TriMax 10 Chapter 4

[tiggymalvern]

Okay, I cheated a bit, 'cos of the way the page counts were going with the scans and the posts. The first two pages here are actually the last two from chapter three.


Chapter Four is called 'SHI CHOU' or 'Portent of Death'

No Sumire translation for this bit again, all my own guesswork laboriously earned titbits.

So, the guys have hurled themselves together in a single mad rush at the first opportunity. "Tongari." "Wolfwood." And then they turn to one another and promptly start to bitch *g*. Exact same time, exact same words that boil down to "You had a godawful mess to deal with!" And they both have to admit the other has a point. And then Wolfwood smacks Vash round the head! That's an "Ouch!!" from Vash at the bottom.


And Wolfwood lays into Vash with the 'Why the hell did you come here when you're supposed to be doing something about Knives?' rant. At length and rather unflatteringly. Not exactly the reception Vash was expecting, poor guy! Finally, with Vash looking thoroughly miserable, Wolfwood apologises and admits he might have gone a bit too far....


Livio is presumably still watching all of this in that state of dumbstruck incredulity we left him in. One of the minions is awake, though, and starts with the knife-throwing. (They don't carry spare guns for when they give the Punishers to Livio?) Wolfwood and Vash take refuge behind some of the broken bits of orphanage left over from when rockets were in use in TriMax 9.


Wolfwood starts laughing, and Vash wants to know just what is so funny. "Our travels were always like this, Tongari." "Is this really a good time to be reminiscing?!" Vash feels rather strongly that they should be concentrating on solving their current mess that Wolfwood 's idiocy has led to. Down at the bottom, Wolfwood tells Vash that he has to fight Livio alone and Vash has to stay out of it.


Vash has NO intention of going along with that particular plan, and wants to know exactly where all Wolfwood's practicality has gone. He says together they can take the kids back to the ship where everyone else is.


Wolfwood: "......That's impossible, Tongari...."
And Vash really isn't liking the sound of that. "What - you're giving up? Why are you saying that?"


Wolfwood doesn't actually have to answer because Vash gets a knife with a grenade attached in his bit of wall. "TONGARI!"


Wolfwood has the covering fire. "Come on, Tongari." Vash is flash-backing again.


More lengthy stuff about just how important Wolfwood is to him. I'm impressed by how much Vash can think while he's flying through the air from a grenade blast *g*.


And as Wolfwood's running to cover Vash, he gets a knife in the leg and goes sprawling. "Wolfwood..." Vash is thinking how he came to believe they can do anything together.


Vash catches Wolfwood.


We get a negative reaction shot of Vash as Wolfwood's fingers tighten over his shoulder. Read into that artistic choice whatever you will, folks. And I know you will ;-)


And then we have the sequence with all the hands, which you've already seen, but I'm sure you won't mind seeing again, just to be totally gratuitous about it....


Wolfwood with the "Tongari!!!" yet again. He's been yelling that a lot the last few pages.


And then Vash letting go of Wolfwood so slowly, and the Looks. A Nightow lesson in how to say so much with so few penstrokes.
And Vash sees something, and starts to turn....


And since, I *cough* had to scan every single page of that bit, you get a cliffhanger now and the rest of chapter four another day....

Comments

Happy happy PAIN.

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

First? I love you. Love love love love love.

Then, in order:
Nightow's sense of humour cracks my shit up. Middle of a firefight, and Wolfwood still takes the time to slap Vash upside the head. "The hell were you thinking?!"

"Murinanyo, Tongari..." Oh. Oh. Shit. The little smile and the... shit.

How many times is Vash going to flash on the "you give it up so easy" bit? Damn!

Context for hands! (I think that makes it even slashier...)

The art on the negative panel is gorgeous. I'm stealing that for something...

And finally, again with Vash's "Oh, now what?" expression.

Re: Happy happy PAIN.

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

-murinanya, rather. feh.

