Basara Volume 1 Ver1.0
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Table of Contents
Crimson Chapter 1 - The Son of Destiny
Crimson Chapter 2 - Tatara's Shadow
Crimson Chapter 3 - Chance Meeting
Crimson Chapter 4 - Sakura Illusion
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Basara - The spirit of freedom which denies old authority,
transcending traditions and customs.
The origin of the word is Vajra, meaning diamond.
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Crimson Chapter 1 - The Son of Destiny
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Sarasa: ("These are the Children of Destiny.")
Sarasa: (The prophet Nagi announced this on the day we were born.)
Sarasa: ("They will lead the country to freedom when grown.")
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Naration: Japan
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Makoto: Sarasa!
Makoto: Sarasa! Don't go that way!
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Makoto: Sarasa! Aren't we always told not to go into the desert?
Sarasa: Shutup. Ma-kun, don't follow me.
Sarasa: I'll just...
Sarasa: Try taking a look across the sand...
Kaku-jii: There's nothing across the sand.
Sarasa: Kaku-jii...
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Kaku-jii: Jeez, At this busy time when everyone's preparing for the festival..
Kaku-jii: Did you think no one would worry?
Kaku-jii: [cough]
Sarasa: The one everybody worries about is my brother Tatara,
Sarasa: not me.
Sarasa: 'Cause their precious Tatara-sama is the "Son of Destiny."
Nagi: Oh, You're energetic as usual, I see.
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Sarasa: Nagi.
Nagi: Kaku-jii and myself, as well as your parents,
Nagi: are all worried about you, Sarasa.
Sarasa: I'm sorry.
Makoto: You better listen to what Nagi-sama says, Sarasa.
Sarasa: 'Cause he's a prophet and a priest and a doctor and a teacher. [He's awesome.]
Nagi: That is only my family lineage.
Sarasa: While I'm thinking about it, hey, tell me Nagi, is it really true that a long time ago this place wasn't sand?
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Nagi: Yes. Ages ago, this country
Nagi: was rich with peace and beautiful greenery,
Nagi: and vast cities developed.
Sarasa: Why did
Sarasa: everything get turned into sand?
Nagi: Who knows? We have no means of knowing but,
Nagi: at the end of the 20th century a great calamity occurred, and all civilization seemed to stop progressing.
Nagi: Also, this is in accordance with a famous prophet's vision.
Sarasa: <hmph> They had someone like you back then?
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Makoto: But Tatara-sama's going to bring
Makoto: that green, rich country back, right? Because he's the "Son of Destiny!"
Sarasa: ...
Sarasa: (The Son of Destiny...)
Sarasa: (I am...)
Sarasa: (just the twin sister who resembles him only in looks.)
Sarasa: Ma-kun! Race ya to the village! [Dash!]
Makoto: Sarasa!
Kaku-jii: Remember, Work before indulging curiosity, because you just passed on some unnecessary wisdom. [ummm-ouch]
Nagi: Is there any fault it that? [chuckle]
Nagi: Though it means she may not want to stay in the village.
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Nagi: Today is Tatara's 12th Birthday.
Nagi: The Coming of Age Ceremony has thrown the whole village in an uproar.
Nagi: But,
Nagi: it is Sarasa's birthday as well...
Sarasa/Narration: Sanyou Region, Byakko Village.
Sarasa/Narration: A few plants can grow here, blessed with groundwater.
Villager: Sarasa-chan, is Tatara-sama doing well?
Sarasa: Yeah.
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Sarasa's Mother: Sarasa! Everyone is busy today, so don't cause trouble.
Sasara: Yeaah, Okaa-san.
Sarasa/Narration: Mostly crops and animals that were raised, and cloth woven on the loom
Villager: [Say hi to Tatara-sama for me.]
Sarasa: [Yeaah]
Sarasa/Narration: is given to the Emperor as tax.
Sarasa/Narration: And one other item.
Sarasa/Narration: Iron sand can be obtained in the area.
Sarasa/Narration: It was an iron town, a village of blacksmiths.
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Sarasa/Narration: I
Sarasa/Narration: liked this job best.
Sarasa/Narration: Bursts of flame
Sarasa/Narration: tempering all sorts of tools, and
Sarasa/Narration: beautiful swords...
Makoto: Sarasa! Sarasa! I got chosen!
Makoto: I got sword holding duty at the Coming of Age Ceremony! It's a biig honor!
Sarasa: Oh, really. Good for you Ma-kun.
Sarasa: (I should've gotten to do it.)
Sarasa: (But girls aren't allowed.)
Makoto's Mother: [Makoto! Stop wandering around! You're supposed to be respectable!]
Makoto: [You're mean, mom!]
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Nagi: Before the gods of heaven and earth, here begins the Coming of Age Ceremony.
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Villager: Oh, how splendid!
Villager: Tatara-sama!
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Nagi: Tatara, approach the altar.
Nagi: On the 15th day of the 8th month, we behold
Nagi: the chief's son Tatara as an adult, and bestow this honor.
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Nagi: We bestow
Nagi: the village's guardian sword, "Byakko."
Nagi: Take it, Tatara.
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Villager: Tatara-sama!
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Sarasa's Mother: We'll celebrate your birthday afterwards, okay?
Villager: With this, this village's peace is assured. No, this country's future, too.
Sarasa's Father: Come Tatara, take the wine cups.
Villager: This ends 300 years of misgovernment by the tyrannical kings.
Sarasa: (Just a little...) [thump thump]
Sarasa: (Just a little touch...) [thump thump]
Sarasa's Father: Sarasa!
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Sarasa's Father: Don't touch that!
Sarasa: Otou-sa...
Sarasa's Father: This belongs to Tatara!
Sarasa's Father: This treasure sword has been handed down though the generations
Sarasa's Father: for the "Son of Destiny!" Don't profane it with a woman's touch!
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Sarasa's Father: Sarasa!
Sarasa's Mother: Sarasa...
Kaku-jii: I'll...
Tatara: Sarasa...
Sarasa: (Tatara is the "Son of Destiny.")
Sarasa: (Then what am I?)
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Sarasa: (An unwanted child?)
Sarasa: (Tatara's leftovers?)
Sarasa: (Why did I have to be born as a twin?)
Sarasa: (Why?!)
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Sarasa: Nothing but sand...
Sarasa: (Nagi said the desert gets really cold at night.)
Sarasa: Nobody's here?
Sarasa: (It goes on forever, like the ocean.)
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Sarasa: (The ocean is like a big well)
Sarasa: (but it's salty and you can't drink it.)
Sarasa: (And...)
Sarasa: (And,)
Sarasa: (in the desert you have to rely on the stars to get around,)
Sarasa: But I don't know which is which.
Sarasa: (..and...)
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Sarasa: (What is it?)
Sarasa: (Everyone is wearing deep, deep red.) [Wow, pretty.]
Sarasa: (Soldiers?)
Sarasa: (Where did they come from?)
Sarasa: (The leader)
Sarasa: (is a boy a little bigger than me!)
Kaku-jii: Sarasa! [There you are!]
Sarasa: Kaku-jii! [Shock!]
Kaku-jii: Thank G...
Kaku-jii: Sarasa! Don't go that way!
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Kazan: Who dares cross the path of the Red King!
Kaku-jii: Sarasa!
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Sarasa: Kaku-jii!
Kaku-jii: Please forgive her... because she is an innocent child.
Kaku-jii: Mercy...
