impact (of a projectile); landing (of a bullet); striking
wall of rock; rock cliff; rock face
focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving
(emotional) tension; anxiety; (highness of) spirits; (good) mood; tension; tensile strength
financial planner; feature phone
confined place; closing (an institution, office, clinic, etc.)
firefight; gun battle; shoot-out
individual; private person; personal; private
defense; defence; protection
noble; lofty; high-minded; virtuous; upright
change; conversion; transformation; transformation
wicked heart; evil design
purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge
surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it
English holly (Ilex aquifolium)
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
classification; categorization; sorting
to strike (with a stick, whip, etc.); to hit; to punch; to go to (a place to eat, drink, etc.)
gaining total control (of people or counties); suppression; oppression; control; mastery; ascendancy
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts
standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; basic item (with stable demand); staple goods
long (time that has passed); old (story)
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
modern person; people of today
civilization; civilisation; culture; Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
summons; summonsing; citation; subpoena; arraigning; calling
general; popular; common; typical
-less; lacking; non-existing
to take the form (of); to assume a shape
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
very improbable; vanishingly unlikely; only with a miracle