Sengoku 9

[reserved for Illuminati-manga]
Pg 194
Vol. 9 Toukichirou's Pipe

Text: Kinoshita Toukichirou Hideyoshi Takenaka Hanbei Shigeharu Sengoku Gonbei Hidehisa

Pg 195
Hideyoshi: Puff

HY: Raise your head.
HY: You don't need to apologize.

HY: In my heart
HY: I too was secretly hoping to use Hanbei's abilities.

Pg 196
HY: Because of that..
HY: His feelings are probably hurt...

Txt: Toukichirou-sama really
Txt: does like Hanbei-sama.

Pg 197
Nene: Wait wait, Koichirou-san
Nene: Why is even Gonbei depressed?

Sengoku: What should I do... The mock battle is coming closer.

Nene: That's enough, what about not smoking and training?
Nene: If you smoke that all the time, you won't be able to get it up.
Nene: Just kidding.

HY: Hey, give that back! If I don't smoke, I'll die!

Nene: Ah, I give up on you.

Pg 198
Txt: I have grown tired of battle.

Sengoku: The prodigy of Mino, Takenaka Hanbei, is someone that sensitive....

Sengoku: That time when he took over Inabayama Castle with only sixteen people.

Sengoku: When I heard about that, chills ran down my spine.

Sengoku: Why did he do it?

Sengoku: To get back at one of the soldiers for pissing on him.

Note: The Taking of Inabayama Castle: In 1564, Takenaka took over Inabayama Castle, which belonged to his own lord, Saitou Tatsuoki, with a small number of people. Tatsuoki fled the castle, but Takenaka gave it right back. There is also a theory he did it to admonish him.

Pg 199
Text: He's so damn
Txt: Awesome

SG: It's not an ulterior motive. I want to go to the match with him.

SG: We just want to do things we like with people we like!

Pg 200
Sengoku: Now I'll go just this once.

Hanbei: What is it?
Hanbei: You....

Sengoku: Whaaa?
Whaaa?

Pg 201
SG: Um... about that mock battle..

Hanbei: It's no good.

SG: I apologize for how Toukichirou-sama and I had ulterior motives in coming to see you.
SG: But it wasn't only that...

Hanbei: You
Hanbei: Did you come here to lecture me?

SG: No, nooo, someone like me would never
SG: dare to lecture the genius, Takenaka-sama

Hanbei: Then, what do you want to say?

SG: That both Toukichirou-sama and I both
SG: like Takenaka-sama.

Pg 202
Hanbei: However...
HB: Isn't it in your case more like feelings towards an image of me constructed from what you've heard?

SG: Er...
SG: Well, maybe?

SG: Bu... but, Toukichirou-sama's feelings
SG: are real!!

SG: I have brought Toukichirou-sama's favorite pipe.
SG: Until his sincere feelings get through to Takenaka-sama, he has the determination not to touch this even once...

Pg 203
Txt: !! Could Kinoshita-san have? ........
Txt: It must be as hard for him as it would be for me to give up books.

HB: Hmmmm.

HB: .... Speaking of which
HB: You must have borrowed this on your own?

HB: It's impossible for Kinoshita-san to let go of this.
HB: Rather, he'll probably be even more addicted to it than he was before.
(small text: addiction is like that)

HB: Return it to him already.
HB: This kind of joke won't be amusing for him.

Pg 204
HB: If he finds out, he'll kill you with his bare hands. Don't mess up...

SG: Then..Then if that's so...
SG: I'll risk my own neck! Then will you believe me?!

SG: I will leave it with you. Bye.

Pg 205
HB: He's young.
Txt: To so easily risk his life....

Txt: Is he just being stubborn because his lies have been found out?
Txt: Or is he that loyal to Kinoshita-san?

Txt: Well, probably both....
Txt: Hidden motives and sincerity... lies and the truth... There are times when the human heart contains all at once.

HB: A good taste...
Txt: How pitiful Kinoshita-san is.... This has been left with me because of his foolish subordinate.

Pg 206
Hideyoshi: Not here not here not here
HY: Where is it!!!!
HY: MY PIPE!??!!!

Pg 207
Text: Then
Txt: The day of the Horo Troop Selection Match

?: Now, change quickly into your armor!

?: No matter what, you can't let this cloth be taken.

Pg 208
Nene: Pwaaah! Now it has come! The day of the match!
Nene: Give it all you've got----!!!

?: Hey
?: Hey
?: Ho

Nene: Darling, you too! <3
HY: Uhh Uhh huhh.

Nene: Goodbye!!!

Pg 209
Hideyoshi: Huh?

Pg 210-1
Koichi: Who is that person?
Koichi: He is wearing a 'soumen' so we can't see his face.

Txt: My pipe. ...

Txt: Really, that idiot Sengoku went to Hanbei's place? .........
HY: Heh.

Note: Soumen: A piece of armor used for protecting the face. It overed the entire face like a mask.

HY: Hyah hyah hyah hyah.
HY: Isn't that my friend?

Pg 212
Hanbei: You rely on the power of this pipe, don't you?
Hideyoshi: I don't rely on it.
Hideyoshi: It's just a friend I want to have with me.
Hideyoshi: Now!
To the mock battle!

Endnote from the Translator:

One volume down, fourteen to go. ^_^

On the titles: The title of the manga, Sengoku, is in katakana, which means that it could refer either to the name of the main character, Sengoku, or the time period, the Sengoku era. (The kanji for each is different)

On the names of the characters: Most of the characters are known by their "second name" or title, which is placed between their family name and personal name.

Example: Sengoku Gonbei Hidehisa. If you look him up on wikipedia, for example, he will be listed in the modern Japanese way, as Sengoku Hidehisa. But in the manga virtually no one refers to him as Hidehisa. Everyone either calls him Sengoku or Gonbei.

As for Kinoshita Toukichirou Hideyoshi, he'll eventually change his family name to Hashiba, and then later to Toyotomi.

A note about the history: Eventually, Nobunaga will be assassinated by one of his generals, Akechi Mitsuhide (who appears in volume three). Hideyoshi will avenge him and kill Mitsuhide. Later, he will also defeat Shibata Katsuie.

Hideyoshi's neighbor in this volume is Maeda Toshiie, who is currently one of Nobunaga's generals, and will later join Hideyoshi after Nobunaga's death. Omatsu is Toshiie's wife.

The two boys who are Hideyoshi's wards, Toranosuke and Ichimatsu, will later be known as Katou Kiyomasa and Fukushima Masanori, two famed generals.