* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Volume 10: Invincible sword's master and disciple *
* Chapter eighty-four: Invincible sword's master and disciple *
(a wooden hut stands within the trees. The exterior of it looks normal.
Inside lays shelve after shelve of pottery lined all over the walls)
Hiko: Excellent... (he sits down very hard) The thoughts do not even
present, thou still has thy face of return in front of me? Which business of
such doth requies me?
(Kenshin looks around at the surroundings)
Kenshin: A stir within the pottery business hath been achieved by the
newcomer such of thou. Wherefore hast thou melted into the clay moulding
business?
(Hiko stares)
Hiko: (closes his eyes) Whether be't or not a clay moulder or so, care do
not dwell. The only snap, that a full disruption from the roots of
frustration i'th' strife-ridden world and the total discarding for which,
'twould be the doubled lubricated decision. How more simple could words get,
shallow could meanings fill! Ay!
(he brings his right hand to lightly touch his fringe, striking 'that pose')
Hiko: The genuine genius brings light and glory in whichever matter one
does!
Kenshin: *The confidence in over-balance, this half vice hath never been
straightened in him...* (he snaps as Hiko continues)
Hiko: The sought subject hath blown far away. Of a certain matter which so
troubles thy tongue hath thou required of me?
(he smiles a knowing smile)
Hiko: I wouldst be the master of so! To wallow through the transparency of
thou patch disciple shall not be any greatly slowed.
Kenshin: ...
(he lifts the cloth on his right knee)
Kenshin: ... then may this unworthy one state his claim!
(he kneels in front of Hiko one-legged and bows his head deeply)
Kenshin: The pass of 15 years, the "Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu Succession
Technique" which Master thou hath not given this one knowledge of -
(Hiko stares emotionlessly)
Kenshin: - prithee impart the set to this one now!
(Hiko continues staring. Then he closes his eyes)
Hiko: By no means!
(he stands up to leave)
Hiko: Thou wouldst be the one to do the initial refusing when I offered,
wherefore the requiring of me here now?
(Kenshin, still kneeling, grabs a patch of Hiko's cloak. Hiko turns around)
Kenshin: ... Master, prithee please...
Hiko: (smiling) ... We do see, thou must have met up with an unresolvable
frustration!
(the smoke churns out of the chimney)
Hiko: Be't! Thou mayst mention and I shall see.
(In another part of the forest)
Yahiko: Woah! The sun hath descended. The route hath to be hurried.
Misao: (holding a notebook) Ay!
Kaoru: Well...
Misao: By mention merely of Okina's supplied force, the destination indeed
mayst be in arrival.
(Flashback at Okina's teahouse)
Misao: ParDON! That fellow Himura hath left the hot spot?
Okina: Ay. And these 2 be?
Misao: Huh? Acquaintances of Himura's, who hath routed a way from Tokyo for
a glimpse of he mentioned.
(Okina snaps and places his hands on Kaoru's shoulders)
Okina: Thou wouldst know that Himura's fresh struggle against which decides
which flow of History Japan drifts towards? Then therefore, should the
immature cherishes...
Kaoru: Huh...
Misao: I hath inquired of her already!
(she puts her arms akimbo)
Misao: Kaoru too hath firmly hardened her stand! So too hasten in the
information delivery of his whereabouts!
(Okina turns to look at Misao and turns back to Kaoru as she bows)
Kaoru: All of which I refer to thee... (she grasps her kimono tighter. Okina
lets out a puff of air in let up)
Okina: Be't! You people wouldst have to caution thyself...
(End flashback as Misao flips the papers)
Misao: He who Himura wishes to seek out surfaces the honest outlook of a
newcomer well famed in the pottery business, however, the surface be the
surface after all! Deep within that oiled float, would be the underneathe of
a thick watered truth, the powerful kenkaku 'Hiko Seijuro', as well as the
master of Himura.
Yahiko: An oiled float?
