The Last Episode ~ Eternity~ Leaving only the flames behind

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

Hello! AT LAST after the long wait.... here's the final episode!
I did my best to translate but I probably didn't do justice to it. I,
personally, think this is
the BEST manga ending I have ever read. (And believe me I've read many) But
don't let my beliefs
influence yours. Read it for yourself and see what it is like. I truely hope
you enjoy it
Here's a few notes before though... I don't translate literally 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.
Anyway, I have tried my best. So without further delay... I present to you
the last episode of Basara.

If there are any comments, criticisms, corrections, or whatever have you,
please e-mail me at tamakikm@hotmail.com Thanks!

** thoughts
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() my comments

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People: It seems like the corpse of the King was found in the mountains!

People: The farmers who live nearby seemed to have killed him.

People: YES!

Sarasa: *Here
it announces the end of the Royalty reign.*

Kakuji: Tatara, the time has come to kill the Red King.

Sarasa: Huh?

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{Ageha's spirit appears next to Motomichi}

Senjyu: Oh, Ageha! You were here?

Senjyu: So you were entertaing, Motomichi?

Ageha: Go to Kyo. (He means Kyoto)

Senjyu: Huh...

Nanny: {calling} Princess Senjyu

Senjyu: Uh.. yes. Would you hold on a moment? Ageha is here...

Senjyu: Huh... {Ageha is not there}

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Senjyu: Ageha...?

Sarasa: *Ageha...*

People: Tatara! The time has come at last to kill the Red King!

People: Kill the Red King, Tatara!

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People: For the rancor of the village of Byakko

People: For the rancor of the people who were killed by the Red King

People: Please avenge their death NOW, Tatara!

{Uproar}

People: Tatara!

People: Tatara!

People: Tatara!

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Soldier: But wait, hold on! The Red King sided with Tatara!

Soldier: We fought to defeat the King together!

People: You wouldn't understand the feelings of those who had their villages
destroyed!

People: We fought with the hope of killing the Red King one day!

People: Isn't that right, Tatara?!

Kakuji: Tatara, we count on you.

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Nakijin: Hey...

Yuuna: Nakijin!

Yuuna: This is not for us to interfere with.

Shishou: Yes.

People: Tatara!

People: Tatara!

People: Tatara!

Kakuji: We would first like to hear an apology, Red King, towards the many
evils you have done.

People: Yeah, do a dokeza!

(Dokeza is a form of apology where you sit down and become prostrate by
placing your fingertips
to the ground and bowing.)

People: Apologize with a dokeza!

Shuri: I won't bow.

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Shuri: I don't know how to apologize for the wrongs I have done or for my
stupidity with words.

Shuri: I can only repay with my body so I won't bow!

People: What arrogance!

People: Damn it! Do it, Tatara!

Shuri: If you want to kill me, kill me.

Shuri: I have fullfilled myself. I have no regrets.

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Shuri: If you're going to kill me, kill me! I will accept it as the last
king!

People: I'm sure it's hard for Tatara to kill you if you're unarmed. I'll
let you have a sword too.

People: Although, you probably can't even use it, staggering like that!

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Kikune: Hey, wait!

Ichimatsu: Kikune!

Ichimatsu: He wants to draw the line like you wanted to.

Ichimatsu: Tatara is the one to decide.

Nachi: I don't know how to say it but he's apologizing with his body and
soul.
Don't you think so, Hii-chan?

Hijiri: He knows the meaninglessness of apologetic words.

{People are shouting and saying "Tatara!"}

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Sarasa: *Kakuji... Everybody...*

People: Tatara

People: Tatara

Sarasa: *Maa-kun's oba-san... Maa-kun...*

(Oba-san means literally "aunt" but we use it almost like a title to a
woman, whose name we don't know.
Like we'll say, "Look at that woman over there!" In Japanese we'll say,
"Look at that oba-san over there".
In the case above, it's like saying, "Maa-kun's mother")

Sarasa: *Big brother...*

People: Tatara!

People: Tatara!

People: Tatara!

Senjyu: Please stop it!

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Sarasa: Princess Senjyu! You shouldn't be here!

