1 00:00:01,984 --> 00:00:04,818 Was that the beginning, I wonder? 2 00:00:10,225 --> 00:00:12,888 Was it the end? 3 00:00:17,199 --> 00:00:18,839 My meeting those people. 4 00:00:18,839 --> 00:00:20,879 The time I spent with them. 5 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:24,395 Something inside me has finished. Something has changed. 6 00:00:27,976 --> 00:00:31,344 That's why... why I must go! 7 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,875 To Kitabayashi... where Mataichi and the others are! 8 00:00:35,317 --> 00:00:37,377 Even if what awaits me there... 9 00:00:39,021 --> 00:00:41,388 is something horrible! 10 00:00:48,196 --> 00:00:56,949 Wanting you to just be near, (to feel your breath upon my ear) 11 00:00:56,949 --> 00:01:05,986 Wishing you would call my name, ('Cause only you can light the flame) 12 00:01:05,986 --> 00:01:13,148 Constantly searching, still can't find 13 00:01:15,424 --> 00:01:21,421 Ever illusive peace of mind 14 00:01:23,598 --> 00:01:32,216 Sometimes it's near, but slips away 15 00:01:32,216 --> 00:01:38,805 And I'm faced with another day 16 00:01:40,048 --> 00:01:45,859 Of wanting you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 17 00:01:45,859 --> 00:01:50,396 ...to just be near ('Cause only you can light the flame) 18 00:01:50,396 --> 00:01:54,536 Of wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 19 00:01:54,536 --> 00:01:59,106 ...would call my name, to feel your breath upon my ear 20 00:01:59,106 --> 00:02:03,579 Of wanting you...wishing you... (to feel your breath upon my ear) 21 00:02:03,579 --> 00:02:11,172 Call my name, 'cause only you can light the flame 22 00:02:48,383 --> 00:02:51,496 I am the Lady of the Point. 23 00:02:51,496 --> 00:02:54,399 My enmity knows no end. 24 00:02:54,399 --> 00:02:58,099 If you wish to quiet the curse, raise a shrine to me! 25 00:02:58,099 --> 00:03:00,755 Pray for me! 26 00:03:16,745 --> 00:03:18,819 The curse of the Lady of the Point? 27 00:03:18,819 --> 00:03:22,229 Yes, milord. It has everyone, from the maids... 28 00:03:22,229 --> 00:03:24,896 to the head lady-in-waiting, in a panic. 29 00:03:24,896 --> 00:03:28,566 They're wondering if it isn't the ghost of Lady Kaede. 30 00:03:28,566 --> 00:03:31,199 So, the source of this curse... 31 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:32,751 is my mother, you mean? 32 00:03:37,566 --> 00:03:39,139 Apparently, people are already starting... 33 00:03:39,139 --> 00:03:41,439 to spread rumors in the castle town. 34 00:03:41,439 --> 00:03:43,109 What shall we do? 35 00:03:43,109 --> 00:03:44,346 You may kill them. 36 00:03:44,346 --> 00:03:45,546 Milord? 37 00:03:45,546 --> 00:03:48,908 Maid or lady-in-waiting, I don't care. 38 00:03:50,245 --> 00:03:52,214 None may be spared. 39 00:03:58,787 --> 00:04:00,629 Is that clear, everyone? 40 00:04:00,629 --> 00:04:04,599 Anyone spreading insolent rumors of a curse by the Lady of the Point... 41 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:07,969 regardless of who they are, shall suffer immediate punishment... 42 00:04:07,969 --> 00:04:10,069 by order of Danjou, lord of the castle! 43 00:04:10,069 --> 00:04:11,609 Milord! 44 00:04:11,609 --> 00:04:12,623 Have mercy! 