Namco × Capcom/Story/S9:StageA
《Makai: Path of Penance》
Ryu: "Everywhere looks so similar."
Ken: "Hold on, Ryu."
Ken: "...Hey, shouldn't we have gone to that castle we saw earlier? We might have been able to get a place to stay there."
Ken: "If Chun-Li and Sakura and the others are going through the same thing as us... we might have been able to meet them."
Ryu: "...That's true."
Ryu: "But I felt a malevolent 'presence'. That's why you didn't force the issue, right, Ken?"
Ken: "...Well, yeah."
Ken: "It wasn't so much the atmosphere that bothered me, but the fact that it was so typical."
Ken: "In horror movies, nothing good ever happens in old castles like that."
Ryu: "Is that so?"
Ken: "That's how it is."
Ken: "Anyway... how much longer do we have to walk?"
Ryu: "Just think of it as training. It's not an experience you get very often."
Ken: "...Sometimes I think you're an incredible masochist..."
Ryu: "That's how you gradually get stronger. That's what's good about it."
Ken: "When you put it that way... it reminds me of our training days."
Ken: "There was our sensei, and there was you."
Ryu: "Ah... But our sensei is no longer here."
Ryu: "And this incident began from the moment I stood before his grave."
Ryu: "It was after I met you... Akuma...!"
Ken: "What?!"
(Akuma appears)
Akuma: "..."
Ken: "You...!"
Ryu: "...As I expected, Akuma."
Ken: "Heh, acting like some demon from hell, huh?"
Ken: "What did you come here for?! Huh!?"
Akuma: "Do not bark, little one. If you are consumed by fear, only defeat awaits you."
Ken: "Are you saying I'm scared? You...!"
Ryu: "Don't fall for his tricks, Ken."
Ryu: "...Akuma, why are you here? No, more importantly...where is this place?"
Akuma: "This is the place closest to the 'Underworld'."
Akuma: "The 'wall' that separated the world of men and the world of non-humans has crumbled, and everything is about to merge into one."
Ryu: "So, the monster incidents are the work of those who came from that world...that is, from here to our world...is that right?"
Akuma: "That is not the important thing. The important thing is why the 'wall' crumbled."
[Location: In Front of Shinra HQ]
Ken: "Don't talk in such a roundabout way, old man. ...You're the one who told us to go to Roppongi, right?"
Ken: "...That means you knew this would happen!"
Akuma: "..."
Ryu: "Answer me, Akuma...!"
Akuma: "..."
Ken: "Why aren't you saying anything!"
Akuma: "...Words cannot express anything."
Ryu: "Are you saying we should speak with our fists?"
Akuma: "Precisely. My name is Akuma..."
[Stage Title Card: I Am the Master of the Fist]
vs Akuma
Ryu/Ken
Ryu: "Akuma! Why! Why...!"
Akuma: "Enough. ...What we should exchange is not words, but our honed fists and perfected techniques."
Ken: "You're still such an old-fashioned guy. ...That's not in style these days, you know?"
Akuma: "You vulgar fool. Don't spout nonsense."
Ryu: "I don't care either way."
Ryu: "What I want to know is the truth, Akuma."
HP below 70%
Akuma: "You've done well, you little brats of Gouken!"
Ryu: "Don't you dare utter that name...!"
Ken: "Alright, the fighting's over! Now it's time for some talking!"
Ryu: "Akuma, answer me!"
Ryu: "What do you know!? Why did you know that this incident would happen in Roppongi?!"
Akuma: "..."
(8 Skeletons appear)
Ken: "Tch, did we make too much noise?!"
Ken: "Monsters are coming!"
Akuma: "...They've sensed my fighting spirit."
Akuma: "Hmph, this is also quite entertaining."
(Akuma Ashura Warps to the Buddha statue)
Ken: "You bastard, are you trying to escape?!"
Akuma: "...The time for talking is over."
Ken: "Tch, that's too short!"
Ryu: "Akuma! Why did you need to involve that girl... Sakura-chan?!"
