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It was truly an awful thing.
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An incident which,
to my sadness, I cannot forget.
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To live is to suffer.
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Yet I shouldn't forget it.
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No, I mustn't forget it.
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It is for that reason
that I'm writing this.
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In memory of a simple tanuki.
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(Wanting you to just be near,
to feel your breath upon my ear)
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(Wishing you would call my name,
'Cause only you can light the flame)
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Constantly searching,
still can't find
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Ever illusive peace of mind
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Sometimes it's near,
but slips away
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And I'm faced with another day
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Of wanting you...
(to feel your breath upon my ear)
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...to just be near
('Cause only you can light the flame)
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Of wishing you...
(to feel your breath upon my ear)
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...would call my name,
to feel your breath upon my ear
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Of wanting you...wishing you...
(to feel your breath upon my ear)
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Call my name, 'cause only
you can light the flame
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When I first met him...
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I'm a tanuki.
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He mumbled it,
and I didn't know what to say.
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I changed into a human
and can't change back now.
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Have you met him?
The tanuki?
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The tanuki? The boss picked him
up from somewhere.
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He's been with us for a while now.
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They keep calling him a tanuki...
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but the word is he's the bastard
child of some nobleman.
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He's a nice tanuki.
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When I heard
that Ogin had joined up...
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with a puppeteer troupe she knew
to help them...
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my first thought was that their
next target was one of the players.
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Yes. At first,
I was merely curious.
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It just seems too much
like a bad pun to me.
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A tanuki with
the Shibaemon Players!
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Just what I'd expect to hear from
someone writing "The 100 Stories."
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Unlike the common tales
of kappas and monster cats...
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most people haven't heard the story
of the Shibaemon Tanuki.
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Aw, come on. Please?
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Well, of course I know it,
having a name like this.
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Got teased about it
all the time when I was a kid!
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The troupe was called
the Shibaemon Players...
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named after its leader,
a kind and gentle-looking man.
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The same name as in the legend
of the Shibaemon Tanuki...
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which tells of a tanuki who loved plays,
transformed into a human...
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in order to see one,
and was eaten by dogs as a result.
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The funny thing was that this troupe
also apparently had a tanuki in it.
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A tanuki who'd changed into a person,
just like the legend told.
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I am a tanuki.
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Truly, I am a tanuki
who shouldn't be allowed to live.
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Is it wrong to want to live?
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Or, rather, life itself
is certainly painful.
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The tanuki's cage.
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The "cage" in this case being
an extravagantly-designed prison cell.
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Perhaps my fleeting glimpse of him
led me to sympathize with his plight.
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Isn't that a little cruel?!
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No need to get mad
all of a sudden!
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Who wouldn't get angry,
seeing a man locked up like that?!
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For a man who thinks up riddles,
you jump to conclusions too easily.
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In the end,
a tanuki is a wild animal...
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and wild animals
need to be chained up.
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But...
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Who is that?!
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That's the tanuki.
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But he's usually pretty quiet.
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You heard me howling last night?
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I'm embarrassed.
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Sometimes, I have no memory
of the previous night.
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Perhaps I turn back into
a tanuki on those nights.
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Play with me, Mr. Tanuki!
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Master Shibaemon
will scold you, Miss Tei.
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He's told you to stay away
from me, hasn't he?
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Grandpa's rehearsing now,
so it'll be all right!
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Me? Yes, of course.
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Those rumors that I'm the bastard
son of a nobleman are true.
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I see. So, the riddler wishes
to hear of the tanuki's past.
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They say you will be
his substitute!
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Yes. I came into this world
as a substitute for a certain man.
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The shogun recently installed
has a weak heart.
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The Healing Buddha said
he would certainly die young.
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If that happens, as you share
the blood that flows within him...
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and look just like him, you would
have to become the new shogun.
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I would become the shogun?
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I accepted the life of a substitute
without question.
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I was never allowed
to go outside and play.
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Instead, I was kept inside the palace,
studying the role of shogun day after day.
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The one person
who offered me comfort...
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was the narrator of
the Shibaemon Players...
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who would come by
once in a while to perform for us.
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The Shogun
has produced an heir?!
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Then, what about me?
What will become of me?!
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How... How could you?!
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The stories of tanukis
who turn into people...
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and of noble bastard sons
are quite common.
