[Part 2] [Part2.jpg (33005 bytes)] [Up] [Part 1] [Part 2] Volume 1 Part 2 Pages 45~73 "Ayashi no Ceres" By: Watase Yuu Published by: Flower Comics Volume 1 Part 2 pgs. 45-73 ISBN: 4-09-13-6354-7 Translation by: Lillian Fukuda Corrections and Advisor: Hiroaki Fukuda Additional editing: Barbara Girrens Page 45 (The rain seems to be falling rather heavily at Grandfather Mikage's house.) Grandpa: Aya, you are a tragedy to the Mikage house. (Grandpa gets into her face as he said it.) Grandpa: We'll be in trouble unless you die. Aya: (th) Grandpa Aya: N-No! Page 46 (Aya is laughing nervously.) Aya: Stop it, uncles and aunts! Aya: What is this?! Isn't this just some weird birthday for Aki and me, right? You're scaring me! Aya: That's gotta be it!? Aya: Geez-Hey Aki, wake-up! The blood must be paint, right? You're not a good actor. Grandpa: DON'T TOUCH HIM! (She jerks back with surprise.) Page 47 Grandpa: Please, take Aki into another room. (There's someone knocking on the door.) Dad: Father... Mikage2: Both of you, please go with your son. Don't worry about Aya. (Aya is standing there, stunned.) Mom: ...Aya!! Aya: (th) Aki... Mom: Please run!! Dad: Leave the Mikage house!! Aya: (th) Mom- Dad- (As the door open, it squeaks.) Aya: ...wait. (The door shuts behind them.) Page 48 Aya: Hey!! Aya: What's this all about? Even if it's my relatives, if you don't know when to stop, I'll get angry. Aya: Hey... Let go!! Aya: Uncle!! (One of her relatives shoves her to the floor.) Aya: -!! (Aya's uncle is holding her to the floor, gripping her throat, strangling her.) Mikage2: I'm sorry, Aya-chan... We're concerned for the family and ourselves... you will cause us trouble if you live. Page 49 Mikage3: Sorry Aya. Mikage3: You were unfortunate to be born in the Mikage family. (His grip is tightening.) Aya: (th) What's with everyone. Aya: (th) What did I do? Mikage2: Die! (Tighter and tighter.) Aya: (th) No... Why? (One of the windows is vibrating.) Mikage2: Die! Aya: (th) No! Page 50 (Aya's eyes widen; her pupils disappear.) (The window explodes, shattering to pieces.) (The rain is falling all over the city.) Page 51 Lady1: -Yuuhi? Lady1: Yuuhi!! Yuuhi's not here?! (The room door opens.) Lady2: What is it, Madam? Lady1: Where's Yuuhi? Where is he? Lady2: Yuuhi is now preparing dinner. Yuuhi: (singing) That you can't win against a good man, that's an excuse, isn't it. Yuuhi: (singing) ... If you're a woman, feel it. If you're a man, keep your cool. Page 52 Yuuhi: (singing) If you're a woman, see right through it. (The freshly chopped vegetables are falling into the bowl.) Lady1: Yuuhi. Lady1: Yuuhi! Lady1: YUUHI!! (The lady's fan smacks Yuuhi on the head.) (The pans, dishes and food are flying all over and making a lot of noise as it hits the floor.) Lady2: Ah-Madam-! Page 53 Yuuhi: Wha... What the heck did you do!! Argggg! Lady1: Finally you heard me. You didn't hear me because you're listening to that crappy music! Yuuhi: Crappy music... Sis, don't you know SHARAN Q! It's on the radio. Lady1: This is Oba-Q! ((Oba-san means old lady.)) (She is pointing to the older lady.) Lady2: Oh no! I'm Oku-sama, Yuuhi!! Why did you me Miss Mizuki?! ((Oku-sama, means kinda like wife and mom, and Mizuki is Mizuki Arisa, a young and pretty actress.)) Yuuhi/Lady1: We didn't say that!! Yuuhi: Forget about that dummy. Ahh~~ What am I gonna do about tonight's dinner?! I'm gonna have to start over!! Lady1: It's alright! This is not the time! Page 54 Lady1: I need you to pick up a girl? Yuuhi: What? Is it a dance student? Lady1: No it's