Yamikagishi Volume 3

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Yamikagishi (3)

Table of Contents

17th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (4).............5
18th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (5).............29
19th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (6).............53
20th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (7).............77
21st Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (8).............101
22nd Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (9).............125
23rd Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (10).............149
24th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (11).............173

005
17th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (4).
Shinzou: It's been a while since the last time we met face to face. So I thought I should drop by, and here I am.
Jou: ........

006
Shinzou: Jounosuke./Whatever business do you have in Daimaru?
Jou: You saw me?
Shinzou: I'm the head of the Iga ninjas, remember?
Jou: ........

007
Jou: I thought maybe I should give this back.
Shinzou: !//What is it?
Jou: A key.

008
Jou: Certainly you are familiar with it, Hattori-sama.
Shinzou: I guess there's no point in feeding a key specialist a line of baloney about a key......../Where did you find it?//........ I see. Could you recognize this girl if you saw her?
Jou: Yes.

009
Shinzou: Alright./Hattori Shinzou has made up his mind.//And since you also helped in the Tetsusaju no Tachi affair/I know I can trust you when it comes to Edo's protection.//Those shinobi come from another province./Probably Satsuma.
Jou: Satsuma shinobi........

010
Isshin: On Basara Aratannou On Taraku Sowaka./Noubo Akyashagyarabaka On Arikya Aribori Sowaka.[tn: More Buddhist prayers.]

011
Dude: Forgive me for interrupting your prayer./Isshin-sama.
Isshin: What is it?

012
Dude: Kyouzou has returned, and he's brought Ukiha back with him.
Isshin: I see.//Kyouzou, what happened to your leg?
Kyouzou: Nothing to be proud of. I've run into more trouble than I expected.

013
Isshin: Only Ukiha was there?
Kyouzou: Yes sir.//.......... Jirouta-dono was nowhere to be seen.//When I asked her, she said that after the fight with the Emperor's Inner Garden Watcher, she was hit on the head and couldn't even remember who she was.
Isshin: Is that all you have to report?
Ukiha: My apologies./Such a failure is unworthy of a Satsuma shinobi.

014
Kyouzou: Ukiha. Do you remember anything about Jirouta-dono?
Ukiha: I recall Jirouta-dono and I taking down the guards and getting ahold of the key./Whatever happened after that.......... I just can't tell.
Isshin: Nevermind my little brother./What's important for now is the key.
Ukiha: Well........
Isshin: What is it?
Ukiha: The key I left with the people who saved me.
Isshin: WHAT!!

015
Ukiha: My deepest apologies./They're just ordinary townspeople. I won't fail to recover the Watcher's key I assure you.
Isshin: They were good enough to cause a master like Kyouzou to lose his leg. They are no ordinary citizens.
Ukiha: I'll do it even if it costs me my life.//Furthermore, I think I've grasped a clue regarding the key.
Isshin: Oh, yes?/Let's hear it.

016
Ukiha: Daimaru store, in the Oodenma district.
Isshin: Pff./Pffft.
Ukiha: ?
Isshin: You mean the store?/That's ridiculous!

017
Isshin: !//Leader!!
Gahou: ..........

018
Gahou: Isshin. How could you not notice?
Isshin: What do you mean?/Gahoumaru-sama.

019
Gahou: The Daimaru draperies store is a purveyor for the shogunate./What she says does make sense.

020
Gahou: I'll take care of this case personally.
Isshin: ........

021
Shinzou: Listen. What I'm about to tell you is top-secret. Classified imperial spies information.//Speak of it to anyone else and your life is forfeit.//The Satsuma shinobi are seeking a way to infiltrate the Edo castle.
Jou: !

022
Shinzou: Daimaru's inner warehouse is the one and only "Door to the Edo Castle".
Jou: ?!//Hattori-sama, just what do you mean exactly?
Shinzou: It's a storehouse for the Oniwaban.

