- Chapter Four - Cut
Anger
Page numbers are based
on the tankoubon and listed accordingly.
Large centered text indicates geographic/titular information
Spoken text in italics indicate character thoughts.
Spoken text in brackets [...] indicate hand written side remarks.
Text hand-written for dramatic purposes are indicated by larger
size text.
fx: <...> indicates sound effects, which have been kept
as onomatopoeia where I have the imagination for it..
(TN...) indicates notes by the translator
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- Page 124
(villagers happily harvest
vegetables from vines in a large field overlooking Staccato)
- The Village Staccato
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- (a portly woman carrying a large
basket full of vegetables enters the doorway)
woman: Elder, I'm here!
fx: <bang>
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- (the woman winks as she sets
the basket down on the table. The elder sits on the other side,
looking down at something he is holding)
woman: Look what I have!
The harvest...
has been plentiful ever since the Hero Hamel chased away Tuba
and his gang...
fx: <clunk>
woman: Hm--?
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- (close up of the picture the
elder is holding. It is a picture of him and Flute)
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- Page 125
(the elder sits despondently
staring at the picture)
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- (the woman looks on worried
and flustered)
woman: ....
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- (the woman takes her kerchief
off her head as she speaks to the elder)
woman: Oh boy. You're thinking about Flute again?
fx: <swish>
elder: Mm-hmm...
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- (close up of the picture again)
woman (off): She certainly
seemed like your grandchild...
A sweet and gentle pretty girl...
-
- (the woman pats the elder on
the shoulder reassuringly)
woman: Don't worry, you left
her with a good man
and she's probably very happy right now!
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- (close up of the elder looking
out, but still sad)
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- (the elder and the woman look
out through a nearby window)
elder: I suppose so...
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- Page 126
(a smiling image of Flute
against the sky divided by two panels)
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- (a large town in between mountains,
people walking through its streets)
- Mountain Town Tenuto
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- Page 127
(two people look behind them
in disgust as they walk)
fx: <drag>
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- (two more people look on in
disbelief)
fx: <drag>
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- (three men look on nervously,
on pointing)
fx: <drag>
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- (small panel of Hamel's hat
rustling as he speaks, an upright girl seller's banner sign beside
the hat)
Hamel (off): Eh~~~ Girl~~~
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- (the full scene, Hamel calling
out as he drags a hog-tied, gagged Flute behind him. He is carrying
the upright banner on his back reading "Girl Seller"
while Oboe flies by him yelling)
Hamel: Get your girl here~~~
Flute: Mmph--- mmph--!
fx: <drag drag>
Oboe: YOU WOOL-HEADED
IDIOT--!!
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- (close up of Flute crying and
screaming in her gag)
Flute: Mmph-- mmph--!
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- (Oboe yells angrily while Hamel
calls out oblivious)
Oboe: Hey Hamel~~~ knock
it off--!
Hamel: Hey-- girl here~~~ very cute and very perky~~~!
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- Page 128
(Oboe is squished in
Hamel's hand)
fx: <squish>
<squeeze>
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- (Hamel walks away from a crumpled
Oboe)
Hamel: Hey~~~ girl~~~
fx: <blink blink blink>
Oboe: That hurt...
-
- (someone approaches Hamel from
behind)
person: (grunt)
Uh-- excuse me~~~
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- (Hamel looks over his shoulder)
Hamel: !
fx: <turn>
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- (a large stupid looking guy,
with the words "Not a monster" written on his forehead,
drips and drools as he stands there in front of Hamel and Flute
who are freaking out. He speaks as if his nose is stuffed)
guy: I-- I-- that girl--
I want her~~~
[heh heh heh]
fx: <thunder rolls>
Flute: ....!
....!!
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- Page 129
(Flute freaks out on
the floor as Hamel greets the guy, rubbing his hands together)
Hamel: Heh heh~~~ Wel--come
fx: <rub rub>
Flute: Mmph--- mmph---!
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- (aerial shot of the three and
the surrounding crowd)
Hamel: Well~~~ follow me,
good customer! Come this way to make your purchase~~~
fx: <rub rub>
guy: Eh heh heh heh
fx: <whap whap whap
whap>
Flute: Mmph-- mmph--!
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- (close up of Flute crying as
she thinks of the elder, smiling)
elder: [Be happy, have a
good life...]
Flute: Grandad, save me...
