12. NATAKU: CONCLUSION ------------------------------ 91. Twelve - Nataku: Conclusion -Taikoubou: Come on, go ahead and kill him, Nataku!! ------------------------------ 92. -Nataku: ................... -Taikoubou: You can't do it, can you? -Taikoubou: I thought something was strange to begin with. Someone with enough power like you could kill this idiot dad of yours in three seconds. -Nataku: You're wrong! He's really good at escaping!! -Taikoubou: No, I'm not wrong!! You don't really hate Risei after all. ------------------------------ 93. -Nataku: You're wrong you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong!!! -Taikoubou: I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm right I'm riiiiight!!! *Nataku: You're wrong!!* *Taikoubou: I'm right!!!* -SiPuXiang: ............... -Nataku: NO!!! I REALLY DO HATE RISEI!! ------------------------------ 94. -Nataku: *thinking* Mother!! -Nataku: Wha...... ------------------------------ 95. -Nataku: MOTHER...... MOTHER!! MOTHER!!! -Taikoubou: You should thank me. I saved your parents. -Taikoubou: After all, I am on your side. ------------------------------ 96. -Nataku: YOU'RE WRONG YOU'RE WRONG YOU'RE WRONG!!! YOU'RE WRONG YOU'RE WRONG YOU'RE WRONG!!!!! -Taikoubou: That's enough, Nataku! ------------------------------ 97. -Taikoubou: Huh? -Taikoubou: You still want to fight? If you keep on going like this, you'll die!! -Taikoubou: Paopeis tend to lose their power when the user loses consentration. You can never beat me like that!! -Inshi: WAIT!! -Inshi: Nataku...... ------------------------------ 98. -Inshi: That's about enough. If I lose you or your father, I'll be sad either way...... -Nataku: ............ -Nataku: You win. Do as you like. ------------------------------ 99. -Nataku: I want to ask you one thing. -Nataku: What am I? ------------------------------ 100. -Nataku: ......What exactly am I to those two? -Nataku: I'm originally just a Paopei. And now, I'm not even related to them by blood...... -Taikoubou: A human child has a period in his life where he starts hating his father. He tries to kill his father to gain his mother. It's called the Oedipus Complex. -Taikoubou: And compared to the mother who actually went through the labor pains to bear the child, the father always doubts, "is this child really my child?" -Taikoubou: ---that's what I learned in the Sennin Realm. -Taikoubou: No matter what your body is made up of now... I'd say that you three are a family. ------------------------------ 101. -Nataku: ............... You're not making any sense at all. -Taikoubou: You're not very bright, are you? -Nataku: All I know is that Mother told me not to kill Risei. So I won't. -Taikoubou: Yes. That's all right, isn't it? ------------------------------ 102. -Sennin: Wow, that was beautiful, as one would expect from Taikoubou. Settling a fight so easily like that. -Nataku: YOU'RE...!!! -Taikoubou: TAIITSU SHINJIN!!! TAIITSU SHINJIN One of the KongRong's Twelve Sennins. The perpetrator who made the Reiju Child Nataku. He has the same rank as Taikoubou, who is the direct disciple of Genshi Tenson. *looking at the camera* ------------------------------ 103. -Taiitsu Shinjin: Yeah, as Nataku's birth parent, I wanted to do something about their quarrel, too. -Taiitsu Shinjin: But I couldn't play dirty tricks and take the mother as hostage like you. -Taikoubou: Is that all you can say after all these years!!? -Taiitsu Shinjin: Oh, sorry. Has it been about 300 years? Long time no see! *it's a joke* *Sennins are immortal so they have little sense of time* -Taiitsu Shinjin: Nataku. -Taiitsu Shinjin: It seems like you're still spiritually inexperienced. You're coming to the Sennin Realm to study with me! All right!? -Nataku: What? ------------------------------ 104. -Nataku: Who the hell are you supposed to be? What do you have in connection with me? Tell me! -Nataku: If you don't tell me, I'll kill you!! *Taikoubou: Like he said, he's the one who made you.* -Taiitsu Shinjin: Oh well... I guess I have to do this. Paopei "Kyuuryuu Shinkatou* ------------------------------ 105. -Nataku: !! -Nataku: *thinking* It grew...!? -SiPuXiang: Wow!! It caught Nataku!! -Taikoubou: It's the Paopei made exclusively to capture enemies. -Taiitsu Shinjin: ............ By the way, Taikoubou. -Taiitsu Shinjin: Can you get me down from here on SiPuXiang? I tried to be cool and climbed up here, but now I'm scared to go down. ------------------------------ 106. -Taiitsu Shinjin: ---so I'll be responsible for training Nataku, so don't worry. -Inshi: Y... yes, Sennin-sama. -Inshi: But...... It breaks my heart to think that I'm not going to see Nataku for a while. *Nataku: Let me out! Get me out of here!!* -Taiitsu Shinjin: Taikoubou. -Taiitsu Shijin: It seems like you're having a hard time fighting alone. I guess this is a good opportunity. When Nataku's training is over, I'll send him over to you to be your right-hand man. -Taiitsu Shinjin: Anyway, don't be impatient. Work it out carefully. See you again sometime. ------------------------------ 107. -Risei: ............... -Risei: I think I might go to the Sennin Realm to study again. -Taikoubou: What? -Risei: To tell you the truth, last time I came came home because the training there was so difficult. -Risei: Next time, I'll be the one who'll be chasing him. -Taikoubou: That sounds like a good idea. ------------------------------ 108. -SiPuXiang: There are so many strange people in this world. -SiPuXiang: But you were so strong this time, Goshujin! What happened? -Taikoubou: What, SiPu, you didn't notice? -Taikoubou: There are places called "Reiketsu" in this world, which are puddles where Reiki* gathers. (*Reiki=spiritual energy) For example, the rock I was sitting on when I was fishing was one of them. -Taikoubou: When you absorb Reiki there, your power temporarily increases. -SiPuXiang: O... Oh, so that's what it is! ------------------------------ 109. -Taikoubou: And also, Sendous naturally appear around those areas. -SiPuXiang: Oh. So it wasn't a coincidence we met Nataku-kun and his dad!! -Dakki: Oh! I found you, Taikoubou-chan! ---------- Translations 2000ŠAkane Araragi