Chapter 193 - The Threefold Battle Part 3 of Section 2 (Sanosuke faces Banjin) Sanosuke: The "Futae no Kiwami" or the "Mastery of the Twofold"! I'll strike you with it, as you wish! So, get ready! (Banjin, furious with rage, grinds his teeth) Banjin: D--- DON'T MOCK ME!! You telling me not to use just one Invincible Armor, but TWO!? If I wish, you'll be history with just one blow! Acknowledge your actual situation!! Sano: Oh, stop babbling, will you? I'm telling you I'm gonna fight with you. So shut up and get ready, okay? Banjin: What? I'm gonna kill you for real! Megumi: HEY! Hey, Sanosuke! Rooster-head! Banjin: What, woman, now we're--- Megumi: SHUT UP! Please keep quiet for a moment, will you?! Kaoru: Megumi-san... (she's strong...) Megumi (to Sano): Do you intend to use that Futae-I-don't-know-what technique? Are you out of your mind?! You know how bad your right hand is, don't you? It's almost cracking into pieces! Use that technique once more and it'll be your last! Your right hand has reached its limit!! Kaoru: ! Banjin: What? Kenshin: .... Sano: Heard that? Banjin: What? Sano: This is going to be my last attack! Banjin: ! Kaoru: Sanosuke... Megumi: Stupid fool... now we know who's the most foolish one here... Sano (to Megumi): I'm sorry for wasting away all your precious medical treatment. Megumi: It's all right, I don't care anymore... Sano: But I can't think about retreating when I face such an idiot like this one standing in front of me, showing off his pretense mastership. Banjin: What?! Sano: Those people who I saw attained mastership aren't like this one (Banjin). No matter if I like them (showing Kenshin) or not (showing Shishio and Saitou), those who mastered strength, all of them, always walked on the thin line between life and death. There were captains (showing Captain Sagara Souzou) who tried to master his ideals and unfortunately were killed in the end... and there were men (showing monk Anji) who risked his life and turned himself into a mad god of destruction in order to save the world... Sano (to Banjin): Before you reached your mastership, you didn't risk your life, not even once, and I bet you've never fought with an opponent stronger than you, aren't I right? Not only that, all your opponents were weaker than you, weren't they? Banjin (gritting his teeth): What... Sano: And you take advantage of a puny pretext to take part in a battle that has nothing to do with you and you try to get a very vulgar satisfaction! I can't stand a small dog barking loudly about his strength! Banjin (completely mad with rage): I'LL KILL YOU !! I'LL ANNIHILATE YOU!! (crossing his arms in a defensive position) Come then and use your technique! First I'll take your right hand! And then I'll tear off your head who's got such a restless mouth! (Sano falls silent, staring at his fist) Banjin: What happened, now you've gone coward?! Sano (thinking): Well, it's nothing but a borrowed technique... it's a bit early, though, but I'll return it to you, Anji... (to Banjin) I'll show you, striped little bastard. (Sano starts running) Sano: THIS IS WHAT MASTERSHIP IS!! (he lands the Futae no Kiwami) Kaoru: The toll is both the right hand and the armor --- Megumi: --- It's a tie...! Kenshin: No. (Banjin attacks with his both hands) Banjin: Goddamn it! Kaoru and Megumi: Sanosuke! (But the veins of Banjin's arms are ripped due to the effort, and blood gushes out forth) Banjin (howling with pain) : GAAAAAAHH! Kenshin: The "Futae no Kiwami" was devised by monk Anji for the lost lives and learned by Sano at his own life's cost. It's nothing but a hidden technique that is the mastering of destruction... On the one hand, one right hand. On the other, two armors and arms... (Sano gives a headbutt on Banjin's forehead, who falls down to the floor) Kenshin: The fight is settled. Sano (panting): So, how was fighting someone stronger than you? Banjin:... damn... ne..xt time, I'll... utterly... destroy... you... Sano: Come whenever you wish. Now that you've got a "pretext", all the more. Banjin: Bah! Sano: But you can't win while you've got those armors. Banjin: What!? Sano: I won't lose for a man who wears armors, thinking that he's got a high pain threshold and thus believes he's invincible or he's the strongest. Before you rely on the armors to do your showoff, master your true self and then come again. (Banjin feels defeated) Kaoru: He won... but his right hand... Kenshin: It's all right...to master is to get hold of what lies beyond one's boundaries. I and Sano learned that in the last battle (against Shishio). It's not you who sets your limits... And... (Sano shows his hand to Megumi) Megumi: What? Sano: Sorry, can you start again from the beginning? (damn it hurts) Megumi: Really I wish there were medicines against stupidity... Sano: WHAT?! --- end of chapter 193 --