Saiyuuki Gaiden Chs 6-8

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Konzen: I'll take responsibility for this disturbance. And now we'll be on our way.
Let's go.
Side story to the side story

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(Our guys walk through the streets, into the palace, and into Konzen's apartments)

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Konzen: Hey! Just how long do you two mean to follow me?
Tenpou: You're the one said 'let's go', remember?
Kenren: Now, now. That's enough for the formal politeness. This meeting has to be due to some kind of karma. Let's have a drink on it
Konzen: You've got your nerve!!
F/X Konzen punches Kenren
Kenren: ungh
Gokuu: But now they're here I wanna play with them! Hunh, Konzen?
Konzen: Do what you like
F/X turns on heel
Konzen: I don't have time for this! I've got everyone in my way stopping me from working

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Tenpou: So what do you want to play at, Gokuu?
F/X sound of Konzen's pen on paper
Tenpou: Tag? Swords and samurais?
Gokuu: Unhh- y'know- I found this ball and bat in the storehouse
Tenpou: Baseball? That'll be nice!
Kenren: Leave that to me! I'm the Mickey Mantle of Heaven
Gokuu: Then I'll pitch!
Tenpou: And I'll be catcher
Kenren: OK- send it along!
F/X Konzen looks up in alarm
F/X the ball sends his inkwell flying
F/X Konzen jumps
Kenren: Oh. Sorry.
Gokuu: Konzen! Throw the ball! Throw it!!
Konzen: (snarl) ...you bastards...

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Konzen: I'll bloody kill you!!!
F/X enraged Konzen throws ball
Gokuu: Ohh WOW!!
Kenren: (swinging) Gimme **room**--
F/X CRASH
Tenpou: Oh--
F/X tinkle tinkle

(Page 118)
Gokuu: Oh--
You shouldn't have done that
Konzen: He's the one hit it!! It's *his* fault!!
Kenren: Hey! You practically *told* me Go ahead and hit it!!
Gokuu: Unhh!! No fair!! You were enjoying it too!
Konzen: Shut up!!!
F/X argument continuing
Tenpou: Mm- they do say, 'Friendship is a beautiful thing.'
F/X wind blowing through broken window
Konzen: **LISSEN** you!!

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Nataku: All the hiding places no-one knows about, and places you can find lots of berries...

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Voice: --sama
Nataku-sama
Your father has sent for you. Please get up.
Nataku: (thinks) Some day...
Sixth Tale

(Page 121)
Gokuu: Ten-chaaan! Where do I put these?
F/X big smile
Tenpou: Ahh, those. Please line them up inside the bookshelf
It's a help that you're so strong, Gokuu
Konzen: I only came by here because Gokuu was pestering me to. Soo-
F/X duster tidying up
Konzen: *How come**
I have to help you clean your office??
Tenpou: (laughs) That bandanna looks better on you than I'd have thought, Konzen
(author's note: Really enjoying himself.)

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Gokuu: Na-- Ken-niichan's not here today?
Tenpou: He was helping me till just a while ago, but the army's been summoned and he had to go to the main hall.
Konzen: And you *don't* have to go?
Tenpou: But that part's got nothing to do with me. The order to assemble-
was sent out to Prince Nataku's army.
Konzen: I'd heard that Nataku was still convalescing

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Tenpou: Yes. But those types in the upper command wouldn't care about that
After all, he's just 'the killing puppet.'
As you know the main work of the soldiers in the Heavenly army
is to confine those gods and dwellers in the lower world who'd bring harm to Heaven
To subdue and confine those who commit reckless crimes, even though they live in Heaven
as well as
those who would threaten Heaven, even though they dwell on earth

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Tenpou: But Prince Nataku alone is different
His allotted role is to 'slay' the great enemies that menace Heaven
We Heaven dwellers have the principle of not taking life. It's foolish, but only Prince Nataku is allowed to kill
So in the end, those in authority
are simply using him as 'an unclean object.'

