*** Violinist of Hameln Translation : Volume 11, movement 45 ***************************************************** By:Watanabe Michiaki Published by: Gan Gan Comics, Enix English Translation: Adeline Tan (invisiblizer@hotmail.com) 1999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ KLEENEX ALERT!!! ~ Credits : Without the help of these great pple, this translation would not be nearly as good! Raya-san - who helped with Promenade, editing and cleared my newbie doubts on sentance structure. Skuld-san - who advised me about the name of that rock-tossing boy...let's just call him Tamu. Sizer-san (sizer@crowsnest.aeug.org) - whose great info page at http://crowsnest.aeug.org/~sizer/ helped with clarifying names/places (e.g. Cittern + Kokyuu + The Northern Capital). Arigato minna! Lastly, this translation is dedicated to all the nice pple on the Hamel ML who put up with all my newbie questions - altho' they could prolly read this manga in japanese better than i ever could ^_^; ~ Note ~ *...* are significant actions, ~...~ are thoughts (SP) or 'small-print' is for some small guy whose words are not in a speech bubble. ( ) are personal comments or speculations of what the characters were going to say/think. Pg.55 Movement No. 45 - Hameln's Scarlet She-Devil (or Witch) Pg.56 1. Due to her murderous destruction, Her wings were stained A fresh scarlet By fire and blood, In a single flight She can raze three cities, Her lethal giant scythe In an instant Dismembers hundreds, 2. She is a ruthless and unfeeling She-Devil..... Pg.57 1. A small country Promenade. 2. Front-line soldiers falling, blood splashing. Soldiers *screaming* : Aaahhhh!!! 3. Two soldiers. Bearded soldier *contemptuous* : Huh!.....I tell you this, I'll..... 4.Bearded soldier *shouting* : kill all.....you Mazoku! Pg.58 1.Sizer *crying* : D.....don't..... 2. Soldiers charge a young Sizer. Sizer: Don't! Don't come near me! 3. Sizer *seeing menacing monsters instead* : Wah! Wah! 4. Sizer *waving her scythe in fear* : Don't! Pg.59 1-4. Scythe dismembers soldiers, assorted body parts fly. 5. Sizer *startled* : Huh? Pg.60 (For this page, drastic change in sentance structure to fit speech bubbles, okie?) 1. Gauntleted hand grabs Sizer's arm. 2.Sizer: Waaah! Bearded soldier: Eh.....w.....we..... 3.Bearded soldier *breathing heavily* : We.....may be.....a small country.....*puff puff* No.....us knights of Promenade are actually defeated..... 4.Bearded soldier: by.....a single Mazoku.....and..... 5.Bearded soldier: also such a young.....little girl's..... 6.Bearded soldier *dies* : hand..... Sizer: This..... Pg.62 1.Ocarina *atop Sizer's shoulder* : This is a great occasion, SIZER-SAMA! 2.Ocarina: Your first battle is such a great success! Who can tell you are only six years old? Even I who have always served you am impressed! 3.Sizer: Why..... Ocarina: Huh? 4.Sizer *shaking* : Why..... 5.Sizer: *falling to her knees* : Why must it be this way? I don't want it this way! 6. Sizer crying, Ocarina anxious. Sizer: I REALLY DON'T WANT THINGS THIS WAY! Pg.63 (flashback within a flashback) 1.Sizer *clutching scythe* : I don't want ---- Aaaah! Ocarina *sympathising* : Sizer-sama..... 2. - Northern Capital . Hameln - Bass: Sizer! 3. Bass's head. Bass: Come, destroy a country. 4. Lute with Bass's head and Guita. Bass: A country called Promenade, it is a small country and will be easy for your first victory. 5.Sizer: I DON'T WANT TO! No..... Pg.64 1. Drum crushes hysterical Sizer to the wall with a hand. Sizer: I DON'T WANT TO! I don't want to do such things again! 2.Sizer *crying* : Why must I do such things? I DON'T WANT TO! 3. Drum grabbing Sizer in one hand. Drum: STOP THAT! What's a little brat like you so arrogant about? Huh! 4.Drum: Have you forgotten who let you live? Be careful, I might decide to kill you! Sizer: !! Pg.65 1. Drum *slams Sizer into the ground* : STUPID LITTLE BRAT! 2. Sizer falling. Ocarina: Aahhh! 