said Chie-san, didn't you!? O: Ahh!! O: Are you awake!?
196) O(2b): What's wrong? It seemed like you were having a terrible nightmare. And then, after I mentioned Chie-san's name, you suddenly regained consciousness. H: Uuuu!! O(2b): I knew it. You're Chie-san's husband, aren't you? She's done nothing but think of you and cry every day. O: Stop!! O: Ahh!!
197) O: Ahhh, what are you doing!?
198) H: Ohhhhhhh H: ohhhhh O: Please, get ahold of yourself!! O: So he really did come back to life after all!! O: The power I sent toward the doll went to the graveyard instead...
199) O: A-ha!!
200) O: Chie-san!! O: Just think how happy she'll be once she hears that her husband came back to life, after she prayed for so long!!
201) door sfx: giiii
202) O: Ah! O: The house is vacant...
203) ?: Didn't you hear? She got remarried. O: What?! ?: After her husband died, she did nothing but cry every day. ?: Then a man appeared who said he wanted to take her as his wife no matter want, so she went to live with him. O: Oh my!! ?: But Chie-san is such a tender person, you know. After she got remarried, she begged her new husband to allow her to bring her deceased husband's picture and mortuary tablet with her. ?: I think they call him Oomori-san, from Yokohama...
204) O: What a turn of events. O: What should I tell him about Chie-san...
205) door sfx: giii O: He's sleeping. O: Then one night, Chie-san's husband's body suddenly disappeared.
206) O: After being so close to one another, things shouldn't have ended up this way. O: I'll make it so that, no matter where, O: they'll somehow be able to meet once more!!
207) sfx: kachin
208) O: He must have gone to find Chie-san. O: After that, no rumors about Chie-san or her husband ever came to my ears.
209) O: Soon afterwards, I left town as well. O: I had to know where Chie-san and her husband had ended up.
210) O: After two years had passed, O: I finally found my way to Chie-san. O: This is it...
211) O: What an amazing house... O: In a daze, I wandered inside the house.
212) O: Sitting inside was a Chie-san that had become so beautiful she was beyond recognition.
213) C: Dear.... C: Please forgive me.
214) C: I remarried to a very kind man, C: but I still haven't forgot about you. C: I've had a child with this new husband, but... C: If only that hadn't happened to you... C: we could have lived together forever...
215) C: Dear!! C: Uuuuuu O: Chie-san, your husband has come back to life. C: Ehh!? C: Ahh! C: You're--
216) C: What did you say just now? O: Your wishes have finally come true. O: I know you must not believe me, but your husband has really come back to life... C: You lie!! C: That isn't possible!! It's been two years since my husband died, he's nothing more than a rotting corpse by now!!
217) O: It's true!! He got out of the coffin through his own willpower, and later was found collapsed in the middle of the road by our hospital. O: Your husband is searching for you, too... O: Come, let's go look for him together. C: No!!
218) C: Please stop telling such horrible jokes! C: How many times must you torment me before you're satisfied?! O: It's true!! O: Now hurry!!
220) C: Stop it!! C: Stop it, I beg you!! C: Stoooopppp! C: P-please go home! baby: Uaaaaaaannn
221) O: Chie-san!! H: Heeey, what's wrong? O: Someone's here. It must be her husband! sfx: Byuh H: What in the world's going on here? sfx: uwaaaaan C: T...there's nothing to worry about. sfx: uaaaaan
222) O: Later... H: Still sitting there, are you, Chie? C: Dear!! I'm frightened!! S: I'm going to be killed!!
223) H: Eh......by who!? C: I saw...my dead husband. H: What!? C: Yes. It happened when I went to the department store to buy Jun a doll. C: Ah!! C: That's my dead husband!! C: It's unmistakable....!!
224) C: My husband fell off a cliff and died, he can't be alive!! C: Haa, haa.... C: I must have just mistaken someone else for him!! C: Ah!!
226) C: Kyaaaaaaaaa C: Aaahhh!!
227) C: Haa, haa... C: It...it can't be. He's dead... C: It must have just been a stranger that resembled him!!
228) C: Ah
230) C: Gyaaaaaah!
