Seiden -- Rg Veda, volume 10 
By CLAMP
Wings Comics,  Shinshokan.
Chinese edition published by Tohan Comics

Translated from Chinese by Mimi Zhou  (a-zhou2@uiuc.edu)

Disclaimer:  This script is written as an aid for those who want to 
	     read the Japanese Manga.  Not for sale or for commercial/public
	     use.   

Symbols:  

	speaker: <... > indicate thoughts or unspoken words.
	speaker: <speaker2: .....> indicate a flashback with speaker2
	[..]  Hand written words, captions.
	{..}  indicate notes.

	sound effects are not translated.

Name abbreviations:
	(most of these are pretty obvious)

	Bish:	Bishamon-ten
	Ken:	Kendappa-oh
	Kou:	Koumoku-ten
	Tai:	Taishakuten
	Zou:	Zouchou-ten


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	      Volume X

Thunder and Fire Over the Twin Cities
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p5
Yasha:	Karura-oh!!!

p6
p7
Karura:	<Karyoubinga...>
Karura:	<I'm sorry>
Karura:	<I could not avenge you>

p8
Karura:	<But, I will keep the last promise I made with you>
Karura:	<Karyoubinga: Sister>
Karura:	<Karyoubinga: Live for your heart's desire>
Karura:	<Karyoubinga: Please be free...>
Karura:	<Free...>

p9
Karura:	<If I go to see you like this, I probably will get 
		scolded by you again...>

p10
p11
Karura:	<Dear sister... will you sing for me once again...?>

p12
Sohma:	Karura-oh--!
Sohma:	Karura-oh...

p13
Zou:	Idiot...
Zou:	Fool...

p14
Kujaku:	Stars! Reveal to me the path you will take,
Kujaku:	The wheels of fate that never err, forseen 
		by the hoshimi through the ages..
Kujaku:	These I will gaze upon, as heir to the hoshimi blood.

p15
Kujaku:	A constellation has only one form.
Kujaku:	Both those who choose to accept it, and those who 
	wish to break this kind of course, cannot refuse the future 
	path of the stars.

Ken:	Karura-oh...
Ken:	Don't you understand? You cannot defeat Taishakuten.
Ken:	Even though you are gentle and kind to others, you are
	also very stubborn.
	Once you had decided to overthrow Taishakuten, you would 
	not give up easily, would you ?

p16
Ken:	So I let you go,
Ken:	even though I did not want you to leave.
Ken:	But since you had already chosen that path...
Ken:	and Yasha-oh is very strong,
Ken:	when I heard that Yasha-oh was traveling through the land,
	I sent you, who have always wanted to fight Taishakuten, 
	to Kishoten.
Ken:	Because I thought that if you were with him, you would not
	die easily.
Ken:	Because I did not want you to die...

p17
Sohma:	Kendappa-oh...
Ken:	I always hoped that... during your travels, you would change
Ken:	your mind.
Ken:	But it seems to have remained the same.
Ken:	Fate really can not be changed.
Ken:	Those who betray Taishakuten, can never escape death!

p18
Tai:	Is this all there is to the 'Six Stars'!?

p19
Bish:	Didn't I just tell you that I am your opponent!?

p20
p21
p22
Kish:	Bishamonten...!
Bish: 	...Kishoten...

p23
Yasha:	Haaaiiiiiiii...!
Tai:	I will change the results of the prophecy.
Yasha:	Yama...
Yasha:	Tenrouken!!

p24
Tai:	I have ...
Tai:	a promise to keep. Even if I have to sacrifice my life 
	for it, I will keep it to the end.

p25
p26
p27
p28
p29
p30
Kujaku:	Ashura... Yasha-oh...
Kujaku:	The wheel of fate has not stopped turning.

p31
Tai:	You can not defeat me.
Yasha:	Step aside!
Bish:	A Shittennou
Bish:	has no reason to lose to a Bushinshou!
Bish:	Especially since it is *you*, who could not even protect 
	your own people. How can you overthrow Taishakuten?

p32
p33
Ashura:	Destruction and
Ashura:	Death.
Ashura:	Haa haa!
Ashura:	Death of all things ....

p34
Ashura:	My desire is for ---
Ashura:	eternal silence and emptiness.
	
p35
Ashura:	Blood...fire....and silence!
Ashura:	My other half is completely resurrected, and now the 
		gate to Ashura-jou has opened!
Ashura:	Oh city reflected on the foamy water!
	Open your gate, and welcome your master!
	I am the god of war, Ashura-oh!
	The last lord foretold by the constellations.
	The destroyer who will realise the prophecy.

p36
Ashura:	I will become the 'break' which destroys heaven!
Yasha:	<Yamato!!>

p37
Yasha:	<Yamato>
Yasha:	<is resonating!!>
Yasha:	<Yamato and shurato,>
Yasha:	<often act together in concert!>
Yasha:	<Could something be happening with shurato!?>
Yahsa:	<Who could have killed Ryuu-oh when he went to 
	 search for Ashura?>
Yasha:	<In this castle, who else beside us and the Shittennou could
	 possibly kill Ryuu-oh!?
	 Are you alright, Ashura!!>
Yasha:	<Where are you now!?>

p38
Bish:	Yasha-ou! You're leaving me openings everywhere!
Bish:	Letting your mind wander while you fight, 
Kish:	<Yahsa-oh>
Kish:	<Bishamonten>
Maid:	Kisshou-ten!
Maid:	It's too dangerous here! You had better go outside.
Maid:	Hurry, Kisshou-ten!

