20th Century Boys Volume 3 : Hero With a Guitar Chapter Twenty-Three Determination - Page 25 - [Rusted strings. Soft fingertips.] [In moments, my left hand forgot the pain and lost all feeling.] [Even then, that 26,000 yen guitar still howled.] Chapter 23 : Determination - Page 26 - [In 1969, the Beatles held an unexpected concert on the roof of Apple Records...] Chiyo: (knock knock) [A crowd of onlookers quickly formed, and the police tried to stop them.] [Even then, they kept playing at full volume.] ["Get Back, Get Back", go back to those old times...!!] - Page 27 - [So what...?] [I hadn't thought much of it since I heard about it.] Birds: (chirp)(tweet) Policemen: Hmph... Finally quiet... Chiyo: Oh, that stupid, stupid son of mine!! Kenji: (hahh)(hahh)(hahh) - Page 28 - Kenji: (hahh)(hahh) (hahh)(hahh) So I'm... supposed to save the world... - Page 29 - Kenji: (hahh)(hahh) Me... (hahh) Chapter 23 : Determination - Page 30 - Maruo: ...so, what did you wanna talk about? Kenji: Um... well... er... Maruo: Hey, I told you not to spill! (bonk) He just eats and eats. We're both on a diet. Kenji: How old are you now, Atchan? Atsushi: Second grade. - Page 31 - Kenji: He looks just like you at that age. Maruo: Yeah, it's pretty bad. The wife always yells about it. We go running in the morning. Atsushi: Running makes me too hungry. Maruo: Tell me about it. Kenji: He says the same things as you at that age. Maruo: Did I really say that? Kenji: Yeah, you did. All I remember of you as a kid is that you were hungry. Maruo: Huh. I guess I did, then. It's so easy to forget what being a kid was like. Kenji: Yup... Sure is... Maruo: So what'd you wanna talk about? Kenji: Oh... er... - Page 32 - Maruo: Oh yeah. Don't tell Mama we went out to eat ramen. Cause I'M the one who gets yelled at. Atsushi: If I promise, will you give me seconds? Maruo: Wha... Oh, all right. Yo, two more orders of ramen!! ...so? What's the scoop? Kenji: Nah... It's nothing, really... [I can't tell him...] Maruo: No! Don't get soup stains on your shirt!! - Page 33 - [I can't get him involved in all this...] [I can't tell him to save the world with me...] Yoshitsune: Sighhh. I'm hopeless... Kenji: What's up, Yoshitsune? - Page 34 - Yoshitsune: I've made a horrible mistake... Kenji: Work...? Yoshitsune: I'm dead meat. Dead meat. Kenji: What happened? Yoshitsune: The slip said 4 cartridges of toner, and I mistook that for the kanji for 1,000... And now we're going to be delivered a truck load of them!! Kenji: 4... one thousand... Yoshitsune: What am I supposed to do with the other 996?! Kenji: Uh, um... Yoshitsune: Maybe I should kill myself... Kenji: Hey!! - Page 35 - Yoshitsune: Or join a cult or something!! Kenji: Hey!! Yoshitsune: Sighhh. I'm hopeless... Kenji: You're not hopeless. Yoshitsune: This is why my wife went back to her parents house, with our daughter. Kenji: Nothing to do with this. Yoshitsune: Sighhhh. Kenji: All you can do is go back and apologize. Yoshitsune: Apologizing is not going to make up for it. Kenji: Never know until you try. - Page 36 - Yoshitsune: I guess... Kenji: Exactly. Soon it'll be nothing but a funny story to tell. Actually, I was trying to hold in a big laugh myself. Yoshitsune: Haha... Kenji: Hehe... Yoshitsune: Hahaha! Kenji: That isn't funny, you really ARE stupid!! Yoshitsune: I feel... slightly better now... Kenji: That's right!! Yoshitsune: (pat)(pat) Kenji: Don't you think it would be a good idea to go see your wife and daughter, too? Yoshitsune: Mmm... I guess... It'll be hard. Kenji: It'll be hard... Yeah, I bet... - Page 37 - Yoshitsune: Oh... What was it you wanted to talk about...? Kenji: Nah... It's okay... Yoshitsune: You sure? [I can't tell him...] [I can't tell him to save the world with me...] Sign: Ochanomizu Engineering School Guy: Hey, what's up, "Mr. Rampage"? We're not playing softball today. Everyone else is getting a new subject. - Page 38 - Kenji: Masao-kun hasn't turned up yet? Guy: Nope... Tamura Masao hasn't been back. Professor Shikishima's still missing... Oh, Tamura Masao... right... There was a package for him that got sent to the lecture hall. Kenji: Package? Of what? Guy: Just about 100 posters. Kenji: Posters...? Guy: There's one stuck up on that bulletin board. - Page 39 - Guy: I can get you some if you want. There's a bajillion in the lab. Poster: The 169th FRIEND CONCERT Sep. 19, 1997 Doors open at 6:00, show starts at 6:30 Performing: Makijaku, The Tremos, Young Vintage, Lemonade Tornado + more A seats: ¥ 30,000 B seats: ¥ 25,000 at-the-door tickets available Put on by the Friend Concert Action Committee TEL 03(3230)55** Close Up: The 169th FRIEND CONCERT Kenji: Friend... Concert... - Page 40 - Kenji: (gui) - Page 41 - Chiyo: Kenji's not here. Maruo: Where did he go? Chiyo: Sheesh! The store is in ruins... He doesn't take care of Kanna... Yoshitsune: Uh... we'll come some other time. Maruo: He said he wanted to talk to us about something... Chiyo: I think that boy's going mad. He starts blasting his guitar in the middle of the night. And today was some concert. Both: Concert? Chiyo: He was talking about his friend's concert or something. - Page 42 - Sign: The 169th FRIEND CONCERT - Chapter 23 Owari -