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Shuri: Kill them.
Sarasa: Kaku-jii!
Sarasa: Let me go! Let me go! They can have me!
Kaku-jii: Be quiet! Quiet!
Sarasa: (I am)
Sarasa: (an unwanted child.)
Sarasa: Kaku-jii!
Sarasa: Let me gooo!
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Ageha: Stop.
Ageha: Or you will disgrace your name,
Ageha: last son of the Emperor, the Red King.
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Shuri: I forgive them in place of your eye.
Shuri: Your name?
Ageha: Ageha.
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Ashou: Red King, That was one of the so called Blue Nobles of the nomads just now.
Ashou: Such a low, detestable people.
Ashou: That compassion will be looked down upon.
Shuri: That's enough, Ashou.
Ashou: ...yes sir.
Sarasa: Kaku-jii! Kaku-jii, hold on!
Kaku-jii: No... [ugh] I'm alright.
Ageha: ...You are the rumored Child of Destiny, aren't you?
Sarasa: That is my brother.
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Ageha: Really? It's unusual that my intuition was wrong.
Ageha: Then, tell him.
Ageha: Anticipation is gathering for him
Ageha: all across he country.
Sarasa: Um... Your wound...
Ageha: I can lick my own wounds.
Sarasa: (How can you lick that?)
Sarasa: Um...
Sarasa: (I should thank him...)
Sarasa: (Age...ha...?)
Villagers-: [murmur murmur]
Sarasa: What?
Sarasa: It looks like something happened.
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Villager: Ah, Sarasa-chan! It was terrible!
Villager: Just now, the Red King's troops came through.
Villager: They said we conspired against them, and to hand over Tatara-sama and our weapons..
Sarasa: (That procession I saw..)
Villager: And... And then...
Sarasa: Ma-kun!
Sarasa: Ma-kun substituted himself...
Makoto's Mother: It's alright. He was happy
Makoto's Mother: to die for Tatara-sama.
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Tatara: For me...
Makoto's Mother: No! Tatara-sama, his death wasn't a waste!
Villager: Yes! He died so Tatara-sama could still live!
Villager: That's right! So you could surely change the country someday!
Sarasa: (Everyone...)
Villager: Defeat the Emperor and make a country where we can live in peace!
Sarasa: (What do you want)
Sarasa: (from Tatara)
Sarasa: (to make you go this far?)
Sarasa: I'm sorry, Kaku-jii.
Kaku-jii: Mmm, this is nothing.
Kaku-jii: I was a sailor once, so I can take it.
Nagi: Sarasa.
Sarasa: Yes.
Nagi: You mustn't be so submissive.
Nagi: You must learn to accept and cope with all situations.
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Sarasa: Yes.
Makoto: *Hey, Tatara-sama's going to bring*
Makoto: *that green, rich country back for sure, right?*
Makoto: *Because he's the "Son of Destiny!"*
Sarasa: (I wonder...)
Sarasa: (If there is anything I can do...)
Sarasa: (Someday...)
Sarasa: (For Tatara-sama..)
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Narration: 3 years later---
Tatara: Sarasa!
Tatara: Hi.
Sarasa: Tatara-sama.
Tatara: Call me onii-chan. [chuckle]
Tatara: Did you stay at Nagi's house researching spreading the plantlife?
Sarasa: But, it doesn't seem to be working here... If only I could draw the water up.
Tatara: You have so much enthusiasm, Sarasa.
Tatara: Hey... did you hear? A foreign fleet is headed toward this country
Tatara: probably to raid the coasts.
Sarasa: Yes.
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Tatara: But, this country's rigid hierarchy won't be able to cope.
Tatara: Soon we'll see the hardships of aggression.
Tatara: Advance talks of cooperation with the other village leaders are going on.
Tatara: So at any rate I'll have to leave the village soon.
Tatara: Sarasa.
Sarasa: Yes?
Tatara: When I am gone, you must protect
Tatara: our parents and the villagers.
Sarasa: Yes,
Sarasa: Onii-chan!
Kaku-jii: Tatara-sama, it's time for sword practice!
Tatara: Yes.
Sarasa: He certainly became a splendid person quickly. Right, Nagi?
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Sarasa: ...Nagi?
Nagi: The wind...
Nagi: An ominous west wind...
Nagi: I hope these are not bad tidings...
Sarasa: How do you see the future, Nagi?
Nagi: Well... The reason I see...
Nagi: These blind eyes see nothing, but...
Nagi: It is impossible to be unrelated to the current of life,
Nagi: the people and living things of nature.
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Kazan: I proclaim to the citizens of Byakko Village who oppose the Emperor and plot rebellion:
Kazan: Hand over the one called the "Son of Destiny" and the treasure sword "Byakko" at once! We will not allow a fake this time!
Kazan: Otherwise you will all be killed!
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Villager: It's the red army from before!
Soldier: Bring back Tatara's head!
Sarasa: Nagi!
Nagi: Go and hide yourself. They won't spare women and children.
Villager: Please spare me! Spare...
Sarasa: Where's Tatara?
Nagi: Probably in the basement storehouse with your parents.
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Soldier: Found him!
Soldier: He's hiding in the basement! Drag him out!
Sarasa's Father: Tatara!
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Kazan: People of the village!
Sarasa: (Tatara)
Kazan: Watch Carefully!
Sarasa: (Onii-chan!!)
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Kazan: Here, Witness!
Sarasa: (O)
Sarasa: (nii)
Sarasa: (chan!!)
Kazan: General Kazan has taken the head of the "Son of Destiny!"
Villager: Tatara-samaaa! [gyaaaa]
Kazan: We will take Tatara's head and the treasure sword Byakko!
Shuri: Set fire to the whole village.
Sarasa's Father: My lord! Please... Please!
Sarasa's Father: Please, spare the villagers!
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Sarasa: Otou-sa...!
Sarasa: (The boy from...)
Sarasa's Mother: [kyaaaa] Deaaar!
Villager: The chief...! Uaaaa!
Sarasa: (before...)
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Sarasa: (The Red King!)
Soldier: Burn!
Kazan: Surround the village! If no one comes out
Kazan: burn them out!
Kaku-jii: Stand up! Somehow we have to escape!
Villager: No! There's no use!
Villager: I'm going to follow after Tatara-sama.
Kaku-jii: Stop that!
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Kaku-jii: To let yourself die here..
Kaku-jii: It's a waste!
Sarasa: Nagi...
Villager: Let me go!
Kaku-jii: Live!
Sarasa: Nagi, what...
Sarasa: Should I do?
Sarasa: What?
Kaku-jii: Live! Don't die here!
Kaku-jii: Survive! Even one of us is enough! Escape!!
Tatara: *Sarasa.*
Sarasa: Onii-chan,
Sarasa: Onii-chan...
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Tatara: *When I am gone,*
Tatara: *You must protect*
Tatara: *This village.*
Sarasa: *Yes, Onii-chan.*
Sarasa: (Yes.)
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Nagi: If he can't persuade them... Sarasa, wait here...
Sarasa: Nagi.
Nagi: Sarasa!?
Sarasa: I
Sarasa: will go.
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Kaku-jii: Come on, Stand!
Makoto's Mother: There's no point!
Makoto's Mother: The village is surrounded. We're all going to die here...
Sarasa: I won't forgive you if you die!
Makoto's Mother: ...
Villager: Ta...
Villager: Tata...
Villager: Tatara-sama!?