p39
p40
Han:	The staff..!?
Han:	<That... that is...>
Han:	<The staff of a 'Hoshimi'...!?>
Han:	<Black wings>
Han:	<The 'mark of daten' on his forehead!>

p41
Han:	<If he is a daten, how is he able to wield the staff of a 
	 hoshimi?>

Yasha:	I won't die like this at your hand.
Yasha:	<I will avenge all the people that Bishamon-ten had killed!>

p42
Yasha:	<For all those who died because of Taishaku-ten,>
Yasha:	<For Karura-oh who could not realize her dreams,>
Yasha:	<For Ryuu-oh,>
Yasha:	<And to protect Ashura,>

p43
Yahsa:	I will defeat Taishaku-ten!!

p44
Yahsa:	Yama-Tenrouken!!

p45
p46
Maid:	Kisshou-ten!
Kish:	Aaaaaahhh--!
Kish:	Bishamon-ten!  Bishamon-ten!

p47
Kish:	I won't let you die...
Kish:	Please don't die...
Kish:	Open...
Kish:	Open your eyes!
Bish:	Kisshou-ten... don't cry for me...
Bish:	I never wanted to see your tears...
Bish:	But I often gave you pain... made you cry...
Bish:	So this is my punishment, to be like this

p48
Bish:	You are my flower,
Bish:	A flower... I could never possess...
	But I wanted it so much... so I plucked it by force...
	and... hurt it....
Bish:	But... all I wanted was to have you by my... side...
Kish:	Nooooo--

p49
Kish:	I beg you!!
	Open your eyes!! Please!!
Kish:	Don't leave me by myself !

p50
Kish:	Bishamon-ten!!

p51
Yasha:	Kisshou-ten...
Tai:	I made a pact with Bishamonten.
Tai:	Three hundred years ago, when I decided to rebel against the
	previous Emperor, Bishamonten said this to me...

p52
Tai:	'I can become your advisor and join your rebellion. But, my
	price is...'
Tai:	'that at the time of our victory, you give Kisshou-ten to me 
	for wife!'
Tai:	<Bish: There is no way to possess her other than by force!>


p53
Tai:	<Tai: But then, you will never win her heart!>
Tai:	<Bish: Even so...>
Tai:	<Bish: I do not care!>
Tai:	<Bish: As long as I have her by my side, it will be enough...
	       I will ask for nothing more!>

p54
Tai:	Bishamon-ten became my most valuable ally. His condition  
	was; that after I become Tentai, I don't kill the emperor's
	daughter Kisshou-ten.
Tai:	That was the pact between Bishamonten and me.
Tai:	So, one could say that I only let you live for Bishamonten's sake.
Tai:	But now... Bishamonten is dead.

p55
Tai:	There is no need for you to remain alive.
Yasha:	Kisshou-ten!

p56
Kish:	I too...
Kish:	Always loved you...
Kish:	It was always so...
Kish:	I always loved ... you...

p57
Kish:	Loving each other, but we never understood each other's heart..
Kish:	You have no right to be Tentai!
	Because you treat lives like dirt!
Kish:	Some one like you...!
Tai:	It looks like you still do not know what your father did!
Tai:	Fortunate daughter!

p58
Tai:	Your father ruled in a time of peace and prosperity.
Tai:	He considered himself the best Tentai since the world began.
	Millions admired him.
Tai:	Yet,
Tai:	He commited an unspeakable act in secret.

p59
Kish:	That man...
Kish:	What could he mean...?
Kish:	My kind, loving father,
Kish:	What wrong could he have done?
Kish:	... poor father...
Kish:	I think he must be furious,
Kish:	A father like him, what unspeakable act could he have committed?
Kish:	The wise and saintly Tentai..Could he have committed an evil and
	unforgivable crime...?

p60
Kish:	You are the one who committed an unforgivable crime!!
Kish:	How dare you make up lies...!!
Tai:	It's up to you ..... whether you believe it or not.

p61
p62
Sohma:	Kisshou-ten!
Maid:	Kisshou-ten!

p63
Tai:	Bishamon-ten... Are you warm in the blood of the woman 
	you love?

p64
p65
Yasha:	Haaaaaaaaa--!

p66
Kujaku:	Kisshou-ten.. just died...

p67
Kujaku:	...the daughter who was destined to be loved...

p68
Yasha:	I won't let you get away with this!!

p69
Yasha:	Mei-Ou Hayouzan!!

p70
Tai:	Thunder!
Tai:	Raikou-kourin!!

p72
Sohma:	Danger! Yasha-oh!!
Sohma:	Yasha-oh !!
Yasha:	Zouchou-ten !!

p73
Zou:	I had always admired your daring, and followed you until today!
Zou:	But, now...
Zou:	I don't understand you anymore!
Zou:	After your ally Bishamonten died, 
Zou:	you killed his wife with your own hands!
Zou:	Now Tenkai has come to the point! Do you still want to reign
	supreme in Tenkai ?
Tai:	It does not matter what happens to Tenkai.

p74
All:	<It does not matter what happens to Tenkai?!>
Tai:	I only live to keep a 'promise' I once made.

p75
Tai:	To keep this promise, I do not care if rivers flow with blood,
	and corpses pile up to make mountains!

p76
Ashura:	Hahahahahaha!
Ashura:	Your bravery is truly admirable! Taishaku-ten!
Yasha:	This voice, could it.. be...
Ashura:	Tell me, with whom did you make this promise that you would
	die to keep ?

p77
Yasha: 	Could it be...?!
Ashura:	"The man who broke the seal and disturbed my rest",
	"The man who woke me up from the deep abyss of sleep",
Ashura:	"Foolish and brave man"!
Ashura:	"Thanks to you, this would will became a fiery hell",
Ashura:	"My name is..."