231) C: Dear! C: What-what are you doing?! C(2b): Someone, please help! Help me!! C: Hiieeee!!
232) ?: What's wrong!? C: He's going to kill me!! ?: Please, get ahold of yourself. There's no one here! C: Ah!
233) C: The doll I bought for Jun!! C: And then I desperately ran home. C: He's going to kill me!!
234) H: That's all your afraid of? There's no way a dead person can come back to life!! You're making too much of this!! C: But I'm telling the truth!! C: That man came back to life!! C: It has to be him!! C: Jun!! H: It's been two years since he died. There's no way he's still alive. H: You must forget about him already. C: Dear!! H: Well then, I'll be off now. C: Dear!! C: Please don't go!! C: I'm afraid! H(2b): Chie, stop acting like a child. I already told you to forget about that dead man.
235) H: See, Jun's smiling now, isn't he? H: Oshizu-san, take care of Chie for me. O: Yes sir. C(2b): Dear, please find some way to forgive me. C(2b): I still love you even now, yet I had no choice but to do this.
238) C: Who is it...!? C: Dear!! C(2b): That knock is yours, isn't it? I'll open it now! door sfx: giii C: Ahhhhh!! C: Hiiieeeee!! C: Hiiiiieeeee
239) chie sfx: aahhhhhh C: Ahhhhhhh!! C(2b): Wh-where...where are you going!? C: Could it be... C: Wait!! C: Wait!! C: Ahhh!
240) C: What...what are you going to do with Jun!? C: Give him back!! C: Give back my Jun to me!! C: Kyaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
241) H: uuuuaaaaauuuu spit sfx: Peh
242) C: It's true! My dead husband...took Jun away!! H: Chie, calm down!! C: He's cursing me for getting remarried! C: That's why he's trying to kill me! He's become so frightening! C: Please, you have to find him as fast as you can, and execute him! Then, then bring back my Jun!!
243) C: What are you doing? It's been three days now! H: Chie!! O: A package just came. O: The person who delivered it didn't leave a name. ?: Blood!! D: Let's open it up!! D: AHHHHH
244) C: Gyaaaaahhhh D: This hand....!? D: Get ahold of yourself, Chie!! C: He killed Jun!!
245) C: Th-that hand is............!! C: That hand is Jun's!! H: H-hurry and call the doctor!! O: Yes sir! C: Jun was killed, Jun was....!! H: Chie!! C: That man killed him!! You have to hurry up and capture that horrible man!! O: The doctor's here.
246) O: This way. D: My bag, please... O: Yes, doctor. C: Quickly, you must kill him! C: He killed Jun...
247) D: The medicine should be taking effect now. D: Well then, now that I've done my part... O: I'll stay here to tend to her. D: Oomori-san, I'll turn the hand over to the police. H: Whatever the case, please have them investigate about my son. D: If something like that was purposely sent here, then... H: Are...are you saying that Jun was killed?! H: But I don't have any recollection of a single person that would hate us, not to mention to something like that to Jun!!
248) H: Or do you really believe that the dead ghost of Chie's ex-husband is trying to punish Chie for getting remarried?! C: Jun was killed... C: Aaaaahhhh C: Jun.....was.....killed!! C: Ahhhh!! O: Ma'am!! O: What a terrible fever...!! O: I've got to cool her down. O: What a gigantic house!!
249) O: As I expected, my spell allowed them to meet again. O: But now it seems like things would have been better if he hadn't come back to life. C: You're...!? O(2b): It's alright, I'm on your side. I came here because I was worried about you. O: Since your husband has come back to life, his personality has completely changed. C: What was I saying in my sleep? C: I felt like I was shouting something... O(2b): You kept crying out for Jun-san. It's alright now, calm down!! ..... C: Jun!! C: It's alright, ma'am.
250) water sfx: zapaaaaan
251) H: Chie........ H: Ah!
252) sfx: Hyuuuuuh sfx: bara H: Oooohhhhhhhhh H: It's...getting worse!! H: My hand!!
253) H: My flesh is gradually falling off my bones!! H: And yet I continue to live!! H: But my flesh isn't the only thing I'm losing. H: My brain is rotting along with the rest of my body!! H: It also feels like I'm starting to lose my own memories!! H: But I won't forget. I won't forget about that. H: And before my body completely wastes away, H: I'm going to repeat it once more!! So that I'll never forget!!
254) H: Chie, you're certainly frightened beyond belief right now. H: But I just can't forgive you with only this. H: I'm going to make you suffer, suffer, and then bring you down to Hell with me!! H: Chie, you more than anyone should know the reason for that!! H: After I died, whether it was a miracle or by coincidence, I somehow sprang back out of the earth!! H: Or it could be that my own tenacity in thinking about you was the thing that regenerated my body. H: I used all the strength I could muster to return to you. H: But it wasn't in order to see you again!!
255) H: It was in order to kill you!! H: Because you are the one who killed me!
256) sfx: Pashah O: Ah!? O: Madam...!!
257) O: Madam!! H: S-sir! H: Your wife...your wife is gone!! O: I thought so... O: Not only that, but the African Pygmy poisoned dart that was hanging in your room is also gone!! H: Eh!? H: Chie!! H: That sound.... sfx: vrrrooomm wind sfx: goohhhhhhh
258) C: If only you would have just stayed dead! C: If you hadn't come back to life, we'd all be living in happiness!! C: I'm going to kill you!! C: This time, for sure!!
259) C: I'll kill you!! C: You...you're the bad one! C: You are!! sfx: gyurururu
260) O: This way!! sfx: giiih sfx: ban
261) O: I knew it... O: Chie-san really did was keeping a secret in her heart regarding her ex-husband. O: By now, the package should have reached the police. Soon they'll realize whether it's truly her son's hand or not. O: After all, that hand is... O: I see her!! O: Hohoho...now I'll lift the veil of heart and find out the truth about your secret. O: But where could she be going?
268) sfx: giiii B: Aaaan!! H: Please forgive me!! But seeing you will crush my spirit. B: Aaaaaan!! H(2b): But even without that, my body is steadily disintegrating, along with my memories of Chie. sfx: ban H: Please forgive me!! H: The time for my revenge has finally come.
269) wave sfx: zuuun H: She should be here soon. sfx: brrrrrr
270) door sfx: bin C: Jun!!
272) C: Dear....!! C: I followed the directions you wrote in the letter you dropped when you took Jun, and came here alone, without telling anyone!! C: So...so please, give back Jun to me!!
273) C: You killed Jun, didn't you? You chopped his hand off...and cut the rest of his body into pieces!! C: Put him back together and return him to me! Bring him back to me alive!! H: Kukuku... H: Gugugu.... C: You can't give him back to me, can you?! C: Because you killed him!! C: Die!!
277) O: That hand was something I had at the hospital, and not Jun's...which means he is still alive. O: But where Jun is right now is something only her husband knows... O: Ah!! sfx: vroooom
278) O: Wait!! C: Where is Jun!? C: Where is he?!
279) H: Wh-what is that?!
280) wind sfx: gooooooh
281) O: Now I know where he's headed. O: If I had to guess, I'd say they're heading back to the old house in Inatori.
282) C: S-stop!! H: Faster...if I don't go faster, my memories... H: will disappear!!
283) Sign: <-- To Isu
284) sfx: kiiiiih C: Th-this place!! C: Ahhh!!
285) C: Wh-what are you doing to me!? Help me!! C: Aaaaahhh!! sfx: don C: Ah!! Grave: GRAVE OF SABUROU C: Grave of Saburou... C: Th-then this is... H: Kukuku! wind sfx: hyuuu
286) C: Ah!! Grave on the left is the same, grave on the right: GRAVE OF CHIE Grave in smaller box: GRAVE OF CHIE C: My grave...!! H: Kukukuku!! wind sfx: shuuuu x2 C: H-help me!! C: S-someone!!
289) sfx: gara H: Chie...soon I'll be gone too...and then we'll sleep together under these stones for all eternity! leg sfx: beri wind sfx: hyuuuu
290) O: My name is Orochi. O: Chie-san!! C: H-help me!! O(2b): Chie-san, answer me. What did you do? You were so sad after your husband passed away, remember?
