Examurai 2

Sorry for lateness this month. Also expect a possible delay for the next chapter. Read why here ^^;

That aside, have a blessed Christmas and New Year, everyone! \o/



01
a1: A warrior of the XILE Tribe indulges in a nap...
s1: *snore*
s2: *snore*

02
a1: 500 years have passed, and the 7 warriors assemble once again...

Concept and Original Story: HIRO/Matsuda Makoto Manga: Amano Youichi
Act 2 Water Dragon Makidai

03
b1: Iyaaaa
b2: I feel real bad about this
b3: But I'm going to meet some friends I haven't seen in a hundred years
b4: You think you could move your ass?

04
s1: gapon...
s2: toku toku toku toku
b1a: Puhyaaa
b1b: Yay, I've been brought back to life!!
a1: Yum, yum, uhyaa-- <3
b2a: Sorry, Ogre
b2b: It's been a long while since your last meal, eh?
a2: Haven't heard your voice in a while
b3: What are you talking about! No need to sweat the small stuff, Hiro!
b4: Hey, Hiro, come here for a bit!
s3: kara kara kara

05
b1a: Up until yesterday, Matsu, Usa, Makidai
b1b: All three of their rings gave a response...
b2: But Matsu and Usa's have stopped responding (smaller text: Why?)
b3a: Well, we won't know till we ask Makidai
b3b: Where is he, Sora?
b4a: Ummmm, since it shows this point
b4b: That would be the forest over there
s1: jari...

06
b1: Here, take it
b2: That's weird, he should be right around here...
b3: Sora, get down for a bit
b4: ?

07
b1: fuu
s1a: gura
s1b: gura
s2: gura
s3: baki
s4: baki
s5: baki

08
b1: Found 'ya
b2: Been a long time, eh
b3: Makidai

09
b1: JESUS!
b2: That's the most awful face I would ever want to wake up to!!
a1: What are you, a rhinoceros beetle...!!
b3: I told ya not to say things like that! We haven't seen each other in a hundred years, have we?
b4: So, what do you want, Hiro?
b5: Well... You know... A class reunion, you know, that kinda thing...
b6: IT'S BECAUSE OF THE ISSUE WITH THE MAJINKI, NO!!?
b7: Oh, is that right (small text: hahaha)
b8: .....
b9: Well, I'll tell you about that later
b10: More importantly, what happened to Matsu and Usa?

10
b1: If you mean those guys...
b2: They died last night
b3: Just kidding!
b4: THAT WAS A JOKE!!!?
b5: Ah...
b6: ... Ah... ...
b7: Hiro?
b8: Ahhhh~~ It was a joke~~ (small text: what the hell~)
b9: You're slow!!!
s1: *pop*
s2: *gurgle*
s3: *gurgle*
b10: Have you heard the rumors about "Kamikakushi" (TN: Kamikakushi 神隠し, means to be spirited away or to disappear mysteriously. Literally means to be hidden by the gods)
b11: Kamikakushi?

11
x1a: That's right. Recently, it seems there has been a rise in the number of abductions of prostitutes by the Suizoku (TN: Suizoku 水族, literally means water tribe, and they appeared in the prologue chapter)
x1b: And whole red-light districts would disappear in a single night, thus the name "Kamikakushi"
x2: The three of us were going to exterminate those scoundrels as members of the XILE Tribe
x3: We tried to do an undercover investigation in a nearby red-light district
a1: Ahahahaha gimme more sake!!
b1: You were just using that as an excuse to go have fun and party, weren't you!?
x4: --- But that night, the worst possible scenario that exceeded even our wildest predictions befell us

12
x1: The Suizoku attacked!!!
b1: Kyaaa
b2: Start from one end and kidnap everybody----!!
b3: I couldn't have wished for more!!!
b4: Geh, they really came!!!
b5: Don't go "geh"!!!
x2: It was then that I thought
b6: I can get out of paying the bill!!
x3: That "I absolutely must protect everyone"
b7: ... Hah... I'm tired of interjecting...
b8a: Go, we're gonna go save everyone!!
b8b: But before that, I've gotta go to the toilet, the toilet
b9: Ohh!!
b10a: Kyaa
b10b: Kyaa
b11: Kyaa
x4a: I finished what I had to do promptly
x4b: And when I went out---
b12a: Kyaa
b12b: Kyaa
b13: Fire!
b14: Kyaa
s1: Gacha

13
x1: I was all alone
s1: *slam*
b1: Matsuuu?
b2: Usaaa?
b3: Those guys...
b4: Must have gotten bewitched by a fox... (TN: Often, when things can't be explained, the Japanese will blame it on a fox. There is also a Japanese legend of a guy shooting a fox, only to have the fox run to his house, turn into a human and set fire to his house. Before he could do anything, the fox-human reverted to his fox form and ran away. Seeing as everything was turned to ash and cinders, this might be what was being referenced to.)
a1: Somehow
b5: That can't be it----!!!
a2: Uaaaaaaaa
b6: That's why I was trying so hard to fall asleep again
b7: I totally cannot accept a single word you've said from start to finish, you know!!?
b8a: ... Well, to sum things up, Matsu and Usa
b8b: Were abducted along with some prostitutes by the Suizoku... That's how it is!
a3: Yeah, yeah

