.: Rekka no Honoo :. Rekka no Honoo [Flame of Recca] :: Anzai Nobuyuki VOLUME 18 :: translated by kamiya shuusai :: :: volume 17 :: CH 1 :: CH 2 :: CH 3 :: CH 4 :: CH 5 :: CH 6 :: CH 7 :: CH 8 :: CH 9 :: CH 10 :: volume 19 :: Aoi Honoo volume 18 chapter 01 Volume 18 Chapter 1 : Split Path (deep in the cave, mori's gang's on the move, renge's blasting away all the traps in their way) mori koran : hah... hahahahah!! good girl! good girl, renge!! (pat her head) daddy is relieved to have you!! (turn to his assistant) hey, I'm thirsty. gimme a drink. yagami (the assistant) : yes! mori koran (sipping on the juice) : [heheheh... a little more... just a little more!! the evilest madougu... tendou jigoku!! will be mine...!! (he hears something) yagami : mori-sama! foot steps!! mori koran (turns) : who's there!? there shouldn't be anyone here!! (two people approach) renge : ? (mori koran starts to sweat, it's kirin and rasen) mori koran (throws away the juice box) : RASEN!! KIRIN!? w... what are you doing here!!? (grab rasen's shirt) you group A people was ordered to assassinate the hokage! why!! answer me!! ......u... unless... you're here to tell me you killed them all...? (rasen shakes his head, koran slaps him) then why, you son of a bitch!!! those people!! (he's really sweating now) if they're still alive...! they'd come here!! no, maybe they're already here!? kirin (calmly) : then it's perfect. to kill them in public will raise certain problems. but if we lure them into here to get rid of them, it'll just be five missing kids, easily taken care of. this is the underground word made by the hokage people...... how suitable for their graves!! (laughing hysterically) [kyahahahaha] hn------- nice!! kirin-chan is such a cute genius------!! mori koran : [stupid woman...] fine... but you better kill them this time... or else don't forget you'd end up like kurei......! (rasen looks at kirin) kirin : "so" ------ "be it"...... (they disappear into the depth of the cave) excuse us--- (renge smiles, her eyes looked very evil) mori koran : why are you smiling? renge. renge : papa... want me to kill them too? mori koran (evil smile) : ......... well...... (the hokage is facing the cave that split into two...) domon : it's a split path. fuuko (sweatdrop) : geez~~~... which way. domon : let's decide with janken *rock, paper, scissors thing*! recca (vein) : how can you decide something so important like that, idiot! tokiya : we take both ways--- mori's already here and we need to find tendou before him... we must destroy it! we don't have time to have everyone turn back from a wrong path. so we'll split up and save some time too. it's a maze but walking along the wall should lead to the same goal. it'll rejoin in the end. recca : a... alright! pick teams! [I got it.] yanagi (^.^) : yay! alright!! let's decide with janken! domon : how can you decide something so important like that!! recca (yanagi sobbing on the side, beating up domon) : what's wrong with janken, asshole!! I'll kill you!! tokiya (also glaring at domon, who's screaming for help) : die! fuuko (sweatdrop, think) : such a big difference...... (later...) everyone : only rock and paper! ja----n... ke----n... POI! (and everyone puts down their choice, it's evenly split, domon, recca and yanagi who had paper are on one team, tokiya, fuuko and kaoru with rock's on the other.) domon (scream) : NO!! I want to be with fuuko-sama...... fuuko (kick, grrr) : don't even think about it!! kaoru : you're so pathetic, (sweatdrops) domon nii-chan... recca (thumb up) : alright! we're going left! don't get lost, you guys! yanagi (^.^) : [I'm happy.] (and domon's still sobbing T.T) kaoru : you're telling us, you number 1 loser. (wink) fuuko : how long are you gonna cry, domon! I'll be real gentle to you when we meet up again! (tokiya coughing on the side... with a sweatdrop) arrow (tokiya) : the person who rather be with yanagi than fuuko. fuuko : recca, don't do anything ecchi with yanagi. recca (blow up) : WHAT!! (yanagi's blushing) ......... then! (the three of them going one way) domon (still T.T) : [just being gentle's not enough...] recca : laterz------ fuuko : see ya!! (going the other way) (and so they split up... meanwhile with mori...) renge : ............. hey------- papa, why did you let them off before? those people... didn't they let bad guys in here? just say it, and renge will kill them. mori koran : it's alright, renge. those guys, can kill the hokage anytime! in ura uruha, there are people whose powers are above uruha's jyushinshuu! and so they were seen as a threat and discriminated against... especially------ that man named rasen's power...... in a sense, surpasses even kurei!! (sweating as he remembers rasen's dead eyes) (meanwhile... domon's still @.@ after splitting up with fuuko ^^;;) recca (scream) : how much longer are you gonna be like that!! pay attention, asshole!! we only have two people who can fight over here! cheer up--- domon! domon (look at yanagi, snapped out of his @.