The time has come.
The pieces are set.
The bodies are here.
The celebration can begin.
1ST ARC: A DEAD FACTORY
Corpse Party: Blood Drive EX CHAPTER 07 Satsuki's Heart (Translation(with some slight modificatons))
(I don't have any memories when I was very young)
(I just, remember that my parents were kind)
At dark dusk, the unlit room was dim, with this even if someone was in the room, you wouldn't be able to see their face.
With melancholy feelings, I opened my mouth.
"Mother, I'm hungry."
Mother sat with her elbows on the table of our small kitchen, hunched over with her head held in her hands.
With my third request, she finally slowly stood up.
The house was empty.
Recently I've noticed my voice echoes in the rooms now.
Strangely, everyday a piece of furniture disappears. Yesterday was the toaster, the day before that the piano, and before that the chest of drawers.
Today is it... Father? I wonder where Father went?
"Mother"
Mother's shadow slowly, pitch black, reaches a hand towards me.
"Satsuki... I'm sorry..."
Even her is strangely dark. That's strange, is it because the light's don't turn on anymore? It has to be that.
*(click, click click)
"Mother, the light's don't turn on."
"Satsuki... I'm sorry..."
"? ? Huh?"
*(FWUP, CLANG)
Suddenly my vision, shakes violently, and everything slides away like shooting stars.
Lights flash in front of my eyes, the patterns on the ceiling rush by and disappear, I see the corner of the table appear and disappear, I see Mother's face for one moment.
Frying pans, a looooot of them fly towards me.
*(FWUP, CLANG, BANG, BANG, CLANG)
Huh...? we only have one frying pan in our house.
My face swells and hurts all over, I can't hear anything because of the ringing in my ears.
I wonder if my nose is dripping. I feel something wet coming from my nose and ears, it's cold.
"Satsuki!"
*(clanga langa lan)
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
See. When Mother's like this, if I'm patient for a few minutes, she hugs me dearly like her life depended on it.
That's why I love her. I love the frying pan.
"I'm sorry... this is all there is."
What Mother gave me, it was a bag of potato chips. It's not my favorite brand by that famous company, so it won't taste as good.
There are card board boxes full of them in our house, I'm the only one who eats them.
When I eat them Mother is happy.
I've made them my favorite food.
"Satsuki, in 3 days, you have a very important duty to do!"
"Duty? *(munch munch) What is it?"
"Be joyful!... Thanks to the peerless wisdom of the Arch Bishop you will be reborn. You'll become one rank higher compared to all other human beings!"
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*(ding dong, dang dong, dang dong, ding, dong) The school bell rings
"Satsuki-nu! Satsuki-nu! Oissu-!"
"... oh. Mizuhara-san"
Mizuhara Harue, we've been in the same class since elementary school, came to talk to me.
I point a blank face, lacking in friendliness towards her.
"... What is it?"
"You really are gloomy as always! At least sometimes try to give a more energetic reply like 'Oissu-'."
"..."
"Oh well. Satsuki-nu, let's go to that theme park, this weekend deffo!"
"... I can't do this weekend, we have a meeting."
"... Rrrgggaaah! Really! Just leave that to your folks who're stuck in that religious stuff up to their necks. You want to go to riiiight?"
"...um"
"See, that's the face! ... I know your seeecret? Satsuki-nu, you love that pair of underwear you bought there, the one's with Mokkey on them."
"... I want to go, but..."
"Just ignore those stupid chores your parents make you do! Quit em! Quit em!
"... Pfff..."
This girl called Mizuhara. She's a strange one, anything she says is funny it's almost unfair.
I don't laugh very often, but even I get caught up by her and laugh.
"Really. If only kids could choose their parents! Satsuki-nu you've got to be more cheerful, it's healthier you know."
"You've got some breasts on your body, just use 'em right and you could lobotomize any boy. Purin Puru-n!"
"haha..."
That day, Mizuhara-san broke her jaw in a car accident, she couldn't laugh anymore.
After that she never came back to the school.
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A girl with blond twin tails and ice blue eyes is in front of me. She says gently to me.
"So you're Satsuki-chan? I'm glad you could come..."
