Tokyo Babylon, book 4 vol.5, SAVE.B version 1, 000119 Artwork and story by CLAMP Translation by Ronny Hedin (thark@mangakai.org) --- Page 107 Tokyo Babylon Vol.5 / SAVE.B --- Page 108 Kumiko: God is inside each of you. Kumiko: You can live whole-heartedly while being hurt in this painful world, Kumiko: Because god is inside you. Kumiko: Because you are all wonderful existances. Please, believe in yourselves somehow. Please become nicer yourself. Kumiko: There is not even one unecessary human in this world. Kumiko: You're all god. You're all unique existances. --- Page 109 Kumiko: So please somehow forgive yourselves. Please somehow forgive everybody else. Kumiko: And become stronger. --- Page 110 Students: Kumiko-sensei! Students: Kumiko-sensei! Kumiko: Even though painful things have happened to you all, you mustn't lose! For you are all god! Kumiko: If you truly realize that, there isn't nothing you cannot accomplish. Student: Kumiko-sensei, I'll keep trying! Student: Me too! --- Page 111 Student: Kumiko-sensei!! Student: I'll try harder. Like Kumiko-sensei said. Student: I haven't told anybody yet that I myself am god. --- Page 112 Student: I'll believe in myself and keep trying! Kumiko: Kuniko-chan. Subaru-kun. Kumiko: Can I talk to you for a moment? Subaru: Yes? Sign: Place-chief room. Kumiko: Subaru-kun. Subaru: Y-yes! Kumiko: Hoho! Don't be so tense. Subaru: S- Sorry. Kumiko: How is your impression of this institute? Subaru: I- Impression? --- Page 113 Subaru: W... well, um. Subaru: I was really surprised that everybody is junior- or senior high students. Kumiko: I thought, religion is a force of belief. Believing in something is one's support to live. Is not that support religion. Kumiko: And is not the most important thing needed for that support children. Kumiko: Saying that children have no worries is a lie. Kumiko: Children cannot give up like adults. Therefore they seriously hold purer worries than adults. Kumiko: Want to help save these children in various ways, Kumiko: I opened this institute. Kumiko: Do not you too have painful things you cannot for any reason tell anyone else, Subaru-kun. I'm sure you too have many worries. --- Page 114 Kumiko: You don't have to open up now. Kumiko: Tell me when you feel like it. If I can think of those worries together with you, Subaru-kun, I shall truly be happy. Hashimoto: I prayed whole-heartedly as you said, Kumiko-sensei. Every day, I tried to love myself as you told me to... But. Hashimoto: But nothing changed! Hashimoto: Nobody in class saved me! --- Page 115 Kumiko: They were probably not sufficient prayers. You mustn't hurry results. Kumiko: Believe in yourself. You may really think that the way the people in class treat you is painful. But endure it and belive in yourself. If you do that, you can become strong. Kumiko: And with that strength, forgive everyone. Hashimoto: You're wrong! What I want is... Hashimoto: ! --- Page 116 Girl: Lately, you've been skipping school to go somewhere. Girl: School becomes boring when you don't come, Hashimoto-chan. Girl: Say something, Hashimoto!! Girl: Somebody's coming! --- Page 117 Girl: Eeeek, baaad! Girl: Wait, wait! Girl: Well show our affection again, Hashimoto-chan. Girl: Whaaat. Girl: Shiraiiiiiii, that's like the evil magistrate in a historical play. {daikan = "Edo period prefectural governor (magistrate, bailiff)"} Subaru: Wah! Subaru: You're... --- Page 118 Subaru: What's happened, those wounds!? Hashimoto: Leave me alone! Subaru: But, there's blood! Hashimoto: Leave me alone!! --- Page 119 Subaru: It's OK, my sister washed it yesterday. Subaru: Ah... Um... She ironed it properly too, but... Subaru: D... Did I say something wrong...? Hashimoto: ...why did you enter that institute? Subaru: Huh? --- Page 120 Subaru: I... I saw it in that magazine... Hashimoto: I met Kumiko-sensei in this park. When I was crying after being teased by the girls in class like today... No, it's not something cute like your "teasing". Hashimoto: They torment and hit me every day. Hashimoto: The adults might just think it's children's friendly quarreling, but, Hashimoto: It's one-sided hitting and one-sided hurting. It's violence, not quarrels. Subaru: Did you tell the teachers... Hashimoto: I told them. But they all said. --- Page 121 Hashimoto: "You're not being assertive" or "Don't you have some responsibility too?" Hashimoto: Why does me not being assertive have to mean getting tormented by those girls? Hashimoto: Do I have some responsibility that means I must be hit and kicked? Hashimoto: Kumiko-sensei told me. Hashimoto: "You're being teased because you do not clearly understand yourself. Love yourself more and believe in yourself." "It's not that you cannot understand your fellow humans. So it may be painful, but keep praying whole-heartedly for yourself." --- Page 122 Hashimoto: So I prayed whole-heartedly. Hashimoto: I went to the MS Institute to study, too. Hashimoto: But nothing change. I just keep being teased everyday at school, like always. Hashimoto: ! Subaru: ... I'm sorry, I don't know Subaru: what I could say to make it better. --- Page 123 Subaru: Even though you went to the trouble of telling me... I'm sure I can't understand a billionth of your pain, Hashimoto-san... {Actually, a ten billionth.} Subaru: I don't know what I could say to make it better... Hashimoto: Thank you. --- Page 124 Hokuto: I'm a cute multi-unit apartmeeent. {I think - hard to be sure of the kanji.} Hokuto: Wednesday, the day for non-burnable traaaash! I'll go properly to the neighbourhood meeting tooo, lala! Hokuto: ....oh? Going already? Subaru. Subaru: Yeah. I won't need dinner. Seishirou: Work? Subaru: Yeah. Hokuto: "MS Institute" today too? Subaru: Yeah. Hokuto: How is work? Subaru: ...well, I wouldn't say, Subaru: I don't think there's any problems, but. Hokuto: Good, good, a reward for the hard-working Subaru! --- Page 125 Hokuto: Now give your thanks for Hokuto-chan's homemade cookies! Subaru: They're great, Hokuto-chan! Hokuto: Ohohohohoho, of course! Hokuto: Well. Hokuto: Take this with you as a snack. Subaru: Bye bye. Seishirou: Take care, Subaru-kun. Hokuto: Byeeee! Hokuto: Lately, Subaru has been busy and haven't had time to play with poor Sei-chan. Hokuto: Honestly. --- Page 126 Seishirou: But, is it really OK? Hokuto: What? Seishirou: Is it really OK Seishirou: for me to be sinking my poison claws into Subaru-kun seemingly so hardened with morals and honesty. Hokuto: If Subaru is fine. Hokuto: But. Hokuto: If you make Subaru cry... --- Page 127 Hokuto: I'll kill you. Seishirou: Hokuto-chan... something's burning. Hokuto: My cookies! My cookies!! --- Page 128 Sign: MS Institute, third floor. Hashimoto: Ah! Subaru: How are your injuries? Hashimoto: They're fine now. Hashimoto: ? Subaru: My sister made these cookies. Subaru: Please take them. Hashimoto: Ah... Thank you. Hashimoto: Ah! --- Page 129 Student: Rise! Hashimoto: Uh... umm.... Student: Bow! Student: Sit! {Standard procedure at the start of a japanese schoolday - I'm sure you've seen this in some anime or otherwise.