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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:23:59 -0400 
From: Hiroshi Haga <hh0u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Kiseiju vol.1 chapt. 1

Kiseiju   Volume 1, chapter 3

Original story & art Copyright (C) 1990 Hitoshi Iwaaki/Kodansha
This English translation Copyright (C) 1992 Goddess Studio
  Translation by Hiroshi Haga <hh0u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
  Proofreading by Iain Sinclair <axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au>

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Chapter 3: "Contact"

---------------- p.81

Man:     I'll escort you home.

---------------- p.82

Thug:    Heheh.  Thanks for helping back there, let me return the favor.

---------------- p.83

Man:     Ha ha ha!  Persistent, aren't you?

Man:     Gee, you know, my stomach might burst if I have to do 4 people.

Woman:   Four people?

Thugs:   W-what the hell!?

Man:     I don't know, why don't you guess?

  (Thugs get a sudden death)

---------------- p.84

Man:     Heheh... That's overkill... I used too much force and circled twice...

---------------- p.85

Woman:   Haah.. Ahh...
         <scream>

Man:     Dear me, what an awful voice...

Man:     Just in case, maybe I should change my face to something different.

---------------- p.86

(The 'mincemeat' murders... dead bodies so badly torn apart that they
were called "mincemeat murders".  They were discovered all over the world.)

(They were especially concentrated in large cities, in densely populated
areas...)

(The identity of the enemy -- people no longer said "the killer" -- still
remained a mystery.)

(Except to this one person here...)

Shinichi: ....

---------------- p.87

Shinichi: So, are they the work of your lot?

Miggy:    Definitely... I can tell after seeing that dog.

Miggy:    The ones that live on dogs eat dogs, the ones that live on humans
          eat humans...

Miggy:    We're a new lifeform that specializes in cannibalism.  

Miggy:    What are you thinking?

Shinichi: I...I wonder whether or not to just keep my mouth shut.

Miggy:    What do you mean by "keep your mouth shut"?

Shinichi: I can't just leave them be... They're killing people.

Shinichi: What do you mean by "can't leave them be"?

Shinichi: Don't you see?  Only we know their true identity!

---------------- p.88

Shinichi: If this keeps up, there'll be more victims!  So...

Shinichi: ...so...

Shinichi: I thought it'd be good if I made it public,  and let them
          do research on you...

Miggy:    !
          Do you understand what you're saying?  I don't understand
          Shinichi's logic.

Miggy:    My species are only 'feeding', correct?
          It's a natural act for any creature.

Miggy:    Shinichi hates to see his own species get eaten?

Shinichi: Of course!  Humans' lives are precious!!

Miggy:    I don't understand....  Only your own life is precious....  
          I never considered any other life precious except mine.

Shinichi: I'm sure!  You're a beast, you're an insect!

Miggy:    Is that... an insult?

---------------- p.89

Miggy:    Shinichi... if you try to harm me in any way, I'll stop it with all
          my strength.

Shinichi: Oh yeah?  That's funny!  A parasite who lives on me, thinking he
          can survive turning against me!

Miggy:    I'll spare your life.... but I can make you mute easily.

Miggy:    Also, I can deprive you of your sight or hearing...

  (Miggy forms a nasty-looking blade out of himself)

Shinichi: What...

Miggy:    Hmmm....what a strong feeling of dread.  You should rest a little.

Shinichi: Devil...!

---------------- p.90

Miggy:    (Shinichi...  I looked up 'devil' in some books...  I think the
          creature that exists on Earth, and is the closest to it, is
          humankind...  Humans kill and eat many species of lifeforms,
          however our species eats only one or two species...
          How modest of us.)

Shinichi: I don't want to hear that kind of logic.

Mother:   Oh, are you going out, Shinichi?

---------------- p.91

  (Shinichi is walking on a crowded street.)

Shinichi: (People are getting killed... and only I know who the killers are.)

Pollster: Hi there.

Pollster: Are you a highschool student?  Can you spare a moment?
          Say, what are your plans for the future?  Going on to higher
          education?  Going to work?  Oh, and your grades?

Pollster: Oh, now, what do you think makes your life worthwhile.  

Pollster: What do you think a human being's happiness is?

Guy:      Gaargh, what a horrible tasting hamburger!

Girl:     Just throw it away, then.

---------------- p.92

Shinichi: It's mince.

Pollster: What?

Pollster: Oh, wait a sec, you there!

Headline: (work) of the Devil
          Again, a horrific dead body discovered!  The 41st victim.

Man:      (Humph... humans, who slaughter cows and pigs indifferently,
          are surprised -- as if it were something new.)

---------------- p.93

Man:      Hm?

Man:      (Hmm, that's unusual... one of my kind, just over there.)

Miggy:    Shinichi...  Hey, Shinichi!

Shinichi: Huh?

Miggy:    He's coming closer, he's one of my kind.

Shinichi: Eh....?

Miggy:    He's in the crowd to the left.

Miggy:    I can't discern who it is because there are too many people,
          but I'm certain he's there.

---------------- p.94

Miggy:    We'd better get away from him!  If he senses your presence, there'll
          be another killing!

Miggy:    Faster!

Miggy:    He's closing the distance!  He's following us!

Shinichi: What!?

---------------- p.95

Shinichi: Miggy, I suppose he's on the train...

Miggy:    Yes... he's on this train...

