Volume 10! ISBN 4-09-137643-6 410 yen [real value, 390 yen] Translations: no one did them, so I did! hahaha! Ayashi no Ceres, Volume 10 translated by: Tetris no Miko edited by: Gaudiora //page 6// Q:WHAT?! //rattle// Q: You, you, you're going back to Tokyo?!! But you just barely got here, Yuuhi-san!! Yuuhi: She says I have no business being here! Q: But what about the hagoromo?! Aya-san, why don't you do something about this.... Aya: ... //clunk// Yuuhi: I'm gonna take a bath!! //page 7// Q: My goodness, Yuuhi-san!! //bonk!// Yuuhi: Shut the hell up! If you wanna know what's up, ask Aya! //slide// Q: The bath is over there!! Yuuhi: Didn't have to tell me that! //k-thunk, k-thunk, k-thunk....// Q: Really, what is with you two?!! And Yuuhi-san, you mustn't get upset like that. Why don't you just... Yuuhi: Don't follow me! [freetalk] //page 8// Flashback-Aya: "Yuuhi, isn't sex all you want from me?" Flashback-Aya: "You're useless" Aya: I hurt Yuuhi's pride...on purpose. to keep him away from me; to keep him safe from Shiso. Flashback-Shiso: "leave the Aogiris and come with me." Flashback-Shiso: "You needn't answer right away....let's put what just happened behind us and wait a while." Aya: Ever since the Aogiris rescued me on my birthday last year, I wonder how much help they've been to me...and how much trouble I caused them? //page 9// Aya: I wasn't able to live on my own. I was also not able to fight...but...I don't care if I get hurt...I just don't want my friends to... Construction worker: ...Help.... //slip// Construction worker2: EEP!... Construction worker: A mon....ster... //page 10// Construction worker3: Hey!! What the hell---- Construction worker: .....Underground.... //BAWOOOO......wooooooo// Student: Yeah! And then I hear a strange voice echoed from somewhere!! Student: (whispering) I heard it was like his arm had been bitten severely... Student: (whispering) From underground? I don't remember this school having an entrance to underground? Student: (whispering) I wonder if someone's raising a monster under this school Teacher: Hey! Stop this nonsense at once! Even the construction workers who got hurt said it was their fault! They say it was all their imagination! Aya: There's been a weird rumor for days at this school about the accident in construction on the new school building they're building... //page 11// Aya: I guess they stopped construction for a while...that's bad; the hagoromo might be under this school. Hey is there really an entrance to the underground around here? Student: Hu----h? Beats me. Student2: Yeah Student3: Why don't'cha ask the boys about it? Aya: Huh?...."the boys"?..... //grr!// //page 12// Aya: Stop staring at me like that! What the hell! This place really pisses me off! //stomp, stomp, stomp// Don't worry about it. The hagoromo's what's important. at least I won't have to see that idiot, Shiso for a while... Yuuhi: Aya....ah!... Stop that, Yuuhi!! Are you still letting what she said bother you?! //page 13// Yuuhi: "Useless", huh....she might be right....but I didn't think she really thought of me that way.... Student: I mean THAT; ya know, that rumor about Mikage. student2: yeah, right in the library... Student3: She's pretty cute....I guess what they say about Tokyo-women being different is right? student: hahaha You think someone as ugly as you can have her? Student3: Yo //GRAB!// Yuuhi:...What did you just say? //page 14// Yuuhi: What did Aya do?! What's this rumor about!! Student: a- a guy from 7-kumi said he saw her doing something dirty in the library just after she transferred here....everyone thinks it was sex!! Yuuhi: Se-... //pakupaku// [sound effects for moving your mouth] Student: wWhat's with you...yeaaaah, aren't you always around that chick? Student2:...Which means... Student3: hey, hey, did she let you screw her, too? Yuuhi: //piku!// [kinda like a perking sound effect' Studnet3: Lu--cky-- why don't'cha let us have some of her, too! //page 15// Yuuhi: Aya's not that kind of girl!! //smack!// //thud!// //smash!// //scrape!// Aya: ....These are artifacts that were found when this school was being built...well, Ceres, any of these look like the hagoromo? Ceres: ".....No" Aya: I thought so, too....I wonder if it really is where the men are doing construction work....but why don't you tell me anything about the hagoromo? Ceres: "It is difficult to describe something that humans cannot imagine." Aya: Whatever Ceres: ".....Aya, what are we going to do?" //...stomp stomp stomp// //page 16// Ceres: "You couldn't be thinking of going to that man..." //grab!// Aya: ?! Yuuhi: Come with me! Aya: Yuuhi?! Aya: What're you doing?! didn't I tell you to leave me alone! Yuuhi: Now you see here! People are talking shit about you....about what happened in the library and, uh ....like you're a whore!! //page 17// aya: What the hell!! Stop jok--...! //page 18// Yuuhi: I made it so some of those assholes wouldn't say anymore about you, but there are a lot of jerks out there, so you should be careful-- Aya: ...I said I'm fine!! I can't let little things like this get to me! How many times to I have to tell you!! Go away! Yuuhi: Sorry....fine, suit yourself! //page 19// Yuuhi: Go look for the hagoromo or whatever all by yourself!! I have nothing to do with you anymore!! Shiso:....... Aya: I get it....there's nothing wrong with me. I've experienced much worse things before this anyway. even all by myself....I can make it. //page 20// Aya: Until Tooya comes back safely...until Tooya.... //squeeze// Shiso:...The newly-built "Tennyo Shrine", huh. Maybe the hagoromo is in there. Aya: //hah!// Shiso: ...Well, are you ready to come be with me yet? //page 21// Shiso: There seem to be two rumors going around here, huh. the first is "the monster at the construction site", and the other is... Aya: It's all your fault!! Shiso:I am your husband. It doesn't matter how we look to others....if you had wanted to fight back, you should have changed into Ceres. Aya: The other students might have seen me change! And besides, Ceres loathes you! and I'm not so fond of you either!....goodbye!! //grab!// //page 22// //swat!