3.Ocarina *anxious* : Sizer-sama! *A blade stops her* ! 4. Guita holding a sword on Ocarina. Guita: Aiyah, how bothersome, little Sizer.....You must not be so willful, okay? 5.Guita *looking evil* : Us Mazoku Generals cannot possess even the smallest bit of.....mercy! Pg.66 1.Guita: Humans are enemies of us Mazoku, and you, taken in and raised by the Mazoku, owe us (as benefactors)..... Sizer: Ocarina! Guita: You must be good and listen to us, or else..... 2.Guita: Your only friend, will have to die! Ocarina *perspiring* : Uh..... 3.Bass:... 4.Sizer: *struggling* Stop! Ocarina is my firend --- ! 5.Sizer: Don't kill her! I'll be good, I'll do anything you say! Pg.67 1. Ocarina recalling Sizer's words - "Don't kill Ocarina!" Ocarina *sad* : ~ Sizer-sama.....~ 2.Ocarina *landing on Sizer's shoulder* : ~ Sizer-sama is a child born of an angel and a human, neither an angel nor a human, and also the opposite of the Mazoku.....~ 3. Sizer after another battle. Ocarina: She is an extremely lonely person.....~ 4.Ocarina: ~ She is doing this, all for me.....~ 5.Ocarina *guilty* : ~ Sizer-sama.....~ 6.Sizer and Ocarina *hearing a sound* : !? Pg.68 1. Sizer discovers a mother and her child. 2. Sizer and Ocarina astonished. 3. Fearful mother holding her child. 4. Angry boy. 5.Ocarina: ~ A mother and her son.....about the same age and Sizer-sama..... Pg.69 1.Sizer *curious* : Er..... 2.Sizer *starting forward* : This.....I..... 3.Mother: No! Don't! Stay back! Please! 4.Mother: I beg you! I don't care what you do to me, just don't hurt this child! 5. Sizer stunned. Pg.70 1.Sizer: Huh? 2. Stone flying. 3. It hits Sizer square on the forehead. 4. Sizer surprised to find blood. Ocarina concerned. 5.Sizer *sinks to her knees* : That.....that hurts..... Mother: What? Ocarina : Sizer-sama! Pg.71 1.Angry boy *lifting another stone* : You..... 2.Boy * throwing rocks at a cringing Sizer* : You murderer! Demon! Go to hell! Mother: Tamu, don't do that! 3.Boy *holding a rock* : You killed Father! Destroyed the town! Return my friends to me! Mother *trying in vain to stop her son* : Tamu.....Stop.....Stop now! 4.Boy: Go to hell! Big monster! Go and die! 5.Sizer: Ow! Stop..... 6.Sizer *shouting in pain* : That hurts! Stop..... 7.Sizer: Stop that! 8. Scythe's blade arches towards the boy. Pg.73 1. The woman grabs Sizer. Mother: Ta.....Tamu.....Run away.....run! 2.Mother: Tamu! 3-4. The mother collapses to the ground on top of Sizer. Sizer: ~ What is this.....~ Pg.74 1.Boy *stunned* : Ma..... 2. Boy besides mother's body, Sizer standing by. Boy: Mama! Aaah! 3.Boy: Sob! Sizer: ~ How did that happen.....~ 4.Sizer *startled* : ~ That feeling just now.....burning, ~ 5. An out-stretched hand. Sizer: ~ So warm.....~ Pg.75 1. Boy pushes Sizer against a big rock. 2.Boy: You are a murderer! You killed my mother! Sizer: Er..... 3.Boy: You monster! DEVIL! 4. Sizer cringing. Boy: FREAK! MURDERER! 5. Dead woman. Boy: Return her to me..... 6.Boy *crying* : Return her..... 7-8. Sizer crying. Boy: Mama..... 8. Silhouettes of the two children. Pg.76 1. City. Sizer: Ocarina! Come down here. 2. Sizer and Ocarina over the dead mother and child. Sizer: Why did this person.....want to hold me? Ocarina: To let her son escape, I guess. 3. Mother and son. Ocarina: Besides, the boy is holding tightly on to his mother.....it is natural since they are mother and child. Sizer: Hmm? Mother and child? 4.Ocarina: Yes. A mother will protect her child. Sizer: A mother? 5.Ocarina: Everyone has a mother, to worry about them, to teach them everything, 6.Ocarina: to take care of them. Sizer: Then why..... Pg.77 1. Little Sizer standing on the battlefield. Sizer: don't I have a mother? 2. -The Northern Capital- 3.Bass: A mother? 