Kimagure Orange Road "Horror Story" Volume 11, Story 7 WB Volume 6, Story 16 Written and illustrated by Matsumoto Izumi Translation by : Hitoshi Doi (15 Oct 1989) Compilation & Additional translation by : Craig Nishida Editing and Additional help by : Paul Hirose Craig Nishida Dan Root Thomas Wyatt Last revision : 08-19-95 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: kor-trans@gnu.ai.mit.edu NOTE: WBp#'s are printed first, Normal manga pages in parentheses() NOTE: Translation is done from the WB manga, so there may be a few extras to those of you not having them. Example: The subtitles on page 307 (127) are only in the WBs! --------------------------------------------------- p 307 (127)--TITLE PAGE [Madoka sits at a table outdoors, the window of a house and some foliage lie behind her. In a sleeveless dress, she smiles back at us, elbows on the table, one fist in the palm of the other hand. On the table in front of her is a coffeepot, a cup and a single thorny rose.] MAIN TITLE (at top) Horror Story SUB-TITLE (at bottom) Rose-Colored Passion Is Too Blinding in the Early Afternoon... --------------------------------------------------- p 308 (128) 1 [Madoka slips out of her jumpsuit, revealing the panties and bra she's wearing. This is Kyousuke's pov.] Madoka: Hey, Kasuga-kun. Take your clothes off, too . Madoka jumpsuit FX: 2 [Kyousuke looks on, stricken.] 3 [She gazes invitingly.] Madoka: Hurry-y-y! 4 [Leaning towards him, she takes his jumpsuit in her hands and stares into his eyes.] Madoka: If you won't take it off, then I'll take it off for you. Kyousuke: E-ehhh?! narration: Wh-what the hell happened, Ayukawa?! --------------------------------------------------- p 309 (129) 1 Kyousuke: [embarrassed] Th-then, if you insist... narration: I don't understand, but it's clear Ayukawa's taking her clothes off... 2 [He takes off his top.] Kyousuke: (I guess this is where I have to remove my clothes, and be prepared for anything...) Kyousuke FX: [humming] 3 [View pans back. Madoka, wearing her jumpsuit, stares at him in nervousness. He pauses in the middle of removing his pants.] Madoka: What are you doing? Kyousuke: What do you mean? 4 Madoka: [with concern] Have you gone crazy? Kyousuke: ! 5 Kyousuke: Huhhh?! That's no fair-r-r. You somehow put your clothes on without me noticing... 6 [Madoka portrait--worry.] Madoka: .......... What on earth are you talking about? 7 Kyousuke: [aghast] HUH? --------------------------------------------------- p 310 (130) 1 Kyousuke: What are you saying? You were definitely taking your clothes off just now, and told me to take mine off... [He reaches for her jumpsuit.] 2 [Angrily, she slaps him on the cheek. He winces.] Madoka: Th-there's no way I'd do something like that!! Stupid. Lech. 3 [He stares off to one side.] Kyousuke: Then that means, the Ayukawa I saw was... 4 [Both turn to look off-panel.] Kyousuke FX: 5 Kyousuke: ...really the vengeful ghost ojiichan was talking about?! Madoka: O-OH NO-O-O!! [She clings to him in terror.] 6 [View of snow and the cave wall.] 7 [They sit on the ground. Kyousuke glares down, thinking.] Kyousuke: Th-then, maybe that story is true... Madoka: What?! --------------------------------------------------- p 311 (131) 1 [This page and the first 3 panels of the next page are black-bordered, denoting the legend Kyousuke is relating. Here, a couple, dressed in pre-Meiji era garb, stand outside together, mountains in the background.] narration: There's a tragic tale of love that's been passed down for many years... It's said that the village master's daughter and the hunter's son were deeply in love, but... Because of their parents' opposition, they eloped... 