From: tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim)
Newsgroups: alt.manga
Subject: Ushio to Tora Translation
Date: 17 Apr 92 06:16:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Here is my translation of Ushio to Tora vol.5 p77-122.


		CHAPTER 9: The wind in a frenzy

	(1)	USHIO GETS A REQUEST FROM YOUKAI

NOTE: YOUKAI/BAKEMONO/AYAKASHI: All of them can be roughly
translated as demon/monster, although there aren't any words that 
are exact equivalents.

< > indicates dialogues that are not inside the balloons.


p77
KAGARI: Wait, Oniisan!
(Oniisan, Niisan = older brother)

RAISHIN: Wait, Jyurou!

RAISHIN/KAGARI: Wah!

KAGARI: Oniisan!

RAISHIN: You can't, Jyurou!


p80
RAISHIN: Ah ah...

RAISHIN: Jyurou...

KAGARI: Oniisan...


p81
KAGARI: How terrible...

KAGARI: Why Jyurou Niisan has done....

RAISHIN: I don't know.

RAISHIN: I can't understand him anymore.

RAISHIN: Only thing that's clear is that he's a threat to both
humans and us.

KAGARI: But Jyurou Niisan is strong. He might be stronger than
you...

RAISHIN: Yeah, Kagari. He's stronger than me.

RAISHIN: But someone has to stop him...


p82
RAISHIN: Someone has to!

USHIO: It's gone!

USHIO: It's gone!

USHIO: It's gone!

USHIO: The money I got from my father is gone!


p83
USHIO: It's weird. I'm sure that I wrapped it around my belly.

<USHIO: And when I bought the cloth and the cover for the spear, I
used the money in my pocket.> 

USHIO: Without it I can't continue this trip!

TORA: What's the big deal about losing that kind of thing? How
unsightly!

USHIO: Idiot! I don't know about the past but now you can't do
anything without money!

TORA: Asshole. You're so clumsy.

USHIO: Let's look for it. I think I lost it near Aoba Castle.

TORA: You won't (find it).

USHIO: What?

USHIO: Maybe you're right...

TORA: It's really tiresome...It's really tiresome to be with him.


p84
RAISHIN: There he is.

KAGARI: But is he really the one? He's just a kid...

RAISHIN: Yes. There has been rumors about him among youkais for a
while.

RAISHIN: You feel the dangerous aura coming from  The spear of the
beast, don't you?

KAGARI: Yes, I do. But..

RAISHIN: Well, in any case, we'll know the truth shortly.


p85
USHIO: I couldn't find it after all.

TORA: Didn't I tell you. To tell poli-something

<USHIO: Where did you learn about that? Although you didn't get it
quite right.> 

<TORA: I saw it on TV.>

GIRL: KYAH!

GIRL: Oh no! I thought there was a wind and suddenly my stocking got
torn off. 

MAN: I know what happened. I heard from my grandmother that
when the wind blows and you get a cut before you notice it, it's 
the work of youkai "KAMAITACH". 

(Kamaitachi; a legendary monster portrayed as a weasel with sickles
instead of legs. Now Kamaitachi means a cut from vacuum created by 
whirlwind or similar phenomenon.) 

GIRL: Kamaitach? How weird!

MAN: Actually it's vacuum which is created by the wind sometimes.
Hey, look.

GIRL: Wow.


p86
MAN: It's the first time that I saw it myself.

USHIO: That's interesting.

USHIO: Calling vacuum a youkai... Tora.

USHIO: Tora?

TORA: It's not the work of that vacuum thing.

USHIO: Huh?

USHIO: Whirlwind?

TORA: It's not the wind.

TORA: It's KAMAITACHI.



p87
USHIO: Wow, the spear is...

USHIO: What?

USHIO: Wind? No...


p88
USHIO: A youkai!

[Tora can't be seen by ordinary people]


p89
USHIO: Why? Why are you attacking me?

<USHIO: Damn!>


p91
USHIO: You attacked me without any good reason!

KAGARI: Please wait!


p92
KAGARI: We're really sorry.

