1 00:00:07,774 --> 00:00:09,649 Hey! You sure we're headed the right way? 2 00:00:09,649 --> 00:00:11,611 The hell if I know! 3 00:00:15,782 --> 00:00:17,216 H- Hey! Over there! 4 00:00:18,518 --> 00:00:21,682 God help us! We're out near Twin Island! 5 00:00:23,156 --> 00:00:29,590 Jikkou sanzei issai butsu. 6 00:00:29,590 --> 00:00:32,909 Wh-What's that voice? 7 00:00:32,909 --> 00:00:34,333 What is it?! 8 00:00:39,573 --> 00:00:41,542 S-Sea ghosts! 9 00:00:46,146 --> 00:00:49,241 H- Help us! 10 00:00:54,721 --> 00:01:03,469 Wanting you to just be near, (to feel your breath upon my ear) 11 00:01:03,469 --> 00:01:12,509 Wishing you would call my name, ('Cause only you can light the flame) 12 00:01:12,509 --> 00:01:19,673 Constantly searching, still can't find 13 00:01:21,948 --> 00:01:27,945 Ever illusive peace of mind 14 00:01:30,123 --> 00:01:38,739 Sometimes it's near, but slips away 15 00:01:38,739 --> 00:01:45,330 And I'm faced with another day 16 00:01:46,573 --> 00:01:52,452 Of wanting you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 17 00:01:52,452 --> 00:01:56,929 ...to just be near ('Cause only you can light the flame) 18 00:01:56,929 --> 00:02:01,059 Of wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 19 00:02:01,059 --> 00:02:05,629 ...would call my name, to feel your breath upon my ear 20 00:02:05,629 --> 00:02:10,109 Of wanting you...wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 21 00:02:10,109 --> 00:02:17,697 Call my name, 'cause only you can light the flame 22 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:36,047 Mataichi, where are you? 23 00:02:36,756 --> 00:02:38,588 Mr. Author! 24 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:42,485 It may be time for us to part ways. 25 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:46,125 It's been 3 months since then. 26 00:02:50,537 --> 00:02:52,576 I had no idea where... 27 00:02:52,576 --> 00:02:56,873 Mataichi and the others lived or even how they lived. 28 00:02:57,577 --> 00:03:00,619 All I knew was that wherever they appeared... 29 00:03:00,619 --> 00:03:02,479 strange rumors began to spread. 30 00:03:04,885 --> 00:03:06,114 What the...?! 31 00:03:07,454 --> 00:03:13,439 "A man who could change into any form, from animal to woman to child." 32 00:03:13,439 --> 00:03:15,599 "The heretic descended from the kabuki theater world. 33 00:03:15,599 --> 00:03:17,306 Nagamimi the Bird Caller." 34 00:03:17,306 --> 00:03:19,839 Is this Nagamimi?! 35 00:03:19,839 --> 00:03:21,494 Friend of yours? 36 00:03:26,173 --> 00:03:28,619 I came down here to find a good book to read... 37 00:03:28,619 --> 00:03:30,508 and who should I find but my rarely seen friend. 38 00:03:33,113 --> 00:03:36,481 Ah. Is this a friend of yours? 39 00:03:36,850 --> 00:03:38,526 So what if he is? 40 00:03:38,526 --> 00:03:41,999 Well, I applaud the author great enough to write The 100 Stories! 41 00:03:41,999 --> 00:03:44,666 You know people in the next world, too? 42 00:03:44,666 --> 00:03:48,899 If that guy was alive, he'd be over 200 years old! 43 00:03:48,899 --> 00:03:52,006 Huh?! You're right! 44 00:03:52,006 --> 00:03:54,968 You're incurably naive, you know that? 45 00:03:55,535 --> 00:03:57,209 Um, excuse me. 46 00:03:57,209 --> 00:04:01,682 Do you know anything about any weird rumors lately? 