@ mode) : yeah... you're right...... [I have to protect... the weak princess too!] yanagi : look! you two!! such a spacious room!! (they've entered the next cave, and yes, it's spacious and flat and clear... and somebody's waiting for them there) gaou : welcome~~~!! (chewing on a stick of chocolate) domon : !! gaou (ok, more like a few sticks of pocky) : hehehe... aren't I lucky...! I've got domon... (there's a map of parts they've passed so far, basically like a Y, on the left is recca's gang, now in a big room, on the right is fuuko's gang... reaching a "?") text : the hokage ninjas split into two teams, the man who appeared before recca's gang's name is----- ura uruha------- GAOU!!! end of volume 18 chapter 1 translator's note : it is true what mori koran said, that there are people in the ura uruha stronger than some of the jyushinshuu... such as... I suppose gaou is stronger than noroi, and kai and mikoto... those people don't seem so special anymore... but there are certain people who are still unmatched, such as raiha-kun ^^;;, or meguri kyouza, I really don't know how strong raiha is, though even kirin admits he's the strongest of the jyushin, but since he never fought yet, there must be a reason why meguri is the leader... meguri's someone even aoi is afraid of, and mikagami's master, he must be something... rasen does have power that surpasses kurei, in a way... or anybody else for that matter... but he will never use it, or cannot use it... which you will find out why in vol 20. meanwhile, I don't think joker's that serious when he fought kaoru either, so there's more to him... other people... like genjurou or neon or jisho... or some other dead people... I've always doubted how they became a jyushinshuu... (especially jisho, he seems so weak now in comparison, magensha killed him, but magensha is really a lowly member of the ura uruha, who gets killed by J, and not even the real J... nevermind, this goes on forever ^^;;) so anyway... I think those four members of the jyushin are the only people who's really got something - meguri, raiha, rasen and joker... (and neon's important because kurei likes her) top volume 18 chapter 02 Volume 18 Chapter 2 : Gaou (gaou appears in the room and blocks their way... domon steps forward) domon (sneer) : so you've appeared------ gaou!! recca : who's he? domon : from the ura uruha. (looks serious) I have to...... get even with him for the time he completely beat me up. (back then... that night that domon got KOed) gaou (chewing on another piece of chocolate) : ...get back? you want to get back? that's my plan, big guy!! I've got a big grudge against you! wait after... I finish the chocolate... heheh... soon... soon I'll send you to hell. recca (look at domon) : ....... what did you do to him? domon (sweatdrops) : I dunno!! I've only seen him once! (gaou throws away his shirt) gaou : refueling completed! one on one, domon. (holds a staff) don't worry! I have no personal interest in that little kid recca and that woman!! you are my only opponent. domon (going through his pocket) : ...looks like we're not gonna get through quietly. (takes out a new madougu crystal... and from it, sprang his madougu kuchibashi-ou) yanagi : ah... kuchibashi-ou!! recca (rounds eyes) : what, you brought that with you!? domon (laughing) : Gahahahah!! kagero mama gave me the kura-ou to carry it. kagero (face on the side) : it's convenient. domon (go back to facing gaou) : -------alright, now... I'm taking whatever you're selling!! I won't lose this time!! gaou (looks at him coldly, then turns around to pick up something) : before that------ I want to show you something. (he picks up a container with a skull in it) yanagi (shut eyes) : kyaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh-----!! recca : a... a head!!? gaou : this... this head... this head is...... my... my brother... (he's crying unstoppably) sekiou's head... (some scenes from way early on in the story... the stone guy they fought in kurei's mansion) domon : brother!? sekiou, the big guy in kurei's mansion!? gaou : yeah, that's right. because of you, that asshole kurei turned sekiou into this. that bastard is dead already... but still... there's one other person!! THAT'S YOU, DOMON!! (goes crazy) I'm gonna cut your head off!! and can it!! (put the head down) watch me, sekiou! your brother... gaou!! (attack domon) I'll avenge you!! domon : uh!! (kuchibashi-ou holds onto gaou's stick...) domon : [wha...... what's this strength!! this guy... is above noroi!?] (gaou kicks him) UH!!! (falls back) uh... (to recca) ........... go... go ahead first, hanabishi!! destroy tendou jigoku!! I'll take care of this here! recca : gotcha, domon! let's go, princess!! (pulling yanagi) yanagi : hn. gaou : ............. that------ (plunges his staff into the ground, a jewel on it shines) cannot be allowed... (a giant stone hand reach out from the ground and blocks recca's way, recca and yanagi looks up at it in shock, the giant hand slaps them aside) domon : hanabishi!! yanagi!! gaou : hahahahaha!! it's true that I have no interest in you guys, but I also have an order to stop you. plus... I wish you'd stay and watch... as I