Against the Stream 3 & 4
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Saiyuuki Reload
Act 8 Against the Stream 3
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Zakuro: Thinking of changing sides, Dokugakuji? Yaone?
Dokugakuji: *You*--
Yaone: Why are you here...?!
Sanzou: *Now* what's up?
Hakkai: It looks like they know each other...
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Zakuro: Hmf- basically, Gyokumen Koushu-sama doesn't trust the two of you around the corner
Dokugakuji: (hiss of rage)
Gojou: ...oi oi. I don't know what's going on here, but if you guys wanna quarrel, could you do it somewhere else?
Zakuro: Oh yes, there's that. I'm not here for them... 
Zakuro: I'm here to wipe you guys out
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Gojou: Heii... very funny.
Yaone: No-! Don't look at his eyes!
Sanzou: Huh--
F/X bodies vanishing
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F/X and reappearing in a field full of skulls and lighted candles
Sanzou: WHA---
Gojou: Where are we?
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Zakuro: (villainous laughter; FTR fufuhahahaha) Got you! You can't get out-
Zakuro: from the world of illusion of the Zakuro-sama before you!
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Youkai: Haha! We finally found where the humans are!
Youkai: You're ours!
Humans: (screech) The youkai! Run!
Gokuu: Get back, everyone! (grunts as youkai attacks)
F/X sword hits nyoibou
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F/X Gokuu kicks
Youkai: Gah--
Youkai: Guhhh--
F/X youkai bodies flying
Youkai: Who's this kid?!
Youkai: Kill him!!
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Gokuu: You think you can do it-- come an' try!
F/X Gokuu leaps in air
F/X turns nyoibou into three-link weapon
F/X that knocks out three youkai
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F/X and a fourth
Youkai: Who the hell *is* he?
Woman: (screams as she's pursued by a youkai)
Gokuu: Ch--
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Gokuu: You're in my way!!
F/X skips out of the way of attacking youkai
Youkai: Anhh!
Gokuu: Nyoibou!
Woman: (shriek)
F/X nyoibou into youkai vitals
Youkai: (chokes)
Kon: N-nii-chan- way ta go!
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Youkai: This kid...
Youkai: Go get more men!
Gokuu: Shit- there's more of them coming?
Gokuu: Kon--
Kon: Yeah?
Gokuu: Get everyone together and go deep into the caves, as far in as you can. And hurry!
Kon: o-OK!
Youkai: You think you can protect them all by yourself? Unh-unh!
Youkai: Give up and get outta the way!
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Gokuu: Yeah, I'll get out of the way!
F/X Gokuu strikes rocks with his nyoibou
Youkai: Th- that's crazy! He's blocking the entrance
Gokuu: Now you can't get your hands on them
Youkai: This guy's gotta be kidding!
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Gokuu: Nope. Totally serious. Now come on. I'll take you all on.
Gojou: An illusion? This?
Hakkai: It feels so real...!
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Sanzou: Ch--
F/X click of gun
Zakuro: That's useless- a gun that's melted like that?
F/X smoke coming from gun
Sanzou: What?
F/X gun melts into a puddle
Zakuro: Now you understand? You're still in my power
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Zakuro: Hmf- Look. If you just stand there like dummies
Zakuro: the snakes'll bite you and you won't be *able* to move
Gojou: Uwaa-- Where'd they come from?
Zakuro: Oh yes- the damage these snakes do to the bodies you have in this world is connected to psychic damage. Basically, your physical 'death'
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Zakuro: will be the death of your soul
Hakkai: It's a kind of hypnosis. Don't listen to his words
Gojou: Fine to say Don't listen---
Zakuro: Oh come. Take a good look at them. They're not snakes
Zakuro: They're human hands
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Sanzou: --rats!!
F/X hands pull Sanzou down
Sanzou: Aghh--
Zakuro: Hahaha! How do you like that! You can't move a muscle!
Dokugakuji: Wh- what's going on?
Yaone: This is Zakuro's ability. His words produce hallucinations
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Yaone: He can speak to the brain directly through hypnotic suggestion and cause damage to the soul. When the brain takes his words in it produces the hallucination. In short-- the brain experiences it as a physical sensation
Dokugakuji: Wait a minnit Zakuro! It was Kou who was supposed to look after getting rid of Sanzou and his pals. The original idea was only to get the sutra
Zakuro: Don't be silly
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Zakuro: Is that why you didn't even try to protect your prince, when he was all by himself? A useless pair you are.
Dokugakuji: You bastard--
Zakuro: Ahh. Of course. I hear this one's your brother
Dokugakuji: Leave him alone!
Zakuro: Now, Sa Gojou- look at your right hand
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Zakuro: It's on fire
Gojou: (screams)
Hakkai: Gojou!!
F/X Gokuu's nyoibou takes a youkai out
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F/X nyoibou whips around
F/X nyoibou takes a youkai in the gut
Youkai: (gag)
F/X youkai drops
Gokuu: (breathing heavily)
Youkai: Heehee... He looks pretty tired
Youkai: Maybe he'll give up soon?
Gokuu: There's really no end to them...
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Gokuu: If I'm held up like this, the villagers will be buried alive. ---meaning...
Youkai: Whazzup? There's nothing behind you
Youkai: hihihi
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Gokuu: Dweebs---
F/X jumps off cliff
Youkai: He jumped down himself?
