Made in Abyss 37

And here it is, the fourth part of the climactic fight of this arc.

Hello Abyss - 37 - "Flower of Dawn"

"Meyaaaa-"

"What... are you saying..."

Meya
Meyaa...

"*Doku doku*"

"That's...?"
"But... Prushka is..."

".........Prushka..."
"When she thought about you... she cried...!"
"*Fuorororo*"
"...My my."

"My my my my."
"Such a weird thing to say,"
"Towards me whom you wish to kill."

"Come."
"Preparations have been made so that we may step into the next 2000 years. Let us witness the dawn, together."

"Who cares..."
"About the dawn...!"

rip Prushka

yes

"As if there's any reason..."
"To force your own beloved daughter into becoming something like that!"
"Unforgivable!!!"

"Let's go, Nanachi!!"
"Yeah!! Continue with our plan!"

Nnaa...

f

...

"Riko!"
"Please respond..."

"Riko...!"

It hurts...

It hurts...
It...

It hurts...

"Geira, how is she."

"This is a difficult one, sir."

"She's so affected by the curse, even her ego's affected."
"Here, look."
"Do you know who you are?"

"It hurts..."

"Igiyaaaaaaaa"
"Uo...."

"It may be that she's a daughter of the Praying Hand, surviving the damaged carriage... However at this rate, making use of her would be too much trouble."
"Wouldn't it be better to just kill off this one..."

"I~!!"
"A prayer cannot be born out of those who know nothing but joy."

"Oh child of suffering, cursing life itself... Certainly, there is something that only you can do."

"Prushka shall be your name."
"A word, that means the flower of dawn."

"I?... Mu!?..."

"Papa. I'm Papa."
"Prushka."

"Iiiiiiii"
"Iiiiii"

>you will never drink sweet prushka container juice

>this one will work better, knowing misery. I can mold this one as I see fit...!

"Come on, Prushka."
"It's medicine time."

"Come out. Your body will get all weird, you know."
"Come out~"

"Iiiiiiiiiiii"
"Geira, how is she."
"She's been like this the whole time."
"Iiiiiiiii!!"

"Prushka, today I have a friend with me."
"Iii..."

Meya...

"I..."
"Hi..."

Thanks for all this work user.
I've waited for this.

"Meinastoirim..."
"It's called a [Child of Change]."

"Mei..."

"Meyaa"

"Meinya..."
"Pumu-"

"Oh my! Does it interest you?"
"Don't put it in your mouth, okay."
"Meinya!"

"Oh... She's coming out!"

"Meinya..."
"Piyo-"

...

aw

What the hell, I don't check on these threads for a week and Prushka is now a watering can

"Prushka..."
"You've found something that you like."

"Prushka, if so, from now on,"
"Your world shall begin to change."

"You, who have cursed the entirety of life, have finally found your first joy."

"From hereon, I am certain that you'll make it so, little by little."
"Today is your birthday."
"The beginning of your adventures."

"...Is that good?"

What do the cartridges even do?

Same thing as Nanachi/Mitty experiment, complete with the love

They intercept effects of the curse, and also they seem to disrupt abyss-vision.

They get the burden of curse in place of Daftpunk guy.

"...It's edible?"
"I see."

"What a waste, riiight. Even though there's plenty of good food in the Abyss."
"Good food, can be eaten?"
"...Right."

Meyaa

"What's good food like."
"I wonder if it tastes like Meinya."
"Meya!"

"Nfufufu."
"You're smelly."
"Meyaaaa..."

"Ah!"
"Don't go there!"

as far as bondrude's characterization, this all comes off as a "monster sob story" if you try to look at it as a humanizing thing.
knowing the motivation behind his apparent show of caring and realizing that it is, in the name of his lust for knowledge, achievement, and thereby power, it only really serves to cement how much of an atrocity bondrude is.

for prushka... it shows us how much more she deserves the reader's pity. bastard scooped her up in a state where she was literally incapable of knowing better and was all the more apt to imprint on him. without him she would have died... with him, she dies an even more horrible death, made all the worse for the illusory happiness she was presented in the interim.

