This is a translation of Saiyuuki by Kazuya Minekura, published by Enix Comics. Volume 2, ISBN-87025-287-2 762Yen Version 1.0 February 2002. Disclaimer: No money made and no copyright infringement intended. I'm not fluent, and I've had trouble with some spots so I'm sure I'll have to come back to this. However, I think I've got the gist of things. I HAVE spent quite a bit of time on this, so please don't take it without my permission, as crappy as it is. Comments/feedback: rielf@hotmail.com Chapter 8: Drug and Booze (Handwritten notes) :Thoughts: {My notes} p.67 Chapter Eight: Drug and Booze p.68 Dokugakuji Sanzou's group are on the move about 7 kilometers northwest of here. If we make allowances for the their jeep, we should be able to overtake them. Kougaiji The orders from Empress Gyakumen? Dokukakuji To send in more assasins. Useless, in my opinion. Kougaiji Of course it is!!! How many subordinates have been slaughtered because of them? I can't even begin to count! When will she get it?! p.69 Dokukakuji (now now) Calm down, Prince. That's why we're having this strategy meeting, right? Lirin (Geeeez!) Draggin' your feet as always, Bro. Why don't we all just go in and kick their ass? If we just sit around we'll get rusty. Kougaiji :I know that.: :Fighting is the only way to rescue Mother.: :But for what are you fighting...?: Dokukakuji Kou- You're still hesitating, aren't you. It rankles, doesn't it, having to be at that bitch's beck and call. Having to take part in the ressurection experiments. Kougaiji I never hesitate..!! Yaone Kougaiji-sama p.70 Kougaiji Yaone. Yaone Will you allow me to go? Everything the Empress has sent has failed against Sanzou. I will go as a decoy. Kougaiji Too dangerous. I won't allow it. Yaone Why? I also wish to be of assistance. To repay the kindness you have shown me. Kougaiji But-! Yaone And also, I am your herbalist. Whether it's the names or uses of drugs, p.71 Yaone Poisons or explosive powders, they are all at my disposal. Please, leave it to me. Kougaiji ...Do as you please. Lirin (You're such a pushover when it comes to women, Bro.) Kougaiji Sanzou and his group are unpredictable. They push forward blindly, without any kind of strategy, and their motives are impossible to understand. Don't do anything rash. Yaone Of course, Kougaiji-sama. p.72 Yaone Where they are heading there is only one bar. I'm certain they will stop there. So, I'll get there ahead of them, and pose as a waitress. Then, if I slip something into the food they order... Customer 1 Hey, miss! Can I get a plate of nagima as well? Customer 2 Over here, too, one beer please. Bar Manager Yaone-chan, when you're done, take this out, will you? (arrow: Bar Manager) Yaone (Why is it so busy!?) Okay, I'll be right there! p.73 Yaone Kyaa! What do you think you're doing!? Drunk Guy What's the matter? (hic) It's getting less busy, so why don't we get aquainted? Yaone !!.. Why you pig! Drunk Guy Ugh. Yaone ? An ashtray? p.74 Yaone Where did that...? Gojyo (Two beers..) Hakkai (Lets see, this and this..) Goku (Grilled stuff too.) Sanzou (Let's eat some vegtables, vegtables) Yaone :Those people! There's no mistaking them.: p.75 Yaone :It's Sanzou's group!: Drunk Guy (Dammit! Who threw that ashtray!?) Goku Hey, Miss! Yaone Goku We're ready to order! Yaone Oh.. I'll be right there! :That's right. My mission..: Everyone Spring rolls. Breaded pork over rice. Chop Suey Shrimp Shumai. Pizaa {It can't be pizza, right? It's a Chinese resturant..} Rebanira{?} Yaone :Is to wipe them out.: I'll be right back with your order. Gojyo Oh, one more thing. One ashtray. Yaone :Huh?: p.76 Yaone :Their table's normal set-up doesn't have an ashtray?: :Could it be?: :The people who helped me just then...?: :It can't be.: :Anyway, having sympathy for the enemy is foolish.: :Kougaiji-sama.. my benefactor.: :For your sake, even at the cost of my life: :I will obliterate Sanzou and his group here.: Sanzou So, what do you think? Gojyo Think? (What?) Sanzou We left Chuan A month ago, today. p.77 Sanzou We've defeated innumerable Youkai, most of which were assassins sent by this "Kougaiji". We know that "Kougaiji" is GyuMaOh's son. However- Youkai that were apparently not ordered to went all the way to suicide out of sincere loyalty to him. Gojyo It's been pretty quiet for a while, so it's about time they tried something again. Hakkai And after all that, we still don't know anything. About the objectives of the experiments to revive GyuMaOh, or who is truly pulling the strings, or really anything at all... Yaone Uh, excuse me.. p.78 Yaone Your food is ready. Goku Yippee!! Gojyo Well- can't fight on an empty stomach, I guess. Hakkai Seems so. Yaone :My own prepared poison is in this food.: :If everything goes well from here..: Everybody Itadakimasu.. Yaone Kyaa!! Goku