* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Volume one: Kenshin . Himura Battousai *
* Chapter 4: Sword to defend . reappearance again *
Kaoru: 'Tis not the way to do't! Doth thou really possess the knowledge!
*In this little while, Yahiko's wounds have recovered. Thus, to honor the
dojo, training has begun.*
Yahiko: Cut thou nonsense! 'Tis the way to hold, no doubt! Thou pitiful
ugly~
*However -*
(Kaoru's hair is standing up and she is steaming mad)
Kaoru: Hath I myself not forewarned your no right to address me as 'pitiful
ugly'? Zip up for me!
Yahiko: Bah! If you have that ability, come claim my voice yourself!
(Kenshin sits at the byline, exasperated)
Kenshin: Hey... Both of whom possesses a cow's tolerance.
Kaoru: Kenshin, speak a word of discernment, you! This lad's mouth hath
cheap and couth trainings!
Yahiko: What! I myself only pursued from the main interest of becoming
stronger. Training from a lassie like yourself gives me all but that!
Kaoru: (turning red) Lassie... !
Yahiko: If it was Kenshin behind my coach's mask, I believe thy will would
be easily achieved. Thus, pray thou impart your kenjutsu to me!
Kenshin: This unworthy one has no desire to advertise an inheritor of the
'Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu'! 'Twould do better guiding with some ill instructions
by the byline! If thou would perk thou spirits to fully immerse in the
'Kamiya Kasshin' kenjutsu... thou wouldst turn strong!
(Kaoru and Yahiko fighting it out on the dojo space already)
Kaoru: Shut up for me!
Yahiko: Do try it!
Kenshin: Ah! Not a single word has reached their honorable ears!
(Outside in the streets)
Someone: Don't run! Stop there for me!
(two boys running away from two men. And boy do these two men look peeved)
At the Kamiya Kasshin Dojo
Kaoru: Yahiko! Yahiko! YAHIKO! Thy real problem! It is but the second day
and he has given up, such quick reaction!
(Kaoru stares out to the main road while Yahiko sits on the roof behind her)
Yahiko: ...
Kaoru: That little lad has a cheap mouth, an unseeable personality and
hardly possesses the backbone of't all! What is't that Kenshin sees in this
boy...
(Yahiko hurls his bamboo sword at her)
Kaoru: ... !
Yahiko: Should I bear my voice to bear your words on, who knows when would
you stop the reckless scoldings! Letting a ugly witch like you train me,
would it not be better if I became strong myself!
(Yahiko jumps onto the floor)
Yahiko: Most you can do is to train all those outsiders, cheat all those
little children I say!
Kaoru: Ay! I am just an acting master in-charge, even I myself am in the
training stage. However -
(Kaoru thrusts her bamboo sword and lifts Yahiko up)
Kaoru: Whatever words you say, I am stronger than thou by far! Stop the
unecessary words, come with me!
(Yahiko dangles on the end of her bamboo)
Yahiko: Rotten egg! Unhand me! Wretched witch!
(The door bursts open to reveal two boys)
Hira: Kaoru... Kaoru sensei! Pray... pray thou save us!
Kaoru: Hira! Sato! Your...! What matter lies behind that injury of yours?
What matter has occured?
Man: Thou can but escape!
Other man: Finish him off!
Kaoru: Where do you belong? What plans do you have for my Kamiya Dojo's
previous disciples?
Men: Cut your gibberish! Block us and die!
(they slam their sticks down but Kaoru has already jumped towards their back
and gives them a reversal)
Yahiko: - ...
Kaoru: What matter has occured? Thou had better make the matter clear!
Hira: We... we chanced upon a group of thugs trapped within their drunked
stupor...
Sato: Ay! The useless lads were disturbing the town's peace, we could not
see by't, therefore we stepped up-
Hira: Then by then, their accompliances emerged, turning the fault unto us
instead, and pursued us to this place.
MEN: WHERE ART THEY?
MEN: IT IS HERE! IT IS INDEED HERE!
(entire group of thugs march in through the front door)
Hira: They hath the big group of them!
Kaoru: The enemy far overwhelms us by much! Retreat us into the dojo!
