SDK 239 - The Chickie Bowl 1 Tora: [Hotaru-han... this Anthony guy is a professional soldier, a guy who claims to be overwhelmingly strong...] Tora: [How are you planning to fight him!?] Anna: S... Anna: STOP IT YOU IDIOTS!! Anna: Are you trying to destroy my house!? Who do you think is going to clean up your mess!? Anna: If you want to have such a stupid fight, do it outside!! Tora: S... scary... Angelica: Anna... Anna: ...Damn it, why did it have to come to this...? Anna: I can't watch... I can't watch them fight... 2 Tora: Hotaru-han... Akira: [They're wasting time... time that we don't have...] Akira: [But maybe this is the key to unlocking his true strength and speaking to his sword...if anything, the last battle proved that it will be necessary...] Anthony: It's not too late... if you give up on fighting Yuan, I'll let you go. Hotaru: No. I'm going to fight Yuan. Anthony: ...Very well. Then I won't hold back. 3 Tora: What...!? Tora: He... he's so fast!! Hotaru: .... Anthony: What? Are you speechless? Or are you still working on your dramatic speech? Hotaru: .... 4 Hotaru: So? Less talking, more fighting! Anthony: What!? Anthony: F... Anthony: You never change - you're always fucking around!! Anthony: Shit!! Anthony: He dodged again!? Hotaru: Pfffffffft!! Anthony: WHAT!? 5 Anthony: Don't play with me!! Anthony: Damn it!! It was a fake made of fire!! Anthony: You can't defeat me with childish tricks!! Hotaru: Tag, you're it! (he actually says "mr. demon, here" - Japanese kids play a version of tag called "oni gokko" (demon game) where players taunt the "demon.") Anthony: !! Anthony: Quit playing around!! 6 Tora: Hotaru-han is doing really well!! Shinrei: No, he's not. Akira: You're right. Tora: Huh!? Akira: If you look closely, that man is not taking advantage of Hotaru's openings... but Hotaru is fighting hard. Akira: Just watch... Akira: Hotaru is sweating more and breathing harder... Akira: He's approaching his limit... you can't deny that. Tora: B... but... Akira: .... Akira: [But that wild grin of his...] Akira: [Hotaru, do you have some secret plan...!?] Elian: Hang in there, Keikoku!! Yurian: You can do it, Keikoku!! Lilian: Kick Anthony's ass!! Yulian: You can hit below the belt!! Lilian: Yeah, smash his face in!! Shinrei: .... Shinrei: .... Shinrei: Hey... 7 Shinrei: Why do you act like Keikoku is a member of your family? Yurian: Huh? Well... because he's Yuan's student, I guess... Kilian: Yeah, but we didn't get along with him at first, right? Yulian: Yeah... Yulian: When he first came... it was pretty bad here, wasn't it? Yulian: [It was a bitterly cold winter night... Yuan suddenly came home.] Yuan: Hey, this is Keikoku - I'm taking care of him for a while. Yuan: So be nice to him, okay? Yulian: [He was stick-thin, wounded all over his body, and his feet were nearly frostbitten. He looked like he was about to drop dead.] Yuiran: [But...] Angelica: You're not eating? Yulian: Isn't Anna's cooking good? Kilian: Especially her miso soup, it's the best! Lilian: Just reach for whatever you want! Marian: If you don't like umeboshi, we have nattou! (umeboshi = pickled plums, MUCH better than nattou, IMHO... *gag*) Angelica: Come on, eat! Anna: Are you embarassed to eat with us? Don't be shy, just eat! Kilian: Aren't you hungry? Come on, dig in! 8 Yulian: Huh!? Elian: Wh... what!? Marian: What did we say to upset him...? Anthony: If you don't like it here, why don't you leave? No one is making you stay. Lilian: Anthony!! Hotaru: .... Anthony: .... Yuan: Don't pick fights, Anthony... Yuan: If he doesn't like anything, or if he doesn't want to eat, that's fine. Yuan: If he wants to starve to death, that's his own choice. Nothing we say will change his mind. Yuan: But if you're not going to eat your kara-age, can I have it? (kara-age = fried stuff, very good to eat! ^_^) Anna: Fuck off!! 9 Anna: You brought him here!! Don't be so irresponsible!! Anna: Keikoku, when you're here, you're family, and families eat together!! Anna: So if you don't eat, nobody eats!! Family: WHAT!? Yulian: And you don't dare say no to Anna. Kilian: That went on for five days of not eating... Elian: It got to where we would kill for some food! Tora: ...And then what? Yulian: [It was on the sixth day...] Kilian: Yulian, your face looks weird... Yulian: You don't look so good either... Lilian: This is a really good diet... Marian: I can almost taste it... Lilian: Are you sure you're not hallucinating? Hotaru: .... 