Himura Battousai
Copyright© 2007 by Trojan_85
Chapter 123: Girls' Fight
(The soldiers look nervously at the unconscious body of Henya.)
Soldiers: No way... one kid beat Henya...
Yahiko: All right! Two to go! (His voice gets weaker--we see a huge bleeding gash across his back.) Let's give 'em... all we...
(He collapses.)
Kaoru: Yahiko!!
Kamatari: Like I said. You're all gonna die in the end.
(Kaoru turns from Yahiko to face down Kamatari.)
Misao: Kaoru!
Kaoru: It's okay. Yahiko isn't going to die so easily. Just watch yourself. We're up next!
Kamatari: Hmm. You seem a little different from that temperamental little girl here.
Misao: LITTLE--
Kaoru (stifling Misao): I'm not so different. It's just that when I take off my ribbons and put on my fighting gear, I'm neither a man nor a woman. I prepare myself for battle as an ordinary swordsman. Maybe you're the same.
Kamatari: Maybe so. But not in strength. There's a huge difference between Kamatari the Great Scythe of the Ten Swords and an ordinary swordsman.
Kaoru (under her breath): Misao, look at his weapon.
Misao: The scythe? What about it?
Kaoru: I'm guessing it weighs around eight kan. That would definitely put it in the class of heavy weapons. So it's got a lot of power, but it'll be used in huge swings that leave a lot of holes in his guard. If we aim there... I'll be the bait and draw him out. You take your chance to strike at a vital spot!
8 kan - 30 kilograms - 66 pounds.
Misao: Vital spot... (she remembers a "vital spot" that was exposed recently.) Ohhh! (Revenge is mine!)
Kamatari: Well, come on and get it!
Kaoru: You don't have to tell me twice!
(She charges; Kamatari swings the scythe downward. Kaoru flips over it.)
Kaoru: Misao!
Misao (dashing in): Right! (Got him!)
(The weighted end of the chain snakes around to strike Misao in the ribs.)
Kaoru (thinking): Oh no, the chain--(aloud) Misao!
(Misao is thrown to the lower roof of the Aoiya.)
Kamatari: You were right about the weak point of a heavy weapon, but that won't work on me. The weapon of Kamatari the Great Scythe is really a great chain scythe. The essence of the chain and scythe is an attack in waves. So--
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