Himura Battousia Book 2: Kenshins Past
Copyright© 2007 by Trojan_85
Part 199: A Naive Plan
Gatotsu Zero-shiki!!
(Saitou thrusts the sword through Mumyoui's arm from hand to elbow and sends him flying, sword still in his arm. Mumyoui screams with pain.)
Megumi: Ugh...
Sanosuke: That's the technique. It misfired against Shishio, but that's what it can really do.
Saitou (to Mumyoui): Don't howl like that. It's pathetic. Be thankful I didn't take that arm right off at the shoulder.
Kaoru: He's won...
(Mumyoui grits his teeth and takes hold of the sword, pushing it straight within his arm.)
Megumi (thinking): He used the sword to straighten the broken bone... !
Saitou: You still want to fight?
Mumyoui: Of course! I've lived these fifteen years to kill Battousai! I'd rather die than leave here without fighting him!
Saitou: Then you should hurry up and die.
Mumyoui: Just you wait!
(He runs off and disappears into the dojo.)
Saitou: Freak.
(Mumyoui crawls into the rafters of the dojo ceiling.)
Mumyoui: Dammit... I didn't want to use them. These things Enishi gave me when we left...
(He appears again at the dojo roof.)
Mumyoui: Let's go!
(He leaps forward, striking the ground, touching off an explosion. As the dust clears he is nowhere to be seen.)
Megumi: He burrowed into the ground?
Sanosuke: With that arm...
(Saitou, unconcerned, lights a cigarette.)
Saitou: So now the spider has become a mole?
Kenshin: It's a barrier.
Mumyoui: Very good, Battousai. Bandan Jiraihou! Gunpowder inside ceramic shells. They're underground bombs used in China since the Ming Dynasty! They're set off if you step on them, or if I pull the fuse--like this!
(Explosions roar up on either side of Saitou.)
Sanosuke: Merciless force. He can't move around freely now. One wrong step and they'll take both his legs off.
Mumyoui: The terror of not knowing where or how they'll explode. The terror of not being able to take a single step. And at the same time, the terror of being attacked where you stand... Watch, Battousai. Watch how another of your friends dies...
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