Chidaruma Kenpou: Onorera ni Tsugu 1

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CHIDARUMA KENPOU: ONORERA NI TSUGU
Bloody Daruma Swordsmanship: Heed My Words

(tl note: A daruma is a typically round red doll depicting a bearded man with no arms and no legs, based on Bodhidarhma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.)

tl by molokidan

04)
1: Kanei 9 (1632)
2: Ninth Year of the Sixty-Year Jikkan Juunishi Calendrical Cycle
One night, during the second month....

05)
1: Inoko Gennosuke pays a visit to his master, Kuchiki Ichidensai--
2: Wh-what is the meaning of this?! E-explain! Explain yourself, Gennosuke!

06)
1: M-Master! Master~
2: Y-you! You!
3: You made me into a pariah...into a scapegoat!
4: You excluded me! You were about to have me killed!
5: Why?! Why?! Aren't I a human?!
6: Aren't I a human just like you?! Masterrrr~

07)
1: C-calm down! D-don't get hasty! T-there's no reason to get hasty now!
2: I believed that I could trust you! I-I believed you were a man I could trust no less than a god...
3: B-but you were a hypocrite!
4: You were an evil man wearing the skin of a good man!

08)
1: T-that's ridiculous! What gives you the right to call me a hypocrite?!
2: I-I did it all for your own sake!
sfx: Haa

09)
1: You were the only...
2: The only person I could trust as an ally...and in the end, even you cast me out...
3: excluded me...
4: Gennosuke...current age, 26...

13)
The next morning...
After hearing of the assassination, all the other disciples rushed to the front of the dojo, pale-faced bodies shivering not only because of the cold weather.

14)
writing: Heed my words: I will kill you all
Gennosuke

15)
1: According to
2: this man,
3: as the dim morning light shone in on Gennosuke...
4: He looked just like a demon, scrawling a message in blood while gripping his master's cold right hand.

16)
1: Shocked at the unbelievably cruel nature of the murder,
2: No one could make any comment for quite some time.
3: Within the putrid-smelling dojo,
4: a cold air of tension wafted...
5: What on earth...

17)
1: lurks in the heart of Inoko Gennosuke...?
2: He is rumored to be a brutal man...
3: Of course,
4: the words of the men of the dojo alone cannot provide the total truth...
5: Regarding the reason for the murder, however...

18)
1: it must lie
2: in the unusually extreme
3: implacability the man possessed
4: toward the way of the sword...

19)
1: Once more! Please! Let us spar one more time!
2: Ridiculous! Any more than this and it could endanger your life!
3: That is of no matter!

20)
1: Muu!
2: Stop, I said!
3: Stoooop!
4: Hooo!
5: Once more!

21)
1: Inoko! That's enough! If you push yourself any more than this, you really will die!
2: Unbelievable...
3: Look at this! The floor is covered in blood!
4: Tenacity in practice is good, but dying won't accomplish anything!
5: Now come, you must obey the orders of your seniors.
6: C'mon, c'mon, let us stop the bleeding!
7: Let me go! Please, let me go! I won't stop until I win! Let me go!!
8: You fool! You think Tokiyama is going to lost to a new student like you?!
9: Gen! Don't get ahead of yourself! Let us stop the blee...

22)
1: Let me goooooo!
2: Tokiyama-san, draw your sword,
3: please!
4: Fine!
5: Give him what he wants! Tokiyama!
6: B-but...

23)
1: The floor was splattered in crimson...
2: But...
3: the monster stood up yet again! What fighting spirit! What tenacity!
4: The disciple he was up against was already shivering in fright at the man's guts...

24)
1: Then, finally...
2: he was cut down by his 16-year old junior, Gennosuke.

25)
1: He fainted in agony on the dojo floor, like a bloody daruma.
2: As he watched this, Gennosuke's eyes
3: began to glow with the joy of defeating a senior...
4: First, he grinned...
5: and then, having exhausted all his spirit, collapsed onto the floor, unconscious...