(whimper whimper)
[I'm in trouble...]
fx: <whap whap>
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- (a group of people look on disturbed)
guy (off): How much~~~
Hamel (off): Well then! 200,000 in one lump sum,
of course.
guy (off): Wai, wait, that's too expensive~~~
-
- (Hamel waggles his finger teasingly
as he smiles and speaks, shocking the guy. One person looks on
in disgust)
Hamel: Heh heh heh, not at
all~~~
person: [This is so wrong~~~]
fx: <waggle waggle
waggle>
Hamel: You would have a hard time finding a better puff
puff girl in this region~~~
guy: EH
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- Page 130
(Hamel speaks conspiratorially
to the guy)
Hamel: Really,
she's an incredible girl who can do ?? and xx with just her hand
and ??x to you besides...
guy:
EEHHH---
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- (the guy is mind blown against
a background of space and the planets)
guy: oo
and xx...
o/\x you said--
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- (the guy bends down, obviously
straining)
guy: Ku--...
fx: <sag>
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- (the guy's hand grips a wad
of money tightly)
guy:
O-- okay
fx: <tremble tremble>
<squeeze>
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- (the guy holds the wad of cash
high over his head, crying and his face straining. Hamel happily
plays a taiko drum, labeled as such, in the background. Behind
them is a scene of a smiling sun of Japan, the statue of liberty,
and a boat on the sea of Japan)
guy: I'll
buy---!
Hamel:
Okay! A splendid choice good
customer---!
fx: <wave crash>
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- Page 131
(Flute bats away Hamel
and the guy with a super huge crucifix, lableled "Crucifix
of the wrath of God")
Flute: "Okay,
good customer" my a--ss!!
fx: <phoom>
-
- (Hamel trembles and points at
Flute, who stands angrily as she holds her giant crucifix and
Oboe flies angrily next to her)
Flute: Ah--
when I wasn't looking~~~
fx: <pant pant>
Oboe:
You big idiot---!
[I'm going to do something horrible to you!]
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- (Hamel calls out as the guy
runs away in fear)
Hamel: Ah?!
Wait, good customer!
guy:
Eek---
[Run away~~~]
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- (Hamel cries upset at Flute,
who yells back horrified. Oboe flies in the background, deadpanning)
Hamel: You
bastard~~~ I was doing my best to sell you for the highest price~~~
and then you had to get in the way~~~
Flute:
YOU ASS---! [I am so mortified!!]
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- Page 132
(Hamel grows big and
threatening, though Flute yells right back. Oboe deadpans next
to her)
Hamel: A
girl seller isn't out to sell at market for a cheap price, so
have a little pity
The street seller is specifically out to fetch the highest price.
Don't you understand the parents' honor?
Flute: I KNO---W!!
Oboe:
[I'm amazed, he actually
made a valid point...]
-
- (Hamel walks away, turning to
stick his tongue out at Flute, who just gives up. Oboe deadpans
next to her)
Hamel: We--ird bastard---
Fine, do-- what-- you-- want!
[biiihhh]
fx: <wobble wobble>
Oboe: ....
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- (Flute clutches her skirt and
stares out in frustration. Oboe flies next to her looking bored)
Flute: What...
What kind of guy is he...?
Oboe:
Who can say what kind of
guy he is, I guess.
[I can't apologize for him...]
fx: <flap flap>
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- (close up of a pensive Oboe)
Oboe: Still,
it must be said
this current age needs a person like him...
-
- (as Oboe speaks, Flute listens
curiously)
Oboe: All of Europe is full
of death and destruction and the people suffer in an age of darkness...
Everyone is oppressed...
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- Page 133
(Oboe is tensely pensive
as the image of a monster army backed by a shadowy demon looms
behind him)
Narration: Immediately,
the world... at the very edge of the North... "tragedy"
will be sealed for good...
Oboe:
He will....
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- (Oboe turns white with terror
as Flute questions him from behind)
Flute: He...?
-
- (Oboe flies around smiling nervously
as Flute watches him in curiosity)
Oboe: Eh...
er... nothing...
It was nothing, ha ha ha...
fx: <tremble tremble>
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- (Flute watches Oboe fly away,
suspicious)
Flute: Wha-- what I wonder...
Are they hiding...
What mission is so important...
fx: <flap flap>
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- Page 134
(Flute stands washed
out against the sky)
Flute (narration): Oboe,
a black crow that talks like a human...
Also, the super-extra-large violin carrying Hamel...
Who are these two--?!
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- (faded image of Hamel playing
the violin while in Tuba's grip)
Flute (off): And Hamel's performance...
abnormally skilled, full of love. He couldn't possibly be the
terrible person I thought he was...
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- (Flute hugs her crucifix near
to her as she thinks of Hamel, a gentle, sad smiling image of
him appearing above her)
Flute (narration): --Hamel--
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- (Flute and Oboe are blank-faced
as Hamel crouches near the ground whispering conspiratorially
to Mr. Watanabe)
fx: <flap flap>
Hamel: Heh
heh heh, she's quite a girl!
MW:
Hmm, I see... but 300,000
is a bit expensive~~~
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- (Hamel and MW run off as Flute
holds up her enlarged "Wrath of God" crucifix bearing
a pissed off Christ threateningly. Oboe deadpans next to her)
Flute: ....
