[Image][Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECCA NO HONOU [FLAME OF RECCA] By Anzai Nobuyuki Volume 9 Chapter 4: The Era of Demons I (The Moon) Translated by Kamiya Shuusai [ Chapter Index | Previous Chapter | Next Chapter ] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 9 Chapter 4 : The Era of Demons I (The Moon) text : the third ura butou satsujin semi finals, match one -- uruha ma vs. hokage. on the fifth day-- tatsuko : I want to be the referee!! label : tatsuko tatsuko : I have the responsibility to continuing monitoring the hokage!! inuko (another ref, dog) : ara, tasuko, I hope you wouldn't bring personal emotions into the match. label : inuko youko : I think... uruha ma is stronger. label : youko, umi, nemi (the five refs fight over who will be working today, and all the staff people just watch on) staff A : ... what are they arguing about? staff B : I think they are arguing over who will be the referee today. referees : how about janken!? no way! tatsuko always wins!! I suggest popular vote!! what!? inuko : ... alright, let's switch for every battle!! everyone : agreed!! tatsuko : I will be the referee for recca-san's fight! inuko : ara, tasuko, referee should not bring personal emotions into the match! staff : I don't know these people...... text : the semi-finals has finally begun-- the stage is set in an all new arena. (scene shifts to a new ring, with four polls on the side) --ARENA E-- minamio : there's a drastic increase in the number of audience. daikoku : this place gathers all the people from both block A and B. so it's twice as many people. fujimaru : they're getting excited! audience : it's the hokage!! inuko : from the A corner enters the hokage!! (recca tachi appears) audience (block A supporters) : hokage!! (cheering) man (pat recca on the back) : good luck!! represent block A!! recca : t--hese people are insane!! fuuko (covering her front) : who just touched my breasts!? domon (look around) : then again... all those idiots who boo-ed us before in our block are cheering for us. kaoru : and they look so much more pleasant now! [hahah] audience (block B supporters) : ha!! block A chose such weaklings as their representative!! (block A supporters) same to you, block B!! say that again, asshole!! kagero : is it alright if the riot in the audience continues? recca : they're just too hyper... yanagi (raise hand) : um, question. mikagami senpai is...... (mikagami is sitting at the referee desk with a plate that says "explanation" on it, recca falls head over) recca : what the hell do you think you are doing!!? tokiya (in sunglasses) : no... because I got hurt two days ago in the match with uruha oto, I've decided not to fight today. I'm only thinking about the finals tomorrow. recca : ...I can't do anything... [he must still be mad about that little quarrel.] (point to the name plate) so what's this explanation thingy? tokiya (sweatdrop) : I think I should sometimes look at the hokage from a different point of view. nemi : I asked as a fan! (blush, holding a mikagami autograph) I even got him to sign an autograph. recca (pissed off) : you can go to hell!! tokiya : you're jealous, aren't you? domon (sweating) : mikagami's not fighting...... fuuko : that does really hurt our strength. recca : maa, don't worry about it! we believe we can do it? (everyone signals "yes", on the other side, uruha ma comes in) inuko : from the B corner, uruha ma enters!! text : as a result, the first match is hosted by inuko. (a bright light shines as all the audience looks at the B gate) audience : ......... magensha (voice only) : GASHAKURA!! (who steps in with a big spike ball on his back) domon : he's bigger than me... this guy definitely has a lot of power. fuuko : but that's only one guy... where are the others? (something flies by recca) audience : what's that!!? the bandages are coming together... that's... kukai : weird... magensha (the shape of a mummy forms) : tsukishiro!! kaoru : he makes me feel sick. kaoru2 : that's right. kaoru (sweating) : t... there's another me!!? (the second kaoru jumps up and changes) kaoru2 (stick his tongue out) : baa! transformation technique-- (lands as his appearance changes back) kashamaru : uruha ninja-- kashamaru at your service. magensha : all the members are here... and... (suddenly appear from the ring floor) I am the leader of uruha ma... magensha. audience : what was that!? incredible-- IMPACT!!! are they really strong!! is the hokage alright!! recca (clap, clap) : brajaa!! domon (sweatdrop) : [uh, shouldn't that be