26)
1: His tenacity, his guts...
2: and more than anything, his mighty, violent blade...
3: The reason his peers excluded Gennosuke...
4: was because they disliked the bizarre, unrelenting fighting spirit that the man possessed...
5: This was also the reason he was feared as a brutal man...

27)
1: But...
2: his abnormal implacability towards swordsmanship...

28)
1: and his gruesome battling
2: were both
3: merely manifestations of the painful wish burning in his heart.

29)
1: I have lost!
2: Next! I'll take on anyone!

30)
1: Murayama! Come up here!
2: Yes sir!
4: Lukewarm, lukewarm!
5: This is how you strike!
6: Like this!
7: You don't get it, do you?!

31)
1: Take this!
2: I have lost! You win!
3: Next will be me!
4: Mori! It's your turn!
5: Yes sir!
6: And after Mori will be Kanda! And then Murase!
7: Arimura! Gotou! You two will follow them! Then we'll be finished!
8: B-but! Wh-what about me?!

32)
1: I will not match blades with fools who rush their training so much that they become starving ogres!
2: Now come, Mori!

33)
1: Sir Senawa! Please, allow me to spar with you!
2: I'm just getting ready to leave...ask someone else!

34)
1: Sir Iwamatsu! Please, allow me to spar with you!
2: Inoko, huh...?
3: Go fight with Matsu instead...
4: Sir Asaba! Please, teach me a new technique!
5: Unfortunately, I, erm...
6: S-Sir Kagami!
7: Sir Yajima!
8: Master Kizaki!

35)
1: Do you know why no one wishes to match blades with you, Gennosuke?

36)
1: That demonic courage of yours that forces you to keep fighting until you are covered in blood...
2: oppresses others -- so much, in fact, that their instinct to protect their own bodies
3: begins to work unconsciously, through their terror...
4: since they become afraid that you will end up killing them in order to win...
5: Do not rush yourself...don't try to become stronger in just one day...

37)
1: I do not know the reason, but I understand that you are hurrying to mastery for the sake of some hidden reason that cannot compare to that of others'. But...
2: you must stop your recklessness...
3: and rid yourself of this demonic aura...
4: If you can do that, then even I would be happy to face you....
5: R-really, Assistant Instructor?!
6: Thank you so much!
7: However! During their spar on the next day, a terrible misfortune occurred!

38)
1: No sooner had they begun than Gennosuke was drenched in his own blood...
2: O-once more! Once more, please!
3: No! I told you, we musn't continue! Restrain yourself!
4: Uuuuugh!

39)
1: Once more!
2: Hoo! Wh-what a monster!

40)
1: Stop! Stop, I say!
2: I'm quitting!
3: Once more, please!
4: No! No! Absolutely not! No more!

41)
1: What in the world...?! He's no different than a beast!
2: Oh no...his artery!
3: Alright now, that's enough, Gennosuke!

42)
1: Once more...
2: You'll die, you fool!
3: Stooooop!

43)
1: Uuuuuu!

44)
1: Wahhh, the Assistant Instructor's eye!
2: Gennosuke's arm is broken!

45)
1: You goddamn animal! I'm going to kill you!
2: S-stop!
3: Tend to his artery!
4: What?! You just lost your eye because of this bastard!
5: Don't say that!
6: Not being able to dodge the deflected blade was due solely to my inexperience....
7: Gennosuke has done nothing wrong! Now tend to his wounds!

46)
1: I see...training of the mind's eye...
2: So be it. I will pray for your success...

47)
1: As I will your health, Master...
2: and that of your kin...
3: Now then...farewell.

48)
1: Gen...
2: Yes, sir...
3: The monstrous aura that surrounds you when you hold a sword...
4: If you do not learn to suppress it, it will end up being the death of you...I will not tell you again...

49)
1: I also have to restart my training from square one...
2: Treasure your left arm.
3: And take care of yourself...