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Box: 2nd Year of Tenshou(1574)
Big Title: Sengoku Youko
Box: The journey was coming to an end.
Title: Chapter 98 Life's Journey
Author: Mizukami Satoshi
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Tg: Gyo!!
H: If you're set on doing this then at least let me give you a reference to go by.
H: The old man has 12 times as much spirit power as you Shinsuke.
Y: ...
H: And the fox demon has 74 times as much.
Shi: Hmmm
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Shi: I'm going with muscle power.
K: Oh my! Trouble!
K: Foxfire Smokescreen!!
Shi: Blow it all away!! Arabukii!!
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Y: Now I remember you.
Y: You're that bastard... We met 8 years ago at the head temple.
Y: So you found out I was alive and came to finish me off then.
Y: Do you really think someone of your caliber can actually kill me?
Y: So he won't even speak to me... He's far more prepared than I am... (2nd one here is a regular rewording suggestion)}
Shi<Mutter>: Breathe
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Shi: Arabuki!!
Shi: Cyclone Formation!!
Y: That kind of tricky...
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Y: I'll bury you with the cave!! 9 Headed Dragon's Roar!!
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Shi: Haa
Shi: Haa Haah
H: Well?
Shi: I killed him.
Shi: ...he couldn't be allowed to keep on living This is for the sake of the demons' world as well.
H: ...
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Tg: You made him cut an illusion and escaped... Good job.
Y: Good job my ass. He got my arm and my eye.
K: I've stopped the bleeding but with this you'll no longer...
Y: ...I won't be able to do my experiments and research huh...
Y: Sorry Kuzunoha. I won't be able to turn you into a human now...
K: Please don't mind that... I will stay by your side till death do us part...
C: ...
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MG: Fufu. So you can get things done Shinsuke-kun.
J: Huh?
Ta: What is it Mountain God?
MG: No. Just talking to myself.
MG: ...now then, Jinka-kun and Tama-chan.
MG: I believe we had an arrangement where one of you... would give me your soul, didn't we?
J<Mutter>: Gulp
MG<Mutter>: Smirk
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Ta: So, she let us off in deference to Shinsuke rendering Yazen powerless, huh...
J: Does that really balance things out?
Ta: No idea.
Ta: Still, what a whimsical god.
Ta: We can't rule out that she'll send over an assassin if she says she felt like changing her mind.
J: A whimsical god...
Ta: She's practically a mad god.
J: Living a long life weighs the burden of time on one's character...
J: I can't even imagine it... not right now anyway...
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S: It's withered away from not having a land god around for so long...
T: This is...
N: It's alright nau.
N: I have the spirit water I plucked from Banshouou nau.
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T: !
T: Wha!? Nau?
T: Where are you Nau?
S; Tsukiko! Over there!
T: Huh?
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T: What do you suppose Nau is doing now...?
S: I think he's connecting himself with the water and land. Telling the land that its land god has returned.
T: We should be glad that Nau's going back, right... {V(T): I'm glad Nau was able to make it back... (not asking a "should we" question)}
S: Yeah, we should... {V(T): Yeah, me too... (building off above)}
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S: ...I think's time for us to go.
T: ...sorry. Just a little longer...
S: Tsukiko...
T: Mmm...
N: Tsukiko... Senya.... Thank you so much, my dearest friends.
N: Goodbye. I enjoyed our time together nau.
S: Nau...
T: Nau!!
N: ...Sorry nau. I couldn't work up the heart to say farewell. My voice just wouldn't come out.
N: ......Please don't forget about me nau.
S: I could never forget you
S: Old friend
T: Thank you Nau! I enjoyed it too!
T: ...I really did......!!
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N: See ya
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S: See ya
T: See ya again
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T: ...What will you do from now on Senya?
T: ...Are you going to stay in the village forever?
S: ......I'll stay in the village. I'll always be there with you Tsukiko.
S: In our village.
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Ta: Home's just a little bit further up ahead now.
J: It's been so many years since we've been gone. I bet the place is falling apart.
Ta: We'll have focus on fixing the place up first once we get back.
Ta: Huh?
J: It stayed surprisingly clean...
J: We're home...
D: Welcome back!! Jinka!! Tama-chan!!
D: We kept the place ready for you guys so you could come back anytime!!
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S: One of our journeys has come to its end.
S: And at the end of that journey
S: I promised to stay here with Tsukiko.
S: That's why
S: I thought I would stay here for a while
S<Mutter>: Phew
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S: After the journey's end
S: The concealment barrier that me and Shinsuke created around the village
S: Kept this land hidden safely away from the fires of war out there in the world countless times.
S: As the times changed
S: I heard stories from the travelling demons and in the town I occassionally go to.
S: Matsunage Hisahide, the man who had killed the Shogun, Lord Ashikaga Yoshiteru
S: Had been driven into a corner by a man called Nobunaga
S: and then died in an explosion while holding onto a tea kettle.
S: When he heard about it, Zanzou-san, whose hair had gone completely white, busted a gut laughing
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Z: Hahaha...
Z: Hah!!
Z: ...ha...ha...
S: He stayed bedridden from hip pain after that.
S: "Never laugh at the misfortunes of others, no matter how much you may hate them" became a saying in the village.
S: After that Nobunaga-san got killed by someone called Akechi too.
S: And then Akechi-san was killed by a man named Hideyoshi-san.
S: Some time later, Hideyoshi-san passed away when he was being called the Lord Taikou. Someone named Tokugawa-san is in charge of the world of man now.
S: Whenever the rulers changed, Shinsuke would joke
Shi: I'm going to have to go greet him as the representative of the world of darkness
S: ...but now, after many years
S: he's gone too...
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S: The duty of governing the village
S: Was passed off to the upstanding second generation heads of the Raidou and Kazamatsuri families a long time ago.
S: And as the seasons went by
S: Only I
S: Hey. I heard you were doing well today.
S: Kotarou and the rest told me.
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T: Oh yes... Just a little
S: It's nice and warm today, isn't it?
T: Oh yes... It is warm ......
S: ...What were you thinking about over here?
T: Hm?
T: ......Fufu... That's a secret...
T: The weather sure is nice isn't it...
S: That it is......
T: Senya
S: Yes?
S: Tsukiko
T: ...I'm sorry for holding you back all this time...
T: It must have been hard for you.
S: It wasn't hard at all.
S: I was happy.
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T: I was so very happy too.
T: Thank you for everything, Senya.
T: ...
T: ......Ahh... You were so beautiful......
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W: Grandpa? What's the matter with Grandma?
M: !! That can't be! Mom was... She said she feeling good this morning...
M2: Oy!! Go call auntie!!
?: Where's big brotheer?
M2: We have to let Kazamatsuri-san and Raidou-san know about this too!
S: I heard that the current era name is Genna.
S: The time of the Warring States has dusked
S: And now it's been about 40 years since that journey.
S: This is a time where life is 50 years.
S: The seasons continued to pass for everyone else
S: leaving only me behind
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Sha: You never change do you, Senya-san...
Sha: I'm a spirit power modified human the same as you but even I've gotten so old.
S: Yes... It seems like I misunderstood something...
Sha: ...Thanks for all that you did. We and the Raidous and the children at your place,
Sha: We're all okay now, so you can rest easy about us.
S: Right
S: Thank you
S: With many places to go but no end in sight
S: I will walk simply to walk, carrying the weight of time on me.