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[domonlibra]

Thank you very much Aries Mu san

this gaiden looks veeeeeeery promising, finally a story focusing on Dohko

waiting a month haven't been this long (sigh)

[Canthre]

Thank you for the scans! Holy crap, this is so far the first gaiden that may beat Albafica's one! From description it should be truly awesome 

[Hiraishin]

This gaiden looks great so far! But I'm pretty curious about Ryuushin and why he looks like Tenma. The leader has a neat character design too.

[Albafika]

Here's the Thumbnail of the RAWS for anyone willing to provide a translation for us

[Mirach]

Ok, so here goes my translation...

Heck, doesn't this gaiden really seem interesting!

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Libra Dohko Chapter 1: Senkyou (Enchanted Land)

p01
   China, Five Old Peaks
Iirin: I can see it! This is the Great Waterfall of Rozan, right, father?

   The war between Hades and Athena, unfolded in every 200 years, "The Holy War".
   Few years after this fierce fight, it is a tale of one man that survived it...

   Here rises the curtain of the magnificent Myth of the Galaxy!!

Iirin: But it seems a bit muddy.
Hao: That's right, Iirin.
Hao: It's because the world now is very stormy. It seems that the Five Peaks are somehow affected too.
Iirin: ...I see...
Iirin: Ah, we arrived! There is your friend, father!
Hao: Whoa! Where!?

p02
   The fierce Tiger stays quiet and still.
   On his back, together with his mission,
      he carries a burden of sorrow...

p03
Iirin: Is this father's...?
Iirin: I haven't seen him move at all.
Iirin: It's like he's...
Iirin: Dead!?
Hao: Let's say hello.
Hao: DOHKO!! WE'RE HERE!!!!
Dohko: Dowaah!!!

p04
Dohko: Wha... what was that just now... A crow!?
Hao: Who's a crow, Dohko? You were like a petrified corpse again.
Dohko: What was that, Hao! Don't scare me like that...
Hao: It's us here who're scared! You... were sleeping in the same pose as when we parted half a year ago!
Dohko: Ha... half a year... already...
Hao: Well, anyway, I thought it would be just like this...
Hao: I brought you some things. Some food and clothes.
Dohko: ...You're... taking care of me...

p05
Dohko: Hao! Who's this child?
Hao: Oh! But I've brought her here once already! She's my daughter, Iirin!
Hao: She will turn 11 this year!
Iirin: ...Good day...
Dohko: How's this! I was still thinking she was a baby... So grown up!
Dohko: It's good she has the beauty of her mother!
Dohko: Come here!

p06
Iirin: It's good...
Iirin: I thought that mister Dohko is a very scary person.
Dohko: Really? How's that!?
Iirin: Father always tells me tales about you, mister Dohko.
Iirin: That you are a strong warrior who survived a great war.
Iirin: Before I was born,
Iirin: there was an amazing battle between men and gods, with the world at stake, right?
 
p07
Iirin: Mister Dohko and his friends won that battle and saved the world.
Iirin: Father said you are brave as a tiger.
Dohko: What a smart child.
Dohko: But I'm not such a great warrior.

p08
Dohko: I'm just on a very, very long watch.
Iirin: ...You are... watching over something?
Iirin: This is what you're doing here? Very long, how long is this?
Dohko: Hey, hey, one question at a time!
Dohko: How long could it be already... Maybe a dozen years... or maybe it's few hundred years already?
Iirin: Come on! Nobody lives this long!
Dohko: ...Iirin. My heart is a bit different from yours.

p09
Dohko: During the last war, I was granted a secret technique from Lady Athena.
Dohko: With it my heart beats 1000 times a year, an amount of beats that normal human heart does in one day.
Dohko: Because of it, I will live few times as long as a normal human.
Iirin: ...But... It means...
Iirin: Mister Dohko, you survived from the battle and still you have to live on and on?
Iirin: You must feel so lonely!
Dohko: Now, then...

p10
Dohko: ...Well... Whenever I look at the stars, I feel like I'm hit in the chest.
Hao: Look!
Hao: It's finished, Dohko!
Dohko: I'm sorry for everything, Hao! I feel refreshed now.
Hao: So, it's that secret technique? You're aging slower than me, I envy you!
Dohko: Right now, it's you who looks like my senior!
Hao: Well, this recent unrest in the world might be the thing that make ma age too...
Dohko: What is the situation in the world?

p11
Hao: With the continuing natural disasters, the order in the cities is disturbed.
Hao: Inside the country it is quiet, but on the coast... they can't feed all those who lost their homes.
Dohko: Such... For such things to come is...
Hao: The Heavenly Dragon is angry, they used to say in the old country.
Hao: How long will it take to settle this unrest...
Dohko: The Heavenly...?
Dohko: Not good! Hao!! Iirin!! Move back!!!

