Manga Volume 6 - Azure Chapter 3 Translation

Tatara: General Khazan... the same man who beheaded my brother...
Asagi: Until recently, we (the Blue Army) have been fighting the Red King.
Asagi: So any intelligence I've gathered on the Red Army should be quite reliable.
Asagi: Are you worried?
Asagi: It's such a sad fate for a beautiful woman.* (Referring to Tatara's mother)

Asagi: But, this is a personal problem, isn't it?
Asagi: I'm sorry, I shouldn't have told you.
Tatara: Everybody's heart is set on going North right now.
Tatara: As a leader, I can't tell them to go West just for personal reasons.
Pirate: So we're sailing northeast tomorrow to fight the Black King, huh?
Pirate: Have you stocked enough water?
Pirate: Gotta hurry and make more armor.
Pirate: I wonder if the North is nice...
Pirate: It's nice if you like cold places.
Pirate: So it's cold?
Pirate: Supposedly, it snows a lot over there.
Pirate: Stop hogging the food.
Cha-Cha: Tatara.

Cha-Cha: What is it? You're pale as a ghost.
Zaki: So it seems.
Tatara: Ah...nothing. Where's Nagi and Kaku-jii?
Cha-Cha: They're on land.
Tatara: Thanks. See you guys tomorrow. And go easy on the booze.
Cha-Cha: I wonder what's bothering him?
Hayato: How come Tatara never asks for me when he wants to talk? It sucks.
Zaki: Is Hayato jealous?
Cha-Cha: Yeah... I guess he's only close to Nagi and Kaku-jii.*
Zaki: Cha-Cha, the guy can't help it.
Cha-Cha: But why? He looks so lonely...

Tatara: I'm so sorry Mother.
Tatara: While I was enjoying myself with Shuri, you were...
Tatara: Oh, I'm so so sorry...
Tatara: I've been wrong.
Tatara: I didn't see straight.
Tatara: Now I know.
Tatara: If you're still alive...
Nagi: There, just don't move your arm for a while. Next please.
Tatara: Nagi... Nagi...

Kaku-jii: Heave-ho. Heave-ho.
Worker: Great. The rubbles have almost been cleared.
Worker: Thanks for all the help you've given us.
Tatara: Kaku-jii.
Kaku-jii: I just thought you guys would like some company, that's all.
Tatara: Kaku-jii.
Tatara: It's no good. I'm still behaving like a child!
Tatara: Everyone else is doing their part.

Tatara: But I'm no help at all!
Ageha: Ah, Tatara.
Ageha: We're going to perform. Want to come see? You'll get a good seat.
Tatara: Ageha...
Ageha: Call me Kicho ^_^
Ageha: Is your ship leaving tomorrow? For the North?
Tatara: Yes.
Tatara: Ageha... Have you heard...
Tatara: ...whether the Red Army has captured any of my relatives?
Ageha: No... Relatives? Who?
Tatara: Ah, no one. Never mind.

Ageha: So, you're keeping things to yourself.
Ageha: Sometimes, that's the wrong thing to do.
Ageha: Especially when you have friends.
Ageha: Friends are supposed to go through thick and thin, together.
Ageha: Now, it's getting cold.
Ageha: I can tell just by looking at your face.
Tatara: But Ageha... This doesn't concern anybody else.

Tatara: I have to go by myself. To see if it's true. And then...
Tatara: If it's true, I'll rescue you, Mother.
Tatara: So please, stay alive.

Asagi: Can I go too? I can help.
Tatara: You should just get off this ship!
Asagi: So heartless.
Asagi: I think I'll yell out:
Asagi: EVERYBODY! IT'S TATARA...
Asagi: TATARA'S LEAVING ALL BY HIMSELF!
Asagi: HE'S PACKED ALREADY!
Tatara: What are you doing?!
Cha-Cha: Tatara?
Asagi: HE'S SNEAKING OFF!
Hayato: What?
Pirates: What is it? What?

