* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Volume two: Hitokiri vs. Hitokiri *
* Chapter ten: One-sided heart *
Kaoru: ... *breathes* ... (sits upright from bed) *Sleep crept away... What
can the matter be? The air of uncertainty always tingles.*
(Yahiko is fast asleep. She opens the bedroom door and stares at the moon)
Kaoru: Kenshin would be there so my heart shouldst be at rest... that
besides the point, Sanosuke is with him... The matter is not great...
Kenshin- ...
(Black hat of rushes stands at the window sill. He starts counting)
Black hat: 1... 2... 3... ... Only 14 to 15! Far demoting my thinking
abilities.
Sano: He must be that Black hat guy? His looks does petrify a soul.
Kenshin: Lend thy ears, Sano! This mister is in this lowly one's department,
please do then protect Tani-san.
Tani: What do thou think you are doing! Up! Up along!
(Kenshin and Sano snaps a little)
Tani: I hath rewarded you greatly for the purpose of this deed! I didst not
pay you to be watching ducks! He who haths his head, five times the reward
promised! And a official post is not without reach!
Men: Five times!
Men: Official post!
(all start charging)
Men: Too good! The post ties with my belt!
Men: No! I shall reap it!
Sano: Thou art all blocking eggs! To settle for personal desires with a
personal life!
Black hat: Ho - ho ha ha- (starts attacking those who come) HO HA HA HA!
(jumping into the room)
Black Hat: He - This feeling surpasses all other pleasanties!
Sano: *Too fast! Although the steps did not fly, the horrible blade hath
already pioneered the movement, of total similarity to Kenshin!* (aloud)
Retreat! A pawn canst but deal with the crown!
Men: Wa - ah ah...
Black Hat: Don't even think about it! (flashes his eyes)
Men: !?
Tani: What... what is the matter here? !
Chief: ! Body seems to hath been enclosed!
Men: !
Black Hat: Wherein the possibility of escape in you, once the sword hath
been unsheathed, the battle of life and death ensues, or then there is no
pleasure in the duel!
Men: Wa ah ah!
Men: Ah... ah...
Sano: (barely able to move but trying very hard towards Black Hat) Thou
custard egg... which form of witchery hath you employed! The body has
heavied by much!
Black Hat: Wo... with my 'one-sided heart' thou still walks... thou art a
tad different from the little mice there!
Sano: ! *One-sided heart!*
Kenshin: Nikaidou Heibou "One-sided Heart", with also the name of 'the art
of shrinking', the thought finds it hard to swallow thou really art Black
Hat!
Black hat: !
(Kenshin jumps from behind Sano and has a one stroke meet with Black Hat. He
skids to a stop with his left upper arm a slight cut)
Chief: Himura!
Kenshin: In the Bakumatsu era, the hearsay of him hath indeed flowed into
these unworthy ears. He pledged no alligence to any party, and money alone
wouldst move his sword, and fore moved the world with the highest strand of
'Nikaidou Heibou'!
* Footnote reads: Nikaidou Heibou - the sword being in characters 'one',
'eight', 'ten' for the basic formation. While these three words congregate
to form a similar 'hei' word therefore the term 'heibou'. However, the
scariest and mightiest of it all would be the 'one-sided heart' known only
by the masters.
* Another footnoe reads: One-sided heart - a flow of air that shoots from
one's eyes into the opponent's, and the latter would be entrapped with
immobility immediately, a secret move of a secret skill. However, no one
hath passed down this skill to any later generation. Therefore in our modern
concept, it should be known as 'instant hypnotize'.
Kenshin: One-sided heart... thou utilizes the movement to utilize the
opponent, (Black hat's hat cracks in the middle) for he who hath lost the
will to battle, lose his freedom of movement then send him the fatal stroke,
thou art practicing the most despicable flow art thou not!
(close of Kenshin's narrowed eyes)
Kenshin: Ronin Hitokiri - Udou Jin eh!
