* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Chapter hundred and forty: A fate unfulfilled *
Shishio: Umm... ? A defeated personnel, what business do you have here?
(Aoshi remains silently holding his two kodachis)
Hoji: ... defeated personnel, of course, Shishio-sama did not err.
Shinomori Aoshi, before so you lay defeated under Himura's feet, still not
a defeated personnel? This stage you do not deserve, stand out for results
in await!!
Aoshi: (nears Shishio) Hoji, that would be correct, the truth be the truth,
a defeated personnel cannot refuse that fact.
Shishio: By right this battle with a beaten soldier be avoided, however
Battousai had previously claimed unwanted injuries, to refuse him full
force, and that too an irrefusable fact. Thereby, you wish to replenish him
for that bit he had lacked?
Hoji: Jokes!! Battousai's full form in perfect glory differs poles from
Shishio-sama's strengths, the ending would still be so and unchangable!
Shishio: Enough, Hoji.
Hoji: Shishio-sama!
Shishio: (to Aoshi) From long till now a battle from myself craves after
the tally of the strongest without foe. To square all back to one yet
again, Himura and staff hath all face fell, and I am the strongest, do not
tell me you wish to fall in the face of the Oniwabanshuu's graves, in the
face of your companions?
(Aoshi starts his Kaitenkenbu smooth water flow movements)
Shishio: A crack determined in the same caste, is't... come on! The
retarded movements of such! All too clear to see!
(blocks Aoshi's Kodachi two swords flow)
Hoji: Praiseworthy! Shishio-sama's furious attack leaves no room for
Aoshi's Kodachi two swords flow to complete, a straight face fall
situation!!
(Shishio attacks. Aoshi jumps to borrow the ceiling. Lands behind Shishio)
Yumi: Behind you!
(no movements)
Shishio: What is't? The opponent pursues, who now faces you from the back,
what is with standing? A opportunity unable to be grasped again for
victory... still? Art thou too poverished to attack?
(Aoshi moves)
Yumi: This fatality!!
Aoshi: Oniwabanshuu patterned Kodachi two swords flow, Kaitenkenbu, Loku
Len!
Shishio: Too slow!!
(grabs Aoshi's right wrist)
Aoshi: Wo... ah... !
Shishio: Kaitenkenbu, Loku Len, a movement required of ambidextious flows
of six differing attacks' kenjutsu, which is useless of now. To compare the
Ama Kakeru Ryuu No Hirameki, your charges do not match up much, which to
truth, all you are preserving now are the 'time-delaying' ways is't!
(Aoshi gets hit, kneels on the ground)
Shishio: How pathetic, one who had the hearts of a demon raiser and beyond,
should resort to practicing deeds of delaying. How long more would this
delay last, wouldst Battousai gather his feet again you tell? Shinomori
Aoshi, your sole existence in correspondance to Battousai, be that both do
pull thy swords in the sake of he's and her's. To pickle between 'black' or
'white', the finality you take 'white', whilst I myself to be placed
predicamently similar detests the slightest bit of hesitation for 'black'.
To such, your life, like Battousai, has relinquished.
Aoshi: Battousai and I belongs of similar caste, of ordinary kenkakus...
You and I be still weak I do consider...
(Kenshin stands up suddenly, his eyes still white and without irises)
Hoji: (pointing at Kenshin's white eyeballs) Worry, fret not, Shishio-sama,
Himura is still in his realm of subconsciousness!! Send him the killer's
blow quickly, and deliver the country into our hands!!
(Kenshin regains conscious in the split second you take to turn the page
and shoots his glare at Hoji, who is forced up the wall to the ground)
Aoshi: Battle of now, whoever gains the upper hand, the fate of life still
do not break!!
(Sano, Saitou both stands up)
Shishio: Final match, round two, fight...
END TRANSLATION
(c) Nobuhiro Watsuki Translation: ruroken@geocities.com
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