From: pearl@remus.rutgers.edu (Starbuck)
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Subject: Vampire Princess Miyu manga Chapter 1
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:16:30 GMT
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Here is the first chapter of the Vampire Princess Miyu manga.  Enjoy!

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Vampire Princess Miyu, Chapter 1
by Kakinouchi Narumi
translated by Bill Moakler
9/16/92
Distributed by RAMP (Rutgers Anime Manga Project) & Studio Otaku


This translation can be freely distributed for non-profit use, as long
as all credits remain intact.  If this is used in any publication,
please send a copy to:

Rutgers Anime
C/O Steve Pearl
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Aberdeen, NJ 07747-1826

Note: To try to keep the narrative structure of this story intact, I
am using different typesets to represent spoken and thought
statements. Any words actually spoken by the characters will be
contained in quotation marks and narrative trains of thought will
appear without quotation marks.  The page and panel number where each
bit of dialogue apears will be in the parenthesis preceding each line.
Due to transliteration problems, I have not tried to transcribe
laughter, screams and other sounds into English, instead just
indicating where they occur in the script.

Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Professor Paul Schalow not
only for proofreading this for me, but for letting me get academic
credit for it.
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		The Enchanted Moment

(10,1) Miyu: It does not end, the time of a vampire.
(10,2) Miyu: "Rava, I can hear a sad voice." I am Vampire Miyu.
(10,3) Miyu: Where?
(10,4) Miyu: "Where could it be coming from?'
(10,5) Miyu: It's small...and seems about to fail.
(10,6) Yui: "Mommy...Mommy...Daddy"
(11,1) Yui: "Mommy..."
(11,2) Miyu: I've found it!
(11,3) Miyu: "I have found it, Rava."
(11,4) Miyu:  <giggle>"Shall I give it to her, Rava? My blood, 
		the blood of a vampire..."
(11,5) Miyu: If I do it, from all sadness and pain 
		she can seize eternal happiness...
(11,6) Miyu: To exchange my blood and hers.
(11,7) Miyu: Yui, I'm coming.
(12,6) Yui: <surprised>
(13,1) Yui: <screams>
(13,3) Miyu: A Shinma?!
(13,4) Miyu: It's done something horrible.
(13,5) Miyu: "The shinma has gotten ahead of us!"
(14,1) Miyu: "A blood-drinking shinma...A stray shinma I must 
		send back to the darkness."
(14,2) Miyu: "I wanted to give her eternal happiness, but 
		the shinma has interfered."
(14,3) Miyu: The responsibility given to me in this world----
		I must not let the shinma go unhunted.
(14,4) Aya: "Yui"
(14,5) Aya: Oh, where could she have gotten to? 
		Auntie went out to meet her, but..."
(14,6) Aunt: "Did you find her?"
	   Aya: "No....Maybe something happened to her."
(15,1) Aunt: "Let's try looking over there."
	   Aya: "Yui"
(15,2) Aya: I'm sad...
(15,3) Aya: but it's no good crying! Now that Mommy and daddy aren't here.
(15,4) Aya:  It's just my sister and I, so I've got to be strong.
(15,7) Miyu: "Rava, I can hear the voice again. "
(15,8) Miyu: "It somehow has a similar feeling to yesterday..."
(16,1) Miyu: "But, today, it seems hatred is also included."
(16,3) Aya: <sob> "Yui, why did you have to die?"
(16,4) Aya: "I want to die, too."
(16,6) Aya:  "That...What is that mark on her throat?"
(16,7) Miyu: "Aya, what's wrong?"
(16,8) Aya: "Who are you? Do you know me?"
(16,9) Miyu: "Yes, I know you. You cried all last night, didn't you?"
(17,1) Miyu: "Your wish, shall I grant it for you?"
(17,2) Aya: <trembling> "My wish?"
(17,3) Miyu: "You want to go, don't you? 
		To where your father and mother and Yui are."
(17,4) Miyu: "I can do it for you"
(17,5) Aya: "Who are you?"
(17,6) Miyu: "Miyu"
(17,7) Aya: ----Mi...yu?
(18,1) Aunt: "Aya."
	   Aya: "Yes."
(18,2) Aunt: "Is there something wrong?"
(18,3) Aya: "Unh..No."
       Aunt: "Are you also taking this photo album?"
(18,4) Aunt: "If remembering is painful, maybe it could be left here? 
		Oh, there are  pictures of Sis and I here, too."
(18,6) Aya: "Auntie!"
(18,7) Aya: "Is this child someone you know?" 
       Aunt: ?
(19,1) Aunt: "What? You startled me for this?"
       Aya: "Well, do you know her? The girl in the picture with my mother."
       Aunt: "Hmm...Now who was that?"
(19,2) Aunt: "I forgot her name but she was a girl from the neighborhood. 
	She was cute so guys would often come around to take their picture. 
	It looks like its from that time, but this picture is twenty years    