cut off domon's head. I want to see you people crying hysterically over his head--------- and I will be laughing. so stay. recca (has that smile that he has when he's super pissed) : what? you bastard... what do you think you're playing at, yo! (but domon steps in front of him) domon : I'm going one on one. actually... I was very arrogant once. in the ura butou satsujin, I won in the end no matter who I was up against. (scenes of domon beating up magensha and noroi and him screaming that "I am strong!!") I had the false illusion that "I am the strongest". but... my foolish pride fell apart after that guy really beat me up. the me that had fear in battle returned a little. I lost to him because of my own carelessness!! to rid myself of those obstacles! I will beat him alone!! (gaou has been quiet, and expressionless the whole time domon was giving that speech, now he just look at them coldly with the giant stone hand behind him.) end of volume 18 chapter 2 top volume 18 chapter 03 Volume 18 Chapter 3 : Standing Tombstone gaou (smirk) : ...... "lost because of carelessness"...... you say? wrong! it's the difference in strength!! I am stronger than you!! you are weaker than me!!! that is the reason of wins and losses... look carefully at this room, domon! isn't this neatness really different from the rocky path that you've been walking along? ...don't you think it's strange? this is a underground maze dug to be the hokage ninja's "sealed land" four hundred years ago! forget about being the place that holds tendou jigoku, why do you think this whole place is so neat? yanagi (thinking) : ...they could be building a house. recca (look at her with sweatdrops) : no way, dummy! gaou (continues) : it's because... domon : !? (a stone cross pops up from the ground, it has domon's name carved on it, looks like his tombstone) gaou : ...to control stone freely----- is gaou-sama's ability!! (his staff) madougu sekikou!! this is not just a weapon! it's an antenna that sends order by having contact with the stone!! (which is why he always plunges it into the ground) you get it? this room was made by me! this place surrounded completely by stone is the best battleground for me!! and-----it is your grave... (the giant stone hand points) domon!! just wait, sekiou... I will avenge you!! domon (breaks the tombstone with one punch) : ...sorry...... but I don't remember ordering any tombstones! plus... (tries to attack gaou) I've already decided that I'd die on fuuko's breasts!! (me : ... ... no comment... if fuuko heard this...) (gaou plunges his staff into the ground again and the jewel on it shines again, walls begins to rise in all directions around domon) domon : ! walls!!? (he's sealed in a square) (the stone walls makes for a nice cube... or rectangle, with the words "ishijima's grave" carved on the outside) gaou : how about wafuu style? (meaning the tombstone style) suits you pretty well. a stone coffin 1000 millimeter in thickness... can't even hear his screams! wait for death slowly. gahahahahah!! well!! (to recca and yanagi) you guys are next!! if you beat me, maybe you can still save domon!!? (recca first looks at him curiously, then starts to laugh unstoppably like an idiot) gaou : what's so funny? you low on sugar? need some chocolate? recca (in tears now) : no... aren't you a baka? gaou (looks pissed) : you're the baka. let me tell you something. that stone wall will grow thicker!! which means...!! (suddenly with a big blast, the stone wall explodes, and domon steps out in one piece with his kuchibashi-ou) recca : ...since domon said so, I wouldn't make a move. and it's not necessary. domon (smirk) : you can say it again, hanabishi! hey, gaou!! recca : you are a baka *laugh*. (man, gaou looks like he's gonna burst... meanwhile, with the other team, fuuko, tokiya and kaoru has reached an underground river.) fuuko : there's a river down here underground!! tokiya (always so knowledgeable) : that's called an underground canal. kaoru : it's flowing, really fast. not good if we fall. fuuko : but oh well... gotta move on!! (jumping across the river landing on some rocks) yahoo!! (lands on the other side, yelling back) come on----- mi-chan! kaorin (nickname for kaoru)!! I'm leaving you behind--------. tokiya (standing right next to her) : I'm over already...... fuuko (a little too sudden) : WAAA!? you're giving me a heart attack, stupid mi (as in mi-chan)!! (across) hey yo!! you get over here too!! kaoru : fuuko nee-chan...... (pause, sweatdrop, blushing a little, cat face) i... can't swim. sign (of kaoru) : doesn't swim (fuuko and mi-chan looks so shocked T.T I think if this was colored, they're turning blue) text : --------15 minutes later, fuuko's idea. fuuko (scream encouragingly) : have some spirit!! (tokiya looks at her sideways...) it'll be fine with your speed!! it'll be fine as long as you don't fall!! (then gives him a very sweet and kinda shy look) ....... will you trust me? you can do it. I'll do a CPR if you drown. kaoru (blush, then the cat face) : it's alright. I don't wanna get killed by domon nii-chan. (start to