Himuro no Sakura  (Cherry Blossoms of the Ice House)
The original copyright: Kaim Tachibana and Raimu Company, 1990.
First printing: 23rd December, 1990

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                        Translated by Nataku
                     edited by Kaien and Eikichi
                version 1.0, released 4th August 2000




P.13
/The particles of pale white light dance down from the sky like cherry 
 petals..../
/Silently the white snow falls into drifts, as if.../

Touma: You seem to like the snow.


P.14
Seiji: And you are?

Touma: Oh... well, my apologies for not introducing myself first.
       My name is Touma Hashiba, and I am visiting from Musashi.
       I'm on a trip to locate important friends.


P.15
Touma: Though I call them friends, I've never met them even once.

Seiji: How difficult for you.

Touma: No... normally I'd be confident in finding them easily, but....
       The only clue leading to him seems to be well hidden.

Seiji: ...Hm...

Touma: One has a heart that burns fierce like a flame and one who leads 
       with a shining light....


P.16
Touma: One is immersed in flames; the other blocks the light.
       Almost...
       ...Like you.

<slap>

Touma: O-ow--!

Seiji: Excuse me!  Though you may be a guest, I won't tolerate you touching 
       me a second time!

Touma: You don't have to get so upset about it.

Shin: Nooo... it's natural that he's angry.  You're the one who is 
      completely rude.

Touma: Suiko.


P.17
Shin: It looks like when we awoke Kongo.

Touma: Yeah, he was against it at the time.

Shin: Should I help with waking Kourin too?  Tenkuu....

Touma: No....
       There's time.  Until the cherry blossom season....
       I've finally found him; he'll wake by my hand.


P.18
Seiji (thinking): A person who leads with a shining light?
      What was he saying.  That man....  There's no way I could be someone 
      like that.
      This eye shines no light.
      The darkness emits a haunting ghostly sensation....
      Since that day....


P.19
Demon: It's Kourin.

<slup>


P.20
Seiji (thinking): Since that day... there has been no light for me.

Touma (thinking): ...So that's it....

Touma: ...Is that how it is?... Is it already too late?....

Shin: What?

Touma (thinking): Have they already sealed away Kourin's power?!

<shiver>

Touma: Ko-Kourin's light will never shine again now....
       That explains why the armor gem didn't resonate even though we're 
       this near each other!


P.21
Touma: Seiji doesn't have Kourin's power...!!

/At the time the sakura wildly bloom..../
/The five of us chosen will gather beneath the cherry trees/
/For the sake of destroying that which is evil/
/As long as the armor's gems guide us..../

<clatter>


P.22
Seiji: O gem.  I want to learn....  I don't have the power to know the 
       truth.
       Am I the one he is searching for...?
       Will the light never return to this eye...?

<slither>

<bam>

Shin: Well!  What's going to happen to Rekka!?
      Isn't Kourin the only one who can go and find Rekka!?

<grab>

Shuu: Stop it, Suiko!


P.23
Shin: Tell me, wise general Tenkuu!
      Tenkuu found Suiko via the rain that fell from the heavens;
      Suiko found Kongo with the water that fell to the earth!
      So what about Rekka!?  Nothing but the light given off by Kourin can 
      awaken Rekka's sleeping blaze.
      Rekka... Rekka... will he keep sleeping?

Touma: Suiko....

/If the five cannot be assembled..../

<puff>

Shuu: What?


P.24
Touma (thinking): It can't be!?

Touma: KOURIN!?

/Silently the white snow falls and mounds.../
/Like perfect white flames the light dissolves the darkness..../

To Be Continued.  December 1990