LUNAR: Yonenki no Owari
(Lunar: Childhood's End)

By: Funato Akari
    Shigema Kei
	
	A character's thoughts are surrounded by ().  The actions of 
	characters and descriptions of the background are surrounded by <>.
						-Seungtaek Choi		
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Alice: It is said that the Magic Emperor, the king of the demons who opposed  the goddess, lived a long ago in the ruins known as Machine 
Mountain on the outskirts of the City of Meribia.  The legend of the Magic Emperor ends with his defeat by the Five Heroes. No one knows whether or not this is true.  But even without this fairy tale... The highest place on that Machine Mountain is... That place is my special place. 
Aunt:: Alice! 

p.4
Aunt:: Where are you going?  Are you going to come back by dinner? Alice!

Chapter 1: Wings of Summer

p.6
Alice: (It's a dragon. Where could it be going?)  
Alice: <Seeing a shadow on the dragon's back> (A person?)
Alice: Wait! You! Please wait!
Alice: (It landed on Machine Mountain... I am certain of it.)
Alice: (Who was that person that was riding on the back of that dragon? Perhaps that was... It could be...)
Voice #1: Hiiro!
Voice #2: Waaaaa!!!!!
Alice: (Father...) *CRASH*
Hiiro: Um... Um... I am sorry for frightening you. My name is Hiiro.
Alice: (This... This person...)
Hiiro: I am really sorry, miss.  Did you get hurt?
Alice: <Cutting Hiiro off> I'm not hurt!
Ruby: Hiiro!
Hiiro: Hey, Ruby!
Ruby: Really! You are so clumsy!
Alice: (He's so terribly dirty!)
Alice: Didn't you see a dragon? There was a person riding on its back.
Hiiro: <Looking very guilty>  Umm... We didn't see anything....

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Alice: But it landed close to Machine Mountain!
Hiiro: We climbed to the top, but we didn't see anyone... <Looking at Ruby> Right?
Alice: <Disappointed> Oh.... (Alice, you idiot... What was I hoping? Was I hoping that father finally came back?)
Alice: (But, doesn't father care about me?)
Hiiro: Ah! Say... umm... Do you come here often?
Alice: <Puzzled> Why do you ask?
Hiiro: Did you know? This place, you know... It has a secret passage.
Alice: It was buried by last year's heavy rain.

p.10
Hiiro: There's a shortcut to the rooftop.. .
Alice: It's the stairway at the end of the right hallway, right?
Alice: (He's a strange...)
Hiiro: Umm....  
Alice: I don't know you are, but I know a lot about this place.  Probably more than you do!  I am going home now.  Goodbye!
Hiiro: Watch out!
Alice: Kyaa!!!
Hiiro: Can I make it?!

p.11
Ruby: Hiiro, are you all right?

p.12
Aunt: Alice... Alice! Alice!  We are so glad!
Alice: I... (getting up)
Aunt: Oh no, please rest a little longer. For you to have went so far... You went to the Ruins again, didn't you?
Alice: It's not the "Ruins!"  It's "Machine Mountain!"
Aunt: They are the same things, aren't they? What do you think would have happened to you if Hiiro-san hadn't helped you?

p.13
Alice: <Noticing that Hiiro is in her room.> Wait a minute!  What are YOU doing here?
Uncle: Look here, Alice!  How can you say that?!
Alice: But, uncle...
Uncle: Alice, this person... While he was carrying your unconscious body, he walked through the streets of Meribia, asking "Where is this girl's 
house?" until finally he reached our house.  
Alice: That's embarrassing!
Alice: (I'll become the laughing stock of the community!)
Uncle: Alice!  You will thank him, won't you?!

p.14
Hiiro: What I did was no big deal... So, you don't have to...
Alice: I am sorry for saying such a rude thing. Thank you for saving me.
Alice: No way! Absolutely not! Here's the soap! Bath towel! Brush! Put your dirty clothes here!
Alice: Don't argue with me! Get in the bathtub!

p.15
Alice: <Washing Hiiro's clothes> Really! I can't believe this!
Hiiro: <In the bathtub, scrubbing away...> Alice.
Alice: <Outside, washing Hiiro's clothes> Whew! What a stink! It's all caked with mud!
Hiiro: You don't have to wash my clothes. I'll do that later myself.
Alice: I'll do it, since I have the time. (None of it is coming off!)
Alice: His clothes... They're blue...
Ruby: <Back in the bathtub> Look, Hiiro. Look.  Here's some soap that's already being used. But Alice gave us a new bar of soap. 
Hiiro: <Smiling> Yep.

p.16<Later...>
Hiiro: <Holding up an empty plate> More, please.
Alice: (Couldn't you be a bit more restrained?!)
Aunt: I am glad that you like the food. I am going to give you a lot more, all right?
Hiiro: It's been so long since I had such a good meal. I travel around a lot, so...
Aunt: Travel?
Hiiro: Yes.  Visiting historic ruins here and there is my hobby... Ah! Ma'am, this!  These pickles are really good.  They're delicious!
Aunt: Oh, Alice made those.  Right, Alice?
Alice: Umm... Yes....
Hiiro: Really?

