Saiyuuki Reload ch 20 (page) Sidebar: His name is Ken'yuu, and this is what he's looking at... Voiceover: Devour it all- don't leave even a bone F/X crow crying (page) Saiyuuki Reload act 20 "burial"- Ukoku which tells of a buried memory Many years earlier Zenou-ji Pupils: Sanzou-sama!! Goudai Sanzou-sama, we should be going to the dojo-- oh! Koumyou: Your disciples are calling you, Goudai (page) Goudai: You're making a lot of noise. Haven't you noticed we've a guest? Pupil: K-Koumyou Sanzou Hoshi-sama!!? Excuse our mannerlessness... Koumyou: Hullo. Just visiting. Please don't concern yourselves- since I was here on business I came to see your temple as well Goudai: ...listen, you lot. Can't you do your own practice or do I have to be there? Pupils: Y-yessir! Sorry!! (page) F/X pupils trooping away Koumyou: Dear dear. The Spartan papa as ever... Goudai: Who are you to call people 'papa'? You're almost forty, Koumyou Koumyou: Oh come. And I look after myself so well, too. You can't defeat a 'young now' like me (laughs) Goudai: Old-fashioned words I can understand, but *that*-- Goudai: But it's true, I'm getting old. Never thought people could change this much... (page) F/X students practising martial arts Goudai: I don't understand young people these days F/X students reciting sutras Koumyou: Really? It seems to me that all your students are intent on their training. Goudai: Most of them, yes, but there's some among them... Class head: Ken'yuu! Just when I thought you were behaving yourself for a change-- what are you writing?! Ken'yuu: What? You want to hear? 'At that moment Suzucha froze at sound of the man's hoarse breathing. His fingers crawled wriggling up her white thigh as if tasting the touch of her. 'Oh... please don't...' Suzucha began to beg in a tiny voice as the man's rough but skilful fingers began to steal her resistance from her. Then without thinking...' (J note: Have read this stuff before in yaoi text djs...) (page) F/X eager cries from the students Sonkou (senior student): Who told you to read that?! In the holy precincts of a temple--- Ken'yuu: Hm? But senpai- In copying and reading the sutras what counts is focus. You don't worry about what a sutra or a mantra actually means- or so Sanzou-sama said... Pupil 1: Yeah, right! Don't be so constipated, Sonkou! Pupil 2: Hey Ken'yuu! Will you let us see the rest of that? Ken'yuu: Certainly. 200 yen a shot F/X laughter Sonkou: What did you say!? Koumyou: (laughs) There's always one in every class Goudai: ...he's first in the class (page) Goudai: His name's Ken'yuu. Came here about six months ago. He's far and away the best at fighting and magic, and he's got his doctorate even though he's only seventeen. And then there's his personality. Terribly friendly, makes friends easily, has no enemies... But I can tell. It's all calculated and for show. (page) Koumyou: Well now, since we haven't seen each other in a while, let's have a little drinking session tonight. And maybe I'll ask you why you invited me here (that night) Pupil 1: Huh, Koumyou Sanzou Hoshi's *here*?? Pupil 2: Yeah, I even got to say hello to him Pupil 1: Koumyou Sanzou-- *that* Koumyou? Pupil 2: Yup. The youngest man to inherit the top title of Sanzou, and cause of his talent and his character he's the guardian of two foundation sutras (page) Pupil 2: It's hard for us monks in training to imagine someone like that. If we're lucky maybe he'll notice us Pupil 3: But I've heard Koumyou Sanzou-sama already has a favorite disciple back at Kinzanji. A very young and beautiful boy... Pupil 2: Oh, is that what he likes? Well then, there's no hope for us F/X laughter Ken'yuu: (thinks) What a bore. F/X Ken'yuu broom sweeping fallen leaves (page) Ken'yuu: You want something? Koumyou: Oh no-- I was just wondering if my Kouryuu would be like you when he grows up Ken'yuu: Kouryuu? Koumyou: He's like my son. He's like you in some ways Ken'yuu: Me? His looks? Koumyou: No, you look totally different Ken'yuu: (thinks) Well then what? (aloud) Oh. How old? Koumyou: Thirty-nine. Ken'yuu: **Not you** (page) Koumyou: Oh, Kouryuu? He'll be fourteen this year. (He's very sweet) Ken'yuu: I see. (thinks) Naturally? Koumyou: By the way, Ken'yuu-kun, why'd you come to this training temple? Ken'yuu: Why? Koumyou: I just thought you don't fit the image. Aren't you the kind who's bad at this sort of martial arts asceticism? Ken'yuu: It's in order to become a Sanzou. I've heard that's the hardest thing of all (page) Koumyou: Mhhh Ken'yuu: I've tried pretty much everything else, but it all turned out to be easy and pointless. I wanted something that wouldn't bore me Koumyou: Ahh, I see. If everything you do is pointless, then you