Eat-Man Manga Translations - Volume 3, Another Story "Bye Bye Aimie" Original Story and Art by Akihito Yoshitomi Translation by Justin Coole (cronusz@bellsouth.net) Volume 3 Print date : 7/15/1997 Eat-Man Volume 3 published 7/15/97 by Mediaworks through Dengeki Comics ISBN4-07-306495-9, cost 550 yen. Notes: [ ] = Page change ( ) = Description, it helps for those without the manga. / / = Thought [Page 80] Title: Another Story- Bye Bye Aimie Subtext: On such a quiet night, memories of past days come to mind ('course, that's all in English :P ) [Page 81] (The setting: A bar. Bolt is sitting, munching on a bolt. In the foreground you can see someone entering the bar via a security camera.) [Page 82] (The person is a young woman, with long black hair, and wearing a very large trenchcoat. Not like Bolt's however.) Owner: Welcome... [Page 83] (Aimie, the woman, says nothing as she sits in a booth.) Aimie: Why have you come back? (Bolt says nothing, munching on another bolt. Aimie then pulls out a small handgun, aiming it at him.) Aimie: You know, in this town you're a wanted man... Bolt Crank. [Page 84] (The patrons are now sobered up, and they beat a fast retreat. Aimie and Bolt are now alone, only the Owner remains.) Aimie: I won't say anything bad... But before you get caught, you'd better get out of here. Bolt: I have no intention to do that. [Page 85] (Aimie, irritated, opens fire on Bolt, firing six rounds. Bolt doesn't move, but the barkeeper certainly does :P ) [Page 86] (Bolt simply continues to eat, as if nothing has happened.) Aimie: Hn. Vodka! Straight. Bolt: My order. A straight vodka. Owner(really dazed): Uhh...I'm home... [Page 87] Aimie: So, what shall we toast to? Our 10 year reunion? Or perhaps... Bolt: ...how about your devotion to work? Aimie: Yeah? It seems that you actually want to be caught. (Bolt gets up, and is walking to a nearby suit of decorative armor.) Aimie: But, I'm not going to do it. All I want is for you to get out of town, as soon as possible. [Page 88] (Bolt takes the sword out of the armor's scabbard. The barkeep goes and hides again. :P Bolt is now pointing the sword straight at Aimie.) Aimie: What's the meaning of this? Bolt: I'm about to kill an officer. Aimie: You can't kill me. Nobody, for that matter, can kill me either. [Page 89] Bolt(smiling): If you don't hurry up and arrest me, I may go out and kill someone again. (Aimie doesn't look too happy. At that moment, a bunch of policemen bust down the stairs, and have their guns pointing straight at the two.) Officer: Detective Aimie! You're OK! Officer: Bolt Crank! Drop that sword! [Page 90] Aimie: /Shit.../ Officer: Well?! Drop it now! (Bolt eats the sword, much to their surprise, then burps) [Page 91] (The cops have him in cuffs shortly, and haul him out.) Bolt(to the owner): It was good stuff. (The owner gives him the bird :P ) Officer: Go on! Go upstairs! [Page 92-93] (Outside the building, a veritable army has assembled to capture him.) Bolt: Looks like a festival... [Page 94] (Back at the police station.) Chief: What were you doing? Rushing in like that. Did you want to take all the credit yourself? Aimie: No, I apologize for that. [Page 95] Chief: Well, whatever. Anyway, Bolt Crank... You're a suspect in the murders of 5 people. And they're all scientists. Do you admit it you did it? Bolt: No...but it appears you've already decided that I did. Axe: What do you mean "appears?!" We've got 5 witnesses! [Page 96] Axe: Right after leaving the murder site, people saw and were certain it was you! Did you really think you'd get out so easy!? Girl: Will you keep it down, Axe? You're interfering with my work. Axe: What!? This guy killed 5... Chief: Please be quiet. Axe: Yessir... Girl: Jackass... (Images of 5 men appear on a nearby monitor.) Chief: Well, Bolt Crank? These are the 5 victims. Recognize