Samurai Usagi 3

Samurai Usagi 03
Someone should have picked this series up long ago. It's pretty original.
The raw is found at the discussion thread

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Chapter 03: Gosuke, cogitates the way of Bushi!
Left Side Inserted Text: Aim for the happy life! Happiness should come if you leapt around accoding to your own will!

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Gocchin!
Text: She is calling Gosuke --> Gocchin!

G: What....What is it Shino?
Aside: you scared me...

S: Can I have some money? // I'll go buy some side dish for our lunch!

G: ...you just went a while ago, no?

S: Hmm, I'm sorry! // they are all bad now since I tripped!

G: Is...that so...

(Now for a Bushi usually he would hire a person or so // to do this sort of chores and errands, but...)

G: Be careful this time!

S: I got it!

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(Though I don't have the money...)

S: Eh? No, it's okay
It taste better if we made it ourselves!

(Shino did not wish for that either)
(How careless could a person be // to fall and break her mask so badly?)

G: hmmm...where was I... // "Thee shall find death as one aspect of Bushido" // huh, what does this mean...?

(I borrowed a mountain load of military books from the book rental. // to search about Bushido) [T/N Book Rental = Library. Thought Library was kinda modern]
(The reason was what happened this morning // when I headed toward my own dojo)

G: Oh...
Wow...
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(Maybe it was because of the advertisement we put on our masks... // there were unexpectedly large amount of applicants waiting for me)
(When I thought to shorten the introduction and head straight into the lesson)

G: I'm...uh...the instructor here at Usagi Style Sword Dojo...
My names is Udagawa Gosuke

(One of the applicant questioned me)
Applicant1: Hmm...would you excuse me for my question?
Since I've not decided to join just yet...

G: Sure, what is it?
APP1: I think everyone here cares about this as well, but... // could you tells us about your dojo's ideology?

G: Ide... Ideology?
What's that?
===Page 5===
(After making a fool out of me)
(He began to talk about the situation on today's dojos)
(Though intended for the joy of the Bushi)
(There are many of those who uses them as weapons in the middle of Edo)
(And so the competition between dojos for pupils became more fierce // The monthly tuition // books with descriptions of ultimate techniques // or rise in status
the dojos had to answer the pupils' various requests)
Man: we are really great!
(And they say the most important is the dojo's ideology)

G: Ehh...hmm... // I apologize, but...
I shall have you come tomorrow...

(That's because there are many who// wishes to learn how to live as a Bushi from the sword...)
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(o devote one's time into the sword without worry// I thought that was good enough)
(Looks it wouldn't be that way)

Mask: You who love the sword, gather here!
Arrow: here
G: Dammit...It's already written "You who love the sword"...
Does there have to be more in this...?
Sfx: turn
G: though it would do any good if no one even came...
What would World's best mean then...?
For someone like me, who is desperate just only to be "like" a bushi,
There’s no way that I would can teach others about // how to live as a Bushi

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(That’s why I’ve been reading through the books to find a fitting ideology of sort
Since the future of my dojo will be depending on it…)
About what is the “correct” thing do
I’ve no idea now.)

Sfx: clap clap!

G: It’s only nature…
But it doesn’t say anything to me…
Oh, right!
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Forearm!!
Ouch!
Damn it!!
Don’t get so irritated! // Shouldn’t I win once in a while?
No I don’t mean that! // Look at that guy over there
He’s glancing this way now and then
And he’s really distracting me
…Rabbit?

G: Ah…I see…

He’s really getting on my nerves now he seems to think no one has noticed him yet…
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Respect and Honor…indeed that’s one…

(After deciding that worry about it at home would do no good // I decided to inspect what the other dojos are doing)

He fled!
Hey he ran away!
(However whichever dojo I looked at…)
(It doesn’t look like the ideology was the main attraction for pupils…)
(Or maybe the ideology is decided randomly…)

Banners: Grasp Freedom!
Treasure the Nature
Along with Love and…

(There wasn’t even one of them that made think “this is it!”)

G: That geezer…
He opened another dojo…?

Umm, that’s good, ummm
Banner: The Sword shall never lie
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But…
With this much stuff…
Would there be any that would suit my dojo…
Maybe I should go home after eating another one…

G: Mister, will you give me another one with Mitarashi? [T/N A flavor basically made from soy sauce and sugar]
Alrighty
Ah… // Hey wha…
G: if there is no more Mitarashi then sesame flavored is fine…

There isn’t gonna be neither Mitarashi or sesame for you…
That appearance…a low ranking bushi… // what a shameful act to buy peasants’ snacks …
How deplorable!
Woooh!
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G: Wha…
What are you doing…?