14
b1a: WHAAAAT
b1b: THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED!!?
a1: It sounded so much like a ghost story...
b2: YES IT IS!!!
b3a: If that's the case, we can't be standing idly by like this, Makidai
b3b: We've got to go save them
b4: I ain't going
b5: Why not!?
b6: It's their just desserts... I'm not obliged to go save them when they got into this mess themselves
b7: AREN'T THEY YOUR COMRADES!!!
b8: Oi, oi, Hiro...

15
b1: Quit acting like you're the boss of me
b2: I... I'm not as softhearted as you
b3: I'm happy as long as I get to enjoy myself!
b4: .....
b5: Eh?
b6: Hol, Hold on
b7: Hiro
b8: Makidai

16
b1: Kyaaa

17
b1: Wa, waahh
s1: Mishi
s2a: Mishi
s2b: Mishi

19
b1: Th...
b2: The forest is---!!!

19
a1: Awawa...
b1: .....

20
b1: Wahahaha
b2: Let's go, Sora!
b3: Eh?
b4: .....
b5: Wait a sec, Hiro, what do you mean!?
b6: Naaaaah, it just made me real happy
b7: What did...?
b8: That that guy hasn't changed at all
b9: Aren't you happy?
b10: ..... Hmph
b11: I don't really get it, but...

21
b1a: So, what are you gonna do?
b1b: You said you'd go search for Matsu and Usa, but did you mean right now...
b2: They'll be fine
b3: ?
b4: Damn (TN: this was written in English)
b5: Still the same annoying bastard as you always were
b6: Damn this all---!!!

22
b1: How the hell did we get caught by the Suizoku!?
s1: gashan (TN: SFX is blur because of the pattern, so I made this up :|)
b2a: I told you I didn't know!!
b2b: Maybe it's because you fainted halfway!!
b3: WHAAAT!?
b4: The one who fainted at such a crucial time was Usa, wasn't it!!?
b5: And what the hell about you then, Matsu!! (small text: you!!)
b6: (small text: Owwww...) Look, you were like, you know... Fainting for no reason...
b7: DIDN'T YOU DO THE SAME THING!!!
b8: YOU TWO ARE NOISY! KEEP IT DOWN!!!
b9: keh

23
b1a: Ahh
b1b: I'm really so very sorry for getting you customers caught up in all this...
b2a: !!
b2b: It wasn't your fault, Ms. Courtesan!!!
b3a: That's right, we're cowardly and worthless
b3b: More importantly, shouldn't you guys be worried about your families or something!?
b5: No, we are prostitutes... Our lot in life is to sell our bodies, so things like family...
b6a: Nee-san
b6b: I... Always thought of Tsubaki-nee-san as my real sister...
a1: Ooh... Ohh....
b7: Thank you, Tama-chan... Ooh...
a2: Salt water is coming out of my eyes...
b8: Oh oh!!!
b9: !

24
b1: You guys look
b2a: Like you're having a ton of fun! Gyahahaha
b2b: Then you should be agreeable to a tour of this slave ship belonging to the Great Suizoku "Kurotengu Group" (TN: Kurotengu 黒天狗, black tengu. A tengu is a long-nosed goblin)
b3: ... Well, there'll be a great lady coming along, right?
b4: It'd be great if I could just get rid of that filthy guy in the process
b5: GYAHAHAHAHAHA
b6: Do it!
b7a: Kyaaaaa
b7b: Matsu-san, Usa-san
b8: Stop iiiit!!
b9: I don't care if males die
b10: But don't hurt the women. Their value will drop
b11: Yessir

25
b1: !?
b2: ...The ship... Stopped!?
b3: Boss!
b4: What's the matter?
b5: The ship can't move, it's as if the water has solidified!!!
b6: BOSS, BAD NEWS!!!
b7: What is it this time!?
b8: Th, thththe... There's someone
b9: Sta, standing on the wateeeerrr!!!
a1: HUH!?
b10: You... Are you sane?
b11: .....
b12: An, anyway, please come
b13: Matsu...
b14: Yeah...
b15: What kind...
b16: Of magic is this?

26
b1: Give them back
b2: You bastards (TN: this was in English)

27
b1: MAKIDAAAAIIIII~~~
b2a: I wonder how Makidai knew the location of the Suizoku?
b2b: After all, he was just sleeping all the time...
b3: He wasn't just sleeping
b4: Sora, what lies beneath a forest?
b5a: ..... .....
b5b: Ah
b5c: Veins of groundwater!!!
a1: He read the location and movements of the Suizoku ship using the veins of ground water and got there ahead of them!!
b6: Say what you like, but that guy's still the "water" warrior of the XILE tribe
b7: People call him

28
b1: "Water Dragon" Makidai
b2: Here on water is right up his alley
b3: Gi... Give them back!?
b4: Gyahaha! I see, you must be a friend of one of those monkeys!!
b5: MONKEYS!?
b6: And you've gallantly come in here all alone to save your comrades...
b7: Yeah!?
b8: Hang tight to your touching little friendship to the very end, because I'm gonna show you!!
s1: gagon
b9: The secret "source of power" of my ship!
s2: gagon
b10: GO!!

