[Image][Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECCA NO HONOU [FLAME OF RECCA] By Anzai Nobuyuki Volume 4 Chapter 10: Truth of the Past II Translated by Kamiya Shuusai [ Chapter Index | Previous Chapter | Next Volume ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 4 Chapter 10 : Truth of the Past II side text : this is the hokage’s secret hideout in the mountains-- kagero is telling everyone the past of the hokage...... from kagero’s story, recca found out that he was ouka and kagero’s son from 400 years ago, and kurei is his brother recca (screaming) : then I am 416 years old right now? who’s gonna believe that bullshit? side text : strong reaction! yanagi (sd) : [ahhhh...... cool down! recca.] kagero : let me finish... side text (flashback) : the third year of tensho-- after kurei tried to kill recca-- he was locked up in the jail. guard (putting a bowl inside the cell) : food’s here! eat! (kurei sitting there not moving) so you won’t eat? heh! such a stubborn kid! I might not know much better, but I can still tell you went too far! kurei : how my mother? guard : reina’s got pardoned, so she’s fine, but poor you has to stay here for the rest of your life...... side text : but at this time, the tragedy began! the fourth year of tensho— messenger : new... news...... it’s an emergency! I must tell the grandfather and ouka-sama immediately! villagers : what? oda nobunaga...... is waging war with us? messenger : yes! about ten thousand soldiers are marching toward our village right now...... this came from our spy, it should be correct! elder : those fools must be after our madougu! they think that if they own them, they can take over the world! ouka : bring me all the madougu! villagers : gimme kougon anki! I’m gonna show those bastards! ouka : wait! we won’t use madougu! side text : hokage’s sixth leader ouka villagers : but why? ouka-sama! it’s to a great disadvantage if we don’t use madougu! ouka : the enemy has an army of ten thousand men...... even if we can stop them, we will be certain to lose some of our madougu, then they will come again! until they have all the madougu, and then nobunaga will be unstoppable, and this world will become a living hell! do you understand? we’re not only fighting for the hokage! we have to protect this world! (villagers talking) kagero (sad) : [ouka......] ouka (determined) : we can’t let nobunaga get his hands on any one of the madougu! that is our victory, don’t you think? villagers (silent) : heh...... that’s right...... the war to protect this world? interesting! we won’t lose even if we don’t use the madougu! all right! let’s go hide all these madougu! elder : hokage madougu...... is that what attracts the greedy evil? perhaps they shouldn’t exist on this earth at all...... ouka : ......... [thank you all for your support! I will remember it!] (that night, the ninjas ready to attack) guard : the enemy’s here! it’s oda! ouka : kagero...... I’m sorry, I have not fulfilled the role of a good husband, and recca... I can’t do anything for him! kagero : no...... for a ninja or the leader of the clan, you were always the best! I am proud to be your wife! ouka (smile) : hn... good bye! (they hug) I love you...... (war, people fighting, blood on the battlefield, soldiers, villagers...) ouka : I am the leader of the hokage—ouka! anyone who wants to die just come at me! side text : ouka’s hands were painted red with blood...... ouka : [recca...... kurei...... to be able to hold you two with my hands, I am so glad! I am already very happy......] side text : ouka died when he was 32 years old. kagero (crying) : he died very courageously...... (complete silence, tokiya fell asleep during the story...) side text (flashback) : and I— kagero : don’t worry, recca, there’s nothing to be afraid of... I will send you to a very safe place very soon...... grandfather (flashback) : [kagero...... hokage has a secret spell that is forbidden from being used. that is the power to travel through time and space-- because it is against the rules of nature, so the user will be cursed for eternity!] kagero : [trapped in time?] grandfather : [yes, the user will be able to have eternal life, and you can’t die even if you want to! year after year, they watch their loved ones die. to be not able to die, that is the true hell...... so you can never use it! remember!] (*now why did he tell her the spell then, if she could never use it? I never understood that...*) kagero : as long as you are alive, we will meet again...... (someone hiding behind the tree, kagero uses the spell. a portal opens) kagero : jikuu ryuri!!! [I must save this child!] take the tekko I made for you...... it will protect you! [good bye, recca......] recca : [the dream I had in kurei’s mansion... it’s the same......] kurei : ahhhhhhhhh— kagero : ! (kurei being drawn into the portal) kurei? why are you here? side text : the cell was destroyed in the battle, in the end kurei was also sent into the time portal...... kagero : recca...... kurei...!! (she was stabbed from behind by a soldier. the next day...) side text : the war was over in one night-- from the piles of corpse, only one stood up again...... she was stabbed right in the heart...... but the wound miraculously healed...... the woman who was given eternal life after her unnatural act...... her name is kagero— recca : eteral life...... side text : after healing, I threw away the name kagero, and changed it to kage hoshi. from tokugawa to meiji to now...... finding that lost child, I passed 400 years like this...... finally in the time of peace— recca (funny face, the opening scene with domon) : don’t underestimate the ninja! domon : idiot! didn’t your teacher tell you not to play with fire? side text (recca laughing, shows his tekko on his arm) : I found you...... all grown up...... my child...... kagero (happy tears) : re... cca... side text : we finally meet again...... I want to hold you again so much...... but...... the possibility that kurei is here also is very high...... I don’t know when you will meet again...... recca (in the abandoned factory) : who are you? granny. side text : if kurei finds recca because of my approach... it’s too dangerous! yanagi : recca! how can you call her granny? side text : and you won’t believe me anyway...... (flashback scenes of the fight with fuuko and tokiya.) kagero : so I decided to approach you as an enemy! I gave fuujin to kirisawa and started the fight between you and mikagami...... but I believed you won’t lose! and when the day to face kurei comes, they will become your greatest companions! recca : how...... how is this possible... (tokiya opens his eyes from his nap, suddenly sits up) fuuko : what’s wrong? mikagami. tokiya (holding ensui) : someone’s here, can’t you feel it? three enemies. (the three birdies come in, recca turn around surprised.) end of volume 4 chapter10 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Email | Lynx | Updates | Sign My Guestbook | View My Guestbook ] Search the Net [1]