[Image][Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECCA NO HONOU [FLAME OF RECCA] By Anzai Nobuyuki Volume 12 Chapter 7: The World of Sand Translated by Kamiya Shuusai [ Chapter Index | Previous Chapter | Next Chapter ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- recca (in deep shock) : eight dragons...... come... out... yanagi : the mark of the flame dragons... has disappeared...! domon (wide eye) : what... the hell? recca : old man... what did you do...? Volume 12 Chapter 7 : The World of Sand old man (turn around and leave) : come with me. recca : go with you now--- we're in the middle of a tournament! old man (disappear) : as long as you get back before kurei's match, it's alright! if you don't come, the flame dragons will never be back!! (recca freezes in shock, then gets blown away by a huge scream blown in his ear) hokage : what the hell are you standing here for, moron!!! fuuko : take back what's yours! we're be waiting. domon : I don't really know what that old man is, or what he is thinking. I just don't think he's an enemy! [he gave me the marble.] kaoru : we'll take care of it while you're not here! we'll save your turn for you, nii-chan!! recca (a little touched) : guys... (big smile) thanks a lot!! I'll be back!! (scream down to the ring) mikagami! if you lose, I'll really kick your ass! tokiya (vein pop) : no idea what you're doing, but just go. recca (turn to yanagi) : princess!! (big smile, thumbs up, yanagi's startled for a moment and recca runs off) yanagi : [although I don't really know what that old man is up to... but, please come back safely. I believe in you...... then... when the tournament is over... let's go back to school. (flashback of when they were in school) let's go to the amusement park together. will you help me with my picture books?] mikoto : hoho... hokage's captain ran away? how cowardly to run in front of the enemy. domon : he went to the bathroom. fuuko : you ugly!! (domon and fuuko give her the finger, kaoru makes a stick tongue out cat face, and yanagi... well, she's trying to learn the hand signal, but turns out all wrong) yanagi : e...h arrow (point to her pathetic hand sign) : don't know the sign for FUCK. recca (running around in this empty hallway) : ---I came but...... (pissed off) where is that old man!!? maybe he's really one of the uruha people!? (turn around the corner and notices something on the wall, a mirror.) recca : a mirror!!? why is it--- (reach out a hand) so strange here... (hand reaches into the mirror) !? (gets sucked in) HUUUHHHH!!? (mirror disappears, and recca lands on the other end of another dimension) recca (fall down) : OUCH!!! ah--- pu pu!! (spit) I got sand in my mouth... (then comes the realization) ......sand? (looks around, he's standing in a total desert) what is... this place!? old man (suddenly appear) : so you finally came. recca (turn around, surprised) : ! there you are! OLD MAN!! old man (V) : hey! recca : what the hell is this place!? egypt!? tottori county's desert!? old man : you'll have the answers soon. and since you're kinda dumb, it's harder to explain. I'll give you a series of tests here, but before that-- I want you to look at your own memory. whether it's recent or long in the forgotten past. recca (more pissed off) : stop blabbing on!!! we have no time! (suddenly an image pop up in front of him) ! (it was his home town, the hokage village) recca : wha'ts this!? (starry eyes) shinobi's homeland? so cool. old man : the home of the hokage about 400 years ago. where you were born... from these two people--- (looking through baby recca's eyes, there was kagero with a gentle smile and ouka with a really dumb smile ^.^) kagero : [ouka dono! don't hug too tight, recca will cry. be a little more gentle...] recca : heheh... kaa-chan. she's got long hair. but it suits her! she's really pretty!! ouka (SUPER deformed face, damn... I don't even see recca this deformed) : [oh, come one, kagero!!the flame master's sun does not cry so easily!! MHUWAHAHAHAH] recca (looks kinda dead) : ... this really dumb guy's my real dad... not like me at all... old man : no way, you're really alike!! (suddenly, a series of flashbacks of arguments in front of the elder between reina and kagero over who is the successor, then kurei standing over him with a knife in one hand) kurei : [recca... you will... die...] (blood spills, recca touches the wound on the side of his cheek) recca : kurei... (scenes of war, kagero kneeling alone in the forest with baby recca) kagero : it's war-- (tears flowing down) [but as long as I'm alive... we'll meet again......] (use time space spell) old man : kagero... age 22 at that time... because she used the forbidden jikuu ryuuri spell, she was cursed to remain at that age forever. kagero (flashback to their... second meeting?) : kill me...... recca... recca : [although I heard this before... but--- this time it feels much more real... (and then another image appears before him, and that's yanagi, in her school uniform.) yanagi : [thank you so much for saving me. my name is sakoshita yanagi.] recca : my first meeting-- with princess. yanagi (another flashback of her blocking in front of recca) : [please don't pick on hanabishi-kun anymore! he's already hurt!! (another scene of yanagi eating a bunch of bread and buns) sorry. but if I don't move fast, they'll all be sold out. you want one?] (then scenes of yanagi giving blood to recca in the mirro house, and getting electricuted at kurei's mansion. then she stands in front of the registration table.) yanagi : [I'll do it!! I will be the prize!! don't leave me... (smile) recca-kun.] old man : do you understand? your responsibility... it's easy to act like a ninja and say "I'll die to protect you." but what are the people left behind gonna do? kagero will be alone again... and yanagi--- recca (suddenly look up with a big smile) : old man!! I'm gonna live!! you have any ways to make me stronger!? old man (seems a little shocked, a little relieved) : ...that took long enough! then lets begin... (something coming at them from the sand) but whether you can be stronger is up to you. (and that something jumps out of the sand) end of volume 12 chapter 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Email | Lynx | Updates | Sign My Guestbook | View My Guestbook ] Search the Net [1]