2. THE FIRST SEALING ------------------------------ 53. [Imperial Palace] -Dakki: Chintou! -Chintou: Yes! ------------------------------ 54. -Dakki: A wish from Dakki! The party tower's construction is going so slow! Go capture two or three thousand people from the foreign races to work at the site! -Dakki: It's His Majesty's wish, too! Isn't it? -King Chu: Do what Dakki says! -Dakki: Oh, I love you, Your Majesty! -Dakki: Understand!? -Chintou: Yes!! If it is Dakki-sama's wish, I will not even fear death!!! ------------------------------ 55. Two - The First Sealing ------------------------------ 56. -SiPuXiang: You can see it now, Goshujin (master)... -SiPuXiang: The capital, "Chouka"!! -Taikoubou: Ohh! A huge capital for a huge country, huh? ------------------------------ 57. -SiPuXiang: ---And that's the palace where the imperial family lives. Dakki should be somewhere inside the castle. ------------------------------ 58. -Taikoubou: ! -People: It's a Sennin-sama!! It's a Reijyuu!! -Taikoubou: I can sense strange vibes coming from the castle. There ought to be a few hundred Sendous there. *Sendou - Sennins and Doushis -Taikoubou: I wonder if I could get close to Dakki without encountering the other Sendous... -SiPuXiang: What? Are you going to attack Dakki already!? -Taikoubou: Of course! "When fighting a great enemy, first aim for the head" ---this is the basis for military strategies! -Taikoubou: But I can't think of a good way yet. Let's go down to the city and gather information for now! -SiPuXiang: Goshujin~!! At last you're willing to do something!! I'm impressed!!! -Taikoubou: You don't have to be so rude about it... I'm always willing to... ------------------------------ 59. -SiPuXiang: ...It seems like... -SiPuXiang: ...for a capital, it doesn't seem very lively... Dakki is probably enjoying herself and doesn't even care about the people!! -Taikoubou: ! *Donmura-ya's Pork Buns* -Taikoubou: Pork buns, red-bean buns, curry buns! Ooh! They even have pizza buns!! -Taikoubou: I'm starving~. -SiPuXiang: But we don't have any money. -SiPuXiang: I'm a herbivore so I'll be fine with just plain roadside grass. -Taikoubou: ! ------------------------------ 60. -Taikoubou: If you can live on grass, so can I!!! -SiPuXiang: Goshujin, please! Stop making such a fool out of yourself!! Hours Later... -SiPuXiang: I'm so ashamed of you. -Man: What happened...? -SiPuXiang: ! ------------------------------ 61. -Man: I presume that he is a Sendou-sama important enough to ride on a Reijyuu? -SiPuXiang: ...It's food poisoning... -Man: Hmm... this isn't good... -Man: I would like to help him somehow, but... My house... my medicine shop went bankrupt and I don't have any money to buy medicine elsewhere, either... -Man: I'm sorry... -SiPuXiang: ... ------------------------------ 62. -Man: Oh... we have to head for the imperial palace... Please excuse us. -SiPuXiang: The palace? -Man: The emperor is constructing another huge tower. So he's gathering slaves from all over the city. -Man: I've heard that he still doesn't have enough people so he's going to make his men go hunt foreign villages. -Hunting... -Taikoubou: Slaves are forced to eat food fit for dogs and worked like ants... Until the day they die... ------------------------------ 63. -SiPuXiang: And that Dakki is making them suffer even more by making them work at the huge construction site!! What does she think people are? I can't stand it!!! -Taikoubou: ...It's back, SiPuXiang... Le...Let's go to another city and get some medicine... anywhere... hurry!! *Yin's flags* ------------------------------ 64. -Soldier: General Chintou! If we keep on going, we'll be at the villages by tomorrow morning! -Chintou: Yes! Tell the others to try to capture the villagers alive. ---But if the villagers resist, then you have my permission to kill them!! -Chintou: That's... -Chintou: *thinking* A Sennin...? I've never seen him before... ------------------------------ 65. -SiPuXiang: Goshujin, look! It's Yin's army! And look how many soldiers there are!! -SiPuXiang: I know... they're going to attack that village!! -Taikoubou: What? Village!? Let's go, I