yourself aren't worth much. Well now, let's go get some potatoes. (page) Ken'yuu: Hunh? Koumyou: What's to hunhh about? You've collected all these dead leaves- what are you going to do with them if not roast potatoes? Koumyou: (voiceover) That was how I met him-- Ken'yuu. And a few days after that F/X commotion Pupils: S-Sanzou-sama! Goudai Sanzou-sama!! Are you alright!?? Koumyou: (voiceover) Goudai collapsed Goudai: Looks like... the tide'll be going out soon Koumyou Koumyou: (voiceover) Goudai knew this time was coming and that's why he'd summoned me to his temple (page) Koumyou: (voiceover) That evening Goudai Sanzou's fifty-nine disciples were assembled in the main hall Goudai: I suppose you all know that I've been attacked by this serious illness. Therefore I am going to select my successor from among you, to be the true heir to the Muten Sutra F/X commotion Goudai: Sonkou! Seichou! Bunkei! Rikou! Reichou! Shishin! Pupils: Yessir! Goudai: Tomorrow morning all six of you will assemble at the training ring behind the temple. For the final selection we will have a face-off match of religion and magic!! (page) Goudai: There will be no spectators! The only witness will be Koumyou Sanzou here! That is all! Pupil 1: H-hey-- did he call Ken'yuu? Pupil 2: No... Pupil 3: That's weird. Ken'yuu's the best at everything Ken'yuu: Please wait a moment, Goudai Sanzou Hoshi. I would like to ask on what conditions you chose these men. Goudai: It's because don't understand that, that you aren't chosen as a Sanzou (page) Ken'yuu: I see F/X rushes at Goudai Pupils: What--!! F/X grab Goudai: (grunts) (page) F/X Ken'yuu throws Goudai to the ground Pupils: Ken'yuu!? Sanzou-sama!! Ken'yuu: Now, tell me- just what sort of thing is a Sanzou Hoshi? Goudai: *Everything that you aren't* (page) F/X Ken'yuu raises fist to strike F/X Koumyou grabs his wrist Koumyou: Are you enjoying this? (page) (In punishment shed, Ken'yuu examines the marks on his wrist) Koumyou's voice: Did that hurt? I was holding back. Ken'yuu: Who on earth are you? It's crazy how strong you are- really. Koumyou: Not at all. I'm just your average ojisan. Ken'yuu: Your average ossan doesn't have a ponytail, for a start. Koumyou: (laughs) True enough Ken'yuu: So there's Sanzou Hoshis like you as well. (page) Koumyou: With ponytails? Is it really that odd? Ken'yuu: (snickers) I can't tell with you whether you're really bright or really dumb Koumyou: Ah yes, I hear that a lot Ken'yuu: Ne- I was thinking about you- would you kill me, do you think? Koumyou: ...no thanks. Too much work. I'm the kind who avoids getting involved in other people's games. Don't they say something about 'where angels fear to tread'? (page) Ken'yuu: I can't help it. If I'm not in a situation where it's screw or be screwed, I just don't feel I'm alive. The fact is, there's nothing I really want. Ken'yuu: You win and go on winning- doesn't everyone live by feeding off the corpse of somebody else? Living is screwing other people and going on do it. Koumyou: So that you can be screwed yourself some day? Voiceover: That light- it was like (page) Voiceover: ...it would swallow everything up Goudai: What's the matter? You didn't come here with the will to die? Pupil: Ohh... never thought I'd have to fight Goudai Sanzou-sama himself as the final test Goudai: Naturally. The heir is the one who crosses over the master's corpse. The one who beats me has what it takes to be the next Sanzou! (page) Pupil: Shit-- alright I'll stake my life-- F/X sound of attack Pupil: What-- (blood spurts from the men's bodies) (page) Pupils: Ken'yuu!? How come... You were in the punishment shed...! Ken'yuu: Ne, Koumyou- maybe it's as you say. I'm waiting for the guy who can do it to me. Senpai-tachi, move, please. You're in danger. Actually, you're in my way. Pupils: What- who the hell-- (page) Pupils: (begin magical chanting) Ken'yuu: Oh shut up. F/X Ken'yuu's attack hits the others Voiceovers: Wha-- he can use his magic without chanting a mantra? What power of concentration... he must be a monster! (page) Goudai: So that's how it's turned out Koumyou: (thinks) Goudai probably knew this would happen. That's probably *why* he had me in attendance. To entrust Ken'yuu- to entrust this boy to me (page) F/X battle cry Koumyou: (voiceover) Just at that moment a crow cried out F/X crow caws (page) (page) (Ken'yuu kills Goudai) (page) F/X sound of crow's wings Koumyou: So once again, you failed to die? (page) Koumyou: (voiceover) Yes. I'm certain. He was crying. (page) Koumyou: (voiceover) Thereafter I gave him the name Ukoku (weeping crow.) But on the forehead of the youngest of the Sanzous the sign of the chosen one, the chakra, never did appear