Page 2
Dude: That thing will steal our dreams... Bbe careful.
Winged thing: I know.

Page 5:
Dude: Where is this nightmare demon’s dream located.
Winged: Probably around his right armpit(under his arm area/flank).

Page 13:
Merchant-looking dude: If it isn’t Yuka and BB.
Lady: Hello. Is your shop doing well?
Merchant: Thanks to you.
Yuka's dreams are nice eh?
Merchant(again?): It is because it is peaceful that many people have gathered.
Merchant again: Recently, in big dreams, there is only fighting. Can't set up shop in those places.


Page 14:
Ponytailed Lady: Hey Yuka, you wanted this Angel's egg, right? You can have it.
Yuka: Is that really all right with you?
Big dude: What are you saying? Usually when other people set up shop via their white dream, presenting a portion of the proceeds from the sale to the dream's owner is normal.
Big dude(again): It’s because you let us use it free of charge.
Yuka: Thanks
Either big dude or Ponytail: We are in the same party. Don't worry about it.

Page 15:
Angel wings person: Oh!
Yuka: The hatching of the egg containing the dream of having wings was successful.
Yuka again: It’ll be weak at first,. but soon, you'll be able to fly.
Wings person: Thanks!
I knew I could rely on your dream weaving services.
Wings person again: But, are you really alright with it being free of charge?
Ponytail: That is an excellent item.
Ponytail again: No wonder she’s one of the top class dream users in this field.
Goat/Sheep/Helmet thing: Oh, I need to log out.

Page 16:
Ponytail: Oh, me too!
Goat: See you again at 9pm then.?
Sword: gtg too.
Yuka: I see.

Page 17: klak
Computer: Mugen Sekai [Fantasy World]
Building: City Child [Consultation] Services

Page 18:
Sign: Meeting Room 3
1st bubble: Do you have children?
2nd: If not, you wouldn't understand...
3rd: For me, it's not as if I live solely for my children...
4th: I also have a right to be happy, you know.
5th: Police are investigating if the child's back injuries are a result of abuse.
6th: ...
7th: We aren't saying that you will be separated forever. It's only temporary...
8th: Just saying, Iif you have worries regarding the child's upbringing, we'd like to recommend a counsellor.

Page 19:
1st: Hello.
2nd: Hi, Ddetective...
3rd: Please call me Matsuda-san.
4th: Sorry for calling you out like this...
5th: That online game [Fantasy World]...
6th: Thanks for showing me the ropes when I was a newb...
7th: No no, not a problem.
8th: It’s interesting, isn’t it? I was addicted for a period of time too...
9th: Although I've been really busy lately, and I haven't touched it in awhile.
10th: Being able to share each player's dreams is a new concept, right?
11th: It’s like you’re sort of simulating the dreams you have in the real world inside the game.

Page 20:
1: But, it's unexpected that a manager like you would enjoy such a game, eh?
2: Really?
3: About the Takamori incident...
4: Uh... you're talking about the...
5: Ah... Ohhh...
6: If you're talking about the current case we're investigating, we haven't gotten any leads yet.
7: That girl, Shizuka-chan...
8: It’s a pity, isn’t it...
9: She is still at an age where she cannot do anything by herself, yet she's already been through hell... And now this had to happen to her...
10: When I first got here because of the local report, I could already tell that she is a victim of abuse.
11: She has injuries all over and has been malnourished for an extended period of time…

Page 21:
1: Both parents denied it, however, leading us to an impasse.
The girl was probably told not to say anything by her father...
2: We were going to keep visiting her,  and take the appropriate measures if we found anything out, but...
3: It's already been a week...
4: Since they've disappeared...
5: The father just recently quit his job... and there wasn’t really anyone that knew them...
6: Because of that, any criminality in this case isn't really clear cut, so the police's hands are tied...
7: I talked to her alone many times, however...
8: No matter what I said, she didn't react. It's as if I were talking to a doll.
9: It seems like she lost the ability to feel emotions due to a long period of hardship...
10: But... you know how her father's job involves computers? She was using her father's old computers.
11: When we talked about computers, she became more lively.
12: Perhaps her emotions that had been suppressed in real life were still functioning in the virtual world.