Eh? p.79 Drunk Guy Come on, is it really that bad? Why don't we have a drink together, missy? Yaone You again!? Let me go! :Ordinarily I wouldn't just take this sort of thing..: Gojyo ..Uh-uh. Old man, you really suck at picking up women. Drunk Guy What's that, punk!? Mind your own business! Gojyo Does this mean you need another ashtray to the noggin? (Donk! Just like that) Drunk Guy !! So that was you!? p.80 Drunk Guy Urah! Everybody Whoa! Yaone Oh no! !? Goku Asshole! Now you've done it! I'll never forgive you! (Background text: Outraged) p.81 Goku and Gojyo Oryaaa!! Sanzou No matter if it's Youkai or humans, they manage to get into a fight. Hakkai They just have energy to burn.. Yaone :"Sanzou and his group are unpredictable.": :is what Kougaiji-sama told me.: ..that's for sure. They're different.. they're just so fundamentally different. ..is what I think. p.82 Bar Manager Fei-san! {Drunk Guy} Please stop! My bar will be ruined! Fei {Formerly Drunk Guy} Shyaddup! Bar Manager If you want to fight, why don't you do it with those guys like you always do? Okay? Gojyo Fight like you always do? Huh? (Do you play mah-jongg? Have a quick-draw contest?) Fei You fight like a bar regular of course! A drinking contest! p.83 Fei Why are you making those terrible faces? Gojyo Uh.. it's nothing.. Goku (nothing at all.. uh..) Fei Manager. Bar Manager Yes? Fei Heh. I knew from the start they couldn't take it. 'Cause they've got a kid and some poor looking priest. (arrow at Goku: Kid) p.84 Sanzou Bring me all the alcohol this store has. (words on his face: I'm seriously gonna kill you) Bar Manager R-Right away! Hakkai He seems set on it already.. (Well, I suppose this is how it always is.) Goku Wa-ai! Alcohol! Alcohol! (arrow: Underage) Fei Alright! The match is 4 on 4! First team to be completely wiped out loses! Okay? Everyone Right! Yaone :Somehow things have gotten so weird!: :Ack, Kougaiji-sama!: p.85 Fei Begin! Yaone Wh-what should I do..? p.86 Fei Looks like you're not just talk, huh. Gojyo This is nothing. Still got plenty room for more. Right, Goku? Goku (snore) (drool drool) Sanzou Wake. Up. You little chimp! Fei Heh heh, looks like the kid's retired. Gojyo Look who's talking, you're the only one left on your side. Fei Sorry to disappoint, but there's no one around here who can out drink me. Hakkai If that's so, could we get some slightly stronger alcohol here please? p.87 Gojyo Now that you mention it, I've never seen Hakkai get even tipsy. Sanzou You gotta be kidding. Hakkai Don't worry. We're probably going to win. We won't allow sexual harassment from dirty old men. Yaone :Ah.: {Flashback} Kougaiji Hey. Where are you taking that woman? Youkai Prince. p.88 Youkai She's an herbalist's daughter. Because she's so beautiful, she's being presented to HyakuganMaOh. Kougaiji She catches my fancy. I'll buy her. HyakuganMaOh collects beautiful women to toy with, devouring them when they bore him. Don't get the wrong idea. I didn't do this to rescue you or anything. From now on you'll work for me- of course, as my herbalist. Alright? p.89 Yaone Yes, Kougaiji-sama. :Thank you so much: Yes.. from that day on, my life has been bound to Kougaji-sama. If I don't complete my mission.. Why do I hesitate? These men are my foes. Kougaji-sama's enemies.. are my enemies!! Fei How's it going, priest? Have you reached your limit? Your hands are shaking. You could be a barmaid with that pretty face. Sanzou (heh) Fool. You have a lot of grit to be ridiculing me. (heh heh heh) Hakkai Sanzou-? p.90 Sanzou MAKAI TEN-(mmmph) Hakkai (Waaah!) Please don't use such a huge spell on a civilian! (He's a lot drunker than he looks) Fei Let's quit this already! I'll beat you down with my own hands, you punks! Gojyo Bring it on, you dirty old man! Let's go! Bar Manager (aaaaah!) My bar will be- p.91 Hakkai Now, now everyone, let's all calm.. Gojyo ? What- what's this mist? Shit- suddenly.. my head.. Blacking out.. Hakkai :!? Smells like a drug!: This mist! Don't breathe it in!! p.92 Hakkai Gojyo!? Sanzou.. Goku!! :That's right.. everyone is drunk, so the drug would circulate faster!: Gojyo! Snap out of it! Gojyo! -! He's breathing normally.. what is this? Yaone That's right. Please don't worry. p.93 Yaone That was only a sleeping drug. I can't involve normal people in this. Hakkai Y.. You did this? p.94 Yaone The drug, you didn't inhale it, did you. :Why? Why were you alone not affected?: :I wanted them all to be sleeping..: Hakkai ... Why are you doing this? Hakkai :!! A Youki controlling device!: p.95 Hakkai Ah! ! You are also.. one of 'Kougaiji's' assasins? Yaone Cho Hakkai of The Priest Sanzou's travelling party, I presume. I am Yaone. p.95 Yaone On behalf of my lord Kougaiji-sama, I am here to take your life! Hakkai .... ***this is from http://www.rielf.fcpages.com***