47 00:04:01,682 --> 00:04:03,233 Strange rumors, huh? 48 00:04:04,477 --> 00:04:08,086 Well, there's "Seven Man Point" in Kitabayashi. 49 00:04:08,086 --> 00:04:10,743 And the sea ghosts of Sanuki! 50 00:04:12,285 --> 00:04:15,483 Seven Man Point. And sea ghosts, huh? 51 00:04:31,271 --> 00:04:34,719 KYOGOKUTEI 52 00:04:34,719 --> 00:04:37,575 A teahouse? Out here? 53 00:04:49,189 --> 00:04:51,199 We've been waiting, Mr. Author. 54 00:04:51,199 --> 00:04:53,193 At last we meet, Mr. Author. 55 00:04:54,561 --> 00:04:56,236 How do you know who I am? 56 00:04:56,236 --> 00:04:58,969 We've heard all about you from Mataichi. 57 00:04:58,969 --> 00:05:01,639 And we've heard about you from Ogin and Nagamimi. 58 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:03,042 You people? 59 00:05:03,042 --> 00:05:07,234 Thank you for assisting them so well. 60 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:12,946 I am Kyogokutei, the master of this establishment. 61 00:05:13,513 --> 00:05:17,089 Kyogokutei. Then you're Mataichi and the others'... 62 00:05:17,089 --> 00:05:19,829 You'd be happiest to not finish that sentence. 63 00:05:19,829 --> 00:05:21,559 Happiest not to say it. 64 00:05:21,559 --> 00:05:24,266 We've been most fortunate... 65 00:05:24,266 --> 00:05:28,269 to have a fine man like you helping us, Mr. Author. 66 00:05:28,269 --> 00:05:31,669 Oh, no. I was just doing what I was told. 67 00:05:31,669 --> 00:05:34,190 I disagree. 68 00:05:34,834 --> 00:05:36,406 Since you've joined them... 69 00:05:36,406 --> 00:05:38,809 their operations have gone very smoothly. 70 00:05:38,809 --> 00:05:42,016 And you've added a touch of elegance, as well. 71 00:05:42,016 --> 00:05:43,849 Y-You think so? 72 00:05:43,849 --> 00:05:46,919 But they're delayed this time. 73 00:05:46,919 --> 00:05:49,889 I guess they're useless without Mr. Author. 74 00:05:49,889 --> 00:05:52,089 Where did Mataichi go? 75 00:05:52,089 --> 00:05:54,829 They went to Shikoku and vanished. 76 00:05:54,829 --> 00:05:56,482 No contact from them. 77 00:05:57,257 --> 00:06:01,169 Shikoku. Then that rumor of sea ghosts in Sanuki must be... 78 00:06:01,169 --> 00:06:05,131 I'm very worried about them. 79 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:15,001 The sea ghosts appeared again, huh? 80 00:06:15,575 --> 00:06:17,519 It was around Kabuto Island. 81 00:06:17,519 --> 00:06:21,289 The boat was wrecked and I heard nobody survived. 82 00:06:21,289 --> 00:06:23,659 Nobody will go out to fish now. 83 00:06:23,659 --> 00:06:24,889 Excuse me. 84 00:06:24,889 --> 00:06:27,899 The sea ghosts sank a boat? 85 00:06:27,899 --> 00:06:29,629 They do it constantly around here. 86 00:06:29,629 --> 00:06:32,869 Attacking ships sounds more like what pirates would do. 87 00:06:32,869 --> 00:06:35,466 Still, it's strange, isn't it? 88 00:06:35,466 --> 00:06:38,309 Don't the sea ghosts usually appear around Twin Island? 89 00:06:38,309 --> 00:06:40,406 Why would they appear near Kabuto Island? 90 00:06:40,406 --> 00:06:42,239 Hmm. Now that you mention it... 91 00:06:42,239 --> 00:06:43,749 What do you mean? 92 00:06:43,749 --> 00:06:46,816 About half a day's boat ride from here... 93 00:06:46,816 --> 00:06:50,449 there were a pair of islands we called Twin Island. 94 00:06:50,449 --> 00:06:52,989 One night, around 20 years ago... 95 00:06:52,989 --> 00:06:54,919 one of them suddenly disappeared. 