Tenshi Kinryouku [Angel Sanctuary] :: Yuki Kaori
VOLUME 12
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volume 12 section 01
Angel Sanctuary - Supreme Heaven, Yetzirah
Act II : Moon Flower Night, Part 1
(ok, yeah, this is the book with the really nice jibrille cover... though I hate what happens in here... you'll see... now setsuna flies into yetzirah... more like spiritually)
text : so this is the capital of the angels, Yetzirah Raqia...!! Sara is here somewhere as Jibrille... and that adam kadmon lives somewhere in shikouten's etenamenki. (suddenly sees someone)
setsuna : [! (the appearance is adam kadmon, welcoming him with open arms and a kind smile) that's... that's...!? (view someone with long hair, napping) no...]
text : my beloved child who is part of my flesh and blood... I've been waiting, I've always been waiting for you here. I've waited so long for your return that I'm about to turn into a fossil. (ok, that sounds really weird in English...)
(just as setsuna is about to fly into his arms, suddenly he sees a very strange vision... a big egg shaped thing sitting on top of a platform, the stairs leading to it have dead corpses littered all over, the egg's shell is cracked open and there's something inside, someone with his/her wings wide spread approach it)
setsuna : [eh?]
(close up of what is inside, a very scary and dried up skull face, the large round eyes wide open *makes it look even scarier* and it's crying... many "things" which look like infant angels attach themselves to it and seems to be feeding on it)
setsuna (shock) : [that...! that vision...!!] (while he's not looking, the "adam kadmon" has turned into rociel)
sara (from somewhere) : setsuna!! not that way!
text : over here!!
(setsuna gets blow awake and behind him, zaphkiel opened a portal and has a hand extended out to him)
zaphkiel : [messiah!!]
(zaphkiel brings setsuna to the other side, and long black stuff like hair or ribbon followed him to the other side and was wrapping around him, it's almost like there's a hand grabbing on to him, they tore a piece of his mantle. setsuna is struggling with them on the floor in zaphkiel's base since they are flowing out of the machine)
setsuna : wahhh!!
zaphkiel : mudou-kun! (a hand grabbed setsuna)
setsuna : stop it, this is disgusting! (zaphkiel quickly cuts off the power and everything returns to normal)
zaphkiel : I cut the power, are you alright, mudou setsuna-kun! that transporter is safe from accidents at a rate of 99.7%... but that was...
setsuna : yeah...! that was no accident...!! (think back to the big egg) [what... the hell was that...!!]
text : holding his hands out with a face of kindness, and then betrayed, that cruel smile that surfaced...
setsuna : that was the reminisce of rociel... sara... sara was there, she called for me.
zaphkiel : you mean... the angel of water jibrille?
setsuna : no, it was sara. [why? is there still some unknown bond between us?]
zaphkiel : ... I apologize for such a late greeting. welcome to heaven, messiah mudou setsuna-kun. well, it's dangerous here so we must get going. anyway, this way please.
setsuna : you know where sara is right!?
zaphkiel (setsuna follows behind him so he doesn't see his little wicked smile ^^) : yes, however before that, there's something I must ask you to do.
setsuna (looking around like a hick in the big city) : [eh-- so this is heaven---]
(the door opens to the next room, a group of people who are wearing latex gloves and masks glares at him.......)
setsuna (a lot of big sweatdrops) : eh? (intimidated... definitely ^^ anyway, next all you hear is him screaming) w... what are you doing, stop it!!
(somewhere else, rociel is looking at a piece of fabric with interest, while with the other hand, he's holding a chain)
someone : *pant*
rociel : how interesting... so the traitor is really this close...! (katan is standing at the door) get a connection, katan, to my darling. (to someone else) come on! do behave, it's not feeding time yet.
(and in sara's room)
moonliel : sara-sama!? are you alright? you were moaning in pain! lil was worried!
sara (sits up in bed) : oh... I'm fine... it's only a dream... [yes... is it... only a dream? but setsuna appeared to be so close then...!]
(switch back to set-chan, I hope you still recognize him.. he's been put into a candidate suit like raziel's and his hair has been dyed black... and he is glaring angrily at zaphkiel with a sweatdrop)
zaphkiel : my, it really suits you well, mudou setsuna-kun... is what I would say but I really can't see at all. (big smile) [I was thinking about dressing you up as a girl]
setsuna (jump up angrily and yell in his face) : [I really care for my hair and never dyed it every before!!] what the hell did you do that for, old man!! forcing me to dye my hair and putting me in shorts, what the hell do you want?
zaphkiel : oh but you are quite a famous person here. like a wanted criminal, you see. (press a button) look. this is the net file publicized to even normal angels. (a profile of setsuna pops up on screen) you won't be able to move a step without some disguise.
setsuna (quite surprised) : what the hell...!
zaphkiel : well... even so, no one other than the high ranking angels seems to be interested in this matter. you'll be fine when you put on a pair of glasses. by the way, how is it? what do you think about riding on the melkaba? the melkaba used for long distance travel is one of the special privileges of high ranking angels. some, like the melkaba that Michael owns, have been equipped with heavy armory, others like this one has been made to be undetectable by radar, but all depends on the master. I would like setsuna-kun to attend a meeting of our "anima mundi", if the messiah who inherits the blood of the legendary adam kadmon appears, it would really raise the spirit and unity of the group.
setsuna : what!? you're joking! (yelling at zaphkiel angrily across the table) you're the one who said sara is in danger and I have to come to save her! (well sorry, idiot but you were lied to ^^)
zaphkiel : and our demand in return for our cooperation on that matter is to have "the reincarnation of alexiel who inherits adam kadmon's blood" to become the charismatic figure of our organization. (when he smiles like that, you know he's up to something) of course at this point, you're rather unsuitable for the role. so for now, it'll be fine if you would just appear in front of everyone and give a speech, being the reincarnation of alexiel, just displaying yourself would touch everyone with your beauty. (setsuna looks really pissed off... BANG)
secretary (shock) : Zaphkiel-sama...!! (a cup falls to the floor and breaks)
setsuna (one foot is stepping on the wall next to zaphkiel's head, but of course zaphkiel has no expression on his face) : I will cooperate with you, and I will even play the role of the messiah. however, I do not like your methods. don't think that you can turn me into the same thing like that blond boy. (he looks quite dangerous, but zaphkiel only smiles slightly)
(scene fades out)
someone : sit!
rociel (while holding some chains) : oh sorry, he didn't listen to me so I'm punishing him. (talking through a communication channel) actually, earlier a pretty bird flew by, I almost caught it but your people interfered... I just thought I should tell you, dear friend.
sevotharte (on the other side) : I don't know what you mean, rociel-sama.
rociel : you do know that there is one other bird who has three wings like myself, don't you? how nice of her to return finally, yet due to his interference, she flew away again. (hold up a piece of fabric, with a symbol of in) so? isn't that a familiar crest? seems that you're have yet to educate your people, sevi-sama. (smiles more insanely) that reminds me, that woman was there too... mudou sara. what is she butting in for when it was playing along so nicely. quite unthinkable... the bond between those two... hey did you know? those two siblings... they have united not only their hearts but their bodies as well... oh please excuse me, it's time. (pull up the chain) I'll just have to feed while we talk. come. (dubbiel is the guy on the other end of the chains and he's sucking on rociel's finger for blood) it must be hard for you too, the great deal of problems inside and out, and you can't trust anyone. (to dubbiel) hey! no touching. (he was trying to grab rociel's hand) oh, eager aren't you, so tickling, dubbiel, heheh
(sevi turns his back and leaves and rociel looks at him walking away with a slight mischievous smile, elsewhere in the garden, a security guard craws out of the bushes)
guy : ouch! damn you!! shit, I haven't done anything yet!!
(the person who ran away was moonliel, she's dirty all over but just ran out of there)
sara (sees moonliel enter) : ...lil? what's the hurry?
moonliel (holds up a plate of tea, she's still dirty all over) : I had to run so I can make it for sara-sama's tea time. good thing I made it. (smile)
sara : what? you fell? and so dirty... come, face this way.
moonliel : but the tea is clean.
sara : don't worry about the tea. (cleaning her up and rubbing dirt off her face)
moonliel (looks up with innocent big eyes) : jib... I mean sara-sama is really a very kind person... you haven't changed at all.
sara (surprise) : eh? (cleaning her up) hey... lil! did you really fall!? how come you have a big muddy spot on your back? [how exactly do you fall like that?]
moonliel (sweatdrop) : probably because I don't know anything.
sara : ...huh?
(behind them in the big window above, sevi suddenly appears)
sevotharte (coldly) : filthy woman. falling down to the human world has made you uglier than ever. when you see a man, does it not matter to you that he's of your blood!
sara (turn around quickly) : wh... what are you doing here...
sevotharte (talking about moonliel) : hmph, she doesn't know anything. but the ugliness of your crime is far beyond her stupidity, jibrille. is that what the four elements are like! (darkly) actually, your memories as jibrille has returned already, haven't they? or else how are you able to contact the messiah's spiritual body?
sara (shock) : setsuna... setsuna came to heaven!? then that wasn't a dream earlier...!
text : I'll definitely come for you!! so don't do anything foolish!
sara : he... he really came this far...! setsuna...!!
sevotharte : what are you so happy about...!! do you have no guilt of your crime... or humiliation and shame in your heart...! (very angry) you women... are always in my way...! you're animals who flirt while put on fake disguises and cover your faces with makeup...!! he's coming to save you...? don't make me laugh. you are not leaving this place. same with the foolish messiah. I will lure him here with you and finish both of you together! (moonliel is covering her ears and trembling, looking horrified)
moonliel : ...ah... aahh...
sara (upset) : [lil?]
moonliel (holding her head) : I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
sevotharte : so that you will never again dishonor the name of high angels!
sara (hug moonliel protectively) : ...you don't know anything. ...have you ever loved anyone...? if you want to be loved, you must learn to love first, and if you don't even try, nothing will break. everyone wins their love through their wounds. I won't lose to the words of someone who even refuses to fight!
