Gundam Ace March: Blue Memories (Allelujah and Soma chapter)

Jan 23, 2009 18:18

In which I bribe people to translate for me.

Translated by citrinitas668 at http://ninteenpointzerofour.wordpress.com/



Mobile Suit Gundam 00 -Blue Memories-

Chapter 2 “Allelujah and Souma”

The main story of episode 7 of S2 told from Marie and Souma’s perspective. Her influence phrase is “Souma’s deeply slumbering ‘bond’ to Allelujah”

A spread illustration of Allelujah finally arriving in the middle of a forest where Marie is sleeping.

A full-scale supplement of Marie and Allelujah’s time at the super soldier facility.

“It’s only Allelujah who can talk to me.” Says a smiling Marie.

Allelujah mutters “Sounds lonely” to which a delighted Marie responds “It’s nothing of the sort! My loneliness has ended. I’m not lonely anymore. Because Allelujah came!” and Allelujah promises “I’ll come to see Marie every day!” And then he remembers the experiments he [endures] every day [and adds] “Maybe every day is a bit unreasonable. But when I can come I certainly will come!” leaning forward as he makes his promise.

“Don’t be lonely anymore!” Allelujah says smiling and Marie says to herself again “You were everything to me. My comrade, my friend, my family, and most of all-”

There is a depiction of the scene in which Allelujah and his comrades escape and Marie reaches out, crying.

Souma, newly transfered to A-LAWS, promises Sergei, “when my [tour of] duty is over, I’ll certainly return,” but when she sees the automaton-mass-killing at the Katharon base, she says, staring at her shaking hands “I’ve killed people with these hands.” Reminiscing about the four years of day to day life she spent with Sergei, Souma [thinks] self-conciously “I can’t go back to you [now].”

S1 episode 25’s “If the Lieutenant Colonel wasn’t here, I’d be all alone”

During this scene, while the still buried Marie looks over her shoulder, seeing Allelujah leaving she reaches out, crying.

A conversation between Marie, lying down in the life-support chamber and A-LAWS member Souma:
“I want to go where Allelujah is. Allelujah is calling me. If I only could move these hands, if I only could move these legs” Marie says crying.
“I’m sorry for this whole time up until now, I’ve kept you closed off and only concerned myself with my own happiness. But, now I can’t go back,” Souma apologizes and vanishes. And thus, for the first time, Marie is able to move her body by her own will.

“Souma Pieres,” Marie mumbles and inside her head, Souma’s message resonates.
“If you happen to me the colonel, I’d like you to tell him this: I wanted to be your daughter.”

Marie speaks with Allelujah while holding his hand in the rain.
“Allelujah, I won’t let go of this hand again.”
While looking at Allelujah’s reddening face, Marie smiles tearfully.

-So as to not lose something twice-

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