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starlady!!! page 01
Soldiers: This is Harvest's punitive expedition group.
We've lost him.
There's no response from the sensors.
Where is he?
Calm down.
He's got to be close…
!!!?
Harvest: Do you
…like flowers?
Everything began with this man…!
-----------------
!!! page 02-03
Chapter 25: Showdown
----------------
!!! page 04
FX: Rumbling
General: Take the gun, Sergei.
FX: Chack
General: You'll stick a dying kid a finishing blow.
Sergei: ……
General: You haven't forgotten the oath imposed on you when you entered the Syndicate?
Sergei: ……As a physicist…
I will devote myself to the cause of humanity, not begrudging any sacrifice.
General: Right.
After the Gate appeared, we were turned into the Syndicate, because whatever difficulty was expected had to be fought,
For the sake of humanity!
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!!! page 05
General: No matter what sacrifice we have to make, we will protect this Earth.
If we can't do that, what is our Syndicate for?
Sergei.
This is war.
A war against whatever stole the true sky, turns humans into contractors, and is encroaching on us.
Ours, humanity's, war.
The Saturn Ring plan that you went ahead with when you became the center of the Physics Division was surely constructed for that purpose too.
As the ultimate weapon that would end the war.
----------------
!!! page 06
General: Without those contractors' resistance, this war might already be over.
FX: Grimace
Sergei: That's……
General: Now, Sergei, take the gun.
You should have had the readiness to erase all contractors and save the world.
Kill this brat,
And prove that readiness once again!
The chance to erase the Gate will come again someday.
Discard your pointless emotions,
And carry out your mission as a physicist!
Now!
Sergei: ……
FX: Swiftly
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!!! page 07
Sergei: ……
FX: Chack [chambering a round]
General: Ha ha ha.
That's good, Sergei.
That's good.
FX: Turning
General: Why did you deny the power of the black dandelion to such an extent?
I won't venture to care at this point.
But I will say this.
This power is for the sake of competing with contractors.
If we erase the Gate, there'll be no need to use it for anything else.
FX: Fuming with anger
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!!! page 08
FX: Rough breathing
Sergei: ……I'm sorry, Parcel.
General: ……Now then.
The swaying has stopped.
Is the tower full of seawater……?
FX: Bubbling
FX: Bubbling
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!!! page 09
FX: Glub
Yin: Breathing
FX: Glub glub
FX: Glub glub
Hei: Breathing
FX: Glub
General: ……
Sergei: ……
General: What's wrong, Sergei?
Shoot already.
----------------
!!! page 10
Sergei: ……I hoped for the success of the Saturn Ring plan.
Even though I understood that it would kill this child…and all contractors.
For the sake of humanity……
Yes……
Compared to the weight of humanity,
This child's life is fairly light……
It's an unavoidable sacrifice.
General: ……
Sergei: ……But.
That day…when BK-201 destroyed the Saturn Ring and smashed our scheme.
I noticed a certain truth.
What do you think I noticed,
General?
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!!! page 11
Sergei: I noticed that I was relived from the bottom of my heart
Knowing that this child was safe.
I thanked God
for the plan's failure.
…Those were things I should have cast away when I became a physicist, but…
While I was watching those children,
At some point, it seems they returned.
[TN: "Things" is written "emotions."]
----------------
!!! page 12
Sergei: I was mistaken.
An individual's life is far and away lighter than humanity,
But it's not light enough to steal just on speculation.
What will we do, who haven't become dolls or contractors, but have lost our hearts!
And what meaning does the victory we were given have!
If the Gate is testing us,
We've chosen a mistaken path.
General: ……
And so what?
Sergei: ……The black dandelion is dangerous.
It eats and steals people's hearts.
----------------
!!! page 13
Sergei: Before we can't reach redemption--
FX: Click
General: Stupid.
FX: Gunfire
Sergei: ……!!
FX: Clack
FX: Thud
Asuka: ……!!
Sergei: Augh…
FX: Rolling over
Sergei: ……
FX: Blood spurting
General: ……You were in the Gate too long, Sergei.
FX: Clack
General: That place drives people mad.
Contractors with hearts…
Hmpf.
----------------
!!! page 14
FX: Boom
General: !
What is that?
