妖しのセレス (Ayashi no Ceres) Volume 3 Translation (Part 6) Formatting conventions: text = character's thoughts [text] = narration /text/ = sound effects, when necessary {text} = translation notes Page 159 [At the main Aogiri house, the lights are out and everyone is unconscious. Several men in black suits are standing over Suzumi. They are all wearing gas masks.] Man 1: "...Aogiri Suzumi..." Man 1 [lifting Suzumi's chin]: "Woah, she looks even prettier than her picture!" Man 1: "She certainly lives up to the standards of having the Tennyo blood." //RRRRRR// Man 2: "!!" [Man 1 starts to take off Suzumi's obi.] Man 1: "A cellphone? shit, don't scare me like that. Is it inside the obi?" //RRRRRR// Man 2 [bending down to disrobe Suzumi]: "Maybe it's inside her kimono..." Page 160 [Suzumi opens her eyes and uses her power to wrap the obi around Man 1.] Man 1: "!!" Man 1 [struggles to get free]: "Nn..." Man 2 [backs off a bit]: "Damnit... she's still conscious?" //RRRRRRR// Suzumi: "You...want me? How naive...! Go back and tell your boss if you dare to touch my brother... and "sister" again... I won't let him go that easily!!" [Back in Suzumi's house, Aya is trying to reach Suzumi with the cellphone.] //RRRRR// Page 161 Man 2: "Sister?" Man 3 [opens a suitcase with equipment inside]: "Annoying woman... let's see you handle this!" //RRRRRRR// [Man 3 takes out a dark visor and puts it on Suzumi.] Suzumi: "!!" //RRRRRRR// Man 3: "You can't possibly resist after the hypnosis." //RRRRRRR// Suzumi [thinking as her consciousness fades out]: [A...ya... Yuu..hi...] //RR..R....R..// {fades out} Page 162 [In Yuuhi's room, he is lying on the tatami.] Yuuhi: "Aya must he feeling really troubled right now..." Yuuhi: "Why did I have to tell her I love her!? Why did I say that, idiot!!" [Flashback of Yuuhi kissing Aya.] Yuuhi [rolls across the floor]: "Wahhhh~ I even did THAT!" [Flashback of Aya talking to Yuuhi.] Aya: [Your mother didn't abandon you!!!] Aya: [Don't say you're lonely anymore...] [Yuuhi picks up the cup of tea and takes a drink.] Yuuhi: "...it's cold..." [Footsteps.] Page 163 [Aya slides open the door, wearing only the bath towel.] Aya: "Yuuhi!!" [Yuuhi's eyes turn to saucers and he spits out the drink.] Yuuhi [blushing furiously]: "You...you want to continue...!?" //DOKI DOKI DOKI// Aya: "We have to go to the main house right now!!" Aya: "The Mikage attacked Suzumi!!" Q-chan: "We called the main house and mistress' cellphone, but no one picked up!!" Aya: "We were too careless to forget Suzumi also has Tennyo's blood. Hurry, we can't waste anytime!!" Yuuhi [troubled, looks away]: "...the main...house..." Page 164 Aya: "Oh yeah... I forgot you don't want to return to that place..." Aya: "Besides, your injuries are not fully recovered yet... Okay, I'll go by myself!" Q-chan: "Aya, are you sure!?" Aya: "Yuuhi... to me, Suzumi is... the Aogiri family is... is already part of my family!" [Later, Aya is changing in her room when she sees the teddy bear in the basket.] [Flashback of Urawaka giving her the teddy bear.] Aya [thinking]: ...Urakawa-san... Page 165 Aya [steps into the hallway]: "Kyuu-chan, I need you to drive me to the main house-" [Aya sees Yuuhi in the hallway, dressed in a suitable outfit.] Yuuhi: "She's already on her way to get the car." Aya: "Yuuhi..." Yuuhi: "What are you waiting for? Come on!!" [Aya smiles.] Page 166 [Suzumi is in the dream state.] Voice: "..mi.. Suzumi... Suzumi.." Suzumi [opens her eyes and tries to focus on the shadow before her]: "Who...? Who's calling me?" Voice: "Suzumi... it's me... are you okay?" Suzumi: "Kazuma." [Kazuma, Suzumi's dead husband, appears in front of her.] Kazuma: "Suzumi..." Page 167 Suzumi: "Kazuma!? Is it really you!?" Kazuma: "Suzumi... I'm sorry I left you suffer for so long..." Suzumi: "Kazuma... why are you here? The car accident..." Kazuma: "I've always been here. You just never realized it..." Kazuma: "From this day forth, I'll remain my your side. You can rest without worries..." Suzumi: "...Ka..." Kazuma: "Shh... be a good