can't stand this pain any longer!! ------------------------------ 66. -Old man: Oh my... A Sendou-sama with a stomachache? -SiPuXiang: Goshujin is still inexperienced so he doesn't know how to make medicine. -Old man: Ha ha! Well, it sure does make him seem like one of us! *medicine shop* -Old man Here, please take these pills. -Taikoubou: No! -Taikoubou: I don't like bitter medicine. If it's not sweet syrup or sugar-coated, I'm not going to take it!! I'd rather live through the pain!! -SiPuXiang: Take it, dammit~~~!!! -Taikoubou: ~~~~~!!! -SiPuXiang: For heaven's sake, you're 72 years old... ------------------------------ 67. -Taikoubou: Hmm? -Taikoubou: Oh? -Taikoubou: Ooh!!! -Taikoubou: I'm cured!!! Unbelievable! Herbal medicine, the mysteries of China! -SiPuXiang: Oh! Never mind that!! Mister, Yin's army is... -Taikoubou: Well, you saved me, Pharmacist! Let me find a way to thank you!! -SiPuXiang: Goshujin!!? -Taikoubou: Shh! -SiPuXiang: *thinking* What!? ------------------------------ 68. -SiPuXiang: *thinking* "Shh"? Goshujin... Aren't you going to tell him about the army~~!? -What's going on? -The Doushi-sama's going to change the river water to wine to thank us for some medicine. -SiPuXiang: Goshujin... Isn't that a Sentou...? (sentou - a peach from the Sennin world) -Taikoubou: Yes! I stole a whole bunch of them from Genshi Tenson-sama when I left KongRong! -Taikoubou: With that, I can change water into wine! -SiPuXiang: Pretty useless thing you brought... ------------------------------ 69. -SiPuXiang: *thinking* Goshujin... -SiPuXiang: *thinking* There's no time for this, the army will be here soon... We should be either getting ready to leave or fight... -Ohhhh!! -It.. it's... -Wine!! ------------------------------ 70. -Yeaaaah! -Taikoubou: There we go! Now the elderly, the women and the children should drink, too! -Woman: Huh? B... but... -Taikoubou: It's okay! This wine will get you drunk, but it isn't toxic or addictive... And it will turn back into water in your body by tomorrow! -Girl: Yes! I've always wanted to drown in wine~!! -Kid: He says kids can drink it, too!! -SiPuXiang: Goshujin~~!!! -Taikoubou: H... here he comes... -SiPuXiang: This IS all part of your plan, right? You KNOW that by the time the villagers are drunk and sleeping, the army will be here, right? -Taikoubou: Um... ------------------------------ 71. -SiPuXiang: You KNOW that if these people are captured, they're going to be forced to become slaves, right? Right, Goshujin? Goshujin!!? -Taikoubou: Uhh... -SiPuXiang: !? -Taikoubou: Here, take a drink!!! -SiPuXiang: Aah!!! The madness continues... ------------------------------ 72. -Soldier: General Chintou!! -Chintou: What's going on? -Soldier: Sir! I went down to see what was going on in the village... -Chintou: *thinking* They're all drunk and passed out!? ------------------------------ 73. -SiPuXiang: Huh? Where am I...? -SiPuXiang: Why am I sleeping here? -SiPuXiang: *thinking* If I remember right... -Taikoubou: *Hey SiPu, go pour this barrel of wine from the top of the mountain!* -SiPuXiang: *Aye aye, sir!* -*Yeaaah!* -*Wow!* -SiPuXiang: *Ugh... no more...* -SiPuXiang: *thinking* And then I just collapsed on the top of this mountain... *Me, of all people...* ------------------------------ 74. -SiPuXiang: Oh no!!! They've all been captured!!! -SiPuXiang: G... Goshujin? Where's Goshujin...? -Chintou: If I knew we were just going to capture sleeping villagers... I wouldn't have brought 5 thousand soldiers with me. ------------------------------ 75. -Chintou: But if I bring back all these people... -Dakki: *Oh, Chintou, you're wonderful!