Tengoku Daimakyou (Heavenly Delusion)

TENGOKU-DAIMAKYO

TENGOKU-DAIMAKYO

EDION

Hey, is this how you spell "Man-eaters"?

WEE KIL MANN-EETERS

You're asking as if the rest of the words are spelled right.

Huh?

Let me write it.

CREDIT CARD LOAN - PARKING LOT

Why can I never write even though I can read fine?

I know, right?

WE KILL

There.

You have to put "Man-eaters" on a new line, or it'll look bad.

How come?

HANDY

On my office door in Nakano,

it looked as if I killed and ate men.

I KILL MAN-EATERS

Then there was actually a murder in town.

Everyone suspected me and came storming over.

Seems to me people get blindly aggressive about stuff they don't understand.

WE KILL MAN-EATS

I messed up because I was talking!

Now it says "Man-eats."

You're making it sound like it's my fault.

I'll rewrite it on the other side.

You should include the other names so it's easy to understand. Like Hiruko.

You're the only one who calls them that!

Mikura called them that too.

THE IMMORTAL ORDER

WE KILL MAN-EATERS, MONSTERS, MUTANT BEASTS (AND HIRUKO)

TWO MILLION YEN EACH

FOR BEGINNERS! INTRO TO RIVER FISHING

I hope someone snaps up our offer quickly.

Since they call themselves an order,

I thought once we got to the area, there'd be a flag or sign on an obvious building.

If it's this quiet, how are we supposed to find them?

I got one! Maru, the net!

Wait a sec!

What's with the mysterious face? Thinking about something?

The King of Hotels?

Hmm? No.

There's an odd number of fish, and they're all different sizes.

I was wondering how we're gonna divide them up.

- What's wrong, Sis? -

You look so good when you're quiet.

But you ruin it as soon as you open your mouth.

Wait! Let me try again.

- Ready. - No, it's totally different.

Wait, one more try!

No way, you blew your chance!

Hey, there's a weird pair at the end of the road.

They're not from that group, are they?

You should probably report it.

- -

Dr. Usami.

What is it?

A couple of people are loitering around with a strange sign.

It says something about being able to kill Man-eaters and monsters.

They might be roaming bodyguards.

Bring them to me.

Hmm? Oh.

Right, of course.

- Huh? -

Looks like we've made another catch.

This way, please.

Watch your step.

STOP HUMAN EXPERIMENTS

FREE THE PATIENTS

Hmm?

This place...

So, we have some business with the Immortal Order.

What kind of business?

If you've come for treatment,

you shouldn't think of it as any ordinary hospital.

I'm here to see the doctor who offers the treatment.

He's an old acquaintance of mine.

Hmm? That's not Dr. Usami.

Maybe he's a new doctor.

Huh?

Are you people not from the Immortal Order?

What? No!

What?

Where'd they go?

We lost them.

- This is a waste of time. - Wait, don't go!

At least hear us out!

Our group is opposed to the ways of the Immortal Order.

We are called Liviuman.

I am their leader, Mizuhashi.

We saw the sign that you made.

So we brought you here to discuss it.

Hold on a second.

First things first, we basically have no idea what the Immortal Order is.

Are they running some kind of free hospital?

It may look like a hospital,

but, please, take a look.

- Oh. - Oh.

It must have been about a year ago.

I had an injury and went to the Order for treatment.

But, in the end, they restrained me and amputated my leg.

Then they attached this metal leg.

We thought it was one of Dr. Usami's human experiments.

Even now, people come from all over to have their injuries cured.

But, instead, they are subjected to the work of the devil,

and their body parts are replaced with machines.

That's what the Immortal Order is.

But since it's called an order, they must have followers

and people who don't complain about the treatments, right?

Even before the Collapse,

machines were used to replace body parts that had deteriorated.

This led to the idea that the brain, or its memory data,

could be transplanted into a robot's body, thus transcending mortality itself.

From an ethical viewpoint,

it wasn't possible to actually carry out anything that radical.

But now we live in a lawless world.

If there are doctors willing to take their research that far,

then there are probably people who would happily become machines.

I bet you're thinking,

"Why not let those who want to be involved get on with it?"

Or, "Isn't it your fault for going there without knowing what you were in for?"

I suppose that's what you think.

- - It's not that...

I understand.

You're probably wondering why I speak out against their ways.

But I have seen it.

The repulsive reality.

Oh.

Behind a curtain,

I saw a body completely chopped to pieces,

hacked up to a point that ought to be beyond survival.

A human being kept alive by an impossible number of machines.

When it noticed my presence,

it spoke to me.

- Let... -

Let me die.

Even more shockingly,

that mass of machines, which has trampled on any remaining human dignity,

appears to be an object of worship for them.

So we decided to do something about it.

Dr. Usami has gained followers

from the knowledge he has acquired with his inhumane acts.

It's possible that in this era,

their way of doing things will become the dominant one.

So this guy isn't Dr. Usami?

That's not him.

Usami is younger.

Right.

We heard that the Immortal Order

are transplanting parts of the Man-eaters onto human bodies.

What?

Really? So that's what they're doing.

That's connected to what I wanted to discuss with you.

It seems that the Immortal Order

is keeping a Man-eater in the basement of their building.

What are we going to do, Sis? Shall we do it?

Let's do it.

They said they'd pay us.

If a Man-eater can be killed, we kill it.

People are going to get eaten if we don't.

That much is certain.

If you say so, then I will, but...

But what?

You're not as coolheaded as usual.

You're turning into Haruki again.

What's that supposed to mean?

I've always been Haruki in my head.

I am coolheaded.

She was naked.

No, no, stop it.

From Sis's point of view,

it's possible the doctor we're chasing is part of the Immortal Order,

which might bring us closer to the reason why the woman she loved died.

No wonder it's hard to keep cool.

But something doesn't feel right. What is it?

I need to figure it out.

Perfect. Being squished so close, I can only think of irrelevant stuff.

As many of you already know,

this morning another large building collapsed.

Day by day, the civilization that we knew is returning to the earth.

It is useless to us now.

Those of us who remain don't have the power to rebuild what is left.

What did machines bring to humanity?

Tanks! Bombs!

Fighter planes!

What did we get in return for this poison? Electricity! Convenience!

What we are left with, as a result, is an endless winter

and a mountain of debris just rotting away.

- Yeah! - Exactly!

This kind of thing

is not needed!