291) O: You had a poor upbringing, but then finally met your husband, so you should have been able to live happily together. O: But then your husband was injured, and one day, he fell off a cliff and died. You cried so much for him every day after that, yet the day you found out he had come back to life, you immediately became frightened. O(2b): It was just a lie that you were sad, wasn't it?! I felt that there must be something more to this! C: Ahhh! C: Why does everyone always abuse me so much!? C: Why do I always have to end up the unhappy one!? Why does my happiness always fade away!? sfx: uuuuu H: I don't understand!! My memories are fading... H: Chie!!
292) C: Why am I the only one who can never become happy!?
293) C: Why does everyone try to ruin my happiness!? C: Ahhhhhh!! H: Chie!! sfx: gasha x2 O: I don't know... O: Human hearts are still a mystery to me.
294) C: Why am I the only one who can't become happy?! H: What the? This is the cliff I fell off and died...
295) H: Chie!! H: I don't understand!! H: My memories!! H: What did I do to Chie....... O: Chie-san!! C: Don't come any closer!! C: If you do, I'll jump off this instant!!
296) O: Chie-san!! C: Ironic, isn't it? He came walking along here that day with an injured leg. C: I followed him all that way, because I was so worried that he'd get hurt again. C: But from the bottom of my heart, I was really hoping he'd fall off the cliff and die. C: You!! Because you got into that accident, my happiness faded away all over again! C: Your injuries were so terrible! Even though you said it wasn't a big deal.... C: Once again I had to live bearing so much suffering! C: I hated that miserable life!! I wanted to become happy!
297) C: That's why I killed you!! C: That's right, it was me!! sfx: don O: Ah!!
298) C: Back then, I grabbed you just like this!! O: Stop this!! C: I'll let him go, I'll let him go!! C(2b): Then, just like this, I forced your hands off the rocks!! But it'll be different this time!! You killed Jun!! So I'll kill you!! O: No!! That hand was just something I sent from the hospital to test your reaction!! O: Ahhhhh!!
299) sfx: gashaaan
300) C: HAHAHAHA C: HAHAHA O: Wh-what have you done? Now we'll never know where Jun is... C: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
305) O: At that moment, I got a horrible feeling, and had to run away. O: More importantly, Jun! O: I have to search for Jun! O: Eventually, my legs brought me to that seashore, O: where there were some ruins. O: Could this be...
306) O(2b): I searched for Jun with all my might, and eventually found the trapdoor to a cellar in there. O: I opened the door, but heard no sound. O: Wondering if that child could really be here.... O: I opened it all the way, O: and clouds of putrid air came billowing out... sfx: giii
307) O: Ahhh!!
308) O: There lay the rotted corpse of Jun.https://mangahelpers.com/t/molokidan/releases/9154[English] [Translation] Orochi 1 by molokidan2009-01-27T12:42:19+00:00molokidanadmin@mangahelpers.comOROCHI #1
tl by molokidan
02) Sisters ... 3 Bones ... 93
05) (far right side of page): SISTERS 06) Has there ever been another happening as horrible as this?
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This is a story depicting the horrible, tenacious nature of a woman's heart so detestable, it invites otherworldy judgement.
07) wind sfx: goohhhhhh 08) O: There was a terrible storm that day.
10) doorbell sfx: zu zu zu O: The fact that I ended up living in this mansion O: was simply to avoid that storm.
11) R: Who is it? O: Ah, ma'am, there's something on your forehead... R: Ah!!
12) ?: Please come in. ?: You're the new maid the the employment office sent us, aren't you? O: Yes....my name is Orochi. ?: Orochi......? wind sfx: goooooooo
13) O: It was a fabulous house -- unmistakably one of a weathly family. ?: Please use this room as your own.
14) door creaking sfx: giiiii O: I'd like to meet the other residents of the manor, if possible... ?: Yes, I'll have to introduce you....... ?: But even so, the only ones living here are my elder sister and myself. ?: Up here is my sister's room.
15) O: Then I'll go introduce myself. door sfx: giiiiii O: Ha.... O: That's right, I have to be careful. Right now, I'm just a mere housemaid... O: Excuse me, ma'am. sfx: kon kon ?: Rumi? ?: You may come in. sfx: gih
16) ?: Wh-who are you? sfx: sah ?: I see.....so you're the new maid....... E: I'm Emi.