Kaoru: As a normal band of procedure, a person would grease the watered
truths of their names to deceive the knowledge of others regarding their
true identities.
(Misao turns around to look at them)
Misao: However so, 'Hiko Seijuro' wouldst be the orginal ancestor namecode
of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu's pioneered originator, only he who hast
mastered the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu Succession Technique qualifies to apply
this layer of oil.
Yahiko: Oh... (he snaps) That too would mean...
(he lock palms with Misao)
Yahiko: Wait one while! Then 'twould forward the meaning of -
Misao: (opening her mouth really big) Right! Forward the meaning of that
Himura hath not yet graduated! He wishes to bring up the matter of that
which he has not learned in the past, to beg his master to re-impart all
those knowledge to him once more!
(Yahiko opens his mouth equally big)
Yahiko: Also in the other aspect, that when Kenshin hath mastered all those,
he would indeed be even better than his powress now?
(they lock the back of their palms)
Yahiko: Woweeohwhy! 'Tis really the fact that his strength do not belong to
a human's!
Misao: Ay! He wouldst be a monster hybird!
Kaoru: *The need do not exist to have description of such does it!*
(she touches her hair in the pale moonlight)
Kaoru: *To be stronger than current, indeed a kenkaku looks forward to all
these.*
(picture of the black starry sky)
Kaoru: *However...*
(back at the wooden house, Hiko pours out a cup of sake)
Hiko: Ay... so it is so.
(he drinks)
Hiko: Thy figure Shishio Makoto, hath drew the blueprint to clamp the entire
Japan down in his palms, whilst thou wouldst be slowly yet surely regaining
the Hitokiri Battousai status.
(Kenshin, seated opposite him, stares in apt attention as his Master
continues to lecture him)
Hiko: To disavail the possibility of a Battousai revert, and to make fully
avail the possibility of defeating Shishio, thou wouldst have to be better
than now is.
(he closes his eyes)
Hiko: This wouldst be known as "He who treads on both boats is, shall be
fallen to the seas"!
Kenshin: Master!
(Hiko places his cup on the floor)
Hiko: I hath but not earlier briefed thou upon...
(Kenshin eyes widen in acknowledgement)
Hiko: (looking very fierce) A sword is a weapon, kenjutsu is a killing
skill. No matter how you try to cover it up, or how high and almighty, how
earnest and dynamic that ideal your excuse carves, that, is the truth!
(Kenshin goes into shadows as he continues to listen)
Hiko: A wish to fulfill the unbelievable dream of ideals, yet the difficulty
of current needs to be abolished, thou really believes thou wouldst be the
beautiful lead of a fairy-tale storybook?
Hiko and Kenshin: ...
(Kenshin bows his head and looks down on the floor)
Hiko: By seeing the looks, fifteen years ago...
(picture of waterfall. Little Kenshin follows Hiko to the edge of a cliff)
Hiko: (voice over) ... the devotion of thyself into the turmoils of the
painful Bakumatsu chaos, proves indefinitely to be a vitally fatal decision-
(begin flashback)
Hiko: No permission!
Kenshin: Master!
Hiko: Do not bother with the atrocities of worldly affairs, stay and
practice thy kenjutsu properly here for me!
Kenshin: But, many much innocents hath been entangled in this messy web of
destruction and been done away with their breath! Do not the Hiten Mitsurugi
Ryuu fervently place our beliefs in the wrenching of innocents from the
terrible hands of destruction? If it does not happen now when wouldst it
happen then!
(Kenshin bends forward and shouts)
Kenshin: MASTER!
Hiko: If thou insists on going forth, defeat thy Master here first!
(Kenshin whacks Hiko with his sword and sheath on the head)
Hiko: (rubbing a bump on his head) Darnation! Thou truly does the action for
me!
Kenshin: Thou hast earned it by that mule pig-headed stubborness of not
allowing a strand of human compassion!
Hiko: Thou doth not grasp the meaning! The Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu is the
mightiest Ryuu of all, they who hath the assistance of us shall be the
definite winner! Just like the 'dark boat on the road'!
