BASARA
by Tamura Yumi

Source: Volume 15
Translated: Dianne Dimabuyo (DiDi)

Amber Chapter 1 . Asleep

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Disclaimer: BASARA is owned by Tamura Yumi and Shogakukan. This is a fan translation
and no money is made off of this.

Notes: These translations are *loose* translations. I've translated them so they make sense,
not as much as you may understand everything word-for-word. Why? One, it doesn't always
make too much sense. Two, I've been told I can be too strict on it sometimes, and I should
just translate to vernacular. Mind you, I'm still trying to be as accurate as possible. If
you've found a translation that is closer to the dictionary meaning, yet still makes sense,
please don't hesitate to inform me. Thanks.

: text in bubbles
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Amber Chapter 1 . Asleep

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Ageha: Hey, boy. Will you sell me those vegetables?

Boy: Ok. What? Are you going to climb Mt. Fuji?
Boy: It's really dangerous in there right now.

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Ageha: They say this area was a dense woodland. A long time ago, this was a green expanse.
Ageha: When it errupted, the place was swallowed by lava and ashes.

Ageha: And yet, there are those who walk into that once and get lost, same as it was a long
time ago.

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Ageha: Do you know
Ageha: why I brought you here?
Ageha: Tatara

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Ageha: Don't you care
Ageha: about that?

ChaCha said
she was like a bug within the amber...

What I saw when I got back from Touhaku
was a small child Tatara.

Ageha: With the Red King? What happened!?

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Bashou: She said it was love
Bashou: I could only get a little of it
Bashou: She said they were engaged.

Red King...

Ageha: What's... with that?
Ageha: What's with that!

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The Red King is Tatara's enemy.

He killed her parents and brother, burned her village...

ChaCha: I see. She's
ChaCha: only hung on only for the sake of defeating the Red King.

It was mutual.
They met by chance, unknowing

Unknowing
they were drawn to each other

Bashou: They seemed happy
Bashou: The two of them in Okinawa...

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Bashou: So they found about each others' true selves in this fight, huh..
Bashou: She's been throwing up a lot.

Bashou: I don't know what's going on with the guy, but she hasn't stopped bleeding for an hour.
{Note: That was a weird sentence, kind of... they do mention "gekkei no chi", which means
menstrual blood, but it's natural to have that for days.. ^^; i'm guessing it means that
the blood's been flowing freely for an hour... eep.}
Bashou: It's as if she's trying to purge out something inside her body.

Guy: <gulp>
Hayato: Something inside her body!?

Ageha: Nagi!
<bang>
Ageha: What were you doing?

Ageha: Why didn't you predict this!

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Hijiri: Nobody knows where the Red King is. There's a theory that he's committed suicide,
but
Hijiri: there isn't a corpse.

Ageha: He's alive.
Ageha: I feel sick.

Ageha: While you guys are sorting your pipes
Ageha: Tatara's only one person.

Ageha: There isn't another person whose existence is more important than the Red King's.

<opens door>
Hijiri: You're one of them, too, you know.
(It's fine for you to get mad)
Ageha: Ah!

<bang>
Don't run away, Tatara.

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Don't run away, Tatara.

Don't you run away.

If we can quiet our heart by running away,

no one would ever cry.

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ChaCha: Ageha!
Ageha: Ahh.. Will you leave this to me?
Ageha: We're putting her in a spot if we keep her here, after all.

Ageha: You guys fight.
Ageha: You don't need to be at ease.

Ageha: Be surprised that there's an alliance between Tatara and Touhoku.
For the time being, the King's Army is casting Dazaifu aside and pulling away from
Kyouto.
Ageha: They're regrouping the order. At any rate, they'll be coming to attack, together
with Shikoku.
{The map is labeled from the right as "Kyouto," "Shikoku", "Kyuushu" (in small letters next
to the speech bubble), "Suou no Miyako" (the capital of Suou), and "Tatara-tachi" (Tatara's
group, labeled by the ship)}

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Hijiri: Without Tatara... huh. They'll be calling in the Kumano Fleet, too.
Hijiri: Even Nachi died a useless death.
Nachi: Who died?

Ageha: It's urgent. Put in a replacement.

ChaCha: But a replacement..
Hayato: (That's impossible) A person who has his same height and figure is... (Geez, even
Asagi's disappeared---)

Hayato: ME!?