>meinya was far more the presence that gave her peace than "papa"

pay attention. the cartridges are children stuffed in a box to serve as substitute curse victims for bondrude. presumably that backpack of his somehow causes the forcefield that comprises the curse's presence to pick up on the prepackaged children before noticing bondrude's current body.

>that it is, in the name of his lust for knowledge, achievement, and thereby power,
*all a lie

so filled with hate for that bastard I'm dropping chunks of statement, holy fuck.

Meyaa

Alright

"Every nail on both her hands..."
"Her left upper arm..."
"Her teeth are all broken too, it looks like..."
"Her muscles are still immature, so her spinal cord didn't get crushed, but..."
"I don't know if her mind can be brought back..."

"It is alright."
"Prushka's mind came from a far deeper place."

"I am certain she will immediately return to how she was."
"Let us warmly watch over her."

"My hair..."
"Is all twirly now..."

"...Why is Meinya just fine?"
"Meyaa-"

"I have to look into it!"

"Amazing, right!"
"If you take a sniff of Meinya's smell,"
"You can see more where you couldn't before!"
"You sure are obstinate-"

"...I've heard about such creatures of the absolute boundary... but even so, I wonder if sir is alright with this amount of free reign."
"It's fine!"
"This is secret from Papa!"

"...Oh boy."

that transition into her deformed-ass curse state made me chuckle

"Meinya! With your all-seeing eye,"
"Take a good look! At my adventures!"

"Fuapu"

...

"Papa, what is this?"

"She's a girl named Mere."

"She's different from me..."
"That girl is shaped like that, so she could help me."

"Papa, do you need a help?"
"Indeed, I have to see the Abyss' tomorrow with my own eyes."

"However, doing it alone is very..."

"Some very valuable collaborators are also involved..."

"Hey."
"I'll help too."

"Fuapu"

"How dependable. You truly are special, Prushka."
"Ehehe!"

"Let us go together."
"As long as you are with me, there exists no night that cannot be overcame."

>hey what is this?
>oh yeah that's a kid in a box
>o ok

Prushka had a weird upbringing.

:(

>"Some very valuable collaborators are also involved..."
"Some very valuable collaborators also left me...

Prushka got completely BTFO.

"Good day!"
"How are you?"
"Sao..."
"Ha"
"Bui..."

"That guy won't respond even if you talk to him, you know."

"I know."
"They're the ones who couldn't become a [Praying Hand]."

"...What're those."

"Whistles... you can't blow them though..."
"Geira, carry me."
"Will do."

"Here you go!"
"Hafu"
"Thanks for everything."

"They're so admirable,"
"Sao"
"Ni"
"Working non-stop everyday with just nutritional supplements."

"Papa said that keeping going forward is the hardest thing to do."

"They must be sad, not having a whistle even though they work so hard."
"So, I made these for them."

"You didn't make one for yourself?"

"I'm fine."
"I'm not a delver."

Ah, thank you user.

This sentence on page 126
>"Working non-stop everyday with just nutritional supplements."
Is split within two bubbles, I forgot to separate them.

"I'm a flower of dawn, [special] to Papa."
"So I'm going to make Papa special too."

"...Is that so."

"Now, some very special guests is about to come and visit us..."
"They are here to help me."

"I would like for you, Prushka,"
"To go and accompany them."

"Right, right. One of them is a daughter of a white whistle too."
"It will be fine, I am certain you will be friends with them in no time."

Yeah, well, she's been fucked up from the get-go. If she knew any of the girls before they were cartridges, it might be different.

True, she was once ponyo.

"Come on, Papa..."
"Even though you have me already..."

"Hey, Meinya..."
"Those guys... came here all the way from the surface, right..."
"Meyaa"

"I wonder... what a dawn is actually like..."

"Cleaning is what I do best."
"I'll surprise them!"

"No way..."

"They're all about my age, aren't they...?"

"No, Prushka."
"Stay confident!"

Sad.

"It's really amazing!!"
"The waterfall falls upwards!!"

"Really?"
"I haven't seen anything like that in the fifth layer though!?"

I listened.
I listened.

About sceneries I've never heard of.

