* Rurouni Kenshin Manga Translation *
* Chapter hundred and forty-two: Final scene *

Yumi: Shishio-sama!

Faces of all in Kyoto story

Kenshin: *Before mine demise, to float these worthy faces in... a stake on
mine unworthy life, for beloved... and the sword, for'ard exchange with the
enemy!?*

(Shishio falls, Kenshin leaps)

Kenshin: Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu...

Hoji: *Believe in oneself! However Battousai wields the attack,
Shishio-sama wouldst not be defeated... couldst not be so!!* Shishio-sama!

Kenshin: Ryuu Sui!

(and up again)

Kenshin: Sho Sen!!

Sano: Double connected attack!

Saitou: Patch, thy only chance, do not forsake.

Aoshi: There is no worry so.

Kenshin: YaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAH!! Ryuu Kan Sen!!! Tsumuji!!!!
Arashi!!!!!

(ps: Not very accurate, I suspect there's a 'Ikazuchi' somewhere but I can't
confirm now so we'll have to stick with this time beingly... ^_^x)

Sano: Five connected attacks!!

Shishio: (still standing) 'Twould be the strongest? Completed!!?

Hoji and Yumi: Ah!

(Shishio burns his blade and cuts a deep wound in Kenshin's chest)

Shishio: Direct hit!! Kurain Kaina!!

(Kenshin grabs Shishio's loose bandage)

Hoji: That is useless!!

Yumi: Unbelievable... ! After a crevass of a wound from the Kurain Kaina...

Kenshin: Pains of wounds canst be but problems, this unworthy one shall
bear it on, for mine battle and friends, it is per natural. For they too
who art poor and weak shall suffer infinitesimally under your 'new era',
and to destroy such situations this useless one mayst pay with mine life be
it appropriate!!

(prepares)

Kenshin: Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu, Ku Zu Ryuu Sen!!!

(grabbed at the bandage, Shishio cannot escape. The ninth and final attack
Kenshin utilized with the hilt instead and sent Shishio up the wall with a
hole cracking behind)

Yumi: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!

(Kenshin falls to the ground as well)

Hoji: *Shishio-sama's attacks do not prove without a shadow of use, for
with every flashing attack brings Battousai nearer the knees of death. But
his is a fight for a protection of a country of weaklings, to allow his
abilities even to encapsulate the connected red wrists. Long before
Shishio-sama had thought, Battousai's death and the country's grasp with
which was in more importance, do not err still. Himura Battousai, no,
Himura Kenshin's death, in parallel to swallowing Japan stands in similar
significance!!*

(Shishio has a little explosion in the air along with the furnace in the
four corners of the room)

Sano: This may be what!!

Hoji: Ah! A fire burnt most fiercely!

Aoshi: The initial duel with Battousai, of similar reaction to Shishio's
kenqi these fire start...

Saitou: Similar? The fire burnt of now much much infernos before... which
lapses us into the final scene...

Yumi: Shi--

(Shishio's evil smirk)

Shishio: Secret sword of finality
Built by fire's soul almighty!

END TRANSLATION

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