jump over) COMING!! (just as he's about to land on one rock...) ! (a dagger stabs into his foot) fuuko & tokiya : !? (kaoru falls into the water and flows away) fuuko : ko... koganei------!! tokiya (running after kaoru) : let's hurry, fuuko!! fuuko : u... um! (but she suddenly stops as the same kind of dagger that stabbed into kaoru's foot blocks her way, she turns around, the person who threw the daggers appear from the cave ahead) shadow : don't run away......... my prey...... end of volume 18 chapter 3 top volume 18 chapter 04 (still in that same place as before, though only those two alone, kirin and rasen) kirin : well, the hokage ninjas! how many people will make it to here, rasen. (rasens sends her a reply) EH!!? you brought hisui!? no way!? (still a little shocked) ........................ someone will surely be "dead"... WIND OF ANGEL DANGEROUS QUEEN!!!!! (don't ask, this is what it says on the cover page with fuuko's picture, playing a guitar) Volume 18 Chapter 4 : Hisui (the shadow that stopped fuuko is a woman, with many scars all over her body, she has short hair, cold eyes, and holds two spear look-alike's, one in each hand, she raises one finger and points to fuuko) fuuko : ! hisui : woman... you are my prey. come. fuuko (just went crazy) : eh... prey--------!!? tokiya : fuuko! looks like she only wants you. I'm going to look for koganei. you will be alright------ by yourself? (fuuko first looks at him funny, then walks up and gives mi-chan a good heavy slap in the face... totally knocking tokiya over) fuuko (scary look, vein) : who do you think you're talking to, mi-chan-kun? hurry up and go. tokiya (many sweatdrops) : ...... hisui (ignores them, walks back the way she came from) : this way---- fuuko (follows) : .................... mi-chan. when you see koganei... just tell him. that I'm sorry... sorry that I forced him to do it. tokiya : I'm not a message board... tell him yourself when you come back alive. fuuko (turns around and smiles) : ....... you're unreliable anyway. (tokiya jumps into the river and swims after kaoru) fuuko : [take care of koganei... mikagami! well---------! fuuko-chan's going in!!!] (she enters the next cave and even the fearless fuuko needs to absorb this shock for a while... the whole cave, except for the little space that she's standing on, is decorated with sharp, needle sharp spear like rocks above and below) fuuko : wha... what the hell's this?!! hisui (who's standing on the tip of one) : mountain of needles....... somewhat like the one that is said to exist in hell...... and... our battleground------ a little late for introductions. I am "hisui", who comes here in search of a battle. fuuko : kirisawa fuuko!! (smile) here to destroy tendou jigoku!! (they start to fight, after a few exchanges...) hisui : ...pretty strong... you--- fuuko : I'm a member of the hokage! we haven't got weaklins!! hisui (suddenly her eyes changed, a quite insane smirk) : the strong survive......... the weak dies------ in the end----- which one will remain alive...? (she extends one spear and cut off a bunch of the sharp cones from the ceiling of the cave, they fall, of course, on fuuko, who starts to dodge them with a super funny face) fuuko : GEEEH!!! (switch...) kirin : that girl----- sees fighting as a gamble... she has no fear of dead! hisui...... the fighting opponents chosen by her are unfortunate. the game will continue under one dies! (switch back... hisui is still standing on top of the sharp cone, while fuuko's in a pile of broken ones that fell from the roof, none injured her however) fuuko : you crazy, you... wasn't that dangerous for yourself as well? slashing all over the place... (sweatdrop) hisui (looks more crazy) : you didn't die yet... hahah... you're strong... interesting... this prey is fun... hahahahahahahahahahaha......... end of volume 18 chapter 4 top volume 18 chapter 05 Volume 18 Chapter 5 : Russian Roulette (fuuko glaring at hisui in the piles of broken cones, hisui sees a little cut on her arm and licks it) hisui : you're name's... fuuko? do you know the russian roulette? fuuko : ...put one bullet in a gun... and then take turns pulling the trigger... right? hisui (smile) : yes------- the opponent dies, or you yourself dies... it's a death game controlled by chance... the extreme nervousness... fearfulness... the relaxation when you're saved... don't you think it's the same as fighting? (attack) fuuko (jump back) : WAH!! hisui : just now, you avoided one----- it's the same as triggering an empty slot. don't you think so? the one who loses... the fight dies... that's a life game. it's like losing the chip "oneself" in a bet------ the wins and losses are decided by chance. of course...... (one of her spears extends again and cuts off some sharp edged cones and brings them back on the side of the blade) if the levels between each other are closer...... it's higher odds to be decided by chance! with you------ (looks really crazy) it'll be a fun game. (throws the cones at fuuko) fuuko (blast them away) : KAMA ITACHI!!! (if you remember, the wind blade thingy) I