amatsuki 93

amatsuki 93

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Text: [Chapter 93: Here Blooms the Daylily, Part 7]

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SFX: [*rattle*]
Kanzou: ......
Toki: It looks like they were just fakes...
Kanzou: ...I guess.
Toki: Huh?

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Kanzou: All of this...
Kanzou: Is just a fake, right?
Kanzou: Back then, I saw Kuchiha running through the torii gates...
Kanzou: [Kuchiha!]
SFX: [*dash*]
Kanzou: It was like she was chasing after something...
Kanzou: Something I couldn't see.
Toki: !
Toki: Oh, yeah...
Toki: The same thing happened with Bonten...
SFX: [*dash*]
Toki: [Bonten!?]
Toki: [Back then, Bonten saw something...]
Toki: [And whatever it was, it affected him so deeply...]
Susutake: [Eh!?]
SUsutake: [Boss!?]
SFX: [*squeak*]
Toki: [That he had no choice but to run after it.]
Kanzou: And when I went after her, I saw the Inugami...

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Kanzou: And when I heard what it had to say...
Kanzou: I couldn't refuse.
Inugami: [Well?]
INugami: [Do you want to go back...]
Inugami: [To a time when you could always be by her side?]
Inugami: [Or...]
Inugami: [Would you go back to before you became my servant?]
Kanzou: ......
Kanzou: I...
Kanzou: I want to go back...
Kanzou: To before any of this happened.
Toki: That's...
Toki: [What kind of wish is that!?]
Toki: [But... it almost makes a twisted kind of sense.]

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Kuchiha/Kanzou: It would be better if I wasn't here.
SFX: [*bounce bounce*]
Kuchiha/Kanzou: I wish I didn't have to live with this horrible fate.
Kuchiha/Kanzou: I wish...
Kuchiha/Kanzou: that I...
Kuchiha: didn't exist.
Toki: [All Kanzou wanted...]
Toki: [Was to go back "home" to a place where people loved him.]
Toki: [That's all...]

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SFX: [*shock*]
SFX: [*gah!*]
SFX: [*punch*]
Toki: You little jerk...
SFX: [*cough*]
Kanzou: Don't you dare pity me!!
Kanzou: Screw you!!

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Toki: ......
SFX: *sob*
SFX: *sob*
SFX: *sob*
SFX: *sob*
SFX: *sob*
SFX: *sob*
Toki: Hmph.
Toki: Like I'd pity you, idiot.
Toki: If anything...
Toki: Seeing your weak side puts me in a really good mood!
SFX: [*wahahaha*]
Toki: Can't you tell?

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SFX: [*ahaha*]
Toki: And you're just so tiny...
SFX: [*pat pat*]
Toki: Watching you cry...
SFX: [*giggle*]
Toki: Is actually kind of cute~ <3
SFX: [*grrrrrr*]
Kanzou: I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!]
SFX: [*crash*]
Toki: Gaaaaah!!
Toki: [What if...]
Toki: [When I came to this world,]

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Toki: [I never met Kuchiha?]
Toki: [What if I never met Shinonome?]
Toki: [How...]
Toki: [Would I have survived?]
Toki: [I would have been an outcast.]
Toki: [Where would I have gone?  What would I have eaten?]
Toki: [I would have hated this world.]
Toki: This is all some kind of illusion!
Toki: [When the world is dark...]
Toki: We just have to find out who's making it, and then we can go back!
Toki: [And reality is cold...]

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Toki: [We have no choice but to rely on our friends.]
Toki: [This was supposed to be Kanzou's perfect world...]
Kanzou: .....
Kanzou: The enemy...
Toki: Do you know where they might be?
Toki: [But he still tried to save Kuchiha.]
Kanzou: Hm... well, this is a copy of the village I grew up in.
Kanzou: But the exorcists came from somewhere else, and they're trying to take Kuchiha away too.
Kanzou: ...So maybe we should look outside the village.

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Toki: Alright, let's go!!
Toki: We're going to go rescue the real Kuchiha!!
Toki: [He could have just given up!]
Kanzou: Quit being so cheerful!  It's pissing me off!
SFX: [*punch*]
Toki: Oww...
Toki: [But he knew he'd have regretted it if he did.]

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SFX: [*splash*]
Azuki-arai: What's wrong?
SFX: [*huff huff huff*]
Susutake: .....
Susutake: Boss!!
Susutake: Now that I'm up here, what should I do!?
SFX: [*wave wave wave*]
Susutake: Even if I shoot it, I don't think it's gonna crack!!
Bonten: Try shooting it in the mouth.

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SFX: [*bang*]
SFX: [*snap*]
Susutake: !
Bonten: Tch.
Bonten: Now pry it open and shoot it again! Idiot.
SFX: [*shock*]
Susutake: Are you fucking kidding me!?
Susutake: Did you see that?
Susutake: I nailed it!
Susutake: One shot kill!!
Susutake: I'm gonna rip it apart with my bare hands!
Bonten: .....

