The Final Chapter - Aubergine - A Glorious Death

Disclaimer: BASARA is the sole property of Yumi Tamura and Shogakukan.
This is a fan translation. No profit is made by it.

Hello! So, this is BASARA Volume 25, first chapter. Hope you enjoy. It's not literally
translated word for word, because I feel that that is awkward. And besides, if you did that
half the story would not make sense... anyway! So don't think that what the bubbles say in Japanese is
what I have down on as the translation because the sentence strucuture in Japanese and English is quite different.
Like in page 18 and 19, the actual words that I have translated are switched in the book.
What I have translated on page 19 are actually the words on page18 in the manga and visa versa.
Do you get it? I don't know. So, yeah, they're not literal translations. I have tried my best. If there are any comments,
criticisms, corrections, or whatever have you, please e-mail me at tamakikm@hotmail.com Thanks!

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Ageha: *Kagerou...Did you give Tatara the message?

Ageha: Go fly away to wherever you want after that.*

Ageha: Damn it!
No matter what I do, it wonít stop!
*The castle is going to collapse*
Itís going to fall Tatara!

Ageha: *Hurry! Escape Tatara, Asagi!*

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Yarougumi: Fire! Kill him!

Ageha: Stop getting in my way, Yarougumi!
My hands are full.
Do you guys want to be burried alive too?!

Hachiya: You have slaughtered our comrades without mercy.
As well as many senior statesmen, starting with the Chief Minister.
All under the shadow of justice called revolution.

Hachiya: All the wishes, which could have come true in the age of peace and quiet,
has diminished now because of you!

Ageha: What age of peace and quiet?! When has that exisited?!

Ageha: *There is no such thing, anywhere, in the worlds I have seen!*

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Ageha: *But even in those worlds*
There are people who have lived and lived and are living!

Ageha: *And it's all of their wishes*
There is no way I'm gonna be beaten by you!

Asagi: *I have lived and lived and lived*

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Asagi: *While I always thought that I didn't care when I died,
"What am I?"
I was afraid.*

Asagi: *Afraid to know what I was worth.*

Asagi: *"What am I?"
But I think,*

Asagi: *I probably already know the answer to that question, older sister*

Asagi: *somewhere in my heart.
Tatara: "Asagi"*

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Shuri: Go Tatara!
It's going to collapse.

Sarasa: *I...*

Sarasa: There's a person...
over there...

Sarasa: A woman...?

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Shuri: Mother.

Shuri: MOTHER!!!

Shuri: There's no reason for you to die!

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Shuri: It's always this distance!

Shuri: Not desiring and not being desired. Not even embracing me.

Shuri: She was only a mother who gave birth.

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{Shuri's flash back}

{Sarasa's flash back}
Shuri: A father with no brains, two older brothers and a bunch of others.

Sarasa: *You never mentioned a thing about your mother.*

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Sarasa: The fact that she gave birth to you is an amazing thing in itself.

Sarasa: It's not as if babies are born in three or ten days.
They stay in the mother's stomach for almost a year.
During that time the mother

Sarasa: is so cautious, SO cautious.
Taking care of you and trying to protect you.

Sarasa: Everybody is like that. I'm sure.

Sarasa: So there's no way that she couldn't have treasured you.

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Sarasa: There's no way that she couldn't have loved you.

Sarasa: *There's absolutely no way.
You were like that too, right?* (probably talking to the mother)

Shuri: Go ahead!
I'll go after I rest for a while.
Go! I didn't come to be a burden to you.

Sarasa: I won't go.

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Sarasa: I will bring you to where everybody is.
As the last king.

Sarasa: I will bring you.
*Aah...*

Sarasa: *Right now, I clearly wish*
As Tatara's last job,
*for him to live.*

Sarasa: in front of the people who think you as their foe,
I will bring you.

Sarasa: *Whether you are the Red King or Shuri
or whether you are even the Red King who destroyed our village,*

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Sarasa: *I want you to live.*

Shuri: Foe, huh...
...That's right.

Sarasa: Let's go.

Sarasa: It'll be alright. We'll make it in time because Ageha is here.

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Sarasa: *Because Ageha will definitely save us.*

Soldier: This will be the finish!

Ageha: Shit

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Ageha: KAGEROU!

Ageha: I told you not to come back.

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Soldiers: Ahh!

Ageha: There's no way out now, huh, Hachiya?

Ageha: I'm gonna at least take Taro-chan's revenge.

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Ageha: Like I'm sure you can kill me

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Ageha: with your ability!

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Hachiya: Sorry to disappoint you....

Hachiya: but I'm not the...

Hachiya: most competent one out of the Yarougumi.

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Hisoka: See, I told you Hachiya-san. I'm just about equally matched.

Ageha: Hisoka... damn you!

Hisoka: I'm sorry, Kichou-san.
I was your fan but

Hisoka: You asked me once before what I believed in.
Well, you see, I believe in Hachiya-san

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Hisoka: since I had no choice but to become a thief
if he hadn't picked me up.