} --- Page 130 Girl: Aren't you good, Hashimoto-chan. Girl: Yees, she really is. Girl: But it'll be even better if I do this! Girl: Ahahaha! Girl: Whaaaat, don't you like it!? --- Page 131 Girl: Then I'll remove it for you! Hashimoto: Wha! Girl: Got it! Hashimoto: STOP!! --- Page 132 Girl: Hashimoto-chan, if you don't thank people properly... Girl: What's with that look! Girl: Eeek! --- Page 133 Girl: Let me go, Hashimoto! Hashimoto: Aaaaaaaah! Hashimoto: Eeeeeeeek! --- Page 134 Hashimoto: Noooooooooo! --- Page 135 Teacher: What's this noise! Girl: eacher! Teacher: What's the matter! Ashimoto! Girl: Eh... Uh... Girl: Eeek! Nooo! --- Page 136 Teacher: Go to the nurses room, call the doctor and the responsible teacher! Teacher: An emergency! Sign: MS Institute, third floor. Kumiko: Yes, enter. --- Page 137 Subaru: Sorry to intrude. Kumiko: I'm sorry I made you stay. Please sit down. Subaru: Um, is something... Kumiko: I have something to talk to you about. Kumiko: It's about Kuniko-chan, but... Subaru: Hashimoto-san? Kumiko: There are some tudents at the MS Institute who go to the same school as Kuniko-chan, but, Kumiko: I heard she was stabbed in class yesterday. --- Page 138 Subaru: Stabbed!? Kumiko: Yes, and by a classmate. Kumiko: Kuniko-chan's wound will probably never disappear. Subaru: Wha... Kumiko: I understand. Subaru: But... Subaru: Stabbed, why... Kumiko: One of the students that always teased her held a painting knife will they were struggling, and stabbed Kuniko-chan's face with that knife... --- Page 139 Subaru: Her face... Kumiko: Had she endured... Had she patiently endured, Such a deed would not have happened. Kumiko: That Kuniko-chan's prayers did not work. That Kuniko-chan's prayers did not work, and that she did not become a strong person. Kumiko: was because she couldn't make her heart strong and forgive everything. Kumiko: To not be able to forgive such a truly trifling thing as the classmates teasing, Kumiko: was weak. Kumiko: Subaru-kun. Kumiko: You are exceptionally powerful. Kumiko: And for that power, you worry, Kumiko: and suffer. --- Page 140 Kumiko: I want to relieve you of that suffering. I don't want to be too late like with Kuniko-chan! Kumiko: I, want to save you! Kumiko: ? Subaru: You cannot save anybody. --- Page 141 Kumiko: Huh? Subaru: How can you understand Hashimoto-san's suffering, Subaru: even though you're not her? Subaru: How is the classmates' teasing a "trifling thing"!? Subaru: How could she forget being hit and kicked by her classmates... by people of the same age as her!? Subaru: How can you understand her, even though you have no personal experience of pain!? Kumiko: Subaru-kun! --- Page 142 Subaru: A scar that will never go away Subaru: on a woman's face. Subaru: And you're still saying Hashimoto-san's prayers didn't work? Subaru: You may certainly have exceptional spiritual power. But, --- Page 143 Subaru: But you, acting like you understand Subaru: the pain of other's that you cannot understand, certainly cannot save anybody. --- Page 144 Seishirou: That's right. Subaru: Se... Saburu: Seishirou-san! Subaru: Se... Subaru: ? --- Page 145 Kumiko: Who might you be? Seishirou: There is no to give my name. --- Page 146 Seishirou: Since you will soon die. Kumiko: What are you saying? Seishirou: I have determined by investigating this place for several days, Seishirou: that your spiritual power is real. Kumiko: Why do you have to kill me? Seishirou: In six years, you will have exceeded over three million members in japan. In creating a new-age religious organization, Seishirou: You have caused a bit of a problem. --- Page 147 Kumiko: Have I troulbed you? Are you also responsible for a new religious group? Seishiruo: Me? Oh, I'm