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- Subject: "New Vampire Miyu" translation, v.1 ch.1
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- Here it is, all 180 pages of it. (I was too burned-out to finish the
- 30-page backup story, but this is the entirety of the main thread.)
- Usual disclaimers about commercial use of copyrighted work, no claims
- of suitability for any purpose, I'm doing this while I learn Japanese
- so there *WILL BE INACCURACIES*, etc.
-
- Constructive comments, *particularly* on any gross mistakes, are
- welcome. ("Mistakes? What mistakes? Those were all...so it would
- sound more colloquial! Yeah, that's it!" :-) I have no pride.
-
- BTW, I will *not* have to work on Yui after all -- someone else is
- working on both volumes. "Happy happy happy! Joy joy joy!" :-)
-
- ---------------------------- >8 cut here 8< ----------------------------
- New Vampire Miyu, Volume 1 - Chapter 1: The Western Shinma
- written by Hirano Toshihiro and Kakinouchi Narumi
- illustrated by Kakinouchi Narumi
- copyright 1992 by Hirano Toshihiro and Kakinouchi Narumi
-
- translation (such as it is) by Paul M. Aoki (aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU)
- $Revision: 1.0 $ of $Date: 1992/11/23 09:12:15 $
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- NOTES
-
- 1. I use the following markings:
- [] = textual comment
- {} = translator's comment
- <> = "sound" (or action) FX
- "" = speech
- (x,y) = page x, panel y
- 2. Some notes on a few of the Western Shinma:
- CAIT SITH - Since he is named for the monstrous Celtic fairy
- cat (note: "Sith" is pronounced "shee"), it's not
- surprising that his attack consists of a pack of
- cat-headed wraiths.
- NIGHT GIA - A shaper of dreams, like Baku (on whom Raen, from
- OAV 1, is based). He's not actually Baku, though
- someone calls him that at one point in the story.
- PAZUSU - The undisputed leader of the Western Shinma, the
- Arabic-looking Pazusu is often addressed as
- "Pazusu-sama," "Pazusu-dono" or even just "Master."
- WATER LIPPER - A standard-issue water nixie (pale, webbed
- extremities, etc.)
- 3. I couldn't come up with a word for "makai" ("spirit/magic world")
- that sounded right, so (as with "shinma") I left it as-is. Ditto
- for "mashujutsu" -- it's something like "exorcism," literally
- "magical operation."
- 4. The weird writing (e.g., @#$%^&*) in the second half of the book
- is not swearing, it's a way to represent the incantations that were
- originally written in...well, weird writing.
- 5. We know that Miyu's chronological age is at least 30 even though
- her physiological age is 13. Carlua and Lemunia were very young
- children when Larva left for Japan, putting them in their mid-20s.
- They are not more than a few years younger than Miyu, and in fact
- they appear just a few years older (mid- to late-teens).
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (7,1) [In the dim, cold world of the Dark, the spirits sleep. The
- time does not pass peacefully. People with troubled hearts
- summon the spirits from the makai, and these spirits stray
- into the world of humans and exploit them. The Japanese
- Shinma have a hunter for their strays and a guardian of their
- sleep -- Vampire Miyu.]
- (8,2) <haa haa> {gasps}
- (8,3) <za!> {rushing through foliage}
-
- A hooded man runs, panic-stricken, along a forest path. He is being
- pursued by a taller hooded figure wearing a pale mask. The torii gate
- of a shrine marks the end of the path ahead of them.
-
- (8,4) <to...n> {thump}
-
- A girl lands lightly on a wooden beam.
-
- (9,2) <za za za>
- (9,4) <ha...>
-
- The man being pursued halts, gasping in horror at the sight of the
- young girl now perched on the cross-beam of the torii. The girl is
- pale, pretty and very young in appearance, perhaps thirteen. She
- wears plain white yukata trimmed in scarlet -- hair-ribbon, sash,
- slip, ankle-ribbon, all bright red. {Note, Stanford fans, it's
- scarlet and white, not cardinal and white!} She stares with golden
- eyes at the panting man, smiling faintly at his distress, her ponytail
- fluttering in the breeze.
-
- (10,1) [New Vampire Miyu: The Western Shinma, Chapter 1]
- (12,1) <tan>
- (12,2) <fuwa!>
-
- The girl leaps off of the beam and descends lightly to the ground.
-
- (13,1) Miyu: "I am Miyu..."
- (13,2) <sui>
- (13,3) <pou> {burst of flame}
-
- A flame appears in her hand, and several others appear around the man
- as well.
-
- (13,3) Miyu: "...vampire warder of the Dark."
- (13,5) Larva: "Return the stray shinma to the Dark..."
- (14,1) <bo...po...bo...> {flame crackling}
- (14,3) Miyu: "Bye bye!"
- (14,3) <ni...> {"niko" = "smile" FX}
- (15,2) <bashii> {crash}
- (16,1) <goooo>
-
- The crackling flames engulf her quarry (now revealed by his pointed
- ears and extra eye as something other than human), then subside. But
- another figure watches from the trees...
-
- (16,5) <kasa> {rustling leaves}
- (16,5) shinma: --Miyu.
- (17,1) shinma: Warder of stray shinma.
- (17,1) Miyu: "C'mon, Larva."
- (17,2) shinma: Miyu...
- (17,3) <basa!> {flapping wings}
- (17,4) Miyu: "Who's calling?"
-
- The spying figure, a bird with a man's head, crashes out of the trees
- and soars into the sky.
-
- (17,4) <basa basa>
- (17,5) Miyu: "What, a bird...?"
- (18,1) Miyu: "What do you think, Larva..."
- (18,2) Miyu: "Just now...did you hear a voice call me?"
- (18,3) Larva: "No, I..."
- (18,4) Miyu: "I see."
- (19,1) Miyu: "Well, let's go. C'mon!"
- (19,2) shinma: --Miyu.
- (19,3) shinma: Miyu. Vampire Miyu.
-
- On a cold winter day, bundled-up Japanese teenagers troop off to enjoy
- another fulfilling day of high school. Two girls, one with a familiar
- scarlet-wrapped ponytail and another with short hair and glasses, walk
- together. Another (somewhat insipid-looking) girl runs up to catch up
- with them.
-
- (20,2) Asako: "Hiiiii!"
- (20,3) friend: "Oh, hi!"
- Asako: "Cold, isn't it?"
- (20,4) Asako: "Hi, Miyu. The day'll go by slowly, don't you think?"
- (20,5) Miyu: "Oh?"
- Asako: "But then, you're always the biggest brain in the
- classroom, aren't you!"
- (21,1) Asako: "Done with your literature assignment?"
- Miyu: "Uh huh."
- Asako: "C'mon, let me copy it, please?"
- friend: "Not again! You've done this a lot since she moved
- here."
- (21,2) <kusu!> {giggle}
- (21,2) Miyu: (to friend) "It's all right..."
- (21,3) Asako: "But Miyu has a good head for this stuff..."
- (21,4) friend: "Wouldn't it still make more sense for you to do your
- own homework?"
- (21,5) Asako: Yeah, yeah, Madam Head-of-the-Class-Committee.
- You'll get yours.
- (21,5) <un>
-
- Asako nods to herself and turns to run off.
-
- (21,6) friend: "Asako!"
- (21,6) <kyahaha>
- (21,6) Asako: "See you later. I have to find someone to copy my
- math assignment from."
- (21,7) friend: "Asakoo! You... Aa!"
- (22,1) friend: "Asako! Ahead of y--"
- (22,1) <don!>
- (22,1) Asako: "Kyaa!"
-
- Asako looks ahead of her just in time to mash her face against a man's
- back.
-
- (22,2) Asako: "Oh, geez...I ran into someone?"
- (22,3) Hanyuu: "Are you alright?"
-
- Talk about handsome! Miyu stares. Asako burbles. Miyu's friend
- gives up on Asako.
-
- (22,5) friend: "What an airhead."
- Asako: (thinking out loud) "Oh, COOL!" {actually "suteki,"
- but...}
- (to Hanyuu) "Sorry."
- Hanyuu: "No, that's all right."
- (23,1) friend: "What a situation."
- (23,2) friend: "Miyu, you shouldn't have said it was all right. That
- girl's taking advantage of you."
- (23,3) <niko!>
- (23,3) Miyu: "It's *is* all right. If she has to cheat on the
- homework, how can she be understanding enough to do
- well in the class?"
- (23,4) friend: "That's true, isn't it."
-
- In the classroom, the seeraa-fuku bishoujo find a surprise...
-
- (23,5) Hanyuu: "Good morning, everyone."
- (23,6) Hanyuu: "I'm the new teacher, Mr. Hannyu. Your teacher became
- ill and was hospitalized. I am Mr. Miuchi's
- substitute."
- (24,1) Hanyuu: "Pleased to meet you."
- (24,2) <fui>
-
- Miyu sighs, preoccupied, cupping her chin with her hand. Asako is
- ecstatic.
-
- (24,3) Asako: The guy from this morning turned out to be the new
- teacher. Haha, what a lucky turn of events!
- (24,4) <ko!>
- (24,5) <kon>
-
- Miyu is still daydreaming as Mr. Hanyuu comes up from behind her and
- raps on her desk.
-
- (24,6) Hanyuu: "Where have I seen you before?"
- (25,1) Hanyuu: "You're the model student I heard about from Mr.
- Miuchi. Are you acting like this because you dislike
- my teaching?"
- (25,2) Miyu: "No..."
- (25,3) Hanyuu: "Well, please come to the teachers' room after class.
- I want some help in arranging some reports."
- (25,4) Miyu: "Yes, sir."
- (25,5) Miyu: Larva...Larva, can you hear my voice?
-
- Meanwhile, in a field...
-
- (25,5) <saa>
- (26,1) <saku> {walking through grass}
- (26,2) <saku saku>
- (26,2) Larva: "Miyu..."
-
- And later, in the hall...
-
- (26,3) <ko!...>
- (26,4) SIGN: "TEACHERS' ROOM - LITERATURE" {shiryou shitsu - kobun}
- {"shiryou" = "data/material," but teachers do their
- paperwork and prepare for upcoming classes as well
- as store their books/notes in this sort of room.}
- (26,4) <kon kon>
- (27,1) Miyu: "Mr. Hanyuu, may I come in?"
- (27,2) Hanyuu: "Uh, Yamano? Yes, come on in."
- (27,2) <kacha>
-
- Mr. Hanyuu is fumbling with a stack of binders, trying to reorganize
- and shelve them.
-
- (27,3) Miyu: "Excuse me."
- (27,3) <gon go...>
- (27,4) Hanyuu: "Bring me those files on the desk."
- Miyu: "Yes, sir..."
- (27,5) <kata...>
- (27,6) <ku!>
- (27,6) Hanyuu: "You're...Yamano *Miyu*?"
-
- Surprise! Evidently he really did recognize her from somewhere. Well,
- nothing to do but try to brazen it out. Miyu smiles as she hands Mr.
- Hanyuu his files.
-
- (28,1) Miyu: "That's right, sir!"
- Hanyuu: "Thanks."
- (28,2) <niko!>
- (28,2) Miyu: "Where did you learn my name?"
- (28,3) Miyu: "It was Tanaka Miyu before, and you might have heard
- of Satou Miyu, and then there was Hayashi, and
- Yamamoto, Shimada, Hirano, and so many others..."
- {Yes, "Hirano" is written with the same kanji as in
- "Hirano Toshihiro."}
- Hanyuu: "So..."
- (28,4) Hanyuu: "...which is it, really?"
-
- Momentary blank look.
-
- (28,6) Miyu: (smiling) "I seem to have forgotten."
- (29,1) Miyu: "What are you going to do now? You could get me in
- trouble."
- (29,2) Miyu: "I haven't been a good girl, but that doesn't mean you
- have to turn me out into the dark...?"
- {note: I had trouble with these two frames.}
-
- Hanyuu chuckles and goes back to organizing his books and papers.
-
- (29,3) <ku ku!>
- (29,3) Hanyuu: "No, no! I'm just a substitute teacher."
- (29,4) Hanyuu: "You're a good kid."
- (29,4) <pyon!>
-
- Miyu sits on a nearby table.
-
- (29,4) Miyu: Oh, is that so...
- (30,1) Miyu: "Isn't there something you want from me?"
-
- Miyu smiles sweetly at Hanyuu. Hanyuu gives her an appreciative
- sidelong look.
-
- (30,3) <ko! ko!>
- (30,4) <kacha>
- (30,4) Asako: "Teacher! I decided to help you arrange your stuff!"
- (30,5) Asako: "Having lots of people is better than having just one,
- isn't it?"
- (30,6) Hanyuu: "Much obliged, but...well, your assignment was totally
- copied from Miyu's."
- (31,1) Asako: "HUUUHH!?"
- (31,2) Asako: "MIYU! You ratted on me?"
- Miyu: "Uh uh, did not."
- (31,3) Hanyuu: "She didn't have to, I understood after one look at what
- you turned in. End of discussion."
- (31,4) Hanyuu: "Go back to the classroom and redo your assignment.
- I'll be right there."
- (31,5) Miyu: He's a shinma...but not a stray shinma. There doesn't
- seem to be any purpose behind his appearance here...
- or is there...? What will he do next? He can't have
- come here just to be near me.
- (32,1) Hanyuu: "We can't get to know each other at school. Tonight
- at the shrine...I want to meet you there."
-
- It's a windy night at the forest shrine. As Miyu approaches the
- torii, she notices a black feather and picks it up, only to have it
- blow out of her hand.
-
- (32,4) <saku saku>
- (32,5) <tsu...ku>
- (33,2) <su...>
- (33,3) <hyuu> {wind blowing}
- (33,4) shinma: "Good evening."
-
- It's the bird-shinma from page 19! He perches on the torii cross-beam,
- right where Miyu was sitting on page 10.
-
- (34,1) shinma: "I'm so glad you came alone."
- (34,2) <basa!>
- (34,3) <basa basa>
- (34,4) <pui!>
- (34,4) Miyu: "I don't like you watching from up there."
- (35,1) Miyu: "Besides...that's a favorite place of mine."
- (35,2) shinma: "How rude of me!"
- (35,3) <basa>
- (35,3) shinma: "Hahaha...you're troubled by my interruption of the
- rendezvous with your handsome lover to which you came
- so faithfully. Weren't you coming here to be with me
- for a while?"
- {I guess "hansamu," used as a noun, isn't *quite*
- "handsome lover," but what the heck.}
- (35,4) <ha...>
-
- Miyu looks more closely at the bird-shinma, and realizes that it has
- the same face as her erstwhile teacher.
-
- (36,1) Miyu: "What do you want with me?"
- (36,2) Miyu: "You're making me angry!"
- (36,3) Hanyuu: "By all means, feel free to be angry. You'll try to
- send me back to the Dark anyway."
- (36,4) <kaa!>
- (36,5) <ba!>
- (36,6) <gu!>
- (37,1) <buu>
-
- Miyu ignites a ball of flame, throws ...
-
- (37,2) <nika>
- (37,3) <basa>
- (38,1) <fuo>
-
- ...and the bird-shinma, grinning, dodges.
-
- (38,1) Hanyuu: "Oh, now..."
- (38,4) <basa!>
-
- The bird-shinma stoops. One of his feet has talons, and he grabs for
- Miyu but slashes her upraised arm.
-
- (39,5) Miyu: "I'm hurt..."
- (39,6) Miyu: "My...blood."
- (39,7) <paro> (Miyu licks her bleeding arm.)
- (40,1) Miyu: "I'll have to do something about this cut on my
- arm..."
- (40,2) Miyu: "I won't forgive you for this!"
- (40,3) <ku ku>
-
- The bird-shinma laughs and prepares to stoop again.
-
- (40,4) Hanyuu: "Here I come, Miyu!"
- (40,5) <sharu>
- (41,1) <sara>
-
- Miyu whips off her hair ribbon.
-
- (41,2) Miyu: "COME ON!"
- (42,2) <shuru...ru>
- (42,3) <basa!>
-
- Miyu uses her ribbon just as Ranka used her obi in OAV 2, snaring the
- bird-shinma's claw.
-
- (42,4) Miyu: "You won't escape."
- (42,5) <pishi...>
-
- She begins to haul in the struggling bird-shinma. Unlike Miyu in OAV
- 2, Hanyuu is unable to break the strip of cloth.
-
- (43,1) <bata bata>
- (43,1) Hanyuu: "Whaa...?"
