Volume 11! the first three parts of this volume should be translated somewhere. try ayashi.net for a link. i translated parts 4, 5, adn 6 and my lovely editor edited them ^_^ Editor's Note- "Ceres" was an earth goddess (growth of food, etc) in ancient Roman religion, similar to the goddess Demeter. "Pallas" was named after the Pallas Athena, the Greek god of wisdom. There are also two asteroids named Ceres and Pallas. Pomerania is an area of what is now Germany and Poland. //page 96// Aya's letter: Dear everyone, Yuuhi, Q-chan....how is everyone doing? Sorry for not being able to contact you sooner. we've been keeping our eyes out these past few months, but nothing from the Mikage has come yet. anyway, Tooya and I are finally adjusted to living in a new apartment we found. //page 97// Aya's letter: How are things over there?....I hear Yuuhi's returned to Aisei high school now. I'm glad his arm got better....he must be making wonderful things to eat again, huh. Speaking of food, I've recently begun work at a box-lunch shop and a book store. Aya: Irasshaimase! [something shop keepers/clerks ALWAYS tell customers; equivalent to "May I help you?" or "Welcome", or if you like British comedy "Are you being served?" ^_-] Aya's letter: And Tooya is... //page 98// Aya: Under Kurozuka's generous offer, he is doing paper work and filing (how boring). He also helps packing ships at the nearby port, too. Only the doctor is strrrrrangely more happy over the fact that rather than computers or calculations, or his doctoring skills improving, strrrrangely he's been having more female patients lately. Tooya: That'll be 1230 yen Doctor: Hey! *heart* Tooya: Huh? Aya's letter: I kind of have mixed feelings about that *anger symbol* but Tooya often comes in to check up on me....it seems like I have to be within touching distance all the time. (ah, I don't mean he does it as my lover) //page 99// Aya's letter: I never got to appreciate this before, but....everything around me is peaceful. The people here are nice, too. But it's hard to be a housewife in this world! (te-he). I work, then when I get back, I clean, do laundry, cook supper and his lunch... [freetalk] //page 100// Aya's letter: Well, sometimes I mess up the meal, but Tooya always eats everything I give him without saying a word. (he doesn't eat much, though...) Oh yeah! One time by my "Mikage style"-ed dinner, he tried to go into an undon shop (laugh). when he told me "all the customers stared at me, and I got all flustered, but why was the lady running the shop's stare so scary?" with a staight face, it was hilarious. Tooya: What's so funny? Aya's letter: Another thing I noticed is that Tooya is realllly bad at rock-paper-scissors!! It's very fun only for me. (maybe for others, too?) Aya: That's 10 times in a row!! Tooya: Why do I always lose?... //page 101// Aya's letter: Oh yeah, Shuro and Chidori also seem to be doing well. News: ...And his new single sold 200,000 copies....ah yes, I hear that that song is a song you sing to a "friend"... Shuro on tv: Yes. I sing it to a friend who saved me when I was depressed. Even though we're apart....I know that friend's always cheering me on and I want it to be that no matter where I am, my voice will reach my friend. Aya: Shuro.... Aya's letter: When I sent Chidori a postcard when she moved (?) I got a letter back with pictures in it! It seems as though she visits you people often. (laugh) //page 102// Aya's letter: It's as if all that happened up until now had never happened.....we're living a simple life, but....we are....very happy right now. all we have left....is to find the hagoromo and Tooya's memory. we haven't been getting much help from the town office. And also....I don't think that Kagami....or more importantly, that Shiso would just leave us alone.I sometimes feel like someone's watching me, too. //page 103// Aya's letter: If it gets serious, I'll have to transform into Ceres and fight him.... (I still talk with her sometimes.) Settling down like this has gotten me to thinking about many things. Wondering why the C-genoma I met at