[translation] Saiyuki OFFROAD
series: Saiyuki
mangaka: Minekura Kazuya
chapter: Saiyuki OFFROAD doujinshi (Minekura Kazuya chapter)
scans: chinese (scanned by KaKa)
disclaimer: I do not own Saiyuki. Scans aren't mine either.
Saiyuki OFFROAD
(page)
[t/n: poem about the passing of life/days, probably of that little sprout; I'm no good with traditional poetry so I'd rather not butcher a translation]
Goku: Ah, Gojyo you bastard!!
That was my spring roll!
(page)
Gojyo: You're picky over such little things
that's why you'll always be a baby monkey.
Goku: That's got nothing to do with it!
At least I'm not a hot-blooded guy, I'm much better than a damn kappa.
Gojyo: I'm just as you say
wanna say it clearer!!?
Goku: I'd love to, you theif kappa!!
Sanzo: SHUT UP.
...jeez
fighting over the same thing everyday and making so much noise.
(page)
Goku: But, it's because that guy...!
...hey
ah?
(page)
Goku: What's going on...?
---hey!!
Where did everyone go?! Hey...
guy: ---no need for alarm
this place is in master's dream,
"Child of the Earth"
[t/n: here, the guy uses 'oshu', which means (one's) master/lord when referring to Goku]
(page)
Goku: Who...
who are you?
guy: This question is the key to truth.
Can master answer your own question?
"What are you?"
Goku: Ah?
Isn't that easy?
My name is...
guy: Your name?
Names do not prove anything.
Up until now, has master not felt uncertainty?
Everything you've seen up to now...
Perhaps everything has been nothing but a "dream".
(page)
Goku: Dream...?
guy: That's right. Master was born from the Earth...
No, moreso he is the "Will of the Earth"
---do you feel it now?
Master's been seeing things that is not of the real world.
text: It's still somewhere with nothing but ruins
The earth is still playing tricks in the dreams of its deep slumber.
(page)
guy: Up until now
no matter if it's people master has met,
things master has experienced,
or things master has seen,
---they are all
text: How many lives
How much happiness
How much distress
(page)
guy: Earth has always been watching master.
[t/n: I think the 'Earth' (daichi, meaning the earth) here is the name of the guy (he's an actual character in the Chinese Journey to the West books, as one of the guardians of the Earth)]
(page)
guy: It's an eternally spanning dream.
(page)
guy: Can master deny this reality?
Goku: Ah, it doesn't matter.
If this is all a dream,
then even if it would all disappear when I wake up
I won't regret it.
Because I have a bunch of guys that call me by my name.
And I'm perfectly fine right here right now.
---so
(page)
Goku: That's what makes me
"Son Goku"
text: Even with only a single life beginning to sprout
it has become a beginning to this world of uncertainty.
(page)
text: ---a weak sprout more fragile than anything else
absorbs water through its roots and begins to grow
Hakkai: ...ah
We let Jeep rest for just a little while
but it seems he's already fallen asleep as well.
Gojyo: He's too carefree.
I wonder what would happen if we just left him there.
text: the tree leaves would enjoy the breeze
the branches
would keep growing and growing
using these two hands
to completely bask in that sunlight
Sanzo: ...what's wrong?
you're still not getting up?
(page)
Goku: ...ah
eh?
Gojyo: You're still not awake yet?
---hey, we're leaving
Goku
text: ---if
if that tree
can truly awaken in such a place
Goku: ---wait for me!!
(page)
Goku: I really wanna eat spring rolls!!
Gojyo: Is that the first thing you say whenever you wake up?!
text: Then that is what is probably called "hope"*.
[t/n: sorry, I had this up as "freedom" in the first draft, but it is actually "hope"]
mangaka: Minekura Kazuya
chapter: Saiyuki OFFROAD doujinshi (Minekura Kazuya chapter)
scans: chinese (scanned by KaKa)
disclaimer: I do not own Saiyuki. Scans aren't mine either.
Saiyuki OFFROAD
(page)
[t/n: poem about the passing of life/days, probably of that little sprout; I'm no good with traditional poetry so I'd rather not butcher a translation]
Goku: Ah, Gojyo you bastard!!
That was my spring roll!
(page)
Gojyo: You're picky over such little things
that's why you'll always be a baby monkey.
Goku: That's got nothing to do with it!
At least I'm not a hot-blooded guy, I'm much better than a damn kappa.
Gojyo: I'm just as you say
wanna say it clearer!!?
Goku: I'd love to, you theif kappa!!
Sanzo: SHUT UP.
...jeez
fighting over the same thing everyday and making so much noise.
(page)
Goku: But, it's because that guy...!
...hey
ah?
(page)
Goku: What's going on...?
---hey!!
Where did everyone go?! Hey...
guy: ---no need for alarm
this place is in master's dream,
"Child of the Earth"
[t/n: here, the guy uses 'oshu', which means (one's) master/lord when referring to Goku]
(page)
Goku: Who...
who are you?
guy: This question is the key to truth.
Can master answer your own question?
"What are you?"
Goku: Ah?
Isn't that easy?
My name is...
guy: Your name?
Names do not prove anything.
Up until now, has master not felt uncertainty?
Everything you've seen up to now...
Perhaps everything has been nothing but a "dream".
(page)
Goku: Dream...?
guy: That's right. Master was born from the Earth...
No, moreso he is the "Will of the Earth"
---do you feel it now?
Master's been seeing things that is not of the real world.
text: It's still somewhere with nothing but ruins
The earth is still playing tricks in the dreams of its deep slumber.
(page)
guy: Up until now
no matter if it's people master has met,
things master has experienced,
or things master has seen,
---they are all
text: How many lives
How much happiness
How much distress
(page)
guy: Earth has always been watching master.
[t/n: I think the 'Earth' (daichi, meaning the earth) here is the name of the guy (he's an actual character in the Chinese Journey to the West books, as one of the guardians of the Earth)]
(page)
guy: It's an eternally spanning dream.
(page)
guy: Can master deny this reality?
Goku: Ah, it doesn't matter.
If this is all a dream,
then even if it would all disappear when I wake up
I won't regret it.
Because I have a bunch of guys that call me by my name.
And I'm perfectly fine right here right now.
---so
(page)
Goku: That's what makes me
"Son Goku"
text: Even with only a single life beginning to sprout
it has become a beginning to this world of uncertainty.
(page)
text: ---a weak sprout more fragile than anything else
absorbs water through its roots and begins to grow
Hakkai: ...ah
We let Jeep rest for just a little while
but it seems he's already fallen asleep as well.
Gojyo: He's too carefree.
I wonder what would happen if we just left him there.
text: the tree leaves would enjoy the breeze
the branches
would keep growing and growing
using these two hands
to completely bask in that sunlight
Sanzo: ...what's wrong?
you're still not getting up?
(page)
Goku: ...ah
eh?
Gojyo: You're still not awake yet?
---hey, we're leaving
Goku
text: ---if
if that tree
can truly awaken in such a place
Goku: ---wait for me!!
(page)
Goku: I really wanna eat spring rolls!!
Gojyo: Is that the first thing you say whenever you wake up?!
text: Then that is what is probably called "hope"*.
[t/n: sorry, I had this up as "freedom" in the first draft, but it is actually "hope"]