(sevotharte glares at her coldly and slashes the window, sara and moonliel cover themselves, the large window breaks apart and the whole room is in a mess with broken glass pieces and sevi left already)
moonliel (get up) : s... sara-sama... I'm scared...! (still trembling) it's going to be a horror cleaning up...
sara : [he's serious...! that man is really going to keep me in here... and capture setsuna. and he's really... planning to kill us...!! what should I do...!? I know that setsuna came to heaven but I can't even take one step out of here. this may be the last chance...!! yes, if I don't take this chance to escape, I may never see setsuna ever again.]
moonliel : are you alright? sara-sama...
sara : [I must get out of here somehow... somehow... (looks up at moonliel and a plan begins to form) you can't......] ...hey, lil... [you can't do this, stop it, sara...!] you... want to play a game with me...? [but... but i...]
moonliel (all energetic) : what game? I'm best at hide and seek.
sara (whisper in moonliel's ear) : yes... it's rather similar to hide and seek. [this is the only way...!!!] let us exchange identities.
moonliel : an identity exchange game! oh! sounds interesting!
sara : yes, the rule is very easy. we switch our cloth and exchange identities. we live as the other person, try our best to be the other person, and not let anyone find out. the first to be discovered loses. do the best to cover your face and don't talk.
moonliel : but sara-sama, the cloth are fine but are you going to hide your long hair under the veil? (sara helping moonliel put on make up, they both change)
sara (hold up a knife and smile) : that's nothing.
moonliel (scream) : d... don't, sara-sama!! (but sara's hair has already fallen with one slash... which is why in that jibrille color picture that everyone loves, she has short hair)
sara (smile calmly) : don't worry. it'll grow again. [I'm sorry... I'm really sorry, lil...! but, but I want to see setsuna no matter what...!!]
moonliel (putting on a sara dress and a head veil to cover her short hair) : hehehe... so? do I look like sara-sama?
sara (in the sister outfit) : very much so, but you can't say one word, ok?
(anyway, sara looks kinda annoying and evil for the last few pages... while we move on to anagura)
label : ----anagura----
(raziel is sitting alone in a room by the window... and some evils are looking in greedily)
evils : it's an angel, a real angel...!! the first time I've seen one. I hear the holy tribute's flesh and blood are the most tasty of all... however ... if we touch the kid we might get killed. too bad for him to get lost and wander into the enemy's lair. someone's gonna get him eventually. I heard that if you eat an angel's flesh you can live for a thousand years...! (raziel seems to feel the evil aura ^^;; three menacing evils glare at him)
evil 1 : heheh... the eyes and the brain are mine...!
evil 2 : shut up and get him already...!!
evil 3 : he looks good...!!
evils (all attack raziel) : I can't stand it anymore...!!
raziel : s... stop...!! WAHHHHHHHH----------!!
kurai (enters angrily) : these greedy bastards!! this is a very important messenger and hostage from heaven!! I told you he's not food!!
katou (behind her, with a little smile looking into a room pretty much in ruins) : well, the wild horse can take care this effortlessly. that just makes him even more adorable. (resting his arm on kurai's head)
kurai (vein, thinking) : don't lean on my head...
end of Moon Flower Night, part 1
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volume 12 section 02
Angel Sanctuary - Supreme Heaven, Yetzirah
Act II : Moon Flower Night, Part 2
(clear view of the room, raziel has had a little burst of energy that totally KOed the evils who attacked him, and also the room's in a mess, the evils are all @.@ passed out)
katou : right? raziel-chan.
(raziel glares at him angrily, meanwhile, back to sara)
text (strands of hair falls) : maybe... I really have gone insane. if I exchange with her like this and escape by myself, it's like I'm using this naïve child. (moonliel still looks happy like normal) but I don't have anymore time. there are no better ways not...!
sara : [I'm sorry, lil...!! forgive me...!]
moonliel (smile) :ahaha *heart* this is like a dream. I'm actually playing a game like this with jibrille-sama *heart* (dreamily) when I was a gorigol... we were really, really weak angels who don't even have a form like normal angels. when the angel-sama uses their power, our lives fade away without anyone knowing... [but jibrille-sama reads the aura of the gorigols and uses her power after carefully synchronizing with them. she cried and grieved the fate of gorigols.] (one of the rare pix you see of jibrille)
text : what really is the use of a name to the four elements. I can't save them, all I can do is shed my tears for them.
moonliel : that was enough for us... no one had ever noticed our existence like she had. and now although with good fortune, I was given a body and became a sister candidate, sometimes I would still be so upset that I'd rather die.
text (jibrille) : I really am so helpless......!!!
moonliel : but then I would remember, my dream that one day I will serve jibrille-sama, and that is what I live for...! (sara seems upset) so because of that I try harder so that nothing will beat me down... and I've come this far. but I'm still such a failure, I cannot be of any help to sara-sama at all... I'm not good for anything...
sara : that... that's not true. do you know how much you helped me from this life just by being there...! when lil brings in the tea, it's the happiest moment in my day. (grab moonliel) cheer up. next time we'll drink tea together and watch the flowers that lil brings in under the moon...
moonliel : really? (wiping away tears) when?
sara : when... u, um... [c... crap, it's a promise I can't keep...]
moonliel : oh... I know. we have exchanged now so next time sara-sama will go make the tea *heart*
sara (go for the door with a fake smile) : ah... u, uh... that's right. then, I'll go outside to do work now in your place. alright? no matter who comes, just don't say a word.
moonliel (salute) : hai! sara-sama, lil will await your return. and the promise earlier, I will be anticipating the next tea time.
(sara turns around slightly, and then she runs out the door)
sara : [I'm sorry... I'm so sorry, lil...!! (moonliel smiles and waves, she can't get the image out of her head) even so... even so... no matter what happens...! I want to see setsuna!!!]
(she hides around the corner of a hallway and watches people and other sisters pass by)
sara : [what should I do... I don't know whether to go left or right, and furthermore, there seems to be a lot of people moving about. anyway, I'll have to find the exit first...] (suddenly forms big sweatdrop, an old lady is standing behind her)
old lady : hey, would you buy some crystals? sister candidate. (puts down her bag of merchandize) we came so far from raqia but the angels up here are so cold. say, won't you just buy one, these are very precious stones.
sara : n... no thank you, I still... still have work to do... [and I don't have money...]
old lady (grab her hand) : come, don't say that and take a look. i can't go back without getting rid of them. (sees her face) hm? you look like... can i get a better look at your face?
a voice (as sara quickly pulls her hood lower) : you there!! do you live here!? (a man busts in and yells at the old woman) how dare you knock down a guard like me and trespass in here!! this is no place for merchants!
old lady : oh please, what are you talking about. i just shoved you a bit and you fell down yourself!
guard (the same guy with moonliel before) : all the sisters in this house are properties of the prime minister, you can't speak to them. now get the hell out of here, alright! (grab sara's hand) and what are you waiting for, come on. (drag her out)
sara : ehh
old woman (left behind) : hey... wait!
sara (following him uncertainly) : [who is this guy... an acquaintance of lil's...? ...perhaps.]
guard (taking sara somewhere else) : this place is good enough.
sara : [i have to escape before he finds out...!!] (the guy suddenly push sara against a wall) Kyaa!
guard (standing over her darkly) : don't make a sound!! I'll love you with yesterday's share also. (looking really menacing) I won't get too harsh if you do as I say. How dare you resist when you don't know anything at all.
sara (her mouth being covered) : [yes, i don't know anything at all. does that mean that lil...!!]
guard : you completely useless "stakers" should be honored that you can perform services for us.
sara (unbearable anger, especially remembering how sweet moonliel smiles) : [what... what an asshole...!!]