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- Page 135
(Flute cries frustrated
as she holds her giant crucifix, Christ also crying, as Oboe
flies next to her deadpanning. A tumbleweed rolls past them)
Flute: A
guy like that...
fx: <tremble>
<wind blows>
<crack crack>
-
- (several men look about themselves
sadly, uncomfortably)
fx: <shuffle>
<spit>
-
- (Flute and Oboe look around
sadly)
Flute: And
yet...
-
- (several men sit and drink despondently
against the side of a building)
Flute (off): It's been a
while since we came down into Tenuto...
Everything's fallen to ruin.
-
- (another view of people sitting
sadly against another building, one woman's face in her hands
as she cries)
Flute (off): Before, this
was a bustling and prosperous city...
-
- (Flute, with Oboe on her shoulder,
looks worried and flustered)
Flute: Is this the work of
some monster...?
-
- (Flute and Oboe are absurdly
shocked as a voice calls from a short distance away)
- voice: Would anyone like flowers--?
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- (a young blonde haired girl
in ponytails sells flowers from a cart, cheerful and markedly
happy from the other people)
girl: Buy
beautiful flowers here--!
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- Page 136
(Flute and Oboe look
on surprised and happy as the girl tries to sell her flowers,
but passerbies wave her off)
Flute: Look,
a girl selling flowers!
girl:
[Buy flowers here!]
Oboe:
(chuckles) That's unusual!
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- (two women whisper to each other
behind Flute and Oboe, their words surprising them)
woman 1: Poor
thing... that girl is still trying to sell her flowers.
woman 2: Such a pitiable girl, really...
Flute:
!
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- (the girl, smiling, tries to
sell her flowers to a passerby, who waves her off)
woman (off): Her mother and father were killed by a monster.
And she's been alone ever since...
girl:
[Buy your flowers here!]
-
- (the girl, still smiling, continues
to ply her wares to apologetically disinterested passerby)
woman (off): Her parents would have her help in the flower garden
and to sell, so,
To see her now doing the opposite (doing all the selling and
caretaking) is heartbreaking.
girl: [Flowers--!]
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- (Flute stands quietly and sadly
with her head bowed)
woman 2 (off): It's horrible,
but that's the way things are now.
-
- (Flute holds up her crucifix)
fx: <glimmer>
<grab>
-
- (the little girl turns as something
behind her grabs her attention)
-
- (Flute stands quietly with a
curious Oboe on her hat, in front of the girl)
fx: <step>
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- Page 137
(Flute smiles down enthusiastically)
Flute: Those
are really beautiful flowers!
fx: <grin>
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- (the little girl smiles brightly)
girl: Yes!
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- (aerial view of the two talking
by the flower cart)
Flute: I'll take a bunch!
girl:
Yay-- thank you!
-
- (Flute watches the girl gathering
the flowers with a satisfied smile on her face. Oboe has a sad/pensive
look on his face)
Oboe: It's
a pity that this girl has to grow up in such times as these.
If only there were a way to fix it...
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- (Flute kneels to take her flowers)
Flute: It
must be hard work to be a flower seller.
girl: [Here you go!]
No! It's fine!
-
- (the girl looks sad for a moment
as she holds a flower)
girl: But... I'm not selling
too many...
Before, everyone had to have something beautiful...
-
- (the girl beams, framed by her
flowers)
girl: But
I'll keep trying!
For my mother and father's flower garden!
-
- (Flute's face widens in shock,
ready to cry)
-
- (as the girl speaks, arms spread
wide, a vision of rolling hills and flowers appear behind her)
girl: It's
a beautiful flower garden--!
The hill turns yellow when all the flowers bloom!
-
- (the girl stops short as Flute
suddenly hugs her)
-
- (close up of the girl, confused)
girl: Mi--
miss...?
-
- (Flute smiles, although her
eyes are hidden as she hugs the girl)
Flute: I see... I'm glad...
fx: <hug>
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(Flute cries as she continues
to hug the girl)
Flute: It must be a very
lovely sight...
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- (aerial view of Oboe watching
the scene)
Oboe: Flute...
-
- (Oboe looks sad)
Oboe: I see... Flute also
lost her mother and father as a young child...
-
- (something large approaches
the trio from behind)
fx: <loud shuffle>
-
- (a monster's eye glares down
angrily)
- fx: <glare>
-
- (a huge hand grabs the little
girl by the head, wresting her from a shocked Flute)
fx: <grab>
girl: Kyaah!
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- (Flute stands and both she and
Oboe look up in horror)
Flute: Eh--?!
