Ware wa Ken-oh!! 2

Ware wa Ken-Oh! Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Battle 1: Bearer of Flames 2

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Bubble 1: Do it, Tsubakimaru.

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Bubble 1: You okay?
Bubble 2: Aside from feeling like a little girl…
Bubble 3: I'm talking about your condition here. You can save how you feel or whatever for later.
Bubble 4: I'm fine, already! Just let go of me!

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Bubble 1: Guh…
Bubble 2: Eh?!
Bubble 3: What's…
Bubble 4: Ah…
Text: Did he…take the blow for me…?
Bubble 5: Like taking candy from a baby. So there was a King over here even.
Bubble 6: This year's crop of students are rather low-leveled…
How unbecoming.
Bubble 7: Hmph.
I figured this morning's explosion was your handiwork.
Bubble 8: Ahh…!
Bubble 9: This…
Bubble 10: Can't be…

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Text: What luck…
Text: To run into King Shino here…
Text: Their level…
Text: Is way out of our league…
Bubble 1: Mistress, the two are still breathing.
Bubble 2: What shall we do with them?
Bubble 3: To think they could withstand Tsubakimaru's flames…
Bubble 4: Truly, being so sturdy is their one saving grace.

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Bubble 1: Kill them.
Bubble 2: They have no reason to continue living.
Bubble 3: Understood.
Bubble 4: W-
Wait!
Bubble 5: They weren't fit to keep fighting anymore.
Bubble 6: There wasn't any need to kill them, was there?
Bubble 7: Oh?
You are surprisingly kind.

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Bubble 1: However, this is what we do here.
Bubble 2: People of unusual abilities are gathered here and aim to hold supremacy as representatives from all parts of the country.
These are the turbulent times of rivalries between different Kings.
Bubble 3: Everyone enters the school as either a King or a Sword.
Bubble 4: You are meant to prepare yourself for it.
Bubble 5: You do appear convinced yet.
Bubble 6: All right then.
Bubble 7: Please look at the state of the premises from where you are.

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Bubble 1: HI
Bubble 2: HIIII!
Bubble 3: GUAAAH!
Bubble 4: Within three days of the start of the school year, thirty percent of the new students either die, or are incapable of recovering and are sent to the hospital.
Bubble 5: The remaining seventy percent surrender and bow down to other Kings.
From the very start, powerful Kings have been joining in alliance with one another.

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Bubble 1: Those two over there are supposed to be allied with Matsudaira's keep.
Bubble 2: You'll go to war with Matsudaira for this.
Bubble 3: I could care less.
Bubble 4: Look how unsightly they are, after all.
Bubble 5: Rather, the problem lays with you two.
Bubble 6: I went through the trouble of advising you, and yet, here you are.
Bubble 7: I'm completely befuddled.
Bubble 8: Were you alone, I'd let this pass,
But it's a completely different story with the Rank F, the so-called King here.

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Bubble 1: This is a battlefield.
Bubble 2: All ignorant, powerless
And unbeautiful people will die.
Bubble 3: WAIT!

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Bubble 1: What do you mean by this, Rank F?
Bubble 2: King Shino! This person does not know a single thing!
Bubble 3: Yes,
Bubble 4: That's true.
Bubble 5: However, that boy has the makings of being a great Sword.
Bubble 6: A rank you cannot possibly ever reach.
Bubble 7: You were going to deceive into making a contract with you, weren't you?
Bubble 8: That is the only way you could obtain a magnificent sword with your class.
Bubble 9: No…
Bubble 10: I wasn't…

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Bubble 1: You have no pride as a King who may eventually unite this country together!
Bubble 2: That is why you are a Rank F!
Bubble 3: Guh…
Text: I have no chance in a fight against them…
Text: Doesn't seem like I can run away either…
Text: The only thing I can do as a King right now is…
Bubble 4: King Shino… At the very least, spare this person…
Bubble 5: Enough.
Bubble 6: Do you think you're able to negotiate terms with a higher rank?
Bubble 7: I
Beg of you.

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Bubble 1: Fine.

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Bubble 1: Kill yourself by jumping off the roof over there.
Bubble 2: Take your life with complete sincerity.

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Bubble 1: Whoa…
Hey…
Bubble 2: Ah…

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Text: I'm sorry, Aina.
Text: I suppose I really couldn't win…
Text: But…
Text: This is fine by me,
Text: Aina.

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Bubble 1: Wha?!

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Bubble 1: Ah…
Bubble 2: You fool! What are you doing?!
Bubble 3: The fool here is you, you stupid woman!
Bubble 4: Seriously…
Bubble 5: Don’t leave the guy mixed up in all of this high and dry and just keep on with your conversation!
Bubble 6: Like I said, you have no place in this.
Bubble 7: Yeah I do. I was right there with you.
Bubble 8: Well,
Like usual, I have no clue of what's going on.

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Bubble 1: But,
I DO know you're a good person.
Bubble 2: Fool…
Bubble 3: I'd meant to honor my promise with King Shino…
Bubble 4: You alone could have kept on living…
Bubble 5: HMPH.
What's the worth in a life like that?!
Bubble 6: As a man, there's zero value in living by
Bubble 7: Being saved by a little girl going as far as leaping off a building to her death!

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Bubble 1: Calling me "little" was unnecessary! Completely uncalled for!
Bubble 2: Oh well…sorry about that.

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Bubble 1: You're going to die in vain.
Bubble 2: Even you cannot escape the flames of Tsubaki.
Bubble 3: Fine by me!
Bubble 4: Tsubakimaru!

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Bubble 1: Gyaaaa!

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Bubble 1: Kuh!

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Bubble 1: Guooh!