023
Shinzou: The Edo castle's Oniwaban are Imperial spies under the Shogun's direct control.[tn: Oniwaban=The aforementioned Emperor's Inner Garden Watch.]//The Emperor himself orders them to travel, as country explorers.//The Shogun resides in the Edo castle. So he can't get a good grasp of what's going on in the world at large just from listening to his elder council and the rest of his entourage.//The Oniwaban are important officials, acting as the Emperor's eyes and ears.[tn: In the Edo period, political might rested in the hands of the Shogun, whose seat of power was the Edo castle. The Emperor was little more than a religious figure, living secluded in his palace in Kyoto, and in the name of whom things were done.]

024
Shinzou: When they go on country exploration, the Oniwaban alter their appearances./And Daimaru's inner warehouse is where they do it.//It's an old, well-established draperies store with a lot of circulation, and no shortage of finely-clothed people./A perfect place to disguise oneself.//Country exploration is a lengthy job. Uncovering another province's secrets can take a decade, even 20 years./It's not unheard of for those who live to return to Edo to be unrecognizable even by their fellows when they make their way back.

025
Shinzou: There's another storing room in Daimaru for times such as this./The documents ascertaining their identities are stored inside.
Jou: I see. I was wondering what there was a second key for. A key to the warehouse's door, another one for the storing room.

026
Shinzou: Only once in possession of those papers are they allowed inside the castle.
Jou: I see. Now I know what you mean by Daimaru's inner storehouse being the door to Edo castle.//Even a shinobi from another province would be able to impersonate an Oniwaban and get into the castle provided they have the papers.
Shinzou: Yeah./Fortunately, no one's ever seen through the deception yet.//Although recently, the Satsuma province has been acting in a suspicious way.//I've been notified about a faction led by master shinobi, and who's made its way into Edo.

027
Shinzou: A few days ago, an Oniwaban on his way back from Satsuma reported from an inn in Kodawara, after which contact was promptly broken./This key here probably belongs to him.
Jou: ........//We've told the girl about the key's connection with Daimaru.
Shinzou: It's too late to do anything about it, by now.

028
Shinzou: In addition, the other side's also made a mistake.
Jou: Leaving the key to us after all the trouble they went through to get it.
Shinzou: Indeed.//And that's where you come in. I have a request for you.
Jou: ..........[/end

029
18th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (5).

030
Gahou: Here?
Kyouzou: This is Daimaru, Gahoumaru-sama.
Gahou: I see. The store is every bit as large as the rumor describes it.

031
Employees: Wah./Hic.

032
Employee: I have grave news, master. A fire's started in the inner storehouse!
Master: What?!//!

033
Master: You men. Get the customers outside!/The others take care of the fire, quickly!//A large fire starting from Daimaru would shame us forever!/Make it disappear while it's still small.

034
Gahou: (! This is the only storehouse with guards before it.)/.........//(I see. I guess that's it, then.//There can be no mistake./This storehouse is the very one we've been looking for.)

035
Gahou: It's exactly as Ukiha said.
Kyouzou: Are you telling me you've been able to gather some kind of clue here in Daimaru?
Gahou: The Door to the Edo castle.
Kyouzou: Here?

036
Gahou: Daimaru's storehouse is the place the Oniwaban use to disguise themselves. A fairly audacious move.//But the Tokugawa's 200 years of tranquility have made way for negligence.//I shall take you forward/on the way to the Edo castle.

037
Ukiha: I have something to report.//The blacksmith has disappeared, and the key was nowhere to be found.//My apologies.
Gahou: Ukiha./I need you to search their likely destinations and the environs thoroughly.

038
Kyouzou: I'll go with her, then. I should be able to recognize them on sight.
Gahou: Kyouzou, you stay here with me./They might come running when they hear about the disturbance.
Kyouzou: Yes sir.
Gahou: I reckon it was no use. No matter.//We've seen through the trick.