// Shiso: ...Remember your place! Tooya left you. You're overlooking that I'm helping you look for the hagoromo! Even if you resist me, it will do no good....I will pull Ceres out of you kicking and screaming....and the personality you are is fated to disappear. Just like your brother....! //page 23// Aya: I.......I will not disappear! I won't let Ceres out!!....I'll even find the hagoromo, too! And even if I leave the Aogiris, there's no way in hell I'm coming with you!! Yuuhi hates me now!! We don't even speak to each other anymore!! Aren't you satisfied!! Yuuhi: //rustle// //page 24// Shiso: humph You won't let Ceres out...? I'll make you take back those words, Aya.... //swat!// Girls: ahaha Aya: I'D LIKE AN APOLOGY, BITCH!! Girl: Uh....um, are you Mikage Aya-san? //page 25// aya: hah! Girl: It's a letter.....it's from a senior-girl.... Aya: uh....thanks....a senior... I wonder if she's asking me to fight... //crinkle...// Letter: Dear Mikage-san. I have something to tell you about the hagoromo. Meet me at the new building at midnight. Aya: Huh...?! Q: Huh? //page 26// Q: Yuuhi-san?! Aya-san is not here! Where is she off to this late? Yuuhi: ! //shakashaka...// [yuuhi's music].....I dunno. I don't care. Aya: Isn't this where you're supposed to be able to hear a strange voice? I wonder who it was who called me here...myabe there are more tennyo descendents here... //click!// Aya: ?! //page 27// Boy: She really came. Boy2: Are you really looking for the hagoromo? Boy3: You wanna see tennyo, huh. Aya: Boys...? Um....the letter was... //click!// Boy: Yeah, we heard that you were talking with a guy at that temple yesterday? //page 28// Boy: Are you guys married or something? Your last names are the same and all Boy2: Cuz you guys look alike, someone said you were probably twins. Boy3: Well, what matters is that you screwed around in school with him? Aya: You guys are wrong. Boy: Well, why don't'cha let us screw you, too? haha Aya:.....Bastards....!! //BAM!!// Boy: Wah! Boy2: W-wait!! Boy3: Split up! We're the only people in this building!! //page 29// Shiso: ...Thought so....I thought this is what would become of it. I would normally just kill those boys, but...this time I'll let them play for a bit....one person cannot out-run four...as long as she's a normal woman. Hurry up and change into Ceres, Aya.....or you'll be caught. //page 30// Aya: Damn, there's no where to run.... Ceres: "Aya...I...." Aya: it's him?!.....Why is he....waiting...? For me to release Ceres?! //whosh, whoosh...// //page 31// Aya: A door...?! Flashback: "Wasn't there a door that lead to underground?" Boy: Hey, she's over here! //scrrrrape! scrrrr...// Aya: Open up!! Hurry!! //slide....slide.....// //page 32// Aya: !! Boys: Spread her legs apart, fast!! Aya: Mm! Boy2: Get a towel!! Shiso: Hurry up and let Ceres out...if you do, you could kill them in an instant. Boy: Don't fight us! Boy2: You're fucking with lots of guys already, right?! Aya: ....Tooya's daggar //page 33// Aya: Tooya...!! //whoooooooooo, whoooooooooo// [the wind blowing] //page 34// [Shuro character info] //page 35// Boy: Don't fight back!! //slap!// Boy2: We know you were a whore in Tokyo, too! Boy3: Hey, hold her legs down more! //page 36// Shiso: ....I thought she would have changed into Ceres by now, but....what a stubborn bitch.... Ceres: "Aya, never mind Shiso. Change into me. I shall turn these hideous men into dust in an instant!!" words flying through Aya's mind [I'm not sure of the order]: Stop. I can't kill them. Tooya. but. Tooya. Shiso's watching. No. Help me. Tooya //page 37// Ceres: "I will kill you" Boy: Just hurry up and fuck her already! //slide// //page 38// Boy: WAAAAHHHH!! //page 39// Boy2:....Shi....Shimomura?! Boy3: It's too dark; I can't see him!! Hey, Shimomura, are you playing games with us?! Boy4: Hey, he's not....here. Boy2: He disap... //Bawooooo....wooooo..// boys: //piku// boy3: Wha-what the hell is that?! boy2: H...hey....it couldn't be! th...that rumor.... boy3: ...I, I'm getting outta here!! //swish!// //page 40// Boy2: Wait for me... Boy4: What about the woman? Boy3: Leave her! Crickets: //chirrrrrrp....chirrrrrrp// Aya: //squeeze// //sniff...// //sniff// Tooya...... //page 41// //click, click// //slam// Yuuhi: ....Wonder if she finally got back. It's already 1 AM Q: Aya-san?! What in the world happened to you?!! Aya: ....Nothing, Q-chan....it's the middle of the night; don't yell.....//click// [freetalk] //page 42// Aya/Yuuhi: //biku// Yuuhi: Ah....Ah! You! That! Can't! Couldn't! Aya: ...Sorry I woke you up. I fell down on my bike on the way here, and... yuuhi: you think i believe that?! someone did.... Aya: Sh, shut up! you're wrong. ....I went to a convienience store. You didn't need to know about that. Yuuhi: ...If....if that's true then... //page 43// Yuuhi: Stop worrying me like that!! you tell me I shouldn't worry about you, or I should leave you alone, but I can't do that!! Can't I at least be your "friend"?! yeah What's wrong with a "friend" worrying about you! Flashback-Shiso: "You want to keep your best friend safe, don't you? leave the Aogiris" Yuuhi: If something happened to you, tell me! Why....why did our relationship get so messed... Aya: ...I! //page 44// Aya:....I'm going to....leave the Aogiris soon!! Q: you say you're going to leave, aya-san?! //thunk!// //smash// Aya: //slide...// Shuro and Chidori are safe, aren't they? They have super-powers, so Kagami can't hurt them, right?...then I'm fine, too! Q: Sure...surely you're joking!? //page 45// Aya: I'm serious. Good-night. //slam// Flashback students: "They were having sex". "You must've slept with other men before?" Flashback-Aya: "I'm leaving the Aogiris" //page 46// Aya: huh... Tag on box: To Aya. Happy 17th birhtday. From Shuro and Chidori. Aya: Ah! I had forgotten all about it.... Shuro's letter: " Aya, what's up? This is a present from Chidori and me. Perfume called "ma-gurifu" [this was in katakana; i think it's french or something.] ("my mark"). ....well, we're also researching the hagoromo, but we still have no luck...I'm gonna release a CD next month, so ifI have some time, I'll come see you." Chidori's letter: "he-llooo, Aya-chan! you've made it to 17! Happy birthay! [musical notes] I had really wanted to give you a party like we did for Yuuhi-kun (is his arm okay?)