health; healthy; sound; fit
striking; remarkable; considerable
to happen to meet; to come across
to pull the trigger; to squeeze the trigger
cartoon-character costume
to avoid; to refrain from; to shun; to detest
mourning; abstinence; taboo; religious purification; pure; holy
badness; evilness; bad; evil
tradition; legend; folklore
calamity; disaster; accident
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
to invite in; to show someone in
stain; blot; flaw; disgrace
to detest; to abhor; to loathe
in short; in brief; to sum up; ultimately; in the end; in the long run
out of the question; outrageous; impossible; irrelevant; not pertinent
to interfere (with); to hinder; to be hindered (from doing); to become impeded; to have difficulty; to suffer inconvenience
blasphemy; curse; profanity; sacrilege; desecration
carrion; decaying flesh; tainted meat
soldier; combatant; warrior
heresy; heretical teachings; black magic
to be sacrificed; to fall victim to; to fall prey to
to change into; to convert to; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
affirmation; affirmative (logic)
plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; impediment; interdiction
the big two...; two major...; two main...
wartime fire; war; wartime destruction; horrors of war
bat (Chiroptera spp.); umbrella; opportunist; turncoat
both countries; Ryōgoku (area of Tokyo)
to palm off; to force a sale
merchant of death; arms dealer
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow