* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Volume 12: Kyoto inferno *
* Chapter hundred and two: Kyoto inferno end editorial *
Sano: Wuuuuu uu uooo oOOAAAAAAHHH!
Men on ship: Oh no!
Hoji: Everybody calm down! Those are merely explosives triggered by contact!
The most it can damage is the steel plate, not the insides!
Sano: WO AAH! (throws the explosives)
(everybody stares in suspense as it bumps onto the sides)
(the ship tail gets a gigantic explosion)
Yumi: YA!
(everybody is thrown off their feet)
Sano: AH! (a big ripple throws him off the plank he's standing on) Katsu you
idiot, how dare you ask me to take dangerous stuff like these along! What
kind of defense weapon is that! (smiles) But still it's a useful object.
(he starts swimming)
Sano: Shishio Makoto! Stay there on the ship if you've got the guts! I,
Sagara Sanosuke shall have a meet with you!
Hoji: Hateful souls! Everybody remain calm! Report ship situation!
Voice: Furnace room totally destroyed! The ship is pushed into the propeller
shaft, propeller shaft has split into two!
(the smoke towers)
Man: This is the ship tail! We are unable to stop the fire from spreading
anymore! It's reaching the gunpowder room! Ten more minutes before this ship
blows sky-high! The ship is sinking! We can't hold it for long! Hoji-sama!
Please give the order to abandon ship now! Hoji-sama!
(Hoji punches the wall of the ship)
Hoji: How much effort I've spent, skulking the land traders to get my hands
on this Rengoku... and to have let it been destroyed in the hands of an
uneducated coarse man... Why... WHY!
Shishio: It's not just that man only.
Hoji: !
Shishio: His appearance was out of our expectations, this I do not deny.
However...
Saitou and Kenshin: ...
Shishio: The one to see through the assassination trick and to locate the
Rengoku in the shortest time available, Himura Battousai, and Saitou
Hajime's troops prepared at full force to suppress the plot are some of the
reasons why we failed in this operation.
(he clenches his fist)
Shishio: But I, Shishio Makoto to have belittled these men, that is the main
reason why we failed! For now I have paid a painful price, but earned the
knowledge that if I am to swallow the country, I must first finish off these
three men!
Voice: Shishio-sama. The business of the New Moon Village...
(Soujirou smiles)
Soujirou: Shall we resolve it now?
Kenshin and Saitou: *Seta Soujirou!*
Shishio: Sure, but...
Soujirou: But?
Shishio: In the halls on the north-eastern belt of the mountain... our great
hideout. Nobody comes there, so the Juppongatana and I shall greet you with
full welcome!
Saitou: And that's 10 against 3? How many against how many is not really my
problem, but isn't 2 against 2 more cut and dried?
(he pops out his sword)
Saitou: It takes some time for the ship to sink.
(a hand is put on the hilt)
Saitou: ! What's the meaning of this... ?
Kenshin: In the halls on the north-eastern belt of the mountain isn't it?
Fine, we accept.
Man: Shishio-sama! The life-boat is in the water! Please hurry!
Shishio and Kenshin: ...
Shishio: Battousai, you were just an entertainment program in my ambition to
capture the country then. But from now on, you're someone I must defeat by
hook or by crook.
(Kenshin stares)
Shishio: Now I have no obligations on me. So before you come find me,
prepare your heart well!
(the smoke rises, Shishio and company goes off in a lifeboat)
Kenshin: (voice over) The boat members should be the super loyalists
hand-picked by Shishio. They won't abandon ship until he does, and if we
battle it out on the ship, many innocent lives will be lost.
(he stares)
Kenshin: Whether they're friend or foe, I don't wish to see more lives lost
because of this.
Saitou: Your heart sure is soft! Can we win Shishio like that?
Kenshin: Don't know. But at least no one is attached to this matter now, and
no one will get involved anymore.
Saitou: Really according to your wishes eh?
(someone comes from behind them)
Sano: Wahahahahahah! I Sagara Sanosuke is here! Shishio Makoto come out at
once!
(Saitou and Kenshin stare)
Kenshin: (pointing) Shishio and company has...
Sano: WHAT? Hey you, come on back!
Saitou: Stupid.
Kenshin: Surely there's no need to keep calling him that? If it wasn't for
Sanosuke, how would we have successfully defeated and sunk the Rengoku
today?
Sano: Don't run away!
Kenshin: Sanosuke is not as useless as you perceive him to be.
Saitou: Of course I know that. But an idiot is an idiot, no matter how
useful, he's still the stupid idiot there is.
(Kenshin smiles and lets out a puff of air)
Kenshin: Looks like Kyoto is quite peaceful. Although there's no fire, we
can't be sure how peaceful exactly it is.
Saitou: You're right. At least Kyoto hasn't been burnt to the ground by
Shishio yet.
(full moon)
Saitou: And that means, we've just won the first war.
END TRANSLATION
(c) Nobuhiro Watsuki Translation: ruroken@geocities.com
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