11 - On Their Own

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    There were people who loathed one another.
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    Their corpses withered in the fields,
    their souls soaked in blood...

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    And their bonds were broken by blades...
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    Collapsed in the darkness,
    their sincerity wails...

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    "My beloved, please die..."
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    "My beloved, please die..."
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    Clouds shroud a night with a waning
    moon quivering in the haze

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    A cruel trap involving
    a pair of crucified fledglings

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    Oh, since smoldering feelings
    lie firmly in their hearts...

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    destruction!
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    Gently as the water, severely as a flower
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    pierce with a trembling blade
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    Even when I shut the fated
    tears deep within my eyes

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    my eyelids still remember you
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    "Helpless Pebbles"
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    Gennosuke-sama was being
    deceived by Iga-no-Oboro after all!
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    Oboro is Ogen's granddaughter...
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    and now the leader of the group.
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    Even her subordinates realized
    the situation, so she must have.
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    That is no doubt why she invited
    Gennosuke-sama to Tsubagakure!
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    You may be right.
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    However, at this point in time,
    she is not a serious concern.
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    My hunch is that the first
    one to receive the news...
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    ...was most likely Yakushiji Tenzen,
    and that he made careful plans.
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    Hyoma-dono! Oboro is no longer
    betrothed to Gennosuke-sama!
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    It is ungainly to defend her!
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    She deceived him!
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    Oboro took advantage of
    Gennosuke-sama's desire for peace!
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    Kagero, if Oboro is the Tsubagakure leader,
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    then Gennosuke-sama is
    the Kouga Manjidani leader.
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    You mock our leader with your objections.
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    Who cares what Oboro's intentions are?!
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    It's finally come... This
    day has finally come!
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    Gennosuke-sama! Let us hurry back at once!
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    Your Dojutsu has them
    scared out of their wits!
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    We should use this chance to crush them!
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    Please say something, Gennosuke-sama!
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    Saemon...
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    Bring me a brush and an inkstone.
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    Right!
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    About Okoi...
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    I'm sorry.
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    She was a Kouga shinobi.
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    Just as we are...
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    A person is a person...
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    Whether a Kouga or an Iga,
    a person is a person...
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    We must break the shackles of this
    grudge and open our clouded eyes.
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    Even one Iga would be enough.
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    Getting close comes first.
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    That is what I had planned to tell
    everyone again upon my return here...
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    Oboro-sama!
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    What did you do to your eyes?!
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    Grandmother told me one day...
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    Oboro, that's enough.
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    Do not worry about it.
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    I know more than anyone
    how much effort you have given.
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    Please forgive me.
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    Despite being daughter of
    the Tsubagakure leader...
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    Yes, you have not
    mastered even a single skill...
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    Such an inept child...
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    However...
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    ...you were born with eyes
    that possess a strange power.
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    It is not ninpou...
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    That is why I fear them so...
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    Those eyes of yours...
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    I cannot help but feel they
    will be the cause of a calamity
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    that destroys our Tsubagakure's ninpou
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    from within and drives the clan to ruin.
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    Should such a day ever come...
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    ...apply this *yamishichiyo
    *potion on your eyelids...
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    Yamishichiyo?
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    Do so, and your eyes...
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    ...will remain sealed for
    seven days and seven nights.
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    Your own eyes?!
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    Sealing your eyes, of all things...
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    You've not heard a word we said!
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    I, too, am an Iga woman...
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    I fully understand what
    you're saying, Tenzen.
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    Including the fact that I can say
    nothing to change your mind...
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    So many Tsubagakure people
    were killed, but...
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    But... I cannot fight Gennosuke-sama!
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    Not only that,
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    I may find myself having
    to break your techniques!
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    That fact...
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    ...terrifies me!
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    Such nonsense!
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    Tenzen-sama!
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    What is it?!
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    This was at the gate!
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    To think they would return
    the roster to us...
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    Has Gennosuke gone mad?
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    No, look at Koshiro's name...
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    It is not marked off.
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    Bastard...
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    Even with those injuries,
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    he knew Koshiro wouldn't die...
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    He hasn't gone mad, he's very cool-headed.
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    Then why?!
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    Why would he return the document
    that is vital to winning?!
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    Tenzen-sama, what is that letter?
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    'Tis a letter of challenge from Gennosuke.
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    What?!
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    The anti-war pact negotiated
    by the Hattori house has been nullified.

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    But I do not wish to fight,
    nor do I know the reason for fighting.

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    Therefore, I intend to visit Sunpu at once
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    to appeal to the retired
    shogun and Hattori-dono.

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    It is for that reason I return the roster.
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    I take with me the following people:
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    Kasumi Gyobu, Kisaragi Saemon,
    Muroga Hyoma, and Kagero.

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    As such, if you are thinking
    of coming to the Kouga valley,

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    we will already be on the Tokaido Road.
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    Should you be mad enough
    to bring harm to any Kouga,

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    know now that the heavenly
    mandate of destruction

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    will fall upon the Iga once more.
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    I do not wish to fight, but neither
    will I avoid any attack from you.

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    Seven of you still remain.
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    Should the trip to the gates of
    Sunpu become a war to the death

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    between the five Kouga
    and the seven Iga, then so be it.