(she blasts the guy away in a flash of light and burst of power and he's thrown against a wall, while sara jumps up with her hood off)
sara (yelling angrily) : how dare you... how dare you...!! you have no right to lay a finger on that child!
guard : you... are not... the "staker"...!!
sara : ["staker"...?]
guard (sitting in a pile of broken furniture) : are you... the one she's taking care of... jibri... (sara's eyes widen, and suddenly comes flying a piece of crystal that hits him in the face and knocks him out) lle...!
old lady (who threw the crystal, standing at the door, with a young man) : are you alright!? jibrille-sama? (sara looks at them uncertainly, the old woman orders the young man to search the @.@ guy) this idiot should be carrying a master key. and tie him up while you're at it!
sara : oba-san... what...!? (from now on, i'll call the old lady oba-san, the young man afu)
oba-san (smile) : don't worry!! we're on your side. (afu smiles, holding the key he found) he's also a comrade. you are quite brave to have escaped from your room all by yourself! (dragging her along) now, there's the back door. don't lag behind.
sara : h... hey...
oba-san (in a more serious tone) : i am a "stone" merchant who hears rumors in various places. they say that "jibrille-sama" has been imprisoned by the evil white angel. you are good to us. you are the only great angel trying to improve the lives of angels in the lower levels of Raqia and Shamayim. and didn't you descend personally among us rather than giving orders? the rumor follows that since he thought you were in his way, sevi secretly turned you into a ghoul... i was really quite upset... but i'm glad that i've made it...!
sara : [...basically, i'm saved. but everyone's saying jibrille this, jibrille that... it's somehow awkward...] (remembers) ...ah, um! what did that guy earlier mean by "staker"?
oba-san (look at her, surprised) : it seems that the tales of your memory loss is real. poor dear... it is quite cruel...! one of the operations to recreate the sisters... oh yes, and fallen angels into war machines who knows of nothing else, by implanting in the brain a micro needle shaped device that numbs its functions. (suddenly looks up at sara)
sara (stunned, with tears on her cheeks) : how cruel...!! [i can't believe it... how can they do such terrible things to a defenseless girl like lil...!? and that... that shameless bastard does his dirty work while taking an elite appearance... is this... is this really the garden of eden where angels live...!? they are insane...!! all of the people here are insane...!!!]
(zaphkiel shows setsuna huge mechanical looking pillar with many paths zig zagging around it and many doorways)
zaphkiel : now... please take a look, mudou-kun. this is the "gate". this is the largest transportation mechanism and connection of the seven leveled heaven, the seventh gate. (the pillar seems to be a bottomless pit) in short, this is the center of heaven and the gate expands the entire seven levels of land. there's gravity control inside the gate and that's how we can freely move up and down. however, to reach above raqia requires the authorization of the high angels.
setsuna (now somewhat unrecognizable T.T which is a good thing) : ...then, the place where that guy sevi is holding sara... is also up there?
zaphkiel : yes, according to my sources, it is above, inside his realm on the fourth heaven Machonom... his mansion and facilities are all completely white and easily distinguishable. now then... what you see, is the far most border of raqia. (the air ship flies over a pretty much uninhabited plain, where a circular plateau sticks out and has a structure at the center) this is a graveyard built to put all the unfortunate souls to rest, of angels who lost their lives in war, "the hill of megido". (the ship lands, there's a path leading to the center structure, where the rest of the land around it is covered by grass - this is important to note)
setsuna : it feels just like the wild plains.
zaphkiel : yes, there is nothing else here except that memorial which is our secret base. in night time, all the flowers would bloom together and light the path for the lost souls to return.
a young man (lands behind them on a flying motorcycle) : zaphkiel-sama, all entrances have been secured. zaphkiel : ah, good work.
setsuna (look at the guy's vehicle) : eh---- this thing looks interesting, lend it to me next time. does it start with that key?
young man : huh? um...
zaphkiel (before setsuna can pick on the poor kid any further) : mudou-kun. (he puts his hand on a stone plate which starts to glow, as a type of security ID) come, hurry up. shall we start to get ready, everyone has been anticipating the appearance of the messiah.
(later inside, a woman who is helping setsuna change finds the alexiel earring that has the seed from nydd hogg - long forgotten by everyone, i'm afraid T.T)
woman : messiah... there's something in your cloth...
setsuna : oh, that's right! i almost forgot. zaphkiel! do you know a woman named "laila"? (takes the earring) it's probably impossible with just the name.
zaphkiel : laila... you say?
text : i made a promise with nydd hogg when i left hades... i must tell her his final words...!
setsuna : she has a cross scar on the forehead, black hair, white... robe, the quiet type...
zaphkiel : that... (thinking back) that... is perhaps the "laila" that i knew, ...however it will be difficult to see her now...!
setsuna : difficult?
zaphkiel : long ago, my friend anael also asked me to investigate the disappearance of laila, however her existence... has been completely wiped from the angel directory. they were part of a top secret research, and we know nothing for sure of what they were involved in. there was no record of a case where other researchers attacked. and that incident was literally buried... and as for her whereabouts, you can only ask the person who erased the whole incident, chairman of the high council, the one with all the ultimate decisive power, prime minister sevotharte... i believe... laila has been eliminated for knowing too much, just as anael. because their research was on the creation of "sandolphon" and "metatron"... he made his name and rose to power as "metatron" 's guardian, and those who know the secret of "metatron" are a hindrance to him.
setsuna (while two others help him put on a long robe) : [what... what a bastard... sevotharte who tries to rule heaven from behind the scenes with an iron first...!! what kind of a guy is he...!?] (now with a funny face and a sweatdrop) and by the way, old man, what the hell is with this over exaggerated shirt... (he's being dressed up in those european aristocrat fancy, lace shirts T.T)
text (in the background, while one helper puts a cape on him) : the role is some (stupid) prince?
zaphkiel (holding a stack of paper with his usual maddening smile) : i do hope you can go by the script. this is only a show and your job is to play the messiah that everyone envisions.
setsuna (glares at him and the stack of paper) : ...... ...right... a promise is a promise... just watch, i will make you speechless with the most admirable great messiah ever seen.
(the show is on! setsuna, dressed in 18th century european aristocrat laced robe, with a long hair blond wig *and a lot of make up* to make him appear quite like rociel, only more masculine looking especially the eyes. and he makes his grand entrance to the awe of everyone beneath, standing on a podium, he looks with a sweatdrop at the awed/admiring faced below)
people (in awe) : that's... really alexiel-sama reborn...! such godly presence...!! the glory and power...!
setsuna (sweatdrop) : [everyone's being fooled by the old man--------]
people : he's the real thing...! the messiah is really with us!
zaphkiel (sitting on the side) : [he has truly shown such a glorious aura before everyone... that perhaps even he himself has not realized.]
setsuna (starting the speech, in all glamour) : I have been... touched beyond words, to see the passionate eyes of so many of our courageous comrades, I am most confident that we are nearing our moment of victory.
people (as setsuna talk up there with that twinkling-light-in-the-background effect ^^;;) : [this...]
setsuna : come... now is the time to join our hands...!
people : [this is our messiah...!!!]
setsuna : and from this day forth, a new beginning and the assembling... and the assembling of----... (.......... T.T and he was doing such a good job too...) errr... ...... skip the rest!!
(and so you have a bunch of people with the funniest faces ever... all with a sweatdrop and "huh?" face)
setsuna (ripping off his robe) : ah-------- what the hell!!
zaphkiel (has a "eek!" face T.T his poor script) : [!?]
setsuna : i've had it! and aren't you at fault too, old man? you really shouldn't have expected me to remember such a long speech. and i can't see a thing with this. (tear off his wig, everyone looks shocked, zaphkiel most of all)
zaphkiel : m... mudou-kun!? did you forget our deal! (and gets hit in the face with the wig) ! *sweatdrop*
setsuna (now looking like his usual confident *what a bastard* self) : now this is what i really want to say!! alright!? i might have been very powerful long time ago in heaven but now as you see, i'm only a cute guy. but now many things have made me understand my position, and i have been through many pains. no matter what, even I can't help the situation of earth being frozen, and the girl i love has been captured by sevi, so your enemy is also my enemy. but truthfully, i am not all powerful to mend your troubles, i'm not alexiel. therefore stop giving your lives to me and saying stuff like "long live the messiah". i can only do things my way and I also have my dear companions. i cannot become the messiah as everyone wishes, but... but if even so, everyone is still willing to follow and believe in me, then i swear that i will never betray any one of you... i think you are all most worthy... and dependable. and if it's alright, we can all fight together... as comrades...! (he really was very sincere)
text : there's no logic or concept, and completely unpredictable. such a mess, bold and unconventional...
people (all very touched and with admiration) : i will... follow you. the new messiah...!
text (zaphkiel smiles to himself) : it really is unseen and unheard of.
people (everyone cheering) : messiah!!
text : however his powerful voice has the force of truth in it.
people : cheer for our young messiah!
text : so that people are willing to be fooled by his words, such brilliant light...!!
(afterwards, the kid who had the motorcycle earlier takes setsuna's cape for him)
kid : that... that was a most moving speech! it was far more passionate and effective than the written script...! (setsuna smiles at him and then suddenly hugs him)
setsuna : i'm sorry. (and before the kid realizes what he's doing, setsuna pushes him away and runs off)
kid : wha...!!
zaphkiel (who came right after) : w... where are you going, mudou-kun...!
kid : zaphkiel-sama... just now the messiah took my airbike keys...!
zaphkiel : what!? (runs to the balcony, and setsuna is already below sitting on the bike)
setsuna (yelling up) : i'm done my end of the deal! old man, don't worry, i'll return within 24 hours. (zaphkiel doesn't look too happy, and setsuna has a big grin) only then, it'll be together with sara! (rides off)
zaphkiel : mu... mudou-kun!! (setsuna is gone, and zaphkiel smiles) ...he is a wild horse...! such that no whip can tame. [despite his recklessness, he has captured everyone's heart in an instant. yes, that child has an incredible charisma, even through the clumsiest words, you can feel his spirit. he is not sevotharte and he is not alexiel. it is a new type of leadership that has the power to direct the people. the youth and potential may perhaps be a two edged sword, of such rare and transparent light. (looks almost dark) however that is not enough. there is still something very important that the messiah has not realized.]