* -Chintou: Ha ha ha ha!!! -Doushi-sama! -Do something!! -Chintou: *thinking* Doushi...? -Villager 1: It's your fault we got captured! -Villager 2: How are you going to explain THIS?? -Chintou: *thinking* That's the one I saw yesterday... -SiPuXiang: Goshujin~~!!! -Taikoubou: ! -Taikoubou: Excuse me! -Villager 1: Hey!! ------------------------------ 76. -Taikoubou: Ha ha ha~~~!!! -Chintou: Shit! I forgot about the Reijyuu...!! -Villager 1: No fair! The Doushi-sama's trying to escape alone!! -SiPuXiang: Goshujin... I am SO disappointed in you. -Taikoubou: Now now, I'll explain later. -Taikoubou: Hey! Yin's army!! how dare you humiliate me!! -Taikoubou: Eat this!!! "Dafuuba"!!! ------------------------------ 77. -Taikoubou: Whee~! This! is! FUN!! -Soldier: General! If he keeps this up, he'll destroy our army...!! And we can't fight back because of the mountain slopes are too steep!! -Chintou: Damn it... What a moronic Doushi!! -Chintou: I'll go!! -Chintou: "Han-youtai"!! (han-youtai - basically, half-human, half-monster form which Chintou is right now ^-^;) ------------------------------ 78. -SiPuXiang: Gggggoshujin! He's not human!!! -Soldier 1: ...Did the general look like a monster to you just now...? -Soldier 2: What are you talking about? You were probably dreaming! -SiPuXiang: He's a Youkai-Sennin!! ------------------------------ 79. -Taikoubou: Youkai-Sennin? *KongRong Mountains* -Taikoubou: *What is that?* -Genshi Tenson: *A Sennin is one who strives to reach the Way of Life. Any living thing is qualified to become a Sennin.* -Taikoubou: *So a Sennin doesn't necessarily have to be a human!?* -Genshi Tenson: *No.* -Genshi Tenson: *One who has bathed in the light of the sun and the moon for over a thousand years becomes a "Yousei". When a Yousei becomes able to transform into a human, it is promoted to a "Yougetsu"... And if that Yougetsu is able to stay in the form of a human at all times, we can finally call it a "Sennin".* *ex: Hakutsuru's case* -Genshi Tenson: *But there are some who discriminate against the so-called "Youkai-Sennins" saying that Sennins not human from birth are cruel and inhuman. I don't think that discrimination is right, though. *Hakutsuru: Thank you, Genshi Tenson-sama.* *Genshi Tenson: Oh, stop crying, Hakutsuru!* ------------------------------ 80. -Taikoubou: I see. I hear that many of Dakki's servants are Youkai- Sennins. I am Taikoubou, a Doushi from KongRong! -Chintou: You're pretty good, kid! I'm Chintou, and I AM a Youkai-Sennin! -Taikoubou: Ch... Chintou? -Taikoubou: *sigh* Well, I don't think my plan is going to work out. -Chintou: What? Taikoubou's plan First, defeat a couple of Dakki's STRONG servants ---Then Dakki snaps! -Dakki: *Aaaah! I can't forgive him, I'M going now!!* *hysteria~~* Battle with Dakki! Taikoubou wins, of course!! The servants will panic without a boss, and then all he has to do is kill them off one by one ------------------------------ 81. -Taikoubou: ---And then we all live happily ever after. That was my plan. So I was waiting for you in this village, but I guess there was no point. I have to defeat the STRONG servants first!! *SiPuXiang: "waiting"...?* -Taikoubou: But "chintou"...? "Taikoubou" and "Chintou"... no matter how you look at them, my name looks stronger. *I apologize to all the chintou-sans in the world* -Chintou: W-H-A-T? -Chintou: Stop joking around!!! I'll show you what the power of a Han-you form is all about!!! -Taikoubou: !? ------------------------------ 82. -Taikoubou: !! -Taikoubou: A Paopei...!! -Taikoubou: ... Fire....! ------------------------------ 83. -Chintou: The Fire Dragon which lives in the heavens... this Paopei is made by tempering its breath... PAOPEI "KARYUUHYOU" -Chintou: This could vaporize you, since it can even melt boulders!! Taikoubou!!! ------------------------------ 84. -Chintou: Wha... -Chintou: He's really quick on his feet... -SiPuXiang: Goshujin! Stop running and fight him!! -Taikoubou: Hey, SiPu! It's not fair hiding like that!! -SiPuXiang: What are you talking about!? It's your mission to fight!! -Taikoubou: How deceiving! He's strong for a "chintou"!! -Chintou: *thinking* But!! -Chintou: You're surrounded by a wall of fire now!!! ------------------------------ 85. -Chintou: You're finished, Taikoubou!!! -SiPuXiang: Goshujin!!! -Taikoubou: Idiot. You're the one who's finished. -Chintou: ! -Chintou: What... ------------------------------ 86. -Taikoubou: You're the one who's surrounded by fire! Anyone who doesn't even know how to use his own Paopei is no match for me!! -SiPuXiang: *thinking* Goshujin... was this what you were aiming for while running around!!? -Chintou: Sh... Shut up!! I'll kill YOU before I burn to death!! -Taikoubou: Dashinben! -Taikoubou: Bear with me!! ------------------------------ 87. -SiPuXiang: Yay! He stopped it!! -Taikoubou: Yes! The Karyuuhyou is mine now! -Chintou: ...... -Chintou: Terrifying... Everything was part of your plan...? The way you got the villagers drunk so we would capture them without harming them...? Because if they ran away or fought against us, there would be victims...? ------------------------------ 88. -Chintou: But I can't just die here humiliated like this!!! -Chintou: You're coming with me, Taikoubou!! -Taikoubou: JI!!! ------------------------------ 89. -Chintou: DAKKI-SAMAAAAAAA!!! -Taikoubou: ! -Taikoubou: So the monster finally reveals his true form. -SiPuXiang: Huh? *praying mantis...* -Taikoubou: Poor Chintou used up all his strength until he couldn't stay in his human form any longer. It will take years of exposure to sunlight and moonlight for this praying mantis to turn back into the form of a human. -SiPuXiang: ---So what are you going to do with this praying mantis? ------------------------------ 90. -Taikoubou: This! -SiPuXiang: Hey!! -SiPuXiang: Don't step on a defenseless little insect!! -Taikoubou: This is the same Chintou who hunted the villages. He can't be forgiven!! -Taikoubou: Huh? -Taikoubou: !!? -Taikoubou: Wh.. What just happened!!? ------------------------------ 91. -Taikoubou: Oh, I see. So this is what Hakutsuru was saying about the Houshin-dai capturing the spirits! -Kokutenko: ..... Taikoubou defeated Chintou-kun... -Kokutenko: I didn't think he could do it. Chintou-kun's one of Dakki's stronger servants, too. -Shinkouhyou: Yes. Dakki is not just going to sit there if she finds out what happened. -Shinkouhyou: But... before that... ------------------------------ 92. -Soldier: The General's dead!! We're pulling our troops out!! -Army: Withdraw~~!! -Taikoubou: This is what an organization is like. When it loses its leader, it will crumble easily. -Villagers: ..... We're safe now... -Villager: It was kind of scary there for a second with that Doushi there, but lucky for us, no one died... This might happen again! Let's move our village further west!! -Old man: ....... ------------------------------ 93. -Old man: *thinking* It's not about luck... I guess we were fully repaid for the medicine... -SiPuXiang: ...So what were you really thinking, Goshujin? [Imperial Palace] -Woman: I didn't think you'd come visit ME, Shinkouhyou! What are you up to? -Shinkouhyou: It has been quite a while since we last met, hasn't it? ------------------------------ 94. -Shinkouhyou: Dakki's honorable sister... OuKijin. -OuKijin: You're acting rather suspiciously lately. You shouldn't get us sisters angry, or you'll regret it! -Shinkouhyou: Suspicious? Oh no, no. I just wanted to see how Chintou was doing. -OuKijin: Chintou? ------------------------------ 95. -Shinkouhyou: Well, he had the crap beaten out of him by Taikoubou. And his spirit was also sealed up. -OuKijin: Wh... what? -Shinkouhyou: So now I am just about to inform Dakki about this matter. ---Good-bye! -OuKijin: ...... -OuKijin: Wait a second, Shinkouhyou!! -OuKijin: I 've heard of that Doushi Taikoubou... But if he has enough power to defeat Chintou, this is a serious situation... ------------------------------ 96. -OuKijin: I'll go see him next! -OuKijin: I don't think we need to inform Nee-sama (elder sister). I'll be back shortly! And so Taikoubou's "Plan to defeat a couple of strong enemies to lure Dakki out" worked in a way But even Taikoubou couldn't predict that an "enemy TOO strong" would come out -Taikoubou: Now! -Taikoubou: Let's go to the capital again! If everything works out, we could get a little closer to Dakki!! -SiPuXiang: ...Really? -Taikoubou: !! ------------------------------ 97. -SiPuXiang: Goshujin? -SiPuXiang: D... Did you hurt yourself in that other battle!? Goshujin, please don't die!!! -Taikoubou: My stomachache is back... from drinking all that wine right after I recovered... -Taikoubou: Hey!! SiPu, don't leave me here!! Don't abandon me~~~~~!!! *Chintou* ---------- Translations 1999ŠAkane Araragi