Page 22:
1: I heard about it from her, you know...
2: That there was this online game called, “[Fantasy World.”]
3: Eeh?
4: At first, I started the game because I wanted to get closer to her, and I thought that might help...
5: It wasn't really personal, just doing my job...
6: So you made a character in the game for her sake?
7: Yea...
8: Wanted to get closer to her without revealing my identity so I felt like I had to join her party somehow
9: Really? But...
10: Players are anonymous you know, and tens of thousands of people play the game. Are you really sure that the party you joined was really hers?
11: True, it could be that I am only of the impression that I joined her party...
12: I've guessed based only on what she has said. Although I'm also not 100% convinced either...
13: I can't be too forceful about it or else she might get suspicious and just hide herself from me, and that would be the end...
14: But…

Page 23:
1: When the girl was in kindergarten, you know the incident where the lady upstairs died?
2: You know how in the game you can customise your face?
3: Somehow, there is a character in the game with the same face as that lady... and the character's name is Yuka, the name of that lady.
4: hmm... I heard about that...
5: There was no proof but there was doubt as to whether there really wasn't actually any abuse...
6: ...
7: You’re not telling me that whoever’s controlling that character... is still playing the game, are you?.
8: I meet and talk to that player every day, you know...
9: WHAT DID YOU SAY?
10: So you mean...
11: Even though her whereabouts are unknown, she is still accessing the game from somewhere…?
12: Yes…

Page 24:
1: So if we trace her access point...
2: We can find out where they are living...
3: Is that possible?
4: If we contact the game's publisher, we might be able to obtain information like the IP address which we could use...
5: I'm still not 100% sure that it really is her though...
6: At this point, we don't really have any other lead, so this might be our only option...
7: At the very least, we have to find out whether she is still alive.
8: If we are even a moment too late...
9: I'll leave it to you... I'll try to get closer to her online.

Page 25:
1: It is quite impossible to obtain her location via chat without revealing my identity...
2: Yea... you're right... We don't know how much supervision her father has over her. If we are not careful, it is possible he might flee...
3: I got it...
4: We've got trouble Yuka!
5: The nightmare army is attacking!
6: …

Page 26:
1: I've never heard of nightmares attacking this encampment before...
2: If we don't repel them, we'll be swallowed by the nightmares…

Page 27:
1: Whatever happens, I want to defend this place.
2: Please help me.
3: Ok
4: BB...
5: Lend me your strength.

Page 28:
1: Their have large numbers, but they aren't too strong.
2: We'll manage somehow...
3: One of them made it into the palace!
4: It will be bad if it reaches the dream center.
5: Yes
6: I'm going.

Page 30:
1: ...
2: ?!
3: Ah!

Page 31:
1: Stop it...
2: My dream...
3: Don't destroy it…

Page 32:
1: I knew it...
2: I can't escape, huh…

Page 33:
1: Yo BB!
2: Sorry, I had work yesterday...
3: We got done in by a nightmare attack...
4: Yuka's dream got swallowed too...
5: What a waste... Even though this dream was so much more exquisite that many other dreams...
6: It’s a shame...
7: Ah!
8: BB!

Page 34:
1: Ah... umm...
2: Please don't be depressed.
3: It's all right... it's just a game, after all.
4: I can just make it again from scratch.
5: Also, you can use cash items to easily remake it...
6: But hey, didn't you mention this earlier, Yuka?
7: Eh?
8: After some investigations, it seems that there is a nightmare nest
 At the southmost point of this map,
9: Seems like it was nightmares from there.
10: I see.
11: Those nightmares,
12: they flew to the south…

Page 35:
1: But I've never heard of such a thing happening.
2: It is probably a new quest program...
3: The nightmare that Yuka fought was pretty strong. If we manage to retrieve the dream that the nightmare swallowed,
4: it seems like we might be able to restore it back to how it was. It's that kind of quest.
5: I see.
6: It's been awhile since a quest put up a challenge.
7: You read my mind.
8: I thought I did everything available in this game already. I was already preparing to quit.
9: Let's go. Seems like it will be interesting.

