Shulato #30
translation by Arcadia

[OP]

{Narrator} "Tenkuukai, the land of the Deva gods, protected by Vishnu. This peaceful place has been turned into a hell. Their enemies, the Asura gods have come to reawaken a war that ended 10,000 years ago. The earth is soaked with blood and the people cower in fear.  It seemed Tenkuukai would be destroyed. ShuraOh Shulato once again set out on a journey to find the Creator god Brahma's Shakti, hidden in the island of Shumisen. They need the awesome power of the Brahma shakti to defeat the Asura gods, and the only one who can wear the Shakti is Shulato, Brahma's successor. However, Shulato's rival, YashaOh Gai is also Brahma's successor."

{Title} "The Loneliness of the Chosen One"

"Hey! Hang on! Wake up!"

{Vishnu} "Go rest. I'll be okay."

"I can't do that. While there is still strength left in my body, I will do all I can to help you."

{Vishnu} "Shiva!"

{Shiva} "Stop your pointless struggling. Tenkuukai already belongs to us."

{Vishnu} "No, we still have the Hachibushu. They will protect Tenkuukai."

{Shiva} "I wonder."

{Vishnu} "You underestimate the Hachibushu. They are are best warriors. They will not lose to you."

{Shiva} "Do as you like, then."

{Akaranarta} "You sure run away fast. However, you won't be able to keep it up forever. Juuga Rekkoudan!"

{Dan} "He's just toying with us! I'm not putting up with it any more!"

{Kuuya} "Wait. It took Shulato and the three others to defeat him before."

{Dan} "What?"

{Renge} "What are you trying to say, Kuuya?"

{Kuuya} "Are you saying we don't have a chance?"

{Kuuya} "Yes, if we keep fighting apart."

{Dan} "Then-"

{Kuuya} "Let's attack together. We'll all aim at him weak point."

{Akaranarta} "You can't hide from me! I can smell you rats whereever you run to! There you are!"

{Akaranarta} "You've come to be killed, have you? Fine by me."

{Renge} "Don't count on it."

{Kuuya} "Let's go, Renge!"

{Akaranarta} "What are you trying to do with that?"

{Kuuya} "Dan, now!"

{Dan} "It's payback time!"

{Dan} "Hiba Ryuusakou!"

{Akaranarta} "How amusing! Is that your best shot? Fools!"

{Akaranarta} "What? What is this?"

{Dan} "Got him!"

{Kuuya} "Now's our chance!"

"Hachibushuu Sanrenkou!"

{Dan} "Take that! That's how powerful the Hachibushu are!"

{Akaranarta} "They scratched my Shakti! You fools are lucky! You get to live a little longer!"

{Dan} "Running away? What a coward!"

{Kuuya} "Calm down, Dan. The fight's over."

{Dan} "What?"

{Renge} "We did all we could, Dan."

{Dan} "Next time, I'll finish him!"

{Kuuya} "Shulato, Hyuga, Ryouma... Please hurry. There's not much time."

{Shulato} "Lakshu!"

{Lakshu} "I'm okay, Shulato! Just keep going! If you don't hurry, you won't catch up to Gai!"

{Hyuga} "Ryouma, we have to find some way to fight. Since we still can't use our Shaktis, what if we fought in turns."

{Ryouma} "Turns?"

{Hyuga} "Shumisen drained the Sohma from our Shaktis when we tried to attack. We can't use them again until the Sohma regenerates. That will take time."

{Ryouma} "So only one of us should fight at a time."

{Hyuga} "Yes. That way, we'll always have one person still able to use his Shakti, and Shulato won't have to fight at all."

{Shulato} "What? What are you talking about, Hyuga? Why can't I fight?"

{Ryouma} "You already know, Shulato."

{Shulato} "This Brahma successor crap?"

{Ryouma} "Yes."

{Hyuga} "I won't tell you not to fight, but your mean goal is to get to the top of Shumisen. Remember that."

{Shulato} "I know that. But I don't like being treated differently like this!"

{Ryouma} "Don't be selfish! You have a more important mission!"

{Shulato} "Not wanting to run away from a fight and abandon my friends is selfish?"

{Hyuga} "Yes."

{Shulato} "Man, why'd I have to get stuck with this Brahma successor crap?"

{Lakshu} "Shulato..."

{Shulato} "Get moving! We're trying to save Tenkuukai here! Let's do it! Come on!"

{Ryouma} "It's okay. He'll do it."

{Lakshu} "Alright, we've as good as won! Yaaay!"

{Shulato} "Lakshu!"

{Shulato} "Hold on, Lakshu! I'm coming!"

{Ryouma} "Wait."

{Shulato} "What're you doing, Ryouma?"

{Ryouma} "I'll go."

{Hyuga} "Let Ryouma handle it, Shulato."

{Hyuga} "Look out!"

{Shulato} "Hyuga!"

{Hyuga} "Sorry, Shulato. I didn't have time to use my Sohma. I guess I wasn't much help."

{Shulato} "Hyuga... You and Ryouma are both trying to help me, but..."

{Hyuga} "Are you hurt, Lakshu?"

{Hyuga} "Watch your step."

{Lakshu} "Thanks. Hey, where's Shulato?"

{Shulato} "I'm tired of having Hyuga and Ryouma protect me. I don't want anyone else to get hurt because of me. I can get the Brahma Shakti by myself. I won't let anyone else get hurt!"

{Ryouma} "Shulato must have gone ahead by himself."

