Examurai 4

Aim for this week: Mago 141 and AnE 20~ Wish me luck!! I hope I can even do that much, what with starting an internship this week. Will do my best :3



01
b1: What's wrong, Takahiro?
a1: Has something weird happened to Akira...!?
s1: Hah
b2: What do you mean by "please stop Akira"?
s2: Hah
b3a: Hah
b3b: I'm sorry, there's... No time
b3c: Hah
b4: I'll tell you the details on the way

02
a1: Act 4 Hurricane Takahiro and Beast King Akira
a2: Concept and Original Story: HIRO/Matsuda Makoto
a3: Manga: Amano Youichi
a4: A howl --- pierces the moon-lit night ---

03
b1a: For the past 500 years, Akira-san and I
b1b: Have been protecting Sensouji to ensure that that which Atsushi-san "sealed" wouldn't fall into the Majinki's hands (TN: Sensouji [浅草寺] is an ancient Buddhist temple located in Asakusa, Tokyo, dedicated to Kannon)
b2: The vieeeeewwww is awesomeeee~~
b3: EEEEEEEK~~!! (small text: so hiiighhh~~)　
b4a: We had Sora-hime's kekkai, too, so nothing has happened yet (TN: Kekkai [結界] is a spiritual/magical barrier. Very common in manga. Have you not read Kekkaishi? :p)
b4b: But last night, something else...
b5: Left us in a little bit of a pinch...

04
b1: Last night, there came a report from a nearby town, saying, "countless majinki have attacked us"
b2: Akira and I rushed there and managed to save the town in the nick of time, but
b3: --- While we were fighting, Akira-san's "beast" ring's power went berserk...
b4: His "beast form" won't disengage
b5a: "Beast form"... Meaning that technique where he turns his own body into a beast, right?
b5b: It increases his physical abilities manifold, but a mistake in the regulation of power could lead to it running rampage and become a "berserker"

05
b1a: Once he enters that state, the only way to return him to normal is to knock him out cold
b1b: But doing so is beyond my ability
b2a: Just then, the winds told me that Hiro-san was nearby...
b2b: I know this sounds really pathetic of me...
b3: I seeeee...
text next to Sora: Do you really get it?
b4: So... What did you mean by there being no time?
b5: Look down there
b6a: Down?
b6b: What the hell is that!?
b7: Majinki ruins?
b8: They're Akira-san's footprints
b9: Akira-san has been moving on instinct since last night

06
b1: Indiscriminately destroying
s1: baki
b2: Every last majinki that crosses his path
b3a: And with the path he's taking heads straight towards
b3b: Sensouji!!!
b4: ...... It's right in front of him...
b5a: ... Hmmm, that does seem pretty bad...
b5b: If the temple gets destroyed, the seal will...
b5c: Hm?

07
b1: What's wrong, Sora? (small text: You're shaking)
b2: I- I- I'm scared of heights
b3a: WAHAHAHA
b3b: That's oddddd~~!!!
b4: HEY!! STOP ROCKING ABOUT, HIRO!!!
b5: Whacha talkin' about? Both Sora and Ogre
b6: Are higher beings who've come from waaay up above, aren't they!
b7: It's... It's just so weird when you consider that, you knooow...
text above Hiro: Wahaha
b8a: ?
b8b: !!!

08
b1: Watch out!!!
s1: bam
b2: Eh?
s2: taruuuuuuu...n
a1: A bird... "Majinki"!?
b3: Uwaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
b4: Kuh
a2: Oh, winds!!!

09
b1: !!
b2: wawawah
b3: I'M
b4: FA-
b5: -LLING
b6: GEH!!!
b7: Hiro-san... Please do something about Akira-san...
b8: whoo whoo whoo
b9: !!!

10
b1: I am the Strategy General of the sky, Stolas Minerpa
b2: May I assume that you will not hinder me?
b3: XILE Tribe
a1: "Majinki"
b4: A therianthrope type... And a Captain Class...? (TN: A therianthrope is a shape shifting human-turned-animal)
b5: But... Strategy General?
b6: It's been established that therianthrope types aren't exactly the smartest around...
b7: whoo whoo whoo
b8: That is truly the most foolish aspect of man's nature

11
b1: Humans are quick to judge, and try to make such simplistic conclusions about the things and people around them
b2: Such a trait cannot be called anything but the "epitome of foolishneessssss"!!!
b3: ... I know all about you, XILE Tribe's "Wind" warrior...
b4: "Hurricane" Takahiro-kun
b5a: --- And that wolf who's going on a rampage, the "Beast" warrior, "Beast King" Akira
b5b: And the one who just fell from the sky is the "Flame" warrior, Hiro of the "Blue Flames"
text above Hiro: Owwww...
test above Sora: Hiro, you okay?
b6: Naturally, the fact that all of you survived these 500 years with the power of those rings was well within my calculations... Why? Because those rings---
b7: Were once the property of us, the Majinki!!
b8a: You do understand, do you not?
b8b: It is precisely because of this great brain of mine
b9: That this "plan" was executed so perfectly!!