....well, I thought of many possible presents for you, but this is what I decided on!!" //page 47// Chidori's letter: "A Tooya-candid-camera *heart*. (he's pretty fine, huh.)" Shuro's writing: Let's work hard together! Chidori's writing: Aya-chan, fight! ^v^ Aya: Shuro....Chidori. thanks....even if we don't see each other anymore, we still think of each other. that's why....I'm never "alone". //page 48// Aya: Am I gonna let this get me down?!....it'll all be fine. Student: //whisper//...So they say that a student is missing.... Student: Just like with the construction workers... Aya: They're already talking about it... //thud!// //flap, flap// Too bad iI didn't get a good look at the guys who attacked me. Girl: She's just acting so mindless, ya knowwww Aya's book: "The legend of Tango's hagoromo" Aya: And somethjing seemed to boil up inside of me... I panicked a lot //page 49// Aya: I heard a strange voice... Students: //whisper, whisper// aya: ....that's it! the entrance!...i didn't think it would have been underground... Librarian: This school's history? Like a book with ancient geography?...ah....it seems to be out at the moment. Aya: Who has it? I'm kinda in a hurry, so... Librarian: //stare// What do you plan on doing if I tell you? You don't mean that if it's a boy again you'll go after him! //page 50// Aya: Just forget it!! //bang!// //whisper, whisper// Boy: Hey, I'm worried about Shimomura. I wonder what happened after that... boy2: Is that area really cursed? boy3: That chick's still coming to school as usual, though... Boy: Oh well, let's just stay quiet. Boy3: That's right. If we tell people that we were hanging around that restricted area, then... Boy2: Yeah, let's not tell anyone. Shiso: I have found you. Boys: //gulp// //page 51// boy: Wha...what do you... Boy2: You a sophomore? what do you want? Shiso: Was last night's hunting fun? boys: //gulp...// boy: Hunting?! Shiso: I do believe that hunting is a man's "job". I know well of this. boy2: What? What the hell are ya saying?....huuuuh? Shiso: The rush one feels when one catches one's prey is invigorating. //page 52// Shiso: However, one must choose one's target more carefully. //SMACK!!// Or you shall die. //bang// //slide...// Boy: Wh...what the hell are you...//CRACK!!// //page 53/ Boy: Whaa...! Boy2: Eep.... Shiso: You pitiful, stupid pests have messed with my woman. I shall make you regret your actions. Aya: I don't believe that teacher; talking to me like that.... Boy: ...Orr....y.... //page 54// Boy: I'm!....sorry....!! Boy2: Ungh... Aya: Wha...what the hell are you doing?! Shiso: Just as you see....I'm getting back at the boys who tried to dishonor you. //page 55/ Aya: ha!.....it was them?! Shiso: Do not worry. I shall not kill them. Kagami will get on my case if I do. Boy: Hel....p..... //smack!!// //thunk// //squeeze// Boy: I'm...sorry! //smack!// Aya: Stop...I've had enough! Stop it!! //page 56// Aya: ...You have no business hurting those jerks.... Shiso:....Yes, that's right.....they don't seem to be able to talk or fight back....because they were blindly acting on their lust. The foolish bastards. Aya: Look who's talking!! All you did was stand there and watch!! You're no different from them!...just a disgusting man who enjoys taking women by force!! //page 57// Aya: If you really want Ceres, then show me some proof that you love her! You really do suck!! Just a beast who doesn't give a damn about "love"!! Shiso: ..."Love"? "love"! Haha! "love", you say....a word women are very fond of! You must be the same as Ceres after all. You say the exact same thing she said long ago. Flashback Ceres: "where is love?" Shiso: ...Well, Kagami and the others are the same, too. To bastards who made the c-project that captures countless women, "love" also does not exist. //page 58// Flashback-Kagami: "The tennyo are our golden-eggs." "In order to create the perfect human race" Shiso: There is only one direction; "the preservation of the seeds". It is what our instinct desires...especially in men....it does not matter wheather we're in "love" or not. For a start, how can you measure this "love" if you cannot see it with your own eyes? With words? With things? Which is "love" and which is not? Aya: you're over-analyzing it! You know what I think? It involves more of people's emotions or... Shiso: ....Never mind that....more importantly, what happened to the hagoromo? I have collected some data and once again researched the tennyo legend here. Aya: Ah //page 59// Shiso:....The real shrine is surely at this schol....however it was a shrine that continued beneath the ground. matching it up with present locations, I estimate the entrance is where you were attacked last night. Aya: //doki...// Shiso: The hagoromo might be down there....only there's also the mysterious voice to deal with....shall we go together? Just don't expect me to protect you. Aya: wh....why are you doing this? Shiso: Don't misunderstand me....I simply wish to end this "treasure hunt" as quickly as possible. After this, you shall let me have the hagoromo and leave the Aogiri house....will you go or not?! //page 60// Aya:....I'll go...! As long as I might have a chance to find the hagoromo this time... Friends: See ya tomorrow, Aogiri! Yuuhi: Okayyy Sign: "second year, second-kumi" Yuuhi: ....I guess Aya ....already went home..."I'll leave the Aogiris"....what the hell is she thinking....but...if she actually does go away... //page 61// Yuuhi: It's no use; I do love her... AYA?! //scrape!// //page 62// Shiso: Considerate of them to stop construction so we could get in. I don't think anyone will come near here. Are you scared? Aya: he- hell-no! //tap, tap, tap...// [Aya and Shiso walking] Aya: ....Hey....are you sure there's a shrine under here?... Shiso: Shut up and walk. //page 63// Aya: I don't think there's any hagoromo here....but what'll he do if there is? //clunk// Aya: What's this... //gulp...// //page 64// Aya: Ungh!... //whoooo....whoooooo....// //page 65// //bawoooooooo// Aya: What the....hell?! //page 66// //stomp// yYuuhi: Stupid Aya...I could've sworn she went this way....but why was she with him?! //bawwooooooo...// //whoosh, whoosh...// yuuhi: ah...!! //page 67// Monster: //bawhooooooo!!