Chapter 48 from p_143 to p_172 ==48-01== {Title} Hell {ハア} haa ==48-02== =1========== [As the lights pursuing us faded into the distance] [we were engulfed by darkness.] =2========== [The strong smell of vegetation] [and damp earth.] [The lingering hot air leaves behind] [a massive, crushing darkness!!] =3========== [Even with a torchlight on] [Its light is almost entirely absorbed. ] [Or rather, it merely makes the darkness seem thicker.] ==48-03== [There's a saying that goes "I could barely see beyond my feet".] [For the first time in my life I'm feeling the real fear of not being able to see what is under my feet.] =2========== [Running over grass that I can't see.] [Stumbling on countless invisible roots.] [Never knowing if the next step will be on a poisonous snake.] =3========== >Are... >Are they following us? >Itoh-san... >I can't... Run anymore... ==48-04&05== =1========== >GRRRR =3========== >Rustle ==48-08== >What is that!? >It's HUGE!! >Lion!? >Wh.. what!!? >Tiger!? >The only animal that ever seemed as large was a polar bear at the zoo. >WHY...!? >There's no cage or fence here, >but we're face to face!!!! >WITH THIS!!? ==48-09== =1========== >If I make a sound, I'm dead!! =2========== >If my legs give in, I'm dead!! =3========== >If I move, I'm dead!! >Whatever happens, I'm dead!! =4========== >We're gonna get eaten!!! =5========== >Give me a break!! =7========== >There's only one option for me now, I gotta escape, >While Nabe gets eaten!! ==48-10== >Don't hold a grudge against me!!! ==48-12== >What is this roar!? >This isn't the sound a great feline makes!! >It almost sounds human... >Human!? >Why did I think something like that? >It's absurd to even consider that a human could make a sound like this!! ==48-13== [No... There is a chaos that resides in the depths of human consciousness. ] [Since ancient times, people have held an instinctive fear of that region,] [And have called whatever dwells there "kishin", or "demon".] [If such an existence could be given voice, it would surely...] ==48-14== =2========== >Wha...!? =4========== >Eeh!? ==48-15== =1========== >Kyaaa!! =3========== {カン} clang =4========== >Ow... my ribs!! >And pelvis!! >It's a good thing... >I'm a woman... =5========== >cough cough >Our torchlight is gone. >I can't see anything below us!! ==48-16== =1========== >A cliff!? Or a pit!? {ゴクッ} gulp =2========== >Uuggh >Itoh-san, I caaan't!! >I can't hold oooon!!! >Don't give up! Believe in your strength!! =3========== >It's, uh, you know! >For friendship!! >Think of your companion with your heart!! >What, you're coming up with empty corporate slogans now!!? =4========== >Enooough! >This is goodbye Itoh-san!!! >Thank me for my help all this time!! >That's "Thank YOU for YOUR help"!! ==48-17== =1========== >Ouch! Owowowow!!! >You bitch, so it's like this huh!!! =2========== >You're despicable!! Watanabe Hiromi!!! >You'd kick another person's life away to protect your own!!! SHAME ON YOU!! =4========== >Hyaaa =6========== >Crap!! These rough days in the jungle >Have put me on a diet!!! Lucky!! But maybe not!! ==48-18== =1========== >Hey, don't take off your pants!! I don't want to have to see some confusing white things, like the panties of my editor in charge!! >I don't want to sound rude but, who do you think exposed them in the first place!!? =2========== >Oh noooooo!!! =6========== {ザザ} rustle {ゴン} Bonk {バキ} Crack {ガッソ} Bang ==48-19== =2========== >Huff >Haa >Whew =3========== >...I knew it... >It's a huge pit, or something like that. =4========== >Yucatan's limestone soil >Has unique properties that allow it to form these structures. ==48-20&21== =1========== >Itoh-san dying as a consequence of his actions is one thing, but... >Now I need to go get my pants back. >Besides, with "that" thing up there, >I have no option but go down anyway. =2========== {ハア} haa >I'm probably the only editor who's ever had >To suffer through something like this. ==48-24== =3========== >Who are you? =4========== >It doesn't really matter who!! >Hear me!! >Back!! >I'm back!! ==48-27== =1========== I'm... back!? >That's right!! My instincts ressonate with this jungle!! >Maybe this is a memory from Papua New Guinea? >Or it could be a memory I inherited from Maya, like Chan K'in explained? >Or maybe... This memory has been engraved in my genes since ancient times!? ==48-28== =2========= [It's been six days since we left the city of Agua Azul and entered the jungle.] [Kayun and the others had work to do back in the city and stayed behind.] =3========== [Retrieving Charuma's body from the police,] [talking with the company that owned the El Santo... things like that.] =4========== >Hey gramps, something ain't right here. >Hmm? ==48-29== =1========= >Weren't we were supposed to have reached Professor Akashi's camp in 4 days? >It's been 6 days already. =3========== >We did, but there was nothing there. >Hm? =4========== >Perhaps they felt some sort of danger, >or had a reason to change their campsite. >Now, we are heading to the next location. ==48-30== =1========== >I hear the sound of howling monkeys but... something smells different! =2========== >It's gone! >Is it moving to avoid staying downwind? =3========== >The howling ceases at a specific point. >Must be a beast greater than the monkeys... =4========== >And now the area of silence is moving... >Coming this way!