Akuma: "...It will be meaningless unless you yourself arrive at the answer."
Akuma: "Think about it while you deal with these guys."
Ken: "Hehe... Hey Ryu, if that guy gets beaten up by the monsters like this, it looks like we'll be able to easily get some answers out of him, right?"
Ryu: "...That's not going to happen. All the monsters... fear him."
Ken: "Tch... I know. I was just kidding."
Ken: "Let's go, we have to silence the outsiders!"
Ryu: "Akuma...!"
Akuma: (Hehehe... The reason I involved that girl... It's because she is the key to awakening your "power"...)
9 actions taken
(Your team appears)
Sakura: "Ryu? It's Ryu!"
Ryu: "Sakura!?"
Ken: "So, Sakura-chan and the others were blown away too!"
Akuma: "...They've come."
Karin: "The man of 'Heaven'...!? Why are you in a place like this!?"
Jin: "'Heaven'...!? Could it be the one who has mastered the fist... Akuma!?"
Shion: "What are you talking about...?"
Shion: "KOS-MOS! Are those two over there the real ones!?"
KOS-MOS: "The two who went missing in 'Roppongi' match the person data."
KOS-MOS: "Details about the other person named 'Akuma' are unknown."
M.O.M.O.: "Um... about that Akuma person, I'm detecting some kind of energy reaction that I can't analyze..."
Shion: "Energy...? They're human, aren't they!?"
Ryu: "...I wonder."
Akuma: "Hmph, what a nuisance, all of you."
Akuma: "I thought you had vanished into some unknown world... but you appear before me."
Jin: "An unknown world...?"
Jin: "...Do you know that multiple worlds exist!?"
Hideo: "Akuma... right?"
[Location: Justice Academy]
Hideo: "I'm grateful for you helping Kasugano in front of the academy before."
Kyoko: "Could you tell us something else while you're being so kind? Something you know."
Akuma: "...Don't get carried away."
Akuma: "To be defeated by a mere aberration of that level is utterly ridiculous. ...I have no words to waste on the weak."
Sakura: "Hey! That's going too far!"
Ken: "Stop it, Sakura. ...We have no choice but to do this."
Ryu: "...Ah, there are still monsters around."
Ken: "Speaking of which, you guys... You're like the same group from that time."
Ken: "...No, there are fewer of them. Not everyone was sent here, were they?"
Ken: "That's right, what about Chun-Li!?"
Hideo: "I don't know."
Hideo: "However, another group is heading to a different location."
Hideo: "I hope she'll be found there..."
Sakura: "It'll be alright! Ryu and Ken were found, after all!"
Ryu: "You're always so positive."
Sakura: "Oh, um... I'm blushing."
Karin: "...What are we doing in this hellish place, where there's no romance whatsoever?"
KOS-MOS: "I believe we should begin combat."
Sakura: "That's right!"
Sakura: "Ryu...!"
Ryu: "Yeah...!"
Klonoa: "..."
Gantz: "What's wrong, Klonoa?"
Klonoa: "We're pretty much out of the loop, aren't we?"
Gantz: "It's fine."
Ken: "Huh? Wh-what's going on?"
Ken: "Hey, you guys! This isn't a game! Don't wear those costumes!"
Gantz: "See?"
Klonoa: "...I get it..."
Klonoa: "But we have to clear up the misunderstanding, and we can't just leave people in trouble, and that guy seems like a bad guy..."
Klonoa: "Anyway, we have to fight!"
Ryu: "It seems those kids can be considered allies."
Ryu: "...Now we're on even footing, Akuma."
Akuma: "Nothing will change even if you all gang up on me. The time has come...!"
Ryu: "Akuma, I will defeat you. And I will make you tell me the truth!"
vs Akuma
Jin
Jin: "A martial artist of legendary status... To think I'd have the chance to face someone who has mastered the fist."
Akuma: "...Boy, if you have any doubts in your heart, leave. You are not worthy of exchanging blows with me."
Jin: "Doubts, you say? ...Perhaps. But I willingly abandoned the Mishima style."
Akuma: "..."