"Good girl. You're such a good girl. So young, and yet you understand the way of thing, and the value of 'self-sacrifice'. Fantastic."
I was taken to a, dark, arcane, dangerous looking place.
I was naked, only a thin plain black robe covered me, so I remember it was very cold.
"Ignorant of objective, unemotionally following the words of your parents... You must be a very, very good child."
This is deep inside the Maltuva order.
Scary looking machines and tools line the dim room, everyone wears black robes and hung onto every word the head said, as if they were imperial commands.
I couldn't think of anything... I just put a small smile on my face and looked blankly at a spot on the floor, with unfocussed eyes.
"Yes, Master Magari" My mother grovels at the girl's feet. "our child is truly obedient and pure and..."
"She volunteered herself forward," My Father joins my Mother at Master Magari's feet "'If it was for the other I would do anything' she said."
"Oh, really." Master Magari's voice is different from when she spoke to me, she sounds bored. "More importantly you two should just pay your tributes. How far overdue do you think you are?"
"Y, yes Master Magari..." My mother grovels further.
"Nekoma Satsuki, Dost thou accept thy fate, of thy own accord?"
I, happen to look at a corner in circular ritual room with the same blank smile, and jump in surprise.
"... *(gasp)"
In the corner there was a huge jar, like one you would see in science class with insects or snakes preserved inside them, and from it the blood covered head with rolled up eyes of Harue-san jutted out unceremoniously.
"Just ignore those stupid chores your parents make you do! Quit em! Quit em!"
Blood and saliva dripped from the split jaw of her miserable face.
"Nekoma Satsuki. How does it sound? The parent's of children who accept their fate, in return for their services, can often gain great position with in the order."
... ... ... ...
A moment of silence.
Words began to spill out from me like a dam had just broke, it felt like something was bursting out of chest, I had been killing my emotions with my blank expression.
"... I don't want to die, Magari... sama...!"
As my tear mixed words come from my mouth, my parents look at me with panicked expressions.
'What in the world is this brat saying' It was that sort of cold expression.
"This is an experiment to create a thaumaturgical body right?! I don't want that!"
"Good" After uttering that one word Magari bisects Satsuki's parents, in an instant.
Satsuki's parents were split in two at the midriff, like splitting bamboo, died releasing disgusting noises.
"Satsuki, your will is good, I'd say. Live your friend's, Mizuhara's, portion of life as well."
"... 'You' can live under my dominion. I'll keep you as a pet." Magari-sama takes a step towards me.
"I'll prepare some 'replacement' parents, soon."
The world goes dark...
I am...
"Well then, spiritual surgery, is in session." Magari-sama's bored voice plays with the last vowels of her sentence.
I am... Mizuhara Satsuki.
Today, just now... I was born.
END
Mizuki Magari's Estate, Basement - 2 Days after escaping the Nirvana
*(Creeeeeeeeaaakkkk, CLANG)
A door opens letting in the only light into the pitch black stone basement. The pool of light flows down the top half of the two flights of stairs that wind to the bottom, illuminating a small foot with an iron manacle around it.
*(click, clack, click, clack)
Heeled shoes ring the stones of each step as Magari descends into the darkness. The foot moves and the clink of metal chain rings back.
"Krrrrrrrrssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."
A gurgling hiss follows. Magari reaches the bottom.
*(FWUP, clin li li li li li li li link, CLANG, THUMP)
The sound of someone jumping.
The musical rattle of chain against stone.
The sound of the last link catching on the massive iron pin tethering the foot to the floor.
The sound of a body hitting the ground
"SHWAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
"Really, without the synapse you really are completely useless aren't you?"
"Kuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
"Without the Maltuva repairing it is going to be hard and I don't want to leave my pet to be played around with by them either."
*(Fwup, Fwoosh) Magari twirls her scythe around her like a baton, one revolution on each side.
"Really, if you were only a little more obedient I wouldn't have to do this... but I guess I never taught you properly. I guess I can only rely on a 'collar' for so long."
"Hrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk"
"I should have made the chain shorter, I guess I was a little too kind giving you this much leg room."