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Sarasa: The one who was killed...
Sarasa: (Onii-chan...)
Sarasa: Was my younger sister Sarasa.
Sarasa: (Protect me!)
Sarasa: Live! Those who what to see the king's dying face,
Kaku-jii: Nagi...sama. That's... That's...
Sarasa: Follow me!
Sarasa: And break through!
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Nagi: She instinctively realized...
Nagi: She is not becoming Tatara's substitute.
Nagi: (Sarasa...)
Nagi: (You...)
Nagi: (You...)
Nagi: (You truly are the one called the "Child of Destiny!")
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Crimson Chapter 2 - Tatara's Shadow
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Kaku-jii: Oh...
Kaku-jii: (Sarasa...!)
Kaku-jii: (You have chosen for yourself the path of living as Tatara...!)
Kaku-jii: (The Child of Destiny!)
Sarasa: Tatara still lives!
Sarasa: Everyone gather here! We will escape!
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Sarasa: (I will protect them!)
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Sarasa: (Maybe only for now,)
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Sarasa: (In place of Tatara Onii-chan!)
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Villager: But, Tatara-sama,
Villager: the village is surrounded by the Red King's forces.
Villager: Uwaa!
Kazan: Fire the arrows! Burn them!
Kazan: Death to all of the traitors!
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Elder: Bury the village.
Villager: Elder! If you get up, you'll...
Elder: Fool! If I slept, I'd be in the other world by now.
Elder It's still to early for me to die.
Sarasa: Grandpa...
Elder: We must bury the record of our rebellion collaboration with the other villages with the enemy, Tatara.
Elder: For contingency, gunpowder should be laid on the slope of the mountain.
Elder: Do you understand, Kaku?
Kaku-jii: Y..yes, but...
Elder: (And Sarasa.)
Elder: (We must hide Tatara's body.)
Sarasa: *Yes,*
Sarasa: *Onii-chan...*
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Sarasa: (Onii-chan,)
Sarasa: (Otou-san,)
Sarasa: (I'll get us out of here.)
Sarasa: Kaku-jii!
Kaku-jii: Y...
Kaku-jii: Yes!
Sarasa: Footing on the mountain is bad, and the enemy won't be able to reach. Escape there with everyone and set off the explosives!
Kaku-jii: But how are you going to make it...
Sarasa: I will go out on a horse as a decoy
Sarasa: and hold their attention.
Kaku-jii: I won't allow it!
Sarasa: You have to!
Sarasa: You can't stop me!
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Kaku-jii: Y...yes...
Nagi: Kaku-jii, he is right.
Sarasa: Is my horse safe?
Makoto's Mother: Yes!
Sarasa: (But Kaku-jii only taught me to ride when I was small.)
Sarasa: (Moreover, that horse)
Sarasa: (was raised with Tatara.)
Sarasa: (Almost Tatara's foster brother,)
Sarasa: (the strong willed Yato!)
Sarasa: (But I can't fall of in front of everyone.)
Sarasa: (Because I am Tatara!)
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Sarasa: Nagi.
Nagi: Yato.
Nagi: Your legs are unrivaled by the Red Army.
Nagi: I entrust Tatara to you.
Nagi: Take care
Nagi: of Tatara.
Makoto's Mother: It's all right! I took care of him for this day!
Makoto's Mother: You run well, now!
Sarasa: (Ma-kun's mother...)
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Villager: Tatara-sama!
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Nagi: Tatara...
Nagi: (Sarasa...)
Nagi: No matter how much you hate them, don't plunge into the enemies.
Nagi: Only lead them away.
Nagi: (Just hold the reigns tightly.)
Nagi: (Trust Yato,)
Nagi: (trust what the horse trusts.)
Nagi: Those who do not cherish their own lives
Nagi: cannot protect he lives of others.
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Sarasa: Nagi, you're going on
Sarasa: like my my mother.
Sarasa: Kaku-jii! Take care of everyone!
Sarasa: Go to the back of the mountain!
Villager: He smiled.
Villager: It's alright.
Villager: We'll make it!
Kaku-jii: Did you see that? Oh, sorry, you can't see. Hmmm, that smile is this people's energy returning. Thinking about something?
Nagi: She smiled?
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Nagi: That child is is crying
Nagi: at the limit of sadness.
Sarasa: (I can't see Okaa-san.)
Sarasa: (Was she killed?)
Sarasa: (Was she taken?)
Sarasa: (But right now)
Sarasa: (it's all I can do)
Sarasa: (to not get thrown off!)
Sarasa: (I am the "Son of Destiny")
Sarasa: (Tatara!)
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Soldier: General Kazan! One horseman approaches.
Kazan: Oh? Looks like there's still one left with a backbone.
Kazan: Fire the arrows! The dead don't...
Kazan: ...
Kazan: Wha..!?
Kazan: Tatara!?
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Soldier: Tatara!?
Soldier: Didn't General Kazan take his head!?
Soldier: The "Son of Destiny" still lives!?
Nagi: I see, they are drawn to the name Tatara.
Kaku-jii: Let's go, everyone! A little more! Take the arrows! Stay low! Watch your feet!
Kaku-jii: You're very composed, Nagi-sama.
Kaku-jii: We're in a bad position here.
Nagi: It is "the killing of a martyr."
Nagi: For the one who passes into Heaven the truth is...
Kaku-jii: We don't have time to listen to your sermons!
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Soldier: Hey! The villagers are escaping!
Kaku-jii: Ei! Leave this to me!
Kaku-jii: Hurry to the mountaintop!
Soldier: Wait!
Nagi: Ah!
Villager: Nagi-sama!
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Ageha: Are you alright?
Nagi: Yes... Though I don't know you.
Ageha: ...What!? You're not a woman?
Ageha: [I saved a man!] That's a shame.
Kaku-jii: I know that blue costume... [When did he get here?]
Kaku-jii: Umm... Butterfly...
Ageha: It's Ageha.
Ageha: It seems I've arrived a bit late.
Kaku-jii: You... could you lend us a hand?
Kaku-jii: Tatara has show up a the south river desert!
Ageha: Tatara? The "Son of Destiny?"
Ageha: So he is still alive!
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Ageha: Then
Ageha: I must see
Ageha: the "Son of Destiny's" skill for myself.
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Sarasa: (I don't)
Sarasa: (have any right)
Sarasa: (to control such a splendid horse.)
Sarasa: (It's Onii-chan.)
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Sarasa: (Oniichan)
Sarasa: (is riding Yato!)
Kazan: Is that really Tatara!?
Kazan: Then what is this head!?
Ashou: Tatara is said to have a twin sister.
Ashou: General Kazan, can you make the distinction between a man and a woman?
Kazan: How dare you Ashou! I can surely...
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Shuri: Call back the army.
Kazan: ...my lord...?
Shuri: Whether or not that is Tatara or a fake, we are running into a trap.
Shuri: The villagers are planning something.
Shuri: Call back the army.
Shuri: Quickly!
Kaku-jii: Amen. Three!
Kaku-jii: Everybody get down!
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Ashou: Some of the men were swallowed up.
Kazan: If the Red King's order had come a moment later,
Kazan: only half the troop would be left.
Kazan: My lord is great.
Ashou: Hmph.
Ashou: Because the Red King was also
Ashou: called the "Son of Destiny" by a prophet.
Shuri: Send a proclamation to the neighboring villages.
Shuri: This way, they'll waste away in the desert.