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- Page 140
(a gigantic cat-like
monster looms over Flute and Oboe with the girl in one hand,
a large barrel in the other. The cat is wearing just spiked shoulder
armor and a cap like helmet with a row of spikes down the middle)
fx: <bam>
-
- (the cat takes a languid guzzle
from the barrel, which is labeled "sake")
cat: Heh
heh heh [hic...]
fx: <gurgle gurgle>
-
- (Flute and Oboe look up in shock)
both: Mo--
monster--!
-
- (several men cower in fear and
horror)
men: Ba-- Bassoon--!
Ee-- Bassoon is here--!
-
- (Oboe turns as a woman cries
out to him, several men running away in the background)
Oboe: Bassoon
you say?
woman: This town is under the rule of a cruel and terrible
monster!
You won't get involved if you know what's good for you!
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- Page 141
(Bassoon growls and tightens
his hold on the girl as he brings her up to his face)
Bassoon: Hey, you little
brat.
girl:
Aah...
fx: <squeeze>
-
- (Bassoon throws the girl violently
into her flower cart, smashing it, as Flute yells out in horrified
panic in the background)
Bassoon: You're
still selling that worthless crap--!
fx: <crash>
Flute: !!
-
- (flowers and petals fly everywhere)
-
- (several people mill around
nervously as they watch)
man 1: He--
hey... that girl is working for Bassoon...
fx: <murmur murmur>
man 2: I was never sure...
why he never killed the poor girl...
-
- (aerial view of Bassoon standing
over the girl, who is cowering, and her destroyed flower cart)
Bassoon: Are
you stupid or what?
fx: <rustle>
That won't fill my stomach--
nobody wants to buy flowers!
fx: <rustle>
<tremble>
girl: (whimper)
-
- (the girl looks down in shock
and surprise, suddenly realizing what has happened)
girl: Aah--!!
Aa...
-
- (the girl starts to gather the
scattered flowers and petals lying about the ground)
girl: Father...
Moth...er.
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(she cries in earnest
as she holds the petals in her hands)
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- (lightning crackles in the background
as Flute and Oboe become enraged)
Flute: ....!
-
- (Bassoon grabs the little girl
by the head again)
Bassoon: If
you don't sell anything, you can't make any money, and then you
have no money to give me--
People who can't give me money have to die.
-
- (Bassoon looks at her lazily
as he holds the girl up to his face)
Bassoon: Just
like your old man and old lady~~~
WA HA HA HA
-
- (Flute growls as she clenches
her fists angrily. Oboe watches her, curious)
Flute: Wh--...
Why you!!
-
- (Flute is surprised as a hand
pushes her hat down on her head to stop her)
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- Page 143
(Hamel stands behind
Flute, a blank expression on his face, his hand still on Flute's
hat, holding her still)
Hamel: Flowers
aren't for sating hunger...
They're to fill the heart...
-
- (Flute is ecstatic to see him
and Oboe is besides himself)
Flute: Hamel!
-
- (the girl turns, back on the
floor under Bassoon's hovering hand, to look, tears in her eyes)
-
- (the crowd looks on in fearful
surprise)
fx: <loud murmur>
-
- (the people continue to murmur
amongst themselves)
person #1: Who is that guy...
(whisper)
Stupid, he'll get himself killed also... (whisper)
(whisper) People are no match for monsters~~~
-
- (Bassoon begins to turn to face
Hamel)
Bassoon: Who
the hell are you?
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- Page 144
(Hamel stands quietly
with his eyes closed, backed by a very surprised crowd, including
Flute and Oboe, and begins to play)
-
- (close up as Bassoon begins
to sweat, tense, as the music surrounds him)
Bassoon: Wha--
what the~~~?
-
- (the little girl looks up in
dry-eyed surprise as the music surrounds her also)
-
- (several people look on in a
hypnotic trance as the music continues to play)
-
- (Flute is hopeful and Oboe pensive
flying next to her)
Flute: Hamel...
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- Page 145
(aerial view of Hamel
playing, dividing the town's crowd from the girl and Bassoon)
person #1: Wha--
what's he doing...?
- person #2:
Where did this strangely
dressed musician come from...
What is he playing?
person #3:
Bu... but this music...
Aa... beautiful...
-
- (Flute has her hands to her
face in gushing admiration)
Flute: What beautiful music...
-
- (Flute looks to a considering
Oboe, as he speaks)
Oboe: "Waltz of the
Flowers"... That's what he's playing...
Flute: Waltz of the Flowers...?
-
- (as Oboe contemplates, a photo
image of Tchaikovsky appears besides him)
Oboe: It was given to the
world by the Russian musical master Tchaikovsky... it's the third
movement of his ballet... It's one act of the Nutcracker Suite--
"The Waltz of the Flowers".
-
- (the girl continues to stare
wide-eyed, entranced)
Oboe (off): This is the most
elaborate of all the waltzes.
It's a marvelous expression of a flower's beauty and splendor...
-
- (slightly closer view of the
girl as she continues to stare)
-