(They all turn back to run into the dojo)
Yahiko: *These impulsive lads...*
(the door swings shut and the guys can pursue no further)
Men: Hachisuka-kun!
Hachisuka: (someone who deserves the title of the most disgusting man you
can ever come across in 50 lifetimes) Bah! Well done! I myself shall let the
experience the final states of he who demolishes the pride of the Hishimanji
Gurentai!
(In the dojo)
Hira: I have recalled! Them art the "Hishimanji Gurentai"!
Kaoru: Hishimanji Gurentai?
Hira: An army of thugs congregated together. Should we compare them to our
normal band of thugs, they shall appear stronger, more ferocious, cunning!
Kaoru: How this matter hurts one's head! Blame the fact of Kenshin's absence
in our current state!
Yahiko: Eh? I was contemplating why the fact we have not seen him! Where has
he positioned himself... ?
Kaoru: I begged him get some kitchen foodstuff and matters for me... 'twas
better to finish all in one shot than adjourning certain matters for later!
Yahiko: (totally disbelief expression) ... Big dumb egg!
Sato: W-What shall be the solution, Kaoru sensei?
Yahiko: What shall be the solution! This is your own doings!
Kaoru: It is but their fault!
Yahiko: The real dumb egg lays within you, can you be so utterly gullible as
to fall for their word trap!
Kaoru, Sato and Hira: !?
Yahiko: When you both dragged yourselves in earlier... I have but missed the
stink of alcohol on you! Disturbing the peace in a drunked stupor, the title
belongs not to the Hishimanji Gurentai, but you! Relishing the previous
situation, you must have crossed a few hands with the members!
Kaoru: Is't the truth?
Hira and Sato: ...
Kaoru: Is't the truth of the matter?
Hira: Apologies!
(something big, nasty and very unfriendly flies into the dojo)
Everyone in dojo: !?
Hachisuka: (laughs evily) - meet with the Hishimanji Gurentai, should thou
hide behind some metal walls or steel gates, it will be reduced to rubbles,
of total uselessness! You hath better make yourself known in our presence!
If you beg to differ, then I shall bring the dojo down along with you!
Kaoru: A mokuhou!
Yahiko: Them dastardic eggs! Whyfore bring a thing like that here!
* Footnote reads: During the Bakumatsu era, it is used as a simple kind of
canon. Stem of oak and pellet of clay, it's powers loses not to a normal
kind of gun.
Hachisuka: Have thou felt that? 'Tis but the worst kind of abilities the
Hishimanji Gurentai hath come up with! Think not so highly and cunningly of
your cat stooled skills!
(Kaoru snaps a little, as if struck deeply by the last few words)
Hachisuka: Dare thou break my brother's arm, I myself shall make sure
justice is served as it should!
Kaoru: ... thou hast disturbed thy peace as well as - taken the sword to
hurt another?
Hira: ...
(Sato crouches and dares not move)
Yahiko: Them fellows out there are but the lowest grade of bandit thugs.
However, your behavior repulses me more. Originally 'twould belong here,
after creating sandstorms of troubles outside thou bite your own tail and
escape back, where hast your sense of shame flown to, custard eggs you! Why
do you still have the face to return to the dojo, question yourselves! Hath
you not escaped to the wrong place!
(another canon ball is shot through the entrance of the dojo)
Hira and Sato: AH!
Hachisuka: Thou canst but run, out here now!
Yahiko: You may deal with them as it pleases you, but drag us down this
matter no further!
Sato: No... No please!
Hachisuka: Chaotic thing, you! You, and little lady over there, all are
unworthy accompliances of those two grave sinners!
Yahiko: You... ?
(Kaoru puts a hand up to stop Yahiko from talking further)
Kaoru: Nail all your responsibilities onto this head of mine! But do not
think of touching the three of them.
Yahiko: !
(Kaoru starts walking forward towards Hachisuka)
Yahiko: Wait one while! What doth you think you are accomplishing by this?
Kaoru: Them two behind you hath been taught the very skill they know by my
worthy father and me! Be it that they have severed from our clan, I still
must pay heed to their reckless doings! Sword to defend, not to offend -
(Kaoru drops her bamboo sword)
Kaoru: I hath stubbornly refused to leave this ideal in hope that my
disciples shall see the truth in't... I have put my whole heart and soul
into the matter of that...
