Japan Tengu Party Illustrated
	 Volume 3
	  Chapter 21
	   Of the Tengu Who Live in the Mountains

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Chapter 21 - Of the Tengu Who Live in the Mountains

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Master: We spit upon the tyranny of the establishment!
	Fie on thee!

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TV: Pursuit Special 25
	Mysteries of the Tengu Party
	Search for Takama, aka. Professor

Host: Good evening.
	With this series, we have followed the Professor's trail.
	The series has been on halt in the wake of the recent events,
	But suffice to say given what has transpired, the Professor's existence is more important than ever.

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Host: We received eyewitness accounts of a very similar man at a soba shop at Naka-azumi in Nagano.

Cook: Talkin' about trekkin' in the hills. You'd recognize a face like that.
	Huh? Oh yeah, ordered a kake soba.

Host: The professor slurped his kake soba and vanished into the hills.

TV: PPP News Report

Host: Oh, hang on, we have an update.
	What's that?

TV: At 23:40 this evening, the headquarters of police at the Sakurada Gate in Chiyoda were attacked.

Host: But we're just about to go to our team in the field.
	I'm sorry, I must interrupt this program with a report. Police HQ in Tokyo has been-

TV: We will keep you informed as details become available.

Host: They're there? On the scene? We have visual?
	All right. We're going to interrupt our show for a live report.

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TV: This is the police department building, melting.
	Yes, it is melting. Can you believe this? Melting.
	How can this be? It's MELTING.
	Oh my God, oh my GOD.
	I don't even know what to say!

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TV: Hello, can you hear me? Is the attack coming from the west?
	West? Yes, west! Northwest, in fact.
	That would be from Shinjuku.
	Shinjuku, come in. Can you hear me?
	Yes, Shinjuku team is here.
	Ahh, I can see now.
	Would that be... saliva, then?

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TV: This is the scheduled time for our "Searching for Professor Takama" special,
	but we have broken away to bring you news of a Tengu Party attack on Police Headquarters.
	Despite all that has happened in recent days, it's unheard of for the Tengu Party to directly attack the authorities.
	Yes, and these are direct saliva attacks coming at the building.
	Is there even a defense for saliva?
	If this kind of attack is possible, then all the central agencies in the capital will be endangered.
	There must be a counterplan before the Diet is literally dissolved!

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Crew: What's that?
	Campsite, with a TV too.
	Make sure to get that.
	You can see the bivouac remains.
	The professor must be close. What is he doing in these mountains?

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Crew: As the field crew, we must unravel this mystery.
	Orders. Back to HQ we go.
	Why?
	The government agencies are deserting Tokyo. There's a naval ship in Shibaura already full of 'em.
	Gotta go back ASAP.
	And thus the answers must wait.
	Better get back while we still can.
	Will they relocate the capital?
	We get all this way, SO close!
	And now we have to turn back. Alas...

Crows: Hear that?
	Victory for the party.
	But now they're leaving.

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Crows: We could have followed them to the Evil Eye.
	If we have to search on our own, we could be in peril.
	Bah! Too late for that.
	Such a shame to leave so close.
	No.
	If one of us should fall, the rest can return to Central, to report.
	There are seven of us, after all.
	At any rate, he is close.
	Better to die in glory than in your sleep.
	Seven is a good number.
	Seven is after six.
	What's after seven?
	I've no idea.
	Neither have I.

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Crows: More than seven is a lot.
	A lot is a lot.
	Seven is a lot too.

Crew: We were SO close.
	This is more important than that.

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Crew: If we leave now, we'll lose the trail.
	And where will you GO if we don't get back home?

Shinobu: Huh?

Crow: Seven crows within the mountains ahead.
	The Evil Eye you seek is close.

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Shinobu: He's close?

Crow: The information is good.

Shinobu: Why tell me?

Crow: To repay a debt.
	One good deed repays another.
	And thus,
	I may no longer return to the Party.
	I will now be just another wild crow.

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Crow: For the rest of my life.
	Farewell.

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Uncle: Put it out. The smell will carry.

Shinobu: Huh?

Uncle: What did you put in? Just salt?

Shinobu: But I got all kinds of stuff.

Uncle: We'll use them for a trap.
	It's been hard enough to avoid shooting my glance outward.

Shinobu: What trap?

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Uncle: It's been a while.
	How did it go after that?

Shinobu: What trap are you talking about?
	What are you doing?

Uncle: Well, the fact that you're out HERE tells me...

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Uncle: Not good.
	If the Tengu Party runs the world,
	You and Shinobu
	And I
	will be pushed from our place.
	Not that I know where that is.

Shinobu: Tengu are forever without a place.

Uncle: No? Place?
	We do have a place, you and I.
	We're right here.
	How can you not BE in the place that you are?
	Not in a place you are.

Shinobu: Well, for example.

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Shinobu: The night I arrived at the house.

<<Voices: It's the middle of the night.
	Who could it be?
	She says she's my sister.
	Huh?
	Shinobu's right here. What do you mean?
	Hello?

<<Lock: Click

Shinobu: The door was opening,
	but it wasn't opening to welcome me inside.
	I stood before a door without meaning.
	How could that be? I was there, but I was not.

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Shinobu: I did not want to be there. So I ran.
	I ran as though flying.
	And the Party didn't wait for me, either.
	I ran.
	The sister my brother awaited was another person.
	I ran.
	I couldn't make Junichi wait for me.
	I ran.
	I ran from humans, I ran from tengu. I landed nowhere.

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Shinobu: I still haven't
	arrived anywhere.

Uncle: The Tengu Party
	has arrived in a false place.
	But there already WAS something in that place.
	Which means the Party...
	Let me show you the trap.

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Crows: That smells good.
	Where is it?
	Wait!
	It could be a trap.
	Yes.
	It's a trap.

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Crows: As if a tengu would be caught in such a stupidly obvious trap.
	This fellow has quite feeble brains for a "professor."
	It smells good.
	Something comes!
	Only a stupid beast would fall for this.
	Don't speak.
	I'm hungry.

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Uncle: "Tengu" is
	the name we give
	to the cause of otherwordly phenomena.
	A feature of explanation.
	The illusions of
	stars, wind, birds, kidnapped girls, drunken fights.
	There are other things "tengu" can describe. To some,
	it is what they are; what humans are to them.
	In order for tengu to be tengu, the description must not fail to substantiate.
	Otherwise, the self and the world will collapse. Life becomes internal. Doubt and fear arise.
	In order for them to cling to the tengu concept and continue being tengu, they must fly, they must show magic.

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Uncle: I was shown it; I saw it.
	And what I saw
	became truth to me.
	What I believed became truth,
	and truth was what I believed. However,
	it was not half-baked.
	There are as many truths as believers.
	When truth and truth
	come to collide, one's power
	to believe explanation is questioned.

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Uncle: Another theory.

Shinobu: Lots of tengu.

Uncle: I saw what is inside.

Shinobu: What? What's in there?

Uncle: To those tengu, tengu are
	the descendants of mountain-dwelling ascetics, who surpass human understanding, stride through the air, and use magic.

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Uncle: On the other hand,
	Here we have, neither human nor bird,
	A creature that lives a lonely life in the mountains, unintelligent and unflying.

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Shinobu: What...
	is THAT?

Uncle: A tengu.

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