Ashou: What about the authenticity of Tatara's head?
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Shuri: Put Tatara's head out on display.
Ashou: ......I see!
Kazan: ...wha?
Ashou: Let's show the whole country that the dreams of Tatara and his ilk will never come to pass.
Shuri: Return to Doudan Fortress.
Shuri: The well is overflowing and my horse is tired from being pushed.
Ashou: He is kind to the horses...
Shuri: Is there something you'd like to share, Ashou?
Ashou: No, nothing. Just trembling.
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Sarasa: (Ogres are said to live)
Sarasa: (in iron rich earth.)
Sarasa: (A red ogre)
Sarasa: (passed through.)
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Sarasa: *Mommy! The well water's cold!*
Sarasa's Mother: *Sarasa! Water isn't meant for that!*
Sarasa: *Ma-kun, I'll race you to the house! Whoosh!*
Makoto: *Ah! You meanie!*
Tatara: *Sarasa, you're studying spreading the plantlife?*
Tatara: *You have so much enthusiasm, Sarasa.*
Sarasa: *Onii-chan...*
Nagi: *There is history in the earth.*
Nagi: *Long ago, people gathered searching for water.*
Nagi: *They dug wells, formed villages,*
Nagi: *cleared fields.*
Nagi: *Countless,*
Nagi: *countless years pass*
Nagi: *and Sarasa struggles in.*
Sarasa: (That's how things build up.)
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Sarasa: (All destroyed in one instant.)
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Sarasa: (As if it became sand..)
Sarasa: Gya!
Sarasa: Ooouch! You don't have any use for me, huh?
Sarasa: Someday you'll let me ride you,
Sarasa: Yato.
Sarasa: ("I am more skillful than Tatara.")
Sarasa: (That's what)
Sarasa: (you must be saying.)
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Soldier: That's right, that's the infamous "Son of Destiny."
Soldier: That's cruel. He's still a kid.
Soldier: I guess changing the country is just a dream after all.
Soldier: But I hear the real one's still alive.
Soldier: It's too far for me to see.
Kazan: Look well! This is Tatara.
Kazan: Tatara is dead!
Kazan: However,
Kazan: If there are any among you who doubt that this is the real Tatara,
Kazan: examine this treasure sword "Byakko" before you!
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Ageha: Doudan Fortress is a coliseum of ceramic mortar.
Ageha: Long ago, it was used for some sort of competition.
Ageha: The head they claim is Tatara's and the sword Byakko are on display in the center.
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Ageha: So,
Ageha: The people expect that if the real Tatara lives, he'll go there to steal the sword back.
Ageha: And there are those that will lend him their power
Ageha: if he succeeds.
Ageha: So then, Tatara.
Ageha: Do you have that much courage and wit?
Kaku-jii: You! How dare you speak that way!
Nagi: Kaku-jii!
Ageha: I am willing to led you horses or something as a means of entering...
Ageha: Any ideas?
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Yunoka: Um... excuse me, Tatara-sama. Aren't you tired? Here's some water.
Sarasa: Yunoka.
Sarasa: (Yunoka...)
Sarasa: (She loved Onii-chan...)
Makoto's Mother: Oh dear, we only have a few nibbles left. But don't worry about it, Tatara-sama!
Sarasa: Oba-san.
Sarasa: (We're lucky)
Sarasa: (to have even this much...)
Sarasa: (Everyone is starting to calm down.)
Sarasa: (They trust me as Tatara.)
Sarasa: (Trust...)
Sarasa: Ageha.
Sarasa: Can you get 100... no 1000 head of cattle soon?
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Ageha: Cattle?
Ageha: No horses?
Sarasa: Is it too much?
Ageha: There is nothing I cannot do.
Ageha: But, do you have means to pay for it?
Sarasa: Money?
Sarasa: I don't have any money.
Nagi: Tatara, it's only a little, but use mine.
Elder: Mine too.
Kaku-jii: Elder, go to sleep.
Kaku-jii: All right, use my secret savings.
Villager: Mister, use mine too!
Villager: Mine too, but it's not much.
Villager: Me too!
Villager: I'll give you 3 days worth of water.
Villager: I can give a piece of meat!
Ageha: ...
Ageha: I see.
P.89
Ageha: I'll write you a debt.
Ageha: Go, Kagerou!
Ageha: In the night, there are none who can surpass you!
Narration: Kagerou
Ageha: He dozes by day,
Ageha: but carries much more than a homing pigeon.
Sarasa: Ageha...
Sarasa: What are you?
Sarasa: (He lost that eye)
Sarasa: (for me...)
Ageha: People call me the proud blue noble
Ageha: of the desert.
P.90
Soldier: It's a dark night.
Soldier: How long will the Red King want to occupy a place like this?
Soldier: I want to return to Suou. A guy can meet girls there.
Soldier: Until this Tatara uproar settles down, I guess.
Soldier: If he really is alive, he'll come to steal that sword.
Soldier: That would be like suicide.
Soldier: ...hm?
Soldier: What
Soldier: is that?
P.91
Soldier: Red lights...
Soldier: in the desert...
Soldier: A mirage...?
Soldier: ...R...
Soldier: Red... Kiiiing!
P.92
Soldier: Cows! A herd of cows is...!
P.93
Soldier: Uaaaa! A stampede is coming!
P.94
Soldier: Stop! Stooop!
Soldier: Red King!
Soldier: Red Kiiiing!
P.95
Sarasa: (Onii-chan...)
Sarasa: I, Tatara,
Sarasa: Reclaim the treasure sword "Byakko!"
P.96
Kaku-jii: [Wow...] Nagi-sama, did you advise Tatara
Kaku-jii: to come up with this plan?
Nagi: I have taught that child everything I know.
Nagi: How he uses it is dependent on his own skill.
Kazan: [I can't tell one thing from another.] Red King, Tatara... Tatara did survive!
Shuri: It would seem so.
Shuri: Get a bow.
Soldier: Y..yessir.
Shuri: Quickly!
Shuri: He is only alive
Shuri: until I kill him.
P.97
Sarasa: (An arrow!)
Sarasa: (The Red King!)
P.98
Sarasa: Uwa!
P.99
Crimson Chapter 3 - Chance Meeting
P.101
Kazan: Red King! I can't see because of the smoke...
Kazan: Where's Tatara?
Shuri: He fell.
Shuri: He's probably been trampled beyond recognition.
P.102
Soldier: 872,
Soldier: 873,
Soldier: There not much trouble to provision now, huh?
Kazan: Who cares about the cattle! Find Tatara's corpse!
Soldier: Yes sir!
Kazan: I will make a report, Red King!
Kazan: I cannot locate Tatara and the sword "Byakko!"
Ashou: He managed to escape somehow.
Ashou: He has good luck...
Shuri: That's not so, Ashou.
P.103
Shuri: Luck is something you take by force.
Shuri: And he did just that.
Shuri: The inadequate defense and weak fortress are an embarrassment!
Kazan, Ashou: Y... Yessir!
Ashou: But at this time we don't have enough manpower to defend against Tatara and dispose of the cattle.
Kazan: Why do you make so much of that brat?
Shuri: It's something to concern myself with
Shuri: in this worthless world.
Kazan: My lord! A rash remark like that will...
Shuri: I'm going to rest. Hurry and repair the fortress.
P.104
Kaku-jii: What on earth is going on, Ageha?
Ageha: I can't see. It's calmed down, but...
