.: Rekka no Honoo :. Rekka no Honoo [Flame of Recca] :: Anzai Nobuyuki VOLUME 20 :: translated by kamiya shuusai :: edited by willow :: :: volume 19 :: CH 1 :: CH 2 :: CH 3 :: CH 4 :: CH 5 :: CH 6 :: CH 7 :: CH 8 :: CH 9 :: CH 10 :: volume 21 :: Aoi Honoo volume 20 chapter 01 Volume 20 Chapter 1 : Desire In Vain soukakusai (vs. fuuko) : kirisawa...... you... do like me right...... you do... love me...... right? (fuuko looks funny) it's alright... you don't have to say anything, I understand... I understand... you eyes... they have spoken....... (I didn't hear anything...) they... they are craving for my embrace...... fuuko (looks really disturbed) : are you XXXX? (I'm getting goosebumps just typing this... T.T) soukakusai (I really think he has some stuttering problem) : so you're... shy............ I'll accept you... heheh... hehehhe....... I've been writing journals everyday...... and recently it's all been about you...... it shows my deepest feelings everytime... (a picture of his journal... one page is all repeatedly saying he wants to make love to fuuko, the other page... you dun wanna know...) I can even feel the current... it's a command... it's fate... (smile) the hormones in my head are getting stronger... so I tried to write a novel............... the main characters are you... and me...... it's a very... beautiful and erotic...... porno novel...... (fuuko looks super deformed) in that world... you were a very innocent good girl...... you'll beg me... but you'll want me...... how cute... how cute, fuuko...... ...however the assembling of characters alone cannot fulfill me anymore... I want to touch you......... I made you small enough so I can carry you around... (he made a fuuko doll) ......but it's still no good... the figure cannot move... the skin is man-made too............ and so... I took pictures of your body... and shot videos...... (suddenly appears behind fuuko, if you have the manga in front of you, notice something about his hand...) ...but it's still no good...... (licks.... *EWWWWW* yeah... licks fuuko's ear/neck) this is... the real thing... warm... s... so soft......... it's alright...... I love you too... (fuuko looks totally disgusted... T.T) (fuuko stabs her sword backwards, and soukakusai jumps away) soukakusai : EH... fuuko : don't touch me. you disgusting leech. soukakusai (standing up from his fall, laughing) : heheheh... I knew it... that was great...... I've got a reaction... that was good... ! (realize something and reach into his big cloak pocket again) huh!? (takes out the little fuuko doll... the head broke off from his fall) w... wah... ahhhh... ahhhh!! AHHHHHHH!! AHHH!! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! IT BROKE!! MY!! wahhhh!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! (screaming to himself on one side... while fuuko is watching with a lot of sweatdrops) fuuko (sweatdrops and more sweatdrops) : ..................................... text (fuuko looks freaked out) : I don't want to fight this guy. fuuko seriously thought in the bottom of her heart! soukakusai (slowly getting up) : ......... why... (takes off the big caldron on his back) fuuko : ! soukakusai : why...... did you do something so cruel... aren't you... in love with me? so be it...... I have my way... I'm using it...... (he slowly opens the cap to the caldron, a madougu crystal shines, the word means "seal", and he aims the caldron at fuuko, and the caldron suddenly creates a big force that's sucking fuuko in... *yes, this is the famous caldron scene... actually... we won't get to raiha until chapter 4 ^^;; but that's ok*) fuuko (feeling that she's getting sucked in) : UH...!! [wh...at!? it's sucking me in!!?] soukakusai : madougu...... tamasui no tsubo *soul sucking caldron*............ anybody... can be sealed... inside this caldron...... (I like to call it a big pot) fuuko (flying away) : AHH!!! (grabs a stone column in time, hugging/hanging on to it for her life) soukakusai : fuuko...Ø I'll ask you one more time......... do you love me? if not... you'll be living inside this caldron... forever...... fuuko : heh!! what are you saying, idiot---------!! I HATE you so much!!! I'm gonna kill you!!! (veins, the finger, of course, while she's busy giving soukakusai the finger, she forgets to hug tight to the column and starts to fly toward the caldron) fuuko (sweatdrop) : whoops. (gets sucked in) soukakusai (close the caldron) : you are... so shy...... eheheheheh!!! you should be...... a little more truthful!! in here... for life...! I'll keep you for life... fuuko!!! (meanwhile... let's skip to kaoru... he's moved on to this cave with this door *yeah, very descriptive there*) kaoru (looking around) : finally got to have some space. i... didn't take a wrong turn, did i... HEY!!? (bang on the door) what the hell, this door!! it's so heavy I can't open it!! (give up, sit down, exhausted) ...eh. I'll take a little break. (think about the others) [everyone's... gotta be alright------ recca nii-chan... yahani-chan... mikagami... fuuko nee-chan... domon nii-chan... I want to meet up with them... I really want to meet up......... (suddenly looks around as he hears something...) someone...... is here!!! (footsteps coming from another passage way... kaoru goes on guard) they're breathing carefully. apparently they've noticed me too! (step forward...) have no choice----] ...... (attack) [but to go!!] (he freezes as his kougon anki is an inch from recca, and recca freezes too as his fist is an inch from kaoru's head, they both glare at each other in a moment of surprise... and then a big smile appears on recca's face... and kaoru is becoming all teary) kaoru (sobbing) : re... recca nii-chan... (they jump to hug each other in extreme happiness) recca nii-chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!! recca : koganeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!! yanagi (appears behind recca) : eh!? kaoru-kun!? (hug kaoru) you're alive, I'm so glad------!! recca : I knew it kaorin *kaoru's nickname*!! just this one time, I'll let you hug princess!! yanagi : kaoru-kun, what about mikagami senpai and fuuko-chan? kaoru : ......you didn't run into them? we split up midway...... and what about domon nii-chan? recca : domon fell off a cliff. but since he used tetsugan I think he's alright, ...then now, only the three of us regrouped...... let's wait a little longer------- voice : it's useless. recca : ! (someone else is here in the cave) voice (sing-songy) : no matter how long you wait~~ not one else would come~~~ all there is left~~~ is the three of you~~ (music and lyrics composed by me) (kirin comes out of the shadows) kirin : you've done well to come this far! but this is the end of the line------- (smile) end of volume 20 chapter 1 translator's note : this happens to be my favorite FoR volume yet, the reason is that two of my favorite character are basically the two main characters in this volume, raiha and rasen. other than those two, my other favorites are kurei and joker... but anyway... how strange that I should like all the uruha people... while this IS a story about the hokage... most people are probably not familiar with rasen, yes, he did appear 3 volumes earlier, but until now, we don't know much about him. also most people's only source of FoR is the anime, and rasen is completely not found anywhere there... (hey, even joker got his three seconds) but by the end of