45 00:04:13,835 --> 00:04:17,679 These women shall be burned at the stake. So... 46 00:04:17,679 --> 00:04:22,144 You people...don't you want a little sample beforehand? 47 00:04:23,211 --> 00:04:27,689 The castle's--the lord's maids are yours to do with as you please. 48 00:04:27,689 --> 00:04:29,514 The lord has granted his permission for it! 49 00:04:51,940 --> 00:04:53,516 Our shrine! 50 00:04:53,516 --> 00:04:57,889 It's the curse! The curse of the Lady of the Point! 51 00:04:57,889 --> 00:05:00,883 Damn you! Still you say it?! 52 00:05:06,521 --> 00:05:08,766 There is no curse! 53 00:05:08,766 --> 00:05:11,282 Danjou, lord of the castle, so declares it! 54 00:05:12,961 --> 00:05:14,299 What was that?! 55 00:05:14,299 --> 00:05:16,106 That came from the castle's family temple. 56 00:05:16,106 --> 00:05:18,100 This must be... 57 00:05:23,204 --> 00:05:24,612 The curse! 58 00:05:24,612 --> 00:05:25,916 This fief is cursed! 59 00:05:25,916 --> 00:05:27,341 By the Lady of the Point. 60 00:05:31,012 --> 00:05:35,089 Can you not hear it? The enraged voice of the Lady of the Point? 61 00:05:35,089 --> 00:05:39,417 Can you not hear it? The cursed voice which lingers here? 62 00:05:40,488 --> 00:05:42,596 If you hear it, then pray! 63 00:05:42,596 --> 00:05:45,287 Pray to calm her anger. 64 00:05:45,994 --> 00:05:48,369 The Lady of the Point... 65 00:05:48,369 --> 00:05:50,331 resides over there! 66 00:05:53,068 --> 00:05:55,949 Pray! Pray with all your might! 67 00:05:55,949 --> 00:05:58,209 Those who do not pray shall not survive. 68 00:05:58,209 --> 00:06:01,249 But prayer alone will not save you! 69 00:06:01,249 --> 00:06:02,549 Then what should we do?! 70 00:06:02,549 --> 00:06:04,603 Master Exorcist, we beg of you! 71 00:06:05,113 --> 00:06:07,489 If you're serious, then pray with... 72 00:06:07,489 --> 00:06:10,644 the miraculous power of these sutra talismans! 73 00:06:12,387 --> 00:06:16,882 One sheet, a mere 10 or 15 mon, is the source of life itself! 74 00:06:19,294 --> 00:06:22,906 Here. Distribute these to those in the castle as well. 75 00:06:22,906 --> 00:06:24,627 Thank you so much. 76 00:06:28,937 --> 00:06:32,716 I get involved in these things and can't ever back out. 77 00:06:32,716 --> 00:06:36,837 For heaven's sake, isn't that what Mr. Author's always doing? 78 00:06:37,746 --> 00:06:40,306 Guess I'm in no position to criticize him, huh? 79 00:06:44,185 --> 00:06:48,399 Oh? Looks like it worked. 80 00:06:48,399 --> 00:06:50,399 Hmm? Where's Mr. Author? 81 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:53,369 Say, now that you mention it, when did he... 82 00:06:53,369 --> 00:06:54,556 You don't suppose he... 83 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:13,407 Ukon... 84 00:07:13,748 --> 00:07:17,466 That samurai was looking for a place to die. 85 00:07:17,466 --> 00:07:19,783 I won't let this place be where he dies! 86 00:07:47,782 --> 00:07:49,182 It's been a while. 87 00:07:49,851 --> 00:07:52,096 You! Shiragiku! 88 00:07:52,096 --> 00:07:54,062 I mean, Tatsuta! 89 00:07:54,062 --> 00:07:55,682 So, you remember me. 90 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,406 You can't escape! What do we do with him, Sis? 91 00:08:02,406 --> 00:08:05,779 He's working with those meddlers in the castle town. 92 00:08:05,779 --> 00:08:09,794 He was safe, yet chose to fly into danger again. 