karaniji (kinome) 12

[feralphoenix]

GOOD NEWS: karaniji volume 2 is out now! BAD NEWS: it is a digital only release, with no plans for a physical volume at this time, which will make it a lot more difficult for overseas fans to buy legit. Makes me sad because my whole goal in posting these scripts is as an aid for people who want to support Kinome by reading chapters as they drop/buying the books... 😔

The MAGKAN official website lists the following vendors as places to buy volume 2: the bezos place, Rakuten Books, 7 Net, and Comic Seymour. If I can find a place to buy that's not region-gated & will actually get you a downloadable file instead of online access in a bespoke reader I'll update this post to point it out; if you're able to trawl online stores to find one where you can just get a freaking cbr or epub or whatever (or even a bespoke file format that can be converted into one) leave a comment with what that is so Kinome can get their well-deserved sales numbers.


BUT ANYWAY

You can read chapter 12 here on the MAGKAN official website!

Content warnings for this chapter include child peril, grief, and self-harm.


Jester-Hat Cultist: Poyoko...
Jester-Hat Cultist: She's... not breathing...

THE EMPTY-HEARTED GIRL AND THE RAINBOW FRAGMENTS

Jester-Hat Cultist: EXCUSE YOU???
Jester-Hat Cultist: DON'T GIMME THAT CRAP! POYOKO, YOU GET UP THIS SECOND!
Jester-Hat Cultist: HOW DARE YOU TRY TO DIE ON ME!! YOU HEAR ME, RIGHT?!
Oz: Eek! Huh?!
Jester-Hat Cultist: ANSWER ME!!
Jester-Hat Cultist(?): YOU SAID YOU WANNA SEE ME AGAIN, RIGHT?! WELL, I AIN'T DEAD!! SURE I GOT CUT IN HALF...
Jester-Hat Cultist(...?): BUT I STILL CAME TO GET YOU!! POYOKO!!!

Eba: (Why am I freaking out? I can just find some other vessel...)
Eba: (She never mattered to me anyway! So why...)
Eba: (Why does this hurt so much?!)
Eba: Don't you abandon me too...

Eba: Poyoko!
Poyoko: (............Was that Eba's voice just now...?! He's alive...?!)

Poyoko: Mom! Dad! I turned 11!
Poyoko: I made a friend too! His name's Eba and he has long pigtails... He gets mad all the time!

Poyoko: But he's really strong and nice! He helps me, and he stays with me.
Poyoko: (I want to stay here forever. I want to stay, but...)
Poyoko: (They aren't answering me... This isn't real. Time doesn't pass here...)
Poyoko: .........I'm so sorry for forgetting you. I should have known... I had to remember you...

Poyoko: I'm sure I made you worried. But I'm okay now!
Poyoko: Now I know that you'll always be right here!
Poyoko: I...
Poyoko: I have to go back! There's someone out there waiting for me!
Poyoko: So... Bye!

Poyoko: Dad! Mom!
Poyoko: Thank you for loving me!

Poyoko: Snake!!
Rainbow King: Welcome back, Poyoko! I see you found what you were looking for!

Poyoko: It's all because you were here to help me!
Rainbow King: No, it's because you tried your very best!
Rainbow King: You're going back now, right?
Poyoko: Yeah.
Rainbow King: Take care.
Rainbow King: Oh right! Poyoko, before you leave...
Rainbow King: I have two favors to ask...

Oz: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Oz: Our Savior is dead?! Wh... You're kidding?!
Oz: Now what?! What am I supposed to do?!!
[sfx: twitch]
[sfx: THUD]

Eba: ......... Poyoko?
Eba: (Poyoko... She's alive...)
Eba: (She's alive...!)
[sfx: GASP]
Eba: (Aw frick... I changed back to my true form?! When did that happen?!)
[imagination: "Wh... gross... what ARE you..."]
Eba: crap crap crap crap but she's already seen me now what am i supposed to do crap crap it's too late she's gonna hate me

Poyoko: Eba?
Poyoko: You're Eba, right?

Eba: Y....
Eba: You jerk!!!! Say something sooner!!!!!!
Poyoko: Eba, you're crying!
Eba: NO I'M NOT!!!!!!!!
Eba: (Poyoko... is smiling...)

