The hero you are, yet mindless and dangerous torturer you can be.K: A field hospital... no, a tent.
B: A temporary shelter built by the government. You look better than I expected.
K: !
B: You can't move yet. It might get hot during the day but bear with it.
K: Go back to where you come from.
B: I will after we talk. You have no weapons, no granades.
K: Go back!
B: It's fine to forget about the pain of your friends right now. My people died, too.
K: Tsk.
B: This is for you. Open it.
K: Why did you come here? Interrogation?
B: Wrong. I know about you already. You are Kazuhira Miller, born on the Japanese soil, devoted to realizing his own goals. A soldier that do not fight wars, huh.
K: I'm not a soldier.
B: You have not yet experienced the real cruelty of war. No real life experience.
B: Despite that, for two months, you've been commanding an anti-goverment platoon. Aren't you something.
K: If you are done expressing your sympathy, go home.
B: No. I'm going to sit there.
K: Sit, but be silent.
B: I came here to talk you into joining us.
K: Huh?
B: I want you to be one of my comrades.
K: Comrades?
B: Exactly.
K: Hmph!
B: What? I'm serious.
K: I have a client in the revolutionary army. The money he pays me is not bad.
B: My, aren't you like a businessman.
K: Chaos will rule this country for quite a while. And yet, you want me to join the goverment troops.
B: That's not it.
K: What do you mean?
B: I broke my contract with the goverment yesterday. That thing with you was my last mission.
K: I see, you and I are the same... hired for money.
B: I didn't do it for the money. All of us here are fighting for ourselves.
K: So... you're doing it for the money.
B: [ironic] Oh, your way of thinking. I see Japan is trying to stop the disaster that is their "marvelous" economy! It seems like it's going to take me a while to persuade you.
K: I don’t need your persuasion. So leave already.
B: Looks like when you recover, you'll be heading to prison. Their method of interrogation is cruel, you know! So what'll they do to you? Let me prepare you for that.
K: What?
B: There is a method they love to use in Indochina, there was a Frenchman who got treated with it. They inserted thin strips of bamboo under his nails...
K: Under his nails...
B: It hurts like hell. A grown man will cry and whine like a baby. You'll be crying a river!
K: Are you threatening me?
B: But living things aren't lead to death just from pain. You have 20 nails, 5 per every hand and feet. They insert the bamboo strips under every single one of them. After that, you'll have no nails left, but there are still plenty of pain points left. How about your teeth? You have 28 of them. Do you still have your wisdom teeth?
B: Open it.
K: This is... a diaper?
B: It'll come in handy then. A diaper.
K: I'm not laughing.
B: Look outside. This is what the soldiers here call an "execution". I’m used to seeing it. What do you think? If you join me, I'll forgive you what you did. I'll let you off an as innocent.
K: What can a hired soldier like you do?
B: I'm a close friend of the general here.
K: Close friend...?
B: Close enough that I can alter secrets that he doesn't want known by the higher-ups.
K: Blackmail...
B: To him, they're his whole life. [lights up a cigar]
K: Hey, this is a sickroom!
B: You're the only one here.
K: Ch'. But why did you...? If I snuck out of here, I might tell other armies about this.
B: Oh, I don't think so. I heard a rumor.
K: A rumor?
B: "In order to destroy an antigovernment organization, Kazuhira Miller was a spy on the side of the monopolizing government".
K: That's bullshit.
B: Working to give false information to the government. An agent for the CIA.
K: Ridiculous.
B: But what will the antigovernment organizations think? Your team has been annihilated and your corpse was nowhere to be found.
K: Was it you? You spread that-
B: No. But whatever the case, you can't go back. The antigovernment troops will likely head out to get revenge on the traitor Kazuhira Miller. It'll be hard to live as an independent freelancer, at least if you want to be involved in public affairs. Having said that, you'd probably also risk your life trying to escape from the country.
B: The support for the antigoverment force will rise. We don't have any money or equipment but we bear a heavy responsibility. But quit following the government troops. The stink of the government will be ingrained into your body. Come with me. I have a set of equipment for you. Ideology and balance of power don't matter here. This is a utopia for those who seek battle.
K: You're saying I'll follow you? No matter how many times I say "no"? You, my enemy?
B: There are humans in this world who can do nothing but fight. Whether they were born that way or someone made them that way, the only thing they can do is fight. But what do they fight for? Country? Family? Money? I accept them all! But those guys who had the same teaching tools as you... you had best become friends with comrades like that. To the point of killing each other.
K: [to himself] Triumph or death, hm...
K: I don’t acknowledge my defeat against you.
B: Is that so?
K: I have no reason to follow you.
B: Oh?
K: I've got it. Why don’t we have a contest?
B: A contest?
K: If you win, I'll become your comrade. But if you lose, you'll let me escape.
B: What are you planning?
K: I simply want to settle my score with you. How about it? We'll start a week after my injuries heal. I will decide what the contest consists of and where it will be.
B: Alright.
K: Hey, after I win and become free, I'm going to spread a rumor that you're a spy and sharing intelligence with antigovernment organizations.
B: [laughs]
K: What's so funny? You'll be the one they interrogate. And you'll use this!
B: Understood. If there's anything you need, tell these guys. I'll inform them about this.
K: I'll do that.
B: Oh, right. Don't think of escaping! My soldiers are obedient, but the weather here is rough. If you leave the poor, unskillful me, our contest will forever remain without a winner! (1)
K: Right.
B: I'll see you later, Kazuhira Miller!
K: Hey!
B: Hn?
K: I'm... not fighting for money.
B: Then for what?
K: No, it's not something I'll tell you. What should I call you?
B: Me?
K: Yeah.
B: Call me "Boss". [laughs] I’m Snake!
K: Snake. I'll see you a week after I heal.
B: I'm leaving this here.
(1) my note: irony. also, might be a reference to Kaz being a self-proclaimed "samurai", since they tended to humble themselves in front of their opponent before the fight, saying stuff like "お手柔らかに" - "go easy on me".