p78
Yasha:	Ashura...?
Yasha:	Are you Ashura...?

p80
Ashura:	Correct!  I am Ashura!
Ashura:	This is my true form!
Ashura:	The form I took after the 'seal' was removed!
Yahsa:	'Seal'!?

p81
Ashura:	There are two 'seals' on the sword.
Ashura:	The two Mikos guarded the 'keys to the seals'.
Ashura:	But now they have been returned to their proper owner.
Ashura:	Shurato's last seal has been broken!
Ashura:	And I too have been released from my bondage!

p82
Ken:	Ashura...?
Sohma:	Prince...

p83
Tai:	The 'seal of blood'...
Tai:	did not seem to have the power to change the course of the 
	stars.

p84
Kujaku:	The wheel of fate is racing,
Kujaku:	toward the end...

p85
Yasha:	Ashura...!
Yasha:	After Ryuu-oh went to look for you -- he died!
Yasha:	Who killed him!?
Ashura:	Since you seem so eager to know, I'll oblige you!
Ashura:	The one who killed Ryuu-oh is...

p86
Ashura:	...I...

p87
p88
Ashura:	I killed my mother Shashi
Ashura:	and released the last 'seal'.

	<Six stars descend, darkly against heaven!>

Ashura:	Shurato has reawakened
Ashura:	I have realized the prophecy!

p89
Yasha:	What ...!?
Yasha:	Ashura.. killed Ryuu-oh!
Yasha:	According to Kuyo's prophecy, the Six Stars should destroy
	the Emperor of Heaven.

	<Six stars descend, darkly against heaven!>
	<Thou stand at the vanguard of fate,>
	<As the blood of the lost clans directs, 
	 go forth with the child>

Yasha:	Why did you kill Ryuu-oh, who is one of the Six Stars
	just like you are!?

p90
	<The child, yet unformed in good or evil, 
	<shall spur on the wheels of destiny>
	<Six Stars shall gather, to reach the pinnacle of heaven>

Ashura:	True!
Ashura:	The Six Stars shall destroy heaven..
Ashura:	Destroy this Tenkai!!

Note: (Tentai, Tenkai, both words contain the character Ten, which can mean
 	heaven, sky, or celestial, depending on the context. 
	Tenkai is the Heavenly World, and Tentai is the Heavenly
	emperor.  Ashura is also referred to as Hiten, anti-Emperor,
	or anti-Heaven, depending on the interpretation.
	The prophecy only said that the six stars will destroy Ten.
	It did not clarify what is meant by Ten.  Yasha interpreted
	it as the emperor, but as we learn now it actually
	refers to Tenkai, the world itself ) 

p91
Ashura: And the fire of the red lotus will burn away all evil.
Ashura:	'All that I consider evil' will be burnt to ashes! 

p92
p93
p94
Ashura:	I want to destroy all things!
Ashura:	To color this world red with a sea of fire and blood!!!
Citizens: Zenmi-jou...!

p95
p96
	<Lo, from the darkness one comes forth.>

p97
	<This personage holds the orbit 
	 Of heavenly spheres within his palm,
	 Guiding stars both dark and light
	 Yet even my guides know him not>

	<The flower of the red lotus,
	 Nurtured by thy hands,
	 Shall burn away all evil.
	 Six Stars, victorious,
	 Will vanquish all in their path.>

	<Then-
	 Thou shalt become the 'break' that topples heaven.>

p98
Yasha:	Ashura!! Ashura!!
Yasha:	Stop!!
Ashura:	That was why I called you--
Ashura:	a foolish and brave man!

p99
Ashura:	Once you disturbed my sleep,
Ashura:	there is a huge price to be paid. One that you can never afford.
Ashura:	I warned you a long time ago, but you didn't listen,
	and still interfered with me.  This is your crime.
Yasha:	Ashura!!

p100
Tai:	I will not...
Tai:	fail my promise.

p101
Ashura:	'Promise'...
Ashura:	With whom did you make this promise?

p102
Ashura:	Hahahaha!
Yasha:	<Ashura: I love war! I love destruction from the bottom of
		 my heart!>

p103
Ashura:	Hahahaha!
Yasha:	<Is that the real Ashura!?>

p104
Tai:	Is this 
Tai:	the true extent of your power ?
Ashura:	Yes!

p105
Ashura:	The Ashura clan is the strongest of war gods in Tenkai!
Ashura:	Gods of blood, flame, and killing!
Ashura: We descended to this world for the sole purpose of destruction.

p106
Tai:	You are precisely what Ashura-oh had feared!
Tai:	The 'true Ashura'!

p107
p108
Yasha:	Yamato..!
Yasha:	Ashura!?

p109
Yasha:	Ashura!?

p110
Yasha:	What's wrong!?
Yasha:	Ashura, Ashura!!
Ashura:	um...
Ashura:	Waa--

p111
Ashura:	Interfering man...
Ashura:	I will kill you!!
Ashura:	Yasha-oh!!

p112
Kujaku:	<For the day that would eventually arrive...,>
Kujaku:	<To resist the predestined road that fate would take,>
Kujaku:	<I forged a sword,>
Kujaku:	<And hoped that the power of this sword could guide 'Ashura'>
Kujaku:	<I entrusted the sword to the Yasha clan, hoping that this
	 sword would pass into Yasha-oh's hands one day.>
Kujaku:	<But even so, I still could not control 'Ashura'>

p113
Kujaku:	<Still could not change Ashura's destiny to destroy Tenkai>

p114
Kujaku:	<The time the two of them spent together,>
Kujaku:	<Does it hold no meaning for 'Ashura'?>
Kujaku:	<Could I still not change fate no matter what I do?>
Kujaku:	<Is destiny unalterable? Can the constellations never 
	 be changed?>

p115
Kujaku:	<I wanted to>
Kujaku:	<Find the the emotional bond between Yasha and Ashura>
Kujaku:	<That could change fate.>
Kujaku:	<Am I on a fool's errand?>

p116
Yasha:	Ashura!

