Here goes Miko's approximate Jump summary/translation. ^_- Bracketed text are 'thought' text... ^_^;
Rurouni Kenshin Act 196: The Blue Smoke of the Wolf
Yahiko pulls off the Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu Attack ougi, thus whacking Otowa in the jaw! He is flipping over Otowa in the process (shinai hits Otowa's jaw, throwing Otowa's head back as Yahiko somersaults over).
Yahiko: (Got him...!)
Yahiko falls forward, but Kenshin is already there to catch him,
Kenshin
says nothing as Yahiko lies unconcious, though he is still gripping his
shinai. Megumi hurries over to tend to Yahiko's wounds as Sano and
Kenshin
watch over her.
Megumi: It's all right. None of his tendons or vital organs are
wounded.It's much
easier to heal than a certain idiot's right hand.
Sano:
Megumi: I said he's not dead.
Kenshin: Losing to a child who is not even half his age, I think that
he really couldn't believe his own defeat.
Sano: Well. That wasn't all of it, watching from the side.That frilled
loser got all nervous when he looked over at Kenshin in the middle of
the
fight, and thought about retreating. A guy who is thinking about
retreating and a guy who is
completely focused on attacking. When the moment of truth comes, the
difference between the two also comes out.
Kenshin: Sano --
Sano: Yes, I know. Don't mention it in front of Yahiko, right? It's no
reward for the kid if I said "You won because of Kenshin's glare/gaze
from
behind you." That's it, right?
Kenshin: Aah. But if the one who fought is Yahiko, then the one who
won is
also Yahiko.
Kenshin and Sano turn towards Kaoru who is still sitting on the
'porch'
facing the path where the battle took place.
Sano: So, how about it, substitute teacher (shihandai)? The growth of
your
number one student (ichiban deshi).
Kaoru:
Megumi: (gives Kaoru a kinda frown/lifting eyebrows look) Not much
kindness
here is there. The student has worked so hard, but the teacher is so
shocked that she can't stand up.
Kaoru: (cutely SD kinda mad) No! It's not that! (back to normal) More
than
the fact that Yahiko was able to use the Hawatari (the ougi) and won,
I'm
just relieved that he's alive and all right...
Sano: (everybody SD'd) And so you can't stand up? That still lacks
compassion.
Megumi: That's right.
Kaoru: (cutely SD'd red in the face) THAT's ENOUGH!
One can make out the shadow of someone at the end of the path, outside
the
dojo...
Whoever: ......
A gloved hand with a cigarette and a puff of smoke.
Whoever: Joking right in the middle of a fight. As always, it's nothing
but
idiots in this bunch.
Sano and Kenshin's eyes widen in alarm. Both of them spin around to
look up
at Enishi. Aside from Enishi in his balloon, there is another balloon
present, but there is nobody in it, only a rope ladder hanging from it.
Enishi: You don't have to be that panicked. At this point, I won't be
doing any sort of surprise attack. (implication is someone else is
doing
it).
Kenshin spins around.
Kenshin: Kaoru dono! Come over here fast!!
Kaoru: Huh?
Kaoru freezes as she hears a sound coming from the roof in the dojo.
She
turns and sees one of the wooden boards of the roof being moved over
just a
crack.
Kaoru: (Something is there!)
Suddenly, a very long arm, the hand sheathed in some kind of clawlike
armor breaks through the roof, hits the floor and sweep towards Kaoru.
Massive destructive power noted. Kaoru is frozen to the spot!
Kenshin runs in and forcibly picks Kaoru up by her shoulders and moves
her
out of the way!
Kenshin: (skidding to a stop in the courtyard) You are...
Something that coulda come right out of Spawn is purching on the roof.
Really long arms and legs, and imagine a Spawn type mask. ^_^;
Monster: As always, when a woman is involved, even the color of your
eyes
change. Kukukuku....
Kaoru: What... that man's arms and legs... They are 1.5 times that of a
normal person.
Kenshin:Yes... An assasin who can freely attack from a dead angle from
the
shadows by using those long limbs.. But what I can not understand is
his
left arm... More than before, it is even...
Monster: I lengthened it. Using the 15 years since then. Back then, I
was
16 years old, and because my growth period was over and it was quite
impossible...
Kenshin or Kaoru... can't tell ^_^;: Lengthened?
Monster: Hey. Did you think that I was born with a body like this? This
body
is the secret of our Yatsume Clan, who are famed throughout all the
great
families of gold miners. The gold miners who excavate gold from the
gold
mines, supplying the ones who control the times/era with gold for their
armies. And in the midst of the contest of trying to find more of the
limited gold there is, there came the secret of the 'Yatsume's
Specially
Made Human Body' [ approximate translation... doesn't translate very
well
^_^; Maybe a better word would be 'Refining of the Human Body']
Putting iron rings on the limbs of children right after they are born,
and
then adding more as they go on, the body is 'refined' with long arms
and
legs that made it easier to dive/drill/reach into the ground or into
caves.
It is the same as the clans with long necks in Africa, or the binding
of
feet of the ladies of nobility in China. This body is the pride and
prosperity of the Yatsume Clan! And so we do not leave our home, and
kill
all the ones who know of our secret!! First is Battousai! And then
everyone
here!!
A soft puff of smoke... an angular profile, a gloved hand and a
cigarette.
Everybody has figured out that it's Saitou by now...? ^_^;
Saitou: Hn. It makes a lot of noise, being a monster.
Sano and Megumi are staring at Saitou.
Sano:
Saitou: What a thing to say. Hey. This is one who has passed through
first
Ikeda Ya and then Boshin and Seinan and many of places of death...
Full length shot of Saitou. With his copyrighted slightly to one
side, very slight, cold, cynical smile... ^_^;
Saitou: The only man in Shinsengumi who was said to be immortal.
*End Act*
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