Kaku-jii: Who knows how many cows have wandered by, but,
Kaku-jii: Where's Tatara!?
Ageha: Who knows?
Kaku-jii: Eei! That's enough! I'm going!
Ageha: Wait.
Kaku-jii: A cow...
P.105
Kaku-jii: Tatara!
P.106
Kaku-jii: Tatara!
Kaku-jii: This's bad! An arrow...
Nagi: Tatara!
Sarasa: A victory
Sarasa: for Tatara.
P.107
Kaku-jii: You did very well.
Ageha: But, that wound will become a burden
Ageha: if you can't use the sword you fought to regain.
Ageha: What would you do if pursuers were coming now?
Kaku-jii:: You! Stop that kind of talk!
Nagi: Kaku-jii! He speaks the truth. Let us hurry and get out of here.
Kaku-jii: Tatara, let me help...
Sarasa: I'm fine!
Sarasa: I can walk.
Sarasa: I can walk by myself.
P.108
Nagi: The bandages wrapped around her body
Nagi: kept the wound shallow.
Nagi: But she has a slight fever...
Kaku-jii: That's unavoidable...
Kaku-jii: (Slim shoulders...)
Kaku-jii: (Of course.)
Kaku-jii: (This is a girl, after all.)
Kaku-jii: (And still small...)
Villager: Tatara-sama.
Kaku-jii: Don't come in!
Kaku-jii: He is asleep. Don't go in
Kaku-jii: and disturb him.
P.109
Yunoka: I brought water for Tatara-sama.
Nagi: Yunoka, you understand, don't you? Don't disturb him.
Yunoka: Nagi-sama...
Nagi: He is fine, Yunoka.
Nagi: The wound is shallow and he'll be out of bed soon.
Yunoka: Nagi-sama, please let us help. We're almost out of water and food.
Villager: We've kept in contact with Ochiori Village. I don't think they'll turn us away.
Nagi: Go as envoys? But it's quite far...
Villager: We'll be back in 3 or 4 days!
Kaku-jii: Hmmm, really, young people these days...
Villagers: Thank you very much!
Ageha: A charming girl.
Nagi: She was a candidate to be Tatara's bride.
Ageha: [Was?] Then I must be mistaken. The prophets of old said...
P.110
Ageha: The woman who risks her life to the limit will return someday.
Ageha: It hasn't been fulfilled yet, but...
Nagi: I may have met her
Nagi: without realizing it.
Ageha: ...It would be good if you were a woman.
Nagi: What? Excuse me?
Ageha: Oh, you can see Sagittarius, prepared for war, in the southern sky, with his bow aimed at Scorpio.
Ageha: Not unlike Tatara
Ageha: and the Red King.
Nagi: The constellations remain precise,
Nagi: though the appearance of the four seasons in gone in this country.
P.111
Ageha: Oh yes, some hot springs pour out
Ageha: among some rocks no more than 5 kilos to the west.
Ageha: They're good for wounds. [Good night.]
Nagi: Thank you very much.
Nagi: Sagittarius, the invulnerable beast, prepares for war.
Nagi: (But he, too, can be slain by an arrow.)
Nagi: (The royal dynasty,)
Nagi: (a desert scorpion running in fear)
Nagi: (to the winter Orion.)
P.112
Sarasa: (Hot...)
Sarasa: (I'm hot...)
Sarasa: (Okaa-san,)
Sarasa: (Otou-san,)
Sarasa: (Onii-chan,) [gasp, gasp]
Sarasa: I'll burn up, I'm going to burn up!
Sarasa: Save me!
Sarasa: (Save me!)
P.113
Elder: Sarasa?
Sarasa: Ojii-chan.
Elder: You were having a nightmare.
Elder: But your fever has gone down.
Sarasa: I had a dream about a huge cockroach!
Elder: I see, I see.
Sarasa: Say, will you tell me about something?
Elder: About what?
Sarasa: About this country, and the kings.
Elder: Let's see...
Elder: 300 years ago in this island country of ours, the leaders of each area fought each other. It was a world of war.
P.114
Elder: Soon the forebear of the current kingdom, the legendary figure called the Akuro Emperor,
Elder: subdued the whole country.
Elder: He moved the capital to Kyoto and set up a centralized government.
Elder: Right now, his 15th successor, the Ukon Emperor reigns.
Elder: The country was divided into 4 provinces with the capital in the center
Narration: Kyoto
Elder: and each is ruled by one of the king's sons.
P.115
Elder: I hear the resource-rich north continues to resist.
Narration: Shikoku
Elder: The eldest son, the Black King is confronting them.
Elder: In the old capital in the sunken east land is
Narration: Seiran
Elder: The second son, the Blue King.
Elder: The third son, the White King,
Narration: Kyoto
Elder: hates war, and is said to have secluded himself at Mt. Hiei.
Elder: Finally, the south and west from the capital, including our village...
Narration: Suou
Elder: Is ruled by the last son, the Red King.
P.116
Elder: Sarasa...?
Elder: Are you asleep...?
Sarasa: Wow!
P.117
Sarasa: So this
Sarasa: This a hot spring, huh?
Sarasa: It feels good!
Sarasa: What a luxury all this hot water is! [Too bad I can't drink it.]
Sarasa: Ou...ch.
Sarasa: It must be too early for that still.
P.118
Shuri: Hm?
Shuri: I thought only the animals and I knew about this place.
P.119
Sarasa: Gyaaa!
Sarasa: (He... He saw me.)
Sarasa: (He saw me!)
Shuri: Seeing nude women is nothing new to me.
Shuri: Don't let it bother you.
Shuri: For one thing, I can't really call you a woman with a bust like that. [Hahaha]
Sarasa: That's none of your business.
Shuri: Hurry and get out. My horse is coming in.
Sarasa: (So he says but)
Sarasa: (my clothes are over there...)
P.120
Sarasa: [It's gotten like this.]
Shuri: Hahahaha!
Shuri: How long do you intend to stay in there?
Shuri: I told you I don't mind.
Sarasa: (I do mind!)
Sarasa: ......Only your horse is getting in?
Shuri: It's to finish healing an old wound.
Shuri: When Toki here runs, no horse can match him.
Sarasa: Have you tried burying a cucumber?
Shuri: A cucumber? The vegetable?
Sarasa: There aren't any others, are there?
Sarasa: If you pray and bury a cucumber,
Sarasa: the illness comes to reside in it. [Nagi said that.]
P.121
Shuri: ...I say only fools believe
Shuri: in superstitions like that.
Sarasa: I think so too,
Sarasa: but the point is the effort.
Sarasa: After all, it can't hurt to do
Sarasa: What people say is good.
Shuri: Then the point is self-satisfaction?
Shuri: All right.
Shuri: Come out before you boil.
Sarasa: Hmph.
Sarasa: Don't look. Don't look!
Shuri: ...
P.122
Sarasa: Wh...
Shuri: All women are happy when I do this.
P.123
Sarasa: DAMN YOU!
Sarasa: Don't put me along with your women!
Shuri: Hahaha!
Shuri: Certainly,
Shuri: no other woman's punched me.
Shuri: I'm Shuri.
Shuri: And you?
Sarasa: ......
Sarasa: Sarasa.
P.124
Shuri: Are you coming tomorrow night?
Sarasa: I'm not! [So there.]
Sarasa: Bye.
Shuri: [I saw you.] See you tomorrow. [chuckle]
Kaku-jii: Tatara! You shouldn't be running yet!