KAGARI: I know that you're angry, with good reason. But please hear
our story. Would you please come with us?

USHIO: Huh?

TORA: Didn't you get it? They tested whether you're the owner of the
spear or not.


p93
TORA: Anyway, it looks like you made a big mess.

PEOPLE: Hey, that kid swung a weird thing and then tried to stab a
girl! Call the police!

USHIO: Uh-oh...

KAGARI: Please come with us. I beg you.

USHIO: OK, OK. Then let's get out of here quickly.


p95
USHIO: After that we were brought deep into the mountain by
Shinkansen and the car. 
(Shinkansen: Japanese bullet train)


p96
TORA: Looks like we can't go back by ourselves. Do you know where we
are?

TORA: You're a weirdo, Ushio. You seems to be more relaxed than when
you lost the money. 

USHIO: I guess I got used to it.

USHIO: And they are saying that they'll give me travel expense if I
grant their request. And I don't think they're bad people (monsters).


p97
RAISHIN: We have ask you, who are the owner of The spear of beast, a
favor.

KAGARI: As you can see, we're old youkai. People...

RAISHIN: ...call us KAMAITACHI.

RAISHIN: Please...

RAISHIN: kill our brother Jyurou who went on killing rampage.




	(2) Tora's in trouble and Ushio's fighting a Youkai

p98
KAGARI/RAISHIN: Please grant our request.


p99
RAISHIN: To kill our brother Jyurou.

USHIO: I..

USHIO: Idiots! Asking me to kill your brother, all of sudden? You're
real monsters! Who do you think I am? I'm not an assassin!

USHIO: It was stupid of me to come with you because you said you
have a favor to ask! I'm going back!

USHIO: WAGHHHHH!


p100
RAISHIN: It's a body part from a villager, whose village had been
devastated by Jyurou in a night. In your world, it's drawing
people's attention as a "Mysterious Mass Murder Case". 

RAISHIN: His sickle is fast and sharp.

RAISHIN: If he's not stopped, he'll continue killing your kinds. So
please rend us your power.

RAISHIN: The power of The spear of Beast!

RAISHIN: Please...

USHIO: OK. I'll listen to your story.


p101
TORA: Why did brought only me to outside?

KAGARI: Only the wielder of The Spear of Beast needs to hear the
story. You have nothing to do with this.

TORA: Shit. BTW, where are we? I'm asking for Ushio.

KAGARI: You're obnoxious. Even if I tell you this is Toono area, you
wouldn't know. 

KAGARI: I was just told to keep you outside until Raishin Niisan
finishes talking with that kid. I have lived more than 400 years and I 
don't want to talk with a third-class youkai like you. 


p102
[TORA: 400 years? Heck, she's still a kid compared to me. ]
(BTW, Tora is more than 2000 years old)

[TORA: Well, I shouldn't get angry by this.]

TORA: But it's strange. I thought Kamaitachi were living in far
south from here. 

KAGARI: Stop asking stupid questions!

KAGARI: We were forced out by humans...who wanted to make a golf
course.

KAGARI: I hate humans. And I don't like asking that kid for a help.
But...

KAGARI: Anyway, why are you sticking to that kid?

TORA: Well, it's a long story.

[KAGARI: What did you say, Oniisan?]


p103
[KAGARI: Are you serious, Raishin Niisan? I know that The spear of
beast is powerful. But...but why do we have to borrow strength from a human?]

[KAGARI: It's human who forced us out from our home!]

[RAISHIN: I can understand your feelings. But Jyurou is strong.]

[KAGARI: But...]

[RAISHIN: Please understand, Kagari.]

[RAISHIN: If The spear of beast turns its tip against us, then we'll
have to kill the wielder who would be wounded after the battle with Jyurou.]


p104
RAISHIN: We Kamaitachi always act in the pack of three. The first
one trips a human, the second one cuts him and the third one applies the
ointment to the wound. 

RAISHIN: I know that this would make little sense to you who's a
human but this is how we have been protecting the place we live.

RAISHIN: I'm the oldest son, Jyurou the second, and Kagari is the
youngest.