// Aya: Whaaaaat? What the hell is this?! An alien?! Shiso:...Come to think of it, in my research, I found accounts of a strange creature.... //page 68// Shiso: It said "The shrine under ground might have been created to seal off the daughter of a Shinto priest who was touched by the anger of a tennyo 700 years ago". Hold this. //thump, thump, thump// //whap!// Aya: Ahh!! //page 69// //whoosh// Shiso:....This's fun! Aya: WHAT ABOUT IT IS!! Just what part is fun? Where? Where? Shiso: Perhaps the Shinto priest's daughter was turned into this monster and has been living here for the past 700 years. Monster: //huff, puff// Flashback-person: "Yhe man who put on the hagoromo transfered to a monster-like form..." Aya: //hah!// Maybe...it was because she put the hagoromo on?! //slap!// //page 70// //swat!// Monster: //bawooooo!// //whoosh!// //page 71// Aya: Ungh... Yuuhi: Well, at least she's safe.... Monster: //woooo// //smack!// //page 72+73// //bam!// Monster: //wooo!// //snap!// Shiso's symbol: //crack...// //rip!// Monster: //wooooooooooooo!!!!// [freetalk] //page 74// Monster: //woo!// Shiso: You say she wore the hagoromo? You mean this is a human girl? //whoosh// //perk...// Shiso: Perhaps you too wore the hagoromo in hopes of becomming a tennyo....but did it give you power such as this?.... Yuuhi: Uh...excuse me.... there appears to be a monster chasing after me... //nudge, nudge// //page 75// Yuuhi: will someone tell me what the hell is going on?! //flash// Monster: //piku!// //shaaaaaa/// Tuuhi: Eep?! Monster: //woooooo// //page 76// Yuuhi: //ha!//....Ceres?! Ceres: Did you....put on the hagoromo?...I fear that...you are no longer able to use it properly....therefore....the other tennyo in this area left you under here...you poor thing...you must have been locked under here in that form for hundreds of years...unable to die, but still...occasionally, your sleep would be disturbed by intruders. //page 77 Ceres: You did not want....for anyone to see you looking like that.....I understand....I shall help you now. I shall grant upon you the joy of purification.... //page 78// Shiso:...I'm impressed. However, another opportunity to find the hagoromo has failed....just give it up...and come with me. Ceres: why so sudden... Shiso: Don't you know?... the tennyo here used up their powers on humans and were eventually kicked out.....they were betrayed and devistated by human-lust. //page 79// Ceres: You are no different!! You....betrayed me!..... //whoosh....slip...// Yuuhi: Ceres?! //slap!// Yuuhi: Ungh! Wei: Are you safe, master? //clang// Shiso: ...Oh, it's you....didn't I tell you not to enter the school? //page 80// Shiso: I'll be taking my wife with me, Aogiri. Yuuhi: Bastard! Let go of...her! Shiso: We are only keeping each other's promises. This will be the last time she sees you. and in return, I shall let you escape. I praise her wise decision....Aya is also happy....she said that you were "the best friend in the world" to her.... //page 81// Yuuhi: Wha- //stomp!// Yuuhi: //grunt!// ....Wai....t!!!!!! Shiso: Well, now we leave "school" and Tango. Wei: Master, what is this?... Shiso: A little souvenier for kagami. (oh god, i LOVE Shiso!!! >: )= //page 82// Shiso: He should be back from Germany very soon. I shall let him study it....the human-arm that was transformed by the hagoromo. Yuuhi: //hah, hah// wait.... //hah, hah// Flashback-aya: "You're useless" Yuuhi: //hah, hah// Flashback-aya: "It's none of your business" Yuuhi: //hah, hah// Flashback-aya: "I'll leave the Aogiris" Yuuhi: //hah, hah// //page 83// Yuuhi: Ow....//hah, hah// Flashback-aya; "The best....friend....in the world" Yuuhi: ...A......Aya!!!! //page 84// Kagami: Shiso caught Ceres?! Person: She is presently asleep from drugs we gave her. Kagami: I hear Alec has made progress on his shield... person: We still can't use it yet....well, you see... Kagami: A human transformed by the hagoromo...? //page 85// //slam// Wei: Eexcuse me. Chief has just ordered that Ceres be transported to an examining room right away. Shiso: Wei. Who is your master? Kagami or me?...can you not answer?....you are my protector...are you not? //page 86// //slip// Shiso:...It looks painful. Rather than babysitting me....wouldn't you have rather gone after the bastard who stole your left eye? Wei: I was ordered to stay. //slap!// Shiso:...That's right...you're Kagami's slaves. //page 87// Shiso: However, I am different. I can do with my woman as I please...I will not let anyone disturb me...! Leave us!! //slam...// Voices: Aya. Aya-san. Aya, where did you go? Aya: Someone...is calling me...Yuuhi? Q-chan, Chidori....Shuro....Suzumi-sa....n //page 88// Voices: Aya Shiso: I have been waiting for you, Ceres...for the time when you would be mine again. Aya: Calling...me... Voices: Aya //dokun, dokun, dokun, dokun// Voice/tooya?: Open your eyes. Aya. //page 89// aya: WHA?! Huh?! Wh, where are we?! Shiso: Why did you....perhaps it was wrong to give Ceres the drugs...? Aya: Huh?....Where's the monster?! //page 90// Shiso: Ceres killed it. She made it vanish in an instant...along with the hagoromo. Aya: Wha... Shiso: Understand? The hagoromo is no where to be found. Kagami is going through all the tennyo legends all around the world to search, but it seems impossible. Aya: ....Where...am I! Where's Yuuhi....I can't move....drugs? Shiso: I shall not let you go anywhere....for the rest of your life. //page 91// //whap!// //thud!// Aya: no....let go! Shiso: hmhm Unlike your brother, your will power seems stronger...but only because Ceres can't hold you down...if so, then I shall hold you down. I shall make it so out of shame you will never want to show yourself again....this is the sequel to the library-scene. //page 92// Aya: Don't!....stop!! I...Aki is my....brother...! Shiso: It doesn't matter...because you are the same human as Ceres. Aya: I'm not! No...!! Ceres...Ceres?! No!....she won't answer...is she asleep?! //page 93// //slap!// //slip// Aya: Hey!... Shiso: The more you protest, the more a man will be aroused. [everyone taking notes? ^_^] Aya: No....stop this... //page 94// Aya: with Aki's face, aki's voice, aki's fingers, aki's...ki....Aki!! snap out of it!! How much longer are you gonna keep running away like that!! You're my older brother...hey!!....o-nii-chan....!! ya...Tooyaa!! Shiso: //perk// This time you call him? //page 95// Shiso: He will not come back. Do you think we actually left him there? Reports say that he fell off a cliff into the sea a week ago. Aya:.....no....I mean, Tooya's dagger...is...