Sarasa: Let's go, Kaku-jii!
Sarasa: (Oh, what a shock! What's wrong with that guy?)
Sarasa: (Shuri...) [th-thump]
Sarasa: I'm hot.
Sarasa: (Shu... ri...?)
Nagi: Tatara? Are you alright?
Nagi: Does your wound hurt?
P.125
Sarasa: What?
Nagi: Your breathing is uneven.
Sarasa: Um... That's...
Nagi: Rest for 2 or 3 days more.
Nagi: You have to take care of yourself.
Sarasa: Hey, Nagi?
Sarasa: I wonder if
Sarasa: Yunoka and the others reached Ochiori Village safely?
Sarasa: (Yunoka)
Sarasa: (really loved)
Sarasa: (Tatara Onii-chan.)
Sarasa: (That love...)
Sarasa: (Is different from how I love my friends...)
Sarasa: Not coming, huh?
P.126
Shuri: Yo!
Sarasa: What're you doing?!
Shuri: You're the only woman who's bloodied my nose.
Sarasa: That's your fault!
Shuri: Did you come to see me?
Sarasa: No
Sarasa: I
Sarasa: Didn't!
Shuri: I
Shuri: came to see you.
Sarasa: [th-thump]
P.127
Sarasa: Here! For your horse.
Sarasa: Herbs. Put it on a poultice and you get better.
Sarasa: That's how it works on people, anyway. [I got it from Nagi.]
Sarasa: Bye.
Shuri: Hey,
Shuri: Sarasa.
Shuri: Come
Shuri: with me.
Shuri: I'll give you
Shuri: the most luxurious time of your life.
Sarasa: I'm not interested in luxury. [What are you after?]
P.128
Sarasa: I will
Sarasa: Kill the people who murdered my family.
Sarasa: That is all.
Shuri: Revenge!
Shuri: With those skinny arms?
Shuri: But it might be fun to have a family
Shuri: you want to avenge.
Sarasa: You don't have a family? [What's fun about it?]
Shuri: A stupid, sickly, do-nothing drunk of a father and two talentless brothers that crowd me.
Shuri: So it's up to me
Shuri: to make something of myself.
P.129
Shuri: Those who are right will win in the end.
Shuri: Good luck avenging your family.
Sarasa: Yes, good luck to both of us.
Sarasa: Bye.
Shuri: Ah, wait, wait.
Shuri: I'll bring you repayment next time, but for now,
Shuri: There's this.
P.130
Sarasa: You idiot! [Gyaa!] I never want to see you again! Absolutely never!
Shuri: Hahaha!
Sarasa: (Oh god,)
Sarasa: (Oh god...)
Sarasa: (I don't know what kind of rich boy he is, but)
Sarasa: (my first kiss is...)
Shuri: [chuckle] That's right.
Shuri: I have
Shuri: to succeed.
P.131
Shuri: (The one who rules Japan is)
Shuri: (the Red King, Shuri.)
Shuri: (Me.)
P.132
Ashou: My lord, you seem in high spirits.
Shuri: I met a lively doe.
Kazan: That's unusual! Let's catch it and eat it.
Shuri: No.
Shuri: I'm going to eat it.
Ashou: A woman. It's a woman.
Shuri: Are there any cucumbers in the provisions?
Kazan: Yes sire. The vegetable cucumber...?
Shuri: Do you know of any others?
Kazan: The lady likes cucumbers...?
Shuri: Ashou! How are the repairs?
Ashou: Yes... It will take 2 weeks.
Shuri: You're too slow!
Shuri: Finish in three days.
Shuri: And Kazan!
Kazan: Yessir.
P.133
Shuri: How is the laborer recruitment for the capital going?
Kazan: Yessir.
Kazan: I've gathered roughly 100 people from the nearby villages.
Kazan: Tomorrow morning I'll take them to Kyoto through Tsuyama.
Ashou: Most likely, Red King,
Ashou: survivors of Byakko Village are mixed among them.
Shuri: Fools! You mistook my orders!
Kazan, Ashou: Y... Yes, sire. We have no excuse.
Shuri: ......
Shuri: Tatara will come.
P.134
Sarasa: Yunoka was...!?
Hisha: [pant, pant] Yes... I am Hisha of Ochiori Village.
Sarasa: Someone get some water.
Hisha: It was 1 day ago. Three of Tatara-sama's envoys visited the village.
Hisha: We wished to meet with you...
Hisha: But, General Kazan of the Red Army advanced on the village
Hisha: and took all of the villagers except the aged and the children.
Sarasa: With Yunoka and the others!
Hisha: Yes. I escaped here with our elder to inform you, Tatara-sama.
P.135
Ageha: A huge temple is being built in the capital now
Ageha: for the sake of healing the Emperor's illness.
Sarasa: Ageha...
Ageha: A statue of Buddha will go in during construction.
Ageha: It's a huge waste, but in every age, leaders want a symbol of power.
Ageha: When the work is done, The worn-out laborers taken from across the land
Ageha: may not be able to return home if they survive.
Hisha: Please, Tatara-sama! Please save our people!
Hisha: You who broke through Doudan Fortress should be able to do it.
Sarasa: (Yunoka...)
P.136
Sarasa: (Again)
Sarasa: (The red ogre)
Sarasa: (tries to steal the lives of the villagers!)
Sarasa: I will save them.
Sarasa: I will go save them!
Kaku-jii: Wait, Tatara.
Kaku-jii: How...
Nagi: Tatara, its too soon.
Nagi: If you don't wait and store up your strength your wound will flare up again...
Ageha: You'd best heed your elder's opinions.
Ageha: It's too soon for you to be killed.
Sarasa: No!
Sarasa: I can do it!
Sarasa: I can do it!
Sarasa: I'll have success this time!
P.137
Ageha: Becoming a braggart after breaking through a fortress once
Ageha: won't inspire people to follow you.
Sarasa: Ageha! That's not what I...
Ageha: Do what you will,
Ageha: "Son of Destiny."
Sarasa: (I will do it.)
Sarasa: (without fail)
Sarasa: (I'll kill the Red King!!)
P.138
Sarasa: (I WILL kill him!)
P.139
Crimson Chapter 4 - Sakura Illusion
Narration: Doudan Fortress
Kazan: Watch carefully! Tatara could show up.
Soldier: General Kazan.
Kazan: What!
Soldier: There is something we want to show you privately.
P.141
Soldier: We decided to notify you first instead of Ashou-dono.
Kazan: What!
Soldier: Please keep your voice down.
Soldier: She is Tatara's mother.
P.142
Kazan: Tatara's... mother!?
Soldier: She's a first rate beauty, despite being a country peasant. She would be very comforting to us...
Soldier: Go ahead, General Kazan, for your distinguished service...
Kazan: I will now inform you! I hate such low behavior
Kazan: more than the Red King does!
P.143
Kazan: I apologize for my subordinate's rude treatment.
Kazan: If you consider your treatment and stay calm...
P.144
Sarasa's Mother: You are the man who murdered my son!
Sarasa's Mother: If you disgrace me any further,
Sarasa's Mother: I will kill myself.
Kazan: I don't care if you die.
Kazan: I'll display your body for Tatara to see.
Sarasa's Mother: ...Tatara!?
Kazan: How many fighters does your son have to take his place?
Kazan: We kill him over and over, only to find him alive.
Sarasa's Mother: Tatara is...
Sarasa's Mother: alive...