96 00:06:54,919 --> 00:06:56,929 An island vanished in a night?! 97 00:06:56,929 --> 00:06:59,526 The rumors of the sea ghosts have been around for a long time... 98 00:06:59,526 --> 00:07:01,529 but the word is that since that night... 99 00:07:01,529 --> 00:07:04,285 they especially tend to appear around Twin Island. 100 00:07:07,093 --> 00:07:10,269 It's said that sea ghosts are the souls of people... 101 00:07:10,269 --> 00:07:13,439 who died in the sea and came back as spirits. 102 00:07:13,439 --> 00:07:17,879 Those who died on a boat approach and ask for a ladle. 103 00:07:17,879 --> 00:07:21,279 It's said that if you give them the ladle, they'll use it to... 104 00:07:21,279 --> 00:07:24,449 draw up wave after wave, until the boat is sunk. 105 00:07:24,449 --> 00:07:25,740 Tr- Trouble! 106 00:07:26,946 --> 00:07:30,075 Lord Sekiyama, the boating magistrate, is coming here personally! 107 00:07:39,626 --> 00:07:41,822 Don't trouble yourselves. Raise your heads, please. 108 00:07:46,065 --> 00:07:47,479 Anyway... 109 00:07:47,479 --> 00:07:52,479 the frequent reports of sea ghost disasters here are not at all strange. 110 00:07:52,479 --> 00:07:55,100 I have determined it is all the work of the Kawakubo Clan! 111 00:07:56,176 --> 00:07:58,286 It is difficult to forgive these cunning people... 112 00:07:58,286 --> 00:08:00,109 who threaten the livelihood of this land's citizens! 113 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,413 I have decided to take care of this threat! 114 00:08:06,553 --> 00:08:09,999 I see! You saw Lord Sekiyama? 115 00:08:09,999 --> 00:08:12,899 He seems like an impressive man. 116 00:08:12,899 --> 00:08:14,999 And handsome, too, I hear! 117 00:08:14,999 --> 00:08:17,409 I only heard him mention them... 118 00:08:17,409 --> 00:08:20,559 but what sort of people are the Kawakubo Clan, exactly? 119 00:08:21,367 --> 00:08:24,309 No one at the beach would tell me. 120 00:08:24,309 --> 00:08:25,849 R- Really? 121 00:08:25,849 --> 00:08:27,349 Do you know anything about them? 122 00:08:27,349 --> 00:08:30,241 N- Not really. Make yourself comfortable! 123 00:08:32,378 --> 00:08:34,313 I-I don't know nothin'! 124 00:08:36,149 --> 00:08:40,814 Not one person in the village would tell me about the Kawakubo Clan. 125 00:08:48,728 --> 00:08:49,999 Hey, you! 126 00:08:49,999 --> 00:08:51,106 Yes? 127 00:08:51,106 --> 00:08:54,567 You've been asking around about the Kawakubo Clan. 128 00:08:55,869 --> 00:08:58,109 What's wrong? Cat got your tongue? 129 00:08:58,109 --> 00:09:02,575 No matter. Answer me or not, you're still gonna die. 130 00:09:15,989 --> 00:09:17,116 That's... 131 00:09:31,871 --> 00:09:35,740 Damn it, where'd he go?! Find him! 132 00:09:38,211 --> 00:09:39,645 That way! 133 00:09:44,617 --> 00:09:45,859 For heaven's sake. 134 00:09:45,859 --> 00:09:48,926 You find danger so often I can never just stand by watching you. 135 00:09:48,926 --> 00:09:50,685 I looked everywhere for you. 136 00:09:52,058 --> 00:09:54,550 No one asked you to. 137 00:09:55,361 --> 00:09:59,609 Why didn't you ask me to help you on this latest setup? 138 00:09:59,609 --> 00:10:01,376 Can't you tell? 139 00:10:01,376 --> 00:10:04,428 You're getting to be a burden for us, Mr. Author. 140 00:10:05,004 --> 00:10:07,216 You can't mean that! 141 00:10:07,216 --> 00:10:10,039 Is it because I failed in the last mission? 