What else could it be? // to buy these peasants’ snacks isn’t what a Bushi should be doing!
And I’m telling you to take that responsibility!
Because there are people like you
The rank of Bushi is deteriorating!
Hmm!
OH!
…damn…
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You…bastard!
Die!
Yaaa!
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G: That was a tight spot…
Though there was only two… // their strength is incomparable to those from that geezer’s dojo…
They are wearing the same coat…
But this mark is of the…

Wh…What is that?
Are they not Naosuke and Hanshiro?
Hmm…it looks this incident… has something to do with you
We shall have you come with us
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Koubu Manor
There’s no one Samurai of the government who does not know of it…
It’s the sword training center sponsored by the Bakufu itself.

Partly as the result of hard practice
Their ability and strength are the best in Edo

And because of that, there are countless applicants knocking on their doors
Though I followed them after realizing that there’s no escape
It doesn’t look like they will let me go so easily…
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Edo Bakufu County Lord[T/N Ometsuki-yaku]
Koubu Manor Instructor
Kiyoki Seizaemon
I see… // I got the general idea..
Udagawa Gosuke-dono…am I right?
G: Ye…Yes…
This incident…
I shall overlook it…you go now…

What…Why, master? // this man’s action…was it not indeed the shame of a Bushi…?
No…this is negligible.. .
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Not when compared to the fact the pupils of Koubu Manor lost
In a 2-on-1 against such a low ranked Bushi like him!

I’m sure you have not forgotten
The ideology for Koubu Manor…
No…we did not…
“Thee shall find // death as one aspect of Bushido…”

That’s right…
For us Bushi there’s something far more important than life itself
Understood?
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(This was what people call “the revelation”… // I didn’t understand the phrase when I read it in the book, but
I thought the core of the Bushi is all centered around this phrase…)

Forget about that now // start your training
Kiyoki-Dono!
What is it Udagawa-dono?
I’m deeply moved by Koufu Manor’s ideology! // It means …to bet your life on your sword,
And train your mind and body, isn’t that so?

Looks like you had it wrong, Udagawa-dono.
How about it? For now, as part of your training to be a Bushi…
Come with us to our Patrol?
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Uh…hmm…Kiyoki-dono…
That patrol thing… what exactly is it…
Well…it’s a unique practice of our dojo…
If one is born in the family of a Bushi
In order to become the example for the peasants and merchants
One must not take any shameful actions
However, to my grief there are many who does // We walk around the city during the morning, the day, and the night in search for these people
And correct them
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You…You are going to remove…
These sort of Samurai with your sword?

That’s right // there’s no need for those shameless individuals to live
However, // it’s not only the Samurais…

It was probably during the noon patrol… // there was a woman with rabbit masks from a Bushi family doing shopping
That sort of dirty errand, // a Bushi should’ve sent a servant of sort
It’s all such a shame…
Though I carelessly failed to cut her

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Wha…
How rude!
You bastard, what are you planning?

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A….A duel…
I wish for a duel…with you

You don’t even know your own standing
You are a low rank bushi after all
Ughh!

Take care of him everyone
Until he calms down [T/N Subject not specified. Could be “Until you feel like stopping”]
G: Wa…Wait!!
How could you
The instructor…
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Several Days after
The two samurais who lost to me
Cut their own guts to keep their honor
“Thee shall find
Death as an aspect of Bushido,” huh…

It’s about reputation and honor…I’m tired of it
If we ever cared about such things // Shino as well as myself
Will never live happily
I shall show you…
What I decided as …
My own Bushido
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I will change it
In my Usagi Dojo
The least of all to a world where
You can eat tasty foods all you want

First of all…
The objective of this Usagi Dojo is…
To surpass Koubu Manor
As a splendid dojo!
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So ambitious…
Can I keep up with it…?
Hmm

Instructor Udagawa
The essential ideology is…
All right!

Ehhh…For my Usagi Dojo,
There’s no ideology!
To enjoy using the sword as one wish
And head toward the goal one has decided for oneself is good enough!

G: Huh? What’s with that look?
It isn’t that troublesome to think of it by yourself!
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I did not intend it to be a requirement of any sort // but it turned out that way anyways

Is he stupid?

If we can decide on such thing so easily // we won’t be coming to such place!

(And all that remained…
Are only these three…)

[insert Text: ] All in all, he acquired the pupils! Though it looks like there’s gonna be trouble ahead…

(This is exactly the “few chosen elites”)
(Or so I hoped…)