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Bubble 1: He's quite the guy.
Bubble 2: Through a sense of justice, he put his life on the line for her.
Bubble 3: Put me down! I can run on my own!
Bubble 4: He is a Sword far too good for King Homura.
Bubble 5: This way is faster.
Bubble 6: Are you letting them go?
Bubble 7: No.
Bubble 8: We're going after them.
Bubble 9: Killing them here would have been far kinder.

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Bubble 1-2: Hah
Bubble 3: Sheesh, they don't know when to give up.
Bubble 4: Hah
Bubble 5: They catch up to us so quickly, no matter where we go.
Bubble 6: King Shino's Tsubakimaru, apart from his flames, really does seem to have a directional sensing ability as people say…
Bubble 7: In which case, there's not really a point in us hiding…
Bubble 8: We shouldn't stay here! We'll be roasted from the outside in!
Bubble 9: Heh.

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Bubble 1: We came because there's something in here I want.
Bubble 2: I don't know the fundamentals behind it, but the explosions are about four meters across in diameter.
Bubble 3: The ignition and secondary spread of flames will be all on the outside…
Bubble 4: Ah…
Bubble 5: Uu…
Bubble 6: Uuuu…
Bubble 7: Don’t cry…
Are you hurt somewhere?

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Bubble 1: Why…
Bubble 2: Why did you have to get hurt?!
Bubble 3: Rooftops are pretty dangerous.
Bubble 4: You should be careful.
Bubble 5: What are you talking about…
What a fool…
Bubble 6: Ahahahaha!
Bubble 7: Anyway,
Bubble 8: What was with that back there?
With that Tsubaki guy or whoever.
Bubble 9: He made an explosion out of nowhere out of thin air.
Bubble 10: That was the Bearer of Flames.
Bubble 11: That's Higo-born King Shino's power. *TN: Higo is an old prefecture in Japan, now known as Kumamoto.

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Bubble 1: Tsubakimaru is King Shino's Sword.
Bubble 2: A Sword is one who embodies the power of a King.
Bubble 3: The King uses the Sword and works to rule the entire country.
Bubble 4: That is one rule of this school.
Bubble 5: I get it now.
Bubble 6: People fight together as units…
Bubble 7: You said you were a King and that I'm a Sword, right?
So, if I make a contract with you, does that mean I'll use some kind of magic or something, too?
Bubble 8: I apologize…
I can't do that…
Bubble 9: A King's power is proportionate to the size of the territories they dominate.

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Bubble 1: As I am now, I don't have any territory…
Bubble 2: That's…why I'm a Rank F…
Bubble 3: If you contract with me, you may just become a bit more energetic, I suppose.
Bubble 4: For us to fight against someone of high rank like King Shino, we would need to first take down a number of weaker Kings and raise my rank…
Bubble 5: I see.
Bubble 6: If you really want to be the best, you'd better not keep company with her anymore.
Bubble 7: So that's what Akikusa meant…
Bubble 8: Wh-what?!
Bubble 9: What are you doing all of a sudden?!

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Bubble 1: Huh…
Bubble 2: Together alone in a dim PE warehouse…
Bubble 3: He couldn't be thinking of doing perverted things to me before he dies, could he…?
Bubble 4: Oh, sorry.
Bubble 5: Wasn’t that the way it went?
Bubble 6: I get the feeling that's what you wanted me to do this morning…
Bubble 7: Damn, they're here!
Bubble 8: …I
Don't have any money to pay you with…

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Bubble 1: It was a chanced meeting.
I'm pretty poor, myself.
Bubble 2: I am short in height as well!
And I am hardly beautiful!
Bubble 3: Carrying all that stuff when you're short is pretty hard, huh?
Bubble 4: I'll give you hand. Where are we off to?
Bubble 5: Why
Bubble 6: Are you helping me?
Bubble 7: I told you before,
Bubble 8: That's just the kind of person Hongou Yoshiaki is.

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Bubble 1: I recognize you as my Sword.
Bubble 2: The words of the vow.
Text: A probability of one in 143,200.
Bubble 3: Until the sky falls,
Text: Is the likelihood of a man becoming a Sword!
Text: One's scholastic ability, lineage, or origins do not matter,
Text: In this world, only those who can be called a Sword matter any!
Bubble 4: Until the earth cracks,
Text: A Sword.
Text: That is the symbol of a man, and what it means to be a man!
Bubble 5: Until the sea swallows me,
Bubble 6: I stick to an agreement.

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Text: There was not a sword by the name of Muramasa,
Text: There was a man named Muramasa!
Text: There was not a sword by the name of Excalibur,
Text: The man was named Excalibur!
Bubble 1: The person that she establishes more justice than this.
Bubble 2: I am your Sword,
My user's name is King Homura.

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Bubble 1: The vows have been accepted.
Bubble 2: Be free from prejudice, faithful, and courageous.
Bubble 3: When you break is when I fall.
Bubble 4: I hereby name you as my Sword!

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Text: Thy name is Tonbokiri.
Bubble 1: Understood!
Text: A name you will henceforth take to many battlefields, together with me as a fine Sword unrivaled by any other in all the land,

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Bubble 1: Congratulations.
Bubble 2: You seem to have somehow procured a Sword.

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Bubble 1: I thank you for your concern.
Bubble 2: Not at all,
You are a King just as I am.
Bubble 3: Even then, for all the battles I have had,
Bubble 4: Killing someone who doesn't possess a Sword just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Bubble 5: And with this, I can kill you free of concern.

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Bubble 1: Tsubakimaru!
Bubble 2: Heh.
Bubble 3: You've got yourself a fight!
Bubble 4: Come!