p.17
Hiiro: That's really amazing, Alice! Isn't it hard to make pickles this delicious?
Alice: <Blushing> (What can I say...)
Hiiro: I bet that your mother was great at cooking...  That's why you... <Noticing Alice's sad face> What's wrong?
Uncle: Alice's mother died when Alice was very young...

p.18
Uncle: And her father...
Alice: My father...  He left five years ago! He hasn't come back yet... I am sure he won't..
Aunt:: Alice... Please go to sleep now.  You are tired from what happened today... Right?
Uncle: I am sorry about that...

p.19
Uncle: She wasn't such a temperamental girl when she was small, but... At some point, that girl changed...
Alice: Music from an Okarina shell?

p.20
Hiiro: <Looks up from playing an Okarina> Alice... I am sorry. I woke you up, didn't I?
Alice: No, not at all. That song was beautiful.
Hiiro: There's a person who really loves this song. She is really important to me, but...

p.21
Hiiro: Now she is so far away that I can't see her. But I believe that someday I will certainly see her again. Because she is waiting for me,
you see...
Alice: I... If it was me... Father!

p.22
Alice: Father, where are you going? Are you going to come back soon?  Father...  Why won't you saying anything?
Alice: If it was me... I wouldn't wait.
Alice: Father! I... I don't believe.

p.23
Alice: If you believe, you can be hurt!
Alice: Therefore... Therefore... I...

p.24
Hiiro: In that case...
Hiiro: In that case, you shouldn't feel sorry for yourself. Alice, if you don't believe, then nothing can happen.

p.25
Hiiro: Therefore, try to believe.  If you do, then surely... Your father will...
Female Voice: It's a lie!
Alice: It's a lie!
Hiiro: Alice?
Alice: I know that you are saying those things to trick me.

p.26
Alice: Don't make a fool out of me because you think I am a little girl!
Hiiro: Alice! You shouldn't go to that Machine Mountain anymore! Understand?
Alice: Let go of me!

p.27
Ruby: <Sleepy-eyed> Um...  Hiiro?
Hiiro: I am sorry.  You were sleeping, weren't you? Ruby?
Ruby: I heard the sound of a bicycle.
Hiiro: <Looking out the window> Alice! Don't go, Alice! Not when it's this late at night...

p.28
Ruby: Hiiro.
Hiiro: Ruby, we have to go and bring back Alice. It will be too late if something happens.
<Hiiro is packing his bag.  He makes sure he takes his boomerang.>
Hiiro: Let's go, Ruby! I think I know where she may be going!

p.29<Hiiro and Ruby are at Machine Mountain.>
Hiiro: Alice's bicycle!
Ruby: Hiiro... What is this? This place is totally different from the daytime. This place gives me the creeps.
Hiiro: This is...
Hiiro: Alice?!
Ruby: It's this way, Hiiro!

p.30
Ruby: I really hate this, Hiiro! Please tell me what's going on here!
Hiiro: Ruby, do you remember what happened during the daytime? That time (when the rock was falling on Alice)?
Hiiro: The falling rock was smashed before hitting the floor.
Ruby: What? Then, you weren't the one who did it?
Hiiro: <Looking abashed> Hehehe... The truth is...
Ruby: Hiiro...

p.31
Ruby: A strange sound...
Hiiro: What?
Ruby: Sound of steel... I don't like this.  I really don't like this, Hiiro.
Hiiro: There is something here. Right now, this Machine Mountain is calling to us... It's calling to whatever terror is lurking in our hearts...
Something...

p.32
Ruby: Hiiro!
Hiiro: It can't be! This can't be happening!

Chapter 2: The Woman's Call

p.34
Hiiro: (I thought the "Magic Emperor" was defeated by five heroes who had gathered together. That is what is said in both the legends 
and the history books. Then who is now standing before my eyes?)
Hiiro: He's strong!
Hiiro: (Could someone have dug up the Emperor's armor and is now wearing it? No, if that's the case...If someone is just wearing the armor, how can it explain all of these things?)

p.35
Female Voice: Hiiro...
Female Voice: <A part of the woman's face is shown.  Tears are falling down her face.> Goodbye... 

p.36
Hiiro: No! I...
Female Voice: Goodbye...
Hiiro: I... (I didn't think that I was thinking of this...)
Ruby: Hiiro!!!

p.37
Hiiro: Just now...
Ruby: Let's run, Hiiro! Finding Alice is our first priority now, right?

p.38
<The woman whom Hiiro saw earlier in the day is chasing down Alice.>
Woman: What's wrong? What are you afraid of, Alice?
Alice: (This person...)
Alice: How? She knows my name?
Woman: Yes, I know it.
Alice: <noticing that the woman has fangs> (She's not human...)
Woman: I know all about you.

p.39
Woman: Alice, my name is Zenobia.
Zenobia: Revenge! Revenge!

p.40
Zenobia: Revenge!
Alice: Stop it!!!
Zenobia: Oh, oh...

p.41
Zenobia: <feeling the power she received from Alice> Incredible!
Zenobia: Look, Alice!

p.43
Zenobia: Hahahaha!
Alice: The city of Meribia!

p.44
Uncle: My darling Alice!
Aunt: Won't you give me a smile?

