E188 - The Mystery of the Targeted Merchants
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Rock away your existence,
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Shouting that you are here…
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A new journey begins now.
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As we survived through
the changing seasons,
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we gained knowledge and strength,
(just looks like a survival game)
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But the forgotten memories,
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of the feelings abandoned within
the flows of time,
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have also been lost.
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When sinking down,
we learned loneliness.
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But now we’ve met each other,
we are no longer alone.
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Unveil your feelings,
Those high emotions
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Those tears will change your fate.
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Pound your heartbeat
against the darkness,
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We’re sure to meet,
Under the same flag of pain
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Mystery of the Targeted Merchants
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Did they really come this way?
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But why come this way?
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They shouldn’t come this way
if it’s as you say, Choji.
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I said that because I didn’t think
we were being targeted.
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I don’t think this is
the time to argue…
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We have to formulate
some sort of strategy.
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You say that, but…
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What is it?
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Have the guys
you spoke of caught up?
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Then we should divide up
this group in two.
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Here it’s hard enough
to protect one.
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What’s the point of dividing
the group in two?
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N-Naruto!
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Please, tell us what your idea is.
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This is what I mean.
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For example…
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Let’s say there are
ten persimmons here.
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Is anything okay
if it’s a food?
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Yeah.
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Then I want it to be ramen!
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Naruto, it’s an example, so…
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Then we’ll make it ramen.
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Someone is after
these ten bowls of ramen.
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And there are three people
to protect the ramen.
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And so one person has
to protect roughly three bowls.
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No, no. If it’s ramen,
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we should just eat it all
before they come.
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That would settle things.
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N-Naruto. This ramen is
for delivery to someone,
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so we can’t eat it.
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Really? But the ramen
won’t be tasty if it gets soggy.
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I’m moving on.
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If three people protect
ten bowls of ramen,
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one person protects
about three bowls.
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But this ramen has
legs for escaping.
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Ramen with legs for escaping?!
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Five bowls of ramen
quick to escape…
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and five bowls of ramen
slow to escape.
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Right, right..
Things are kind of getting crazy.
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I see. If we divide them
into two groups…
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Of course, the pursuers would target
the group that is slow to escape first.
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So we have one person
defend the preceding group
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and two people
for the group that is slow to escape.
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Right, right.
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By doing this, as for protecting
the slow group,
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now one person can just protect
two and a half bowls.
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Oh!
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In other words, the ramen that are
quick to escape are the young people
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and the ramen that are slow to escape
are the elderly people and children, right?
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Exactly.
Not only will the possibility of
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the former to completely
get away increase,
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the burden on the latter
to protect will decrease.
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It’s a strategy that kills two birds
with one stone.
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You’re smart.
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However…
the elderly people and children will…
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I just stated a rational idea.
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There’s the possibility
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of complete annihilation
if we stay in a group.
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Am I wrong, Yurinoshin?
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Well…
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Then it’s settled.
Let’s divide everyone up in two.
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I’m sorry, gramps.
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Don’t worry about it.
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It would be trouble if something bad
were to happen to the men in their prime.
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You’ve got a wife and kid
at home, right?
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Then we’ll be going on
ahead first, Naruto, Choji.
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Right.
We’re counting on you, Hinata.
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Naruto and I will deal
with the pursuers.
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Right.
I’ll protect them well.
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Lady Haruna.
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Yurinoshin, keep your mouth shut.
What’s your mission?
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Is it not to protect me?
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Things will be settled if Kikusuke
defeats those guys.
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Then shall we get going, too?
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I’m counting on you, Brother Choji.
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Right! Leave it to me!
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Choji.
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You go on ahead.
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What?
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I’m going back to check things out
at the place where the traps are.
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But if you do that, you may encounter
the pursuers along the way…
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That’s fine.
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Doing something like waiting
to be attacked isn’t my style!
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Naruto!
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Leave it to me!
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I meant…
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There’s no point to our strategy
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if I have to protect five people
by myself.
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Right, there’s no point.
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We came down that path,
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so the trap should be
up ahead somewhere.
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I guess I’ll take a shortcut!
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What’s this? What happened?
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Why is it so wet?
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What’re these wounds?!
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This guy’s…!
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Are you serious?
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Is something wrong, Brother Choji?
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No, nothing.
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I see…
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I feel it.
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Even I can sense this much bloodlust.
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It’s close now.
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Huh?
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Rain?
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This is the worst. Rain wipes out
all presence of the enemy.
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Oh…
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This rain is weird.
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Gather around, everyone!
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Stay close to me.
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What’s…this?
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This is bad!
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What was that now?!
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Everyone! Get under the cart!
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We’re already under here!
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You’re quick!
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Choji!
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Naruto!
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Get down!
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Shadow Clone Jutsu!
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Naruto! Could you say so
at the start
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if you’re going to
use paper bombs?
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All right. It seems they’re gone.
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Why did they disappear?
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Isn’t it obvious?
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They have no business with a shop
that doesn’t have the thing they want.
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Thing they want?
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That’s right.
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If a shop’s sold out
of the item you want,
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you’d go to another shop, right?
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Could it be that the thing that he wants
is in the other group?
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What does that mean?!
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Hinata’s in danger!
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Everyone, leave your stuff here
and take only what you need!
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Hinata is?!
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Everyone, we’ll put up our tents here
for today and rest.
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It’s dangerous to move in the dark.
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Hey!
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We finally caught up.
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Naruto, Choji. What is it?
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“What is it,” nothing.
The situation has changed.
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It seems someone among
these people
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is hiding something important.
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Something important?
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It should probably have something
to do with us being chased.
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But who is hiding what?
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It’s most likely you guys,
Shun and Yurinoshin.
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Don’t be silly!
What’re you saying we’re hiding?
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Don’t play innocent!
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Kikusuke has been killed
by someone!
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What?!
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Kikusuke was?!
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Don’t play innocent!
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Kikusuke has been killed
by someone!
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What?!
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Kikusuke was?!
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Why should he have to
suit up like a Shinobi,
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fight those guys and then get killed?!
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It’s not necessary to tell you guys.
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But if that’s why we’re being chased…
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It means you guys are putting
everyone in danger.
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If you don’t tell us honestly,
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we won’t be able to protect
even what we can protect.
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Kikunojou…
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Kikunojou?
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You mean Kikusuke?
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Yes… And my name isn’t Yurinoshin.
It’s Yurinojou.
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Stop, Yurinojou!
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The person here is Lady Haruna,
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the only daughter of the feudal lord
of the Land of Greens.
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Princess?!
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Princess Haruna of the Land of Greens.
You’ve grown up so much…
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P-Princess…?
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You were a woman?!
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Lady Haruna,
it is as these people say.
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We must not put everyone in danger
by hiding the truth any further.
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But why is someone like a princess
mingling among merchants?
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There was information of
a coup in the Land of Greens.
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A coup?
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The Land of Greens was a small,
but calm and peaceful land.
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However, it was by no means
a prosperous land.
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Before we realized it,
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more than half of the public officials
had been bought off.
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Who in the world would do that…?
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The ringleaders are three brothers
called the Janin,
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evil Ninja who came from
across the sea.
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Janin?
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Yes. They’re guys who use
a particular type of Ninjutsu
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and are called as such
because of their frightfulness.
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They’ve taken many lives
and think nothing of it
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if it’s for their own gains.
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They treat people like worms…
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But why the Land of Greens?
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I don’t know why.
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But his lordship had Lady Haruna
hide amongst a group of merchants
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and got her out of the land.
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Kikunojou and I were left
with the protection of the princess,
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but we were insecure with
just the two of us.
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So then we hurriedly commissioned
the Hidden Leaf
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under the pretext of protection
from bandits.
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Why didn’t you tell us
something that important?
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There’s no way I could have.
My escape is top secret.
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Besides, what would happen
if I were to have told you?
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The end result would’ve been
you guys running away in confusion.
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No way would I do something
like run away.
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Kikunojou might not have
had to die if
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we had understood the situation
from the start.
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I wonder.
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One of you guys might’ve ended up
like Kikunojou.
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We’re actually fine.
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But to think you’d go so far as to involve
the old lady and the children.
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It couldn’t be!
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Were you intending to use
the old lady and the kids as decoys
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and escape just yourself?!
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That’s right. What of it?
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Choji! Hinata!
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As for me,
I’m really tickedoff right now!
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So what of it?!
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If something should happen
in the land,
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I would become
the only blood relative
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of the feudal lord of
the Land of Greens.
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If I can just survive,
things could be restored someday,
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even if the Land of Greens
were to be destroyed.
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Say what?! Just what is it
you think of people’s lives?!
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Please forgive her.
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Yurinojou.