girl." [Kazumi/the voice turns out to be Man 2 using the hypnosis device.] Man 3: "Very good, she's completely hypnotized. Let's continue..." [Yuuhi's father and Tomonori begin to wake up.] Tomonori: "....huh?" Page 168 Tomonori: "Suzumi...!?" [Yuuhi's father and Tomonori are tying to get up, but the sleeping gas's effect hasn't wear off completely yet.] Tomonori: "Hey... what are you doing to her!?" Yuuhi's father: "!" Man 3: "Tsk. Some of them are still conscious?" Man 3: "I'm training your daughter-in-law. Don't do anything funny unless you wanna die!" Tomonori: "Training!? Stop it!? Don't you dare touch her!!" Tomonori: "I haven't even gotten to touch her yet!!" Man 3 [points a rifle at Tomonori]: "I told you to shut up!" Tomonori [eyes turn into cute bishoujo eyes]: "Okay!" Yuuhi's father [covers his face in defeat, thinking]: What a stupid son... [In Suzumi's dream state, she clasps her hand on top of Kazuma's] Suzumi: "Kazuma... I missed you so..." Page 169 Suzumi [weeps]: "I really...really.. missed you....." [On the highway, Q-chan is driving Aya and Yuuhi to the main house.] Aya [nervous]: "Can we get there before it's too late? I hope she's okay..." Aya: "Those jerks like to pick on people's weak spots!" Yuuhi: "Nee-san won't let them do anything to her!!" Yuuhi: "She got through terrible suffering before, so I'm sure she'll be okay.." Yuuhi: "I know she is..." Q-chan: We're almost there!! Page 170 [Sitting next to Yuuhi, Aya notices his fists tighten.] Yuuhi: "I'm the who should be ashamed... I keep trying to avoid dad and the rest of them..." [Flashback of Yuuhi standing next to his father while his father's wife scolds him.] Yuuhi's father's wife: [What are you looking at? Your mother left you of her own free will, so don't stare at me like it's my fault!] Yuuhi's father's wife: [Why didn't she take you with her, too? You're not likable at all!] Yuuhi's father's wife: [I don't want to have anything to do with you!] Yuuhi [head bowed]: "The truth is, I still don't like going back to the main house. Ha... funny, isn't it?" Page 171 [Aya reaches out to comfort Yuuhi, but stops before her hand touches him.] Aya [thinking]: I feel... really sorry for Yuuhi. Aya [thinking]: It's true... I do... like Yuuhi very much. Aya [thinking]: However, this is a different feeling from what I felt for Tooya. This is "like," not "love." Aya [thinking]: That's why I can't be involved with him anymore, otherwise I don't have the confidence of backing away... Aya [thinking]: I understand the helplessness he is going through right now... Page 172 [Q-chan stops the car in a not very quiet style.] Watase-sensei's comments: This is the backdoor. Yuuhi&Aya: "Q-san!! Can't you park the car more quietly!?" Q-chan: "Well, I thought that maybe this scene was too quiet. I'm serious!" Aya: "...power outage...?" Yuuhi: "...... You two stay in the car!!" [Yuuhi takes out the steel chopsticks.] Aya [gets out of the car]: "Huh...wait!!" Yuuhi [opens the door]: "If I don't come out after an hour, call the police!" Page 173 [Yuuhi gets ready to fight.] Man 4: "!!" [Yuuhi stabs Man 4 in the ribs.] Man 5: "Who..." [Yuuhi rushes forward.] Page 174 [Yuuhi gives Man 5 an uppercut with the chopsticks.] Aya: "Yuuhi, behind you!!" [Yuuhi turns and sees Man 6 reaching for a gun.] [Aya breathes a sigh of relief after Yuuhi knocks the gun away and kicks Man 6 across the face.] Yuuhi: "You idiot!! Didn't I tell you to stay in the car!?" Aya: "But-" Page 175 Aya: "I'm worried about you going alone..." Man 3: "Don't move!!" [Yuuhi stops at the end of the hallway as Man 3 points a silencer-attached-gun at Yuuhi's father.] Man 3: "Don't you care what happens to your 'family'?" Yuuhi's father [kneeling]: "Yuuhi... don't come any closer-" Yuuhi: "Dad...!!" Aya: "Suzumi!?" Page 176 Man 3: "Your sister is under our hypnosis. If we don't train her properly, she won't take the medicine." Suzumi: "...Kazuma..." Suzumi: "Is it true...? You're really alive...?" Man 2: "Yes, I'm still alive!" Yuuhi: "...Bro..ther!?" Yuuhi: "You let my neesan