SDK 241 - Limits and Miracles 1 Shinrei: Well said!! Akira: Don't encourage him!! Anthony: Of course, since you're Keikoku's friends, I'll gladly give you my acupuncture treatment to unleash your hidden power. Anthony: And Shinrei, you've been looking a little faint - I could heal you much faster with my needles. Shinrei: Uh... thanks, but... Akira: I told you not to encourage him! Anthony: Or do you still think you'll find your power by "speaking to your sword?" Anthony: Do you really want to get stronger? Shinrei:I... of course we do! Akira: But... 2 Akira and Shinrei: We don't want to end up like THAT!! Anthony: I can't help it. The key to unlocking his hidden power just happened to be his ass. Hotaru: Me too... Tora: It feels so good... Yurian: You're just being stubborn!! Marian: He's right!! Lilian: Let's get them!! SHinrei and Akira: WHAT!? Kilian: Don't let them go!! Elian: Get ready!! 3 Shinrei: Get off, you brats!! ???: Yeah, don't let go!! Are you guys ready to beg for mercy!? ???: They won't last long!! ???: Come on, you don't have to be so stuck-up!! Anna: They're getting along so well!! ???: Yeah, we're soldiers, so you're not gonna get away that easy! Akira: Are you trying to kill us!? Angelica: ...... ???: You wimps!! Shinrei: GET OFF!! Marian: Ahahaha, they are soooo dead... Everyone: PLEASE FORGIVE US!! Angelica: ...Why don't you help with the laundry? Everyone: YES!! Tora: Wow, I don't want to make her angry... Tora: I'm feeling great!! Anthony: Since each person's hidden power is different, the method of releasing it is different too. Anthony: As for Keikoku, I just used my needles on him a little while ago. Marian: Isn't this kind of childish? Yurian: These aren't my clothes!! Lilian: Kyaa!! Kilian: Ah! Anthony: So if you can control that power freely, you can speak to your sword... 4 Tora: Speak to your sword? Oh, like when it goes all shiny? I saw Muramasa-han do that! Shinrei: Well naturally Muramasa-sama could do that... Tora: So lemme get this right - I've just got to talk to it? No way... you're saying I've got like, ultimate super bad-ass power in me, right? Akira: Wow, there sure are a lot of clothes. Hotaru: Yeah. Tora: IS ANYBODY LISTENING TO ME!? Tora: You mean like when I was fighting Taihaku and my Hokuraku Shimon got all shiny!? Tora: Dude, I thought that guy was gonna kill me, but I swear my spear saved me!! ???: Benitora... Akira: Oh please... even if you pulled off that little trick, I'm way ahead of you... Anthony: No, he's right. Anthony: Benitora, right? Somehow you've already managed to find your true power and speak to your weapon. Your Hokuraku Shimon has acknowledged you. Anthony: You just don't have enough control over it yet. Anthony: It is the Hokuraku Shimon of the Muramasa Demon Blades - it won't sumbit so easily. Anthony: For it to have accepted you, you must be from a very elite bloodline. 5 Tora: Hey Akira - you have better study hard if you want to be like me! Tora handwritten: [Nah, like a sword would ever thake orders from you!] Yulian: Why is he in a bathrobe and sipping brandy...? Kilian: Yeah... Hotaru: ...Can I kill him? Akira: ......Go ahead. Shinrei: ...Fine, I'll go next. There's no use whining about it. We're Keikoku's friends, and you said you could make us stronger, right? Anthony: You asked for it... Shinrei: You... you bastard!! 6 no text 7 Shinrei: [Wh... what is this...!? It feels like everything is in slow motion...] 8 Text: [just random clips of Angelica talking, and bugs buzzing, and lots of background noises] Shinrei: [I can hear everything...] Shinrei: [What is this!?] Anthony: Do you feel it? Anthony: You catch on fast... as I would expect from a former Goyousei. Anthony: Everything around you seems slowed down, and even the slightest sounds are audible - you see, I've heightened your senses. Shinrei: Wh... 9 Shinrei: [What's that!? That sudden change in the atmosphere...] Shinrei: [But what's causing it!?] Shinrei: [Someone's coming... from above...] 