The Final Battle: Honey vs. Panther Zora Written by Iisaka Yukako Translated by David Soler and HTMLized by Shawn M. Robinson VER. 1.0 p.36. It would seem that my spirit was dominated by Zora...after all. p.37. Zera...what was your purpose in bequeathing us this power? 2) You were the one who created the choker. Am I right? 3) I wanted to see a miracle again. That was my primary motive. 4) On that long ago moment when Dr. Kisaragi perfected the Atmospheric Elemental Condenser, it shone in his hands such that I was enchanted by its radiance. 5) I wished to recreate it with my own hands. Inevitably, these infernal hands could birth only darkness. Seira...poor doomed child. 6) However, I longed to grasp the light at any cost. p.38. I've always watched over you. 2) Ever since the moment Dr. Kisaragi made his escape, I'd taken meticulous pains to supervise matters so that Panther Claw would remain ignorant. 3) However, Sister Jill extracted your whereabouts and abducted the Doctor on the eve of your sixteenth birthday. 4) I couldn't bear to see you consigned into their clutches like that. So from the remaining data, I created a device that could channel the power of the Atmospheric Elemental Condenser and bequeathed it to you. 5) I hoped to unravel the strands of Fate with my own power. I prayed that the miraculous light I'd seen would shine forth anew. p.39. From infancy to adolescence, as you grew into your beauty like a bud blooming into a flower, always have I kept watch over you. 2) I remained a creature of darkness, and perhaps it was that which drew me even more strongly to the pure radiance of Love's Light immanent in you. 3) I desired you. So at some point the same vices which I despised in Sister Jill and her cohorts came to rule over me as well. p.40. But it's all over now. 3) Victory is yours. Come, finish me. 4) He's right. He's the ringleader responsible for bringing about our battle with Panther Claw. 5) Prince Zera...!! 6) You...mustn't. Honey...stop. Don't kill him...!! p.41. Huh? 2) Sei...Seira!! p.42. You're alive...!! FX: stagger S: Good to be back, Sis. 2) Seira... 3) Zera... 4) Seira...I've done nothing to merit your protection. 5) Not so. You're the one who released me from Panther Claw's...from Zora's darkness. p.43. And in your current state...your eyes can now show affection. 2) No more...there's no need to hate anyone now. 3) Uh...uh~~n. p.44. Seiji!? 2) Don't die, Seiji! Hang on. 2) Im alive... 3) Somehow. 4) That's wonderful...!! FX: SQUEEZE p.45. What's so wonderful about it? I'm shaking and shivering all over! 2) I'm so sorry. This was all because of me. Seiji: D...Don't be ridiculous! 3) It's just... 4) Even when you need me the most, I'm utterly incapable of helping you, and the very thought makes me ashamed. p.46. Don't even think such a thing! 2) It's only your courage and grace that have supported Honey thus far. 3) FX: Shrug Uh...Seiji...Prince Zera's no longer our enemy. 4) I understand that. I heard everything...But that's hardly calculated to send me into paroxysms of glee, now, is it? p.47. And anyway... that doesn't change the fact that he's my rival. FX: *mull mull* H: Huh? Did you say something, Seiji? 2) Well, anyway, it's great that we all came out unharmed, right? 3) UH-HUH!! 4) FX: CRRRUMBLE 5) It looks like it's not over after all. FX: *swirl* p.48. FOOL... 2) YOU...BUFFOON... FX(1-2): THRUM~~~ 3) Prince Zera. You've outlived your usefulness. I will dispatch you to the darkness whence you came. FZ: ZZZAKKK... 4) You will return to stew in the primordial stew of my lust and hatred...!! FX: KABOOM! p.49. It's no use, Mother. I'm no longer a disciple of darkness. I've been reborn in the wake of receiving the Grace of Honey's Love. 2)No longer will I follow your bidding! 3) WHA~T? Do you think to betray me, Prince Zera? 4) You'll suffer for this, Zera!! FX: ROAR~ 5) Prince Zera!! p.50. Seira!! 2) Yikes! FX: BLORCH H: Seiji!? 3) My Darkness is invincible! Once I obtain your Atmospheric Elemental Condenser, there'll be nothing that can threaten me!! 4) HAHAHAHA H: Panther Zora... p.51. What is it you desire? 