4.Sizer: Yes, Bass! Ocarina told me about it! Everyone has a mother, how come I don't? 5. Sizer anxious, Ocarina solemn. Sizer: She will teach me lots of things, and worry about me! 6-7.Sizer *hopeful* : And take care of me, and give me..... Pg.78 1.Sizer *joyful* : warmth too! Bass: ..... 2.Bass: Hmm, all right, look over here. 3. Sizer, Ocarina and Bass in front of the viewing crytal. Bass: Your mother is far away at a southern country. Sizer *curious* : Why? 4. Sizer excited. Bass: Because she doesn't want you! 5. Sizer losing her smile. Pg.79 1. Crystal shows Pandora comforting Hameln. Pandora: Hamel.....you got bullied by the other children again..... 2. Sizer looking at the scene. Pandora: Poor thing.....come, Mama will play the violin for you to hear. Bass: Look, Sizer, that's your mother - 3. Pandora looking gentle. Bass: PANDORA! Pandora: Don't cry, Hamel. Pg.80 1.Sizer *looking at Pandora playing* : Mother.....Mama..... 2.Hamel: Mama! Let's me play it! Pandora: *laugh*...do you know how to? 3. Hamel playing the violin. Sizer: That boy.....who is he? 4.Bass: That's Hamel, your twin.....elder brother. 5.Sizer: Brother? Bass: Yes, he has the blood of humans and us Mazoku in him. 6.Bass: That woman abandoned you, the younger sister with angel's blood, yet chose your brother that has Mazoku blood! Pg.81 1. Sizer kneeling before the crystal, absorbing Bass's words. 2-4. Music floats out from the crystal. 5. Bass smirking. 6.Bass: She teaches everything.....to your brother, Hamel, worries about him, takes care of him, gives him warmth..... Pg.82 1. Sizer looking into the crystal sadly. Bass: Because she abandoned you, she does not care at all what becomes of you. 2. The crystal shows Pandora laughing with Hamel. Bass: Even if you are dying, or in pain, she would not know about it, nor would she care..... 3. Sizer looks away. Bass: ANYTHING ABOUT YOU! Pg.83 1. Sizer walks away. Bass: Hate your mother! Kill all humans, Sizer! Because they have betrayed you! 2-5. Sizer walks to the door, trembling. Bass smirking. 6. Ocarina *distressed* : Sizer-sama..... Pg.84 1.Bass: Ocarina, Ocarina: ! Bass: you must know this, 2.Bass: That girl still has an important duty. I want her to find Pandora's box and the key, then open the box. 3. Pandora playing for Hamel. Bass: If you tell that child that her mother did not abandon her, that it was the Mazoku who kidnapped her, if she learns the truth then..... 4.Bass: she must die! The both of you will die together! 5. Ocarina silent. 6. Sizer walking away. Ocarina: ~ Sizer-sama! ~ 7. Pandora watching Hamel, looking sad. (This is juz b4 Pandora asks Hamel to help Sizer! If only Sizer watched a little longer...) Pg.85 1. Pandora Sizer: Is that so..... 2.Sizer: ~ When I fight on the battlefield, no matter how much pain I feel, nor how badly hurt I am, ~ 3. Pandora and Hamel. Sizer: ~ Mother would love only that boy.....~ 4. Sizer, looking from the outside. Sizer: ~ and still abandon me.....~ 5.Sizer *swinging scythe* : Huh! Pg.88 1. Sizer thinking back. Bass: Sizer, this is your mother - 2. Sizer flying in front of the crystal holding Pandora. Bass: Pandora! 3-6. Sizer looking apprehensively up at Pandora, hugging her and being surprised. 7.Bass: Cold, isn't it? Of course she would not be warm. Pg.89 1.Bass: Although Pandora is still alive, she won't miss you, nor know of you..... 2.Bass: Because she is a mother that betrayed, and abandoned you..... 3-4.Sizer *trembling* : ..... 5-6.Sizer *suddenly angry* : Damn you! *slams her fist on the crystal directly over Pandora's face* Pg.91 1. Sizer in battle. Sizer: Huh! Good! Let's go then! 2.Sizer: Let's walk onto the cursed road of blood! I am discarded anyway.....so of course I don't need anything to treasure..... 3. Pandora. Sizer: ~ A mother, warmth, I don't need them! ~ 4. Panic-stricken crowd. Sizer: Kill them all! Burn them all! Die, humans! Pg.92 1. Sizer in battle. - The She-Devil of Hameln - 2. Young Sizer crying after battle. 