F/X: Gunshot.
Hazel: "I don't side anybody" -- wasn't that what you said?
Sanzo: The situation's changed.
Gojyo: Aah?
Sanzo: Oi, kid.
Stop hiding and come out.
Goku: ...?
Child: ... ... Why...?
Hakkai: Oh yes, he lives outside town...
Child: Why are you fighting...?
You are the people... who saved me...
Sanzo: ---What's wrong? Explain.
Goku: ...Sanzo?!
Sanzo: It's a dispute over this kid in the first place.
F/X: scrape
F/X: flutter
Hazel: ...Oniichan here,
wants your life.
: ... ... Eh...?
Hazel: There is a baby who died from illness. The mother is very sad.
So if I were to receive your soul, I can revive that child in your place.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Child: That... if I die,
it can save that child?
Hazel: Clever boy.
Hakkai: You don't need to listen... to such stupid things!
Hazel: ...Naa,
Hazel: To be hungry, to be chased by humans...
To be living like this, aren't you tired of it already?
Don't you think you want to be happy?
Gojyo: You...
Sanzo!! Why aren't you stopping him?!
Child: ...Un. Okay.
Child: Father too, mother as well... all youkai have gone strange.
And I heard the townspeople talking about how I would also become strange soon.
...That's why... it's okay.
Even if I die.
...Do help that child.
Hazel: ... ... Gato.
F/X: Cocks gun.
Goku: !!! STOP!!
Child: ---!!
Sanzo: ---Why are you trembling.
Child: ... because...
Sanzo: It's scary?
Child: ---!!
Sanzo: Why are you afraid?
Child: ...cos... don't want... die...
Sanzo: I can't hear you.
Child: Don't want... don't want to die...
Sanzo: One more time.
Child: I don't want to die...
Sanzo: Say it louder!!!
Child: I don't wanna dieeee!!!
Child: No... I don't want it after all!!
I don't wanna die.
I don't wanna die-----!!
F/X: waaaah
Sanzo: You hear that?
Hazel: ...Really. That's sneaky of you.
Hazel: ---To be scaring him into it.
Sanzo?: ...Pardon me then.
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Gojyo: ... ... Whaaaaaat is this---
Gojyo: How anticlimactic...
Hazel: This is no fun-----
F/X: Deflated.
Hazel: There is one thing I want to ask...
Gojyo: Ah?
Hazel: Despite you being youkai, you didn't go mad?
Hakkai: So it seems. At this moment...
Even as youkai, we are still a group of halflings after all.
Hazel: Why, that sounds very uncouth indeed.
Gojyo: Stop that already.
Hazel: ---Even so,
I don't think what I'm doing is wrong.
If that child's gone mad the next time I meet him, I will not hold back.
That goes for you too.
Goku: ... All right then,
Let's compete.
Hazel: ... ...?
Goku: Let's see whether you'll eradicate all youkai first, or whether we'll---
Hazel: Bon(you) really say the most interesting things.
---Aa, that's not it.
It's Goku-han, isn't it?
Hazel: I shall accept[?] that challenge. (F/X: scrape)
Well, I'll let you off today.
Hakkai: "Ookini"(thank you)... would that be fine?
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F/X: Thud thud thud
Gojyo: Ah------------
So much room~~~~~
Hakkai: It's lighter on the steering as well. Jiipu is saved.
Goku: But say,
I sure enjoyed myself, surprisingly?
Gojyo: ...You warm up to surly guys way too fast.
Gojyo: For one, I'll give being called "Hazel-ikkou" a miss, no thank you.
"Sanzo-sama-goikkou" is still better.
Hakkai: What is it, Sanzo?
Sanzo: ... ... Nothing... ...
//The man who controls the power of resuscitation -- Hazel Gloss
He's similar to us; if his existence were known around youkai circles now,
Would Gyuumao's side -- who continuously and doggedly targets the sutra in order to achieve Gyuumao's resurrection --
Really let that power slip through their hands?//
F/X: Thud thud
Gojyo: ---WELL,
Gojyo: Some little monkey decided to gamble of his own accord.
Sanzo?: ---If it comes to gambling,
Hakkai: Then we can't very well lose, can we?
Goku: ... ... Un. But then,
Gojyo: What now. Chickening out after bringing it up?
Goku: I -am- a tray after all...
(... ...)
Hakkai: Please don't worry, Goku.
Since I'm afraid Sanzo is "bon-san"(*monk) as well.
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Hazel: ... You
wanted to go with them, am I right?
Gato: ... ... Am I in the way?
Hazel: That's not what I'm saying---
Gato: Well then, what are you getting angry about?
Hazel: I'm not angry!!
Hazel: ... ...
Idiotic.
Gato: ? ... ...Sorry
F/X: shriek caw
F/X: flap flap flap
//!!?//
---!!?
Voice: Coming all the way here...
Welcome to "Tougenkyou", Tenshi-chan? (*tenshi=angel)
Hazel: ... ...!
You-----
Hazel: Aren't you Ukoku-han...!!
// Meanwhile, this person---
Zakuro: Dammit, where have you gone to, Sanzo-ikkou!!
So you finally fear Zakuro-sama now?!
// Has lost his way.
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And if you're interested, there is a new little mangaka-Q&A section at the back that opened with Minekura-sensei this month.
Q: What (enrichment) lessons did you take as a child?
A: When I was in elementary school, my parents told me "Try everything and we'll see what you like to do. If you dislike something, you can stop." So I tried: Monday-calligraphy, Tuesday-abacus, Wednesday-swimming, Thursday-an artist's class (since an artist lives in the neighbourhood), Friday-piano, Saturday-the local dodgeball club. In the end, nothing was left except calligraphy and art lessons... (laugh) I'm very grateful for this strategy from my parents.