12
b1: Plan...!?
b2: Don't tell me last night--
b3: Was a "trap" set up by yours truly
b4: Last night, I had the majinki under me ravage the town in order the draw you two out
b5a: ... But of course, I was fully aware that sending those thousands of men like I did was equivalent to sending them to a dog's death!
b5b: My motive was something else
b6: Akira-san's... Eye patch!!?
b7: That man wears an eye patch all the time
b8: In order to prevent the power of the "beast" from running wild due to the moonlight
b9: And in the full moon of last night

13
b1a: Once he lost the eye patch, he was nothing more than a raging...
b1b: "Beast"!!
b2: After that, all I had to do was prepare some bait along the path to lead him onto it. It was easy
b3a: !!!
b3b: ... You wanted to make Akira-san attack Sensouji...
b4a: GREAT!!!
b4b: After all, there's a "barrier" that none of us can penetrate set up around it
b5: ... In other words, your real aim was the thing Atsushi-san had sealed up---
b6: "Raigou" (TN: Raigou [雷轟] means rolling thunder)
b7: ... I.. Get it now
b8: The truth behind the matter... And...

14
b1: Seeing how you discard your comrades as if they were mere "pawns", never getting your own hands dirty by staying off the battlefield...
b2: How absolutely cowardly your way of doing things is!!!
b3: And... Your point is?

15
b1: !
b2: whoo whoo whoo
b3: Does a chess player
b4: Ever step onto the playing board?
b5: ......
s1: gurururuurururu
b6: Wahahahaha this guuuy
b7: We sure fell into a convenient place, now didn't we!

16
b1: Yo! Akira!
s1: baki baki baki
s2: gyaaaaaaaaaaa
b2: Well then, I'll be off for a bit (small text: You hide over here, 'kay?)
b3: Ah, Hiro! Your sword!!! (small text: You've left Ogre sheathed!!)
b4: Don't need 'im

17
b1: No way am I ever gonna
b2: Point my sword at a comrade!
b3: Now, come, Akira!
b4: Wai- Wh- Wha- What're you doing just standing there, Hiro!!?
b5a: Isn't that like asking him to "please punch me"??
b5b: HUUUUHH~~!?
b6: .........

18
b1: Hiroo!!!

19
b1: .........
b2a: Just what I was expecting from Akira!!!
b2b: That huuurt~~
b3: So this is gonna be a "tie"... ALRIGHT!!?
b4: I'm gonna give you a good punch now to wake your right up
b5: Forgive me, 'kay?
b6: Hiro-san...
b7: You sure it's okay to be looking away?

20
s1: uwa
s2: shiii...
b1: Instead of worrying about your comrades
b2: I suggest you worry more about your own self right now, hmm?
b3: Me, worrying about Hiro-san...? As if!
text above Takahiro: Haaah...
b4a: It's him we're talking about, you know. He's different from you
b4b: He's the one who thinks more about his comrades than anyone else, and the one who's stronger than anyone else
b5: That's why... The leader of the XILE Tribe can't be anyone but Hiro-san
b6: Moreover...

21
b1: While I'm at it
b2: I'm not exactly worried about myself, either
b3: --- L- LIES!!
b4: Damn youngsteeer!
b5: You will never be able to win against meeee!!!
b6: "FORMATION"!!!

22
a1: BIRD BALL!!! (TN: The reading is "bird ball" but the kanji is "360〫x 360〫一点集中" meaning "360〫x 360〫one-point convergence)
b1: !!!
b2a: Whoo whoo whoo
b2b: The weakness of an archer is that because he needs the use of both hands
b3a: He is unable to launch attacks in multiple directions simultaneously no matter how he struggles
b3b: You will never be able to escape from this "formation"!!
b4: .........

23
b1: ............ How should I put this...
b2a: You can say, "I'm totally beat"!!
b2b: Die by this perfect plan of mine!!!
b3: ... I didn't mean that... Didn't you say so yourself?
b4: Something about, "making simplistic conclusions about the things and people around them"
b5: Oh, Winds!
b6: Storm at the wicked!!!