17) O: I'm sorry about that. There was a spider on your forehead.... E: Eh?! O: Look.... E: Ah!! sfx: potoh spider sfx: sasah sfx: sasasa sfx: katan
18) E: Understand? The deepest room......the room on the top floor, you must absolutely never go near. O: My! But why not?! E: Well....you see.... E: There's a living thing we're keeping as a pet up there.... E: It's a momento from our late father. You needn't fear for your safety, but... E: All the maids who have come so far came to have bad feelings about it and soon quit. O: Oh my... O: As she said that, I tried touching Emi-san's hands. O: It seems to be a quite a frightening, loathsome thing....the door to her heart is heavily shut. O: Something like a shadowy cloud entered my mind, but just what it was exactly wasn't completely transmitted to me.
19) O: Well then, I'll return to my room now. O: And so, I went back to my room. O: What beautiful sisters they are.....!! O: But they're hiding something in their hearts...what could it be... O: I guess it doesn't matter....whatever it is, as long as I'm here, it will soon come out.... wind sfx: gogogogo
21) sfx: ohhhhhhh sfx: ohhhhh O: That's.... door sfx: click O: Ah!! O: It's locked. O: Footsteps of someone leaving...... O: They locked it so that I can't get out. O(2 bubbles): Even so, that voice earlier seemed like it was crying.....
22) O: Finally, I awakened at dawn..... O: and the door was unlocked. O: I intended to leave immediately after thanking them for giving me a room for the night. O: I had pushed my way into the house from the start, and could still feel that feeling of reluctance to let others in from the hearts of the two sisters. O: Yes, I'll just do my work, O: erase the memory of myself from the two girls and return things to how they used to be, and then leave. O: Good morning. E: Ah, good morning. E: Oh, yes. Rumi and myself will prepare breakfast, so we'd like to have you wash the dishes instead. O: Yes ma'am......
23) O: I wonder how many years they are apart....? They do get along well, both being beautiful and all... O: Emi-san, Rumi-san, how many years apart are you? R: Eh!! sfx: gachan O: Ah!! O: Please excuse me, the plate... O: It broke into so many pieces... O: One, two, three.... O: four..... O: five, six..........
26) R: Hiiieee! E: Hiiieeeeeeee! O: Rumi is 16, and Emi is 17. O: And for some reason they're both afraid of the number 18. O: I'll have her drink some medicine to quiet her down.... R: Hiieee!
27) O: Here it is!! O: Oya?
28) O: Whose gloves could these be? O: And what strange clothes...whose could these possibly be.....? O: It looks like they're back to normal. R: I'm sorry, sister. I got even more scattered than you... R: Even though you'll be turning 18 before I do...
29) E: There's no difference. We're sisters, after all... E: Someday, once we turn 18... E: We'll become ugly!! E: Just like what happened to our mother!! E: Our mother, her mother, and every woman in the Ryuujin family!! E: Despite the fact that until they turned 18, they were so beautiful that people would gasp just upon seeing them. After that, though, they turned so ugly no one could believe they were the same person!! R: Ahhh!! E: Why did we have to be born into this family, of all things?! R: It's no use thinking like that now!!
30) E: Ah!! E: It's you!! O: I accidentally heard everything. O: But I promise not to tell anyone. O: I have no living relatives, O: so please let me work here forever.
31) O: How sad.... O: I wouldn't mind staying here to care for them forever...I could at least stay until they grow old and die...!! R: Wait!! R: Sister, don't leave me alone!! R: I'm scared!! O: Miss!!
32) R(2b): Sister must have went to see her lover, Hiroshi-san. Whenever she can't take it anymore, she goes to see him. R: Sister must be truly upset. She's always crying, deep into the night. After all, there's only one more month until her eighteenth birthday.... O: One month!? R: That's why going to see her lover, Hiroshi-san, is the only thing capable of consoling her. R(2b): But if sister leaves, what should I do!? She's the only one capable of supporting my heart!! What should I do?! R: Ahhhh!! O: Rumi-san, I'm here for you!!
