Mental Out 35

Chapter 35

01

Scientist: And that is what happened.
Title: Chapter 35
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Nogi Yasuhito
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

Text: How will Aleister respond to this painful report about the Previous Generation?

Scientist: The "remains" have gone silent...
Scientist: but they could still be dangerous so we are preparing to quarantine them.
Scientist: Now is your last chance to say goodbye.

02

Aleister: No need.

Aleister: Her awkward nature...
Aleister: focused on the convictions shining in her heart...
Aleister: rather than any visible phenomena.

Aleister: So rather than engrave her remains upon my retinas...

Aleister: it would honor her memory more to let her healthy form...
Aleister: live on in my sea of neurons.

Scientist: ...Probably so.

03

Scientist: Then I will do what must be done.
Aleister: It is in your hands.
Scientist: Yes, sir.
Scientist: See you later.

Aleister: Synthesize Grid transformed her body into a piece of metal.

Aleister: But what happened to her soul?

Aleister: We have yet to elucidate the nature of the soul.
Aleister: If Synthesize Grid could interfere with even that...
Aleister: then her soul, freed from its cage of flesh...
Aleister: could be wandering this world even now.

SFX: Sparkle

Scientist: It's in my hands, huh?

04

Scientist: YES, IT...
Scientist: MOST CERTAINLY IS.

05

PG: What happened?
PG: Why am I still here?

Scientist: Synthesize Grid redefined and reconstructed you.
SFX: Tug
Scientist: That's the only explanation I can think of.

Scientist: So you have transcended the limits of a physical body.
Scientist: And death.
Scientist: And aging.

06

Scientist: Oh, how I envy you.

PG: No! I don't want to live in such a ghastly form!
PG: What meaning is there in this life?

Scientist: Revenge.

Scientist: You have the right to revenge.
Scientist: Against Aleister for abandoning you.

PG: ...!?

PG: What are you-
Scientist: I will make you a True Body.

07

Scientist: The project is already underway.
Scientist: I am not officially involved...
Scientist: but your worshipers...
Scientist: will spend years and sacrifice anything to accomplish it. You will have vengeance.

Scientist: Become our vengeful god.

PG: You expect me to behave like a lowly animal?

Scientist: Says the person who killed countless people.

Scientist: "Every life has its role to play."
Scientist: So said Aleister.

08

Scientist: With that role taken from you, what purpose do you have but revenge?

PG: My role...

PG: Then what is your role?
PG: What are you plotting?

PG: Answer me, Unabara.

Unabara: I...
SFX: Slip

Unabara: ...want to usurp the throne WITH MY SCHOOL.
SFX: Click
SFX: Shine

09

Unabara: So I want the very best children.

PG: Are you after the position of Board Chairman!?
Unabara: That alone isn't enough.

Unabara: An eternal body.
Unabara: Eternal growth.
Unabara: Eternal progress.
Unabara: Eternal control.
Unabara: I am greedy, you see.

PG: That's insane!!

Unabara: Oh?

10

Unabara: But I've already found eternal life here.

PG: !?

Unabara: Thank you, Synthesize Grid.
Unabara: For making my dream come true.

Unabara: You really are the #1 Level 5.

Unabara: And my school will be the best place to grow the True Body.
Unabara: It is a den of monsters where students Level 3 and higher compete.

11

Unabara: Come knocking on the door...
Unabara: to Tokiwadai Middle School.

Unabara: Let us bring down Aleister's BOY...
Unabara: and use your eternal life...

Unabara: to reach the very top.

12

PG: A powerful desire can narrow your view.
PG: I may have been too hasty.

13

Misaki: Really? I bet that woman was manipulating you from the start.
Misaki(outside): Looking back at it. Whoa...
PG: You're right.

PG: But the fault lies in my circumstances...
PG: and myself for letting it happen.

PG: If only I weren't imperfect...

Misaki: You're wrong there.

14

Misaki: Being imperfect gives you a future to strive for.

Misaki: Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes we fail quite spectacularly.
Misaki: We grow by getting back on our feet...
Misaki: either on our own or with some help☆

Misaki: There's no shame in being imperfect and messing up.

Misaki: A perfect being would make no mistakes...
Misaki: but they wouldn't want to do anything.
Misaki: I bet they would sit back and do nothing at all like they're better than everyone.
Misaki(small): Like this

15

Misaki: However you did it, you strove for the future...
Misaki: which makes you more human than anyone.
Misaki: You aren't a monster or a machine.

Misaki: I guarantee it.

PG: Maybe so.

PG: By the way.

PG: Do you know...
PG: who "HE" is?
PG(outside): The hateful person Aleister mentioned.
Text: Run, spiky-haired boy!!!
Misaki: Eh!?