     Yoma, the Evil Entity
              Part 2
 Translation by Howard Kawaii
       edited by Team Usagi


Nar: In the third year of his rule, the head of the Takeda family,
    Katsu Takeda, had ambitions to defeat Lord Nobunaga.
    Two years have passed since Hikage began his search for Maro.
    Even though Hikage had been earnestly heading westward,
    he had been unable to confront Maro

Hikage is resting on the beach when a girl runs up...

Aya (to Hikage): You're a Shinobi.
Man1: I've found her!
Man2: Deserter!
Man1: Naniue, you murdered Toriyo and ran away.
Aya: That's not true, Shiranui, I'm not the one that killed Toriyo.
Man2: Traitor!
Man1 (to Hikage): Hey, what are you looking at?  What're you laughing at.
     Soo, wanna fight?
     You!
Man1: You killed Toriyo and ran away because, you wanted to associate with a outsider?
Aya: That's not true...  I'm...
Man2: Traitor!
Aya: Shiranui!
Hikage: Wait!  He's coming.  Majiumi.
Hikage: It's suspicious...
Aya: Shiranui!
Majiumi(horse):  So it's you, The human that has been killing so many of us.
Hikage: There's something I want to ask you...  The human, Maro's whereabouts.
Majiumi:  Human you say...  I am called Majiumi no miko...
     The ruler of the sea.  And the land has its own 'ruler of the land'.
     When the two associate, they do so to further the revival of demon-kind.
     You should know...  The secret that the human Maro hides.
Hikage: Shut up!
Aya: Shiratsui...

In a wet cave, Maro contemplates...

Maro: Miko sama.
Maro: It appears Hikage has killed Majiumi.
    This will delay the revival of those of the sea.
Miko (snake): I would like the honor of arranging the death of that Hikage.
Maro: Miko sama, that has been given to the water demons.
Miko: Would you let me take command of them.
Maro: Very well.  Kill Hikage.
Miko:  At once!
Maro: I will now return to the east.
Miko: Mikawa has invited these creatures to his land to improve his fortune.
    Then invite hell to Mikawa's land.
Miko: Oh, that... I shall look forward to that.

Back on the beach...

Hikage: Don't cry.  Girls are pitiful, aren't they.
Aya: I'm no girl,  I'm a Shinobi.

Maro meets some ninja...

Maro: So you must be Kazami.

Hikage and Aya enter a village:

Aya: My name's Aya.  I'll get us a room for the night.
Hikage: Aya?
Aya: Hello... Hello!
woman: Yes.
Aya: Um, we're travelers and,
Aya: We were wondering if we could have a place to stay for the night.
Aya: Oh, a baby?
woman: Do you think it's cute?  Would you like to hold it?
Aya: N-neck.  The neck...  The baby's neck is...

Ghosts walk the streets...

Aya: What's going on?
Hikage: It looks like the entire town is dead.
    These are just the ghosts of their deaths...
Aya: The sad memories left behind...?
Hikage: The village....  It seems like the Yoma got them.


Camping...
Aya: You said something about searching for someone,
    This Maro you were talking about,  What's he to you?
Hikage: He's a person who tried to kill me.
Aya: So this person,  Are you going to kill him?

Next Morning, Aya chases Hikage thru the woods...

Aya: Damn!  He could've at least woke me up.  Really!
Kotore/Ghost: Do I frighten you?
Aya: You were cut through the heart...
Kotore/Ghost: I was killed by my beloved.

Hikage has his own problems...
Tree Demon:  Maidono!  Shiratsuyo sama!

Back with Aya and the Ghost:
Kotore/Ghost: He was the one that cut me.
Aya: Why are you still atatched to the man that cut you?
Kotore/Ghost: Well...  I just want to be by his side forever.
Aya: Yoma!

Major fight ensues...
Aya: Hikage!  Hikage.
Miko: Die, Hikage!
Aya: Hikage!
Kotore/Ghost: You must love him very much.
Tree Demon: Hikage, Don't you care if these two die?  ... Die!
Aya: Hikage, behind you.
    Hikage!  Hikage!
Miko:  You're...!  St-stop it.  Stop it.  Stay out!  Stay ooout!

Aya: Couldn't be.
    Even if that person's soul entered the snake's body.
    And becomes nothing but a soul, And possesses the Yoma.
    Does she really want so much to meet the man that loves her...?

Later on , the night camp....
Aya: What do you think?
Hikage: Something's funny.  There isn't a sign of Yoma in the area.
    It's almost like they've evacuated this territory.
Aya: Just like Oda sama's forces.  They might have gone to invade the east.
Hikage: Oda... You destroyed my homeland with your wars
    Oda, the one who spilled our blood.