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    If you do not fear me,
    then you will raise your whips

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    and come to the Tokaido Road at once!
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    "Kouga Gennosuke"
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    Tenzen!
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    We make chase! At once!
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    "...the seven Iga..."
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    The seven Iga...
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    Nenki. Hotarubi. Go locate
    the Kouga party and report back!
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    Understood!
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    Do not...
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    Do not force things. Is that clear?
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    I know.
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    Oboro-sama, I will go make the preparations.
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    No one follows.
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    You're certainly cautious, Hyoma.
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    The Iga would never cross
    through the Kouga valley to chase us.
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    Agreed. They would likely
    take the route through Iga.
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    The journey to Sunpu will be long.
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    Where will we cross paths, I wonder?
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    You're being too soft.
    Wars are won by the first to move.
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    Hyoma, why did Gennosuke-*sama
    *return the roster to the Iga?
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    We're going to Sunpu to
    ask the reason for the war?
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    Don't be stupid!
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    What reason do you need
    to fight your enemies of 400 years
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    and your parents' murderers?!
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    Had I not been a kid back then...
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    Now is the time to attain my ambition!
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    The reason Gennosuke-*sama
    *returned the roster was
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    because he was certain they
    would make chase after receiving it.
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    You mean his challenge?
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    There is no Iga in this world
    who would not chase us after reading it.
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    If we slay the entire Iga group
    and take it back at the end...
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    ...I doubt you will have qualms with that.
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    But will Gennosuke-sama have
    the resolve to slay Iga-no-Oboro?
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    Gyobu!
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    Wait, Gyobu!
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    I'll see you later, Hyoma!
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    That damn Tenzen, trying to belittle me!
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    "Sekiyado"
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    That bastard Gyobu ran off ahead...
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    As a result, Gennosuke-sama
    really gave me a talking to.
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    As if he's one to talk,
    with his feigned ignorance.
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    Making the Iga think he has gone ahead
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    and then circling back
    around is one method...
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    But a carefully planned
    strategy is most needed.
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    But a man of Gyobu's caliber should--
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    He has his own grudge
    of having his parents killed...
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    As such, I fear he may act rashly...
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    Oh, my apologies.
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    You and Gyobu are of quite
    different temperaments, so...
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    That's not it.
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    There is one other I am worried about...
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    Kagero?
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    Yes...
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    She is deeply in love with Gennosuke-sama.
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    After his engagement
    to Iga-no-Oboro was announced,
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    she bottled her feelings up even more,
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    and now her womanly scent is so
    strong she isn't aware of it herself.
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    I hear the same was the
    case with her mother...
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    At the height of ecstasy, her blissful
    cries become the breath of death...
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    ...and poison the man until he perishes.
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    Surely she keeps that in mind.
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    She bears the burden of a difficult fate...
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    But...
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    when things turn bad,
    women are frightening...
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    Who's there?
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    What is it?
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    Will we be taking a boat
    out of Kuwana tomorrow?
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    The sky will decide.
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    Going by land on the
    Sayaji Path may be safer.
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    Is that all you wanted?
    Then you should sleep...
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    What were you thinking about?
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    Is it not obvious?
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    Iga Oboro, then?
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    Before Danjo-sama left for Sunpu,
    he said something to me...
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    That it was about time
    to find someone for her.
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    Just how many men will die
    before the woman's child is born?
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    I hear there is no end to the men
    who would gladly take that risk...
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    Yes, she is a beautiful woman...
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    Which makes her all the more frightening...
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    K-Kagero?!
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    Gennosuke-sama...
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    Please hold me!
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    Look, Kagero!
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    Kagero... Why...
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    I want to die... together with you!
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    Don't be a fool!
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    If you want to die, wait until after
    we've slain the Iga on the roster!
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    The Iga...
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    That's right...
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    I cannot kill women with my techniques...
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    Gennosuke-sama...
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    Are you going to slay Oboro?
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    I am...
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    Then I will take care of the Iga men.
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    I can destroy all the men on my own...
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    Poison!
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    Gennosuke-sama!
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    Saemon!
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    Gennosuke-sama!
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    Gennosuke-sama!
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    It would seem my eyes have been sealed...
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    What?!
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    That was surprisingly easy, Hotarubi...
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    Yes...
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    I do not see Kasumi Gyobu!
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    He's plotting to sneak attack
    Oboro-sama's group on their way here!
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    Hotarubi, hurry back to them
    and warn them to stay alert!
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    What about them?
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    Leave them to me!
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    Understood.
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    Now, to finish things here and knock
    the wind out of Tenzen's sails!

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    An Iga, yes?
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    I am the man who will slay you two!
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    Can you see me, Gennosuke?!
    I doubt you can, Hyoma!
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    Now then! Whose neck shall I break first?!
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    Look, Hyoma.
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    Have you gone mad, Gennosuke?!
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    Asking the blind Hyoma
    to see... What a laugh!
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    You almighty fool!
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    D-Damn you!
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    I...
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    Melting away in the melody
    you whisper in the twilight

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    I sense eternity
    in our attracting eyes

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    and life sprouts silently
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    The dew of emotions that dances
    and flutters about in the spring wind

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    is a crumbling butterfly dream
    that wildly disturbs the path of the stars

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    "Next Time"
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    Crimson drops of blood
    stain tender skin.

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    The boiling grudge eventually
    becomes an eternal curse

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    and transforms a lovely
    flower into an evil demon.

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    Like an appeal to unfounded irrationality,
    the rain falls ever more.

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    The one whose light was stolen
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    finds a glimmer of salvation
    at the depths of agony.

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    On the next Basilisk ~ Kouga Ninpouchou:
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"Magic Lantern of Memories."


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Created 2026-01-04 22:07:53 UTC by whimsee
Updated 2026-01-04 22:07:53 UTC by whimsee