Tokyo Ghoul Re: Ch. 78 Spoilers - Full Text Translation
Title: 100P
- The chapter starts with a young Mutsuki in an interrogation room -
Mutsuki: My family was killed by Ghouls.
An investigator with a scary face looks through the glass.
Investigator: Tell us properly- what happened to your family?
Mutsuki is lying face down, tembling. “I don’t remember.”
Investigator: Don’t lie!
- Back to Mutsuki being trapped by Torso on Rushima -
He wakes up, with tears in his eyes. Torso has been watching him sleep.
Torso: You’re crying.
He wipes away Mutsuki’s tears.
Torso: Did you have a scary dream?
Mutsuki: …… no, I’m okay. (My dream was better than this) I’m hungry.
Torso: !! I will make something!
Torso feeds Mutsuki who has no arms.
Mutsuki: Do you remember things from your past?
Torso: My past…?
Mutsuki: Sometimes, I can’t remember things very well. (I have to get him talking about something. That way he won’t hit me while he’s distracted…)
Torso: Is that so?
Mutsuki: I can remember what happens before and after, but the rest is full of worm-holes.
Torso’s eyes seem to be seeing something from his past. “Well, I… and my father, it was just the two of us. He said that because we couldn’t find any food, we ate my mother.”
-Torso’s Flashback-
Torso’s Dad: Hey Karao, don’t go near any humans. You’re a stupid blockhead, and if you attract the attention of the Doves, they’ll kill me as well. If that happens, you should just die by yourself.
Torso: Yes, I understand.
Torso’s narration: I did as I was told and didn’t go into town. The tent on the mountain that we lived on was my whole world.
The tent on the mountain us filled with old magazines and a small lamp.
Torso’s narration: I had so much time, I would go through the rubbish dump and find human’s books to read.
Mutsuki: Could you read?
Torso: No, I just looked at the pictures. But later, I had a chance to learn how to read.
Torso’s narration: One time, my dad left and didn’t come back home. About a month passed, I think.
Image of the young torso lying in the tent, with his stomach growling.
Torso’s narration: Finally the hunger became too much to bear, and I broke my word and went into town.
Torso finds a small mountain village, and on seeing civilization for the first time, stands still in shock.
Young Torso: Haa, haa, it’s amazing…
Torso’s narration: I was too scared to leave the road, so I just stood there for a time.
Young Torso: What is that place… I’m scared.
Timidly he leaves to road and moves down to the village. Suddenly, a young girl appears in front of him. He stares at her with amazed eyes.
Girl: What… are you doing?
Torso’s narration: Her name was Minomi…
Young Torso: Can I… uh… walk over there?
Torso’s narration: It was the first time I had met a “living” girl.
Minomi: ?? What’s wrong?
Young Torso: A- ah, no, it’s just…
Minomi takes Torso’s hand. I’m not scared.
Young Torso: (She’s not cold…)
She leads him to an empty shrine.
Torso’s narration: That day, we just played around without a care in the world. I even forgot how hungry I was.
Young Torso: I… have to go home… my dad is…
Minomo: Me too. Will I see you again?
Torso’s narration: After a few days, my dad wandered back home. When I think about it, he probably went to the village to buy a woman, or to scavenge.
His dad says “I’m home” without looking at Torso.
Torso’s narration: Minomi had moved to this village from Kanto due to “family issues” and didn’t have any friends. Because of this, I played with her. She also taught me how to read and write. My whole world changed.
Scenes of them exchanging letters, Minomi teaching Karao how to ride a bike, then the two of them sitting on a hill together.
Minomi: Kara-chan, you didn’t go to school did you?
Young Torso: No… no.
Minomi: Why?
Torso’s narration: I couldn’t tell her “Because I’m a Ghoul”.
Young Torso: M… my family is strict.
Torso’s narration: So I said something vague.
Minomi: ? I see. I wish that…. I was also born into Kara-chan’s family.
Young Torso: What? Your family has food and a nice place to sleep, what are you dissatisfied with?
Minomi: A strange way of comforting.
Minomi: Kara-chan, do you want to go somewhere? Somewhere far away…
She rolls over, and Karao sees a fresh scar on her shoulder.
Torso’s narration: Red and blue and purple… her “Family issues” were in those bruises and cuts.
Young Torso: ……….
Torso’s narration: I could feel her life force, and it was, it was beautiful.
-The scene changes-
Torso’s dad: You went to the village!
Young Torso: What? Why?
Torso’s dad: Even if you say “Why”, it means “Why do you know?” Right, Karao?
He sticks his hand in Karao’s mouth and starts to tear apart his cheeks. Blood comes out and Torso screams.
Torso’s dad: Why would you betray me, who brings you food, by putting me in danger like this? If you wanna go to the village so much, you can be alone from now on!
On spitting that out, he leaves the tent.
Torso’s dad: .. fuck, I even provided him with food, and this is how I was repaid.
Young Torso remains in the tent, and his wounds have already healed. Rain begins to fall, and he hastily runs outside.
Young Torso: Dad! Don’t go, dad!
Torso’s narration: In the end, I was still a child. No matter what a piece of shit my dad was, I had no choice but to rely on him.
Alone, he goes down to the village, and takes shelter from the rain under a empty house. Then, from the pouring rain, Minomi appears.
Torso’s narration: To me then, Minomi was…
Minomi is standing in the rain, in her underwear with more bruses and cuts all over her body. She reaches out her hand. “Kara-chan”
Torso’s narration: She reached out her hand, and I took it. I just… didn’t know where I should have taken her.
Minomi: Wow, Kara-chan! Your house is like a secret base!
He had taken her back to his tent, and given her a jersey to wear.
Minomi: I want to go somewhere where I can see the ocean. My old house was near the beach.
Young Torso: The ocean huh…
Minomi: Yeah, there were lots of boats there.
Young Torso: If we just walked, we would get tired.
Minomi: Which is why we need a car.
She looks at the ads for second-hand cars in an old magazine while smiling slightly.
Young Torso: I… I will learn how to drive! I will take you to the ocean!
Minomi smiles. “Promise?”
Young Torso: I promise.
That night, the sleep next to each other. Minomi grasps onto Torso’s shoulder, making him too nervous to sleep. His eyes are wide open, and he is also touching himself.
Later that night, Torso wakes up to hear a strange sound outside the tent. Minomi is no longer beside him.
Torso’s narration: I was woken up by a strange sound. Like someone trying to set fire to wet branches.
He leaves the tent “Minomi…”
Torso’s narration: I went around to the back of the tent, and there I saw Minomi stark naked, and being torn apart by my father.
Torso’s dad is already eating parts of her.
Torso’s dad: Oh, you can do it too when you try! Come over here and help me!
Torso’s narration: When I came to my senses, my dad was dead. I didn’t really feel anything.
He stands spattered in his father’s blood, staring down and the remains of Minomi.
Torso’s narration: Compared to the other parts of her body, only her torso was left unharmed. It gave off a smell like bleach. From then on… well, you know what happened.
A picture showing him collecting torsos as an adult.
-End of the flashback-
Torso: At that time, the thoughts “If I do this” and “I have to do this” were etched in my mind. I think if you, Tooru, are able to forget your past, it is a good thing.
Torso has been crying.
Torso: … I… I wanted to take Minomi to the beach.
Mutsuki looks away and says nothing.
Time passes, and Mutsuki is on his side now.
Mutsuki: (I shouldn’t be able to feel sympathy for someone who took my arms and legs… but, when I finally talked to him… I think I finally understand.. maybe.)
Suddenly, Torso appears from behind and picks up Mutsuki.