        old."
(19,3) Aunt: If I remember correctly, she lost both her parents 
	when she was a junior high school student like you. After that, 
	she went away somewhere."
(19,4) Aya: Like me....
       Aunt: "I've forgotten whether she was sent away to relatives or not. 
	Why do you ask?"
(20,1) Aya: "---I know this girl."
       Aunt: ?
(20,2) Aya: Yes, it's definitely her. The white kimono, the red sash. 
	Impossible...is she a ghost?
(20,3) Aya: She hasn't changed at all...or,
(20,5) Aya: maybe it's her daughter.
(20,6) Miyu: "Rava, are you perhaps blaming me?"
(20,7) Miyu: "The one who involved you in this was me."
	   Miyu: "I wanted you to help me."
(21,1) Miyu: "The smell of blood. It seems that the shinma will appear 
	again nearby."
(21,4) Girls: "Oh no, not again?!"
	      "How many has it been?"
	      "Are there really such things as vampires? There wasn't 
	any blood at all."
(21,5) Girl: "I feel sick..."
       Miyu: "Rava."
(21,6) Miyu: "This night, let us end this once and for all. It's unpleasant,
 not only having my prey snatched away, but to have we vampires put in the
 same category as shinma."
(21,7) Miyu: I will put an end to you, shinma!
(22,1) Aya:  "Miyu, please take this."
(22,2) Aya: "People are upset about this murder."
(22,3) Miyu: <giggle> "Thank you."
       Aya: "Miyu, what are you?"
(22,4) Miyu: "It's something I don't understand myself.  What I exist for. For
 what reason I hunt shinma..."
(22,5) Aya: "Shinma? Hey, do you have anything to do with the murder? It can't
 be,  but..."
(22,6) Aya: "are you a vamp--"
(23,1) Miyu: "I'll see you tomorrow, Aya. There is a task I must finish 
 tonight."
(23,2) Aya: Miyu?
(23,3) Aya: You promised me didn't you? To take me where Mommy and the
  others are.
(23,4) Aya: "....Mommy....Miyu is the girl from that photograph. For her, time
 has stood still.  Are there vampires unaffected by a crucifix?"
(24,1) Miyu: "Shinma! Back to the darkness!"
(24,3) Miyu: "This is not a place for you to remain in!"
(25,1) Shinma: "Pretty Miyu! Am I something to be caught by a little
  vampire girl?"
(25,2) Aya: "Mommy..."
(25,3) Aya: "Please let us meet soon...."
(25,4) Aya: "Miyu."
(25,5) Aya: "Miyu, help me. I can't sleep it's so painful."
(26,3) Miyu: "Aya."
(26,4) Miyu: "The shinma is getting away."
       Miyu: Aya's voice. She's calling me.
(26,5) Miyu: Rava, come!
(26,6) Miyu: Rava.
(27,1) Miyu: "Thank you, Rava. I must leave this battle to you for a little
  while."
(27,3) Miyu: Aya!
(27,4) Aya: "Miyu? It's you isn't it?"
(27,5) Aya: "Was Yui one of your victims? You were in that picture with
  my mother, right?"
       Miyu: "A shinma is...a different form of life than humans."
(27,6) Miyu: "What ended Yui's life was that shinma. Returning shinma to
 darkness is the reason for Rava's existence and mine...."
(28,1) Aya: "Shinma?"
(28,2) Miyu: "Yes, shinma. A thing that cannot live without drinking blood."
(28,3) Miyu: "Now, that shinma..."
(28,7) Miyu: "...has been banished by Rava."
(29,1) Miyu: "Rava, Leave the shinma to the flames and return it to the 
  darkness!"
(29,2) Miyu: Shinma to the darkness...
(29,4) Miyu: "Aya, shinma and I are different. I can give your father and
 mother back to you forever."
	   Aya: "Mom..my"
(29,5) Miyu: "It's your wish, isn't it?"
(29,6) Miyu: "That's a good girl, Aya."
(30,1) Miyu: "Close your eyes."
(30,2) Miyu: Good night---
(30,4) Miyu: A picture?
(31,1) Miyu: "This..."
(31,3) Miyu: "Hmph."
(31,5) Miyu: My eyes weren't open in those days when I was human.
(31,6) Miyu: Eternal dreams and happiness with mother and 
(31,8) Miyu: father were what I wanted.
(32,2) Miyu: Hmph. Foolish me...
(32,3) Miyu: What is this rambling? Control yourself, Miyu.
(32,4) Miyu: How can a vampire come to look at its past? There is no past,
  no future, Miyu!
(32,5) Miyu: How awful.  Am I somehow...unnatural?
	   Miyu: "Rava...Rava."
(32,6) Miyu: "It's too much. Please come now.'
(32,7) Miyu: Always--I had hoped to be happy with my parents.
       Miyu:  <trembling>"I want you to come."
(33,1) Miyu: What I have sealed forever in the darkness is...myself.
       Miyu: "Rava."
(33,2) Miyu:  And although it is I, myself...
(33,3) Miyu: Dawn is coming.
(33,4) Miyu: These feelings, this sadness, go on and on....Dawn is coming. 
  These battles, the life of a vampire, they never end.
       Rava: "Miyu. I am Rava, your eternal guardian."
(34,1) Miyu: Dawn is coming.
(34,2) Miyu: Sleep well, Aya...within your eternal dreams---

		     END
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