"don't eat." "Go find your own food." "Me?" "I'm okay." "Women are grand by birth." "3 million..." "I'll have the guys earn it for me." "blues harp music is good." "It's just as good as I thought." "I thought you were a fan of JAZZ music?" "Don't be stupid." "I even warbled when I was sucking on my mother's milk!" "You were a pretty thoughtful kid... that's Giraffe." "I'm going from the right." "You go from the left." "There's a fatso in the way..." "That's..." "Fatty." "The ball's in your court." "Fatty!" "Fatty River!" "Long time no see!" "it's Jet Black!" "When the hell did you get here?" "How about you?" "You look so easygoing!" "Did ya catch a big one?" "I didn't know you were a fan of blues music." "You're kidding me." "I've lived only for the blues since I was in my dad's sac!" "Give him back!" "Zebra!" "Hey you!" "Don't die!" "HEY!" "are you going to wipe out my bounty?" "D-Don't be fooled by his appearance..." "You idiot!" "Don't speak!" "...him..." "Help him..." "This stone..." "HEY!" "I can't say for sure until I analyze it but it might be worth a hefty sum... what are ya gonna do?" "Like I know?" "and HE's the one who went off and died." "I see no harm in keeping it." "There is no harm." "it's not your duty to help the kid." "This is gonna pay for OUR food." "There's none for YOU." "You have such a poor heart..." "I'm not like that." "have a gift." "what's this?" "An invoice?" "What for?" "All the expenses that you've racked up on our ship." "Thanks for your business!" "You're welcome." "So why are you asking about the dead bounty?" "Well... uh... too." "Ya got a good deal?" "eat." "Ah well." "There's no bounty in it anyway." "Yeah." "No gain at all." "no." "There really is nothing." "Ah well." "You'll owe me one for today." "You know that kid on the blues harp the other day?" "Giraffe was after that kid Wen's father." "Zebra." "Acquaintance?" "You didn't even know that?" "That they were the top of the Volunteer Self Defense Squad until ten years ago?" "But why is he after an old comrade?" "Zebra ends up missing...  ... and Giraffe fiinds himself blindfolded in a weird place he'd never seen before." "but he was betrayed." "But Zebra was still alive..." "Giraffe was killed by some form of betrayal?" "but men live for duty." "huh...?" "That's what I'd like to believe." "Who are you?" "Someone suspicious." "What do you want?" "Giraffe asked me to help you." "But Zebra shot Giraffe..." "Yeah..." "Then why did Giraffe tell him to help the kid...?" "too." "He must be pretty famous." "Yeah." "The kid's a genius." "This guy isn't Zebra...!" "What!" "?" "Look... the date!" "What the...!" "?" "Why the hell is this kid in an article from 30 years ago with the same face!" "?" "Come on." "There's nothing to fear." "Come over here." "Little twerps should stay outta this." "you'll get burnt." "kid." "I ain't a kid." "All kids say that." "but I've been alive since the days when humans crawled only on the face of the Earth." "It started on the day of the accidental explosion of the hyperspace gate." "My body has ceased to age." "I can't die." "all died before me." "The end for this guy started when he snuck into the lab." "I needed a "parent" to use as a cover." "D-Don't be fooled by his appearance...  ... him..." "Help...  ... him..." "I think this was the third guy." "gimme the ring." "Ring?" "What ring?" "That's fine... it's a pearl before swine." "you big klutz!" "You're lucky you got away with this little since we don't have the money for a funeral!" "Sorry." "Ein!" "Shut up." "Oh...?" "the alpha-catch." "Shit... this piece of junk..." "All right!" "Now... what are ya seein'?" "The hotel." "He's remembering the time that Giraffe died." "Give him back!" "Zebra!" "Come over here!" "Shit!" "And then what?" "What did Giraffe say!" "?" "I can do you in with this." "This is a stone that will return time to you!" "hand Zebra over to me!" "Zebra!" "a vast amount of energy and an imaginary coordinate system were created from the resulting twists in hyperspace and got enclosed into the gem of this ring." "And that same energy broke Wen's circadian rhythm." "His pineal gland continually produces a substance similar to melatonin that inhibits aging." "That's how the theory goes in a nutshell..." "You understand?" "Like I do..." "I don't either." "there's no way to make sure other than to stick that gem into Wen." "I don't know what will happen." "It might explode the moment you shoot it in..." "This makes me excited." "What?" "I thought this might be the last time I'd see you so I thought I'd see you off." "so you're finally going to leave us?" "you aren't coming back." "I don't like it." "I don't like it one bit." "Men are such idiots..." "I see..." "I can finally die now..." "I feel so heavy..." "But..." "I feel so at ease now..." "Do you know...?" "Do you understand...?" "Do YOU..." "Like I do..."