- (43,2) Miyu: "I'm ANGRY with you, you fool." {"o-baka-san"}
- (43,3) Miyu: "Well, you're struggling too much and you're too
- close..."
- (43,5) <buu>
-
- Miyu ignites another ball of flame and drags the bird-shinma into it.
-
- (43,5) Miyu: "Does that hurt?"
- (43,4) <gi>
- (43,5) Miyu: "I might have spared a ``handsome lover''..."
-
- Having dragged the bird-shinma to the ground, Miyu finds herself at
- the end of her ribbon. She yanks him down to a rough landing.
-
- (44,1) Miyu: "Well, this is the end!"
- (44,2) <mera>
- (44,3) <gui!>
- (44,4) <dosa>
- (44,4) Miyu: "Now, back to the Dark, like a GOOD BOY."
- (45,1) <shuuu...>
- (45,2) Hanyuu: "You might not expect this, but I'm not going to say
- anything bad."
- (45,3) Hanyuu: "I didn't do this without reason, warder of shinma."
- Miyu: "Prepare yourself."
- (45,4) <pu>
-
- Miyu, annoyed by his verbosity, lights another fireball.
-
- (45,4) Miyu: "You've spilled my blood, which I simply cannot
- permit. I'm going to burn you to ashes."
- (45,5) <sui>
- (46,1) <pashi!>
-
- But Larva catches her arm as she prepares to throw the fireball.
-
- (46,2) Larva: "That's enough, isn't it, Miyu?"
- (46,3) Larva: "We should let him finish."
- (47,1) Miyu: "Larva...?"
- (47,2) Larva: "Yes?"
- (47,3) Miyu: (pouting) "...you're late."
- (47,4) Larva: "I'm sorry, I hadn't realized how much time had
- passed. His mind sent out confusion, and it finally
- forced its way into mine."
- (47,5) Larva: "He felt as if he needed to learn what your strength
- was, alone."
- Miyu: "What? I..."
- (47,6) Hanyuu: --Miyu.
- (48,1) Hanyuu: From our sea makai, a ship...a threat to the Japanese
- Shinma...
- (48,2) Miyu: "Ship?"
- (48,3) Miyu: "What?"
- (48,3) <basa>
- (48,4) Miyu: "It's...it's what?"
- (48,5) Hanyuu: A...ship...
-
- Flashback...a sailing ship looms out of the fog, moving forward even
- though its sails hang in tatters. Its rigging and hull gently creak
- as it makes its way through the calm seas. Hanyuu and his mate, Saya,
- fly ahead of the ship.
-
- (49,2) Hanyuu: "A western ghostship..."
- (49,2) <kii> {creaking}
- (49,3) Hanyuu: "I wonder if there's anyone left on board?"
-
- A hooded figure in black materializes in the prow of the ghostship.
-
- (49,4) Hanyuu: "Shall we go and take a closer look?"
- Saya: "Well..."
- (49,5) Hanyuu: "Aa, something glinted?"
-
- The hooded figure, which can now be made out as female, walks out over
- the stem and onto the bowsprit, passing beyond the crudely-carved
- figurehead. The wind blows a stray lock of golden hair from her hood.
-
- (50,1) <kii>
- (50,1) Hanyuu: "A shinma? No, it can't be."
-
- The hooded female strides out along the bowsprit and onto the jib
- boom. The jibs are draped on their sheets and the jib boom, blowing
- in shreds like the rest of the sails.
-
- (50,3) Saya: "At the end of the boom...what type of...blond?"
- (50,4) Hanyuu: "--A woman?"
- (50,4) <giii gii>
- (51,1) Hanyuu: "She's masked!"
- (51,2) Saya: "Alone...? No, there's more of them."
- (51,3) Hanyuu: "My...my body won't move!"
- Saya: "Nooo...I'm being drawn toward the ship!"
- (51,4) Hanyuu: "Western Shinma!"
- (51,4) <su>
-
- The hooded woman opens her hand and a small, transparent sphere
- appears in it. Fiery tendrils shoot out and surround Saya, drawing
- her toward the ship.
-
- (52,1) Carlua: "Come..."
- Saya: "NOOOO!!!"
- (52,2) Carlua: "Hahaha...Welcome into my crystal ball."
- (52,3) <ku ku!>
-
- The hooded woman laughs as Saya is drawn completely into her sphere.
- Saya has been shrunk to the size of Carlua's hand.
-
- (53,1) Saya: "KYAAAA!!!"
- (53,2) Hanyuu: "SAYA!"
- (53,3) Saya: "Flee, Hanyuu!"
- (53,3) <basa>
-
- Hanyuu discovers that he can flap again, but he remains, helpless to
- save his mate.
-
- (53,4) Hanyuu: "Darling...I can't leave you!"
- (53,4) <basa basa>
- (53,5) Saya: "FLEEE!"
- (54,2) Hanyuu: Saya! Saya's gone...
- (54,3) <gu..>
- (54,4) <bu...>
-
- The hooded woman closes her fist, causing the sphere...and Saya's tiny
- figure...to vanish. She looks down at her hand, as if unable to
- believe the ease with which she defeated the bird-shinma.
-
- (54,5) Hanyuu: "Saya!"
- (54,6) Carlua: "How absurd. Are the Japanese Shinma like this, after
- all?"
- (55,1) Carlua: (looking at Hanyuu) "And yet, why is he..."
- (55,2) Hanyuu: "Sa...ya. The masked woman is a sorceress..."
- (55,3) Hanyuu: "My beloved Saya..."
- (55,4) Saya: (mental echoes) "FLEE. --FLEE!"
- (55,5) Hanyuu: --So I fled, barely escaping alive...but for what
- reason?
- (56,1) Hanyuu: To ask for revenge!
- (56,2) <shuuu>
- (56,2) Hanyuu: It was in order to enlist your strength that I
- sacrificed my life. Vampires are...known to be the
- elite of the shinma.
- (56,3) Miyu: "Hmph, and pretty selfish shinma."
- (56,4) <chu>
- (56,4) Miyu: "Your little revenge-drama doesn't appeal to me.
- Western Shinma...really."
- (56,5) Miyu: Larva...?
- (57,1) <fu...>
- (57,1) Hanyuu: I beg you...Miyu. The Western Shinma are landing in
- the Japanese makai.
- (57,2) <sara>
- (57,2) Miyu: "Hmph. In Japan, indeed."
- (57,3) <saaa...>
- (57,3) Miyu: "C'mon, Larva."
- Larva: "--All right."
-
- The ghostship, of course, continues to approach Japan.
-
- (57,4) <kii...>
- (58,1) Carlua: "--Miyu. Just wait; this cold, deep magical
- sea...will engulf you." {lit. "you will be sunk
- into"}
- (59,1) <giii>
- (59,3) <kii>
-
- Flashback. Carlua is a young child, waist-high, standing in a field
- of tall grass. A man walks through the field and, seeing the crying
- girl, walks toward her.
-
- (59,5) <saku...>
- (60,1) <saku>
- (60,3) <saku saku>
- (60,4) <kasa>
- (60,4) man: "What's wrong? Are you trying to play hide-and-seek
- here?"
- (61,1) <saku saku saku>
- (61,1) Carlua: "Don't treat me like a child, or I'll get angry."
- man: "You wanted to see me?"
- (61,2) Carlua: "That's right!"
- (61,3) Carlua: "Grownups always try to leave me out of things."
- (61,4) Carlua: "But you've been packing without any of your friends
- noticing. Pretty tricky, aren't you."
- (61,5) man: "Not very brave, am I? You..."
- (61,5) <saaa>
-
- On the ghostship, the Western Shinma have sighted a foggy coastline.
- A massive torii decorated with two shining orbs rises above the fog.
-
- (62,1) <kii...>
- (62,2) <giii...>
- (62,4) Cait Sith: "It's..."
- (63,2) Cait Sith: "...the gateway to the Japanese makai."
- (63,4) <ka!...>
- (63,5) <ka! ko!...ko!...>
- (63,5) Night Gia: "The only..."
- (64,1) Night Gia: "...gate?"
- (64,2) Pazusu: "Destroy, break or tear off those two
- horn-jewels...and the gate will be open."
- (64,3) Water Lipper: "We can easily do that."
- (65,1) Amy: "The problem is...there's a guardian."
- (65,1) <piku...>
- (65,3) Carlua: "--Miyu?"