any of them? (Bolt says nothing.) [Page 97] (Everyone is silent, including Aimie and the guards. You aren't able to see Aimie's eyes. The chief sighs.) Chief: Fine then. This can wait until tomorrow. Aimie-kun, please go and lock him up. Aimie: I don't think there's much point in that... Chief: Did you say something? Aimie: Nothing. I'll book him. [Page 98] (Bolt is now in jail, and jumps on the bed and lays down.) Aimie: Why did you come back? You still haven't answered me. Bolt: I just wanted to have a drink with you. (Aimie's hair covers her face as she smiles, and leaves.) [Page 99] (Back in the Chief's room) Chief: Axe, do you really think he's the one? Axe: Eh? Chief: He's a Mercenary. They aren't 'killers.' Axe: However, some Mercenaries are contracted to kill. He had the eyes of a killer! Chief: You really are naive. [Page 100-101] (Aimie is leaving the building :P) <--Bad pun on Elvis, I know Officer: Have a good night. (She enters her car, and it takes off. She looks back as she leaves.) Aimie: Why...did you come back...? [Page 102] (Aimie enters her apartment.) Aimie: Naomi? You awake? (Aimie enters her bedroom) Aimie: ... Naomi? Naomi! [Page 103] (On her bed, Naomi is writhing in pain, while her flesh appears as if it is mutating.) Naomi: No! Don't come any closer! It...hurts... It won't last long... (Aimie leaves the room, a concerned look on her face.) [Page 104] (Later, Naomi is back to normal, just exhausted on the bed. Aimie pulls her into a kiss.) [Page 105] (As the kiss breaks off...) Naomi: You smell like Bolt... (Aimie is a bit surprised at this. Naomi soon falls asleep.) [Page 106] (The next day, at the police station.) Axe: Chief! (Axe inserts a computer disk into a nearby drive) Axe: All 5 of these scientists worked at a facility deemed a government secret. [Page 107] Officer: A government secret? Axe: What went on there isn't too certain...but they were... Chief: ...all working on biotechnology research. Axe: Yes, and also, that research facility was shut down 10 years ago. Officer: A government secret? How does that relate to anything? Officer: We still have yet to hear from Bolt. He is the criminal, after all. (The chief sighs.) Axe: I'll go ahead and interrogate... (A message beeps for the chief on his monitor.) [Page 108] Chief: Chief here. PC: There is a breach in S738 in the KY-205 Block! Officer: Another death, eh? Officer: Some real diligent people in this world lately... PC: The victim is Ivanoff St. Meyer. (Axe hears the name, and begins furiously typing at his console.) Chief: What is it? Axe: He was one of the scientists at that research facility! [Page 109] (Aimie is in Ivanoff's apartment, then receives a call from the chief.) Chief: You there, Aimie? Aimie: Yes, I was on my way to work when I heard... [Page 110] Chief: Same cause of death, eh... Aimie: Yes, just like the other five... Axe: No way! (Axe dashes out of the room, to Bolt's cell.) [Page 111] (In the cell is a large hole in the wall, where Bolt has obviously escaped.) Axe: What the...hell... Officer: What?! Bolt's gone?! Officer: Let's go! Officer: Bring around 3 of the choppers up top! [Page 112] (Back at Ivanoff's. Aimie suddenly hears a noise, drawing her gun.) Chief: Is Bolt there, Aimie? Aimie: Bolt? Chief: He escaped. (Aimie curses.) Chief: It appears that you know Bolt fairly well. Am I wrong? [Page 113] Aimie: What are you talking about...? Chief: Don't be too shocked. I'm good at hunches. (As Aimie rushes into another room to check for the intruder, she is shocked) Chief: What is it? Aimie? [Page 114] (Standing in the room is Naomi.) Aimie: Naomi! [Page 115] (Naomi makes a run for it. Aimie quickly pursues, turning off the radio link to the chief. Naomi leaps out a window to escape.) Aimie: Hold it, Naomi! [Page 116] (Naomi bounces from wall to wall of nearby buildings, heading