Re: Happy happy PAIN.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

The simultaneous bitching completely cracks me up! The way they both turn round and say exactly the same thing and then have that little - hmph! - moment *g*

Oh. Oh. Shit. The little smile and the... shit.

That expression of Wolfwood's just kills. And then the look on Vash's face as he gets it - and then immediately denies.

How many times is Vash going to flash on the "you give it up so easy" bit? Damn!

Well, it was Wolfwood flashing on it at the start of the book. That incident seems to have made quite the impression on both of them. Not all that surprising.

Re: Happy happy PAIN.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one. Not too hard to guess, huh?

[yma2.livejournal.com]

Wow, now *that's* the kind of stuff that Slash is made of folks. Seriously, I still (personally) prefer the idea that they're good friends and comrades, but stuff like this convinces me that it could SO easily be otherwise. I love how this guy manages to suggest so much with so few words, I LOVE the part where we keep getting Vash's characterisation, like how he cries/nearly cries at ne point. and JHC, I wanna make avatars out of a few of these, just for fun... heh.
But yeah, thanks for posting these, I thought this latest batch was teh BEST!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just love Nightow for feeding us the in-your-face slashiness. I mean, in the anime, I don't really believe the slash - I think there were vibes to the friendship, but they most likely ignored them given the circumstances. But in the manga, you'd have to work seriously hard to convince me there wasn't anything. So much that we see makes it seem so very likely.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

*sob sob sob omg bitch I so didn't need this much PAIN at the end of a rough work day!!*

I could always lock it to keep you out if it's easier on you, I guess.... XD

Yeah, poor Vash. I mean, how much more crap can Nightow throw at him? He's sure he's got there in time, that he's saved him, that he's saved everybody, and then Wolfwood starts saying all this weird shit, and the penny starts to drop, and... *sniff*.

Nightow's jossed me on 'Pieces', of course - I knew there'd have to be something in the details. I'll have to go back and add a couple of lines to fix it, because it'll bug me otherwise.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

You just love tormenting me, don't you?

Only when you obviously ask for it, babe! No non-con around here XD

[hibem.livejournal.com]

That catch. And the panel right before it when Vash is reaching up to catch him. And the hugging in the middle of the fire fight. And, holy crap, the reaction shot. The catch alone could have rekindled my Trigun-fic drive... but on top of the last post and the hands I didn't stand a chance. Nightow... he's so canny. It's so deliberate.

Gah!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean catching him is one thing, but it's the way Vash doesn't let go as they get back to their feet. And then he still doesn't want to let go. Not that I blame him. *wail*

You bet your life it's deliberate! Nightow discovered a serious sales technique XD And so did I, of course - you don't think I keep scanning and posting just to please you all, do you? ;-)

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn.
Sexiest Waltz of Doom EVER.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I'm a complete sucker for these two guys being all protective of one another, every time. I am such a sap under the surface XD

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

As they are.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

They're so good to write that way :-)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Woooooow. Now I ded from slash. I mean, damn. This is one of the Great Romances of All Time.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

You know, if it wasn't for email, I might have thought you were being sarcastic ;-)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Glad you know me better than that at this point. ^_^; I look at these scans and I think "How are Vash and Wolfwoood NOT each other's OTP in the manga?"

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Well, if they're not, it's a bit late to put the memo out now!

[kendokat.livejournal.com]

This was definitely a section where so much was said between them just by all the growsing. Their regard and affection jumps right off the page . . . doesn't hurt that the graphics help that a bit either. Ne?

Nice translating am always impressed. Sorry I don't get here often enough but the slow load . . . yesss I know it sounds like a continuous whining. :-P It does take me about ten to fifteen minutes to go through one entry with reading, then commenting and then checking to see that LJ sent it through. Think I should just read the entries and then email you comments . . . that might work better than this slow load. But yeah I enjoy the scans and the translations!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

This is exactly how and why I love these guys - they'll do anything and everything for one another, but they'd never admit it 'cos that would be sappy XD. I love the way they bitch and fight over everything, and it doesn't mean anything. The reality's all in their actions and the way they look at one another sometimes. So Hot.