(he points at Kenshin)
Hiko: Doth thou understand? Meaning to say...
Kenshin: (clenching his fist) I do not relish this one bit!
(starts shouting again)
Kenshin: How many people eats the fruit of bitter endowment and the does the
labour of a homeless soul? Whatever the meaning to relish, I canst but sit
and stare on with mine uselessly widened eyes!
(end flashback as the scene shifts to the shelves in Hiko's house again)
Hiko: The conclusion the quarrel of a day and a night was your frustrated
exit.
(he brings a finger to point at Kenshin)
Hiko: And this wouldst be...
(Kenshin stares in anticipation)
Hiko: ... thy eventual consequence. Thy kenjutsu indeed be the creme de la
creme, however at then there thou art still an emotionally and situationally
pure's fifteen year old little greenhorn. Thereafter, the constructive
injury never to be lightened marked gravely unto thy left cheek and inner
souled heart, and began the life of a to-kill-or-not-to kenkaku...
(Hiko stares fiercely without removing his pointing finger)
Hiko: ... eventually awakening Shishio Makoto - a shattered lost of the lost
era Bakumatsu.
(Kenshin stares in half acknowledgement, attentively paying respectful
attention)
Hiko: All of the shishis thou places the extreme trust in hath indeed ended
the violence and built this Meiji government. However, to veil up their
popular hating past, they too began with the sending of all known persons,
subjects and facts circulated into the darkness.
(a picture of Shishio and his Juppongatana)
Hiko: (voice over) They hath awakened from the sunset death the likes of a
Bakumatsu lost and wrecked soul Shishio Makoto, allowing them the chance of
once again renewing the living Sheols in people's hearts and sending them
there once more.
(lowering his hands but still staring at Kenshin)
Hiko: Then if we do state once again, thou hath utilized thy Hiten Mitsurugi
Ryuu to play a part in this awakening of the lost.
(Kenshin silently accepts the truth behind Hiko's words. Hiko suddenly slams
his hand on the floor and gets up a little)
Hiko: Thy words hath but erred! To wrench the innocents away from the
terrible hands of destruction, THAT, is what the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu indeed
fervently place our beliefs upon! But that would have to be done through our
Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu not being attached to any authority powers, any
organized clan, as a free swordsplay of mentioned that wouldst be achieved!
(his cup has been smashed by the force of his slam)
Hiko: Not as a freedom swordsplay's Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu, will eventually
come to lose it's original beauty! One generation by one the imparting at
Edo hath come to mobilize the name of 'Hiko Seijuro', to fully back the
reason that the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu wouldst not come to be a dog under any
more superior authority!
(Hiko's eyes gleam with finality)
Hiko: Do we even think that thou doth not even understand this point, then
too the imparting of the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu's final Succession Techinique
belongs not to thee.
(Yahiko, Misao and Kaoru arrive just outside the door of where Kenshin and
Hiko are seated)
Misao: 'Twould be here!
(Kaoru grabs her kimono tighter in suspense)
Misao: Then we shall move...
Hiko: The fear...
(Misao stops)
Hiko: ... that the decision then to impart the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu to thou
wouldst hath been the fatality already.
(Misao and Yahiko snaps)
Misao and Yahiko: !!
(and both barge into the room without knocking)
Misao and Yahiko: And what did you mean by the previous sentence!
(Hiko looks at the newcomers with knitted brows and lets out a huff of air)
Hiko: What is't? Who mayst thou all be?
Kenshin: (turning around) Misao-dono, Yahiko... (he pauses for a while)
(Kaoru stands framed by the door, afraid to step in or just paralyzed by
seeing Kenshin one more time)
Kenshin: Kaoru-dono...
(Kaoru blushes at hearing her name being called by Kenshin again while the
stars sparkle for the reunion of a lost and confused pair)
END TRANSLATION
(c) Nobuhiro Watsuki Translation: ruroken@geocities.com
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