* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Volume 12: Kyoto inferno *
* Chapter hundred: Kyoto inferno front editorial *
Hoji: ... Time's up.
(somewhere else in Kyoto)
Hennya: Strange, why haven't the fire started yet?
Kamatari: Don't be impatient, it's not easy to burn up a big place like
this.
Voice: Report - ! The entire Kyoto is crawling with police, first team's
plan is unable to continue!
Another voice: Same with the second team!
Yet another voice: And the third team!
Kamatari: A bunch of useless fools!
Usui: Humph. Then let's change battle strategy. We'll clear the scene for
you first, then you go ahead with the fire plan!
Anji: Hang on, the job of the Juppongatana is merely to assassinate
important politicians, the innocent and the police are not under our care!
Usui: When Kyoto burns, no one escapes. Never mind if you're not interested,
I won't force you.
Kamatari: Ah! I'm going too!
Big brains: Then I'll stay here with Fuji!
Iwanbou: Um - What about me?
Hennya: You stay, don't get in our way.
Iwanbou: Woooah?
Anji: ...
Chief: Open fire! Open fire! We mustn't allow those disciples of violence to
look down on the police's trustworthiness!
Police: Sword-wielding policemen charge!
Masked man: Too... Too many people! We're not their match!
Another one: Let's run!
Yet another: Ah! Hang on!
(a flash is seen. The heads of those who wanted to escape are off)
Kamatari: Those who wish to run, go ahead! But first, get through my death
master's gate!
Police: Ah...
(another flash)
Police: What?
(their heads get hacked into half)
Hennya: What are you so afraid off? Since we've all passed the limits now,
why don't we go further in! You either attack, or attack!
Man: Ch- Charge! Do not retrace a single step!
Chief: Attack! We die protecting!
(two masked men running through a back alley)
Long hair: This'll do. While they're still battling their guts out we'll
proceed according to plan!
Short hair: Um!
(they pour the oil and is about to light it)
Short and long hair: !
Old lady: Over here! Fire-starters!
Man1: Firestarters? Where?
Man2: Here, here!
Man3: Let them die!
Short hair: How- how is it possible!
Long hair: So... so many people at this hour?
Misao: Good! There's no problem now!
Men: Misao! Our new Okashira! We've finished off these two men!
Misao: Been hard on you guys! But the battle's only just started, so let's
not drop our guard now!
(turns around)
Misao: Let's spread out now and stop those fires from starting!
Okon: Yes.
Kuro: Then... Misao Okashira be careful too.
(they jump off the roof)
People: Go! Woah!
Misao: YEH!
Kaoru: Kyoto's Oniwabanshuu is really popular...
Yahiko: No sense of secrecy at all...
Kaoru: Well, after Okina's lifestyle and ten years of building this up, it's
really no wonder...
Yahiko: Yup, that undefeatable feeling of passion is what can never bring
the ninja Oniwabanshuu down! (voice over) And this is best seen on Misao...
Misao: Come on everybody! Let's spread out! Kaoru, Yahiko, let's go to the
next point...
(someone lands behind her)
Usui: No wonder I see no fire, so there are trouble makers here!
Yahiko: Misao!
Kaoru: Misao!
(Usui lifts his sword. Bright spark)
(at the harbour)
Hoji: Funny, there should be fire in Kyoto by now... how come it's still so
quiet?
Shishio: It isn't easy to defeat 5000 police.
Hoji: But still it's a bit too slow.
Shishio: Why worry? No one's going to find us here.
Yumi: Aha... Shishio-sama *hic*, aren't you a little hurt? Kyoto is a place
of remembrance in your Bakumatsu life *hic*, so you find it a pity to raze
it to the ground just like that *hic* and stayed behind to see it one last
time?
Shishio: Yumi, you're drunk. What's there to be hurt about in this place? I
shall move towards the glorious future in this boat in time! Kyoto inferno
and the setting off of the Rengoku is merely the sparks to my celebration.
But... to let my fight with him disappear into ashes is perhaps my only
regret...
(Hoji, Yumi and Soujirou stares)
Watchman: !? Hoji-sama!
Hoji: There's fire?
Watchman: No, not yet, just a strange looking carriage coming towards our
boat at break-neck speed!
Hoji and Yumi: !
Sano: Where, Kenshin? Where's Shishio's boat?
Kenshin: That wooden one! That's the only one with smoke getting ready to
leave the harbour!
Saitou: Good! Stop the carriage!
(the three of them step together)
Hoji: How... How is that possible! How did they...
Shishio: We are the closest killers in life, so he guessed just as well what
I planned.
(he smiles)
Shishio: So you're here to see me off?
(Kenshin stares)
Shishio: (voice over) Himura Battousai!!
END TRANSLATION
(c) Nobuhiro Watsuki Translation: ruroken@geocities.com
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