1 Akari: There, now everybody is all fixed up!! Akari: Oh, I'm so glad you're all okay~ Now you can tell me all of your deep personal secrets~ (tell me anytime~) Sasuke: .... Akira: .... Akari: But first, remember that I can only heal your surface injuries. Internal injuries or torn muscles can only be healed by rest! Akira: Alright, Akari, you've done enough here. Now go back to where you came from... Yuya: Akira-san... Akari: See? (What did I tell you...?) Sasuke: I don't think that's it... 2 Chapter 177 - Akari-chan 3 (XD this is basically just a character map, so I'm not going to bother translating unless someone really wants it.) 4 Yuya: It's okay, Akira-san, you can just get healed again! Bon, Tora, Sasuke: But he'll have to tell another secret... Akari: Sheesh... You're such a pain. You still need me to change your diapers. Akira: WHO WEARS DIAPERS?! WHO!? Tora: Is that true? Bon: Probably not... Akari: But Kyo... Akari: You're no trouble at all... Akari: Won't you let me take care of you, too? Akari: With a little time and my houriki powers, I'm sure I can make you good as new! Akari: Oh Kyo... just what kind of trouble have you been getting into? 5 Hotaru: Well, first he used Suzaku... and then Byakko on top of that... Bon: .... Bon: I guess it's true after all.... what Muramasa was worried about... the effect of the Mumyou Jinpuu Ryuu Ougi on Kyo's body... Bon: [To obtain speed that even a master swordsman can't match, and power that strikes fear in people's hearts, well, that requires a lot of wear-and-tear on the user's body. And Kyo isn't in his real body...] Bon: [If Kyoushirou hadn't lent Kyo his strength during that last Byakko... Kyo would be completely powerless by now.] Akari: Kyo... can I ask you not to push yourself so far? Everyone has limits, you know. Akari: And if you're hurt, I can't hold you to our promise~ Tora: Hey, Kyo-han... what promise? Yuya: Oh yeah, she mentioned that before... Bon Y... Yuya-chan... you didn't hear anything at all! Hotaru: That's right! Yuya: !? Yuya: Huh? Tora: Come on, Kyo... Bon: She ain't even human, you can't do it!! Akari: .... 6 Akari: This is my chance!! Yuya and Tora: KYAAA!! Tora: What... the fuck... was that!? Bon: Yuya-chan, are you okay? Kyo: ...Better luck next time, Akari... Kyo: You missed again... that promise will have to wait... Tora & Yuya: !? Akari: K... Akari: Kk... Akari: KYAAA!! Damn it!! Akari: These four years that we've been separated, I've trained in the moubntains for my chance to hit Kyo in the face!! (I fought bears like Bon, foxes like Akira and chickens like Hotaru!!) Akari: DAMN IT!! Tora: But... what would you want to do something like that? Akari: We made a promise... that if I ever managed to wound Kyo's face... 7 Akari: Then... Kyo would marry me!! Yuya: K... Yuya: KYO!! I'LL KILL YOU! KYO!! DIEEEE!! Bon: Wah, Yuya-chan. calm down!! Yuya: You asshole!! How can you promise to marry somebody over that!! Yuya: What do you think women are, you pig?! Kyo: What? You wanna make a promise, too? (Fine by me...) Yuya: DIE!! DIEEEE!!! Bon: Whoa, Yuya-chan!! Akira: You misunderstand! Kyo can never marry Akari!! Akira: Kyo only said that because he knows he'll never lose!! 8 Akira: And furthermore, Akari is a... Akari: Oh, you're brave... so you think you're going to spill my secret? Well, how about I tell everyone that you used to be so afraid of caterpillars that you would cry? Akira: One day... Akira: One day... I'm going to kill her... Hotaru: I think your wound opened up again. Tora: Wow, if she trained four years in the mountains, she must really love Kyo... Akari: Yes... ever since I set eyes on him all those years ago, I've been a prisoner of love... Tora: .... Bon: Here she goes... Sasuke: .... Akari: Once upon a time... Akari: There was a beautiful princess born with magical powers, who obtained a secret magic scroll... 9 Kyo: I've come to rescue the princess! Akari: ...My prince!! Akari: And the prince and the princess fell in love at first sight, and they passionately embraced... Tora and Sasuke: .... Bon: That's a total lie, except for the part about the secret Buddhist teachings. Hotaru: I'm... a foot soldier...? Hotaru: But I don't want to be a foot soldier... Yuya: When Akari-san talks, I don't know when the truth stops and the lies begin... Akira: .... Akari: That's because I've already started lying. 10 Akari: But... my words sound false even to me... Akari: Kyo is already... Hotaru: ... Everyone: Huh? Bon: Akari was born with above-average magical abilities. She's a shaman. Bon: So while the Mibu were busy exterminating all the shamans, Akari ran into us. Yuya: Exterminating the shamans... you mean, just like Nozomu-nii and Sakuya-san?! Bon: Yeah... I heard it from Taihaku. The Mibu had a lot of shamans - people with magic powers - living in their lands... Bon: But now they're almost wiped out, except for Akari of course. 11 Bon: When we met her for the first time, you wouldn't believe what we saw... Akira: So this is really where the keep the secret Buddhist magic? Bon: Or at least it was... Bon: Well, I guess you can't trust rumors... Akira: Kyo, look! Is that made by the Mibu?! Akira: I wonder what it's doing there... Kyo: .... Akira: What would the Mibu be doing here?! Akira: ...There's nothing here. Hotaru: Ah... Bon: And that... Bon: Was when we met Akari... 