Episode 102
To really be tenacious!
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[Flashback continued]
Mikihasa: Still raining...
Mikihasa: It's almost been a week. How much longer will it last?
Yohmei: It's the rainy season, nothing strange about that. Mikihasa, you could at least remove your mask at home.
Mikihasa: Ha ha ha. It's not important. It doesn't bother me to carry it. I wasn't talking about the rain. I was thinking about "him".
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Mikihasa: He's been out there for one week, patiently waiting. Don't you think it might be time to start his training?
Episode 102
To really be tenacious!
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Ryu: Already morning? I must have fallen asleep. Tokagero, wake up! The day is starting!
Ryu: ...
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Ryu: Wait!? Where are we!?
Yohmei: You're at Okuizumo.
Yohmei: Where the Maki River flows, the tributary of the great river Hi that dug this gorge. The gorges of the great Oni, Shita Burui, also known as "The Tremor of the Devil's Tongue".
Ryu: Old guy!? What are you doing on my motorcycle?
Yohmei: Bums like you staying glued in front of my house creates disorder and doesn't help my commerce any. If I had let you go on you would have insisted so I took advantage of the night to bring you here.
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Yohmei: I also told myself that it was a good occasion to test your determination.
Ryu: Test my determination?
Ryu: Eh heh heh. Are you saying you're going to try to confront me?
Yohmei: Shut up. How dare you think that you can actually defeat me?
Yohmei: I recognize that you a certain will. I also understood that you could see ghosts.
Yohmei: But if your senses aren't sharpened, you won't be able to receive my lessons.
Yohmei: Well.
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Yohmei: Your first test will be to make it up to the top of Mount Sentsu by following the river and not taking any other path.
Ryu: What?
Yohmei: This little devil will watch you to make sure you don't cheat. If you arrive to the top I promise to teach you.
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Yohmei: I wish you good luck.
Ryu: You were driving!?
Ryu: ...
Ryu: ...
Ryu: ...
Ryu: Making it to the top...
Ryu: Heh. I'll do it. Too easy. I don't understand anything but what he's asking me seems doable.
Ryu: So, Tokagero?! Wake up! We're going rock-climbing!
Tokagero: ...
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Mikihasa: What!?
Mikihasa: But father?! You let them go to the summit of Mount Sentsu!?
Yohmei: I told you that you could remove your mask at home.
Mikihasa: It'll be alright for me but I'm worried about him! That mountain, yes!
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Mikihasa: The murderous flood made of it a depressing site, legendary since the past. It's charged with many spirits!
Yohmei: Yeah, so?
Mikihasa: There are still numerous spirits that roam about!
Mikihasa: For a normal human being, and even him, it's risky. And with all the rain that has fallen these last few days, the level of the water must be horrendous!
Yohmei: If he must die there, then just as much that he never becomes shaman.
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Mikihasa: ...!
Yohmei: To make things simple, all it takes to be a shaman is to have a soul.
Yohmei: To first believe in oneself and to tell oneself that they can go on. It's not just for shamans. If we believe in ourselves we get what we wish.
Yohmei: Will is the source of all power. To reinforce oneself and to become powerful is just a question of will.
Yohmei: If we fail, it's that we didn't deploy enough will.
Yohmei: That's the secret. It's the hardest thing to understand for a human being.
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Yohmei: It's the most fragile aspect of man.
Yohmei: Even a man of great character can't defend himself at the slight show of weakness in his soul.
Yohmei: But the world of shamans only interests itself in the force of the spirit. You have to be infallible on that point.
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Yohmei: If this boy asks for help from the Asakura family and becomes shaman, he'll have to cross Hao at some point on his path.
Yohmei: I want to know if his will will resists Hao's power.
Yohmei: We'll be fixed once...
Yohmei: ... he will have attained the summit of the mountain.
Yohmei: At that moment, he will have made it is the true power.
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[Amenomura kumo no tsurugi]
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Ryu: It's so... beautiful.
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Ryu: But what is all this?
Yohmei: You're at Amenomura kumo no tsurugi. It's the name of the place where the famous sword of the clouds appeared. A place of legend where Susanao chased the god of serpents, Yamata no Orochi.
Yohmei: From the cut up reptile appeared this sword.
Ryu: The old guy!
Tokagero: The Yamata no Orochi? What's that?
Yohmei: It's a great serepent that has eight heads and eight tails. His body represents eight valleys and hills. His heads are bright red and his stomach lined with blood.
Ryu: Seriously!? That's creepy!
Yohmei: Of course, Orochi is an imaginary creature. But not everything is false.
Yohmei: His true appearance is this river, Hi.
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Yohmei: Here, since the past, the people thought that the abundance of the rice harvests depended on the good will and the spirit of the water that lived in these mountains. The god of serpents is a good spirit who fills the river beds with water, bringing with him good harvests and food to the villagers. But nature doesn't act as man wishes to imagine. A great rain can cause a flood that can reduce to pieces culture, and even, the lives of human beings.
Yohmei: The river Hi and its floods killed Inada-hime, princess of the rivers. Ever since, this serpent was seen by the habitants as a perpetual menace.
Ryu: I see. And what does that have to do with the sword that you told me about.
Yohmei: The habitants continued to protect this earth and created that beauty that is Izumo.
Yohmei: Like you who just defied this earth, the people never quit. To never quit, like the one who defeated Yamata no Orochi.
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[End flashback]
Ryu: The famous Susanao.
Dracula: What...?
Ryu: Boris, watch yourself. Here is my new sword. It's made from a sacred wood.
Ryu: The one that defeated Yamata no Orochi, here is the "Ame no Mura Kumo"!!!
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[The serpent attacks.]
End episode 102.
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