2) Why have you gone to such pains on my account?...Why is it that you long for Air Alchemy so? Is it for gold or jewels? Or rather... 3) Everything! I would remake the entire world according to my whim!! 4) Even were you to succeed, 5) you could never slake your thirst, nor appease your hunger. 6) You who ultimately devour even the fruit of your loins...there is no salvation for you this side of eternity. p.52. Don't trifle with me, strumpet? What do you think I've sired!? 2) (?) who I cast out from the deepest depths and magicks, foolish lifeforms who devour all others... 3) Mankind! Mankind is no more than another creation of Panther Claw! 4) Panther Claw and Mankind are kindred both inside and out. As such, while Mankind lives, I can never be destroyed. It is meet that Panther Claw hold dominion over the humans. p.53. Towards that end, your Air Alchemy is utterly indispensable. Cutey Honey, this time there will be no escape! 4) I...I can't breathe. I'm being suffocated by the weight of the Darkness! p.54. I'm being engulfed in Zora's heartbeat...a lustful groan, a clamorous shout, a whirlpool of spite. 2) It's a distillation of human malice...Is this Zora's true shape? 3) Behold the darkness in all it's filth! We, Panther Claw, were born of this infernal sea. 4) We are crafted and nurtured in the negative energy of the human wretches' insatiable lust and vainglorious ignorance! p.55. You, too, are a fabrication of humanity, Honey. We are comrades, you and I. You deserve to live as freely as we do, making of the world what you will. 2) What I will...? 3) Aye, verily! You'll be free to wreak untold violence and depravity among the human dogs without the slightest scruple! p.56. Using hatred and betrayal, 2) terror and despair, 3) You, Cutey Honey, will overrun the Earth with our Stygian night! The pure darkness that is my essence! 4) Come! Yield your heart to me. H: My strength is draining...my eyelids are getting heavy... p.57. *moan*...Why is it so dark...? I can't see a thing! FX:Flash 2) FX: pop 4) Father...!? 5) How...why...but you're... 6) Honey! Wait for me! I'm on my way! 6) Seiji... S: Damn! Where's the exit? p.58. Honey...don't fear the struggle. H: Father? 2) You are blessed with Love's Light. Let your heart lead you to the future. You are our beacon of hope. 3) FX: Fwoosh 4) N: Honey, come back safely! Don't give up! Ms. M.: You come back this instant! Girls: Miss Kisaragi! Boys: Honey! Seira: Big sister! Zera: Believe in the power of love. p.59. I can hear everyone's voices...feel their spirit. I'm not alone. 2) Everyone I love is granting me strength. 3) Father... 4) FX:*focus* 5) Zora! I'm going to fill your heart to bursting! Come and take the power of Air Alchemy that you've always sought! p.60. FX: FWOOSH 3) Ahh~~! What a magnificent radiance... 4) So this is the majesty of Air Alchemy, now fallen into my grasp at last! Now the world will be mine! p.61. Panther Zora, you're not the one to whom I devote my power. 2) Instead, I fight on behalf of your progeny, the people of Earth. 3) Fool!...Do you mean to say you'd expend all of your energy on behalf of humanity? Such an action might mean your annihilation! 4) What purpose would sacrificing yourself serve? p.62. Human lust is boundless...Even were I to be destroyed, it would mean only that a new Panther Claw would rise in my stead. 2) Even if I vanish, love is indestructible. As long as there is love, I will be resurrected eternally. 3) I don't deny that Mankind is driven by powerful urges. It's desire that makes life possible. But what of the urge to fulfill one's dreams, to love and protect another? 4) It's those thoughts that give humanity strength and gentility. My father entrusted all of his love and dreams into my creation...Just as I will in defending the human spirit! p.63. I have faith in the majesty of Love that abides in all men, and in the strength of their dreams!! 2) Honey~~Fla~~sh!! ..... End of Chapter. Back to Manga page