20th Century Boys Volume 1 : Friend Chapter Nine A Message - Page 172 - Poster: Apartment Wives' New Years Lovemaking LICENTIOUS LASCIVIOUS LADIES Chapter 9 : A Message - Page 173 - Boys: Ap... apartment wives... new years... lovemaking...? [For some reason, this poster had been stuck up on the fence near our childhood meeting place, the candy store "Jijibaba".] Kenji: Lise... liken...? Yoshitsune: Likentashis...? Maruo: "Likentashis Laskivis Ladies"...? Kenji: Not "laskivis", "laskivyus". Maruo: "Laskivyus Ladies"!! Yoshitsune: What a "laskivyus lady"? Kenji: Um... that... Maruo: A... anyways, it's dirty. Anyways... [It was a lesson in kanji-reading...] - Page 174 - Yoshitsune: Ah... Poster: (flap) Kenji: W... what should we do...? Maruo: Uh... I don't know... Yoshitsune: (snap) (rip) HERE!! Kenji: No, don't give to me...! Maruo: Waaaah!! You hold it!! - Page 175 - Boys: WAAAAH!! Sign: Bowling Alley Future Site No Trespassers [One day, the field with our secret base] [Was ours no longer.] Kenji: Did everybody bring something? - Page 176 - Kenji: Uhhhh... ahem! On this day, we are gathered here to remember the joyful occasion of being chased out of our base... Maruo: Not joyful. Yoshitsune: You're supposed to say "unfortunate". Kenji: U... unfortunately, it's VERY unfortunate! Yoshitsune: We know it's unfortunate. Keep going. Kenji: Our secret base was once on this location!! Boy: It still is. It's all dried up, though. - Page 177 - Kenji: No, listen, this place is going to turn into a bowling alley, so our secret base will disappear!! Just shut up and listen!! Ummmmmm... Where was I...? AAAAH, I can't do this!! You do it, Mon-chan! I'm lousy at these things!! Mon-chan: It was your idea, Kenji. Go on. Kenji: Oh... okay. Ummmmmm... Anyways, we are on the verge of doing something extremely important!! The things we bury now, at the root of this tree... Will be a massage to our future selves, when we're cool grown ups... Mon-chan: MESSAGE!! Kenji: R... right, message... And... We, as boys right now, will send something to the future to see if what we we thought was right... our... Yoshitsune: Predictions? - Page 178 - Kenji: Yes!! Predictions!! When we open this container as adults... Donkey: HEY EVERYBODY!! Kenji: Oh no!! Not another interruption. I was just getting to the good part!! Maruo: Ah... Donkey!! Donkey: Hahh hahh Just in time!! Here... I made this. - Page 179 - [1997] Mon-chan: So... What is this thing...? - Page 180 - Kenji: That's the symbol... Mon-chan: I guess... We might as well open it... Others: Yeah... Mon-chan: (crunk) Rrrr!! (crik) (crik) Lid: (clatter) - Page 181 - Maruo: What's... Yoshitsune: Inside it...? Mon-chan: WAAAAAAAH!! All: AAAAAAH!! - Page 182 - Kenji: W... What is it?! Yoshitsune: I TOLD you not to do it!! Mon-chan: W... what WAS that...? Kenji: What do you mean... what was it?! Mon-chan: I touched something really freaky!! Yoshitsune: Something freaky... - Page 183 - Kenji: It's a plastic snake and frog. Mon-chan: I HATE snakes! Who? Who the hell put that in there?! Keroyon: P... probably me, ribbit ribbit. Mon-chan: You asshole! Don't scare me like that!! Keroyon: It was the act of an innocent young child! Kenji: What else is in there? Maruo: What's this thing? Heh... Heibon Punch... (crinkle) Kenji: What about this? (crinkle) - Page 184 - Kenji: What were we THINKING? Maruo: Were we just little pervs? Mon-chan: Chicken ramen. Maruo's, right? Maruo: Prob'ly... Kenji: What's this? Keroyon: What a shitty drawing... Drawing: LAZZER GAN Kenji: Lazzer gan? Is that supposed to be a laser gun? What a retard. Yoshitsune: Retard? Didn't you draw that, Kenji? Kenji: Huh? No, I didn't. Yoshitsune: Look, you signed it yourself. - Page 185 - Picture (r-l): GIANT ROBOT Height 50 meters Weight 1 million tons Lazzer beam (KENJI) Kenji: I... drew this...? Mon-chan: There's also some marbles and menko cards... (Note: Menko = kind of like pogs, but with cards instead.) Mon-chan: This one's big. (shuffle...) It's a piece of cloth... (rumple) (rumple) (rumple) - Page 186 - ["Do you remember..."] ["This symbol?"] Audience: "Friend"... "Friend"... "Friend"... - Page 187 - Friend: I thank you all for coming together on such short notice... I believe you have all received a copy of a newspaper. Audience: (rustle) (rustle) (rustle) Newspaper: FOUNDER OF RELIGIOUS SECT STABBED TO DEATH "Pierre's Heart" PIERRE ICHIMONJI 100,000 flock to Tokyo Dome Friend: That is today's morning edition. Yesterday, one vanguard of heresy was "terminated". This is not the end, but the beginning. Many people who preach false doctrines shall be "terminated" from now on. - Page 188 - Friend: The cosmos have begun to choose their true "friends". Audience: "Friend!" "Friend!" "Friend!" "Friend!" - Page 189 - Friend: The time for destruction and rebirth has come. Audience: "Friend!" "Friend!" "Friend!" "Friend!" "Friend!" "Friend!" "Friend!" - Page 190 - Donkey: Here... I made this. Boys: Whoa!! It's a flag! Gee, this is swell, Donkey!! Donkey: Hehe... when aliens come to attack us, We'll put this on our front line base on the moon. Kenji: Okay!! Let's put it all in here!! Boys: (shff) (shff) (shff) (shff) The next time we dig this up... (stomp) (stomp) - Page 191 - Kenji: Is when the earth is in grave danger. And then we'll save the planet from the enemy!! Boys: YEAAAAH!! [The memories of those days...] [Came back to life...] - Page 192 - ["The next time we dig this up"...] ["Is when we save the planet from the enemy"...] [I wonder if we're the adults now that we dreamed of being back then...] [Or if our childhood selves would laugh at us if they saw us now...] - Chapter 9 Owari -