Miggy:    Two couches behind.

Shinichi: Heheh... maybe he'll invite me to join the cannibalism club or
          something...

Miggy:    Hey, this is not a joke!

Miggy:    Hey, Shinichi, where do you think you're going!?

---------------- p.96

Miggy:    He's only about 40m behind us!

Shinichi: I wanna see him!  I wanna see the face of a murderer.

Miggy:    Don't be ridiculous!  You'll get us killed!

Shinichi: You protect me.

Miggy:    ...I doubt it'll be like the last one with the dog....

Shinichi: I don't think anyone'll see us here.

Miggy:    I don't understand human emotions....  I see your fear is gone
          right now, why is that?

---------------- p.97

Shinichi: Many people, fellow human beings, are getting killed....I know 
          the killers' identity...and yet, you say I should just sit back
          and watch?

Shinichi: I'll fight!  For the human race!!

Shinichi: But....to do that, I need your power...
          Lend me a hand!

Miggy:    ....

Shinichi: Please!  Miggy!

Miggy:    5 more meters.

---------------- p.98

Man:      Now I see...  that's why you ran.

---------------- p.99

Man:      The human's brain still remains whole....  This is a
          a very dangerous being, indeed.

Shinichi: Y-you monster!

Man:      What did you say?

Miggy:    Do not move!  If you try to attack this human, I'll kill you!

Man:      Wait, wait...I see, I understand what you're saying, the right hand.

---------------- p.100

Man:      However, the right hand, you just have to move into me.

Shinichi: !?

Miggy:    Move?  I thought a moving is impossible at this moment.

Man:      Huh....  You need to study more.  You're correct that moving from
          a simple arm to a complicated head is impossible.

Man:      But, from an arm to another arm is easy.

  (The man's head swiftly changes into a blade and severs his arm.)

---------------- p.101

Shinichi: Aaah... Uaaargh!!

Man:      Hahaha, now, what do you say!?  I reserved you a seat!
          Do you believe me now!?

---------------- p.102

Man:      So!  Why don't you move into me and become my right arm!
          When two of us live on one body, we'll get stronger!!

Man:      Why the hesitation!?  Kill that human immediately and come to me!!
          You're wasting my blood.

Man:      Heheh, two of us controlling one body, we can live at
          least 140 years...

---------------- p.103

Shinichi: M... Miggy....

Man:      You're making me impatient.  Oh well, if I just cut the human's
          head off, you have no choice!

Shinichi: (W-wait a se...)

  (As the man's head unfolds into a huge blade, lunging for Shinichi's head,
  Miggy turns into a three-pronged claw.  Miggy cuts the man's blade-head
  off in a single stroke, and impales it.)

---------------- p.106

Man:      H-have you gone mad!!  

Man:      Y-you, bastard!!

---------------- p.107

Man:      M-my body...  My....

Man:      M...y....

Shinichi: Miggy...  Did you do it to save me....

Shinichi: I-I'm sorry....I didn't know this would happen...

Miggy:    ...I just wasn't certain if I could survive the move.  
          ...I only value my life.

Miggy:    I'm tired, so I shall sleep....

---------------- p.108

Man:      (M-my body...M...y...)

Shinichi: Say, Miggy...

  (Miggy isn't there.   Shinichi makes a phone call)

Shinichi: Are you free right now?  Not really...  No, not at all...
          It's nothing important, really.

---------------- p.109

Satomi:   Was I late?

Satomi:   My parents are picky about me going out right now.  'Cause, you
          know, there are some dangerous things happening out there, like the
          mincemeat murders...  Don't you think it's terrible, the mincemeat
          murders...  Ah, how silly of me, is that meat souce?  I'm sorry!

Satomi:   Shinichi, you look different these days...  You look gloomy.

Shinichi: Do you think so?  But I got an appetite.

Satomi:   No kidding, you'll get fat.  You'll become a gloomy fatso.

Shinichi: What in the world is that?

Satomi:   Ah, a park!

Satomi:   I want to play in the sand!

Shinichi: .....

---------------- p.110

  (A cat is buried up to its neck in the sandpit.  Some kids are throwing
  rocks at it)

Kid 1:    That was close!

Kid 2:    Heh, eheheheh.

Kid 1:    Missed!

---------------- p.111

Satomi:   How cruel...

Shinichi: Those brats...

Satomi:   L-let's go!  I don't want to see something like that!

Shinichi: Yeah, I agree.

Kid 1:    Who the hell is that?

Shinichi: Hey, why don't you cut it out?

Kid 3:    Huh?

---------------- p.112

  (Shinichi frees the cat)

Satomi:   Izumi-kun...

Shinichi: Animals are not your toys!  Every creature is alive!
          Just like you!!

---------------- p.113

Kid 1:    No shit!

Kid 3:    How corny!

Kid 2:    Is he serious!

Kid 1:    Hey....

Kid 3:    Heheh.

Kid 1:    Here goes...

Satomi:   Watch out!

---------------- p.114

Shinichi: (Do you want me to eat you...)

---------------- p.115

Shinichi: Wanna go?

Kid 3:    H...hey... did you see that...

Kid 2:    M-must be a figment of my imagination...

---------------- p.116

Satomi:   Shinichi.

Shinichi: Yes?

Satomi:   You're..Shinichi Izumi.....right?

Shinichi: Yes...of course.

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END - Chapter 3:  "Contact"




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