Alice: Why you, Zenobia! <slaps Zenobia in the face>
Zenobia: This is what you wished for.  On that day, five years ago. On the top of this Machine Mountain.
Alice: What?! What are you saying?!

p.45
Alice: I don't know anything about that!
Zenobia: Don't you think this time it's my turn to have a wish fulfilled?  Therefore... Your power... Give me your power!
Alice: No! No! Hiiro-san! Hiiro-san!

p.46
Hiiro: Here!!! You called? Hehehe... Now...

p.47
Hiiro: I came to take Alice back.
Zenobia: Why you!

p.48
Zenobia: A conceited human... Again interfering with us. Ghalleon-sama!
Hiiro: ("Ghalleon?" It can't be... Could it really be?)
Hiiro: Run, Alice.
Alice: What?

p.49
Hiiro: I am not sure that I can defeat them right now.

p.50
Hiiro:  I'll explain everything later. For now, let's get out of here!
Zenobia: Alice! It was your power that fired upon Meribia! What will you do when you do return?
Alice: My...

p.51
Alice: Power?
Hiiro: The city...

p.52
Alice: <Picking up a broken cup> My cup...
Uncle: Alice.
Alice: <Turning around> Uncle! Aunt! I am so glad!  You are all right! I...
Uncle: <Holding up a package> Here are your things...

p.53
Uncle: Take this and leave Meribia.
<Alice remembers what Zenobia said. "What will you do when you return?">
Alice: I, I... <Runs away>
Hiiro: Alice! 
Uncle: It has to be like this...  If we want her to be happy... Like this... <he and his wife begins to cry.>

p.54
Ruby: I wonder what happened to Alice and Hiiro.<Spotting Alice> Ah! Alice! Where's Hiiro? Wasn't he with you? 
Ruby: Meribia isn't in that direction. Where are you going? Wait a minute!

p.55
Hiiro: <Finally catching up with Alice> Alice! I am glad that I caught up with you! Ruby was with you.  That's good!
Hiiro: Alice, even if you are okay by yourself, you should come with us.
Alice: It's dangerous going with me...

p.56
Alice: That woman might come back again. Besides...
Hiiro: It will definitely be more fun than going alone. Where do you want to go, Alice?

Chapter 3:  Veteran Heroes

p.58
Hiiro: If we walk a little further, we will reach a small town.  All right?
Alice: I don't want to walk anymore! When Hiiro-san says a "little further," it's not really "little!" My legs won't move anymore.  I want to rest!
Hiiro: Alice...
Ruby: Hiiro... I am hungry!
Alice: I want to rest!
Ruby: I want to eat fish! Fish!
Hiiro: These two...
Alice: Coaches! I wonder if they'll give us a ride?
Hiiro: <Jokingly> Why don't you go ask? 

p.59
Hiiro: She doesn't seem tired at all...
Female Voice: Hiiro! It's you, isn't it, Hiiro?
Hiiro: <Looking up at a familiar figure> Jean?
Jean: People who don't work won't be fed. <Giving Alice some coins> Since I gave you a ride, please do something for me, all right?         
Alice: Yes, ma'am!

p.60
Jean: The market is that way. Do you know what to buy? A (workman's) blouse, potatoes, and milk!
Ruby: And fish!
Jean: <Laughing> What a cute child! Ronfar is also coming soon.
Hiiro: Really?  It's been a while, hasn't it?
Jean: I promised him that I would meet him in this city and give him a ride to Vane.
Hiiro: Really?: <Suddenly deep in thought> Is that so? To Vane, huh?
Jean: Uh-oh, it's raining. I wonder if those two will be all right...

p.61
Alice: <standing under a stall> Oh no! What should we do?
Ruby: This is your fault, Alice! It's because you took so long picking the vegetables!
Alice: Speaking of which, Ruby, you took just as long picking the fish!
Ruby: Let's go quickly! Hiiro and Jean are waiting for us.
Alice: Hey, you just changed the subject!
Ruby: But... stale fish smell bad!
Alice: Stale vegetables don't taste very good!
Male Voice: Hey, little miss.

p.62
Man: You'll catch a cold.
Alice: (A s.. strange man...)
Ruby: Hey, it's Ronfar!
Alice: What?
Ronfar: Huh? It's you, little squirt? That means... Hiiro is here too?
Ruby: Yup! He and Jean are waiting for us right now at the caravan.
Alice: <Aside to Ruby> You know him? (He's strange.)
Ruby: That's right.