(meanwhile, setsuna is in quite a bit of mess)
setsuna (in a hell lot of trouble) : WAH!! so which one of these is the accel and which is the break! I totally don't know where I am!! is this going to get me to the gate!? [yes, as long as i reach the gate. to get to Mechonom, where sara is... there is no other way up but the gate!!]
(and so he sees the pillar, which is a structure in itself - with rooms etc. and setsuna, with no control over the bike, rams into a window)
people inside (*run for your lives!*) : WAH!? what the hell!? (sees setsuna coming straight for the window... and CRASH... when all the smoke clears, all they see remaining is the bike) ...hey, there's no one riding it! he ran away. find him! he shouldn't be too far.
setsuna (sneaking around) : ah that was close... but i broke somebody else's property... (comes to this place with many boxes and stacks) [although I don't know which way it is to Mechonom... let me just first get on that thing which looks like it's going up.] (it's like an elevator, the size of a room)
someone : hey!! come here for a second! (while the two men in charge turn their heads to look, setsuna sneak in behind them)
man (scratching his head) : huh? eh? what was that...
man 2 : hey, hurry up already.
setsuna (hiding among the boxes) : [looks like there's something else going on, that just came to my aid. this place looks like a cargo train (?) ...]
(meanwhile, oba-san, afu are supporting someone covered in a cloak)
oba-san : this woman doesn't have an ID card! and we are merchants, our ID was lost somewhere... and she is very sick.
man 2 : you think you can get away with that excuse!! you, show me your face!
oba-san : ah!! don't touch her!
man 2 (jump back in shock and disgust) : what the...!! (the girl - sara obviously - 's skin is in this nasty color and looking really messed up)
oba-san (quickly covering her up again) : the contagious disease that she caught in Raqia has worsened. we must return for treatment quickly! and even I have been infected...! look. (roll up her sleeve, where her arm is of the same kind)
both men (backing off quickly) : a, alright alright! we know already, now move along!!
(so the "cargo train" starts moving, and setsuna can feel it)
setsuna : hm. (thinking) starting to move? then i guess the trouble was put down... (and doing something very stupid... he uncovers one of the things that was covered by a piece of cloth) oh yeah, what cargo are these anyway? (and he freezes... it's a thing that looks like a brain along with spines and nerve cords all preserved in a glass jar) WAHH!! (he jumps up screaming) WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?
(just behind him, walking in the other direction, is sara and co, and setsuna freezes, and in that moment, both sara and setsuna turn around and looked at each other face to face...)
text : there is still something very important that the messiah has not realized.
end of Moon Flower Night, part 2
yukie's note : omg... this is one of the longest, most annoying, endless, boring, chapters i have ever translated........ i need a break
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volume 12 section 03
Angel Sanctuary - Supreme Heaven, Yetzirah
Act II : Moon Flower Night, Part 3
text : it is only to see you, that i have come this far--------------- (the scene of sara and setsuna walking in two opposite directions, and sara turns around and saw setsuna)
sara (as if her voice is stuck in her throat) : se...
text : it is only to see you again...
sara : ...tsu...
text : that i...
sara : na...? (setsuna freezes and turns around)
text : I----------------
(and in the moment of that glimpse, the doors to the cargo elevator/train... it's more like an elevator cuz it's moving up and down the levels of heaven... slammed shut)
computer : cargo number 17, all doors locked, starting transport. (beeping)
sara (yells, forgetting herself) : se... SETSUNA!! SETSUNA!! setsuna!! wait, i'm over here!!
setsuna (meanwhile being zoomed up at great velocity, getting really sick) : Wahhhhhh-------- (falls splat) [w... what the hell!! it's moving at such high speed!! wah~~~~~ uhh~~~~!!! but i thought someone was calling me just now... oh but it's too late~~~~~~~!!] *puking------- uhhh* (sweatdrops)
sara (totally forgetting herself *i hate those two* running towards the elevator) : that... that really was setsuna!! i have to get back up there... he has come for me!!
oba-san (trying to stop her, someone should remind sara that the guards are still there T.T what an inconsiderate b****) : c... calm yourself! jibrille-sama!! (then she immediately covers her mouth, knowing that she said something wrong... btw, for those have the manga in front of them, what happened to sara's face paint?)
guards (they obviously heard that) : what!? (one of them stops them) wait!! that woman's face looked different from earlier...! (the face paint...) ...and didn't you say a name that you were not suppose to utter!?
oba-san (grab sara) : let's go!
guard : don't let them escape! guards!! close all security shutters! (doors shut down, guards surrounding them with guns) now!! you cannot get out of here anymore! come this way!!
oba-san (acting all frantic and scared) : noooo~~~~ please forgive us~~~~ we didn't mean no arm, really~ (putting down her backpack and frantically dumping stuff out) we are honest merchants who would never think of doing anything bad------- here, look, aren't these all real merchandise----? (and from the bottom of her pack, she pulls out a cannon x.x a huge cannon T.T)
sara (sweatdrop) : eh?
guards (all staring wide-eyed w/ sweatdrops) : huh?
(oba-san raises the cannon and blasts a whole *in all that smoke* through the heavy duty shutters)
oba-san : now come on!
sara : yes! guards : w... what the hell she's been secretly carrying that thing! they've blown a big hole in the shutters and are getting away!! (coming back to reality from the shock T.T;;) after them!! kill them if necessary! we cannot let them get away!
sara (oba-san makes her duck) : o... oba... oba-san...!?
oba-san (looking back quickly) : are they shooting at us! afu! do you understand that bad people are after us. now!! what should we do to naughty children?
afu (the expression on his face changes) : uhh... (notice that he doesn't speak, because he really can't speak)
oba-san (push sara down on the ground) : stay low and cover your ears!!
sara : eh!?
(afu's expression turns menacing, and eyes go red, strange tattoo looking marks appear on his face and he turns towards the direction they came from and a giant blast of sound vibrations shoots out from his mouth, leaving the hall completely destroyed, when he used his powers skeleton/featherless wings spread on his back)
guards (caught in the explosion) : WAHHHHH KYAAAAH
sara (getting up looking totally stunned) : .........
oba-san (grab a hold of afu, who looks normal again now) : well done! now let's go! (grab sara's hand) come on! (they then come across a guy who's passing by with a type of vehicle and oba-san runs up to him *still with the cannon*) ah, perfect timing! hey, you!! you over there!
driver guy : huh? who are you? (they obviously look weird)
oba-san : i'm taking this, thanks! (throws the guy out of the car T.T) now, hurry, afu!
sara : hey, wait! (wait????? did she just say wait??? when u are being chased by a hell lot of guards with guns? what a stupid @#$@%)
guard (caught up with them) : there you are!! just shoot them!! (under gunfire, oba-san throws back a grenade)
oba-san : you're a hundred years too early, little brats! (and it explodes on all the guards)
sara (looking freaked out) : ah... ah...! (she is really REALLY getting on my nerves now... in this book setsuna and sara just shot up with no competition to the top of my hitlist, and i never liked them anyway but vol 12 was the worst of all, making me love the scene w/ zaphkiel later ^^ as you will see) you're not just some merchant!! who the hell are you----!? a... and that guy... didn't say a word by the sound that he made...
oba-san (i think she took some offense) : be quiet or you might bite your tongue! it's not that he doesn't speak but that he doesn't speak as such, probably because it's only been 3 years since he was born. afu is a rare "Ion" among the I child conceived between angels. his parents were obviously taken away by the white company *sevi's personal forces* as fallen angels. sara : [ion...!?]
oba-san : well, I child are usually born with disabilities, as in afu where his body grows extremely fast while his sight is distinctively weak. (oh yeah, i don't think I mentioned that he wore glasses, and also a turban looking hat) when he was born, his skin was pure white and his wings have no feathers, and not a strand of hair ...but then, there are times when people with immeasurable power appears, such as afu, the angel of wrath... they are called "Ions". (and guess who is the leader of the Ions ^^) (afu smiles at sara, very childishly)
sara (looking back) : ...b... but i must go back...!! setsuna was definitely on that transport earlier! (shake oba-san, who is concentrating on driving) hey, i don't know who you are, but didn't i escape just so i can meet with setsuna!? hey, go back, i have to go to where setsuna is! (what... what... WHAT A GODDAMN #@*%@ *very very annoyed* i can list from the top of my head right now in 5 seconds, the 10 reasons why she is such an annoying #@$%&)
oba-san : that's impossible, if you go back now, both of you will be caught. (smile... why does she even put up with her?) don't worry, didn't i say that we're not enemies? from now on, we're going to the place of someone who will be able to help you.
sara : someone able to help me...? (confused)
oba-san : plus, if that guy is going towards the mansion earlier, it might be alright, cuz i've left them a little surprise back there!! now! hang on tight!! the bullet earlier hit the radiator and we're also overloaded! (accelerates, throwing sara back into her seat)
sara : h... hey!! kyahhhhhh--------- HELP-----------------!!
