Tales of Kamiya dojo is written by Kaoru Kurosaki and published along with the “Rurouni Kenshin Hokkaido” arc in JUMPSQ. The tale involves the Rurouni Kenshin character in daily life that takes time between Kenshin and Kaoru marriage until the epilogue chapter in the original manga before the Hokkaido Arc. Until this month (June 2024) there are a total 78 chapters in Tales of Kamiya dojo. This is an unofficial translation.
Kenshin leapt from the railing and first he swung down one bouncer on the bridge with the wet tablecloth on his hand.
“Uwaa!”
Clang. The tablecloth hit the bouncer in the face. Kenshin landed on the bridge, kicking another bouncer who held a sword.
The man whose face was pasted with a cloth was covering his face with his hands and groaned, "My eyes...! The other man who had been kicked was screaming "Aaaah" as his kicked sword fell under the bridge.
In no time at all, the two men on the bridge were out of combat.
“I owe you!” Mikio said to Kenshin and ran off across the bridge to somewhere else. It’s typical of him, a person who did not hesitate to run away.
“...”
Kenshin looked straight at Suwa. He was in the middle of washing dishes, so he had no reverse sword. How far could the opponent go against him with his bare hands and Kenji on his back?
“Tch. He is just a baby sister, what are you doing? Hey guys!"
Suwa backed up and looked at the three men who were waiting for him.
The men step forward to protect Suwa and hold their swords ready.
Kenshin was standing on a narrow bridge over a waterway which was used for daily life. With the two men who were unable to fight and Kenshin himself, it was already cramped.
The three new men couldn’t attack Kenshin at once.
“Ah.. this…” Kenshin spoke to Kenji on his back.
“Yahiko once asked me about a way to fight multiple enemies by yourself.”
“Da—?”
“This situation is similar to the strategy we talked about then.”
That strategy to make the opponent come to himself one-on-one had come by chance on this narrow bridge.
Without a sword and with Kenji on his back, Kenshin had no choice but to play it safe and deal with the situation one-on-one.
“What’s wrong, hey babysitter? You talk to a baby. If you want to beg for your life, come to me."
Suwa wondered if it was a coincidence that Kenshin, who didn't have a sword, had knocked them both off the bridge at once. He completely underestimated Kenshin, who was carrying a child on his back.
“It’s an important old story between father and son, that it is.”
Kenshin took a fighting stance.
“Shut up, you’re a mess!”
One of the men flashed a white blade at Kenshin, with all his might.
・
Meanwhile, a little while before that.
“I'm really sorry to bother you on such a big day… Oh, why on the first day of the cafe's opening,” Shino was talking to Megumi in a tone that sounded like she was asking for advice.
“What's wrong?”
“My stomach's just getting contractions…” Shino smiled helplessly and rubbed her stomach.
“Since when?”
“A little while ago. I was planning on asking a midwife near the tenement house to help me, but... ouch…”
“Then let's go back to the tenement house and get ready for the birth.”
“What if the baby is born now?”
Megumi encouraged the anxious Shino, “It'll be fine. The baby won't be born so soon. Anyway, where's the manager? By the way, I can't find him anywhere. Where is he?”
The only person who can take Shino home is her husband, Mikio. Megumi looked around and asked where Mikio was.
“Um, you see... he was called by a customer earlier and left. He hasn't come back since…” Tsubame said with a troubled look on her face.
“He's not here when he’s needed!” Megumi was irritated but still gave instructions,“So, where's Ken-san?”
“I just checked the washing area outside, but he wasn't there,” Yahiko reported immediately.
“We need a man! Oh dear! It can't be helped. I can't let Shino-san walk back to the tenement house, so I need to carry her on a two-wheeled-cart.”
“If Shino-san gives birth, it's a major event for the Nagaoka family... so... um, I'll do my best,” Tsubame offered.
“With your weak arms, it would be quicker for Shino-san to walk,” Megumi flatly refused.
“Ah... okay,” Tsubame retreated sheepishly.
“There's not enough strength here…” Megumi glanced at Kaoru.
"I'll do it! Got it. I'll borrow a handcart from a neighbor."
Kaoru rushed out of the store.
“I'll help too.”
“Me too!” Yahiko and Misao shouted.
“You guys stay here,” Megumi gave instructions to them .
“Since we won't have any adults here, don't let any new customers in from now on.”
“I got it!” Misao replied cheerfully.
“Then, once the customers who are currently in the store leave, we'll close up the store, a little earlier than planned.”
“We can run the store on our own.”
Yahiko pouted. He didn't want to close down the store early, which it's been going well.
“We deal with money and food, so when something goes wrong, we can't just say, 'The kids took care of it.'”
“We're not children.”
“If this was a shop that had been established for years, we'd leave it to you. Even though we're adults, we still don't know what to do…”
“Well, I guess there's nothing we can do,” Yahiko reluctantly agreed to Megumi's words.