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SFX: [*hmm*]
Bonten: We've attacked it at least ten times now.
Bonten: Every time, it just goes back to normal.
Bonten: Is the demon aware of us?
Bonten: Or is it just a reflexive defense instinct?
Bonten: Hm...
Bonten: What a pain.
Bonten: We can stop it for a little while, but that means we're stuck here.
Bonten: When we really should be looking for the rest of the group...
SFX: [*shock*]
Men: What was that!?
Men: What was that!?
SFX: [*shout shout shout*]
Men: Over there!!
Men: I heard a gunshot!
Men: Senkichi!?

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Bonten: ......
Azuki-arai: Looks like we have company.
SFX: [*shout shout*]
Bonten: That's the last thing we need!!
Men: Where are you!?
SFX: [*shout shout*]
Men: You don't think anyone would shoot a child!?
Men: Oi!!  Senkichi!!
Men: Where are you!?
Ainezu: Hii-sama...
SFX: [*whisper*]
Hizame: Mm.
Hizame: There's a strong smell of seawater.
Hizame: Even though we're in the mountains...
SFX: [*sniff sniff*]
Hizame: And I can smell gunpowder.

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Ainezu: It's coming from the top of that cliff.
Hizame: Mm.
Hizame: It must be the source of the river.
SFX: [*splash splash*]
SFX: [*rustle*]
Hizame: Oh, is it just the two of you?
SFX: [*rustle rustle*]
Bonten: Yeah.
Bonten: Where are the other two?

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Hizame: Rikugou-dono ran off with a boy from the village.  They're both missing.
Ainezu: Huh?
SFX: [*turn*]
Ainezu: What about the other guy?
Bonten: I thought he was with you!
Hizame: Perhaps he's wih Rikugou-dono...?
Hizame: Oh my...
Hizame: That's a problem.
Bonten: Whatever.
Bonten: We've got bigger problems.
Bonten: I think...
Bonten: That thing is our enemy.
Hizame: !
Hizame: I see...  (no you don't, Hizame, you're blind... right?)

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Hizame: Oh dear.
Hizame: So it's that kind of ayakashi.
Hizame: They're very hard to get rid of.
Bonten: Yeah.
Bonten: We've been trying to figure out how to attack it, but...
Hizame: That's not the problem.
Hizame: The problem is what we do after it's defeated.
Hizame: When the clam dies, its mouth will close forever...
Hizame: And when it does,
Hizame: This world will come to an end.
Bonten: .....!
Hizame: If Rikugou-dono and Shinonome-dono aren't with us,
Hizame: They will die as well.

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Susutake: [Oh shit, that's bad!!]
Hizame: In its natural habitat, it's merely an ayakashi that creates illusions.
Hizame: But what is it doing in a place like this...?
Ainezu: If that idiot had killed it, we'd all be dead!
Susutake: Shit...
Susutake: What do we do now?
Bonten: ...We need to find those two, and then get the hell out of this forest.
Bonten: That's my opinion.
Susutake: Huh?
Susutake: We're not gonna fight this thing?
Bonten: No.
Bonten: Someone else is behind all of this.
Ainezu: Wait.

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Ainezu: Don't forget - we haven't found Kanzou yet.
Ainezu: We still don't have the slightest idea where he is, right?
Hizame: ...I would guess that we're currently living within Kanzou's dream.
Bonten: Which means that...
Bonten: He probably doesn't want to go back.
Hizame: .....
Hizmae: I wouldn't say that.
SFX: [*giggle giggle*]

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Hizame: He may be a foolish child,
Hizame:But he hates to lose.
Hizame: And he's certainly no coward.
Hizame: But in his mind...
Hizame: The real world is worthless.
Hizame: Reality has no meaning.
Bonten: Yeah, and that's why he created this place.
Bonten: Reality was too painful.
Bon: And so, deep in his heart, he made this...

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Bonten: Who's to say...
Bonten: What's really "real?"
Hizame: ......
Hizame: And what exactly are you talking about?
SFX: [*shock*]
SFX: [*cough*]
Bonten: ...A-anyway,
Bonten: Including Rikugou,
Bonten: We're missing three people.
Bonten: I wonder...
Bonten: If we should risk splitting up.
Hizame: You're right...
Father: There he is!!
Father: Senkichi!!
Father: Senkichi!!
SFX: [*wahh wahh*]

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Father: You foolish boy!  Where have you been!?
SFX: [*hug*]
Kanzou: !?
Father: Are you hurt!?
SFX: [*shake*]
Kanzou: Hey!
Kanzou: .....
Father: Thank goodness!
SFX: [*grin*]
Father: You're alright!
Father: I was so worried!!
Toki: ......
Toki: Kanzou...
Men: It was him!

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Men: It was him!
Men: It was him!
SFX: [*mutter mutter*]
SFX: [*glare*]
Men: He's the kidnapper!
Toki: Huh!?
SFX: [*mutter mutter*]
Men: What a coward...
Toki: Eh!?
Men: Stealing a child...
Toki: Eh!?
Men: That's unforgivable!
Men: Catch him!!  We'll give him what he deserves!!
SFX: [*glare*]
Toki: EEEEHHHHH!?
Hizame: And now we're only missing one~
SFX: [*giggle giggle*]
Bonten: ...Yeah, whatever.