Sengoku 31

[Reserved for Illuminati-Manga]

Pg 21
MH: Our Akechi Brigade can't afford to sacrifice anyone now... Will you allow me to use him as a decoy? Kinoshita-dono...
Txt: Akechi Juubei Mitsuhide

HY: Yeah
HY: Sengoku said he'd do it so it can't be helped
HY: Kinoshita Toukichirou Hideyoshi

Hori: Hehe
Kani: Haha
Txt: Hori Kyuutarou Hidemasa
Txt: Kani Saizou Yoshinaga

Hori: Heh..... we have no objections either...
Kani: Hah... If that shitty Sengoku is being stubborn, even we can't stop him...

MH: Then...
MH: We'll put the fate of the Kinoshita and Akechi Brigades in your hands, Sengoku Gonbei......

Pg 22
HY: From now, the Kinoshita-Akechi united forces shall use the sure-kill tactic "Killing Space" to intercept the attacks of the Asakura army!

Vol. 31 Killing Space

Pg 23
Txt: First Division of the pursuing Asakura Army, Yamasaki Yoshiie's Army
Yamasaki: The time has come—

Txt: Yamasaki Nagato-no-kami Yoshiie
YS: From our attacks by both day and night, enemy morale is at its nadir

YS: There is nothing more to fear!

YS: Crush the Oda rear guard in one blow!

Pg 24
?: Fire, fire!
?: Destroy the defenses!

?: Doraaaaa
?: As expected, there's no one
?: These boards are just decoration!

Pg 25
?: Listen!
?: It's a war drum! That's the enemy headquarters!
?: Anyway, there aren't any soldiers here!
?: Aim only at the headquarters! Everyone, charge!

?: There's the main camp!
?: Advance, advance! Everyone together! Charge!

Pg 26
?: Huh?

?: O—o
?: Ogre!?

Pg 27
?: Whaaaaaaaaat? No one is here? Just an ogre?!

Pg 28-9
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pg 30
?: Each and every one of the advance unit has been shot down!
?: Not even one is left, they've all been killed!

?: Could that have been the "Killing Space?"
?: That's the tactic of Akechi Juubei, who used to work for our Asakura clan!! But why is that method?!

?: Ergh...
?: His shooting made all the people watching, from Asakura Yoshikage-sama on down, be struck with wonder. Are you saying that shooting expert is in the rear guard?

Note: Shooting expert: According to the "Akechi Gunki" (Military Chronicles of the Akechi) When Akechi Mitsuhide was in the Asakura clan, he demonstrated his shooting in front of Asakura Yoshikage, and never missed a shot.

pg 31
HY: Wha....what power....
MH: Hah

Txt: If there is only one line of fire, the effectiveness of rifles is low... If you shoot from head on, only the soldiers in front will die.
Txt: But... If we use a decoy to make the enemy unit gather close together, then we can have two lines of fire, and they'll intersect at one spot.
Diagram: Killing space

MH: The crossing of the bullets is what makes it a "killing space."
MH: If someone steps into the place of intersection, it'll be the end of them. This way, we can make it to Kyoto.

pg 32
Txt: The same day, April 30th, Kyoto—Oda Nobunaga passes Kuchiki in Omi, and returns to Kyoto at the hour of the Boar (around 11:00 p.m.)

Box: Accompanying him were only about ten people----"Keijin-ki"
Txt: Oda Danjou-no-chuu Nobunaga

Note: Keijin-ki: The diary of the Kyoto court noble Naka-no-in Michikatsu

pg 33
Yoshiaki: Damn....
YA: He's returned alive from Kanegasaki? He's got the devil's own luck.
Txt: 15th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiaki
YA: I had been worried...
YA: You must have been under terrible strain during that journey...

Nobu: No
Nobu: It was easily done
Txt: You damn tanuki Yoshiaki.....I'll kill you....

pg 34
Txt: Then--- First year of Genki (1570), May. "The Asakura Army had triumphed over the Oda army, taking 1353 heads. Having meted out a stern punishment, they returned to their lands." "Asakura Shimatsu-ki"

Note: Asakura Shimatsu-ki: (Record of the Asakura, from beginning to end) A history of the Asakura clan, starting with its origin, until the time of its destruction. The author is unknown.

pg 35
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pg 36-7
Txt: I'm back.... Ochou

Box: 13th day of the Retreat, May 8th
The Kinoshita and Akechi Brigades reach Kyoto.
The Final distribution of the 3000 soldiers of the Kinoshita Brigade
Dead 1353 Deserters 1300
Safely returned 347
Here ends the "Retreat from Kanegasaki"

pg 38
Txt: Sakai Kyuuzou
Sakai: Wait...wait up....
Sakai: Up...until the end.... I want to walk back on my own...

SG: Don't over do it, Kyuuzou! I'll lend you my shoulder.

Sakai: Hey.... Brother Gon.... let's continue that talk we had...
SG: Wha? "Brother Gon?"

Sakai: I volunteer for this dangerous battle because I wanted to rebel against my old man.
SG: You said you hated him, yeah.

pg 39
Sakai: When I see my dad
Sakai: I think.... really, people change, that's how human beings are....

Sakai: You'll....understand someday...
Sakai: They get promoted... they're under more constraints....
Sakai: Human hearts end up changing, to good, to evil.... As our clan has gotten more powerful, my dad does only dirty stuff...

Sakai: But...
(cut and pasted panel: SG: Eat, Kyuuzou)
Sakai: Brother Gon.... don't ever change....

pg 40
SG: Really, what's this
SG: He ended up passing out...

Sakai: Be..become a general
Sakai: Become a general soon...
SG: Got it, got it

Txt: Brother Gon....Stay an idiot like you are now...
Txt: And become an idiot general....