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Very well. Our alliance ends now.

Let us duel.

Juni Taisen

Episode 10: A Tiger May Die, But It Leaves Its Skin

Ugh...

What a pain in the ass.

He disappeared?

Were you harmed, miss?

Someone's forced you to drink alcohol, haven't they?

For heaven's sake... It's outrageous.

They're a disgrace to the warrior name.

Rest easy.

No need to worry anymore.

The people who tormented you are gone.

I'll take you somewhere safe, miss.

Wh-What the hell?

He thinks I'm a civilian or something?

And calling me "miss," even...

What's the matter?

U-Um...

C-Can I ask you a question?

What is it?

You do the right thing, but how do you do it?

Without hesitation...

without fear... without mistakes...

Is it possible to just do the right thing?

I've never given it serious consideration.

Miss, do you want to do the right thing?

Then, for your sake, I will give it a moment's thought.

It can be beneficial to express one's motivation verbally from time to time.

One.

First, I try to do the right thing.

Two.

Then, I do the right thing.

That is all.

What kind of overly genius philosophy is that?

Did he dumb it down because he thinks I'm a child?

If so, he went way too far!

If it were that easy,

I wouldn't be suffering like this.

Suffering?

Am I really suffering?

I thought I'd left my suffering behind.

Does this mean the booze hasn't drowned it all?

That I've actually been suffering all this time?

What I mean is that you can't do the right thing

unless you consciously try.

People's mistakes happen in the most offhanded ways.

Swept along moment to moment, they fall into evil.

Without reason, without consideration, without dedication.

The next thing they know,

they are on the wrong path, as if it were the only one.

Path? "Michi"...

Yet, by contrast...

"I was doing the right thing without realizing it."

"The next thing I knew, I was doing good deeds."

"In a moment of carelessness, I helped someone."

You never hear those things.

You surely never will.

Righteousness cannot exist without intent.

Righteous action requires righteous intent.

You can't do the right thing unless you try to.

If your inability to do the right thing is causing you to suffer,

it's because you don't feel that you're trying to do it.

There are many reasons one may not try to do the right thing.

Mountains of things may cause hesitation.

Slews of things may inspire fear.

It's fine to blame it on another.

It's fine to blame it on society, too.

You can blame the age we live in, or on the cards you were dealt.

But those who are not doing the right thing should

acknowledge that it's not that they cannot,

but that they will not.

The same goes for you.

There's no need to force yourself to do the right thing.

But you must not forget that it isn't because you can't,

but because you've chosen not to.

All righteous people...

One. They decide to do it.

Then, two. They do it.

The steps must be taken in that order.

Worrying about the second step while you're still on the first

is the height of foolishness.

Though we were both warriors, the difference between us

was like an adult and a child.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

I wanted to.

I wanted to become the kind of person who could understand.

I wanted it so much...

Well, take care of yourself.

H-Hey...

C-Could you stay with me a little longer?

I'm still not feeling well.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

I have many more children like you to save.

That's my job.

Then, in the future, be sure to stay away from battlefields.

I will pray that you never have to witness killing like mine...

slaughter like mine, ever again.

We were both warriors, but we were so different.

I started to think that maybe

only people like him truly had the right to be called warriors.

But strangely, I didn't find that frustrating.

Instead, I felt like I had a goal for the first time in my life.

It wasn't like when I'd blindly tried to follow my path,

or when I'd strayed from it.

I wanted to become someone that warrior

would acknowledge the next time he and I met.

"I pray we'll never have to meet again," he'd said.

But I didn't care about that.

One. Want to do it.

Two. Do it.

I might never really know the right thing to do, or the real reason to fight.

What mattered was that, for the first time, I decided to see.

I decided to try to find myself again.

I decided to reexamine things I had stopped thinking about.

All my life, nothing could stop me, and now,

suddenly, a towering wall was in my way,

a teacher I wanted to aspire toward.

It wasn't long before I learned that the genius, who'd said those

incomprehensible things, was the "incomprehensibly powerful" Warrior of the Ox.

It didn't take long to find out that his name was Ushii, either.

But the world is vast, and there are countless battlefields out there.

I believed that if I kept fighting,

I would meet him again someday.

But just when I was about to give up on ever seeing him again...

Kanae?

It's been so long!

The Juni Taisen?

Yeah. You hadn't heard?

Oh, yeah, that's coming up.