3.Angry boy *before death* : Hur.....Wah..... 4. In the crystal, Pandora playing for Hamel. 5. Hamel playing. Pg.93 1.Ocarina: ~ Sizer-sama.....~ 2. Sizer's shadowed face. Ocarina: ~ She threw all her sorrow and pain into the heat of battle.....transforming hatred to fire, using blood to cure loneliness, body injured, wings torn.....~ 3.Ocarina: ~ This way.....carrying on for ten years.....~ 4.Ocarina: ~ Sizer-sama, I know.....~ 5. Ocarina's eye and demons in the air. Ocarina: ~ You were only an infant then.....~ Pandora: I beg you, please return her to me! 6.Bass: We're taking Sizer away, Pandora! Pandora: Return her, please! Pg.94 1.Pandora: That child's important to me.....she's my child! Ocarina: ~ It is not true that your mother does not love her children.....~ 2.Ocarina: ~ So, Sizer-sama.....don't do that again.....~ 3. Sizer grabs a woman's hair. 4.Sizer: ~ A woman carrying her child.....Huh! ~ 5. Scythe sliced through the mother and her _two_ infants. Pg.95 (More change in sentace structure, gomen!) 1. Sizer stunned. 2-3. Sizer: ~ A.....a.....mother of.....twins.....~ Pg.96 1-5. Sizer sitting. Sizer: ~ The battlefield.....it's snowing..... Pg.97 1.Sizer: Snow is very good, Ocarina..... Ocarina: Sizer-sama..... Sizer: It covers up everything, leaving only snowy whiteness..... 2. Sizer before Pandora's crystal. Sizer: Although..... 3.Sizer: it is a little cold..... 4-6. Dead mother and twins gradually covered up by the snow. Pg.98 1. Sizer (or is it Pandora???) Sizer: ~ Maybe my way of thinking is wrong.....~ 2. Sizer standing up. Sizer: Wishing for warmth, that is..... 3. Woman clinging to young Sizer to let her son run away. Sizer: A long time ago.....the mother of another held me tightly, making me feel so warm..... 4.Sizer: What would happen if it had been Pandora holding me? 5.Sizer: If from her crystal.....she awoke, and came out.....what would she think? Pg.99 1. Hameln. Sizer: ~ No.....No, no matter at all what she may think, if she wants to hit me or even kill me, it's alright..... 2. Sizer's fingers on Pandora's crystal. Sizer: ~ I just.....~ 3. Sizer looking in sorrowfully. 4. Sizer leaning her head on the crystal. Sizer: wish she would love me.....~ (waaah! poor litle Sizer-chan!) Pg.100 1.Sizer: ~ From then on, my attitude towards battle changed. ~ 2. The Mazoku Generals. Sizer: ~ On the surface, to deceive the Mazoku, I fought against the humans.....~ 3. Sizer with cross. Sizer: ~ But that was to obtain the talismans that could subdue the Mazoku.....the box and the cross. ~ 4. Sizer using the box to to eliminate the Mazoku's aviation forces. Sizer: ~ I want to make all the Mazoku and myself.....disappear together from this world.....~ 5. Sizer's Valkyries against Slur's ruler, Cittern. Sizer: ~ It was the same thing at Slur.....~ Cittern: You.....want me to use that box to save this world? Pg.101 1. Sizer injured after battle, breathing hard. Sizer: ~ To save my mother.....it would not even matter if I die.....~ 2. Sizer's bloody hand holding her scythe. Sizer: ~ My life is expendable.....~ 3.Sizer: ~ But --- ~ 4. Fingers pointing at a stricken Sizer. 5.Sizer: Huh? Accusers: You can't save this world! 6. People Sizer killed. Kokyuu (Slur's 1st prince): You say your death does not matter, but, Woman and son: it's us who died! Pg.102 1.Accusers *becoming skeletons* : Liar! Murderer! Sizer: Aaah! Accusers: Demon! Return my mother! 2. Skeletons of mother and infant twins. Accusers: Demon! Sizer: Stop it..... Accusers: Murderer! That hurts..... 3. Sizer backing away from hands. Accusers: Devil-woman! Sizer: No..... Accusers: Monster! 4. Sizer shrinking from out-stretched hands. Sizer: STAY AWAY FROM ME! Pg.103 1-2.Sizer *suddenly awakes* : Hurhur..... 3. Flute with bowl and cloth, Sizer sits up. Flute: Are you alright? You shouted quite loudly.....do your wounds hurt very much? 4-5. Sizer looks at the sunlight streaming in. 6. Ocarina asleep at the edge on the bed. Sizer: Ocarina..... Pg.104 1. Inside the cottage, Flute, Sizer and Ocarina. Sizer: It's a dream..... 