The Lightning Tree Page #2

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There is a female goblin.

You saw one, sir?

Dono!

I did.

That goblin saved my life.

That goblin...

...must be my younger sister.

Twenty years ago,

A retainer of Iwamoto domain,

I took on a secret mission assigned by the domain.

Kidnap the daughter

of the village headman...

...and kill her.

Your name...

... is not Rai.

Yuu...

Yuu!

Yuu!

Yuu!

Someone!

Yuu-sama!

- Yuu!

- Yuu-sama!

Yuu!

Yuu! Yuu!

I betrayed Iwamoto domain,

and took you with me on the run.

While I thought it would be fine as long as

I do not come back to the village,

I could not do it.

That day when the Master of Shimizu family,

when it finally came down to that moment,

I have now failed to

carry out the assassination...

I shall patrol the mountain.

You...

Go back to the Seta family.

The day I was born,

there were cracking thunder,

were there not?

That is...

...the night I kidnapped you.

You are lying.

I don't believe it.

Do...

Do resent me.

Do not fool with me!

Shimanaka domain here

and Iwamoto domain next to us...

have been disputing

over the water rights for many long years.

Twenty years ago,

Iwamoto domain used coercion...

...to demand to change

the waterways in Seta Village.

My father,

the village headman at that time,

repelled such demand.

So as retribution,

they abducted your younger sister.

My father was too anxious for Yuu

that he passed away.

Afterwards,

the rumor that there is a goblin

in Seta Mountain started to spread.

I...

have always believed that is Yuu.

Tomorrow,

please allow me to go to the mountain.

Sukejirou.

What are you doing

at this late hour?

She is still alive...

Mother!

Mother!

Sukejirou.

Mother.

Yuu is...

Yuu is living in the mountain.

Father!

Father!

Father!

Father!

Father!

Father!

- Let's go play!

- Yeah!

Wasaku-san! Wasaku-san!

Wasaku-san. Who is that?

Over there, who is that?

Yuu!

Yuu!

Yuu...

You have come back...

Each and every year,

Mother has bought clothes

and kept them for you.

Kimono and obi too.

Everything here is yours.

Yuu, how do you

think about this kimono?

No...

No need.

You not have to wear these anymore.

Do not touch it!

Yuu.

How can you understand?

Not "you."

Call me "brother."

Do not follow me.

Where are you going?

What are you doing?

Come!

I will borrow this.

Hey! That is my hatchet!

Ah-

That was close.

O-Yuu-san.

As a daughter of the Seta family,

that behavior will bring trouble.

Will bring trouble!

Is it true that the daughter

of Seta family has come back?

Yes.

It is uncertain whether she was brought up

by wolves, no, goblins.

Well, it is no big deal,

is it not?

It seems that Dono

was the one who found her.

Yeah? Goblin or whatsoever...

I thought he was

going to get another disease.

Well, our blockhead Dono too...

Thank God the goblin

is your younger sister.

Pardon me?

It it indeed an honor for us and the domain

of Shimanaka to serve you...

...here in Seta Village, which you

have chosen to spend your convalescence.

I am abashed that we only manage

to serve you with our local cuisine.

However, we have brought forth

the local sake that is the pride of the village.

Please do enjoy yourself.

Dono.

My younger sister has come back.

Everything is thanks to you, Dono.

Yuu, please come forward

to greet Dono.

Dono is in front of you.

Goblin...

As if I am going to squat down.

We do not know when he

will draw out his sword.

Like what that man did?

Father is no longer here.

Brother, please pour some wine.

More wine, please.

Everyone, please enjoy the food.

- Bring some wine!

- Well, please go ahead.

It is a beautiful horse.

It was born in the mountain

and grew up with me.

It gallops through the wind.

How about the village?

I can't let it run

during daybreak here.

Do you want to go to the mountain?

Mother does not like it.

Guide me around the mountain.

Then you can go, right?

Seta.

It is such a pity for your mother.

Why would you say that?

Her daughter who grew up in the mountain

cannot get used to the village.

There is nothing like that.

If touched by Mother's kindness,

Yuu will most likely change.

Even if it might take a long time,

It is the heart of the mother who spares thoughts

for the child that brings the child up.

Try saying it one more time.

Pardon me?

You said that it is the heart of

the mother who spares thoughts...

...for the child that brings the child up?

Yes.

So if such a mother

is non-existent...

...the child will not grow up?

Dono.

I do not know why such a thing

would irk you, Dono.

Is that something

people like you can understand?

Dono...

What is going on?

- Dono!

- Dono!

Please stop.

With a conduct such as this,

you will disappoint your father.

You would even brandish your sword

towards this Enokido?

Dono.

You must understand this yourself.

You are just being spoiled

like a fool, Dono.

Dono.

Please somehow...

...put your sword back.

Shut up.

Shut up!

You would not understand.

Shut up.

Shut up...

Shut up!

Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

I have come to pick you up.

I shall guide you around the mountain.

Let's go.

Would you have beheaded him

had I not come?

I do not know.

Because of your illness?

You...

Have you ever seen an illness

like mine before?

No clue.

I have not spoken to the villagers.

To you,

how do I look as a man?

Am I a Dono?

Or...

...am I just a fool

crippled by an illness?

Neither of them.

You are yourself.

How is this? Look!

Yuu.

What is there inside the mountain?

The charcoal-covered hut...

...that Father and I lived in.

How about even deeper?

The place that transcends the mountain.

No clue.

I have never gone there.

Father did not allow me to go.

Perhaps there is even an ocean.

Ocean?

Yeah.

I want to go there someday.

Yuu.

What are you doing?

Why avoid the rain?

It feels really good.

Life at the village is suffocating!

You too, cry out.

Me too?

Anything is fine. Just shout out

whatever you think.

Unexpectedly timid, are you not?

I hate the village!

Father!

Father is an idiot!

Liar!

Father is an idiot!

Father, you are a liar!

Father is an idiot!

I don't want to wear tight socks!

The castle should just burn itself!

Yuu.

Will you not come to Edo?

Are there mountains in Edo?

Where there is no mountain,

I will not stay.

What a mysterious tree.

Yeah.

Father said...

...when this tree was struck by thunder,

that was also when I was born.

I have always believed that.

This name Rai of mine...

...seems to have disappear to somewhere.

Raiou.

Raiou?

This tree's name.

Since it is the sakura that bloomed

due to thunder,

thunder and sakura written together

is "Raiou."

How is it?

Raiou.

It is your tree.

My tree...

I will definitely come back to see you.

Here I could only get

a plain thing like this.

After I come back to Edo,

I will send you even more beautiful things.

No.

This is enough.

To me, this is the most beautiful thing.

Yuu...

Shall you try calling them?

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