--MANGA TRANSLATIONS--
--TRIGUN MAXIMUM VOLUME 7, CHAPTER 2--
Translation by sumire
Page 35
- Rem: Vash!! Knives!! Are you in there?
- Open the door!
Please, open the door!A hollow-eyed Vash is slumped against the other side of the door.
Page 36-37
- Rem: I'm sorry....
- Forgive us, in our weakness...
Page 38
Knives is lying unconscious in the laboratory.
- Vash (narration): Knives fainted on the spot.
- And I wish I could have cut myself off from everything then, too.
Page 39
A montage of scenes leading up to that moment.
- Knives (in flashback): We can work out a few differences.
- Because we're all alike deep down inside.
Don't you think so, Vash?Page 40
Vash: Only us... We're not like them!
Vash chokes and gasps in anguish. Meanwhile, Rem is pounding on the door.
- Rem: Vash!
- Come on!
Knives!
Open up!
Open the door!Page 41
Rem cuts the door open with a welding torch.
Vash shrinks away from her.
Vash: No..... No.....
Rem surveys the room.
- Rem: In any case, you need to eat right now.
- If you don't, you really could die.
Page 42
The medical bay.
Vash flings his tray of food at Rem, who calmly proceeds to clean up the mess.
Vash mutters something.
Rem: What?
- Vash: ....
- You were deceiving us, weren't you.
- It's been exactly... one year.
- Perfect for continuing what you started with her...
- ...on us!
Page 43
Rem: !! I'd never dream of--!
- Vash: You wouldn't? Can you prove it?
- That you wouldn't do the same to us?
You people, who did _that_ to her?
How can you prove it?Rem (gritting her teeth): I will never make that mistake again.
Vash: You can't be too sure of that.
- Rem: Oh yes I _can_ be sure of that!
- Don't mock what I went through!
I never want to feel that way again--so powerless!Page 44
- Rem: I should have stopped it by any means available.
- There wasn't a single day I didn't regret.
That's why when you two were born--Vash: Kill me.
Rem: What!? What are you saying!?
- Vash: Kill me. This place...
- ...There's no one but humans here!
- Rem: That's right.
- That's the way it is now...
And that's the way it's going to be, too.Page 45
Rem is locked into a battle of wills with Vash, who refuses to eat.
Page 46
- Rem: Now then. Today, you're going to eat.
- Guess what I've got!
She pulls out a peach.
- Rem: Ta-da!
- Now, this is a rare item!
Vash just watches darkly as she starts peeling it.
Page 47
The moment she sets down the fruit knife, Vash seizes it.
As Vash plunges the knife towards his throat, Rem stops him, grabbing the knife--by the blade.
Page 48
Vash stares wide-eyed at the blood.
- Rem: Is that your answer?
- You're just going to let go of everything so easily?
You take yourself too lightly.Page 49
Vash screams, and there is a burst of movement.
Rem collapses to the floor.
Page 50
- Vash (narration): I felt relieved,
- ...like all that pressure had vanished.
That damned strong woman--
I wouldn't shed a single tear for her.Page 51
His heart pounding, Vash stares at his bloody hands. The bloody knife. Rem on the floor. Blood on Rem's hand and stomach.
Pages 52-53
Tears well up in Vash's eyes. He kneels beside Rem and screams in horror at what he's done.
Page 54
Rem wakes up on a bed in the medical bay.
Vash sits at the far end of the room, sipping a drink pouch as he watches her.
Rem gives him a weak smile.
Page 55
Rem (tries to move): Ow--owowowow. Ow.
She lies back.
- Rem: You know... On Earth...
- After Alex died in the accident...
when I was so depressed...
I had this dream.Rem's dream.
- Rem: I was on an old-fashioned train.
- There was a terrible wind and rain outside.
It was like someone had just placed me there.Page 56
The conductor comes in.
- Rem (in her dream): Oh, you need to see my ticket.
- That's funny...
...The destination isn't written on here.Page 57
- Rem: He just punched the ticket...
- and gave it back to me as if nothing had happened.
But you know, I was relieved, to tell you the truth.
I thought, 'That's right, I can go anywhere.'Page 58
- Rem: 'When I get out of this driving rain,
- I think I'll go see the sunlit ocean.
And then, I can decide my next destination from there.'Rem wakes up from her dream alone in her dark, messy room.
- Rem: I admired the people who want to go further than anyone has gone before.
- And so I became a crew member on this migration ship.
Page 59
- Rem: You can go anywhere, Vash.
- Even if you're in darkness now,
The ticket in your hand is just waiting to be filled in.
So... So...Page 60
Rem starts to cry.
- Rem: Don't ever let go!
- Don't say you'll die!
Let's see all kinds of things together.
Let's walk together.
Because people, the world...
I swear, they're _not_ worthless.Page 61
- Vash (smiling a little):.....Okay.
- I don't completely understand, though.
- I've never seen a train.
- Vash: But gosh...
- If you hadn't stopped me then,
I never would have known that when _you_ cry, Rem, you look just like you're laughing.Page 62
Rem: Shut up, you little twerp! --owowow
Knives opens his eyes.
- Vash: Knives!
- Rem! Knives is--
Page 63
Vash: Are you all right?
- Knives: Yeah...
- ...Where am I...
Knives sees the medical cross symbol.
- Knives (smiling sheepishly): Oh.
- Looks like I made you guys worry.
Rem and Vash stare at him in surprise.
- Knives: What happened to you, Rem?
- Another klutzy accident?
Page 64
- Rem: Knives... you...
- ...you don't remember...
...anything?Knives: Remember what?
Vash gulps, alarmed.
- Knives (innocently): Boy, am I hungry.
- Is there anything to eat?
To be continued...