Jin: "And the new power I've gained... I'll put it to the test."
Akuma: "...Very well. Come, boy."
Sakura & Karin
Karin: "The man who has mastered the fist, the man of 'Heaven,' Akuma. It's an honor to meet you."
Akuma: "My fist is not something a mere girl like you can comprehend."
Karin: "Well, we'll see about that."
Sakura: "This scary guy is pretty famous..."
Karin: "...Sakura. If you're going to be a Street Fighter, you should study the basics before focusing on techniques."
Sakura: "The one who has mastered the fist... Akuma..."
Akuma: "You are that man's... Hehehe..."
Akuma defeated or 16 actions taken
Akuma defeated
Akuma: "Heh... you've done well...!"
Ryu: "What are you testing, Akuma...!? Why don't you just say it clearly!?"
Akuma: "I told you it's meaningless unless you realize it yourself."
Klonoa: "I thought we defeated him... but he seems pretty energetic..."
Ken: "He's always like that."
KOS-MOS: "His physical damage appears to be rapidly repairing itself. The method is unknown... unanalyzable."
Karin: "As expected of the legendary martial artist... He's probably using a special breathing technique."
Jin: "Ah, this guy's going to be a tough one."
Sakura: "Even so, there's a limit!"
Gantz: "Heh, he's just tough, that's all."
Gantz: "Then... I'll just keep shooting until he stops moving."
Akuma: "...Interesting, go ahead and try."
Regardless
(3 Toads and 4 Spear Skeletons appear)
Akuma: "Hmm...?"
Ken: "Tch, just when things were getting interesting...! A whole bunch of things have gathered here."
Sakura: "Skeletons... and toads!?"
KOS-MOS: "They appear to be creatures from this world."
Shion: "F... frogs...!"
Shion: "Skeletons are fine, but... amphibians are a bit..."
Akuma: "...Just when things were about to get serious, it's gotten noisy."
Ryu: "Akuma, this has nothing to do with our fight."
Akuma: "That's what I'd like to say, but..."
(Kiso Yoshinaka and 2 Onihimes appear)
??? "Hmph, to think there would be such people in this world."
Jin: "Humans...? Are those humans?!"
Klonoa: "Could it be that those people are also from Busshitsukai?"
Hideo: "Armor from the late Heian period...?"
Hideo: "And a twelve-layered kimono... from our world...?"
??? "...I thought I felt a strange 'presence'... Who are these people?"
Gantz: (...Hmm? Are these guys from Moryokai...?)
Akuma: "...Hmph, my interest is gone."
Ryu: "What?! Akuma, wait!"
Akuma: "Don't be in such a hurry, we will meet again. ...Just like you met that girl again."
Sakura: "Huh!? Me!?"
Sakura: "It was the same in front of Justice Academy too... What are you trying to say, old man!"
Akuma: "Wait for that time... Hehehe."
(Akuma retreats)
Ryu: "Akuma!"
Ken: "Tch. 'The time has come,' 'Wait,'... I can't understand a word that guy says."
Klonoa: "But, that scary old man... he doesn't seem to be an ally of the new army that arrived."
Gantz: "Heh, it's the same thing if they're enemies."
??? "What are you all doing making such a fuss? You strange creatures."
??? "It seems one of them escaped... but oh well. It seems you all... have come from a different world."
Jin: "Why do you know that...!?"
Jin: "...I see, so you're also one of those demons' accomplices."
??? "Demons?"
??? "If you're talking about the Lord Kamakura, then that disrespectful way of speaking... I, Kiso Yoshinaka, cannot forgive it."
Hideo: "Lord Kamakura... and Kiso Yoshinaka..."
Hideo: "Kiso Yoshinaka...!? Are you saying you are Minamoto no Yoshinaka!?"
Yoshinaka: "Ho, you know about me...?"
Klonoa: "Pops looks so serious, but he's acquainted with someone like that. That's surprising."
Kyoko: "That's impossible, Klonoa."
Kyoko: "Hideo-sensei? Minamoto no... does that mean he's from the Genji clan?"