up to the top.) Aimie: Naomi...! [Page 117] (Back at the station, the chief is looking puzzled.) Axe: Huh? Where is everyone?! Chief: They went to the scene. Axe: Damn it! I'm going too! Chief: Axe! Axe: Sir? Chief: Would the name Naomi happen to ring a bell? Axe: Eh? Naomi? Well, I believe that Detective Aimie's roommate was named Naomi... [Page 118-119] (Naomi bounces along the walls, and eventually reaches the top, where Bolt is waiting. Naomi hugs him happily on sight.) Naomi: Bolt! Where've you been?! I missed you! [Page 120] (Back at the station, in what appears to be a computer room.) Chief: Is it possible that you could break into Ivanoff's computer? Girl: Eh? Well, I'm pretty sure I can, but... Axe: Chief! You aren't gonna... Chief: No choice in this matter. For the sake of the scientists as well... I want to know what's going on here. Girl: No choice, since it's the Chief's order. What, gonna arrest me, Axe? [Page 121] (Naomi is rushing up stairs, and finally gets to the top, where Naomi and Bolt are standing.) Aimie: Naomi...come here. [Page 122] Aimie: The cops are going to be here soon! You need to go home and go to sleep! Naomi: No! I'm staying with Bolt! (Aimie lifts her gun to Naomi.) Aimie: Listen to me! [Page 123] (Suddenly, Naomi clutches her head in pain, as her condition begins to happen again.) Naomi: N...o.... [Page 124] (At the station, the chief and Axe board a helicopter. He radios the girl he asked to hack into the computer.) Chief: Well? Were you able to hack it? Girl: Yes, just now... [Page 125] Girl: There. Government Classified Research Facility. Downloading it now. Axe: This is... Chief: Bioneutonics...* *Note - The actual japanese phrase for the kanji here would be 'Jintaiseireikogaku' which literally means something like 'Human Body Life Engineering.' However the furigana reads 'Baionyuutonikusu' in katakana. I've never heard of Bioneutonics, it's likely a word created by Yoshitomi. But if it isn't, someone mail me and say so :) -Justin Axe: You mean, human experiments?! [Page 126] (Cut back to on top of the building, Naomi is changing into a monster) Aimie: Don't, Naomi! Naomi: Keep...away! [Page 127] Girl: The subjects involved in this experiment appear to have been children that had no living relatives. In these various experiments, the survival rate was 2.3%. The rest of them, dead... ...or were trapped in their current forms. How cruel.. Axe: How could such a... For what purpose was this...?! [Page 128] (On the monitor, a picture of Naomi pops up.) Axe: Naomi G217...T-This is...! Chief: So she was a subject...and incomplete. Axe: So then...! Voice: There! It's Bolt! Chief! We've found Bolt! [Page 129] (The choppers open fire on the building, Bolt and Naomi leap out of the way.) [Page 130] (Enraged, Naomi leaps into the air onto the chopper.) Aimie: Stop it, Naomi!! [Page 131] (Naomi breaks into the side window, grabbing the pilot.) Naomi: Bolt...Bolt isn't the criminal! (The pilot's partner shoots Naomi in the shoulder, and she falls back to the ground.) [Page 132] Pilot: Ow ow ow... Copilot: What the hell is that thing?! [Page 133] Axe(on intercom): Catch that girl! That girl... She's the criminal! Aimie: No! Naomi is.. Naomi is...! [Page 134-135] (The choppers begin to circle Naomi, one about to try and grasp her with a robotic arm. However, Bolt reconsitutes the rock wall he had eaten earlier to escape through his hand and slams it into the chopper.) Ed Note: He's such a badass. :) [Page 136] Aimie: Come on, Naomi! (Naomi ignores her, pushing her into the wall nearby as she goes to attack again.) Sniper: Detective! [Page 137] Aimie: No!! (The sniper takes aim and fires. At the same time, Bolt leaps in front of Naomi.) [Page 138-139] (However, the shot goes through Bolt's right arm and into Naomi.) [Page 140] (Aimie is horrified, as Naomi