So, who's the Aira family sending?

Actually, Sensei hasn't chosen yet.

If you'd come back, Kanae...

You've gotta be joking!

Like I care about that crap now.

I got no interest in some make-believe war between the twelve families.

Twelve families?

The Ox...

Kanae?

I returned to my estranged family, got down on all fours,

and offered a heartfelt plea.

Somehow, I got him to nominate me.

Then, when I arrived in the starting room, on that observation deck,

I saw him, looking just as he had back then.

I was overjoyed.

But that freaking idiot...

That stupid Ox...

He didn't remember me at all!

Tora!

Damn... After I'd gotten this far...

After I got the one who'd inspired me to challenge me to a duel...

Nothing in my life will ever go right, will it?

A genius like him could've easily dealt with that himself,

without a pathetic idiot like me butting in.

Tora...

But... I...

I made the decision... to do it.

Tora!

This won't end...

I'm sorry, but I must ask you to hold out for a while.

Don't worry. I won't let you die.

He's carrying me again...

I've never been saved by anyone before.

I will repay the debt I owe you!

You blabbering fool...

I'm the one who was repaying a debt.

I see. That explains it.

What?

It was clearly the Warrior of the Rabbit

who was controlling the Dragon and Snake warriors before.

He must have been hoping to ambush us and add us to his team.

But we sliced him to bits.

Yes, but there's still something I don't understand.

Why do you think he showed up in front of us without a plan?

He did something before we sliced him apart.

I would speculate that he bit off his own tongue,

turning himself into a corpse he could control.

No more.

No more talking... about that mangled guy.

Let me down.

The Warrior of the Rabbit is pursuing us.

Facing him now won't gain us anything.

Just do it.

The bleeding won't stop if you keep jostling me.

Fine. We'll stop the bleeding first, then.

We're far enough away. It should take him time to catch up.

Not a fan of having someone... staring at my wounds like this.

We need to stop the bleeding,

but a stab through the abdomen will require significant medical care.

Fortunately, there appear to be numerous hospitals in this ghost town.

You're gonna find one... before I die,

carry me there, and treat me?

You think I got time for that?

No way.

Not a chance.

You mustn't give up!

If you die now, what happens to the duel I challenged you to?

A genius like him

can say that stuff... because he's never

suffered a wound like this, I bet.

Even if the surgery miraculously made it in time,

I'm not gonna be in any condition to fight.

I couldn't have our duel.

So...

Hey, Mr. Warrior of the Ox...

I'm callin' off... the duel.

Tora...

In exchange, I wanna ask you for a favor instead.

A favor?

Call it a wish, I guess.

I have one wish to ask of you.

A real girly-girl type

might be asking you for a kiss...

But that's not really my style, so...

I want you to be the one to kill me.

If I bleed out like this...

it'll mean... I was killed by that Rabbit asshole,

right?

And then, I'll become one of his walking dead, right?

I don't know much about his necromantist stuff...

But either way, I'll pass.

I don't wanna keep fighting you,

even after I die.

The moment you challenged me to a duel,

it made all of my fighting up to now more than worth it.

So I want you to kill me first.

Didn't you say

you'd kill me so I wouldn't become a merciless zombie?

So that I'll leave no resentments behind, use your incomprehensible power

to kill me systematically,

Genius of Slaughter.

Very well.

However, let this be as a duel to the end.

You will die as a loss to me.

Respect tradition and give your name.

Even though it's hard to talk now...

He's awfully demanding with a dying woman.

No, maybe it's just the right thing to do.

Man, this is just too good.

Getting to die in a duel with the Genius...

It's too good an end

for a good-for-nothing like me.

I slipped up somewhere, and things got really muddled for a while...

But in the end, my life wrapped up pretty nicely, didn't it?

Think I'm gettin' drunk on my own greatness.

By the way...

What was the grudge you were holding against me?

Did we meet on some battlefield somewhere?

I got no grudge against you.

This is the first time we've ever met.

I just hate real brooding types like you.

Tora: Warrior of the Tiger,

killin' in a drunken rage.

Ushii: Warrior of the Ox, killing systematically.

They say, "Only a fool plays a harp to stop a raging bull."

But might one know a song

to pluck at the heartstrings of a music-loving bull?

Next time: To Treat a Man to Beef From His Own Cow.

Episode Eleven To Treat a Man to Beef From His Own Cow

Everybody, clap your hands!