Ageha: We're equally matched.

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Ageha: This is a place of wind drift....

Ageha: *Go Tatara!*

Ageha: *GO!*

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{Various scenes of people trying to get out of the castle before it collapses}

Asagi: *I know somewhere in my heart, older sister. *

Asagi: *What am I?*

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Asagi: *What am I?*

Asagi: *I am...*

Hijiri: ...No, more to the right!

Hijiri: I told you more to the right! Stupid, now you've gone too far.

Nachi: Which way?

Hijiri: No, this way, this way.

Asagi: *I am..*

Hijiri: Yes, Bingo!

Nachi: Asagi!

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Asagi: *I am...*

Hijiri: COME TO KUMANO!

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Nachi: It's the country you hate, but the bamboo shoots are delicious
and you can pick matsutake mushrooms. (drool)

Asagi: *What am I..*

Nachi: We'll let you eat a lot of delicious food,
so come with us.

Hijiri: Geez! Is it all about eating?!

Asagi: *...I am me.*

Asagi: *I AM ME.*

Asagi: *What I wanted,*

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Asagi: *I probably knew the whole time,
why I was so drawn to them.
Probably...
because they were similar to the things I yearned for.*

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Asagi: I won't go.

Asagi: I won't live dependently anymore

Asagi: I will live independently, by myself.

Muratake: I will follow you.

Hijiri: Asagi, coming to Kumano is

Nachi: different from being dependent, I think.
Come anytime you want to.

Muratake: Asagi-sama, please hurry.
It doesn't look like it will last much longer.

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Sarasa: There's a fire occurring someplace.
Where's the path?

Sarasa: Which way?
Which way should I go?

Ageha: This way Tatara

Sarasa: AGEHA!

Sarasa: Oh, good.
You're alright.
I was worried because you said you were in the basement.

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Sarasa: I made another debt.
I wonder how many I have accumulated.
I'm sorry. I will make up for it someday.

Ageha: Tatara

Ageha: You've already paid back your debts.

Sarasa: Ageha...?

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Kiku: Sarasa-chan!

Sarasa: Kiku-chan!
Ichimatsu-san too?! Why?

Sarasa & Kiku: I'm so glad!

Nakigin: Shuri! Are you ok? You look like you're about to die.

Shuri: Nakigin.

Nakigin: We've already evacuated everybody over here.

Nachi & Hijiri: Tatara!

Sarasa: Nachi!
Hijiri-san.
What on earth?

Hijiri: Asagi left with Muratake-san.
Nachi: I became teary-eyed. It was such a good story.

Nachi: He looked fine.

Sarasa: Ok.

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Kakugi: Tatara!
Oh! Is everybody alright?

Sarasa: Kakugi!

Sarasa: Hurry! Get away from the castle!
Hurry! It's going to collapse!

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{Collapse of castle}

Ginko: Awaji is burning.

Ginko: Kakihito

Ginko: Kakihito

Ginko: Kakihito

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People: WOW!

Sarasa: It's an amazing instant.
If Ageha hadn't stopped it...

Sarasa: ...Ageha?

Sarasa: Where's Ageha?

Shuri: Who have you been talking to?

Sarasa: Well... wasn't Ageha there?
He showed us the way.

Shuri: There wasn't anybody there.

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{flash back}
Ageha: I'll hold it until the last moment.

Sarasa: *There's no way he could have gotten out of the basement before us.*

Nakigin: Tatara!

Nakigin: Wait, stop! Don't get near it.
The moat's water entered the basement and created a washout.
It's totally buried now.

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Sarasa: But I promised!

Sarasa: When he's in danger I would go to save him.
That's what I promised!

Sarasa: *He won't die.*

Sarasa: *He can't die.*

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{flashback}
Ageha: You've already paid back your debts.

Sarasa: But I haven't paid back.
I haven't paid back anything!
Don't go Ageha!

Sarasa: Don't go!
Don't go!

Sarasa: *He's not here*
Don't go!
*He's not here anymore*

Sarasa: Don't go!

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Sarasa: *He's not here*
AGEHA!!!!!!

Sarasa: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

People: Kakugi!
Finally, the time has come for Tatara to kill the Red King!

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Sarasa: Noo!

Sarasa: *What are you trying to find?*

Sarasa: *Ageha?*

Sarasa: *I want to find him*

Sarasa: *I don't want to find him*
NOOOOO!!

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Cha-Cha: Tatara....

Zaki: Let her alone, Cha-cha.

Cha-Cha: I can't believe it...
that THAT Ageha is...

Zaki: Well, it's him.
He's probably fine and he'll suddenly pop up again as he always does.

Cha-Cha: That's what I think too.
But....

Cha-Cha: maybe there's something that she understands.

Sarasa: *He was like the burning flames...*

Sarasa: *like the pure flow of the water...*

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Sarasa: *like the warm earth...*

Sarasa: *he was never controlled...*

Sarasa: *He was like the wind.*