Toward the Terra Volume 2 : Nasuka translated from Kadansha Anime Comics by Ann Nichols, Dr. K. and Yoshishige Shimada Retyped by William Chow Inside Front Cover (text): Jomy who, succeeding Soldier Blue, became the Mu chief, commanded the spaceship to launch out toward the Earth. Three years later, the spaceship landed on a frontier world, Nasuka. Here, though it cannot compare to Earth, there is air and water. Jomy is in doubt whether to start a new life on this world or turn toward Earth... Inside Back Cover (same as Volume 1) p.3 ( 2. Nasuka ) p.4 ( Cast Introduction ) The story so far: Jomy, who received the "Waking Day" in Atarakusha of his 14th year, was taken by Soldier Blue to the Mu's space ship which lurks underground. Jomy was informed that he was a Mu. Following the will of the dying soldier, he became the chief of the Mu and started the journey to native Terra. The descriptions for Jomy, Keith, Phisichis, Mother Eliza, Shiroe, Sam, and Karina are identical to the descriptions given in Volume I and will not need to be repeated. Tony - The child born to Jomy and Karina. He was born out of his mother's body which was the first time such a birth had taken place since the establishment of SD and is a new humanoid race different from humans and Mu. Jonah Marker - A lone Mu. Without knowing it himself, he became a Mu. He was about to be tested for esper, but was rescued by Keith. After that, he became Keith's sidekick. Grand Mother: Earth's mother computer. It manages all the computers in space and sends orders to them. The Story p.7 ( sounds of a space battle ) p.8 Three years later Kei: Gather at point B in 15 minutes. We go into inertial flight. Make speed adjustments in accordance with the order. Crew: Roger! Roger! Roger! p.9 Instructor: Ok! It's perfect, If you can give orders this well, I have nothing more to teach you. Kei: No. At the time we were passing point A, the number 6 ship went somewhat astray. That's odd?! A magnetic zone in a place like this... p.10 Jomy: (telepathically) Marcus Shin. My name is Jomy Marcus Shin. As the Chief of the Mu, I send a telepathic communication toward the Earth. p.11 Kei: Argh!! Jomy: I wish to exchange mutual communications! That is my wish. With Earth's highest government. Inst: Mu attacking - we have never had this happen before. Kei: It was good that we didn't have an accident. A little more delay in setting up the formation. p.15 Inst: You're right. You did well. Kei: Sam, are you all right? p.16 Sam: Jo...It was Jomy. I tell you, it was Jomy!!! Kei: !?!? Sam: My childhood friend, Jomy Marchus Shin, with his face exactly the same as when he was 14 years old! Why is he the Mu chief?! He was a nice guy - why? Kei: Calm down, Sam!! Calm down! p.17 (Shiroe enters the underground labs and sees an embryonio animals in tanks, including a humanoid figure with Keith's face.) Shi: (thinks) It's alive!?! Can it be? Keith, too, in this tank... p.22 (later) Sam: Oh! You are Elite! Already studying the Mu? Kei: It's because it's the first time I have seen the Mu. The Mu chief was your childhood friend? Sam: Childhood friend? Hahahaha! I was never acquainted with that Mu!! p.23 Kei: Sam!? Sam: Never met that face. Kei: His memory has been extinguished... p.24 ME: That is correct. Because it was unnecessary to remember that the Mu chief was his childhood friend, that has been eliminated. Kei: It was thoroughly done. ME: Of course. The Mu are the enemy of the human race. It is not necessary to feel anything for them except hatred. Kei: Then why are the Mu given birth to?? ME: The meaning of the question is obscure. Repeat. Kei: (thoughts are at a loss) The Mu, right in the middle of the system, so perfectly controlled, are still being born - in small number, but surely. Why has that gene not been removed from the test tube babies? While calling them the enemies of human beings, you still let them be born...Why is that? ME: The answer to that question is not programmed in my electrical circuits. Only Earth's mother computer, Grand Mother, can answer that. p.28 Kei: Grand Mother? (thinks) Grand Mother. It seems that I have run into the top secret of the nation. ( Shiroe enters and collapses ) Shiroe!? p.31 Shi: Aahh!! Kei: It's a surprising ESP Test now. Shi: I heard rumors that it was hard and it was. Inside my mind it was helter skelter. Kei: I told you to be careful. Shi: Churning around... p.32 Kei: Don't underestimate Mother Eliza. Shi: But... I learned something interesting. Mother Eliza's beloved Elite, Keith Anyan - the secret of his birth... Kei: What!!! Shi: I saw it! With my own eyes - the place where you were born!! I finally found out that your were