understood what you said, but I don't like it! you're making everything for "chance". come on, in sports, they always say, "I've worked all my life", and in boxing, don't they say "I can't lose"? it's a feeling that surpasses chance! and it cannot be calculated. (looks up and hisui's not there anymore) ...and, what!? (hisui appears quietly behind her and slashes) AH!! (fuuko falls down) owww. (and hisui points the spear in her face) hisui : ...chance is above that feeling you mentioned in reality. kirisawa fuuko----- tell you a story... (flashback) text (a lot of people gathered in a room) : ura uruha trainees...... people who cannot continue to live in normal life... people who threw away their past----- people who gather to enter battle. there were many in that place. (a much younger, innocent looking hisui, with no scars either among them) it was unimaginable hell...... there were some who wanted to die too. only the people who remain----- will be trained into warriors. hisui (present) : ...why... someone so fragile as myself survived that hell... back then... perhaps I believed that the "feeling" you talked about... could surpass fate. hideki (voice) : hisui! (it's a nice, funny looking guy) today again, we both----- remained alive!! (hisui smiles, hideki hugs her) text : hideki...... in this pile of junk that thinks killing each other is normal, we were happy with each other's "living". we live to see each other's smiles... I thought. I love...... I love this man...... hideki : alright, hisui? no matter what, we have to live! for example, sometimes kill people for it! that can't be helped. people eat the meat of bulls, pigs and chicken to live. sometimes you have to take another life to live on! (kiss her) [live, hisui------ both of us will live on...] mori koran : well--- done, to have survived up till today! from here on, we will hold the final test!! text : 30 people remained----- qualified limit is 15-------- therefore... one on one--------- (hisui steps into the darkness wearing a mask) wearing a mask over the mouth, earplugs in the ears, the test began in the darkness. a death match without the five senses... (hisui stabs somebody) announcer : winner, hisui!! (but then hisui sees the person she killed...) text : the nightmare of 1/29-------- that time... something shot through me------- "oh, this is all fate." "fighting... life, it's all a game------" "I won." "he lost." (end of flashback) hisui : ...since then I volunteered for dangerous missions. but... even though everything around me died, I always came back alive. it feels so unbelievable. in a mixture of fear and excitement...... I wonder... will there be "game over"......? will a gun with only one bullet kill me? (stabs fuuko's arm) fuuko : WAHHHHH-------!! hisui : from now on I will still continue the trials. in the game...... end of volume 18 chapter 5 top volume 18 chapter 06 Volume 18 Chapter 6 : Natural Born (hisui raises the spear again) hisui : next... right arm? fuuko : you've gotta be kidding!! my precious girl skin is not getting scratched so easily that many times... (blocks hisui with a blast of fuujin) no way!! (jumps back, bandaging her wound) I understand you. but------ I don't have the free time to waste here! hisui (holds up both of her spears in a X) : shinryo shintou------- blades that grows by reading the wielder's thought. my only partner. (make more cones falls from the top) fuuko (dodging) : EEEKK! this--- again...!! (hisui comes up and elbows her) AHH damn...!! (hisui's also wounded on the shoulder and leg by the fallen cones, but she doesn't feel it) now I've really seen fearlessness--- in the extreme... kinda freaky...... hisui : I'm not afraid of death. I want to try it. see how long I will continue to win... fuuko (gets up) : you're wrong! that's not trying. aren't you looking for it? hisui------- you're searching for a place to die! you wish to die!! that fearlessness can't be called courage... I disagree. so I've decided! (smile) fuuko-chan is gonna win!! plus... I won't let you die either!! FUUJIN!!! hisui (withstood the attack) : what do you understand about me? stop acting like you got it, fuuko!! the winner lives, the loser dies! I cannot agree... with your optimistic ideas without that realization!! (both of their attacks cleared a way between them, fuuko's facing her calmly) ! fuuko : come--- try to stab me with those swords, hisui. hisui (looks at her for a moment) : ...what do you have in mind? fuuko. fuuko : just to decide this thing. you win if you stab me. if you cant, I win! hisui : ...i don't understand the meaning in your words. why I would lose if I can't stab you... but------- I ACCEPT!! shinryo shintou!! (the madougu flies toward fuuko) STAB THROUGH------- FUUKO!!! (fuuko waits for them to be close enough and jumps and dodges) fuuko : victory declaration!! (raise her fuujin hand) ROCKET DIVE READY----- GO!!! (she blasts fuujin backwards as a thrust) hisui (shock) : [she's flying over---- with the power of wind!!?] (fuuko comes up close and beats up hisui) hisui (on the ground) : ...... i... see... the