this volume, you'll know all there is to know about him... basically as sad as it may be, I don' think we'll see rasen again after this, nor kirin. therefore, enjoy the limited time we have with them, and I still think that rasen and kirin makes another great couple in FoR. top volume 20 chapter 02 kirin : you've done well to make it this far! but, this is the end of the line--- recca : ...... I remember you!! you are the bitch who came to our school!! kirin (big cute smile) : I am----- kirin-chan!! long time no see, hanabishi-kun. Volume 20 Chapter 2 : Despair (kirin digs through her pocket and takes out a key) yanagi : a key...? kirin : it's the key to this door. (meaning the big door that kaoru can't open) it's a very sturdy door built by the hokage people...... even the power of a madougu cannot destroy it. you'll be with tendou jigoku once you enter. mori-san just went in a moment ago so you might make it! recca (evil smile) : gimme. kirin : nope. (smile) be a man and take it from me. recca (summon nadare) : great. just don't be weeping later. NADARE!!! kirin (dodge easily) : geez, you're still so impatient. (pause, suddenly dodges just in time to avoid kaoru's attack from behind her) YAHH. (looks like she's having fun) recca : let's do it, koganei! the other three will definitely get here too!! kaoru : uh huh. kirin : ...that's too bad...... (waves her hand, a cross plunges out of the ground, tokiya is bound to it in rose vines, and seems unconscious) everyone : ! recca (shock) : m... mi... kagami.........? (running over) MIKAGAMII---------!!! kirin : stop!! don't come closer!! (mokuren and mikoto appears along with the cross) mokuren : if you move around like an idiot... even if this guy's barely alive right now...... mikoto : he just might die all of a sudden...... recca (looks pissed) : mikoto... mokuren!! kirin : and----- ishijima domon-kun. you said that fujimaru made him fall off the cliff, right. there are numerous sharp pointed stone spears at the bottom of the cliff. there's no hope if he fell....... even if he used something like tetsugan, falling from that height...... if would only increase his momentum... you can't expect it to work------- the master himself should have known that very well. text : take care of everything afterwards............ hanabishi, yanagi-------- go ahead first-------- (domon's smiling image... recca looks totally traumatized) recca (sweating) : [you...... couldn't have...... planned this all along.........] yanagi (trembling) : .............. no way...... (burst out crying) NO WAYYYYYY!!! kirin : I'm sorry. that's was the truth. as for...... kirisawa fuuko--------- her opponent is this guy soukakusai whom even us ura uruha people detest. he's a hallucinating stalker... he's a man who would do anything to get the girl he wants. he himself is not particularly strong, but the problem is with his madougu! "tamasui no tsuba"!! it can seal people into the world of the caldron. ......and she's become a resident of the caldron now. so no it's not so easy to get back out------ inside that caldron is a world of complete "nothingness". empty space without sound, light or any ways out------ only times passes faster than the outside, it passes so fast that......... one hour equals ten days... (recca looks really shocked) she's already been through a few days of nothingness...... not able to see anything... not able to hear anything, what do you think happens to people closed off in space for such a long time? (fuuko's sitting in completely blackness, staring blankly into space) she will surely...... be changed now. the cheerful fuuko... you guys know------- certainly... won't return......... (fuuko's cheerful, smiling image... cracks) mokuren (recca looks completely beaten) : eheh... ehehehe... aren't you pitiful~~~ recca (make a kissing face, then punches hard, recca falls back, but it's as if he doesn't feel anything anymore, he looks completely hopeless) mokuren (yanagi's crying/screaming, kaoru's also down, and tokiya's still tied up) : AHAHAHAH!!! (beating up recca) aren't you suppose to be strong!!! you did win the urabutou!! but see! you're nothing when you're singled out!! you're strong because the five of you are together!! you can survive because you each make up for the others' weaknesses!! I'll prove that you can't do anything alone!!! kirin (obviously uncomfortable...) : stop it! mokuren!! [w... hat is this tragic feeling...... so heavy... so dark... so painful... this job sucks...... sometimes it hurts to have the ability to real minds... (she's shaking a bit)] hokage doesn't have the ability to fight anymore... this is enough, mokuren! mokuren : you're kidding. our hatred is worse than death. kirin : mokuren!!! mokuren : shut up, kirin!! this is mori-sama's order!! (goes back to beating recca after kirin's out of the way) DIE!! RECCA!!! recca (staring blankly) : [...how did things turn out like this...... ......my head is all blank, I can't think about anything......] (POW... no, it's not recca getting knocked out... in fact, everybody looks up in wide eyes as mokuren gets KOed. and recca looks more awake now] voice : WHAT the hell are you doing, asshole!!! (domon appears, carrying a big stone spear... which is what he used to knock out mokuren... he looks bruised all over, like ripped t-shirt and everything, but very much alive) domon : GET UP!!! NOBODY'S DEAD YET!!! yanagi (all happy) : ahh... ahhhhhhh... kaoru (snap out of it too) : domon...... domon nii-chan!! recca (he's actually crying ^^;;) : y... you sure came out late... guess you didn't die yet, you dumbass!! domon (Y) : I've body's got a good build up. (then looks serious again) what's so bad about covering each other's weaknesses!! that's what we call friends! end of volume 20 chapter 2 translator's note : oh yes... here comes the raiha chapter ^_____________^ top volume 20 chapter 03 domon (appears with a big spear) : ...you know, hokage----- is a group of guys who just don't die! (of course, they are the main characters after all) we don't know the word "give up"! (very errr intimidating smirk) the morons who want to die just step forward!! (mokuren looks scared, mikoto looks shocked... and kirin... well, she's got a funny look of surprised/entertained look) Volume 20 Chapter 3 : Hope recca (teary) : ahah... ahahah, (PUNCH) that was soooooo cool-----!!! (and... errr... domon flies off....... and lands on the ground... he sits up, yanagi standing next to him) yanagi : ...... (domon says something) he said "I will kill you". (recca : sweatdrops) domn : ------ oh well. at least you seem to be back to normal now... you looked like you were dead before! I should get your spirit back. recca (two big bumps on his head... glare at domon) : it's back. domon (lift his huge piece of rock) : then------ (throw it in tokiya's direction) LET'S MOVE!! mikoto : wah... WAHHHH!! (run out of the way) you...!! (grab dagger) how dare you do that, you asshole!! great!! just watch me kill mikagami!! (turn around, kaoru's already untied tokiya, remember that he has fast hands) !! mokuren : what the hell are you doing, mikoto!! forget it, just do it now!! (but recca already comes up quietly behind him and POW) owww, ahhh, GAA!! (hit the wall) kaoru (carry tokiya to yanagi) : yanagi-chan. yanagi : hn. (start to heal tokiya) domon (cracking knuckles) : so it's four of us now! recca : it's five. [don't you forget about princess---.] domon : ...don't have to worry about fuuko. she's so stubborn like that, do you think she'd die so easily? recca : got it. I believe in her! (now face kirin) tendou jigoku is inside that door! she has the key! let's go!! domon : alright!! (laugh) (well ^^;; kirin is really... not wearing a lot... by the way... ahem... this'll come up... errr... later) kirin : [.........that's right... this is how you should be------- doesn't things get more interesting!] (meanwhile ^__________________^ *ahem...