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Orient 21 : “Kanemaki Bushidan”
Orient 21 “Kanemaki Bushidan”
Kitetsu swords are necessary to defeat the kishin! They go shopping to the market to choose their favorite sword!
Page 335
Box: Market
Musashi: There’s a lot of stuff being sold here!
Tsugumi: Don’t get distracted so easily!
Musashi: Well then… Where are the Kitetsu swords?
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Men: 3,000!
Men: 3,400!!
Musashi & Kojirou: what is this? what’s going on!?
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Man: the 4th, the 4th! How much for number 4!?
Men: 3,500!
Men: 3,700!
Men: 4,000!
Man: Okay! the 4th Kitetsuki, crystallization power, 30 engine rank, is sold for 4,000 sen!!
Man: Alright!
Man: Come closer!
Musashi & Kojirou: ¡?
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Man: it’s a kiho matchlock cannon!
A 3rd rank gun barrel made of iron!! Let’s start at 30, the price rise is unlimited!!
People: but isn’t that tetsu a piece of crap!?
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Musashi: Bushi, Bushi, Bushi… this whole town is full of bushi! I had never seen a town like this before…!
Kojirou: Everyone is so enthusiastic!
Kojirou: What are they yelling about!?
Tusgumi: It’s an auction! They are selling stuff they’ve gathered from the castle!
Kojirou: From the castle?
Tsugumi: Bushidans produce food, weapons, etc. in their respective castle… and they do business with those.
Kojiro: Wow…
Kojirou: What is that?
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Tsugumi: Oh… that is to calculate the price of the “Kitetsu”!
Tsugumi: “kitetsu” are used as money for transactions between Bushi!
Kojirou: really?
Man: how much for number 5!?
People: 100!
Musashi: Ah… Are they selling swords?
Musashi: 900!
Tsugumi: whaat!?
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Tsugumi: Musashi, those are not swords fit for Oni slaying!
Tsugumi: Since the auction of Kitetsu swords are the main feature… they leave them for the end!
Musashi: What? Is that how it is?
Musashi: I want to get a Kitetsu sword as soon as possible!
Musashi: If I get a Kitetsu sword, I’ll be able to fight against the Kishin, right?
Tsugumi: Well, yeah, but… Musashi, you are very eager, right? ~ I guess this really rises your spirits that much…
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Musashi: is the Kishin coming to that mountain?
Tsugumi: yes, but… although there is a mark in that place, we don’t know if the kishin will appear today, or tomorrow…. That’s why everyone is waiting.
Tsugumi: I guess you are a bit hungry… Let’s go to eat something.
Musashi & Kojirou: Alright!
Box: Tavern
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Man: Hey bros, which bushidan do you belong to?
Musashi & Kojirou: eh?
Kojirou: which…
Musashi: Now that I remember, we haven’t come up with a name for the bushidan!
Tsugumi: Ah?... what’s with you guys? You don’t have a name, or a castle, your “bushidan” is still small and weak~
Musashi: Can’t do anything about it! It’s because we’ve just left our town!
Tsugumi: You said you used to live in a miner’s town or something, right? then, how did you end up thinking on joining the Oni slaying?
Musashi: well, that is of course...
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Musashi: To realize our dream, right, Kojirou?
Kojirou: Y-yeah!
Musashi: Our dream has always been to become bushi, and to create the strongest Bushidan!
Tsugumi: Uh, hm? I don’t understand so well what boys mean when they say they want to be the strongest…. I only want to be like my big sis…
Box: “Her dream is to return to her home”
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Kojirou: This girl is so relaxed… it feels strange in comparison to Musashi, who is in a rush all the time…
Tsugumi: I don’t understand so well that thing about Hi no Moto’s freedom.
Kojirou: when I watch her, there is something mysterious and calming about it…
Tsugumi: but you guys must decide this.
Musashi & Kojirou: what?
Tusgumi: which one of you is the leader?
Musashi & Kojirou: ….
Musashi & Kojirou: huh?
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Tsugumi: you don’t even know who has the highest rank, or whose orders you should listen to, isn’t that so?...
Manuscript: such an inconvenience….
Kojirou: ….
Musashi: That’s it, Tsugumi.
Tusgumi: What is?
Box: Person who waits for orders.
Kojirou’s thoughts: “which one is the leader?”, huh…
Kojirou’s thoughts: I got all anxious when I heard that…. Well, it’s not like I haven’t thought about it before…
Kojirou’s thoughst: in a “Bushidan” someone stands at the top, and everyone else are beneath them. But I don’t want to…
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Kojirou’s thoughts: To decide who has the highest or lower rank between Musashi and me…
Kojirou: ….
Musashi: the leader is Kojirou, right?
Kojirou: eh?
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Kojirou: what!?
Musashi: eh!?
Tsugumi: that was quick!
Kojirou: is-is it really okay?
Musashi: why wouldn’t it be?
Musashi: I don’t have a family name. In “Kosameda Bushidan” and “Takeda Bushidan”…
Musashi: their family name became the Bushidan’s name, right?
Takeda Bushidan: Leader- Takeda Naotora
Kosameda Bushidan: Leader- Kosameda Hideo
Kanemaki Bushidan: Leader- Kanemaki Kojirou
Musashi: That’s why, the leader is Kanemaki Kojirou!
Kojirou: …!
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Kojirou: but… are you okay with that?
Musashi: why do you ask?
Kojirou: why? Well…
Musashi: My aim is to be the strongest Bushi!
Musashi: There is no way I’d let them snatch away the credit from us!
Musashi: I’m so frustrated that I lost to that guy, I don’t want to lose to anyone again!
Kojirou: I thought you’d make it difficult since you hate losing… I thought you’d say “I’m stronger, I’ll become the leader!”
Musashi: Well…
Kojirou: …!?
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Musashi: I’m fine just with chasing our dream by your side!
Kojirou: …!?
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Kojirou: he was obsessing so much about it and… he says he’s okay with it?
Kojirou: I wonder if it’s because I’ve become a little distant since my father died that….
Kojirou: there are times when I don’t understand Musashi…
Kojirou: I wonder… What is this guy thinking?
Bushi: Alright!
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Bushi: it’s time for today’s centerpiece…. The “kitetsu” auction has begun!
Musashi: Alrighty! Let’s go!
Tsugumi: then…. Is Kojirou my new lord…!?
SFX: Thump, Thump
Kojirou: Don’t look at me like that!
A kitetsu sword is the first step to become a Bushi!!
Continues on the next number: enma war sword! (flame magic war sword)
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