-pg127- Retribution: Lost Children Elf in the Blue Sky Jill Roshinu flew away, going home. I'm afraid her homecoming will be rather like Pirkaf's... -pg128- Jill I hadn't yet decided whether to follow after her... Zepek Keh... Damn it! This blows. I hate this feeling. I shoulda know it would end like this. I'd been looking forward to it, too... And then I'm just made fun of. Jill ......... Zepek Right. Let's go, Jill. Hey! Don't just stand there! Let's go! Jill ..... -pg129- Jill I can't. Zepek Eh? What's that? Jill No yet. I can't go home yet. Zepek Moron! What the hell d'ya mean by that? I ain't about the leave you here! Unh? Jill Dad, just go on ahead. Zepek Uh... Hey! Jill! You and that elf... Where're you going, stupid little girl? -pg130- Jill Pakk! Can you find out where the swordsman is? Pakk I guess so... But...aren't you afraid? After what you just saw? Why do you want to see him again? Jill I don't know. I don't know, but... Pakk But? Jill I can't just... I can't just... Leave it like this! -pg131- Farneze Spread out! Leave no stone unturned! We must catch him! Serpico There's no way we can find him in this mist. Maybe if we took the time to build a fire... Farneze Silence! We've been after this bastard for years! I won't let that cold blooded bastard get away! -pg132- Gatts ........!! Jill Mr. Swordsman... -pg133- Jill ....... Let me... Come with you. Gatts .......... What, are you stupid? After what you've seen me do? Jill ...... Gatts Talking like that... And you lucky to be alive. Look at the blood on both of us and think how many kids I killed. Everywhere I go, the same sort of thing'll happen. Until they finally kill me. Jill But!! -pg134- Jill When... When I nearly burned to death... You saved me! Why? Pakk ...... You're worried, Jill... Jill ........ ...take me with you... Pakk ! Jill! Jill I won't get in your way! So... Take me with you... Take me far away... -pg135- Jill Somewhere.... Somewhere that isn't here. It doesn't matter where. Anywhere... That isn't here. -pg136- Gatts Look. Jill Eh? Gatts Look around you carefully. Strain your eyes. At the darkness around us... At the darkness... -pg137- Gatts Around me. -pg137- Jill Ah....ah.... Gatts You said, anywhere but here. This is where. Here at the border. Gathered by the winds... Those who've met their final destiny cling on. Hanging between jealousy and regret. Those who failed, swept together here. -pg138- Gatts You say it doesn't matter where. If you follow me, this is where you'll go. This is your Eden. Demons A child... A young body. Give it... Give it to me. Let me in! Pakk Wah.... Jill Ah....ah... Demons Give it! It's mine! Please... It's mine! Got her! -pg139- Jill ....NO! -pg140- Gatts You run from it. It is no Eden. -pg141- Gatts If you follow me... To this place... The entire world... Is a battlefield. Jill ! Mr. Swordsman? Gatts Go home. -pg142- Jill But... What if I... I don't want to go home? Gatts Go home. This is my fight. Jill It's always the same! No one there is kind! Gatts Go. That... Is your fight. Jill Mr. Swordsman! -pg143- Jill He vanished into the darkness. After all, until it was over, I didn't understand what kind of man he was. When he showed that to me, I realized that he carried the evil with him. It's just that only in leaving me, could I be left alone. The terror, the sadness, and the shocks of the last few days... I still don't understand everything he said to me. But the mist... Is burning off. (Wow!) The mist had never vanished before. But now the blazing sun is clearing it away. And now all that remains is the clear sky. -pg144- Jill It's nothing like the sky Roshinu flew me through... The sight didn't make my heart dance, but... It was brutal... And lonely... And cold... But...the sky was so vivid. It was as if the storm had blown itself out. Leaving the clear sky behind. -pg145- Jill I have no wings... So I look up at the sky... And think about how I crawl along the ground. While she had me basking in that cocoon....... Some of Roshinu's blood may have mixed with mine; maybe it will flow on in my own children. Pakk So long, then. Jill. -pg146- Jill You're going? Pakk Mm. ..... Jill. You'll be okay? By yourself... Jill .......mm. You know, I... I guess I know I can't be violent like the Black Swordsman. And I don't have the courage to run away like Roshinu. But, you know... But at least... I think I can cry, and shout, and bite. And that might change something. -pg147- Pakk Here's a farewell gift. Use it on your old man as much as you want. (And here's a little elf dust I made myself...) Jill Thank you... But... Say, Pakk...why do you stay with him? Pakk ...mm.... Mm.... Jill But... He was, after all, an elf. Pakk Darned if I know. That idiot! Jill He matched the sky. -pg148- Jill Looking down from the sky, it's easy to miss my tiny little town, hidden among the mountains. I think....I think my own little fight is just beginning. Lost Children - Finis