Tougen Anki Gaiden, chapter 9 translation
9 Retribution
Oniyanagi: Did you know? There is only a paper-thin difference between wanting to die and wanting to kill.
KidItonaga: Huh?
Oniyanagi:Is it really you who should die? No... It is not. It is the world that has driven you so far into a corner. Would you like to fight back together with my family against this crappy world that saddles you with an unfortunate fate simply because you were born an oni?
Itonaga: That's right... It's from that day on... that I've become Oniyanagi-san's trusted blade and assistant killing trash that meant us harm before they had a chance to kill us. That's why I can't run... I've got to kill them... The bunch that makes me suffer... makes Oniyamagi-san suffer... I can't leave any of them alive...! The ones that need to die ain't us...! The ones who must die are...!
Sakaguchi: Wha...! (Only the tip just barely went in?! What's with the abnormal thickness of his muscles?! Even though he looks so slender...!)
Ukyou: Hurts, dammit...
Sakaguchi: Itonaga, run! You mustn't fight this one!!! You'll get kil--- Ukyou: Too damn pesky, old man.
Itonaga: (Why... Why do we have to die? Why do we have to go through all this...? Why us? Why? Why? Because we're oni? Is that why we have to..?)
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Itonaga: (No... it's not because we're oni. Things we've done until now... They came back full circle to us, is all... We Oniyanagi Association are hated even by fellow oni. Because we've been using our oni power for selfish desires out of greed and have dirtied our hands with many wrongdoings. I kidnapped and confined families of innocent who were just living quietly, and after torturing them... I forced them to go berserk with drugs and killed them with my cannon shells... And they weren't the only ones. I've used the whole extend of my oni power for evil. Those in the Oni Agency will never do something like, no matter what. Unlike people like them who choose to keep their humanity we are real demons, oni in both body and soul. That's why I already knew... just tried never to dwell on it... that sooner or later... there would come a day like today when retribution would be visited upon me... On that night... I crossed the line that was not to be crossed... And since the moment when I took the hand of the side that does the killing... the one who needed to die... was not the world... but me.)
Ukyou: ...Sorry. But I decided that I'll show no mercy even to kids. Because now... I have a newborn kid of my own, and I already have my hands full trying to make her, if no one else, happy.