* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Volume two: Hitokiri vs. Hitokiri *
* Chapter fifteen: Mysterious lady *
- At the Kamiya Kasshin Dojo -
Kaoru: Kenshin - !
- at the well for washing clothes -
Kaoru: Where art thou?
- at Kenshin's room -
Kaoru: Hey! Come out soon! (knocks fervently on the door) Kenshin - ?
...This is strange? What matter 'tis? He canst but be found anywhere... *do
not tell me that he...*
Yahiko: A search with Kenshin in mind? Sanosuke did come earlier to bring
him away!
Kaoru: !
(looks at Yahiko)
Kaoru: Thou speakst the truth?
Yahiko: What may you do if I do not! You should choose to disbelieve!
Kaoru: Then the matter is good! Methought he had returned to the rurouni's
path! 'Tis such a close brush!
Yahiko: Worry is clung onto you in every second of every minute, really you
are the master of anxiety. I say you would be best chaining Kenshin up with
the mentioned!
(Kaoru thinks of what it would be like)
(A picture of Kaoru and Kenshin with a chain on his neck)
*Mistress Kaoru and her pet Kenshin!*
Kaoru: Disgusting!
Yahiko: Do not utter 'disgusting'! *How dare she even take it seriously!*
Kaoru: Hey! Where exactly do Kenshin land his footing?
Yahiko: It seems to be this restaurant Shuueiya! The hearsay wouldst be that
the gambling den in't would be declared today.
Kaoru: Gam - Gambling den - !
(a cup is slammed onto the table)
Dealer: Cometh! Cometh! Lay thy bets and leave thy hands! Odd or even!
Sano: (amidst people shouting 'odd' and 'even') What is't?
Kenshin: Five - six odd!
Dealer: Reveal! Five - six odd!
Sano: The Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu deserves it's fame! The eye power really sees
through it all!
Kenshin: (lets out a huff of air in unhappiness) Thou hath acquired mine
unworthy presence with the allegation of matters of utmost importance. Sano,
gambling dens do not comply with the laws!
Sano: What you say what! Your sakabatou is truly the law-defying! Defying of
the sword-abolishing edict.
Kenshin: (as he sinks in a sky of stars) Is't so?
Sano: Do not fret! The people of here belongs to our same swimming gang.
One man to the other: How about't tonight? (the other man shakes his hand)
Sano: There wouldst be no earning money through underhand methods in this
den of ours, we art only playing the fool and acting the goat with one
another!
(a bunch of men eating fishballs)
Sano: However, (turns to look at Kenshin) thou art really disastrous! You
may do many things, but can you not make each and every one of them bear the
mark of righteousness and honesty? Relax as you may in the life of your own,
or you can claim nothing but bore out of't. Since you do not patronize all
the time, let down thy hair and throw out thy troubles! Laugh big for which
even of today!
Kenshin: ... Kaoru-dono hath briefly highlighted the matter of Jin eh?
Sano: Pardon me? I do not care or know! (grabbing Kenshin by the neck) Do
not mention those things! Cometh, Odd or even?
Kenshin: (resignedly) ... Even. 1-1 even!
Dealer: Good! 1-1 even!
(picture of skies)
Man: Do not run!
(a lady is running away from a man)
Man: Stand there for me, thou wretched slut!
(another man stands in her way)
Man2: Apologies, but you hath no retreat route!
Lady: !!
Man: Thou wretched slut, you can really sprint when the matters demand!
Man2: Didst thou really feel that escape 'twere possible? He!
(lady runs backwards into the house behind)
Man2: What - still has feet for run!
Man: Pursue!
Man2: Your escape cannot be reality!
Man: Do not run, Megumi!
Dealer: Still 1-1 even! Good - good!
Friend: Sanosuke, your hands are smoothly rolling today!
Friend2: Since we hath but met lately, wouldst thou not leave a escape route
for us!
Sano: (mouth taking up half his face) Do not kid me! I hath lit up mine
fortune candle today, and to reap all which I hath not sowed! Come to thy
senses, you all there!
Kenshin: Sano...
Sano: By near! That sweet seller Yoita hath not been patronizing today? Was
not he the most addicted gambler amongst us?
Friend: Didst the news not reach you? Sanosuke.
Sano: Ho?
Friend: Yoita met his maker early this month.
Sano: Thoy sayeth WHAT! Met his maker? Through illness? Or unpreventable
accidents?
Friend: Opium! A over dosage of opium due to his carelessness!
* Footnote reads: Opium
Using the poppy plant to fetch the pieces (like those you see in cigarettes)
and after washing and conditioning to form into a quite ancient drug
product. The addictive power is very strong, like coffee. At those times,
it's powers could destroy an entire country, therefore there were restricted
import of it.
Sano: Silly! Wherefore hath he hooked the matter of opium...
