Kuwabara Tamotsu There is a Song I Want You to Hear 153 - 154 (ding dong) (ding dong) (Grr) Who!? This late? Scary... 155 Fumi-chan. What do you need at this hour? Good evening. Could you help me bury this? Bury?? Right now!? Yes, right now. What's inside? My corpse. 156 (pat) You're lying! (squeeze squeeze) Don't scare me like that. Normally I'd ignore such a ridiculous request... But... 157 We're losing our bassist. Who can we get? Huh? What happened? My girl's pregnant. Moving on. Congrats. Traitor! Quitter! Destroying our band's future! But we're a cover band... (Calm down...) (Oh,) We do have somebody. Pleasure to meet you. Totally my type. 158 You're adorable! So great to have a cutie like you in our band! Fumi-chan! (jolt) (silence) (slip) She's always so cold... but now she's coming to ask /me/ for help! It's like she's asking me on a date! 159 Want some candy? Yeah, sure! You love those, huh Fumi-chan? Here. Oh!? Getting so close suddenly... cheeky little devil! What's in the bag, though? If she had to lie about it... Not gonna pry. Why me? You have a car. And it seems like your kind of weird fun. And you'd be afraid to ask too many questions. You know me well... 160 Wow. This is totally a crime! (Trespassing! Illegal dumping!) [<-add this as smaller text below the bubble] Just noticed? And you're complicit, Yayo-san. Only one flashlight. I can use my phone. No. You'll trip. The casual body contact...! I'm into this. Yeah, okay. 161 You don't take things seriously, Yayo-san. ガ チャ...(ka-chik) [optional sfx] Pardon me. Hot pot? ...in the pitch dark? Fumi-chan! もわ~ん (murky) [optional sfx] 162 Pay your damn electric bill! I forgot! Let's just eat out. Erghh But there's nothing wrong with the food. Come on, take a seat. Man, I don't get Ken's reasons for quitting. He still coulda stayed in the band. This again? He's just jealous. Who's jealous!? Like anybody, Ken's gotta think... about his future. 163 Okay! Enough of the heavy stuff. Care free is the way to live! For me, I've got Fumi-chan, so that's all I need! You've gotta put some thought into your life. You can't even keep your bills paid. I'll fundraise! Like hell! (blink) 164 Did I wake you up? Where are the other two? Dunno. Off to a hotel, maybe. They did seem to be getting along /awfully/ well. (Heh) Might be missing two more band members soon. 165 Why don't... we have a little fun too? Will you never leave me? No matter what? (gulp) Kidding! 166 Big tree... This spot will do. (clunk) Phew... Didn't sound like a living thing. (dig dig) 167 What an incredibly bizarre situation. I liked your songs, Yayo-san. Huh? Minako-san let me hear the singer-songwriter album you did. When you were a vocalist. (Listen, it's amazing! Like a totally different person!) N- No way! That's from /high school/! Why does Minako have that!? I can't even bring myself to listen to it! You're shouting... You don't do that anymore? No way! I haven't written a song in ages. I just want to have fun with the band. My youthful creative spark is long gone. 168 When I heard those songs... the force, the emotion... it gave me a look inside your head. But I don't want to hear your old songs. I'd like to hear what you would sing now. Anyway, you're still young. Same age as me, right? I just turned 30. What!? 169 You look so young... I don't believe it... Mm... Getting into it for real... was kind of a pain. It strained my friendships, since the others weren't as serious. I had to put on an act of being chill about it. But then it kind of lost meaning... and my reason for even doing it. 170 Enough of this! Shut up already! I had to try, so I tried! But nothing ever came of it. It killed me deep down, but there've been lots of fun times too, so whatever. The end. All the more reason... to try again. If you die unfulfilled, you'll wander the eternal plains as a ghostly guitarist. Great. Then you can be the bass ghost, Fumi-chan. 171 We can make a band in the afterlife! Do they... have amps in heaven? They have everything. It's heaven. They must have the greatest gigs around. I think... I'd like that. (pat pat) I'm worn out. Morning already. 172 This can be the gravestone. Let's go. Are you all right? Yeah. Thank you. I'm happy I had you with me. 173 Aw, you're so sweet today! Yeah, it was fun. If... (shuffle) I write a new song, want to be first to hear it? I don't know when that'll be, though. Of course. 174 Yawn... (nod) Yawn... It's contagious... Ah ha! Why don't we take a nap at my house? Yeah. 175 I just need to buy something at the convenience store. OK! Can't wait to talk with her more like this. I'll leave it unlocked in case I fall asleep. Sleep a bit, get something good to eat, and chat. But Fumi-chan never came back. 176 She's now been missing for months. She won't answer her phone. The apartment where she lived is vacant. No one's heard from her or knows where she is. Guess she just got fed up and took off? Probably so. 177 I heard she had money troubles and racked up some debt. If she had problems, she should have come to us. Fumi wouldn't just leave without saying anything. Would she? I never really... knew anything about her either. There's only one place left to look. 178 My corpse. Could she have meant that? Is something supernatural going on? Was what I saw that day even real? Did I dream it all? It's here. 179 (tunk) There must be a reason she brought me that day. There must be some clue to where she is. And if there isn't... (dig dig) We really dug this deep? (start) (clunk) Still doesn't sound like a living thing... (Hah...) 180 (open) Fumi-chan, I'm sorry. ...a bass? Fumi-chan's bass. 181 Fumi-chan's favorite snacks and candy. All the CDs I lent her. This explains why I couldn't call her. 182 Nothing here you'd want to bury. And this stuff is all... There is a song I want you to hear Yayo-san 183 Don't you disappear too At least reply Yayoi! 184 -