10 Akira: Tokito's personal guards!? Tora: They're alive!? Anna: How did they get here!? Yulian: Who other than Anthony is supposed to be guarding this area!? Kilian: ...Ah... that's me... I forgot... Yulian: YOU IDIOT!! Heart: Kill them all!! Diamond: K... k... kill!! 11 Heart: You got away last time... Heart: But this time, you're gonna shut up and die!! 12 Shinrei: ...You're slow. Club: F... Club: Fuck you!! Club: WHat!? Club: He's blocking all of our attacks!! Club: What IS he!? 13 Shinrei: You cheated death... Shinrei: But this time, you disappear. SHinrei: [Shiryuuretsu Pashou] 14 Hotaru: Shinrei... Tora: That rocked!! Akira: 3 on 1... Akira: You can't even compare this to the last battle... his technique and speed have improved... it's like he got an overall power-up!! Shinrei: [Amazing...] Shinrei: [It's like my senses are heightened and my body is stronger...] Shinrei: [And this power has been sleeping inside me all along!!] 15 Angelica: You should know better, Kilian... Kilian: I said I was sorry!! Lilian: There's still more laundry... Anna: Someone fix this roof!! Yulian: As punishment, you get patrol duty for a month!! Tora: Wow, Shinrei, you got strong!! Akira: .... Akira: ...I... I guess that's all there is to it... Akira: Kyo's been getting stronger and stronger lately, too... well, of course, we have to be strong to rescuse Bontenmaru... Akira: Well, Anthony-san, can you do that needle thing to me too? Tora: Oooh, so you want it in the ass now? I wanna watch!! Hotaru: Let me write down the details for Akari-chan. Akira: And let's do it someplace without THEM!! Anthony: There's just one thing, man, you're too tense! Akira: Wh... whoa whoa whoa!! Anthony: Huh? 16 Akira: No. Akira: I don't want to get stronger like this. Anthony: ...What... what!? Anthony: ...You're not a samurai, are you? Anthony: Samurai blood exceeds the blood of ordinary people... even if I used my needles on somebody without that blood, they wouldn't have any effect. Anthony: You're already at your max. Anthony: If I said you were at your limit, those words would be poison to your soul... but believe me, you cannot become stronger. Akira: ..... Tora handwritten: [He just can't take a joke, can he!?] Tora: Oh, come on, An-chan!! This guy is such an uptight jerk, can't you go easy on him? He never quits with the "must become stronger!!" stuff - he's like a cockroach, you can't kill him!! Anthony: I can tell that he's worked hard... 17 Anthony: He's worked harder than you can possibly imagine to come this far... Anthony: Honestly, it's almost a miracle that he's at this level. Anthony: But the more you push yourself beyond your natural limits... the more your body cries out against it, right? Anthony: It's kind of sad... to have made it this far... Tora: Hey, what's with this crap, An-chan!? Did he do something to piss you off? Tora: He... he's gonna get stronger, that's a fact... Akira: Be quiet. Akira: Becoming strong just from some needle technique... that was a rotten lie to begin with. Akira: I was a fool to believe such a foolish idea. Akira: I'm leaving. I can't help Bon like this. Tora: Hey...!! Akira!! 18 Akira: LEAVE ME ALONE!! Tora: A...kira... Tora: Akira!! Hotaru: Don't bother chasing him. Tora: But... Hotaru-han!! Hotaru: What will it accomplish? Hotaru: Are you going to comfort him? Hotaru: Well? What are you going to do? Hotaru: This is Akira's personal battle... Hotaru: There's nothing we can do for him. 19 Hotaru: He's always been like that... even when Akira was suffering right before our eyes, we couldn't help him... we couldn't comfort him - that would be meaningless. We couldn't even protect him. Hotaru: Will it end here? Or will there be a miracle? I guess that's up to Akira... Tora: ...Hotaru-han... Hotaru: [That's right...] Hotaru: [Akira is a fighter...] Akira: Not yet... Akira: Not yet, Kyo... Hotaru: [He's always found a way...] Akira: There has to be a way... for me to catch up with you... 20 Anthony: Let's go someplace more private, Keikoku... Anthony: In exchange for the needle treatment, I have a request... Tora: ...A request? Shinrei: Just as I thought, you need us to save you from some enemy... Anthony: .... Anthony: I'm begging you!! Please... save Yuan!! Anthony: Please!! Hotaru: Anthony!? 21 Anthony: I know it's shameful to beg like this... Anthony: But we can't help Yuan!! Please...!! Anthony: This I beg of you!! Yuan family: .... Hotaru: Anthony... what are you talking about? Anthony: Yuan... our brother... he... Anthony: He's a prisoner of his own family!!