not troubled at all, and by the way, I'm not behind a religious group. Kumiko: So who's troubled? Seishirou: Yes, who might it be. Seishirou: It's no use. Seishorou: With your spiritual power, you cannot win against me. --- Page 148 Seishirou: You should understand. Kumiko: ...... --- Page 149 Kumiko: Nooo! don't come, don't come! Kumiko: ...! .....! Kumiko: No..... No.... Kumiko: Aah.... Help, save me... --- Page 150 Kumiko: The... cherry... blomsters Kumiko: are... --- Page 153 Seishirou: Good night. Seishirou: Nagi Kumiko-sensei. --- Page 154 Seishirou: The batting of you and your workplace is like seven years ago. Seishirou: Subaru-kun. Seishirou: ...as I thought, I'm the one to win the bet. --- Page 155 Seishirou: ! Seishirou: The act of the previous Sumeragi family head? Seishirou: Today, I defer to your grandmother. --- Page 156 Seishirou: Shall we postpone the settlement of the bet? Seishirou: Subaru-kun. --- Page 158 Speaker: Ooyama-sensei of chirurgy, urgent... Hashimoto: Who!? Subaru: It's Sumeragi. Hashimoto: Don't enter! Subaru: Umm. I'll leave the flowers here. Subaru: I'm sorry to have bothered you. Hashimoto: Wait!! --- Page 159 Hashimoto: I still, I still haven't returned the hankerchief! Subaru: Huh? Hashimoto: The hankerchief you lent me at the park. Hashimoto: Can I borrow it a bit longer? Hashimoto: I... want to become strong. Hashimoto: Not the strength Kumiko-sensei spoke of. --- Page 160 Hashimoto: Strenght to Hashimoto: live wholeheartedly in this world. Hashimoto: I wanted to be saved by someone. I wanted somebody to save me... Hashimoto: I thought, won't Kumiko-chan become my ally. Hashimoto: But I was wrong. --- Page 161 Hashimoto: I thought that I needed to be kind myself. Hashimoto: I thought that forgiving others was also important. Hashimoto: But. Hashimoto: Bad things are bad. Unforgiveable things cannot be forgiven. Hashimoto: It won't help if I endure. Nothing will happen if I'm patient... --- Page 162 Hashimoto: I recall that whenever I see this scar on my face. Hashimoto: But since I'm still weak... I don't want to meet you yet... --- Page 163 Hashimoto: So when I become stronger Hashimoto: I'll go return this hankerchief. Can I take care of it until then...? Subaru: Yes. Subaru: I look forward... to meeting you. --- Page 164 Hokuto: Yep. Real estate Hokuto: is still sinking. Hokuto: Ah, Subaru! Hokuto: Is your visit over? Subaru: ...yeah. Sorry. Hokuto: Who did you visit? Hokuto: A girl? Subaru: Yeah, but since I promised, Subaru: to come see her again. Hokuto: Ooh, to promise the next date already! Hey, Sei-chan! Aren't you upset! Seishirou: Really! --- Page 165 Subaru: I'm sorry, making you come along and all... Seishirou: No problem, since it's for my beloved Subaru-kun. Hokuto: But the leader of that MS Institute suddenly died. Hokuto: The MS Institute closed down, even though you went to the trouble of investigating it. Your work was in vain, Subaru-kun. Subaru: Now that you mention it, I'm sure I remember going to the MS Institute yesterday, but, Subaru: Why was I in my own room? Hokuto: What? Subaru: Yeah. Subaru: I definitely went to the MS Institute yesterday, but... --- Page 166 Seishirou: Ah, if we don't hurry, we won't be in time for Hadzuki's lunch offer! Hokuto: Suspicious. Hokuto: Aren't you trying to pull our legs, Sei-chan? Seishirou: No, no. Hokuto: Hey, Subaru, don't you think so too? Hokuto: eeek! Hokuto: Sei-chan, you could cause an accident suddenly taking off like that! Seishirou: Ahahahahaaaaa! Hokuto: Don't go "Ahahahahaaaa"!! Text: Vol.5 SAVE B - END Text: Next stage - Tokyo Bablyn.5