Senjyu: Please stop Tatara, Red King. There shouldn't be any reason for you
to hurt each other.

{Shuri sees the baby, Motomichi}

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Senjyu: Aren't you the one who taugh me the meaninglessness of hating
people, Tatara?

Motomichi: Ta-ta-

Sarasa: Motomichi-kun...

Motomichi: Ta-ta-aa
Ta-ta-

Motomichi: Tata-
Tata-aa

{Shuri sees Shido's spirit along side the Princess and Motomichi}

Motomichi: Tata-
Tata-aa

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Kakuji: Don't stop him, Princess Senjyu.
Tatara, kill him!

Kakuji: This will end everything... it will end the painful voyage!

Kakuji: Tatara! End this by killing the Red King!

Sarasa: *Kill the Red King...*
"Tatara!"
*because I'm Tatara...?*
"Tatara!"
*Because I'm Tatara?*
"Tatara!"
*Because I'm Tatara?*
"Tatara!"

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Sarasa: *Because it's everybody's wish?*
Aaaaaaa....

Sarasa: *How about me?*

Sarasa: Aaaa...

Sarasa: *How about me?*

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Sarasa: *I!*
Waaaaaa......

{Sarasa's scarf is blown away, revealing the olive necklace he had given for
good luck when he
first met her. }
{Swords clash}

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{Shuri and Sarasa embrace each other}

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{Swords drop and Sarasa is crying}

Sarasa: Shuri
Shuri
Shuri

Sarasa: Shuri!

Shuri: Sarasa...

Shuri: I don't have enough hands to embrace you.

Sarasa: Shuri!

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Kakuji: Tatara!

People: What?

People: What just happened?

People: What was that?

People: What on earth does this mean?!

People: Tatara

People: Tatara!

Sarasa: ...not Tatara

Sarasa: I'm NOT Tatara!

Sarasa: I'm not my big brother!

Sarasa: I'm not the destined child!
I was fooling everyone!

Sarasa: I'M NOT TATARA!

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Sarasa: Return me to Sarasa

Sarasa: Let me be Sarasa again

Sarasa: RETURN ME TO SARASA!

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People: What was that?

People: What...?!

People: Not Tatara?

People: .... a girl?!

People: Since when?

People: What is between her and the Red King?

People: They were in this together? With the Red King?

People: Fooling us?

People: Then what about my father who died in battle?

People: What about my younger brother who died fighting against the Red
King?

People: Tatara!

People: Wait, hold on!

People: Then what was the point in the battles we fought?

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People: It was all a joke?!

People: In the shadows, they were in this together?

People: Impossible!

Kakuji: Tatara get away from him!
We don't forgive the Red King!

Kakuji: Tatara!

Kakuji: Do you intend to get killed with him?!

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{Sarasa and Shuri gaze at each other and then embrace}

People: Kill them!

People: Damn it!

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{The arrows are flying towards Sarasa and Shuri}

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Children: And then, Nagi?
Did Tatara and the Red King die?

Nagi: Yes.

Children: Noo!
That's horrible!
That's too cruel!

Children: Kakuji, you're terrible!
Stupid, stupid, stupid!

{Hits Kakuji}

Kakuji: Ow!

Kakuji: Humph!
So I'm the worst cold blooded villian in history, am I?

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Nagi: The green has increased in this area.
The air changes everyday.

Nagi: It's the green that Sarasa planted.

Kakuji: Nagi, how much of that ending did you predict?

Nagi: How about you Kakuji? Since when did you plan that?

Kakuji: Humph!

*That moment...* (Don't know who's thought this is. Probably Kakuji's.)

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{Sarasa and Shuri are embracing and the arrows are surrounding them.
None of them hit Sarasa or Shuri.}

People: Uh....

People: Aa...

People: Shit!

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People: D..damn it! Hit them everybody!

People: Hit them!

{Cha-cha walks towards the two.}

Zaki: Cha-cha

{Hayato, Hisha, Nakijin, Yuuna, Nachi, Hijiri, Kikune, Ichimatsui and a
whole bunch of others
walk towards the two while arrows are flying everywhere.}

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People: D..damn it!

People: Somebody hit them!