FX: Rumbling
Soldier: Explosives in place like that…
FX: Flashing
Soldier: Wha…
FX: Spurting
Soldier: Ka…
FX: Falling
FX: Splatter
General: BK-201.
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!!! page 15
General: You're a thoroughly tenacious guy.
FX: Unspooling
FX: Landing
Hei: ……
Reynard Maxley.
General: Long time no see, Hei.
Has it been since South America?
Asuka: Mf!
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!!! page 16
Asuka: Mnf……
Mnf……
Mnf……!
Hei: ……
FX: Breathing
Yin: ……
Hei: Parcel……
FX: Yank
FX: Cord flying
FX: Whistling
FX: Grab
Hei: ……
----------------
!!! page 17
Hei: …It's only you and the helicopter pilots left, Maxley.
Victory is lost.
General: Hmph.
Hardly.
Looks like you've improved your skill a bit since South America.
FX: Fuming with anger
Seems that only your childish, womanly personality wasn't fixed.
Hei.
You're still pushed around by women.
In South America, when you were still human, who was it that trained you so you could survive on a battlefield?
Was it done by someone who'd come of age as a soldier?
Huh?
Parcel: Uwa…
Sergei: Pa-……
Parcel……
----------------
!!! page 18
Parcel: Sergei:……
Sergei: On…the right…
……In…my…pock…
et……
General: I trained you because you were human.
That's why.
FX: Fuming with anger
That you followed your sister, and joined that woman's group,
And moreover that you degraded into a contractor--
You've made me disappointed until the end.
FX: Slowly getting impatient
Hei: …It's my pleasure.
General: Your pleasure?
You threw the world into confusion for the sake of one person.
You think that pleasure will be forgiven?
----------------
!!! page 19
FX: Whip
General: …Now then.
FX: Brandish
General: As an obligation to the people who trained you,
FX: Quick
General: With these hands, I'll bury you.
FX: Scraping
General: Come at me from wherever!
----------------
!!! page 20
FX: Flash
Hei: !
General: !?
FX: Yawning
FX: Grab
----------------
!!! page 21
Hei: Parse…
FX: Flash
----------------
!!! page 22
FX: Snapping shut
FX: Clatter
FX: Clatter
Hei: ……
Sergei: Parcel.
Parcel.
Come out, Parcel.
Parcel.
----------------
!!! page 23
FX: Opening
FX: Coming out
General: !!?
FX: Whistling
General: This is…
FX: Snap snap
Parcel: Right below the stratosphere……We've gone up to the limit……
FX: Whistling
FX: Snap snap
Parcel: From here you'll hit the ocean and die.
----------------
!!! page 24
General: Bra…t…
FX: Snap snap
Parcel: I've avenged you,
Champ,
FX: Snap snap
Parcel: Mina, Sergei.
General: ……
FX: Flash
FX: Closing
General: Nuaaaaaaaaa
FX: Falling sharply
Hei: …
Yin: He's coming.
Hei: !?
!
FX: Opening
----------------
!!! page 25
FX: Coming out
FX: Tottering
FX: Collapse
Hei: Parcel!
FX: Catching
Parcel: I did it.
I……
Did it…
FX: Drooping
Hei: ……
You're an outrageous kid…
----------------
!!! page 26
FX: Dangerous look
Soldier: Wha…what do we do?
The general?
FX: Blades whipping
Soldier: …Anyway, take off! Take off!
Soldier: Waugh!
FX: Crackling
Hei: The general is dead.
FX: Clattering
Soldier: Gasp!
Hei: You have no boss anymore.
FX: Surprise
Asuka: Mn
Mnf!
Hei: Just like I told you, you can choose
To fly, or to die here and get off.
----------------
!!! page 27
FX: Helicopter flying
FX: Ripping
Asuka: Ow…
FX: Blades thrumming
Hei: Are you all right, Asuka?
Asuka: Ye…yes…
But……my leg……
Hei: …It won't move?
Asuka: …Yes.
FX: Blades thrumming
Hei: ……
Asuka: U--um,
…What are you going to do now?
Hei: I'm going to kill Harvest.
I should make clear that when Maxley is ranting about soldiers and the battlefield he's using fairly misogynistic language. Asshat.
Soldiers: This is Harvest's punitive expedition group.