Cha-Cha: We're leaving tomorrow. Where are you going?
Tatara: Ah... Just going out for a little bit. I'll come right back and meet up with you guys later.
Cha-Cha: You should have told us first!
Cha-Cha: How can a leader leave his ship without a word?*

Hayato: We're practically family and you won't tell us anything.
Tatara: Hayato?!
Cha-Cha: It's not just that. You already went to Kanto by yourself. And now, you're going off alone again?!
Cha-Cha: Well, I guess you don't need me!
Tatara: Cha-Cha! I never said that!
Cha-Cha: It's the same thing.
Cha-Cha: When you went off to Kanto by yourself, all I could do was worry about you.
Cha-Cha: I wanted to help you, to fight alongside with you.
Cha-Cha: So you don't have to bear all the burden alone.
Cha-Cha: Why won't you let me?!

Zaki: Cha-Cha.
Cha-Cha: No Zaki! I'm not ashamed to say this.
Zaki: Tatara, it's not just Cha-Cha.
Zaki: We all want to fight with you, together.
Pirates: We were all pirates.
Pirates: But we're not like that anymore.
Pirates: The people of Suzaku are all grateful that you released them from the control of the Shojo Family. You freed them.
Cha-Cha: You gave me a new pride.
Cha-Cha: I'm proud...
Cha-Cha: ...to finally stand up to this country's tyrants.

Pirates: Let's fight together.
Pirates: To change the country.
Pirates: It's been our dream!
Pirates: That's right!
Pirates: Come on, Tatara!
Tatara: Cha-Cha... thank you.
Tatara: But, you don't know about my mother. I can't tell you I have to go West.
Cha-Cha: Tatara, do you still want to go? At all costs?!
Tatara: Yes.
Cha-Cha: So that's that.
Cha-Cha: I'm useless to you afterall.

Cha-Cha: Well, draw your sword!
Cha-Cha: You can leave after you've beaten me.
Pirates: Stop it, Cha-Cha.
Asagi: What an unruly bunch. They're out of control.
Asagi: I guess I've got to step in and do something.

(Izumi is Raizou's wife. She was one of the women the Snake King "silenced," which means her vocal cords were destroyed and she's mute.)

Nagi: Well, it's difficult to say.
Nagi: Given the proper equipment, and the right doctor...

Nagi: ...from Kyoto or overseas, I think an operation is possible.
Raizou: Really?!
Raizou: Izumi... I just might be able to hear your voice again!
Raizou: You must be tired, thank you very much.
Nagi: It was nothing.
Ageha: Raizou-chan, was that Nagi just now?
Raizou: Oh, Ageha. Hurray!!
Ageha: WHA!

Raizou: Sorry, I couldn't control my strength.
Ageha: You almost snapped my slender figure.
Raizou: Sorry, sorry.
Ageha: But, this is good news.
Ageha: Being an Izumi fan, I'm happy for you.
Raizou: Oh, that's right. Despite being a renown beauty, you're still a guy.
Ageha: What about it?
Raizou: You just don't eat like a guy.*
Raizou: You've already cooperated with the Rebel Army.
Raizou: And you're a close friend of Tatara's. Yet...
Raizou: ...you're also a close friend of Asagi's. He confides in you.
Raizou: Why did he come to Tatara? Did he tell you?
Ageha: Of course he did.

Ageha: We talk quite frequently.
Raizou: Then...
Ageha: I'm a free man, and Asagi's a wretched (pitiful/unfortunate) kid.
Ageha: I'm doing him a favor, even though it may hurt Tatara.
Raizou: But aren't you Tatara's friend?
Raizou: Doesn't Tatara deserve your pity as well?
Ageha: Perhaps.
Ageha: Well, see you later. We've got 2-3 more days of performances. Come see us sometimes.
Raizou: Ageha...
Raizou: Are you still searching for "the woman worth risking you life for?"

Ageha: Stop worrying about that.
Raizou: ...I see. You'd still rather be gay.
Ageha: But...

