Sword of the Stranger Page #3

The weather's so nice.

To think that someone actually injured you,

Who was it you fought?

A man from the Ming Dynasty.

He had blue eyes, and was over six feet tall!

Wow, like a real demon.

He might be scarier than a demon.

He's the second person I've ever seen with that level of skill.

The second?

An old acquaintance of mine.

When I served the Ooatari Providence.

We fought side by side in the wars,

But after a certain battle, he disappeared.

Seems he'd gotten sick of war.

Then he was a kind man, right?

He was just weak hearted.

He's a man that threw away the god's gift that he had.

So then how will you use your gifted skills?

That's easy. I'll use it to get even more strength and climb even higher.

You sound almost as if you're going to conquer the country.

I've got no intention of an aspiration within a set height.

Me, I'll set my height at the peak of my aspiration!

That's a lot of scars!

They're what I got for going to war.

What providence did you serve?

It's not worth naming,

It was destroyed and doesn't exist anymore.

You don't volunteer anymore?

Yeah...

I got sick of it.

Oh yeah, I still haven't asked you your name?

As a samurai you must have some really fancy name, right?

Akage

Yeah, that's a cool one.

[Nanashi = Nameless]

Akaomi Nanashi

What!? Don't tease me!

I'm not teasing you.

It's Nanashi because I've got no name.

I've had quite a few names, having to change it along with the providence.

Grab that bamboo shute.

By dying it with berries,

It should last another ten days.

You're a...foreigner?

Who knows? Even I don't.

I hear I was picked up from a foreign ship,

But I was the only one left alive.

There were those that hated me,

But since I learned this method, those problems went away.

The life I have now is far better than the one I had as a general.

What's wrong?

If you stand there you'll catch a cold.

You sure are quiet suddenly.

Did my hair color scare you?

I'm not scared at all!

I've seen hundreds of foreigners before!

It's just...I was surprised.

You feeling good little dog?

Pursuers.

Pretend you haven't noticed and start talking about something.

What?

Still, I'm surprised you've seen so many foreigners.

Where did you see them?

Tell me.

In the Ming Dynasty,

Until two years ago, that's where I lived.

Were you living by yourself?

I was with my little brother and Tobimaru.

And your mother?

I hear she died soon after I was born.

Your dad?

When I was six...he left.

With no parents, how'd you come here?

One day, when I was about to be sold,

A monk, who came to Ming to train, saved me.

And then he let me ride on the bought back here with him.

After reaching here I lived at his temple.

Why'd you leave the temple?

The temple...

was attacked.

Let go! I said let go!

From Akaike?

No, no, no, no that's not it!

We're just thieves passing by!

Just thieves!

Tobimaru, let him go.

Please forgive me!

Please forgive me!!

Hurry up and get lost.

Th...Thank you!

Well then...

Wait a second.

Leave all your money.

Money? No we don't even have a sen!

Come on,

Please believe me! If we had money, we wouldn't be thieving!

A nice sound.

Silly thieves.

Even silly people are good sometimes!

I was planning on speeding up a bit,

Is the dog ok?

Yeah. If anythings wrong, I'll tell you.

Hang on tight so you don't fall!

Ok!

Your right. It really feels like we're flying.

It's not bad at all!

It's taken many years...

To get Byakuran before us,

When the source of immortality is in his hands,

The Emperor will be most pleased.

Geshin and Suishin are heading to the temple tonight as planned.

Kachuu will be in charge of the ritual at the alter tomorrow.

Everyone else, either work on finding the child, or the preparations for escaping this castle.

The alter finished in time,

But the rest of the plan has been a complete mess.

I really could not face the Emperor like this.

I think it's about time to start thinking about if we do not have the child.

If the full moon in two days passes, the next won't be for another year.

In that time it's possible another war could break out,

And this providence could be destroyed causing us to lose everything.

So then...

If we delay the ceremony a few days they'll never know.

You're saying to send a false message to the Emperor?

I do not believe the blood will change.

Shut your mouth!

Or we find the child in Ming,

And create an Alter in Ming.

In Ming even if we have to wait a year or two...

That's enough!

I'll go work on preparations for our escape from this providence.

That fool!

To speak of fooling the Emperor!

No matter how skilled he is,

A warrior is just a warrior!

There's no way to stop you from handing him over?

For the sake of our religion, we can't refuse them.

But...!

This would defy our Buddhist ideals-

You fool!

Protecting our religion is our ideal!

Be happy you are still alive!

Wait!

Let go!

This voice...?

It suddenly started two hours ago.

So in the end you didn't get the reward?

The Samurai thought I was lying to him.

He was really really mad. I thought I was going to die.

I told you, you gotta stay away from deals that sound too good.

I wonder if it'll snow tomorrow?

Huh?

Look how sunny it is, what are you saying?

Look, even though the west sky is cloudy I can see the sun shining all bright.

That's a symbol that it's gonna snow.

He's told us everything.

Drug! Hurry! The Drug!

This is?

The drug he had on him.

This is what he's like when he can't depend on it?

Put him to rest.

Senyaku?

According to the warrior we captured,

They're searching for a drug that makes one immortal.

Immortal?

It was foretold in a Ming prophecy.

That was the start of it?

Yes.

According to the warrior Doshi, it allows you to live forever.

Once every hundred years a child is foretold of, and that by taking the child's blood,

You can create a drug that makes you immortal.

The Emperor believes this,

And ordered his men to find the child.

The pursuers crossed the ocean to find him?

The alter at the fortress, a mechanism to engrave the time,

This is all to gather the blood according to the foretelling.

Once every hundred years?

Still...is immortality even possible?

Who cares!

What's important is that the child's worth even more than a ship of gold.

What should we do now?

As if I need to tell you?

Find the child first, and make the foreigners disappear.

But they're the only ones who know what the child looks like...

And since yesterday they've been snooping around the whole providence.

I've already taken a step.

Even if they can't speak our language, I'll have them at least crying in defeat.

No matter what they try to do,

This is our providence!

Are you sad because Rarou isn't around?

Almost like a wife whose lost their husband.

Don't make fun of me!

The reason I look sad is because I don't have my hawk at my side.

Good job trying to hide it.

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