p117
Yasha:	Wake up! Ashura!!

p118
Ashura:	Shurato!

p119
Ashura:	Northern Bushinshou Yasha-oh, famed as the strongest in Tenkai,
Ashura:	You are worthy of fighting with my Shurato.

p120
Ashura:	Hahahahahahah 
Yasha:	Ashura!!

p121
Ashura:	Your Ashura no longer exists!

p122
Ashura:	He has died here!
Yasha:	Ashura!!!

p123
Ashura:	Useless!
Ashura:	So this is all there is to the strongest Bushinshou in Tenkai.
Ashura:	You won't stop me this way!
Ashura:	I am unlike the generations of Ashura-oh before me, placed under
	seals and controlled by Tentai.
Ashura:	I am ruled by no one, there are no seals on my body.
	I am the 'true Ashura'!

p124
Ashura:	The moment I was awakened,
Ashura:	All living creature were doomed to die!

p125
Sohma:	Yasha-oh --!!!
p126
p127

p128
Ashura:	<This beam of light is...>
Yasha: 	<Ashura?>
Tai:	Could it be... that Ashura-jou is welcoming its master?
Yasha:	Ashura-jou !?
Tai:	Ashura-jou has awakened.

p129
Tai:	I will keep my promise no matter what.
Yasha:	Sohma!!
Sohma:	Leave this to me!
Sohma:	Go after Ashura!
Sohma:	If he is truly Ashura-oh's son..
Sohma:	Please...

p130
Sohma:	Please...
Sohma:	stop him no matter what...
Sohma:	Destruction, murder... 
Sohma:	the sweet and gentle Ashura would not want to be part of acts 
	like that. 
Sohma:	Ashura depends on you!

p131
p132
Sohma:	I am Sohma!
Sohma:	The only remaining survivor of the Sohma clan whom you destroyed.
Sohma:	I want vengeance for my parents and my people.

p133
Sohma:	I will have your life!
Sohma:	Sougetsu-ranbu!

p134
Ken:	...Sohma...

p135
Han:	Who are you...?
Kujaku:	I am
Kujaku:	the one who is the rightful heir to the bloodline of the hoshimi.

p136
Han:	Your violet eyes are the mark of a demon,
Han:	And the eye of heaven on you forhead is...!
Han:	the 'mark of daten', one who has commited worse acts than a demon...
Han:	How could someone like you be a hoshimi?
Kujaku:	You, who can read both the past and future in your watery mirror,
Kujaku:	Simply look into my past, and you will understand.

p138
Han:	... you are....
Han:	the last Tentai's... !?

p139
Sohma:	Sougetsu-ranbu!

p140
Sohma:	<Kendappa-oh...!?>
Ken:	Leave this person
Ken:	to me!
Tai:	Why are you wearing that expression!?
Tai:	Even when your father died before your eyes,
Tai:	I did not see you so moved. How could...

p141
Ken:	Because...
Ken:	Sohma is --
Ken:	The only person I love...
Tai:	The only person I love...

p142
p143
p144
Zou:	...Strong...
Zou:	<The last survivor of the Sohma clan is someone to be reckoned
	 with.>
Zou:	<She is accounted strong.>
Zou:	<It's a pity she is fighting the wrong opponent.>
Zou:	<Kendappa-oh is TOO strong.>
Sohma:	Ken...dappa...oh...

p145
Ken:	You cannot defeat Taishakuten...
Ken:	So
Ken:	the least I can do, is to let you die by my hand!

p146
p147
p148
Sohma:	Ken...dappa...oh...
Ken:	I am sorry...
Ken:	I... cannot betray my own decisions...
Ken:	<I only respect strong people.>
Ken:	<This man is the strongest in Tenkai. Right now he is the
	 strongest!>
Ken:	<I hate weaklings!>
Ken:	<I'll only live for strong people.>

p149
Ken:	Sohma... you are strong too...
Ken:	<I like strong people!>
Ken:	But... you'll never win against Taishakuten!
Ken:	I cannot... forsake my oath!
Ken:	But...!

p151
Ken:	Even if I survived, it would meaningless
Ken:	To live in a Tenkai without you.

p152
Zou:	Kendappa-oh!!
Ken:	<Sohma...>

p153
Ken:	<I love you...>

p154
Sohma:	Kendappa-oh!!

p155
Sohma:	Please... drink...
Sohma:	my blood...
Sohma:	Please drink my blood...
Sohma:	The legend says that once in his lifetime...
	a Sohma can give immortality to one other person...
Sohma:	Kendappa-oh...drink...

p156
Sohma:	Only you...
Sohma:	What ... are you doing?
Sohma:	Kendappa-oh...!!

p157
Sohma:	You...
Sohma:	Tai... shaku...ten...
Zou:	You are so cruel...!!
Tai:	Kendappa-oh did not want to live.

p158
Tai:	It is painful
Tai:	To live alone, in a world without the one you love...
Tai:	Leave the city. Zouchou-ten.

p159
Tai:	The wheel of fate is turning
Tai:	But, the prophecy will not come true!
Tai:	The course of the stars predicted by hoshimi...
Tai:	I will even try to change that course,
Tai:	in order to keep the only promise I made.