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Is it not your mission to protect me?
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You’re still talking about such things…?
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Please wait, Naruto!
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Lady Haruna, that’s true for me.
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However, these people are different.
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The mission they undertook
was to protect merchants.
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It was not to protect us.
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Indeed, what we heard about
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was a D-rank mission to protect
all of the merchants.
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Protecting a prominent figure of
a land is an A-rank mission.
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The rank differs by far too much.
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Are you guys saying
you’re going to forsake me?
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Weren’t you saying until just now
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that you didn’t trust people like us?
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I’ll protect you with my life,
Lady Haruna…
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Shut up, Yurinojou!
Kikunojou was your senior disciple.
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There’s no way you alone
could defeat an opponent
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whom he couldn’t defeat!
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That will just be our destiny
when that happens, Lady Haruna.
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Watch, Brother Choji.
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Oh! Awesome, awesome.
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I’m sorry about earlier.
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It happened so suddenly,
I couldn’t stop.
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Don’t be concerned about me.
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However, please forgive Lady Haruna.
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The Land of Greens is a small land.
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For the sake of the land’s survival,
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Lady Haruna was kept under
the custody of another land,
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as a hostage all by herself
since she was little.
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Hostage?
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It frequently happens in
a small land in a war-torn world.
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When Lady Haruna returned
from the other land,
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she had completely lost her feelings
of trust towards people.
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Lady Haruna is also
a victim of a turbulent world.
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There’s a village
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about one league down
the mountain from here.
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For the time being,
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we’ll leave the old woman
and the others there.
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Be careful now.
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You guys, too!
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Bye!
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Why are you separating them from us?
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They still have value for
my personal use.
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Are you still going on about that?
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They went so far as to discard
their merchandise for your sake.
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Then we should also leave this place.
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We must not.
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If we go into hiding,
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there’s a possibility of
that group being attacked again.
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Exactly. This time,
it’s our turn to be the decoy
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in order to protect them.
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Do as you like!
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Hinata, I’ll take care of things here.
Please rest a while.
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Yeah, do that.
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Th-Then, if you insist.
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Oh, yeah. Here.
Kikunojou was holding this.
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Thanks, Naruto.
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Kikunojou was a master
of the Flower Ninjutsu
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passed down in the Land of Greens.
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We learned together
when we were little
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and I couldn’t beat him even once…
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Now I have forever lost
the chance to beat him.
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No… You still have a chance.
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What?
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If you beat the guy
who defeated Kikunojou,
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you will have beaten Kikunojou!
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Naruto… You’re exactly right…!
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Here they come!
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Other than the fact that
the enemy uses water,
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we have absolutely no idea
what they’ll come at us with.
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I know.
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Go! Flower Ninja Art:!
Flying Flowers: Falling Foliage.
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What?!
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He changed the trajectory in mid-air?!
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Oh, no!
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I finally got you!
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Gotcha.
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To think you’d
make me look like a fool.
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So you finally show yourself.
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I will avenge Kikunojou!
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Try it if you can.
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I won’t let you get away!
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Too bad. You’re one person short.
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I’ve set a share for one more.
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I don’t know about that.
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First, I’ll take care of you, boy.
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Water Style: Liquid Memory!
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Naruto…!
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And this!
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Summoning Jutsu!
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What is it?
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Is that…?
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The Jutsu that killed Kikunojou?!
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Vanish and die!
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Yesterday’s Call Sign,
was all from my cell phone.
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In a strange park,
I play the Fuzz Guitar without enthusiasm.
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Yellow Moon.
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Even now, counting to three,
I open my eyes
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Shadow Moon I am still dreaming.
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Look at my eyes, look at my eyes,
as we face one another’s back
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Look at my eyes, when can we meet?
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EveryDay EveryNight
With every word I can think of
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Right away, my messy feelings as is,
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A magical chord change, in a restless city
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A daily JAZZ Guitar played
in a soft minor key
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What is this huge thing?
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I don’t wanna become its food.
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Let me tell you one thing.
I’m not tasty.
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I’m not tasty, either.
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But Choji would be more
worthwhile to eat.
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No, Naruto would be tastier.
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Be eaten for the sake of your comrade.
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You’re the one who will
become it food.
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This isn’t the time to be arguing
about stuff like that.
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Yurinojou!
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Anyway, we just have to run
with all our might for now!
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Next time:
“A Limitless Supply of Ninja Tools”