(Page 125)
Gokuu: Hey!!!
Konzen: (mutters)(Read the air) (?)
Gokuu: This book! Is it the sequel to the one I was reading? Lemme borrow it, Ten-chan???
Tenpou: Yes, of course
Konzen: You're interested in *books*?
Gokuu: It's great! Anpan (bean jam bun) flies through the air and has fights! And there's Bread-man and Curry-bun too!
(Sounds goood enough to eat...)
Konzen: That'll do...
Tenpou: Don't be so hard on him, Konzen

(Page 126)
Tenpou: Gokuu's pretty much able to read and write hiragana now
It seems he's able to concentrate closely if it's something that interests him
Konzen: Say-
You've got pretty much everything in this library of yours?
Tenpou: Hm? Yes. Things that interest me, of course. From philosophy to popular literature
Konzen: Doesn't matter what-
Next time lend me something you think is interesting

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Tenpou: Certainly
Glad to
F/X sound of crowd in the palace
Man: These days there's a lot of expeditions to Under Heaven
F/X noise of talk
Man: Well, makes life easy for us, thanks to this Killing Puppet. But it's all cause of Prince Nataku
Official: Silence!

(Page 128)
Emperor: A report has come that certain persons have been causing trouble down on earth. To overlook this would affect our authority.
Therefore
We give order that the army led by Prince Nataku go to war
Nataku: Yes, my lord.
Voice: One moment please

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Emperor: Who are you?
Kenren: General Kenren of the western army, under the command of the dragon king of the western sea
Emperor: What business does an army general have with Us?
Kenren: Sir-

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Kenren: If I may make bold to speak- from his appearance it would seem that the wounds recently sustained by Prince Nataku in subduing Gyuumaoh have not yet healed.
In this present expedition
I would beg that my troops be given the appointment instead
Man: What??
F/X angry murmur of crowd
Nataku: That man-
I'm sure he was the one who was with *him* at the banquet
Litouten: Hmpf

(Page 131)
Emperor: A common soldier making a proposal like that--
Do you think the likes of you can take the place of Nataku?
Kenren: At least
I flatter myself that I'm better than those soldiers of his who kept their heads down and came back without a scratch on them
Men: What!!
What are you insinuating, General Kenren!!
Goujun: Kenren! Enough of this insolence!
Litouten: No. Wait.
I really can't have the likes of Kenren sneering at us like this

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Litouten: My son Nataku is the supreme warrior of heaven. A few cuts are nothing
For the sake of Heaven he would be prepared to sacrifice his very body and beg to take the field alone. True, Nataku?
Nataku: Indeed
Litouten: You may withdraw, Nataku
Nataku: Yes sir.

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Nataku: Thank you
Litouten: Now
Since that matter is settled-

(Page 134)
Litouten: conduct General Kenren to a punishment cell
Gokuu: Huunh?
I still can't see Nataku?

(Page 135)
Gokuu: He's been 'not seeing people' forever. Is he really that sick?
Serving woman: Yes-- sort of
In any case you can't see him now
I'm sorry you've had to come here every day--
Gokuu: I see... Well, if he's sick there's nothing I can do
F/X disappointment
Gokuu: Oh- that reminds me
Here
Will you give this to Nataku? (Ten-chan said you should bring flowers or melons when you go see someone who's sick)

(Page 136)
Serving woman: Yes, certainly
Gokuu: Ahh- thanks! Oh, and by the way-
My name is 'Gokuu.'
Remember to tell him that!
F/X water dripping onto the floor

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F/X footsteps walking down the prison corridor
Kenren: Hiya-
Come to see the sights?

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Goujun: I always thought you were a fool, but I couldn't have believed you were this much of one
Kenren: Don't get tired of it, do you?
F/X grin
Goujun: I'm your commander. Why didn't you wait for my instructions? If I'd been the one to suggest it, possibly the Emperor would have listened.
F/X: throws keys into cell
Kenren: You think? I think it'd have been exactly the same
F/X keys jingle
Kenren: Besides- I wanted to say it out loud there
F/X catches keys with his toes
Kenren: just somehow, you know?

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Goujun: Something that just had to be said, even knowing this would happen to you?
Kenren: (laughs) This is nothing to write home about
F/X offhand waving
Kenren: It hurt a lot more when Nataku gave me that punch
He's just a kid but he has to act like a man
Watching him do that always hurts.