//dokundokun// Shiso: stop this foolishness. You have no where to run. I shall teach you that you exist only for me. //page 96// Aya: Too...ya...come back.......No.....Tooya!!! //crash!// //page 97// [one week earlier] Kid: Hey....look at that. //whoosh....// Kid: yeah...looks bad. call someone. Kid: Daaaad! come here! We found a man....he's dead!! //page 98// Tooya: Where am...I....ah, yes....have I returned? Return to...... //page 99// //whap!// Doctor: Yo! Did ya finally wake up? Tooya: Who the hell?! Doctor: "Doctor" not "who the hell". //page 100// Doctor: Don't you remember? You surfaced in a harbor nearby the day before yesterday, buddy. Tooya: Hos...pital? Doctor: It's tiny, but yeah First off, I hear you were carried off to someone's house, but if you were trying to commit suicide, you should've done it in the winter when japan's seas are leathal. Oh well, just gimme your address and I'll contact a family mem... Tooya: ...I don't have an address. Doctor: Huh? //page 101// Tooya: Thanks for all you've done for me....I have to go now, so- //whump!// Doctor: Hold it!! Trying to get away without paying the bill, eh? You squid-anisakis!! Arrow: parasite Doctor: First off, you've got cuts and bruises, you're mal-nourished, your body's in pain, etc, and you can hardly walk on your own!! //scuffle, scuffle// Nurse: doctor!! Why are you attacking your patient!! [freetalk] //page 102// Nurse: Sheesh, I let him out of my sight for one moment and.... Doctor: U----h, so you're saying that in order to get your memories back, you've been wandering all over the place with the "ocean" as your only clue? And you fell into the ocean in order to escape from people who were chasing after you?! Tooya: ...no matter where I run, they come after me...so before they can come here and hurt you people... Doctor: Hey, buddy don't think you can sweet-talk me into letting you leave without paying your bill with that sappy soap-opera story of yours! Okay! Until you get better, you're staying here! It's my order as a doctor! Tooya: huh?? Doctor: And then after you get well again, you will work and pay! Nnnnice decision!! //page 103// Tooya: Um....have you been listening to me at all...? Doctor: no matter who you are or who's gonna come and get me, you're still my patient! my name's Kurozuka. What about you? Tooya:....Tooya. That's what i'm called, anyway.... ??: So this is "Niigata". ??: hHm....we were supposed to go as far as the lab in Tokyo, but it seems we missed the road... //page 104// Assamu: I don't think that Tooya would've died that easily. Even though he can't escape us no matter where he runs. Man: Assamu, we know where he is. But if you continue to go off on your own adventures, the chief'll... //smash!// Assamu: If we take him to the lab, then we won't be able to chose to do anything for ourselves again! first, we must torture the man....who hurt my legs and stole Wei's left eye. And don't tell Shiso about this either! Man: wh...where are you going now? //page 105// Assamu: To buy another ice cream cone! Nurse:....I wonder who that patient is. Nurse2: A beautiful amnesia-man...how dramatic! Nurse: With his looks, he's gotta be a model. I wonder if he ran away or... Doctor: Nooooot at all. He's gotta be a young gangster!! //snap!// with those looks, he must've screwed the boss's sister, then the boss tried to kill him, then threw him in the ocean, then he lost his memory, then... Nurse: Really?! Is that true?! Nurse2: It'd better not be true; I'm a fan of "Gokudou no Onnnatachi"! //page 106// Tooya: Forgive me. I feel bad for you, but...I've gotta get out of here before they come back after me....those bastards....they seem to hurt me to see how much I can take....like that kid is just playing with me. Flashback-Assamu: "Join us again" Tooya: wWhy can't they just leave me alone?....even for just one day....I'd like to get some rest.... //tokun...tokun tokun// Aya... //tokun tokun// ...Breathing's irregular again...? Through my dagger, I can feel it faintly....just Aya's warmth... //page 107// Tooya: She's letting me believe...that I'll come back to her....she's saying there will surely be a day when I will be forgiven....she Sado-straight, huh....this doesn't feel quite right; not the ocean I know.... //whooosh// //page 108// //bang bang bang bang bang bang!// //whir!// //page 109// //bong, bong// Assamu: ...Both arms. Tooya: ....kk!...Where are you!! Assamu: Both legs.Are you unable to move now? ...How boring, you should try and run away. //page 110// Assamu: Well, then this time shall iI'll take your "eye" and give it to Wei? Tooya: Would he dare?! Doctor: //crash!// There you are!! //putputputput// //page 111// Doctor: How silly of you to try and escape me!! person: Good for you, doc! You've found the patient! I'll go tell the others Doctor: Okay! Thanks for helping in the search! //whoosh// //silence// Doctor: Are you a dumb shit?! Even though you're injured, you climb out a window; you un-grateful... //page 112// Doctor: Where the hell did those wounds come from...!! Doctor: Were you assaulted by the mob again?....What did you do?! Tooya: I'm not part of the mob....ow! And they left right away. They're...not the type to pick on a normal human.... Doctor: What the hell! I didnt' know mobsters these days were so logical! Tooya: For the last time, you're wrong! Doctor: Damn, you're a big trouble to me, but I can't exactly leave ya alone. O was thinking of transfering you to a bigger hospital, but i won't! I'll look after you! Tooya:...... Doctor: Why're ya staring at me like that! Tooya:...Nothing....I was just thinking what a unique person you were...I've been wandering here and there for nearly 2 months now, but... //page 113// Tooya: I've never found anyone...who was concerned about me...it seems like the police force isn't gonna help me...why... Doctor: hmmmm.....I guess I have more space to myself than other people....like I feel once I get myself into