(and thus the scene fades out... to an abstract image of a doll, teddy bear or... well, it's not really a bear...)
text : think of nothing, know of nothing that is unnecessary. therefore, everything must be sealed away. everything. (a wooden stake stabs into the head of the teddy watever) everything.
moonliel (looks up, with tears still on her cheek) : oh... it was a dream...! (she's holding the doll and sitting at the table wearing jibrille's cloth) ...what a terrifying dream that I saw, it made me cry. i can't fall asleep here. but... it's already late. did she forget our promise? sara-sama... (suddenly knocks herself on the head) of course not!! sara-sama is not such a person! you're a bad girl for suspecting her, lil!! she will surely come with the tea soon and have a tea party with lil! i wish she would be here soon, sara-sama... (looks happy and satisfied) [I was afraid because I am unnerved now that I could be so happy. how silly. sara-sama, please come back soon and laugh at me, saying once again "oh you hopeless child". sara-sama...!] (sara took one glance back towards the mansion in the flying car)
(meanwhile, where is our oh brilliant magnificent all powerful hero of the story???)
workers (putting boxes after boxes of cargo onto a cart) : alright, this is going to the research center. and these are going to the prime minister's quarters in Machonom. (trying to lift a box) eh? this thing is damn over weight.
another worker : never mind that, you won't hear the end of it if it's delivered late.
worker 1 : and the lid is not really properly sealed either.
worker 2 : those bastards from the gate below have always been this sloppy.
setsuna (crammed inside the box, in a quite awkward position... our dear hero thinks to himself) : at least i'm so glad that I wasn't stuck with something nasty...
(later, two sisters check in the boxes)
sister 1 : thank you very much, that's all of them.
sister 2 (leaving the room) : then please check through the content of the cargo, whatever is missing we will order later.
sister 1 : alright. (she goes to open the trunk... and sees setsuna looking back at her with a "hello" face)
setsuna : it's alright!! i'm really not a suspicious character! (gee, he sounds really convincing)
sister : KYAHHHhh
setsuna (quickly cover her mouth) : i guess it didn't work. (and then you can hear him from outside the building T.T) hey wait! i won't do anything to you. just tell if there's a girl named sara... i mean jibrille here... ouchhh, don't get violent!
sister (eye lids dropping) : uhhh... (and she passes out in setsuna's arms)
setsuna : h... hey!! [what the hell is with this woman!? she passed out---------? ...w, what a strange one...? oh whatever...! (eyeing the door) ...now how can i sneak inside... this will be too noticeable... all i can see are girls... (then looks at the fainted sister, big sweatdrop forms) "this" is my only choice... (tiny words on the side) no... really??? is someone setting me up for this? I...] (dumps the girl in the trunk he came from and dresses himself up in her sister dress) but... (looks at himself w/ a big sweatdrop) i don't want to meet sara looking like this... (putting on his alexiel earring, thinking) let me put this on in case I lose it.
(the door opens and another sister comes in)
sister (hastily grab setsuna's hand) : what are you doing!? come outside to greet him, quick!! it's an unexpected visit!
setsuna : [huh!? w... what is she talking about!? who is coming...!?] (running, and trips on his dress and falls face down *splat*) GEH!! (as he slowly gets up rubbing his head, someone towers over him)
person : what are you doing?
(setsuna looks up and is shocked to see sevotharte along with his guards)
sevotharte (glares at him darkly) : how pathetic, move.
sister (helping setsuna up, apologizes quite upsettingly) : s... sevotharte-sama...!! please forgive her, I will teach her a lesson...
setsuna (still stunned) : [this guy... this guy is the white angel......!! w... what an overwhelming presence. looking down on the people with those frozen eyes... and like the snow is that pure white hair... pure white skin...!]
sevotharte (looks down and sees a black spot on the floor) : there's dust left, didn't I saw that it must be perfect at all times.
sisters (all bowing nervously) : please forgive us!!
sevotharte (points to setsuna) : hey you, wear your gloves and walk behind me holding my hair, as punishment for earlier.
setsuna (has a really funny face when he was called on) : eh? yes...! (there's an arrow pointing to the "yes!" saying "fake voice" ^^;;) [w... what the hell!? if you hate dust, then don't grow your hair to floor length. wearing gloves... as if i carry a virus. (but he quickly stopped complaining as sevi said...)
sevotharte : we're going to jibrille's room.
setsuna (following behind carrying sevi's hair) : [w... what should i do, of course he would know my face, right...!? it's great that we're going to sara's room, but we're finished if he discovers us...!]
someone (calls suddenly) : master prime minister!! don't be fooled...!
(a sister comes with the guard that was beaten down earlier)
sister : i... i found him tied up in the food storage...!
guard : i... i was attacked when questioning a sister trainee there! the mansion has been infiltrated by suspicious merchants!!
setsuna : [he's not talking about me... so what is he talking about? unless...!]
guard : ...however, that woman escaped from me using her astral powers...! that was no staker... it was jibrille-sama in disguise...!
sevi's guard : what did you say...!? then the emergency report we received is true...!? (setsuna looks shocked too) among the terrorists who escaped through the gate, there was a young woman who was called "jibrille"... and merchants just the same...!
sevotharte (still quite calm) : ...therefore i want to make sure with my own eyes, we will know once we are there.
setsuna (still besides himself) : [the terrorists at the gate...? can it be the uproar earlier...!? can it be... that she escaped from this place... and that... she was right there back then------------!!?]
sevotharte (now standing over the guard) : thank you for informing us... is what i would like to say, but what i really would like to know is what exactly were you questioning the staker for inside a storage room?
guard (smiles nervously) : n... nothing really...! i... i was just being a bit rash...!!
sevotharte (a furious light flickered in his eyes and died) : hmph... how pointless. (stabs his pointed staff right through the guard's head, killing him on the spot) how dare you do such a worthless thing within my realm.
setsuna (watching in shock, wide-eyed) : [t... this man...!!!]
sevotharte (withdraws his staff) : let's go, to jibrille's room.
(moonliel is lying on the floor of the room among her many pots and vases of flowers sleeping, still hugging her doll)
moonliel : [lease come soon, sara-sama... (footsteps) and make fun of me as you always do. laugh at me as you always have. as long as you do, i can contain the monster inside me... (fallen asleep with a smile on her face)]
(the door opens)
text : yes, even someone like me
(and a long white robe, along with a staff stops right beside her head although she is still deeply asleep without noticing)
text : has nights more painful than death.
end of Moon Flower Night, part 3
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volume 12 section 04
Angel Sanctuary - Supreme Heaven, Yetzirah
Act II : Moon Flower Night, Part 4
(i tell you, by the time you are through, you'll be in a smacking exercise using setsuna as a target, however i am beginning to forgive sara temporarily and starting the next chapter only because 12/4 has a nice scene towards the end, very nice scene. which does set up for the rest of this volume)
sevotharte (standing over moonliel) : my my, our sleeping beauty seems quite exhausted.
setsuna (surprised) : [who is she...!?]
sevotharte (darkly) : however such nonsense fairytales is not my taste. (points his staff to her forehead) play time is over.
setsuna : !
(stab! oh don't worry, it only broke a flower pot next to moonliel's head... and she wakes up from the noise, surely gave the reader and setsuna a scare...)
moonliel : [ah...!! (first sees the broken pot of flowers)]
sevotharte : you have succeeded in fooling all of us... playing jibrille's substitute...!
moonliel : [the moonliel...! (then looks up and sees the scary looking sevi)]
sevotharte : where is jibrille...? why are you substituting for her...? who are the merchants who helped her!? (moonliel just looks up at him like she doesn't know what to say) ...why are you not answering? you little bitch...!
moonliel (hides her face behind the doll, trembling but still would not speak) : ... ......!
sevotharte (turn to his guard) : you have one thing in common with the staker, and that is the program implanted in you...! why don't you take some time to remind her. (the white guard bows, and suddenly he grabs one of the normal guards)
man (with a gun suddenly pointed to his head) : eh... (before he can even react, his blood is spilled and moonliel covers herself with the teddy) such is the fear to the master, the absolute obedience through terror-----! (not even looking at the dead guy) i don't need such useless guards. (grab moonliel's chin) now answer me! or else she will be next!! (points to setsuna, as the white guard grabs him/her ^^;;) I will gather all the sisters and kill them one by one!
setsuna (stare at him wide eyed) : [this guy... has really lost it...!!]
sevotharte : now answer!
moonliel (eyes tight shut) : ...... (scared but determined not to answer) ......!
sevotharte : ......that's enough!! (grab her head) it will suffice to dissect your head, fool!! (points the tip of his staff at her throat)
setsuna (jump up) : s... stop it! you sadist----! (nanatsusaya materializes in his hands, suddenly in a flash, *something* appears behind sevi, and its power collides with the energy of nanatsusaya) !
(in a brilliant flash... kira, down in gehenna definitely felt *a presence*)
kira : ......!
