SDK 307 00a Text: [Thank you for 7 years of support!! We conclude with an extra-large 34 page installment!!] Text: [SAMURAI DEEPER KYO] Text: [All things come to an end...] Text: [And all things begin again...] Text: [Final Part: Those Who Weave History] (the Japanese word is "spin", but in English we would say "weave.") Text: [Kamijyo Akimine] Text: [Confidential planning information in final volume 38, on sale July 15th from Kodansha Comics!!] 00b *Just the character popularity poll results - pretty self-explanitory but I can translate it later for people who are interested.* 1 Narrator: [We had come to feel as though we could always follow that in that man's footstpes, always follow his way of life.] Narrator: [He appeared like the wind, and our souls burst into flame and were wild and free... and then, like a gust of wind, he was gone...] Narrator: [But we barely knew him... we never even knew his true name... so many things unknown about him, about those battles... Narrator: [And soon our memories will fade and disappear into the loopholes of history.] Narrator: [...And yet...] Narrator: [There are those who can never forget...] 2 Sakuya: [*sigh*] Sakuya: Kyou...!! Sakuya: Kyoushirou!! 3 People: It's the 12th year of Keichou (1607), and there is peace throughout the land!! People: Surely this world overflows with the irrepressible spirit of the Tokugawa!! People: Why, in just one year, look at all he's done... People: It's true!! Hidetada-sama has become a great leader who will unify our country - he is truly magnificent...!! People: He's matured so much since his fighting days...!! He's the perfect image of Ieyasu-sama! People: I have every confidence that the glorious Hidetada-sama will protect us...!! 4 Mahiro: Oh, he must be studying the request for a meeting with the Korean Yi Dynasty... Mahiro: He's so dedicated!! Mahiro: Hidetada-sa... Tora: ...Ah. Mahiro: H... Mahiro: HIDETADA-SAMA!! Tora: I... I was just taking a quick break!! I get all itchy if I sit at a desk for too long! I can't help it, I'm just restless!! Mahiro: Can you just TRY to act like a future shogun for once!? 5 Tora: Mahiro, you're so scary... aren't you worried that you'll never get married? Tora: ...Ahaha, you're so funny, Mahiro... Mahiro: Hidetada-sama... you weren't... going off to look for Kyo again, were you? Mahiro: He's been missing for three years...!! Mahiro: But I believe it too... he has to be alive.. Mahiro: If you're going to look for him, I'm coming with you...!! Tora: I'm not going to look for him. Kyo: You've all gotta do what you've gotta do!! Tora: There are some things I can't do... Tora: It was out job to find Kyo's body... it's our job now to make peace. Tora: And I've decided... that I'll do everything I can to accomplish that!! 6 Mahiro: Hidetada-sama... Tora: Okay!! Just one more book to go!! I've got to read it for my father!! Mahiro: Oh!? I thought you said you needed a break... Tora: But you said I had to act like a proper shogun!! So I'll show that old fart!! Tora: I won't quit until I die... Tora: No matter what, I'm not going to lose... not to anybody. Mahiro: [Hidetada-sama...] Mahiro: [I'm not going to get married... I want to stay by your side forever...] Tora: [Hey, Kyo-han...] Tora: [This is pretty good...] Tora: [I just wish I could show you...] Tora: [I want to show you the smiling faces of everyone you helped protect...] Tora: [Yeah, Kyo-han...] 7 Akira: ...No matter how long you follow me, I won't fight you, Tokito. (She keeps following me for no reason... it's starting to get creepy) Tokito: Sh... shut up and fight me!! I'm not like I was back then!! This time, I'll win...!! 8 Akira: ...Perhaps you should reflect on what has been asked of you. Goodbye. Tokito: H... HEY!! So you're just going to leave me alone out here!? Tokito: I still have some fight left in me!! You just act liek a stuck-up prick all the time!! Akira: Why don't yu just go home? I'm really tired of going easy on you just because you're a girl. Tokito: ~~~~~~~ Tokito: What the hell does that have to do with anything!? Tokito: You walk and walk... why don't