33) sfx: ouuuuuuuuh sfx: hiiiii O: That's....!? R: Her spasms have started again!! sfx: hiiiiieeeeeh O: Rumi-san!
35) R: Mother!!
36) O: Ah!! O: Mother? O: Then that living thing must be their mother... M: It's you, Rumi... M: Emi....where's Emi...? R: Sister has gone out! R: Get ahold of yourself, mother!! M: Is Emi really gone? R: Yes!! M: I-I don't have much longer....my spasms.... R: Mother!! M(2b): Until the next spasms start......there's something I must tell you...something extremely important!!
37) M: And that's.... M: Auuuuuuhhh!! R: Mother!! M: Ggggh.......m-my voice.... R: Mother, hang on!! M: Y-your ear..... R: Eh!?
41) O: She's dead. O: What a sight......so this is those sisters' mother.....!!
42) O: Rumi-san!! O: What were her mother's last words....? O: It must have been something truly shocking. O: I have to let Emi-san know... O: Emi-san's portrait.... O: There.
43) O: This beautiful girl will turn into something that repulsive after one more month!! sfx: buh sfx: botoh
44) sfx: kaaaan kaaaan E: Uu!!
45) H: What's wrong, Emi-san? E: All of a sudden, my heart is acting up!! E: Farewell, Hiroshi-san! After this, we won't meet again! H: Wait!! E: Let me go!! H: Why, after we've become so close like this, haven't you introduced me to your family at least one time?! H: Why not?!
46) E: Soon, my eighteenth birthday will come, and we won't be able to see each other anymore. E: Once my birthday comes, you'll hate me!! E: That's why we can't be lovers anymore. H: What are you saying? Who could ever grow to hate such a beautiful girl as you?! H: Emi!!
48) O: She seemed to be a in a great deal of shock, so she shut herself up in her room. O: I've moved your mother's body downstairs. E: Mother! E: Wah!! O: And so, Rumi-san started caring for her older sister Emi-san....
49) O: Ah, Rumi-san. Are you feeling better now? R: Yes.... R: Where's my sister? O: Emi-san's been in her room since morning...... sfx: biri
50) R: Sister..... R: Stop looking at the calendar!! Don't think about that anymore. O: What's going on? After that incident, Rumi-san became so nice toward her sister..... O: Rumi-san, who used to be so frightened.... sfx: biiiiiiiiiiih
51) O: Who are you.....? H: My name is Hiroshi. Please let me see Emi-san. O: Eh!? O: Hiroshi-san is..... E: Eh!? E: I don't want to see him!!
52) H: Why not!? H: Why is Emi-san avoiding me?! H: Please tell me!! R: If...if my sister became ugly, would you hate her? H: Become ugly? That's impossible!! H: What is all this ridiculous talk about?! R(2b): No, please think seriously about this for a moment. If you would still love my sister even after she became ugly, then I'll tell you. H: I would!! Even if she became ugly, I would still love Emi-san!! R: Are you telling the truth?! Would you still truly love my sister?! H: It's the truth. I'm not lying!!
53) R: Then I'll tell you...when women of the Ryuujin family become 18, they turn ugly. H: Ehh!? H: What!? R: It's true...it happened to each one. R: When they turn eighteen... R: they start getting isolated moles in places like their forehead and hands, which gradually spread, until they finally cover their entire body and turn them ugly. R: It's said that girls of a certain country are very pretty until they turn eighteen, when they suddenly swell up and become fat. This truth about our family lineage is much like that.
54) H: But then why are you so especially nice to your sister, even when you're from the same family...!? R: That's because.... R: I'll tell you...the final thing my mother told me before I died. R: It was... R: It was...
55) R: ...that I am not a daughter of the Ryuujin family!! sfx: Eh?!
56) R: I am an adopted daughter!! R: That means even after I turn 18, I won't become ugly. R: These were my mother's dying words!! R: I always believed I was a daughter of the Ryuujin family, so it came as quite a shock. R: But if I had known that only my elder sister would grow up to be ugly as we were being raised... R: I wouldn't have been able to take it, knowing that while I would stay beautiful forever, my sister would grow up to become ugly, all by herself. R: That's why I've decided that no matter what, I will be as nice as I can to my sister!!