039
Jou: Humph./(Coming up with something so bold. The Iga clan's leader does live up to his name.)

040
Jou: (Now to do something about the key!)
Gahou: (Now to do something about that key!)

041
Jou: !

042-043
Jou: Who the hell is he?!

044
Jou: .............

045
Kyouzou: Gahoumaru-sama. The key!!//This is the man I met at the blacksmith's.
Jou: The shinobi from the last time!
Kyouzou: I'll get the key back. Please wait here.

046
Gahou: Wait, Kyouzou.//That leg of yours is putting you at a disadvantage.
Kyouzou: But

047
Gahou: Not to worry./I shall grant you power.
Kyouzou: ?

048
Kyouzou: GGROOAAR...

049
Jou: !!//He's able to manipulate Evil at will?!

050
Gahou: Go!

052
Jou: I'm going to lock you away.[/end

053
Gahou: What is that power?/Is it the same as mine?!

054-055
Jou: My power is nothing like yours.//I contain Evil and seal it away./This is called a Dooring.
19th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (6).

056
Jou: That power you possess has no business existing in our world.//It's not meant for people to have, and I shall seal it away.

059
Jou: ?!

060
Gahou: They key. I have it at last. I did it!//You've made my job unnecessarily harder.//Now die!

061
Gahou: ?

062
Gahou: Wwaahaaa.[tn: Beee-yaaatch!]

063
Jou: Gasp.
Gahou: Damn you. How dare you.//How dare you./How dare you.
Shinjuurou: A fight!/We have a fight!

064
Ninjas: Where? Where?/Where is the fight?!
Shinjuurou: Over there. Quickly.
Gahou: Damnation.
Shinjuurou: Hey. Are you alright?//?

065
Jou: You've helped me out of a tight spot. You have my thanks.
Shinzou: I didn't expect to cross paths with the Satsuma shinobi so soon.//Shinjuurou's been able to bring you here, thankfully.
Jou: I never imagined the pepper salesman would be one of your men, Hattori-sama.

066
Shinjuurou: He was frighteningly skilled, for a toddler./You were well out of your league, Jounosuke-dono. You were fortunate enough to get away with relatively minor wounds.
Shinzou: Now would be a very bad time for them to find out there's a link between you and ourselves./I'm the one who gave the order not to interfere until the very last second.//Forgive me.
Jou: Certainly not. There's nothing to forgive.
Shinzou: So. What happened to the key?

067
Jou: It's most certainly between their hands.
Shinzou: Is that so? Good.//The bastards are playing nicely into our hands.//Jounosuke. We wouldn't have succeeded in this without your help. Take this with our thanks.
Jou: I can't.

068
Shinzou: Get away from Edo for a little while.
Jou: Eh?!
Shinzou: You go, and you take O-Kin and the blacksmith away with you. This money here should help you cover your expenses.//The Satsuma shinobi have seen your faces. It's only a matter of time before they come after you.
Jou: But
Shinzou: Don't lose your head over it, Jounosuke./You may not be without skills, but ultimately, you're just a normal citizen.

069
Shinzou: This is a battle between shinobi./Townspeople like yourself could die by the thousands without making a difference.
Jou: And I shall return these words right back at you.
Shinzou: WHAT?!
Jou: The shinobi I met today was a host to demonic forces./Your subordinates could die by the thousands against that child without making a difference.

070
Shinzou: Wait, Jounosuke!
Jou: This is the first time I cross paths with something so powerful./I don't think shinobi skill alone will be enough to defeat it.
Shinzou: But you can?
Jou: ..........

071
Jou: !!

072
Jou: Hattori-sama.//What is the meaning of this?

073
Shinzou: Should the Satsuma shinobi capture you, our own plans would be jeopardised./That is a risk we cannot take.
Jou: Are you planning to detain me?
Shinzou: If you mean to stay in Edo no matter what, I don't have a choice./I shall have you remain quietly in the Iga clan's mansion, until such time as this matter is settled.