falls to the ground, now returning to human form.) Naomi: It's...okay now... [Page 141] (The police arrive, Bolt does nothing to stop them from his impending arrest. Aimie rushes toward Naomi.) Aimie: Na... [Page 142] Aimie: NAOMI!! [Page 143] (Back at the police station.) Axe: So due to Naomi's condition of being an incomplete subject, she had to continue to live a life of suffering. Basically, it's clear where her grudge comes from... Man: Yeah, there's nothing else. All the people that she killed were the scientists that worked on her, right? [Page 144-145] (Back at Aimie's Apartment, Aimie is in the shower. As the shower ends, she punches the mirror in fury.) [Page 146] Axe: I wonder if Detective Aimie knew about it? That her only friend was a... (No one says anything. Axe sighs.) Chief: So in what way are you involved in this, Bolt Crank? (Bolt's arm is being bandaged.) Bolt: I was always too late. When I arrived, the crime was already done. Axe: Hmph! You must know more than that! Bolt: Who knows... [Page 147] Chief: But was Naomi truly the killer? At the very least you could tell us that. Axe: Eh? No way! Chief: All of the crimes up until now were done with a gun. Including this one. But there's no evidence that Naomi even used a gun. Axe: ..meaning... I knew you had to have done it, Bolt Crank! Bolt: Amazing deduction skills you have there. [Page 148] (On a dark street, Aimie walks alone, buried in darkness.) [Page 149] (Back at the jail, Axe is taking Bolt to a cell.) Bolt: Dedicated to your job, huh? Axe: We're not done interrogating you yet. Bolt: You know, these walls aren't very strong. Axe: Well I'll be keeping an eye on you, so you can't run this-- (Bolt raises his hand at Axe.) Axe: !! [Page 150] (Aimie has arrived at the gates to a large house. She shoots a nearby security camera.) [Page 151] (Back at the jail) Axe: Ugh! What are you doing?! Let me go! Bolt: Sorry, but I'm afraid I can't be with you any longer. (Something begins to materialize out of Bolt's arm.) Axe: !! [Page 152] (Aimie has entered the mansion, and stands in the doorway of an old man's bedroom. He appears extremely old, and is hooked up to various machines.) Auldman: Aimie...is that you, Aimie..? Wh-Why are you here?! [Page 153-156] (Axe is knocked to the floor, as Bolt materializes something enormous from his hands. It is one of the helicopters used by the police. It breaks through the walls, and Bolt sits on top of it as it speeds away.) [Page 157] (The old man (Auldman) is running from Aimie, and he presses some buttons on a computer console, radioing for help.) Girl: A breach in the TS-357 Block! [Page 158] (Aimie shoots the hardware surrounding Auldman.) Auldman: S-stop, Aimie! What have I done?! Aimie: What you did, was kill Naomi. But not only that. You killed so many more of my other friends! [Page 159] Auldman: It..it was for research! For the country...no..I worked desperately for mankind! (Aimie shoots at him some more, and Auldman takes the stairs. Aimie follows, taking off her dark glasses.) [Page 160] (Meanwhile, Axe is digging himself out of the rubble Bolt left.) Axe: (Cough cough!) Shit! That guy's one strange magician! Guy: Axe what're you doing? Get moving! Axe: Will you please look! Take a look at that huge hole! Guy: Samuel Auldman has been targeted! [Page 161] Guy: He's the last of the scientists at that facility from ten years ago! (Axe is surprised, and everyone heads for the choppers.) [Page 162] (Aimie continues to simply follow Auldman, taking pop shots at him, almost playing with him.) Auldman: Hiiii! (Auldman finally makes it to the roof, where a helicopter awaits.) [Page 163] Aimie: What do you mean, 'research'? Do you have any idea how many human beings you killed for your 'research'?! Naomi was the last friend I had. (Aimie opens fire on the helicopter...) [Page 164] (...and