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Yeah, that's true.
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But how often do the two
get combined like this?
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The vital point here seems to be
your sympathy for him, Mr. Author.
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I...?
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Heh, the fact your heart
goes out to others so easily...
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is proof of your basic kind nature.
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Some might call it naive.
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Oh, enough of this!
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Leaving? It's very late.
Why not spend the night here?
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I hear that violent men who kill
for no reason are common lately.
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That doesn't mean I'll run into one!
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Why didn't I realize it then?
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That was just his usual way
of warning me.
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He was telling me not to get
so emotionally attached to the tanuki.
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Am I lost?
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I'd better stay put for a bit.
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Could it be?!
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No, it couldn't be.
How could he get out of those chains?
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Even so, I still believed that he...
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That the tanuki wasn't the killer.
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Oh? The tanuki last night?
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He yelled for a bit,
but eventually quieted down.
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Anyway, I have to get down
to the riverside. Can you help me?
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So, the killer struck again, huh?
Well, it's dangerous lately, but...
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I hear we can have a really sweet time
on the next street over.
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You old tanuki!
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Uh-huh! One time before he ran
back to his home really fast!
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My grandpa had a really scary look
on his face when he did!
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The killer is traveling
with my company, you say?
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Don't be absurd!
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Considering you've seen
the killer twice and lived...
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Is that a threat?
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Take it as you like.
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No human is behind those killings.
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No human COULD do that.
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No human.
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Nobody would talk.
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They'd turned their eyes
from the truth.
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So, my only choice
was to look into it myself.
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I had to uncover the truth
of that foggy night...
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It's nearly time.
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Right.
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Hello there, Mataichi.
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Well, I wanted to see this tanuki
everyone's talking about.
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You probably heard something from
Ogin and came to make fun of me.
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What you wish to know,
Mr. Author...
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is whether that young samurai
is a tanuki or a human...
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and if the killings
are the work of the tanuki.
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A tanuki in human form
would split his victim...
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in half vertically in order
to devour their liver.
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Ah, wait, but you knew
that already, didn't you?
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Still, it's a well-constructed story
he's spun.
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Assuming he's human...
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IF he's human?
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Someone's coming.
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SHIBA--
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Gone! I lost him!
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Tei?!
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Master Samurai, wait!
MASTER SAMURAI!
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Master Samurai, calm yourself!
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Up we go! That was close!
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Nagamimi!
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Mr. Author,
I hate to say this, but...
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No, I didn't want to listen.
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Shibaemon and the rest of
his players all knew the truth.
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The young samurai
was the serial killer.
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Knowing that, they still
unchained him and set him loose!
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What was once a young man who
dreamed of a future in their troupe...
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has now simply become a bother.
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And as a bonus, someone investigating
the killings showed up as well.
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What, am I the "bonus"?
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They let him loose
because they knew...
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you'd be coming to
check things out today.
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Well, you turned out to be good bait
in the end, Mr. Author.
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He's crying?
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One who murdered innocent people.
Who murdered little Tei!
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Do you wish to know?
The truth about what he is?
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Even if he was the one behind it...
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how do I tell Shibaemon
that Tei's been killed?!
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Tei?!
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You're as slow as ever, I see.
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Ogin?!
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What is the puppeteer's specialty?
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At that moment, I realized it.
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Mataichi and the others had come
to kill the tanuki from the very start.
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I see. You've done
a fine piece of investigation.
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It was a while back,
when we were hunting a wild tanuki.
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He was ruining our tools
and materials right and left.
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What we found in the trap
was a young samurai, on the run.
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Yes, I'd heard about it.
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How the shogun had finally
produced an heir.
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With the dream of his replacing
the shogun now ended...
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so, too, ended the dream
of our modest troupe...
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of becoming royal performers.
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Can you blame me for feeling like
I'd been tricked by a tanuki?
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I couldn't leave him to his fate.
He'd come to us for help, after all.
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But if the authorities found out,
the troupe would be broken up.
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We might have even
been killed for helping him!
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That's why we raised him
as a tanuki.
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A simple tanuki.
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What should we have done,
you may ask?
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With this poor madman,
who lived a cursed existence?!
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And so...you let him loose?
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All I did was let a tanuki
out into the countryside.
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If he'd lost his human heart,
then perhaps he really was a beast.
