AYASHI NO CERES Vol.1 Part 3 -- pg. 90-129 c. 1997 Yuu Watase Translation by: Lekha M. Rao ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [90] Aya (thought): If what Suzumi-san says is true, then I can't return to my normal life. Aya (th): Aki, Mother, and Father also -- Aya (th): That guy, too... Aya (th): No. It's not like that... I'm a normal person!! Aya (th): I go to school normally. With Aki and our friends, we fought, we laughed Aya (th): We fell in love normally --- Aya: Gee... [91] Sound: crunch Tooya: Why'd you come back? Aya (sound): bita Tooya: You never learn, do you. Aya (th): Ah... Aya (th): Geez... My heart's beating so hard. Tooya: Did you come to get the things you forgot? [92] Aya: For... For my (older) brother... Tooya: Brother...? Aya: uh...m Why are you, my savior, here...? Tooya: ...That's not my name. Tooya: It's written "ten and "night" as "Tooya." Tooya: That's my name. Aya (th): Tooya. [93] Grandpa: Welcome back, Aya. Sound: Ka-ching Grandpa: But wherever you run, we'll find you. Aya: Grandpa...!! And Father, too... Grandpa: Don't move!! [94] Aya: You're all acting so weird... You're strange! Aya: You're all not my relatives! You never loved me! Aya: Where's Aki!? And Mother!? Grandpa: ---Look. The blood by your leg belongs to your uncle and the others. Grandpa: They were all carried away in an ambulance. ---You did it. Aya: ...I don't know what you're talking about... Father: ... Cousin (Kagami): Aya-chan. You already realized it. With that blood running through your body, we can't let you go. Kagami: When that girl turned 16, she destroyed the Mikage clan... and everything having to do with it. To protect the bloodline, the girl was killed... And then a girl would be born, to test if when she turned 16, she would have the "power." Grandpa: And Aya, you had that power. Aya: ....You lie. Grandpa: The surprise was Aki. His power is different from yours --- His is going to become power for the Mikages. Aya: You're lying!! Grandpa: --Fate has been decided. Please die here for the Mikages. [96] Aya: ---Father. Aya: It's a lie, isn't it!! Aya: I'm a normal kid, right? ...Aki, too! Aya: RIGHT, FATHER!!!?? Grandpa: Shoot her. Sound: BANG BANG [97] Sound: tap... [98] Aya: Father...? Sound: Ba-dum Sound: Br Brr Aya: Umh... Sound: ZAA [99] Father: ....Aya... Sound: Fu Father: ---You can't... You're... just a normal... kid Aya: Father...!! Hang on!! Father: Aya... I'm... sorry. I... somehow... couldn't... do it. But... by my bidding... you and Aki... become... normal... become free... Father: I hope you will have... some happiness-- For the sake of your happiness... I fought for you against fate with... my blood. Father: Whatever... anyone may say... You're both nor...mal... people. [100] Father: My dear... child. Father: Umph Aya: Father!! Father: Aya... Aki... Help Aki... ...The Mikages... will use him... for their own means... ---Help Aki...!! Aya: I understand... I understand, Father!! Aya: I _will_ help Aki!! ...So hang in there!! Aya: ---This is bad. His blood... we've got to stop it!! Aya: Wait!! I'll call the ambulance... [101] Sound: Ka-ching Tooya: ...Too bad. Aya: ---Huh...!? Tooya: ...I said it, didn't I? Tooya: ---I said "Why did you come back?" [102] Sound: pit pat (rain) Aki: Mph... Mother: Aki!! Aki: ...Mom...? ---Huh...? What... happened? Mother: You're all right... You were unconscious. Aki: That's right... Aki: For some reason, Grandpa was showing me some strange thing...! [103] Aki: ---Where's Aya? Aki: Aya... mph Mother: You can't, Aki! You have wounds all over your body! Aki: ---Wounds...!? Why? What about Aya? What happened to everyone? Mother: ..... Mother: Aki... You can't ever see Aya again... You can no longer, together, ---- [104] Mother: no longer... go back... to the normal life we all had...! Sound: gyu Aki: ...What are you talking about! I don't understand you at all... Sound: yoro Sound: gacha Sound: gacha gacha gacha Aki: !? Sound: BAM Aki: ...What the heck is this!! Why can't I go anywhere!? Mother: ---It's no use... Aki. [105] Mother: You can't. Mother: You can't leave from here. Aya: ....My savior... [106] Aya: Why...? Kagami: ---Tooya really stays loyal, doesn't he. Kagami: Because he said, "I want to use it (the gun)," last month I hired him as a bodyguard. Kagami: He listens to everything I say. Aya: I... I... I see. Aya (th): ...I'm so stupid. I came up here by myself. [107] Father: Umph... Aya: !! Aya: ...Grandpa!! Help Father!! Aya: He's going to die!! Father: ..... Grandpa: It's too late, anyway. Grandpa: He was a stupid son for having protected a "henly maiden" --- Father: ...A... Father: ya... Father: ... [108] Sound: pata Sound: BA-DUM Aya: ----Fa.... ther? Father: Aya!! What's with that hair!? Father: Don't you think it's innapropriate!? Especially for a high school student!! Aya: Huh---? Everyone's using bleach! Father: And Aki, how could you pierce your ear! Aya: Aw--- shuddup already, s--tty dad!! [109] Father: Wha~~t. How could you say such a thing to your father! A girl, saying that!! Sound: BA-DUM BA-DUM Aya: Papa---- Wait--- Sound: BA-DUM BA-DUM Father: Come here, Aya! Sound: DUM DUM DUM DUM Aya: ....Fath... Tooya: ! Grandpa: Tooya! What are you doing! Grandpa: Hurry up and kill Aya--- Sound: DUM DUM [110] Sound: BOOM Tooya: !! Aki: An earthquake...? [111] Yuuhi: Damn it, what's with that girl!! Suzumi: "I've become a burden," huh... She's an honest girl, isn't she. This time she's also pretty unordinary Yuuhi: That's just fine with me!! Yuuhi: I won't forgive her. She didn't take a single bite of my wonderful cooking!! Suzumi: Can't you just put in the microwave and give it to her again? Yuuhi: I can't!! Because it's a delivery, it'll lose its taste... Suzumi: ---What is this... feeling... strong... power? [112] Suzumi: Ah. Aya----! Yuuhi: What's wrong? Suzumi: Hurry, to the Mikage's house!! Don't worry about speeding!! Q: Got it! Yuuhi: Auntie Q!! Why are you driving!? Suzumi: Just when did she... Q: It's not Auntie Q (Oba Q), it's Kyuu Oda (Oda Kyuu). Hmph. I knew something like this would happen, so I took the place of the chauffeur. Watase: Don't change. [113] Q: I heard the whole story. I won't let that girl down! Q (sound): Umph Sound: SQUEEEEAL Q: Just leave it to me. Just watch this driving technique!! (or as we would say in Cali -- "Just watch my mad driving skillz!") Sound: donk Yuuhi: Arghhhh -- Let me out--- Sign: Mikage Sound: Vroooom Q: Mistress, Yuuhi-san, look, we're almost there!! [114] Q: I dedicate this speed to the deceased Sena Isleton!! (this reference comes up in "Long Vacation" too -- who is he?) Yuuhi: Lift it up, huh---- (literal translation) Yuuhi: Let up on the speed. Are you trying to give even our lives up to the speed--- Q: Tora tora tora!! Sound: squeal Sound: CRASH Sound: screeech Q: ....Hmph. Guess you can't be perfect all the time. Yuuhi: ...Why you... Don't be so arrogant... Sound: Gacha Suzumi: barf [115] Yuuhi: What? The house is kind of moving. Sound: squeak squeak Sound: crack Suzumi: ...!! ...This way! Both: !! [116] Kagami: !! [117] Kagami: ...!! Tooya: ....Aya... Yuuhi: Aya...!? The one who looks like she's giving off light is that cute girl!? I can't see very well--- Sound: tinkle Suzumi: Wow... it really is!! She's used the "heavenly maiden's" power to this extent... She's inherited the pure blood!! Yuuhi: Why are you making such casual remarks? We've got to hurry up and stop her!! [118] Yuuhi: ...Aya... Hey!! Yuuhi: Uwa-- Yuuhi: Umph [119] Sound: bam bam bam Yuuhi: Aya!! Yuuhi: Snap out of it, Aya!! Yuuhi: Everyone's gonna die!! Sound: ping Sound: fu Tooya: ! Kagami: !! Just who the hell are you!! Where did you come from!! [120] Yuuhi: Too bad, Mikage-san. I, Yuuhi Aogiri, have taken Aya... Sound: SMACK Suzumi: Where's the idiot who came here in stealth and then blabbed his name out!! Yuuhi: Oops!! Q: He's right here! Kagami: Aogiri...? Suzumi: Anyway, let's get outta here!! Grandpa: Tooya!! Are you letting Aya get away!!? Stop the source of her breathing... [121] Sound: su [122] Sound: click Tooya: ---Oops. Forgot to reload... Father: Wha... Suzumi: Quickly let's leave!! Sound: clack clack Sound: Vroooom Suzumi: Yuuhi! We're going to be speeding, so hold on to her!! Yuuhi: Uh... um, I'm holding on to her, but Is it okay for me to be doing this? [123] Yuuhi: But this girl... Yuuhi: She seriously is a cute girl, but she's not an ordinary person-- Aya: ...Hm... [124] Aya (th): Huh...? I'm... Aya (th): Father ---!! Sound: uro uro uro Sound: stomp stomp stomp Sound: scrape Suzumi: ...What've you been doing this whole time!! You're so gloomy. Yuuhi: No... I was just wondering if it's okay to leave her alone. But seriously, shall I go make something? I can't settle down. Suzumi: ..... [125] Sound: ba dum... Suzumi: It's all right... Right now she's being quiet. Yuuhi: ..... Aya (th): I won't forgive it. ...How cruel!! [126] Aya (th): What is this heavenly maiden's blood!! And even more... why is it destroying everything!? Aya (th): I believed it. Our love and our life has been destroyed. Why do they say I have this "heavenly maiden" thing? Father: "You're a normal kid." Father: "Be normally happy..." Father: "Aki can't be used by the Mikages for their own means." Father: "Save Aki." [127] Aya (th): The Mikages are serious. Surely Aki... is being held in that house and they won't let him go--- Aya (th): Grandpa said that Aki and I have some different "power." I have the power to destroy the Mikages, and he has the opposite power, to sustain the Mikages. Aya (th): ...That's right. I... must not be killed! Father: "Fight with your blood and your fate." [128] Aya: I absolutely have to try to stay alive!! Aya (th): It's impossible now but... I'll also... try to return Aki as well to our normal life!! Aya (th): And then... Aya (th): ...Stupid Aya... give it up. Kagami: Tooya. Kagami: ---Why were only you... unaffected by the heavenly maiden's power? Tooya: ...I dunno... [129] Grandpa: Kill Aya. Grandpa: ----Only you can do it... Kill Aya! Grandpa: You can't disobey me --- Tooya! Tooya: ..... Tooya: ... I understand... Aya: Forget about that guy... Aya---!!