Youkai: It's so far down there's no way he's still alive
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F/X nasty grin from Gokuu holding on to tree branch
Gokuu: Uarayaaa!! (J note: Hey, I don't write these things, I only translate them. That's what he says.)
F/X shoves nyoibou into cliffside
F/X cliff starts to crumble
Youkai: Wha---
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Youkai: ugyaaa
F/X youkai falling into river
Gokuu: (pants)
Gokuu: *Up* we go. Close call, close call. Gotta get that cave cleared out...
Gokuu: And first off, how far down the river did Sanzou and the others get carried away? Everything happens to *me*...
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Gokuu: And I'm so *hungry*
Gokuu: Huh?
P.1
"Sa Gojou- look how well your right hand burns"
Gojou: (screams)
Hakkai: Gojou!
Saiyuuki Reload
Act 9 Against the Stream 4
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Zakuro: Chi- stupid idiot!
Gojou: Ga--ahh-- ...shit...
Zakuro: It's useless. That fire won't ever go out
Gojou: SHIT....!!
Hakkai: It's an illusion! Don't listen to him!
Zakuro: Can an illusion burn, Sa Gojou? Look, now the fire's spreading all over.
Hakkai: No, Gojou! Don't listen!!
F/X Gojou's charred hand drops to the ground
Zakuro: It's burned right off!
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Gojou: (screams)
Yaone: Gojou-san!? Gojou-san, you aren't burned! It's an illusion!
Dokugakuji: It's no good, Yaone. They can't hear our voices any more.
Hakkai: (thinks) This is impossible! His hypnotism can't be this powerful
Zakuro: Now what, Sa Gojou? Want to try attacking me? With that shakujou of yours?
Gojou: You bastard!
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Sanzou: Stop! It's a trap!
Zakuro: Ha ha-- who are you attacking? It's your friends who'll die!
(Gojou's scythe slices Hakkai and Sanzou's heads off)
Gojou: -enh--
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F/X headless bodies fall to the ground
Zakuro: Hahahahaha! You fool! They're dead! You killed them!
Gojou: ...right. It's a lie. It's not true.
Gojou: It's not--
Zakuro: You killed them.
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Hakkai: Gojou!!??
Sanzou: He just went and killed us
Hakkai: This is stupid! Gojou, we're alive! It's all a trick!
Zakuro: (laughing) I told you. You can't escape from my illusions! All of you (will end) the same way
F/X something hard hits Gojou
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Gojou: Ah..?
F/X collapses in Dokugaku's arms
F/X and falls unconscious to the ground
Yaone: What did you...
F/X emptiness?
Hakkai/ Sanzou?: !? What--
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Hakkai/Sanzou?: Gojou disappeared...?
Zakuro: Dokugakuji! What was that for?
Yaone: What was that?
Dokugakuji: If there *is* a way to get free of Zakuro's illusion spells, it's either by dying from the shock of the illusion, or going mad. Or else--
Hakkai: I see. You can get free by losing consciousness
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Sanzou: Hmph. Now we know that, and so what?
Hakkai: True. We can't all be unconscious when the enemy's still here
Zakuro: Meaning there's no way out for you two
Sanzou: We're not as straightforward as that idiot, and we won't fall for your tricks as easily as him. (J note: 'straightforward' is tanjun, meaning simple. Gojou has a simple uncomplex nature, is the idea. Show him that his hand's on fire and he'll believe it.)
Hakkai: I'm sorry. We're more the intellectual types.
Zakuro: Henh. You talk big.
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Zakuro: You think you can practice self-hypnosis against me? You must know-
Zakuro: In the brain there's something called the 'kaiba' (note: written with the kanji for sea and bird)
Hakkai: Kaiba? Isn't that a walrus by any other name?
Zakuro: Don't be so funny. Kaiba is the part that collects the short term memories. You can access these memories easily if you call them out of the kaiba. And the more intelligent you are, the clearer your memories. You had chawan for dinner last night, right?
Hakkai: That's right. A set meal. Good soup too.
Zakuro: And today?
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Zakuro: Today? Oh yes- today you drowned in a river
F/X Hakkai and Sanzou are underwater
Sanzou: Shit--
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Zakuro: You're sinking down, way down. You can struggle but you're at the bottom of a deep deep river and you can't see a way out!
Hakkai: There's no water. It's an illusion!
Zakuro: Hmph. What happens if you talk under water? You can't breathe any more, right? Yes--
Hakkai: registers shock
Zakuro: The water's come into your lungs!
F/X Hakkai chokes
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Zakuro: Ahh... This is the end, Cho Hakkai.
F/X Hakkai vanishes
Sanzou: Hakkai!!
F/X Sanzou chokes
Zakuro: You too, Genjou Sanzou
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Sanzou: (thinks) water... the sound of water... the river... it's dark. The darkness---
(Zakuro's figure turns into Koumyou's)
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"A voice-"
"I heard a voice"
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Zakuro: ...!! What!!??
Sanzou: "Kouryuu who was set adrift on the river"-- right?
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Zakuro: What the hell--
Sanzou: You picked the wrong image to show me. What I saw there
Sanzou: was the light.
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Zakuro: I told you that gun has melted!!
Sanzou: Forget it! It's not!
Zakuro: The bullets, right- the bullets are wedged in! The trigger won't pull!
Sanzou: Oh be quiet
Zakuro: *You can't shoot!!*
Sanzou: ...so if I do shoot
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Sanzou: I'm the one who's talking here
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F/X gun firing
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Zakuro falls
Sanzou: ...and *this* is reality.