TOKYO BABYLON
VOLUME 4; Chapter 5: SAVE A
Copyright CLAMP - SHINSHOKAN
1st Edition: 07/10/1992

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Japanese text.  As such, I cannot guarantee that it is completely accurate, 
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*Version 1.0*

p 58
1
        "Save me."
p 59
3
        "Let's listen to Kora!"
4
        "Why are you doing this?"

        "They say that, next month, we'll be going on a field trip."

        "I think it'll be better if we decide room assignments first.  
         That will separate us into groups."
p 60
1
        "The groups have been decided."
2
        Teacher: "Hashimoto, what's wrong?"
p 61
1
                 "Why have you been excluded...?"

                 "Who's going to go with Hashimoto?"
2
        Students: "Eh? With her?"

                  "Hell, no!"
p 62
2
        Teacher: "Hashimoto, it's alright if you choose to be so retiring."

                 "But, I hope that, in the future, you'll be a bit more
                  active."
3
                 "You must put some effort into acquiring friends!"
4
                 "I meant to tell you this during lunch hour."

                 "It's far better than falling into this vicious circle."

                 "Hashimoto, you've been like this for two years.  Work a
                  little harder."
p 63 
2
                 "If you don't make friends during your years as a 
                  student,"

                 "It will be even more difficult for you when you go 
                  to work for a company."
3
                 "You're almost a university student, and yet, you 
                  behave like a little child."

                 "Hashimoto, you must make a great effort to gain friends."
4
                 "Hashimoto, I believe that your loneliness is your 
                  own fault."
p 64
3
        Students: "There she is. I don't know what the teacher could 
                   have told her."

                  "We were not permitted to be present."
4
                  "One moment."
5
                  "What has been uttered by that mouth?"
6
                  "What a strange face."
p 65
1
                  "What's that look for?"

                  "If you want to say something, say it, Hashimoto."
4
                  "Let's go, everyone.  We don't have to put up with
                   Hashimoto's smell."

                  "Yes, that disagreeable smell."
5
                  "I'm going to rid myself of the mud from my shoes,
                   Hashimoto."
6
        Hashimoto: "Yaaaaaaaaaaaa."
p 66
1
        Student: "Ugh! I've gotten mud on my skirt!" 
2
                 "It's already time for me to go to the academy."
3
                 "I've forgotten the video I rented."

                 "Well, I must return it, yes, return it..."
4
                 "Let's go!"
p 67
3
        Hashimoto: "Hh...Help me..."
p 68
2
        Hokuto: "Subaru, how strange for you to have slept until midday!"
3
        Subaru: "...Last night I was working until a very late hour."

                "I didn't get to bed until this morning."
4
        Hokuto: "What time did you go to bed?"

        Subaru: "Around ten this morning."

        Hokuto: "You've only slept two hours, then?!"
p 69
1
        Subaru: "I've slept a bit more than that."

        Hokuto: "A bit more?"
2
        Subaru: "More like two hours and twenty minutes."
3
        Hokuto: "That doesn't change anything!"
4
                "If you continue to work without ever taking a rest, you 
                 are going to get really sick."
5
        Subaru: "Yeah, but..."
p 70
1
        Hokuto: "But this is my job?"
2
                "You're so absent-minded, Subaru. I want to be sure that 
                 you go out dressed well."

                "Will you be going to your enrichment classes, even 
                 though today is the holiday celebrating the founding 
                 of our school?

        Subaru: "Yes. I'm expected to go a certain number of days."
3
        Hokuto: "All children receive compulsory education until high 
                 school.  You are already in your last year.  Are you 
                 going to continue to the Univerity level?
4
                 "Is that what you're going to do?"

        Subaru: "...Yeah."
p 71
1
        Hokuto: "Have you forgotten your dream?"

        Subaru: "N...no."
3
        Hokuto: "From the dawn of time, the Sumeragi Clan has protected 
                 Japan from malevolent spirits."

                "Each time, there are fewer people with mystic powers, 
                 and you are the head of the thirteenth generation of 
                 the Sumeragi family."
4
                "And, since you were little, your dream has been to be 
                 a zookeeper."

                "Of the two..."
5
                "Which will you pursue?"
6
        Subaru: "...I'm going to continue."
p 72
1
                "But, if there were a person with powers superior to 
                 mine and that were to willing to replace me as the 
                 head of the clan..."

                "Though in these years I cannot pursue it, I have not
                 forgotten my dream, and I will strive to achieve it."
2
        Hokuto: "Will you be going to the University to study veterinary
                 medicine?"

        Subaru: "Yes."
3
        Hokuto: "You've always been a good, gentle boy, but you're 
                 also persistent."
p 73
1
                "Your sister will be here to help you to achieve that 
                 which you long for!"
2
        Subaru: "Yes!"
3
        Hokuto: "You want to be just like Seishiro!  Subaru wants to be 
                 a zookeeper, and Seishiro is a veterinarian."