93 00:08:10,805 --> 00:08:13,079 Straight into Lord Danjou's pictures of hell! 94 00:08:13,079 --> 00:08:16,340 I thought so! He's reenacting those atrocity prints! 95 00:08:18,613 --> 00:08:20,013 Reenacting them? 96 00:08:21,883 --> 00:08:25,026 Lord Danjou has no interest in such things. 97 00:08:25,026 --> 00:08:27,429 Look well at these devils. 98 00:08:27,429 --> 00:08:32,257 They're from the first group we brought here. 99 00:08:33,194 --> 00:08:35,336 Some were good people chosen from here. 100 00:08:35,336 --> 00:08:37,127 Good sons, loyal to their parents. 101 00:08:37,532 --> 00:08:39,106 How do you like them now? 102 00:08:39,106 --> 00:08:43,909 Because they want to stay alive, they torture, rape, and kill. 103 00:08:43,909 --> 00:08:47,875 Now they enjoy it more than anything else! 104 00:08:50,145 --> 00:08:51,819 What are you... 105 00:08:51,819 --> 00:08:54,589 Lord Danjou is testing them. 106 00:08:54,589 --> 00:08:56,726 How far can humans fall? 107 00:08:56,726 --> 00:09:00,029 What are they after they can't sink any lower? 108 00:09:00,029 --> 00:09:02,999 At the moment, you can't understand. 109 00:09:02,999 --> 00:09:05,220 But eventually you will. 110 00:09:06,427 --> 00:09:07,769 Stop this! 111 00:09:07,769 --> 00:09:10,959 You'll understand, too! You'll understand, too! 112 00:09:15,470 --> 00:09:16,665 Master Momosuke! 113 00:09:18,873 --> 00:09:22,119 Ukon! You're all right! 114 00:09:22,119 --> 00:09:25,256 Yes. And thanks to that, I was able to see my wife. 115 00:09:25,256 --> 00:09:27,389 Then your wife is still... 116 00:09:27,389 --> 00:09:30,544 She lived because she wasn't due to give birth, as in the picture. 117 00:09:31,152 --> 00:09:34,418 But her heart... Her heart is gone. 118 00:09:36,491 --> 00:09:42,739 Even so, I was able to see my wife again thanks to you. I am grateful. 119 00:09:42,739 --> 00:09:44,528 It wasn't... 120 00:09:44,999 --> 00:09:46,661 Anyway, Master Momosuke... 121 00:09:47,802 --> 00:09:49,270 look at that. 122 00:09:55,543 --> 00:09:57,686 Tell me that isn't... 123 00:09:57,686 --> 00:10:00,307 Yes. It is the flame lance. 124 00:10:01,382 --> 00:10:04,229 We have to stop it somehow! 125 00:10:04,229 --> 00:10:07,051 Then, shall I have you lend us a hand, huh? 126 00:10:09,524 --> 00:10:10,932 Ogin?! 127 00:10:10,932 --> 00:10:14,293 Boy, you're so troublesome. 128 00:10:38,353 --> 00:10:42,729 Now listen, don't move until our plan's complete. 129 00:10:42,729 --> 00:10:44,466 Wait here and keep still. 130 00:10:44,466 --> 00:10:45,769 How long? 131 00:10:45,769 --> 00:10:50,663 Not long. So don't get any ideas about saving your wife by yourself. 132 00:10:51,666 --> 00:10:55,809 Ogin... I've felt nothing but fear. 133 00:10:55,809 --> 00:11:00,949 When I saw those pictures and thought the same thing they did. 134 00:11:00,949 --> 00:11:05,556 All I wanted to know is whether or not I've become like them now. 135 00:11:05,556 --> 00:11:07,515 To see with my own eyes... 136 00:11:12,587 --> 00:11:16,469 Mr. Author, you've spent too much time with us. 137 00:11:16,469 --> 00:11:19,120 You've just seen a few too many dirty things. 138 00:11:20,328 --> 00:11:21,626 Don't worry. 139 00:11:22,530 --> 00:11:26,490 No matter what happens, you're still human. 