BASARA
by Tamura Yumi

Source: Volume 16
Translated: Dianne Dimabuyo (DiDi)

Amber Chapter 5 . To Narugo

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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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Amber Chapter 5 . To Narugo

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Shuri...

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Shuri...

Shuri...

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<ba>

Sarasa: Ah
<zaa>

Sarasa: Shuri...?

Sarasa: Shuri......

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Well done, Sarasa
Well done

You've defeated the Red King
Sarasa: No...

Sarasa: Shuri...
Sarasa: No! It can't be.
Sarasa: No

Sarasa: No!
Sarasa: Okaasan...

Sarasa: O...

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Kikune: Sarasa-chan! Are you awake?
Sarasa: ...Wh...Who are you!?
Monta: ----------?

Monta: ......
Monta: ......

Monta: ...
Monta: Monta

Kikune: He's the guy who saved you from the Black Army. Don't you know him?

Taro: Probably a Kadzuno.
Monta: Just happened to pass by. Saw you.
Monta: Horse said to help.

Taro: Why are you talking haltedly?
<neigh>

Sarasa: Yato...

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Dimly...

I've tried to look at myself
from really far away

Taro: You really are Byakko, after all. Really strong.
Taro: You did it, Tatara.

Byakko!?
Kikune: Ojisan, I told you to keep your mouth shut!
<zawa>
I

had eyes that looked like a wild animal's, hungering for blood.
{Note: A rephrase from what Murasaki-no-Ue told her last chapter}

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Monta: Cold?

<squeeze>

Sarasa: Eh... Ah...
Sarasa: No, I'm alright.

Off-shot: Sh..
(Wah--- Wah---- Wah----)
<hoofbeats>

Off-shot: Find the Byakko!
Kikune: It's alright. They won't be coming in here.
Sarasa: Where... are we?

Kikune: Hehe.. We managed to get into the Murasaki Goten.
Taro: Can't see through the trees in the forest (isn't it?)
{Note: An expression.. Kind of like "can't pick a needle through a haystack".. they're pretty
much hidden in there.. ^^; }

Kikune: Sarasa-chan
Kikune: You saved Juushoku-sama. Good going.

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Kikune: He was wounded, but it looks like he'll be alright.

Kikune: Juushoku-sama's letter was stuffed in the scabbard of your sword.
Kikune: Did you see?

To the carrier of the Byakko sword-----

For the cries of those who are lost,
you must never use the sword.
If you come undone, you must polish it.

Taro: The one who made the Byakko sword, along with the other four precious swords was a craftsman of
this area.
Taro: I wonder if Jusshoku was aware of the relationship. (About you being Byakko)

He knew...
Sarasa: Juushoku-sama...
Be at my side.

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<gi>

Kikune: Sarasa-chan!?

<gi>

I hate my self that cries weakly
but
I hate
my self that wields the sword carelessly even more!

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Juushoku-sama
Now the sword
is sealed

Kikune: Sarasa-chan...

Sarasa: I'm sorry for making you worry...
(I must have been a nuisance...)
Kikune: No (Not at all)

Off-shot: So where do we go from here?
Off-shot: We don't have any choice but to seek refuge with the Kadzuno's for a while, after all, do we?
Off-shot: (yeah) I guess...

Murasaki-no-Ue: Will you please take me along as well?

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Taro: Murasaki-no-Ue!
(Geh! We got found out)
Kikune: Ue-sama!

Murasaki-no-Ue: Please take me along to the Kadzuno's.
Murasaki-no-Ue: I want to speak with their leader.

Taro: What're you saying? (old lady) You're the Black King's wife?
Kikune: No way!
{Note: Kikune's not reacting to Taro.. probably to Ue-sama}

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Murasaki-no-Ue: I'll be taking somebody along with me. This is Ichi.
(Nice to meet you)
Murasaki-no-Ue: Oichi, arrange our traveling preparations.
Ichi: Hai.

Murasaki-no-Ue: You there
Murasaki-no-Ue: I'd like to see your real character

Murasaki-no-Ue: You know a route, right?
Murasaki-no-Ue: A road that mostly goes by unnoticed from public view and goes to the
Kadzunos

Monta: ..
Murasaki-no-Ue: in Narugo.

Murasaki-no-Ue: Well, then.
Murasaki-no-Ue: Let's go.

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Soldier: The Aobadera has been closely connected with the royal family,
Soldier: especially since you're really strong with Murasaki-no-Ue.

Shikoku Central Government Office

Soldier: Someone will come for you later.
<gashan>

Soldier: You just escaped the death penalty, Takumi.
Soldier: On top of that, if you cooperate with us in the search for Byakko, you can erase
your dishonor.