- (65,4) Spartoi: "That's all right."
- (66,1) Spartoi: "We'll get inside."
- (66,1) Carlua: "I understand Miyu's pride."
- (66,2) <ku>
- (66,3) Cait Sith: "Haha..."
- (66,4) Cait Sith: "Pretty Carlua."
- (66,5) Cait Sith: "Thinking of Larva again. How you suffer."
- (67,1) Lemunia: "It always comes back to Miyu, doesn't it."
- (67,2) Amy: "Doesn't it, Carlua...?"
- (67,3) <kii...>
-
- Nettled by the taunts of her comrades, Carlua strides off and prepares
- to teleport into the Japanese makai. Someone has to take care of
- Miyu...
-
- (67,5) <ka!>
- (68,1) <ka! ka!>
- (68,1) Carlua: "I'm going."
- (68,1) <fu fu fu>
-
- Cait Sith snickers.
-
- (68,2) <ka! ka! ka!...>
- (68,3) <pa!>
-
- Two of the older and wiser members of the expedition cut her off.
- Pazusu grabs Carlua's hand.
-
- (68,3) Pazusu: "--Carlua."
- (68,4) <tsuku chaki>
- (68,4) Pazusu: "What are you doing?"
- (68,5) <ton>
- (68,5) Night Gia: "Better to be calm, don't you think, Carlua?"
- (69,1) Night Gia: "Leave it to me."
- Carlua: "But..."
- (69,2) Night Gia: "Larva has become Miyu's friend for some reason,
- hasn't he?"
- Carlua: "That's..."
- (69,3) Carlua: "Larva..."
- (69,4) Spartoi: "Was Larva's being a man why...?"
- (69,5) Pazusu: "Night Gia will go, Carlua...even so.
- (70,1) Pazusu: "You...shouldn't go out just yet."
- (70,3) Carlua: "Yes...I understand, master."
- (70,4) Lemunia: "I'll go with ``Baku.''"
- (70,5) Lemunia: (to Night Gia) "That OK?"
- (71,1) Night Gia: "Fine...Will our precious kiddies eventually go
- into battle?"
- (71,1) <kyuu>
-
- Night Gia, pulling on his gloves, gets a dirty look from Carlua.
-
- (71,2) Cait Sith: "Just leave Miyu to me."
- (71,3) Cait Sith: "We'll tear this place apart!"
- (71,4) <su...>
- (71,4) Water Lipper: "--Well..."
- (71,6) Water Lipper: "...as for me..."
- (71,7) <fuku chabu>
-
- Wasting no time, Water Lipper begins to prepare her attack. The ocean
- stirs.
-
- Miyu wakes up in her room, at first hearing only the wind blowing
- through the trees outside.
-
- (72,1) Larva: Miyu. --Miyu.
- (72,2) <saku...>
- (72,3) <kata kata>
-
- She opens the shoji and steps outside, but Larva is not there.
-
- (72,3) Larva: Miyu...
- (72,4) Miyu: "Larva...?"
- (72,5) Miyu: "What is it, Larva?"
- (73,1) <piku...>
- (73,1) Larva: --Miyu.
-
- A wave of sadness overcomes her, a single tear running down her face.
-
- (73,3) Miyu: What? Why am I crying? I--
-
- Suddenly, Miyu is a little girl of six or seven. She sees Pipi, her
- pet bird, in the grass. But as she bends over to pick him up...
-
- (73,4) Miyu: Aa...
- (73,5) Miyu: Little bird...
- (73,6) Miyu: --cold and stiff.
- (73,7) Miyu: "He's dead."
- (73,8) <u! u...>
-
- Miyu-chan begins to sob, pressing Pipi's body to her chest.
-
- (73,8) Miyu: "My little bird..."
- (73,8) Larva: Miyu.
- (74,1) Larva: Miyu...
-
- Miyu-chan looks up and sees Larva.
-
- (74,3) Miyu: "Who is it? Who are you?"
- (74,4) Larva: Why are you crying?
- (74,5) Miyu: "My little bird...he's dead."
- Larva: This life is not eternal, so our time here is
- precious. {lit. "utsukushii" = "beautiful"}
- (74,6) Larva: But that little bird has finished his precious moments
- here--and gone on.
- (75,1) <u!...u...uku...>
- (75,1) Miyu: "Well...will this little bird live here with me again
- someday?"
- (75,2) <paro paro>
-
- Miyu-chan presses Pipi to her cheek as she begins to sob again. Larva
- pats her on the head.
-
- (75,2) Larva: "He lives."
- (75,3) <u! u>
- (75,3) Miyu: "He's cold! He shouldn't be like that when I pet
- him."
- (75,4) Miyu: "Make him warm again! Make him warm again! He's
- cold and stiff...My little bird doesn't move."
- (75,5) Miyu: --Larva. Larva...
-
- Larva is replaced by the smiling face of Night Gia.
-
- (75,6) Night Gia: --Miyu.
- (76,1) Night Gia: "Welcome to my dream."
- (76,1) <biku...>
- (76,2) Night Gia: "Haha...pretty sweet dreams you have, Miyu."
- (76,3) Miyu: (shocked) "You were..."
- (76,3) <kaa!>
- (76,4) Night Gia: "I am the Western Shinma, Night Gia. I shape dreams."
- (77,1) <tan>
- (77,1) Miyu: "Western..."
- (77,2) Miyu: "...Shinma."
- (77,3) Miyu: He saw my dream?
- "You...shape dreams?"
- (77,3) <pou>
-
- As Miyu starts to become angry, Lemunia materializes behind her.
-
- (77,3) Lemunia: "There's more!"
- (77,5) Lemunia: "You're getting careless, Miyu! In the dream
- world, you have no chance of winning."
- (78,1) Lemunia: "I am...Lemunia."
- (78,2) Miyu: "Lemunia...?"
- (78,3) Lemunia: "Who do you think I resemble? Have you forgotten?"
- (78,4) Lemunia: "I'm Lemures's younger brother."
- (78,5) Miyu: Lemures's...
- (79,1) Miyu: --Lemures. Who tried to claim back Larva for the
- Western Shinma. Who was once Larva's friend...
- "This is...a dream? It hurts..."
-
- She presses her hands against her head.
-
- (79,1) <zuki...>
- (79,2) Miyu: That's it! I'm trapped in my dream.
-
- But now Night Gia shifts her into another dream. Miyu dreams of her
- first encounter with Larva. She recoils from Larva, her hand
- slashed.
-
- (79,3) Larva: I found you in time.
- {There's another short sentence, but I couldn't
- translate "kousubeki" (written in hiragana only).}
- (79,4) Miyu: "Aa!"
- (80,1) Miyu: "Blood... My...blood."
- (80,2) Larva: "Yes...it's your blood. Go to sleep."
- (80,3) Larva: "Sleep."
- Miyu: "N-NO!"
- (80,4) Miyu: Again...a dream? My...
- (80,5) Miyu: "NO!"
-
- Miyu reaches around Larva's neck and bites his neck.
-
- (81,1) Miyu: "Larva..."
- --dream!
- (81,5) Miyu: A bitter...dream.
- (82,1) Miyu: Larva...my first man.
- {The kanji read "emono" ("catch," in the hunting
- sense), but the furigana read "hito" (man or
- person).}
- (82,2) Miyu: I... Larva...
-
- Strengthened by her recollection of Larva, Miyu fights free of the
- dream long enough to call out with her thoughts.
-
- (82,2) Miyu: --Larva!
- Night Gia: "You're bewildered by your dream. Hahaha, aren't
- you enjoying it?"
-
- Larva, standing in a grassy field, hears Miyu's call and races toward
- it.
-
- (82,3) <za! za za>
- (83,1) <za za>
- (83,1) Larva: Miyu...? Miyu's calling me?
- (83,2) <za za>
- (83,4) Larva: What could it be?
- (83,6) <buu...>
-
- A hooded, masked figure materializes in the field ahead of him, then
- walks toward him.
-
- (83,7) Larva: !?
- (83,8) <za>
- (84,1) <za za za>
- (84,2) <tsukua>
- (85,1) <shauuu>
- (85,2) Carlua: "--Larva...I wanted to meet you."
- (85,3) Larva: "You..."
- (86,1) Larva: "You're...?"
- (86,2) Carlua: "Miyu...is who you see in your dreams."