140 00:11:29,404 --> 00:11:30,736 Wh-What's this?! 141 00:11:32,407 --> 00:11:34,179 They're all dead! 142 00:11:34,179 --> 00:11:36,734 It's just as the exorcist said! 143 00:11:38,413 --> 00:11:41,119 Pray! Pray! 144 00:11:41,119 --> 00:11:43,914 The day of the curse draws near! 145 00:11:45,486 --> 00:11:49,548 The Lady of the Point's great rage shall strike! 146 00:11:50,158 --> 00:11:52,069 Master Exorcist, we beg of you! 147 00:11:52,069 --> 00:11:55,339 When is the day of the curse? When will this disaster strike?! 148 00:11:55,339 --> 00:11:57,839 On that day, rain will fall. 149 00:11:57,839 --> 00:11:59,709 Rain? Rain, you say? 150 00:11:59,709 --> 00:12:01,306 Yes. A rainy evening upon which... 151 00:12:01,306 --> 00:12:03,946 the cosmic balance of light and dark shall be upset. 152 00:12:03,946 --> 00:12:06,079 It shall surely be a moment of peril. 153 00:12:06,079 --> 00:12:08,849 If you wish to avoid disaster... 154 00:12:08,849 --> 00:12:12,689 then purify your homes and pray to the Buddha! 155 00:12:12,689 --> 00:12:13,819 We have to purify our homes! 156 00:12:13,819 --> 00:12:16,079 Hurry! We have to get home! 157 00:12:19,187 --> 00:12:21,162 Hold it, Mata! 158 00:12:21,162 --> 00:12:24,999 Even we can't whip up rain for one of our operations! 159 00:12:24,999 --> 00:12:29,657 No matter. You feel this wind? We're due for a shower. 160 00:12:30,631 --> 00:12:34,398 I can't ask anymore if the roar of thunder tags along. 161 00:12:35,603 --> 00:12:39,096 I see. Now that you mention it... 162 00:12:47,648 --> 00:12:49,326 The day of the curse? 163 00:12:49,326 --> 00:12:51,189 Yes, milord. Rumors are spreading... 164 00:12:51,189 --> 00:12:54,018 that disaster is doomed to strike on a rainy night. 165 00:12:54,889 --> 00:12:58,499 Even the castle staff are leaving one by one... 166 00:12:58,499 --> 00:13:00,669 and retreating to their homes. 167 00:13:00,669 --> 00:13:03,172 It's the curse! The day of the curse is here! 168 00:13:03,172 --> 00:13:06,133 The day of the curse, just as the exorcist said! 169 00:13:07,135 --> 00:13:10,867 All this... the result of one exorcist's machinations? 170 00:13:12,006 --> 00:13:16,319 Appropriate weather for a disaster, don't you think, Junai? 171 00:13:16,319 --> 00:13:17,586 Y-Yes, milord. 172 00:13:17,586 --> 00:13:19,319 Is the flame lance nearly finished? 173 00:13:19,319 --> 00:13:21,119 Yes, milord! Soon. 174 00:13:21,119 --> 00:13:24,189 Tonight! Tonight we will test fire it. 175 00:13:24,189 --> 00:13:26,599 Pardon me, milord, but I've heard the flame lance... 176 00:13:26,599 --> 00:13:29,029 is so destructive you could overturn the heavens with it. 177 00:13:29,029 --> 00:13:31,469 The test firing should be kept absolutely secret. 178 00:13:31,469 --> 00:13:35,636 Kaburagi, you seem to have misunderstood something. 179 00:13:35,636 --> 00:13:36,631 Milord? 180 00:13:38,199 --> 00:13:40,079 Th-then, you mean... 181 00:13:40,079 --> 00:13:41,709 Lord, it's arrived. 182 00:13:41,709 --> 00:13:44,171 That foreign beast Master Junai asked for. 183 00:13:44,806 --> 00:13:46,741 The foreign beast! The foreign beast! 184 00:13:48,042 --> 00:13:49,476 Wh-What the... 185 00:14:00,555 --> 00:14:03,218 Master Momosuke, could this be... 186 00:14:04,992 --> 00:14:06,483 A reenactment?! 