(smoke slowly clears, nanatsusaya has returned to the stone and the creature is also gone)
setsuna : [w... what the hell was that horrible monster...!!? nanatsusaya... good thing nanatsusaya forced it back...!!]
sevotharte (standing over him) :you... are not a sister...!! that face...! (setsuna now with his hood blown off kinda looks up with somewhat of a "oh well" expression) you are... the messiah...!?
setsuna (looks at him with a small sweatdrop) : [am i suppose to say oh no?]
sevotharte : well, well...... so you were drawn in by the bait after all...!! (orders guards) capture him!! (suddenly another commotion, in an explosion, all the lights turned off) ! w... what happened!!?
setsuna : [now's the time!]
sevotharte (in the dark) : the electricity...!? (elsewhere a bunch of people are lying in a pool of blood, that shows you what happened to the electricity at least)
guard (setsuna pushes him aside) : uh!?
setsuna (and grabs moonliel) : come on!! we're getting out of here, come with me! you'll be killed like this, sara won't be coming back here again, you can run away now! (moonliel seems suddenly very hurt... was that last line and she pushed setsuna away and shook her head) ! (looked so sad) [eh...!? (looks back to see people coming after them) wha...!?]
sevotharte (i'm guessing the lights are back) : there they are, don't let them get away! capture them alive!! I don't care if they are hurt a little!
setsuna (gets on the run) : damn. [what's wrong with that kid...!?]
text (sara smiling) : because... it's a promise... (moonliel sitting among the pile of flowers) sara-san will surely come back... i must wait for her here...
sevotharte : the messiah must be captured!! he must not get away!! (suddenly he looks down and saw that he has stepped on something, an earring - alexiel's earring, with the seed in it)
(setsuna has got a head start on his pursuers and running through the halls of sevi's mansion)
setsuna : [if sara is no longer here, then i have no need to stay. but why wouldn't that girl run away? and... earlier...!! the shadow behind him...] uh...! (looked like he wanted to puke) [such a horrible chill...!! and that man was radiating an unknown energy...!!] uck...! (covering his mouth) [those many eyes...! what the hell was that thing...? (still getting sick just from thinking about it) what the hell was that thing...!!?]
guards (coming his way) : there he is, over here!
setsuna (runs again) : [crap! (sees closed doors before him) a dead end?]
guards : don't let him get away!
setsuna (doors open and he slips inside) : this room is...!
guards (also follows him into the room) : he's here!! let's get him! (inside, setsuna is sitting calmly in a chair in the center, and begins to fade out) damn...! the a teleporter...!!
(that gives the chase a little rest, since they can't follow him beyond that, meanwhile, sara is still flying in the car with oba-san and afu)
sara (wide eyed) : wha... (grab oba-san) you left a bomb in that mansion!?
oba-san : the timing was estimated for the convenience of our escape but thing did not go as planned. it should be activating sometime now, and may give the messiah a way out.
sara : h... how reckless of you...! (sweatdrop... as their vehicle passes through the sky, large flying whales flies/swims around them) kyaahh!! w... what are those!?
oba-san : such rare visitors, the cloud whales. since they live by breathing the water steam of the upper heavens, they must have felt the protection of water around you and came to admire you. they appear to have come to guide us, thanks to them the fog dispersed and our vision is cleared.
sara (looks even more uncomfortable) : [admire me...? I know that jibrille-sama is the guardian angel of water... and so important to everyone, ...but right now I am...!]
oba-san (and they closes in on a building) : there... the one who is standing there welcoming us, (there was a man by the foot of the building)
sara : [I am...]
oba-san : is the leader of our "anima mundi", one of the seven archangels of heaven and the "chariot of god", the chief of thrones, our leader zaphkiel-sama.
(oh yes, it's zaphkiel, and he has a long and nice title, how can someone not like him??? ;_; i fell immediately in love with him after his flashback... anyway, inside, oba-san presents sara to him and bows respectfully, while pushing afu's head down to bow low too)
oba-san : our goal was only to confirm jibrille's location... but this...
zaphkiel : it is certainly an expected gain... (touch sara's hair) such weak vibrations... what's this... have you cut your hair...! you are quite determined... but the appearance of the four great angels down to every hair was chosen to perfection by nature. when your true power awakens, it will grow long again. (smiles)
sara (looks at him) : [this man... i know this man...!]
zaphkiel : yes... only in an instant. (smiles and escorts sara away) the two of you have done very well... now take jibrille-sama to the melkaba and wait for me please.
sara : w... wait! (protest, why does she always have so much to say? i hate her even more now) setsuna is coming right? I'll just stay here and wait for him, alright?
zaphkiel (expressionlessly) : oh well... if... that is what you want...
oba-san : then... please take care, you too, jibrille-sama... we'll meet again later.
sara : yes, thank you so much. oba-san... and afu... we'll meet again.
(they walk out and afu waves back like a kid, oba-san pulling him away with a "come on, let's go already", and sara waves at them too, once they are gone...)
sara : it's the same...
zaphkiel : eh?
sara : when that child afu used his powers... it is the same vibration as the boy who continued to call to awaken me...
zaphkiel (smile slightly) : so you remember.
sara : you... are the one who locked my soul in that small room... after I died, aren't you...? (flashbacks) and where is that boy?
zaphkiel : you mean raziel-kun? I have given him to the messiah. the power that sleeps within him will surely become helpful to the messiah. the stronger the enemy, the more effective his powers become.
sara : that's... the same kind of aura that afu possesses... that boy is also an ion?
zaphkiel : ...... (turns away) i've taken him in... and raised him only for this reason. therefore it's alright to be like this, even if I won't see him again...
sara (looks at him seriously, although zaphkiel neither can see her, nor faces her) : but that boy... loves you, doesn't he? (no answer) ...in that small room I have always felt it... I... ...it's so strange. he only wants to have the power to help you... why...?
zaphkiel : you would have said quite the opposite long ago. you were always determined and just, fighting to oppose sevi's policies... we worked underground but you alone were different. (a picture of the old jibrille and sevi, going their separate ways) you understood from the perspective of the four great angels, the difficult responsibilities. and... then you were gone. not killed but in a plot twist to make your soul reborn as the guardian angel of the messiah... yes... you were a brave woman who would sacrifice herself without hesitation.
sara (seems really surprised) : i don't know... any of that... everyone's saying jibrille-sama this, jibrille-sama that...! that's enough...!! i don't know how great and generous of an angel jibrille was, but right now I am mudou sara, i don't want to carry the fate of anyone else!! (scream like a little brat) why can't i just do what I want to see the person I love!? setsuna... setsuna has come for me. is it a sin for us to be together happily!?
zaphkiel (coldly) : stop saying such cowardly things. right now you are only trying your best to justify the guilt in your heart. but what you do is 100% your choice, as for what the messiah thinks is also up to him. (sara is a bit speechless) no matter how much we want to be together with someone, we are still alone when we die. your sin is for you alone to carry. it is natural... to want to be with the person you love. it is your freedom to give up everything, to live and die for love. but if the sacrifices made for that love will inevitably hurt someone, then the two of you must face those wounds with acceptance.
moonliel (flashback, smiling cutely... I don't like her either btw, too happy for me) : [sara-sama, I'm so happy to be with you, sara-sama *heart*]
sara : [I...]
zaphkiel : what do you have to hold back?
sara (eyes widen) : [just wanted to run away, and told myself this was my only chance... and I forced myself not to think about... what would happen to that child left behind if sevi found out...!? it wasn't for setsuna... it was for myself... i have used her for my own ego...!! and stepped over her...! (thinks of that guard) what difference am I from what that man does to her...!?]
zaphkiel : you haven't even realized that inside... (leans closer and says softly, but more cruel than ever) it really hurts so much... (he doesn't need to say anything harsh, but those words through that soft tone is worse than any accusation) can you really forgive yourself? jibrille... or should I say, mudou sara-kun.
(tears stream down her cheeks as she stood there still as stone... she cannot forget moonliel's smile)
text : can I really forgive myself...?
(sevi and a white guard, or THE white guard, since we've only seen this one so far)
sevotharte : the messiah... has escaped through the teleporter?
guard : yes... however the destination of the teleporter has not changed since sevotharte-sama came here... therefore he's going to...
sevotharte : the research lab... the white room! (uh oh, setsuna's in trouble... actually no, i'm not worried about him at all, he can die any time) he must be captured before anyone else sees him.
guard : the girl who substituted for jibrille-sama may not be able to speak at all, then what should we do? we cannot get much information out of her.
sevotharte (darkly) : I don't care, kill her. (steps over a moonliel flower on the ground)
end of Moon Flower Night, part 4
yukie's note : well, if you haven't figured out yet by now, sevi has 2 kinds of guards, 1 is what they call the white company, white something, our dear friends in white, whatever, people who wears a white uniform, absolute obedient, his personal forces, the other is the type in a suit and tie, the normal guards that serve under all the high ranking angels. The something that appears over sevi in the scene where setsuna revealed himself is also on the cover of vol 13, it is too... complicated to describe, and looks very sketchy here, but you can at least see the many eyes it has and a large six pointed star on the forehead of a huge head, almost bodiless, so very ugly, but congrats, you have finally met sandolphon.
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volume 12 section 05
Angel Sanctuary - Supreme Heaven, Yetzirah
Act II : Moon Flower Night, Part 5
text : i love the moonlight, it quietly shines its light on everyone all the same. (the moonlight leaks in through the barred window, a white guard approaches the cell)
guards : ...he's here, the white guard. the personal company directly under the prime minister's order... the shadow executor who performs the judgment of god... (military salute)
text : as if I am surrounded by love...
(the white guard enters a cell, moonliel lied on the floor in the moonlight from the window)
text : the moonlight shines the same way upon someone like me... that is why I love it.
(the white guard takes out a stick... scene zooms away, meanwhile, don't forget that setsuna is still the wanted man here...)
officials (through communication device) : laboratory? the intruder is heading your way by the transporter. you must capture him alive. the prime minister is also coming over. you got that? the intruder MUST NOT be allowed near the "cradle".