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Kenren: And the thing that hurts the most
Is that he has no-one to even say 'it hurts' to

(Page 141)
Jiroushin: Kanzeon Bosatsu, I've had a look over these papers
F/x surprise

(Page 142)
Jiroushin: What /is/ that thing--
Kanzeon: Suits me, don't you think?
Jiroushin: I can't believe it- that you'd--
Kanzeon: I didn't make it myself, no. I picked it up
Jiroushin: Picked it up?
Kanzeon: Mm
These poor little flowers thrown into the garbage

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Seventh tale

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Kenren: OWW--- Asshole! That's too tight!
Tenpou: Ignore him, Gokuu. Pull it as tight as you like. (So he can't get it undone)
Gokuu: OK
F/X winding bandages around Kenren
Kenren: Listen you- you pissed at me over something?
Tenpou: I'm not angry at you at all. On the contrary, I can't restrain my sympathy
F/X slamming book shut
Out of concern for someone else, you ventured to give advice to the Emperor in public. You were beaten so badly you've got broken ribs, and you can still laugh about it
I really feel for

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Tenpou: the poor men who have to work under such an asshole general
Kenren: OH. *Excuuuse* *me* for being an asshole
That's how I am. There's nothing I can do about it.
Tenpou: I know. There are even people who follow you because you're like that
But it was a mistake to make Litouten your enemy
The order's just come down that you're dismissed as general
Kenren: ...heinhh.

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Tenpou: There's no 'heeinh' about it. I can't get on with people the way you do. If I may state my personal position
I'm not so flexible that I can work under just anyone
Kenren: Tenpou
Tenpou: I'm going out for a little. Since you're hurt, I expect you to stay here quietly
Kenren: Just a-- Hey! What do I do if I have to pee?
Lemme go!
Tenpou: If you get a bladder infection I'll look after you
F/X door slams

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Kenren (thinks): That idiot- surely he isn't--
Oi- Gokuu
Gokuu: What?
Kenren: Go after Tenpou, will you?
Gokuu: Why?
Kenren: Whatever he acts like, he's really more hasty-tempered than I am. You kind of get that impression, right?
Gokuu: Hay-stee-??
Kenren: Ohh- basically- he loses his temper fast.
Voice: Marshal Tenpou!

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Tenpou: Ohh, so here you all are
Soldier: Marshal Tenpou- uhh-
Is it true that General Kenren's been dismissed?!
Tenpou: Yes. So you've heard about it too...
Soldiers: Then it's true!!
...We'd heard that General Kenren was punished for trying to protect Prince Nataku. And that it wasn't the Emperor who gave the order but Litouten
That jumped up social climber! Where'd he get the right to interfere in this!
Tenpou: That will do.

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Tenpou: I don't know where you heard it, of course. But there's no need for you people to catch the fallout from this
That's my job
Soldiers: Marshal...
Litouten: Imagine Marshal Tenpou coming here in person. To what do I owe the honour?

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Tenpou: I won't waste our time by beating around the bush. Allow me to speak plainly
I want you to recall the order for General Kenren's dismissal
Litouten: Hmph
I thought you'd come about that. Have a seat.
Tenpou: ...I don't care to be rude, but
Just when did you get into a position to offer *me* a chair, Litouten?

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Tenpou: In the first place, you have no connection at all to us in the Army
Surely you can't believe your authority extends to the point of interfering with our staff?
Litouten: The Emperor long ago gave me control of everything having to do with the army
My orders are his orders
Tenpou: Aren't you ashamed?
Your present position is something you only got by using your own son... Prince Nataku

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Litouten: Such a lovely face
They say you act as General Kenren's wife. Is that why you're so concerned about him?
(snicker) Naturally your husband's 'thing' feels best to you

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Tenpou: Excuse me
F/X Tenpou punches Litouten
Litouten: Angh!!
F/X falling on his ass
Guards: Uh--! You ruffian!
Get him!