57) door: gachan R: Ah!! sfx: giii R: Ah!
58) O: Emi-san!! R: Sister, did you hear....
59) E: Rumi is not a daughter of the Ryuujin family.....!! E: Then that means I'm.....!? R: Sister!! H: There's no proof to this stupid story! Get ahold of yourself!! E: Then that means I'll.... E: Even though we were beautiful sisters together, only I will.... H: Emi-san!! sfx: don H: Ah!! E: Get out!! E: Everyone, get out!! E: Get out! Soon I'll turn ugly!! E: Then everyone will start treating me like a monster! Even you!!
60) E: Then I'll enter the room my mother was in and live a miserable life, all by myself!! E: Hahaha... E: HAHAHAHAHA E: Hahahahaha sfx: ban sfx: gah R: Ahh! E: I get it now, Rumi... E: So that's why you were being so nice to me!!
61) E: Damn you!! sfx: berih sfx(left corner) kyaah O: Emi-san, w-what are you doing?! E: Damn you!! E: Damn you!! R: Hiiee! sfx: berih sfx(lower): gan gan R: Hiiee! O: Please stop!! R: Please stop, Emi-san!! E: You bitch! You bitch!!
62) R: Don't interfere!! O: Huh!? R: Don't mind this!! Let her do as she likes!! R: It was my fault for talking about it! That's why I want to let her do this!! E: Damn you, E: Rumi! E: I won't let go! I'll never let you leave my side for your entire life!! R: Ahhh! H: Rumi-san!! O: Rumi-san!! R: Don't mind this!!
63) O: From that point, those bizarre, deranged days began... R: Gyaaaaah!! O: Those are the sounds of Rumi being abused by her sister. sfx: batah O: Rumi-san!!
64) O: Th-this is terrible. Yet even after all this, why don't you try to run from your sister's side?! O: Would you like me to handle it? I could save you as much as you like. R(2b): It's alright. I shouldn't have revealed that secret!! And if this lightens my sister's feelings even a little, then I'm fine with it. R: This has nothing to do with you. That's why I'd prefer if you just stayed out of it. R: More importantly, w-water.... O: I'll be right back with some. O: But honestly, what a terrible sister she has!! And conversely, what a good person Rumi-san is.... O: Here's your water.
65) O: If you don't move your mouth closer, the water will spil. R: It's alright! R: This water is for my sister to drink, anyway. O: Ehh!? O: Ahh!! R: Sister!! E: All I asked you to do was go get me some water! How long did you expect me to wait?!
66) E: HMPH! sfx: bashah E: You weren't thinking of running away, now were you?! R: I wasn't!! R: I wasn't!! sfx: bish bish R: Gyaah R: Kyaaaah O: And so, Emi-san's birthday drew ever nearer. E: It's horrible! E: It's horrible! E: Ahhhhh!! E: Ahhhhhhh... E: Ahhhhhh...
67) sfx(2): bashiih bashiih E: To think that I would become ugly all by myself!! sfx(2): bashiih bashiih R: Hiiee! R: Hit me!! R: If it eases your pain by hitting me, then hit me some more!! E: You bitch!! sfx: bashiih bashiih O: And then, the eve of her birthday came...
68) O: Ah!! O: Footsteps... O: Ah!!
69) sfx: giiii sfx: BATAN R: Sister!! R: Wh-what are you doing?!
70) R: Sister, what are you doing?! E: Get out of my room!! R: Eh!? E: I said get out, what don't you understand?! R: Ahhh!! sfx: don sfx(2 in last panel): baan gachah
71) R: Tomorrow, moles will start to appear on my forehead and fingers. And then, gradually...
72) R: If I'm going to become ugly anyway, R: I'd rather do it myself!!
73) sfx: Juuuuuuuun E: Augggh! R: Sister!!
74) O: Rumi-san!! O: What's that smell?! O: Please move!! R: Sister!! O: Hey, move, I said!! sfx: juuuuun sfx(bottom): Hiiiieeee!! sfx: don R: Uuu!! O: It must be locked from the inside!
