Extra - Calling

Calling is an extra chapter between chapters seventeen and eighteen in Saiyuki.

Summary
Bothered by a stinging wound on his arm, Kouryuu drops his broom in the middle of his sweeping. As he stoops to pick it up, he happens to notice Koumyou Sanzo smoking behind a nearby tree. Kouryuu suggests to Kouymou that he should smoke where others can't see, and Koumyou responds that the sky is lovely and that he is being careful not to start a fire. As Kouryuu responds that he'd prefer Koumyou to burn the whole place down so that he no longer has to sweep, Koumyou notices the wound on his arm. Koumyou comments on Kouryuu being stuck with an unpleasant nickname, "Kouryuu the wash-up", but that he wouldn't expect Kouryuu to try to get along with the other monks, implying that Kouryuu was the victim of bullying. Kouryuu says it's okay because he is used to it, and that he doesn't mind his name as it isn't so bad to be named after the great Yousu River. Kouryuu goes on the say that Koumyou is the odd one himself for taking in an orphan like him and even raising him himself. Koumyou replies that he took Kouryuu in because he heard him calling to him persistently in a voice without a voice, and it was so annoying that Kouymou decided to take him with him whether Kouryuu wanted him to or not. Kouryuu says that that makes no sense, but Kouymou tells him that one day he too may hear a voice. Kouryuu says that if that ever happens, he will find whoever is calling him and smack them until they shut up.

Meanwhile, in his rock prison, Goku sits and waits.