Soldier1: What about them?
<katsu katsu>
Soldier2: Sir. They're slaves that came in today's ship.
Soldier1: I see. Put them in by morning.
Soldier2: Yes, sir.

Takumi: ......... I'm getting the same slave treatment?
<dosa>
<fuu...>
Takumi: What's that about?

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Takumi: I really liked her.... na....
Takumi: She's cute
Takumi: I would have made her my bride....

Takumi: But she was just playing around, ne. She deceived me.
Takumi: She was an enemy spy.
Takumi: Not much more than that...

Shuri: Oi. You don't know anything.
Shuri: You're such a shame.

Takumi: What did you say?
Takumi: What does a slave have to say?

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Shuri: There are also things that are real.

Shuri: Even though there's big lies and things I don't know about,
Shuri: I believe
that the little part of myself that has fallen in love

Shuri: is real...

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{Note: Map is labeled, from the top, "Kadzuno", "Narugo", and "Shikoku no Miyako"}

Off-shot: The snow is gradually getting thicker.

<za>

<hyo> <hyo>
Kikune: Oh, wow!
Kikune: Monta-san's so agile----

Murasaki-no-Ue: He doesn't look the type to be in the snow, doesn't he?
<kiko kiko>
Kikune: The war in the snowfield is a disadvantage, to begin with. (I want to try skiing,
too)

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Murasaki-no-Ue: What a useless war.
Murasaki-no-Ue: That's what I think. The Byakko, too.

Murasaki-no-Ue is
testing me.

I won't
<squeeze>
become Byakko!

Taro [thought]: What did she say?
<crunch>
<gotogoto>
Taro [thought]: This has become one strange journey...
(We're so conspicuous...)
(Looking at the snow)
(reliving memories)

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He really is a mysterious Kadzuno...
(Changing into snowshoes)

(And the journalist, Taro-chan --> )
Going northward...

The Mt. Fuji hermit
said it himself didn't he.

That the person Tatara wants to meet is in the North
Then she can break her heart's curse

.....I wonder who it is....?

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Someone
is waiting for Tatara
in the North...

<zubo>
<bo>

<neigh>

Ichi: Isn't there a better road! Or do you just feel like making Ue-sama pass through this?
(Yo----------)
Kikune: Extras shouldn't talk so rudely.
(I'm trying to feel better myself)

Kikune: The easy road has many eyes watching it! Do you understand, Oichi-san?
Ichi: Hm...

Taro: But this is all really useless. Are there other roads, Monta-san?
(If you want to be discovered)
(then yeah, over that way)

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Off-shot: A tunnel. I see.
Off-shot: Historic ruins.

Taro: Examine it later. Just pray that we don't get stuck in here.
Murasaki-no-Ue: They say that there used to be hot springs here at one time.

Hot springs...!
<dokin>

Hot springs

<dokin>
<dokin>

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Shuri!
<dokun>

Monta: Cold?
<pito>

Sarasa <surprised>: Eh. No.
Sarasa: Not really. Um..
Kikune: Sarasa-chan. Sarasa-chan.

Kikune: That guy's a little weird so maybe you shouldn't get any closer to him.
<whisper whisper>
(Ah. yeah)

<crunch crunch>

Off-shot: Oh. It's a checkpoint.
Off-shot: Sh..

Taro: Please don't let them
Taro: see our group
<rattle>

Off-shot: Amen.

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Soldier: OI!
Soldier: You over there! Where are you going? Stop!

Soldier: The hot springs!?
Kikune: Hai
Kikune: To cure my mother's sickness...
Rest: ...
Soldier: How suspicious.
(The way I look at it, you lot are suspicious)

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Soldier: What's suspicious
Soldier: is that you should be begging for pardon.

Kikune: Sara...

<do>

Soldier: They said Byakko came out of the capital. And I've been given notice that he's
about your age.
<pash pash>
Soldier: Would that be you?

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What should we do?
It's simple enough for him to just hit her, but
if it comes up to a commotion, this is going to be bad...

<gash>
<ga>

<pant> <pant>

Soldier: What's with those eyes?
Soldier: You going to take us on?
Soldier: You admit to being Byakko?

Soldier: That so!
Soldier: Just try passing by my crotch, then maybe I'll let you go.
Kikune: What did you say!?
(Uhyahya)
(hahahaha)

<ka>

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I mustn't.
Don't draw it out!

Taro: The lot of them are just playing around. We haven't been exposed yet.
Taro: If we create a commotion here, Tatara's going to be found out.

I mustn't.
I've decided not to draw it out.

I
am not a wild animal.

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Soldier: Owah!?
<hyoi>

Monta: OK?
<gon>
<gehe>

Soldier: What's this guy here?
(hahaha)
(That's a good one. Turn around 3 times and bark!)
Soldier: O..oi, look at this guy's sword!
Soldier: A bamboo sword! At this day and age? Uhyahyahya...