Sarasa's Mother: (That can't be.)
Sarasa's Mother: (This man cut off his head.)
Sarasa's Mother: (Then...)
Sarasa's Mother: (Then, it's Sarasa...!?)
P.145
Sarasa's Mother: (Sarasa has risen in his place..!?
Sarasa's Mother: (Oh... The real)
Sarasa's Mother: (Child of Destiny!)
Sarasa's Mother: (Your mother)
Sarasa's Mother: (isn't dead yet.)
P.146
Kazan: I will have something to eat prepared for you. Come along.
Kazan: Well then, my lord.
Kazan: I will take the 100 laborers
Kazan: to Kyoto.
Ashou: Be as careful as possible.
Kazan: I know that, Ashou.
Shuri: I'm busy and can't go to the capital, but give my regards to dad.
Shuri: I'll see you off later around Tsuyama.
P.147
Shuri: After all, that's where Tatara will show up.
Kazan: (I didn't mention Tatara's mother.)
Soldier: General Kazan! Depart!
P.148
Hisha: Tatara-sama!
Sarasa: Hisha? What's the situation at the fortress?
Hisha: The Red Army has left Doudan Fortress!
Hisha: General Kazan and less than 30 mounted men are escorting 100 laborers.
Hisha: It looks like the Red King will link up with them later!
Villager: Tatara-sama, we're finished taking down the tents.
Villager: The departure preparations are done.
Villager: And, the bows and arrows and other things are laid out.
Sarasa: All right. Thank you.
Ageha: You seriously mean to attack the Red King with less than 20 men? [I didn't think you were serious.]
Sarasa: Ageha.
Ageha: I'd like to see this for myself but I won't go with you.
Ageha: From here, I'll go to Kyushu.
Sarasa: You're... going? [A little sad]
Sarasa: You've done a lot for us.
P.149
Sarasa: You are a little disagreeable, but I won't forget you kindness.
Sarasa: When you are in trouble I will surely come to your aid.
Ageha: [Hmph.] You act like someone brought up in happiness.
Ageha: But you have a long way to go!
Ageha: Probably news of the "tragic death of Tatara" is circulating in Kyushu.
Ageha: We'll meet again, if luck is with you.
Ageha: ("Son of Destiny,")
Ageha: (Do not fail your allies. That much is expected of you.)
P.150
Ageha: (Will you become weak,)
Ageha: (or become strong...)
Ageha: (If you become strong,)
Ageha: (Will you become a menace)
Ageha: (greater than that of your enemy?)
Kaku-jii: Tatara, give a war cry for our first battle.
Sarasa's Father: *Don't touch it!*
Sarasa's Father: *That belongs to Tatara!*
Sarasa: (The Treasure Sword Byakko)
Sarasa: (that I was forbidden to touch,)
Sarasa: (is now)
Sarasa: (in my hands.)
P.151
Sarasa's Father: *Tatara!*
Sarasa: *Onii-chan!*
Villager: [*Kyaaa*]
Villager: *Chief!*
Sarasa's Mother: *Deaaar!*
Sarasa: (With this sword,)
Sarasa: (I will kill)
Sarasa: (the Red King!)
Sarasa: Depart!
P.152
Sarasa: Attack the Red Army and
Sarasa: take back Yunoka and the others!
Sarasa: Hisha, watch the Red Army and report back in detail!
Hisha: Yes sir.
Shuri: *Those who are right will win in the end.*
Sarasa: (I am not wrong.)
Sarasa: (For sure,)
Sarasa: (I am not wrong!)
P.153
Kaku-jii: It's tough for us bald people, right Elder?
Elder: Ho, ho, ho.
Elder: This is a big help.
Sarasa: (I'm worried about Ojii-chan's health, but
Sarasa: (But everyone)
Sarasa: (must be tired of living in this inhospitable desert.
Sarasa: (So,)
Sarasa: (each of us must push on)
Sarasa: (to rescue our allies...!)
Villager: Tatara-sama.
Villager: There's a person out there...
P.154
Sarasa: What... are you doing, obaa-san?
Old Woman: This
Old Woman: is a graveyard, traveler.
Old Woman: My son and grandson
Old Woman: sleep here.
Elder: These are probably the remnants of Asahi Village.
Elder: They were taxed until they couldn't so much as breathe.
Elder: Finally, the villagers started a riot.
Old Woman: In one moment, the Red Army
Old Woman: completely destroyed everything.
Old Woman: I've been like this since then,
Old Woman: making
Old Woman: many, many graves.
P.155
Old Woman: A child called Tatara is supposed to have been born
Old Woman: in another village...
Old Woman: It is said
Old Woman: that person will make the earth a garden for us.
Nagi: Look well, Tatara.
Nagi: The only ones who prosper are the Emperor and his family.
Nagi: Such a world should not be allowed.
Nagi: You must defeat not only the Red King, but the Emperor and his family - the Black, Blue and White Kings, and found a new country.
Nagi: You will become the leader of a revolution.
P.156
Sarasa: (Revolution!)
Nagi: Such is the star
Nagi: that the "Child of Destiny" is born under.
Sarasa: (Nagi... that's not right)
Sarasa: (That is...)
Makoto's Mother: Tatara-sama, is it alright if I make a grave?
Sarasa: Ma-kun's mother...
Makoto's Mother: A grave for Sarasa-chan.
P.157
Makoto's Mother: I am truly glad that you are alive, Tatara-sama,
Makoto's Mother: but, it's a little sad that no one cries
Makoto's Mother: for Sarasa-chan.
Makoto's Mother: Now she can play
Makoto's Mother: with my son in heaven...
Sarasa: (Everyone...)
Sarasa: (Didn't you know?)
Sarasa: (Didn't you notice...?)
Sarasa: (My height and my voice)
Sarasa: (must be different from Onii-chan's.)
P.158
Sarasa: (But still...)
Sarasa: (But still, you want to believe...)
Sarasa: (that the one who died was Sarasa, and Tatara is alive!)
Sarasa: (Nagi...)
Sarasa: (It's not use,)
Sarasa: (I can't do it.)
Sarasa: (Revolution...)
Sarasa: (Defeating the Emperor...)
Sarasa: (I can't fathom it.)
Sarasa: (I'll just)
Sarasa: (get Yunoka and the others back,)
Sarasa: (and kill the Red King.)
Sarasa: (Then tell everyone)
Sarasa: (I'm Sarasa,)
Sarasa: (and settle down in some quiet place)
Sarasa: (with Ojii-chan and Kaku-jii and everyone...
P.159
Sarasa: (And rebuild our village)
Sarasa: (from step one.)
Nagi: There should be
Nagi: a well in this area.
Nagi: It's in this direction.
Kaku-jii: Good, let's take a break.
Sarasa: I'll look for it.
Kaku-jii: Tatara! Look out!
P.160
Sarasa: (I can't keep up the appearance)
Sarasa: (when I'm crying.)
Sarasa: (It's... the well.)
Sarasa: (Someone's there...)
Sarasa: (Huh?)
Sarasa: (Shu-Shu-Shu-Shuri!)
Sarasa: (No way!)
Sarasa: (What's he doing in a place like this?)
P.161
Shuri: Sarasa!?
Sarasa: Hi.
Shuri: I always meet you around water.
Sarasa: What are you up to? You brought a different horse today. [Are you a horse peddler?]
Shuri: I have some business to take care of here. Damn, but I'm busy all over the place.