* fuuko is trapped in darkness, staring into space blankly) voice : fuuko... fuukooooo... cute little fuuko... what's wrong... aren't you... feeling well? outside...... do you miss the sunny world? do you want to go out...? if you want to come out... it... it's alright. i... just need you to say... you like me... you love me... that you want me to hug you... fuuko (all blank) : [...... who... is that...... that voice... ...I can't remember......] voice : it... it's alright...... I love you... and you love me too.........!! come... say it... say "I love you"! say "I swear I will love you forever"......!! fuuko : [............. I'm tired. it's painful. I don't anything anymore. nothing matters anymore.] i... swear... i... will... voice : say it!!! then... you'll be happy, then you'll be relieved.........!! soukakusai (on the outside) : say it!!! [I got... this woman too!!] ahahahahah!!! (but just as he's over his head, a ninja star stabs into his hand) ......... huh? this is... shuri... (as in shuriken... I finally figured out that that's actually a word in english T.T yeah, my english sucks...) AHHHHHHHHHH!!! raiha (^_________^ appears sitting on a nearby rock) : that won't do. are you really happy with words spoken like that? girls are not emotionless dolls. you must treat them with good manners and moral. but you're not qualified. jyusshinshuu raiha-------- from here on, I will be your opponent. soukakusai (jump back immediately at that name) : GAA... r... raiha, you said......!? raiha (big cute smile) : yep. soukakusai : [w... why!? the man who disappeared half way into the ura butou... why... is he here!?] kirin (flashback) : [there are two men who are nowhere to be found right now but still cannot be disregarded. one of course, is kurei------ and... the man who is said to be the strongest of the jyushinshuu------ raiha!! it'll be useless when you run into that guy, just run. because you can't win.] soukakusai (even more scared) : grr... [n... no good... (raiha has this expressionless look, he doesn't look mean or angry... just kinda... stone-like) w... w... why does he look so calm... yet I feel such pressure!! I can't run...... he won't let me run...!!!] wah... wahhhh!! (throws something at raiha... raiha reacts quickly and cuts it to half... it turns out to be a bag of powder... which all fell on him now) raiha (cute wide eye look) : ? soukakusai : got you now!! (open his caldron, and activated the madougu) raiha (starting to get sucked in... he's kinda resisting it, with a VERY cute smile) : wahh. ^.^ soukakusai : moron!! anyone who's been sprayed with that powder... will be sealed inside this caldron!! (remember when his other hand did something while he licked fuuko's neck... she got distracted and didn't notice) fuuko too... got sucked in like that!! (raiha... with one of his rare serious faces... glanced at soukakusai for a second... and then turns all goofy again) raiha (^_^) : I see, so fuuko-san's really in there? (jump in with super deformed SD form) HERE I COME------ *heart* soukakusai (shock) : !? (and raiha gets sucked in too... when everything calms down) soukakusai : ......... i... is he really that strong......? he jumped in himself... must be just another moron... ....... heheh... oh well... as for fuuko... maybe I'll let her out, he'll just stay in there for life...... (start getting really, really cocky) I WON!!! I defeated that raiha!! ehehe!! fuukooo!! you love has made me strong!!! (inside the caldron... fuuko is still sitting there in the same position, someone approaches her) fuuko : ................. who's there...? (raiha kneels and bows, smiling ^.^) raiha : I'm your prince (ouji-sama sounds so much better than prince), here to save you--------- end of volume 20 chapter 3 translator's note : just a note that I've read this part so many times that I've practically memorized it... T.T top volume 20 chapter 04 Volume 20 Chapter 4 : Shatter (this is quite interesting... for those who saw the cover of this chapter, you know what I'm talking about, but the cover is raiha... in black and white mirror images... he's on the white side... but his shadow reflects on to the black side...) raiha (bow) : I'm your prince, here to save you-------- fuuko : [........... prince......? that...... before... before this...... there was something like that... (tries to remember something, but then it dims down) no...... I can't think.........] raiha (wave his hand in her face, no reaction, another cute face) : [this is... getting a little dangerous.] I'm sorry, fuuko-san. (slap, still no reaction) [her emotions have stopped. being inside abnormal space for such a long time, her spirit has greatly weakened. that's not surprising. normal people probably collapsed already...... good thing she unconsciously stopped thinking, and allowed her heart to freeze in an "empty" state, to avoid turning the situation any worse. and... to give the soul back to that "empty" heart------- this is it! (look at his hand ^^;;) a super flux of emotions!!] (ERRRRRR... we all know what he did right...? he placed a hand on her left breast... and he's frozen in that position... looks REALLY uncomfortable... and sweating... really sweating... and disturbed too... oh... he just looks so funny) raiha (>.<;;;;;;;;;;;;; super deformed) : [i... i... I don't want to do this...! I didn't plan it! b... but even so...... IT'S AN EMERGENCY. I'm getting desperate...... I don't have any better ideas.......] fuuko (slowly jump back to reality) : [B87, my breast, my breast, my breast, my breast, it's been dark recently, speaking of which, did I wear a bra today? 86, who's there? soukakusai, right hand H (meaning ecchi) pervert, Pervert, PERVERT] (and it strikes... raiha looks so innocently... aha...) *CRASH* (my poor, poor raiha kun... T.T he flies off as a tiny dot at fuuko's SUPER PUNCH) fuuko : what the hell, asshole!!! YOU ARE DEAD, MORON!!! (the grrr look) ...... huh? (goes over to where raiha fell) ...raiha-kun? (sweatdrop... didn't expect that it was him) raiha (bleeding and wounded T.T) : I'm dead. (anyway... some time later...) raiha : I see----- and so you ended up in here. fuuko (as raiha is feeling the walls around here) : uh... I thought there'd be an exit somewhere, so I started off making a big fuss. I thought to break this dimension like the time against magensha's majigen...... in the end, I even used up the last fuujin-chan... (flashback... fuujin starts to disappear) fuujin : no good...... I'm sorry, master. nothing I can do, I'm sorry...... there are no more small crystals anymore. fuujin shall hybernate...... hurry...... hurry and get my body... and i...... (disappear) fuuko : and so the madougu fuujin has silenced and turned into an accessory... I am only a high school sophomore girl...... even if I can get out of here... what can I do...... it's hopeless. it's so depressing to be alone. I'm always thinking about the negative stuff. (raiha glances at her fuujin now completely powerless... that is... only if you notice... well... we all know where the main crystal is... ^.