Kagami's lab looked so content, and the true meaning of Howell's words about "only wanting to help the C-project". If I think about it, I always seem to be being chased after by Kagami.....but I'd never heard much about the "C-project". It seems like he's more interested in getting the hagoromo now than C-genoma.... //page 104// Aya's letter: I don't think things can be completed by my just finding the hagoromo and lifting Ceres's grudge off the Mikage....something might have happened between Ceres and Shiso...I have to find out more about it.....it seems like something is still missing. //ding dong, ding dong// Aya's letter: I'll write again later. Take care, everyone. Bye. Mikage aya. Aya: Good eveninnnng! I was wondering if you'd like to eat nabe with us! [*nabe: one of my favorite japanese dishes where meat/fish, simple vegetables like cabbage and onions, toufu, shirataki, mushrooms, and some seasonings are all boiled in water in a pot and served with sauces and rice....kinda like soup ^_^] Kurozuka: Ohhhh, thanks a bunch! Tooyaaaa, your wife is here to eat dinner with us! Tooya: Doctor....will you stop teasing me like that. //whap!!// //page 105// Tooya: You'll excite Aya and she'll get all violent, so you should quit before...huh? where did the doctor go anyway? Aya: Oh, Donnnn't! Don't call me his "wife"!! Eeeeeeee! say some morrrree! //whap, whap// Kurozuka:....So have you two gotten used to life here! We don't have snow, but even though I was born here, I had lived in Tokyo for a while.... Aya:You worked for a big hospital, right? Kurozuka: Yup. They had everything, especially brain specialists. Aya/Tooya: Brain.... //page 106// //chomp. chomp, chomp// Kurozuka: Oh...I get it! Wanna let them have a look at you? Tooya, if you go over there, they have all the equipment, and on amnesia, they could... Tooya: No. I don't have that kind of money...and more importantly, I don't want a stranger to look at my brain. Because my memory belongs to me....and I'm remembering little by little. I think I should just let it take its course for now.... Aya: Tooya.... //ding dong, ding dong/ Kurozuka: Hm? //page 107// //clink// Kurozuka: Who are you? We're already closed for the day! Man: Doctor!! My wife said her belly suddenly hurts!! Kurozuka: Tooya!! Help out!! //bam!// Aya: She's going into labor? Kurozuka: The nurses all went home already....but isn't she a month ahead of schedule...?! Woman: Ungghh.. //page 108// Tooya:....Where's a gynecologist? Kurozuka: I'm the only hospital around here! Everyone else is more central....if we got them a car now, they probably wouldn't make it in time! I guess I'll just have to do it. Woman: Unnnngggh!! Kurozuka:....Aya-chan, you go outside! This's too shocking for a high schooler. //page 109// Aya: I....I'm fine! I've seen videos of it at school....I'll help out with something! kurozuka:...Well, maybe this'll be useful for you to know....okay, bring me hot water and lots of towels! And Tooya, you get me a rubber pipe and some scissors! Aya: Unnnggghhhh.... Arrow: She's breathing along Kurozuka: Good! breathe! Aya: U....unggh....nnnn..... Kurozuka: Let out three breaths! //flutterrrr// Aya: Hah, hah... Kurozuka: Hang in there!! Just a little longer!! Aya: I...I can't do this. It's too powerful seeing it live....I can't believe women go through this to give birth!! //page 110// Ceres: "....Watch it as a woman" Aya: Argh! What do you know anyway, Ceres...//grumble, grumble// Kurozuka: Good! The head's come out!! Push!! //waaahhh! waaaahh! waaaah!!// kurozuka:....it's born...!! //page 111// Kurozuka: Good job, Sasaki-san, you've got a son!! Sasaki: Th...thank you so much! Thank you so much! Kurozuka:.....This should do the trick. ah, the ambulance has just come, too. //rrrraaaaaaarrrrrr// [ambulance noises ^_^] Aya: ....Wow. So we're all born that way...this is how we become parents....though I thought the parts before it were pretty gross... Tooya:...In the water.... //page 112// aya: huh? Tooya: A child....in the water.....water....ocean..... in the ocean......a long, long sleep.....the first time outside........ Kurozuka: Tooya?! hey, what's wrong?! //page 113// [Kanagawa prefecture] Kagami: Did the relic really react? Man: Yes, I'm certain....when one of the C-genoma put her powers into it, ONE of the relics transformed its self.... Kagami: Hm....it seems as though the tennyo and the hagoromo, and our unknown substance are related to each other....what about the "hand from Tango"? Lulik: As I expected, there was no reaction. //page 114// Lulik: I have been inspecting it over the past few months, but have not been able to seperate the human and tennyo in it. it.....is deformed, but it seems to be just a human hand. I cannot determine where it's human and where it's tennyo.... Kagami: I wonder if it's....broken hagoromo. it seems to have turned out as we predicted, but ...I can't believe that a human's "science-power" doens't work. Lulik: The one that reacted was Pomerania's hagoromo.....it was discovered in a hole in Mt. Hunerberg. at first glance, it looked like an ordinary earth fragment, but..... Kagami: What did these C-genoma select? Lulik: The power the same as tennyo from Pomerania. //page 115// kagami: I see.... they can change "water" into energy....that's who they were....!....I think we may have something this time! lulik: Well, I shall begin the experiment. Aya:...Well? Tooya, are you okay now...? Tooya: ...Yeah, sorry about that. I seem to have....remembered something. Kurozuka: It must've been a shock to you, too....haha...when I saw my son born, I almost fainted. Tooya:....I've seen people die many times, but this is the first time I've seen anyone born... //page 116// Kurozuka: Die? Hey, hey....and what about that "in the ocean" stuff? Is that a "memory from the womb"?! Aya:....Were you also under shock, doctor? Kurozuka: No, that was "emotionally moved". I thought "ahh, that made me a father, too,huh!"....when I was working at that big hospital, ya know, I was all obsessed with success and promotion and had this habit of saying "don't tell a man what to do"....so I didn't notice that my wife found another man....and that my son had been bullied.... Aya: Doctor... Kurozuka:.....I tried to bring us back togehter by moving back to Niigata again, but it was too late. //page 117// Kurozuka: When we got divorced, she told me that "women are lonely unless they are constantly taken care of"....I really am sad that she had to marry me! Because part of the reason I had wanted to be successful was for them....I guess that's a mean excuse, huh. Aya:....Couldn't you stop her? Kurozuka: Hmph....they.....found happiness somewhere else...I think that's for the best.....men or women.....whether their companion is an adult or child....should be able to cherish that person as a "human". and if people can't do that, it's very hard to understand each other.....and hard to be loved. //page 118// Aya: As a human... Kurozuka: So you two stay together!.....Damn, I seemed to have rambled on...haha.... //rrrrrrrr// Kurozuka:...Hello? Oh, Toku-san!....yup....huh?....Okay, I'll come right away! Sorry, I'm leaving you two in charge tonight! I'm gonna go to Sado now! Aya: Huhhhh, he just said he was gonna go to an SM club.... Tooya, did you hear that? Kurozuka: I said SADO!! //page 119// Kurozuka: Granpa gen of Sado-island's mountain seems to be doing bad! Aya: HUUUHHH? But aren't there doctors over there... Kurozuka: That grandpa's pretty eccentric....and won't let anyone else see him! I'm gonna get on a boat now and cross the ocean... Tooya: //ha!// I'll....come, too. Aya: Tooya?! Tooya: I...want to see the ocean. I might be able to remember something. Aya: Tooya //page 120// Aya: Okay...I'll come with you! Kurozuka: Jeez, you people are weird. I've never met anyone who wanted to go out into the ocean at night. Aya: Bububu, but what about you, then!! Kurozuka: It's my job! Get in tight, you two'll freeze!! //chatter, chatter, chatter// Aya: But Tooya is... //page 121// Tooya: ....Get in my jacket. It's cold. I'm gonna take a look at this ocean. Aya: I....I'm fine! I'm plenty warm in your coat .....what is it about the "ocean"...I wonder how it's connected to Tooya. please let him remember....even just a little.... \//page 122// Kurozuka: Damn....the weather's gotten bad!! We've gotta hurry up....! Tooya: Aya! get inside! Aya:...But Tooya: The waves are rising! It's dangerous..... //whooosh// //crash// aya: ah!!.... //page 123// //crash, crash// Kurozuka: Shit....they're geting violent!! Get inside, you two!! Hey, you get in, too, Tooya! //page 124// Tooya:...Okay. you go ahead of me. While I hold onto you....slowly.... //tip// Tooya: Aya.... //page 125// //crash!!