- (86,3) Carlua: "How sad...you have been fouled with Miyu's blood."
- (87,1) Larva: "Miyu...Even so, what is Miyu to you?"
- (87,3) Carlua: "I will not forgive her...that shinma who has
- degenerated into something like a human..."
- (87,4) Carlua: "You are..."
-
- She lowers her hood, then her mask...
-
- (88,1) Carlua: "...important to me, Larva..."
- Larva: CARLUA!
- (89,1) <saku>
- (89,2) Larva: "Car...lua?"
- (89,3) Carlua: "You're...Carlua?"
- (89,4) <so...ro>
- (89,5) Carlua: "Larva..."
-
- Larva briefly recalls the last time he saw Carlua as a waist-high
- child. Moving closer, Carlua touches him for the first time in
- twenty-odd years.
-
- (90,1) Carlua: "Yes, it's really Carlua...your ``little sister.''"
- (90,2) Carlua: "--So long ago..."
- (90,3) Carlua: "I waited, but you were so late in coming back...."
- (90,3) Carlua: "...I..."
-
- She wraps her arms around his neck.
-
- (91,1) Carlua: "...I came for you, Larva. --Larva."
- (91,2) Carlua: "Larva..."
-
- Flashback, again. Little Carlua is holding Larva tightly around his
- waist.
-
- (91,3) <saku> <saku saku>
- (91,3) Larva: "You're a brave child, you..."
- (91,3) Carlua: "I'm not a child."
- (92,1) Carlua: "We won't meet for a long time, will we?"
- (92,3) Carlua: "What? Why aren't you saying anything?"
- (92,4) Larva: "You...Well, you said you're all grown up now."
- Carlua: "That's what I said!"
- Larva: "Well, then I can just give you the straight
- explanation."
- (92,5) Larva: "I'm going to Japan."
- (93,1) <kyu...>
- (93,2) Carlua: "Ja...Japan?"
- (93,3) Carlua: "Japan...what..."
- (93,4) <ku...>
- (93,5) Carlua: "Larva...you're going to come back safely, aren't
- you?"
- (93,6) Larva: "Naturally, Carlua!"
- Carlua: "It can't be helped, can it."
-
- Giving in to the inevitable, little Carlua turns and walks a few steps
- away so that Larva will not see her tears.
-
- (94,1) Carlua: "I'll pass the time as Lemunia's friend. One gets
- tired of child friends, but it can't be helped, can
- it."
- (94,2) Carlua: "Larva's not here anymore."
- (94,3) <saku saku>
- (94,4) Larva: "Carlua, be a good girl."
- Carlua: (angry, crying) "DON'T TREAT ME LIKE A CHILD!!"
- (94,4) <kyu!>
-
- Back at the torii, Water Lipper is making the first attempt to destroy
- the gate.
-
- (94,5) <saaaa... yuu...>
- (95,1) <chapu...>
- (95,3) <zava...>
- (95,4) <jau...>
- (95,5) <bashuu...>
- (96,1) <ku ku ku>
- (96,1) Water Lipper: "Well, I'm done ``filling the package''..."
- (96,1) <goooo>
- (96,2) Water Lipper: "Absent guardian and gate alike...just toys."
- (96,3) <fu fu>
- (96,4) <pi...pishi>
- (97,2) <zaaaa>
-
- Water Lipper delivers her "package," a small tsunami...but the torii
- still stands. Water Lipper calls off the waves and stands back.
-
- (97,3) Water Lipper: "Who's next?"
- (97,4) Spartoi: "I AM!!"
- (97,5) <kira>
-
- Spartoi's dragon begins to unwind itself from his shoulders. It grows
- from a man-sized snake into a full-sized, horned monster.
-
- (98,1) <gugu>
- (98,2) <shaaa>
- (98,3) Spartoi: "All right! Show them that your strength is not
- less than that of the water-lover's."
- (98,4) <zuzuzu...>
- (98,5) <zuzu>
- (98,6) Spartoi: "Go forth, my dragon!"
- (99,1) <shaaaa>
- (99,2) Amy: "Me, too..."
- (99,3) <ton>
- (99,4) Amy: "Spartoi...go on."
- (99,5) Amy: "FIRE..."
- (99,6) <ki...n>
-
- A flash from Amy's eyes.
-
- (100,1) Amy: "CRASH!!"
- {furigana="kurasshu"; kanji="geki" (on-reading)}
- (100,3) <goo!>
- (100,4) <mera...>
- (100,5) <bachi bachi>
-
- The flames from Spartoi's dragon and Amy's fire-attack leave the torii
- burning, but still in one piece. Cait Sith, of course, is less than
- impressed and finds this hilarious.
-
- (101,2) <ku ku ku!>
- (101,2) Cait Sith: "Splendid..."
- (101,3) Cait Sith: "...my comrades."
-
- Another dream...Miyu is again Miyu-chan, but now she is in the middle
- of a featureless wasteland where twin suns shine down balefully upon
- her.
-
- (102,1) <hyuu...>
- (102,2) Miyu: "Where...am I?"
- (102,3) Miyu: "Maybe with my little bird?"
- (102,3) Miyu: "But my little bird isn't here."
-
- Panicking, lost and alone, Miyu-chan begins to run.
-
- (102,5) Lemunia: "Ha...she's lost. Isn't that just so human."
- (103,1) Night Gia: "She was brought up as a human. It's her
- weakness."
- (103,3) <ku ku ku>
- (103,3) Lemunia: "Let's tease her some more, shall we?"
- (103,4) Night Gia: "Hahaha...Let's."
- (103,5) <chaki...>
-
- Night Gia draws his rapier, and he brings it down near the running
- girl. What she sees is...
-
- (103,6) <haa haa>
- (103,7) <sui>
- (104,1) <kaa>
- (104,3) <bashii>
- (104,4) Miyu: "Yaaa...lightning..."
-
- Miyu-chan huddles on the ground, covering her eyes as the lightning
- bolts get closer and closer.
-
- (104,5) <ka...!>
- (104,6) <bashi>
- (105,1) Lemunia: "Hahaha...give her a good one."
- (105,2) <ku ku ku>
- (105,3) <katsu!>
- (105,4) <bashii>
- (105,4) Miyu: "Kyaaa!!"
- (105,6) <ko...!>
-
- Miyu-chan collapses as the lightning strikes her, but the pain clears
- Miyu's mind enough to bring back her memory.
-
- (105,6) Miyu: "It...hurts..."
- (106,1) Miyu: A dream--!
- (106,2) Miyu: A dream...
- (106,3) <haa haa>
- (106,3) Miyu: "I haven't escaped from this dream..."
- (106,4) <chaki>
- (106,4) Night Gia: "--Quite right, hoho...you haven't escaped."
- (106,5) Night Gia: "But *this* ``lightning'' is quite genuine, Miyu!"
- (107,1) <su...>
-
- Standing behind her, Night Gia waves the rapier at her. Miyu does not
- see it, as her attempts to stand are taking all of her energy and
- concentration.
-
- (107,1) Night Gia: "Your agony when I run you through won't be just a
- dream."
- (107,2) Night Gia: "Isn't this just so painfully distressing? Your
- dream is so sad."
- (107,3) Lemunia: "Ho...hohahaha! The next pain'll be your death."
- (107,4) Miyu: --Larva. Larva...
- (108,1) Miyu: Larva!
-
- In a grassy field, Larva hears Miyu's voice.
-
- (108,1) <piku...>
- (108,2) Larva: "Mi...yu... --I must go.
- (108,3) <gu>
- (108,3) Carlua: "Don't go...come back!"
- (108,4) Carlua: "You're a Western Shinma, you can't get away from
- that."
- (108,5) Larva: "--I'm sorry, Carlua..."
- (109,1) <pi...>
- (109,2) <tsuu...>
- (109,2) Carlua: "--Aah..."
- (109,4) Carlua: "Larva! LARVA!"
- (109,5) Carlua: "LARVAAAaaaa..."
-
- In the Dark, inside the gate, the leader of the Japanese Shinma (the
- black tree-like guy with the single red eye from OAV 4, who I will
- call "the osa" from now on) wakes.
-
- (110,3) osa: "What...what was that cry? Miyu!?"
- (110,4) osa: "What has defeated Miyu!?"
-
- Meanwhile, just outside the gate...
-
- (111,1) Cait Sith: "Are you thinking of delivering the final blow,
- Lord Pazusu?"