see my dead brother!?" Page 177 Man 3: "That's right. We have a good set of information. Her beloved husband died of a car accident just after they got married... It's only been a year, so her pain must still be recovering." Yuuhi: "You bastard..!! How can you just invade someone's soul-" [Man 3 attacks Yuuhi and Aya with an electrocute.] Yuuhhi&Aya: "!!" Man 3: "Hn. Enjoy the feel of 'arrest'!" Page 178 [Yuuhi and Aya fall.] Yuuhi: "...A..ya..." Tomonori: "Hey!! Yuuhi!! Down already!? You call yourself a man!? Idiot!!" Yuuhi [twitches with anger]: "Brother... can't you be honest and ask me to help you...?" Tomonori [tears running down his cheeks as a gun is pressed to his head]: "HELP ME!!" Yuuhi: "Neesan... wake up!! That's a dream... Brother.. brother is already dead!! Didn't you already conquer this? A year ago!!" Man 3: "She can't hear you through the headphone. Besides, her dream state's 'reality' is more real to her." Man 3: "We should give her the medicine now." Page 179 Aya [thinking]: "The drug that caused Urakawa's death... created to draw out the Tennyo's power... is made from a susbtance taken from my body!" [In Suzumi's dream state, Kazuma takes out a vital containing a pill.] Kazuma: "Suzumi, drink this." Suzumi: "What's that?" Kazuma: "This is something that will keep us inseparable." Yuuhi: "STOP IT!!" Man 3 [points the gun at Yuuhi]: "You mouthy brat!!" Page 180 [Man 3 fires, but the bullet hits Yuuhi's father, who moves to shield Yuuhi from the attack.] Yuuhi's father: "Urgh..." Yuuhi: "...D...dad...!?" Tomonori: "Father! ahh...he's bleeding.. *sobs*" Yuuhi's father: "Don't you dare hurt my son... don't hurt the children!!" Yuuhi's father: "If you have to kill someone... kill me!!" Page 181 Yuuhi [looks at his father in disbelief]: "...D..dad..." //DOKI// [Aya starts to have flashback of when her father died protecting her.] //DOKI// Aya's father: [Aya... you're...just a normal child...] Aya: "Father..." //DOKI// Aya's father: .[I hope you... can... live a happy life... as a normal person.] //DOKI DOKI// Aya [thinking]: But father... Aya [thinking]: Not only can't I help Urakawa... now even Suzumi is... //DOKI DOKI// [Man 2 feeds Suzumi the medicine.] [Flashback of Tooya holding Aya.] Tooya: [If only you are not a Tennyo...] Aya [thinking]: Tooya... I'm no good....the one who has the strength to stop what the Mikage are doing....there's only one who can....stop them. Page 182 [Aya closes her eyes.] Aya [thinking]: Yes, there's only one!! Man 7: "Did she drink it?" Man 2: "Yeah, just now-" [Man 2 explodes. The flesh melts away in the blast.] Page 183 [Man 7 soon follows Man 2's footsteps.] Man 7: "Giyaaaa~~" [Flower petals fall around Man 3.] Man 3: "Flower..flower petals...?" [The Tennyo symbol appears under Man 3 and he bursts into flames.] Page 184 [Man 3 dies in a very painful way, following Man 2 and Man 7.] Yuuhi: "Ceres!" [Ceres, half engulfed in flames, appears.] Page 185 Ceres: "...Are you all alright?" Yuuhi's father: "...!?" Yuuhi: "You...why did you show up all of a sudden?" Ceres: "Aya summoned me with her free will..." Ceres: "These bastards must be working for the Mikage!" Yuuhi: "Aya... used her free will...?" Yuuhi: "This has never happened before..." Page 186 Tomomori [backing away]: "......" [Ceres leans over Suzumi, then takes off the visor/headphone.] Ceres: "Suzumi..." [The medicine falls from the corner of Suzumi's open lips.] Yuuhi's father: "Suzumi..." Yuuhi: "The medicine!" Ceres [destroys the pill]: "It's alright. She didn't consume it yet." Yuuhi [breathes a sigh of relief]: "That's great! It's over!!" Suzumi: "...I'm sorry... I can't just eat any medicine like that..." Page 187 Suzumi: "The doctor said so..." Suzumi [opens her eyes]: "Right...? Kazuma...?" Yuuhi: "Neesan...!?" Ceres: "I destroyed the hypnosis equipments, but she's still hypnotized." Yuuhi: "!!" Ceres: "It's too late... her consciousness is still wandering in the dream state." Ceres: "If this keeps up, she will never be able to return to reality." Continued in Volume 4...