g00 second birthday

[page 1]
I've known everything about myself since I woke up.
What I must do.
What I'm meant to hope for.
I...
What sort of creature I am.

[page 2]
Setsuna and Ribbons. The confrontation between the two
who bear the task of guiding humanity continues after the finale
The eve of "A wakening of the Trailblazer," inside Veda….

[page 3]
Hiling: " 'morning Ribbons! Want something to eat?"
Ribbons: "......No."
Hiling: "Today's test won't fail!"
Ribbons: "Well, okay, I'll have just a little something then."
Hiling: "Yay <3"
Revive: "She seems strangely pleased with herself today."
Bring (or possibly Revive again): "I think combat drills are more important though."
Hiling: "Drills aren't necessary with humans for opponents."
Hiling: "Since their senses are really dull."

[page 4]
Hiling: "We're different from humans."
After Aeolia went into stasis on the moon {note: lit. "after Aeolia fell asleep on the moon"}
I started to move according to the plan.

[page 5]
[I] made my fellow Innovators. {note: it's "comrade" glossed w/ "Innovator"}
And backed up the birth of Celestial Being
Based on the GN Drives
[I] developed the Gundams.

Regene: "Ribbons…"
Regene: "Is he awake yet?"
Hiling: "Regene, are you talking about Tieria again?"
Ribbons: "Even if you don't worry about it, when the time comes of course he'll wake up."
Ribbons: "Tieria's got a special role waiting just for him."
Regene: "What sort of role…?"
Ribbons: "He'll become one of Celestial Being's Gundam Meisters."

Part 2:

[page 6]
Regene: "You're sending Tieria to Celestial Being!?"
Ribbons: "That's why you probably won't meet even when he wakes up."
Ribbons: "About a hundred days after Celestial Being commences operations, he'll die as enemy of the world."
Ribbons: "This was decided from the beginning as part of the plan."
Hilling: "Too bad~"
Hiling: "If you want someone with the same pattern, why don't you make one?"
Regene: "Shut up."

Innovators are different from humans.
They're a higher form of life.

[page 7]
Furthermore, I'm different from you.
The one who leads humanity
And stands above all other life
Is [me]
Ribbons Almark

Hiling: "Ribbons! Where are you going?"
Ribbons: "It looks like 0 Gundam is finished."
Ribbons: "I'm going to conduct a mobility test."

[page 8]
Hiling: "Eee~ How nice. Where're you gonna do it?"
Ribbons: "Hm. Since we still can't let the humans see the Gundam,"
Ribbons: "How about the Middle East… Around Azadistan?"
Ribbons: "It's an area of civil unrest. It might be perfect. Clean up should be easy."
Hiling: "Ribbons~ Be careful"
Ribbons: "Thanks"

It was just a test run.

The condition was superb
There couldn't have been a more favorable result

Everything was reduced to ashes
I'd finished erasing the eye-witnesses

Not an enemy or friend––

[page 9]
––should have been there.

On that day

I

Could you say I mistook a lamb for Death?

[page 10]
Since that child looked up to me too much

Because he looked at me with those eyes

Regene: "Hey, on what basis did you choose the human Meisters?"
Ribbons: "I left it up to Veda."
Regene: "That's a lie."
Regene: "You included Soran Ibrahim, didn't you."
Ribbons: "Disposition-wise, there's no problem."
Ribbons: "At the present stage, we don't have any additional candidates."

Part 3. Horrifying revelation: Hiling and co. had front-row seats to Ribbons/Alejandro's sexy time.

[page 11]
Ribbons: "I wonder if the rest is up to his own luck?"
Ribbons: "He survived, and finally made it to Celestial Being."
Revive: "Ribbons looks like he's been having fun lately."
Revive: "I wonder if it's because Aeolia's plan has finally started to make progress?"
Hiling: "I wanna go to war soooooon."
Hiling: "I wanna pilot a Gundammmmm."
Regene?: "Isn't it good that he's doing well."
Hiling: "Eh? What's he doing this time?"
Hiling: "He's a human's…."
Hiling: "Page? Subbordinate? Eeeh!?"
Revive/Regene?: "That human is a UN ambassador."
Hiling: "So what!?"

[page 12]
Hiling: "Hold on–– How is this possible?"
Revive: "Is that human alright?"
Revive: "If it's Ribbons, that person's got some really bad hobbies." {not so sure about this line, I'll have to look at it again}
Hiling: "But… How can I put it…"
Hiling: "He looks like he's enjoying it."

Ribbons: "Mr. Alejandro, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
Alejandro: "Thanks, perfect timing."
Alejandro: "And what is this?"
Ribbons: "A vitamin tablet and a chip with the list on it."

[page 13]
Ribbons: "I've prepared a list of the people I remember from the recent negotiations who seem useful."
Ribbons: "If it pleases you, make use of it."
Alejandro: "Ribbons"
Alejandro: "You really..."
Alejandro: "always give me what I want."
Ribbons: "Naturally."
Alejandro: "It couldn't have been luck that allowed me to meet you."
Alejandro: "You, of course, are an angel sent to me by God."

Hiling: "A human! Are you kidding me!? Are you kidding me!?"
Hiling: "Don't touch him!"
Hiling: "To Ribbons he was just amusing and useful."
Hiling: "I wonder if Ribbons was bored."
Hiling: "Anyway, humans are too stupid!"
Hiling: "It was probably interesting because they were stupider than expected."
Hiling?: "Look"

Part 4

[page 14]
Hiling?: "Tieria and Soran…"
Hiling?: " 'Setsuna' "
Hiling?: "Are meeting."