- Pazusu: "--tired of this..."
- (111,3) Pazusu: "@#$%^&*!!"
- (111,3) <suu...>
- (111,4) <pishii>
-
- But even Pazusu's blast has not destroyed the gate. Cait Sith rushes
- forward to deliver his own blow.
-
- (112,1) Cait Sith: "FINISH!!"
- (112,4) <kuwa!>
- (113,1) <ba!>
- (113,2) <shuuu...>
- (113,3) <gi...>
- (113,4) <chuuu>
- (113,5) <bashii>
- (114,1) osa: "MIYU--!!"
-
- At Cait Sith's demon-cats shatter the gate, the osa's cry wakes Miyu
- out of her dream.
-
- (114,2) Miyu: "KYAA!"
- (114,2) <za...>
- (114,4) <haa haa>
- (115,1) Miyu: (gasping) "Uh..."
- (115,3) <po...> <haa haa haa>
- (115,4) Night Gia: "Hohoho."
- (115,5) <haa haa...>
- (115,6) <ba!>
- (115,7) <fu...>
-
- Gasping, struggling to stand, Miyu attempts to throw a fireball and
- misses.
-
- (115,7) Night Gia: "Hahaha..."
- (116,1) <hahaha>
- (116,1) Lemunia: "It's futile! Futile!!"
- (116,2) Night Gia: "Such bloodthirstiness, Miyu..."
- (116,3) Miyu: "What kind of dream is this..."
- Night Gia: "Why, it's your dream! Hohoho..."
- (116,4) Night Gia: "Yet..."
- (116,4) <za>
- (116,5) Miyu: (gasping) "Uh..."
- (116,6) Night Gia: "...you're injured."
- (117,1) Night Gia: "--Well."
- (117,2) <haa haa>
- (117,3) Night Gia: "I haven't come to play games."
- (117,4) <zu>
- (117,5) <chaki>
- (117,5) Night Gia: "Ready to die?"
- (118,1) <su>
- (118,2) Miyu: --Larva...
- (118,3) Night Gia: "Goodbye."
- (118,4) <ka...>
- (118,5) <bishi!>
- (119,1) <toku!>
-
- But as Night Gia prepares to skewer Miyu, the dream-world shatters and
- falls to pieces. Miyu and the others find themselves in a dim forest.
-
- (119,3) <zaaaaa...>
- (119,4) Night Gia: Reality!!?
- "Wha...?"
- (120,1) Larva: "Miyu!"
- (120,2) Lemunia: "Dammit!"
- (121,1) Night Gia: The dream's been torn apart!
- (121,2) <za!>
- (121,3) <zazaza>
- (121,4) Lemunia: Larva...he's truly in league with Miyu--
- (122,1) Lemunia: --Larva...
- (122,2) Lemunia: He shows a mask for a face. He rises to betray us,
- and calmly stands before us wearing that cowardly
- thing...
- (122,3) Miyu: (to Larva) "This time...you WERE late."
- (122,4) Miyu: "I got tired of waiting..."
- (122,5) <kyu>
- (122,6) Larva: "--Night..."
- (123,1) Larva: "...Gia..."
- (123,2) <fu...>
- (123,2) Night Gia: (sarcastically) "You've come to remember me again?"
- (123,3) Night Gia: "I am most...thankful."
- (123,4) Lemunia: (to Larva) "Traitor."
-
- The Western Shinma have walked beyond the shattered gate, deeper into
- the makai. They reach a clump of gnarled roots.
-
- (123,5) <chu>
- (124,3) <pa...ki>
- (124,4) Cait Sith: "Fragile..."
- (125,1) Cait Sith: "Too fragile."
- (125,2) Amy: "Hmph. Not very interesting after all."
- (125,3) Spartoi: "Quite. Shouldn't there be someone--"
- (125,5) <zu...>
- (125,5) osa: "Y-you are..."
- (125,6) Cait Sith: "Hi, pleased to meet you...aren't we?
- (126,1) <bou...>
- (126,1) osa: "You're Western...Shinma. Why...?"
- (126,2) <ku ku ku>
- (126,2) Cait Sith: "You mean the surprise attack and all that?
- Hahaha... Where did that idea come from."
- (126,3) osa: "Wha...what happened to Miyu?"
- (126,4) Cait Sith: "Heh...what do you think? Hahaha..."
- (127,1) Cait Sith: "My comrades have gone to ``play'' with her."
- (127,2) Pazusu: "The rest of you will share the same fate."
- (127,3) Amy: "Haha! What? Are we just going make empty
- threats?"
- (127,4) Amy: "Red-Eye's pitiful, embarassingly weak life...
- How about it, Cait Sith?"
- (127,5) Cait Sith: "Well..."
- (128,1) <bou...>
- (128,2) <piki piki...>
- (128,3) Cait Sith: "Goodbye!"
- (128,4) <doshui>
- (128,5) osa: "GYAAAA..."
-
- Cait Sith's demon-cats tear him apart.
-
- (128,7) <para para>
- (129,1) Cait Sith: "Hmph...this country must be entirely peaceful.
- Until we came, they had sent out Miyu and
- entrusted their security to her."
- (129,2) <hyuu>
- (129,2) Cait Sith: "Hah. This is the result."
- (129,3) Amy: "Haha...That just makes it easier for us to take
- over the country."
- (129,5) Spartoi: "That's why we came here."
- (130,1) Water Lipper: "So was that the end of it?"
- (130,2) Cait Sith: "No! Don't underestimate Japan too much."
- (130,3) Pazusu: "The realm of the Japanese Shinma is comprised
- of five levels. We have only conquered the
- first level."
- (130,4) Pazusu: "The true adepts are...at the bottom."
- Amy: "Don't bigshots always hide in the shadows?"
-
- Carlua materializes among the others, misery and rejection written on
- her face.
-
- (131,1) Carlua: "--Pazusu."
- (131,3) <ko...>
- (131,4) <pou...>
- (131,8) Pazusu: "Carlua?"
- (132,1) <hyuu...>
- (132,2) Pazusu: "I see..."
-
- In the forest, Larva and Miyu face off with Night Gia and Lemunia.
- Strengthened by Larva's presence, Miyu has recovered completely.
-
- (132,3) <zaku...>
- (132,4) <zaku zaku>
- (132,4) Larva: "They are renegade shinma."
- {c.f. the osa's comment to Larva in OAV 4.}
- Miyu: "I want them to leave..."
- (132,5) Miyu: "Please, Larva! Make them leave?"
- (132,6) <za!>
- (133,1) <ton>
-
- Now perched in a tree, Miyu calls down to the others.
-
- (133,2) Miyu: "That wasn't a joke! I've been patient so far,
- and won't be so again. I'm getting angry."
- (133,3) Miyu: (looking at Lemunia) "Take this darling little
- boy, now, Larva..."
- (133,4) Miyu: "I want to see how good he really is."
- (133,5) Larva: Darling...little boy?
- (133,6) Larva: "You..."
- (134,1) <su>
-
- Lemunia makes a break for it.
-
- (134,2) Miyu: "Thinking about running, Lemunia?"
- (134,3) Larva: Lemunia!?
- (134,5) Larva: Lemures's younger brother...
- (134,6) <hyu>
- (134,7) <tsui> <tan>
-
- As Miyu flings a fireball at the departing Lemunia, Night Gia covers
- him by leaping to the attack.
-
- (135,1) Larva: You came as far as Japan...
- (135,2) Miyu: "Larva! Lemunia will escape soon! I'll take
- Night Gia!"
- (135,3) Night Gia: "Miyu!"
- (135,4) Miyu: "What?"
- (135,4) <fu fu>
- (135,6) <kaaa...>
- (136,1) <bashii...>
- (136,2) <pikii!>
- (136,3) Night Gia: "Uh...?"
-
- As Night Gia rushes forward, he is stunned and blinded by a lightning
- strike that snaps his sword blade.
-
- (136,4) <za...n>
- (137,1) Night Gia: --this place!?
- (137,2) <za...>
- (137,2) Night Gia: My sword was broken. My own lightning? How
- can this be?
- (137,3) Night Gia: Daylight? My eyes...
- (137,4) Night Gia: What's happened to me?
- Miyu: Hahaha...
- (137,5) Miyu: It's all right. Open your eyes and look
- around. This is my little world...
