My Name is Zushio Volume 1 Chapter 4 - Page 81 - -000004- -Zushio's First Birth- Girl: We've been eating these unidentified plants for 10 days now... Do you suppose there's any nutrition in them...? Zushio: WUWWO (Dunno) Girl: ZUSHIO! What is it that we're lacking the most, like this?! Zushio: ANIMAL PROTEIN! I'LL HUNT SOME ANIMALS!! - Page 82 - [Wild Deer] Girl: So fast! [Wild Rabbit] Girl: Too fast! [Wild Squirrel] (mach 10) Girl: I guess you really do have to know what you're doing to hunt... Zushio: (nohohoho) Oh, I SAY, what a clumsy and uncouth spot of hunting that was! (Nohohoho) [Wild Noble] Zushio: hic... hic... Girl: (Where'd you go?!) - Page 83 - Girl: ...I wanna go to town... (I can't take it anymore!) (GRRRRRGL) I don't care if they arrest me. (...if I get caught, Zushio gets executed...) Nothing even fell in the pit... I GIVE UP. (AAAAAAAHHHH!!) Zushio: HEEEEY! I CAUGHT AN ANIMAL IN THE TRAP I JUST SET!! Girl: Really?! Meat? A big one?!! Zushio: Yeah, a great big one!! - Page 84 - Raven: CAW CAW - Page 85 - Girl: IT'S HUMANOID! Zushio: (HAHAHA!) No humans have tails coming out of their heads. It's just a plain old animal! Girl: You shouldn't eat seemingly-intelligent looking animals like that one!! (Look at it! It looks SO anguished!!) Zushio: If you don't want any, I'll eat it all myself! OOH! NOT BAD RAW. (like octopus sashimi?) Girl: It's an alien or a monster or something, Zushio!! You'll get a curse, or indigestion, or something!! Ugggh... (fwop!) Zushio: ...that's what happens when you scream on an empty stomach... Girl: Nn... - Page 86 - Girl: Nn...?! Zushio: Oh! You're awake!! You never woke up all last night, so I thought you were a goner! Girl: A whole night...? Geez... that's bad! Zushio: While you were sleeping, I took the time to cut those up for you... Is that shape a bit more edible to you? Girl: Zushio... {But I can't! It's monster meat... Meat? Meat... MEAT!!} Hey, Zushio... you haven't had any problems with your stomach for the past day or so, have you...? Zushio: Not unless you consider being so full the sight of food makes you SICK to be a problem, haha!! Girl: Thanks a bumfmrgchomp!! Zushio: You better not leave any behind, you twisted little imp, you!! - Page 87 - Girl: AHH, THAT WAS GREAT!! (burp...) Zushio: OOH...! H... H-h-how can it be?! The meat I ate yesterday is now- GUAH!! Girl: Hey HEy HEY! Zushio: I... I'M OKAY! Girl: Y... Your eyes are rolling up into your head, all I can see is the white part!! S-so what happens if you eat that meat, then?! Zushio: (UGHAAAH!!) - Page 88 - Zushio: (poink!) Thing: Poyo! Girl: {Ohhhhh! If you eat monster meat, the only thing that happens is a baby monster rips out of your stomach!} (Ohhhhhhh...) Thing: Poyo! - Page 89 - Girl: ...h... hey! What are you staring at the monster for?! Zushio: COME TO MOMMY!! Girl: HEY!! Zushio: AAAAAND DADDY!! Girl: (my... my stomach) ARE YOU GOING TO RAISE IT?! Ow... Owww! - Page 90 - Girl: Owwwwwwww... Zushio: ...This is bad. It never hurt me as bad as this... Girl: THAT'S CAUSE YOU'RE A FREAK!! MOST PEOPLE DIE WHEN THEIR STOMACH IS SPLIT OPEN, YOU KNOW?! Zushio: Okay, I'll go call a doctor from the village. If I disguise myself they'll never guess who I am! Girl: I WON'T LIVE TO SEE TOMORROW...! Zushio: Be a good baby and wait here...! Now, watch my mastery of disguise! - Page 91 - Zushio: {Hah...! With this knife, none dare approach me... (hehe...) And without coming closer, they cannot see through my costume!!) (stab stab!) People: (yikes!) Zushio: (stab stab) (stomp stomp stomp!) (EEE HEE HEE!) (stab stab!) Guy: SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!! - Page 92 - Kid: (fwop fwop fwop fwop) Guard: HEY KID! What do you think you're doing, running into us