Kenshin: The matter do not stop in such simplicity. Opium wouldst be an
expensive product, the normal band of people wouldst but be able to foot the
amount of so many...
(footsteps are heard)
Friends: Eh? What is the matter?
(the door slides open)
Friends: (a very big) !?
Megumi: (huffing and puffing madly)
Sano: What is thy matter?
Kenshin: Oro!
(Megumi notices Kenshin's sword)
Megumi: (as she throws herself towards Kenshin) Please rescue me!
Kenshin: ORO?
Megumi: There are people pursuing me, prithee please PLEASE rescue me!
Kenshin: Ah... thou words art this way however...
Man2: Megumi! Thou wretched slut!
Man: No other way hath opened for you!
Sano: Previously one, currently, a pair... what do you think the achievement
of it be!
Man: Cut the unworthied! Step to that side for me! Hand thy woman over!
Or... (notices something)
(Sano sends him an uppercut)
Man: Wah ah!
Man2: Wah!
Sano: My mood hath murked today. Notice, therefore, the way you address your
words!
Man2: (trembling in fear) Thou foolish egg! Didst thou really predict the
weather fine after even doing this? We art the men of Takeda Kanryuu's
private army! Sword against us, means sword against Kanryuu-san! Doth thou
realize!
Sano: (stepping his head) You hath been forewarned to shut thy trap, do you
not understand! Thou lily-livered patch!
Friend3: Kanryuu...
Friend4: The matter do not glow now.
Friend5: 'Takeda Kanryuu' et he... ?
Kenshin: 'Takeda Kanryuu'? Which gentlemen begets the name?
Sano: He wouldst be a rich and young enterpriser. Or at least on the flesh.
But underneath the layers, we know not wherefore he strike gold over these
few years; and so rapidly, even organizing private armies, a very suspicious
fellow. Townsfolk, be it politicians or swimming gangsters, all wish to
avoid direct head-on conflict with him. If they be Kanryuu's private army,
thou art Kanryuu's mistress then?
Megumi: Nay! I do not figure out what can be going on! Neither do I
recognize the name whoever of Kanryuu...
Beshimi: End your lies, Takani Megumi!
Megumi: !
Beshimi: Heh heh heh!
Friends: Ah... when did he announce his entrance...
Kenshin: ... (notices a tile of the room had been removed)
Beshimi: Do not wishfully imagine that two guards would prove your perfect
opportunity to escape, the truth belies that your every move hath been under
survelliance. Sleep, shower... in the lavatory...
Megumi: (as she touches her hair) Huh! But I did not lie when I disabled the
fiendish fact that I was not Kanryuu's mistress! Return and tell Kanryuu,
that I would, and I COULD escape from his devillish hands!
Beshimi: Ho ho ho - How adorable! Especially the expression of 'I can
definitely escape'... ! (flips two thingumajigs at her)
(two guys on both sides of her goes down)
Friend: Wah!
Friend2: Woah!
Sano: Tomo! Genji!
Beshimi: Rasenbyou! The next to go shall be your legs, and I say you take it
as the lesson learnt for this story. (he shoots)
Megumi: !
(Kenshin is in front of her in a flash. He slams his left hand on the tatami
mat which flies up and makes the two darts get stuck there)
Beshimi: !! *The tatami mat hath actually been severed by him!*
Kenshin: This ill-informed one hath no knowledge of the comings and goings
of the matter thou hath mentioned, however, when the intention thuo hath
made known wouldst be to kill or to hurt, I shall not sit and bag it all in
sight.
Beshimi: (sweating like crazy) Do not be so puffed up! How dare thou even
use the tatami mat as a shield for mine Rasenbyou - !
Sano: (charging) Thou dastardic custard egg! How dare you mutilate mine own
friends!
Megumi: (peeping over the mat she holds in her hands as Kenshin flies over)
Ah!
Beshimi: (looking at two people charing from both sides) Oro? Ah? EH?
(he gets a sword blow on his left cheek and a fist on his right; ending up
lying on the floor with a puff of smoke)
Friends: The matter hath blown dead... three of Kanryuu's private army men
gone in a flash...
Megumi: Thou art so precious and great! Especially Mister Swordsman over
there, so brave and matchless yet... How about't? Shall you assist mine
escape from that Kanryuu, my little gang? I shall not leave you out of any
and all! How?
Sano: Before we chat about those things, first reveal all speckles of
details to us.
Megumi: Oro?
Sano: Mine two fellows hath gone down stranded in injury out of the bluest
blue! Thou had better flash all the details under mine eyes! (grabbing her
hand)
Megumi: 'Tis painful! Painful! Do not clutch me so forcefully! (pulls her
hand away as little packets of thingies fall out) Ah!
Kenshin and Sano: (snapping)
Kenshin: ... (as he picks up one of the packet) Doth thy 'any and all'
groups with opium?
Sano: !!
Megumi: ...
END TRANSLATION
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