Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird (Debiruman: Kaichou shireinyu hen)

DEVILMAN

"DEMON BIRD SIRENE"

Tare, get the phone!

I can't stop now.

You made me lose!

Okay!

Hello, Makimura residence.

Who is this?

Come...

Come...

Come...

Come...

Hey, who was that?

Hey, you've been acting weird lately!

Hey!

Akira, what's happened to you?

Only a skull.

I don't like this feeling.

Who's there?

Come out, Jinmen!

What's this?

That voice!

Akira...

Impossible!

Mother... died at the glacier.

The pain...

Save me...

I don't want to die...

- Give it back... - My body...

Give it back...

It hurts!

- Please, kill me... - I can't see...

Kill me!

Anybody!

Help me!

Do you like it, Akira Fudo?

Or rather... Devilman!

My beautiful shell...

Shell?

Can't you tell? Oh, you can't.

Well, then... look again.

When I devour a human, their face becomes part of my shell.

Their grief and deep-seated grudges become manifest on my shell.

Magnificent, isn't it?

The way these people shout, scream and curse!

In the middle of my shell is the face of your mother. Can you see her?

Jinmen! You demons have never made me this angry before!

Really? Will you become angry with me? Yes, please hate me!

To be hated is a badge of honor for a demon!

Because the stronger he is, the more others hate him...

You'll pay for this, Jinmen!

Akira!

Don't look at me!

You don't want her to see?

Your true, hideous demonic form!

Save me!

Stop!

Murderer!

Aren't you cruel!

Though they are part of my shell, they are effectively alive.

They still have their human consciousness.

You just killed a human.

Go ahead! Kill more humans!

Yes, kill more and more humans!

Bastard! How can you say that?

Compared to you, I'm a saint.

I only eat humans, after all.

Humans do not object to eating a living creature.

It's the killing that's wrong.

Killing things is wrong, isn't it?

So I ate them without killing them.

Without killing them... I ate them.

Jinmen!

Mother!

You must see this!

This is the form of my rage!

Jinmen, I will kill you!

You who possesses a human soul, can you do that?

The human soul is very weak.

You possess the powers of a devil, yet you won't use it.

And power means nothing if you won't use it, right?

What's wrong? I thought you were going to kill me!

Hey, kill me! Kill me!

Kill me and all those on my shell! Hey! Hey!

The smell of burning flesh is so wonderful.

I really want to eat you right away!

Akira!

If you can, look inside my heart.

Akira...

Mother!

I... I died.

Mother!

My arm was ripped from my body. The blood sprayed everywhere.

The demon's claw ripped my body apart.

Stop it!

Why are you showing me this? I don't want to see!

Look! If you can't accept this, you cannot fight.

Stop it!

You're not even trying to fight back!

I will add you, too, to my shell...

Akira!

Where is he?

Stop! Stop it!

If you tear off my shell, they will all die!

All of them!

And so will you!

His shell hardened with the faces still engraved in it.

Jinmen's shell, a sorrowful death mask.

Dr. Tamura, Dr. Tamura! Call for Dr. Tamura.

Please pick up the nearest phone.

Ryo!

Hey!

You look well.

Yeah, I can't believe how fast I've recovered.

Even the doctors are surprised.

Well, you were hurt pretty bad.

Hey, visitor! Don't wear out Mr. Asuka!

Okay...

Never mind me. How are yo-

Very well. Although every once in a while I feel an urge to cut loose.

If I hadn't become Devilman, my mother might not have died like that.

That's ridiculous.

Your mother was eaten by a demon before your transformation.

Stop blaming yourself for everything.

I guess you're right.

To be honest, I found it all a bit... liberating.

Doesn't make sense, huh?

I'd have to settle that score eventually, either way.

We may not have a chance of winning our fight.

Maybe demons eating humans is the natural order of things.

What are you saying?

Are you saying that our battle... that my transformation was for nothing?

That's not what l mean.

Every creature on Earth has a natural enemy.

The herbivores eat plants and the carnivores eat the herbivores.

You can't have an explosive increase in one population or the other.

If the carnivore population grows too large...

...they'll run out of prey and starve to death themselves.

The existence of natural enemies maintains balance in the world.

However, humans have no natural enemy that preys upon them.

It's strange, when you consider the way that nature maintains balance.

Are you saying that demons are the natural enemies of humanity?

Look at this city. It is filled to the brim with people.

To control their population, eventually, they'll have to eat each other.

You mean war?

Humanity has become far too powerful.

The eventual result of forming nations, allowing their weapons to advance too far...

But, they can't wage a war over anything too trivial.

The next war will cause extinction.

That's extremely pessimistic. Humanity is not that foolish.

Which means that the hungry demons must come and devour humanity...

...to solve the population issue and restore the natural balance.

But, time has been on humanity's side.

While the demons were buried under the ice...

...humans have developed great power.

Enough power to fight the demons.

Then our struggle is not in vain.

Devilman is the natural enemy of demons. I am a Demon Hunter!

You who knows the secrets of demons and wields their powers, Akira Fudo...

No, Devilman.

Guardian of those insects who crawl upon the Earth...

I cannot allow you to live!

Are you mad?

You're hopeless.

Come down.

Miki...

What's that?

Jinmen...

No, this isn't my dream!

This is the memory of the demon I united with.

Out of the way!

Stop it!

Akira!

Akira!

Miki!

You screamed in your sleep.

If the dream was Amon's memory, then the fear that I felt...

...when I saw that huge demon was Amon's fear.

Heh! That's great!

Akira!

Is that anyway to treat somebody who's worried about you?

I was dreaming.

A nightmare?