p.63
Ruby: He's a friend.
Jean: Welcome back! Oh! Ronfar is with you?
Ronfar: I met them on the way back here. <Giving Hiiro an "affectionate" embrace> Yo, Hiiro! How have you been?! 
Hiiro: It seems like you haven't changed at all...
Ronfar: Oh! This...  It's "healthy" food again...
Jean: I don't have any food to go with liquor. (You haven't changed a bit!)
Ronfar: That's all right.
Jean: <Not looking sorry> Sorry. 
Ronfar: What did I say? You are so sensistive, Jean...
Jean: I didn't make any because I didn't think that you were coming today. If you really want some, make it yourself.
Ronfar: Hey, Hiiro...
Hiiro: Don't ask me! I don't know!
Alice: <Listening in on the conversation> Hiiro-san?
Hiiro: You can just call me "Hiiro."  What is it?

p.64
Alice: Is that middle-aged man your friend too? What? Him? He's only 2 years older than you are?
Alice: (I am glad I didn't say anything out loud...)
Ronfar: What's wrong?
Hiiro: Umm.... Nothing... It's just that Alice wanted to know what you did...
Ronfar: Me? I am a priest who spreads the teachings of the Goddess Althena.
Alice: A priest?
Ronfar: I don't look like one, right?
Ronfar: (I am dying...)

p.65
Alice: Then, can you sing the songs of Althena-sama? 
Ronfar: That's Hiiro's hobby. Why don't you ask him?
Ronfar: The thing that I can do is to recite from the holy scriptures.
Hiiro: No way! All I can do is play the pipes! Singing...
Alice: <Taking on a very superior expression> But, no one asked you to sing, Hiiro-san. 
Ronfar: Oh, that's right... About 2-3 days ago...

p.66
Ronfar: There was a large burst of light somewhere in the north. From that day, strangely, I have been uneasy... Something in the light was
sinister... 

p.67
Hiiro: Ronfar...
Ronfar: It's not that I am trying to act like a priest.  I felt it. It felt evil.
Hiiro: Didn't that light came from the direction of Meribia? Ronfar...
Ronfar: Hiiro, you know something about this, don't you?

p.68
Jean: The gloomy talk is over, besides, isn't this the day where old friends gather together? The sky is clear...

p.69
Jean: The "Blue Star" is so beautiful... This is the last night that I can dance, right?

p.70
Crowd: We have been waiting for this! Jean!!! <Jean begins to dance.>

p.72
Alice: (Amazing...That's so wonderful... Jean-san's dancing makes a person feel so happy.)

p.73
Hiiro: This feeling...
Jean: Hiiro!!!

p.74
Jean: The... The Magic Emperor!

p.75
Jean: So, this girl is your objective... Ha!
Hiiro: Jean!!!

p.76
Jean: Why you!!!
Ronfar: I don't understand what's going on, but... I take it that it's okay to take this guy out, right?
Jean: Kyaa!!!

p.77
Hiiro: <putting a hand on Jean's shoulder> Be careful! If you get too close to him you will begin to see illusions. 
Ronfar: Hiiro!!! The little girl!!! Wa!!!!! <is thrown back by the Magic Emperor>
Hiiro: Ronfar!!!

p.78 
Jean: Hiiro!!! Do something, quickly!
Hiiro: (He didn't come to fight?!)

p.79
Alice: <beginning to wake up> Un...
Hiiro: He's gone.
Alice: <Now awake> What is it?  What happened?<Jean just hugs her.>

p.80
Jean: Nothing happened.  We are sorry we woke you up.
Jean: Now, good night... Oh, Hiiro...
Ronfar: You will explain this to us, won't you?

Chapter 4: The Darkness Woven by the Shadow

p.82
Zenobia: <Talking to the Magic Emperor> The location of the teleportation was perfect!
Zenobia: I gave you enough magic power, didn't I? Then why weren't you able to bring back Alice with you? It's all right. I'll...

p.83
Zenobia: Ghalleon-sama...
Jean: Vane is a wonderful place! It can only be called the "Magic City", since there are so many magicians there.
Jean: It's the perfect place for people who want to study magic. If you enter the Magic Guild, you can learn the basics.
Jean: Alice, do you want to be taught magic?

p.84
Jean: What's wrong? You don't look well.
Alice: Y.. Yes... Umm... Umm... Jean-san? 
Alice: (About last night...)
Alice: Umm...
Alice: (Did something happen last night?)
Jean: ?
Alice: No, it's nothing.

p.85
Alice: I am sorry.
Jean: What is it? What a strange child! <hugs Alice>
Alice: (I can't say it... I am too afraid to ask...)
Ruby: What?! Why?

p.86
Ruby: Let's go with them! We could ride in the carriage, and the food is delicious... Okay?
Alice: I am not going with you all.
Jean: Why not? Don't you like us?

p.87
Alice: <trying hard to hold back tears> I don't like you.<Jean begins to look sad.>
Jean: Is that so? I guess it can't be helped then.
Alice: <Stricken> (I've hurt her feelings!)
Jean: See you again, Alice.
Hiiro: <Talking to Alice> Shall we go? 

p.88
Ronfar: Hey, letting her go so easily like that... 
Jean: We'll leave it to Hiiro for now... It's a lie that child made up in desperation. It would have been better if I hadn't asked...
Alice: <Some distance off> ...It would have been better...
Hiiro: What?