*(click, clack)
*(FWUP, clin li li li li li li li li)
"KKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR"
*(CLANG) The sound of metal hitting bone.
*(THUMP)
"Kuh hack koff krrrr... kuh kah"
Bestial coughing sounds from the corner the thump came from. The chain rattles slightly with each expulsion of air.
"That form you're taking annoys me. Let's start with some easy tricks."
"kkkkkkkkkkksssssshhhhhhhhKKKIIIIIIIEEEE..."
*(FWUP, CLANG, THUMP)
"Kah, Koff, kaaaaaaaahhhhh"
"Really, it only took a broken neck to break the synapse. I guess simulated feelings of fear and pain can only last so long. I guess your taste of the real thing made you think you could bite the hand that feeds you."
*(click, clack)
"But that's alright... I'll just carve the real ones into you. The Grave's probably still panicking a bit right now so we can take this slowly."
*(FWUP, CLANG)
"KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
*(FWUP, SLAP)
"SKKREEEEEEEEEEEEE"
*(FWUP, CRACK)
"KKKIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH"
*(FWUP, CRUNCH... FWUP, SMACK... FWUP, THWACK... FWUP, GLOCK... FWUP, SPLAT... FWUP, WHACK... FWUP, THUMP... FWUP... ... ...)
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Mizuki Magari's Estate, Basement - Nekoma Satsuki
"Uhhhh... nhhhh... huh? Where am I? ! ! ! OW, ugh, aaaaahhhh, uhhhhh."
Where is this? It's so dark. I hurt all over. It feels like I'm back with my first parents...
It feels a lot like when Mother swung the frying pan at me...
Mommy... I haven't remember her in a while... What happened to her? Every time after the frying pan, she'd cry and say she was sorry. That's why... I liked the frying pan, because always afterwards Mommy cared for me. Any other time... she didn't even look at me... Is Mommy here? I can't see you.
"... Mo... *(sniff)... uh... *(sniff, sniff)... Mommy?... Is that you?"
"Oh, you woke up." A woman's voice disinterested, bored, and ice cold. I know it... I heard it before... back when I was Nekoma Satsuki.
"Well, at least it learned to fear me. When it figured out it couldn't run away from me anymore I guess it tried to get me stop by using you."
"Magari... sama..." I know this person...
The person next in line to take over the Grave of Maltuva...
The person who my first parents took me to see...
The person who cut my first parents in two...
"Magari-sama! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
I get to my knees and grovel in front of her. My left arm and leg have no feeling and I can't move them but I do my best to apologize to her. I am hers, my clothes, my home, my parents, my body... my life are all hers. I am her pet. Her 'cherished' animal.
"Alright, alright, I don't need to train you, you're already well behaved enough already." Magari-sama sighs, she sounds irritated. I can only barely see the tips of her high heels from under my fringe.
"But... this might be a good timing to have you learn a new trick."
"... Eh?" I peek up wards Magari-sama has her left hand on her hip. Her right hand droops over the end of the scythe which she balances on her shoulder.
"It'll be annoying to have to deal with three of you in the same body, and you need the other one to keep under cover." Her right hand snakes downwards and grabs the handle of the Scythe. "I'll just have to get you to learn how to bring out 'it' at will." She takes a step forwards.
"... Magari-sama?" I can't see her face, the light from behind her casts her in shadow.
*(FWUP, CLANG, THUD)
"! ! ! UH, AH, UHH, uhhhhh" I'm on the ground, sideways. I feel something wet dripping across my forehead. I struggle to get up. I need to grovel before her. If I do that she usually just ignores me and walks away.
Most of the time I just go to school and when it finishes I go home, whenever Yuka-chi is free I play with her.
Only whenever Magari-sama wants to play she sends someone to pick me up.
I'm then taken to this basement, and then I lose consciousness.
Sometimes Magari-sama is here with me before I black out. On those times after I wake up I can see her walking up the stairs, her butler waiting for her with a towel and a drink.
Other times Magari-sama just watches from the top of the stairs.
On those times there are other people in here. People I've never seen before. Sometimes they're scared and shout at Magari-sama and me.