^) raiha : ......... (2 seconds of seriousness... then turns goofy once again) that's so unlike you! being human, anyway will think about negative stuff. and become hopeless sometimes. but, these minus thoughts will not help the result one bit. however it is better than those completely optimistic and all happy people who doesn't think at all. you are... you guys are always fighting... very hard------- and you defeated kurei-sama! get up! we're going to look for the exit! the point is---- to have the courage to stand up once again after your hopelessness! (then, sweatdrop) ......do I sound like I'm lecturing you? fuuko (BIG SMILE) : ...no, no! THANK YOU!! (back to the all energetic self, while raiha smiles to himself) let's start searching------!! harder, harder---!! (on the ouside) soukakusai : kirin... it's me... soukakusai......... I'm heading your way right now... yeah... yeah, that's right... oh and... I've got some good news...... I defeated raiha. yeah...... he came here...... heheh... he's now inside my caldron. he's really not up to the rumors' level... just another moron... heheh... heheheh... (I dun get it... it hasn't occurred to him yet that people just don't jump into caldrons themselves everyday??? inside... raiha places a hand on a part of the wall) raiha : this is it----- fuuko : this place... there's nothing here!! raiha : it's a kekkai of vision----- starting from here, space continues in an endless loop. (hold up his katana, smile) shall we go outside now. (slash. a piece of spell paper with the word "seal" written on it gets cut in half, and along with it, all that blackness is gone too... now aware of the surrounding... fuuko looks shocked) raiha : certainly...... I must say he is so foolish. (looks around solemnly, they can see the rest of the caldron now and it's really only so big... there r many corpses in there, mostly turned to bones already... but from the hair and clothing, you can still recognize that they were female) for the purpose of fulfilling his own desires...... for that reason alone... he imprisoned so many girls with a future, took away their freedom. it must have been painful......... they must have been frightened......... doesn't the painful cries reach the ears of that eccentric demon-------- (he rarely talks this much... you can tell he's angered) fuuko (look around) : ......... raiha (pause as he aims his katana against one side of the wall...) : that hateful man responsible...... will "die"------- (what I'm really wondering is how he knows where to stab ^^;; but of course he has perfect aim, his sword stabs right through the caldron walls and into soukakusai... I believe that really hurts...) soukakusai : ahh...... GAAAAA!! (the caldron on his back breaks into pieces... meanwhile...) kirin : ! (since she can feel it) w... what is it!? what happened, soukakusai!!? (falls to the ground, because she feels the pain) recca & domon : ? (raiha is standing over soukakusai... who's trembling on the ground, backing away...) soukakusai : ahhh... hh!! YAAAAHHHHH!!! soukakusai (really scared) : forgiv... *cough, cough*...... AHHHHH!! raiha (turns back to fuuko) : please, fuuko-san...... please close your eyes. I don't want you to see this...... (fuuko looks at him... but he's not looking at her... and with a strange/no expression/calm look on his face) fuuko : ......... (and closed her eyes) hn... soukakusai (backing away) : my life....!! please!! please forgive me...... (raiha is completely being covered in shadow... but he still walks closer) AHH... raiha : how did you reply to the women who said that to you? (that that point, there was this look in his eyes that was SO scary... like none of the characters/even bad guys, ever looked so scary... even kurei... he looks like kenshin in hitokiri mode ^^;; and soukakusai had the luck to witness it first hand... I pity him, cuz he just looked beyond scared... anyway... without another word, raiha slashed him with his katana...) soukakusai : [......who was it that said that... raiha was a "day-lamp"...... (his head is flying off his neck... in air... how nice) they've gotta be joking... his eyes just now... this guy...... this guy...!!] (soukakusai's head falls on to the ground... and raiha is coldly holding his sword, most of him still in the shadows, but his eyes...) end of volume 20 chapter 4 translator's note : this is a very wordy chapter, meaning that the translation is actually a bit longer than the normal length... but it's the first time I didn't mind!!! and I got very descriptive too... gee, I wonder why... ^^;; top volume 20 chapter 05 Volume 20 Chapter 5 : Shingan No Kirin kirin : ! (sees the image of soukakusai's head flying off his body, then blank) ...soukakusai----- is dead. domon : soukakusai.........? recca : the guy who was fighting with fuuko? kirin : yes. he sealed fuuko inside tamasui no tsubo and won. and he was coming this way too... if that man hadn't appeared... soukakusai (flashback) : good news... kirin... I defeated raiha...!! kirin : such a------ keisan misu. domon (the mustache face) : hm~~~~~ which means, hanabishi-kun! in this case, we can assume that "fuuko was rescued"? recca (also the mustache face) : that's~~ right. domon-san. if "that man" succeeded... it would be safe to assume so! kirin (sweatdrops, with a mustache too) : hm~~~~ and if so, then what? both : obviously------- (recca and domon both have this super aura... and have evil grins and glares...) with nothing else to worry about, we can kick your ass~~~! kirin (many sweatdrops, jump back, think) : EEEKK!! kaoru (-.-;;) : ...i even can't tell who's the bad guys anymore... (referring to the evil looks on recca and domon's face) yanagi (^.^) : they're just too happy after hearing fuuko's okay! that's why they made that face. (still healing tokiya) kaoru : I'm so not convinced. tokiya (woke up already) : but they should be careful...... ura uruha... even though each individual has their differences, it seems to be a highly combative group. I think that girl's qualified to be the leader----- don't underestimate her...... yanagi (crying after seeing tokiya's awake) : mikagami-senpai! kaoru (happy) : great. how are you feeling? tokiya : hm... can't say I'm too good. and every time I see those two baka combo fighting, I'm always really worried. (heh... same phrase that recca/domon used for not worrying about fuuko) recca (very energetic) : I'll go, domon! you move to the side! it doesn't look too good if two of us gang up on a woman. I'll do it. domon : alright! you first!! GO!! recca (attack) : ALRIGHT!! (summon) saiha!! kirin : come on! houkishin!! (the weapon she used last time, take out a few marbles, and place them into the madougu) there!! (the word "snake" glows, she fires and it stretches out like a snake) GOOO!!! (recca slashes it in half with saiha, and follow up really fast, jumping next to kirin, by the way, I just noticed kirin has a tattoo on one arm) AHHH, not yet, not yet, (really looks like she's having fun) here I come---!! (the tip of the madougu opens and start shooting like a cannon) recca (slashing all of the stuff) : it's the same no matter how many times you try! (but all the stuff that he's trying to slash suddenly all turns into powder.... and he has this cute, confused look) *cough, cough*...! !? (the image of kirin beings to get blurry and he's seeing triples...) kirin : you had a keisan misu~~~ *heart* looks like you forgot I can read people's hearts. I knew the moment you had the thought----- that you'd chop up anything that gets close to you. recca (jump away) : dam... (but kirin blocks his way) ! kirin : "escape from the left side"! (punch) recca (looks really pissed off... but he is in a tight pinch) : [this girl...!! (summoning nadare)] kirin (her cannon thingy tightly clamps around recca's arm this time) : nadare sealed *heart* (smile) I'll introduce myself once again. I am kirin of the ura uruha!! (while she's beating up recca more) my favorite food is banana! 