Hayato: No way, not me!
<kicking and struggling>
(Hayato! You've already pretended to be Tatara once!)
Nagi: Ageha, where are you taking Tatara?

Ageha: A place with a hermit.

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Ageha: I'm taking Yato, too.
Ageha: The horse won't let anyone but Tatara ride anyway, right?

Nagi: ...Will it be... the mountains?

Ageha: Nagi

Ageha: I won't ever listen to your predictions ever again.

On to Fuji

I thought that there wasn't anywhere but here
that could bring Tatara back to her true self.

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Ageha: (Hey) Tatara, just hang on.
Ageha: Don't drop this.

I wonder if she can hear me.

Even if she can hear me,
she's not listening.

She doesn't look at the moon, either,
and she doesn't look at the stars.

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Without crying
Without shouting
Carrying out that skillful stunt

Ageha: Are you
Ageha: really alright with that guy?

Ageha: Go on ahead of me.

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Ageha: Go to sleep.

<za>
<splash>

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Ageha: Yosh, big catch, big catch.
(Hmm... It's pretty cold, though)

<zan>
Off-shot: Eek

Ageha: A kid?
Ageha: Did you come to sell me more vegetables?
Kid: I was just worried about you, so I came to take a look at you.

Kid: The bandits come out from this area.
<pant>
Kid: And before, when the Blue Army was here, they looked like friends but
Kid: they've attacked the village nearby many times

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Kid: But you're carrying a nice sword. Are you Tatara?
(You look strong)
Ageha: What did you say?

Kid: Umm. The person called Tatara would definitely wipe out those bandits, they say.

Ageha: What's that?
Kid: It's a rumor. Everybody says so.

Ageha: That's not me, but you can try ask that one.
Kid: Really!? You'd wipe them out!? Nee..

Kid: When might you come to our village?
Kid: You'll kill them all. Nee, you'll do it?
{Note: "Massacre" and "annihilate" just seemed like too big words for the kid.. ^^; }

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Kid: He's not answering. What's wrong with him?

Ageha: He's just sleeping.
Ageha: Something bad happened to him.
Ageha: So he's dozing off.

Kid: Hmmmm... Is he Tatara?
Ageha: Could be.
Kid: Ah. Oh, yeah. I'll have to keep it a secret, won't I?
(He's a wanted person, for now, ne)

Kid: I'll tell you where the mushrooms are, so wake up quick.
Kid: Here, this way

Kid: Not that one. That's a poisonous mushroom.

Kid: Ah, you can't eat that chrysanthemum, either. You can take it, though.

Now, I still
can't see anything but a girl...

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I think
she'd probably be happy at this time

Not having to fight
Not having to kill
Not having to steal away

As for being just one girl
they'll look at this distantly in the course of history
Is mere living happiness?

Is it happiness!

<za>
Ageha: Tatara!

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<za>

Ageha: Here's your Byakko legacy.
Ageha: If you don't fight, it will probably be no more.

Ageha: Is that alright with you?
Ageha: Tatara

Ageha: Do you even care
Ageha: if I thow this away right now?

Ageha: Do you have
Ageha: no use for this anymore!

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Ageha: Your brother entrusted them to you. Memories. Prayers.
Ageha: You can throw it all away with this sword!

<karakara>
<piki>
Ageha: Tatara!!

<korokoro>
<pish>

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Ageha: I see...

Ageha: I understand.

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Ageha: Come.
Ageha: Let's wash your hair.

<ZA>

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I've always
searched for the woman I'd risk my life for.

Ageha: I wondered if it was you.

Ageha: But...
Ageha: it seems I was wrong...

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Ageha: I've been treated badly in several ways, but I won't say anymore.
Ageha: I won't say anything

Ageha: to you...
Ageha: anymore.

Ageha: ..
Ageha: Get well.
{"Be at ease."}

And if I say you can feel better...

<footsteps>

<zaza>
<pant>

<pant>
<pant>
<pant>

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Ageha: I'm going.
Ageha: Time is precious.

Ageha: You
do what you want.

<za>

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<za za>

<za za za>

Ageha: Just maybe... ...I was thinking
<za>
Ageha: If it's you

shedding as little blood as possible
there are ways it can be done by a woman like you, for sure
Just maybe...
I wondered if you could restructure the nation
that

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means you are
Tatara!!

I won't call you "Sarasa"

Never!