Sometimes they laugh and yell mean things at Magari-sama and me.
Sometimes they're angry. When they're angry sometimes they're angry at me, sometimes Magari-sama.
Sometimes... they're nice, they come up and pat me on the head, or hug me.
But it doesn't matter.
When Magari-sama isn't here with me, whenever I wake up, nobody is there anymore. The floor is covered in blood and there's blood on my face and chest.
But this time it's different. Magari-sama isn't ignoring me. I can tell she's looking right at me. I can feel a cold burning feeling from her eyes.
"Bring it out, Nekoma. Between you and Mizuhara, you're the one who's closest to it. After all, you created it. Also... I need Mizuhara to keep watch over Mochida Yuka."
*(FWUP, SMACK)
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH, UUUURRRRRRRGGGGGG, Hurk, BLEEEEEEHHhhh *(Splat, drip, drip)" My stomach hurts. I threw up. The smell of my own vomit burns my nose as the acid burns my throat and mouth.
"*(Sigh) What a difficult pet I have, I guess this is going to take a while too. Don't worry, even if I break anything 'it' should be able to fix you. If you don't want to hurt anymore, then imbibe some of your fear into 'it'."
*(FWUP, SLAP)
"AAAAHHHH"
*(FWUP, CLANG)
"HIIIIIIIIIIII"
*(FWUP, SLAM)
"AH, AH, AH, AHHHHHHH"
*(FWUP, SMACK)
"Hah, hah, hah, hah"
*(FWUP, SNAAAAP)
"! ! !, AYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"Hey! Don't just break like that! Ugh, really you're still better off with me you know? If the people of the Grave go their hands on you...*(Sigh) Geez, it bent waaaaay back, didn't it."
"Uh, uh, uhhhhh, uwwaaaaaaa, waaaaaaaa!"
"Oh it looks like we're getting a bit closer. That's it, more emotion! The more primordial the better!
*(FWUP, CRUNCH)
"! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Kuh, Kah, Koff, Krrrrrrrraaaaaaaahhh"
"But we're still not there yet, just...*(FWUP) a...*(FWUP) little...*(FWUP) bit...*(FWUP) more!"
"KAH, AHHhhhhHHH, KKKKARRRR, KAAAAAAAAAAA, KRRSAAAAAAAAAAAA, KSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA*G$Hsy%3whY&Xtr1p%3SK%guj!%~?&YGo^#1sGjisKIREs5#%0sK473H#H#.K$5GiVe52fdf%^#TSU+ #=TG^Sk5tI#GR3
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"Now, are you in control of it?"
"..."
"Good, this is much better than just the synapse, you can actually listen to orders. If I knew it would be this much better I would have trained you myself from the beginning!" Magari's bubbly voice rang in the dark basement. "I guess you really have to spend time with your pets to get them to listen to you!" Blood splattered the floors and some of the walls. Fresh patches contrasted dried brown stains that snaked to a drain in the back of the room.
"I guess your hungry after having to fix all the broken bits. Don't worry, I got just the thing. Wald." She calls her butler and his footsteps begin to ring the stairs followed by the shuffling of the figure, a cloth bag is covering the head, he pushes in front of him.
When they reach the bottom Magari grabs the top of the bag and yanks it off. Revealing a tear stained youth with pierced ears and nose. He's shaved his head and tattoos decorate his shoulders and arms.
"I'll leave him bound up and gagged since you're not in the best condition. Bon appetit!"
The clack of heals across stone rings until Magari reaches the top of the stairs. Wald places his hand on the young man's left hip.
*(CRACK)
"MMMMMMFFFFFF! Kuhhh." The young man collapses. Wald has cracked the left side of his pelvis. The pain prevents him from standing, let alone escaping. Wald ascends the steps and stands behind Magari.
"Uhhhhh, huff, huff, huff... hm? ? ! ! ! MMMMMM! MMMMMMMMMM! MMMMMMMMM..."
*(SLAP, K KKKKK KKKKKKKKKRUNCH)
"I guess the next lesson should be a dining course. But that can wait, it's only taken 2 days, and it's much better than the previous control method." Magari joyfully exclaims.