something there's no turning back. Well, anyway, first off, get well soon! The longer you take, the larger the bill! Go to sleep, Tooya! Tooya: ...Yes, sir. //page 114// //whoosh, whoosh, whoosh// Doctor: All right! I'll take this line! Tooya: Doc...wait a minute. Doctor: Sorrrrry, no thinking time! Tooya: but I've been having terrible heart-pains... Doctor: You telling me this game's giving you a heart attack?! Tooya: No, it's not my heart pains, but my girl's heart. DoctorL Huh? //page 115// Doctor: I don't really get it, but Aaaah, so you're having women-trouble all along! My nurses were thinking along those lines. Well, was she the boss's girl? label on Tooya's next speech bubble: ignoring Tooya: I've felt her strongly many times before, but....I wonder what's wrong? Doctor: If you're really that worried about her, can't ya just call her or something...? She must be worried about you, too! Tooya:...Becuase if I hear her voice....or if she calls my name....I won't be able to stand it anymore....I know i'd rush over to her....and hug her tightly...but...I can't do that. //page 116// Tooya: ....Because...I'm still "black". //clink...// doctor: Damn!! Aw, he just got 5 pieces!! //clink, clink// Tooya: I get this feeling that i might make her all black like I am and... Doctor: Yeah, but now I'm the one being made black! Tooya: Even the memories we shared together are unstable....I can't go back. doctor: ....."Amnesia" is tough. No matter how much you worry about it, you're stuck. but I think it's pretty amazing that you still remember your girl. Tooya: ....Even I thought I had nothing to do with it! but...the world won't accept me. //page 117// Tooya: This world is...void of "the reason of being". No one looks for an answer. and for me, who has nothing....there is...no place for me. I'm fine if I'm alone...I'm used to it....but I don't know how to make her..."happy". first off, I don't even know if she's forgiven me....whenever I touch her...I just seem to hurt her....make her cry....but with just a little bit of her warmth, she supports me...I am... Doctor: Serious. //clink// You're not supposed to trap yourself....but no one can understand the concept of "happiness". and if that girl is also in love with you, then won't she want to suffer and rejoice with you? //clink, clink// Love makes 2 people complete, right? //page 118// Doctor: //swivle// That's how you turn your life around from black to white. //clink...// a man knows how to fight, but....if you even waver a bit, you won't win. You've gotta face reallity, know what you want, and go for it! At least yell out to her "wait for me!"...and with that, I just won the game, and... Tooya: At least....one word... //page 119// Tooya: Aya... //tokun tokun tokun// Aya. I miss you //tokun tokun tokun// Aya: Tooya "help me, Tooya!" //dokun dokun dokukn dokun// Tooya: Aya?! //page 120// //thud!// Aya: No!! //grab!// aya: i said "no", you asshole!! Shiso: Kicking my ribs, eh?....You sure aren't putting up much of a fight, are you...then.... Aya: !! Hey! What are you!... //slip...// //page 121// Shiso: Seeee? Fight back some more...and spread your legs apart. //giggle, giggle// Aya: How frustrating. this time...I really will.... Shiso: ...What's the matter?....won't you resist me? //dokun dokun dokun// Aya: Tooya.... //dokun dokun dokun// //page 122// Aya: Sorry //rip!!// Aya: Ah Shiso: ?! //page 123// Shiso:...What's this?....Where did you get it.... //grab//...No matter.... I shall despose of it. Aya: DON'T!! //page 124+125// //clllang!// //bam!// Aya: ....I...pushed him....away...? //crackle..// Flashback-Tooya: "I'll put my life-force in it" Aya: Too....ya..?! //piku// Shiso:....ya......I...see.... //page 126// Shiso: TOOYA!! IS THAT YOU!! //bang!// Doctor: Tooya?! Hey! That's my motorcycle... Tooya: I'm sorry! I'll bring it back! //page 127// Doctor: Hey, can you ride? Wait a sec! //vrrrrum, vrrrrum, vrrrum// Doctor: Where exactly do you plan on going?...you wouldn't! Hey! Wait! Tooyaaaa!! Tooya: Aya...!! //page 129// Shiso: Is that dagger Tooya?!!....just how far will he go to hinder me...?! Wei: Master?! //page 130// //knock knock, knock, knock// Wei: Is there something the matter?! Aya: //ha!// //bap!// //page 131// //thud!// Wei: Master?! Aya: Tooya is....alive....I know he'll come back!! Because...because my heart is with him!! Do you think i'm gonna be like everyone else who blindly follows your orders?! //page 132// //squeeze// Shiso:....She pissed me off....I'll go to a differnet room tonight!! Leave that woman trapped in there until I say you may bring her out!! Don't feed her either!! Wei: Yes, sir Arrow: Doing her best to look intimidating //slip...// //shuffle, shuffle// //slam// Aya: //slide...// //page 133// Aya: //sigh...// Ow...! .....why? how could he do such a thing? How can men use women as "things" like that?...I'm not a thing. Neither is my body...it's not a thing...! Flashback-Tooya: "Men can make love to a woman even if they do not love her." //page 134// Flashback-Tooya: "Don't give your body up so easily to a man." "Reality...doesn't really exist." Aya: why was I so childish?....I always acted without thinking...even with Yuuhi....that wasn't because he was a "thing"...I just didn't notice...back then. Tooya's hand that kept pushing me away was so warm. his voice was gentle when he told me I was "special" to him. He always stared at me painfully. He always....loved me... //page 135// Aya: But...because it was Tooya, that's why I believed in him... Tooya I miss you....Tooya... Tooya: Aya..... [freetalk] //page 136// //zukin zukin// [sound effects for cuts being torn in you; kinda like your heart is being torn to shreds...] Tooya: i can't...my headaches are bothering me....my past with her...but I wonder if she's still waiting for me, or if she'll forgive me?....I had fake memories implanted in my mind, so I left you. but maybe the "Tooya" you were searching for in the first place was the original me. But...your feelings for me never changed. even if i were to become yet another "Tooya", I'm sure you would still accept me. No matter how many times I changed. //page 137// Asamu: //grin// Tooya: //ha!// //page 138// //boom boom!!// //aaahhhh!!