you just stop!? Ugh, I fucking hate this sand!! Akira: ...Because it helps me. Akira: I wish to forge my body and temper my heart... so I'll keep going as long as I have to. Akira: To make my heart stronger... Tokito: .... Tokito: ...Fuck! Wait for me!! I still want to beat you!! Akira: [Kyo...] 9 Text box: Ming China Panda: *chew* Hotaru: ...Edo... Hotaru: That's pretty far away, isn't it? Hotaru: Huh? Soldiers: There he is!! Soldiers: You!! You're the guy who wiped out the Yangtze River troops!! (In Chinese) Soldiers: Who are you!? Why did you do it!? Tell us, or pay the price!! (In Chinese) 10 Hotaru: I'm going to be stronger than Kyo. Soldiers: ...What!? (In Chinese) Hotaru: ...Whenever I say that, people get all angry and try to kill me... why is that? I mean, I'm only telling the truth... Hotaru: Huh? Soldiers: ...You bastard... (In Chinese) Soldiers: Why do you keep talking when nobody understands what you say!? Shut up!! (In Chinese) Hotaru: [Kyo...] 11 Yuan: Ruru has an antibody to the disease!? Antera: Want him? Akari: That's right... I can't make a detailed report because I honestly don't know why... Akari: Out of Hishigi's mutant creations, that girl survived and became the Former Aka no Ou's favorite... Akari: Maybe he somehow knew that she was different... Maybe Sasuke-kun is the same way? Akari: So if my research goes well, this antibody could bring hope to the Mibu Clan... Yuan: That's great!! Yuan: [Yeah Akari!!] Ruru: I hate needles. Akari: It will just be a little poke to draw some blood, okay? Shinrei: Perhaps Ruru-chan could save thousands of Mibu lives... 12 Shinrei: [We're restoring the Mibu...] Shinrei: [We were almost destroyed, and it will probably take a long time to rebuild things like they used to be...] Shinrei: [No... not like they used to be...] Shinrei: [How could I forget... the people I love are all here...] Shinrei: [So what do you think, Kyo?] 13 Bon: Now nobody remembers the Mibu threat at all... they've disappeared into the darkness of history... Bon: Now it's all about the Tokugawa... Sasuke: Yeah, well who do they think beat the Mibu? Bon: It's kind of ironic, Yukimura... You defeated the Mibu, a much stronger force, so you could have crushed the Tokugawa as well... Okuni: So depressing... Bon: ...Hey... Bon: WERE YOU LISTENING TO ME AT ALL!? Yukimura: Ahahahahaha, Bon-chan, these dango are really good!! Saizou: Yukimura-sama... Yukimura: Oh no, Bon-chan is making his scary face! Yukimura: Maybe we should leave him alone? He's a real beast. Woman: Kyaa! Okuni: ...Maybe there's something wrong with him... Bon: I was just worried about you!! Yukimura: ...It's alright, though. 14 Yukimura: If he crosses me... Yukimura: I'll crush him. Bon: Yukimura... Yukimura: [Isn't that right?] Yukimura: [Kyo-san...] Sasuke: ...He's been gone for three years, but... Sasuke: If Onime no Kyo were around, it would be fun... Sasuke: I... I still believe he's alive, and that he's going to come back to us... Okuni: Sasuke-kun.. Yukimura: .... Yukimura: But... I don't think we'll see him again. Sasuke: What!? Yukimura: If he is alive... (I can't read the tiny text bubbles here - anyone remember what chapter this flashback is from?) Yukimura: Now that the threat of the Mibu is gone, there's no need for Kyo-san here... we don't need the power of a god, nor the power of a demon... Yukimura: Perhaps he thinks we need to find our own way of living... 15 Sasuke: Onime no Kyo... Sasuke: [The thing I really want to know... is Onime no Kyo himself.] Sasuke: [What is he fighting for? Why does he want to be stronger?] Bon: No one ever knew where he was from, and no one ever knew where he was going. Bon: That's the kind of man he is. Okuni: But that's so sad... that can't be what Kyo-san was fighting for all along... Yukimura: You're right... if Kyo-san does return to us, then... Yukimura: There can only be one reason...... Poster: Wanted: Onime no Kyo. Carries a 5-shaku sword. 