p160
Yasha:	Ashura!

p161
Yahsa:	Ashura!!

p162
Yasha:	Ashura!!
Kujaku:	Ashura-jou--
Kujaku:	seems to be preparing to welcome its new master!

p163
Yasha:	<Black wings!?>
Yasha:	<There was an ancient legend told among the Yasha clan>
Yasha:	<"A peculiar man bearing black wings"?>
Yasha:	Kujaku, could you be the one who gave Yamato to the Yasha 
	clan!?
Kujaku:	I knew that one day in the future, you would become Yasha-oh,
	and meet the last prince of Ashura-oh!
Kujaku:	Because the blood of the hoshimi...
Kujaku:	flows in my veins.

p164
Yasha:	Blood of the hoshimi..!?
Yasha:	With the violet eyes of a demon, how could you be an heir to
	the noblest of seers -- a hoshimi!?
Kujaku:	That is because
Kujaku:	The noblest seer in Tenkai had commited 'an act worse than
	the demons'...
Kujaku:	On my body is branded the scar of love...
Kujaku:	Ashura--
Kujaku:	is in Ashura-jou below here!
Kujaku:	He is inheriting the memories of the last Ashura-oh in order
	to become the 'true king'!!

p165
Kujaku:	Painful, bitter...
Kujaku:	Ashura-oh's memories...

p166
Ashura:	<Someone's memory is flowing this way...>

Ashura-oh:	Kuyo...

p167
Ashura-oh:	Kuyo...
Kuyo:       	Yes?
Ashura-ou:  	You believe that the constellations can not be
		changed...right?
Kuyo:       	Right.
Ashura-ou:  	Not by anyone?
Kuyo:       	No one.

p168
Kuyo:  		The constellations are fate.
Kuyo:  		I just read the orbit of stars and path of fate.
	 	The constellations are the laws of heaven. Fate is the
	 	same...
Kuyo:  		Just like stars can not leave their orbits, fate can not
	 	be changed.
Kuyo:  		If someone wants to change fate, and go against the laws
	 	of heaven, the world will fall into chaos.
Ashura-ou: 	Do you think that people who defy fate are very foolish?
Kuyo:      	Ashura-oh...

p169
Ashura-oh:	Then the fate of my child,
Ashura-oh:	also can not be changed ?
Kuyo:		... yes, milord!

Ashura:	<... this is the memory of my father...>
Ashura:	< the former Ashura-oh>

Kuyo: 	I can tell you the true meaning of this prophecy.
Kujaku: I can tell you the true meaning of Kuyo's words to Ashura-oh!

Kuyo and Kujaku:
	'Six Stars descend, darkly against heaven'

p170-172
(To avoid confusion, I'm combining the three pages.  Kuyo's explanation
	comes first, and then Kujaku's.)

	<Shura, UnHeaven. 
	 Fells Heaven when in Heaven, 
	 Sunders Earth when on Earth. >

Kuyo:	From birth Ashura is destined to become the dark star turned
	against heaven, one of the 'Six Stars'.
	At the same time, he will also become a god of destruction
	that will destroy both heaven and earth.

	<The thunder of Heaven's new lord,
	 Shall douse the Flame of UnHeaven 
	 To survey this land.>

Kuyo:	In the near future, Taishakuten will rise in rebellion, and 
	become the new Tentai!
	Both Ashura-oh and the current Tentai will die.

	<When the Flame burns down, 
	 Evil shall infest the world.>

Kuyo:	But, under Taishakuten's reign, the new Tenkai will seeth with
	ferment and unrest!

	<The Wheel of Time turns
  	 The Six Stars gather.> 

Kuyo:	'Six Stars' will eventually gather, and when the 'Six Stars'
	descend completely...

	<The scarlet flame of Shura
	 Shall burn away all evil.
	 Six Stars, victorious,
	 Will vanquish all in its path. >

Kuyo:	Ashura will be fully resurrected, and become the original God
	of Destruction, Ashura-oh!

Kuyo:	All evil will be consigned to fire, all evil 'according to
	Ashura'!



	<Thou standst at the vanguard of fate> 

Kujaku:	Those people destined to become the six stars will collect
	around Ashura. Yasha-oh and Ashura will meet.

	<As the blood of the lost clans directs >

Kujaku;	Yasha clan will be destroyed.

	<Thou shalt set forth with the infant>

Kujaku:	Ashura and Yasha-oh will set out on a journery to search for
	the 'Six Stars'!

	<The child, yet unformed in good or evil 
	 Shall spur on the wheels of destiny >

Kujaku:	The prophecy tells that 'Ashura' has two personalities. The
	Ashura loved by everyone he meets, and the Ashura who loves 
	death and destruction.

Kujaku: Both will exist together before the seal is completely broken!

	<Lo, from the darkness one comes forth.
	 This personage holds the orbit 
	 Of heavenly spheres within his palm,
	 Guiding stars both dark and light.
	 Yet even my guides know him not.>

Kujaku:	This line is speaking of me!

Kujaku:	The reason that Kuyo could not read me among the constellations 
	is that I have the blood of a Hoshimi.
	A Hoshimi cannot read another Hoshimi's fate!

     	<The flower of the red lotus,
	Nurtured by thy hands,
	Shall burn away all evil.
	Six Stars, victorious,
	Will vanquish all in its path.>

Kujaku:	When the 'Six Stars' have gathered and died, the original
	God of Destruction, 'Ashura', will reawaken, and burn away
	all evil!
	All that Ashura considers 'evil'...

p173
	And then...