074
Shinzou: You dare resist me!!
Jou: If you are Oniwaban, for my part I'm a Doorman./I'll put my life on the line in order to root out the Satsuma. Just like a shinobi ready to forfeit his life to fulfill a mission.

075
Jou: Warrior or civil, there's no difference when it comes to such strength of resolve.

076
Shinzou: That's enough. Let him go.//Doorman. Don't you get in our way.
Jou: My only wish is to do my job.[/end

077
Gahou: Damn you. How dare you do this to my hand./Pestiferous locksmith.

078-079
20th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (7).

080
Isshin: Gahoumaru-sama. Is anything wrong?/What was that voice?
Gahou: Nothing of importance./My wound was hurting, that's all.

081
Isshin: !//Oooh. Your hand!
Gahou: Well, it did take long enough.//Ukiha.
Ukiha: Yes sir.
Gahou: Go after the locksmith and his friends./We did get the key back, but they could be a problem.

082
Gahou: I want them dispatched.//Be careful. They have strange techniques at their disposal.
Ukiha: Understood.

083
Ukiha: It's cold. The fire hasn't been lit in a while.
Isshin: ........./No traces of him having returned.
Flashback!Tetsu: Here's some clam soup./Warm up your body some.
Flashback!Ukiha: It's delicious.

084
Ukiha: (If they hadn't found out about Daimaru, they might have been able to leave unscathed./They were unlucky enough to rescue me.)

085
Girl: Ah, miss./It's good to see you're alright now.
Ukiha: How do you know about me?
Girl: I'm the one who found you lying down. And I told mister Tetsujuu where you were.
Ukiha: I see. Do you know where I can find him?
Girl: I don't.
Ukiha: ?
Girl: Come on. Over there.

086
Girl: Here./This is where you were.

087
Jirouta: Ukiha. Jump into the sea./Get away, even if you're the only one who makes it!
Ukiha: Jirouta-sama!
Jirouta: "He's" coming!/Quick.//Here./You take care of this!

088
Jirouta: Gasp!

089
Ukiha: ........./(Jirouta-sama was killed? ....... By "him"?//I can't remember the important part./Who is "he" exactly?)
Isshin: Looks like it's been a fool's errand.
Ukiha: Isshin-sama.//In conformity with your reckoning, they have disappeared, and by the looks of things they haven't come back.
Isshin: Ukiha. Failure won't be tolerated this time.
Ukiha: Yes sir....... But

090
Isshin: What is it? Gahoumaru-sama's orders are beyond questioning.
Ukiha: I'm afraid sometimes, Isshin-sama.//Afraid of him.........
Isshin: He's been leading the Satsuma shinobi since our young days, yet his appearance hasn't changed./I also heard he went to a Sacred Mountain, exorcised the evil spirits there and took in their powers for himself.

091
Isshin: His powers are something we can only dream of./I do know that much.
Ukiha: But I'm having misgivings about him, at times. As if he was a wrathful monster of sorts.//And now that we're closer to Edo, I've been experiencing those moments of apprehension even more often.
Isshin: ........ My brother. This is very similar to what my brother Jirouta used to say.
Ukiha: Jirouta-sama did?
Isshin: Ukiha. Now is not the time for unnecessary pondering./Just a little effort, and our old wish of infiltrating the Edo castle will come true.

092
Isshin: It is crucial for us Satsuma shinobi to uncover the secrets of the Edo castle if we are to strike at the heart of the shogunate someday!/We need him if we are to reach the upper stratum of the shogunate.//!
Jou: We won't let you get into the castle.
Isshin: What?!
Ukiha: Jounosuke!

093
Jou: Let me tell you this. Your leader is a demon./You can't take orders from someone like that.
Isshin: So it was you. Mongrel!

094
Jou: Edo castle is a cornerstone to the seal against Edo's demons./If you're not careful, the city will be destroyed.

095
Jou: If you don't want to turn Edo. No. This country whence the sun rises into a land of demons/please just go away quietly.
Isshin: Senseless babble!//Wait!