We've lost him.
There's no response from the sensors.
Where is he?
Calm down.
He's got to be close…
!!!?
Harvest: Do you
…like flowers?
Everything began with this man…!
-----------------
!!! page 02-03
Chapter 25: Showdown
----------------
!!! page 04
FX: Rumbling
General: Take the gun, Sergei.
FX: Chack
General: You'll stick a dying kid a finishing blow.
Sergei: ……
General: You haven't forgotten the oath imposed on you when you entered the Syndicate?
Sergei: ……As a physicist…
I will devote myself to the cause of humanity, not begrudging any sacrifice.
General: Right.
After the Gate appeared, we were turned into the Syndicate, because whatever difficulty was expected had to be fought,
For the sake of humanity!
----------------
!!! page 05
General: No matter what sacrifice we have to make, we will protect this Earth.
If we can't do that, what is our Syndicate for?
Sergei.
This is war.
A war against whatever stole the true sky, turns humans into contractors, and is encroaching on us.
Ours, humanity's, war.
The Saturn Ring plan that you went ahead with when you became the center of the Physics Division was surely constructed for that purpose too.
As the ultimate weapon that would end the war.
----------------
!!! page 06
General: Without those contractors' resistance, this war might already be over.
FX: Grimace
Sergei: That's……
General: Now, Sergei, take the gun.
You should have had the readiness to erase all contractors and save the world.
Kill this brat,
And prove that readiness once again!
The chance to erase the Gate will come again someday.
Discard your pointless emotions,
And carry out your mission as a physicist!
Now!
Sergei: ……
FX: Swiftly
----------------
!!! page 07
Sergei: ……
FX: Chack [chambering a round]
General: Ha ha ha.
That's good, Sergei.
That's good.
FX: Turning
General: Why did you deny the power of the black dandelion to such an extent?
I won't venture to care at this point.
But I will say this.
This power is for the sake of competing with contractors.
If we erase the Gate, there'll be no need to use it for anything else.
FX: Fuming with anger
----------------
!!! page 08
FX: Rough breathing
Sergei: ……I'm sorry, Parcel.
General: ……Now then.
The swaying has stopped.
Is the tower full of seawater……?
FX: Bubbling
FX: Bubbling
----------------
!!! page 09
FX: Glub
Yin: Breathing
FX: Glub glub
FX: Glub glub
Hei: Breathing
FX: Glub
General: ……
Sergei: ……
General: What's wrong, Sergei?
Shoot already.
----------------
!!! page 10
Sergei: ……I hoped for the success of the Saturn Ring plan.
Even though I understood that it would kill this child…and all contractors.
For the sake of humanity……
Yes……
Compared to the weight of humanity,
This child's life is fairly light……
It's an unavoidable sacrifice.
General: ……
Sergei: ……But.
That day…when BK-201 destroyed the Saturn Ring and smashed our scheme.
I noticed a certain truth.
What do you think I noticed,
General?
----------------
!!! page 11
Sergei: I noticed that I was relived from the bottom of my heart
Knowing that this child was safe.
I thanked God
for the plan's failure.
…Those were things I should have cast away when I became a physicist, but…
While I was watching those children,
At some point, it seems they returned.
[TN: "Things" is written "emotions."]
----------------
!!! page 12
Sergei: I was mistaken.
An individual's life is far and away lighter than humanity,
But it's not light enough to steal just on speculation.
What will we do, who haven't become dolls or contractors, but have lost our hearts!
And what meaning does the victory we were given have!
If the Gate is testing us,
We've chosen a mistaken path.
General: ……
And so what?
Sergei: ……The black dandelion is dangerous.
It eats and steals people's hearts.
----------------
!!! page 13
Sergei: Before we can't reach redemption--
FX: Click
General: Stupid.
FX: Gunfire
Sergei: ……!!
FX: Clack
FX: Thud
Asuka: ……!!
Sergei: Augh…
FX: Rolling over
Sergei: ……
FX: Blood spurting
General: ……You were in the Gate too long, Sergei.
FX: Clack
General: That place drives people mad.
Contractors with hearts…
Hmpf.
----------------
!!! page 14
FX: Boom
General: !
What is that?