                "How miraculous is the destiny that chooses to bring two 
                 such similar people together!!"

        Subaru: "Ho...Ho...Ho...Hokuto."
4
        Hokuto: "On top of that, Seishiro says that you belong to him.
                 Nevertheless, his relation to the Sakurazukamori, that
                 family of assassins, remains a mystery!"
5
                "It seems a lot like a shoujo manga!"

        Subaru: "But, Grandmother said that there are those with the last 
                 name "Sakurazuka" that have no relationship whatsoever 
                 to the Sakurazukamori."
p 74
1
                "Besides,"

                "No one as sweet as Seishiro could possibly be an 
                 assassin."
2
        Hokuto: "True."

                "Surely, he is a good person, but,"
4
                "If he is truly good or not,"

                "That is a mystery."
p 75
1
        Subaru: "...Hokuto...?"
2
        Hokuto: "Yes?"
3
        Subaru: "...yes...yes..."
4
                "Understood, yes."

                "Goodbye."
6
        Hokuto: "Ho, ho, ho, ho, now you're ready, Subaru!!"

                "Yet again my sweet model is impeccable and will be able 
                 to attend his enrichment classes without reservation!"
7
        Subaru: "I'm sorry, Hokuto."

                "I must inform the professor..."
p 76
1
        Hokuto: "What's wrong?!"

        Subaru: "I can't go to my enrichment class today."
2
        Hokuto: "Why?!"
3
        Subaru: "Work."
p 77
1
        Hokuto: "Don't worry; your sister will always be with you."
3
                "Even if you have to abandon your dream, come what may, 
                 I will be with you."
p 78
3
        Subaru: "Eh...?"

                "Here's where I have to wait..."
4
                "Eh, eh?"
6
                "Ah."
p 79
1
                "Ex...Excuse me."
2
        Grandmother: "Just as gentle as ever, Subaru."
4
        Subaru: "Gran..."

                "Grandmother!"
p 80
3
                "I didn't know that you had arrived in Tokyo."

                "I would have come to greet you."
p 81
1
        Grandmother: "I am in Tokyo in passing because it was required 
                      that I remain close to the imperial house.  The 
                      cabinet has been carrying out an investigation and 
                      has requested that I speak with you.  I have come 
                      to explain this job to you in detail."
2
                     "In addition..."
3
                     "I want to give you a message..."
p 82
1
        Subaru: "Give me a message?"

        Grandmother: "First, let me explain the work that you will have 
                      to do."
2
                     "Lately, some new, previously unknown religious sects 
                      have been proliferating.  Although it may seem that 
                      they are exactly that and no more..."

                     "In any case..."

                     "The cabiniet wishes that you investigate this 
                      sect from the inside.  That is what the ministry 
                      of eductation requested of me."
3
        Subaru: "The ministry has asked me to investigate a religious 
                 sect?"

        Grandmother: "If they were an ordinary religious sect, it would 
                      be quite strange for it to cause damage."
4
                     "They're only a group, but the ministry has asked 
                      you to determine whether or not this sect could
                      constitute some sort of threat."
5
                     "That is why they have asked me to convince you to 
                      join this religious group."
                 
                     "They recruit their members from the children that
                      attend the interior of an institute."
p 83
1
        Subaru: "The...interior...of an institute?!"
2
        Grandmother: "The ministry of eduation wishes you to determine
                      exactly what is brain-washing the students and why.
                      They have asked me to enroll you as one of their
                      students to facilitate your investigation."
3
                     "Its name is 'Institute of Investigation MS'."
4
                     "You will find the details in these documents..."
   
        Subaru: "Yes."
6
        Grandmother: "Subaru."
p 84
1
                     "...Is everything alright?"
2
        Subaru: "Of course. Hokuto and I are well."
4
                "...Has something happened?"
p 85
1
        Grandmother: "On the ninth day of each month I divine the future 
                      in the ceremony of fire.  I divined something
                      concerning your future during the last ceremony."
 
        Subaru: "Eh? Something about me?!"
2
        Grandmother: "The results were not good."
4
        Subaru: "What did you find?"
5
        Grandmother: "By the cherry..."
p 86-87
                     "Subaru will be..."

                     "Stolen by the cherry..."
p 88
1
        Subaru: "Cherry...?"
2
        Grandmother: "Always wear your gloves."

