Trigun Maximum Vol.14: Mind Games

By Yasuhiro Nightow

Elendria faces off with Livio as Knives complains of Vash having endless stores of power. Meanwhile, Luida's summoned when the fleet of ships, Pieces of Earth contact them, and when she hears about the plants largest cointegration ever recorded being seen, and caused by the man, Knives. They also wish to contact a man who could help them, Vash. Luida confides Vash is already fighting the important issue and couldn't be reached.

As Livio gets his ass handed to him and Elendria takes her armor off to more easily finish him off, Livio's alter ego, Razlo returns. Livio doesn't get it, then guesses if it's Trip of Death, fool not sharing. Elendria ends him, and Livio wakes confused. A person becomes aware of the cointegration, and Elendria states to Razlo he'll never be able to defeat her.

Razlo's coached by Trip of Death or Livio on how he'd keep watch whilst Razlo fought for survival. Elendria doesn't know what or who Razlo is anymore, but she'd defeat him regardless. Then, whatever's suggesting shit to Razlo decides he'd done enough, and is leaving, when Livio gains more belief in himself and thinks his powers got stronger, he declaring she not only lost to him, but also Knives, taking her out, apparently. Then, it's noticed July's vanished, someone calling for Legato, who gives the young fella shit for getting upset when thinking he was dead, not being good enough to be near him.

Legato faces off with Vash, and is happy with his display of power. The scientist knows Vash is their only hope as Mer and Mil are readying to help by getting to Vash and communicate with the fleet. Legato's got Vash's gun to his head, and expects Vash to not yank his chain and truly kill him, violating his rule for all these decades. Vash asks for help from whatever could be listening as Mer and Mil learn the military plan to sacrifice 10% of the remaining pop. at attacking Knives with their missiles, Mer shocked.

Mil then shouts to Mer of seeing Vash, and as the prep for the ship's finishing, someone sees a feather falling. The scientist figures this is a show from progress for shared speech with the plants. Mer's still attempting to have the military hold off setting off the destructive missiles. When they're ready to fire, they notice the whole fleet'd moved at the same time.

Mer states how they'll fight no matter what for Vash's cause, the explosion expanding. Meanwhile, Vash sees Wolfwood with other peeps he knows, and then Knives states to Vash how the military connecting to him to learn the plants communications was a good plan, but to end it. Mer sees all the feathers raining down, some looking like people, and reminding herself how Vash'd tell her to not be scared. Then, Vash makes a promise to Mer, and Mil he admits to not having made before, to wait for him, since he'll return, this as many of the feather, desperate souls reached for Knives.

Knives states to Vash he's wanting to end it, now having drained his powers, Vash hoping he'd be content with leaving it as it was. Knives expects Vash to take him out if he wanted it to happen, Vash realizing he'd left Knives alone, which Rem'd warned him not to do. Half a yr passes as the town thinks Vash, who'd been carried away by a flying Knives, are now both presumed dead. Vash's actually living in the town after having healed again from his wounds.

The military next threatens to break in a home to find Vash, but the man himself pops up. Vash's ready to be "helped" by Mil and Mer, who updates him on now being assault data collectors. They then ready to present Vash's best side, after being victorious and making a comeback, he stuttering and cutesy, still helping the world.

Cute, TV show's much more cohesive, definitely could get away with only reading the 1st 2 vols, which covers the show. Final battle still felt open, so I'll be happy to move tf on.