Seimaden Volume 5: Part 1 Translated by: Soujirou no Miko % = thoughts $ = flashbacks --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 1 Good and evil, the saint and the devil, What do we use to define them? If to go against the one-way direction dictated by the passage of time is what mortals call evil, then between saint and devil, I’d rather abandon saintliness and succumb to evil. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 5 Jiji: Ha...hahaha... Jiji: Burn, burn! Jiji: Berk’s castle is on fire. Hahaha! Jiji: Do you see it, master? Jiji: Like so many beautiful red flowers of flame. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 6 Hilda: No....no! Hilda: Don’t come any closer! Hilda: Ah... Hilda: No, let me go! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 7 Laures: If you have to hate, then hate all you want. Hilda: Mmnnn..... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 8 Hilda: !! Hilda: This--- you got this when you were protecting me? Hilda: You are injured so badly.... Hilda: --- towards me, you’ve been so gentle, --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 9 Hilda: but how....how could you commit such acts of cruelty? Hilda: You tore Sherril apart without batting an eyelash. Hilda: So offhandedly, destroyed my precious angel. Laures: Ho, Laures: Because I’m not the upholder of justice. I don’t care if everyone else but you ceases to exist. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 10 Hilda: You are truly of the demon race, right? Hilda: You know nothing at all about human affection! Laures: --- Laures: You are right, Hilda. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 11 Laures: Hahaha, Laures: What? Still haven’t given up? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 12 Rodrique: Hilda! Hilda: ! Rodrique. Rodrique: I’m so relieved. You don’t seem to be hurt. Rodrique: Hilda. Laures: Ah. Laures: Here comes a trouble maker. Rodrique: Huh? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 13 Zadei: Oh. You’re really as tough as a weed, I knew you didn’t die! Laures: Zadei. Zadei: As I was saying, if you’ve died so easily, then what’s the fun in that? Zadei: What luck that you’re still alive, you did well! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 14 Laures: Hurry and get Hilda out of here, Rodrique, I’ll take care of things here. Rodrique: But --- Hilda: Laures! Laures: Go! Zadei: Do you really think you are my equal, in this sorry state of yours? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 15 Zadei: Don’t underestimate me! Laures: Hoa! Laures: Mmn... Zadei: Aaaaah! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 16 Rodrique: Laures! Zadei: Too slow, you’re much too slow, what are you doing? Zadei: You would normally have dodged that with ease. Laures: ! Laures: Uh....Uaaaah. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 17 Zadei: What a pretty picture, you look like the most useless of trash. I am ashamed to fight with someone as feeble as you. Zadei: I won’t kill you immediately. Zadei: Hahaha, I will have my fun with you until I get bored, then finish you with one blow at the end. Rodrique: Damn you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 18 Laures: You fool! Do you think you can handle him? Just take Hilda and go! Zadei: Who is this kid? Rodrique: % He caught it with just one hand! % Zadei: Oh, isn’t that the mark of Azaru? So this kid is Kaimei’s successor? Zadei: Then let me see just how powerful you are! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 19 Rodrique: % That....that speed! % Rodrique: Waaaaah! Zadei: What a disappointent, what was Kaimei thinking when he chose a sop like you? Rodrique: Dammit! Rodrique: I won’t lose to this kind of..... Hilda: Rodrique. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 20 Zadei: We meet again, little kitten. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 21 Hilda: Aaaaaah! Laures: Hilda! Zadei: What are you going to do now, Laures? How will it feel to have to watch this little wench die in front of your eyes? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 22 Zadei: Hn! Zadei: What slender limbs. I only need to exert a fraction of my strength to snap it. Laures: Stop, Zadei! Hilda: Eeeyaaaahh..... Zadei: How delightful, like music to my ears. Zadei: Scream a bit louder, kitten, so that he’ll be able to hear your dying screams. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 23 Zadei: ---! Hilda: Aaaah.... Hilda: Gyaaaaaah! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 24 Zadei: What...what is this? What’s happening? Zadei: Uwaah! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 25 Zadei: ! Ah! Zadei: % It is the Sword of Azaru % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 26 Zadei: It get it now, it’s been sealed inside the wench’s body along! Zadei: No wonder I couldn’t find it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 28 Zadei: Ho, Zadei: Ahahaha, not bad! Zadei: This was an unexpected bonus, a gift from the heavens, don’t you think? Zadei: With this sword, I can bring the power in me to the limit. Zadei: To me, nothing in this world will be impossible! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 29 Zadei: What? Jiji: Heyaah! Zadei: That was close. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 30 Jiji: Hahaha....Berk-sama’s enemy! Zadei: Jiji? Zadei: Looks like she’s lost it, this girl. Zadei: Really! You’ve come at an inconvenient time. I’m too busy to take care of you right now! Rodrique: Mmnn... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 31 Jiji: Aaah! Zadei: ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 32 Zadei: When did that kid.... Sword: He who was selected to be my last descendent. Sword: Hold this sword, descendent of Azaru. Sword: It is time for you to awaken. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 33 Laures: ! Laures: Don’t touch that sword, Rodrique! Sword: Don’t you want power? Sword: To have power to protect that girl? Rodrique: % --- power... % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 34 Rodrique: % For the sake of gaining the power that can protect Hilda....% Rodrique: % My present self is so powerless % Rodrique: % If I don’t improve... % Sword: Now is the time to free the power that is hidden in you, son of Azaru! Hilda: % No, Rodrique. Although I’m not sure what’s going on, I have a gut feeling. % Hilda: % Don’t go near that sword! % Hilda: % I can’t seem to call out. If you really have my interest at heart, then please.... % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 35 Zadei: Damn you! Zadei: I won’t let you have it! Sword: Son of Azaru! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 37 Rodrique: Aaaaagh --- Sword: Open up your heart, my successor. Sword: We are going to become one now, because the mark on your foreheard proves that you are the human sacrifice presented to me! Rodrique: Aaaah! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 38 Sword: Accept my soul! Rodrique: Uh.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 39 Rodrique: Uuaaarggh.... Zadei: % What terrifying power. Even the near-indestructable dimension wood was dissolved! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 40 Zadei: Hey young’un, don’t you think snatching someone else’s bounty is a very rude thing to do? Zadei: % --- I am going to possess it, even if I have to use every possible means! % Zadei: % What? % Zadei: % He side-stepped it? % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 41 Zadei: Uwaah! Zadei: % He’s, he’s good! % Zadei: He can't compare to what he was before...! Hilda: Rodrique. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 42 Hilda: % He’s Rodrique? % Hilda: % Just as if he’s changed to another person. % Villager 1: Ah --- is it an earthquake? Villager 2: What....what’s happening? Villager 3: Hey, look.... Villager 4: Oh, am I seeing things? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 43 Villager 4: Berk’s castle is floating in the sky? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 44 Villagers: What’s going on? Asubaru: % Rodrique! % Teteiyusu: % At last... % Teteiyusu: % It has begun... % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 45 Tetei: The time has come for the dimension wood to return to the place it should originally have been in. It is a journey to a dimension of death, from which there is no returning. Hilda: Rodrique! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 46 Rodrique: Excellent. You are the nemesis of the Azaru. Rodrique: Die. Hilda: What are you doing? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 47 Hilda: No don’t, can’t you see Laures is unable to move now? Hilda: This is not like you. Hilda: Rodrique wouldn’t do something like this, Rodrique.... Rodrique: Hilda.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 48 Rodrique: Ugh! Hilda: !? Rodrique: Uwaaah.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 49 Laures: % Can it be that I have reached my limit already? % Laures: % Kaimei....looks like you’ve got what you wished. % Laures: % Hilda and Rodrique....from the moment they met, I sensed danger. Because I saw the thread of destiny, a thread of destiny woven by Kaimei yourself. % Laures: % For that reason, I took away your memory, Hilda. % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 50 Laures: % The kind of bond created by an enormous power. % Laures: % and the bond from a past life. % Laures: % In your heart, of the two kinds of bonds, I wonder which one runs deeper --- % Rodrique: Uwaaah! Hilda: Rodrique. Hilda: Eeeyaa! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 51 Rodrique: Hil...Hilda! Hilda: What’s wrong? Jiji: Cannot forgive anyone. That includes the one who took my master away from my side. Hilda: Ji...ji? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 52 Jiji: And also.... Jiji: Everything that is beautiful. Rodrique and Laures: % Hilda! % --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 53 Hilda: Ah.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- page 54 Rodrique and Laures: Hilda! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to The Seimaden Translations