Translation by Kunio Muto Editted by John Yung Key: Text - text spoken within balloons {Text} - text thought within balloons [Text] - text not within ballons (Text) - additional text not within balloons #text - translator's comments ============================================== MOBILE POLICE PATLABOR VOL.3 by Yuuki Masami Intermission (The Conclusion) p.23 Kumagai - I dont believe in ghosts! Man - Oh, yeah.. p.24 [hiso x 8] (whispers) Noa - There's something wrong with this building. Asuma - What? Noa - There's something here. p.25 Asuma - No way! Asuma - It's been abandoned for a couple of years now. Asuma - You say there's some homeless guy living in here? Noa - No, it's not something like that. Noa - I just feel something's here. Asuma - What's that? Asuma - Inspiration or something? Noa - Hmm.... Asuma - Well there is something odd you feel here. p.26 Ohta - I sometimes feel weird, too. Asuma - Ohta-san, you do, too? Ohta - Well, no wonder... Ohta - A lot of people died in this building from the last earthquake. Ohta - If you knew that, I'm sure you might feel like having ghosts here. Noa - S..Something like that actually happened...? Ohta - You didn't know? Ohta - By the way, Izumi, does your Ingram often move awkward? p.27 Noa - There's something wrong with your Ingram, too? Ohta - Yes, since I came here... Ohta - There's something wrong with captain, too... Shinshi - I heard this from the neighborhood here... Shinshi - But the fact that ghosts come out here seems to be famous. Shinshi - Some of the police box officers seem to have seen them during patrol... Shinshi - That's before the constuction fence went up... p.28 Shinshi - First they thought they were taking shots for a movie or something... Shinshi - But when he looked carefully, They didn't have any feet. #Old Japanese ghosts are said not to have feet. Asuma - That's rather classic. [boso] (mumbling) Goto - That's different from the one I saw. Asuma/Shinshi - What! [ha] (realizing) Asuma/Shinshi - You saw something? You did, didn't you? Goto - Oh, it's nothing. Nothing you guys should care about. p.29 Kumagami - Why are yo talking about all this rubbish? Kumagami - And Captain! You don't have to put yourself into the story, either.. Goto - You don't have to be that angry. Shinshi - It's the same with what happened in the last earthquake, Shinshi - I find nothing but disaster happening to this building. Shinshi - It was directly bombed during World War II, Shinshi - And if you go back further more, the original building had lost half of its structure in the Great Kanto Earthquake. #Great Kanto Earthquake = Kanto Daishinsai (1923) [White - The remaining parts of the original strcuture. Black - The lost parts of the original strucutre. Shaded - Parts constructed after World War II.] Shinshi - The lost grounds are where we have the courtyard right now. p.30 Shinshi - And in the Edo Era, there was a Mansion of the Hiura Clan. #This clan never existed in the Edo Era.. Shinshi - And the story we have from the Edo Era is.... Noa - You have more? Ohta - I see... Shinshi - In the Horeki Years, the Clan Lord Miyawaki something suddenly went mad, and tried to kill his vassals. #Horeki Years - Mid-1700s. Asuma - This place must be cursed! Kumagami - I've had enough of this. Kumagami - Ghosts and curses! Kumagami - How long are you going to continue this on for? Shinshi - Er, but.. Shinshi - Although we've sort of passed Obon, horror stories in the summer are fun. #Obon is the period of beginning to mid-August when people go back to #their hometown to pay a visit to see their ancestor's ghosts. (as #well as being a time to see one's parents.) It's natural that we talk #about ghosts during this time of the period, and it might be a wisdom #from the past since horror stories give you a shiver, that might be #psychosomatic to surviving the torrid summer heat in Japan. p.31 Shinshi - We get attracted to horror stuff at this time of the year.... Ohta - There's a horror story back from my hometown! Kumagami - I have not intention of listening to it. Asuma - She's not very interesting, is she? Noa - But there aren't many people who'd talk horror stories where they _actually_ had one. [chuiiin] (motor) [chii] (motor) p.32 Asuma - Damn! Asuma - Ohta's machine is more experienced in shooting, I guess. [gasha] (moving) [bashu] (shooting) [basha] (splashing) [bashu] (shooting) [paan] (splashing) p.33 Noa - Ohta-san, you're out of bullets! Noa - Aim! Noa - ! Noa - Hey hey hey! Asuma - ? Noa - What's wrong with this? Asuma - What happened, Noa? You got some trouble or something? Noa - Damn! We just started, and we have a problem already! [bakun] (opening hatch) p.34 Noa - Hey you! Noa - Where did you come in from? Noa - It's dangerous to stand there! [suu] (pointing down, moving finger down) [pita] (motion stopping) Asuma - What happened? p.35 Noa - Hey Asuma, can you get the little boy over there away from here? Asuma - A boy? Asuma - What boy? Where? Noa - I mean... it was just there... Kumagami - Can't you stop all this? Kumagami - How long are you going to continue on with these cheap stories? Shinshi - Er... but it's a strange that both machines are having troubles. p.36 Goto - Oh well. Seems like this is inevitable. Goto - Might as well dig. Goto - Dig around where the boy was pointing his finger down. Goto - Something might come out. Kumagami - Captain, you believe in this rubbish, too? Goto - It probably isn't work the police should do... Goto - But I saw one, too. It really bogs my mind. Kumagami - No... no way... [zawa] (standing back) Goto - You look pale.. Kumagami - I..is that so? Goto - Oh. Goto - Sergeant, behind you... p.37 Goto - For that, I guess Akasaka Prince is the nearest from here. #Akasaka Prince Hotel. Luxury Hotel situated in Akasaka, Minato Ward, #Tokyo. You have a number of other luxury hotels in this region. It's #almost adjacent to places like Aoyama and Roppogi where the "gaijin" #hang out. Kumagami - Don't try to put these jokes on me... I.... Kumagami - I'm _totally_ afraid of stories like this. Shinshi - Th... Asuma - That was something I never expected. Yamazaki - I guess she was trying to bear it. Noa - Ohta-san, is your machine moving all right? Ohta - ? Ohta - Funny... there's nothing wrong now. Ohta - What was that we just had ...er... [wagh] (scream) [bokoo] (collapsing) p.38 [Na] (shocked) Noa - What.... Ohta - What the.. Ohta - What the hell is this! Noa - Yikes! p.39 [whisper x 5] Goto - Oh no... [2nd Special Mobile Section (The Patlabor Troops) reveals a crime from 250 years ago] Goto - It seems like the lord of the Hiura Clan actually killed 10 or so of his vassals when he went mad. Goto - However.... Goto - The clan reported that there were just injuries to the Shogunate, and took care of everything else secretly. Goto - The bodies were buried secretly where they once had a dungeon. Nagumo - So the grudge back from then caused the disasters that followed? Goto - I guess the people who died in the accidentes wanted us to do something with the grudge that caused everything to happen. Goto - We had one who couldn't express well... [Property of Tokyo-to No trespassing or littering Tokyo Construction Bureau] Goto - But in any case, we volunteered for the ghosts. ["Intermission" ----- The End] Ohta - But when the temple priest went into the bamboo bushes... #A cliched situation you have in Japanese horror stories. [shaka x 4] (walkman) End Intermission (The Conclusion)