Chapter One - Ayashi no Ceres Translated by Lekha M. Rao c.1998 Stroy c.1998 Yuu Watase, Shogakukan Flower Comics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [3] Fortune Teller: So, Aya Mikage. Fortune Teller: With this crystal I shall now look into your future. Fortune Teller: Clear your mind and lend me your ears; I'll tell you something. Sound: jerk Fortune Teller: ----This... is...!? [7] Aya: What was up with that fortune!! Friend 1: Plese, don't get angry, Aya! Sound: Bam Aya: What are you talking about, I'm ALWAYS calm! Aki: Liar! Aya: Well, she said she couldn't let me see. I don't get why, but she told me everything she could. Fortune Teller: "...This is...!?" [8] Fortune Teller: "In the future, you will be ruled by a 'dark planet.'" "I see blood, anger, and sadness -- the destruction of the balance of everything in the world." "On the day the 16th star and moon come together, this fated time will come to pass." "Whether it is light or darkness, you essentially have a strong life power." Friend1: That sums it up. Friend2: "Before~~ pitch black~~" (probably some enka song) Aya: Ah, this seems very, very bad! Aki: But she also said, "The savior of your destiny is also waiting," didn't she? It'd be nice if it was a guy. Tomorrow on your birthday you'll be 16-years-without-a-boyfriend-Aya-chan! Aya: Maybe you're just jealous, Aki, you don't even have a girlfriend!! Aki: Me? I don't care. [9] Aki: With a troublesome younger twin sister, I can't handle having a girlfriend. Aya: So you're trying to say this is my fault? Aya: (clap clap clap) All right, enough already!! I don't believe in that fortune anyway. Friend3: Thank you very much. Yay. Aki: Huh? You were singing just now? All: Next is... who Aya: Well, everybody! Sorry for keeping you waiting so long!! Aki: This song is...!! Aya: They call me, Aya Mikage, "The Namie Amuro of Sarashina High School!!" Friend3: No one calls you that. Aki: Don't you mean that's what you call yourself? Friend2: Not again. Aya: I will sing number 18!! [10] Aya: "It's not like that, I'm just fooling around. I'm just acting on an unstoppable impulse..." (I filled in the rest of the verse) Friend3: Today again her energy's all the way up and her eyes are dead-set. Aki: She's worried about her fortune. Friend2: Hey, hey, let's take a picture! Friend1: "But it'll really come true~~ that fortune~~" Sound: piku Aya: "Just Chase the Chance" Sound: snap Sound: bang pop Aya: Aki!! Pick up a mike!! Aki: But -- I'll say something silly. Friend1: You're breaking down (dancing) Aya! (This, I think, is a reference to a line in the song) Your specialty is dancing, huh!! Friend2: (snap) Okay. [11] Friend2: Cheese!! ...But no one's looking at me-- Sound: Click Aya: Ah, after singing I feel refreshed!! Friend3: That's right, Aya! Aki! Tomorrow to celebrate your birthday, how about we go to that new "Karaoke Box" we found? Aya: Oh-- yeah, that's cool!! Aki: Hm-- Singing again, I guess! Friend: Aya likes it too-- Aya: Hmph. After all, I'm called "The Namie Amuro of Sarashina High School"... Friends: Enough of that already! [12] Sound: scream Woman: So- Somebody!! Woman: Purse snatcher, catch him---!! [13] Aya: Wait!! Thief: S--t, let me go!! Aki: Aya!! Aya: Gotcha!! Call the police!! Aya: Ah Aya: Got-- [14] Aya: Huh-- Aki: Aya!! [15] Aya(th): No... way---!! [16] Aya: What is this scene Aya: Suddenly this pops into my head [17] Aya(th): ...Huh? Aya(th): ...floated? Aya: Seems like it, just now... Aki: Aya!! [18] Aya: Duh.... Sound: squeal~~ [19] Driver: You idiot!! Don't jump out into the middle of the road like that!! Sound: thump thump [20] Tooya: --Are you all right? [21] Tooya: What's wrong? Does it hurt anywhere? Sound: shuffle shuffle Aya: Ah, ...n-no!! Aki: Aya! Friend2: Geez, Aya~~~!! Aya: Ah... Aki! Yo. Aki: Whaddya mean, "Yo!!" Sound: roar [22] Aki: Why did you do such a dangerous thing!! You could've been killed!! Aya: ...Sorry... Aki: sigh Friend3: Sorry, Mikage just kind of ran after it. Woman: Sorry for going through all that trouble for me... Aya: (smile) No problem! See, your bag's fine! [23] Woman: Thank you, thank you. Aki: The bag's all right, but what about you!? Aya: Yeah, I'm fine! This person saved... Aya: --Huh? He's... gone... Aya(th): I didn't get to thank you, my savior. ...He was kind of a mysterious person. Wonder if I'll get to see him again. [24] Fortune Teller: "The savior of your destiny is waiting for you." Aya: ...Can't be. Aya(th): But what was that, anyway. When I was falling, it was like something subliminal popped into my head. And then, for sure, I... Aki: You floated, huh. Aya: Attack!! Sound: Bam Aki: Hey, what are you trying to do!! Aya: Oh, Aki, it's you. You surprised me! [25] Aki: Dumbells... Were you trying to kill me? Geez, it's weird to see you doing so well. If that hadn't happened, you wouldn't be here right now. Aya: Aki, that was the wind, the wind! Something made my body float. And then that guy saved me! I'm just lucky. Aya: ...But Aki, you were probably mad, but my heart was honestly thumping. Aya: Don't you think? Every day, the same thing