it explodes in a blast of fire.) [Page 165] (Back to the police ships. On the computer screen, a picture of Aimie has appeared.) Chief: She was listed in Ivanoff's subject files. Axe: No way, it can't be! [Page 166] Chief: This research was for the future of mankind.. It was for the development of superhumans. (All are silent as the chief speaks.) Chief: And for that purpose, the lives of hundreds of children were taken. [Page 167] (On Auldman's rooftop.) Auldman: But, you're perfect! A complete specimen! You have a body mankind dreams of! Aimie: I didn't wish for that. I didn't want to become a *monster* like this! [Page 168] (Aimie flashbacks to her time as a child, in the research facility.) Kid: Oh no... (One of the children is led into a chamber being run by scientists.) Kid: He's not coming back again... [Page 169] Aimie: As long as...as long as my friends were there I was okay. But then you bastards...!!! Voice: Hold it, Aimie! (A spotlight is directed on her.) [Page 170] (Below her is the Chief.) Aimie: Chief... This..is the last one... [Page 171] (The Chief simply looks at her, then...) Chief: Fire. Axe: Huh? Chief: Shoot Aimie. Guys: But we...! (Everyone looks up in surprise.) [Page 172-173] (Bolt stands behind Aimie, amidst the fire.) [Page 174] Aimie: It's useless to try and stop me, Bolt. (Bolt doesn't respond.) Aimie: You returned to this town to stop me, didn't you? Bolt: Why...was Naomi there with you? Aimie: I don't know...she followed me... [Page 175] (Flashback to Ivanoff's murder. It clearly shows Aimie pointing her gun at him, and killing him in the process. Behind her, Naomi watches in horror.) Aimie: Then she saw it. Axe: Then all of the crimes up to now were...! [Page 176] Aimie: This is the last one. (As Aimie begins to fire, Bolt leaps into action.) [Page 177] (Aimie's bullet hits home, Bolt begins to materialize something in his arm. Aimie smiles.) [Page 178-179] (Bolt plunges the sword he had eaten earlier straight through Aimie.) [Page 180-181] (Everyone is shocked. Aimie looks back at Bolt, and falls into his arms as the whole rooftop explodes again.) [Page 182] (Later. The authorities and fire dept. have come to clean up.) (Axe walks up to the chief.) [Page 183] Axe: We've confirmed Dr. Auldman's body, but Bolt and Detective Aimie are... (The chief says nothing.) Axe: Shall we pursue? Chief: No need. This case is closed already. (Axe offers the chief a light for his cigar.) Axe: But after all...I wonder what Bolt really was. [Page 184] (The chief smiles.) Chief: He was a Mercenary. [Page 185] (Outside the city, Bolt walks with Aimie in his arms.) [Page 186] (Suddenly she stirs, and pulls herself up.) Aimie: I told you, didn't I? No one can kill me. Not even you. [Page 187] (Bolt begins to walk away as she gets up.) Aimie: Everyone...everyone is dead, and yet I'm the only one who will continue to live... (Aimie's wound has begun to heal, a la Wolverine.) Bolt: No. You are dead, Aimie. The old you, that is... Aimie: What were you doing at that research facility? Bolt: Let's just say that I wasn't one of the research staff. Aimie: You were always the only one who would watch over all of us. [Page 188] (Flashback to the past. Bolt is sitting among the children in the facility, you can clearly make out Aimie and Naomi.) Aimie: You haven't changed at all in 10 years. Eating your bolts... And looking at us with your sad eyes... [Page 189] (Bolt says nothing, and continues to walk.) Aimie: ...Wait a minute! Were you also one of...! (Bolt smiles as he eats yet another metal bolt.) [Page 190-191] (Bolt simply walks along, leaving her with a parting thought.) Bolt: Whether you believe me or not...is entirely up to you. --- Bye Bye Aimie - End (THANK GOD!!!) Translation last updated 2-21-00 Any mistakes or corrections or whatever, send to cronusz@bellsouth.net