36
10: Yea...
11: Let's go.
12: Thanks!

Page 38:
1: Yes... Ah... Mastuda-san?
2: Discovered anything?
Next panel is bottom right, not long panel on left I think.
3: We were working with the computer specialist department to investigate but...
4: When we were probing the server to determine personal information and location,
5: it jumped to an overseas server. In the end, we didn't manage to find out anything.
6: A hacker might be behind this situation...
7: But she is still an elementary school student, right?
8: Maybe you've made a mistake somewhere?

Page 39:
1: We're investigating both the online and thein real world on our end of things,life but...
2: if we assume that the girl really is that character in game,
then at this point, that character is the only link we have to the girl.
3: But one thing still bothers me.
4: If she is playing that game, doesn't it mean she has access to the internet?
5: She probably has had many chances to seek help via the internet without her father knowing.
6: I wonder why she continues playing the game without doing as such...
7: She has been playing the game continuously ever since she disappeared.
8: Are you really sure that that player is Shizuka-chan?
9: Yeah, she might be a kid, but I find it hard to understand her actions...
10: The thing that I find most difficult to understand is that,
11: after the girl's disappearance, there has not been evidence that Yuka has ever logged out.

Page 40:
1: Hey, can you somehow find her before the 27th of May?
2: Eh? That is still 2 weeks away, right? Why specifically by then?
3: It's her birthday.
4: Birthday?
5: Seems like her father is the kind of person that repeatedly tells their own child, "It would have been better if you were never born."
6: Whether it's because of that or for some other reason, it seems like she receives even harsher abuse on that day.
7: In truth, she has been sent to the hospitable multiple times right after her birthday.
8: In short,
9: You're saying that there is a danger that she might encounter the same fate this year, so we have to find her by then...
10: Still, that is terrible...
11: To a child, their birthdays should be the happiest day of the year.
12: I’ve come to believe that when people whose one and only parent continuously reject their child. The child then grows up believing that to be true.
13: The child then loses interest in the harsh realities of the real world and escapes it to live in the virtual world.

Page 41:
1: Guwah!!
2: This guy is ridiculously strong...
3: Should we regroup? What should we do?
4: Sorry the other side was a lot of trouble.
5: Yuka-san.
6: Ah!

Page 42:
1: huh?
2: What?
3: What? A bug?

Page 43:
1: Oh, I made a mistake.
2: Have to go back and redo it, huh...
3: Hello.
4: Oh, Matsuda-San.
5: What's that?
6: Ah, just a little knitting.
7: Oh, you're interested in knitting huh?
8: Not really…

Page 44:
1: We've discovered something a little weird...
2: Right now, you are Shizuka-Chan are in this dungeon right?
3: Yea, it's been giving us a hard time...
4: That's weird...
5: That part of the game is actually blank. According to the game developers, it shouldn't be possible for anything to be there.
6: Huh...
7: rururu (Phone ringing)
8: Ah, sorry. Gimme a moment.

Page 45:
1: Yes, this is Matsuda speaking.
2: What? Really?
Caption: Living Room of the Takamori Household
3: Yes, I understand.
4: ........... (sfx bubble says pi!, probably sound of phone call ending)
5: Even though I thought I was only playing a game,
6: Maybe I was actually lost inside the girl's dreams.

Page 46:
1: What?
2: Yea, that isn't possible.
3: Seems like they found the apartment the girl and her father were living at.
4: Oh.
5: Then the two of them...
6: I wonder... I don't know the details yet but I'll let you know later.
7: Later then...
8: Thanks for your hard work.

Page 47:
1: Seems like they figured out the police's movements and have disappeared.
2: They never had furniture delivered nor did they have any contact with neighbouring people.
3: We have no clue as to where their current destination is but...
4: They left behind traces of blood on the floor.
5: After examination, it seems to indeed be Shizuka-chan's.
6: Her birthday is in 3 days...
7: If we don't find her soon... she might be in danger.