096
Jou: A million of people live here in Edo.

097
Ukiha: Tetsujuu........
Tetsu: I don't know about Satsuma shinobi or whatever you are. But if you plan on destroying Edo/I will put my life on the line to make sure it doesn't happen.

098
Jou: Because we're Doormen, and this is our job.
Isshin: !
Tetsu: RAAAAAH

100
Isshin: Doormen?/Who the bloody hell are they?[/end

101
21st Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (8).

102
Jou: Let's go, Tetsujuu!
Ukiha: Wait!

103
Tetsu: !

104
Jou: ?
Tetsu: !/Get away, Lock Kanji! [tn: In Japanese, "Jou" no ji (錠の字). This is a reference to Jounosuke's name, as the "jou" part is indeed written with the Kanji for "lock".]

106
Tetsu: Urgh.
Jou: Are you alright, Tetsujuu?!
Tetsu: Don't worry about me./More importantly, look.
Jou: !

107
Jou: ..........//They've blocked off our escape route.
Isshin: Be sure to take them down with your next attack.//Bombing Master Ukiha.

108
Ukiha: Prepare yourself, Jounosuke./I will exact revenge for Kyouzou!
Jou: That's not quite how it happened.//Your Kyouzou had been turned into a demon./By the very leader you people trust so much.//So I had to seal him away.
Isshin: Kyouzou? A demon?/You must be out of your mind!

109
Jou: We only fight demons./And we have no wish to battle against human beings.//Even if they are Satsuma shinobi.

110
Ukiha: Bollocks!//It's too late. For everything!
Tetsu: ...........
Jou: You think you can jump, Tetsujuu?

111
Ukiha: You won't get away!

112
Ukiha: ..........
Isshin: Did you get them?
Ukiha: I don't know.
Tetsu: Oooow.

113
Tetsu: O-Kin. For Heaven's sake, can't you be a little gentler about it?!
Kin: Come on. Do you think it's easy?//If I hadn't saved you, you'd be fish food right now, Tetsu-san.
Tetsu: That's because of the girl. She's a blasted bomb slinger.//Jumping off the cliff is exactly what saved us.
Kin: But to think she was really a shinobi./She really didn't look the part.[tn: Um, correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's the point.]
Tetsu: Come to think of it, I don't even know her name. But she was........

114
Kin: She was really a beautiful girl.
Jou: That's fate.[tn: So basically, shit happens? How comforting....]
Tetsu: ........

115
Kin: There's not much we can do about it.
Tetsu: ..........

116
Ninja: ........//This must be it!

118
Isshin: Look.//With this scrap of paper, we can infiltrate the Edo castle.

119
Isshin: And our old ambition shall be fulfilled!/The day the Satsuma can invade Edo is close at hand!
Ninjas: YEEAAAHH.
Gahou: Silence!!
Ninjas: .........

120-121
Gahou: We have been followed.

122-123
Shinzou: Alright, men. Smoke them out. Cut off all of their escape routes./Don't let a single one of them get away!

124
Shinzou: It ends here. Satsuma spies.[/end

125
22nd Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (9).
Shinzou: ..........

126
Iganin: No way!/Curse those Satsuma shinobi. When do they plan on getting out?//..........//Don't tell me they just magicked their way out.//They can't have!

127
Shinzou: Stay focused./Don't show any openings!
Ninja: ........

129
Iganin: From below!/They're coming out from underground!!
Shinzou: !

130
Satsunin: RAAAAAH.
Shinzou: So they'd dug a hole into the ground!! Curse them.
Satsunin: WAAAAGH

131-132
Satsunin: OOOF
Shinzou: Do not falter./Cut them down to the last man!

133
Satsunin: Aaaayyye.
Iganin: Shinjuurou-sama. They're getting away.
Shinjuurou: After them!

134
Iganin: Who's there?!//!

135
Iganin: Seijuurou-sama. A woman and a child. Here of all places./How do we deal with this?
Shinjuurou: Don't let your guard down!/That toddler is the head of the Satsuma shinobi himself!