About things I've never heard of.
Creatures.
People.

Precious
Friends...

Flavors I've never tasted.
Deliciousness.
The numerous wounds.

World's Best Dad mug when?

>here prushka, go befriend these kids I'm planning to kill!
it's all the more disgusting to realize that when riko, reg, and nanachi were approaching, bondrude was planning to have prushka get traumatized whether they played along or not.

Fun!
Fun!

Expressions I've never made!

Words I've never used!

More...

More...

More...

They don't just negate the curse, they deflect the negative effects onto the child in the canister while giving the positive ones to Bonedrewd.
That's why he gets all fluffy after coming out of the pit.

>ozen terrorfaceing even in in the kiddie-collage
dammit ozen

i think that's just prushka who had the "wants to die for the other" thing that went on with nanachi and her friend.

the other kids just mitigate it and eventually run out

More...

Together...

>>"They're all about my age, aren't they...?"
Technically she said

"They're all about my size, aren't they...?"

It may sounds awkward but it also sound weird in it
s original context.

getting all fluffy was presumably because he used prushka that time. the others simply kept him from being affected. prushka's misguided love allowed him to get the nanachi special.

Pruska doesn't even have skin inside the canister. Can you imagine being an immortal lunchbox filled with guts? She won't even be a rug like Mitty.

He wasn't planning to kill them though?
He just wanted to experiment on Reg

Such a thing...

Such a thing...!

Papa...!
No...

Papa...!
Papa...!!

I'll
I'll help you...

Papa...
Return to me...

Yeah, I thought it was weird. Might have to do with how Prushka is a sheltered dork who never talks to anyone besides Bondrewd A, Bondrewd B, and Igor A-to-Z.

I think I read too fast and missed the explanation back in the mitty flashback, but how does the abyss decide who gets the negative effects, and who gets the positive ones? Is he gambling every time?

he wanted to tear reg apart to see how he worked, killing him. perhaps you will recall that his spare bodies were working on that even as nanachi tried to talk the cunt into letting them go.
riko was either going to be stuffed in a box as a cartridge and thus fated to die on his behalf, or turned into a whistle, which ALSO requires dying.
nanachi was the only one with a chance to survive because of the MUH CHEEVOS! factor.

He was getting beast transformations before that though.
I assumed he got the biggest transformation leaping out of the pit because it was the greatest height and he used several cartidges.
Maybe the other kids loved him too?

normally it doesn't give a fuck, but bondrude's experimentation revealed that it can pile it all on one person if they and someone they're willing to give up everything for are affected at the same time.

every kid he shoves in a box is fed a bunch of bullshit about becoming his assistant and doing great delver shit and whatnot, but prushka got the full load of fake parenting to make her capable of triggering that effect... or becoming a whistle bondrude could actually use.

"As long as I have your love."
"I am immortal."
Papa...

My beloved Papa...
I always have you in my mind,
So don't leave me again.

He made an elevator that can do that. His cylindrical backpack thing is probably a miniaturized version of it.

she was in the pack with the rest of them. it's not like the forcefield is going to afflict them all one at a time.

Bondrude can use his own whistle though

...

The curse is a force field that wraps and follows you. Ascending "pops" the barrier, which cause the curse to activate on you.

I think he made an elevator that sucked it off one person and shoved it into another person. The labrats were Mitty (victim) and Nanachi (donor). The canisters are the completed product. Carrying around entire children is difficult, so he just stuffs their essential organs inside.

bone dude seems like a pussy to me. other whiteys just went down to the 6th and below with nothing other than whatever they found during their travels, and their whistle. he's the only one so obsessed with the curse and finding something to counter it.

even 12 year old kids are going to do better than him

My legs...

My...
I wonder what...

It hurts...

It hurts...
It hurts...

It... hurts...

It hurts...

The pain...
Is increasing...

He wants to conquer the Abyss, like how he eradicated the insects preventing everyone from diving before.
Calling him a oussy because of that is dumb.

then why try to get riko to accept being sacrificed to make another white whistle?

>fulfill your dream of becoming a white whistle... by literally becoming the whistle!

