--MANGA TRANSLATIONS--
--TRIGUN MAXIMUM CHAPTER 36--
Printed in Young King Ours, January 2000
Translation by sumire
Page 105
Elendira stands before Legato.
- Elendira: We're leaving.
She steps on one of the bolts. Legato's bearer jerks in pain.
- Elendira: You've been losing it lately.
- You need to remember...
Page 108
- Elendira: ...your place as a pawn.
- If you don't, I'll disembowel you. I mean it.
Flashback: Knives and Elendira talking on the phone.
Elendira: Don't worry, I'll take good care of your little brother. Go ahead and push him to the edge.
- Knives: No need. That's not what I'm talking to you about.
- That stubborn streak is in his bones.
But that'll go away when he doesn't have anyone to protect anymore.Page 109
- Knives: It took me a while to make up my mind, but I've seen the whole picture.
- I need Bluesummers. Bring him back.
The present time.
Elendira: Honestly. What's so special about this little defect?
She cocks her suitcase gun.
Page 110
Elendira fires a nail through Legato's torso at point-blank range.
Page 111
The airship hovers overhead.
- Elendira: So, you're all saved.
- But not for long.
Page 112
Legato and the upper portion of his bearer are hauled away by the airship, the bearer's spinal cord dangling in midair.
- Elendira: Maybe you would have been happier dying on the spot, never knowing what hit you, but...
- In a few years...
You know those rescue ships coming from Earth, don't you?Page 113
Elendira: Knives is taking them out.
Page 114
- Elendira: The last hope of humanity--
- He intends to destroy every last one of them before your very eyes.
Meryl gulps.
- Meryl (thinks): Knives... his twin brother...
- I know now... He can do it.
Page 115
- Wolfwood: What kind of stupid are you? What are you so happy about?
- You're dying right along with the rest of us.
Elendira smiles sweetly, a cable from the ship before her.
- Elendira: I suppose so...
- But we all have our own ways of living out our remaining days.
Page 116
Citydwellers gawk at the airship rumbling overhead.
- Elendira: Until then, I'll take everything I can get my hands on.
Elendira: Well, so long.
Page 117
Hopperd and Vash lie in the rubble.
Hopperd: Hey, you dead? Mr. Handsome.
Page 118
Vash stirs.
- Hopperd: Huh. What the hell are you trying to do...
- You don't know how to treat a dying bad guy.
Hopperd: Sorry, but this is it for me.
Vash opens his eyes and turns to Hopperd.
Hopperd: I can finally have a little peace. Finally...
Page 119
- Hopperd: You, live and suffer.
- Hopperd: I won't kill you.
- I want you to go on living, spitting up blood day by day, in this fucked-up world.
Page 120
Hopperd has a vision of his blind love... he smiles... then darkness.
Page 121
Vash takes Hopperd's hand.
Meryl: Vash-san... your arm...
Vash: Yeah.
Page 122
Vash: It's all right. It's all right now.
Page 123
A single feather floats in darkness.
Long shot of the city.
Page 124
Milly and Meryl have a boisterous reunion in the hospital.
Milly: Senpai!!
Meryl: Milly! Milly! *Kyaa!!*
Wolfwood: How're you feeling, girl?
Wolfwood: We were worried--you were asleep for three days.
Doctor?: I see your recovery is going well...
Their voices carry out into the hall, startling the Beast, who is standing there on crutches.
Page 125
The Beast stumbles into her room and hastily begins disguising herself.
- Beast: That was a close one! They were right in the next room!?
- But a human doctor is best for fixing a human body...
A sandworm rumbles across the desert.
As the sun nears the horizon, Vash and Wolfwood stand by two graves outside town.
Page 126
- Wolfwood: You're bowing with your palms together?
- Take a look at those crosses--you're in the wrong faith, aren't you?
- Vash: I can put more feeling into it this way.
- What's so wrong about that?
- Wolfwood: He was right, you know?
- You just don't know how to treat the bad guys.
Wolfwood: If you do this for every last one of them, there'll be no end to it.
Page 127
Vash: Well, then, why did you come here with me?
Wolfwood: Stupid question. Because I'm a priest, of course.
Vash strikes a comical pose.
Wolfwood: Don't even think of laughing.
Wolfwood remembers Midvalley.
- Wolfwood (thinks): I don't feel sympathy for you.
- Those fangs you never got to bare are among mine now.
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Vash: Wind's coming up.
Wolfwood: Yeah.
Vash: Well, we'd better get back and get to work.
Wolfwood: Huh?
Vash and Wolfwood at work with picks and shovels, clearing debris in the city.
Wolfwood: What is this!? What are we doing? I demand an explanation!
Vash: Shut up and keep working! You break it, you fix it!
To be continued next issue...