TM Chapter 41

Separate Ways (セパレイトウェイズ, Separeito Uizu) is the sixty-first chapter of the Trigun manga. It is also the forty-first chapter of Trigun Maximum.

Summary
Rem calls out to Vash and Knives who are locked off in the medical station area. Vash emaciated looks at the cryo pod Knives is in and then has a breakdown. Finally, Rem manages to get inside of the room and then rescues Vash. Afterward, Rem tries to feed Vash, but he vehemently rejects any food served to him. To his belief, Knives and him, were going to be subjected to the same experiments as Tesla was. Confessing her solemn guilt, Rem admits to Vash that she should have stopped them. Panic-stricken, Vash demands that Rem kill him, but she doesn't and continues to watch over him.

One day as Rem prepares a fruit for Vash with a knife, Vash then snatches it away and tries to use it to kill himself. On the other hand, Rem prevents Vash from doing it, but in the process is stabbed by Vash in the gut. Seeing the blood on his hands, the knife he used against Rem, and the pool of starting to gather around Rem. In a state of panic, Vash tends to Rem's injuries and when she awakens in the med-bay, she discloses to him her recurring dream after Alex died. Furthermore, she beseeches that Vash doesn't waste his life, to which, Vash promises that he won't. Just at that moment, Knives awakens, however, he has no recollection of about Tesla.