Rasen no Kakera Vol. 1 p. 1 - Arinashi no Sou Written by Tachibana Kaimu Published in Wings Comics May, 1991 Translated by: Eikichi, Nov. 1996 Bishu: Already, it is just a matter of time before this mansion is destroyed. Okino: Is that my voice? Bishu: I am unable to leave. Quickly, you two must depart from here alone. Okino: What on earth am I saying? Sakuya & Wakyou: Bishu-sama! Okino: My name's not Bishu! Wakyou: I will never leave you, Bishu-sama! Okino: Huh? Sakuya: It is our place to revere you as our master. It's our job to protect you! Okino: This is me, here. P. 5 Bishu: Sakuya, Wakyo. I'm going to entrust to you my power. Okino: But there's no doubt about it, that's my face right there! Bishu: Mother: Kazuki! Wake up and shake a leg! What are you doing? P. 6 Mother: Kazuki, wake up! You're going to be late. Okino: Huh, so it was a dream? I dunno... Mother: Okino: It's too early in the morning to be shouting. I'm awake already. See, it is the same voice I heard in that dream 'Morning Mother: Hurry up and finish breakfast. Okino: Same face.... same voice... P. 7 Okino: But I'm sure that wasn't me. Like that guy's name.... And looking back on it now, something seems different. Eye color maybe... Sister: Kazuki was there something wrong earlier? Eek! Kazuki you queer! You make me sick, staring into the mirror like that! Okino: No, you've got it all wrong. I just had something in my eye! Imaizumi: Found him! P. 8 Imaizumi: I've finally found him...! Okino: See ya. P. 9 Imaizumi: Sakuya. It's me, Sakuya. Wakyo. P. 10 Okino: He has my face?! The same as the guy in the dream. Imaizumi: I've been searching for you for so long. Okino: Purple eyes! Don't -- don't touch me! P. 11 Imaizumi: Saku...ya? Okino: What the hell is this? Stay away! Imaizumi: What? Okino: Am I still in that dream? Don't get near me with that face! ... It's freaky. Imaizumi: What are you talking about, Sakuya? Okino: Don't... My name's not Sakuya!! Don't get angry at me with my own face! Just having the same face was enough in that dream. I'm starting to wonder just what I am. I don't know you at all... Imaizumi: Come off it! You have no idea what I've gone through looking for you! P. 12 Imaizumi: You really haven't awakened to it yet? With Bishu-sama's voice, you say you don't know me? You mean to say you really don't know me? Sakuya!! P. 13 Imaizumi: Remember our power! Our previous life! Bishu-sama's will! Sakuya!! If the two of us aren't together, it's all meaningless! If you don't remember.... P. 14 Wakyo: The power split between us that Bishu-sama gave us is useless if we're not together. If you don't remember.... Okino: Ah... Sakuya: So the two of us can't reach our full potential if we aren't together? Bishu: Yes. P. 15 Bishu: That might be a bit misleading. What I mean is that by making up for each other's shortcommings you will achieve a single greater power. Because I have two pupils, it can mean that. You two have differing personalites, so please cooperate in lending each other strength. If you polish your skills by watching and emulating, you will possess more power than you would separately. So what I meant to say is that you two should be together. Okino: Yes... The one with the purple eyes was talking... P. 16 Imaizumi: Up until now I've only known that that Bishu-sama is near, alive in this time. Okino: Yes... those eyes. Imaizumi: From an early age these eyes and this face has called up memories of our past life... That's why I've had to look for you, you bastard! I cannot carry on Bishu-sama's will alone! So how dare you say you don't remember anything! P. 17 Okino: I remember the color of those eyes... Bishu-sama.... Those pale purple eyes that Bishu-sama entrusted to us... Wakyo. P. 18 Okino: You cry real easily, same as always. Eyes that I absolutely must not forget... Imaizumi: Wha--? Okino: Don't cry with that face. I don't want to see Bishu-sama crying. The power from our past life... And you really should disguise those eyes until they're needed. ... that we took on from Bishu-sama.... Like that, it'll be easier for us to work together. Imaizumi: Y-- P. 19 Imaizumi: You bastard, you scared me half to death!! Okino: I'm bad at waking up. That really is Bishu-sama's face. P. 20 Imaizumi: So now we're finally together. Okino: Yeah. Box: The memories of a lifetime long past, and the great power that is not available to us unless we're together... They should have been left behind when we were reborn. But we were born into this life with those memories still, until the day when they would be needed.