RAISHIN: Although we cut humans, it's a small wound that heals
quickly, thanks to Kagari's ointment.

RAISHIN: But...Jyurou began to act on his own.


p105
KAGARI: Please stop, Jyurou Niisan!

RAISHIN: Please stop, Jyurou!

RAISHIN: Jyurou's sickle are all over his body and the largest one
is almost 4 meter in length. As the second of the pack, his speed is 
far above any other monster. 

RAISHIN: Jyurou, stop it now!

JYUROU: What can you do when all you can do is tripping humans?


p106
KAGARI: Niisan!

RAISHIN: Get out of my way, Kagari!

RAISHIN: What's left behind was...


p107
RAISHIN: Please rend us your hands.

RAISHIN: ONLY The spear of beast can stop Jyurou. Otherwise the
clash between Jyurou and humans will be inevitable.

RAISHIN: We can't afford to be forced out again from this place
where we finally found after wandering from one place to another.

RAISHIN: I can't understand what's on Jyurou's mind anymore.

TORA: Hey, where's your brother who went nuts?

KAGARI: I don't know. Why did you ask that for?

KAGARI: You're not saying that you want to help, are you? We don't
need a help from a youkai who's contenting himself with the status 
of a "PET" because of the fear for The spear of beast!

TORA: WH...

TORA: What? Pet? Swallow your words!


p108
TORA: I don't give a damn about you fuckin' brother!

KAGARI: What did you say?

KAGARI: You insulted Jyurou Niisan!

TORA: So what? Take back what you said.

KAGARI: Die!


p109
TORA: Here I go!

TORA: Huh?

TORA: What?

TORA: Wait, something wrong here.

TORA: It might be your brother...

KAGARI: No talks!


p110
KAGARI: I got him!

KAGARI: Huh?


p111
USHIO: What's the matter?

USHIO: What?

RAISHIN: You're here, Jyurou!


p113
RAISHIN: Jyurou...

JYUROU: Aniki...Kagari...I came here to say the LAST good-bye.
(Aniki = less polite form of Oniisan)

RAISHIN: Jyurou, what do you mean by "The Last"?

KAGARI: Niisan!

JYUROU: Aniki, I'm going to the town to kill humans.

JYUROU: I'll kill and kill until I drop.


p114
RAISHIN: Don't be a fool, Jyurou!

JYUROU: I'm sick and tired!

JYUROU: Wandering long time after we lost our home, we found this
place. But now we have leave this place again because of humans.

JYUROU: A highway will go through this mountain. The construction
has already begun. 

JYUROU: They'll crumble mountains with big sounds...they will drive
out anything that's not human...

JYUROU: I'm sick and tired of living by fawning upon humans!

JYUROU: And hiding by disguising as one of them!


p115
JYUROU: I'll let them know that I exist!

JYUROU: By killing, killing, killing, killing, and killing humans!

JYUROU: I'll make humans remember my name with fear!

KAGARI: Please think over!

RAISHIN: Don't, Jyurou.

JYUROU: No way. You sit here rotting and watch what I'll be doing.


p116
[JYUROU: What's this feeling? It can't be...]

[JYUROU: It can't be...]

[JYUROU: The spear of beast!]

JYUROU: Heh heh heh...I see. You brought a human...

JYUROU: Do you want to kill me that badly?

JYUROU: Hey, human. do you think you can beat me because you have
The spear of beast? 


p117
JYUROU: Moron! Drop dead!

USHIO: Idiot!

USHIO: How can I stand still after hearing that you'll kill humans?
Now I'm doing this NOT because I was asked to...

JYUROU: Take this!

USHIO: Oh, yeah?


p118-119
ZAN! (SLASH!)


p120
JYUROU:  How cocky!

JYUROU: So the fabled The Spear of beast was no great shakes after
all.


p121
JYUROU: What the hell is this?

TORA: Asshole!

TORA: He's mine!


p122
JYUROU: Wh..What?

TORA: Hey, are you coming?

JYUROU: Next time I'll kill you.

JYUROU: Raisin Aniki, Kagari.

JYUROU: Good bye.


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