p12
Iirin: Mister Dohko!!!
Dohko: My, my, you're rough, guys...
Dohko: I don't remeber doing anything deserving such attack...
Dohko: So... you don't feel like answering?
Dohko: ...Then

p13
Dohko: there is no way
Dohko: but to speak with a fist!!
Dohko: Here comes!!
Taonia: Uwaah...!!

p14
Dohko: That tattoo on your back.
Dohko: Can't be that you are...

p15
Riushin: That's right! We came from Senkyou!
Iirin: Senkyou...?
Riushin: To kill you off!
Dohko: Wha!?
Riushin: Survivor of the Holy War, Libra Dohko. Your existence became an utmost eyesore for Senkyou.
Dohko: No way!!
Dohko: Senkyou is...
Taonia: Shut up!!
Taonia: Be quiet and let us take your head!!!

p16
Taonia: Us, the Taonia!! *character meaning: Engraved Warriors

p17
Riushin: My name is Riushin!!
Riushin: I'm the leader of this troop.
Dohko: Taonia of Senkyou...
Dohko: Are you saying you have your hand in this evil?
Dohko: You are the ones that ought to protect the harmony of all living things on this continent! Surely you wouldn't act on your own!
Dohko: It can't be, the recent disorder too...

p18
Riushin: Come, now.
Riushin: Can't Senkyou ever change?
Riushin: Anyhow, you'll die!!!
Dohko: Idiot! Better kill me first and...

p19
Dohko: Not good! I'm short of breath...
Dohko: This heart...
Dohko: Looks like I'm still not used to it!!!
Iirin: Mister Dohko...!!
Hao: IIrin!!
Riushin: Did your body grow so dull!?
Riushin: I'll finish you!!!

p20
Hao: Iirin!!!
Riushin: Little miss... Move away, won't you?
Riushin: I don't want to kill unnecessarrily... But we can't waste any time too.
Iirin: No! You're cruel! Mister Dohko is all alone...
Iirin: And you're so many...!

p21
Riushin: I will kill you... seriously...
Iirin: Do as you wish!
Iirin: Some Taonia... I hate you!!
Riushin: I warned you...
Riushin: Next time, reborn as a long-living child!!
Iirin: Mister Dohko...!!

p22
Riushin: Wha... These are...
Riushin: Libra's Weapons!?
Dohko: ...Fu...
Dohko: Fufu... It seems like Libra's Weapons too...
Dohko: couldn't stand watching this...

p23
Dohko: Surely evil deeds never look good,
Dohko: young boy!
Iirin: Mister Dohko!
Riushin: Kuh
Riushin: You lost your moment!!
Dohko: I'm sorry, but I won't go easy on you evil-doers any more!
Dohko: You made me decide at once!
Dohko: Take this!! The roar of the flying dragon!!!

p25
Dohko: ROZAN RYUUHISHOU!!!
Riushin: ...No way...
Riushin: It's totally diffrent than before...
Riushin: UWAAAH!!!

p26
Dohko: Phah
Dohko: Haah
Dohko: Haaa... it's pitiful...
Iirin: Mister Dohko... Are you all right...?
Dohko: With fewer heartbeats, fight is so tiring...
Dohko: I need to get used to it little by little...
Riushin: Kh... ...Hell...

p27
Dohko: I can't let you go back already.
Dohko: I'd like to hear from you... about what happened with Senkyou.
Dohko: Because it's a place where I trained once.
Riushin: Heh. Then maybe better for you not to hear about it.
Dohko: Don't you say things like this!
Dohko: Come on!! Get up an show your face...

p29
Tenma: If there is any future, we'll sure meet again.
Tenma: Let's meet on the earth... Dohko!!
Dohko: ...Tenma?

p30
   Senkyou

p32
Fuui: Riushin was killed by the Young Tiger. *name character meaning: "ash"
Muudan: Ah, ah. Indeed. I thought you didn't notice. /I thought we'd play... *name character meaning: "tree peony"
   (kanji character: "lovely")
Fuui: Let go of that stupid brat, Muudan.
Fuui: That Tiger won't be killed that easy.
   (kanji character: "fierce, wildness")
Muudan: Exaggerating is stupid, Fuui. That kid just didn't understand
Muudan: that Lord Hakutaku's eyes see everything...
*name meaning: lit. "white marsh", Chin. Bai Ze - fantastic beast with (usually) nine eyes and six horns, considered to be very intelligent

p33
Hakutaku: That's true, Muudan. I, Hakutaku, can see every living thing with my eyes.
Hakutaku: And that is how I obtained Senkyou.
Hakutaku: ...However,
Hakutaku: these eyes keep showing me bad things.
Hakutaku: Selfish, stupid persons pursuing their own ambitions...
Hakutaku: In the Holy War 12 years ago, there was someone like this...
Hakutaku: As for the Holy War itself... In the world ruled by Hades there is no organization.
Hakutaku: He never understood the greatness of this world, that is, the current of life.

p34
Hakutaku: To rule this world, you need to gain knowledge of all living things as natural providence.

p35
Hakutaku: That is to say, it is me, Hakutaku, who is appropriate to be the Emperor of Heaven and Earth!!
Taonia: ...Ha...!!!