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If you didn't think of it that way...
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It's Tei. We came as soon
as we could...
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but we couldn't save her.
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00:15:41,661 --> 00:15:43,283
It can't be!
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A tanuki who kills people for
no reason must be put to death.
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Put to death.
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00:15:53,906 --> 00:15:57,763
Let me...
Let me do it, please!
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You? You couldn't do it.
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He's not a man.
He's a tanuki, right?
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That's right.
You have to become a real tanuki.
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00:16:17,496 --> 00:16:22,153
Lady Hachisuka is apparently
a huge fan of the theater.
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The serial killer panic seems to be
keeping the customers away for now.
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If we get a powerful backer...
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we might get back some of
the status we used to have.
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Oh, yes, that's right.
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Let's watch from here!
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You'll go with Mother, won't you?
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M-Mother!
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Yes, the samurai there poisoned
his own mother to save his life!
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If we have no role to play anymore,
we have no reason to live.
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You'll come with me, won't you?
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Yes, Mother.
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The poison was in my sake cup,
but not in my mother's cup!
223
00:17:37,343 --> 00:17:45,513
Why?! Did the shogun say
he'd spare you if you killed me?!
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00:17:48,621 --> 00:17:51,921
I thought we were
to both die together.
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If... If only... I hadn't
given birth... to you!
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Mr. Tanuki?
What's wrong, huh?
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I thought...you were dead.
That I'd killed you!
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That's right. You killed me.
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You cut me in half.
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Tei!
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TEI!
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I killed her! I killed her!
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I had to kill,
or they'd have killed me, so...!
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So, I did it over and over
and over and over!
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Is that why you keep killing?
Slicing them in two?
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TEI!
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00:19:13,873 --> 00:19:18,423
No! Don't run away!
I won't kill you!
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00:19:18,423 --> 00:19:21,642
I...won't...kill you!
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00:19:26,485 --> 00:19:30,354
Damn you, Tanuki!
SHOW YOUR TRUE FORM!
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00:19:31,023 --> 00:19:34,313
Stop it! I'm...
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A tanuki!
Isn't that what you said?!
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What do you think of
your true form, Mr. Tanuki?
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I'm not a tanuki!
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You are a tanuki!
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That's why you murder people!
Why you eat their livers!
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If you commit your crimes as a tanuki,
then you must die as a tanuki!
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As we travel down the path of life,
we are confronted by choices.
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Step off the path of righteousness and
you become trapped in the depths of sin.
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Evil and ambition
scatter in the darkness...
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leaving behind dubious rumors
to fly in public.
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I thought Mother was going
to kill me. But I'm still alive!
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I thought if I could kill Mother,
then she could kill me this time!
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Is that why you kept
killing people?
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Is it wrong to live
as something you're not?
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No, except that
you're already dead.
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Your body may still be alive,
but your soul...
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If you wish to die,
you should take your own life.
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But you didn't kill yourself
before killing others.
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THAT is your sin!
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Impossible!
He really was a tanuki?!
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Tei!
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Tei was killed long ago.
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It was a curse of a tanuki.
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TEI!
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Is it really wrong to live your life
as something you're not?
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Enough, already!
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If you understand that...
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Exactly!
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I'll never forget him...
the tanuki I killed.
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While the pain and heartbreak
are still fresh...
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I'll write the story down.
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I'm a tanuki.
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In memory of a simple tanuki.
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To the next world, we commit Thee.
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Wind chimes whisper
soft and sweet
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Though there's not
a hint of a breeze
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Moonlight dancing
on the garden walk
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As it gently drifts
through the trees
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Romance takes flight
on this perfect night
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While all of the world
lays sleeping
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Find us here as we feel
the moment of love
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Draw near
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Dream, sleep,
with your hand in mine
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Underneath a blanket of stars
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Song birds singing
in a distant glade
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As we share
the warmth of the dawn
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Evil and ambition
scatter in the darkness...
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leaving behind dubious rumors
to fly in public.
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If you head west in Kyoto,
you reach a ruthless place...
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where you find Genba Sasayama,
who lost his wife.
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With no place to go,
a feeling leads to a woman's corpse.
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Next time, on Natsuhiko Kyogoku's
"Requiem From the Darkness:"
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Katabira Crossroads.
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To the next world, we commit Thee!