Hell Madonna ヘル・マドンナ (in Afternoon #5 1992) Original story & art Copyright (C) 1992 Kiyoshi Haraguchi/Kodansha This English translation Copyright (C) 1992 Goddess Studio Translation by Hiroshi Haga (hh0u+@andrew.cmu.edu) Proofreading by Iain Sinclair (axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au) ----------------------- Man 1: God, such a tall woman. Man 2: She must be over 180cm, easy. Man 3: Don't you think she's about 190cm? ----------------------- (In a coffee shop.) Schoolgirl: You're so persistent! Aren't you ashamed of yourself, a man your age chasing after young girls? I said, our relationship is over. You're so weird! It was so nice of you to give me an allowance, but it's disgusting to be chased by an old man now! ----------------------- Takamizawa: You don't like me... anymore...? Schoolgirl: Oh... oh no... what happened? That blood... Takamizawa: The bad blood won't stop. I can't wait any longer. There isn't any more time. I need your blood. ----------------------- Yuuko: Found him. That coffee shop. Seems like I was late... Prof. Takamizawa. ----------------------- Waiter: S-someone, call the police! The man who was in the cafe suddenly ate the girl with him! All of sudden, he tore open the girl's torso and ate her insides.... ----------------------- Takamizawa: It's so easy to obtain girls' internal organs... Girls: KYAAA!!! Takamizawa: I don't know why I didn't do this before. ghahaha. Give me your organs, too. ----------------------- Takamizawa: For me to become full-grown, I need them more. Girl: Someone, someone, help Yukari, please! ----------------------- Takamizawa: Who...are you? ----------------------- Yuuko: Your natural enemy. I don't like to be touched... ... casually. (6 pages of Yuuko beating up Takamizawa, 1 page of Takamizawa squeezing Yuuko.) ----------------------- Detective 1: A tall woman, about 2m tall, came here? Detective 2: Was it 3 days ago? Short Guy: Yeah. Detective 2: Show us the room inside. Short Guy: This is the room of Professor Takamizawa. I'm sorry, that woman told me to keep my mouth shut... I was very scared. Detective 2: What was she like? ----------------------- Short Guy: I went inside the room with her... (flashback.) What is this? It smells so bad. Yuuko: Here. This refrigerator's open. Short Guy: The refrigerator? ----------------------- What the... Yuuko: Young girls' legs and hands... Look, inside this plastic bag... entrails. ----------------------- Yuuko: Probably the same girl's, too. How about this black grain soaked in a dish of blood? I knew it, a black pearl. I can imagine what the professor living here was doing... There's a room that way, too. (book falls open) "Faust" Act 2, Scene 2? A line by the homonculus between Anathagoras and Tares[?): "May I stay with you two? ----------------------- "I really would like to be.. full-grown." (she sees the abominable 'thing' in the bottle.) ----------------------- Detective 2: 'Homonculus'? Short Guy: Yep. That's what the tall woman called that gruesome little thing. But as soon as she smashed the bottle, it ran away like a rat. I was quite startled... and the woman's went chasing after it. Detective 2: Damn fool! Why didn't you call us right after? ----------------------- Yuuko: Homonculus. An artificial life born outside the womb...one black pearl, a horse's womb, man's sperm, and a virgin's organs soaked in Arcano Sanguinice Fumani [the blood taken from a menstruating female?) for 40 days... Let them rot inside a bottle thoroughly, give blood for another 40 weeks, and raise it carefully. ----------------------- Artificially made devil's bastard. Takamizawa: That's right. I always need women's fresh blood. Many womens'! My homonculus won't grow up if I don't take out old blood and give fresh blood every 4 weeks. Yuuko: That's why you killed the girls one after another. Takamizawa: So that a pure life form can be born, they should be glad to be sacrificed. The goal is to make an immortal! ----------------------- The creation of a self-reproducing human was my research theme for a long time. This is briliant! My research will be completed with one more step!! Yuuko: And so you tried to grow more, eh? Homonculus. ----------------------- Detective 1: We found a dead body at the campus this morning... it may well be Prof. Takamizawa. The body looked like someone had devoured it. Short Guy: ehhh!? Detective 1: That tall woman, she might be somehow involved in the death of the Professor, and the ongoing female students kidnapping case. Find her! ----------------------- Yuuko: After the 40th week, the homonculus grows rapidly like the foster-parent himself, and it'd eat the foster-parent and pretend to be him. I knew what you were from the beginning. You're the homonculus I missed 3 days ago. T (homonculus): You got it. I'll be completely built soon. You can't hope to defeat me with that puny knife! ----------------------- Yuuko: Sorry to disappoint you, but this is a magic sword made from the horn of a Taurobolium bull, Garus, which was suckled on blood. [A Taurobolium is an orgiastic ceremony held by the Minoans.] ----------------------- [2 pages) (Yuuko stands amid a huge pile of steaming offal that used to be the homonculus.) Yuuko: The black pearl with a hexagon engraved in it is the primary core. If the core is removed, the Qabalah sorcery's homonculus is just a pile of meat. Fake things are easy to break, after all. ----------------------- There, it's alright now. Yukari: W-who in heaven are you...? Yuuko: Diabolic hunter, Yuuko Furuyama.