19 years old, single~~~! and I am rasen's---- partner. tokiya (watching) : [I knew... she's strong!! but how do you fight an opponent who can read your mind!? it might work if you attack without thinking like a bull-fight...... however----- she makes some space on purpose! she keeps a distance that will bring the opponent to think!!] kirin (smile) : you're completely correct, mikagami-kun. if you can know what the opponent is doing, you can always come up with tactics! tokiya (sweat) : [we can't wing.........!!] mikoto (hugging on to the hurt mokuren) : AHAHAHA!!! that's just great, kirin!! now kill all of them!!! recca (shaking with anger... and that he's simply helpless against this girl) : GRRR... (and dun forget he's been drugged, so he's still seeing triples) h... how can i...... lose here...!!! (look at domon's face which is deformed in his messed up vision) h... huh... an ass...... (exhausted... and seeing donkeys ^^;; no... just domon's face is elongated...) kirin is a donkey...... domon (vein) : who are you calling a donkey, dumbass!! recca (starts to scream like crazy) : DOOOOONNNNNKKKKEEEEYYYYYY WAAHHHHHHHHHHH domon (KO recca) : enough, just sleep here, asshole. (step on recca's head, vein, kirin watches with a sweatdrop) number two! (crack knuckles) ishijima domon's turn!! kaoru (cheering up) : t... that's right! if the opponent can read minds, then it's better to send someone who can't think too well!! (cheering) domon nii-chan is a moron!! he'll win!! great!! (domon : veins) tokiya : [the result won't change. it would be the same if he can't get close to the opponent. and compared to recca, he doesn't have such a good pattern of long distance attacks, domon is even worse! what will you do------- domon!] domon : GAAAAAA---------!!! (runs straight for kirin ^^;;) kaoru : waaahhhh---!! he went straight for her! didn't think at all just as I thought!! (and that super deformed face with lots of sweatdrops next to kaoru??? the arrow next to it says "mikagami"... though I doubt any of you recognizes him... T.T) kirin (dodges domon's attack) : it's useless. even if it's fighting without thinking. with this kinda punches, I can easily... (but as she dodged... domon's hand scratched her back and broke the knot that tied her bra... kirin's bra falls off, she's totally naked... and errr... domon freezes...) end of volume 20 chapter 5 top volume 20 chapter 06 (kaoru's eyes are staring wide open in shock and blushing, recca is still passed out, @.@, yanagi is blushing too... and domon... well, he's frozen in his position... ahem... like... traumatized... staring at the um... naked kirin) Volume 20 Chapter 6 : Extreme Trouble kirin (turning really pale and deformed... and sweating) : WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! (immediately cover up) what the hell!? YAAHHH----!!! AHHHHHHHHH-------!! (put her bra back on and screaming and crying) how could you!! you stupid, stupid pervert!!! yanagi (glare, vein, thinking) : so big. [enemy.] (since she herself... is um... quite lacking in that area) mikoto (still nursing mokuren) : I hear something like that before...... kirin is--- super pure hearted. never kissed a guy, (kirin looking really shy) can't look at porno TV either. (kirin turning off the TV) and gets a fever after glancing at adult magazines etc. (kirin lying in bed with a towel on her face) tokiya : you mean to say she's the complete opposite of you. mikoto (vein) : well yeah, sorry bout that! ...such rarely found pure little girl in this modern era----- had her breasts seen. that's like an 800 pt damage attack. kirin (still breathing heavily and blushing and everything, thinking) : i... I knew I shouldn't have worn so little... but it's really hot...... (sweatdrop) text : those tits. (or at least this is what kirin hears...) kirin (look at domon) : [what......!?] (domon still looks completely out of it... traumatized, just staring blankly at kirin) text : those tits. (and umm... kirin sees the following perverted image through her mind-reading power from domon... herself naked, and looks really inviting... saying stuff like "you can touch them", and domon looking really happy "eh, really? wahh... I'm so happy *.*" and kirin looks totally... errr... cracked... with domon still staring at her) kirin : [WHA...!! how can he be so sick!!!] domon (running to kirin, in that blank way) : [tits... tits... tits.] kirin (running away like crazy) : NOOOOOO----!!! (sees another ecchi image from domon... kirin's naked in the water... looks even more inviting) text : take your cloth off too, it'll feel really good. (domon reaches out to grab kirin... who runs away, never so fast before) kirin : YAAAAA!! (running, with domon chasing) don't come near me-------!! tokiya : ...i see! kirin's madougu's power is to read people's heart! to have such information forced into her head does not necessary make it a good thing! during battle, one will concentrate on defeating the enemy before them. then, the other thoughts would slow down and stop! in that situation, kirin can read the opponent's movements, and use her ability to its greatest limit. however...... domon has other thoughts now! those thoughts made him forget himself... and move unconsciously----- so strong to the point that even kirin has been affected!! kaoru (sweatdrop, funny look) : ......basically you mean to say that he got horny and suddenly went into pervert mode? isn't that a bit pathetic? yanagi (confused) : [what--- is horny?] tokiya : a little. (paying attention to the fight *what fight???*) ...however------ kirin (shoots houkishin at domon) : you're kidding!! I'll be a moron if I lose like this!! HOUKISHIN!! (it hits domon really hard, kirin is feeling a little better) [sex is a natural instinct!! but the stronger it is, the less he can calm down and think clearly. and that means weak defense!!] domon (still in his errr... trance... didn't go any better) : tits, tits, tits, tits, tits, tits, tits (*HOW COULD HE!!!