[page 15]
?: "Everything is going according to Aeolia's plan"
?: "Everything is in the palm of Ribbons' hand"
?: "It's simple."
?: "Were we Innovators born for this purpose?"

[page 16]
Little by little…
The plan is going amiss…
Correct it…

Ribbons: "Even though when the world unites, Celestial Being [was always] supposed to have been destroyed,"
Ribbons: "Why is Tieria crying? And for a human"

If I don't correct it…

Ribbons: "Alejandro was an idiot… but because he was amusing….it was a little unfortunate."

…correct it.

[page 17]
They don't listen…

Anew: "If bonds are that important, why don't we try it out?"
Ribbons?: "I invested [so much] in Anew" {this is really poorly phrased, the verb here is "invest/commit" as in "to invest time/money/resources/etc" in something, but there's no indirect object so literally it's just "I invested in Anew" so take that as you will}

Change…

Hiling: "I finally get to pilot a Gundam. I love fighting."

Change the path...

Hiling: "Trans-am is so interesting...!

They don't listen

To think that humans could become Innovators


[page 18]
Ribbons: "Do you want revenge?"
Ribbons: "It's commendable to carry out your desires with your own hands."
Ribbons: "It's a worthy cause to support."
Ribbons: "I'll give you power."
Louise: "Thank you.... very much..."
Louise: "I'll do my best."
Ribbons: "Humans are weak in both mind and body."


Part 5. Gee, would it really have been so hard to, I don't know, develop the main villian just a little in the actual series?

[page 19]
Ribbons: "That's why I.."
Ribbons: "carry them along."

[Taking] humanity to the future.

Ribbons: "I guide them"

Regene: "But, right now, without humans we become meaningless."
Regene: "Like if there were only sheperds and no sheep."
Ribbons: "You're really stupid. That has to do with you all."
Ribbons: "I"m not a sheperd."
Ribbons: "I'm a GOD!!"

[page 20]
Because I, of course, am Aeolia's child!!

Regene: "Tieria…. Can you hear me?"
Regene: "Ribbons is dreaming again. It doesn't seem like a very fun dream."
Tieria: "He really is extremely obstinate."

[page 21]
Tieria: "Well, whatever…"
Tieria: "To those of us who have become one with Veda,"
Tieria: "It's easy to just let him sleep. We should be together*." {*idk about this, don't read too much into it}

Tieria: "Don't wake him."
Tieria: "You should sleep too."
Regene: "But I don't wanna"
Tieria: "It's not time yet."
Tieria: "Sleep."

Regene: "….. I wonder if"
Regene: "Ribbons will ever come to understand Setsuna?"

Tieria: "Who knows…"
Tieria: "I wonder what he'll do, since he's so obstinately proud."
Regene: "Ribbons? Setsuna's the one who's obstinately proud."
Tieria: "No, Setsuna's not like that."


Part 6:


[page 22]
Ribbons: "Isn't this a bit much for a prank?"
Ribbons: "Aren't you going to kill me or something?"
Ribbons: "Even though I'm the one who found you! But it was a coincidence."
Ribbons: "Even though I'm the one who saved you on a whim!"
Ribbons: "You want me dead because I got in your way."
Ribbons: "Isn't that how it is?!"
Ribbons: "Your life is my possession and my right, I gave it to you!"
Setsuna: "You're right."

[page 23]
Setsuna: "On that day"
Setsuna: "You gave me life."
Setsuna: "Until that day, I'd only been born."
Setsuna: "After that, only death awaited me."
Setsuna: "On that day, you and Gundam were one,"
Setsuna: "And you gave me a reason to live."
Setsuna: "I wanted to become Gundam."
Ribbons: "Don't make me laugh!"
Ribbons: "I didn't do it for you. I wasn't [made?] for you!." {last sentence is lit. "I'm not for your sake." there isn't really a verb in there}
Ribbons: "I'm not an Innovator for humans!!!"

You always pretended not to notice.

[page 24]
Ribbons: Did Aeolia love humans?
Ribbons: Only humans?
Ribbons: Was it only for humanity's sake that he started an evolution and made us?
Ribbons: Am *I* humanity's slave?
Ribbons: "No"
Ribbons: "I'm here to guide those foolish humans!"

[page 25]
Setsuna: "That's it."
Setsuna: "Because you were there, I am here."
Setsuna: "On that day, I met you,"
Setsuna: "And I was born."

It's Setsuna
Who Aeolia was waiting for
The child who walks out in front

And

[page 26]
I was there for the children he'd been waiting for

And the end!

[page 27]
Setsuna
Even when I'm sleeping deeply
I can feel your presence

It's gotten bigger

I know you
I know my comrades

…and I know him
And I too have become a human

Maybe you could say that I've been reborn.

Regene: "Tieria, you're smiling."

[page 28]
Tieria: "....."
Tieria: "I was having a nice dream, leave me alone."
Regne: "Don't you understand that I'm always waiting for you to wake up?"
Tieria: "Even if you don't worry about it, soon..."
Regene: "You'll wake up?"
Tieria: Until the dialogues to come
Tieria: It seems like it's not all that far off
Regene: "You're sleeping again!?"
Tieria: Until then, I'll rest a bit