Page 48:
1: We finally made it.
2: Yea.
3: …

Page 49:
1: Which way should we go?
2: Should we split into 2 parties?
3: ...
4: How about Yuka-san and I go this way
5: While Mimi-san and Kotetsu-san go that way? (They spell it kotetu but typing tu into the ime gets you つ which is tsu)
6: If either of us finds a route that we can advance via, use chat to contact the other party and we'll meet up.

Page 50:
1: Hey Yuka-san, can we talk? Just the two of us.
2: Ok
3: Sure...
4: Let's change to whisper mode.
5: Oh! So passionate! Two love birds...
6: Hahaha, it's not like that…... Excuse us then...
7: ...
8: Why do you think that?
9: That’s not what it’s about, right?
10: I know...
11: I noticed...
12: Only your character is male. You're a woman right?
13: Women's intuition.
14: fufufu…

Page 51:
1: I feel sort of lame... If only you told me earlier.
2: But, that would ruin the fun.
3: Also, I don't hate this kind of situation.
4: When I'm in trouble, you’re always there to save me, like a knight in shining armor.
5: ...
6: That's right, I want to save you...
7: Shizuka-chan...
8: How?...
9: You're Takamori Shizuka-san right?

Page 52:
1: I was the person-in-charge on your child abuse case at the city's Child guidance and advisory center. My name is Terada Mie. Do you remember me?
2: ...
3: I remember
4: Now that you mention it, we did talk about this game before.
5: I want to help you.
6: To me, it looks like you’re only running away from your problems into this game..
7: The dangerous position you’re in right now is a problem we must resolve in real life.
 8: If you don't come to us for help first, we can't do anything from our end either.
9: I want you to tell us your current location.

Page 53:
1: I...
2: I'm living inside this game - this dream.
3: I want to understand your feelings, but...
4: That's not what I meant.
5: No matter how hard my real life may have been, I could be me as long as I was in this dream,. Even if it is virtual...
6: A happy family... Dependable comrades... The strength to fight my enemies...
7: In real life, I have none of these things...
8: That is why, I truly wished...
9: that if only the dream world were actually the real world, and the real world a dream…

Page 56:
1: When I came to
2: I wasn’t in front of the keyboard,. I was inside the dream.
3: In other wordst, this is what happened:.
4: I am a literal resident of this dream.
5: That’s not... That’s impossible. Such a thing is impossible.
6: If that's the case, then what about the you in the real world?
7: I don't know, but I don't care anymore either...
8: Even if this is the virtual world, it’s the only place I can really live., I’m fine with that...
9: Going back to the real world...,
10: is scary...

Page 57:
1: But I know I'm not completely safe here either.
2: Even in this dream, he intends to make me suffer.
3: That's why, if I don't do something...
4: ?
5: What do you mean?
6: That’s right...
7: Looks like he moved in 3 days ago...
(SFX doorbell ringing pinpon)
8: You're sure this is the guy, right?
9: Go around back to the window.
(SFX doorbell pinpon)

Page 58:
1: Maybe nobody is home.
2: This dungeon really doesn't have any monsters, huh...
3: Can't contact the other two either...
4: yea.
5: ...
6: In the first place, I don't think this dungeon exists in the game...
7: This place is inside your dream, isn't it?

Page 59:
1: I wonder...
2: We've arrived.
3: eh
4: What do you intend to do?
5: This is the last stage of the dungeon.
6: What on earth lies ahead?
7: The quest boss lies here.
8: …

Page 60:
1: Wha-?
2: That’ is...
3: your...
4: father?
5: Shizuka-san?