Ageha: ...who am I searching for?
Ageha: Oh, a shooting star. I wonder who died.
Raizou: A shooting star... bearing good luck...
Raizou: Should I be feeling uneasy when everything's going so well...
Raizou: When Asagi first came to this place, he was just a little kid.
Raizou: But the Blue King held a Coming-of-Age Ceremony for him anyway.
Raizou: He wasn't precocious, just a nice quiet kid.

Raizou: But before I knew it, the King had isolated him as his most valuable advisor. He stopped listening to anyone else.
Raizou: He only wanted Asagi by his side.
Raizou: One could say Asagi made the King the way he was.
Raizou: Can it be that he's trying to do the same thing to Tatara?!
Raizou: No, Tatara's among good company.
Raizou: I don't think he can go wrong...

Raizou: He'll be fine...
Cha-Cha: Well, en garde!
Tatara: No! I won't fight you, Cha-Cha.
Cha-Cha: I'm dead serious. Get ready!

Kaku-jii: What's all this noise?
Tatara: Nagi!
Asagi: Everyone... Tatara's trying to go save his mother.
Pirate: His mother? I thought she died...
Tatara: Asagi! Shut up!
Asagi: General Khazan of the Red Army captured her. She's at the city of Suou right now.
Asagi: I know all about it.
Cha-Cha: Tatara...

Cha-Cha: Why didn't you tell me?!
Tatara: Because that would trouble everyone...
Cha-Cha: What trouble?!
Cha-Cha: You still don't get it, do you?!
Cha-Cha: You still don't trust us!
Tatara: Cha-Cha...
Cha-Cha: You don't understand anything.
Asagi: That's right. Tatara doesn't understand.
Asagi: General Khazan isn't just another soldier. He's an advisor to the Red King.
Asagi: To rescue Tatara's mother is to fight the General, the Red King's right-hand man.

Cha-Cha: I see. That's right.
Cha-Cha: Anybody got a problem with this?!
Pirates: No Boss!
Pirates: Let's go west!
Pirates: West!
Pirates: Down with General Khazan! Bring back Tatara's mother!
Pirates: Let's show the Red King a thing or two!
Hayato: Tha... that's great Tatara.
Hayato: You're mother's still alive.
Tatara: Hayato.
Nagi: Tatara, let's bring him inside.
Nagi: It's not a deep cut, but he's lost some blood.

Tatara: You're the one who instigated all this, and now you've risked your life to stop it...
Tatara: What were you thinking?
Asagi: The same thing as Tatara.
Tatara: Uh?
Asagi: To bring down the Red King.
Asagi: I was the one who first suggested for the Blue King to ally with Tatara.
Tatara: Why?!
Asagi: Because I hate the Red King.
Tatara: ...?
Pirates: Don't talk.
Pirate: That guy's tougher than he looks.
Pirate: Um.
Nagi: We'll let you have some peace and quiet.

Asagi: This is great.
Asagi: Tatara and the Red King may become too powerful when they're left alone.
Asagi: This rescue mission is the best way to reduce their forces and get rid of the commanders on both sides.
Asagi: The two generals seem evenly matched. Tatara's right-hand man is that pirate woman...
Asagi: She'll play right into my plan.
Asagi: And Tatara's mother is the perfect bait.
Ranmaru: Are you alright, Lord Asagi?
Asagi: Ranmaru?
Ranmaru: I'm leaving for my reconnaissance along route.
Ranmaru: Can you drop by one of the harbors for my report.
Asagi: Fine, meet me at Ise.
Asagi: Then go west and contact Ume.

Old Fortune Teller: As I see it... The West bears an ill-omen for you.
Cha-Cha: You're still using water to do fortune telling? How accurate are you?
Old Fortune Teller: Well, I'm no pro like Nagi-sama.
Old Fortune Teller: Unlike the North, a forest of evil spirits awaits you in the West.
Cha-Cha: But the West is all desert.
Old Fortune Teller: No, there will be forests. And Tatara is cursed.
Old Fortune Teller: In order to counter the curse,
Old Fortune Teller: ...one of you will lose your life.
Cha-Cha: ...Don't scare us. We don't want any of that.