Kujaku & Kuyo:
	You will become the 'break' that topples heaven!

p174
Ashura-oh:	Even thus...
Ashura-oh:	Even thus, I...
Yama:		Kuyo
Kuyo:		Ashura-oh!
Kuyo:		This is my young friend.  He is going to become a
		Bushinshou someday.
Ashura-oh:	<Yasha clan's future king... this youth is the one
		 who will wake my child...>

p175
Ashura-oh:	You are 'Northern Yasha-oh'?
Ashura-oh:	<The one who will raise the curtains on the prologue
		 to the tragedy...>
Ashura-oh:	If the person who matters the most to you in this
		world will bring you misfortune, what would you do?
Yama:		Protect him!
Yama:		Reach out with both hands and protect him!
Ashura-ou:  	Then, for the one who is important to you, become strong.
		So when you meet that person, you can protect him.
Ashura-oh:	'Yasha-oh!'

p176
Ashura-oh:	Taishakuten...
Taishakuten:	You're going back, Ashura-ou?
Taishakuten:	Coming without even a bodyguard.. What if there's some
		dangerous criminal hiding around?
Ashura-ou:      Taishakuten... do you think... fate can be changed?
Taishakuten: 	If it is to have what I want, I will make even the stars 
		move from their orbit!

p177
Ashura-oh:	Then,
Ashura-oh:	Would you lend me your strength to change the course of
		the stars?
Taishakuten:	If I help you, will I be able to have what I want?
Ashura-oh:	What do you want?
Taishakuten:	... You!
Ashura-oh:	... If fate can really be changed...

p178
Taishakuten:	Will the next Ashura-oh destroy the three worlds...?
Ashura-oh:	Hoshimi Kuyo's prophecies have never been wrong...
Ashura-oh:	I am about to commit a crime...
Ashura-oh:	The crime of betraying the laws of heaven by attempting to
		change destiny!
Ashura-oh:	If fate cannot be changed,
Ashura-oh:	perhaps this world will become an inferno. That will
		be my crime!
Ashura-oh:	But, even so, I still hope that my son-- the next
		Ashura-oh, can be born!
Taishakuten:	If that is your desire, then I swear to you!

p179
Taishakuten:	No matter how many people are sacrificed, or how many
		are sent to hell, I will keep my promise to you!
Taishakuten:	I won't let your son--Ashura, reawaken as the god
		of destruction!
Ashura-oh:	I saw Yasha-oh today!
Taishakuten: 	Is he the one who will wake Ashura?
Ashura-oh:	He is a youth
Ashura-oh:	with beautiful eyes.
Taishakuten:	Then, I will become Tentai for you!
Taishakuten:	I will keep everything in Tenkai under my control, in order
		to observe the movement of the so called 'Six Stars', and
		prevent the prophecy from coming true.	

p180
Taishakuten:	Zenmi-jou's defense has fallen completely.  Only you and
		Tentai are left!
Ashura-oh:	... is that so...
		Then I'll depend on you! Raijin Taishakuten.

p181
p182
Taishakuten:	<Strong!!>
Taishakuten:	<Is this the power of the true 'Ashura' that even Ashura-oh
		 fears?>

p183
Ashura-oh:	Kill me, then consume my flesh!

p184
Ashura-oh:	If ... the course of the stars can not be changed... then
		before my son turns into the god of destruction...
Ashura-oh:	Kill him for me...
Ashura-oh:	You will need 'strength' for that!

p185
p186
p187
Ashura-oh:	All of me... yours...

p188
p189
Yasha:	A hoshimi cannot 'see' another hoshimi!?
Kujaku:	The former Tentai was my father, and my mother was his sister
	and the previous hoshimi,  Sonsei-oh!
Kujaku:	I am the offspring of an affair between blood brother and sister.
	My father resented my birth, and imprisoned my mother and me.
	My mother died from madness...
Kujaku:	My father is the most accomplished ruler since the founding of 
	the land, admired and beloved by millions.
Kujaku:	But, he commited an unspeakable crime!
Kujaku:	This is the evidence of the blood of the hoshimi!
Kujaku:	This eye of heaven is punishment for committing an act worse 
	than the demons.

p190
Tai:	If that is so, then you are that 'accursed son' of Tentai
Yasha:	Taishakuten!!
Kujaku:	Besides the previous Tentai, the late Sonsei-oh, and myself who 
	knew of the crime of Tentai,
Kujaku:	There is only the Guardian of the Realm, Ashura-oh,
Kujaku:	Who learned the truth by using his power of illusion.
Kujaku:	You ate Ashura-oh, didn't you?

p191
Kujaku:	You ate Ashura-oh's body, and obtained his strength and power
	of illusion, didn't you?
Tai:	Ashura-oh said...
Tai:	That his child, who was soon to be born, is the god of destruction
	who will lay waste to the three worlds!
Tai:	But, even so, he still wanted to give him a chance to live, 
	and try to change the course of fate.
Tai:	He wanted to believe that there is no predetermined
Tai:	'future'.
Tai:	Therefore he took the miko Shashi as his wife...
Tai:	She is one of the priestess who bore the seal of Shurato on
	her forehead.
Tai:	He thought that if she is the mother of the child, the child
	would not kill her!

p192
Kujaku:	Because without killing the miko he can not obtain the seal she
	bore.
Kujaku:	Therefore Raijin Taishakuten married Shashi,
Kujaku:	in order to watch her closely.
Yasha:	How can it be...!!
Yasha:	Ashura is the one who will destroy the three worlds...?
Yasha:	Are you saying that the 'Six Stars' are only the keys
Yasha:	to resurrecting Ashura-oh!?