187 00:14:07,295 --> 00:14:09,457 Stop! 188 00:14:11,732 --> 00:14:14,509 Now then, milord, please be satisfied. 189 00:14:14,509 --> 00:14:18,063 It's not often you see a plan like this! 190 00:14:19,340 --> 00:14:20,569 I've changed my mind. 191 00:14:21,876 --> 00:14:24,949 Did you not hear me? You will be devoured, instead. 192 00:14:24,949 --> 00:14:27,119 L- Lord, surely you're not serious! 193 00:14:27,119 --> 00:14:30,312 You both shall be devoured! 194 00:14:30,718 --> 00:14:31,845 Milord! 195 00:14:37,091 --> 00:14:38,129 Milord! 196 00:14:38,129 --> 00:14:39,787 What's going on?! 197 00:14:56,277 --> 00:14:59,919 To the end, they did not see their own vanity. 198 00:14:59,919 --> 00:15:01,359 Now the girl. 199 00:15:01,359 --> 00:15:03,044 No! 200 00:15:03,518 --> 00:15:05,392 Stop this! 201 00:15:05,392 --> 00:15:06,648 Time to start. 202 00:15:15,329 --> 00:15:16,729 What?! 203 00:15:21,502 --> 00:15:24,449 I am the Lady of the Point. 204 00:15:24,449 --> 00:15:26,600 My enmity knows no end. 205 00:15:35,149 --> 00:15:39,382 Lord Danjou, it's dangerous here. This way! 206 00:15:48,796 --> 00:15:50,162 Sis! 207 00:15:53,267 --> 00:15:54,476 Who are you?! 208 00:15:54,476 --> 00:15:57,979 That's enough mischief out of you, young lady. 209 00:15:57,979 --> 00:16:02,443 When it comes to controlling beasts, I have far more experience than you! 210 00:16:18,025 --> 00:16:20,551 White Hermit! Black Hermit! 211 00:16:22,563 --> 00:16:24,122 After them! 212 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,076 Mataichi! 213 00:16:28,076 --> 00:16:30,037 Master Momosuke! Hurry! 214 00:16:31,005 --> 00:16:33,133 Mataichi! 215 00:16:35,610 --> 00:16:38,489 Shiragiku, soon it will be realized... 216 00:16:38,489 --> 00:16:40,719 the wish you and I share. 217 00:16:40,719 --> 00:16:42,789 All will be consumed in a sea of fire. 218 00:16:42,789 --> 00:16:45,596 No. All will be reduced to an age of darkness. 219 00:16:45,596 --> 00:16:46,883 Yes. 220 00:17:06,073 --> 00:17:08,779 This will incinerate everything. 221 00:17:08,779 --> 00:17:11,278 I can't let you do that! 222 00:17:12,947 --> 00:17:14,056 Mataichi! 223 00:17:14,056 --> 00:17:18,109 You're too late. What can you do at this point? 224 00:17:20,688 --> 00:17:22,623 You think so? 225 00:17:46,514 --> 00:17:48,182 - The waves! 226 00:17:48,182 --> 00:17:48,808 - The waves! - Dear! 227 00:17:50,251 --> 00:17:52,311 It's a tsunami! 228 00:17:56,557 --> 00:17:59,299 Either way the city falls, the outcome will be the same! 229 00:17:59,299 --> 00:18:01,899 Mata, you can't stop it. 230 00:18:01,899 --> 00:18:04,709 Heh. I'll admit it's difficult. 231 00:18:04,709 --> 00:18:09,170 Mainly because the one who set this all in motion isn't actually human! 232 00:18:10,571 --> 00:18:13,879 Were he human, he'd feel pain in his heart. 233 00:18:13,879 --> 00:18:16,449 But that person isn't actually a person... 234 00:18:16,449 --> 00:18:19,504 am I not correct... Kyogokutei?! 235 00:18:21,148 --> 00:18:23,826 So, you figured it out, Mataichi. 236 00:18:23,826 --> 00:18:26,320 Impressive as always, my trusted agent. 237 00:18:30,491 --> 00:18:32,566 You three casting out the darkness... 238 00:18:32,566 --> 00:18:36,072 in people's hearts, one by one, will not change anything. 