2 narration: The two were pursued and escaped into a cave... [The two run into a cave. Outside, several men with blazing torches pursue them.] 3 [Facial portraits of the two.] narration: The two who were cornered promised-- lovers: When we die, let it be together. narration: --to each other, so it's said. 4 [The two gaze into each other's eyes.] 5 village master's daughter: Kyaa! narration: The girl slipped off a cliff!! [Clinging with one hand, the girl hangs from a cliff's edge. The hunter's son reaches out a hand towards her.] 6 [His pov as he clasps her by one hand. She looks up at him in terror.] narration: Below her was an ocean of lava! Her life lay in the single grasp of the man's arm. 7 [Isolated shot of the two lovers' hands.] narration: But gradually, the man's hand grew numb... --------------------------------------------------- p 312 (132) 1 narration: If this continues, I'll fall in myself... Caring more for his own life, the man let go of the girl's hand! [The girl looks up and screams in horror.] 2 [His pov as she screams and plummets backward into the sea of lava.] 3 narration: Since then... Whenever a couple comes to this mountain, the vengeful ghost of the girl who was betrayed by her man and who burned to death in the lava comes out to haunt... [A couple skiing are blinded by the sudden blazing appearance of the angry ghost of the girl. Dressed in the kimono she wore at the time of her death, her long hair billows out around her.] 4 Madoka: Then... This is that cave?! Kyousuke: Maybe. 5 Madoka: [rising] Th-this isn't funny!! We have to hurry and get out of here!! 6 voice: [off] .h.e.l.p... [She stops in surprise. Kyousuke looks nervously off-panel.] --------------------------------------------------- p 313 (133) 1 Madoka: Did you say something? Kyousuke: No. Nothing. 2 voice: [off] .i.t's...h.o.t... .h.e.l.p... [The two stare off-panel again.] 3 [Madoka stumbles a bit.] Madoka FX: Madoka: I stepped on something...! 4 [They look down. A couple of skeletons dressed in winter-wear lie at their feet.] 5 [Kyousuke and Madoka look down in horror.] 6 Madoka: KY-KYAA!! --------------------------------------------------- p 314 (134) 1 [The two stare down at the skeletons.] FX: 2 [Another one falls against Madoka's back, hands resting on her shoulders. Its jaw opens.] zombie's jaw FX: Madoka: What?! 3 [She turns to look at the head over her shoulder.] zombie: .i.t's... .h.o.t... Madoka FX: 4 [She shrugs the zombie off and leaps forward.] Madoka: KYAA!! Kyousuke: I-it talked...?! 5 [Looking back, they see a couple dozen zombies begin to rise up out of the ground.] zombies: .i.t's...h.o.t... .i.t's...h.o.t... .h.e.l.p...u.s... .h.o.t... .d.o.n.'.t...l.e.a.v.e...u.s... --------------------------------------------------- p 315 (135) 1 [He grabs her by the wrist and races off.] Kyousuke: R-run!! 2 [The zombies begin to follow.] zombies movement FX: zombie FX: 3 [Kyousuke looks back over his shoulder, his face a mask of terror.] Kyousuke FX: 4 [Madoka trips and hits the ground. Kyousuke looks back. Beyond her, the zombie horde approaches.] Madoka: Ahh! Madoka FX: zombies FX: Kyousuke: A-AYUKAWA!! 5 Kyousuke: Don't look back!! [Lying there, she looks back.] 6 [Her pov. Several hideous, decomposing zombies are nearly upon her.] --------------------------------------------------- p 316 (136) 1 [Full-page art. The zombie's pov of Madoka as she sits on the ground.] --------------------------------------------------- p 317 (137) 1 [Isolated view of the cave's ceiling.] Madoka: [off] KYAAAAA! 2 [The two kneel together on the ground, arm in arm, and stare back.] 3 [View shifts. We see an empty cavern.] Kyousuke: They... They vanished... 