Page 61:
1: Now... defeat him...
2: That man...
3: He is this last boss of the quest...
4: Wha- wait... What happened?
What is this? Are we still inside the game? ... Or is this an illusion inside your dream that you’ve conjured?
5: Or is it...
6: ga ga bi do... (Think it's just random sfx)
7: he... katsukou (Don't know, probably random sfx too)
8: te... (sfx probably)

Page 62:
1: I-...
2: I can't do it...
3: Why?
4: Didn't you say you would help me?
5: ku...
(SFX biyuu, sword whistling probably)

Page 63:
1: Finish him!
2: I can't do it?
3: No matter how you look at it... this is...
4: Tch…

Page 64:
1: Ah, Mastuda-san?
2: What's happened? If you need a favour, just ask.
3: Yea, uh, I was wondering how it was going...
4: What? Really?
5: It’s a little unbelievable, to say the least...
6: I was also just about to call you...
7: Yesterday, we found one of Takamori's apartments...
8: When we kicked down the door, we found Takamori Shirou., He was passed out due to a large wound.
(SFX doki, heart pounding)
9: I see...
10: The wound looks like it was caused by a large bladed weapon like a sword or axe.
11: It's possible he was involved in some other crime, but... it seems like the crime was committed just before we arrived and the criminal disappeared.
12: So, the father… is he...

Page 65:
1: He's alive...
2: The surgery was successful. We're waiting for his condition to stabilize before we interrogate him.
3: Then...
4: Where is Shizuka-chan…? She should be safe, right?
5: ...
6: I’m, sorry to say but...
7: In the room's closet we found a cardboard box with trash bags inside.
(Next panel is the one directly below, depicting a cardboard box only, no humans)
8: Inside the bags, we found the dismembered corpse of the girl.
8: The remains had already been decomposing for a few weeks...
9: We believe that the girl's time of death coincides with the time that the father and child went missing from their original house.
10: Wha-...

Page 66:
1: I see...
2: So that's how it is…

Page 67:
1: Your father probably ran from place to place in order to prevent your murder from coming to light. ... all the while, hiding your remains by carrying them with him...
2: I'm a fool...
3: I was too afraid to even look back that I never even tried to find out...
4: I see...
5: So I was already dead, huh...
6: To me, this situation is still quite unbelievable.
7: It might be possible for you to continue living within this game as your character...
8: But... as for your dad, it’s already…

Page 68:
1: hah...
2: I wonder why I feel relieved...
3: Huh...
4: I... don't have to run anymore...
5: ...
6: yea
7: Nobody is going to hurt you anymore.
8: It's...
9: It's finally over…

Page 69:
1: Yuka-san's white dream has been restored for the most part, eh?
2: It's about time for me to log out.
3: Yea, guess I'll logout too.
4: See you tThen...
5: Maybe it's time...
6: for me to logout too...
7: ...
8: Yea…

Page 70:
1: Sorry...
2: I involved you in a really nasty situation...
3: Nah...
4: Nobody would believe that we were responsible if we told them that’s how it happened, so I would not even come under suspicion.
5: Even if that were the case, nobody would blame you...
6: Why did, things have to turn out like this…...?
7: I guess, my birth really was a mistake.
8: hah...
9: ... Yuka-san
10: Today is your birthday isn't it?
11: Wha-?
12: Yea but...
13: If you can travel between the dream and the real world, can you see me through my webcam?
14: uh... yea.

Page 71:
1: A sweater? (Text at bottom says can you see me? Smiley face)
2: It was done pretty badly, right?
3: I'm pretty clumsy at this stuff, so it didn't turn out so well.
4: You were always wearing the same shabby clothing, so...
5: I was thinking of giving this to you as a birthday present if we managed to rescue you.
6: oh.
7: In the end, I wasn't able to pass it to you...
8: So I at least wanted you to see a picture of it.,…

Page 72:
1: Happy birthday, Shizuka-Chan!
2: Shizuka-chan...
3: ...
4: Sorry...
5: A picture doesn’t make much of a present...
6: Hahaha...
7: Thank you, but...
8: I'm already dead, so celebrating my birthday is a bit...
9: well...
10: You're right, it is kinda weird...
11: fufufu
12: hahaha

Page End:
1: Haha...
2: ... Then...
3: It's about time that I go...
4: Yea...
Fin