// Kagami: Hagoromo....?! //page 126// //zzt, zzt// Kurozuka: Tooya!!...Aya!! //bubble, bubble// Tooya: Aya...!! It's no use, the waves are too high....!! //page 127// //bubble, bubble, bubble// Tooya: In the ocean....what's this feeling?.....Aya....!! It seems like something happened here....light...? My body....is shining?! //end of part 4// //page 128// [Sadokashima] //crash, crash...// //ripple, ripple...// //page 129// Tooya: //ha....//...Where am...I....? Sado...? How did I...swim over here? //ha!// AYA...!! [freetalk] //page 130// Tooya: Wake up, Aya! //cough, cough, cough// Tooya: //sigh// Thank god... //GULP!// //page 131// //vohm, vohm, vohm, vohm// Tooya: Wha.... //vohm, vohm, vohm, vohm// //page 132// //whoosshh...// Tooya: What was....that....why!! "glowing body". "in the ocean" Tooya: What....am I? What is the "ocean" trying to make me remember...?! C-genoma: //hah, hah// //page 133// //slip// Lulik: Chief! This experiment is too hard on the C-genoma... Kagami: Forget it....let them stop. I'll test to see if this experiment was successful or not by touching it myself. Gladys:....Chief?! You mustn't do that!! I'll use a rat instead.... Kagami: I don't care! I'm responsible for this. //page 134// Kagami: ...This is a piece of the hagoromo....?! Is it alive....? Or....is it a machine....?! //dokun dokun dokun// //page 135// Kagami: It looks like a transparent tentacle.... //page 136// //ZHUNN!// Man: CHIEF!! Are you all right, chief!! //page 137// Kagami: //chuckle// Man:....chief?! Kagami: ...I'm fine...I see now....it's as if all the cells in it screamed out......we got a piece, no, we got it. Tennyo's hagoromo...!! //page 138// //whoosh, whoosh...// Man: ....Ya, tooya!! Carry this over here! Kurozuka: ...Aince that night, Tooya's been acting strangely? //page 139// Aya: ...He somehow doesn't seem too happy...I mean, just the other day... Flashback-Aya: Here *heart*. Valentine's chocolate! I made them myself! Tooya: Mm //chew, chew// Aya: ....You, you're eating the wrapping paper?.... Aya: That's right. He spat it out right away, though. Kurozuka: Well, the three of us did almost die that night...I also panicked a lot when you two fell into the ocean! I somehow got to a port in Sado by myself.... Flashback-Kurozuka: //slide!// help! My radio's dead....and two young people fell into the ocean... //page 140// Aya: Oh, it's Kurozuka!! Kurozuka: //SHIEEEEEE!!// Kurozuka: ....I still don't get it.....it was a miracle you two lived through that, but how did you get to the shore faster than my boat? Aya: ...I don't remember anything....when I regained consciousness, I was in Tooya's arms....and after that....it seemed like Tooya's mind was on something. Kurozuka: Yeah, I heard from a fisherman that he's been glaring at the ocean lately...I wonder if he remembered something.... //page 141// Aya: ...No way.... //whoosh....// //clench// //whap...// //page 142// //splash, splash// Aya: //ha...// TOOYA?! //page 143// Aya: Tooya!! What the hell are you doing!! //splash!// Aya: Don't do it!! Tooya: Aya?! Aya: No.... //flutter!// //page 144// //splash, splash// Tooya: Aya?! Aya?! What's wrong? Aya: Too....don't....leave me.... Tooya: AYA! kurozuka: Dizzy, huh... //page 145// Aya:...I'm fine now. I just wobbled a bit. Kurozuka: There's no need to worry; you're probably just exhausted....just take a good rest! Tooya: Sorry to have you come all the way over here... kurozuka: damn, don't you worry, too! Women always let their troubles come out in their bodies! //perk...