Kakuji: What's wrong, everybody? It's your hated Red King!

People: I can't...I'm alive because of Tatara.

People: Because of Tatara, now exists.

People: Me too!

People: I've also fought along side of Tatara

People: There's no way we can do it!

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Hayato: The one I met

Cha-cha: The one who came to our ship

Raizou: The one who helped us to win our independecne

Nachi: The one who became our companion

Nakijin: The one who fought with us for Okinawa

Mizu no Shika: The one who released the Abashi prison

Masunaga: The one who came over the snow covered mountains to create an
alliance

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Ichimatsu: The one who took the trouble to come to the north region

Kikune: The one who caused the Daibutsu inccident and freed the slaves
(Daibutsu is a huge statue of the Buddha)

Cha-cha: The one who we met was this girl.

Cha-cha: *We don't know who the great hero "Tatara" was*
The one who we walked together with was this girl.

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Cha-cha: * A path was made from the steps this girl took*

Cha-cha: If the fact that she lied about her name is a crime,
then we, who knew about her secret and kept it as a secret
should recieve the same punishment.

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Sarasa: *I wanted to become happy*

Sarasa: *I thought that happiness was far away*

{Sarasa opens her eyes and looks up}

Sarasa: *But happiness...*

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{People, soldiers, and friends are surrounding them to protect them}

Sarasa: *But happiness is here.*

Kakuji: People are

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Kakuji: kept alive by other people
with so many people's help.

Maa-kun's oba-san: Sarasa-chan

Sarasa: Maa-kun's oba-san

Maa-kun's oba-san: Who can blame you, Sarasa-chan.
We all knew

Oba-san: We all knew that Tatara-sama died and
we let only you carry the heavy load.

Oba-san: Who can blame you?
I won't allow it!

Sarasa: Oba-san...

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Nagi: Sarasa

Sarasa: Nagi...
*He called me "Sarasa"...*

Nagi: You have done well to have come this far

Sarasa: *He called me "Sarasa".*
It's ok?
Nagi, it's ok?

Nagi: You are the one who decided to become Tatara and you are the one to
end it

Nagi: I, too, only predicted up to this point.
From now on you will start on a new path.
Red King

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Nagi: There's not a trace of you that indicates that you were the one
who attacked the village of Byakko

Nagi: Living correctly after this will serve as to your penitence for the
lives of those you have taken.

Nagi: I count on you, Shuri.

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Nagi: Kakuji....

Kakuji: Tatara and the Red King has died at this moment.
Go wherever you like.

Kakuji: *Become Sarasa and Shuri
and go see what you want in the world
for the new country.*

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Kakuji: *For the new country*

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Nagi: It was a smart move.

Kakuji: Humph!
Did you think I could really kill that child?
Same thing with everybody else.

Nagi: *This is a story of history
A story of the people---*

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Asagi: Hey Muratake

Muratake: Yes? The bathroom again, Asagi-sama?

Asagi:Sometimes I think the White King was not my sister

Asagi: But really my mother.

Muratake: And in that case, the father would be...?

Asagi: I don't know. Hiiragi... isn't it probably.
Maybe the King of Awaji's posthumous child...

Asagi: Maybe even the King...

Muratake: Asagi-sama!

Asagi: Mmm... Yeah, I don't think about it that often.
Just at times.

Asagi: Hey, why don't we go to Kumano sometime soon?

Muratake: Really?

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Asagi: What is that happy face of yours?
Nevermind, we're not going.

Muratake: Oh no...

Nagi: * This is a story of history
a history of the people's heart
and its brightness, its beauty.*

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Nagi: * The flame and
the water and
the wind and
the light and
the earth's history.*

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{Nagi's Flashback}

Sarasa: Hey, Nagi

Nagi: Yes?

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{Nagi's Flashback}

Sarasa: Hey, Nagi
Nagi

Sarasa: I hope it becomes full with green
Oh no... that wasn't right....
Let's make it. Let's make it full with green

Sarasa: Hey Nagi...

Nagi: Sarasa...

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Nagi: * Be happy*

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THE END

- I hope that happiness and strength will come to all of those who have
loved Sarasa -
Yumi Tamura