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chosen by history
you can be cast aside in history
like dirt
I wanted to try
that beautiful way of living with you...!

{Note: That made... a little... sense to me.. Is there a better way of saying it?}

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<go--->
Taro: Why did you cut your hair?

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Ageha: Taro-chan, were you following us?

Taro: Why did you cut it?
Taro: Were you even going to cut it all off?

Ageha: Not really.
Ageha: I just trimmed it.
(I have to find a barber.)

Taro: Are you just going to leave her here?
Taro: The bandits are loitering about right now. She's going to die.

Ageha: When I was a kid
Ageha: I was disciplined in these mountains

Ageha: If you succeed, you'll be able to meet the hermit.
<za>
Taro: What?
Taro: You're still expecting something..

Ageha: Getting along perfectly, will the journalist Taro-chan
Ageha: glue himself to his subject, Tatara-kun?

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<zaza>

<za>

Kid: Where's that guy!?

Kid: Help!
Kid: They're coming!

Kid: They raided my village!
Kid: You're Tatara, right!?

Kid: If you're Tatara, help me.
Kid: Help me!!

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Kid: Please!

Kid: My mom and dad are going to get killed!

Kid: Help me, Tatara!

Kid: Help!!

Kid: Well... <sniff> fine!
<zaza>
Kid: I hate Tatara!

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<za>

<za.. zaku>

Off-shot: A girl

Bandit: A girl in a place like this
Bandit: Hyuu
Bandit: That's just fine.
Bandit: There wasn't even an old hag in the city down there.
(Gehyahyahya)

Bandit: If it was an old hag, I'd just kill her. It'd be just like strangling a bird!
(Gyahaha)
Bandit: Ooh. That's a really good horse.
<neigh>
Bandit: Today's a day for good finds.

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Bandit: The sword we just picked up is pretty valuable, too.
Bandit: We'll test it on the girl.
Bandit: Then let's do it.

Bandit: I wonder what's wrong with this girl.
Bandit: I wonder if her hip's fallen out.

Bandit: Well her hip will be broken now
Bandit: Ojouchan

Bandit: I'm going to chew through to your bones.
<BAN>

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Bandit: Go to hell!!

Bandit: Oh!?

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Taro: Tatara
(I've cleared a path)
<kasa>
Taro: It's going to be bad if we run into the bandits, so
Taro: we'd better run aw...

Taro: What's
Taro: this smell?

Taro: What's
Taro: this?

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Taro: What's this.....
Taro: What happened here

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Taro: The smell of blood <gulp>
(geh..)
Who did this!?

Taro: Who did.. this
Taro: There wasn't anybody but that kid

You did it, didn't you
Tatara

Help me, Tatara
Help!

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I don't...

feel anything

I don't...

feel anything
Sarasa: I'm sorry...

Sarasa: I'm... sorry...

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Taro: Tatara!

Taro: Don't walk around recklessly like that
Taro: You'll get lost--

<za>
<bi>

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<buzz>
<buzz>

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Old Man: Where are you going?

Old Man: Even if you climb to the top, there's nothing there.
Old Man: You're going north.

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Old Man: The one you want to see is in the north.
Old Man: And then, you can loosen the spell cast on your heart.

North

Taro: Are you a hermit?
(Are you a woodsman?)
<gasa>
Taro: Ageha was saying...

Old Man: Ageha.. Ah. That boy a while ago.
Old Man: I only live to devour the mist.

Old Man: Won't you be going along, too?
Old Man: You don't want to shorten your life.

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Taro: I'm just a bystander in this lifetime.
Taro: I'm just going to write about Tatara's accounts.

Old Man: Is history being written by the bystander?
Old Man: Be mindful and good journey.

Taro: Thank you.
(Old Man, would you like some of our tuna on the rocks by the river?)

Old Man: There's one more...
Old Man: who's asleep

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In the dessert.
<gata gata gata>

<gata gata>

Off-shot: Wandering about in entwined dreams....
Off-shot: The children of fate.
Off-shot: Children.
Off-shot: Their names were
Off-shot: Red Tiger and White Tiger----------
{Note: "Red Tiger and White Tiger" indicate Shuri and Sarasa, respectively, if you didn't
notice.. "Red Tiger" for the "Red King".. and "Byakko" is "White Tiger", literally...}

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Date: January 18, 2001