junpei arc translations
JUNPEI: If I had a button to press that would instantly kill everyone I hated, I probably wouldn't press it.
But if I had a button that would kill everyone who hated me, I'd press it without hesitation.
JUNPEI: Is this that person just now? No, is such a thing (killing three boys and transforming their bodies beyond recognition) something "people" can do?
If you can do such a thing... can you still be called "a person"?
MAHITO: You saw me do that, and now what will you do? Condemn me?
Were those boys particularly special to you?
SMILING INHUMANE FIGURES FEEDING JUNPEI INSECTS: It's okay, it's okay, eat, eat!
JUNPEI: For me to do something like what you did...is it possible?
JUNPEI: I wonder if the first person to coin the phrase, "The opposite of love (suki) is indifference (mukanshin)," went to hell like they should have.
How is it more malicious to leave someone alone than it is to harm them?
(How can harm be more just, more right and proper?)
The opposite of love (suki) is hatred (kirai).
(To use (suki) rather than (ai)... An ambiguous word for like (suki) rather than the explicit love (ai)...and to use a word denoting the presence of affection and feeling (suki) opposing a word that denotes an absence of feeling (mukanshin) and a heart unmoved.)
Japanese people please themselves with a simple answer to a complex question.
MAHITO: Everyone loves a little word play. It's only human, isn't it?
MAHITO: (Humans love a little wordplay) because they don't practice what they preach.
(TL: They have no flesh in the game, so to them it's just words.)
JUNPEI: This is?
MAHITO: An experiment to see how big I could make a human being.
MAHITO: This is the opposite, to see how small I could do it.
JUNPEI: This is a human being?
MAHITO: (It used to be.) Is Junpei used to seeing dead bodies?
JUNPEI: Is that so, I wonder... Rather, if the dead body was my mom, then I'd probably have to hate Mahito-san.
JUNPEI: But, I know the worst faces of human evil.
So, I have no hope for humanity.
Therefore, when "other people" die, I think nothing of it.
I think there is nothing more atrocious than the persistence of those that believe in abject negligence. (Because, even I engage in that human quality of severe indifference. Looking at these dead bodies and not caring because they're "other people.")
MAHITO: That is your vengeance on humanity.
JUNPEI: Are you trying to say I'm hypocritical?
MAHITO: Junpei, do you think humans have hearts?
JUNPEI: Eh? Don't they?
MAHITO: No.
They have "souls," but they don't have "hearts"
JUNPEI: Then... what about me?
MAHITO: In this world, I have the power to transform the shape of living things with a touch. I can see and comprehend the unique structure of every soul.
MAHITO: The wealth of human emotion is metabolized by the soul.
The heart is just a mechanism for the soul.
Humans think too much about what they cannot see.
To me, who can see it, the soul is no different than the body, and neither are especially precious.
It is and it is, and it is nothing more than that.
MAHITO: Do you understand? The worth of a human life... it's nothing special.
Between heaven and earth, the human spirit is always revolving in a cycle.
You and I...? We're the same.
Meaningless, worthless.
So, because of that, anything is permissible.
You can live freely.
MAHITO: We are not held captive by the human ideal of indifference, of inaction, or apathy, and disengagement.
We don't need such hypocrisy.
If you are hungry, you eat. If you hate, you kill.
Junpei.
I will sanction you fully.
YUUJI: how should I put it? once you've killed even once, the possibility of "killing" then irreversibly enters your life. the value of life becoming ambiguous to the point I don't even know how much the lives of my loved ones are worth... it scares me.
JUNPEI: humans don't have such things as hearts: this thought has saved me. and now, that power was given to me. but if killing someone would taint my mother's soul... then I won't kill.