further shinryo shintou extends... it makes it easier to get close to me...... and-------- back then, that fuujin attack wasn't aimed at me, it was... making the way for getting close to me... (fuuko's fuujin hand's also bleeding like crazy) heh... you're also pretty fearless, fuuko... we both don't play by the rules. fuuko (smile) : as for me, I was "born with it"!! hisui : ...... (she looked somewhat relieved, definitely none of that not happy from losing, she gets up and walks away) fuuko : where are you going? hisui : the game has ended. it's game over for me. the end has been decided------ end of volume 18 chapter 6 top volume 18 chapter 07 Volume 18 Chapter 7 : The Changing Fate (a small map showing how far the hokage has gone up till now, recca, yanagi and domon stuck with gaou on the left, tokiya and kaoru flowing into the unknown straight down the right, and fuuko and hisui's battle has reached a conclusion on the rightmost corner) fuuko : ......? where are you going? hisui! hisui : it's game over for me----- the end... has been decided by fate. fuuko : [end...] you're... I knew it!! (hisui jumps on to the platform that fuuko came in from) fuuko (below) : hisui!!! don't!! hisui (calmly) : I lost......... I lost the bet named battle. I knew I couldn't win froever. I'm somewhat... relaxed. if I continued to win like this------ I will eventually collapse from the fear that comes with the happiness. (she seemed to be with a mixture of happiness and sadness) I will be happy now...... (with fuuko's scream) ["wish for death" ...when you said that...... I understood my own feelings. yes... that was it... I want to go------- I wanted to go...... (hideki's smile appears) to hideki------- hideki probably will be mad that I took my own life... "live on no matter what" ...he said that. I would die if I lose a bet... I thought... I fought with that thought... it's over...... hm? hideki. (jumps off the platform into the sea of pointed rocks) it's... alright now......] (just as she's about to fall on a sharp cone, fuuko jumps over and grabs her...) hisui : f... fuuko!!? (they both land on the ground) fuuko (look at her other arm which is bleeding) : grrr... owww... hisui (sit up) : ......... why... (screams in tears) why won't you let me die!!? what right do you have to interfere!? (fuuko slaps her) fuuko : I don't! I just met you. and as an enemy! but --- I just have something to say. people who takes their own lives are idiots! hisui (looks at her bleeding arm) : ...what...... are you saying......... why... did you... save me...... and hurt your arm...... (she's trembling) you could've died back there... maybe... (fuuko simply smiled back) ...why... are you smiling... back then... when I killed hideki with my own hands... his face after I took off his mask------ [was also smiling...... (hisui hugging him, he's dead, eyes closed, but he was smiling)] tell me! fuuko!! why----- (fuuko suddenly hugs her) ! fuuko : ...survive no matter what... he said that------ he probably realized that it was you already...... but in the end... he wanted you to live no matter what. ......live on with your feelings! and change your fate! hisui : hideki... for me...... he let himself die...? that too... is stupid... fuuko...? isn't it... (bursts out crying) WAAHHHHHH!! (fading image of hideki and a young hisui... later, fuuko moves on) text : ...follow this cave over here. it's in the direction of the river. you'd find the other two sometime. (giving fuuko one of the shinryo shintou) one for you, fuuko... to keep----- I'm lending it to you. I'm gonna want it back sometime... it's----- the proof that I'm alive--- fuuko (raise right land) : right hand fuujin. (raise left hand) left hand shinryo shintou! (hop along happily) how cool. [don't lose... (smile) hisui!!] (meanwhile, for the rest of gaou's fight, step over to the left side for a moment please. yes, we left gaou just when he was getting really pissed off) recca : why don't you just give up? gaou! yanagi : y... yeah! domon-kun's really scary when he's mad!! (gaou reach into his pocket) domon : !! [madougu!?] (he takes out chocolate, domon falls head over) recca (sweatdrops) : c... choclate again... yanagi (big sweatdrop) : he really likes it... gaou (chewing) : i...... I eat when I get upset... it's like tranquilizer... ha... ah... it's... it's working......... now... calmly... I can... (finish eating, and bursts out) KILL YOU ALLLLLLLLLL-------!! (another hand pops up behind him) domon (eeek) : another hand!!? recca (scream) : he's totally not calming down!! yanagi (sweatdrop) : heated up instead... end of volume 18 chapter 7 top volume 18 chapter 08 Volume 18 Chapter 8 : Junkie (gaou goes for domon with the new hand) gaou : GHAHAHAHA!! DIE! DIE, DIE!! DIE, DIE DIE, DIE------!!! domon (didn't jump back in time) : YAAA!! EH!! (gets picked up by the hand and smashed down) UH... recca : domon! yanagi : domon-kun!! gaou : don't you look good, domon. how about I just cut your head off like this? hm? I'm gonna can it like sekiou. but, yours will be filled with my piss. domon : ...no