77) O: The next morning... R: Poor sister.....her pain finally subsided and allowed her to sleep. R: Today is my sister's eighteenth birthday. R: Now she'll start getting moles on her forehead and fingers. sfx: zuzuuuuh
78) R: Hiroshi-san was really worried about her. What would he do if he saw her now... O: I'll take care of it!! sfx: gih O: Ah!! O: Ahh!!
79) H: I knew it!! H: I wondered whether you were still bullying Rumi-san...!! E: Hmph! Take a look at me!! H: Wahhhh!! E: I made this burn myself. E: That surprised voice of yours shows how much you lied when you said you'd love me no matter how ugly I got!! H: Y-you've gone crazy!! H: Let go of Rumi-san!!
80) E: I won't let her go! And if you move even a little, I'll shoot!! H: Don't you understand how nice Rumi-san has been to you?! E: Back there when you were talking about how you'd still love me no matter how ugly I got, you were really just trying to be sweet on Rumi, weren't you?! R: That's not true, sister!! E: You bitch!! R: Ah! H: Rumi-san, watch out!! sfx: byuuh
81) sfx: zubah R: Hiroshi-san!! E: Rumi, if you move even a little, I'll shoot you too!! E: You think I'll ever let you leave my side? To think that when you turn eighteen, you won't become ugly!!
82) E: Go on, take that man and get out of here! E: If you try anything weird, I'll kill my sister!! sfx: byuuuh sfx: puchih sfx: gachah
83) O: Rumi-san, this is your chance! Run away from your sister!! R: Sister, are you alright?! R: Are you hurt at all? R: I can't leave my sister's side! R: Get out!! R: I don't care, I want to stay at my sister's side forever!! O: Rumi-san!! R: Now hurry up and get out!!
84) O: Hmmm.... O: At that time, I should have done whatever I could to get Rumi-san out of that house. If I had, such a tragedy never would have happened.... sfx: dosah O: When she fired the arrow, it missed any vital spots. O: My wounds can be easily healed. sfx: gooooooh
85) sfx: hyuuuuuh sfx: gooooh O: I should have left that house much sooner. O: I ended up becoming unusually compassionate... O: Fufufu...whatever happens, it's none of my concern. O: But...even if I close my eyes to what happens in that house, O: no matter where I go, I will still be able to see it.
86) O: Through this portrait, I can see what's happening to the sisters at any time. sfx: pishi sfx: pishiiih R: Hmph! R: Even though your eighteenth birthday will also be here soon, only you will remain beautiful!! R: Damn you, damn you!! sfx: Kyuuu
87) O: Finally, the younger sister's eighteenth birthday came... E: I still can't believe Rumi will remain beautiful!! E: Ahhhhh! E: Ahhhhhh!! sfx: gachan E: Ahhhhhh! R: Fufufu.... R: Hahahaha!!!
88) R: Hahahahahahaha R: Hahahahahahahaha E: Rumi!! R: Sister, allow me to tell you, R: about the lie I told!! E: Eh!? R: What mother said when she died.....her dying words... R: were that the girl who was not truly her daughter was not me,
89) R: but you!! E: Ehh?! R: The daughter with Ryuujin blood running through her is me!! R: Look!! E: Geh!! R: Look, there are signs that I'm becoming ugly on my finger already... E: But that means I'm.... E: Hiiiieeeee!!
90) E: But that means, that means...what should I do about my face?! R: Hmph. R: Sister, listen carefully. It shocked you greatly to hear that I wouldn't become ugly, correct? R: We were raised as sisters, yet it turned out only one of us would become beautiful. R: Therefore you came to hate me! R: All your jealousy and hatred gave me the same amount of shock!! R: That's why I lied to you!! R: I refused to let you stay beautiful all by yourself!! R: In the end, you made yourself ugly!! R: I suffered through all that humiliation, never leaving your side, as I waited for the day to come when I could confess it all to you!!
91) E: Hiiiieeeeeeee H: At that moment, the youth, whose wounds had healed, stopped by their house. H: Wrenching open the tightly-locked door, he stepped inside.
92) H: There, he saw the older sister, who had died in hysteria after being driven past the limits of fear... H: and standing next to her, a strange, grotesque woman.