p193
Kujaku:	That's right.  In order to prevent 'Ashura' from reawakening,
	there are several seals.
Kujaku:	The seal protecting Ashura's slumber in 'Maya Forest'
Kujaku:	And the two seals on Shurato guarded by the two mikos.
Kujaku:	But once the 'Six Stars' have gathered, the god of destruction
	inside Ashura's body reawakens and comes fully alive. 
Kujaku:	Therefore Taishakuten started a reign of terror!  He wanted to
	use his power to allow the'Six Stars' no opportunity to
	come together... But it was all wasted!
Kujaku:	The 'Six Stars' still gathered exactly according to the
	prophecy!

p194
Yasha:	If you did not wish the god of destruction to be resurrected,
Yasha:	Then why did you kill Karura-oh!?
Tai:	Even though Karura-oh could not defeat me, still she had always
	wanted to face me once in battle.
Tai:	If I did not kill her, her soul would never be rested, and
	she could never go to the underworld to meet her beloved
	Karyoubinga!
Tai:	There is nothing more painful than... to lose the one you love,
	and live alone in the world!

p195
Kujaku:	Now, five of the 'Six Stars' have fallen!
Kujaku:	You are the only one remaining.  When you die, the god of 
	destruction will be fully resurrected.
Kujaku:	Just as the hoshimi's prophecy predicted.
Yasha:	Ashura and I are still alive.
Kujaku:	Ashura already...
Kujaku:	died!
Yasha:	<Ashura: Your Ashura no longer exist!>
Yasha:	<Ashura: He has already died here!>

p196
Yasha:	<died-->
Kujaku:	The sweet Ashura you have raised no longer exists.
Kujaku:	You are the only one remaining of the 'Six Stars'.
Kujaku:	Yasha-oh!
Tai:	Ashura-jou has reawakened!

p197
Tai:	I had a promise...
Tai:	with Ashura-oh...
Tai:	The price for making his body mine forever is...
Tai:	to never let the 'Six Stars' come together...
Tai:	But if somehow...
Tai:	they manage to...
Tai:	then I must kill Ashura-oh's son!!

p198
Yasha:	How could it be...
Yasha:	Then, I am the one
Yasha:	who awakened the one who will destroy this world,
Yasha:	and raised him!?

p199
p200
Yasha:	Ashura!!
Yasha:	<Ashura is the strongest war god in Tenkai.>
Yasha:	<A god of blood, fire and death!>
Yasha:	<One who descended to this world in order to destroy all things.>

p201
Yasha:	Taishakuten!?
Tai:	I will kill Ashura!
Tai:	That is my promise!!
Yasha:	Stop!!

p202
Kujaku:	<Fate really cannot be changed...!>
Kujaku:	<'Ashura' is absorbing the power of the 'Six Stars' who have died> 
	<After he kills the last star, Yasha-oh, and takes his strength,>
Kujaku:	<All the power of the Six Stars will be gathered in him, and
	 he will become the true 'God of Destruction'>

p203
Kujaku;	<You will become the 'break' that topples heaven!>
Kujaku:	<This is what the hoshimi's prophecy was referring to!>
Kujaku:	<Once Ashura has gained all the power of the 'Six Stars',
	 maybe even Taishakuten won't be able to stand against him!>
Kujaku:	Yasha-oh!!
Kujaku:	<Can no one escape pre-ordained fate!?>

p204
(Kujaku's flashback)
	<Kuyo: 	That child>
	<Kuyo: 	is destined to kill you one day...>
	<Ashura: I will destroy everything!>
	<Ashura: color this world red with blood and fire!!>
	<Ashura: I believe in Yasha!?
	<Ashura: If Yasha says he needs me, >
	<Ashura: I'll live for Yasha!>
Kujaku:	<Is there no way to stop the turning wheels of fate?> 	

p205
	<Ashura: Ashura only lives for Yasha!>

p206
p207
p208
Ashura:	Yasha...!
Yasha:	Ashura!!

p209
Ashura:	Ya...sha....
Yasha:	Ashura!!

p210
p211
p212
Han;	Taishakuten!! Taishakuten!!

p213
Han:	I only lived for Taishakuten!!
Han:	My life has meaning if he is not here...
	I...!!
Han:	I beg you!!
Han:	I beg you... let me die!!
Zou:	Too many people have died already!!
	It is enough!!

p214
Tenoh:	<Brother!>
Tenoh:	<Ashura: You, who have always led a live of comfort and ease,
	         what do you understand?>
Tenoh:	<Brother!!>

p215
p216
Kujaku:	<Ashura...>
Kujaku;	<If I had never been born, mother would have led a happy life!>
Kujaku:	<We are children who share the same fate!>

(flashback:)
	<Sonsei-oh: Let me out, please!!>
	<Sonsei-oh: Let me... out...>
	<Kujaku: Mother...!>

p217
	<Sonsei-oh: If only I hadn't given birth to you...>
	<Sonsei-oh: this would never have happened...>
	<Kujaku: Mother?>
	<Kujaku: Mother!! Please hold on!! Mother!>
(end flashback)
Kujaku:	<I am just like Ashura, both of us should never have come into
	 this world!>
Kujaku:	<Ashura: No one wants Ashura, So it doesn't matter if i die!>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: Shouldn't I be in this world!? Am I a child no wants?>
Kujaku:	<The child who's very existence represented evil!>

p218
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: Mother seems sick!>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: She's not moving at all!>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: Please at least let mother out!!>
Kujaku:	<Tentai: Accursed child!>
Kujaku:	<Tentai: Are these eyes of heaven the proof of my crime?>
Kujaku:	<Tentai: Die!! Unwanted child!>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: Help-- help mother!>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: Father!!>

p219
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: Please at least save mother, let her out!!>
Kujaku:	<Ashura: If it'll hurt Yasha, then it's better if I don't live!>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: If my existence harms my mother,>
Kujaku:	<Ashura:... then,>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: I had rather die...>
Kujaku:	<Ashura: Kill Ashura!  Kill me!>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: I only wanted mother...>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: to be able to leave this place...>
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: ...so...>

p220
Kujaku:	<Sonsei-oh: We'll die togethere!>
Kujaku:	<Sonsei-oh: It's useless. Both you and I...>
Kujaku:	<Sonsei-oh: should never have come into this world...>

p221
Kujaku:	<Kujaku: Mother--!!>
Kujaku:	The star's movement never ceases!