at this station. Mother Eliza made an experimental body - you can't have a homeland or parents. For 14 years you were raised in that glass case! p.33 Kei: Don't say it!! Shi: You are Mother Eliza's android! (Keith hits him) You finally resorted to violence. Even for you there are moments of anger. To get angry at being called an android - that sort of humanity you have. Excuse me (sarcastic). p.34 Kei: If you sneak around more than you have been doing, the ESP Test won't be the end of it. Shi: Elimination? Kei: You don't want to die yet, I suppose. p.35 Shi: If one is to become Mother Eliza's "yes man", death is better! Kei: Why do you hate Mother? Mother Eliza is only faithfully protecting the system which Earth has created. Shi: Hmph! The system is everything? p.36 Kei: That is so. Because there was this perfectly controlled system, the Earth was pulled back from the brink of destruction. Every year a small number of humans can go back to Earth. Shi: Only Elites like you. p.37 Kei: What do you want me to do? Deny the system - are you trying to make humans walk the road of Earth's destruction once more? The ESP Test and the Adult Examination Test... p,38 Shi: I would not allow the Adult Examination!! Ummm. I had a mother, whom I loved, who always smelled like a flower. The Adult Examination forcibly took Mother away!!! Even the few memories remaining Mother Eliza comes to forcibly take away. I will not forget! I will fight Mother Eliza! p.41 Kei: That is absurd! Shi: That my be true, but to me to live is ... Ooohh!!! (cough! cough!) p.42 Kei: I understand. Stop now. Take a little nap. p.43 Comp: Emergency! Emergency! Emergency! (literally "Emergency situation occurrence!") Crowd: Argh--! Aiee! Eyah-- p.44 Boy: Aaah Boy: Argh--Argh-- Girl: Argh Eyah Argh p.45 Boy: Geyah Eyah Kid: Guah p.46 Jomy: (telepathically) I am...I am...Jomy...I am Jomy Marcus...Shin. At the time I was 14 years old, I was given the Adult Examination just like you... You passed, I did not... Therefore, I didn't have to abandon my childhood memories as you did. But for you, that memory was stolen. Now try to remember. You're still young, so you can still do it. p.47 Kei: It's Mu telepathy! Control yourselves! Be firm! Jomy: Now you still have time to... Kei: Damn! (literally, "shit!") p.48 Jomy: (tele.) The people you liked, the people you loved, Papa and Mama, intimate friends, the dogs, and small birds, etc. To lose your infant memories is to lose the most important thing to yourself. Be abandoned. p.51 Kei: (puts disc in holder and activates it) Seal all communication circuits. This is a Mu mind attack... p.52 Jomy: A gentle heart, the strength to feel the beautiful things as beautiful... And then...to love people - something new for the SD system...(cuts off) p.53 ME: Keith Anyan, that was appropriate management. As may be expected of the Members Elite, it was beautiful. p.54 Kei: Mother...why was I the only one able to move? ME: That's the result of Members Elite training. Kei: Wrong! Wrong!! That is not so. Like everyone else, they lie. (unconscious) Because I am android, from the beginning I have no memories of mother and native land. p.55 ME: Calm down, Kieth Anyan. You calm down. You are correct. You are correct... p.56 Kei: Yes, Mother. Now...I'm all right. p.57 ME: Then, Keith Anyan, take to the field because Seki Rei Shiroe has deserted. Kei: I...Shiroe... ME: That is an order. You are expected to obliterate the traitor. p.58-9 (Keith takes off) p.60 Kei: Seki Rei Shiroe, respond immediately. Decrease speed and turn around. You have no weapons, I am equipped with weapons. I repeat, turn around! Otherwise..I will...attack. Shiroe, why do you fly to Earth? Even if you arrive at Earth, as you oppose the system... p.61 Shi: As you were raised in a glass case, you do not understand, I suppose... p.62-9 (Keith destroys Shiroe's ship) p.70 Phis: Ah! Alfreet: What's the matter? Phis: Just now...somebody's thought momentarily ran through space and disappeared when I tried to make contact. Alf: Who could it have been? Phis: I don't know. p.71 Alf: How soon will we be going to Terra - do you suppose...!? Phis: You need not worry. Soldier has not forgotten. Alf: But we landed on a world like this how many since... p.72 Phis: A beautiful world is this Nasuka. Although it cannot be compared to Terra, there is air and water. Probably the condition has changed since humans deserted this world. It is far from Terra and probably the human race has not noticed this star. p.73 Leo: Soldier! Where is Soldier? Jomy: Oh. I'm here! Leo: Soldier, what are you doing? p.74 Jomy: The meeting...? Leo: The time for the meeting is long past (and) the Elders are fuming! Jomy: Look! Don't mind that, but look at this, Leo! It's so nice - sow seeds and water them - they sprout. Very soon, I'll feed you exceedingly delicious vegetables! Leo: How many times do I have to tell (you) that things like farming... p.75 Jomy: (mimicking) Is not something that you, as the Mu Chief, should be doing. Things like that you should leave to the young people... Ha Ha Ha Jomy & Leo: Ha Ha Ha... Ha Ha Ha... Poyon: Chokon. p.76 Professor: You are the Mu that were born and raised on the ship. Therefore, it may be expected that you do not know the cruelty of human beings. The human race denies the existance of we Mu. Mu 1: That is understood. However, we do not want to fight. I consider not fighting to be the pride of the Mu. If we just live quietly on this peripheral world, the human race our life... p.77 Ms. Ela: Too naive! Do you think they are the kind who would let us be? Mu 2: But here there is water, and air, and light, although not enough for us to continue to live... p.78 Zelu: Silence! How our ancestors were treated by the human race.. Have you forgotten your hatred of the human race!? Jomy: If one can go without knowing things such as hatred, that's better. Zelu: Soldier! p.79 Jomy: If we proceed to Terra, the war with the humans is waiting. From this war a new deep-rooted hatred with be born, I suppose. After that, can we hold hands with the human race, do you suppose? When I decided to land on this world, I wanted time to think. Certainly I am in doubt. However, when we started here, making farms and a livelihood, then there appeared various kinds of new things which I wanted to do. p.81 Harley: What things? Jomy: For instance, to raise a child in the mother's womb as in ancient times. p.82 Mu: From the mother's womb!? That's irrational... Jomy: No, it's okay... Forget it. p.83 Karina: Wait, please, Soldier. When your gaze met mine a while ago, you, Soldier... Jomy: Karina! Kar: "If it's Karina, she might agree"... Soldier... Jomy: Hmph. Again you've read my mind... Kar: You really want this. I will try to bear a child with my own body. p.84 Jomy: You...!? Kar: (mind at a loss) ... Dr. Noldi: What are you saying! Have you forgotten you are asthmatic! To raise a child in the body is to commit suicide! p.85 Kar: If you fear, you can do nothing. Please let me do it, I beg of you. Jomy: Do you really mean it, Karina! p.86 Kar: Soldier... Jomy: It's splendid! To be able to do natural childbirth! This is the greatest message to humanity. We will awaken those who are controlled by the computers. It's okay, isn't it, Doctor! p.87 Dr. N: Yeah. Jomy: KARINA!! p.90 (Harvest Festival) p.91 Jomy: Karina, this is a just-picked tomato. It's delicious! Kar: My, it's lovely!! To eat it would be sort of sacrilegious. Poy: Pyon. Kar: Hey! Jomy: Ha ha ha... Kar: Hu hu hu... p.92 (several months later) p.93 Jomy: Being born...Karina's child is being born! p.94 Nurse: Oomph! Again!! It's no good!! You may be Soldier, but males don't come in. Jomy: But, Karina... Nur: She's fine. Jomy: Hey! (thinks) Karina! Hang in there! p.95 (baby crying) Jomy: Karina!! Karina!! p.96 Baby: A--n! A--n! Nur: It's a healthy little boy. p.97 Jomy: A boy... (literally, "a male") Okay, let's name him "Tony". Kar: Tony... That's a good name... Jomy: Karina, thank you! p.98 (five years later) Kei: Earth Defense Headquarters! Earth Defense Headquarters! This is 7th Knight Corps. Lt. Keith Anyan is landing. UNID: Understood. Sable D. p.99 UNID: The space pirates with whom we had such a difficult fight, using three escort warships, Keith Anyan destroyed in a minute, they say. p.100 UNID: As may be expected, Keith is a cool (or cold) weapon of destruction. UNID: It figures that he is a VIP at such a young age. p.101 Kei: (thinks) An artificial sky is always clear... Here we have families and couples and also husbands and wives. However, it's a combination of chosen citizens who are sent here and no children. Children are being raised ideally in the nurturing city! What are they doing in this ideal society that humans can ever think of? Something...something is lacking! p.105 G.M.: As usual, I am impressed by your work. Kei: It is an honor, Grand Mother. G.M.: Only, somewhere in you, at the bottom, there is a faint emotion that is not quite controlled. p.106 Kei: Use the sleep remedy? G.M.: No. That is not necessary. You who have become a VIP must be able to control yourself perfectly. Kei: Yes...Grand Mother, you still cannot give the answer to my question? G.M.: The Mu affair? Kei: Why do you, the mother computer of Earth, allow the birth of the Mu...? p.107 G.M.: To eliminate the element for the