BASARA
by Tamura Yumi

Source: Volume 16
Translated: Dianne Dimabuyo (DiDi)

Amber Chapter 4 . Wild Animal

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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.

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Asagi: Do you want to know what I'm going to be doing to you now?
Asagi: I can sell you to a slave trader.
Asagi: Do your utmost best and work, ne. Shuri.

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Amber Chapter 4 . Wild Animal

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Asagi: Ah.. That's right. By the way, Tatara
Asagi: has entered Touhaku.

Shuri: ......
Shuri: You already know.

Asagi: That Tatara is Sarasa?
Asagi: Wouldn't it be stranger if I didn't?

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Asagi: That's why I told you
Asagi: that I'd snatch away that which is most precious to you.
(But since I'm so nice, I couldn't do it.)

Shuri: Don't
Shuri: you lay a hand on Sarasa.

Asagi: Are? You're still saying that?
Asagi: You going to say you love her? That's really strange.. to Tatara?

Shuri: ...Asagi. What did I ever do to you
Shuri: to make you hate me so much?

Asagi: You just know that now?
Asagi: Yep. I hate you.
Asagi: Reeeeaaally hate you. Since a long time ago.

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Asagi: You lived to kick people away, Shuri.
Asagi: However, you don't remember the face of your partner in that.

Muratake: Asagi-sama, the trader.
Asagi: Ah.. Seems like your pickup has come.
Asagi: Well, then, do your best.

Shuri: ...I see. I thank you for the time being.

Shuri: You'd be shocked if I was to be quiet.
Shuri: Even slave work, by all means, is much better than being a retrogade for me right
now.

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<doka>
Asagi: What are you trying to slap on my face now? You're really irritating me.
Asagi: Even if you cry shamelessly and plead for your life,

Asagi: you'll always work with the sun beating on your back,
Asagi: next to people just like that.

Asagi: As your shadow falls
Asagi: Remember

Asagi: You aren't a king anymore. What pride is that.
Asagi: What pride do you have left, eh!?

<ha>
<fu>
Muratake: Asagi-sama...

<zei zei>
Shuri: There is nothing
Shuri: that way...

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Shuri: I
Shuri: have pride in myself.

Shuri: Nevertheless, I don't think anything but suicide can take your demons away
Shuri: You can't even believe in yourself.

Shuri: For now, thanks for saving me.

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Asagi: What. Hey!
Asagi: Don't cry so honestly. It's no fun.

No matter how many times I
thrust you down into hell
Asagi: It's no fun!
No matter how many times
I want to play with you
Shuri

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Muratake: He hits pretty strongly, doesn't he?

Asagi: He's just stupid. You can live with that kind of a wound
(Let go of me)
Asagi: along with the lizards
(and the bacteria and the amoeba)

Asagi: Because I would never have saved him.
(Even though you're boasting about that...)

Asagi: Do you know? When I was born,
Asagi: the doctor said I wouldn't live to be 20. That guy's not a prophet. Just a doctor.

Asagi: Really soon. That year is coming.

Muratake: Asagi-sama

Asagi: ...but
(fufun)
Asagi: Thanks to Tatara, I'm somehow still in good health

Asagi: I wonder if I should go to Touhaku, too...
Muratake: No way.

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It's really snowing

<goooooooh>

<crackle crackle>
<oooooooh>

Murasaki-no-Ue: I didn't hear you right.
Murasaki-no-Ue: I heard that we should surrender.

Sarasa: That's right. I said that.
Sarasa: Because Kadzuno's raising all their efforts and is coming to attack, this isn't
the big battle yet.

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Sarasa: What I see
Sarasa: is that you'll be losing the houses when they burn down the fields. Families will
die. There are people in the lower areas.

Murasaki-no-Ue: In order to rescue the many, you're saying that the Black King should
surrender.
Murasaki-no-Ue: Hoho

Murasaki-no-Ue: And we should just let the Kadzunos occupy our land.
Murasaki-no-Ue: We're seeing the same thing.

Sarasa: No.
Sarasa: The Kadzuno won't settle here.

Murasaki-no-Ue: ? I don't understand.
Murasaki-no-Ue: So what's going to happen to this place?
Murasaki-no-Ue: Who might be ruling here in the Black King's place?

