Drifters 5

[1]
Upper note: [Drifters] Kohta Hirano

Side note: Nobunaga, Yoichi, Toyohisa... the "samurai" of the Rising Sun... will spring into action now!!!

Nobunaga: Bandits.
Brigands, it seems.
The village is under attack.
This is the smell of battle.
The village is inhabited by those queer guys from beyond the forest.
Those with long years who pulled you up here.
I guess they are called "elves" or something, and...


[2]
Nobunaga: Huh?! Hey!
Wait!
Do you intend to go there?!

Toyohisa: I know nothing about what's happening here!
I don't even know if this is a dream or it is reality!!
So, the only thing I can do...
... is to dash forward!!


[3]
Nobunaga: .... he is an oaf.
And to think that, just until now, he was on the brink of death.
Just like a bullet, he goes forward without thinking.

Thought: Will they move?
What are they going to do?
How is it going to be?

Nobunaga: Very well!!


[4]
Splash: A fantasy work mixed with the Warring States Era!!
Drifters
Chapter 5 - The sound of heels

Fierce Nobunaga ---
the Warlord is not dead!

Kohta Hirano
"Hellsing"
Volumes 1-10 on sale!


[5]
Toyohisa: Slow! Too slow, Oda Nobunaga!
What happened to the Devil Lord of the 6th Heaven?!

Nobunaga: SHUT UP!!
I am already in my fifties, idiot!

Yoichi: Toyohisa-dono, how old are you?

Toyohisa: Thirty.

Box above Yoichi: Nineteen


[6]
Toyohisa: Why are you looking at me like you have bested me?!

Yoichi: Tee hee

Nobunaga: This man is completely different from what you read in the records about the Genpei War...


[7]
Elves: H...
Hel...
H...
Help...


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[9]
Men: !!

Toyohisa: Hiya, brats.


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[11]
Toyohisa: Leave your head here!
Leave your head here!
Come on!

Man: W... who are you...?!
You are... the "drifters"... from the castle in ruins...!

Toyohisa: I can't understand you.
I can't understand a single word you are saying.
Speak the language of the Rising Sun, will you?
If you can't speak it...
... then die.


[12]
Man: A... aah...
Aaaah!

Screams: Ah!
Aaaah!
Argh!
Gaaah!
Yaarg!


[13]
Elves: Aaaah!
Aaaah!

Toyohisa: Funny ears indeed.
You were the ones who saved me, right?
Now it is my turn to save you.


[14]
Nobunaga: Are you really willing to let them live?

Toyohisa: !!

Nobunaga: Those two can't speak the language of the Rising Sun either.
(the flag on top of Nobunaga's head: "Devil")
So, their destiny should be "death" as well, right?

Toyohisa: "Help me!" Come on, repeat after me! "Help me!"
I'm telling you to repeat! "Help me!"

Elves: ?
?
??

Toyohisa: "Help me!" "Help me!" Come on, say it!!

Elves: ?!
Help me!
Help help me!!
Help me me me me!!

Toyohisa: All
right!
Perfect
job!

Yoichi: What an arm-twisting...

Nobunaga: That was on the same level of Ikkoushuu...
[T.N.: Ikkoushuu was a group of Honganji believers who stood up many times against Nobunaga.]


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Nobunaga: Very well.
Now...
let us...
take the village.


[16]
Man: "Take"?
Did he say "take"?
Neither "rescue" nor "help",
but "take"?
They are a morbid case of it, since their birth.
The greatest talent they have.
No, more than that!! The only talent they have!!
They have only one reasoning, no matter the place and time!
They are planning to take over the country!

To be continued

Side note: What is the purpose of the misterious organization who watches Toyohisa and the others? And what about the "power" of the Japanese warriors in a foreign land!?

Foot note: Drifters 5 end
Continues on the next issue (on sale September 30th).