over and over... It's boring, isn't it. Aya: You wake up in the morning, go to school, come back, eat, sleep, then all over again the next day. I think whatever we do, there's always someone else out there who's doing the same thing. [26] Aya: It's just like I'm just one sheep in a flock of thousands in this world! (I just used this expression to describe what she's saying) Somehow... Somehow that's not enough... But, I don't know what I should do, maybe I'm better off the way I am. --Aki, can you picture yourself in ten years? Aki: ...Today my heart was also thumping in a different sense. "Just like this, my everyday routine is going to be broken." I felt like something had been lost and crushed to bits. ...I wondered if I could be happy with just ordinary things. But there is only what is ahead of us... Aki: But that's all. After all, tomorrow we'll finally be 16! Aki: Get me a good present, little sister! [27] Aya: Same thing here, older brother! Sound: Bam Mom: Aya! Aki! Dinner! Aya: Sorry Aki! It wasn't on purpose. Aki: Forget it! There's no way I'm getting you a present! Aya: No way~~ Mom: Hurry up and sit down, you two! Aki: Geez, it's cuz you're a girl. Guys don't do this. Aya: My~ bad~! Dad: Aki... Aya. Before dinner I have something to tell you. Dad: ...Tomorrow come home as soon as school gets out. [28] Sound: hm Aya: HUH!? Why? Tomorrow we're celebrating with our friends... Dad: You're going to your grandpa's house. Looks like we're going to celebrate your birthday. Aya: No way-- We promised we'd go to a karaoke party! Dad: You can't go! Just come home, please. Mom: Listen to you dad! You understand? Aya(th): How weird... Aya: ...So, I'm sorry [29] Friend1: It's okay, you couldn't help it! Aya: I'm really sorry! Well, better get going... Aki: I'm really sorry about this, and our circumstances Friend2: ...That's all right, but.. Aki: What? Friend2: Yeah. Friend1: ...This...the picture I took yesterday at the Box! I got them developed the same day, but... it's weird. Friend1: Look, only around Aya, there's some strange mist! Yesterday there was that fortune and then that accident... It would be terrible if this had something to do with that. [30] Friend1: Don't tell Aya! Aya: Whenever I see it, it's still old... But Ojiichan's house is big, isn't it! It's also been around since the Meiji period. Aya: Ah-- Hey, Aki, look at that pine tree! We used to climb that when we were kids, huh-- Aki: Whatever, just hurry up! Aki: (this is just like a parent) Don't dawdle! Don't do anything foolish! Be good! Brush your teeth! Aya: Are you trying to make me laugh? [31] Aya(th): And he still hasn't taken back what he said yesterday! My present was so expensive and everything... ...Could it be, he didn't get one for me? Aya: It's all right, if you're going to be like that, then I'll just take all the presents from Ojiichan! Aki, you're terrible! Aki: Who is. Ojiichan: So you came, Aki, Aya! Aya: Ojiichan! How are you doing? Ojiichan: Hey, hey, let's save the greetings for later. Everyone's waiting. Aya: Everyone...? Huh? [32] Aya: Uncle... Aunt, too... Aya(th): Why... is the whole Mikage family here!? [33] Aki: --Fath... Dad: You two, hurry and sit, please. Aki: ...It's weird. This is our first birthday celebration. It's just a normal high school birthday, though. [34] Aya(th): Everyone's in black? I feel like they're hiding something bad. Even Mom and Dad. It's only early evening! Where are the presents? And the delicious food? Ojiichan: Aki, Aya. Happy sixteenth birthday. Well, this is my present to you. Aya: Ah... That guy!? Aya: No way, why... Ojiichan: Aya! [35] Ojiichan: ...Look at what's inside this box ve--ry carefully Aya(th): ...Huh? Sound: Thump thump thump... Aya(th): What is this... All of a sudden, my heartbeat Aki: ...Aya! I'll open it. Sound: Thump thump [36] Sound: THUMP Aya(th): What... is this... [37] Aya(th): Again... Just like that other time!! Aya(th): Blood...? I can see so much blood!! [38] Sound: Shake shake [39] Sound: BAM Aya(th): ...Wh...What Aya(th): Me...? What did... I do? Aya: ...Aki? I... just now, what-- [40] Sound: shake shake Aya: ...Aki? [41] Ojiichan: --This is...! Aki: Arghhh Aya(th): Aki Aya: Aki... Aki!? What the heck is this!! What's wrong!? Hang on, Aki!! [42] Aya: Mom, Dad!! Hurry, call an ambulance!! Hurry!! Aya: Every... one...!? Aya: What's wrong!! What are you all looking at!! Isn't today a little weird!? Aya: Aki's covered in blood. He'll die!! Ojiichan: Aki won't die. Aya: O... Ojiichan...? [43] Ojiichan: Now I understand... Aki is the one who is imporant to holding this family together. We can't let him die. Ojiichan: Please step away from Aki, Aya. Ojiichan: The one who is going to die is you. Title: The day the 16th star and moon came together Title: The fated time finally comes enka - the traditional Japanese popular song, complete with a man or woman wailing about their lost love, their love, winter storms, etc etc. I guess you could liken it to country music here in America... which explains why I don't like it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return