p.89
Alice: It would you have been better for you to have gone with your friends.
Hiiro: What are you talking about, Alice? Do you know how to tell which way you are going without an instrument?
Hiiro: Looking at the way trees grow, looking at how mountains rise, recognizing the grass... Reading the winds... There are so many other
ways!It wouldn't have been good to let a child who doesn't know these things go alone, right?

p.90
Alice: (Hiiro-san... I...)
Alice: Kyaa!!!
Hiiro: Are you okay?
Alice: Ouch! Why is such a big rock sitting here?
Ruby: Look! Look! Hiiro!

p.91
Ruby: There's a village!
Alice: It's a small village.
Hiiro: I wonder where the inn is...
Alice: I think it's over there. <Hiiro and Alice go into the house that Alice pointed out.>
Innkeeper: Welcome!  Lodging for two?
Hiiro: You were right!  That was a really good guess!

p.92
Innkeeper: Your name here please...
Hiiro: Come here, Alice.
Innkeeper: Alice Lanpling? How old are you?
Alice: Thirteen.
Innkeeper: Your mother's name was? Feicia Lanpling.
Hiiro: Is there something wrong with that?
Innkeeper: Please get out of here... Again...  Don't come back to this village again!

p.93
Voice: Don't approach this village ever again!
Alice: (This place... Is this the village I was born in?)
Hiiro: Why?
Alice: <Grabbing Hiiro's arm> It's all right, Hiiro-san! Let's go! Let's leave!
Hiiro: But Alice!
Alice: It's all right... It's really all right! <As Alice and Hiiro run out of the village, all of the windows are shut.>

p.94
Ruby: What was that all about?  I have a bad feeling!
Hiiro: Maybe Alice can explain this...
Voice: Don't you think a monster, attracted by your blood, will come to kill us?
Feicia: I am leaving. However, please forgive my husband and my daughter.
Voice: Do you mean the child who carries your blood? The blood of a monster?
<Alice and Hiiro are back where they discovered the rock. Alice begins to wipe away at the rock. Writing can be seen.>

p.95
Hiiro: <Reading> "Feicia sleeps here."
Alice: Just as I thought...
Alice: Mother!!! <Begins to cry>

p.96<Hiiro shields Alice with his body.>
Zenobia: Are you going to run away again, Alice? Why aren't you getting your revenge? Nothing has changed since 5 years ago.
Zenobia: They repeated their treatment of you 5 years ago. No, it's just not the people of this village.

p.97
Zenobia: Humans don't change!  No matter how many years pass by...   They hate us!
Hiiro: "Us?"
Zenobia: If you don't know, I'll tell you. Alice is...
Alice: Stop it!
Alice: (He'll find out!)
Alice: Stop it! Please don't say it!
Zenobia: Alice is...

p.98
Zenobia: Alice is a child who has the blood of the demon realm, same as we.
Alice: (He'll hate me!)
Zenobia: To be accurate, she is only half-demon. Even so, there is no difference between her and us (full demons).

p.99
Zenobia: People who find out will never accept you. Will you live out your life always afraid (of being found out)?
Alice: <Looking at Hiiro> (Say something.)
Zenobia: Come, Alice... Join us...
Alice: (Hiiro-san!)<Hiiro stops the armored man from taking Alice.>

p.100
Hiiro: No way! I won't let you take Alice.<Hiiro engages the armored warrior in hand-to-hand combat.>

p.102
Ruby: Hiiro! Kyaa!!! <The armored warrior holds up Hiiro by his neck and begins to choke him.>
Zenobia: This is the end.
Alice: Stop it!

p.103
Alice: Stop it! Please! Please don't kill Hiiro-san!
Zenobia: Will you come with us to our fortress? In exchange for this young man's life?
Hiiro: Don't... Alice... Run...
Zenobia: Silence! <Hiiro begins to cough up blood.>
Alice: Hiiro-san! 
Ruby: Hiiro!

p.104
Alice: I'll go! So please release Hiiro-san!<The armored man takes Hiiro to the edge of a cliff and then lets go... Hiiro falls.> NO!!!!!!

Chapter 5: Veteran Heroes II

p.106 <Ruby's at the bottom of the cliff.  She's trying to turn Hiiro over on his back.>
Ruby: Hiiro!

p.107<Ruby starts crying.>
Ruby: Don't die, Hiiro! Alice's been taken by bad people. We are going to save her, right?
Ruby: Hiiro! Hiiro!Open your eyes! <Ruby turns around and sees two people standing behind her.>

p.108<Back at Machine Mountain> 
Zenobia: Why are you crying, Alice? Did you love that young man that much?
Alice: I hate you, Zenobia!

p.109
Alice: You destroyed Meribia and hurt so many people... even Hiiro-san! And what are you going to do now?
Alice: Why are you doing such cruel things?
Zenobia: "Cruel?" "Why?" Doing all of the things that you wished for?
Zenobia: Doing all of the things using your power? Did you forget, Alice?