FX: Rumbling
Soldier: Explosives in place like that…
FX: Flashing
Soldier: Wha…
FX: Spurting
Soldier: Ka…
FX: Falling
FX: Splatter
General: BK-201.
----------------
!!! page 15
General: You're a thoroughly tenacious guy.
FX: Unspooling
FX: Landing
Hei: ……
Reynard Maxley.
General: Long time no see, Hei.
Has it been since South America?
Asuka: Mf!
----------------
!!! page 16
Asuka: Mnf……
Mnf……
Mnf……!
Hei: ……
FX: Breathing
Yin: ……
Hei: Parcel……
FX: Yank
FX: Cord flying
FX: Whistling
FX: Grab
Hei: ……
----------------
!!! page 17
Hei: …It's only you and the helicopter pilots left, Maxley.
Victory is lost.
General: Hmph.
Hardly.
Looks like you've improved your skill a bit since South America.
FX: Fuming with anger
Seems that only your childish, womanly personality wasn't fixed.
Hei.
You're still pushed around by women.
In South America, when you were still human, who was it that trained you so you could survive on a battlefield?
Was it done by someone who'd come of age as a soldier?
Huh?
Parcel: Uwa…
Sergei: Pa-……
Parcel……
----------------
!!! page 18
Parcel: Sergei:……
Sergei: On…the right…
……In…my…pock…
et……
General: I trained you because you were human.
That's why.
FX: Fuming with anger
That you followed your sister, and joined that woman's group,
And moreover that you degraded into a contractor--
You've made me disappointed until the end.
FX: Slowly getting impatient
Hei: …It's my pleasure.
General: Your pleasure?
You threw the world into confusion for the sake of one person.
You think that pleasure will be forgiven?
----------------
!!! page 19
FX: Whip
General: …Now then.
FX: Brandish
General: As an obligation to the people who trained you,
FX: Quick
General: With these hands, I'll bury you.
FX: Scraping
General: Come at me from wherever!
----------------
!!! page 20
FX: Flash
Hei: !
General: !?
FX: Yawning
FX: Grab
----------------
!!! page 21
Hei: Parse…
FX: Flash
----------------
!!! page 22
FX: Snapping shut
FX: Clatter
FX: Clatter
Hei: ……
Sergei: Parcel.
Parcel.
Come out, Parcel.
Parcel.
----------------
!!! page 23
FX: Opening
FX: Coming out
General: !!?
FX: Whistling
General: This is…
FX: Snap snap
Parcel: Right below the stratosphere……We've gone up to the limit……
FX: Whistling
FX: Snap snap
Parcel: From here you'll hit the ocean and die.
----------------
!!! page 24
General: Bra…t…
FX: Snap snap
Parcel: I've avenged you,
Champ,
FX: Snap snap
Parcel: Mina, Sergei.
General: ……
FX: Flash
FX: Closing
General: Nuaaaaaaaaa
FX: Falling sharply
Hei: …
Yin: He's coming.
Hei: !?
!
FX: Opening
----------------
!!! page 25
FX: Coming out
FX: Tottering
FX: Collapse
Hei: Parcel!
FX: Catching
Parcel: I did it.
I……
Did it…
FX: Drooping
Hei: ……
You're an outrageous kid…
----------------
!!! page 26
FX: Dangerous look
Soldier: Wha…what do we do?
The general?
FX: Blades whipping
Soldier: …Anyway, take off! Take off!
Soldier: Waugh!
FX: Crackling
Hei: The general is dead.
FX: Clattering
Soldier: Gasp!
Hei: You have no boss anymore.
FX: Surprise
Asuka: Mn
Mnf!
Hei: Just like I told you, you can choose
To fly, or to die here and get off.
----------------
!!! page 27
FX: Helicopter flying
FX: Ripping
Asuka: Ow…
FX: Blades thrumming
Hei: Are you all right, Asuka?
Asuka: Ye…yes…
But……my leg……
Hei: …It won't move?
Asuka: …Yes.
FX: Blades thrumming
Hei: ……
Asuka: U--um,
…What are you going to do now?
Hei: I'm going to kill Harvest.
I should make clear that when Maxley is ranting about soldiers and the battlefield he's using fairly misogynistic language. Asshat.
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Date: 2010-11-06 06:10 (UTC)