(Yahiko stares at the back of Kaoru)
Kaoru: Yahiko, thou mouth hast that little cheap in't, however your
potential doth not lack. May you work hard along that line!
Hachisuka: You wish to carry all the sins yourself?
(Kaoru maintains her silence)
Hachisuka: The occasional taste of a female swordsperson does not matter...
*Big sex maniac*
(Yahiko leaps into the air and flies him a kick at the nose)
Yahiko: Joke not, you - !
Hachisuka: WOAH!
(Kaoru looks extremely shocked)
Yahiko: Group not me, Myoujin Yahiko with a garbage heap like them two! How
may I bear to stand still while you shoulder the blame by yourself!
Hachisuka: (trembling with a little black left eye) You little twit! I can
never spare you! Finish them all for me!
Someone looking dangerously like Kenshin: The matter of murder comes not as
relaxed as the words if thou should try to honor it in this place.
Everyone else: !?
Yahiko: Kenshin!
Okay, so it is Kenshin: What is't! Should even them two sirs in the room
commit an unprecedented affair, 'tis not necessary to involve the mokuhou! A
personal desire to fulfill is but suitable on the grounds of here.
Hachisuka: Cut the nonsense! You bespluttering idiot, awaiting your doom
there!
Men: Hachisuka-kun... 'tis not good this way! This little lad...
Hachisuka: WHAT?
Men: Previously he single-handedly defeated the entire sword-bearing police
force, the household legacy story's rurouni! It is that lad!
Hachisuka: Big fool! What is there to fear in't of a rurouni! We are
enforced by the law, by the canon!
Men: AY!
(canon position steered towards Kenshin)
Hachisuka: FIRE!
Yahiko: !
(a canon speeds at high speed towards Kenshin's unmoving figure)
Hira and Sato: AH!
(Kenshin's eyes spark that of discover, and at an upwards sheath movement
of the sword, the clay ball separates into two and explode towards both
sides of him, harming him not)
Men: ...
Kenshin: The nick of this sakabadou - can sever into two even be it not a
caste of the human race. I shall repeat myself, stop the private carrying
outs of foolish acts.
(A picture of the skies)
Kenshin: Et true? In mine absence hath so much affairs occurred.
Hira and Sato: We...
Kenshin: Let it rest! Thou mayst return. However, beset the knowledge upon
sir yourselves that thou hath ever been placed with this school before,
never again wave thy sword and disdain the worthy name of this school.
(there is a calm, but awkward silence)
Hira: ...
(the two boys start to leave)
Kaoru: Hira! That mark on thy shoulder must be given to a doctor for
consultation...
Hira: (smiling a little; knowing that forgiveness by Kaoru is not out of
reach yet) ...
(the two boys leave)
Kenshin: Conjour up the spirit, Kaoru!
(he puts a hand on her shoulder. Kaoru is weeping)
Kenshin: However surplus your mighty willing sincerity, however abound your
much required works, there still exists many unappreciative ones finally!
(Yahiko strolls casually in front of the duo)
Yahiko: Not a speckle of movement and one doth cries, how may I address this
matter in words! I myself am not willing to become like thou!
(Kaoru stops crying, looks at Yahiko)
Kaoru: !
Yahiko: My doings as a disciple, tells me that an instant transformation
from physical rags to riches shelves an obstacle, then let me hold my pride
to have your impartion in the meantime!
(Yahiko walks away leaving Kaoru and Kenshin in a daze)
Kenshin: However the matter... thou hast indeed found thy common dweller of
philosophies.
Kamiya Kasshin Dojo
Acting Master in-charge
Kamiya Kaoru
Clan disciples
Myoujin Yahiko
Others
Rurouni Himura Kenshin
Yahiko: There is no time left to drag and pull important matters! Kaoru! I
do not wish to waste time on becoming stronger!
Kaoru: Dare you mock my name by direct usage!
Meiji eleventh year's initial spring,
be it that small step,
however, just as a thousand-mile journey begins with the first step,
success' journey begins with the first initiative!
END TRANSLATION
(c) Nobuhiro Watsuki Translation: ruroken@geocities.com
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