p.110
<Flashback to Alice's past> Alice's friend: It's a dreadful! Alice-chan's fallen from a high tree!
Feicia (Alice's mother): <hugging Alice's body> Alice! Alice!
Village People: It's too late to do anything.  Even the Goddess Althena's powers can't... Goodwife? What are you...
<Alice's memories are merging with her memories about her father.>Alice: Father! Father!

p.111 <Back to Alice's memories of her mother. Feicia is healing Alice with magic. Her husband comes through the crowd.> 
Alice's father: Feicia?
Alice: When are you coming back, Father?
Village People: How?  How can she use magic without chanting a spell or a prayer?

p.112
Alice: Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow?
Village People: You are from the demon world? <Alice's mother faints.>
Alice's father: Feicia! <Alice wakes up.>
Alice: Mo... Mother?

p.113
Zenobia: You have been abandoned by your father. <Flashback.  Alice is on top of Machine Mountain.>
Alice: Father?  If Meribia didn't exist anymore... Will you be surprised and come back (to me)?

p.116
Zenobia: Revenge! Revenge on the humans who have rejected us!
Hiiro: <Appearing behind Zenobia> That's impossible.
Zenobia: You! You're alive after falling from such a high place?

p.117
Ronfar: He has the goddess's divine protection... With only a wound like that, he should be healed in no time.
Zenobia: Oh, a priest of Althena as well?  However, there being only two of you... What can you do?
Ronfar: There are three of us. We brought along a person who's a suitable match against a legendary sorceress.
Zenobia: What?
Lemeena: Who wants to know such a thing?

p.118 <The speaker is revealed to be a cute girl with long blond hair. She is holding a wand in her hand.>
Lemeena: The Junior Premier of the legendary Magic Guild of Vane! Everyone, don't despair! Lemeena is here!
(Note: Lemeena talks a bit funny. I was tempted to make her sound more air-headed, but I stopped myself...)
Lemeena: Since I am here, you better get ready to be defeated! 
Zenobia: <Sending off of a bolt of force.> Try this, little girl! 

p.119
Hiiro: Lemeena!
Lemeena: Leave it to me! <Lemeena starts chanting, then raises her wand.  Zenobia's magic spell is dispelled. However, Zenobia follows with another bolt.>

p.120 <Ronfar steps in, and shields Lemeena with a magic shield.>
Lemeena: I heard that the people of the demon kingdom could use magic without chanting spells, but... They can send out another spell so quickly.... Incredible...
Ronfar: Do you think you can beat her? Hey, hey!
Lemeena: <Smiling winsomely at Ronfar> That's why you are here...  Can you please take care of the follow-up?
Ronfar: All right, I'll leave the rest to you...

p.121
Ronfar: Goddess Althena, set forth this power before us...
Zenobia: Demonic Heaven Destruction Blast! (note: I know this sounds bad, but it was the best I could do. It sounds so much better in Japanese...) <Lightning strikes a shield in front of Ronfar and Lemeena.>
Zenobia: Where's the other one? <Hiiro has approached Zenobia from her blind side. He attacks.>

p.122
Zenobia: how dare you, brat!  Do you think that you can hurt me?! <Suddenly, she notices Ronfar chanting behind her.>
Ronfar: A thousand pillars! Form a prison of gold and entrap this person of evil! <Bars of magic form around Zenobia.>

p.123
Hiiro: <Spotting Alice> Alice, come with me! It's not good to stay in this place!
Alice: But... I...
Zenobia: <Beginning to realize that she might be overmatched> Ghalleon-sama!

p.124
Ronfar: That was close... Take Alice...

p.126
Lemeena: Our attacks aren't doing anything?!
Ronfar: It doesn't matter! All we need to do is stall for time until we can escape!
<A red dragon flies in.> Hiiro:  She's here!

p.127
Zenobia: Boy! I am going to give you Alice. But it is our victory. We have obtained the magic power that we needed.
Lemeena: Hiiro!
Zenobia: That girl is no longer necessary. <Ronfar, Lemeena, Hiiro, and Alice all get on the dragon.  They fly away.>
Zenobia: The world will burn in the inferno of our vengeance!

Chapter 6: The Sword's Dance

p.130
<The falling branches begin to transform into wyverns and begin to pursue the dragon!>
Lemeena: It can't be! <As she sees them approach, she casts a fire spell at them.>

p.131
<The dragon breathes fire on the swarm of wyverns which are trying to surround her.>
Lemeena: There's no end to them!
Ronfar: They are coming one after another!
Lemeena: What are we going to do, Hiiro?
<Hiiro's thoughts are broken by a sound of machinery. When he looks for the source of the sound, he sees a very large ship coming toward them.>
Hiiro: The Dragon Steamship Barugan?!

p.132
<A man, with a face of a tiger, is standing at the bridge of the ship.  He is accompanied by Jean.>
Leo: I've come to back you up, Hiiro!
Hiiro: LEO!
Leo: <Pointing at Machine Mountain> Target, Machine Fortress! Main batteries! Ready!

