Mental Out 34-B

Chapter 34-B

01

PG: The original motive, hm?

Misaki: I'll be removing Mental Out's safeties.

Misaki: This will be my full power...
Misaki: so you convert that for use against the metal like your life depends on it.

PG: I see. A full-power joint attack with no tricks.
PG: There is no greater romance.

Text: The ultimate tag team between Level 5s new and old!!
Title: Chapter 34 (Part 2)
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Nogi Yasuhito
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

SFX: Shiiine
PG: Use this!

02

Misaki: Why does it look straight out of a kid's show?
SFX: Fwoosh
SFX: Boom crash
PG: You're the one who started producing flowers.

Misaki: I can't predict what will happen at this power level.
Misaki: This is...

Misaki: everything I've got!!!
SFX: Roar

03

PG: What happened?

Misaki: Looks like our minds synced.
Misaki: It's mostly based on my mental image, though.

04

PG: So this is a mental world?
PG: Then that film floating in the void is...?
Misaki: The Previous Generation's memories.

Misaki: Including old memories she thought were forgotten.

SFX: Shine shine

PG: What?
SFX: Chk chk
Misaki: Synthesize Grid's defenses, I think.

Misaki: I've more or less figured it out.
Misaki: Right now, Mental Out and Synthesize Grid are competing.

Misaki: I'll fight through it all and check that film. You ready?
PG: Of course.
PG: But will we have time?
Misaki: Time is always accelerated thousands of times in spaces like this!
Misaki(small): Who knows if it really is, though!

05

Misaki: And in a mental world...

Misaki: I am queen☆
SFX: Boom

SFX: Boom boom boom

Misaki: First memory!
SFX: Shine

06

Aleister: Sorry about the mess.
Aleister: The place is usually much tidier.

07

Scientist: They got you good, huh?
Scientist: Where's the culprit?
Aleister: Escaped.

PG: Were you bullied?

Aleister: It was a terrorist.
Aleister: ...Is this her?
Scientist: She is our star Gemstone.

Scientist: But shouldn't repairs come before introductions? You can't have that beaker breaking, can you?
PG: Okay.

Scientist: Eh?
SFX: Scatter

08

SFX: Absorb absorb

SFX: Absorrrb

PG: Is that good?
Scientist: Wow.
SFX: Clap clap

Scientist: It's really fixed.
Scientist(small): Sure is convenient

Aleister: The rainbow color of the repaired areas...
Aleister: suggests she supplied a complementary material instead of simply combining the damaged parts.
Aleister: A crystal lattice that stimulates chemical bonds.

Aleister: You could call it a starting crystal. Hmm.

Scientist: I'm tentatively calling it Absolute Leaf.
Aleister: No.

09

Aleister: Synthesize Grid.
Aleister: You may call yourself that from now on.

Aleister: Welcome.

PG: Eh?

Aleister: Clean up in the bath and don fresh clothing.
Aleister: Academy City will give you the greatest welcome.

Aleister: I am Aleister.

10

Aleister: Let us walk a new chapter in science history together.

PG: "Welcome", hm?

PG: But what was with that tube!?
PG: How does he breathe!? Don't just float upside down!
PG: He's way more of a monster than me!

PG: Aleister... His words oddly stick with me.
PG: And seem to give me courage.

PG: I've never not feared the darkness of the night before.

11

Misaki: So was it love at first sight?
PG: You should know...

PG: what it feels like to be welcomed...
PG: when all you have ever known is rejection.

Scientist: You've really never killed anyone?
Scientist: You're not just saying that?
PG: Don't be absurd.

PG: Life is precious.
PG(outside): Don't you know that?

PG: My grandma said...
PG: if you trample on life, you will pay the price.
Scientist: Hmm.

12

Scientist: But the reports said she was being treated violently.
Scientist: If she isn't clueless, is she a saint?
Scientist: What a waste.

PG: Is that so strange?

Aleister: I believe every life has its role to play.
Aleister: Taking lives needlessly eliminates that role along with them.
Aleister: It is a loss and a bad influence.
Aleister: You are correct.

SFX: Bright

PG: I knew you'd say that!
Aleister: However.

Aleister: There are those who reject this logic.

13

Aleister: The people who oppose me will never listen.
Aleister: I am uncertain what to do about them.

Building: Development Center

PG: Did the people Aleister mentioned do this?
Scientist: Yes.
Scientist: The resistance within Academy City.

PG: And we can't reach an understanding?

Scientist: Seven victims have been found.

Scientist: Their remains had been MUTILATED by torture.

PG: Wha-

14

Scientist: Was it to get classified information?
Scientist: Ordinary workers wouldn't know any.
Scientist: You shouldn't need to go this far to learn that.
Scientist: Utter scum.

Scientist: If you trample on life, you will pay the price, was it?

Scientist: Who makes them pay that price?

PG: When it was me being hurt, I only had to bear with it.

People: "You monster!"
People: "Damn monster!"

PG: But what is this unbearable feeling?

15

PG: Have I become weaker?

Aleister: Bearing with pain may be a strength...
Aleister: but machines will always have greater endurance.

Aleister: The sensitivity to find things unbearable must be one cornerstone of human evolution.

PG: Is that so?

Aleister: Why did you never strike back at your tormentors?

PG: I knew I was human...
PG: but they called me a monster.

PG: Not a day went by I didn't ask why.
PG: Those were sad, painful days.

16

PG: But the circumstances were to blame, not them.

PG: It was only a case of incompatible people ending up side by side.
PG: Neither they nor I were to blame.
PG: So I never struck back.

Aleister: You thought you should be separated?
PG: Yes.

PG: But if we could get along, together is better.
SFX: Scatter
PG: Like in this city.

PG: This city is a miracle.
SFX: Scatter
PG: Never before have I seen espers and non-espers coexisting.
PG: I never even dreamed such a thing was possible.

PG: So I can't forgive anyone who would destroy that miracle.
SFX: Float...

17

PG: I want to protect this city.
PG: I will defeat your enemies...
PG: as Academy City's guardian.

Aleister: Let me say it once more.
Aleister: Welcome.

Aleister: Let us write a new page of science history together.

18

PG: People are so fragile.
SFX: Scatter

PG: But I'm not like you.
PG: I don't toy with people's bodies.
PG: I only deliver judgment and payment.

19

PG: I will judge all of Aleister's enemies.
PG: For the future he will build.

Misaki: Do you remember this?
PG: This is only the beginning.

PG: Do you now see what I meant the other day?

PG: From here, the abyss grows darker still.
PG: Prepare yourself.
Text: The mental journey dives deeper...