--MANGA TRANSLATIONS--
--TRIGUN MAXIMUM CHAPTER 76--
Printed in Young King Ours, October 2004
Translation by sumire
Page 95
The Earth ships approach the desert planet.
Communicators: Action stations! Action
stations!
Running SC & WS! Running ADA! Commence system check!
From this point on, the Combat Direction Center's commands take
top priority.
Protection hatch open...! Launching defense field!
Pages 96-97
Kronika receives a communication from a pilot in one of the side ships.
Domina: Well, things are starting to get interesting, aren't they, Kronika?
Kronika: Domina.
Domina: Yes?
Kronika: This is a real battle. This is no time for jokes.
Domina: ..... Yes, ma'am.
But...
We've dealt with fused bodies so many times before.
Kronika: Make no mistake--that wasn't your direct experience.
Domina: Aww, same difference.
What do you think we share data for?
Kronika: Well, I can tell you this--it's
not so you can get careless.
Let's move!
Pages 98-99
Vash stands alone near the ruins of a ship or Plant complex.
Vash: Come to me, Knives...
Here, we won't get anyone else involved.
He clutches his arm.
Pages 100-101
Flashback to the Big Fall, or some disaster.
Vash trudges on.
Pages 102-103
The desert is filled with images of people Vash remembers.
Pages 104-105
Everyone Vash has met on the planet until now--Meryl and Milly, the Nebraska family, the Ship people, B.D. Neon... (and if I'm not mistaken, some characters that are actually in the anime only ^_^)
Pages 106-107
...Lina and grandma, Yngwie and Yangwie, Legato, the Gung-Ho-Guns...
Pages 108-109
Wolfwood's Cross Punisher standing over his grave.
Rem.
Vash raises his head towards the sun and Knives' Plant mass.
Vash (thinks): This is the end of my journey.
Page 110
Vash (thinks): But the days go on...
Those tough and gentle days I loved.
Page 111
We cut back to outer space.
Kronika: Anti-Plant-energy bomb launch
preparations completed.
Enter the warhead codes.
?: Entering warhead codes.
Kronika: Code No. W-44-D-Plus... "Thorhammer."
Domina: ?!
Kronika: ...What?
Domina: ..."What?"...You...
Domina: You're bringing those out already!?
You're going to break that entire mass apart?
Kronika: If we need to.
Page 112
Kronika: Our priority is to secure a
position of initiative with our first shot.
An independent who'd take such barbarous measures as a mass
fusion will almost certainly use "force" in an act of
terrorism against us.
Domina: ...But--!!
Kronika: Listen to me, Domina. That force
is too great for a single consciousness to posess.
The worst-case result would be an uncontrollable energy gate that
just keeps growing and growing.
We've got to forget that they once were our comrades.
That's how dangerous a threat it is--that "thing" below
us.
Domina: ...But it may not mean to... what then?
Kronika: Then we're lucky.
That's the only way we're going to be able to take care of this
quickly.
Page 113
They end their conversation.
Domina: ...She's a frightening woman.
She's cool on the outside, but there's no end to her ferocity.
Kronika: I can hear you!
Communicator: Launch preparations
complete!! Warhead name: "Thor Hammer"!
Warhead Class F!!!
All ships, enter defense formation.
Engines at maximum power!
Firing in 5...
4...
3...
2...
1...
Page 114-115
Knives, a mass of Plant stuff, and a fragment of the Ark.
Communicator: ... Fire!
Page 116
An expanse of desert.
Page 117
Vash.
People.
Kronika.
A beam.
Pages 118-119
Kablooey.
Page 120
A glowing speck hovers above the Ark.
(Or is it one of the spaceships? Hard to tell.)
It's Knives, and he's mad.
Kronika: What?
This is...
He warped?
Vash looks up in grim horror.
To be continued next issue...