p.133
Leo: Fire! <Two streams of light fire from the ship, but are stopped by a glowing shield surrounding the fortress.>

p.134<Hiiro and his friend land on the ship.  Leo comes to greet them.>
Leo: <Taking Hiiro's hand> Oh, Hiiro! My friend!
Hiiro: I thought Barugan was only a sandship (could fly only very low)...
Leo: "With righteousness and willpower, it can fly higher!"
Hiiro: <Unconvinced> Right... Right... <Alice is lying in a bed. Her breathing is ragged. Hiiro and his friends have 
gathered around the bed.>
Ronfar: <Trying to heal Alice> Althena's power isn't working...
Lemeena: A pitch black shadow is inside of Alice's body. But it's not due to a magic force...
Ronfar: It's not a curse either.

p.135
Hiiro: At least, if we understand what... <The ship shakes.>
Hiiro: <Going to the bridge> Leo?
Leo: It's only a graze. What are we going to do, Hiiro? Even the incredible Barugan can't fly for long time...
Hiiro: Let's break the barrier... Ruby! <Ruby transforms into a large red dragon.>

p.136
Hiiro: <Sending out his thoughts> White Dragon! Black Dragon! Blue Dragon!
Hiiro: If you can hear my voice, come! Won't you help me a little? <Back in the fortress...>
Zenobia: Dragons! Dragons are coming! And... There are four of them gathering together...
Zenobia: It can't be! Is there a Dragonmaster among them?
Zenobia: (The protector of the Goddess...)

p.137
Hiiro: Jean, please take of Alice!
Leo: <Throwing something at Hiiro> Hiiro, here's your sword!
Zenobia: (A person who can control dragons....)

p.139
Ronfar: We can't attack from outside. 
<Inside the fortress>
Zenobia: <To Hiiro and the gang> This once, I was willing to let you escape...
Zenobia: Did you come back to throw your lives away to the Magic Emperor? That's fine!

p.140 <Back at the ship, Alice begins to stir.>
Jean: I am so glad, Alice! You regained consciousness.
Alice: Jean-san?
Jean: How are you feeling? You like milk, right?
Alice: Why? When there's trouble following me, when I hurt you, Jean-san, and even more, when I....
Jean: When you carry the blood of demons?

p.141
Jean: I know.  Everyone is aware of it. But so what? That doesn't matter. The important thing is that...
Lemeena: <Trying to attack Zenobia> Why? Why isn't it working?!
Jean: That you are a good child and that... That we like you very much.

p.142 <The ship shakes again.>
Jean: That Leo! What's he doing?

p.143
 Leo: Sorry about that... The demons' numbers aren't decreasing at all...
Jean: This is getting messy... We have to endure until Hiiro comes back. We have to try our best.
Alice: Hiiro-san is?
Jean: He went to the Mechanical Fortress to put an end to this.

p.145
Jean: You don't need to worry, Alice. Just leave it to Hiiro and the gang, okay? You should rest your mind and wait here.
Alice: I... What am I doing?
Alice: Jean-san! Please take me to the Mechanical Fortress!

p.147
Ronfar: Wait a minute! I remember... this black surge... Where...  Something that digs into a person's heart and finds its fear... 
Lemeena: The shadow that was in Alice...
<Lemeena remembers Zenobia's statement "She is no longer necessary.">
Lemeena: I got it, Hiiro!

p.148
Lemeena: No matter how many times we attack, it will be in vain! Both this castle and the armor...
Alice: <Back at the ship> The thing that is at the castle is another me...
Lemeena: <back at the fortress> All this time, it's been using Alice's power to move!
Alice: <Back at the ship> I have to face this myself. My apparition... It was my cowardice.
Lemeena: <Back at the fortress> That's right. Without Alice, nothing is possible...
Alice: <Back at the ship> This is my own problem!

p.149
Jean: Well said!
Zenobia: <Back at the fortress> But, it's already too late!
Jean: <Back at the ship> Take us there, Leo!
Leo: Right! 
<Lemeena and Ronfar are hit by a lightning spell.>
Lemeena: Kyaaa!!!
Zenobia: You will all die here!

p.150
Zenobia: Alice!
<Alice smiles bravely.>
Ronfar: <Talking about Alice's ailment> So it's broken ... 

p.151 <Alice is warmly greeted by Hiiro and the gang.>
Ronfar: Well, little miss, why don't you give a try?
Lemeena: You don't need any incantations...
Hiiro: It's easy. Just believe in yourself.
<Alice smiles at the encouragement.  She closes her eyes.  She begins to glow.>

Chapter 7: Childhood's End

p.154 <Magical vines begin to grow from Alice.  The vines imprison Zenobia andthe armored warrior.>
Zenobia: Stop it, Alice!!! This...  What is this power?! Why?  Ah...  The power is...
<A black sphere comes out of Zenobia, and then begins to float toward Alice.>

p.155
Zenobia: The power is... Alice!  Why are you helping the humans? The humans who hate and detest us!

p.156
Alice: I was so afraid. I thought that humans despised the people of the demon kingdom no matter what...  But...
Alice: I realized that that assumption is wrong. I thought, "Then, how am I here?" That is because...
Alice: My father and mother truly loved each other despite the difference in race.