not. Lady1: I've got this feeling... it must have something to do with the bloodline. Yuuhi: It's raining and I have to fix dinner, I pass! Kyu: Whe... Where's the cleaver. (The cleaver is embedded into his head, blood dripping down his face.) Yuuhi: I'm leav-ing. (Back at the Mikage House, it is still raining.) Grandfather: -this is? Page 55 Mikage2: Everyone's still breathing!... Get an ambulance, now! Grandfather: That Aya... she did it. Mikage2: Have the employees search at once. She must be inside this mansion. *(The sounds of summer locusts are in the air. The sun is shining and little Aki is looking up into the pinetree where little Aya is climbing.)* *Aki-chan: Aya-chan, climbing is dangerous!* *Aki-chan: Grandpa will punish you.* Page 56 *Aya-chan: It's okay, Aki-chan!* (Little Aya is happy and a little tired from such a feat.) *Dad: Hey!!* *(Little Aya’s grip slips and she falls toward the ground. Aki covered his face with his tiny hands, not wanting to watch.)* *(Aya’s father catches her just in time.)* *Dad: AYA!!* *Aya-chan: Papa...* *Grandfather: It’s good that Aya is Tomboyish and climbs pinetrees.* *Mother: Excuse her, father. (I’m sorry, father.)* *Grandfather: Aya... Aki... This pine tree has been handed down for generations in the Mikage family.* *Grandfather: You shouldn’t carelessly climb, you might hurt the tree. Page 57 *Grandfather: Yes?* *Grandfather: Alright, You two be good kids.* (Aya wakes up in the branches of the pine tree in front of Grandfather’s house.) Aya: !? Aya:(th)The pine tree!? Aya:(th)How did I get up here...? Aya:(th)... Splatters of blood... (She is looking down at her arms. Blood is on her hands, arms, face, and clothing.) Stranger: What... happened...? (Somebody is yelling from below.) Page 58 Stranger: Hey, that big cat in the tree! (He startles Aya.) Stranger: What’re you doing? (Aya looks toward the ground. The stranger is standing in the rain without an umbrella.) Aya: !! Aya: Mr. Savior... Stranger: Mr. Savior...? Aya: Ah... Yesterday! I fell from the pedestrian bridge and you saved me. (Aya is rubbing at her eyes.) Stranger: I think I saw you somewhere. Page 59 Stranger: So, your name is Aya. Stranger: For some reason, your menacing looking family is searching for you. (Aya starts the recall just what happened back at the house.) *Mikage2: Die.* Aya: That’s right... I— Stranger: Let’s see... Stranger: I’m here because the Mikage family has a reason to take care of me. Stranger: Why don’t you come down? Aya: No, I’m not coming down, no matter what. (She tightens her hand into a fist.) Aya: I don’t wanna get caught. If you want me to come down, then, why don’t you climb up here yourself. (Aya looks away in frustration, her arms crossed.) Page 60 Aya:(th) Geez... I don’t get it. Why do I have to go through this!? Why Aki— Stranger: It’s here. Aya: What is it? Stranger: Me. (The stranger had quietly gotten into the tree and is kneeling beside her on the same branch. Aya is surprised.) Aya: NO WAY!! Aya: Wh... When did yo... Stranger: Just now. (Aya pulls away, pressing her back into the tree.) Aya: Don’t... Don’t get near me. Page 61 Aya: What! Why was everyone being so weird to me— Aya: It’s too cruel for it to just be a joke!! Aya: Grandpa and Dad too! What do I do, they call that a birthday party!! (The stranger hears someone running in the rain puddles close by.) Aya: I lied to my parents, telling them that I was studying at a friend’s house when I was actually wandering around Shibuya(teen(more like freaks)hangout downtown) and got my hair dyed!! Watase Yuu Talk Page 62-63 Stranger: Hey! Aya: I gypped a class I hated by faking sick!! I tried smoking!! Oh, when I found a wallet on the street, I took the money and bought Aikawa Nanase CD!! Stranger: Hey!! Aya: I got drunk and made faces at the police then they chased me! Stranger: ... Aya: I’ve also kicked this guy in the nuts who flirted with me. Aya: I’ve also... (The stranger grabs her wrist. His sunglasses fall off. The stranger pulls her closer and kisses her to get her to shut up.) Page 64 Aya:(th)Huh...