--MANGA TRANSLATIONS--
--TRIGUN MAXIMUM CHAPTER 69--

Printed in Young King Ours, February 2004
Translation by sumire

Page 179

A bird perches on a stone slab with a cross on it.

Page 180

Livio (thinks): A roll of thunder in the distance...
No...
Something's wrong.
The sound should be far away... why do I feel so certain that it's nearby?

Page 181

A vision of the Ark as the sound continues.

Page 182

Nighttime. Livio wakes up to the sound of cooking. He goes into the kitchen.

Page 183

Vash is eating fried rice.

Vash: Hey.

Livio looks at him, then quickly marches outside.

Page 184

Livio looks around the orphanage grounds and sees a stone slab with a cross carved into it.

Page 185

Livio: Ni--Nicholas...!!
...!! Where's Wolfwood?

A beat.

Vash: He died.
I buried him.

Page 186

Livio slumps against the wall.

Livio: Wha...How...

Vash: How?
You fought him--you should know better than anyone.
Livio: Ah...No, I mean...
I mean...
How can you be so calm...
Eating...

Page 187

Vash just looks at him. His hair is now completely black on one side.

Livio (thinks): The hair-darkening effect--
He used... his power?
On what?

Page 188

Livio (thinks): Oh--
That wasn't thunder after all.

Page 189

Flashback to the previous day. Knives' Ark flies over the orphanage.

Pages 190-191

Below, sitting on the sofa next to Wolfwood's body, Vash concentrates, locked in a psychic battle of Plant power with Knives.

Pages 192-193

Knives gets one of those photogenic little cuts on his cheek. Vash glares up at him. Knives laughs maniacally and flies away.

Return to present.

Page 194

Vash smiles sheepishly.

Vash: I'm... hungry.
How about you?

Livio: ...I can't.

Vash: Eat.

Vash: His wish was to protect the people here.
But if Knives isn't stopped, it'll all have been for nothing.

Page 195

Vash: Eat. Regain your strength.
There's no room for failure.

Livio grabs a spoon and joins him.

Pages 196-197

Livio remembers Wolfwood offering him half a loaf of bread.

Wolfwood: I'm Nicholas. Eat this.

Vash cooks up some spaghetti. He and Livio scarf it down. Vash remembers sparring with Wolfwood over a sausage. They pause, Livio crying.

Pages 198-199

Vash whips out a salad. The two drown their sorrows in food until sunrise, when they can eat no more.

Vash (thinks): Damn...

Livio (thinks): I think I overdid it...

Page 200

Vash puts a gun on the table.

Vash: Take it.
Don't forget him.

Page 201

Vash picks up the Cross Punisher.

Livio: He'd be grumbling about how heavy it was.

Vash: He would.
But this was part of the way he lived.

Vash sets the Cross Punisher on Wolfwood's grave.

Vash: I don't want his ideals sullied.

Page 202

Livio: Where are you headed?

Vash: The Ark is in the West.
I'm going to chase him down.

To be continued next issue...

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