Mu to be born has been prohibited from the beginning by the Earth. p.108 Kei: It's taboo!? That means that Earth intentionally continues to produce the Mu. p.109 (returning to his apartment) Kei: Why are you running? Man: puff.. puff.. (I am) a person who is marked, who was to receive the ESP test on Mars, appears to have crept into a transport ship and stowed away. Kei: (thinks) ESP test? (enters his apartment) Who is it! Come out! You? This one they're chasing after... Psychokinesis! You are a Mu! It is true. You fled the ESP test. Marker: (telepathically) I have done nothing! Kei: Don't use telepathy! Speak aloud! Mark : Yes sir! Kei: How did you pass the Adult Examination? Or are you an esper sent by the Mu? Mark (speaks childishly) I don't know the Mu! Suddenly, it happened that I could see inside human minds... Why this strange self?... I don't understand... I haven't done anything wrong! Kei: Requesting Defense Troop Headquarters. Mark: I got frightened because they chased me and I just ran away. p.115 Kei: This is 1Lt. Keith Anyan. I have caught a young man running away and have investigated him. There is no special problem, so I will keep him with me from now on. Com: But, Lieutenant, that fellow is... Kei: I am VIP and it is my decision. p.116 Mark: You rescued me. Thank... (Keith slaps him) Oww! Kei: Don't approach me from the back! I will shoot who ever does so - I am so trained. p.117 (A patrol ship approaching Nasuka.) p.118 Har: What's with you? Mu A: An Earth patrol ship is getting close. Har: We know that. What we want to know is what has been happening since. Mu B: They'll soon discover us, I think. Har: Soldier is? Mu B: Whereabouts unknown. We're searching for him. Har: All right. Perpare for a telepathic attack! p.119 Sam: No irregularity around peripheral world Nasuka. Now we'll be heading for Pestra Base. Co-pilot: There can't be anything wrong. Sam: It's true. We've been using only three expression/words in those three months. Co-pilot: (Yawn) Sam: What's this? Co: What do you suppose it is? Sam: Over there - look - it's a light! That's odd. There's nothing in the radar... Wahhh!! Aaahhh! p.120 Co: Arrghh!!! p.121 Sam: Argh!!! p.122 Mu 1: We have finished eliminating all of the records of the Earth Patrol from the time of its departure to present. Har: All right, fine. Mu 1: However, the problem is the memories of these two. We should eliminate them, Captain! Dr N: But if we apply more telepathy to then, they might go insane. MS. E: But can we afford to let Earth know of our new base? For the first the man's adult examination erase/extinguishes memory. Now we would do the same thing. p.123 Dr N: We, the adult examination?? Har: Wen can't trade the stomach for the back. (This is an old proverb sort of like saying "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.) Now if Earth should know of our whereabouts and efforts up until now... Jomy: Sam... Put missile ships on standby. Those of us on the volunteers will be causing accidents in various places and, by doing so, evade the enemies' attention. Har: Roger! Camoflage maneuvers! Jomy: Release the two Earth men. p.125 Mark: May I speak? Kei: What is it? Mark: You are VIP elite and a busy lieutenant. Why did you volunteer to investigate at this frontier world? p.126 Kei: This earring is made of Sam's blood. Mark: Oh... The crewmember at the time of the accident. What a pity. I heard that he went completely insane... Kei: Sam and I were together at the education station. He was my friend. Mark: Friend... (The word here is Therefore... with no clear indication of who said it. In the film, Marker said, "Friend".) p.127 Kei: That is not all. I think the Mu were entangled with this accident. Mark: The Mu? Kei: You are also a Mu, therefore I rescued you. However, you make no contribution to the data because you became a Mu without knowing it. As long as I don't understand the Mu, I cannot understand what Earth's Headquarters thinks. Crewman: We'll soon be at the sky of Nasuka. Kei: All right. Captain, descend, slowing, and depending on the situation, we land. Pilot: You're kidding!! ("Jo-dan" is a swear word, actually.) There's supposed to be a monster on Nasuka. I will not do it! p.129 Other Pilot: We're different from the reckless members of the elite. Kei: Put the ship on standby! I go alone. Mark: But, if anything happens... Kei: Don't worry. The ship stays in oirbit until I return. That all right with you, Captain? Capt: Roger! p.130 Mu: Emergency! Spaceship approaching! Har: Assemble telepathy! Show illusions and don't let them come any closer. p.131 (illusion forms) p.132 Crew: Ahhh!! Argh!!! Mark: It's an illusion! Danger! Don't