136
Gahou: Well done, Ukiha.
Ukiha: Thank you very much.

137
Shinzou: Shinjuurou!//!
Isshin: Ukiha!/Is Gahoumaru-sama alright?
Gahou: Isshin. You arrive just in the nick of time./The head of the Iga clan has decided to show himself.
Shinzou: ... I reckon you're that mongrel they call Gahoumaru./I did hear the rumors about you, but I'm still surprised. You're really a toddler.

138
Gahou: It happens to be a trick of mine.
Shinzou: You're quite something./But you don't bite hard enough.//Impersonating an Oniwaban and worming your way into Daimaru? Certainly you weren't expecting your underlings to go unnoticed?
Gahou: Oh, yes?
Shinzou: That Satsuma shinobi blew his own cover. The moment he opened the door to Daimaru's storeroom.
Gahou: What do you mean?
Shinzou: After the night when that girl disappeared from the blacksmith's house without a trace/we performed a little substitution in the Daimaru storehouse.

139
Shinzou: Only one key could have opened the door./The one you people stole away from Jounosuke.
Satsunin: !
Isshin: So what of that key?!!
Shinzou: Jounosuke made it./Because we knew you'd come for it eventually.

140
Gahou: Is that so? So the whole thing was your idea?
Shinzou: Whatever plans you had, they've fallen apart. Accept it.
Gahou: I wouldn't be too sure about that.
Shinzou: ?
Gahou: Provided I obliterate the Iga clan to the last man here and now/all of those who know about our secrets will be gone.

141
Shinzou: Don't be foolish.
Gahou: You still think yourself the victor?/Can't you see what's at your feet?
Shinzou: !

142-143
Gahou: I will kill each one of you in turn./Be sure to watch your comrades as they die.
Iganin: Uhh./Gh...//Blurgh.

144
Shinzou: ...........
Gahou: Hattori Shinzou./You'll be the last one to go.

145
Gahou: !
Ukiha: *blank*
Gahou: You!!

146
Shinzou: Jounosuke!
Jou: Hattori-sama. I told about it, didn't I?/He is no common shinobi.[/end

147
23rd Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (10).
Gahou: You show yourself, locksmith!

148
Hellboy Tetsu: !

149
Jou: Tetsujuu!
Hellboy Tetsu: Jounosuke. You concentrate on the Dooring.
Gahou: Damn you! I'll rip you into a million pieces, dog.

150
Jou: Are you alright?
Hellboy Tetsu: I'll be fine./Just stuff him into that lock already!
Jou: Sorry.

151
Gahou: ?//I. I can't move!

152
Gahou: Locksmith./What are you doing?!
Jou: Gahoumaru./I've sealed away your ability to move.
Gahou: Who the bloody hell are you? An imperial agent?!/Is that another shinobi trick?!

153
Jou: I am nothing like an Imperial agent or a warrior./I'm a Doorman.
Gahou: ? A Doorman.......?

154
Jou: Prepare yourself./I'm going to seal away the Evil power that's nested into you.
Isshin: Kill the locksmith./Don't let him use his techniques!

155
Shinzou: Don't move!

156
Satsunin: !!
Shinzou: Draw back your swords!/Fail to do so and I kill him!
Isshin: Hattoriii.
Shinzou: Doorman./Let's see you at work.

157
Gahou: Heart, technique and physique./Shinobi surpass the common folk in everything.//Do you think the likes of you and your techniques can get the better of Gahoumaru?!

158
Isshin: Gahoumaru-sama!

159
Iganin: ?
Satsunin: !

160-161
Ninjas: What's that?!

162
Isshin: Oooh. What splendor.
Ukiha: Is that Gahoumaru-sama?
Isshin: It is./This is the power with which he exorcised those evil spirits on the sacred mountain.