(Jin eh's hat breaks into half as he turns around)
Jin eh: I hath contacted the flow of your legacy! Choshuhan's Ishinshishi,
a disciple of an ancient kenjutsu 'Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu', a very big cross
scar on your left cheek.
(stares very hard)
Jin eh: Known to all as Himura Hitokiri Battousai!
Kenshin: !! (realizes Jin eh has conjoured his skills on him)
Chief: Himura!
Kenshin: Heeee ah!! (and moves again)
Chief: !!
Kenshin: 'One-sided heart' paints the appearance of witchery, so the secret
actually sits within the air of which surrounds both parties. So long as
thou art attaining the similar level of 'kenqi' with this useless one here,
the influence reduces down to zero.
(they stand facing each other)
Kenshin: Please release the hands of duties, Jin eh! Or shall this lowly one
really hath to gather up thy remains!
Jin eh: A opponent like Battousai, I wouldst have nothing else to yearn for!
However... (staring at Tani)
Tani: Ah!
Kenshin: !
Jin eh: I myself will fulfill my task in sending this fellow to his eternal
rest! (he charges)
Tani: WA AH AH - !
Kenshin: *Oh no no!* Tani-san! Break free! Snap out! Concentrate on
gathering your 'kenqi'!
Jin eh: Vanity! I wouldst dare not say if't were you, however this fat 'o
pig shall never be able to do a percentage! (his sword almost reaches)
Bakumatsu saw your entrance with wads of cash searching the area for
killers, now that 'tis Meiji, the banner of 'no killing' hangs around the
legal edict! Thou one who thinks of all, does of all, Ishin roasted mountain
pig boar!
Sano: WO! HEEE AH!
Jin eh: !
Kenshin: Sanosuke!
(Sano jumps to grab a statue behind Tani)
Sano: The checkmate of you... (slams the statue into the space between Jin
eh and Tani) ... hath scheduled a time too early! How about it!
Jin eh: Ho ha ha!
Sano: !
(Jin eh's sword has gone through Sano's right wrist)
Sano: ARGH!
Jin eh: Ho ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
(Kenshin looks very shocked. Then he gets very agitated)
Kenshin: (full speed charging) JIN EEEEEEEEEEH - !!!
Jin eh: (snapping) Ho ha ha ha ha ha ha! (pulls another blade out)
(they engage. Kenshin rebounds and disappears)
Jin eh: !?
(Kenshin lends the support of the ceiling to jump and strike Jin eh's face.
They separate)
Tani: !
Men: The body hath been unchained!
(Jin eh bounces to the window sill in three)
Jin eh: Ho ha ha - interesting! The most of which since Bakumatsu!
(Kenshin stares calmly)
Jin eh: (pointing at Kenshin) My target hath shifted, the next dart shall
be thrown - at you! Ishinshishi - Hitokiri Battousai!
(flies out of the window)
Jin eh: I shall reappear before your eyes in a near future! Before I do, you
had better be off with that useless sakabatou, get a prim and proper one to
await my arrival!
Kenshin: Thou art all right? Sanosuke! (he starts to sheath his sword)
Sano: Ho! This little scratch matters not greatly!
Chief: Himura!
Kenshin: Chief, prithee ship the injured parties for treatment, rescue
should not be without reach.
Chief: Ah... good! However, Himura! This matter of now... hath plastered you
to that demon instead...
Kenshin: (sword fully sheathed) Please do not mind. This way, will not the
matter of which be not good.
Sano: Kenshin... canst it be that you hath predicted the outcome of this
duel before't all, therefore accepting the request of this time?
Kenshin: ... This undeservingly one would more than wish for the settled
matter present itself now, however the simplicity of the matter would not
breed so!
(Jin eh running off in the darkness)
Kenshin: Udou Jin eh - ... shalleth be the most honorable villain to hath
yet showed up -
END TRANSLATION
(c) Nobuhiro Watsuki Translation: ruroken@geocities.com
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