p36
Hakutaku: And yet I can see it. That Young Tiger makes us unhappy...
Fuui: Yes. That one... Dohko, was once a student in Senkyou.
Fuui: He followed the call of his own destiny star and choose the way of Athena's Saint.
Fuui: And he is the man who survived that Holy War.
Fuui: He will surely come here, to Senkyou!!

p37
Hakutaku: Fuui...
Hakutaku: You trained along with that Tiger...
Hakutaku: Will you kill him?
Hakutaku: Your former companion!
Fuui: Without doubt.
Fuui: Besides, we weren't any companions.
Fuui: If I just hear his name, I feel the throbbing of fangs on my back.

p38
Fuui: They want to rip open the Tiger's throat.
Fuui: The fox on my back won't stand him!!!

p39
Hakutaku: Very well...
Hakutaku: Then go and finely rip this link of fate.
Hakutaku: ...I will be watching, Nine-Tailed Fox!!
Fuui: Ha!

p40
Riushin: It hurts!!!
Riushin: It hurts! Hurts!!
Riushin: Loosen these a little, Libra!!!
Dohko: If they weren't tight, you'd run away.
Riushin: Like sure I would!! What are you saying, idiot!!!
Dohko: But... not only the face, you're exactly the spitting image of Tenma...
Dohko: They say that in the world there live 3 people just like you...
Iirin: ...Hey, mister Dohko.
Iirin: Who's that mister Tenma? The one that Riushin reminds you of?

p41
Dohko: He does, though unwillingly.
Dohko: Tenma was a boy who was like a younger brother to me.
Dohko: No matter what happened, he'd go forth to keep the promise he made to his friend, and fight desperately.
Dohko: I don't know of his whereabouts since the last Holy War.
Iirin: Eh... the war?
Iirin: So... is he... also...
Dohko: ...Well. It might be he died long ago, but it might be he's living somewhere.
Dohko: If he's alive, he'd be far older than this one here, 26 or 27.

p42
Dohko: But I think I want him to live somewhere.
Dohko: During this war he suffered many wounds, fulfilling his important role.
Dohko: I'm praying for it with all my heart.
Riushin: Aaah!! Boring crap!!!
Riushin: How long can you blabber about some dead person I look like!!!

p43
Riushin: I can't believe, you kept me alive simply because I remind you of that guy!?
Riushin: I'm gonna puke!!
Dohko: Are you an idiot!!!?
Dohko: Unexpectedly, you're such an over-self-conscious guy!!!
Riushin: ... /...over...self-conscious?...
Dohko: There is still something I need to hear from you!
Dohko: The way to Senkyou!!
Dohko: Senkyou exists between this world and the another. I know the entrance changes place once every year!
Hao: Dohko! Don't tell me you...
Dohko: Yeah.

p44
   The past that seemed forgotten invites the Tiger to the stage of a new fight!!
Dohko: I could call that place my second homeland.
Dohko: If it's so...
Dohko: I have no choice but to go!
Dohko: To Senkyou!!

[Nemui]

That's a promising beginning for this gaiden I hope we get some flashbacks about Dohko's past. I'm wondering about Riushin, too.

I'm reading in japanese, but I liked your translation ^^ Very well done. 

[Dohko-zep]

p33
Hakutaku: That's true, Muudan. I, Hakutaku, can see every living thing with my eyes.
Hakutaku: And that is how I obtained Senkyou.
Hakutaku: ...However,
Hakutaku: these eyes keep showing me bad things.
Hakutaku: Selfish, stupid persons pursuing their own ambitions...
Hakutaku: In the Holy War 12 years ago, there was someone like this...
Hakutaku: As for the Holy War itself... In the world ruled by Hades there is no organization.
Hakutaku: He never understood the greatness of this world, that is, the current of life.

p34
Hakutaku: To rule this world, you need to gain knowledge of all living things as natural providence.

p35
Hakutaku: That is to say, it is me, Hakutaku, who is appropriate to be the Emperor of Heaven and Earth!!

Thank you for the complete scans and translation, thta's great, folks ...


Again, I'm feeling very interesting in enjoying the new gaiden, not just seeing it chapter by chapter coming ... I hope this is a very good story.


Reading the translation, I think it deserves a more-than-just-one-tankonbon, it's potential to be a serious continuation of Lost Canvas that can involve Sanctuary ... Like Hakutaku said as quoted above ...

As for the Holy War itself... In the world ruled by Hades there is no organization.
Hakutaku: He never understood the greatness of this world, that is, the current of life.

p34
Hakutaku: To rule this world, you need to gain knowledge of all living things as natural providence.

p35
Hakutaku: That is to say, it is me, Hakutaku, who is appropriate to be the Emperor of Heaven and Earth!!

Is it possible that Hakutaku is an incarnation of - maybe- a "Chinese" or other "Greek" deity (like Youma) ? Nobody say such statements if he's not on that qualification ... Let's see in the next chapter ...