Sarasa: Anybody.
Sarasa: This is just one plot of land in Japan.
Sarasa: Even the Kadzuno, even the royalty, even any army, even the farmers

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Sarasa: The people are just
Sarasa: going to become the same Japanese people.

Murasaki-no-Ue: ....So
Murasaki-no-Ue: you want me to deal with the enemy?

Sarasa: To the south
Sarasa: In order to protect the country there, there must be a politician sent through to
your enemies.

Sarasa: To the west
Sarasa: you must never take the sword against them. There are people who don't want to
fight.

Sarasa: Don't you think that war is unnecessary
Sarasa: for the future of the children?

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Murasaki-no-Ue: I see....
Murasaki-no-Ue: I want to talk about this someday
Sarasa: Someday?

Murasaki-no-Ue: When you
Murasaki-no-Ue: can tell me that yourself.

Sarasa: I am telling you myself
Murasaki-no-Ue: That may be so.

Murasaki-no-Ue: You say that you don't like war. You say we should avoid it because it
would hurt the people
Murasaki-no-Ue: That's honorable, but

Murasaki-no-Ue: If so, why is it that
Murasaki-no-Ue: your eyes look like a wild animal's, hungering for blood.

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Murasaki-no-Ue: I'm going home.
Murasaki-no-Ue: Since you drove the coach yourself, if you would please escort me..

A wild animal
hungering for blood...!?

Somewhere
in me...!
<door closes>

Taro: What an energetic woman, huh. Same to you, Tatara.
(Yoisho)
(It's Taro-chan, the journalist)
(We-----------ll, mountain pass report. This cabin's my temporary home)

Taro: (ano, na) I was thinking of writing Ageha a letter but
Taro: is there something you want to say?

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Taro: Ah... Well. Think it once over, but
Taro: between the Byakko and the Nightingale that came out of the battlefield
Taro: which one are you?

Taro: The Byakko that's been kicking the Black Army about
Taro: is you, isn't it?

Taro: Isn't it?

You're wrong.
(Shinbashi, get inside, ne)
You're wrong.

I'm not Byakko.
I'm not going to the battlefield.

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I'm not a wild animal.

I don't want blood.

But sometimes
I can hear a voice.

I hear many voices
and I can see the flames

Sarasa: The flames are...
Taro: It's really snowing, isn't it.... (And the wind...)
Taro: (Are) Hey, what's that?

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Sarasa: The Aobadera's burning!
<Goooooooh>

The Black Army

has surrounded the temple.

Takumi-san!
Rika-chan!
What's wrong?

Woman: They're burning it for nothing, but didn't they say that the spy was taking
shelter there?
<crowd abuzz>
Woman: That Juushoku-sama? I can't believe it.

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Off-shot: It seems that there's been some secret information being passed. They said that
a Kadzuno spy was here. (No way. That's scary!)

Woman: Juushoku-sama didn't come out, ne. I wonder if he's alright.
<crowd abuzz>
(Get out of the way---)

Kikune: Ah! Sarasa-chan!
Kikune: Sarasa-chan, what's wrong?

Kikune: Sarasa-chan!

Soldier: Oi! Someone's going in!
Soldier: It might be the spy! Seize him!

<gooooooh>
<crackle crackle>
<gooooooh>
<crackle crackle>

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<ooh>
voice: Hey... Sarasa
<ooh>
<ooh>
voice: Become like this
I can hear
voice: Give in
a voice

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voice: Hate
Sarasa: Ah...
Sarasa: Ah...
voice: Hate
voice: Sarasa

voice: Exact vengeance on the enemy.
voice: You mustn't clear away the resentment
voice: They betrayed us
voice: Sarasa

Sarasa: O...
Sarasa: kaasan

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Kikune: Sarasa-chan
<boho>
<footsteps>
<boho>
<footsteps>

Kikune: Juushoku-sama!?
Kikune: Why...

Kikune: That's... your sword...!?
Kikune: The Byakko sword, ne

Sarasa: Juushoku-sama took it out from where it was supposed to be.

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Sarasa: I'm.. so
voice: Hate
Sarasa: sor ry...

Kikune: Eh?
voice: Curse them

Soldier: Hey! See if you can find the secret information..
voice: Fight
Soldier: What a pity for Juushoku-sama

Soldier: You guys are Kadzuno spies, aren't you?
voice: Fight!
Soldier: We'll get our revenge by breaking your mouths
Soldier: Oohh!