(errr, you get a shot of setsuna upside down... but where, you ask? meanwhile, outside the other end of the transporter, a freaky mad scientist dude, who is apparently the man in charge, is ordering the guards to surround the transporter room)
weirdo : hurry, to the transporter room! if sevi comes, he won't shut up about this again. got it!? 1, 2~~~ 3! (his men burst in, but the room is empty) huh? (sweatdrops) hey! look carefully! whoever captures him, I'll make them the head guard, as the director of research! (suddenly there's something hard pointed to the back of his head) what the hell is it, that hurts! (turns around and screams, setsuna has been crouched on top of the transporter and is pointing a gun to his head right now... how convenient that the guy had been in the perfect position too) KYAAAAH----!!
setsuna (sweatdrop) : [what's your problem...] don't move! (takes the guy hostage, this whole part is comic relief, with the weirdo acting stupid... cuz the guards don't really care about him and is reading to shoot setsuna)
weirdo (lots of sweat and yelling at the guards who have their guns pointed at him) : w, wait, fools what are you doing, put down your weapons! are you trying to kill me!? (point at the guards accusingly)
setsuna (blank face) : you got that right!
guards (lots of sweatdrops) : ......
setsuna (he sure picked the right guy for a hostage... dragging the guy along as he goes) : that's pretty much it, so you'll have to deal with me for a little while. (but he doesn't look too happy at his choice of hostage, cuz he's got this >.< face with sweatdrops) [I don't like you either.]
weirdo (screaming as he's being dragged along) : kyahhhhhh!! this is not a joke, let go of me! (ahem, they fade into the distance... gets smaller and smaller) do you think you can get away by taking the head researcher as your hostage!? fool! (being dragged along corridor after corridor) h... hey, how about if you let me go, i can offer you high positions with my power?
arrow (points to setsuna) : ignores him
setsuna (keeps on running) : what is this place? (heading for a door)
weirdo : n... no!! that's top secret...! that is where the cradle is at!! (definitely nervous now)
setsuna : "cradle"?
weirdo : eh!? h, how did you ... how did you about the "cradle"----------!? setsuna (vein) : you just said it yourself! (gates are shutting even as they approach) !
weirdo (sees the shut gates, triumphantly) : s... see, you're trapped like a rat, ha... hahah! (setsuna looks around and notices another gate that's almost closed but not quite and drags the weirdo with him, and dives for the little opening on the bottom) GEH! (the guy is caught in between and looks like he can't make it) E... eek!!
setsuna (grabs something and stops the gate for a moment) : hurry up already!
weirdo (struggling to get up from under the gate) : e... eek!
(he finally gets out right before the gate falls and crushes the support setsuna stuck under there)
weirdo : h... hey!! don't be so reckless, you!! I am very fragile, and have never held anything heavier than a test tube, you hear me!?
(but setsuna doesn't answer, he is looking with his eyes wide and mouth open at the rest of the room)
setsuna : what the hell is this room...!?
(he is facing a room with long long rows of specimen tubes, each with a different and nasty organism growing inside, skeletons, brains, muscles, you name it all)
weirdo : w... what is this...? these are the most vital experimental samples in the research to better supreme heaven. it is for the glory of the nation!
setsuna : then those... brains on the cargo freight... were being sent here as experimental material...!! [i... i'm feeling sick again...!! the voices of pain that reaches directly into my head...!]
weirdo (going on yapping) : in order to further the study of a more perfect genetic strand... for the development of supreme heaven, certain sacrifices are unavoidable! plus we only experiment on those who have been exiled from society. (no, he's not making this sound any better, those things are alive in those tubes, and they are staring at the two)
setsuna : [why can he take this calmly...!!? can't he feel the immense thoughts of pain from them...!? (wide eyes)]
weirdo : we leave them fully conscious in order to experiment on their various mental responses. (those monstrous looking things may be scary, but they are all crying if you look closely) it's an intricate process that can only be made possible here in the lab. (he sounds so proud...)
setsuna (looks around in horror) : they are all a... alive...!!! and they are looking at me...!! (grab the guy's collar) how could you...!? how could you play with people's lives like this...!!? you bastards...!
weirdo (hit the wall) : eek! (since when did i start to write stuff like "eek"? well you get the idea)
setsuna (points a gun to his chin) : why didn't you just kill them...!!! can't you see how much pain they are in!! why are angels capable of such things!?
a voice (suddenly, as if in setsuna's head) : [because they are angels, they are capable of such things.] (setsuna looks around and head towards where the voice came from, leaving the weird guy behind)
weirdo (lying in the corner of the room) : ah... that way is...! no... wait...! (but of course he's incapable of doing anything to stop setsuna)
(in the next room, setsuna is looking up completed stunned and in awe at something)
setsuna : [this is...]
weirdo (followed him and entered the room) : i said wait...!
setsuna (gazing up) : [the cradle...!?]
(they are practically standing before a gigantic tank, and inside is a thing, yes you read right, a thing, it has no human shape, in fact i think it's a container, with lots of wires coming from it, and ropes and other things holding it together. at the center is a 6 pointed star mark)
setsuna (cold sweat) : [there is... a baby in here...!! (an eye opens slightly in the tank) oh yes... it's been watching me from in here, ever since the time i came here...!]
guards (suddenly arrive on the scene) : don't move!!
weirdo (veins) : damn you guys are late!! (yelling in his usual idiotic manner) and i could have been killed-----!?
(without another word, he was fired at and fell dead.)
setsuna : [fuck!! (look at the guards) white uniforms! (yes these are sevi's personal guards who don't care about that mad scientist dude)]
guard (pointing his gun at setsuna) : drop your gun, messiah.
setsuna : ! (looks around and sees an air vent opening close by on the floor) [an air vent!!] (shoots it with his gun and gets rid of the lid)
guards : wait!! that's...!
setsuna (not waiting for them to finish, jumps down) : [waaaahhhhhhhh-----!! oh crap!] (it's a vent straight down and soon he reached the opening) WAHHH!!! (good thing he caught the side wall on time because he would have fallen all the way down from the heavens if he didn't, it's a long way down) t... that was close~~~~~~! eh~~~~~~~ (he looks green, and looking below him) you can't see anything with this foggy cloud... can it be that below is...!?
a voice (above him) : yes, this it the large air void that connects to the second heaven raqia.
(setsuna at this point is kinda like hanging off the edge of the plate, and standing towering over him is sevotharte with his squad of white guards)
sevotharte : if you fall from here you'll reach the land of raqia without passing through the gate, and your body will explode into unidentifiable pieces. (holds out alexiel's earring) you forgot this, messiah.
setsuna : [since when...!!] ! that's... nydd hogg told me to give it to laila...!
sevotharte (face darken) : laila... did you say!?
setsuna (still hanging off the edge) : that's right... you should know this!! what happened to laila.
sevotharte : a name of painful memories... but why should I know where she is?
setsuna (the typical no brains) : don't make excuses! i heard it from that zaphkiel guy! that you really... ah! (i am going to grip him by the neck and bang him throw him against a wall) [crap...!! I slipped his name...]
sevotharte (VERY dark look) : heh...! heheh... heheh... (laughing sadistically) i see...!! so that's what it was...! the crest of a wheel in flames... that's the symbol mark of "the chariot of god"...! (suddenly glares at setsuna and stabs his staff into setsuna's hand)
setsuna (his hand that is holding on to the edge, ouch that must hurt) : Gyaaah!! owwwww!! ouch----!!!
sevotharte : i'm grateful to you, messiah. now there are no doubts in me to carry out and realize my absolute ideal. (step on setsuna's bloody hand)
setsuna : what the fuck, stop that!! I said that really hurts!! (oh what a cry baby)
sevotharte (looks down at him) : as for laila... which organ in those pods did she become, even I do not know, and that is the truth, messiah.
setsuna (eyes widen) : [is that why... nydd hogg said "she is not dead"!?] you... bastard... that's unforgivable...!! (rage) you alone, I will make you pay!!
sevotharte (glares down coldly) : everything is for correcting the wrong. those who are weak, who make mistakes, who do not possess a complete angelic form-------- will all be eliminated. only angels of proper state and form will be left alive. (he's starting to rant on....) supreme heaven of only the chosen angels with perfect beauty and absolute bloodline... it is an utopia to those who possess souls of absolute purity. no faults, a pure white world without a taint of dust, a beautiful world. swear your loyalty to me, one who possess the soul of alexiel, for I would use your hidden powers and name in a true and ideal cause. or would you prefer to crash into the lands below and become nothing more than dust...?
setsuna : bull...shit...! (but he's struggling to hang on, especially with a bloody hand) [fuck...!! my hand has reached its limits...!!! but... if i fall from here... (suddenly sees something) what? ...is that my imagination or... !]
sevotharte (raise his staff over setsuna) : now you must choose between an ugly death and swearing in my service!!