29
b1: "MAKARA"!!! (TN: Makara 魔伽羅, where "ma" means demon, and the kanji for "kara" could be read as "gaya" aka the Gaya Confederacy in South Korea, or as "kyara" meaning aloes wood)
b2a: A fi, fish
b2b: Majinki!!?
b3: Damn it (TN: this was in English)
s1: *pop*
b4: Every last one of them
b5: Annoyingly prattling on about "comrades"
b6: I'm happy as long as I get to enjoy myself
b7: ------ Just that.....
b8a: Without those idiots around
b8b: My sake tastes

30-31
a1: Too darn awful!!!
b1: Bite it (TN: this was in English)

32
b1: "MEGALODON"!!! (TN: kanji for Megalodon were 大牙鮫, meaning "big fanged shark", obviously a referenced to the real Megalodons, an extinct megatoothed shark that existed in prehistoric times, approximately 25 to 1.5 million years ago.)

33
b1: Th, the water...
b2: A SHAAAARK!!?
s1: baki baki
s2: baki
b3: Impossible... Makara was!!!
b4: Hm?
b5: Geh

34
b1: GIYAAAAAAAA

35
b1: Uo
b2: Kyaa
s1a: baki
s1b: baki
b3: !!
s2: BAKUN
b4: Yo, Matsu, Usa
b5: !
b6: I'm gonna give you a chance to make a comeback
b7a: Puha
b7b: Hah... Ahh, I'm indebted to you!
s1: Gon gon
s2: jara
kanji on bag: seeds

36
a1: "KODAMA"!!! (TN: Kodama 木霊, can either mean a tree spirit, or to reverberate)

37
b1: Fuu that went well
b2: Wha, what is this!?
b3a: ... A tree!?
b3b: A tree ship... We're saved!
b4: Oi, Matsu, you gonna be the only useless one?
s1a: paki
s1b: paki
b5: GIVE ME A CHANCE TO SHINE, TOO!!
a1: "BARRETT"!!! (TN: Barrett is written with the kanji 鉄弾, meaning "iron ball". A Barrett is a kind of rifle)
b6: A person... Became an iron ball!!?
b7: You're doing it, huh
s2a: nyoki
s2b: nyoki
b8: OK (TN: this was in English)

38-39
b1a: Hah, hah...
b1b: ... Eh?
b2: "Wood" warrior of the XILE Tribe
b3: "Dark Green" Matsu!!
b4: "Iron" warrior of the same
b5: "Iron Ball" Usa!!
b6: "Water Dragon" Makidai
b7a: Shoot it (TN: this was in English)
b7b: The Trinity----
b8: "CATAPULT"!!!
b9a: !!
b9b: Wait
b10: A MIIIIINNN
b11: NUUUTTTEEEEE

40-41
b1: Makidai
b2: Thank you
a1: tch
b3: Don't know what you're talkin' about!
b4a: What do you know, that guy
b4b: He's got some really bad luck
b5: Uwaaaaaaaa---....

42
b1: What a flashy win~~
a1: wahahahaha
b2: There's no way those guys would lose to the Suizoku or to whoever!
b3: ... But you know, Hiro...
b4: ?
b5: There's something I've been wondering about...
b6: It's about that fish-type "Majinki" we saw that was pulling the Suizoku ship---
b7: I've never heard... Of a human ever taming and keeping a wild majinki
b8: Buhehh
b9: You sure are hard to kill. Will you sink if I put an iron weight on you?
b10a: puaaa
b10b: hah... hah...
b10c: ... r.... ry... hah
b10d: I'm sorry...
b11: You're apologizing now at this point, you...
b12a: hah
b12b: Please forgive me, Nee-san...

43
b1: Nee-saaaaan!!!
b2: Nee-san...?
b3a: Everyone's fine
b3b: And we can just have Makidai tow us back!
s1: *glug glug*
b4: Everyone can
b5: Return to their families again, Tama-chan, Tsubaki-san!!
b6: Yeah! (small text: thank you)
b7: ... Yes, you were really... ...Really...
b8: Useless...
b9: Eh?

44
b1: Ugu
b2a: Uga...
b2b: Ahh
s1a: mishi
s1b: mishi
b3: !!!
b4: What the hell are you doing, bitch...
b5: !!?
s2: doro... (TN: what sound does mud make?)
b6: My my, that should be my line...

45
b1: XILE Tribe~~...
b2: "Majinki"!!!
a1: The tables..... Have turned---...