Kikune: Sarasa-chan!

<buku>
voice: Fight!!

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Kikune: Sara...
<za...>

Kikune: Haa... Fu... I
Kikune: don't think I saw that...

Juushoku-sama's wounds
isn't from a sword

The Black Army didn't do it, either.
Kikune: Are? These wounds...

Kikune: I've seen this before...

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Umewaka!
Well, then, he's also the one who's been leaking information

Juushoku: Ugh...
Kikune: Eh!
Kikune: Juushoku-sama!?

Soldier: Wah----!
<footsteps>
Soldier: He's in there! The enemy spy is in there!

Soldier: Come on!
Soldier: Where?
Soldier: Take revenge!
Soldier: Uwah!! Hiii!

Soldiers: It's Byakko!

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Why
did I just see Byakko?

But she's
wearing black clothes

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Soldiers: Uwahh!
(Wah----)
<za>
<gyu>

Soldier: Don't falter!
Soldier: All the more if it's Byakko! Take revenge!

<za>
(Waaaaaaah)

Off-shot: Call for reinforcements!
Off-shot: Archers in the front!
Off-shot: Fire! He's only one person!

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Taro: She really is Byakko, after all.
Kikune: Eh!?

Kikune: Who are you, ojisan! Do you know Tatara!?
Kikune: What are you doing!?

Kikune: What's happening to Sarasa-chan?
Taro: Maa.. <keho> Just watch

Taro: She's not conscious of herself

Taro: When the bandits came upon her on Mt. Fuji
(Wah--- Wah---)
Taro: she wasn't conscious of herself.

Kikune: Not.. conscious of herself!?

Taro: But she's strong, isn't she?
Taro: Strong, really strong.

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Taro: She isn't weakened by her tired, troubled state of mind.
Taro: This is her true self.
Taro: We are talking about the Child of Fate here.

Kikune: No, that's wrong.
Taro: What is?

Taro: She hates authority. She hates the royalty that killed her family.
Taro: She said she hates war and that peace is good, but she's just hiding her true self.

Kikune: That's wrong. That's wrong!
(What are you doing?)
Kikune: Where are you looking?

Kikune: Then why
Kikune: is Sarasa-chan crying?

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Taro: Crying...!?

Sarasa
Clear our resentments away

Sarasa
Defeat the Red Army quickly, ok?

Sarasa
Fight
in my place

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I'm sorry,
Father
I'm sorry,
Mother
I'm sorry,
Oniichan

Sarasa is fighting.
I'm fighting.

Sarasa
won't love the Red King.

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I don't love the Red King.
So forgive me,
Mother,
because I'm fighting
because I hate
because

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---Please forgive me

Kikune: She's apologizing to somebody
Taro: Apologizing?

Kikune: Yeah
Kikune: Apologizing

Taro: She's communicating with her enemies and her heart....
Taro: She's probably feeling guilty, ne.

Kikune: Don't go back to your true character completely, Sarasa-chan
Kikune: Don't climb over that. You mustn't.

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Kikune: You mustn't, Sarasa-chan! Don't become Byakko!
Kikune: You musnt't!

Taro: What are you doing?
Kikune: I'm worried in my own complex standpoint, too.
Kikune: But, the Child of Fate isn't supposed to be a wild animal, right!

Taro: ......
Taro: Maa.. Ageha said something like that, too...
Taro: Well, now.

Taro: What is the Child of Fate...

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Off-shot: He's stopped moving! Seize him!
Off-shot: No! Kill!
<hoofbeats>
Soldier: Hm!? A horse!?

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Soldier: What!? He has friends!?
<hoofbeats>
Soldier: After him!
Soldier: After him!

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Taro: Who was that?
Kikune: I don't know. I'm going after him, too.
Taro: Me, too.

Soldier: The doctor said that Juushoku seems to be in safe condition. I've heard different
stories, so I'm glad.

Soldier: That spy did it.
Soldier: They've really dragged out a great one...

Takumi: Sarasa is...

Takumi: Sarasa is...

<wa---->
Soldier: Where are they? Where did they go?
<wa--->
Soldier: Find them!
Soldier: Don't let them get away, by any means!

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Sarasa: ......ri
Saraa: Shu......ri

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