PRISONER: Kagome, KAGOME --
PRISONER: -- the BIRD in the cage --
PRISONER: -- when, oh WHEN will I COME out --
PRISONER: -- in the NIGHT of dawn --
TAKAHASHI: -- the CRANE and turtle SLIPPED --
TAKAHASHI: --who is BEHIND you now ?PRISONER: Who's THERE ?
PRISONER: What kind of ONI dares to trouble my REST ?
TAKAHASHI: I am no Oni --
TAKAHASHI: -- the name is TAKAHASHI.
PRISONER: Takahashi --
PRISONER: -- a PROUD clan from the EAST --
PRISONER: -- Kyushu Island --
PRISONER: -- high BRIDGE --
PRISONER: -- many are those you SHARE the noble ORIGINS with.
TAKAHASHI: I guess you're RIGHT...
TAKAHASHI: What's yours ?
PRISONER: My NAME ?
PRISONER: That I can't REMEMBER --
PRISONER: -- that they TOOK away from me --
PRISONER: -- before they TRAPPED me in the CELL --
PRISONER: -- like a bird in a CAGE.MAEDA: Well, Mama --
MAEDA: -- if I count the PHALANGES left on this guy's HAND and READ that one's TATTOO right --
MAEDA: -- you seem to maintain rather GOOD relations with a rather DISREPUTABLE kind of people.
ATSUKO: It's called having a successful BUSINESS, Takeshi-san.
MAEDA: It'll be BAD for business if my men were to RAID the place in such a successful EVENING...
ATSUKO: It might seriously IRRITATE those disreputable people --
ATSUKO: -- and permanently COMPROMISE our own privileged RELATIONSHIP.
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MEIFUMADO - CHAPTER III PREVIEW
Mystery / Thriller"The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command ! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: let such a one be dismissed !" The Art of War - Sun Tzu