239 00:18:36,072 --> 00:18:38,072 It lies far deeper. 240 00:18:38,072 --> 00:18:40,676 There is no limit to its depths. 241 00:18:40,676 --> 00:18:43,535 And so you would have everything swallowed by the darkness? 242 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:48,619 I'm merely returning things to their original state. 243 00:18:48,619 --> 00:18:50,702 The world as it is now is an illusion. 244 00:18:53,781 --> 00:18:56,444 Within the darkness, there is truth. 245 00:18:57,318 --> 00:18:59,496 Thanks for all your good work! 246 00:18:59,496 --> 00:19:02,596 Really! You did an excellent job! 247 00:19:02,596 --> 00:19:05,099 Now, as for you all... 248 00:19:05,099 --> 00:19:06,958 return to the darkness which spawned you! 249 00:19:18,472 --> 00:19:20,498 Mataichi! Ogin! 250 00:19:28,549 --> 00:19:29,826 Kyogokutei... 251 00:19:29,826 --> 00:19:32,410 the one who will be returning to what he was...is YOU! 252 00:19:55,176 --> 00:19:57,949 What?! What have you... 253 00:19:57,949 --> 00:20:01,471 It was you who underestimated the darkness of the heart! 254 00:20:02,149 --> 00:20:04,914 The darkness of the human heart is blacker than you can imagine... 255 00:20:08,389 --> 00:20:11,799 This fire springs from those you killed! 256 00:20:11,799 --> 00:20:14,366 From the darkness of those you used! 257 00:20:14,366 --> 00:20:18,298 Now, these dark feelings, these bitter thoughts... 258 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:21,260 let them absorb YOU! 259 00:20:32,713 --> 00:20:34,341 Lord Danjou! 260 00:21:03,744 --> 00:21:04,886 The curse! 261 00:21:04,886 --> 00:21:06,403 Master Momosuke! 262 00:21:06,914 --> 00:21:09,975 Burning! It's all burning! 263 00:21:18,125 --> 00:21:19,899 Mataichi! 264 00:21:19,899 --> 00:21:22,522 Mr. Author, it's time to say good-bye. 265 00:21:23,264 --> 00:21:25,369 This may sound conceited... 266 00:21:25,369 --> 00:21:29,609 but the real death spirits here may have been us all along. 267 00:21:29,609 --> 00:21:32,835 Because death comes to all who involve themselves with us. 268 00:21:34,041 --> 00:21:36,086 Mataichi... 269 00:21:36,086 --> 00:21:39,046 You can still go back, Mr. Author. 270 00:21:40,347 --> 00:21:42,089 Please go... 271 00:21:42,089 --> 00:21:44,950 back to where you live. 272 00:21:47,855 --> 00:21:49,346 No, please! 273 00:21:53,627 --> 00:21:54,890 Momosuke... 274 00:21:59,199 --> 00:22:04,035 OGIN! 275 00:22:34,902 --> 00:22:40,000 If I turn here, I'll find Kyogokutei. 276 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:51,059 Soon, I'll be publishing The 100 Stories, which I've so longed to do. 277 00:22:51,059 --> 00:22:54,099 "Thank you for all your help." 278 00:22:54,099 --> 00:22:56,329 "Thanks to you, I got my wife back." 279 00:22:56,329 --> 00:23:00,021 I've spent my days writing of the strange things I've seen from the sidelines. 280 00:23:07,468 --> 00:23:09,076 However... 281 00:23:09,076 --> 00:23:14,838 I couldn't write any more about the time I spent with Mataichi and the others. 282 00:23:18,012 --> 00:23:21,813 I haven't seen them since that final night. 283 00:23:32,059 --> 00:23:35,399 Evil and ambition scatter in the darkness... 284 00:23:35,399 --> 00:23:40,060 leaving behind dubious rumors to fly in public.