{Hyuga} "What a selfish-"

{Lakshu} "Hyuga, don't talk like that!"

{Hyuga} "Sorry."

{Ryouma} "Who's there!"

{Ryouma} "You're-"

[eyecatch]

{Hyuga} "You're-"

{Antera} "Nitei Antera!"

{Santera} "Gettei Santera!"

{Antera} "You did well to make it this far."

{Santera} "Congradulations."

{Antera} "However, this is the end."

{Santera} "This will be you grave."

{Ryouma} "So you say, but we're not believeing it! We can beat you even without our Shaktis!"

{Ryouma} "Come on!"

{Hyuga} "Lakshu, leave them to us and go find Shulato."

{Hyuga} "You have an important mission, too, remember? Shulato needs your help."

{Lakshu} "Okay. Help me, Mii."

{Hyuga} "But don't tell him about us. If he knew, he'd want to come back and help. We can't allow that."

{Ryouma} "Looks like they're serious."

{Hyuga} "It doesn't matter. Let's go, Ryouma!"

{Hyuga} "Now, Lakshu!"

{Lakshu} "Let's go, Mii!"

"You won't get away!"

{Ryouma} "Don't try it!"

{Antera} "At least the little nuisance is out of the way now."

{Hyuga} "What?"

{Santera} "Now we can enjoy ourselves."

{Hyuga} "What's that?"

{Antera} "Our world."

{Santera} "And your grave."

{Hyuga} "Where are we?"

{Hyuga} "What's that sound? My head feels like it's going to explode."

{Antera} "All things are one and yet two. Two and yet one."

{Santera} "Yin and yang, love and hatred, order and chaos, creation and destruction."

{Antera} "Light and shadow."

{Antera} "Just like us."

{Santera} "Two and yet one."

{Antera} "One and yet two."

{Hyuga} "What're they doing?"

{Antera} "We are two and yet one."

{Santera} "One and yet two."

{Ryouma} "What is-"

{Hyuga} "Ryouma, look out!"

{Shulato} "You look happy with all your friends around."

{Lakshu} "Shulato!"

{Shulato} "Am I hearing things?"

{Lakshu} "Shulato!"

{Lakshu} "Shulato!"

{Shulato} "Lakshu!"

{Lakshu} "Shulato! I found you!"

{Shulato} "Hey, why;d you come alone? Where are Hyuga and Ryouma?"

{Lakshu} "It's okay, they'll catch up later. Let's get going!"

{Shulato} "Black Sohma!"

{Lakshu} "Come on, Shulato! We have to get to the summit!"

{Shulato} "What happened? What happened to Hyuga and Ryouma?"

{Lakshu} "N- Nothing."

{Shulato} "Are they fighting the Asura gods?"

{Lakshu} "Two if the Juuniratei. That weird pair that was with Gai."

{Lakshu} "Shulato! You can't! We have to get to the summit! The longer we stay here the closer Gai gets to the Brahma Shakti!"

{Shulato} "Our friends are fighting! I can't just-"

{Lakshu} "Idiot!"

{Shulato} "Lakshu?"

{Lakshu} "Shulato, you idiot! You idiot! Why can't you understand what Hyuga and Ryouma are feeling?"

{Shulato} "What they're feeling?"

{Lakshu} "They know you have an important mission, and they also know they can't do anything to make it easier. Hyuga, Ryouma, Reiga, even Renge, Dan and Kuuya. We all feel the same way. We want to do whatever we can to help you get the Brahma Shakti."

{Shulato} "Lakshu..."

{Lakshu} "Hyuga and Ryouma are keeping the enemy busy below, so now's our chance to get to the summit. Please."

{Shulato} "Okay."

{Lakshu} "Shulato! Shulato!"

{Shulato} "Hyuga, Ryouma... Don't die."

{Hyuga} "Are you okay, Ryouma?"

{Ryouma} "Yeah, for now."

{Hyuga} "We have to go on the offensive."

{Ryouma} "I'll go first."

{Hyuga} "No, I"ll do it. Let me handle it."

{Ryouma} "Now's our chance! Let's go, Hyuga!"

{Ryouma} "Om Ten Sowaka!"

{Hyuga} "TenOh Hyuga!"

{Antera} "What good will that Shakti do?"

{Santera} "You're just postponing the inevitable."

{Hyuga} "We can't win while we're stuck in their world. But where there's an entrance, there's also an exit. We just have to find it. Where is it? Where?"

{Hyuga} "When that red light was eclipsed, they attacked with the whirlwind, using magic. But  when the shone again, they fought normally. That's it!"

{Hyuga} "TenOh Goumakou!"

{Hyuga} "Ryouma!"

{Ryouma} "You did it, Hyuga."

{Hyuga} "Thanks to you."

{Hyuga} "They're back."

{Antera} "Congradulations on escaping."

{Santera} "If you'd rather die on Shumisen, that's fine with me."

{Ryouma} "Now it's my turn. Om Ryu Sowaka!"

{Ryouma} "RyuOh Ryouma!"

{Narrator} "Ryouma and Hyuga fend off the attacks of Nitei Antera and Gettei Santera. Do they have a chance? Can Shulato catch up to Gai and make it to the summit of Shumisen in time?"

[ED]

{Shulato} "Hyuga and Ryouma are having trouble with Antera and Santera. Hyuga! Ryouma! Don't die! Meanwhile, I finally catch up with Gai. Gai, why do we have to fight? Next on Shulato: 'Burn! Sohma of Friendship'. Om Shura Sowaka!"