"Indeed, my lady." Wald affirms with his deep voice.
"Now, have you prepared for when the Grave of Maltuva will eventually attack us?"
"Indeed, my lady." Wald affirms again.
"Good, we don't want to give them anything, we'll move the rest tommo..."
*(tzzzzzzzztt)
"! They just cut through the barrier around the house! Tch! This is bad. Wald we're leaving, take as many servants with you and escape through the tunnel in the music room. I'll keep them distracted."
"Indeed, my lady." Wald bows and disappears down the corridor.
"Well, we'll see how well my training's gone. HAH! *(FWOOSH)" Magari swings her scythe horizontally aiming downwards, as if cutting the legs off of some enemy in front of her, the air in front of her bends.
*(WHUP, CLINK, clink, clink) The chain attached the manacle splits in two. The ends clatter against the stone.
"Come here, we need to buy Wald some time."
"... Yes... Magari-sama"
A/N: Well it is short, (well the part I made myself was 1800 words, the translation doubled that) but I finished writing this TODAY, by the way and reading through it, I was content. Hence although it was meant to be with the next chapter I decided to release it as a prologue, I hope this doesn't discourage anyone from reading... but if you went through both of Ayumi's torture scenes, the entire description of how the Nirvanafied Heavenly Host was collapsing... Then I guess this should be well within acceptable limits (I hope).
(Translation(with some slight modificatons)) Yeah, about the 'slight modifications bit' I used to work a little bit as a translator for Doki, (Massive Tangent Incoming and Underlined) I quit mostly because my parents said that I should get paid for doing it and I personally didn't find the community much fun to talk too. Personal problems not anyone in the Doki community's fault. They're actually really nice for the most part. I just didn't want to feel restricted when interacting with people online, and when people there were getting queasy about a scene where people were getting crushed in a giant mortar. (I was also watching Elfen Lied, Higurashi, and other rather bloody anime) I decided that I wasn't going to have as much fun as I wanted to. so I left. Now why is this relevant? well I really hate modifying translations, that's not what I'm supposed to do. HOWEVER, this is the first time I've translated something between Media. The Ex-chapter I translated is an AUDIO VISUAL and VERBAL media. The fan fic is only VERBAL. So where the game doesn't include descriptions, such as tone of a person's voice, scene changes, or blacking out. I had to add those in. THOSE are the slight modifications I am talking about. I might have made some translation errors though, it is 2:00AM in the morning right now on a weekday so don't get annoyed at me. (If you do find any places my translation seems to be weird then please either review it or PM me.)
Anyways for anyone wondering about the time line, Yoshiki mentions in "Chapter 9 This World - Prelude - Reunion" that he arrived in the real world 1 week after the events of Corpse Party Blood Drive. So the events that occur here happen before Yoshiki got back but after Satoshi, Naomi, Yuka, and Aiko returned to the real world. Magari and Satsuki were both in the Nirvanified Heavenly Host. Magari was there to try and get the Book of Shadows from Ayumi. Satsuki was there because she followed Yuka in when Mist tricked her by saying Satoshi was inside Heavenly Host and needed Yuka's help.
Mist thought he killed Satsuki when he threw her down a flight of stairs and she breaks her neck similar to how Shinozaki Yoshie did. Satsuki returns the favor later on by biting Mist's head off after he steals the Book of Shadows from Ayumi. In between Satsuki being pushed down the stairs and Magari bringing her with her to the core of the Nirvana, where everyone waited for Ayumi to seal the core of the Nirvana back inside the Book of Shadows, something called a 'Synapse' broke meaning Satsuki couldn't be controlled by Magari anymore. This leads to a bad end where when Ayumi returns from sealing the Nirvana's core she finds Satsuki standing in a pool of blood with none of her friends there. Satsuki then proceeds to devour Ayumi.
I was never able to find what a 'synapse' was but chose to make my own version that fit in with my own rules of how things work in this fic. Essentially it forms a false connection between things and emotions. Sort of like Pavlovian learning or synesthesia. It associates the emotions of fear and pain with a person to force the individual with the synapse to obey the person the synapse is made for.