kidding, idiot!! jan... ken------- SCISSORS!! (punch the big hand away with kuchibashi-ou) how about that!! scissors beat paper!! gaou (the staff's jewel's shining again) : I see... then----- (a hand comes up from behind domon and punches him) don't you lose to rock? yanagi : another stone hand...!? domon (badly hurt on the ground) : uh... uhhh... yanagi : please!! help him, recca-kun!! domon-kun will die!! recca : ...... when I first entered high school, yanagi : ! recca : I've fought with him many times, of course, it was easy to get seriously hurt. and so... gets attacked when the hand can't move----- (domon gets beat up by some punks when he had bandages around his arm) it happened to him once. back then though I didn't think of him as a friend, I thought what they did was dirty, and beat them up for him. yanagi (sweatdrop) : ...recca-kun, I didn't think you were so bad. recca (blush, sweatdrops) : no. listen to my story, princess... ...and then that guy------ domon (in the flashback) : WHY DID YOU BUTT IN!!! (punch, and recca flies away into background) recca : after that, when those people healed, he went and got them alone, that guy. basically that's it. (while yanagi's listening to a little story, gaou's hanging on to his staff, the jewel dim, breathing and sweating) gaou : heheh... I knew it... using two stone hands at the same time... is... very exhausting... (sweating like hell) heheh... (take out another bar of chocolate and munch) uh-huh... ah... sweet... haaa...yahah... haaa... it's... working...... (the madougu crystal shines again) WAHHHHHHHHH recca (funny face) : b... but what is he!! very dangerous guy! does he have chocolate poisoning!? gaou : sekiou... sekiouuuu~~~... (stone starts to break off from the walls) your... (and gathering around him) your technique in the end!! altogether......... to take your vengance!! domon (getting up) : uh... (looks up) !! (gaou is in a stone armor... think back...) se... SEKIOU!? gaou (punch domon around) : die!! die!!! (domon coughs out blood) when your organs come out from your mouth!! when you cough up all your blood! break all your bones like an octopus!! domon : [no... good... my mind... is losing it...... (then he sees the staff, the jewel still glows, but it's getting dimmer) ah....... the light of the madougu's crystal...! it's dimming...?] gaou (stops) : GUU!! domon : ? gaou (his head piece breaks off) : GYAAA!! hah... GAAA!! (and the stone around his pockets break too) cho... chocolate! hahahahah!! chocolate... come on!! just one! just one!! (empty pockets... he freezes) grr... grrr... domon (looks at him funny) : .........!? (suddenly gaou turns to yanagi) end of volume 18 chapter 8 top volume 18 chapter 09 (gaou turns to yanagi) gaou : you... (he's looking really bad right now) have chocolate's... smell...... you have one? (rush toward yanagi) DO YOU HAVE ONEEEE? WOMANNNN!! Volume 18 Chapter 9 : Ultimate Infection gaou : ehe!! heheheheh!!! recca (step in front of yanagi) : yo! your opponent is domon... gaou (punch recca) : MOVE, ASSHOLE!! yanagi (scream) : recca-kun!! (but gaou's in front of her already) no... (gaou takes her arm) ah... (and lifts her) noooooooo!! gaou : don't tell me "no", woman... I'm not gonna do anything to you. yanagi : ahh. gaou : chocolate! do you have one!? do you want me to search you naked? come on... take it out!! (yanagi reach into her pocket and takes out a small piece) gaou : oh... OHH!! I knew you've got it!! hey!! (point to his open mouth) come on! let me eat it!! (yanagi looks scared) aaaaaaa!! come on! come on!! aaaaaaaah!! (she's about to put the chocolate into his mouth, but with sudden determination, she takes it and eats it herself, gaou look worse than dead) gaou : ah... ah... ahhhhhhh...... yanagi (chews) : i... I only give chocolate... to one person! (stick her tone out) gaou (going crazy) : you... YOU BITCH... (recca suddenly comes up next to him, punches gaou and saves yanagi) yanagi : ya... owww (falls right into recca) recca : don't try to rob from princess. you don't have----- that spare time. behind you, look. gaou : !? (domon's behind him and holding the staff) gaou : sekikon!! [fuck...!!] domon : you... said you controlled stone with this thing? but its power has a limit!! that's decided by the user's spirit!! you chocolate junkie...... can't do anything without it!! and----- (takes out the little jewel) gaou (running over) : s... STOP!! give it backkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!! domon (throws the jewel to the big jaw) : break it! kuchibashi-ou!!! (the madougu shatters, and gaou suddenly falls back in his stone armor) gaou : ah... ah... my body... is heavy... i... I can't move...!!! domon (walks up to him) : once the jewel that give commands is broken, the stones don't listen to you anymore! the armor that protected you, it's only in your way now. ah... please... just one...... (sweating) chocolate... chocolate...... (domon punches him, KO) domon : I don't have any. (the finger) recca : ...... by the way princess, why did you have a chocolate? yanagi (^.