Damn, I was hoping to see dismembered Prushka.

and i'm saying other people are conquering the abyss without that pussy cartridge shit. riko's mom is already in cahoots with the ancient civilization and fucked one of their robot shotas so hard she made him her slave and sent him all the way to the surface in order to help her daughter. what has mask dude accomplished in the meantime?

Papa's pain...
Emotions...
Are flowing into me...

My pain is becoming Papa's strength.
"Damn...! I'm starting to faint...!"

"I'm getting close to my limit...!"
Papa...

prushka's tale begins and ends with the pain of the curse. all because bondrude wants MORE.

seriously, fuck bondrude.

He wants to figure out how to make the stones.
And he assumed Riko was going to become a whistle for their party because she's the only human in their group and they need a white whistle to continue.

which is a baseless assumption because that means her not continuing downward, and her entire motivation is to keep going and reach the bottom.

Going down without a way to come up is hardly contributing to humanity's conquering of the Abyss, friend

>conquering the abyss
You mean dying in the bottom layer where the curse will literally kill you if you try to ascend? That's conquering to you?

Papa, I'm,
I'm going with you.

"He nullified the incinerator!!"
"The [Light that Returns Things to Its Essence(Sparagmos)] overlapped with it!?"

"Once... once more...!"

Now
No matter how hard it becomes.

No matter how dark the night becomes.
We'll overcome them, together.

And the only way downward is having a white whistle attuned to someone in the party

"I shall have you stop moving now."

>he doesn't realize whatever is at the bottom will solve the entire plot
storytelling 101 user. this manga follows all the adventure story conventions to a T

Fucking Prushka. FUCK YOU

And why would Bondrewd make a baseless assumption like that?

Reminder that browndude did literally nothing wrong
Prushka WANTS to be his strength

yes, and riko hadn't quite planned how to work that out. which still makes no difference to the point that she intends to reach the bottom, and she can't do that if she's dead. which would be obvious to anyone except bondrude, I suppose.

"My my. So these claws... can pierce through at thin spots."
"Your body is still too sturdy,"
"But your vitals are located at the same positions as humans' are."
"Such a great help."

"Gi...."

"Do not worry, I shall leave behind your remaining upper arm and waist upwards."

"Y..."
"You..."

"You said... that my pain"
"Is a fake one... didn't you...!"
"Indeed, you truly are well made."
"Even your insides feel warm."

"If... my pain..."
"Is fake, then..."

he made equally baseless assumptions about some 2000 year cycle and who knows what that we as the audience know are true because story

>implying there's anything remotely good at the bottom of the abyss

>Sending white whistles to the bottom of the abyss will solve the mysteries of the abyss
>no white whistle has solved anything of meaning
Bonedrewd figured out the nature of the curse. That's much more helpful than the monster encyclopedia that Lyza sent back from hell.

prushka "wants" to be his powerup because he spent years coaching her to. bondrude did fucking everything wrong, die in a fire.

>baselessly assumes the girl who wants to reach the bottom wants to commit suicide before reaching the bottom
>wouldn't assume there'd be an answer to the abyss at the bottom
nigger what.

I hope you're baiting. He brainwashed her completely.

"I can still move...!"

"I'll have you know..."
"That this intent... is not a fake one...!"

That's why, Papa...

It's plausible to entrust your goals to someone else you know
And it's not like Bondrewd knows Riko personally

Prushka is such a good daughteru. Why did things have to turn out this way?

you keep talking about "humanity" "helpful" and the such but it should be obvious to anyone that he doesn't give a flying fuck about humanity, society, his government or anyone else. everything he does is for himself, so in that regard being "helpful" is completely irrelevant. i'd understand if figuring out the nature of the curse had the side-effect of figuring out the nature of the abyss itself, or something huge like that, but as it stands he was just some psycho stuck in level 5 dismembering kids for little gain.

She lived like a retard and died like a retard.

Just one thing.

I wonder if it's alright to wish for just one thing.

"Reg!!"
"Riko!!"
"Now!!"

DELET THIS RIGHT NOW

He can fire from his leg?

...except his research is being funded
Pretty sure he has to send back results if he wants continued funding

...

eeeeh