-------------------- Chapter 242 - "Si Shen Confrontation -- Yahiko versus Genbu" -------------------- Misao: He's in danger, Himura! Megumi: If Yahiko keeps on, then... Kenshin: It's all right. Just look at his eyes. (Yahiko glares in grim determination) Genbu: ... you've got good eyes, eyes of a young man who knows no surrender. (grinning) It will be a great fun to close them forever! (Genbu attacks with his six-piece nunchaku) Genbu: The younger the foe, the more exciting it is! There is a great pleasure in robbing him his future! (Genbu assembles his nunchaku and attack Yahiko with the staff) Genbu: FN!! (Yahiko crosses his arms above his head) Yahiko: Kamiya Kasshin Style Ougi -- (Genbu grins. He twists his staff, transforming it again into a nunchaku.) Yahiko: Again... (The nunchaku wraps around Yahiko's right arm.) Yahiko: Damn! Genbu: HAH! (Genbu swings the nunchaku, making Yahiko fly above him. Then Genbu assembles the nunchaku and hits Yahiko's abdomen with the staff) Genbu: Got you! Yahiko: Gah!! (He spits blood as he falls. Genbu hits Yahiko in the head with the staff) Genbu: Toh!! Megumi and Misao: NO! Genbu (turning his head): That was easy. Let's see who's next --- Megumi and Misao: ! (Yahiko dashes again towards Genbu) Yahiko: Where the hell are you looking?! (Yahiko tries to hit Genbu with the shinai. Genbu grits his teeth and parries with the staff.) Genbu: You brat... don't you feel pain? Yahiko: Of course I do. My head is throbbing and my stomach is aching. But I can't keep whining about the pain! It will be most shameful to me if the first thing Kaoru tells me is "what a puny student you are"!! As the best student of the Kamiya Kasshin Style, I will fight with honor! I will defeat you and rescue Kaoru with dignity! (he drops his arms) So, come on! This time I will counter your staff with the Ougi of the Kamiya Kasshin Style! Genbu: You fool. Your ougi is meaningless before my staff. Yahiko: You're the fool. The ougi is called as such because it isn't so easily defeated! Genbu: ......... (thinking) Don't take such talk into account. Think carefully. I've already defeated the ougi twice. Not only that, I wounded him on the head and abdomen. And my opponent is nothing but a brat! (aloud) Fine. So I will attack you with my staff! But this will be the last!! Yahiko: Great, come on! (a moment of tension. Suddenly Genbu attacks Yahiko.) Genbu: FN !! Yahiko: OOOOOH!! (The staff is about to hit Yahiko's arms) -- HERE !!! -- Genbu (thinking): Here I disassemble the staff! Yahiko (thinking): Here I ---- ! (Yahiko pushes the handle of his shinai, blocking Genbu's staff) Genbu: What ?! Yahiko: Here... if I can neutralize the tip of the staff with my handle... !! Megumi: He didn't cross his arms above his head... Kenshin: No. What Yahiko did was the best thing. To press the tip of the staff and avoid its disassembly. Now, the disassembly will only be possible if Genbu retreats a step. But if he does so, he will be beaten with the "Hawatari". And if he tries to step forward, then Yahiko will slide and beat him with the "Hawatari". Really... the more he fights... the more he grows... And --- (the staff starts cracking) Yahiko: As the staff has got so many tricks, it's obvious that it's weaker than an ordinary staff, isn't it? So, what are you going to do next? Are you going to retreat or advance? If you think for a long time, your weapon will be destroyed. (Genbu grits his teeth) Yahiko: Five... four... Genbu: Damn! (thinking) Think carefully, carefully! Yahiko: Three... Genbu (thinking): He's nothing but a brat -- Yahiko: Two... Genbu (thinking): Yeah, nothing but a brat --- Yahiko: One... Genbu (thinking): A brat a brat a brat a brat abratabratbratbrat--- Yahiko: Zero. Time up. (the staff shatters) Yahiko: You lost!! Wu Heishin (incredulous): Why? Why the Si Shen?! Why the Four Gods can't beat even a brat ?!?! Kenshin: Don't you understand? Wu Heishin: ! Kenshin: The outcome of the battle is influenced not only by the phsyical aspect, but also by the psychological aspect. Those four are fighting now to help me, but in the deepest corners of their hearts, they are fighting because they are following their strongest feelings that comes from the innermost of their soul. (showing Saitou against Seiryuu) Justice (showing Aoshi against Suzaku) Belief (showing Sano against Byakko) Way of Living (showing Yahiko against Genbu) Future No matter if your bodyguards are named after the four godly beasts, they are fighting to obtain nothing but pleasure. And therefore it's absolutely impossible for them to defeat their opponents. Let me say once more: (Saitou swings his sword viciously against Seiryuu, Aoshi knocks Suzaku down with his elbow, Sano defeats Byakko with a punch and Yahiko hits Genbu with the shinai) Kenshin: EVERY ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE TODAY WITH ME IS MY TRUSTWORTHY COMPANION ---- (the four bodyguards - Si Shen - fall on the sand, completely defeated.) Wu Heishin (gritting his teeth): Shit! Shit shit shit shit! You worthless monkeys of a goddamn island! (he dashes back to the woods) Misao: Hey, he fled! (And he walks pigeon-toed!) Wu Heishin: Wait, you scum! I will get the army that is stationed in the house of the south and with all the weapons I've got, you will be dead meat --- (he bumps into somebody.) Voice: What are you doing here? I told you to disappear in within an hour. Wu Heishin: ! (Wu Heishin is punched in the face.) Wu Heishin: Gah!! (everybody is surprised) Enishi (glaring at the already unconscious Wu Heishin): Piece of shit... Kenshin (thinking): ....... Enishi ---- ! -------------------- Translation note: I decided not to translate words like "ougi" and "Kamiya Kasshin", because I believe that you know the meaning... ^_^