24-25
a1: "HOMING"!!! (TN: the reading is "homing", but the kanji is "導きの風" meaning "guiding wind")
a2: A bow and arrow that... Took down everything... In a single shot!?
a3: ... A technique like this...
a4: Wasn't within... My calculations...

26
b1: Uuuuunn...
b2: Something like that sure makes you think... That the established theory that the therianthrope types aren't smart is right after all~!
b3a: !
b3b: What about Hiro-san and Akira-san!?
b4: !!!
b5: Nughh

27
b1a: wah
b1b: tah
s1: gashi
b2: !!!
s2a: baki
s2b: baki
s3: baki
b3: Sorry, Akira
b4: But I don't need that

28
b1: I don't need such a huge toy
b2: A TRAAAAAAINNN!?

29
b1: adeh
b2a: dowah
b2b: tah
b3: You sure love to play, huuuh!!!
b4: ... But play time's just about---

30
b1: OVER!!!
b2: !!!
b3: AKIRAAAA

31
b1: Bear with it, kay?
b2: My moxibustion is (TN: Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy using mugwort herb and either acupuncture needles, or a mugwort cigar that's burned onto a patient's skin)
b3: A little hot!!!
b5: Open...

32-33
b1: YOUR EYEEEEEES

34
b1: fuuuuu~
s1: baki baki

35
b1: Great job, Hiro-san!
b2: Yeah, you too

36
b1: ... The aim of the majinki who caused this incident is---
b2: The "Raigou"
b3: ... Figures
b4a: In the great war 500 years ago...
b4b: We were instantly driven into a corner and on the verge of annihilation
(TN: the kanji on raigou's shoulder is "Rai" meaning "thunder")
b5: All because of the majinki named "Raigou"
b6: Back then, Atsushi had no choice but to sacrifice himself to seal it
x1: I'll seal it from the inside, Hiro-san...

37
x1: ...... Once I've sealed it, build a temple and put up a kekkai
x2: And never ever let the seal be broken
b1: We almost let it fall into the hands of the enemy again...
b2: Hiro-sa...
b3: But we managed to get ourselves out of that pinch in no time!!
b4: I don't feel like we could ever lose, right, Takahiro!?
b5: UOOOOOHHH~~ I'm all fired uppppp
x3: ... He really is Hiro-san
b6: ... Well, thanks to that, we were all saved, so honestly...
b7: Hmm? You said something?

38
b1: All warfare
b2: IS BASED ON DECEPTIOOOON!!! (TN: this is a line from Sunzi's Art of War)
b3: Hiro-san!!!
b4: !!!
b5: This way, even if I die, I'll bring you with me
b6: Thereby living out my loyalty to Byakuya-sama to the---

39
b1: Very...
a1: ---- ...End?

41
a1: fshuu...
b1: Akira...
b2a: Kuaaaaah
b2b: My head huuuuurts
b3a: The hell is going ooooon
b3b: Huuuuh!?

42
b1: Ah, my bad, Hiro-san
b2: I beat them up pretty bad, that okay?
b3a: Mmmm...
b3b: It's OKAY, just this once!!
b4: I have no clue what Hiro-san's doing here, but whatever the reason, that calls for a feast tonight!!! (small text: Gahahaha)
b5: Just as I thought... He doesn't remember anything...
b6a: WHAAAAAT!!?
b6b: I- I... Hiro's teeth!?
b7a: Something so terrible... I'm so sorry!!
b7b: I'LL YANK OUT EVERY LAST ONE OF MY OWN TEETH!!!
b8: WAAAA WAAAA

43
b1: It's okay. Don't sweat it. It's more important that you're okay
b2: Hiro-jaaaaaaan
b3: Besides, they'll grow back, right? They're milk teeth after all
b4: YOU'VE LIVED FOR 500 YEARS AND YOU'VE STILL GOT MILK TEETH!!? (small text: gagagaaaan)
b5: Hiro, what do we do next?
b6: Isn't it obvious? We'll head straight to where Atsushi is and...
b7a: !!!
b7b: You don't plan on breaking the seal, do you!?
b8: You can't! You absolutely cannot do that!!!
b9: I can't? Why?
b10: Why!? Of course it's because it's dangerous and...
b11a: Gahaha, give it up, Sora-chan
b11b: You ought to know by now what kinda guy he is, eh?
b12: Ever since 500 years ago... We've made up our minds to enter the final battle together

44
b1: All 7 of us
b2: Are the "XILE Tribe" after all!
b3: The show can only begin once all the actors have gathered... No?

45
(TN: kanji on the lantern is also "rai", again it means "thunder")
(TN: all the bubbles in panel 2 are unintelligible chantings)
a1: Reverberating sutras...
a2: The sealed Raigou...