p222
Kujaku:	Ashura-oh heard the hoshimi's promise,
Kujaku:	And in order to alter the prophecy he made a promise with
	Taishakuten.
Kujaku:	But even that was within the path of the constellations.
Kujaku:	To prevent the 'Six Stars' from gathering, Taishakuten started a
	reign of terror; but he did not know that doing so would only
	hasten the gathering of the Six Stars, as the original
	path had indicated.
Kujaku:	And the last battle begun just as the prophecy had predicted.
Kujaku:	The battle to resurrect 'Ashura'...

p223
Kujaku:	But, at the last turning point, the course of the contellation
	altered its path!
Kujaku:	It sprang from the bond between Yasha-oh and Ashura.

p224
Kujaku:	All living Creatures are controlled by fate.
Kujaku:	No one could throw of its yoke!
Kujaku:	Therefore I wanted even more to see
Kujaku:	How the bond between human hearts 
Kujaku:	changes the course of the stars!

p225
Yasha:	Ashura...!! Ashura!!
Kujaku:	It's useless to call to him!
Kujaku:	Ashura gave his life to protect you.
Kujaku:	He will never wake up!
Yasha:	...I promised him,
	I'll stay with him always. I won't leave him alone by himself.
Kujaku:	Then do you plan to wait here forever? 
Kujaku:	Even if you wait until you die, maybe he still won't wake up.
Kujaku:	What then, will you still keep on waiting?

p226
Yasha:	...Yes!
Kujaku:	And what if he wakes up ? Ashura has lost the power to continue his
	bloodline!
Kujaku:	In order to change his child's fate, Ashura-oh did not care if
	he betrayed heaven and earth!
Kujaku:	All crimes have punishments. Ashura-oh wanted so much for his 
	clan to continue, yet his only child was destined to be sexless.
Kujaku:	If only the two of you live, both Ashura clan and Yasha clan
	will be doomed to extinction!


p227
Yasha:	Even so,
Yasha:	Because this is .. a promise,
Yasha:	Between Ashura and myself!

p228
p229
p230
Tenoh:	...Already
Tenoh:	No one can remember what happened over there!
Zou:	People have already passed through generations of lives.
Tenoh: 	But we will never forget!
Tenoh: 	The story of the people who lived with such difficult destinies.

p231
Tenoh:	Never will we forget!
Tenoh:	<Those who kept the wheel of fate turning,>
Tenoh:	<The people who died because they could not escape destiny.>

p232
Tenoh:	<Those who stood against it,>
Tenoh:	<Those who guarded it,>
Tenoh:	<And>
Tenoh:	<Those who broke it with their own hands.>

p233
Zou:	You once said, you only live to keep a 'promise' you made
	with an old friend...
Zou:	Now, have you fulfilled your promise?
Tai:	...over there...
Tai:	is another man who is still keeping his 'promise'.

p234
Tai:	Is Yasha-oh still waiting...?
Kujaku:	Papa Yasha is very stubborn.
Kujaku:	... back then, you...
Kujaku:	really wanted Ashura to kill you, didn't you?

p235
Tai:	Because it is too painful to live alone,
Tai:	in a world without the one you love...
Tai:	What about you?  Are you satisfied with this outcome?
Kujaku:	I only wanted to see the course of fate thrown off its track.
Kujaku:	And... prove ..that Ashura is not 'a child that no one wants'!
Kujaku:	That is enough.

p236
p237
Kujaku:	...Yasha-oh...
Kujaku:	Taishakuten has died...

p238
p239
Kujaku:	Saying that he did not betray his promise... he died with
	a smile...
Kujaku:	So now, there is no one who could possibly defeat Ashura!
	... most likely, Ashura can never open his eyes...
Yasha:	...Ashura will wake up, and...
Yasha:	I won't let him become the God of Destruction!
Kujaku:	... then, I'll try believing it too!
Kujaku:	Stake the blood of hoshimi that flows in my veins, once again--

p240
Kujaku:	Let a 'Miracle'...
Yasha:	Kujaku!?

p241
Kujaku:	Open, Gate of Heaven! 
Kujaku:	Let my blood be the penance.. Accept my summons!
Kujaku:	"Wake up, Ashura"! 

p242
Yasha:	Kujaku--!!

p243
Kujaku:	Good morning
Kujaku:	Ashura...

p244
Ashura:	Kujaku...

p245
Yasha:	Ashura...

p246
Ashura:	Kujaku...
Ashura:	...everyone.. they all died...!
Ashura: It's all because of me...!!

p247
Yasha:	Even so,
Yasha:	I still want you to live...

p248
Yasha:	For our 'promise'!
Yasha:	I need you!

p249
Yasha:	Only when you are alive, can I live!
Yasha:	We'll be together, always!
Yasha:	Until the end of our lives!

p250
p251
Yasha:	That is our 'promise'!

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Rg Veda 
The End