11. TAIKOUBOU VS. NATAKU: AERIAL BATTLE!! ------------------------------ 67. -Risei: I,i... Inshi, let's get out of here!! -Inshi: NATAKU! ------------------------------ 68. Eleven - Taikoubou VS. Nataku: Aerial Battle!! ------------------------------ 71. -Taikoubou: Nataku!! I have reached a conclusion! I've decided to be on Risei's side!! If you wish to kill Risei, you'll have to defeat me first!! -SiPuXiang: G-G-G-Goshujin!! -Taikoubou: What, SiPu? -SiPuXiang: I don't want to say this, but this whole deal is none of our business! And we can all see that you're no match for Nataku!! -Taikoubou: That's right. ------------------------------ 72. -Taikoubou: So don't you think that if we bring him on our side, we'll have the strength of a thousand men? That's why we need to mediate this quarrel so they'll be obligated to help us later. -SiPuXiang: ...I assume that you have some sort of plan for certain victory? ...But... -Taikoubou: What, are you scared? -Taikoubou: Listen up, SiPuXiang!! Remind yourself, if you're too scared to fly... You're just a big hippo!! *HIPPO!!!* -SiPuXiang: LET'S GET GOING, GOSHUJIN!! -Taikoubou: Yes! ------------------------------ 73. -Inshi: Taikoubou-kun!! -Inshi: Please... I leave Nataku up to you. -Taikoubou: Of course. I'll settle this by the best way I can think of. ------------------------------ 74. -Taikoubou: Here I come! ------------------------------ 75. -Nataku: !! -SiPuXiang: They stopped each other!! ------------------------------ 76. -Taikoubou: Heh...... You have the face of one who was born just to fight. *The next frame is on the left!* ------------------------------ 77. -SiPuXiang: ! There are two coming this time! -Taikoubou: Crap!! Dodge them, SiPuXiang!! -Taikoubou: He's strong... just as I thought!! ------------------------------ 78. -SiPuXiang: H...... His attacks are so inconstant!! He has too much power. Goshujin, if he keeps this up, we'll lose. -Taikoubou: Don't worry! He can't beat me with just power! -Taikoubou: NATAKU!! -Nataku: ......... -Taikoubou: WHAT'S THE MATTER!? YOU CAN'T HIT ME FROM THAT FAR!! -SiPuXiang: Aah!!! ------------------------------ 79. -Taikoubou: !! -SiPuXiang: What!? He's going to catch his own Paopeis!! -SiPuXiang: AAH!!! ------------------------------ 80. -SiPuXiang: Wha...? What did you just do...? -Taikoubou: The Kenkonken is a Paopei which attacks directly by those copper rings. I can't stop two at once, but it's very easy to deflect them with wind. ------------------------------ 81. -Inshi: AAH!!! -Risei: ARGH!!! -SiPuXiang: Aah!! Nataku's mom and dad.........!!! -Nataku: MOTHER!!! -Risei: G... Geez... Dangerous...... ------------------------------ 82. -Taikoubou: DAFUUBA!! -Inshi: Nataku!!! ------------------------------ 83. -Nataku: ............... -Taikoubou: What's wrong? Aren't you going to use your Kenkonken anymore? -Taikoubou: Well, even if you use them, I'll deflect them again with my Dashinben. -Taikoubou: And then your beloved mother might really be killed!! You can't use them, can you!!? -Taikoubou: Paopeis have compatibility!! The Kenkonken will never beat the Dashinben!!! -SiPuXiang: Goshujin... You're completely a villain now... *pathetic...* ------------------------------ 84. -Nataku: You... -Nataku: Why don't you leave me alone? -Nataku: You have nothing to do with this matter about me and Risei. -Taikoubou: Whoa, he talked! -Taikoubou: ...Hey, Nataku... Why do you hate Risei that much? -Risei: ............ -Taikoubou: A child trying to kill his father isn't really a pleasant thing to watch. -Nataku: Risei detests me. ------------------------------ 61. -Risei: ! -Nataku: It's reasonable. I was born with equipped with these weapons. I can understand why Risei can't see me as his own child. -Nataku: I've caused Mother a great deal of trouble, too. -Nataku: That's why I returned my body to Mother. -Nataku: *narrating* ---I should have been dead that day. But my "core" was alive, existing as my consciousness......... ------------------------------ 62. -Nataku: *narrating* Mother didn't know I was still alive and she built a fine tomb for me. That alone satisfied me. -Nataku: *narrating* But several years later... -Risei: That Inshi. Building such an tomb without telling me!! -Nataku: *narrating* Of all things, Risei destroyed my grave and found my "core" from inside and threw me into a river!! -Taikoubou: You... -Risei: I was still worried! *Inshi: Why, dear!* -Risei: If the Reijyuu King found out about the tomb, he might become angry again..... -Taikoubou: Well, yeah, but... ------------------------------ 68. -Nataku: *narrating* And then... -Nataku: *narrating* I was washed up on the bank of the river, -Nataku: *narrating* and a Sennin appeared in front of me. -Nataku: Who're you!? -Sennin: I am Taiitsu Shinjin, from the Kinkou Caves of Mt.Kangen in the KongRong mountain range. Nataku... You are not destined to die yet. -Taiitsu Shinjin: You will be resurrected as an incarnation of a lotus. ------------------------------ 69. -Nataku: *narrating* When I came to, I was surrounded by lotus flowers. -Nataku: *narrating* I figured that guy was keeping me alive. But I had no idea why. -Nataku: *narrating* The only thing I was sure of was......... the fact that I will never forgive Risei for what he has done. -Taikoubou: I see. -Taikoubou: So that's why you were chasing Risei around......... -Nataku: The body I received from Mother has died! Now, my body is made up of lotus flowers... I am no longer related to Risei! I won't hesitate to kill him!! ------------------------------ 70. -Taikoubou: I see... I've changed my mind after listening to your story. -Taikoubou: Nataku. I've decided to be on your side from now. Now hurry and kill this stupid dad of yours!! -SiPuXiang/Risei/Inshi: WHAT!? -Nataku: ............ ---------- Translations 2000ŠAkane Araragi