(setsuna suddenly grabbed the staff with one hand and pulled himself up a bit, and fired the gun in sevotharte's face, i don't think he was hurt, but it cracked the head piece he was wearing)
setsuna : this is my answer! (then he let go and allowed himself to fall) hahah
sevotharte : messiah...!!! (covering his forehead, ok, he's slightly hurt) fool... he decided to commit suicide...! (suddenly the fog/cloud starts to disperse) ...!? (and there was someone there)
setsuna : my bad, i guess i forgot to mention, (he reappears through the cloud, riding on a whale) i don't have a habit of sticking needles into my brain, or becoming like those girls who fall unconscious so fast, or those killing machines who only obey your orders. and I have no interest in your utopia. you are sick, (with a serious face) maybe you really should have your brain taken out and examined? (the finger, as he rides away further) but I bet it's all rotten. (whale flies away, all you hear is something like...) wahhhhh [i'm gonna fall---]
sevotharte (watch them get away) : cloud... whales...! do you seriously think you can get away...? (looks up with a deadly gleam in his eyes) zaphkiel...!!!
(meanwhile, in the rebel base, sara is sitting alone and has been quiet, struggling with her internal conflicts, zaphkiel is leaning against the window with a smirk on his face. suddenly they both look out the window)
both : ! (outside the window, large whales are floating around in the air)
sara : w... what is this...!
zaphkiel : large groups of cloud whales...!
sara (wide eyes) : [they are trying to tell me something...!?] (and suddenly she saw, riding on one of the whales approaching the building...) setsuna!?
end of Moon Flower Night, part 5
yukie's note : that reminds me, i was going to translate the title of this volume to something... errr, more sophisticated, using a combination of something like moonlight, lunar(?), glory or glamour, night, spectacular, watever, something sounding really nice and good as it does in japanese, of course, it ends up being good old "moon flower night" which i liked more than all the others after a while. it especially comes into play in part 6
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volume 12 section 06
Angel Sanctuary - Supreme Heaven, Yetzirah
Act II : Moon Flower Night, Part 6
(looking out the window, sara saw setsuna approach riding on a cloud whale)
sara : [setsuna...!!! it's setsuna...! they... have guided his here...!! i must go... you can't see through this glass from outside. (runs out)]
zaphkiel : sara-kun!?
sara (snaps around and in a very not convincing but self defensive way...) : ...setsuna... he came as he promised...! i must go to him...! unlike you, I cannot abandon what is important to me to achieve my goals...!
zaphkiel (...he smiled... it is a truly beautiful scene) : I have not abandoned it, I'm only holding it deep inside my heart. go on, I am not accusing the two of you, I am only saying if this is the path that you have chosen, then do not regret it. (sara paused and ran out...) [follow the path that you have chosen, as long as you do not regret your decision...] as long as you can find your way back...
(setsuna looking around him...)
setsuna : [and the fog is so thick... is this that hill of megido...?] (gets off the whale) you... brought me here on purpose...? how do you know this place...? (looks up at the tower) [...and earlier, it felt like someone was calling me from inside that tower...! anyway, so I came back to where that old man zaphkiel is...] (suddenly turns around) huh? (someone is running towards him in the fog) [someone... someone is coming...! they are fast... is it an enemy...!?] the old man's follower...? (the shadow approach even faster) w... wait! (draws nanatsusaya is goes on guard) don't come any closer... (slash) [!]
(a few seconds of time frozen, setsuna's sword stopped just short of sara, who appeared through the fog, and the two of them just stared at each other, the edge of nanatsusaya was a centimeter from her forehead... the sword drops and they just looked at each other... for the longest time *i'm getting sick*)
setsuna : idiot, you scared the hell outta me. and you cut... your hair.
sara : and setsuna... your hand is hurt... you push yourself too hard...
(setsuna gently touched the strands of hair on sara's cheek, and then suddenly hugged her)
setsuna : SHUT UP...!!
sara (holding on to him) : setsuna... (watery eyes) setsuna...!! i thought... I thought i wasn't going to see you anymore. I was so scared...!! so upset!! (bury her face in his chest) so much has happened... since that day...!
(ok, this is their first reunion since god knows when *actually, I know, but anyway* it's suppose to be a really touching, romantic scene, but guess what, I don't like mushy scenes >.<;;; so I don't think I'm helping by making these weird comments on the side. however, the end of volume 12 scene is a very climatic point in the story and one should recognize that ^^ I said all this just to remind you that they are still out in the open on the flower field, being stupid and not realizing that their little reunion is gonna be broken up soon)
sara : so many scary places that I went to... I didn't know what to do...! I met many many people but I always seemed to miss you, setsuna...!! but I believed... that setsuna will surely come to find me...!! that alone I believed...!
setsuna : it's alright... it's alright now. look, I am here... [finally... we finally met...!!] we won't part ever again...! (oh that's what you think) [this is the real sara...!] (and his sword just lie amongst the flowers)
sara : yes...! yes...!! I really... really wanted to meet setsuna as myself... as mudou sara. I... never knew that I was the angel of water Jibrille... (hurry to explain) that I was only born as a human due to his trap...! by sevotharte's plot...
(they really are celebrating a bit too soon... just then, the fog behind setsuna broken open and a giant war vessel/craft loomed over them in the air... guess who came to join the party?)
crew (onboard playing with the computers) : transportation complete, target traced and identified----- the messiah and jibrille-sama.
sevotharte (sitting in his high throne) : the traitors who helped them escape are close by, do not let a single one escape. just do not mortally wound jibrille of the elements. (dark gleam in his eyes) the others are fine as long as a piece of their head remains.
setsuna (shocked to see that he hasn't escaped sevi yet?) : wha...!? it's those bastards again...! did that sevi guy follow me!? (suddenly the ground beneath him starts to tremble) ! WHA...!?
(a large round hole opened in the middle of the flower field, and out launched zaphkiel on an aircraft)
zaphkiel (gates of the aircraft opens) : hurry!! mudou-kun!
setsuna (surprise) : a mini melkaba... you are sure hiding some good stuff, old man!! (takes back nanatsusaya and turn to sara) sara!! let's go!
sara (smile) : hn! (running behind setsuna who has already gotten on board) setsuna, wait up, you're too fast. (man she sucks)
setsuna (yelling back) : hurry!
soldiers (coming after sara) : freeze!! (the large whales knock some of them down) wahh!! (they shoot at the whales) are you trying to get in our way!!
(a whale falls *thud* killed by the soldiers, next to sara)
sara : kyaaah!!
setsuna : sara!!
(sara climbs out from under the whale, but the still bleeding wound is right next to her... her eyes widen...)
text (flashback) : do you have the courage to face the wounds of those that you have hurt?
(the fog at night slowly begins to clear, a bright full moon hung beautiful in the sky...)
text : the flower moonliel which blooms together bathed under moonlight... (the beautiful moonlight shines on the field) moonliel...!!
(sara looked up and she saw the entire field around her blooming with moon flowers in the radiance of the night, with tears she looked at them...)
sara : I... I can't... go... (setsuna's eyes widen, but sara stands up and there is a kind of realization in her eyes) now... is not the time... I'm sorry, setsuna...! I... will stay...!
setsuna (thinking that it's outrageous) : WHA...! (as he's getting on the melkaba) what stupid thing are you saying, hurry up!! or else you...
sara : we can't give up everything like we did before anymore. (guards running toward her) didn't we... the both of us, have many people who helped us come this far? and we hurt them, and we used them. (cowers in disgust) I had in a most despicable way... used that child as a stepping stone through my own selfishness... and couldn't even face it. I used her life for my own sake. if she dies... I won't be able to forgive myself for the rest of my life. (looks up) it's alright... if we believe, then we will meet again...... and setsuna you must also see the people who are important to you...
setsuna (he would have jumped off if zaphkiel wasn't holding on to him) : enough already, hurry up!! sara!!
zaphkiel : it's too late, mudou-kun!!
sara (the guards are close behind her) : you must realize, that there are people who care about you who are crying in pain. (she faced him and smiled, still with tears but with eyes of determination) I love you, setsuna... come for me when you become the true messiah.
setsuna (seems stunned, as sara turned away and went to the guards) : [sara...!!] (zaphkiel has a tight grip on him...) SARA-----------------!!
soldiers (going after the melkaba) : messiah, wait!!
sara (suddenly blocks their way) : wait, take me first! take me to sevotharte, isn't that your mission!? (coldly) but on the condition that the sister trainee who took my place be released.
setsuna (very pissed off) : ...i just... don't get it...! (screams) I don't get any of it! SARA!!!
zaphkiel : mudou-kun!! (but setsuna elbows him and goes free)
text : oh, young messiah, (and he jumps off the melkaba) through your over confidence and foolishness...
setsuna (runs toward the guards) : sara------
text : I will teach you with myself... (one of the guards turned around) ...the things that you still lack.
(the guard, the same guard that hangs around sevi all the time, of the white company, coldly pulls out his gun and shoots)
setsuna (totally unprepared) : [the white company......]
(but the bullets didn't hit him because someone covered him and he was pushed away)
zaphkiel (half standing at where setsuna was, badly hurt) : ...go!
rebel (someone on the melkaba pulls setsuna onboard through all the gunfire) : hurry! (setsuna looks totally numb from shock)
zaphkiel : ...there are still thing that you must do...! (yells) GOOO--------!!!
(the mini melkaba rises into the air and flies away, leaving zaphkiel on the field wounded and surrounded by sevi's men)
end of Moon Flower Night, part 6
yukie's note : oh... when... I... am... done... with... you... setsuna... you... bastard... ............................. you will regret that you were ever born...
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