guards...?! Hehehe... she's just a kid... but still, running straight into us rather than give us the right of way... is equivalent to insulting the guard. Oh?! So does she get the death penalty?! Villagers: Ever since the war half a year ago, the soldiers have been nothing but common rogues! P... PLEASE WAIT, SIR GUARDS! - Page 93 - Woman: I am that girl's mother! Please, if you must punish her, do it to me... Zushio: OH! IS THAT THE DOCTOR'S HOUSE?! (sqoosh) Guards: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?! (shaki!) (a bra?!) - Page 94 - Zushio: I WAS LOOKING FOR THAT! Guard: GET THE HELL OFF ME! Zushio: (crunch!) Guards: Who are you, man?! Some relative of theirs?! Doesn't look like it to me. Zushio: DAMN YOU! IF YOU MUST BLOCK MY WAY TO THE DOCTOR... THEN DEFEAT ME IN COMBAT BEFORE BLOCKING ME!! - Page 95 - Guards: IF YOU WANNA GO TO THE DOCTOR, JUST WALK AROUND US!! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO GO STRAIGHT THROUGH US?! Sign: PROCTOLOGIST Business Hours 20:50 - 27:30 Zushio: AH... {Baby!! You followed me!} Guards: {W... what the hell is that thing?!} Baby: - Page 96 - Baby: MOMMYYYYYYYY!! Zushio: {Ohh! My sweet little baby!} Guard: {MOMMY??!} Zushio: (glance!) - Page 97 - Zushio: We are the WORLD'S MOST LOVING mother and child!! (rub rub rub rub rub rub rub) Woman: {W... what is it?! Why the unabashed, open rival stare?!} Guard: Y... you, you're Prince... Zushio. Zushio: NO! I am not just Prince Zushio, royal heir to the throne of the last ruling dynasty... I AM A SINGLE MOTHER! Guards: {IT'S PRINCE ZUSHIO!!} - Page 98 - Guard: D... DON'T MOVE, PRINCE ZUSHIO! Woman: (I'll just be leaving now...) Sword: (tap!) Woman: (EEK...!) Sword: (flash) Guard: Prince Zushio was staring at you... are you friends of his?! Woman: Please, kill me instead of my baby! Just don't hurt my precious daughter!! Girl: MOMMY! (squeeze) (Don't kill... Don't kill my Mommy!) Caption: MOTHER AND CHILD LOVE! Zushio: OHHHHHHHH! Stretchy Thing: Handkerchief Baby: (not bad) - Page 99 - Zushio: PLEASE, KILL ME INSTEAD OF MY BABY! JUST DON'T HURT MY PRECIOUS SON!! Guard: (Yikes!) Zushio: {...I couldn't anything motherly for you before... I'm so sorry, baby.} Forehead: Zushio Baby: (you're the best, mommy!) Guard: O... (shing!) okay, then. I DUNNO WHAT'S GOING ON BUT I'LL MAKE SURE YOU CAN NEVER STAND AGAIN!! Crowd: (ooooh!) Zushio: U... (UWAAAAAH!!) - Page 100 - Sfx: KOCHIIIN! Sword End: Scabbard Baby: (AAAH!) Baby's Leg: Leg (never-before-seen foot movements) (BRRRRRRR!) Zushio's Bloody Arm: Drip drip! Zushio: (AH!) Oh... OH NO...!! - Page 101 - Zushio: REVENGE FOR BABY!! Guards' Foreheads: (strong?!)(no way) Zushio: Baby! People: (as a shield...) (he used that thing as) (a shield) Zushio: {I have to do something motherly!} SUCK! HAVE SUCK FROM MY BREAST! SUCK, BABY! Crowd: (EWWWWWW...!) Baby: (bleegh) Blood: (splat splatter spat) Birds: (chirp chirp) - Page 102 - Girl: (huff wheeze) (hah)(hah) Zushio: MEDICINE! Bag: Super Duper MAX-LAX Really works! Zushio: {Lamaze method...!} Sfx: SPLRLRLRBBT!! SHWOOM! Zushio: {TWINS!!} Girl: (what's with that "eureka!" face?!) Thanks! You're a lifesaver!! (I'll go buy us some rations!) - Page 103 - Girl: ...that's the little baby that came out of your stomach, right Zushio? ...Come on little guy! You've got a bump on your head...! Oh, you're so spoiled! (little brat!) ...are we gonna take him along? Zushio: OF COURSE! (he's my baby!) Girl: Haha... Zushio's a mother! [Did the baby want a mother's affection? Or revenge? Zushio hesitated for a moment.] - Page 104 - Epilogue Zushio: (...do you think we'll die?) Girl: (yeah, probably) Baby is holding: Fruit [And thus the number of starving people (creatures?) increased by one.] - MNiZ Chapter 4 End -