“But... We'd have to turn away customers who want to come in... It’s regrettable…” Tsubame responded.
Misao made a suggestion, “If we close the shop, we'll have some leftover baked goods prepared for today, so why not give them out as an apology?”
“That's a good idea! If the cakes are delicious, maybe they'll come back again,” Tsubame smiled.
“It'll also be good advertising,” Yahiko nodded.
“Let's do that. The manager is not here to help us make decisions, but we can't ask permission from someone who's slacking off, so it can't be helped,”Megumi also agreed with the idea of handing out baked goods.
And so, the group split up into a storekeeping team and a childbirth team.
・
“I've borrowed the two-wheeled cart!” Kaoru, who had rushed out earlier, jumped in.
“Leave the rest to us.”
Kaoru and Megumi put Shino on the platform of the two-wheeled cart.
“I'm so sorry... I wish my husband had been here.” Shino seemed to be in pain, so she obediently let herself be put on the two-wheeled cart.
“If you say that, this is a crucial time and none of our staff are here... Anyway, let's do our best!” Kaoru put in a lot of strength and pushed the cart. This thing was hard to start moving at beginning, she needed to put all her strength.
“Leave the cafe to us!”
“Please be careful!”
“Take care!”
Yahiko, Misao, and Tsubame sent them off until the cart was out of sight, then changed the "Open" sign hanging at the cafe’s entrance to "Getting Ready."
Not long after that,
“Oh, are you closed already?” A middle-aged male customer came in and asked regretfully.
“Yes. I'm sorry, sir. Please take this as an apology,” Tsubame handed him a baked cake.
“It's the first day of business, why are you closing so early?”
“Ojisan, today is an auspicious day for the opening of the café, but we have something even better to celebrate!” Misao blabbered on about the manager's wife giving birth.
“Oh, that's great! Then I think I'll share the sweets with my eldest son's wife, maybe she’ll get some luck.”
"That would be great."
Thanks to Misao's customer service skills, what she learned from Aoiya, even the customers who couldn't get in the store received sweets and left with smiles on their faces.
And then…
Something noisy started going on inside the store.
“Where is it? Where…?”
Mikio came in through the back door and was making a big fuss inside the store.
“Damn, what the hell is that guy doing here just now!”
Yahiko returned to the store, leaving Misao and Tsubame to give out the sweets.
“Hey you! Where's the sakabato?” Mikio’s face was pale and he was searching for the sakabato.
“What? There's no way someone like you would touch Kenshin's precious sword. You should keep talking in your sleep!”
“Shut up, I really need it! Ah, there it is!” Mikio found the sword on his own, grabbed it, and left through the entrance of the store.
“Oi, wait! Hey!” Yahiko tried to stop Mikio, but unfortunately...
“Excuse me, can I have the bill please?”
A customer who was still in the store called him. Yahiko couldn't ignore him, so he served the customer.
“Mikio-sama?” Tsubame, who was handing out sweets at the entrance, noticed Mikio but she didn't quite understand what happened to him.
“Hey you! There’s something important!” Misao tried to tell him about Shino, but Mikio ran past as fast as he could, as if that wasn't the time for him.
“Hey! Listen to what I’m saying!” Misao called out, but Mikio only showed his back as he ran away and her voice didn't reach him.
・
“This is getting messy”
One of the men flashed his white blade at Kenshin with all his might.
The blade almost hit Kenji if Kenshin didn’t dodge it in time, so he jumped back and landed behind the bridge.
All he had left as a weapon was the tablecloth in his hand. He put some distance between himself and his enemy, buying himself some time to think about what to do. At that moment...
"Here you go! Now there's no debt!” Mikio's voice rang out as the Sakabato came flying.
Kenshin caught it with his hand.
“Kyaa kyaa!” Kenji cried out happily.
“Hey! But what's the point of handing a sword to some babysitter?” Suwa still underestimated Kenshin.
But...
Kenshin quickly pulls out his sword.
“!”
Blood drained from Suwa's face.
“That's a reverse-blade sword... A cross scar on his cheek... That babysitter, I can’t believe this…”
Notes:
*sakabato: reverse-blade-sword
.…..to be continued in chapter 79……
TLnote(1): translating Japanese is so hard because the sentence structure is very different compared with English. Also the style of writing is different, plus there’s a lot of figurative, poetic language and things that don't make sense if it’s directly translated into english. So forgive me if this is very weird to read, and please tell me if you want to give corrections.
TLnote(2) I will provide the original Japanese text for correction if any of you who read have better knowledge of the Japanese language. Just dm and I’ll send the file.
TLnote(3) Dtninja had translated some earlier chapters on his website. You can go and check on there
Read the rest of the story here: https://at.tumblr.com/kenkaodoll/kamiya-dojo-monogatari/5dqxxnmq29m0
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