TM Chapter 18

Long Goodbye is the thirty-eighth chapter of the Trigun manga. It is also the eighteenth chapter of Trigun Maximum.

Summary
Brad finds a coffin with a young lady in it and figures it's just another puppet. Leonof then activates his remaining puppets in the coffins and they all start to attack Brad, whom counter attacks with his pistol.

Wolfwood nearly exhausted of all of his energy sits before the corpse of Gray. He reflects on the children at his orphanage, when a compartment opens up from Gray's body and two dwarves pop out of it. In a fit of rage, Wolfwood beats up one of the dwarves as the other aims to furtively attack Wolfwood from behind.

After Brad finishes off the remaining puppets, Leonof arrives at the scene and demands that he step away from the lady in the coffin. A smart remark from Brad claiming that the lady is someone precious to Leonof, causes him to be shot at by the Gung-Ho-Gun. Regaining his balance after falling backward, Brad finds a coffin with a decaying body in it and vomits. Right after Leonof then checks on the lady's body, the surrounding area starts to rumble. Leonof and his puppets are then caught in a plunge where the lower half of the ship is de-attached from the main body. This was due to Brad's interference in the control room.

As it turns out, Leonof was still alive. He held the coffin of the lady with his puppet strings with one hand and while Vash struggled to keep a grip on his strings with the other. Perplexed as to why Vash would try and save him, Leonof then recalls Vash's earlier question about his father's bread. Sequentially, Leonof loses his grip on the coffin and it falls to the quicksand below. Distraught, Leonof then uses one last tiny puppet to stab Vash in the hand causing him to let go of Leonof, allowing him to fall to his demise. A quick flashback of when Leonof was called Emilio talks with Vash about how he should tell someone how he really feels about her.

Elsewhere, the remaining dwarf that Wolfwood didn't beat up claims that he'll maintain the unbeatable repute of the 9 with its bizarre suit of armor. But before it could, Meryl and Milly fall on top of him thereby incapacitating him. Wolfwood is notably astounded by this as Milly gleefully praises him for his accomplishment and the dwarf demands they get off of him.