// Asamu: Ahahah! That's right, run! run! The game's no fun otherwise!! //page 139// Asamu: The part of "you can't kill him" that is annoying is what makes this game fun!! Tooya: Shit....I'll make it all the way to Tokyo even if it kills me!! //smash!!// Shiso: Shit!.... Man: Excuse me, sir, telephone from the chief... //page 140// Kagami:....I just received your "souvenir from Tango" at the lab. Now all I need is Ceres... Shiso: Hmph...now she's just turned back into "Aya"...and is somehow being protected by Tooya!! Shiso: Why?! Why do you want to keep her alive?! My wife not only gave her body to that beast, but her heart as well.I will not let him live!! Kagami: Her "heart" you say? Then can you not change that "heart"? //page 141// Kagami: Why don't we take her memories away like we did with tooya? Don't you think it's a good idea...? //slip...// //flap...// //grab// Aya: Ah! Damn, i let myself fall asleep! GRRRRRR!!! //SMACK!!// //page 142// Wei:....Put...put these clothes on.... Aya:....Huh?! You even un-tied my arms for me? Wei: Do you punch me because you're his sister?...You must come with me now. I do not like attacking women...so just come nicely. Asamu: Jeez, how many km/h is he going?! You think you can outrun the helicopter?! But next time i'd like a jet... Man: Assamu! There're cops behind you! Cops: Hey, you on that bike! Pull over!! //page 143// Assamu: Good timing. Let 'em eat some "naaga"!! //bam!// //page 144// //BOOOM!!// //brrrrooom// //page 145// Man:...He jumpped over it, sir. Assamu: IS HE A FRICKIN' STUNT MAN?!! ARRGGH, What a pain in the ass!! Kill him!! Make it a "death by traffic accident"!! Ha...his speed is dropping! //page 146// Assamu: Idiot! Don't tail-gate him!! //boom!// arrow: over here... Assamu: damn...he slowed down on purpose and then zoomed away at the last minute. Fine. We'll get him after he leaves the tunnel. //page 147// Aya: you can take the blindfold and handcuffs off! I don't pose a threat anyway! Are you listening to me?! Hey!! Shiso: ...Thanks for making a fool out of me earlier. I shall seperate you from that man forever...no matter how long it takes me. //page 148// Shiso: And when that time comes, you will toss him away through your own will. Kagami: Good work, Shiso. Oh, nice to see you again, Aya-chan... Aya: That voice is... Kagami?! Kagami:...Take her blindfold off....this is our labratory...welcome to "special experimentations". I'm glad you came. I'm so glad you finally decided to work with me in peace. Aya: In peace?! Who is?! Not me! Not me!! //shake, shake// Kagami: Oh really? I think I behaved very well protecting you and the other 3 tennyo so far...how did the search with your friends go for the hagoromo? //page 149// Arrow: Looks as though she's doing her best to resist... //stomp, stomp// Aya: Don't patronize me...the only reason you didn't kill me was because my powers were strong!! Lemme tell you this: I'm a little differnet now!! I'm "cooperating" with Ceres now! If you don't watch it, she'll kick your ass!! //kick, kick// Kagami: Too bad about your cousin, Miori. My grandfather and many other close relatives of mine insisted that "the tennyo would not show herself"...and one of them was her mother....oh well, there was no helping it....nothing had happened for the past 10 years anyway. The husband she eloped with died, and it looked like she needed money...her father attended teh ceremony...and then he sweet-talked to grandpa and got some help...that was why she came....but thanks to your awakening.... Aya: Stop it!! //page 150// Aya: Why?! How can you....speak so cooly?! Kagami:....you're right. i have always been waiting for "Ceres". even if I had to sacrifice others....when I gave them the drugs too quickly, there was no reaction....so I observed for a while, but i let Miori go free. and as a result, I was able to see the tennyo transform perfectly just as I had imagined. iI can't use the other Mikage girls, but she was superior...it really was a shame to lose her. My plan to link her memories to Tooya also failed. Aya:...Fake...memories...?!....Why....What did you do to Tooya?! Kagami: One kind of hypnosis in our computers. //page 151// //poke// Kagami: There is always a way....for mind-control to be done, but...in using drugs, there are risks involving time and the body....in short, it is impossible to turn someone into a puppet, no matter what methods are used. Tooya: i'm slowing down...am i low on gas?! Kagami: The best method to use is changing the memories from the past....mixing in some of what really happened along with it. Humans seem to accept fake memories easily. Since you and miori "looked alike", the reverse happened, and his brain was confused so we made him believe //page 152// Kagami: gowever, Tooya was not able to bury his "intuition" for long, so he put a "hinderance" in his brain...a microchip that let out a traffic light in the system. He suffers from "headaches"....that's all it was, but it acted as a mind-block. but even so, Tooya sought after you...not with his brain, but with his heart....what a sad story, huh... //slap!// Aya: you traitor!! Kagami: Science is our "power", Aya-chan. Man :Take her to 3F //stomp, stomp....// //page 153// Ceres: "Aya...!!" Aya: Ah! Ceres?!....are you awake?! Ceres: "Run away. They are planning on changing your mind." Flashback-Shiso: "You will toss him away through your own will" //thonk!!// //bam!// Guy: Ouch! //page 154// Man: Hey... //bam// man: wait! Kagami: Don't get upset. That leads to the basement....she can't get away. and even if she could, her "power" won't work either. Aya: //hah, hah// Ceres: "Aya" //page 155// Aya: //hah, hah// tooya's heart remembered me.....I'm not gonna let him go....I'm not...gonna forget him!! //squeeze// he...my Tooya will come back for sure....no....I don't care even if he's changed now!! I'm gonna continue to love him. //page 156// Tooya: It's all or nothing!! Assamu: Shoot him! Tooya: Aya!! //thunk// //page 157// //whoosh// //page 158// //grab!