TM Chapter 17

Emilio the Player (エミリオ・ザ・プレイヤー, Emiro za Pureiyā) is the thirty-seventh chapter of the Trigun manga. It is also the seventeenth chapter of Trigun Maximum.

Summary
Brad cautiously heads down a narrow hallway armed with a pistol as puppet parts fall from a vent. Hearing noises from the upper levels and worried about Sensei, Brad curses the situation.

The fight between Vash and Leonof continues. Vash carrying the body of the woman he shot earlier calls the Gung-Ho-Gun Emilio the player. Leonof, however, has no recollection of the name, but considers it an interesting name. Vash claims that Leonof has purposely forgotten it and goes onto list names of people he once knew which, perturbs Leonof. Demanding that Vash desist his reciting of names, Leonof uses more of his orbs to summon an army of puppets that resemble the residents of the city. One of the puppets has the resemblance of Sensei which points out Vash as a demon. The army then fires off their weapons and chases after Vash back into the residential area. During the confrontation, Vash manages to deduce the fatal flaw to Leonof's Puppet Genjutsu.

Unable to locate Vash, Leonof thinks Vash disappeared until he locates him atop a tall tower. Before Leonof could launch a counter-attack Vash fires his gun at the water sprinkles setting them all off. The sprinklers acting like rain not only reveals the strings to the puppets, but the water encumbers them as well. While Vash elucidates Leonof's puppet controlling ability. Refusing to give-in, Leonof still tries to control his puppets, but the backlash from doing that crushes his fingers.

Approaching the fainted Leonof who asks Vash if he's going to kill him, Vash answers he won't and in turn, asks him if he remembers his father's bread. Leonof has no clue as to what Vash is asking of him, so he poses another question that triggers him... Do you remember Isabel? In a snit, Leonof starts to run away and Vash tries to follow, but is unable to do so.

Meanwhile, Brad finds a huge pile of coffins and in one of them is the body of a young lady.