142 00:10:11,611 --> 00:10:16,219 That was because Mataichi didn't fill me in beforehand. 143 00:10:16,219 --> 00:10:18,459 It's not that. 144 00:10:18,459 --> 00:10:21,996 It's because we don't live in the same world. 145 00:10:21,996 --> 00:10:23,596 Then let me join you-- 146 00:10:23,596 --> 00:10:25,069 No! 147 00:10:25,069 --> 00:10:29,529 There are boundaries people cannot cross. 148 00:10:30,196 --> 00:10:32,209 Mr. Author... 149 00:10:32,209 --> 00:10:35,839 you're someone who must never enter this side of the world. 150 00:10:35,839 --> 00:10:37,268 Never. 151 00:10:39,839 --> 00:10:43,799 Stay out of this. Go back to Edo. Understand? 152 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:48,370 Ogin! 153 00:10:56,155 --> 00:10:59,592 Mister! That girl you were with went out to sea! 154 00:11:00,193 --> 00:11:02,992 It looked like she was headed for Twin Island. 155 00:11:04,530 --> 00:11:05,862 I have a favor to ask. 156 00:11:08,935 --> 00:11:13,373 Why won't anyone tell me about the Kawakubo Clan? 157 00:11:15,575 --> 00:11:17,149 Because they're ghosts. 158 00:11:17,149 --> 00:11:19,119 Ghosts? 159 00:11:19,119 --> 00:11:22,959 The Kawakubo were defeated members of the Taira Clan. 160 00:11:22,959 --> 00:11:26,126 Nowadays, neither the Taira nor the Minamoto exist. 161 00:11:26,126 --> 00:11:29,162 All people think about are themselves. 162 00:11:29,162 --> 00:11:31,623 And yet, those people... 163 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:34,619 You're saying they live in a different world... 164 00:11:36,229 --> 00:11:39,825 We can see it! That's Twin Island there! 165 00:11:50,543 --> 00:11:52,535 Oh, no! If we don't do something... 166 00:12:16,903 --> 00:12:19,476 I... I'm still alive. 167 00:12:19,476 --> 00:12:21,497 Who are you?! 168 00:12:24,077 --> 00:12:27,741 No one who has seen us can be allowed to return alive! 169 00:12:29,015 --> 00:12:30,022 Um... 170 00:12:30,022 --> 00:12:31,244 Stop it! 171 00:12:33,419 --> 00:12:34,496 Mataichi! 172 00:12:34,496 --> 00:12:36,229 If we let them live... 173 00:12:36,229 --> 00:12:39,732 None may take another person's life! 174 00:12:39,732 --> 00:12:42,239 But what happened 20 years ago will be repeated-- 175 00:12:42,239 --> 00:12:43,854 Silence! 176 00:12:45,832 --> 00:12:47,709 Forgive us, young man. 177 00:12:47,709 --> 00:12:52,809 There was another man with me, who brought me here. 178 00:12:52,809 --> 00:12:55,673 I doubt he survived these waves. 179 00:12:57,243 --> 00:12:59,678 The sea is angry. 180 00:13:01,347 --> 00:13:08,982 Jikkou sanzei issai butsu. 181 00:13:09,422 --> 00:13:14,690 Shoson bosatsu umaka satsu. 182 00:13:16,763 --> 00:13:19,172 I heard this beach was stained red with blood... 183 00:13:19,172 --> 00:13:21,690 when the armies of the Taira and the Minamoto met in battle. 184 00:13:23,703 --> 00:13:26,949 And then, 20 years ago, dozens of people died... 185 00:13:26,949 --> 00:13:29,807 on the night the neighboring island sank. 186 00:13:38,618 --> 00:13:41,087 We're sea ghosts, you say? 187 00:13:41,754 --> 00:13:44,866 I see. Perhaps it's true, in a way. 188 00:13:44,866 --> 00:13:47,136 However, we aren't pirates! 189 00:13:47,136 --> 00:13:50,469 I think you should meet with Lord Sekiyama the magistrate... 190 00:13:50,469 --> 00:13:52,509 to clear your names. 