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F/X guards throw Tenpou on the ground
Litouten: Hmph
Haughty as ever. And what a sight you make now
Marshal Tenpou

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Litouten: Now do you understand? You don't have the right to look at me like that, ever again
F/X kicking Tenpou
F/X Tenpou's glasses go flying
Litouten: What about it?
F/X grabbing Tenpou's hair
Litouten: Shall we send you to the torture chamber like your husband? I'd say it's worth the trouble of making a man like you squirm

(Page 156)
Gokuu: An- (deleted) -nch.
F/X knocks Litouten down (Note: Gokuu has been reading a manga called Anpanman, with his trademark 'Anpanchi'- An-punch. Since the name is trademarked the operative syllable gets removed here
Guard: What's that kid doing here?
Tenpou: Gokuu---
Gokuu: Leggo of Ten-chan
F/X punching guards
Guard: OOWWWW!!!
Tenpou: Gokuu- why are you...

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Gokuu: Ten-niichan asked me to.
He said to bring you back
Tenpou: He's so nice to people
Gokuu: I won't let anyone hurt Ten-chan-- Poo-poo head!!
F/X no fooling around

(Page 158)
Gokuu: Let's go, Ten-chan!
Tenpou: Certainly
F/X door slam
Litouten: (hmmm)
Guard: (cough) Should we let them get away?
Litouten: It doesn't matter. We put the screws on him enough
They're garbage, and we have to get rid of it
Gokuu: What is it, Ten-chan?
Tenpou: Poo-poo head... (snicker)

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Eighth tale

(Page 160)
Konzen: Now..
What's the meaning of this, you two?
Tenpou: Ohh- we just forgot how old we were and started to play pro wrestling
Kenren: Makes us look better, doesn't it?
Konzen: Liar. I suppose they were up to something again, right, Gokuu?
Gokuu: Uh? Uhh- well--
Tenpou: (in flashback) Let's keep this secret from Konzen, OK? He'd only worry.

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Gokuu: It's a secret so I don't know
F/X Kenren irritation
Konzen: Well, never mind. Just don't get Gokuu involved in your little games.
For one thing, people don't want him around.
Speaking of which, why are *you* two here
Kenren: Oh, forgot to tell you
The Army's got its orders to turn out. Prince Nataku is coming back from Under Heaven
Gokuu: Huh! Nataku's coming home!
Let's go!

(Page 162)
Kenren: Thought that's what you'd say. You coming too, Konzen
Konzen: Nope. I have to deliver these papers to the old bag
Gokuu: Let's go let's *go*!!
Kenren: OK, OK.
Tenpou: I know. You're thinking that it's dangerous for Gokuu and Prince Nataku to get too friendly
Certainly Nataku's father- Litouten- is a hard man to beat. He's totally ambitious with no good points at all.

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Tenpou: We must have been hoping for this-
to see that child's smile...
Konzen: Kenren's been dismissed as general?

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Kanzeon: Tried to be, anyway. Apparently Tenpou intervened and got the dismissal recalled
Since, as positions go, Marshal Tenpou is a step above Litouten.
But Litouten's currently pushing himself forward using Nataku's authority. Someone's going to pay for this
Konzen: (remembering) 'He's a hard man to beat.' So- those injuries of theirs--
Konzen: I hadn't heard anything about it
Kanzeon: Probably they didn't think it was worth talking about
Konzen: Am I the only one who doesn't know anything?

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Konzen: What the officers are up to, what's going on in the army- I'm kept totally in the dark
It makes me sick!
Kanzeon: Still a child.
Konzen: What!!
Kanzeon: There are things you won't know unless you try to find out.
It's possible to notice things without seeming to
You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?

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Konzen: Can you be
the sun for that little kid?

(Page 167)
F/X noise of crowd in the palace
F/X Nataku and Litouten kneel before the Emperor

(Page 168)
Emperor: Well done, Prince Nataku. I hear you conducted yourself splendidly this time as well.
Nataku: Ahh.
Litouten: Our thanks. We are not worthy of such gracious words
Nataku: (thinks) What do you know about it?
Emperor: Anh. You may retire. Go take your rest.
Nataku: ...As you will...

(Page 169)
Gokuu: Nataku!
Nataku! I'm over here!
Welcome home!
Nataku: It's you--
F/X grip of Li's hand on Nataku's shoulder

(Page 170)
Nataku: Father...?
Litouten: That boy is the itan who was born in Under heaven, yes.
Kill him.

(end vol 1)

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