-
- As Night Gia's vision returns, he sees that he is in a different
- forest, one dotted with foot-wide red spheres. Miyu floats in front
- on him.
-
- (138,1) Miyu: "Welcome, Night Gia."
- (138,2) Night Gia: "Miyu...you've weakened me."
- (138,3) <su>
-
- Miyu fetches one of the red spheres and gives Night Gia a closer look.
-
- (138,3) Miyu: "Look! Beautiful, isn't it? Can you grow to
- like it?"
- (139,1) Miyu: "I think it's fine."
- (139,2) <po...pou...po pou pou>
-
- As Miyu hugs the little sphere, many flames ignite and surround Night
- Gia.
-
- (139,3) Miyu: "Oh, dear. My flames can't wait...they're so
- impetuous, aren't they?"
- (139,4) Night Gia: "What do you want."
- (139,5) Night Gia: "You've underestimated..."
- (139,6) Miyu: "Night Gia, we're not in a dream and you're
- entirely powerless."
- (140,1) <fuku>
-
- Miyu throws the sphere into the air and admires it.
-
- (140,2) Miyu: "You aren't moving at all. It's punishment for
- having peeped into my dream."
- (140,2) <fu fu>
- (140,3) Night Gia: I'm being restrained by something...
- (140,4) Miyu: "But, I regret to say...you won't be looking
- into any more dreams."
- (140,5) Miyu: "My flames..."
- (140,6) Miyu: "...will swiftly burn you to ashes."
- (140,7) Miyu: "Watch..."
- (140,7) <niko>
- (141,1) Night Gia: !?
- (141,2) <mera>
- (141,3) <fuu!>
- (141,4) Night Gia: My body is coiled in flames...
- (141,5) <bou>
- (141,5) Night Gia: "Uu...aa!"
- (142,1) <goo>
- (142,1) Night Gia: "Aa..."
- (142,2) Miyu: Hahaha...
- (142,3) Night Gia: "...... &^%$#*@"
- (142,4) Miyu: Your feeble struggles are futile...
- (142,5) <kusu kusu>
- (142,5) Miyu: Whaat?
- (142,6) Night Gia: "@$#%^&!! &%^$@#"
- (142,7) Miyu: Trying to say something, Night Gia?
- (143,1) <bu!...>
- (143,1) Night Gia: "&@^#$%!!"
- (143,1) <za! zazaza>
- (143,2) Miyu: "A spell? It must be difficult, poor thing...
- but I'll have to put an end to it right now."
- (143,2) <fu fu fu>
- (143,3) <zazaza>
- (143,4) <bashii!>
- (143,4) Miyu: "What...!?"
- (144,1) <ba>
- (144,4) <kira>
- (144,5) Miyu: ?
- (144,6) <ka! ka!>
-
- But before Miyu can take action, a dark figure rushes past her and
- slashes Night Gia's burning figure, silencing his incantation.
-
- (145,1) Night Gia: "W...?"
- (145,2) <zu...>
- (145,3) Miyu: "Larva...?"
- (145,4) Night Gia: "W-why? Why? Larva...old friend..."
- (145,5) Night Gia: "Are you not a Western Shinma...?"
- (145,7) Larva: "Now I...am fighting alongside Miyu."
- (146,1) <bou...>
- (146,3) Miyu: "Whaat? You've stolen my prey."
- (146,4) <musu>
- (146,4) Miyu: (holding her sphere) "I was thinking this would
- have suited him..."
- (146,5) Larva: "--Miyu, don't underestimate the Western
- Shinma."
- (146,5) <shu...uuu...>
- (146,6) Larva: "Night Gia was about to place a curse on you
- with his last breath..."
- (146,7) Miyu: "Hmph."
- (146,8) Miyu: "These Western Shinma are really arrogant."
- (147,1) Miyu: "But...it doesn't make any difference as long
- as we're together."
- (147,2) <kuru>
- (147,2) Miyu: "Right?"
- (147,3) Larva: "--Yes."
- (147,4) <fu fu!>
- (147,5) Miyu: "Larva, I love you so much..."
-
- And with that, Miyu grabs Larva's neck and, hauling herself up, kisses
- him on the mouth of his mask.
-
- (147,5) Miyu: "Aa! By the way, Larva, what happened to the
- kid?"
- Larva: "Ha?"
- (147,6) Larva: "Lemunia?"
- (148,1) Miyu: "That's right, Lemures's litle brother."
- (148,2) <su!>
- (148,2) Larva: "He...escaped."
- (148,3) Miyu: "Grr...He must be fast, to have escaped...The
- next time we meet, I'll be repaying him
- for tormenting me."
- (148,3) <pafu>
-
- She leans back in his arms.
-
- (148,4) <musu!>
- (148,4) Miyu: "I want to tell that guy something."
- (148,5) Miyu: "His brother was trying to get you back."
- (149,1) Larva: "No...I don't think that was his goal."
- (149,3) Miyu: "Larva? What do you mean?"
- (149,4) Larva: "--No...It's nothing."
- (149,5) Larva: "I'm sorry I was late today."
- (150,1) Miyu: "Larva...?"
- I don't understand.
- (150,2) Miyu: What's wrong? Why are you worried?
- (150,3) Miyu: "Y-you're especially worried about something."
- He's...hiding something.
-
- The Western Shinma are still standing around the osa's former home,
- discussing Larva's fate.
-
- (150,4) <saku>
- (151,1) Pazusu: "We must perform mashujutsu."
- (151,2) Carlua: "Mashujutsu..."
- (151,3) Pazusu: "Or we will lose Larva."
- (151,4) Carlua: "Lord Pazusu..."
- Cait Sith: "That's right!"
- (151,4) <gu!>
- (152,1) Cait Sith: "And Larva is one of us!"
- (152,1) <nii>
- (152,2) Carlua: Larva is...
-
- Water Lipper, Amy and Spartoi smirk along with Cait Sith, who has
- again forced a decision. Pazusu looks away as Carlua looks at each
- face in turn, then walks away to look at the night sky.
-
- (153,2) Carlua: --Larva...
-
- Meanwhile, Miyu and Larva are running after Lemunia, trying to catch
- him before he can alert the other Western Shinma.
-
- (153,3) <za za>
- (153,4) <tan>
- (153,5) Miyu: Got to hurry to that place...I don't know if we
- can catch him.
- (154,1) Miyu: I heard a sound during the fight, I'm sure it
- was the osa crying out.
- (154,2) Miyu: "Is he gone at last?"
- (154,4) Miyu: "Larva, hurry!"
- (154,4) <za...>
- (154,5) <shuuu...>
- (155,1) <zu...zu>
- (155,2) <poro...>
- (155,3) <pau pau fu...>
-
- Miyu and Larva gaze, shocked, at the shattered, smoking, hissing
- remains of the makai gate.
-
- (155,4) Miyu: "Hmm."
- (155,5) Miyu: "It's been wrecked..."
- (155,6) Larva: "This...it can't be."
- (155,7) <chu...>
-
- Back at the osa's lair...
-
- (156,1) <gyu>
- (156,2) Carlua: "Mashujutsu...you can't mean it's the only way?"
- (156,3) Pazusu: "It is."
- (156,4) Pazusu: "Larva is controlled and tainted by Miyu's
- blood. Mashujutsu will take Miyu's blood
- and..."
- (156,5) Pazusu: "...extract it from Larva, allowing us to purify
- him."
- (156,6) Pazusu: "If you want it done..."
- (157,1) Cait Sith: "Well, we shouldn't have lost Larva in the first
- place."
- (157,1) <nita>
- (157,2) <biku...>
-
- Carlua begins to realize that, in fact, the choice is between
- exorcising Larva and killing him.
-
- (157,3) Carlua: "L-lose him..."
- (157,4) Pazusu: "--Carlua, as a relative of Larva, we'll need
- your blood."
- (158,1) Pazusu: "And a mistake will kill you both..."
- Carlua: "If my blood will bring Larva back, it's yours!"
-
- As Carlua defiantly stares at the others, Cait Sith can hardly
- suppress his laughter -- Carlua is so easy to manipulate. Pazusu
- returns her look soberly.
-
- (158,5) Pazusu: "I see."
- (159,1) Spartoi: "Hmm...Larva will have to be ``turned,'' won't
- he."
- (159,2) Amy: "That, too."