fire! Ow! p.133 Kei: (thinks) Here are Mu after all! This illusion is evidence!!! p.134 Mu: Landing ship proximity!! It's already in the telpathic barrier!! Har: What!? Within the barrier!? (thinks) Soldier's telpathy ... strong!! p.135 Jomy: (telepathy) Who are you? p.136 Kei: (telepathy) Members Elite, Lt. Keith Anyan. Jomy: After all, an Earth dog... Kei: You're the Mu chief, Jomy Marcus Shin. Jomy: (thinks) But still, it's a very strong will. I can see a piercing hostile will against the Mu. What did you come here for? (thinks) I can't read his mind. He has is guarded. (They grapple.) p.137 Kei: Tah!! (fighting exclamation) p.138 Jomy: So!! Ooooff! Groan, You!! Did you think you could wound me with a weapon like that? I am different from the other Mu. Hmm... Now try and shoot me!! p.140 Kei: Oooff!! (Jomy brain blasts Keith.) p.141 (Keith is now on a scanner table) Alf: What is being shown now is the Earth within his consciousness. Prof: Beautiful... Har: Is this the Earth? Phis: (thinks) ... image of Earth that is the same as my own... Who is this person? Kei: (thinks) All of the system of the Earth is controlled by the computer, Grand Mother, therefore, the citizens are content under their rule... p.142 Jomy: That's a lie!! This memory is planted knowledge. Why can't I see this man's emotions! Har: Soldier? Jomy: This man is controlling his mind through a strong will. We have been seeing counterfeit thoughts!! p.143 Dr. N: Are you saying, then, that confidential infromation and the actuality of the Earth are locked up and cannot be read!? Jomy: Where is your will as a person? Dr N: This is unreasonable. If you attempt too much, the brain will be destroyed. p.144 Phis: Forgive him for my sake. Jomy: ... Phischis. Le's stop! Zelu: But this man is dangerous! p.145 Jomy: He is a VIP at that young age! Perhaps that man will become the leader of the human race. Therefore, I want to talk to him, to open the road to peaceful existence between the human race and the Mu. p.146 Phis: (thinks) Who are you? Who? Tell me... Why do you and I have the same memories? (speaks) Place your hand here... If you continue this way...you will be killed. p.147 Kei: (tele) I want to leave. Phis: (tele) But... Kei: (tele) How/where shall I go! Phis: (tele) Alpha door. Kei: (tele) Alpha door! And after that...(she leaves) (thinks) But still...that blind woman...she entered my mind...in spite of the strong guard I have...why!? p.148 Jomy: Is the Psychological Examination Room comfortable? p.149 Kei: It's a little noisy, more or less. You read my thoughts just by my thinking them, even if I don't say them aloud. Jomy: You guard your mind and won't let me read it. p.150 Kei: That's the sort of training I received. That is my job! Jomy: Job? To whom do you owe allegiance? Has your soul been sold and delivered to the computers? All right. Look at this! This is my child. This child was born from Karina's womb. It was a natural childbirth. p.151 Kei: Natural childbirth? Jomy: There are six other children who are each growing up with skinship (constant physical touch) with thier mothers. These are human beings - the real humans born for the first time after the SD system was established. P.152 Shi: I had a mother, whom I loved, who always smelled like a flower. p.153 Jomy: Your mind must also be quivering (with the memory of his mother). Kei: So what. Whatever is in my mind, I am 1Lt. Keith Anyan, a VIP Member Elite. I fight with the Mu. Jomy: Why do you kill your own emotions so much? You even hate this control of the system of the Earth in your own mind, don't you? Kei: Don't say that! Since one cannot change one's birthplace, one cannot change oneself, either. An existence such as mine is necessary to guide weak humans who are led by their emotions, just as you are necessary to the Mu. p.154 Jomy: (at a loss for words)... Kei: I have spoken too much... Ah. If you wish to kill me, do it quickly!! p.155 Jomy: I have only one question to ask of you - Why doesn't the Earth accept us? Kei: The Human Race versus the Mu - this fight may be due to Earth's will. Jomy: Earth's!? Kei: However you and I hope for peace...the flow of history can't be changed. Jomy: Destiny...? Kei: (at a loss for words)... Jomy!? p.156 Jomy: It seems that I have larned too much about you. That earring is (made of) blood. Whose blood is it? Kei: (at a loss again)... Jomy: You're a romanticist. p.157 Capt: Must you go? Mark: He cannot come back from Nasuka on foot, can he, even if he is a VIP? Capt: But all of the crew except you have gone insane... I don't think that 1Lt. Keith Anyan is still alive. p.158 Mark: I know Lt. Keith lives. (he takes off)