--MANGA TRANSLATIONS--
--TRIGUN MAXIMUM CHAPTER 50--

Printed in Young King Ours, April 2002
Translation by sumire

Page 131

Vash: Damn you, Knives! You _will_ coexist with them!
You can easily kill them any time at all!
Knives: Listen, Vash. Reality itself is completely warped.
I'm going to correct it.
The incomplete life-forms will probably kill each other. And if they do--

Page 132

Knives: ...it means that in the end, that's all they were worth.

The Eye of Michael delegation.

Wolfwood: You sure have changed...

Page 133

Wolfwood: ...crybaby Livio.

Page 134

Double Fang: And you--if the people back at the orphanage could see you now, they wouldn't believe their eyes.

Wolfwood: .....

Trip of Death: Ha ha ha ha ha...
A momentary show of loyalty to your roots? 
You still care about your home, even if it was only temporary!
...You should be grateful to me.

Wolfwood: Shut up! 

Trip of Death: .....
So that's why.

Page 135

Trip of Death: It seems your treason was all because...
...you just couldn't stand to see it in my hands.
Although the sisters don't know that it is the highest appointment.
The good-hearted are so useful--they make things so easy.

Wolfwood: You... You're sick!

Page 136

Double Fang stands between Wolfwood and Trip of Death.

Wolfwood: Livio!

Trip of Death: It's no use. Double Fang... cannot betray me.

Wolfwood: Out of my way!

Page 137

Trip of Death's henchmen appear and knock Wolfwood down.

Double Fang: I am... under constant surveillance.

Trip of Death: It's coming!

Pages 138-139

Knives dives.

Vash: KNIIIVES!!!

Page 140

Narration (a soldier's report): Report. 
The bridge to the Delnash building has been completely destroyed.
It's impossible to get across.
Day four since we've stopped here.
Flames rise from the settlement on the opposite ridge. 

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Narration: It's a riot.
They're losing order over there.
Day five.
Several soldiers spot a huge flying object in the North-Northeast.
Day seven. 
We finally reach the other side.

Page 142

Survivor: Help... Help me...

Soldier A: Did you come from the town? All this way?

Survivor: ...aah! Uwah...
The p-p-p-plants... taken away... a huge... ship...!!
 
Soldier A: A ship!?

Soldier B: Just like the fragmented information we received!

Soldier A: Just what is going on in town?

Narration: Since the satellite vanished...
The Derringer Effect from the multiple suns rendered long-distance transmission impossible. 
We didn't realize that the town had gone silent. 
We don't know whether the incident happened two weeks ago or two months ago.

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Pages 144-145

The silent town.

Page 146

Corpses everywhere.

Page 147

A Plant.

Page 148

Scientist: Wait!! What are you doing with them!? Don't abandon us!

He falls to his death.

Page 149

A mass of Plant Angel matter rises up to meet Knives.

Page 150

The Plant Angels merge with Knives.

Page 151

Narration: The age of chaos--

Page 152

Narration: The "Ark" went from town to town, sucking up one Plant after another. 

Knives stands looking down at a huge well of Plant Angels he has collected.

Page 153

Missiles are fired at Knives's ship.

Page 154

Elendira shoots the missiles down.

Vash and Legato glare at each other, crackling with energy.

Page 155

Zazie, atop a sandworm, surveys the chaos in town.
Wolfwood sits smoking, and snaps through his cigarette in frustration.

Page 156

Narration: Those fragments of information that did manage to get through only fed people's fear all the more, inviting panic.
Anxiety and terror soon led to to the collapse of law and order.
And the world reverted to the conditions of the earliest period in this planet's brief history.

Page 157

Narration: The world dried up.
It was unusually quiet.
Humans had never been anything more than visitors.
Everything seemed to be returning to its original state. 
The tiny seeds of mankind, which had landed 150 years earlier...
...were about to wither and die.

Pages 158-159

Narration: Seven months later--

Two toma riders approach.

Page 160

Luida: Welcome back.
I'm glad to see you're all right.
You two...

It's Meryl and Milly.

To be continued next issue...

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