//....... Tooya: Just rest today, Aya. and stop trying to work two jobs, too....I told you that before, right? Aya: Yeah... //page 146// Aya: ...But are you okay, Tooya? Tooya: //doki...// Aya: You've been acting blue lately. if you remembered something, why don't you just tell me?! Tooya: Sorry. It's nothing. I've just been thinking about many things. Like it's a good thing I let you come with me...or.... //page 147// Tooya: It's something I've understood for a long time, but, if you were to stay with the Aogiris.....then you could go to school and make friends....and think about your future...but even though I....keep wanting to do something for you....I don't know what I need to do....I'm pretty pathetic, huh....I wonder how I can make you happy....I'll do anything, so....if there's something I can do, I want you to tell me. Aya: .....well, there's.... \//page 148// Aya: ...The times you say "I'm home"....or when you welcome me home......and you eat the food I mThe times you say "I'm home"....or when you welcome me home......and you eat the food I make you, and tell me "it's good".....when I wake up, your sleeping face is next to mine.....when you call my name...or when I'm in your arms....and when my reflection is in your eyes like it is now....it all makes me happy. //page 149// Aya: I'm happy..... Tooya: //squeeze//....I am, too, Aya.....I don't deserve it....all the time, you.... //page 150// Tooya: ....Release me from all of my pain and anxiety, because you've accepted me the way I am..... Aya: ...Ya know,Tooya....no matter what you remember....about your past, I don't care who you are as long as you're you. I'll love you forever. //page 151// Aya: ...Hey, Tooya, what do you say tomorrow....we go look over by Shibata. You don't have work that day anyway. Tooya: Is it a place with a hagoromo legend? Aya: Yup.....I also thought you might want to see a different ocean. Tooya: ....Okay, let's go. Aya: Waaaah, the breeze feels gooood! //page 152// Tooya: ...Too bad we didn't find out anything about the hagoromo. Aya: Welll, it seems like nothing's left here. Well, I guess all we can do is double check all the places in Niigata again! But....maybe there's nothing left on hagoromo in Japan..... Tooya: ....Aya. Aya: But I won't give up! If I find the hagoromo, then I'll go see kagami myself and make those bastards see the light! So you can't give up hope either, Tooya! //page 153// Tooya: //hmph...// Aya: Ah! A shell! Tooya: ....I won't open my eyes or face reality....for Aya's sake...I should remember....only a bit longer... Aya: Tooya! Hey, look! A pretty shell! //page 154// //boom!// "Here ya go" //boom, boom// "What're you doing, mister?" //boom, boom, boom// "You should....probably leave this island." //page 155// "Only by ten nights, you..." "Ten nights....I'll name you 'Tooya'" //chatter, chatter,chatter// Tooya: Ungh..... Aya: Tooya...?! "....That little girl? why do you want to meet her so much?" Tooya: A..... "Yes....her name is..." //page 156// //grab!// Tooya: An island!! Aya....you should know of an "island". Which island did you go to?! Aya: Tooya? Calm down...I don't know of any isl... //ha//...when I was a kid....yeah...it was only one time, but...we went to our summer house on an island as a family. //page 157// Aya: I think...it was....Hachijou-island. "Yes...her name is..." Tooya: Hachijou....island...? "Mikage" //end of part 5// //page 159// //type, type, type// //type, type, type// //page 160/ Tooya: That's right....it's gotta be this ocean.....no matter how many times I look at it, i know it's right....! //type, type/ Mikura....Hachijou....close to Izusho-island....deserted...aside from scuba divers and fishermen, hardly any tourists. Old person....there was an old person there.... //page 161// "You should leave this island" Tooya: ...I don't know that dialect.... Aya: Tooya, are you sure it's that one....? Tooya: Aya......can't you remember anything? Aya: Nope. I think it happened when I was in first or second grade, but I kinda get it mixed up with my memories of other trips I took....I wonder if that little girl really was me. Tooya:...The name "Mikage" is pretty rare, right? Aya: ....Well, i like to think it was me.... //page 162// Aya: Because it means.....that we met each other about ten years ago.....just for a little bit, though. Tooya: ....Yeah. Aya: It kinda....feels like "fate". Ever since I became sixteen, I changed into Ceres....my relatives and even my brother became my enemies, my dad and many other people died....and I called all of those "fate" and hated fate. I wondered "why does fate have to exist?!"