Zaki: Even if the fortune is true, you should rest easy.
Zaki: I've already decided.
Cha-Cha: Zaki...
Cha-Cha: That old lady... can't be right.
Cha-Cha: Because, there are no forests in the West...
Voices: All aboard!

The ship sailed west, traveling against the current, which slowed the progess a bit.

Narrator: Along the way, they stopped at the port of Ise to restock water.
Cha-Cha: Make sure you guys get enough water.
Sailors: Boss, look at all the shrimp we bought.
Tatara: This is where I got off with Shuri.
Tatara: It feels like so long ago.
Asagi: Tatara, hey Tatara!
Cha-Cha: That guy sure nuzzled up to Tatara quick.
Hayato: Well, he did tell Tatara about his mother.
Hayato: What's with that look?
Cha-Cha: You're just jealous.
Asagi: I found out some things in town.
Asagi: The Emperor is going to Kumano.
Tatara: Kumano?

Asagi: A funeral ceremony will be held for the Blue King in Kyoto, and then his ashes will be laid to rest in Koyasan.

Asagi: Afterwards, royalty, aristocrats, and all influential persons will be going to Kumano to pray for the prosperity of this country.
Asagi: The journey will take approximately 1 month.
Tatara: So Kumano has a Buddhist Temple?
Asagi: ...
Asagi: Has it occurred to you that the Black King and Red King will probably attend?
Tatara: The Red King's going?!
Asagi: He probably won't go in person, but he will send a representative.
Asagi: Odds are he'll send General Khazan.
Asagi: It'll be the perfect chance for us to get him.
Asagi: So do you want to go to Kumano? We have a month.
Asagi: It's enough time for us to go to Suou and find out who's going.

Cha-Cha: Well, Tatara? Do we look like merchants?
Tatara: Cha-Cha, you're only going to check the place out...
Cha-Cha: Ah, but a girl can move about better this way.
Zaki: Cha-Cha loves to dress up.
Zaki: She lives for it.
Tatara: Zaki...
Tatara: Well... thank you for doing this for me.
Cha-Cha: No problem!
Tatara: We'll sail the ship towards Kumano and wait for your message out at sea.
Cha-Cha: OK! I'll send word through Hisha.

Khazan: We need to sent troops into Sakura Island to annihilate Tatara's army right now.
Ashou: No good, General Khazan. The army's still recovering from their battle with the Blue Army.
Khazan: Ashou! That's how you always think. You're such a coward!
Ashou: But we simply don't have the power to carry out such operation. No matter what you say!*

My beloved Shuri,

When we were separated, I became so lonely.
Day and night, my thoughts are only of you.
I can't wait for you to hold me in you arms...

Love, Sarasa

Sarasa,

Hurry over here so we can get married.
I'm waiting for you at the Red Palace in the City of Suou.
You'll be in for a surprise when you finally see me.

Shuri: Who's there?
Servant: Ah...I'm sorry to intrude upon Your Highness.
Servant: I serve in Lord Ashou's house. My name is Umewaka.
Shuri: I can't tolerate people who sneak up behind me.
Shuri: Cut it out.
Umewaka: Ye...yes Sir.
Umewaka: I'm new here (just came from the countryside) and didn't know my way to the kitchen.
Umewaka: Please forgive me.
Shuri: She sure doesn't look like anyone from Ashou's place.
Shuri: Who is she? I better keep an eye on that woman.

Women: I want it, I want this piece of cloth. Let me see.
Umewaka: What's going on?
Woman 1: Oh, hello Umewaka. A peddler has come bearing lots of rare imports.
Cha-Cha: Please, help yourself. Everything's very cheap.
Woman 1: Why, this will go so well with Lady Chigusa.
Cha-Cha: Lady Chigusa?
Woman 1: She's just our guest. But we think the general will soon make her our Madame.
Cha-Cha: Would the lady come take a look?
Woman 1: Well, the General is very strict...
Woman 2: Don't you think it'll be fine as long as she doesn't go outside?

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