        Subaru: "I will."
4
        Grandmother: "On that occasion."
6
                     "Subaru, someone waits for you..."
p 89
1
                     "That long ago night, you met someone..."
2
        Subaru: "Grandmother..."
3
        Grandmother: "Don't allow the cherry to seduce you."
4
                     "Don't allow"

                     "The cherry to steal away your heart."
p 90
4
        Teacher: "Hashimoto! Please make some effort to participate in 
                  the basketball game."
p 91
3
                 "Participate, Hashimoto." 
5
        Students: "Yeah, Hashimoto, play with us."
p 92
1
        Girl: "Take it, Hashimoto!"
p 93
2
        Teacher: "This pass has been stopped.  We have already completed 
                  the warmup exercises."
3
                 "Ah...ah." 
4
                 "During Physical Education, no one should get hurt.  
                  I'll tell them at the next class."
p 94
3
        Hashimoto: "Help me. Won't anyone help me..."

                   "I can't take it anymore...Help me..."
4
        Woman: "What's wrong?"
5
               "What are you doing alone"

               "In this place?"
p 95
1
               "Let's go."
4
               "Why don't you tell me what happened to you."
6
               "...Do they mistreat you at school?"

        Hashimoto: "...What?"
7
        Woman: "I thought so."
p 96
1      
               "I understand the tormented hearts of others."
2
        Hashimoto: "You understand?"

        Woman: "That's right."
3
               "I understand the feelings of those that suffer and 
                are sad."
4
               "God has granted me the favor of His power."
5
               "Do not be afraid."
6
               "We..."

               "We want to help you."
p 97
1
        Hashimoto: "To...help me?"
2
        Woman: "We will help you to leave the darkness.  Now, tell us 
                why you are sad."

               "Tell us all that you keep within the depths of your 
                heart."
3
        Hashimoto: "What is this? Who are you...?"
4
        Woman: "We are here to ease your suffering."

               "That is what we do."
5
               "We are your friends."

               "We want to help you."
p 100
1
        Students: "Good morning."

                  "Good morning."
4
                  "Look! Hashimoto's like a ghost."

                  "Strange things happen in this school.  Who has done 
                   them to her?"
p 101
1
                  "Ha ha ha ha ha."
3
        Teacher: "How are you, Kuniko?"
4
        Hashimoto: "I have prayed with zeal! Kumiko-sensei said that 
                    one must pray a lot!"
5
        Teacher: "I'm sure that you have prayed."
p 102
1
                 "You have to keep faith in yourself.  You cannot obtain 
                  results so quickly."
                   
                 "But, if you work, you will see them with your own eyes."
3
                 "Now, I would like to introduce you to your new 
                  companion.  He had just enrolled, the same as you."

                 "Subaru."
5
                 "This is Subaru Sumeragi. Subaru has just arrived and
                  sincerely wishes to study at this institute."
6
                 "Subaru, this is Kuniko, another recent arrival."

                 "Greet each other."
7
        Subaru: "A...a pleasure to meet you."
p 103
1
        Teacher: "Let's go, class is about to start."
2
        Subaru: "Today is Friday."
3
                "Class hasn't even started."

                "Why, when I watch these people, do they not seem 
                 like students of the institute to me?
4
                "The MS Institute."

                "This organization was founded in 1989."
5
                "Actually, there are some thousand members whose average 
                 age ranges from 16 to 17 years.  They worship a concrete
                 Taoist deity.  They believe that they can induce
                 purification of the soul through the force of their own
                 thought."

                "There are twenty-or-so people called "teachers".  They
                 conduct the student's studies as they wish."
p 104
1
                "There is no definite founder of this sect, but their
                 principal leader is Kumiko Nagi."
4
                "I want to seem like a real student."
5
        Kumiko: "Greetings to all."

                "I am Kumiko Nagi."
p 105
1
        Subaru: "So, this woman is Nagi...I was admitted readily enough, 
                 but I don't yet know where to commence an investigation..."
2
        Hokuto: "Ho, ho, ho. Hokuto's here!"
3
        Seishiro: "Welcome."

        Hokuto: "Hokuto has arrived to prepare the dinner!"
4
        Seishiro: "Are you sure that you're not too busy, Hokuto?  
                   And, Subaru?"

        Hokuto: "Subaru has work."

                "He's going to come, but, for the moment, I don't know 
                 when he will arrive."
5
        Seishiro: "Will he be alright? I suppose you want to make sure that 
                   Subaru doesn't forget his dinner."

                  "Have you left him a note somewhere?"
p 106
1
        Hokuto: "When he returns, he will see one plastered on a poster in 
                 my apartment and his!"

        Seishiro: "You're always thinking about your brother."
2
        Hokuto: "Since it has been said that preparing the food alone is
                 boring, I will be here to help you prepare it, Seishiro!"

        Seishiro: "I'm grateful."
3
                  "So, where is Subaru working on this occasion?"
4
        Hokuto: "In the Institute of Investigation MS, the headquarters 
                 of a new religious sect."

END OF CHAPTER 5: SAVE A