Shuri: And you?
Sarasa: From here,
Sarasa: I'm going to meet my enemy.
Shuri: I see.
Shuri: Then, take this. [The repayment I left.]
Shuri: My best friend gave me this as a charm. [I don't put faith in such things, but,]
Shuri: There are some kind of plant seeds inside.
P.162
Shuri: I was told to plant them if I found some good soil somewhere,
Shuri: so it adds to the plantlife.
Sarasa: [Thanks.] I always
Sarasa: wanted that too.
Sarasa: I country filled with green.
Shuri: I'd like to make that country.
Shuri: Take your revenge and survive!
Shuri: I'll meet you at the hot springs again tonight!
Sarasa: I said I'm not going there!
Shuri: [Ha-hahaha] I kind of like seeing you there.
Sarasa: (Overflowing green...)
P.163
Shuri: (My country, ruled in peace.)
Sarasa, Shuri: (The one who stands in my way...)
Sarasa: The Red King!
Shuri: Tatara!
Hisha: Tatara-sama!
Hisha: The Red Army has met the Red King and is camped on the other side of Tsuyama.
P.164
Hisha: We must attack tomorrow morning.
Hisha: It has to be in Tsuyama.
Hisha: Tsuyama Canyon has only one steep, narrow path and visibility is bad.
Hisha: We will only be able to progress in a single file line.
Hisha: In addition, they will be crossing a long suspension bridge.
Hisha: They won't be able to break out of the line here.
Sarasa: Understood. We all will go there during the night.
Sarasa: Kaku-jii and I will slip into the line when we see a chance.
Sarasa: Ojiichan, I'll be leaving with Kaku-jii.
Sarasa: Rest well.
Elder: Tatara.
Elder: No, Sarasa. I have something to discuss with you.
Elder: If something happens to us...
Sarasa: Ojii-chan! I don't want to hear talk like this!
P.165
Elder: Listen.
Elder: If anything happens,
Elder: visit Suzaku Village on Sakura Island in Kyushu.
Sarasa: Kyushu!? [That's really far]
Sarasa: Sakura Island?
Elder: Long ago, the Sword of Byakko you carry
Elder: was part of a part of a set of 4.
Elder: They are what remains of our ancestors who opposed the royal dynasty that gathered to save the country.
Elder: To avoid pursuit, they scattered throughout the land
Elder: with the 4 swords.
Elder: One of them should be in Suzaku Village.
Elder: I don't know the whereabouts of the remaining two.
P.166
Elder: Gather the 4 swords, Tatara.
Elder: Swords are just swords but,
Elder: The one who holds them will gather the powers of the people... and their hearts.
Elder: That person will surely become powerful, and will be able to defeat the Emperor.
Sarasa: .....
Sarasa: Yes.
Sarasa: Kaku-jii, lets go
Sarasa: enter the line of laborers.
Elder: Nagi.
Elder: You can see the happenings of tomorrow...
Elder: But still,
Elder: You can't stop destiny.
P.167
Soldier: Walk!
Soldier: Walk!
Soldier: Hurry and walk or you'll die before you make it to Kyoto!
Sarasa: (Yunoka...)
Sarasa: I'll save you soon.
Yunoka: Tatara-sama!?
Soldier: Stop staring around and walk!
Yunoka: Kya!
Sarasa: !
Kaku-jii: Tatara! Hold on until the suspension bridge.
P.168
Sarasa: (Tsuyama Canyon.)
Sarasa: (When we get there,)
Sarasa: (everyone is supposed to ambush)
Sarasa: (All at once...)
Kazan: So, Red King, in that case...
Kazan: When we get to the capital...
Sarasa: (The Red King!?)
P.169
Sarasa: (Right... in front of me.)
Kaku-jii: Tatara, hang on.
Kaku-jii: It's too soon.
Kaku-jii: Hang on!
Sarasa: (He is)
Sarasa: (close enough)
Sarasa: (to touch.)
Sarasa: (I could)
Sarasa: (get the Red king now!)
P.170
Sarasa: [thump, thump]
Kaku-jii: Dooon't!
Sarasa: Red King! Prepare yourself!!
P.171
Sarasa: (I... did it.)
Kazan: Hm... Ha... Hahahaha!
P.172
Kazan: [Hahahaha] You fell for it so easily! Look, Tatara!
Kazan: Who do you think you've killed?
Sarasa: (I'm wrong...!?)
Sarasa: (That's not the Red King!?)
Kazan: We learned from you and prepared a replacement.
Kazan: The Red King is watching.
Kazan: Up there!
Kazan: [Hahahaha] Die, Tatara!
P.173
Sarasa: [uwaa!]
Kaku-jii: Tatara!
Yunoka: Tatara-sama!
Yunoka: [Kyaa!]
Sarasa: Yunokaa!
P.174
Sarasa: [Uwaaa!]
Kaku-jii: Tatara!
Kaku-jii: Get ahold of yourself!
Kazan: The others don't matter! Kill Tatara! [Hahahaha]
Hisha: Tatara-sama!
Kaku-jii: Hisha, hurry and get Tatara!
Kaku-jii: Run!
Kaku-jii: Run
Kaku-jii: to the suspension bridge!
P.175
Kaku-jii: Run!
Kaku-jii: Tatara! Hurry!
Sarasa: [gasp, gasp]
Villagers: Tatara-sama is...!
P.176
Villager: Fire the arrows!
Villager: We'll save them!
Kazan: Hold your ground!
Kazan: Return fire!
Sarasa: [gasp, gasp]
Kaku-jii: Tatara... quickly...
Elder: Tatara.
Elder: Understand? Go to Sakura Island.
Sarasa: Ojii... cha...
Kazan: Who is this old man?
P.177
Elder: Our village is gone.
Elder: My life vanished with it.
Elder: but,
Elder: the young ones can still go on.
Elder: Tatara, hold on.
Kazan: What are you doing!?
Kazan: You old fool!
Sarasa: Ojii-chan!
P.178
Elder: Haha, This is a good place
Elder: to die.
Sarasa: Ojii-chan!!
P.179
Soldier: [Uaaa Gyaaa]
Sarasa: [Ua!]
P.180
Sarasa: Kaku-jii!
Sarasa: Kaku-jii!
Sarasa: Kaku-jii!
Sarasa: No!
Hisha: Tatara-sama, climb up!
Sarasa: Noooo!
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Villager: Tatara-sama!
Yunoka: Tatara...sama.
P.181
Sarasa: Yunoka...
Sarasa: Yunoka!
Yunoka: I wanted... to see
Yunoka: the new country...
Yunoka: Tatara-sama...
Yunoka: would make.
Sarasa: Wait!
Sarasa: Everyone, waiiit!
Sarasa: (I was going to save you.)
Sarasa: Uwaaaa!
Sarasa: (to save you...)
P.182
Sarasa: (Someone...)
Sarasa: (Kill me...)
Sarasa: (Someone!)
Sarasa: (Anyone!)
Sarasa: (There's)
Sarasa: (nothing left...)
P.183
Sarasa: (Nothing...)
Sarasa: Flowers... Nagi.
Sarasa: In a place like this...
Nagi: Long, long ago
Nagi: this place was famous for cherry blossoms.
P.187
Shuri: Aren't you coming...?
Shuri: (Sarasa...)
P.188
Elder: *Tatara,*
Elder: *go to Sakura Island.*
Narration: The curtain has not yet opened...
<BASARA>1 - End