* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Chapter hundred and thirty-seven: Foodstuff *

(Kenshin and Shishio meet and a crevass appears under them)

Sano: *Kenshin be recuperating after all, and his strength professes a
distance with Shishio.*

(Shishio's sword catches fire, Kenshin is shocked)

Hoji: *Ah! That truly mayst be -*

Secret sword Kurain Kaina!

(Kenshin goes down)

Kenshin: The battou after, with the spark of thy sheath light up thy
sword...

(Shishio sighs and relights his sword with a scratch on the floor)

Kenshin: *Nay! The rubbing off which creates the spark differs quite well
from this unworthy one's battou-jutsu, the spark which lights up be
conjoured from the alternative source!! One of light which mesmerized my
lowly self negatively, whilst the injury caused be not of the main grasp
within the match!*

Shishio: (charging) Note mine blade!

(Shishio drags Kenshin up, creates a fire fog, blocks his view and relights
his sword)

Shishio: Yaaaaaaa!!

(Kenshin gets struck by the secret sword, falls to the ground kneeling,
sakabatou stuck to the ground trying to keep himself up)

Sano: Kenshin!!

Hoji: Shishio-sama!!

Shishio: What is't, Battousai, a gathered combine of my sword to burn, how
do such first bites of wondrous pain profess?

Kenshin: No errs, that the attack of previous mayst be surprisingly
belittled when stood in comparison to mine wounds, however since the reward
wouldst be the true face of thy secret sword.

(stands)

Kenshin: Blade friction be lured in purely for ignition, whereas the truth
belies the inferno action not buried purely within the blade, but...

(close up of Shishio's sword, the blade has jagged little teeth)

Kenshin: The truth be in the little teeth of horrors, of they who hast
dishonorably charged to thy sword's 'human carbohydrates'!!

Shishio: Correct, a truly remarkable feat of similar observation skills.

Hoji: *The turning of matters, hath finally allowed me to Shishio-sama's
secret sword. Regrets be of uselessness now, Himura Battousai.*

Shishio: The formation of the teeth, however loss of etiquettes be, would
be in truth the brother of your sakabatou . real fight. Previously those
famed fetishes of swords would always turn blunt thereafter a few kills,
and to maintain it's foreverness standards required frequent polishing,
thereby I myself had always wished for a sword of not such qualities, to
kill without let up!

(pause)

Shishio: Shakku Arai's finale killer's sword 'unchanging blade', with prior
credit to my killer art's secret sword Kurain Kaina, whilst in actual
kenjutsu, the weak suffer and are swallowed as foodstuff by a strong one
like I myself, and of my 'weak flesh strong food's ideal!

Sano: *Both art Hitokiri Battousai's of the past, blades art famed carved
by one and the same, however the heart echos thoughts of poles apart.*

Shishio: I myself, am not happy with the past, therefore the proof lies now
with my sword and myself.

Sano: Kenshin.

Kenshin: This unworthy one hath understood. The black and white of the
matter, let us end it here, for if even Soujirou declines to reject such
ideals, this useless one's prevention of thou swallowing the worthy nation
as foodstuff be a must!!

Shishio: Your thoughts are in err.

Kenshin: (sudden charge) Come to thy senses! Shishio Makoto!!

Hoji: Too fast!!

Kenshin: Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu, Ryuu Sho Sen!

(Shishio blocks)

Shishio: A sight of once in the New Moon Village, and the same wouldst
prove of useless ways to me. Battousai, a foodstuff for me here even you
would enjoy being?

(Shishio grabs Kenshin [boy would you look at that height difference ^_^x]
and bites him on the left shoulder)

Kenshin: (painfully) AaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA...

Sano: Kenshin!!

END TRANSLATION

(c) Nobuhiro Watsuki		Translation: ruroken@geocities.com