bravo...] recca : don't you think you'll be a better magician? actually, I feel more like "what the hell is this?" magensha : heheh... Block B also had stubborn guys like you. they are all dead now. audience (block A supporters) : hokage!! recca!! hokage!! (block B supporters) uruha!!! uruha!!! URUHA!! neon (and her sisters watching the match) : ......... inuko : everyone please pay attention!! (point to the big screne) this is the match chart!! text : ura butou satsujin semi-finals I team organization hokage -- uruha ma koganei kaoru vs. tsukishiro hanabishi recca vs. kashamaru kirisawa fuuko vs. gashakura ishijima domon vs. magensha nemi : this is the match order-- what do you think, hokage expert mikagami-san? mikagami (sweatdrop) : there's a problem with the captain spot. [these idiots must've done it randomly...] inuko : uruha ma first fighter-- tsukishiro!! (a blade reaches out from inside the mummy bandages and cuts open the wrapping) audience : w... what's that!!? (all the bandages are torn, and tsukishiro steps out, he holds a new-moon-shaped blade with the madougu crystal "moon") tsukishiro : hi. nemi (shock) : ahhh... that tsukishiro is an unexpectedly cute guy!! this is his first appearance in this tournament-- the first time we see his appearance, tsukishiro!! tsukishiro : just a little warning, I'm going to win without even touching my opponent. domon : he's bragging now~~~!! fuuko : we'll see about that!! recca : get up there!! you represent the bragging department from the hokage!! kaoru : ...... I'm not in this... who brags? inuko : hokage first contestant, koganei!! kaoru : fine... I'll do my best. (step into the ring) magensha : heh... he's the uruha's traitor koganei kun? gashakura : he's very different from what I heard. magensha : alright, once he fights tsukishiro, he will learn that the warning is not a bluff. kaoru : ...um, I'm still wondering. (turn around) am I really braggy? (domon falls head over) recca : whatever, just concentrate on the match!!! inuko : BEGIN!!! end of volume 9 chapter 4 translator's note : ok, I know this is not exactly one of the "raiha chapters", but I just had an urge to talk about him. I guess he is a mystery that the author had foreshadowed from the very beginning, I'm up to vol 21 has he still never showed us his true power, but every since vol 1, everytime madougus are mentioned, there was one with a RAI crystal, on the scroll in the first few volumes that belonged to recca's teacher, the scroll opened up and stopped right before it reveals the image for raijin, and obviously from what happens later we see that raiha has a really cold and dark side to him, but normally he's always so nice. I mean, when the other teams eliminated their opponents etc, raiha shook hands with his and passed to the next round, nothing that happened suggested that he killed anyone, or did anything bloody... everything he did all had a reason or purpose behind it. he never really fooled around as things unfolds. and I have no idea when he joined the uruha and became a jyushinshuu but it seems like he's been there from the very beginning, when neon wanted to join the uruha, she had to speak to raiha and get his permission, when kurenai was killed, back when kurei was still half good, raiha was already at his side. I really want to know how long he's been there... *sigh* from vol 15, I figured that his best friends in the uruha were neon and jisho because they were the ones who truly worshipped kurei, and they training together etc, but then again it would be kinda sad because the people that are his only true friends don't even know his true self at all. few points about raiha that sums it up... --he gets mad when people insult kurei --kurei doesn't completely trust him no matter how loyal he appears --but he knows all of kurei's secrets, including his mother tsukino --he's been with kurei forever --his madougu somehow is a very important item in the hokage books, but didn't appear yet --he really is not like any of the other jyushinshuu pepole and he does not work together with anyone --he was admitted by rasen and kirin as the strongest man in jyushinshuu --his hidden power is incalculable --he appears goofy --every stupid thing he does has an underlying cause --no one, not even kurei, understands him --he has a hidden dark side and I think this is the longest note I've written, why don't I just make a raiha shrine? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ Email | Lynx | Updates | Sign My Guestbook | View My Guestbook ] Search the Net [1]