A kindling flame of dispute,
or
A light called life.

F/X: Engine.
Gojyo: Wait a... timeout! Timeout!
F/X: thud thud
Hazel: This is really convenient. It's much faster than a horse carriage, isn't it, Gato?
Gato: ...Aa.
F/X: thud thud thud
Goku: So high! So interesting!
Sanzo: Can't you all just shut up and sit still!!
Hakkai: Well, how do I put it...

F/X: thud thud thud
Gojyo: Then come over and take my place, Sanzo-sama!!
Hazel: Busy, aren't you? Sanzo-han.
Goku: Sanzo~ This is the best!!
Sanzo: ...I don't believe this...
Hakkai: This -is- a bit unreasonable, isn't it?

Hakkai: Sorry, Jiipu. You'll have to endure it a while longer.
Jiipu: Kyuu-------------
Gojyo: Oi, the tall one over there!! Sit closer to that side.
Gato: Sorry.
Goku: What's with you, Gojyo. You don't have a choice 'cause you lost the Scissors Paper Stone.
Sanzo: You get off. It'll get slightly lighter.
Gojyo: I'll kill you, you shitty monk!!
Hazel: Come now. Aren't you good friends?

Gojyo: Aa, is that so!? Well I am sorry!!   [note: Gojyo is imitating Hazel's Kansai-ben here]
F/X: Engine.
Hakkai: Ah, everybody, please watch out. For bumps.
F/X: Noise.
Gojyo: (rustle) Geh.
Goku: Ah. Gojyo fell.

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1 hour ago.

Hazel: "Save the town", you said----
What happened?
Townsfolk: Yes, actually...

Townsfolk: A year ago, youkai started living in the forest that lies 7 kilometres away from this town.
Hazel: Hou... the youkai came and attacked?
Townsfolk: No, they don't actually enter the town, but...
That forest is the shortest route connecting us to the neighbouring town. Those who wanted to go through that place successively fell victim to the youkai...
Men were killed; women were... many of their whereabouts are still unknown.
Goku: Gone missing... huh. Could everyone have been eaten?
Gojyo: ...Who knows.

Hakkai: Or, they could have been intentionally kept alive.
Hazel: That's a painful tale...
Townsfolk: Please, Hazel shikyou-sama!!
Use your power to destroy all those youkai!
Just, somehow...!
Hazel: Aa... Please don't pray like that.
While it is regrettable, I am not God.
Townsfolk: Hazel-sama...

Hazel: Gods do not do anything. Praying doesn't pay dividends.
Townsfolk: ...!
Hazel: Therefore,
I shall accept your prayers.
Now please don't worry about anything.

F/X: Commotion.
Townsfolk: Hazel-sama...!!
Thank you very much!
THank you very much, shikyou-sama!

Goku: Somehow... it's scary.
Hakkai: Yes. But it's strange, isn't it?
That really doesn't seem to fit...
Sanzo: What are you trying to say.
Hazel: Well then, it's best to hurry. In which direction does those youkai's base lie?
Townsfolk: It's in the direction the forest southwest from here, and around the vicinity of a small shrine inside that forest.
It's a little far though...

Hakkai: Aa, you don't need to worry about that.
Because we have a fast mode of transport.
Right?
Gojyo: ~~~Hah?!
Goku: Ueh?!
F/X: Shocked.
Sanzo: It's -you- who accepted the request! It's got nothing to do with us.
Hazel: Don't say such cold things. It's n.o.t. g.o.i.n.g. o.u.t. of your way, is it?
Aren't you people heading towards the west too?
Hakkai: That's certainly true, but...
??: ... ...
Hazel: A ride will be fine; I'm not looking to borrow the jeep off you.

Hazel: Besides...
Goku: Besides?
Hazel: I've been wanting to try riding -that- once~
Gojyo: ... It is not a tour bus you know...

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Sanzo: Ch' Ended up with some troublesome stuff.

Hazel: Isn't it good? There's a saying "It's the company that makes the journey (pleasant)", isn't it?
Sanzo: That's a phrase that'll never have any association with me.
Hazel: You really don't like company huh~~~
Sanzo: I don't have the time for this kind of thing.
Hazel: "Sanzo Houshi"----------- Protector of the Tenchi Kaigen kyoumon, am I right?
The title of the highest priest who unifies Tougenkyou.

Sanzo: Why do you know.
Hazel: It would take an idiot to come to a foreign land without first learning something.
Sanzo: What purpose do you have in approaching us?
Hazel: Don't make such a scary face~~~
It mars a good man.
Sanzo: ... ...
Hazel: Meeting you people had really been a pure coincidence.
...so, Sanzo-han, what is it in me that you are wary of?
Sanzo: Talkative men are an untrustworthy lot. (blows smoke)
Hazel: That's mean~
But no matter what you say, Sanzo-han you are -- to me -- the unusual person.
Sanzo: ...What's with that.

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Youkai: Oi look. Finally some prey.
Two human men, huh. They're so thin that they don't seem good to eat.
Youkai #2: They look like they're riding something expensive. Must be some rare stuff.

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Hazel: Sanzo-han... have you ever been outside Tougenkyou?

Sanzo: ... ...
No.
Hazel: In the land I was in, youkai -- or "monster", as we call them --
Are just like pests.
F/X: Movement.
Youkai: Yo, yo. Monk, what are you doing in a place like this?
For your own good, give us the sutra and stuff!!

Hazel: Gato.
F/X: rustle
F/X: THUD
Youkai: !? What...?
Hazel: Please go.

F/X: Gunshots.
Goku: Somehow... they got lured by the bait easily.
Gojyo: What are we doing...
Hakkai: Yes... But, I think he doesn't intend to kill them all yet.

Youkai: (screams in fear)
Hazel: Stop.
F/X: Abruptly.
Hazel: Haha, you're in luck.
---Now, can you lead us to your hideout right this instance?