191 00:13:52,509 --> 00:13:54,739 We can't do that. 192 00:13:54,739 --> 00:13:56,806 But... 193 00:13:56,806 --> 00:13:59,203 We can't go anywhere. 194 00:14:01,274 --> 00:14:04,986 You're the second person who's ever been washed ashore on this island. 195 00:14:04,986 --> 00:14:07,889 There was another castaway 20 years ago. 196 00:14:07,889 --> 00:14:10,589 And because of him, we were... 197 00:14:10,589 --> 00:14:12,517 You're wrong. 198 00:14:13,252 --> 00:14:16,347 It wasn't that man who was the real cause. 199 00:14:17,690 --> 00:14:19,090 It was THAT. 200 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:22,136 What is it? 201 00:14:22,136 --> 00:14:25,569 It was entrusted to us by our ancestors... 202 00:14:25,569 --> 00:14:29,592 to be of use when the signal of the Taira uprising came. 203 00:14:29,936 --> 00:14:31,146 It's a flame lance. 204 00:14:31,146 --> 00:14:32,649 Flame lance? 205 00:14:32,649 --> 00:14:35,416 Those who know how to use it to its full potential... 206 00:14:35,416 --> 00:14:37,616 could seemingly topple the heavens themselves! 207 00:14:37,616 --> 00:14:40,519 It'd be best to simply destroy it. 208 00:14:40,519 --> 00:14:43,022 We cannot. 209 00:14:43,022 --> 00:14:44,992 It's a source of catastrophe... 210 00:14:44,992 --> 00:14:48,159 a thing which calls out the darkness in men's hearts. 211 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:52,729 I know... which is why it must never be unleashed upon the world. 212 00:14:52,729 --> 00:14:54,954 But not destroyed, either. 213 00:15:09,542 --> 00:15:13,019 You can take this path to the other side of the island. 214 00:15:13,019 --> 00:15:15,419 Use the boat there to go back. 215 00:15:15,419 --> 00:15:16,889 I'm not leaving. 216 00:15:16,889 --> 00:15:19,059 Best to keep out of this, Mr. Author. 217 00:15:19,059 --> 00:15:21,247 What are you planning to do? 218 00:15:24,423 --> 00:15:26,199 It's Taromaru, isn't it? 219 00:15:26,199 --> 00:15:29,299 You're planning to exorcise him, aren't you?! 220 00:15:29,299 --> 00:15:32,309 He's not doing anything, is he?! 221 00:15:32,309 --> 00:15:34,539 And that is his sin! 222 00:15:34,539 --> 00:15:37,746 The fact he inherited the flame lance can't be helped... 223 00:15:37,746 --> 00:15:39,549 but his failure to destroy it is his sin! 224 00:15:39,549 --> 00:15:42,508 Does Kyogokutei know about this?! 225 00:15:43,976 --> 00:15:45,849 How do you know about Kyogokutei? 226 00:15:45,849 --> 00:15:50,322 I met him in Edo. He's your boss, right? 227 00:15:50,322 --> 00:15:54,926 No, he's not. I once thought he was, but... 228 00:15:54,926 --> 00:15:58,254 ...then he started thinking terrible things. 229 00:16:00,126 --> 00:16:03,439 Rather than calm the darkness inhabiting men's hearts... 230 00:16:03,439 --> 00:16:05,839 he decided to draw that darkness out. 231 00:16:05,839 --> 00:16:08,809 And for that, the flame lance is most suitable. 232 00:16:08,809 --> 00:16:10,666 They're coming! 233 00:16:17,610 --> 00:16:18,949 Hyogo! 234 00:16:18,949 --> 00:16:23,643 The one cast away here 20 years ago...was that man. 235 00:16:27,787 --> 00:16:29,159 Master Taromaru. 236 00:16:29,159 --> 00:16:30,866 Forgive my not contacting you sooner. 237 00:16:30,866 --> 00:16:32,599 Why have you returned? 238 00:16:32,599 --> 00:16:35,799 The magistrate's office is here to search the Kawakubo Clan... 239 00:16:35,799 --> 00:16:37,406 for any signs of criminal behavior. 