12 Bon: [In a sea of carnage...] Everyone: .... Akira: Hey... Bon: Ah... Akira: What's up with these corpses? Akira: They look mummified... Akari: ...There's no point in sending in more troops. If you don't want to end up like these men, leave now. 13 Bon (continued from top of previous page): [One figure stood coldly...] Akari: I'm warning you, I'm a monster... Akari: Leave now. This is your last warning. Akari: I will not be defeated! Kyo: .... Akira: What is she talking about...? 14 Kyo: ...You didn't flinch... Kyo: Interesting... Kyo: You can come with me. Akari: !? Kyo: We're not your enemies... Kyo: And since we're all going the same way... might as well go together. 15 Akari: W...with you!? Akari: What are you talking about!? Akari: I'm not a normal human... you can't just decide things like that! Akari: I intend to destroy a certain clan... do you really want to be involved with that?! Kyo: Whatever. Kyo: Whether you come or you go... Kyo: That's your decision. Bon: And Akari was with us from then on. Bon: And we found out more about her... Bon: Akari was born with such strong powers that people called her a "monster" even when she was just a kid... so she grew up all alone. Bon: Of course, there were a lot of people who wanted to use her power... but nobody saw the real Akari. 16 Bon: But Kyo was different... he was just amused by her powers. Bon: When he looked into her eyes, all he saw was Akari. And he asked her to come along... Bon: That was probably the first time something like that had happened in her life... Yuya: [I see...] Yuya: [Akari-san is one of the Shiseiten...] Yuya: [She was all alone...] Yuya: [And then she found the place she belonged in the Shiseiten...] Yuya: [Okay, so maybe I haven't heard her be *that* nice, but...] Akari: Bon, you idiot! What are you telling them?! Yuya: [But I don't think she's as terrible as they say...] Yuya: [And I think being with the Shiseiten is better than being all alone...] Akari: You pig!! You must have a lot of balls to go telling my secrets!! Bon: It wasn't me, I swear! It was Akira!! Akira: Don't drag me into this!! Hotaru: Me either. Yuya: [I can tell they mean more to her than anything...] 17 Akari: It was your fault, so no medical treatment for you. Yuya: But... Tora and Sasuke: ...she's "The Worst." Akari: Even so... Akari: The Mibu are still... Akari: Even though I must be on my way to confront the Mibu Clan, it must have been fate that I stopped here... Yuya: Akari-san...? Akari: But... maybe I'll run into that super-sexy Mibu guy again... Akari (handwritten): If I can't have Kyo, then I'll take that guy! Yuya: ...I will never understand her... Akari: ...But really... Akari: The last time we met... yes, I loved him... Akari: I love him... Akari: And I want to kill him... 18 Yuya: Anyway... Yuya: He's a total idiot! Stupid Kyo... Box: She's fixing her clothes. Yuya: Womanizer! Demon!! Beast!!! Boob-grabbing monster!! Yuya: [But Akari-san was really serious...] Yuya: [To think that if she hits him in the face, they're goint to get married...] Yuya: Why should I care?! Yuya: It's got nothing to do with me!! Yuya: [But... the more I hear about Akari-san...] Yuya: [I don't know what to think... she was hunted just like Nozomu-nii...] Yuya: It's not like *I* want to become his little woman!! Akari: Yuya-saaaan~! Akari: Excuse me, would you mind if I used this spot too? Yuya: Go right ahead! (After all, we're both girls!) 19 Akari: So, Yuya-san, what do you think of that Sasuke-kun? Yuya: Let's see... he's really brave, but really kind, too... Akari: Really? I thought so! (I just had that feeling) Akari: That boy is going to grow up to be a fine man~!! Hey, Yuya-san, are you going to start looking for a husband? you've got a good eye for men~ Yuya: Husband...? Akari: Oh, hey, you know, that Sasuke-kun told me a *really* good secret~ Yuya: A... a really good secret...? Akari: Well, as for me, I'm sticking with Kyo~ See you later!! Yuya: Bye! Yuya: Sasuke-kun's secret... I wonder what that could be... (although I can't really trust anything Akari-san says.) Yuya: .... Yuya: What was that just now?! 20 Sasuke: So... Just what were you and the rest of the Shiseiten doing in that place where you found Akari? Hotaru: Hmm?! Hotaru: Well... I don't really remember... Hotaru: We were broke and hungry when we heard the rumor about that place... Hotaru: We heard there was a really wealthy monastery in the mountains, and that there was a really beautiful and really powerful Buddhist nun there, so we were going to swindle her... Hotaru: But it turned out that the nun was really a guy in drag, and that he had heard the same rumor and already taken all the money. (At least I think so...) HotarU: I guess it wasn't all just a rumor, though. Akari-chan is pretty strong with that magic stuff. Sasuke: .... Yuya (handwritten): Hey, wait a minute!! Yuya (handwritten): What did you do just now?! Akari: Oh no, Yuya-san, you pervert~! Tora: you were going to cheat her? But... Hotaru, Tora and Sasuke: .... Yuya: What was that?! Hotaru: Well, to be totally accurate, it wasn't in the mountains, it was a town... Tora: WHO CARES ABOUT DETAILS LIKE THAT?! Tora: Did you just say she was a... a CROSSDRESSER?! Tora (handwritten): [No way...] Kyo: What, I didn't tell you? 21 Kyo: That there are no women... Kyo: Allowed in the Shiseiten? Kyo: Akari's real name is Mitarai Toukichirou... and she's all male. Akari: Oh Kyo, don't call me that~ (how embarassing...) Bon Yuya-chan!! Yuya-chan, hang in there!! Akira: .... Bon: So... I was in love with a man? Hotaru: Or maybe it was in the mountains after all... Sasuke: ...Just as I thought. That guy was weird...