*) (another vision goes to kirin... with her holding up her shirt to reveal her breasts) text : they got big again. it's all because of you *heart* (*grrrrrr... note that this is the reason this volume has been sensored in several places T.T*) kirin (screaming) : NNOOOOOOOOOOO------!! KEISAN MISU!!! tokiya : ...he even forgot about the pain... it must have been some impact......... kaoru : the power of pervertness is quite amazing. we better not become something like that, mikagami...... tokiya : yeah...... (I dun think they really have much more to say about... errr... this "situation") kirin : right now, the situation makes shingan a handicap! what the hell is this guy!! (take off the ring on her finger) vision of the heart...... CLOSE!! (the jewel on the ring has the word "heart" on it) THERE...... (relieved) now what!? (looks up... domon has basically came even closer... and um... she has a very not pretty view of his front... T.T;; I dunno how to put this better...) (next is the image of a very high mountain... labeled as...) label : mount everest, elevation 8848M, a very high mountain (an image reflection) (kirin looks completely dead... like sweating/pale/ready to faint) tokiya : it's about time---- yanagi-san. yanagi (blushing on the side) : [ewww, domon-kun...] huh? (tokiya whispers something to her) (now domon has cornered kirin... she's panting against the wall) kirin : no... nooo...... (domon still in his trance) i...... (sweating) i... am... (the image of that blank, expressionless face comes to mind... and she screams) I ONLY BELONG TO RASEN!!! (domon is in the air about to jump on her...) yanagi (scream) : I'M GONNA TELL FUUKO-CHAN!!! (domon shakes at hearing that... and misses kirin and hits the wall next to her... meanwhile, kirin faints too after all the stress............... later) recca (excited) : that was great, domon!! so how did you defeat such a strong opponent anyway!? domon (looks lost) : errr... um... actually I dun quite remember either. recca (big smile) : you've been appearing right on cue recently! kaoru (cat face) : good thing recca nii-chan didn't see that. tokiya : well--- even so we did win because we were a group. I'm afraid we couldn't have beaten kirin with just us. (hold up the key to the door... which he probably took while kirin is still passed out) he did "make up for our weaknesses". (smiles slightly *gee... good thing that the rest of them considers this their weakness*) end of volume 20 chapter 6 translator's note : I am completely humiliated by the hokage after translating this chapter... how could they do this to poor kirin T.T rasen, go kick their ass!!! top volume 20 chapter 07 text (empty space) : okaa-san... where? where are you? (a little boy looks around) answer me. (he looks exhausted... finally he sees the image of a woman in the distance, and he runs toward her) okaa-san! (you can't see the woman's face too clearly, but blood is coming out of her mouth... as she smiles slightly to the boy) text : f a r e w e l l (the boy's eyes open wide in horror...) text : f a r e w e l l (the image twists and she begins to disappear) f a r e w e l l ...... r a s e n... (her image completely shatters into pieces in front of the boy) f a r e w e l l...... Volume 20 Chapter 7 : The Sound of Tendou Jigoku (the hokage opened the door and entered the next room... there are many monstering/menacing statues against the wall) yanagi : it's kinda scary...... kaoru : they're statues, yanagi-chan. don't worry. recca : [in here...... tendou jigoku------] shall we go!! (looks really serious, but suddenly) !? (flash) AH...!! (everyone seems to have gotten headaches) kaoru : what the hell......... my head...!!! (FLASH) (looks like they r in another dimension or under illusion... and it appears to be some errr.... weird eyeballs... yes, eyeballs... I believe they're related to tendou jigoku... but I wonder what these kids think when they see these huge eyeballs staring at them... like ten of them) eyeballs (tendou jigoku) : ......... ............. me... came... he came... he came... he came... he came... he came... (and it just keeps on repeating this) i...! the one who will free me... who will have my powers...... has come!! domon : what the hell...... how the whole place suddenly go blank... those balls... does everyone see them......? can you all hear them? tokiya : [it spoke directly into my head. could this be... what we came here to destroy......] recca (glare) : tendou jigoku. tendou jigoku : my name is tendou jigoku.........!! I am the ultimate madougu with my own will and unlimited power... I've been like this for many years! I have been waiting for the chosen one to appear to take my power! I have been waiting for such a long time!!! and now------ the chosen one has come!! (as he spoke... the voice reached out to everyone... kamui who's floating in the river, gaou who's down on the ground, and hisui... and all the other people in this underground world too, I'm sure) domon (note, he's carrying the unconscious kirin) : chosen~~~~? what a crack head!! do madougus have the right to choose masters!? tokiya : [qualified...... qualified...... qualified to own the madougo...... hokage madougu......... hokage... (suddenly looks up at recca) recca...... the flame master inheriting the blood of the hokage ninjas who created the madougus, recca! no one else can be more qualified than him.....................! does that mean--- tendou will lure the one who came to destroy him!? ......at least he said that "that person" is inside this sealed land. not only recca... maybe I too----- makes no exception!] (recca seems annoyed at tendou jigoku and summons nadare...) recca : enough with that crap! alright? this is my battle declaration!! turn you into ashes. (nadare blasts the eyeballs... and they seem to be out of the other dimension and back to the cave) YAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! (big smile) alright, let's go, you bastards!!! (yes... just curse out your companions...) tokiya : [...i see...... (watching recca's usual stupidity) now that I think about it------ recca won't possibly be tricked by such an evil madougu. even if tendou wants recca, the result won't change.] text : the result----- won't change...... (raiha and fuuko running down this path... toward the others' location) fuuko : what was that! that voice!? was that tendou jigoku!!? raiha (serious) : I'm afraid so... "he" has the feeling that his seal is about to be broken. (back to cute face) I don't know who he wants. but, he has already chosen someone. fuuko (vein, sweatdrop) : damn. what kind of madougu is this...... raiha : "tendou" in buddhism terms means "gokuraku"... (literally extreme happiness, or the west of the world, the place of afterlife) gokuraku and jigoku *hell*-------- depending on the user, it will have good and bad effects alike. we have to hurry, fuuko-san! fuuko : RIGHT!! (they continue running... while... the rest of the hokage enters the next part of the cave... it's a very spacious room, and in the middle, one man blocks their path. everyone stares at him and recca steps up) recca : ...guardian of the last path----- I thought it might be you. rasen-------- (rasen doesn't reply *well, he can't really reply...