240 00:16:37,406 --> 00:16:39,169 Ridiculous. 241 00:16:39,169 --> 00:16:41,709 I know. You're here for the flame lance, aren't you? 242 00:16:41,709 --> 00:16:43,709 That simplifies things. 243 00:16:43,709 --> 00:16:45,309 Will you hand over the plans to me? 244 00:16:45,309 --> 00:16:46,909 I refuse! 245 00:16:46,909 --> 00:16:48,419 We can simply kill you all... 246 00:16:48,419 --> 00:16:50,889 and take the cannon for ourselves, you know. 247 00:16:50,889 --> 00:16:53,880 Without the plans, you won't know how to use it. 248 00:16:54,547 --> 00:16:57,381 If we take a cannon shell back with us, we can investigate how it's made. 249 00:16:59,852 --> 00:17:02,659 Hand it over and I'll declare the Kawakubo Clan... 250 00:17:02,659 --> 00:17:05,385 innocent of any wrongdoing and let you go free. 251 00:17:07,426 --> 00:17:10,036 That man! I get it! 252 00:17:10,036 --> 00:17:13,590 He's been impersonating the sea ghosts to commit piracy! 253 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,328 Those words have sealed your doom! 254 00:17:17,036 --> 00:17:19,379 Which of you is doomed, I wonder? 255 00:17:19,379 --> 00:17:20,476 Who the hell are you?! 256 00:17:20,476 --> 00:17:23,533 They have a fire lance here. 257 00:17:25,845 --> 00:17:29,782 I think you know very well how powerful it is. 258 00:17:39,992 --> 00:17:43,099 Over and over, I've dreamt of it. Of when I could have it. 259 00:17:43,099 --> 00:17:45,806 Of how I craved it. It was unbearable. 260 00:17:45,806 --> 00:17:47,809 You became obsessed with it. 261 00:17:47,809 --> 00:17:50,809 You're not planning to attack this domain's lord, are you? 262 00:17:50,809 --> 00:17:53,712 I find that statement amusing as well. 263 00:17:53,712 --> 00:17:55,765 You'll never leave this island alive. 264 00:17:57,676 --> 00:17:59,645 Give us a little time. 265 00:18:00,613 --> 00:18:05,210 I'll wait until dawn. Use the time to make up your minds. 266 00:18:07,420 --> 00:18:08,950 What do you intend to do? 267 00:18:08,950 --> 00:18:11,399 Exorcise this place... 268 00:18:11,399 --> 00:18:14,121 of the monster called the fire lance. 269 00:18:16,695 --> 00:18:18,906 Boss, we can... 270 00:18:18,906 --> 00:18:21,506 I will not have any lives wasted. 271 00:18:21,506 --> 00:18:23,106 Boss, please join us! 272 00:18:23,106 --> 00:18:27,416 I cannot. I must end this. 273 00:18:27,416 --> 00:18:29,739 You really can't just destroy it? 274 00:18:32,311 --> 00:18:34,689 I am the fire lance. 275 00:18:34,689 --> 00:18:36,889 And if I wasn't here... 276 00:18:36,889 --> 00:18:39,750 the spirits of those at rest in the sea would miss me. 277 00:18:41,020 --> 00:18:43,489 Nobody's lives should be wasted. 278 00:18:50,896 --> 00:18:53,229 I should have done this long ago. 279 00:18:58,270 --> 00:19:01,934 To carry this burden, I had to... 280 00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:05,749 Stop it! Stop it, please! 281 00:19:05,749 --> 00:19:09,259 Taromaru! You will be the next leader! 282 00:19:09,259 --> 00:19:11,889 No! I don't want to be! 283 00:19:11,889 --> 00:19:14,910 Stop it! STOP IT! 284 00:19:16,055 --> 00:19:17,729 Father, you're a coward! 285 00:19:17,729 --> 00:19:19,769 We're abandoning the Kawakubo Clan! 286 00:19:19,769 --> 00:19:23,969 Stop protecting that thing and let this end with your generation! 