(haa)

(haa)

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Sarasa-chan...!

(hahaha)
(yoshyosh)
(That's good!)

Taro: If her supporters were here, the lot of them wouldn't be doing that.
Murasaki-no-Ue: Supporters?

Taro: That's Tatara.
Taro: The highly prided Child of Fate

Soldier: Byakko isn't supposed to be like this!
(Hahaha)
(Yah! Yah!)
Soldier: Ah! The sample prisoner is here.
{Note: They imprisoned him as an example..}

Soldier: We were going to hang him from some checkpoint, but
Soldier: he says he knows Byakko really well.

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Takumi-sa....n

Soldier: So what is it? Is that Byakko?

Takumi-san...

Takumi-san

Sarasa...

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Even some things
are real

Sarasa [memory]: The battlefield is a place you go to die!
Sarasa [memory]: You mustn't go!

I lost myself
even just a part of myself

that's real
Sarasa [memory]: Takumi-san
I believe in you.

Soldier: So what is it?
Soldier: That can't be Byakko...

Takumi: No

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Soldier: Are you for real!?
Soldier: Maybe you're just leading us on with the enemy.
Soldier: Yo---sh. Take this.

Soldier: Hit him as hard as you can!
Soldier: If you do that, we'll accept that that's not him.
Soldier: Do it!

Off-shot: What's wrong?
Off-shot: Can't you do it?
Off-shot: Do you admit to consorting with them?

Takumi: I can't do it.

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Takumi: I can't really hit a person I've never seen or known.

Soldier: What?
Soldier: Hmph

Soldier: Hah hah.
Soldier: So you're going to be that way.
Soldier: I see. I understand.

Soldier: Had you knocked him down here
Soldier: then I would have thought you were just trying to cover up for your friends.

Soldier: Ok. Let's go.

Soldier: We're going to check inside the coach for now.
Soldier: Are you the sick mother?
Murasaki-no-Ue: Yes.

Murasaki-no-Ue: Since it's a contagious disease, we're going to a deserted onsen...
Soldier: You should have said that earlier!
Soldier: Go on quickly!

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<wind blows>

Murasaki-no-Ue: It's really blowing, isn't it? How troublesome.
Taro: It's not gonna be a joke if we all freeze to death here.

Ichi: We'll really freeze to death if we don't go to Onikoube by sunset!
(Such dangerous conditions for Ue-sama!)
Kikune: I told you to shut up.

Off-shot: What's with that guy?
Off-shot: What's he doing?
Off-shot: He made a hole through the ice.

Monta: Eat?
(BIG CATCH)

<crackle crackle>

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Sarasa: Um... Monta-san...
Sarasa: Thanks for what you just did.
Sarasa: It must have been vexing, right?
(Ah! I was aiming for that big one!)

Sarasa: For the Kadzunos to... the Black Army...

<furu furu>

Kikune: That was really good form for Takumi-san, ne?
Kikune: He must be having a bad time...

I thought that what I wanted
was strength.

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But
everytime I'm touched by somebody's kindness
even my own self thinks that would be nice
and it it would be nice if there was more of that
It's not that Byakko's way is just strong

Taro: What? Earthquake? Avalanche?
<DO.....>
Ichi: A battle!
Battle!?

Ichi: The Onikiribe battlefield is nearby
Ichi: Who's commanding!? Ue-sama, may I go?

Murasaki-no-Ue: Oichi!
Murasaki-no-Ue: You didn't come here to fight.

Murasaki-no-Ue: Don't get yourself involved. Let's go.
(The snow's gotten thicker, ne)
Kikune: ...Sarasa-chan?
A battle!

<OOOOHHHH>
<WAAAAAAH>

(Wah----------)
<zash>
(Gyaaaa!)

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Kikune: Sarasa-chan!!

The enemy
is here, Sarasa.

<crunch>

Monta: Cold?
<gash>

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Sarasa: I'm not cold.
Sarasa: I can hear a voice.
Sarasa: A voice,
telling me
to fight.

Monta: Nobody said anything.
Monta: If you hear something, that's
Monta: your own voice.

Monta: Just your own voice.

Okaasan.
I hate the Red King even now.

But
In my dream where I was killing Shuri
I was crying and shouting

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I'm scared, Okaasan.

What should I do if I have to fight?
What should I do if I have to hate?

I've been a traitor.
Okaasan!

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That's why
I have to fight

I draw out the sword

and become
Byakko...!

Taro: It's the Nightingale!

Taro: She's really there!

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Off-shot: She's treating the enemy.
Off-shot: Making them drink their final drink.
Off-shot: Just like that.

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<dosa>

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Sarasa: ...O...
Sarasa: ka... a
Sarasa: sa... n

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Sarasa: Okaasan!!

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