- (159,3) <fui>
- (159,3) Amy: "Well, we can purge Larva of that little girl."
- (159,4) Water Lipper: "As for Miyu...just how much of an adept is
- she..."
-
- Lemunia runs up to the group, out of breath.
-
- (159,5) <ha!>
- (159,6) <za za...>
- (160,1) Lemunia: "N-Night Gia has been killed! Miyu's coming!"
- (160,2) Spartoi: "WHAT!? Night Gia...!?"
- (160,3) Lemunia: "Ku..." {cough}
- (160,4) Lemunia: "Larva intervened against us!"
- (161,1) Lemunia: "And when Miyu had nearly fallen! THAT TRAITOR!"
- (161,2) Carlua: "You're WRONG! Larva was being controlled by
- Miyu's blood!"
- (161,3) Carlua: "Can't you see? Miyu is even in his dreams."
- (161,4) Lemunia: "What the...? Carlua--"
- (161,5) Carlua: "WE'VE GOT TO GET LARVA BACK!"
- (162,1) Cait Sith: "Miyu is...coming here. Isn't that convenient."
- (162,2) Cait Sith: "Hahaha..."
- (162,3) Cait Sith: (calling out) "Won't you come and meet everyone?"
-
- Larva and Miyu appear at the osa's home. They do not, as yet, see the
- other shinma. The osa, of course, is not there.
-
- (162,4) <hyuu>
- (163,2) <pou>
- (163,3) <suu...>
- (163,4) <fukua...>
- (164,3) <ton>
- (164,3) Miyu: "Hmm..."
- (164,4) Miyu: "I thought so...Sad."
- (164,5) Miyu: "This problem is forced onto me alone, now."
- (165,1) Miyu: "It's not clear what other consequences there
- are..."
- (165,3) Miyu: "Is it?"
-
- Miyu rises, and raises her voice.
-
- (165,5) Miyu: "This lower level of the shinma..."
- (165,6) Miyu: "...is no longer silent."
- (165,6) <fuwa!>
- (166,1) Miyu: "I wonder how this could be..."
- (166,2) Miyu: "...o Western Shinma!"
-
- Miyu has realized that she and Larva are being watched, but Larva is
- surprised as the chuckling shinma appear out of the fog.
-
- (166,3) <fu fu fu... ku ku... fu!>
- (167,2) Cait Sith: "How do you do, Miyu."
- (167,3) Cait Sith: "I am the Western Shinma, Cait Sith."
- (167,5) Water Lipper: "Likewise, I am Water Lipper."
- (167,6) Amy: "Amy..."
- (167,7) Spartoi: "I am Spartoi."
- (168,1) Lemunia: "Hmph..."
- Carlua: "I am..."
-
- Miyu knows who Lemunia is. Carlua is intimidated by Miyu.
-
- (168,2) Carlua: "........"
- (168,3) Miyu: "Hmmm?"
- (168,4) Carlua: ".........."
- (168,5) <sara>
-
- Miyu impatiently turns away from Carlua.
-
- (168,7) Miyu: "Coming all the way to this country must have tired
- you."
-
- She addresses the rest of the Western Shinma.
-
- (169,1) Miyu: "But shouldn't you have knocked first? It's
- very rude to force down the door. Wouldn't you
- say, Larva?"
- (169,3) <ka!>
- (169,3) Spartoi: "It's been a long time, Larva."
- (169,4) Amy: "Huh. You failed, Larva."
- (169,6) Water Lipper: "To whom will we grant the pleasure of avenging
- Night Gia?"
-
- Carlua, a bit behind in the conversation, is still struggling to get
- words out. Miyu turns her attention back to Carlua.
-
- (170,1) Carlua: "I am Carlua, Larva's..."
- (170,3) Miyu: "Mmm...``Larva's...''?"
-
- Carlua pushes back her hood and looks defiantly at Miyu.
-
- (170,4) Carlua: "I am Larva's cousin."
- (170,5) Miyu: "Larva's...hmph."
- (171,1) Miyu: "What a frightful face you're making."
- (171,2) <ku!>
-
- Carlua chokes.
-
- (171,3) <kusu!>
- (171,3) Miyu: (giggling) "``Cousin'' -- so what?"
- (171,4) <su...>
- (171,5) Carlua: "I WILL NOT FORGIVE YOU, MIYU!"
- (171,6) <ba!>
-
- Carlua prepares a spell as the other Western Shinma ready their own
- attacks. Larva, alarmed, rushes forward to defend Miyu.
-
- (172,1) Larva: "MIYU!"
- (172,2) Miyu: !?
- (172,3) Larva: "MIYU!"
- (172,4) <pashi>
-
- Cait Sith slashes Larva magically, forcing him to break off.
-
- (172,5) Larva: "Uuuhhhh...?"
- (172,6) Cait Sith: "Oh, now, Larva. I'm your old comrade, don't
- make me do more."
- (172,6) <tsutu>
- (173,1) Larva: "Uuu..kuu." {cough}
- (173,2) Cait Sith: "Hahaha..."
- (173,3) <suku> <tsuku>
- (173,5) <chaki> <nii>
- (173,6) <ba!>
- (174,1) <ki...n>
- (174,2) <kan>
- (174,3) <kan>
- (174,4) <kiii...n>
-
- As Larva and Cait Sith face off and engage each other, Amy, Water
- Lipper and Lemunia surround Miyu.
-
- (174,5) <zuzaa>
- (174,6) <su!>
- (175,1) <fuku...>
- (175,2) Miyu: "?"
- (175,4) <youn>
- (175,5) <ka!>
- (175,7) <bashii!>
- (175,8) <tan>
- (175,9) <poon> <zuzaa>
-
- Water Lipper lets fly with a wave, which Miyu avoids by springing into
- the air.
-
- (176,2) <bou!>
- (176,3) <ba!>
- (176,4) <ha!>
- (176,4) Miyu: "Flame this time?"
- (176,5) <gooooo>
-
- Amy shoots a burst of flame at Miyu, who barely dodges aside.
-
- (176,6) Carlua: "Hahaha..."
- (177,1) Carlua: "Hahaha...@#$%^&*
- (177,2) Carlua: "~#%&@$^"
- (177,3) Lemunia: "You're caught, aren't you, Miyu?"
- (177,4) <pi...pipi>
-
- Carlua's incantation forms a sorcerous design on the ground where Miyu
- stands. As Carlua continues her chant, the lines of the design lift
- out of the earth and entwine Miyu's legs.
-
- (178,1) Miyu: "What's..."
- (178,2) <fu fu> <ku ku ku>
- (178,3) <pipi...>
- (177,5) Carlua: "@$^*#%"
-
- Carlua puts her mask on, still chanting, as Lemunia and Amy approach
- Miyu.
-
- (179,1) Lemunia: "Haha...a formation of magicians."
- (179,2) Lemunia: "You won't be escaping."
- (179,3) Carlua: "$&@%*"
- (179,4) Miyu: "Carlua...?"
- (179,5) Carlua: "*&^%$#@"
- (179,6) <pou>
- (180,1) <paaaaaa>
- (180,1) Carlua: "#@$^%&*&^%$#!!"
-
- Flames suddenly surround Miyu, still trapped in the circle.
-
- (181,1) Miyu: "AAAAAAH! My body...won't move, Larva!"
- (181,2) <ha!>
- (181,2) Larva: "MIYU!"
- (181,3) Cait Sith: "Hahaha...your precious Miyu is suffering, isn't
- she."
- (181,4) Cait Sith: "And even you can't help her now!"
- (181,4) <gu!>
- (182,1) Miyu: --Larva.
- (182,1) <ka!>
- (182,2) <ka!>
- (182,4) Larva: "Miyu! I'm coming now."
- (182,5) <za!>
-
- Larva slashes at Cait Sith's cat-wraiths, but as he turns back toward
- Miyu...
-
- (182,6) Larva: "!!"
- (182,8) Larva: "Pazusu!"
- (183,1) Pazusu: "Until now...you..."
- (183,2) Pazusu: "...have resisted..."
- (183,3) Pazusu: "...now die, Larva."
-
- And with that, Pazusu blasts through Larva's body. From inside the
- flaming circle, Miyu screams and watches helplessly as Larva
- collapses.
-
- (184,1) Miyu: "LARVAAAAAA!"
- (184,3) <bota>
- (184,4) Larva: "--Mi...yu."
-
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