....but... //page 163// Aya: I don't mind believing in fate....as long as it brought us together....let's go, Tooya. Tooya: Huh? Aya: To Hachijou-island. let's go together just to be sure. if we do, you're sure to remember some more! Not just you....but me, too! //page 164// Aya: This time, we might finally know!...About your past.... Tooya:.....Okay. Aya: This time for sure.... Lulik: Hi, Alec! you sure look depressed. alec: lulik? //page 165// Lulik: Aside from your machine melting, you seem to be doing your research very enthusiastically. Robot: Deshi! [for those of you who are unaware, when alec speaks in Japanese, in place of "desu" [is] or "masu" [a sound that always comes at an end of a verb], he says "deshi" and "mashi". It's very cute ^_^] Arrow: Robot Alec:.....That's because they took away all my video games an my tv set.... //sniffle// Lulik:....But more importantly, I wonder if we'll ever be able to find out what this "unknown matter" and the tennyo's power is. But just installing this into our lab's main computer, it's put a shield around itself. Alec: The "shield" was put up by the matter itself. [freetalk] //p[age 166// Lulik: Of it has a shield up, the tennyo's power will not be accessible to us. Alec:.....I wonder! "Mikage Aya"'s power is much stronger than that of the other C-genoma we've collected here. "Mikage Aya" even broke down the system! Even without using her power....just with her psychological powers! Lulik: Well....the chief was probalby looking for a rational explanation for that, but.....he's interested in something else now. Alec:....The hagoromo?! Lulik: Year! [that was written in roman characters on his speech bubble....maybe it's Russian?] The experiment's about to begin....wanna have a peek? It'd sure be nice if this time it would succeed.....all the pieces of hagoromo since Pomerania are pathetic, but we've had no luck with the others. //page 167// Lulik: We need more samples.....what I do know is that that is a fragment of that "unknown matter" we were discussing earlier. Alec: Who's that girl? Gladys: Pallas, type B....her power showed a reaction in that fragment earlier.... //page 168// ??: ...! Her pulse is irregular! Chief, we can not continue any further. When she uses her powers, it damages her body.... //slip, slip, slip// //clunk// Kagami: Akiyama-san, are you okay?! Akiyama: ...Ye...yes, sir...I'm fine. //page 169// Akiyama: I'll try harder!....so....please don't release me to the outside world.... Kagami: ...You're no good. The fragment showed no reaction.....it must be....impossible to get it to react with that girl's power alone. ??: So do you want to proceed with the capture and protection of C-genoma overseas, too? Kagami ....It's too risky to inject drugs into other countries' water and would take too long.....Alec. Alec: //gulp!// Yes, sir, yes!! Don't worry!! I haven't been playing video games, or watching the "Tokimeki Memorial" OVA's, or working on my homepage!! Kagami: ...That's not what i was going to say!! //page 170// Kagami: The "shield"....was flawless, right? Alec: Deshi? Kagami: If so.....then we should let that machine take care of it.... [Tochigi] Chidori: EHHHHH?! You guys are going to Hachijou-island?! A---h, I wanna go, too! Aya: But we're not going there for fun! Chidori: I knoooow! you're going to....finally get Tooya's memories back....will you be okay? //page 171// Aya: We'll be fine!....oh yeah....your birthday's the day after tomorrow, huh. Q: Chidori-san, let me on next! Aya: Huh? Was that just Q-chan?! Chidori: Hehe, actually....Q-chan and Yuuhi-kun came today to throw me a party! Oh, but Yuuhi's in the bathroom right now. Aya: Oh....how's Yuuhi doing?....oh....realllly....okay... //page 172// Aya: That's good....well, what I'm gonna say might sound weird, but Chidori, you're not in love with Yuuhi, are you... Q: //ha!