Sengoku 35

[Reserved for Illuminati-Manga. Halfway through vol 4 :D]

Pg 100
Txt: Asai Nagamasa's wife and Oda Nobunaga's sister
Oichi
Box: Same time. Inside of the Asai clan's Odani Castle. Having lost face when the house she had married into revolted against the Oda clan, Oichi became enraged.

Box: And---- Though Nagamasa had gambled everything on his revolt against Nobunaga, he had been unable to kill him. He lost his mental equilibrium.

Pg 101
Box: 1570 (First year of Eiroku) One day in June—Takekurabe Castle, necessary to protect Asai Nagamasa's Odani castle, is completed.

Txt: Asai clan retainer
Isono Tanba-no-kami Kazumasa
Isono: This Takekurabe Castle
Isono: Is the most important point in our defense of the center of the Asai clan territory!

Pg 102
Txt: Hori Jirou Hidemasa Higuchi Saburoubei Naofusa
Isono: Generals of this castle, Hori Jirou-dono, and his retainer Higuchi Saburou-dono
Isono: Become the shield of the Asai. May you gain glory as warriors

Isono: Then, Asai army!
Isono: The day of our showdown with Oda Danjou-no-Chuu Nobunaga, that evil star who brings chaos to the land, is near!

Pg 103
Isono: Tonight, may the divine mission to strike down the demon Oda Danjou-no-chuu be bestowed upon us!
Isono: Pray for victory in battle! Recite noisily! Raise your manly voices!
Txt: Vol. 35 The Night Before the Stratagem

Pg 104
?: Ahh
?: Ah
?: Ohh
?: Aaaa

Box: Meanwhile—A room inside of Takekurabe Castle

Pg 105
Txt: Asai Nagamasa's wife and Oda Nobunaga's sister
Oichi

Nagamasa: Iiiiiiiiii
NM: Ichi.......Oichi.....

Txt: Asai Bizen-no-kami Nagamasa

NM: I, I...
NM: I.... I can't do without you. Why won't you let me sleep with you?

Pg 106
Oichi: Then apologize to my brother Nobunaga and surrender to him.

NM: You dare to mock me.... the head of the Asai clan?

Pg 107
NM: Guhh
NM: Now that I've betrayed him...
NM: Nobunaga will never forgive me.... I can only kill him..... There is no other way but killing Nobunaga....

Txt: He's betrayed my brother Nobunaga..... Nagamasa.... you've disgraced me...

Oichi: How pitiful....

Pg 108
?: Gehehehehe.... Alright, lady, wanna do it?
?: Go away
?: I have no interest in low ranking warriors

?: Where is he, where is he?
?: Where is Yamazaki Shinpei-sama?

?: I must hurry. Other women are after him...

?: It would be better to give up....

?: Yamazaki Shinpei-sama is certainly the Asai clan's strongest warrior.... But I have heard that even if he sleeps with a woman, he will not open either his mask or his heart to her.

?: His prowess in battle stems from his quest for truth
?: It is not at all.... for the sake of protecting a woman

Pg 109
NM: Ya-ya- Yamazaki Shinpei

YZ: My lord

NM: I..I… rely on your vanguard

NM: I...I.... honestly
NM: can't help feeling....so very scared of Nobunaga

Pg 110
YZ: There is no need to fear Oda Danjou-no-chuu
YZ: No matter how large the army is, I shall break through their lines and take Nobunaga's head.

NM: Um..um..
NM: With you weilding a spear on horseback, there's nothing to fear...

Pg 111
Higuchi: Gahahaha, look over there, young master Jirou...
Higuchi: There's some good looking girls lined up...

Jirou: Sa...Saburou...

Jirou: As I confessed the other day to Takenaka Hanbei-dono....

Jirou: I am...
Jirou: Wavering....

Pg 112
Jirou: Takenaka-dono is called a god of battle, but his presence is mysteriously reassuring...

Jirou: On the other hand, Yamazaki-dono is a warrior as fierce as a demon
Jirou: But... even if he is protecting us, I can't stop fearing him...
(cut and paste panel: YZ: And, aged minister....
YZ: This Takakurabe is the most strategically important point in our war against the Oda. Be resolute in your protection of it...)

Jirou: When Takenaka-dono said that he was leaving us.....
Jirou: if we too could go to the Oda...

Higuchi: My lord...
Higuchi: Please do not say any more

Pg 113
Higuchi: My lord, you are the head of the Hori clan...
Higuchi: Protecting that lineage and that name is your paramount duty

Higuchi: If you decide something is necessary to preserve the existence of the Hori clan, this aged man would stake his life on it.
Higuchi: However, my lord, your confusion now is only driven by vague fears.... I cannot support you in that situation.

Txt: Around that time

Pg 114
Box: Gifu
Kinoshita Toukichirou's manor
Txt: Sakai Kyuuzou
Sakai: Yaa
Sakai: Aaaaaaah

Sakai: Gyaaaaah
Sakai: My wound is throbbing

Sakai: Hey...wait
Sakai: That thing's still unscathed

Pg 115
SG: Just swinging the spear is not good. Center yourself, Kyuuzou

SG: No matter what happens, don't let the center of your body be shaken
SG: A top won't fall down as long as its center is straight... It's just like that...
SG: Make small quick turns without moving the center of your body

SG: Hoy

Pg 116
Sakai: Whoaa

SG: Here
Sakai: Gyah! Don't stick your snot on me!

Sakai: Even so... I've got to not move my center, but I don't know how...
Sakai: No matter how much I think about it, my body doesn't do it well
Sakai: Really, Brother Gon, your head might be stupid, but in place of that your body is smart.

Pg 117
Sakai: However, that guy Yamazaki Shinpei in the Asai army can pull that off while riding on a horse.
Sakai: That's unbelievable

Sakai: But, Brother Gon
SG: What?

Sakai: Seems like there's a guy who can do that in our Oda army

Sakai: I heard that during the attack on Inabayama Castle he was on the enemy side and he plunged into our army alone while wielding a spear on horseback...
SG: That can't be
SG: It shouldn't be possible to keep yourself centered while riding on a horse like that

SG: That's why I'm sticking more snot on ya

Box: Sawayama in Omi
Yamazaki Shinpei's Manor

Pg 118-9
HB: He he he.... it seems you have completed a magnificent castle at Takekurabe

Txt: This guy.... I had heard that he had renounced the world and gone to Higuchi. What is he plotting?
YZ: You probably didn't come here for idle chit chat

YZ: What is your business?
YZ: Takenaka Hanbei....