Eba: Did you... did you get your heart back?
Poyoko: ......I did.
Eba: Oh...
Eba: G... good for you! You always said... that was what you wanted.

Poyoko: ...Eba.
Oz: What do you mean... you have your heart back?
Oz: Savior, isn't your heart supposed to be empty? This can't be right...

Oz: This can't be right... You can't have... No no no...
Poyoko: Oz...
Oz: But you're only our Savior because you can save us...! Who's going to save RTV now......? Now what, now, what, now what...
Oz: Have things gone wrong because I was wrong? It's my fault... It's my fault!
[sfx: BLAM]

Oz: I'M NEVER ANYTHING BUT WRONG! I'M JUST A MISTAKE... THERE'S NO SAVING ME!
Poyoko: Oz!
Eba: Poyoko?!

Oz: Sa...
Poyoko: Oz, let's talk.
Poyoko: There's something I want to tell you...

Poyoko: When the lady named Fukuju died...
Poyoko: Oz, you told everyone to forget about her, right?
Oz: Please forget all about her. We can't leave any trace of her in this world.
Oz: ...When you die, you can never return to nothingness. So that's what we have to do whenever someone dies.
Oz: 'Cause, as long as you exist in any form, you suffer... I don't want them to suffer...
Poyoko: My parents died in an accident. And after that, I forgot about them.

Poyoko: That was what wore my heart away, bit by bit...
Oz: ......I knew it.
Oz: I was right after all! We DO have to forget! If we keep forgetting the dead, then one day we can lose our hearts too...
Poyoko: No. That's wrong.
Poyoko: The way RTV treats death is wrong.

Poyoko: You mustn't forget the people you love, no matter what.
Oz: Wh... why...?
Poyoko: Because you won't be able to keep living.
Poyoko: I... I love everyone in RTV.
Poyoko: You're cheerful, you're kind... And you understand your own weakness.

Poyoko: That's exactly what you need to grow stronger.
Poyoko: When someone has a nightmare, you can all go to sleep holding hands. When someone tells you you're not as good as everyone else, you can get together to think about all the things that make you special. On days you can't stop crying, you can hug each other. When someone tells you that you're unwanted, you can prove to each other that that's not true...

Poyoko: Every time you comfort each other that it's okay, you stock up a little more love.
Poyoko: I'm not the one who's going to save you.
Poyoko: All the love you've given each other will.

Poyoko: But if you forget about the ones who've died... you'll lose that love they gave you.
Poyoko: And I want all of you to keep living...
Oz: Fukuju...

Oz: Milo... Aragana... Karankaran... Renge... Tamamo... Zebe... Lalulalan... Geeco... Yorunoyoru... Makigana... Muunya... Hashibaha...
Oz: Daidai... Nagi... Momome... Minagishi... ............
Oz: I tried so hard to forget them.

Oz: But... I couldn't.
Oz: I thought... I had to forget everyone who couldn't return to Void... I thought that would at least let them get closer to nothingness...
Oz: I thought I had to be a fool for being unable to forget them even so... that this is just the kind of no-good I am that made Papa abandon me...
Oz: But... I wasn't wrong.
Oz: It wasn't wrong of me not to be able to forget them...

Poyoko: ...That's right.
Eba: (...... Before...)

Oz: ...It's going to be hard for everyone to change the way we think right away, but...
Oz: If you've rejected the Void, Lady Poyoko... I'll try to get through to everybody.
Poyoko: Okay.
Eba: Then let's hurry up and blow this popsicle stand. It's depressing down here!
Poyoko: Eba...

Poyoko: I can't leave just yet.
Eba: Huh?
Eba: Poyoko?
Poyoko: In my dream, I met the Rainbow King.
Eba: EH... EH... WH... WH?? HUH??? HUH???????
Poyoko: The King asked for my help.
(Eba: HUH????? HUH?????????????? HUH?????????????????????)

Rainbow King: I want you to help Karako.
Poyoko: Karako...?
Rainbow King: I think you know her... the girl with the sad eyes.
Rainbow King: She...

Rainbow King: She's someone I couldn't save.


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