p.157
Alice: It's not that humans and demons can't coexist. It's just that they haven't opened their hearts (to each other).
Alice: That is what my mother... Your younger sister named Feicia taught me.
Zenobia: Shut up! Don't say the name of the fool became infatuated with humans!

p.158
Zenobia: Humans will eventually deny us our existence. Even the goddess Althena...
Zenobia: The only person who really cared about us was Ghalleon-sama!
Alice: No. Please don't turn your face away, Aunt Zenobia. Why was it that the goddess Althena was born as a human?

p.159
Alice: Wasn't it because she believed in us, humans and demons? Hating is really easy, but now...
Alice: I want to believe in everything.  If I don't do that, then nothing can begin, right?
Zenobia: What about being hurt?
Alice: My mother said that even then she would be happy...

p.160
Alice: You wanted to turn back to the past, didn't you? To one part of your past when you were happy...

p.161
Alice: To keep on loving, to keep on believing... You wanted courage, didn't you?
<The suit of armor that was the "Magic Emperor" falls down.  The helmet 
falls off. The person in the armor is revealed to be Alice's father.>

p.162
Alice: F.. Father?!
Zenobia: That's right.  On that day, I took your father away. 
<There is a flashback to the day when Alice's father went away.>
Zenobia: That day, I readied your young heart.  For the purpose of nurturing fear and insecurity in you.
Zenobia: That was my revenge. On my younger sister who had betrayed me, her daughter, and the human race...


p.163
Zenobia: Ghalleon-sama's heart always held dear only one person...a human male... <The manga has a picture of Dyne.>
Zenobia: Eventually, even I just became a substitute...  Isn't it funny? I, the ruler of the demon kingdom.... I, the legendary sorceress...
Zenobia: It's all over now. My body was born from your fear.  It was only temporary...
Zenobia: I will be returning again to that eternal darkness, to that lonely place...

p.164
Zenobia: <Looking at Alice> Why are you crying?
Alice: But, that's... You must be so lonely.... I feel so sorry for you...
Zenobia: Are you crying for my sake?  You, who hated me? Is that kindness that humans have?
Alice: It doesn't have anything to do with race.  Everyone has it from the time of their birth.
Zenobia: Is that so? I guess that's it... Alice, please show me. 

p.165
Zenobia: Show me your future... You who have the same noble, but despised, blood as we... 
Zenobia: Show me the happiness you will find (living) among the humans... Show me the hope that I was not able to find...
Zenobia: <Gently caressing Alice's face> Give me the courage to be able to believe in you.
Zenobia: <Looking up at the light> This can't be...
Alice: But I...

p.167
Alice's father: Unh... Is that you, Alice?
<Alice runs to him and hugs him.>

p.168<All of the characters are back on the ship Barugan. Lemeena is at it again with her recruitment.>
Lemeena: Say, Alice-chan! Won't you enter the Magic Guild?  Right now, you don't even have to pay an entrance fee!
Ronfar: Aren't you just saying that because there really isn't an entrance fee?
Leo: By the way, is there a person who has paid?
Ronfar: Hmm... I wonder...
Lemeena: Wait a minute... What I meant by saying that there is no entrance fee is...
<Outside, Hiiro and Alice's Father are talking.>
Alice's Father: I was traveling to find a way to confine Alice's powers. I thought someday Alice would experience sadness like her
mother because of her powers.

p.169
Alice's Father: It seems that I was wrong. Alice's happiness started after she acknowledged her power. After finding people who could love her knowing that she had the power...
Hiiro: Even if she hadn't found anyone... Since it's Alice, she will be able to make friends from now on with any number of people.

p.170
Hiiro: <Talking to Alice> So what are you going to do from here?
Alice: We are going to go back to Meribia.  There are so many things that I have to do. What about you, Hiiro-san?
Hiiro: Me? I am going to go see her, of course.
Alice: Is it all right if I ask you something?
Hiiro: What?
Alice: Where is your girlfriend?

p.172
Alice: Then, Hiiro-san, are you really a D...
Hiiro: <Holding up a finger> That's a secret...
Alice: (Without a doubt... I think that Hiiro-san will be able to see her again.)
Alice: (The story that we tell in passing... The story about a person who came to save Lunar by fighting for the woman he loved...The story of Hiiro-san and his friends...)

p.173
Hiiro: <Flying away on Ruby> See you AGAIN, Alice! Be well!
Alice: I will! You too, Hiiro-san! .... goodbye!
Alice's Father: Alice....  You love him very much, don't you?

p.174
Alice: Yup! But it's all right! Don't people say that you never get your first love?

p.175
Alice: Anyway, I am going to grow up to be such a wonderful woman that Hiiro-san would be surprised (if he saw me). For the wonderful person I am going to fall in love with next... You know, Father? I think that I am glad that Hiiro-san was the first man I fell in love with.
Alice: Look, Father!

p.176
Alice: <Pointing toward the sky> A red dragon!

Lunar: Childhood's End 
The End