4 [She clings to him in fear.] Kyousuke: We must be dreaming or something... 5 [He looks down. Madoka has closed her eyes.] Madoka FX: 6 Kyousuke: But... I feel sort of honored. Madoka: [looking up into his eyes] Huh? --------------------------------------------------- p 318 (138) 1 crows-in-background FX: Kyousuke: Because if all these are the actions of that vengeful ghost, then you and I are sweethea... 2 [Madoka portrait--a very tiny smile.] 3 [They look about the cave.] Madoka: Say. Isn't it hot? Kyousuke: Come to think of it... I wonder if it's because we ran... 4 FX: [They turn to look.] 5 [A few meters away the floor explodes. Liquid spurts out.] eruption FX: Madoka: Kyaaaaaa! --------------------------------------------------- p 319 (139) 1 [It's lava. They run down the cave, away from a river of the stuff.] lava FX: Kyousuke: L-LAVA!?! Madoka: N-NO WONDER IT'S HOT!! 2 Kyousuke: [running] Th-that story took place in this cave, after all!! 3 [They stop, their path blocked by the floating image of the girl's ghost.] Kyousuke: Ah! 4 [Their pov of the ghost.] ghost: 5 [Kyousuke stares in horror.] --------------------------------------------------- p 320 (140) 1 [The two turn away and run...] Kyousuke: I-it's he-e-ere! Kyousuke/Madoka FX: 2 [...but find that direction blocked by lava.] Kyousuke: AH! lava FX: 3 [Angrily, he crackles with the Power.] narration: If this is how it is, then, vengeful ghosts or lava, I'll blow them away with the Power!! 4 [He aims a hand off-panel.] 5 [Nothing happens. He nervously looks from the lava to the ghost. Madoka stares at the approaching lava.] narration: I-it's no good. M-my Power isn't working!! 6 [Madoka starts climbing the wall towards a hole at the top.] Madoka: Over here!! Maybe this hole leads to the outside! 7 [They reach a small ledge outside the hole just as the lava strikes the ground beneath them.] lava FX: By... By a hair!! --------------------------------------------------- p 321 (141) 1 [Madoka slips.] Madoka: Kya! stones FX: 2 Kyousuke: AYUKAWA!! 3 [View pans back. Kyousuke hangs onto the ledge by his left hand. He has caught Madoka's right hand with his own right hand. They dangle above the pool of lava.] lava FX: 4 [She looks up in terror.] Madoka: Ka... Kasuga-kun... Madoka handclasp FX: 5 [Kyousuke's attention is diverted by the blazing image of the ghost, who floats in the air.] ghost: .h.a.n.d... .l.e.t...g.o...o.f...t.h.e...h.a.n.d... Kyousuke: Ah! --------------------------------------------------- p 322 (142) 1 ghost: .t.h.e.n...y.o.u.'.l.l...b.e...s.a.v.e.d. 2 [Kyousuke facial portrait--he glares back.] 3 [Madoka facial portrait--she looks down nervously.] 4 [The ghost's pretty face starts to dissolve; flesh and eyeball start to bubble away leaving the skeleton beneath.] ghost: .s.e.e.! .j.u.s.t...l.i.k.e...t.h.e...m.a.n...w.h.o...b.e.t.r.a.y.e.d Legend of t y ...m.e.!! ghost FX: 5 [Tight shot of their clasped hands.] handclasp FX: narration: My hand... It's grown numb. 6 [Madoka looks down.] 7 Madoka: My hand... Let go... Kyousuke: ! --------------------------------------------------- p 323 (143) 1 [Facial portrait--she looks down...] Madoka: Because, when you grip it that tightly... 2 [...and closes her eyes.] Madoka: It hurts! 3 [His pov as she suddenly looks up at him, eyes wide and imploring.] Madoka: Please!! Kasuga-kun, save yourself! 4 [Kyousuke glares at the cave wall. Behind him, the floating skeleton of the girl mocks him.] ghost: .w.h.a.t...a.r.e...y.o.u...h.e.s.i.t.a.t.i.n.g...f.o.r.? .i.f...y.o.u...w.a.n.t...t.o...b.e...s.a.v.e.d.,...l.e.t...g.o. ..y.o.u.r...h.a.n.d... 5 [Turning, he aims a defiant glare at the ghost.] Kyousuke: I'LL LET GO!! 6 Kyousuke: But I'll never let go of Ayukawa's hand!! The hand I'll let go is my left one!! Just watch, ghost! 