10 Anthony: This has gone on long enough. Any more and you'll hurt my brothers and sisters. Anna: Anthony!? Anthony: Why won't you eat? ...You're just being stubborn. Anthony: My family is being lead around by some idiot... and I think it's got too far. Anthony: Yuan's no here so you can just leave... nobody is stopping you, so why won't you do it? Anthony: Whatever... Hotaru: NO. Anthony: What!? Anthony: Let go!! Hotaru: NO. Anthony: If you're not going to eat it, you don't need it!! Hotaru: NO. Anthony: Why do you keep saying "no"!? What's that supposed to mean!? 11 Hotaru: I mean I won't take charity from anyone! Hotaru: And I won't have anyone stealing from me...!! Anthony: Ch... charity!? Elian: Keikoku... Hotaru: I won't take charity from anybody because I'm going to live all on my own. But letting other people steal from me would be weak. Hotaru: Yuan said that you people here are all stronger than me. Hotaru: But I don't give a damn. Shut up. Anna: Anthony!! Anthony: ...Are you fucking with us!? Your whole way of life... 12 Anthony: As long as you're here, you're not alone!! Anthony: If you think you can live like that and still show your face, then you should shut the fuck up!! Anthony: Quit trying to act cool... Yulian: He really did it. Kilian: Yeah, he did. Anthony: DIE!! Lilian: Someone stop them!! Angelica: BOTH OF YOU NEED TO SHUT UP. Anthony: A... Angelica!! Hotaru: What the... 13 Hotaru: .... Hotaru: ...What? Anna: Keikoku... this rice bowl belongs to you. Anna: So, Keikoku, no one is taking pity on you and no one is stealing from you. You have your very own bowl, so no one will bother you. You're always welcome to eat with us. Anna: This way, we can be the kind of family that all eats together under the same roof. Anna: You should feel at home here... Anna: Isn't this the kind of place you could call home? Hotaru: Home... Anna: I thought if you had your own bowl, you would eat together with us. And the little chickie is so cute, it suits you perfectly!! Family: CUTE!? Anna: What are you looking at!? You got a problem with that!? Hotaru: .... 14 Anna: Keikoku!? He's eating!! Hotaru: ...If I don't get bigger and stronger... Hotaru: I won't be able to beat Yuan. Anna: Keikoku... Anthony: What a selfish bastard... Yulian: [And I think that's the most delicious meal we ever had...] Elian: Huh!? He ate all of mine!! Kilian: And mine too!! Yulian: Mine too!! Yuan: What, didn't you make enough? Anna: Welcome home, Yuan! Yulian: [But that badly drawn little chickie really makes you smile when you see it...] 15 Yulian: We were just so happy to finally get some food!! Marian: At that time, nothing could make me happier than seeing Keikoku eat!! Yulian: Yeah! Yulian: I think that's when we first started to feel like Keikoku was part of our family. Shinrei: .... Angelica: But, some time after that, Keikoku just left without saying anything... and now he says we're his enemies and that he's going to fight Yuan... Angelica: Did he ever think of us as family? Maybe we never really meant anything to him. Lilian: Angelica... Akira: [It can't be helped... Hotaru and I are both orphans...] Akira: [We just can't understand the warmth of a family...] Akira: [It's inevitable... from birth, people like us live in a cold and uncaring world...] Anthony: You're fooling around... do you think you can just dodge forever!? Anthony: What if I speed up!? Then I'll kill you!! Hotaru: I don't think you can. Anthony: What...? 16 Anthony: You don't think so!? Tora: H... Tora: Hotar-han!! Anthony: How was that!? You got what you asked for!! What do you have to say now!? 17 Hotaru: Finally... an opening. Anthony: What...? 18 Yulian: Oh yeah, Anthony is dead meat!! Akira: Hotaru!! Akira: [But than man fought with no openings... Hotaru affected to the point where he would risk his own life...!?] Akira: [Or is he just waiting to strike...!!] Shinrei: Keikoku... Angelica: He won't defeat Anthony with such a childish attitude. Shinrei: ...What!? 19 Tora: Hotaru-han!? Shinrei: What...? Shinrei: But how, when Hotaru was so stubborn...!? Anthony: Too bad, Keikoku... Anthony: It's come to this after all... Anthony: You're not being serious... so it's time I did... Anthony: Let me show you... what a needle master can do... Hotaru: Serious...? 20-21 Anthony: I've been holding back all this time... otherwise, I'd kill you easily. Anthony: Now I'll show you my true strength...