Hideo: "...That's right."
Hideo: "Kiso Jiro Yoshinaka... If that name is not false, then he was a real person who existed in the late 1100s..."
Ken: "R-real person...? Does that mean he's from the world we were in?"
Hideo: "Yes... He's a Japanese warlord. 'Lord Kamakura' is said to be another name for Minamoto no Yoritomo."
Jin: "Nonsense! The Genji clan!? Are you saying this is a world from 900 years ago!?"
Karin: "Please wait. Don't you remember the words of the Goddess Ishtar?"
Karin: "...There's a possibility that he came to this world from a past timeline."
KOS-MOS: "...Unfortunately, that possibility is impossible."
Shion: "W-what do you mean, KOS-MOS?"
KOS-MOS: "I performed a scan of the target individual. The constituent components are undoubtedly human."
KOS-MOS: "However..."
Sakura: "Huh? Isn't he a person from the past who time-slipped?"
M.O.M.O.: "From a biological standpoint... he's already 'dead'."
Ken: "Hold on a minute, girls."
Ken: "What's going on? Explain it to me."
M.O.M.O.: "In other words... he's like Hsien-Ko."
Sakura: "Eh!? You mean he's a zombie!?"
Yoshinaka: "I came here to replenish the troops on the orders of Lord Kamakura... Kukuku... This should provide some entertainment."
Yoshinaka: "Now, let's go...!"
vs Skeleton
Klonoa & Gantz
Klonoa: "The monsters in this world are kind of creepy."
Gantz: "It doesn't matter. All that matters is whether they're friend or foe."
vs Toad
Shion & M.O.M.O.
Shion: "There are some... really strange frogs here... Ugh~"
M.O.M.O.: "Um... do you dislike them?"
Shion: "I'm used to seeing human skeletons as a research subject, so that's not a problem..."
KOS-MOS: "Then this incident seems like a good opportunity to deepen your understanding of amphibian anatomy."
Shion: "...That's one way to look at it."
M.O.M.O.: "D-dissection...?!"
M.O.M.O.: "L-let's not do that."
vs Toad/Spear Skeleton/Onihime/Kiso Yoshinaka
Klonoa & Gantz
Klonoa: "Gantz, are these guys... could they be...?"
Gantz: "Yeah, they're probably from Moryokai. ...It looks like the dimensional wall is really crumbling now."
Klonoa: "Busshitsukai, Moryokai... and we're from Gensokai."
Klonoa: "Wow, that's amazing!"
Gantz: "Is this really the time to be laughing?"
Gantz: "Let's go, Klonoa!"
Jin
Jin: "Skeletons, ghosts, even giant frogs are fine... but armored warriors and people in kimonos, are they really from the Sengoku period...?"
Hideo & Kyoko
Hideo: "A Genji warrior and a woman in a twelve-layered kimono... I never thought we'd be fighting people from the past..."
Kyoko: "No, Hideo-sensei. Just because they look similar doesn't mean they're human."
Kyoko: "We mustn't be fixated on appearances."
Hideo: "Yes, you're absolutely right."
Hideo: "There's only one thing we can do now..."
vs Onihime/Kiso Yoshinaka
Ryu/Ken
Ken: "Hey, I've seen guys dressed like this somewhere before."
Ken: "Were they Japanese samurai? And... a geisha girl?"
Ryu: "Yeah. ...But why would a general from the Genji clan be in a place like this?"
Ken: "If I could figure that out, I wouldn't be having this trouble. Besides, we don't have time for that."
Ryu: "...That's true."
Ryu: "We have no choice but to accept the challenge."
Sakura & Karin
Karin: "Are they really people from the Heian period?"
Sakura: "Kanzuki, this isn't the time to be hesitating. This bloodlust... it's real."
Karin: "I'm not hesitating at all."
Karin: "My Kanzuki-Ryu was developed as a technique to annihilate enemies unarmed during battle, you know?"
Karin: "The chance to test it... my heart is pounding with excitement."
Sakura: "...Oh, right."