Nar: About this time, the last of the feudal warlords,
    Oda Nobunaga, realizing that he had no acceptable heirs,
    regrouped in Mika's territory, in a final attempt to achieve his goals.

Hikage: That could have been Yoma as well...

Kazami: It's been a while, Hikage.
Hikage: What did you want to talk to me about?
Kazami: Your life...  I'm here to take it.
    You see, in order to defeat Nobunaga,  our lord Katsu Takeda decided,
    that we would need to borrow the power of the Yoma.
    This duty fell upon me.
    And I went to meet the Kikuga no miko.
    As expected, Maro was the Kikuga no miko.
    So...  Maro gave me one condition, in order to help the Takeda family...
Hikage: To kill me...
Kazami: This is for Takeda.  Die, Hikage!
Hikage: You stopped your sword.
Kazami: I am a Shinobi.
    Unlike you, I cannot cut myself free from my fate and live my life.
    Ordered to kill... I kill.  Ordered to die... I die.
    But I could not betray you to their schemes.
    For instance, the family problems were deliberately caused...
    Katsuyori sama was insane, and the Takeda family failed.
Hikage: Kazami.  Kazami.

Nar:  At that time, in the conflict in the Mika territory.
    the Takeda family forces completely defeated Ota Nobunaga
    In addition, the Takeda forces hastened to press their advantage.

Warlord (Oda Nobunaga? Maro?): Your deaths... Your blood... Your fears...
    There are tears...  There is anger...  There is despair...
    These are the source of our power.
    Did the Takeda family think that the Yoma would honor their promises?
    Did they think I would seriously go along with this foolish plan?

Hikage gets ready for battle....

Aya: You're going to fight, aren't you?
Hikage: Maro's waiting for me.
Aya: Waiting?
Hikage: Yes, waiting...
Aya: It's enough already,  Who cares about Maro anymore.
    If you have to go no matter what,
    Kill me.  Kill me.  If Hikage were to die... I...
    Don't go,  Hikage,  Please...

Hikage: I've come!  Maro!
    Maro!
    Why?   Why are you the Kikuga no miko?
Maro: Maro is not the Kikuga no miko,
    Kikuga no mika took the shape of a childling named Maro.
    Hikage, Isn't there something you wanted to ask me?
    That scar.  Yes, that scar.
    Why did I throw a poison shuriken.
    Hikage, Humans are pitiful.
    Especially Shinobi.  Told to fight, they fight.  Told to die, they die
    They're locked into their destinies.   What a pitiful fate.
    I took Maro's form and was reborn as Kikuga no miko
    By this means, I transcended this pitiful humanity
Hikage: You transcended humanity...?
Maro: In order to do that, I had to kill a woman whom I loved.
    But you, I didn't want to kill.
    That's why the shuriken was all I did.
    I want you to transcend humanity as well.
Hikage: Then I was really...
Maro: Yes, I couldn't kill you.  Hikage, Come to my world.
Aya: Hikage!  Hikageee!
Maro: So you will not come with me as my friend?
    I see.  I SEE!
    Hikage, These hands will rend your flesh.
Hikage: Majiumi...
Maro: Come Majiumi,
    Cast off your mortal form, Hikage,  and join me!
Hikage: Aya!  Aya!  Ayaaa!

Maro: The only thing left in the path of Yoma, Hikage, Is you!
    Hikage, Pitiful, aren't they... the humans.
    Hikage, humans have always hated Yoma. But that is only to be expected...
    After all, humans are weaklings.  The only path is to become Yoma!
    What do you think, Hikage?
    Comprehend your own weakness!  and transcend humanity
Hikage: I will live my life the way I believe in, And I will overcome fate.
Maro: Nonsense!  Overcome fate, you say?
    Do you think you are one who can overcome fate?
    Consider what you say.

Hikage: Maro!
Maro: Hikage...
Hikage: Maro...

After the battle... in a hut...

Hikage: Aya...  You brought me here?
    Aya.  Aya.
    Crying this much,   Girls are pitiful, aren't they.
Aya: Hikage!

Snake... flashback...

Maro: Run away, Kotore!
Kotore: Marooo!
Maro: Kotoreee!

end flashback....

Kotore/snake:  To you I will give my life.  So, this time live as a human.
    In order for you to be reborn as a human, I will give you my life...

Aya and Hikage walk on the road....

Aya: Hikage,  Wha...
    A baby.  Poor thing.   She exhausted herself giving birth.
    There, there.

Voice of Maro:  Humans are pitiful, aren't they, Hikage...