// //clink// Man: Assamu...!! Tooya: Go where I tell you!! Hurry!! Aya: //hah, hah// //page 159// Aya: //hah, hah// What is this place...?! What a gentle light...and nice warmth...lots of green...is this part of the lab? Is this the basement? //page 160// Aya: Where the hell am I going? //bam// C-Genoma: Huh? what's the matter? Why are you so flustered? C-Genoma2: ...Looks like a new entry... Aya: Huh?...Who are these girls?....I don't belive it... //page 161// Aya: I don't believe it Gladys: That's right. they are awakened C-Genoma. //prick...// //flutter// Gladys: They are your family, Ceres. //slide...// //page 162// //slip...// //page 163// Alec: Ah... Gladys: I've brought Aya here, Dr. Howell. Kagami: Too bad she's so strong-willed... I had been planning on advancing by reasoning with her civilly. Shiso: ....Kagami....how will you create her memories? What are you going to put in? //page 164// Kagami: "Fear"....as a sort of danger-signal to her life....because it's the kind of memory that leaves an impression the easiest in living beings. In her case she has more than enough fear. Because she has fear with substance, we can just embellish on it a little... Man: Chief...communications from Assamu have stopped. Kagami:...Oh....all right....Dr. Howell, please begin. Howell? Alec: ...I just can't do it, Chief! //page 165// kagami: what? Alec: The memories I gave to Tooya had a meaning, and to him they were not bad...but Aya is different! when we give someone a severe shock, it poses a threat to his nervous system. And on top of that, I would have to give her another course of drugs....if something goes wrong, Aya could become a "vegetab..." Kagami: ....There are two souls alive inside of her body...all we're doing is changing their places. you prepared a plesant dream for Aya, right?Begin, hHowell! Alec: Aki-kun... //page 166+167// Alec: ....I'm sorry....this time I'm taking your sister away, too... Ceres: ".....ya...Aya." Aya: Ceres.... Ceres: "I cannot change....the one controlling this body is you. the way you change your body....the way you change your cells is through your emotions. anger....sorrow....fear....if those do not exist,I...but now control of your body is being taken over by strong drugs. If you let your heart stay seperated into two, you will fail...i shall lend you my strength." Aya: ....Ceres...why? Wouldn't you rather "I" disappear? Ceres: "I suppose....but....I've become interested....in what will become of you and Tooya. I want....to find the answer to what i couldn't find when I was really alive. maybe more important than the hagoromo I lost....was the heart that was lost instead..." //page 168// Aya: But, Ceres...how do we do it? We can't use our powers or bodies... Ceres: "Do you not have strength?...you were able to hold me down countless times before. Your strength is in your strong life." //perk// //page 169// Tooya:...mMove more to the left!! In a straight line!! Assamu: Hey...isn't that the way to the lab...! Tooya: ....She's there....! [freetalk] //page 170// Tooya: Aya....she's in there!! Alec: ...Her arms....they're moving...? This can't be? She's completely unconscious; she shouldn't be able to move a finger... Man: A pulse...?! Dr. Howell, what's....? //page 171// ??: Chief...! the electrical waves are flowing backwards in the system. A rejection-reaction....is coming from waves all over her body. This is the first time I've come accross this pattern! I don't know if she can keep it up.... Kagami: Raise the power and continue. Mere human-strength should not be able to resist it. Shiso: She got some power?! Kagami: ....That is impossible. Not as Aya....not even if she changed into Ceres, because those braces on her wrists act as a shield against that kind of power.... //page 172// Kagami: With those braces, I was able to restrain the power of the many tennyo here. Alec: Please....Aya-san. Don't resist and just let yourself fall into the "dream"! If you don't, you'll die...! Assamu: Shit, Tooya!! Don't tell me you're gonna crash in?!! Man: P....pull up!! //crashhh// ??:...Ah....the meters are dead...!! //page 173// Aya: Tooya. Tooya remembered me from the bottom of his heart.....I also won't forget....what happened when we met....we weren't what everyone would call a "perfect couple", but....our bad times, and our good times....was all....was all... //page 174+175// Aya: Happy. ....that's what I said, huh. that "I'd do anything to make Tooya happy."....so...I'll break the evil spell..... Alec: STOP!! shut it down!! turn off everything!! Aya: ....That was placed on you. Alec: Aya-san...!! Oh my god....!! Are you... //page 176// Man: The controls won't work....if this keeps up, we really will crash!! //bam!// //page 177// //bap!...// Assamu: Ungh...!! Tooya: You go, too, Assamu...you wanna live, right? I will "not kill anymore"... //page 178// Tooya: That's what I promised Aya. Assamu: Tooya... ahhhhhh!! Shiso: What is the meaning of this...?! Man: Chief!! //page 179// Man: We just got a report from Assamu!! We're in danger! Hurry over here!! //page 180// [no lines at all ^_^] //page 181// //BOOM!!// //crash!// Wei: ....Chief! Master! Are you all right?... Shiso:...Ow!...Where's Tooya?! //page 182// //bambambam// Tooya: ...Move. Alec:...To...tototototo Where did you come from? //page 183// //slide...slide....slide...// Tooya:....Aya....? //page 184+185// Tooya: ..It's me. I've come to take you home...Aya.... ??:Tooya!! //page 186// Kagami:...You....oh, yes, because Aya broke that machine, your memory has... Tooya: Kagami....there are things more powerful than science!! Shiso: How convienient! Kill them both now....!! Alec: //grr..// HEEEEEYYYYYYYY!!!!! //page 187// Wei: Wha.... Alec: He, help me!! I've been taken hostage!! Kagami: A...lec!! Alec: I don't want to die yet!! I still have lots of video games and anime I want to see!! //whisper// Come, I'll cover you by that fire escape over there! Alec:....Okay. don't move!! //page 188// Shiso: What are you doing?! Man: I follow orders from the doctor first!! Shiso:...If you can't do it, then I will!! //click// Shiso:...Kagami....you bastard!! //page 189// Kagami:....I can't let the brains of this operation escape. Tooya: Why....why did you help us? Alec: I'm doing this to make up for all the hurt I've caused you....I guess....now let's go underground!!....If anyone should be punished, it's Kagami and us....because we are terrible people who tried to go against heaven's laws. //end of volume 10. lalalalala.//