[Image][Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECCA NO HONOU [FLAME OF RECCA] By Anzai Nobuyuki Volume 13 Chapter 1 : Meguri Kyou Za Translated by Kamiya Shuusai [ Previous Volume | Chapter Index | Next Chapter ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- kai : you are not the only one who has mastered the hyoumon ken. mikagami! Volume 13 Chapter 1 : Meguri Kyou Za (a line of icicles remain from their last attack back in volume 12... if you remember. mikagami of course is not the only one shocked) audience : look!! those icicles!! isn't that the same technique as mikagami's!!? but... one of those blocked more than ten of mikagami's!! he is actually stronger than mikagami!? fuuko : no way. maybe it's an imitation such as that time with kashamaru? domon : mi-chan's long lost brother!? [I don't think so--.] tokiya (shock) : t... that's... impossible...! (flashback, a man sitting in shadows in a traditional japanese house) meguri kyouza : [mikagami--- you have mastered all of hyoumon ken. and in such a short time... meguri kyouza has nothing more to teach you. I only have one student. you are the chosen one. this is a single line of succession... you are the only successor of hyoumon ken. however--- if the successor has failed me... if I feel that he is not worthy be carrying the blade... I will search for another who shall succeed it. well, it's nothing to worry about with you. ahahahahah!] (end of flashbacks) tokiya : impossible!! (summon the four corners.) that is not what my master, meguri kyouza said! No one else should have learned it! (wave ensui) four corners crossing... hyoumon ken--- (a new attack) water snake!! kai (facing the new attack) : hehehe... how foolish. cross! (raise his madougu) come out, water snake!! (the two attacks collide) tokiya (jump back) : ...!!? kashamaru (in the audience) : no!!! that's not like my imitation!! gashakura (actually carrying the short little kasha-san on his shoulders) : quiet, kashamaru! what is it? kashamaru (in very nervous state) : when I controlled recca-dono's flame dragon technique, it was all previously arranged, I can't do that to a new dragon! that hyoumon ken just now, it's the first time that has been used!! it can't be an imitation!! then... kai : hehehehe... you are suspicious. I told the truth! don't you want to ask me about your sister? hyoumaen : gooooooo!! kill!! kill---!! kaiiii! I want his blood!! (and kai's madougu shines) domon : what is that madougu!!? yanagi : no...... kaoru : kai's madougu has it's own conscience too!? (all three are shocked) kai : hmph, I should have introduced this earlier. hyoumaen!! element of ice! ensui's brother weapon. which I received from meguri kyouza. (tokiya looks surprised, I'm sure that was not what he had expected) don't look so shocked. I'll make it clearer. let's start with when I didn't master this technique yet. (flashback, long before, when kai dressed as a swordsman were killing people.) text : I was--- strong. at the peak of my sword skills, I challenged and killed other sword masters. I didn't think there was anyone stronger than me. and then--- (he arrived at an old japanese house) I had heard of the hyoumon ken. hidden in the shadows, though he is not famous, I heard he had impressive skill! hyoumon ken's master--- meguri kyouza!! (and then kai gets beaten up by hyoumon ken) i... lost for the first time--- kai : you coward, meguri!! what was that attack!? what kind of magic is that!? meguri kyouza : heh... you must be mistakening. hyoumon ken is a technique developed by samurai. it was a ninja technique created by a ninja clan called the hokage! using the madougu of the ice element, the technique to manipulate nature! not anyone can take a madougu and use it. (meguri was using hyouma en as his weapon then) you don't look too bad. so? if you wish to be stronger, do you mind turning to evil? don't you wish to see the ultimate hyoumon ken? (end of flashback) tokiya : those... are lies!! (attack) kai (block) : they're not lies, pretty boy!! I've been waiting for this day!! (flashback again, but later. meguri kyouza throws the madougu hyoumaen on the floor to kai who is breathing heavily) meguri kyouza : hmph, until now you can't even make an icicle... you are a worthless student. if it was your higher apprentice mikagami... he would've passed long ago. kai (anger) : [mikagami...!? other than myself, another one who is learning the hyoumon ken...?] meguri kyouza : anyway, you cannot surpass him. he is gold... and you are stone. (end of flashback, kai attacks) kai : ever since!! (getting a little too carried away... with his flashback) tokiya (bleeding) : uh... kai : he repeated your name over and over again. he is a genius!! I am only mortal!! tokiya : ...I don't believe it. the master that I know--- the only one that I respect in this world! he won't speak such arrogant words!! (down) kai : heheheh... so you like that guy meguri? do you know what he told me when I left after I mastered the hyoumon ken? meguri kyouza : [now you have the power to inherit the hyoumon ken. however... it is a single line inherited technique with two students, so... KILL MIKAGAMI TOKIYA!!!] (tokiya holds his ensui tight and stands up) tokiya : heheh... hahahah... (then looks deadly serious) there's one more things I want to ask. kai--- though we are both from the same school, it doesn't matter. I want you to tell me everything you know. (and we leave tokiya's story for a while) label : meanwhile recca--- recca (trying very hard to push madoka's barrier T.T) : yaaaaaaa!! madoka : I'm not moving, idiot! old man (sweatdrop) : [is he really an idiot......] end of volume 13 chapter 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Email | Lynx | Updates | Sign My Guestbook | View My Guestbook ] Search the Net [1]