^) : snack for recca-kun! [but I ate it... sorry.] domon (turns to yanagi and smile) : but yanagi!! you fought bravely too!! yanagi : I did? domon : if you gave the chocolate to that guy to eat, he would've returned and I'd be in deep trouble! thanks!! (yanagi smiles) recca (leaving the beaten gaou behind) : alright! let's move on!! gaou (lying back there) : I'm sorry... I'm sorry, sekiou...!! but... it's not over!! this... this hatred... I won't forget it...... DOMON!!! DAMNNNNNN text : domon vs. gaou, with difficulty, but domon won. the three in search of tendou jigoku, moves deeper inside. on the other route, fuuko also defeated hisui and moved on. and-------- (kaoru has been washed ashore, unconscious as someone approaches) text : koganei kaoru's eyes are closed... not knowing his fate from here on------ end of volume 18 chapter 9 top volume 18 chapter 10 Volume 18 Chapter 10 : Kamui (a delicious steak.......... in kaoru's dream) kaoru : WAHH---!! h... h... hamburger-----!!! (and ice cream) ah, ice cream sunday. (more...) noodles!! kids meal!! wah-------- I'm so happy----- ITADAKIMA~~~SU!! (then his beautiful dream turns into a nightmare... recca and fuuko eats his food) kaoru : ah. h... how cruel!! gimme some too!! (next the giant domon is eating him for lunch...) domon : um, vanilla flavored. delicious. kaoru : WAHHHHHH (wakes up, he's lying on dry ground by the river with a blanket over him) kaoru : eh? (sit up, think) ...i had a strangely real dream... (look around) anyway--- where... am I? (think back) [yeah I think I was with mikagami and fuuko nee-chan----- I fail to cross the river and fell... I didn't... fail... I was stabbed in the foot by a knife......] (look at his foot, already bandaged) huh? voice : it's already fine----- kaoru (turns, thinking tokiya) : [mikagami...!?] (instead he gets...) kamui : uh-huh. I'm kamui. kaoru (@.@ looks like his heart couldn't take it... from tokiya's beautiful face to this thing...) : w... wah... (first instinct, run...) WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! kamui (holding him back) : wait, wait a sec~~~! isn't it rude to run away the moment we meet? kaoru : w... why are you here... eh... WAH!! (comes to the realization) my top half's naked!! (he is...) what did you do to me!!? kamui : I haven't done anything yet. I took it off in case you'd get a cold. it's not dry yet. (kaoru's cloth hanging on a branch, kaoru looks a little surprised, while kamui takes out a nasty box) wanna----- eat lunch? (meanwhile... still in that cave) kirin : ....................... I don't believe it------- the hokages are strong. not only that hisui------- but gaou lost too, rasen! (no reaction from rasen, of course) maybe----- we really underestimated those kids. back then... we caught them off guard by appearing suddenly. but---- once they're into combat mode------ they have strength of this level!! ...good thing, we brought some other people too, so I think it'll be fine. but those guys are weird...... though that can't be helped, hm. so before they get here------ (rasen suddenly said something to her) ! .................. what... was that? (sweating) ...hey...... what...... what are you thinking, rasen...!? (rasen has a really scary cold look, meanwhile... kaoru's having lunch with kamui, kamui's cooking, ready made stuff) kamui : uh-huh (open bag that's been boiled in water) ready made curry~~~ lalala~~ ladelalal~~ kaoru : ......... (sweatdrop) kamui (preparing his curry dish, and singing) : oh~~~ he loves curry~~~ kaoru : err... can I get my kougon anki? kamui : hey, are you prepping me? good boy, but that won't do~~~ eat lunch with me--------- (give kaoru his dish) how 'bout then I give it back? alright!! kaoru (takes the dish, stare at it with cat face, after a long pause) : ......it's not drugged, is it? kamui (eating, vein) : how rude!! I don't force people to %%% with me!! lunch comes before %%% right now!!! kaoru (T.T) : that's not what I asked...... (eat, think) what... a strange guy. (then he stops with a sweatdrop, as kamui's looking at him with interest) ! w... what. kamui : you look so cute when you eat. (kaoru spat out all he just ate) that's right!! label : announce kamui : boys should be cute!! just like a puppy!! (kaoru falls, foot in the air) ...... hah... unfortunate...... (sigh) I really-------- don't want to kill you. because I like you now. (kaoru looks blue, while kamui continues with his inner struggle ^^;;) but no. you and I are enemies... even if there's love we can't get together. kaoru (funny look) : um... hello? kamui (still self absorbed) : yes!!! just like romeo and juliet!!! ..................but the tragedy cannot be helped........ (throws kougon anki back to kaoru) thanks for the happy time... I won't forget you. though... this is an often used line, I still have to say...... you'll always live in my heart!! KAORU!!! (slash with his sword) kaoru (jump back) : WAH!! kamui (big ugly smile) : "love you but have to kill you"? ...nope... should be, "love you so have to kill you". eheheh. end of volume 18 chapter 10 top :: volume 17 :: volume 19 ::