287 00:19:23,969 --> 00:19:27,455 Until you do, the younger generation will live on that island! 288 00:19:33,806 --> 00:19:37,019 If I'd tried with all my might to stop it that time... 289 00:19:37,019 --> 00:19:38,738 it never would have happened. 290 00:19:47,453 --> 00:19:48,785 They fled? 291 00:19:53,993 --> 00:19:56,792 Wait for me. I'm coming to you now. 292 00:20:53,118 --> 00:20:55,099 Master Taromaru. 293 00:20:55,099 --> 00:20:56,726 Master Taromaru! 294 00:20:56,726 --> 00:20:57,814 Boss. 295 00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:05,319 To the next world, we commit Thee. 296 00:21:08,867 --> 00:21:11,349 You dare to call this an exorcism?! 297 00:21:11,349 --> 00:21:13,579 What's wrong? 298 00:21:13,579 --> 00:21:17,279 Maybe you blame what you do on evil spirits... 299 00:21:17,279 --> 00:21:19,819 but you're all really just murderers! 300 00:21:19,819 --> 00:21:22,456 You're one to talk! 301 00:21:22,456 --> 00:21:25,815 Haven't you done things just as bad as us?! 302 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:37,769 But they were... 303 00:21:37,769 --> 00:21:39,369 Exactly the same! 304 00:21:39,369 --> 00:21:42,506 Monsters whose hearts carried darkness within. 305 00:21:42,506 --> 00:21:44,709 N- No! They were all people! 306 00:21:44,709 --> 00:21:48,697 You're saying you're a murderer, then? 307 00:21:52,745 --> 00:21:55,044 Mata, that boat there... 308 00:22:00,619 --> 00:22:02,329 Those little hags! 309 00:22:02,329 --> 00:22:04,566 Where are they taking it? 310 00:22:04,566 --> 00:22:06,999 There's only one place I can think of. 311 00:22:06,999 --> 00:22:08,517 The fief of Kitabayashi. 312 00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:21,406 Wind chimes whisper soft and sweet 313 00:22:23,442 --> 00:22:29,211 Though there's not a hint of a breeze 314 00:22:30,516 --> 00:22:36,299 Moonlight dancing on the garden walk 315 00:22:36,299 --> 00:22:42,922 As it gently drifts through the trees 316 00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:50,279 Romance takes flight on this perfect night 317 00:22:50,279 --> 00:22:56,936 While all of the world lays sleeping 318 00:22:57,810 --> 00:23:07,243 Find us here as we feel the moment of love 319 00:23:08,587 --> 00:23:12,069 Draw near 320 00:23:12,069 --> 00:23:19,069 Dream, sleep, with your hand in mine 321 00:23:19,069 --> 00:23:24,662 Underneath a blanket of stars 322 00:23:27,206 --> 00:23:32,216 Song birds singing in a distant glade 323 00:23:32,216 --> 00:23:41,085 As we share the warmth of the dawn 324 00:23:48,127 --> 00:23:50,269 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 325 00:23:50,269 --> 00:23:53,109 leaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public. 326 00:23:53,109 --> 00:23:55,579 One man haunts seven others to death. 327 00:23:55,579 --> 00:23:58,279 Those seven each haunt seven more to death. 328 00:23:58,279 --> 00:24:00,609 A curse runs deep in Kitabayashi. 329 00:24:00,609 --> 00:24:03,979 A chain of curses resembling pictures of atrocities. 330 00:24:03,979 --> 00:24:08,359 Next time, on Natsuhiko Kyogoku's "Requiem from the Darkness:" 331 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,859 "The Death Spirits of Seven Man Point, Part 1." 332 00:24:12,859 --> 00:24:15,013 To the next world, we commit Thee!