--MANGA TRANSLATIONS--
--TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOLUME 5, CHAPTER 1--
--"THE CITY--AND THEN THE BANQUET OF THE DOGS"--
Translation by sumire
Page 3
A marketplace.
Apple woman: Hm? Can I help you?
- Apple woman: Have you been on the road?
- My, what an outfit--you must be in show business.
- Apple woman: Ah, certainly, thank you--you've got a good eye.
- These are tasty. Six will be three double dol--
Before she can finish, Vash is knocked down by a flying kick.
Pages 4-5
Opening illustration: Vash stands smiling in the middle of the marketplace.
Page 6
Bandana Girl: Ice cream! I told you to get ice cream! Not apples!
Vash: Captain, a word on my own behalf--I think apples are a popular choice.
- Bandana Girl: This is about discipline, not marketing!
You're new to the gang, so you've got to--An old man tips over a baby carriage full of tin cans.
Old man: Oro oro oro oro
Bandana Girl: What are you trying to do? Honestly, gramps...
Bandana Girl (to Vash):Come on, hurry up and help him!
Vash: Au au au au
Mom: HEY!
Page 7
- Mom: How many times have I told you not to distract him from his work!?
- He's supposed to be helping in the kitchen!
She drags Vash away.
Mom: Come on and start earning your keep. You don't work, you don't eat!
Bandana Girl: Hey! What are you doing with my underling!? You old bag!
Vash: My, my, things certainly are different around here.
- Mom: Damn right they are. This isn't like running some diner out in the sticks.
- The bigger the population, the more competition we have.
This is the big time--July City.Page 8
Vash comes to his senses, sobbing, leaning against the wall for support.
Page 9
Vash (thinks): The dam of my memory has burst... They come flooding into the void...
Vash's memory. He is working in the restaurant.
- Man: Oh, by the way...
- That man you were looking for--Count Revnant. He'll be back in four days.
But...Page 10
- Man: ...they say he's been acting strangely these days.
- Who knows what he's up to, holed up in that big house of his?
Vash remembers the faces and voices of people he knew.
Desk man: What? So you'll be leaving as soon as your business is finished?
Bandana Girl: We're not letting you out of the gang that easy!
Woman: It feels like we've known you for years.
- Voices: What's your name?
- Vash...?
That's an unusual name...
Vash...
Vash...Page 11
The present. Vash screams, tearing himself away from his memories.
Pages 12-13
Vash staggers in anguish.
Page 14
Tears flow down his face.
Page 15
Vash has a vision of Meryl.
- Vash (thinks): I can't stop...
- Not here... not now...
Page 16
Zazie and Meryl, elsewhere in the building.
Zazie: It's gotten quiet.
Page 17
- Zazie: Did we beat him, or did he beat us?
- Let's go see, shall we?
Page 18
Zazie opens his mouth wide, and thousands of winged insects come swarming out.
Page 19
- Beast voices: Have you located him?
- Winged insects... a sensory network of thousands of "eyes."
Leave it to us.
No problem.Page 20
Suddenly, Zazie returns to his physical senses.
Page 21
Shattered insects fall to the ground. Zazie draws his guns.
Zazie is jolted by a sudden impact.
Page 22
Something comes flying against the bars of Meryl's cell.
It is Zazie's severed arm.
Meryl screams.
Page 23
Zazie: Huh? Ah--
The entire right side of his torso has been sheared off.
As he pitches sideways, his innards splatter to the ground.
Pages 24-25
Hopperd looms over Zazie's body.
Page 26
Hopperd delivers a final blow to Zazie.
Cut to Midvalley.
- Midvalley: The stealth of inhuman speed...
- Defense is impossible against an attack too swift to be sensed.
Page 27
The sandworms are rampaging.
- Midvalley: I don't know what you were supposed to be watching out for, but...
- you understand how I hate third-party information, don't you?
Page 28
A great mass of concrete goes falling.
- Midvalley: This next gig...
- ...is members-only.
Page 29
Hopperd approaches Midvalley.
- Hopperd: ...Man, it's a strange feeling.
- The usual Gudelia vibrations... acceleration... impact...
But this feeling, when only "sound" falls away...He pries off Zazie's hand, still clenched around his neck, and tosses it away.
Page 30
- Hopperd: It's a simple theory.
- Even the loudest noise is the vibration of air--a wave.
If it is met with the wave of the exact opposite phase, it will be completely neutralized.
- Midvalley: In a good tug-of-war match, the center hardly moves.
- This is no different.
- Hopperd (thinks): Don't brush it off like that--it's really not that simple, is it.
- Just how many sounds do you think are in this building?
Echoes... resonance... It's full of noise.
To pick out all that interference...Page 31
- Hopperd (thinks): ...Then adjusting for the Doppler effect to play in realtime...
- The target must surely be surrounded by total silence.
- Hopperd (thinks): If you don't call that magic, what is it?
- Ruler of the Airwaves... Midvalley the Hornfreak!!
Page 32
Meryl, cowering in her cell, sees the gun still in Zazie's severed hand. She gulps, a determined look in her eyes.
To be continued...