2.Sizer *relieved* : ~ It's morning already......~ 3.Flute *in four places at once* : Don't exert yourself too much, you suffered a really bad injury, you know. I'll warm up some soup for you now! 4.Sizer:.....Er, you..... 5. Soup boiling. Sizer: While I was asleep, you were taking care of me all the time? Flute: Uhmm.....yes. Pg.105 1.Flute *spooning soup* : In the middle of the night, Ocarina woke up once but after your fighting yesterday, you should be exhausted. 2.Flute: It must have been tough! Sizer *trembling* : I..... 3. Sizer's hands crumpling the bedsheets. Sizer: I did so many things.....so many unforgivable things. 4. Flute looking over her shoulder, Ocarina still asleep. Sizer: Even if I was deceived by the Mazoku, even if I did misunderstand my mother..... 5.Sizer: I still committed too great a sin, 6. Flute holding soup. Sizer: killed innumerable people..... Pg.106 1.Sizer * covering her face* : Not just soldiers and generals.....but also children.....and even women..... 2.Sizer: Even women who were protecting their children.....and very old people.....infants.....everyone..... 3. Flute listening patiently. Sizer: all killed by me..... 4.Sizer *crying* : A person like me.....just can't be forgiven..... Pg.107 1.Sizer weeping. 2.Sizer: Sob..... Ocarina:..... 3.Ocarina *awake* ~ Sizer-sama.....~ 4. Flute looking compassionate. 5.Flute *giving Sizer the soup* : I too.....once misunderstood my mother..... Pg.108 1. Flute, holding her cross behind her. Flute: I was like you, an orphan, believing my mother abandoned me..... 2.Flute: Actually, I was wrong, she worried about me all the time. 3. Horn hugging Flute. 4. Sizer listening. Flute: Only then I learnt..... 5.Flute: that a mother's love for her child, never changes..... 6.Flute *downcast* : But, Pg.109 1.Flute *turning away* : in another three.....no.....two years or so, she'll die..... 2. Sizer stunned. 3.Flute: Once.....I knew about this, I really wanted to stay by her side forever..... 4. Holding the crucifix. Flute: But I still left.....because..... 5.Flute *thinking of Hamel* : that person is fighting to save this world, so..... Pg.110 1.Flute *thinking of Horn* : that person.....is trying to save what my mother is protecting..... 2.Flute: this world, 3.Flute: So I.....want to give him what little help I can..... 4.Flute: Now that I think back..... Ocarina: ..... 5. Flute's foster family. Flute: I'm pretty fortunate, Grandfather and the rest of the kind villagers took me in, brought me up, that's really lucky. 6. Raiel, Oboe and Trombone. Flute: Meeting up with such good companions during me journey.....was also fortunate..... 7. Flute: If what happened to you happened to me too.....I don't know what I would become.....*Sizer startled* 8.Flute *embarrassed* : So, don't blame yourself anymore.....that.....er.....I don't know what best to say..... 9.Flute: Just, 10.Flute *cheerful* : Try your best! Hmm? Pg.112 1. Sizer dazzled. 2.Ocarina *no longer pretending sleep* : ~ Why is.....her smile so brilliant.....~ 3.Ocarina: ~ This girl has what the Mazoku do not.....~ Flute: Let's start now! Hmm? Ocarina: ~ the fragrance of ~ 4.Ocarina: Yes, Sizer-sama.....now the bitter remorse has passed.....why not reach for the future? (SP)Flute: When I first saw my mother, I felt like running over and giving her a kick! 5.Ocarina *wiping away tears* : ~ This is wonderful, Sizer-sama is saved. ~ 6.Flute: Come, when you're full, put on this dress! (SP) I made it! Sizer: Huh? 7.Flute: You've got to go out to everyone.....and say hello! Can you walk? 8. Sizer and Ocarina dumbstruck. Pg.114 1. Sizer sparkling. 2. Sizer *blushing* Good morning, everyone..... ~ End Movement No.45 - Hameln's Scarlet She-Devil = Part I ~