TRIGUN STAMPEDE

Well?

I've checked a million times.

The transmission from the colony fleet is the real deal.

We did it, Jessica!

Hey!

Broadcasting a message to Earth for over a hundred years really paid off!

It's a miracle.

A fleet that left Earth a century or a century and a half ago

just happened to be headed in our direction

and just happened to pick up the transmission from our home.

Miracles are meant to be seized with your own hands!

Where is the fleet now?

About 0.15 light years away from Noman's Land.

Can we communicate with them?

If you can wait two months per relay.

Real-time communication won't be possible

until they're just about to arrive.

Still, what a relief. Now we're saved.

No.

We can't say for sure that we'll be saved.

Don't let your guard down.

But for sure, there is hope.

Hope gives us the courage to live on to the next day.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

Yeah!

Run!

Get to the shelter!

Here they come!

Brad, I'm staying, too!

What're you gonna do against those monsters?

But—

We don't stand a chance!

You go and bring him back to us!

There's a tracker in his prosthetic arm that gives us his location.

Granted, it's from two and a half years ago.

But it's all we have.

But...

We'll hold out until he gets here!

Now go!

Vash...

Oh, you helped me?

Um... Thank you.

Where did you...

No, that's not important.

Um! I'm looking for someone!

He should be nearby.

Have you seen this man?

Um...

Come with me.

I must have twisted my leg when I collapsed.

Th-Thank you so much, um... Mister Hoppered.

In here?

Vash!

I'm so glad! Thank goodness!

Listen... Listen, I...

Vash?

Eriks has been that way for a long while.

He has? And... "Eriks"?

I found Eriks some time after that day.

What day?

Lost JuLai.

He seems to have lost his memory.

It's only natural. He must have gone through a lot in JuLai.

I think.

You've taken care of Vash this whole time.

Thank you...

Thank you.

Say, Mister Hoppered, why "Eriks"?

Have you remembered anything? Vash—

No, don't push yourself too hard.

It's all right...

Eriks.

Are you sure?

We knew Vash survived, but we couldn't go after him.

We had no idea how much he was suffering.

Maybe it's best that we leave him the way he is.

Now go!

But, our home...

I'm sorry. You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you? But, um...

I...

I kill the girl at sundown.