--MANGA TRANSLATIONS--
--TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOLUME 2, CHAPTER 2--
--"resume our business"--
Translation by sumire
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A long dining table.
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Title illustration: Legato eats dinner without the use of his hands.
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Legato scarfs his food. The Gung-Ho-Guns watch.
Midvalley: What a sight.
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Midvalley: Just look at that.
Caption: Midvalley the Hornfreak
Hopperd: Hey--Give it up!
Caption: Hopperd the Gantlet
- Hopperd: It's a bad idea--don't rock the boat.
- He's... changed.
- Midvalley: .....
- He's changed. That's exactly why I'm saying this.
Midvalley: How about you guys?
Captions: Grey the Ninelives. Leonof the Puppet Master. Zazie the Beast. Rai-Dei the Blade.
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- Midvalley: Not really interested, huh.
- You killing maniacs.
- Midvalley: But consider this.
- Our target--him--he's already defeated three of us.
Considering that huge hole in the moon, there can be no question that Lost July was his work, too.
Do you understand? He's a monster.
Or rather, he seems to be one of our employer Knives' race,
so perhaps I should say, they are monsters.
We humankind have to protect ourselves, don't we?
From this nightmare. In other words...Page 40
Midvalley: ...I've had enough of being controlled by a madman.
Midvalley points a gun to Legato's forehead.
Hopperd: !?
Legato (snorts): Self-preservation...
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Midvalley's body is suddenly twisted backwards to the floor.
Midvalley: Ah... Gah...!
Legato: Set your mind at ease.
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Legato: Our orders have changed. From destroying Vash the Stampede, to...
Flashback:
Knives: Cause him ultimate suffering.
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Knives: With your human hands.
- Knives: He doesn't understand anything.
- Teach him the true nature of the humans he is so desperate to protect.
Ingrain it in his bones.Page 44
End flasback.
- Legato: That is His will.
- It shall be done.
Isn't that right?Rai-Dei: .....
Midvalley: Heh. I have no luck at all.
Midvalley: Ouch!
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Vash and Wolfwood riding through the desert on a motorcycle and sidecar. Wolfwood, who is driving, eyes Vash, who is sitting in the sidecar eating donuts.
Wolfwood: God, you piss me off!
He brakes suddenly, sending Vash flying.
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Wolfwood: Dammit, why don't you drive for a change!
Vash: But...
They start off again, Vash in the driver's seat.
Vash: ...I'm...
The motorcycle tips.
Vash: ...no...
Vash and Wolfwood and the upended motorcycle, on the ground.
Vash: ...good at driving!
Wolfwood: ........
They're off again, Wolfwood back in the driver's seat.
Vash: By the way...
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Vash: ...Where are we headed?
- Wolfwood: Tonim Town
- It's the closest vanished town.
I told you, didn't I?
How all the people just disappeared as suddenly as mist.
It became a ghost town...
...and scrawled on the monument in the town square, his name.
Knives.
- Vash: Come to think of it, you never told me...
- ...How come you know Knives' name?
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Rai-Dei rides a sandworm through the desert.
- Wolfwood: Wow, a sandworm!
- Look at the size of that thing!
Vash: Hey, don't try to change the subject!
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They arrive in the deserted Tonim Town.
A figure stands before the monument.
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- Rai-Dei: This is the second time we've met.
- My name is Rai-Dei.
Gung-Ho-Guns Number Nine, Rai-Dei the Blade.
- Vash: .....
- Uh, hello.
(They go... like this?)Vash attempts an Oriental-style greeting.
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- Vash: The Gung-Ho-Guns...
- It's that again, huh?
So the killing game is still on, you mean?
- Rai-Dei: It is so.
- --!?
He sees Wolfwood.
Rai-Dei: You...
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Rai-Dei: So be it.
Vash stares at the two of them in surprise.
- Rai-Dei: I don't know what you're planning...
- ...but I don't want you interfering in this death match.
- Vash: What?
- A death match!?
Hey, wait--I don't wanna!
- Rai-Dei: I know all about your selfish whims.
- But I haven't come here just to play with you.
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- Rai-Dei: .....
- Now, then.
- Wolfwood: He's crazy!
- What does he think he can do against a gun with just a blade?
But it's no bluff.
He's got some trick up his sleeve.
Don't let your guard down, Tongari!Pages 54-59
Fight scene.
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- Rai-Dei: Magnificent!
- My heart thrills at such a match.
- Vash: I'm glad you liked it.
- ...um, can I go now?
Rai-Dei holds his pose.
Vash: Dammit, Wolfwood, can't you say something to him?
Wolfwood: Um, well, it wouldn't be right for a bystander to interfere in the looney-tunes battle of the century.
Vash: I'll get you for this, Terrorist-Priest.
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- Rai-Dei: I see that with your strength, I can't afford to waste time.
- ...Allow me to tell you what brings me here.
Vash: ?
Long shot of the two of them amidst the billowing dust clouds.
Vash: ...To cause me ultimate suffering...?
- Rai-Dei: It is so.
- We have already found your secluded home.
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Vash looks dark.
Rai-Dei: .....
Wolfwood looks on.
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- Rai-Dei: I see...
- Perhaps I should have done this sooner.
Vash: Get out of my way.
- Rai-Dei: I cannot.
- I am here to lay down my life against you.
I shall take the liberty of having you fight me.Vash: Don't waste time on talk! Let me pass!
- Rai-Dei: I refuse.
- If you want to leave as soon as possible, then step over my dead body and go.
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- Rai-Dei: I won't keep you long.
- Let's settle this with the next battle.
- Rai-Dei: I, Rai-Dei the Blade of the Jigen-Setsu single-blade school...
- ...present you with my ultimate succession technique.
To be continued...