[Image][Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECCA NO HONOU [FLAME OF RECCA] By Anzai Nobuyuki Volume 8 Chapter 9: LIVE VIII (Curtain Close) Translated by Kamiya Shuusai [ Chapter Index | Previous Chapter | Next Chapter ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 8 Chapter 9 : LIVE VIII (Curtain Close) neon : requiem... this is my last sound attack! even if I lose my life, I can't lose this battle. I'll destroy you along with this whole arena. (energy explosion) audience (dying) : ah... ahhhhhh! what the hell! she wants to kill all of us! do something, hokage! kagero : [neon's serious! the energy she emits is increasing very fast! when she attacks, the whole arena will collapse...] miki : no! sister! aki : you don't have to do this! miki (touch a wall) : ah... it's a... aki : kekkai? (both of them are protected inside a barrier) please don't! miki : we want to die with you! let us out! neon : [I'm sorry...] audience : ahhh! the wall is collapsing! (push menou) out of my way! menou (fall) : ah! uh... (ceiling about to fall on her) ahhhhh! (look up) ! (the big piece of stone wall was shattered into pieces. by a very strange weapon. held by a strange guy in a strange costume... and a strange entrance into our story... ^_^ my second favorite guy... *gee... don't I have weird taste...*) joker : are you alright? miss. (menou just stares at him, joker... well he has this long weird staff in his hand, and he really does look like the joker on the cards... even has a spade design on his chest... well, he looks like a cross of a clown from some weird circus and a very strange deck of cards...) joker : and they call themselves your friend? a little girl's in danger over here, and there's no one to help her. menou (bow) : thank you for saving my life. joker : it was nothing. you better get going. that woman's seriously thinking about killing everyone here. if those two up there can't stop her... then it's over. recca : hey... what should we do now? mikagami. she continues to emit a great amount of energy, we can't even get close... that's a real problem... [maybe nadare or homura can do something... but...] neon : [I'll give up my life to pretect kurei sama...] recca : [should I attack her?] neon : [please don't cause him any more pain...] recca : [should I really attack her?] tokiya : are you troubled, recca? you're beginning to pity her... you think she's like you in some ways... but... according to our current situation, we must fight back. I won't go easy on her. (drop ensui) recca : mikagami! what do you plan to do? (eyes wide) neon : [good bye... miki, aki...] requiem... initiate... tokiya (very cool) : tsumara mai. side text : tsumara mai, ensui uses the underground stream to create icicles, it's one of the forms of hyomon ken. (icicles pop up from underneath neon, one of them breaks her madougu.) neon : [fukyo waon broke... then... I can't even tie this... kurei sama---] (falling) recca (run) : NEON! you're a really annoying and disgusting person! but you... you can't die! you just can't! (the fifth kanji appears on his other arm) domon : his fifth dragon! fuuko : it's got three eyes! kukai : too late. no matter what that flame does, he can't melt all those icicles. recca : neon-- (everyone waits... madoka flies toward neon, finally... splat...) neon : eh... (the icicles break, neon's surrounded by a barrier which saved her) neon : this is... a kekkai? madoka : my name is madoka... I'm the king of kekkai! my third eye creates an impenetrable barrier and saves lives. recca (bang, falls) : I did it! great! [I didn't really expect this...] (happy) madoka : I've never met a idiot like you who wants to save your enemies! I really wonder why nadare and saiha helped you. hah... I'm beginning to regret that I actually came out... (disappear) neon (walk up) : why... why did you save me? do you want me to keep on living in humiliation? recca : even though you're really annoying... but, you're not that bad. you're different from genjuro, you're not fighting for yourself... you want to risk your life to protect someone else. plus, when you were about to attack, you made kekkai for your teammates... I'll feel really bad if you got killed. and some people will be really sad. (aki and miki running up to neon crying) neon : aki... miki...please... (crying) don't cry anymore... tatsuko : hokage vs. uruha oto! the winner is hokage! tokiya (not through yet) : ... you're way too nice to women. recca (not gonna take that) : ha! you're the one who's too mean. (hokage cheering... I wonder what the audience is cheering about?) audience : you got lucky this time, hokage-- next time will be your doom! [ahahah] joker : this fight was... very entertaining... (mysterious smile) end of volume 8 chapter 9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Email | Lynx | Updates | Sign My Guestbook | View My Guestbook ] Search the Net [1]