* but anyway.. while it look like to be a lot of tension between those two... domon drops kirin whom he's been carrying all this way) domon (throws kirin down on the ground) : there. kirin : huh? (sit up, she's been unconscious before) huh? what am i...... (look around... and sees rasen) AHHH---!! RASEN!!! rasen : ...... recca : she's not such a bad guy. mokuren and mikoto left her behind and ran away. kirin (sob) : you're such a good guy, recca-kun. recca (sweatdrop) : and he can't speak right? (pointing to rasen) I want you to translate. (now to rasen) out of the way! I have more important things to do than fight you!! (glare) (rasen looks at kirin... and kirin looks a bit frightened...) kirin : ...... f... "farewell, all of you will vanish too." (rasen looks at them coldly) end of volume 20 chapter 7 top volume 20 chapter 08 (the hokage has come face to face with rasen...) kirin : "farewell, all of you will vanish too." Volume 20 Chapter 8 : The Walking Dead kirin : "just like my mother..." recca (looks confused) : vanish? what happened to your mom? (rasen takes out a staff... one of those extendable ones...) domon : !! madougu!? recca : oh right. so you're set in blocking our way. (summon saiha) then I won't hold back. because no matter what------ tendou jigokku...... (remembers mori and those ugly zombies) we will destroy tendou jigoku!! (determined, attack and rasen blocked saiha with his stick) out of the way!! don't you know how serious this is!! YOU BASTARD!!! (attack, attack, attack) do you know what kind of person you are working for!!? (punch) wake up, asshole!! (from his punch, saiha's blade made a wound on rasen's face... they both stop fighting for a second... rasen is wounded but he acts like nothing happened.) kirin : "I have been serious since the beginning. and I also know what kind of person mori koran is." (rasen looks at them with his cold dead eyes) "the truth is... I have no interest in mori or tendou jigoku." (*actually that is true... rasen really has a power beyond TJ, just that... he can't use it* T.T") "I act for myself." domon : yo... those were rasen's words? tokiya : I believe so. [for himself...?] kirin : "I don't know if you know... but I was one of the jyushinshuu. I use to work for kurei. but what I am doing now has nothing to do with that. I am different from neon... raiha, and jisho---- those people with loyal hearts. and--- I'm not like genjuro and mikoto----- who kills without reason. kai------- I might find some similarities with that man..." recca (tries to think) : kai? ...errr... who is that? yanagi : oh, right. recca-kun is the only one who doesn't know. tokiya : he... chose to fight me, to defeat me as his life goal. a man who fights very stubbornly for his individualism in the jyushin. and you----- life with the same purpose? (rasen looks at kirin... who seems rather uncomfortable under his gaze) kirin : ......... "...not at all. kai... burnt up and wasted his life to try to defeat you. our difference is-------- I have been dead since the very beginning. a dead man walks...... only for the one thing he is searching for. I don't care where I must go to find it. even if it means------ to be underneath the demon." (takes out a crystal ball... a madougu and places it at the end of the his stick handle, the word on the madougu is "light" and a brilliant flash of light suddenly radiated from him) kaoru (everyone covers their eyes) : wahhh...!! so bright... what the...!!? voice : IS THAT!!? recca : huh? (suddenly starts to wave his arm like crazy) HOTTT!! (the word ko automatically appeared on his hand and the kokuu dragons comes out of his hand... and turns into the old man... recca looks sooooo shocked... with his eyes bulging out...) recca : OLD MAN!!? kokuu (you've never seen such a look on his face, a mixture of... horror and extreme fear) : that man......!! he's actually using "that thing"!!! that's------- recca (from behind, kick, veins) : stupid old man!!! you came out------ on your own again!! old man (beat up) : OWWWWW recca (vein) : what am I gonna do when I need to use kokuu! go back!! old man (eyes bulging, screaming) : I only came out because it's really important!!! recca!!! that madougu is-------- (recca suddenly pushes him out of the way... because he saw that rasen was attacking... he jumped up and dodged rasen's slash... and then summons nadare) recca : nadare!!! (throws fireballs at rasen...) (rasen looks at them coldly... the light madougu shines and he waved his wand once... so lightly... and all the fireballs vanished...) recca : !!? domn : he beat nadare!? tokiya : no...... kokuu : wrong!!! (sweating... still with that really fearful look) they "vanished"... literally.........!! end of volume 20 chapter 8 top volume 20 chapter 09 Volume 20 Chapter 9 : Kou Kai Gyoku [crystal of light] (rasen stands before them unharmed and untouched... looking at them quietly) recca : w...... (confused) what? domon : n... nadare was----- beaten!! kokuu : WRONG!! like he said......... they have vanished! koukai gyoku!! recca (everyone looks confused) : ? koukai gyoku? kokuu : ...rarity of the rarities among the numerous madougus. back then, not one of the hokage people was able to use it. the worst madougu!! and...... (sweat) you were able to use that madougu... and so young! ......... yet you still kept your mind----- (no reaction from rasen) ...no, no! I understand now. your body--------- kirin (scream) : STOP IT!! ......... stop it! kokuu : I see...... recca : yo, old man!! what do you understand! what kinda rarity is that? kokuu : hm----- koukai gyoku...... in a sense, not a single madougu values the master's worth so truthfully as this. paired with the madougu born from shadows, eikai gyoku (kagero's madougu)------- the madougu that erases all thing of this world. recca (sweat) : erase--- all things? yanagi : cake and dolls too? kokuu : yes. kaoru : buildings? and mountains too!? kokuu (looks more annoyed) : yes. domon (wacky face... place a hand somewhere he shouldn't) : yanagi's boobs too? kokuu (more annoyed, vein) : there's nothing to erase to begin with!! (*what a diss ^^;;*) (recca totally beats up domon... veins, veins... not pretty picture...) yanagi (sobbing) : I do have a little...... (sweatdrop) kokuu : and even your brains. tokiya : kokuu. by saying "erase"...? what exactly do you mean. kokuu : to completely erase anything! (imagine paper and eraser) like erasing a drawing from a piece of paper with an eraser------- make it not exist in this world!! it's not breaking, destroying things...... nor killing people, taking their souls. nor sending things to a different dimension like the power of magensha's power! (imagine ... the half of something... the other half completely erased...) it means to terminate............ (rasen walks closer... approaching recca...) recca (backing away) : hey, hey, hey!! you've gotta be joking!!! (rasen slashes his wand) doesn't that makes this really difficult then!!? (blocks with saiha, the madougu glows... and saiha's flame disappears) !! (falls back) AHH!! domon : the flame saber vanished!!! that's cheating!! how can there be such a madougu!! (gee... he sounds desperate ^^ *kick their ass, rasen... for what they did to your poor kirin*) recca (looks scared ^^) : grrr....... damn...!!! (summons saiha back) tokiya : kokuu. (looks scared too) you said that it erases everything right? can it erase the eight dragons? kokuu : ............ even formless things are no exception. your memory------- your illness can be erased too! my conclusion! eight dragons can be erased too!! domon (scream hopelessly) : IT'S INVINSIBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE kirin (quietly) : but----- rasen won't erase them. (she looks kinda sad actually) the eight dragons----- or recca-kun himself. domon (brightens up again) : hm!! he's actually being fair? kirin : "wong." (wiping away her tears) ......hn...... is it... is it alright to say that, rasen...? alright......... "I will not hesitate to erase them. but... there is another reason. that was not all to koukai gyoku's truly frightening nature. the reverse effects on the master after something has been erased--------- is the true horror. everything you erase, something important to you will be erased too. therefore my voice... emotions...... and------- my mother has vanished." (a woman comes back to his memories... recca looks completely shocked...) kirin : "......did you notice my face? (the wound from earlier) recca made a wound earlier. but the bleeding as already stopped for a wound that size. it doesn't mean that it has healed. as the price for erasing nadare and saiha, I lost that much blood too. equivalent in worth to the things being erased...... I will have such an amount of things taken from me also. this is----- the ultimate two sided blade." (rasen beats up recca while talking) recca (gets up slowly) : ............ ...what the hell............... what the hell, rasen...!? (scream) DIDN'T YOUR OWN MOTHER DISAPPEAR!? AREN'T YOU SAD!!! kirin : "........." (rasen looks at him coldly) "......... I have also lost my emotions........." recca : DON'T YOU HATE IT!! that madougu------- made your mother... and your heart disappear!! kirin : "...... I have also lost the voice to curse at it..." recca : what the hell...... (charge toward rasen) why the...!! WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STILL USING THAT THING!!! (PUNCH!!!) (rasen gets knocked back against a wall...) rasen : [what is this, this power... this man... suddenly--------] recca (gaze at him angrily) : stand up. end of volume 20 chapter 9 top volume 20 chapter 10 Volume 20 Chapter 10 : Crime and Punishment recca (glare at rasen) : stand up. (rasen looks up at recca... and recca punches him again...) rasen : [...what......? such power......... what is it?] domon (watching intensely) : yo... the tide is turning. I dun have that "bad feeling" anymore. instead I know "he will win". yanagi : um...... recca-kun------- is angry. kaoru : the madougu that takes away something of your own after erasing something else...... tokiya : he said that his mother disappeared like that. even so, he is still continuing to use that madougu. domon : do you think he's feeling alright......... (stop... as he sees.........) fuuko : YO!! they're fighting------!!? (big smile) HI, Y'ALL! kaoru : fuu... yanagi : fuuko-chan!! (tokiya : sweatdrop) domon (charge at her) : fuuko!! kokuu (also charge at her) : fuuko, wahhhhhhh!! (the old man running toward her, next scene... BANG... he flies off into the background... and domon running toward her... and SLAP... knocked him out) fuuko (big slap) : HOW ARE YOU, DOM------ON!!! (big smile) feels like I haven't seen you------guys in such a long time! YAY!! (and domon and kokuu are both KO on the ground) it's good that everyone's all alive!! (yanagi and tokiya look at the two on the ground with sweatdrops) domon (teary, happy) : [......it's fuuko......] voice (flashback) : [she will be psychologically damaged. the fuuko that you guys knew won't come back anymore............] domon : [you're wrong!! (salutes fuuko with a big smile) that's the fuuko I know!!] WELCOME BACK, FUUKO-SAMA!!! (fuuko smiles and salutes him back... now... back to the two in action...) domon : ......... afterwards----- if recca defeats rasen-------- (they beat each other more... and recca enters a flashback...) hanabishi (little recca comes home with bruises) : [what's wrong, recca! (with hanabishi's funny face) got into a fight again?] recca (yeah... he looks beat up) : [daddy... (pause)] hanabishi : [huh?] recca (looks up curiously) : [how come I don't have a mommy?] hanabishi (puffing on his cigarette) : [want something to eat? (but recca doesn't give up)] recca : [why don't you remarry? aren't you lonely!?] hanabishi (pats recca on the head and gives him a big smile) : I'm not longly!! cuz I've got you! (long pause) recca : [...... don't smoke when you're making fireworks.] hanabishi (starts laughing) : you got shy, didn't you!? (rasen slaps recca, but recca doesn't seem affected) recca : heh... IT'S NOT OVER YET-------!!! (another flashback) fuuko's mother (at fuuko's house, recca and fuuko playing) : [ah, welcome, recca-kun!] recca : [hi, auntie!!] fuuko's mother : [playing cards?] recca (big smile) : [it's fun, play with us, auntie. hey! come on!!] fuuko : [no way! we're playing here! mom, you're so nosy!!] fuuko's mother (waves goodbye with a smile) : [fine, fine, then I'll go shopping.] (after she leaves, recca hits fuuko on the head) recca (looks angry) : [don't call your mom nosy! mommy is really important!] (... fuuko ends the flashback and looks thoughtfully at recca) fuuko : ......... and then we beat each other up like usual. those memories. that guy... he doesn't have a mother ever since he was little. when he sees other mothers, he thinks "it's good", but he's not jealous. like it's terrible not to have a mother, and I should feel that they are important. domon (starts cracking up... thinking about hanabishi shigeo) : but he won't be bored even without a mother! because he's got such a funny dad!! kaoru (nod, nod) : yeah, very interesting! he told me "shige-chan will dance for you" and he did! yanagi : ...recca-kun------ he's comparing himself............ to rasen-san. text (flashback scenes) : I am------- a woman without the freedom to even die. my fate has been decided to continue living through future disasters. I am your mother------- (kagero cries) you've grown up... recca......... (recca beats up rasen) fuuko : probably. other than protecting yanagi, his other goal is to break kagero's curse. he wants his mother who's been suffering in places he didn't know to be happy. therefore he cannot understand. why rasen is still fighting------ with the madougu that erased his own mother in his hand......... rasen (breathing heavilly) : [why... why can he still fight!? doesn't his body have a limit!? this is a monster...!!? it was the same back then------ (when recca and kurei were fighting in the finals) both of them...... even when they were beaten...... they still get up. they always continued to fight. why...... WHY!?] (kirin is standing quietly on the side... but she suddenly hears a voice) raiha : please read recca-san's feelings, and tell them to rasen. kirin-san------- kirin (look at raiha... who looks... unreadable...) : ......raiha...... recca (told through kirin, I guess) : I fight with the desire to protect! even that kurei......... he was proud of the hokage that his deceased mother loved! he felt sorry for the people he couldn't protect... but he is still fighting very hard!! ...i can't explain very well. but I don't want you to continue to fight holding that madougu!! your mother will surely agree. you have to value your mother's feelings. (silence... everyone waits for the outcome... kirin receives a message from rasen) kirin : "......i think I can understand that feeling...... that drives you and kurei to stand up time after time. it is the burden you carry. I said I was searching for only one thing. I was searching for the moment that I, myself will be erased. for the crime of erasing my mother during battle...... I have chosen the punishment to have myself vanish. but not just any end. I search for a meaningful destruction. I don't have any other wish... I am a walking corpse searching for a grave. I am... trying to throw away my burden. it seem like...... I have no chance to winning......" rasen (close his eyes) : [I don't have emotions... but----- what is this feeling...... (a girl's sad smile comes to mind...) kirin......] kirin : "I have lost." rasen : [I have the feeling that I have found what I sought---------------] end of volume 20 chapter 10 top :: volume 19 :: volume 21 ::