TriMax 10 Chapter 8

[tiggymalvern]

Chpater 8 is called 'EIBETSU' - 'Last Goodbye'.

Sumire's translation here.

Livio has spent the afternoon lurking around the orphanage grounds. At one point he hears thunder, only it doesn't sound quite right. He's still just sitting around moping at nightfall. Then he hears the sound of cooking, his stomach rumbles and he follows the sound.

He finds Vash eating fried rice. "Yo," says Vash. Livio abruptly rushes out through the other door.


Livio looks around and finds a grave. He runs back to Vash. "Ni... Nicholas!! Wolfwood... where is he!?" Vash looks at him for a moment. "He died. I buried him." (Vash's eyes - damn. How does Nightow do that?)


Livio slumps back against the door-frame. "How!? How...?" He trails off. "You fought him," says Vash. "Shouldn't you know best?" (Ouch score for bitter and pointy Vash!) Livio's looking pretty upset by now. "Not that," says Livio. "That's not what I meant. How can you be so calm and... eat food!!"


Vash turns to look at Livio, and the whole of the left side of his hair is now black. Livio thinks, 'That power. He used it - where?'


Livio thinks back to the 'thunder' he heard earlier, and we get a flashback to Knives' Ark arriving overhead as Vash sits by Wolfwood's body. He's sprouting feathers again....


Vash throws up one of those huge domes of energy, and power flashes between Vash and the Ark. (Not entirely sure if this is all Vash or not. There's one panel in there that makes it look like the Ark might be attacking too, but it's not really clear).


Knives gets a cut along one cheek. (OMG, that bottom panel - so much Vash love!)


Knives wipes the blood away from his cheek and bursts out laughing as the Ark flies onwards, leaving Vash sitting with his feathers, as before - except for the hair.


Vash smiles at Livio. "I'm hungry. How about you?" "I can't...." says Livio. Vash tells him to eat."To protect everyone here - that was his wish. If Knives isn't stopped, it all comes to nothing."


Vash tells Livio again to eat. "Make yourself stronger. We can't screw this up." The two of them spend the night raiding the stores left at the orphanage, and remembering Wolfwood moments.


When dawn comes, Vash reaches into his pocket and produces Wolfwood's handgun and the last vial of Magic Juice. "Take them," he tells Livio. "Don't forget him."


Vash sets the Punisher to stand by Wolfwood's grave. "This way of life is a part of who he was." Sumire's translation gives the last line as 'I don't want his ideals sullied.' But it reads to me that Vash is saying he won't feel ashamed of how Wolfwood lived. 'ore wa sore o hajite hoshiku nai.' Another post-YKO edit?


Livio asks what the plan is now. Vash says the Ark is to the west. He's going after Knives.



Mood music courteousy of permetaform :-)

I'll probably take a bit of a break now before I start on the next volume! 11 is less action and a lot more talking, and just looking at some of those dialogue-heavy pages is making my translating brain want to curl up and die. But I will do some more scanning and stuff from it, maybe in a week or so. But I won't be doing a chapter a day XD

Comments

[glass-bullet.livejournal.com]

Terrible things he did to Vash? What about the terrible things Vash did to him? I think if you weigh it out, there's just as much emotional pain in it for both of them. Of course, I'm villian-sympathetic and no one listens to me anyway, so x___x

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I think the difference is in the intentions. There *is* just as much emotional pain for both of them, I agree, but Vash never deliberately set out to torture his brother, just to disagree with him.

I'm very rarely villain-sympathetic. I'm anti-hero sympathetic in a huge way (hey, I started watching Trigun purely becasue of Wolfwood!), but true villains don't often grab me. Muraki is an exception in Yami, and it's not so much that I'm sympathetic, it's more that I can see where he's coming from. And while I can see where Knives is coming from re humans, the things he does to his brother go way beyond my understanding, and that's where he loses me, and any sympathy for his cause I might otherwise have had.

[solo.livejournal.com]

You can see where Muraki's coming from? One day you'll have to explain it to me, because apart from that sad/freaky thing with the head, I don't get him at all and am really puzzled by how much time so many people have for him.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I find him interesting. He has an obsession that he's devoted half his life to achieving, and he's turned his intelligence whole-heartedly to whatever it takes to get what he wants. Medicine, magic? No problem, he'll do those, and he'll do them well</>. I can empathise with that. And then I can see how that progressive slide into killing could have happened, the excuses he would have used to justify it to himself. In that way, I find him much easier to 'get' than Seishirou, because I have a starting point, a way into his head.

[solo.livejournal.com]

Regarding Seishirou, well, yes. Pretty much anybody is easier to 'get' than he is. No contest there. :-/