6 (inset) [If skulls can show surprise, then this one does.] --------------------------------------------------- p 324 (144) 1 [Panels 1 and 2 are overlaid on panel 3. Here, a Kyousuke facial portrait-- he looks downward.] Kyousuke: I'm sorry, Ayukawa... Right now, my hand is... Too...numb... 2 [She looks up.] Madoka: Kasuga-kun... 3 [The two fall as one, side by side.] 4 [Portrait of the skull of the ghost.] ghost: N-now, at long last, I can rest in peace... 5 [The girl's face replaces the skull.] 6 [The girl's face loses her anger.] ghost: Thank you. --------------------------------------------------- p 325 (145) 1 [Kyousuke and Madoka hit the surface of the water face-first. Several nude women cover up.] Kyousuke/Madoka FX: girl: Kyaaaa!! 2 [Kyousuke surfaces.] girl: [off] Pervert! It's a guy! Kyousuke: ? 3 [He looks up at the side of the mountain. An unconscious Madoka has bobbed to the surface beside him.] Kyousuke: Ah! 4 [He looks about. The women are covering up and staring daggers at him.] narration: A-an outdoor hot-springs bath?! H-how can this be? crows-in-background FX: girl: Oh no-o-o... 5 [Exterior day shot of the grandparents' home.] Grandpa: [off] Wha-a-at?! 6 [The two are seated inside. Grandpa smokes a pipe.] Grandpa: You say you were trapped inside that cave?! Kyousuke: Yeah. And then lava gushed out and the vengeful female ghost appeared... 7 Grandpa: --------------------------------------------------- p 326 (146) 1 Grandpa: It's all due to the gas. Kyousuke: GAS? 2 [Kyousuke looks off-panel at Grandpa.] Grandpa: [off] As you can see from the hot springs, this is a volcanic region. And so, it's dangerous inside those mountains because poisonous gas sometimes comes out. 3 Kyousuke: [pointing at his own eyes] B-but what I saw in that cave... I saw it with my very own eyes. That vengeful ghost was truly... Grandpa: Gas fills up the inside of a cave very easily. Even more so if an avalanche has blocked the exit... 4 [Isolated shot of the unconscious Madoka, lying under a futon.] Grandpa: [off] When you fall under the effects of that gas, you hallucinate and start to hear things... 5 [View pans back to show the two talking beside her.] Grandpa: Rocks start to look like people, a geyser looks like erupting lava... Kyousuke: B-but what about the fact I couldn't use the Power?! narration: After all that, it appears the vengeful ghost and the lava we saw were hallucinations caused by poisonous gas... --------------------------------------------------- p 327 (147) 1 Grandpa: [winking] No matter what kind of Power you have, it won't work against a hallucination. 2 [Kyousuke stares off-panel at Grandpa, eyes grown wide.] Grandpa: [off] Anyway, that "Stark Naked" legend is just something made up by the villagers so that silly couples don't destroy the area! narration: Even now, I still can't quite believe that... 3 [Grandpa zips over and elbows Kyousuke in the side.] Grandpa: You're acting suspicious, too. You were doing something, weren't you. Flirting around... Grandpa elbow FX: 4 [Hikaru enters, smiling and waving. Yuusaku trails her.] Hikaru: Sempa-a-ai! narration: That I didn't let go of Ayukawa's hand back then... 5 [Madoka opens her eyes...] 6 [Rising to a sitting position, she gazes tenderly into his eyes. He smiles back.] Madoka: Kasuga-kun... narration: Somehow, I feel proud of myself today. ---------------------------------- At bottom: [wideban only] Kimagure Orange Road 6 (End) ---------------------------------------------------