16 Man: Onime no Kyo, huh? Man: Now why would a pretty young girl, travelling all by herself, look at something like that... Man: Onime no Kyo!! ...Oh yeah, there's a big price on his head!! Man: You know, I heard that everyone who goes after him ends up dead? Man: Come on, nee-chan, you're too delicate for something like that... isn't it bad to travel alone as a woman? Man: Why don't you stay with me? I'll protect you... Yuya: Shut up!! Kyo isn't dead!! Why do you think Kyo fought...!! Yuya: I think he fought so everyone could be happy!! If you don't shut up, I'm going to blast you into the next world!! 17 Yuya: What...!? Yuya: Wh... what is that deadly aura...!? Yuya: [Red eyes...!!] Man: Aiiiiiieee!! I'm outta here!! Yuya: K... Kyo!? Yuya: Kyo... is that you!? Yuya: You... Yuya: You're Kyo, aren't you...? 18 Kyoushirou: What, did I surprise you? Yuya: K... Yuya: Kyoushirou!? Kyoushirou: Aha~! So what did you think? Do I make a good Kyo!? With my red eyes, we really look alike, don't we!? Kyoushirou: ...Really, though, I've been looking all over for Kyo, and for you too, Yuya-san... and now I've found you! Yuya: ...Grrr... Kyoushirou: Huh? Yuya: Don't mess with me, you idiot!! 19 Kyoushirou: A joke... it was a joke... Yuya: You have a bad sense of humor!! You don't understand people's feelings!! Kyoushirou: ...I just wanted to cheer you up... Yuya: And THAT'S how you were going to cheer me up!? Kyoushurou: ...Sorry... Yuya: But... why have you been looking for me? (That idiot... what's he doing here...?] Kyoushirou: ...Because of Sakuya. Kyoushirou: Sakuya... she says she saw his star... Kyoushirou: ...But I wanted to know for myself... Yuya: That's enough... don't tell me. Yuya: I believe in my heart that he's alive... I've been looking for him too. Kyoushirou: ...I thought you would say that. 20 Kyoushirou: Three years ago... Kyoushirou: I found Tenrou in the rubble left from the Red Tower... Kyoushirou: Since then, it's been shining... Kyoushirou: Maybe it just reacts to anyone's voice when its master isn't here... Yuya: Julian-san said there has been something living inside Tenrou for a very long time... is that true? Yuya: ...If that's true... Kyoushirou: Then maybe the spirit inside Tenrou is reacting to me? Kyoushirou: [Even now, it's shining...] Kyoushirou: [...Almost like it's trying to call out to someone...] Kyoushirou: ...Hey, Yuya-san... do you... remember this place...? Yuya: ...Yeah. 21 Yuya: This is the place where we first met... Yuya: [It's a chronic illness...] Kyoushurou: [I'm Mibu Kyoushirou, the medicine man of love and peace!] Kyoushirou: [Run, everyone...!!] Kyoushirou: [He's coming!!] Yuya: ...This is where... Yuya: Everything began. Yuya: [...And this is where...] Yuya: [I met Kyo...] Kyo: [Do whatever you want.] 22-23 Yuya: [This is where it all began...] Okuni: [I loooove strong men~] Tora: [I've made up my mind! I'm coming with ya!] Akira: [I've know Kyo... for a long time.] Sasuke: [Let's see which one is the real thing!] Yukimura: [Hey there...] Yuya: [Our paths crossed...] Bon: [I'm a legend!] Shinrei: [If you think you can stop me...] Muramasa: [Thank you for thinking of me.] Hotaru: [Maa, what now?] Akari: [I'll take care of you~] Yuya: [And then we parted...] Yuya: [Kyo... without Kyo...] Yuya: [It's so lonely...] Yuya: [Kyo... can you hear me...?] Yuya: [Can you hear my voice?] ???: [Kyo...] ???: [Kyo...] Tora: [Kyo-han...] Yuya: [Can you hear us all calling you?] ???: [Kyo...] Yuya: What...!? Tenrou suddenly started glowing.... Kyo: ...So this is where you were? 24 Kyo: ...I told you all to escape from the Red Tower... but I stayed behind. Kyo: That guy in Tenrou really is a pain in the ass... he dragged me to the ends of the earth... Kyo: So by the time I made it back, the party was already over... (why was he punishing me?) 25 Kyo: But I heard you. Kyo: I always heard you. Kyo: I heard you... I heard you all calling me.] 26-27 Kyo: ...You've been waiting for me. 28 Yuya: Kyo!! 29 Narrator: [History is made by the paths that we all take.] Narrator: [You can choose any path you want.] Narrator: [Don't worry, don't be afraid, and don't look back - just face forward and follow your heart.] 30-31 Narrator: [Now you see... only you can choose the path that is right for you.]