— (It's still raining.) (Two men run pass the tree just directly below them and into puddles.) Page 65 (The stranger opens his eyes as soon as he realizes that they are gone. Then releases the kiss, pulling only a little ways from her, his hand on her cheek.) Stranger: —Sorry about that. Page 66 (Aya screams. The stranger looks very surprised (almost like it’s not possible). Grandfather and an Uncle hear it all the way to the Mikage House, along with the two men that were searching for them.) Stranger: What the hell are you...!! (Aya’s heart is beating fast in her chest.) Aya:(th) What am I gonna do, that was my first kiss!! (Aya covers her face with both hands.) Employee1: There she is!! (The two men (employee1&2) are below the tree looking up at them. One man is holding a rifle.) Page 67 (Employee2 aims up at them, clicking it ready.) Employee2: Come down!! Or I’ll shoot!! Aya: Geh—What’s that?! Stranger: It’s a hunting rifle. Should we give up? (Some strange feeling runs through her body. Her heart beating loudly in her head.) Aya:(th)...Why... (Something or someone in her head tells her to "Run".) Aya:(th)Why!! (Something waves in the air and stick strikes one of the employees on the back of the neck.) Page 68 (Yuuhi is standing, completely drenched from the rain, with cooking chopsticks in his hands, one of the sticks is the one that struck the employee. The employee with the rifle falls to the ground, unconscious. Yuuhi clicks them together and strikes the other employee with the end of the cooking chopsticks in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him.) Page 69 Aya: —?! Who’s that?! One of my relatives? Yuuhi: Hey, girl! I came to rescue you! (Yuuhi is yelling from the ground.) Aya:(th)Huh?! Yuuhi: I don’t know what’s going on but...I was told to come and get you. Hurry and come down! Yuuhi: If we don’t get out of here, more will come! Aya:(th)Come and rescue me?! Page 70 Yuuhi: Jump!! I’ll catch you!! Aya: Even if you say so, it’s too high...? (The stranger pushes Aya.) Aya: !! Page 71 Yuuhi: Nice catch!! Lighter than I thought. (She landed like an angel, she just floated into his arms.) Aya:(th)I floated again? Stranger: See ya, Aya. Stranger: Next time, don’t climb up so high. Aya: Ah... Page 72 Aya:(th)Mr. Savior— Aya: Wai... Aya: ..... Aya: ...Hey! I said wait!! (Yuuhi is carrying her down the street, away from the Mikage House.) Aya: Let go!! Put me down!! Yuuhi: ..... (comment is just a scribble) Page 73 Yuuhi: Hey what’s with you, I rescued you?! Aya: I can’t run away. Aki... my twin brother is hurt... Anyway, let me go back to Grandpa’s house. Yuuhi: Besides who the hell are you, all of a sudden!! (A woman in a kimono carrying an oriental type umbrella.) Lady1: Don’t worry, we’re on the same side. (Aya is struggling to get away from Yuuhi.) Aya:(th)Who’s she? Lady1: I’m sorry but your family... the Mikage Family will kill you. Lady1: You are Tennyo. Aya:(th)Huh? Questions and comments are always welcomed. [HH01518A.gif (838 bytes)] email me at: lit_chan@yahoo.net