163
Ukiha: !
Iganin: Aaaaargh.

164
Iganin: !

165
Iganin: Aaaaaaaah.

166
Ukiha: Ugh.
Isshin: Ukiha. Get a grip on yourself.
Ukiha: My. My head.........

167
Flashback!Jirouta: Ukiha. What are you doing?/Take it already!
Flashback!Ukiha: ..........
Flashback!Jirouta: Come on!//Tell my brother this./Gahoumaru doesn't care about the shogunate or the Satsuma. He's just a monstrous beast with a thirst for human blood.

168
Flashback!Ukiha: Jirouta-sama!
Flashback!Jirouta: I'm... counting on........ you.
Ukiha: Isshin-sama./I remember now!

169
Ukiha: Tha That beast over there!/Gahoumaru!//He's the one who devoured Jirouta-sama.
Isshin: Humph. I've been wondering what you were going to say.
Ukiha: I'm telling the truth./He hate him before my eyes. It happened just like it is now.
Isshin: Are you out of your mind?/He's our leader, remember?
Ukiha: Gahoumaru doesn't care about the shogunate or the Satsuma./He's just a monstrous beast with a thirst for human blood. That's what Jirouta-sama told me!

170
Satsunin: Waaaaah.

171
Satsunin: Hiiiiiic.
Isshin: Gahoumaru-sama. Have you gone insane?/These are our men.//Stop this madness!/Pull yourself together![tn: It gets lost in the translation, but Isshin's speech switches back and forth between respectful and discourteous, showing his confusion.]

172
Ukhiha: Watch out!//Augh.
Isshin: Ukiha![/end

173
24th Tale: Mysteries of the Secret Locks (11).

174
Ukiha: ?!
Food: He......../heeeelp!

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Ukiha: Hic.//!//Tetsujuu![tn: Hellboy to the rescue!]

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Tetsu: I'm here to save you.
Ukiha: Why?[tn: Because you're hot I'm a hero.]

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Ukiha: Gasp.
Tetsu: Sorry.
Ukiha: I'm fine.

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Tetsu: Hhhhh.

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Tetsu: .........//That thing is tough as hell!//Blast it.

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Ukiha: Use the bombshells in my sleeves!//Take off the pins and throw them at him!

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Ukiha: Ow!

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Tetsu: Are you alright?
Ukiha: ........

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Gahou: There you are.[tn: From now on, a custom font or some kind of special effect for the dude would be nice.]/GRRRRRR

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Tetsu: !/Jounosuke.
Gahou: You again!

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Jou: I won't let you kill anybody else./Gahoumaru. This time for sure, I'm going to lock you away.
Gahou: Bollocks!

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Ukiha: What's that?
Tetsu: Sealing Evil into a lock./This is what our job as Doormen consists in.//Your trusted leader was a demon, which should be clearly apparent by now.
Isshin: ........

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Tetsu: !//How much more Evil is he hosting inside himself?

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Tetsu: This is bad./The Lock is filling beyond capacity.

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Tetsu: Jounosuke?//......... Where are you?

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Tetsu: Jounosuke.........
Jou: The Evil-Sealing Lock, gone. It can't be.//!

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Gahou: I told you so./The likes of you and your techniques can't get the better of Gahoumaru.
Jou: .........
Gahou: I reckon that wounded as you are, you're in no shape to move about.//Diiiie!

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Ukiha: Tetsujuu. Take Jounosuke-san away, quick!
Gahou: Let me go./Let go of me, will you!
Ukiha: I done taking orders from you./Not after what you did to Jirouta-sama!

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Gahou: So you were there, after all.
Ukiha: A beast like you is no leader of mine. You are nothing.
Gahou: Jirouta was making way to the province with the key, and about to reveal my true identity./I had to dispose of him.
Ukiha: You're going to pay for that.
Gahou: Preposterous./Even in this state, Gahoumaru cannot be killed by an ant like you.//?
Ukiha: Have you forgotten?

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Ukiha: I go by the alias of Bombing Master Ukiha.
Gahou: !!

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Yamikagishi {3} The End.