// Chidori: AW, COME ONNN!! What're ya saying, Aya-chan! Well, your telephone card'll run out! Better hang up! Say hi to Tooya! Have a fun trip! //CLUNK!!// //beeeep, beeeeep// //doki, doki// Aya: My card'll run out? How would you know that....hi, Tooya; I'm ready to go now. //page 173// //shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle// Aya:...What's wrong? Tooya: //perk// ...How was he? You....were talking to Aogiri, weren't you. Aya: Huh? ...Oh nooooo! You must be jeallousssss! Tooya: ...Why does that make you happy? Q: Why did you cut her off, Chidori-san!! Shouta: Onne-twooo-threeee Chidori: But, but, but, but!! Yuuhi: ...Why're you two wrestling? //page 174+175// //vrooooommmmmm/// [well, what noises to airplanes make anyway? ^_^] Intercom: Passengers, please fasten seatbelts until the fasten seat belt sign is turned off.... Aya: This's sure shakey.... //squeeze// Aya: ...Your hand's sweaty, Tooya.... I think I might remember something, too....ten years ago, a girl met Tooya...and gave him a shell......that girl was me.... //page 176// Person: Thanks fer comin'. We're almost there. The sea's faster'n usual....so we'll be there soon. Flashback-Dad: "...No, Aya!" Flashback-Aya: "No, I wanna come, too!" //page 177// Alashback-Dad: "Daddy's only going to go fishing" Flashback-Aya: "Me, too, me, too!! I wanna catch fishies!!" Aya: that's right....i whined and cried and he let me come....only me....dad..... //grip// //178// //dokun, dokun, dokun// Aya: That's....that's right. My dad was engrossed in his fishing.....and I know I was by these rocks....Tooya! I think I'm remembering something....I'm gonna go look up a little higher! //squeeze// //shoosh, shooosh// //page 179// //shooosh// "You should leave this island" //boom// "Ten nights....I'll name you 'Tooya'" //boom// "Only by ten nights, you...." //boom, boom, boom// "You must be prepared to live in the world with humans" //boom, boom// //page 180// //boom, boom, boom// Tooya: ....I.....am.... "Are you....gonna go for that?" "To where that girl is?" //BOOM! BOOM!// Tooya: I am...!! Aya: Was it here....? //page 181// Flashback-Aya: "Hey, mister, what're you doing...?" //page 182// Aya: I remember! Tooya...! //hah, hah// //shoooosh!!// //page 183// Aya: //hah, hah// Nine years ago.....the summer vacation before I turned eight.... Tooya! Where are you?! //hah, hah// It was just a few minutes....that I met him....but....it was Tooya. //page 184// Aya: It was....Tooya. Tooya...?! Shouta: ....Bye-bye, Yuuhi-onii-chan! Thanks for that yummy cake! Yuuhi: No prob! You're sure able to walk real well, Shouta; come over to my house sometime! Chidori: //whisper// I'm really sorry about the call from Aya-chan....accidentally cutting her off.... //page 185// Yuuhi:....That's okay. just cheer up! Instead of worrying about others, why don't you worry about your development... //SLUG!// Chidori: Sheeesh!! Shouta: But you looked kinda happy when he said that, onee-chan! Chidori: Dammit, Shouta, shut up!! //swish...// //page 186// Guards: hahaha. //pow!// //slide....// Guard: Huh? //whoosh...// Shouta: Yuuhi-onii-chan sure is a good cook! //page 187// Shouta: He'd sure make a good husband! Chidori:....You've sure been annoying lately! Close the windows, okay! Shouta: Yes, ma'mn. Chidori: Grandma, grandpa! I brought tea.... //page 188// Chidori: Grand....pa? //thud.....// Chidori: //ha!// Grandma..!! Shiso: I tucked them in to bed like the guards outside. I find it tiresome capturing a tennyo like you, but....life's been slow lately for me. It appears for a while I will not be able to act freely. //page 189// Shiso: Seventeen, Huh....the same as Aya. we also want to throw you a party. We wish for you to come right away. //crash!// Shiso: Kuruma.....Chidori, "Pallas". Chidori: Shiso....?! //end of volume 11. wheeee!!// [Image] back [1]