Sakura: "Then there's nothing to worry about..."
Yoshinaka defeated
Yoshinaka: "What?! These guys... they're strong...! ...I must report this to Lord Kamakura...!"
Hideo: "Lord Kamakura... where is Minamoto no Yoritomo?"
Kyoko: "You're not going to say he's in a place like hell, are you?"
Yoshinaka: "'Hell'... Hehehe... We have returned from far beyond that place."
Yoshinaka: "Everything... is for revenge...!"
Jin: "Revenge?! What are you talking about?!"
Yoshinaka: "It's none of your concern. But... if you resist, I will show no mercy..."
Karin: "We won't let you escape! You're a valuable source of information!"
Yoshinaka: "I have nothing to say."
(Yoshinaka retreats)
Klonoa: "Ah, he got away."
Ken: "'From far beyond the depths of hell'? ...He's completely incomprehensible."
Ken: "Ryu, did you understand anything?"
Ryu: "Is he saying they came across the 'Sanzu River'?"
Sakura: "But... that person... is dead, right?"
Sakura: "It might not be entirely wrong..."
M.O.M.O.: "Um... Mr. Kazama. What is the 'Sanzu River'?"
Jin: "It's a river that the souls of dead people cross... That's just a Japanese folktale, though..."
Jin: "Phew... I'm starting to feel like this is the real 'hell'."
Shion: "It's getting more and more confusing."
Shion: "KOS-MOS, do you know anything?"
KOS-MOS: "..."
Shion: "K-KOS-MOS?"
(KOS-MOS's eyes are blue)
KOS-MOS: "Shion... Where does my 'soul' go after death?"
KOS-MOS: "...And what exactly is 'death' for me?"
Shion: "What's wrong all of a sudden, KOS-MOS...?"
(KOS-MOS's eyes return to red)
KOS-MOS: "..."
Gantz: "Hey, hey, whatever! It doesn't matter!"
Gantz: "Are there any other enemies?!"
If there are any enemies remaining
Ken: "Yeah."
Ken: "...There are still a few left... but they're just weaklings."
Ken: "Let's wipe them out!"
All enemies defeated
Klonoa: "It looks like this is the last enemy."
Klonoa: "Ah, I'm tired. I feel like taking a break."
[Location: In Front of Aensland Castle]
Karin: "I'm worried about the other team. Let's go back to the front of that castle."
Ken: "Good grief, all that's left is Chun-Li."
Sakura: "But well, we found Ryu and Ken, so at least that's good."
Jin: "...We can't just be celebrating. A new problem has arisen."
Hideo: "That's right."
Hideo: "Where exactly is this place, and where did the man who called himself Kiso Yoshinaka come from?"
Gantz: "...That bastard, he's probably from Moryokai."
Shion: "Moryo...?"
Shion: "Does that mean, like Ishtar said, he's from another world?"
Klonoa: "We came from a different world than this one too."
Klonoa: "Well, we hardly have any interaction with Moryokai..."
Kyoko: "Wait a minute. Isn't that... strange?"
Kyoko: "Why would the 'past era' in our world be considered a 'different world'?"
KOS-MOS: "It's possible that the name of the era has changed, just like how the year changes."
Karin: "There was no era that was called 'Moryokai'."
Karin: "Besides... it's unthinkable that a Sengoku-era warlord would have the ability to command demons and monsters."
M.O.M.O.: "Then why is that?"
M.O.M.O. "Also... I'm concerned about that person's reaction... it was the same reaction as someone who's dead."
Jin: "The questions are endless... but for now, let's hurry to the rendezvous point."
Ryu: "..."
Ken: "What's wrong? You've had that serious look on your face for a while now."
Ryu: "What did Akuma want to tell me?"
Ryu: "And what is he trying to make me do now?"
Sakura: "Ryu, you can't make that face."
Sakura: "We've finally been able to be together!"
Ryu: "..."
Ryu: "That's right, there's no point in worrying about it."
Ken: "..."
Ken: (...Akuma... I won't let you have your way. If that happens... I... I'll protect Ryu...)
